London Design Festival 2026 arrives just as the border between art, design and material practice becomes harder to defend. Here are the projects collectors should see—and the questions worth taking with them.

At Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie, Maurizio Cattelan turns Mies van der Rohe’s glass pavilion into a charged contemporary temple—and reveals the seriousness, historical intelligence and remarkable coherence beneath three decades of provocation.

Japan’s first major Sottsass retrospective brings more than 100 works to Tokyo and shows why serious design collecting begins with more than appearance: production, provenance and domestic context matter.

Twenty-five years after 9/11, Thomas Ruff’s monumental jpegs ny asks how compression, circulation and the internet have altered collective memory.

The first French exhibition devoted to Kerry James Marshall brings 70 works and eight new paintings to Paris, revealing why institutional importance and market recognition do not arrive at the same moment.

Opening 22 September, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art turns George Lucas and Mellody Hobson’s cross-category collecting philosophy into a major public institution.