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Friends and Legends: The Collection of Michael ChowMichael Chow commissioned portraits from Basquiat, Warhol, Haring, Hockney, Ruscha and others. Inside the collection behind Gagosian’s Friends and Legends.

Hong Kong in November 2026: Seven Exhibitions Collectors Should SeeSeven confirmed Hong Kong exhibitions for November 2026, with artwork-specific photographs matched to M+, Tai Kwun, David Zwirner, White Cube, MASSIMODECARLO, Axel Vervoordt and Whitestone Gallery.

Yayoi Kusama at the Stedelijk: A Retrospective After a Lifetime of InfinityAmsterdam’s major Kusama retrospective, planned during the artist’s lifetime, has become a poignant opportunity to look beyond the mirrored rooms to seven decades of experimentation.

Jean-Michel Basquiat at Princeton: The Blue Ribbon Paintings Change the StoryAt Princeton, eleven paintings from 1984 reveal a Basquiat who copied, screened and revised his own images with exacting intent—complicating the myth of improvisational genius.

Emma Kunz at Hauser & Wirth Somerset: The Geometry of an Unconventional VisionEmma Kunz occupies an unusual place in the history of twentieth-century abstraction. Born in Switzerland in 1892, she made intricate drawings on graph paper using coloured pencil and methods associated with her spiritual and healing practice. She did not primarily understand herself as an artist. Today, her drawings ar

Turner Prize 2026 at MIMA: Four Artists and the Material of Contemporary LifeThe Turner Prize can be most interesting when its four finalists refuse to represent a single trend. At Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, the 2026 exhibition brings together Simeon Barclay, Kira Freije, Marguerite Humeau and Tanoa Sasraku. Their presentations differ sharply in scale, material and temperament, yet

Donyel Ivy-Royal at Jack Shainman: Painting the Space Between Memory and the StreetThere is an unusual kind of uncertainty in Donyel Ivy-Royal’s paintings. A house can be unmistakably a house, and yet the air around it seems to carry several different moments at once. A wall may register as architecture, weathered paint, a partly erased sign or the memory of a place passed every day. The image remain

Tony Huynh in Cologne: Small Paintings with a World of Their OwnThere are paintings that announce themselves through size, and others that make scale feel like an unnecessary distraction. Tony Huynh belongs to the second group. His new pictures at Galerie Christian Lethert in Cologne are small, oil-on-wood worlds of animals, journeys, domestic interiors and quiet solitude. They loo

Peggy Guggenheim’s Venetian Home: The Art of Living with a CollectionAt Palazzo Venier dei Leoni in Venice, Peggy Guggenheim made modern art part of daily life—and left a model for the home as a living collection.

New York November Auctions 2026: The 10 Lots That Will Test the High EndA $60–80 million Kandinsky, a reported $180 million Van Gogh and a formidable contemporary line-up put provenance, bidding depth and rarity under scrutiny this November.

Verónica Mar: From Nature to EssenceIn an extensive interview, Spanish sculptor Verónica Mar discusses UNIVERSO in Madrid, her evolution from sculptural furniture to monumental portals, and the relationship between form, space and the invisible.

Randi Charno Levine’s Manhattan Home Turns Collecting Into Cultural DiplomacyKelly Behun’s West Chelsea apartment for former US ambassador Randi Charno Levine shows how a serious contemporary collection can grow from relationships, patronage and a new Joana Vasconcelos commission.

When a Collector Buys for the Public: Dasha Shenkman, Okiki Akinfe and a New Acquisition ModelThe new Dasha Shenkman Focus Fund has placed three Okiki Akinfe works into Abbot Hall. Its real significance is a model of private patronage that creates public institutional value early.

Chris Ofili Makes Laure Visible: A New Painting Rewrites Manet’s MarginAt Pinacoteca Agnelli, Chris Ofili places new paintings beside Manet’s portrait of Laure, restoring a named sitter to the centre of a story art history kept at the edge.

Agnes Gund: When a Great Collection Becomes a Public InstrumentAs Christie’s prepares a new sale benefiting the Gund Art Foundation, Agnes Gund’s collection offers a rare lesson in how buying, giving and selling can form one coherent legacy.

Shanghai in November 2026: Six Exhibitions Collectors Should SeeWest Bund and ART021 bring the market to Shanghai in November, but the strongest collector route runs through Rockbund, Yuz, West Bund Museum and focused gallery exhibitions.

Tokyo in November 2026: Six Exhibitions Collectors Should SeeArt Week Tokyo meets Mariko Mori’s landmark retrospective, while SCAI, KOTARO NUKAGA, Taka Ishii, Pace and KOSAKU KANECHIKA sharpen the gallery route.

Los Angeles in November 2026: Six Exhibitions Collectors Should SeeLos Angeles shifts into a strong second autumn season with Avedon, Farah Al Qasimi, Wendy Red Star, Kiki Smith, Thomas Ruff and Julian Charrière.

New York in November 2026: Six Exhibitions Collectors Should SeeFrom Yoshitomo Nara and Doris Salcedo to Arturo Kameya and a crucial Robert Colescott chapter, New York’s November calendar rewards a route beyond the obvious fair-week headlines.

Seoul in November 2026: Six Shows Beyond the Fair CalendarChristine Sun Kim and Theaster Gates lead a Seoul route that also tests Pam Evelyn’s momentum and highlights Yuichi Hirako, Jenny Holzer and Heejoon Lee.

London in November 2026: Six Exhibitions Collectors Should See After FriezeFrom Pierre Soulages and Leon Kossoff to OMARA and Aidan Duffy, November rewards collectors who look beyond fair-week consensus and across London’s gallery tiers.

Yoshitomo Nara at Full Scale: New Paintings, Monumental Heads and a $5–7 Million TestA David Zwirner debut, three monumental Hirshhorn sculptures and a Sotheby’s evening lot put Yoshitomo Nara’s gallery, institutional and market narratives in the same frame.

Cady Noland at Gagosian London: America in FragmentsA rare London exhibition of new works and historical material returns us to Cady Noland’s uncomfortable vision of American spectacle, power and the ordinary object.

Inside Joeonna Bellorado-Samuels’s Brooklyn Home: A Collection Made to Be Lived WithA gallerist’s Clinton Hill apartment reveals how painting, sculptural furniture, family history and unorthodox choices can make a home feel genuinely collected.

Yuko Mohri at the Barbican: The Art of Repair and InstabilityWith light, sound, fruit and kinetic systems, Yuko Mohri makes the Barbican’s Curve into an argument for attending to what does not quite work as expected.

Venice Biennale 2026: What Still Matters Before It ClosesThe last weeks of Koyo Kouoh’s In Minor Keys demand a slower way of seeing Venice. A practical guide to the central exhibition, national pavilions and what collectors should take away.

Frieze Masters 2026 Review: Brueghel, Alice Neel, a Triceratops and a Fair That Made History Feel AliveFrom a £5 million Brueghel and three major Alice Neel sales to George Rickey, global modernism and a £675,000 Triceratops skull, Frieze Masters rewarded collectors who looked beyond categories.

PAD London 2026 Review: The Collectible Design That Deserves a Place Beside Great ArtFrom Faye Toogood and Kate Malone to textile art, post-war furniture and new material-led designers, PAD London showed why serious collector homes are built beyond the frame.

The Renault Factory Becomes Art Again: Le Large Opens on Île Seguin with Cecilia Alemani’s Moteur ImaginaireA new contemporary art centre has opened on Renault’s historic Île Seguin site. Cecilia Alemani’s Moteur Imaginaire turns the factory, car and machine into a century-spanning argument about modern life.

Restitution, Memory and £31.56 Million: Why Kandinsky’s Das bunte Leben Was Frieze Week’s Most Important Auction StoryKandinsky’s 1907 masterpiece sold for £31.56 million after its 2023 restitution to the Lewenstein heirs. The result is a market story, but also a lesson in provenance, agency and collecting responsibility.

Paris Internationale 2026: Where Collectors Should Look Before Consensus FormsParis Internationale returns with 56 galleries, a new Canal Saint-Martin venue and a model built around discovery. Here is how collectors should use it.

Paris Beyond Art Basel: 8 Exhibitions Collectors Should Leave the Grand Palais to SeeIbrahim Mahama, Lee Krasner, Oscar Murillo, Tracey Emin and more: the exhibitions that turn Art Basel Paris week into something larger than a fair.

Frieze London 2026 Review: The Market Found Its Nerve — but Discovery Won the WeekFrieze London closed with sold-out emerging booths, meaningful institutional acquisitions and selective blue-chip buying. The real story was not a boom, but a market rewarding specificity.

Minor Attractions 2026: Inside London’s Hotel Fair at The NewmanMinor Attractions returns for its fourth and largest edition, taking over 16 rooms at The Newman with more than 75 international participants. For collectors, the appeal is not simply that it is smaller than the major fairs, but that its hotel format changes how art, galleries and audiences meet.

When the Digital Becomes Physical: Yelin-Ment's Ghost PlayYelin-Ment's Ghost Play transforms emojis into sculpture, uses chroma-key screens and a two-minute delay, and turns visitors into their own fleeting afterimages.

RM’s Collection at SFMOMA: What a Global Collector Gets Right About Korean ModernismNearly 150 works from RM’s collection meet SFMOMA in a major exhibition of Korean modern and contemporary art. Its real lesson is how a private collection develops a coherent eye.

Denzil Forrester’s Next Act: Why Thaddaeus Ropac Won the Race for One of Britain’s Great Painters of NightlifeThaddaeus Ropac’s representation of Denzil Forrester places one of Britain’s great painters of dub, dancehall and Black social space inside a new international chapter.

Cindy Sherman’s Fabric Matrons: Fashion, Ageing and the Art of DisappearingCindy Sherman’s new Fabric Matrons series turns Chanel fabrics, ageing, jewellery and self-invention into an unsettled study of who fashion allows to remain visible.

Iván Argote After the Pigeon: Fifteen Years of Making Trouble with Monuments, Galleries and Art HistoryAt Perrotin London, Iván Argote celebrates fifteen years of Mamarrachos by turning scribbles, gallery rules and institutional authority into an unusually playful form of critique.

After Magritte: How One Artist’s Visual Language Became Contemporary Art’s Common CurrencyGagosian’s ambitious London exhibition places René Magritte beside more than forty artists. For collectors, its real value lies in separating meaningful artistic inheritance from superficial resemblance — and in seeing why Magritte’s central problem, the unstable relationship between image and reality, feels newly urge

Nicola Turner Makes Memory Physical at Annely JudaIn I Tear Secrets From Your Yielding Flesh, Nicola Turner transforms wool, reclaimed horsehair and Hanover Square’s hidden histories into a persuasive, bodily sculpture installation.

London Beyond Frieze: 7 Exhibitions Collectors Should See Across the CityFrom Robert Ryman and Lorna Simpson to Mary Ramsden, Martine Syms and Nicola Turner, the strongest London route during Frieze week begins outside the fair.

Hella Jongerius: The Designer Who Made Imperfection IndustrialFrom the Polder Sofa to Frog Table and 300 coloured vases, Hella Jongerius has spent three decades proving that industrial design can retain craft, variation and material intelligence.

Evelyn Taocheng Wang: How Mistranslation Became an Artistic MethodIn her first UK institutional exhibition, Evelyn Taocheng Wang turns mistranslation, Agnes Martin, Chinese literati painting and fantasies of Britain into a deliberately unstable language of identity.

Jordan Wolfson: When the Image Becomes a Threatening ObjectAt Gagosian New York, Jordan Wolfson gives circulating images physical weight, turning polished aluminium, reflection and spikes into a confrontation with screen culture.

Frieze London 2026: The Collector’s Guide to Navigating FriezeForget trying to see everything. Our collector’s guide to Frieze London and Frieze Masters identifies where discovery, scholarship and genuinely useful market intelligence are concentrated in 2026.

The Golden Ear and the Collector’s Eye: Inside Clive Davis’s Art CollectionChristie’s reveals the late Clive Davis’s private collection, from Warhol and Hockney to Stella and Mitchell—and the discerning eye behind a lifetime of collecting.

Louis Fratino’s ‘Prose’: Intimacy Expands Beyond the RoomIn his first London solo exhibition and first show with David Zwirner since joining the gallery, Louis Fratino broadens his intimate figurative language into city life, landscape and a more expansive dialogue with art history.

How Wendell Castle Lived With Design: Inside a Radical American HomeFriedman Benda reconstructs the creative domestic world of Wendell Castle and Nancy Jurs from a 1973 House Beautiful feature, returning museum-level furniture and ceramics to the context for which they were made: everyday life.

Daichi Takagi Arrives in London: The Quiet Intensity of ‘Suchness’For his first UK solo presentation and first exhibition with David Zwirner, Daichi Takagi turns stones, moonlight, leaves and ancient trees into paintings poised between exact observation and the surreal.

Maxwell Stevens: Surfside — Time, Leisure and the Social Theatre of the BeachThree years after ARTCOLLECTORNEWS first spoke with Maxwell Stevens about Last Days of Summer, the New York painter has returned to the beach. But in Surfside, the setting has become less a backdrop than a social and psychological stage. The new paintings bring swimmers, surfers, couples, families and groups of friends

When Fabric Becomes Collectible: Reiko Sudō, NUNO and the Material Intelligence of the HomeLACMA’s largest survey of Reiko Sudō and NUNO asks a collector’s question hiding in plain sight: when does fabric become an authored, editioned and historically important object of design?

Four Generations of Collecting: How the Thyssen Family Is Building a Museum for the 21st CenturyFrancesca Thyssen-Bornemisza and her heirs are transferring 186 TBA21 works into Spanish public ownership and lending 179 more. The deeper story is how four generations of one collecting family have repeatedly redefined what legacy can mean.

William Kentridge and the City That Cannot Stop Being ErasedAhead of the global premiere of William Kentridge’s twelfth Drawings for Projection film at Goodman Gallery London, we look at why charcoal, erasure and revision remain central to the artist — and what collectors should understand across drawings, prints, film and sculpture.

Frieze Sculpture 2026 Reviewed: What Happens When Sculpture Leaves the White CubeFrieze Sculpture 2026 turns The Regent’s Park into a live test of scale, material, siting and weather. For collectors, the strongest lesson is not which work 'wins' — but what outdoor presentation reveals that the white cube can hide.

Lucio Fontana in Hong Kong: What Collectors Should See Beyond the SlashLucio Fontana’s slash became one of post-war art’s most recognisable gestures. A major Hong Kong exhibition restores the holes, shaped canvases, bronzes and spatial thinking that make one cut very different from another.

The Golden Ear and the Collector’s Eye: Inside Clive Davis’s Art CollectionFollowing Clive Davis’s death in June 2026, Christie’s dispersal of his collection offers more than a celebrity-provenance story. It reveals how one of music’s great talent-spotters lived with post-war and contemporary art — and how friendship, intuition and domestic space shaped what he bought.

The Eye Behind Monsoon: What Peter Simon’s Collection Reveals About Buying Art on InstinctPeter Simon’s collection is large enough to read as a survey of modern and contemporary art, but its more useful story for collectors is personal: how a commercial eye trained on textiles, colour and pattern became an art-collecting instinct — and why conviction still matters when markets move against you.

Rana Begum: The Art That Changes With the HouseRana Begum treats light as a material. Her first New York solo exhibition offers collectors a precise lesson in how architecture, daylight, colour and movement can keep changing an artwork after it enters the home.

Inma Barrero’s MOTHERS: Ceramics, Repair and the Sculptural Life of BeadsEight new sculptures turn handmade ceramic beads, soils from three countries and metal stitching into a chorus of maternal forms—an exhibition where repair becomes structure rather than correction.

Gordon Cheung: When Money Becomes LandscapeIn his first solo exhibition with Kavi Gupta, Gordon Cheung turns obsolete financial information into landscapes and objects that ask how markets, technology and inherited visual systems make belief feel natural.

Wangari Mathenge’s Re-membering: Collecting Memory After EmpireWangari Mathenge’s first solo exhibition with Lévy Gorvy Dayan expands her Re-membering series into sculpture, turning books, objects and domestic space into a layered inquiry into Kenyan cultural memory.

The Monument Outside Your Window: Alix Vernet Turns Air Conditioners into RuinsAlix Vernet sees the backs of New York air conditioners as archives: fragile aluminum surfaces that record weather, maintenance, touch and heat exchange. LANDMARKS turns overlooked infrastructure into some of the city’s strangest new monuments.

Joseph Yaeger and the Unreliable Image: Painting What Memory Gets WrongJoseph Yaeger’s Agita begins with images we think we recognise and a text we cannot fully trust. We examine how memory, found imagery, watercolour and material accident turn contemporary image culture into psychologically unstable painting.

Teresa Solar Abboud and the Sculptural UndergroundTunnel-boring machines become creatures and infrastructure starts to resemble metabolism in Teresa Solar Abboud’s first UK solo. We look at the hidden systems beneath the city—and what collectors need to know about her materially complex sculpture.

Tala Madani’s Control X: Why Painting Needs Things to Go WrongTala Madani’s new paintings and animations turn cutting, erasure and reconstruction into a language of power. Using fresh artist testimony alongside the exhibition material, we examine why the work is funniest when control starts to fail.

The Collector’s Apartment: How Jeanne-Marie de Broglie Lived with Dubuffet, Giacometti and LalanneJeanne-Marie de Broglie spent four decades helping Christie’s establish itself in France while creating interiors that resisted the separation of modern art, historic furniture and daily life. Her Rue Washington apartment offers a model of the collector’s home as social space, personal archive and evolving composition.

Taking Back Our Space at MoMA: Who Gets to Occupy the Frame?MoMA’s new photography exhibition begins with Marianne Wex’s radical archive of gendered body language and expands the question through seven contemporary artists. The result is a sharp study of bodies, space, archives and who controls representation.

Lee Bul’s Beautiful Failures: Why Utopia Keeps Returning to Contemporary ArtA floating zeppelin, mother-of-pearl surfaces and futuristic ruins make Lee Bul’s first Hauser & Wirth New York exhibition one of September’s strongest shows — and a timely moment to reassess a four-decade practice.

From $70 to $1.8 Million: What Frieze Seoul 2026 Says About Asia’s Collector BaseFrieze Seoul’s strongest signal was not a single million-dollar sale but the breadth beneath it: Korean modernists, international blue chip, museum acquisitions, emerging artists and genuinely accessible entry points all found buyers.

Teresa Margolles at MoMA PS1: When Evidence Becomes MemorialTeresa Margolles’s first large-scale US museum exhibition turns rubble, residue and forensic thinking into a radical form of memorial. For collectors, it is also a masterclass in why context and conservation can be part of the medium.

How to End a Collection: Dimitris Daskalopoulos Turns Private Taste Into Public InfrastructureDimitris Daskalopoulos has added 51 works to one of the most consequential museum-gifting programmes of the contemporary era. The real story is not generosity alone, but a collector’s unusually coherent answer to the problem of legacy.

Roy Lichtenstein: Why the First New York Retrospective in More Than 30 Years Matters to CollectorsThe Whitney’s first Lichtenstein retrospective in New York in more than thirty years reunites his landmark 1962 Castelli debut and follows the artist across six decades. For collectors, it is a timely chance to look beyond the market’s early-Pop hierarchy and reconsider the full intelligence of the oeuvre.

London Design Festival 2026: The Collector’s EditOur collector’s edit of London Design Festival 2026 prioritises sculptural furniture, studio glass, design history and emerging makers — the work most likely to matter after festival week ends.

Paris Design Week 2026: The Collector’s EditParis Design Week is too large for a checklist. Our collector’s edit focuses on the places where collectible design, exceptional craft and historic interiors create the strongest opportunities for serious looking and collecting.

The Haas Brothers Have Built a World: Mathemagical and Uncanny Valley ReviewedWith a new Boesky exhibition and their first mid-career museum survey arriving almost in tandem, the Haas Brothers reveal the systems, material intelligence and serious sculptural ambition beneath their famous exuberance.

Maurizio Cattelan’s NIGHT: A Brilliant Reordering of Power, Memory and the MuseumAt 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.

Ettore Sottsass in Tokyo: When Furniture Stops Behaving Like FurnitureJapan’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.

Kerry James Marshall in Paris: When History Painting Changes Who History Is ForThe 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.

Cézanne and Us: How One Painter Taught Modern Art to See AgainNearly 180 works at the Grand Palais trace Cézanne’s afterlife from Gauguin and Matisse to Joan Mitchell, Bridget Riley and Peter Doig—and reveal how artistic value is built before consensus.

The Bayeux Tapestry Returns to England: Why the British Museum’s 2026 Exhibition Is More Than a Historic LoanThe Bayeux Tapestry opens at the British Museum after returning to England for the first time in nearly 1,000 years. Beyond 1066, it is a lesson in material, narrative and conservation.

George Lucas, Mellody Hobson and the Museum Built Around a Collector’s Question: What Counts as Art?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.

Park View: What a Four-Decade London Apartment Collection Teaches About Buying Across CategoriesA four-decade London apartment collection coming to Dreweatts combines Regency furniture, antiquities, modern art and deep provenance into a masterclass in cross-category collecting.

Inside the Rachofsky House: How Cindy and Howard Rachofsky Made Architecture Part of the CollectionFrom Richard Meier’s glass-walled rooms to Gutai paintings, Arte Povera and site-specific sculpture, the Rachofsky House shows what happens when art leaves the gallery and becomes part of daily life.

London Design Festival 2026: What Art Collectors Should See Before They Buy Another PaintingLondon 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.

Pierre Chapo: The Sculptor in Wood Whose Furniture Now Belongs Beside ArtPierre Chapo’s elm furniture has moved from connoisseur design into the art collector’s field of vision. The reason is not fashion alone: his best pieces make construction itself the subject.

Claude Lalanne and the New Art of Collecting: What a $33.5 Million Design Record RevealsClaude Lalanne’s fifteen mirrors for Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé sold for $33.455 million at Sotheby’s in April 2026. The record highlights how exceptional design, provenance and the growing dialogue between art and interiors are reshaping collecting.

Cecily Brown at Serpentine: The Pleasure of Not Knowing What You’re Looking AtCecily Brown’s Picture Making turns uncertainty into a painterly method: figures emerge, dissolve and return across twenty-five years of paintings, drawings and monotypes.

More Than a Backdrop: Becky Gochman’s Telluride Home and the Responsibilities of Collecting Living Indigenous ArtBecky Gochman’s Telluride retreat is both a family home and one node in an active lending collection—raising a richer question about how collectors can live with contemporary Indigenous art without turning it into décor.

The Great Art Inheritance Problem: What Happens When Your Children Don’t Want the Collection?A lifetime collection can become an heir’s logistical, financial and emotional burden overnight. From changing taste and stale valuations to museum gifts, digital art and forced sales, what serious collectors should plan before the collection becomes an estate.

Damien Hirst Returns to the Fair—What Gagosian’s Seoul Solo Presentation Tells Us About the Hirst Market in 2026Gagosian’s Damien Hirst solo booth at Frieze Seoul is less a comeback than a compact map of a highly segmented market—placing Spots, Spins, cabinets, Colour Space, Secret Gardens and Treasures side by side for collectors.

What to See in Mexico City in September 2026MUAC, Museo Tamayo, Museo Jumex and kurimanzutto lead an unusually strong September in Mexico City, from Julian Rosefeldt and John Giorno to Richard Prince and a transatlantic reconsideration of Tamayo, Nieto and Toledo.

What to See in Paris in September 2026: The Collector’s GuideBefore Art Basel Paris arrives in October, September brings a concentrated Paris season spanning Kerry James Marshall, Cezanne, Christian Marclay, Paris Design Week, Fine Arts Paris and a gallery-history exhibition in the Marais.

What to See in London in September 2026: The Collector’s GuideSeptember gives London collectors an unusually useful head start: museum shows in their final weeks, important gallery openings, Frieze Sculpture in Regent’s Park and a major Magritte exhibition before the October fairs arrive.

The Lost Kusamas: What Four Watercolours in Joseph Cornell’s Archive Reveal About ProvenanceFour early Yayoi Kusama watercolours preserved in Joseph Cornell’s archive reveal how friendship, receipts and archival care can transform provenance into art history.

Ryoji Ikeda Wins the 2026 Nam June Paik PrizeThe Japanese composer and media artist has received one of the field's significant international distinctions, recognising a practice that has transformed data, mathematics, light and sound into immersive artistic experiences.

Do Ho Suh Comes Home: 500 Works Turn Memory into Architecture at MMCA SeoulMMCA Seoul brings together around 500 works by Do Ho Suh, revealing how the artist’s drawings, objects, family history and fabric architecture form one continuous practice.

Copenhagen Art Week 2026: Inside CHART, Enter and the Exhibitions You Can’t MissAs CHART and Enter Art Fair open across Copenhagen, the strongest reason to visit is the art beyond the headline events: Camille Henrot at Copenhagen Contemporary, Ayako Rokkaku across fair and public space, Emma Kohlmann at V1, Anna Munk at Nicolai Wallner, Janaina Tschäpe at Galleri Bo Bjerggaard and more.

Yayoi Kusama, 1929–2026: The Art of Refusing to DisappearYayoi Kusama turned repetition, vulnerability and rebellion into one of the most recognisable visual languages of our time. A life shaped by exclusion, activism and radical self-invention became a legacy that transformed both art history and the global market.

Too Many Beautiful Objects: Inside a Collector’s I.M. Pei Apartment at Kips Bay TowersInside an I.M. Pei apartment at Kips Bay Towers, an exceptional photography and design collection reveals a mature collecting problem: when every object is strong, editing becomes the real form of connoisseurship.

Venice Biennale Revisited: What In Minor Keys Reveals After the Opening-Week NoiseThree months after opening week, Koyo Kouoh’s In Minor Keys is easier to hear. A reassessment of the 2026 Venice Biennale asks whether slow looking can survive inside the world’s loudest art event.

200 Acres of Art: Jorge M. Pérez and the Sculpture Landscape at SnowmassOn 200 acres at Snowmass, Jorge M. Pérez is approaching one hundred outdoor sculptures. The deeper story is how landscape, public access, philanthropy and weather change what a private collection can become.

Minnie Evans at the Whitney: A Visionary World That Refuses the “Outsider” LabelThe Whitney’s first major Minnie Evans retrospective in more than five decades shows why “outsider” and “self-taught” are too small for a practice built from modernity, spiritual vision, botanical structure and rigorous visual invention.

Felix Gonzalez-Torres in Madrid: Why “Sweet Revenge” Still Makes Generosity Feel RadicalAt Reina Sofía, Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s candy spills, paper stacks, curtains and light strings reveal why participation can be generous without ever becoming easy.

Emma Reyes: The Self-Taught Colombian Painter London Is Only Now DiscoveringWhite Cube presents the first UK solo exhibition of Emma Reyes, bringing six decades of intensely patterned painting into a market that is only beginning to catch up with her work. The real story is scholarship, not hype.

Thomas Ruff and the Images We Cannot Forget: Photography, 9/11 and the Internet 25 Years LaterTwenty-five years after 9/11, Thomas Ruff’s monumental jpegs ny asks how compression, circulation and the internet have altered collective memory.

The Collector’s Second House—How Suzanne McFayden Rebuilt Her Home Around Art, Identity and a Third ActSuzanne McFayden’s new Austin home offers a rare lesson in designing around a mature collection: less gallery-white neutrality, more atmosphere, edited hangs and rooms that allow art, furniture and personal history to shape one another.

Why Seoul Is Becoming the September Capital of the Asian Art MarketFrieze Seoul is five years old, more than 50 participating galleries now have permanent Seoul spaces, and the city’s museum calendar is stronger than ever. The real story is not one fair—it is the infrastructure growing around it.

What to See in New York in September 2026: The Collector’s GuideFrom Roy Lichtenstein’s final year and Taryn Simon’s Guggenheim rotunda to Brice Marden, Torkwase Dyson, Thomas Ruff and Independent 20th Century at the Breuer: the exhibitions collectors should prioritise in New York this September.

Maurizio Cattelan After the Banana: Why NIGHT May Be His Most Important Exhibition in YearsMaurizio Cattelan’s first major solo exhibition in Germany places historical works and new commissions inside Mies van der Rohe’s Neue Nationalgalerie. Has the spectacle surrounding the banana obscured how serious—and how unresolved—his art actually is?

Living With Difficult Art: Inside Patrick Collins’s Collector’s HomeA nearly ten-foot John McCracken column in the living room, Scott Burton chairs in the kitchen and Sturtevant beside the bed: Patrick Collins’s homes show what happens when a collector lets difficult art remain difficult.

Inside John Chamberlain’s Shelter Island Time Capsule: When an Artist’s Studio Becomes Part of the WorkOn Shelter Island, John Chamberlain’s actual working studio survives alongside a posthumously converted horse farm that now functions as a private exhibition space. As his 2027 centenary approaches, the Estate is testing how an artist’s environment can remain intact without becoming a conventional museum.

Beyond the Booth: What The Armory Show’s 2026 Programme Is Trying to ChangeThe Armory Show’s 2026 programme places Caribbean art, museum acquisitions, performance and emerging galleries at the centre of the fair. The result is a revealing attempt to make the art fair function as more than a marketplace.

The Last Collection of Herbert Lust: Friendship, Scholarship and a $60 Million EstateChristie’s and Sotheby’s are reportedly competing for roughly 300 works left in Herbert Lust’s estate. The $60 million figure is the news hook; the deeper story is a collector who built through friendship, scholarship and decades of changing his mind.

The Museum as Buyer: What the National Gallery’s Latest Acquisitions RevealAround 190 works have entered the National Gallery of Art since March. The sharper collector question is not what the museum bought, but which gaps it decided could no longer remain.

After the Fire: Peggy Cooper Cafritz and the Collection She Chose to Build AgainPeggy Cooper Cafritz lost more than 300 works in a devastating 2009 fire. The collection she built afterwards reveals why her legacy was never simply about ownership.

The Long View: Craig Robins, John Baldessari and the Making of a Deep CollectionAt PAMM, forty works drawn largely from Craig Robins’s holdings reveal what happens when a collector follows one artist for decades — and when private conviction becomes public scholarship.

A Painting in the Rubbish: Jacques Goudstikker and the Collector’s Moral Duty of ProvenanceA Nazi-looted painting from Jacques Goudstikker’s collection reportedly survived for years in an Amsterdam cellar after being found in street rubbish. Its return is a lesson in why provenance never expires.

The $450 Million Collection Nobody Saw: What the Blaquier Trove Says About Power, Privacy and the New Auction MarketA reported $450 million Blaquier consignment at Sotheby’s is more than a trophy sale: it is a test of how privacy, provenance, guarantees and collection identity create value.

Stolen to Order? Inside the Antonello da Messina Heist — and the Invisible Market for Art That Can Never Be SoldThe theft of four Antonello da Messina works from MuMe exposes a paradox at the heart of art crime: the more famous a masterpiece becomes, the harder it is to turn into money.

APOLLO AND COMPANY: Augustas Serapinas Puts the Classical Body to WorkAt Nottingham Contemporary, the gym has entered the museum — but the weights have been replaced by fragments of art history. Lithuanian artist Augustas Serapinas has transformed two of the institution’s largest gallery spaces into something caught between an art school, a sculpture studio and a functioning fitness cent

What 50 Years of Collecting Can Teach Us: Inside Eileen Harris Norton’s ‘Destiny Is a Rose’As Hauser & Wirth’s landmark exhibition of the Eileen Harris Norton Collection enters its final weekend in Los Angeles, ARTCOLLECTORNEWS looks at what one of America’s most influential collectors can teach us about building a collection with conviction.

The New Curators of Art History: How Museums are Quietly Redefining what Future Generations will CollectThe most influential decisions shaping the future of art are rarely made in auction rooms or beneath the glare of international art fairs. They happen quietly, often behind the closed doors of museum acquisition committees, curatorial departments and scholarly research centres. As museums around the world rethink what

Artist interview with Sophie-Yen BretezFollowing her selection as the latest ARTCOLLECTORNEWS Open Call winner, Sophie-Yen Bretez discusses the ideas that underpin her practice, the relationship between material and memory, and the importance of creating work that invites sustained reflection. Rather than following trends, Bretez's work unfolds through care

ON REPEAT: Desire in the Age of Endless ChoiceRed flags, endless swiping and the fear of choosing wrong: ON REPEAT brings together works by Marc-Aurèle Debut examine the romantic consequences of living in an age of infinite options. Through a series of visually striking installations and sculptures, the exhibition transforms the habits of digital culture into a so

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition Continues to Inspire Collectors: Emerging Talent Meets Established NamesThe Royal Academy Summer Exhibition remains one of the art world's most accessible entry points for collectors seeking emerging talent alongside internationally recognised artists. This year's exhibition features more than 1,800 works selected under the theme of "Interconnectedness," offering painting, sculpture, photo

Claude Monet's Early Masterpieces Reunited in France: Rare Exhibition Offers Fresh Insight into an Impressionist LegendCollectors with a passion for Impressionism have a compelling reason to look toward Normandy this summer. The Musée d'Art Moderne André Malraux (MuMa) in Le Havre has assembled approximately one hundred early works by Claude Monet, revealing the artist's remarkable development before the emergence of Impressionism.

Ana Mendieta Returns to the Spotlight at Tate Modern: A Landmark Exhibition Reassesses an Influential VoiceLondon's Tate Modern has opened one of the year's most anticipated exhibitions, presenting the work of Cuban-American artist Ana Mendieta in a major survey spanning her ground-breaking performances, sculptures, photography and films. The exhibition highlights Mendieta's enduring exploration of identity, landscape and t

Theo Triantafyllidis Wins 2026 Frieze London Artist Award with Participatory Digital SculptureTheo Triantafyllidis has been named the recipient of the 2026 Frieze London Artist Award, where he will present Feral Metaverse (Spider), a new participatory installation co-commissioned by Frieze, Forma and, for the first time, Google Arts & Culture.

The Epochal Collection - Neel Khokhani in conversation with ARTCOLLECTORNEWSAs artificial intelligence reshapes our world, entrepreneur and collector Neel Khokhani believes contemporary art has never been more important. In this interview, he shares why he collects emerging and established artists side by side, why he sees himself as a patron rather than a collector, and how his globally focus

Artist Interview with Austyn TaylorAustyn Taylor, open call winning artist and her many characters spreading optimism across the world one gallery at a time: "My work is vivid, colorful, innocent, courageous and absurd. I make characters in hand sculpted clay based on animals and people I have encountered. The work acts as a signal- "everything will be

Collector to Catalyst: Louis Jacquier and the Intimate Vision Behind TideripIn London’s evolving contemporary art landscape, a new generation of collectors is reshaping how galleries are conceived and run. Louis Jacquier, co-founder of Tiderip, represents this shift, where collecting is no longer a private pursuit but an active, collaborative force. Rooted in close relationships with artists a

Athens Biennale Rebuilds Itself as an Institution of PowerThe Athens Biennale has announced a major restructuring of its governance alongside the appointment of Thiago de Paula Souza as curator of its 8th edition in 2027. The new model introduces a formalised structure of trustees, advisors, and curatorial leadership, consolidating the Biennale within a tightly interlinked ne

Giusy Amoroso: Hybrid Anatomies and Contaminated FuturesGiusy Amoroso, also known as Marigoldff, winner of the fifth Open Call, constructs speculative ecosystems where biology and industry converge. Working across digital and physical realms, her practice examines how organisms adapt within environments shaped by contamination, technological intervention, and ecological ins

Frieze Los Angeles 2026: A Market Reboot — Blue‑Chip Sales, Institutional Confidence, and Cultural MomentumFrieze Los Angeles 2026 closed with a surge of energy, attracting over 32,000 visitors and strong institutional participation. Blue-chip galleries like David Zwirner, Gagosian, and Hauser & Wirth reported multi-million-dollar sales, while emerging artists in the Focus section sold out their presentations. The fair comb

Process, Not Product: Slawn’s Live Format at Saatchi YatesAt Saatchi Yates, Slawn redefined the conventional exhibition model by transforming the gallery into a functioning studio environment. Rather than presenting a static display of completed works, Slawn’s Studio invited audiences into the active process of art-making — where paintings evolved in real time and the boundar

Underdog Collection: Building an Art Collection Outside the SystemFormed by four friends outside the traditional art system, Underdog Collection champions emerging artists through slow looking, studio visits, and personal dialogue. Collecting instinctively and independently, they build meaningful, long-term relationships and acquisitions that resist hype and prioritize lasting resona

Building the Bridge: How Sonia Borrell Is Rewriting the Path from Studio to GalleryThrough mentorship, international networks, and her members’ platform StudioToGallery, curator and advisor Sonia BB London is creating a fairer infrastructure for emerging artists — replacing gatekeeping with guidance and access with education.

Icon(oclast) : Artist Interview with Cas CampbellNew Zealand–born, UK-based artist Cas Campbell works across ceramics, handmade paper, sculpture, and installation to explore humanity’s deep connection to nature. Drawing on evolutionary history, queer identity, motherhood, neurodivergence, and overlooked lives, Campbell’s practice weaves the personal with the historic

Crossing Into Darkness: Tracey Emin’s Curated Descent into the Human PsycheAt Carl Freedman Gallery, Crossing Into Darkness sees Dame Tracey Emin step into the role of curator with striking emotional authority, assembling a multigenerational constellation of artists — from Goya, Munch, Bourgeois and Kiefer to Danielle McKinney, Lindsey Mendick and Celia Hempton — to explore vulnerability, mor

Frida Kahlo: The Making of an IconTate Modern’s Frida: The Making of an Icon (25 June 2026 – 3 January 2027) explores how Frida Kahlo evolved from painter to global cultural icon. Developed with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the exhibition traces her lasting influence across art, feminism and popular culture, positioning Kahlo as a figure continual

OBTUSE (°) at Galleria Objets: An Archive Built on EncounterOBTUSE (°): , the inaugural exhibition of Obtuse Archive at Galleria Objets, brings together thirteen artists and three performers across sculpture, installation, sound, and performance. Decentering painting and privileging material experimentation, the show explores spatial tension, encounter, and the productive unres

Nnena Kalu’s Transformative Sculptures Win Turner Prize 2025The Turner Prize 2025 has been awarded to Nnena Kalu. The winner of the £25,000 prize was announced this evening at a ceremony at Bradford Grammar School presented by magician Steven Frayne, formerly known as Dynamo, in Bradford, this year’s UK City of Culture, and broadcast live on BBC News.

Maria Balshaw to Step Down as Director of Tate in 2026Tate has announced that Maria Balshaw will step down as Director in spring 2026, bringing to a close a nine-year tenure that has reshaped the institution’s public-facing mission, programming, and long-term strategy. Appointed in 2017, Balshaw leaves Tate at a moment of institutional stability, with major capital projec

Animism in the Age of Extraction: A Reading of Sara’s Turbine Hall CommissionMáret Ánne Sara’s Goavve-Geabbil transforms Tate Modern into a living landscape of hides, bone, sound, and spirit. Rooted in Sámi cosmology, the installation marks a powerful return of shamanic presence in contemporary art—an immersive call to reconnect with land, ancestors, and the unseen.

Beyond the Beach: Miami’s Art Basel Has ArrivedMiami Beach is about to trade in its sunscreen for art, ambition, and audacity, as Art Basel 2025 takes over the city in a whirlwind of color, ideas, and unapologetic creativity. From Havana to São Paulo, New York to Kyiv, 283 galleries are landing in the Sunshine State, bringing a global parade of Modern masters, post

Findings from the UBS report. The New Art Class: How Women, Gen Z, and Digital Platforms Are Redefining Collecting in 2025The latest Art Basel & UBS Survey of Global Collecting reveals a new balance of power in the art world — where women lead in spending, Gen Z embraces digital art, and collecting becomes as much about identity as investment.

Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Unfolded at Fondation BeyelerFrom 12 October 2025 to 25 January 2026, Basel’s Fondation Beyeler goes full dot-mad with the first-ever Swiss solo exhibition of Yayoi Kusama. Spanning over 70 years of her prolific career, the show brings together 300+ works — from intimate 1950s watercolours to new, immersive Infinity Mirror Rooms created just for t

The Sun Rises on the Market: Asia’s Art Power PlayIn the past few years, the art world’s compass has been turning steadily eastward. From Seoul and Singapore to Doha and Abu Dhabi, the expansion of major art fairs signals more than just geographic curiosity—it represents a structural realignment of the global art economy. Asia is no longer a satellite orbiting Western

TRANSHUMANISM Joanna Grochowska at The Untitled Space Gallery, New York in collaboration with Artsy, Open Until October 31, 2025Only 10 days left to see Transhumanism by Joanna Grochowska at Untitled Space.

ARTCOLLECTORNEWS Picks: The Top Exhibitions to See During Art Basel Paris 2025This Paris autumn, the city isn’t just hosting Art Basel—it’s staging a full-blown art showdown. ARTCOLLECTORNEWS spotlights the top five exhibitions you cannot miss: Rouy’s restless bodies haunt Picasso’s studio, Richter blurs reality and abstraction, De Maria turns trucks into meditative monuments, Rauschenberg resha

Frieze London and Frieze Masters 2025: A Market in MotionFrieze 2025 flipped the script. Emerging voices took the spotlight, performance met sculpture, and ancestral rituals mingled with futuristic visions. Blue-chip certainty met daring risk.

A New Art Capital Rises: Doha Welcomes Art Basel Qatar 2026Art Basel Qatar will debut in Doha, February 2026, featuring 87 galleries from 31 countries. Curated by Wael Shawky under the theme “Becoming,” the fair reimagines the traditional format, spotlighting leading voices from the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia alongside major international galleries.

In the Shadows, We See: Fatoş Üstek’s Frieze SculptureCurator Fatoş Üstek leads the 13th edition of Frieze Sculpture, uniting 14 international artists—including David Altmejd, Reena Saini Kallat, and Elmgreen & Dragset—under the evocative theme “In the Shadows.”

Frieze London & Frieze Masters 2025: Discovery, Dialogue, and DynamismFrieze London & Frieze Masters (15–19 Oct) turn Regent’s Park into the art world’s epicenter. From bold newcomers to historic icons, the fairs promise discovery, debate, and daring creativity — and ARTCOLLECTORNEWS will be there to capture it all

In the Architecture of Belonging: Do Ho Suh’s Tate Modern ExhibitionDo Ho Suh’s The Genesis is a hauntingly beautiful exploration of home, memory, and identity.

The Sublime Underground: Anish Kapoor Redefines Naples’ TransitAnish Kapoor’s Monte Sant’Angelo station in Naples turns the underground into a sculptural journey.

Berlin Art Week 2025: Urgency, Beauty, and the City as StageFrom private collections to performance interventions, Berlin Art Week 2025 confirms the capital’s role as Europe’s most experimental stage for contemporary art.

Tracey Emin’s “A Second Life” to Open at Tate Modern in 2026Next spring, Tate Modern will present A Second Life, the most comprehensive exhibition ever staged of Dame Tracey Emin’s work. Spanning four decades, the show promises to be both a survey of Emin’s extraordinary career and a deeply personal reflection on the life events that have shaped it.

Texas Talent Under Marfa Lights: A Desert Arts MovementWhen Sonia Borrell and Michael Phelan envisioned the Marfa Invitational Open, they weren’t simply planning an exhibition—they were igniting a movement. From an open call across Texas to vibrant communal dances under the desert sky, what unfolded in Marfa this May felt like a powerful celebration of artistry fuelled by

Christelle Oyiri Launches Tate Modern’s Groundbreaking Infinities Commission with Bold New InstallationTate Modern today unveils In a perpetual remix where is my own song?, a striking new installation by French artist, DJ and producer Christelle Oyiri, marking the inaugural edition of the Infinities Commission—a new annual initiative championing radical experimentation in contemporary art.

"Faceless" : We catch up with Marcus Jansen in our latest interviewMarcus Jansen, a globally renowned contemporary artist whose bold, emotionally charged works confront the complexities of modern life. Known for his distinctive fusion of street art, abstract expressionism, and social commentary, Jansen’s paintings explore themes of power, surveillance, and the human condition in an ev

Emerging Currents: What to Watch at Liste 2025As the art world converges once again on Basel this June, anticipation builds around the opening of Liste Art Fair 2025, set to launch its 30th edition on June 16. Long revered as a platform for emerging voices, Liste is expected this year to deliver more than just a glimpse of what’s next—it will offer a bold reaffirm

Artist Interview with Secil ErelIn an age defined by visual saturation and speed, Secil Erel's paintings offer a quiet counterpoint - a space to pause, reflect and reorient. Working at the thresholds of abstraction, Erel constructs visual environments that are less about depicting the world and more about sensing it.

Artist interview with Máté OrrAn in depth interview with Mate Orr, one of our Open Call winners, a young artist making waves on the international stage, talking about his work, how it all began for him and what is next.

Joanna Grochowska's TRANSHUMANISMJoanna Grochowska is a contemporary artist exploring transhumanism and human enhancement technologies. Her work contributes to the dialogue about morphological freedom and the future. The conceptual basis of her art are the notions of Transgression and Singularity. The dominant theme is the transhuman and posthuman fig

Catching up with collector Sonia Borrell about her latest acquisitions after the release of her best-selling book, "Art in Real Time"A brief interview with Sonia Borrell, art collector, curator, adviser and author of Art in Real Time, a fascinating guide tailored to new and aspiring collectors, filled with valuable gems of advice, woven through a collection of personal life experiences by the author, further enriched with commentary from a wide rang

Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian, a symbol, a question, a provocation, a banana.

Laura Holmes: Unveiling the Mind of a Practical Overthinker

Frieze London 2024: A Visionary Edition That Pushes BoundariesAs the autumn leaves fall, London's art scene is set ablaze by the much-anticipated Frieze London 2024, a fair poised to leave an indelible mark on the art world.

Artist Interview with Robert Pokorny ahead of his New York solo show - Lost In A Dream - with Anna Zorina Gallery

Sonia Borrell and Galerie Zberro Present "La Vie Est Belle": A Celebration of Ultra-Contemporary Art in Paris‍October 15 marks the opening of a vibrant new exhibition in the heart of Paris's 8th Arrondissement. Renowned art curator Sonia Borrell (known as @soniabblondon) and gallerist Géraldine Zberro from Galerie Zberro are set to unveil La Vie Est Belle, a 25-artist group exhibition that spotlights the forefront of the ultr

Artist Interview with KV Duong

Art Angels Curated: Collecting Emerging Artists in London's Vibrant Art SceneDriven by the opportunity to engage with, support, and champion emerging artists who embody creativity and innovation within the London art milieu, Art Angels Curated is an art collection curated by the discerning eyes of Carmele McGeary and Julie Townend.

An Art Collector's interview with Andrew Jovic"In recent months, we have set up a new home, with lots of art." - read our interview with art collector Andrew Jovic.

Artist Interview with Jonathon DowningARTCOLLECTORNEWS is delighted to present Jonathon Downing, the first winner of our monthly open call. This 26-year-old painter from Detroit, Michigan, despite his young age, already boasts an impressive track record of international exhibitions. He speaks wholeheartedly about his upbringing, inspiration, 'bag of tricks

Deux Ex Machina at the Bomb Factory Foundation by ARTCOLLECTORNEWSIn collaboration with The Bomb Factory Art Foundation we are pleased to present Deus Ex Machina, a group exhibition that delves into the fundamental issues of human agency, social absurdism, and contemporary notions of ‘divine’ intervention. The exhibition will be on view from 15th June to 9th of July in our Marylebone

STRANIERI OVUNQUE - FOREIGNERS EVERYWHERE 2024 Venice Biennale pavilionsWith less than a week until the press reviews and a 10-day countdown to the inauguration of the 2024 Biennale,the art world's spotlight converges on Adriano Pedrosa and the 332 artists poised to define the contemporary art landscape at the Giardini and the Arsenale. With a keen eye for capturing the essence of our time

5 Shows Not To Miss This AprilApril arrives with the melodious chirping of birds, stirring excitement for the summer holidays already planned, and Venice gearing up for its biennial extravaganza. Devoting just a monthly recommendation to this would be sacrilege. Instead, let's focus on a feast sweeping across Europe this month and lasting until Sep

An Art Collector's Interview with Sonia Borrell - Tryson Collection"An artwork must resonate with me on a personal level; it's essential that I can perceive the narrative woven into every piece I consider. I listen for the artist's voice in their work, sensing the pulse of their passion. There must be that moment—a kind of heartbeat—when I first lay eyes on a piece. If that heartbeat

5 Shows Not to Miss this MarchAs spring is starting to bloom this month, we are focusing on London with a small taste of New York. We'll showcase artists we have worked with, introduce new galleries, and present sensational exhibitions, all within just five shows

TRANSHUMANISM - Joanna GrochowskaAlthough we are bombarded by fictional characters from a distant future where technology has taken over- many times presenting it in a post apocalyptic environment, we are much closer and affected then we ever thought, and Joanna Grochowska’s transgressive figures are the answer to a post generational beauty definitely

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Artist Interview with Tony Pharo

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In the polarity of defiance and expectations-Frida Wannerberger

Artist Interview with Liam Fallon

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In the fashion of punk-womanhood and the fallacy of machismo - A Review on SF by Sylvie Fleury at Sprueth Magers

Artist Interview with Ally Rosenberg"I have never made an actual baby, but for me, making art feels like the opposite of what I imagine that is like. Conception is painful, but pushing the thing out is the fun bit."

5 Shows Not To Miss in October 2023October…London gets ready for Frieze mayhem extravaganza. 'Frieze Week' is traditionally the moment when London hosts the international art world’s most compelling, must-visit mix of fairs, shows, auctions, dinners, parties, and the list goes on.‍ Meanwhile, galleries also dress up to join the party. For this month, I'

ARTCOLLECTORNEWS Interviews Artist Allison Zuckerman

An Interview with artist Christos MichaelidesChristos Michaelides was born in 1983 in London. He graduated from the Athens School of Fine Arts in 2010. In 2008 he obtained an Erasmus scholarship and attended a term at the Slade School of Fine Arts. He completed the Royal College of Arts MA Painting programme in 2023. Awarded with the commendation at the 3rd Friss

MAXWELL STEVENS - “Last Days of Summer”"Maxwell Stevens: A Contemporary Take on Gestural Abstraction Meets Beach Bliss"

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"Ideas of transformation, identity pain, societal tribalistic manifestations & female monstrous archetypes...behavioural patterns that lie on the verge of traumatic occurrences..." - An Interview with Irene Pouliassi

"The themes tend to be almost exclusively personal. In dealing with concepts and motives that are very close to me, I develop an authentic relationship with the work itself which lends to the authenticity of my practice…" - An interview with Adam HandlerAdam Handler's is a visual artist working with acrylic paint, oil sticks, pencils and markers. His work replaces art's staid conventions of portraying reality by adopting a child-like style, questioning our perceptions and assumptions of our surroundings. His intense colours and flat drawings illustrate notes from dail

An Art Collector's Interview with Jack Cohen

Golden Shower Members Club - "Zeus, changing into a shower of gold, lay with Danae, and from this embrace Perseus was born."Golden Shower is the new monthly exhibition format conceived by BeAdvisors Art Department, which focuses on putting the best emerging artists in London and worldwide under the limelight. Consistent with BeAdvisors Art Department’s philosophy, our aim is to provide visibility to young non-represented artists, promote th

Igor DobrowolskiIn the process of discovering myself, I have revealed some strong psychological figures (inner child, feminine side, tyrannical side, contemporary side). I noticed that some paths went entirely differently when designing or thinking about new works. For example, the process of creating oil paintings was utterly differe

"Just like we are all the sum of our experiences, my works are clearly a reflection of my view on life. " - An artist interview with Johan DeckmannJohan Deckmann was born in 1976 in Copenhagen, where he continues to live and work today. As both an artist and practicing psychotherapist, Deckmann takes found objects, namely books, and paints witty titles or pensive phrases in English which provide satirical commentary on the complexities of life. Deckmann’s psychol

"Each experience and significant moment in my life is portrayed in each work." - Artist interview with Joseph Yonke"I grew up painting, art has always been a major part of my life. Ever since I could remember, I’ve been painting. My work is inspired by elements such as emotions and perceptions of the world; however, I have always grown up being inspired by the work of George Condo and Willem de Kooning. My figurative, abstract expr

"I didn't realize, but I was already an artist on the inside." - An interview with John FouJohn Fou is a self-taught artist with a background in the world of live performance and more particularly in the circus, dance and theatre. He has developed a practice of figurative painting in which he stages social relationships between animals of different species, as an allegory of his life and more generally of hu

Year of the Rabbit | Part 2 : The Twilight Zone"Every once in a while, a movement comes along that completely throws us off and reminds us how visceral art is."

Year of the Rabbit | Part 1: The Rabbit Hole

"I realised most of my life has been spent in a dissociative state, using literature and art I’m able to articulate the suppressed." - ‍An Interview with Florence SweeneyFlorence Sweeney a multidisciplinary artist based in North London, exhibited internationally and mostly known for her abstract sculptural paintings, hand embroidered tapestries, latex installations and drawing practice.

Jeff Koons' Broken Balloon Dog and Other Short StoriesThe broken Jeff Koons "Balloon Dog" was probably an accident, but our response to it highlights a love affair with disruptive artists.

Agnes Grochulska InterviewAgnes Grochulska is a contemporary artist working in oils and drawing media. She works across a variety of subject matter, including portraits, figures, and landscapes, with the underlying themes centering around the interconnectedness of all things. Her hope is to create thought-provoking work that is inviting the vie

STUDIO WEST presents SKIN DEEPA group exhibition featuring Ada Bond, Alice Miller, C Lucy R Whitehead, Iga Bielawska, Ki Yoong, Moussa David Saleh, Naila Hazell, Nina Baxter, Preslav Kostov, Serpil Mavi Üstün, Sophie Milner.

"Owning something unique and desirable is a feeling that can’t be described."Raphael ISVY aged 33 and father to two girls lives in Paris. Having studied mathematics and statistics to work in finance and asset management firms, Raphael has consulted for some of the biggest technology companies in the world ,selling software to banks. After 10 years in this sector, the moment had come to divert h

"At the end of the day, we really collect what we love."Born and raised in New York and currently living in Brooklyn with his wife Sarah, Dylan Abruscato has been a collector of things for as long as he can remember. Building connections with creatives has always been a source of inspiration for Dylan and he has been fortunate enough to translate that into the work he curre

"My paintings are a commentary on the history of painting and image making, and I intentionally draw from a variety of sources to create a multifaceted visual language. "Based in Los Angeles for just over 20 years, Amir H. Fallah originally moved from the Baltimore area on the East Coast to attend art school. Once finished with their studies, they decided to pursue a graduate degree at UCLA, and after experiencing the beautiful weather and the art scene in LA, never left. Back then, th

"Conceptual Poetry, is the foundation of my exploration."Javier Martin, a multidisciplinary artist from Spain, bases their creative exploration on the careful observation of their surroundings. Experimenting with painting, collage, installation, sculpture, and performance, they explore themes of self-perception, consumption, technology and contemporary social values, conceiv

"One of the best ways to market work is to make and keep relationships with good people."Marcus Antonius Jansen was predestined to a career shadowed by conflict. He was named after the Roman general Marcus Antonius, whose romance with the Egyptian queen Cleopatra led to the civil war that almost brought the empire to ruin. Born in New York City in 1968, Marcus Jansen creates powerful paintings that respond

"I feel like that is where the painting gets interesting. Within the mistakes."In my work I explore the realms of macabre and grotesque ideas and images in a humorous and colourful manner. I take themes like death, cheating, toxic masculinity, beastialty etc.. and bring them into a playful world I built that kind of says "I know these are parts of life no matter how dark, so might as well make fu

“In the Land of Silhouettes” - A solo show by Marcus JansenJohn Seed, a California-based art writer and curator takes us through Marcus Jansen's solo show titled "In the Land of Silhouettes". The show will be presented by Almine Rech and will be on view in Shanghai from March 17 through April 29, 2023.

Amir H. Fallah @ Art Basel Hong Kong March 21 - 25Amir H. Fallah Art Basel Hong Kong March 21 - 25, 2023 BOOTH: 1B34 Denny Gallery is participating in the 2023 edition of Art Basel Hong Kong in the Insights section with a solo booth of work by Amir H. Fallah.

DISTRAÍDA. Larissa de Jesus Negron’s debut solo show in London Friday 10th March 2023Larissa de Jesus Negron’s debut solo show in London: Guts Gallery is excited to present ‘Distraída’, a solo exhibition by Larissa De Jesús Negrón which explores the permanent state of distraction that we seem to find ourselves in every day

Art born from a world of memories - An interview with Rune ChristensenRune is a self-taught artist whose work has found identity as part of a growing urban art movement. His paintings have been exhibited in Denmark, Germany, Australia and across the US. Much of Rune’s inspiration comes from his time spent travelling and observing cultural traditions, religious motifs, textiles, and costu

Reconnecting to heritage through art - An interview with Simona RuschevaThrough my works I have found a way to reconnect with my source, that being my Bulgarian heritage where I endeavour to explore Bulgarian culture; inviting the viewer to submerge into the limitless sea of mysteries, rituals and realities existing beyond the being everyday life.

"We all have a rioter inside our walls." - An interview with DotPigeonDotPigeon is the project of the art director Stefano Fraone that mixes in an explosive see-through, fashion, rap, pop culture and art glitch.

Low Tideofy Gallery presents Low Tide, a solo exhibition by Maria D. Rapicavoli, curated by Mariacristina Ferraioli. Through paintings, photographs and sculptures, Rapicavoli explores biological inheritance, cosmic rhythms and the transformation of matter, drawing on her experience of ovarian cancer and the Atlantic tides at R

Vers la paix perpétu-aile(s)The group exhibition Vers la paix perpétu-aile(s) / The Wings of Peace will be on view in Paris from 19 October to 1 November 2026.The exhibition is organised in partnership with Tora and Art Foundation and the French cultural platform Bien En Place

Deconstructing Beauty — After Georges BatailleDeconstructing Beauty — After Georges Bataille explores the fragile boundary between beauty and its opposite, questioning conventional ideals of perfection, harmony and aesthetic appeal.

"... Die Sehnsucht stirbt zuletzt ..."Until October 25, Kunsttempel and Galerie Coucou present in "... Die Sehnsucht stirbt zuletzt ..." (Longing Dies Last) works from all phases of Urs Lüthis’ career. Through photographs, videos, installations, paintings, and sculptures, the show is the result of Lüthi’senduring Kassel ties and offers insights into more t

CONSUMED (Swallow the Sky)Souvenir 438 Space is proud to present Consumed (Swallow The Sky), a solo exhibition by London-based artist Thomas Hjelm in correlation with Frieze London. The exhibition brings together a new body of work that examines surrender in its many forms: to desire, to nature, and to another person. At its centre is the idea

The edge of chaosA solo exhibition by Ilsa Brittain, curated by Berfin Cicek. The Edge of Chaos explores the space between order and unpredictability, where complexity and possibility emerge. Through layered painting and sculptural forms, Brittain examines connection, shifting perspectives and the systems that shape our experience.

Dreams Without Borders IID Contemporary presents Dreams Without Borders II, a group exhibition of ten international artists curated by Sonia Borrell, opening 9 October 2026. The exhibition is the second in Studio to Gallery’s programme supporting artists as their work moves from the privacy of the studio into a public exhibition context.

Cecilia Vicuña: Living ThreadsWhitechapel Gallery presents the first major UK exhibition of Cecilia Vicuña, spanning six decades of painting, textile, installation, poetry, performance, film and activism.

In the Shadows of ParadiseThe online exhibition brings together video works produced over the past three decades, examining how artists across diﬀerent countries and contexts respond to changing environments and structures of power.

TRIEZE: London West End EditionTRIEZE returns to London for its third edition, bringing Code FC, Fin DAC, Jay Kaes, Otto Schade and Pez Barcelona together for an artist-led takeover connecting street-art practice with the gallery context.

The Silent Vocal Language of TextilesPresented to mark the International Day of Peace and generously supported by Mason Hayes & Curran LLP, The Silent Vocal Language of Textiles brings together Conflict Textiles and D Contemporary in an exhibition that explores the extraordinary ability of textiles to communicate where words fail.

Afflict the Comfortable, Comfort the AfflictedCauleen Smith’s first major presentation on the African continent surveys her films, installations and sonic practice through Black cultural histories and collective imagination.

Carolina Caycedo: ConfluencesCarolina Caycedo examines rivers, extraction, migration and collective resistance through photography, installation, video, performance and drawing.

Ragnar Kjartansson: MercyEight new and recent video works combine music, humour, melancholy and repetition in Ragnar Kjartansson’s first major Australian solo exhibition.

Picasso, through the Eyes of Paul SmithPaul Smith reimagines the display of Picasso’s work through colour, design and playful scenography using loans from Musée National Picasso–Paris.

Korea Artist Prize 2026MMCA’s annual Korea Artist Prize presents new commissions and earlier works by four selected artists shaping contemporary art in Korea.

Carsten Höller: TwoCarsten Höller’s first institutional solo exhibition in China turns UCCA’s Great Hall into a participatory ‘Laboratory of Doubt’.

Future Geographies: Art in the Century of Climate ChangeMore than 35 works examine the climate crisis through contemporary art, ecological knowledge, technology and speculative futures.

The Making of a Medieval ManuscriptGetty reveals how medieval books were made by hand, from parchment preparation and writing to illumination and binding.

Otherworldly VisionsGetty explores Odilon Redon’s fantastical world through charcoal drawings, lithographs and pastels moving from mysterious darkness to luminous colour.

HomelandsTwenty modern and contemporary works examine migration, memory, ancestry and the changing meanings of homeland in the United States.

100 per centOne hundred works celebrate François Morellet’s centenary in the most comprehensive retrospective of the French geometric-abstraction pioneer to date.

Ron Mueck At Mori Art MuseumMori Art Museum presents Ron Mueck’s psychologically charged figurative sculptures, where shifts in scale intensify vulnerability, anxiety and human presence.

On the Other Side of SilenceAustria’s first major Erna Rosenstein retrospective traces six decades of a multimedia practice shaped by memory, the Shoah and postwar Poland.

Art RemembersTwenty contemporary works examine how artists across Southeast Asia use archives to recover overlooked histories and reshape collective memory.

Sweet RevengeMore than 50 works form the first large-scale Madrid presentation of Felix Gonzalez-Torres, exploring intimacy, politics, loss and participation.

To Dream AgainYoussef Nabil enters the Musée d’Orsay’s Orientalist galleries with hand-coloured photographs and video placed in dialogue with the collection.

Between Two WorldsMore than 150 photographs span five decades of Graciela Iturbide’s poetic black-and-white practice in Mexico and beyond.

James McNeill WhistlerTate Britain reconsiders James McNeill Whistler as a radical modern artist through paintings, portraits, prints, drawings and design.

Hurvin AndersonMore than 80 paintings chart Hurvin Anderson’s distinctive exploration of memory, place and identity between Britain and the Caribbean.

Light. Colour. Action.Light, movement and colour animate Tate Modern’s major survey of kinetic and optical-art pioneer Julio Le Parc.

Ana MendietaTate Modern surveys Ana Mendieta’s radical earth-body practice through more than 150 films, photographs, drawings, paintings and sculptural works.

Frida: The Making of an IconA major Tate Modern exhibition examines how Frida Kahlo became both an artist of international importance and a global cultural icon.

A Second LifeTate Modern’s major Tracey Emin retrospective traces more than three decades of painting, sculpture, film, textile, neon and installation.

I Am Plane ImageA major Brice Marden survey spanning six decades of painting, bringing together significant works from institutional, estate and private collections.

The Anatomy of Every Setting SunLee Bul’s first exhibition with Hauser & Wirth presents major new sculptures and recent works examining modernity, technology, power and imagined futures.

Exquisite CorpseCurated by Loie Hollowell, Exquisite Corpse brings Kiki Kogelnik into dialogue with Hollowell, Sascha Braunig and Veronika Pausova across painting, drawing and sculpture.

WaterfallJennifer Guidi presents a new body of luminous sand-and-oil paintings inspired by natural phenomena, imagined landscapes and states of inner perception.

MADE TO APPEAR“Made To Appear” explores themes of identity, human connection, and authenticity within an increasingly performative social landscape

DRIVE YOUR PLOW OVER THE BONES OF THE DEADDrive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead explores the lives and agency of animals, challenging the traditional human-centered perspective. Inspired by Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, the exhibition presents works across painting, film, sculpture, and installation, highlighting moments of animal resistance

Los Angeles: A Visual LineageLos Angeles: A Visual Lineage at Woodbury House brings together pioneering artists Chaz Bojorquez, DEFER, Estevan Oriol, and RETNA in a landmark group exhibition exploring the evolution of the city’s distinctive visual language. Spanning calligraphic traditions, graffiti abstraction, and photographic documentation, the

Nature In FormOpera Gallery Miami presents Nature in Form, a two-artist exhibition bringing together Cho Sung-Hee and Pieter Obels. Through layered hanji paper compositions and fluid Corten steel sculptures, the exhibition explores how balance, structure, and rhythm drawn from nature can be translated into refined contemporary form.

The Glass Dream GameMARUANI MERCIER presents The Glass Dream Game, the first solo exhibition of Æmen Ededéen (Joshua Hagler), opening in Brussels on 15 January 2026. Inspired by The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse and the divinatory structure of the I Ching, the exhibition brings together paintings developed through a personal system in

The Midden of TimeThe group exhibition 'The Midden of Time' brings together five contemporary practices that explore what occurs through the sifting, digging, collecting, layering, and transforming of symbols, genres, and embodied experiences.

EchoInvolving all-encompassing scenographies that take on the gravity and presence of alternative worlds, Klára Hosnedlová’s new exhibition ‘Echo’ is, first and foremost, an extensive meditation on time.

Bernd & Hilla BecherIcons of German postwar photography, Bernd and Hilla Becher meticulously documented industrial architecture across Europe and North America, challenging the distinction between documentary and fine art photography. The artist duo and couple used large-format cameras to create striking blackand-white images of industria

FOOLAlbion Jeune is pleased to present a solo exhibition of five stained-glass works and an inflatable sculpture by Esben Weile Kjær (b. 1992, Copenhagen). The exhibition explores contemporary desires and preoccupations through the lens of medieval culture, both materially and thematically. Kjær seamlessly adopts longstand

A Black Cat Stares at Me Through the Curtains (Act II)TICK TACK presents Wish You Were Here, a new site-specific exhibition by renowned American artist Banks Violette, with an immersive sound work by Stephen O’Malley (Sunn O)))).

Endless IncantationsEndless incantations is an entry into the world. We are here. Thought unfolds, work radiates, the line takes on substance.

Words strain, crack and sometimes breakWords strain, crack and sometimes break explores sculpture as a state of tension and transformation, where materials shift between body and object, structure and intuition, revealing form as something continually shaped by process and relation.

‘Enemies to Lovers but Me to Myself’Miłość is excited to present Sophie Vallance Cantor’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, ‘Enemies to Lovers, but Me to Myself’ opening on the 5th of February. In the show, Sophie’s oil paintings take on a new form of room dividers, illustrating experiences of autism and burnout – of recovery and grounding, of hidi

OBTUSE (°)OBTUSE (°), the first exhibition by Obtuse Archive, brings together thirteen artists alongside three performers working across painting, sculpture, installation, sound, performance, and food. Taking its title from the angle that sits between 90° and 180°, the exhibition uses this spatial relation as a metaphor for the

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Luxury Bathroom DesignA spa-like retreat at home.

Minimalist Kitchen DesignSimplicity meets functionality.

Cozy Cottage InteriorEmbracing warmth and charm.