ARTICLES

Following 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.

Teresa 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.

Dimitris 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.

Rana 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.

Joseph 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.

Becky 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.