ARTICLES

The 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.

Yayoi 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.

A 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.

The 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.

On 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.

Around 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.