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The Future-Facing Institutional Exhibitions Not to Miss in Basel

This year’s strongest Art Basel-adjacent shows are asking big questions about our future, with artists using digital worlds, living systems,...

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What Do Next-Gen Collectors Want From the Art World?

Avant Arte’s “A Changing of the Guard” report and Georgina Adam’s new book make the case that younger audiences are not consuming culture only...

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Elisa Carollo

London Art Dealers Take the City’s Temperature

This year’s London Gallery Weekend reaffirmed the centrality of London's art scene, even as it exposed a persistent lack of coordination between the...

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Ahead of Basel, London Gallery Weekend Put a Defiant, Energized City Scene on Display

Recent closures and market contractions couldn't dull a weekend that stretched from Cork Street to the East End

09.06.2026 2

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In the Korean Pavilion, Nation-Building Is an Open and Ongoing Process

Titled "Liberation Space," Goen Choi and Hyeree Ro's shared Venice Biennale presentation considers nationhood as a continuous act of deconstruction,...

09.06.2026 2

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Christie’s Rachel Koffsky On How the Handbag Became the Art Market’s Most Elegant Entry Point

Driven by Hermès devotees, archival Chanel aficionados and a renewed appetite for early-2000s fashion, the handbag market has become one of the...

08.06.2026 3

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At Giovanna Caruso Fendi’s FOROF, Rome’s Past Finds New Context in the Contemporary

In the remains of the Basilica Ulpia near Trajan’s Column, the city's imperial past meets its cultural present.

05.06.2026 6

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When Great Collections Come to Market, Dane Jensen Makes Sure Nothing Is Left on the Table

The founder and director of La Finca Collection Strategies believes that the next great art-market opportunity lies in knowing how, when and where to...

04.06.2026 3

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Elisa Carollo

Su Xiaobai’s Meditative Material Practice Is the Focus of One of the Biennale’s Most Commanding Shows

The artist's magmatic laquer works slow the viewer down by inviting them to investigate, appreciate and understand the temporal process each work...

04.06.2026 6

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Elisa Carollo

The Temporal and Geographical Ambiguity of Mark Manders

Frozen in the moment of becoming, the artist's new bronzes and newspaper works ask what it means to hold an entire civilization in a single object.

03.06.2026 4

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At Marianne Boesky, Sanford Biggers Rewrites the Rules of Material Storytelling

The artist has transformed the gallery into an immersive, stage-like realm where quilts, classical art's fragments, African masks, sequins and...

03.06.2026 5

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Edmondo and Michele di Robilant Chart a Course for Robilant with Old Masters and New Names

The gallery will balance its Old Master and modern legacy with a contemporary program shaped by Michele.

02.06.2026 3

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London Gallery Weekend Charts the Evolving Coordinates of the British Art Scene

What began as a collective response to the pandemic has become one of the art calendar's most purpose-driven events.

02.06.2026 3

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The Frick Collection’s Louis Vuitton Partnership Is Luxury’s Latest Cultural Power Move

Art has become one of luxury's strongest competitive tools.

01.06.2026 7

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Annie Taylor On Collecting as Cultural Stewardship

Taylor’s collecting practice is highly instinctive but not reckless, shaped by both immediate resonance and careful looking.

01.06.2026 4

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An Art Lover’s Guide to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (and Its Expansion)

Its programming and public engagement initiatives extend beyond the galleries onto a 134-acre campus featuring over five miles of art-filled trails...

29.05.2026 6

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Elisa Carollo

Galerie Gmurzynska’s Old-School Slow Art Model Is Newly Radical

"This is really the sense of what a gallerist is, rather than an art dealer: you put together shows, you put together catalogs, you actually...

29.05.2026 7

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Erwin Wurm Transforms the Fortuny Museum into a Theater of the Absurd

"Absurdity allows us to see things differently. If we look at the same chair every day, eventually we stop seeing it. But if we shift perspective and...

28.05.2026 9

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Wallace Chan’s Dual-Site Exhibition Bridges Not Only Geography But Also Matter, Energy, Past and Future

In the artist's practice, the distance between jewelry, sculpture, engineering and metaphysics collapses.

28.05.2026 9

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Marc Benda On Design’s Long Ascent and the Limits of Category

Rejecting the concept of “collectible design,” Benda, alongside Barry Friedman, built a global, intergenerational program that treats design as a...

27.05.2026 7

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Kiran Nadar’s Ambition to Put Indian Art On the World Stage

With her 16,000-work collection, she's helping write Indian art’s next chapter.

26.05.2026 9

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Nick Doyle’s “Mirror, Mirror” Turns the American Dream Inside Out

The artist's latest exhibition constructs a desolate, cinematic landscape in which the American Dream dissolves into illusion, only to reemerge via...

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The Carnegie International Tests What “We” Still Means in a Fractured World

Following the suggested exhibition path is disorienting—the survey is deeply integrated into the collection, yet lacks a clear logic, turning the...

22.05.2026 10

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Christie’s Wednesday Sales Achieved $162.7 Million as Bonhams’ 20th & 21st Century Evening Sale Topped $22 Million

"It's an exciting start to the week at our new flagship, and we look forward to carrying this energy through the remainder of our sales," Ralph...

21.05.2026 8

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Sotheby’s $304M Modern Evening Auction Confirms the Market Has Found Its Footing

The auction house closed the sale with a 98 percent sell-through rate and strong results for fresh-to-market works from the Barbier-Müller, Donati...

20.05.2026 10

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Phillips’ $115.2 Million Evening Sale Was a Testament to the Power of Pre-Planning and Priority Bidding

Achieving more than double last year’s total, the white-glove Modern & Contemporary Art Evening Sale was led by standout works by Warhol, Monet and...

20.05.2026 10

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Elisa Carollo

At TEFAF New York, the Masterpiece Market Had Plenty to Celebrate

At the Park Avenue Armory, art history was written and recontextualized in real time.

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Christie’s $1.1 Billion Night Confirms the Health of the Market’s Upper End

The night closed with a 97 percent sell-through rate, as deep bidding, prearranged guarantees and irrevocable bids kept the rhythm going over a...

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At the Guggenheim’s 2026 YCC Party, Artist Diane Severin Nguyen Created Breathing Room

Among the notable faces in the crowd were painter Kylie Manning, famed private chef Keegan McManus, bitforms founder Steve Sacks, actress Lux Pascal,...

18.05.2026 9

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Elisa Carollo

Artists to Watch: Future Fair and 1-54’s Best Discoveries

These fairs, with their smaller scales, make space for emerging artists whose practices move between myth, technology, diaspora, infrastructure and...

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Independent Opens With Solo Presentations, Early Sales and (Most Importantly) Breathing Room

Dealers are optimistic that the next few days will bring more conversations and sales as fair-hopping buyers make their way to Pier 36.

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Sotheby’s $433 Million Contemporary Evening and Mnuchin Sales Kicked Off New York’s May Marquee Auctions

The total fell neatly within the top end of the presale estimate of $325.6-444.6 million.

15.05.2026 10

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Elisa Carollo

The Eight-Figure Auction Lots to Watch in New York Next Week

Across evening sales at Christie’s and Sotheby’s, the appearance of a tightly curated group of major works—from Pollock’s monumental drip...

15.05.2026 10

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NADA New York Opens With Fewer Early Sales But Plenty of Potential

During a crowded week of fairs, NADA’s strongest booths found momentum in intimate scale, accessible pricing and dedicated presentations of...

14.05.2026 10

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Elisa Carollo

Frieze New York Opens Strong, But the Real Test Is Just Beginning

Perhaps due to the convergence of multiple biennials and general market recalibration, buyers this year seem more attuned to artists with...

14.05.2026 10

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Collector Jennifer Gilbert Is Selling Masterpieces at Sotheby’s to Fund a New Arts Nonprofit in Detroit

The move marks a personal shift from collecting as stewardship to collecting as civic support, with the sale of major works by Joan Mitchell, Kenneth...

13.05.2026 10

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As New York’s Art Week Kicks Off, Here’s What Not to Miss at Esther III

The fair's third and final edition opened at the Estonian House with intimate and beautifully idiosyncratic displays of mythic objects, speculative...

13.05.2026 10

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Elisa Carollo

The Top Collections Leading the May Marquee Auctions

More and more, the real competition between major auction houses involves securing single-owner consignments before strategically structuring the...

12.05.2026 10

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Archie Rand On the Irreducibility of Painting in a Digital Age

He remains convinced of the unique, imaginative and generative power of painting, which he believes no new technology will ever replace.

12.05.2026 10

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10 Ambitious Gallery Shows to See During Frieze New York

As the city embarks once again upon its springtime marathon of fairs and marquee auctions, galleries across Chelsea, Tribeca, the Lower East Side and...

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Koyo Kouoh’s Venice Biennale Looks to Ancient Wisdom to Mend a Fractured Present

Again and again, the works return to what is ancient, universal and enduring: symbols, cosmologies and archetypes that precede cultural, national and...

11.05.2026 10

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The Venice Biennale’s Most Powerful Pavilions Tune into Shared Consciousness

Amid protests, geopolitical tensions and the contradictions of the Biennale’s own structure, the most compelling pavilions leaned into ancestral...

08.05.2026 10

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Elisa Carollo

The Philippines Pavilion Turns the Country’s Maritime History into an Archive of Universal Longing

Artist Jon Cuyson’s installation reimagines the ocean not as distance or danger but as a sentient entity that connects communities and sustains...

07.05.2026 10

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Elisa Carollo

LAS Art Foundation Pushes Quantum Art Forward in a New Venice Commission

The organization's exhibitions are deliberately designed to help observers engage with complex topics like A.I. and quantum physics without prior...

06.05.2026 10

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Elisa Carollo

Dabin Ahn’s “Nocturne” and the Slow Meditative Work of Grief

Coming from a still-life tradition, the artist's earlier paintings depicted perfect, flawless objects. In his most recent work, that serene and...

05.05.2026 10

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Elisa Carollo

How Frieze New York Is Doubling Down On Engagement and Institutional Reach

Director Christine Messineo describes a strategy centered on performance, partnerships and emerging voices.

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Elisa Carollo

In the Polish Pavilion, “Liquid Tongues” Rewrites Our Hierarchy of the Senses

Conceived by deaf artist Daniel Kotowski alongside artist and playwright Bogna Burska around the notion of "Deaf Gain," this Venice Biennale...

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Dominique Lévy, Brett Gorvy and Amalia Dayan Want to Bring Auction Urgency to Private Secondary Market Sales

The Lévy Gorvy Dayan collaborators are venturing together into "the dark side" of private transactions.

04.05.2026 20

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Elisa Carollo

Sara Flores On Bringing Shipibo-Konibo Cosmology to Peru’s Venice Pavilion

Bringing her practice to Venice is not about adapting it to the contemporary world, but about allowing it to have an impact beyond its immediate...

04.05.2026 20

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Elisa Carollo

“Greater New York” Shows a Generation’s Resilience at the Edge of Collapse

MoMA PS1’s quinquennial captures a city shaped by constraint, where artists adapt and endure but rarely imagine what comes next.

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