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At Lisson Gallery, Kelly Akashi Gives Resilience Form

In “Heirloom,” the artist transforms mallow weeds, lace, quartz, Corten steel and cast glass into fragile but forceful meditations on memory,...

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Elisa Carollo

The Future Perfect’s Laura Young Makes the Case for Design as the Next Collecting Frontier

She reflects on collectors, craft, functionality and why the sofa should no longer be an afterthought.

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Elisa Carollo

Kingsley Ng and Angel Hui’s “Fermata” Brings the Rhythms of Hong Kong to Venice

The exhibition builds a visual and sonic bridge between two cities shaped by water and strong maritime histories.

09.07.2026 3

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Phillips’s CEO Martin Wilson On What the House’s $507 Million Spring Reveals About the Market

From priority bidding to record watch sales and a 40 percent new-buyer rate, the auction house's spring season tells a story about where the auction...

08.07.2026 2

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Elisa Carollo

The Most Valuable Tennis Memorabilia Ever Sold at Auction

From Djokovic’s record-smashing Australian Open racquet to Federer’s pristine Wimbledon whites, Grand Slam history now routinely sells in the...

08.07.2026 4

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Elisa Carollo

Stefanie Hessler’s Vision for Swiss Institute’s New Permanent Bowery Home

In moving to the Bowery, the institution joins an expanding local ecosystem of cultural institutions anchored by the recently reopened New Museum, as...

08.07.2026 5

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Zohran Mamdani’s Culture Budget Is Historic, But New York Needs a Broader Plan for Protecting Artists and the Arts

The question now is whether the city can port cultural funding into a strategy for urban development, artistic resilience and civic capability.

07.07.2026 4

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Elisa Carollo

Stephanie Hessler’s Vision for Swiss Institute’s New Permanent Bowery Home

In moving to the Bowery, the institution joins an expanding local ecosystem of cultural institutions anchored by the recently reopened New Museum, as...

07.07.2026 9

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Anoushka Mirchandani On the Body as Personal and Familial Archive

She describes the women in her paintings as anonymous but deeply personal, in that they condense her matrilineage—images of her mother, grandmother...

06.07.2026 9

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In London’s Classics Week Sales, Old Masters Were Back, But Only the Best of the Best

Beyond exceptional trophy objects, the Classics market proved selective and unforgiving: several Old Master works needed the premium to reach low...

06.07.2026 10

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Elisa Carollo

As the Semiquincentennial Approaches, Collectors Are Rethinking What American History Is Worth

"There is a particular excitement and celebration of these items right now," according to Heritage Auctions specialist Caroline Tamposi.

03.07.2026 9

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Elisa Carollo

Sotheby’s Marks America’s Semiquincentennial With an Exhibition of 250 Years of Art, Culture and Mythmaking

Timed to the nation’s 250th anniversary, a new Breuer exhibition traces American identity through art, literature, sports, history and a...

01.07.2026 6

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Elisa Carollo

In Her Hauser & Wirth Debut, Firelei Báez Creates Portals for an Imaginative Future Beyond Collapse

Across two floors, Báez invites us to contemplate the slippage from order to collapse, as entropy drives us ever closer to the state of chaos that...

01.07.2026 8

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Elisa Carollo

On the High Line, Xin Liu Imagines the Lonely Afterlife of a Decommissioned Satellite

"NOAA: A Fall Towards Home" explores the depth of despair and the possibility of hope inherent in exile and disconnection.

30.06.2026 5

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11 Record-Breaking Auction Lots That Reshaped the Americana Market

Once grounded in furniture, folk art, silver, ceramics, stoneware and samplers, this expansive collecting category's highest prices suggest that...

30.06.2026 10

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At Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center, NOMAD’s First U.S. Edition Found an Ideal Stage

"Robert Wilson created a place unlike any other, where theater, visual art, architecture, performance and experimentation coexist; that spirit feels...

29.06.2026 8

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Christie’s and Phillips Kept London’s June Auctions Moving But Not Flying

Christie’s Zabludowicz sale met expectations, while Phillips’ more globally diverse offerings demonstrated that priority bidding can still secure...

26.06.2026 10

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In the Icelandic Pavilion, Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir’s Mythmaking Takes Its Most Fluid Form

"Imagination is such a source of intense power, and we can use it as a starting point to create a new world. I really fiercely believe that," the...

26.06.2026 10

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Sotheby’s Lewis Collection Sale Powered a Record £393.4M Night in London

The £296 million result made it the most valuable single-owner sale in London's auction history.

25.06.2026 10

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For Stephen Lichty, Sculpture Makes Visible What Matter Remembers

The San Francisco-based artist approaches artmaking as an act of observation rather than authorship.

24.06.2026 10

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JR’s ‘La Caverne du Pont Neuf’ Is a Portal Into Paris’s Geologic History

Whereas most of the artist's recent interventions have kept the illusion on the surface, this remarkable immersive installation invites viewers to...

24.06.2026 10

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Elisa Carollo

The Lewis and Zabludowicz Collections Anchor London’s June Auctions in the Art Market’s Final Pre-Summer Test

These are the lots worth watching.

23.06.2026 10

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After Capri, St. Moritz and Abu Dhabi, NOMAD Heads to the Hamptons

Fair director Nicolas Bellavance-Lecompte has consistently sought out destinations where culture is not merely an accessory but part of the DNA of a...

23.06.2026 8

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Elisa Carollo

Where to Find the Best Contemporary Art in Rome Right Now

From FOROF to Fondazione D'ARC, Rome’s contemporary art scene can be found in palazzi, breweries, slaughterhouses, foundations and ruins.

22.06.2026 10

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Elisa Carollo

Zero 10 in Basel Contextualized Digital Art Within a Broader Historical Framework

The sector framed new media and computer art not as a market novelty but as part of a long history of artists engaging with new tools, systems and...

22.06.2026 10

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Elisa Carollo

At Basel Social Club, the Office Becomes a Playground of Anti-Productivity

In an increasingly commodified art world, this is one fair at which creativity doesn't feel dependent on returns and maximization.

18.06.2026 7

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Elisa Carollo

Konstantina Krikzoni’s Warriors Find Their Power in Balance

In her latest work, she channels grief, Greek antiquity and Jungian duality into a fresh language of feminine force, androgynous physicality and open...

18.06.2026 10

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Elisa Carollo

In Basel, a Cautious But Committed Market Rediscovers Its Nerve

"Art Basel remains the most important fair of the year… It starts strong, and it stays strong."

17.06.2026 9

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Elisa Carollo

New York’s Design Sales Offered a Clearer Picture of What Serious Collectors Want

From French postwar design and American studio craft to ceramics, Tiffany lamps and contemporary collectible design, buyers at Sotheby's and Phillips...

16.06.2026 10

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At Liste Basel, Market Trends Give Way to Explorations of Contemporary Anxieties

While the usual sense of urgency was lacking, dealers reported that collector response on opening day was solid.

16.06.2026 10

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Ho Jae Kim’s Civil Art Returns to Christie’s With a Million-Dollar Milestone in Sight

What began as a fundraiser has become a nonprofit ecosystem connecting artists, institutions, galleries and community organizations.

15.06.2026 10

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Elisa Carollo

Francesca Mollett’s Architecture of Abstraction

In “Buried Shadow” at GRIMM, she transforms memory, matter and perception into tableau vivants in which light, color and form shift under the eye.

15.06.2026 10

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Elisa Carollo

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,...

12.06.2026 10

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Elisa Carollo

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...

11.06.2026 10

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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...

10.06.2026 10

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Elisa Carollo

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 10

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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 20

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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 10

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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 10

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Elisa Carollo

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 10

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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 10

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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 10

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Elisa Carollo

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 10

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Elisa Carollo

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 10

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Elisa Carollo

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 10

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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 10

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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 10

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Elisa Carollo

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 10

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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 10

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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 10

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