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Cecily Brown at Serpentine: The Pleasure of Not Knowing What You’re Looking At
Cecily Brown’s Picture Making turns uncertainty into a painterly method: figures emerge, dissolve and return across twenty-five years of paintings, drawings and monotypes.
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The Last Collection of Herbert Lust: Friendship, Scholarship and a $60 Million Estate
Christie’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.
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Ryoji Ikeda Wins the 2026 Nam June Paik Prize
Japanese artist and composer Ryoji Ikeda has received the 2026 Nam June Paik Prize for his pioneering integration of sound, light, data, mathematics and computation. A solo exhibition at the Nam June Paik Art Center will follow in 2027.
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Ryoji Ikeda installation at Park Avenue Armory

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RM’s Collection at SFMOMA: What a Global Collector Gets Right About Korean Modernism

Nearly 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.

Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Denzil Forrester’s Next Act: Why Thaddaeus Ropac Won the Race for One of Britain’s Great Painters of Nightlife

Thaddaeus 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.

Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Iván Argote After the Pigeon: Fifteen Years of Making Trouble with Monuments, Galleries and Art History

At Perrotin London, Iván Argote celebrates fifteen years of Mamarrachos by turning scribbles, gallery rules and institutional authority into an unusually playful form of critique.

Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Cindy Sherman’s Fabric Matrons: Fashion, Ageing and the Art of Disappearing

Cindy 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.

Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Minor Attractions 2026: Inside London’s Hotel Fair at The Newman

Minor 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.

Exhibitions
Exhibitions
When the Digital Becomes Physical: Yelin Lee's Ghost Play

Yelin Lee's Ghost Play transforms emojis into sculpture, uses chroma-key screens and a two-minute delay, and turns visitors into their own fleeting afterimages.

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Articles

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