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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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Paris Internationale 2026: Where Collectors Should Look Before Consensus Forms

Paris Internationale returns with 56 galleries, a new Canal Saint-Martin venue and a model built around discovery. Here is how collectors should use it.

Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Paris Beyond Art Basel: 8 Exhibitions Collectors Should Leave the Grand Palais to See

Ibrahim Mahama, Lee Krasner, Oscar Murillo, Tracey Emin and more: the exhibitions that turn Art Basel Paris week into something larger than a fair.

Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Frieze Masters 2026 Review: Brueghel, Alice Neel, a Triceratops and a Fair That Made History Feel Alive

From a £5 million Brueghel and three major Alice Neel sales to George Rickey, global modernism and a £675,000 Triceratops skull, Frieze Masters rewarded collectors who looked beyond categories.

Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Frieze London 2026 Review: The Market Found Its Nerve — but Discovery Won the Week

Frieze London closed with sold-out emerging booths, meaningful institutional acquisitions and selective blue-chip buying. The real story was not a boom, but a market rewarding specificity.

Exhibitions
Exhibitions
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

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