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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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Roy Lichtenstein: Why the First New York Retrospective in More Than 30 Years Matters to Collectors

The Whitney’s first Lichtenstein retrospective in New York in more than thirty years reunites his landmark 1962 Castelli debut and follows the artist across six decades. For collectors, it is a timely chance to look beyond the market’s early-Pop hierarchy and reconsider the full intelligence of the oeuvre.

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Exhibitions
Four Generations of Collecting: How the Thyssen Family Is Building a Museum for the 21st Century

Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza and her heirs are transferring 186 TBA21 works into Spanish public ownership and lending 179 more. The deeper story is how four generations of one collecting family have repeatedly redefined what legacy can mean.

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William Kentridge and the City That Cannot Stop Being Erased

Ahead of the global premiere of William Kentridge’s twelfth Drawings for Projection film at Goodman Gallery London, we look at why charcoal, erasure and revision remain central to the artist — and what collectors should understand across drawings, prints, film and sculpture.

Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Frieze Sculpture 2026 Reviewed: What Happens When Sculpture Leaves the White Cube

Frieze Sculpture 2026 turns The Regent’s Park into a live test of scale, material, siting and weather. For collectors, the strongest lesson is not which work 'wins' — but what outdoor presentation reveals that the white cube can hide.

Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Lucio Fontana in Hong Kong: What Collectors Should See Beyond the Slash

Lucio Fontana’s slash became one of post-war art’s most recognisable gestures. A major Hong Kong exhibition restores the holes, shaped canvases, bronzes and spatial thinking that make one cut very different from another.

Exhibitions
Exhibitions
The Golden Ear and the Collector’s Eye: Inside Clive Davis’s Art Collection

Following Clive Davis’s death in June 2026, Christie’s dispersal of his collection offers more than a celebrity-provenance story. It reveals how one of music’s great talent-spotters lived with post-war and contemporary art — and how friendship, intuition and domestic space shaped what he bought.

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Articles

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