ARTICLES

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.

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.

Teresa Margolles’s first large-scale US museum exhibition turns rubble, residue and forensic thinking into a radical form of memorial. For collectors, it is also a masterclass in why context and conservation can be part of the medium.

Dimitris Daskalopoulos has added 51 works to one of the most consequential museum-gifting programmes of the contemporary era. The real story is not generosity alone, but a collector’s unusually coherent answer to the problem of legacy.

Rana Begum treats light as a material. Her first New York solo exhibition offers collectors a precise lesson in how architecture, daylight, colour and movement can keep changing an artwork after it enters the home.

Joseph Yaeger’s Agita begins with images we think we recognise and a text we cannot fully trust. We examine how memory, found imagery, watercolour and material accident turn contemporary image culture into psychologically unstable painting.