ARTICLES

Claude Lalanne’s fifteen mirrors for Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé sold for $33.455 million at Sotheby’s in April 2026. The record highlights how exceptional design, provenance and the growing dialogue between art and interiors are reshaping collecting.

Suzanne McFayden’s new Austin home offers a rare lesson in designing around a mature collection: less gallery-white neutrality, more atmosphere, edited hangs and rooms that allow art, furniture and personal history to shape one another.

Frieze Seoul is five years old, more than 50 participating galleries now have permanent Seoul spaces, and the city’s museum calendar is stronger than ever. The real story is not one fair—it is the infrastructure growing around it.

From Roy Lichtenstein’s final year and Taryn Simon’s Guggenheim rotunda to Brice Marden, Torkwase Dyson, Thomas Ruff and Independent 20th Century at the Breuer: the exhibitions collectors should prioritise in New York this September.

Maurizio Cattelan’s first major solo exhibition in Germany places historical works and new commissions inside Mies van der Rohe’s Neue Nationalgalerie. Has the spectacle surrounding the banana obscured how serious—and how unresolved—his art actually is?

The Japanese composer and media artist has received one of the field's significant international distinctions, recognising a practice that has transformed data, mathematics, light and sound into immersive artistic experiences.