ARTICLES

Peter Simon’s collection is large enough to read as a survey of modern and contemporary art, but its more useful story for collectors is personal: how a commercial eye trained on textiles, colour and pattern became an art-collecting instinct — and why conviction still matters when markets move against you.

In his first solo exhibition with Kavi Gupta, Gordon Cheung turns obsolete financial information into landscapes and objects that ask how markets, technology and inherited visual systems make belief feel natural.

MoMA’s new photography exhibition begins with Marianne Wex’s radical archive of gendered body language and expands the question through seven contemporary artists. The result is a sharp study of bodies, space, archives and who controls representation.

Frieze Seoul’s strongest signal was not a single million-dollar sale but the breadth beneath it: Korean modernists, international blue chip, museum acquisitions, emerging artists and genuinely accessible entry points all found buyers.

Alix Vernet sees the backs of New York air conditioners as archives: fragile aluminum surfaces that record weather, maintenance, touch and heat exchange. LANDMARKS turns overlooked infrastructure into some of the city’s strangest new monuments.

Paris Design Week is too large for a checklist. Our collector’s edit focuses on the places where collectible design, exceptional craft and historic interiors create the strongest opportunities for serious looking and collecting.