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

Christie’s reveals the late Clive Davis’s private collection, from Warhol and Hockney to Stella and Mitchell—and the discerning eye behind a lifetime of collecting.

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Louis Fratino’s ‘Prose’: Intimacy Expands Beyond the Room

In his first London solo exhibition and first show with David Zwirner since joining the gallery, Louis Fratino broadens his intimate figurative language into city life, landscape and a more expansive dialogue with art history.

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Daichi Takagi Arrives in London: The Quiet Intensity of ‘Suchness’

For his first UK solo presentation and first exhibition with David Zwirner, Daichi Takagi turns stones, moonlight, leaves and ancient trees into paintings poised between exact observation and the surreal.

Exhibitions
Exhibitions
When Fabric Becomes Collectible: Reiko Sudō, NUNO and the Material Intelligence of the Home

LACMA’s largest survey of Reiko Sudō and NUNO asks a collector’s question hiding in plain sight: when does fabric become an authored, editioned and historically important object of design?

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Exhibitions
Maxwell Stevens: Surfside — Time, Leisure and the Social Theatre of the Beach

Three years after ARTCOLLECTORNEWS first spoke with Maxwell Stevens about Last Days of Summer, the New York painter has returned to the beach. But in Surfside, the setting has become less a backdrop than a social and psychological stage. The new paintings bring swimmers, surfers, couples, families and groups of friends into close proximity along the North Atlantic coast of Long Island. Stevens renders these figures with an almost portrait-like concentration before disrupting them with broad smears, calligraphic strokes, impasto and flashes of cobalt, turquoise and aqua.

Tala Madani’s Control X: Why Painting Needs Things to Go Wrong

Tala Madani’s new paintings and animations turn cutting, erasure and reconstruction into a language of power. Using fresh artist testimony alongside the exhibition material, we examine why the work is funniest when control starts to fail.

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Exhibitions

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