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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
The Haas Brothers Have Built a World: Mathemagical and Uncanny Valley Reviewed

With a new Boesky exhibition and their first mid-career museum survey arriving almost in tandem, the Haas Brothers reveal the systems, material intelligence and serious sculptural ambition beneath their famous exuberance.

Exhibitions
Exhibitions
London Design Festival 2026: The Collector’s Edit

Our collector’s edit of London Design Festival 2026 prioritises sculptural furniture, studio glass, design history and emerging makers — the work most likely to matter after festival week ends.

Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Cézanne and Us: How One Painter Taught Modern Art to See Again

Nearly 180 works at the Grand Palais trace Cézanne’s afterlife from Gauguin and Matisse to Joan Mitchell, Bridget Riley and Peter Doig—and reveal how artistic value is built before consensus.

Exhibitions
Exhibitions
London Design Festival 2026: What Art Collectors Should See Before They Buy Another Painting

London Design Festival 2026 arrives just as the border between art, design and material practice becomes harder to defend. Here are the projects collectors should see—and the questions worth taking with them.

Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Maurizio Cattelan’s NIGHT: A Brilliant Reordering of Power, Memory and the Museum

At Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie, Maurizio Cattelan turns Mies van der Rohe’s glass pavilion into a charged contemporary temple—and reveals the seriousness, historical intelligence and remarkable coherence beneath three decades of provocation.

Exhibitions
Exhibitions

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