ARTICLES

Friedman Benda reconstructs the creative domestic world of Wendell Castle and Nancy Jurs from a 1973 House Beautiful feature, returning museum-level furniture and ceramics to the context for which they were made: everyday life.

Jeanne-Marie de Broglie spent four decades helping Christie’s establish itself in France while creating interiors that resisted the separation of modern art, historic furniture and daily life. Her Rue Washington apartment offers a model of the collector’s home as social space, personal archive and evolving composition.

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.