Sayre Gomez at David Kordansky Maps Los Angeles as a Ruin in Real Time
Precious Moments is Gomez’s most expansive exhibition to date, using painting, sculpture, and video to show how spectacle, neglect, and private memory are fused in Los Angeles’s visual economy.
Old Masters in a Contemporary Market: What New Buyers Keep Missing
As contemporary collecting dominates attention cycles, many new buyers are overlooking how Old Master works can sharpen connoisseurship, stabilize risk, and improve long-term collection quality when approached with discipline.
Paulo Nazareth at Meyer Riegger Makes Language a Site of Political Struggle
In ALLEMANN, Nazareth treats naming as material, tracing how one unstable word can carry colonial residue, racial coding, and social hierarchy across Brazil and Germany.
Gideon Appah at Pace Turns Coastal Ghana Into a Theater of Time
In Beneath Night and Day, Appah expands his Swimmers and Surfers cycle into a painterly study of rhythm, color, and collective memory, where beach life becomes both observed world and dream architecture.
Prisoners of Love at Brown Turns Archive Into a Living Public Form
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme's installation in Providence builds an argument about incarceration, memory, and solidarity through sound, projected image, and contested attribution.
At the DIA, Reimagining African American Art Corrects the Museum's Center
Detroit's new installation does more than add visibility, it reorganizes the museum's internal narrative by placing African American art beside its most visited historical core.
Barkley L. Hendricks at Marian Goodman Paris Shows Portraiture as Social Thought
All is Portraiture in Paris makes a rigorous case for Hendricks as both formal innovator and acute social observer, extending beyond canonical portraits into photography, landscape, and abstraction.
Giangiacomo Rossetti at Mendes Wood DM Paris Makes Melancholy Structurally Luminous
In Résurrectine, Rossetti stages painting as a chamber of delayed recognition, where mirrors, windows, and arsenic yellow bind art historical citation to a contemporary poetics of psychic survival.
How to Navigate Art Fair Week in 2026: A Curator-Collector Playbook
From VIP previews to post-fair follow-up, this guide maps a high-discipline approach to art fair weeks for collectors, advisors, and art professionals who want sharper decisions and better conversations.