Tan Mu’s Quantum Gaze at ERES Makes Technical Sublime Feel Uncomfortably Human
At ERES Foundation, Tan Mu’s Quantum Gaze turns quantum hardware into a disciplined painting about perception, infrastructure, and the social choreography of trust around advanced technology.
Collector Playbook: How to Read Institutional Context Before You Buy in 2026
A practical framework for collectors and advisors to evaluate institutional signals, curatorial momentum, and archival depth before committing capital.
Calvin Tomkins Dies at 100, Leaving the Art World’s Most Durable Profile Form
The New Yorker writer who spent six decades mapping artists as living social actors dies at 100, closing a chapter in how contemporary art was narrated to the public.
Simon Fujiwara Turns Mudam Into a Theme Park of 21st-Century Anxiety
Mudam Luxembourg opens a two-decade survey of Simon Fujiwara that threads war, disease, pornography, and digital identity into one staged environment.
Agosto Machado, Downtown Artist and Activist in the 2026 Whitney Biennial, Dies
Agosto Machado, whose altar-based installations preserve queer performance memory through assemblage and ephemera, has died while his work remains on view in the Whitney Biennial.
New Museum Reopens With $82M Expansion and a 700-Plus-Object Survey on Human Futures
After a two-year closure, New Museum has reopened with an $82 million OMA expansion and a museum-wide show that positions technology, embodiment, and institutional scale at the center of New York’s spring season.
How to Audit Performance Art Attribution Risk Before You Buy, Commission, or Restage
A practical due-diligence framework for collectors and curators to verify authorship, documentation integrity, and restaging rights in performance-based work before reputational and legal exposure compounds.
Henry Moore Foundation Reopens Sheep Field Barn With Landmark Shelter Drawings Exhibition
At Perry Green, a major redevelopment of Sheep Field Barn reintroduces Moore’s wartime Shelter Drawings in a museum setting built around conservation, education, and long-cycle public access.
Collector Playbook: How to Underwrite Performance Art Without Buying Attribution Risk
As performance practices circulate at social speed, collectors and curators need tighter diligence protocols to distinguish influence from extraction and secure clean acquisition records.