Observations on pricing, transactions, and market behavior across primary and secondary art contexts.
Field Notes
At its twentieth edition, Art Dubai shifts from expansion to orchestration. Rather than staging novelty, the fair coordinates modernism, emergence, and digital practice as a temporal system—testing whether time itself can function as cultural infrastructure.
Art Market Watch
The art market has reorganized around exposure avoidance—reshaping liquidity, framing, pacing, and decision-making without altering surface stability.
Field Notes
The 12th edition of ESTE ARTE formalizes a counter-tempo fair format—solo presentations, first-time works, and distributed context—examining whether intimacy can function as repeatable market infrastructure rather than ethos.
Field Notes
London Art Fair 2026 positions itself less as a discovery engine than as a stabilizing mechanism—synchronizing legacy confidence, institutional authority, and controlled novelty at the start of a year marked by mid-market contraction and calendar congestion in London’s art ecosystem.
Field Notes
How ART SG 2026 consolidates regional visibility, curatorial governance, and market coordination—marking a shift from platform-building to structural alignment within Southeast Asia’s art ecosystem.
Field Notes
An examination of how Art Basel Qatar operationalizes “Becoming” as an institutional interface—aligning curatorial ambition, public programming, and development partnerships at anchor-fair scale.
Art Market Watch
Borrowing against art was once discreet and reactive. Today, collectors are drawing on loans earlier than expected—revealing a quieter shift in how art, liquidity, and control intersect.
Gallery Compass
Galleries across major art cities are competing for early institutional walkthrough slots as curators book months ahead to avoid cluster weekends and travel congestion. Early scheduling is becoming a decisive factor for 2026 exhibition outcomes.
Gallery Compass
In 2026, art funding enters projects early, reshaping governance, risk, and artistic freedom through process rather than visible interference.
Gallery Compass
Galleries across major art cities are moving away from single-night openings and adopting multi-stage launches with previews, timed walkthroughs, and structured press access.
Art Market Watch
A slowdown in top-end sales is pushing collectors to draw on art-backed credit far earlier, turning stored and displayed works into active financial tools.
Gallery Compass
In 2026, art events and galleries face fast-moving calendars, short media cycles, and dense cluster weekends. Structured, progressive visibility is now essential for sustaining attention before and after openings.