Long-form analyses tracing structural relationships, institutional arrangements, and operational dynamics shaping the contemporary art industry.
Industry Mapping
How historic houses regulate access, allocate attention, and redistribute authority—reframing the rise of home-based exhibitions not as an alternative to institutional power, but as its reconfiguration.
Industry Mapping
A framework proposing shared language for understanding responsibility, authorship, and governance in digital art systems shaped by automation.
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.
Industry Mapping
How cultural institutions absorb, defer, or operationalize responsibility after automation and authorship are named as governance issues in digital art systems.
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 & Tech
How computational systems now mediate visibility, valuation, and authorship in digital art—and why institutions can no longer defer decisions about where automation must stop.