Field Notes
When an Art School Is Still Thinking
As California College of the Arts prepares to close as an independent institution, its final years reveal a widening gap between cultural vitality and institutional survivability.
Latest Art News
Coverage of recent developments, announcements, and institutional activity shaping the contemporary art landscape.
Industry Mapping
Contemporary Art in the House: When Domestic Space Becomes Cultural Infrastructure
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.
Field Notes
Lisa Phillips to Step Down as New Museum Director Following 2026 Reopening
After overseeing the New Museum’s transformation and expansion, Lisa Phillips will retire in April 2026, following the institution’s public reopening.
Field Notes
New Museum’s Expanded Home to Open in March 2026, Marking a New Phase on the Bowery
The New Museum will reopen in March 2026 with an OMA-designed expansion that doubles its footprint and reshapes its Bowery campus.
Field Notes
Art Dubai 2026: When Time Becomes Infrastructure
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 & Tech
Why Provenance Is Failing Under Artificial Intelligence
As generative systems turn narrative coherence into a cheap resource, the art market confronts a deeper problem: documentation can no longer bear the evidentiary weight it was never designed to carry.
Latest Art News
The Color of 2026 Is White — and That Is Not a Neutral Choice
White as the Color of 2026 reflects how restraint, neutrality, and control increasingly shape contemporary art and its institutions.
Law & Politics
Louvre Faces Mounting Strain After a Year of Converging Pressures
After a turbulent year marked by staffing unrest, infrastructure stress and debate over a major renovation plan, the Louvre is navigating intensifying pressure over how it balances long-term ambition with day-to-day operations.
Art Market Watch
The Market Is Now Structured to Avoid Exposure
The art market has reorganized around exposure avoidance—reshaping liquidity, framing, pacing, and decision-making without altering surface stability.
Field Notes
Finland’s Quiet Correction: Helene Schjerfbeck and the Limits of Modernist Narratives
Helene Schjerfbeck’s first major U.S. exhibition at The Met is less a rediscovery than a recalibration—revealing how restraint, persistence, and silence have long been misread in modern art’s dominant narratives.
Field Notes
ESTE ARTE 2026: Designing Intimacy Without Centrality
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: When Centrality Becomes Maintenance
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.