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The Armory Show 2025. Photo by Casey Kelbaugh. Courtesy of The Armory Show and CKA.

Is the Great Wealth Transfer Already Reshaping the Art Market?

As $18.3 trillion prepares to pass between generations, two New York art fairs suggest the inheritance at stake is one of taste as much as capital, with younger collectors steering demand towards forgotten artists and lower price points.

Maya Stoilova
ArtRio 2026 edition. Photo: Courtesy of ArtRio

In Rio, the Art Market Plays It Safe

Brazil’s premier art fair retains its spectacular setting, but as political uncertainty and a subdued market weigh on collectors, dealers are finding that the appetite for high-priced works has cooled

Silas Martí
Portrait of Pooya Abbasian, Lee Ufan, Arles, 2026 © David GIANCATARINA

In conversation: Pooya Abbasian

Ahead of two group shows in and around Paris, the dissident French-Iranian artist Pooya Abbasian talks about his association with invasive plants, the deceptive truth of documentary and the visit to France that became fifteen years of exile

Tom Seymour and Zara Khan
Mr Bean's restoration of a painting in ‘Mr Bean: The Ultimate Disaster Movie’ (1997). Photo: Courtesy of Working Title and Tiger Aspect Films.

Help! I Hate My... Broken Artwork

Artworld Agony Aunt Charlotte Jansen advises a panicked gallery assistant through the crucial steps of damage control after an artwork mishap

Charlotte Jansen
Artist Sagarika Sundaram sits with her work Blue Mountain 2026 in her exhibition Reservoir at Henry Moore Institute. Courtesy the artist, Henry Moore Institute and Alison Jacques, London. Photo: Rob Harris

Sagarika Sundaram: Taking Wool Seriously

At her first solo museum exhibition in Leeds, Sundaram discusses the physical demands of her felt sculptures, the politics of cloth and why collaboration should not diminish her authorship

Zara Khan
The Armory Show 2026. Photo by Kunning Huang. Courtesy of The Armory Show 2026.

The Good, the Bad, the Ugly: The Armory Show

Once upon a time on Manhattan’s far West Side: Aimee Walleston visits the Armory Show, where the art has to compete with the sheer misery of the Javits Center.

Aimee Walleston
Rashid Al Khalifa, Inhabited Crate- Multicolored, 2026, Galvanized Steel Mesh, 480 × 380 × 300 cm. Photograph, Kayhan Kaygusuz. Courtesy Contemporary Istanbul

At Contemporary Istanbul, Politics Is Everywhere – Except The Art

At Turkey’s annual art fair, talk of political uncertainty competes with lavish hospitality. Over a week of art and dinners, the politics of who is funding the fair is more conspicuous than anything in the booths. For Private Views, Gabriella Angeleti reports

Gabriella Angeleti
Martha Diamond, Yellow Sky (1986). Photo: Jussi Koivunen, courtesy of the Martha Diamond Trust

Martha Diamond Finally Gets Her Own Show in Europe

Admired by fellow artists but little known to wider audiences, Martha Diamond made New York’s skyline her own. Her first European solo exhibition, at Finland's Sara Hildén Art Museum, asks us to look beyond the cityscape

George Nelson
Simeon Barclay, The Ruin, Turner Prize 2026. Installation view at MIMA, Middlesbrough Institute of Art. Photo: David Levene

Turner Prize 2026: What to See and Who Might Win

As the Turner Prize opens in Middlesbrough, we look at what its four shortlisted artists are asking viewers to see – and set the early odds on who might take home the £25,000 prize

Lucrezia Motta
Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey in How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003). Courtesy of Paramount Pictures

Help! I Hate My... Work Crush

Art world Agony Aunt Charlotte Jansen advises a gallery artist liaison struggling to balance her professional relationship and personal feelings for an artist she works with

Charlotte Jansen