Structures & Conditions
How interpretive systems in museums function as institutional infrastructure, shaping authority, legibility, and the conditions under which judgment and perception are allowed to occur.
Field Notes
After overseeing the New Museum’s transformation and expansion, Lisa Phillips will retire in April 2026, following the institution’s public reopening.
Industry Mapping
A framework proposing shared language for understanding responsibility, authorship, and governance in digital art systems shaped by automation.
Field Notes
The New Museum will reopen in March 2026 with an OMA-designed expansion that doubles its footprint and reshapes its Bowery campus.
Structures & Conditions
An examination of creative pedagogy as a psychological system, tracing how ideals of iteration, critique, and “learning to see” presuppose specific temperamental capacities while quietly shaping who persists within art education.
Structures & Conditions
A critical examination of how personality stability challenges the art world’s belief in endless formation, adaptability, and transformation—and how development narratives quietly function as mechanisms of selection.
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.
Access Learning Lab & Critics Corner
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.
White as the Color of 2026 reflects how restraint, neutrality, and control increasingly shape contemporary art and its institutions.
How cultural institutions absorb, defer, or operationalize responsibility after automation and authorship are named as governance issues in digital art systems.
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.
The art market has reorganized around exposure avoidance—reshaping liquidity, framing, pacing, and decision-making without altering surface stability.
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.
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.
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.
A critical examination of creativity as emotional labor—how persistence, self-regulation, and endurance quietly function as selection mechanisms within the contemporary art world.
As restraint and white space shape contemporary art discourse, a parallel movement centered on melancholy, emotional density, and presence is gaining attention.
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.
Smaller galleries are shifting to fewer exhibitions, longer runs, and structured openings as dense calendar clusters and travel cycles limit visibility. Extended pacing is becoming essential for sustaining institutional and press engagement in 2026.