A curatorial look at the activity of the emerging art market. Published every week for those who make informed decisions.
2026 trend reports agree on one point: figuration is back, and it comes loaded with a psychological weight that sets it apart from previous cycles. It is no longer just about rendering the human body with technical skill, but about using it as a vehicle for anxiety, memory and pe...
When pop surrealism comes up, it is almost impossible not to start with Mark Ryden. Active since the early 1990s, the California-based artist remains in 2026 the inevitable reference point of a movement he helped define: hyper-detailed compositions where wide-eyed girls, raw meat...
There is a corner of emerging collecting that is not chasing spectacle but intimacy: paintings that isolate a recognizable object — a toy, an action figure, a childhood artifact — and elevate it to the sole protagonist of the canvas. That is where Allan Innman works, a Mississipp...