Artnet

After a summer break that feels shorter and shorter each year, the art world comes roaring back in early September with the Frieze Seoul and KIAF fairs in the South Korean capital. Hundreds of galleries will hawk art at the Coex convention center in the Gangnam area, while art institutions all over town try to lure in viewers. In a city with scores and scores of serious art museums, how do you possibly choose which ones to visit? Below, a list of 10 strong options, followed by few more suggestions.

In this bonus episode, host Margaret Carrigan looks at how art institutions are valued, and the funding threats facing museums across the U.K.—and, in many ways, around the world. She’s joined by a special guest: Gilane Tawadros, director of London’s Whitechapel Gallery. Earlier this year, Tawadros made an unusual addition to her staff: an economist-in-residence.

Find out what is driving the international art market around the clock with daily art world news, expert commentary, and event reviews.

Earlier this summer, the Los Angeles Conservancy placed Wright’s Sturges House on its 2026 Watch List of endangered architectural relics. At present, this humble home, perched on a Brentwood Heights hill, is at risk of what’s known as “demolition by neglect.” Despite its status as a Historic-Cultural Monument (HCM), observers fear that it could fall into such a state of disrepair that it must be taken down.

For many years, hedge fund manager Ken Griffin was known as a collector of masterpieces by modern and postwar greats, paying the highest-known prices for paintings by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Jasper Johns. However, the full scope of his collecting interests has recently begun to emerge. The billionaire has made several headline-grabbing public loans since the arrival of his collection’s new curator, art historian Megan Kincaid, in June 2025.

In 1983, Denis O’Regan landed the kind of assignment photographers dream about: trailing David Bowie on a globe-spanning tour. In the following years, O’Regan would capture the iconoclastic musician on and offstage, amassing an astounding archive of more than 10,000 images. Now, a selection of those photographs—some instantly recognizable, some never before seen—is resurfacing within an immersive installation in Venice.

Cj Hendry is so done with play. As a mother of three, she told me, she’s had her fill of playdates and playgrounds. These days, she just wants to sit down or go to sleep. And yet, she can’t help herself. “My brain always goes there,” she said about the idea of play. “This is just where my equilibrium lies. I guess I need to go to a therapist to figure that out.” And so play is at the heart of her new project, Mere Mortals.

While tarot cards today evoke fortune tellers and crystal balls, their occult and divinatory associations are a decidedly modern development. In truth, the origins of the tarot deck was fairly quotidian: It was a courtly card game. “Tarot! Renaissance Symbols, Modern Visions,” on view at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York through October 4, makes the case that tarot cards belong in the art-historical canon.

Late avant-garde artist John Giorno revolutionized poetry. He turned readings into multimedia experiences, and made verse accessible via phone, with his famed project Dial-A-Poem (1968). These varied poetic frequencies will form one common song—or racket, perhaps—in “John Giorno: Life is a Killer,” Mexico’s first-ever Giorno show, opening tomorrow at Kurimanzutto gallery in Mexico City.

Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama has died. But her legend stands to live on indefinitely in her many maximalist, social-media friendly artworks, including her massive dotted pumpkin sculptures and her queue-inducing Infinity Rooms. The true breadth of Kusama’s practice, however, is far more complex. Her oeuvre, in fact, spans performance, books, a Peter Gabriel music video, and even a store for her short-lived label, the Kusama Fashion Company.