Mutual Art

Regional Market Overview London’s art ecosystem enters Q3 2026 demonstrating remarkable resilience, powered by a structural pivot toward provenance-heavy secondary prints and high-concept primary abstraction. While macroeconomic headwinds have tightened top-tier speculative capital, transaction volume across Mayfair and Fitzrovia has consolidated around mid-career artists with strong institutional credentials.

The Korean art market grew by 3.8% year-on-year in 2025, approaching USD 500 million (KRW 638.2 billion), according to the 2026 Art Market Survey by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST) and the Korea Arts Management Service (KAMS). The figures point to a more selective market: the number of artworks traded fell by 3.1% from the previous year, while the average value per work rose by 7.1%.

For its 16th edition, the Gwangju Biennale takes its title from the final line of Rainer Maria Rilke’s 1908 poem Archaic Torso of Apollo: “You must change your life.” Led by Artistic Director Ho Tzu Nyen and curators Che Kyongfa, Gahee Park, and Brian Kuan Wood, the Biennale approaches change as an artistic method.

In her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan detailed the “problem with no name” that many women were facing at mid-century – they were seen as wives and mothers only, sublimating their own desires in order to create a serene household for their families. They were unable to understand why they were unhappy with this situation that society assured them was normal and right.

Diego Velázquez, The Count-Duke of Olivares in Armor, 1626, oil on canvas, 60 x 48 cm. Private collection Spanish-American art historian Salvador Salort-Pons has announced the discovery of a previously unattributed portrait by Spanish Baroque painter Diego Velázquez. Artforum > The expanded museum is promoting its longtime artistic director, Massimiliano Gioni, to help rebuild attendance after a two-year closure.

Photo Credit: Francesco Salvetti, courtesy of Umberta Gnutti Beretta Umberta Gnutti Beretta had a packed Saturday. She was in Margate to visit the residents of a Tracey Emin residency – not for the first time – and yet she sat down, unhurried, and gave the morning her full attention. That, it turns out, is very much her style. There was an elegance to how she moved through the room, considered and unforced, that felt of a piece with everything else about her.

“Being a Ukrainian artist today means living inside history rather than observing it from a distance,” says Marta Syrko. Born in Lviv, from a young age, Syrko has explored photography’s ability to communicate an individual’s nuanced, subjective experience.

David Hockney. Photo: Connaissance des Arts, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons His colorful figurative paintings were both conservative and iconoclastic, defying the dominant abstract schools of the mid-20th century. The New York Times > A challenging art market is forcing even an established player to contract.

Installation view of Machine Dreams: Rainforest, DATALAND, Los Angeles, CA, June 20, 2026 – January 31, 2027. © 2026 Refik Anadol Studio on behalf of DATALAND. Photo: Refik anadol Studio After more than two and a half years of research, planning and construction, Dataland, the world’s first museum of AI arts, will open June 20.

In 2008, as the global financial markets collapsed and galleries across London were closing their doors, Pilar Corrias did the opposite – she opened one. Born in Rome to a diplomat father and a painter mother, raised across continents, and trained at the very top of the London art world, Corrias built something rare: a gallery with genuine conviction at its core.