Mutual Art

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.

Sonia Borrell, also widely known as Soniabblondon, began building her presence in the art world after moving to London in 1995. Though her professional roots are in legal and advisory work, as she spent increasing time in artists’ studios and developed close relationships within their creative processes, her understanding deepened to appreciate the challenges, isolation, and limited access to opportunity many artists face.

As the art world looks toward 2026, the mood is one of recalibration rather than acceleration. Value is increasingly defined by conviction and context, not speed or visibility. Voices from across Europe, the UK, and the United States point to a market that is decentralizing geographically while slowing intellectually, as new regions rise, and digital tools are re-evaluated as supports for trust rather than shortcuts.

Soft Architecture, Studio Home Awareness, December 15 – 20, 2025. Mu Jy and INKU Sphere, a London-based curatorial platform for contemporary art, came to Italy with lax infrastructure. Their third exhibition, Soft Architecture, premiered last month at Studio Home Awareness supporting the threads between power, order, and how bodies mold them through organic aspects of life like breath, air, and touch.