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The Artist’s Second Studio: Building an Art Business That Respects the Work
A grounded guide to building an independent art business through clear positioning, documentation, thoughtful pricing, and protection for the time it takes to make the work.
Krista Anderson-Philipps
Oct 166 min read


Harry and Meghan’s First Joint U.K. Appearance Was Not a Royal Return
Harry and Meghan’s first joint U.K. appearance after their late-August move focused on Nottingham charities. What changed, what did not, and why the distinction matters.
Krista Anderson-Philipps
Oct 155 min read


Grey’s Anatomy Is Back for Season 23. The World It Debuted Into Barely Exists.
Grey’s Anatomy returns for Season 23 after 21 years. An original look at how television, streaming, smartphones and the way we share stories changed around it.
Krista Anderson-Philipps
Oct 156 min read


The Quiet-Luxury Fall Style Guide: 20 Labels, 24 Looks and the Travel Details That Make Them Work
A full fall fashion spread featuring 20 quiet-luxury labels, 24 women’s and men’s looks, and the scarves, shoes, bags and details that make travel style feel finished.
Krista Anderson-Philipps
Oct 1511 min read


What the Red Clay Keeps: Adebunmi Gbadebo’s Venice Vessels
At the Venice Biennale, Adebunmi Gbadebo brings clay made from an ancestral South Carolina burial ground into an argument about who gets to shape the material record of slavery—and what an artwork can, and cannot, return.
Krista Anderson-Philipps
Oct 147 min read


The Spaghetti House Is a Public Institution: Mohammed Z. Rahman’s Small-Scale Worlds
At Tate Britain, the British-Bengali artist makes a case for domestic invention—not as a private refuge or a decorative motif, but as a place where public history is already being made.
Krista Anderson-Philipps
Oct 147 min read


The Prize Room as a Time Machine: Josèfa Ntjam at MAM Paris
The 2026 Prix Marcel Duchamp brings a practice built from fragments, organisms, sound and anti-colonial archives into the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris’s collection galleries. The real subject is not anointing a “rising star,” but what happens when a museum’s temporary architecture meets an artist for whom history is never singular or settled.
Krista Anderson-Philipps
Oct 147 min read


The Face That Wouldn’t Behave: Taína H. Cruz Puts a Grin on Gansevoort Street
A green child’s face, scaled for the Whitney’s public edge, made a case for ambiguity as civic design. Taína H. Cruz’s 2026 project asks what happens when a painting returns a city’s gaze.
Krista Anderson-Philipps
Oct 148 min read


The Soft Architecture of Benni Bosetto’s Milan
In Rebecca, her first major institutional exhibition, Benni Bosetto converted a former locomotive shed into a body-house of hand-painted paper, low thresholds and scheduled dance. The point was not comfort as décor. It was to test whether an interior can make time, desire and social relation felt differently.
Krista Anderson-Philipps
Oct 147 min read


A House Without a House: Kelly Akashi’s Glass-Brick Memorial at the Whitney
On the museum terrace, a rebuilt chimney became less a monument to recovery than a precise argument about the forms that memory can—and cannot—take.
Krista Anderson-Philipps
Oct 147 min read


A Minor Key for the Museum Vault: Pio Abad’s Hand-Drawn Afterlives
At the Venice Biennale, the Manila-born, London-based artist makes drawing a way to measure what the museum cannot settle: the distance between an object’s catalogue life and the lives it displaced.
Krista Anderson-Philipps
Oct 147 min read


Table for Three: Salman Toor Rehangs the Courtauld’s Social World
At Somerset House, the Pakistani-born, New York–based painter turns the bar, the cab and the dinner table into sites where art history’s promise of visibility meets its price.
Krista Anderson-Philipps
Oct 147 min read


After the Spectacle: What Es Devlin’s Studio Archive Gives Back to the Museum
At London’s Design Museum, Es Devlin’s archive turns stadium-scale spectacle into a study of drawing, models, books and collaborative labour.
Krista Anderson-Philipps
Oct 147 min read


The Repair Manual Is Not a Metaphor: Otobong Nkanga’s Paris Strata
At the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Otobong Nkanga made earth, textile, scent, labour and circulation speak to one another. The result was not a consoling ecology of connectedness, but a harder proposition: care has to be designed, handled and maintained—and it does not erase the mark of extraction.
Krista Anderson-Philipps
Oct 147 min read


After Kochi-Muziris: Can a Biennale’s Public Claims Outlast the Event?
The sixth Kochi-Muziris Biennale made public programs and artist-led practice central to its case. Its real test begins after closing: what authority, resources, and relationships remain in Kochi?
Krista Anderson-Philipps
Oct 145 min read


Busan’s Dissident Chorus Puts Listening at the Center of a Port City
The Busan Biennale’s active 2026 edition makes sound, movement and gathering its medium, but its strongest public question is whether an international exhibition can turn listening into a durable local practice.
Krista Anderson-Philipps
Oct 146 min read


Gwangju Biennale’s Tighter Core Makes a Big Claim: Is Change a Practice Rather Than a Spectacle?
The 16th Gwangju Biennale’s main exhibition reduces its roster while asking whether repeated artistic work, rather than a grand declaration, can help people rehearse change.
Krista Anderson-Philipps
Oct 148 min read


When a Biennial Leaves the Church: What Does Manifesta Owe the Ruhr?
After Manifesta 16 Ruhr, the test is whether its church venues remain useful, accessible neighborhood infrastructure.
Krista Anderson-Philipps
Oct 145 min read


Koyo Kouoh’s Venice Biennale: How Does a Curatorial Vision Continue After Its Curator?
*In Minor Keys* offers a rare, closely documented test of whether an institution can honor a late curator’s work without mistaking a collective process for a fixed legacy.
Krista Anderson-Philipps
Oct 148 min read


Luciano Fabro’s Habitats Ask a 2026 Question: Can Art Teach Us to Inhabit Space Together?
At Pirelli HangarBicocca, a posthumous reconstruction project makes shared space less a slogan than a set of material, bodily, and institutional choices.
Krista Anderson-Philipps
Oct 147 min read
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