Art Market Liaison

05/26/2026

🎨 Work of the Week: Friedrich Kunath, Goodby Sadness (2024-2025)

Melancholy meets movement in this quietly cinematic work by Friedrich Kunath. Featured in his last exhibition 'Aimless Love' at Pace Gallery in New York, the work captures the paradox that Kunath returns to again and again – the desire to hold onto something inherently ephemeral.

As always, we’re watching how artists like Kunath continue to shape the visual language of longing, nostalgia, and contemporary Romanticism.

Learn more here: https://www.pacegallery.com/exhibitions/friedrich-kunath-aimless-love/

05/23/2026

Looking for Memorial Day plans? We suggest checking out Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami's latest exhibition with artist Harmony Korine.

'Perfect Nonsense' – the first US survey for the multifaceted artist – traces the full arc of the artist's career, bringing together over 50 works and situating his practice within a broader continuum of image-making that collapses distinctions between cinema, contemporary art, and popular culture.

Pictured here are two works 'Frill Line' from 2014 – with the Art Market Liaison team Laura – and 'Circle ###F' from 2015. Catch the show until October 4.

More info: https://icamiami.org/exhibition/harmony-korine-perfect-nonsense/

05/03/2026

Biennial, Biennale… tomato, tomahto? Art world shorthand – but is there actually a difference?

Our latest blog breaks it down – clearly, simply, and without the jargon. Using three major 2026 exhibitions – the Venice Biennale (the OG, opening next week), the Whitney Biennial, and the Carnegie International – we unpack how these “-ennials” shape what we see, who gets visibility, and how contemporary art is framed today.

Think of it as a blueprint for navigating the global exhibition landscape. As always, we’ve got you! 😉

Read in full here: https://www.artmarketliaison.com/biennial-biennale-triennial-but-what-do-they-all-mean/

04/23/2026

Two of the most mythologized figures in modern art – Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera – are reunited in MoMA The Museum of Modern Art's current exhibition 'The Last Dream,' on view in New York until September 12!

Rather than a traditional retrospective, the exhibition unfolds as an immersive, theatrical environment – designed in collaboration with The Metropolitan Opera and its new production imagining the couple’s final reunion.

Paintings, drawings, and photographs are staged within this operatic setting, reframing Kahlo’s intimate, psychological self-portraits alongside Rivera’s monumental, socially driven vision.

Have you seen this year? Let us know your thoughts below! ⬇️

Exhibition. Through Sep 12. Frida and Diego: The Last Dream celebrates Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera—two of Mexico’s most beloved icons of 20th-century art—in a first-of-its-kind collaboration with the Metropolitan Opera. Organized in conjunction with the Met’s new production of El Último Su...

04/22/2026

🎨 Work of the Week: Christina Quarles, Shaded (2026)

A striking new direction from one of today’s most compelling painters. Debuted at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles during Frieze LA, Quarles’ latest works introduce a new series of charcoal drawings – a departure from her signature acrylic compositions.

Working through erasure rather than addition, Quarles cuts, peels, and removes material to reveal fragmented, shifting forms. The result is quieter, but no less charged – a powerful inversion of her stencil-based practice.

Learn more here: https://www.hauserwirth.com/hauser-wirth-exhibitions/christina-quarles-losangeles-2026/

04/17/2026

📚 New book alert! From Thames & Hudson, 'Ai Weiwei: On Censorship,' a timely reflection on free expression, self-censorship, and the hidden forms of control shaping public life today.

The book examines censorship not only in authoritarian regimes, but also in democracies, corporate systems, and social media.

We gave it a 10/10 – highly recommend!

Read an excerpt from in America here: https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/ai-weiwei-censorship-artificial-intelligence-deepseek-1234773741/

04/15/2026

✨ Artists We Love: Loie Hollowell ✨ Loie Hollowell’s paintings exist in a charged space between body and cosmos – geometric, sensual, and autobiographical. Her luminous abstractions translate experiences of the female body into a precise visual language that feels both intimate and universal.

Why collect? Hollowell sits at the intersection of critical and market momentum: major institutional backing, global gallery representation, and a distinct, recognizable visual language. As her work evolves from provocative to canonical, demand continues to deepen – especially for primary works.

Her latest body of work is currently on view at a new solo exhibition 'Overview Effect' Pace Gallery in London. Tracing the physical and emotional intensity of childbirth through radiant, symmetrical forms. Catch it until May 23!

More info: https://www.pacegallery.com/exhibitions/loie-hollowell-overview-effect-london/

04/13/2026

This week, the AML team is looking forward to the opening of Marcel Duchamp at the MoMA The Museum of Modern Art.

Opening to the public April 12, this major retrospective brings together 300+ works, tracing how Duchamp redefined art – from Fountain to the foundations of conceptual practice.

Will you have a chance to visit?

Plan your trip here: https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5820

04/10/2026

We’re big supporters of public art – especially in Miami.

Spotlighting 'Atmospheric floor' by Miami-based artist Loriel Beltrán, inspired by the luminous gradient of Miami’s skies at dusk.
From afar, the colors blend into a soft glow; up close, they vibrate with intensity – activated by the viewer’s movement.

Installed at the Osvaldo N. Soto Miami-Dade Justice Center as part of the County’s Art in Public Places program, the work reflects Beltrán’s deep exploration of color, perception, and time.

Learn more here: https://miamidadepublicart.org/app/art/artworkDetail.page?id=eb9335d3-a6bb-4eb9-8679-bef650357381

04/08/2026

🎨 Work of the Week: Yoan Capote, Purificación (aeternum), 2025

Yoan Capote (b. 1977, Havana) brings a sharp conceptual rigor and deeply tactile sensibility to a practice spanning sculpture, installation, and painting. Rooted in a contemporary Cuban vernacular yet universally resonant, his work navigates themes of power, control, and human tension.

If you happen to be in Italy, check out his exhibition 'Ruido Blanco (White Noice)' at Galleria Continua in San Gimignano – until April 12.

The exhibition features works from Capote's 'Purificación' series that transforms materials associated with restraint – chains, barbed wire, metal fragments – into a dense, almost painterly surface. Deconstructed and reassembled on jute, the composition holds a quiet but charged intensity, where aggression and fragility coexist.

Interested in learning more? Reach out! Let's chat.

https://www.galleriacontinua.com/exhibitions/ruido-blanco-505