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Thaddaeus Ropac

Three horses in front of a pink wall.

Mexico City, Doha or L.A.? The Answer Depends on What You’re Looking For

This year, there’s no shortage of warm-weather art world detours for collectors who, after Christmas, are thoroughly done with the cold.
By Elisa Carollo
Miami Convention Center with palms

At Art Basel Miami Beach, Market Confidence Meets Curatorial Risk

If there’s a common thread running through this year’s presentations, it’s the introspective tone of works that grapple with the push and pull between the physical and the virtual.
By Elisa Carollo
Two expansive figurative paintings filled with crowd-like clusters of nude figures in swirling, smoky colors face each other in a dim gallery.

Don’t Miss: Eva Helene Pade’s Choreography of Color and Desire at Thaddaeus Ropac

Haunting and visceral, her exhibition "Søgelys" unfolds into a living stage where bodies, color and psyche collide.
By Elisa Carollo
View of the Grand Palais Éphémère during Art Basel Paris, showing the vast glass-and-iron dome filled with rows of illuminated gallery booths and visitors walking through the fair floor.

Early Sales at Art Basel Paris See Buyers Favoring Substance Over Speculation

By Elisa Carollo
Crowds gathered in front of the large Frieze London entrance banner in Regent’s Park, surrounded by autumn trees with vibrant yellow and orange leaves.

Frieze London Restores Market Confidence and Outsells Expectations

By Elisa Carollo
A sunlit courtyard in Doha’s Msheireb Downtown district, featuring modern beige stone buildings with geometric facades, shaded walkways, and a patterned plaza beneath a latticed canopy.

Art Basel Qatar Announces 87 Exhibitors Bringing Work for the Inaugural Edition

By Elisa Carollo
Inside the vast dome of Museum SAN, Gormley’s rust-colored, modular figures are placed across the reflective floor, framed by circular openings to sky and landscape.

Antony Gormley Reflects on Sculpture as an Inquiry into Being and Space

By Elisa Carollo
Entrance corridor of Kiaf Seoul lined with tall digital screens displaying the fair’s branding, dates, and sponsor logos as attendees walk by.

Frieze and Kiaf SEOUL Scale Back in Spectacle While Still Securing Sales

By Elisa Carollo
A large-scale installation in an industrial hangar featuring Lee Bul’s Willing To Be Vulnerable, with a massive silver zeppelin suspended in the air, patterned fabric panels spread across the floor, and translucent hanging sheets creating a futuristic, immersive environment.

14 Exhibitions Not to Miss During Seoul Art Week 2025

By Elisa Carollo

Art Basel’s Soft Opening Belies Strong, Swift Sales Across Tiers

By Elisa Carollo
A floral-lined entrance at the Park Avenue Armory leads into the Wade Thompson Drill Hall during TEFAF New York, with visitors walking down a central corridor flanked by booths. The space is softly lit, and the left side of the frame is filled with a vibrant wall of flowers in shades of purple, pink, red and white.

TEFAF Delivers Museum Quality—and Sales—Despite Market Uncertainty

By Elisa Carollo
Gallery booth beneath a vaulted glass ceiling featuring abstract paintings in bold colors—red, blue, purple, black, and yellow—paired with large metallic and ceramic sculptures on white pedestals, all arranged in a minimalist, high-contrast setting.

Frieze and NADA New York’s Early Sales Signal Buyer Confidence

By Elisa Carollo
A woman smiling outside of an art fair

Spain’s Art Market On the Upswing: An Interview With ARCOmadrid Director Maribel López

By Elisa Carollo
A visitor in front of a series of screens with korean signs

What’s Behind the ‘Korean Wave’ in U.S. Museums and Galleries

By Elisa Carollo
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