The international guide to accessible, high-quality artFinding your way through contemporary art
An independent Italian guide for approaching artists, studios and artworks through precise questions, verifiable sources and time to look.
InterviewPainting · AI · Memory
16 October 2026
The room returns as an architecture of solitude.
Scognamiglio speaks about love, adolescence and wounded matter.
And the machine that reads his subconscious.
DOSSIER · AI ART
Matteo Basilè, Francesco D’Isa and Massimo Scognamiglio: photography, philosophy, cinema and generative systems.
New guides · Method and research
Two complete paths: ten European women artists read through sources and documented prices; ten years to build a first collection without impulse buying.
01Practical guide · Budget, documents and conservation
A progressive collection from €500 to €5,000: annual budgets, mistakes, insurance, documentation and criteria for selling or holding.
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022027 guide · European women artists and market
Critical profiles and market evidence for ten European women artists: works, museums, galleries, documented prices and cultural reasons to follow them.
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EXHIBITION NOTICE · ROME ART WEEK 2026
ROME · 15—31 OCTOBER 2026
Eleven artists at Studio Campo Boario: photography, painting, performance, graphic design and AI enter the ring.
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NEW · DIGITAL CRITICISM
The rise, the crash and what remains when technology stops occupying the artwork’s place.
READ THE ARTICLE →Three art books · Week 01
Three books and three perspectives: the artist speaks, an economist reads prices, a critic challenges the system.
01Art books · The artist speaks
02Art books · The market explained
03Six fairs. Six ways to discover.
From Italy to Basel, Berlin, Paris and New York: not a ranking, but six tools for preparing a visit, reading artists and asking before buying.
01Fair guide · Italy
How to use Solo Show, New Entries and Photography to discover new practices in Rome.
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02Fair guide · Italy
Artist-run spaces, collectives, young galleries and non-profits beyond the standard booth.
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03Fair guide · Switzerland
Basel’s fair for young galleries and focused presentations by emerging artists.
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04Fair guide · Germany
A guide to Academy, awards and young practices during Berlin Art Week.
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05Fair guide · France
Young galleries, non-profits, nomadic architecture and free entry: how to read the programme.
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06Fair guide · United States
How to navigate NADA members, Projects and international galleries without buying on fair pressure.
Open the mini guide →Dossier · Buying art online
One guide, six deep dives: Saatchi Art, Artsy, Artfinder, Singulart, Artsper and Avant Arte. Public price snapshots taken on 22 September 2026, with artists, images, documents, costs and collection strategies.
Platforms · Saatchi Art
How to read an open artist marketplace: three different practices, public budgets, real costs and a method for building a collection without buying blind.
$285–8,400 · three practicesOpen guide →
Platforms · Artsy
Artsy aggregates galleries, auctions and viewing rooms. Three accessible examples show how to read price, seller and documents.
$595–1,150 · selected worksOpen guide →
Platforms · Artfinder
A marketplace built around direct contact with artists: three price levels and a checklist for quality, returns and documentation.
£570–14,000 · three scalesOpen guide →
Platforms · Singulart
Global delivery, certificate and returns: how to compare three artists and understand what the published price really includes.
€830–1,830 · originalsOpen guide →
Platforms · Artsper
Three highly visible artists, different price ranges and a method for separating multiple, unique work, gallery and secondary market.
$299–4,800+ · editionsOpen guide →
Platforms · Avant Arte
From Ai Weiwei multiples to unique works on paper: how to read releases, sold-out status, editions and prices in the digital primary market.
€1,300–2,250 · releasesOpen guide →Dossier · The curator’s craft
Cecilia Alemani, Massimiliano Gioni, Germano Celant, Okwui Enwezor and Helen Molesworth show that curating means selecting, installing, documenting and building relationships. Five short reads on how an exhibition can change the way an artist is understood.
The curator’s craft · 01
From High Line Plinth to Brick House: how a curator builds space, duration and audiences around a monumental work.
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The curator’s craft · 02
More than 150 works across three floors: how Massimiliano Gioni and Margot Norton turned a survey into an argument about gender, desire and power.
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The curator’s craft · 03
At Ca’ Corner della Regina, more than sixty works reconstructed Kounellis’s practice through material, architecture and exhibition memory.
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The curator’s craft · 04
Triumphant Scale crossed fifty years of work and showed how dimension, material and postcolonial history can redraw a museum.
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The curator’s craft · 05
Mastry framed thirty-five years of painting as a history of Black representation without separating visual pleasure from political responsibility.
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ADVAcquistare Arte recommends: Resin-sealed books, words and layered images turn melancholy into a material narrative.
Painting · memory · collage
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Practical guide · Budget and collecting
One anchor work, three mid-career artists, six emerging names or a hybrid model: complete budgets, hidden costs, artists to research and a method for building a coherent collection.
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Practical guide · Buying from a studio
How to find the right channel, write to a studio, check documents and build a collection with 20 mid-career artists and transparent budget questions.
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Dossier · Five countries, five living archives
Italy, France, England, Germany and Switzerland: five galleries active for at least sixty years and the ways they turn archives, exhibitions and digital tools into public relationships.
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News · Galleries, photography and urban projects
The new Via dei Narcisi 21 venue, an artists’ archive and fifteen years of exhibitions, installations and collaborations across Rome and Italy.
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ADVAcquistare Arte recommends: Between photographic image and painted surface, portraiture becomes matter, distance and presence.
Painting · photography · identity
Open profile ↗Dossier · Performance and collecting
Regina José Galindo, Cassils and Ragnar Kjartansson show how performance enters the market without losing its meaning: editioned photographs and videos, sculptures and traces made by the action, and audiovisual installations with certificates and protocols. Three guides to what is actually being bought.
Collecting performance · 01
Body, political violence and memory: what remains collectible after the action, from photographs and video to editions and documentation.
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Collecting performance · 02
Endurance, trans identity and matter: photographs, films, sculptures and physical traces show how a Cassils performance enters a collection.
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Collecting performance · 03
From The Visitors to Woman in E: how musical and durational actions become video installations, editions and works with precise protocols.
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ADVADVElena Ketra
Acquistare Arte recommends: Sculpture, installation and performance question stereotypes, desire and self-determination.
Body · autonomy · pop language
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Complete guide · Investing in contemporary art
A complete 2026 guide to major contemporary art: blue-chip artists, editions, authentication, provenance, costs, risks and ten mid-career practices to study.
Read the complete guide →Paths and further reading
05Price does not assign cultural quality.
07Seven documentary signals before choosing a work.
09What the 2026 Exibart selection actually measures.
10Data, opportunities and realistic expectations.
