01Art books · The artist speaks
Manual for Young Artists: Damien Hirst in conversation with Gordon Burn
Career, art, money and persona: a critical guide to Hirst and Burn’s book-length interview.
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02Art books · The market explained
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: understanding the market with Don Thompson
Why does contemporary art reach extreme prices? Bibliography, thesis and practical lessons from Don Thompson.
03Art books · The dissenting voice
Con Art: Julian Spalding against Damien Hirst
The pamphlet challenging Hirst and conceptual art: arguments, limits and reasons to read it before buying.
04Practical guide · Budget, documents and conservation
The first collection: 10 works, 10 years, one method
A progressive collection from €500 to €5,000: annual budgets, mistakes, insurance, documentation and criteria for selling or holding.
052027 guide · European women artists and market
Ten European mid-career women artists to know in 2027
Critical profiles and market evidence for ten European women artists: works, museums, galleries, documented prices and cultural reasons to follow them.
06Fair guide · Italy
Roma Arte in Nuvola 2026: an emerging artists guide
How to use Solo Show, New Entries and Photography to discover new practices in Rome.
07Fair guide · Italy
The Others Turin 2026: the independent art fair
Artist-run spaces, collectives, young galleries and non-profits beyond the standard booth.
08Fair guide · Switzerland
Liste Art Fair Basel 2026: where young galleries are discovered
Basel’s fair for young galleries and focused presentations by emerging artists.
09Fair guide · Germany
POSITIONS Berlin 2026: Academy and new talent at Tempelhof
A guide to Academy, awards and young practices during Berlin Art Week.
10Fair guide · France
Paris Internationale 2026: a fair designed for discovery
Young galleries, non-profits, nomadic architecture and free entry: how to read the programme.
11Fair guide · United States
NADA New York 2026: new galleries and projects to follow
How to navigate NADA members, Projects and international galleries without buying on fair pressure.
12Platforms · Saatchi Art
Saatchi Art 2026: original works, prices and portfolio strategy
How to read an open artist marketplace: three different practices, public budgets, real costs and a method for building a collection without buying blind.
13Platforms · Artsy
Artsy 2026: buying from galleries through Buy Now, offers and provenance
Artsy aggregates galleries, auctions and viewing rooms. Three accessible examples show how to read price, seller and documents.
14Platforms · Artfinder
Artfinder 2026: originals direct from artists, budgets and checks
A marketplace built around direct contact with artists: three price levels and a checklist for quality, returns and documentation.
15Platforms · Singulart
Singulart 2026: inclusive prices, international artists and portfolio building
Global delivery, certificate and returns: how to compare three artists and understand what the published price really includes.
16Platforms · Artsper
Artsper 2026: editions, street art and European galleries online
Three highly visible artists, different price ranges and a method for separating multiple, unique work, gallery and secondary market.
17Platforms · Avant Arte
Avant Arte 2026: artist editions, drops and collecting budgets
From Ai Weiwei multiples to unique works on paper: how to read releases, sold-out status, editions and prices in the digital primary market.
18Exhibition notice · Photography and counterculture
Punk Aristocracy in Cosenza: the photography exhibition returns ten years later
Acquistare Arte recommends Punk Aristocracy · 10 years by Massimo Scognamiglio, opening on 9 October 2026 at BlackShedBar in Cosenza.
19Practical guide · Buying from a studio
How to buy art directly from an artist: a contact guide with 20 mid-career names
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.
20Dossier · Five countries, five living archives
Five historic European galleries: history, continuity and communication in 2026
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.
21News · Galleries, photography and urban projects
Takeawaygallery reopens in Centocelle: Stefano Carsetti Esposito and a Roman gallery outside the frame
The new Via dei Narcisi 21 venue, an artists’ archive and fifteen years of exhibitions, installations and collaborations across Rome and Italy.
22The curator’s craft · 01
Cecilia Alemani and Simone Leigh: curating public sculpture
From High Line Plinth to Brick House: how a curator builds space, duration and audiences around a monumental work.
23The curator’s craft · 02
Massimiliano Gioni and Sarah Lucas: the body according to Au Naturel
More than 150 works across three floors: how Massimiliano Gioni and Margot Norton turned a survey into an argument about gender, desire and power.
24The curator’s craft · 03
Germano Celant and Jannis Kounellis: the retrospective as montage
At Ca’ Corner della Regina, more than sixty works reconstructed Kounellis’s practice through material, architecture and exhibition memory.
25The curator’s craft · 04
Okwui Enwezor and El Anatsui: scale as curatorial thought
Triumphant Scale crossed fifty years of work and showed how dimension, material and postcolonial history can redraw a museum.
26The curator’s craft · 05
Helen Molesworth and Kerry James Marshall: rewriting painting’s canon
Mastry framed thirty-five years of painting as a history of Black representation without separating visual pleasure from political responsibility.
27Practical guide · Budget and collecting
How to build an art collection with €20,000: four strategies and 24 artists
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.
28Collecting performance · 01
Regina José Galindo: collecting performance through photography and video
Body, political violence and memory: what remains collectible after the action, from photographs and video to editions and documentation.
29Collecting performance · 02
Cassils: the body as sculpture, performance as a collectible work
Endurance, trans identity and matter: photographs, films, sculptures and physical traces show how a Cassils performance enters a collection.
30Collecting performance · 03
Ragnar Kjartansson: music, duration and collectible video installations
From The Visitors to Woman in E: how musical and durational actions become video installations, editions and works with precise protocols.
31Guida essenziale · Collezionare arte
Collecting art: a practical guide to your first collection
How to begin collecting contemporary art: choose a focus, compare works, keep documentation and care for what you acquire.
32Complete guide · Investing in contemporary art
Investing in Art in 2026: The Complete Guide to Serious Collecting
A complete 2026 guide to major contemporary art: blue-chip artists, editions, authentication, provenance, costs, risks and ten mid-career practices to study.
33Tre artisti · 01
Edson Luli: perception, installation and an ecology of thought
From Shkodër to Milan, Luli uses video, print, LED and installation to question how we construct reality.
34Tre artisti · 02
Daniel González: sequins, Mylar and the architecture of celebration
The Buenos Aires-born artist turns celebration into a shared space through reflective materials, performance and temporary structures.
35Tre artisti · 03
Olimpia Zagnoli: illustration, colour and editions
The Milan-based artist moves from editorial illustration to kinetic sculpture, ceramics, books and the official Milano Cortina 2026 poster.
36Europe · art under $50,000
Massimo Scognamiglio · Europe · art under $50,000
Massimo Scognamiglio: a Roman visual artist with a documented career from 1998, from Palazzo delle Esposizioni and Centro Pecci to the LÌMEN collection, MACRO Asilo and The Gold Standard.
37Africa · art under $50,000
Lawrence Amoo · Africa · art under $50,000
Lawrence Amoo · Africa · US$5.000 · olio unico pubblicato.
38Asia · art under $50,000
Takashi Murakami · Asia · art under $50,000
Takashi Murakami · Asia · US$5.000–7.500 · serigrafia.
39Americas · art under $50,000
Juan Roberto Diago · Americas · art under $50,000
Juan Roberto Diago · Americas · US$5.000 · fotografia pubblicata.
40Oceania · art under $50,000
Fiona Omeenyo · Oceania · art under $50,000
Fiona Omeenyo · Oceania · US$650 · dipinto unico pubblicato.
41Rome · Artists, cinema and neighbourhood life
Pigneto in Rome: artists, street art and cinema in a montage-neighbourhood
From Pasolini and Rossellini to contemporary studios: the people who turned Pigneto into a form of storytelling.
42Rome · Neighbourhood, galleries and artist studios
San Lorenzo in Rome: galleries, artist studios and Pastificio Cerere
A cultural guide to San Lorenzo: the 1943 bombing, Pastificio Cerere and the work of Monitor, Matèria and Numero Cromatico.
43Exhibition · Rome, Silk Road and contemporary Chinese art
Xi Niu in Rome: seven routes through contemporary Chinese art at Rhinoceros
Curated by Claire Shiying Li, the exhibition brings together seven artistic practices and reads the Silk Road as a living space of exchange, identity and change.
44Focus · Art market and collecting
THE MUSEUM SHOP. Buying art editions under €1,500
Six clear questions about museum editions, prints, posters, multiples, provenance, framing and value.
45Focus · Art market and collecting
Martin Bertelmann in Rome: Inside the First Image at Curva Pura
Photography, video and installation ask where an image begins and what remains of the physical print in digital circulation.
46Focus · Art market and collecting
Art between €50,000 and €100,000 in Europe: artists, prices and checks
Public auction results show how to read this market band without turning evidence into an investment promise.
47Art, mind and survival · Quote 01
Louise Bourgeois: “Art is a guaranty of sanity”
A sentence became an artwork: creation did not erase torment for Bourgeois, but gave it form, rhythm and distance.
48Art Brut and freedom · Quote 02
Jean Dubuffet and Carlo Zinelli: a madness that builds
Dubuffet’s idea of a “positive madness” meets Carlo Zinelli’s ordered and irreducible visual language.
49Van Gogh, Artaud and society · Quote 03
Antonin Artaud and Van Gogh: creating to escape hell
In his essay on Van Gogh, Artaud treats creation as a way out and indicts a society that reduces difference to illness.
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50Criticism · Young artists and the market
THE ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS. 3 UNDER 20
Aelita Andre, Andres Valencia and Mikail Akar: three rapid rises and documented entry points below €5,000, without turning youth into a guarantee of value.
51Visual languages · Posters, editions and reproductions
ART FOR ALL. Gilbert & George posters: quality, large editions and no investment promise
A clear guide to recognising a well-printed art poster, distinguishing it from a fine-art edition and buying Gilbert & George for visual quality rather than financial expectations.
52Photographer profile
Cristina de Middel. Reinventing the document
Documentary practice, reconstruction and imagination reveal the choices hidden inside photographic truth.
53Photographer profile
Gregory Halpern. The real and the sublime
Colour, social tension and everyday strangeness shape an American landscape that keeps its contradictions open.
54Photographer profile
Nanna Heitmann. People inside extreme environments
Long-form reporting shows how climate, landscape and isolation shape human life.
55Photographer profile
Yael Martínez. Making absence visible
Symbol, light and intervention address fractured communities, disappearance and memory without turning pain into spectacle.
56Feature · Photography and handwork
Julie Cockburn. The photograph begins again when the image seemed complete
Found photographs, embroidery, paint and geometry: Julie Cockburn turns anonymous images into layered, unique objects.
57Feature · Drawing, text and humour
David Shrigley. When a simple sentence makes the world unstable
Drawing, writing, print, sculpture and animation: David Shrigley uses humour to turn the obvious into something unexpectedly ambiguous.
58Feature · Public graphics and print culture
Shepard Fairey. The public image between propaganda, dissent and circulation
From OBEY to political images, Shepard Fairey uses posters, murals and screenprint to question power, consent and access.
59Guide · Contemporary art photography
Contemporary art photography under €1,500: how to choose a print
Edition, process, signature, provenance and care, with Cristina de Middel, Gregory Halpern, Nanna Heitmann and Yael Martínez as international examples.
60Collecting · Six practices, a real budget
Buying art under €5,000: six artists, actual works and a collector’s guide
Elena Ketra, Massimo Scognamiglio, Marco Réa, David Shrigley, Julie Cockburn and Shepard Fairey: documented prices, unique works, editions and practical questions.
61Focus · Cultural journalism, photography and identity
Francesco Arena. Other Identity, the unmissable column questioning our public face
A focus on Francesco Arena and Exibart’s weekly Other Identity column: photography, video and performance as tools for reading identity, self-representation and public space.
62Feature · Painting and memory
Luciano Civettini. When melancholy becomes a narrative space
Autobiographical painting, resin-sealed books, words and collage: the Italian artist’s path through memory, nature and art history.
63Digital art · Philosophy
Francesco D’Isa: generative images after the author gives up control
Philosopher, artist and writer: a practice using generative errors, latent spaces and artificial intelligence to question identity and authorship.
64Public art · Action
Arte da Rubare: for twenty years, the work has come alive by disappearing
The collective initiated by Marco “Canz52” Cantarelli leaves artworks in cities for passers-by to take and complete the performance.
65Guide · Method
How to read a contemporary artist’s career before choosing a work
Seven documentary signals for reading continuity, sources, exhibitions, language, provenance and price without predicting financial returns.
66Feature · Criticism and publishing
Barbara Martusciello. Removing the background noise
Criticism, curating and independent publishing: art a part of cult(ure) as a space for depth, relationships and memory.
67Feature · Independent galleries
Stefano Esposito. Looking from the gallery’s side
Photographer and gallerist: a view on independent mediation, relationships with artists and transparency for collectors.
68Opening feature · 01
Elena Ketra. The body asks no permission
From female empowerment to sologamy, a multidisciplinary practice transforms symbols and stereotypes into acts of self-determination.
69Opening feature · 02
Massimo Scognamiglio. Between perfect image and wounded matter
Painting and photography meet around portraiture, fashion and identity, from torn magazine works to Tales of Humans in a Landscape.
70Opening feature · 03
Marco Réa. The portrait after the face
Stencil, line and altered advertising surfaces: melancholic figures emerge when public images lose their seductive function.
71Mapping the contemporary
222 emerging artists to invest in: what the 2026 selection really measures
Cesare Biasini Selvaggi’s Exibart volume: 222 profiles, methods, data, prices and the limits of a map of emerging art in Italy.
72Market · Data
Why art under €5,000 is a real market
Affordable contemporary art is not a minor category: data, media and responsible questions for a first acquisition.
73Practical guide
How to buy your first artwork without turning art into a supermarket
A clear first-acquisition guide covering certificate, signature, provenance, medium, condition, edition, shipping and additional costs.
74Guide to media
Painting or photography? Choosing without a false hierarchy
Original, edition, technique and conservation: how to compare two different economies of the artwork.
75Documented opinion
Affordable art does not mean minor art
Why a lower price does not define cultural quality, ambition or the seriousness of an artist’s research.
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