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SAVE THE DATE! 3 JUNE AT KOPPEL COLLECTIVE 157 Regent’s Park Rd NW1 8BB RSVP & READ MORE VIA LINK IN BIO With: Daisy Douglas Miller, Anya Kashina, Henry Glover, Miya Kosowick, Sian Kelly, Anna Pakosz, Rebecca Gilpin, Megan Rea, Zack Townsend, Ellie Walker, Harriet Gillett, Milo Anani, and Emilio Bartolome Martin MARGINALIA brings together a group of artists whose practices intersect around the overlooked, fragmentary, and peripheral. The term marginalia traditionally refers to notes or marks made in the margins of a text, though in this context it is expanded outside these confines and into the visual landscape. It denotes the sketches, studies, and side thoughts that often remain unseen: works that exist on the edge of an artist’s practice, though they hold a quiet significance. By repositioning these marginal works as complete and resolved in their own right, the intimacy and immediacy of process is unravelled. It is often in the intimacy of an artist's periphery where a truth is contained that the final work obscures. In showcasing these smaller works, Marginalia invites viewers to consider the value of the unfinished, incidental, and peripheral as points of authenticity and reflection. Supported by The Koppel Project & First Thursday @first_thursday @daisymiller_studio @anya.kashina @hgglover @miyakosowick @siankellyartist @pakoszanna @rebeccagilpinart @megan____rea @zacktownsendprint @ellierwalker @harrietgillettart @milo_anani @emilio.b.martin

Check out my weekly podcast on the art market that I host for @arttactic . Visit the Podcast section of my website to subscribe! - On this week’s episode of the ArtTactic Podcast, host Adam Green speaks with Callum Hale-Thomson, founder of First Thursday, a platform that helps galleries turn collector interactions into lasting relationships and drive sales. They discuss First Thursday’s recently released AI in Galleries Report, which offers a data-backed look at how galleries around the world are engaging with artificial intelligence. The conversation explores what motivated the report and how it was developed, key findings including the high level of AI adoption among gallery professionals, and the most common ways these tools are being used in practice. They also examine important questions around client confidentiality and data security, how gallery staff feel about integrating AI into their workflows, and why concerns around job displacement may be less pronounced in the art world. Finally, they look ahead to how AI could further shape the gallery landscape and what dealers should be paying attention to in the years to come. #adamgreenartadvisory #arttactic #arttacticpodcast #artmarket #firstthursday #callumhalethomson

First Thursday’s new AI in Galleries Report 2026 reveals what art market professionals fear when using AI. 66% of gallery professionals worry about AI accuracy, 58% about privacy, 56% about ethical issues, 54% about what it means for human relationships, 45% about over-reliance, 32% about negative reactions, 31% about job loss, and 25% don’t know where to start. Our course, AI & the Art Market, is designed to address these concerns and provide the knowledge needed to navigate the challenges AI poses to the art market. Designed and moderated by Marc Spiegler, with four expert lecturers—Alan Lau, Aimée Scala, Tim Schneider, and Ty Ahmad Taylor—the course gives you the knowledge and tools to be on the right side of this AI gap. 📅 April 21 & 23 | Online 🔗 Register now at the link in our bio

84% of gallery staff are using AI. Yet, 63% have received no guidance on the use of AI, and only 8% of galleries have policies governing the use of AI First Thursday’s new AI in Galleries Report 2026 confirms what many already sense: The gap between art professionals who understand the impact of AI and those who don’t is growing. Our course, ‘AI & the Art Market’, designed and moderated by Marc Spiegler, with four experts - Alan Lau, Aimée Scala, Tim Schneider, and Ty Ahmad Taylor - gives you the knowledge and tools to be on the right side of that gap. 📅 April 21 & 23 | Online 🔗 Register now at the link in our bio.

Notes from the Studio opened last week at @__incubator__ on Chiltern Street in Marylebone Notes from the Studio is an exhibition bringing together artists of different generations and disciplines, each sharing an item fixed to their studio wall - a note, sketch, postcard, colour test, or other small artefact - to reveal the immediacy of their process and evoke a collective studio environment focused on the fragments that shape their work. Notes from the Studio 11 December 2025 to 31 January 2026 2 Chiltern Street Marylebone, W1U 7PR Thur – Sun, 11am – 6pm powered by First Thursday

At Art Basel Miami Beach last week. @vonbartha presented a wide-ranging booth in H30, highlighting two defining strands of the gallery’s program: its avant-garde foundations and its ongoing engagement with contemporary practices. On one side, the presentation foregrounds major historical voices such as Jesús Rafael Soto and Gyula Kosice, whose pioneering approaches helped shape the foundations of kinetic and post-war abstraction. Alongside this legacy, von Bartha brings a strong contemporary focus featuring North America–based artists Marina Adams (@marinaadams ), Olaf Breuning (@olafbreuning ), Terry Haggerty (@terry.haggerty ), Landon Metz, Sarah Oppenheimer (@foldingenterprises ) and Erin Shirreff, as well as European artists Barry Flanagan (@barryflanaganestate ), Imi Knoebel, SUPERFLEX (@superflexstudio ) and Claudia Wieser (@claudia__wieser ), together with Chilean-born Francisco Sierra (@francisco___sierra ). Bridging these two poles are works by Ted Stamm (@tedstammestate ) and Barbara Stauffacher Solomon (@barbarastauffachersolomon ), both deeply significant to the gallery’s program, whose multidisciplinary practices connect historical innovation with contemporary sensibilities. Together, these new and historic works create a vibrant, cross-generational presentation that brings a distinctive and refreshing mix to the fair. @vonbartha at @artbasel Booth H30 3–7 December 2025 (VIP preview 2 December) Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami powered by First Thursday

At Art Basel Miami Beach last week, @margotsamel presented a solo installation by Carolina Fusilier (@carolina.fusilier ), whose project Inmortalistas extends her ongoing investigation into the material afterlives of technology and its entanglement with organic life. At Booth P8, Fusilier showed Jardín bioscosmista (2025) alongside a new body of interconnected sculpture-paintings built from discarded industrial packaging. Molded styrofoam remnants, once used to protect monitors, washing machines and refrigerators, are recycled, reactivated and assembled into a network of pipes and hybrid components that link the visible atmosphere of the booth with the hidden spaces behind its walls. Traces of circulation, energy, gas and liquid become newly legible as the installation reveals the invisible circuits that quietly shape daily life. Drawing from the language of architecture, Fusilier makes accessible what is usually concealed within domestic commodities, turning these structures into conduits for a techno-animist mythology. Tubes and wires animate dried plants in a subtle mechanical ballet, suggesting machines briefly reanimating dead matter.Rooted in retro-futurism, Soviet and Latin American science fiction, and the mystical writings of Russian cosmism, Inmortalistas imagines a post-human ecosystem in which materials recall their former lives and cycles of collapse and renewal unfold. Images emerge with the intangible silence of technology, giving weight and presence to forces typically felt but rarely seen. @margotsamel at @artbasel Miami Beach Booth P8 3–7 December 2025 (VIP preview 2 December) Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami Photography by Adam Reich powered by First Thursday

At @artbasel Miami Beach, @ryanleegallery presents a solo booth of Emma Amos’s (1937-2020) dynamic athlete paintings and works on paper, including basketball players, football players, gymnasts, divers, and runners. This is Amos’s first solo presentation at Art Basel Miami Beach. Many of these landmark large-scale paintings have never been exhibited before. On view are portraits of American track and field stars Carl Lewis and Evelyn Ashford as well as football player Emmitt Smith.  @ryanleegallery at @artbasel Miami Beach Booth S8 3–7 December 2025 (VIP preview 2 December) Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami powered by First Thursday

At Art Basel Miami Beach, @nicoletticontemporary presents a solo installation by French artist Josèfa Ntjam (@josefa_ntjam ) in the Positions sector (Booth P7). Coinciding with her participation in the 36th São Paulo Biennial (2025–26) and the MOMENTA Biennial in Montreal (2025–26), the presentation centres on Hydro-Diaspora, a new altarpiece composed of a triptych of photomontages set within a movable Sapele wood structure. The work reflects on interconnected histories of resistance across continents, drawing inspiration from the 1966 Tricontinental Conference in Havana, which brought together 82 nations from Asia, Africa and Latin America under colonial domination. Ntjam’s practice spans sculpture, photomontage, film and sound, using assemblage as a method to deconstruct hegemonic narratives surrounding origin, identity and race. Drawing material from natural science texts, online archives and ancestral mythologies, she weaves together historical events, philosophical concepts, African cosmologies and science-fiction into speculative cartographies. Her constellations imagine interstitial worlds where fixed identities dissolve, giving rise to fluid, emancipatory communities shaped by technological fantasy, underwater civilizations and intergalactic voyages. @nicoletticontemporary at @artbasel Booth P7 3–7 December 2025 (VIP preview 2 December) Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami Images by GRAYSC powered by First Thursday

The 23rd edition of @newartdealers opens today at Ice Palace Studios in Miami, where @cobgallery presents a group of four painters - Katelyn Eichwald, Michael Lombardo, Josh Raz, TJ Rinoski - each navigating the mutable space between the external world and the interior self.  Eichwald’s intimately scaled burlap paintings distill the body and domestic texture into emotional topography, where desire, fantasy, and distance register as surface and atmosphere. Lombardo works at the scale of relics, depicting conch shells, worn garments, and composting fruit with devotional attention, transforming objects tied to the landscapes that shaped his identity - growing up in the Great Plains of the American West while being Latin American and visiting Panama annually - into miniature meditations on time, decay, and cultural sediment.  Raz’s expansive, atmospheric vistas dissolve into patterned constellations, suggesting a cosmic horizon where perception becomes porous. Rinoski’s small-scale works shift between barren landscapes and dimly lit bedrooms, turning both exterior and interior space into psychological realms marked by stillness, memory, and quiet unease. Together, the four artists trace a continuum in which landscape unfolds as atmosphere, psyche, emotion, and artefact. @cobgallery at @newartdealers Booth B503 3-6 December 2025 (VIP preview 2 December) Ice Palace Studios, Miami powered by First Thursday

@untitledartfairs opens today in Miami Beach, where @galleryrosenfeld presents a solo presentation by Natalia Ocerin in the inaugural Artist Spotlight section. Ocerin is known for her hyperreal paintings that critique consumer culture, modelled after plasticine models which will be showcased at the fair for the first time. Curated by interdisciplinary artist Petra Cortright, the new Artist Spotlight sector is dedicated to solo presentations from emerging and established artists, focusing on specific bodies of work and providing deeper insights into their practices. With an immersive poolside booth, this is a rare opportunity to view Ocerin’s artistic process in full, transforming plasticine maquettes into visually-striking oil paintings.  @galleryrosenfeld at @untitledartfairs Booth A76 3-7 December 2025 (VIP preview 2 December) Ocean Drive, Miami Beach powered by First Thursday

At the 28th edition of Paris Photo at the Grand Palais, @cobgallery presents a solo presentation by Jack Davison. Portraits: 14-16 November 2024 debuts as an immersive installation composed entirely of the first prints in the edition and exactly a year after the original shoot. The gravures encircle the booth in a continuous constellation of faces, creating a quiet yet compelling rhythm between individuality and collectivity. With each new edition, Davison plans to repeat the process in a different city, constructing a serial portrait of contemporary life through successive iterations. @cobgallery at Paris Photo 2025 Booth C32 12-16 November Grand Palais, Paris powered by @first_thursday