The future of art collecting is with women. The 2025 Art Basel & UBS Survey of Global Collecting was released and gathered insights from 3,100 high-net-worth (HNW) collectors across 10 global markets, 76% of whom identified as Gen Z or Millennials, and analyzed the current global collecting habits.The report found that among HNW collectors, Gen Z and Millennial women are outspending their male counterparts, whereas male Gen X and boomer collectors are outspending their women counterparts. Th...

This artist is taking your nude selfies and turning them into paintings. Soho Revue in London presents "Soft Exchanges", a solo show by American painter Drea Cofield. Vulnerability, desire and control are front and center in this intimate exhibition.The show continues Cofield's long-term project "Send Me Your Selfies" that began in 2012, where the artist transformed submitted selfies into intimate portraits. Inspired by the images shared by consenting adults, the works explore how digital techno...

Art has long explored the female body, with nude forms taking up much of the art history conversation from the Renaissance to the present day. Palm Springs Art Museum now presents "Female Form: Tom Wesselmann & Mickalene Thomas," from the collection of Jordan Schnitzer's Family Foundation. The exhibit showcases how two artists from different generations present the female body, and unpacks the representations in visual culture.With many conversations circling 'gaze' and who the viewer is, ma...

After rounding off the chaos of Frieze week in London, the art world headed straight to Paris for Art Basel's fourth edition in the French capital. Taking over the Grand Palais's impressive glass-ceilinged building, this is no tent in the park. Rivaling Frieze London and fighting for the larger share of the European art market, Art Basel Paris made quite the splash.The week was off to a somewhat rocky start with the city's most brazen art heist in decades taking place at the Louvre just days bef...