Collecting in 2026: What New Buyers Need to Know Before Their First Art Fair
Art fairs can be overwhelming, exclusive, and deliberately opaque. Here's how to walk in informed — whether you're buying or just looking.
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When wildfires devastated Los Angeles in 2025, the art world rallied. At Frieze LA 2026, the evidence of that solidarity was everywhere.
AI Influencers Are Getting Brand Deals. Real Creators Are Furious.
Artificially generated personalities are landing sponsorship contracts that used to go to human creators. The implications go beyond lost income.
What Frieze LA Tells Us About Where the Art Market Is Heading
Forget the sales numbers. The real story of Frieze LA 2026 is about who's buying, what they're buying, and what that says about the cultural economy.
TikTok's Quiet War on Its Own Creators
The platform that built the creator economy is systematically reducing what it pays the people who make it work. And most creators can't afford to leave.
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The seventh edition of Frieze LA returned to Santa Monica Airport with 95 exhibitors from 22 countries — and a collective energy shaped by last year's devastating wildfires.
The Ethics of the Sympathy Interview
When a celebrity faces a crisis, the first long-form interview that follows is rarely journalism. It's reputation management wearing an editorial costume.
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The Group Chat Is the New Writers' Room
The funniest, sharpest cultural commentary in 2026 isn't happening on any platform. It's happening in private group chats that no one else can see.
The Live Event Isn't Dead — It's Being Rebuilt by People the Industry Never Saw Coming
The future of live entertainment is being shaped by creators who built their audiences on phones, not stages. A perspective from the production side.
Stop Asking Celebrities What They Think About Politics
The ritual of extracting political opinions from famous people serves no one — not the celebrities, not the audience, and certainly not the politics.
The Quiet Exodus of Mid-Career Entertainment Journalists
They're not getting laid off. They're leaving. And the reasons say more about the state of media than any industry report.
The New Rules of the Press Tour: Why Celebrities Are Choosing Podcasts Over Magazines
Major talent agencies are shifting press strategies away from legacy publications and toward long-form audio. The implications for traditional media are significant.
Celebrity Feminism Is Back. This Time It Has a Brand Deal.
The new wave of celebrity feminism isn't about manifestos or movements. It's about market positioning — and that tells us more than any speech ever could.
I Spent a Year Writing for the Internet. I Don't Know If Anyone Read It.
A personal essay about publishing into the void, the metrics trap, and what happens when writing becomes content.
Why the Press Tour Is Obsolete — and What's Replacing It
The traditional media rollout served a specific era. That era is over. Here's what the new landscape actually looks like from inside the industry.