As the art market looks to its next major tentpole event, the 2026 edition of Frieze Los Angeles this week, LA is marking just over one year since devastating wildfires ripped through parts of the city. The wildfires struck so close to the fair’s dates last year that it was up in the air whether Frieze would even happen. All the same, major dealers like Gladstone, Michael Rosenfeld, and David Zwirner had sold works for north of $1 million by the end of the VIP preview, and the general consensus

At the 2026 Whitney Biennial, Malcolm Peacock shows us his sculptural installation “Five of them were hers and she carved shelters with windows into the backs of their skulls” (2024). The work takes the form of a coastal redwood tree, inspired by his trips to the Pacific Northwest. Made up of approximately 3,500 hand-braided strands created over ten months, the surface of Peacock’s sculpture immediately centers braiding as both process and meaning. For him, braiding connects to family, lineage,

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