Simply hours after Impartial Twentieth Century artwork honest closed its doorways to the general public, the honest introduced that Sotheby’s will host its 2026 version within the public sale home’s soon-to-be flagship headquarters in Manhattan’s historic Breuer constructing. The transfer, first reported by the New York Occasions, shall be a big growth for the honest and a first-of-its-kind collaboration between an artwork honest and an public sale home within the artwork market’s fashionable period.
Based in 2022, Impartial Twentieth Century spotlights ignored and celebrated artists of the final century, with curatorial programming that reframes actions from ladies in Surrealism to Arab Modernism. Its transfer to the Breuer—a landmark of Modernist structure designed by Marcel Breuer and just lately renovated by Herzog & de Meuron with PBDW Architects—will enable the honest to significantly enlarge its footprint to greater than 50 galleries.
“That is greater than a brand new venue location, it’s an emblem of how we want to think about unforgettable exhibitions of the Twentieth Century for a well-informed viewers and for a brand new technology of collectors,” Impartial’s founder Elizabeth Dee, stated in an announcement. “Impartial Twentieth Century will create a museum-caliber exhibition expertise that helps extraordinary galleries and brings their curatorial and market experience to mild in new methods.”
The Breuer, as soon as dwelling to the Whitney Museum of American Artwork and later host to the Met Breuer and the Frick Madison, will now function the setting for Impartial’s intimate, non-trade-fair format. Matthew Higgs, the honest’s founding curatorial advisor, stated the intention stays “to create environments that enable artwork to be seen in its finest mild” quite than replicate the “commerce fair-like aesthetics” of bigger occasions.
Whereas the alliance with Sotheby’s underscores a altering artwork panorama, Impartial harassed its autonomy. “Sotheby’s is not going to have any curatorial voice inside our exhibition,” Dee stated, noting that the partnership is “mission pushed” and designed to broaden the viewers for Twentieth-century artwork by means of shared programming and new public initiatives.
For Sotheby’s, which is able to formally occupy the Breuer later this yr, the collaboration aligns with its push to reposition its buildings as cultural venues quite than auction-only websites. “Along with Impartial Twentieth Century, we hope to create a dynamic atmosphere for discovery, dialogue, and trade on the Breuer,” stated Madeline Lissner, Sotheby’s world head of tremendous artwork.
The honest will run September 24–27, 2026, with a roster anticipated to exceed 50 exhibitors, up from 31 at its most up-to-date version at Casa Cipriani.
