From June 27 to July 2, 2026, the city of Jingdezhen, China, hosted the 52nd Congress of the International Academy of Ceramics (IAC) under the theme Heritage and Innovation. Few places could have provided a more appropriate setting for such a discussion. Famous worldwide for its porcelain tradition spanning more than a thousand years, Jingdezhen […]
The Shed545 W 30th StNew York, NY 10001 Frieze New York's 15th edition returned to the Shed with 68 galleries from 26 countries, drawing 25,000 visitors over five days. Among the ceramic highlights was Chapter NY, which featured Alix Vernet's lustrous glaze wall sculptures and the work of Erin Jane Nelson, currently showing in the […]
Pier 36299 South StreetNew York, 10002 This year's Independent doubled in size, relocating from Tribeca's Spring Studios to the expansive Pier 36 on the Lower East Side. The neighborhood, home to a grittier and more experimental art scene, seeped into the fair's curation and vitality. From the threshold, a curtain of yellow PVC strips, brightly […]
Starrett-Lehigh Building601 W 26th StreetNew York, NY 10001 Sprightly bursts of color and whimsy welcomed visitors as they arrived at this year's NADA New York fair, a timely antidote to the long shadow of a frigid winter. 120 galleries, art spaces, and nonprofit organizations from fifteen countries gathered at the Starrett-Lehigh Building in Chelsea from […]
Tour & Taxis3 Picard Street 1000 Brussels This year, MoCA/NY visited Ceramic Brussels for the first time. Among its most compelling distinctions, particularly when measured against other established fairs, was the presentation of the Art Prize Laureates, a section set apart from the customary grid of gallery booths we examined in our previous coverage, Standout […]
Tour & Taxis3 Picard Street1000 Brussels 70 exhibitors from thirty countries, nearly 200 artists, and more than 19,000 visitors: all for clay, all in Belgium, for Ceramic Brussels 2026. This year, MoCA/NY’s team traveled to experience the fair’s third edition firsthand, and we were struck by the sheer volume and variety of work on view, […]
Convention Center Drive & 19th StreetMiami Beach, US Ceramics are increasingly elevated from the column of crafts to the status of fine art. Design Miami reflects the move into a more august realm. Running from December 2 to 7, the twentieth-anniversary exhibition, a sister fair to Art Basel Miami Beach, is located in its usual […]
Ocean Drive and 12th Street, Miami Beach, US From December 3–7, 2025, the fourteenth edition of Untitled Art Fair welcomed visitors to its custom-built tent on the glorious sunlit sands of Miami Beach. 160 galleries from twenty-nine countries participated, each gallery focusing on one or two, often emerging, artists. Ceramics are experiencing elevated involvement in […]
Park Avenue Armory643 Park AveNew York, NY 10065 From November 6 to 10, Salon Art & Design returns to the Park Avenue Armory—now in its fourteenth year—with a luminous showing of more than fifty galleries, where design meets sculpture and functional objects rise to the realm of fine art. This year, ceramics appear in renewed […]
The Regent's ParkPk Sq W, London NW1 4LL, UK From October 15–19, 2025, the twenty-third edition of Frieze London returned to The Regent’s Park, drawing 168 galleries from forty-three countries and a record ninety thousand visitors from 108 nations. Amid the crush of booths and installations, Ruth Gibson traced a ceramic throughline—a quiet insistence of […]
