The first is that modern abstract art is doing something real and the people who made it were often thinking very seriously about what they were trying to do. The second is that the market for this art has almost nothing to do with the art itself and operates on entirely different principles. Understanding both parts does not require any particular background in art history. It requires only the willingness to take the question seriously.

Scott Mescudi has introduced a new body of visual artwork under the name Scotty Ramon, presenting his first solo exhibition titled Echoes of the Past at Galerie Ruttkowski;68 in Paris. The exhibition marks his formal entry into contemporary art through painting and sculpture, extending a creative practice that began privately less than two years ago. The exhibition brings together more than 50 works, primarily acrylic paintings on canvas, alongside a single sculptural piece.

Thapar Contemporary, New Delhi, is presenting The Engineering of Rubble , a group exhibition featuring 18 works by 11 contemporary European artists. Curated by Jasone Miranda-Bilbao and Vaibhav Raj Shah, the exhibition brings together practices that engage with fragmentation, incompleteness, and material endurance as central conditions within contemporary art. The exhibition includes works by Ali Glover, Ana Genovés, Charo Garaigorta, Damien Meade, Ian Dawson, Ian Gouldstone,