A Cape Town gallery's commercial dispute is exposing how Global South art markets still operate on handshake trust

Desk note: Monexus covered the SMAC allegations by reading them primarily as a story about institutional infrastructure — the consignment-and-credit rails under the Global South commercial art market — rather than as a two-sided personality dispute. The ARTNews URL is the only source provable from the thread context; we decline to pad the ledger with speculative or fabricated references to other outlets.