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NY Court Orders Return of Modigliani Portrait to Heir
A New York Supreme Court judge ordered the restitution of Amedeo Modigliani’s 1918 portrait “Seated Man With a Cane” to the estate of Jewish dealer Oscar Stettiner. The decision ends a twelve‑year legal battle over the work, which had been held by the Nahmad family’s International Art Centre since a 1996 auction.
Art market recovery is now gauged by Hong Kong’s upcoming auction calendar, headlined by works from Joan Mitchell and Gerhard Richter. After peaking in 2021, Hong Kong auction sales have slumped 26 percent and stayed low through 2025 despite the three major houses’ coordinated fall auctions. The Big Three have poured significant resources into the city to strengthen their Asian presence. This season will reveal whether those investments can reignite sustained momentum.
Rate and consistency of production are indicators many galleries and seasoned collectors consider when deciding what art to show or buy. Galleries prefer solid supply chains in case their clienteles respond favorably to a show. Both galleries and collectors prefer...
Sam Doyle, a self‑taught Gullah artist from South Carolina, is featured with twenty narrative paintings at the Outsider Art Fair in New York, sourced from Bob Roth’s collection and priced between $35,000 and $85,000. Doyle’s works depict local Lowcountry figures, historic...
Documenta 14 has transformed Athens' historic Parko Eleftherias complex—once a military police headquarters and detention center—into a contemporary art venue. Architect Andreas Angelidakis exposed original stone walls, reopened connections to the adjacent Museum of Anti‑dictatorial and Democratic Resistance, and installed...
“Van Dyck: The European” opens at Genoa’s Palazzo Ducale, assembling around 60 paintings from institutions such as the Louvre, Prado and the National Gallery. The show repositions the artist’s six‑year Italian sojourn as the pivotal phase that forged his theatrical...
The Musée Guimet in Paris has opened a K‑beauty exhibition titled “K‑Beauty: Korean Beauty, story of a phenomenon,” running through July 6. Curators trace Korean concepts of beauty from the late‑Joseon era to today, juxtaposing historic artifacts with modern cosmetics and...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has acquired *Madonna and Child with Saint John the Evangelist*, the earliest known painting by 16th‑century Mannerist Rosso Fiorentino. The work, dated 1512‑13, was rediscovered after a conservation cleaning removed overpaint that concealed Saint John,...
The Design Museum has launched the second edition of its PLATFORM series, featuring London‑based designer Simone Brewster in a year‑long exhibition from February 2026 to January 2027. Brewster’s monographic display spans jewellery, furniture, sculpture and architectural interventions, organized into four...
Seventy‑three‑year‑old Ruebena Paraha, a Māori artist of Ngāti Hine, Ngāti Tūwharetoa and Ngāti Kahungunu descent, is debuting her first solo show, Wayfinding, at Te Whare Toi o Heretaunga Hastings Art Gallery. After three decades living across Germany, Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia, Oceania and India,...
Art Dubai has shifted its 20th edition from mid‑April to May 14‑17, 2026, and will run in a more focused, flexible format after Iranian strikes threatened the UAE. Organisers also revamped the fee structure, waiving stand fees in favor of...
Artnet’s Important Photographs auction features a single lot of 206 sold‑out prints from Vivian Maier’s estate. The lot is estimated to fetch between $1 million and $1.5 million, marking the largest single‑lot offering of her work to date. Maier’s secondary market has surged,...
A curated list of six high‑profile art exhibitions slated for 2026 invites travelers to plan culture‑focused trips worldwide. Highlights include Frida Kahlo’s retrospective in Houston, a Giacometti‑Benglis dialogue at London’s Barbican, and Renoir’s love‑themed works at Musée d’Orsay. The Met...
Prada’s Spring/Summer 2026 campaign is directed by controversial artist Jordan Wolfson, known for unsettling VR installations and violent imagery. The ad features high‑profile models such as Carey Mulligan and Nicholas Hoult alongside oversized, computer‑generated birds that create a disquieting atmosphere. Titled “I, I,...
Marina Abramović’s new immersive show "Seven Deaths" opens at Copenhagen’s underground museum Cisternerne, drawing on the haunting voice of opera legend Maria Callas. The exhibition fuses performance art, video installations, and live soundscapes to explore love, loss, and emotional renewal....
Gagosian’s "Between the Clock and the Bed" showcases Jasper Johns’s 1970s cross‑hatching period, a decade‑long experiment that diverged from his famous flag motifs. The show runs through April 24, marking the final exhibition in the gallery’s Madison Avenue space. While the...
This week’s SLEEK news blends art, fashion, and sustainability. ArtCircle 2026 gathers international artists at Lake Wolfgang, Austria, from April 27‑May 3, turning lakeside hotels into creative hubs. In fashion, Alpha Industries × GR10K revives the CWU‑45 flight jacket, Scarosso launches silver‑accented “Pauli” sandals,...
Mad Clot on a Holy Bone: Memories of a Psychic Theater by Asher Hartman. Mad Clot on a Holy Bone: Memories of a Psychic Theater is the first published collection of work by playwright and artist Asher Hartman and his Gawdafful...
A San Francisco mural honoring Cesar Chavez was painted over after new sexual‑abuse allegations against the labor leader were confirmed, prompting the building owner and the artist to act swiftly. In Venice, Mayor Luigi Brugnaro warned that the Russian pavilion at the biennale...
Art Central 2026 opened on March 25 at Hong Kong’s Central Harbourfront, showcasing a record 117 galleries and over 500 artists. Curated by Zoie Yung, the fair’s creative programme foregrounds digital culture through installations, moving‑image works and performances, positioning Hong...
The latest feature adds fifteen seminal feminist artworks to a previously published roster of thirty iconic pieces by women artists, extending the timeline from early first‑wave feminism to contemporary intersectional practice. The selection spotlights creators such as Edmonia Lewis, Mary...
The weekend of March 20‑22 in New York City is packed with free and low‑cost cultural programming, from the city‑wide Art House NY independent cinema week to major museum openings at MoMA and the New Museum. Highlights include the Frida & Diego exhibition...
Gagosian’s Chelsea gallery opens "Painting with Scattered Brushstrokes," a preview of Roy Lichtenstein’s brushstroke series ahead of the Whitney’s October retrospective. The show, running March 19‑April 25, pulls largely from the Lichtenstein family collection and highlights works from the 1970s...
Mayor Luigi Brugnano warned that Venice will close Russia’s Biennale pavilion if it serves as a propaganda platform, reinforcing EU pressure to limit Russian cultural presence after the 2022 invasion. The Biennale’s president announced a “Biennale del Dissenso” space featuring...
The 39th TEFAF Maastricht art fair attracted 50,000 visitors, featured 270 exhibitors from 22 countries, and generated an €86.4 million economic impact, with €37.9 million flowing directly to the city. Despite geopolitical uncertainty, the fair saw robust sales across categories, highlighted by...
Golnar Adili’s Smack Mellon exhibition, “To Measure the Emotions of Others,” transforms family letters from the post‑1979 Iranian diaspora into sculptural and textual installations. The centerpiece, *Ye Harvest From the Eleven‑Page Letter–Installation*, repeats the Persian “ye” character in archival cardboard,...
Yesterday I giddily ran over to the britishmuseum to check out their #Samurai exhibition. We were lucky enough to speak to both curator joenickols and Yasuke performer from @assassins_uk Tongayi Chirisa
The New Museum on New York’s Bowery reopened on March 21, 2026, after a ten‑year expansion that adds 62,000 sq ft, effectively doubling its exhibition footprint to roughly 120,000 sq ft. The project pairs the original SANAA tower with a new OMA‑designed structure, reshaping the...
The Arab Bank Switzerland (ABS) Digital Art Prize 2026 is now accepting worldwide applications, offering a $10,000 cash award and acquisition of the winning work for the ABS collection. The prize will be showcased in the curated "SYSTEMS" exhibition at...
Delivery driver Joe Macken spent two decades crafting a detailed balsa‑wood replica of New York City, comprising hundreds of thousands of miniature structures. The model went viral on TikTok, garnering over 10 million views and drawing widespread attention. In March 2026, the...
Alicia McCarthy’s new solo exhibition opens at V1 Gallery in Copenhagen from March 13 to April 25, 2026. The show presents her signature abstract canvases that fuse 1960s‑style Op Art geometry with spontaneous, graffiti‑inspired gestures, drips and splashes. Rooted in the Mission School’s queer punk...
Even the subway Can be a work of art h/t Bulovas
Did you know there’s a creative hub in Somerset House? Ahead of its tenth anniversary, I spoke to Marie McPartlin, director of Somerset House Studios, about how it was founded, how it’s evolved & its role within the wider programme...
Ahead of Hong Kong Art Week, fifteen local artists have turned a Kowloon pizzeria into the pop‑up exhibition Ve(ry)nice. The project directly responds to the Hong Kong government‑run museum’s takeover of the Venice Biennale pavilion and its new open‑call structure. By mixing...
Paris is not short of museums, but in 2024, it welcomed a unique addition: the world’s first museum dedicated to Sufi art & culture. Read more in my interview with the Claire Bay, President of the Board, for @worldofFAD >>...
The Irish government has launched a Basic Income for the Arts scheme, granting €325 (£283) per week to 2,000 eligible artists. A recent pilot demonstrated that the program not only recouped its net cost but also improved participants' wellbeing. Musicians...
Theo Jansen’s Strandbeest Evolution 2025 video showcases the latest generation of wind‑driven kinetic sculptures that have been iteratively refined since 1990. Each spring Jansen debuts a new “beast” on the Dutch coast, testing its performance against wind, sand and water....
Art Fair Tokyo’s 20th edition gathered 141 galleries from Asia‑Pacific, Europe and North America at the Tokyo International Forum. The fair emphasized a blend of traditional craft and contemporary pop‑culture, featuring matcha‑tasting sessions, ceramic works, and a 16‑face wooden sculpture...
Switzerland’s Museum Rietberg will return eleven Benin bronzes to Nigeria after Zurich signed a restitution agreement. The artifacts, looted during the 1897 British raid, include a mask, ivory tusk and a bracelet. Zurich’s mayor emphasized rectifying colonial injustices, while Nigeria’s...
Mexico’s Secretariat of Culture has flagged 195 pre‑Hispanic artefacts listed by the U.S.‑based eBay seller Coins Artifacts and formally asked the platform to halt the sales and return the items. The ministry’s letter cites Mexico’s 1827 export ban and alleges the...
In this episode of The Art Angle, host Ben Davis talks with post‑national artist Christopher Calendron Thomas about his practice that fuses AI‑generated imagery, deepfake video, and documentary footage to interrogate politics, technology, and identity. Thomas recounts his unconventional path...
Great Pulteney Street Gallery hosts "Soho Solos" from June 10‑28, 2026, featuring four solo exhibitions by Soho Open prize winners Mandy Hudson, James Robert Morrison, Conor Quinn and Alice Sheppard Fidler. The artists were chosen from more than 2,000 entries...
Demi Danka’s solo exhibition “Co‑Authored Terrains” opens at Gillian Jason Gallery in London, running May 21‑June 27, 2026. The show presents cameraless works where light‑sensitive paper is treated with light, salt, water, air and pressure, turning photographic emulsion into a volatile painting surface....
Meshell Ndegeocello’s 2024 Blue Note release *No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin* is a sonic‑theatre album that translates James Baldwin’s essays into avant‑garde jazz, gospel, and spoken‑word. The eight‑year project features a rotating cast of musicians, including Justin...
Louise Bourgeois: Echoes of the Morning opens at PoMo in Trondheim, showcasing the artist’s late‑period gouaches alongside her iconic large‑scale sculptures and tapestries. The show centers on the 2006 installation *Peaux de lapins, chiffons ferrailles à vendre* and a series...
The "Becoming Through Pain" exhibition, curated by Huma Kabakcı, opens at London’s Somers Gallery from March 26 to April 2, 2026, featuring eight international women artists. Their works treat pain not as a static condition but as a transformative force...
Christie’s will auction Indian paintings and calligraphy from the Seattle‑based Cowles collection in London on 28 April, with a total estimate exceeding £1.5 million. The lot is dominated by Mughal works spanning the 16th to mid‑19th centuries, including a Fraser Album piece...
Tate Britain will debut its first show garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026, titled The Tate Britain Garden. Central to the design is Barbara Hepworth’s limestone sculpture Bicentric Form, the first Tate collection work placed in a Chelsea garden....
A six‑volume Amedeo Modigliani catalogue raisonné has been published, detailing a new three‑pillar methodology that blends scientific analysis, stylistic comparison, and provenance research. The project, led by art historian Marc Restellini, leverages early digital databases and modern imaging tools to...
Art Dubai has postponed its 20th‑anniversary fair from mid‑April to May 14‑17, 2026, and will reformat the event as a curated cultural gathering rather than a traditional exhibition. The organizers introduced a flexible fee structure, replacing fixed stand fees with...
Director Yuval Sharon has transformed the Met Opera’s staging of Wagner’s *Tristan und Isolde* with cutting‑edge video projections and an immersive set designed by Es Devlin. The high‑tech production has generated buzz and helped lift ticket sales, offering a rare...
