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New York Court Orders Return of Nazi‑Looted Modigliani Portrait
A New York Supreme Court judge ruled that Amedeo Modigliani’s 1918 portrait “Seated Man With a Cane” must be returned to the estate of Jewish dealer Oscar Stettiner. The decision ends a twelve‑year legal battle involving the Nahmad family’s International Art Centre, which had held the work since a 1996 auction.
Powerhouse Arts will launch Conductor: Art Fair of the Global Majority in Brooklyn from April 30 to May 3, 2026, featuring 27 gallery exhibitors and 17 special‑project installations. The fair brings together artists and galleries from Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, South and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Oceania and Indigenous nations, many of whom have faced historic barriers to the New York market. Highlights include presenters such as O Art Space (Pakistan) and Light for the Amazon (Peru), as well as artists slated for the 2026 Venice Biennale. The event positions itself as a pluralistic platform celebrating non‑white artistic voices on a global stage.
Art lover Paul Carter Robinson spent two days touring Brussels and Antwerp, immersing himself in the region’s dense concentration of Flemish masterpieces. He enjoyed a private viewing of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts’ print collection in Brussels, then traveled...
Future Arts Centres and Open Eye Gallery launched "Our Freedom: Then and Now," a UK‑wide photography exhibition exploring how concepts of liberty have evolved over eight decades. The project gathered stories from 60 community‑led initiatives, captured by 22 photographers who...
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Marfa, Texas, a remote desert town of about 1,700 residents, has become a celebrated art hub thanks to Donald Judd and the Prada Marfa installation. In recent years the town’s Highland Avenue has evolved into a boutique shopping destination, featuring stores...
In this episode of our #podcast, @annagammansart & I speak with Director of Somerset House Trust Jonathan Reekie CBE about artist lead projects at the iconic institution, and the 25th anniversary of the building as a public arts and cultural...
The historic Sycamore Gap tree, felled illegally in September 2023, will be transformed into a public artwork. The National Trust has shortlisted six artists from across England to propose designs using half of the salvaged timber. The public can vote...
A diamond coronet adorned with a four‑leaf clover was created for Empress Augusta Victoria around 1906, marking Prince Eitel Friedrich’s wedding to Duchess Sophie Charlotte and the silver anniversary of the Kaiser’s parents. The piece combined regal opulence with a...
The de Ganay version of Leonardo’s *Salvator Mundi* was exhibited at TEFAF Maastricht, drawing attention as one of the finest among roughly 20 known copies. Dated 1505‑1515 and presented by Agnews Gallery, the work is attributed to Leonardo’s workshop and carries a...
The Noguchi Museum’s exhibition “Noguchi’s New York” pairs dense archival material on the artist’s unrealized playground and plaza proposals with his existing sculptures on the ground floor. By displaying plans, correspondence, and animated reconstructions alongside physical works, the show illustrates Isamu...
Jewel’s “art” coming to Venice Biennial under the auspices of Crystal Bridges Museum. Looks legit to me https://t.co/TZtDlkhxZ7
Le lent demain, a group exhibition at Air de Paris, runs from 14 February to 21 March 2026. Curated by Sebastián Quevedo Ramírez, it showcases works by 18 emerging Latin American and European artists, including Devendra Banhart and Nicolas Aguirre. The show is documented with...
One of my portfolio companies @MeetLayer has a gallery opening in SF tonight https://t.co/oOT6U5hwnh If you're curious to see it in action, stop by!
The Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis opened “And I Saw New Heavens and a New Earth,” spotlighting the intertwined work of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore. Curated by Dean Daderko and Svetlana Kitto, the show blends early Surrealist portraits,...
A curated roundup of arts funding and development opportunities runs from 16‑22 March 2026, covering visual arts, literature, dance, photography, and performance across Australia and Greece. Highlights include three 18‑month paid artist positions with The Unconformity, an $80,000 Copyright Agency Partnership Grant...
If you're a lover of photography, you may enjoy this interview with my wife, @mwoshaughnessy, about her street photography work in NYC https://t.co/UEwzSXd7Jd
Willem Drost’s 1654 tronie *Man With a Plumed Red Beret* was sold at TEFAF Maastricht through Agnews Gallery to the privately‑held Leiden Collection. The painting, once owned by the Rothschild family and recovered by the Monuments Men after World War II,...
The Brooklyn Museum announced photographer and collage artist Keisha Scarville as the winner of its sixth UOVO Prize, awarding her a $25,000 unrestricted cash grant. Scarville will mount a solo show titled “Where Salt Meets Black Water” at the museum’s...
Clare McAndrew’s latest annual art market report confirms a rebound, with total sales reaching an estimated $59.6 billion in 2025 – a 4 percent rise over the prior year. The recovery is most pronounced in the auction segment, which has rebounded strongly since...
Pedro Friedeberg, the Mexican‑born artist famed for the hand‑shaped Mano Silla chair, died at 90 in San Miguel de Allende. The chair, created in 1962, was reproduced over 17,500 times and cemented his status as a design icon. Friedeberg’s career spanned seven...
Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Chuck Schumer sent an open letter to GSA administrator Ed Forst demanding proactive measures to protect New Deal-era murals by Philip Guston and Ben Shahn in the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building. The building, a National...
Loïc Jouannigot is a French illustrator celebrated for his charming children’s‑book style, blending precise line work with a loose, sketchy feel. His illustrations feature richly detailed cut‑away scenes populated by multiple animal characters, rendered in a balanced palette of muted...
MSCHF’s "Our Cow Angus" project let buyers purchase tokens tied to a live cow’s fate, promising burgers and leather bags if the animal was slaughtered. After a two‑year run, more than half of the tokens were returned through a "remorse...
New York’s Vineyard Theatre is staging Bughouse, a play that brings the reclusive Chicago janitor‑artist Henry Darger to the stage. Directed by Martha Clarke and scripted by Pulitzer‑winner Beth Henley, the production features performance artist John Kelly inhabiting Darger’s persona...
The NewBridge Project in Newcastle’s Shieldfield district has transformed a former office block into a thriving arts and community hub, housing 130 studio artists across 90 workspaces. It offers affordable desks from £35 a month, a bookshop, memory café, and...
A new Skira monograph, *Haroutiun Galentz: The Form of Colour* (2025), offers the first English-language study of the Armenian‑born modernist. Edited by Vartan Karapetian and Marie Tomb, it assembles paintings, documents, and correspondence from the Janibekyan Collection, the National Gallery...
The Van Gogh Museum purchased Virginie Demont‑Breton’s 1887‑88 painting *L’homme est en mer* at TEFAF Maastricht, making it only the third work by a female artist in its permanent collection. The acquisition, funded with public money, was priced between €500,000...
The Barbican Centre will host Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica from June to September 2026, showcasing more than 300 works that trace Pan‑Africanism’s influence on visual culture. The exhibition spans painting, sculpture, film, photography and...
Tabish Khan highlights five must‑see photography shows across London this spring, ranging from Catherine Opie's portraiture of LGBTQ+ communities at the National Portrait Gallery to the Becher duo’s industrial architecture at Sprüth Magers. The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2026 at The...
The Tate Britain’s "Turner and Constable" exhibition, opened in November, has drawn roughly 185,000 visitors and celebrates the 250th birthdays of J.M.W. Turner and John Constable. King Charles visited the show, expressing enthusiasm for Turner’s early work, "The Rising Squall,...
Seoul‑born, New York‑based artist Yoon Hyup launches his first solo exhibition with Ruttkowski;68 in Paris, titled Quantize Off, running March 15‑April 12, 2026. The show translates the kinetic experience of walking, skating and cycling through urban streets into large‑scale acrylic paintings that prioritize line, dot...
The podcast examines how ongoing Middle East conflicts are damaging cultural heritage in Iran and Lebanon, prompting local communities to protect art and historic sites. It also reviews the Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report, which indicates a...
The long‑running webcomic duo Jesus and Mo have resurrected their strip “Fluid” on Patreon, labeling it a “Friday Flashback from almost exactly 8 years ago.” The episode features Mo wearing a niqab as a visual cue for his feminine side,...
Ulysses de Santi has transformed his 1930s Los Angeles hillside home into a living showcase of Brazilian modernist design, featuring museum‑quality pieces by José Zanine Caldas, Lina Bo Bardi, and others. The redesign introduces arches, limestone‑washed walls, and preserved black‑stained floors that...
Tomás Saraceno’s Berlin studio was featured in a new Art21 documentary that probes his collaborative, interdisciplinary practice. The film follows his team as they examine installations that mimic spider webs to explore how humans occupy space and relate to one...
Reave Dennison’s new series “Tree Work” showcases 29 silver‑gelatin prints documenting maritime and forestry labour in British Columbia, captured over five years while he worked as a log salvor and arborist. The exhibition opens at Pale Fire in Vancouver on March 19 and...
Emmet Gowin’s new exhibition, *Baldwin Street: Photographs 1966‑1994*, opens at Pace Gallery in New York, showcasing three decades of intimate family portraits taken on his childhood street in Virginia. The body of work captures everyday moments—children at play, kitchen scenes,...
Vincent van Gogh’s 1882 lithograph *At Eternity’s Gate* – one of only seven surviving copies – resides in the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art after passing through Rockefeller, dealer Eugene Thaw, and Farah Pahlavi. The print, inscribed by Van Gogh in English, later...
Ministry of Awe, an immersive art experience, opens March 14 in Philadelphia’s Old City, housed in the historic 1870 Manufacturer’s National Bank. The six‑floor, 8,500‑sq‑ft venue showcases large‑scale installations, soundscapes, robotics, and AI‑enhanced environments created by Meg Saligman and over...
Usha R. Balakrishnan’s new volume *Silver & Gold: Visions of Arcadia* documents hundreds of Indian folk and tribal silver‑and‑gold ornaments, many drawn from the Amrapali Collection in Jaipur. The book blends art‑historical, anthropological and archival research to present a vivid picture of 19th‑20th‑century rural...
The Society of Graphic Fine Art (SGFA) is holding its 105th Annual Open Exhibition at the Mall Galleries from March 9 to 14, 2026, with free public admission. The show underscores the Mall Galleries’ growing role as a venue for national art...
Nat Faulkner’s 2026 Camden Art Centre exhibition reframes photography as a chemical and physical act rather than a purely visual one. Installations like *Aperture (Iodine)* use iodine‑filled panels to bathe the space in amber light, while *Aqua Fortis* and *Moth‑catcher*...
Leonardo Drew presents his fifth solo exhibition at Pace Prints in New York, running March 19‑April 25, 2026. The show highlights new hand‑made paper‑pulp editions, monoprints, and large wall‑relief assemblages developed through a 15‑year collaboration with Pace Paper. Using custom...
Craig Jun Li’s solo show at Chapter NY revisits analog photography by dismantling camera components and presenting them as silicone‑based wall installations. The works pair distorted dye‑transfer prints of projector interiors with Polaroid images, and incorporate actual SX‑70 springs, foregrounding...
Anime studios are capitalizing on 4K theatrical revivals, with recent screenings of Jin‑roh: The Wolf Brigade and Macross Plus drawing weeks‑long runs at Japanese multiplexes. Legacy titles such as Princess Mononoke, Angel’s Egg, and upcoming Tekkonkinkreet have generated box‑office revenues that rival...
Alan Davie, the Scottish painter who equated visual art with free‑jazz improvisation, inspired a Tate‑produced video that stages a live feedback loop between his paintings, a jazz trio, and art students. The experiment captures musicians improvising to Davie’s canvases, students...
Ellis Mhairi Cameron, a Scottish fine jeweler based in London, transforms ancestral clan artifacts into sculptural gold and diamond pieces. Her recent Sgian‑Dubh collection showcases hand‑engraved ceremonial knives set with old‑cut diamonds, while upcoming gold kilt pins continue the heritage theme....
In this episode of Painting of the Week, hosts Phil Grabski and Laura Bentham sit down with Tate Britain senior curator Amy Concanon to discuss the Turner and Constable exhibition and, in particular, J.M.W. Turner's 1824 watercolor "Brighton, Sussex for...
Allison Janae Hamilton’s debut narrative film, Venus of Ossabaw, premiered on March 13 as a commission for Telfair Museums’ “Off the Coast of Paradise” exhibition. Backed by VIA Art Fund, the project was shot on‑site on Georgia’s remote Ossabaw Island, blending intensive...
Leonard Baby, a 29‑year‑old New York artist, is presenting his painting “Love Is the Final Word” in the solo exhibition Resting Babyface at Villa Carlotta, Los Angeles, curated by Half Gallery. The work, a dry‑brush watercolor on panel that resembles...
The Buffalo AKG Art Museum launches *Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way*, a six‑month installation featuring 58 contemporary Latinx artists. The exhibition, curated by Andrea Alvarez, groups works into seven thematic clusters that explore history, identity, land, community, and...
