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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.
In this episode of Who Arted, host Kyle Wood explores the life and work of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, tracing his early apprenticeship, Bauhaus leadership, and emigration to Chicago where he shaped the International Style. Wood highlights Mies’s philosophy of "less is more" and his focus on material honesty, illustrating these ideas through iconic projects like the Farnsworth House and the Seagram Building. The Seagram Building’s setback plaza, bronze mullions, and fire‑code‑compliant decorative I‑beams are presented as examples of Mies’s meticulous attention to detail, embodying his belief that "God is in the details."
Thailand’s capital has added a world‑class contemporary art venue with the opening of Dib Bangkok, a three‑storey museum housed in a repurposed warehouse in Khlong Toei. Designed by Kulapat Yantrasast and Architects 49, the space features a minimalist aesthetic inspired by...
The Art Basel and UBS 2025 market report shows global art sales rebounding 4% to $59.6 billion, ending two years of decline. Auctions led the recovery with a 9% rise, driven by high‑price works over $10 million, while dealer sales nudged up...
In this episode of TalkArt, host Robert Diamant interviews sculptor Nicolas Deshayes, exploring his unconventional use of industrial materials like vacuum‑formed plastics, polystyrene, and cast iron to create body‑referencing installations. Deshayes discusses his early vacuum‑form works, the tactile, skin‑like qualities...
An Hoang’s solo show “Garden Poems” opened at Halsey McKay in East Hampton on February 7, 2026 and will run through March 29, 2026. The exhibition presents a body of work centered on botanical imagery, poetic narrative, and subtle abstraction, documented through 33 high‑resolution photographs. No video elements...
The National Gallery of Australia has launched the touring exhibition "Of This Earth: Transforming Culture and Country through First Nations Ceramics" in Cairns, showcasing 29 works by 28 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists. The show highlights both ancient clay...
South China Morning Post’s veteran cartoonist Harry Harrison is debuting a new “Year of the Horse” collection, featuring eight original watercolour and ink illustrations that will be auctioned by The Store by SCMP. Bidding opens on March 13 and runs...
Irish artist Hughie O’Donoghue presents his first solo exhibition in New York, "Time and The Architecture of Memory," at 447 SPACE. The show features nine works spanning 2003‑2026 that fuse painting, photography and sculpture on unconventional supports such as tarpaulin...
Wil Kirkman, a Boise‑based neon artist and glass‑bending specialist, passed away from cancer in 2025, leaving a legacy as one of Idaho's last practitioners of the craft. Known for creating and repairing intricate glass light fixtures, he worked with neon...
Kim Gordon, co‑founder of Sonic Youth, continues to prioritize visual art alongside music. In March 2026, Amant in Brooklyn launches two concurrent shows: her solo survey “Count Your Chickens” and the group exhibition “Folded Group,” co‑curated with Bill Nace. The...
Over 200 artists, including Brian Eno, have sent an open letter to the British Museum demanding it stop "erasing Palestine" after the museum altered wall texts in its Middle East galleries, replacing terms like "Palestinian descent" with "Canaanite descent". The petition...
Town Hall by Bottaccio launches its inaugural cultural program with the exhibition “Her Stories Untold,” curated by Virginia Damtsa and partnered with Annie Lennox’s feminist charity The Circle. Running from March 25 to July 1, 2026, the show surveys how...
In this episode of The Art Angle, Kim Gordon discusses her multifaceted practice as an artist first, highlighting her simultaneous solo exhibition "Count Your Chickens," the group show "Full Folded Group" she co‑curated, and the release of her new album...
A new satiric art installation featuring President Donald J. Trump and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was just installed on the National Mall under a permit, entitled “The King of the World.” This iteration comes with a line of “Make...
The National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa received a gift of 24 contemporary artworks from collector Bob Rennie and his family, bringing their total donations to 284 since 2012. The donation includes 17 pieces by Christopher Williams, two by Kerry James Marshall, four...
Netflix announced a scripted series chronicling the lives of Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. The drama adapts French author Claire Berest’s biography and will be directed by Patricia Riggen and Gabriel Ripstein, with María Renée Prudencio as head writer. Production is in early...
Eyelid‑spanning artist Eyvind Earle turned his mythic vision into iconic oil landscapes that still shape visual storytelling. His work for Disney, especially the hand‑painted backgrounds of Sleeping Beauty, redefined fairytale aesthetics while nearly bankrupting the studio’s animation unit. Beyond film, Earle’s linocut Christmas...
Thomas J. Price unveiled his largest work yet, the 18‑foot bronze sculpture *A Place Beyond*, outside the soon‑to‑open V&A East in London. The figure, a casually dressed woman without a smartphone, challenges classical sculpture conventions and highlights everyday identity. The...
Swiss AI firm Art Recognition has asserted an 86 % probability that the Caravaggio‑style painting at Badminton House is authentic, directly contradicting long‑standing scholarly consensus that it is a copy. The company’s algorithm, trained on curated datasets of verified works and...
The "Picnic, Objects in Public" open call invites London‑based artists to relocate everyday household items into streets and parks, turning tables, chairs and other domestic objects into sculptural or performative interventions. The project explores how these objects shed their private...
Goldsmith Donna Distefano has launched the Frick Collection’s “Off the Canvas” line, crafting jewelry that mirrors pieces depicted in historic portraits by Hans Holbein and Anthony van Dyck. She employs metalworking techniques that trace back to the Etruscans, even melting...
Victor Vasarely’s foundation in Aix‑en‑Provence, a historic Op Art museum, is finally receiving major restoration after decades of neglect and dwindling state support. Government funding now covers 85 % of the €12 million budget, enabling roof, cladding and climate‑control upgrades, while the foundation...
Joe Moss’s new installation *Automated Fantasy Procedure* at Matt’s Gallery revives the post‑internet aesthetic of the late 2000s while injecting fresh concerns about drone warfare and machine agency. Small research drones hover above visitors, while dual screens project a mash‑up...
From March 2‑5, Indra Gallery in London hosted NEITHER / NOR, a group show organized by the Centre for Arts, Research and Culture (CARC) with the Nina Miller Collection. Curated by Michaëla Hadji‑Minaglou and Alina Khalitova, the exhibition paired historic lithographs by Paul...
The Reichsbahnbunker, a 1940s Nazi-era railway shelter in Berlin, has been repurposed by media entrepreneur Christian Boros into a private contemporary art museum and his residence. After a five‑year, costly renovation that preserved concrete walls and wartime relics, the 3,000 m²...
David Hockney in his studio, working on new paintings for his exhibition ‘A Year in Normandie and Some Other Thoughts About Painting’. @serpentineuk 12 March - 23 August 2026 Serpentine North Free entry - All photos and videos by Jean-Pierre Gonçalves de Lima ©️...
The Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa will launch the "Thin Wild Mercury: Dylan 1966" exhibition on July 18, offering an immersive, multi‑media retrospective of Dylan’s pivotal year. Curator Mark Davidson describes 1966 as a combative, iconic period when Dylan produced...
TM Gallery in London launches "Chromatic Solace," a solo exhibition by Chilean textile artist Carmen Mardonez, running March 20‑June 5, 2026. The show features a new six‑metre‑wide embroidered installation and pieces from her Textildermy series, created from discarded domestic textiles....
Criticism Never Sleeps. Shows must be seen. At galleries many of you rarely or ever go to. Covering the waterfront. Because that’s the job. No one gets out of here alive.
My IG saves from this week…tabletop as watercolor art. Moody, nostalgic, can’t quite put my finger on the feeling. https://t.co/ZjfHGJcIIM
Van Doren Waxter’s "Portraits" exhibition revisits Jackie Saccoccio’s abstract oeuvre, presenting five paintings and seven works on paper that highlight her mature, experimental process. The show underscores how her early architectural studies and repeated trips to Italy shaped a visual...
One month left to visit 'Erasure' at Goodwood Art Foundation - read more in my review for @worldofFAD & plan your visit now >> https://t.co/1c0RiT5Msz #LondonArtCritic
A young Canadian backpacker, Piper James, drowned after a dingo encounter on K’gari (Fraser Island) in January, prompting a coroner’s ruling and subsequent euthanasia of several dingoes. The incident has given new urgency to Cannupa Hanska Luger's Biennale of Sydney...
British self‑taught painter Beryl Cook, long dismissed by major institutions, is undergoing a major reassessment after a 2024 retrospective at Studio Voltaire and a major survey, Pride and Joy, at The Box in Plymouth. The shows pair her with Tom of...
TEFAF Maastricht’s wish list highlights five marquee pieces, ranging from a Kelmscott Press Shakespeare poetry volume bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (£125,000) to a rare Greek marble stele of Medeia (£450,000). The list also features a record‑setting Indigenous Australian painting by Emily Kam Kngwarray...
Paul Arnhold, a New York glassblower and fourth‑generation heir to a world‑renowned Meissen porcelain collection, intertwines his studio practice with a collector’s eye for immediacy and decisive form. He values objects that reveal the maker’s technique and tactile presence, ranging from...
Dresden’s Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister received the 2024 Tefaf Museum Restoration Fund award for restoring Peter Paul Rubens’s *The Boar Hunt*. The 1616‑18 oil, once owned by Rubens, the Duke of Buckingham and the Imperial collection, endured wartime displacement and 19th‑century varnish...
Artist and climate activist Isabel Rock opens her first major solo exhibition, "Things Fall Apart, The Centre Cannot Hold," at Hastings Contemporary from 27 September 2025 to 15 March 2026. The immersive installation transforms drawing into theatrical environments populated by...
The Musée d’Orsay opens two Renoir exhibitions—"Renoir and Love: A Joyful Modernity," spotlighting his 1865‑85 paintings, and "Renoir Drawings," loaned from the Morgan Library—running from 17 March to mid‑July. The shows feature rarely seen masterpieces such as Luncheon of the Boating...
Belgian art historian Michel Draguet has announced a newly discovered painting he claims is a late work by Michelangelo, naming it the Spirituali Pietà and dating it to the 1540s. The attribution relies on two monograms resembling Michelangelo’s signature, 16th‑century pigment...
Rachel Silveri, an assistant professor at the University of Florida, has released *The Art of Living in Avant‑Garde Paris*, a new monograph that examines how interwar Paris artists wove creative practice into everyday life. The book is paired with a...
India’s leading contemporary art festival, the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, has appointed Mumbai artist and curator Jitish Kallat as its new president. Kallat, a former artistic director of the 2014‑15 edition, will chair the selection process for the curator of the upcoming...
Limbo Accra and Art Omi have commissioned TAELON7 to create the Limbo Engawa installation, a modular, lightweight structure built from reclaimed billboard metal and steel profiles. First displayed from March 12 to April 12 in Accra’s unfinished concrete space, the work will...
From 12 March to 31 May 2026 the National Gallery will host a dedicated George Stubbs exhibition, featuring the rarely seen life‑size horse portrait “Scrub, a bay horse belonging to the Marquess of Rockingham” (c. 1762). The painting, long held in a private collection...
ARCO Madrid 2026 will run from March 4‑8 at the historic Feria de Madrid, presenting one of the most extensive contemporary art programmes in Europe. The fair lists over 200 artists—from emerging Latin American talent to established European figures—across more than...
The Black Brick Gallery in Cape Town launched "Exploded View: Edoardo Villa & 21st Century Sculpture," showcasing the late Italian‑born South African sculptor alongside a roster of contemporary local artists. Curated by Ashraf Jamal and Gerard de Kamper, the exhibition spreads...
The "Exploded View: Edoardo Villa & 21st Century Sculpture" exhibition opens at Black Brick Gardens on Roodehek Street, pairing the late modernist sculptor Edoardo Villa with a cohort of contemporary South African artists. Curated by Ashraf Jaml and Gerard de Kamper,...
French architect Marc Fornes has unveiled L’île Folie, a sculptural pavilion that rises from a pond in Downtown Cary Park. The structure reinterprets the 19th‑century park folly using a self‑supporting skin of ultra‑thin folded aluminum panels with thousands of perforations. It...
Anna‑Sophie Berger presents "Two Fixed Ideas Will Unite" at Baltimore's art hall from Jan 31 to Mar 21, 2026. The exhibition features a body of work that blends sculpture, video, and immersive installations exploring the tension between permanence and change. Curatorial notes emphasize...
The 2026 Art Basel‑UBS report shows the global art market rebounded to $59.6 billion in 2025, ending a two‑year decline. Italy secured a rare Caravaggio portrait for €30 million, one of the highest state purchases ever. The EU warned it could withhold...
