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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.
RYSE Hotel in Seoul’s Hongdae district has turned its Curator Suite 1503 into an immersive art experience, anchored by the colossal BED 2525 installation. The bed, conceived by Brooklyn‑based collective MSCHF, debuted in February 2025 and stretches over two and a half meters, symbolizing a future where giants roam the earth. More than ten MSCHF artworks adorn the suite, blurring the line between gallery and guestroom. The hotel, part of Marriott’s Autograph Collection, markets the space to artistic hype‑beasts and design‑savvy travelers.
The Guggenheim announced the addition of Paul Klee’s 1925 watercolor "Horizon, Zenith and Atmosphere" to its modern art collection. The piece, measuring 37.1 × 27 cm, exemplifies Klee’s exploration of spatial perception through abstract landscape elements. A high‑resolution digital scan has been released,...
Moco Museum London opens "Voice of the Street – Keith Haring’s Subway Drawings" from 18 March to 18 June, featuring around 30 chalk sketches Haring produced on New York subway advertising panels between 1980 and 1985. The show recreates a 1980s...
Renowned bass Ildar Abdrazakov, a vocal supporter of President Vladimir Putin, has been appointed artistic director of the St. Petersburg State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater – the Mikhailovsky Theatre. He announced the role on social media, thanking Governor Alexander Beglov...
Recent London auction results indicate a revitalized market, with higher hammer ratios and strong bidding across both top and lower tiers. More artists are appearing in top‑tier sales, and the overall sales cycle is the strongest in five years. Notably,...
Award season has evolved from a series of discrete events into a continuous spectacle that prioritizes visibility over material support. While legacy programs like Creative Capital and the MacArthur Fellowship provide long‑term resources, newer prize formats tied to fairs and...
Born on this day in 1893, the forgotten visionary Wanda Gág paved the way for women in art and entrepreneurship. Along the way, she kept a gorgeous and poignant illustrated diary. Here are her reflections on love and our two...
The exhibition "Between Nature and Code" showcases Chinese artist Lingqun Teng’s digital reinterpretations of natural landscapes. By employing pixelation, geometric reduction, and symbolic abstraction, works such as Mosaic, Mountain Is Mountain, and Short‑Sighted turn mountains, forests, and skies into data‑driven...
Digital art, rooted in decades of experimentation from AARON to AI‑generated imagery, has finally entered mainstream visibility as tools become ubiquitous and audiences screen‑native. Curator Olga Shishko explains how CIFRA moves beyond a simple hosting platform by creating contextual curatorial...
Two 18th‑century gold snuffboxes stolen from the Musée Cognacq‑Jay in November 2024 have been recovered and will debut in the Victoria and Albert Museum’s newly opened Gilbert Galleries. The robbery, which claimed seven precious objects, triggered a multi‑national police investigation...
In episode 930 of Bad at Sports, artist Antonio Darden discusses his recent installation *Last One Left*, featuring a grey alien on an autopsy table as a surrogate for personal grief after losing his mother, brother, and father. He explains...
British artist David Hockney opens his first solo show at London’s Serpentine North, running from 12 March to 23 August 2026. The exhibition pairs a new body of ten paintings—five still lifes and five portraits framed by a gingham tablecloth—with the artist’s 90‑metre...
Goodland partnered with sculptor Trent Hutton to embed its wood‑fired hot tub inside a concrete rock sculpture on Bowen Island. Hutton used his signature landscape‑inspired concrete technique, leaving a hollow core for the tub with only minor adjustments to the...
The Museum of Craft and Design in San Francisco is hosting "Video Craft," an exhibition that runs through August 16, 2026, exploring the overlap between video, film, and early moving‑image technologies and traditional craft media such as ceramics, textiles, and...
London’s Sadie Coles HQ is hosting the eleventh edition of Seth Price’s long‑running multimedia project, Redistribution 2026‑2007. First presented as a slide lecture at the Guggenheim in 2007, the work now appears as a standalone single‑channel video installation, constantly revised with new footage,...
Two long‑overlooked watercolors, identified as original 1903 illustrations by Edward Julius and Charles Maurice Detmold for Rudyard Kipling’s *The Jungle Book*, were sold at Roseberys in London on March 10. The pair fetched a combined £130,480 ($174,940), far exceeding their presale...
Veteran curator Tobias Berger has moved from senior public‑sector roles at M+ and Tai Kwun to co‑found Serakai Studio and advise the Tanoto Art Foundation. Both organisations act as rapid‑decision, experimental labs that span Hong Kong, Tokyo, Bangkok and Singapore, emphasizing regional production...
The Tefaf Maastricht fair is complemented by a slate of high‑profile exhibitions across the Netherlands and Belgium, including the Mauritshuis’s “Birds” show, the Rijksmuseum’s “Metamorphoses”, Museum Ludwig’s Yayoi Kusama retrospective, and the Bonnefanten Museum’s “Four Times Two”. Each exhibition pairs historic...
Tefaf Maastricht returned this March as a premier art fair blending 7,000 years of objects with a pronounced 20th‑century emphasis. The show hosted 276 exhibitors, spotlighting photography, modern prints and newly restituted Old Master works, while maintaining its classic Old Masters...
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New York’s Independent art fair returns for its 17th edition, moving from Spring Studios to the larger Pier 36 venue. The fair will host 76 exhibitors, with nearly half presenting for the first time and a third offering solo debut shows...
Starlings and the magic of murmurations – a magical watercolor serenade to one of Earth's greatest wonders https://t.co/qqcfc5Lvnb
The high‑end art market is rebounding, highlighted by a $900 million Sotheby’s securitisation and record‑price sales at Art Basel Qatar. Yet overall sales have flat‑lined since the 2007‑08 crisis, with galleries closing and many collectors hesitant. A looming $16 trillion wealth transfer...
The musical “Suffs,” written and scored by Shaina Taub, dramatizes the multi‑decade fight for women’s voting rights and has earned two Tony Awards for Best Book and Best Score. The all‑female production, now on a national tour, reached Charlotte’s Belk...
Luxembourg is spending €540,000 on its Venice Biennale pavilion, featuring Aline Bouvy’s provocative "La Merde" installation. The budget sparked criticism from the right‑wing ADR, which called the cost excessive amid fiscal pressures. Culture Minister Éric Thill defended the expenditure, citing...
Christie’s London is set for its modern British and Irish art auction on March 18, featuring 26 works anchored by Frank Auerbach, Lynn Chadwick and Barbara Hepworth. Auerbach’s 2004‑05 ‘Christmas Tree at Mornington Crescent’ carries a £2 million high estimate, while Chadwick’s...
Nan Goldin’s new photobook *Sisters, Saints and Sibyls* revisits her early life through a collage of hospital reports, family snapshots and her own images. The work serves as an origin story, honoring her elder sister Barbara, who was institutionalised at...
Indonesia will re‑enter the Venice Biennale for its 61st edition in 2026, ending a six‑year absence since the 2019 "Lost Verses" pavilion. Curated by art critic Aminudin TH Siregar, the show – titled "Printing the Unprinted" – will juxtapose historic...
Vivid Sydney 2026 will run from 22 May to 13 June, delivering a 23‑day festival that blends light, music, food and new artistic disciplines. More than 80 percent of the program, including the 6.5‑kilometre Vivid Light Walk, remains free to the public. Brett Sheehy...
The Harlem Renaissance sprang from the Great Migration and World War I labor shifts, turning Harlem into a cultural epicenter for Black artists, writers, and musicians. Intellectuals like Alain Locke promoted the New Negro ethos, encouraging pride and self‑determination. Jazz...
Stockholm studio Humans since 1982, famed for kinetic clock sculptures, has partnered with Bjarke Ingels Group and stone supplier SolidNature to reimagine its ClockClock 24 and A million Times 96 works in travertine. The ClockClock 24 features 24 synchronized dials on a 92 × 42 cm slab, limited...
Taiyo to Ame no Melody, a new contemporary art exhibition, opens at PALAS in Sydney from February 7 to March 28, 2026. The show features paintings and installations by Maureen Gallace, Trevor Shimizu, and Kazuyuki Takezaki, exploring themes of light, rain, and memory. Curated by...
Belgian painter Luc Tuymans presents a new solo exhibition, “The Fruit Basket,” at David Zwirner’s Los Angeles space from February 24 to April 4, 2026. The show features a series of large‑scale paintings that revisit still‑life motifs while probing post‑war European memory. Accompanying...
The Making Their Mark forum gathered 350 art professionals to confront persistent gender inequities in museums and the market. Data presented showed women accounted for only 11% of museum acquisitions from 2008‑2022 and sold at 19‑42% discounts compared with male...
Tomorrow, March 11, 2026, the Brant Foundation in New York’s East Village will open “Keith Haring,” an exhibition focusing on the artist’s formative 1980‑84 period. Curated by Vienna‑based husband‑and‑wife team Dieter Buchhart and Anna Karina Hofbauer, the show presents early...
French filmmaker Georges Méliès’s 1897 short “Gugusse et l’Automate,” long considered lost, has been recovered and digitized for public viewing. The 45‑second slapstick piece, featuring a magician battling a robot, is now available online in 4K after Library of Congress...
Texas will host its first public‑art biennial, the KTX Biennial, launching in spring 2027 along Dallas’s 3.5‑mile Katy Trail. Curated by Jovanna Venegas, the free, 18‑month exhibition will feature nearly a dozen works from global contemporary artists and coincide with the...
Mirka Serrato and London gallerist Jonny Tanna are launching Neighbors, a micro‑art fair that will occupy a 1,200‑square‑foot Gold Coast apartment during Expo Chicago (April 8‑12). The intimate venue, once owned by the Goodman family, will host a curated mix of...
Sculptor Alma Allen has signed with mega‑gallery Perrotin as he prepares to represent the United States at the 2026 Venice Biennale. The move follows a split with his former representatives, Mendes Wood DM and Olney Gleason, who dropped him after he accepted...
Melbourne’s winter festival RISING returns from 27 May to 8 June 2026 with a program dominated by contemporary dance and music. The inaugural Australian Dance Biennale anchors the dance lineup, featuring works from Oona Doherty, the Royal Family Dance Crew’s Polyswagg style, and a...
Leeds Castle in Kent has launched an interactive AI avatar of Eleanor of Castile, the 13th‑century queen who once owned the property. The digital figure, created with SKC Studios, can answer visitor questions and reacts to people approaching its screen....
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s 1983 painting *Museum Security (Broadway Meltdown)* will be auctioned by Sotheby’s in May with a $45 million estimate, more than triple its 2013 sale price of $14.5 million. The work, created during Basquiat’s breakout year in Los Angeles, explores fame, power,...
Sanné Mestrom’s interactive installation "The Whole is Greater Than the Sum of Her Parts" ran at the National Gallery of Australia from May to September 2025, inviting visitors to touch, climb and build with art. The tactile elements consistently held...
Angelo Madsen’s 2025 documentary *A Body to Live In* chronicles the life of Roland Loomis, better known as Fakir Musafar, the self‑styled “Modern Primitive” who pioneered contemporary body‑modification and ritualized pain. The film weaves archival footage, Musafar’s own photography, and interviews...
Michael Joo’s retrospective "Sweat Models 1991–2026" opened at Space ZeroOne, centering on the installation Concatenations built from a century of New York baking trays and archival ephemera. The show revisits his early biology‑infused practice while confronting a recent mishap in...
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Sometimes it's pleasing when art is dated. This print by Takumi Shinagawa is like a getting a postcard from 1958. https://t.co/1LZaRne3rI
Anonymous British artist James McQueen has opened his latest solo exhibition, “A Beautiful Waste of Time,” at London’s Halcyon Gallery. The show features a new series of paintings that rework vintage paperback covers, employing dense, sanded layers of paint to evoke...
Vilnius’s Contemporary Art Center has named artist Nikita Kadan and curator Natalia Sielewicz to lead the 16th Baltic Triennial, slated for 2027. The duo proposes a theme of grief and resurrection, reflecting the ongoing Russian‑Ukrainian conflict’s impact on the Baltic...
Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin presents OOO LA LA, a joint exhibition by British artists Maggi Hambling and Sarah Lucas, running March 13‑April 25, 2026. The show pairs Hambling’s intimate oil portraits with Lucas’s sculptural installations, highlighting their parallel development rather...
