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Hong Kong’s $306M “Cat Economy” Takes Over Public Spaces
Giant cat installations—from an eight‑metre interactive feline at the airport to inflatable cats at the West Kowloon Cultural District—have turned Hong Kong into a feline‑focused holiday destination. The city’s “cat economy” is estimated at $306 million annually, driven by roughly 100,000 cat owners who spend about $254 each on related goods and experiences.
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo will launch a major retrospective, "Tada Minami: Still, Shimmering Light," on 29 August, showcasing over 70 paintings, sculptures, lighting installations, architectural works and photographs. The exhibition traces Minami’s seven‑decade career, from early composite iron‑plastic pieces to monumental stainless‑steel sculptures that interact with urban environments. Her practice, rooted in Japan’s post‑war economic miracle, pioneered reflective, light‑driven abstraction that blurs the line between artwork and public space. The show underscores her lasting influence on contemporary environmental sculpture in Japan.
The monumental Rubens ceiling at Banqueting House has reopened after a two‑year renovation and conservation programme. The early‑17th‑century fresco, the largest surviving Rubens work in its original European setting, now benefits from a new lift that provides step‑free, wheelchair‑accessible viewing....
"Running Through Heaven: Visions of Jack Kerouac" at New York’s Grolier Club showcases never‑before‑seen letters, personal objects, and a copy of Dostoevsky that inspired the show’s title. Curated by collector Jacob Loewentheil, the exhibition highlights early drafts of Kerouac’s spontaneous prose, his...
Late British sculptor Lynn Chadwick is the centerpiece of a major retrospective at Houghton Hall in Norfolk, running from 2 May to 4 October. The show, organized by Pangolin gallery, presents 30 works ranging from the 1950s to the 1990s, including kinetic pieces...
LUmkA, the New York‑originated gallery, has opened a new Shoreditch space in London, launching the group exhibition "Privacy Index" from 19 March to 11 April 2026. The show assembles six interdisciplinary artists who interrogate contemporary surveillance, biometric data collection, and algorithmic profiling. An...
Rachel Whiteread returns to Gagosian’s Davies Street gallery with *Substitute*, opening 26 March 2026. The show centers on large wall‑mounted reliefs created by pressing papier‑maçhée onto reclaimed barn doors and finishing them with silver and copper leaf, alongside translucent resin window casts....
Malaysian artist chi too, a self‑taught multidisciplinary creator, died on March 7 at age 44 in his Kuala Terengganu studio. Emerging in the late 2000s, he became a pivotal figure among young artists exploring painting, performance, video, sound and text. His practice...
The Serpentine Gallery is launching a free, six‑month exhibition of David Hockney’s work on March 12, running through August 23. The centerpiece is the 90‑metre iPad‑created piece “A Year in Normandie,” a 220‑panel panorama inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry and...
Korean media artist Jeamin Cha has been awarded the 21st Hermès Foundation Missulsang. The biannual prize grants her KRW 30 million (about $200,000) and production support for a solo show at Atelier Hermès in Seoul. Cha, known for video‑based works that...
Perrotin staged an after‑party at the newly renovated W New York – Union Square to celebrate three concurrent exhibitions: Daniel Arsham’s "Various Thoughts," Gelitin’s "All for All," and Gabriel de la Mora’s "Repeated Original." The event took place in the hotel’s marble‑clad Living Room,...
Sotheby’s announced a spring auction of Robert and Adriana Mnuchin’s collection, highlighted by a monumental Mark Rothko expected to fetch $70 million‑$100 million and pushing the total sale estimate above $130 million. The auction underscores Mnuchin’s legacy in post‑war and contemporary art following...
In this episode of Who Arted?, host Kyle Wood interviews artist Cristallina Fischetti about her upcoming "Alchemy" exhibition at Marlebone Church in London. Cristallina shares her eclectic influences—from Hilma af Klint and Helen Frankenthaler to her own ancestor Fedele Fischetti—and...
Els Nouwen’s solo show OXOMORON opens at M Leuven in 2026, featuring paintings on canvas, paper works, and copper plates that evolve from photographed sources through aggressive overpainting and material interventions. The exhibition foregrounds the artist’s habit of simultaneous multi‑medium production,...
Sotheby’s will auction 24 works from the late Robert Mnuchin collection in May, headlined by Mark Rothko’s *Brown and Blacks in Reds* with a $70‑100 million estimate. The auction follows a strong spring season for major houses: London Sotheby’s posted £130.6 million across...
Italian artist Luca Campestri opens his solo show Watering the Plants at Capsule in Shanghai from January 17 to February 28, 2026. The exhibition deconstructs the idea of home through a tent motif, everyday rituals and a series of sculptural, photographic and video works. Key...
New York‑based artist Jane Swavely, who has painted for over five decades, has turned entirely to reductive color‑field canvases that emphasize materiality over representation. She creates each work by stepping onto the canvas, applying paint with a large brush, then...
Nickolas Gurtler Office partnered with Lost Profile Studio to convert a Brunswick warehouse into a contemplative gallery that showcases Oliver Wilcox’s lighting, furniture, and vintage pieces. The design draws on Carlo Scarpa’s Tomba Brion and the temporal motifs of Asimov’s...
Layla Cluer, an architect‑turned‑ceramicist, founded Softedge in 2019 after rediscovering pottery in Byron Bay. The brand produces colour‑rich, functional tableware in Hasami, Japan, leveraging the town’s 400‑year‑old divided‑labour craft system. Cluer’s design ethos blends softness, durability and a deliberate, slow‑making...
"Mary Said What She Said" is a 90‑minute avant‑garde monologue starring Isabelle Huppert as Mary Queen of Scots, staged at the Adelaide Festival. Directed and designed by the late Robert Wilson, the piece blends rapid French dialogue, pre‑recorded Ludovico Einaudi...
British post‑punk cabaret trio The Tiger Lillies performed at Adelaide Festival’s Her Majesty’s Theatre, promoting their new album Serenade from the Sewer. The act’s grotesque clown aesthetic and macabre ballads recalled Brecht‑Weill and Tom Waits, but critics found the music...
The Exhibition on Screen documentary spotlights the first joint Turner‑Constable showcase at Tate Britain, running November 2025 to April 2026. It contrasts Turner’s dramatic light experiments with Constable’s grounded English landscapes, while highlighting their shared influences such as Claude Lorrain....
Aileen Murphy’s solo exhibition "We must go under the wallpaper" opens at Deborah Schamoni in Munich from January 9 to March 21, 2026. The show presents a series of installations that interrogate domestic spaces through layered, immersive constructions. Curatorial materials, including a press...
Apple and the Sydney Opera House have launched a year‑long partnership to nurture Australian creativity. The collaboration will feature a commissioned projection, "Illuminating Creativity," displaying Procreate artworks by ten emerging Australian artists on the Opera House's eastern Bennelong sails. Free...
The 25th Biennale of Sydney runs March 14‑June 14, 2026 under the theme Rememory, probing memory, history and identity through contemporary art. Eighty‑three artists from 37 countries present works ranging from large installations to multi‑channel video across five city‑wide venues. The program foregrounds First...
See “The Every Woman Biennial.” 29 East 22nd Street. There’s a shit-ton amount of work view. Happy International Women’s Day.
Last month I travelled from the Highlands of Scotland to Cornwall in pursuit of spring and finished a watercolour and post every day - here's Day Seven at the find site of Richard III in Leicester. https://t.co/Cnzetc0FXk https://t.co/gIyUfwMbdm
The Triangulo gallery in Cremona opened "He Does Not Have a Chance," a joint exhibition of I.W. Payne and Beatrice Wood. Featuring over a dozen works ranging from 1977 to 2026, the show juxtaposes Payne’s coloured‑pencil drawings and sculptural installations...
Tracey Emin on nit having her Tate retrospective travel to the Guggenheim: “The museum had suggested downsizing it and I was concerned the abortion works would be first on the cut list.”
UK museums, long celebrated for free entry, are confronting severe financial strain as government arts funding has fallen 18% since 2010 and visitor numbers dip post‑pandemic. Major institutions such as the National Gallery face an £8.2 million deficit, prompting staff cuts...
Theo Belci’s opening‑day review of the 2026 Whitney Biennial spotlights two divergent approaches. Young Joon Kwak’s glitter‑laden chandelier is framed as Instagram‑ready spectacle, while Agosto Machado’s shrine‑like installations honor queer countercultural figures with tactile relics. Cooper Jacoby’s AI‑driven work resurrects dead social‑media personas, creating...
The Morgan Library has highlighted Henry Farrer’s 19th‑century graphite drawing “Landscape by a Stream,” a 15 × 22‑inch work that blends meticulous detail with seemingly casual scribbles. The composition is anchored by a dominant V‑shaped tree, while foliage and distant elements are...
The new PIXEL POD works by @kimasendorf are truly spectacular. The pieces are interactive and following on from PXL DEX, every pixel is a token, allowing you to add or remove pixels in the work itself to change its density...
Catherine Opie sits down with writer Maggie Nelson for an in‑depth conversation featured in AnOther Magazine’s Spring/Summer 2026 issue. The interview, recorded at Opie’s Los Angeles studio, explores her role as a professor, queer householder, and influential photographer. Nelson probes Opie’s recent...
Five hundred artworks by England’s notorious prisoner‑artist Charles Bronson will be sold as a single lot on March 11 by David Duggleby Auctioneers. The pieces, drawn in crayon, ink and pencil on prison documents, are expected to fetch between £100,000 and £200,000. Bronson,...
Ludovic Nkoth, a Cameroonian‑born painter now based in New York, is the focus of the Flag Art Foundation’s Spotlight exhibition with his new work *Stars under the border*. The figurative canvas juxtaposes an ordinary communal gathering with barbed‑wire‑like borders, probing...
Beauty and destruction. Here are five highlights from the upcoming IWM exhibition that I'm looking forward to via @Londonist https://t.co/rHE7L136yO
History of Violence, directed by Thomas Ostermeier, opened Adelaide Festival’s Dunstan Playhouse from Feb 27 to Mar 2, adapting Édouard Louis’s autobiographical novel. The production blends live camera feeds, black‑and‑white projections, and a percussive score to fragment the protagonist’s traumatic recollection of...
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) in Melbourne will host "Tourmaline – Transcendent" from December 12, 2025, through March 15, 2026. The exhibition showcases the multidisciplinary practice of Tourmaline, a trans activist artist known for film, performance, and archival work....
F. Scott Hess’s new painting The Dream of Art History translates a 1978 fever dream into a sprawling canvas that stitches together iconic works from the Renaissance to the present. The piece, featured in the documentary The Reluctant Realist, reflects...
Artnet’s 20th Century Art auction highlights how rarity and scarcity drive prices. Rarity, rooted in historical factors such as wartime loss and limited original production, is exemplified by Miró and Klein works. Scarcity, shaped by market dynamics, is evident in...
The new exhibition "Technologies of Relation" at MASS MoCA examines humanity’s evolving bond with artificial intelligence through a non‑binary lens that balances critique with possibility. Curator Susan Cross emphasizes agency, inviting visitors to imagine inclusive, liberatory futures rather than merely...
A nationwide roundup of creative funding and residency opportunities has been released for the week of 9‑15 March 2026. Programs span visual arts, writing, film, digital games and arts leadership, offering residencies, cash grants, scholarships and business accelerators across Victoria, Queensland, Western...
Sotheby’s will auction 24 works from the late Robert Mnuchin collection in May in New York, headlined by Mark Rothko’s 1957 canvas *Brown and Blacks in Reds* estimated at $70‑100 million, alongside a second Rothko priced at $15‑20 million. The lot also...
On March 1, a guerrilla art installation dubbed the “Jeffrey Epstein Walk of Shame” appeared in Washington’s Farragut Square. The project places waterproof stickers resembling Hollywood Walk of Fame stars on the sidewalks, each bearing the name of a high‑profile...
The LVMH Prize, now in its 2026 edition, has released its semi‑finalist roster and opened a public vote to decide which designers advance to the final round. Thousands of applicants were narrowed to 24 emerging talents, each vying for the...
The San Francisco Arts Commission voted on March 4 to keep Marco Cochrane’s 48‑foot steel‑and‑mesh nude sculpture “R‑Evolution” in Embarcadero Plaza through October 2025. The work, originally created for Burning Man in 2015, is privately funded by the Sijbrandij Foundation and...
Sofia Coppola’s 2006 film *Marie Antoinette* will be honored with a full‑scale retrospective at the Palace of Versailles, opening on September 22 2026 and running through January 24 2027. The exhibition, titled “*Marie Antoinette* by Sofia Coppola,” occupies the historic Petit Trianon and will screen key...
The fifth annual “La Banda” exhibition at Tappeto Volante Projects in Gowanus brings together over three dozen local artists across painting, sculpture, and mixed‑media formats. Curated without a single theme, the show reflects the pandemic‑era spirit of community and creative...
Lebanon’s Ministry of Culture has asked UNESCO to boost protection for its cultural heritage amid the spillover of the U.S.–Israel–Iran conflict into southern Lebanon. Minister Ghassan Salamé appealed directly to UNESCO Director‑General Khaled El‑Enany, highlighting sites such as the National...
I want to start a museum list and rate them on a scale from 1 to 10. Just because I work in museums does not mean I have been to them all. There are over 35,000 museums in the United...
