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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.
The Kunstmuseum Den Haag is showcasing *Can Love Be A Photograph – 40 Years of Inez & Vinoodh*, a thematic retrospective that spans four decades of the Dutch duo’s work. Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin pioneered digital manipulation in fashion photography, blending commercial campaigns with psychological allegory. Their oeuvre—ranging from Vogue editorials to Chanel ads and music videos—examines love, perception, and intimacy through a surreal visual language. The exhibition’s non‑chronological layout highlights recurring motifs like the Kiss, underscoring continuity and evolution in their artistic practice.
Sotheby’s Modern and Contemporary Evening Sale in London generated £131 million including fees, surpassing last year’s £63 million and approaching the 2023 peak. The auction featured 54 lots with a 98% sell‑through rate, highlighted by a £13.5 million Francis Bacon self‑portrait and a...
In this episode the hosts explore John Constable's 1831 painting *Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows*, discussing its composition, the artist’s personal circumstances, and its place within the broader Constable‑Turner rivalry. They share on‑location insights from a recent visit to Salisbury,...
Pace Gallery Berlin will present a comprehensive David Lynch exhibition from January 29 to March 29, 2026, assembling paintings, sculptures, watercolors, early short films, and a series of Berlin photographs. The show underscores Lynch’s long‑standing commitment to material experimentation, from his 1967 “moving...
Finnair has launched a bespoke in‑flight soundscape composed by Finnish composer Lauri Porra, featuring a 12‑track, 45‑minute orchestral suite. The music is timed to each stage of the journey—from boarding to landing—and incorporates traditional Finnish instruments such as the kantele and...
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Matter and Shape 2026, a Paris design salon, spotlights the theme of scale, juxtaposing industry giants that account for roughly 15 % of the €470 billion global furniture market with boutique studios whose collectible pieces are achieving record prices, such as a...
R. Crumb’s solo show "There’s No End to the Nonsense" opened at David Zwirner in London, spanning two floors and works from the 1960s to 2025. The exhibition places his notorious crude, sexual imagery beside more tender, humanistic pieces, presenting the...
François Ghebaly New York presents John Rivas' second solo show, "Rise above it," marking his debut at the gallery’s Lower East Side space. The exhibition features eleven mixed‑media sculptures that extend Rivas' signature assemblage practice into hand‑carved, painted wood, inspired...
London’s V&A, in partnership with QAGOMA, will open the "Rising Voices" exhibition in May, showcasing more than 70 works by over 40 contemporary artists from 25 Asia‑Pacific countries. The show pulls from three decades of the Asia Pacific Triennial, presenting...
Parrtjima Festival returns to Alice Springs from 10‑19 April 2026 for its 11th edition, centering on the theme “Language.” The free, all‑ages event will showcase more than 36 First Nations artists and over 50 performers across light installations, workshops, music and storytelling....
Several major cultural venues in Beirut, including the Sursock Museum and Beirut Art Center, have halted public programming as the Israel‑Hezbollah confrontation intensifies. The conflict, sparked by Hezbollah’s March 1 rocket launch, prompted Israeli airstrikes that have killed at least 72...
Canadian actor‑filmmaker Elle‑Máijá Tailfeathers is returning her Toronto Film Critics Association (TFCA) award after the organization cut the portion of her acceptance video that expressed support for Palestine. TFCA president Johanna Schneller said the edit was for timing but announced...
Monica Majoli presents a solo exhibition at Los Angeles’s Hoffman Donahue gallery from February 24 through April 4, 2026. The show features 17 new works that continue her exploration of intimacy, identity, and the body. A comprehensive press release and exhibition checklist have been...
David Zwirner’s New York show spotlights William Eggleston’s 1973 “Untitled” photograph, a vivid blue‑hued counterpart to his iconic “Red Ceiling.” Both images were created with Eggleston’s signature dye‑transfer process, a labor‑intensive technique discontinued by Kodak in 1994. The article frames the blue...
There's so much noise around how art is presented these days both online and in person. Soundtracks, celebs, influencers, reveals, opulent interiors, extravagant blather, etc. But here's the deal: You can't take any of that home with you. It'll be...
Claude Parent, once a disciple of Le Corbusier, forged a radical architectural language centered on the “Fonction Oblique,” which replaces orthogonal stability with inclined planes that demand bodily engagement. In the 1960s he co‑founded the avant‑garde group Architecture Principe with Paul Virilio, publishing manifestos...
Junior creative Lola Delafuente highlights the stark gap between university training and the realities of agency work, noting that academic portfolios lack commercial context. She argues that unpaid placements and low entry‑level pay filter out diverse talent, especially women, and...
London’s Serpentine curator Kostas Stasinopoulos has been named director of exhibitions and programs for Kyklos, a new art and culture centre slated to open in Piraeus in 2028. Kyklos, funded by the Dinos and Lia Martinos Foundation, will be Greece’s...
The Canadian Academy announced special honours for Canadian Screen Week, which runs May 27‑31 in Toronto. Mike Myers will receive the Academy Icon Award, sportscaster Hazel Mae the Gordon Sinclair Award, and Canadian Film Centre director Maxine Bailey the Changemaker Award. Chandler Levack’s film...
Print Magazine’s Daily Heller highlights Maira Kalman’s soothing artistic voice, featuring a portrait of Paper co‑founder Kim Hastreiter and a new video promoting Kalman’s 2018 illustrated book *Cake*. The video, directed by Alex Kalman, underscores her talent for delivering calm...
Tehran’s Golestan Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage site, was damaged by a missile strike on March 1 amid escalating US‑Israeli attacks on Iran. The blast shattered windows, cracked glass, and buckled asphalt within the palace’s buffer zone. Iranian officials have secured...
Talk Show debuted their experimental piece *Miss America* at Brooklyn’s Roulette Intermedium on February 26, reimagining late‑20th‑century daytime television through archival video, live music, and immersive projections. The duo—drummer‑synthesist Qasim Naqvi and trumpeter Steph Richards—were joined by visual artist Steven...
Subliminal Projects in Los Angeles is mounting MODULAR FREQUENCY, a new exhibition by Shepard Fairey that runs from February 28 to April 11, 2026. The show presents eighteen mixed‑media pieces that fuse modular geometry, Soviet‑era propaganda aesthetics, and contemporary pop culture. Alongside the main works, the...
Magali Reus presents three new sculptural series—Merlin (2024), Streamers (2025) and Rig (2025)—at Museum Beelden aan Zee in The Hague. The oversized works reinterpret sardine tins, fish skeletons and fishing hooks as both lure and snare, probing tensions between interior...
Faig Ahmed will represent Azerbaijan at the 61st Venice Biennale with a solo presentation titled “The Attention.” Curated by Islamic‑art scholar Gwendolyn Collaço, the show intertwines Azerbaijan’s ancient carpet weaving with contemporary quantum‑technology installations, including *I Can Contain Both Worlds...
Perle Noire: Meditations for Joséphine debuted at Adelaide Festival, offering a non‑linear, emotionally driven portrait of iconic Black performer Josephine Baker. Directed by Peter Sellars and scored by avant‑garde jazz composer Tyshawn Sorey, the production blends operatic cabaret, spoken word,...
Gregory Olympio’s solo exhibition, Vaisseaux, opens at blank projects in Cape Town from January 29 to March 14, 2026. The show showcases the artist’s exploration of spatial narratives through a series of mixed‑media installations and sculptures. Documentation includes 27 high‑resolution images, providing comprehensive...
Several Victorian arts bodies—including Writers Victoria, the Public Galleries Association of Victoria, Abbotsford Convent and Australian Print Workshop—have been stripped of operational funding by Creative Victoria. The groups have publicly appealed to Creative Industries Minister Colin Brooks, citing petitions, funding...
Let's say a gallery likes your art. That doesn't necessarily mean you get a show. Things they also consider? Whether your prices leave enough room for them to make a profit while staying within ranges that their buyers are willing...
ECAL’s "A Typographic Atlas" exhibition showcases 300 student‑designed typefaces, organized as an alphabetical‑numeric map that turns the gallery into a navigable terrain. Curated by the Master Type Design and Bachelor Graphic Design programs, the show blends experimental, functional, and multiscript...
Sara Shamma will represent Syria at the 61st Venice Biennale with a monumental, immersive installation titled "The Tower Tomb of Palmyra." Curated by Yuko Hasegawa and commissioned by Syria's Ministry of Culture, the work occupies the National Pavilion as a...
Black Math, a Boston‑origin design studio, unveiled a bold rebrand that declares an “art first” philosophy, positioning art as the structural core of its work. The new visual system favors expressive typography and motion, rejecting neutral, template‑driven aesthetics. By framing...
Giancarlo Politi, the Italian critic who founded the seminal contemporary art journal Flash Art, died at 89 on February 24. Over five decades he expanded Flash Art into multiple language editions, launched the influential Art Diary directory, and established the Flash Art Museum and the...
Two Coats of Paint organized an artist panel at Ptolemy featuring Michele Araujo, Larry Greenberg, and Adam Simon. Each artist presented a single work, prompting in‑depth dialogue about their distinct approaches to abstraction, from Araujo’s mixed‑media collage on aluminum to...
James McQueen’s solo exhibition "A Beautiful Waste of Time" opens on 2 March at Halcyon in London, showcasing new paintings that transform vintage paperback covers into contemporary Pop‑Art statements. The works retain the bold typography and colour blocks of mid‑century mass‑market...
French artist Clémence de La Tour du Pin presents a new show at Derosia, New York, featuring four untitled, six‑centimetre‑high assemblages that span six metres each. The works combine discarded urban objects—umbrella spokes, tangled silk—with wax, oil paint and linen,...
Spanish‑Equatoguinean ceramic artist Bisila Noha presents "Ile ọkàn (House of the Soul)" at OmVed Gardens in Highgate from 20‑29 March 2026. The solo show, curated by Thrown, expands a 2025 Nigerian residency into a shrine‑like installation that blends sculpture, vessels,...
pt.2 Gallery in Oakland presents “Always Never,” Linda Geary’s first solo exhibition at the space. The show highlights her signature layered collage approach, now rendered in acrylic and oil with a muted, weathered palette that creates ghost‑like forms. Larger canvases...
The National Portrait Gallery has added a new photograph by Catherine Opie that depicts Sir Elton John, his husband David Furnish, and their sons in the family library, marking the first portrait of the Furnish‑John family in a national collection....
The article spotlights a 2010 solo performance by pioneering sound artist Pauline Oliveros, in which she dedicates her music to a world without war. The piece appears in a visual installation for documenta 14, featuring typographic work by design studio VIER5....
What a Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem transforms the Variety Arts Theater into a six‑floor, after‑hours immersive film exhibition in downtown Los Angeles. The program interweaves historic cinema excerpts with avant‑garde video art, presented on everything from massive projection walls...
Swedish artist Karl Holmqvist is mounting a solo show titled "Paint With Make‑Up" at Galerie Neu in Berlin from February 7 to March 7, 2026. The exhibition repurposes cosmetics as a painting medium, presenting a series of works that blur the line between beauty...
The Wattis Institute in San Francisco is presenting “8 Hours of Rest: SoiL Thornton” from Jan 20 to Mar 7, 2026. The multidisciplinary show blends large‑scale furniture, phosphorescent paintings, video loops, and archival prints to interrogate rest, sleep, and self‑care within a capitalist framework....
Haitian-born artist Manuel Mathieu has been invited by curator Koyo Kouoh to debut at the 61st International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, in 2026. His multidisciplinary practice—spanning painting, sculpture, film, installation and olfactory art—examines historical violence, cultural memory and...
The Centre Pompidou will shut its doors in 2027 for a five‑year, €300‑million renovation that tackles asbestos removal and a full technical upgrade. Designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, the iconic 1977 structure requires deep structural work to meet...
Virginie Puertolas Syn spent a week in Cape Town during the Investec Cape Town Art Fair, immersing herself in studios, galleries, and institutions. The fair showcased 126 exhibitors from 34 cities, representing artists from 44 countries, while major surveys highlighted...
British painter Hugo Winder‑Lind opens his first U.S. solo exhibition, "Clouds Of Limitless And Expanding Joy," at New York’s Isabel Sullivan Gallery from March 5 to April 11, 2026. The show features twelve new oil paintings that reconceptualise landscape as a politically...
Toronto‑based artist Giorgio Cecatto, an architect turned digital creator, has released a new series of free desktop and mobile wallpapers. The designs are generated with a pen plotter, echoing Russian Constructivist principles of precision and mechanization while translating them into...
Belarus‑born hedge‑fund billionaire Igor Tulchinsky is sponsoring the British Museum’s first UK display of the Bayeux Tapestry, in a deal estimated at £5 million, one of the museum’s largest sponsorships in its 273‑year history. The 70‑metre medieval embroidery will be on...
