Today's Art Pulse
Arthur Jafa and Richard Prince’s ‘Helter Skelter’ debuts at Fondazione Prada in Venice
The joint exhibition “Helter Skelter” opens at Fondazione Prada’s Ca’ Corner della Regina in Venice, running through November 23, 2026. Curated by former Guggenheim chief Nancy Spector, the show pairs Jafa and Prince, artists noted for aggressive appropriation of cinema, music and American iconography. Critics describe the work as lawless image scavenging that confronts viewers.
Morad Montazami Named Artistic Director of 16th Dak’Art Biennial
Morad Montazami has been appointed artistic director of the 16th Dak’Art Biennial, scheduled for November 19–December 19, 2026. The edition, titled “(Anti)Fragility: Arts of Repair and Counter‑Shock Strategies,” will explore how fragility can be transformed into artistic strength through community co‑creation. Montazami, founder of Zamân Books & Curating and former Tate Modern curator, brings expertise in global modernism and postcolonial art to the African showcase. The Biennial follows a 2024 postponement caused by political unrest in Senegal.
Lucy Sante's Knots
Lucy Sante, the celebrated writer‑turned‑artist, is presenting her collage exhibition “Knots” at the American Academy of Arts and Letters from March 14 to July 3, 2026. In the accompanying essay she recounts six decades of making collages, a practice she...
NGV Unveils 2026 Triennial Featuring Jenny Holzer, Ocean Vuong and Global Artists
The National Gallery of Victoria announced that its 2026 Triennial will open on Dec. 13, 2025, presenting almost 100 artists from 35 countries. Headliners include conceptualist Jenny Holzer, poet‑photographer Ocean Vuong and a roster of AI‑focused and environmentally driven works,...
New Orleans Robin Levy: American Model April 4th April 26th SMITH Contemporary by Adam Falik
Robin Levy’s "American Model" at Smith Contemporary (April 4‑26) confronts the legacy of Nazi identification symbols by repurposing WWII‑era velvet triangles, prisoner jackets, and a yellow bench. The installation invites visitors to try on the jackets, pose for Polaroids, and view...
What Makes a Photograph a Photograph? The Photography Show 2026 Offers New Perspectives
The 45th Photography Show returns to New York’s Park Avenue Armory from April 22‑26, 2026, featuring 77 galleries spanning vintage, contemporary, and experimental work. The fair introduces a new "Focal Point" sector dedicated to solo lens‑based presentations, underscoring the medium’s evolving narrative. First‑time...
Join Us Today for an Artist Date
The Artist's Toolbox is hosting a live "Artist Date" focused on drawing landscapes, led by Tasha and Charlotte Hamilton at 3 pm ET. Creatives can register for free via a Luma link. The session draws on Julia Cameron’s "Artist’s Way" practice,...
Lutz Bacher Never Offered Easy Readings: ‘Burning the Days’ at WIELS
WIELS in Brussels opened “Burning the Days,” the first posthumous survey of Lutz Bacher’s five‑decade practice. Curated by Helena Kritis, the show shuns a strict chronology, letting thematic connections between photography, sculpture, and installations guide the narrative. It highlights Bacher’s...
London’s Boldest and Most Radical Arts Project in Disused Multi-Storey Car Park Celebrates 20th Anniversary
Bold Tendencies, the radical contemporary arts programme housed on the roof of Peckham’s disused multi‑storey car park, opens its 20th‑anniversary season on 15 May 2026. Since its 2007 launch by Hannah Barry, the project has welcomed more than 1.8 million visitors and hosted...
What to See at the Venice Biennale
The 61st Venice Biennale opens in May and runs through November 22, marking the city’s premier biennial art showcase. Curator Koyo Kouoh, the first African woman to lead the event, posthumously set the theme “In Minor Keys.” Highlights include Matthew Wong’s rare...
The Scandalous “Naked Ballerina” That Inspired Florentina Holzinger
Austrian choreographer Florentina Holzinger credits her late mentor Beatrice “Trixie” Cordua, the notorious “naked ballerina” from John Neumeier’s 1972 Rite of Spring, as a formative influence. Cordua, once deemed too old for ballet, joined Holzinger’s inclusive troupe in her seventies...
V&A East Opens in Stratford, Offering a Youth‑Centric Take on Contemporary Culture
The Victoria & Albert Museum’s new east‑London branch opens on April 18, with director Gus Casely‑Hayford promising a “fresh look at contemporary culture.” The five‑storey venue, part of the East Bank cultural quarter, emphasizes youth consultation, diverse audiences and a...
Gardar Eide Einarsson Leaves You in the Dark
Gardar Eide Einarsson’s new exhibition *Music Playing Over Speech* at Maureen Paley presents a series of ten black gouache sheets titled *Closed Caption*, each bearing only a fragment of white text taken from film and TV scripts. The minimalist works force...
Josie Hall’s Arresting Photos Invoke the Ancient Japanese Art of Kendo
London photographer Josie Hall is debuting "Red Patience," an exhibition that fuses high‑fashion photography with the ancient Japanese martial art of Kendo. Known for work with Balenciaga, Prada and Martine Rose, Hall uses the sword‑play aesthetic to create surreal, futuristic...
Hackney Art Week Returns for 2026 with Expanded Borough-Wide Programme
Hackney Art Week returns for 2026 with an expanded, borough‑wide programme running June 4‑14. The free festival will feature over 60 artists across 50 venues, turning galleries, cafés, pubs and street corners into creative spaces. Opening night at the Rose Lipman Building...
Art Dubai Unveils Updated Gallery List After Postponement, 50 Exhibitors Confirmed
Art Dubai has released a revised roster of 50 regional and international galleries for its 2026 edition, now set for May 15‑17 at Madinat Jumeirah. The fair introduced a performance‑based fee structure and noted that roughly 75 galleries have withdrawn...
Artists Accuse Top AI Firms of Using Their Work Without Permission
Artists and documentary makers allege that AI powerhouses such as OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Meta and Google have mined copyrighted artwork to train generative models without permission or payment. The dispute, highlighted by Oscar‑winning director Daniel Roher, underscores a growing legal...
Merike Estna on Representing Estonia at the 61st Venice Biennale
Estonian artist Merike Estna will represent Estonia at the 61st Venice Biennale, turning the national pavilion into an open studio where she creates 22 paintings over the exhibition period. Her project foregrounds the act of painting itself, drawing inspiration from historic...
Mystery 17th-Century Portrait Sparks Search for Identity of Black Sitter
A rare 1626 double portrait of a Black and a white teenage boy, long housed at Penshurst Place, is undergoing restoration at the National Portrait Gallery. The work, whose authorship is unknown, shows the Black sitter at equal scale to...
Earthly Paradise: Radical Alternative Living in the UK – William Morris Gallery
Earthly Paradise: Radical Living in the UK, a new touring exhibition, opens at the William Morris Gallery on 3 October 2026 and runs through 28 March 2027 before traveling to Wales, the Lake District and Edinburgh through 2028. Developed by the Four Lanterns partnership...
Natalia Criado’s Tableware Collaboration Feels Like a Bridge Across Dimensions
Milan‑based designer Natalia Criado has teamed with family‑run ceramics studio Laboratorio Paravicini to launch Metalia, a tableware collection that fuses her signature silver‑plated metal with the studio’s hand‑illustrated porcelain. The partnership will be unveiled during Milan Design Week 2026 in...
Taiwan’s New Typologies
Taiwan’s municipal cultural strategy is accelerating, with three flagship institutions opening between 2025 and 2028. The New Taipei City Art Museum debuted in April 2025, while the Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts rolls out in phases through 2028, adding a...
Art Dubai Will Host a Scaled-Back “Special Edition,” And Other News.
Art Dubai will return in 2026 with a scaled‑back “special edition,” featuring about 75 curated presentations that replace the traditional booth model with collaborations and commissions. Authentic Brands Group is reviving Barneys New York, targeting small‑format stores and a potential Madison...
Watch La Linea, the Popular 1970s Italian Animations Drawn with a Single Line
La Linea, the iconic 1970s Italian cartoon drawn with a single unbroken line, began as a marketing short for a cookware brand before evolving into a standalone series. Created by animator Osvaldo Cavandoli, the show ran for 15 years, delivering...
Monkey Selfie Case Guides AI Art Ownership Debates
A famous monkey selfie is becoming relevant again in the AI era. The case around who owns art created without a human author is shaping how we think about AI-generated content and what counts as original work. As AI floods the internet...
Edmonia Lewis: First Black Indigenous International Art Star
The Incredible Story of Edmonia Lewis, America’s First Black and Indigenous International Art Star https://t.co/1b6SvM5LrC
MARUANI MERCIER Opens a Second Brussels Space with George Rickey’s Ordered Movement
Maruani Mercier has opened a second Brussels venue at Rue Saint‑Georges 13, expanding its presence in the Ixelles gallery district alongside its Avenue Louise flagship and Knokke outpost. The inaugural show, George Rickey: Ordered Movement, presents four decades of the American kinetic sculptor’s work, focusing...
Jackie's Talent Shines as a Leading Gen‑Z Artist
Jackie's talent is beautiful. One of the few examples of great artists of this generation.
Luke Cornish (ELK) Wins the 2026 Gallipoli Art Prize
Sydney artist Luke Cornish, known as ELK, captured the 2026 Gallipoli Art Prize with his aerosol painting "No Rest (The Vandalism of Deir al Balah)". The $20,000 acquisitive award, presented by the Gallipoli Memorial Club, recognizes works that engage with...
Matt Browning at Kunstverein München
Matt Browning’s first institutional solo exhibition, *All Woodcarvings Remain Slow Motion Mobiles*, opens at Kunstverein München in 2026. The show gathers works he has carved from Douglas fir since 2013, each formed from a single block through a subtractive, whittling‑like...
Spice Girls' Outfits Go on Show in '90s Exhibition
The Barbican Music Library is hosting a free “Cool Britannia” exhibition that showcases iconic 1996 pop culture artifacts, including the Spice Girls' leopard‑print catsuit and Union Jack platform boots. Curated by former Sun editor Dominic Mohan, the show also features Oasis...
EXCLUSIVE: Prada Home Unveils Theaster Gates-Curated Exhibit on the Japanese Art of Ceramics
Prada Home is debuting “Chawan Cabinet,” a Japanese‑ceramics exhibition curated by multidisciplinary artist Theaster Gates, in a new Milan retail space ahead of Milan Design Week. The show juxtaposes traditional chawan tea bowls, yumoni cups, and sake vessels with Gates’...
Krassimir Terziev at Sarieva, Plovidv
Sarieva/Gallery is hosting Krassimir Terziev’s solo exhibition “Base and Superstructure” at DOT Sofia from March 12 to April 26 2026. The show pairs newly created 2026 works—such as the gold‑leaf series “Central” and “Lights Off”—with the artist’s early 1994 piece “Angels and Chimneys,”...
Amid Regional Uncertainty, Art Dubai Presses Ahead with 20th Anniversary Edition
Art Dubai is moving forward with its 20th‑anniversary edition, now scheduled for May 15‑17 at Madinat Jumeirah. The fair will host more than 45 gallery presentations, but participation has halved to roughly 60 exhibitors amid the US‑Israel war fallout and...
Barbara Kruger, Arthur Jafa and Precious Okoyomon Honoured in Second Edition of Art Basel Awards
Art Basel announced the 33 medallists for the second edition of its awards, highlighting a cross‑disciplinary view of the contemporary art ecosystem. The Icon category is exclusively populated by women artists—Barbara Kruger, Howardena Pindell and Jenny Holzer—recognised for reshaping dominant narratives. Established figures...
The Bennett Prize Raises Top Award to $75,000 for Women Figurative Realists
The Bennett Prize, a biennial award for women figurative realist painters founded by Steven Alan Bennett and Dr. Elaine Melotti Schmidt, has increased its grand prize from $50,000 to $75,000. The raise aims to provide greater financial relief to emerging...
James Taylor‑Foster Named Executive Director of Para Site as Non‑Profit Marks 30th Anniversary
Para Site, Hong Kong’s historic independent arts organization, has appointed James Taylor‑Foster as its new executive director ahead of its 30th anniversary. The millennial curator brings a cross‑disciplinary practice that blends art, design, architecture and digital culture, positioning the nonprofit...
Patricia Fernandez at Whistle
Patricia Fernandez’s solo show "A Constellation of Its Other" opens at Whistle in Seoul from March 20 to May 2, 2026. The exhibition showcases 28 carefully selected photographs that explore themes of identity, displacement, and cultural overlap. Co‑produced with Commonwealth...
Melik Ohanian at Galerie Chantal Crousel
Melik Ohanian’s solo show "ALTERATION, For a long time in Time" opens at Galerie Chantal Crousel in Paris from March 13 to April 18, 2026. The exhibition features a mix of video, installation, and archival objects that probe the fluidity of memory and temporal perception....
Price Art by Track Record, Not Strangers' Opinions
No one can price art simply by looking at it or tell if it's too cheap or expensive. Why? Because additional factors always need to be considered, the two most important by far being your resume and sales history. A...
Superflex's Climate Installation Opens at Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
Danish artist collective Superflex has opened its climate‑focused installation “There Are Other Fish In The Sea” in the courtyard of Florence’s Palazzo Strozzi. The work, on view from April 14 to August 2, 2026, uses eight pink travertine columns in...
Nietzsche the Mystic, and More
The Arts & Letters Daily post titled “Nietzsche the Mystic, and More” revisits Friedrich Nietzsche’s lesser‑explored mystical dimensions, arguing that his late writings contain spiritual and quasi‑religious motifs often overlooked by mainstream scholarship. The piece links Nietzsche’s mysticism to contemporary debates...
George Condo Hoard Heads For Christie’s – And Who’s Selling? His Ex-Wife
Anna Condo, the former wife of celebrated painter George Condo, is consigning 27 of his works—including paintings, sculptures and works on paper—to Christie’s New York for a dedicated single‑owner session on May 21. The lot will appear in Christie’s Post‑War...
Everything but The…
Art Newsletter No. 42 reviews the illustrations featured in the New York Review’s April 9 and April 26 issues, highlighting the cover painting “Orange Squeeze” by Rachel Domm and a series of bespoke artworks commissioned for individual essays. The newsletter explains the editorial choice...
Paul’s Work of the Month – Sigmar Polke: Untitled, 1980-81
Sigmar Polke’s untitled mixed‑media work from 1980‑81 is on view in simultaneous exhibitions curated by Gordon VeneKlasen in London and New York. The piece combines acrylic, spray paint, metallic paint, fabric, wooden toggles and buttons, echoing Dada‑era collage and referencing Pierre Klossowski and...
Eye Candy for Today: Martin Heade Orchid
Martin Johnson Heade’s 1863 oil "Cattleya Orchid and Three Hummingbirds" showcases the artist’s late‑career fascination with exotic flora and fauna. The 14 × 18‑inch work pairs a vivid pink Cattleya orchid with three hummingbirds perched amid a misty forest backdrop. Housed in...
The Drawings of Femke Hiemestra Depict Fairy Tales with Looming Consequences
Femke Hiemstra, a leading figure in Pop Surrealism, creates vivid acrylic and mixed‑media works that reinterpret classic fairy‑tale scenes through animal protagonists. Her pieces combine meticulous graphite planning, layered translucent acrylics, and unconventional canvases such as vintage book covers. Drawing...
Ty Murphy LLM Debuts ‘The Art Market’ Guide
Ty Murphy LLM has launched a 700‑page volume titled The Art Market, positioned as a comprehensive reference and operating manual for collectors, advisers, and investors. The book maps the entire ecosystem—from market fundamentals and participant roles to legal frameworks, risk...
Ken Gonzales-Day
Artist Ken Gonzales‑Day’s “Erased Lynching” series reexamines the overlooked history of lynching in the American West, especially the Latinx, Asian and Native American victims. His archival research expanded documented California lynchings from about 50 to over 350 and identified more...
Paris Internationale Launches First International Edition in Milan with 34 Galleries
Paris Internationale brings its curatorial‑focused model to Milan for the first time outside France, presenting 34 galleries at Palazzo Galbani during Milano Art Week. The move highlights a growing appetite for intimate, exhibition‑style fairs in Europe’s art market.
Toronto Biennial of Art Announces 2026 Artists and Theme
The Toronto Biennial of Art’s 2026 edition, curated by Allison Glenn, will be titled “Things Fall Apart.” It will showcase more than 30 artists and collectives, featuring 17 newly commissioned works that interrogate Toronto’s water environment. The exhibition uses water as...