Today's Art Pulse
Art Students League launches program to nurture next‑gen public artists
The Art Students League announced a new program aimed at discovering and supporting emerging public artists. The initiative seeks to broaden the League’s community engagement and provide resources for artists working in public spaces.
A Drama of Two Masters
*Turner & Constable: Rivals and Originals* brings the famed rivalry between J.M.W. Turner and John Constable to the screen, using Tate Britain’s recent exhibition as its foundation. The documentary blends sweeping landscape footage with dramatized reenactments, aiming to make 19th‑century art history accessible to a broader audience. Critics, including Michael Glover, note its visual fidelity while debating its narrative depth. The same edition also highlights two Sundance documentaries that explore survival strategies in the age of artificial intelligence, underscoring a growing trend of socially relevant nonfiction filmmaking.
$160 Million Auction Haul in Hong Kong Provides Much-Needed Momentum for the Region
Hong Kong’s March modern and contemporary art evening sales generated HK$1.25 billion (≈$160 million), surpassing expectations across Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips. Christie’s led with HK$655.76 million (≈$83.8 million), a 17% rise year‑over‑year and zero withdrawals, while Sotheby’s posted a record‑breaking HK$137.4 million (≈$17.6 million) sale of...
New York City From Representation to Abstraction: A Studio Conversation with Robert Solomon by Noah Becker
Robert Solomon, a Philadelphia‑based painter, has transitioned from detailed landscape representation to a more abstract, grid‑like visual language. He attributes the shift to a contemplative response to natural environments and a desire to investigate painting’s formal qualities. Solomon emphasizes a...
Juan Uslé’s Childhood Shipwrecks
Juan Uslé’s new retrospective, Ese barco en la montaña, opens at Madrid’s Museo Reina Sofía, featuring roughly 100 paintings, drawings and photographs that span four decades of the Spanish abstract painter’s career. Curator Ángel Calvo Ulloa anchors the show in the...
A Puppet Show Made From Old Pianos and Mississippi River Trash
Playdoh Kolo’s newest production, Riperion Piano Creatures, will debut at this year’s Giant Puppet Festival in New Orleans. The performance features an entire cast of puppets constructed from discarded Mississippi River debris, salvaged piano parts, and other urban refuse. By...
Kate McNamara Named Director of Harvard’s Carpenter Center for Visual Arts
Kate McNamara has been appointed the permanent John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Director of Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, after serving as interim director since last year. McNamara, founder of the experimental Rhode Island space ODD‑KIN and...
Psychoanalysis as Chamber Drama: A Night at Artists Space
Artists Space hosted "Monologue Dialogue," featuring two work‑in‑progress pieces that used the monologue form to probe fractured consciousness and memory. "Diagnosis" presented a split‑personality dialogue that mimicked psychoanalytic interrogation, while Erika Landström’s "HOTEL ECHO LIMA PAPA" employed a solo performance that...
Rembrandt Mystery: Is ‘Workshop Copy’ Actually by the Master?
Rembrandt van Rijn has re‑emerged at the center of an art‑historical dispute as scholar Gary Schwartz argues that a canvas painting, long labeled a workshop copy, is actually an autograph replica by the master. The two near‑identical *Old Man with a Gold...
Turner and Constable Hit the Screen
A two‑hour feature film documents Tate Britain’s Turner & Constable exhibition, pairing high‑resolution close‑ups of the 19th‑century landscapes with contemporary footage of the artists’ native locales. The film is scored by composer Asa Bennett, whose original music underscores the visual...
Podcast Episode: Edward Steichen and the Garden
Yale University Press released a podcast episode featuring Sarah Anne McNear discussing her new book and accompanying exhibition, "Edward Steichen and the Garden." The conversation explores how Steichen’s photography intersected with his passion for gardening, plant breeding, and nature. McNear...
Turntable Arrives in Illustrator, Making Motion a Little More Accessible
Adobe announced that its Turntable feature is now built into Illustrator as of March 30, 2026. The tool generates multi‑angle views from a single vector illustration, letting characters rotate and objects shift perspective without manual redraws. By turning static artwork into quick...
Giant Golden Toilet Sculpture Appears Near Lincoln Memorial in D.C.: ‘A Throne Fit for a King’
A 10‑foot golden toilet sculpture titled *A Throne Fit for a King* was installed near the Lincoln Memorial, created by the anonymous collective Secret Handshake. The work lampoons former President Donald Trump’s controversial renovation of the White House’s Lincoln Bathroom,...
Canaletto & Bellotto: The Art of The Constructed View – Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum opens “Canaletto & Bellotto: The Art of the Constructed View,” showcasing 32 vedute from Venice, London, Dresden and Vienna. Curator Mateusz Mayer argues the paintings are engineered perspectives shaped by patron demands and 18th‑century politics, not photographic...
Copy of Rembrandt Portrait on Display in Chicago Is by the Master Himself, Scholar Claims
A copy of Rembrandt's 1631 portrait *Old Man with a Gold Chain*, long labeled a workshop replica, is now argued by art historian Gary Schwartz to be an autograph work by the master himself. The original and the contested copy...
Working Art Into a Thru-Hike: Inside the ATC and CDTC Artist Residencies with Mallory Weston & Leslie Boyd (BPR #350)
In this episode of Backpacker Radio, artists and metalsmiths Mallory Weston and Leslie Boyd discuss their unique roles as the inaugural artists‑in‑residence for the Continental Divide Trail Conservancy (CDTC) and the Appalachian Trail Conservancy (ATC). They share how they integrate...
Diverse Group Shows Spotlight Nigerian Art, Femininity, and Everyday Objects
Nigerian art, animals, a washing machine, bodies and femininity. It's all about the group exhibitions in this week's top 5 on @worldofFAD https://t.co/Ubw9IsTE6g
Glen Baxter Artist Of The Absurd Has Died Aged 82
Glen Baxter, the Leeds‑born artist famed for dead‑pan ink drawings paired with absurd captions, died at 82. His work, rooted in Marx Brothers humor and adventure‑book diction, turned the art world’s solemnity into a punchline and influenced creators from Edward...
Chobi Mela XI Review: Can We Start Over?
The 11th Chobi Mela photography festival opened in Dhaka on Jan. 16, 2026, under the theme “Re,” inviting artists to explore renewal after the COVID‑19 shutdown and the July 2024 uprising. Curated by Munem Wasif and Sarker Protick, the event features 58...
Mirna Bamieh: Sour Things: The Door
Palestinian artist Mirna Bamieh’s new installation Sour Things: The Door opens at NIKA Project Space in Romainville from 17 April to 23 May 2026. Curated by Anne Davidian, the work extends Bamieh’s Sour Things series, using a monumental, partially blocked doorframe, porcelain okra sculptures, and video testimonies to explore migration,...
Thieves Steal Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse Paintings Worth $9.7 Million in Three‑Minute Italian Heist
Four masked men stole Pierre‑Auguste Renoir’s *Les Poissons*, Paul Cézanne’s *Still Life with Cherries* and Henri Matisse’s *Odalisque on the Terrace* from the Magnani Rocca Foundation villa near Parma, Italy. Police estimate the works’ combined value at €9 million (about $9.7 million),...
PITKISSER Captures the Beauty and Rage of LA’s Girl Mosh Scene
Filmmaker‑photographer Mollie Mills launched *PITKISSER*, a two‑channel film installation and accompanying photobook that documents Los Angeles’ emerging “girl mosh” subculture. The project began in 2017 after Mills encountered Syerrah Escobedo, a pet‑store cashier styled in latex and liberty spikes, whose...
Godfried Donkor Heads to Venice with a Tribute to History, Power and Koyo Kouoh
Godfried Donkor will present a new painting, *Michael and the Dragon II* (2026), and four earlier works at the 61st Venice Biennale, honoring his late friend and curator Koyo Kouhou. The exhibition revisits his 2017 *First Day of the Yam Custom*...
Korea and Japan to Collaborate on Pavilions at Venice Biennale
Korea’s Arts Council has unveiled its 2026 Venice Biennale national pavilion, titled ‘Liberation Space: Fortress/Nest,’ curated by Binna Choi. The exhibition revisits the post‑war “Liberation Space” period (1945‑1948) and presents works by Goen Choi and Hyeree Ro. A landmark collaboration sees Goen Choi’s *Meridian*...
New £5m Cultural Centre in Northampton, UK to Pursue Model that ‘Embeds Artists in Social and Economic Fabric of a...
A new cultural centre opens in Northampton on 1 May after a £5.2 million (£≈6.6 million USD) refurbishment of a 1930s municipal building. Arts Collective will run free year‑round exhibitions, 17 purpose‑built artist studios and community workshops, launching with a Rose Finn‑Kelcey retrospective....
Lauren Halsey’s Sculpture Park Is an Architectural Offering to South Central Los Angeles
Artist Lauren Halsey, together with architecture firm Current Interests and landscape studio Green House, has converted a vacant 10,000‑square‑foot lot in South Central Los Angeles into a free, public sculpture park called “sister dreamer.” The project, running through September 2027, features...
Comment | A Generational Moment for Nazi-Looted Art Claims in the US
On March 16 the U.S. House approved an expanded Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act of 2025, awaiting President Trump’s signature. The bill makes the six‑year discovery‑based statute of limitations permanent and eliminates technical defenses such as laches, the act‑of‑state...
Molly Bounds "The Light That Loses, The Night That Wins" @ Mrs Gallery, Maspeth, NY
Molly Bounds’ New York debut solo exhibition, "The Light That Loses, The Night That Wins," opens at Mrs Gallery in Maspeth on March 30, 2026 and runs through May 2. The show, her second collaboration with the gallery after a 2025 Armory Show appearance,...
‘A Nation of Artists’ Opens in Philadelphia, Showcasing 1,000+ Works Across 300 Years
The Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts have opened the dual‑venue exhibition ‘A Nation of Artists,’ featuring more than 1,000 paintings, sculptures, and decorative objects that trace American art from the early 18th century...
Art Basel Hong Kong 2026: Encounters Revamped and Sales Surge Signal Strong Asian Demand
Art Basel Hong Kong 2026 relaunched its Encounters sector with a four‑curator Asian team and reported unusually strong opening‑day sales, drawing a wave of first‑time collectors. The fair’s commercial success underscores growing appetite for large‑scale and technology‑focused works across the...
Reflections On Lucas Samaras, the Self-Portrait Pioneer
The Art Institute of Chicago is mounting a retrospective, "Lucas Samaras: Sitting, Standing, Walking, Looking," that surveys the Greek‑born artist’s six‑decade career in analogue photography. Samaras pioneered self‑portraiture through AutoPolaroids (1969‑71) and surface‑manipulated prints, creating staged personae long before...
Jeremy's Latest LIVINart Creation Features Stool Presidente & Miss Peaches
Jeremy @LIVINartstudio does it again 🔥 (if you remember his @kennychesney art) this time for @stoolpresidente and Miss Peaches 🐶 https://t.co/snwOPBoYrJ
Metropolitan Museum Launches First U.S. Raphael Retrospective, 170 Works
The Metropolitan Museum of Art opened the United States' first major retrospective of Renaissance master Raphael, displaying more than 170 works through June. Curated by Carmen Bambach, the show argues that Raphael’s collaborative, business‑savvy approach resonates with contemporary artistic practice.
Fu Nagasawa at Taka Ishii Gallery
Fu Nagasawa’s solo exhibition "Zankyu" opens at Taka Ishii Gallery in Maebashi‑shi, running from February 21 to March 29, 2026. The show features the artist’s mixed‑media works that probe the intersection of tradition and contemporary life. Press materials are provided...
New York City Anthony Haden-Guest: Lucky Stiffs by Oceana Andries
Anthony Haden‑Guest’s third solo show with Freight+Volume, titled “Lucky Stiffs,” opened in Tribeca on March 14, 2026, and runs through April 18. The exhibition features ink‑on‑paper “tomb drawings” that pair witty epitaphs with cartoonish faces, turning viewers into participants of a visual...
Theatre Designers Are Being Disrespected – and I Should Know
Australian independent theatre is increasingly treating design as an afterthought, despite its role in storytelling. Productions often allocate minimal budgets—sometimes as low as $600 AUD (≈$400 USD)—and compress technical rehearsals from a week‑long process to a single day. This rush...
Autistic Scottish Artist Nnena Kalu Wins Turner Prize, Shattering Glass Ceiling
Scottish artist Nnena Kalu, who is autistic, has won the 2025 Turner Prize, taking home £25,000 ($33,300). Her victory is hailed as a breakthrough for neurodiverse artists and a signal that the prize is evolving beyond traditional expectations.
UBS X Art Basel Collaboration Yields Exclusive Signed Poster
Art. Capital. Strategy. 🎨🎲 UBS × @artbasel curated by @eli_schein — exquisite. Signed poster secured. Silver dice pending. Featuring jckbtchr via silkarthouse. 🎬 Edited subtitled interview with jackbutcher coming later — watch this space. For now — sharing images. Thank you @beijingdou — Partner, Co‑COO & CSO...
Limited-Edition Signed “Sea of Steps” Print, Only 25
🎨 Atelier: Sea of Steps at Wells. Signed, Limited Edition Print of 25no. https://t.co/OzVEuFM9Vn https://t.co/OJk2HIJCQu
12 Famous Portraits vs the Real People
“12 Famous Portraits vs the Real People” is a newsletter article that uncovers the hidden biographies behind iconic paintings by Van Gogh, Klimt and Mucha. It reveals surprising details such as Van Gogh’s 13‑year‑old sitter Adeline Ravoux paying roughly $0.70...
Jeff Koons 1970s Interviews Collaged, Surprising Final Line
These are all actual clips culled from Koons interviews, dating from the 1970s, sewn together into one. Save for the last line... :) https://t.co/foORITtIxJ
Two Coats Resident Artist Dale Emmart, April 12–17, 2026
Two Coats of Paint welcomed Dale Emmart as its resident artist from April 12‑17, 2026, showcasing a series of rope‑centric paintings and works on paper. Emmart’s practice uses rope as a neutral visual device to evoke labor, control, and the...
‘Tell Me Your Worst’
Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck, renowned for her indirect portraiture, instructed models to look away, a practice reflected in her self‑portraits that balance evasiveness and assertiveness. Born in Helsinki in 1862, she earned a scholarship to the Finnish Art Society’s drawing...
Sense of Abstraction
Japanese photographer Yasuhiro Ogawa presents his decade‑long “Lost in Kyoto” series at Buchkunst Berlin. The abstract images move away from typical travel photography, using mist, blur and hand‑ground lenses to convey Kyoto’s layered history. Over 10 million foreign tourists visited Kyoto...
Public Collapses Become Art in STEFDIES' Absurd Performance
STEFDIES is the artistic persona that has made collapsing in public her art. Part performance, part photography, part absurdist humour - read my interview with her via @Londonist >> https://t.co/GswnWiEPnw #LondonArtCritic https://t.co/Ltjn61wHBy
Pingtung County Museum of Art Opens with $25 Million Japanese Art Exhibition
The Pingtung County Museum of Art in southern Taiwan opened on March 28 with the inaugural exhibition “Flowers in Full Bloom,” featuring 58 pieces by 16 top Japanese artists. Valued at roughly NT$8 billion (about $25 million), the show marks the largest...
Labubu Gets a Star Turn on the Big Screen—Plus a Rundown of the Latest in Asia’s Art World
Hong Kong artist Kasing Lung’s character Labubu is moving from toy shelves to a live‑action/CGI feature film, produced by Pop Mart and Sony Pictures and directed by Paul King. The announcement coincides with a busy week in Asia’s art world: Art Basel...
Nicole M. Morris Johnson on The Souths in Her
Nicole M. Morris Johnson’s new book *The Souths in Her* examines how Black women writers and choreographers across the United States, Caribbean, and West Africa forged innovative expressive forms. The title, drawn from Ntozake Shange, pluralizes “South” to capture both geographic...
Albuquerque Foundation / Bernardes Arquitetura
The Albuquerque Foundation in Sintra, Portugal, has unveiled a new 4,000 m² cultural complex designed by Bernardes Arquitetura, slated for completion in 2025. The project restores the historic Quinta de São João estate while adding underground galleries, glass‑walled pavilions, and a...
Cathrin Hoffmann at Public Gallery, London
Public Gallery in London has opened Sill, a solo show by Berlin‑based artist Cathrin Hoffmann featuring new paintings and sculptures that confront the physical and psychological strain of information overload. The works abandon exaggerated gestures for durational poses rendered in a...
Bulgari Unveils 160‑Piece Eclettica High‑Jewellery Collection at Milan Fashion Night
Bulgari presented its Eclettica high‑jewellery collection at Milan Fashion Night 2026, showcasing over 160 pieces, including 50 million‑dollar jewels and 14 transformable creations. The launch, attended by stars such as Dua Lipa and Priyanka Chopra Jonas, underscores the brand’s shift...