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.
Art Central 2026 Opens with Record 117 Galleries and a Digital‑Culture Programme
Art Central 2026 opened on March 25 at Hong Kong’s Central Harbourfront, showcasing a record 117 galleries and over 500 artists. Curated by Zoie Yung, the fair’s creative programme foregrounds digital culture through installations, moving‑image works and performances, positioning Hong Kong as a pivotal node in the global contemporary art scene.
30 Iconic Feminist Works By Women Artists
The latest feature adds fifteen seminal feminist artworks to a previously published roster of thirty iconic pieces by women artists, extending the timeline from early first‑wave feminism to contemporary intersectional practice. The selection spotlights creators such as Edmonia Lewis, Mary...
What's Up in NY This Weekend?
The weekend of March 20‑22 in New York City is packed with free and low‑cost cultural programming, from the city‑wide Art House NY independent cinema week to major museum openings at MoMA and the New Museum. Highlights include the Frida & Diego exhibition...
Before the Whitney: Gagosian Visits Roy Lichtenstein S Brushstrokes by Scott Orr
Gagosian’s Chelsea gallery opens "Painting with Scattered Brushstrokes," a preview of Roy Lichtenstein’s brushstroke series ahead of the Whitney’s October retrospective. The show, running March 19‑April 25, pulls largely from the Lichtenstein family collection and highlights works from the 1970s...
Russia’s Pavilion at Venice Biennale Will Be Closed if It Features Propaganda, City’s Mayor Says
Mayor Luigi Brugnano warned that Venice will close Russia’s Biennale pavilion if it serves as a propaganda platform, reinforcing EU pressure to limit Russian cultural presence after the 2022 invasion. The Biennale’s president announced a “Biennale del Dissenso” space featuring...
TEFAF Maastricht 2026: What Sold And What The Dealers Said – Report
The 39th TEFAF Maastricht art fair attracted 50,000 visitors, featured 270 exhibitors from 22 countries, and generated an €86.4 million economic impact, with €37.9 million flowing directly to the city. Despite geopolitical uncertainty, the fair saw robust sales across categories, highlighted by...
Golnar Adili’s Family Archive
Golnar Adili’s Smack Mellon exhibition, “To Measure the Emotions of Others,” transforms family letters from the post‑1979 Iranian diaspora into sculptural and textual installations. The centerpiece, *Ye Harvest From the Eleven‑Page Letter–Installation*, repeats the Persian “ye” character in archival cardboard,...
Inside the British Museum's Samurai Exhibit with Yasuke Performer
Yesterday I giddily ran over to the britishmuseum to check out their #Samurai exhibition. We were lucky enough to speak to both curator joenickols and Yasuke performer from @assassins_uk Tongayi Chirisa
New Museum Reopens with Second Building, Doubling Space to 120,000 Sq Ft
The New Museum on New York’s Bowery reopened on March 21, 2026, after a ten‑year expansion that adds 62,000 sq ft, effectively doubling its exhibition footprint to roughly 120,000 sq ft. The project pairs the original SANAA tower with a new OMA‑designed structure, reshaping the...
Open Call: ABS Digital Art Prize 2026
The Arab Bank Switzerland (ABS) Digital Art Prize 2026 is now accepting worldwide applications, offering a $10,000 cash award and acquisition of the winning work for the ABS collection. The prize will be showcased in the curated "SYSTEMS" exhibition at...
A TikTok-Famous Model of New York City Heads to Museum Mile
Delivery driver Joe Macken spent two decades crafting a detailed balsa‑wood replica of New York City, comprising hundreds of thousands of miniature structures. The model went viral on TikTok, garnering over 10 million views and drawing widespread attention. In March 2026, the...
Alicia McCarthy Opens New Solo Show @ V1 Gallery, Copenhagen
Alicia McCarthy’s new solo exhibition opens at V1 Gallery in Copenhagen from March 13 to April 25, 2026. The show presents her signature abstract canvases that fuse 1960s‑style Op Art geometry with spontaneous, graffiti‑inspired gestures, drips and splashes. Rooted in the Mission School’s queer punk...
Subway Spaces Transform Into Unexpected Urban Art
Even the subway Can be a work of art h/t Bulovas
Paris Opens World's First Sufi Art Museum
Paris is not short of museums, but in 2024, it welcomed a unique addition: the world’s first museum dedicated to Sufi art & culture. Read more in my interview with the Claire Bay, President of the Board, for @worldofFAD >>...
Pizza the Action: Hong Kong Artists Critique ‘Hegemonic’ Venice Model
Ahead of Hong Kong Art Week, fifteen local artists have turned a Kowloon pizzeria into the pop‑up exhibition Ve(ry)nice. The project directly responds to the Hong Kong government‑run museum’s takeover of the Venice Biennale pavilion and its new open‑call structure. By mixing...
Why Ireland Is Giving a Basic Income to Artists – Podcast
The Irish government has launched a Basic Income for the Arts scheme, granting €325 (£283) per week to 2,000 eligible artists. A recent pilot demonstrated that the program not only recouped its net cost but also improved participants' wellbeing. Musicians...
Strandbeest Evolution 2025
Theo Jansen’s Strandbeest Evolution 2025 video showcases the latest generation of wind‑driven kinetic sculptures that have been iteratively refined since 1990. Each spring Jansen debuts a new “beast” on the Dutch coast, testing its performance against wind, sand and water....
Art Trendspotting at Art Fair Tokyo 2026: Craft Appreciation, Uncanny Valley Visuals
Art Fair Tokyo’s 20th edition gathered 141 galleries from Asia‑Pacific, Europe and North America at the Tokyo International Forum. The fair emphasized a blend of traditional craft and contemporary pop‑culture, featuring matcha‑tasting sessions, ceramic works, and a 16‑face wooden sculpture...
Switzerland’s Rietberg Museum to Return Benin Bronzes
Switzerland’s Museum Rietberg will return eleven Benin bronzes to Nigeria after Zurich signed a restitution agreement. The artifacts, looted during the 1897 British raid, include a mask, ivory tusk and a bracelet. Zurich’s mayor emphasized rectifying colonial injustices, while Nigeria’s...
Mexico’s Culture Ministry Urges eBay to Halt Sales of Pre-Hispanic Artefacts
Mexico’s Secretariat of Culture has flagged 195 pre‑Hispanic artefacts listed by the U.S.‑based eBay seller Coins Artifacts and formally asked the platform to halt the sales and return the items. The ministry’s letter cites Mexico’s 1827 export ban and alleges the...
Are We Entering a Post-Individual Era of Art?
In this episode of The Art Angle, host Ben Davis talks with post‑national artist Christopher Calendron Thomas about his practice that fuses AI‑generated imagery, deepfake video, and documentary footage to interrogate politics, technology, and identity. Thomas recounts his unconventional path...
Soho Solos
Great Pulteney Street Gallery hosts "Soho Solos" from June 10‑28, 2026, featuring four solo exhibitions by Soho Open prize winners Mandy Hudson, James Robert Morrison, Conor Quinn and Alice Sheppard Fidler. The artists were chosen from more than 2,000 entries...
Demi Danka: Co-Authored Terrains
Demi Danka’s solo exhibition “Co‑Authored Terrains” opens at Gillian Jason Gallery in London, running May 21‑June 27, 2026. The show presents cameraless works where light‑sensitive paper is treated with light, salt, water, air and pressure, turning photographic emulsion into a volatile painting surface....
How You Sound?
Meshell Ndegeocello’s 2024 Blue Note release *No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin* is a sonic‑theatre album that translates James Baldwin’s essays into avant‑garde jazz, gospel, and spoken‑word. The eight‑year project features a rotating cast of musicians, including Justin...
Louise Bourgeois’s Body Clock
Louise Bourgeois: Echoes of the Morning opens at PoMo in Trondheim, showcasing the artist’s late‑period gouaches alongside her iconic large‑scale sculptures and tapestries. The show centers on the 2006 installation *Peaux de lapins, chiffons ferrailles à vendre* and a series...
Becoming Through Pain Curated by Huma Kabakcı
The "Becoming Through Pain" exhibition, curated by Huma Kabakcı, opens at London’s Somers Gallery from March 26 to April 2, 2026, featuring eight international women artists. Their works treat pain not as a static condition but as a transformative force...
Major Collection of Indian Paintings and Calligraphy to Be Offered at Christie's
Christie’s will auction Indian paintings and calligraphy from the Seattle‑based Cowles collection in London on 28 April, with a total estimate exceeding £1.5 million. The lot is dominated by Mughal works spanning the 16th to mid‑19th centuries, including a Fraser Album piece...
Tate Britain Garden to Debut at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 with Barbara Hepworth Sculpture
Tate Britain will debut its first show garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026, titled The Tate Britain Garden. Central to the design is Barbara Hepworth’s limestone sculpture Bicentric Form, the first Tate collection work placed in a Chelsea garden....
Behind the Amedeo Modigliani Catalogue Raisonné
A six‑volume Amedeo Modigliani catalogue raisonné has been published, detailing a new three‑pillar methodology that blends scientific analysis, stylistic comparison, and provenance research. The project, led by art historian Marc Restellini, leverages early digital databases and modern imaging tools to...
Art Dubai 2026 to Be Postponed and Adapted in Response to Regional Conflict
Art Dubai has postponed its 20th‑anniversary fair from mid‑April to May 14‑17, 2026, and will reformat the event as a curated cultural gathering rather than a traditional exhibition. The organizers introduced a flexible fee structure, replacing fixed stand fees with...
How Yuval Sharon Integrated Technology Into Wagner
Director Yuval Sharon has transformed the Met Opera’s staging of Wagner’s *Tristan und Isolde* with cutting‑edge video projections and an immersive set designed by Es Devlin. The high‑tech production has generated buzz and helped lift ticket sales, offering a rare...
These Sensual Images Capture Queer London up Close
London’s latest queer photography showcase, "Exhalation," features Alexander Elkholm’s sensual portraits that fuse the precision of karate with the fluidity of dance. The exhibition, opening this month, captures intimate moments of LGBTQ+ bodies navigating the city’s streets and private spaces....
Jan Vorisek’s Flaccid Columns
Jan Vorisek’s “Elbows” installation at Arcadia Missa transforms mass‑market plastic column moulds into curving, hollow sculptures. The work pairs original ABS moulds with 3D‑printed articulations that bend the straight forms into worm‑like elbows. By using cheap Chinese‑made architectural kits, the...
Reuters Claims Banksy Is Robin Gunningham, Now Known as David Jones
Reuters announced it has identified the elusive street artist Banksy as Robin Gunningham, who changed his name to David Jones in 2008. The claim revives a decades‑long mystery, while a north‑London builder insists he is not the artist.
Dalí Painting that Inspired Schiaparelli Dress to Be Shown in UK for First Time
Salvador Dalí’s 1936 painting *Necrophiliac Spring*, long unseen in the United Kingdom, will be displayed at the Victoria and Albert Museum as part of the “Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art” exhibition running March 28‑November 1. The work, which inspired Elsa Schiaparelli’s celebrated 1938...
Project 2 | Dialogue: The 2Craigs
Project 2’s "The 2Craigs" series continues a year‑long visual call‑and‑response between photographer Craig Cutler and illustrator Craig Frazier, where each new image reacts instinctively to the previous one. The collaboration strips creative dialogue to its simplest form—no briefs, just immediate reaction. Recent releases include...
Rivals of the Landscape
The Tate Britain exhibition “Turner and Constable: Rivals and Originals” commemorates the 250th birthdays of J.M.W. Turner and John Constable, displaying over 150 paintings, sketches and objects that dramatize their historic rivalry. Curator Amy Concannon stages the 1831 Royal Academy hanging...
The Marbles & the Muses
In September 2006 a marble foot from the Parthenon frieze was reattached in Athens, marking the first return of a Parthenon piece since the early 1800s. The gesture sparked renewed calls for the full repatriation of the Elgin Marbles, now...
Sotheby’s and Gagosian Veteran Publishes a History of the Art Market, From the Renaissance to Today
Valentina Castellani, former Sotheby’s deputy director and Gagosian senior director, is releasing *Trading Beauty*, the first book to chronicle the art market from the Renaissance to the present. Published by Gagosian’s shop for $40 on May 1 and later distributed by...
Gustavo Nazareno: How to Grow a Flower From a Supernova
Gustavo Nazareno’s solo exhibition “How to Grow a Flower from a Supernova” opens at Opera Gallery Paris from 24 June to 17 July 2026, coinciding with Paris Couture Week. The show blends Afro‑Brazilian religious iconography, especially the Orixá Pombagira, with...
Domino Leaha’s Photos Document a Decade of Intimacy
Renowned photographer Domino Leaha releases "Unfulfilled," a photobook chronicling a decade of intimate moments with friends, lovers, and muses across London, Los Angeles, Milan, and New York. The project emphasizes feeling over formal composition, featuring candid portraits that capture the...
Glasgow International Announces Full 2026 Programme
Glasgow International has unveiled the full programme for its 11th biennial, scheduled from 5 to 21 June 2026 under the new artistic direction of Helen Nisbet. The festival will probe artistic experimentation, personal and ancestral memory, intergenerational kinship and cross‑cultural...
Russell T Davies’s Hit TV Series It’s a Sin to Be Adapted as ‘Visceral’ Dance Show
Russell T Davies’s award‑winning series *It’s a Sin* is being transformed into a visceral dance show by Rambert. Choreographer‑director Benoit Swan Pouffer will blend archival footage with contemporary movement, while Davies and the Pet Shop Boys act as executive producers. The production, co‑produced with...
Reuters' Controversial Attempt to Reveal Banksy's Identity
Why did Reuters feel compelled to dox Banksy? What to Know About Banksy and the Effort to Unmask Him https://t.co/gMAh8Sa9Ph
Powerhouse Arts Appoints Liz Munsell to Lead Curatorial Vision in Brooklyn’s Expanding Cultural Hub
Powerhouse Arts has named veteran curator Liz Munsell vice president of Curatorial and Arts Programs, tasking her with shaping exhibitions, public programmes and artist‑led production at its Brooklyn hub. Munsell brings nearly two decades of museum experience and a track...
Exhibition Explores How the US Shaped Joan Miró—And He It
The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC is hosting *Miró and the United States*, an exhibition that juxtaposes Joan Miró’s paintings, sculptures, and films with works by American contemporaries such as Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Helen Frankenthaler, Alexander Calder and Barnett...
Jay Chou's 'Children of the Sun' Album Named After Jacky Cheung's Nickname
Taiwanese pop icon Jay Chou will drop his 16th studio album, Children of the Sun, on March 25, marking his first full-length release in over three years. The album’s title stems from a playful nickname given by Hong Kong legend...
Peter Kennard’s STOP Published as War Returns to the Global Stage
Peter Kennard’s anti‑war book STOP, originally conceived in 1968 during the Vietnam conflict, has finally been published as global wars dominate headlines again. The visual-only volume marks Kennard’s shift from painting to photomontage, using cut‑up press images to portray war...
Puerto Rican Artist Gisela Colón’s Landmark Homecoming
Gisela Colón’s new exhibition “La Montaña, El Monólito” opened at Puerto Rico’s Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC) on March 14, presenting a 30‑year retrospective of her sculptural and painterly work. The show marks the artist’s first monographic presentation in her native island...
Team Data Art - Immersive Health Data
Team Data Art transforms Oura Ring health metrics into immersive generative visuals and sound, creating real‑time art that reflects the body’s internal state. The project blends physiology, technology, and creative strategy using p5.js, AI prompts, and wearable data. It aims...