Today's Art Pulse
Venice Biennale Jury Resigns, Prompting Massive Auction by Joe Lewis
The 2026 Venice Biennale’s international jury quit en masse, forcing organizers to postpone awards and shift to visitor‑selected prizes. Meanwhile, British billionaire Joe Lewis will auction a £150‑200 million private collection at Sotheby’s London, the UK’s most valuable single‑owner sale to date.
So An AI Has Just Declared A Painting By A Street Artist More Valuable Than A Picasso. Questions Abound
A multimodal AI model was trained on millions of artwork images to predict auction prices based solely on visual features. In a striking test, the system assigned a sub‑$1,000 value to a Picasso while estimating a seven‑figure price for an unknown street artist’s piece, suggesting higher visual quality. The model only matched real‑world prices after incorporating metadata such as artist name and provenance, exposing the limits of visual‑only valuation. The experiment highlights how entrenched market biases, not artistic merit, drive prices in the contemporary art world.
Les Rendez-Vouz De Gary
Artforum revisits the 1983 interview “Getting Ready for the Golden Eighties” between writer Gary Indiana and filmmaker Chantal Akerman. Indiana describes Akerman’s cinema as inviting viewers to notice subtle disturbances within the frame rather than conventional plot points. Their dialogue...
Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel, Chicago Announces 2026 Artist-in-Residence Ronnie Frey
Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel in Chicago announced photographer Ronnie Frey as its 2026 Artist-in-Residence. The exhibition, featuring Frey’s "Doorways of Chicago" series, will run from May 13 through November 15, 2026 inside the iconic Aqua Tower. A private reception on...
Martha Graham’s Revolution Continues
The Martha Graham Dance Company celebrated its centennial with a star‑studded gala, a PBS documentary, a short tour, and a five‑night run at New York’s City Center. The program juxtaposed iconic works such as “Appalachian Spring” and “Night Journey” with pieces by...
Newsmakers: Nalini Malani Lets the Walls Speak with a New Installation in Venice
Nalini Malani's new installation *Of Woman Born* will open in Venice's Magazzini del Sale during the Venice Biennale. The work projects tens of thousands of hand‑drawn images onto the crumbling 15th‑century brick walls, creating a cave‑like animation that references myth,...
Marina Abramović: Historic Dell’Accademia Exhibition Announced During Venice Biennale 2026
Marina Abramović will be the first living woman artist to receive a major solo exhibition at Venice’s Gallerie dell’Accademia, opening May 6 and running through October 19, 2026, in tandem with the 61st Venice Biennale Arte. The show, titled “Transforming Energy,” marks her...
Inside Artists’ Studios: Vulnerability Fuels Creative Breakthroughs
Veteran photographer Rohit Chawla’s new book, Portrait of an Artist, opens the doors to 67 Indian studios, exposing the raw, often uncomfortable rituals that drive creation. From F.N. Souza’s hostile relationship with paint to Paresh Maity’s morning yoga, the work argues...
Met Gala 2026 Unveils 'Costume Art' Theme, Dress Code and Celebrity Hints
The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that the 2026 Met Gala on May 4 will revolve around the 'Costume Art' theme and a 'Fashion Is Art' dress code, urging guests to treat clothing as wearable sculpture. Organizers also noted the...
Shuning Zheng Wins New York Art Award for “Memory of the Sea” At 2026 ArtExpo
Chinese artist Shuning Zheng was awarded the New York Art Award for her sculpture “Memory of the Sea,” presented at ArtExpo New York’s Creative Art Trophy exhibition. The accolade underscores her growing influence in the contemporary art world and highlights...
Digital Art Pioneer Nancy Burson Collapses the Border Between Mysticism and Quantum Physics
Nancy Burson’s solo show "Light Matter" at Heft Gallery showcases her new "Quantum Entanglement" paintings, which reveal jittering static and hidden color when viewed through a phone camera. The works embody her lifelong quest to visualize the universe’s energy grid,...
Spice up Your Life: Tate Channels 90s Glam at The Groucho Club
Tate Britain announced its autumn blockbuster, "The 90s: Art and Fashion," running from 8 October 2026 to 14 February 2027. The exhibition, curated by Dominique Heyse‑Moore and an all‑women team, showcases seminal figures such as Damien Hirst, Corinne Day, Helen Chadwick and Jenny Saville. Former...
Hayden Dunham’s “NEVER IS OVER” Unfolds Cosmic Connection in New York Exhibition
Hayden Dunham’s third solo show, "NEVER IS OVER," opens at Company Gallery in New York on April 30, 2026. The immersive exhibition fuses sculpture, sound and video, featuring a 526‑hertz black‑hole frequency and floating lilies that suggest cosmic reunion. Sealed...
Hans Rosenström Transforms Four Freedoms Park with Immersive Sound Installation Out of Silence
Finnish artist Hans Rosenström is debuting "Out of Silence," a site‑specific sound installation at Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park on Roosevelt Island. The work runs from April 29 through June 21 2026 and fills Louis Kahn’s riverside monument with a 15‑minute,...
Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair Returns May 7–10
Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair returns May 7‑10 at the ArtCenter South Campus in Pasadena, featuring 250 exhibitors ranging from established publishers to emerging collectives. The four‑day event offers a mix of talks, panels, live music, and the Project Spaces...
SCULPTURE IN THE GARDEN: THE STORYTELLERS
From May 1 to July 5, 2026, Worcester College in Oxford unveils “Sculpture in the Garden: The Storytellers,” a free, open‑air exhibition featuring 15 contemporary figurative sculptors from across the globe. The works, ranging from Antony Gormley’s bronze forms to Leila Babirye’s culturally...
Rafał Zajko Is Hatching a Plan
Polish artist Rafał Zajko launches his ambitious installation series *The Egg Egg* at Arsenal Gallery in Białystok, running through 10 May. The exhibition assembles 50 works created over the past decade, organized into nine “acts” that weave brutalist architecture, camp sensibility,...
The Master of Appropriation: Inside a Major New Richard Prince Exhibition
The Albertina Museum in Vienna has opened a landmark exhibition of American conceptual artist Richard Prince, showcasing roughly 150 works, many of them never before displayed. The show spans Prince's photographic practice from the 1970s to the present, featuring hallmark...
Art Basel Launches ‘Basel Exclusive’ to Ban Pre‑Fair Sales and Boost On‑Site Discovery
Art Basel has introduced a “Basel Exclusive” initiative that asks participating galleries to withhold works from pre‑fair previews, encouraging collectors to discover pieces on‑site. Around 170 of the fair’s 232 exhibitors have signed up for the policy ahead of the...
Yinka Ilori: Joy Through Resistance He Who Laughs Last, Laughs Best
Yinka Ilori launches his first solo exhibition in London, "Joy Through Resistance," at Cristea Roberts Gallery from June 5 to July 11, 2026. The show assembles more than 20 pieces across painting, printmaking, sculpture, and an immersive sound installation that...
“How Deep Does Your Love Reach?”: Del Valle’s Mundos Rotos
Kianí Del Valle premiered her solo dance work “Mundos Rotos” at Mexico City’s TONO Festival on March 21, 2024, marking the anniversary of the Ponce massacre. The three‑act piece blends contemporary choreography, live music by Kelman Duran, and visual‑art elements, reflecting a broken‑world metaphor....
The Venice Biennale 2026: The Pavilion Hit List
The 61st Venice Biennale opens May 6‑10, 2026, spotlighting a curated set of national pavilions that push artistic boundaries. Bulgaria’s "The Federation of Minor Practices" offers an interactive, film‑based environment that interrogates future possibilities. Canada’s Abbas Akhavan presents "Entre chien et loup,"...
Margaret Fuller Bronze Sculpture Donated to Concord Library
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Enter Art Fair: Dynamic Curation
Enter Art Fair, Scandinavia’s premier international art fair, returns to Copenhagen from August 27‑30, 2026 at the historic Lokomotivværkstedet. The eighth edition showcases 80 leading galleries, including 28 newcomers, spanning photography, painting, sculpture and installation. A robust talks programme will...
Titian's ‘Bacchus and Ariadne’ to Get a Refresh with Bank Conservation Grant
Bank of America’s annual art conservation programme is funding the restoration of Titian’s 1520‑23 masterpiece *Bacchus and Ariadne* at London’s National Gallery. The work will be transferred to a new fabric support and any paint loss will be repaired, marking...
Liu Ding and Carol Yinghua Lu to Curate 2027 Istanbul Biennial
Liu Ding and Carol Yinghua Lu have been appointed curators of the 19th Istanbul Biennial, scheduled for 18 September to 14 November 2027. Both are veteran Chinese curators—Ding a Beijing‑based artist and professor, Lu a director of Beijing’s Inside‑Out Art...
Sharjah Biennial 2027 Announces Theme and Artists
The Sharjah Art Foundation has revealed the 2027 Sharjah Biennial, titled “What remains, sits restive.” Curated jointly by Angela Harutyunyan and Paula Nascimento, the edition will run from 21 January to 13 June 2027. Harutyunyan’s program features 55 artists exploring the afterlives of...
From Intimate Still Lives to Shadowed Saints: The Many Sides of Spanish Painter Francisco De Zurbarán Go on Show at...
The National Gallery in London has opened a comprehensive survey of Spanish Baroque master Francisco de Zurbarán, showcasing his famed saint portraits alongside intimate still‑lifes, late devotional works, and a reconstructed tier of a 15‑metre altarpiece from the Charterhouse of Jerez...
Frieze New York 2026 Expands Focus Strand to Spotlight Emerging Artists
Frieze New York’s 15th edition has enlarged its Focus strand, featuring 11 galleries that showcase emerging artists and deepening ties with local institutions. The move aims to bridge new talent with New York’s collectors, museums, and broader market.
23 Most Famous Painters In The World
The article ranks the 23 most famous painters, spanning from Renaissance icons like Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo to modern innovators such as Andy Warhol and Frida Kahlo. It highlights each artist’s signature works and the movements they defined, from...
Final Book in Trilogy Asks: What Is the Future of the Art World?
András Szántó’s third book, *The Future of the Art World: 38 Dialogues*, gathers conversations with 38 leading figures—from gallerists and collectors to artists and cultural diplomats—to probe the evolving role of museums and the broader art ecosystem. The contributors disagree...
Xin Zhang: A New Perspective
Xin Zhang, a London‑Beijing multidisciplinary artist born in 2002, employs Shibari‑inspired rope techniques across sculpture, performance, and painting to interrogate intimacy, resistance, and gendered bodies. Her immersive installations, such as “Tactile Threshold,” invite audiences to physically engage with themes of...
Dataland, World’s First A.I. Arts Museum, Will Open in June, and Other News.
Dataland, billed as the world’s first museum devoted to AI‑generated art, will open on June 20 at The Grand LA in downtown Los Angeles. Its inaugural show, “Machine Dreams: Rainforest,” uses massive environmental data sets to create immersive, multi‑sensory installations. Meanwhile,...
7 ‘Body Types’ in the Met’s ‘Costume Art’ Fashion Exhibition
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute has opened “Body Types,” a fashion exhibition curated by Andrew Bolton that showcases seven distinct silhouettes spanning centuries. The show weaves together garments—from Dutch‑era lace bibs to 18th‑century Japanese breastplates and a Degas‑inspired...
How Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne Came to Dominate the Design World
Claude Lalanne shattered a design auction record when a suite of 15 gilt‑bronze mirrors sold for $33.5 million at Sotheby’s, surpassing her husband François‑Xavier Lalanne’s $31.4 million Hippopotame Bar sale. The milestone highlights the ascent of high‑end design objects into blue‑chip territory....
New Sculpture Adds to Artwork at Bengaluru’s Kempegowda Airport
Bengaluru’s Kempegowda International Airport unveiled “Bengaluru’s Soul,” a monumental stainless‑steel sculpture by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa at the Arrival Forecourt of Terminal 2. Measuring 5 m × 3.19 m × 3.75 m, the work reflects the city’s diversity, creativity and global outlook. The piece is part of the airport’s...
This Designer Left Jaguar – and Now Makes Ultra-Luxury Chairs
Ian Callum, the former design director of Jaguar, has entered the ultra‑luxury furniture market with the hand‑crafted CALLUM lounge chair. Produced in his Warwick studio in England’s Midlands, only one or two chairs are assembled each month, with a total...
John Brack X Noel McKenna Review: National Portrait Gallery’s Masterful Pairing of Two Great Australian Painters
The National Portrait Gallery in Canberra is showcasing “John Brack × Noel McKenna: A face in the mirror,” a curated pairing of two iconic Australian painters. The show juxtaposes Brack’s mid‑century portraits with McKenna’s contemporary works, using a distinctive aubergine backdrop to highlight visual and thematic links. Around...
The Monthly Interview: Johanna Jaskowska
Johanna Jaskowska, a digital artist known for viral Instagram AR filters, is now exploring artificial intelligence in fashion, beauty, and art. Speaking at the Offf festival in Barcelona, she argued that AI is often mis‑marketed as a plug‑and‑play solution that...
Robert Rauschenberg Retrospective Opens at Kunsthalle Krems, Marking His 100th Birthday
A major retrospective of Robert Rauschenberg opened at Kunsthalle Krems, inaugurated by Austrian state governor Johanna Mikl-Leitner. The show, titled “Robert Rauschenberg. Image and Gesture,” underscores the artist’s global influence and positions the Lower Austrian region as a hub for...
Dries Van Noten Opens Fondazione Dries Van Noten Creative Hub in Venetian Palazzo
Belgian fashion icon Dries Van Noten opened the non‑profit Fondazione Dries Van Noten on April 25 in the 15th‑century Palazzo Pisani Moretta on Venice’s Grand Canal. The foundation’s inaugural exhibition, “The Only True Protest Is Beauty,” showcases over 200 works that...
Dior Unveils "Crafting Fashion" Exhibition at Atlanta's SCAD FASH Museum
Dior has opened "Crafting Fashion," a museum‑level exhibition at SCAD FASH Museum in Atlanta, featuring almost 100 haute couture garments and the sketches, muslins, and mood boards that shape them. The show marks Dior’s first solo exhibition in the southeastern...
Elena Megalos’s Illustrated Essay Marries Motherhood with Cosmic Scale at the AMNH
Artist and writer Elena Megalos unveiled an illustrated essay at the American Museum of Natural History that juxtaposes the intimate experience of motherhood with the museum’s 360‑foot ramp, a physical metaphor for 13 billion years of cosmic history. The piece, published...
I Feel Like My Screenshots Are Coming to Life Through the Oil Paintings Created by ArtbyEri
Artist ArtbyEri is turning ordinary video‑game screenshots into bespoke oil paintings, a feature highlighted in PC Gamer’s new “Character Select” column. The portfolio includes first‑person shooter scenes from Valorant and Call of Duty, nostalgic Halo recreations, and whimsical pieces from Hello Kitty Island Adventure...
Vulnerability at the Easel: How Artists’ Studios Unlock Creative Potential
Photographer Rohit Chawla’s book "Portrait of an Artist" captures 67 studios, exposing how vulnerability fuels creative breakthroughs. The work spotlights artists from Van Gogh to contemporary Indian painters, illustrating the studio as a crucible for human potential.
Portuguese Anozero Festival Turns to Anarchism, Threatens to Halt Biennial Over Development Plans
Coimbra’s Anozero biennial has re‑imagined its format around anarchist ideas, staging ghostly installations and confronting a government‑approved hotel conversion of its historic venue. Co‑founder Carlos Antunes says he will pull the plug if the redevelopment goes ahead, highlighting growing criticism...
From Czarist Russia to Civil Rights: Rebel Photography Saga
With one of the greatest living photographers, dannylyonphotos2 on the occasion of his latest book, “The Rebel’s Scrapbook.” It is a saga of political radicalism that begins in Czarist Russia and extends into the U.S. civil rights struggles. @dashwood_books
Beyond the Threshold: Revisiting Orientalism II
Colnaghi’s second Orientalist exhibition, Beyond the Threshold: Revisiting Orientalism II, shifts focus from geographic journeys to the literal and figurative doorways that framed Western artists’ encounters with the East. The show highlights how access—or lack thereof—to sacred spaces, market arches,...
Vladimir Grankovsky
Vladimir Grankovsky is an interdisciplinary creator who blends art, neuroscience and engineering to test the malleability of human perception. He has built a continuous‑wear VR system that induces out‑of‑body experiences, a custom EEG brain‑computer interface, and a sarcastic humanoid robot...
New York City Staging The In-Between with Sarah Ringrave by Myles Fucci
Sarah Ringrave’s latest exhibition, "Vessels Between," at Fugue Gallery explores transformation through mutable materials like oxidized gold leaf and wax, echoing the artist’s meditative subconscious visions. A near‑death diving experience fuels her fascination with the "in‑between" state, manifested in dissolving...
Stéphane Rolland Turns Barcelona Bridal Night Into Multidisciplinary Spectacle
French couturier Stéphane Rolland debuted at the 10th Barcelona Bridal Night, unveiling 80 bridal looks and a student‑crafted collection while integrating live orchestral music and poetry. The multidisciplinary gala signals a new direction for bridal fashion on the international stage.