Today's Art Pulse
Hypha Studios Launches Massive South Bank Cultural Hub
Hypha Studios will open its largest cultural destination, Hypha Gallery South Bank, on 25 June 2026 in Bankside. The venue offers 9,000 sq ft of exhibition space and over 4,000 sq ft of artist studios, supporting roughly 600 artists and returning 70% of sales revenue to creators.
Yoon Hyup: Quantize Off
Seoul‑born, New York‑based artist Yoon Hyup launches his first solo exhibition with Ruttkowski;68 in Paris, titled Quantize Off, running March 15‑April 12, 2026. The show translates the kinetic experience of walking, skating and cycling through urban streets into large‑scale acrylic paintings that prioritize line, dot patterns and colour as sensation. Hyup’s process begins outdoors, capturing fleeting impressions that are later re‑interpreted in the studio with intentional misalignments, creating a rhythm that feels both structured and spontaneous. The works present a fluid, memory‑driven geography of Paris intersecting with other city experiences.
Art Communities and Heritage in Iran, Moderate Recovery in the Art Market, Sydney Biennale—Podcast
The podcast examines how ongoing Middle East conflicts are damaging cultural heritage in Iran and Lebanon, prompting local communities to protect art and historic sites. It also reviews the Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report, which indicates a...
Jesus ‘N’ Mo ‘N’ Gender
The long‑running webcomic duo Jesus and Mo have resurrected their strip “Fluid” on Patreon, labeling it a “Friday Flashback from almost exactly 8 years ago.” The episode features Mo wearing a niqab as a visual cue for his feminine side,...
Take an Exclusive Look Inside Ulysses De Santi’s Los Angeles Home, a Shrine to Brazilian Modernism
Ulysses de Santi has transformed his 1930s Los Angeles hillside home into a living showcase of Brazilian modernist design, featuring museum‑quality pieces by José Zanine Caldas, Lina Bo Bardi, and others. The redesign introduces arches, limestone‑washed walls, and preserved black‑stained floors that...
A Visit to Tomás Saraceno’s Berlin Studio Delves Into a Deeply Empathetic Practice
Tomás Saraceno’s Berlin studio was featured in a new Art21 documentary that probes his collaborative, interdisciplinary practice. The film follows his team as they examine installations that mimic spider webs to explore how humans occupy space and relate to one...
“Tree Work” By Photographer Reave Dennison
Reave Dennison’s new series “Tree Work” showcases 29 silver‑gelatin prints documenting maritime and forestry labour in British Columbia, captured over five years while he worked as a log salvor and arborist. The exhibition opens at Pale Fire in Vancouver on March 19 and...
Portraits of Human Connection
Emmet Gowin’s new exhibition, *Baldwin Street: Photographs 1966‑1994*, opens at Pace Gallery in New York, showcasing three decades of intimate family portraits taken on his childhood street in Virginia. The body of work captures everyday moments—children at play, kitchen scenes,...
The Story Behind Iran’s only Van Gogh: ‘At Eternity’s Gate'
Vincent van Gogh’s 1882 lithograph *At Eternity’s Gate* – one of only seven surviving copies – resides in the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art after passing through Rockefeller, dealer Eugene Thaw, and Farah Pahlavi. The print, inscribed by Van Gogh in English, later...
Ministry of Awe Transforms Philadelphia Bank Into New Immersive Experience
Ministry of Awe, an immersive art experience, opens March 14 in Philadelphia’s Old City, housed in the historic 1870 Manufacturer’s National Bank. The six‑floor, 8,500‑sq‑ft venue showcases large‑scale installations, soundscapes, robotics, and AI‑enhanced environments created by Meg Saligman and over...
Find India’s Forgotten Jewels in Usha Balakrishnan’s New Book ‘Silver & Gold - Visions of Arcadia’
Usha R. Balakrishnan’s new volume *Silver & Gold: Visions of Arcadia* documents hundreds of Indian folk and tribal silver‑and‑gold ornaments, many drawn from the Amrapali Collection in Jaipur. The book blends art‑historical, anthropological and archival research to present a vivid picture of 19th‑20th‑century rural...
SGFA 105th Annual Exhibition + Scope for a VERY BIG Exhibition About Drawing at the Mall Galleries
The Society of Graphic Fine Art (SGFA) is holding its 105th Annual Open Exhibition at the Mall Galleries from March 9 to 14, 2026, with free public admission. The show underscores the Mall Galleries’ growing role as a venue for national art...
Nat Faulkner: The Stuff of Photography
Nat Faulkner’s 2026 Camden Art Centre exhibition reframes photography as a chemical and physical act rather than a purely visual one. Installations like *Aperture (Iodine)* use iodine‑filled panels to bathe the space in amber light, while *Aqua Fortis* and *Moth‑catcher*...
Leonardo Drew at Pace Prints
Leonardo Drew presents his fifth solo exhibition at Pace Prints in New York, running March 19‑April 25, 2026. The show highlights new hand‑made paper‑pulp editions, monoprints, and large wall‑relief assemblages developed through a 15‑year collaboration with Pace Paper. Using custom...
Craig Jun Li: Scrapping the Camera
Craig Jun Li’s solo show at Chapter NY revisits analog photography by dismantling camera components and presenting them as silicone‑based wall installations. The works pair distorted dye‑transfer prints of projector interiors with Polaroid images, and incorporate actual SX‑70 springs, foregrounding...
Anime Revival Screenings Are Having a Moment
Anime studios are capitalizing on 4K theatrical revivals, with recent screenings of Jin‑roh: The Wolf Brigade and Macross Plus drawing weeks‑long runs at Japanese multiplexes. Legacy titles such as Princess Mononoke, Angel’s Egg, and upcoming Tekkonkinkreet have generated box‑office revenues that rival...
Alan Davie’s Art Class
Alan Davie, the Scottish painter who equated visual art with free‑jazz improvisation, inspired a Tate‑produced video that stages a live feedback loop between his paintings, a jazz trio, and art students. The experiment captures musicians improvising to Davie’s canvases, students...
Ancient Scottish Artifacts Inspire Modern Jewels
Ellis Mhairi Cameron, a Scottish fine jeweler based in London, transforms ancestral clan artifacts into sculptural gold and diamond pieces. Her recent Sgian‑Dubh collection showcases hand‑engraved ceremonial knives set with old‑cut diamonds, while upcoming gold kilt pins continue the heritage theme....
Season 7 Ep. 10: J. M. W. Turner, Brighthelmston, Sussex
In this episode of Painting of the Week, hosts Phil Grabski and Laura Bentham sit down with Tate Britain senior curator Amy Concanon to discuss the Turner and Constable exhibition and, in particular, J.M.W. Turner's 1824 watercolor "Brighton, Sussex for...
Allison Janae Hamilton’s Atmospheric ‘Venus of Ossabaw’ Film Commission
Allison Janae Hamilton’s debut narrative film, Venus of Ossabaw, premiered on March 13 as a commission for Telfair Museums’ “Off the Coast of Paradise” exhibition. Backed by VIA Art Fund, the project was shot on‑site on Georgia’s remote Ossabaw Island, blending intensive...
With ‘Love Is the Final Word,’ Leonard Baby Pauses a Moment of Emotional Gravity
Leonard Baby, a 29‑year‑old New York artist, is presenting his painting “Love Is the Final Word” in the solo exhibition Resting Babyface at Villa Carlotta, Los Angeles, curated by Half Gallery. The work, a dry‑brush watercolor on panel that resembles...
Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way @ Buffalo AKG Art Museum
The Buffalo AKG Art Museum launches *Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way*, a six‑month installation featuring 58 contemporary Latinx artists. The exhibition, curated by Andrea Alvarez, groups works into seven thematic clusters that explore history, identity, land, community, and...
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe | Seagram Building
In this episode of Who Arted, host Kyle Wood explores the life and work of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, tracing his early apprenticeship, Bauhaus leadership, and emigration to Chicago where he shaped the International Style. Wood highlights Mies’s philosophy...
Why Modern Art Museum Dib Bangkok Is a Must-Visit Destination in Thailand
Thailand’s capital has added a world‑class contemporary art venue with the opening of Dib Bangkok, a three‑storey museum housed in a repurposed warehouse in Khlong Toei. Designed by Kulapat Yantrasast and Architects 49, the space features a minimalist aesthetic inspired by...
What the Art Basel and UBS Market Report Tells Us About the State of the Art World
The Art Basel and UBS 2025 market report shows global art sales rebounding 4% to $59.6 billion, ending two years of decline. Auctions led the recovery with a 9% rise, driven by high‑price works over $10 million, while dealer sales nudged up...
Nicolas Deshayes
In this episode of TalkArt, host Robert Diamant interviews sculptor Nicolas Deshayes, exploring his unconventional use of industrial materials like vacuum‑formed plastics, polystyrene, and cast iron to create body‑referencing installations. Deshayes discusses his early vacuum‑form works, the tactile, skin‑like qualities...
An Hoang at Halsey McKay
An Hoang’s solo show “Garden Poems” opened at Halsey McKay in East Hampton on February 7, 2026 and will run through March 29, 2026. The exhibition presents a body of work centered on botanical imagery, poetic narrative, and subtle abstraction, documented through 33 high‑resolution photographs. No video elements...
First Nations Ceramics Exhibition Of This Earth Starts National Tour in Cairns
The National Gallery of Australia has launched the touring exhibition "Of This Earth: Transforming Culture and Country through First Nations Ceramics" in Cairns, showcasing 29 works by 28 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists. The show highlights both ancient clay...
SCMP Political Cartoonist Harry Harrison’s New Year of the Horse Collection to Be Auctioned
South China Morning Post’s veteran cartoonist Harry Harrison is debuting a new “Year of the Horse” collection, featuring eight original watercolour and ink illustrations that will be auctioned by The Store by SCMP. Bidding opens on March 13 and runs...
Hughie O’Donoghue Explores Collective Memory in New York – Miranda Carroll
Irish artist Hughie O’Donoghue presents his first solo exhibition in New York, "Time and The Architecture of Memory," at 447 SPACE. The show features nine works spanning 2003‑2026 that fuse painting, photography and sculpture on unconventional supports such as tarpaulin...
Remembering Neon Artist and Glass-Bending Master Wil Kirkman
Wil Kirkman, a Boise‑based neon artist and glass‑bending specialist, passed away from cancer in 2025, leaving a legacy as one of Idaho's last practitioners of the craft. Known for creating and repairing intricate glass light fixtures, he worked with neon...
Kim Gordon Was Always an Artist First
Kim Gordon, co‑founder of Sonic Youth, continues to prioritize visual art alongside music. In March 2026, Amant in Brooklyn launches two concurrent shows: her solo survey “Count Your Chickens” and the group exhibition “Folded Group,” co‑curated with Bill Nace. The...
Brian Eno and 200+ Artists Urge British Museum to “Stop Erasing Palestine”
Over 200 artists, including Brian Eno, have sent an open letter to the British Museum demanding it stop "erasing Palestine" after the museum altered wall texts in its Middle East galleries, replacing terms like "Palestinian descent" with "Canaanite descent". The petition...
Town Hall Presents — Her Stories Untold Curated by Virginia Damtsa
Town Hall by Bottaccio launches its inaugural cultural program with the exhibition “Her Stories Untold,” curated by Virginia Damtsa and partnered with Annie Lennox’s feminist charity The Circle. Running from March 25 to July 1, 2026, the show surveys how...
Kim Gordon Was Always an Artist First
In this episode of The Art Angle, Kim Gordon discusses her multifaceted practice as an artist first, highlighting her simultaneous solo exhibition "Count Your Chickens," the group show "Full Folded Group" she co‑curated, and the release of her new album...
Satirical Trump‑Epstein Installation Tests First Amendment on Mall
A new satiric art installation featuring President Donald J. Trump and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was just installed on the National Mall under a permit, entitled “The King of the World.” This iteration comes with a line of “Make...
Collector Bob Rennie Donates 24 Works to National Gallery of Canada
The National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa received a gift of 24 contemporary artworks from collector Bob Rennie and his family, bringing their total donations to 284 since 2012. The donation includes 17 pieces by Christopher Williams, two by Kerry James Marshall, four...
Netflix Is Developing a Series About Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera
Netflix announced a scripted series chronicling the lives of Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. The drama adapts French author Claire Berest’s biography and will be directed by Patricia Riggen and Gabriel Ripstein, with María Renée Prudencio as head writer. Production is in early...
Uncanny Valley: The Oil Paintings of the Late Eyvind Earle Still Have A Resounding Influence on Artists & Viewers Today
Eyelid‑spanning artist Eyvind Earle turned his mythic vision into iconic oil landscapes that still shape visual storytelling. His work for Disney, especially the hand‑painted backgrounds of Sleeping Beauty, redefined fairytale aesthetics while nearly bankrupting the studio’s animation unit. Beyond film, Earle’s linocut Christmas...
Thomas J Price’s Tallest Sculpture Rises Outside London’s V&A East
Thomas J. Price unveiled his largest work yet, the 18‑foot bronze sculpture *A Place Beyond*, outside the soon‑to‑open V&A East in London. The figure, a casually dressed woman without a smartphone, challenges classical sculpture conventions and highlights everyday identity. The...
What Happens When Art Experts And AI Disagree On Authentication?
Swiss AI firm Art Recognition has asserted an 86 % probability that the Caravaggio‑style painting at Badminton House is authentic, directly contradicting long‑standing scholarly consensus that it is a copy. The company’s algorithm, trained on curated datasets of verified works and...
Picnic, Objects in Public: London Open Call for Sculpture and Performance in the Urban Landscape
The "Picnic, Objects in Public" open call invites London‑based artists to relocate everyday household items into streets and parks, turning tables, chairs and other domestic objects into sculptural or performative interventions. The project explores how these objects shed their private...
Donna Distefano Recreates Centuries-Old Jewelry for the Frick Collection
Goldsmith Donna Distefano has launched the Frick Collection’s “Off the Canvas” line, crafting jewelry that mirrors pieces depicted in historic portraits by Hans Holbein and Anthony van Dyck. She employs metalworking techniques that trace back to the Etruscans, even melting...
Victor Vasarely’s Crumbling Aix Legacy to Be Restored
Victor Vasarely’s foundation in Aix‑en‑Provence, a historic Op Art museum, is finally receiving major restoration after decades of neglect and dwindling state support. Government funding now covers 85 % of the €12 million budget, enabling roof, cladding and climate‑control upgrades, while the foundation...
Joe Moss, Drones and Caspar David Friedrich
Joe Moss’s new installation *Automated Fantasy Procedure* at Matt’s Gallery revives the post‑internet aesthetic of the late 2000s while injecting fresh concerns about drone warfare and machine agency. Small research drones hover above visitors, while dual screens project a mash‑up...
CARC Presents NEITHER / NOR at Indra Gallery
From March 2‑5, Indra Gallery in London hosted NEITHER / NOR, a group show organized by the Centre for Arts, Research and Culture (CARC) with the Nina Miller Collection. Curated by Michaëla Hadji‑Minaglou and Alina Khalitova, the exhibition paired historic lithographs by Paul...
Boros Collection in Berlin, Germany
The Reichsbahnbunker, a 1940s Nazi-era railway shelter in Berlin, has been repurposed by media entrepreneur Christian Boros into a private contemporary art museum and his residence. After a five‑year, costly renovation that preserved concrete walls and wartime relics, the 3,000 m²...
Hockney Unveils New Normandie Paintings at Serpentine
David Hockney in his studio, working on new paintings for his exhibition ‘A Year in Normandie and Some Other Thoughts About Painting’. @serpentineuk 12 March - 23 August 2026 Serpentine North Free entry - All photos and videos by Jean-Pierre Gonçalves de Lima ©️...
Tabletop Transformed Into Moody, Nostalgic Watercolor Art
My IG saves from this week…tabletop as watercolor art. Moody, nostalgic, can’t quite put my finger on the feeling. https://t.co/ZjfHGJcIIM
Watch a Trailer for the Bob Dylan Center’s Thin Wild Mercury: Dylan 1966 Exhibition
The Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa will launch the "Thin Wild Mercury: Dylan 1966" exhibition on July 18, offering an immersive, multi‑media retrospective of Dylan’s pivotal year. Curator Mark Davidson describes 1966 as a combative, iconic period when Dylan produced...
Carmen Mardonez: Chromatic Solace
TM Gallery in London launches "Chromatic Solace," a solo exhibition by Chilean textile artist Carmen Mardonez, running March 20‑June 5, 2026. The show features a new six‑metre‑wide embroidered installation and pieces from her Textildermy series, created from discarded domestic textiles....