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.
The Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance sprang from the Great Migration and World War I labor shifts, turning Harlem into a cultural epicenter for Black artists, writers, and musicians. Intellectuals like Alain Locke promoted the New Negro ethos, encouraging pride and self‑determination. Jazz innovators such as Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong broadcast the movement’s sound nationwide, while literary figures like Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston reshaped American literature. The era’s artistic confidence later fueled civil‑rights activism and continues to influence contemporary culture.
Humans Since 1982 Reimagines ClockClock 24
Stockholm studio Humans since 1982, famed for kinetic clock sculptures, has partnered with Bjarke Ingels Group and stone supplier SolidNature to reimagine its ClockClock 24 and A million Times 96 works in travertine. The ClockClock 24 features 24 synchronized dials on a 92 × 42 cm slab, limited...
Taiyo to Ame No Melody (Melody of Sun and Rain) at PALAS
Taiyo to Ame no Melody, a new contemporary art exhibition, opens at PALAS in Sydney from February 7 to March 28, 2026. The show features paintings and installations by Maureen Gallace, Trevor Shimizu, and Kazuyuki Takezaki, exploring themes of light, rain, and memory. Curated by...
Luc Tuymans at David Zwirner
Belgian painter Luc Tuymans presents a new solo exhibition, “The Fruit Basket,” at David Zwirner’s Los Angeles space from February 24 to April 4, 2026. The show features a series of large‑scale paintings that revisit still‑life motifs while probing post‑war European memory. Accompanying...
At Making Their Mark Forum, Art Figures Debate Gender Inequities in the Market and the Museum
The Making Their Mark forum gathered 350 art professionals to confront persistent gender inequities in museums and the market. Data presented showed women accounted for only 11% of museum acquisitions from 2008‑2022 and sold at 19‑42% discounts compared with male...
Haring Is Caring
Tomorrow, March 11, 2026, the Brant Foundation in New York’s East Village will open “Keith Haring,” an exhibition focusing on the artist’s formative 1980‑84 period. Curated by Vienna‑based husband‑and‑wife team Dieter Buchhart and Anna Karina Hofbauer, the show presents early...
Lost for More Than a Century, the First ‘Sci-Fi’ Film Ever Made Resurfaces
French filmmaker Georges Méliès’s 1897 short “Gugusse et l’Automate,” long considered lost, has been recovered and digitized for public viewing. The 45‑second slapstick piece, featuring a magician battling a robot, is now available online in 4K after Library of Congress...
New Public Art Biennial to Take over Dallas’s Urban Greenbelt Park
Texas will host its first public‑art biennial, the KTX Biennial, launching in spring 2027 along Dallas’s 3.5‑mile Katy Trail. Curated by Jovanna Venegas, the free, 18‑month exhibition will feature nearly a dozen works from global contemporary artists and coincide with the...
Chicago, Meet Your New ‘Neighbors’: Expo Gets a New Satellite Fair, In a Luxe Gold Coast Apartment
Mirka Serrato and London gallerist Jonny Tanna are launching Neighbors, a micro‑art fair that will occupy a 1,200‑square‑foot Gold Coast apartment during Expo Chicago (April 8‑12). The intimate venue, once owned by the Goodman family, will host a curated mix of...
Alma Allen Joins Perrotin After Split With Previous Galleries
Sculptor Alma Allen has signed with mega‑gallery Perrotin as he prepares to represent the United States at the 2026 Venice Biennale. The move follows a split with his former representatives, Mendes Wood DM and Olney Gleason, who dropped him after he accepted...
RISING 2026 Is Dominated by Dance and Contemporary Music
Melbourne’s winter festival RISING returns from 27 May to 8 June 2026 with a program dominated by contemporary dance and music. The inaugural Australian Dance Biennale anchors the dance lineup, featuring works from Oona Doherty, the Royal Family Dance Crew’s Polyswagg style, and a...
A Powerful Medieval Queen Returns—As an A.I. Avatar You Can Chat With
Leeds Castle in Kent has launched an interactive AI avatar of Eleanor of Castile, the 13th‑century queen who once owned the property. The digital figure, created with SKC Studios, can answer visitor questions and reacts to people approaching its screen....
This Basquiat Last Sold for $14.5 Million. Now It Could Fetch $45 Million
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s 1983 painting *Museum Security (Broadway Meltdown)* will be auctioned by Sotheby’s in May with a $45 million estimate, more than triple its 2013 sale price of $14.5 million. The work, created during Basquiat’s breakout year in Los Angeles, explores fame, power,...
Making Museums More ‘Touchable’
Sanné Mestrom’s interactive installation "The Whole is Greater Than the Sum of Her Parts" ran at the National Gallery of Australia from May to September 2025, inviting visitors to touch, climb and build with art. The tactile elements consistently held...
CARNAL KNOWLEDGE
Angelo Madsen’s 2025 documentary *A Body to Live In* chronicles the life of Roland Loomis, better known as Fakir Musafar, the self‑styled “Modern Primitive” who pioneered contemporary body‑modification and ritualized pain. The film weaves archival footage, Musafar’s own photography, and interviews...
Michael Joo Looks Back On His Career, With Another Venice Biennale Appearance on the Horizon
Michael Joo’s retrospective "Sweat Models 1991–2026" opened at Space ZeroOne, centering on the installation Concatenations built from a century of New York baking trays and archival ephemera. The show revisits his early biology‑infused practice while confronting a recent mishap in...
Everyday Life Electrified: Fragmented, Flickering Visuals
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Anonymous Artist James McQueen Launches New Solo Show at Halcyon Gallery
Anonymous British artist James McQueen has opened his latest solo exhibition, “A Beautiful Waste of Time,” at London’s Halcyon Gallery. The show features a new series of paintings that rework vintage paperback covers, employing dense, sanded layers of paint to evoke...
Curators Announced for 16th Baltic Triennial
Vilnius’s Contemporary Art Center has named artist Nikita Kadan and curator Natalia Sielewicz to lead the 16th Baltic Triennial, slated for 2027. The duo proposes a theme of grief and resurrection, reflecting the ongoing Russian‑Ukrainian conflict’s impact on the Baltic...
Maggi Hambling & Sarah Lucas, OOO LA LA, to Open in Berlin.
Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin presents OOO LA LA, a joint exhibition by British artists Maggi Hambling and Sarah Lucas, running March 13‑April 25, 2026. The show pairs Hambling’s intimate oil portraits with Lucas’s sculptural installations, highlighting their parallel development rather...
Emerson Bowyer Appointed Chief Curator of Kimbell Art Museum
Emerson Bowyer has been appointed chief curator of the Kimbell Art Museum, officially starting on March 5. The Sydney‑born scholar arrives from the Art Institute of Chicago, where he oversaw major acquisitions such as William Holman Hunt’s *The Shadow of Death*...
Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk on Image-Making in Wartime
Ukrainian artists Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk debut the "Pedagogies of War" exhibition in Madrid, running March 3‑June 21, 2026. The show features four multi‑channel video installations created since Russia’s 2022 invasion, each probing how conflict is visualized in a hyper‑mediated world. Works...
Italy Buys Rare Caravaggio Portrait for €30m
The Italian government has acquired a rare Caravaggio portrait for €30 million, one of the highest prices ever paid for artwork by the state. The painting, a 1598 depiction of Monsignor Maffeo Barberini—later Pope Urban VIII—was previously held in a private Florentine...
Quantum Art Bridges AI, Physics, and Creative Futures
Check out this interview of renowned data-sculpture artist Refik Anadol and myself on quantum art, by Firgun Ventures' Kris Naudts. I dive into into ancient Greece, relational quantum mechanics, diagrammatic languages, quantum natural language processing, and building a quantum guitar. Refik shares...
Vintage Vibes: Shinagawa’s Print Feels Like a 1958 Postcard
Sometimes it's pleasing when art is dated. This print by Takumi Shinagawa is like a getting a postcard from 1958. https://t.co/1LZaRne3rI
First Radiocarbon Dating of Ancient Art in France’s Dordogne Caverns
A French research team used non‑invasive spectroscopy to identify charcoal pigments in the Font‑de‑Gaume cave and collected four microscopic samples for accelerator mass spectrometry. Radiocarbon analysis dated three of the samples to between 13,162 and 13,461 years ago, confirming the...
An Animated Look at Noguchi’s Experimental Playgrounds That Were Never Built
Isamu Noguchi, famed for his stone sculptures and Akari lamps, envisioned a series of experimental playgrounds in the 1930s, most famously the “Play Mountain” that would transform a New York City block into an open‑ended, seasonal play environment. The plan...
Tracey Emin: "I've Lived My Life for Art"
British artist Tracey Emin’s new Tate exhibition, “A Second Life,” juxtaposes her iconic early pieces such as *My Bed* with recent works that reflect her health battles, sobriety and return to Margate. Emin speaks candidly about living with a urostomy,...
Beeple: Lets The Dogs Out At Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin
Digital artist Beeple's "Regular Animals"—a pack of ten AI‑powered robotic dogs wearing the faces of tech billionaires, dead artists and the creator himself—will be on view at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie from April 29 to May 10. The robots, which sold for $100,000...
Could These Insect Manicures Help You Face You Fears?
Glasgow‑based nail artist Yulia Grigorjeva is turning real insect wings, beetle shells and other tiny organic fragments into high‑gloss manicures. Her work, often flagged with a trypophobia warning, embeds porous textures beneath a clear lacquer, creating miniature ecosystems on each...
Breath Resonance
The "Breath Resonance" project proposes using recorded human breath as a living artistic medium and a certificate of authenticity in an AI‑dominated creative landscape. By capturing the artist’s breathing rhythm and inviting audiences to synchronise their own breath, the installation...
Materialized Enhancements
Materialized Enhancements is a hackathon‑born platform that lets users pick real gene‑therapy targets—such as Follistatin for muscle growth or VEGF for vascularization—from a curated library of 35 genes across 25 organisms. The selections, combined with a personal digital signature, feed...
Temporal Manipulation of the Duomo
"Temporal Manipulation of the Duomo" lets visitors swipe between day and night scans of Milan’s cathedral using hand gestures. The project combines XGRIDS PortalCam Gaussian splat captures with TouchDesigner rendering and Ultraleap Leap Motion tracking. Team members Josette Seitz and...
TikTok Shop Launches Fine Art Category
TikTok Shop has introduced a Fine Art category, enabling original artwork to be sold directly on the platform. The launch includes a live sale on March 11 featuring independent artist Sophie Tea, who will showcase a 20‑piece oil collection priced at...
Lubaina Himid on Representing Great Britain at the 61st Venice Biennale
Lubaina Himid will represent Great Britain at the 61st Venice Biennale with an installation of large multi‑panel paintings, found‑object works, and a bespoke sound piece by Magda Stawarska. The project, inspired by her lifelong quest to understand belonging, navigates melancholy...
David Zwirner Brings Minimalist Masters Flavin, Judd and Ryman to London
David Zwirner is mounting a group exhibition in London that assembles works by Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, John McCracken, Robert Ryman and Fred Sandback, five pivotal figures of 1960s‑70s Minimalism. The show juxtaposes colour‑rich pieces—such as Flavin’s early three‑tube light sculpture and Judd’s...
L.A. Artists — Scathed by Fire — Dominate New York's Most Talked About Art Show
The 2026 Whitney Biennial features a notable contingent of Los Angeles‑based artists, many of whom were displaced by the devastating wildfires of January. Their work—ranging from Teresa Baker’s turf‑and‑yarn collages to Kelly Akashi’s glass chimney—directly references loss, home, and the natural...
François Laffanour Will Present a Jean Prouvé Exhibition at Fondation CAB, and Other News
Fondation CAB in Saint‑Paul‑de‑Vence is presenting “Jean Prouvé: Inventor of Houses,” featuring the architect’s prefabricated housing prototypes and iconic furniture pieces. Meanwhile, Pérez Art Museum Miami launches the “GAME TIME” program, exploring the intersection of professional sports, art, and politics with poets and...
Melissa Brown "Window Shopping" @ Derek Eller Gallery, NYC
Derek Eller Gallery in New York is presenting "Window Shopping," a solo show by Melissa Brown featuring new mixed‑media paintings. Brown combines screen‑printed photographs with impasto and airbrush techniques to capture the layered reality of city storefront windows. Citing influences...
Investors Are Sculpting Art Collections Focused on Quality as Market Rebounds
After two years of contraction, U.S. auction sales rebounded in 2025, climbing 23% to $3.17 billion. The surge was driven by the release of major private collections and estate sales, which refocused buyer interest on high‑quality, provenance‑rich works. Sales in the...
ArtScience Museum Exhibition Traces Anatomy Across Cultures and Time
ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands will host “Flesh and Bones: The Art of Anatomy” from March 21 to August 16, 2026, marking its 15th anniversary and first partnership with the Getty. The exhibition showcases over 160 artefacts—including anatomical illustrations, rare books, and...
Hong Kong Is Still Asia’s International Auction Hub, Report Finds
Hong Kong’s auction market hit a decade‑high in 2025, selling 22,247 lots and capturing 14.5% of global auction turnover, placing it third after New York and London. Digital channels drove a 20.2% rise in online sales while in‑room transactions fell, underscoring...
Dancing in CERCLES: Perth Festival Show Excels at Bringing People Together
French choreographer Boris Charmatz brought his participatory work CERCLES to Perth Festival, marking the piece’s first presentation outside Europe. Around 150 members of the public attended six half‑day workshops and performed a 40‑minute repertoire alongside 12 Australian dance artists serving...
How to Embrace ‘Radical Access’ in the Arts
Between 2023 and 2024 Australia’s cultural and creative industries generated $67.4 billion, with audiences with disability attending at parity with non‑disabled audiences. Initiatives such as the Access Fringe partnership with Arts Access Victoria and the Fair Play program are embedding ‘radical access’...
Sydney Finally Has a Cinémathèque – What Took so Long?
After more than two decades of proposals, the Art Gallery of New South Wales officially opened the Sydney Cinémathèque on 7 March, providing the city with a permanent home for curated repertory cinema. The gallery’s film program, already serving as an...
New York City Autopsy of an Exquisite Corpse: An Interview with Meinzer and Victoria Reshetnikov - New York City by...
"Hush Lobby" is a site‑specific installation by artists Meinner and Victoria Reshetnikov presented at theNextWave Gallery in early 2026. The work was built from reclaimed New York wood, pallets, 3D‑printed parts and other street‑found materials, and its title emerged from a...
Spencer Lewis: Straight, No Chaser by Edward Waisnis
Spencer Lewis, a RISD and UCLA graduate, presents his solo show “Afterpiece” at Thomas Erben Gallery in New York, running February 20–March 28, 2026. The exhibition blends his East‑Coast origins with Los Angeles‑derived vigor, showcasing thick oil on jute works that echo Twombly, Rauschenberg, and...
You Can Now Tour Queen Elizabeth II’s Private Rooms in This Scottish Palace
The Royal Collection Trust is opening Queen Elizabeth II’s private apartments at Holyroodhouse Palace in Edinburgh for a limited 100‑day public tour. Running from May 21 to September 10, the small‑group experience lets visitors see the east‑wing rooms where the monarch and Prince...
Gavin Turk: The Escapologist Beyond The Threshold – Ben Brown Fine Arts
Gavin Turk’s sixth exhibition at Ben Brown Fine Arts, titled The Escapologist, presents a series of oil paintings featuring slightly ajar doors that create a disorienting sense of suspension. The works dialogue with Gerhard Richter’s 1967 Tür series and reference...
Tomás Saraceno and Indigenous Communities Build Art Complex in Argentine Salt Flats
Argentine artist Tomás Saraceno, together with 11 Indigenous communities, is building El Santuario del Agua, a monumental salt‑based art complex in the lithium‑rich Salinas Grandes salt flats. The five semicircular structures, inspired by traditional apachetas, will be completed by October and function as a water...