Today's Art Pulse
Arthur Jafa and Richard Prince’s ‘Helter Skelter’ debuts at Fondazione Prada in Venice
The joint exhibition “Helter Skelter” opens at Fondazione Prada’s Ca’ Corner della Regina in Venice, running through November 23, 2026. Curated by former Guggenheim chief Nancy Spector, the show pairs Jafa and Prince, artists noted for aggressive appropriation of cinema, music and American iconography. Critics describe the work as lawless image scavenging that confronts viewers.
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 with collaborators to map his eclectic spiritual philosophy that blended BDSM, shamanic trance, and global ritual practices. It also foregrounds the criticism from Native American participants who accused Musafar of cultural appropriation. Screening at New York’s Anthology Film Archives, the documentary positions Musafar as both an artistic provocateur and a contested cultural figure.
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...
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...
Artists Must Honestly Assess Their Work to Secure Galleries
Sometimes artists need to be honest with themselves about their art, and the challenges they may be facing in finding galleries to show it. To take a critical look at what about their work or the ways they are presenting...
Silk Persian Rugs: Hand‑Knotted Luxury with 600‑Knot Density
Silk Persian rugs are high-end, hand-knotted masterpieces from Iran, prized for their luminous sheen and incredible detail. Because silk fibers are so fine, weavers can achieve a high knot density (often over 200–600+ knots per square inch). https://t.co/nZkhWcsN8L
Met Museum Appears to Be Planning the First US Cy Twombly Retrospective in More Than 30 Years
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has posted a researcher position for a major Cy Twombly retrospective slated for 2029, marking the first U.S. survey of the artist in more than three decades. The exhibition will span paintings, sculptures, and drawings,...
UK Council Criticised over Sale of Collection Including Works by Pioneering Photographer Tony Ray-Jones
Kent County Council will auction 168 items from its art collection on March 10, including 33 photographs by pioneering British photographer Tony Ray‑Jones. The council cites lack of storage and a severe budget deficit as reasons, but it did not offer the...
Architectures of Air
Artforum has released a new portfolio spotlighting architect Claude Parent’s avant‑garde ideas, revisiting his 1960s collaboration with Yves Klein on “architectures of air.” The concept proposes an immaterial architecture that manipulates climate rather than erecting static structures, challenging modernist consumerism. The...
Previously Unseen Dante Gabriel Rossetti Portrait Goes on View for the First Time
National Trust has acquired a previously unseen 1877 chalk portrait of poet Christina Rossetti, painted by her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti, now the centerpiece of “The Rossettis – Siblings and Spouses” exhibition at Wightwick Manor. The somber work, created during...
Watch: Handmade Papercraft Animated Short 'Light Hole' From Japan
Kodansha Ltd. unveiled a two‑minute handmade papercraft short titled “Light Hole,” blending live‑action footage with stop‑motion animation. The film showcases characters from more than 100 of the publisher’s manga titles, including Akira, Attack on Titan, and Ghost in the Shell. Directed...
Jonas Wood Turns Tennis Courts Into Color Experiments in New Gagosian Show
American painter Jonas Wood’s latest Gagosian show reimagines tennis courts as vivid color abstractions, stripping away players and ball to focus on the surface’s geometric bands. Drawing from years of screenshot archives of ATP, WTA and Olympic finals, Wood translates...
Decades in the Making, Institut Restellini’s Amedeo Modigliani Catalogue Raisonné to Release Next Month
After more than 40 years of research, Institut Restellini will publish a six‑volume, 2,000‑page Amedeo Modigliani catalogue raisonné next month, unveiling 100 newly authenticated works. The launch includes a book event in London on April 21 and a symposium in New...
Last Supper Likely Sat at a Circular Table
The Last Supper. DaVinci makes us think of a long table but, of course, circular makes more common and theological sense. https://t.co/Sw25co2KVe
Sotheby’s To Offer Mnuchin Collection Led By $70–100M Rothko
Robert Mnuchin’s celebrated modern art collection, valued at over $130 million, will be auctioned by Sotheby’s in May, with a public preview in March. The sale is anchored by a 1957 Rothko estimated at $70‑100 million, the centerpiece of a lineup that...
Works by Es Devlin, Brian Eno, and Nan Goldin to Be Auctioned to Support Palestinian Aid
A London auction featuring works by Es Devlin, Brian Eno, Nan Goldin and other prominent artists will run from March 26 to April 9, with proceeds earmarked for the Together For Palestine Fund. Organized by Choose Love, Gideon Berger Studio, Hope 93 Gallery and dealer Zayna Al‑Saleh, the sale follows a 2025 benefit...
Close Encounters: The Paintings of David Rice
David Rice, a Colorado‑born painter, captures Pacific Northwest wildlife by merging field photography with layered oil techniques. His canvases feature animals draped in vibrant fabrics against faded wallpaper, granting them a regal, almost humanized aura without full anthropomorphism. By juxtaposing...
Thinking Of AI Art — You Have To Think Of It As Its Own Art Form
Filmmaker Harmony Korine, famed for Gummo and Spring Breakers, is now championing AI‑generated immersive art. Through a partnership with generative‑AI startup Runway, his studio EDGLRD produced a trippy short set in Miami’s Design District, debuting at Art Basel. Korine describes...
Dazed Club Photographers and Artists Who Have Been on Our Radar Lately
Dazed Club’s March 2026 radar highlights photographer Courteney Frisby, showcasing a 14‑image gallery that blends digital collage, portraiture, and cultural commentary. The feature positions Frisby among a curated roster of emerging visual artists gaining visibility on the platform. Dazed provides...