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.
Mike Myers, Hazel Mae Among Recipients of Special 2026 Canadian Screen Awards Honours
The Canadian Academy announced special honours for Canadian Screen Week, which runs May 27‑31 in Toronto. Mike Myers will receive the Academy Icon Award, sportscaster Hazel Mae the Gordon Sinclair Award, and Canadian Film Centre director Maxine Bailey the Changemaker Award. Chandler Levack’s film *Mile End Kicks* earned the Sustainable Production Award for its eco‑friendly practices. The ceremony will be simulcast on CBC, CTV, Crave, Global and STACKTV.
The Daily Heller: Indulging in Maira Kalman’s Capacity for Producing Calm
Print Magazine’s Daily Heller highlights Maira Kalman’s soothing artistic voice, featuring a portrait of Paper co‑founder Kim Hastreiter and a new video promoting Kalman’s 2018 illustrated book *Cake*. The video, directed by Alex Kalman, underscores her talent for delivering calm...
Tehran’s UNESCO-Listed Golestan Palace Damaged by US-Israeli Strikes
Tehran’s Golestan Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage site, was damaged by a missile strike on March 1 amid escalating US‑Israeli attacks on Iran. The blast shattered windows, cracked glass, and buckled asphalt within the palace’s buffer zone. Iranian officials have secured...
Talk Show Parses Daytime TV Absurdity and Horror at Roulette Intermedium
Talk Show debuted their experimental piece *Miss America* at Brooklyn’s Roulette Intermedium on February 26, reimagining late‑20th‑century daytime television through archival video, live music, and immersive projections. The duo—drummer‑synthesist Qasim Naqvi and trumpeter Steph Richards—were joined by visual artist Steven...
MODULAR FREQUENCY: Shepard Fairey @ Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles
Subliminal Projects in Los Angeles is mounting MODULAR FREQUENCY, a new exhibition by Shepard Fairey that runs from February 28 to April 11, 2026. The show presents eighteen mixed‑media pieces that fuse modular geometry, Soviet‑era propaganda aesthetics, and contemporary pop culture. Alongside the main works, the...
Magali Reus at Museum Beelden Aan Zee, The Hague
Magali Reus presents three new sculptural series—Merlin (2024), Streamers (2025) and Rig (2025)—at Museum Beelden aan Zee in The Hague. The oversized works reinterpret sardine tins, fish skeletons and fishing hooks as both lure and snare, probing tensions between interior...
Faig Ahmed to Represent Azerbaijan at 2026 Venice Biennale
Faig Ahmed will represent Azerbaijan at the 61st Venice Biennale with a solo presentation titled “The Attention.” Curated by Islamic‑art scholar Gwendolyn Collaço, the show intertwines Azerbaijan’s ancient carpet weaving with contemporary quantum‑technology installations, including *I Can Contain Both Worlds...
Perle Noire Review: Charting the Inner Life of the Iconic Josephine Baker
Perle Noire: Meditations for Joséphine debuted at Adelaide Festival, offering a non‑linear, emotionally driven portrait of iconic Black performer Josephine Baker. Directed by Peter Sellars and scored by avant‑garde jazz composer Tyshawn Sorey, the production blends operatic cabaret, spoken word,...
Gregory Olympio at Blank Projects
Gregory Olympio’s solo exhibition, Vaisseaux, opens at blank projects in Cape Town from January 29 to March 14, 2026. The show showcases the artist’s exploration of spatial narratives through a series of mixed‑media installations and sculptures. Documentation includes 27 high‑resolution images, providing comprehensive...
Dear Colin Brooks: Defunded Victorian Arts Organisations Address Creative Industries Minister
Several Victorian arts bodies—including Writers Victoria, the Public Galleries Association of Victoria, Abbotsford Convent and Australian Print Workshop—have been stripped of operational funding by Creative Victoria. The groups have publicly appealed to Creative Industries Minister Colin Brooks, citing petitions, funding...
Galleries Want Profit, Professionalism, Not Just Liked Art
Let's say a gallery likes your art. That doesn't necessarily mean you get a show. Things they also consider? Whether your prices leave enough room for them to make a profit while staying within ranges that their buyers are willing...
ECAL—A Typographic Atlas: Mapping the Territory of Contemporary Type
ECAL’s "A Typographic Atlas" exhibition showcases 300 student‑designed typefaces, organized as an alphabetical‑numeric map that turns the gallery into a navigable terrain. Curated by the Master Type Design and Bachelor Graphic Design programs, the show blends experimental, functional, and multiscript...
Sara Shamma to Represent Syria at the 61st Venice Biennale with Monumental Installation
Sara Shamma will represent Syria at the 61st Venice Biennale with a monumental, immersive installation titled "The Tower Tomb of Palmyra." Curated by Yuko Hasegawa and commissioned by Syria's Ministry of Culture, the work occupies the National Pavilion as a...
Why Black Math’s Rebrand Signals a Return to Art as Infrastructure
Black Math, a Boston‑origin design studio, unveiled a bold rebrand that declares an “art first” philosophy, positioning art as the structural core of its work. The new visual system favors expressive typography and motion, rejecting neutral, template‑driven aesthetics. By framing...
Flash Art Founder Giancarlo Politi Dies at 89
Giancarlo Politi, the Italian critic who founded the seminal contemporary art journal Flash Art, died at 89 on February 24. Over five decades he expanded Flash Art into multiple language editions, launched the influential Art Diary directory, and established the Flash Art Museum and the...
Araujo, Greenberg, and Simon at Ptolemy
Two Coats of Paint organized an artist panel at Ptolemy featuring Michele Araujo, Larry Greenberg, and Adam Simon. Each artist presented a single work, prompting in‑depth dialogue about their distinct approaches to abstraction, from Araujo’s mixed‑media collage on aluminum to...
James McQueen: A Beautiful Waste of Time
James McQueen’s solo exhibition "A Beautiful Waste of Time" opens on 2 March at Halcyon in London, showcasing new paintings that transform vintage paperback covers into contemporary Pop‑Art statements. The works retain the bold typography and colour blocks of mid‑century mass‑market...
Clémence De La Tour Du Pin’s Atmospheric Meditations
French artist Clémence de La Tour du Pin presents a new show at Derosia, New York, featuring four untitled, six‑centimetre‑high assemblages that span six metres each. The works combine discarded urban objects—umbrella spokes, tangled silk—with wax, oil paint and linen,...
Bisila Noha: Ile Ọkàn (House of the Soul)
Spanish‑Equatoguinean ceramic artist Bisila Noha presents "Ile ọkàn (House of the Soul)" at OmVed Gardens in Highgate from 20‑29 March 2026. The solo show, curated by Thrown, expands a 2025 Nigerian residency into a shrine‑like installation that blends sculpture, vessels,...
"Always Never": A Solo Exhibition by Linda Geary @ pt.2 Gallery, Oakland
pt.2 Gallery in Oakland presents “Always Never,” Linda Geary’s first solo exhibition at the space. The show highlights her signature layered collage approach, now rendered in acrylic and oil with a muted, weathered palette that creates ghost‑like forms. Larger canvases...
Catherine Opie Portrait of Sir Elton John And Family Unveiled At NPG
The National Portrait Gallery has added a new photograph by Catherine Opie that depicts Sir Elton John, his husband David Furnish, and their sons in the family library, marking the first portrait of the Furnish‑John family in a national collection....
I Dedicate This Music to a World without War
The article spotlights a 2010 solo performance by pioneering sound artist Pauline Oliveros, in which she dedicates her music to a world without war. The piece appears in a visual installation for documenta 14, featuring typographic work by design studio VIER5....
What a Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem at The Variety Arts Theater
What a Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem transforms the Variety Arts Theater into a six‑floor, after‑hours immersive film exhibition in downtown Los Angeles. The program interweaves historic cinema excerpts with avant‑garde video art, presented on everything from massive projection walls...
Karl Holmqvist at Galerie Neu
Swedish artist Karl Holmqvist is mounting a solo show titled "Paint With Make‑Up" at Galerie Neu in Berlin from February 7 to March 7, 2026. The exhibition repurposes cosmetics as a painting medium, presenting a series of works that blur the line between beauty...
SoiL Thornton at The Wattis Institute
The Wattis Institute in San Francisco is presenting “8 Hours of Rest: SoiL Thornton” from Jan 20 to Mar 7, 2026. The multidisciplinary show blends large‑scale furniture, phosphorescent paintings, video loops, and archival prints to interrogate rest, sleep, and self‑care within a capitalist framework....
Manuel Mathieu to Debut at the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale Di Venezia
Haitian-born artist Manuel Mathieu has been invited by curator Koyo Kouoh to debut at the 61st International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, in 2026. His multidisciplinary practice—spanning painting, sculpture, film, installation and olfactory art—examines historical violence, cultural memory and...
Centre Pompidou Confirms 2027 Closure for Major Five‑Year Renovation
The Centre Pompidou will shut its doors in 2027 for a five‑year, €300‑million renovation that tackles asbestos removal and a full technical upgrade. Designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, the iconic 1977 structure requires deep structural work to meet...
A Week At The Heart of Cape Town’s Art Scene – Virginie Puertolas Syn
Virginie Puertolas Syn spent a week in Cape Town during the Investec Cape Town Art Fair, immersing herself in studios, galleries, and institutions. The fair showcased 126 exhibitors from 34 cities, representing artists from 44 countries, while major surveys highlighted...
Hugo Winder-Lind: Clouds Of Limitless And Expanding Joy
British painter Hugo Winder‑Lind opens his first U.S. solo exhibition, "Clouds Of Limitless And Expanding Joy," at New York’s Isabel Sullivan Gallery from March 5 to April 11, 2026. The show features twelve new oil paintings that reconceptualise landscape as a politically...
Desktop Wallpaper: March 2026 with Giorgio Cecatto
Toronto‑based artist Giorgio Cecatto, an architect turned digital creator, has released a new series of free desktop and mobile wallpapers. The designs are generated with a pen plotter, echoing Russian Constructivist principles of precision and mechanization while translating them into...
British Museum Finds Sponsor For Bayeux Tapestry Extravaganza
Belarus‑born hedge‑fund billionaire Igor Tulchinsky is sponsoring the British Museum’s first UK display of the Bayeux Tapestry, in a deal estimated at £5 million, one of the museum’s largest sponsorships in its 273‑year history. The 70‑metre medieval embroidery will be on...
Salvador Dalí: Monumental Stage Set Heads Back To Auction
Salvador Dalí’s monumental 1939 Bacchanale stage set is slated for Bonhams’ fourth annual Surrealism sale in Paris, with a pre‑sale estimate of about $350,000. The 13‑panel, 65‑by‑100‑foot work, which debuted at the Metropolitan Opera, has toured major European museums since...
Editor’s Letter: Beings in Transition
ArtAsiaPacific’s 2026 issue examines artists confronting bodily, ecological, and geopolitical transitions. It spotlights late Chinese‑American painter Ching Ho Cheng, whose process‑driven abstractions will appear in Seoul’s Art Sonje Center, and Korean roboticist Geumhyung Jeong, whose animatronic sculptures blur human‑machine boundaries....
Frieze Los Angeles 2026 Closes with Robust Sales and Institutional Momentum
Frieze Los Angeles 2026 wrapped after four days with multiple seven‑figure transactions and sold‑out Focus presentations, underscoring a robust contemporary‑art market. More than 100 galleries from 24 countries attracted 32,000 visitors, including representatives from 160 museums and institutions. Blue‑chip dealers...
Architect Interview | Alexander Josephson
In this episode, host Kyle Wood interviews architect Alexander Josephson, co‑founder of Partisan Studio, about the evolution of modern and contemporary architecture. Josephson explains how modernism emerged from technological and ideological shifts in the late 19th and early 20th centuries,...
Mari Katayama Wins Inaugural Mori Art Award
Mari Katayama was named the inaugural winner of the Mori Art Award, a biennial prize established by the Mori Contemporary Art Foundation in 2025. The award, aimed at elevating mid‑career Japanese artists, grants a JPY 10 million cash prize and a solo...
A Journey in Time
Peggy Weil's "Core Memory" exhibition at MoMA showcases video installations "88 Cores" and "18 Cores" that visualize Greenland ice cores and Salton Sea rock cores. The works descend two miles through 110,000 years of ice and reveal Pleistocene strata, turning...
Manifest Destiny Review: Alex Frayne’s Photographic Roadtrip Through a National Crisis
Australian photographer Alex Frayne’s “Manifest Destiny” debuted at the 2026 Adelaide Festival, presenting a three‑year road‑trip series that documents a fragmented United States. Shot primarily on medium‑format film and displayed in a semi‑immersive U‑shaped LED installation, the work juxtaposes decaying...
Art Dubai Marks Twenty Years Despite Regional Tensions
Art Dubai will mark its twentieth anniversary this spring, opening at Madinat Jumeirah from 17‑19 April 2026 with preview days on the 15th and 16th. The fair structures its program around four sections—Bawwaba, Digital, Zamaniyyat and the new Bawwaba Extended—each...
Issue 147
ArtAsiaPacific announced the launch of Issue 147, its March/April 2025 edition, priced at US$25. The issue joins a series of recent releases, including Issue 146, 145, and the Almanac 2026. The publisher also promotes related titles such as "Contingent Worlds:...
Michelangelo | The Sistine Chapel Ceiling
In this episode of Who Arted, host Kyle Wood explores Michelangelo’s life and his monumental work on the Sistine Chapel ceiling, highlighting his humble personal habits despite a fortune equivalent to $30 million. He traces Michelangelo’s early apprenticeship, rivalries with artists...
A Pair of Watercolor Portraits by Ernesto Levorati
Two 12 × 8‑inch watercolor portraits of children by 19th‑century Italian artist Ernesto Levorati surfaced in a private collection after appearing in a 2024 Bonhams auction. The works display a delicate, dry‑brush texture that recalls botanical illustration, creating soft, expressive faces. Despite...
Earrings for Peggy Guggenheim, C. 1938
Peggy Guggenheim’s 1938 earrings, a gift from Surrealist Yves Tanguy, are miniature paintings rendered in silver, gold, pearls and oil on shell. The pieces embody Tanguy’s dreamlike biomorphic language on a wearable scale. Guggenheim wore one of the earrings alongside...
From Clicks to Claps: Online Comics Seek the Stage
Online comedians in Japan, led by TikTok star Ricchaado, are moving from digital platforms to live stages such as Tokyo Comedy Bar. After building a 313,000‑strong Instagram following, Richard Tomic performed his first stand‑up set, blending bilingual characters with personal...
Second Life at Tate:
A ravishing perilous journey and stinging astonishing exhibition “Second Life” at @tate by @traceyeminstudio tracey_emin_artist_residency
Maria and Julian Martinez | Black on Black Pottery
In this episode of Who Arted, host Kyle Wood explores the life and legacy of Maria and Julian Martinez, the Tewa Pueblo artists who pioneered the iconic black‑on‑black pottery style. He details their traditional hand‑building techniques, the communal nature of...
Above, Below, Between at CALM – Centre D'Art La Meute
The Centre d'Art La Meute (CALM) in Lausanne will host "Above, Below, Between" from February 5 to March 1, 2026. Curated by Oriane Emery and Jean‑Rodolphe Petter, the show features ten artists—including Alfredo Aceto, John M. Armleder, and Giovanna Belossi—who...
Interview with Artist Cooper Cox by Marcarson
Cooper Cox describes his paintings as containers for uncertainty, where a structural framework invites controlled chaos. He emphasizes texture as the core of his process, allowing instability to shape the final image. Cox says risk has become more precise, targeting...
New York City Confronting the Abject; Feeding the Load, Regulated Dosage at FRISSON by Jonah Romm
The Frisson Gallery’s new exhibition "Feeding the Load, Regulated Dosage" showcases the work of Echo Yan and Cass Yao, curated by Rui Jiang. The show blends biomorphic sculptures, repurposed household objects, and AI‑generated video to create a visceral posthuman environment....
The Cross-Sectioned Paper Sculptures of Lisa Nilsson
Lisa Nilsson, a Massachusetts‑based visual artist, has revived the centuries‑old quilling technique to create life‑sized paper sculptures of human anatomical cross‑sections. Drawing on historic medical images and the National Library of Medicine’s Visible Human Project, she painstakingly coils colored paper...