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Hong Kong’s $306M “Cat Economy” Takes Over Public Spaces
Giant cat installations—from an eight‑metre interactive feline at the airport to inflatable cats at the West Kowloon Cultural District—have turned Hong Kong into a feline‑focused holiday destination. The city’s “cat economy” is estimated at $306 million annually, driven by roughly 100,000 cat owners who spend about $254 each on related goods and experiences.
French photographer Guillaume Bihan and Ukrainian visual artist Daria Svertilova launched a photo series documenting youth culture along the Danube during the summer of 2022. The project began as the pair shared a sparsely furnished Paris flat shortly after Russia’s full‑scale invasion of Ukraine, prompting questions about empathy across conflict lines. Their images juxtapose river landscapes, lighthouses, and everyday moments of young people navigating a post‑war environment. The series is now featured in a Dazed Digital gallery of eleven striking photographs.
James Manyika, Google’s senior vice president for research, labs, technology and society, sits down with hip‑hop legend LL Cool J for the latest Dialogues on Technology and Society episode. The pair discuss the evolution of creative tools, from early drum machines to...
Pakistani‑American artist Shahzia Sikander has projected her hand‑drawn animation ‘3 to 12 Nautical Miles’ onto Hong Kong’s M+ museum façade through June 21. The work, co‑commissioned by M+ and Art Basel, uses cartographic motifs to revisit the Opium Wars, British...
Emily Lipson’s debut photo book, Dykes, arrives as a vivid celebration of queer multiplicity, featuring 18 intimate images that explore fluid identities and the politics of change. The photographer emphasizes the radical act of revising one’s viewpoint, positioning the work...
Rafael Escardó’s exhibition "Scaffolder" at MOCA London transforms concrete sculptures into wearable exoskeletons for live performance. The show features three cast‑concrete forms that dancers integrate with, blurring the line between architecture and the human body. Through repetitive gestures on the...
New archaeological evidence from the Portmahomack monastery in Scotland is reviving the debate over where the illuminated Book of Kells was produced, challenging the long‑standing Iona theory. The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland has awarded master craftsman Thomas Keyes a...
Paris’s 16th Circulation(s) photography festival has opened at the expansive Centquatre-Paris, running through May 17. The program showcases 26 artists representing 15 countries, with a special focus on five emerging photographers poised to shape contemporary visual culture. Curated exhibitions blend multidisciplinary...
Renowned photographer Liz Johnson Artur launches a ten‑month residency of her Black Balloon Archive in Brixton. The archive, a three‑decade visual record of Black life in the African diaspora, will be exhibited in a building slated for demolition as part...
Greg Girard’s new exhibition *HKG‑TYO 1974‑2023* opens at WKM Gallery ahead of Art Basel Hong Kong, juxtaposing four decades of street‑level photography from Hong Kong and Tokyo. The Canadian photographer explains how his outsider status let him capture hidden corners such...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art opened a sweeping Raphael retrospective, "Rafael: Sublime Poetry," displaying 237 paintings, drawings, tapestries and a fresco fragment from 60 museums and private collections. Curated by Carmen Bambach, the show runs March 29‑June 28 and will not travel, marking...
Latest report on Art Basel Hong Kong and Hong Kong's art market from Cathy Fan and I of The Asia Pivot team @artnet. Sales were made but big turnout on VIP day 1 did not immediately translate to big business....
Sougwen Chung is showcasing new works at Art Basel Hong Kong’s inaugural Zero 10 sector, a platform for digital‑age art. Her centerpiece, Recursion 0, is a 10‑metre scroll generated live from brain‑wave data, illustrating her long‑standing human‑machine collaboration research that began in 2015. The...
A third‑century mosaic from Reims, France, shows a topless female beast hunter wielding a whip while confronting a leopard, providing the first visual confirmation that Roman women fought beasts in arenas. The original artwork was largely destroyed in World War I;...
The Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile in Hong Kong launches "Threading Inwards," an exhibition that investigates the link between textiles and spirituality across Asia. Featuring fourteen artists working in painting, video, AI, and fabric, the show includes Sang A....
Bulgari introduced its Eclettica high‑jewellery collection at Milan Fashion Night 2026, unveiling over 160 pieces—including 50 millionaire jewels and 14 transformable designs—while celebrities like Dua Lipa and Anne Hathaway attended. The launch underscores the brand’s push to blend fine art...
The Victoria & Albert Museum’s Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art gala in South Kensington attracted a parade of celebrities, including Elizabeth Debicki, Daisy Edgar‑Jones, Vick Hope and Calvin Harris. The event marks the UK’s first dedicated Schiaparelli exhibition, running March 28‑November, and...
Art Basel Hong Kong 2026 kicked off at the Hong Kong Convention Centre with more than 290 leading galleries showcasing works by over 4,000 artists. A Picasso painting sold for roughly €3.5 million ($4.05 million), while the fair debuted its Zero 10 digital...
Theatre Obscura L.A. launched "Poe: Pulse & Pendulum," a blindfolded, seated production that reimagines Edgar Allan Poe’s "The Pit and the Pendulum" and "The Tell‑Tale Heart" through sound, scent and limited tactile cues. Audiences sit in a dark, red‑lit room...
Stepping inside the new roksandailincic Concept Store reveals a space operating as manifesto. Roksanda has always held dialogue between art and architectural design alongside her clothes, but the true resonance is in the curation: rare furniture by betonbrutlondon, glass sculptures...
Renowned Austrian‑Dutch designer Laurids Gallée debuted his one‑of‑a‑kind Array, Node and System luminaires at Brussels gallery Objects With Narratives, where the show runs through May 24. The resin‑cast fixtures borrow the geometry of satellite dishes and antenna masts, integrating aluminum hardware and...
Tate announced its 2027 programming, headlined by a blockbuster exhibition titled "Monet: Painting Time" slated to open in February 2028. The show will centre on Claude Monet’s iconic Nymphéas (Water Lilies) series, using the Musée Marmottan Monet’s 1914‑17 "Nymphéas" as...
South African artist Cinga Samson opens his new solo show “Ukuphuthelwa” at White Cube in New York, running through April 18, 2026. The exhibition, whose Xhosa title means “unable to sleep,” treats sleeplessness as a state of heightened spiritual awareness rather than...
Ferdinand Dölberg’s latest Berlin show at Anton Janizewski uses rotating, double‑sided panels housed in narrow cabinets to visualize internal dialogue. Each module flips to reveal a zoomed‑in version of the original image, creating a kinetic, puzzle‑like experience. The exhibition draws...
The 45th ARCO 2026 fair will host Guest Lounge 350,000 Ha, a dual‑space installation that juxtaposes a constructed lounge with the memory of north‑western Iberian wildfires that scorched 350,000 hectares in 2025. Designed by Manuel Bouzas and Salazar Sequeromedina, the lounge is built entirely from...
The New Museum on the Bowery reopened this week after a $130 million, 60,000‑square‑foot expansion designed by OMA and Rem Koolhaas. The enlarged facility launches with the multimedia show “New Humans: Memories of the Future” and a revamped NEW INC incubator, signaling...
The Lester Prize has opened entries for its 2026 season, inviting Australian‑resident artists aged 18 and over to compete for a total prize pool exceeding $135,000 AUD (about $89,000 USD). The 2025 edition attracted over 1,000 submissions and more than 30,000 visitors...
TAELON7’s Limbo Engawa installation opened on March 12 in Accra, Ghana, featuring modular steel canopies built from salvaged billboard frames and hand‑woven day‑beds for communal lounging. Designed by architect Juergen Benson‑Strohmayer, the piece blends the Japanese engawa concept with West African...
Artist Yto Barrada, selected for France’s 2026 Venice Biennale pavilion, sparked controversy after signing an open letter calling for Israel’s removal from the exhibition. The Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRIF) demanded that the French government force her to...
The 61st International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale opens on May 9, 2026, featuring a newly restored central pavilion and curator Koyo Kouoh's 'In Minor Keys' theme. The preview highlights key national pavilions and satellite shows that signal a...
Cristopher Canizares, a 16‑year partner at Hauser & Wirth, is leaving to launch Artist Legacy Bureau, an artist‑first management agency. The boutique firm will serve a small roster of five to six artists, offering long‑term career strategy across galleries, institutions,...
Harvard Hillel unveiled a nine‑foot Seder plate sculpture in Science Center Plaza, created by local artist Michael Mittelman. The piece replaces the traditional six food slots with custom images drawn from interviews with students, faculty and alumni, reflecting a spectrum...
In November 2025 Tate Modern opened the Nigerian Modernism exhibition, showcasing over 50 artists from the 1940s to the 1990s who forged a post‑colonial visual language. A conversation hosted by art historian Alayo Akinkugbe featured three contemporary Nigerian creators—Soldier Boyfriend,...
Costume Couture: Sixty Years of Cosprop, showcasing over 8,000 historic garments, opens at Edinburgh’s Dovecot Studios on July 18, 2026, running through January 9, 2027. The exhibition, originally staged at London’s Fashion and Textile Museum, features more than 80 iconic costumes from...
Sebastian Di Domenico’s photograph of an Andean bear perched on a moss‑covered branch in Colombia’s Chingaza Ecopalacio Reserve has been shortlisted for the 2026 Sony World Photography Awards. The image captures a roughly five‑year‑old male, a rare sighting that suggests the...
Manifesta 16, the 2026 edition of the nomadic European biennial, will open on 21 June across twelve decommissioned modernist churches in the Ruhr’s four cities. Curated by an eight‑person artistic team, the event showcases 106 artists from 30 countries, including 64 new...
Castle Howard launches the "Staging the Baroque: Vanbrugh at Castle Howard" exhibition on 26 March 2026, coinciding with the 300th anniversary of Sir John Vanbrugh’s death. The show features, for the first time, public display of Vanbrugh’s original letters alongside 18th‑century play...
Val Caniparoli is bowing after a 53‑year stage run with the San Francisco Ballet, yet he insists he isn’t retiring. Since 1980 he has built a parallel choreography career, most recently staging the theatrical *Jekyll & Hyde* for the Finnish National Ballet and U.S....
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Norwegian painter Henrik Uldalen creates photosurrealist oil works by staging photo shoots, heavily editing the images in Photoshop, and then translating them onto canvas. His figures appear pale, floating, or contorted in impossible spaces, emphasizing a dream‑like detachment. Uldalen is...
Birmingham Airport unveiled an "Icons Wall" art installation beyond security, featuring ten notable West Midlands figures. The display includes Ozzy Osbourne, UB40, poet Benjamin Zephaniah, comedian Jasper Carrott, screenwriter Steven Knight, chef Glynn Purnell, swimmer Hannah Hampton, Olympian Ellie Symonds, and the TV series Peaky Blinders. Selections were...
Hurvin Anderson’s career‑spanning retrospective opens at Tate Britain, presenting 80 paintings that trace his Caribbean heritage, Birmingham upbringing, and iconic barbershop imagery. Critics praise the exhibition’s emotional depth and its fresh take on British‑Caribbean identity.
Writer Dave Eggers discovered a vacant 100,000‑square‑foot warehouse at Pier 29 and, with artist JD Beltran, launched Art + Water, a free‑tuition apprenticeship studio program slated to open this fall. The initiative will provide year‑long studio space at no cost to 30 local...
The Victoria and Albert Museum will open the first UK exhibition dedicated to Schiaparelli, showcasing over 400 pieces from founder Elsa Schiaparelli to creative director Daniel Roseberry, running March 28‑Nov 8. Meanwhile, On’s long‑time CEO Martin Hoffmann is departing after 13 years,...
Joshua Kim argues that decentralized crowdfunding can sustain NFT artists when market liquidity dries up. A weekly pledge of 1 Ether (≈$1,800) by collector Batsoupyum and curator Lanett Bennett Grant is being matched by major collectors, adding $20,000 and $100,000 in...
Nuart Aberdeen 2026, running April 22‑26, is billed as the world’s first street‑art festival dedicated primarily to poetry and text‑based works. Organizers argue that large, resource‑intensive murals dominate the scene and limit participation, so this edition emphasizes small‑scale stencils, paste‑ups and...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has opened “Raphael: Sublime Poetry,” the first major U.S. retrospective of the Renaissance master. The show features more than 200 objects, many displayed together for the first time thanks to loans from over 60 museums...
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Opera Gallery inaugurated its 14th global outpost in Houston’s River Oaks District on March 20, 2026, marking the brand’s entry into one of the fastest‑growing collector hubs in the United States. The opening exhibition featured blue‑chip masters such as Monet,...
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center will host "Artistic Generosity and the American Artist Abroad" from April 7 to June 13, showcasing four decades of American art placed in U.S. embassies worldwide. The exhibition draws from the Foundation for Art and Preservation in...
Bulgari introduced its 160‑piece Eclettica high‑jewellery collection at a gala in Milan attended by global celebrities. The line showcases 50 millionaire jewels, 14 transformable pieces and a 26.65‑carat Padparadscha sapphire necklace, underscoring the brand’s blend of art and luxury.
