Boing Boing, March 16, 2026
Reuters has finally identified the elusive street‑artist Banksy as Robin Gunningham, citing court documents and a decades‑long paper trail. The revelation follows years of speculation and legal battles over the ownership of his works. Boing Boing’s roundup also notes a bear interrupting a live TV segment and a simple hack to remove garlic odor from hands. The post wraps up with a teaser about Pete Hegseth’s war commentary.
Interactive Mirror Portal
The Interactive Mirror Portal is a physical installation that turns a mirror into a dynamic portal, using layered optical elements to fragment and recombine a viewer’s reflection as they move. The work relies entirely on geometry, light, and reflective surfaces,...
Stuart Semple Gives Away ‘Pinkest Pink’ to Everyone – Except Anish Kapoor
Stuart Semple marks the ten‑year anniversary of his "Pinkest Pink" pigment by offering it worldwide for free, with buyers only covering postage. The giveaway carries a single clause: the pigment may not be purchased or used by Anish Kapoor or...
John Constable: Large Study Of The Cornfield Discovered In Texas
A previously miscatalogued oil study for John Constable’s The Cornfield, the largest known at 55 by 48 inches, has been authenticated after a technical examination by specialists. The painting, hidden in the Jefferson Historical Society museum in Texas for nearly...
“Sonorous” In Hackney: Stairway to Heaven?
St. Augustine’s Tower in Hackney hosted the three‑day "Sonorous" exhibition, turning the medieval stone structure into an immersive sound‑art venue. Curated by Taehyun Jung, the show featured a roster of emerging artists who used vibration, voice, and visual media to...
France Jobin
France Jobin, a Montreal‑based Canadian sound artist, merges classical piano roots with electronic modular synthesis. Her work, described as “sound sculpture,” draws on quantum mechanics and string theory concepts. The 2017 ambient LP “Scènes” showcases four longform pieces built on...
Hot Hand: Rio Kobayashi
Rio Kobayashi, a young artist from Mashiko, Japan, is gaining attention for his strikingly graphic work that thrives on social‑media platforms. His creations blend the ceramic traditions of his potter father, Shirobey, with the conservation and gilding expertise of his...
Genie Davis Just Opened a Gallery. Of Course She Did.
Genie Davis, longtime Los Angeles art blogger behind Diversions LA, has opened Diversions Fine Arts Gallery in Manhattan Beach. The inaugural show, "Springtide," features 26 artists working in oil, acrylic, watercolor, neon, sculpture and photography, spanning local, national and international talent. Davis...
Frida and Diego: The Last Dream
The Museum of Modern Art will host "Frida and Diego: The Last Dream" from March 21 to September 12, 2026, showcasing a curated selection of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera works alongside a new Metropolitan Opera production, *El Último Sueño...
Cecily Brown: Picture Making
The Serpentine Galleries are hosting Cecily Brown’s first UK institutional solo exhibition since 2005, titled “Picture Making,” from 27 March to 6 September 2026 at Serpentine South. The show pairs newly created paintings inspired by Kensington Gardens with key works dating back to 2001,...
Ruth Leon Recommends…. Art that Made Us – The Revolution of the Dead
Ruth Leon highlights a BBC documentary that reexamines the Black Death’s aftermath as a catalyst for a century of artistic and literary renewal. The film weaves insights from historians, curators, and contemporary creators, showing how plague‑scarred survivors reshaped English literature,...
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[Minna|منا]of Us at Participant Inc. And SALMA SARRIEDINE
The contemporary art exhibition "[minna|منا]of us" opened at Participant Inc. in New York on February 1, 2026 and will run through March 22, 2026. Curated by the collective RIDIKKULUZ, the show features works by artist SALMA SARRIEDINE and explores themes of identity, belonging, and diaspora. Supporting...
Eduardo Paolozzi: Mosaic Murals In Redditch Shopping Centre Grade II Listed
The UK Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport has granted Grade II listed status to twelve mosaic panels by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi in Redditch’s Kingfisher Shopping Centre. Commissioned in 1983 to echo the town’s needle‑industry heritage, the mosaics have...
Brussels and Antwerp: The Heart of Flemish Art – Artlyst Diary
Art lover Paul Carter Robinson spent two days touring Brussels and Antwerp, immersing himself in the region’s dense concentration of Flemish masterpieces. He enjoyed a private viewing of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts’ print collection in Brussels, then traveled...
A Glücksklee for the Kaiserin: Empress Augusta's Lucky (?) Clover Coronet
A diamond coronet adorned with a four‑leaf clover was created for Empress Augusta Victoria around 1906, marking Prince Eitel Friedrich’s wedding to Duchess Sophie Charlotte and the silver anniversary of the Kaiser’s parents. The piece combined regal opulence with a...
Le Lent Demain at Air De Paris
Le lent demain, a group exhibition at Air de Paris, runs from 14 February to 21 March 2026. Curated by Sebastián Quevedo Ramírez, it showcases works by 18 emerging Latin American and European artists, including Devendra Banhart and Nicolas Aguirre. The show is documented with...
The Oracle of Dublin
Clare McAndrew’s latest annual art market report confirms a rebound, with total sales reaching an estimated $59.6 billion in 2025 – a 4 percent rise over the prior year. The recovery is most pronounced in the auction segment, which has rebounded strongly since...
Loïc Jouannigot
Loïc Jouannigot is a French illustrator celebrated for his charming children’s‑book style, blending precise line work with a loose, sketchy feel. His illustrations feature richly detailed cut‑away scenes populated by multiple animal characters, rendered in a balanced palette of muted...
More Than Studios: NewBridge Project Is a Much-Needed Third Space in Newcastle
The NewBridge Project in Newcastle’s Shieldfield district has transformed a former office block into a thriving arts and community hub, housing 130 studio artists across 90 workspaces. It offers affordable desks from £35 a month, a bookshop, memory café, and...
Project a Black Planet: Barbican Announces Major Pan-African Art Exhibition
The Barbican Centre will host Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica from June to September 2026, showcasing more than 300 works that trace Pan‑Africanism’s influence on visual culture. The exhibition spans painting, sculpture, film, photography and...
The Top 5 Photography Exhibitions to See in London This Spring
Tabish Khan highlights five must‑see photography shows across London this spring, ranging from Catherine Opie's portraiture of LGBTQ+ communities at the National Portrait Gallery to the Becher duo’s industrial architecture at Sprüth Magers. The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2026 at The...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
Isabel Rock: Things Fall Apart, The Centre Cannot Hold
Artist and climate activist Isabel Rock opens her first major solo exhibition, "Things Fall Apart, The Centre Cannot Hold," at Hastings Contemporary from 27 September 2025 to 15 March 2026. The immersive installation transforms drawing into theatrical environments populated by...
Stubbs: Portrait of a Horse at the National Gallery
From 12 March to 31 May 2026 the National Gallery will host a dedicated George Stubbs exhibition, featuring the rarely seen life‑size horse portrait “Scrub, a bay horse belonging to the Marquess of Rockingham” (c. 1762). The painting, long held in a private collection...
ARCO Madrid 2026
ARCO Madrid 2026 will run from March 4‑8 at the historic Feria de Madrid, presenting one of the most extensive contemporary art programmes in Europe. The fair lists over 200 artists—from emerging Latin American talent to established European figures—across more than...
Anna-Sophie Berger at Art Hall
Anna‑Sophie Berger presents "Two Fixed Ideas Will Unite" at Baltimore's art hall from Jan 31 to Mar 21, 2026. The exhibition features a body of work that blends sculpture, video, and immersive installations exploring the tension between permanence and change. Curatorial notes emphasize...
Horizon, Zenith and Atmosphere – Paul Klee
The Guggenheim announced the addition of Paul Klee’s 1925 watercolor "Horizon, Zenith and Atmosphere" to its modern art collection. The piece, measuring 37.1 × 27 cm, exemplifies Klee’s exploration of spatial perception through abstract landscape elements. A high‑resolution digital scan has been released,...
Voice of the Street: Keith Haring’s Subway Drawings at Moco Museum
Moco Museum London opens "Voice of the Street – Keith Haring’s Subway Drawings" from 18 March to 18 June, featuring around 30 chalk sketches Haring produced on New York subway advertising panels between 1980 and 1985. The show recreates a 1980s...
London Swings Back
Recent London auction results indicate a revitalized market, with higher hammer ratios and strong bidding across both top and lower tiers. More artists are appearing in top‑tier sales, and the overall sales cycle is the strongest in five years. Notably,...
The Fractured Real: Nature, Code, and Perception in the Digital Works of Lingqun Teng
The exhibition "Between Nature and Code" showcases Chinese artist Lingqun Teng’s digital reinterpretations of natural landscapes. By employing pixelation, geometric reduction, and symbolic abstraction, works such as Mosaic, Mountain Is Mountain, and Short‑Sighted turn mountains, forests, and skies into data‑driven...
A Conversation with Olga Shishko
Digital art, rooted in decades of experimentation from AARON to AI‑generated imagery, has finally entered mainstream visibility as tools become ubiquitous and audiences screen‑native. Curator Olga Shishko explains how CIFRA moves beyond a simple hosting platform by creating contextual curatorial...
Episode 930: Antonio Darden
In episode 930 of Bad at Sports, artist Antonio Darden discusses his recent installation *Last One Left*, featuring a grey alien on an autopsy table as a surrogate for personal grief after losing his mother, brother, and father. He explains...
David Hockney Opens a Major Exhibition at Serpentine Featuring New Paintings and A Year in Normandie
British artist David Hockney opens his first solo show at London’s Serpentine North, running from 12 March to 23 August 2026. The exhibition pairs a new body of ten paintings—five still lifes and five portraits framed by a gingham tablecloth—with the artist’s 90‑metre...
Seth Price, Redistribution 2026-2007 at Sadie Coles HQ
London’s Sadie Coles HQ is hosting the eleventh edition of Seth Price’s long‑running multimedia project, Redistribution 2026‑2007. First presented as a slide lecture at the Guggenheim in 2007, the work now appears as a standalone single‑channel video installation, constantly revised with new footage,...
The Suffragists Still Demand a Hearing
The musical “Suffs,” written and scored by Shaina Taub, dramatizes the multi‑decade fight for women’s voting rights and has earned two Tony Awards for Best Book and Best Score. The all‑female production, now on a national tour, reached Charlotte’s Belk...
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...
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...
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...