Onya McCausland: Tailings
British artist Onya McCausland opens "Tailings" at CLOSE Gallery, a solo show running from April 25 to May 30, 2026. The exhibition presents 30 paintings that employ bespoke pigments derived from mining waste, delivering a palette of ochres, rusts and smoky tones. Each work is titled with precise geographic coordinates, anchoring abstract surfaces to former extraction sites across the UK. McCausland’s practice extends site‑responsive art by turning industrial residues into sustainable paint, linking prehistoric pigment traditions with contemporary ecological concerns.
Jasper Johns: Night Driver Opens at Guggenheim Bilbao with Major Retrospective
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao has opened "Jasper Johns: Night Driver," a sweeping retrospective that showcases roughly 140 works spanning six decades of the artist’s career. Running from May 29 to October 12, 2026, the exhibition traces Johns’ evolution from his...
Wangechi Mutu Awarded National Gallery Contemporary Fellowship in Landmark UK Collaboration
Kenyan‑American artist Wangechi Mutu has been awarded the National Gallery’s second Contemporary Fellowship, a two‑year program run with Art Fund and the Whitworth in Manchester. The fellowship runs from 2026 to 2028, during which Mutu will develop new work that...
Beyond The Pale Arts Programme Announced
Beyond The Pale returns to the Glendalough Estate in County Wicklow from June 12‑14, 2026, unveiling its most ambitious arts programme yet. The festival will showcase over 90 artworks and events across 12 stages, featuring more than 600 artists and performers. New...
Paula Rego Drawings Exploring The Female Psyche – Sue Hubbard
Paula Rego’s new exhibition "Story Line" at Victoria Miro London showcases a chronological sweep of her drawings, from a nine‑year‑old portrait of her grandmother in 1944 to a self‑portrait of her granddaughter made at age eighty. Rego, who identified herself...
Ruth Leon Recommends…. Sidney Nolan – Australian Artist
Sidney Nolan, born 22 April 1917, is hailed as one of Australia’s most influential modern artists. After deserting the army in 1944, he joined the avant‑garde Angry Penguins, editing its magazine and creating the iconic Ern Malley cover. Nolan’s Ned Kelly series, with its...
Survivors: Portraits of Resilience Personal Accounts of the AIDS Crisis
The Fitzrovia Chapel in London will host "Survivors," a short‑run exhibition from 9 to 12 June 2026 that pairs 16 chiaroscuro portraits by Dutch photographer Danielle van Zedelhoff with excerpts from the National HIV Story Trust’s interview archive. The chapel, the last remnant...
The Sovereign Artist Does Not Stand Alone
The article introduces FASO’s Marketing Circle, a community‑centric platform that helps visual artists navigate the tension between their creative "soul economy" and the commercial "market economy." It argues that traditional marketing feels alien to artists because it prioritizes reach over...
Paul’s Gallery of the Month: Arcadia Missa
Arcadia Missa, founded by Rózsa Farkas in 2011 as a nonprofit project space in Peckham, has evolved into a commercial gallery with two floors near Bond Street. The gallery’s programming critiques traditional white‑cube conventions, emphasizing social change, gender politics, and...
A Nazi-Stolen Stradivarius Reappears in France
A 1719 Stradivarius violin, stolen by the Nazis from Warsaw in 1939, has resurfaced in France. The instrument, originally owned by Polish industrialist Henryk Grohman, was identified by music‑heritage activist Pascale Bernheim after being played at the Unterlinden Museum in...
Le Good Society Launches Global Outdoor Art Exhibition Urging Action for a Planet at Breaking Point
Le Good Society’s “Make Earth Day Every Day” exhibition has expanded globally, lighting up digital billboards in Times Square, Piccadilly Circus and the Netherlands. Curated by founder Tia Grazette, the show features artists such as David Shrigley, Lora Zombie and...
Marko Tadić at Trotoar Gallery, Zagreb
Croatian artist Marko Tadić opens _FungaRobo_ at Zagreb’s Trotoar Gallery, a solo show that fuses collage, drawing, animation and sculpture to explore artistic ecologies. Drawing on 1950s‑60s Zagreb photographs, the work juxtaposes historic socialist urban visions with present‑day erosion of common...
Paul Klee, Degenerate for the Ages
The Jewish Museum’s new exhibition, “Other Possible Worlds,” spotlights Paul Klee’s final decade, a period marked by exile, illness, and a prolific outpouring of over 1,250 works in 1939 alone. Klee, once condemned as a “degenerate” artist by the Nazis,...
Brandon Sanderson Vs. AI Art
Fantasy author Brandon Sanderson delivered a candid talk titled “The Hidden Cost of AI Art,” where he dissected common objections to AI‑generated visuals and concluded that his opposition runs deeper than economics or copyright concerns. He argues that art’s true...
Gaylen Gerber at Hans Goodrich
Gaylen Gerber presents a solo exhibition at Hans Goodrich in Chicago, running from April 4 to May 17, 2026. The show features his mixed‑media piece “Support,” which incorporates cremated remains, felt pen and a zip‑pered bag, alongside Georg Herald’s 1990 “Untitled” that uses...
Your Guide Through Gallery Weekend Berlin, Across the City
Gallery Weekend Berlin will run May 1‑3, 2026, offering a citywide program of exhibitions, talks, and public events across museums, galleries, and independent venues. The decentralized format encourages visitors to explore multiple neighborhoods, with the ArtRabbit app providing maps and navigation. Highlights...
The Reconstructive Poetics of Wegner’s Case Studies
Conceptual formalist Peter Wegner’s latest exhibition at Marshall Gallery showcases his new “Case Studies” series, where photographs are printed on the edges of thousands of thin polystyrene slats assembled into anodized aluminum cases. The works, such as “Yellow Divided by...
Hot Hand: Meyers & Fügmann
Sarah Meyers and Laura Fügmann helped open a retrospective on Dutch design icon Hella Jongerius at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein. The two have spent a decade collaborating with Jongerius, after meeting at Berlin’s Weissensee art school....
Art in Residence Park Hyatt Bangkok X NOVA Contemporary
Park Hyatt Bangkok has teamed with Thailand’s leading gallery NOVA Contemporary to present a long‑term exhibition featuring Thai artist Prae Pupityastaporn. Running from 5 April to 30 June 2026, five of her paintings are installed throughout the hotel’s public areas, turning everyday spaces into...
Ruth Leon Recommends… Canaletto – Painter of Venice
Canaletto, the 18th‑century master of Venetian vedute, combined exacting perspective with luminous colour to create iconic cityscapes that defined the Grand Tour aesthetic. Trained by his theatrical‑scene painter father, he produced celebrated works such as the 1725 "Stonemason’s Yard" now...
Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff at Les Bains-Douches, Alençon
Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff present their multimedia series *Paradise* at Les Bains‑Douches in Alençon from February 14 to April 26, 2026. The work, filmed on 16 mm in Berlin’s TV Bar between 2020 and 2022, blends speculative fiction with documentary elements to explore labor,...
Miranda Lee and the Ethics of Attention
Curator Miranda Lee challenges the fast‑paced art market by designing exhibitions that prioritize slower, more reflective attention. Her physical show RECRAFTED introduced intentional pause points, while digital projects like MULT Coexistence and MULT Island embed layered narratives that require exploration...
When Math Isn’t Enough: AI, Authenticity, and the Missing Fifth Element
The feature article in the FASO newsletter argues that AI‑generated content feels off because it is mathematically perfect, triggering an uncanny‑valley response. It cites Forbes data showing 55% of audiences are uncomfortable with AI in advertising, suggesting a trust gap...
Designer Yixuan Wang Invited to Collaborate with AFA Academy of Fine Arts
U.S.-based AFA Academy of Fine Arts announced its 2026 plan and has tapped internationally‑acclaimed designer Yixuan Wang to lead its visual design and brand communication. Wang, a recent iF Design Award winner for the pediatric device concept Breezy, will create...
On View: Marcel Duchamp
MoMA is hosting the first U.S. retrospective of Marcel Duchamp in half a century, running through August 22. Curated chronologically, the exhibition opens with the 1910 painting “The Chess Game” and proceeds through his photographic collaborations, readymades and performance pieces. Although...
A Savage Art Review
Bill Banowsky’s documentary *A Savage Art* chronicles the five‑decade career of political cartoonist Patrick Oliphant, whose work has spanned ten U.S. presidents. The film leverages unprecedented access to Oliphant, his family, peers, and journalists, weaving archival footage with hundreds of...
Painters Have Been Lying with Mirrors for 600 Years
Painters have been embedding deceptive mirror surfaces in their works for roughly six centuries, a practice that dates back to the early Renaissance. These optical tricks allowed artists to play with perspective, creating scenes where reflected images defy ordinary visual...
Lucy Sante's Knots
Lucy Sante, the celebrated writer‑turned‑artist, is presenting her collage exhibition “Knots” at the American Academy of Arts and Letters from March 14 to July 3, 2026. In the accompanying essay she recounts six decades of making collages, a practice she...
Join Us Today for an Artist Date
The Artist's Toolbox is hosting a live "Artist Date" focused on drawing landscapes, led by Tasha and Charlotte Hamilton at 3 pm ET. Creatives can register for free via a Luma link. The session draws on Julia Cameron’s "Artist’s Way" practice,...
London’s Boldest and Most Radical Arts Project in Disused Multi-Storey Car Park Celebrates 20th Anniversary
Bold Tendencies, the radical contemporary arts programme housed on the roof of Peckham’s disused multi‑storey car park, opens its 20th‑anniversary season on 15 May 2026. Since its 2007 launch by Hannah Barry, the project has welcomed more than 1.8 million visitors and hosted...
Hackney Art Week Returns for 2026 with Expanded Borough-Wide Programme
Hackney Art Week returns for 2026 with an expanded, borough‑wide programme running June 4‑14. The free festival will feature over 60 artists across 50 venues, turning galleries, cafés, pubs and street corners into creative spaces. Opening night at the Rose Lipman Building...
Earthly Paradise: Radical Alternative Living in the UK – William Morris Gallery
Earthly Paradise: Radical Living in the UK, a new touring exhibition, opens at the William Morris Gallery on 3 October 2026 and runs through 28 March 2027 before traveling to Wales, the Lake District and Edinburgh through 2028. Developed by the Four Lanterns partnership...
MARUANI MERCIER Opens a Second Brussels Space with George Rickey’s Ordered Movement
Maruani Mercier has opened a second Brussels venue at Rue Saint‑Georges 13, expanding its presence in the Ixelles gallery district alongside its Avenue Louise flagship and Knokke outpost. The inaugural show, George Rickey: Ordered Movement, presents four decades of the American kinetic sculptor’s work, focusing...
Matt Browning at Kunstverein München
Matt Browning’s first institutional solo exhibition, *All Woodcarvings Remain Slow Motion Mobiles*, opens at Kunstverein München in 2026. The show gathers works he has carved from Douglas fir since 2013, each formed from a single block through a subtractive, whittling‑like...
Krassimir Terziev at Sarieva, Plovidv
Sarieva/Gallery is hosting Krassimir Terziev’s solo exhibition “Base and Superstructure” at DOT Sofia from March 12 to April 26 2026. The show pairs newly created 2026 works—such as the gold‑leaf series “Central” and “Lights Off”—with the artist’s early 1994 piece “Angels and Chimneys,”...
Patricia Fernandez at Whistle
Patricia Fernandez’s solo show "A Constellation of Its Other" opens at Whistle in Seoul from March 20 to May 2, 2026. The exhibition showcases 28 carefully selected photographs that explore themes of identity, displacement, and cultural overlap. Co‑produced with Commonwealth...
Melik Ohanian at Galerie Chantal Crousel
Melik Ohanian’s solo show "ALTERATION, For a long time in Time" opens at Galerie Chantal Crousel in Paris from March 13 to April 18, 2026. The exhibition features a mix of video, installation, and archival objects that probe the fluidity of memory and temporal perception....
Nietzsche the Mystic, and More
The Arts & Letters Daily post titled “Nietzsche the Mystic, and More” revisits Friedrich Nietzsche’s lesser‑explored mystical dimensions, arguing that his late writings contain spiritual and quasi‑religious motifs often overlooked by mainstream scholarship. The piece links Nietzsche’s mysticism to contemporary debates...
George Condo Hoard Heads For Christie’s – And Who’s Selling? His Ex-Wife
Anna Condo, the former wife of celebrated painter George Condo, is consigning 27 of his works—including paintings, sculptures and works on paper—to Christie’s New York for a dedicated single‑owner session on May 21. The lot will appear in Christie’s Post‑War...
Paul’s Work of the Month – Sigmar Polke: Untitled, 1980-81
Sigmar Polke’s untitled mixed‑media work from 1980‑81 is on view in simultaneous exhibitions curated by Gordon VeneKlasen in London and New York. The piece combines acrylic, spray paint, metallic paint, fabric, wooden toggles and buttons, echoing Dada‑era collage and referencing Pierre Klossowski and...
Eye Candy for Today: Martin Heade Orchid
Martin Johnson Heade’s 1863 oil "Cattleya Orchid and Three Hummingbirds" showcases the artist’s late‑career fascination with exotic flora and fauna. The 14 × 18‑inch work pairs a vivid pink Cattleya orchid with three hummingbirds perched amid a misty forest backdrop. Housed in...
Ken Gonzales-Day
Artist Ken Gonzales‑Day’s “Erased Lynching” series reexamines the overlooked history of lynching in the American West, especially the Latinx, Asian and Native American victims. His archival research expanded documented California lynchings from about 50 to over 350 and identified more...
Sofia Taipa
Portuguese visual artist Sofia Taipa, based in London, creates computational sculptures and installations that blend algorithmic systems with physical media. Her 2023 work Evanescence captures visitors’ facial profiles and carves them into a rotating clay cylinder, while the 2024 installation...
Color Code Performance Series
The artist’s new "Color‑Code Performance Series" extends the ongoing "Lost Grids" project by embedding semantic text directly into an image’s digital code, producing deliberate visual glitches. These glitches are amplified into prints, artist books, and now video installations that pair...
Adriana Ramić at Kunstverein Für Mecklenburg Und Vorpommern in Schwerin
Adriana Ramić presents her first German institutional solo exhibition, "Confusion model into a butterfly," at the Kunstverein für Mecklenburg und Vorpommern in Schwerin. The multimedia show blends five‑channel video, sculpture, and language to explore hybrid identities, transcultural knowledge, and the limits of anthropocentric thought....
A Python Being Surprising
The post curates a Lawfare roundup, highlighting Andrea Campbell’s new book on American tax attitudes, a critique of the United States’ increasingly restrictive data‑export stance, and a CIA‑withdrawn intelligence report on women in white‑supremacist violence. It also references a Lawfare...
The High Priest of High Concept
MoMA opened a major retrospective on Marcel Duchamp, the early‑20th‑century artist whose readymades reshaped the definition of art. The exhibition showcases over 80 works, including the iconic "Fountain" and lesser‑known pieces that trace his evolution from Dada provocateur to conceptual pioneer....
Jim Jarmusch, Patti Smith & Brian Eno Feature In Venice Biennale’s The Holy See Pavilion
The Holy See Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Ben Vickers, opens on May 9, 2026 with the title “The Ear is the Eye of the Soul.” It spans two sites—a hidden Carmelite garden...
Preview: Miart 2026 – Shahin Zarinbal (Berlin) and South Parade (London)
British artist Judith Dean, known for layered watercolour‑acrylic canvases that fuse internet imagery, 17th‑century Chinese manuals and personal archives, will present new works at miart 2026 in Milan. The exhibition runs April 17‑19 at the South Wing of Allianz MiCo,...
Paris Internationale Milano 2026 Brings 34 Galleries to Palazzo Galbani
Paris Internationale launches its first edition outside France in Milan, running 18‑21 April 2026 at the restored Palazzo Galbani. The fair brings together 34 galleries that present exhibition‑style booths rather than traditional market stalls, emphasizing curatorial depth. Timing the event with Milan...