Nominees for the 2026 Saltzman-Leibovitz Photography Prize Announced
The Saltzman‑Leibovitz Photography Prize, founded in 2025 by Lisa Saltzman and Annie Leibovitz, will return to Photo London 2026, showcasing five emerging female photographers. The shortlisted artists—Miranda Rae Barnes, Marisol Mendez, Cole Ndelu, Lindeka Qampi, and Bettina Pittaluga—present work that interrogates identity, memory, and cultural rituals across the United States, Bolivia, South Africa, and Europe. Their works will be exhibited at Olympia London from May 13‑17, with a jury from publishing, curating, and institutions selecting the winner. The prize emphasizes attention to representation and supports storytellers at pivotal career moments.
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
The exhibition "Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead," curated by Maria Hinel, opens at Hypha Studios in London from March 12 to April 18, 2026. It brings together ten international artists to foreground animal agency, revolt, and...
Bettina Pousttchi’s Vertical Highways V03 Arrives at Rockefeller Center
Bettina Pousttchi’s sculpture *Vertical Highways V03* will occupy Rockefeller Center’s Channel Gardens from March 19 to April 17, 2026, marking the first U.S. showing of her acclaimed Vertical Highways series. The work, fashioned from repurposed guardrails, transforms familiar crowd‑control objects...
Angela Hao
Angela Hao, a U.S.-based illustrator, explores Japan’s neighborhoods through Google Street View and translates the quirky storefronts she discovers into digital ink and watercolor‑style artworks using Procreate. Her pieces capture minute architectural details and the personality of each shop, creating...
Unseen Lee Miller Photographs Discovered In Assistant’s Private Album
A scrapbook compiled by Lee Miller’s wartime assistant, Roland Haupt, has surfaced after eight decades, containing previously unseen prints of Miller’s iconic war photographs and rare personal images. Haupt, who processed Miller’s 120‑format film from Normandy to Hitler’s bunker, kept...
What's up in NY This Week?
This week’s New York cultural roundup highlights the closing of MoMA’s Wifredo Lam exhibition with free tickets on Friday, and the final days of Frank Diaz Escalet’s leather‑painting show. The Central Park Conservancy launched a cherry‑blossom tracker, while BAM kicks off its Stand...
Visualising the Passion Across Cultures
The post explores how Passion rituals across Europe and colonial Latin America were visualized, focusing on two 16th‑century paintings now in Colnaghi’s collection—Luca Cambiaso’s *Flagellation of Christ* and Willem Key’s *Crucifixion*. It outlines the evolution of public processions in Spain,...
Go See Something 💫
The latest "Go see something" newsletter from Exhibits in New York blends a curated guide to current city exhibitions with reading recommendations and a promotion for its iOS app. It spotlights major shows such as Raphael’s “Sublime Poetry” at the...
David Armstrong: Portraits Artists Space New York – Paul Carter Robinson
The first comprehensive U.S. survey of David Armstrong opens at Artists Space, showcasing over 90 photographs that span three decades of his career. The exhibition repositions Armstrong beyond his association with Nan Goldin and the Boston School, highlighting his technical...
New York Court Orders Return of Modigliani Looted By The Nazis
A New York Supreme Court judge ordered the return of Amedeo Modigliani’s 1918 portrait "Seated Man With a Cane" to the estate of Oscar Stettiner, a Jewish dealer whose work was seized by the Nazis. The ruling ends a twelve‑year...
Last Lichtensteins
New York’s gallery season is in a transitional lull as winter exhibitions wind down and the city awaits the surge of buyers around the May art fair. Yet Thursday night pop‑up shows continue to surface, offering fresh encounters for collectors...
Opal Mae Ong: Worlds Weighing In
Plato Gallery presents Opal Mae Ong’s solo exhibition “Always Were,” running through April 19, 2026 in New York. The show intertwines ancestral Filipino folklore with contemporary visual language, using acrylic and gouache to create luminous, staged scenes that explore grief, ritual, and transformation. Signature works...
Eight Treats For The Easter Weekend (And Why They’re Worth Your Time)
The blog spotlights two Easter‑weekend fashion experiences: a private viewing of the Schiaparelli exhibition at London’s V&A, which showcases the designer’s 1930s‑50s avant‑garde pieces, and the Citizens of Humanity Flight Pant, a pleated trouser positioned as a stylish alternative to...
Sebatian Wiegand at Les Bains-Douches, Alençon
Sebastian Wiegand’s "Mauvais foins" exhibition opened at Les Bains‑Douches in Alençon, presenting a series of paintings that fuse ritualistic scenery with figures appearing under the sway of drugs, hormones and toxins. The works feature muted, dream‑like bodies in a hazy...
Raymond Saunders at David Zwirner
David Zwirner is presenting a solo exhibition of late artist Raymond Saunders in Los Angeles from February 24 to April 25, 2026. Curated by Ebony L. Haynes, the show highlights Saunders' interdisciplinary practice that blends performance, video, and conceptual art....
Typewriter Interview with Marc Bell
The latest installment of the Typewriter Interview series features cartoonist Marc Bell answering ten curated questions. Hosted by author Austin Kleon, the interview is presented in a nostalgic typewriter‑styled format that mirrors the analog aesthetic of Bell’s work. Bell discusses...
Perception & Provocation: Riley · Hirst · Banksy · Hockney
Calder Contemporary has launched “Perception & Provocation,” an online exhibition on Artsy that runs from March 12 to April 12, 2026, featuring British icons Bridget Riley, Damien Hirst, Banksy and David Hockney. The show emphasizes visceral, immediate visual impact over intellectual analysis, presenting...
Phillips to Stage Duchamp & Company Auction Celebrating the Artist’s Enduring Influence
Phillips is launching "DUCHAMP & COMPANY," a New York auction curated by Francis M. Naumann that assembles more than 100 works tracing Marcel Duchamp’s lasting impact. The sale pairs Duchamp’s own pieces—including the rare La Boîte‑en‑valise series F, estimated at $350,000‑$450,000—with works by Man Ray, Robert Rauschenberg, Sherrie Levine, John Baldessari...
The Open: Odyssey at Hastings Contemporary Is the South Coast’s Answer to the Summer Exhibition
The Open: Odyssey, debuting at Hastings Contemporary, is the South Coast’s first open‑submission selling exhibition. More than 2,500 Sussex artists entered, with 150 works chosen around the loose theme “Odyssey.” The show blends sea‑inspired pieces, found‑material sculptures, and emerging talent...
Lucy Liyou Breaks Free in Visceral “Mister Cobra” Performance
Lucy Liyou’s "Mister Cobra" at Performance Space New York fused live music, film, and 3‑D avatar combat into a visceral, blood‑splattered finale. The show acted as a live rollout for her upcoming MR COBRA album, featuring collaborators like Nick Zanca and Laura...
Rare Basquiat Works Unite in Major Miami Exhibition
Pérez Art Museum Miami will open Basquiat: Figures, Signs, Symbols on June 25, 2026, showcasing nine paintings and a sculpture from the Kenneth C. Griffin Collection. The exhibition, co‑curated by director Franklin Sirmans and Megan Kincaid, aligns with the FIFA World Cup to...
Prospects 2026
The Mondriaan Fund’s 14th Prospects exhibition opened at Rotterdam Ahoy from March 27‑29, 2026, featuring 92 emerging Dutch artists. Curated by Johan Gustavsson and Daphne Verberg, the show coincides with Art Rotterdam, giving collectors and professionals direct access to new talent....
Ryan Cullen at KIN, Brussels
Ryan Cullen’s latest exhibition at KIN, Brussels interrogates the notion of originality by positioning artworks as symbols recognized within institutional and market systems. Drawing on William Gaddis’s novel *The Recognitions*, the show argues that meaning emerges from attribution rather than...
Illustrator Edward Gorey
Illustrator Edward Gorey, the creator of morbidly humorous books, celebrated his 100th birthday on February 22, 2025. A CBS Sunday Morning profile aired on April 20, 1997, revisiting his Cape Cod home and featuring commentary from authors Clifford Ross and...
Sharon’s Substack / April 1, 2026
Artist Sharon Butler announces that her painting *Green Wall 3* will be featured in the American Abstract Artists’ 90th‑anniversary show “Abstract by Definition: An Index” at Art Cake in Brooklyn. Curated by critic Saul Ostrow, the exhibition juxtaposes 90 artists to...
Eastern Promises
Hong Kong’s spring art auctions posted a $216 million cumulative sales volume, a 43% increase over the previous year, signaling a clear rebound after four years of decline. The market achieved an impressive 89% sell‑through rate, indicating robust buyer participation. The...
Art Sculpture Blows Rainbow Smoke Donuts Using Mirrors and Prisms
Artist Adrien Miller unveiled a hand‑crafted wall sculpture that appears to exhale rainbow‑colored smoke rings. The effect relies on strategically placed mirrors and a prism that refract incense smoke into vivid arcs. Viewers initially mistake the display for a digital...
James Bellerue and the Art of Custom Bike Paint
James Bellerue, the longtime custom‑paint artist at Stinner Frameworks, was featured in a new YouTube profile that pulls back the curtain on his decade‑long craft. The interview with founder Aaron Stinner explores how Bellerue evolved from a makeshift paint booth...
CIRCA and Michelangelo Pistoletto Transform Global Screens Into Year-Long Preventive Peace Initiative with the United Nations
From April 1 2026, artist Michelangelo Pistoletto and CIRCA will air a moving‑image work called Three Mirrors on public screens in cities such as London, Milan, Los Angeles, Accra and Seoul. The year‑long project, curated by Josef O’Connor and backed by the UN...
Greater New York 2026
MoMA PS1 announced the 53 artists and collectives for Greater New York 2026, the museum’s flagship survey of New York‑based creators. Opening April 16 and running through August 17, the exhibition features site‑specific installations, newly commissioned works and a live...
Catherine Opie: The Pause That Dreams Against Erasure
Catherine Opie’s first institutional solo exhibition in Germany opens at the Fridericianum in Kassel, running from February 14 to July 19, 2026. The show, titled “The Pause That Dreams Against Erasure,” presents a site‑specific survey of more than three decades...
A Purist Approach to Media Art Societies
Media creep, the gradual widening of acceptable media in art societies, is sparking debate in the UK. The Royal Institute’s recent watercolour exhibition featured 11.5 % acrylic works, prompting calls for stricter medium definitions. The Royal Institute of Oil Painters responded...
Ndidi Dike at Secession, Vienna
British‑Nigerian artist Ndidi Dike presents her first major solo show, *Rare Earth Rare Justice*, at Vienna’s Secession. The installation confronts the exploitation of cobalt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, linking it to colonial legacies, climate devastation, and systemic...
Georg Herold at Capitain Petzel
Georg Herold’s solo exhibition opens at Capitain Petzel in Berlin from February 27 to April 11, 2026. The show presents 33 newly created works, documented in a comprehensive series of images, and is supported by bilingual press releases and a detailed floor plan. Capitain Petzel, known...
Gas Prices
Michael de Adder’s latest Substack post uses a two‑frame cartoon to lampoon political promises about fixing gas prices, juxtaposing a campaign pledge with sky‑high pump numbers. The artwork, posted on March 31, 2026, depicts former President Trump promising relief and then celebrating...
First Impressionists
Two major exhibitions opened this week, pairing Édouard Manet with Berthe Morisot at the Cleveland Museum of Art and showcasing Georges Seurat’s marine paintings at London’s Courtauld Gallery. Curators argue the shows converse with earlier blockbuster retrospectives, signaling a shift...
Episode 933: Kate Sierzputowski and EXPO Chicago 2026
EXPO Chicago’s 2026 edition, now under Frieze’s ownership, will pivot to a smaller, more curatorial and thematic fair model. Director Kate Sierzputowski emphasizes intentional layout, embedded curatorial frameworks, and a relational approach that treats the fair as a storytelling platform....
Wilhelm Sasnal Family / History
Wilhelm Sasnal’s new solo show, "family / history," opens at Sadie Coles HQ in London from 1 April to 23 May 2026. The exhibition juxtaposes intimate family portraits with politically charged scenes, ranging from the Oval Office to NATO gatherings. Sasnal describes each...
Walking as Art: Exploring Mesa’s Street Exhibitions and Staying Safe on the Creative Canvas
Mesa, Arizona has transformed its downtown core into a year‑round open‑air gallery, featuring more than 30 permanent sculptures, murals and interactive installations such as the motion‑responsive *Mesa Musical Shadows* and the light‑filled *Color Walk*. The city’s Digital Art Walk app...
Linda Lach at Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg
Linda Lach’s new show *all keys, all times* at the Salzburger Kunstverein creates a minimalist waiting‑room atmosphere that interrogates universal compatibility. The installation combines a milky latex ceiling, suspended sculptural forms and a tiny video loop to illustrate how standardization...
Old Things Are Passed Away; Behold, All Things Are Become New.
The author reflects on a recent Emergent Ventures unconference where discussions spanned art, mortality, and the future of higher education. He contends that despite pressures for practical outcomes, the study of the literary canon—especially Shakespeare—will endure, even if it becomes...
Nancy Holt’s Light and Shadow Poetics at The MAK Center
The MAK Center’s "Light and Shadow Poetics" exhibition reunites Nancy Holt’s light‑focused works with the modernist Schindler House, creating a dialogue between earth‑based conceptual art and early‑20th‑century architecture. Visitors encounter Holt’s 1978 Light and Shadow Photo Drawings, the Sunlight in...
A Puppet Show Made From Old Pianos and Mississippi River Trash
Playdoh Kolo’s newest production, Riperion Piano Creatures, will debut at this year’s Giant Puppet Festival in New Orleans. The performance features an entire cast of puppets constructed from discarded Mississippi River debris, salvaged piano parts, and other urban refuse. By...
Rembrandt Mystery: Is ‘Workshop Copy’ Actually by the Master?
Rembrandt van Rijn has re‑emerged at the center of an art‑historical dispute as scholar Gary Schwartz argues that a canvas painting, long labeled a workshop copy, is actually an autograph replica by the master. The two near‑identical *Old Man with a Gold...
Canaletto & Bellotto: The Art of The Constructed View – Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum opens “Canaletto & Bellotto: The Art of the Constructed View,” showcasing 32 vedute from Venice, London, Dresden and Vienna. Curator Mateusz Mayer argues the paintings are engineered perspectives shaped by patron demands and 18th‑century politics, not photographic...
Glen Baxter Artist Of The Absurd Has Died Aged 82
Glen Baxter, the Leeds‑born artist famed for dead‑pan ink drawings paired with absurd captions, died at 82. His work, rooted in Marx Brothers humor and adventure‑book diction, turned the art world’s solemnity into a punchline and influenced creators from Edward...
Mirna Bamieh: Sour Things: The Door
Palestinian artist Mirna Bamieh’s new installation Sour Things: The Door opens at NIKA Project Space in Romainville from 17 April to 23 May 2026. Curated by Anne Davidian, the work extends Bamieh’s Sour Things series, using a monumental, partially blocked doorframe, porcelain okra sculptures, and video testimonies to explore migration,...
Godfried Donkor Heads to Venice with a Tribute to History, Power and Koyo Kouoh
Godfried Donkor will present a new painting, *Michael and the Dragon II* (2026), and four earlier works at the 61st Venice Biennale, honoring his late friend and curator Koyo Kouhou. The exhibition revisits his 2017 *First Day of the Yam Custom*...
Fu Nagasawa at Taka Ishii Gallery
Fu Nagasawa’s solo exhibition "Zankyu" opens at Taka Ishii Gallery in Maebashi‑shi, running from February 21 to March 29, 2026. The show features the artist’s mixed‑media works that probe the intersection of tradition and contemporary life. Press materials are provided...
12 Famous Portraits vs the Real People
“12 Famous Portraits vs the Real People” is a newsletter article that uncovers the hidden biographies behind iconic paintings by Van Gogh, Klimt and Mucha. It reveals surprising details such as Van Gogh’s 13‑year‑old sitter Adeline Ravoux paying roughly $0.70...