Renée Green at Bortolami
Renée Green’s solo exhibition, titled “Secret,” opened at Bortolami in New York on April 10 and will run through May 16, 2026. The show presents a suite of 14 newly photographed works that span Green’s interdisciplinary practice, blending sculpture, video, and archival research. Bortolami supplied the venue and production support, while Free Agent Media provided image licensing. The exhibition is positioned as a major cultural event in the city’s spring gallery calendar.
Todd Gray’s Diasporic Vision in Portals at Perrotin
Todd Gray’s "Portals" exhibition at Perrotin Los Angeles showcases a series of layered photo‑sculptures that bridge locations across the Black diaspora, from Ghana and Senegal to Rome and the United States. The show juxtaposes intimate small‑scale studies with larger, fragmented...
A Rust Belt Biennale
The Carnegie Museum of Art launched the 59th Carnegie International in Pittsburgh, branding it the first “Rust Belt Biennale.” The exhibition showcases 61 artists and collectives, with 36 works specially commissioned for the show. Director Eric Crosby says the commissions...
Why Claude Monet Built His Water Lily Pond
Claude Monet didn’t just paint his famous water lilies – he built the pond that became his canvas, diverting the River Epte and constructing a Japanese‑style bridge in the 1890s. The effort illustrates how artists can engineer their surroundings to...
Alfatih at Kunsthaus Langenthal
Alfatih’s first institutional solo exhibition in German‑speaking Switzerland, "Time Leaks," opens at Kunsthaus Langenthal, occupying six rooms of the historic former tax office. The show uses water, sound, and sensor‑driven installations to interrogate bureaucratic "Apparatus" and the fragility of ordered...
$100,000 Grant For Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin Creatives (Deadline: May 4, 2026)
The Joyce Awards, run by United States Artists, are offering a $100,000 grant for artists and cultural practitioners living in Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. The program targets creators whose work advances racial equity and engages Great Lakes communities through collaborative...
Banksy/Hegel/King Charles/Neo-Feudalism/Ideology/Blindness/Marx
The post dissects Banksy’s new blind‑man statue in London, arguing it simultaneously condemns blind nationalism and, through ironic universal appeal, reinforces Britain’s self‑image. It situates the artwork within a wider right‑wing surge toward neo‑feudal aristocratic narratives, citing King Charles’s US...
Eye Candy for Today: Jasper Cropsey’s Autumn – On the Hudson River
Jasper Francis Cropsey’s landmark oil, “Autumn – On the Hudson River,” measures 60 × 108 inches and resides in Washington’s National Gallery of Art. The museum provides a zoomable view and a downloadable high‑resolution file, making the 19th‑century masterpiece widely accessible. Cropsey,...
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Exhibits in New York’s latest post introduces a free first‑neighborhood guide while moving the rest of its content behind a subscription paywall, with proceeds earmarked to raise rates for writers and speakers. The newsletter highlights a slate of Chelsea exhibitions,...
ENDLESS Turns Money Into Monarchy at Cris Contini Contemporary Rome
London-based artist Endless opened "Cash Is King" at Cris Contini Contemporary in Rome, turning British banknotes into a visual critique of monarchy, power and national identity. The show highlights the recent debut of King Charles III on UK currency, framing...
RTRU* (*Raudive Technoculture Research Unit) at KAJE
The Raudive Technoculture Research Unit (RTRU) is mounting a multidisciplinary exhibition at KAJE in Brooklyn from April 4 to May 17, 2026. Curated by Zane Onckule and Elizaveta Shneyderman of the Riga Technoculture Research Unit, the show features nine artists—including Ka Baird, Scott Benzel, and Valdis Celms—who explore...
Tribeca Shows Closing Soon
Three art exhibitions in New York’s Tribeca neighborhood are slated to close within the next few weeks, prompting a final chance for visitors to experience the featured works. The shows showcase a mix of emerging local talent and a few...
The Antwerp List
Antwerp, once Europe’s wealthiest port, has reinvented itself as a global cultural hub where 16th‑century guildhalls sit beside avant‑garde fashion from the Antwerp Six and contemporary architecture by Axel Vervoordt and Vincent Van Duysen. The city’s culinary landscape boasts at least...
FAD News: Winners of Fourth Plinth Schools Awards Announced.
The Fourth Plinth Schools Awards 2026 announced its three winners, whose artwork will be displayed at London City Hall until mid‑June. The competition, now in its tenth year of Cass Art sponsorship, attracted 1,800 students and awarded 51 prize packs of...
FAD News: Powerhouse Parramatta Set to Open in Late 2026 as Australia’s Biggest New Cultural Project.
Powerhouse Parramatta, a 30,000‑square‑metre museum on Dharug land in Western Sydney, is slated to open in late 2026. Billed as Australia’s biggest cultural infrastructure project since the Sydney Opera House, it will house seven exhibition spaces, a 600‑seat theatre, rooftop...
Daiga Grantina: Lilacs
The Mead Gallery at Warwick Arts Centre is presenting “Lilacs,” the most extensive UK solo exhibition of Latvian artist Daiga Grantina, running from May 2 to June 28, 2026. Building on her acclaimed New Museum show, the exhibition explores the tension between organic...
Isabelle Bscher And Galerie Gmurzynska’s Picasso & Wifredo Lam Exhibition
Galerie Gmurzynska is mounting "Lam/Picasso," the first comprehensive U.S. exhibition of Pablo Picasso and Cuban‑Afro artist Wifredo Lam since 1939. Running April 23‑June 30, 2026 in the Fuller Building, the show presents roughly 50 paintings, frescos, ceramics and collages spanning 1918‑1978, including two...
Erwan Sene at Bonny Poon / Conditions, Toronto
Erwan Sene’s exhibition "Checked or four attacks that will never happen" transforms 1970s Delsey suitcases into autonomous sculptures that combine industrial polycarbonate, infrasound antennas and vintage François Villon shoes. By assembling legally permissible components, the work exposes gaps in ICAO...
Three Famous Patterns Created by Artists
The article highlights three iconic visual patterns—Yayoi Kusama’s infinite polka dots, William Morris’s handcrafted botanical repeats, and Keith Haring’s interlocking subway figures—and explains how each originated from personal or cultural impulses. Kusama’s dots grew from childhood hallucinations and now cover everything from sculptures...
On View: Cy Twombly
The Morgan Library’s exhibition "Come Together: 3,000 Years of Stories and Storytelling" closes on May 3, opening with Cy Twombly’s 1967 etching "Untitled II" and showcasing artifacts from ancient myths to early modern literature. The show juxtaposes oral traditions with printed and...
Opera Mourns a Monumental German Artist
German painter‑sculptor Georg Baselitz died at 88, prompting tributes from the opera world. Baselitz, whose work was shaped by post‑modernists Jackson Pollock and Philip Guston, created striking stage designs for two landmark productions. In 1993 he designed the set for Harrison Birtwistle’s *Punch...
Georg Baselitz: Controversial German Neo-Expressionist Painter Dies Aged 88
Georg Baselitz, the German painter who died at 88, reshaped postwar art with his radical upside‑down canvases and confrontational sculptures. Born in East Germany, he fled to West Berlin, where early shows were shut down for obscenity before his 1969...
Victoria Miro Now Represent Shahzia Sikander
Victoria Miro announced that it will represent acclaimed New York‑based artist Shahzia Sikander, in partnership with Sean Kelly Gallery. The first solo show will open in London from May 5 to July 31, featuring Sikander’s new animation “3 to 12 Nautical Miles,” which premiered earlier...
FAD News: Brooklyn Museum to Stage Art of Manga, the First Major Americas Survey of Manga as Fine Art
The Brooklyn Museum will open *Art of Manga* on October 3, 2026, marking the first large‑scale exhibition in the Americas devoted to manga as fine art. The show, organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, assembles more than 600 original...
Interview: Christoph Jörg, Andreas Dalsgaard • Co-Creators of The Oligarch and the Art Dealer - “It Felt Like Entering a...
The Oligarch and the Art Dealer, a new series debuting at Canneseries, examines the tangled relationship between Swiss art dealer Yves Bouvier and Russian oligarch Dmitri Rybolovlev, including an alleged billion‑dollar fraud surrounding masterpieces such as the $450 million Salvator Mundi. Producers...
New Banksy Sculpture Appears At Waterloo Place London
A new sculpture depicting a suited figure marching with a flag‑covered face appeared on Waterloo Place in London and was confirmed as an original Banksy via his Instagram post. The work sits among imperial monuments, using blindfolded nationalism to critique...
Impeccable Joe Lewis Collection Comes To Auction At Sotheby’s London
Joe Lewis, the 89‑year‑old billionaire who made his fortune in currency trading, is putting a 30‑year‑old collection of figurative masterpieces up for auction at Sotheby’s London. The sale, estimated between £150 million and £200 million (≈$192‑$256 million), is the most valuable single‑owner collection...
Extracting Art From the Landscape: Siobhan McLaughlin at Jupiter Artland
Jupiter Artland’s "Extraction" exhibition spotlights climate‑focused art, featuring Siobhan McLaughlin’s paintings made from earth pigments harvested from the Five Sisters Bings, historic oil‑shale spoil tips near Edinburgh. McLaughlin gathers pigments and reclaimed textiles during walks, sewing them into canvases that embed...
FAD News: Serpentine X FLAG Art Foundation Prize Announces Star-Studded Selection Committee
The Serpentine and The FLAG Art Foundation have unveiled the five‑member international jury that will select the inaugural winner of the UK’s largest contemporary art prize. The panel features MoMA chief curator Michelle Kuo, MACAN director Venus Lau, curators Hans Ulrich Obrist...
From the Collection at Dvir Gallery, Paris
The Dvir Gallery in Paris opens "From the Collection" on April 3, running through May 23, 2026. The group show assembles 24 artists ranging from established figures such as William Kentridge and Menashe Kadishman to emerging voices like Aysha E Arar. Works span six decades and...
XOXO Festival Archived Online
The XOXO festival, a Portland‑based gathering for internet artists and creators that ran throughout the 2010s, has launched XOXO Explore, a comprehensive online archive of every edition. Hosted by Andy McMilland and Andy Baio, the archive offers videos, talks, performances,...
May 2026 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists
Colossal’s May 2026 roundup lists dozens of open calls, grants, fellowships and residencies for visual artists worldwide. Highlights include the Scenerium 2026 Art Award with an online exhibition, Artsy feature and global promotion; the Hopper Prize offering two $4,500 and...
TikTok Shop Adds “Fine Art” Category and Launches with Live Sale by Influencer Artist Sophie Tea
TikTok Shop introduced a dedicated “fine art” category within its collectibles section, allowing creators to sell original works through shoppable videos and livestreams. The rollout debuted with a three‑hour live sale on March 11 featuring 20 oil paintings by influencer Sophie Tea,...
Bunny Hennessey: Radical Happiness
Union Gallery will present Bunny Hennessey’s "Radical Happiness" from May 2‑30, 2026, showcasing her high‑chroma, sensation‑driven paintings that fuse figuration and abstraction. The London‑based artist, a Slade MFA candidate and 2024 Freeland’s Painting Prize winner, uses oil, acrylic and watercolor to explore...
Spell Your Name with NASA’s Earthly Alphabet of Aerial Images
NASA and the USGS celebrated Earth Day 2026 by unveiling a playful name‑generator that turns any word into a vertical collage of Landsat satellite images. The tool pulls from the program’s five‑plus decades of Earth observation, mapping each letter to...
Silent Auction: Beautiful Puffin Sculpture
Protect the Wild is holding a silent auction for a one‑of‑a‑kind hand‑made ceramic Puffin created by artist Sarah Brabbin. The piece, featured on the BBC series “I Made it at Market,” will be sold to the highest bidder, with all proceeds...
Jack White Is Now A Visual Artist Should We Care?
Jack White is debuting his visual art at Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery in London with the exhibition "These Thoughts May Disappear," running from 29 May to 13 September 2026. The show, co‑curated by Connor Hirst and White, features sculptures,...
Roy Lichtenstein’s Anxious Girl Goes Under The Hammer At Christie’s
Roy Lichtenstein’s 1964 painting Anxious Girl will be auctioned at Christie’s New York on May 18, with an estimate of $40 million to $60 million. The work is making its first public appearance after three decades in the private collection of Horace...
Torsten Slama at Neuer Essener Kunstverein, Essen
The Neuer Essener Kunstverein in Essen opens "Die Vatermaschine," a solo exhibition of Torsten Slama’s work running from February 28 to May 24, 2026. The show presents a curated selection of drawings and paintings created between 2007 and 2020, highlighting the artist’s recurring...
Byron Kim: The Big and Small Have Something to Do with Love
Byron Kim’s 2024 "Sunday Paintings" at James Cohan continue his weekly ritual of pairing a painted sky with a handwritten diary entry, collapsing personal moments into a cosmic frame. The artist disclosed his aphantasia, explaining that he cannot visualize images...
Venice Biennale 2026: The Seeds Koyo Kouoh Sowed, and The Tree We Are Living Under
The 61st Venice Biennale, titled *In Minor Keys*, opens on May 9, 2026, realizing Koyo Kouoh’s posthumous vision. More than 140 exhibitions—including over 100 national pavilions and 30+ collateral events—span the historic Giardini and the Arsenale shipyards. Six countries—Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Nauru, Qatar, Sierra Leone,...
7 Artists Discuss the Power and Urgency of Textiles
A new Louisiana Channel film spotlights seven artists who use textiles to explore softness, memory, and identity in an increasingly digital world. The documentary features Nick Cave’s armor‑like suits made from found objects, Icelandic creator Shoplifter’s vivid hair installations, and...
Alec Egan: "The Groundskeeper" At Vielmetter Los Angeles
Alec Egan’s solo exhibition “The Groundskeeper” opens at Vielmetter Los Angeles, marking his first show since a 2025 wildfire destroyed his Pacific Palisades home and studio. The show juxtaposes serene “Dawn House” canvases with darker “Night House” pieces, reflecting the...
Russia’s Venice Biennale Pavilion Will Be Closed To The Public
The Venice Biennale will display Russia’s pavilion for only four preview days (May 5‑8) before sealing it shut for the rest of the 61st edition, substituting live art with window‑mounted screens. The decision follows months of diplomatic friction, with Italy’s culture...
Filipa Ramos Appointed Curator of 2027 Lofoten International Art Festival
Filipa Ramos, a Basel‑based curator and author of *The Artist as Ecologist*, has been named curator of the 19th Lofoten International Art Festival, scheduled for 28 May‑27 June 2027. The Arctic‑circle biennial, Scandinavia’s longest‑running art event, will spotlight site‑specific works that explore human‑nonhuman...
Bold Solos, Global Dialogues: Inside Frieze New York 2026
Frieze New York returns to The Shed from May 13‑17, 2026, unveiling a program that blends solo, dual and curated presentations. The fair will host 33 New York galleries alongside 11 emerging international exhibitors in its Focus section, emphasizing diasporic...
1990s: The Decade That Rewired British Culture
Tate Britain’s new exhibition, "The 90s: Art and Fashion," opens on 8 October 2026 and runs until 14 February 2027, presenting over 100 works by nearly 70 artists, photographers, and designers. It traces the decade’s shift from glossy 80s aesthetics to lo‑fi photography, the...
✘ Limitation, Lineage, and Building Worlds: Lyra Pramuk's Voice
Berlin vocalist and trans performance artist Lyra Pramuk received an Orchestral Tools microgrant for her pioneering work that constructs entire soundscapes from her own processed voice. Her debut album Fountain—and its follow‑up Hymnal—were built using granular synthesis, spectral morphing and...
Defending Democracy: France Deploys Justice and Interior Ministries to Protect Artistic Freedom
France announced an unprecedented joint operation that brings the Justice and Interior ministries together with the Culture ministry to protect artistic freedom, framing attacks on creators as a matter of state security. The plan allocates roughly €30 million (about $32 million) for...
Transgression Is Freedom in the Artistry of Dorian Wood
Los Angeles‑born multidisciplinary artist Dorian Wood, now based in Boston, is channeling her anti‑disciplinary practice into a new album, *Canto de Todes*, released May 1 by New Amsterdam Records. The record translates a 12‑hour immersive installation premiered at REDCAT into a 70‑minute...