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Thailand Biennale Phuket The Island Talks Back Eternal [Kalpa]- Virginie Puertolas-Syn
The Thailand Biennale’s "Eternal Kalpa" edition returns to Phuket, featuring 65 artists from 25 countries across 19 repurposed venues such as a decommissioned power station, an old liquor distillery, and the former Pearl Theatre. Curated by Arin Rungjang, David Teh, Hera Chan and Marisa Phandharakrajadej, the show uses the Hindu‑Buddhist concept of a kalpa—a 4.32‑billion‑year cycle—to slow the tourist‑driven tempo and foreground local histories, from tin‑mining to the Chinese diaspora. New commissions engage directly with the island’s ecology and memory, with works that transform waste slag, cover structures in jute, and display real‑time temperature boards. The biennale positions Phuket’s residents as active participants, turning the exhibition into a dialogue between art, place, and community.
Marina Abramović: Historic Dell’Accademia Exhibition Announced During Venice Biennale 2026
Marina Abramović will be the first living woman artist to receive a major solo exhibition at Venice’s Gallerie dell’Accademia, opening May 6 and running through October 19, 2026, in tandem with the 61st Venice Biennale Arte. The show, titled “Transforming Energy,” marks her...
Hayden Dunham’s “NEVER IS OVER” Unfolds Cosmic Connection in New York Exhibition
Hayden Dunham’s third solo show, "NEVER IS OVER," opens at Company Gallery in New York on April 30, 2026. The immersive exhibition fuses sculpture, sound and video, featuring a 526‑hertz black‑hole frequency and floating lilies that suggest cosmic reunion. Sealed...
Hans Rosenström Transforms Four Freedoms Park with Immersive Sound Installation Out of Silence
Finnish artist Hans Rosenström is debuting "Out of Silence," a site‑specific sound installation at Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park on Roosevelt Island. The work runs from April 29 through June 21 2026 and fills Louis Kahn’s riverside monument with a 15‑minute,...
SCULPTURE IN THE GARDEN: THE STORYTELLERS
From May 1 to July 5, 2026, Worcester College in Oxford unveils “Sculpture in the Garden: The Storytellers,” a free, open‑air exhibition featuring 15 contemporary figurative sculptors from across the globe. The works, ranging from Antony Gormley’s bronze forms to Leila Babirye’s culturally...
Yinka Ilori: Joy Through Resistance He Who Laughs Last, Laughs Best
Yinka Ilori launches his first solo exhibition in London, "Joy Through Resistance," at Cristea Roberts Gallery from June 5 to July 11, 2026. The show assembles more than 20 pieces across painting, printmaking, sculpture, and an immersive sound installation that...
The Venice Biennale 2026: The Pavilion Hit List
The 61st Venice Biennale opens May 6‑10, 2026, spotlighting a curated set of national pavilions that push artistic boundaries. Bulgaria’s "The Federation of Minor Practices" offers an interactive, film‑based environment that interrogates future possibilities. Canada’s Abbas Akhavan presents "Entre chien et loup,"...
23 Most Famous Painters In The World
The article ranks the 23 most famous painters, spanning from Renaissance icons like Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo to modern innovators such as Andy Warhol and Frida Kahlo. It highlights each artist’s signature works and the movements they defined, from...
How Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne Came to Dominate the Design World
Claude Lalanne shattered a design auction record when a suite of 15 gilt‑bronze mirrors sold for $33.5 million at Sotheby’s, surpassing her husband François‑Xavier Lalanne’s $31.4 million Hippopotame Bar sale. The milestone highlights the ascent of high‑end design objects into blue‑chip territory....
Beyond the Threshold: Revisiting Orientalism II
Colnaghi’s second Orientalist exhibition, Beyond the Threshold: Revisiting Orientalism II, shifts focus from geographic journeys to the literal and figurative doorways that framed Western artists’ encounters with the East. The show highlights how access—or lack thereof—to sacred spaces, market arches,...
Vladimir Grankovsky
Vladimir Grankovsky is an interdisciplinary creator who blends art, neuroscience and engineering to test the malleability of human perception. He has built a continuous‑wear VR system that induces out‑of‑body experiences, a custom EEG brain‑computer interface, and a sarcastic humanoid robot...
Qwen AI Glasses Witness Grand Opening of China Intangible Cultural Heritage Crafts Exhibition at Milan Design Week
The China Intangible Cultural Heritage Crafts Exhibition opened at Milan Design Week featuring the world’s first documentary shot with Qwen AI Glasses, an AI‑powered wearable that records from a first‑person perspective. The glasses captured 12‑MP, 3K‑4K video of artisans, offered...
Niagara Falls: Mist and Majesty at the NGA Washington
“Niagara Falls: Mist and Majesty” opens at the National Gallery of Art in Washington from May 2 to September 20, 2026, marking the bicentennial of landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church’s birth. The show presents roughly 20 works—including 19th‑century prints, photographs, and contemporary video...
Margaret Curtis at Post Times, New York
Post Times is mounting “’S”, Margaret Curtis’s first solo New York exhibition since her 2003 show at P·P·O·W. The paintings fuse sprawling American landscapes with oversized neon‑sign figures, scaffolding, and a Photoshop grid, interrogating gender politics and national myth. Curtis incorporates...
Kari Cholnoky: Stalking Dullness
Kari Cholnoky’s third solo show, “Leech,” opens at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, pairing the alabaster sculpture Conservation of Mass with a life‑size bust‑like Leech and the towering installation Center of Gravity. The works fuse sculpture, collage, medical imagery and industrial materials to dramatize...
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The Exhibits in New York newsletter curates a weekend guide to over 30 current art shows across Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens, linking to each exhibition’s details. It promotes a free iOS app that lets readers map locations, while paid subscribers can...
Sotheby’s $96M De Gunzburg Blockbuster
Sotheby’s auction of the de Gunzburg collection closed at a staggering $96 million, highlighted by a record‑setting $28.5 million hammer price for a Claude Lalanne mirror. Bidders vied for the mirror’s counterparts, with offers climbing to $20 million before the final sale. The event unfolded...
An Interactive Archive Celebrates the Wide Ranging Projects Inviting ‘Unruly Play’
Amsterdam‑based studio Imagination of Things unveiled Unruly Play, an interactive digital archive that gathers 169 artworks, designs, games and public‑space interventions. The collection features high‑profile pieces such as Rael San Fratello’s Teeter‑Totter Wall, the therapeutic Wind Phone, and a 12‑foot...
Venice Biennale Gets Its Own Radio Station – RADIO GAMeC – PEDAGOGY OF HOPE
Radio GAMeC is launching “Pedagogy of Hope”, a collateral event of the Venice Biennale Arte 2026, broadcasting live from the historic Radio Vanessa in Venice from May 5‑10 and continuing online through November 22. Curated by Lorenzo Giusti and Lara Facco, the program...
The Red Disk – Joan Miró
Joan Miró’s 1960 painting The Red Disk, an oil on canvas measuring 45.7 × 54.9 cm, features a dark, almost black background punctuated by a chaotic white splotch, a bold red oval, and a yellow circle. The work’s impulsive brushwork and scattered symbols...
Yaxuan Liao: Emotional Algorithm.
Video artist Yaxuan Liao’s 2025 piece “Emotional Algorithm” converts a machine‑generated emotional lexicon into a synchronized light‑and‑sound environment. The work abandons visual representation, immersing viewers in fluctuating intensity and frequency that mirror the instability of human feelings. By treating algorithmic...
Glenn Brown Returns to Bath with ‘Arrows of Desire’ at the Holburne Museum
Glenn Brown, the British painter famed for his trompe‑l’oeil appropriations, returns to his alma mater city with “Brown in Bath: Arrows of Desire” at the Holburne Museum. The show, running May 16‑Sept 6, 2026, weaves his illusionistic canvases into the museum’s 18th‑century...
Gasworks Announces New Studio Bursary for Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s Earshot 2026-2029
Gasworks announced a three‑year Studio Bursary for Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s nonprofit Earshot, running from spring 2026 to 2029 and funded by patron Mercedes Vilardell. Earshot, founded in 2023, uses forensic audio to document human‑rights and environmental abuses, supplying evidence to more...
Prelude for a Press at Palace Enterprise
Prelude for a Press is a multi‑artist exhibition hosted at Palace Enterprise in Copenhagen from March 19 to April 25, 2026. Curated by Jesper List Thomsen, it showcases works by nine international creators spanning painting, sculpture, and new‑media formats. The show...
Dancer with a Motor Neuron(e) Disease (MND) Guides Her Digital Avatar Through a Stage Performance
British dancer Breanna Olson, living with ALS, returned to the stage in December 2025 by controlling a mixed-reality avatar with her brainwaves. Using an EEG headset co-developed by Japan’s Dentsu Lab and telecom giant NTT, her imagined movements were translated...
Up to $5,000 Grant For Newark Artists and Creatives (Deadline: May 1, 2026)
Newark, New Jersey is offering a grant of up to $5,000 to support artists and creatives shaping the city’s cultural scene. Applications must be submitted by May 1, 2026, with funding available for a range of visual, performing, and digital...
Katie Edwards’ Field of View Transforms Utrecht Centraal Into a Moving Landscape
Photographer Katie Edwards has unveiled *Field of View*, a site‑specific installation at Utrecht Centraal that displays 40 backlit photographs taken from the train window along the Haarlem‑Leiden line. The images capture Dutch tulip fields in full bloom, printed to the...
PATRICK HERON: Early Works, 1950-54
Hazlitt Holland‑Hibbert is mounting a second solo show of Patrick Heron, focusing on his 1950‑54 output, a period when the British modernist moved decisively from figurative interiors toward colour‑driven abstraction. The exhibition assembles works from the artist’s estate—including several never‑exhibited...
Hades and Persephone: Rape Myth or Ancient Power Couple
The blog post examines the myth of Hades and Persephone, arguing that the oldest sources—especially the Homeric Hymn to Demeter—present the story as a violent abduction rather than a consensual romance. It highlights how Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s 1621‑22 sculpture, *The...
Moore / Freud: Masters of Intimacy Explored at Hastings Contemporary
Moore / Freud opens at Hastings Contemporary on 13 June 2026, bringing together Henry Moore and Lucian Freud for the first time in a focused show of twenty family‑themed works. The exhibition juxtaposes Moore’s abstracted maquettes and wartime Shelter Drawings with Freud’s intimate figurative...
Anselm Kiefer Returns to New York with New Paintings Exploring Myth, Landscape and Alchemy
Gagosian will host Anselm Kiefer’s new exhibition, "Seal My Ears Shut and I Shall Hear You Still," opening May 15 and closing June 27, 2026, at its West 24th Street gallery in New York. The show assembles a fresh series...
Claude Lalanne: Saint Laurent Commissioned Mirrors’ $33.5 Million Auction Record
Claude Lalanne’s 15-piece botanical mirror ensemble sold at Sotheby’s New York for $33.5 million, more than double the $15 million high estimate and eclipsing the previous record for both Claude and her late husband François‑Xavier. The mirrors, commissioned by Yves Saint Laurent...
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...
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....