Two Coats Resident Artist Dale Emmart, April 12–17, 2026
Two Coats of Paint welcomed Dale Emmart as its resident artist from April 12‑17, 2026, showcasing a series of rope‑centric paintings and works on paper. Emmart’s practice uses rope as a neutral visual device to evoke labor, control, and the human condition without explicit narrative. The residency includes an open‑studio event on April 15, inviting the public to engage directly with the new works. Upcoming solo shows at Caldwell University and The Painting Center are slated for 2027, extending the program’s reach.
Cathrin Hoffmann at Public Gallery, London
Public Gallery in London has opened Sill, a solo show by Berlin‑based artist Cathrin Hoffmann featuring new paintings and sculptures that confront the physical and psychological strain of information overload. The works abandon exaggerated gestures for durational poses rendered in a...
Eye Candy for Today: Edward Seago Scene of Rome
Lines and Colors, a long‑running art blog, posted a new "Eye Candy for Today" feature showcasing Edward Seago’s watercolor scene of Rome. The entry highlights the artist’s delicate palette and composition, positioning the piece among the site’s high‑resolution art images....
Chen Chen: Finding The Space Between Memory And The Present Moment
Chen Chen’s practice bridges digital painting’s fluid layering with the deliberate, tactile process of oil, creating works that hover between memory and the present moment. By simplifying forms and stripping detail, she crafts ambiguous spaces that invite personal interpretation rather...
Waltz at Cittipunkt E.V.
The contemporary art collective Squat Theatre is mounting "Waltz" at Cittapunkt e.V. in Berlin, featuring works by Ben Kinmont, Juliette Blightman, and Marysia Paruzel. The exhibition opens on March 1 and runs through March 29, 2026, under the curatorial direction of Riverside. Documentation includes 15 high‑resolution...
Marieta Chirulescu, Fred Sandback at Galerie Thomas Schulte
Galerie Thomas Schulte in Berlin will present a two‑month exhibition featuring Romanian artist Marieta Chirulescu alongside American minimalist Fred Sandback. The show, titled "Phase," runs from February 28 to April 18, 2026 and includes 17 curated photographs documenting the installation....
Emilio Ocón Y Rivas
Emilio Ocón y Rivas, a 19th‑century Spanish painter from Malaga, is credited with founding the city’s School of Marine Artists. His works are celebrated for capturing the sea’s shifting atmospheres, from tranquil sunshine to stormy darkness. Ocón’s career ended tragically...
Artist Paints Lovecraft’s Great Old Ones Into All 46 of Hokusai’s Woodblock Prints
Japanese illustrator Goki Yamada has released a 128‑page art book titled “Thirty‑six Views of Evil Gods,” which reinterprets all 46 of Katsushika Hokusai’s woodblock prints by inserting H.P. Lovecraft’s Great Old Ones such as Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep. The project blends...
A Mind of His Own
Emanuele Ratti’s digital piece "A mind of his own" debuted at Milano Design Week, depicting a grid of human silhouettes built from granular particles to illustrate data‑driven conformity. A solitary figure with a purple backdrop breaks the pattern, symbolizing emergent...
Eva Löfdahl at VEDA, Milan
Swedish artist Eva Löfdahl’s latest show, Counterflow, opens at Veda in Milan, uniting three bodies of work that interrogate perception and materiality. Central to the exhibition is An Audile Double (2022–2024), a wall of 33 unframed jellyfish photographs stretching 18 metres, each framing the...
Rafael Escardó Explores The Connections Between Material And The Human Body
Rafael Escardó’s exhibition "Scaffolder" at MOCA London transforms concrete sculptures into wearable exoskeletons for live performance. The show features three cast‑concrete forms that dancers integrate with, blurring the line between architecture and the human body. Through repetitive gestures on the...
Monet’s Water Lilies Rule the World
Tate announced its 2027 programming, headlined by a blockbuster exhibition titled "Monet: Painting Time" slated to open in February 2028. The show will centre on Claude Monet’s iconic Nymphéas (Water Lilies) series, using the Musée Marmottan Monet’s 1914‑17 "Nymphéas" as...
Ferdinand Dölberg at Anton Janizewski, Berlin
Ferdinand Dölberg’s latest Berlin show at Anton Janizewski uses rotating, double‑sided panels housed in narrow cabinets to visualize internal dialogue. Each module flips to reveal a zoomed‑in version of the original image, creating a kinetic, puzzle‑like experience. The exhibition draws...
Mowalola, Soldier Boyfriend, And Obongjayar Discuss The Significance Of Nigerian Modernism
In November 2025 Tate Modern opened the Nigerian Modernism exhibition, showcasing over 50 artists from the 1940s to the 1990s who forged a post‑colonial visual language. A conversation hosted by art historian Alayo Akinkugbe featured three contemporary Nigerian creators—Soldier Boyfriend,...
Castle Howard Celebrates Sir John Vanbrugh with ‘Staging the Baroque’ Exhibition
Castle Howard launches the "Staging the Baroque: Vanbrugh at Castle Howard" exhibition on 26 March 2026, coinciding with the 300th anniversary of Sir John Vanbrugh’s death. The show features, for the first time, public display of Vanbrugh’s original letters alongside 18th‑century play...
Opera Gallery Opens New Houston Space, Expanding Global Footprint
Opera Gallery inaugurated its 14th global outpost in Houston’s River Oaks District on March 20, 2026, marking the brand’s entry into one of the fastest‑growing collector hubs in the United States. The opening exhibition featured blue‑chip masters such as Monet,...
Paul’s Work of the Month: Georges Seurat: ‘Port-en-Bessin, Entrance to the Outer Harbour’, 1888-9
Art critic Paul Carey‑Kent highlights Georges Seurat’s 1888‑9 painting “Port‑en‑Bessin, Entrance to the Outer Harbour,” noting its meticulous pointillist technique that creates light through optical fusion. The work employs orthographic projection, patterned shadows, and a painted internal frame to amplify...
Brooklyn Museum to Open New African Art Galleries in Major $13M Renovation
The Brooklyn Museum is launching a $13 million renovation to convert 6,400 sq ft of former storage into permanent Arts of Africa galleries. The project, designed by Peterson Rich Office with historic‑preservation input from Beyer Blinder Belle, will begin in summer 2026 and open in fall 2027....
Rochelle Voyles Is Suspicious of Certainty
Rochelle Voyles’s solo show *Unreliable Narrators* (through April 11, 2026) presents dense wood collages assembled from found paper ephemera. The works interrogate gender, labor, myth and the instability of images, refusing to resolve any narrative tension. By foregrounding fragments and their collisions,...
Kunié Sugiura’s Reading the Rooms at Moskowitz Bayse
Kunié Sugiura’s solo show at Moskowitz Bayse surveys six decades of experimental photography, featuring X‑ray images, photograms, and scale shifts. The exhibition pairs early works like the 1971 sand‑grain piece "Beach 2" with recent pieces such as the 2021 "Vertebra" series,...
Under a Watchful Gaze: The Paintings of Muslum Teke
Muslum Teke’s solo exhibition "In‑between Spaces" opened at Versus Arts in East London from March 7‑14, showcasing paintings that hover between figurative portraiture and abstract expressionism. The canvases feature fragmented faces and stacked eyes, obscuring identity while emphasizing raw emotion. Critics...
Cork Street Galleries Announced as Supporting Partner for British Pavilion in Venice and Lubaina Himid Announced as Cork Street Galleries...
Cork Street Galleries, an initiative of The Pollen Estate, has announced a dual role as Supporting Partner of the British Council and commissioner of artist Lubaina Himid for its 2026/27 Banners Commission. Himid’s banner installation, "Reading the Label," will debut in...
David Worthington Unveils A Series Of Monumental Travertine Boulder Benches
Award‑winning sculptor David Worthington, in partnership with John Robertson Architects, Marble Projects and Bill Amberg Studio, has installed four monumental travertine “boulder benches” at 20 Gresham Street in the City of London. The benches, carved from single blocks of Tuscan...
The Selling of the Counterculture
The Christie’s auction of Jack Kerouac’s original "On the Road" scroll fetched over $12 million, turning a Beat Generation relic into a luxury collectible. This sale underscores a wider pattern of 1950s‑60s countercultural artifacts being absorbed by the high‑end art market....
Agosto Machado: New York Performance, Visual Artist And Activist Dies
Agosto Machado, a seminal performance and visual artist, died on March 21, 2026 at age 86. Over six decades he was a fixture of New York’s underground scene, performing at venues like La MaMa and the Mudd Club and standing...
Escher's Most Mathematically Interesting Piece
Grant Sanderson’s latest video dissects M.C. Escher’s “Print Gallery,” highlighting its status as perhaps the most mathematically rich of Escher’s works. The analysis blends artistic description with rigorous mathematics, drawing on de Smit and Lenstra’s formal treatment of the piece’s geometry....
Each Slice of This Bread Loaf Reveals a Hidden Creature Inside
Japanese baker konel_bread has turned ordinary loaves into visual surprises by embedding colorful, cartoon‑style creatures throughout the dough. Each slice reveals the same tiny figure, creating a consistent hidden image from end to end. The technique, which blends precise dough...
Conference on Art + Psychoanalysis: Faculty of Philosophy, Complutense University Madrid
The Faculty of Philosophy at Complutense University in Madrid hosted a four‑day conference titled “Al Encuentro de lo Real,” uniting scholars and artists around art and Lacanian psychoanalysis. Sessions spanned panels, performances, and debates, with a strong focus on the...
REVEALING MICHAEL ORR
The blog’s new "Revealing" series spotlights artist Michael Orr, known for provocative stamp poetry that tackles anti‑war themes. Orr’s unconventional process—using cookies, debris, and putty to create one‑of‑a‑kind ink designs—has inspired the author’s own street‑level art hunts. The post links...
Eye Candy for Today: Mucha’s The Seasons: Spring
Alphonse Mucha’s 1896 poster “Spring,” part of his celebrated Seasons series, showcases the hallmark elegance and ornamental flair of Art Nouveau. The work depicts a youthful female figure surrounded by botanical motifs that embody the vernal season, reflecting Mucha’s signature blend...
Hong Kong Garden
Art market recovery is now gauged by Hong Kong’s upcoming auction calendar, headlined by works from Joan Mitchell and Gerhard Richter. After peaking in 2021, Hong Kong auction sales have slumped 26 percent and stayed low through 2025 despite the three major houses’...
Abounaddara, The Syrian Who Wanted the Revolution – Installation View
Documenta 14 has transformed Athens' historic Parko Eleftherias complex—once a military police headquarters and detention center—into a contemporary art venue. Architect Andreas Angelidakis exposed original stone walls, reopened connections to the adjacent Museum of Anti‑dictatorial and Democratic Resistance, and installed...
Simone Brewster Takes Centre Stage in PLATFORM at the Design Museum
The Design Museum has launched the second edition of its PLATFORM series, featuring London‑based designer Simone Brewster in a year‑long exhibition from February 2026 to January 2027. Brewster’s monographic display spans jewellery, furniture, sculpture and architectural interventions, organized into four...
Six Exciting Exhibitions Worth Travelling For in 2026
A curated list of six high‑profile art exhibitions slated for 2026 invites travelers to plan culture‑focused trips worldwide. Highlights include Frida Kahlo’s retrospective in Houston, a Giacometti‑Benglis dialogue at London’s Barbican, and Renoir’s love‑themed works at Musée d’Orsay. The Met...
On View: Jasper Johns
Gagosian’s "Between the Clock and the Bed" showcases Jasper Johns’s 1970s cross‑hatching period, a decade‑long experiment that diverged from his famous flag motifs. The show runs through April 24, marking the final exhibition in the gallery’s Madison Avenue space. While the...
What's Up in NY This Weekend?
The weekend of March 20‑22 in New York City is packed with free and low‑cost cultural programming, from the city‑wide Art House NY independent cinema week to major museum openings at MoMA and the New Museum. Highlights include the Frida & Diego exhibition...
TEFAF Maastricht 2026: What Sold And What The Dealers Said – Report
The 39th TEFAF Maastricht art fair attracted 50,000 visitors, featured 270 exhibitors from 22 countries, and generated an €86.4 million economic impact, with €37.9 million flowing directly to the city. Despite geopolitical uncertainty, the fair saw robust sales across categories, highlighted by...
Open Call: ABS Digital Art Prize 2026
The Arab Bank Switzerland (ABS) Digital Art Prize 2026 is now accepting worldwide applications, offering a $10,000 cash award and acquisition of the winning work for the ABS collection. The prize will be showcased in the curated "SYSTEMS" exhibition at...
Strandbeest Evolution 2025
Theo Jansen’s Strandbeest Evolution 2025 video showcases the latest generation of wind‑driven kinetic sculptures that have been iteratively refined since 1990. Each spring Jansen debuts a new “beast” on the Dutch coast, testing its performance against wind, sand and water....
Soho Solos
Great Pulteney Street Gallery hosts "Soho Solos" from June 10‑28, 2026, featuring four solo exhibitions by Soho Open prize winners Mandy Hudson, James Robert Morrison, Conor Quinn and Alice Sheppard Fidler. The artists were chosen from more than 2,000 entries...
Demi Danka: Co-Authored Terrains
Demi Danka’s solo exhibition “Co‑Authored Terrains” opens at Gillian Jason Gallery in London, running May 21‑June 27, 2026. The show presents cameraless works where light‑sensitive paper is treated with light, salt, water, air and pressure, turning photographic emulsion into a volatile painting surface....
How You Sound?
Meshell Ndegeocello’s 2024 Blue Note release *No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin* is a sonic‑theatre album that translates James Baldwin’s essays into avant‑garde jazz, gospel, and spoken‑word. The eight‑year project features a rotating cast of musicians, including Justin...
Becoming Through Pain Curated by Huma Kabakcı
The "Becoming Through Pain" exhibition, curated by Huma Kabakcı, opens at London’s Somers Gallery from March 26 to April 2, 2026, featuring eight international women artists. Their works treat pain not as a static condition but as a transformative force...
Tate Britain Garden to Debut at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 with Barbara Hepworth Sculpture
Tate Britain will debut its first show garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026, titled The Tate Britain Garden. Central to the design is Barbara Hepworth’s limestone sculpture Bicentric Form, the first Tate collection work placed in a Chelsea garden....
Gustavo Nazareno: How to Grow a Flower From a Supernova
Gustavo Nazareno’s solo exhibition “How to Grow a Flower from a Supernova” opens at Opera Gallery Paris from 24 June to 17 July 2026, coinciding with Paris Couture Week. The show blends Afro‑Brazilian religious iconography, especially the Orixá Pombagira, with...
Powerhouse Arts Appoints Liz Munsell to Lead Curatorial Vision in Brooklyn’s Expanding Cultural Hub
Powerhouse Arts has named veteran curator Liz Munsell vice president of Curatorial and Arts Programs, tasking her with shaping exhibitions, public programmes and artist‑led production at its Brooklyn hub. Munsell brings nearly two decades of museum experience and a track...
Peter Kennard’s STOP Published as War Returns to the Global Stage
Peter Kennard’s anti‑war book STOP, originally conceived in 1968 during the Vietnam conflict, has finally been published as global wars dominate headlines again. The visual-only volume marks Kennard’s shift from painting to photomontage, using cut‑up press images to portray war...
Team Data Art - Immersive Health Data
Team Data Art transforms Oura Ring health metrics into immersive generative visuals and sound, creating real‑time art that reflects the body’s internal state. The project blends physiology, technology, and creative strategy using p5.js, AI prompts, and wearable data. It aims...
Sol LeWitt and David Douard at OKEY DOKEY KONRAD FISCHER, Los Angeles
Konrad Fischer’s OKEY DOKEY space in Los Angeles presents a rare dialogue between Sol LeWitt, whose first show with the gallery opened in 1968, and David Douard, a post‑digital sculptor debuting there in 2023. The exhibition juxtaposes LeWitt’s systematic wall drawings, especially...
Barkley L. Hendricks at Marian Goodman Gallery
Marian Goodman Gallery in Paris is presenting *All is Portraiture*, a solo exhibition of Barkley L. Hendricks’ work from February 6 to April 4, 2026. The show features 36 curated images that highlight Hendricks’ signature portraiture style, emphasizing his impact on Black representation...