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 quiet art encounters. The works merge Thai cultural motifs with surreal domestic imagery, inviting guests to pause and reflect. Selected pieces are available for purchase, with sales coordinated by the hotel and NOVA Contemporary.
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...
Miart 2026: Milan Art Fair Returns with New Direction and Location
miart returns for its 30th edition in April 2026, moving to the South Wing of Allianz MiCo in Milan’s CityLife district. The fair trims its scale to 160 galleries from 24 countries, emphasizing dialogue and curatorial clarity over spectacle. New...
William Wegman: Video Works, 1970-1977
Huxley‑Parlour in London is mounting *Video Works, 1970–77*, a showcase of ten early videos by American artist William Wegman. The exhibition traces Wegman’s blend of language play, visual puns and deadpan humor, and presents the first public appearances of his...
Anita Esfandiari at KH Künstler:innenhaus Bremen
Anita Esfandiari’s "Buoyant Dribble" opens as her first institutional solo exhibition in Germany at Künstler:innenhaus Bremen. The show merges sculptural painting with immersive installation, extending painted surfaces into three‑dimensional space. Centered on a photographic basketball scene, the five large‑format works examine movement,...
The Art Market’s Real Driver Thrives On Works Below $50,000 — New Report
A new report reveals that the art market’s true engine resides in works priced below $50,000. Transaction volume in this segment far exceeds that of eight‑figure sales, and the collector base is expanding, driven by younger buyers who value artist...
Floating Bosch Parade Returns to the Netherlands in June
The annual Floating Bosch Parade is set to return to the Netherlands in June 2024, staging surreal, floating installations that pay homage to the 15th‑century painter Hieronymus Bosch. Artists construct whimsical rafts, bubble‑filled vessels and other fantastical floats that glide...
Osman Yousefzada: A Home That Will Not Behave
British‑Pakistani interdisciplinary artist Osman Yousefzada opens his solo show "A Home That Will Not Behave" at Bolanle Contemporary, No.9 Cork Street, London, from April 10 to April 26, 2026. The exhibition reimagines the domestic interior as a volatile space, drawing...
How Do Art Collectors Handle Long-Distance Moves in 2026?
Moving a personal art collection across state lines demands more than a standard mover. Collectors must use specialized packing—acid‑free paper, custom crates, and X‑tape on glass—to guard against temperature, humidity, and vibration. Climate‑controlled transport and all‑risk fine‑art insurance, often covering...
Artists Take Us Down the Rabbit Hole in This Group Exhibition
‘Down the Rabbit Hole’ is a group exhibition at The Crypt Gallery (April 17‑19) showcasing more than 30 artists responding to the COVID‑19 pandemic. Organized by Katya’s Space, a social enterprise preserving the legacy of the late Katya Kan, the show...
Gagosian to Open New Ground-Floor Space at 980 Madison Avenue with Major Duchamp Presentation
Gagosian will launch a new ground‑floor gallery at its historic 980 Madison Avenue address on April 25, 2026, debuting a comprehensive Marcel Duchamp exhibition. The show reunites the artist’s seminal readymades—including recreated 1964 versions of Fountain, Bicycle Wheel, L.H.O.O.Q., and others—mirroring the...
Shaniqwa Jarvis: Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Shaniqwa Jarvis’s first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom opens at London’s Public Gallery on 30 April 2026, running through 7 June. The show, titled Only Love Can Break Your Heart, presents twelve new works that combine silk, mirrored surfaces,...
Samuel De Saboia: The Aesthetics of Possibility
Brazilian artist Samuel de Saboia opens his second solo exhibition, The Aesthetics of Possibility, at Maruani Mercier in Knokke from April 4‑26, 2026. The show features large‑scale paintings that blend sweeping gestures, layered figuration and a richer palette to explore...
Tate Liverpool Brings Steve McQueen’s Grenfell to Liverpool
Steve McQueen’s film installation *Grenfell*, created after the 2017 London tower fire that killed 72 people, is arriving at Tate Liverpool from 16 May to 21 June 2026. The work, first shown publicly at the Serpentine in 2023, captures the...
Godfried Donkor: It’s a Numbers Game
Firstsite in Colchester is mounting Godfried Donkor’s first UK institutional exhibition, "It’s a Numbers Game," running from May 23 to August 30, 2026. The show assembles new collages, paintings, embroideries and installations that juxtapose archival photographs, Financial Times text, Ghanaian Adinkra...
Sir Peter Blake’s Studio Comes to Pitzhanger Manor in a Landmark West London Exhibition
Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery will host "Peter Blake: In the Studio," a landmark exhibition running from 25 November 2026 to 4 April 2027. The show recreates Blake’s West London studio in full scale, giving visitors an intimate look at the...
SARAH MORRIS: Snow Leopards and Skyscrapers
Sarah Morris opens "Snow Leopards and Skyscrapers" at White Cube London from March 11 to May 9, 2026, pairing a fresh series of diagrammatic paintings with two films—Midtown (1998) and Chris Rock (2025). The paintings abstract multinational corporations into geometric, glossy surfaces that...
Artemisia Gentileschi: Headless Mary Magdalen Comes To Auction At Dorotheum
A rare Artemisia Gentileschi fragment depicting Mary Magdalen will be auctioned at Vienna’s Dorotheum on 28 April with an estimate of $120,000 to $170,000. The canvas, a second copy of the Palatine Gallery’s version, is missing the saint’s head—a cut likely...
Down the Rabbit Hole
Katya’s Space CIC presents “Down the Rabbit Hole” at London’s The Crypt Gallery from April 17‑19, 2026. The group exhibition features more than 30 artists working in painting, sculpture, film and immersive installations within the venue’s vaulted underground chambers. Central...
Peter Zimmerman: Painting Rules at Nunu Fine Art Taipei
Nunu Fine Art Taipei, in partnership with the Metropolitan Museum of Manila, opened Peter Zimmermann’s solo exhibition "Painting Rules" on 11 April 2026. The show, first staged in Manila earlier this year, marks the German artist’s inaugural solo presentation in the Philippines...