Monica Majoli at Hoffman Donahue
Monica Majoli presents a solo exhibition at Los Angeles’s Hoffman Donahue gallery from February 24 through April 4, 2026. The show features 17 new works that continue her exploration of intimacy, identity, and the body. A comprehensive press release and exhibition checklist have been made publicly available, providing collectors and critics with detailed context. High‑resolution images from the show are documented on the gallery’s website, underscoring the exhibition’s visual impact.
Talk Show Parses Daytime TV Absurdity and Horror at Roulette Intermedium
Talk Show debuted their experimental piece *Miss America* at Brooklyn’s Roulette Intermedium on February 26, reimagining late‑20th‑century daytime television through archival video, live music, and immersive projections. The duo—drummer‑synthesist Qasim Naqvi and trumpeter Steph Richards—were joined by visual artist Steven...
Magali Reus at Museum Beelden Aan Zee, The Hague
Magali Reus presents three new sculptural series—Merlin (2024), Streamers (2025) and Rig (2025)—at Museum Beelden aan Zee in The Hague. The oversized works reinterpret sardine tins, fish skeletons and fishing hooks as both lure and snare, probing tensions between interior...
Gregory Olympio at Blank Projects
Gregory Olympio’s solo exhibition, Vaisseaux, opens at blank projects in Cape Town from January 29 to March 14, 2026. The show showcases the artist’s exploration of spatial narratives through a series of mixed‑media installations and sculptures. Documentation includes 27 high‑resolution images, providing comprehensive...
Sara Shamma to Represent Syria at the 61st Venice Biennale with Monumental Installation
Sara Shamma will represent Syria at the 61st Venice Biennale with a monumental, immersive installation titled "The Tower Tomb of Palmyra." Curated by Yuko Hasegawa and commissioned by Syria's Ministry of Culture, the work occupies the National Pavilion as a...
Araujo, Greenberg, and Simon at Ptolemy
Two Coats of Paint organized an artist panel at Ptolemy featuring Michele Araujo, Larry Greenberg, and Adam Simon. Each artist presented a single work, prompting in‑depth dialogue about their distinct approaches to abstraction, from Araujo’s mixed‑media collage on aluminum to...
James McQueen: A Beautiful Waste of Time
James McQueen’s solo exhibition "A Beautiful Waste of Time" opens on 2 March at Halcyon in London, showcasing new paintings that transform vintage paperback covers into contemporary Pop‑Art statements. The works retain the bold typography and colour blocks of mid‑century mass‑market...
Bisila Noha: Ile Ọkàn (House of the Soul)
Spanish‑Equatoguinean ceramic artist Bisila Noha presents "Ile ọkàn (House of the Soul)" at OmVed Gardens in Highgate from 20‑29 March 2026. The solo show, curated by Thrown, expands a 2025 Nigerian residency into a shrine‑like installation that blends sculpture, vessels,...
Catherine Opie Portrait of Sir Elton John And Family Unveiled At NPG
The National Portrait Gallery has added a new photograph by Catherine Opie that depicts Sir Elton John, his husband David Furnish, and their sons in the family library, marking the first portrait of the Furnish‑John family in a national collection....
I Dedicate This Music to a World without War
The article spotlights a 2010 solo performance by pioneering sound artist Pauline Oliveros, in which she dedicates her music to a world without war. The piece appears in a visual installation for documenta 14, featuring typographic work by design studio VIER5....
What a Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem at The Variety Arts Theater
What a Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem transforms the Variety Arts Theater into a six‑floor, after‑hours immersive film exhibition in downtown Los Angeles. The program interweaves historic cinema excerpts with avant‑garde video art, presented on everything from massive projection walls...
Karl Holmqvist at Galerie Neu
Swedish artist Karl Holmqvist is mounting a solo show titled "Paint With Make‑Up" at Galerie Neu in Berlin from February 7 to March 7, 2026. The exhibition repurposes cosmetics as a painting medium, presenting a series of works that blur the line between beauty...
SoiL Thornton at The Wattis Institute
The Wattis Institute in San Francisco is presenting “8 Hours of Rest: SoiL Thornton” from Jan 20 to Mar 7, 2026. The multidisciplinary show blends large‑scale furniture, phosphorescent paintings, video loops, and archival prints to interrogate rest, sleep, and self‑care within a capitalist framework....
Manuel Mathieu to Debut at the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale Di Venezia
Haitian-born artist Manuel Mathieu has been invited by curator Koyo Kouoh to debut at the 61st International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, in 2026. His multidisciplinary practice—spanning painting, sculpture, film, installation and olfactory art—examines historical violence, cultural memory and...
Centre Pompidou Confirms 2027 Closure for Major Five‑Year Renovation
The Centre Pompidou will shut its doors in 2027 for a five‑year, €300‑million renovation that tackles asbestos removal and a full technical upgrade. Designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, the iconic 1977 structure requires deep structural work to meet...
A Week At The Heart of Cape Town’s Art Scene – Virginie Puertolas Syn
Virginie Puertolas Syn spent a week in Cape Town during the Investec Cape Town Art Fair, immersing herself in studios, galleries, and institutions. The fair showcased 126 exhibitors from 34 cities, representing artists from 44 countries, while major surveys highlighted...
Hugo Winder-Lind: Clouds Of Limitless And Expanding Joy
British painter Hugo Winder‑Lind opens his first U.S. solo exhibition, "Clouds Of Limitless And Expanding Joy," at New York’s Isabel Sullivan Gallery from March 5 to April 11, 2026. The show features twelve new oil paintings that reconceptualise landscape as a politically...
British Museum Finds Sponsor For Bayeux Tapestry Extravaganza
Belarus‑born hedge‑fund billionaire Igor Tulchinsky is sponsoring the British Museum’s first UK display of the Bayeux Tapestry, in a deal estimated at £5 million, one of the museum’s largest sponsorships in its 273‑year history. The 70‑metre medieval embroidery will be on...
Salvador Dalí: Monumental Stage Set Heads Back To Auction
Salvador Dalí’s monumental 1939 Bacchanale stage set is slated for Bonhams’ fourth annual Surrealism sale in Paris, with a pre‑sale estimate of about $350,000. The 13‑panel, 65‑by‑100‑foot work, which debuted at the Metropolitan Opera, has toured major European museums since...
Frieze Los Angeles 2026 Closes with Robust Sales and Institutional Momentum
Frieze Los Angeles 2026 wrapped after four days with multiple seven‑figure transactions and sold‑out Focus presentations, underscoring a robust contemporary‑art market. More than 100 galleries from 24 countries attracted 32,000 visitors, including representatives from 160 museums and institutions. Blue‑chip dealers...
Art Dubai Marks Twenty Years Despite Regional Tensions
Art Dubai will mark its twentieth anniversary this spring, opening at Madinat Jumeirah from 17‑19 April 2026 with preview days on the 15th and 16th. The fair structures its program around four sections—Bawwaba, Digital, Zamaniyyat and the new Bawwaba Extended—each...
A Pair of Watercolor Portraits by Ernesto Levorati
Two 12 × 8‑inch watercolor portraits of children by 19th‑century Italian artist Ernesto Levorati surfaced in a private collection after appearing in a 2024 Bonhams auction. The works display a delicate, dry‑brush texture that recalls botanical illustration, creating soft, expressive faces. Despite...
Above, Below, Between at CALM – Centre D'Art La Meute
The Centre d'Art La Meute (CALM) in Lausanne will host "Above, Below, Between" from February 5 to March 1, 2026. Curated by Oriane Emery and Jean‑Rodolphe Petter, the show features ten artists—including Alfredo Aceto, John M. Armleder, and Giovanna Belossi—who...
Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller: “True to Nature” At the Belvedere
The Lower Belvedere will host “Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller: True to Nature” from 27 February to 14 June 2026, presenting the Austrian Biedermeier master’s landscape and genre works. The show places Waldmüller’s depictions of the Vienna Woods, Salzkammergut, and rural life alongside contemporaries such...
Eye Candy for Today: Sargent Watercolor From Villa Di Marlia
John Singer Sargent’s watercolor "Villa di Marlia, Lucca – A Fountain" (16 × 21 in.) resides in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and was featured in a recent Brooklyn Museum exhibition. The work demonstrates Sargent’s practice of mixing Chinese White (zinc white)...
Reaching Back at Ruthann
The Ruthann gallery in Catskills, NY is presenting “Souvenir,” a group exhibition featuring fifteen contemporary artists whose work probes memory, intimacy, humor, and loss. Curated by Jeff Bailey, the show runs through April 11, 2026 and includes photography, mixed‑media, sculpture, and hand‑woven collages....
Turner and Constable (2026)
The new documentary "Turner and Constable" (2026) commemorates the 250th birthdays of J.M.W. Turner and John Constable, pairing their rival yet complementary landscapes with the current Tate Gallery exhibition. Director David Bickerstaff eschews a conventional narrative, using curators, sketchbooks and...
David Hartt
Galerie Thomas Schulte’s "Naturphilosophie" showcases David Hartt’s new series of photogravures and tapestries that depict plants photographed across historic university towns in northern Europe. The works reference 18th‑century naturalists, especially Carl Linnaeus, and use scientific naming to foreground botanical subjects....
5 Questions to Camila Agosto (Composer, Interdisciplinary Artist)
Camila Agosto, a composer‑interdisciplinary artist and Columbia doctoral candidate, will premiere her new work *The Shape of Forgetting* with the International Contemporary Ensemble at Roulette Intermedium on March 11. The piece, part of ICE’s “Call For ___” commissioning initiative, explores identity, memory, and healing...
Ray Rogers on Gesture, Gravity, and the Ongoing Present
Ray Rogers, a six‑decade veteran of abstract painting, continues to work from his upstate studio, emphasizing poured acrylic gestures that respond to gravity and line. He describes his canvases as visual dialogues, where each gesture interacts with others in real...
Frieze Week Los Angeles 2026: A City as Gathering Point
Frieze Week Los Angeles returns from 26 February to 1 March 2026, anchoring the city’s art calendar at Santa Monica Airport. The seventh edition hosts nearly 100 galleries from 22 countries, blending international visibility with a strong local presence. Expanded programming includes a...
What Artists Can Learn From User Experience Design
The article draws direct parallels between user experience (UX) design and visual art, showing how principles such as flow, hierarchy, clarity, emotional design, and iteration can sharpen a painter’s, printmaker’s or digital creator’s work. It explains how each UX concept...