The Open: Odyssey at Hastings Contemporary Is the South Coast’s Answer to the Summer Exhibition
The Open: Odyssey, debuting at Hastings Contemporary, is the South Coast’s first open‑submission selling exhibition. More than 2,500 Sussex artists entered, with 150 works chosen around the loose theme “Odyssey.” The show blends sea‑inspired pieces, found‑material sculptures, and emerging talent alongside established names. Importantly, 70% of any sales revenue goes straight to the participating artists, positioning the event as both a cultural showcase and a market opportunity.
Lucy Liyou Breaks Free in Visceral “Mister Cobra” Performance
Lucy Liyou’s "Mister Cobra" at Performance Space New York fused live music, film, and 3‑D avatar combat into a visceral, blood‑splattered finale. The show acted as a live rollout for her upcoming MR COBRA album, featuring collaborators like Nick Zanca and Laura...
Rare Basquiat Works Unite in Major Miami Exhibition
Pérez Art Museum Miami will open Basquiat: Figures, Signs, Symbols on June 25, 2026, showcasing nine paintings and a sculpture from the Kenneth C. Griffin Collection. The exhibition, co‑curated by director Franklin Sirmans and Megan Kincaid, aligns with the FIFA World Cup to...
Prospects 2026
The Mondriaan Fund’s 14th Prospects exhibition opened at Rotterdam Ahoy from March 27‑29, 2026, featuring 92 emerging Dutch artists. Curated by Johan Gustavsson and Daphne Verberg, the show coincides with Art Rotterdam, giving collectors and professionals direct access to new talent....
Ryan Cullen at KIN, Brussels
Ryan Cullen’s latest exhibition at KIN, Brussels interrogates the notion of originality by positioning artworks as symbols recognized within institutional and market systems. Drawing on William Gaddis’s novel *The Recognitions*, the show argues that meaning emerges from attribution rather than...
Illustrator Edward Gorey
Illustrator Edward Gorey, the creator of morbidly humorous books, celebrated his 100th birthday on February 22, 2025. A CBS Sunday Morning profile aired on April 20, 1997, revisiting his Cape Cod home and featuring commentary from authors Clifford Ross and...
Sharon’s Substack / April 1, 2026
Artist Sharon Butler announces that her painting *Green Wall 3* will be featured in the American Abstract Artists’ 90th‑anniversary show “Abstract by Definition: An Index” at Art Cake in Brooklyn. Curated by critic Saul Ostrow, the exhibition juxtaposes 90 artists to...
Eastern Promises
Hong Kong’s spring art auctions posted a $216 million cumulative sales volume, a 43% increase over the previous year, signaling a clear rebound after four years of decline. The market achieved an impressive 89% sell‑through rate, indicating robust buyer participation. The...
Art Sculpture Blows Rainbow Smoke Donuts Using Mirrors and Prisms
Artist Adrien Miller unveiled a hand‑crafted wall sculpture that appears to exhale rainbow‑colored smoke rings. The effect relies on strategically placed mirrors and a prism that refract incense smoke into vivid arcs. Viewers initially mistake the display for a digital...
James Bellerue and the Art of Custom Bike Paint
James Bellerue, the longtime custom‑paint artist at Stinner Frameworks, was featured in a new YouTube profile that pulls back the curtain on his decade‑long craft. The interview with founder Aaron Stinner explores how Bellerue evolved from a makeshift paint booth...
CIRCA and Michelangelo Pistoletto Transform Global Screens Into Year-Long Preventive Peace Initiative with the United Nations
From April 1 2026, artist Michelangelo Pistoletto and CIRCA will air a moving‑image work called Three Mirrors on public screens in cities such as London, Milan, Los Angeles, Accra and Seoul. The year‑long project, curated by Josef O’Connor and backed by the UN...
Greater New York 2026
MoMA PS1 announced the 53 artists and collectives for Greater New York 2026, the museum’s flagship survey of New York‑based creators. Opening April 16 and running through August 17, the exhibition features site‑specific installations, newly commissioned works and a live...
Catherine Opie: The Pause That Dreams Against Erasure
Catherine Opie’s first institutional solo exhibition in Germany opens at the Fridericianum in Kassel, running from February 14 to July 19, 2026. The show, titled “The Pause That Dreams Against Erasure,” presents a site‑specific survey of more than three decades...
A Purist Approach to Media Art Societies
Media creep, the gradual widening of acceptable media in art societies, is sparking debate in the UK. The Royal Institute’s recent watercolour exhibition featured 11.5 % acrylic works, prompting calls for stricter medium definitions. The Royal Institute of Oil Painters responded...
Ndidi Dike at Secession, Vienna
British‑Nigerian artist Ndidi Dike presents her first major solo show, *Rare Earth Rare Justice*, at Vienna’s Secession. The installation confronts the exploitation of cobalt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, linking it to colonial legacies, climate devastation, and systemic...
Georg Herold at Capitain Petzel
Georg Herold’s solo exhibition opens at Capitain Petzel in Berlin from February 27 to April 11, 2026. The show presents 33 newly created works, documented in a comprehensive series of images, and is supported by bilingual press releases and a detailed floor plan. Capitain Petzel, known...
Gas Prices
Michael de Adder’s latest Substack post uses a two‑frame cartoon to lampoon political promises about fixing gas prices, juxtaposing a campaign pledge with sky‑high pump numbers. The artwork, posted on March 31, 2026, depicts former President Trump promising relief and then celebrating...
First Impressionists
Two major exhibitions opened this week, pairing Édouard Manet with Berthe Morisot at the Cleveland Museum of Art and showcasing Georges Seurat’s marine paintings at London’s Courtauld Gallery. Curators argue the shows converse with earlier blockbuster retrospectives, signaling a shift...
Episode 933: Kate Sierzputowski and EXPO Chicago 2026
EXPO Chicago’s 2026 edition, now under Frieze’s ownership, will pivot to a smaller, more curatorial and thematic fair model. Director Kate Sierzputowski emphasizes intentional layout, embedded curatorial frameworks, and a relational approach that treats the fair as a storytelling platform....
Wilhelm Sasnal Family / History
Wilhelm Sasnal’s new solo show, "family / history," opens at Sadie Coles HQ in London from 1 April to 23 May 2026. The exhibition juxtaposes intimate family portraits with politically charged scenes, ranging from the Oval Office to NATO gatherings. Sasnal describes each...
Walking as Art: Exploring Mesa’s Street Exhibitions and Staying Safe on the Creative Canvas
Mesa, Arizona has transformed its downtown core into a year‑round open‑air gallery, featuring more than 30 permanent sculptures, murals and interactive installations such as the motion‑responsive *Mesa Musical Shadows* and the light‑filled *Color Walk*. The city’s Digital Art Walk app...
Linda Lach at Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg
Linda Lach’s new show *all keys, all times* at the Salzburger Kunstverein creates a minimalist waiting‑room atmosphere that interrogates universal compatibility. The installation combines a milky latex ceiling, suspended sculptural forms and a tiny video loop to illustrate how standardization...
Old Things Are Passed Away; Behold, All Things Are Become New.
The author reflects on a recent Emergent Ventures unconference where discussions spanned art, mortality, and the future of higher education. He contends that despite pressures for practical outcomes, the study of the literary canon—especially Shakespeare—will endure, even if it becomes...
Nancy Holt’s Light and Shadow Poetics at The MAK Center
The MAK Center’s "Light and Shadow Poetics" exhibition reunites Nancy Holt’s light‑focused works with the modernist Schindler House, creating a dialogue between earth‑based conceptual art and early‑20th‑century architecture. Visitors encounter Holt’s 1978 Light and Shadow Photo Drawings, the Sunlight in...
A Puppet Show Made From Old Pianos and Mississippi River Trash
Playdoh Kolo’s newest production, Riperion Piano Creatures, will debut at this year’s Giant Puppet Festival in New Orleans. The performance features an entire cast of puppets constructed from discarded Mississippi River debris, salvaged piano parts, and other urban refuse. By...
Rembrandt Mystery: Is ‘Workshop Copy’ Actually by the Master?
Rembrandt van Rijn has re‑emerged at the center of an art‑historical dispute as scholar Gary Schwartz argues that a canvas painting, long labeled a workshop copy, is actually an autograph replica by the master. The two near‑identical *Old Man with a Gold...
Canaletto & Bellotto: The Art of The Constructed View – Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum opens “Canaletto & Bellotto: The Art of the Constructed View,” showcasing 32 vedute from Venice, London, Dresden and Vienna. Curator Mateusz Mayer argues the paintings are engineered perspectives shaped by patron demands and 18th‑century politics, not photographic...
Glen Baxter Artist Of The Absurd Has Died Aged 82
Glen Baxter, the Leeds‑born artist famed for dead‑pan ink drawings paired with absurd captions, died at 82. His work, rooted in Marx Brothers humor and adventure‑book diction, turned the art world’s solemnity into a punchline and influenced creators from Edward...
Mirna Bamieh: Sour Things: The Door
Palestinian artist Mirna Bamieh’s new installation Sour Things: The Door opens at NIKA Project Space in Romainville from 17 April to 23 May 2026. Curated by Anne Davidian, the work extends Bamieh’s Sour Things series, using a monumental, partially blocked doorframe, porcelain okra sculptures, and video testimonies to explore migration,...
Godfried Donkor Heads to Venice with a Tribute to History, Power and Koyo Kouoh
Godfried Donkor will present a new painting, *Michael and the Dragon II* (2026), and four earlier works at the 61st Venice Biennale, honoring his late friend and curator Koyo Kouhou. The exhibition revisits his 2017 *First Day of the Yam Custom*...
Fu Nagasawa at Taka Ishii Gallery
Fu Nagasawa’s solo exhibition "Zankyu" opens at Taka Ishii Gallery in Maebashi‑shi, running from February 21 to March 29, 2026. The show features the artist’s mixed‑media works that probe the intersection of tradition and contemporary life. Press materials are provided...
12 Famous Portraits vs the Real People
“12 Famous Portraits vs the Real People” is a newsletter article that uncovers the hidden biographies behind iconic paintings by Van Gogh, Klimt and Mucha. It reveals surprising details such as Van Gogh’s 13‑year‑old sitter Adeline Ravoux paying roughly $0.70...
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...
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....