Arts at CERN and Nobel Prize Museum Announce the Collide Stockholm International Residency Award Recipient and Two Honorary Mentions
Arts at CERN and the Nobel Prize Museum have selected Lithuanian artist Emilija Škarnulytė as the Collide Stockholm residency award winner, with Morehshin Allahyari and Wendi Yan receiving honorary mentions. The open call attracted 908 applications from 89 countries. Škarnulytė will spend one month at CERN and one month at the Nobel Prize Museum in autumn 2026, developing work that probes invisible particle‑physics infrastructure and the museum’s narrative of scientific discovery. The residency underscores a growing partnership between high‑energy physics and contemporary art.
Tate Britain Will Exhibit ‘90s Art and Fashion, and Other News.
Tate Britain will launch “The 90s: Art and Fashion” in autumn 2026, a guest‑curated show by Edward Enninful that assembles around 70 creators from Steve McQueen to Vivienne Westwood. Gagosian has opened a 2,275‑sq‑ft ground‑floor flagship on Madison Avenue, debuting works by Marcel Duchamp and...
Weight, Memory, and Care Inform Sheida Soleimani’s “Forest of Stars” At Yancey Richardson
Sheida Soleimani’s "Forest of Stars" opens at Yancey Richardson through May 23, merging her Ghostwriter series—photographic tableaux rooted in her parents’ exile after the 1979 Iranian Revolution—with newly added migratory birds from her wildlife‑rehabilitation work. The exhibition foregrounds care as a...
Minnie Pwerle, Emily Pwerle, Molly Pwerle, Galya Pwerle at Château Shatto
The Château Shatto gallery in Los Angeles presented a solo exhibition of 13 acrylic canvases by the Pwerle sisters—Minnie, Emily, Molly and Galya—each titled *Awelye Atnwengerrp*. Created between 2000 and 2008 on a black ground, the works translate the sisters'...
Sheep Field Barn / DSDHA
DSDHA has completed a major refurbishment and extension of the Sheep Field Barn at Henry Moore Studios, doubling its size with a timber cart‑shed addition. The redesign incorporates reclaimed Silver Spruce and Douglas Fir, ground‑source heat pumps, solar panels and sheep‑wool...
Catching up with Mickalene Thomas
Artist Mickaelene Thomas reflects on her career after a blockbuster show in London and a major global exhibition, “All About Love,” which frames love as a transformative, radical force. She highlights the impact of her reinterpretation of Manet’s Le Déjeuner...
The New York Art Critic Jerry Saltz Recently Unearthed 40,000 Slides: Here’s What the Art World of the 1990s Looked...
New York critic Jerry Saltz has uncovered a trove of 40,000 slides that document the art world of the 1990s. The collection highlights a pivotal 1993 event where Anselm Kiefer staged a funeral pyre of 300 works at Marian Goodman, followed...
Illuminate Adelaide Reveals Its 2026 Program
Illuminate Adelaide has announced its 2026 winter festival lineup, featuring immersive digital experiences such as Moment Factory’s Augmented Games and Miguel Chevalier’s underwater‑themed Digital Abyss. The program also includes the final chapter of the zoo’s night‑time prehistoric showcase, Universal Kingdom: Ice...
When the Algorithm Becomes the Art Critic
An AI model trained to assess paintings valued a random street artist’s work higher than a Picasso, highlighting algorithmic influence on art markets. Meanwhile, the Facebook community “Baddies in AI,” where women use AI to craft or augment social‑media personas,...
MoMA Makes Bid For Virality With Marcel Duchamp Lookalike Contest
The Museum of Modern Art will stage a Marcel Duchamp look‑alike contest on April 30 as part of its Artist Party series, coinciding with the museum’s new Duchamp retrospective. Attendees pay $15 for an evening featuring DJ sets, choreography, and pop‑up...
Sharjah Art Foundation Announces 2027 Biennial Programming
The Sharjah Art Foundation unveiled its 2027 programming for the 17th Sharjah Biennial, titled “What remains, sits restive.” Curated by Angela Harutyunyan and Paula Nascimento, the exhibition will feature 109 international artists across two complementary sections. Harutyunyan’s 55‑artist segment interrogates...
Michael Jackson Accessories Hit the Market Amid Biopic Buzz
The new Michael Jackson biopic shattered records, pulling in $97 million in its North American opening, the highest ever for a biographical film. Riding that momentum, GWS Auctions will offer nine pieces of MJ memorabilia on May 2, highlighted by a signed...
Restitution of Nazi-Looted Modigliani Painting Ends 11-Year Court Battle
A New York State Supreme Court judge ordered the restitution of Amedeo Modigliani’s 1918 "Seated Man with a Cane" to the heirs of Oscar Stettiner, ending an 11‑year legal battle and highlighting the reach of the 2025 Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery...
Art Show in London Canceled Over Allegations of Antisemitism From Pro-Israel Group
A London exhibition by Matthew Collings at Delta House Gallery was cancelled after UK Lawyers for Israel flagged the show’s drawings as antisemitic. The controversy stems from a prior Margate iteration titled “Drawings Against Genocide,” which featured graphic depictions of...
War Threatens a Rising Iranian Sculptor’s Breakthrough
Iranian sculptor Aref Montazeri, known for towering mirrored installations that fetch up to $1.5 million, has seen his international breakthrough stalled by the ongoing war in Tehran. The conflict has forced the postponement of exhibitions, limited access to raw materials, and...
So An AI Has Just Declared A Painting By A Street Artist More Valuable Than A Picasso. Questions Abound
A multimodal AI model was trained on millions of artwork images to predict auction prices based solely on visual features. In a striking test, the system assigned a sub‑$1,000 value to a Picasso while estimating a seven‑figure price for an...
Les Rendez-Vouz De Gary
Artforum revisits the 1983 interview “Getting Ready for the Golden Eighties” between writer Gary Indiana and filmmaker Chantal Akerman. Indiana describes Akerman’s cinema as inviting viewers to notice subtle disturbances within the frame rather than conventional plot points. Their dialogue...
Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel, Chicago Announces 2026 Artist-in-Residence Ronnie Frey
Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel in Chicago announced photographer Ronnie Frey as its 2026 Artist-in-Residence. The exhibition, featuring Frey’s "Doorways of Chicago" series, will run from May 13 through November 15, 2026 inside the iconic Aqua Tower. A private reception on...
Martha Graham’s Revolution Continues
The Martha Graham Dance Company celebrated its centennial with a star‑studded gala, a PBS documentary, a short tour, and a five‑night run at New York’s City Center. The program juxtaposed iconic works such as “Appalachian Spring” and “Night Journey” with pieces by...
Newsmakers: Nalini Malani Lets the Walls Speak with a New Installation in Venice
Nalini Malani's new installation *Of Woman Born* will open in Venice's Magazzini del Sale during the Venice Biennale. The work projects tens of thousands of hand‑drawn images onto the crumbling 15th‑century brick walls, creating a cave‑like animation that references myth,...
Digital Art Pioneer Nancy Burson Collapses the Border Between Mysticism and Quantum Physics
Nancy Burson’s solo show "Light Matter" at Heft Gallery showcases her new "Quantum Entanglement" paintings, which reveal jittering static and hidden color when viewed through a phone camera. The works embody her lifelong quest to visualize the universe’s energy grid,...
Spice up Your Life: Tate Channels 90s Glam at The Groucho Club
Tate Britain announced its autumn blockbuster, "The 90s: Art and Fashion," running from 8 October 2026 to 14 February 2027. The exhibition, curated by Dominique Heyse‑Moore and an all‑women team, showcases seminal figures such as Damien Hirst, Corinne Day, Helen Chadwick and Jenny Saville. Former...
Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair Returns May 7–10
Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair returns May 7‑10 at the ArtCenter South Campus in Pasadena, featuring 250 exhibitors ranging from established publishers to emerging collectives. The four‑day event offers a mix of talks, panels, live music, and the Project Spaces...
Rafał Zajko Is Hatching a Plan
Polish artist Rafał Zajko launches his ambitious installation series *The Egg Egg* at Arsenal Gallery in Białystok, running through 10 May. The exhibition assembles 50 works created over the past decade, organized into nine “acts” that weave brutalist architecture, camp sensibility,...
The Master of Appropriation: Inside a Major New Richard Prince Exhibition
The Albertina Museum in Vienna has opened a landmark exhibition of American conceptual artist Richard Prince, showcasing roughly 150 works, many of them never before displayed. The show spans Prince's photographic practice from the 1970s to the present, featuring hallmark...
“How Deep Does Your Love Reach?”: Del Valle’s Mundos Rotos
Kianí Del Valle premiered her solo dance work “Mundos Rotos” at Mexico City’s TONO Festival on March 21, 2024, marking the anniversary of the Ponce massacre. The three‑act piece blends contemporary choreography, live music by Kelman Duran, and visual‑art elements, reflecting a broken‑world metaphor....
Enter Art Fair: Dynamic Curation
Enter Art Fair, Scandinavia’s premier international art fair, returns to Copenhagen from August 27‑30, 2026 at the historic Lokomotivværkstedet. The eighth edition showcases 80 leading galleries, including 28 newcomers, spanning photography, painting, sculpture and installation. A robust talks programme will...
Titian's ‘Bacchus and Ariadne’ to Get a Refresh with Bank Conservation Grant
Bank of America’s annual art conservation programme is funding the restoration of Titian’s 1520‑23 masterpiece *Bacchus and Ariadne* at London’s National Gallery. The work will be transferred to a new fabric support and any paint loss will be repaired, marking...
Liu Ding and Carol Yinghua Lu to Curate 2027 Istanbul Biennial
Liu Ding and Carol Yinghua Lu have been appointed curators of the 19th Istanbul Biennial, scheduled for 18 September to 14 November 2027. Both are veteran Chinese curators—Ding a Beijing‑based artist and professor, Lu a director of Beijing’s Inside‑Out Art...
Sharjah Biennial 2027 Announces Theme and Artists
The Sharjah Art Foundation has revealed the 2027 Sharjah Biennial, titled “What remains, sits restive.” Curated jointly by Angela Harutyunyan and Paula Nascimento, the edition will run from 21 January to 13 June 2027. Harutyunyan’s program features 55 artists exploring the afterlives of...
From Intimate Still Lives to Shadowed Saints: The Many Sides of Spanish Painter Francisco De Zurbarán Go on Show at...
The National Gallery in London has opened a comprehensive survey of Spanish Baroque master Francisco de Zurbarán, showcasing his famed saint portraits alongside intimate still‑lifes, late devotional works, and a reconstructed tier of a 15‑metre altarpiece from the Charterhouse of Jerez...
Final Book in Trilogy Asks: What Is the Future of the Art World?
András Szántó’s third book, *The Future of the Art World: 38 Dialogues*, gathers conversations with 38 leading figures—from gallerists and collectors to artists and cultural diplomats—to probe the evolving role of museums and the broader art ecosystem. The contributors disagree...
Xin Zhang: A New Perspective
Xin Zhang, a London‑Beijing multidisciplinary artist born in 2002, employs Shibari‑inspired rope techniques across sculpture, performance, and painting to interrogate intimacy, resistance, and gendered bodies. Her immersive installations, such as “Tactile Threshold,” invite audiences to physically engage with themes of...
Dataland, World’s First A.I. Arts Museum, Will Open in June, and Other News.
Dataland, billed as the world’s first museum devoted to AI‑generated art, will open on June 20 at The Grand LA in downtown Los Angeles. Its inaugural show, “Machine Dreams: Rainforest,” uses massive environmental data sets to create immersive, multi‑sensory installations. Meanwhile,...
7 ‘Body Types’ in the Met’s ‘Costume Art’ Fashion Exhibition
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute has opened “Body Types,” a fashion exhibition curated by Andrew Bolton that showcases seven distinct silhouettes spanning centuries. The show weaves together garments—from Dutch‑era lace bibs to 18th‑century Japanese breastplates and a Degas‑inspired...
New Sculpture Adds to Artwork at Bengaluru’s Kempegowda Airport
Bengaluru’s Kempegowda International Airport unveiled “Bengaluru’s Soul,” a monumental stainless‑steel sculpture by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa at the Arrival Forecourt of Terminal 2. Measuring 5 m × 3.19 m × 3.75 m, the work reflects the city’s diversity, creativity and global outlook. The piece is part of the airport’s...
This Designer Left Jaguar – and Now Makes Ultra-Luxury Chairs
Ian Callum, the former design director of Jaguar, has entered the ultra‑luxury furniture market with the hand‑crafted CALLUM lounge chair. Produced in his Warwick studio in England’s Midlands, only one or two chairs are assembled each month, with a total...
John Brack X Noel McKenna Review: National Portrait Gallery’s Masterful Pairing of Two Great Australian Painters
The National Portrait Gallery in Canberra is showcasing “John Brack × Noel McKenna: A face in the mirror,” a curated pairing of two iconic Australian painters. The show juxtaposes Brack’s mid‑century portraits with McKenna’s contemporary works, using a distinctive aubergine backdrop to highlight visual and thematic links. Around...
The Monthly Interview: Johanna Jaskowska
Johanna Jaskowska, a digital artist known for viral Instagram AR filters, is now exploring artificial intelligence in fashion, beauty, and art. Speaking at the Offf festival in Barcelona, she argued that AI is often mis‑marketed as a plug‑and‑play solution that...
I Feel Like My Screenshots Are Coming to Life Through the Oil Paintings Created by ArtbyEri
Artist ArtbyEri is turning ordinary video‑game screenshots into bespoke oil paintings, a feature highlighted in PC Gamer’s new “Character Select” column. The portfolio includes first‑person shooter scenes from Valorant and Call of Duty, nostalgic Halo recreations, and whimsical pieces from Hello Kitty Island Adventure...
New York City Staging The In-Between with Sarah Ringrave by Myles Fucci
Sarah Ringrave’s latest exhibition, "Vessels Between," at Fugue Gallery explores transformation through mutable materials like oxidized gold leaf and wax, echoing the artist’s meditative subconscious visions. A near‑death diving experience fuels her fascination with the "in‑between" state, manifested in dissolving...
AJ Chronicles: Perils of Philanthropy — The Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera’s $200 million Saudi partnership collapsed after it was only a memorandum of understanding, leaving the company with a $30 million shortfall. The Met has already drawn down $120 million from its endowment, shrinking it from $340 million to $216 million, and is...
Who Were the Best-Selling Old Masters at Auction in 2025?
In 2025, Canaletto’s *Venice, the Return of the Bucintoro on Ascension Day* sold at Christie’s for a staggering $43.8 million, eclipsing the previous year’s top Old Master price by threefold. The record-setting sale was driven by the painting’s pristine condition, celebrated...
Institutional Stresses and a Fight over Venice
The Venice Biennale jury announced it will not consider nations whose leaders face International Criminal Court charges, effectively excluding Russia and Israel from top awards. The EU responded by cutting its Biennale funding over Russia's inclusion, while hundreds of musicians...
LA’s The Box Gallery to Close After 19 Years
Los Angeles’ The Box gallery announced it will close after 19 years, marking the end of one of the city’s most daring experimental spaces. Its final exhibition was a two‑venue show with Parker Gallery honoring late California artist Wally Hedrick,...
How Art Firms Are—Or Should Be—Using A.I. Right Now
The art market is beginning to adopt artificial intelligence after a cautious post‑NFT period, with major houses like Bonhams teaming up with AI specialist ARTDAI to enhance valuation and market‑pattern analysis. Smaller galleries are also gaining access to AI‑driven data...
In Conversation With Dana Robinson
Brooklyn‑based artist Dana Robinson explores Black identity, home, and femininity by deconstructing 1970s Ebony magazine advertisements and re‑creating them on acrylic‑washed wood panels. Her process—painting on plastic overlays, then transferring the image—produces fragmented, veiled portraits that blur the line between...
Treasures From the Worlds of Fashion and Art Collide at an Extraordinary New Exhibition in Lisbon
Lisbon’s Calouste Gulbenkian Museum opened “Art & Fashion,” juxtaposing historic artworks with haute‑couture pieces ranging from a 1740 peplumed coat to a 2025 Givenchy wedding dress. Curated by Eloy Martínez de la Pera Celada, the show pairs items such as a Rembrandt...
Pittsburgh’s New $31m Arts Landing Combines Public Art with Civic Engagement
Pittsburgh’s $31 million Arts Landing opened on April 17, completing construction on schedule and coinciding with the NFL Draft and the Carnegie International. Managed by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, the 2‑acre plaza showcases works by ten artists, including neon sculpture “Hold” and...
Stockholm's Market Art Fair Wants to Prove the 'Periphery Is Now Essential'
The 20th Market Art Fair opened in Stockholm’s new waterfront venue at Frihamnen, featuring 54 galleries—mostly Nordic but now including U.S. and U.K. participants after the fair broadened its application criteria. Prices ranged from roughly $2,500 for Finnish textile paintings...