5 of the Most Boundary-Pushing Artists at Art Basel Hong Kong
Art Basel Hong Kong’s Zero 10 sector made its Asian debut, spotlighting the clash and collaboration between AI‑driven installations, blockchain‑enabled profit models, and traditional sculpture. BottoDAO’s interactive "Mirror Stages" used facial recognition and a community‑governed AI to create twenty live works, offering participants a share of any profits. The program also featured artists like All Seeing Seneca, Jonas Lund, Emi Kusano and Tim Yip, who fused heritage materials with digital processes. While some hailed the showcase as a watershed for digital art, others warned it could dilute the decentralised ethos of Web 3.0.
In Munich, Two Artists Imagine Futures Both Playful and Epic
Filser and Gräf’s Munich show, "Medèn ágan – Nothing in Excess," pairs Greek painter Paris Giachoustidis with Japanese sculptor Toshihiko Mitsuya, using the ancient Delphi maxim as a curatorial lens. Mitsuya’s thin‑aluminum, plant‑like installations respond to gallery light and architecture,...
Nat Meade's "Franklin" @ HESSE FLATOW, NYC
Nat Meade’s third solo exhibition, "Franklin," opened at Hesse Flatow in New York City on March 31, 2026 and runs through April 18. The show presents figurative paintings and works on paper that trace the artist’s personal journey through fatherhood, loss, and intergenerational dynamics. Meade...
Alexey Morosov to Represent Kyrgyzstan at 2026 Venice Biennale
Kyrgyzstan has appointed Russian‑born artist Alexey Morosov to lead its national pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale, opening May 9, 2026. Curated by Geraldine Leardi, Morosov’s immersive installation BELEK explores the country’s nomadic roots, the cultural significance of water, and...
The Most Loved Photo Stories of March 2026
Dazed Digital released its March 2026 roundup of the most‑loved photo stories, showcasing work that spans the sun‑kissed Danube banks to a Mojave Desert backwater. The collection features Nadia Lee Cohen, Scarlett Carlos Clarke, Brianna Capozzi’s powerful women portraits, and Larry...
Voyages Tourism Unveils Mural Celebrating 10 Years of Field of Light via Spark Foundry Australia
Voyages Tourism Australia has launched a large‑scale mural in Melbourne to mark the 10th anniversary of Bruce Munro’s Field of Light installation at Uluru. The artwork, designed by First Nations creators Valerie Brumby and Alex Kerr, blends Anangu storytelling with...
First Trailer for 'Jimmy & The Demons' Doc on Artist Jimmy Grashow
Cedar Creek Productions has dropped the first trailer for the indie documentary "Jimmy & The Demons," which follows 79‑year‑old sculptor James Grashow as he tackles a four‑year, monumental wood carving of Jesus bearing a cathedral. The film, directed by award‑winning...
Come Together: UAE And South Korea Compare, Contrast and Comment Via Cultural Collaboration
South Korea and the United Arab Emirates have deepened cultural ties through a government‑backed art partnership launched in 2024. The program began with a Korean new‑media exhibition, “Layered Medium: We Are in Open Circuits,” at Abu Dhabi’s Manarat Al Saadiyat,...
Agosto Machado, Whose Shrines Immortalized a Lost NYC Underground, Is Dead
Performance artist and LGBTQ activist Agosto Machado died on March 21 after a brief illness. Known for assembling shrine‑like assemblages from objects belonging to friends lost to the AIDS crisis, Machado’s work finally entered major institutions late in life. His career...
Xiaodong Zhang - Recluse at Upsilon Gallery by WM
Xiaodong Zhang’s solo show "Recluse" opened at London’s Upsilon Gallery with backing from LUMINOR, presenting the latest phase of his "Thousand‑Page Art" series. The exhibition revives the Tang dynasty dragon‑scale binding, extending it into new "Jinglong" forms and massive layered...
MASSIMODECARLO Is Pleased to Present A Grass Roof , Lily Stockman's First Exhibition in Hong Kong by WM
MASSIMODECARLO is launching Lily Stockman's inaugural Hong Kong exhibition, "A Grass Roof," featuring six new canvases inspired by an eighth‑century Tang poem. The works probe whether paint can encapsulate an entire world, echoing the Buddhist master Shitou Xiqian’s claim that...
A Radical Post-Impressionist Movement Returns to Paris
Waddington Custot has launched its first Paris gallery in Saint‑Germain‑des‑Prés, debuting with the group exhibition “The Nabi Shock.” The show runs from April 9 to June 6, 2026 and juxtaposes seminal Nabis works by Émile Bernard, Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard with contemporary pieces by Fabienne Verdier,...
Rare Leonora Carrington Sketches of Her Inner Turmoil Resurface in London Show
Rare sketches by Surrealist Leonora Carrington, created during her 1940 psychiatric hospitalization in Santander, are on view at London’s Freud Museum. The drawings portray the sanatorium as an underworld populated by hybrid beasts and foreshadow her painting “Down Below,” featuring...
Cartier Continues ‘Artist Meets Artisan’ Series
Cartier’s decade‑old “Artist meets Artisan” program has moved to its Newbury Street flagship, where the eight‑foot mobile “Aquarium” by Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes will be displayed through May 17, 2026. The kinetic sculpture incorporates diamonds, emeralds, sapphires, amethysts and opals, reflecting two years...
2026 Capture Photography Festival: 6 Must-See Exhibitions & Installations
Vancouver's Capture Photography Festival returns in April 2026 with a curated program of six standout works, including Stephen Shore’s historic 1974 print, Maya Fuhr’s pigment‑ink piece, and SIDE CORE’s multi‑channel video. The public‑art component features Camila Falquez’s trans‑rights portrait series, Michelle...
A Drama of Two Masters
*Turner & Constable: Rivals and Originals* brings the famed rivalry between J.M.W. Turner and John Constable to the screen, using Tate Britain’s recent exhibition as its foundation. The documentary blends sweeping landscape footage with dramatized reenactments, aiming to make 19th‑century...
$160 Million Auction Haul in Hong Kong Provides Much-Needed Momentum for the Region
Hong Kong’s March modern and contemporary art evening sales generated HK$1.25 billion (≈$160 million), surpassing expectations across Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips. Christie’s led with HK$655.76 million (≈$83.8 million), a 17% rise year‑over‑year and zero withdrawals, while Sotheby’s posted a record‑breaking HK$137.4 million (≈$17.6 million) sale of...
New York City From Representation to Abstraction: A Studio Conversation with Robert Solomon by Noah Becker
Robert Solomon, a Philadelphia‑based painter, has transitioned from detailed landscape representation to a more abstract, grid‑like visual language. He attributes the shift to a contemplative response to natural environments and a desire to investigate painting’s formal qualities. Solomon emphasizes a...
Juan Uslé’s Childhood Shipwrecks
Juan Uslé’s new retrospective, Ese barco en la montaña, opens at Madrid’s Museo Reina Sofía, featuring roughly 100 paintings, drawings and photographs that span four decades of the Spanish abstract painter’s career. Curator Ángel Calvo Ulloa anchors the show in the...
Kate McNamara Named Director of Harvard’s Carpenter Center for Visual Arts
Kate McNamara has been appointed the permanent John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Director of Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, after serving as interim director since last year. McNamara, founder of the experimental Rhode Island space ODD‑KIN and...
Psychoanalysis as Chamber Drama: A Night at Artists Space
Artists Space hosted "Monologue Dialogue," featuring two work‑in‑progress pieces that used the monologue form to probe fractured consciousness and memory. "Diagnosis" presented a split‑personality dialogue that mimicked psychoanalytic interrogation, while Erika Landström’s "HOTEL ECHO LIMA PAPA" employed a solo performance that...
Turner and Constable Hit the Screen
A two‑hour feature film documents Tate Britain’s Turner & Constable exhibition, pairing high‑resolution close‑ups of the 19th‑century landscapes with contemporary footage of the artists’ native locales. The film is scored by composer Asa Bennett, whose original music underscores the visual...
Podcast Episode: Edward Steichen and the Garden
Yale University Press released a podcast episode featuring Sarah Anne McNear discussing her new book and accompanying exhibition, "Edward Steichen and the Garden." The conversation explores how Steichen’s photography intersected with his passion for gardening, plant breeding, and nature. McNear...
Turntable Arrives in Illustrator, Making Motion a Little More Accessible
Adobe announced that its Turntable feature is now built into Illustrator as of March 30, 2026. The tool generates multi‑angle views from a single vector illustration, letting characters rotate and objects shift perspective without manual redraws. By turning static artwork into quick...
Giant Golden Toilet Sculpture Appears Near Lincoln Memorial in D.C.: ‘A Throne Fit for a King’
A 10‑foot golden toilet sculpture titled *A Throne Fit for a King* was installed near the Lincoln Memorial, created by the anonymous collective Secret Handshake. The work lampoons former President Donald Trump’s controversial renovation of the White House’s Lincoln Bathroom,...
Copy of Rembrandt Portrait on Display in Chicago Is by the Master Himself, Scholar Claims
A copy of Rembrandt's 1631 portrait *Old Man with a Gold Chain*, long labeled a workshop replica, is now argued by art historian Gary Schwartz to be an autograph work by the master himself. The original and the contested copy...
Chobi Mela XI Review: Can We Start Over?
The 11th Chobi Mela photography festival opened in Dhaka on Jan. 16, 2026, under the theme “Re,” inviting artists to explore renewal after the COVID‑19 shutdown and the July 2024 uprising. Curated by Munem Wasif and Sarker Protick, the event features 58...
PITKISSER Captures the Beauty and Rage of LA’s Girl Mosh Scene
Filmmaker‑photographer Mollie Mills launched *PITKISSER*, a two‑channel film installation and accompanying photobook that documents Los Angeles’ emerging “girl mosh” subculture. The project began in 2017 after Mills encountered Syerrah Escobedo, a pet‑store cashier styled in latex and liberty spikes, whose...
Korea and Japan to Collaborate on Pavilions at Venice Biennale
Korea’s Arts Council has unveiled its 2026 Venice Biennale national pavilion, titled ‘Liberation Space: Fortress/Nest,’ curated by Binna Choi. The exhibition revisits the post‑war “Liberation Space” period (1945‑1948) and presents works by Goen Choi and Hyeree Ro. A landmark collaboration sees Goen Choi’s *Meridian*...
New £5m Cultural Centre in Northampton, UK to Pursue Model that ‘Embeds Artists in Social and Economic Fabric of a...
A new cultural centre opens in Northampton on 1 May after a £5.2 million (£≈6.6 million USD) refurbishment of a 1930s municipal building. Arts Collective will run free year‑round exhibitions, 17 purpose‑built artist studios and community workshops, launching with a Rose Finn‑Kelcey retrospective....
Lauren Halsey’s Sculpture Park Is an Architectural Offering to South Central Los Angeles
Artist Lauren Halsey, together with architecture firm Current Interests and landscape studio Green House, has converted a vacant 10,000‑square‑foot lot in South Central Los Angeles into a free, public sculpture park called “sister dreamer.” The project, running through September 2027, features...
Comment | A Generational Moment for Nazi-Looted Art Claims in the US
On March 16 the U.S. House approved an expanded Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act of 2025, awaiting President Trump’s signature. The bill makes the six‑year discovery‑based statute of limitations permanent and eliminates technical defenses such as laches, the act‑of‑state...
Molly Bounds "The Light That Loses, The Night That Wins" @ Mrs Gallery, Maspeth, NY
Molly Bounds’ New York debut solo exhibition, "The Light That Loses, The Night That Wins," opens at Mrs Gallery in Maspeth on March 30, 2026 and runs through May 2. The show, her second collaboration with the gallery after a 2025 Armory Show appearance,...
Reflections On Lucas Samaras, the Self-Portrait Pioneer
The Art Institute of Chicago is mounting a retrospective, "Lucas Samaras: Sitting, Standing, Walking, Looking," that surveys the Greek‑born artist’s six‑decade career in analogue photography. Samaras pioneered self‑portraiture through AutoPolaroids (1969‑71) and surface‑manipulated prints, creating staged personae long before...
New York City Anthony Haden-Guest: Lucky Stiffs by Oceana Andries
Anthony Haden‑Guest’s third solo show with Freight+Volume, titled “Lucky Stiffs,” opened in Tribeca on March 14, 2026, and runs through April 18. The exhibition features ink‑on‑paper “tomb drawings” that pair witty epitaphs with cartoonish faces, turning viewers into participants of a visual...
Theatre Designers Are Being Disrespected – and I Should Know
Australian independent theatre is increasingly treating design as an afterthought, despite its role in storytelling. Productions often allocate minimal budgets—sometimes as low as $600 AUD (≈$400 USD)—and compress technical rehearsals from a week‑long process to a single day. This rush...
‘Tell Me Your Worst’
Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck, renowned for her indirect portraiture, instructed models to look away, a practice reflected in her self‑portraits that balance evasiveness and assertiveness. Born in Helsinki in 1862, she earned a scholarship to the Finnish Art Society’s drawing...
Sense of Abstraction
Japanese photographer Yasuhiro Ogawa presents his decade‑long “Lost in Kyoto” series at Buchkunst Berlin. The abstract images move away from typical travel photography, using mist, blur and hand‑ground lenses to convey Kyoto’s layered history. Over 10 million foreign tourists visited Kyoto...
Labubu Gets a Star Turn on the Big Screen—Plus a Rundown of the Latest in Asia’s Art World
Hong Kong artist Kasing Lung’s character Labubu is moving from toy shelves to a live‑action/CGI feature film, produced by Pop Mart and Sony Pictures and directed by Paul King. The announcement coincides with a busy week in Asia’s art world: Art Basel...
Nicole M. Morris Johnson on The Souths in Her
Nicole M. Morris Johnson’s new book *The Souths in Her* examines how Black women writers and choreographers across the United States, Caribbean, and West Africa forged innovative expressive forms. The title, drawn from Ntozake Shange, pluralizes “South” to capture both geographic...
Albuquerque Foundation / Bernardes Arquitetura
The Albuquerque Foundation in Sintra, Portugal, has unveiled a new 4,000 m² cultural complex designed by Bernardes Arquitetura, slated for completion in 2025. The project restores the historic Quinta de São João estate while adding underground galleries, glass‑walled pavilions, and a...
BROWNIE/Project / Offhand Practice
BROWNIE/Project transformed a 290 m² former woolen mill in Shanghai’s M50 Creative Park into a hybrid gallery‑café, preserving industrial elements like concrete columns and reclaimed bridge timber. The design introduced a floating bridge, a darkroom tunnel, and a reoriented staircase to...
Elia Nurvista: ‘I Think It’s Interesting To Be Suspicious Of Very Ordinary, Daily Things’
Indonesian artist Elia Nurvista’s new show Nafasan Bumi ~ An Endless Harvest at the Singapore Art Museum examines the material politics of palm oil through video, batik‑wax textiles and sculptures. The exhibition, co‑curated with Bagus Pandega, highlights the ecological damage and gendered labor issues of Indonesia’s palm‑oil industry,...
Artist Faye Wei Wei’s Stories of Longing, Told Through Symbol-Laden Canvases
British‑Chinese painter Faye Wei Wei, a Slade School graduate, has rapidly emerged as a cross‑cultural voice in contemporary art. Her large‑scale oil canvases fuse mythological symbols—horses, flowers, snakes, stars—with a translucent layering technique that creates an ethereal, dream‑like atmosphere. Recognized...
A Community Art Ecosystem in Practice / MINOR Lab
MINOR lab’s Jiadu Art Center transforms a 2021 residential complex in China into a three‑pronged community art ecosystem, converting an ancillary building into a flexible art center, adding a café, and repurposing a unit as an adaptable artist studio. The...
Historical Surrealism with Phillip Toledano
Phillip Toledano, a New York‑based multidisciplinary artist, opened his AI‑driven exhibition *Edward Trevor: Never Seen The Light* at Fotografiska Berlin. He uses generative AI to construct alternate histories, from imagined Trump‑era scenarios to re‑imagined wartime photographs, treating each image like a...
FEATURE: Cancer-Stricken Founder Urges Peace as "Silent Museum" Nears 30 Years
The Silent Museum (Mugonkan) in Ueda, Japan, will celebrate its 30th anniversary, showcasing roughly 180 paintings by about 130 young artists who perished in the Sino‑Japanese and Pacific wars. Founder and co‑director Seiichiro Kuboshima, 84, disclosed he is battling stage‑4...
Joining the Dots in Jamshedpur | A Parsi Family Archive Turns Into ‘Sparseeing’
Joyona Medhi and documentary photographer Abhishek Basu transformed a box of glass slides from the Gazdar‑Bharucha family into the photobook *Sparseeing*, which chronicles the life of Keki Gazdar, a 1950s mechanical engineer, and the broader Parsi community in Jamshedpur. The book,...
Indonesia: Digitising Museums, Cultural Sites Engage Younger Audiences
Indonesia is accelerating a nationwide museum digitisation drive, urging institutions to convert artefacts into digital formats and embed interactive storytelling. Minister of Culture Fadli Zon called for virtual displays, multimedia content, and immersive experiences to attract younger, tech‑savvy visitors. The...
Israeli Artist’s Show in Mexico City Closes After Antisemitic Harassment
Israeli artist Amir Fattal’s solo show at Mexico City’s König gallery was closed a week early after vandals spray‑painted antisemitic symbols on the building. The harassment escalated from hundreds of online hate messages to in‑person protests that culminated in swastikas,...