Cinga Samson "Ukuphuthelwa" @ White Cube Gallery, NYC
South African artist Cinga Samson opens his new solo show “Ukuphuthelwa” at White Cube in New York, running through April 18, 2026. The exhibition, whose Xhosa title means “unable to sleep,” treats sleeplessness as a state of heightened spiritual awareness rather than a medical condition. Samson’s oil paintings employ a near‑black, carbon and Prussian‑blue palette to render men‑like figures, dogs, and native flora with meticulous realism, while interrogating the limits of visual representation. Through isiXhosa titles and pupilless figures, he invites viewers to contemplate symbolism, ritual, and the unnameable sublime.
Guest Lounge 350.000 Ha / Manuel Bouzas + Salazarsequeromedina
The 45th ARCO 2026 fair will host Guest Lounge 350,000 Ha, a dual‑space installation that juxtaposes a constructed lounge with the memory of north‑western Iberian wildfires that scorched 350,000 hectares in 2025. Designed by Manuel Bouzas and Salazar Sequeromedina, the lounge is built entirely from...
The Lester Prize Is Open for 2026 Season Entries
The Lester Prize has opened entries for its 2026 season, inviting Australian‑resident artists aged 18 and over to compete for a total prize pool exceeding $135,000 AUD (about $89,000 USD). The 2025 edition attracted over 1,000 submissions and more than 30,000 visitors...
TAELON7 Crafts Salvaged Billboards Into an Installation for Limbo Museum and Art Omi
TAELON7’s Limbo Engawa installation opened on March 12 in Accra, Ghana, featuring modular steel canopies built from salvaged billboard frames and hand‑woven day‑beds for communal lounging. Designed by architect Juergen Benson‑Strohmayer, the piece blends the Japanese engawa concept with West African...
Yto Barrada Says France Had ‘Full Awareness’ of Her Views on Israel When It Chose Her for Venice Biennale
Artist Yto Barrada, selected for France’s 2026 Venice Biennale pavilion, sparked controversy after signing an open letter calling for Israel’s removal from the exhibition. The Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRIF) demanded that the French government force her to...
Hauser & Wirth Partner Cristopher Canizares Departs to Start Artist Agency
Cristopher Canizares, a 16‑year partner at Hauser & Wirth, is leaving to launch Artist Legacy Bureau, an artist‑first management agency. The boutique firm will serve a small roster of five to six artists, offering long‑term career strategy across galleries, institutions,...
A Community-Sized Seder Plate
Harvard Hillel unveiled a nine‑foot Seder plate sculpture in Science Center Plaza, created by local artist Michael Mittelman. The piece replaces the traditional six food slots with custom images drawn from interviews with students, faculty and alumni, reflecting a spectrum...
From ‘Game of Thrones’ to ‘Downton Abbey’—Iconic Costumes Go on View in Scotland
Costume Couture: Sixty Years of Cosprop, showcasing over 8,000 historic garments, opens at Edinburgh’s Dovecot Studios on July 18, 2026, running through January 9, 2027. The exhibition, originally staged at London’s Fashion and Textile Museum, features more than 80 iconic costumes from...
Rare Andean Bear Captured in Stunning Photograph
Sebastian Di Domenico’s photograph of an Andean bear perched on a moss‑covered branch in Colombia’s Chingaza Ecopalacio Reserve has been shortlisted for the 2026 Sony World Photography Awards. The image captures a roughly five‑year‑old male, a rare sighting that suggests the...
Manifesta 16 Ruhr Announces List of Artists
Manifesta 16, the 2026 edition of the nomadic European biennial, will open on 21 June across twelve decommissioned modernist churches in the Ruhr’s four cities. Curated by an eight‑person artistic team, the event showcases 106 artists from 30 countries, including 64 new...
This Dancer Is Ending A 53-Year Stage Career With San Francisco Ballet — But He’s Not Retiring
Val Caniparoli is bowing after a 53‑year stage run with the San Francisco Ballet, yet he insists he isn’t retiring. Since 1980 he has built a parallel choreography career, most recently staging the theatrical *Jekyll & Hyde* for the Finnish National Ballet and U.S....
Weightless: The Paintings of Henrik Uldalen
Norwegian painter Henrik Uldalen creates photosurrealist oil works by staging photo shoots, heavily editing the images in Photoshop, and then translating them onto canvas. His figures appear pale, floating, or contorted in impossible spaces, emphasizing a dream‑like detachment. Uldalen is...
Birmingham Airport’s Icon Wall Pays Tribute to West Midlands Heroes
Birmingham Airport unveiled an "Icons Wall" art installation beyond security, featuring ten notable West Midlands figures. The display includes Ozzy Osbourne, UB40, poet Benjamin Zephaniah, comedian Jasper Carrott, screenwriter Steven Knight, chef Glynn Purnell, swimmer Hannah Hampton, Olympian Ellie Symonds, and the TV series Peaky Blinders. Selections were...
A Free Home for San Francisco Artists, From Dave Eggers and Friends
Writer Dave Eggers discovered a vacant 100,000‑square‑foot warehouse at Pier 29 and, with artist JD Beltran, launched Art + Water, a free‑tuition apprenticeship studio program slated to open this fall. The initiative will provide year‑long studio space at no cost to 30 local...
Must Read: A Schiaparelli Exhibit Is Coming to the V&A, On CEO Exits
The Victoria and Albert Museum will open the first UK exhibition dedicated to Schiaparelli, showcasing over 400 pieces from founder Elsa Schiaparelli to creative director Daniel Roseberry, running March 28‑Nov 8. Meanwhile, On’s long‑time CEO Martin Hoffmann is departing after 13 years,...
Decentralized Crowdfunding Can Boost Artists During Market Downturn
Joshua Kim argues that decentralized crowdfunding can sustain NFT artists when market liquidity dries up. A weekly pledge of 1 Ether (≈$1,800) by collector Batsoupyum and curator Lanett Bennett Grant is being matched by major collectors, adding $20,000 and $100,000 in...
Nuart Aberdeen 2026: Poetry In The Streets
Nuart Aberdeen 2026, running April 22‑26, is billed as the world’s first street‑art festival dedicated primarily to poetry and text‑based works. Organizers argue that large, resource‑intensive murals dominate the scene and limit participation, so this edition emphasizes small‑scale stencils, paste‑ups and...
Hopkins Bloomberg Center Exhibition to Explore American Art as Cultural Diplomacy
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center will host "Artistic Generosity and the American Artist Abroad" from April 7 to June 13, showcasing four decades of American art placed in U.S. embassies worldwide. The exhibition draws from the Foundation for Art and Preservation in...
At 95, Artist Heinz Mack Still Believes in the Power of Art: ‘I Affirm My Commitment to Beauty’
German artist Heinz Mack turned 95 and is being celebrated with a retrospective at Beck and Eggeling in Düsseldorf. The show, running through May 23, 2026, presents 12 ceramic pieces, 16 collages and 14 pastel drawings that trace his evolution from the ZERO movement...
This Artist’s Work Has Been Shown at MoMA. Now It’s Training AI
Michael Hafftka, a 72‑year‑old figurative expressionist whose work has been shown at MoMA, the Met and Parisian galleries, has uploaded roughly half of his oeuvre to the AI platform Hugging Face. He frames the move as a modern catalogue raisonné...
Introducing the Intelligence Report: The Year Ahead 2026
Artnet’s 2026 Intelligence Report notes that global auction sales increased for the first time since 2021, spurred by a strong late‑season surge in New York. The UK market grew 11.3% after a $136 million sale of Pauline Karpidas’s Surrealist collection, while ultra‑contemporary...
Los Angeles, California Luc Tuymans: The Fruit Basket in Los Angeles at David Zwirner by Lyle Zimskind
Luc Tuymans’ latest exhibition, “The Fruit Basket,” opens at David Zwirner’s Los Angeles gallery, featuring a sequence of ten paintings that move from representational scenes to abstract “Illumination” canvases, culminating in a massive nine‑panel, blue‑washed tableau. The work foregrounds themes of...
Mesmerizing Hand-Crafted Dragon 'Soars' With Soothing Movement
A handcrafted wooden dragon that gently flaps its wings has become a Kickstarter sensation, raising nearly $200,000. The sculpture is made entirely by hand from beech or walnut wood, with each unit unique in grain and finish. It features a...
Stage Kiss Review: A ‘Wonderfully Funny’ and Very Meta Farce at Sydney’s New Theatre
Stage Kiss, a new production at Sydney’s New Theatre, uses a play‑within‑a‑play structure to lampoon melodrama while probing the performative nature of love. Written by Sarah Ruhl and directed by Alice Livingstone, the farce follows an actress auditioning for a...
Leslie Umberger on Grandma Moses
The Smithsonian American Art Museum has launched a major retrospective, "Grandma Moses: A Good Day’s Work," spotlighting Anna Mary Robertson Moses as a multifaceted figure in American art. Curator Leslie Umberger explains that the museum spent a decade building a...
Art Basel Hong Kong Previews Open Today: Here Are 9 Artists to Look Out For
Art Basel Hong Kong opened its 2026 edition with a fresh curatorial wing called Echoes and the debut of Zero 10, a digital‑art focused sector. The fair spotlights a mix of established and emerging talent, including Kazakh sculptor Aya Shalkar, Mongolian painter...
FEDORA Opera Prize Winner ‘The Curing Line’ Set to World Premiere in Ireland
FEDORA Opera Prize 2025 winner “The Curing Line” will debut worldwide at the Kilkenny Arts Festival’s Watergate Theatre in Ireland on August 7, 2026. The immersive work, composed by Michael Gallen and co‑directed by Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern, fuses traditional Irish...
Wagner Foundation Names Winners of $75,000 2026 Arts Fellowships
The Wagner Foundation announced Tomashi Jackson, Lucy Kim, and Yu‑Wen Wu as recipients of its 2026 Wagner Arts Fellowships, each receiving a $75,000 unrestricted grant. Launched in 2023, the fellowship supports mid‑career or established Boston‑area artists whose work engages social...
Louvre Plans Its ‘Most Ambitious’ Painting Restoration Ever: A Refresh for Rubens’s Medici Cycle
The Louvre announced its most ambitious restoration to date, removing the 24‑painting Marie de’ Medici cycle by Peter Paul Rubens from public view for four years. The Baroque masterpieces, covering roughly 3,100 square feet, suffer from yellowed varnish and discordant...
True Origins of King Tut ‘Curse’ Emerge in Newly Sold Letter
A three‑page letter written by Howard Carter in 1934 reveals that he blamed journalist Arthur Weigall for inventing the infamous “Curse of the Pharaohs” surrounding Tutankhamun’s tomb. Carter argued the curse story was a retaliatory spin by Weigall after being...
This Show Paints a Then-and-Now Portrait of Black Life in the US
The Center for Art and Advocacy is hosting “A Language We Share: Beverly Price and Gordon Parks,” a dual exhibition that juxtaposes Price’s contemporary portraits of Black Washington, D.C., with Gordon Parks’ historic photographs. The show presents a visual dialogue...
Photos Reveal Róng Museum of Art Under Construction in Shenzhen
Büro Ole Scheeren unveiled renderings of the Róng Museum of Art, a 53‑metre tall, 4,500‑square‑metre cultural landmark under construction in Shenzhen. Commissioned by Tenova Future, a private venture of Tencent founder Ma Huateng, the museum targets 20th‑ and 21st‑century visual...
‘We Are a Very Resilient People’: In the Face of Trump’s Threats, Cuban Cinema Comes Out Fighting
The Screen Cuba festival is showcasing classic and contemporary Cuban films, including Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s *Hasta Cierto Punto* and Juan Padrón’s animated shorts, as a cultural counter‑point to heightened U.S. pressure under former President Trump. The event highlights the resilience of...
Rashid Johnson, the Artist Who Shot Jay-Z’s GQ Cover, Drew Inspiration From the Harlem Renaissance
Rashid Johnson, renowned for exploring Black intellectual life, photographed Jay‑Z for GQ’s April 2026 issue, creating intimate portraits that position the rapper as a modern thinker. Johnson drew visual inspiration from Harlem Renaissance photographer James Van Der Zee and the surreal interiority...
A Guide to Marilyn Minter’s Subversive Art, in Her Own Words
Marilyn Minter has spent decades confronting taboos with glossy, hyper‑real paintings, photographs and videos that celebrate raw sexuality. Signature works like the 1990s "Porn Grid" series appropriated explicit pornographic stills, turning them into enamel‑on‑metal canvases that both shocked and fascinated...
ECB to Open Its Doors for the Night of the Museums on 25 April 2026
On 25 April 2026 the European Central Bank will open the historic Grossmarkthalle and its adjoining public areas for Frankfurt’s Night of the Museums. Visitors can join two guided tours—one focused on the ECB’s contemporary art collection and the other on the...
The Expressive Movement of Artist Stephanie J. Williams’ Stop-Motion Experiment, ‘The Expectation of the Observed’
Stephanie J. Williams’s experimental stop‑motion short *The Expectation of the Observed* is being shown on the mobile “I’ll Meet You There” truck touring Washington, D.C. The film features a seven‑inch foam puppet whose torn latex limbs convey themes of stress, labor,...
Larry Clark and James Gilroy’s Advice for Young Artists
Larry Clark and James Gilroy have released "Bedtime Stories for Bad Boys and Girls," a new book and accompanying exhibition that delves into unsettling childhood vignettes through stark photography. The project, rooted in their 1970s New York partnership, mixes themes...
Luxury Group by Marriott International Unveils “Art of Arrival,”
Marriott International’s Luxury Group has launched “Art of Arrival,” an artist‑residency program featuring emerging Chinese creator Chen Zuo. The inaugural residency at The Ritz‑Carlton Suzhou produced a new commission that will debut during Hong Kong Art Month, then travel to Art Basel...
Danielle Orchard "Borrowed Chord" @ Perrotin, Paris
Danielle Orchard’s second Paris show, "Borrowed Chord," opens at Perrotin and runs through April 18 2026. The exhibition presents new paintings that revisit modernist fragmentation, classical composition, and the reclining female figure while shifting their emotional tone. Orchard uses a restrained, luminous...
The Venice Art Biennale Is Nearly upon Us. Here Are Eight Things We Are Looking Forward to so Far
The 61st Venice Biennale runs from May 9 to November 22, 2026, featuring a newly restored central pavilion and the curatorial theme “In Minor Keys,” which spotlights subtle undercurrents shaping daily life and the planet. A diverse slate of exhibitions spans the Giardini,...
Producers Are Keen but Cautious About Asia Pacific Touring Opportunities
Australian producers are optimistic about expanding touring opportunities across the Asia‑Pacific, buoyed by the federal government’s Invested 2040 strategy and the newly‑launched ASEAN‑Australia Centre. Initiatives by boutique agency Turning World show growing artistic reciprocity, yet cultural‑sector literacy between Australia and Southeast...
Monumental Bellini Altarpiece Undergoes Major Restoration in Public View
Giovanni Bellini’s 15th‑century San Giobbe altarpiece is undergoing its most extensive restoration in over five centuries. The two‑year, $580,000 project will stabilize the fragile wood panel, analyze pigments with ultraviolet and infrared imaging, and clean the surface, all behind glass...
Paris Internationale Milano Names Participating Galleries for Inaugural Edition
Paris Internationale, the nonprofit gallery‑led art fair founded in 2015, announced its inaugural Milan edition featuring thirty‑four galleries and nonprofits. The fair will run April 18‑21, with a VIP preview on April 17, at the historic Palazzo Galbani, and limits...
Double Dealing
White Columns, New York’s longest‑standing nonprofit gallery, staged “Art (by) Dealers,” an exhibition featuring over ninety works created by gallerists themselves. The show is explicitly for sale, with each piece labeled by anonymous numbers and a checkout system designed to...
A New New Museum
The New Museum reopened after a two‑year expansion, unveiling the sprawling survey exhibition “New Humans: Memories of the Future,” which showcases roughly eight hundred works ranging from Surrealist drawings to Carlo Rambaldi’s original animatronic E.T. model. The reopening also prompted Artforum...