My Silence Is Made of Explosions - A Group Exhibition of Contemporary Women Surrealist Photographers by Clare Gemima
The VISU Contemporary gallery in Miami Beach is hosting *My Silence Is Made of Explosions*, a group show that assembles twenty‑eight photographs by contemporary women surrealist photographers. The works, ranging from Aïda Muluneh’s vivid mythic scenes to Zanele Muholi’s politically charged portraits, use staged imagery to destabilize photography’s documentary authority. By juxtaposing dream logic with current social tensions, the exhibition reframes Surrealism as a living framework rather than a historic style. It also foregrounds women’s contributions, linking past figures like Dora Maar to today’s practice.
Next Edition of Getty's PST Art Initiative Will Focus on Los Angeles’s Connections Around the Pacific Rim
The Getty Trust announced the fourth edition of its PST Art programme, slated to open across Southern California in September 2030 and centered on Los Angeles’ historic and contemporary ties to the Pacific Rim. A research phase begins now, with nonprofit cultural organisations...
Monet, Munch, and Hockney Headline Tate’s 2027 Exhibition Calendar
The Tate announced its 2027 exhibition calendar across its four UK venues, spotlighting a first‑ever solo Monet show at Tate Modern from February to June, co‑curated with Paris’s Musée de l’Orangerie. David Hockney will dominate both Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall...
Newly Unearthed Letter Reveals Edvard Munch’s Influence on Paula Rego
In 1951 a 16‑year‑old Paula Rego wrote to her mother about the impact of an Edvard Munch exhibition, highlighting *The Scream* and *Inheritance*. The letter, uncovered by the Guardian, reveals how Munch’s expressionist style directly inspired Rego’s early work, including...
Do You See Blue or Green?
Albany International Airport unveiled "Treasure Map," a green sculpture crafted from upcycled Southwest Airlines seat leather. The artwork, designed by Hudson Valley artist Ruby Palmer, celebrates Southwest’s 25‑year partnership with the airport and its Repurpose with Purpose sustainability initiative. Since...
El Greco Painting Found Hidden Beneath a Forgery in the Vatican
Restorers at the Vatican uncovered an authentic El Greco oil, *The Redeemer* (c. 1590‑95), hidden beneath a later forgery. Scientific testing confirmed the work’s 16th‑century origin and revealed two additional discarded compositions beneath the surface. The restored painting now joins a second...
Founder of Art School That Received $2 M. NEH Grant: Artists Would Be ‘Wise’ to Be ‘Unpolitical’
Grand Central Atelier, a Queens‑based art school championing pre‑19th‑century techniques, secured a $2 million grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, one of the few NEH awards exceeding $1 million. Founder Jacob Collins, a vocal critic of modernism, frames the school’s...
Artists and Art Professionals Denounce Mexico’s Handling of Resurfaced Art Collection: ‘An Institutional Blunder’
More than 200 Mexican artists and cultural professionals signed an open letter condemning the government for allowing the Gelman collection, a trove of roughly 300 Mexican modernist works, to be exported to Spain under the Santander Foundation. The collection, which...
NYC Has a Free Daily Art Show—Do You Know Where to Find It?
The Times Square Arts Midnight Moment is a free, three‑minute digital art showcase that runs nightly at 11:57 p.m. across 92 screens in the heart of Times Square. Launched in 2012, the program pauses commercial advertising to display curated works by...
Texas Artist Tom Lea Captured the Heartbreak of War
In May 2023 a water pipe burst inside the historic R.E. Thomason Federal Building, endangering Tom Lea III’s 54‑foot "Pass of the North" mural. Federal agencies and art conservators dehumidified the wall and restored the artwork without disturbing its lead‑based...
Jack Kerouac’s Fabled ‘On the Road’ Scroll Sells for Record-Smashing $12.1 Million
Jack Kerouac’s original 120‑foot “On the Road” scroll fetched $12.1 million at Christie’s, setting a new record for a literary manuscript. The sale, part of the late Jim Irsay estate auction, far exceeded the $4 million estimate. Country singer‑songwriter Zach Bryan purchased the...
One Photographer and a Stylist’s Joyful Portrait of Creative Freedom
British photographer Anna Victoria Best and stylist Lara McGrath have launched Keka Rocka, a book and exhibition born from a three‑year collaboration. The project reimagines inexpensive high‑street garments, styled in Westfield changing rooms, as vibrant portraits of creative freedom. Showcasing...
Taiwanese Comic Artists to Attend Manga-Comic-Con in Germany
Taiwanese comic artists Wu Shi‑shan and Rice Dumpling will represent Taiwan at Manga‑Comic‑Con 2026 in Leipzig, Germany, under the theme “Taiwan Comics, Flavor Remix.” The Ministry of Culture will showcase 15 award‑winning titles with English and German preview editions, while German...
Recipients of $100,000 Rauschenberg Centennial Award Named
The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation announced the winners of its one‑time Centennial Award, a $100,000 unrestricted prize celebrating the artist’s hundredth birthday. The awardees—Senga Nengudi (art), David Thomson (performance), Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun (photography), and Patricia Spears Jones (writing)—represent a cross‑disciplinary cohort focused on Black experience...
Title, Theme Announced for 2026 Gwangju Biennale
The 16th Gwangju Biennale, running September 5‑November 15, 2026, is titled “You Must Change Your Life,” echoing the final line of Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem “Archaic Torso of Apollo.” Artistic director Ho Tzu Nyen frames the theme around “change” and “practice,” exploring...
Toleen Touq Will Curate the Twentieth Edition of MOMENTA Biennale
Curator and educator Toleen Touq has been appointed to lead the twentieth edition of Montreal’s MOMENTA Biennale, scheduled for 2027. The biennale, titled “The Long Now,” will explore the fractured logics of time by interrogating the concept of the present....
Artist Spotlight: Beachghost
Jackson Howell, known as beachghost, is a Melbourne‑based illustrator whose work fuses coastal nature memories with pop‑culture, video‑game, and anime influences. His surreal, myth‑infused imagery distorts nostalgic icons, creating unsettling visual narratives. beachghost earned a longlist spot in the 2025...
These Portraits Interrogate the Power of Celebrity in America
Photographer Dana Lixenberg’s new exhibition “American Images” at Paris’s MEP gallery presents a candid body of work that juxtaposes intimate scenes from a Los Angeles housing project with striking portraits of America’s most notorious celebrities, including Tupac Shakur, Donald Trump,...
Tuwaiq Sculpture 2026 Presented by Riyadh Art
The seventh edition of Tuwaiq Sculpture returns to Riyadh from 12 January to 22 February 2026, featuring 25 artists from 18 countries who will create large‑scale works live on Tahlia Street. Curated under the theme “Traces of What Will Be,” the programme...
Carol Bove’s First-Ever Retrospective Opens at the Guggenheim, and Other News
Carol Bove’s first major retrospective opened at New York’s Guggenheim, presenting 25 years of work in a reverse‑chronological spiral that reexamines Minimalist roots. The 2026 Oscars stage transformed into a garden‑like courtyard, emphasizing nature and craftsmanship, while Paul Thomas Anderson’s...
Cathrin Hoffmann "Sill" @ Public Gallery, London
Public Gallery in London will host Cathrin Hoffmann’s solo show Sill from March 6 to April 11, 2026, featuring new paintings and sculptures that explore the physical and psychological strain of information overload. The Berlin‑based artist abandons exaggerated gestures for figures caught in...
The Jacky Winter Group Launches Capital Virtues – Reframing Creative Commerce as a Virtue
The Jacky Winter Group has launched Capital Virtues, a specialist agency that supports artists navigating both traditional practice and creator‑led marketing. The new division positions artistic integrity, authorship, and long‑term value above algorithms and follower counts. It builds on the...
Theatre of Dreams Review: Dance that Channels Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On
The Hofesh Shecter Company’s "Theatre of Dreams" premiered at Adelaide Festival, delivering a surreal dance experience that combined full‑frontal male nudity, a red‑suited live band, and dynamic lighting to mimic the logic of dreams. The 90‑minute performance featured twelve dancers...
Lineages of Queerness: A Conversation with Mikey Gulcicek About His Series Photographing Queer Faith Leaders by Emma Cieslik
Mikey Gulcicek’s new photographic series captures queer faith leaders within their own churches, temples, and sacred spaces, foregrounding their spiritual authority. By placing subjects in institutional settings traditionally hostile to LGBTQ+ identities, the work confronts the rise of Christian nationalism...
This Year’s Costume Design Nominees, From The Heart Of The Forest To 1950s Glam
The 2026 Academy Awards have announced five nominees for Best Costume Design, including the visually striking "Sinners," James Cameron’s "Avatar," and the nature‑infused "Heart of the Forest." The slate also features a 1950s‑glam homage and a period piece that blends...
New York City Notes From a Walkthrough of A Partial Refusal at Field Projects by Addison Bale
Field Projects’ latest show “A Partial Refusal,” curated by Weihui Lu, brings together six artists—including Rowan Renee, SaraNoa Mark, Claire Hu, and Mikayla Patton—to explore the limits of language, translation, and visual redaction. The exhibition uses stark black walls, woven banners, bronze armatures, and...
Digital/AI/VR Art: Selfhood as a Responsive Environment by Serena Hanzhi Wang
Serena Hanzhi Wang profiles computer artist Luhan Rong, whose VR and AI‑driven projects explore how responsive environments shape self‑perception. In the Eyes of Others uses gaze‑based interaction in Unreal Engine to make familiar spaces unstable, while Roomly offers AI‑guided interior...
New York City Etty Yaniv Making Waves In Tampa S Experimental OXH Gallery by Anna Shukeylo
The OXH gallery in Tampa debuted "The Only Sea in the World with No Land Boundaries," a collaborative installation by Brooklyn‑based multimedia artist Etty Yaniv, curator Odeta Xheka, and Colombian digital artist Santiago Echeverry. Yaniv’s recycled‑plastic sculptures were paired with...
New York City Paul Chan, Bated Breath by Mike Maizels
Paul Chan’s latest solo show, Automa Mon Amour at Greene Naftali, expands his long‑running “breathers” series with kinetic, pneumatic sculptures that hover between stasis and motion. The centerpiece, Untitled (Wheel of Synth Life), fuses Buddhist mandala references with a baroque horror‑vacui...
LACMA’s Soaring New Gallery Was Designed to Give You a Fresh Look at Art History
Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s new David Geffen Galleries, a $720 million project funded in part by a $150 million donation, opened this spring after two decades of planning. The 900‑foot, 110,000‑square‑foot concrete structure hovers 30 feet above a shaded plaza and...
New York City Exhibition Review: Gao Yutao Turns Light Inward by Colleen Dalusong
Shanghai‑based artist Gao Yutao opens his solo show *Afterlight* at The BLANC in New York, turning a portable office scanner into a tool that renders insects, industrial parts and everyday objects as vivid, glitch‑like light bands. The works reference SMPTE calibration bars...
Masterpieces From London’s National Gallery, Now on Display at Home With LG Gallery+
LG Electronics has launched LG Gallery+, a visual curation service that streams more than 4,000 curated artworks from the National Gallery, London, into consumers' homes. The partnership lets users browse the collection via digital "shelves" that function like playlists, matching...
Chanel’s 19M Gallery in Paris Stages ‘Beyond Our Horizons’, a Cross-Continental Communion of Japanese and French Craft
Chanel’s 19 m gallery in Paris is hosting “Beyond our Horizons: from Tokyo to Paris,” a follow‑up to the Tokyo exhibition that attracted roughly 75,000 visitors. The show features 40 French and Japanese artisans whose collaborations produce hybrid objects that merge...
How a London Atelier Is Reimagining the Globe for Modern Collectors
Bellerby & Co, a London studio, revives the forgotten craft of hand‑crafted globes, producing fully bespoke spheres through a collaborative process involving cartographers, painters, woodworkers and metalworkers. Each globe passes through at least five specialists and can be customized to...
The History of Rituals and Artefacts Inform Arianna Lelli Mami's Sculptures
Italian designer Arianna Lelli Mami, co‑founder of Studiopepe, has turned her practice toward pure sculpture with the "Clay Ink Paper" show at Milan’s Oxilia Gallery. The exhibition presents clay figurines, miniature cabinets and altar‑like constructions that blend abstract forms with archetypal...
Art Adviser Ralph DeLuca on Galleries, the Gray Market, and Why Art Fairs Still Matter
Ralph DeLuca, a Las Vegas‑based art adviser, emphasizes that his role is often to say no, protecting clients from inflated gallery deals and BOGO arbitrage. He advises collectors to scrutinize fee structures, prefer advisers who invest alongside them, and stay...
A New Brooklyn Art Fair With a Global Outlook Debuts This Spring
Powerhouse Arts will launch Conductor: Art Fair of the Global Majority in Brooklyn from April 30 to May 3, 2026, featuring 27 gallery exhibitors and 17 special‑project installations. The fair brings together artists and galleries from Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, South and...
Defining Freedom
Future Arts Centres and Open Eye Gallery launched "Our Freedom: Then and Now," a UK‑wide photography exhibition exploring how concepts of liberty have evolved over eight decades. The project gathered stories from 60 community‑led initiatives, captured by 22 photographers who...
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This Texas Town Is Famous As an Art Lover's Mecca—It's Also a Surprising Shopping Destination
Marfa, Texas, a remote desert town of about 1,700 residents, has become a celebrated art hub thanks to Donald Judd and the Prada Marfa installation. In recent years the town’s Highland Avenue has evolved into a boutique shopping destination, featuring stores...
Public Invited to Pick Sycamore Gap Tree Artwork
The historic Sycamore Gap tree, felled illegally in September 2023, will be transformed into a public artwork. The National Trust has shortlisted six artists from across England to propose designs using half of the salvaged timber. The public can vote...
A Leonardo-Linked ‘Salvator Mundi’ Turns Heads at TEFAF
The de Ganay version of Leonardo’s *Salvator Mundi* was exhibited at TEFAF Maastricht, drawing attention as one of the finest among roughly 20 known copies. Dated 1505‑1515 and presented by Agnews Gallery, the work is attributed to Leonardo’s workshop and carries a...
Proposition and Presence: Noguchi S New York by Kun Sok
The Noguchi Museum’s exhibition “Noguchi’s New York” pairs dense archival material on the artist’s unrealized playground and plaza proposals with his existing sculptures on the ground floor. By displaying plans, correspondence, and animated reconstructions alongside physical works, the show illustrates Isamu...
Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore: Surrealist Lovers Who Defied the German Occupation
The Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis opened “And I Saw New Heavens and a New Earth,” spotlighting the intertwined work of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore. Curated by Dean Daderko and Svetlana Kitto, the show blends early Surrealist portraits,...
Best Opportunities, Grants & Awards for Creatives: 16 to 22 March 2026
A curated roundup of arts funding and development opportunities runs from 16‑22 March 2026, covering visual arts, literature, dance, photography, and performance across Australia and Greece. Highlights include three 18‑month paid artist positions with The Unconformity, an $80,000 Copyright Agency Partnership Grant...
This Masterpiece by Rembrandt’s Star Pupil Has a New Owner
Willem Drost’s 1654 tronie *Man With a Plumed Red Beret* was sold at TEFAF Maastricht through Agnews Gallery to the privately‑held Leiden Collection. The painting, once owned by the Rothschild family and recovered by the Monuments Men after World War II,...
Keisha Scarville Awarded Brooklyn Museum’s $25,000 UOVO Prize
The Brooklyn Museum announced photographer and collage artist Keisha Scarville as the winner of its sixth UOVO Prize, awarding her a $25,000 unrestricted cash grant. Scarville will mount a solo show titled “Where Salt Meets Black Water” at the museum’s...
Pedro Friedeberg, Key Figure in Mexican Art Renowned for Hand-Shaped Chair, Has Died at Age 90
Pedro Friedeberg, the Mexican‑born artist famed for the hand‑shaped Mano Silla chair, died at 90 in San Miguel de Allende. The chair, created in 1962, was reproduced over 17,500 times and cemented his status as a design icon. Friedeberg’s career spanned seven...
Senators Whitehouse and Schumer Call for ‘Proactive Measures’ to Protect Philip Guston and Ben Shahn Murals
Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Chuck Schumer sent an open letter to GSA administrator Ed Forst demanding proactive measures to protect New Deal-era murals by Philip Guston and Ben Shahn in the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building. The building, a National...
Comment | Cow in MSCHF Project Survives, but Should the Project Have Happened at All?
MSCHF’s "Our Cow Angus" project let buyers purchase tokens tied to a live cow’s fate, promising burgers and leather bags if the animal was slaughtered. After a two‑year run, more than half of the tokens were returned through a "remorse...
Henry Darger’s Secret World Comes to the Stage
New York’s Vineyard Theatre is staging Bughouse, a play that brings the reclusive Chicago janitor‑artist Henry Darger to the stage. Directed by Martha Clarke and scripted by Pulitzer‑winner Beth Henley, the production features performance artist John Kelly inhabiting Darger’s persona...