Haroutiun Galentz: The Form of Colour
A new Skira monograph, *Haroutiun Galentz: The Form of Colour* (2025), offers the first English-language study of the Armenian‑born modernist. Edited by Vartan Karapetian and Marie Tomb, it assembles paintings, documents, and correspondence from the Janibekyan Collection, the National Gallery of Armenia, and museums and private holdings across Europe, Asia and North America. The book situates Galentz as a cosmopolitan figure whose career spanned Beirut’s interwar art scene, a 1939 New York World’s Fair pavilion, and a post‑war Soviet period marked by subtle resistance to official aesthetics. It argues that his evolving use of colour and abstraction reflects displacement, adaptation, and a persistent quest for painterly autonomy.
Van Gogh Museum Acquires Only Third Painting by a Female Artist at TEFAF
The Van Gogh Museum purchased Virginie Demont‑Breton’s 1887‑88 painting *L’homme est en mer* at TEFAF Maastricht, making it only the third work by a female artist in its permanent collection. The acquisition, funded with public money, was priced between €500,000...
King Charles Visited Tate Britain’s ‘Turner and Constable’ Show and Loved What He Saw
The Tate Britain’s "Turner and Constable" exhibition, opened in November, has drawn roughly 185,000 visitors and celebrates the 250th birthdays of J.M.W. Turner and John Constable. King Charles visited the show, expressing enthusiasm for Turner’s early work, "The Rising Squall,...
Art Communities and Heritage in Iran, Moderate Recovery in the Art Market, Sydney Biennale—Podcast
The podcast examines how ongoing Middle East conflicts are damaging cultural heritage in Iran and Lebanon, prompting local communities to protect art and historic sites. It also reviews the Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report, which indicates a...
Take an Exclusive Look Inside Ulysses De Santi’s Los Angeles Home, a Shrine to Brazilian Modernism
Ulysses de Santi has transformed his 1930s Los Angeles hillside home into a living showcase of Brazilian modernist design, featuring museum‑quality pieces by José Zanine Caldas, Lina Bo Bardi, and others. The redesign introduces arches, limestone‑washed walls, and preserved black‑stained floors that...
“Tree Work” By Photographer Reave Dennison
Reave Dennison’s new series “Tree Work” showcases 29 silver‑gelatin prints documenting maritime and forestry labour in British Columbia, captured over five years while he worked as a log salvor and arborist. The exhibition opens at Pale Fire in Vancouver on March 19 and...
Portraits of Human Connection
Emmet Gowin’s new exhibition, *Baldwin Street: Photographs 1966‑1994*, opens at Pace Gallery in New York, showcasing three decades of intimate family portraits taken on his childhood street in Virginia. The body of work captures everyday moments—children at play, kitchen scenes,...
The Story Behind Iran’s only Van Gogh: ‘At Eternity’s Gate'
Vincent van Gogh’s 1882 lithograph *At Eternity’s Gate* – one of only seven surviving copies – resides in the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art after passing through Rockefeller, dealer Eugene Thaw, and Farah Pahlavi. The print, inscribed by Van Gogh in English, later...
Ministry of Awe Transforms Philadelphia Bank Into New Immersive Experience
Ministry of Awe, an immersive art experience, opens March 14 in Philadelphia’s Old City, housed in the historic 1870 Manufacturer’s National Bank. The six‑floor, 8,500‑sq‑ft venue showcases large‑scale installations, soundscapes, robotics, and AI‑enhanced environments created by Meg Saligman and over...
Find India’s Forgotten Jewels in Usha Balakrishnan’s New Book ‘Silver & Gold - Visions of Arcadia’
Usha R. Balakrishnan’s new volume *Silver & Gold: Visions of Arcadia* documents hundreds of Indian folk and tribal silver‑and‑gold ornaments, many drawn from the Amrapali Collection in Jaipur. The book blends art‑historical, anthropological and archival research to present a vivid picture of 19th‑20th‑century rural...
Nat Faulkner: The Stuff of Photography
Nat Faulkner’s 2026 Camden Art Centre exhibition reframes photography as a chemical and physical act rather than a purely visual one. Installations like *Aperture (Iodine)* use iodine‑filled panels to bathe the space in amber light, while *Aqua Fortis* and *Moth‑catcher*...
Craig Jun Li: Scrapping the Camera
Craig Jun Li’s solo show at Chapter NY revisits analog photography by dismantling camera components and presenting them as silicone‑based wall installations. The works pair distorted dye‑transfer prints of projector interiors with Polaroid images, and incorporate actual SX‑70 springs, foregrounding...
Anime Revival Screenings Are Having a Moment
Anime studios are capitalizing on 4K theatrical revivals, with recent screenings of Jin‑roh: The Wolf Brigade and Macross Plus drawing weeks‑long runs at Japanese multiplexes. Legacy titles such as Princess Mononoke, Angel’s Egg, and upcoming Tekkonkinkreet have generated box‑office revenues that rival...
Alan Davie’s Art Class
Alan Davie, the Scottish painter who equated visual art with free‑jazz improvisation, inspired a Tate‑produced video that stages a live feedback loop between his paintings, a jazz trio, and art students. The experiment captures musicians improvising to Davie’s canvases, students...
Ancient Scottish Artifacts Inspire Modern Jewels
Ellis Mhairi Cameron, a Scottish fine jeweler based in London, transforms ancestral clan artifacts into sculptural gold and diamond pieces. Her recent Sgian‑Dubh collection showcases hand‑engraved ceremonial knives set with old‑cut diamonds, while upcoming gold kilt pins continue the heritage theme....
Allison Janae Hamilton’s Atmospheric ‘Venus of Ossabaw’ Film Commission
Allison Janae Hamilton’s debut narrative film, Venus of Ossabaw, premiered on March 13 as a commission for Telfair Museums’ “Off the Coast of Paradise” exhibition. Backed by VIA Art Fund, the project was shot on‑site on Georgia’s remote Ossabaw Island, blending intensive...
With ‘Love Is the Final Word,’ Leonard Baby Pauses a Moment of Emotional Gravity
Leonard Baby, a 29‑year‑old New York artist, is presenting his painting “Love Is the Final Word” in the solo exhibition Resting Babyface at Villa Carlotta, Los Angeles, curated by Half Gallery. The work, a dry‑brush watercolor on panel that resembles...
Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way @ Buffalo AKG Art Museum
The Buffalo AKG Art Museum launches *Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way*, a six‑month installation featuring 58 contemporary Latinx artists. The exhibition, curated by Andrea Alvarez, groups works into seven thematic clusters that explore history, identity, land, community, and...
Why Modern Art Museum Dib Bangkok Is a Must-Visit Destination in Thailand
Thailand’s capital has added a world‑class contemporary art venue with the opening of Dib Bangkok, a three‑storey museum housed in a repurposed warehouse in Khlong Toei. Designed by Kulapat Yantrasast and Architects 49, the space features a minimalist aesthetic inspired by...
What the Art Basel and UBS Market Report Tells Us About the State of the Art World
The Art Basel and UBS 2025 market report shows global art sales rebounding 4% to $59.6 billion, ending two years of decline. Auctions led the recovery with a 9% rise, driven by high‑price works over $10 million, while dealer sales nudged up...
First Nations Ceramics Exhibition Of This Earth Starts National Tour in Cairns
The National Gallery of Australia has launched the touring exhibition "Of This Earth: Transforming Culture and Country through First Nations Ceramics" in Cairns, showcasing 29 works by 28 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists. The show highlights both ancient clay...
SCMP Political Cartoonist Harry Harrison’s New Year of the Horse Collection to Be Auctioned
South China Morning Post’s veteran cartoonist Harry Harrison is debuting a new “Year of the Horse” collection, featuring eight original watercolour and ink illustrations that will be auctioned by The Store by SCMP. Bidding opens on March 13 and runs...
Remembering Neon Artist and Glass-Bending Master Wil Kirkman
Wil Kirkman, a Boise‑based neon artist and glass‑bending specialist, passed away from cancer in 2025, leaving a legacy as one of Idaho's last practitioners of the craft. Known for creating and repairing intricate glass light fixtures, he worked with neon...
Kim Gordon Was Always an Artist First
Kim Gordon, co‑founder of Sonic Youth, continues to prioritize visual art alongside music. In March 2026, Amant in Brooklyn launches two concurrent shows: her solo survey “Count Your Chickens” and the group exhibition “Folded Group,” co‑curated with Bill Nace. The...
Brian Eno and 200+ Artists Urge British Museum to “Stop Erasing Palestine”
Over 200 artists, including Brian Eno, have sent an open letter to the British Museum demanding it stop "erasing Palestine" after the museum altered wall texts in its Middle East galleries, replacing terms like "Palestinian descent" with "Canaanite descent". The petition...
Collector Bob Rennie Donates 24 Works to National Gallery of Canada
The National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa received a gift of 24 contemporary artworks from collector Bob Rennie and his family, bringing their total donations to 284 since 2012. The donation includes 17 pieces by Christopher Williams, two by Kerry James Marshall, four...
Netflix Is Developing a Series About Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera
Netflix announced a scripted series chronicling the lives of Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. The drama adapts French author Claire Berest’s biography and will be directed by Patricia Riggen and Gabriel Ripstein, with María Renée Prudencio as head writer. Production is in early...
Uncanny Valley: The Oil Paintings of the Late Eyvind Earle Still Have A Resounding Influence on Artists & Viewers Today
Eyelid‑spanning artist Eyvind Earle turned his mythic vision into iconic oil landscapes that still shape visual storytelling. His work for Disney, especially the hand‑painted backgrounds of Sleeping Beauty, redefined fairytale aesthetics while nearly bankrupting the studio’s animation unit. Beyond film, Earle’s linocut Christmas...
Thomas J Price’s Tallest Sculpture Rises Outside London’s V&A East
Thomas J. Price unveiled his largest work yet, the 18‑foot bronze sculpture *A Place Beyond*, outside the soon‑to‑open V&A East in London. The figure, a casually dressed woman without a smartphone, challenges classical sculpture conventions and highlights everyday identity. The...
What Happens When Art Experts And AI Disagree On Authentication?
Swiss AI firm Art Recognition has asserted an 86 % probability that the Caravaggio‑style painting at Badminton House is authentic, directly contradicting long‑standing scholarly consensus that it is a copy. The company’s algorithm, trained on curated datasets of verified works and...
Donna Distefano Recreates Centuries-Old Jewelry for the Frick Collection
Goldsmith Donna Distefano has launched the Frick Collection’s “Off the Canvas” line, crafting jewelry that mirrors pieces depicted in historic portraits by Hans Holbein and Anthony van Dyck. She employs metalworking techniques that trace back to the Etruscans, even melting...
Victor Vasarely’s Crumbling Aix Legacy to Be Restored
Victor Vasarely’s foundation in Aix‑en‑Provence, a historic Op Art museum, is finally receiving major restoration after decades of neglect and dwindling state support. Government funding now covers 85 % of the €12 million budget, enabling roof, cladding and climate‑control upgrades, while the foundation...
Joe Moss, Drones and Caspar David Friedrich
Joe Moss’s new installation *Automated Fantasy Procedure* at Matt’s Gallery revives the post‑internet aesthetic of the late 2000s while injecting fresh concerns about drone warfare and machine agency. Small research drones hover above visitors, while dual screens project a mash‑up...
Boros Collection in Berlin, Germany
The Reichsbahnbunker, a 1940s Nazi-era railway shelter in Berlin, has been repurposed by media entrepreneur Christian Boros into a private contemporary art museum and his residence. After a five‑year, costly renovation that preserved concrete walls and wartime relics, the 3,000 m²...
Watch a Trailer for the Bob Dylan Center’s Thin Wild Mercury: Dylan 1966 Exhibition
The Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa will launch the "Thin Wild Mercury: Dylan 1966" exhibition on July 18, offering an immersive, multi‑media retrospective of Dylan’s pivotal year. Curator Mark Davidson describes 1966 as a combative, iconic period when Dylan produced...
Revisiting Jackie Saccoccio, Architect of Abstraction
Van Doren Waxter’s "Portraits" exhibition revisits Jackie Saccoccio’s abstract oeuvre, presenting five paintings and seven works on paper that highlight her mature, experimental process. The show underscores how her early architectural studies and repeated trips to Italy shaped a visual...
Dingo-Related Work at Sydney Biennale Takes on New Resonance Following Backpacker Death
A young Canadian backpacker, Piper James, drowned after a dingo encounter on K’gari (Fraser Island) in January, prompting a coroner’s ruling and subsequent euthanasia of several dingoes. The incident has given new urgency to Cannupa Hanska Luger's Biennale of Sydney...
Comment | Beryl Cook UK Retrospective Shows There Is Much More to the Artist than Amazing Bums
British self‑taught painter Beryl Cook, long dismissed by major institutions, is undergoing a major reassessment after a 2024 retrospective at Studio Voltaire and a major survey, Pride and Joy, at The Box in Plymouth. The shows pair her with Tom of...
Tefaf Maastricht: The Wish List
TEFAF Maastricht’s wish list highlights five marquee pieces, ranging from a Kelmscott Press Shakespeare poetry volume bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (£125,000) to a rare Greek marble stele of Medeia (£450,000). The list also features a record‑setting Indigenous Australian painting by Emily Kam Kngwarray...
Glassblower and Porcelain Heir Paul Arnhold on the Art He Loves to Collect
Paul Arnhold, a New York glassblower and fourth‑generation heir to a world‑renowned Meissen porcelain collection, intertwines his studio practice with a collector’s eye for immediacy and decisive form. He values objects that reveal the maker’s technique and tactile presence, ranging from...
Dresden Museum Wins Tefaf Award for Rubens Restoration
Dresden’s Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister received the 2024 Tefaf Museum Restoration Fund award for restoring Peter Paul Rubens’s *The Boar Hunt*. The 1616‑18 oil, once owned by Rubens, the Duke of Buckingham and the Imperial collection, endured wartime displacement and 19th‑century varnish...
Two Renoir Exhibitions at Musée D’Orsay Explore the Joy of Human Connection
The Musée d’Orsay opens two Renoir exhibitions—"Renoir and Love: A Joyful Modernity," spotlighting his 1865‑85 paintings, and "Renoir Drawings," loaned from the Morgan Library—running from 17 March to mid‑July. The shows feature rarely seen masterpieces such as Luncheon of the Boating...
‘It Has Nothing to Do with Michelangelo’: Expert Wades in on Painting Newly Attributed to Renaissance Master
Belgian art historian Michel Draguet has announced a newly discovered painting he claims is a late work by Michelangelo, naming it the Spirituali Pietà and dating it to the 1540s. The attribution relies on two monograms resembling Michelangelo’s signature, 16th‑century pigment...
“The Art of Living in Avant-Garde Paris”: A Playlist by Rachel Silveri
Rachel Silveri, an assistant professor at the University of Florida, has released *The Art of Living in Avant‑Garde Paris*, a new monograph that examines how interwar Paris artists wove creative practice into everyday life. The book is paired with a...
Jitish Kallat Appointed President of Kochi-Muziris Biennale
India’s leading contemporary art festival, the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, has appointed Mumbai artist and curator Jitish Kallat as its new president. Kallat, a former artistic director of the 2014‑15 edition, will chair the selection process for the curator of the upcoming...
Limbo Accra and Art Omi Partner on a Two-Part, Site-Specific Architecture Commission
Limbo Accra and Art Omi have commissioned TAELON7 to create the Limbo Engawa installation, a modular, lightweight structure built from reclaimed billboard metal and steel profiles. First displayed from March 12 to April 12 in Accra’s unfinished concrete space, the work will...
South Africa Exploded View : Edoardo Villa &21st Century Sculpture By Petra Mason by Petra Mason
The Black Brick Gallery in Cape Town launched "Exploded View: Edoardo Villa & 21st Century Sculpture," showcasing the late Italian‑born South African sculptor alongside a roster of contemporary local artists. Curated by Ashraf Jamal and Gerard de Kamper, the exhibition spreads...
South Africa Exploded View : Edoardo Villa &21st Century Sculpture by Petra Mason
The "Exploded View: Edoardo Villa & 21st Century Sculpture" exhibition opens at Black Brick Gardens on Roodehek Street, pairing the late modernist sculptor Edoardo Villa with a cohort of contemporary South African artists. Curated by Ashraf Jaml and Gerard de Kamper,...
L’Ile Folie / MARC FORNES + THEVERYMANY
French architect Marc Fornes has unveiled L’île Folie, a sculptural pavilion that rises from a pond in Downtown Cary Park. The structure reinterprets the 19th‑century park folly using a self‑supporting skin of ultra‑thin folded aluminum panels with thousands of perforations. It...
The Art World This Week: Art Basel UBS Report, Italy Buys Caravaggio for €30m, EU Rejects Russian Pavilion, and More
The 2026 Art Basel‑UBS report shows the global art market rebounded to $59.6 billion in 2025, ending a two‑year decline. Italy secured a rare Caravaggio portrait for €30 million, one of the highest state purchases ever. The EU warned it could withhold...