Vietnam Military History Museum Holds Lacquer Painting Exhibition Marking National Milestones
The Vietnam Military History Museum’s "Homeland and the Soldier" exhibition showcases 55 lacquer paintings that span several generations of artists. Running through May, the show commemorates the 51st anniversary of Vietnam’s reunification and the 136th birth anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh. Organized with the Vietnam University of Fine Arts and the University of Arts and Design, the exhibition is divided into three thematic sections that trace the nation’s landscape, wartime experience, and post‑war development. Interactive workshops let visitors practice traditional lacquer techniques, turning the display into an educational experience.
Art Basel’s ‘Basel Exclusive’ Initiative Asks Galleries to Withhold at Least One Work From PDF Previews, and Other News.
Art Basel is launching the “Basel Exclusive” program for its June 2026 fair, urging roughly 170 of its 232 exhibitors—including Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, Pace and David Zwirner—to withhold at least one high‑profile work from pre‑fair PDF previews to drive in‑person visits. The move...
Printed Matter’s 50th Anniversary Benefit Dinner Celebrated Artist Ed Ruscha
Printed Matter, the nonprofit champion of artists' books, celebrated its 50th anniversary with a benefit dinner honoring pop‑art pioneer Ed Ruscha. The evening began with cocktails in the High Line Hotel courtyard before moving to a dinner at Vanderbilt University’s Chelsea...
Muzeu Braga, Portugal’s Newest Art Museum Bridging Art and Critical Thought
Portuguese construction group DST’s CEO José Teixeira has opened Muzeu, a contemporary art museum in Braga’s historic centre, repurposing a former courthouse with an industrial aesthetic. The museum showcases an inaugural exhibition that blends international icons such as Alex Katz...
Maison Territo Showcases Stikki Peaches in New Art and Design Exhibition
Maison Territo in Montreal is launching a new exhibition that showcases the contemporary work of artist Stikki Peaches. The show opens on May 14 with an exclusive RSVP‑only event before opening to the public in the company’s 11,000‑square‑foot Royalmount showroom. By integrating...
Vancouver Biennale Names Senior Curator for 2027-29 Edition
The Vancouver Biennale has appointed internationally‑renowned curator Marcello Dantas as senior curator for its 2027‑29 edition. Dantas brings a portfolio that includes co‑curating Desert X AlUla 2024, directing the Pelé Station exhibition during the 2006 World Cup, and leading an...
Re-Air: The Young Painter Curators Are Rushing to Work With
Taina H. Cruz, a 1998‑born Yale MFA graduate, is gaining high‑profile museum exposure after her work was featured in the Whitney Biennial and MoMA PS1’s Greater New York show. The artist’s paintings fuse Black female figures with folklore, horror, and pop‑culture references,...
What Is the Venice Biennale? Everything You Need to Know
The 61st Venice Biennale opens May 9 and runs through November 22, 2026, drawing an anticipated 800,000 visitors. The edition features 100 participating nations—a 16% increase over 2024—and 111 artists in the central exhibition. Curator Koyo Kouoh, who died in May 2025, left the “In...
Required Reading
The Hyperallergic "Required Reading" roundup weaves together a diverse set of cultural and policy stories. Elena Megalos offers a poetic essay on motherhood and cosmic scale at the American Museum of Natural History, while fire lookout Philip Connors reveals how...
Thiago De Paula Souza Appointed Curator of Eighth Athens Biennale
The Athens Biennale, founded in 2005, has appointed Brazilian‑born curator Thiago de Paula Souza to lead its eighth edition slated for next spring. Souza, known for exploring eroticism, gender nonconformity and intimacy, brings experience from co‑curating the 2025 São Paulo Bienal...
Dartmouth Students Turn to Moldy Beef Jerky Installation in Renewed Bid to Remove Leon Black’s Name From Arts Center
Dartmouth art students removed a provocative installation called *Something Rotten*—20 moldy beef jerky sticks forming a smiley face—from the Black Family Visual Arts Center’s dedication wall after a week on display. The piece, created by Erik Siegel, Roan Wade and...
Matthew Hansel’s Hidden Demons
Matthew Hansel’s "Morbid Delectatio" project fuses Northern Renaissance technique with Norman Rockwell‑style realism to explore the hidden, contradictory parts of human nature. He populates his canvases with grotesque creatures, cheese crowns, fruit, and 1960s nudist‑colony advertisements, turning repulsion into visual delight....
Squall: Sigrid Sandström at Perrotin, London
Swedish painter Sigrid Sandström opens "Squall" at Perrotin London, a show that translates sudden weather shifts into fluid, abstract canvases. She applies diluted acrylics on flat cotton, allowing pigment to bleed, pool and dry slowly, creating misty, double‑sided surfaces. The...
The Turner Prize Has Revealed Its 2026 Nominees—And Already Courted Controversy
The Turner Prize has announced its 2026 shortlist—Simon Barclay, Kira Freije, Marguerite Humeau and Tanoa Sasraku—along with a £25,000 (~$33,800) cash award for the winner. For the first time, the exhibition will be staged at Teeside University’s Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, moving...
AO ARTIST INTERVIEW: ROSE WYLIE, THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS.
Rose Wylie’s solo exhibition "The Picture Comes First" opened at the Royal Academy of Arts on February 28 and will run through April 19, 2026. The show assembles more than 90 works, spanning the artist’s five‑decade career and featuring her...
Philadelphia’s New Art Fair Is Betting Big on Community
Philadelphia’s second‑ever contemporary art fair, Elsewhere, launches on June 4 under local gallerist Megan Galardi. Hosted in the Yowie Hotel’s historic rowhouses, the fair invites 26 galleries from Los Angeles to Toronto, offering 400‑sq‑ft booths for about $3,000 that double as overnight...
Art Basel's Solution to PDF Pre-Sales? Ask Galleries to Reserve Works Until Opening Day
Art Basel is launching Basel Exclusive for its June Swiss fair, asking participating galleries to keep marquee works out of online viewing rooms and pre‑fair previews until the First Choice VIP preview on June 16. More than 170 galleries, including...
Joan Eardley: ‘She Would Set up Her Canvas on the Shore and Paint in the Lashing Wind and Rain Like...
The National Galleries Scotland: Modern Two is showcasing "Joan Eardley: The Nature of Painting" until June 28, featuring more than 30 of the post‑war Scottish artist’s works. The show juxtaposes Eardley’s gritty Glasgow street scenes and atmospheric Catterline seascapes with...
Shigeo Toya, Artist Who Looked to Nature with His Wood Sculptures, 1947–2026
Japanese sculptor Shigeo Toya, famed for his chainsaw‑hewn wood installations, died in 2026. He launched the "Woods" series in 1984, arranging tall timber pieces to evoke forest clusters, and later created the "Twenty Eight Deaths" series of paired blocks with...
Seeing by Hand
June Leaf, the late American artist known for her tactile, hand‑driven creations, is the focus of the traveling retrospective "Shooting from the Heart," which presents over 150 works spanning 75 years. The show arranges her paintings, sculptures, drawings, and kinetic...
Manet and Morisot: Game On
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the Cleveland Museum of Art have opened “Manet and Morisot,” an exhibition that juxtaposes Édouard Manet’s iconic *Balcony* with Berthe Morisot’s *The Artist’s Sister at a Window*. The show revisits a 1870 episode...
Inflatable Life
Paul Chan’s latest show at Greene Naftali revives his signature “Breathers”—inflatable nylon figures powered by hidden fans. The exhibition, now approaching twenty pieces, includes standout works like the five‑member “Tokener Ecstasis” ring and the surreal “Too Spirituale! (after Leibniz).” Chan’s sculptures blend the eye‑catching...
Drawn to the Void
The National Gallery’s "Drawn to the Void" exhibition, curated by Christine Riding and Lucy Bamford, reunites ten of Joseph Wright of Derby’s late‑1760s canvases, including the striking "Two Boys Fighting Over a Bladder." The show highlights Wright’s pioneering use of...
Visions of Depravity
Ceija Stojka, a Romani survivor of Auschwitz, Ravensbrück and Bergen‑Belsen, is the focus of a new show at New York’s Drawing Center. The exhibition showcases the small, expression‑laden canvases she began creating in her mid‑fifties to record the horrors of...
Art for Our Age of Chaos
The Whitney Biennial 2026 and the New Museum’s “New Humans: Memories of the Future” open in Manhattan, showcasing works by more than 50 and 100 artists respectively. Both shows juxtapose room‑filling installations with tiny, whisper‑like pieces, a curatorial tactic meant to...
Venice Golden Lion Jury Won’t Consider Russian and Israeli Pavilions
The Venice Biennale’s 61st International Art Exhibition will not consider any national pavilion whose leader faces International Criminal Court charges for crimes against humanity. The jury, led by Solange Oliveira Farkas and featuring curators from Yale, Abu Dhabi, Brazil and...
On Being
London‑based electronic composer Max Cooper released his new album "On Being," built on a crowdsourced pool of audience‑submitted "unspoken words" that answered personal prompts. He turned these raw emotions into music, partnering with French musician Félix Gerbelot for the title track...
Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects Designs Sea of Time – TOHOKU in Fukushima, Japan
Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects, in partnership with artist Tatsuo Miyajima, is developing Sea of Time – TOHOKU, a circular art‑and‑architecture installation on a cliff in Tomioka, Fukushima. The project, slated for construction from 2024 to 2027 with a spring 2028...
AI Is Not Replacing Animators; It Is Redefining the Craft of Animation
AI is reshaping animation by eliminating long‑standing production bottlenecks, not replacing artists. Generative tools compress rendering and key‑framing from hours to minutes, freeing animators to focus on concept, narrative, and visual direction. Brands such as Coca‑Cola and Levi’s have integrated...
Taiwan Strips National Prize From Sakuliu Pavavaljung After Sexual Assault Conviction
Taiwan’s National Culture and Arts Foundation stripped Indigenous visual artist Sakuliu Pavavaljung of the 2018 National Award for Arts and ordered the return of the NTD 1 million (~$32,000) prize after a Supreme Court upheld his four‑year‑six‑month sexual assault conviction. The award,...
PRINT Book Club: Thursday April 23, 2026 with Aubrey Hirsch
PRINT Magazine is hosting a live Zoom book club on Thursday, April 23, 2026, featuring artist‑writer Aubrey Hirsch. The discussion will center on her graphic nonfiction title *Graphic Rage: Comics on Gender, Justice, and Life as a Woman in America*....
The Art World This Week: AI Reveals El Greco Authorship, Finland Retracts From Venice Biennale, National Gallery Receives $116m Donation,...
Scientists at Case Western Reserve University unveiled a machine‑learning tool that can detect multiple artists’ contributions in a 17th‑century El Greco altarpiece, offering a new method for attribution studies. Finland announced it will withdraw from the Venice Biennale if Russia is...
Private Money, Public Retreat
A $116 million endowment from a billionaire will permanently fund the National Gallery’s art‑loan program, while the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater in Cape Cod has suspended operations due to a tightening philanthropic climate. Similar strains appear nationwide: Brazil’s film sector relies...
Tale of a Riderless Horse
The National Gallery in London is hosting a major exhibition devoted to 18th‑century equine artist George Stubbs, featuring his iconic 1762 painting “Whistlejacket.” The work portrays a riderless horse that was originally intended for King George III but never received a...
An Auction Without Bidding: Loïc Gouzer’s Latest Bet on How to Sell Art
Art tech founder Loïc Gouzer is launching "No Warning," a new sales format on the Fair Warning auction app that eliminates traditional bidding. Buyers see a fixed price, can either purchase instantly or submit a single, binding offer that remains...
Turner Prize 2026 Shortlist Announced with Strong Showing for Sculpture
The Turner Prize 2026 shortlist features Simeon Barclay, Kira Freije, Marguerite Humeau and Tanoa Sasraku, with a pronounced emphasis on sculpture alongside performance, installation and film. Each nominee receives £10,000 (≈ $12,700), and the eventual winner will earn an additional £25,000 (≈ $31,800) on 10 December....
Dutch Commission Recommends New Guardianship for ‘Orphaned’ Nazi-Looted Art
A Dutch government‑appointed committee has recommended transferring guardianship of the Netherlands Art Property (NK) Collection’s orphaned Nazi‑looted works to a Jewish foundation, ideally housed at Amsterdam’s Jewish Museum. The plan provides an annual budget for exhibitions and a wall label...
Historic $116M Gift Endows Lending Program at National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery of Art received a historic $116 million donation from the Mitchell P. Rales Family Foundation, endowing the Across the Nation artwork‑lending program in perpetuity. Launched as a pilot last spring, the initiative has loaned works by O’Keeffe, Rembrandt, Rothko,...
Closely Watched Curator Raphael Fonseca Joins Lisbon’s Culturgest
Raphael Fonseca, the Denver Art Museum’s first curator of Latin American modern and contemporary art, has been appointed visual arts programmer at Lisbon’s Culturgest, a private foundation backed by state‑owned Caixa Geral de Depósito. He will relocate in June 2026,...
Winning Design Unveiled for First UK Journalists’ Memorial
Artist Wolfgang Buttress won the On The Record competition with "End of Copy," a sculptural arrangement of aluminium columns forming a Fibonacci spiral. The design will be installed at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire, with a companion piece at...
Edvard Munch’s Paintings for a Chocolate Factory Get a Rare Museum Outing
Edvard Munch’s twelve‑panel Freia Frieze, commissioned in 1922 for the women’s canteen of Oslo’s Freia chocolate factory, is leaving the factory for the first time. The monumental works have spent a century exposed to cacao dust and cigarette smoke before...
Barbara Chase-Riboud Speaks Out on Declining US Pavilion Spot
American sculptor Barbara Chase‑Riboud announced she will not participate in the United States Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale, citing the current climate of global conflicts. She joins photographer William Eggleston, who also declined the invitation, leaving the pavilion to...
Chad Moore’s New Book Captures the Unearthly Beauty of Eyes and Skies
American photographer Chad Moore releases a new photo book titled “Eyes and Skies”, published by Super Labo. The collection departs from his well‑known portraits of New York’s youth, pairing close‑up studies of human eyes with expansive images of sunsets, skylines...
Marc Brandenburg at the Berlinische Gallery
Marc Brandenburg’s solo show “20th Century Debris” opens at Berlin’s Berlinische Galerie, showcasing decades‑long pencil drawings that translate personal photographs into monochrome, dream‑like fragments. The works, loaned from private and corporate collections, are arranged in thematic clusters that move from...
Miles Greenberg: “It’s Hard to Ignore the Body’s Particular Poetry”
Miles Greenberg, a Montreal-born performance artist, recently traced his West African ancestry during a research pilgrimage to Benin. While attending the Vodun Days festival in Ouidah, he observed masked ceremonies and communal energy exchanges that resonated with his own bodily...
Eyes of Lillian Bassman
The Metropolitan Museum of Art opened “Lillian Bassman: Bazaar and Beyond” (Mar 2‑Jul 26, 2026), positioning the iconic fashion photographer’s work beyond commercial fashion. Bassman’s experimental techniques—blur, smoke, and abstract composition—transform garments into studies of form and movement. The exhibition follows historic museum...
Antony Gormley Sculpture Quietly Removed and Sold Off by UK Council
Kent County Council, now run by the Reform party, quietly removed Antony Gormley's early sculpture "Two Stones" from the Kent History and Library Centre and sold it back to the artist for an undisclosed sum. The work, valued at £859,000...
Chang-Ching and Rhett Tsai’s Tricks of the Light
Artists Chang‑Ching Su and Rhett Tsai present a tandem series at Chicago’s Watershed Art & Ecology that interrogates the ecological and geopolitical fallout of green‑light luring used in Chinese squid‑fishing fleets. Su’s *Greenlessness* (2023‑25) records the LEDs on colour film,...
Alcova Transforms a Modernist Villa and Military Hospital for Milan Design Week 2026
Alcova has taken over two iconic Milan sites—Villa Pestarini, a 1939 modernist home by Franco Albini, and the historic Baggio military hospital built in the early 1930s—for its 2026 Design Week showcase. The platform features 131 exhibitors who present site‑specific...
Haitham Al Busafi to Represent Oman at 2026 Venice Biennale
Oman has appointed multidisciplinary artist Haitham Al Busafi to represent the nation at the 61st Venice Biennale, opening May 9, 2026. The Oman pavilion, curated by Al Busafi and commissioned by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Youth, will showcase "Zīnah," an immersive...