Your Art Can Go in This San Francisco Alley
A trio of Silicon Valley engineers bought an 82‑foot easement in San Francisco for $26,000 and launched Paint a Street, a website that lets anyone submit and vote on digital tiles for a sidewalk collage. The project, inspired by Reddit’s r/place, will select the top 1,280 submissions to be printed as a large decal on the newly paved alley. An AI‑driven moderation system screens for explicit content, with manual review of flagged images. Organizers hope the permanent art installation will turn the quirky alley into a tourist‑drawn community landmark.
“Where There Is Colour, There Is Imagination”: Painting the Dream, and the Persistence of Surrealism
Opera Gallery’s "Dreaming in Colour" exhibition opened in London on March 5, 2026, featuring twenty‑five contemporary artists who fuse vivid palettes with surrealist motifs. The show positions colour as a narrative engine, allowing works by Gustavo Nazareno, Xevi Solà, and Oh de Laval to reinterpret...
Who Was Pehr, the Swedish Hunting Dog?
The Yale Press book *Noble Beasts* examines 18th‑century French hunting art, centering on Jean‑Baptiste Oudry’s 1740 portrait of Pehr, a Swedish basset hound owned by envoy Carl Gustav Tessell. The vertical canvas, gifted to Tessell, highlighted the dog’s vitality while...
Knight of the Museum
The Abiera Museum, a privately‑run cultural hub in Maasin City, Philippines, showcases archaeological finds, scientific specimens and historical replicas collected over decades by 79‑year‑old curator Salvador “Boy” Abiera. Abiera, a former self‑taught architect and municipal councilor, built the collection despite...
Gagosian Chooses Paris Location to Present Three Important Late Paintings by Francis Bacon
Gagosian will showcase three late Francis Bacon paintings—*Study from the Human Body — Figure in Movement* (1982), *Study from the Human Body* (1986) and *Man at a Washbasin* (1989‑1990)—at its Paris gallery from April 11 to May 30, 2026. The...
Dazed Club Is Taking over Selfridges for Four Nights of Club Culture
Dazed Club is commandeering Selfridges' London car park for a four‑night series of art‑focused events, culminating in a one‑off Magazine Club showcase in the store’s cinema. The program features life‑drawing sessions with Charles Jeffrey Loverboy and Daisy Collingridge, an art...
2025 Photo Awards Winner: Sima Choubdarzadeh
Sima Choubdarzadeh, an Iran‑born documentary photographer based in Berlin, won the Portrait category of the 2025 Photo Awards, supported by Format. Her award‑winning image captures the aftermath of acid attacks targeting women in Isfahan, reflecting a decade‑long focus on migration, identity...
Art Lovers Movie Club: Gê Viana, ‘Radiola De Promessa’, 2025
Brazilian artist Gê Viana’s 2025 film "Radiola de Promessa" showcases the massive, custom‑built radiolas that dominate Maranhão’s public celebrations. The work frames these sound systems as altars, capturing pre‑festival rituals such as dough kneading, woodcutting, and communal singing before the...
Melvin Edwards, Sculptor of Searing “Lynch Fragments,” Dies at 88
Melvin Edwards, the Baltimore‑based sculptor famed for his “Lynch Fragments,” died at 88. He began welding small, table‑sized metal assemblages in 1963 that confront America’s history of racial violence, later expanding to monumental stainless‑steel works. In 1970 he became the...
These Photos Capture the Vibrant Spirit of Nepal’s Youth Culture
Photographer Tirtha Rabin Lawati, joined by Sam Thapa, released a visual series that documents the burgeoning skate‑boarding and punk‑inspired youth culture in Kathmandu and surrounding regions. The collection, titled “Where We Meet,” showcases street‑level fashion, music, and communal spaces that...
The Corporeal, Bizarre Photography of Torbjørn Rødland
Norwegian photographer Torbjørn Rødland debuted his new show, “Bones in the Canal and Other…,” after a Berlin Callie’s residency sparked a craving for grainy, analog imagery. He abandoned his detailed paintings in favor of sketch‑like, tactile photographs that emphasize the...
Keep It in the Family: How Johannes Vermeer’s Paintings Remained Out of View for so Long
Andrew Graham‑Dixon’s new biography reveals that Maria de Knuijt and Pieter Claesz van Ruijven commissioned most of Johannes Vermeer’s output, amassing a collection of about 20 of his paintings. After their daughter Magdalena died in 1682, a notary inventory showed the...
An Expert's Guide to Alexander Calder: Six Must-Read Books on the US Sculptor
The Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris is hosting a major exhibition of nearly 300 Alexander Calder works, tracing the evolution of his iconic mobiles and broader practice. Curators Dieter Buchhart and Anna Karina Hofbauer paired the show with a curated...
Iconic 19th Century Painting Sets Indian Art Record with $17.9m Sale
Iconic 19th‑century painting *Yashoda and Krishna* by Raja Ravi Varma sold for 1.67 bn rupees (≈ $17.9 million) at a Saffronart auction in Delhi, breaking the previous Indian art record set by M.F. Husain. The buyer, billionaire Cyrus Poonawalla, called the work a national treasure and...
The Painter’s Shadow World
Morgan Meis’s three‑book *Three Paintings Trilogy*—covering Peter Paul Rubens, Franz Marc and Joan Mitchell—posits that a painting functions as a "second world" or shadow realm distinct from life and death. He argues that artists shift in and out of this existential space, using the...
A Brush with… Karen Archey, Head of Curatorial at Düsseldorf's K20 and K21 Museums
Karen Archey, head of curatorial at Düsseldorf’s K20 and K21 museums, highlighted the recent acquisition of Alice Neel’s politically charged 1965 painting “The Great Society.” She reflected on her 2007 “Grand Tour” of the Venice Biennale, Art Basel, Documenta, and Skulptur Projekte,...
UCCA to Launch New Outpost in Guangzhou
UCCA Center for Contemporary Art announced its first South China outpost, UCCA OneM, in Guangzhou. The venue will occupy the OneM Center’s Pazhou CBD complex, famed for a Guinness‑record 31‑meter red steel staircase. Partnering with local nonprofit OneM, the space...
Art Lovers Movie Club: The Archive
Art Review has launched an online archive for its Art Lovers Movie Club, cataloguing monthly artist video screenings from 2020 through 2026. The collection features works by a diverse roster of international creators, ranging from emerging talents like Gê Viana...
Princeton University Art Museum Spotlights Willem De Kooning’s Breakthrough Years
On March 15, the Princeton University Art Museum opened “Willem de Kooning: The Breakthrough Years, 1945–50,” a focused survey of the artist’s formative post‑war period. The show assembles eighteen works—including Princeton’s own Black Friday and pieces from MoMA, the Anderson...
8 Best Nights Out In London’s Galleries, Museums & Theatres
London’s major cultural institutions are expanding their programming into the night, offering a mix of music, dance, and interactive experiences. Venues such as the Barbican, Royal Court, Tate Modern, Natural History Museum, Christie’s, V&A, and Science Museum now host regular...
Last Days to See Kate Meissner's New Paintings @ Lyles & King's Project Space, NYC
Lyles & King’s Project Space in New York is showcasing Kate Meissner’s latest paintings through April 4, 2026. The works delve into the human body’s elasticity and metamorphosis, drawing directly from Meissner’s recent experience of pregnancy and motherhood. The Los Angeles‑based artist,...
A Transgender Woman on the Internet, Crying Review: Dark, Bold and Playfully Queer
Cassie Hamilton’s new musical *A Transgender Woman on the Internet, Crying* opened at Sydney’s Old Fitz Theatre, marrying hyper‑pop, drum‑and‑bass soundscapes with a rom‑com structure to explore trans identity in the digital age. Developed through ATYP’s Fresh Ink and previously...
Yoshitomo Nara Painting Sells for £7.5 Million in Seoul, Setting New Korean Auction Record
Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara’s 2016 canvas *Nothing about it* hammered at KRW 15 billion (£7.5 million, about $9.4 million) at Seoul Auction, establishing a new domestic auction high. The sale was followed by Yayoi Kusama’s *Pumpkin (MBOK)* fetching KRW 10.45 billion (£5.25 million, roughly $6.6 million). Both pieces broke...
The Art World This Week: Impressionist Masterpieces Stolen, Picasso’s Guernica to Travel, UK Weighs Visitor Fees, and More
A three‑minute heist at Italy’s Magnani‑Rocca Foundation saw priceless works by Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse disappear, underscoring museum security gaps. Meanwhile, Picasso’s iconic "Guernica" is slated for a rare loan to the Guggenheim Bilbao, its first move from Madrid in...
A Brief But Spectacular Take on Channeling Identity Through Art
Multimedia artist Wendy Red Star, a Crow Nation native from Montana, discusses how her work channels Indigenous identity through diverse mediums. Drawing on personal memories of Crow Fair, family regalia, and historic photographs, she creates installations that map tribal territory...
Could Colorado Create the Country's First Artist Corporation?
Colorado legislators are reviewing SB26, a bipartisan bill that would create the nation’s first Artists Corporation (A‑Corp), a specialized limited‑liability entity exclusively for artists. The proposal aims to simplify incorporation, lower formation costs, and eventually grant group health‑insurance access for...
New York City Blur as Method: Memory, Perception, and the Instability of the Present by Shuhan Zhang
The Nugyen Wahed Gallery’s exhibition "When Blurry Memories Awaken" reframes memory as a fluid, ongoing process rather than a static archive. Curated by Jinyi Freya Xu, the show dissolves boundaries between painting, photography and installation, using blur to activate perception...
AVL Releases Public Art RFQ
Asheville Regional Airport (AVL) has issued a Request for Qualifications to commission permanent public‑art installations as part of its AVL Forward terminal modernization. The airport seeks artists for two large‑scale works—one in the grand hall and another in the airside...
Eddie Kang at Gana Art Los Angeles
Eddie Kang’s solo exhibition, "Tale of Tales," opens at Gana Art Los Angeles from February 21 to April 11, 2026. The show presents whimsical, pastel‑toned comic‑style paintings and sculptures that deliberately avoid narrative continuity. A highlight is the "Draw your own map" series,...
Tristan Unrau at David Kordansky Gallery
Tristan Unrau’s debut solo exhibition, *Hopes and Fears*, opens at David Kordansky Gallery, showcasing oil paintings that originate from AI‑generated reinterpretations of art history, cinema and children’s imagery. The artist feeds hundreds of AI outputs into his process, hand‑picking the...
New York City Eva Petric Talks with Whitehot About Bird of Hope For Peace by Noah Becker
Artist Eva Petric unveiled “Bird of Hope for Peace” at the Narthex Gallery of St. Peter’s Church in Manhattan, a stone’s throw from the United Nations. The sculpture, composed of nearly a thousand hand‑stitched lace roses contributed by artisans from eleven...
A New Immersive Art Exhibition on the Sistine Chapel Is Coming to New Jersey Mall
An immersive "Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition" will debut at New Jersey’s Westfield Garden State Plaza on April 10. The traveling show reproduces all 34 of Michelangelo’s ceiling and altar frescoes using licensed high‑resolution imagery and advanced printing techniques. Rated...
Caravaggio Documentary Will Premiere on Marquee TV Next Week
The feature‑length documentary *Caravaggio* will debut on the arts‑focused streaming service Marquee TV on April 6, expanding its reach beyond the limited theatrical run last fall. Directed by Phil Grabsky and David Bickerstaff after five years of research, the film spotlights the...
New York’s Jewish Museum Opens Paul Klee Exhibition without Its Centrepiece
The Jewish Museum in New York opened its Paul Klee exhibition on March 20, but the centerpiece, Angelus Novus, is absent because the original remains in Israel amid disrupted air transport caused by the Iran war. An authorized facsimile now occupies a recessed...
A First Look at the $720 Million Overhaul of Lacma, L.A.’s Buzziest Museum
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) reopened on April 19, 2026 after a six‑year, $720 million renovation that added the 110,000‑square‑foot David Geffen Galleries designed by Peter Zumthor. The new glass‑and‑concrete complex houses roughly 2,500 works, ranging from ancient artifacts to modern...
Colectivo Los Ingrávidos Wins Schering Stiftung Award
Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, a Tehuacán‑based film collective, has been named the 2026 winner of the Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research. The prize includes €15,000 (approximately $16,500) and a solo exhibition at Berlin’s KW Institute of Contemporary Art, featuring a...
Met Museum’s First-Ever Native American Curator Resigns
Patricia Marroquin Norby, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's first Native American art curator, left the institution in December 2025, officially citing health issues. Her departure follows years of contested claims about her Indigenous ancestry, which tribal groups and the Tribal...
Han Ishu and Yang02 Win Tokyo Contemporary Art Award 2026
Han Ishu and yang02 have been named winners of the sixth Tokyo Contemporary Art Award, each receiving a $19,800 cash prize and up to $13,200 for overseas research. The award, founded by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and TOKAS, supports mid‑career...
Shifting Crossroads – Beirut Contemporary
The Saikalis Bay Foundation opened "Shifting Crossroads – Beirut Contemporary" at its CIRCOLO space in Milan, showcasing ten artists who explore Lebanon’s ongoing political and infrastructural turmoil. Curated as a response to the country’s unfinished crises, the show replaces the...
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Language of the Dispossessed
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s posthumous retrospective, Multiple Offerings, opens at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, showcasing her pioneering 1970s feminist conceptual works that interrogate language, displacement, and nationalism. The show features seminal pieces such as the print...
How Mexico’s Art World Is Fighting to Keep Frida Kahlo
Mexico’s art community is mobilising to prevent a flagship Frida Kahlo painting from leaving the country after a private collector agreed to sell it to a European museum. The work, estimated at roughly $12 million, triggered a legal petition by the...
‘Star Spangled to Death’: Ken Jacobs’s History of the United States
Ken Jacobs’ 6½‑hour assemblage “Star Spanged to Death,” finished digitally in 2004, is now screening as an installation at the Museum of Modern Art through April 7, 2026. The work stitches together a chaotic mix of vintage cartoons, soft‑core porn, educational...
Two Monet Paintings, Unseen for a Century, Resurface at Auction
Two previously unseen Claude Monet paintings are slated for Sotheby’s Paris auction in April, marking their first public appearance in over a century. The 1883 riverboat work *Les Îles de Port‑Villez* is estimated at $3.5 million to $5.8 million, while the 1901...
Teresinha Soares, Artist Who Brought Sex and Feminism to Pop Art, 1927–2026
Teresinha Soares, the Brazilian Pop artist who fused sexual politics with avant‑garde imagery, died at 99. Educated during Brazil’s early military dictatorship, she produced provocative paintings and shaped wooden panels that tackled Vietnam, American imperialism, and gender oppression. After an...
‘The Sharp Perception only a Woman Can Bring to Observing Other Women’: Dorothy Bohm’s Photographs Go on Show at Lee...
Dorothy Bohm’s photography will be showcased in the new "About Women" exhibition at Farleys House & Gallery, opening on 2 April and running through 26 July. The show presents seven decades of her female‑focused black‑and‑white and colour work, tracing a career that...
Mongolia Pavilion Announces Artistic Team for 2026 Venice Biennale
Mongolia’s pavilion for the 61st Venice Biennale has been announced, featuring artists Nomin Bold, Dorjderem Davaa, Gerelkhuu Ganbold and Tuguldur Yondonjamts. The exhibition, titled “Entanglements: Connectivities Across Borders,” is curated by Uranchimeg Tsultem with Thomas Eller and will explore interspecies relations, spirituality...
Hong Kong Auction Results Show Big Wins for Christie’s, Sotheby’s, and Phillips, and Other News.
Spring 2026 auctions in Hong Kong rebounded, with Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips reporting stronger bidding and improved sell‑through rates, driven by Asian collectors seeking blue‑chip modern and contemporary works. Meanwhile, the Art Newspaper’s 2025 museum attendance data shows the Louvre...
Timor-Leste Pavilion Reveals Details for 2026 Venice Biennale
Timor‑Leste announced its 2026 Venice Biennale pavilion, titled “Across Words,” curated by scholar Loredana Pazzini‑Paracciani. The exhibition features textile artist Verónica Pereira Maia, sound‑performance creator Etson Caminha, and video artist Juventino Madeira, foregrounding the nation’s ethnolinguistic diversity and the memory of the 1991...
Chris “Daze” Ellis "Orchid Rain on the Underground" @ PPOW Gallery, NYC
Chris “Daze” Ellis opens his third solo show at PPOW Gallery, titled *Orchid Rain on the Underground*, running April 1‑25, 2026. The exhibition features new paintings, a site‑specific mural, and an immersive multimedia installation that references the artist’s graffiti roots and 1980s...
Woman With Her Back to the Viewer in Gallery Photos Speaks Out
In a tongue‑in‑cheek Hyperallergic interview, the anonymous figure known as "Woman With Her Back to the Viewer in All Those Gallery Photos" finally speaks, insisting the camera stay behind her. She describes a grueling daily regimen of 100 deadlifts and...