Mike Myers, Hazel Mae Among Recipients of Special 2026 Canadian Screen Awards Honours
The Canadian Academy announced special honours for Canadian Screen Week, which runs May 27‑31 in Toronto. Mike Myers will receive the Academy Icon Award, sportscaster Hazel Mae the Gordon Sinclair Award, and Canadian Film Centre director Maxine Bailey the Changemaker Award. Chandler Levack’s film *Mile End Kicks* earned the Sustainable Production Award for its eco‑friendly practices. The ceremony will be simulcast on CBC, CTV, Crave, Global and STACKTV.
The Daily Heller: Indulging in Maira Kalman’s Capacity for Producing Calm
Print Magazine’s Daily Heller highlights Maira Kalman’s soothing artistic voice, featuring a portrait of Paper co‑founder Kim Hastreiter and a new video promoting Kalman’s 2018 illustrated book *Cake*. The video, directed by Alex Kalman, underscores her talent for delivering calm...
Tehran’s UNESCO-Listed Golestan Palace Damaged by US-Israeli Strikes
Tehran’s Golestan Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage site, was damaged by a missile strike on March 1 amid escalating US‑Israeli attacks on Iran. The blast shattered windows, cracked glass, and buckled asphalt within the palace’s buffer zone. Iranian officials have secured...
MODULAR FREQUENCY: Shepard Fairey @ Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles
Subliminal Projects in Los Angeles is mounting MODULAR FREQUENCY, a new exhibition by Shepard Fairey that runs from February 28 to April 11, 2026. The show presents eighteen mixed‑media pieces that fuse modular geometry, Soviet‑era propaganda aesthetics, and contemporary pop culture. Alongside the main works, the...
Faig Ahmed to Represent Azerbaijan at 2026 Venice Biennale
Faig Ahmed will represent Azerbaijan at the 61st Venice Biennale with a solo presentation titled “The Attention.” Curated by Islamic‑art scholar Gwendolyn Collaço, the show intertwines Azerbaijan’s ancient carpet weaving with contemporary quantum‑technology installations, including *I Can Contain Both Worlds...
Perle Noire Review: Charting the Inner Life of the Iconic Josephine Baker
Perle Noire: Meditations for Joséphine debuted at Adelaide Festival, offering a non‑linear, emotionally driven portrait of iconic Black performer Josephine Baker. Directed by Peter Sellars and scored by avant‑garde jazz composer Tyshawn Sorey, the production blends operatic cabaret, spoken word,...
Dear Colin Brooks: Defunded Victorian Arts Organisations Address Creative Industries Minister
Several Victorian arts bodies—including Writers Victoria, the Public Galleries Association of Victoria, Abbotsford Convent and Australian Print Workshop—have been stripped of operational funding by Creative Victoria. The groups have publicly appealed to Creative Industries Minister Colin Brooks, citing petitions, funding...
ECAL—A Typographic Atlas: Mapping the Territory of Contemporary Type
ECAL’s "A Typographic Atlas" exhibition showcases 300 student‑designed typefaces, organized as an alphabetical‑numeric map that turns the gallery into a navigable terrain. Curated by the Master Type Design and Bachelor Graphic Design programs, the show blends experimental, functional, and multiscript...
Why Black Math’s Rebrand Signals a Return to Art as Infrastructure
Black Math, a Boston‑origin design studio, unveiled a bold rebrand that declares an “art first” philosophy, positioning art as the structural core of its work. The new visual system favors expressive typography and motion, rejecting neutral, template‑driven aesthetics. By framing...
Flash Art Founder Giancarlo Politi Dies at 89
Giancarlo Politi, the Italian critic who founded the seminal contemporary art journal Flash Art, died at 89 on February 24. Over five decades he expanded Flash Art into multiple language editions, launched the influential Art Diary directory, and established the Flash Art Museum and the...
Clémence De La Tour Du Pin’s Atmospheric Meditations
French artist Clémence de La Tour du Pin presents a new show at Derosia, New York, featuring four untitled, six‑centimetre‑high assemblages that span six metres each. The works combine discarded urban objects—umbrella spokes, tangled silk—with wax, oil paint and linen,...
"Always Never": A Solo Exhibition by Linda Geary @ pt.2 Gallery, Oakland
pt.2 Gallery in Oakland presents “Always Never,” Linda Geary’s first solo exhibition at the space. The show highlights her signature layered collage approach, now rendered in acrylic and oil with a muted, weathered palette that creates ghost‑like forms. Larger canvases...
Desktop Wallpaper: March 2026 with Giorgio Cecatto
Toronto‑based artist Giorgio Cecatto, an architect turned digital creator, has released a new series of free desktop and mobile wallpapers. The designs are generated with a pen plotter, echoing Russian Constructivist principles of precision and mechanization while translating them into...
Editor’s Letter: Beings in Transition
ArtAsiaPacific’s 2026 issue examines artists confronting bodily, ecological, and geopolitical transitions. It spotlights late Chinese‑American painter Ching Ho Cheng, whose process‑driven abstractions will appear in Seoul’s Art Sonje Center, and Korean roboticist Geumhyung Jeong, whose animatronic sculptures blur human‑machine boundaries....
Mari Katayama Wins Inaugural Mori Art Award
Mari Katayama was named the inaugural winner of the Mori Art Award, a biennial prize established by the Mori Contemporary Art Foundation in 2025. The award, aimed at elevating mid‑career Japanese artists, grants a JPY 10 million cash prize and a solo...
A Journey in Time
Peggy Weil's "Core Memory" exhibition at MoMA showcases video installations "88 Cores" and "18 Cores" that visualize Greenland ice cores and Salton Sea rock cores. The works descend two miles through 110,000 years of ice and reveal Pleistocene strata, turning...
Manifest Destiny Review: Alex Frayne’s Photographic Roadtrip Through a National Crisis
Australian photographer Alex Frayne’s “Manifest Destiny” debuted at the 2026 Adelaide Festival, presenting a three‑year road‑trip series that documents a fragmented United States. Shot primarily on medium‑format film and displayed in a semi‑immersive U‑shaped LED installation, the work juxtaposes decaying...
Issue 147
ArtAsiaPacific announced the launch of Issue 147, its March/April 2025 edition, priced at US$25. The issue joins a series of recent releases, including Issue 146, 145, and the Almanac 2026. The publisher also promotes related titles such as "Contingent Worlds:...
Earrings for Peggy Guggenheim, C. 1938
Peggy Guggenheim’s 1938 earrings, a gift from Surrealist Yves Tanguy, are miniature paintings rendered in silver, gold, pearls and oil on shell. The pieces embody Tanguy’s dreamlike biomorphic language on a wearable scale. Guggenheim wore one of the earrings alongside...
From Clicks to Claps: Online Comics Seek the Stage
Online comedians in Japan, led by TikTok star Ricchaado, are moving from digital platforms to live stages such as Tokyo Comedy Bar. After building a 313,000‑strong Instagram following, Richard Tomic performed his first stand‑up set, blending bilingual characters with personal...
Interview with Artist Cooper Cox by Marcarson
Cooper Cox describes his paintings as containers for uncertainty, where a structural framework invites controlled chaos. He emphasizes texture as the core of his process, allowing instability to shape the final image. Cox says risk has become more precise, targeting...
New York City Confronting the Abject; Feeding the Load, Regulated Dosage at FRISSON by Jonah Romm
The Frisson Gallery’s new exhibition "Feeding the Load, Regulated Dosage" showcases the work of Echo Yan and Cass Yao, curated by Rui Jiang. The show blends biomorphic sculptures, repurposed household objects, and AI‑generated video to create a visceral posthuman environment....
The Cross-Sectioned Paper Sculptures of Lisa Nilsson
Lisa Nilsson, a Massachusetts‑based visual artist, has revived the centuries‑old quilling technique to create life‑sized paper sculptures of human anatomical cross‑sections. Drawing on historic medical images and the National Library of Medicine’s Visible Human Project, she painstakingly coils colored paper...
Napoles Marty in Conversation with Diana Nawi: Mentorship, NXTHVN, and the Frieze Los Angeles Impact Prize
Napoles Marty, the 2026 Frieze Los Angeles Impact Prize winner, credits the NXTHVN residency for sharpening his conceptual focus and confidence. At Frieze he will present a series of charred wooden guardian sculptures alongside two drawing series that record the carving...
David Salle "My Frankenstein" @ Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles
Postmodern painter David Salle opens "My Frankenstein" at Sprüth Magers in Los Angeles, running Feb 24–Apr 18, 2026. The show features works where Salle collaborates with a proprietary AI model trained on his own oeuvre, generating pixelated backgrounds that he repaints and re‑contextualizes....
The Cherry Orchard Review: A Korean Take on Chekhov at Adelaide Festival
Simon Stone’s latest adaptation of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard relocates the story from pre‑revolutionary Russia to a contemporary South Korean chaebol family, premiering at Adelaide Festival 2026. The production stars Cannes Best Actress winner Doyeon Jeon in her first stage...
Mortality in Color: Anna Tuori’s First Berlin Solo Exhibition
Finnish artist Anna Tuori opens her first Berlin solo exhibition, "Paradise News," at Contemporary Fine Arts, showcasing twelve newly commissioned 2025 paintings. The works employ sand‑laced pigments on unprimed canvas, blending expressionistic still lifes with abstracted figurative scenes in a...
Prudence Flint’s Paintings Capture Moments of Repose that Are Ripe for Interruption
Prudence Flint, a former fashion‑illustrator turned oil painter, creates intimate domestic scenes that capture women in moments of quiet contemplation. She draws on cinema’s Kuleshov effect and deliberately distorts proportions to evoke internal emotional states rather than visual realism. Flint’s...
No Longer, Not Yet—Paintings on Paper: Jonathan Wateridge @ GRIMM, Amsterdam
GRIMM gallery in Amsterdam presents Jonathan Wateridge’s second solo exhibition, titled No Longer, Not Yet – Paintings on Paper, running through March 28, 2026. The show highlights Wateridge’s paper works that capture erased moments from larger canvases, serving as studies for past...
PAGING DR. FEELGOOD via Perrotin, Los Angeles by Piper Olivas
PAGING DR. FEELGOOD, a pop‑up group show presented by Perrotin, opened in Los Angeles during LA Art Week, occupying the former Spago venue. The exhibition stages four thematic sections that blend bar culture, hyperreal landscapes, gender‑bending portraits, and a shrine‑like finale...
Digital Painting in LA and Beyond, the Set List
The Los Angeles event, co‑hosted by LACMA Digital Leaders and Ark/8, assembled a curated selection of works that the organizer classifies as digital painting, ranging from early Photoshop pieces to recent code‑generated art. Speakers and artists—including Bee Beep, Parker Ito, and Casey Reas—demonstrated how...
Civilization Is A Sculpture: The Art of Dustin Yellin
Brooklyn‑based artist Dustin Yellin blends painting, sculpture and collage into massive glass installations that explore civilization, migration and climate change. His twelve‑ton work “The Triptych” and the multi‑panel “Migration in Four Parts” use found objects to create hyper‑detailed, narrative‑driven scenes....
Board Updates for Rhizome’s Fourth Decade
Rhizome announced the election of artist‑designer Katherine Frazer and investor Jeannie Vu to its Board of Directors as the nonprofit enters its fourth decade. Frazer, an Apple product designer with a multidisciplinary art practice, brings expertise in user‑centered design and...
2025 Booooooom Illustration Awards Winner: Andrea Cheung
Andrea Cheung won the Editorial category of the 2025 Booooooom Illustration Awards for her piece in Our State magazine. The award, backed by Format, highlights top talent across editorial, advertising, product and student categories. Cheung’s winning illustration blends painterly realism...
Meet Cute: Collaboratove Duo DABSMYLA Communicates Through Color, Pop Culture & The Power of Piles of Cute
Australian pop‑art duo DABSMYLA, formed by Darren Mate and Emmelene Victoria, have turned a college romance into an internationally recognized brand. Their collaborative process hinges on spoken dialogue and shared sketches, producing work that feels created by a single hand....