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 cards sold over 300 million copies, cementing his commercial impact. Today, filmmakers, authors and designers cite his surreal, color‑rich canvases as a core influence on contemporary fantasy and design.
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...
A ‘Massive Bed’ Is the Star Of This Art-Filled Seoul Hotel Suite
RYSE Hotel in Seoul’s Hongdae district has turned its Curator Suite 1503 into an immersive art experience, anchored by the colossal BED 2525 installation. The bed, conceived by Brooklyn‑based collective MSCHF, debuted in February 2025 and stretches over two and...
Pro-Putin Supporter Ildar Abdrazakov Named Artistic Director of the Mikhailovsky Theatre
Renowned bass Ildar Abdrazakov, a vocal supporter of President Vladimir Putin, has been appointed artistic director of the St. Petersburg State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater – the Mikhailovsky Theatre. He announced the role on social media, thanking Governor Alexander Beglov...
Awards Season and the Management of Cultural Power
Award season has evolved from a series of discrete events into a continuous spectacle that prioritizes visibility over material support. While legacy programs like Creative Capital and the MacArthur Fellowship provide long‑term resources, newer prize formats tied to fairs and...
Snuffboxes Stolen in Paris Daylight Robbery to Go on Display at V&A
Two 18th‑century gold snuffboxes stolen from the Musée Cognacq‑Jay in November 2024 have been recovered and will debut in the Victoria and Albert Museum’s newly opened Gilbert Galleries. The robbery, which claimed seven precious objects, triggered a multi‑national police investigation...
How Goodland and Sculptor Trent Hutton Embedded a Wood Fired Hot Tub in Stone
Goodland partnered with sculptor Trent Hutton to embed its wood‑fired hot tub inside a concrete rock sculpture on Bowen Island. Hutton used his signature landscape‑inspired concrete technique, leaving a hollow core for the tub with only minor adjustments to the...
Merging Craft Practices and New Media at the Museum of Craft and Design
The Museum of Craft and Design in San Francisco is hosting "Video Craft," an exhibition that runs through August 16, 2026, exploring the overlap between video, film, and early moving‑image technologies and traditional craft media such as ceramics, textiles, and...
Rare ‘Jungle Book’ Illustrations Surge Past Estimates at Auction
Two long‑overlooked watercolors, identified as original 1903 illustrations by Edward Julius and Charles Maurice Detmold for Rudyard Kipling’s *The Jungle Book*, were sold at Roseberys in London on March 10. The pair fetched a combined £130,480 ($174,940), far exceeding their presale...
Veteran Hong Kong Curator Tobias Berger on Asia’s Next-Generation Foundations
Veteran curator Tobias Berger has moved from senior public‑sector roles at M+ and Tai Kwun to co‑found Serakai Studio and advise the Tanoto Art Foundation. Both organisations act as rapid‑decision, experimental labs that span Hong Kong, Tokyo, Bangkok and Singapore, emphasizing regional production...
Tefaf Maastricht: Exhibitions to See Beyond the Fair
The Tefaf Maastricht fair is complemented by a slate of high‑profile exhibitions across the Netherlands and Belgium, including the Mauritshuis’s “Birds” show, the Rijksmuseum’s “Metamorphoses”, Museum Ludwig’s Yayoi Kusama retrospective, and the Bonnefanten Museum’s “Four Times Two”. Each exhibition pairs historic...
Thoroughly Modern Tefaf: Why the Maastricht Fair Is Embracing the 20th Century
Tefaf Maastricht returned this March as a premier art fair blending 7,000 years of objects with a pronounced 20th‑century emphasis. The show hosted 276 exhibitors, spotlighting photography, modern prints and newly restituted Old Master works, while maintaining its classic Old Masters...
New York’s Independent Fair Reveals 76 Exhibitors for First Edition at Pier 36
New York’s Independent art fair returns for its 17th edition, moving from Spring Studios to the larger Pier 36 venue. The fair will host 76 exhibitors, with nearly half presenting for the first time and a third offering solo debut shows...
Is Most Art Now Just Too Expensive for Most People?
The high‑end art market is rebounding, highlighted by a $900 million Sotheby’s securitisation and record‑price sales at Art Basel Qatar. Yet overall sales have flat‑lined since the 2007‑08 crisis, with galleries closing and many collectors hesitant. A looming $16 trillion wealth transfer...
Luxembourg’s Culture Minister Defends Country’s Venice Biennale Budget After Critics Say It’s Too High
Luxembourg is spending €540,000 on its Venice Biennale pavilion, featuring Aline Bouvy’s provocative "La Merde" installation. The budget sparked criticism from the right‑wing ADR, which called the cost excessive amid fiscal pressures. Culture Minister Éric Thill defended the expenditure, citing...
Works by Auerbach, Chadwick, and Hepworth to Spearhead Christie’s Modern British and Irish Art Sale in London
Christie’s London is set for its modern British and Irish art auction on March 18, featuring 26 works anchored by Frank Auerbach, Lynn Chadwick and Barbara Hepworth. Auerbach’s 2004‑05 ‘Christmas Tree at Mornington Crescent’ carries a £2 million high estimate, while Chadwick’s...
Sisters, Saints and Sibyls: Nan Goldin’s Ode to ‘Rebellious Sisters’
Nan Goldin’s new photobook *Sisters, Saints and Sibyls* revisits her early life through a collage of hospital reports, family snapshots and her own images. The work serves as an origin story, honoring her elder sister Barbara, who was institutionalised at...
Indonesia Returns to Venice Biennale for 2026 Edition
Indonesia will re‑enter the Venice Biennale for its 61st edition in 2026, ending a six‑year absence since the 2019 "Lost Verses" pavilion. Curated by art critic Aminudin TH Siregar, the show – titled "Printing the Unprinted" – will juxtapose historic...
Vivid Sydney 2026 Program Revealed
Vivid Sydney 2026 will run from 22 May to 13 June, delivering a 23‑day festival that blends light, music, food and new artistic disciplines. More than 80 percent of the program, including the 6.5‑kilometre Vivid Light Walk, remains free to the public. Brett Sheehy...
Humans Since 1982 Reimagines ClockClock 24
Stockholm studio Humans since 1982, famed for kinetic clock sculptures, has partnered with Bjarke Ingels Group and stone supplier SolidNature to reimagine its ClockClock 24 and A million Times 96 works in travertine. The ClockClock 24 features 24 synchronized dials on a 92 × 42 cm slab, limited...
At Making Their Mark Forum, Art Figures Debate Gender Inequities in the Market and the Museum
The Making Their Mark forum gathered 350 art professionals to confront persistent gender inequities in museums and the market. Data presented showed women accounted for only 11% of museum acquisitions from 2008‑2022 and sold at 19‑42% discounts compared with male...
New Public Art Biennial to Take over Dallas’s Urban Greenbelt Park
Texas will host its first public‑art biennial, the KTX Biennial, launching in spring 2027 along Dallas’s 3.5‑mile Katy Trail. Curated by Jovanna Venegas, the free, 18‑month exhibition will feature nearly a dozen works from global contemporary artists and coincide with the...
Chicago, Meet Your New ‘Neighbors’: Expo Gets a New Satellite Fair, In a Luxe Gold Coast Apartment
Mirka Serrato and London gallerist Jonny Tanna are launching Neighbors, a micro‑art fair that will occupy a 1,200‑square‑foot Gold Coast apartment during Expo Chicago (April 8‑12). The intimate venue, once owned by the Goodman family, will host a curated mix of...
Alma Allen Joins Perrotin After Split With Previous Galleries
Sculptor Alma Allen has signed with mega‑gallery Perrotin as he prepares to represent the United States at the 2026 Venice Biennale. The move follows a split with his former representatives, Mendes Wood DM and Olney Gleason, who dropped him after he accepted...
RISING 2026 Is Dominated by Dance and Contemporary Music
Melbourne’s winter festival RISING returns from 27 May to 8 June 2026 with a program dominated by contemporary dance and music. The inaugural Australian Dance Biennale anchors the dance lineup, featuring works from Oona Doherty, the Royal Family Dance Crew’s Polyswagg style, and a...
A Powerful Medieval Queen Returns—As an A.I. Avatar You Can Chat With
Leeds Castle in Kent has launched an interactive AI avatar of Eleanor of Castile, the 13th‑century queen who once owned the property. The digital figure, created with SKC Studios, can answer visitor questions and reacts to people approaching its screen....
This Basquiat Last Sold for $14.5 Million. Now It Could Fetch $45 Million
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s 1983 painting *Museum Security (Broadway Meltdown)* will be auctioned by Sotheby’s in May with a $45 million estimate, more than triple its 2013 sale price of $14.5 million. The work, created during Basquiat’s breakout year in Los Angeles, explores fame, power,...
CARNAL KNOWLEDGE
Angelo Madsen’s 2025 documentary *A Body to Live In* chronicles the life of Roland Loomis, better known as Fakir Musafar, the self‑styled “Modern Primitive” who pioneered contemporary body‑modification and ritualized pain. The film weaves archival footage, Musafar’s own photography, and interviews...
Michael Joo Looks Back On His Career, With Another Venice Biennale Appearance on the Horizon
Michael Joo’s retrospective "Sweat Models 1991–2026" opened at Space ZeroOne, centering on the installation Concatenations built from a century of New York baking trays and archival ephemera. The show revisits his early biology‑infused practice while confronting a recent mishap in...