
Trinity Fine Art will exhibit three masterworks at TEFAF Maastricht, illustrating the shift from late‑Mannerism to early Baroque. The program opens with Lavinia Fontana’s 1580 "Christ Driving the Traders from the Temple," a rare signed work by a pioneering female Old Master. Orazio Gentileschi’s 1610 "The Penitent St Jerome" bridges Mannerist training with emerging Baroque drama, while Giulio Cesare Procaccini’s c.1620 "The Holy Family" showcases intensified brushwork revealed by recent conservation. Together, the trio offers collectors a focused view of a pivotal artistic transformation.

Malaysian artist chi too, a self‑taught multidisciplinary creator, died on March 7 at age 44 in his Kuala Terengganu studio. Emerging in the late 2000s, he became a pivotal figure among young artists exploring painting, performance, video, sound and text. His practice...

Korean media artist Jeamin Cha has been awarded the 21st Hermès Foundation Missulsang. The biannual prize grants her KRW 30 million (about $200,000) and production support for a solo show at Atelier Hermès in Seoul. Cha, known for video‑based works that...

Perrotin staged an after‑party at the newly renovated W New York – Union Square to celebrate three concurrent exhibitions: Daniel Arsham’s "Various Thoughts," Gelitin’s "All for All," and Gabriel de la Mora’s "Repeated Original." The event took place in the hotel’s marble‑clad Living Room,...

Sotheby’s announced a spring auction of Robert and Adriana Mnuchin’s collection, highlighted by a monumental Mark Rothko expected to fetch $70 million‑$100 million and pushing the total sale estimate above $130 million. The auction underscores Mnuchin’s legacy in post‑war and contemporary art following...

Sotheby’s will auction 24 works from the late Robert Mnuchin collection in May, headlined by Mark Rothko’s *Brown and Blacks in Reds* with a $70‑100 million estimate. The auction follows a strong spring season for major houses: London Sotheby’s posted £130.6 million across...
Nickolas Gurtler Office partnered with Lost Profile Studio to convert a Brunswick warehouse into a contemplative gallery that showcases Oliver Wilcox’s lighting, furniture, and vintage pieces. The design draws on Carlo Scarpa’s Tomba Brion and the temporal motifs of Asimov’s...
Layla Cluer, an architect‑turned‑ceramicist, founded Softedge in 2019 after rediscovering pottery in Byron Bay. The brand produces colour‑rich, functional tableware in Hasami, Japan, leveraging the town’s 400‑year‑old divided‑labour craft system. Cluer’s design ethos blends softness, durability and a deliberate, slow‑making...

"Mary Said What She Said" is a 90‑minute avant‑garde monologue starring Isabelle Huppert as Mary Queen of Scots, staged at the Adelaide Festival. Directed and designed by the late Robert Wilson, the piece blends rapid French dialogue, pre‑recorded Ludovico Einaudi...

British post‑punk cabaret trio The Tiger Lillies performed at Adelaide Festival’s Her Majesty’s Theatre, promoting their new album Serenade from the Sewer. The act’s grotesque clown aesthetic and macabre ballads recalled Brecht‑Weill and Tom Waits, but critics found the music...

Apple and the Sydney Opera House have launched a year‑long partnership to nurture Australian creativity. The collaboration will feature a commissioned projection, "Illuminating Creativity," displaying Procreate artworks by ten emerging Australian artists on the Opera House's eastern Bennelong sails. Free...
The 25th Biennale of Sydney runs March 14‑June 14, 2026 under the theme Rememory, probing memory, history and identity through contemporary art. Eighty‑three artists from 37 countries present works ranging from large installations to multi‑channel video across five city‑wide venues. The program foregrounds First...

UK museums, long celebrated for free entry, are confronting severe financial strain as government arts funding has fallen 18% since 2010 and visitor numbers dip post‑pandemic. Major institutions such as the National Gallery face an £8.2 million deficit, prompting staff cuts...
Theo Belci’s opening‑day review of the 2026 Whitney Biennial spotlights two divergent approaches. Young Joon Kwak’s glitter‑laden chandelier is framed as Instagram‑ready spectacle, while Agosto Machado’s shrine‑like installations honor queer countercultural figures with tactile relics. Cooper Jacoby’s AI‑driven work resurrects dead social‑media personas, creating...

Catherine Opie sits down with writer Maggie Nelson for an in‑depth conversation featured in AnOther Magazine’s Spring/Summer 2026 issue. The interview, recorded at Opie’s Los Angeles studio, explores her role as a professor, queer householder, and influential photographer. Nelson probes Opie’s recent...
Five hundred artworks by England’s notorious prisoner‑artist Charles Bronson will be sold as a single lot on March 11 by David Duggleby Auctioneers. The pieces, drawn in crayon, ink and pencil on prison documents, are expected to fetch between £100,000 and £200,000. Bronson,...

Ludovic Nkoth, a Cameroonian‑born painter now based in New York, is the focus of the Flag Art Foundation’s Spotlight exhibition with his new work *Stars under the border*. The figurative canvas juxtaposes an ordinary communal gathering with barbed‑wire‑like borders, probing...

History of Violence, directed by Thomas Ostermeier, opened Adelaide Festival’s Dunstan Playhouse from Feb 27 to Mar 2, adapting Édouard Louis’s autobiographical novel. The production blends live camera feeds, black‑and‑white projections, and a percussive score to fragment the protagonist’s traumatic recollection of...

F. Scott Hess’s new painting The Dream of Art History translates a 1978 fever dream into a sprawling canvas that stitches together iconic works from the Renaissance to the present. The piece, featured in the documentary The Reluctant Realist, reflects...

Artnet’s 20th Century Art auction highlights how rarity and scarcity drive prices. Rarity, rooted in historical factors such as wartime loss and limited original production, is exemplified by Miró and Klein works. Scarcity, shaped by market dynamics, is evident in...

The new exhibition "Technologies of Relation" at MASS MoCA examines humanity’s evolving bond with artificial intelligence through a non‑binary lens that balances critique with possibility. Curator Susan Cross emphasizes agency, inviting visitors to imagine inclusive, liberatory futures rather than merely...
A nationwide roundup of creative funding and residency opportunities has been released for the week of 9‑15 March 2026. Programs span visual arts, writing, film, digital games and arts leadership, offering residencies, cash grants, scholarships and business accelerators across Victoria, Queensland, Western...
Sotheby’s will auction 24 works from the late Robert Mnuchin collection in May in New York, headlined by Mark Rothko’s 1957 canvas *Brown and Blacks in Reds* estimated at $70‑100 million, alongside a second Rothko priced at $15‑20 million. The lot also...

On March 1, a guerrilla art installation dubbed the “Jeffrey Epstein Walk of Shame” appeared in Washington’s Farragut Square. The project places waterproof stickers resembling Hollywood Walk of Fame stars on the sidewalks, each bearing the name of a high‑profile...

The LVMH Prize, now in its 2026 edition, has released its semi‑finalist roster and opened a public vote to decide which designers advance to the final round. Thousands of applicants were narrowed to 24 emerging talents, each vying for the...
The San Francisco Arts Commission voted on March 4 to keep Marco Cochrane’s 48‑foot steel‑and‑mesh nude sculpture “R‑Evolution” in Embarcadero Plaza through October 2025. The work, originally created for Burning Man in 2015, is privately funded by the Sijbrandij Foundation and...

Sofia Coppola’s 2006 film *Marie Antoinette* will be honored with a full‑scale retrospective at the Palace of Versailles, opening on September 22 2026 and running through January 24 2027. The exhibition, titled “*Marie Antoinette* by Sofia Coppola,” occupies the historic Petit Trianon and will screen key...
Lebanon’s Ministry of Culture has asked UNESCO to boost protection for its cultural heritage amid the spillover of the U.S.–Israel–Iran conflict into southern Lebanon. Minister Ghassan Salamé appealed directly to UNESCO Director‑General Khaled El‑Enany, highlighting sites such as the National...

Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite, a multi‑award‑winning figure in contemporary dance, blends massive ensemble work with intimate, emotionally resonant storytelling. Her catalog—including “Flight Pattern,” “Figures in Extinction,” and “Betroffenheit”—directly engages issues such as the refugee crisis, climate change and collective trauma....

London‑based label ADON, a largely secretive label, burst into the spotlight when Timothée Chalamet wore multiple pieces during London Fashion Week. The actor’s back‑to‑back appearances turned the brand into a viral talking point across fashion blogs and social platforms. ADON’s...

Scottsdale Art Week returns March 19‑22, 2026 for its second edition, expanding from its inaugural launch. The fair, presented by Scottsdale Ferrari, will host over 110 galleries, showcasing blue‑chip modern, contemporary, historic, Indigenous and Western works. Director Amy Gause describes...
Russia will have a presence at the 61st Venice Biennale, its first since canceling the pavilion in 2022 after the Ukraine invasion. The exhibition, titled “The Tree Is Rooted in the Sky,” features over fifty musicians, poets and philosophers from...

MoMA has launched a limited-edition line of six Converse All Star LGCY HI sneakers, positioning the footwear as a museum‑curated art object. The shoes feature bold color combinations, the museum’s logo embroidered on the heel, and uppers made entirely from...
The Watermill Center announced Charles Chemin as its new artistic director, succeeding founder Robert Wilson after Wilson’s death last August. Chemin, a Paris‑born protégé of Wilson, has directed the Center’s International Summer Program since 2020 and collaborated on more than twenty...

Christie’s is set to sell a $450 million tranche of S.I. Newhouse’s estate in May, featuring 35‑40 works including a Jackson Pollock drip painting and a Constantin Brâncuși bronze, each estimated at $100 million. The collection also contains pieces by Picasso, Jasper Johns and...

Mugler’s Autumn‑Winter 2026 runway in Paris, staged by creative director Miguel Castro Freitas, delivered a nostalgic yet forward‑looking spectacle. The show was framed as the second act of a three‑part "Trilogy of Glorified" narrative, echoing the brand’s 1990s excess while injecting...
In February, The Washington Post eliminated its entire arts and culture desk, including full‑time theatre critic Naveen Kumar, leaving Washington, D.C. without a dedicated regional theatre reviewer. Freelance pieces now fill the void, but coverage remains sparse. Thirty‑three local theatres...

Loewe’s Fall/Winter 2026‑2027 runway in Paris featured a collaboration with Cologne artist Cosima von Bonin, whose plush octopus and other animal sculptures transformed the Château de Vincennes set. Creative directors Jack McCollough and Lázaro Hernández integrated the menagerie into garments, accessories, and...

India’s artisanal menswear scene has vaulted onto the global stage, led by 25‑year‑old designer Kartik Kumra’s Kartik Research, which debuted at Paris Fashion Week and opened a New York flagship. The label’s embroidered shirts and linen pants, made in India,...

The Art Newspaper’s weekly podcast covered three major art stories: the escalating war in the Middle East and its impact on regional tourism, the opening of the 2026 Whitney Biennial in New York, and the authentication of Rembrandt’s “The Vision...

Russia will return to the Venice Biennale for the first time since its 2022 invasion, presenting a three‑day festival of folklore and world music titled “The tree is rooted in the sky.” The pavilion, organized by cultural envoy Mikhail Shvydkoy...

Cecilie Bahnsen’s Autumn/Winter 2026 collection draws directly from contemporary dance, partnering with former La Horde performer Myrto Georgiadi to infuse the brand’s romantic silhouettes with kinetic fluidity. The runway pieces feature layered tulle, pleated organza and soft drapery that appear...

Taiwanese artist Su Yu‑Xin presents “Afterstone” at Lo Studio in Venice. The show features about fifteen paintings and more than a dozen wax‑based sculptures that use hand‑ground pigments sourced from Pacific coastal soils, minerals and shells. By treating colour as...

Casa Caetés, designed by Gabriel Rodrigues Grinspum, is a 243 m² three‑story residence built on an urban mixed‑use lot for a large family of seven. The compact layout separates work, social, and intimate zones across street‑level, semi‑buried, and upper floors, integrating...

The Korea Arts Management Service and ArtReview hosted a special screening at Art Basel Hong Kong titled “Life as a System: Time, Labor, and Storytelling in Contemporary Moving Image.” The program featured Ayoung Kim’s AI‑enhanced film Al‑Mather Plot 1991 and ikkibawiKrrr’s...

The Society of Illustrators featured Deb JJ Lee in a March 4 2026 spotlight, showcasing fifteen distinct images that range from still‑life compositions to fan‑art tributes to films like *Perfect Blue* and *Howl’s Moving Castle*. The visual set highlights Lee’s ability to...

AnOther Magazine’s “AnOther Thing I Wanted to Tell You …” portrait series celebrates 25 years of chronicling cultural icons, and the Spring/Summer 2026 issue expands the legacy with 24 new images. Renowned photographer Mark Peckmezian directs the visual narrative, featuring...

Rick Owens’ Autumn/Winter 2026 womenswear show, titled "Tower," draws direct inspiration from Hollywood legend Marlene Dietrich. Owens describes his fascination with "artifice," channeling the actress’s iconic fur silhouettes into avant‑garde garments. The collection features water‑jet‑cut goat‑hide fur coats, sculptural silhouettes,...

The "Future Schools" exhibition at the National Academy of Design spotlights a growing crisis in U.S. art education, where faculty departures, funding cuts, and a shift toward contingent staffing threaten departmental stability. Artists like Chloë Bass draw on Joseph Beuys’s...

Alexander Butyagin, senior archaeologist at the State Hermitage Museum, was arrested in Warsaw at Ukraine’s request for illegal excavations in Crimea and the seizure of thirty gold coins, including items bearing Alexander the Great’s name. Polish courts have extended his detention...