
Penguin Modern Classics has reissued Robert Plunket’s cult novel *Love Junkie*, bringing the 1992 satire of New York’s 70s‑80s gay scene back into the spotlight. The novel follows suburban housewife Mimi Smithers as she navigates a world of hustlers, sexual obsession, and the emerging AIDS crisis. Plunket, once a fixture of the Manhattan gay nightlife, has seen his work revived after decades out of print, and he is now working on new fiction. The reissue highlights a growing market for rediscovered queer literature.

Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s *SHOOT* zine series, first issued between 2005 and 2007, has been reissued as a new publication that revisits his early erotic photography. The original zines were born out of a DIY urgency, offering a tangible alternative to...

Belgian designer Dries Van Noten sparked controversy by featuring schoolchildren in his AW26 lookbook dressed in outfits that deliberately broke traditional uniform codes. The images, shot in a British boarding school, showcase vibrant layering, bold prints, and oversized silhouettes that...
The Brant Foundation opens a Keith Haring exhibition in its East Village gallery from March 11 to May 31, 2026, spotlighting the artist’s breakthrough period between 1980 and 1983. Nine monumental works and eight surviving subway chalk drawings illustrate Haring’s transition from...

The Woman Question 1550‑2025, curated by Alison M. Gingeras at Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art, assembles nearly 200 works by about 140 women artists spanning five centuries. The exhibition juxtaposes historic figures like Artemisia Gentileschi with contemporary voices from Ukraine, mapping a continuous...
Print Center New York’s inaugural monographic show, “Anima,” surveys Brooklyn‑based artist Felipe Baeza’s printmaking practice, presenting over 40 works created across a 15‑year span. Baeza blends traditional techniques such as lithography and woodcut with collage, abrasion, and pigment staining, treating...
Later this month, the Narungga‑led performance Guuranda X KMMC will debut in Chennai, India, marking the first public presentation of the Narungga language on the subcontinent. The three‑day event blends theatre, song, puppetry and dance, and will be livestreamed globally on 22 March....

Creative Australia’s Asia Pacific Arts Awards were held in Perth on 23 February, awarding $25,000 cash prizes across six categories to artists, collectives and organisations with strong diaspora ties. The ceremony, staged at Western Australia’s Government House, underscored the role...

Tyshawn Sorey delivered a one‑off, hour‑long solo piano improvisation at Adelaide Festival’s historic Her Majesty’s Theatre. The performance, titled *Tyshawn Sorey: Alone*, merged Impressionist textures, free‑jazz intensity, and avant‑garde sonorities into a continuous wave of sound. Sorey, a Pulitzer‑Prize‑winning, McArthur...
The Royal Ontario Museum has appointed Nicholas R. Bell as its new director and CEO, effective July 6. Bell comes from a successful tenure at Calgary’s Glenbow Museum, where he launched a $250 million renovation campaign and created an endowment for free...

The Thursday "Required Reading" roundup spotlights a spectrum of art‑driven projects that blur the line between exhibition, activism and commerce. Maryam Eskandari’s MAK Center reading room repositions books as spatial infrastructure, while Kimberly Dawn Robertson’s bead‑bombs use slow, labor‑intensive craft...

Phillips' London modern and contemporary evening sale generated £13 million ($17.3 million), 16% lower than the comparable auction last year. The two leading lots—Andy Warhol’s 1973 *Mao* and Vilhelm Hammershøi’s 1900 interior scene—each fetched £1.6 million, matching premiums. Danish painter Anna Ancher set a new record...
The Whitney Biennial and MoMA PS1’s Greater New York both feature Taína H. Cruz, a 1998‑born Yale MFA graduate, as a prominent young painter. Her green‑tinged portrait of a smiling child is displayed on a billboard in the Meatpacking District, making her the visual...

Antonin Tron, founder of the avant‑garde label Atlein, made his first appearance as Balmain's creative director with the Autumn/Winter 2026 collection. The runway merged historic fabrics—such as 80‑year‑old silk velvet—with futuristic, tech‑infused tailoring, creating a narrative that feels both nostalgic...

Two decades after a daring heist at Rio de Janeiro's Museu da Chácara do Céu, Brazil's statute of limitations has expired, shielding the thieves of five high‑profile works from prison. The stolen pieces include Monet's *Marine*, Matisse's *Le Jardin du...

The Kunstmuseum Den Haag is showcasing *Can Love Be A Photograph – 40 Years of Inez & Vinoodh*, a thematic retrospective that spans four decades of the Dutch duo’s work. Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin pioneered digital manipulation in...

Pace Gallery Berlin will present a comprehensive David Lynch exhibition from January 29 to March 29, 2026, assembling paintings, sculptures, watercolors, early short films, and a series of Berlin photographs. The show underscores Lynch’s long‑standing commitment to material experimentation, from his 1967 “moving...
Finnair has launched a bespoke in‑flight soundscape composed by Finnish composer Lauri Porra, featuring a 12‑track, 45‑minute orchestral suite. The music is timed to each stage of the journey—from boarding to landing—and incorporates traditional Finnish instruments such as the kantele and...
Matter and Shape 2026, a Paris design salon, spotlights the theme of scale, juxtaposing industry giants that account for roughly 15 % of the €470 billion global furniture market with boutique studios whose collectible pieces are achieving record prices, such as a...

R. Crumb’s solo show "There’s No End to the Nonsense" opened at David Zwirner in London, spanning two floors and works from the 1960s to 2025. The exhibition places his notorious crude, sexual imagery beside more tender, humanistic pieces, presenting the...

François Ghebaly New York presents John Rivas' second solo show, "Rise above it," marking his debut at the gallery’s Lower East Side space. The exhibition features eleven mixed‑media sculptures that extend Rivas' signature assemblage practice into hand‑carved, painted wood, inspired...

London’s V&A, in partnership with QAGOMA, will open the "Rising Voices" exhibition in May, showcasing more than 70 works by over 40 contemporary artists from 25 Asia‑Pacific countries. The show pulls from three decades of the Asia Pacific Triennial, presenting...

Parrtjima Festival returns to Alice Springs from 10‑19 April 2026 for its 11th edition, centering on the theme “Language.” The free, all‑ages event will showcase more than 36 First Nations artists and over 50 performers across light installations, workshops, music and storytelling....

Several major cultural venues in Beirut, including the Sursock Museum and Beirut Art Center, have halted public programming as the Israel‑Hezbollah confrontation intensifies. The conflict, sparked by Hezbollah’s March 1 rocket launch, prompted Israeli airstrikes that have killed at least 72...
Canadian actor‑filmmaker Elle‑Máijá Tailfeathers is returning her Toronto Film Critics Association (TFCA) award after the organization cut the portion of her acceptance video that expressed support for Palestine. TFCA president Johanna Schneller said the edit was for timing but announced...

David Zwirner’s New York show spotlights William Eggleston’s 1973 “Untitled” photograph, a vivid blue‑hued counterpart to his iconic “Red Ceiling.” Both images were created with Eggleston’s signature dye‑transfer process, a labor‑intensive technique discontinued by Kodak in 1994. The article frames the blue...
Claude Parent, once a disciple of Le Corbusier, forged a radical architectural language centered on the “Fonction Oblique,” which replaces orthogonal stability with inclined planes that demand bodily engagement. In the 1960s he co‑founded the avant‑garde group Architecture Principe with Paul Virilio, publishing manifestos...

Junior creative Lola Delafuente highlights the stark gap between university training and the realities of agency work, noting that academic portfolios lack commercial context. She argues that unpaid placements and low entry‑level pay filter out diverse talent, especially women, and...
London’s Serpentine curator Kostas Stasinopoulos has been named director of exhibitions and programs for Kyklos, a new art and culture centre slated to open in Piraeus in 2028. Kyklos, funded by the Dinos and Lia Martinos Foundation, will be Greece’s...
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...
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 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...

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 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: 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,...

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’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...
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...
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...

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,...
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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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:...

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...
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...
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...