At the Indian Pavilion in Venice, Home Is Unfixed
After a seven‑year hiatus, the Indian Pavilion reopens at the Venice Biennale with the exhibition “Geographies of Distance: Remembering Home.” Curated by Alma Feigis, five artists interrogate home as a mutable construct shaped by mobility, material practice, and the interplay of permanence and impermanence. Their works employ discarded cardboard, papier‑mâché, natural pigments, soil, bamboo and embroidery to reconstruct fragmented memories of Ladakh, Delhi, Tamil Nadu and transnational lives. The biennale’s temporary community further amplifies dialogue on migration, sustainability and gendered craft hierarchies.
Lubaina Himid on Capturing the 'Uneasiness' Of Britain for Her Venice Biennale Pavilion
British artist Lubaina Himid, a Turner‑Prize winner and Black Arts Movement pioneer, is representing the United Kingdom at the Venice Biennale. Her pavilion, titled *Predicting History: Testing Translation*, deliberately creates a sense of national unease, juxtaposing everyday British calm with...
New Zealand's Venice Biennale Pavilion Explores the Secret Life of Birds
New Zealand returned to the Venice Biennale in 2025 with photographer Fiona Pardington’s solo pavilion, *Taharaki Skyside*. The exhibition features 17 towering taxidermied birds, including the extinct whēkau and the critically endangered kākāpō, which number only about 235 individuals. Pardington frames the...
The Holy See Pavilion Asks Venice Biennale Visitors to Slow Down Listen, and Other News.
The Holy See’s pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale launches a multi‑sensory show called “The Ear is the Eye of the Soul,” featuring 24 artists such as Patti Smith, Brian Eno and FKA twigs. Chanel and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation unveil a one‑year transatlantic...
Is It an Art Gallery? A Museum? A Theater? A Dream?
The Ministry of Awe, a $10 million immersive art complex, opened in March inside a renovated 19th‑century Philadelphia bank. Co‑founders Meg Saligman and Lizzie Kripke transformed the six‑story, 8,500‑square‑foot space with contributions from more than 100 local artists. Visitors pay $29.99...
Indonesian Artist Dian Suci Wins Max Mara Art Prize for Women
Indonesian artist Dian Suci has been named the winner of the 10th Max Mara Art Prize for Women, a program that has traditionally supported emerging female creators in the UK. The prize is expanding its reach by partnering with Jakarta’s Museum...
The Other Side of Me Review: Superb Dance Production Is ‘Like Riding a Wave’
The Other Side of Me, choreographed by Larrakia artist Gary Lang, returns to the Sydney Opera House, dramatizing the Stolen Generation through a blend of movement, sound and visual projection. The piece follows two Northern Territory brothers taken from their...
Meet the Members: Greg Eldridge, Opera Director
Greg Eldridge, a Melbourne‑born director of music‑based theatre, has helmed more than 80 productions in 14 countries, spanning opera and musical theatre. He previously taught directing in the United States and served on the board of Stage Directors UK, while...
Zegna Champions Art, Sustainability at Venice Biennale
Ermenegildo Zegna is the main sponsor of the Italian Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale, showcasing the “Con te con tutto” project by Chiara Camoni. The sculptures blend earth, ash and minerals from Oasi Zegna with yarns produced at Lanificio Zegna, highlighting the brand’s material heritage. Zegna...
Glorious Country — Frederic Church, America’s Painter of the Sublime
Victoria Johnson’s new biography *Glorious Country* chronicles Frederic Church, the 19th‑century Hudson River School titan whose sweeping landscapes brought distant wonders like the Andes and Niagara Falls to a hungry American public. The book details Church’s globe‑spanning expeditions, his blockbuster...
Game Set Match Review: Love All?
Malthouse Theatre’s new work *Game. Set. Match*—written, directed and performed by Gamilaroi artist Megan Wilding—opens in Melbourne’s Beckett space, blending a tennis‑themed romance with a dark, genre‑shifting thriller. The production follows CFO Joshua and Wilding’s character Ray as their flirtatious...
The Art World This Week: Venice Biennale Jury Resigns, Artworks Behind Met Gala Looks, and More
The Venice Biennale’s jury stepped down after the organization announced it would exclude artists from nations whose leaders face crimes‑against‑humanity accusations, sparking protests that briefly shut the Russian pavilion. At the same time, the Met Gala showcased eight looks directly...
New Louvre Chief Christophe Leribault Reveals His Vision for the Museum Post-Heist
The Louvre will reopen the Apollo Gallery in July, but without the Sun King’s mineral‑laden display cases, which are being moved to the Richelieu wing. New director Christophe Leribault, a former Versailles president, envisions the space as a Hall of...
Israeli Pavilion Artist Made Legal Threats Before Venice Biennale Jury Resigned
Israeli pavilion artist Belu‑Simion Fainaru filed legal warnings alleging antisemitism and nationality‑based discrimination after the Venice Biennale awards jury announced it would exclude Israel and Russia. The threat of litigation coincided with the women‑led jury’s abrupt resignation, prompting the Biennale...
Manhattan D.A.’s Office Returns More Than 650 Looted Artifacts to India
On April 28 Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg announced the return of 657 looted antiquities to India, valued at roughly $14 million. The artifacts, including a $2 million bronze Avalokiteshvara and a $7.5 million sandstone Buddha, were seized by the DA’s Antiquities...
Jeffrey Gibson: More Colors than The Eye Can See
Jeffrey Gibson, a Choctaw‑Cherokee artist, uses dreams, spirituality, and interdisciplinary media to create immersive installations. In 2024 he became the first Indigenous artist to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale with "the space in which to place me,"...
The Many Controversies Dogging This Year’s Venice Biennale
The 2026 Venice Biennale, the world’s premier international art exhibition, is opening amid a cascade of controversies. Critics have highlighted opaque funding from state sponsors, accusations of censorship over politically charged works, and protests linking the event to climate inaction....
A Vienna Theater Opens Its Prized Klimt Ceiling Paintings to Tours During Restoration
Vienna’s historic Burgtheater has opened its ten Klimt ceiling paintings to guided tours while the works undergo a meticulous restoration. The project gives the public its first close‑up access to Gustav Klimt’s only self‑portrait, which hangs 60 feet above the stairwell,...
Assassin's Creed Is Being Adapted for Theatre by a Former Cirque Du Soleil Director, Offering Two Hours of Parkour Across...
Ubisoft is turning its Assassin’s Creed franchise into a live‑action stage production called Heredis: Echoes of the Past. The two‑hour show, directed by former Cirque du Soleil and Olympic ceremony veteran Sébastien Soldevila, combines parkour, acrobatics and choreographed combat across...
Malaysia Showcases Recovered 1MDB Artworks, From Picasso to Miró
Malaysia publicly displayed four artworks recovered from the 1MDB fraud at the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission headquarters in Putrajaya. The pieces—by Picasso, Miró, Balthus and Maurice Utrillo—were repatriated from New York in April and are collectively valued at roughly $198,000, a...
Culture in Bloom: Three Museums to Visit in Tokyo This Spring
Tokyo’s spring cultural calendar now features three standout venues. The Edo‑Tokyo Museum reopened after a four‑year overhaul, with OMA revitalising its historic halls through immersive projections and restored artifacts that trace four centuries of city life. Mon Takanawa, Kengo Kuma’s...
Steel And Shadows Converge in “Larry Kagan: Men”
Louis K. Meisel Gallery will present Larry Kagan’s new exhibition “Men” from May 9 to June 20 in New York. Kagan, an engineer‑turned‑sculptor, creates steel assemblages that cast precise shadow images when illuminated from calculated angles, merging solid form with illusion. The...
Sung Tieu on Representing Germany at the 61st Venice Biennale
Sung Tieu, alongside Henrike Naumann, will represent Germany at the 61st Venice Biennale in the Giardini pavilion. In his interview, Tieu ties his installation to Gehrenseestrasse, a former workers’ housing block that now symbolizes Berlin’s layered memory. He denounces the...
This ICA Exhibition Skewers Art’s Culture of Capitalism
The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) has opened “Genuine Fake Premium Economy,” a three‑artist show featuring Jenna Bliss, Buck Ellison, and Jasmine Gregory. Curator Nicole Leong says the exhibition spotlights the art world’s lingering greed and the unsustainable boom of...
Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Unveils First 'Star Wars' Exhibition
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles has launched its inaugural cinema exhibition, "Star Wars in Motion," ahead of the museum’s September 22 opening. The show features iconic props such as Luke Skywalker’s Landspeeder and General Grievous’ Wheel...
The Artists Finally Finding Fame in Their 80s
Virginia Jaramillo, 87, unveiled her new Point Omega canvases at Frieze New York, marking a rare large‑scale solo presentation for the minimalist painter. The fair also highlighted senior creators Antoni Miralda, Akinsanya Kambon and Sara Flores, each showcasing work that blends decades‑long practice...
In a Splendid Venetian Palazzo, Artist Sanya Kantarovsky Captures a Poetic Cast of Enigmatic Figures
Russian‑born, New York‑based artist Sanya Kantarovsky opens his solo exhibition “Basic Failure” at Venice’s historic Palazzo Loredan, coinciding with the 2026 Venice Art Biennale. The show runs from May 6 to November 22, 2026, and features paintings, ceramics and a Murano‑glass sculpture that interrogate...
Stealing Into the Night On Osmosis by April Liu
The Flohaus Gallery has launched "Osmosis," a multidisciplinary exhibition curated by Jinyi Freya Xu and Luman Jiang. The show features works by Kyung Kim, Bingyi Zhang, Xingze Li, Joy Li, Guo Tongtong and Yu Ruo‑Jie, each exploring invisible forces through poetry, perception and everyday materials. Installations range from dye‑sublimated...
Illustrations by Priya Kuriyan on Display at Lightroom
Children’s bookstore Lightroom in Bengaluru’s Cooke Town is showcasing 24 original illustrations by acclaimed children’s book artist Priya Kuriyan. The exhibit, running until May 15, features hand‑painted works from titles such as “Beauty is Missing” and “I am So Sleepy,” and includes limited‑edition prints for...
Why Is Beeple So Successful?
Mike Winkelmann, known as Beeple, catapulted into the upper echelons of the art market when his NFT collage “Everydays: The First 5000 Days” sold for $69.3 million at Christie’s in 2021, making him the third‑most‑expensive living artist. His recent exhibition “Regular...
Miet Warlop on Representing Belgium at the 61st Venice Biennale
Miet Warlop is representing Belgium at the 61st Venice Biennale, with the pavilion located in the Giardini. His project fuses performance, percussive music, sculpture and spatial design to create an introspective communal environment, inspired by Venice’s off‑tourist artistic circles. Warlop...
At Home at Hong Kong Art Week
Hong Kong’s Art Week, anchored by Art Basel, has spilled into unconventional venues, turning a suburban living room and The Peninsula hotel into immersive art‑design experiments. Lebanese composer Tarek Atoui re‑imagined a domestic space as a sound instrument, while Angel...
Russian Dissident Art Is Back On View In New York (Not Moscow)
The Ethan Cohen Gallery in Manhattan is showcasing solo exhibitions by Russian dissident artists Marat Guelman and Vitaly Komar through May 30. Guelman's show, "First Of All It’s Beautiful," features AI‑rendered mushroom‑cloud images that mock Putin’s nuclear rhetoric, while Komar's "Three...
Does Great Art Require Solitude?
At Frieze New York, Ulrik presents the late Bettina Grossman’s work, created during decades of self‑imposed isolation in the Chelsea Hotel’s room 503. Grossman’s serial, hypnotic photographs and sculptures illustrate how solitude can sharpen an artist’s observational rigor. The show is...
KinderKunstLabor for Contemporary Art / Schenker Salvi Weber Architekten
The KinderKunstLabor is the world’s first laboratory where children directly engage with contemporary art. Commissioned by municipal and state authorities, the project began with only a working title, forcing architects Schenker Salvi Weber to invent a new building typology. From day one...
Atong Atem Readies for Her First Major Survey Exhibition at NGV
Melbourne‑based South Sudanese photographer Atong Atem will present her first major solo exhibition, "Passage: The Art of Atong Atem," at the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia from 30 October 2026 to 2 May 2027. The survey features more than 65 works, including new pieces...
The Artist Population of Greater Sydney Is Shrinking – and Becoming Less Culturally Diverse
Between 2011 and 2021 the professional artist population in Greater Sydney fell 17%, even as overall employment rose 20%. The decline was uniform across all Sydney regions, contradicting the belief that artists are simply moving to the western suburbs. Racial...
Los Angeles, California Avital Burg's Mercurial Flower Show in Los Angeles by Lyle Zimskind
Brooklyn‑born painter Avital Burg presents "Mercurial Flower Show" at Los Angeles’ Nazarian Curcio, featuring fourteen large‑scale oil and oil‑stick works that capture wildflowers foraged from Crown Heights streets. The paintings explode with thick impasto, revealing underlying sketches and occasional abstract...
Anduba Launches Seven-Pattern Collection with Indigenous Artists
Anduba, a Denver startup founded in 2025, launched its first wallcovering line, The Brave Ones, featuring patterns created by Indigenous artists from Brazil, Mexico and the United States. The company uses a royalty‑based partnership that lets artists keep copyright and...
Fondazione Vico Magistretti Connects the Prolific Designer’s Legacy with Students and Art Lovers Alike
The Fondazione Vico Magistretti, led by the designer’s granddaughter Margherita Pellino, safeguards an extensive archive of Vico Magistretti’s work and opens it to students and design enthusiasts. The foundation curates thematic exhibitions, such as the upcoming "Vico Magistretti and Japan"...
Giangiacomo Rossetti Paints Venice Blue
Italian painter Giangiacomo Rossetti is set to debut a major solo exhibition, *The Dead*, at the Venice Biennale. The show features his largest works yet, including a monumental canvas that reinterprets a 2018 piece and a series of blue‑toned monotypes...
Why Wynton Marsalis Thinks Jazz Is the Perfect Metaphor for Democracy
Renowned trumpeter Wynton Marsalis has unveiled "JazzCall for Freedom," a multipart initiative that pairs short video performances of classic jazz pieces with contemporary civic commentary. The project invites established and emerging musicians to record clips that echo current social and political...
Amy Sherald Dresses as Her Own Painting for Art-Themed Met Gala
Amy Sherald arrived at the 2026 Met Gala in a Thom Browne dress that mirrored her 2013 portrait "Miss Everything," turning the red‑carpet into a living artwork. The Costume Institute’s "Fashion Is Art" theme highlighted the new 12,000‑square‑foot galleries opening with the "Costume Art"...
Anish Kapoor Condemns Inclusion of US in Venice Biennale
British‑Indian sculptor Anish Kapoor has publicly urged the exclusion of the United States from the 2026 Venice Biennale, condemning what he calls the nation’s “abhorrent politics of hate and its incessant warmongering.” The call follows a mass resignation of the Biennale’s...
Siteless Athens Arts Institution NEON Closing After 14 Years
NEON, the sit‑less Athens arts institution founded by billionaire collector Dimitris Daskalopoulos in 2012, announced it will close after fourteen years of operation. The organization never owned a permanent venue, instead staging forty‑four exhibitions in museums, archaeological sites and public...
A Landmark Benjamin Franklin Collection Is Hitting the Auction Block
A 150‑item Benjamin Franklin collection assembled by sports mogul Jay Snider will be auctioned at Sotheby’s New York on June 24, with a full catalogue valued between $3 million and $4.5 million. The lot includes a 1758 letter to Joseph Galloway, a bound set...
After the Afterparty: Berlin Art Tests Its Pulse During Gallery Weekend
Berlin’s annual Gallery Weekend proved the city’s art scene remains resilient despite recent funding cuts and heightened government censorship. Highlights included Alex Heide’s immersive photography at the new Klix space, a secret‑invite opening at CHB Fine Arts, and politically charged...
New Flagship Space for SAMoCA Announced As Part of Saudi Vision 2030
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, via the Diriyah Company, has pledged a $490 million grant to build a new flagship space for the Saudi Arabia Museum of Contemporary Art (SAMoCA). The 77,000 square‑meter (≈19 acre) museum will be designed by Godwin Austen Johnson...
The Art That Inspired the 2026 Met Gala Red Carpet
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute launched the 2026 Met Gala with the theme “Fashion Is Art,” linking runway couture to fine‑art expression. The accompanying “Costume Art” exhibition, opening May 10, explores the classical, overlooked, and universal bodies, highlighting clothing’s...
The Price Points Powering the Art Market
The $1‑$10 million price segment proved the strongest in 2025, delivering $3.5 billion in sales, a 20.8 % increase over 2024. The $100 000‑$1 million bracket posted $3.2 billion, up 6 %, while the >$10 million tier surged 36.1 % to $2.3 billion, highlighting volatility at the top. Lower‑priced categories...