Lassonde Art Trail Opens on Toronto’s Waterfront with Major Public Art Programme
The Lassonde Art Trail, Canada’s most ambitious open‑air public‑art destination, opened its 2026 season on Toronto’s waterfront, stretching over four kilometres through Biidaasige Park on the newly created island Ookwemin Minising. The inaugural program features 17 sculptures, including 11 new site‑specific commissions by internationally recognized artists such as Alexandre Arrechea, Tracey Emin and Kent Monkman. Backed by a $25 million gift from philanthropist Pierre Lassonde and a $1.4 billion waterfront revitalisation investment, the trail will expand with major works by Joana Vasconcelos and Alicja Kwade slated for 2027. The initiative integrates contemporary art with ecological restoration, offering free, year‑round access to the public.
As Above, So Below Brings Oceanic Intelligence to Venice Biennale
One Ocean Foundation and ZEITGEIST19 have launched "As Above, So Below," a landmark group exhibition and interdisciplinary research project staged as a collateral event of the 61st Venice Biennale. Curated by Elizabeth Zhivkova and Farah Piriye Coene, the show occupies...
Louise Pragnell Selected for National Portrait Gallery’s Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award 2026
British portrait artist Louise Pragnell has been chosen for the Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award 2026 at London’s National Portrait Gallery. Her oil portrait of former NBA player and NBA Africa ambassador Pops Mensah‑Bonsu was selected from nearly 1,500...
Freya Tewelde: Geometry of Elsewhere
Freya Tewelde’s first solo exhibition with Gallery 1957, "Geometry of Elsewhere," opens on 5 June 2026 as part of London Gallery Weekend and runs through 25 July. The show marks a decisive shift from figurative work to large‑scale abstraction, employing powder pigment,...
Phillips Announces Highlights of New York Design Sale Led by Distinguished Private Collections
Phillips will hold its New York Design Sale on June 12, featuring a curated selection of twentieth‑century and contemporary design drawn from distinguished private collections. Highlights include rare Finn Juhl pieces such as a wall‑mounted cabinet estimated at $60,000‑$80,000, a George Nakashima Conoid bench,...
Club Unity Launches in London with Dan Pearce, Maxim and Takiro
Club Unity, an interdisciplinary collective founded by mixed‑media artist Dan Pearce, The Prodigy’s Maxim, and visual artist Takiro, launched on 21 May at Shoreditch Arts Club in London. The event attracted over 350 creatives and unveiled a suite of sculptures,...
Fé Collective Announces Gala at Bush Hall Championing Emerging Female Artists
Fé Collective will host a gala on 12 June 2026 at London’s Bush Hall to fund the Freshers 2025/26 cohort’s end‑of‑year exhibition. The event, themed “Dark Rococo,” places emerging female artists at the creative helm, featuring their music, performance and visual work....
Gordon Cheung: Many Worlds, One Mind
CLOSE Gallery in Somerset is hosting Gordon Cheung’s major survey, "Many Worlds, One Mind," from June 6 to August 15, 2026. The exhibition showcases 28 pieces across sculpture, painting, print and etching, centering on Cheung’s "New Order" series that reorders Dutch Golden...
Anish Kapoor Returns to the Hayward Gallery with Monumental New Works
Anish Kapoor returns to London’s Hayward Gallery for a four‑month solo show, running 16 June to 18 October 2026. Curated by Ralph Rugoff, the exhibition marks his first major Hayward presentation since 1998 and anchors the Southbank Centre’s 75th‑anniversary programme. It features three monumental...
How Native American Artists Redefined Contemporary Art in the United States
From the 1960s onward, a generation of Native American artists based in Santa Fe transformed U.S. contemporary art by reclaiming Indigenous representation through colour, irony and modernist vocabularies. The Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), founded in 1962, exposed students...
Pamela Bryan and Julia Campbell Carter Bring New Orleans Rhythm to London
Pamela Bryan of New Orleans’ Octavia Art Gallery and London curator Julia Campbell Carter have launched "Rhythm in the Blues," a group show at 14 Percy Street running May 11‑20. The exhibition features five international artists—Alia Ali, Aigana Gali, Azadeh Ghotbi, Naomie Kremer...
Lili Shen’s Dream Machines Turn Data Into Feeling
London‑based artist Lili Shen blends AI, VR, and biometric data to create immersive installations that turn heartbeats, sleep rhythms, and fragments of dreams into shifting digital environments. Her recent works, Noosphere (2025) and Noosphere II: Collective Veil, use generative diffusion,...
The Open: Odyssey
Hastings Contemporary and Sussex Contemporary are launching The Open: Odyssey, a gallery‑wide biennial running from March 28 to May 31, 2026. The show features 152 artists selected from more than 2,500 submissions, spanning painting, sculpture, film, textiles and installation. Internationally recognised names such...
Reginald Sylvester II: Until Then
Reginald Sylvester II’s fourth solo show at Maximillian William, running June 4‑August 2026, presents a new series of paintings that fuse rubber‑coated aluminium panels with discarded 1960s‑70s military shelter halves. The assemblages are overpainted with vivid acrylics, creating a tension between raw,...
Dirk Braeckman: Although
Belgian photographer Dirk Braeckman presents his first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom, “Although,” at Grimm London from April 23 to May 30, 2026. The show assembles recent analogue works that emphasize the materiality of the photographic process, featuring dust,...