Frida: The Making of an Icon
Tate Modern will host "Frida: The Making of an Icon" from 25 June 2026 to 3 January 2027, the first major UK exhibition to trace Frida Kahlo’s rise from a little‑known painter to a global cultural icon. The show, co‑curated with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, features over 30 of Kahlo’s works—including rare self‑portraits—alongside photographs, personal artefacts, and more than 200 objects linked to her commercial afterlife. It situates Kahlo in dialogue with Mexican Renaissance peers, surrealist‑adjacent artists, Chicana/o activists, and contemporary creators such as Kiki Smith and Yasumasa Morimura. The final gallery examines how licensing, merchandise and mass‑market branding have turned Kahlo into a pervasive pop‑culture figure.
Maria Candelaria Traverso’s Un Cubo Brings Material Politics to SUMMA Mallorca 2026
Maria Candelaria Traverso’s solo show *Un Cubo* opens at SUMMA Mallorca 2026, later moving to Pueblo Español. The exhibition reworks everyday plastic sacks—drawn from informal markets in Argentina—into woven cubes that reference the Andean Chakana. Traverso treats the sack as...
Dua Lipa to Curate Southbank Centre’s 2026 London Literature Festival
Global pop star Dua Lipa has been appointed curator of the Southbank Centre’s 2026 London Literature Festival, coinciding with the venue’s 75th anniversary and the UK’s National Year of Reading. The festival runs from 21 October to 1 November and will feature...
Allison Katz Returns to New York with Outta the Bag at Hauser & Wirth
Allison Katz opens her first solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth in New York, titled "Outta the Bag." The show deepens her investigation of painting’s elasticity, using language, framing and self‑portraiture to probe an image‑saturated culture. Notable works include "Jaws,"...
Junying Jiang Examines Cultural Dislocation Through Animation
London-based artist Junying Jiang leverages digital animation and myth to explore cultural dislocation, drawing on his Chinese roots and British residency. His recent pieces, such as "Joy Blooms in Regent’s Park" and "Sword in the Pearl," fuse sound, motion, and...
Hockney / Paricio: Cycles of Renewal
Halcyon’s flagship New Bond Street gallery opens *Cycles of Renewal* on 7 April 2026, pairing David Hockney with emerging Spanish painter Pedro Paricio. The show juxtaposes Hockney’s decades‑spanning oeuvre—including iPad drawings, lithographs and his recent *Arrival of Spring* series—with Paricio’s vibrant, pattern‑driven reinterpretations...
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
The exhibition "Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead," curated by Maria Hinel, opens at Hypha Studios in London from March 12 to April 18, 2026. It brings together ten international artists to foreground animal agency, revolt, and...
Bettina Pousttchi’s Vertical Highways V03 Arrives at Rockefeller Center
Bettina Pousttchi’s sculpture *Vertical Highways V03* will occupy Rockefeller Center’s Channel Gardens from March 19 to April 17, 2026, marking the first U.S. showing of her acclaimed Vertical Highways series. The work, fashioned from repurposed guardrails, transforms familiar crowd‑control objects...
Perception & Provocation: Riley · Hirst · Banksy · Hockney
Calder Contemporary has launched “Perception & Provocation,” an online exhibition on Artsy that runs from March 12 to April 12, 2026, featuring British icons Bridget Riley, Damien Hirst, Banksy and David Hockney. The show emphasizes visceral, immediate visual impact over intellectual analysis, presenting...
Greater New York 2026
MoMA PS1 announced the 53 artists and collectives for Greater New York 2026, the museum’s flagship survey of New York‑based creators. Opening April 16 and running through August 17, the exhibition features site‑specific installations, newly commissioned works and a live...
Catherine Opie: The Pause That Dreams Against Erasure
Catherine Opie’s first institutional solo exhibition in Germany opens at the Fridericianum in Kassel, running from February 14 to July 19, 2026. The show, titled “The Pause That Dreams Against Erasure,” presents a site‑specific survey of more than three decades...
Mirna Bamieh: Sour Things: The Door
Palestinian artist Mirna Bamieh’s new installation Sour Things: The Door opens at NIKA Project Space in Romainville from 17 April to 23 May 2026. Curated by Anne Davidian, the work extends Bamieh’s Sour Things series, using a monumental, partially blocked doorframe, porcelain okra sculptures, and video testimonies to explore migration,...
Godfried Donkor Heads to Venice with a Tribute to History, Power and Koyo Kouoh
Godfried Donkor will present a new painting, *Michael and the Dragon II* (2026), and four earlier works at the 61st Venice Biennale, honoring his late friend and curator Koyo Kouhou. The exhibition revisits his 2017 *First Day of the Yam Custom*...
Simone Brewster Takes Centre Stage in PLATFORM at the Design Museum
The Design Museum has launched the second edition of its PLATFORM series, featuring London‑based designer Simone Brewster in a year‑long exhibition from February 2026 to January 2027. Brewster’s monographic display spans jewellery, furniture, sculpture and architectural interventions, organized into four...
Soho Solos
Great Pulteney Street Gallery hosts "Soho Solos" from June 10‑28, 2026, featuring four solo exhibitions by Soho Open prize winners Mandy Hudson, James Robert Morrison, Conor Quinn and Alice Sheppard Fidler. The artists were chosen from more than 2,000 entries...
Demi Danka: Co-Authored Terrains
Demi Danka’s solo exhibition “Co‑Authored Terrains” opens at Gillian Jason Gallery in London, running May 21‑June 27, 2026. The show presents cameraless works where light‑sensitive paper is treated with light, salt, water, air and pressure, turning photographic emulsion into a volatile painting surface....
Becoming Through Pain Curated by Huma Kabakcı
The "Becoming Through Pain" exhibition, curated by Huma Kabakcı, opens at London’s Somers Gallery from March 26 to April 2, 2026, featuring eight international women artists. Their works treat pain not as a static condition but as a transformative force...
Gustavo Nazareno: How to Grow a Flower From a Supernova
Gustavo Nazareno’s solo exhibition “How to Grow a Flower from a Supernova” opens at Opera Gallery Paris from 24 June to 17 July 2026, coinciding with Paris Couture Week. The show blends Afro‑Brazilian religious iconography, especially the Orixá Pombagira, with...
Powerhouse Arts Appoints Liz Munsell to Lead Curatorial Vision in Brooklyn’s Expanding Cultural Hub
Powerhouse Arts has named veteran curator Liz Munsell vice president of Curatorial and Arts Programs, tasking her with shaping exhibitions, public programmes and artist‑led production at its Brooklyn hub. Munsell brings nearly two decades of museum experience and a track...
A Pulse Before the Opening: Anticipating the 61st Venice Biennale
The 61st Venice Biennale, directed by curator Koyo Kouou, shifts from grand spectacle to an intimate, affect‑driven experience that foregrounds memory, diaspora and unresolved histories. Early previews highlight three participating artists—Manuel Mathieu, Sara Shamma and Igshaan Adams—who each translate trauma...
PORTALS Unveils Eva Dixon’s Little Lady, Recasting the Space Race in Spitalfields
PORTALS unveiled Eva Dixon’s sculptural installation *Little Lady* at Spitalworth Market’s K67 kiosk from 18‑27 March 2026, running 24/7. The work reimagines a re‑entry capsule and parachute to honor the overlooked Mercury 13 women pilots. Curated by James Marshall, the...
Sophie Tea Redefines Art Sales with First Live Fine Art Launch on TikTok Shop
British artist Sophie Tea became the first creator to sell original paintings live on TikTok Shop, launching her Bric‑a‑Brac collection during a three‑hour broadcast. The event attracted 1.3 million viewers worldwide and offered a limited release of oil paintings sourced from...
Frida and Diego: The Last Dream
The Museum of Modern Art will host "Frida and Diego: The Last Dream" from March 21 to September 12, 2026, showcasing a curated selection of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera works alongside a new Metropolitan Opera production, *El Último Sueño...
Cecily Brown: Picture Making
The Serpentine Galleries are hosting Cecily Brown’s first UK institutional solo exhibition since 2005, titled “Picture Making,” from 27 March to 6 September 2026 at Serpentine South. The show pairs newly created paintings inspired by Kensington Gardens with key works dating back to 2001,...
Yoon Hyup: Quantize Off
Seoul‑born, New York‑based artist Yoon Hyup launches his first solo exhibition with Ruttkowski;68 in Paris, titled Quantize Off, running March 15‑April 12, 2026. The show translates the kinetic experience of walking, skating and cycling through urban streets into large‑scale acrylic paintings that prioritize line, dot...
Leonardo Drew at Pace Prints
Leonardo Drew presents his fifth solo exhibition at Pace Prints in New York, running March 19‑April 25, 2026. The show highlights new hand‑made paper‑pulp editions, monoprints, and large wall‑relief assemblages developed through a 15‑year collaboration with Pace Paper. Using custom...
Town Hall Presents — Her Stories Untold Curated by Virginia Damtsa
Town Hall by Bottaccio launches its inaugural cultural program with the exhibition “Her Stories Untold,” curated by Virginia Damtsa and partnered with Annie Lennox’s feminist charity The Circle. Running from March 25 to July 1, 2026, the show surveys how...
Picnic, Objects in Public: London Open Call for Sculpture and Performance in the Urban Landscape
The "Picnic, Objects in Public" open call invites London‑based artists to relocate everyday household items into streets and parks, turning tables, chairs and other domestic objects into sculptural or performative interventions. The project explores how these objects shed their private...
Carmen Mardonez: Chromatic Solace
TM Gallery in London launches "Chromatic Solace," a solo exhibition by Chilean textile artist Carmen Mardonez, running March 20‑June 5, 2026. The show features a new six‑metre‑wide embroidered installation and pieces from her Textildermy series, created from discarded domestic textiles....
Isabel Rock: Things Fall Apart, The Centre Cannot Hold
Artist and climate activist Isabel Rock opens her first major solo exhibition, "Things Fall Apart, The Centre Cannot Hold," at Hastings Contemporary from 27 September 2025 to 15 March 2026. The immersive installation transforms drawing into theatrical environments populated by...
The Fractured Real: Nature, Code, and Perception in the Digital Works of Lingqun Teng
The exhibition "Between Nature and Code" showcases Chinese artist Lingqun Teng’s digital reinterpretations of natural landscapes. By employing pixelation, geometric reduction, and symbolic abstraction, works such as Mosaic, Mountain Is Mountain, and Short‑Sighted turn mountains, forests, and skies into data‑driven...
A Funeral For Heterosexuality Arrives in London’s Spitalfields
PORTALS launched its first public‑art kiosk in Spitalfields Market, converting a 1966 Soviet‑era K67 kiosk into a 24‑hour micro‑gallery. The inaugural exhibition features Judy Maxwell‑McNicol’s sculptural piece “RIP my heterosexuality which died on the family computer,” a gravestone‑like installation with...
Forget Me Not Curated by Freeny Yianni and Richard Scarry
Forget Me Not, curated by Freeny Yianni and Richard Scarry, opens at CLOSE Gallery in Somerset from March 7 to April 11, 2026. The exhibition brings together photographs by Andrew Cross, Anna Mossman, Philip Sinden, Mariano Vivanco and Denise Webber,...
Catherine Opie: To Be Seen
The National Portrait Gallery in London is mounting Catherine Opie: To Be Seen, the first major UK museum exhibition dedicated to the American photographer. Featuring more than 80 images created over three decades, the show surveys Opie’s studio portraiture, documentary...
Sara Shamma to Represent Syria at the 61st Venice Biennale with Monumental Installation
Sara Shamma will represent Syria at the 61st Venice Biennale with a monumental, immersive installation titled "The Tower Tomb of Palmyra." Curated by Yuko Hasegawa and commissioned by Syria's Ministry of Culture, the work occupies the National Pavilion as a...
James McQueen: A Beautiful Waste of Time
James McQueen’s solo exhibition "A Beautiful Waste of Time" opens on 2 March at Halcyon in London, showcasing new paintings that transform vintage paperback covers into contemporary Pop‑Art statements. The works retain the bold typography and colour blocks of mid‑century mass‑market...
Bisila Noha: Ile Ọkàn (House of the Soul)
Spanish‑Equatoguinean ceramic artist Bisila Noha presents "Ile ọkàn (House of the Soul)" at OmVed Gardens in Highgate from 20‑29 March 2026. The solo show, curated by Thrown, expands a 2025 Nigerian residency into a shrine‑like installation that blends sculpture, vessels,...
Manuel Mathieu to Debut at the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale Di Venezia
Haitian-born artist Manuel Mathieu has been invited by curator Koyo Kouoh to debut at the 61st International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, in 2026. His multidisciplinary practice—spanning painting, sculpture, film, installation and olfactory art—examines historical violence, cultural memory and...
Centre Pompidou Confirms 2027 Closure for Major Five‑Year Renovation
The Centre Pompidou will shut its doors in 2027 for a five‑year, €300‑million renovation that tackles asbestos removal and a full technical upgrade. Designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, the iconic 1977 structure requires deep structural work to meet...
Hugo Winder-Lind: Clouds Of Limitless And Expanding Joy
British painter Hugo Winder‑Lind opens his first U.S. solo exhibition, "Clouds Of Limitless And Expanding Joy," at New York’s Isabel Sullivan Gallery from March 5 to April 11, 2026. The show features twelve new oil paintings that reconceptualise landscape as a politically...
Frieze Los Angeles 2026 Closes with Robust Sales and Institutional Momentum
Frieze Los Angeles 2026 wrapped after four days with multiple seven‑figure transactions and sold‑out Focus presentations, underscoring a robust contemporary‑art market. More than 100 galleries from 24 countries attracted 32,000 visitors, including representatives from 160 museums and institutions. Blue‑chip dealers...