Chen Chen: Finding The Space Between Memory And The Present Moment
Chen Chen’s practice bridges digital painting’s fluid layering with the deliberate, tactile process of oil, creating works that hover between memory and the present moment. By simplifying forms and stripping detail, she crafts ambiguous spaces that invite personal interpretation rather than dictate narrative. Recurring motifs of skies, oceans, and undefined landscapes serve as metaphors for instability and the human yearning for belonging. The artist deliberately embraces unpredictability, using colour shifts to transform calm compositions into tense, interior scenes, challenging the rapid consumption of images in today’s digital culture.
Rafael Escardó Explores The Connections Between Material And The Human Body
Rafael Escardó’s exhibition "Scaffolder" at MOCA London transforms concrete sculptures into wearable exoskeletons for live performance. The show features three cast‑concrete forms that dancers integrate with, blurring the line between architecture and the human body. Through repetitive gestures on the...
David Worthington Unveils A Series Of Monumental Travertine Boulder Benches
Award‑winning sculptor David Worthington, in partnership with John Robertson Architects, Marble Projects and Bill Amberg Studio, has installed four monumental travertine “boulder benches” at 20 Gresham Street in the City of London. The benches, carved from single blocks of Tuscan...
Agosto Machado: New York Performance, Visual Artist And Activist Dies
Agosto Machado, a seminal performance and visual artist, died on March 21, 2026 at age 86. Over six decades he was a fixture of New York’s underground scene, performing at venues like La MaMa and the Mudd Club and standing...
TEFAF Maastricht 2026: What Sold And What The Dealers Said – Report
The 39th TEFAF Maastricht art fair attracted 50,000 visitors, featured 270 exhibitors from 22 countries, and generated an €86.4 million economic impact, with €37.9 million flowing directly to the city. Despite geopolitical uncertainty, the fair saw robust sales across categories, highlighted by...
$69 Million Beeple NFT Finds It Was Sundaresan All Along
Beeple’s landmark $69.3 million NFT, sold at Christie’s in March 2021, finally has a confirmed owner after a 2023 lawsuit was settled. The court‑ordered settlement establishes that Vignesh Sundaresan, through his firm Portkey Technologies, made all decisions and exclusively purchased the...
John Constable: Large Study Of The Cornfield Discovered In Texas
A previously miscatalogued oil study for John Constable’s The Cornfield, the largest known at 55 by 48 inches, has been authenticated after a technical examination by specialists. The painting, hidden in the Jefferson Historical Society museum in Texas for nearly...
Eduardo Paolozzi: Mosaic Murals In Redditch Shopping Centre Grade II Listed
The UK Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport has granted Grade II listed status to twelve mosaic panels by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi in Redditch’s Kingfisher Shopping Centre. Commissioned in 1983 to echo the town’s needle‑industry heritage, the mosaics have...
Brussels and Antwerp: The Heart of Flemish Art – Artlyst Diary
Art lover Paul Carter Robinson spent two days touring Brussels and Antwerp, immersing himself in the region’s dense concentration of Flemish masterpieces. He enjoyed a private viewing of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts’ print collection in Brussels, then traveled...
Hughie O’Donoghue Explores Collective Memory in New York – Miranda Carroll
Irish artist Hughie O’Donoghue presents his first solo exhibition in New York, "Time and The Architecture of Memory," at 447 SPACE. The show features nine works spanning 2003‑2026 that fuse painting, photography and sculpture on unconventional supports such as tarpaulin...
Beeple: Lets The Dogs Out At Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin
Digital artist Beeple's "Regular Animals"—a pack of ten AI‑powered robotic dogs wearing the faces of tech billionaires, dead artists and the creator himself—will be on view at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie from April 29 to May 10. The robots, which sold for $100,000...
Gavin Turk: The Escapologist Beyond The Threshold – Ben Brown Fine Arts
Gavin Turk’s sixth exhibition at Ben Brown Fine Arts, titled The Escapologist, presents a series of oil paintings featuring slightly ajar doors that create a disorienting sense of suspension. The works dialogue with Gerhard Richter’s 1967 Tür series and reference...
Sotheby’s To Offer Mnuchin Collection Led By $70–100M Rothko
Robert Mnuchin’s celebrated modern art collection, valued at over $130 million, will be auctioned by Sotheby’s in May, with a public preview in March. The sale is anchored by a 1957 Rothko estimated at $70‑100 million, the centerpiece of a lineup that...
Sotheby’s Modern and Contemporary Evening Sale Springs To Life
Sotheby’s Modern and Contemporary Evening Sale in London generated £131 million including fees, surpassing last year’s £63 million and approaching the 2023 peak. The auction featured 54 lots with a 98% sell‑through rate, highlighted by a £13.5 million Francis Bacon self‑portrait and a...
Catherine Opie Portrait of Sir Elton John And Family Unveiled At NPG
The National Portrait Gallery has added a new photograph by Catherine Opie that depicts Sir Elton John, his husband David Furnish, and their sons in the family library, marking the first portrait of the Furnish‑John family in a national collection....
A Week At The Heart of Cape Town’s Art Scene – Virginie Puertolas Syn
Virginie Puertolas Syn spent a week in Cape Town during the Investec Cape Town Art Fair, immersing herself in studios, galleries, and institutions. The fair showcased 126 exhibitors from 34 cities, representing artists from 44 countries, while major surveys highlighted...
British Museum Finds Sponsor For Bayeux Tapestry Extravaganza
Belarus‑born hedge‑fund billionaire Igor Tulchinsky is sponsoring the British Museum’s first UK display of the Bayeux Tapestry, in a deal estimated at £5 million, one of the museum’s largest sponsorships in its 273‑year history. The 70‑metre medieval embroidery will be on...
Salvador Dalí: Monumental Stage Set Heads Back To Auction
Salvador Dalí’s monumental 1939 Bacchanale stage set is slated for Bonhams’ fourth annual Surrealism sale in Paris, with a pre‑sale estimate of about $350,000. The 13‑panel, 65‑by‑100‑foot work, which debuted at the Metropolitan Opera, has toured major European museums since...
Art Dubai Marks Twenty Years Despite Regional Tensions
Art Dubai will mark its twentieth anniversary this spring, opening at Madinat Jumeirah from 17‑19 April 2026 with preview days on the 15th and 16th. The fair structures its program around four sections—Bawwaba, Digital, Zamaniyyat and the new Bawwaba Extended—each...