1990s: The Decade That Rewired British Culture
Tate Britain’s new exhibition, "The 90s: Art and Fashion," opens on 8 October 2026 and runs until 14 February 2027, presenting over 100 works by nearly 70 artists, photographers, and designers. It traces the decade’s shift from glossy 80s aesthetics to lo‑fi photography, the rise of the Young British Artists, and the theatrical runway visions of Alexander McQueen and Hussein Chalayan. The show also foregrounds under‑represented voices—Black British creators and underground rave culture—highlighting the era’s complex interplay of class, race, and identity. Curators position the exhibition as a comprehensive reassessment of how the 1990s rewired British cultural production.
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Thailand Biennale Phuket The Island Talks Back Eternal [Kalpa]- Virginie Puertolas-Syn
The Thailand Biennale’s "Eternal Kalpa" edition returns to Phuket, featuring 65 artists from 25 countries across 19 repurposed venues such as a decommissioned power station, an old liquor distillery, and the former Pearl Theatre. Curated by Arin Rungjang, David Teh,...
Marina Abramović: Historic Dell’Accademia Exhibition Announced During Venice Biennale 2026
Marina Abramović will be the first living woman artist to receive a major solo exhibition at Venice’s Gallerie dell’Accademia, opening May 6 and running through October 19, 2026, in tandem with the 61st Venice Biennale Arte. The show, titled “Transforming Energy,” marks her...
Moore / Freud: Masters of Intimacy Explored at Hastings Contemporary
Moore / Freud opens at Hastings Contemporary on 13 June 2026, bringing together Henry Moore and Lucian Freud for the first time in a focused show of twenty family‑themed works. The exhibition juxtaposes Moore’s abstracted maquettes and wartime Shelter Drawings with Freud’s intimate figurative...
Claude Lalanne: Saint Laurent Commissioned Mirrors’ $33.5 Million Auction Record
Claude Lalanne’s 15-piece botanical mirror ensemble sold at Sotheby’s New York for $33.5 million, more than double the $15 million high estimate and eclipsing the previous record for both Claude and her late husband François‑Xavier. The mirrors, commissioned by Yves Saint Laurent...
Paula Rego Drawings Exploring The Female Psyche – Sue Hubbard
Paula Rego’s new exhibition "Story Line" at Victoria Miro London showcases a chronological sweep of her drawings, from a nine‑year‑old portrait of her grandmother in 1944 to a self‑portrait of her granddaughter made at age eighty. Rego, who identified herself...
Survivors: Portraits of Resilience Personal Accounts of the AIDS Crisis
The Fitzrovia Chapel in London will host "Survivors," a short‑run exhibition from 9 to 12 June 2026 that pairs 16 chiaroscuro portraits by Dutch photographer Danielle van Zedelhoff with excerpts from the National HIV Story Trust’s interview archive. The chapel, the last remnant...
Earthly Paradise: Radical Alternative Living in the UK – William Morris Gallery
Earthly Paradise: Radical Living in the UK, a new touring exhibition, opens at the William Morris Gallery on 3 October 2026 and runs through 28 March 2027 before traveling to Wales, the Lake District and Edinburgh through 2028. Developed by the Four Lanterns partnership...
George Condo Hoard Heads For Christie’s – And Who’s Selling? His Ex-Wife
Anna Condo, the former wife of celebrated painter George Condo, is consigning 27 of his works—including paintings, sculptures and works on paper—to Christie’s New York for a dedicated single‑owner session on May 21. The lot will appear in Christie’s Post‑War...
Jim Jarmusch, Patti Smith & Brian Eno Feature In Venice Biennale’s The Holy See Pavilion
The Holy See Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Ben Vickers, opens on May 9, 2026 with the title “The Ear is the Eye of the Soul.” It spans two sites—a hidden Carmelite garden...
The Art Market’s Real Driver Thrives On Works Below $50,000 — New Report
A new report reveals that the art market’s true engine resides in works priced below $50,000. Transaction volume in this segment far exceeds that of eight‑figure sales, and the collector base is expanding, driven by younger buyers who value artist...
Artemisia Gentileschi: Headless Mary Magdalen Comes To Auction At Dorotheum
A rare Artemisia Gentileschi fragment depicting Mary Magdalen will be auctioned at Vienna’s Dorotheum on 28 April with an estimate of $120,000 to $170,000. The canvas, a second copy of the Palatine Gallery’s version, is missing the saint’s head—a cut likely...
Eman Khalifa: A Journey Through Abstraction and Emotional Transformation – Lee Sharrock
Eman Khalifa, a former business professional and single mother, has re‑emerged as a painter whose work now appears at major fairs such as The Other Art Fair, Parallax and Untitled. Drawing on a bicultural upbringing between Cairo and the United...
Unseen Lee Miller Photographs Discovered In Assistant’s Private Album
A scrapbook compiled by Lee Miller’s wartime assistant, Roland Haupt, has surfaced after eight decades, containing previously unseen prints of Miller’s iconic war photographs and rare personal images. Haupt, who processed Miller’s 120‑format film from Normandy to Hitler’s bunker, kept...
David Armstrong: Portraits Artists Space New York – Paul Carter Robinson
The first comprehensive U.S. survey of David Armstrong opens at Artists Space, showcasing over 90 photographs that span three decades of his career. The exhibition repositions Armstrong beyond his association with Nan Goldin and the Boston School, highlighting his technical...
New York Court Orders Return of Modigliani Looted By The Nazis
A New York Supreme Court judge ordered the return of Amedeo Modigliani’s 1918 portrait "Seated Man With a Cane" to the estate of Oscar Stettiner, a Jewish dealer whose work was seized by the Nazis. The ruling ends a twelve‑year...
Canaletto & Bellotto: The Art of The Constructed View – Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum opens “Canaletto & Bellotto: The Art of the Constructed View,” showcasing 32 vedute from Venice, London, Dresden and Vienna. Curator Mateusz Mayer argues the paintings are engineered perspectives shaped by patron demands and 18th‑century politics, not photographic...
Glen Baxter Artist Of The Absurd Has Died Aged 82
Glen Baxter, the Leeds‑born artist famed for dead‑pan ink drawings paired with absurd captions, died at 82. His work, rooted in Marx Brothers humor and adventure‑book diction, turned the art world’s solemnity into a punchline and influenced creators from Edward...
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...
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...