Is Art Good for Your Health?
Daisy Fancourt’s new book *Art Cure* argues that regular arts experiences can improve mental health, boost neuroplasticity, and even increase the likelihood of meeting dietary guidelines, citing a range of epidemiological studies. The author claims that creative engagement halves the odds of missing a five‑a‑day of fruit and veg, and may add years to life expectancy. The review acknowledges the breadth of evidence but questions the book’s expansive definition of health, potential class bias, and the political overtones of prescribing arts as a public‑health tool. The hardcover retails for £22 (≈ $28).
There Has Never Been an Apolitical Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale, now in its 61st edition, continues to function as a global stage where national pavilions act as instruments of soft power rather than purely artistic showcases. Historically rooted in early‑20th‑century nation‑state competition, the event today hosts an...
In Conversation: Arch Hades and Fi Churchman
Arch Hades’s multidisciplinary exhibition Return | Ritorno opens at the deconsecrated Scoletta Battioro e Tiraoro di Venezia on 7 May 2026, coinciding with a breakfast conversation with ArtReview editor Fi Churchman on 8 May. The show spans three floors and features a 22‑panel, 13‑metre...
Marcos Kueh in Turbulent Seas
Marcos Kueh’s solo show "Smooth Sailing" at Manchester’s ESEA Contemporary examines Chinese labour migration through a mix of sculptures, tapestries and large‑scale installations. Drawing on 19th‑century British union banners, the exhibition juxtaposes traditional Chinese symbols with modern brand logos to...
Gardar Eide Einarsson Leaves You in the Dark
Gardar Eide Einarsson’s new exhibition *Music Playing Over Speech* at Maureen Paley presents a series of ten black gouache sheets titled *Closed Caption*, each bearing only a fragment of white text taken from film and TV scripts. The minimalist works force...
Merike Estna on Representing Estonia at the 61st Venice Biennale
Estonian artist Merike Estna will represent Estonia at the 61st Venice Biennale, turning the national pavilion into an open studio where she creates 22 paintings over the exhibition period. Her project foregrounds the act of painting itself, drawing inspiration from historic...
Taiwan’s New Typologies
Taiwan’s municipal cultural strategy is accelerating, with three flagship institutions opening between 2025 and 2028. The New Taipei City Art Museum debuted in April 2025, while the Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts rolls out in phases through 2028, adding a...
Toronto Biennial of Art Announces 2026 Artists and Theme
The Toronto Biennial of Art’s 2026 edition, curated by Allison Glenn, will be titled “Things Fall Apart.” It will showcase more than 30 artists and collectives, featuring 17 newly commissioned works that interrogate Toronto’s water environment. The exhibition uses water as...
Genti Korini on Representing Albania at the 61st Venice Biennale
Albanian artist Genti Korini will present a three‑channel video installation titled “A Place in the Sun” at the 61st Venice Biennale, housed in the Arsenale pavilion. The work fuses Zaum—a transrational language invented by Russian Futurists—with performance, puppetry, animation and...
Theme and Artists Announced for British Art Show 10
The 10th British Art Show, curated by Ekow Eshun, will open under the title “A Chorus of Strangers.” It features more than 30 artists organized into three thematic sections—Moments of Being, Ways of Living, and States of Nature—drawn from the ideas...
Locating Luigi Ghirri
The Thomas Dane Gallery in London is hosting "Felicità," a new exhibition of Luigi Ghirri’s work curated by fashion photographer Alessio Bolzoni and filmmaker Luca Guadagnino. The show presents 45 previously unseen colour photographs, organized into two portfolios and introduced by...
‘As If’ by Isabel Waidner, Reviewed
Isabel Waidner’s latest novel, As If, follows two London‑based actors—Lewis, a grieving widower, and Korine, a struggling family man—who discover they look alike enough to exchange roles. The swap lets each inhabit the other’s professional and domestic pressures, exposing how...
Biennale Jogja 18 Review: Occasional Moments of Brilliance
The 18th Biennale Jogja, titled *KAWRUH: Land of Rooted Practice*, unfolds in two phases—a village‑based immersion in Boro Hamlet followed by a conventional city program across 11 venues. Curated around the Javanese concept of *kawruh*—deep, lived knowledge—the show aims to...
Thailand Biennale 2025 Review: Beyond the Tropical Paradise
The fourth Thailand Biennale, titled Eternal Kalpa, opened across 19 venues in Phuket, aiming to disrupt the island’s leisure‑driven image with slow‑time, environmentally‑focused art. Installations such as Ryuichi Sakamoto’s tsunami‑scarred piano and speculative bamboo shelters for the Urak Lawoi community...
Tanka Fonta Wins 2026 Wi Di Mimba Wi Prize
SAVVY Contemporary announced that Cameroonian‑born multidisciplinary artist Tanka Fonta has won the 2026 Wi Di Mimba Wi Prize. The award includes a €30,000 grant (about $33,000), additional funding for a new artwork and curatorial support. Fonta, whose practice spans visual art, composition, poetry...
Anne Hardy’s Hollow Humanoids
Anne Hardy’s latest exhibition Interloper at Visual, Carlow showcases a series of hollow, humanoid sculptures titled “Beings.” Constructed from cast metal, found objects, rusted wire and Jesmonite, the figures rest on soil‑filled plinths and wear the artist’s own clothing and bric‑a‑brac. The...
Sasaoka Yuriko’s Violent Puppeteering
Sasaoka Yuriko’s "Paradise Dungeon" at the Shiga Museum of Art runs Jan‑Mar 2026, showcasing a decade of video‑art and installations that fuse grotesque puppetry with digital overlays. Beginning with the 2011 looped video "Untitled," the show traces her response to...
‘Transcription’ by Ben Lerner Review: No Phones
Ben Lerner’s latest novel, *Transcription*, unfolds over three single‑conversation chapters set during the COVID‑19 pandemic, using a broken phone as a metaphor for fragmented memory. The narrative follows a narrator interviewing his aging mentor Thomas, then confronting a curator, and...
Event: Hammad Nasar and Billy Tang, Off the Record
ArtReview and Ursula magazine are hosting a live, ticketed conversation on 14 April in London’s Mayfair featuring curator Hammad Nasar and artistic director Billy Tang. The event, priced at £14 (approximately $18), includes a welcome drink and copies of both magazines. Nasar, an...
‘Paper Gardens’: The Flower and the Serpent Beneath
The Museum of Art and Photography in Bengaluru is hosting “Paper Gardens: Art, Botany and Empire” through July 5, showcasing colonial‑era botanical illustrations alongside Indian contributions. Curator Shrey Maurya highlights how 18th‑19th‑century plant hunting served commercial and imperial interests, often marginalizing local...
Artist List for Counterpublic 2026 Announced
The third edition of Counterpublic, the St. Louis‑based triennial, will open on 12 September and close on 12 December 2026 under the title “Coyote Time.” Curated by Stefanie Hessler, Jordan Carter, Raphael Fonseca, Nora N. Khan and Wanda Nanibush, the...
Thomas Zipp, Artist with a Sideways Sense of History, 1966–2026
German artist Thomas Zipp, known for his punk‑infused Dadaist approach, died at 60. His multidisciplinary practice spanned painting, installation, and sculpture, weaving politics, medicine, and nuclear imagery into complex works. Notably, his 2013 Venice Biennale piece transformed Palazzo Rossini into...
Art Lovers Movie Club: Gê Viana, ‘Radiola De Promessa’, 2025
Brazilian artist Gê Viana’s 2025 film "Radiola de Promessa" showcases the massive, custom‑built radiolas that dominate Maranhão’s public celebrations. The work frames these sound systems as altars, capturing pre‑festival rituals such as dough kneading, woodcutting, and communal singing before the...
Art Lovers Movie Club: The Archive
Art Review has launched an online archive for its Art Lovers Movie Club, cataloguing monthly artist video screenings from 2020 through 2026. The collection features works by a diverse roster of international creators, ranging from emerging talents like Gê Viana...
Colectivo Los Ingrávidos Wins Schering Stiftung Award
Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, a Tehuacán‑based film collective, has been named the 2026 winner of the Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research. The prize includes €15,000 (approximately $16,500) and a solo exhibition at Berlin’s KW Institute of Contemporary Art, featuring a...
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Language of the Dispossessed
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s posthumous retrospective, Multiple Offerings, opens at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, showcasing her pioneering 1970s feminist conceptual works that interrogate language, displacement, and nationalism. The show features seminal pieces such as the print...
Teresinha Soares, Artist Who Brought Sex and Feminism to Pop Art, 1927–2026
Teresinha Soares, the Brazilian Pop artist who fused sexual politics with avant‑garde imagery, died at 99. Educated during Brazil’s early military dictatorship, she produced provocative paintings and shaped wooden panels that tackled Vietnam, American imperialism, and gender oppression. After an...
Michael Fullerton: The Politics of Portraiture
Glasgow painter Michael Fullerton’s new exhibition at Edinburgh’s City Art Centre juxtaposes eighteenth‑century portraiture with contemporary political subjects, including eleven oil portraits of male asylum seekers from the Hilltop Hotel in Carlisle. The works blend warm, meticulous rendering with muted,...
Chobi Mela XI Review: Can We Start Over?
The 11th Chobi Mela photography festival opened in Dhaka on Jan. 16, 2026, under the theme “Re,” inviting artists to explore renewal after the COVID‑19 shutdown and the July 2024 uprising. Curated by Munem Wasif and Sarker Protick, the event features 58...
Sara Flores on Representing Peru at the 61st Venice Biennale
Sara Flores, a Shipibo‑Konibo artist, will represent Peru at the 61st Venice Biennale in the Arsenale pavilion, marking the first time an Indigenous Peruvian has been selected for the national showcase. Her exhibition, "From Other Worlds," combines large‑scale kené paintings,...
Manifesta 16 Ruhr Announces List of Artists
Manifesta 16, the 2026 edition of the nomadic European biennial, will open on 21 June across twelve decommissioned modernist churches in the Ruhr’s four cities. Curated by an eight‑person artistic team, the event showcases 106 artists from 30 countries, including 64 new...
Yang Fudong’s Memory Palace
Yang Fudong’s solo show "Fragrant River" at Beijing’s UCCA showcases 30 video works spanning more than eight hours, opening with the five‑channel installation *Young Man, Young Man* (2025). The exhibition weaves nostalgic vignettes of 1980s‑90s hutong life, furniture‑industry imagery from...
Golnar Adili’s Family Archive
Golnar Adili’s Smack Mellon exhibition, “To Measure the Emotions of Others,” transforms family letters from the post‑1979 Iranian diaspora into sculptural and textual installations. The centerpiece, *Ye Harvest From the Eleven‑Page Letter–Installation*, repeats the Persian “ye” character in archival cardboard,...
Louise Bourgeois’s Body Clock
Louise Bourgeois: Echoes of the Morning opens at PoMo in Trondheim, showcasing the artist’s late‑period gouaches alongside her iconic large‑scale sculptures and tapestries. The show centers on the 2006 installation *Peaux de lapins, chiffons ferrailles à vendre* and a series...
Jan Vorisek’s Flaccid Columns
Jan Vorisek’s “Elbows” installation at Arcadia Missa transforms mass‑market plastic column moulds into curving, hollow sculptures. The work pairs original ABS moulds with 3D‑printed articulations that bend the straight forms into worm‑like elbows. By using cheap Chinese‑made architectural kits, the...
Glasgow International Announces Full 2026 Programme
Glasgow International has unveiled the full programme for its 11th biennial, scheduled from 5 to 21 June 2026 under the new artistic direction of Helen Nisbet. The festival will probe artistic experimentation, personal and ancestral memory, intergenerational kinship and cross‑cultural...
Museum as Dreaming Machine
Refik Anadol argues that legacy museums can’t easily accommodate mutable AI‑driven art, prompting the creation of DATALAND – a purpose‑built museum where architecture and machine intelligence co‑create. The project embeds a Large Nature Model trained on ethically sourced ecological data,...
Michael Clark’s Controlled Movements
Michael Clark’s 2003 solo *Satie Studs* returned to the Serpentine Galleries in February 2026, performed barefoot by Jules Cunningham. Set to Erik Satie’s first *Quatre Préludes*, the piece strips ballet and yoga gestures to stark, controlled poses. The choreography contrasts sharply with Clark’s earlier...
Maja Malou Lyse on Representing Denmark at the 61st Venice Biennale
Denmark’s Maja Malou Lyse will present “Things To Come” at the 61st Venice Biennale, a project that fuses scientific research, speculative fiction, and explicit erotic imagery. Inspired by a study linking virtual sexual stimuli to sperm motility, the work interrogates...
Tuwaiq Sculpture 2026 Presented by Riyadh Art
The seventh edition of Tuwaiq Sculpture returns to Riyadh from 12 January to 22 February 2026, featuring 25 artists from 18 countries who will create large‑scale works live on Tahlia Street. Curated under the theme “Traces of What Will Be,” the programme...
Nat Faulkner: The Stuff of Photography
Nat Faulkner’s 2026 Camden Art Centre exhibition reframes photography as a chemical and physical act rather than a purely visual one. Installations like *Aperture (Iodine)* use iodine‑filled panels to bathe the space in amber light, while *Aqua Fortis* and *Moth‑catcher*...
Craig Jun Li: Scrapping the Camera
Craig Jun Li’s solo show at Chapter NY revisits analog photography by dismantling camera components and presenting them as silicone‑based wall installations. The works pair distorted dye‑transfer prints of projector interiors with Polaroid images, and incorporate actual SX‑70 springs, foregrounding...
Joe Moss, Drones and Caspar David Friedrich
Joe Moss’s new installation *Automated Fantasy Procedure* at Matt’s Gallery revives the post‑internet aesthetic of the late 2000s while injecting fresh concerns about drone warfare and machine agency. Small research drones hover above visitors, while dual screens project a mash‑up...
The Interview: Kei Ishikawa
Japanese filmmaker Kei Ishikawa has directed a cinematic adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s debut novel A Pale View of Hills, releasing in UK cinemas on March 13, 2026. The film expands the original 1980s‑Britain narrative into a dual‑timeline drama, introduces a...
Lubaina Himid on Representing Great Britain at the 61st Venice Biennale
Lubaina Himid will represent Great Britain at the 61st Venice Biennale with an installation of large multi‑panel paintings, found‑object works, and a bespoke sound piece by Magda Stawarska. The project, inspired by her lifelong quest to understand belonging, navigates melancholy...
A First Look at Su Yu-Xin’s ‘Afterstone’
Taiwanese artist Su Yu‑Xin presents “Afterstone” at Lo Studio in Venice. The show features about fifteen paintings and more than a dozen wax‑based sculptures that use hand‑ground pigments sourced from Pacific coastal soils, minerals and shells. By treating colour as...
Art Basel Hong Kong Screening and Talk: Ayoung Kim and ikkibawiKrrr
The Korea Arts Management Service and ArtReview hosted a special screening at Art Basel Hong Kong titled “Life as a System: Time, Labor, and Storytelling in Contemporary Moving Image.” The program featured Ayoung Kim’s AI‑enhanced film Al‑Mather Plot 1991 and ikkibawiKrrr’s...
Notes From New York: Independent Study
The "Future Schools" exhibition at the National Academy of Design spotlights a growing crisis in U.S. art education, where faculty departures, funding cuts, and a shift toward contingent staffing threaten departmental stability. Artists like Chloë Bass draw on Joseph Beuys’s...
How to Take R. Crumb at Face Value
R. Crumb’s solo show "There’s No End to the Nonsense" opened at David Zwirner in London, spanning two floors and works from the 1960s to 2025. The exhibition places his notorious crude, sexual imagery beside more tender, humanistic pieces, presenting the...
Clémence De La Tour Du Pin’s Atmospheric Meditations
French artist Clémence de La Tour du Pin presents a new show at Derosia, New York, featuring four untitled, six‑centimetre‑high assemblages that span six metres each. The works combine discarded urban objects—umbrella spokes, tangled silk—with wax, oil paint and linen,...