David Smalling: Elizabethan Collar at Galerie Templon by Emann Odufu
David Smalling’s solo show "Elizabethan Collar" opened at Galerie Templon, running through April 25, 2026. The exhibition presents a series of oil‑on‑panel vignettes that fuse classical European painting techniques with contemporary symbols of Black masculinity, fertility and mortality. Smalling’s process combines hand‑drawn sketches, digital refinement and a physics‑based pigment‑mixing system, resulting in thin glazes that reveal wood grain. The work’s recurring motifs—eggs, snails, brass instruments and pink‑toned accessories—serve as a personal journal on identity, responsibility and rebirth.
Pots and Paintings: An Interview with Jake Clark by Sara Cemin
Brooklyn artist Jake Clark is debuting a mixed‑media show at A Hug From the Art World, pairing his signature hand‑crafted ceramic pots with large‑scale paintings. The works reinterpret 1950s‑60s American advertising icons—Brillo soap pads, vintage billboards, and cartoonish brand mascots—using oil‑acrylic layers that echo the...
New York City African Queens: Carol Beckwith &Angela Fisher by David Jager
British photographers Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher, who have spent 47 years documenting African tribal rituals, have had their extensive photographic archive acquired by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art. Their work spans 150 cultures across all 54 African...
South Africa Palma: The Conference of the Palm Trees. Artist Mehdi-Georges Lahlou and Curator Virginie Puertolas-Syn in Conversation. By Petra...
Mehdi‑Georges Lahlou’s solo show "Palma: The Conference of the Palm Trees" opens at Cuturi Gallery Singapore, curated by Virginie Puertolas‑Syn, and runs until May 9, 2026. The exhibition reinterprets Farid ud‑Din Attar’s Sufi poem by replacing birds with palms, using the tree as a...
Saving the Bowery Wall: How Tomokazu Matsuyama Revived New York's Most Iconic Street Art Canvas by Scott Orr
Tomokazu Matsuyama, a Brooklyn‑based artist, spent his own money in September 2023 to repaint New York’s iconic Bowery Wall with his "Color of the City" mural, ending a two‑and‑a‑half‑year period of unchecked tagging. The wall, once curated by Jessica Goldman Srebnick...
New Orleans Robin Levy: American Model April 4th April 26th SMITH Contemporary by Adam Falik
Robin Levy’s "American Model" at Smith Contemporary (April 4‑26) confronts the legacy of Nazi identification symbols by repurposing WWII‑era velvet triangles, prisoner jackets, and a yellow bench. The installation invites visitors to try on the jackets, pose for Polaroids, and view...
Sakura: A Season of Becoming A Transnational Group Exhibition Exploring the Artistic Metaphors of Cherry Blossoming by WM
The Romanian Cultural Institute’s Brâncuși Gallery in New York will host “Sakura: A Season of Becoming,” a transnational group exhibition running April 17‑May 15, 2026. Curated by Kyoko Sato and Luisa Tuntuc, the show features 11 artists from the United States, Japan,...
New York City Louise Bourgeois at Hauser &Wirth by Jonathan Goodman
Louise Bourgeois’s work returns to New York with a major retrospective at Hauser & Wirth in Chelsea, opening April 12, 2026. The show assembles signature pieces such as the kinetic sculpture “Twosome” (1991), the marble “Untitled (With Hand)” (1989), and the 2006 watercolor series “Ray...
New York City Layla Love Wants to Make Art that Could Stop Wars. By Anthony Haden-Guest
Layla Love, a New York‑based multidisciplinary artist, has spent 15 years developing her Butterfly Effect series, a complex blend of photography, painting, gold leaf and light‑mapping that never repeats a technique. Drawing on experiences from war‑zone photojournalism, teaching autistic children,...
New York City Kyle Staver: Radioactive Luminosity by Raphy Sarkissian
Kyle Staver’s solo exhibition, *The Greatest Show on Earth*, opened at Nino Mier Gallery in Tribeca on November 7, 2025, running through December 16. The show pairs large‑scale oil paintings with hand‑crafted clay reliefs, using circus imagery to explore the tension between body and...
New York City Anish Kapoor: Primordiality by Raphy Sarkissian
Anish Kapoor’s latest Lisson Gallery show, running Feb‑Apr 2026, features three pristine mirrored panels and a suite of concave‑convex sculptures that turn the gallery space into a constantly shifting visual field. Curated within Markus Dochantschi’s steel‑beam and neon architecture, the...
What You See Is Already Shifting - Curated by Gin Lin by Clare Gemima
"What You See Is Already Shifting," curated by Gin Lin at Cub_ism_ Artspace in Shanghai (March 14–April 25 2026), gathers five artists who treat perception as a mutable, real‑time negotiation. Silvia Muleo’s 2024 oil‑pastel diptych blurs digital‑physical boundaries, while Sam King’s 2025 paintings deploy pixel‑like brushwork...
New York City Pushing Open the Door of Yesterday: Xiangjie Rebecca Wu at LATITUDE Gallery by Ruichao Jiang
Xiangjie Rebecca Wu’s solo exhibition "A Room Rehearses Its Own" opens at LATITUDE Gallery in New York, running March 18‑April 26, 2026. Curated by Xiaojing Zhu, the show presents oil paintings that transform domestic interiors into memory‑laden spaces, echoing the artist’s rural Chinese...
In Minor Keys: Art as a Sensory Ecosystem at the 61st Venice Biennale by Margherita Artoni
The 61st Venice Biennale, curated posthumously as Koyo Kouoh’s final project, showcases 111 artists across the Giardini, Arsenale and satellite venues. Titled *In Minor Keys*, the exhibition foregrounds low‑frequency, sensory‑driven experiences that treat space, artwork and visitor as a mutable...
New York City Blur as Method: Memory, Perception, and the Instability of the Present by Shuhan Zhang
The Nugyen Wahed Gallery’s exhibition "When Blurry Memories Awaken" reframes memory as a fluid, ongoing process rather than a static archive. Curated by Jinyi Freya Xu, the show dissolves boundaries between painting, photography and installation, using blur to activate perception...