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Spanish conceptual artist Santiago Sierra began a new durational performance in London on 22 September at 6pm UK time, consisting of a continuous reading of the names of Palestinians killed since the...
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ARTnews reports that the Metropolitan Museum of Art has acquired 38 works by Chinese ink painter Chang Dai-chien, spanning studies from his time at the Dunhuang Buddhist cave complex in the 1940s and...
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Hyperallergic reports that Naomi Beckwith, artistic director of Documenta 16 in Kassel, said she is “not afraid” of potential pro-Palestine protest at the exhibition and affirmed that “people have a...
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A Hyperallergic essay examines Mexican-American devotional altars to La Virgen de Guadalupe in Chicago, arguing that they function as a craft tradition that helps migrants remake “home” in new and...
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A commentator reflecting on co-curating Tate Britain’s 2014 exhibition “Kenneth Clark: Looking for Civilisation” argues that museums should be cautious when adding audio and video to gallery spaces....
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MoMA’s exhibition “Taking Back Our Space: Photographic Perspectives” uses Marianne Wex’s 1972–1977 Hamburg street photographs—compiled into her influential project “Let’s Take Back Our Space:...
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Turner Prize-winning artist and investigator Lawrence Abu Hamdan will lead “Repercussions,” described as the Barbican Centre’s first cross-arts takeover spanning visual art, film, music, and...
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A two-venue exhibition in Nanchang marking the 400th anniversary of traditional Chinese painter Bada Shanren (Zhu Da, 1626–1705) has drawn unexpectedly strong interest from young visitors. “So Lofty...
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A Hyperallergic roundup highlights criticism and news items centered on art, celebrity, and institutional politics, including a review of Sleth’s play “The Wreck of the Unbelievable” at the Brick...
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Naomi Beckwith, the Guggenheim Museum’s deputy director and chief curator, said in an interview with Die Zeit that “a few” artists have declined invitations to participate in Documenta 16 because of...
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Nearly two inches of rain fell in about an hour in Florence, Italy, causing flooding and leaks at the Uffizi Gallery and Palazzo Pitti, Euro News reported. At the Uffizi, water leaked beneath a...
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Hyperallergic reviews Taryn Simon’s exhibition Father Country I Do Love You at the Guggenheim Museum as a sprawling “detective story” that frames injustice as systemic rather than the result of...
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Johnny Depp’s exhibition “Johnny Depp: A Bunch of Stuff Presents Figures of the Fringe” has opened at Modern Art Museum (MAM) Shanghai, marking the actor’s first exhibition in China after a 2024...
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ARTnews reviews Taryn Simon’s Guggenheim Museum exhibition Father Country I Do Love You as a major project created for the United States’ 250th anniversary, filling the New York museum’s rotunda with...
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The Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (Malba) has selected Mexican architect Frida Escobedo to design an expansion built beneath the adjacent Plaza Perú that will double the museum’s...
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Pace Prints has acquired Brand X Editions, a New York printmaking studio and publisher founded in 1979 by Robert Blanton and known for collaborations with artists including Robert Rauschenberg, Roy...
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York broke ground Tuesday on the Tang Wing, a new modern and contemporary art wing named for emeritus trustee Oscar L. Tang and his wife H. M. Agnes Hsu-Tang....
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Chinese artist Liang Shaoji, known for installations made in collaboration with silkworms, died in Shanghai at age 81 after an illness, according to an announcement by ShanghART Gallery. Beginning in...
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Pope Leo XIV marked his 71st birthday on Monday by opening the exhibition “AQVA: Catastrophe and Wonder” at the Vatican Apostolic Library in Vatican City, featuring a major installation by French...
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A survey of photographer Sunil Gupta opening this month at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge highlights how his work merges personal experience with activist commentary, including the 1999 series “From Here...
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The Oakland Museum of California is presenting Poetics of Memory, the first museum survey of Bay Area artist Mildred Howard, on view through October 18. Spanning more than 50 years, the exhibition...
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art broke ground on September 15 for its Tang Wing for modern and contemporary art, designed by Mexican architect Frida Escobedo. At a ceremony in the museum’s European...
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Painter Lucy Bull has joined mega-gallery Hauser & Wirth, which operates 16 spaces across three continents, while continuing representation with David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles and New York,...
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The Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine, is presenting Imagining an Archipelago: Art from Cuba, Guam, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Their Diasporas, an exhibition featuring more than...
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Pro-Palestine group Energy Embargo for Palestine protested in the British Museum’s Great Hall on September 10 during the opening weekend of the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition. The action followed...
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President Donald Trump criticized the Smithsonian Institution on Truth Social on Friday, September 11, calling for the National Museum of American History to install a 30-foot-tall statue of George...
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A major James McNeill Whistler retrospective at Tate Britain in London argues that the artist’s brushwork, limited palettes, and compositional restraint were aimed at achieving visual harmony rather...
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In late Friday Truth Social posts, President Donald Trump demanded that the Smithsonian Institution install a monumental 11-foot statue of George Washington outside the National Museum of American...
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ARTnews revisits Janine Antoni’s practice through footage from a 2003 Art21 feature showing her remaking a bust from her landmark installation Lick and Lather (1993), commissioned for that year’s...
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The British Museum opened its Bayeux Tapestry exhibition to the public, and a first-day visitor reported waiting about 45 minutes in combined queues before entering the dimly lit gallery. The...
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The UK AIDS Memorial Quilt will return to Scotland for a full exhibition at Glasgow’s Tramway beginning Saturday, September 12, running through October 4, marking the first time it will be shown in...
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A portrait of billionaire entrepreneur Igor Tulchinsky is on public view in the British Museum’s Bayeux Tapestry exhibition amid scrutiny of his ties to Israel’s defense sector. The painting, by...
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A pop-up exhibition and bookmobile carrying millions of publicly released files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein began a US tour in Dallas, timed with the Republican party’s midterm...
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UAE minister of state Noura bint Mohammed Al Kaabi said the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi will present a “new story” about the Middle East as it prepares to open on Saadiyat Island on December 11 after...
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Maurizio Cattelan has opened a major exhibition titled “NIGHT” at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie, curated by Lisa Botti in collaboration with museum director Klaus Biesenbach and the artist. The show...
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The Canopy at 900 North Michigan Shops in Chicago has partnered with the Art Institute of Chicago and The Joffrey Ballet on “Excavation of Movement,” an immersive digital project inspired by Willem...
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OCAD University is presenting Canada’s Pavilion at the 2026 Gwangju Biennale with “Skennen'kó:wa ken? (Do You Carry Great Peace?),” which opened on September 5 and runs through November 15, 2026....
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Kanal-Centre Pompidou in Brussels is scheduled to open on November 28 after a decade of delays and renovations costing more than €250 million ($290 million). Housed in a 430,000-square-foot former...
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The D. Daskalopoulos Collection announced a donation of 51 artworks to four museums in Greece and Scotland, with most works going to the Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, MOMUS (the Metropolitan...
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A Hyperallergic feature describes a renewed surge of figurative painting in Brazil led by women artists, arguing that recent work brings heightened urgency compared with earlier institutional...
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“If Emmett Till Lived: Freedom on American Ground” at the Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) in Chicago reframes the story of Emmett Till by imagining the life he might have lived after his...
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Philippe Parreno’s melting sculpture Iceman in Reality Park (1995–2023) will make its New York debut at Independent 20th Century in the Breuer building, presented by Esther Schipper. The gallery’s...
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ARTnews highlighted five notable works at Portland’s Converge 45 triennial, founded in 2016 by dealer Elizabeth Leach to draw attention to art on the 45th parallel. The latest edition, titled “Here,...
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Banco Santander is opening a new museum, Faro Santander, on 8 September in Santander, Spain, to display its 1,000-work art collection, which includes artists such as Lucas Cranach the Elder,...
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The St Louis triennial Counterpublic is implementing a climate impact strategy for its 2026 edition, Coyote Time, running 10 September–13 December, to reduce the environmental footprint of...
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The National Portrait Gallery in London has launched a new contemporary initiative, Artist Focus, with three free-admission exhibitions annually in the Weston Wing. The inaugural Artist Focus...
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Jenny Holzer and Andy Goldsworthy are among the five recipients of Japan’s 37th Praemium Imperiale, a major international lifetime-achievement prize, and will each receive 15 million yen (about...
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The $1bn Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is scheduled to open in Los Angeles’s Exposition Park on 22 September, eight years after its 2018 groundbreaking and after delays from an original 2021 target....
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Mexican curator and art historian Cuauhtémoc Medina has been appointed to curate the 25th Bienal de Arte Paiz, organized by the Fundación Paiz para la Educación y la Cultura and scheduled to open in...
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Vincent van Gogh’s Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe, painted in mid-January 1889, will be a centerpiece of Gustave Fayet, Collector-Designer: Icons of Modern Art at the Fondation Louis...
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Germany’s Kunstmuseum Magdeburg, a municipally funded contemporary art museum in an 11th-century building, faces uncertainty over regional arts funding as Saxony-Anhalt holds a pivotal state election...
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Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is opening Divination: Beverly Buchanan & Dionne Lee this month, pairing the late US artist Beverly Buchanan (1940–2015) with Ohio-based artist Dionne Lee to examine...
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Chinese artists scheduled to participate in the 16th Gwangju Biennale officially withdrew on the eve of the exhibition’s opening on September 5, following a directive from the Chinese embassy in...
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A youthful Rembrandt self-portrait illegally removed from Gotha in 1946 will return temporarily on loan from Munich’s Alte Pinakothek for an exhibition at the Herzogliches Museum (Ducal Museum) in...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Stephan Jost will step down as director and chief executive of the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) on 31 December, ending a tenure that began in 2016. During his leadership, the AGO reported that a...
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Tate Modern’s exhibition “Frida: The Making of an Icon” examines how Frida Kahlo’s image and mythology were constructed and later reused, rather than presenting a large-scale survey of her paintings....
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Frieze Seoul opened its fifth edition at COEX in Gangnam in partnership with Kiaf Seoul, drawing heavy VIP attendance alongside biennial openings in Gwangju and Busan, though first-day sales were...
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Japanese visual artist and composer Ryoji Ikeda has won the ninth Nam June Paik Prize, a biannual award that includes a ₩50 million (about $36,807) purse and a solo exhibition at the Nam June Paik...
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The Institute of Contemporary Art, San Diego (ICA) laid off eight staff members—nearly half its workforce—between 29 July and 16 August, citing an ongoing financial crisis; the cuts included the...
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South Korea’s Busan Biennale and Gwangju Biennale are running around Seoul art week with themes focused on resistance and transformation. The Busan Biennale, titled “Dissident Chorus,” is open until...
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Gwangju’s city government issued a formal apology to mainland China after the Gwangju Biennale renamed an exhibition the “Taiwan Pavilion,” and it reiterated support for the “One China Policy,”...
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An administrative court in Caen, France, ruled on Monday that Deauville city hall was wrong to remove an Associated Press photograph taken in Gaza from the Deauville Sport Images Festival’s outdoor...
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and British fashion designer John Galliano canceled a planned Costume Institute exhibition honoring Galliano after backlash over his past antisemitic...
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London’s Science Museum Group (SMG) confirmed on Friday, 28 August, that its sponsorship partnership with BP will end on 31 August at the conclusion of its agreed term, closing a relationship that...
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The Vienna Actionism Museum (WAM), which opened in March 2024, is facing renewed controversy ahead of its Otto Muehl retrospective, “Otto Muehl: Art on the Precipice,” opening September 10 and...
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UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has retreated from earlier calls to return the Parthenon (Elgin) Marbles to Greece, telling the Financial Times that the matter is ultimately for the British Museum and...
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The British Museum hosted Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel for a VIP viewing of the Bayeux Tapestry on August 18, prompting concerns among staff, according to a Guardian report cited by Hyperallergic....
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ARTnews’s roundup “84 Museum Exhibitions and Biennials to See This Fall” surveys major museum shows and biennials opening in the fall season, noting a strong curatorial focus on art made in response...
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A platinum Art Deco necklace commissioned in 1938 by Queen Nazli of Egypt and set with 673 baguette-cut and brilliant-cut diamonds was stolen in a daytime heist at Vienna’s Museum of Applied Arts...
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The Art Newspaper reviews Oscar Ho Hing-kay’s book Hong Kong Art: A Curator’s History (1987–2004), which uses a memoir-like, first-person curatorial perspective to chart Hong Kong’s contemporary art...
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The Art Newspaper’s Mary Richards, publisher at London’s Hayward Gallery, recommends five books as an expert guide to understanding Anish Kapoor’s five-decade career, timed to a major Hayward...
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Hyperallergic publishes an editor’s note introducing artist and writer Lia Strasser’s personal essay responding to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s forthcoming exhibition Krasner and Pollock: Past...
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Pace Gallery founder Arne Glimcher is among politicians and public figures criticizing the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s planned John Galliano exhibition, according to a New York Times report...
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Palestinian artist Sliman Mansour died on Monday, 24 August, aged 79, and his funeral was held Wednesday, 26 August, at the Anglican Church in his hometown of Birzeit in the occupied West Bank,...
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China has ordered its artists to withdraw from the 16th Gwangju Biennale, which opens September 5, after the Gwangju Biennial Foundation (GBF) allowed Taiwanese exhibitors to participate under the...
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“Bigger Picture: Connected worlds of Bruges 900–1550,” the inaugural exhibition of BRUSK, a new gallery attached to Bruges’s Groeningemuseum, aims to challenge the city’s image as isolated by...
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Demolition is underway on Tbilisi’s Rike Park Music Theatre and Exhibition Hall, a futuristic two-structure complex nicknamed the “Rike Tubes,” prompting protests from residents, architects, and...
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A major Félix González-Torres survey titled “Sweet Revenge” is on view at Madrid’s Museo Reina Sofía until 12 October, revisiting the artist’s complicated relationship with Spain, where he arrived...
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The documentary Amelia Toledo: Lembrar de Não Esquecer (Don’t Forget to Remember) surveys the five-decade career of Brazilian artist Amélia Toledo (born 1926 in São Paulo; died 2017 in Cotia),...
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Bonniers Konsthall in Stockholm is presenting The Defeated: The Aesthetics of Resistance 2026, an exhibition on antifascist art and cultural resistance featuring 19 international artists and running...
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Artist Yayoi Kusama died on August 14 at age 97, prompting widespread tributes from artists, galleries, museums, and fashion brands that highlighted her influence through works such as dotted...
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A platinum Van Cleef & Arpels diamond necklace valued at $4.3 million was stolen from Vienna’s Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) on Thursday after two men entered as ordinary visitors, smashed a display...
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Malagasy collector and entrepreneur Hasnaine Yavarhoussen helped enable Madagascar’s debut pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2019 after meeting artist Joël Andrianomearisoa the year before and...
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Turkish media executive Vuslat Doğan Sabancı—known professionally as Vuslat—made art privately for nearly 20 years while serving as chief executive of Hürriyet, Turkey’s largest newspaper, often...
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Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, known worldwide for her polka dots, pumpkins, and immersive Infinity Mirror Rooms, died aged 97 on 14 August in a Tokyo hospital from multiple organ failure, the Yayoi...
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Lisa Havilah has stepped aside as chief executive officer of Sydney’s A$915m Powerhouse Parramatta museum project, New South Wales arts minister John Graham announced on 27 August, pending...
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The founders of the alternative art fair Basel Social Club will launch a Tokyo offshoot called Tokyo Jazz Club during Art Week Tokyo, running 1–8 November in a former capsule hotel in Jimbocho....
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The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York will present “Freedom and Futures: Emancipatory Art in Africa, 1956–1982” from May 2 to August 14, 2027, a thematic exhibition on mid-century African...
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After Indigenous artist Sakuliu Pavavaljung was stripped of Taiwan’s National Award for Arts following his sexual-assault conviction in April, curators and artists have pointed to a generational...
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Tai Kwun Contemporary in Hong Kong announced that Anne Imhof will present her first solo exhibition in Asia, titled “House of Swans,” opening next month and spanning three floors of the JC...
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Hong Kong non-profit art space Para Site marked its 30th anniversary in 2026 as it entered a new phase under executive director James Taylor-Foster, a 33-year-old British curator who took the role...
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A major survey of British sculptor Cathy de Monchaux, titled “Studio Wounds and Battles: Desire is the Reiteration of Hope,” opened at Paris’s Palais de Tokyo, marking her first significant...
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The inaugural Medina Triennial in Medina, New York, presented a community-wide exhibition across 10 locations in a rural town bisected by the Erie Canal, bringing together more than 100 artworks by...
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Taiwanese artists accused South Korea’s Gwangju Biennale of political censorship after organizers removed the word “Taiwan” from the pavilion’s official name in promotional materials. The artists...
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Brazil’s São Paulo state civil police recovered eight works by Henri Matisse stolen in an armed robbery at the Mário de Andrade Library on 7 December 2025, returning them to the library, though five...
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Frieze Seoul announced it will move to Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP), the Zaha Hadid–designed cultural center that opened in 2014, starting with the fair’s 2027 edition because its current venue,...
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American abstract painter Mary Heilmann died on 14 August at age 86 on Long Island, New York, from “complications from a fall,” according to an announcement by her studio director. Born in San...
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Two Swedish-American buyers, Yoed and Natasha Anise, filed suit against London’s Alison Jacques gallery alleging breach of contract after the sale of three 1990s paintings by Swedish-born artist...
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“Strange Rules,” an exhibition at Venice’s Palazzo Diedo, presents a curatorial argument about how art should be defined amid technologies such as blockchain and generative AI. Curated by Mat...
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ARTnews highlighted renewed attention to Romanian-born sculptor Constantin Brancusi (1876–1957) following Christie’s promotional short film featuring Nicole Kidman with his bronze-and-gold-leaf...
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Hyperallergic’s “Betye Saar, Picasso, BlackStar,” introduced by editor-in-chief Hakim Bishara, highlights several art-world stories including a little-known account of a stolen Pablo Picasso work...
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Abstract painter Mary Heilmann died at 86 on Friday in Riverhead, New York, due to complications from a fall, according to an Instagram announcement by her studio. Heilmann received her first solo...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Yoed and Natasha Anise are suing London’s Alison Jacques gallery for breach of contract after the gallery cancelled the sale of three Monica Sjöö (1938–2005) paintings following objections from the...
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Collateral exhibitions at the 61st Venice Biennale, running in Venice until late November, are highlighting digital art’s range and potential amid broader cultural skepticism. Shows hosted by the...
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The town of East Hampton has sued over “Meditating Figure (2026),” a nearly 60-foot-tall sculpture made from 12 decommissioned shipping containers by Los Angeles artist Matt Johnson, installed at the...
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On 5 August, the San Diego Museum of Art (SDMA) laid off 11 employees, including at least one guard, two registrars, two preparators, an exhibition manager, a development director, and a membership...
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Steven Nelson, a former senior executive at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., accused the museum of “soft censorship” after it relocated a symposium connected to an exhibition on race...
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SF Camerawork, a San Francisco nonprofit dedicated to photography, announced it will close after 52 years, with its final day set for August 16. The closure will coincide with the end of John...
Hyperallergic
A review of the Hammer Museum exhibition Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials describes the show as immersive in moments but ultimately overly cautious. The critic...
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Sid Motion Gallery, a South London commercial gallery founded by Sid Motion in 2016, will close in autumn after a decade of operating, with Motion saying she chose to end the business while its...
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The San Diego Museum of Art laid off 11 employees on Wednesday, August 5, citing rising operational costs and uncertainty around funding. The job cuts affected staff in programs, development,...
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London dealer Sid Motion will close Sid Motion gallery in South Bermondsey when its fall exhibition ends, citing economic pressures and a desire not to compromise support for her artists. The...
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SF Camerawork, a San Francisco photography exhibition nonprofit, announced it will close after 52 years, citing rising operating costs, declining public funding, and a changing philanthropic...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic profiles filmmaker and curator Maori Karmael Holmes as she reflects on 15 years of the BlackStar Film Festival, held in Philadelphia from August 6 to 9 for its 15th edition. Founded in...
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Florence’s Gallerie degli Uffizi announced an “unprecedented” €50 million revamp spanning the Uffizi Gallery, Palazzo Pitti, and the 11-acre Boboli Gardens, with completion expected within two years....
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Hyperallergic reviews “Fragments of Home,” an exhibition of fractured portraits by Nathaniel Mary Quinn at Chicago’s National Public Housing Museum (NPHM), linking the artist’s work to memory,...
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Vincent van Gogh’s painting Tarascon Stagecoach (October 1888), made in Arles, will be shown in New York as part of the touring exhibition “Cézanne to Modigliani: Gifts of Modern Art from the...
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The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, DC, will present “From the Louvre: Masterpieces of Islamic Art,” opening September 26, featuring 26 Islamic artworks on loan from the...
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The New Museum in Manhattan will open “The Bowery: Devil’s Mile” on September 24, an exhibition tracing roughly 400 years of history along the Bowery through archival materials, artifacts, and...
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The Ditchling Museum of Art and Craft in Sussex, which announced a temporary public closure in January after its final group exhibition “It Takes a Village,” extended that closure in April, released...
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The Uffizi Galleries in Florence announced a €50 million ($57.6 million) renovation program spanning the Gallery of Statues and Paintings, Palazzo Pitti, and the Boboli Gardens, with work staged so...
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Less than two months after opening its $175 million Tang Wing for American Democracy, the New York Historical replaced 17 objects in its inaugural exhibition “Democracy Matters,” which opened June...
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Armenian-Egyptian artist Anna Boghiguian is presenting “Weaving Culture” at the National Gallery of Armenia in Yerevan, a project that narrates Armenia’s natural history through textiles. Curator...
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Valerie Hillings, director of the North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) since 2018, has been appointed the inaugural director of Guggenheim Abu Dhabi ahead of its opening later this year. The museum,...
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The Musée du Louvre will lend 26 works from its Islamic art collection to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, DC, for the exhibition From the Louvre: Masterpieces of Islamic...
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Kimsooja has returned to Toronto with “Kimsooja: Dimensions of a Needle” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (MOCA), her first Toronto exhibition in 30 years. The show surveys work from the...
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Campaigners and cultural figures are urging the Scottish government to intervene to prevent the possible sale of the archive of Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), which was listed among...
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The Guggenheim Museum in New York will open a solo exhibition by Taryn Simon on September 18, dedicating the entire Frank Lloyd Wright–designed rotunda to a single artist’s entirely new body of work...
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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation announced that the Frank Gehry–designed Guggenheim Abu Dhabi will open on December 11, following about 20 years of delays and allegations of abuse against migrant...
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Hyperallergic reviews Ellen Pau: She Moves at SculptureCenter, describing it as the first United States survey of Hong Kong video art pioneer Ellen Pau, curated by Freya Chou with exhibition design...
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Gagosian has closed its small London space in Burlington Arcade and will soon close its Basel, Switzerland, location at Rheinsprung 1, according to reporting cited by ARTnews. The Burlington Arcade...
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In a Hyperallergic roundup introduced by editor-in-chief Hakim Bishara, the publication highlights Paddy Johnson’s Art Problems column on coping with “toxic people” in the art world and Ed Simon’s...
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Gagosian has exited 28–29 Burlington Arcade in central London, a two-storey space it began programming in October 2023, and plans to leave its Basel gallery at Rheinsprung 1 in the coming months,...
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Gail Asper, whose father Izzy Asper helped conceive and finance the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) in Winnipeg, said her family will stop funding the museum over concerns about the...
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A solo exhibition of Photorealist painter Richard Estes titled Richard Estes: My Camera Is My Sketchbook is on view at Schoelkopf Gallery in New York through August 21, presenting new paintings...
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The MIT List Visual Arts Center exhibition “Performing Conditions: Artistic Labor and Dependency as Form” foregrounds the real costs of mounting a group show by displaying its budget as a wall decal...
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The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, a Frank Gehry–designed museum whose contract reportedly grew to $1 billion, has set its opening for December 11, keeping it on track for a 2026 debut after being announced...
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Assemblage artist Betye Saar died on July 26, four days before her 100th birthday; she was born in Los Angeles in 1926 and worked for six decades using found objects to address race, politics, and...
Hyperallergic
A Hyperallergic essay argues that German-Jewish philosopher and media theorist Walter Benjamin anticipated contemporary concerns about AI-generated imagery through his critique of photography. In his...
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Banco Santander Foundation will open Faro Santander, a new art museum and cultural hub on Spain’s northern coast, on September 8 in the bank’s former headquarters, the 231-year-old Pereda Building on...
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Low Kee Hong has been appointed artistic director of the 26th Biennale of Sydney, scheduled for 2028, following his work as creative director of Factory International in Manchester. His recent...
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The Whitney Museum of American Art will open “Roy Lichtenstein: Like New” on October 11, 2026, after delaying the exhibition originally planned for 2023 as part of centennial celebrations that...
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“Clockwork,” Sable Elyse Smith’s exhibition at the Contemporary Austin, presents a sustained critique of the US prison-industrial complex and is described as the culmination of her winning the 2026...
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A survey titled “Emory Douglas: In Our Lifetime” at San Francisco’s African American Art and Culture Complex traces the career of Emory Douglas, the former Black Panther Party minister of culture,...
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Banco Santander Foundation set September 8, 2026, as the opening date for its new art center, Faro Santander, and announced three inaugural exhibitions, including a Leonora Carrington solo and...
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Ukrainian artist Oleksandr Dubovyk, who turns 95 on 1 August, discussed his life and work with The Art Newspaper earlier this year while his art was shown at the Dom Master Klass Cultural Centre in...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic highlighted debate around David Hockney’s late digital works, focusing on a 295-foot (about 90-meter) composite iPad “painting,” “A Year in Normandie” (2020–21), shown at Serpentine...
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The Hammer Museum has named Michael Wellen and José Luis Blondet as co-curators of the eighth edition of the Made in L.A. biennial, scheduled to open in fall 2027. Wellen, who became the Hammer’s...
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ARTnews reports that some museum curators increasingly express interest in acquiring artworks but ask dealers to find collectors to fund the purchase, effectively shifting fundraising onto galleries....
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Collectors Anne and Arthur Goldstein have donated more than 70 works of modern and contemporary art to the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University in New Jersey, the museum announced on Wednesday,...
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A Hyperallergic review critiques David Hockney’s large-scale iPad work A Year in Normandie (2020–21), a 295-foot (about 90-meter) composite of more than 100 printed iPad paintings shown at Serpentine...
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A new staging of Yoko Ono’s performance work Cut Piece (1986) was performed by the artist MPA at Redcat in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday, 19 July, as part of a commission connected to Ono’s...
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Smithsonian National Museum of American History director Anthea Hartig, who has led the museum since 2019, faced pointed questioning at a two-hour congressional hearing in which Representative Tim...
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Bolivia’s Museo Nacional de Arqueología (Munarq) reopened in La Paz after a year-long renovation, unveiling a new permanent exhibition titled “Raíces eternas, legados vivos” (“Eternal Roots, Living...
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New York’s New Museum temporarily closed for a weekend after a “significant” leak occurred during flash floods on July 18, with staff using buckets to catch water entering a gallery. The museum said...
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Scottish artist Christine Borland, known for research-driven work engaging forensic science, medical history, and human genetics, died on Sunday at age 60 after cancer; her death was confirmed by...
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Cuban dissident performance artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara arrived in Miami on Saturday, July 18, after uncertainty following his scheduled release from a five-year prison sentence. According to...
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Federal officials installed revised interpretive panels at Philadelphia’s Independence National Historical Park on Wednesday, July 15, after a court fight over the Trump administration’s removal of...
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A Hyperallergic editor’s note by Hakim Bishara highlights recent coverage, including Erin L. Thompson’s investigation into a convicted antiquities dealer whose objects are held by dozens of US...
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Artnet News reports that the Rijksmuseum will mount a major Willem de Kooning survey in Amsterdam in October, featuring more than 120 works and billed as the largest European exhibition of his art in...
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Artnet News reviews a landmark Ana Mendieta retrospective at Tate Modern, on view through January 17, 2027, arguing it restores the Cuban-American artist’s place in 20th-century American art history....
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ARTnews reviews “In the Very Bowels of Change: Surrealism and Antifascism,” an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw that traces Surrealism’s political engagement and resistance to...
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Salvador Salort-Pons, director of the Detroit Institute of Arts and a Velázquez scholar, reported in ARS Magazine that he has identified a previously overlooked Diego Velázquez portrait from 1626 in...
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ARTnews “Morning Links” for July 16, 2026 highlighted a Financial Times profile of Manhattan prosecutor Matthew Bogdanos, focusing on how New York City’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit has recovered...
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The Victoria and Albert (V&A) museum network announced its 2027 exhibition programme across three sites in London and Dundee. At the new V&A East Museum in Stratford (opened April 2026), “South Asia...
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Tate Modern’s major retrospective of Ana Mendieta foregrounds works made during her returns to Cuba beginning in 1980, after she fled the country as a child refugee in 1961. The exhibition opens with...
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SMAC Gallery in Cape Town faces allegations from South African artist Kate Gottgens that it delayed payments and withheld artworks after she ended a nearly 13-year relationship with the gallery late...
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ARTnews reviews “The New Grotesque,” an exhibition at New York’s Management Gallery curated by director Anton Svyatsky that examines how grotesque imagery is evolving in an era of constant...
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Hyperallergic reported that the Metropolitan Museum of Art recently repatriated a marble Roman portrait bust dated to the 2nd century CE after it was traced to Phoenix Ancient Art, a gallery...
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Superblue, the immersive-art venture cofounded in 2020 by Pace CEO Marc Glimcher and Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst, opened its first India presentation at Mumbai’s Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre...
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A July 13, 2026 Artnet News “Paint Drippings” roundup reported that New York investigators returned about $600,000 worth of looted art. The item also previewed upcoming fairs including Artissima’s...
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Tate Modern is preparing a major survey titled “Ana Mendieta” that will present about 150 works and be the UK’s first major Mendieta exhibition in over a decade. The show will frame the Cuban...
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Hyperallergic reviewed “Hujar: Contact,” an exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum devoted entirely to photographer Peter Hujar’s contact sheets, drawn from the archive the Morgan acquired in...
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The European Commission recommended canceling a €2 million grant to the Venice Biennale, citing Russia’s participation in the event, according to an ARTnews report updated on July 13, 2026. Russia...
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In a Hyperallergic weekly roundup, senior editor Valentina Di Liscia highlighted recent coverage ranging from Michael Glover’s review of an Elizabeth I exhibition to Rhea Nayyar’s piece on Surrealist...
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The Bayeux Tapestry has arrived at the British Museum in London, marking its first return to England since it was made in the 1070s, ahead of an autumn display. British Museum director Nicholas...
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Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) and Thailand’s Asset World Corporation (AWC) announced on 10 July plans to create Mona Bangkok on a landmark waterfront site in the Thai capital. Under the...
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Bogotá’s Museo Nacional de Colombia is exhibiting 1,194 pre-Columbian artefacts repatriated to Colombia between 2022 and 2026 during President Gustavo Petro’s outgoing administration, in a show...
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A citizen collective called Defence of the Gelman Collection filed legal action on 1 July against Mexican cultural authorities to challenge a long-term agreement governing the circulation of the...
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Chicago photographer Barbara Karant filed a federal lawsuit in Illinois on May 26 accusing artist Mickalene Thomas of copyright infringement, alleging Thomas “appropriated more than a dozen” of her...
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The Art Newspaper highlights three photography exhibitions at the 57th Les Rencontres d’Arles, where director Christoph Wiesner frames the 2026 programme as “a space for complexity and attentiveness”...
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The New Museum in New York has promoted Massimiliano Gioni, its longtime artistic director, to director of the institution. Gioni, who joined the museum in 2006 as a curator and later became...
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Patti Smith and Soundwalk Collective have opened “Correspondences” at Luma Arles in southern France, billed as the project’s first major European presentation and running until November 8. Installed...
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Photographer Barbara Karant has sued artist Mickalene Thomas in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, alleging copyright infringement for using Karant’s photographs without...
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Germany and the Netherlands have agreed to return 2,000 culturally significant artifacts taken from Ghana during the colonial era, an announcement made at the “Next Steps” conference in Accra....
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The New Museum in New York announced that Massimiliano Gioni, its artistic director since 2014, has been selected as the institution’s next director after months of speculation. Gioni, who joined the...
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The New Museum in New York named Massimiliano Gioni as its next director, with his term beginning August 1, following an international search, according to a statement by board president James-Keith...
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Denmark’s Louisiana Museum of Modern Art announced “Painting Magic,” an exhibition of about 70 works by Spanish-born artist Remedios Varo, running from September 18, 2026, to January 10, 2027, before...
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A 162-page White House Domestic Policy Council report titled “Saving America’s Story,” published online on July 4, accused the Smithsonian Institution of promoting “anti-white” ideology, focusing...
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Artist Chloe Wise’s exhibition “Extrasensory” at Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger in Basel presents an installation styled as a gift shop and botánica, mixing religious items such as crucifixes and...
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Two Chicago exhibitions—“Dispossessions in the Americas: The Extraction of Bodies, Land, and Heritage from La Conquista to the Present” at Wrightwood 659 and “Dancing the Revolution: From Dancehall...
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Italian filmmaker and artist Yervant Gianikian died at 84, according to Italian press reports; he was born in 1942 in Merano, Italy, to Armenian parents. Working frequently with his partner Angela...
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Alexandria Gallery, founded by Irina Falberg, began as a nonprofit pop-up in the Cleveland area with a mission of making art more accessible to new and seasoned collectors. It has since grown into a...
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Hyperallergic profiles artist Akira Ikezoe, whose meticulously detailed oil paintings use anthropomorphic animals—frogs, bears, raccoons, and monkeys—to depict industrial workflows and energy...
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Charles Seliger, who had his first solo show at age 19 at Peggy Guggenheim’s The Art of This Century in 1945, is revisited as an early Abstract Expressionist who pursued an independent,...
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The Newark Museum of Art will mount “Dreamtime in Newark: Aljira and the Making of Global Contemporary Art,” a group exhibition examining the 35-year history of Aljira, the Newark artist-led...
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Italy has opened an exhibition at Rome’s National Etruscan Museum featuring 37 4th-century BC fresco panels from the François Tomb (Tomba François), discovered in 1857 at Vulci in present-day Lazio...
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Ai Weiwei opened a large-scale exhibition titled Button Up! at Factory International’s Aviva Studios in Manchester on 3 July, presenting more than two decades of work alongside new commissions, many...
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Documents released by the US Department of Justice in January as part of the “Epstein files” indicate that investor Leon Black owned major Vincent van Gogh works, including the painting Quarry near...
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Paris gallery Helene Bailly Marcilhac is presenting a summer group exhibition titled “The Seventies,” surveying how artists in the 1970s expanded painting and other media through experimentation and...
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Tickets for the Bayeux Tapestry’s exhibition at the British Museum sold out in just over 24 hours, with the museum calling it the biggest day of ticket sales in its history, according to the...
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A Hyperallergic Fourth of July weekend roundup highlights critic Aruna D’Souza’s essay on the Statue of Liberty as a recurring tool for political expression in art, citing artists including Faith...
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“Democracy Matters,” curated by Wendy Nālani E. Ikemoto, is the inaugural exhibition in the new Tang Wing for American Democracy at the New York Historical and is presented in connection with the...
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The British Museum is marking the United States’ 250th anniversary with a small exhibition, “Declaring independence: USA 250,” that foregrounds Indigenous perspectives on the American Revolution and...
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The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) in Winnipeg opened the 11-metre-long exhibition “Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present” on 27 June, drawing intense scrutiny before and after its...
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The Belvedere in Vienna is presenting a major survey of Polish artist Erna Rosenstein (1913–2004) titled “On the Other Side of Silence,” examining her painting, poetry, and assemblage work shaped by...
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A photograph by Ukrainian artist Boris Mikhailov was stolen from the Lithuanian National Museum of Art’s Radvila Palace Museum of Art in Vilnius on 28 June while on view in the exhibition “Ukrainian...
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Chile’s Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (MNBA) in Santiago canceled a planned León Ferrari (1920–2013) retrospective that had been in preparation for nearly three years and was scheduled to open in...
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At New York’s Swiss Institute, Brooklyn-based artist SoiL Thornton’s exhibition “Metabolizing eviction try, work_mp3 and other games of topping” runs through 5 July and centers on power relations and...
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Canada’s Heritage Minister Marc Miller drew criticism after suggesting the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg should revise language in its exhibition “Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and...
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Skulptur Projekte Münster, the decennial public art exhibition, announced the first five artists for its next edition opening in June 2027, including Hew Locke and Oscar Murillo. The announcement was...
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The Gwangju Biennale announced that the artistic director for its 2028 edition will be chosen through an open call, replacing the previous recommendation-based selection system. Applications opened...
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German conceptual artist Rune Mields died on June 27 in Cologne at age 91, according to a report first carried by the German Press Agency. Born in Münster in 1935 and self-taught after training as a...
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A Hauser & Wirth exhibition titled “Life With P. - Philip Guston: Paintings and Drawings 1964–1978” examines Philip Guston’s shift from abstraction to a cartoon-like figurative language after moving...
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IM Youngzoo’s solo exhibition “The Late,” on view at Brooklyn’s Space ZeroOne through July 25, combines 17 works that connect Korean folk ritual, spirituality, and emerging technologies such as NFTs,...
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A Hyperallergic essay examines how contemporary artists use “countermapping” to challenge the apparent objectivity of cartography, highlighting recent New York exhibitions of the late Venezuelan...
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The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) in Winnipeg opens “Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present” to the public on 27 June, despite opposition from some members of Canada’s Jewish community,...
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On 23 June, Jamaican-born, New York–based artist Nari Ward unveiled “Until That Day” at the Deste Foundation’s Slaughterhouse project space on Hydra, Greece, during collector Dakis Ioannou’s annual...
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The US State Department is accepting design proposals for the United States Pavilion at the 2027 Venice Architecture Biennale, requiring that submissions “exemplify America’s exceptionalism” and...
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Artnet News published a piece titled “How to Make a Sculpture With Sound” about artist Tarek Atoui on June 26, 2026. The provided article text contains navigation and subscription elements but does...
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Manifesta 16 Ruhr, the 30th anniversary edition of the nomadic European biennial, opened on 21 June and runs through 4 October, focusing on how Germany’s disused churches might be repurposed for...
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Turner Prize–winning artist Helen Cammock has withdrawn her 40-minute film Persistence from London’s National Portrait Gallery after complaints about its criticism of Winston Churchill. The work, on...
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A first retrospective of Diné weaver Marilou Schultz opens this week at the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College in upstate New York, curated by Candice Hopkins and featuring about 55 works with...
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Pratt Manhattan Gallery is presenting Beyond Digital: Living Systems & Distributed Intelligence, a group exhibition of seven artists drawn from Pratt Institute’s Digital Arts alumni community....
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The New Museum in New York and Korea’s Ulsan Art Museum announced a multi-year partnership under the Hyundai Translocal Series, a Hyundai Motor Company initiative launched in 2025 as a 10-year...
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The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) released a new resource, “The Artist’s Guide to Defending Artistic Freedom,” offering strategies for artists facing canceled exhibitions, demands to...
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The Art Newspaper reported that the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) released a new resource, “The Artist’s Guide to Defending Artistic Freedom,” advising artists on how to respond when...
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ARTnews reported that Tate Modern’s exhibition “Frida: The Making of an Icon,” opening this month in London, has already sold a record 41,000 advance tickets, surpassing the museum’s previous high of...
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Hyperallergic reviewed vanessa german’s exhibition “…do you remember when you were the sky?” at Louisville’s Speed Art Museum, created as part of the Sam Gilliam Visiting Artist Program. The show...
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ARTnews reported that Israeli optical and kinetic artist Yaacov Agam died at age 98, with the news covered by outlets including the Times of Israel, Haaretz, and the Jerusalem Post. Born Yaacov...
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Artist, activist, author, and philanthropist Daniel “Danny” Simmons has died at age 72, his family announced, with no location, date, or cause given, according to reporting cited from the New York...
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In a Hyperallergic roundup edited by Hakim Bishara, New York State Assemblywoman Claire Valdez—an artist and union organizer who moved to New York City in 2015—is profiled as she runs for Congress on...
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ARTnews surveys a surge of UFO-themed culture spanning film, galleries, and fashion, arguing the current fascination reflects both belief and projection. It highlights Steven Spielberg’s film...
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Hyperallergic reviews “Georgia O’Keeffe: The Brightness of Light,” a documentary directed by Paul Wagner that frames Georgia O’Keeffe as a lifelong traveler shaped by varied American landscapes. The...
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Hyperallergic interviews Ottawa-based Métis artist Rosalie Favell as part of its 2026 Pride Month series on queer and trans elder artists, focusing on how she used family and personal archives to...
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Fondation Beyeler in Riehen is presenting French artist Pierre Huyghe’s first solo exhibition in a Swiss museum as a “site-specific experience,” on view until 13 September. The show focuses on mostly...
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Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani announced that Art Basel Qatar will relocate to a purpose-built venue on Al Maha Island in Lusail, north of Doha, with a target groundbreaking date...
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Kunstmuseum Basel Gegenwart is presenting Cao Fei’s first solo exhibition in Switzerland, titled Cao Fei: Testimonies to the Near Future, featuring films and installations such as Whose Utopia...
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Brazil’s state public prosecutor’s office in São Paulo (MPSP) dismissed a complaint alleging “religious offense” against the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (Masp) over its exhibition La Chola Poblete:...
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The Menil Collection in Houston will reopen its Fresco Building in late 2027 and convert it into a venue for “semi-permanent, site-specific commissions,” each installed for about five years. New...
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The exhibition The First Homosexuals: The Birth of New Identities 1869–1939 at the Kunstmuseum Basel traces how the term “homosexual” first appeared in print in 1869, used in German by Hungarian...
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In an Artnet News review, Refik Anadol’s Dataland is described as an A.I.-focused, immersive “museum” that resembles large-scale experiential attractions more than traditional institutions like the...
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ARTnews describes a midnight filmed performance in Aubervilliers, north of Paris, in which Sydney-born, Paris-based artist Angelica Mesiti led about 35 participants through a three-hour procession...
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Hyperallergic reviews Helter Skelter, a Venice exhibition pairing Arthur Jafa and Richard Prince, sponsored by the Fondazione Prada and curated by Nancy Spector, and argues it functions as a more...
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Anish Kapoor discussed his decades-long sculptural practice in connection with a Hayward Gallery retrospective in London, reflecting on how his work challenges conventional ideas of the object and...
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Artnet reviewed the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition “Giacometti in the Temple of Dendur,” which places a group of Alberto Giacometti’s female figures (in plaster and bronze) around the...
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Artist Shuang Li, born in 1990 in China and now based in Berlin and Geneva, presents her first institutional solo exhibition in Europe at Kunsthalle Basel. Titled Alliance, the show centers on a new...
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British artist David Hockney died at home on 11 June aged 88, prompting tributes from artists, curators, and museum leaders highlighting his influence across media. Tracey Emin called him a “great...
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Sculptor Leonardo Drew has joined Hauser & Wirth for worldwide representation, the gallery announced on Monday, and it will debut his new work Number 451 at Art Basel this week. Drew’s first solo...
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Artnet News reports that Japanese artist Kohei Nawa is making his Los Angeles solo debut at Pace Gallery with “Photon Camp,” an exhibition that brings together works from his “PixCell” and “Prism”...
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ARTnews reports that Almine Rech has become the exclusive partner in France of the Consejo Leonora Carrington and rossogranada, giving its network of galleries in Paris, London, Shanghai, New York,...
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British artist David Hockney died at home on Thursday aged 88, having become one of the world’s most famous artists through a wide-ranging practice that drew on sources from 15th-century Delft optics...
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The Cleveland Museum of Art announced a $600 million fundraising campaign titled “For the Benefit of All the People,” aimed at supporting the museum’s long-term financial health and sustaining...
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German painter Georg Baselitz died a week before the opening of his Venice exhibition “Eroi d’Oro (Golden Heroes)” on San Giorgio Maggiore, on view until 27 September. The show features monumental...
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The Houston Museum of African American Culture (HMAAC) said Clarence Heyward’s self-portrait “Man in the Garden” (2025) was intentionally defaced by visitors, with Houston police investigating a May...
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ARTnews highlighted “Martin Wong: Chinatown USA,” a monographic exhibition at Wrightwood 659 in Chicago featuring over 100 works by New York artist Martin Wong, including 11 never-before-exhibited...
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Photographer Duane Michals died at age 94 on Tuesday, June 9, in a Manhattan hospital, according to confirmation from DC Moore Gallery, which had represented him since 2013. Michals was known for...
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Hyperallergic profiled Cuban-American writer Carmen Maria Machado as a guest curator for “The Object of Power is Power,” a one-room exhibition of paintings by Cuban artist Rocío García at the...
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The New Museum in Manhattan will present the largest-ever survey of filmmaker and multimedia artist Arthur Jafa, titled “I Am Tony,” opening September 24 and running through January 4, 2027. The...
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“A Kind of Paradise: Colonial-Era Photography in Contemporary Art,” a group exhibition at Museum Rietberg in Zurich, brings together 20 artists to examine how colonial-era photography shaped memory...
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Three men were sentenced to 47 months in prison each for stealing Iron Age Romanian gold from the Drents Museum in Assen, the Netherlands, during a pre-dawn heist on January 25, 2025. Thieves blasted...
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The 16th Gwangju Biennial in South Korea, running September 5 to November 15, 2026, has announced a list of more than 40 participating artists and groups, first published by e-flux. The exhibition is...
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The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York announced “Mondrian Boogie Woogie,” the first survey focused on Piet Mondrian’s New York paintings and the influence of boogie-woogie music on his late...
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In a Hyperallergic interview published as part of its 2026 Pride Month series, artist and educator Nayland Blake discusses their view of identity as unfixed and continually remade. Blake, who is...
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Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, has opened a major expansion just 15 years after its 2011 debut, adding about 114,000 square feet to its original 200,000-square-foot...
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Hyperallergic editor-in-chief Hakim Bishara highlights major industry and cultural stories, led by Pace Gallery cutting one-third of its artists and one-fifth of its staff, including removing 50...
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Julio Le Parc, the Argentine-born pioneer of kinetic art, died in Paris on 30 May at age 97, having lived there since the late 1950s. Tate Modern will open a major survey, Light. Colour. Action (11...
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Sotheby’s attempted a highly secretive private auction on June 2 at its Manhattan Breuer Building for Jackson Pollock’s Number 19, 1951, owned by Pace Gallery founder Arne Glimcher, with an asking...
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ARTnews’ Morning Links for June 5, 2026 reports that James Turrell will open his largest Skyspace created for a museum, As Seen Below – The Dome, a Skyspace, at Denmark’s ARoS Aarhus Art Museum on...
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A dispute over the Venice Biennale’s visitor-voted “Visitors’ Lions” awards escalated in early June 2026, with participating artists warning of possible legal action after asking to be removed from...
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More than 100 artists at the Venice Biennale—106 signatories as of a 3 June 2026 statement posted on e-flux—threatened to pursue legal action after organizers refused to remove them from the...
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A French Culture Ministry report presented on Wednesday said it is safe to transport the 230-foot-long Bayeux Tapestry to the UK for a British Museum exhibition opening in July, according to ARTnews...
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The Museum of Modern Art announced on June 2 that Makeda Best will become its chief curator of photography starting in September, filling a role vacant since Clément Chéroux departed in 2022. Best...
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In a round-up of reactions to the Venice Biennale and expectations for 2026, art-world figures described curator Koyo Kouoh’s exhibition “In Minor Keys” as politically urgent and unusually attentive...
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More than 100 artists have threatened legal action against the Venice Biennale Foundation, alleging it ignored their requests to be removed from consideration for newly created “Visitors’ Lion”...
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A painting Lucian Freud long denied making, Man in a Black Scarf, will go on public view for the first time in the exhibition “Benton End: A Paradise of Pollen and Paint” at London’s Garden Museum....
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Franco-Argentine kinetic and Op art pioneer Julio Le Parc died in Paris on May 30 at age 97, days before a major Tate Modern retrospective in London scheduled to open June 11. Born in 1928 in...
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The 82nd Whitney Biennial opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York’s Meatpacking District in 2026 and runs until 23 August, arriving a week after the US and Israel began a coordinated...
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Swiss artist John M Armleder is leading the 2026 edition of the Musée d’art et d’histoire (MAH) Geneva’s Carte Blanche initiative with “John M Armleder: Observatoires,” a project that...
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Julio Le Parc, the Argentine-born pioneer of kinetic art known for participatory installations using light, mirrors, movement, and optical effects, died in Paris on May 30 at age 97. His son, Yamil...
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Hyperallergic reports on Lebanese-born, Sydney-based artist Khaled Sabsabi and the controversy around his selection to represent Australia at the 2026 Venice Biennale, his removal within a week after...
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Ghanaian German artist Zohra Opoku is the subject of her first museum survey at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA), after curator Beata America discovered her practice during a...
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A report commissioned by the Netherlands’ Foundation for the Royal Private Collections examining about 1,000 objects found that a small number of items in the Dutch royal family’s holdings—such as a...
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ARTnews reviews “Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials,” an exhibition at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles on view through August 23, featuring 18 contemporary artists—many...
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Hyundai Motor Group has opened applications for the 7th VH AWARD, a program launched in 2016 to support emerging media artists whose work engages with the contexts of Asia through single-channel...
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Art writer and cartoonist Anthony Haden-Guest, 89, has sued socialite and collector Libbie Mugrabi in New York State Supreme Court, alleging she has refused to return 97 original cartoons that have...
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At the opening of his solo exhibition “Brushstrokes of the Universe” at the Museum of Art Pudong (MAP) in Shanghai, artist Sang Huoyao performed a walk-through with a humanoid robot made by Unitree...
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A major Russian missile and drone strike over the weekend damaged multiple cultural institutions in Kyiv, including the National Art Museum of Ukraine, the Yaroslav Mudryi National Library of...
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A Paul Cézanne watercolor, La Montagne Sainte Victoire (ca. 1888), shown in a recent Cézanne exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel may have been lost by its Jewish owner due to Nazi-era...
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Hyperallergic reviewed “In Minor Keys,” the main exhibition of the 2026 Venice Biennale, describing it as a posthumous project initiated by Cameroonian-Swiss curator Koyo Kouoh, who died of liver...
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Six artists have been shortlisted for the 2026 Sobey Art Award, Canada’s leading contemporary art prize: Melaw Nakehk’o (Circumpolar), Samuel Roy-Bois (Pacific), Audie Murray (Prairies), Lotus L....
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A provenance researcher working for the heir of Jewish businessman Gustav Schweitzer says a Paul Cezanne watercolour shown at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel may have been lost due to Nazi...
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The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD), founded after a long grassroots effort and opened in 2006, reopened in April following an eight-month renovation as it approaches its 20th anniversary....
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ARTnews reviews Nick Doyle’s exhibition “Collective Hallucinations” at Perrotin, which closes May 30 and centers on an installation called Mirror, Mirror featuring an AI oracle named Ava. The work is...
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Kazakhstan’s pavilion at the Venice Biennale has been embroiled in controversy after artist Äsel Kadyrhanova’s multimedia installation Machine (2013), addressing Stalin-era repression in Kazakhstan,...
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Two long-missing 17th-century oval altarpiece paintings by Baroque artist Lucas Valdés have been recovered and returned to the Hospital of the Venerable Priests church in Seville after being missing...
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In the early hours of Sunday, May 24, Russia launched a major strike on Kyiv and its surrounding region, killing four people and injuring about 100, according to the BBC. The Ukrainian air force...
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Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky is the subject of “Burtynsky: Human/Nature,” a solo exhibition at Paul Kyle Gallery in Vancouver running May 30–August 1, 2026. The show spans works from the...
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ARTnews’s summer preview lists 46 museum exhibitions and biennials worldwide, identifying spectacle as a major seasonal theme. It highlights projects including Laure Prouvost’s show about quantum...
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The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, is presenting “Edmonia Lewis: Said in Stone,” described as the first major retrospective of sculptor Edmonia Lewis (born 1844 in Greenbush, New York;...
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An exhibition at the New York Historical, on view through October 4, spotlights Betye Saar’s collection of Black dolls and marks her promised gift of more than 100 dolls to the institution as she...
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The Drawing Center exhibition “Ceija Stojka: Making Visible” presents over 50 paintings and drawings by Austrian Romani artist and Holocaust survivor Ceija Stojka (1933–2013), emphasizing memory as...
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Hyperallergic editor-in-chief Hakim Bishara reflects on skipping New York art fairs and auctions, including a record-breaking $181 million Jackson Pollock sale at Christie’s, and questions whether...
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Artnet News reports that Studio 54 Fine Art, founded in Milan in 2016 by director Gary Williamson, is pursuing a flexible gallery model without a permanent brick-and-mortar space. The gallery stages...
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The British Museum announced that tickets for its Bayeux Tapestry exhibition—running September 10 through July 11, 2027—will cost up to £33 (about $45) for peak times, with off-peak adult tickets...
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A podcast episode from The Art Newspaper reviews New York’s recent auctions, noting record-setting prices for works by Jackson Pollock, Constantin Brancusi, and Mark Rothko alongside more mixed...
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The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) in New Delhi will stage a month-long, free, non-selling exhibition at Christie’s London headquarters in St James’s titled “The Meeting Ground: Scenes from the...
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Paris’s Centre Pompidou announced a renewed five-year partnership with Chanel as the museum prepares for a long closure through 2030 during a renovation estimated at over $500 million. Chanel and the...
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A Chicana curator of “Chicano Camera Culture: A Photographic History, 1966 to 2026” at the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture in Riverside, California, explains why she removed a 1969...
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The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) in Winnipeg, Manitoba, has been threatened with legal action by the Tel Aviv-based pro-Israel advocacy group Shurat Hadin over its planned exhibition on...
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Rome’s Galleria Borghese is facing controversy after news emerged of a privately funded feasibility study, sponsored by engineering firm Proger, to explore adding exhibition and visitor space on the...
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“Fermata: Hong Kong in Venice,” a collateral event of the 61st Venice Biennale, presents works by Hong Kong-born artists Kingsley Ng and Angel Hui and runs through November 22, 2026. Organized by the...
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British actor Tilda Swinton will debut a new live performance work titled “House of Gestures” at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao on June 5–6 in the museum’s Frank Gehry-designed atrium. The...
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Centre Pompidou Hanwha in Seoul opens to the public on 4 June as a four-year partnership between the Hanwha Foundation of Culture and Paris’s Centre Pompidou, marking the Pompidou’s second branch in...
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Hong Kong’s M+ and the Centre Pompidou in Paris have signed a multi-year partnership agreement, formalising collaboration on joint curatorial research, exhibition development and sharing,...
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The Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg has been threatened with legal action by Shurat HaDin – Israel Law Center over its planned exhibition “Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present,”...
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“Paris in Black: Internationalism and the Black Renaissance,” an exhibition at the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center in Chicago, surveys Black American painters, writers, musicians,...
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A new James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) exhibition at Tate Britain in London, curated by Carol Jacobi, argues that the artist’s legacy has been overly defined by his 1877 libel suit against critic...
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The 59th Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, titled If the word we, is curated by Ryan Inouye, Danielle A. Jackson, and Liz Park and emphasizes community and...
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The Austrian artist VALIE EXPORT, a pioneering figure in feminist performance and media art, died on 14 May at age 85, three days before her 86th birthday, according to confirmation by her dealer...
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British artist Sarah Lucas unveiled a new public sculpture, VENUS VICTORIA (2026), at the New Museum’s triangular entrance plaza on the Bowery in Lower Manhattan, where it will remain on view for two...
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In a Hyperallergic editor’s letter, editor-in-chief Hakim Bishara argues that the Venice Biennale did not “implode” amid boycotts, resignations, and international disputes, but instead felt “more...
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After weeks of bombardment that forced its closure and emergency measures to protect its holdings, the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMoCA) has reopened with a weekly rotating post-ceasefire...
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Russia is reorienting Moscow’s Gulag Museum away from documenting Stalin-era repression, a shift reported by independent outlet Verstka on 13 April as exhibitions were packed up and removed. The...
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A French parliamentary commission formed after the 19 October heist of the Louvre’s crown jewels issued a report on 13 May calling for sweeping reforms to museum security and governance across...
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The Frick Collection in New York announced a three-year partnership with Louis Vuitton to sponsor exhibitions, research, and public programming, including free-admission First Fridays. Louis Vuitton...
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Hyperallergic’s “Required Reading” roundup highlights recent arts-and-culture commentary, including Zoé Samudzi’s ArtReview essay on “American Inquisition,” a mid-March exhibition of paintings by...
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British artist Anouska Samms says the Metropolitan Museum of Art wrongly credited New York-based Israeli designer Yoav Hadari as the sole author of Corpus Nervina 0.0 (2023–24), a hair-based dress...
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The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden announced 312 new acquisitions in 2025 during its 50th anniversary year, expanding strengths in photography, mixed media, and contemporary...
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A miniature wood-panel portrait by Lucas Cranach the Elder depicting Friedrich III (“Frederick the Wise”) has been returned to the State Art Collections of Dresden after disappearing at the end of...
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Iran’s pavilion commissioner Aydin Mahdizadeh Tehrani said Iran has not withdrawn from the 2026 Venice Biennale, contradicting a Biennale statement that the Islamic Republic of Iran “will not...
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Artnet News reports that the Brooklyn Museum is presenting “Sculpting the Senses,” a retrospective of Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen spanning roughly two decades and featuring more than 140...
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The 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair returned to New York’s Starrett-Lehigh Building in Chelsea for its 12th edition with 20 exhibitors from 12 countries, The Art Newspaper reports. A special...
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Japanese artist and poet Gozo Yoshimasu, 87, has won the inaugural £200,000 Serpentine x Flag Art Foundation Prize, described as the largest contemporary art prize in the UK, according to The Art...
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ARTnews reports that the 2026 Venice Biennale’s main exhibition, “In Minor Keys,” foregrounds mourning and the war in Gaza, beginning with a poem by Palestinian poet and professor Refaat Alareer—“If...
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More than 70 artists participating in the 61st Venice Biennale have withdrawn from consideration for the event’s awards, according to a protest statement published on e-flux on May 9. Signatories...
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A coalition of Somalia-based cultural organizations criticized Somalia’s first-ever national pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale, saying local artists and groups were not “meaningfully consulted” or...
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Hyperallergic reviewed a major Francisco de Zurbarán exhibition at London’s National Gallery, described as the institution’s first large-scale presentation of the 17th-century Spanish painter. The...
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Swiss art dealer Bruno Bischofberger, founder of the Zurich-based Galerie Bruno Bischofberger (established 1963), has died at age 86, the gallery announced on Saturday. Bischofberger helped introduce...
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On May 9, as the 61st Venice Biennale opened to the public, 54 artists in the international exhibition “In Minor Keys” and 16 national pavilion teams announced they were withdrawing from awards...
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ARTnews’s “Venice Diary Day 3” highlights offsite works during the Venice Biennale, focusing on Taiwanese artist Li Yi-Fan’s animated video Screen Melancholy (2026) at the offsite Taiwan Pavilion in...
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A group of 52 artists—just under half of those in curator Koyo Kouoh’s Venice Biennale main exhibition “In Minor Keys”—signed an e-flux statement declining consideration for this year’s top prizes,...
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Artist Shirin Neshat presents Do U Dare! at the 16th-century Palazzo Marin in Venice alongside the Biennale, continuing her themes of exile, fractured identity, and power through a...
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Taipei Fine Arts Museum will present the Taiwan Collateral Event Screen Melancholy: Li Yi-Fan at the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia from May 9 to November 22, 2026, at...
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Radiohead is presenting Motion Picture House KID A MNESIA, a multimedia installation and screening experience at the Brooklyn Navy Yard running through June 28, with multiple timed showings per day...
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Artnet’s critic reports mixed first impressions of “In Minor Keys,” the main exhibition of the 61st Venice Biennale, which opens to the public on Saturday and was completed by five collaborators...
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The Art Newspaper profiles “Helter Skelter: Richard Prince and Arthur Jafa,” a two-artist exhibition at the Prada Foundation’s Ca’ Corner della Regina in Venice, presented during the Venice Biennale...
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Pussy Riot staged a protest at the Russia Pavilion in the Venice Biennale’s Giardini at 11 a.m., using pink smoke, Ukrainian flags, and chants including “Disobey!” and “Blood is Russia’s art!” to...
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The Art Newspaper reports that the 61st Venice Biennale’s international exhibition, titled “In Minor Keys,” was completed after the death of its artistic director Koyo Kouoh, announced in May 2025....
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Marina Abramović is staging “Transforming Energy” at Venice’s Gallerie dell’Accademia, becoming the first living female artist to receive a solo show there and the first to have her work installed...
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The Art Newspaper says the Venice Biennale’s long-standing but often downplayed role as a sales platform is unusually overt this year, with dealers, auction houses, and private foundations openly...
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Hyperallergic reviews the 59th Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, describing it as reflecting on the exhibition’s 130-year history while commenting on...
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ARTnews criticizes “Costume Art,” the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s spring Costume Institute exhibition, for what it calls weak art-historical comparisons between fashion and artworks displayed side...
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MoMA PS1 in New York City will present the first US survey of Mexican artist Teresa Margolles in fall 2026, Hyperallergic reports, bringing together works made over more than 30 years that address...
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Gagosian in London will realize an artwork conceived in 1968 by Christo and Jeanne-Claude but never previously executed, ARTnews reports. The exhibition, titled “Christo: Air,” runs from May 21 to...
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American sculptor Mel Kendrick’s exhibition “Mel Kendrick: Tilt,” his ninth solo show with David Nolan Gallery in New York, presents new and recent works alongside older pieces, tracing a fresh phase...
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Artnet News reports that Berry Campbell in New York is presenting “Louisa Chase: The Eighties,” the largest and most comprehensive Louisa Chase (1951–2016) solo show in New York in more than two...
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Hyperallergic’s “May You Live in Less Interesting Times,” edited by Hakim Bishara, links current art-world controversies to the Venice Biennale theme “May You Live in Interesting Times,” used by...
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Nancy Holt (1938–2014) is the subject of her first major UK exhibition at the Goodwood Art Foundation near Chichester, West Sussex, which includes outdoor works not previously shown in a major UK...
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An Artnet News market column argues that the Venice Biennale’s claim to be “above the market” is increasingly strained as galleries more often finance artists’ costly biennial projects in hopes of...
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Hyperallergic reports that the international jury for the 61st Venice Biennale resigned collectively, without publicly stating a reason, amid controversy over awards eligibility. The resignations...
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The Venice Biennale Foundation has scrapped the Golden Lion awards for the 61st Venice Biennale and will instead introduce public-voted “Visitor Lions” for best national pavilion and best artist in...
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The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will open in Los Angeles on 22 September with 18 thematic inaugural exhibitions curated by founder George Lucas, announced on 30 April. The program will present more...
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German painter Georg Baselitz died on 30 April at age 88, with his death announced by his longtime gallery Thaddaeus Ropac, which did not specify a cause. Born Hans-Georg Kern on 23 January 1938 in...
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Christie’s New York will auction 16 works from the collection of late publishing magnate S. I. Newhouse (died 2017) on May 18 at Rockefeller Center, with the group expected to total about $450...
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Artist Michael Armitage is the subject of a major monographic exhibition, The Promise of Change, opening at Venice’s Palazzo Grassi with 46 large paintings and nearly 100 sketches surveying the past...
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The American Folk Art Museum is presenting Self-Made: A Century of Inventing Artists, an exhibition examining how “self-taught” artists in the United States have shaped their identities through...
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Artist George Herms, a foundational figure in the West Coast Assemblage movement, died on Friday, April 24, at age 90. Born July 5, 1935 in Woodland, California, Herms left engineering studies at UC...
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ARTnews profiled digital-art pioneer Nancy Burson, 78, focusing on her “Quantum Entanglement” paintings—black canvases covered with white dots that appear to jitter and reveal color and depth when...
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ARTnews reported that the Sharjah Art Foundation announced details for the 17th Sharjah Biennial, running January 21–June 13, 2027, titled “What remains, sits restive.” The biennial will include 109...
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ARTnews reported that a London exhibition at Delta House Gallery was canceled after UK Lawyers for Israel objected to drawings by artist Matthew Collings that the Telegraph described as “dripping...
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ARTnews reported that Italian culture minister Alessandro Giuli will not attend the Venice Biennale preview or opening ceremony on May 9 in protest of Russia’s return via its national pavilion, which...
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ARTnews reports that The Box, a Los Angeles gallery founded by Mara McCarthy, announced it will close after 19 years in business. The gallery’s final exhibition was a two-venue collaboration with...
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Hyperallergic editor-in-chief Hakim Bishara previews the 61st Venice Biennale in 2026, describing it as likely to be a politically charged edition and noting uncertainty about whether protests will...
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Artnet News reports that the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition “Raphael: Sublime Poetry” assembles what experts estimate to be art worth billions of dollars, a feat New York dealer Robert Simon...
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The Art Newspaper reports that Earshot, a non-profit founded by Jordan-born artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan, has received a three-year studio bursary at London’s Gasworks to support its sound-based...
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ARTnews reports that DATALAND, a museum dedicated to AI art co-founded by Refik Anadol and Efsun Erkılıç, will open in Los Angeles on June 20, 2026, in the Grand LA complex designed by Frank Gehry....
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ARTnews reports that collector Julia Stoschek will close her Berlin exhibition venue at the end of October 2026 after 10 years, while continuing operations at her Düsseldorf space, open since 2007....
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Hyperallergic reports that artist Xandra Ibarra performed “Nude Laughing” (2014–) at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, on Thursday, April 16, as part of the museum’s ongoing exhibition “Subvert,...
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Harmony Korine’s first U.S. retrospective, “Perfect Nonsense,” has opened at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, bringing together more than 50 works spanning his adolescent writings, 1990s...
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Sculptor Alma Allen discussed the backlash to his selection to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale in an interview on the podcast “Time Sensitive,” recorded at his home in Mexico City...
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Taiwan’s National Culture and Arts Foundation has revoked the National Award for Arts it gave to artist Sakuliu Pavavaljung in 2018 and ordered him to return the NTD 1 million (about $32,000) prize...
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Ai Weiwei will reenact his 81-day detention by China’s Ministry of Public Security in a 24-hour performance titled “Sewing a Button” at Factory International’s Aviva Studios in Manchester, England....
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The international awards jury for the 61st Venice Biennale announced on April 23 (via a statement published on e-flux) that it will omit from awards consideration any countries “whose leaders are...
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A Dutch government-appointed Committee on Heirless Jewish Looted Art recommended transferring guardianship of “orphaned” Nazi-looted objects in the Netherlands Art Property Collection (the NK...
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The Venice Biennale named a five-member jury to award the Golden Lions at the 2026 Art Biennale, led by president Solange Oliveira Farkas, founder of the Videobrasil Biennial (São Paulo, founded...
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Punk feminist collective Pussy Riot is campaigning to replace Russia’s planned return to the Venice Biennale—its first since withdrawing in February 2022 after Russia invaded Ukraine—with an...
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NEON, the Athens-based contemporary art initiative founded by collector Dimitris Daskalopoulos, will conclude later this year after 14 years, saying it has fulfilled its cultural and social mission....
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Hyperallergic reviews MoMA PS1’s “Greater New York,” a large survey attempting to capture the city’s art scene with more than 150 works by more than 50 artists. The article presents a selective,...
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The Victoria & Albert Museum has opened V&A East in east London, a new $180 million outpost intended to connect the V&A’s 2.8 million-object collection to contemporary issues and younger local...
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Marina Abramović opened her first solo presentation in Berlin since the 1990s with “Balkan Erotic Epic. The Exhibition” at Gropius Bau, running through August 23. Co-curated by Agnes Gryczkowska and...
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A focused exhibition of Genesis Breyer P-Orridge’s mail art submissions to the Canadian collective General Idea is on view at Art Metropole in Toronto through May 31. Drawn from the National Gallery...
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ARTnews profiles the legacy of artist and writer Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, emphasizing her cross-disciplinary practice and the lasting impact of her 1982 book Dictée, published in fall 1982 just weeks...
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The Art Newspaper’s 300th podcast episode in 2024 spotlights two major museum openings: V&A East in London and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). V&A East director Gus Casely-Hayford tours...
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A five-star review in The Art Newspaper praises “Rothko in Florence,” a major exhibition examining how Florence influenced American painter Mark Rothko (1903–70), who visited the city three times in...
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ARTnews reports that “Said in Stone,” at the Peabody Essex Museum, is the first comprehensive retrospective devoted to late 19th-century sculptor Edmonia Lewis, a Black and Indigenous artist. The...
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ARTnews reviews the new David Geffen Galleries at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), which open to members on April 19 and to the public on May 4, as an attempt to present a non-linear,...
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MoMA PS1 has opened the sixth edition of Greater New York, its quinquennial survey of artists living and working across New York City’s five boroughs, featuring 53 artists and staged during the...
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MoMA PS1’s sixth Greater New York quinquennial opened on April 16 during the museum’s 50th anniversary year, presenting work by more than 50 New York City–based artists described as being in the...
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A report cited by the Guardian says London’s Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) removed content from exhibition catalogues at the request of Chinese censors, raising concerns about foreign influence on...
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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is preparing to reopen its permanent collection after seven years with the new Peter Zumthor–designed David Geffen Galleries, a major component of a...
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The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, has launched a free online digital catalogue raisonné, Access O’Keeffe, allowing the public to browse more than 2,000 works by Georgia O’Keeffe,...
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art will stage “Giacometti in the Temple of Dendur” beginning June 12, placing 17 sculptures by Swiss modernist Alberto Giacometti in and around the Temple of Dendur, an...
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Time magazine’s 2026 “100 Most Influential” list includes Chinese artist Cao Fei and photojournalist Lynsey Addario, as part of a roster spanning politics, technology, fashion, medicine, and the...
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s upcoming exhibition “Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous,” opening in October, will present Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner as a “story of equals,” bringing together...
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Houston’s FotoFest marked its 40th anniversary with a large retrospective, Global Visions: FotoFest at 40, which opened around the biennial’s March 7 reception and features work by more than 450...
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Hyperallergic highlighted Ai Weiwei’s new book On Censorship in an editor’s roundup that also referenced commentary on a Trump meme and an obituary for artist-activist Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, who died...
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Gagosian will open a newly overhauled ground-floor gallery at 980 Madison Avenue in New York on April 25 with an exhibition of Marcel Duchamp readymades, timed to the Museum of Modern Art’s Duchamp...
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Artnet’s data analysis of the 2026 Venice Biennale finds a shift back toward living, mid-career artists, with more than 90% of the main-exhibition participants still alive. The exhibition, titled “In...
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Painter Celeste Dupuy-Spencer died at age 46 on Friday, April 10, at her home in Los Angeles, days before a planned solo exhibition at Jeffrey Deitch’s West Hollywood gallery; no cause of death was...
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Hyperallergic reviews Ai Weiwei’s book On Censorship (2026), which reflects on censorship and self-censorship through the dissident Chinese artist’s experiences of state persecution. The article...
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In a Hyperallergic roundup titled “Trump’s Clash of Civilizations,” editor-in-chief Hakim Bishara frames the issue around recent threats by the US president to annihilate Iran’s “whole civilization,”...
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Spain’s culture ministry has denied a request from the Basque government to loan Pablo Picasso’s Guernica (1937) from Madrid’s Reina Sofía to Guggenheim Bilbao for a proposed exhibition running 1...
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The Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo has put a forged Van Gogh on display—Seascape at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer (dated 1925–27)—in an exhibition running until 21 June, alongside a Dutch-language...
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The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York and the Philadelphia Museum of Art are mounting the first major US survey of Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) in 53 years, revisiting the institutions that...
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A Hyperallergic roundup titled “Jasper Johns Marks Time” centers on critic John Yau’s essay timed to a Gagosian exhibition focusing on Jasper Johns’s work from the 1970s, including a recollection in...
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An Artnet review (published April 8, 2026) assesses the Museum of Modern Art’s major Marcel Duchamp exhibition and questions whether the presentation is overly reverential. The show is organized by...
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Shiva Zahed Gallery, a new space dedicated to Iranian contemporary art, opened on 28 February in Istanbul’s Pera district to provide a rare physical platform for artists affected by sanctions,...
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Ukrainian artist Nikita Kadan will open a new exhibition, A New Integrity, on 11 April at Pavilion 13 in Kyiv, addressing wartime limb loss as Russia’s full-scale invasion enters its fifth year. The...
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In an Artnet Q&A published April 8, 2026, Kong Lingyi outlines her plans as the new CEO of Beijing’s UCCA Center for Contemporary Art following Philip Tinari’s departure shortly before the Lunar New...
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A Hyperallergic roundup reports that artist Josh Kline went viral after publishing an essay about the difficulty of making ends meet as an artist in New York City, and critic Aruna D’Souza argued...
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London’s National Gallery selected Kengo Kuma and Associates to design a major new extension estimated to cost £350 million, with an opening planned for the early 2030s. Kuma’s proposal was chosen...
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ARTnews reports that the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has mounted a major Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) retrospective, described as the first comprehensive North American survey of the artist in more...
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Centre Pompidou Hanwha is set to open in Seoul on June 4, following three years of planning, with the date marking the 140th anniversary of diplomatic relations between France and Korea. The outpost...
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DePaul University announced on 26 February that it will close the DePaul Art Museum (DPAM) in Lincoln Park, with the museum set to shut on 30 June, prompting an open letter from students and faculty...
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The Hole, a gallery founded in 2010 by Kathy Grayson, has permanently closed its West Hollywood space after a period of late payments to artists and workers, unpaid rent, and broader financial strain...
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Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds, on view at the Jewish Museum in New York City (5th Ave at 92nd St) through July 26, 2026, is billed as the first US museum exhibition to focus on Paul Klee’s late...
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German artist, painter, installation artist, and punk musician Thomas Zipp has died, according to an announcement by Berlin’s Galerie Barbara Thumm, which said he “passed away far too soon.” Born in...
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ARTnews reviews “New Humans: Memories of the Future,” the inaugural exhibition at the recently renovated New Museum, describing it as a four-floor presentation of more than 700 works that examines...
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Belu-Simion Fainaru, the artist representing Israel at the forthcoming Venice Biennale, issued a statement to ARTnews rejecting calls to exclude Israel and saying, “As an artist, I do not support...
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After two years of conservation, the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut, has put a 37-foot-long early 19th-century Indian work known as the “Lucknow scroll” on public view for the...
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Artnet News reports that Aicon Art in New York has mounted “Courtly Visions: Indian Miniature Painting,” the gallery’s first exhibition devoted entirely to Indian miniature painting, featuring works...
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ARTnews.com reports that Puerto Rico–born artist Gisela Colón, who left San Juan in 1987 on a Truman scholarship and previously worked in environmental law in California, is the subject of two...
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The Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) will present “Basquiat: Figures, Signs, Symbols,” an exhibition of about 10 Jean-Michel Basquiat works owned by collector Kenneth C. Griffin, opening June 25....
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Artnet News reported that artist David Nott’s textured abstract works are being presented digitally through LG Gallery+, expanding access to his practice via a screen-based platform. The article...
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British painter Cecily Brown is having her London museum debut with the exhibition “Cecily Brown: Picture Making” at Serpentine South in Kensington Gardens. The show brings together new works...
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Sculptor Melvin Edwards died on Monday, March 30, at age 88, according to confirmation from his gallery, Alexander Gray Associates. Born in 1937 and raised in Houston, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio,...
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The Jewish Museum in New York opened "Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds" on 20 March, but without its intended centerpiece, Paul Klee’s "Angelus Novus" (1920). The work, owned by the Israel Museum...
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The Art Newspaper’s annual survey of museum attendance reported that more than 200 million visits were made to the world’s 100 most visited art museums in 2025, compared with 230 million in 2019 and...
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An open letter by artists connected to the Venice Biennale called for the exclusion of the United States, Israel, and Russia from the exhibition, according to an Artnet News report published March...
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More than 350 cultural professionals in Mexico signed an open letter calling for greater transparency and compliance with heritage laws in the management of the Gelman Collection, a major trove of...
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Gladstone Gallery announced it now represents the estate of Pope.L, the influential American performance and conceptual artist who died in December 2023, and plans to mount its first solo show for...
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Art historian Gary Schwartz argues that a painting long labeled a workshop copy of Rembrandt van Rijn’s “Old Man with a Gold Chain” (1631) was actually painted by Rembrandt himself as an “autograph...
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Hyperallergic reviews “Ese barco en la montaña (That Ship on the Mountain),” a Juan Uslé retrospective at Madrid’s Museo Reina Sofía featuring around 100 works spanning four decades. Curated by Ángel...
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ARTnews’s “Morning Links” for March 30, 2026 reports that three artworks—Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s “Les Poissons (The Fish)” (1917), Henri Matisse’s “Odalisque sur la terrasse (Odalisque on the...
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Artnet News published a “State of Play” roundup on March 29, 2026, under its Artnet Pro newsletter series “The Asia Pivot,” titled “Labubu Gets a Star Turn on the Big Screen—Plus a Rundown of the...
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Jean-Marc Bottazzi, a Japanese bond trader based in Hong Kong, says his approach to collecting is about sustained support rather than “ticking boxes,” a philosophy shaped in part by his relationship...
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In a March 27, 2026 Artnet News interview, curator Fatima Hellberg—newly appointed director of mumok in Vienna after leading the Bonner Kunstverein—outlined a program aimed at making museums feel...
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An Artnet News report dated March 28, 2026 states that an exhibition by an Israeli artist in Mexico City closed after antisemitic harassment, including vandalism at the gallery. The article indicates...
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German artist Anne Imhof will have her first solo exhibition in Asia at Tai Kwun in Hong Kong, running from September 26, 2026 to January 3, 2027, according to The Art Newspaper. The presentation is...
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ARTnews reports that 37 members of the European Parliament signed a letter urging the European Union to stop all funding to the Venice Biennale amid controversy over Russia’s planned pavilion, its...
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ARTnews criticizes US cultural politics while reviewing “The Great Camouflage,” a contemporary-art exhibition at the Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai that runs through April 26 (year not specified in...
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South African artist Gabrielle Goliath will present her Venice Biennale project Elegy independently in Venice after South Africa’s sports, arts and culture minister Gayton McKenzie cancelled the...
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South African artist Gabrielle Goliath will present in Venice a version of the project that had been planned for South Africa’s national pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale but was later canceled....
Hyperallergic
A Hyperallergic review of Tracey Emin’s retrospective “A Second Life” at Tate Modern in London argues that Emin’s work centers on extreme self-introspection and relies heavily on text—titles and...
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Artist Yto Barrada said French organizers had “full awareness” of her views on Israel when selecting her for France’s pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale, after criticism from the Representative...
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To mark its 50th anniversary, Museum Ludwig in Cologne has mounted a major Yayoi Kusama exhibition featuring more than 300 works spanning sculptures, paintings, and immersive installations. The...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic’s roundup “The Biggest Week of the Spring?” surveys a cluster of New York art-world events, including the reopening of the New Museum and the recent Affordable Art Fair and Outsider Art...
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is mounting “Raphael: Sublime Poetry,” described as the Met’s and America’s first comprehensive exhibition on Raphael (1483–1520). The show assembles 237...
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Mudam Luxembourg (Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean) is presenting a two-decade survey of British artist Simon Fujiwara titled “A Whole New World” from 20 March to 23 August. A central new work...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reports that Paul Klee’s “Angelus Novus” (1920) is missing—temporarily replaced by a reproduction—from the Jewish Museum’s exhibition “Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds” because the...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reviews “Imaging after Photography” at Rice University in Houston, arguing that ethical approaches to AI art are possible when artists use the technology critically and transparently....
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Artnet News profiled artist LR Vandy in an interview published on March 22, 2026, focusing on how her sculptural practice addresses what she calls the “knotted histories” of power. The article...
Hyperallergic
The New Museum in New York will reopen to the public on March 21 after a two-year closure for an $82 million expansion designed by OMA, debuting this week to mixed reactions. The reopening includes...
Hyperallergic
A Hyperallergic review argues that the 2026 Whitney Biennial feels subdued and evasive rather than directly engaging with contemporary US political crises. The critic contends that, despite an...
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An ARTnews review of Miljohn Ruperto’s exhibition at Stanford University’s Cantor Arts Center highlights new works that use AI and digital tools to critique extraction, colonialism, and the...
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In a first reaction to the New Museum’s opening exhibition, “New Humans: Memories of the Future,” Artnet News argues that the project of “contemporary art” may be reaching an endpoint. The show...
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ARTnews critics reported that the New Museum in New York has reopened after nearly two years closed, unveiling an expansion designed by OMA that they say finally makes the institution’s architecture...
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New York’s New Museum will unveil an $82 million expansion on 21 March after four years of construction, adding a new 60,000-square-foot building that doubles the museum’s footprint to 120,000 square...
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Helen Legg, director of Tate Liverpool since 2018, has been appointed artistic director of the Royal Academy of Arts in London and will begin in June, overseeing exhibitions, the collection, and...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic published an editors’ roundtable reacting to the New Museum’s reopened and expanded building in New York, designed by OMA (Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas) and adding 60,000 square...
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Paris dealer Kamel Mennour has acquired Galerie Malingue and will take over its 4,300-square-foot showroom at 26 Avenue Matignon in Paris’s Matignon district. Mennour said the venue will focus on...
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ARTnews reported that the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York is shutting down its MFA in Curatorial Practice program. The article explains that the decision ends a graduate pathway focused on...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic argued for a boycott of the 2026 Venice Biennale, presenting the case as a response to political and ethical concerns surrounding the event and its institutional relationships. The...
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British artist Tracey Emin spoke out against what she called “jingoistic, racist, bigoted behaviour” as her major exhibition “Second Life” opened at Tate Modern in London, following a press preview...
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French artist Sophie Calle is the subject of “Overshare,” her first major North American survey, at the UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art, bringing together work from the 1970s to the...
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The British Museum and the government of Assam agreed to a six-month loan of the 17th-century Vrindavani Vastra, a nine-metre-long tapestry depicting scenes from the life of Krishna, to begin in...
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The third Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, titled “In Interludes and Transitions” (Fil Hil Wal Terhal), is being held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and runs until 2 May 2026. Led by curators Nora Razian...
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Artnet News reported on 25 February 2026 that 111 participating artists have been announced for “In Minor Keys,” the main exhibition of the 61st Venice Biennale, conceived by the late curator Koyo...
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The Julia Stoschek Foundation is presenting its first major US exhibition of time-based media at the Variety Arts Theater, a 1924 Italianate venue in downtown Los Angeles, according to a 25 February...
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At a Venice briefing reported by The Art Newspaper on 25 February 2026, the curatorial team for the 61st Venice Biennale detailed how they are implementing the late Koyo Kouoh’s exhibition “In Minor...
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A 25 February 2026 feature in The Art Newspaper examines whether the Guerrilla Girls’ long-standing anonymity still serves their mission, in the context of the Getty exhibition “How to Be a Guerrilla...
Hyperallergic
The provided excerpt for Hyperallergic’s article “By Design” Treats Women Like Objects does not include the article’s readable body text, so the review’s subject (such as the exhibition/film/book...
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The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (Moca) has acquired Kara Walker’s monumental bronze sculpture Unmanned Drone (2023), made by dissecting and reassembling a decommissioned 1921 Confederate...
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A leaked transcript indicates that a University of North Texas (UNT) dean cited politics as the reason for canceling an exhibition featuring anti-ICE artwork, ARTnews reports. The canceled show...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic’s review “Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom” discusses an exhibition titled “Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom,” focusing on how the show addresses political...
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Artnet News reviewed Pierre Huyghe’s exhibition Liminals at Halle am Berghain in Berlin, describing it as a major project within the LAS Art Foundation’s “Sensing Quantum” program that took three...
Hyperallergic
Graduate students at the University of North Texas withdrew their thesis exhibitions, saying the school imposed censorship on their work. The dispute centered on what students described as...
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ARTnews published a Q&A with Paul Slocum, an early advocate for digital art, about efforts to build a sustainable ecosystem for digital work. Slocum discusses how artists, collectors, and...
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ARTnews reports that faculty at the University of North Texas (UNT) issued an open letter demanding the school disclose why it canceled an exhibition by artist Victor Quiñonez. The letter calls for...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The White House has pressed the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) to expand its presentation of President Donald Trump by creating a dedicated section with multiple images,...
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Artist David Hockney will create a large-scale window installation for Turner Contemporary in Margate, UK, as part of the gallery’s 15th anniversary celebrations. The work, measuring roughly seven by...
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Fashion designer Alexander Wang and his mother, Ying Wang, are converting a landmark building in New York’s Chinatown into a new arts venue called Wang Contemporary, aimed at supporting Asian...
Hyperallergic
A Hyperallergic essay examines how museum wall texts—often treated as neutral educational tools—can become flashpoints for political conflict and institutional power. The piece discusses how wording...
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In an Artnet News article published on 2026-02-14, writers discuss how medieval Christian art sometimes depicted Christ’s side wound in crucifixion imagery as resembling a vulva, arguing the...
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Tate Modern is staging Tracey Emin’s largest retrospective to date, titled “A Second Life,” spanning work from her first solo exhibition at White Cube in 1993 through her most recent paintings. Emin,...
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The University of North Texas’s College of Visual Arts and Design Galleries in Denton canceled a solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez after installation was completed,...
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The Los Angeles exhibition “Monuments,” presented at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA and The Brick, brings nine Confederate monuments into dialogue with works by 19 artists and received a five-star...
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London’s National Gallery is preparing staff reductions and program cuts after projecting an £8.2 million deficit for 2026–27, The Art Newspaper reported on 13 February 2026. The museum is offering a...
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The University of Maryland’s David C. Driskell Center opened America Will Be! on 6 February 2026 (running through 8 May), an exhibition about Black artists’ reinterpretations of the US flag, but it...
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Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Art announced that the 59th Carnegie International will feature 61 artists and collectives and run from 2 May 2026 to 3 January 2027. Reported by The Art Newspaper on...
Hyperallergic
A solo exhibition by painter Amy Sherald set a new visitor record at the Baltimore Museum of Art, according to Hyperallergic. The article reports that attendance for Sherald’s show surpassed previous...
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London’s Southbank Centre has been granted Grade II listed status by the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport, giving statutory protection to key parts of the Brutalist arts complex, The Art...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reviews an exhibition framed around critical theory, describing it as unexpectedly engaging despite the subject’s reputation for difficulty. The article argues that the show translates...
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On 10 February 2026, The Art Newspaper reported that Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei faced a vote at London’s Royal Academy of Arts over whether to revoke his status as an international Royal...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
On 9 February 2026, Indigenous Brazilian leader Ninawa Huni Kui, of the Huni Kui (Kaxinawá) people from Acre, condemned London’s Science Museum for accepting sponsorship from BP ahead of its...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Art Newspaper published a running list on 9 February 2026 of national pavilion announcements for the 61st Venice Biennale, which opens 9 May 2026 and runs through 22 November 2026 across the...
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Ukraine announced on 5 February 2026 that artist Zhanna Kadyrova will represent the country at the Venice Biennale with a pavilion titled "Security Guarantees," referencing the 1994 Budapest...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic’s article "How Liminalism Became the Defining Aesthetic of Our Time" examines the rise of “liminalism” as a contemporary visual and cultural trend focused on transitional, in-between...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Saudi Arabia is spotlighting its Modern art history with museum exhibitions and auctions as international attention shifts toward the Gulf ahead of Art Basel’s inaugural fair in Qatar and Frieze’s...
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Qatar Museums announced further details of a new quadrennial, Rubaiya Qatar, opening in November 2026 across Doha and other sites in Qatar, with more than 50 artists and over 20 new commissions. The...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Art Newspaper compiled the national-pavilion announcements made so far for the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, which opens 9 May 2026 and runs through 22 November...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reviewed an immersive project by artist Deborah Jack described as an elegy for water. The excerpt provided does not include the exhibition venue, dates, specific works, or any quoted...
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Saudi Arabia’s AlUla Contemporary Art Museum, designed by architect Lina Ghotmeh, announced its name and curatorial vision on 1 February 2026 at the opening of Arduna, an 80-work group exhibition...
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ARTnews reports that curator and writer Ekow Eshun has been selected to organize the next SITE Santa Fe International, the contemporary art institution’s recurring large-scale exhibition in Santa Fe,...
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On 2 February 2026, the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) in New Delhi appointed Manuel Rabaté as its first chief executive and director, marking his move from the Louvre Abu Dhabi, where he has been...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Art Basel launched its first Qatar edition on 2 February 2026 with an inaugural fair featuring 87 exhibitors and a format designed to feel more like a curated exhibition than a conventional...
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Artnet News reports that the Louvre is lending its marble sculpture “Sleeping Hermaphroditus” to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. The work will be shown in the Rijksmuseum’s forthcoming exhibition...
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ARTnews reported the death of Chung Sang-hwa, a Korean painter associated with the Dansaekhwa movement, at age 93. The article notes his prominence within the monochrome painting tendency that gained...
Hyperallergic
In “James Castle Was a World Unto Himself,” Hyperallergic profiles American artist James Castle, emphasizing his highly personal visual language and the self-contained creative universe he built over...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic examines photographer Nan Goldin’s ongoing fight against censorship, focusing on controversies surrounding the display of her work. The article situates Goldin’s case within broader...