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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...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
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...
Hyperallergic
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...
Hyperallergic
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....
Hyperallergic
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...
Hyperallergic
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...
Hyperallergic
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...
Hyperallergic
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...
Hyperallergic
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...
Hyperallergic
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...