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Photographer and video artist Tyler Mitchell has won the Don Tyson Prize from Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, receiving $250,000 in unrestricted funds. Launched in 2016 through the Tyson...
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Sarah Michelson’s performance work “nowhere” is being presented daily at the Museum of Modern Art through October 11 as what performer Juli Brandano calls “essentially a 25-day dance.” The piece...
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The UK government has placed an export bar on a rare Renaissance bronze by Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi (Antico), valued at £4.6m, giving UK institutions time to try to acquire it. The 20cm-high...
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Chinese artist Liu Wei has installed a group of mixed-media sculptures on the facade of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, unveiled Thursday as part of a commission titled “Speculation / Λ...
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Two visitors to the Louvre in Paris were arrested on Saturday after taping two small paintings (about 11.8 by 15.7 inches) onto the walls of the Salle des États, the gallery that houses Leonardo da...
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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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Beijing-based artist Liu Wei has returned to New York with Speculation (2026), a new series commissioned for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Genesis Facade Commission and installed at the museum’s...
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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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ARTnews recounts the US Air Force’s secret 1958 Project A119, which studied detonating a nuclear bomb on the Moon to gain scientific data and Cold War propaganda advantage, but was abandoned because...
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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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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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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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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 Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has begun a six-month study to measure bacteria on the surface of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch (1642) as part of its five-year “Operation Night Watch” restoration and...
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Qatar Museums announced on 10 September in Berlin that a permanent Gerhard Richter pavilion in Doha will open in November, timed to coincide with the public opening of the Rubaiya Qatar quadrennial...
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New York–based artist Tschabalala Self has installed a bronze sculpture titled Lady in Blue on London’s Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, making it the 16th artwork to appear there since the program...
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On 10 September, New York-based artist Tschabalala Self unveiled “Lady in Blue,” the 16th Fourth Plinth commission in London’s Trafalgar Square, a bronze sculpture of a Black woman walking. London...
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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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Qatar Museums will open a permanent pavilion devoted to Gerhard Richter on November 20 in MIA Park outside Doha’s Museum of Islamic Art. Designed by Richter in collaboration with Selldorf Architects,...
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The Japan Art Association named US conceptual artist Jenny Holzer the 2026 Praemium Imperiale laureate for painting and British land artist Andy Goldsworthy the laureate for sculpture, with each...
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Billionaire philanthropist David Rubenstein has purchased Joel Shapiro’s 24-foot-tall sculpture Blue (2019) for a reported $2 million after the National Park Service removed it from the John F....
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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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Chanel’s Culture Fund has partnered with Thailand’s contemporary art museum Dib Bangkok to launch the annual Chanel Gateway Commission, selecting a Southeast Asian artist each year to create a...
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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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Artist Kehinde Wiley responded indirectly to controversy over his 2013 painting Young Artists After Siamesas 1960, formerly displayed at the US Embassy in the Dominican Republic, by selling a $120...
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Dealer Adam Lindemann is being sued by the Nature Conservancy in a case filed on August 20 in the US District Court for New York’s Eastern District, alleging he installed Julian Schnabel’s...
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Superblue Miami is marking its five-year anniversary by debuting James Turrell’s Blue Sea Sky (2026), a new “Ganzfeld” installation in his long-running series begun in 1976, according to reporting...
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The Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) has partnered with Ethiopia’s Ethiopian Heritage Authority (EHA) to facilitate the return of five Ethiopian objects from a private collection that lack provenance...
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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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The National Park Service removed Joel Shapiro’s 24-foot-tall painted aluminum sculpture “Blue” (2019) from the grounds of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, on...
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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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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 open letter with more than 600 signatures criticizes Beeple’s AI-driven artwork “Diffuse Control” (2025), scheduled to appear next month at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art in Wisconsin,...
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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 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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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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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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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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Chinese artist Gao Zhen was sentenced by the People’s Court of Sanhe City in Hebei Province to up to three years in prison for “infringing upon the reputation and honour of heroes and martyrs,” based...
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Italian video-art pioneer Fabrizio Plessi died in Venice on August 23 at age 86, according to La Repubblica. Born April 3, 1940, in Reggio Emilia, Plessi studied and later taught in Venice,...
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Chinese dissident artist Gao Zhen, 70, was sentenced to three years in prison by the Sanhe City People’s Court in Hebei Province on Tuesday, August 25, according to reporting cited from the New York...
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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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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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Taiwanese-American artist and filmmaker Shu Lea Cheang premiered “LOVER LOVE,” a four-channel video installation commissioned by the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in Soho, on view through January 3,...
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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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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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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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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration is expected to abandon plans to demolish Manhattan’s Elizabeth Street Garden in Soho for an affordable-housing project, according to reports by...
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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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Mining magnate and Inhotim founder Bernardo Paz announced plans for the Museu Bernardo Paz, a new 311-acre museum complex in Brazil’s Minas Gerais region near Brumadinho, with a first phase scheduled...
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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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The National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC, has boarded up certain structures and adjusted installations ahead of an IndyCar race later this month tied to President Trump’s “Freedom 250”...
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On July 28, a group of about 10 people carried out an overnight theft at the headquarters of Italian fuel distributor Lilli Petroli in L’Aquila, Abruzzo, spending up to eight hours inside and...
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The Aspen Art Museum’s AIR festival returned for its second edition in Aspen, Colorado, transforming the mountain town into a multi-day program of art, performance, and talks under the theme “Figures...
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Hyperallergic links New York City’s Pearl Street to the Lenape shell middens that once marked the original 17th-century East River shoreline, noting that such oyster-shell piles were common...
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Hyperallergic published a never-before-released interview in which scholar and curator Julia Bryan-Wilson speaks with performance artist Simone Forti (born 1935 in Italy), who died in Los Angeles in...
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Seven Smithsonian buildings in Washington, DC, closed abruptly on 6 August after a mechanical failure disrupted chilled water needed for cooling systems and humidity controls. The affected sites...
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ARTnews profiled artist Isaiah Davis, whose sculptures use materials such as secondhand leather and repurposed steel to examine masculinity, queerness, and Blackness through themes of transformation...
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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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Archaeologists in the ancient city of Sardis in western Turkey, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Manisa Province’s Salihli district, uncovered a seven-foot-tall marble statue dated to 470–450 BCE...
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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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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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Performance artist and choreographer Simone Forti died on Wednesday at age 91, prompting renewed attention to her influence on postmodern dance and interdisciplinary art. Hyperallergic notes that...
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Los Angeles assemblage artist Betye Saar died on 26 July at age 99, just days before her 100th birthday on 30 July, her family said in a statement. Born Betye Irene Brown in Los Angeles in 1926, Saar...
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Artist and poet Precious Okoyomon has created a courtyard installation at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens, transforming the museum’s typically stark outdoor space into a planted garden intended...
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Simone Forti, a key figure in New York’s Judson Dance Theater scene of the 1960s and an influential contributor to postmodern dance, Minimalism, and Fluxus, died in Los Angeles at age 91, according...
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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...
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President Donald Trump ordered the Department of the Interior on Friday, July 24, to install content-warning signage outside the Smithsonian National Museum of American History along National Park...
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The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) received a gift of more than 2,000 modern and contemporary artworks from the estate of Detroit collectors Gilbert B. and Lila Silverman, one of the largest...
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Artnet News’s “Industry Intel,” published July 25, 2026, reports that the Armory Show will return to New York’s Javits Center on September 24–27 with about 230 exhibitors, including newcomers Alison...
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Artist Joyce Kozloff disclosed that she was a founding member of the Guerrilla Girls, revealing her alias as Lydia (Liubov) Popova in an interview published July 22, 2026, in Art Journal Open. The...
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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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On 21 July, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed a lower court’s February 2025 decision dismissing artist Michael A. Hayden’s copyright-infringement lawsuit against Jeff Koons over...
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On July 23, the Kansong Art Museum in Seoul held a ceremony returning two Qing Dynasty stone lion sculptures to China, following an agreement reached in early January. Attendees included Kansong Art...
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The United States repatriated a group of looted cultural artifacts to Indonesia on July 22 during a meeting in Jakarta between Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto and FBI director Kash Patel,...
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A U.S. federal appeals court upheld a ruling in favor of Jeff Koons in a copyright dispute involving his “Made in Heaven” series (1989–90), finding that sculptor and prop designer Michael Hayden...
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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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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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During flash flooding in New York City, the New Museum experienced a significant water leak on Saturday in a gallery showing work by WangShui, with video showing water pooling on the floor and staff...
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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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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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The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation has donated three sculptures by Robert Rauschenberg to the Artist Rooms collection jointly shared by Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland, The Art Newspaper...
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Hyperallergic reviewed Michael Asher, a small survey at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, arguing that the late conceptual artist (died 2012) treated the museum itself as his medium. The...
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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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Hyperallergic profiled artists and filmmakers Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens in San Luis Obispo, California, where they presented a sneak preview of their new film Playing with Fire: An Ecosexual...
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Australia’s Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) announced plans for “MONA Bangkok,” a new branch in Thailand developed with Asset World Corp Public Company Limited (AWC) and led by DarkLab under MONA...
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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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The United States returned two 8th-century bronze Buddha sculptures to Indonesia at a ceremony on July 8 at the Indonesian Consulate in New York, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for 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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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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Artist Jonathan Allen superimposed pro-Palestinian, anti-genocide messages onto two advertising screens outside the Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan at about 10:30pm on July 2. The action...
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High Line Art is soliciting public feedback on 62 proposals for its Plinth commissions scheduled for 2029 and 2030, with comments open until September 8. The Plinth is located above 30th Street and...
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Greek new media artist Theo Triantafyllidis (born 1988 in Athens) will present a monumental, climbable spider installation at Frieze London as the 2026 Frieze Artist Award winner. Titled “Feral...
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Portuguese conceptual artist Luísa Cunha, known for minimalist “sound sculptures” built from whispered recordings and language-based installations, died of cancer at Lisbon’s Hospital de São José on...
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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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In Hyperallergic’s 344th installment of “A View From the Easel,” artist Arghavan Khosravi describes working for almost five years in a small loft studio above her townhouse in Stamford, Connecticut,...
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The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, part of the Smithsonian Institution, announced it will loan more than 200 modern and contemporary works to partner institutions in all 50 US states and...
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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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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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The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston unveiled “Art of the Americas: 1700–1800” during its annual Juneteenth open house, marking the first reinstallation of the Art of the Americas Wing’s ground-level...
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Bochum-based artist Dorothee Bielfeld has asked Manifesta 16 to remove Nasan Tur’s installation “Elevation,” shown in Essen’s St. Gertrud Church, alleging it plagiarizes her 2010 work “Aufrichten...
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Christie’s and Sotheby’s held their London summer “part one” Old Master painting auctions on Tuesday and Wednesday, underscoring the market dominance of the two major international houses. Christie’s...
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After several antiquities were removed from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection in June, the total valuation of looted artifacts surrendered by the museum has reached about $95 million,...
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Unionized workers at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, represented by UAW Local 2110, voted overwhelmingly last week to authorize a strike if contract negotiations with museum...
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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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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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Media artist Refik Anadol will present “Smithsonian Dreams,” a large-scale A.I.-driven projection on the facade of the Smithsonian Castle in Washington, DC, on July 17 and July 18 at 9 p.m. The...
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Hyperallergic features an interview by art-crime scholar Erin L. Thompson with journalist Matthew Campbell about Campbell’s book The Man Who Stole the Gods, which chronicles British antiquities...
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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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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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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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Hyperallergic interviewed Bloomberg Businessweek reporter Matthew Campbell about his book The Man Who Stole the Gods: A True Story of War, Obsession, and a Global Art Conspiracy, which examines the...
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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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Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Tasmania is opening a major new wing, Phrontisterion, described as the largest construction project in the museum’s 15-year history and backed by founder...
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Henry, artist Nancy Shaver’s collectibles shop in Hudson, New York, is closing after 30 years, with its final day set for July 15, ARTnews reports. The store functioned as an ongoing art project and...
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Artnet profiles Fischersund, an Icelandic perfumery and art collective that has, since 2017, blended scent with music and visual storytelling in immersive events. Led by Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi...
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A life-size bronze cast of the classical group “Laocoön and his Sons,” one of only four known full-size period bronzes, is set to be auctioned in London as a prelude to Sotheby’s Old Masters evening...
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Refik Anadol has opened Dataland in Downtown Los Angeles, described as the world’s first AI art museum, occupying 25,000 square feet in Frank Gehry’s Grand LA development across from Walt Disney...
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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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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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Louvre president-director Christophe Leribault, in office since February, told the French Senate’s Committee on Culture on Wednesday that the museum is “at the end of its rope,” citing aging...
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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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Artnet News reports that Art Basel’s invite-only opening on Tuesday featured cautious, “measured and steady” buying as dealers and collectors looked for signs of market recovery among 290 exhibitors....
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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 reports that the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago will open to the public on June 19 in an eight-story granite museum building designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, featuring...
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A coalition of preservation and cultural groups has sued in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to halt President Donald Trump’s proposed “National Garden of American Heroes,” a statuary...
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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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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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Goodman Gallery, founded in Johannesburg in 1966 by Linda Givon and now led by owner Liza Essers (since 2008), has restructured amid a prolonged art-market downturn after costs began rising faster...
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art repatriated two Khmer sandstone sculptures to Cambodia: an Angkor-period guardian deity (rākṣasa) dating to c. 921–945 and a mid-7th-century lintel carved with an...
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A Rio de Janeiro justice court ordered Fábio Szwarcwald, former director of the Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (Mam Rio), to pay a 100,000 reais (about $20,000) fine for breach of contract....
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An Artnet News report traces how looted Cambodian antiquities from the 10th-century Koh Ker temple complex entered the international art market, arguing that ongoing demand sustains the trade. It...
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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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Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn and Japanese video game creator Hideo Kojima have expanded their collaborative installation into Satellites II, presented in New York at the Hotel Chelsea as...
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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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French artist JR’s temporary inflatable installation wrapping Paris’s Pont Neuf, titled La Caverne du Pont Neuf, was damaged in a storm and its opening has been postponed, according to a project...
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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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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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Hyperallergic highlights Matthew Campbell’s 2026 book The Man Who Stole the Gods, which details how British dealer Douglas Latchford trafficked looted Cambodian (Khmer) antiquities on a large scale...
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Federal documents obtained by the New York Times show that a no-bid contract to overhaul the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool expanded to about $13.1 million, far above President Donald Trump’s...
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SXSW London returns for its second edition on June 1–6, taking over more than 20 venues around the Trueman Brewery in Shoreditch and expanding its programming beyond technology, business, and music...
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The Trump administration installed 13 statues on Freedom Plaza in downtown Washington, D.C., including an equestrian monument to Revolutionary War figure and slave owner Caesar Rodney that had been...
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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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A statue of Caesar Rodney—an enslaver who signed the Declaration of Independence and enslaved at least 200 people—was installed at Washington, DC’s Freedom Plaza on Friday, May 22, as part of a group...
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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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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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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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French artist JR transformed Paris’s Pont Neuf—the city’s oldest bridge over the Seine and its first built from stone—into a trompe l’oeil “grotto” installation titled La Caverne du Pont Neuf (2026)....
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Artist Roberto (Robert) Lugo unveiled a two-part public monument to Puerto Rican culture in Madison Square Park, Manhattan, on Wednesday, May 20, commissioned by the Madison Square Park Conservancy....
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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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Art Basel has appointed Iraqi curator Wassan Al-Khudhairi as artistic director of the 2027 edition of Art Basel Qatar, following the fair’s debut earlier this year in Doha. Al-Khudhairi will succeed...
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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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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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Constantin Brâncuși’s Danaïde (1913), a bronze head formerly owned by media magnate S. I. Newhouse, sold at Christie’s on Monday for a $93 million hammer price, totaling $107.6 million with fees 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 Venice’s Chiesa di Sant’Antonin, South African artist Gabrielle Goliath is presenting Elegy as South Africa’s unofficial pavilion for the 61st Biennale Arte, after Culture Minister Gayton McKenzie...
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British artist and set designer Es Devlin has launched “A National Portrait for the National Portrait Gallery,” a participatory artwork at London’s National Portrait Gallery running through October...
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A Hyperallergic report characterizes Frieze New York at The Shed in Hudson Yards as a monotonous trade-show experience, likening it to eating an “assembly-line chopped salad,” while noting moments...
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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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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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Hyperallergic surveyed 13 New York art fairs about booth pricing as the spring fair season—anchored by Frieze New York at The Shed—opened for VIPs on May 13. Frieze reported main-section booth fees...
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The New Museum unveiled Sarah Lucas’s public-plaza commission “VENUS VICTORIA” (2026) on Tuesday, 12 May, at the intersection of Bowery and Prince Street in New York. The sculpture depicts a...
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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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Artnet News reported on May 12, 2026, that Radiohead’s visual world has been translated into an immersive installation in Brooklyn. The project is presented as a large-scale spectacle that brings the...
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An anti-Trump art installation resembling an arcade cabinet appeared at the D.C. War Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., featuring a playable video game titled “Operation Epic Furious:...
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The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (Mocad) reopened on 25 April after being closed for more than a year, unveiling upgrades to its 22,000-square-foot Midtown building in time for the...
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Artist Cooper Jacoby is highlighted as a standout of New York’s Whitney Biennial for sculptures examining how AI companies and other corporations convert personal data into financial assets. In 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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On April 28, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., announced the repatriation of 657 trafficked antiquities to India, valued at nearly $14 million, following investigations by the D.A.’s...
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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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Austrian artist and choreographer Florentina Holzinger presents “Seaworld Venice” in Austria’s Venice Biennale pavilion as an immersive installation addressing climate change, technology, and a...
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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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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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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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The National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC, received a $116 million gift from the Mitchell P. Rales Family Foundation to endow its Across the Nation lending program permanently, the largest...
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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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Brighton & Hove Museums in southern England is returning 45 artefacts to Botswana, including clothing, accessories, and hunting implements collected by the Reverend William Charles Willoughby in the...
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A new statue bearing Banksy’s signature appeared on Waterloo Place in central London, with sightings first reported on 29 April. Banksy confirmed authorship on Instagram on 30 April to his 13.8...
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ARTnews reports that artist Alma Allen’s selection to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale has sparked controversy over the commissioning process, as the pavilion was not organized by a...
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ARTnews reported on Nalini Malani’s new installation “Of Woman Born,” commissioned by the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art and presented at Venice’s Magazzini del Sale, a 15th-century former salt warehouse,...
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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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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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Hyperallergic reports that artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen installed a 27-foot-tall sandstone-and-brass sculpture, “The Light That Shines Through the Universe” (2026), on the High Line at West 30th Street...
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Refik Anadol and Efsun Erkiliç will open Dataland, billed as the world’s first A.I. art museum, in Los Angeles on June 20 after more than two-and-a-half years of planning and construction. Located in...
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The Art Newspaper reviews Peter Zumthor’s new Los Angeles County Museum of Art building, now called the David Geffen Galleries, awarding it a four-star rating and noting its $724 million cost. The...
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Tate has announced the four nominees for the Turner Prize 2026: Simeon Barclay, Kira Freije, Marguerite Humeau, and Tanoa Sasraku. Their shortlisted work will be exhibited at the Middlesbrough...
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Kent County Council, run by Reform, removed Antony Gormley’s early public sculpture Two Stones (1979–81) from outside the Kent History and Library Centre in Maidstone and sold it back to the artist...
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Billionaire collector and National Gallery of Art trustee Mitchell Rales donated an additional $116 million to endow the NGA’s Across the Nation lending initiative in perpetuity, expanding a program...
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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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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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Artist Alma Allen’s selection to represent the United States at the 2026 Venice Biennale has prompted scrutiny of the US Pavilion’s selection process after the State Department replaced its...
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An Egyptian archaeological mission working under the Supreme Council of Antiquities announced the discovery of a temple complex at Tell el-Farama (ancient Pelusium) in northern Sinai, featuring a...
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Artnet News reports that the San Francisco Art Fair (SFAF), presented by Art Market Production (AMP), opened this week with 88 local, national, and international exhibitors and 46 regional cultural...
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The Denver Art Museum has returned to Turkey a marble head of a bearded man that was stolen from the ancient city of Smyrna (present-day Izmir), an object Turkey says was unearthed in the city’s...
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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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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is using its forthcoming David Geffen Galleries to advance a curatorial strategy championed by CEO and director Michael Govan that breaks down traditional...
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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 Holy See (Vatican City) will present a sound-focused pavilion at the Venice Biennale running 9 May–22 November, featuring artists and musicians including Brian Eno, FKA Twigs, Precious Okoyomon,...
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Mexican artist Elina Chauvet alleges that her long-running anti-femicide installation Zapatos Rojos (Red Shoes) (2009–) was reproduced in Bucharest on March 31 without her authorization or proper...
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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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Artnet News reported on 10 April 2026 that Melissa Chiu, 54, has been appointed the next director of the Guggenheim in New York, following a quiet search led by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and...
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The Obama Presidential Center in Chicago announced a final cohort of eight artist commissions ahead of the campus’s opening in June, according to ARTnews. The newly named artists are Njideka Akunyili...
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Melissa Chiu, director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC since 2014, will leave to become director of New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Her final day at the...
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Chicago’s Obama Presidential Center, an eight-storey museum devoted to former US president Barack Obama’s legacy, is scheduled to open on Juneteenth, 19 June, on the city’s South Side. The $850m...
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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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Counterpublic announced 47 artists and collectives for the third edition of its triennial in St. Louis, Missouri, running September 12–December 12, under the title “Coyote Time,” named after a...
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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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An ARTnews article recounts how, during the New Deal era from 1933 to 1943, the US government treated art as a public resource and employed artists as part of broader economic relief during the Great...
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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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Frieze New York’s 2026 edition will run May 13–17 at the Shed with more than 65 exhibitors and will include institutional collaborations plus a new acquisition fund. In partnership with the Whitney...
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The Barclays Center in downtown Brooklyn is launching “Brooklyn Art Encounters,” a multi-year program expanding public art at the arena and introducing an artist-in-residence initiative led first by...
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Brazilian artist Teresinha Soares, known for erotic-inflected paintings, assemblages, and participatory installations that challenged gender norms in the 1960s and ’70s, died on March 31 in Belo...
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ARTnews profiles Native American artist Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) in connection with his site-specific installation “Red Metal Dust” at the Barnes Foundation in...
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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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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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Precious Okoyomon’s room-filling installation Everything wants to kill you and you should be afraid (2026) went on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 2026 Whitney Biennial after a delay,...
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The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, will reopen its 1.4-acre sculpture garden later this year with eight newly acquired works installed on the National Mall....
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A marble statue of Christopher Columbus has been installed on the White House grounds near the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, facing Pennsylvania Avenue, as part of President Donald Trump’s...
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In an opinion essay, an artist-writer argues that socially engaged art is being co-opted by the same institutional, corporate, and political systems it once aimed to challenge, as public space...
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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...
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Conceptual artist Trevor Paglen has been named the recipient of the 2026 LG Guggenheim Award, an honor that includes a $100,000 prize from LG and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Based...
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Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama said he is considering legal action after alleging he was assaulted by police during a traffic dispute in Tamale in Ghana’s Northern Region over the weekend of 21–22...
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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...
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Artist and activist Agosto Machado, a figure in Downtown New York’s queer art scene whose shrine-like altar sculptures are currently included in the Whitney Biennial, died on Saturday after a brief...
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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...
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Hyperallergic’s weekend roundup “Iranian Artist Speaks Her Heart,” introduced by editor-in-chief Hakim Bishara, centers on a text by Iranian artist Leila Seyedzadeh, who lives in New York and writes...
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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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Lauren Halsey’s long-planned sculpture park in South Central Los Angeles has opened to the public nearly two decades after she first conceived it while studying architecture at El Camino College,...
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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...
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Seattle police say a 40-year-old man caused “catastrophic damage” at the Chihuly Garden and Glass Museum late Monday night, resulting in an estimated $240,000 in losses. According to the Seattle...
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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 Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti announced it will open the Giacometti Museum and School in Paris’s 7th arrondissement in 2028, described as the first museum dedicated to Alberto...
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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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Four people suffered minor injuries in New York after a sculpture by artist Michael Joo was damaged, according to ARTnews. The incident occurred at Space ZeroOne, where the work was on view when it...
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Hyperallergic reported that the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) has reinstalled its African American galleries in a prominent, central location within the museum. The reinstallation is presented as...
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ARTnews.com reports that artist Jasmine Little, known for lush still-life paintings and sculptural ceramics with etched surfaces, has died at age 41. The article summarizes her multidisciplinary...
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A collection of 666 works by 135 Afro-Brazilian artists was voluntarily repatriated from a private collection in Detroit to Brazil’s National Museum of Afro-Brazilian Culture (Muncab) in Salvador,...
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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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ARTnews reports that German sculptor Henrike Naumann, known for work examining East Germany’s troubled postwar legacy, died at age 41. Naumann was recognized for installations that used domestic...
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Artnet News reports that Tuwaiq Sculpture has returned to Riyadh for its seventh edition, presenting monumental new works. The event highlights how Saudi and international artists are engaging with...
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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 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...
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On 10 February 2026, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art (NMAA) in Washington, DC, announced it will deaccession and return three bronze Hindu sculptures to India after a provenance review...
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Artnet News reports that Donald Trump is pushing for a dedicated display at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., centered on pro-Trump “fan art.” The article frames 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...
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During Mexico City Art Week, the satellite fairs Feria Material and Salón Acme drew record crowds at VIP previews on 5 February 2026, with Material reporting its biggest opening-day attendance ever...
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Mexico City is planning a large cultural programme to coincide with the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which kicks off in June at the recently renovated Estadio Azteca—its third World Cup opening match after...
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The inaugural Art Basel Qatar opened to VIPs on 3 February 2026 in Doha, with Art Basel CEO Noah Horowitz emphasizing its commercial purpose despite an institutional, biennial-like presentation, The...
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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Hyperallergic’s article “Where Would Contemporary Art Be Without Plastic?” examines how plastic has become a foundational material in postwar and contemporary art, shaping everything from sculpture...
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ARTnews published a profile titled “Pat Oleszko on Making a Fool of Herself for 60 Years and Counting,” focusing on performance artist Pat Oleszko and her six-decade career. The provided text is...
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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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The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art has returned three sculptures to India after determining they were looted. The repatriation is part of ongoing efforts by museums to address gaps in...
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Artist Shahzia Sikander has been selected for an M+ Facade Commission in Hong Kong with an animated film project, ARTnews.com reports. The commission will present Sikander’s moving-image work on M+’s...