Lisson Grove's galleries collaborate to promote London's unsung art district

Lisson Gallery, The Showroom, The Bomb Factory Art Foundation, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, and Palmer Gallery have formed the Lisson Grove Galleries initiative to promote the artistic activity of London's Lisson Grove district. The collaboration will launch during London Gallery Weekend (5-7 June 2025) with talks, tours, performances, and events, including discussions on collectivism, artist talks, and private views, with ongoing programming throughout the year.

Venice Biennale: The Must-Sees Off the Official Program

Biennale de Venise, les immanquables du off

The article highlights must-see exhibitions taking place in Venice alongside the official Biennale, curated by the magazine L'Œil. It features three major shows: "Le pli et le temps" at Fondazione dell’Albero d’Oro, exploring the fold as a material and temporal concept through the work of Patrick Saytour and Piero Manzoni; "Lorna Simpson. Third Person" at Punta della Dogana, a major European survey of Simpson's paintings, collages, and films organized by the Pinault Collection; and "Picasso, Morandi, Parmiggiani. Still Lifes" at Galleria di Piazza San Marco, a dialogue between three masters of still life, co-organized by Tornabuoni gallery and the Musée national Picasso-Paris.

Celebrated in the 1970s, American artist Nancy Graves returns to the spotlight at Ceysson & Bénétière

Célébrée dans les années 1970, l’artiste américaine Nancy Graves retrouve la lumière chez Ceysson & Bénétière

Beaux Arts Magazine reports on a resurgence of interest in American artist Nancy Graves (1939–1995), highlighted by a new exhibition at Ceysson & Bénétière. Graves, who worked across painting, sculpture, film, and stage design, was a rising star in the 1970s—exhibiting at MoMA and the National Gallery of Art, and becoming the youngest artist to have a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art at age 29. The article traces her career from studying literature at Vassar and art at Yale, to her brief marriage to sculptor Richard Serra, and her pioneering use of NASA satellite imagery and natural history themes in works like her life-size camel sculptures.

Julius von Bismarck “This is not the storm” at Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne

Julius von Bismarck's first Australian solo exhibition, "This is not the storm," opens at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) in Melbourne on Friday, 17 April. The Berlin-based artist blends art, science, and environmental themes to challenge conventional perceptions of nature as a social construct.

Kelly Akashi and friends celebrate Altadena's resilience after Los Angeles wildfires

Artist Kelly Akashi created "Field Set," an installation and performance on the site of her former home and studio in Altadena, California, which was destroyed by the Eaton wildfire last year. The project, supported by the nonprofit Los Angeles Nomadic Division (Land), featured salvaged materials, hand-blown glass orbs, wildflower plantings, and a soundscape by artist Phil Peters, drawing around 500 visitors over two days. Akashi integrated remnants from the fire into her recent Lisson Gallery show and has been awarded the Hyundai Terrace Commission for the 2026 Whitney Biennial, where she will present a glass replica of her chimney titled "Monument (Altadena)."

Post-Paintings, Pyrex Bowls, and Dollar-Store Flowers: Our Critic’s Guide to Art on the UES Right Now

Eliza Douglas makes her New York solo debut with 'Ghosts' at Gagosian's Park Avenue outpost, featuring layered paintings that incorporate UV-printed portraits of her aunt, UFO journalist Leslie Kean, over reworked canvases previously shown at the shuttered Air de Paris gallery. The exhibition runs through July 31, 2026, alongside concurrent shows at Gagosian's Madison Avenue space featuring Marcel Duchamp and Robert Rauschenberg, and a pairing of David Hammons with Jannis Kounellis at White Cube on the Upper East Side.

Bringing Courbet’s ‘A Burial at Ornans’ Back to Life, While Visitors Watch

The Musée d’Orsay in Paris has turned the yearlong restoration of Gustave Courbet’s monumental 22-foot painting 'A Burial at Ornans' into a public spectacle, allowing visitors to watch conservators at work. The museum demystifies art conservation by making the meticulous process transparent and accessible, inviting audiences to observe the cleaning, repair, and analysis of the 19th-century masterpiece in real time.

London Gallery Weekend 2026 Highlights And Recommendations

London Gallery Weekend 2026 will take place from June 5 to 7, featuring over 120 galleries across the city, including nine first-time participants and several with new or expanded spaces. The free, open-to-all event is organized by geographic focus days: Central London on Friday, South London on Saturday, and East London on Sunday, with participating galleries open from 11am to 6pm on Friday and Saturday, and 12pm to 5pm on Sunday. Highlights include Gagosian showing rare early works by Christo, Niru Ratnam presenting Keith Piper, Sadie Coles HQ screening new films by Helen Marten, and Victoria Miro debuting Shahzia Sikander's first exhibition since announcing representation.

Photographer Catherine Opie is everywhere all at once this spring

Photographer Catherine Opie is experiencing an extraordinary year in 2026, with multiple major exhibitions opening simultaneously across Europe and Los Angeles. A career-spanning survey at London’s National Portrait Gallery will travel to Edinburgh’s Royal Scottish Academy, while other shows appear in Kassel, Germany, and Trondheim, Norway. In Los Angeles, her new exhibition “Holding Blue” opens May 28 at Regen Projects, featuring 44 images of Norwegian mountain landscapes shot over 20 days in early 2024, accompanied by nine ceramic sculptures. Her work also appears in group shows at the Autry Museum of the American West, Hauser & Wirth, and David Zwirner. Opie, who retired from UCLA after serving as chair of the art department and teaching photography for more than 20 years, describes this period as the “Catherine Opie World Tour 2026.”

Mississippi Museum of Art Showcases Over 100 Iconic Photographs Capturing Mid-Century Black Arts

The Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson is presenting an exhibition titled "Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955-1985," running from July 25 to November 8. The show features over 100 photographs from more than 100 photographers, including works by Ralph Arnold, Ernest Withers, Ming Smith, Kwame Brathwaite, Doris Derby, Horace Ové, and Barkley L. Hendricks. The exhibition spans editorial images, personal portraits, and collages that document the Black experience during the mid-20th century, from protest movements to cultural expression.

Lap-See Lam presented in major exhibition at Henie Onstad

Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in Oslo, Norway, is presenting a solo exhibition titled "Ombres" featuring Stockholm-based artist Lap-See Lam, the fourth recipient of The Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award. The exhibition showcases major works from Lam's career, including two shadow play installations brought together for the first time as a single immersive installation, alongside new glass-blown sculptures created during her residency at CIRVA in Marseille. Lam's work interprets traditional storytelling forms like Cantonese opera and shadow plays to explore the translation and mistranslation of cultural heritage, tracing histories from 18th-century Chinoiserie to Chinese restaurants in modern-day Sweden, reflecting her family's migration from Hong Kong.

Lubaina Himid and Magda Stawarska: Zanzibar

Lisson Gallery in London presents "Lubaina Himid and Magda Stawarska: Zanzibar," an immersive installation running from June 4 to August 22, 2026. The exhibition features nine diptychs painted by Himid in 1999, paired with a 38-minute multi-layered sound composition by Stawarska created in 2023. The works explore themes of memory, displacement, and belonging, drawing on Himid's birthplace in Zanzibar and her family's migration to London. The installation includes Taraab music, opera, archival BBC clips, and Himid's own voice, creating a multi-dimensional experience that reflects both artists' sense of loss and connection to their native countries.

A Kind of Paradise: Reclaiming Colonial-Era Photography Through Contemporary Art

Museum Rietberg in Zurich has opened "A Kind of Paradise," an exhibition featuring twenty international artists who rework and reclaim colonial-era photographs. The show is organized into four thematic sections—Shapeshifters, Confrontation, Care, and In the Photo Fantastic—each exploring different strategies for challenging the historical narratives embedded in colonial archives. Artists such as Wendy Red Star, Cédric Kouamé, Omar Victor Diop, and Sasha Huber use techniques like cutting, stitching, collage, and critical fabulation to transform photographs that once defined and distorted non-European cultures into new works about memory, identity, and resistance.

Come, let's play human

Komm, wir spielen Mensch

The Kunsthaus Zürich is presenting a retrospective of Venezuelan-American artist Marisol (1930–2016), whose playful yet formally sophisticated sculptures blend abstraction, figuration, and everyday objects. The exhibition traces her career from early shows at Leo Castelli's gallery through her participation in the 1961 and 1963 Museum of Modern Art group exhibitions, her 1968 'European year' representing Venezuela at the Venice Biennale and featuring on the 4th documenta, to her subsequent decades-long disappearance from the European art scene.

Nancy Graves - En galerie

Nancy Graves (1939-1995), a major figure in American art who first gained recognition in 1969 at the Whitney Museum in New York, is the subject of a gallery exhibition presenting works from 1977 to 1990. Her multidisciplinary practice encompasses sculpture, painting, drawing, and film, drawing on scientific and cultural references. The featured works showcase an experimental approach based on layering, assemblage, and dynamic colors reminiscent of Abstract Expressionism, inspired by art history, archaeology, and her travels. Graves refused a fixed style, instead exploring the memory of forms and their reinterpretation in a free, layered visual language that is now being rediscovered.

Back on its home soil after 375 years, the Venus of Arles magnetizes artists in an unprecedented exhibition

De retour sur ses terres après 375 ans, la Vénus d’Arles magnétise les artistes dans une expo inédite

The Venus of Arles, a Roman statue from the 1st century BCE and a copy of a work attributed to the Greek sculptor Praxiteles, has returned to Arles after 375 years for a temporary exhibition titled "Le Passage de Vénus" at the Musée Départemental Arles Antique. Discovered in 1651 in the ancient theater of Arles, the statue was gifted to Louis XIV, restored by François Girardon, and later displayed at the Louvre. The exhibition, co-curated by Ludovic Laugier and Romy Wyche, presents the goddess's journey from her mythical birth to her triumph, featuring eight thematic sections that blend ancient sculptures with works by 16 modern and contemporary artists, including Niki de Saint Phalle, Annette Messager, and Man Ray.

Stanley Donwood on his show with Thom Yorke in Venice: ‘These drawings… they’re not planned’

Stanley Donwood, the artist and longtime collaborator of Radiohead's Thom Yorke, discusses his recent and upcoming projects in an interview. These include the conclusion of 'This Is What You Get', a retrospective at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum; the 'Motion Picture House' installation based on Radiohead's albums Kid A and Amnesiac; and his first exhibition outside the UK with Yorke, titled 'No Go Elevator (not without no keycard)', staged in Venice during the 2026 Biennale. The Venice show, presented with Tin Man Art, features 15 ink-on-paper works combining drawings and text from Yorke's notebooks.

8 Mind-Bending Digital and Art Exhibitions To Visit

LUXUO highlights eight immersive exhibitions that integrate digital technologies, AI, and sensory engagement to redefine contemporary art experiences. Featured venues include DATALAND in Los Angeles, the world's first museum dedicated to AI-generated art, opening in June 2026 with its inaugural show "Machine Dreams: Rainforest"; the Museum of the Future in Dubai, which uses narrative simulations to explore speculative futures; and Moco Museum Amsterdam's "Digital & Immersive Art" by Studio Irma, focusing on interactive light-based installations. Other exhibitions blend projection mapping, 3D environments, and data-driven installations to transform how audiences perceive and interact with art.

'The future of art': A first look at the video installation that'll light up LACMA's Wilshire bridge

Artist Diana Thater is creating a new permanent large-scale video installation titled "Oo Fifi, Five Days In Claude Monet’s Garden, Part 3" for the bridge over Wilshire Boulevard at LACMA's David Geffen Galleries. The piece, expected to debut in September, will run nightly from sundown to sunrise and features 6K footage Thater shot in 2025 of Claude Monet's garden in Giverny, France, projected onto a 59-foot-wide wall and part of the bridge ceiling. It will be the largest work of Thater's career and the first permanent outdoor video installation by an artist in a public space.

Tracing the Body Through Dust and Memory

South African artist Igshaan Adams presents 'Unsettling Dust: The Body’s Archive' at the Guggenheim Bilbao, an immersive exhibition that merges weaving, choreography, sculpture, and social history. The show features monumental woven tapestries derived from collaborative dance performances between South African and Greek dancers in Athens, transforming the gallery into a living archive of movement and memory. On view from 5 May to 1 November 2026, it is part of the museum's in situ series.

Los Angeles’s new Hospital of Emotions pop-up gives artists keys to the asylum

The Hospital of Emotions, a new pop-up exhibition in Los Angeles, has transformed the defunct St Vincent Medical Center into a sprawling art experience. Curator Yaara Sachs, founder of House of Art and Dreams, selected around 70 artists through an open call to take over 80 spaces—including examination rooms and operating chambers—in the building, which is slated for renovation into a behavioral health center. Each artist received $4,000 for their project and up to $10,000 for materials. The exhibition is organized into thematic "departments" dedicated to emotional states such as joy, fear, anger, and sadness, aiming to guide visitors toward catharsis. Featured artists include Kamil Cazpiga (Cosmodernism), Guy "Dioz" Bloom, Pablo Thomas, and Napo, among others.

Som Supaparinya “Mo num en ts” at Museion, Bolzano

Museion in Bolzano presents "Mo num en ts" (2025), a film by Thai artist Som Supaparinya that combines historical research and fieldwork. The work was produced through the Han Nefkens Foundation – Southeast Asian Video Art Production Grant 2024, dedicated to the memory of artist Dinh Q. Lê.

Alma Allen on Representing the US at the 61st Venice Biennale

ArtReview published a questionnaire sent to artists and curators participating in the 61st Venice Biennale (2026), featuring responses from Alma Allen, who is representing the United States at the Giardini pavilion. Allen gave cryptic, philosophical answers, declined to answer several questions, and criticized the art world establishment, calling outsider artists the most important and refusing to provide a framework for interpreting her work. The article includes details about her bronze sculpture "Not Yet Titled" (2023) and her reflections on US identity, violence, and bureaucracy.

Matías Duville on Representing Argentina at the 61st Venice Biennale

Matías Duville will represent Argentina at the 61st Venice Biennale in 2026 with a site-specific installation titled *Monitor Yin Yang*, transforming the Argentina Pavilion into a walkable landscape made of salt and charcoal. The work expands drawing into a spatial, sonic, and time-based experience, inspired by the natural environments of Mar del Plata and Patagonia. Duville discusses his approach in an interview with ArtReview, noting how early encounters with vast territories and geological time continue to shape his practice, and how the project relates to the Biennale's theme, *In Minor Keys*, by focusing on subtle intensities and open-ended evolution.

Creative catharsis: Saskatchewan art show brings mental health into focus

The article reports on 'Invisible Winds,' a touring exhibition at the Susan Velder Gallery & More in St. Walburg, Saskatchewan, featuring works by 19 local artists that explore mental health themes such as schizophrenia, fragility, and resilience. Curated by Dean Bauche and supported by the Organization of Saskatchewan Arts Councils, the show includes mixed-media pieces by artists like Holly Hildebrand and Bonny Macnab, with an introductory essay by author David A. Robertson. The exhibition coincides with Mental Health Awareness Month and aims to spark community conversation.

First contemporary Indian art exhibition at State Hermitage Museum in Russia to begin June 4

The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, will host its first-ever exhibition dedicated to contemporary Indian art, titled "Sediments of Becoming: Fossilised Present, Summoned Pasts," opening June 4 and running through October 4. The show features 11 Indian artists—including Manjunath Kamath, Afrah Shafiq, Gargi Raina, Lakshmi Madhavan, V Ramesh, Anindita Bhattacharya, Debashish Mukherjee, Maya Krishna Rao, Pushpamala N, Ravinder Reddy, and Sumakshi Singh—and is presented in collaboration with Threshold Art Gallery, curated by Marina Schulz and Tunty Chauhan. The artists created new works during a 2025 residency at the Hermitage, supported by collectors Ekaterina and Andrey Terebenin, and the pieces are displayed in dialogue with historical objects from the museum's collections and other Russian institutions.

3 art museums celebrate Betsy Wyeth, who made Maine’s landscape her canvas

Three museums are celebrating the legacy of Betsy James Wyeth, the wife of painter Andrew Wyeth, with exhibitions that highlight her role as a designer, preservationist, and creative force behind the environments that inspired her husband's iconic works. The Farnsworth Art Museum and Colby College in Maine, along with the Brandywine Museum of Art in Pennsylvania, are presenting shows that explore Betsy's architectural and landscape sensibilities, including her work on properties like Benner Island, Allen Island, and the Olson House. The exhibitions, titled "By Design: The Worlds of Betsy James Wyeth," run through late 2026 and early 2027.

Shenzhen International Museum of Art to open Saturday

The Shenzhen International Museum of Art (SIMoA) will officially open to the public on Saturday in the Guangming Science City district. The museum, covering approximately 135,000 square meters, features two hull-shaped structures symbolizing Eastern and Western cultures. Its opening day presents seven themed exhibitions, including 'Return of National Treasures' showcasing bronze animal heads from the Old Summer Palace, 'Realm of Masters' with European paintings from Budapest, and 'Neo Link — The Future of Art' featuring works by Anish Kapoor and Olafur Eliasson. Other exhibitions include a Xu Bing interactive space, the first Shenzhen Art and Technology Biennale, and selections from the CAFA Art Museum.

Columbus Museum of Art unveils major Tavares Strachan exhibit

The Columbus Museum of Art at The Pizzuti has opened "The Day Tomorrow Began," the first major museum exhibition dedicated to Bahamian conceptual artist Tavares Strachan. The expansive show occupies two-thirds of the Short North museum and features sculpture, painting, neon texts, and music, including immersive environments like a functioning rum bar and café. A related piece, the towering sculpture "In Praise of Midnight (Christophe x Napoleon)," is installed at the museum's main campus on Broad Street. The exhibition runs through January 3, 2027, and was co-organized with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

2026 Busan Biennale 'Dissident Chorus' turns its attention to sound amid an overexposure to the visual

The 2026 Busan Biennale, titled "Dissident Chorus," will open on August 29 across three venues on two of Busan's islands, featuring 44 artists and teams from 23 countries. Conceived as a "polyphonic score" in three movements, the biennale will take place at the Busan Museum of Contemporary Art on Eulsukdo Island, a former ship-equipment warehouse on Yeongdo Island, and the former Busan Nam High School. Co-directed by Evelyn Simons and Amal Khalaf, the exhibition deliberately emphasizes sound, performance, choreography, and club culture over traditional visual art objects, with artists including Joshua Serafin, Natasha Tontey, Eric Baudelaire, and Korean participants Park Hyun-sung, Suki Seo-kyeong Kang, and Lim Min-ouk.