Jonathas de Andrade - En galerie

Jonathas de Andrade's solo exhibition, titled "Ivresse d’une vie de bain de mer," is on view at Galleria Continua in Paris. The show brings together recent and never-before-seen works inspired by Brazilian Neo-Concretism and geometric abstraction. Andrade transforms vernacular forms into chromatic compositions, drawing from a project initiated after a 2025 commission from the Victoria and Albert Museum. The works engage with the materials and practices of maritime communities in northeastern Brazil, particularly canoeiros and jangadeiros (fishermen and raft sailors). The exhibition includes the film "Jangadeiros e Canoeiros" (2025), along with silkscreens, recycled sails, and paintings on wood, blending photography, abstraction, and readymade elements.

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.

The Universe According to Sang Huoyao—and His Humanoid Robot

At the Museum of Art Pudong (MAP) in Shanghai, artist Sang Huoyao opened his solo exhibition “Brushstrokes of the Universe” with a performance titled *How to Explain Painting to a Living Robot* (2026), in which he walked a humanoid robot from Unitree through the galleries, explaining each painting. The show, curated by Jonas Stampe, features 52 works including silk paintings, aluminum panel installations, and new media pieces, centered on the monumental 46-foot-long silk painting *Birth under the Sky* (2025–26).

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.

What do you hear in these paintings? 'Still In Sound' at the Clyfford Still Museum asks just that

The Clyfford Still Museum in Denver has opened 'Still In Sound,' a new exhibition that pairs five of Clyfford Still's paintings with original audio interpretations created by contemporary artists. Curated by Ben Coleman and Bailey Placzek, the show invites artists like Kalyn Heffernan and Michael Schumacher to respond sonically to Still's works, drawing on the museum's archives of the artist's voice recordings and personal record collection. Each audio piece plays on a loop from speakers positioned directly above the corresponding painting, with sounds ranging from rhythmic beats and hisses to New Orleans jazz and car engines.

Monet in Le Havre, the Awakening of the Master

Monet au Havre, l’éveil du maître

The MuMa (Musée d'art moderne André Malraux) in Le Havre is presenting a summer exhibition that explores Claude Monet's formative years in the port city, where he developed the groundbreaking intuition for Impressionism. The show traces his evolution from caricatures and portraits to landscapes, highlighting how his childhood in Le Havre—with its bustling docks, luminous beaches, and dramatic cliffs—shaped his artistic vision. Key works include his first plein-air painting from 1858, created alongside mentor Eugène Boudin, and the iconic *Impression, Soleil levant* (1872), painted in the same harbor.

In his Naples exhibition Shepard Fairey wants to restore political power to images

Nella sua mostra a Napoli Shepard Fairey vuole restituire alle immagini potere politico

Shepard Fairey's major exhibition "OBEY: Power to the Peaceful" has opened at Gallerie d'Italia in Naples, Italy. The show transforms the museum spaces into a landscape of symbols, slogans, monumental faces, and fierce geometries that draw from 20th-century revolutionary aesthetics but speak directly to contemporary issues of permanent war, image saturation, and the fragility of critical thought. Fairey also created a large mural titled "Third Eye Open Peace" in the Ponticelli neighborhood, extending his artistic statement into the urban fabric.

Stitching a Mind of Peace

Rosy Simas, a Seneca artist, has unveiled a new commission at the Walker Art Center titled 'A:gajë:gwah dësa’nigöëwë:nye:' (i hope it will stir your mind). The work emerged from a two-year residency and blends performance, installation, sound, and sculpture. It centers on suspended handwoven vessels inspired by Haudenosaunee corn-husk twining traditions, which serve as both sculptural forms and familial presences, creating an immersive meditation on kinship and Indigenous knowledge.

Take a Sneak Peek at Nick Cave and Marie Watt’s Obama Presidential Center Commission

Nick Cave and Marie Watt have collaborated on a multimedia textile installation commissioned for the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago's Jackson Park, set to open on Juneteenth. The piece, assembled in February, will be installed in the Center's lobby alongside works by Jenny Holzer, Jack Pierson, Kiki Smith, and Idris Khan. Virginia Shore, an independent advisor and curator, spearheaded the commissions, and Louise Bernard serves as the founding director of the Center's museum.

Dans un champ près de Toulouse, l’artiste Almudena Romero signe la plus grande œuvre photographique jamais réalisée

Anglo-Spanish photographer Almudena Romero has created "Farming Photographs," a 11,000-square-meter photographic work in a field near Toulouse, France, making it the largest photograph ever made. Using the 19th-century anthotype process, the image—a giant eye composed of traits from various races, genders, and ages—was planted as a crop of wheat and winter grasses, with each pixel corresponding to a tractor-width plot. The work emerges in spring, is visible from May to June, transforms until harvest, and ultimately becomes edible flour. Romero collaborated with France's INRAE agricultural research institute, dividing the image into 1,350 pixels and assigning different plant varieties to each based on color and density.

“Quiet Intersections,” June 5 through July 31

Four Chicago-based artists—Allie Kushnir, Shalen Stephenson, Thérèse Mulgrew, and Noel Mercado—will present concurrent solo exhibitions at Dubuque's Voices Studios from June 5 through July 31, under the collective title "Quiet Intersections." Each artist explores themes of memory, materiality, and contemporary life through distinct media: Kushnir's organic paintings, Stephenson's layered abstractions, Mulgrew's figurative works, and Mercado's found-object sculptures. An opening reception with an artist talk is scheduled for June 5.

Lucia Pietroiusti and Filipa Ramos Named Convenors for Norway’s Bergen Assembly

Bergen Assembly, the triennial art platform in Bergen, Norway, has named Lucia Pietroiusti and Filipa Ramos as convenors for its 2028 edition. The duo, known for their collaborative project “The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish,” will conduct part of their research publicly and work closely with the city. Pietroiusti is curator of the Sixth Autostrada Biennale and founder of Serpentine Gallery’s General Ecology initiative; Ramos teaches at FHNW Academy of Art and Design and is curator of the 2027 Lofoten International Art Festival. A “Prelude” event begins September 12, 2025.

Find hidden street art made of mahjong at this special exhibition – for this weekend only

A local Hong Kong artist known as Mr Mahjong has created a street art exhibition on Shin Hing Street, featuring 15 carved and painted mahjong tiles installed at nine restaurants, cafés, and bars. The pieces are inspired by each venue, such as agave plants for mezcal bar Coa and sushi for Sakaba Masaka, with some hidden like Easter eggs. The exhibition runs from May 29 to 31, and includes a charitable component: for each Instagram story tagged @mmj_hk, $10 is donated to a local animal NGO.