Gagosian and Olney Gleason to Present Solo Exhibition for Lee Krasner in France

Galleries Olney Gleason and Gagosian will present a solo exhibition of works by Lee Krasner at Gagosian’s Rue de Ponthieu space in Paris, opening October 19, 2026. The show, organized in collaboration with the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, will feature paintings and works on paper by the Abstract Expressionist artist. It coincides with the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s blockbuster Krasner–Jackson Pollock exhibition opening October 4, and precedes Art Basel Paris’s 2026 edition.

Independent 20th Century adds 75% more exhibitors as it moves to the Breuer Building

Independent 20th Century, the art fair focused on modern and overlooked 20th-century works, will move to Sotheby’s Breuer Building on Madison Avenue for its September 2026 edition. The new venue, a landmark designed by Marcel Breuer and formerly home to the Whitney Museum, allows the fair to expand to 56 exhibitors—a 75% increase from previous years. This marks the first collaboration between a commercial art fair and a major auction house. Among the 33 new exhibitors are blue-chip galleries like Hauser & Wirth, Thaddaeus Ropac, and Sprüth Magers, alongside a stronger contingent of Latin American galleries. Returning participants include Luxembourg + Co and Salon 94, while around 80% of stands will feature solo or dual-artist presentations.

Independent 20th Century Heads to the Breuer With Its Biggest Edition Yet

Independent 20th Century, the art fair launched in 2022, is moving from the Battery Maritime Building to Marcel Breuer's former Whitney Museum building—now Sotheby's global headquarters—for its fifth edition, running September 24–27. The fair will be nearly twice the size of previous editions, featuring 56 exhibitors and over 130 artists, with roughly 80% of presentations dedicated to one or two artists. Highlights include Hauser & Wirth's presentation of Emma Kunz, Lévy Gorvy Dayan's presentation of Yves Klein, and Nahmad Contemporary's presentation of Lucio Fontana.

Lee Krasner Will Make Paris Debut via Gagosian, Olney Gleason

Lee Krasner will make her Paris debut in October 2024 with a solo exhibition at Gagosian's rue de Ponthieu gallery, organized in collaboration with Olney Gleason and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. The show will focus on her bold, large-scale works from the 1960s, a period of renewed confidence after she survived an aneurysm and a broken arm. It opens ahead of Art Basel Paris and coincides with a major survey at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous," which pairs her work with that of her husband, Jackson Pollock.

Independent 20th Century Announces Details of 2026 Fair at the Breuer Building

Independent 20th Century has announced details for its fifth edition, taking place from September 24–27, 2026, at the Breuer Building in New York, now home to Sotheby's global headquarters. The fair will feature 56 exhibitors and over 130 artists, making it the largest iteration yet, with a focus on diversifying the 20th-century art canon. Participants include Luxembourg + Co., Mariane Ibrahim, and Berry Campbell, the latter presenting a show titled “The Women of Stable Gallery.” The fair will also host live performances and events, and its new location is part of a multi-year partnership between Sotheby's and Independent announced in 2025.

Legacy dealer Marianne Rosenberg unearths family archive for New York show

Marianne Rosenberg, an Upper East Side dealer and descendant of the storied Rosenberg gallery dynasty, has opened a new exhibition titled "Giacomo Manzù: The Artist and his Dealer" at her gallery Rosenberg & Co., running until 27 June. The show features sculptures, works on paper, and archival letters that explore the decades-long relationship between Italian sculptor Giacomo Manzù and her father, Alexandre P. Rosenberg, who represented Manzù until his death in 1987. Marianne, who left a career in international aviation finance law to open her gallery in 2015, continues her family's focus on Impressionist and Modern art while also working with contemporary artists and pursuing restitution of artworks looted by the Nazis during World War II.

Influential art world figure Joe Hage moves from the shadows to take top billing

Joe Hage, the reclusive founder of Heni art services and manager of artists including Damien Hirst, Gerhard Richter, and Peter Doig, is stepping into the public eye. He is backing a major Barbara Hepworth exhibition at London's Courtauld Gallery, titled "The Joseph Hage Aaronson & Bremen Exhibition: Hepworth in Colour" (12 June–6 September). The exhibition is named after Hage's law firm, Joseph Hage Aaronson & Bremen LLP (JHAB), an elite dispute resolution and advisory practice based in London.

Frieze Lines Up Nearly 300 Galleries for Its Two London Fairs in October

Frieze London and Frieze Masters will take place in Regent’s Park from October 14 to October 18, featuring nearly 300 galleries. Frieze London will host 172 exhibitors, while Frieze Masters will have 138, with eight galleries participating in both, including Hauser & Wirth, Hales, and Alison Jacques. The fairs will include curated sections such as the new “The Code Universe,” organized by Carol Yinghua Lu, and the Artist-to-Artist and Focus sections, alongside blue-chip and emerging galleries.

Art Basel strives to maintain its prestige

Art Basel s’efforce de maintenir son prestige

Art Basel has announced details for its 2026 edition in Basel, featuring 290 galleries from 43 countries. The fair introduces a new "Basel Exclusive" label, which designates select major artworks unveiled exclusively during the VIP opening, with participating galleries agreeing not to preview these works through pre-sale channels. Twenty-two galleries from the 2025 edition are absent, some due to closures (Blum, Sperone Westwater) and others shifting to Art Basel Paris (Art: Concept, Emanuela Campoli, Fergus McCaffrey, David Nolan Gallery, Jeffrey Deitch). The fair maintains a re-enrollment rate above 90% and adds about twenty newcomers, including twelve in the main sector. For the first time, galleries from Ivory Coast, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey will participate, expanding geographic representation. The fair also highlights its strong modern art offering, with specialized dealers like Acquavella Galleries, Landau Fine Art, and Mayoral.

In Barcelona, the very political abstractions of Kapwani Kiwanga at the Miró Foundation

À Barcelone, les abstractions très politiques de Kapwani Kiwanga à la fondation Miró

Kapwani Kiwanga's retrospective at the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona presents her politically charged abstract works, including new textile pieces inspired by Joan Miró's habit of carrying a carob pod in a specially sewn pocket. The exhibition, titled "Kapwani Kiwanga. États changeants," features sisal fiber sculptures, gold leaf, mahogany, and beadwork, all chosen for their histories tied to colonial trade, post-colonial dynamics, and global exchange. Curated by Martina Millà, the show explores themes of protection, home, and the hidden power structures embedded in everyday materials.

25 Art Shows Reckoning With the US at 250

Hyperallergic presents a guide to 25 art exhibitions and projects across the United States that reframe and challenge the story of the nation on the occasion of its 250th anniversary. The article highlights shows such as Rosy Simas's Indigenous survivance-focused exhibition at the Walker Art Center, a survey of women artists from 1945-1979 at Eric Firestone Gallery, and an exhibition of rare manuscripts at Gilcrease Museum examining Native American nations' role in the country's founding, among others.

Léon Tutundjian, l’avant-gardiste oublié enfin remis en lumière à Grenoble

The Musée de Grenoble has mounted the first-ever retrospective of Léon Tutundjian, an Armenian-born avant-garde artist who was active in Paris from the 1920s onward. Despite being a friend and peer of major figures such as Jean Hélion, Auguste Herbin, Theo van Doesburg, Jean Arp, and Alexander Calder, Tutundjian was largely forgotten by art history. The exhibition brings together his rare works—including collages, drawings, gouaches, and the sculptural "reliefs" for which he is best known—and aims to restore his place in the narrative of 20th-century modernism.

From Olivia Rodrigo to The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

This week's entertainment guide from The Guardian highlights several art exhibitions opening in London and Hastings. Henry Moore and Lucian Freud are paired at Hastings Contemporary (13 June–13 September) in a show exploring family bonds. Anish Kapoor returns to the Hayward Gallery (16 June–18 October) with monumental mirrored sculptures and Vantablack works. The Royal Academy of Arts opens its annual Summer Exhibition (16 June–23 August), the world's oldest open-submission show. Other cultural events include Steven Spielberg's new UFO film, Kamasi Washington at Meltdown festival, and a Scottish comedy drama.

Edvard Munch’s chocolate factory series shines a light on the public artist he wanted to be

An exhibition titled "Edvard Munch and the Chocolate Factory" has opened at the Munch Museum in Oslo, running until 11 October. It centers on Munch's rarely seen public works, including a preparatory sketch for Oslo City Hall discovered crumpled in snow after his death, and his 12-painting series for the Freia Chocolate Factory's canteen, completed in 1922. The show also highlights his monumental 1916 decorations for the University of Oslo's Aula, such as "The Sun" and "The History," which he created after a mental breakdown and a stay at a Copenhagen clinic.

Drawings by Willem de Kooning, the ‘last Old Master’, take centre stage in Chicago show

A new exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, titled 'Willem de Kooning Drawing,' brings together more than 200 works spanning seven decades, including drawings, paintings, prints, and sculptures by the Dutch American artist Willem de Kooning (1904-97). Curated by Kevin Salatino, the show explores drawing as a concept rather than a theme, featuring iconic pieces like 'Excavation' (1950) and 'Woman I' (1950-52) alongside rare works never before shown publicly, such as early caricatures, crucifixion depictions, and drawings made with the artist's eyes closed. The exhibition marks the 100th anniversary of de Kooning's arrival in the US and is the Art Institute's first major show of his work since 1969.

‘She slept in the hallway on a lawn chair’: how Bettina’s astonishing art outgrew her Chelsea Hotel room

The article profiles Bettina Grossman, known simply as Bettina, a reclusive artist who lived and worked in a small room at New York's Chelsea Hotel for decades. Her room was filled to the brim with Xeroxed word art, geometric sculptures, photographs, and collections of leaves, reflecting 40 years of fervent creative output. Artist Yto Barrada, who edited a book about Bettina, describes the overwhelming accumulation of works that forced Bettina to sleep on a lawn chair in the hallway. Bettina's work, including sculptures, photographs, and films, is now featured in an exhibition called 'Bettina: Finite Structures' as part of the Glasgow International festival, showcasing pieces like a newly digitized 8mm animation and distorted photographic reflections of skyscrapers.

London’s Gallery Scene Is Full of Contradictions. Its Art Is, Too.

London's gallery scene during the June 2026 London Gallery Weekend presented a stark contrast: while Cork Street saw abandoned storefronts from departed galleries like Tiwani and Stephen Friedman, and Pace Gallery downsized, new arrivals Sundaram Tagore and Lehmann Maupin celebrated openings alongside expanding midsize galleries Edel Assanti and Emalin. A total of 126 galleries participated from June 5–7. Notable exhibitions included Thomas Houseago's spiritual installation at Lévy Gorvy Dayan featuring antiquities and modern works, Oliver Beer's sound-vibration paintings at Thaddaeus Ropac, Anne Imhof's Berlin-coded sculptures at Sprüth Magers, and a performance art 'spiritual marriage' at Gallery Rosenfeld. The article highlights a renewed interest in spirituality and nostalgia across shows, with South Asian art becoming increasingly central to London's cultural identity.

‘The people made me a star’: 100 years of Marilyn Monroe – in pictures

A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London, titled 'Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait', explores the life, career, and legacy of Marilyn Monroe through portraits created by many of the greatest photographers and artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. The show runs until 6 September and features iconic images from her early modeling days as Norma Jeane to her final interviews and photographs in 1962, including works by Milton H. Greene, Eve Arnold, Cecil Beaton, Pauline Boty, and Andy Warhol.

Crystal Bridges Museum Tacks on a Big Expansion, Just 15 Years After Opening, and Packs it With American Art

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, has opened a major expansion just 15 years after its original 200,000-square-foot facility debuted. Designed by architect Moshe Safdie, the addition adds 114,000 square feet of new galleries, education spaces, and artist studios, including a 14,000-square-foot exhibition space. The new wing features skylights with a mechanism to create balanced natural light and hosts the inaugural exhibition “Keith Haring in 3D,” co-curated by Glenn Adamson, which explores the artist’s sculpture practice. The expansion was driven by founder Alice Walton’s desire to execute the original fifty-year plan while Safdie could still lead the project.

MoMA exhibition will examine Mondrian’s time in New York and love of boogie woogie music

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York will present "Mondrian Boogie Woogie" (March 21–July 31, 2027), an exhibition focusing on Piet Mondrian's final four years in New York and the influence of boogie woogie music on his late work. The show reunites Mondrian's last two paintings—Broadway Boogie Woogie (1942-43) from MoMA's collection and Victory Boogie Woogie (1942-44) from the Kunstmuseum Den Haag—for the first time in over thirty years, alongside 30 total works including pieces from a crate he brought to New York. A section will explore Café Society, New York's first interracial nightclub where Mondrian was a regular, and jazz pianist Jason Moran will contribute an original composition.

Mildred Howard on her first retrospective in a major museum: ‘My art is part of who I am as a person’

Oakland-based artist Mildred Howard, now 80, will receive her first major museum retrospective, "Mildred Howard: Poetics of Memory," at the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) starting June 12. The exhibition spans her 50-year career and includes works such as her "Untold Histories / Hidden Truths" series, which reimagines monuments to slaveholders and colonizers, and public installations like "Locks and Keys for Harry Bridges." Howard's home and studio in West Oakland—a 15,000 sq ft warehouse—blurs life and art, filled with samples and cast-offs from her large-scale public artworks.

‘Hold to This Earth’ Surveys the Abundance of American Indigenous Contemporary Art

A new exhibition titled 'Hold to This Earth' at Yorkshire Sculpture Park in Wakefield, U.K., will open on June 13 and run through April 18, 2027. It features nearly 70 works by 38 artists representing 35 Tribal Nations, making it the largest presentation of American Indigenous contemporary art in the U.K. to date. The works are drawn from the Tia Collection and include pieces by Jeffrey Gibson, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Raven Halfmoon, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Dyani White Hawk, Nicholas Galanin, and others, spanning media from beads and clay to digital photography and mixed media.

See Never-Before-Shown Martin Wong Works, Now On View in a Show Of His Chinatown Paintings

A new exhibition at Wrightwood 659 in Chicago, “Martin Wong: Chinatown USA,” presents over 100 works by the late self-taught artist, including 11 never-before-exhibited paintings and the never-before-seen back side of a large canvas. The show focuses on Wong’s depictions of San Francisco’s and New York’s Chinatowns, featuring iconic imagery such as Bruce Lee, Peking opera performer Mei Lanfang, and the pagoda-style building at 241 Canal Street. It is the first monographic institutional show of Wong’s work in nearly a decade, complemented by a concurrent New York exhibition, “Martin Wong: Popeye,” at P.P.O.W. Gallery, which closed in June 2026.

Shows to See in Switzerland, June 2026

ArtAsiaPacific's June 2026 guide highlights six major exhibitions across Switzerland, featuring solo shows by Shuang Li at Kunsthalle Basel, Angelica Mesiti at Museum Tinguely, Pierre Huyghe at Fondation Beyeler, Marisol at Kunsthaus Zürich, Ju Ting at Galerie Urs Meile, and Jiajia Zhang at Vontobel. The exhibitions span video installations, sculptural painting, and biological-machine environments, with Shuang Li's "Alliance" marking her first solo institutional show in Europe and Marisol receiving her first major European retrospective.

Chloe Wise Opens Major Swiss Institutional Exhibition in Time for Art Basel in Basel

New York-based artist Chloe Wise has opened "Extrasensory," her first major institutional exhibition in Switzerland, at Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger (KBH.G) in time for Art Basel in Basel. Curated by Samuel Leuenberger, the exhibition centers on *PsyFi*, Wise's most ambitious film project to date, presented as a large-scale three-channel installation. The film explores how different cultures and historical periods have attempted to understand encounters with the unknown, drawing parallels between religious visions and contemporary accounts of extraterrestrial phenomena. The exhibition also features immersive environments, including an esoteric roadside gift shop and a hybrid dressing room-worship-spacecraft interior, blurring distinctions between spirituality, commerce, and popular culture.

Art Exhibitions in Hong Kong you Must See Right Now - Prestige Online

Prestige Online has published a curated guide to current art exhibitions in Hong Kong, highlighting must-see shows across the city's galleries and museums. The article features a selection of ongoing and upcoming exhibitions, providing details on venues, artists, and dates to help readers plan their cultural visits.

Lauded Architect, Designer, and Artist Hugo Toro Makes His Perrotin New York Debut

Franco-Mexican artist Hugo Toro presents his solo U.S. debut exhibition, “Ojo de Agua,” at Perrotin New York. The show features abstract paintings and a conceptual ceramic installation that evoke memories of his grandparents' village in Mexico. Toro, known primarily for architecture and interior design—including the Orient Express La Minerva in Rome and the Villa Albertine studio in New York—created all works within the last two years, marking a significant expansion of his artistic practice into fine art.

Ahead of Basel, London Gallery Weekend Put a Defiant, Energized City Scene on Display

London Gallery Weekend (LGW) returned for its 2026 edition, bringing together over 120 galleries, including nine first-timers and several with new or expanded spaces. The free city-wide program featured tours, talks, performances, and parties, coinciding with the major June auction season headlined by the Lewis Collection at Sotheby's and the Zabludowicz Collection at Christie's. The weekend unfolded amid gallery closures like Tiwani Contemporary and Stephen Friedman Gallery, and Pace's announcement of staff and artist roster reductions, but also saw expansions such as Sadie Coles' new space and Singapore's Sundaram Tagore opening in Pall Mall. Notable shows included Anne Imhof at Sprüth Magers, Oliver Beer and Mandy El-Sayegh at Thaddaeus Ropac, and Terry Winters at Modern Art.

18 must-see exhibitions for a European art road trip this summer

This article highlights 18 must-see art exhibitions across Europe for summer 2026, featuring major solo shows by artists such as Cecilia Vicuña at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, Yayoi Kusama at Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Ruth Asawa at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Marina Abramović at the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice, Pierre Huyghe at Fondation Beyeler in Basel, and Danh Vo at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Many of these exhibitions are traveling shows or coincide with key art events like the Venice Biennale and Art Basel, offering a rich cultural itinerary for visitors.

10 exhibitions and new street art murals to discover this summer

10 expos et nouvelles fresques de street art à découvrir cet été

Beaux Arts Magazine rounds up ten must-see street art exhibitions and new murals across France for summer 2026. Highlights include the group show "We Are [Still] Here" at the Petit Palais in Paris, featuring over 70 artists such as Invader, Shepard Fairey, and eL Seed; a double retrospective of pioneer Ernest Pignon-Ernest at the Inguimbertine library-museum in Carpentras and the Musée Ziem in Martigues; the colossal "Beyond the Streets" exhibition at La Villette in Paris, with over 100 artists from Keith Haring to JR; and JR's immersive installation "La Caverne du Pont-Neuf" on the Pont-Neuf bridge, complete with a soundtrack by Thomas Bangalter.