New Exhibition Explores Immersive Art Created by Women Artists in the 1960s and 1970s

Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul has opened "Inside Other Spaces: Environments by Women Artists 1956–1976," an exhibition that reconstructs immersive environments created by women artists from Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Originally organized with Munich’s Haus der Kunst, the Seoul presentation expands the project with additional works by Korean and Asian artists, including Jung Kangja’s "Muche-Jeon (Incorporeal Exhibition)." The show features reconstructed works by pioneers such as Lygia Clark, Marta Minujín, Nanda Vigo, and Tsuruko Yamazaki, whose 1956 piece "Red" is the earliest environment included. Visitors are invited to physically enter installations made of mirrors, translucent materials, sound, and light, experiencing art that dissolves boundaries between artwork, architecture, and viewer participation.

The Invincible Spirit of Edmonia Lewis

The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, has opened "Edmonia Lewis: Said in Stone," the first major retrospective of the 19th-century sculptor Edmonia Lewis, who was of Black and Indigenous (Mississauga-Tuscarora) descent. The exhibition displays 30 of her Neoclassical white marble sculptures alongside archival materials and works by other artists, organized into four thematic rooms that explore antislavery, Indigenous artistic worlds, her studios in Rome, and religion and mythology. Co-organized with the Georgia Museum of Art, the show emphasizes Lewis's dual heritage without conflating the two identities, featuring extensive text and quotes from the artist herself.

Rising Voices: Contemporary Art from Asia, Australia and the Pacific opens at the V&A

The Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) in London has opened 'Rising Voices: Contemporary Art from Asia, Australia and the Pacific', a landmark exhibition drawn from the collection of the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA). Featuring over 70 works by more than 40 artists from 25 countries, the show is organized in three thematic sections—Re-Visioning History, Enduring Knowledge, and Evolving Faith—and includes sculpture, photography, painting, ceramics, weaving, and body adornment. Many works are on view outside their home region for the first time. The exhibition runs until 10 January 2027.

A West Coast First: A Retrospective of SFMOMA’s KAWS Exhibit

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) concluded its six-month exhibition "KAWS: FAMILY," the artist's first major museum retrospective on the West Coast. The show featured 30 years of Brian Donnelly's (KAWS) work, from early advertising recreations to monumental sculptures, with a central theme of kinship. It attracted a record influx of young adults and families, helping SFMOMA recover from a 30% drop in annual foot traffic between 2019 and 2024.

Origami dragons and a story arcade! The joy of museums aimed at children

The article profiles the Story Museum in Oxford, a family-oriented museum designed to spark curiosity in arts and culture among children. It describes the museum's interactive galleries, including Small Worlds for under-fives, the Whispering Wood filled with fables, a temporary dragon-themed exhibition co-curated with author Cressida Cowell, and the Enchanted Library that takes visitors through the history of children's literature. The author recounts her toddler's joyful engagement with the hands-on exhibits, from playing digital Pooh sticks to exploring a Narnia-inspired wardrobe.

Theodoros Papagiannis: Reusing Materials For Art’s Slow Arrow, As An Antidote To Barbarism

Theodoros Papagiannis, a Greek sculptor and professor, is the subject of a tribute exhibition titled "In Praise of Sculpture" at the Sianti Gallery in Athens. The show features works by eighteen artists, all graduates of the 1st Sculpture Workshop of the Athens School of Fine Arts, honoring Papagiannis as their teacher. In an interview, Papagiannis discusses his philosophy of reusing materials, the importance of memory in art, and his belief that art must remain rooted in tradition while engaging with the present. He also reflects on Greece's sculptural heritage, the influence of ancient works like the Elgin Marbles, and his ongoing project of drawing from Greece's archaeological museums.

“You already have everything you need”: interview with Thomas Dambo opening his first museum exhibition

Danish recycle artist Thomas Dambo has opened his first museum exhibition at the ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art in Ishøj, Denmark, on May 24. The exhibition, running until November 29, features his signature giant troll sculptures, which have previously been installed in forests, mountains, and deserts around the world. The show marks a shift from Dambo's typical outdoor, site-specific installations to a formal museum setting.

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.”

For the 9th edition of Printemps Asiatique Paris, K-art in the spotlight

Pour la 9e édition du Printemps Asiatique Paris, le K-art à l’honneur

The 9th edition of Printemps Asiatique Paris, running from June 3 to 12, 2026, places Korean art (K-art) at center stage, celebrating Franco-Korean friendship. The event moves from its previous location to the refined spaces of Galerie Charpentier and includes a "Parcours galeries" route featuring around twenty Parisian galleries. Participating galleries include Louis & Sack with Lee Hyun Joung's memorial landscapes, Magna Gallery with Hoon Moreau's oak sculptures, and Françoise Livinec with works by Bang Hai Ja. Other highlights include Jean-François Cazeau gallery showing major Asian artists like Zao Wou-Ki, Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita, and Yayoi Kusama; Mingei gallery presenting Japanese bamboo basketry from the 8th century to today; Sinapango gallery with lacquer objects including a Ming-dynasty erotic incense box; and Jacques Barrère gallery with a large Goryeo-dynasty bodhisattva sculpture. The Musée national des Arts asiatiques – Guimet mounts complementary exhibitions on Silla civilization treasures and K-beauty.

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.