New York Art Week 2026 is set to be a packed event, with major art fairs including Frieze, TEFAF, and Independent all scheduled within a single week this May. The art world will arrive directly from the Venice Biennale, and New York galleries are opening their major spring exhibitions to coincide with the influx of curators and collectors.
Paris Gallery Weekend 2026 returns for its 14th edition from May 29th to 31st, organized by the Comité Professionnel des Galeries d’Art. The event features 73 galleries across the Marais and other districts, offering three days of programming with must-see exhibitions during the city's vibrant late spring season.
Gallery Weekend Beijing (GWBJ) took place in the 798 Art District, drawing visitors who mingled art-viewing with shopping and leisure in a commercialized landscape. The 10th annual event featured solo exhibitions by younger Chinese artists, including Ouyang Chun's "Nirvana" and Yang Fudong's "Fragrant River," with collectors and patrons like Tian Jun and Zhu Zhu actively shaping the programming. Despite an economic downturn, veteran galleries such as Hive Center for Contemporary Art and Tang Contemporary Art maintained robust activity, while emerging artists explored themes of technological anxiety, bodily perception, and material systems.
The article previews seven must-see exhibitions during Art Brussels, highlighting Richard Tuttle's restless assemblages at Galerie Greta Meert and an expansive show of Lutz Bacher at WIELS. The guide, written by Emile Rubino, offers a curated selection for visitors navigating the fair.
Bangladeshi visual artist Ashfika Rahman has been recognized by The New York Times as one of the six must-see shows at the Venice Biennale, with her work "Than Para — No Land Without Us" featured in the collateral exhibition "Still Joy — From Ukraine into the World." The installation, presented by the PinchukArtCentre and curated by Björn Geldhof and Oleksandra Pohrebnyak, incorporates thousands of small temple bells gathered from different spiritual traditions and draws on testimonies from Ukraine as well as the struggles of Indigenous communities in Bangladesh's Hill Tracts.