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.

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.

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.

Event: Jayden Ali and Simone Brewster, Off the Record

ArtReview and Ursula magazine have partnered to host a monthly talk series in a Mayfair wine bar, featuring intimate conversations with creative visionaries. The upcoming event on June 9 will spotlight architect and artist Jayden Ali and artist Simone Brewster, who will discuss their inspirations and working methods. Jayden Ali is a founding director of JA Projects, a London Mayor's Design Advocate, and co-curator of the British Pavilion at the 2023 Venice Biennale. Simone Brewster is a London-based artist exploring identity and cultural memory through sculpture, painting, and installation, with her work held in major collections including the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Smithsonian Institution.

11 art exhibits to check out this summer

This article highlights 11 art exhibitions opening across Greater Boston this summer, encouraging viewers to challenge their beliefs and reflect on collective memory. Featured shows include "Giorgio Griffa: Paths in the Forest" at the Clark Art Institute, the artist's first U.S. solo exhibition; "Where's Boston? 50 Years Later" at the Boston Athenaeum, revisiting Constantine Manos's 1974 photographic portrait of the city; "James Dye: The Void, the Wheel, and the Monster" at Fitchburg Art Museum; and "Stories on the Planet: Asagi Maeda" at Fuller Craft Museum, among others.

MoMA to Present the First Survey of Piet Mondrian’s New York Paintings

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has announced "Mondrian Boogie Woogie," the first survey exhibition focused on Piet Mondrian's New York paintings. Opening March 21 through July 31, 2027, the show will bring together 30 works made or completed between his 1940 move to New York and his death in 1944. It highlights the influence of the city's boogie-woogie music scene on his late style, including iconic pieces like Broadway Boogie Woogie (1942–43) from MoMA's collection and Victory Boogie Woogie (1942–44) on loan from the Kunstmuseum Den Haag. The exhibition also traces the history of boogie-woogie from its roots in the American South to its migration north.

Wallace Chan exhibitions pair intricate sculptures with Venetian heritage

Wallace Chan, a Hong Kong-based jeweler and sculptor, has mounted a dual exhibition across two historic Venetian sites timed to the Venice Biennale. At Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo, he presents "Mythos," a site-specific installation of suspended titanium sculptures that reimagine figures from Tintoretto's paintings, including the Three Graces and Mercury, as abstract, dissolving faces. Inside the palazzo, three sculptures hang beneath Tintoretto's "Paradise," accompanied by a soundscape from Chan's Shanghai workshop. The exhibition is curated by James Putnam, who has long specialized in placing contemporary art in dialogue with historical collections.

‘Central to human identity’: exhibition at the Met connects bodies with musical instruments

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has opened a new exhibition titled 'Musical Bodies,' which explores 4,000 years of musical history by examining the relationship between human bodies and musical instruments. Curated by Bradley Strauchen-Scherer, the show features over 600 instruments from the Met's collection, including African drums, ancient Egyptian clappers, Prince's symbol guitar, Renaissance violins, a Tibetan kangling, and MiMu Midi gloves. The exhibition traces common threads across six continents and highlights how instruments serve as extensions of human identity and creativity.

Thomas Rom, Art Adviser and Performance Space Chair, On His Top Exhibitions in Venice This Year

Art adviser and Performance Space New York board chair Thomas Rom shares his personal reflections on the 2026 Venice Biennale vernissage week, highlighting the main exhibition "In Minor Keys" curated by the late Koyo Kouoh, as well as collateral shows and national pavilions. Rom describes the main exhibition as deeply compelling and essential for understanding a global cultural landscape outside traditional frameworks, and he offers observations on works by artists including Maja Malou Lyse, Abbas Akhavan, Bogna Burska, Daniel Kotowski, Tori Wrånes, and Miet Warlop.

New photography museum in Cincinnati foregrounds the medium’s democratic power

The FotoFocus Center, a new museum dedicated to photography, has opened in Cincinnati after over three years of construction. Designed by local architect Jose Garcia, the building's three-tone palette of black, white, and sepia references the medium's origins, while its materials blend regional elements (black iron bricks, indigenous woods) with foreign stone from Argentina. The inaugural exhibition, "Big Tent," curated by Kevin Moore, features works by dozens of artists including Gordon Parks, Catherine Opie, and Robert Mapplethorpe, and reflects on American diversity through photography. The 14,700-square-foot museum occupies a former gas station lot and gives the non-profit organization FotoFocus a permanent home for year-round programming.

Mexico City museum with world's richest collection of Kahlo and Rivera works reopens after years of controversy

The Museo Dolores Olmedo in Xochimilco, Mexico City, reopened on May 30 after six years of closure and controversy over a planned relocation. The museum, housed in a former 16th-century hacienda, showcases the world's richest collection of works by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, along with founder Dolores Olmedo's pre-Hispanic and popular arts. New galleries highlight Olmedo's private spaces and her decades-long bond with Rivera, including 98 of his works arranged chronologically and Kahlo's iconic painting *The Broken Column* (1944).

Protests, picket lines and Indigenous pride: examining US democracy – in pictures

FotoFocus, a non-profit organization, has opened its inaugural exhibition titled "Big Tent" at the new FotoFocus Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. The show, on view until 22 August 2026, features the work of more than 50 photographers, including Dawoud Bey, Robert Frank, and RaMell Ross. Partly inspired by Amanda Gorman's poem "In This Place (An American Lyric)," the exhibition examines the present state of US democracy through documentary and artistic photography, with images ranging from civil rights protests to contemporary border issues.

Guimi You’s Ethereal Paintings Capture the Art of Starting Over

Lehmann Maupin in New York is presenting “Guimi You: When the Sun Shines Again,” the South Korean artist’s first major solo exhibition in the city, opening June 11, 2026. The show features a new body of atmospheric paintings that explore the theme of starting over after a period of artistic dormancy, using light as a metaphor for growth and transformation. Works such as *Spring Walk* (2026), *Golden* (2026), and *Violet Haze* (2026) depict solitary figures in quiet, luminous landscapes, blending Eastern ink-painting traditions with Western oil techniques.

Difaf gallery’s trio exhibition “Fabric of Time” is not to be missed

The article highlights a series of art exhibitions opening in Cairo, Egypt, in June and July 2025. Key shows include Difaf gallery's trio exhibition "Fabric of Time" featuring Fatma Abu-Doma, Sara Alfazayry, and Ahmed Lesi; a retrospective "Echoes of Time" by Magdy Abdel-Aziz at Dai; and the Egyptian debut of the immersive digital experience "Beyond Van Gogh" at District 5 by Marakez. Other notable exhibitions include "Her Realm" by Ahmed Dafrawy at Art Linx Karma, "Lightings" by Ruairí O'Brien at Arcade, "Generations of Art" at Duroub, and photography exhibitions at the French Institute in Egypt by Randa Shaath and by Noria Tesson and Samar Bayoumi.

Blue mushrooms, shy trees and glowing seas: Beaker Street science photography prize – in pictures

The article showcases the 12 finalists of the Beaker Street science photography prize, featuring images of blue bioluminescent seas, shy tree canopies, native wasps, and glowing mushrooms. The photographs will be exhibited at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery during the Beaker Street festival from August 6 to 17.

FAD NEWS: Ugo Rondinone creates city-wide celebration of light

Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone is launching MORE LIGHT, a city-wide project in London this summer, spanning three chapters across Mayfair and the Royal Academy of Arts. The project includes a monumental rainbow poem suspended in the Royal Academy's courtyard, fifty-four flags along Bond Street featuring sunrise and sunset images, and a gallery presentation of new watercolour paintings at Sadie Coles HQ. Developed in collaboration with the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition, the installations explore light as a shared human experience through universal motifs like sunrise, sunset, sky, and horizon.

A First Look at the Art in the New Obama Presidential Center

The Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, a $850 million campus designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, is set to open later this month in Jackson Park. The center features over 28 commissioned works by contemporary artists including Idris Khan, Theaster Gates, Lorna Simpson, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, and Maya Lin, alongside a basketball court, a Chicago Public Library branch, gardens, and civic spaces. Curators Virginia Shore, Crystal Moten, and Louise Bernard assembled the collection to intertwine art with the Obama legacy and the broader public art landscape of Chicago's South Side.

BRUSK, un nouveau centre d’art à visiter dans le cœur historique de Bruges

A new art center called BRUSK opened on May 8 in the historic heart of Bruges, Belgium, near the Groeningemuseum. Housed in a contemporary building by Robbrecht en Daem Architecten and Olivier Salens Architecten, it features a monumental fresco by Laure Prouvost titled "The Whispering Walls Rêve" and two temporary exhibition spaces. The inaugural show "Vision large" explores Bruges' medieval golden age, while a second space presents a generative AI installation by Refik Anadol. BRUSK also includes the BRON research center, storage for Musea Brugge's collection, and a public café.

An Invitation into Joan Miró’s Imagination

The article invites readers into the imaginative world of Joan Miró, the Catalan painter, by recounting his successful 1941 retrospective at MoMA and his 1945 exhibition with dealer Pierre Matisse. It highlights Miró's first visit to the United States in 1947 and his inclusion in the New American Paintings show at MoMA in 1991, with a charming anecdote from MoMA conservator Jean Volkmer about Miró blowing kisses at the artworks. The piece also notes an upcoming exhibition at The Phillips Collection from March 21 to July 5, 2026.

Art Students League Seeks the Next Generation of Public Artists

The Art Students League of New York is accepting applications through July 12, 2026, for its Works in Public fellowship, a fully funded two-year program that trains artists to create large-scale public sculptures. Formerly known as Model to Monument and launched in 2010 with the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation, the fellowship selects four artists per cohort, providing tuition, a stipend, and production costs. Participants develop proposals in the first year and fabricate approved works in the second, with sculptures displayed for a year in Manhattan’s Riverside Park and eligible for permanent installation on the Florida Keys Sculpture Trail.

Audain Art Museum Celebrates Takao Tanabe's Centennial with Landmark Retrospective

The Audain Art Museum is opening "Takao Tanabe 100: Inside Passage," a landmark retrospective celebrating the 100th birthday of Canadian painter Takao Tanabe on September 16, 2026. The exhibition features over fifty works spanning six decades, including his iconic coastal and prairie landscapes as well as lesser-known series like the "White Paintings" and "Emperor" paintings. Co-organized with the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, the show will travel to Ottawa and Victoria through 2027.

Twice a Week, David Haskell Leaves New York Magazine To Throw Clay

David Haskell, editor in chief of New York Magazine, is holding his first solo exhibition of sculptures titled "Boom Beach" at Donzella Ltd. in New York City. The show features 68 works, mostly ceramics, along with bronzes and glass sculptures, created over the past several years. Haskell, who works as a sculptor twice a week at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, began working with clay as a teenager and returned to it in 2013, evolving from making planters to abstract forms that he describes as a personal exploration of shape and balance.

A Walk with Ernest Pignon-Ernest in Naples through 5 Sublime Works

Promenade avec Ernest Pignon-Ernest à Naples en 5 œuvres sublimes

Ernest Pignon-Ernest, a pioneering French street artist born in Nice in 1942, has spent over 50 years creating contextual art by pasting charcoal drawings and screen prints onto urban walls. The article focuses on his long engagement with Naples, Italy, where he first arrived in the 1980s after hearing Neapolitan baroque music on the radio. It highlights five key works from his Neapolitan series, including a 1988 collage combining Caravaggio's 'David and Goliath' with the head of Pier Paolo Pasolini, his 'Pulcinella' figure from the 1990s exploring death and comedy, and 'Épidémie' (1990) depicting plague victims. The works are currently featured in an exhibition at the Bibliothèque-Musée l'Inguimbertine in Carpentras, France.

The Sun and The Moon Exhibition at Saatchi Gallery | Art Inspired by Celestial Bodies - News and Statistics

The Saatchi Gallery has opened a major new exhibition titled 'The Sun and The Moon,' exploring humanity's fascination with celestial bodies. Curated by Katherine Benson, the show spans nine gallery spaces across two floors and features works from over 170 artists, structured as a 24-hour cycle from dawn through night. Highlights include Luke Jerram's six-metre illuminated sphere 'Helios,' made from 400,000 NASA photographs, and Margot Selby's textile 'Moon Landing,' which honors the Navajo women and Raytheon workers who contributed to the Apollo missions. The exhibition also includes works by Patrick Caulfield, Barbara Hepworth, Sinta Tantra, Kay Gasei, and Aina Petrova, alongside historical artifacts like a Sol Invictus Celtic Bust and a replica of the Nebra Sky Disc.

Phantasmic Figures Grapple with Their Doubles in Xie Lei’s Dreamy Oil Paintings

Paris-based artist Xie Lei presents a new body of work in a solo exhibition titled "Double" at Musée Denys-Puech in Rodez, France. The show features dreamy oil paintings of spectral figures grappling with doubles, twins, or reflections, rendered with feather-light brushstrokes and deep shadows. Works like "Resistance" and "Double I" evoke underwater or elemental realms, while disembodied hands reach out in suspended touches. The exhibition runs from June 12 to October 25, 2025.

Ismaili Center's new art gallery and 9 more openings to see in Houston

Summer brings a wave of contemporary art exhibitions across Houston, including the debut of the Ismaili Center Houston's permanent art collection and a new dedicated gallery for temporary shows. The inaugural exhibition features Iranian-American interdisciplinary artist Raheleh Filsoofi, with interactive works like a transformed Kermani rug turned into a four-string instrument. Other notable openings include "Daybreak" at Laura Rathe Fine Art, "Proximity: Constructed Relations" at Spring Street Studios, and "Ink & Image" at Archway Gallery, showcasing local and international artists across diverse mediums.