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article news schedule Apr 23, 2026 source 3 sources visibility 28 link 12 artists, 2 galleries

At the ‘art world Olympics,’ Team USA is chaotic

The US Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale, often called the 'art world Olympics,' is mired in controversy and delays under the Trump administration. Curator Jeffrey Uslip insists the process has been smooth and artistically autonomous, but the selection of sculptor Alma Allen and commissioner Jenni Parido—a former pet supply shop owner with a new nonprofit—has raised eyebrows. The usual vetting process by the National Endowment for the Arts was disrupted, new language banning diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts was added to applications, and a government shutdown left only six months to fundraise and plan the exhibition, which coincides with the US's 250th anniversary.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 27, 2026 visibility 24 link 20 artists, 7 galleries

Art Events May You Cannot Miss in London

An Artlyst guide highlights several major art exhibitions opening in London in May 2026. Key shows include 'Zurbarán' at the National Gallery (the UK's first major monographic exhibition of the Spanish master in over 30 years), 'Rising Voices: Contemporary Art from Asia, Australia and the Pacific' at the V&A (a collaboration with QAGOMA featuring 40 artists), a James McNeill Whistler retrospective at Tate Britain (the first major European show in 30 years), and 'Winston Churchill: The Painter' at the Wallace Collection. Photo London is also moving to Olympia this year.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 13, 2026 visibility 51 link 8 artists, 2 galleries

Gagosian to open new ground-floor space at 980 Madison Avenue with major Duchamp presentation

Gagosian is set to expand its footprint at 980 Madison Avenue by opening a new ground-floor gallery space on April 25, 2026. The inaugural exhibition features a landmark presentation of Marcel Duchamp’s iconic readymades, including "Fountain" and "Bicycle Wheel." This selection specifically highlights the 1964 editions produced with Arturo Schwarz, returning these works to the exact building where they made their American debut at the Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery over sixty years ago.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 8, 2026 visibility 38 link 13 artists, 5 galleries

At the Menil Collection, Cy Twombly’s Drawing and Discovery

The Menil Collection in Houston is showcasing "The Gift of Drawing: Cy Twombly," an exhibition featuring 27 works selected from a massive donation of 121 pieces by the Cy Twombly Foundation. The show spans four decades of the artist's career, from the mid-1950s to 2005, highlighting his experimental approach to collage, painting on handmade paper, and drawing. Many of these works have never been previously exhibited in the United States, filling significant gaps in the museum's already extensive Twombly holdings.

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museum exhibitions schedule Mar 9, 2026 visibility 22 link 59 artists, 27 galleries

New York Galleries: Openings and Closings (03/09-03/15)

New York City’s gallery scene is set for a major wave of activity between March 10 and March 15, 2026, with dozens of new exhibitions opening across Manhattan. High-profile showcases include Sam Gilliam and Chuck Close at Pace Gallery, Maria Lassnig at Petzel, and Paul Chan at Greene Naftali. The week features a diverse range of media, from David Armstrong’s portraiture at Artists Space to Bat-Ami Rivlin’s industrial installations at Management.

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museum exhibitions schedule Feb 24, 2026 visibility 20 link 35 artists, 13 galleries

These Are the Exhibitions to See During Frieze Los Angeles 2026

Frieze Los Angeles 2026 has sparked a city-wide surge of artistic activity, characterized by large-scale artist-led group shows and the creative reclamation of non-traditional spaces. Key highlights include the transformation of a massive abandoned 99 Cents Only store into a chaotic exhibition featuring over 120 artists, a sprawling video art installation across six floors of a historic vaudeville theater, and major collection surveys focusing on influential women and artists of color.

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museum exhibitions schedule Feb 18, 2026 visibility 10 link 12 artists, 3 galleries

Must-see Chicago museum openings, exhibitions and events in 2026

Chicago's cultural institutions are preparing a diverse slate of exhibitions and openings for 2026. Highlights include the Art Institute of Chicago presenting Henri Matisse's complete 'Jazz' book of cutouts for the first time, a survey of Dominican artist Firelei Báez at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the National Museum of Mexican Art exploring the history of Mexican railroad workers, and a costume design exhibition featuring Paul Tazewell's work at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry. The year also features the grand opening of the Obama Presidential Center and a Barbara Nessim survey at the DePaul Art Museum.

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trending_up market schedule Feb 4, 2026 visibility 15 link 19 artists, 11 galleries

Art Basel Qatar VIP day: fair’s debut encourages patience

Art Basel Qatar opened its inaugural edition to VIPs in Doha, featuring an unconventional 'boothless' format with 87 exhibitors each presenting a solo artist. The fair, curated by artist Wael Shawky, is split between two venues in the Msheireb district, with blue-chip galleries in M7 and more emerging to mid-tier galleries in the Design District. The event is heavily subsidized by Qatar, significantly lowering costs for exhibitors and encouraging a focus on market education over immediate sales.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 8, 2026 visibility 11 link 18 artists, 6 galleries

The 14 Best Art Museum Exhibits in the World in 2026

PaperCity tapped Elaine de Kooning House founder Chris Byrne to curate a list of the 14 best art museum exhibitions worldwide in 2026. Highlights include a major Marcel Duchamp retrospective at MoMA—the first North American survey in over 50 years—featuring nearly 300 works, and Raphael's first comprehensive U.S. exhibition at The Met, titled 'Raphael: Sublime Poetry,' with 200 drawings, paintings, and tapestries. Other notable shows include 'The Shakers: A World in the Making' at ICA Philadelphia and a Guerrilla Girls exhibition at the Getty Center in Los Angeles.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 5, 2026 visibility 12 link 16 artists, 8 galleries

8 Must-See Solo Gallery Shows in January

Galerie magazine has curated a list of eight must-see solo gallery shows across the United States for January, highlighting exhibitions from coast to coast. Featured artists include Jeff Koons at Gagosian in New York, where he presents monumental stainless-steel sculptures of gods and goddesses alongside layered paintings, and Giorgio Griffa at Casey Kaplan, whose survey "Consistently Through Variation" spans five decades of his process-driven work. Other notable shows include Julian Schnabel at Mnuchin Gallery and Marisol at Matthew Marks Gallery in Los Angeles.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 15, 2025 visibility 12 link 19 artists, 8 galleries

London Art Exhibitions 2026 An Artlyst Month by Month Guide

Artlyst has published a comprehensive month-by-month guide to art exhibitions opening in London throughout 2026. Highlights include solo shows by Lucian Freud, David Hockney, and Anish Kapoor; surveys of women artists such as Tracey Emin, Frida Kahlo, Rose Wylie, Cecily Brown, and Chiharu Shiota; and historical exhibitions featuring Stubbs, Whistler, and Renoir. The guide also covers the opening of the new V&A East, a major samurai exhibition at the British Museum, a Freud drawing show at the National Portrait Gallery, an Aardman animation exhibition at Young V&A, a Lynda Benglis and Giacometti encounter at the Barbican Centre, and a Seurat seascape exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 4, 2025 visibility 18 link 28 artists, 4 galleries

20 Must-See Monographic Museum Exhibitions Feature Artists Allan Rohan Crite, Wifredo Lam, Suzanne Jackson, Woody De Othello, Theaster Gates & More

Fall 2025 brings a wave of major monographic museum exhibitions worldwide, featuring artists such as Allan Rohan Crite, Wifredo Lam, Suzanne Jackson, Woody De Othello, and Theaster Gates. Highlights include the first mainstream museum shows for Crite in his hometown of Boston, the first solo museum exhibition for Gates in Chicago, and the first U.S. retrospective for Lam at MoMA. Other notable shows include surveys of Robert Colescott, Coco Fusco, Richard Hunt, Jacob Lawrence, and Cauleen Smith, spanning institutions from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town.

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trending_up market schedule Nov 5, 2025 visibility 14 link 19 artists, 13 galleries

Mon oncle d’Amérique

Art Basel Paris officially opened on October 22, 2024, with a new VIP tier called 'Avant-Première' granting early access to favored collectors. The fair saw a shift in mood from socializing to business-focused transactions, with multimillion-dollar works on offer, including a Gerhard Richter painting reportedly sold for over $20 million by Hauser & Wirth. Pre-fair events included dinners hosted by Marian Goodman for artist Paul Sietsema, gallery openings at Salon 94's new Palais-Royal space, and a VIP evening at the Musée d'Orsay for a Bridget Riley exhibition. American galleries and collectors dominated the week's parties, with events by David Zwirner, Gladstone, and others.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 31, 2025 visibility 7 link 7 artists, 4 galleries

Must-see Van Gogh exhibitions in 2026

Several major Van Gogh exhibitions are scheduled for 2026 across Japan and the Netherlands. In Nagoya, the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art hosts "Van Gogh's Home: The Van Gogh Museum" (January–March), featuring 24 paintings and five drawings from the Amsterdam museum. Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum presents "Yellow: More than Van Gogh's Favourite Colour" (February–May), exploring the color yellow through Van Gogh's Sunflowers and works by other artists. A touring exhibition from the Kröller-Müller Museum, "The Grand Van Gogh Exhibition," travels from Kobe to Fukushima and Tokyo with 37 paintings and 20 drawings. The Kröller-Müller Museum itself plans "All Van Goghs" (September 2026–January 2027), reuniting its entire collection for the first time since 1984. Den Bosch's Noordbrabants Museum examines Van Gogh's influence on Jan Sluijters in "Jan and Vincent: About Light" (October 2026–February 2027). Several ongoing exhibitions continue into early 2026, including "Van Gogh and the Roulins" and "Captivated by Vincent" at the Van Gogh Museum, and "Van Gogh and the Potato" in Den Bosch.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 13, 2025 visibility 11 link 14 artists, 6 galleries

With Ruth Asawa, MoMA is set to open its biggest show ever by a woman artist

MoMA is opening "Ruth Asawa: Retrospective" on October 19, 2025, running through February 7, 2026, featuring 275 works by the artist, including over 60 looped-wire sculptures, bronze casts, paper folds, and drawings. The exhibition, which previously appeared at SFMoMA, occupies 16,000 square feet on MoMA's sixth floor and is the largest show ever devoted to a woman artist at either institution by checklist count, though neither museum has emphasized this superlative.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 9, 2025 visibility 15 link 21 artists, 14 galleries

10 Must-See Shows during Frieze London 2025

Frieze London 2025 has arrived, bringing with it a sprawling public sculpture exhibition and two art-packed tents in Regent's Park, including the historically focused Frieze Masters. Alongside the main fair, London's galleries are hosting a mix of shows ranging from established favorites to emerging talents, with many exhibitions featuring ambitious sculptural works made from unconventional materials like furniture and driftwood. Notable highlights include Sonia Gomes and Kudzanai-Violet Hwami showing bronze sculptures for the first time, Cai Guo-Qiang's controversial gunpowder canvases at White Cube, and Danielle Fretwell's sumptuous oil paintings at Alice Amati. Artsy has curated a list of 10 must-see gallery exhibitions taking place during the fair.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 8, 2025 visibility 14 link 14 artists, 9 galleries

Eight Exhibitions Not to Miss During Frieze Week London

Frieze Week London returns from October 15-19 at Regent's Park, but the city's galleries and museums are mounting a robust slate of concurrent exhibitions. Highlights include "Nigerian Modernism" at Tate Modern (October 8, 2025–May 10, 2026), the first UK survey of mid-century Nigerian modern art featuring over 200 works by 50 artists; "Emily Kam Kngwarray" at Tate Modern, Europe's first major solo show for the Aboriginal artist; "Kerry James Marshall: The Histories" at the Royal Academy of Arts, the artist's largest US exhibition outside the U.S.; and "House of Music" at Serpentine South Gallery, a multisensory presentation of Peter Doig's work. The article also previews several other shows across London.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 22, 2025 visibility 5 link 9 artists, 4 galleries

'Kerry James Marshall: The Histories,' Largest-Ever UK Exhibition of the Artist Includes New Paintings Exploring Role of Black Africans in Transatlantic Slave Trade

The Royal Academy of Arts in London has opened 'Kerry James Marshall: The Histories,' the largest-ever UK exhibition of the American artist, featuring over 70 works spanning 1980 to the present. The show includes eight new paintings that confront the transatlantic slave trade and the role of Black Africans who participated in the enslavement of their own people, alongside celebrated pieces like 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self' (1980) and 'Knowledge and Wonder' (1995), the latter displayed outside Chicago for the first time.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 19, 2025 visibility 8 link 30 artists, 5 galleries

Best New York City art exhibitions during fall 2025

This fall 2025, New York City will see the reopening of the Studio Museum in Harlem after a seven-year closure, with a new 82,000-square-foot building designed by Adjaye Associates and Cooper Robertson. The museum will debut with a major exhibition on Tom Lloyd, archival displays, and commissions by Camille Norment and Christopher Myers. The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present the first exhibition focused on Man Ray's rayographs, featuring 60 photograms and 100 other works. The Brooklyn Museum will host New York's largest Monet exhibition in over 25 years, reuniting 19 of his Venetian paintings. The New Museum will also unveil a 60,000-square-foot expansion by OMA / Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas, doubling its exhibition space.

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person people schedule Jun 18, 2025 visibility 6 link 13 artists, 1 gallery

A brush with… Rudolf Stingel — podcast

This podcast episode features an in-depth conversation with artist Rudolf Stingel, who discusses his irreverent approach to painting, his influences including Pablo Picasso and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and his friendships with artists like Urs Fischer and Maurizio Cattelan. Stingel reflects on his career from the 1980s onward, his exploration of painting across abstraction and photorealism, and his expansion into sculpture and installation. The episode also covers his current exhibitions: 'Vineyard Paintings' at Gagosian in London and his inclusion in 'Les yeux dans les yeux' at the Couvent des Jacobins in Rennes.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 30, 2025 visibility 3 link 4 artists, 1 gallery

How 'Shōgun' Became Takashi Murakami’s Latest Pop Culture Muse

Takashi Murakami is having a landmark year, with a solo exhibition at Gagosian London, a Major League Baseball collaboration, and the reissue of his Louis Vuitton line with Marc Jacobs. His largest U.S. exhibition in two decades, "Stepping on the Tail of the Rainbow," opened at the Cleveland Museum of Art, featuring over 100 works. The show's centerpiece is an architectural collaboration inspired by the TV series "Shōgun," recreating the Yumedono (Dream Hall) from Hōryūji Temple, developed with the show's creators Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 19, 2025 visibility 7 link 27 artists, 11 galleries

9 Must-See Shows at Paris Gallery Weekend 2025

Paris Gallery Weekend 2025 takes place May 23–25 across 74 galleries in the capital, featuring vernissages, performances, exhibition walkthroughs, and artist talks. Now in its second decade, the event was founded to spotlight Paris’s contemporary art scene and offers a counterpoint to the art fair circuit. Highlights include Sophie Calle’s "SÉANCE DE RATTRAPAGE" at Perrotin, where she revisits unfinished projects from her 2023 Picasso Museum exhibition, and major institutional shows like the David Hockney retrospective at Fondation Louis Vuitton and "Corps et âmes" at Bourse de Commerce. The weekend also includes a new Agnès Varda exhibition at Musée Carnavalet linking her photography to her Montparnasse atelier.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 17, 2025 visibility 5 link 24 artists, 5 galleries

Exhibitions Coming to North Texas Museums this Summer

Museums across the Dallas-Fort Worth area have announced their summer exhibitions, including a range of shows from Western art that influenced Hollywood to immersive installations and historical surveys. The Sid Richardson Museum in Fort Worth debuted "The Cinematic West: The Art That Made the Movies," which explores how artists like Frederic Remington and Charles Russell shaped early silent Western films through paintings, sculptures, and ephemera. The Dallas Museum of Art reopened its popular Yayoi Kusama infinity room, "All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins," while the Nasher Sculpture Center opened "Generations: 150 Years of Sculpture," featuring 50 works from its permanent collection. The Amon Carter Museum of American Art is opening "East of the Pacific: Making Histories of Asian American Art" alongside a Richard Avedon exhibition.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 16, 2025 visibility 6 link 5 artists, 3 galleries

Huge Paris exhibition reveals David Hockney’s love of Van Gogh

A major exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, titled "David Hockney 25," showcases 400 works by the British artist, with a focus on the past 25 years of his career. The show highlights Hockney’s deep admiration for Vincent van Gogh, featuring a section called "The Great Wall" that includes 29 Van Gogh reproductions alongside works by other artists. Key pieces on display include Hockney’s portrait of his partner Jean-Pierre Gonçalves de Lima, inspired by Van Gogh’s "Sorrowing Old Man," and iPad drawings echoing Van Gogh’s sunflower still lifes. The exhibition runs until 31 August.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 5, 2025 visibility 9 link 49 artists, 32 galleries

The Ultimate Guide to New York Art Week 2025

New York Art Week 2025 is underway as the international art world converges on the city for a series of major spring fairs. Galerie has surveyed six key fairs—Frieze New York, Independent, TEFAF New York, NADA New York, Future Fair, and Esther II—highlighting standout artworks and notable presentations. Highlights include Jeff Koons' Hulk sculptures at Gagosian, Claire Tabouret's new paintings at Perrotin, and Tuan Andrew Nguyen's kinetic sculptures at James Cohan. Independent returns to Spring Studios with its 16th edition, featuring a new curatorial initiative, Independent Debuts, showcasing 26 emerging artists including Shafei Xia, Laura Footes, and Lewis Brander.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 1, 2025 visibility 7 link 63 artists, 36 galleries

Our Guide to New York Art Week 2025

New York Art Week 2025 is condensed into a single mega-week starting May 5, featuring major art fairs including Frieze New York, Independent, and TEFAF New York, alongside gallery openings, auction previews, and museum shows. The guide provides a day-by-day itinerary, fair overviews, and practical tips for navigating the week, emphasizing that many events are ticketed or free and do not require VIP passes.

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candle obituary schedule Apr 3, 2026 visibility 20 link 5 artists, 1 gallery

Glen Baxter obituary

Cartoonist and surrealist Glen Baxter has died at the age of 82. He was celebrated for his distinctive style, which blended deadpan captions with pop art-inspired scenes featuring characters like cowboys and spacemen in bizarre situations. His work appeared in major publications like the New Yorker and the Observer, and he was also a staple of humorous greeting cards.

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person people schedule Mar 30, 2026 source 3 sources visibility 15 link 6 artists

Artist and Filmmaker Steve McQueen Wins $172,000 Erasmus Prize

British artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen has been awarded the 2024 Erasmus Prize by the Dutch Praemium Erasmianum Foundation. The prize includes a cash award of 150,000 euros (approximately $172,000) and a specially designed booklet featuring the script of the 16th-century scholar Desiderius Erasmus.

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candle obituary schedule Dec 5, 2025 visibility 8 link 7 artists, 1 gallery

frank gehry dead guggenheim bilbao 1234765549

Frank Gehry, the award-winning architect whose revolutionary museum designs reshaped the art world, died on Friday in Santa Monica, California, at age 96 due to a brief respiratory illness. Best known for the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (1997), Gehry's signature style—featuring sloping, incongruous forms clad in titanium—transformed the architectural landscape of art institutions worldwide. His other major museum projects include the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, and an upcoming Guggenheim museum in Abu Dhabi.

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article news schedule Apr 6, 2026 visibility 19 link 11 artists, 1 gallery

Closure of DePaul Art Museum leaves collection in limbo

DePaul University has announced the permanent closure of the DePaul Art Museum (DPAM) effective June 30, citing a projected $27.4m budget deficit for 2026. Despite an open letter signed by over 3,000 students and faculty, the administration is moving forward with the shutdown of the $7.8m facility that has served as a cultural anchor since 2011. Director Laura-Caroline de Lara had successfully raised funds to keep the museum operational through the current season, but the university's leadership remains committed to the closure as part of a broader cost-cutting initiative.

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