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museum exhibitions schedule May 22, 2026 visibility 11 link 15 artists, 9 galleries

An Art-Lover’s Guide to Tunis’ Ground-Up Contemporary Scene

The article profiles Selma Feriani, a Tunisian gallerist who opened a new purpose-built gallery in the industrial El Kram district of Tunis in January 2024. Designed with architect Chacha Atallah, the three-story space features a concrete exterior referencing traditional Tunisian hand-application techniques and a garden of olive, palm, and orange trees. Feriani, who previously ran a gallery in London's Mayfair, returned to Tunisia after the Revolution to contribute to the country's cultural renaissance. The gallery currently hosts simultaneous exhibitions: Nadia Ayari's paintings of menacing plants and Nidhal Chamekh's "Frictions," part of his broader historical project "Et si Carthage…" exploring Mediterranean power dynamics.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 15, 2026 visibility 16 link 3 artists, 4 galleries

Iris van Herpen’s New Retrospective Transcends Time, Space, and the Senses

The article covers the opening of "Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses," a midcareer retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum featuring over 140 haute couture creations by Dutch designer Iris van Herpen. The exhibition, curated by Matthew Yokobosky and Imani Williford, places van Herpen's work alongside scientific and natural inspirations, including a 180 million-year-old fossil, and includes a reconstructed version of her atelier with interactive elements. The show originated at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 2023 and has traveled globally.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 14, 2026 visibility 21 link 16 artists, 13 galleries

Art Basel Hong Kong 2026: Where The World Comes To See

Art Basel Hong Kong 2026 returned to the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre from March 25–27, featuring 240 galleries from 42 countries and territories. The 13th edition introduced new sectors including Echoes, dedicated to works made within the past five years, and Zero 10, a digital art initiative making its Asia debut. The fair also transformed its Encounters sector with a collective curatorial framework based on the Five Elements, led by Mami Kataoka and three other Asia-based curators. Robb Report India covered the event through the perspectives of Indian artists Siddharth Kerkar and Jayesh Sachdev.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 13, 2026 visibility 15 link 6 artists, 1 gallery

Playinghouse Presented the Téte-a-Téte Exhibition at MDW 2026

Playinghouse, an emergent New York art and design platform, presented the group exhibition "téte-a-téte" at two locations during Milan Design Week 2026: Villa Pestarini and Certosa District. Curated by Margherita Dosi Delfini, assistant curator at the Design Museum, the show featured site-responsive works by independent talents including Anna Dawson, Romain Basile Petrot, Caleb Engstrom, Liyang Zhang, Atelier Fomenta, Maha Alavi, and Francesco Rosati. The exhibition emphasized contextualized domestic settings over sterile white cubes, with pieces in eggshell, glass, rubber, and metals that responded to each venue's architectural history.

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article news schedule May 12, 2026 visibility 21 link 10 artists, 7 galleries

Frieze New York will Open With 68 Galleries from 26 Countries, and Other News.

Frieze New York will open on May 13, 2026, at The Shed with 68 galleries from 26 countries, marking its 15th edition. The fair emphasizes Central and South American galleries, supported by new committee members Fátima González and Omayra Alvarado, alongside blue-chip exhibitors like Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, and Pace. In other news, Phillips set a watch auction record with its $96.3 million Geneva sale, the Met Gala generated $1.56 billion in media value, and ICFF announced a November 2027 edition. Tiffany & Co. and the CFDA launched a new jewelry design scholarship.

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person people schedule May 12, 2026 visibility 24 link 12 artists, 3 galleries

Kevin Troyano Cuturi On Building A Singapore Art Gallery With Global Reach

Kevin Troyano Cuturi, raised on museum visits across Europe and trained in physics and finance, founded Cuturi Gallery in Singapore after co-founding Mazel Gallery in 2017. The gallery now operates a Paris outpost in the former Didier Ludot boutique and runs a discoveries platform for emerging artists, a residency program hosting over 20 artists, and has nurtured Singaporean talents like Aisha Rosli and Faris Heizer.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 30, 2026 visibility 21 link 4 artists, 6 galleries

And We Shall Go Through Their Hills Without Much Delay

This article documents three journeys into and out of Yunnan, China, spanning from 1874 to 2023. It begins with British interpreter Augustus Raymond Margary's failed colonial expedition to establish a trade route, which ended in his violent death and contributed to unequal treaties opening Southwest China. It then follows a Naxi student named Xueshan in 1937, whose railway journey introduced modern timekeeping to the region, and finally describes the construction of the Burma Road, a critical WWII supply route. The narrative concludes with the artist Cheng Xinhao retracing these routes on foot from Kunming toward Burma over a year and a half, reflecting on history, bodily experience, and the layers of infrastructure that have reshaped the landscape.

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article events schedule Apr 22, 2026 visibility 19 link 11 artists, 8 galleries

How MEGA Art Fair Became Milan Art Week’s Social Club

MEGA Art Fair held its third edition in Milan, transforming a former perfume factory into a social and exhibition hub during Milan Art Week and Design Week. The fair, which ran from midday to midnight over an extended period, positioned itself as an alternative to traditional art fairs by prioritizing relaxed social connection, community engagement, and public programming over a purely commercial atmosphere.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 22, 2026 visibility 22 link 2 artists, 4 galleries

D Lan Galleries and Pace Gallery to present Emily Kam Kngwarray in New York

D Lan Galleries and Pace Gallery are collaborating to present "Emily Kam Kngwarray: The Turning Season," a major survey of the renowned Australian First Nations artist, on view in New York from May 15 to August 14. The exhibition spans Pace's Chelsea spaces and includes key works from Kngwarray's career, such as her celebrated painting series and early batik textiles, following her landmark 2025 retrospective at Tate Modern in London.

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trending_up market schedule Mar 9, 2026 visibility 21 link 3 artists, 6 galleries

Show me the money: UK gallery and auction house accounts reveal reality of a tough market

Recent financial filings from UK-based art businesses reveal a stark downturn in the art market, highlighted by the sudden liquidation of Stephen Friedman Gallery. The gallery's collapse followed expensive expansion projects in London and New York, compounded by a £1.7m loss in 2023 and a significant debt of £11.4m to creditors. Other major players, including Thaddaeus Ropac, reported substantial revenue drops, with Ropac’s turnover falling from £49.6m to £36.4m as the industry grapples with rising overheads and economic volatility.

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museum exhibitions schedule Feb 27, 2026 visibility 16 link 14 artists, 3 galleries

Perfectly unusual settings for art in Los Angeles

Los Angeles is experiencing a surge in non-traditional exhibition spaces that bypass the conventional 'white cube' gallery model. Artists and curators are repurposing domestic apartments, former Vietnamese restaurants, vacant lots, and garages to host experimental shows. Notable examples include Greg Jenkins’s Paramount-Artcraft in the Fairfax District, Ian James’s Leroy’s in Chinatown, and David Horvitz’s 7th Ave Garden, which utilizes salvaged concrete from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to create an outdoor installation and reading space.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 26, 2026 visibility 20 link 4 artists, 1 gallery

Philadelphia Art Museum exhibits Noah Davis’s tender depiction of Black life

The Philadelphia Art Museum has opened a new exhibition surveying the career of the late American artist Noah Davis, featuring over 60 works from 2007 to his death in 2015. The show, curated by Eleanor Nairne and Wells Fray-Smith, is the final stop of an international tour organized with DAS MINSK in Potsdam, the Barbican in London, and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. It includes paintings, sculptures, and works on paper that chronologically map Davis's multimedia practice, with a final room dedicated to his last three paintings.

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article local schedule Jan 26, 2026 visibility 21 link 16 artists, 4 galleries

San Juan’s Artists Are Shaping Puerto Rico’s Cultural Future One Space at a Time

Larissa De Jesús Negrón and other Puerto Rican artists are driving a cultural renaissance in San Juan, with grassroots galleries, collectives, and adaptive institutions redefining how art is produced and shared. This surge follows Hurricane Maria and the pandemic, bolstered by global attention from figures like Bad Bunny and exhibitions such as the 2023 Whitney show "no existe un mundo poshuracán." Art dealer Walter Otero notes that the scene has strengthened through local residencies, fellowships, and Puerto Rican curators in U.S. institutions, while spaces like EMBAJADA, founded by Christopher Rivera and Manuela Paz, reject the white-cube model to engage broader local audiences.

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article news schedule Jan 15, 2026 visibility 29 link 21 artists, 11 galleries

11 Artists Having Breakout Moments in 2026

The article profiles eleven artists poised for breakout moments in 2026, highlighting their recent achievements and upcoming projects. Featured artists include Diambe, a nonbinary Brazilian artist who will debut a major solo show at Kunsthalle Basel; Tuan Andrew Nguyen, a Vietnamese-born MacArthur fellow who will unveil a public commission for New York's High Line Plinth; and Balraj Khanna, a self-taught Indian painter who died in 2024 and is gaining posthumous recognition. Other artists on the list include Klára Hosnedlová, Kim Hankyul, Gabriel Chaile, Benni Bosetto, Pat Oleszko, Seba Calfuqueo, Tony Lewis, and Nat Faulkner, each noted for significant exhibitions, gallery representation, or awards that have built momentum toward wider acclaim.

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trending_up market schedule Dec 18, 2025 visibility 25 link 6 artists, 7 galleries

In 2025, new ‘independent and nimble’ art fairs began redrawing the market map

In 2025, several established art fairs were cancelled or postponed, including the Art Dealers Association of America's Art Show in Manhattan, Taipei Dangdai, Photofairs Hong Kong, and the India Art Fair's Mumbai expo. Amid these retrenchments, a wave of smaller, alternative art fairs emerged in cities like New York, Paris, and the Berkshires, organized by gallerists and curators seeking new formulas focused on coalition, affordability, and intimacy. Examples include Esther in Manhattan (co-founded by Margot Samel and Olga Temnikova), the Arrival Art Fair in North Adams (co-founded by Yng-Ru Chen, Crystalle Lacouture, and Sarah Galender Meyer), 7 rue Froissart in Paris (organized by Sara Maria Salamone and Brigitte Mulholland), and Post-Fair in Santa Monica (founded by Chris Sharp).

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 12, 2025 visibility 25 link 5 artists, 3 galleries

How Artist Uman Channeled a Turbulent Year Into Calm Abstraction

Artist Uman opened her first solo museum exhibition in the United States, titled “After all the things…,” at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Connecticut. In an interview, she discusses her initial reluctance to enter the institutional world, preferring to focus on commercial success, but found the right partnership with chief curator Amy Smith-Stewart. The show features large paintings, a video, and works that blend landscape with abstraction, reflecting her life in upstate New York and a turbulent year transformed into calm, internal peace.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 2, 2025 visibility 18 link 4 artists, 2 galleries

How Tate's Emily Kam Kngwarray show is revealing the fraught market dynamics of Aboriginal art

Tate Modern in London is hosting a major solo exhibition of Emily Kam Kngwarray, the celebrated Aboriginal artist who rose to fame in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The show, first presented at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, features works from the height of her career, deliberately omitting some of her final paintings due to concerns about the circumstances under which they were created. Curators Kelli Cole and Hetti Perkins highlight how Kngwarray's rapid success attracted dealers and entrepreneurs who exploited the artist and her community, revealing an opaque market system that took advantage of artists' inexperience and poor socio-economic conditions.

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article news schedule Jul 3, 2025 visibility 17 link 12 artists, 3 galleries

A New Contemporary Art Triennial Sets Its 2026 Debut in New York, and Other News

Medina, New York will host its inaugural contemporary art triennial in 2026, running from June 6 to September 7 across more than a dozen indoor and outdoor venues along the Erie Canal. The event will feature over 50 local, domestic, and international artists with site-responsive commissions, and a Medina Triennial Hub will open this September with programming in collaboration with Western New York arts institutions. Initiated by the New York Power Authority and the New York State Canal Corporation, the triennial is co-directed by Kari Conte and Karin Laansoo. In other news, Sotheby's RM will host a major Formula 1 auction titled 'The Champions – Schumacher and F1 Legends' from July 24–30; the Bakehouse Art Complex in Wynwood, Miami plans to build 60 affordable artist apartments; and artist Khaled Sabsabi has been reinstated as Australia's representative for the 2026 Venice Biennale after an external review found Creative Australia mishandled his withdrawal.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 15, 2025 visibility 14 link 5 artists, 1 gallery

U-Haul Gallery’s Mobile Model Takes Art to the Streets

U-Haul Gallery, founded by James Sundquist, is a nomadic art initiative that uses rented U-Haul trucks as mobile exhibition spaces. During New York art week, the gallery parked outside major fairs and openings, drawing crowds into its cargo bay for shows like Ben Nuñez's video work "Today, Last Year." The gallery operates on a budget of $29.99 per day for truck rental, bypassing the high costs of traditional brick-and-mortar spaces. Sundquist, along with head of global strategy Jack Chase, curates collaborative, adaptable exhibitions that respond to their surroundings.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 12, 2025 visibility 14 link 3 artists, 2 galleries

Exhibition | Emily Kam Kngwarray, 'My Country' at Pace Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Pace Gallery in London is presenting 'My Country,' the first solo exhibition of works by renowned Australian artist Emily Kam Kngwarray in the UK, in collaboration with D’Lan Contemporary. Running from June 6 to August 8, the show traces Kngwarray's artistic evolution from early organic forms to vibrant dot-filled color fields and minimalist compositions, coinciding with a major survey at Tate Modern opening in July. The exhibition includes historical and contemporary batiks by artists inspired by her pioneering practice, alongside key paintings such as 'Harmony of Spring' (1990) and 'Desert Storm' (1992).

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museum exhibitions schedule May 6, 2025 visibility 23 link 5 artists, 3 galleries

David Zwirner inaugurates new gallery space with Michael Armitage exhibition.

David Zwirner is opening a new gallery building in Chelsea at 533 West 19th Street, inaugurated by an exhibition of new work by Kenyan-British artist Michael Armitage. Titled "Crucible," the show runs from May 8 to June 27, 2025, and features new paintings and bronze reliefs that explore the theme of migration, using Lubugo bark cloth as a support. This is Armitage's first solo show with the gallery since his representation was announced in 2022 and his first solo presentation in New York since 2019.

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article news schedule Mar 18, 2026 source 3 sources visibility 18 link 2 artists

Meryl Streep Makes Seven-Figure Donation to National Women’s History Museum

Acclaimed actor Meryl Streep has donated a seven-figure sum to the National Women’s History Museum. The funds will support digital storytelling projects and programming, and the museum has created the Meryl Streep Educator Award in her honor, to be presented annually starting this November.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 19, 2026 source 2 sources visibility 12 link 20 artists, 1 gallery

Insider’s Look at Curating a Show Inspired by the Declaration of Independence’s 250th Anniversary [Interview]

The Fabric Workshop and Museum (FVM) in Philadelphia has opened "Some American Dreams," an exhibition marking the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. Curated by Hilde Nelson, FVM curatorial fellow, the show features 27 works by 20 artists created during the museum's Artist-in-Residence Program over four decades. The exhibition includes pieces in furniture, sculpture, textiles, clothing, video, and photography, and is on view until June 14, 2026. In an interview with My Modern Met, Nelson discusses her curatorial approach, which poses the question, "What if 'America' is not one project, but many?" and explores how these multiple Americas are affirmed, resisted, or remade through the artworks.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 18, 2026 source 2 sources visibility 11 link 10 artists, 1 gallery

59th Carnegie International tests the limits of connection and inclusion

The 59th Carnegie International, titled "If the word we," opens at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, curated by Ryan Inouye, Danielle A. Jackson, and Liz Park. The exhibition emphasizes community and collaboration, featuring immersive installations by artists such as Shala Miller, Jasleen Kaur, and Georges Adéagbo, whose work incorporates local thrift-store finds like Pittsburgh Steelers merchandise. Offsite programming extends to venues including the Mattress Factory and Children's Museum of Pittsburgh.

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article local schedule May 13, 2026 source 2 sources visibility 17 link 10 artists, 2 galleries

Art Around Town

This article is a roundup of current and upcoming art exhibitions and events in and around Athens, Georgia, published under the title 'Art Around Town.' It lists shows at numerous venues including ATHICA@CINÉ Gallery, the Georgia Museum of Art, Lyndon House Arts Center, and others, featuring artists such as Greg Benson, Jon Swindler, Beverly Buchanan, and Rachel B. Hayes. Exhibits range from landscape works and Civil War-era illustrations to installations exploring bathrooms, cosmic themes, and discarded objects, with many running through May, June, or later in 2025.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 8, 2026 source 2 sources visibility 25 link 26 artists, 1 gallery

The Must-See Biennale Exhibitions in Venice

The 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, titled "In Minor Keys," opens May 9 as a tribute to its late curator Koyo Kouoh. Alongside the Biennale, Venice hosts numerous concurrent exhibitions: Marina Abramović's "Transforming Energy" at Gallerie dell'Accademia (the only living female artist with a major show there); the Matthew Wong Foundation's inaugural exhibition "Interiors" featuring unseen works by the late Chinese Canadian artist; retrospectives of Michael Armitage at Palazzo Grassi and Lorna Simpson at Punta della Dogana; Hernan Bas's new paintings at Ca' Pesaro; Lu Yang's "DOKU The Illusion" at Espaces Louis Vuitton Venezia; and "Minimal Legends" at the Vincenzo de Cotiis Foundation, staging a dialogue among Minimalist masters.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 8, 2026 source 2 sources visibility 25 link 29 artists, 1 gallery

Welcome to Venice: the shows you won’t want to miss at the 61st Biennale

The 61st Venice Biennale, titled "In Minor Keys," opens with a keynote exhibition conceived by the late Koyo Kouoh and realized by her team after her sudden death in May 2025. The show spans the Central Pavilion in the Giardini and the Arsenale, featuring 110 artists and collectives. Highlights include Bracha L. Ettinger's installation at the Hotel Metropole, where she transforms a room where Sigmund Freud wrote part of *The Interpretation of Dreams* into a feminist 'borderspace,' and works by artists such as Arthur Jafa, Richard Prince, Issa Samb, Beverly Buchanan, and Daniel Lind-Ramos. The exhibition explores themes of history, colonialism, war, and environmental destruction, aiming for a 'sotto voce' tone that nonetheless delivers powerful, liberating statements.

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rate_review review schedule Apr 23, 2026 source 2 sources visibility 28 link 18 artists, 1 gallery

This Liminal Moment

The article reviews the exhibition "MONUMENTS" at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA and the Brick in Los Angeles, which addresses the legacy of Confederate monuments through contemporary art. It highlights Cauleen Smith's installation "The Warden" (2025), which features a live-feed of the decommissioned Confederate sculpture "Vindicatrix" (also known as "Miss Confederacy") by Edward V. Valentine, originally atop the Jefferson Davis Memorial in Richmond, Virginia. The exhibition is curated by Hamza Walker, Kara Walker, and Bennett Simpson.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 20, 2025 source 2 sources visibility 24 link 12 artists, 1 gallery

At a Los Angeles exhibition, contemporary artists face off with decommissioned Confederate statues

The exhibition "Monuments" opens on 23 October in Los Angeles, co-curated by Hamza Walker, Bennett Simpson, and artist Kara Walker, and staged at both the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) and the Brick. It features nearly 20 decommissioned Confederate statues—including the melted-down Robert E. Lee monument from Charlottesville—displayed alongside contemporary works by artists such as Leonardo Drew, Martin Puryear, Nona Faustine, Kahlil Robert Irving, Bethany Collins, and Walter Price. The show was inspired by the 2017 Unite the Right rally and the subsequent removal of dozens of monuments across the US.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 23, 2026 visibility 23 link 2 artists, 1 gallery

Ai Weiwei to Reenact His Own Detention in 24-Hour Performance in Manchester

Artist and dissident Ai Weiwei will reenact his 81-day detention by China's Ministry of Public Security in a 24-hour performance titled "Sewing a Button" at Factory International's Aviva Studios in Manchester, England. The performance, part of his exhibition "Button Up!" running from July 2, 2025, will take place in a re-creation of his cell and involve Ai sleeping, eating, exercising, writing, washing, and being interrogated, with visitors able to book two-hour slots or a full 24-hour ticket. The work follows his earlier piece "S.A.C.R.E.D." (2013) and is joined by other commissioned works including "Eight-Nation Alliance Flags" and a new version of "History of Bombs."

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