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London 20th/21st Century Frieze Week sales achieve a running total of £141.8m / $189.7m / €162.75m

Christie’s 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale during Frieze Week 2025 achieved £106.9 million, up 30% year-on-year, with a 90% sell-through rate by value. The top lot was Peter Doig’s *Ski Jacket* (1994), sold for £14.27 million after intense bidding, part of the Ole Faarup Collection, which raised £27.3 million total for the Ole Faarup Art Foundation. Other notable sales included works by Lucian Freud, Paula Rego, Gerhard Richter, Pablo Picasso, and Suzanne Valadon, with more than half of all lots selling above high estimate.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 25, 2026 visibility 4 link 5 artists, 1 gallery

‘Something Missing?’ Absence is emotional with Sophie Calle’s new show

Sophie Calle's latest exhibition, 'Something Missing?' at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen, explores themes of absence, loss, and disappearance through works spanning 1979 to 2023. The show features series such as 'Because' (2018-2023), where embroidered felt sheets hide photographs; a response to Picasso's works swaddled during Covid lockdowns; 'The Blind' (1986), in which people born without sight describe beauty; and 'Voir la mer' (2011), capturing Istanbul residents seeing the sea for the first time. Calle's characteristic wit and emotional depth turn voids into vantage points, inviting viewers to confront what is missing.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 19, 2026 visibility 4 link 6 artists, 2 galleries

LR Vandy's Dynamic Rope Sculptures Transform Yorkshire's Weston Gallery With Maritime Inspirations

British artist LR Vandy has transformed the Weston Gallery at Yorkshire Sculpture Park with "Rise," an exhibition of dynamic rope sculptures that climb walls, loop through pulleys, and coil across the floor. The centerpiece, "A Call to Dance," is a monumental maypole whose braided strands cascade from a metal ring. Vandy, who works from her studio at the historic Chatham Dockyard, uses maritime fibers that evoke ships, cargo, and hard labor. The sculptures appear caught mid-action, hovering between tension and release, with over 30 kilometers of rope used in the installation, much of it evolved onsite through collaboration with technicians.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 18, 2026 visibility 10 link 6 artists, 1 gallery

Picasso–Klee–Matisse: Masterpieces from the Museum Berggruen

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston will host the U.S. debut of "Picasso–Klee–Matisse: Masterpieces from the Museum Berggruen" from May 20 to September 13, 2026. The exhibition features over 95 works by Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse, Alberto Giacometti, and other postwar European avant-garde artists, drawn from the collection assembled by famed gallerist and collector Heinz Berggruen. It explores Berggruen's relationships with artists and his Paris gallery, Berggruen & Cie, and includes thematic galleries on still life, portraits, and the human figure, as well as a dedicated space on Berggruen's life story.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 18, 2026 visibility 12 link 28 artists, 4 galleries

The art of chaos

The 61st Venice International Art Biennale has opened in Venice, running until November, amid unprecedented turmoil. The main exhibition, "In Minor Keys," was curated by Koyo Kouoh, who died of cancer shortly after presenting her vision featuring 111 artists including Carsten Höller, Alvaro Barrington, and Laurie Anderson. Her death has eliminated the Lifetime Achievement Award this year. Additionally, the Biennale faces a funding crisis as the EU threatens to withdraw its €2 million subsidy over Russia's participation with 38 artists following the invasion of Ukraine. Iran, Nigeria, and Israel are absent from their pavilions, while the US Pavilion, now organized by the American Arts Conservancy under inexperienced leadership, features self-taught artist Alma Allen.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 14, 2026 visibility 15 link 15 artists, 3 galleries

MFA's Nude Exhibition Challenges Art History's Gender Norms

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has opened a new exhibition that challenges traditional gender norms in art history, featuring a dozen artists who disrupt the conventional nude. The show includes Xandra Ibarra's performance "Nude Laughing," where she paraded naked through the museum's European galleries, and works by Betty Tompkins, whose "Fuck Paintings" and "Women Words Painting" series confront misogyny and the male gaze. The exhibition juxtaposes these contemporary pieces with historical works like Jean-Léon Gérôme's "Moorish Bath" to highlight entrenched racial and gender hierarchies in art.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 8, 2026 visibility 18 link 7 artists, 3 galleries

Koyo Kouoh’s Legacy Shapes the 2026 Venice Biennale

Koyo Kouoh, the first African woman to curate the Venice Biennale, was appointed curator of the 2026 edition and began shaping the main exhibition titled 'In Minor Keys' in October 2024. She died of cancer in May 2025 at age 57, but the Biennale organizers have committed to realizing her vision. The exhibition features 111 artists, collectives, and organizations from cities including Nairobi, New Orleans, Kingston, New Delhi, Beirut, and Bangkok, many of them her longtime collaborators. Kouoh was also the founder of Raw Material Company in Dakar and executive director and chief curator of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (MOCAA) in Cape Town.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 7, 2026 visibility 19 link 12 artists, 4 galleries

No Hay Banda: Vandria Borari, Petra Feriancová, Karoliina Hellberg, and Sofia Silva, 29th May – 26th June 2026, CFA, Milan, Italy. Private View: 28th May 2026.

CFA in Milan presents "No Hay Banda," a group exhibition running from 29 May to 26 June 2026, featuring four international artists: Vandria Borari (Brazil/Germany), Petra Feriancová (Slovakia), Karoliina Hellberg (Finland), and Sofia Silva. The show brings together ceramicist and Indigenous activist Borari, whose work includes the Yupirungáwa series and the Fluid Forest project; Feriancová, a Slovak artist who represented the Czech and Slovak Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale; and Hellberg, a Finnish artist who recently won the Visual Artist Award from the Marcus Collins Memorial Fund. The private view is scheduled for 28 May 2026.

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trending_up market schedule May 6, 2026 visibility 24 link 7 artists, 4 galleries

Gladstone now represent The Estate of Anna Zemánková

Gladstone Gallery has announced its representation of The Estate of Anna Zemánková, a self-taught Czech artist known for her influential abstract works that explore psychological and spiritual realms. The gallery will collaborate with Cavin-Morris Gallery and plans to present a solo booth of Zemánková's work at TEFAF New York from May 14–19, 2026, following a spring 2025 exhibition in New York featuring her botanical drawings and works on paper. Zemánková, a key figure in Art Brut, created untitled, biomorphic works rooted in the subconscious, often compared to artists like Kunz and Hilma af Klint.

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trending_up market schedule Apr 30, 2026 visibility 22 link 1 artist, 2 galleries

Valerio Adami | Valerio Adami @Miart 2026 (2026) | Art & Prints

Valerio Adami, a prominent Italian painter born in 1935, is offering a new acrylic-on-canvas work titled "Valerio Adami @Miart 2026" (2026) through Dep Art Gallery. The painting, sized 198 × 147 cm, is a unique piece accompanied by a certificate of authenticity. Adami is known for his graphic, comic-inspired narrative figuration, with works held in major museums including MoMA, Centre Pompidou, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 29, 2026 visibility 35 link 16 artists, 2 galleries

Exhibition | William Turnbull, 'Origins (1946–1959)' at Karma, Chelsea, New York, United States

Scottish artist William Turnbull (1922–2012) is the subject of a new exhibition titled 'Origins (1946–1959)' at Karma gallery in Chelsea, New York. The show surveys Turnbull's early career, focusing on the transformative period after World War II when he moved between Surrealist Paris and Abstract Expressionist New York. It features key works such as the sculpture 'Horse' (1946), inspired by a Parthenon marble at the British Museum, and 'Playground (Game)' (1949), reflecting his interest in phenomenology and movement. The exhibition traces his evolution from an illustrator and Slade School student to a sculptor and painter who engaged elemental forms like the horse, standing figure, and human head.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 27, 2026 visibility 41 link 25 artists, 3 galleries

'You Must Change Your Life' at GRIMM, New York, United States on 26 Jun–7 Aug 2026

GRIMM gallery in New York presents "You Must Change Your Life," a group exhibition curated by Tom Morton, running from June 26 to August 7, 2026. The show features an international roster of painters and sculptors including Alexander Tovborg, Elinor Stanley, Sophie Ruigrok, Sara Rossberg, Jhonatan Pulido, Ken Kiff, Matthew Day Jackson, Ted Gahl, Gabriella Boyd, Anderson Borba, Kinga Bartis, Mahesh Baliga, and Charles Avery. The exhibition takes its title from the final line of Rainer Maria Rilke's poem "Archaic Torso of Apollo" (1918), exploring themes of how the past speaks to the present, the animation of materials, the fragment as synecdoche, and the transformative power of visual contemplation.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 27, 2026 visibility 40 link 21 artists, 1 gallery

Last chance: hurry to see these Parisian exhibitions before they close in May 2026.

A roundup article lists numerous exhibitions closing in May 2026 across Paris and the Île-de-France region, including shows at the Fondation Louis Vuitton (Nocturne Calder #1) and Perrotin Gallery (Soulages–Hartung: Elective Affinities, Lee Mingwei's When Beauty Appears, and Susumu Kamijo's When I Think of You in Spring). The piece also highlights free-entry days at castles and museums in Yvelines and Seine-et-Marne, and the Parcours d’art de la Boucle de Seine open-studio event.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 18, 2026 visibility 37 link 2 artists, 5 galleries

Exhibition | Everlyn Nicodemus, 'Without History' at Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

Everlyn Nicodemus presents 'Without History' at Goodman Gallery in Cape Town, marking her first solo exhibition with the gallery and a rare return to the African continent since the 1980s. The show, organized in partnership with Richard Saltoun Gallery, features major bodies of work including the 'Woman in the World' cycle and the 'Wedding' series. These works, created while Nicodemus lived across Europe, explore themes of trauma, gender, and spiritual survival through a practice that blends painting with deep archival research and social anthropology.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 17, 2026 visibility 35 link 8 artists, 3 galleries

Exhibition | 'Goodman Gallery x Pierre Yovanovitch Mobilier' at Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

Goodman Gallery is celebrating its 60th anniversary with a high-profile collaborative exhibition at Pierre Yovanovitch Mobilier in Paris. Running from April 17 to August 29, the showcase features major works by leading artists from the African continent and the diaspora, including El Anatsui, William Kentridge, and Kapwani Kiwanga. The presentation places contemporary African art in direct dialogue with the high-end furniture and interior architecture of Pierre Yovanovitch, marking the start of a series of international events for the gallery this summer.

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trending_up market schedule Apr 14, 2026 visibility 23 link 16 artists, 5 galleries

Consonni Radziszewski Launches With a Three-City Footprint

Dealers Matteo Consonni and Dawid Radziszewski have merged their respective galleries, Madragoa in Lisbon and Galeria Dawid Radziszewski in Warsaw, to form a single entity: Consonni Radziszewski. The new gallery launched with a third physical space in Milan, timed to coincide with the city's art week and the Venice Biennale. This merger follows a three-year period of collaboration on art fair booths and joint artist representation, specifically for photographer Joanna Piotrowska.

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article culture schedule Apr 14, 2026 visibility 27 link 7 artists, 1 gallery

Barkley L. Hendricks | Biography, Paintings, Photography & Legacy

Barkley L. Hendricks was a transformative American portrait artist known for depicting ordinary Black men and women with the scale and technical mastery typically reserved for European Old Masters. After a pivotal trip to Europe in the 1960s where he noted the absence of Black subjects in museum collections, Hendricks dedicated his career to elevating Black identity through bold, life-sized oil paintings and photography. His work often featured vibrant monochromatic backgrounds and subjects drawn from his personal life, popular music, and urban culture.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 9, 2026 visibility 19 link 3 artists, 2 galleries

Lia & Dan Perjovschi: DRAFT for a Joint Retrospective

The ARCUB Cultural Center in Bucharest has announced a major joint retrospective for Lia and Dan Perjovschi, scheduled to run from April 3 to July 26, 2026. Titled "DRAFT for a Joint Retrospective," the exhibition marks 40 years of artistic practice for the duo, who are among Romania's most influential contemporary artists. The show will span three levels of the Hanul Gabroveni, juxtaposing Dan’s satirical, politically charged drawings with Lia’s research-based conceptual archives and installations.

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museum exhibitions schedule Mar 5, 2026 visibility 21 link 2 artists, 1 gallery

‘There’s a bead connection to every place’: Wendy Red Star on exploring the real and symbolic currency of beads

Artist Wendy Red Star has launched a site-specific solo exhibition titled 'One Blue Bead' at Sargent’s Daughters in Tribeca, exploring the historical and symbolic weight of trade beads. The exhibition transforms the gallery into a simulated trading floor featuring monumental glass beads, over 100 watercolors, and Hudson’s Bay point blankets. The project originated from the artist's residencies at the Pilchuck School of Glass and the Tacoma Museum of Glass, where she researched the global circulation of glass beads from Europe to Africa and the Americas.

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article news schedule Jan 28, 2026 visibility 22 link 13 artists, 5 galleries

New York’s Eclectic Francis Irv Gallery Shutters after Three Years

Francis Irv, a young New York gallery known for showcasing an eclectic mix of established and emerging artists from the US and Europe, has closed after just over three years in business. Founded by Shane Rossi and Sam Marion Wilken, who met as studio assistants, the gallery launched in 2022 under the name Kinder in a Chinatown mall beneath the Manhattan Bridge before relocating to a TriBeCa space. Its inaugural exhibition was a group show in Los Angeles co-curated by artist and writer Aria Dean, featuring artists such as Hannah Black, Jordan Wolfson, and Benjamin Echeverria. The gallery never formally announced a roster but showed artists including Sophie Gogl, Karla Kaplun, Megan Marrin, Win McCarthy, Ahgharad Williams, and German sculptor Reinhard Mucha. In December, it helped mount an experimental play by Georgica Pettus. The founders posted a farewell on their website, reflecting on their run.

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trending_up market schedule Jan 15, 2026 visibility 19 link 10 artists, 7 galleries

Lehmann Maupin takes permanent space in Mayfair’s No. 9 Cork Street

Lehmann Maupin has secured a permanent space on the first floor of No. 9 Cork Street in London's Mayfair, the gallery hub operated by Frieze. The gallery will hold three to four exhibitions annually in the ground-floor gallery, starting with a show of British painter Freya Douglas-Morris on February 26, priced between £40,000 and £60,000. The upstairs viewing space opened with Billy Childish and will feature Catherine Opie later this year. The gallery also plans to develop its secondary market business from this London base.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 18, 2025 visibility 21 link 9 artists, 1 gallery

On View: 'Jacob Lawrence: African American Modernist' at Kunsthal KAdE is First Retrospective of Celebrated Artist in Europe

Kunsthal KAdE in Amersfoort, Netherlands, is hosting 'Jacob Lawrence: African American Modernist,' the first European retrospective of the American artist Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000). The exhibition spans his six-decade career from the 1930s, featuring 70 paintings, 25 drawings, and 75 prints, along with photographs and archival materials. It includes works from his celebrated series on the Great Migration, Builders, World War II, and historical figures like Harriet Tubman and Toussaint L'Ouverture, as well as new works by contemporary artists Barbara Earl Thomas and Nina Chanel Abney inspired by Lawrence.

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trending_up market schedule Dec 3, 2025 visibility 27 link 69 artists, 22 galleries

NADA Miami and Untitled Art Test the Temperature of the Mid-Tier and Emerging Markets

NADA Miami and Untitled Art opened on December 2, 2024, in Miami Beach, both targeting the mid-tier and emerging art markets. The fairs saw strong early sales and a predominantly American and local audience, with fewer European and Asian collectors than in previous years. Dealers reported a rebound in market confidence, with sales activity signaling a recovery in the mid-career and emerging segments, though not reaching the frenzy of earlier boom periods. The fairs also showcased a shift away from bright figuration and identity politics toward deeper reflections on reality, mediatization, and materiality.

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trending_up market schedule Nov 7, 2025 visibility 24 link 7 artists, 3 galleries

Pursuing ‘a different economy’, London gallery Herald St will open new space in Bologna

London gallery Herald St, known for nurturing artists like Nicole Wermers, Cary Kwok, and Pablo Bronstein over the past 20 years, will open a new space in Bologna, Italy, in early 2025. Co-founder Nicky Verber cites the city's strong local collector base, excellent institutions such as Mambo (Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna), and its connectivity to Venice, Milan, and Florence as key draws. The gallery has deepened ties with Bologna through a 2020 group exhibition, signing local artist Francis Offman in 2021, and participating in Arte Fiera. The new space, located in the medieval center, will feature three exhibition rooms and open with a show by abstract painter Matt Connors, hosting three to four exhibitions annually compared to five or six in London.

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trending_up market schedule Nov 3, 2025 visibility 23 link 13 artists, 8 galleries

‘The government understands what is at stake’: Italian art world weighs in on tax cut at Artissima

The Italian parliament reduced VAT on art sales from 22% to 5%, the lowest rate in Europe, a move announced by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's government. The tax cut was celebrated at the 30th anniversary dinner of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, where politician Federico Mollicone noted it had been over 30 years in the making. The contemporary art fair Artissima, holding its 32nd edition in Turin, became the first Italian fair to test the new tax policy. Italian dealers reported positive effects, including easier deal closures and increased sales to both Italian and European collectors, with some galleries experiencing their best opening day ever.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 22, 2025 visibility 16 link 2 artists, 1 gallery

Moffat Takadiwa: Recoded Memories

Moffat Takadiwa, a Zimbabwean artist born in 1983, transforms post-consumer waste like computer keyboards and bottle tops into intricate sculptures and wall works that reflect his Korekore heritage and address consumerism, inequality, post-colonialism, and environmental decay. His recent exhibitions include a solo show "Second Life" at Nicodim Gallery in New York (2025), participation in the 60th Venice Biennale (2024), and shows at mumok Vienna and the Orange County Museum of Art. He is represented by Nicodim Gallery and founded Mbare Art Space, an artist-led hub in Harare's Mbare township.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 15, 2025 visibility 29 link 13 artists, 2 galleries

Frieze London's Artist-to-Artist section highlights talent emerging amid political tensions

At Frieze London 2025, the Artist-to-Artist section features emerging artists selected by established names, including René Treviño chosen by Amy Sherald and Ilana Harris-Babou nominated by Camille Henrot. Treviño's solo presentation centers on the sculpture 'Regalia, Moscas Brillantes (Rojo)' (2025), which addresses queer resistance and colonial histories through a fusion of Aztec and European aesthetics. Other presentations include Katherine Hubbard's photographs about her mother's dementia (nominated by Nicole Eisenman), T. Venkanna's delicate works on gender and patriarchy (picked by Bharti Kher), Ana Segovia's subversive cowboy paintings (selected by Abraham Cruzvillegas), and Neal Tait's paintings (chosen by Chris Ofili).

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trending_up market schedule Sep 22, 2025 visibility 20 link 13 artists, 6 galleries

Thaddaeus Ropac opens its first gallery in Milan.

Thaddaeus Ropac opened its first gallery in Milan on September 20, 2025, located in the neoclassical Palazzo Belgioioso near Via Monte Napoleone. The inaugural exhibition, “L’aurora viene,” features works by Georg Baselitz and Lucio Fontana. The 280-square-meter space is the mega-gallery’s seventh location worldwide. Elena Bonanno di Linguaglossa, a veteran with experience at Lévy Gorvy Dayan, Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, and Blain|Southern, will lead the Milan branch.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 9, 2025 visibility 18 link 6 artists, 2 galleries

Salman Toor to See First Solo Show in Europe Next Year

The Courtauld Gallery in London has announced its 2026 programme, headlined by Pakistani-born, New York-based painter Salman Toor's first solo exhibition in Europe. Titled "Someone Like You," the show will feature around 20 of Toor's emblematic canvases, including "The Bar on East 13th" (2019), which directly references Édouard Manet's "A Bar at the Folies-Bergère" (1882) from the Courtauld's collection. The exhibition will also include a selection of Toor's works on paper, such as "Fag Puddle in Vitrine" (2021), recently acquired by the museum. Toor's profile has risen sharply over the past five years as his intimate paintings of queer, South Asian men have resonated with institutions and the art market.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 21, 2025 visibility 26 link 41 artists, 7 galleries

Frieze London & Masters 2025 New collaborations across arts organisations, foundations + public institutions.

Frieze has announced the collaborations, funds, and prizes for Frieze London and Frieze Masters 2025, working with arts organizations, foundations, British brands, and public institutions. Key initiatives include the Frieze Masters Art Fund Curator Programme, offering fully funded places to 18 international and UK curators in partnership with Art Fund and The National Gallery; the Frieze x Deutsche Bank Emerging Curators Fellowship, now in its fifth year, hosted by MIMA in Middlesbrough; and the return of the Camden Art Centre Emerging Artist Prize, won last year by Nat Faulkner. The fairs will also feature curatorial conversations, private tours, and offsite activations by former fellows.

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