Museum of Art’s Juried Members’ Exhibition draws record numbers

The Springfield Museum of Art (SMoA) has launched its 78th Annual Juried Members’ Exhibition, marking a record-breaking year for the institution. The show features 153 selected works from a pool of 250 submissions, representing 150 artist members across nine states—a significant increase from the 110 participants recorded in 2023. Curated by Sienna Brown of the Cleveland Clinic Art Collection, the exhibition highlights a shift toward exuberant colors, abstract forms, and experimental mixed media.

Artists display at Margate Art Museum

The Margate Art Museum is set to host its annual Open Art Exhibition on March 27, featuring a diverse range of works from approximately 25 local artists. The event, organized by the Ray Nkonyeni Municipality, will include a meet-the-artist session and showcase various mediums such as sculpture, painting, and mixed media. Notable participants include established figures like Marianna Radley and Celeste van der Merwe, alongside emerging talents like Emihle Sikobi.

Explore talented high school artwork at Marketview Arts through March 21

York College of Pennsylvania is hosting its annual York Community Art Scholars Exhibition at Marketview Arts, featuring works by local high school students. The participants were selected by faculty from the college’s fine arts and graphic design departments following an initial display during a downtown art walk.

HeARTlab 4 showcases local artists, strengthens creative community

The City Government of Dipolog officially inaugurated HeARTlab 4 at Museo Dipolog on February 16, 2026. This community art exhibition, organized by the City Tourism, Arts, Culture, and Sports office, showcases a diverse range of works from both established and emerging artists across Zamboanga del Norte. The opening ceremony featured performances from local student ensembles and highlighted the growing number of young participants entering the region's creative scene.

CaminARTE art walk returns with exhibits, music and events downtown

The CaminARTE art walk returns to historic downtown Laredo, Texas, on the first Friday of February. The event, organized by the Laredo Cultural District, features art exhibits, live music, and a Valentine's-themed market across multiple downtown venues including the Laredo Center for the Arts, Casa Ortiz, and La Posada Hotel. It showcases local and visiting artists, performers, and vendors, bringing activity to Iturbide Street.

Midlands to Miami: Prolific Offaly digital artist to feature at prestigious art exhibition

Alan Bolton, a digital artist from Tullamore, Offaly, has been selected as one of the featured artists at Context Art Miami 2025, opening December 2. He will present five new artworks at the fair, which highlights how technology is reshaping art. Bolton is one of five Irish participants among over 1,300 international exhibitors. The article traces his journey from creating Bebo skins as a teenager in Ireland to studying at Dublin Institute of Technology, moving to Los Angeles after graduation, and building a career as a leading digital artist.

PICTURES: A Limerick art studio holds exhibition in aid of NOVAS

Hatters Castle Art Class and Studio held an exhibition at Dooradoyle Library in Limerick, Ireland, to raise funds for NOVAS, a charity supporting homeless and vulnerable people. The event featured artwork created by participants of the art class and studio, with proceeds going to the organization.

Museum of Art Fort Collins brings visibility to Indigenous contemporary art

The Museum of Art Fort Collins has opened “Indigenous Voices: A Contemporary Art Exhibition,” curated by artist Gregg Deal of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe. The show features diverse Indigenous artists using distinct visual techniques—from acrylic painting to beadwork and animal hide—to address political, cultural, and social topics. Among the participants is Gregg Deal’s child, Sage Deal, an art history student at the University of Colorado, Denver, and Skye Little Cloud, a Pratt Institute student who founded Little Cloud Studio in 2024. The exhibition runs until January 4, 2026.

WATCH ArtUA fifth anniversary exhibition ‘Revived by Art’ launches at People’s Museum of Limerick

The Ukrainian Art Studio ArtUA has launched its fifth anniversary exhibition, 'Revived by Art', at the People's Museum of Limerick, running from November 1 to 15, 2025. The exhibition features 150 works by nearly 40 artists, both Ukrainian and other nationalities, aged six to seventy-seven, using techniques such as painting, graphics, decorative arts, and graphic design. Founded by Ukrainian artist and teacher Lyubov Makarenko, who fled Mariupol after the Russian invasion, ArtUA has been holding free art classes at the Redemptorist Church in Limerick since July 2022. The exhibition focuses on personal memories and places dear to the artists, including Mariupol, Kyiv, Dnipro, Kharkiv, Chernihiv, and Limerick, reflecting nostalgia, pain, and love.

‘Armor,’ Art Exhibition Focused on Meanings of the Word, Opens in Downtown Haverhill

An exhibition titled 'Armor,' curated by Brianna Osborne, has opened at Creative Haverhill’s downtown gallery in Haverhill, Massachusetts. The show features fifteen artists and students from across New England, including participants from Waltham High School’s ceramics program, who explore the concept of armor in its physical, emotional, inherited, and self-made forms. The gallery will host special hours during Haverhill’s inaugural Hill-o-Ween event on October 31 and an artist reception on November 1.

Art exhibition set to bring significant interest in Mayo town

An art exhibition called The Crow Gallery is opening in Westport, County Mayo, during the Westival 2025 arts and music festival. Housed in the vacant The Local public house on Castlebar Street, the show features work from local artists with disabilities and participants of an Open Call centered on disability justice. The exhibition explores perceptions of disability, challenges ableism, and aims to spark dialogue about inclusion. It is the first phase of a long-term project to establish a permanent gallery, coffee shop, gift shop, and artist studios where disabled and non-disabled artists collaborate, with people with disabilities leading the space. The project was inspired by local artist Maitiu Quinn and Amber Walsh, and is driven by Anna Wall, who participated in Social Entrepreneurs Ireland's Ideas Academy and a Mayo County Council Arts Office workshop facilitated by artist Kari Cahill.

New Sweet Factory exhibition in Southport celebrates shared histories of sweet making and seaside culture

Artist Linny Venables presents 'Sweet Factory,' a new exhibition at The Atkinson in Southport, opening October 18, 2025 and running through February 28, 2026. The show draws parallels between glassmaking and sweet-making processes, featuring Venables' glass artworks alongside pieces created by workshop participants from Southport and Bootle, as well as research and objects from local sweet factories.

JDCAC Artist's Harvest Exhibition: Reception and Market Oct. 9

Auburn Parks and Recreation is hosting the Artist’s Harvest Gallery Reception, Costume Sale and Market on October 9, 2025, from 5:30-8 p.m. at the Jan Dempsey Community Arts Center (JDCAC) in Auburn, Alabama. The event features autumn- and Halloween-themed artwork by local artists, a market with handcrafted goods from JDCAC-affiliated artists, and a costume sale by the Auburn Area Community Theatre. Artists can submit family-friendly works for the exhibition at no cost, with registration closing September 19.

Museum’s Update Sends a Message: Native Artists Are Still Here

The New York Times reports that a museum has updated its galleries to feature contemporary Native American artists, emphasizing their ongoing presence and creative contributions rather than treating Indigenous art as a historical artifact. The renovation includes new acquisitions and installations that highlight living artists, challenging the common perception that Native art belongs only in the past.

China-Bulgaria art exhibition opens in Sofia

A joint China-Bulgaria art exhibition opened in Sofia, Bulgaria on August 18, 2025, featuring over 60 works by Chinese and Bulgarian artists. The six-day event showcases Chinese ink paintings, woodcarvings, embroidery, lacquer painting, tie-dye, batik, and digital art alongside Bulgarian works inspired by traditional textiles, felt, and contemporary interpretations of local heritage. Participants include 15-year-old Gabriela Georgieva, who presented two watercolor paintings.

Artists in Haddington to hold open studios weekend

Artists in Haddington, Scotland, are organizing an open studios weekend on September 6 and 7, showcasing their work across seven venues including homes, a garage, a gallery, an arts hub, and an arts centre. Organizer Alistair McIntyre, who previously ran a similar event in Musselburgh, has signed up 15 artists for the event, with participants including Jacqui Wilkie, Fiona Lambert, Sheena Phillips, and others working in media such as painting, needle felting, printmaking, and sculpture.

William Way Opens 19th Annual Group Art Exhibition featuring local LGBTQ+ artists

The William Way LGBT Community Center in Philadelphia has opened its 19th Annual Group Art Exhibition, featuring three local LGBTQ+ artists: Daniel de Jesús, Kenzi Crash, and James Rose. The artists were selected from participants in the center's January Juried Art Exhibition, with local artist Gabriel Martinez serving as the designated judge. Art Exhibitions Manager Jake Foster curated the show, which presents each artist's individual work without a unifying theme. De Jesús blends mysticism, Catholic iconography, and queer identity; Crash presents a photography installation exploring queer intimacy; and Rose debuts a new series of self-portraits examining identity and emotion. The exhibition runs through August 28 and is also viewable online, with 65% of sales going to the artists.

“Chaos Osmosis” Project Announces Open Call for Artists & Scientists

Nicole Longnecker Gallery in Houston has announced an open call for the third edition of "Chaos Osmosis," an art and science exhibition centered on fluid dynamics. The project is a partnership between the gallery, the Gallery of Fluid Motion in Houston, and the Paradoxluxe curatorial collective, with locations in Greece and Puerto Rico. Selected participants will be featured in a dual exhibition at Nicole Longnecker Gallery and the Houston Museum of Natural Science, opening in October 2025. Houston-region artists and scientists from all disciplines are invited to submit works in any medium, including video, photography, painting, sculpture, installation, and mixed media. The submission deadline is July 30, 2025.

Awash in color: Newport Beach Art Exhibition showcases over 200 works by area artists

The 58th annual Newport Beach Art Exhibition took place on June 30, 2025, at the Newport Beach Civic Center, drawing about 2,000 attendees. The one-day event featured over 240 artworks including paintings, sculptures, photography, and mixed media, displayed in the Community Room and Civic Green. Notable participants included Joyce Cox, whose oil on linen painting "Soaking Up The Zen" attracted attention; Jeff Guzzetta, who won third place in 3-D art for a stained glass mosaic surfboard titled "Sol"; and Elena Kealy, who received the Juror's Choice Award for her oil on canvas work "Bliss." Other award winners included Kevin Avery, who took second place in Photography for "Rich Strike." The exhibition was organized by the Newport Beach Library and supported by the Newport Beach Arts Foundation.

Byungjun Kwon: ‘I want to break away from the passive, one-sided way of experiencing performances’

Byungjun Kwon, a South Korean artist whose practice spans sound, technology, and performance, has been selected for the 2025 Korean Artists Today project. Kwon began his career as a singer-songwriter in the 1990s, later earning a degree in Art Science from the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague and working as a hardware engineer at the Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music in Amsterdam. His works include immersive sound installations, custom-built instruments, and robotic stage machinery, with pieces such as 'Self-sounding Town Resonant Village' (2019) exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Busan. He is currently preparing a new project, 'Speak Slowly, and It Will Become a Song', for the Aichi Triennale in Japan.

The Biennale in Numbers

Die Biennale in Zahlen

Die diesjährige Kunstbiennale in Venedig präsentiert 111 Künstlerinnen, Künstler und Kollektive in der Hauptausstellung – deutlich weniger als 2024 mit 331 und 2022 mit 213 Teilnehmenden. Die Biennale umfasst 99 nationale Pavillons, darunter sieben Länder, die zum ersten Mal vertreten sind: Guinea, Äquatorialguinea, Nauru, Katar, Sierra Leone und weitere.

2026 Downtown Spring Gallery Walk

The Iowa City Downtown District is hosting its annual Spring Gallery Walk, a self-guided tour featuring local art and special exhibitions across various downtown venues. Key participants include the Stanley Museum of Art, which is hosting a grand opening reception for two new exhibitions, and the UI Main Library Gallery, which is presenting a retrospective on conductor James Dixon. The event also features community-created works at the UI Museum of Natural History.

Exhibit invites participants to imagine worlds

The CU Art Museum at the University of Colorado is opening a new exhibition titled 'Fairy Tales and the Power of Wonder: Imagining Worlds' on Thursday, February 5. The show explores how fairy tales function as world-building narratives and will be accompanied by a concurrent student-curated exhibition called '[Face] Value'. A public reception is scheduled for the opening day.

Chiamata aperta ad artisti e architetti under 35 a Roma. Obiettivo? Progettare un’opera in dialogo col Gazometro

A new open call for artists and architects under 35 has been launched in Rome, inviting proposals for a public artwork in dialogue with the iconic Gazometro (gasometer) in the Ostiense district. The initiative is promoted by Spazio Taverna in collaboration with Eni and ROAD – Rome Advanced District, and was announced on May 21 during the event "ON THE ROAD – Distretti di Innovazione." Participants are asked to design a monument, pavilion, or installation that engages with the former industrial complex, now a creative hub hosting the cultural program Arte al Gazometro since 2024. A jury including Marco Bassan, Ludovico Pratesi, Mattia Voltaggio, Claudio Quaternato, and Lorenza Baroncelli will select the winner, who will receive a €3,000 prize; the ten finalists will be published on Artribune and gain access to a Masterclass at the School of Vision. Submissions are open from May 21 to July 31, 2026, with results announced in September.

C’è un museo di Torino che cerca 100 lampade per realizzare una grande installazione. Ecco come partecipare

The MAO – Museo d’Arte Orientale in Turin has launched an open call titled "We need your light," inviting the public to lend up to three lamps each for a large-scale collective installation. Participants can deliver their lamps on May 17-18, 2026, by booking a time slot via Eventbrite; the museum will collect the objects, rewire them for safety, and incorporate them into a site-specific artwork debuting during Turin's Art Week in October 2026. The museum also encourages lenders to share the story behind their lamp, which will be filmed and included in the exhibition.

Golden Lions of the Biennale voted by the public? 7 reasons why they cannot work

Leoni d’Oro della Biennale votati dal pubblico? 7 motivi per cui non possono funzionare

On April 30, 2026, the International Jury of the Venice Art Biennale resigned en masse. In response, the Biennale Foundation hastily announced a new initiative called the "Visitor Lions" (Leoni dei Visitatori), where paying visitors would vote to award the Golden Lions for best artist and best national participation. The voting system would rely on ticket tracking to verify attendance at the main venues, the Giardini and the Arsenale. However, just a week before the public opening, no further details had been released, raising numerous practical concerns about the mechanism's feasibility.

Does Art Move You? The University of Pisa is Looking for You to be an Artwork Observer

L’arte ti emoziona? L’Università di Pisa ti cerca per fare l’osservatore di opere

The University of Pisa's Department of Biology is recruiting adult volunteers to participate in a study on emotional responses to visual art. Participants will observe images of artworks on a computer and describe their emotional reactions, with the aim of gathering a diverse sample to understand the processes behind emotion and perception.

Zig Zag Gallery marks 15 years with Art Gala

Zig Zag Gallery in Kalamunda, Western Australia, is celebrating its 15th anniversary with an Art Gala and the annual Kalamunda Art Awards exhibition. The milestone event, set for June 6–28, 2026, will feature works from artists who have exhibited at the gallery over its history, alongside new participants. The awards include judged prizes for painting, sculpture, and environmentally focused works, as well as a People’s Choice Award voted by visitors.

OPEN CALL TEST SPACE Residency 2026

Limerick City Gallery of Art (LCGA) has announced an open call for its annual Test Space Residency programme for 2026, now in its sixth year. The residency offers two awards: one for early-career art practitioners and one for those at a more advanced stage. Selected artists will receive an 8-week studio residency with a €5,000 stipend, curatorial support, promotion, and the opportunity to engage with LCGA's audiences and community. The programme was established in 2020 in response to the Arts Council's EDI Policy and prioritizes projects involving public engagement, workshops, talks, or community inclusion events. Applications are open to writers, filmmakers, dancers, performers, academics, and visual artists across all disciplines.

黑龙江省美协召开2026年度工作会议暨七届九次主席团（扩大）会议

The Heilongjiang Provincial Artists Association held its 2026 annual work meeting and the 7th 9th Presidium (Expanded) Meeting on April 29, 2026, via a hybrid online-offline format. Over 100 participants attended, including presidium members, council members, heads of municipal and industry artists associations, and committee members. The meeting conveyed directives from the China Artists Association's study and implementation of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, as well as the provincial文联's work arrangements. It summarized 2025 work and outlined key tasks for 2026, emphasizing ideological guidance through Xi Jinping's cultural thought, people-centered creative direction focusing on local themes like black soil culture and borderland heritage, and strengthening of traditional art forms such as Heilongjiang printmaking and watercolor. The meeting also approved new council member additions, first-batch 2026 membership applications, and committee adjustments.