Artist Lindsay Adams explores Black experience and artistry in her latest exhibition

The Frary Gallery at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C., will host its first solo exhibition, titled "Ceremony," by award-winning painter Lindsay Adams, opening October 29. The show features paintings and drawings that explore Black histories, movement, and world-building, including a large diptych titled "Kind of Blue (1959)" inspired by Miles Davis' iconic album. Archival materials by Billie Holiday, Josephine Baker, and other Black artists from the Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries will also be on view to provide historical context.

Inside the Studio of Abdelkader Benchamma, Cartographer of Invisible Worlds

Dans l’atelier d’Abdelkader Benchamma, cartographe des mondes invisibles

French-Moroccan artist Abdelkader Benchamma is preparing for his upcoming solo exhibition, "Signs and Wonders," at Galerie Templon in Paris. Working from his sun-drenched studio in Montpellier, Benchamma has transitioned from his signature black-and-white ink drawings to large-scale canvases that incorporate celestial blues and earthy mineral tones. The new body of work draws inspiration from 15th and 16th-century manuscripts, specifically the Kitab al-Bulhan and the Book of Miracles, creating a "giant book" of visual narratives that blur the lines between abstraction and figuration.

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Project Native Informant, a London gallery known for its focus on internet-influenced art, announced it will close after 12 years. Founder Stephan Tanbin Sastrawidjaja cited the volatile global economic, political, and social environment, along with personal factors, as reasons for the decision. The gallery launched in 2013 in a Mayfair garage before moving to the East End, and its final show was a solo exhibition for Sean Steadman that closed over the summer.

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Artist Gail Morris presents "Blue Note," a solo exhibition at Bonner David Galleries in New York, featuring bold abstract paintings that explore the emotional and psychological experience of light, space, and music. The show's title references the musical concept of a "blue note," which Morris reinterprets as a compositional strategy to create tension and balance in her works. While starting from physical landscapes—such as natural sites, urban parks, or islands—Morris obscures specific details, using titles like "Down By the River" (2025) and "Bird of Paradise" (2025) to evoke universal moods rather than literal scenes. The exhibition runs through November 29, 2025.

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.

CAM “Fresh Air: Inflatable Sculptures” exhibit set to open this summer

The Cameron Art Museum (CAM) in Wilmington, North Carolina, has announced its upcoming summer exhibition, "Fresh Air: Inflatable Sculptures." Running from June 19 through September 6, 2026, the show features large-scale, immersive works by a roster of high-profile contemporary artists including Nick Cave, Andy Warhol, and Claire Ashley. The exhibition is designed to be interactive, utilizing scale and movement to engage visitors with contemporary art in an accessible, unconventional format.

Sarasota Art Museum senior curator heading to Seattle

Rangsook Yoon, the senior curator at the Sarasota Art Museum (SAM), is departing her role to join the Frye Art Museum in Seattle as the senior director of curatorial affairs. Yoon will conclude her tenure at SAM on May 1, following the opening of the major loan exhibition "Something Borrowed, Something New," which features works by blue-chip artists like Louise Bourgeois and Ai Weiwei. Her move to Seattle follows a successful two-year period in Sarasota where she curated high-profile shows and participated in regional collaborations like Skyway 2024.

Strong sales and cross-market demand define Art Basel Hong Kong opening

Art Basel Hong Kong opened with robust sales and high energy, signaling a strong recovery for the Asia-Pacific art market. Blue-chip galleries reported several seven-figure transactions early on, including a $4 million Picasso at Bastian and a $3.8 million Liu Ye painting at David Zwirner. The fair's debut of the digital-focused 'Zero 10' initiative and a significant presence of regional collectors underscored a diverse appetite for both postwar masters and contemporary digital works.

Art March Hong Kong | 8 Kusama pumpkins head to auction during Basel week – here’s every one of them

Eight signature pumpkin works by Yayoi Kusama are set to headline the spring auction season in Hong Kong, coinciding with Art Basel week. Major auction houses including Sotheby’s, Christie’s, and Bonhams are offering a diverse range of these iconic motifs, featuring everything from a massive two-meter-tall fiberglass sculpture to rare red and yellow canvases. Notable highlights include a unique 2015 sculpture at Sotheby’s with a high estimate of HK$60 million and a rare red pumpkin painting at Bonhams.

Art March Hong Kong | 8 Kusama pumpkins head to auction during Basel week – here’s every one of them

Eight signature pumpkin works by Yayoi Kusama are set to headline the spring auction season in Hong Kong, coinciding with Art Basel Hong Kong. Major auction houses including Sotheby’s, Christie’s, and Bonhams are offering a diverse range of the artist's iconic motif, featuring everything from a massive two-meter-tall fiberglass sculpture to rare canvases in red and yellow. The sales include a unique single-owner collection at Bonhams titled "More than Red," showcasing the breadth of Kusama’s most commercially successful subject.

3 new D.C.-area museum exhibits you don't want to miss

Three major art exhibitions are debuting in the Washington, D.C. area, headlined by Nick Cave’s largest-ever single-artist commission at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The immersive installation, titled "Mammoth," features a 70-foot illuminated table and bronze sculptures. Other significant openings include a survey of American masters at Glenstone and a massive showcase of female artists from the Shah Garg Collection at the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

Twenty Billion Won for a Single Dot: Lee Ufan Masterpieces Head to Auction

South Korea’s leading auction houses, K Auction and Seoul Auction, are headlining their February sales with monumental works by Lee Ufan. Two rare, large-scale 'Dialogue' canvases featuring the artist's signature minimalist dots are expected to fetch significant sums, with estimates reaching up to 2.4 billion won. The auctions also feature major works by other Korean masters, including an early 1955 painting by Kim Tschang-yeul and a blue monochrome piece by the late Chung Sang-Hwa.

Banksy, Basquiat, Haring and more coming to Mobile Museum of Art

The Mobile Museum of Art in Alabama announced a major upcoming exhibition titled "Gateway from Graffiti to Gallery," opening September 1 and running for a year. The show will feature 28 works by five iconic street artists: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf, Banksy, and Kaws, including a room-sized installation by Scharf. The works, never before assembled together, are on loan from collectors and investors worldwide through a collaboration with Masterworks, a company that enables fractional investment in blue-chip art. The museum also revealed plans for a 2027 exhibition of 25 leading female artists from the post-World War II abstract expressionist movement.

21 Savage and Slawn Took Over Atlanta's High Museum of Art

Rapper 21 Savage and British-Nigerian artist Olaolu Slawn (known as Slawn) took over Atlanta's High Museum of Art to celebrate the release of Savage's new album, *What Happened to the Streets?*. The exhibition featured 15 original artworks co-created by the duo, including the album's cover art inspired by Kerry James Marshall's 1980 painting “A Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self,” eight portraits of collaborators (Drake, Latto, G Herbo, Lil Baby, Jawan Harris, GloRilla, Metro Boomin, Young Nudy), and four additional paintings from the album's 4-CD cover art series. The event follows their Art Basel rollout, which included a 20-foot inflatable sculpture roaming Miami.

Strong sales and digital art buzz mark Art Basel Miami Beach opening

Art Basel Miami Beach opened with a VIP preview that saw strong sales across price points, from blue-chip acquisitions to mid-range works. David Zwirner led with a Gerhard Richter painting for $5.5 million, while Hauser & Wirth sold a George Condo for $4 million. The debut of Zero 10, a platform for digital art, sold out its presentation. Other notable sales included works by Alice Neel, Josef Albers, Louise Bourgeois, and Andreas Gursky, with galleries like Pace, White Cube, and Gladstone also reporting significant transactions.

Gustav Klimt portrait sells for about R4 billion, breaking modern-art auction records

Gustav Klimt's portrait "Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer" (1914–1916) sold for $236.4 million (about R4 billion) at a Sotheby's auction in New York, becoming the most expensive modern artwork ever sold at auction and the second most expensive painting in history, behind only Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi." The sale, which featured works from the estate of billionaire collector Leonard Lauder, unfolded in a tense 20-minute bidding war among six collectors. The painting had been hidden from public view since the 1980s. The same auction also saw Maurizio Cattelan's 18-karat gold toilet "America" sell for over $12 million.

Comment | What the art market doesn’t allow, branded content does for Tom Sachs

Tom Sachs has signed with The Lede Company, a US public relations firm, for agency representation, while Thaddaeus Ropac continues to represent him for gallery and fine art inquiries. This arrangement highlights Sachs's expanding activities beyond the traditional art market, including collaborations with Nike and Levi's, such as a Nike app promoting the Mars Yard 3.0 trainers. The announcement came in August, amidst other art-world movements like Jeff Koons's return to Gagosian from Pace Gallery.

Princeton University Art Museum graduates to expansive new home

The Princeton University Art Museum (PUAM) is opening a new 146,000-square-foot facility on October 31, doubling its previous exhibition and education spaces. The original 1880s building, which underwent multiple additions before being demolished in 2021, could only display about 2% of Princeton's 117,000-object collection. Designed by Adjaye Associates with executive architect Cooper Robertson, the new three-story museum features nine interlocking pavilions, 80,000 square feet of exhibition space, classrooms, and a grand hall. Curators have rethought the installation to move away from rigid geographic and chronological categories, instead emphasizing cross-cultural and cross-media pairings, such as placing Andy Warhol's Blue Marilyn (1962) alongside a 14th-century Italian Virgin and Child.

A Jean-Michel Basquiat Rarity And Banksy's Spray-Painted Flag Head To Frieze London 2025

Frieze London 2025 returns for its 23rd edition from October 15-19 in Regent's Park, featuring over 280 international galleries. Major auction houses are staging blockbuster sales during the week, including Sotheby's evening and day sales in partnership with Celine, Christie's 20th/21st Century Evening Sale and a trilogy of drawings from the Klaus Hegeswich collection, and Phillips' Modern & Contemporary sales. Highlights include a Jean-Michel Basquiat rarity, Banksy's spray-painted flag, a Francis Bacon portrait, a Picasso etching, and a Lucian Freud self-portrait estimated at up to $16 million.

A Jean-Michel Basquiat Rarity And Banksy's Spray-Painted Flag Head To Frieze London 2025

Frieze London 2025 returns for its 23rd edition from October 15-19 in Regent's Park, featuring over 280 international galleries. Major auction houses—Sotheby's, Christie's, Phillips, and Bonhams—are staging concurrent sales to capitalize on the influx of collectors, with highlights including a rare Jean-Michel Basquiat painting, a Banksy spray-painted flag, a Francis Bacon portrait, a Picasso etching, and a Lucian Freud self-portrait estimated at up to $16 million. Sotheby's is partnering with fashion house Celine for three auctions, while Christie's will host four events, including a 20th/21st Century Evening Sale and a sale of drawings from the collection of Klaus Hegeswich.

A Jean-Michel Basquiat Rarity And Banksy's Spray-Painted Flag Head To Frieze London 2025

Frieze London 2025 returns for its 23rd edition from October 15-19 in Regent's Park, featuring over 280 international galleries. Major auction houses are capitalizing on the influx of collectors with blockbuster sales: Sotheby's is hosting three auctions in partnership with Celine, including a Francis Bacon portrait estimated at up to $12 million; Christie's will offer a Lucian Freud self-portrait potentially worth $16 million, alongside works by Picasso, Magritte, and Cezanne; Phillips is presenting fresh works by emerging artists like Sasha Gordon; and Bonhams is selling a Banksy spray-painted flag piece.

Evelyn Lin to Lead Sotheby’s Asia Modern and Contemporary Art, After Pace Hong Kong Shutters

Evelyn Lin is returning to Sotheby's as chairman of Modern and contemporary art, Asia, after a one-year stint at Pace gallery. She will start on November 3 and join the inaugural marquee sale at Sotheby's new global headquarters at the Breuer Building in New York. Lin replaces Elaine Holt, who left after a year, and will work alongside other Asia chairmen and managing directors. The appointment follows Pace's announcement that it will close its Hong Kong space at H Queen's after its current exhibition closes on October 18, though it will maintain offices in Hong Kong and Beijing.

Paradigm Shift – a major exhibition exploring new dimensions in Moving Image.

180 Studios presents 'Paradigm Shift', a major exhibition at 180 Strand in London that transforms the venue's subterranean spaces to showcase acclaimed moving image works from the 1970s to the present. Curated by Jefferson Hack and Mark Wadhwa, the show features over a dozen artists including Ryan Trecartin, Nan Goldin, Andy Warhol, Pipilotti Rist, and Arthur Jafa, drawing from avant-garde cinema, TV, music video, performance, fashion, gaming, and internet culture. New commissions by 180 Studios sit alongside iconic historical works, tracing revolutions in moving image culture from Warhol's 1970s 'Fashion TV' to TELFAR TV today.

In the Studio With Rama Duwaji

Syrian-American artist Rama Duwaji discusses her evolving art practice and her new role as the First Lady of New York City following her husband Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral victory. Known for her distinct illustrations and animations for major institutions like the Tate Modern and the New Yorker, Duwaji is now transitioning into a more public-facing life while maintaining a studio practice at Gracie Mansion. Her work, which spans hand-drawn animation, ceramics, and paintings on found materials like cardboard, continues to blur the lines between commercial illustration and fine art.

At the Galleries for April 9, 2026

The Hamptons art scene is entering the spring season with a diverse array of gallery openings across Montauk, East Hampton, Sag Harbor, and Bridgehampton. Key highlights include Timothy Tibus’s abstract retrospective at The Lucore Art, a Matisse-centered group show at The Drawing Room featuring rare etchings, and Kristy Gordon’s myth-inspired "Primavera" at Grenning Gallery. Other notable exhibitions include a showcase of artists from the Cold Castle collective at Keyes Art and a curated group show titled "Connections" at Dan Welden Studio/Gallery.

KAWS | The Nature of Need (2012) | Available for Sale

The Brooklyn-based artist KAWS has listed an offset lithograph titled 'The Nature of Need' (2012) for sale through Kumi Contemporary. The work, priced at £350, features the artist's signature synthesis of pop culture animation and street art aesthetics, presented as an unsigned edition on smooth paper.

‘Sometimes the space comes first’: how Shohei Shigematsu is using architecture to break cultural ground

Shohei Shigematsu, director of OMA New York since 2006, has carved a niche designing luxury-brand exhibition spaces and flagship stores for Dior, LVMH, and Tiffany. His approach treats architecture as a cultural platform that integrates fashion, art, design, and food. Key projects include the 2016 'Manus x Machina' exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the 2023 'Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams' show in Seoul, where spatial design often precedes thematic content.

The Cinema and Photography of Agnès Varda. Revolutionary Things on Show in Rome

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A major exhibition dedicated to the work of Agnès Varda, titled "De-ci de-là, Paris-Rome," has opened at the Villa Medici – Accademia di Francia in Rome. The show explores Varda's multifaceted career as a photographer, filmmaker, and contemporary artist, tracing her journey from post-war Paris to the 1960s and her later recognition in the art world. It features her iconic black-and-white portraits, early photographic work, and cinematic elements, presented as a continuous visual sequence.

‘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.

Ayala Malls turns Makati into an open-air gallery with Art Walk rollout

Ayala Malls has launched Art Walk by Ayala Land, a public art initiative transforming several of its Makati shopping centers into open-air galleries from January 30 to February 8. The program places contemporary artworks by Filipino and international artists in high-traffic mall environments, featuring large-scale installations, digital works, performance art, and wearable pieces across locations like Ayala Malls Circuit, Greenbelt, Glorietta, and One Ayala.