The article reports on a new exhibition at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas that focuses on the work of local artist Nic Nicosia. The show aims to reveal a deeper, more complex side of Nicosia's practice, moving beyond his well-known photographic works to explore other facets of his artistic output.
A photo exhibition titled “Selena Forever/Siempre Selena” opens Thursday at the Briscoe Western Art Museum in San Antonio, featuring images of Tejano icon Selena captured by photographer John Dyer between 1992 and 1994. The show includes iconic portraits, magazine covers, and rarely seen ephemera, displayed in the museum’s Kat Marmion Gallery, and will run through January 4, 2027. A complementary summer film series, “Siempre Tejano,” will screen movies about Selena on the third Sunday of June, July, and August.
On April 17, 2025, the bicentennial of France's 1825 decree imposing a massive indemnity on Haiti for its independence, French President Macron announced a joint commission of historians to study the debt's impact. While some institutions like Bordeaux's Musée d'Aquitaine and Paris's Palais de Tokyo engaged with the topic through exhibitions, France's major public art museums and national monuments remained largely silent. Two exhibitions devoted to King Charles X—the monarch who enforced the debt—at the Mobilier National and Château de Maisons highlighted this absence, as they failed to address his role in Haiti's history.
The Hong Kong Palace Museum (HKPM) and the Palace Museum in Beijing have jointly opened a major exhibition titled "The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: The Forbidden City and the World - Cultural Encounters" in Hong Kong. Featuring over 130 rare artifacts from the Palace Museum in Beijing, the HKPM, and the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, the exhibition explores more than six centuries of global exchanges through the lens of the Forbidden City, spanning the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties. It includes 18 grade-one national treasures and is organized into four thematic sections covering trade, diplomacy, science, technology, philosophy, and the arts.
Hackney Art Week returns for its second edition from 4 to 14 June 2026, transforming the London borough into a sprawling festival of exhibitions, open studios, performances, workshops, and community-driven art events. Founded by residents Lisa Baker and Anna McHugh, the festival features over 130 artists across 60 venues—including cafés, pubs, bakeries, and public spaces—with highlights such as a female-led opening at the Rose Lipman Building, an Asian art and food programme at The Old Bath House curated by Mei Hui Liu, and participatory projects like Henny Beaumont and Brigit Connolly's ceramics workshops. Photography is a strong focus, with Tara Darby debuting her installation 'The White Cage' and GG the Illustrator documenting local council estates.
The Briscoe Western Art Museum in San Antonio will open "Selena Forever / Siempre Selena" on June 4, a major exhibition featuring iconic photographs of Selena Quintanilla-Pérez taken by San Antonio photographer John Dyer between 1992 and 1994. The show, displayed in the Kate Marmion Gallery through January 4, 2027, includes monumental portraits, never-before-seen boutique photographs, magazine covers, and memorabilia. To complement the exhibition, the museum launches its summer film series "Siempre Tejano" with screenings of "Selena y Los Dinos" (2025), the 1997 biopic "Selena," and "Take It Away: The Rise and Fall of Tejano Hollywood" (2025).
Over 100 artists participating in the Venice Biennale have threatened legal action against the Venice Biennale Foundation, alleging that their official withdrawal from the newly instituted "Visitor Lion" awards has been ignored. The awards were created after the original jury resigned en masse in late April over a dispute involving Israel and Russia's presence in the exhibition. Despite sending a letter on May 20 requesting removal from voting ballots, the artists claim the Biennale continued to list them as eligible candidates when digital ballots were distributed on May 14. The Biennale Foundation disputes this, stating it acknowledged receipt of the letter and that votes for withdrawn artists will not count toward the awards.
Burien artist Cable Griffith creates eerie, video game-influenced paintings of Pacific Northwest forests, featuring unsettlingly bright landscapes, giants, and UFOs. His work has earned commissions and exhibitions across Washington, including a glass tile mosaic at the Redmond Downtown light rail station and shows at the Tacoma Art Museum and the Museum of Northwest Art. Griffith also serves as department chair and associate professor at Seattle University’s Cornish College of Arts. In a Q&A, he discusses his move to Washington, the influence of video games like 'The Legend of Zelda,' and the challenges of creating public art.
Korean artist Shim Moonseup presents a solo exhibition titled "Harnessed From Nature" at Ca' Faccanon in Venice, running until September 30, 2026. Curated by Sim Eunlog, the show spans over 50 years of the artist's career, featuring sculptures, paintings, and installations that explore anti-sculpture, ecological thinking, and the relationship between natural materials and technology. Key works include "Re-present" (2010) and pieces from his "Wood Deity" series, alongside works like "Relation (Place)" (1972) and "Thoughts on Clay" (2010).
James Francis Gill, an American painter known for his iconic Pop Art portraits of Marilyn Monroe, reflects on his career and the enduring fascination with Monroe's image in a new interview with The Telegraph. Gill claims he was the first artist to become obsessed with capturing Monroe's likeness, predating the widespread cultural fixation on her image. The article explores his artistic journey, his early adoption of photographic source material, and his place within the Pop Art movement alongside figures like Andy Warhol.
Landscape artist Eileen Williamson is presenting her solo exhibition "Wanderings" at the Art 10 Gallery in Nanaimo North Town Centre throughout June and July 2026. The show features bold acrylic landscape paintings inspired by Vancouver Island locations, including works like *Over the Rise* (based on Westwood Lake) and *Storm Glow*. Williamson, who began her art journey as a child with pen and ink before studying graphic arts at Capilano, cites influences such as Salvador Dalí and Peter Paul Rubens. An opening reception is scheduled for June 13, and her paintings are also available for purchase on her website.
Artsy lists for sale a 1987 work by Roy Lichtenstein titled "I Know How You Made Me Feel, Bra…" from the artist's late-career series. The piece is being offered through the online marketplace, with no specific price or seller details disclosed in the snippet.
College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, has launched a free outdoor art exhibition titled "Walking with Giants" that features 10 larger-than-life silhouette paintings of iconic American cultural figures. The exhibition, running through October 18, includes portraits of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Dolly Parton, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Aretha Franklin, Norman Rockwell, Georgia O'Keeffe, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, John Williams, and Bob Fosse. Created by local artists Rich Lo and Judith Mayer, the 7- to 10-foot-tall silhouettes are installed across the campus grounds, with maps guiding visitors to each piece. The exhibition is presented by the McAninch Arts Center, Cleve Carney Museum of Art, and the College of DuPage Foundation, and ties into the 250th anniversary of the United States' founding.
Bonnie Keren He, a 17-year-old senior at Northfield Mount Hermon, has achieved a solo exhibition at Flushing Town Hall in New York City, showcasing self-portraits that explore her Asian American identity and maternal love. Her journey began as a frustrated five-year-old using art to express heartbreak, and has since included winning the Congressional Art Competition for New York's Sixth District, with her painting now displayed at the U.S. Capitol. He donated $1,830 from the exhibit to Twice As Smart, an after-school program for at-risk children, and her work reflects her Chinese heritage, inspired by her grandfather's calligraphy and family artistic legacy.
Ashley Saville, a London gallerist, chronicles the week leading up to the opening of her eponymous gallery on Fleet Street. She shuttles supplies, oversees renovations, and prepares for the inaugural solo exhibition of artist Jason Shulman, whose work includes long-exposure photographs titled "Cum Shots." Saville meets with artist Sienna Murdoch, sends hundreds of promotional emails, and navigates the practical and emotional challenges of launching a new space.
Lempertz, a German auction house, recorded a turnover of €46.4 million in 2025, driven by rediscovered Old Masters masterpieces and important private collections. The top lot was Jan Davidsz. de Heem's 'Still Life with Flowers and Fruits on a Stone Ledge,' which sold for €3.16 million. Under managing director Isabel Apiarius-Hanstein (born 1988), the company continues to focus on medium-high bracket European collectors, specializing in Old Masters, photography, decorative arts, and German modern art, while avoiding the guarantees and private sale strategies favored by larger houses like Sotheby's and Christie's.
Original works by Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Anthony Caro, and Helen Chadwick will be loaned to a York vicar for a special art exhibition at St Stephen's Church in Acomb, as part of the AcombFest 2026 community festival. The exhibition, running July 4-5, 2026, will feature Hirst's 'Ho, Ho, Ho! Greeting Card' (1997), Emin's 'Be Faithful To Your Dreams Greeting Card' (1999), and Caro's bronze 'Belt Buckle' (1993), alongside works by local artists, photographers, and printmakers. Street artist Smug will also create a new mural during the festival.
Pallant House Gallery in Chichester has opened "British Landscapes: A Sense of Place," an exhibition of 160 works by 60 artists drawn entirely from the gallery's own collection. Spanning from Thomas Gainsborough and the Smith brothers in the 18th century to Prunella Clough's inner-city wastelands of the 1990s, the show examines how British artists have responded to landscapes over 300 years. Highlights include works by Paul Nash, whose intense relationship with landscape and war experiences anchor the exhibition, alongside pieces by Edward Bawden, Eric Ravilious, Winifred Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, and Wilhelmina Barns-Graham. The exhibition also features a room devoted to wood engraving and printmaking, an artform many artists turned to after World War I.
French artist Jean-Marc Bustamante will open the Fonds Bustamante in Arles on July 9, 2026, during the Rencontres d'Arles photography festival. Housed in the restored 12th-century Église Sainte-Croix, the foundation debuts with the exhibition "En Miroirs," featuring Bustamante's work alongside artists such as Cristina Iglesias, Franz West, and Thomas Schütte. The project, designed with architect Charles Zana, includes exhibition spaces, a research center, and a ceramic frieze by Bustamante.
The article announces a collaboration between Japanese contemporary artist Takashi Murakami and the iconic manga and anime character Doraemon, as reported by Artsy. Details of the collaboration, such as specific artworks or products, are not provided in the brief text.
New Orleans artist Thomas Deaton creates bright, colorful surreal geometric paintings of the Gulf Coast landscape, inspired by ghosts, witches, and monsters since childhood. His work explores themes of decay, renewal, and climate change, often depicting New Orleans as "perpetually submerged in a metaphorical flood." Deaton, 37, holds degrees from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and the University of Iowa, and his background in printmaking—especially Japanese City Pop artists like Hiroshi Nagai—informs his "printerly" style. One of his paintings was featured in the 2024-25 citywide international contemporary art exhibit.
Le rovine contemporanee dell’artista Francesca Polizzi in mostra a Palermo. Paesaggi in dissolvenza
Francesca Polizzi (Palermo, 1988) presents her latest solo exhibition, "Lunaria," at RizzutoGallery in Palermo. The show features sculptures and installations that explore themes of ruins, fragments, and natural cycles, with works created specifically for the exhibition. Key pieces include "Lunaria 2" (2026), a bronze and brass branch mimicking the Lunaria annua plant, and "Volta" (2026), a large white sculpture in iron, wool, and plaster that inverts a vaulted ceiling, evoking collapse and transformation. Polizzi blends natural forms with architectural elements, using materials like raw felt, resins, waxes, and metals to create hybrid landscapes that speak to decay and renewal.
La cultura è somma, non frammentazione. Il biochimico Carlos Briones racconta il legame tra scienza e arte
Carlos Briones, a biochemist at the Centro de Astrobiología in Madrid, discusses the deep connections between science and art in an interview with Artribune. He argues that both disciplines share a foundation in observing nature, experimentation, and iterative trial and error, and that artists and scientists mutually enrich each other through passion. Briones, who is also a musician and poet, explores how life itself can be understood as a relational, temporal phenomenon—akin to an artwork that carries echoes of the past and seeds of the future.
The Riddoch Arts and Cultural Centre in Mount Gambier, South Australia, will launch a vibrant winter exhibition season from 20 June to 16 August 2026, featuring four exhibitions: 'Two Laws One Big Spirit' by Peter Adsett and Rusty Peters, 'My Cuzzy Nate and the 654 Club' by Damien Shen, 'Speak Up!' by Thumbprint Collective, and '50 Years of Deadly NAIDOC Posters'. The program includes a monumental painting collaboration between Gija artist Rusty Peters and New Zealand-born painter Peter Adsett, a moving image card trick performance with tintype photographs by Damien Shen, and local responses to works by Ann Newmarch and Babara Hanrahan. Public events include an opening on 19 June 2026 and 'In Conversation' talks with artists and curators.
Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction, Vermont, has organized a collaborative project called "Out of the Box," in which ten artist-members exchanged boxes of found objects anonymously and created prints inspired by the items they received. The resulting works, ranging from woodblock and solarplate prints to mokulito lithographs, are on view at the studio through June 30. The project was suggested by member Carole McNamee, who previously tried a similar prompt at ArtSpace Maynard in Massachusetts.
Artsy Editorial's monthly roundup highlights five standout exhibitions at small and rising galleries for June. Among them is "HEAVY DEEDS FROM THE BOOK OF SKULLS" by the artist duo Timewaveultra (Bryan Graf and Cole Caswell) at Tracey Morgan Gallery in Asheville, North Carolina, running through June 27. The show features new, unique photography-based work rooted in the American landscape, created through a collaborative process where each artist intervenes in the other's photographs.
The Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) will host "Martin Mull: The Joys of Indoor/Outdoor Living," a major museum exhibition of the late actor-comedian's paintings, co-curated by comedian Steve Martin and former Hammer Museum Director Ann Philbin. Opening in June 2025 and running through October, the show features over 50 works from Mull's estate and private collections of entertainment figures including Steve Martin, Jennifer Tilly, and Ted and Nicole Sarandos. It is the first museum survey of Mull's art in 20 years and the second curatorial collaboration between Martin and Philbin, following their 2015 exhibition on Lawren Harris at the Hammer Museum.
Marjane Satrapi, the Iranian-French filmmaker and author best known for her graphic novel series and film "Persepolis," died on June 3 at age 56. Her death was announced by French President Emmanuel Macron, with her family attributing the cause to "sadness" following the death of her husband, Mattias Ripa, the previous year. Satrapi rose to international fame with "Persepolis," which chronicled her childhood and young adulthood in Iran and Austria against the backdrop of the Islamic Revolution, earning her a Jury Prize at Cannes and an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature.
L’omaggio a Kafka nella prima grande mostra del super artista William Kentridge a Praga
The Kunsthalle Praha in Prague has opened a major exhibition dedicated to South African artist William Kentridge, titled after a series of large-format prints he created in 1998. The show explores Kentridge's deep connection to the Czech Republic, inspired by figures like Jan Palach and Alexander Dubček, and draws on the influence of Franz Kafka and Milan Kundera. Through works that blend black-and-white aesthetics, film, and installation, the exhibition examines themes of choice, uncertainty, and moral reflection, inviting visitors to engage with questions of freedom, oppression, and the legacy of colonialism.
A Milano c’è un curioso museo dedicato ai frati Cappuccini
The article explores the Museo dei Cappuccini in Milan, a museum dedicated to the Capuchin friars, which opened in 2001. It highlights the order's history of austerity and poverty, contrasting their humble materials (wood, straw) with the opulence of the era. The museum, directed by art historian Rosa Giorgi, houses a permanent collection and temporary exhibitions, such as "Quel che passa il convento," which features two paintings of the Visitation by Camillo Procaccini from Lombard convents.