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Feeling Lost? Tackle Life’s Biggest Questions Inside Oracle, Denver’s New Introspective Art Exhibit.

Oracle, a new experiential art exhibit curated by Esther Hernandez, opened on May 9 at Union Hall Art Space in Denver. The 1,700-square-foot gallery invites visitors to wear blindfolds and be guided by volunteers to 16 works by six local female artists—Yazz Atmore, Faatma Be Oné, Linda Bishara, Rebecca Peebles, Sarah Tenney, and Harriet Woodman—before removing the blindfold to reflect on pieces that resonate with their personal questions. The exhibit includes interactive works, such as a ceremonial weighted blanket and a mixed-media altar, and runs through August 23.

Fairfield University Art Museum Presents Famous & Family: Through the Lens of Trude Fleischmann, May 2 – July 26

Fairfield University Art Museum will present "Famous & Family: Through the Lens of Trude Fleischmann" from May 2 to July 26, 2025, marking the first solo museum exhibition of the Austrian-born photographer's work in the United States. The show features over 100 photographs spanning Fleischmann's career, including her early studio work in 1920s and 1930s Vienna capturing cultural figures, and her later portraits of luminaries such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Marian Anderson, and Albert Einstein after she emigrated to New York in 1940. The exhibition includes never-before-exhibited works from family collections and a documentary film, and is curated by museum executive director Carey Weber alongside Fleischmann's cousin Barbara Loss.

World-renowned photographer Roger Ballen will visit Latvia with a lecture at ISSP and a retrospective exhibition at the Mark Rothko Art Centre

World-renowned photographer Roger Ballen will visit Latvia in June 2025 for a public lecture at the contemporary photography platform ISSP in Riga, followed by a major retrospective exhibition titled "The Other Mind: Roger Ballen. Retrospective" at the Mark Rothko Art Centre in Daugavpils. The lecture, held on June 6, offers a rare opportunity to hear Ballen discuss his creative process and over fifty years of work, while the exhibition, running from June 5 to August 30, spans his career from early documentary works to his signature "documentary fiction" and recent color photography.

24 Hours with Jewel at the 2026 Venice Biennale Festival

Singer-songwriter Jewel has transformed into a multimedia artist, presenting a solo exhibition titled '24 Hours with Jewel' at the 2026 Venice Biennale. The show features 34 new works, including paintings, sculptures, and kinetic installations, with the centerpiece 'Heart of the Ocean'—an eight-foot kinetic sculpture created in collaboration with scientists from NASA, NOAA, Stanford, and UC Berkeley that translates real-time oceanographic data into light and sound. V Magazine followed Jewel for 24 hours as she prepared for her Biennale debut, documenting her day from rooftop meditations and water taxi rides with her son to private patron tours and an opening night performance in a custom Schiaparelli dress.

Gallery at the heart of Changfeng mixed-use development opens to the public

Jia Art, a new gallery designed by Foster + Partners, has opened in Shanghai's Putuo District as part of the Changfeng mixed-use development. The 5,000-square-meter building features flexible exhibition, event, and educational spaces, with a design inspired by spring blessing flowers found in the local park. Its petal-like form, tubular glass ribs, and central glass skylight create a dynamic, light-filled environment that houses both contemporary and traditional art.

Art, research, and Night at the Museum: The flourishing partnership between UC Santa Cruz Humanities and the Museum of Art and History - UC Santa Cruz

UC Santa Cruz Humanities and the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH) have deepened their decade-long partnership, marked by the MAH's 30th anniversary in April 2025. The collaboration includes co-sponsored exhibitions like "This is Thirty" and the ongoing "Night at the Museum" public event series, which brings scholars, artists, and community members together for free panel discussions and exhibits. Notable past projects include the 2016 Kinsey African American Art & History Collection exhibition and the 2023 California premiere of "Resettlement: Chicago Story."

More than 200 Banksy art works will come to Texas this summer

More than 200 works by the elusive British street artist Banksy will go on display in Austin, Texas, this summer. The traveling exhibition, titled "The Art of Banksy Without Limits," opens at Fair Market on May 29 and runs through September 7. It features certified original prints, photos, sculptures, and reproduced murals, along with video mapping, an infinity room, and a hologram installation. A portion of ticket sales will support the Banksy-founded Louise Michel organization, which operates a rescue vessel in the Mediterranean.

Heard Museum to open exhibition pairing artists’ work with letters to their younger selves

The Heard Museum in Phoenix has opened a new exhibition titled "Wisdom from the Future," which pairs artwork by 28 Indigenous artists aged 55 and older with personal letters they wrote to their younger selves. The letters offer reflections on creativity, identity, and lived experience, with participating artists including Kay WalkingStick, Norbert Peshlakai, Preston Singletary, and others. The exhibition was developed in connection with the museum's Creative Aging program, which supports older adults in developing artistic skills.

Guntersville Museum Welcomes ARTS Works

The Guntersville Museum hosted a recognition ceremony for the 18th annual ARTS Works All-County Student Art Exhibit, organized by the nonprofit Artists Responding to Students (ARTS). The exhibit featured around 100 artworks from K-12 students across Marshall County, including Boaz, Grant, Guntersville, and Albertville. For the second year, the show included special needs artists, with the Kamryn HeART Award presented in memory of a young artist. Additionally, the Lakeview Community Civic Organization displayed posters from its Black History Month contest. Winners were announced across multiple grade categories, judged by two National Board Certified Teachers from Decatur.

Picasso immersive digital exhibition at Museum of Art + Light

The Museum of Art + Light (MoA+L) in Manhattan, Kansas, will host the U.S. debut of "Picasso: Art in Motion," a landmark immersive exhibition exploring Pablo Picasso's life and work, opening May 3, 2026. Produced in agreement with the Picasso Administration, the exhibition uses large-scale projections, film, and digital environments in the museum's 21,500-square-foot Mezmereyz gallery, featuring 108 projectors and over 188 million pixels. It will be accompanied by "Picasso on Paper," a quieter exhibition of etchings, lithographs, and linocuts, and will anchor a broader season including "Interference: The Interactive Art of Daniel Rozin" and "EMULATION: Selections from the Art Blocks 500."

Six artists: Always in the heart, my homeland

An exhibition titled "Sown by the Traveler: Women and Migrants in Philippine Art" has opened at UPV MACH (UP Visayas Museum of Art and Cultural Heritage) in Iloilo City, featuring 16 paintings by six Filipino artists who lived abroad: Fernando Zobel, Alfonso Ossorio, Macario Vitalis, Juvenal Sanso, Anita Magsaysay-Ho, and Nena Saguil. Curated by Patrick D. Flores from the collection of the Lopez Museum and Library, the show runs until May 8, 2026, and explores themes of migration and longing for home, with its title drawn from Jose Rizal's poem "To the Flowers of Heidelberg."

Top York artist opens his one-of-a-kind York home for new 5-day exhibition

Renowned York-based artist Mark Hearld is hosting an independent five-day exhibition at his private residence in The Mount. The showcase features twenty new collages and a series of prints, including works inspired by a recent trip to Jaipur and a collaborative screenprint with Penfold Press. The event is notable for being held outside the official York Open Studios program, a circuit Hearld has participated in for two decades but was not selected for this year.

“Rooted” art exhibit explores the nature of trees with paint, camera, and heart

The Arts Garage (TAG) in Port Clinton has launched "Rooted," a group exhibition featuring six artists who explore the intersection of nature and human emotion. The show highlights the work of mixed-media artist Chad Cochran, known for his landscape-based album covers for Nashville musicians, and Susan Danko, whose abstract paintings translate the atmospheric moods of the forest into monochromatic and experimental forms.

Blood, mud and cobwebs create ache of heartbreak at Asian Art Museum

Artist Rina Banerjee has opened a major solo exhibition, "Make Me a Summary of the World," at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. The immersive installation features fantastical sculptures and environments constructed from materials like blood-red resin, mud, feathers, and synthetic cobwebs, exploring themes of migration, colonialism, and diaspora.

A world of magic and monsters arrives at the CU Art Museum

The CU Art Museum at the University of Colorado Boulder has launched "Fairy Tales and the Power of Wonder," an exhibition that explores the dark and complex origins of folklore. Moving away from sanitized modern interpretations, the show features a diverse array of works including Jaro Hess’s "The Land of Make Believe," Don Ed Hardy’s "Sea Dragon," and rare illustrated books like William Wallace Denslow’s "Wonderful Wizard of Oz." The display utilizes early fantasy maps and historical artifacts to ground visitors in the "geography of the impossible."

Blockbuster exhibition highlights visionary women of abstract expressionism

The Muscarelle Museum of Art at William & Mary has launched "Abstract Expressionists: The Women," a landmark touring exhibition featuring nearly 50 works by 32 female artists. Curated by scholar Ellen G. Landau and drawn from the private collection of Christian Levett, the show includes major figures such as Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner, and Elaine de Kooning. It is the only East Coast stop for this exhibition, which organizes the works chronologically to trace the movement's evolution across New York, California, and Paris.

Heartware Store transforms into a love hotel for a NSFW art exhibition by Taiwanese artist IKUIKU

Heartware Store & Gallery in Singapore has been transformed into a love hotel for a NSFW art exhibition by Taiwanese artist Ikuiku, titled 'Ikuiku Love Hotel.' Running from January 24 to March 15, 2026, the solo show pairs cute, seemingly innocent illustrations with sexual humor, featuring risograph prints, a new zine debut, and themed merchandise such as hotel keychains, towels, memo pads, and a condom blind box. The opening weekend includes an invite-only preview, live portrait drawing, and an artist talk.

Model masterpieces by Eduardo Paolozzi to be auctioned this week

Several works by Scottish-Italian artist Eduardo Paolozzi, gifted to his longtime collaborator and model maker Ray Hardinge Campbell Watson, are being auctioned at Lyon & Turnbull in Edinburgh. The collection includes a bronze statue titled *Hermes/Mondrian Head – 1996* (estimate £10,000–£15,000), along with plaster sculptures, prints, and folio sets, many bearing personal inscriptions. The sale reflects a creative partnership that spanned over thirty years, during which Paolozzi and Watson collaborated on major projects such as the Tottenham Court Road murals for London Underground and a Pizza Express mural in the late 1960s.

Concrete cars for coral reefs: Miami's underwater eco-sculpture park takes shape

The first phase of the Reefline project, an underwater sculpture park off the coast of Miami Beach, has been installed with 22 submerged concrete cars created by Argentine artist Leandro Erlich. The sculptures, titled "Concrete Coral" (2025), sit 20 feet below the surface and are designed to support coral regeneration and marine biodiversity. The project was developed by cultural placemaker Ximena Caminos with a masterplan by architect Shohei Shigematsu of OMA, and will expand over ten years to reach seven miles in length. Visitors can access the site via swimming, diving, or electric paddleboards, and a floating marine learning center is anchored nearby during Miami Art Week.

In his own words: Antwerp museum uses AI to recreate Magritte's voice

The DEK Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA) has used artificial intelligence to recreate the voice of Surrealist artist René Magritte for its exhibition "Magritte. La ligne de vie." The AI-generated voice delivers Magritte's 1938 lecture—the only time he spoke publicly about his work—which was never recorded but survived through slides and a transcript by fellow Surrealist Marcel Mariën. The exhibition, on view until February 2026, features over 100 works and is structured around key themes from that lecture.

Special art exhibition unites works of late CSUF alumna

Cal State Fullerton's Nicholas and Lee Begovich Gallery has opened "Carole Caroompas: Mystical Unions," a special exhibition celebrating the life and legacy of the late contemporary artist and CSUF alumna Carole Caroompas. Curated by College of the Arts Director Jennifer Frias and Caroompas's longtime friend Mary Anna Pomonis, the show features paintings, mixed-media works, and personal ephemera drawn from the artist's archives at the Getty Research Institute, including journals, letters, and sketches that offer an intimate look at her creative process.

What happens at a tattoo auction?

JOOPITER, the platform founded by Pharrell Williams, has launched a new auction titled "INKED: Tattoos by Contemporary Artists," curated by Sharon Coplan. The auction features sixteen international artists—including Sarah Andelman, Derrick Adams, Thom Browne, Jeffrey Gibson, Titus Kaphar, Marilyn Minter, Mickalene Thomas, and tattoo artist Dr. Woo—who each created a unique, signed drawing intended to be tattooed on skin or displayed as standalone artwork on paper. Each piece comes with a certificate of authenticity, and the buyer may choose to have the design tattooed or keep it as a collectible print.

Today the Brave launches Gallery Brave – a space for art, design, creativity and culture

Today the Brave, an independent creative agency, has opened Gallery Brave, a street-facing gallery and activation space in Sydney. The gallery launched with original works from American contemporary artist and activist Shepard Fairey, alongside pieces from local and emerging creatives. It will host an evolving program of exhibitions, installations, and immersive experiences across art and design, aiming to become a cultural contributor beyond advertising.

3 New Galleries to launch at No.1 Poultry

Hypha Studios has announced the launch of three new galleries at No.1 Poultry, the iconic James Stirling-designed postmodern building in the City of London. Opening on 24 September with celebratory events, the galleries will host a year-long programme of culture, each presenting eight unique exhibitions. Galleries 1 and 3 will feature contemporary artists and curators, while Gallery 2, in partnership with recessed.space, will focus on exhibitions related to the living environment. The inaugural shows include "The Turn" curated by Shakthi Shrima, featuring artists such as Cajsa von Zeipel and Janine Antoni, and a group exhibition led by maker Nina Oltarzewska from Blackhorse Lane Makers.

‘From Gaza to the World’: A Devastating Art Show Arrives in Brooklyn

A devastating exhibition titled 'From Gaza to the World' has opened at Recess, a nonprofit art venue in Brooklyn, as the first North American pavilion of the Gaza Biennale. Organized by the Forbidden Museum of Jabal Al Risan and launched in 2024, the show features 25 Palestinian artists, many still in Gaza or displaced. Due to the ongoing Israel-Gaza War, most works are documentation—printouts, facsimiles, and video—rather than original objects. Highlights include Malaka Abu Owda's 'When the Body Became a Message' (2024), Firas Thabet's tapestry 'Gaznica' (2025) adapting Picasso's Guernica, and Emad Badwan's docudrama 'Live Broadcast' (2024). The exhibition bears witness to life under bombardment, famine, and displacement, with wall labels including heartbreaking artist quotes.

WIASC art exhibition in the heart of Pointe-Claire Village

The West Island Art Studio Circuit (WIASC) is presenting a free café-exhibition titled "Circuits" at Studio 77 in Pointe-Claire Village, Quebec, from September 1 through 30, 2025. The show features works by 11 local artists who participated in the WIASC's inaugural Open Studio Day on August 16, 2025, including pieces such as "Colors of the Autumn" by Preetha Mitran, "Pain Waves" by Sandra Woods, and "Flight Paths" by Donna McGee. A special public vernissage will be held on September 21.

Hear the untold stories of North Korean women in this limited-time NYC art show

A limited-time art exhibition titled "UNSEEN: 14 Artists on Resilience and Rights of Women in North Korea" will open in New York City's Tribeca neighborhood from September 20 to 27 at Lume Studios on Broadway. Curated by Dr. Stephanie Seungmin Kim, the show features 14 international artists alongside video testimonies from North Korean escapees, coinciding with the 80th session of the UN General Assembly.

Prospect, New Orleans’ international art exhibition, cancels its next big show in 2027

Prospect, New Orleans' international art exhibition, has canceled its next planned show in 2027. The decision was announced by the organization's most recent director, Nick Stillman, who cited the current political climate and cuts to government arts funding as making the financial outlook for the multi-million-dollar event "ominous." Stillman has since left the organization. Instead of mounting another exhibition, Prospect will publish a book titled "20 Years of Prospect" and shift focus to exploring sustainable models for presenting global art discourse while archiving its past work.

Italian art convinces, international art surprises

Sotheby's and Il Ponte held Modern and Contemporary art auctions in Milan at the end of May, achieving strong results for Italian 20th-century icons and international art. Sotheby's sale on 28 May featured 93 lots, 80 of which were auction debuts, and closed at approximately €11.4 million with a 90% sell-through rate. Top lots included Lucio Fontana's 'Concetto Spaziale, Attese' (1968), which sold for €1.56 million, and works by Giorgio de Chirico, Emilio Vedova, and Alighiero Boetti that far exceeded their high estimates. International highlights included Robert Indiana's 'Decade Autoportrait' selling for €245,000 and Willis Baumeister's 'Moby Dick' setting a record for the artist in Italy.

In the Heart of Washington, Adam Pendleton’s Work Demands Deep Thought

Adam Pendleton, a contemporary artist known for his abstract and text-based works, has a major exhibition in Washington, D.C., that challenges viewers to engage in deep contemplation. The show, likely at a prominent institution, features his signature blend of painting, collage, and language, exploring themes of history, identity, and social justice.