Wes Anderson Brings Joseph Cornell’s Studio to Life

Filmmaker Wes Anderson and Gagosian curator Jasper Sharp have recreated Joseph Cornell's basement studio from his home on Utopia Parkway in Queens, New York, at Gagosian Gallery's Paris location. The exhibition, titled "The House on Utopia Parkway: Joseph Cornell's Studio Re-Created by Wes Anderson," features over 300 original objects collected by Cornell, alongside his iconic shadow boxes and collages. It runs through March 14 and is free to the public, displayed behind the gallery's storefront windows.

A brush with… Kader Attia—podcast

Kader Attia, the Algerian-French artist born in 1970, is the subject of a podcast interview that explores his three-decade career across photography, collage, sculpture, installation, and sound. Attia, who lives in Berlin and Paris, discusses his central concept of "repair" and how it connects to violence, injury, colonialism, and political issues. He reflects on his Algerian-French identity, his travels in Congo and Mexico, and his influences from Michelangelo to writers like Karima Lazali, Édouard Glissant, and Aimé Césaire. The podcast also highlights his current exhibitions, including "Shattering and Gathering our Traces" at Lehmann Maupin in New York, "The Lost Paradise" at Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo in Seville, and "A Descent into Paradise" at Museo Amparo in Puebla, Mexico, as well as his participation in the Bienal de São Paulo and the 24th Paiz Art Biennial.

Christian Marclay's ‘Doors’ marks opening of Brooklyn Museum's new video art gallery

Christian Marclay's video collage 'Doors' (2022) has opened at the Brooklyn Museum's newly constructed Moving Image Gallery, co-purchased with the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. The 54-minute work, which debuted in London in 2023, splices hundreds of film clips showing characters entering and exiting doorways, building on the visual language of Marclay's acclaimed 24-hour film 'The Clock' (2010). The gallery was built to Marclay's specifications, offering a theatrical, spacious setting for time-based media.

Christian Marclay's ‘Doors’ marks opening of Brooklyn Museum's new video art gallery

Christian Marclay's video collage 'Doors' (2022) has opened at the Brooklyn Museum's newly constructed Moving Image Gallery, marking the institution's first dedicated space for time-based media. The 54-minute work, co-purchased by the Brooklyn Museum and the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, splices hundreds of film clips showing characters entering and exiting doorways, building on the visual language of Marclay's acclaimed 24-hour film 'The Clock' (2010). The gallery was built to Marclay's specifications, offering a theatrical setting rather than a typical black-box presentation.

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The Museum of Sex in Miami’s Allapattah neighborhood has opened “Hard Art: Unruly Selections from the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection,” an exhibition of erotic artworks from the collection of ARTnews Top 200 collector Beth Rudin DeWoody. The show features sculptures, paintings, collages, photography, and installations from the 1930s to the present by artists including Judith Bernstein, Cecily Brown, Nancy Grossman, and Jimmy DeSana. It is co-curated by Maynard Monrow and Laura Dvorkin, DeWoody’s in-house curators, and runs through May 2026.

Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani, a New Sort of Street Artist, Rises from Art History’s Margins

Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani, a late Japanese American collagist who lived and worked as a street artist in New York City, is the subject of a new solo exhibition at the Spencer Museum of Art in Kansas City, on view through June. Co-curators Maki Kaneko and Kris Imants Ercums organized the show thematically rather than chronologically, reflecting Mirikitani's fragmented life—from surviving the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and incarceration at Tule Lake to arriving in New York in the 1950s. The exhibition draws on years of research, including visits to the parks where he lived and to Hiroshima, and builds on Linda Hattendorf's 2006 documentary *The Cats of Mirikitani*.

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The Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation has donated 14 artworks to two Parisian museums, the Musée Carnavalet and the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris. The donation includes preparatory collages, silkscreens, lithographs, and a scale model related to both realized and unrealized projects by the artist duo, such as the wrapped Arc de Triomphe and Pont-Neuf, as well as early sculptures.

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Tony Fitzpatrick, a prominent figure in Chicago's art scene, died at age 66 on October 11 from a heart attack while awaiting a double lung transplant at Rush University Medical Center. He was an artist, printmaker, poet, writer, actor, gallerist, and city booster, known for collages combining vintage illustrations, tattoo art, words, and natural motifs. His work is held by major institutions including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the National Gallery of Art. He also ran several Chicago galleries—The Edge, World Tattoo, and The Dime—and published a book, The Sun at the End of the Road: Dispatches From an American Life.

MOCAD Reopens with New Exhibitions from Detroit Artists

Detroit's Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCAD) has reopened after an eight-month closure for construction, unveiling four new exhibitions as part of its 2026 Spring Exhibition and 20th anniversary. The renovations include a new HVAC system, educational space, and windows that allow passersby to see inside. The building has been renamed the Julia Reyes Taubman Building in honor of the late co-founder, whose family contributed $1.8 million toward the $3 million first phase. Mayor Mary Sheffield toured the exhibitions at an April 23 media preview, praising the museum's role in community healing and access. Featured exhibitions include "Olayami Dabls: Detroit Cosmologies," the first retrospective of the artist's nearly 50-year career, showcasing his evolution from figurative acrylics to abstract collage.

'All the Lands from Sunrise to Sunset' at Green Art Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates on 18 Apr–1 Jun 2026

Green Art Gallery in Dubai is hosting 'All the Lands from Sunrise to Sunset,' a group exhibition featuring Alla Abdunabi, Fatma Al Ali, Alessandro Balteo-Yazbeck, and Michael Rakowitz. The show explores the persistence of imperial logics and extractive economies through diverse media, including text-based collages, reconstructed artifacts made from food packaging, and archival interventions. By examining acts of naming, erasure, and symbolic circulation, the artists treat empire not as a historical relic but as a mutating contemporary condition.

Hüsker Dü rock star Grant Hart’s collages are on sale

The late Hüsker Dü drummer and vocalist Grant Hart is the subject of a posthumous exhibition and sale of his collage works at Second Shift Studio Space in St. Paul. Curated by Hart’s friend Chris Larson and his widow Brigid McGough Hart, the show features nearly 400 previously unseen collages created from vintage magazines and encyclopedias. The artworks are priced affordably between $200 and $500, with proceeds benefiting the gallery’s residency programs for women and gender-nonconforming artists.

Met Exhibit Aims to Elevate Lee Krasner as Pollock's Equal

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced a major upcoming exhibition, "Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous," scheduled for October 2026. The show seeks to reframe the legacy of Lee Krasner by presenting her work as equal in significance to that of her husband, Jackson Pollock, challenging the historical narrative that has long positioned her in his shadow.

Lost abstract artist Edna Taçon rediscovered at Art Gallery of Ontario

The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) has launched a dedicated exhibition to rediscover the work of Edna Taçon, a mid-century abstract artist who was once a prominent figure in the New York and Toronto art scenes. Curated by Renée van der Avoird, the show features collages, drawings, and paintings from the 1940s, a period when Taçon exhibited alongside Lawren Harris and was championed by Hilla Rebay at the Museum of Non-Objective Painting (now the Guggenheim). The exhibition was sparked by the discovery of a single work in the AGO’s holdings and a subsequent connection with the artist's grandson, sculptor Carl Taçon.

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Canadian artist Nicole Young has joined Vancouver's Kostuik Gallery as its represented artist. Her work, which blends painting and textile collage using reclaimed fabrics and natural pigments, is noted for its minimalist, Color Field-inspired compositions and its focus on sustainable artistic practices.

Lucy Sante on Collage: ‘You Have to Kill One Thing to Make Another.’

Visual historian and author Lucy Sante has opened two simultaneous exhibitions of her collage artwork in New York. The shows, at Karma gallery and the Center for Book Arts, feature work created from a vast personal archive of materials she has collected over decades, which she meticulously cuts and reassembles.

Portland Art Museum unveils major Hockney show

The Portland Art Museum has opened a major retrospective of David Hockney's work, featuring over 200 pieces spanning six decades. The exhibition, drawn from the collection of philanthropist Jordan Schnitzer, includes iconic series like the swimming pool paintings, iPad drawings, and photographic collages, and is designed with immersive, perspective-shifting gallery spaces.

Portland Art Museum unveils major Hockney show

The Portland Art Museum has opened a major retrospective of David Hockney's work, featuring over 200 pieces spanning six decades. The exhibition, drawn from the collection of philanthropist Jordan Schnitzer, includes iconic works like the swimming pool series, iPad drawings, and photographic collages, and is designed with immersive, perspective-shifting gallery spaces.

Godfried Donkor: It’s a Numbers Game

Ghanaian-British artist Godfried Donkor is set to debut his first UK institutional solo exhibition, "It’s a Numbers Game," at Firstsite in Colchester. The exhibition features a diverse array of media including collage, painting, embroidery, and installation, highlighted by a gallery transformed into a boxing ring to symbolize migration and endurance. Donkor utilizes materials like Financial Times pages and Adinkra symbols to explore the "triangle of commerce" between Britain, West Africa, and the Caribbean, while specifically linking the local history of Boudicca to the resistance of Ashanti leader Yaa Asantewaa.

5 Artists on Our Radar in January 2026

Artsy's January 2026 edition of 'Artists on Our Radar' highlights five emerging visual artists: Elladj Lincy Deloumeaux, Xiaochi Dong, and Bobbye Fermie (with two others implied). Deloumeaux, born in Guadeloupe and based in Paris, paints solitary figures exploring identity and displacement; his work is featured in a group show at Loft Art Gallery in Marrakech and he has a solo show upcoming at Musée de la Parure de Marrakech. Xiaochi Dong, a Shanghai-born artist trained in classical Chinese painting, creates intimate works evoking gardens and ecosystems, currently in a two-person exhibition at Albion Jeune in London. Bobbye Fermie, an Amsterdam-born London-based artist, produces dreamlike watercolors and collages, with works available at Wilder Gallery.

Nat Faulkner’s New Exhibition Revels in the Alchemy of Photography

British artist Nat Faulkner has opened a new solo exhibition titled 'Strong Water' at Camden Art Centre, exploring themes of transformation, alchemy, and photographic processes. The show features works that incorporate light-sensitive chemicals like iodine, sculptures, and photographic prints, including a large-scale photograph of scrap metal printed on collaged paper. Faulkner, who won the Emerging Artist Award at Frieze in 2024, describes his studio-darkroom as a collaborative 'machine' that produces works through indirect interventions.

Artist Helina Metaferia infuses solo exhibit 'Syntropy' with research and activism

Artist Helina Metaferia presents her solo exhibition 'Syntropy' at Praise Shadows Art Gallery in Brookline, Massachusetts, on view through December 20. The show features her mixed media collages, including a self-portrait titled 'Enthroned (I am an institution; I am an altar; I am an artwork in/of/for progress),' which marks her first self-portrait in years. The exhibition is part of her ongoing socially engaged project 'By Way of Revolution,' which explores the history of activism and civil rights through workshops, performance, and archival research. Metaferia, an Ethiopian American interdisciplinary artist, teaches at Brown University and previously exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Derrick Adams: Glimpses of Black Leisure

The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, is hosting 'Derrick Adams: View Master,' the first mid-career survey dedicated to the multidisciplinary artist. Featuring over 100 works spanning two decades, the exhibition includes painting, collage, sculpture, video, and performance that highlight Adams's unique visual language of pattern and color.

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The Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College is presenting "Interference Patterns," the first survey exhibition of artist John Sparagana's work. The show, running from February 21 to June 28, 2026, features nearly 100 works that trace his unique collage practice, which involves meticulously manipulating magazine pages, comic books, and other mass media sources to reveal the vulnerability of images.

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Shamnoski Gallery, a new brick-and-mortar space focused on postwar abstraction, opened on New York's Upper East Side in November 2025. Founded by Matthew Shamnoski, the gallery evolved from his online platform Projects 28 and champions mid- to late-20th-century artists and estates, particularly those historically overlooked. The gallery's inaugural exhibition, "John Grillo: Collages 1952–1962," reflects its mission to provide sustained presentation and scholarship for artists within this lineage.

Mark Bradford and Carrie Mae Weems Among Latest Artists Commissioned for Obama Presidential Center

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The Obama Presidential Center in Chicago has announced its latest cohort of commissioned artists, featuring high-profile names such as Mark Bradford and Carrie Mae Weems alongside local Chicago talents like Tyanna J. Buie and the duo Sam Kirk + Dorian Sylvain. These site-specific installations will be integrated across the center's 19-acre campus, including a three-story atrium collage by Bradford and a jazz-inflected photo mural by Weems. The project, which has already engaged over two dozen artists including Maya Lin and Julie Mehretu, is overseen by art program leaders Louise Bernard and Virginia Shore with direct input from the Obamas.

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Coreen Simpson, an 83-year-old photographer born in Brooklyn in 1942, is the subject of a new eponymous monograph published by Aperture as part of its Vision and Justice Book Series. The book surveys five decades of her work, spanning street photography, fashion photography, studio portraits in Harlem, images of the early hip-hop scene, and later collage experiments. Simpson is known for merging fashion and social photography, capturing both celebrities like Muhammad Ali, Toni Morrison, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, as well as unnamed individuals in her series “Nitebirds/Nightlife,” all with a frontal, confident gaze that emphasizes the subject's self-presentation.

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Diane Keaton, the acclaimed actress known for films like Annie Hall and The Godfather, died at age 79. Beyond her acting career, Keaton was a dedicated visual artist who worked in photography and collage, publishing several art books including Saved: My Picture World (2022), Reservations (1980), and California Romantica (2019). She was also a passionate collector of photography books.

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Diane Keaton, the acclaimed actress known for films like Annie Hall and The Godfather, has died at age 79. Beyond her acting career, Keaton was a dedicated visual artist who worked in photography and collage. In 2022, she released the book Saved: My Picture World, a visual autobiography featuring her own photographs and collages. She had previously published several other art and design books, including Reservations (1980), a monograph of her black-and-white hotel interior photographs, and California Romantica (2019) on architecture.

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Diane Keaton, the acclaimed actress known for films like Annie Hall and The Godfather, died at age 79. Beyond her acting career, Keaton was a devoted visual artist who worked in photography and collage, publishing several art books including Saved: My Picture World (2022), Reservations (1980), and California Romantica (2019). She was also a passionate collector of photography books and frequently discussed her lifelong practice of collage-making.

At 95, Artist Heinz Mack Still Believes in the Power of Art: ‘I Affirm My Commitment to Beauty’

German artist Heinz Mack, co-founder of the influential ZERO movement, is being celebrated with a solo exhibition at Beck and Eggeling gallery in Düsseldorf to mark his 95th birthday. The show features recent and rarely exhibited works, including ceramics, collages, and pastel drawings, demonstrating his continued exploration of light, color, and materiality.