Pop star Olivia Rodrigo has commissioned artist Chloe Wise to create the cover art for her upcoming limited-edition vinyl album, titled "you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love." The collectible vinyl features Wise's oil painting "Carve our names" (2026), a portrait of Rodrigo in a pink babydoll dress holding a knife, and is available exclusively through Rodrigo's website ahead of the album's release.
Jill Magid presents an exhibition at Mister Fahrenheit, featuring a series of works that explore themes of intimacy, surveillance, and institutional critique. The show includes sculptures, installations, and text-based pieces that draw on Magid's ongoing investigation into the boundaries between public and private spaces, often referencing her previous projects involving police archives and corporate systems.
The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, has unveiled a 114,000-square-foot expansion designed by Safdie Architects, opening June 6–7. The project adds two new art galleries, a bridge for sculpture and glassware, a café called Quartz + Honey, artist-in-residence studios, a digital art studio, a ceramics studio, and a new north entrance. Nearly every artwork in the museum has been reinstalled, and existing galleries have been completely reimagined.
A vacant hospital in Los Angeles, St. Vincent Medical Center, has been transformed into a pop-up exhibition called "Hospital of Emotions" featuring 70 artists. The installation converts 80 rooms into immersive artworks based on eight emotional themes: joy, love, fear, anger, hope, sadness, compassion, and resilience. Artists such as Lisa Waud, Greg Corbino, and others have created site-specific works in spaces like operating rooms, with the exhibition running through July 31. Over 10,000 visitors attended the opening weekend, and several weekends are already sold out.
Jessi Reaves, a sculptor born in 1986 in Portland, Oregon, presents her exhibition "process invented the mirror" at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York. The show features her early works that incorporate severed limbs of mid-century furniture into crude constructions, humorously questioning the elevation of clean lines and rational forms as universal good taste, alongside recent visually dense sculptures that emphasize handiwork.
Sculptor Armand Saiia has been named ArtsNatchez Gallery's Artist of the Month for June. A self-described "lone wolf," Saiia discovered his passion for art as a child in Buffalo, New York, spending countless hours at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Now based in Natchez, Mississippi, his exhibition at the gallery on June 13 will feature medium-sized and small sculptures, along with paintings blending realism and abstraction. His series "Fortunate Thomas" is a collaboration with the late Joan Thomas, who painted the backgrounds. One of his larger sculptures, "Subjugation," uses a log and chains to explore themes of suffering.
A new exhibition titled 'Celebrating NAIDOC' is opening at the Cassino Art Gallery in Casino, Australia, on June 13. The show features works by internationally acclaimed Yuin artist Lloyd Gawura Hornsby, whose paintings have been exhibited at the Louvre Museum in Paris and galleries across Europe, alongside Galibul Elder Noel Caldwell (Uncle Charlie), known for his work teaching First Nations language, dance, and culture. The exhibition runs through July 18, with a talk and Q&A session on June 14 featuring Hornsby and Dr. Stuart Barlow from Southern Cross University.
Cultivate Arts Commons in Kingston, Ontario, is hosting a free annual juried exhibition titled 'Mending Ways' in its main gallery at the Tett Centre for Creativity and Learning. The show features works by nine local and Canadian artists—Emma Allain, Jennifer Anorue, Kateryna Kostelna, Chris Chrysler, Antoinette Karuna, Narmin Kassam, Kellyann Marie, Abby Nowakowski, and Jasper Lyon Wicke—each responding to the theme of mending. Among the highlights are Emma Allain's sound installation 'It’s 6pm in Kingston,' which uses voice notes from friends to explore connection and community, and Chris Chrysler's assemblage 'To Be of This Place,' which reflects on reconciliation and healing through found objects.
A roundup of June exhibitions in Salem, Oregon, highlights five shows across local galleries and museums. The Hallie Ford Museum of Art opens 'Handmade Revolution: Craft in the Pacific Northwest,' featuring ceramics, textiles, glass, wood, and metal from its collections, with a focus on the Northwest's studio pottery movement from the 1950s to the 1980s. Other shows include Limei Lai's 'My Third Childhood' at the Salem Art Association, 'Art in Miniature' at Elsinore Framing & Fine Art Gallery, 'Pacific Islanders: Navigators of the sea' at the World Beat Gallery, and 'Emergence' by Emily Somoskey at the Stefani Art Gallery. The Salem Art Walk on June 5 will bring live music, food, and artists to downtown galleries.
Montreal's annual Mural Festival is transforming Saint-Laurent Boulevard into an open-air art gallery, turning the iconic thoroughfare into a two-week street party where artists create large-scale murals in real time. The event, reported by CTV News Montreal's Christine Long, brings together local and international artists to paint the walls of the Plateau neighborhood, drawing crowds to watch the creative process unfold along 'The Main.'
E-flux Film Notes publishes a conversation between Utako Koguchi and Cici Peng, tied to the upcoming screening "Between Fantasy and the Everyday" at e-flux Screening Room on June 15, 2026. Koguchi, a key figure in 1980s and ’90s feminist and queer experimental film in Japan, discusses her entry into filmmaking at Waseda University, her early influences, and the creation of her diaristic 8mm film O-DE-KA-KE Diary I (1988), which blends surreal performance with documentary-like elements. Her films O-DE-KA-KE Diary and Ophelia's Favorite Book 3 (1995), recently translated by Mia Parnall, will screen with English subtitles for the first time.
On May 20, 2026, a group of artists exhibiting in the Venice Biennale's "In Minor Keys" section and national pavilions sent a formal letter to the Venice Biennale Foundation and its president Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, demanding their immediate removal from the newly created "Visitors' Lions" awards. The artists acted in solidarity with the original jury, appointed by curator Koyo Kouoh, which resigned after facing significant personal legal threats following its decision to omit pavilions under ICC investigation. Despite repeated requests—first on May 9 and again on May 20—the Biennale did not respond or remove the artists' names from voting ballots sent to ticketed visitors on May 14. The artists now number 67 from In Minor Keys and 39 from national pavilions, and they are considering legal action.
Contemporary Art Daily documents Trương Công Tùng's exhibition at Kiang Malingue gallery, presenting 45 images of the show with no accompanying text descriptions or video. The exhibition features the Vietnamese artist's work, though specific details about the artworks or themes are not provided in the article text.
Anna-Sophie Berger and Reinhard Voigt are featured in a joint exhibition at GROTTO, a gallery space. The show presents a selection of works by both artists, with the page documenting 14 images of the exhibition. No additional textual description or press release is provided beyond the image documentation.
A new art installation titled "The Power of Programming" by local mixed-media artist Aort Reed premiered at CANDL Fine Art Gallery in downtown Augusta, drawing a large crowd at its opening reception. The exhibit features 18 paintings created between 2019 and 2026, with abstract, evocative works such as "Existential Empiricism" and "Totalitarianism." Reed, an Augusta native and Augusta University alumnus, describes his creative process as intuitive and subconscious, allowing viewers to find their own meanings in the pieces. The show runs through July 7 at 1128 Broad Street.
Eight original visual artists who helped define Deep Ellum's artistic rebirth in the 1980s are returning for a group exhibition titled "OGs Return to Deep Ellum" at Kettle Art Gallery in Dallas. The show, opening June 6 and running through August 16, features Bill Haveron, Brad Ellis, Brad Smith, Clay Austin, Dwayne Carter, Greg "Ozone" Contestabile, Thor Johnson, and gallery founder Frank Campagna, with tributes to the late Albert Scherbarth and David "Mosquito" Hawley. The exhibition highlights the neighborhood's visual identity, which was built through murals and street art that transformed a half-empty district into a cultural hub.
The Balloon Museum is opening its first permanent U.S. location in New York City's Tin Building at the Seaport, formerly a Jean-Georges Vongerichten food market. The inaugural exhibition, titled "DAYDREAM: AIR BECOMES ART," opens July 15 and features large-scale immersive installations by international artists, including a centerpiece work by Marina Abramović called "Snowy/Windy/Spring on Planet Z." Other participating artists include Turner Prize winner Martin Creed, Karina Smigla-Bobinski, Thom Kubli, and Valerio Berruti. The exhibition is curated by Valentino Catricalà.
The Balloon Museum will open its first permanent U.S. flagship location inside Manhattan's Tin Building on July 15, 2026, with an inaugural exhibition titled "DAYDREAM—Air Becomes Art." The show features site-specific inflatable works by Marina Abramović, Martin Creed, Alex Schweder, Thom Kubli, and others, including Abramović's immersive installation "Snowy/Windy/Spring on Planet Z" and Creed's "Work No. 3883: Half the air in a given space." The exhibition is curated by Valentino Catricalá and explores air and inflatables as a contemporary artistic medium.
A trove of previously unseen artworks, clothing, and personal belongings by Frida Kahlo has been uncovered during the restoration of her iconic blue house museum, the Museo Frida Kahlo, in Mexico City. The discovery includes drawings, unfinished paintings, and intimate items that had been sealed in storage for decades, offering new insight into the artist's life and creative process.
Textile artist Dawn Murtaugh opens an 18-piece exhibition titled “Steamboat Springs” on June 9, 2026, at Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s Sharp Museum. The works are created entirely from recycled and reclaimed fabrics—including old jeans, wedding gowns, upholstery scraps, and costume remnants—and depict scenes of the universe, ocean, and trees. Murtaugh, who earned a degree in art from St. Xavier College and lives in Evansville, Indiana, began quilting later in life using fabrics inherited from her mother. The exhibition runs through August 28 and includes an artist talk and reception.
Federico Cantini, a Rosario-based artist born in 1991, works across drawing, carving, and modeling on leaves, wood, and clay. He travels between Rosario and Buenos Aires, collecting urban pruning materials to "carve faith" with others. Cantini runs his own space, Jamaica ATR, and is represented by Galería Pasto in Buenos Aires. His recent exhibition "Hoy" at PASTO featured bas-reliefs in cypress, ficus, and poplar wood, exploring the impossibility of the present through autobiographical yet transcendent scenes. He emphasizes the patient, meditative craft of carving, contrasting it with purely conceptual art production.
The Musée d'Orsay has opened a new permanent gallery dedicated to MNR (Musées Nationaux Récupération) works—art looted during the Nazi occupation of France and recovered after World War II. Approximately 225 pieces, held by the museum pending identification of their rightful owners, are now displayed with a scenographic device that asks visitors directly: "To whom do these works belong?" The exhibition highlights the policies of Aryanization and spoliation under the Nazi regime, as well as the role of French institutions in postwar management of these contested artworks.
Les bâtiments des musées américains dans un état préoccupant
A March 2025 report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) reveals that 77% of American museums—roughly 12,300 institutions—believe their building or HVAC systems pose a risk to their collections. 73% report health or safety hazards for visitors and staff. The report highlights widespread deferred maintenance: 85% of museums have a maintenance backlog, with 49% estimating it exceeds $100,000. Many buildings are aging—53% were built before 1923—and 59% face accessibility issues. Storage spaces are inadequate in 74% of museums, with some works kept in bathrooms or flood-prone basements. Additionally, 41% of museums are in areas hit by natural disasters between 2020 and 2024, and 41% lack a disaster preparedness plan with trained staff.
Georine Pierre, an alum and former research affiliate of the City Science group, has been selected as one of 21 artists to receive a digital art commission from the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM). Her commissioned project, "Urban Mining & Regenerative E-Waste Ecosystems," is based on her thesis work—an experimental documentary tracing the global journey of discarded electronics through Old Fadama in Accra, Ghana, one of the world's largest e-waste sites. The project was supported by the City Science group, with Professor Kent Larson as advisor and Professors Gediminas Urbonas and Danielle Wood as thesis readers.
On April 27, Tbilisi hosted its first-ever international auction dedicated entirely to Georgian modern and contemporary art, organized by Hessink’s Fine Art Auctioneers at the Museum of Modern Art. The sale featured 90 works spanning the 20th century to today and achieved a rare "white glove" result, with every lot sold. The total hammer price reached €1,019,070, exceeding €1.3 million with premiums and taxes. Notable results included Alexander (Shura) Bandzeladze's "Dream of Noah" (1989) selling for €250,000, well above its estimate, and strong performances by Mamuka Tsetskhladze, Iliko Zautashvili, Vera Pagava, Lia Bagrationi, and Guela Tsouladze. Bidders participated from the United States, the Netherlands, Belgium, Australia, Spain, and Switzerland, both in person and via online platforms Drouot and Invaluable.
Hypha Studios will open Hypha Gallery South Bank on 25th June, transforming a vacant office building near Tate Modern into a major cultural hub. The 9,000 sqft site includes exhibition spaces, artist studios, a project space, and a showroom for Hypha Curates, supporting around 600 artists through exhibitions, studio provision, and sales platforms. Developed with HUB and Bridges Fund Management, the hub launches with three exhibitions exploring connection, movement, and ecological systems, and offers free studio space to 17 artists from collective Lobby.
The Egyptian National Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale presents "Silence Pavilion: Between the Tangible and the Intangible," a solo exhibition by Egyptian artist Armen Agop. The immersive installation guides visitors through three sequential spaces—reflective, tactile, and contemplative—featuring three granite sculptures and two large paintings, with soft sounds and lotus scent enhancing the experience. Visitors are asked to enter in silence and put away cameras and phones, encouraging a meditative engagement with the works.
Artists Amy Douglas and Lou Winwood have come together for their first joint exhibition, titled COLLISIO, held from June 11-14, 2026, at Studio Two Point in London's Perseverance Works complex. The exhibition presents a disruptive sensory mix of painting, collage, drawing, and ceramics, exploring themes of memory, family, nostalgia, and pets through materials like broken ceramics, discarded books, and textile scraps. Douglas, a Brighton-based ceramic artist and printmaker, and Winwood, a Hertfordshire-based artist who transitioned from a fashion career, have been friends for over three decades. The show is curated by Anne Mullee.
On June 4, 2026, the Hanwha Foundation of Culture and Paris Centre Pompidou opened Centre Pompidou Hanwha in Seoul's Yeouido district, marking the 140th anniversary of diplomatic relations between France and Korea. The 11,000 m² exhibition space, designed by Wilmotte & Associés, is housed in the iconic 63 Building and will present eight monographic and thematic exhibitions over five years drawn from Centre Pompidou's Musée national d'art moderne, alongside contemporary shows highlighting Korean artists.
Prince's iconic Love Symbol guitar, a custom-made yellow-and-purple instrument central to his 1990s era, has been installed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The display coincides with what would have been the musician's 68th birthday, honoring his legacy as a groundbreaking artist and cultural icon.