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museum exhibitions schedule May 14, 2026 visibility 15 link 14 artists, 2 galleries

Art Dubai 2026 first look: What to expect at the 20th fair

Art Dubai returns to Madinat Jumeirah for its 20th edition, running from Friday to Sunday with a free preview day on Thursday. The fair features a more concentrated layout than previous years, with gallery booths, institutional exhibitions, public art, poetry readings, DJ sets, performances, and multimedia installations gathered in the main conference area. Notable participants include co-founder John Martin, who returns as a gallerist nearly 20 years after helping launch the event, and Emirati artist Rami Farook, whose sand-built booth presents works reflecting on Dubai and the Gulf. Gallery One from Ramallah draws attention with Palestinian artist Amjad Ghannam's reinterpretations of Pablo Picasso, inspired by his experience as a former political prisoner.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 28, 2026 visibility 15 link 13 artists, 4 galleries

“Lighting” exhibition by Mohamed Abdalla Otaybi at Swailam gallery is not to be missed

This article is a roundup of art exhibitions and cultural events in Cairo, Egypt, spanning multiple venues and dates. It highlights a photographic project titled "New Cairo, Do You Love Me?" by Judi Yassin and Tia Khalil at the American University in Cairo, which documents the disconnect between the promised luxury of New Cairo and its dehumanizing reality using 35mm black-and-white film. Other featured events include painting exhibitions by Osama Nashed and Alaa Hegazi at Dai, Mahmoud Hamdi's "Journey to the Core" at Difaf, the immersive "Beyond Van Gogh" experience at District 5, the permanent collection at Al-Fustat Centre for Ceramic, and the Empower Her Art Forum at the Grand Egyptian Museum.

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rate_review review schedule Apr 23, 2026 visibility 17 link 21 artists, 1 gallery

Art for Our Age of Chaos

The article reviews two major New York exhibitions opening in 2026: the Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, featuring over fifty artists, and "New Humans: Memories of the Future" at the newly expanded New Museum, with over a hundred artists. Both shows are described as enormous and defiant, responding to a distracted public and financial pressures. The reviewer notes that both exhibitions juxtapose large-scale immersive works with tiny, intimate pieces, and finds the Whitney Biennial lacking urgency, while preferring the New Museum's historical narrative about technology and modernity.

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trending_up market schedule Apr 8, 2026 visibility 25 link 18 artists, 1 gallery

Work by Group of Seven's to be featured at Contemporary Calgary's LOOK2026

Contemporary Calgary has announced the details for its upcoming LOOK2026 auction fundraiser, featuring a prestigious selection of works by Canadian masters and contemporary stars. The auction will include pieces by Group of Seven member L.L. FitzGerald, Maxwell Bates, and Chris Cran, alongside contemporary works by artists such as Kablusiak. The event was bolstered by a significant contribution from Calgary-based philanthropist and collector John Lacey, who reached out to CEO David Leinster to support the institution's mission.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 7, 2026 visibility 40 link 56 artists, 1 gallery

At the New Museum, Parallel Visions of Humanity’s Future Emerge

The New Museum's latest exhibition explores the evolving definition of humanity through the lens of technological advancement and ancestral wisdom. The show juxtaposes the anxieties of modern machine labor—exemplified by Simon Denny’s Amazon worker cage—with Indigenous epistemologies and animist traditions that offer alternative ways of inhabiting the world. By featuring artists like Jaider Esbell and Santiago Yahuarcani, the exhibition highlights how hybridity and relationality can resist the rigid hierarchies of Western modernity.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 7, 2026 visibility 22 link 11 artists, 1 gallery

In Paris, the Picasso Museum is dedicating an exhibition to Henry Taylor — our photos

The Musée National Picasso-Paris has launched a major exhibition dedicated to American artist Henry Taylor, running from April 8 to September 6, 2026. The showcase features approximately 100 works, including portraits, sculptures, and installations that explore African American social realities, collective memory, and urban struggles. Developed in collaboration with the artist, the exhibition spans 13 galleries and places Taylor’s expressive, human-centric practice in direct dialogue with the legacy of Pablo Picasso.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 7, 2026 visibility 24 link 22 artists, 4 galleries

Nazir Tanbouli celebrates 35 years of exhibiting his work at Yassin art gallery

The Egyptian art scene is hosting a diverse array of exhibitions this April, headlined by the Egyptian debut of the global blockbuster "Beyond Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience" at District 5 in New Cairo. This digital spectacle, directed by Mathieu Saint-Arnaud, utilizes 360-degree projections to bring over 300 of Vincent van Gogh's masterpieces to life. Simultaneously, local institutions like the Sharjah Art Gallery at AUC and the Italian Cultural Institute are showcasing contemporary talent, including the graduating class of AUC and a solo exhibition by Italian-Egyptian artist Sarah Zaki.

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rate_review review schedule Apr 6, 2026 visibility 27 link 14 artists, 4 galleries

An Analog Tether

A new wave of gallery exhibitions is championing analog physicality and personal intimacy as a direct counter-response to the rise of AI-generated imagery. Artists like Ben Wolf Noam and Joseph Geagan are utilizing traditional mediums such as charcoal, lithography, and oil paint to capture spontaneous, sentimental moments of human connection, from family dinners to portraits of friends. These works emphasize the "hospitable mess" of real life, prioritizing the recognizable faces and tangible textures that AI often flattens.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 5, 2026 visibility 41 link 34 artists, 1 gallery

New Museum Reopens in Downtown New York With OMA Expansion

The New Museum has officially reopened its downtown New York campus following a significant expansion designed by the architectural firm OMA. The renovation introduces a massive internal staircase that connects all four floors, resolving long-standing circulation issues previously caused by a reliance on elevators. To mark the reopening, the museum debuted a site-specific facade sculpture by Tschabalala Self titled "Art Lovers" and a massive inaugural group exhibition, "New Humans: Memories of the Future," featuring over 150 international contributors.

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trending_up market schedule Mar 20, 2026 visibility 36 link 25 artists, 2 galleries

Important private collections feature in Strauss & Co March sales of modern and contemporary

Strauss & Co has announced its upcoming Evening Sale of Modern and Contemporary Art scheduled for March 24, 2026. The auction features 96 lots, headlined by significant private consignments including the Stan and Li Boiskin Art Collection and the Patricia Fine Art Collection. High-value works from South African masters such as Irma Stern, J. H. Pierneef, and Gerard Sekoto will lead the sale alongside a robust selection of contemporary pieces by artists like William Kentridge and Mary Sibande.

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museum exhibitions schedule Mar 10, 2026 visibility 21 link 13 artists, 2 galleries

Art exhibitions open across Istanbul, global museums in March 2026

The global art calendar for March 2026 features a surge of major openings, with Istanbul emerging as a significant hub alongside traditional art capitals. Key highlights in Istanbul include a retrospective of Ottoman painter Halil Paşa at the Pera Museum, Bedri Baykam’s dialogue with Picasso at Piramid Sanat, and a politically charged group show curated by Vahap Avşar at G-Art Gallery. Simultaneously, major European institutions are launching high-profile exhibitions, including a Nan Goldin retrospective at the Grand Palais and Jenny Saville’s large-scale figurative works in Venice.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 27, 2026 visibility 26 link 10 artists, 2 galleries

Denmark exhibition invites visitors to come face to face with Basquiat’s ‘head’ works

The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark is opening "Basquiat: Headstrong," the first comprehensive exhibition dedicated to Jean-Michel Basquiat's depictions of the human head, focusing on works from 1981 to 1983. These early drawings on paper, many made with oil sticks and bearing traces of studio debris, were largely hidden in his studio during his lifetime and only reached a wider audience after his death, notably through a 1990 show at Robert Miller Gallery in New York. The exhibition includes a single painting, Untitled (1982), which sold for $110.5 million at Sotheby's in 2017.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 25, 2025 visibility 24 link 17 artists, 1 gallery

Art meets tech: 6 ways to experience both during Miami Art Week

Miami Art Week is featuring a strong intersection of art and technology, with digital art taking center stage at major fairs. Art Basel Miami Beach (Dec. 5–7) debuts Zero 10, a curated section focused on digital art, showcasing works by Beeple (including robotic dogs resembling billionaires), Lu Yang, and others. CONTEXT Art Miami (Dec. 2–7) hosts Blackdove, a Miami-based digital art company, presenting its first fair exhibit titled "Code and Canvas: The Digital Art Genome." Other tech-forward installations include Emmanuel Van der Auwera's thermal video piece and Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst's AI-driven digital canvas.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 20, 2025 visibility 23 link 10 artists, 1 gallery

San Francisco’s Museum of the African Diaspora marks 20 years with a show about Blackness and the cosmos

San Francisco's Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) has reopened its renovated ground-floor lobby to mark its 20th anniversary, alongside two new exhibitions. The larger show, "Unbound: Art, Blackness & the Universe" (on view until 16 August 2026), explores Blackness and the cosmos through painting, photography, sculpture, and installation. Curated by MoAD's first full-time curator Key Jo Lee, the exhibition features 17 artists including Torkwase Dyson, Barkley L. Hendricks, Lorna Simpson, Oasa DuVerney, and Mikael Owunna, organized under three themes: "Geo-Cartographic," "Religio-Mythic," and "Techno-Cyborgian." The $500,000 renovation also upgraded lighting and HVAC systems.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 26, 2025 visibility 20 link 6 artists, 1 gallery

DESTE’s Summer Convergence Offers the Art World a Rare Pause Between Market Frenzies

The article covers the DESTE Foundation's summer convergence on Hydra, Greece, which offers the art world a respite between market frenzies. It highlights works by Greek artists Sofia Rozaki and Danae Io, whose pieces explore identity, memory, and the impact of politics and economics. The foundation's exhibition "In a Bright Green Field" builds on its legacy of promoting contemporary Greek art, alongside other Athens shows like Marlene Dumas's "Cycladic Blues" at the Museum of Cycladic Art and Michael Rakowitz's "Allspice" at the Acropolis Museum.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 23, 2025 visibility 17 link 6 artists, 1 gallery

Review: "Home, Love & Loss" at the Art Museum of South Texas

The Art Museum of South Texas is presenting "Home, Love & Loss," the third exhibition from a partnership between the Amon Carter Museum of American Art and the Art Bridges Foundation Cohort Program. The show brings together artworks from five institutional collections, organized into four themes: Home, Family, Honor, and Loss. Featured works include Raymond Bonilla's "Escuchas" (2009), a diptych about Puerto Rican family traditions; Terry Evans's aerial photograph of Fourth of July gatherings; Earlie Hudnall, Jr.'s intimate portrait of Black children; Ave Bonar's stark image of Border Patrol detainees; and Francisco Delgado's serigraph referencing immigration politics. After closing in Corpus Christi, the exhibition will travel to the Amarillo Museum of Art and the Ellen Noël Art Museum in Odessa.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 22, 2025 visibility 13 link 7 artists, 2 galleries

Garden State Art Weekend: Celebrate Jersey’s Vibrant Art Scene, April 24-27

Garden State Art Weekend returns from April 24-27, 2025, with over 95 venues across New Jersey opening their doors for a four-day celebration of the state's art scene. Co-directed by artists Christine Romanell and Alison Pirie, the festival offers a digital guide and map for attendees to explore exhibitions, open studios, live demonstrations, and workshops at venues ranging from world-class museums to intimate artist studios. Highlights include the Montclair Art Museum, Newark Museum of Art (free admission all four days), Grounds for Sculpture, Zimmerli Art Museum, and special events like an iron pour for International Sculpture Day at Gardenship Art in Montclair. The festival's headquarters at Manufacturers Village Artists in East Orange hosts a kickoff party and a spring open house featuring over 65 artist studios.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 19, 2026 visibility 3 link 7 artists, 1 gallery

How Can Art Depict Everyday Violence?

Anuar Maauad and Roger Muñoz have cocurated the exhibition "La Alegría de Vivir" at Estudio Anuar Maauad in Mexico City, featuring works by Jorge de León, Benjamin Orlow, Miguel Ángel Rojas, Berenice Olmedo, Miguel Ventura, Paul McCarthy, and Teresa Margolles. The show confronts themes of necropolitics and systemic violence through sculptures, photographs, and installations that depict war, state power, and human suffering as ongoing, normalized conditions.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 8, 2026 visibility 17 link 3 artists, 1 gallery

Thinking small and dreaming big in Isabel Nolan’s imaginary world

Dublin-born artist Isabel Nolan discusses her Ireland pavilion exhibition "Dreamshook" at the Venice Biennale, developed with curator Georgina Jackson. The show explores the liminal state between dreaming and waking, weaving a fictional narrative around Renaissance humanist Aldo Manuzio, who popularized portable books. Nolan draws on late Medieval and early Renaissance visual language, using intimate forms like textiles to tackle big ideas about cosmology, religion, and humanism. She describes her ambivalent relationship with European cultural inheritance and the need to recover occluded voices.

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rate_review review schedule Mar 25, 2026 visibility 20 link 2 artists, 1 gallery

Angela de la Cruz review – wonky chairs and busted pianos are monuments to resilience

Angela de la Cruz's solo exhibition "Upright" at Birmingham's Ikon gallery presents a collection of broken and mended artworks. Her canvases are crumpled, folded, and snapped, while sculptures are assembled from precarious junk like a three-legged chair on a stool and a piano stacked atop another. The works, though appearing on the verge of collapse, are all repaired and propped back up, reflecting a state of post-collapse resilience.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 28, 2026 visibility 12 link 2 artists, 1 gallery

konstantina krikzoni armatura

Konstantina Krikzoni's solo exhibition "ARMATURA" at L'Appartement in Geneva presents a new suite of paintings born from a period of intense solitude. The works explore painting as a medium for self-expression, using the metaphor of an armature—the metal framework that supports sculptures—to represent an inner structure of fortification, endurance, and survival. The paintings feature elusive female figures and landscapes rendered with delicate layers of pigment, evoking ancient myths and goddesses, with works like *Warrior I* (2025), *L.K. I Killed the Pink* (2025), and the titular *Armatura* (2025) conveying emotional rawness and psychological drama.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 9, 2025 visibility 16 link 4 artists, 1 gallery

rising artist ellen akimoto wants you to question everything you see

American artist Ellen Akimoto (b. 1988) has opened her second solo exhibition with Berlin-based Galerie Judin, titled “Everybody’s in the Room.” The show features a body of new work exploring reality, human relationships, and the interplay between figuration and abstraction. Its centerpiece is a monumental six-panel painting spanning nearly 40 feet, which incorporates the physical gallery space as part of the artwork. The exhibition will later travel to Kunstverein Ulm in September. In an interview, Akimoto discusses themes of inside and outside, ghosts of ordinary objects, and the conceptual starting point of the show, which she describes as a culmination of processes developed over the past year.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 29, 2025 visibility 11 link 5 artists, 1 gallery

chinese artist sun yitian

Chinese artist Sun Yitian, dubbed the 'it girl' of the art world, is the subject of a new solo exhibition titled 'Romantic Room' at Esther Schipper in Berlin, her third show with the gallery. The 34-year-old hyperrealist painter, known for her depictions of mass-produced consumer products, set a new artist record in June 2024 when her 2021 painting *Prologue* sold for RMB 2.99 million (around $415,029), the top result for Asian artists born in the 1990s. She also recently collaborated with Louis Vuitton and is pursuing a PhD in literature alongside her painting career.

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candle obituary schedule Apr 28, 2025 visibility 16 link 6 artists, 2 galleries

suki seokyeong kang sculptor dead

Suki Seokyeong Kang, a Korean sculptor known for reimagining traditional Korean artistic forms in contemporary sculpture, died on Sunday at age 48 after a years-long battle with cancer. Her passing was announced by Seoul’s Kukje Gallery and her New York representative, Tina Kim Gallery. Kang’s work drew from centuries-old practices such as Joseon Dynasty painting and 600-year-old musical notation, translating them into highly conceptual, visually seductive sculptures that appeared in biennials worldwide, including Gwangju and Venice, and in museum surveys such as a 2023 show at Seoul’s Leeum Museum of Art. At the time of her death, her largest-ever US exhibition was on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, featuring her "Mountain" series inspired by the traditional Korean style si-seo-hwa.

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person people schedule May 2, 2025 visibility 13 link 1 gallery

kimberly drew leaves pace gallery

Kimberly Drew is leaving Pace Gallery, where she served as curatorial director, to pursue a master's degree in the History of Design at the Royal College of Art in London. She announced her departure on Instagram, noting that she will continue to collaborate with the gallery on a project basis. Drew joined Pace in 2022 as an associate director and was promoted to curatorial director in January 2023.

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gavel restitution schedule Apr 2, 2026 source 4 sources visibility 22 link 2 artists

Lebanese Artist Ali Cherri Files War Crimes Complaint Against Israel After 2024 Beirut Bombing

Lebanese artist Ali Cherri, with the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), has filed a civil complaint in France seeking an investigation into an Israeli airstrike on a Beirut residential building in November 2024. The strike killed seven civilians, including Cherri's parents. The complaint, supported by forensic analysis from Forensic Architecture and Amnesty International, alleges the attack used munitions documented as being employed by the Israeli air force and targeted a civilian object, potentially constituting a war crime.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 30, 2026 visibility 20 link 4 artists, 6 galleries

And We Shall Go Through Their Hills Without Much Delay

This article documents three journeys into and out of Yunnan, China, spanning from 1874 to 2023. It begins with British interpreter Augustus Raymond Margary's failed colonial expedition to establish a trade route, which ended in his violent death and contributed to unequal treaties opening Southwest China. It then follows a Naxi student named Xueshan in 1937, whose railway journey introduced modern timekeeping to the region, and finally describes the construction of the Burma Road, a critical WWII supply route. The narrative concludes with the artist Cheng Xinhao retracing these routes on foot from Kunming toward Burma over a year and a half, reflecting on history, bodily experience, and the layers of infrastructure that have reshaped the landscape.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 12, 2025 visibility 24 link 5 artists, 3 galleries

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.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 23, 2026 visibility 21 link 2 artists, 1 gallery

Ai Weiwei to Reenact His Own Detention in 24-Hour Performance in Manchester

Artist and dissident Ai Weiwei will reenact his 81-day detention by China's Ministry of Public Security in a 24-hour performance titled "Sewing a Button" at Factory International's Aviva Studios in Manchester, England. The performance, part of his exhibition "Button Up!" running from July 2, 2025, will take place in a re-creation of his cell and involve Ai sleeping, eating, exercising, writing, washing, and being interrogated, with visitors able to book two-hour slots or a full 24-hour ticket. The work follows his earlier piece "S.A.C.R.E.D." (2013) and is joined by other commissioned works including "Eight-Nation Alliance Flags" and a new version of "History of Bombs."

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article news schedule Jan 16, 2026 visibility 13 link 4 artists, 1 gallery

nan goldin donation children of gaza

Artist Nan Goldin is donating proceeds from the sale of her 2007 photograph *Ava twirling* to support children from Gaza, inspired by a benefit exhibition and sale titled “Colors That Survived.” The exhibition, curated by children’s educator and YouTube star Rachel Accurso (Ms. Rachel), features prints of drawings by children from Gaza, priced at $200 each in a limited edition of 20, and has already sold out, raising over $65,000. Goldin’s photograph is being auctioned online through January 19, with bidding starting at $15,000. The fundraiser is organized by Artists Support, a charitable initiative founded in 2020, and also involves the team behind the docudrama *The Voice of Hind Rajab*, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.

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