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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 15, 2026 visibility 8 link 4 artists

Senior Thea Merritt Curates Exhibition About Artist Robert E. Mueller

Monmouth University senior Thea Merritt has curated the exhibition "Robert Mueller: Man and Machine" at the Ice House Gallery, focusing on the interdisciplinary legacy of the late artist and scientist Robert E. Mueller. Drawing from a massive estate donation of 1,500 objects, Merritt selected works that highlight Mueller’s unique fusion of electronic science, philosophy, and fine arts. The show represents the culmination of Merritt's work cataloging the collection and her research into contemporary curatorial practices.

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Shepard Fairey "RAGE" Fine Art Screenprint Street Contemporary Obey Giant , 2021

Contemporary street artist Shepard Fairey’s 2021 screenprint titled "RAGE" has been listed for sale via New Union Gallery on the Artsy platform. The work, a limited edition screenprint on fine art paper measuring 12 by 12 inches, is part of an edition of 250 and is hand-signed and numbered by the artist.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 9, 2026 visibility 10 link 11 artists

Harn Museum to present ‘Florida in the Frame’ exhibition starting on Friday

The Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida is launching a major exhibition titled "Florida in the Frame: A Century of Artists’ Reflections on the Sunshine State." Drawing from the extensive Samuel H. and Roberta T. Vickers Collection, the show features over 65 artists including American masters like Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, and Thomas Moran alongside Florida Highwaymen painters. The exhibition is organized into three thematic sections that explore the state's natural landscapes, the development of its urban centers, and its evolution into a global tourism destination between 1850 and 1950.

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David Shrigley | I Destroyed the Tennis Ball (2023) | Available for Sale

British artist David Shrigley’s 2023 screenprint, 'I Destroyed the Tennis Ball,' is currently up for auction through Vanguarts Auctions on the Artsy platform. The work, a 26-color screenprint on Somerset Satin paper from an edition of 125, features the artist's signature deadpan humor and cartoon aesthetic. Estimated to sell between $2,500 and $3,500, the piece is part of the 'Contemporary Dialogue: Icons & Emerging Voices' sale.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 9, 2026 visibility 13 link 12 artists

How US museums are adapting to a new era for technology-based art

American art institutions are undergoing a structural shift to accommodate the rapid evolution of technology-based and time-based media. The opening of Canyon, a 40,000-square-foot space in Manhattan’s Lower East Side founded by Robert Rosenkranz, exemplifies this trend. Led by former Mass MoCA director Joe Thompson, the venue aims to provide a permanent, hospitable home for moving-image, sound, and performance works that often struggle to find long-term exhibition space in traditional New York museums.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 7, 2026 visibility 14 link 12 artists

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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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 4, 2026 visibility 6 link 5 artists

David Armstrong: Portraits Artists Space New York – Paul Carter Robinson

Artists Space in New York is hosting the first comprehensive U.S. survey of photographer David Armstrong, featuring over 90 works spanning three decades. While often associated with Nan Goldin and the Boston School, the exhibition highlights Armstrong’s distinct evolution from raw black-and-white 1970s downtown portraits to his later blurred landscapes and Renaissance-inspired color photography.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 1, 2026 visibility 9 link 7 artists

Best Exhibitions Starting in April 2026

The Japanese art scene is preparing for a robust spring season in April 2026, featuring a diverse array of exhibitions across Tokyo's major institutions. Highlights include Martin Margiela’s first large-scale Japanese exhibition at the historic Kudan House, a centenary celebration of fashion icon Hanae Mori at the National Art Center, and a deep dive into the studio practice of Georges Rouault at the Panasonic Shiodome Museum of Art. Traditional art also takes center stage with a focused look at Utagawa Hiroshige’s "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo" at the Ota Memorial Museum of Art.

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trending_up market schedule Mar 28, 2026 visibility 20 link 26 artists, 2 galleries

RELEASE: Christie's Spring Auction Series in New York Achieves a Combined Total of $1.79 billion - Christie's

Christie’s concluded its Spring auction series in New York with a historic total of $1.79 billion, bolstered by the landmark sale of the Peggy and David Rockefeller Collection. The two-week marathon featured high-profile evening and day sales that attracted over 85,000 visitors and bidders from 52 countries. Significant results included record-breaking prices for artists such as Kazimir Malevich, Constantin Brancusi, and Joan Mitchell, alongside major works by Francis Bacon and Vincent van Gogh.

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museum exhibitions schedule Mar 28, 2026 visibility 11 link 3 artists

Defining Forces: SAM explores the influences that shaped generations of NW artists

The Seattle Art Museum has launched "Beyond Mysticism: The Modern Northwest," a major exhibition that re-evaluates the legacy of the "Northwest Mystics." The show features pivotal works such as Mark Tobey’s "Dancing Miners" and Malcolm M. Roberts’ surrealist "Lunar Landscape," tracing how global movements like Surrealism and local landscapes merged to define the region's mid-century aesthetic.

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museum exhibitions schedule Mar 26, 2026 visibility 6 link 5 artists

Must-See Museum Exhibits in New Orleans This April

New Orleans is set to host several major museum exhibitions this April, highlighting the city's deep artistic roots alongside its famous festival season. Key highlights include "I Am the Face" at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, which explores the evolution of Southern photographic portraiture from the early 20th century to today, and a significant retrospective of Louisiana native Robert Gordy at the New Orleans Museum of Art.

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trending_up market schedule Mar 18, 2026 visibility 17 link 6 artists, 2 galleries

Ten of the best by Banksy — from Queen Victoria to Kate Moss

Christie’s has highlighted ten of Banksy’s most iconic works following a dedicated online auction held in March 2026. The selection spans the artist's career, featuring famous motifs such as the 'Flower Thrower Triptych'—originally sold through his Gross Domestic Product pop-up shop—and 'NOLA,' a commentary on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Other notable entries include his 'Pulp Fiction' parody featuring bananas and the globally recognized 'Girl with Balloon,' which continues to command high prices on the secondary market.

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museum exhibitions schedule Mar 13, 2026 visibility 7 link 7 artists, 3 galleries

For Which It Stands...

The Fairfield University Art Museum has launched "For Which It Stands…," a landmark exhibition featuring over 70 artworks that utilize the American flag as a central motif. Curated by Carey Mack Weber, the show spans more than a century of artistic production, from World War I-era paintings by Childe Hassam to contemporary works by artists such as Julie Mehretu and Danielle Scott. The exhibition is a centerpiece of the university's America250 programming, marking the 250th anniversary of the United States.

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museum exhibitions schedule Mar 7, 2026 visibility 8 link 13 artists

Five must-see works from Newcastle Art Gallery's $145 million collection

Newcastle Art Gallery has officially reopened following a four-year, $48 million expansion that more than doubles its exhibition space. The upgraded facility now features 13 galleries, allowing the institution to maintain a permanent display of its $145 million collection for the first time in its history. The reopening was marked by a massive community response, with 28,000 visitors attending the inaugural weekend festivities and the debut exhibition, "Iconic Loved Unexpected."

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museum exhibitions schedule Mar 5, 2026 visibility 8 link 5 artists

Urban Grit Meets Wild Beauty: Inside Seattle Art Museum’s Beyond Mysticism

The Seattle Art Museum has launched "Beyond Mysticism: The Modern Northwest," an extensive exhibition featuring over 150 works that reexamine the region's contribution to Modernism. The show moves past the traditional "mystic" label associated with the Northwest School to highlight how artists engaged with Social Realism, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism. By placing local icons like Mark Tobey and Morris Graves alongside international figures such as Georgia O’Keeffe and Salvador Dalí, the exhibition explores the tension between the Pacific Northwest's industrial growth and its dramatic natural landscapes.

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trending_up market schedule Mar 5, 2026 visibility 7 link 7 artists, 1 gallery

Records for English painting and Fontana's cuts push the auction

Sotheby’s London kicked off the spring auction season with a robust modern and contemporary art evening sale, totaling £131.7 million and achieving a rare 100% sell-through rate. Despite global political uncertainty, the auction saw aggressive bidding for British post-war masterpieces and Italian avant-garde works. The event also marked the debut of Sotheby’s new commission structure, which lowers fees for high-value lots to incentivize larger transactions.

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museum exhibitions schedule Mar 2, 2026 visibility 14 link 15 artists

Hyperallergic Spring 2026 New York Art Guide

The Hyperallergic Spring 2026 New York Art Guide outlines a massive seasonal program featuring nearly 70 exhibitions across the city's major institutions and alternative spaces. High-profile highlights include a Marcel Duchamp retrospective at MoMA, the first major U.S. exhibition of Raphael at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the return of the Whitney Biennial, and the reopening of the New Museum. The guide also previews diverse showcases ranging from Molly Crabapple’s activist posters at Poster House to a rare Caravaggio loan at the Morgan Library.

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museum exhibitions schedule Mar 1, 2026 visibility 10 link 14 artists

What’s on now at San Francisco museums, March 2026

San Francisco’s museum landscape is undergoing a significant seasonal shift with several high-profile openings and closings scheduled for Spring 2026. Major highlights include the de Young Museum’s 'Monet and Venice' exhibition, Chiharu Shiota’s debut at the Asian Art Museum, and a major rehang of the Fisher Collection at SFMOMA. However, the scene faces a somber note as the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts has suspended operations due to financial or structural difficulties, prompting calls for city intervention.

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trending_up market schedule Jan 27, 2026 visibility 5 link 15 artists, 1 gallery

The Art Market Enters 2026 With Renewed Confidence and a Sharper K-Shape Divide

ArtTactic's Global Art Market Outlook 2026 report reveals renewed confidence in the art market, with 51% of participants expecting growth and 42% anticipating stability. Strong sales in London, Paris, and Miami Beach, along with multi-billion-dollar November auction results, have buoyed sentiment. The recovery is uneven but meaningful, driven by selective demand for established names: Impressionist art rose 80.4%, Modern art 19.4%, and Old Masters 68.7%. The K-shaped divide is sharpening, with robust performance at the top end (above $1 million) and accessible tiers (below $50,000), while the middle market remains sluggish. Top performers include Klimt, Picasso, Rothko, and Calder, while ultracontemporary artists like Nicolas Party and Matthew Wong have seen significant declines.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 21, 2026 visibility 4 link 1 artist, 2 galleries

Amoako Boafo Brings Accra to LA in ‘I Bring Home with Me’

Amoako Boafo's third solo exhibition with Roberts Projects, titled 'I Bring Home with Me,' opens January 17 in Los Angeles. The show recreates the artist's Accra, Ghana studio within the gallery through an architectural collaboration with designer Glenn DeRoche, featuring vibrant wallpaper, grid windows, and light-filled passages. Boafo presents new portraits using his signature fingertip painting technique, integrated into the studio structure and a folding wooden sculpture inspired by the Adinkra symbol nkyinkyim.

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trending_up market schedule Jan 16, 2026 visibility 12 link 6 artists, 4 galleries

High-Profile Montreal-Based Art Gallery Opening in Wynwood This Summer

Montreal-based Galerie de Bellefeuille, a commercial gallery founded in 1980 that represents over 100 artists including Damien Hirst, Robert Indiana, Jeff Koons, and Alexander Calder, has announced it will open a 4,000-square-foot location at 136 NW 25th St. in Miami's Wynwood neighborhood this summer. The expansion comes shortly after the gallery's planned U.S. flagship in Midtown New York, and marks the latest in a wave of international galleries establishing a presence in Miami.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 13, 2026 visibility 7 link 21 artists

Manhattan’s New Museum sets early spring date for reopening after $82m expansion

The New Museum on Manhattan's Lower East Side will reopen to the public on March 21, 2025, after a two-year closure for an $82 million expansion designed by OMA's Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas with executive architect Cooper Robertson. The expansion adds 61,930 square feet—including 9,600 square feet of gallery space, education facilities, artists' studios, and event spaces—bringing the total footprint to 119,600 square feet. The new building will be named after the late philanthropist and curator Toby Devan Lewis. The reopening will feature site-specific commissions by Tschabalala Self, Sarah Lucas, and Klára Hosnedlová, and a building-wide thematic exhibition, 'New Humans: Memories of the Future,' with works by over 200 modern and contemporary artists.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 7, 2026 visibility 4 link 9 artists

Georgia Museum of Art reaches for the stars with new exhibition

The Georgia Museum of Art has opened a new exhibition titled "We, Too, Are Made of Wonders," on view from January 24 to June 28, 2026. Inspired by Ada Limón's poem "In Praise of Mystery," the show brings together poetry, astronomy, science, and visual art to explore humanity's fascination with the cosmos. It features historic, modern, and contemporary works from the museum's permanent collection, including pieces by Dorothy Hood, Mildred Thompson, Lamar Dodd, Robert McCall, and others. Poems guide visitors through themes of wonder, science, mythology, and space exploration, with several works on view for the first time.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 7, 2026 visibility 8 link 13 artists, 2 galleries

€3million contemporary art exhibition to open in Dublin

A €3 million contemporary art exhibition titled 'Contemporary Icons' will open at Gormleys Gallery in Dublin from January 15 to February 2, 2025. The show features over 40 works by blue-chip artists including Andy Warhol, Banksy, Tracey Emin, Bridget Riley, Damien Hirst, Keith Haring, Julian Opie, Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró, Francis Bacon, David Hockney, and Robert Indiana. Highlights include Warhol's 'Mick Jagger' (1975) priced at €139,500 and 'Orangutan' (1983) from his Endangered Species series at €220,000.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 1, 2026 visibility 9 link 4 artists

The Metropolitan Museum of Art to Present First Museum Survey of Lorna Simpson’s Paintings

The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present "Lorna Simpson: Source Notes" from May 19 to November 2, 2025, the first museum survey dedicated entirely to the New York-based artist's painting practice. Featuring over 30 works, the exhibition traces Simpson's shift from conceptual photography to paintings that explore gender, race, identity, and history, including pieces from her 2015 Venice Biennale debut and her "Special Characters" series, alongside recent sculptures and collages. The show is funded by the Ford Foundation and supported by Jim and Irene Karp and John and Amy Griffin.

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trending_up market schedule Dec 6, 2025 visibility 13 link 9 artists, 7 galleries

New tech and old names drive sales at Art Basel Miami Beach

Art Basel Miami Beach (ABMB) saw strong sales and a cautiously optimistic mood, with Pace gallery reporting nearly $5 million in sales including a $1.1 million Sam Gilliam painting. The fair debuted a new digital art section, Zero 10, where a Beeple installation of robotic dogs excreting NFTs sold out within five hours for $1 million total, and generative art from Larva Labs sold for up to $45,000 each. However, the opening day crowd was thinner than in past years, and about 20 galleries did not return, replaced by a record 48 new exhibitors. Dealers noted a slower, quieter pace, with buyers more cautious than during the indulgent pre-pandemic era.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 18, 2025 visibility 4 link 2 artists

Smithsonian American Art Museum presents blockbuster Grandma Moses exhibition

The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., will present "Grandma Moses: A Good Day's Work" from November 25, 2025, through July 12, 2026. The exhibition features 88 works by Anna Mary Robertson "Grandma" Moses (1860–1961), drawn from the museum's collection, private collections, and public institutions. It repositions Moses as a multidimensional force in American art, exploring her artistic evolution from farmwife to famous artist in Cold War America, and includes photographs, ephemera, and excerpts from her autobiography. The show is organized by Leslie Umberger, senior curator of folk and self-taught art, and former Randall Griffey, with support from curatorial assistant Maria R. Eipert.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 13, 2025 visibility 3 link 4 artists

Ackland's new exhibit displays modern art from Robertson Scholarship founder's collection

Ackland Art Museum at UNC-Chapel Hill has opened a new exhibition, "Color Triumphant," featuring 54 modern artworks from the collection of Julian and Josie Robertson. Julian Robertson, a UNC alumnus and founder of the Robertson Scholars Leadership Program, died in 2022. The exhibition traces the evolution of modern art from the late 19th century to the present, displaying works by 33 artists including Pablo Picasso, Oscar-Claude Monet, and Frank Stella. It includes paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, and is part of a traveling exhibition that will also visit Salisbury, North Carolina; San Antonio, Texas; and Austin, Texas.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 7, 2025 visibility 2 link 1 artist

Arts Playlist: Delaware Art Museum's 'Imprinted: Illustrating Race'

The Delaware Art Museum has opened 'Imprinted: Illustrating Race,' an exhibition co-curated by University of Delaware professor Robyn Phillips-Pendleton that examines how race and identity have been depicted in popular illustration over more than a century. The show, which previously ran at the Norman Rockwell Museum, features works from books, magazines, advertising, trade cards, posters, and even a cookie jar, tracing the evolution of racial representation in American visual culture. It includes a notable shift by Norman Rockwell, who after decades of depicting predominantly white family scenes for the Saturday Evening Post, turned to socially relevant topics like civil rights in the 1950s.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 5, 2025 visibility 8 link 12 artists

Portland exhibit shows off multifaceted artists’ personal narratives | Column - Portland Press Herald

Mauricio Muñoz and Andrew Roberts' installation "The Harvest" (2021) is featured in "otherwise," a thesis exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA&D in Portland, running through Dec. 13. The show also includes works by Ayana V. Jackson, whose project "From the Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya" was targeted by Donald Trump in his attacks on the Smithsonian Institution. The exhibition explores how artists use storytelling and worldbuilding to cope with difficult contemporary issues and imagine better futures, serving as a companion to the Ogunquit Museum of American Art's "Where the Real Lies."

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