Artist David Morrison has released a new series of hyperrealistic botanical drawings, created with colored pencil. The works, including pieces titled "Botanical Series No.4 Drawing" and "Iceland Poppy," focus on flowers, seeds, and plants, capturing intricate textures and organic forms with delicate lines and smooth gradients that create a soft, luminous effect.
Photographer Frank Relle continues his long-term artistic exploration of Louisiana's swamps, capturing the ethereal transition between day and night in his series 'Until the Water'. Based in New Orleans, Relle uses submerged lights to illuminate cypress trees and Spanish moss, creating serene, otherworldly images that convey a sense of timelessness and connection to a primordial landscape.
Marc Fornes / THEVERYMANY has installed a new sculptural pavilion titled "L'Ile Folie" in Cary Park, North Carolina. The structure, made from thousands of digitally fabricated, ultra-thin aluminum panels, reinterprets the historical architectural folly—a decorative, non-functional landscape feature—as a contemporary, skin-is-structure canopy perched over a pond.
Artist Julien Bismouth presents his solo exhibition "Exonumia" at Layr gallery in Vienna. The show features new works that explore the transformation of meaning and the imposition of successive interpretations on the fabric of life, as suggested by the accompanying quote from philosopher Simone Weil.
"Hungry Eyes" has opened at 49 Oak Street in Portland, Maine, featuring emerging artists Cam Fox, Bets Ondrey, Sophia Sutherland, and Tom Dailey. The group exhibition explores themes of appetite, the animal, and the sensation of consuming art through layered abstraction, figurative imagery, and mixed-media works such as stitched sugar packets on canvas. A public reception is scheduled for June 5 from 5:00 to 8:00 pm.
Jasper Arts presents a solo exhibition titled 'Talitha Cumi' by Marion, Indiana artist Tashema Davis at the Thyen-Clark Cultural Center, running May through July 2026. The show features original oil and acrylic paintings, with an opening reception and gallery talk on May 7, followed by additional receptions on June 4 and July 2. Davis, who teaches art at Marion High School, creates vibrant portraits focused on brown faces, drawing from her childhood in Gary, Indiana, and her graduate training at Ball State University.
The 'Room of Wonders: A Worcester Wunderkammer' exhibition has opened at the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery at the Priory Arts Center, College of the Holy Cross. Curated by Birgit Straehle, the show features works by artists including Abu Mwenye, Caelum Lam, Jose Vicente Criollo, and Madeleine Lord, with sculptures such as Criollo's 'Night Owl' (2025) and 'Fish' (2023), and Lord's 'Old Friends' (2022) and 'Saint Recyclus' (2024). The opening reception took place on June 6, 2025, drawing local arts organizer Tina Zlody and Holy Cross staff member Casey Denis.
The South County Art Association has opened its 53rd annual 'Earthworks Open Juried Clay Annual' exhibition at the Kingston gallery in Rhode Island. The show features a variety of clay-based pieces from multiple artists, celebrating the versatility of the medium.
The WOW SIDE shopping centre in Fiumicino, Italy, has launched an open call for emerging artists as part of its PostArt project, now in its second edition. The 2026 theme is "La Voce" (The Voice), inviting artists to create works during a residency inside the shopping centre from June 26 to 28, 2026. The call is open until May 30, 2026, and selected works will be exhibited in the centre's galleries.
De la Renaissance au Second Empire : trois ventes à Paris
Three upcoming auctions in Paris will feature a diverse range of art and objects from the Renaissance to the Second Empire. A highlight is a rare 16th-century enameled glass cup, bearing a Latin verse from Psalm 31 and heraldic arms, to be sold by Daguerre at Drouot on April 3.
The article 'From Paris To Gyeongseong’ Illuminating The Flow Of Modern Art' explores the historical and cultural exchange of modern art between Paris and Gyeongseong (the former name of Seoul during the Japanese colonial period). It traces how Western modernist movements, particularly from Paris, influenced Korean artists in the early 20th century, highlighting the cross-cultural dialogue that shaped the development of modern art in Korea. The piece examines specific artworks, exhibitions, and the role of key figures who facilitated this artistic flow.
A mystery portrait has prompted a public appeal in County Durham as a major new exhibition celebrating miner-artist Tom McGuinness opens at Bishop Auckland’s Mining Art Gallery. Visitors are being asked to help identify an unknown man depicted in a 1963 charcoal drawing, *Portrait of an Unknown Man*, now on display as part of *Tom McGuinness: Out of the Darkness*, which marks the centenary of the artist’s birth and runs throughout 2026. McGuinness, born in Witton Park, worked in the mines for nearly four decades, and his art captures the physical and emotional realities of mining life. The portrait was initially thought to depict the artist’s father-in-law, but his daughter Corinne Aspel has challenged that assumption, noting clear differences in facial features.
The article provides a curated list of notable arts events taking place in San Francisco during the spring season. It highlights a variety of exhibitions, performances, and cultural happenings across the city's museums, galleries, and public spaces.
A lavishly illuminated Renaissance Bible, hailed as the 'Mona Lisa of illuminated manuscripts,' has been placed on public display in Rome. The Borso d'Este Bible, created between 1455 and 1461 for the first Duke of Ferrara, features over 1,000 gold-adorned miniature paintings by artists including Taddeo Crivelli and Franco dei Russi. Normally kept in a secure safe at the Gallerie Estensi in Modena, the two-volume manuscript was transported under heavy security to the Italian Senate, where it is exhibited in a humidity-controlled case as part of the Vatican's Holy Year celebrations through January 2026. Visitors can explore high-resolution digital reproductions via touch screens.
Aluminum City Arts, a new arts organization in New Kensington, Pennsylvania, celebrated its soft opening with a community event. The gathering featured local artists, live demonstrations, and an opportunity for residents to explore the new space, which aims to serve as a creative hub for the region.
Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced on 24 July the discovery of an ancient Coptic city at the Ain Al-Kharab archaeological site in the Kharga Oasis, Western Desert. Dating from the third to seventh centuries, the site includes mudbrick residences, tombs, two churches (one basilica-style), and a mural of Jesus Christ healing the sick. The excavation was led by the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA).
Three graduating seniors at Syracuse University—Lily Ryan, Rumini “Rumi” Nguyen, and Zoe Requena Bustillo—are preparing capstone projects for a final exhibition at the Warehouse Gallery, culminating their studio arts B.F.A. program. Ryan’s work explores queer identity, nostalgia, and the uncanny through mixed-media tinkering; Nguyen crochets objects from memory to process homesickness; and Requena Bustillo creates a puppet theater addressing Venezuelan history, displacement, and immigration.
The solo exhibition "Burmica" by artist Ubatsat has opened at Suvannabhumi Art Gallery on Huay Kaew Road, opposite Kad Suan Kaew. The show presents "The People’s History of Burma" and will run until 1 July 2022.