‘The people made me a star’: 100 years of Marilyn Monroe – in pictures

A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London, titled 'Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait', explores the life, career, and legacy of Marilyn Monroe through portraits created by many of the greatest photographers and artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. The show runs until 6 September and features iconic images from her early modeling days as Norma Jeane to her final interviews and photographs in 1962, including works by Milton H. Greene, Eve Arnold, Cecil Beaton, Pauline Boty, and Andy Warhol.

Crystal Bridges Museum Tacks on a Big Expansion, Just 15 Years After Opening, and Packs it With American Art

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, has opened a major expansion just 15 years after its original 200,000-square-foot facility debuted. Designed by architect Moshe Safdie, the addition adds 114,000 square feet of new galleries, education spaces, and artist studios, including a 14,000-square-foot exhibition space. The new wing features skylights with a mechanism to create balanced natural light and hosts the inaugural exhibition “Keith Haring in 3D,” co-curated by Glenn Adamson, which explores the artist’s sculpture practice. The expansion was driven by founder Alice Walton’s desire to execute the original fifty-year plan while Safdie could still lead the project.

Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter Talks About Making Music for Art Projects and Robot Life as Performance

Thomas Bangalter, one half of the iconic French electronic duo Daft Punk, has been expanding his creative practice into visual art and performance since the group's dissolution in 2021. He has composed music for ballets, collaborated with artist JR and choreographer Damien Jalet on the project Chiroptera, and released a new album, Mirage, made for a ballet with visual artist Kohei Nawa. Bangalter also contributed a sound work to JR's public art installation La Caverne du Pont Neuf in Paris, and will present an installation at Art Basel in Switzerland. He recently played a surprise DJ set at the closing of Centre Pompidou for renovations.

MoMA exhibition will examine Mondrian’s time in New York and love of boogie woogie music

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York will present "Mondrian Boogie Woogie" (March 21–July 31, 2027), an exhibition focusing on Piet Mondrian's final four years in New York and the influence of boogie woogie music on his late work. The show reunites Mondrian's last two paintings—Broadway Boogie Woogie (1942-43) from MoMA's collection and Victory Boogie Woogie (1942-44) from the Kunstmuseum Den Haag—for the first time in over thirty years, alongside 30 total works including pieces from a crate he brought to New York. A section will explore Café Society, New York's first interracial nightclub where Mondrian was a regular, and jazz pianist Jason Moran will contribute an original composition.

Mildred Howard on her first retrospective in a major museum: ‘My art is part of who I am as a person’

Oakland-based artist Mildred Howard, now 80, will receive her first major museum retrospective, "Mildred Howard: Poetics of Memory," at the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) starting June 12. The exhibition spans her 50-year career and includes works such as her "Untold Histories / Hidden Truths" series, which reimagines monuments to slaveholders and colonizers, and public installations like "Locks and Keys for Harry Bridges." Howard's home and studio in West Oakland—a 15,000 sq ft warehouse—blurs life and art, filled with samples and cast-offs from her large-scale public artworks.

David Hockney, giant of British art, 1937-2026

David Hockney, the towering figure of British painting whose career spanned six decades, has died. The artist studied at the Royal College of Art in 1959 and soon moved to Los Angeles, where he created iconic works such as *A Bigger Splash* (1967) and *Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)* (1972), the latter becoming the most expensive artwork by a living artist sold at auction in 2018. Hockney continually embraced new technology, from photo collage in the 1980s to iPad paintings in the 2000s, and maintained a prolific output of over 400 solo shows worldwide.

Art Movements: Sam Gilliam Foundation Names Its First Director

The Sam Gilliam Foundation has appointed Dr. Steven Nelson as its inaugural executive director. Nelson, formerly of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, will oversee the foundation's mission to preserve Gilliam's legacy while supporting emerging artists and civic activism. Separately, Aperture will open its new permanent headquarters on New York's Upper West Side on September 18 with an inaugural exhibition titled "Aperture Loves New York." The article also reports that five artists—Diana Al-Hadid, Jordan Ann Craig, Lavar Munroe, Ronald Rael, and Kiyan Williams—received VIA Art Fund's spring 2026 Artistic Production Grants, and that the New Museum has partnered with Penske Media Corporation to launch an event called "Art Week NYC."

È morto Duane Michals, il fotografo che ha trasformato l’immagine in racconto

Duane Michals, the influential American photographer known for transforming photography into a narrative and poetic medium, died on June 9, 2026, at age 94 in New York. Born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, in 1932, Michals began his career as a freelance photographer for magazines like Esquire, Mademoiselle, and Vogue after a trip to the Soviet Union in 1958. He rejected the dominant photojournalistic tradition of the "decisive moment," instead developing sequenced images, double exposures, and handwritten texts that turned photographs into hybrid works of storytelling, philosophy, and autobiography. His work entered major collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and he participated in Documenta 6 in 1977. His archive is housed at the Carnegie Museum of Art.

A Basel without Art Basel?

"Ein Basel ohne Art Basel?"

The article reports on several art-world developments. The board of trustees of the KHM Museum Association in Vienna has reaffirmed its confidence in directors Jonathan Fine and Paul Frey after an independent investigation by labor law expert Sieglinde Gahleitner found that allegations of mobbing and bossing by Veronika Sandbichler were not substantiated, though communication deficiencies were noted. Separately, Luisa Taliento explores unusual Italian 'Casa-Musei' (house museums) as an alternative to overcrowded major museums, highlighting the Museo Casa Mollino in Turin, Casa Museo Lodovico Pogliaghi in Varese, and Casa Museo Remo Brindisi as total works of art. In architecture news, Hanno Rauterberg reflects on the renovation of Schloss Bellevue and the move of the German president to a new building by Sauerbruch Hutton, while critics Gesine Borcherdt and Tobias Timm offer opposing views on the exhibition 'Freiraum Kunst' at the palace. Finally, Claude Bühler investigates whether Basel is losing relevance as Art Basel expands into Paris, citing concerns from Basel gallerist Stefan von Bartha.

Beer With a Painter: Samia Halaby

Hyperallergic's "Beer With a Painter" series features Palestinian-American abstract painter Samia Halaby in her longtime Tribeca studio. Over sage tea, Halaby discusses her seven-decade career, her experimentation with color, and how she "accidentally stepped into abstraction." The article covers her early life—born in Jerusalem in 1936, displaced during the Nakba, and moving to the U.S. in 1951—as well as her Marxist philosophy, her activism for Palestinian rights, and the evolution of her work from geometric still lifes to kinetic digital paintings. It also notes that her first museum survey was held in 2024 at the Broad Art Museum, but Indiana University canceled its half of the show, which many view as suppression of Palestinian voices.

Nayland Blake Doesn’t Believe in Fixed Selves

Nayland Blake, a nonbinary and pansexual artist known for their cerebral, kinky, and humorous work, is featured in Hyperallergic’s 2026 Pride Month series. The interview covers their coming out, their artistic process of making work to understand identity, and their belief that identity is unfixed and continually remade. Blake discusses their early inspirations from theater and literature, and how they interrogate their own creations to explore who they are. They are a co-director of the Studio Art program at Bard College and have exhibited at major institutions including SFMOMA and the Whitney Museum.

Danielle Mckinney's Portraits of Black Women at Rest

Danielle Mckinney's exhibition "Forest for the Trees" at Marianne Boesky Gallery in Chelsea presents portraits of solitary Black women in states of leisure and repose, rendered in both watercolor and oil. The works feature recurring motifs like red nails, metallic eye accents, and cigarette smoke, creating intimate scenes of private domestic space. The exhibition coincides with a survey of Mckinney's work at the Norton Museum of Art, running through October 4.

Inside Chicago’s Obama Center

The article reports on the upcoming opening of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago's Jackson Park, a new $850 million campus designed to embody the legacy of Barack and Michelle Obama. It features artworks by Idris Khan, Maya Lin, and others, and is set to open to the public later this month. The piece also covers a planned nationwide strike by Italian cultural workers on June 12, demanding better working conditions and solidarity with Palestine, and notes controversial renderings of a Penn Station redesign that prominently display Trump's name.

The World That Held Peter Hujar and Paul Thek

Andrew Durbin's new dual biography, *The Wonderful World That Almost Was: A Life of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek* (2026), explores the intertwined lives of photographer Peter Hujar and visual artist Paul Thek. The book traces their relationship from their first meeting in Florida in their early 20s through their artistic development, shifting from lovers and confidantes to a more complex bond marked by longing and resentment, ending with both dying of AIDS in the late 1980s. The review highlights a renewed interest in the artists, citing recent exhibitions and a film.

Sanford Wurmfeld’s Unstable Geometry

Hyperallergic reviews Sanford Wurmfeld's exhibition "Squares 1971–74" at Ceysson & Bénétière in New York, featuring six paintings and one study from 1971 to 1974. The show highlights Wurmfeld's methodical exploration of color through gridded compositions of one-inch squares, using a limited palette of four hues to create optical interactions that shift as the viewer looks. Wurmfeld, who was the youngest artist in MoMA's 1968 "Art of the Real" exhibition, has long operated under the radar of the New York art world.

Argentinian artist Pablo Bronstein joins Olney Gleason.

New York gallery Olney Gleason has announced representation of London-based Argentinian artist Pablo Bronstein, in collaboration with London gallery Herald St and Galleria Franco Noero. Bronstein’s first exhibition with Olney Gleason is scheduled to open in September 2026.

‘Hold to This Earth’ Surveys the Abundance of American Indigenous Contemporary Art

A new exhibition titled 'Hold to This Earth' at Yorkshire Sculpture Park in Wakefield, U.K., will open on June 13 and run through April 18, 2027. It features nearly 70 works by 38 artists representing 35 Tribal Nations, making it the largest presentation of American Indigenous contemporary art in the U.K. to date. The works are drawn from the Tia Collection and include pieces by Jeffrey Gibson, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Raven Halfmoon, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Dyani White Hawk, Nicholas Galanin, and others, spanning media from beads and clay to digital photography and mixed media.

See Never-Before-Shown Martin Wong Works, Now On View in a Show Of His Chinatown Paintings

A new exhibition at Wrightwood 659 in Chicago, “Martin Wong: Chinatown USA,” presents over 100 works by the late self-taught artist, including 11 never-before-exhibited paintings and the never-before-seen back side of a large canvas. The show focuses on Wong’s depictions of San Francisco’s and New York’s Chinatowns, featuring iconic imagery such as Bruce Lee, Peking opera performer Mei Lanfang, and the pagoda-style building at 241 Canal Street. It is the first monographic institutional show of Wong’s work in nearly a decade, complemented by a concurrent New York exhibition, “Martin Wong: Popeye,” at P.P.O.W. Gallery, which closed in June 2026.

Cats, flowers and Harry Hill’s car on fire – RA Summer Exhibition review

The 2024 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, coordinated by conceptual artist Ryan Gander, is reviewed as being less awful than usual. Gander introduces strangeness to the historic open-submission show, including a video of Bowie karaoke and a disembodied corpse in a living-room installation. The exhibition features thousands of works, from amateur flower drawings to pieces by Tracey Emin, Antony Gormley, and Sean Scully, alongside standout contributions from Harry Hill (paintings of cars on fire), Harriet Porter, and Glen Pudvine. The review notes the show's overwhelming density and its function as a buying opportunity for the public.

Shows to See in Switzerland, June 2026

ArtAsiaPacific's June 2026 guide highlights six major exhibitions across Switzerland, featuring solo shows by Shuang Li at Kunsthalle Basel, Angelica Mesiti at Museum Tinguely, Pierre Huyghe at Fondation Beyeler, Marisol at Kunsthaus Zürich, Ju Ting at Galerie Urs Meile, and Jiajia Zhang at Vontobel. The exhibitions span video installations, sculptural painting, and biological-machine environments, with Shuang Li's "Alliance" marking her first solo institutional show in Europe and Marisol receiving her first major European retrospective.

Sandra Jackson-Dumont Wants Museums to Survive. Things Have to Change

Sandra Jackson-Dumont, director and CEO of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, discusses her career and vision for transforming museums in an interview for Artnet News's series on women shaping the art industry. She reflects on her roles at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, emphasizing the need for internal institutional change to address structural inequities around gender, race, pay, and professional growth.

Murdoch’s Basel Squeeze & Sotheby’s Takes Zurich

The article reports on two major developments in the art world: the impact of Rupert Murdoch's media empire on the Art Basel fair in Switzerland, and Sotheby's expansion into Zurich. It details how Murdoch's influence is creating a 'squeeze' on the Basel art scene, likely through media coverage or business pressures, while Sotheby's is establishing a stronger presence in Zurich, a key European art market hub.

Chloe Wise Opens Major Swiss Institutional Exhibition in Time for Art Basel in Basel

New York-based artist Chloe Wise has opened "Extrasensory," her first major institutional exhibition in Switzerland, at Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger (KBH.G) in time for Art Basel in Basel. Curated by Samuel Leuenberger, the exhibition centers on *PsyFi*, Wise's most ambitious film project to date, presented as a large-scale three-channel installation. The film explores how different cultures and historical periods have attempted to understand encounters with the unknown, drawing parallels between religious visions and contemporary accounts of extraterrestrial phenomena. The exhibition also features immersive environments, including an esoteric roadside gift shop and a hybrid dressing room-worship-spacecraft interior, blurring distinctions between spirituality, commerce, and popular culture.

Art Exhibitions in Hong Kong you Must See Right Now - Prestige Online

Prestige Online has published a curated guide to current art exhibitions in Hong Kong, highlighting must-see shows across the city's galleries and museums. The article features a selection of ongoing and upcoming exhibitions, providing details on venues, artists, and dates to help readers plan their cultural visits.

Lauded Architect, Designer, and Artist Hugo Toro Makes His Perrotin New York Debut

Franco-Mexican artist Hugo Toro presents his solo U.S. debut exhibition, “Ojo de Agua,” at Perrotin New York. The show features abstract paintings and a conceptual ceramic installation that evoke memories of his grandparents' village in Mexico. Toro, known primarily for architecture and interior design—including the Orient Express La Minerva in Rome and the Villa Albertine studio in New York—created all works within the last two years, marking a significant expansion of his artistic practice into fine art.

Ahead of Basel, London Gallery Weekend Put a Defiant, Energized City Scene on Display

London Gallery Weekend (LGW) returned for its 2026 edition, bringing together over 120 galleries, including nine first-timers and several with new or expanded spaces. The free city-wide program featured tours, talks, performances, and parties, coinciding with the major June auction season headlined by the Lewis Collection at Sotheby's and the Zabludowicz Collection at Christie's. The weekend unfolded amid gallery closures like Tiwani Contemporary and Stephen Friedman Gallery, and Pace's announcement of staff and artist roster reductions, but also saw expansions such as Sadie Coles' new space and Singapore's Sundaram Tagore opening in Pall Mall. Notable shows included Anne Imhof at Sprüth Magers, Oliver Beer and Mandy El-Sayegh at Thaddaeus Ropac, and Terry Winters at Modern Art.

18 must-see exhibitions for a European art road trip this summer

This article highlights 18 must-see art exhibitions across Europe for summer 2026, featuring major solo shows by artists such as Cecilia Vicuña at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, Yayoi Kusama at Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Ruth Asawa at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Marina Abramović at the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice, Pierre Huyghe at Fondation Beyeler in Basel, and Danh Vo at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Many of these exhibitions are traveling shows or coincide with key art events like the Venice Biennale and Art Basel, offering a rich cultural itinerary for visitors.

Painter David Hockney, Who Made the Everyday Otherworldly, Dies at 88

David Hockney, the celebrated British painter known for his luminous California pool scenes and psychologically precise portraits, died on June 11 at his home in London at age 88. His career spanned six decades, encompassing painting, printmaking, photography, stage design, and digital art, with iconic works such as "Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)" (1972), which sold for $90.3 million in 2018. Hockney was also a pioneer of LGBTQ+ representation in art, openly depicting gay relationships and denouncing censorship of queer imagery.

Pan-Africanism in London, the health benefits of art, Barbara Hepworth—podcast

This episode of The Art Newspaper's podcast 'The Week in Art' covers three main stories. Host Ben Luke discusses the traveling exhibition 'Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica' at the Barbican in London with curator Elvira Dyangani Ose. He also speaks with researcher Daisy Fancourt about her book 'Art Cure: The Science of How the Arts Transform Our Health', which was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction. Digital editor Alexander Morrison discusses Barbara Hepworth's sculpture 'Sculpture with Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue and Red (1943)' with curator Alexandra Gerstein, tied to the exhibition 'Hepworth in Colour' at the Courtauld Gallery.

10 exhibitions and new street art murals to discover this summer

10 expos et nouvelles fresques de street art à découvrir cet été

Beaux Arts Magazine rounds up ten must-see street art exhibitions and new murals across France for summer 2026. Highlights include the group show "We Are [Still] Here" at the Petit Palais in Paris, featuring over 70 artists such as Invader, Shepard Fairey, and eL Seed; a double retrospective of pioneer Ernest Pignon-Ernest at the Inguimbertine library-museum in Carpentras and the Musée Ziem in Martigues; the colossal "Beyond the Streets" exhibition at La Villette in Paris, with over 100 artists from Keith Haring to JR; and JR's immersive installation "La Caverne du Pont-Neuf" on the Pont-Neuf bridge, complete with a soundtrack by Thomas Bangalter.