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'Savannah Figurative' exhibit to showcase process studies of eight artists

Arts Southeast has named Isaac McCaslin as its 2025 Incubator Artist, providing him with a studio, exhibition opportunities, and mentorship. In response to the lack of affordable live-model drawing in Savannah, McCaslin founded the Savannah Open Model Sessions. An upcoming exhibition, "Savannah Figurative," opening January 9, 2026, at Cute Tomatoes Gallery, will showcase completed works and process studies by eight artists, including McCaslin, Phil Musen, and Astoria Jellett, highlighting the importance of figure study in their practices.

Cleveland Museum of Art unveils exhibition schedule for 2026

The Cleveland Museum of Art has announced its full 2026 exhibition schedule, featuring four major shows: 'Manet & Morisot,' the first major exhibition dedicated to the artistic exchange between Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot; 'Nexus,' showcasing works by American sculptor Martin Puryear; 'Spectacular Freedom,' exploring Andrew Wyeth's watercolors with over 100 works from his estate, most never before exhibited; and a Goryeo dynasty exhibition in partnership with the National Museum of Korea, centered on the reunification of ten 14th-century hanging scrolls depicting the 10 Kings of Hell. Additional exhibitions include 'still/emerging: Native American Works on Paper,' 'Epic of the Northwest Himalayas' featuring Pahari Ramayana paintings, and a photography show contextualizing Manet and Morisot's era.

'What's possible for art in this city': Striking exhibition brings diverse artists to Allentown studio

Rigo Peralta Art Studio in Allentown, Pennsylvania, opened the "Hyperrealism & Realism" exhibition on a Friday night, featuring a diverse group of artists from the United States, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela. Curated by Peralta and Ruddy Tavera, the show juxtaposes hyperrealistic and academic realist works, including pieces by Ismael Checo, Francisco Collado, Juanairis Collado, and others. The exhibition runs through February and aims to present a fresh artistic experience for the local community.

Luminary Exhibition Celebration: Matisse's Jazz—Rhythms in Color

The Art Institute of Chicago is hosting a special Luminary member event on April 28, 2026, celebrating the exhibition "Matisse's Jazz—Rhythms in Color." The event features curatorial remarks by Emily Ziemba, director of curatorial administration and research curator in Prints and Drawings, followed by exclusive after-hours access to the exhibition. This marks the first time the museum has displayed Matisse's complete Jazz portfolio since acquiring it in 1948, alongside more than 50 paintings, sculptures, and drawings that trace the artist's career-long exploration of color and line.

The Rembrandt robber: five takeaways from an insider’s book on a notorious art thief

Myles Connor, an experienced career criminal, stole Rembrandt's "Portrait of Elsbeth van Rijn" from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston on April 14, 1975, using the painting as leverage in another crime. In his new book "The Rembrandt Heist," Anthony Amore—director of security at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum—analyzes Connor's motivations and methods, presenting five key takeaways from the heist.

Frenemies or rivals? Tate Britain show explores Turner and Constable's turbulent relationship

Tate Britain will present "Turner and Constable," a major exhibition spanning 2025–2026 that explores the intertwined careers and rivalry of J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851) and John Constable (1776–1837). For the first time, a show is devoted to both artists, featuring historical reconstructions such as the famous 1831 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition pairing of Turner's *Caligula’s Palace and Bridge* (1831) and Constable's *Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows* (1829–31). Curated by Amy Concannon, the exhibition includes loans from private collections and rarely seen works, including Turner's *The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16 October 1834* (1835) from the Cleveland Museum of Art, on show in the UK for the first time since 1883.

The $236m Klimt, Cop 30 and the art world, Caravaggio’s Victorious Cupid—podcast

This podcast episode from The Art Newspaper covers three major art-world stories. Gustav Klimt's "Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer" (1914-16) sold for the second-highest price ever at auction during Sotheby's New York sale of works from the late billionaire Leonard Lauder's collection, a "white-glove" auction that has sparked debate about a market recovery. Additionally, the episode discusses COP30-related art commissions appearing on posters across the UK and Brazil under the theme "It's Not Easy Being Green," alongside the Gallery Climate Coalition's new Stocktake Report on carbon emissions. The episode's Work of the Week is Caravaggio's "Victorious Cupid" (1601-02), which has traveled from Berlin's Gemäldegalerie to the Wallace Collection in London for an upcoming exhibition.

An eerie Renaissance masterpiece, fresh from a four-year restoration process, goes on show in Berlin

Berlin's Gemäldegalerie has unveiled Vittore Carpaccio's "The Preparation of Christ's Tomb" (circa 1505-20) after a four-year restoration that removed decades of dirt and discolored varnish. The cleaned painting reveals new subtleties, including a striking sky of bright blue and stubborn grey clouds, and will be the centerpiece of a small exhibition titled "Tribute to Vittore Carpaccio" running from November 20 to April 6, 2026. The restoration was led by recently retired head conservator Babette Hartwieg, who also reinvestigated a false Mantegna signature that had misled earlier attributions.

Dublin’s Monumental Picasso Exhibition Showcases 60 of the Artist’s Masterpieces

The National Gallery of Ireland, in partnership with the Musée national Picasso-Paris, has opened a major exhibition titled "Picasso: From the Studio," featuring 60 works by Pablo Picasso. The show spans five decades of the artist's career, including Cubist portraits, sculptures, still lifes, and rarely seen pieces, with immersive photographic and audio-visual elements that evoke his creative environments in Avignon and the Côte d'Azur. The exhibition runs until February 22, 2026.

Groundbreaking Art Takes Spotlight at O’Donnell Athenaeum Exhibit

A new exhibition titled “Groundbreakers: Post-War Japan and Korea from the Dallas Museum of Art and The Rachofsky Collection” has opened at the Edith and Peter O’Donnell Jr. Athenaeum at The University of Texas at Dallas, running through July 2026. Curated by Dr. Natalia Di Pietrantonio of the Crow Museum of Asian Art, the show features works from three major postwar movements—Mono-ha, Dansaekhwa, and Gutai—using unconventional materials like white glue, bells, wires, tin, and rocks. Highlights include Kazuo Shiraga’s foot-painted canvases, Takesada Matsutani’s vinyl glue sculptures, Atsuko Tanaka’s interactive wire installation, and Do Ho Suh’s translucent polyester corridor inspired by homesickness.

4 notable art exhibitions opening around the world

Four major retrospective exhibitions are opening around the world in late 2025 and early 2026, celebrating the work of Robert Rauschenberg, Wes Anderson, Vivienne Westwood, Rei Kawakubo, and Wifredo Lam. At M+ in Hong Kong, "Robert Rauschenberg and Asia" explores the artist's collaborations with artisans in India, China, and Japan. The Design Museum in London presents "Wes Anderson: The Archives," featuring over 600 items from his film sets. The Museum of Modern Art in New York hosts "Wilfredo Lam: When I Don't Sleep, I Dream," the most extensive US retrospective of the Cuban-born artist. A creative conversation between designers Vivienne Westwood and Rei Kawakubo is also highlighted.

Tehching Hsieh: ‘I didn’t try to be a superman, my work is not about heroism’

Tehching Hsieh, the pioneering performance artist known for his extreme durational works, has opened his first retrospective, 'Lifeworks 1978-99', at Dia Beacon. The exhibition follows his gift of 11 major works to the institution last year and features six spaces designed to convey the relative time of his performances—including his five one-year pieces (Cage Piece, Time Clock Piece, Outdoor Piece, Rope Piece, No Art Piece) and the Thirteen Year Plan—using spatial measurements to represent 'art time' and 'life time'.

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.

A rare jewellery box identified in Vermeer paintings sheds new light on the artist’s connections

New research by curator Alexandra van Dongen of Rotterdam’s Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum reveals that a rare Indo-Portuguese jewellery casket depicted in two Johannes Vermeer paintings—Mistress and Maid and A Lady Writing (both 1664-67)—is a real, surviving object. Van Dongen tracked down the sole known example in the Távora Sequeira Pinto collection in Porto, with help from Amsterdam dealer Dickie Zebregs. Her findings, published in the book De tastbare wereld van Johannes Vermeer, suggest the casket likely belonged to Vermeer’s patron Maria de Knuijt, a wealthy Dutch East India Company shareholder who may have asked the artist to include it in her paintings.

Catch of the day: Winslow Homer’s delicate watercolours get very rare outing in Boston

The Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston is presenting "Of Light and Air: Winslow Homer in Watercolour," a rare exhibition of the American painter's delicate watercolors, running from November 2, 2025, to January 19, 2026. The show brings together a rich selection of Homer's work, including childhood drawings, his final unfinished painting, and dozens of watercolors that are seldom exhibited due to their fragility and light sensitivity. Highlights include "Leaping Trout" (1889), the first Homer watercolor acquired by any museum, and works that depict the rugged New England coast and English seaside. The MFA, an early supporter of Homer's career, holds one of the largest collections of his work, and this is the first time many of these watercolors have been shown together in nearly 50 years.

Curator Conversation: Behind The Honest Eye

On October 25, 2025, co-curators Clarisse Fava-Piz, Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, and Nerina Santorius will host a conversation at the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska, offering a behind-the-scenes look at the exhibition "Pissarro’s Impressionism." The talk will explore Camille Pissarro’s life and legacy, from his Caribbean roots to his role in Impressionism, and detail how over 80 works were assembled for the first major U.S. retrospective of the artist in over 40 years. The event is sold out in person but will be livestreamed.

Rare wooden Alexander Calder mobile heads to Christie’s

Christie’s has secured the consignment of Painted Wood (1943), a rare wooden mobile by Alexander Calder, which will lead its 20th Century Evening Sale next month. Specialists estimate the work will sell for between $15 million and $20 million, the highest auction estimate ever placed on a Calder piece. The mobile comes from the collection of prominent Latin American art collector Patricia Phelps de Cisneros and was featured in Calder’s landmark 1943 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where he became the youngest artist to receive a solo exhibition at the museum.

Frieze in London, Hypha Studios and a Renoir drawing for ‘The Great Bathers’—podcast

This episode of The Art Newspaper's podcast 'The Week in Art' covers three main stories. Host Ben Luke discusses the mood at the Frieze art fairs in London with art market editor Kabir Jhala, amid ongoing debate about the health of the art market. The episode also explores Hypha Studios, a UK initiative that provides free exhibition and studio space to unrepresented artists in vacant properties, which has just launched an online sales platform called Hypha Curates. Finally, the podcast features a 'Work of the Week' segment on a Renoir drawing from the 1880s, a study for 'The Great Bathers,' now on view at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York as part of the exhibition 'Renoir Drawings.'

Monumental exhibition of works by Anselm Kiefer heads to the Saint Louis Art Museum

The Saint Louis Art Museum will host "Becoming the Sea," a monumental exhibition of works by German artist Anselm Kiefer, from October 18, 2025 through January 25, 2026. The show marks Kiefer's first U.S. retrospective in 20 years and features towering works up to 30 feet tall, including site-specific pieces inspired by the Mississippi and Rhine rivers. Curated by museum director Min Jung Kim and assistant curator Melissa Venator in direct collaboration with the 80-year-old artist, the exhibition will fill the museum's Sculpture Hall and contemporary galleries with over 30 loans from other collections, requiring custom installation systems and even the removal of a doorway to accommodate a large painting.

A brush with… Suzanne Jackson—podcast

This podcast episode features an in-depth conversation with artist Suzanne Jackson, who discusses her multifaceted career spanning drawing, painting, poetry, dance, and theatre. Born in 1944 in St. Louis and raised in San Francisco and Fairbanks, Alaska, Jackson draws on Native American and African American traditions to explore the spiritual connection between people and nature. She reflects on influences including Barbara Chase Riboud, Elizabeth Catlett, and Torkwase Dyson, and shares insights into her studio practice and her view on art's purpose. The episode also highlights her current survey exhibition "What is Love," which travels to SFMOMA, the Walker Art Center, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston through 2027.

Gwen John: Strange Beauties

The article announces 'Gwen John: Strange Beauties,' a major exhibition running from July 30 to November 28, 2027, that brings together the artist's celebrated oil paintings with rarely seen drawings and watercolors. Spanning her early student days to her immersion in French modernism, the show is the most comprehensive survey dedicated to Gwen John in over 40 years, organized by Amgueddfa Cymru in partnership with National Galleries of Scotland, the Yale Center for British Art, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

The rooms where the magic happened: National Gallery of Ireland exhibition explores Picasso’s studios

The National Gallery of Ireland is opening an exhibition titled "Picasso: From the Studio" that shifts focus from the artist's famous subjects—such as weeping women and bullfighting—to the physical spaces where he created his work. Curated by Janet McLean and Joanne Snrech, the show draws heavily from the Musée Picasso in Paris and includes over 100 works, ranging from early pieces made from scraps to late paintings like *Musician* (1972). The exhibition recreates the atmosphere of key studios through paintings, film, and photographs, including iconic images by Dora Maar of Picasso painting *Guernica* (1937). The gallery owns only one Picasso painting, *Still Life with a Mandolin* (1924), which is included.

From royal visitors to extortionate eBay sales: new book offers rare behind-the-scenes glimpse of Vermeer blockbuster

The Rijksmuseum's 2023 Vermeer exhibition, widely considered the most successful show of the century, drew 650,000 visitors and assembled 28 of the artist's 37 known paintings. A new book, *Closer to Vermeer: New Research on the Painter and his Art*, reveals behind-the-scenes details: the initial plan for a broader thematic show was abandoned in favor of a focused Vermeer-only presentation; nine paintings could not be borrowed, including *The Concert* (stolen in 1990) and *The Astronomer* (on loan to Louvre Abu Dhabi); the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum refused to lend *Girl with a Wine Glass*, even rejecting an offer of buses for schoolchildren. The book also discloses that the Dutch king and queen visited multiple times during regular hours, that a quarter of visitors felt context was missing, and that over 3,500 complaints were filed about photography. The most expensive resold ticket on eBay reached $2,724.

Gustave Caillebotte: Painting His World

The Art Institute of Chicago presents 'Gustave Caillebotte: Painting His World,' a major exhibition running from June 29 to October 5, 2025, featuring over 120 works including paintings, works on paper, photographs, and ephemera. The show explores the personal interests and relationships that shaped the Impressionist artist, highlighting his focus on family, friends, sportsmen, and workers, as well as his unique depictions of nude men. It includes iconic pieces like 'Paris Street; Rainy Day' and 'Floor Scrapers,' alongside lesser-known works such as the Musée d'Orsay's recent acquisition 'Boating Party' and the Louvre Abu Dhabi's 'The Bezique Game,' many from private collections rarely seen by American audiences.

Southeast Asia’s largest French Impressionist exhibition is opening in Singapore with over 100 artworks

National Gallery Singapore will host "Into the Modern: Impressionism from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston," the largest French Impressionist exhibition ever staged in Southeast Asia, from November 14, 2025 to March 1, 2026. The show features over 100 artworks across seven thematic sections, including 17 pieces by Claude Monet and masterpieces by Renoir, Degas, Cézanne, Pissarro, Sisley, and Morisot, all on loan from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. None of the works have been displayed in Southeast Asia before.

Krannert Art Museum exhibition examines significance of early modern European prints

Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will present "Imagination, Faith, and Desire: Art and Agency in European Prints, 1475-1800," an exhibition of over 100 early modern European prints drawn from private collections. The show, curated by Maureen Warren, runs from September 25 through February 28 and includes works by masters such as Rembrandt, Parmigianino, and Goya, exploring how prints functioned as Europe's first visual mass media.

'Age alone does not guarantee value': Thomas S. Kaplan is showing his Dutch Old Master collection in US for first time

Collector Thomas S. Kaplan and his wife Daphne Recanati Kaplan are bringing their Leiden Collection, one of the world's largest private holdings of 17th-century Dutch art, to the US for the first time. Around a third of the collection's 220-plus works will be shown in "Art and Life in Rembrandt’s Time: Masterpieces from The Leiden Collection" at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach from 25 October 2025 to 29 March 2026. Kaplan is also in discussions to fractionalise the collection into shares and float it as an IPO.

The Red-Hot Market for South Asian Modernism Has a New Star

A 1989 painting by Bangladeshi modernist S.M. Sultan, titled *Untitled (Cultivation)*, sold for $50,800 at Christie’s New York on Wednesday, more than doubling its high estimate of $25,000 and setting a new auction record for the artist. The work was acquired by a South Asian institution. Sultan, who died in 1994, is known for his depictions of muscular peasants and has only 14 recorded auction results, with his previous record of $19,500 set just two months earlier at Sotheby’s.

Henry Moore Foundation awards £100,000 in unrestricted grants

The Henry Moore Foundation has awarded £100,000 in unrestricted grants to fifty sculptors across the UK, each receiving £2,000 through its Artist Award Scheme. The funding, announced amid the cost-of-living crisis and cultural sector cuts, can be used for materials, studio rent, or bridging gaps. Recipients were nominated by a panel of 25 arts professionals from UK regions and Northern Ireland, including Viviana Checchia of Void in Derry and Nicole Yip of Spike Island in Bristol. Notable past recipients include 2024 Turner Prize winner Jasleen Kaur and Manon Awst, who will represent Wales at the 2026 Venice Biennale.

Plan Your Visit to Pissarro's Impressionism

The Denver Art Museum has announced ticketing and visitor details for its upcoming exhibition "The Honest Eye: Camille Pissarro's Impressionism," running from October 26, 2025, to February 8, 2026. The show features over 100 paintings by the Impressionist master, including works from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Joslyn Art Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Ordrupgaard. Tickets are now on sale, with timed entry every ten minutes; adult nonmember tickets start at $27, while members pay $5 and children's tickets are also $5. The museum provides practical guidance on parking, entry points, audio guides in English and Spanish, and recommends quieter visiting times such as Tuesday evenings.