'Something Borrowed, Something New' at the Sarasota Art Museum headlines 35 exhibitions on view in April

The Sarasota Art Museum is headlining a busy April art season in Southwest Florida with the opening of 'Something Borrowed, Something New.' This major exhibition features works by iconic modern and contemporary artists, including Louise Bourgeois, David Hockney, and Kara Walker, sourced from private collections across the region. The museum is also showcasing site-specific installations such as Molly Hatch’s 'Amalgam,' a 450-plate earthenware display, and Janet Echelman’s 'Radical Softness,' which explores the evolution of her monumental netted sculptures.

Strong sales and cross-market demand define Art Basel Hong Kong opening

Art Basel Hong Kong opened with robust sales and high energy, signaling a strong recovery for the Asia-Pacific art market. Blue-chip galleries reported several seven-figure transactions early on, including a $4 million Picasso at Bastian and a $3.8 million Liu Ye painting at David Zwirner. The fair's debut of the digital-focused 'Zero 10' initiative and a significant presence of regional collectors underscored a diverse appetite for both postwar masters and contemporary digital works.

The world’s biggest gallery for illustrations will open in London in May – and it’s just revealed its first exhibitions

The Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration is set to open this May in a restored eighteenth-century waterworks in Clerkenwell, London. As the world’s largest gallery dedicated to the art of illustration, the institution has announced a diverse inaugural program featuring three major exhibitions. These include a retrospective of Sir Quentin Blake’s theatre-inspired works, a comprehensive survey of LGBTQ+ comic-making titled 'Queer as Comics,' and a solo presentation by rising star Murugiah.

A landmark free David Hockney exhibition is opening in London this week

The Serpentine in London is set to open a major free exhibition titled 'David Hockney: A Year in Normandie and Some Other Thoughts About Painting' on March 12, 2026. The centerpiece of the show is a 90-meter-long iPad painting composed of 220 panels that document the changing seasons in the artist's French garden during the pandemic. In addition to this monumental digital work, the exhibition will debut five new still lifes and five new portraits of the artist's inner circle.

LACMA’s Long-Awaited Geffen Galleries Are Set To Open This April, Featuring 3,000 Objects

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has announced that its highly anticipated David Geffen Galleries will officially open on April 19, 2026. Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Peter Zumthor, the 110,000-square-foot horizontal structure spans Wilshire Boulevard and represents the culmination of a multi-decade campus expansion. The inaugural installation will feature approximately 3,000 objects curated by a team of 45, showcasing a non-traditional, integrated approach to the museum's permanent collection.

Los Angeles museums on the cusp of new golden age

Los Angeles is entering a transformative period of cultural expansion, marked by nearly $3 billion in new museum construction and institutional growth. Key projects include the imminent opening of Peter Zumthor’s $835 million expansion of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the debut of Refik Anadol’s AI-focused Dataland, and the long-awaited opening of George Lucas’s $1 billion Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. These developments, alongside expansions at The Broad and The Huntington, are timed to solidify the city's infrastructure ahead of the 2028 Summer Olympics.

An Exhibition of Peter Schlesinger’s Ceramics Inaugurates a Playful New Gallery in Hollywood

Mariposa gallery has officially opened its permanent location in Hollywood’s historic Beachwood Canyon, housed in the 1923 storybook building originally built by the Hollywoodland Realty Co. Founded by Alec Smyth, a former David Zwirner staffer, and interior designer Noah Ruttenberg, the gallery moves away from the traditional 'white cube' aesthetic in favor of a cozy, domestic environment. The inaugural exhibition features a series of swan-shaped ceramic sculptures by the Los Angeles-born artist Peter Schlesinger.

David Hockney to create ten metre-long window installation for Turner Contemporary

Artist David Hockney will create a monumental, ten-meter-long window installation for the Sunley Gallery at Turner Contemporary in Margate, UK. The work, based on a 2020 iPad painting of a Normandy sunrise, will be illuminated at night and installed from April to November as part of the gallery's 15th anniversary celebrations.

peter zumthor's fluid concrete david geffen galleries to open at LACMA in april 2026

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) will open its new Peter Zumthor-designed David Geffen Galleries on April 19, 2026. The 274-meter-long concrete structure, elevated on piers over Wilshire Boulevard, will become the museum's primary home for its permanent collection, offering over 10,000 square meters of exhibition space. The project, which includes the Elaine Wynn Wing, culminates a two-decade campus transformation.

One of London’s Most Unmissable Art Exhibitions in 2026 Will Open This Week

The Courtauld in London is opening 'Seurat and the Sea,' the first exhibition dedicated to Georges Seurat's seascapes, on February 13, 2026. The show will feature 26 paintings, oil sketches, and drawings created by the artist between 1885 and 1890, including works like 'The Beach at Gravelines' and 'Seascape at Port-en-Bessin, Normandy.'

LACMA’s David Geffen Galleries Will Open on April 19, 2026

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) announced that its David Geffen Galleries, designed by architect Peter Zumthor, will open on April 19, 2026, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The opening will be followed by two weeks of priority member access and a free day for NexGenLA youth members on May 3. The 900-foot-long building spans Wilshire Boulevard and will house LACMA's permanent collection, featuring approximately 2,500 to 3,000 objects across 110,000 square feet of gallery space. The inaugural installation is organized around the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic Oceans and the Mediterranean Sea, emphasizing cultural exchange and migration, and includes works by Georges de La Tour, Henri Matisse, Francis Bacon, Vincent van Gogh, and new commissions by artists such as Todd Gray and Lauren Halsey.

LACMA’s New Era Begins With David Geffen Galleries Opening

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is preparing to open its new David Geffen Galleries in April, marking a major milestone in a two-decade transformation led by CEO and director Michael Govan. The opening coincides with the 20th anniversary of Govan's hiring and features Jeff Koons's outdoor sculpture 'Split-Rocker' as an anchor piece.

11 Must-Visit Museums Opening in 2026

The article highlights 11 major museum openings and expansions scheduled for 2026, including the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi (designed by Frank Gehry, focusing on modern and contemporary art from West Asia, North Africa, and South Asia), the New Museum in New York (reopening March 21 after a major expansion by OMA), the V&A East Museum in London (featuring a debut exhibition on Black British music history), and the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles. Other notable projects include the Memphis Art Museum and the Drift Museum in Amsterdam, reflecting a global surge in cultural infrastructure.

Heists, Records, and Robots. A Subjective Summary of the Art World in 2025.

The article reviews the art world in 2025, highlighting a mixed year of declining sales values and cautious buyers, yet punctuated by record-breaking auctions and dramatic events. Fine art auction sales in the first half of 2025 totaled $4.7 billion, an 8.8% drop from 2024, with the average lot price falling to a decade-low of $24,224, indicating a shift toward lower-value works and younger collectors. Major sales included Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, which sold for $236 million at Sotheby's, becoming the second most expensive artwork ever auctioned, and Frida Kahlo's El sueño, which set a new auction record for a female artist at $55 million. The market was also unsettled by U.S. trade tariffs and economic uncertainty, while a daring heist and debates around AI art captured public attention.

The 'Lee Kun-hee Collection' Touring Exhibition Draws 3.5 Million Visitors—Opening the Door for K-Art’s Global Expansion

The Lee Kun-hee Collection touring exhibition, featuring over 330 masterpieces including seven National Treasures, has drawn 3.5 million visitors across South Korea and is now traveling internationally to Washington, Chicago, and London. The exhibition, organized by the National Museum of Korea and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA), showcases Korean art from the Three Kingdoms period to the present, and has been widely covered by outlets like The Washington Post, CNN, and Forbes.

Harlem’s Studio Museum reopening was a fitting reflection of its history and work

The Studio Museum in Harlem reopened in November 2025 after a seven-year reconstruction, unveiling a new building designed by Adjaye Associates and Cooper Robertson that incorporates architectural elements of Harlem, such as masonry-framed windows and a staircase evoking brownstone stoops. The reopening featured a major exhibition highlighting alumni from its renowned artist-in-residence program, which began in 1968 with Tom Lloyd as the first recipient. Founded by Charles E. Innis and a coalition of artists, activists, and philanthropists, the museum has long served as a nexus for artists of African descent, expanding the canon of Black art during the civil rights and Black Power movements.

New York Galleries: Openings and Closings of the Week (11/11—11/16)

Princeton University Art Museum graduates to expansive new home

The Princeton University Art Museum (PUAM) is opening a new 146,000-square-foot facility on October 31, doubling its previous exhibition and education spaces. The original 1880s building, which underwent multiple additions before being demolished in 2021, could only display about 2% of Princeton's 117,000-object collection. Designed by Adjaye Associates with executive architect Cooper Robertson, the new three-story museum features nine interlocking pavilions, 80,000 square feet of exhibition space, classrooms, and a grand hall. Curators have rethought the installation to move away from rigid geographic and chronological categories, instead emphasizing cross-cultural and cross-media pairings, such as placing Andy Warhol's Blue Marilyn (1962) alongside a 14th-century Italian Virgin and Child.

‘Everyone benefits’: Art Basel’s chief on the new Paris VVIP slot and the viability of its Qatar fair

Art Basel Paris held its fourth edition with a new VIP preview slot called Avant Première, where galleries nominated six key collectors to enter the fair on Tuesday afternoon before the main opening. Major sales were reported, including a $23 million Gerhard Richter painting at Hauser & Wirth, a Modigliani for nearly $10 million at Pace, and a $7.5 million Ruth Asawa sculpture at David Zwirner. CEO Noah Horowitz discussed the rationale for the exclusive preview, the renaming of the VIP relations team to 'collector and institutional relations,' and the viability of the upcoming Art Basel Qatar fair amid growing competition in the Gulf region.

When is art sacred? A Jesuit artist on what makes the absurd, the abstract and the ordinary holy

The article is a first-person reflection by Jesuit artist Nick Leeper on the 2024 Biennale d'Art Contemporain Sacré in Menton, France. Leeper describes entering the Grand Hôtel des Ambassadeurs expecting a traditional sacred art show but finding instead a mix of abstract sculptures, Venetian glassworks, and works by Man Ray, alongside more conventional religious pieces. The biennale, founded in 2019 by Liana Marabini, features 180 artists from 29 countries exploring the theme of "forgiveness," including major names like Damien Hirst, Yayoi Kusama, and Gerhard Richter, as well as artists from religious orders. Leeper recounts how visitors at the opening asked what makes such diverse works sacred.

A Bike Path Now Runs Through the Portland Art Museum

The Portland Art Museum (PAM) is opening a new 24,000-square-foot glass structure called the Mark Rothko Pavilion on November 20, 2025. The $111 million expansion, funded almost entirely by private donations, connects the museum's two existing buildings—the original travertine building designed by Pietro Belluschi and a former Masonic temple—above ground for the first time. The pavilion is named after the artist Mark Rothko, who had his first museum exhibition at PAM in 1932 under his birth name Marcus Rothkowitz. The project was designed by Chicago firm Vinci Hamp Architects and Portland's Hennebery Eddy.

Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris opens epic Gerhard Richter retrospective

The Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris is opening a massive retrospective of Gerhard Richter's work, featuring 275 pieces spanning his entire career from the 1960s to recent ink-cloud drawings. Curated by Dieter Schwarz and Nicholas Serota at Richter's own suggestion, the exhibition is strictly chronological and occupies over 3,000 square meters of Frank Gehry-designed gallery space. It includes iconic works like *Uncle Rudi* (1965) and *Table* (1962), alongside very recent small-scale drawings, and draws from both public and private collections.

How the Studio Museum in Harlem Reshaped the Art World

The Studio Museum in Harlem, founded in 1968 in a rented loft above a liquor store, will open its first purpose-built 82,000-square-foot building on West 125th Street this fall, following a landmark $300 million capital campaign led by director and chief curator Thelma Golden. Designed by Adjaye Associates with Cooper Robertson, the new facility doubles the exhibition and studio space and includes dedicated areas for performance, education, and public programs. The museum, which has operated without a permanent space since 2018, has been a pioneering platform for artists of African descent, launching the careers of figures like David Hammons, Kerry James Marshall, Glenn Ligon, and Simone Leigh through its groundbreaking exhibitions and artist-in-residence program.

Portland Art Museum announces major gift to endow Museum’s top position from Portland’s “First Family of the Arts”

The Portland Art Museum announced a $13.5 million gift from the late Arlene Schnitzer and the Schnitzer family, the largest individual donation in the museum's 132-year history. The endowment names the museum's director position, currently held by Brian Ferriso, as the Arlene & Harold Schnitzer Director. The Schnitzers, known as Portland's 'First Family of the Arts,' have supported the museum for nearly half a century through acquisitions, exhibitions, capital campaigns, and the creation of the Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Northwest Art and the Schnitzer Sculpture Court. The gift is part of the museum's Connection Campaign, which will culminate in a transformed campus opening November 20.

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Announces Historic Expansion Opening

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, has announced a historic expansion, increasing its size by 50 percent to 114,000 square feet, with a grand opening scheduled for June 6 and 7, 2026. The expansion, designed by Safdie Architects, includes fully reimagined galleries and is celebrated by two landmark gifts: 18 major works by women artists donated by chairperson Olivia Walton and her husband Tom Walton, and 200 artworks by over 100 artists donated by collectors Candace and Michael Humphreys. The Walton gift features artists such as Yayoi Kusama, Alice Neel, and Njideka Akunyili Crosby, while the Humphreys gift introduces many new artists to the museum's holdings.

17 NYC art exhibitions we’re most excited about in fall 2025

The article highlights 17 New York City art exhibitions opening in fall 2025, with six previewed in detail. Major events include the long-awaited reopening of the Studio Museum in Harlem on November 15 with a new seven-floor building and shows featuring Tom Lloyd and works from its collection; the New Museum's reopening after renovation with the inaugural exhibition "New Humans: Memories of the Future"; and the Whitney Museum's "Sixties Surreal" exhibition surveying American art from 1958 to 1972. Other notable shows include a Robert Rauschenberg centennial exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, Ai Weiwei's public installation "Camouflage" on Roosevelt Island, and a fashion-focused exhibition at the Hispanic Society Museum & Library.

Minneapolis Institute of Art announces artists for its first juried crop art exhibition

Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) has announced the artists for its first juried crop art exhibition, "Cream of the Crop," opening September 6, 2025. The exhibition features winners and honorable mentions selected from crop art entries at the Minnesota State Fair. Jeanne Morales won best interpretation of a Minnesota landmark, story or tradition with "My Chagall Dream," while Amy and Steve Saupe won best interpretation of an artwork at Mia with "The Treachery of a Pronto Pup." The selections were made by Mia director Katie Luber, associate curator Galina Olmsted, and associate curator Leslie Ureña. Honorable mentions include works by Jill Osiecki, Jill Moe, Amanda Cashman, and Ursula Murray Husted.

Allen Rosenbaum, former director of Princeton University Art Museum with a keen curatorial eye and astute administrative foresight, dies at 88

Allen Rosenbaum, the former director of the Princeton University Art Museum who led the institution from 1980 to 1999, died on August 3, 2025, at Calvary Hospital in New York City at age 88. Rosenbaum joined Princeton in 1974 as assistant director under Peter Bunnell, and during his 25-year tenure as director, he significantly expanded the museum's collections, adding major works such as Giulio Cesare Procaccini's "The Martyrdom of Saint Justina," Pinturicchio's "Saint Bartholomew," and Pietro da Cortona's "Saint Martina Refuses to Adore the Idols." He also oversaw the 1989 opening of the Mitchell Wolfson Jr. Wing, which added 27,000 square feet of exhibition space.

The 7 Best Art Shows to See This Fall, From N.Y.C. to San Francisco

The article previews seven major art exhibitions opening across the United States this fall, from New York City to San Francisco. Highlights include a rare U.S. retrospective of Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the first comprehensive U.S. survey of Afro-Cuban surrealist Wifredo Lam at the Museum of Modern Art, and a long-overdue museum retrospective for multimedia artist Suzanne Jackson at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Other featured shows include Yoko Ono's traveling retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

Meet the Lawyer-Turned-Dealer Opening a Jewel-Box Gallery Uptown—and More Juicy Art World Gossip

Artnet News's Wet Paint column reports that former David Zwirner director Felix Rödder is opening his own gallery, Rodder (no umlaut), on September 18 at 22 East 80th Street on the Upper East Side, in the same building as Sprüth Magers. The jewel-box space, formerly Barbara Mathes Gallery, will debut with a solo show of sculptural paintings by Wyatt Kahn. Rödder, a lawyer-turned-dealer, plans to mix contemporary programming with historical exhibitions, keeping overhead low and avoiding art fairs for now. The column also teases a mention of Aby Rosen's involvement in the New York mayoral race.