The Citadelle Art Museum presents Human Resonance: Portraits with Presence, opening February 14

The Citadelle Art Museum has announced a major new exhibition titled 'Human Resonance: Portraits with Presence,' opening on February 14, 2026. The exhibition centers on the work of painter David Kassan, featuring his portraits of Holocaust survivors, and includes works by six other contemporary figurative artists: Chelsie Murfee, Annie Murphy-Robinson, Shana Levenson, Barbara Hack, Karen Offutt, and Tanja Gant. The show is organized in partnership with Chelsie Nicole Contemporary and will run through June 13, 2026.

Local artists take centre stage in Weswal’s Saddle & Song

Weswal Gallery in Tamworth, Australia, has opened a major exhibition titled "Saddle & Song," featuring works entirely by local artists. Timed to coincide with the Tamworth Country Music Festival, the show draws on rural life, music, and place, with pieces ranging from paintings of galahs and horses to screen prints exploring environmental themes. Gallery owner Robin King emphasizes the focus on authentic regional stories, and several works have already sold to festival visitors eager to take home art reflecting the landscape and culture.

Gamers to perform live alongside musicians about technology in Ilford

Spanish artist Robert Cervera presents 'Hiddenware,' an exhibition at SPACE Ilford on January 31 that blends gaming, sound, and visual art. Three local gamers will perform live video game sessions accompanied by musicians playing a custom instrument made from PC liquid cooling tubes, creating real-time soundtracks based on the gameplay. The event runs from 4pm to 7pm, with a live stream on Twitch, and the exhibition remains open until April.

Space 204 welcomes back 2024 Hamblet Award Recipient, Chidinma Onukwuru in January 2026

Space 204 and the Vanderbilt University Department of Art will host a solo exhibition by Chidinma Onukwuru, the 2024 Hamblet Award recipient, from January 8–29, 2026. Titled "It’s Frightening Having This Much Presence," the show explores Igbo spirituality, ancestral ties, and the continuity of traditional Nigerian ceramic techniques, with an opening reception on January 8.

VCSU Arts Gallery announces new exhibit

Valley City State University's Robinson Center for the Arts Gallery has opened "Uncensored: The Art of Politics," an exhibition exploring political discourse through a variety of media including digital art, painting, fiber, and bronze sculpture. Co-curated by Gratia Brown and Reagan Koppelman, the show features works from a national call for politically themed art, addressing topics such as pedestrian rights, immigration, ecological concerns, and public trust in political institutions. The exhibit runs through November 28, 2025, and includes a virtual component on the VCSU Art Department’s YouTube Channel, with a curator talk by Koppelman scheduled for November 20.

New Asian Art Museum exhibition brings joy and glitter to San Francisco

The Asian Art Museum in San Francisco has opened a new exhibition titled "Rave into the Future: Art in Motion," which transforms the gallery into an immersive rave-like experience featuring a copper dance floor, live DJ sets, robot Roombas swirling glitter, and nine distinct "stages" representing the lifecycle of a rave. Curated by Naz Cuguoğlu, the show brings together queer and women artists of West Asian heritage from the Bay Area, New York, and Europe, and will run through January 16.

‘It was the cheapest possible art form I could imagine’: Sophia Al-Maria performs stand-up for Frieze London

Sophia Al-Maria, winner of the 2025 Frieze London Artist Award, is performing a stand-up routine titled *Wall-Based Work* (2025) daily at the fair. Her act blends humor and serious topics, from art world bureaucracy and the Gaza conflict to being mansplained to by Robert De Niro, and includes karaoke and an editioned work benefiting the LGBTQ+ asylum charity Micro Rainbow.

Lots to play for: Serpentine exhibition explores censorship and connection through video games

Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley's exhibition *The Delusion* opens today at Serpentine North in London, running until 18 January 2026. The Berlin-based artist and video game designer presents a series of multiplayer video games that challenge players to confront ethical, political, and moral choices. Games like *The Unifier* require collaborative problem-solving while prompting reflection on censorship, and *The Validators* transforms an arcade shooter into a contemplative experience addressing censorship, dehumanisation, and hope. The exhibition was developed with a team of artists, researchers, technologists, and members of Brathwaite-Shirley's Black trans and queer community, and builds on the artist's ongoing work archiving Black trans histories.

Asian Art Week Live Sales Total: $46,685,403 - Christie's

Christie's Asian Art Week live sales in New York totaled $46,685,403, achieving 259% hammer and premium above low estimate with a 91% sell-through rate. The three sales—Japanese and Korean Art ($2.46 million), South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art ($12.38 million, 100% sold), and Important Chinese Furniture and Works of Art ($31.84 million)—saw strong bidding across categories. A Yongzheng-period falangcai wine cup led the week at $1.59 million, while a Hokusai painting of a Standing Beauty fetched $444,500 and a Vasudeo S. Gaitonde Untitled (1984) realized $2.39 million. Christie's set four artist records in the South Asian sale, including for Sheikh Mohammed Sultan and Ivan Peries.

Arkley, Olley soar at $15m art sale

At Smith & Singer's auction of Important Australian Art in Sydney, three paintings sold for over a million dollars each, led by Howard Arkley's 'Contemporary Units' (1988) at $2 million. In-room bidders secured the top lots, with collectors crowding the auction room despite rainy weather.

A Brooklyn Afrofuturist Art Exhibit Explores a New World With Reparations

A new Afrofuturist art exhibition titled 'Futures of Repair' has opened at 195 Morgan Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, featuring six Black artists who imagine a world where Black and Indigenous people receive reparations. The show, a collaboration between creative studio Intelligent Mischief and curator Mia Imani Harrison, includes works by Alisha B. Wormsley, Terence Nance, Ari Melenciano, and American Artist, among others. Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the exhibition runs through March 2026 and presents video, installation, sound, and tech-driven pieces that explore reparations from personal and communal perspectives.

Duke Riley’s Art Exhibition at the MOCA in Virginia Beach

The Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Virginia Beach is presenting "O'er the Wide and Plastic Sea," an exhibition of multimedia works by Brooklyn artist Duke Riley, running through August 31. The show spans two decades of Riley's practice, with the centerpiece artwork created from beach trash—including lighters, buoy pieces, and syringes—collected largely from Virginia Beach shores. Riley's work explores tensions between individual and collective behavior, institutional power, and nature's struggle with modern problems, blending early American styles, folklore, and sea-craft aesthetics.

Tretchikoff’s ‘Lady from the Orient’ sets new South African auction record

Vladimir Tretchikoff's painting *Lady from the Orient* (1954–1956) sold for R31,110,000 at a Strauss & Co modern and contemporary art auction in Johannesburg, setting a new national auction record for the artist. The portrait of a young Indonesian woman in traditional attire was purchased by a telephone bidder, and the sale highlights the enduring market demand for Tretchikoff's vivid portraiture from his classic period.

Mural Arts’ ‘No Place Like Home’ student exhibition champions the importance of art education

Mural Arts’ Art Education program presented its annual student exhibition, “No Place Like Home,” at a transformed exposed-brick home in Philadelphia’s Northern Liberties neighborhood. The two-day show featured artwork from over 100 students ages 11 to 18 who attend the organization’s after-school art courses. The gallery space was turned into a whimsical house with themed rooms, including a bedroom, kitchen, and living room, displaying drawings, paintings, and craft projects such as paper flowers, painted clouds, and papier-mâché pets. Mural Arts founder Jane Golden spoke at the opening, emphasizing the importance of art education access for all Philadelphia youth.

Explore diverse artworks at Peer Studios with Ventnor Artists Collective Open Studios exhibition

Four members of the Ventnor Artists Collective—Melanie Ayres, Robert Carter, Mary King, and Marilyn Mittelheuser—will exhibit their work at Peer Studios in Ventnor as part of the Isle of Wight Open Studios. The exhibition runs daily from 11am to 4pm between Friday 16th and Monday 26th May, offering visitors the chance to meet the artists, learn about their creative processes, and purchase original artworks. Each artist brings a distinct style: Ayres focuses on nature-inspired printmaking, Carter paints traditional oils, King explores emotion through mixed media, and Mittelheuser creates colorful textured works on canvas.

A free exhibition of Bob Dylan’s paintings is opening in London this week

A free exhibition of Bob Dylan's paintings, titled 'Point Blank', opens at the Halcyon Gallery on Bond Street, London, on May 9, 2025. The show features 97 original paintings on paper created between 2021 and 2022, based on quick sketches that were later painted over. This marks Dylan's latest collaboration with the gallery, following previous exhibitions including 2021's 'Deep Focus'. The 84-year-old Nobel Prize-winning songwriter has been working with Halcyon for nearly two decades and has also exhibited internationally, including a major 2019 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in Shanghai.

An Artist Renounced His Family. They Sued to Acquire His Life’s Work.

The heirs of the late artist Robert S. Neuman sued his longtime gallerist, June Kelly, to gain control of his artistic estate. The lawsuit, filed in New York, claims Kelly exploited her relationship with the elderly artist to secure ownership of hundreds of his works, while the family argues Neuman's renunciation of them was based on false information she provided. The family's victory in court, resulting in the transfer of the entire collection to them, sets a significant precedent for estate disputes involving artists and their dealers. It highlights the complex power dynamics and potential for exploitation in artist-gallerist relationships, especially as artists age, and may influence how galleries structure agreements to protect both their interests and those of an artist's heirs.

The Tech Bro Problem in Public Art

The article critiques the growing influence of wealthy tech entrepreneurs on public art commissions, arguing that their personal tastes and desire for monumental, often self-aggrandizing works are reshaping civic spaces. It highlights how this trend sidelines professional curatorial expertise and community input, replacing public dialogue with private patronage that prioritizes technological spectacle over artistic depth or social relevance.

Scandal in Florence's Skyline? After the Black Cube and the White Cylinder, the Prism That Impales Santa Croce Appears

Scandalo nello skyline di Firenze? Dopo il cubo nero e il cilindro bianco spunta il prisma che impalla Santa Croce

A cylindrical antenna installed by the telecom company Iliad in Florence has sparked controversy after it was reported that, from certain angles, it visually overlaps with iconic landmarks such as Brunelleschi's Dome and Giotto's Campanile. The article traces a pattern of periodic scandals in Florence, including a previous uproar over the so-called "Cubo Nero" (a new building replacing a decaying theater), and notes that the antenna has actually been in place since 2023 without earlier outcry. Local artist Giacomo Costa recently photographed another white prismatic antenna in Via Ghibellina, within the UNESCO zone, that obstructs the view of Santa Croce, fueling further debate.

L’inquinamento acustico diventa un percorso sonoro. L’installazione di Continental a Milano

Continental, the premium tire manufacturer, has commissioned WOA Studio, a creative studio founded by Davide Carioni and Giuliana Pajola, to create an immersive sound installation titled "The Sound of Premium" for the Fuorisalone design festival in Milan. Presented at BASE Milano, the installation transforms urban noise pollution into a three-part sonic journey—chaos, harmony, and quiet—using seventeen audio-luminous elements that abstract the city soundscape. The experience is designed to show how noise can be mitigated rather than eliminated, with sound data derived from real urban recordings, particularly tire rolling noise.

A collective lunch is organized in Milan to discuss the problems of the cultural sector. Here is how to participate

A Milano si organizza un pranzo collettivo per discutere dei problemi del settore culturale. Ecco come partecipare

The nomadic assembly "OMTU – Organized Meals for Times of Uprising" is heading to Milan on April 19, 2026, coinciding with the miart art fair. Organized by a coalition of independent spaces including terzospazio, Osservatorio Futura, Parsec, and Arts of the Working Class, the event features a collective lunch followed by a public discussion at the Baséll space. The gathering aims to address the systemic precariousness of the cultural sector, focusing specifically on the scarcity of affordable social and cultural spaces in Milan.

Vulnerability Seen Through the Eyes of Two Artists on Display in Romagna

La vulnerabilità vista dallo sguardo di due artiste in mostra in Romagna

The Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea Vero Stoppioni in Santa Sofia is hosting "Corpi invisibili, fuori controllo" (Invisible Bodies, Out of Control), a dual exhibition featuring artists Claudia Amatruda and Carla Giaccio Darias. Part of the broader "Un Problema del Genere" festival, the show explores the concept of vulnerability through contrasting artistic methods. Amatruda utilizes photography, sculpture, and video to depict bodies in risky, natural environments that highlight relational dependency, while Giaccio Darias uses archival imagery and painting to present fragmented, anatomical forms that challenge the viewer's gaze.

CUBA PRESENTS FREE MEN AT THE VENICE BIENNALE

Cuba presents Roberto Diago's installation "Hombres Libres (Free Men)" at the 61st Venice Biennale, curated by Nelson Ramirez de Arellano Conde and commissioned by Daneisy García Roque. The work, on view from May 9 to November 22, 2025, features a group of sculpted heads made from oxidized metals, wood, plastics, and reclaimed materials that advance toward viewers, bearing scars that evoke a history of pain and resistance.

Dialogues with the Legacy of Burle Marx at MAC CCB

DIALOGUES WITH THE LEGACY OF BURLE MARX AT MAC CCB

The Museum of Contemporary Art and Architecture Center (MAC/CCB) in Lisbon is presenting a major exhibition titled 'Lugar de estar: o legado Burle Marx' (A Place to Be: The Legacy of Burle Marx). The show features an extensive selection of landscape projects for public spaces by the influential Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx and his collaborators, tracing nearly seventy years of work through studies, sketches, photographs, and press materials. It highlights his role in shaping modern Brazilian cities like Brasília and Rio de Janeiro.

Rob Zombie's first art exhibition is in Connecticut

Rob Zombie, the musician known for his horror-themed lyrics and shock rock performances, is holding his first-ever art exhibition in Connecticut. Titled "What Lurks on Channel X," the show is on view at the Morrison Gallery in Kent from October 25 to November 16, 2025. The exhibition features over ten large-scale paintings that blend pop culture iconography, juxtaposing sinister figures like Bela Lugosi and Charles Manson with innocent characters from Archie comics and classic comedians such as Laurel and Hardy.

ROB ZOMBIE Art Exhibition 'What Lurks On Channel X?' To Open In Kent, Connecticut

Morrison Gallery in Kent, Connecticut, will host 'What Lurks On Channel X?', the first-ever gallery exhibition of musician and filmmaker Rob Zombie's paintings, from October 25 to November 16, 2025. The show features over ten large-scale works on canvas that blend pop culture icons—from Bela Lugosi and Charles Manson to Archie Comics characters and classic comedians—reflecting Zombie's childhood immersion in television.

FORGING PATHS: AFRO-BRAZILIAN ANCESTRY AND FEMININE POWER IN THE WORK OF NÁDIA TAQUARY

FORJAR CAMINOS: ANCESTRALIDAD AFROBRASILEÑA Y PODER FEMENINO EN LA OBRA DE NÁDIA TAQUARY

The exhibition "Ònà Irin: caminho de ferro" by artist Nádia Taquary has opened at Sesc Belenzinho in São Paulo, featuring large-scale sculptures and an immersive video installation. Curated by Amanda Bonan, Ayrson Heráclito, and Marcelo Campos, the show centers on a massive installation of iron rails that symbolize the Yoruba deity Ogum, the opener of paths. The works integrate traditional Afro-Brazilian materials such as cowrie shells, beads, and metals to explore spiritual protection and the historical significance of jewelry as a form of resistance and identity for enslaved and freed Black women.

Do you hate art museums? Why (and how) to take a 2nd look

Do you hate art museums? Why (and how) to take a 2nd look

The traditional art museum experience often leads to exhaustion and a sense of alienation due to the overwhelming abundance of artworks and the pressure to see everything quickly. This phenomenon, which affects even visitors to world-class institutions like the Vatican or the Uffizi, stems from a 'problem of abundance' rather than a lack of appreciation for the art itself. The author suggests that smaller, more intimate spaces and a slower approach to viewing would make art more accessible and less intimidating for the general public.

“Year of the Snake is the year of us doing our work”: Leith arts collective open up ahead of exhibition this month

Hot Snakes Studio, a six-member arts collective based in Leith's Custom House in Edinburgh, is preparing for its second exhibition, titled "Year of the Snake," opening later this month. The group, composed of working creators including Phil Morrell (Surface Ritual), Robbie McKay (Whisky Kuts), Matt Sloe (Sinclair), Ross MacRae, Rhory Gardiner (Hungry Window), and Tom Hatch (Journeyman Signs), will showcase personal work that explores themes such as folklore, African traditions, and environmental issues. The show is entirely self-funded and grassroots, with support from local businesses like Pizza Geeks.

Nigeria At Venice: Speaking on Our Own Terms.

Nigeria is preparing for its return to the Venice Biennale in 2028 with a fundamentally different approach, framing its participation as a structural intervention rather than mere inclusion. Curator Richard Vedelago, in conversation with Suzette Bell-Roberts, outlines a strategy focused on ownership, authorship, and building a self-sustaining cultural ecosystem, moving beyond seeking validation from global art structures.