Art News. Vasari Codex

museum exhibitions schedule May 28, 2026 visibility 19 link 16 artists, 105 galleries

Art Basel Paris Names 206 Exhibitors for 2026 Edition

Art Basel Paris has announced the 206 galleries from 41 countries and territories that will participate in its 2026 edition, returning to the Grand Palais from October 23–25 with preview days on October 21–22. This marks the first edition under new director Karim Crippa, who replaced inaugural director Clément Délepine after Délepine left for Lafayette Anticipations. Nearly 30 first-time exhibitors include Hong Kong’s Empty Gallery, Dubai’s Green Art Gallery, Berlin’s ChertLüdde and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, and New York’s Olney Gleason and Pace Di Donna Schrader Galleries. The fair is divided into three sectors: Galeries (181 galleries), Emergence (16 galleries for young galleries and solo presentations), and Premise (9 galleries for thematic and historical works). A dozen galleries are sharing booths, including Nicoletti and Seventeen from London, Tina Kim and Take Ninagawa from Tokyo, and Michael Rosenfeld Gallery with Jeffrey Deitch from New York and Los Angeles.

newspaper Artforum open_in_new Read original

museum exhibitions schedule May 28, 2026 visibility 22 link 9 artists, 3 galleries

Pietro Alexander’s Gallery Opening Was Also His Wedding

Los Angeles-born gallerist Pietro Alexander opened his eponymous gallery at 59 Wooster Street in New York City with a wedding to filmmaker and writer Sara Apple Maliki, held thirty minutes before the public opening. The inaugural exhibition, titled "The Wedding Show," features works by emerging and late-career artists including Ken Price, Craig Kauffman, Cristine Brache, and Jaxon Demme. The space, previously run by Alexander's uncle as an art space in the early 1980s, has remained largely untouched, described by Alexander as a "time capsule locked in amber." In an interview with dealer Ellie Rines of 56 Henry, Alexander discusses his move from LA, the blending of art and life, and the challenges of opening a gallery in 2026.

newspaper Interview Magazine open_in_new Read original

article local schedule May 23, 2026 source 2 sources visibility 20 link 10 artists, 5 galleries

Vermont Visual Arts

The article is a roundup of visual art exhibitions and events across Vermont and neighboring New York and New Hampshire, compiled by the Vermont Visual Arts staff. It lists current and upcoming shows at venues including Espresso Bueno, Studio Place Arts, Bennington Museum, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, UVM Fleming Museum, The Hyde Collection, Hood Museum of Art, and others, with details on dates, artists, and locations. Featured exhibitions include silk screen prints by Jodi Whalen, acrylic paintings by Heidi Broner, a group show on Vermont farms, and a Pride-themed closing reception for "Gayzing" at Studio Place Arts.

newspaper Rutland Herald Also: Times Argus open_in_new Read original

article culture schedule May 22, 2026 visibility 26 link 17 artists, 1 gallery

Inside the technicolour world of Jack White

Jack White, the musician best known as the frontman of The White Stripes, has begun showing his visual art, which he has been creating since his teenage years. The article offers a glimpse into his vibrant, technicolour artistic practice, marking his debut as a visual artist in the public eye.

newspaper Financial Times Visual Arts open_in_new Read original

museum exhibitions schedule Jun 10, 2026 visibility 1 link 24 artists

Museum Rietberg’s A Kind of Paradise: Colonial-Era Photography in Contemporary Art is Balm for the Scars of European Conquest

A new group exhibition titled *A Kind of Paradise: Colonial-Era Photography in Contemporary Art* has opened at Museum Rietberg in Zurich, featuring twenty artists from the diasporas of Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Oceania. The show examines how colonial-era photography was used as a tool of mythmaking and objectification, and presents contemporary artworks that reinterpret, critique, and heal the scars left by these historical images. The exhibition is organized into four thematic sections—'Shapeshifters,' 'Confrontation,' 'Care,' and 'In the Photo Fantastic'—each exploring different strategies for recovering silenced narratives and challenging dominant colonial perspectives.

newspaper ARTnews open_in_new Read original

article culture schedule Jun 9, 2026 visibility 6 link 20 artists

What Is The Game of Exquisite Corpse, and Why Do Artists Still Play It?

The article explains the Surrealist game Exquisite Corpse (cadavre exquis), where participants collaboratively draw sections of a human body on folded paper without seeing each other's contributions, resulting in strange, hybrid figures. Originating in 1925 at Marcel Duhamel's Paris home, the game was developed by André Breton, Marcel Duchamp, Jacques Prévert, and Yves Tanguy, taking its name from a phrase generated in an earlier writing game. The Surrealists used it to access automatism and the unconscious, fostering wild experimentation through low-stakes materials.

newspaper ARTnews open_in_new Read original

museum exhibitions schedule Jun 8, 2026 visibility 5 link 5 artists

Twice a Week, David Haskell Leaves New York Magazine To Throw Clay

David Haskell, editor in chief of New York Magazine, is holding his first solo exhibition of sculptures titled "Boom Beach" at Donzella Ltd. in New York City. The show features 68 works, mostly ceramics, along with bronzes and glass sculptures, created over the past several years. Haskell, who works as a sculptor twice a week at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, began working with clay as a teenager and returned to it in 2013, evolving from making planters to abstract forms that he describes as a personal exploration of shape and balance.

newspaper ARTnews open_in_new Read original

candle obituary schedule Jun 8, 2026 visibility 4 link 6 artists

Elfie Semotan, Austrian Fashion Photographer, Dies at 84

Elfie Semotan, an Austrian fashion photographer renowned for her long collaboration with designer Helmut Lang, died unexpectedly on Saturday at age 84 in Jennersdorf, Austria. Born in Wels in 1941, Semotan studied fashion in Vienna, worked as a model in Paris, and launched her photography career in the 1970s with provocative ad campaigns for Palmers lingerie and Römerquelle mineral water. She also shot portraits of art-world figures including Louise Bourgeois, Maria Lassnig, Daniel Richter, and Martin Kippenberger, to whom she was briefly married. Her work appeared in magazines such as the New Yorker, Vogue, and Esquire, and she taught at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and the International Summer Academy in Salzburg.

newspaper ARTnews open_in_new Read original

museum exhibitions schedule Jun 7, 2026 visibility 7 link 6 artists

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.

newspaper The Guardian open_in_new Read original

article news schedule Jun 4, 2026 visibility 16 link 12 artists

New School Lays Off 15 Percent of Staff and Faculty As It Attemps to Plug $48 M. Deficit

The New School, a New York university, has laid off approximately 15 percent of its staff and faculty, including 19 full-time faculty members (10 of whom were tenured), as part of a major restructuring to address a $48 million annual deficit. The school is consolidating from four colleges to two, discontinuing over a dozen academic programs (including its master's in Arts Management and Entrepreneurship), pausing most doctoral admissions, and offering early retirement or buyout packages. The layoffs were first reported by the Chronicle of Higher Education, and the New School chapter of the American Association of University Professors has called them a "major gutting" and alleged some were politically motivated, a claim denied by Provost Richard Kessler.

newspaper ARTnews open_in_new Read original

trending_up market schedule Jun 2, 2026 visibility 9 link 2 artists

Comment | Furor over ‘colourised’ Ansel Adams photo reflects problems with the art market, not AI

At the Aipad Photography Show in April, gallerist James Danziger presented and sold a colorized version of Ansel Adams's iconic black-and-white photograph "Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico" (1941), generated using artificial intelligence. The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust and many in the photography community condemned the move, while Danziger defended it on the grounds that the image is in the public domain.

newspaper The Art Newspaper open_in_new Read original

article culture schedule Jun 2, 2026 visibility 12 link 3 artists

How Andy Warhol’s textile and fashion work influenced his art

A new publication by Montreal-based curator Paul Maréchal, titled *Andy Warhol: The Complete Textiles and Fashion*, catalogs over 200 textile designs by Andy Warhol, spanning from border patterns in the 1950s to screen-printed garments from the 1960s through the 1980s. The book explores Warhol’s early commission for an awning at the Fleming-Joffe boutique in St. Louis, his 1966 use of cellulose and cotton dresses from Abraham & Straus as silk-screen supports, and his late 1970s hand-printed T-shirts featuring logos like Brillo, Hershey, Campbell’s soup, and Coca-Cola. Maréchal argues that these textile works paved the way for Warhol’s Pop aesthetic.

newspaper The Art Newspaper open_in_new Read original

article culture schedule Jun 1, 2026 visibility 9 link 8 artists

Andy Warhol’s Tribute to Marilyn Monroe

Andy Warhol created over 50 paintings of Marilyn Monroe between August 1962 and 1964, inspired by the media frenzy following her death at age 36. Using a promotional headshot by Gene Kornman for 20th Century Fox, Warhol produced iconic works such as *Gold Marilyn* (1962), *Marilyn Monroe’s Lips* (1962), and *Marilyn Diptych* (1962). The series coincided with Warhol’s experimentation with silk-screening, a technique that allowed him to mass-produce images with slight variations, echoing his earlier repetition of Campbell’s Soup cans. Monroe’s death occurred on the closing day of Warhol’s first solo exhibition at Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles, marking a turning point in his career.

newspaper ARTnews open_in_new Read original

museum exhibitions schedule May 31, 2026 visibility 16 link 8 artists

Roller skates! Pointe shoes! Parachutes! A mythic dance takes flight again at a Brooklyn rink

The Trisha Brown Dance Company has reimagined Robert Rauschenberg's 1963 dance piece "Pelican" for the first time, staging it at the Xanadu roller skating rink in Brooklyn. The original work, born from a typo in a festival program, featured two men on roller skates and a ballerina on pointe, wearing parachutes like wings. The reconstruction, led by choreographer Tara Lorenzen and dancers Ashley Hod, Rashaun Mitchell, and Silas Riener, used archival photos and notes from Rauschenberg and Trisha Brown's archives to fill in gaps left by the scant surviving documentation.

newspaper The Guardian open_in_new Read original

article news schedule May 29, 2026 visibility 15 link 2 artists

Art Critic Anthony Haden-Guest Says Socialite–Collector Libbie Mugrabi Won’t Return His Cartoons

Art critic and cartoonist Anthony Haden-Guest has filed a lawsuit in New York State Supreme Court against socialite and collector Libbie Mugrabi, alleging she refuses to return 97 of his original drawings. The works were entrusted to Mugrabi roughly 15 years ago for a planned exhibition at her Southampton home that never materialized; instead, the drawings remained hanging in her Hamptons mansion. Haden-Guest also claims he is owed $18,000 for creative work on Mugrabi's fashion venture, and seeks at least $115,000 in damages plus the return of the artwork. Mugrabi has reportedly called the allegations "bogus."

newspaper ARTnews open_in_new Read original

article culture schedule May 29, 2026 visibility 27 link 10 artists

‘It’s the colour and artworks that make my house sing’

Art collector and author Ruth Evans opens her north London home, a Victorian terrace she has lived in for 30 years, to reveal a vibrant interior filled with bold colors and an extensive art collection. For her third refurbishment, she collaborated with interior designer Mika Burdett to create a space that reflects her life and aesthetic, featuring works by Julian Opie, Howard Hodgkin, Joan Miró, Andy Warhol, Maggi Hambling, and others. The redesign focused on spatial planning, storage, and flow, with a new window, removed walls, and a kitchen tailored to her needs, including a pet flap and display cases.

newspaper The Guardian open_in_new Read original

article news schedule May 29, 2026 visibility 16 link 5 artists, 3 galleries

La Bevilacqua La Masa di Venezia replica: “Noi una fondazione decaduta? Tutt’altro”

The Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice has issued a rebuttal to an article by Angela Vettese published in Artribune, which portrayed the foundation as in decline between 2016 and 2026. The foundation's current leadership disputes Vettese's account, detailing achievements such as restoring and expanding artist studios from 12 to over 20, hosting international exhibitions with curators like Milovan Farronato, and reconstructing the foundation's collection, which was exhibited for the first time outside Venice at the Museo Ettore Fico in Turin. They also cite financial figures showing exhibitions generated over one million euros in the last four and a half years, funding artist residencies and international exchanges.

newspaper Artribune open_in_new Read original

candle obituary schedule May 27, 2026 visibility 30 link 9 artists

Donald Newhouse, Publishing Heir and Brother of Si Newhouse, Dies at 96

Donald Newhouse, the billionaire newspaper publisher and heir to the Condé Nast media empire, died at 96 from lymphoma at his home in Lambertville, New Jersey. He and his brother Si Newhouse inherited a vast media conglomerate from their father; Donald focused on Advance Publications' newspaper business, running The Star-Ledger and expanding holdings to include The Plain Dealer, The Times-Picayune, and The Oregonian. His death comes days after Christie's evening sales of works from Si Newhouse's collection, which included a record-breaking sale of Jackson Pollock's Number 7A, 1948 for $181.2 million.

newspaper ARTnews open_in_new Read original

trending_up market schedule May 27, 2026 visibility 30 link 5 artists

‘Prediction Markets’ Come to Art Auctions: Now You Can Bet on Basquiat and Monet, Courtesy of Kalshi

Kalshi, a prediction market platform, has launched a new category allowing users to bet on individual artwork auction prices and total auction sales values. Users can wager on outcomes such as whether auction records for artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat, Vincent van Gogh, and Pablo Picasso will be broken this year. The company positions this as a tool for collectors, art funds, dealers, and retail speculators to hedge against art market volatility, though critics raise concerns about potential insider trading. Major auction houses Christie’s, Sotheby’s, and Phillips have responded cautiously, with Christie’s stating its policies preclude employee involvement in such markets.

newspaper ARTnews open_in_new Read original

trending_up market schedule May 27, 2026 visibility 21 link 8 artists

Collectors Anita and Poju Zabludowicz to Sell $20.1 M. in Art at Christie’s

Collectors Anita and Poju Zabludowicz, longtime fixtures on the ARTnews Top 200 Collectors list, are selling £15 million ($20.1 million) worth of art at Christie’s next month through an in-person auction in London on June 25 and an online sale. The 106-lot sale is led by Philip Guston’s painting *Mirror Head* (1977), estimated at up to £5.5 million ($7.38 million), alongside works by Beatriz Milhazes, Rose Wylie, Damien Hirst, Richard Prince, Takashi Murakami, Henry Taylor, and Charline von Heyl.

newspaper ARTnews open_in_new Read original

article culture schedule May 27, 2026 visibility 15 link 8 artists

Jackson Pollock Transformed American Art—and Was Destroyed by His Own Success

The article traces Jackson Pollock's transformative yet destructive rise to fame, focusing on his move to East Hampton with Lee Krasner, his development of drip painting in a small unheated barn, and the influence of predecessors like Janet Sobel and Max Ernst. It details his 1948 debut at the Betty Parsons Gallery, the mocking 1949 Life Magazine feature that ironically catapulted him to celebrity, and photographer Hans Namuth's documentation of his process, which revealed the deliberate nature of his technique.

newspaper ARTnews open_in_new Read original

museum exhibitions schedule May 26, 2026 visibility 20 link 3 artists

Los Angeles’s new Hospital of Emotions pop-up gives artists keys to the asylum

The Hospital of Emotions, a new pop-up exhibition in Los Angeles, has transformed the defunct St Vincent Medical Center into a sprawling art experience. Curator Yaara Sachs, founder of House of Art and Dreams, selected around 70 artists through an open call to take over 80 spaces—including examination rooms and operating chambers—in the building, which is slated for renovation into a behavioral health center. Each artist received $4,000 for their project and up to $10,000 for materials. The exhibition is organized into thematic "departments" dedicated to emotional states such as joy, fear, anger, and sadness, aiming to guide visitors toward catharsis. Featured artists include Kamil Cazpiga (Cosmodernism), Guy "Dioz" Bloom, Pablo Thomas, and Napo, among others.

newspaper The Art Newspaper open_in_new Read original

trending_up market schedule May 26, 2026 visibility 22 link 6 artists

Kalshi Rolls Out Prediction Markets Tied to Art Auctions

Kalshi, an online prediction market platform based in New York, launched a new category of prediction markets tied to art auction prices on May 26. The platform offers 16 contracts, including bets on whether artists like Andy Warhol and Vincent van Gogh will break their auction records, and speculation on specific lots such as Gustav Klimt's *Portrait of Gertrud Loew* (1902) at Sotheby's London. The move follows Kalshi's earlier forays into luxury watches and Pokémon cards, and comes after New York's spring auction week generated $2.1 billion in sales at Christie's, Sotheby's, and Phillips.

newspaper Artnet News open_in_new Read original

trending_up market schedule May 26, 2026 visibility 13 link 4 artists

Taiwanese Pop Star Is the Buyer of $20 M. Matisse Painting at Sotheby’s

Taiwanese pop star Jay Chou revealed himself as the buyer of Henri Matisse's 1924 painting *La Séance du Matin* at Sotheby's modern art evening sale, where it sold for $20 million before fees ($21.2 million with fees). Chou, who guaranteed the work, received an $800,000 rebate and shared his emotional connection to the piece on Instagram, recalling visits to Matisse's home in Nice. The sale was part of a larger auction that also featured another Matisse, *La Chaise lorraine* (ca. 1919), which sold for $48.4 million.

newspaper ARTnews open_in_new Read original

rate_review review schedule May 26, 2026 visibility 18 link 4 artists

Leonora in the Morning Light review – pioneering British artist who fled convention for the surrealists

A new biopic titled *Leonora in the Morning Light* chronicles the life of British surrealist painter Leonora Carrington, who fled her aristocratic upbringing in London to join the surrealist circle in Paris. The film, adapted from Elena Poniatowska's biographical novel, follows Carrington from her affair with the older Max Ernst through her mental health crisis in Spain and eventual settlement in Mexico, where she created art on her own terms. Olivia Vinall portrays Carrington with a fierce, uncompromising spirit, though the film is criticized for uneven storytelling and clunky dialogue.

newspaper The Guardian open_in_new Read original

trending_up market schedule May 22, 2026 visibility 19 link 6 artists

Who Won New York’s $2.1 Billion Auction Week?

New York City's spring auction week generated approximately $2.1 billion in sales across Christie's, Sotheby's, and Phillips, more than doubling the $1 billion total from May 2024. Christie's led with a $1.3 billion haul, driven by the $630.8 million S.I. Newhouse collection and record prices for works by Jackson Pollock ($181.2 million) and Constantin Brancusi ($107.6 million). Sotheby's netted around $737 million, including a Rothko from the Robert Mnuchin collection, while Phillips rebounded with $115.2 million in a white-glove sale, its strongest New York spring result since 2022.

newspaper Artnet News open_in_new Read original

article culture schedule May 22, 2026 visibility 30 link 9 artists

Shoot and branch: new photography book highlights the enduring majesty of trees

A new photography book, *Trees of Great Britain and Ireland*, reproduces over 60 photographs originally taken between 1906 and 1913 for Henry John Elwes and Augustine Henry's ambitious seven-volume catalogue of tree species. The images, mostly by uncredited photographers, were printed using a collotype process by the Autotype Company and are now newly lithoprinted to preserve their tonal subtlety. The book includes an introduction by Michael Pritchard and notes by photographic historian Björn Andersson, highlighting the historical and aesthetic significance of these botanical photographs.

newspaper The Art Newspaper open_in_new Read original

trending_up market schedule May 20, 2026 visibility 24 link 21 artists

Bidding battle for Matisse leads Sotheby’s $303.3m Modern art evening sale in New York

Sotheby’s Modern evening auction on 19 May in New York achieved $303.3m with fees, falling within its pre-sale estimate of $244m to $322.8m. The standout lot was Henri Matisse’s 1919 painting *La Chaise lorraine*, which sold for $48.4m after a ten-minute bidding battle, becoming the second most valuable Matisse painting at auction. Other highlights included Alberto Giacometti’s *La Clairière (Composition avec neuf figures)* at $23.1m, Pablo Picasso’s *Arlequin (Buste, 1909)* at $42.6m, and a Mark Rothko untitled work on paper at $9.27m. The sale also saw strong demand for works by female Surrealists Leonor Fini and Leonora Carrington, while a Rodin sculpture was passed and a Gottlieb painting was withdrawn.

newspaper The Art Newspaper open_in_new Read original

museum exhibitions schedule May 18, 2026 visibility 15 link 6 artists

‘It’s like a Ouija board – I listen to the painting’: the supernatural art of Sanya Kantarovsky

Russian-born, New York-based artist Sanya Kantarovsky presents his new exhibition "Basic Failure" at Venice's Institute of Sciences, Letters and Arts, timed to coincide with the Venice Biennale. The show features his signature dishevelled, otherworldly figures—including a pallid boy with a cigarette, a child spinning in innocence, and a glass bust of a young boy with a dead spider under its eye—that explore tension, alienation, and the supernatural. Kantarovsky describes his process as listening to the painting like a Ouija board, and the exhibition includes works that confound narrative expectations, such as a scruffy toy panda and a recreation of Antonello Gagini's 16th-century sculpture.

newspaper The Guardian open_in_new Read original

article culture schedule May 12, 2026 visibility 21 link 5 artists

Basquiat’s Former Dealer on the Making of an Art World Icon

Bruno Bischofberger, who served as Jean-Michel Basquiat's exclusive worldwide dealer from 1982 until the artist's death in 1988, reflects on Basquiat's life and legacy in an excerpt from the forthcoming book *Basquiat: The World of Jean-Michel*, published by Assouline. Bischofberger contrasts Basquiat's raw, politically charged approach with Andy Warhol's detached, commercial style, and recounts personal memories of Basquiat's visits to Switzerland, where he absorbed everything from visual art to folk art and design.

newspaper Artnet News open_in_new Read original