Moyra Davey presents an exhibition at greengrassi gallery in London, featuring a series of new works that continue her exploration of photography, text, and everyday objects. The show includes 14 documented images, blending personal narrative with conceptual art practices.
Joe Brainard's work is currently on view at Chris Sharp Gallery in an exhibition documented with 68 images and no videos. The show presents the artist's pieces, though no text descriptions accompany the images on the page.
Wollongong Art Gallery has launched three new winter exhibitions: 'Ballad of the Burbs' by Nicci Bedson, 'Transience Atlas' by Rob Howe, and 'Popular Versus Culture' by Georgia Banks. The exhibitions opened on June 5, 2026, with a well-attended event, showcasing diverse works that explore suburban life, seasonal change, and pop culture. The gallery's 2026 program also includes ongoing shows such as 'The Architecture of Feeling' and 'Tell Them Their Dreaming'.
Galerie's weekly roundup highlights nine art and design stories, including the launch of the contemporary art project 'Komorebi' at The St. Regis Venice, timed with the 2026 Venice Biennale. The exhibition features works by six artists—Nina Carini, Gaia De Megni, Marco De Sanctis, Joan Jonas, Jure Kastelic, and Marinella Senatore—curated throughout the hotel's rooms alongside bespoke Murano glass pieces created with Berengo Studio. Other stories include Longines introducing new options for its iconic Dolce Vita watch, photographer Alessio Boni's alchemical works shown at Robert Stilin Gallery in Manhattan, and Champalimaud designing new River Cottages at the Hudson Valley retreat Troutbeck.
Shepparton Art Museum (SAM) in regional Victoria has opened "Facing Modernity: Degas to Picasso from Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki," a landmark exhibition featuring 37 paintings and sculptures by modernist masters including Picasso, Matisse, Dalí, Cézanne, and Hepworth. The show, which runs until 20 September 2026, is the only Australian venue for the exhibition, drawn from Auckland Art Gallery's collection and anchored by the significant Robertson gift. SAM will also host the Archibald Prize in September 2026, marking a major year for the institution.
Paris-based artist Xie Lei presents a new body of work in a solo exhibition titled "Double" at Musée Denys-Puech in Rodez, France. The show features dreamy oil paintings of spectral figures grappling with doubles, twins, or reflections, rendered with feather-light brushstrokes and deep shadows. Works like "Resistance" and "Double I" evoke underwater or elemental realms, while disembodied hands reach out in suspended touches. The exhibition runs from June 12 to October 25, 2025.
The Saatchi Gallery has opened a major new exhibition titled 'The Sun and The Moon,' exploring humanity's fascination with celestial bodies. Curated by Katherine Benson, the show spans nine gallery spaces across two floors and features works from over 170 artists, structured as a 24-hour cycle from dawn through night. Highlights include Luke Jerram's six-metre illuminated sphere 'Helios,' made from 400,000 NASA photographs, and Margot Selby's textile 'Moon Landing,' which honors the Navajo women and Raytheon workers who contributed to the Apollo missions. The exhibition also includes works by Patrick Caulfield, Barbara Hepworth, Sinta Tantra, Kay Gasei, and Aina Petrova, alongside historical artifacts like a Sol Invictus Celtic Bust and a replica of the Nebra Sky Disc.
Barbie: The Exhibition, originally staged at London's Design Museum, will open at Glasgow's Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum on June 13, running for four months. Curated by Danielle Thom, the show explores the design history of the iconic doll, from her 1959 debut to her cultural impact, including the evolution of Barbie pink and the architectural trends reflected in Dreamhouses. The exhibition is produced in partnership with Mattel and the Design Museum, aiming to present Barbie as a significant piece of mainstream design.
A new exhibition titled "Pasadena: L.A.'s Art Legacy" opens at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in Pasadena, featuring 70 works by nearly 60 artists. The show highlights Pasadena's overlooked role in establishing Los Angeles as a major international art center, with pieces by Hans Burkhardt, Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp, and others, all accompanied by labels noting provenance and past museum exhibitions. The opening reception is June 7, and the exhibition runs through August 29.
On the 150th anniversary of Welsh artist Gwen John's birth, Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales has opened "Gwen John: Strange Beauties" at National Museum Cardiff. The exhibition brings together rarely seen works from the museum's extensive John collection, including 900 drawings acquired in 1976, and marks the centenary of her 1926 solo show at London's Chenil Gallery. Curated by Lucy Wood, the show traces John's career from her Slade School days through her Paris years, featuring intimate portraits, self-portraits, and nude studies that challenge her historical relegation to the shadow of her brother Augustus John and lover Auguste Rodin.
Masters of the Stitch: Threaded Stories at Claire Oliver Gallery in Harlem showcases narrative quilts by 12 Black American artists, drawn from the collection of Carolyn Mazloomi, founder of the Women of Color Quilters Network. Works range from Sharon Kerry-Harlan's abstracted patterns of Black faces to Donna Chambers' portrait celebrating Barack Obama's inauguration, addressing themes such as family, civil rights, the COVID-19 pandemic, and cultural memory.
Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in Pasadena presents "Pasadena: L.A.'s Art Legacy," an exhibition opening June 7 and running through August 29. Featuring nearly 60 artists and 70 works from the gallery's holdings, the show highlights Pasadena's overlooked but crucial role in establishing Los Angeles as a major international art center. Each work includes provenance labels noting when museums exhibited the artist, with surprises such as Alexander Calder's childhood years in Pasadena and a wall label referencing Marcel Duchamp's legendary 1963 retrospective at the Pasadena Art Museum.
Arghavan Khosravi's solo exhibition "What Remains" opens today at Uffner & Liu in New York, presenting a new body of sculptural paintings that fuse Persian architecture with Christian altarpieces. The works explore women's fight for equality under censorship and religious dogma in Iran, featuring figures restricted by domestic objects, hinged shutters, and suspended cords, with fragments of limbs or faces visible. Key pieces include "Suspended" (2026), "Bearing" (2026), and "The Whisper" (2026), running through July 2.
The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University is presenting 'Everything Now All At Once,' an exhibition drawn entirely from its permanent collection that features works by over a dozen contemporary artists including Nick Cave, Ai Weiwei, Nina Chanel Abney, Wangechi Mutu, Jeffrey Gibson, Amy Sherald, and Barbara Chase-Riboud. The show focuses on painting and sculpture—deliberately analog mediums in an era of rapid technological change—and highlights pieces acquired over the past twenty years that center artists from historically marginalized backgrounds. Running since August 2025, the exhibition will rotate new works next month and continue through November 1 in Durham, North Carolina.
Marian Goodman Gallery in Paris is presenting a dual exhibition titled "Ettore Spalletti Dan Graham," running through June 20. The show brings together the work of Italian artist Ettore Spalletti and American artist Dan Graham, highlighting their shared interest in creating spatial experiences that engage the viewer's body and perception through form and color.
Mark Manders presents his sixth solo exhibition at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York, featuring new works that include monumental bronze busts, abstract sculptural landscapes, and discrete paintings and works on paper. The pieces are described as dreamlike and fragmented, populating the gallery like a series of thoughts given form and frozen in time.
Poppy Jones presents "Frozen Sun," a solo exhibition at Towner Eastbourne featuring her signature still lifes on repurposed textiles. The show includes a concise selection of her aluminum-framed works that blur the line between painting and object, alongside several new, larger pieces she has been developing in her studio.
From February 20 to May 31, 2026, Villa Arson art center in Nice presents "Mechanical Kurds," a video installation by German artist Hito Steyerl. The work blends fiction, documentary, and critical speculation to examine invisible micro-labor chains, the geopolitics of images, and the delegation mechanisms behind so-called autonomous technologies.
Paula Rego's exhibition "Story Line" is on view at Victoria Miro in London, featuring works that explore narrative through drawing and painting. The show highlights Rego's organic, hand-driven creative process, where drawings evolve into unexpected forms, as described in her own words.
Mousse Magazine reports on the two-person exhibition "Adam Pendleton + Antoni Tàpies" at Alfonso Artiaco in Naples, which pairs the contemporary American artist Adam Pendleton with the late Spanish master Antoni Tàpies. The show explores how both artists use painting as a site where language, materiality, and history converge, highlighting Tàpies's textured, sign-laden surfaces and Pendleton's conceptual engagement with abstraction and text.
P·P·O·W gallery in New York is presenting "Martin Wong: Popeye," the gallery's sixth solo exhibition of the artist's work and his first solo show in New York in over a decade. Co-curated by Mark Dean Johnson and Anneliis Beadnell, the exhibition explores Wong's lifelong fascination with artistic subcultures, particularly comic book illustration and early tattoo imagery.
Rene Matić has won the 2026 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, becoming the first British winner in over a decade. The announcement was made at The Photographers’ Gallery in London on May 14, 2025, where Matić received £30,000 for their exhibition *AS OPPOSED TO THE TRUTH*, which uses photography, installation, and sound to explore identity and belonging. Matić was nominated for the show at the Center for Contemporary Arts Berlin (CCA Berlin) and is also a recent Turner Prize nominee. The prize exhibition runs at The Photographers’ Gallery until June 7, alongside works by fellow shortlisted artists Jane Evelyn Atwood, Weronika Gęsicka, and Amak Mahmoodian.
Artnet News highlights five artworks from the Artnet Gallery Network that creatively reimagine dinosaurs, ranging from Scott Daniel Ellison's ghostly sauropod painting to Christian Voigt's eerie dinosaur photograph, The Connor Brothers' ironic text-and-image piece, M.C. Escher's optical illusion dragon, and Jean-Michel Basquiat's Pez Dispenser featuring a T. Rex. The article notes the enduring cultural fascination with dinosaurs, citing the $6.6 billion box office of Jurassic Park and Jurassic World films and the upcoming Sotheby's auction of a T. Rex fossil expected to fetch $20–$30 million.
Un nuovo progetto rivoluziona il Serpentine Pavilion di Londra: è dello studio messicano LANZA atelier
The 25th Serpentine Pavilion, designed by Mexico City-based architecture duo Isabel Abascal and Alessandro Arienzo of LANZA atelier, has been unveiled in London's Kensington Gardens. Named 'a serpentine', the fully demountable steel structure features a unified cladding of reusable perforated bricks and a curvilinear crinkle-crankle wall inspired by ancient Egyptian and English garden traditions. The pavilion will host a summer-long program of public events, including music, film, theater, dance, literature, fashion, and technology, as well as the Serpentine Park Nights series. A new addition for 2026 is a two-day symposium commemorating the life and work of Zaha Hadid on the tenth anniversary of her death, developed in collaboration with the Zaha Hadid Foundation and the Architectural Association.
The Guardian published a photo essay titled 'I wasn’t expecting that!: Joel Meyerowitz and the art of surprise – in pictures,' showcasing 25 works from the iconic US photographer's six-decade career. The images, drawn from his archives and many never seen before, capture unexpected moments—from a puff of steam from a manhole to a horse wandering into view—that Meyerowitz has been quick to photograph. The selection is presented as his fourth solo exhibition at Huxley-Parlour gallery in London, running from 5 June to 11 July 2026.
Sotheby's is set to auction 'Gus,' a 67-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton estimated at $20–$30 million, the highest estimate ever placed on a dinosaur fossil. The specimen, excavated in South Dakota, is one of the largest and most complete T. rex skeletons discovered. The auction follows a growing trend of dinosaurs appearing not only at major auction houses like Sotheby's and Christie's but also in contemporary art galleries and private museums, such as Amanita's recent exhibition pairing Maiasaura fossils with a John Chamberlain sculpture.
The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust has publicly condemned New York gallerist Peter Danziger for selling AI-colorized editions of Adams's iconic photograph "Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico" (1941) at the AIPAD Photography Show in April. Danziger displayed the AI-generated image at his booth with a wall text disclosing the prompt used, and offered prints in editions of 10 at three sizes. The Trust stated it was not notified in advance and accused Danziger of exploiting Adams's name and reputation for commercial gain. Danziger defended his actions, arguing the original image is in the public domain and that his work is transformative, though he apologized for not notifying the Trust.
Roberto Lugo has unveiled a monumental 20ft-tall urn titled *Capicú de Cariño (I Heard It Both Ways)* (2026) in Manhattan’s Madison Square Park, as part of his exhibition *Alfarero del Barrio (Village Potter)* commissioned by the Madison Square Park Conservancy. The urn features portraits of prominent Puerto Rican figures including Bad Bunny, Sonia Sotomayor, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Roberto Clemente, and the artist’s own parents, Gilberto and Maribel Lugo. The installation also includes a 15ft-tall orange fire hydrant sculpture, *Para Los Días Caliente (This Is For The Hot Ones)* (2026), and several planters and domino tables, all designed to invite public interaction and community engagement.
Amanita, a New York art gallery, is presenting three Maiasaura dinosaur fossils alongside a John Chamberlain sculpture in an exhibition titled "Land Before Time: Three Dinosaurs and a Gondola" at its Bowery location through August 9. The fossils, sourced from Tucson-based Granada Gallery, include an 85 percent complete adolescent, a 68 percent complete adult, and a 62 percent complete juvenile—marking the first time a full Maiasaura growth cycle has been displayed. The Chamberlain piece, "Gondola Marianne Moore" (1982), was procured with help from Hauser and Wirth. Only the fossils are for sale, with prices undisclosed.
Luxury Asset Capital (LAC) has filed a civil complaint in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York accusing Maddox Gallery of inflating the value of artworks used as collateral for loans. The dispute stems from a 2023 deal in which Maddox provided substitute collateral—works by Duncan McCormick and Albert Willem—in exchange for a George Condo painting previously held by LAC. LAC alleges that Maddox engaged in a "pump and dump" scheme, artificially bidding up auction prices for McCormick and Willem works to 10–15 times pre-sale estimates, then using those inflated values to justify trades. After the alleged bid-rigging stopped, auction prices fell, and LAC claims it is left with works worth only a fraction of what Maddox represented. Maddox Gallery co-founder Nick Sharp denies the claims as "bizarre and irrational," calling the lawsuit a baseless attempt to unwind a voluntary agreement.