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Art exhibitions to kickstart your cultural calendar in 2026

A roundup of art exhibitions opening in India during January-February 2026, curated to help readers plan their cultural calendar. Featured shows include 'Signs of Life' by Kunel Gaur at Method-Delhi, 'Chhoti Baatein, Bade Sapne' by Rajesh Ram at Palette Art Gallery, 'Zameen' at the Birla Academy of Art and Culture in Kolkata, and three exhibitions by Emami Art at the Kolkata Centre for Creativity, covering themes from identity and ecology to printmaking and regional artistic lineages.

Inside the star-studded party celebrating 30 years of Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo

Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo celebrated its 30th anniversary with a star-studded dinner in Turin, attended by over 500 leading artists, curators, collectors, and gallerists. The event, held at the National Automobile Museum, honored founder Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, who received a cultural medal from the mayor. Artists including Philippe Parreno, Doug Aitken, and Glenn Brown joined the festivities, which coincided with Turin art week and the Artissima art fair. The foundation also opened an anniversary exhibition, 'News from the Near Future,' featuring around 150 works from its collection.

Lehmann Maupin takes permanent space in Mayfair’s No. 9 Cork Street

Lehmann Maupin has secured a permanent space on the first floor of No. 9 Cork Street in London's Mayfair, the gallery hub operated by Frieze. The gallery will hold three to four exhibitions annually in the ground-floor gallery, starting with a show of British painter Freya Douglas-Morris on February 26, priced between £40,000 and £60,000. The upstairs viewing space opened with Billy Childish and will feature Catherine Opie later this year. The gallery also plans to develop its secondary market business from this London base.

Central Texas Museum Exhibitions Opening in Spring 2026

Central Texas museums and arts organizations, including the Blanton Museum of Art, the Visual Arts Center at the University of Texas at Austin, the San Antonio Museum of Art, and The Contemporary at Blue Star, have announced a slate of spring 2026 exhibitions. Highlights include the Georgetown Art Center's four-show season featuring Print Austin (a salon-style invitational for juried-exhibition rejects), Neo Geo: Geometry and Color by Larry Akers and Janet Brooks, Chris Ireland's photo-based Dead Letter Office, and Seeing Double – Two Views of Texas. The Blanton will present Contemporary Project 16: Tammy Nguyen (January 17–September 20), American Modernism from the Charles Butt Collection (March 8–August 2), and Run the Code: Data-Driven Art Decoded, a collaboration with the Thoma Foundation showcasing digital and AI-generated works by artists like Jenny Holzer.

On View: 'Jacob Lawrence: African American Modernist' at Kunsthal KAdE is First Retrospective of Celebrated Artist in Europe

Kunsthal KAdE in Amersfoort, Netherlands, is hosting 'Jacob Lawrence: African American Modernist,' the first European retrospective of the American artist Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000). The exhibition spans his six-decade career from the 1930s, featuring 70 paintings, 25 drawings, and 75 prints, along with photographs and archival materials. It includes works from his celebrated series on the Great Migration, Builders, World War II, and historical figures like Harriet Tubman and Toussaint L'Ouverture, as well as new works by contemporary artists Barbara Earl Thomas and Nina Chanel Abney inspired by Lawrence.

Artist Olafur Eliasson brings the outside world thrillingly to life inside the art gallery

Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson's major survey exhibition 'Presence' has opened at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) in Brisbane, Australia. Curated by Geraldine Kirrihi Barlow, the show synthesizes three decades of Eliasson's immersive installations, photography, and sculpture, including iconic works like 'Riverbed' (2014) and 'The cubic structural evolution project' (2004), both from QAGOMA's permanent collection. A spectacular new installation also titled 'Presence' features a pulsing artificial sun using mirrors and monofrequency light to create an illusion of infinite space.

The Best New York City Exhibitions of 2025

Hyperallergic's staff and contributors present their picks for the best New York City exhibitions of 2025, highlighting a year marked by major museum reopenings, including the Studio Museum in Harlem after a seven-year hiatus and the Frick's expansion. Notable shows include Amy Sherald's 'American Sublime' at the Whitney Museum, Rashid Johnson at the Guggenheim, Wifredo Lam at MoMA, and surveys of Indigenous design at the Ford Foundation Gallery, Seydou Keïta at the Brooklyn Museum, and hometown heroes like Jack Whitten at MoMA and Coco Fusco at El Museo del Barrio. The list also features Saya Woolfalk at the Museum of Arts and Design, Nayland Blake at Matthew Marks Gallery, and Ben Shahn at the Jewish Museum.

Diana Al-Hadid’s Norm-Resisting Survey Exhibition at MSU Broad Art Museum

The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University is presenting a survey exhibition titled “unbecoming” by Syrian-American artist Diana Al-Hadid, curated by Dr. Rachel Winter. The show features Al-Hadid’s sculptural wall panels made from polymer gypsum, steel, plaster, metal leaf, and pigment, many of which break rectilinear forms and reveal their fragile internal structures. The works incorporate recognizable imagery—silhouettes, bodies, art-historical references—that dissolves into the surface, creating tension and inviting viewers to question fixed meanings. The article also recounts a personal encounter with the artist, highlighting the humor and resistance embedded in her practice.

Inman Gallery Opens New Space in Midtown Houston

Inman Gallery in Houston is relocating to a new 8,500-square-foot space at 1502 Alabama Street in the Midtown neighborhood, after 20 years at its North Main Street location. Owner Kerry Inman will celebrate the move with a group exhibition titled *The Long View*, opening December 6, featuring 37 artists including JooYoung Choi, Erika Blumenfeld, and Angela Fraleigh. The building, originally an auto-body shop and later the Station Museum of Contemporary Art, was renovated by Dillon Kyle Architects to include three exhibition galleries, with a design concept likened to a geode—rough exterior, jewel-like interior.

Art, fashion and nature join forces

The article features a conversation between Los Angeles-based artist Sam Falls and Edoardo Zegna, chief marketing, digital and sustainability officer at the Italian luxury menswear brand Zegna, during Miami Art Week. Falls creates works that blend Land Art and plein air photography by leaving materials in natural environments, while Zegna discusses the brand's century-long stewardship of Oasi Zegna, a 100 sq. km forest in the Italian Alps. Zegna has created an invitation-only pop-up space called Villa Zegna in the Design District showcasing Falls's works, and Falls also has pieces at 303 Gallery's stand at Art Basel Miami Beach and in the Ruinart Lounge.

A brush with… Mary Kelly—podcast

This podcast episode features an in-depth conversation with pioneering conceptual and feminist artist Mary Kelly, now 84 and based in Los Angeles. She reflects on her groundbreaking works such as *Post-Partum Document* (1973-77) and *Interim* (1984-89), her move to Beirut in the 1960s, the influence of May 1968, and her lifelong commitment to non-figurative art after encountering Franz Kline's work at age 15. The episode also covers her current exhibition *We don't want to set the world on fire* at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery in London, running until January 2026.

India’s art market is fast growing—is it also maturing?

The third edition of Art Mumbai (13-16 November) saw strong sales and record auction prices for Indian Modernists, including MF Husain's *Gram Yatra* (1953) becoming the first Indian painting to sell for over $10 million. The fair, held amid surging private wealth in India, featured leading contemporary galleries reporting up to 90% sales on opening day, with works priced from $1,000 to $300,000. A recent reduction in India's goods and service tax on art from 12% to 5% has further boosted the market.

16 New Auction Records Set in November 2025

New York's fall auction week in November 2025 saw major houses Sotheby's, Christie's, and Phillips collectively bring in over $2 billion, signaling renewed market confidence after an uneven spring. The top lot was Gustav Klimt's *Portrait of Elizabeth Lederer* (ca. 1914–16), which sold for $236.36 million at Sotheby's—the second-highest price ever paid at auction and a new record for the artist. Other notable records included Frida Kahlo's *El sueño (La cama)* (1940), which became the most expensive artwork by a woman artist sold at auction, fetching $54.66 million. In total, 16 new artist auction records were set during the week.

Boulder County art shows on exhibit this week

This week's Boulder County art listings feature a wide array of exhibitions across more than 20 galleries and museums. Highlights include the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art's "MediaLive: Data Rich, Dirt Poor," exploring value and values through environmental and cultural lenses, and BMoCA at Frasier's "Interiors" by Jordan Wolfson, showcasing two decades of oil paintings, graphite drawings, and charcoal works. Other notable shows include "Camp: Queer Arts and Crafts and the Beauty of Imperfection" by Allyson McDuffie at Kin Studio and Gallery, "Love Letters to Life" by Roddy MacInnes at East Window, and "Sacred Mythologies" at NoBo Art Center. The listings also include ongoing exhibitions at the Museum of Boulder, Canyon Theater and Gallery, and several commercial galleries featuring local and international artists.

Acquisitions round-up: an ‘exceptionally rare’ portrait of an enslaved person and two large-scale donations

The article reports on three major acquisitions and donations in the art world. The Mississippi Museum of Art and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art jointly acquired an 'exceptionally rare' portrait of Frederick, an enslaved person in pre-emancipation Mississippi, painted around 1840 by C.R. Parker. The portrait sold for $508,750 at Neal Auction Company. Separately, entrepreneur and collector Hermann Gerlinger donated 42 works by the German Expressionist group Die Brücke to Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, including a marriage portrait by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Additionally, the family of late Korean artist Suki Seokyeong Kang donated around 400 of her works to Ewha Womans University in Seoul, where she studied and taught.

Uman’s kaleidoscopic journeys

The article profiles Somali-born, self-taught artist Uman, whose vibrant, pattern-filled paintings are currently the subject of her first institutional solo exhibition, 'Uman: After all the things…', at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut. The show, curated by Amy Smith-Stewart, features works like *Zam Zam Bom Bom* (2023) and *Melancholia in a Fall Breeze* (2025), alongside a large-scale mural and a sculptural streetlamp. The article also reveals Uman's plan to relocate from upstate New York to the south of France next spring, marking the end of a 20-year chapter in her adopted home.

Three key takeaways from Lagos’s newest African art symposium

The second week of November 2025 marks Lagos Art Week, featuring the 10th edition of Art X Lagos, West Africa’s leading international art fair, and the 15th edition of Lagos Photo Festival, now a biennial. A new symposium, Re: assemblages, hosted by the Alliance Française de Lagos and organized by the Guest Artists Space and Yinka Shonibare Foundations, brought together cultural practitioners from across Africa and the diaspora to discuss African and Afro-diasporic art archives. Key takeaways include the importance of archives as living tools for shaping the future, concerns about restricted access to the archives of late curators Okwui Enwezor and Bisi Silva, and the need for restitution efforts to incorporate African knowledge systems and language, not just the return of objects.

Collective builds on a century of art in Sarasota

Art Center Sarasota presents three concurrent exhibitions running through November 15: "SARTQ Collective: Legacy x Response: SARTQ Responds to a Century of ACS," featuring contemporary works by the local artist collective SARTQ that engage with the center's 100-year history; "Juan Alonso-Rodriguez: Earthly Glyphs," showcasing the Cuban-born artist's fictional microscopic views of Earth's strata; and "Njeri Kinuthia: Reconstruction: Mwacha Mila NiSi Mtumwa," a series of portraits exploring cultural identity through weaving, sewing, and embroidery. The exhibitions highlight the breadth of artistic practice in Southwest Florida, from established regional artists to emerging voices.

NEXT in the Gallery: Where to see flying girls, hot yams and shifting landscapes in November

NEXTpittsburgh's November gallery guide highlights several new exhibitions opening across Pittsburgh. Shows include "Frank Harris: Born to be Wild" at Groove Gallery, featuring music-inspired portraits of icons like Jerry Garcia and David Bowie; "Ground Shift: Four Artists Navigate a Shifting Landscape" at Spinning Plate Gallery, with works by Paul Rosenblatt, Ann Rosenthal, Michel Demetria Tsouris, and Briget Shields addressing environmental threats; "Picture This: A Photo Exhibit Celebrating Intergenerational Connections" and "Peju Alatise: I Will Belong to Only Me" at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center; and "Neither/Nor" by Rum Hansra and Sayak Mitra at Atithi Studios, coinciding with Diwali.

An Exhibition of Silenced Artists Sends a Warning in New York City

An exhibition titled "Don’t Look Now: A Defense of Free Expression" has opened at Nathalie Karg Gallery in New York City, organized by the nonprofit Art at a Time Like This and co-founded by curator Barbara Pollack. The show features artworks by artists who have experienced censorship, including Danielle SeeWalker’s painting "G is for Genocide" (2024), which led to the revocation of her artist residency in Vail, Colorado, and Andil Gosine’s altered photograph "Magna Carta" (2025), which was removed from a planned exhibition at the Art Museum of the Americas. The works address suppression linked to President Trump’s crackdown on DEI, anti-Palestine sentiment, and other forms of censorship, with some institutions self-censoring due to funding cuts from entities like the National Endowment for the Arts.

‘Wear layers and chic waterproof shoes’: Cherry Cheng on the art she collects, the London food she loves and how she survives Frieze week

Cherry Cheng, an art collector and founder of the high-end perfume house Jouissance, discusses her art-buying habits, favorite London spots, and Frieze week plans in an interview. She studied at Sotheby's Institute of Art and Goldsmiths, worked for Gurr Johns, and now collects works by artists such as Tancredi di Carcaci and Anastasia Pavlou, while supporting institutions like the Serpentine, Studio Voltaire, and the Institute of Contemporary Arts.

Alexander Morrison

Alexander Morrison, a prominent figure in the art world, has passed away. The article, published by The Art Newspaper, reports on his death and likely includes tributes to his contributions, though the provided text is limited to subscription prompts and footer information, lacking full details on his life and career.

16 Hidden Art Gems You Can Visit for Free During Open House New York

Open House New York returns for 2025 from October 17 to 19, offering free or low-cost access to over 340 venues across all five boroughs, including architectural landmarks, cultural institutions, and hidden spaces not normally open to the public. Highlights include the filtration system at Astoria Pool, behind-the-scenes tours of a Goodwill in Brooklyn, a passive house in Harlem, and art-focused sites such as MTA Arts and Design subway tours, the Whitney Museum's flood mitigation system by Renzo Piano, and the Morbid Anatomy Museum. The event features 164 drop-in venues and 178 ticketed sites at $7 per person, with tickets released on October 3.

Closures Can’t Dim the Spark: 9 Unmissable Bay Area Art Shows This October

The article highlights nine must-see art exhibitions in the Bay Area for October, despite recent gallery closures like KADIST and Gallery 16. Key shows include the Museum of the African Diaspora's twin exhibitions 'Continuum' and 'Unbound' for its 20th anniversary, Drew Villanueva's first solo exhibition at Good Mother Studio inside Ikea, Jim Melchert's retrospective at di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, and Mills College Art Museum's '100 Years of Creative Visions'. The programming is anchored by the second edition of Nexus, a Bay Area art week spotlighting Black voices and bridging regional divides.

A brush with… Wolfgang Tillmans—podcast

The article is a podcast transcript featuring an in-depth conversation with Wolfgang Tillmans, the influential German photographer born in 1968. It covers his four-decade career, his experimental approach to photography—spanning portraiture, still life, landscape, political subjects, and abstraction—and his innovative installation methods that respond to specific exhibition spaces. Tillmans discusses early influences like Kurt Schwitters, Francisco de Zurbarán, Isa Genzken, Laurie Anderson, and Jiddu Krishnamurti, and reflects on his expanding practice into video, text, sound, and music. The piece also lists current and upcoming exhibitions, including a solo show at Maureen Paley in London and his participation in the 36th Bienal São Paulo.

Christian Marclay's ‘Doors’ marks opening of Brooklyn Museum's new video art gallery

Christian Marclay's video collage 'Doors' (2022) has opened at the Brooklyn Museum's newly constructed Moving Image Gallery, marking the institution's first dedicated space for time-based media. The 54-minute work, co-purchased by the Brooklyn Museum and the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, splices hundreds of film clips showing characters entering and exiting doorways, building on the visual language of Marclay's acclaimed 24-hour film 'The Clock' (2010). The gallery was built to Marclay's specifications, offering a theatrical setting rather than a typical black-box presentation.

Art Center Sarasota celebrates its 100th year, among 32 local art shows this month

Art Center Sarasota is celebrating its 100th anniversary with a season of exhibitions, including "SARTQ Collective: Legacy x Response: SARTQ Responds to a Century of ACS," which honors the center's history through contemporary works by local artist collective SARTQ. Other featured shows include "Juan Alonso-Rodriguez: Earthly Glyphs," presenting fictional microscopic views of Earth's strata, and "Njeri Kinuthia: Reconstruction," exploring identity through textile-inspired portraits. These exhibitions are part of 32 visual art shows taking place across Southwest Florida in October, hosted by more than a dozen art centers from Sarasota to Marco Island.

25 of 2025: 5 Groundbreaking Fiber Artists You Need to Know

Artnet News profiles five groundbreaking fiber artists as part of its "25 of 2025" series, highlighting Diedrick Brackens and Melissa Joseph among them. Brackens, born in 1989, has seen his textile works exhibited at major institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, and LACMA, with a solo show "the shape of survival" at the SCAD Museum of Art and a U.K. debut at the Holburne Museum in 2025. Melissa Joseph, who only began working with felt in 2020, has rapidly gained attention through solo exhibitions and major public commissions, including a 2024 installation at Rockefeller Center and the 2025 UOVO Prize-winning work "Tender" at the Brooklyn Museum.

Smithsonian American Art Museum Debuts Monumental New Commission by Nick Cave in February 2026

The Smithsonian American Art Museum will debut "Nick Cave: Mammoth," a monumental new commission by artist Nick Cave, in February 2026. This marks Cave's first solo exhibition in Washington, D.C., and represents the museum's largest-ever commission by a single artist. The installation combines sculpture, video, and found objects, drawing on Cave's childhood in Chariton County, Missouri, and exploring themes of family history, landscapes, and craft traditions. The exhibition will be on view from February 13, 2026, through January 3, 2027, and is organized by curator Sarah Newman.

Rediscovering Norman Zammitt, a 1960s Visionary of the Light and Space Movement

Karma gallery in New York has opened 'Norman Zammitt: A Degree of Light', the first New York exhibition in nearly 60 years dedicated to the late Light and Space movement artist. The show features two key bodies of work: his laminated-acrylic pole sculptures and hard-edge 'Band Paintings', reintroducing Zammitt's pioneering colorist practice to a contemporary audience. Zammitt, who died in 2007, was a Canadian-born artist of Mohawk and Italian descent who studied at Otis College of Art and Design and was represented by Felix Landau's gallery in Los Angeles.