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Pope Francis died on Easter Monday at his home in Casa Santa Marta at age 88, the Vatican announced. During his 12-year papacy, the first Jesuit and Latin American pontiff showed strong support for artists, becoming the first pope to visit the Venice Biennale last year, where he spoke at the Vatican's pavilion held in a women's prison. He emphasized the importance of contemporary art and women creators, citing Frida Kahlo and Louise Bourgeois, and urged artists to keep questioning and taking risks.

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person people schedule May 30, 2025 visibility 16 link 17 artists, 2 galleries

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Steve Wilson, founder of 21c Museum Hotels, and his wife Laura Lee Brown share their eclectic art collection in a CULTURED interview. Wilson recounts his early start in collecting with a Picasso poster bought as a college freshman after a discouraging art teacher, and how he and Brown now live with over 100 works in their Kentucky home, including provocative pieces like Kendell Geers’s champagne glasses cast from the artist’s erect penis. The couple’s collection also spans works by Kehinde Wiley, David Hockney, Andy Warhol, and many others, displayed salon-style across their residence.

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person people schedule Apr 27, 2026 visibility 28 link 18 artists, 5 galleries

At 77, Painter Archie Rand Is Still Telling New Stories

At 77, painter Archie Rand continues to create vibrant, narrative-driven works from his expansive Brooklyn studio. A new exhibition of his "Heads" series at Jarvis Art, co-curated by Max Werner and Lindsay Jarvis, features paintings that plunge viewers into the middle of unfolding stories, such as "Duck" (2025), where children sail a catboat through rough seas. Rand describes his process as chasing what lies "around the corner" in his compositions, prioritizing the mystery of the background over the central figures.

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Gulf art market feels the force of Middle East conflict

The ongoing conflict in the Middle East, involving the US, Israel, and Iran, has disrupted the Gulf region's art market. Key events like Art Dubai have been postponed, and the inaugural Frieze Abu Dhabi faces uncertainty, as the area's stability—crucial for attracting international dealers and auction houses—is now in question.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 31, 2026 visibility 22 link 11 artists, 1 gallery

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The Bernard Jacobson Gallery in London is presenting an exhibition titled "For John Constable," which reunites a portfolio of prints originally published by gallerist Bernard Jacobson in 1976. The 1976 project featured works by 19 contemporary artists, including David Hockney, Patrick Caulfield, and Howard Hodgkin, created in response to the legacy of the English landscape painter John Constable, marking his bicentenary. The exhibition, timed for the 250th anniversary of Constable's birth, runs through February 27, 2026.

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article culture schedule Jul 3, 2025 visibility 15 link 8 artists, 3 galleries

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Artnet News celebrates Pride Month by spotlighting queer artists featured on the Artnet Gallery Network. The article highlights five artists: Kyle Dunn, whose intimate paintings blend smooth and photorealistic surfaces; Tom of Finland, the iconic queer artist known for hyper-masculine, erotic illustrations; David Hockney, whose early work depicts an intimate bedroom scene; Anthony Goicolea, whose photography and paintings explore sexuality and adolescence; and Michela Griffo, an activist and artist whose work examines queer desire and domestic unease.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 12, 2025 visibility 19 link 7 artists, 1 gallery

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TONO, the time-based art festival, has announced its 2026 lineup, running March 6–22 across Mexico City and Puebla. The program includes video installations, performance commissions, music events, and screenings at venues such as Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Casa del Lago UNAM, Museo Jumex, Museo de Arte Moderno, and Museo Amparo. Featured artists include Tino Sehgal, Space Afrika, Franziska Aigner, Kelman Duran, Ho Tzu Nyen, Avantgardo, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, and Melanie Smith. International collaborations bring dance works via 99 Canal and Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels, and a joint evening with Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie. The festival is also co-producing Camille Henrot’s exhibition Água Viva at São Paulo’s Instituto Bardi.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 28, 2025 visibility 13 link 8 artists, 1 gallery

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Long-Sharp Gallery has opened a new online and in-person exhibition titled "Warhol's 1950s Printmaking: The Blotted Line" at the Conrad Indianapolis, showcasing a curated selection of Andy Warhol's early blotted line drawings from the 1950s. These works, which combine drawing and printmaking, feature motifs ranging from florals to figuration and were kept by Warhol after their creation, with provenance from his Estate. Gallery owner Rhonda Long-Sharp discusses the significance of these pieces, including a favorite work, *Roses* (ca. 1956), and shares insights into Warhol's personal history and artistic development.

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trending_up market schedule May 12, 2026 visibility 18 link 1 artist, 6 galleries

Damien Hirst | Hands in Prayer (Coral) (2010) | For Sale

This article is a sales listing for Damien Hirst's sculpture "Hands in Prayer (Coral)" (2010), a limited-edition bronze work from his series "Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable." The piece is offered by Kristy Stubbs Gallery in Dallas, Texas, priced at $225,000. The listing includes details about the work's materials, dimensions, edition number (2/3), and condition, along with a biography of Hirst highlighting his career as a Young British Artist, his major exhibitions at institutions like Tate Modern and the National Gallery of Art, and his record-breaking auction sales.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 4, 2026 visibility 28 link 26 artists, 2 galleries

First Look: See What’s Inside the Met Gala’s “Costume Art” Exhibition

Vanity Fair art and style correspondents Nate Freeman and José Criales-Unzueta preview the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute spring exhibition "Costume Art," which inaugurates the Condé M. Nast Galleries. The exhibition arrives amid controversy over the Met Gala being sponsored by Lauren Sánchez Bezos and Jeff Bezos, leading to boycott calls and New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani skipping the event. Despite this, Anna Wintour and Met director Max Hollein announced the gala raised a record $42 million. Head curator Andrew Bolton presents fashion as art, pairing garments with artworks like Warhol's Skull and Sarah Lucas's Nud Cycladic 9.

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trending_up market schedule Dec 4, 2025 visibility 41 link 26 artists, 10 galleries

$5.5 million Gerhard Richter painting leads Art Basel Miami Beach opening sales.

Art Basel Miami Beach 2025 opened on December 3 with strong sales, led by David Zwirner's sale of an abstract Gerhard Richter painting for $5.5 million. Other major transactions included a $4 million George Condo work at Hauser & Wirth, a $3.3 million Alice Neel painting at David Zwirner, and a $2.85 million Willem de Kooning at White Cube. Hauser & Wirth reported sales 40% higher than its entire 2024 fair week within the first three hours.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 6, 2025 visibility 20 link 17 artists, 1 gallery

Film-maker Wes Anderson to recreate Joseph Cornell’s New York studio in Paris this Christmas

Filmmaker Wes Anderson is recreating Joseph Cornell's New York studio in a window display at Gagosian Gallery's Paris space on Rue de Castiglione, opening next month to coincide with Christmas and Cornell's birthday on December 24. The exhibition will feature around 12 of Cornell's iconic shadow boxes, including "Pharmacy" (1943) and works from his Medici series, alongside hundreds of found objects. Curated by Jasper Sharp, who has worked with Anderson for years, the display is designed as a non-interactive window installation that captures the spirit and atmosphere of Cornell's basement studio in Queens, rather than an exact replica. Anderson and Sharp have spent weeks studying photographs and first-hand accounts, sourcing objects from flea markets and employing Anderson's film crew to replicate Cornell's handwriting and aging techniques.

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trending_up market schedule Sep 29, 2025 visibility 28 link 53 artists, 7 galleries

Who Are the 10 Top-Selling Living American Artists?

Artnet's Auction Price Database reveals the top 10 living American artists by auction sales value in 2024, with the U.S. art market generating $4.3 billion. The list includes Cindy Sherman ($180.9 million total sales, record $6.8 million for Untitled Film Stills), Mark Bradford ($226.6 million, record $12 million for Helter Skelter I), and Mark Grotjahn ($241 million, record $16.8 million for Untitled (S III Released to France Face 43.14)). Sherman is the only woman and photographer on the list; Bradford is the only African American and represented the U.S. at the 2017 Venice Biennale; Grotjahn is a California-based abstract painter.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 22, 2025 visibility 13 link 13 artists, 3 galleries

'Kerry James Marshall: The Histories,' Largest-Ever UK Exhibition of the Artist Includes New Paintings Exploring Role of Black Africans in Transatlantic Slave Trade

The Royal Academy of Arts in London has opened 'Kerry James Marshall: The Histories,' the largest-ever UK exhibition of the American artist, featuring over 70 works spanning 1980 to the present. The show includes eight new paintings that confront the transatlantic slave trade and the role of Black Africans who participated in the enslavement of their own people, alongside celebrated pieces like 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self' (1980) and 'Knowledge and Wonder' (1995), the latter displayed outside Chicago for the first time.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 19, 2025 visibility 23 link 34 artists, 2 galleries

Best New York City art exhibitions during fall 2025

This fall 2025, New York City will see the reopening of the Studio Museum in Harlem after a seven-year closure, with a new 82,000-square-foot building designed by Adjaye Associates and Cooper Robertson. The museum will debut with a major exhibition on Tom Lloyd, archival displays, and commissions by Camille Norment and Christopher Myers. The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present the first exhibition focused on Man Ray's rayographs, featuring 60 photograms and 100 other works. The Brooklyn Museum will host New York's largest Monet exhibition in over 25 years, reuniting 19 of his Venetian paintings. The New Museum will also unveil a 60,000-square-foot expansion by OMA / Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas, doubling its exhibition space.

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article culture schedule Mar 20, 2026 source 3 sources visibility 24 link 8 artists

Jordan Wolfson’s Newest Provocation Is a Creepy Prada Ad Campaign

Artist Jordan Wolfson has directed a new advertising campaign for Prada's Spring/Summer 2026 collection. The campaign, titled "I, I, I, I AM… PRADA," features unsettling, computer-generated birds and a bird-man hybrid alongside models including actors Carey Mulligan, Nicholas Hoult, Damson Idris, and Hunter Schafer, continuing Wolfson's signature style of disturbing digital avatars.

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article culture schedule Jul 2, 2025 visibility 15 link 12 artists, 1 gallery

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A new book titled *Hidden Portraits: The Untold Stories of Six Women Who Loved Picasso* by Sue Roe (published by Faber and W.W. Norton) examines the lives of Picasso's six most significant partners: Fernande Olivier, Olga Khokhlova, Marie-Thérèse Walter, Dora Maar, Françoise Gilot, and Jacqueline Roque. The book challenges the narrative that these women were passive muses, instead revealing their personal ambitions and reasons for entering relationships with the artist, drawing on journals and historical context to present their perspectives.

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Glen Baxter obituary

Cartoonist and surrealist Glen Baxter has died at the age of 82. He was celebrated for his distinctive style, which blended deadpan captions with pop art-inspired scenes featuring characters like cowboys and spacemen in bizarre situations. His work appeared in major publications like the New Yorker and the Observer, and he was also a staple of humorous greeting cards.

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article culture schedule Sep 18, 2025 source 2 sources visibility 10 link 21 artists, 1 gallery

Art of Luxury

The article introduces *Art of Luxury*, a biannual magazine published by *The Art Newspaper* that examines the intersection of high-end fashion, jewelry, travel, and lifestyle with the visual arts. It covers how luxury brands engage with artists, the art market, and museums and heritage institutions.

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article culture schedule Apr 1, 2026 source 2 sources visibility 21 link 2 artists

Caravaggio Documentary Will Premiere on Marquee TV Next Week

A feature-length documentary about Baroque painter Caravaggio, directed by Phil Grabsky and David Bickerstaff, will premiere on the streaming platform Marquee TV on April 6. The film, part of the "Exhibition on Screen" series, was previously released in theaters last fall and focuses on the artist's innovative painting style rather than his notorious personal life.

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article news schedule Mar 19, 2026 source 2 sources visibility 20 link 1 artist

Met Museum to Acquire Rediscovered Renaissance Painting Admired by Vasari

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has acquired a recently rediscovered Renaissance painting, 'Madonna and Child with Saint John the Evangelist,' by Rosso Fiorentino. The work, believed lost for centuries, was identified after conservation removed layers of overpaint, revealing the figure of Saint John. The Met has already placed the painting on view in its European painting galleries.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 6, 2026 visibility 17 link 1 artist, 1 gallery

Rare Portraits Reveal How Elizabeth I Turned Image Into Power

Philip Mould & Company in London is hosting a new exhibition titled "Elizabeth I: Queen and Court," featuring four rare portraits of the Tudor monarch alongside depictions of her closest advisors and political rivals. The show traces Elizabeth's visual evolution from a pious young princess to a formidable, iconographic ruler, highlighting how she utilized fashion and symbolism to solidify her authority and manage public perception during a period of immense political and religious transition.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 5, 2026 visibility 24 link 12 artists, 2 galleries

8 Must-See Art Exhibitions in Tokyo This May

This article, published by Tokyo Weekender, lists eight art exhibitions opening in Tokyo during May. The featured shows span a range of venues and styles, including a solo presentation by Yayoi Kusama at the National Art Center, a group show of contemporary Japanese photography at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, and an installation by teamLab at their borderless digital art museum. Other highlights include a retrospective of the Gutai movement at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo and a showcase of emerging artists at the Mori Art Museum.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 2, 2026 visibility 24 link 12 artists, 1 gallery

At MAXXI L'Aquila, exhibition dedicated to Ai Weiwei recounts catastrophes and memory

From April 29 to September 6, 2026, MAXXI L'Aquila presents "AI WEIWEI: Aftershock," an exhibition curated by Tim Marlow featuring approximately seventy works by Chinese artist, architect, and activist Ai Weiwei. The show spans his entire career, focusing on themes of earthquakes, wars, political repression, and memory. The centerpiece is the installation "Straight" (2009–2012), made from 150 tons of steel rods recovered from schools that collapsed in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, displayed across three rooms. The exhibition is held at Palazzo Ardinghelli, a Baroque building that houses MAXXI L'Aquila and was itself restored after the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake, creating a dialogue between the works and the building's history of recovery.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 27, 2026 visibility 37 link 56 artists, 1 gallery

From YBAs to McQueen: Tate Britain’s New Exhibition Reframes the Creative Explosion of the 1990s

Tate Britain has announced a major new exhibition, *The 90s: Art and Fashion*, opening in autumn 2026, which will be the first to examine the intersection of contemporary art, photography, and fashion during the 1990s in Britain. Featuring over 100 works by nearly 70 artists, photographers, and designers—including Sarah Lucas, Alexander McQueen, Tracey Emin, and Steve McQueen—the show explores the decade's raw experimentation, anti-establishment energy, and the rise of the Young British Artists. Curated with input from Edward Enninful, the exhibition also highlights subcultures, nightlife, and the work of figures who challenged dominant narratives around race, identity, and class.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 21, 2026 visibility 35 link 10 artists, 1 gallery

Exhibition | Tristan Unrau, 'Hopes and Fears' at David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, United States

David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles presents 'Hopes and Fears,' a solo exhibition of new paintings by Tristan Unrau from March 19 to April 25, 2026. This is the artist's first show with the gallery and his most ambitious presentation to date, occupying three spaces at the venue.

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trending_up market schedule Apr 8, 2026 visibility 56 link 14 artists, 3 galleries

Liu Wei’s "You Like Pork?" leads Poly Hong Kong modern and contemporary art sale at US$3.5m

Poly Auction Hong Kong concluded its modern and contemporary art sale on April 6, achieving a total of HK$76.4 million (US$9.8 million) with a 67% sell-through rate. The auction was headlined by Liu Wei’s 1995 masterpiece "You Like Pork?", which sold for HK$27.6 million (US$3.5 million) to a phone bidder. Other top performers included Zao Wou-Ki’s "15.07.67" from his Hurricane period and Wu Dayu’s "Rhymes of Beijing Opera," both of which surpassed the HK$10 million threshold.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 17, 2025 visibility 27 link 24 artists, 2 galleries

Frieze London diary: art historical speed dating and frozen faeces

During Frieze week in London, the National Gallery hosted its 'Unexpected Views' talk series, where eight contemporary artists including Grayson Perry, Shirazeh Houshiary, and Haegue Yang gave ten-minute talks on their favorite works. Tracey Emin and British Museum director Nicholas Cullinan held a candid discussion titled 'Confessions in the Museum,' and the art collective Konn Artiss placed ice blocks containing frozen feces outside major galleries and auction houses as a protest against the art market. The week also featured a lavish Frieze Collectors' Dinner with guests including Ari Emanuel, Sadie Coles, and Christian Levett, and a secret performance by musician Sampha.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 16, 2025 visibility 18 link 11 artists, 1 gallery

Kerry James Marshall offers a fresh lesson in art history at his London retrospective

Kerry James Marshall's retrospective 'The Histories' opens at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, featuring over 80 works spanning his career. The exhibition, co-curated by Mark Godfrey and Adrian Locke, includes early pieces like 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self' (1980) and recent paintings exploring African history and the transatlantic slave trade. After London, the show travels to Kunsthaus Zürich and the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris, timed to Marshall's 70th birthday.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 1, 2025 visibility 26 link 35 artists, 3 galleries

London Art Exhibitions Not To Miss Opening Autumn 2025

London's major museums and galleries are preparing a packed autumn 2025 season with blockbuster exhibitions. Highlights include 'Radical Harmony: Helene Kröller-Müller’s Neo-Impressionists' at the National Gallery, 'Theatre Picasso' at Tate Modern, a Kerry James Marshall retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts, Peter Doig at the Serpentine, Gilbert & George at the Hayward, and 'Encounters: Giacometti x Mona Hatoum' at the Barbican. The Barbican show pairs historic works by Alberto Giacometti with new and existing pieces by Mona Hatoum, including several UK debuts and site-specific large-scale sculptures.

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