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New Williamson Art Gallery exhibition celebrates ‘The Garden as Muse’

The Williamson Art Gallery and Museum in Birkenhead has announced a major upcoming exhibition titled 'The Garden as Muse,' scheduled to open in May 2026. The show explores the garden as a profound source of artistic inspiration, featuring a mix of prominent loans and rarely seen works from the gallery’s permanent collection. A centerpiece of the exhibition is E. A. Hornel’s 'The Wounded Butterfly,' which exemplifies the artist's signature style of blending naturalism with decorative, textured surfaces.

Misato Sano’s Charming Wooden Dogs Are Carved With Personality

Miyagi-based artist Misato Sano creates distinctive wooden dog sculptures that serve as a form of self-portraiture. Her work, carved from camphor wood and finished with oil paint, uses exaggerated features and textured surfaces to express a range of emotions and personalities, from shy to silly, as a means of exploring and deepening self-love.

Painterly Figures Entwine in Soojin Choi’s Ceramic Sculptures

Ceramic artist Soojin Choi creates intricate sculptures of entangled pairs, using stoneware slabs and nylon strands to achieve a precarious balance that minimizes contact with the ground. Her painterly background is evident in the gestural marks, visible brushstrokes, and drips on the white-slipped surfaces, with the artist describing her process as a "constant negotiation with gravity."

Extreme Macro Photos of Insect Wings by Chris Perani Layer Thousands of Images

Photographer Chris Perani creates hyper-detailed images of insect wings using an extreme macro photography technique. His series, Wings, captures the intricate, often invisible details of bee, wasp, damselfly, beetle, and butterfly wings by taking up to 2,000 photos of a single specimen and digitally stacking them for unprecedented clarity.

Artcube 2R2 to Hold Oh Ji-yoon Solo Show in Seoul After Back-to-Back Venice Biennale Invitations

Seoul-based gallery Artcube 2R2 is launching a solo exhibition titled "Dignity: Accumulated Time" featuring the work of artist Oh Ji-yoon. The show focuses on her "Dignity" series, which utilizes a labor-intensive process of layering charcoal, gold, hanji paper, and pearls to explore themes of human existence and reflection. The exhibition is designed to coincide with the artist's consecutive invitations to the Venice Biennale, bringing the same body of work shown on the international stage to a domestic audience.

REVIEW: Now is not forever, when art mimics reality

Theresa-Anne Mackintosh’s solo exhibition, "Now is not Forever," recently debuted at the Wits Art Museum (WAM), featuring a provocative blend of older paintings and new sculptures. The show centers on anthropomorphic figures and the erasure of senses, notably in the "hear no evil, see no evil, do no evil" series, where body parts are painted over to symbolize the avoidance of moral decay. These works, alongside vivid sculptures representing the artist's alter egos, challenge viewers to look past aesthetic surfaces to confront the inherent chaos and dysfunction of contemporary society.

A Unique Ebru Art Exhibition - Painting on Water Opens in Bishkek

The Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts named after Gapar Aitiev is set to host a specialized exhibition of Ebru art, the traditional Turkish technique of painting on water. Organized by the Ebristan public foundation and supported by the Turkish Embassy, the event features live masterclasses where artists will demonstrate the creation of symbolic imagery, including the national flags of Turkey and Kyrgyzstan and the Batken region's Aigul flower, before transferring the floating pigments onto solid surfaces.

Art Exhibition Opening – Sunday March 8th

Artist Del Chapo is set to debut a new solo exhibition titled "Open Season" at Embers Dispensary in Washington, D.C. The showcase features paintings heavily influenced by early grindhouse and exploitation cinema, characterized by a raw aesthetic that includes visible drips, scratches, and overpainting. The opening reception is scheduled for the evening of March 8, 2026.