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Obey Giant x Add Fuel Modular Frequency Shepard Fairey Fine Contemporary Art , 2026

Street art pioneer Shepard Fairey has released a collaborative screen print titled "Modular Frequency" in partnership with Portuguese artist Add Fuel (Diogo Machado). The limited-edition work, produced by Obey Giant Studios, features a fusion of Fairey’s signature propaganda-style aesthetics with Add Fuel’s contemporary take on traditional tile patterns. The hand-signed and numbered edition is currently being offered through New Union Gallery on the Artsy platform.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 12, 2026 visibility 8 link 6 artists

Vasarely’s Hometown Honors Renowned Artist with Newly Restored Museum

The city of Pécs, Hungary, has reopened the Victor Vasarely Museum following a comprehensive renovation to mark the 120th anniversary of the artist's birth. The updated institution features a modernized building and a redesigned curatorial approach that showcases approximately 400 works, including monumental screen prints from the "VI-VA Album" that have been in storage for over 50 years. New interactive spaces and a focus on international dialogue place Vasarely’s Op Art legacy within the broader context of 20th-century geometric abstraction.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 10, 2026 visibility 12 link 4 artists

Exhibition Tour—Raphael: Sublime Poetry

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is hosting "Raphael: Sublime Poetry," the first comprehensive exhibition dedicated to the Italian Renaissance master in the United States. Featuring over 170 masterpieces and rarely seen treasures, the exhibition traces Raphael’s meteoric career from his origins in Urbino to his transformative years in Florence and his final decade serving the papal court in Rome. The show highlights his unique ability to blend intellectual rigor with emotional lyricism, positioning him as a peer to Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 9, 2026 visibility 18 link 7 artists, 1 gallery

Gallery is showing works by Britain's most influential artists

The Little Gallery in Marlborough is hosting a three-week exhibition featuring a prestigious collection of 20th-century British art. The show spans the evolution of modernism from Impressionism to the 1960s Avant-Garde, showcasing works by iconic figures such as David Hockney, Elisabeth Frink, and Sandra Blow. Highlights include Anthony Whishaw’s 1967 painting inspired by Pink Floyd and a curated selection of increasingly collectible British studio ceramics.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 7, 2026 visibility 10 link 12 artists

Everything you need to know about the Met Gala 2026 and ‘Costume Art’ exhibition

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced details for its 2026 Costume Institute exhibition, titled 'Costume Art,' which is set to open on May 10, 2026. Curated by Andrew Bolton, the show will explore the 5,000-year history of the 'dressed body' by juxtaposing contemporary and historical fashion with sculpture, antiquities, and portraiture from across the museum’s 17 departments. The exhibition will be preceded by the annual Met Gala on May 4, 2026, serving as the primary fundraiser for the department.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 7, 2026 visibility 8 link 1 artist

Ellsworth Kelly: Eight Decades at Parrish Art Museum

The Parrish Art Museum is hosting "Ellsworth Kelly: Eight Decades," a comprehensive retrospective celebrating the centennial of the legendary American abstractionist. The exhibition spans Kelly’s prolific career, featuring a diverse array of works including his signature shaped canvases, wood sculptures, and precise drawings. By bringing together pieces from various stages of his life, the show highlights Kelly's unwavering commitment to exploring the relationships between color, form, and space.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 7, 2026 visibility 9 link 3 artists

Princeton University Art Museum show focuses on de Kooning's explosive 'Breakthrough Years'

The Princeton University Art Museum has opened "Willem de Kooning: The Breakthrough Years, 1945-50," an exhibition featuring 22 pivotal works from a transformative period in the artist's career. The show highlights de Kooning’s unique ability to balance abstraction with representational elements, showcasing masterpieces like "Gansevoort Street" and "Dark Pond." Unlike his contemporaries who moved toward pure abstraction, de Kooning’s work from this era remains anchored in the physical world, capturing the energy of mid-century Manhattan and the natural landscape through a radical use of line and gesture.

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article local schedule Apr 7, 2026 visibility 9 link 1 artist

Creativity takes root

Students at Southern Methodist University (SMU) gathered at the Meadows Museum in Dallas for the inaugural 'ArtMix Thursday,' a monthly event designed to foster creativity and community through hands-on art-making. The debut session featured a mosaic-making workshop held in collaboration with the SMU Craft Club, allowing students to engage with the museum in a relaxed, non-academic setting. This initiative is part of a broader effort by the institution to integrate more deeply with student life through new programming and expanded membership benefits.

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trending_up market schedule Apr 6, 2026 visibility 25 link 12 artists, 2 galleries

London’s Art Market Rebound: Sotheby’s Spring 2026 Recap

Sotheby’s London kicked off its Spring 2026 marquee season with a series of high-energy auctions, totaling £154 million across its Modern & Contemporary sales. The week was highlighted by a "white-glove" evening auction that achieved a 100% sell-through rate, led by Francis Bacon’s 1972 Self-Portrait which sold for £16 million. Significant records were set for British masters, most notably Leon Kossoff, whose painting "Children’s Swimming Pool" shattered estimates to reach £5.2 million.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 1, 2026 visibility 10 link 4 artists

40 things to do this April 2026 in NYC

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is hosting "Raphael: Sublime Poetry," the first comprehensive exhibition of the High Renaissance master in the United States. Running through June 28, 2026, the landmark show features over 170 works, including major loans like "The Alba Madonna" and the "Portrait of Baldassarre Castiglione," alongside preparatory sketches that reveal the artist's technical process.

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trending_up market schedule Mar 25, 2026 visibility 12 link 9 artists

SILSILA: Highlights from the Dalloul Collection Including Modern & Contemporary Middle Eastern Art - Christie's

Christie’s has announced a major auction titled "SILSILA: Highlights from the Dalloul Collection," scheduled for November 6, 2025, in London. The sale features 20 exceptional works from the Beirut-based Dalloul Collection, a premier repository of Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern art, alongside pieces from other private owners. Key highlights include masterpieces by Paul Guiragossian, Mahmoud Saïd, and Samia Halaby, with a specific focus on Lebanese and Palestinian artistic heritage.

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article policy schedule Mar 9, 2026 visibility 14 link 2 artists

Comment | What is the role of art museums in times of civic stress?

The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis is navigating the civic distress caused by 'Operation Metro Surge,' a federal immigration enforcement initiative that has disrupted the lives of local artists, staff, and residents. In response to the atmosphere of fear and the shift to virtual schooling, the museum has positioned itself as a sanctuary, offering art-making kits, indigenous-led workshops, and public screenings to foster community resilience.

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article news schedule Mar 6, 2026 visibility 8 link 2 artists

War in the Middle East, the Whitney Biennial, and a newly-discovered Rembrandt in Amsterdam—podcast

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has officially authenticated a previously dismissed painting, 'The Vision of Zacharias in the Temple' (1633), as a genuine work by Rembrandt van Rijn. Long considered a mere copy of a lost original, the piece has been upgraded following extensive research by the museum's scholarly team. Simultaneously, the 82nd Whitney Biennial has launched in New York, while the escalating conflict in the Middle East raises concerns regarding the stability of the burgeoning cultural tourism sector in the Persian Gulf.

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article news schedule Mar 4, 2026 visibility 6 link 3 artists

Download 60,000 Works of Art from the National Gallery, Including Masterpieces by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Rembrandt & More

The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. has made over 60,000 high-resolution digital images from its permanent collection available for free download through its NGA Images platform. This open-access initiative includes masterpieces by iconic artists such as Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, and Rembrandt van Rijn, allowing users to download files up to 3,000 pixels for personal or educational use.

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article culture schedule Mar 3, 2026 visibility 6 link 4 artists

An expert's guide to John Constable: five must-read books on the British painter

Emma Roodhouse, curator of the upcoming exhibition "Constable: A Cast of Characters" at Christchurch Mansion, has curated a selection of five essential books to deepen public understanding of the British landscape master John Constable. The list spans from interactive activity books and comprehensive biographies to scholarly catalogs focusing on his late experimental period and his career-long rivalry with J.M.W. Turner.

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museum exhibitions schedule Mar 2, 2026 visibility 17 link 15 artists

Hyperallergic Spring 2026 New York Art Guide

The Hyperallergic Spring 2026 New York Art Guide outlines a massive seasonal program featuring nearly 70 exhibitions across the city's major institutions and alternative spaces. High-profile highlights include a Marcel Duchamp retrospective at MoMA, the first major U.S. exhibition of Raphael at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the return of the Whitney Biennial, and the reopening of the New Museum. The guide also previews diverse showcases ranging from Molly Crabapple’s activist posters at Poster House to a rare Caravaggio loan at the Morgan Library.

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museum exhibitions schedule Mar 2, 2026 visibility 7 link 6 artists

The largest regional gallery in NSW has opened just two hours from Sydney

Newcastle Art Gallery has officially reopened following a major $145 million site-wide transformation, doubling its footprint to become the largest public art gallery in New South Wales outside of Sydney. Designed by Clare Design in collaboration with Smith and Tzannes and Arup, the expansion adds 1,600 square metres of exhibition space, a new learning studio, and upgraded facilities to house a collection of over 7,000 works. The inaugural exhibition, "Iconic, Loved, Unexpected," features nearly 500 pieces ranging from colonial-era paintings to contemporary commissions by artists like Megan Cope and Shellie Smith.

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museum exhibitions schedule Feb 28, 2026 visibility 19 link 20 artists, 4 galleries

Frieze Los Angeles Diary: hockey hotties, roaming Rami and Simon sells

Frieze Los Angeles week kicked off with a flurry of high-profile events, celebrity sightings, and charitable initiatives across the city. Key highlights included the Felix Art Fair, where RF. Alvarez’s painting inspired by the queer hockey drama 'Heated Rivalry' drew significant attention, and a major benefit auction led by Simon de Pury that raised over $500,000 for natural disaster relief. The week also featured a prestigious gathering at a private James Turrell Skyspace to celebrate the Serpentine Americas Foundation.

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article museum schedule Feb 26, 2026 visibility 10 link 2 artists

Paris to host first museum devoted to Alberto Giacometti with more than 10,000 artworks and objects

The Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti has announced the 2028 opening of the Giacometti Museum and School in Paris’s 7th arrondissement. Housed in the former Invalides train station, the 6,000-square-meter facility will be the first museum dedicated entirely to the Swiss master, replacing the much smaller Institut Giacometti. The site will showcase a massive collection of over 10,000 items, including 400 sculptures and 100 paintings, many of which have never been exhibited.

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museum exhibitions schedule Feb 25, 2026 visibility 14 link 9 artists

Gallery no longer a 'waste of time' as $145m of art goes on display

The Newcastle Art Gallery in New South Wales is set to open its $48 million expansion this Saturday, concluding a turbulent development process that spanned over two decades. The upgrade adds 1,600 square metres of exhibition space and 13 new galleries, transforming the facility into the largest public art institution in the state outside of Sydney and allowing its $145 million permanent collection to be displayed at scale for the first time.

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museum exhibitions schedule Feb 24, 2026 visibility 16 link 10 artists

The Met to Present a Major Exhibition Dedicated to the Careers of Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced a major exhibition titled "Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous," scheduled to run from October 2026 to January 2027. This landmark show will trace the parallel careers of Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock, marking the first significant New York presentation for either artist in over two decades. The exhibition aims to examine their distinct yet interconnected practices as artistic peers and life partners, featuring galleries that both juxtapose their works and present them independently to highlight their individual evolutions in abstraction.

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museum exhibitions schedule Feb 23, 2026 visibility 9 link 17 artists

The Met Announces New Details for the 2026 Met Gala and Spring Costume Art Exhibition

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has unveiled details for its Spring 2026 Costume Institute exhibition, titled "Costume Art," and the accompanying Met Gala. Opening May 10, 2026, the exhibition will explore the relationship between the dressed body and art history by pairing garments with artworks from the museum's permanent collection. The event will also inaugurate the new 12,000-square-foot Condé M. Nast Galleries, designed by Peterson Rich Office, which are dedicated to fashion and cross-departmental displays.

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museum exhibitions schedule Feb 23, 2026 visibility 4 link 2 artists

UK exhibition celebrates the artisans throughout history who went to war

The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge is launching "War Craft," an exhibition dedicated to art and objects created by non-professional soldiers on or near the front lines. Curated by Richard Kelleher, the show features a diverse array of items ranging from First World War shell cases engraved by the Chinese Labour Corps to a contemporary Ukrainian ammunition tin decorated with Sharpie drawings. The collection includes scavenged battlefield materials transformed into personal mementos, alongside significant works by established artists like J.M.W. Turner, John Singer Sargent, and C.R.W. Nevinson.

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museum exhibitions schedule Feb 18, 2026 visibility 3 link 3 artists

Moore Art Gallery opens “All Hands on Deck” WWII naval photography exhibit

The Moore Art Gallery has opened a new exhibition titled "All Hands on Deck: Edward Steichen and the WWII Naval Photographic Unit." The show presents black-and-white photographs taken by the influential photographer Edward Steichen and his team during World War II, offering an intimate look at the lives of sailors and aviators through dramatic and compositionally striking images. The exhibition includes prints annotated by Steichen with editorial instructions, revealing his meticulous process.

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museum exhibitions schedule Feb 12, 2026 visibility 6 link 9 artists

This year's Carnegie International will feature 61 artists, including Jasleen Kaur and Li Yi-Fan

The Carnegie Museum of Art has announced the full list of 61 artists and collectives for the 59th Carnegie International, which opens in May. The exhibition will feature a record 36 new commissions and includes notable participants such as 2024 Turner Prize-winner Jasleen Kaur and Li Yi-Fan, who will represent Taiwan at the Venice Biennale, alongside a significant number of Indigenous artists.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 26, 2026 visibility 8 link 25 artists, 5 galleries

5 Art Openings in London this week.

London galleries are launching a packed week of late-January exhibitions, featuring solo shows by Jessica Rankin at White Cube (embroidered paintings and works on paper), R. Crumb at David Zwirner (a survey of his six-decade career in countercultural drawing), Alexandra Christou at Sadie Coles HQ (rarely seen 1990s paintings of Greek life), Christina Mackie at Goldsmiths CCA (interdisciplinary installation), and a group show 'Geometry in Motion' at Stephen Friedman Gallery (exploring geometry and seriality).

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 23, 2026 visibility 12 link 31 artists, 14 galleries

Abundance of botanical forms and monumental paintings reflects optimism at San Francisco’s Fog Design+Art fair

The 12th edition of Fog Design+Art in San Francisco opened with a record-breaking preview gala on January 21, drawing over 2,700 guests. The fair features 65 presentations from local and international dealers, with standout booths including Jessica Silverman's blue-hued works and Hauser & Wirth's $1m sale of Jack Whitten's 'Solar Space' (1971). Large-scale paintings dominate, alongside a notable abundance of botanical imagery, while geometric abstractions outnumber representational works. The fair's director, Sydney Blumenkranz, noted a particularly buoyant mood and strong attendance from tech industry leaders.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 22, 2026 visibility 7 link 4 artists, 2 galleries

Drawn to home: how landscape and locals inspired Alberto Giacometti

A new exhibition at Hauser & Wirth in St. Moritz, titled "Alberto Giacometti: Faces and Landscapes of Home," explores the Swiss artist's deep connection to his birthplace, the Alpine village of Stampa. Curated by Tobia Bezzola, the show features around 20 paintings, sculptures, and drawings from 1918 through the 1960s, including portraits of Giacometti's family and depictions of the local landscape. It highlights how Giacometti, after initially escaping to Paris in 1922, returned increasingly to the Engadine valley from the 1950s onward, working in his father's studio and producing works distinct from his Parisian output.

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gavel restitution schedule Jan 19, 2026 visibility 5 link 4 artists

Meet the global taskforce working to recover stolen cultural heritage

The London Metropolitan Police's Art and Antiques Unit, in collaboration with the Heritage Crime Task Force (HCTF) of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), is processing over 300 recovered cultural artefacts. The objects—including statues, frescoes, chainmail armour, and stucco heads—were voluntarily handed over by an individual who had kept them for over a decade. Experts are conducting forensic analysis, photography, and archaeological assessment to determine authenticity and origin, with initial findings suggesting items from Cambodia's Angkor Period, the Gandhara region of Pakistan and Afghanistan, the Indus Valley civilisation, and possibly a mosque in Syria or Iraq.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 15, 2026 visibility 12 link 7 artists, 1 gallery

National Museum of Asian Art Explores the Power of Water in New Exhibition Featuring Hiroshi Senju and Bingyi

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art will present “Into the Waters with Senju and Bingyi: Two Contemporary Paintings,” a new exhibition opening April 2 and running through Aug. 23. It features two recent paintings by Hiroshi Senju (born 1958) and Bingyi (born 1975), each offering hypnotic visualizations of water. Senju’s pair of folding screens reimagines waterfalls using traditional Japanese techniques and contemporary methods, while Bingyi’s hanging scrolls, created with cloth and paper wrapped around an uprooted tree, incorporate natural elements like sea breeze and humidity. The exhibition marks the first showing of these works, which were acquired to expand the museum’s contemporary collections.

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