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Paula Rego review – tantalising drawings with the shoeprints left on them

Victoria Miro is hosting the largest exhibition of Paula Rego’s drawings to date, curated by the artist’s son, Nick Willing. Spanning from the 1950s until her death in 2022, the show features intimate pencil sketches, pastels, and ink drawings that reveal the foundational narratives of her career, including her early childhood sketches, her fierce opposition to the Salazar dictatorship, and her advocacy for women's rights.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 15, 2026 visibility 21 link 3 artists, 1 gallery

'It was my job to create the view': US artist Liza Lou on making colourful works in her windowless warehouse

American artist Liza Lou discusses her recent shift in practice, moving from her famous large-scale bead installations to a new body of work that fuses oil painting with glass beads. After years of collaborative work in South Africa and focusing on monochrome tones, Lou has returned to a solitary studio practice in a windowless warehouse in the San Fernando Valley. This new phase is defined by a "headlong love affair with colour," inspired by the hallucinatory palette of the Mojave Desert and a transition from logical drawing to a more intuitive, freestyle process.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 15, 2026 visibility 40 link 12 artists, 2 galleries

‘I wanted my work to be shameless’: 93-year-old artist Joan Semmel on her trailblazing nudes

Nonagenarian painter Joan Semmel is preparing for a major career moment with a retrospective at the Jewish Museum and a dual-city exhibition, 'Continuities', at Alexander Gray Associates in New York and Brussels. At 93, Semmel continues to produce large-scale, vibrant works from her SoHo studio that focus on the aging female nude, using her own body as a primary reference. The new works, including 'Here I Am' (2025), maintain her lifelong commitment to depicting the female form through a non-idealized, authentic lens that rejects the traditional male gaze.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 11, 2026 visibility 56 link 14 artists, 7 galleries

The Best Booths at Expo Chicago, From a 16th-Century Belgian Manuscript to a Painting of a Mariachi Band

The 13th edition of Expo Chicago has opened at Navy Pier with a streamlined selection of 130 international exhibitors. This year’s fair features a more curated and manageable scale, drawing a significant crowd of museum directors, curators, and collectors to the Windy City. Notable presentations range from contemporary Canadian artist duos to rare historical artifacts, reflecting a high bar for quality across diverse media.

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article news schedule Apr 8, 2026 visibility 38 link 23 artists, 1 gallery

The Art of ‘The Christophers’: How the Film Created an Artist’s Fabled Oeuvre

Steven Soderbergh’s new film, The Christophers, explores the complexities of artistic legacy and authenticity through the story of Julian Sklar, a fictional washed-up artist played by Ian McKellen. The plot follows Sklar’s children as they hire an art restorer, played by Michaela Coel, to secretly finish their father’s legendary unfinished series to capitalize on his market value. To ground the film in reality, screenwriter Ed Solomon consulted with art world figures like dealer George Barker and artists Jann Haworth and Derek Boshier, while production designer Antonia Lowe and painter Barnaby Gorton created the physical artworks seen on screen.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 4, 2026 visibility 16 link 10 artists, 1 gallery

ariana papademetropoulos thaddaeus ropac paris exhibition

Ariana Papademetropoulos has debuted a new solo exhibition titled "Glass Slipper" at Thaddaeus Ropac’s gallery in Paris. The show features a diverse range of works, including hyper-realistic paintings of dry-cleaned dresses, surrealist landscapes featuring floating chairs, and a central immersive installation. This centerpiece consists of a mattress and a fish tank filled with 150 kissing fish, accompanied by a commissioned ambient soundtrack by Nicolas Godin of the band Air, designed to evoke a meditative, ritualistic experience.

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article culture schedule Apr 3, 2026 source 2 sources visibility 46 link 15 artists, 1 gallery

Salvador Dalí’s Frustrating Vision of the Divine

A feature article examines Salvador Dalí's controversial religious painting "Christ of Saint John of the Cross" (1951), which was physically attacked by vandals on two separate occasions—once with a rock in 1961 and later with an air rifle. The painting, part of Dalí's "Nuclear Mysticism" phase, depicts a floating, unblemished Christ from an aerial perspective, based on a drawing by the mystic St. John of the Cross and modeled by a Hollywood stunt double.

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person people schedule Apr 3, 2026 visibility 28 link 7 artists, 5 galleries

Patron Gallery Adds Miao Wang to Its Roster, and More: Industry Moves for April 1, 2026

Several galleries announced new artist representations and expansions. Patron Gallery added painter Miao Wang, who will appear at Expo Chicago; Jessica Silverman added Neo-Pop painter Koak; Anat Ebgi added painter Veronica Fernandez; and Sundaram Tagore Gallery opened a new London space. Additionally, Open Restitution Africa launched an AI-powered database to assist with restitution processes.

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museum exhibitions schedule Mar 19, 2026 visibility 19 link 5 artists, 1 gallery

Peter Halley Continues to Probe the ‘Crisis in Geometry’

American artist Peter Halley is presenting his first solo show in Austria in two decades at Galerie Nikolus Ruzicska in Salzburg. The exhibition, titled 'Peter Halley: Six Paintings for Salzburg,' features six new works created specifically for the occasion, showcasing his mature exploration of geometric abstraction using his signature 'Cells,' 'Prisons,' and 'Conduits.'

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trending_up market schedule Feb 12, 2026 visibility 11 link 1 artist, 1 gallery

lincoln townley eclipse art group

British artist Lincoln Townley has launched a new series titled "Success," which explores the psychology of ambition and achievement through gestural, abstract portraits. The collection, available through his partnership with the Prague-based Eclipse Art Group, expands his market into Eastern Europe, following successful sell-out exhibitions at the London Art Fair 2025 and a planned presentation at the Palazzo Bembo during the 2026 Venice Biennale.

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museum exhibitions schedule Feb 5, 2026 visibility 19 link 3 artists, 2 galleries

andre thomkins lackskins galerie michael haas

Galerie Michael Haas in Berlin is presenting "André Thomkins: Lackskins," a focused exhibition on the Swiss artist's experimental technique developed in the 1950s. Thomkins (1930–1985) created these works by dripping varnish onto water and transferring the floating pigment to paper, a process blending controlled manipulation with chance. The show, running through March 6, 2026, highlights a body of work rediscovered only in the last 15 years, including pieces like "Astronauten" (1962).

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person people schedule Jan 28, 2026 visibility 48 link 7 artists, 2 galleries

veneklasen gallery appoints new partners winds down los angeles

Dealer Gordon VeneKlasen has announced plans to open his own eponymous gallery after separating from Michael Werner Gallery, where he ran the New York space for over 30 years. As part of the agreement, VeneKlasen will take over Werner's New York and London locations, while the short-lived Los Angeles branch of Michael Werner Gallery will close. Two longtime employees, Justine Birbil and Kadee Robbins, have been promoted to partners at VeneKlasen Gallery. The gallery will debut at the inaugural Art Basel Qatar with a solo presentation of works by Issy Wood, followed by exhibitions of Sigmar Polke's paintings in New York and London.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 23, 2026 visibility 15 link 3 artists, 1 gallery

warren isensees pulsating abstractions put the act of looking to the test

Warren Isensee's new paintings at Miles McEnery Gallery in Chelsea, New York, explore optical structure with loosened rules, where warm and cool tones trade dominance across repeating frameworks. On view through February 14, 2026, the exhibition is the artist's third solo outing with the gallery and includes a fully illustrated publication with an essay by Stephen Westfall. The works interrupt their own logic, introducing irregular breaks that reroute the eye, creating a test of looking rather than a display of visual effects.

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article culture schedule Jan 14, 2026 visibility 14 link 2 artists, 1 gallery

mernet larsen cover painting art in america

Mernet Larsen, whose painting *Getting Measured* (1999) appears on the cover of the Winter 2025 issue of *Art in America*, discusses the work's origin and evolution in an interview from her home in Tampa, Florida. She explains how the painting marked a turning point from abstraction to a representational style inspired by 12th-century Japanese narrative painting and the parallel perspective technique used by architects, while also incorporating elements from her own abstract works and a self-portrait titled *Indecisive Woman*.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 9, 2026 visibility 18 link 8 artists, 7 galleries

art palm beach debuts a major biennial style installation for its fourth edition

Art Palm Beach returns for its fourth edition from January 28 to February 1, 2026, at the Palm Beach County Convention Center. The fair features a mix of returning and first-time galleries from the U.S. and abroad, including Gefen Gallery (San Francisco), Onessimo Fine Art (Palm Beach), Oliver Sears Gallery (Dublin), and John Martin Gallery (London). Highlights include Hollis Taggart’s presentation of John Knuth’s fly paintings, Pontone Gallery’s showcase of Matteo Massagrande, and Provident Fine Art’s retrospective ‘Sylvester Stallone: Evolution.’ For the first time, the DIVERSEartPB program presents a large-scale, biennial-style installation curated by Marisa Caichiolo, featuring Chilean artist Eugenia Vargas-Pereira’s participatory work AGUAS (1991).

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 7, 2026 visibility 16 link 9 artists, 1 gallery

laura footes shrine nyc

Laura Footes, a British artist living with chronic illness, opened her solo exhibition “Anamnesis” at Shrine NYC in early December 2024. Her paintings feature translucent, ethereal bodies in hallucinogenic landscapes, exploring themes of entrapment, escape, and the porous, temporal nature of the body. Footes, who has Crohn’s disease, draws on her hospital experiences and was discovered by Tracey Emin in 2022 after Emin saw her work on social media. Emin later mentored Footes at TKE Studios in Margate and curated her solo show “A Healing Dream” at Carl Freedman Gallery in late 2024.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 26, 2025 visibility 22 link 11 artists, 4 galleries

meet 5 artists transforming photography

Soho Beach House in Miami has reoriented its art collection around photography in late 2025, featuring works by established figures like Isaac Julien, JR, Laurie Simmons, Marilyn Minter, and Ming Smith alongside emerging artists such as René Matić, Caroline Allison, and Walead Beshty. The rehang, overseen by chief art director Kate Bryan, spans polaroids, performance-derived imagery, collage, and cameraless prints, with a focus on artists who use photography as a tool for broader inquiry.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 23, 2025 visibility 26 link 20 artists, 2 galleries

drapery contemporary artists

A new exhibition titled “Drop, Cloth,” co-curated by Glenn Adamson and Severin Delfs, explores how contemporary artists have reimagined drapery over the past 50 years. The show features 30 works by 25 artists, spanning two Chelsea galleries—Hollis Taggart (through January 10, 2026) and Susan Inglett Gallery (through January 30, 2026). Works range from Sam Gilliam’s seminal *Little Dude* (circa 1972) to recent pieces by Kennedy Yanko, Jenny Morgan, and Chellis Baird, alongside historical pieces by Nina Yankowitz, Lynda Benglis, and Rosemary Mayer. The exhibition traces a lineage of drapery as both subject and material, including shaped canvas, paint skin, ceramic, metal, embroidery, and weaving.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 16, 2025 visibility 12 link 4 artists, 3 galleries

winston branch goodman gallery london

Caribbean British artist Winston Branch is the subject of his inaugural solo exhibition with Goodman Gallery in London, titled “Out of the Calabash.” The show features new and recent works alongside a historical piece, *Blue for Miles* (1982), and follows the announcement of his global representation by Goodman Gallery in partnership with Varvara Roza Galleries. Branch, who first exhibited at the alternative art space Arts Lab led by Jim Hanes nearly six decades ago, creates abstract paintings that explore light and color, often working on canvas placed on the floor.

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trending_up market schedule Dec 10, 2025 visibility 36 link 18 artists, 12 galleries

these galleries dropped out of art basel miami beach heres what happened next

Several galleries withdrew from Art Basel Miami Beach 2024 amid rising costs and a contracting art market, leaving some like San Francisco's Altman Siegel facing cancellation fees despite closing. Claudia Altman-Siegel, who shut her gallery, owed $22,000 after missing the free-cancellation deadline. Other dealers, including Miguel Abreu, Tilton Gallery, and Sperone Westwater, navigated the fair's strict payment terms for different reasons—some pulling out early to avoid penalties, others proceeding despite business challenges. The fair proceeded with 283 exhibitors and reported strong sales, including an $18.5 million Joan Mitchell painting, signaling a potential market upturn.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 3, 2025 visibility 17 link 2 artists, 1 gallery

yun fei ji james cohan

Chinese artist Yun-Fei Ji presents a new body of work in the exhibition “Riding the Tiger” at James Cohan Gallery in New York. The paintings draw on archetypes from Chinese folklore and the 16th-century novel *Journey to the West*, blending fantastical imagery with recognizable human scenes to explore the psychological and spiritual dimensions of migration. Works such as *The Sweep Up of Animal Spirits* and *The Round Up #1* directly reference the persecution of immigrants by government agencies, using symbols like tigers, buddhas, and livestock to critique power structures.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 3, 2025 visibility 15 link 2 artists, 1 gallery

mariko mori radiance sean kelly gallery

Japanese artist Mariko Mori presents "Radiance," a new body of work at Sean Kelly Gallery in New York, exploring ancient Japanese cosmologies and spiritual traditions through ultra-contemporary materials. The exhibition features a shrine-like installation with hanging white silk, faceted dichroic sculptures such as *Oshito Stone III* and *Kamitate Stone I* (both 2025), and a series of "Unity" photo paintings that blend art, science, and spirituality. The show runs through December 20, 2025.

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person people schedule Dec 2, 2025 visibility 28 link 19 artists, 4 galleries

tristan unrau

Tristan Unrau, a 36-year-old Los Angeles-based painter originally from Canada, creates works that deliberately avoid a singular style, instead copying or channeling a vast range of art historical sources—from Old Masters and Modernists to cartoons and photorealism. His pluralistic approach has earned him a dedicated following, and David Kordansky Gallery announced representation of the artist this fall, planning a major solo exhibition in Los Angeles in March 2026. Unrau, who earned his MFA at UCLA, is currently preparing for that show in his East Hollywood studio, producing paintings that reference artists such as Bruegel, Jean-Luc Godard, František Kupka, Emil Nolde, and Willem de Kooning.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 28, 2025 visibility 32 link 12 artists, 2 galleries

sam falls collaborates with ruinart

Sam Falls has created two paintings, "Rewilding" (2024) and "King's Crossing" (2024), for Ruinart's "Conversations with Nature" program, following a residency at the Champagne house's Taissy vineyard near Reims. The works, which incorporate natural materials and ecological processes, will debut at Art Basel Miami Beach in December 2024 before traveling to Ruinart's headquarters. Falls's practice involves arranging plants on canvas and using pigment that reacts to humidity and sunlight, reflecting a collaboration with the environment.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 26, 2025 visibility 17 link 3 artists, 1 gallery

jacob hashimoto miles mcenery gallery

Jacob Hashimoto presents a new solo exhibition at Miles McEnery Gallery in New York, featuring his signature constructions of screen-printed paper discs assembled into layered, three-dimensional compositions that blur the line between painting and sculpture. The show, his third with the gallery, includes works such as "The Promise of Other Inventions (that worked better)" (2025) and "No, No My Friends, We Will Not" (2025), and is accompanied by a fully illustrated publication with an essay by art critic and professor David Pagel.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 17, 2025 visibility 20 link 2 artists, 1 gallery

alfonso artiaco liam gillick alan charlton

Naples-based gallery Alfonso Artiaco has opened a dual exhibition pairing British artists Liam Gillick and Alan Charlton for the first time. Gillick, a former Young British Artist associated with relational aesthetics, presents three new aluminum and Plexiglas "elevation" sculptures plus a wall piece titled *Euphoric Production Cycle* (2025). Charlton, known for his lifelong dedication to grey monochrome painting, contributes three works—a circle, square, and triangle—that anchor the show. The exhibition runs through January 10, 2025.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 23, 2025 visibility 11 link 5 artists, 1 gallery

hector hyppolite art basel paris booth

London's The Gallery of Everything is presenting the first survey of Haitian painter Hector Hyppolite in a European commercial setting at Art Basel Paris, opening October 24. The solo booth in the fair's Premise sector features works by Hyppolite, including three pieces from the historic 1947 exhibition "Le Surréalisme en 1947," along with documentation, photos, and an essay by Manthia Diawara and Terri Geis. Hyppolite, a self-taught vodou priest who died in 1948, was championed by Surrealist founder André Breton after Breton encountered his work in Haiti in 1945.

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rate_review review schedule Oct 8, 2025 visibility 22 link 8 artists, 1 gallery

sam mckinniss jeffrey deitch review

Sam McKinniss's new exhibition "Law and Order" at Jeffrey Deitch in New York presents paintings of viral and iconic figures, including Jeremy Meeks, Luigi Mangione, Chuck Bass from Gossip Girl, and riderless horses running through urban streets. The show explores how social media blurs the lines between advertising, entertainment, and politics, capturing the experience of scrolling through online content. The article, part of ARTnews's Link Rot column by Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, examines McKinniss's attempt to illustrate the feeling of living in contemporary America through curated images of law enforcers and law breakers.

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article culture schedule Sep 25, 2025 visibility 18 link 11 artists, 4 galleries

paul pfeiffer religion prescient nba basketball justin bieber

Paul Pfeiffer's studio visit reveals his ongoing exploration of media spectacles, particularly through his "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" series (2001–), which digitally isolates NBA basketball players by erasing teammates, opponents, and jersey details from archival images. The artist discusses his counterintuitive relationship to sports, his intense Christian upbringing in Hawaii and the Philippines, and the influence of horror films like "The Exorcist" on his work, which examines the religious undertones of secular activities and the mechanics of voyeurism.

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trending_up market schedule Sep 24, 2025 visibility 29 link 28 artists, 3 galleries

tilton gallery closure

Tilton Gallery in New York has announced that its upcoming exhibition, featuring late abstract painter Ruth Vollmer, will be its last. The show runs from September 30 to November 15, after which the gallery will vacate its Upper East Side space. The decision was made by Connie Rogers Tilton, Jack Tilton's widow, who has run the gallery since his death in 2017. She stated it is time to pursue her own projects in a more private setting. The gallery was founded in 1983 by Jack Tilton, who previously worked for Betty Parsons, and was known for launching careers of artists like Marlene Dumas, Nicole Eisenman, and Glenn Ligon, as well as promoting Chinese artists in the 1990s.

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