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LILIA CARRILLO IN NEW YORK THE MEXICAN PAINTER WHO WAS AHEAD OF HER TIME

Americas Society in New York has opened "Lilia Carrillo: Ruptures and Premonitions," curated by Tobias Ostrander. The exhibition presents 24 paintings by Mexican artist Lilia Carrillo (1930–1974), created between 1961 and 1974, alongside archival materials. It introduces Carrillo to New York audiences as a key figure of the Generación de la Ruptura, a postwar movement that broke with Mexican muralism in favor of abstraction. The show highlights her experimental techniques—carving and scraping paint, embedding fabric and paper—and her engagement with mortality, Surrealism, and political turmoil, including the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre.

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9 Defining Portraits of Marilyn Monroe

Artsy Editorial highlights nine defining portraits of Marilyn Monroe, coinciding with the centennial of her birth. The article notes that while Monroe was a master of self-image in photography, fine artists were drawn to her during her lifetime, but her early death cemented her as a cultural icon. These portraits are currently on display at London's National Portrait Gallery in the exhibition "Marilyn: A Portrait," running through September 6th.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 13, 2026 visibility 21 link 4 artists, 2 galleries

JR to cover Paris’s Pont Neuf in homage to Christo and Jeanne-Claude.

French artist JR has begun installing a monumental trompe-l’oeil work titled *La Caverne du Pont Neuf* (2026) on Paris’s Pont Neuf, transforming the city’s oldest bridge into an immersive cave. The project reimagines the bridge as a limestone quarry cave, referencing the stone from which the bridge and many Parisian buildings were constructed. The work pays homage to Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s iconic *The Pont Neuf Wrapped* (1985) and will be visible both day and night throughout the summer.

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South Korean ceramic artist Jongjin Park wins 2026 Loewe Foundation Craft Prize.

South Korean ceramic artist Jongjin Park has won the 2026 Loewe Foundation Craft Prize for his piece "Strata of Illusion" (2025), a partially-collapsed seat-like form made from paper and coated in porcelain slip. The award comes with a €50,000 ($58,700) prize, and Park's work will be exhibited alongside other shortlisted entries at the National Gallery Singapore, opening tomorrow and running through June 14.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 4, 2026 visibility 6 link 2 artists

Jeanne Vicerial’s Ethereal Sculptures Dot Historic Spaces in Aix-en-Provence in ‘Incarnation’

Jeanne Vicerial's city-wide exhibition 'Incarnation: Carte blanche Jeanne Vicerial' opens across multiple historic venues in Aix-en-Provence, including Musée du Pavillon de Vendôme, Musée des Tapisseries, Chapelle de la Visitation, and Musée Granet. The show features textile sculptures and installations from recent years, such as the Armors series and works like 'Gisante de cœur' that reference medieval armor and burial traditions through a feminine lens. The exhibition runs from June 13 to October 4.

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Shao Fan “Refrain” at White Cube Mason’s Yard, London

White Cube presents the first UK exhibition by Beijing-based artist Shao Fan (also known as Yu Han, b. 1964), opening on 22 May at Mason's Yard in London. The show, titled "Refrain," features the artist's ethereal works spanning paintings, sculptures, and installations that explore the interconnectedness of humanity, deeply engaged with traditional Chinese culture and mixing past with present.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 18, 2026 visibility 13 link 2 artists

Eric N. Mack “A Whole New Thing” at Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus

Eric N. Mack has created a site-responsive installation titled "A Whole New Thing" for the lobby commission at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus. The work continues his exploration of abstraction, foregrounding fabric as an expressive, atmospheric, structural, and social medium that reveals a painterly sensibility.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 13, 2026 visibility 14 link 2 artists

Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa “Lugar de Consuelo (Place of Solace)” at MoMA, New York

MoMA's Kravis Studio is presenting Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa's multimedia work "Lugar de Consuelo (Place of Solace)" (2020), marking the artist's first solo presentation at the museum. The work, jointly acquired in 2022 through MoMA's Latin American and Caribbean Fund and Fund for the Twenty-First Century, includes prints, drawings, costumes, sculptures, videos, and a related performance that explore political and personal histories of Guatemala.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 9, 2026 visibility 5 link 29 artists

Here is the Artist List for the 16th Gwangju Biennial

The 16th Gwangju Biennial, scheduled for September 5 to November 15, 2026, in South Korea, has announced its artist list featuring over 40 artists and groups. Curated by Singaporean artist and filmmaker Ho Tzu Nyen, the biennial is titled "You Must Change Your Life," a line from Rainer Maria Rilke's sonnet "Archaic Torso of Apollo." Ho, who represented Singapore at the 2011 Venice Biennale and organized the 2019 Asian Art Biennial, is working with assistant curators Che Kyongfa, Park Gahee, Brian Kuan Wood, Lee Yein, and Koyuri Sato.

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Georg Baselitz review – a final, furious, chaotic reckoning with death

The article reviews Georg Baselitz's final body of work, created shortly before his death at age 88. Painted from a wheeled office chair due to physical frailty, the works depict falling bodies, upside-down nudes, and frantic insectile forms, grappling with mortality. The exhibition includes golden canvases that canonize Baselitz and his wife Elke, alongside recurring eagle motifs from his youth in postwar Germany.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 8, 2026 visibility 4 link 6 artists

Jarvis Cocker’s ‘hodge podge’: Pulp frontman to curate art exhibition

Britpop musician Jarvis Cocker, frontman of the band Pulp, is co-curating an exhibition titled 'The Hodge Podge' at the Hepworth Wakefield in West Yorkshire, opening in May 2027. Working with his wife, creative consultant Kim Sion, Cocker has assembled an eclectic mix of artists including Jeremy Deller, Peter Doig, Barbara Hepworth, and Klara Kristalova, with the show aiming to prompt 'unlikely conversations' between works. The couple have written a manifesto explaining the term 'hodge podge,' which originated in the 15th century, and the exhibition will conclude with a piece called Dreamachine.

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Colen Lumley obituary

Colen Lumley, an architect, critic, and painter who helped shape postwar Cambridge architecture, has died at age 93. He was a partner to modernist architect Sir Leslie Martin, contributing to projects such as the Faculty of Music building at Cambridge University, the Museum of Modern Art Oxford, and the Gulbenkian Foundation gallery in Lisbon. After his architectural career, he devoted himself to painting, exhibiting through Cambridge Open Studios.

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Is Betting on the Art Market a Terrible Idea?

Prediction market platform Kalshi has launched a section dedicated to art markets, allowing users to bet on outcomes such as whether Andy Warhol will break his auction record this year or if Gustav Klimt's "Portrait of Gertrud Loew" (1902) will sell for more than $40 million at Sotheby's. The platform, regulated by the US government, positions itself as a democratizing force that lets retail investors speculate on an otherwise inaccessible asset class, though trading volumes have been modest compared to other markets like celebrity wedding bets. Competitor Polymarket has hosted similar predictions for years but lacks a dedicated art betting product and is unregulated.

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gavel restitution schedule Jun 5, 2026 visibility 7 link 5 artists

Heir of Margarethe Lieser Sues for Restitution of Gustav Klimt Portrait That Fetched $37.5 M. at Auction in Austria Before the Sale Fell Through

A woman claiming to be the sole heir of Margarethe Lieser has filed a lawsuit in New York State Supreme Court seeking restitution of Gustav Klimt's "Portrait of Fräulein Margarethe Lieser." The painting was sold at Im Kinsky auction house in Austria in 2024 for $37.5 million, setting a record for any artwork sold at auction in Austria, but the Hong Kong collector buyer withdrew their offer after the sale. The suit, filed by Patricia J. Leahy on behalf of herself and others, names Austria's Eva Ropper and Im Kinsky as defendants, alleging the auction house failed to properly identify the subject and ignored the painting's Nazi-era provenance.

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High-End Art Market Not Exclusive Enough For You? Now There’s an Art Show Aboard a 236-Foot Yacht Featuring Marina Abramović and Shirin Neshat

A new hyper-exclusive art experience called the Floating Art Hotel has launched aboard a 236-foot superyacht anchored in Monaco Bay during the Formula 1 Grand Prix. The vessel features a curated exhibition titled "States of Motion" with works by Marina Abramović, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Shirin Neshat, and Tomás Saraceno, alongside 14 private suites for a strictly vetted guest list of collectors and cultural figures. The project, conceived as a "traveling private members' club at sea," will later travel to Miami, Hong Kong, and Abu Dhabi.

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I just inhaled 2.4bn year old oxygen in Tasmania. Now I’m part of an exhibition until I die

French-Swiss conceptual artist Julian Charrière has created a permanent installation called "Breathe" at the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Tasmania, Australia. The artwork allows visitors to inhale oxygen extracted from 2.4-billion-year-old iron ore sourced from Australia's Pilbara region. The oxygen is released through a Hofmann apparatus in a subterranean chamber, offering a solitary, immersive experience that connects each person to the Great Oxidation Event and the origins of aerobic life. The piece opens alongside Charrière's major exhibition "Hard Core," which explores geology and includes works previously shown at the Venice Biennale.

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Artists Threaten Lawsuit as Venice Biennale Award Crisis Deepens

Nearly 100 artists participating in the 2024 Venice Biennale have threatened legal action after their requests to be removed from consideration for a visitors' choice award were ignored. The artists, including Alfredo Jaar, Zoe Leonard, and Laurie Anderson, expressed shock that their names remained on the ballot despite repeated demands. The award, called the Visitors' Lions Award, was introduced as a last-minute replacement after the Biennale's traditional Golden and Silver Lion Awards were canceled when the jury resigned en masse. The jury stepped down following its decision to disqualify artists from countries accused of crimes against humanity, effectively barring Israel and Russia's pavilions, which led to legal threats from Israel's artist.

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More than 100 artists threaten legal action against Venice Biennale

More than 100 artists participating in the Venice Biennale have threatened legal action against the organizers for ignoring their repeated requests to be removed from the visitor-voted Visitors' Lions awards. In a statement posted on e-flux on 3 June, artists from the Biennale's In Minor Keys exhibition and various national pavilions expressed disappointment that the Biennale failed to act on their demands, calling the lack of responsiveness disrespectful and the voting process lacking transparency. The signatories, including Walid Raad, Laurie Anderson, and Pio Abad, said they would begin next steps toward legal action, following a 20 May letter demanding their names be removed and votes disqualified. The Biennale responded on 28 May, stating artists would remain listed to guarantee visitors' freedom of expression but that votes for signatories would not be counted.

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Lesbian rebels, exotic dancing and domesticity: New York’s Upstate Photography Biennial – in pictures

The Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW) in Kingston, New York, has opened the first-ever New York Upstate Photography Biennial, featuring the work of 39 artists from the Hudson Valley and beyond. Co-curated by Marina Chao and Adam Giles Ryan, the exhibition showcases diverse photographic practices, including Morgan Gwenwald's documentation of a lesbian feminist collective in the 1970s, Allison DeBritz's collages challenging media objectification, Robert Kalman's portraits paired with handwritten responses about American identity, and Viktorsha Uliyanova's textile-based works confronting Soviet conformity. The show runs until September 6, 2026.

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Follower of Hieronymus Bosch Painting Sells for Over 10 Times High Estimate in Strong Week for Old Masters in New York

A small painting of hell by a follower of Hieronymus Bosch sold for $537,600 at Sotheby’s in New York, more than ten times its high estimate of $30,000–$50,000, after a six-minute bidding war among ten bidders. The result came during a strong week for Old Masters sales, with Christie’s Old Masters and 19th Century Paintings sale totaling nearly $7 million (89% sell-through rate) and Sotheby’s similar sale reaching $6.4 million (92% sell-through rate). Other standout lots included Francesco Glielmo’s *Elijah and the Angel* ($114,300 against a $15,000–$20,000 estimate), Aert van der Neer’s moonlit landscape ($120,650), and a drawing by Giulio Benso ($53,760, over 13 times its estimate).

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Venice Biennale Artists Threaten Legal Action Against Organizers For Disregarding Requests to Be Withdrawn from ‘Visitors’ Lions’ Awards

Over 100 artists are threatening legal action against the Venice Biennale Foundation for ignoring their requests to be removed from consideration for the new "Visitors' Lion" awards. The artists, including prominent figures like Laurie Anderson, Alfredo Jaar, and Lubaina Himid, signed a letter published on e-flux demanding their names be withdrawn from the ballot due to the inclusion of national pavilions by Israel and Russia. The dispute follows the resignation of the original Golden Lion jury, which had refused to consider pavilions of countries charged with crimes against humanity, leading the foundation to replace the prize with an audience-voted award. The artists say the foundation has not officially replied to their demands, and they now seek legal recourse.

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Twins in a spin at the great British seaside: Sophie Green’s best photograph

Sophie Green discusses her photograph of twins on a spinning ride at a funfair in Weston-super-Mare, taken in 2021 as part of her ongoing project documenting the British seaside. The image captures the intense colors and joyful atmosphere of seaside leisure, which she began photographing during the Covid lockdown when beaches became vital gathering spaces. Green's broader documentary work explores themes of belonging, shared heritage, and subcultures, including projects on banger racing, Black-majority churches in South London, and Irish Traveller horse fairs.

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article culture schedule Jun 2, 2026 visibility 11 link 5 artists

Kara Walker Fronts Loewe’s 180th Anniversary Campaign Nodding to Its Art-Filled Past

Loewe has launched a campaign for its 180th anniversary, featuring a capsule collection, an anniversary magazine, and an animated film that highlight the brand's deep ties to the art world. The campaign includes photographs by Talia Chetrit of the collection—adorned with lion motifs—alongside brand ambassadors Julia Garner, Sissy Spacek, and artist Kara Walker, who also appears in a promotional video. This follows the tenure of former creative director Jonathan Anderson, who emphasized art collaborations with figures like Lynda Benglis and Richard Hawkins, and the brand's new creative directors Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez continue that tradition.

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Fine Art Surveys

This collection of fine art surveys and exhibition catalogues offers a diverse overview of contemporary and modern art history. The selection includes critical examinations of disruptive modern works in 'ArtQuake', a comprehensive guide to 21st-century artists, and specialized studies on printmaking through the lens of Paupers Press and The Paragon Press. Notable entries also feature thematic explorations of humor in art and the intersection of theatrical magic and visual perception.

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Hilde Lynn Helphenstein, American artist and satirist, has died at age 40 in São Paulo, local media reports

Hilde Lynn Helphenstein, the American artist and satirist known online as Jerry Gogosian, has died at age 40. She was found dead at the Rosewood hotel in São Paulo, Brazil, on 31 May, according to local media reports. Helphenstein gained fame through her Instagram account, which amassed over 151,000 followers by offering sharp commentary on blue-chip dealers, art fairs, and the art world's inner workings. She previously ran a Los Angeles gallery and later launched the Jerry Gogosian persona in 2018, a name blending critic Jerry Saltz and mega-dealer Larry Gagosian. Her projects included a Sotheby's sale titled 'Suggested Followers: How the Algorithm is Always Right,' a Substack newsletter, and a podcast called 'Art Smack.' She had recently signed with United Talent Agency and expressed ambitions to work for Art Basel's parent company.

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‘Like a Klingon prison’: inside Barack Obama’s audacious, near-windowless, $850m presidential library

The article describes the upcoming opening of Barack Obama's $850 million presidential library on Chicago's South Side, designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects. The 70-meter-tall, mostly windowless granite monolith, nicknamed the "Obamalisk," has drawn comparisons to a flak tower or Klingon prison due to its angular, fortress-like appearance. Obama was deeply involved in the design, pushing for angular forms inspired by sculptor Brâncuși, reversing the architects' usual process of designing from the inside out.

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article culture schedule Jun 1, 2026 visibility 8 link 9 artists

5 New Books to Transport You Elsewhere This June

ARTnews lists five new art books for June 2026 that use art and history as portals to other times and places. The selections include Isaac Butler's 'The Perfect Moment' on the 1980s culture wars, Deborah Levy's 'My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein' on the modernist icon, Ruth Bernard Yeazell's 'Vermeer's Afterlives' on the Dutch painter's legacy, Rem Koolhaas's 'Rem Before Koolhaas' collecting his early journalism, and Katja Hoyer's 'Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe' on the artistic golden age of the Weimar Republic.

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My latest masterpiece – a house for toy farm animals! What my son learned from a day making art at home

A parent and art critic spends a day at home with their toddler making and looking at art, from morning play with magnet tiles and crayons to a visit to the William Morris Gallery. The day includes reading art-themed books like Miffy and Mildred the Gallery Cat, decorating the child's room with prints by Moira Frith and William Nicholson, and a trip to a local gallery where the child knows the attendant by name.

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candle obituary schedule May 31, 2026 visibility 12 link 4 artists

Cupcakes, bunting and a bus stuck in the mud: the funeral of Martin Parr – in pictures

Martin Parr's funeral was held at Woodlands Memorial Garden near Bristol, organized by his family and the Martin Parr Foundation. The ceremony featured his favorite music, including 'The Girl from Ipanema,' and was followed by a country fete-themed celebration with bunting, clingfilm-wrapped sandwiches, sad-faced cupcakes, and a tombola of unwanted Christmas gifts, recreating food from his famous photographs. Guests included artist Grayson Perry, who spoke fondly of Parr's obsessive nature and work ethic. Photographer Sophie Green documented the event, as Parr had long been interested in breaking the taboo of funeral photography.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 30, 2026 visibility 11 link 3 artists

John M Armleder Reframes Centuries of Art History at MAH Geneva

Swiss artist John M Armleder has launched "Observatoires," the sixth edition of the Carte Blanche initiative at the Musée d’art et d’histoire (MAH) in Geneva. The exhibition reframes the museum’s historic collection through thematic rooms exploring animals, abstraction, and musical instruments, with playful interventions such as an oversized disco ball and graphic lobster wallpaper. Newly commissioned temporary structures inspired by Armleder’s own drawings in the museum’s collection further blur boundaries between contemporary art and cultural heritage.

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