Haiti’s Visionary: Edouard Duval-Carrié previews Venice-Bound work in Little Haiti

Haitian-American artist and curator Edouard Duval-Carrié has been selected to represent Haiti at the 61st Venice Biennale, titled "Smaller Keys." Ahead of the exhibition, he is opening his Little Haiti studio for a rare one-night preview on Friday, April 24, organized alongside the Tout-Monde Art Foundation. The preview includes a conversation with art historian Erica Moiah James and features works that were not sent to Venice but share the same themes of Haitian history, African connections, and diaspora. Duval-Carrié's Biennale theme centers on the question, "What did Africa bring to the world?" His selection was posthumously confirmed from the notes of chief curator Koyo Kouoh, the first African woman appointed to the role, who passed away last year.

Museum kicks off Gorge Artists Open Studios Tour's 20th anniversary

The Columbia Gorge Museum in Stevenson hosted a preview exhibition on April 17, 2026, to launch the 20th-anniversary edition of the Gorge Artists Open Studios Tour. The event featured works from approximately 30 of the 50 participating local artists, allowing guests to meet creators and view a diverse array of regionally resonant art before the public studio tour begins in May.

New art show at Art 10 Gallery focusing on shape shifting

Artist Margaret Bremner is presenting a solo exhibition titled "Shapes Shifting" at the Art 10 Gallery in Nanaimo, British Columbia. The showcase features Bremner’s mixed media works, which utilize paint pens, colored pencils, collage, and ink to explore geometric structures like ogees, triangles, and circles. The artist emphasizes a process that begins with random smears or washes before imposing order through intricate patterning and varied fills.

“Rooted” art exhibit explores the nature of trees with paint, camera, and heart

The Arts Garage (TAG) in Port Clinton has launched "Rooted," a group exhibition featuring six artists who explore the intersection of nature and human emotion. The show highlights the work of mixed-media artist Chad Cochran, known for his landscape-based album covers for Nashville musicians, and Susan Danko, whose abstract paintings translate the atmospheric moods of the forest into monochromatic and experimental forms.

Ghost at La Lison Gallery: our photos from the exhibition Before the Ashes

Ghost at La Lison Gallery: our photos from the exhibition Before the Ashes

The La Lison Gallery in Paris is hosting "Avant les cendres" (Before the Ashes), a solo exhibition by the artist Fantôme running from April 9 to May 16, 2026. The showcase features a series of abstract works that utilize black ink, oils, fabric, and ash to explore texture and light, drawing comparisons to the monochromatic depth of Pierre Soulages. The exhibition serves as a prequel to the artist's upcoming show, "Cercles," in Nancy.

Gerd Harry Lybke, from artist’s model to gallery founder in East Germany showing in Mallorca

Gerd Harry ‘Judy’ Lybke, the founder of the influential German gallery Eigen + Art, is making his debut at the inaugural Art Cologne Palma Mallorca. Lybke, who began his career as a nude artist's model in East Germany before opening an underground flat-gallery in 1983, reflects on the evolution of the art market from a socialist system defined by censorship to the modern capitalist landscape. For this fair, he is presenting a diverse roster ranging from New Leipzig School star Neo Rauch to emerging talent Maja Behrmann, with works priced between €2,000 and €20,000.

MODERN MADE: Modern, Post-War & Contemporary Art, Design, Craft and Studio Ceramics

Lyon & Turnbull is presenting the 14th edition of its MODERN MADE sale, featuring a curated selection of modern and contemporary art, design, craft, and studio ceramics. Highlights include a private collection of early 2000s contemporary art, Modern British Art from Sickert to the post-war period, and works by European artists such as Klimt, Picasso, and Braque, alongside a rare wartime piece by Jankel Adler. The sale also emphasizes Kinetic and Light Art, design pieces led by an early Ettore Sottsass Carlton bookcase, and concludes with part two of the Y2K! collection featuring works by John Sonsini, Barnaby Furnas, and Elizabeth Peyton.

AstaGuru Auction house brings Raza, Husain, Souza and other masters to Nehru Centre, Mumbai

AstaGuru Auction House is launching the third edition of its 'ShowKeen' exhibition at the Nehru Centre in Mumbai. The two-day showcase features a curated selection of modern and contemporary Indian art, highlighting works by over 40 influential masters including S.H. Raza, M.F. Husain, F.N. Souza, and Akbar Padamsee, alongside contemporary figures like Meetali Singh and Tom Vattakuzhy.

This former 99 Cents Only store has been reimagined as an art exhibit — this week only. See inside

A massive pop-up art exhibition titled '99CENT' has taken over a former 99 Cents Only store at the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles. The immersive installation repurposes the defunct retail space, utilizing original shelving, freezers, and checkout counters to display a wide array of West Coast art styles, graffiti, and sculptures. Highlights include shopping carts transformed into suspended installations and video art integrated into the store's infrastructure.

Mexico City street market gallery makes art accessible

Artist Luis Valverde launched Galería Tianguis Neza in 2021 at Mexico City's La Lagunilla street market, selling artworks directly from artists at affordable street-market prices. The project, born during the pandemic to generate income for artists, operates every Sunday and features a rotating selection of artists, including Tania Candiani, Teresa Margolles, and photographer Pim Schalkwijk, who set up an improvised photo studio using a gelatin silver process.

Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art’s ‘Yes &…’ favors the process over the pretty

The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA) has opened a new exhibition titled 'Yes &…', inspired by the improvisational comedy rule of accepting and building on ideas. Guest curators Donald Fodness and Tobias Fike selected 18 artists whose work emphasizes process over polish, featuring visible seams, fingerprints, and evidence of human decision-making across painting, sculpture, video, installation, and performance. The exhibition includes interactive elements, such as a sculpture with hand-carved 'ice cubes' intended for viewers to take, and runs through May 3.

Grammys get the Pop Art treatment at this buzzy new downtown L.A. gallery

Pop artist Kii Arens has opened a new downtown Los Angeles gallery called FAB LA inside the historic Fine Arts Building. His latest exhibition, "And the Winner Is," curated by Arens and featuring poster art of Grammy winners, opens Friday, two days before the 2026 Grammys. The show continues Arens' tradition of blending art with celebrity-studded party scenes, following earlier exhibitions at FAB LA such as "XO, LA: A Love Letter to Los Angeles" and "Mick Rock's Rocky Horror Art Show." Arens previously ran LA-LA Land gallery in Hollywood for two decades before its lease ended last year.

Book offers fresh perspectives on why Cubism came into being

Christopher Green, a leading scholar of Cubism, has published a new book titled *Cubism and Reality*, which reexamines the origins and intentions of early Cubism through the works of Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, and Juan Gris. The book focuses on the years immediately before World War I, arguing that Cubism was not a step toward abstraction but a deliberate reinvention of reality based on lived visual experience. Green draws on decades of research, including his own earlier works and the foundational 1959 study by John Golding, and contrasts the movement with mass-produced imagery in chapters on Roy Lichtenstein and Francis Picabia.

The Davos arts programme: ‘Art ventures where policy briefs and position papers cannot go’

The article describes the Arts and Culture Programme at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting in Davos, centered on the theme 'A Spirit of Dialogue.' It features performances and installations including the Mahler Chamber Orchestra with violinist Renaud Capuçon and an AI-generated visual installation by artist Ronen Tanchum, a concert by musician Jon Batiste, Thijs Biersteker's data-driven installation 'Forestate' created with Unesco, and Marina Abramović's mobile installation 'THE BUS.' The programme is structured around three pillars: Human Presence in the Digital Age, Tradition and Innovation, and Connection and Collaboration.

Exhibition explores art, Arkansas legacy of artist Harold Keller

A new exhibition titled "Harold Keller: Portals" opens at the Alexander Gallery in Fayetteville, Arkansas, showcasing the work of the mid-20th-century artist and educator Harold Keller. Curated by Matthew Bailey, the show features paintings, drawings, and ceramics that blend whimsy, spirituality, and magical realism, drawing from Keller's Jewish upbringing, influences like Paul Klee and Saul Steinberg, and his time teaching in Arkansas and New York. Many works come from the University of Arkansas–Fort Smith collection, and some have never been publicly displayed before.

Legends Come Alive: USU Art Museum Highlights Western Lure and Lore

The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University will open a new exhibition titled "The Lure and Lore of the West" on January 20. The show examines the blurred boundaries between Western myth and history, featuring works from the late 19th century to the present, including a life-sized Bigfoot skeleton by artist Clayton Bailey. Themes include exploration, monsters, cowboy legends, and the Western sublime, with works by artists such as Roy De Forest and Ansel Adams drawn from the museum's collection and loans from several university archives and private collectors.

Suspects in Brazil Matisse heist arrested, but alleged thief nicknamed ‘Gargamel’ remains at large

Brazilian police have arrested three suspects in connection with the December 7 theft of 13 works by Henri Matisse and Candido Portinari from the Biblioteca Mário de Andrade in São Paulo. The stolen artworks remain missing. One suspect remains at large: Gabriel Pereira Rodrigues de Mello, nicknamed “Gargamel” and “Capybara”, who had prior robbery convictions overturned earlier this year. The heist involved two armed men who subdued a guard and visitors before removing the works from a glass display case and escaping via a getaway van.

Art Museum and Galleries at W&L: Winter 2026 Programs and Exhibitions

Washington and Lee University's Art Museum and Galleries is hosting five temporary exhibitions through Winter Term 2026, including "Edward Burtynsky: Taking Place" at the Reeves Museum of Ceramics, "Moffat Takadiwa: Recoded Memories" at the Watson Galleries, and "Luminous Layers: Glazed Surfaces and the Art of Reflection" alongside "Points of Exchange: Asian Ceramics in the Reeves Collection" at the Reeves Museum, plus "Expressions of Color: Paintings by Evelyn Dawson" at the McCarthy Gallery. The museum is also offering free public programming such as Artful Yoga sessions and an MLK Week Open House featuring artworks connected to the Civil Rights movement.

Komal Shah on ‘Making Their Mark’

Komal Shah discusses the exhibition "Making Their Mark: Works From the Shah Garg Collection" at Washington University in St. Louis' Kemper Art Museum. The show spans nearly eight decades and features nearly 70 artists, including Howardena Pindell, Joan Mitchell, Jaune Quick-to-see Smith, Katharina Grosse, Lorna Simpson, Sarah Sze, and Mary Weatherford. Shah, who established the collection with her husband Gaurav Garg, emphasizes the importance of celebrating women artists and challenging the notion that excellence is limited to men.

Medieval triptych ventures out of Dorset to sell for £5.7m in London Old Master auctions

A late 15th-century Netherlandish triptych, *The Five Miracles of Christ*, sold for £5.7 million at Sotheby’s London Old Master auction. The work, kept for centuries at St. John’s Almshouse in Sherborne, Dorset, had never before appeared on the market. The charity sold it to fund affordable housing, and the buyer—an unnamed Christian charitable foundation—plans to keep the painting publicly viewable in the town. Other highlights included a Rembrandt reattribution, *Saint John on Patmos*, which sold for £6.8 million, and a record £3.2 million for a Hans Eworth portrait of the 4th Duke of Norfolk.

Klimt portrait sets new modern art record at $236.4 million New York auction

Gustav Klimt's portrait *Bildnis Elisabeth Lederer* (1914–1916) sold at Sotheby's New York on November 18 for $236.4 million, becoming the second most valuable artwork ever sold at auction and the most valuable modern work. The painting was the highlight of the Leonard Lauder collection sale, which totaled over $600 million. After a 20-minute bidding war, the portrait hammered at $205 million before fees, surpassing its $150 million estimate. The work, stolen by the Nazis during World War II, was acquired by Lauder in the 1980s.

Live conservation reveals hidden surprises of unfinished Spencer painting

A new exhibition at the Stanley Spencer Gallery in Cookham, titled *Revealing Genius, Conserving Art: Stanley Spencer’s Final Masterpiece*, offers visitors a rare chance to watch conservator Olivia Leake work on Spencer’s unfinished painting *Christ Preaching at Cookham Regatta*. The large canvas, which Spencer labored over for over a decade but left incomplete at his death in 1959, has been lowered from its usual high hanging for live conservation. Using UV light and paint analysis, Leake has discovered surprising details: extremely thin paint layers, a green water area later overpainted in blue, and multiple changes to underdrawings—contradicting anecdotes that Spencer never altered his initial drawings.

In a Billionaire’s Playground, Six Artworks Could Predict the Market

The New York Times reports on a closely watched auction at Christie's in Palm Beach, where six high-value artworks from a billionaire's collection are expected to set market benchmarks. The sale, taking place in the exclusive playground of the ultra-wealthy, features works by artists such as Basquiat and Richter, and is seen as a barometer for the current state of the art market amid economic uncertainty.

Andy Warhol’s ‘Vanishing Animals’ Series Is a Meditation on the Natural World

Artnet Auctions is offering three prints from Andy Warhol's 1986 'Vanishing Animals' series in its Post-War and Contemporary Art sale, alongside a graphite study from his earlier 1983 'Endangered Species' portfolio. The 'Vanishing Animals' series features ten silkscreen prints of endangered species such as the California Condor and Sömmering Gazelle, executed in Warhol's signature style. The sale is open for bidding through November 20, 2025, with estimates ranging from $25,000 to $50,000 per work.

The Big Review | 36th Bienal de São Paulo ★★★★

The 36th Bienal de São Paulo has opened with a site-specific installation by Nigerian-American artist Precious Okoyomon, titled "Sun of Consciousness. God Blow Thru Me – Love Break Me" (2025), which features a spiraling path of moss-covered earth and waterfalls evoking Brazil's deforested Cerrado region. The biennial, curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung with an international team, includes 125 artists—97 international and 28 Brazilian—with more than half of the works commissioned for the exhibition. Notable presentations include a career-spanning display of over 20 paintings by British artist Frank Bowling, alongside works by Brazilian artist Gervane de Paula, who has the largest presence in the show.

L.A.’s AI art museum DATALAND is opening next spring—with a trippy infinity room

DATALAND, the world's first museum dedicated to AI art, has announced it will open in spring 2026 at the Grand L.A. complex in Downtown Los Angeles, a delay from its original 2025 target. Founded by artist Refik Anadol and his wife Efsun Erkılıç, the 25,000-square-foot venue will feature five galleries, including an Infinity Room that incorporates AI-generated scents drawn from the studio's Large Nature Model, trained on data from 16 rainforests. DATALAND will also partner with Google Arts & Culture for an artist residency program, selecting three artists for six-month collaborations culminating in public displays.

A Massive Fire Destroyed Her Brooklyn Studio. She Has Only 10 Works Left

A massive fire destroyed Claudia Kaatziza Cortínez's Brooklyn studio in the Beard and Robinson Stores building in Red Hook on September 18, just days before her solo exhibition "Salt and Bone" opened at the Furnace: Art on Paper gallery in Falls Village, Connecticut. The blaze, which required 250 firefighters and a barge to contain, consumed 15 years of archives, tools, and equipment, leaving only the 10 works in the exhibition as the entirety of her art practice. The cause remains under investigation, and the building is off-limits.

Kemper Art Museum at WashU debuts its largest-ever exhibition

The Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis has opened its largest-ever exhibition, "Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection." The show features over 80 works by nearly 70 artists, with a focus on women artists and artists of color. A centerpiece is a monumental diptych by Joan Mitchell, her last completed work before her death in 1992. The exhibition, which previously traveled from New York City to Berkeley, California, will be on view through January 5.

Act on It! Artists, Community, and the Brockman Gallery in Los Angeles

The article reports on the exhibition "Act on It! Artists, Community, and the Brockman Gallery in Los Angeles," currently on view at the Lancaster Museum of Art and History through August 31, 2025, before traveling to the Vincent Price Art Museum and CSU Dominguez Hills in 2026. Organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the show revisits the legacy of the Brockman Gallery, founded in 1967 by brothers Alonzo Davis and Dale Brockman Davis in Leimert Park. As one of the first Black-owned commercial galleries on the West Coast, it provided a vital platform for Black artists during the Black Arts Movement, showcasing early works by figures such as Betye Saar, David Hammons, John Outterbridge, Charles White, Noah Purifoy, and Doyle Lane. The gallery also expanded into a nonprofit cultural hub through Brockman Gallery Productions, offering residencies, film festivals, and jazz concerts.

A century of Art Deco celebrated at Sarasota Art Museum

Sarasota Art Museum will present "Art Deco: The Golden Age of Illustration" from August 31, 2025, through March 29, 2026, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the style's debut at the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris. The exhibition features 100 rare posters from the 1920s and 1930s drawn from the William W. Crouse Collection, one of the world's most important private collections of Art Deco posters, with works by artists including A. M. Cassandre, Leonetto Cappiello, and Paul Colin. Alongside the posters, the show includes sculptural pieces, vintage cocktail shakers, and furniture from The Wolfsonian-Florida International University, highlighting the luxurious materials and modern design of the Machine Age.