India is returning to the Venice Biennale after a seven-year hiatus with a national pavilion in the Arsenale. The presentation, titled 'Geographies of Distance: Remembering Home,' will feature five artists: Alwar Balasubramaniam (Bala), Sumakshi Singh, Ranjani Shettar, Asim Waqif, and Skarma Sonam Tashi. The exhibition is curated by Amin Jaffer and is backed by India's Ministry of Culture and two cultural institutions.
Eleven artists from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign School of Art & Design explore the relationship between people and place in a new exhibition at Krannert Art Museum. Titled “Another Place: Storymaking the Entangled Prairie,” the show opens January 29 and runs through July 2, featuring sculpture, installation, photography, printmaking, video, and performance. Curated by art history professor Terri Weissman, the exhibition is tied to the Humanities Research Institute’s 2025-26 theme “Story and Place.” Works include Ryan Griffis’s multimedia project on the Illinois River Valley, Stephen Signa-Avilés’s wearable sculptural assemblage “The Recollector,” and Melissa Pokorny’s prairie-inspired installation.
Two museum exhibitions, one at Americas Society in New York and another at the Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac in Paris, are reframing perceptions of Amazon civilizations by centering the artistic and cultural traditions of the region's Indigenous peoples. The New York show, "Amazonia Açu" (on view through April 18, 2026), features works by artists including Sara Flores, Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe, PV Dias, and the film collective Colectivo Tawna, blending mediums and challenging Western distinctions between art and craft. The Paris exhibition, "Amazônia – Indigenous Creations and Futures" (through January 18), presents the Amazon as a culturally rich, inhabited ecosystem rather than a pristine wilderness.
The German Art Gallery (GAG), a Dutch-run gallery specializing in art once owned by Nazi leaders including Adolf Hitler, has sparked controversy by advertising on Truth Social, the right-wing platform founded by Donald Trump. The gallery’s founder, who uses the pseudonym Marius Martens, defends the move as a cost-effective way to reach a broad American audience, including conservatives, and denies any ties to neo-Nazi ideology. Critics, including a Truth Social user who alerted The Art Newspaper, argue the ads—taglined “Art of the German Elite, 1933-1945”—appear to celebrate Nazism. Curator and historian Gregory Maertz notes that while the GAG holds one of the most complete private collections of Third Reich art, the rising market for such works may reflect a global revival of right-wing sentiment.
UCR ARTS' California Museum of Photography presents "Transgresoras: Mail Art and Messages, 1960s–2020s," an exhibition guest co-curated by Zanna Gilbert of the Getty Research Institute and Elena Shtromberg of the University of Utah. Running from September 13, 2025, to February 15, 2026, the show features over 50 Latinx and Latin American women artists who used mail art to subvert authoritarian censorship, turning the government's own postal system into a tool for creative expression across militarized borders. The exhibition includes video, sculpture, paintings, prints, and installations, organized into thematic sections addressing state control, gender, migration, colonialism, and ecology.
The Las Vegas Museum of Art (LVMA) has revealed renderings for its new 60,000-square-foot building, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Francis Kéré. Set to open in 2029 at Symphony Park in downtown Las Vegas, the four-floor museum features a stone mosaic façade sourced from the Red Rock Mountains, a shaded front porch, a canyon-like grand staircase, and galleries inspired by Modernist architect Paul R. Williams. Baobab trees, symbolizing community, inform the design. The $200 million capital campaign, supported by the late Elaine Wynn and other trustees, has passed the halfway mark. The museum is a partnership with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma) and will showcase works from its collection, with Lacma director Michael Govan serving as a founding trustee. A satellite exhibition, Family Album, is currently on view, and a 15,000-square-foot gallery and media lab will open next year.
A one-night, invitation-only exhibition titled "The Open House" took place within a private midcentury home in Oregon, designed by modernism pioneer Robert Rummer. Curated by Lena Vasilenko and Emma Strgar of the experiential agency Ethereal Reflections, and presented by Marisa Swenson of Modern Homes Collective, the group show featured works by contemporary artists including Stephanie Ketty, Christopher Belluschi, Ben Latham, Aremy Stewart, and Carvers Collective. The installation was designed to integrate the artworks with the architecture, encouraging reflection on how art enhances domestic space.
The Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art announced a new exhibition, "Of the Hills: Pahari Paintings from India's Himalayan Kingdoms," on view from April 18 to July 26, 2026. Featuring 48 paintings and colored drawings, the show includes canonical masterpieces and never-before-displayed works from the renowned Benkaim Collection, acquired by the museum in 2017–2018. The exhibition explores collaboration and creativity across three key periods from 1620 to 1830, highlighting intricate details, naturalistic figures, and vivid stylizations created with materials like ground pigments, beetle wings, and gold.
Istanbul Modern's annual Gala Modern fundraising auction raised ₺29.6 million (over $693,000) through the sale of 12 artworks, with Azade Köker's specially created collage 'Orchestra' achieving the top price of ₺6 million (over $140,500). The event, held at the museum during a private gala, featured a Support Auction with contributions from 13 Turkish and international artists, drawing collectors, patrons, and cultural figures including Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy.
A group of experimental Minnesota artists in the 1970s, frustrated with the established art scene, successfully pitched the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) to create the Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program (MAEP). Launched in 1975, MAEP gave artists direct control over curating a dedicated gallery within the museum, selecting their peers for exhibitions. Fifty years later, the program remains active, with artists chosen through an open call and an advisory committee, and has featured influential figures like Phyllis Wiener, Judy Onofrio, and George Morrison.
Mikhaile Solomon, founder of Prizm art fair, discusses the Artists in Residence in Everglades (Airie) program, which has hosted around 200 artists over 25 years. Founded in 2001 by artist Donna Marxer and park ranger Alan Scott, Airie invites about 14 artists per year to live and work for one month in Everglades National Park, producing work that responds to the subtropical wilderness. The program's exhibitions have traveled to venues like the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and the Venice Biennale, with recent projects including Miami-based artist Germane Barnes' sound installations.
The British Museum is expected to loan the 14th-century Asante Ewer to Ghana on a long-term basis, following discussions between the Manhyia Palace Museum in Kumasi and the London institution. The ewer, made in England and later looted from the Asante royal palace in 1896, has been in the British Museum's collection ever since. Ivor Agyeman-Duah, director of the Manhyia Palace Museum, plans to travel to London to make a formal loan request on behalf of Asantehene Otumfuo Nana Osei Tutu II. The British Museum has already lent other looted artefacts to the Ghanaian museum, and the loan would likely be for three years, with Ghanaian authorities acknowledging British Museum ownership.
The exhibition "Radical Histories: Chicano Prints from the Smithsonian American Art Museum" opens at The Huntington's Marylou and George Boone Gallery from November 16 to March 2. Curated by E. Carmen Ramos, the show features 60 works by nearly 40 artists and collectives, tracing over six decades of Chicano printmaking as a tool for resistance, community building, and cultural reclamation. The exhibition is organized into five thematic sections—"Together We Fight," "¡Guerra No!," "Violent Divisions," "Rethinking América," and "Changemakers"—and begins with the late 1960s Delano Grape Strike, highlighting how artists used silkscreens, posters, and offset prints to mobilize communities and confront injustice.
Artist Hew Locke's most comprehensive museum exhibition to date, "Hew Locke: Passages," has opened at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven. The show features 49 works spanning nearly three decades, including photography, sculpture, and drawing, and explores themes of empire, identity, and migration. Curated by museum director Martina Droth, the exhibition runs through January and includes key works such as "Veni, Vidi, Vici (The Queen's Coat of Arms)" (2004) and "Koh-i-noor" (2005), which critique British imperial symbols using found objects and textiles.
Frieze has announced it will launch an Abu Dhabi edition in November 2026, marking its first fair in the Middle East and its eighth global event. The fair will take over the existing Abu Dhabi Art fair through a partnership with the Abu Dhabi Department of Culture and Tourism (DCT), and will be held at Manarat Al Saadiyat in the Saadiyat Cultural District. Dyala Nusseibeh will remain as director. The announcement comes as Frieze's rival Art Basel prepares to launch its own Middle East fair in Doha, Qatar, in February 2025, and follows the recent acquisition of Frieze by Hollywood tycoon Ari Emanuel via his holding company Mari, which has financial ties to Abu Dhabi-based investors.
The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) has opened "Contemporary Anishinaabe Art: A Continuation," its first Native American art exhibition in over 30 years. Featuring 92 works by more than 60 Anishinaabe artists from the Great Lakes region, the show spans from 1892 to 2025 and includes pieces by renowned artists such as Jim Denomie, Norval Morrisseau, Kent Estey, Jonathan Thunder, and Rabbett before Horses Strickland. Highlights include Denomie's vibrant "Four Days and Four Nites, Ceremony" (2020) and Morrisseau's spiritual works like "Punk Rockers Nancy and Andy" (1989).
Local artist Carmen McCullough, who also works under the name 'Strange Farm Girl,' is opening a new mixed media exhibition titled 'Wicked Plant Art' across three venues in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota: the Becker County Museum, Bluebird Books, and Ortenstone Gardens and Sculpture Park. The exhibition, which includes 22 original pieces, was previously shown at the Lauritzen Botanical Gardens in Omaha, Nebraska, and features nature-themed works inspired by 'wicked plants.' An opening reception will be held at the Becker County Museum on October 9, and the show runs through January 15, 2026.
A new auction record for fast-rising Chinese-born painter Li Hei Di was set at Sotheby’s Hong Kong on Sunday evening, with the work *There Was One Summer Returning Over and Over; There Was One Dawn I Grew Old Watching* (2023) selling for HK$2.67 million ($342,824). The price represents a 91-percent increase from the artist’s previous high, set just six months ago, and more than doubled its presale high estimate after a five-minute bidding battle. Li, born in Shenyang in 1997 and based in London, opened their first solo exhibition with Pace in Hong Kong this summer and is the youngest artist on the international gallery’s roster.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will present the largest-ever Raphael exhibition in the Americas next spring, titled "Raphael: Sublime Poetry" (29 March–28 June 2026). Curated by Carmen Bambach, the show brings together over 200 works—including paintings, drawings, decorative objects, and tapestries—spanning Raphael’s career from Urbino and Florence to Rome. Major loans include the Alba Madonna from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione from the Louvre; and works from the British Museum, Uffizi, Prado, and Vatican Museums. The exhibition is structured chronologically, with special focus on recent scientific analysis and Raphael’s depictions of women.
The article highlights a series of upcoming art exhibitions and festivals in Springfield, Illinois, running from late August through September 2025. Key events include the Springfield Art Association's 37th Annual Edwards Place Fine Art Fair, the solo watercolor exhibition “Perceptions of Nature” by Donald Landry at the Hoogland Center for the Arts, and the “NOIR V: Resilience” exhibition at the Illinois State Museum. Other featured shows include “Confluence” and “PLEIADES” at the SAA Collective, and the “Statewide: Illinois Artist Showcase” at the M. G. Nelson Gallery. The Fae Folk Art Collective also presents its fourth festival, Mythical Creatures, at Union Square Park.
Documenta has announced the first all-woman curatorial team for its 16th edition, set to take place in Kassel, Germany, from June 12 to September 19, 2027. Artistic director Naomi Beckwith, deputy director and chief curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, selected four curators—Carla Acevedo-Yates, Romi Crawford, Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro, and Xiaoyu Weng—to develop the exhibition, publications, and programming. Each curator brings distinct expertise: Acevedo-Yates focuses on diaspora and cultural production; Crawford on race and American visual culture; Rodríguez Castro on writing and editing; and Weng on globalization, feminism, and decolonization.
A rare 18th-century tapestry, *The Battle of Arbela*, has gone on public display at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, UK, after more than a century in storage. The tapestry, part of the *Story of Alexander the Great* series commissioned by the first Duke of Marlborough in 1707, was woven by Flemish weaver Judocus de Vos and designed by French artist Charles Le Brun. It depicts Alexander the Great's victory over the Persian Army at the Battle of Gaugamela in 331 BC. The piece is now exhibited in the palace's Great Hall until 26 August, following conservation work completed in the early 2000s.
Carol LaChiusa, a 95-year-old artist from Grosse Pointe Farms, is the subject of a new exhibition titled "Carol LaChiusa: A Journey in Art" at the Grosse Pointe Congregational Church Arts Ministry Gallery. The show features approximately 28 works spanning her career from age 15 to just months ago, including her 1947 painting "Down by the Tracks," which earned her a scholarship to the Cleveland School of Art. A public reception with the artist will be held on August 7, featuring jazz by the Matthew Daher Trio, and the exhibition runs through September 7.
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King Charles and Queen Camilla held a reception on July 9, 2025, to celebrate a new exhibition at Buckingham Palace featuring 72 artworks from the monarch's personal collection. The works, created by artists who accompanied Charles on foreign tours over the past 40 years, include paintings, sketches, and even an iPad image. The exhibition, titled "The King’s Tour Artists," opens to the public from July 10 to September 28 and marks the summer opening of the palace. Charles began inviting artists on tours in 1985, and since then, 43 artists have joined him on 70 tours to 95 countries, with the King acquiring at least one piece from each artist.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has released new photographs of its David Geffen Galleries, designed by architect Peter Zumthor with SOM as collaborating architect. The building, a long horizontal glass and concrete structure curving along Hancock Park and Wilshire Boulevard, opened temporarily for a three-day preview last week and is scheduled to open to the public in April 2026. The 347,500-square-foot wing includes 110,000 square feet of gallery space, along with street-level pavilions housing a theater, store, bar, and education center. To mark the preview, LACMA hosted three "sonic previews" featuring composer Kamasi Washington leading over 100 musicians in a performance of his work Harmony of Difference. Architectural critic Christopher Hawthorne described the wing as "bold and compromised in nearly equal measure," while Zumthor noted that curators initially critical of the spatial layout have begun to appreciate the space and the beauty of the handmade concrete structure.
Three exceptionally well-preserved ancient bronze gladiator helmets, discovered in Pompeii, are the centerpiece of a new exhibition titled *Gladiators: Heroes of the Colosseum* at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds. The show, organized in collaboration with the Colosseum in Rome, marks the first UK iteration of a touring exhibition that has attracted over a million visitors worldwide. It features arms, armour, and everyday objects from the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, along with immersive installations exploring gladiatorial life.
The Newport Art Museum will present 'Howard Gardiner Cushing: A Harmony of Line and Color' from July 12 to December 31, 2025, the first major retrospective in decades of the Gilded Age artist. Curated by Ricardo Mercado, the exhibition features over 55 paintings, many unseen publicly for over 60 years, and will be held in the museum's Cushing Gallery, named after the artist and funded by his patron Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.
Lesia Vasylchenko, a Kyiv-born artist, has won the 2025 PinchukArtCentre Prize, receiving 400,000 Ukrainian hryvnia (about $10,000). Her winning installation includes two video works: one reflecting on the shelling during Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and another using AI to compress 30 years of sunrises into a single event. At the awards ceremony held on 18 June in Kyiv—a day after a deadly Russian drone attack killed at least 28 people—Vasylchenko announced she would donate the entire prize to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Special prizes were awarded to painter Kateryna Aliinyk and artist Yevhen Korshunov, each receiving 100,000 hryvnia and additional support.
The Armory Show has announced over 200 galleries for its September 2025 edition at the Javits Center in New York, including more than 135 returning exhibitors and around 55 first-time participants. New features include a design-focused sector called Function, curated by Ebony L. Haynes, and a large-scale sculpture sector Platform led by the nonprofit Souls Grown Deep. The fair will also introduce a non-profit sector and honor Silke Lindner with the Gramercy International Prize.
The Denver Art Museum has published a feature titled "What We’ve Been Up To: Landscape," showcasing a selection of recent photographic acquisitions focused on the American landscape. The featured works span from the late 19th century to the present, including images by Steve Fitch, Henry Wessel, Jr., Yamamoto Masao, Marion Post Wolcott, William Henry Jackson, John Ganis, Terri Weifenbach, Christina Fernandez, Linda Connor, and Patrick Nagatani. The photographs document diverse terrains—from New Mexico and Colorado to New Jersey and Hawai'i—and employ a range of processes, from albumen and gelatin silver prints to inkjet and pigment prints.