The Emmanuel Art Gallery hosted the opening of its annual student exhibition, titled “Guilty,” on the evening of April 2. The showcase features a diverse range of artistic media, including digital renderings and traditional oil paintings, created by the university's student body.
The Gallerie d'Italia in Naples has opened an exhibition featuring contemporary paintings by American artist Alexi Worth alongside ancient Attic and Magna Graecia ceramics. The show creates a deliberate visual and thematic conversation between the modern works and the classical artifacts.
London's Science Museum has opened a free exhibition titled 'Star Trek Warp Trail' to celebrate the franchise's 60th anniversary. The display features iconic costumes, props, and models from various Star Trek series and films, including uniforms worn by characters like Captain Pike and Jean-Luc Picard, the prototype android B-4 prop head, and a model of the U.S.S. Enterprise.
Iranian archaeologists Sepideh Maziar and Mehrnoush Soroush have launched an interactive online map to document and geolocate cultural heritage sites in Iran damaged by military strikes. The map, hosted by the University of Chicago's CAMEL Lab, currently lists 69 verified sites, including the historic Sa'dabad Palace complex in Tehran, and is updated as new information becomes available.
The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC) has opened the exhibition 'Clutch City Craft,' which explores the craft traditions and material cultures that define Houston. The show features a diverse range of making practices, from mosaic street signs and cowboy boot making to fiber artists involved in aerospace design, framing the city's creative density as an extension of its industrial identity.
Antonio Somera discovered 26 steamer trunks belonging to early 20th-century Filipino migrants in a Stockton, California basement in 2005. The trunks' contents, including a pillowcase embroidered with the phrase "HOW CAN YOU FORGET ME," form the core of the exhibition "How Can You Forget Me: Filipino American Stories" at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington DC, offering an intimate look at the lives of the Manong Generation of laborers.
The Guardian's picture editors curated a selection of global photographs for Tuesday, March 31, 2026. The images include a Holy Week procession by the Trabajo y Luz brotherhood in Granada, Spain; white pelicans at Lake Çavuşçu in Turkey; apricot blossoms in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan; and scenes from California, Lebanon, India, Israel, Ukraine, the West Bank, and France, capturing moments of nature, conflict, displacement, and commemoration.
Guardian Australia's picture editor Carly Earl selected the publication's top three photographs for March, highlighting a total lunar eclipse, the Iranian women's football team's tense departure, and a portrait of a man displaced by Cyclone Narelle. The monthly series provides insight into the craft of photojournalism, showcasing the technical skill and narrative power behind compelling images while elevating the work of Australian photographers and the stories they capture.
The Guardian's picture editors curated a global selection of photographs from March 24, 2026. The images depict scenes of conflict, including a distraught woman in Beirut after an Israeli airstrike, rockets fired from Lebanon towards Israel, an Iranian missile embedded in the West Bank, and damage in Tel Aviv from a missile barrage. Other photos show people sheltering in Kyiv during an air raid and firefighters in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.
Emily Rauh Pulitzer, the founder of the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, has curated a significant exhibition featuring approximately 85 works drawn from her personal collection and the foundation's holdings. The show emphasizes her long-standing preference for sculpture and drawing, showcasing a refined selection that reflects her decades of experience as a veteran curator and dedicated patron of the arts.
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Hong Kong-based painter Stephen Wong Chun Hei, who spent much of his childhood indoors, has become an avid hiker and now creates vibrant, colorful paintings of the city's natural landscapes. His work focuses on capturing the dramatic geology, lush vegetation, and hidden trails of Hong Kong's country parks and coastal areas.
A new cultural initiative in Hong Kong, the 'Textile Trail,' guides visitors through several neighborhoods to explore the city's industrial past as a major Asian textile exporter. The trail features preserved factories, warehouses, and other architectural remnants that tell the story of this foundational industry.
Artist Raque Ford discusses her recent exhibitions, "The Barkeeper’s Friend" at Greene Naftali and "Cry Baby" at Kunstverein Gartenhaus, highlighting her unique approach to language and materiality. Ford utilizes industrial materials like reflective acrylic, Mylar, and thermal printers to transform pop lyrics, overheard speech, and diaristic fragments into physical installations. Her work explores the tension between public performance and private interiority, often using scale to manipulate the viewer's emotional response to text.
A new exhibition at Raven Row in London is dedicated to the work of American artist Christine Kozlov, a key but often overlooked figure in the early Conceptual Art movement. The show focuses on her contributions from the mid-1960s to the late 1970s, revealing the scope of her activity during this formative period.
The Petit Palais in Paris is hosting the first French retrospective dedicated to Károly Ferenczy, a seminal figure in Hungarian art history. Running from April 14 to September 6, 2026, the exhibition features nearly 140 paintings and drawings, many on loan from the Hungarian National Gallery and private collections in Budapest. The showcase traces Ferenczy’s stylistic evolution from naturalism to symbolism and impressionism, highlighting his role as a founder of the Nagybánya artists' colony and a pioneer of en plein air painting in Central Europe.
The Fitchburg Art Museum and the Laurelwood Garden Club have announced the 28th annual Art in Bloom celebration, running from April 23 to April 26. This year’s event coincides with the museum’s centennial anniversary and features 40 floral arrangements designed to interpret specific artworks from the permanent collection, including pieces from the exhibitions "Kaleidoscope" and "Festival: A Celebration of African Art."
The Philadelphia Museum of Art has launched a new exhibition titled "A Nation of Artists," which showcases a diverse range of works highlighting the creative spirit and historical narratives of American artistry. The exhibit, previewed by local media, offers a comprehensive look at how various artists have shaped the national identity through their unique visual languages.
The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, Massachusetts, is launching a new exhibition titled "Pressing Importance: Salem and the Declaration of Independence" on May 2, 2026. Curated by Dan Lipcan, the show features rare materials from the museum's Phillips Library, including two of the earliest surviving broadside editions of the Declaration. The display focuses on the Revolutionary-era manuscripts, newspapers, and pamphlets that were instrumental in circulating the message of independence throughout the colonies.
The Thunder Bay Art Gallery is hosting a series of exhibitions featuring the work of students from local high schools and Lakehead University. The shows include a senior high school exhibition and a display of work by Lakehead University Visual Arts students, highlighting a diverse range of media and artistic approaches.
The Missoula Art Museum has launched "Buffalo Is Our Good Medicine," a collaborative exhibition by artists Aspen and Cameron Decker. The show features a diverse array of media, including traditional ledger art, sculpture, hide paintings, and multimedia installations that center on the buffalo's vital role within tribal communities. Many of the works utilize hides harvested from the Yellowstone herd, blending historical storytelling with contemporary artistic practices.
The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) is closing its major exhibition, "Anishinaabe Art: Honoring Tradition, Inspiring Innovation," this weekend. The show, which opened in October, is the museum's first significant survey of Anishinaabe art in three decades, featuring over 80 works from the 19th century to the present.
A new exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb is bringing renewed attention to the experimental work of Croatian artist Edita Schubert. The show, titled "Edita Schubert: The Logic of Disappearance," presents a comprehensive survey of her pioneering use of photography, film, and installation from the 1970s onward, highlighting her exploration of identity, memory, and the body.
The Village Theatre Art Gallery in Danville is launching its spring exhibition, "Aligned Again," featuring the work of six women artists. Opening with a reception on April 18, the show highlights a diverse range of mediums and styles that explore themes of connection and creativity. The exhibition will remain on view through June 19, serving as a centerpiece for the town's seasonal cultural programming.
Graduating seniors from Northern Michigan University’s School of Art and Design are showcasing their capstone projects at the DeVos Art Museum in Marquette. The exhibition features work from 20 students across diverse disciplines, including ceramics, illustration, painting, and digital cinema, culminating in a reception and awards ceremony on May 1.
Chawla Art Gallery in New Delhi hosted an artist-led walkthrough for the exhibition “Once Upon a Sculptor,” featuring the renowned Indian sculptor K. S. Radhakrishnan. The event allowed visitors to engage directly with the artist as he discussed his creative evolution, the development of his visual language, and the philosophical layers behind his iconic bronze figures, Musui and Maiya.
The H. F. Johnson Gallery of Art at Carthage College is hosting its first round of spring senior thesis exhibitions, featuring the work of graduating students Jake Janovicz, Mauricio Rebollar-López, and Aj Stockdale. The showcase includes a diverse range of media, from Janovicz’s photography and animation projects titled “Stop and Think” and “Distraction,” to Rebollar-López’s politically charged multi-media installation “Oh American the Great,” and Stockdale’s interactive digital and found-object assembly titled “Trepidation.”
The Gallery Lake Forest has unveiled "Wax Poetic," a solo exhibition featuring the encaustic works of Deerfield-based artist Karen Ross. This marks Ross’s first solo showcase in Lake Forest, highlighting her mastery of the ancient and technically demanding medium of encaustic painting, which involves using heated beeswax and pigments. The exhibition focuses on themes of emergence and the seasonal transition of spring, drawing parallels between the natural world and the physical process of layering and revealing wax.
The San Francisco Art Fair returns to the Fort Mason Center for its 14th edition from April 16 to 19, 2026. Featuring over 80 local and international galleries, the event will take over the Festival Pavilion with a curated selection of modern and contemporary art. This year’s programming places a significant emphasis on Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) artists and includes a robust schedule of panel discussions, curator-led talks, and educational workshops.
The art exhibition ‘Like a Rising River: Stories of Women and Change’ recently opened in Nepal, showcasing the results of a collaborative project between Srijanalaya, UN Women Nepal, and the Government of Finland. The initiative sent 15 Nepali artists to four provinces—Sudurpaschim, Bagmati, Sarlahi, and Madhesh—to document the lived experiences, social struggles, and resilience of local women through various artistic mediums, including textiles, mixed-media animation, and storytelling.