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Michael Asher at MOCA, Los Angeles

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) is presenting a major exhibition dedicated to the work of conceptual artist Michael Asher. The show focuses on his site-specific interventions that critically examined the social, economic, and institutional frameworks of the spaces he engaged with.

Potatoes Grow on Trees: Hu Yinping Replants Meaning in Making

Beijing-based artist Hu Yinping is presenting three major works in Hong Kong this March, including the installation 'Potatoes Grow on Trees' in the Encounters sector of Art Basel Hong Kong. The works stem from her long-running project 'Hu Xiaofang,' a semi-fictional company that employs women in rural China to create crocheted artworks, redistributing income and visibility to this often-overlooked demographic.

A CONTEMPORARY QUIPU TRAVERSES CASTELLO DI RIVOLI

Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea has opened Cecilia Vicuña's first solo museum exhibition in Italy, titled 'El glaciar ido (The vanished glacier).' The exhibition, curated by Marcella Beccaria and running until September 2026, features a major new site-specific commission: a monumental, horizontal 'quipu acostado' installation suspended in the Manica Lunga gallery, created from raw wool and incorporating participatory elements from local communities.

THE WIND AS PROTAGONIST AT THE FINLAND PAVILION

Artist Jenna Sutela has been selected to represent Finland at the 61st Venice Biennale in 2026 with a multisensory installation titled Aeolian Suite. Curated by Stefanie Hessler and commissioned by Frame Contemporary Art Finland, the project transforms the Alvar Aalto-designed pavilion into a dynamic windscape using meteorological data, wind machines, and a children’s woodwinds orchestra. The work personifies five specific Venetian winds as protagonists in an elemental drama that blends scientific data with the theatrical traditions of Commedia dell’arte.

Group Exhibition ‘Here’s To Painting’ To Be Celebrated With Opening Reception Saturday Afternoon

The Newtown Municipal Center Art Gallery is hosting "Here’s To Painting," a group exhibition featuring original works by 12 local artists. Curated by the Newtown Cultural Arts Commission, the show highlights the creative output of a long-standing collective under the mentorship of retired art educator Claudia Mitchell. The collection primarily consists of watercolors and pastels, depicting local Newtown landmarks, international streetscapes, and still lifes.

Opening reception for Nichols show is Friday

The Wilkes Art Gallery is set to host a career-spanning exhibition titled “From Reality to Realism, A Lifetime Perspective,” featuring the work of Wilkes County artist Ward Nichols. The show, which opens with a reception on Friday, April 17, will showcase a comprehensive collection of the artist’s past and present works, running through June 17.

Stay Connected: Supplying the Globe @ Tai Kwun

Stay Connected: Supplying the Globe @ 大館

Tai Kwun in Hong Kong is set to host "Stay Connected: Supplying the Globe," a major group exhibition running from February 28 to May 31, 2026. Curated by Pi Li and Yan Kwok, the exhibition features a diverse array of contemporary artists including Musquiqui Chihying, Ho Rui An, Lap-See Lam, and Li Shuang. The works span various media, from video installations like "The Smart City" to sculptural interventions and performance-based projects, focusing on themes of global infrastructure, labor, and technological connectivity.

Cosanti Originals Debuts New Artist Exhibition

Mesa-based artist Talia Dudley has unveiled her latest solo exhibition, “SHROUD,” at the Cosanti Originals Gallery in Paradise Valley. The collection features large-scale paintings, some measuring up to 80 by 60 inches, which were developed during Dudley’s recent artist residency at Arcosanti. The works utilize gestural strokes and heavy layering to explore the "architecture of the unconscious," drawing direct inspiration from the unique structural environment and hidden spaces of the Arcosanti site.

In this Milan exhibition, the viewer can modify the spaces. The great artist-architect Gianni Pettena explains why

In questa mostra a Milano lo spettatore può modificare gli spazi. Il grande artista-architetto Gianni Pettena ci spiega perché

Gianni Pettena, a pioneer of the Italian Radical Architecture movement, has unveiled his immersive installation "Paper/Northern Lights" at the BiM urban regeneration project in Milan's Bicocca district. Originally conceived in 1971 as a pedagogical exercise at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, the work consists of 49 kilometers of white paper strips hanging from the ceiling. Visitors are invited to physically interact with the installation by cutting through the paper, effectively reshaping the architectural environment and challenging traditional notions of fixed space and authorship.

The exhibition of the great artist Lucy Orta in a recovered historic palace in Sansepolcro

La mostra della grande artista Lucy Orta in un palazzo storico recuperato a San Sepolcro

British artist Lucy Orta has unveiled a site-specific installation titled "Trame di Comunità" at CasermArcheologica in Sansepolcro, Tuscany, following an artist residency. The work features five tents constructed from hand-woven vintage linen and hemp, inspired by the protective imagery in Piero della Francesca’s "Polyptych of Mercy." These structures are embroidered with the faces of local residents and adorned with 99 terracotta amulets, incorporating oral testimonies and personal reflections gathered from the community during Orta's stay.

Winemakers Pasqua Vini Bet on Art: Artist Sara Ricciardi Discusses Her Project for Verona

I produttori di vino Pasqua puntano sull’arte. L’artista Sara Ricciardi racconta il progetto per Verona

Artist Sara Ricciardi has unveiled 'Resonance,' a site-specific immersive installation at the newly restored Monastero space within Palazzo Maffei, Verona. Commissioned by Pasqua Vini, the work celebrates the creative partnership between winery CEO Riccardo Pasqua and American winemaker Charles Smith. The installation utilizes light, sound, and large-scale geode-inspired structures to translate the 'alchemy' of winemaking and the meeting of two distinct identities into a sensory ritual for visitors.

The Practice of Liberation and Sanctuaries of Becoming.

Michaela Yearwood-Dan has unveiled her first major UK institutional exhibition, 'The Practice of Liberation,' at the Whitworth. The immersive installation integrates fourteen new paintings with ceramic vessels and soundscapes, reimagining traditional religious motifs through a contemporary, secular lens. By deconstructing elements like stained glass and the Stations of the Cross into abstract forms, the artist creates a sanctuary that explores themes of ritual, memory, and personal identity.

Who Gets to Save the World?

Franco-Malian artist Ladji Diaby presents 'Who’s gonna save the world?' at Lafayette Anticipations, a solo exhibition featuring sculptural installations crafted from found furniture and discarded objects. By repurposing second-hand furnishings through the lens of his mother’s domestic and spiritual rituals, Diaby transforms marginal items into talismanic vitrines of memory. The works challenge Western hierarchies of cultural value, positioning the act of salvaging as both an aesthetic and political gesture.

In Dim Light, New Histories Emerge

Museo Afro Casa Silvana in Humacao, Puerto Rico, is hosting 'Dim Light: Afro-Puerto Rican Photography,' the first collective exhibition dedicated exclusively to Afro-Puerto Rican photographers. Featuring ten artists from the island and its diaspora, the show explores themes of spirituality, family, and resistance through a lens of self-representation. The works were previously debuted at the 3rd Black Brazil Art Biennial before returning to Puerto Rico for this landmark presentation.

MAFOLOFOLO: Sonic Cartographies of Return

The South African artist collective MADEYOULOOK has unveiled 'Mafolofolo' at Hangar – Centro de Investigação Artística in Lisbon. Curated by Margarida Mendes, the installation utilizes sound, oral histories, and liberation songs to map the complex relationships between land, memory, and dispossession in northern South Africa. The work, which originally debuted at documenta fifteen, has been reconfigured for this specific research-driven setting to explore themes of extraction and survival.

The Procession as a Form of World: Latin American Artists at the Diriyah Biennale

LA PROCESIÓN COMO FORMA DE MUNDO: ARTISTAS LATINOAMERICANOS EN LA BIENAL DE DIRIYAH

The third Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, titled 'In Interludes and Transitions,' is open until May 2nd in Saudi Arabia's historic Diriyah district. Curated by Nora Razian and Sabih Ahmed, the exhibition features 68 artists from over 37 countries and frames the world as a multitude of processions, using movement as its central theme and methodology. The exhibition design by Formafantasma encourages a fluid, nomadic journey through four thematic movements and site-specific 'arenas' within the repurposed industrial halls of the JAX creative district.

An Artist Embraces the Metaphorical Cracks of Matzah

Artist Emily Drew Miller has created a series of collograph prints titled "Matzot" by running sheets of matzah through a printing press. The resulting black-and-white impressions capture the intricate textures and cracks of the unleavened bread, transforming the traditional Passover food into a medium for her grid-based painting practice. The series began as a personal ritual around the holiday and has evolved into a decade-long exploration.

“Jamea Richmond-Edwards: Another World and Yet the Same” at Hamilton College’s Wellin Museum of Art

The Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College is hosting "Jamea Richmond-Edwards: Another World and Yet the Same," a major solo exhibition featuring the work of the Detroit-born artist. The show highlights Richmond-Edwards’ signature large-scale collages and immersive installations that blend fashion, mythology, and personal history to explore Black Americana and Afro-futurism.

Symbiotic Communion Flourishes in Laura Berger’s Expansive Paintings

Chicago artist Laura Berger presents a new suite of monumental paintings exploring themes of communion and interdependence. Her signature minimal, nude figures are depicted merging with natural elements like waves, flowers, and clouds, rendered in varying states of translucence to symbolize a deep connection with the earth and each other.

The Cost of Love: Rugby Art Museum and Gallery presents joint exhibition by artists Charlie Kirkham and Robert Walker

Artists Charlie Kirkham and Robert Walker are set to debut a joint exhibition titled "The Cost of Love" at the Rugby Art Gallery and Museum this May. The showcase features contemporary paintings that reimagine classical mythological figures—such as Narcissus, Apollo, and Adonis—to explore psychological themes of desire, transformation, and vulnerability. While both artists maintain a focus on technical rigor and the human figure, the works shift away from traditional storytelling to focus on the emotional tensions of modern life.

‘All about the history’: Marshall’s Michelson Museum of Art opens newest exhibit to public

The Michelson Museum of Art in Marshall, Texas, has launched "Postcards from Home," a new exhibition featuring the works of Max Cole and Don Brown. The show highlights the regional history of East Texas through Cole’s illustrations of historic landmarks and Brown’s plein air paintings of local landscapes like Caddo Lake. The exhibition was organized through a collaboration with the Harrison County Historical Museum and Centenary College, bringing together works that were previously held in private and bank collections.

“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.

Inside the Mint Museum’s 4-year quest to bring rare Caravaggio show to Charlotte

The Mint Museum in Charlotte has successfully secured a rare exhibition featuring the works of Italian Baroque master Caravaggio, culminating a complex four-year negotiation process. This landmark show marks a significant achievement for the regional institution, bringing world-class masterpieces that are seldom seen outside of major European capitals or top-tier global museums to North Carolina.

New Omagh art exhibition celebrates work of 18 local painters

The Strule Arts Centre in Omagh has launched 'The Easter Studio Painters Exhibition,' a showcase featuring the work of 18 local artists. Mentored by veteran painter Gerry Bradley at his Easter Studio hub, the group has tripled in size since its inaugural 2018 show. The collection spans a diverse range of genres, including landscapes of Omagh, portraits of local figures, and experimental icons, reflecting a broad spectrum of techniques and styles developed under Bradley’s four decades of experience.

Metro Detroit billboards feature pop art in 'open air museum'

International Outdoor, a Farmington Hills-based advertising firm, has launched an "open-air museum" across Metro Detroit featuring the work of French pop-street artist Jisbar. The initiative utilizes over 57 billboards and digital panels across three counties, displaying vibrant mashups of art history icons like the Mona Lisa with pop culture figures such as Bart Simpson and SpongeBob SquarePants. The exhibition, which runs through mid-June 2026, aims to transform the regional landscape into a public gallery accessible to commuters.

CLC presents Atrophy of Reality gallery opening

Central Lakes College is set to host "Atrophy of Reality," a multidisciplinary exhibition featuring the work of studio arts instructor Casey Hochhalter. The event, scheduled for April 17 at the Brainerd campus, will include an artist lecture followed by an opening reception where the public can engage with Hochhalter regarding his creative process and research.

Pettit’s senior art exhibition at UAM Glassblock Gallery

Denver Pettit is presenting her senior art exhibition, titled "From the Backyard," at the University of Arkansas at Monticello’s Glassblock Gallery from April 10–15, 2026. The showcase features a series of oil paintings, including the work "Filbert," and concludes with a public reception on the final evening.

LeMoyne Arts's star-studded exhibition sings nature's songs

LeMoyne Arts in Tallahassee has unveiled "The Nature of Kinship and Its Artful Connections," a major group exhibition running from April 9 to May 9, 2026. The show features the work of four acclaimed painters—Mifflin Hollyday, Lilian Garcia Roig, Alexa Kleinbard, and Mark Messersmith—whose works explore the symphonic and interconnected relationships within the natural world. A unique aspect of the exhibition is its community-driven origin, organized by a group of nearly 30 local art supporters to celebrate the return of Hollyday’s work to the public eye.

How do you break bad news to someone you love? With this artist’s help, it’s a piece of cake

Artist Keely O'Brien has transformed the Richmond-Brighouse SkyTrain station in Vancouver into a public gallery with her exhibition "Secret Ingredients." Part of the Capture Photography Festival, the installation features large-scale photographs of decadent, homemade cakes iced with unconventional messages like "You Snore" or "I'm So Proud of You." These images originated from a social experiment where O'Brien solicited anonymous confessions from the public and delivered them as custom-baked confections to recipients across the city.

Six Nations, Six Languages of Resilience, at Ucross Art Gallery

The Ucross Art Gallery has launched "Resilience," a group exhibition showcasing the work of the 2025 Ucross Fellowship for Native American Artists recipients. Curated by Marwin Begaye, the show features a diverse array of disciplines including sculpture by Gina Herrera, literature by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle, mixed-media by Wade Patton, and performance art by Sarah Ortegon HighWalking. The collection explores the intersection of cultural identity, heritage, and the enduring strength of Indigenous communities across the United States.