Jewelry artist Douriean Fletcher’s exhibition opens at Walters Art Museum this weekend

The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore is set to open "Douriean Fletcher: Jewelry of the Afrofuture," a major exhibition featuring over 100 works by the renowned jewelry artist. Fletcher, who gained international acclaim for her costume design work on Marvel’s "Black Panther" franchise, will see her contemporary Afrofuturistic pieces displayed alongside ancient artifacts from the museum's permanent collection, including items from Ancient Egypt and Ethiopia.

Abstract Thinking at the Cafesjian Art Trust Museum

The Cafesjian Art Trust Museum in Shoreview has launched "Abstraction and Ourselves," an ambitious exhibition that bridges the gap between contemporary abstract painting and monumental glass sculpture. Curated by Jill Ahlberg Yohe, formerly of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the show pairs the museum’s renowned glass collection—including works by Stanislav Libenský and Jaroslava Brychtová—with significant loans such as a Georgia O’Keeffe oil painting and works by Dyani White Hawk.

Exhibition | Allison Katz, 'Outta the Bag' at Hauser & Wirth, New York, Wooster Street, United States

Artist Allison Katz presents 'Outta the Bag,' her first solo exhibition with Hauser & Wirth in New York. The show features a diverse range of works that blend personal history, art-historical references, and linguistic wordplay, including her signature 'cock paintings' and motifs of mouths and architectural apertures. The exhibition serves as a homecoming for the Montreal-born, London-based artist, who spent her formative years in New York studying at Columbia University.

Dvaita (द्वैत) or Dualities Exhibition Explores Philosophical Contrasts at The Lexicon Art

The Lexicon Art in New Delhi is set to host "Dvaita (द्वैत): Dualities," a group exhibition curated by architect and artist Ankon Mitra opening on April 18, 2026. Featuring the work of 11 contemporary artists, the show explores the philosophical concept of dualism through contrasting elements such as light and shadow, geometric and amorphous forms, and gold and silver. The exhibition design moves away from the traditional white cube format, instead utilizing the gallery space to create a physical "dance of dualities" that reflects India’s layered cultural realities.

“Constellations”: Jewelry as Art

The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) has launched "Constellations: Contemporary Jewelry," its first exhibition dedicated exclusively to its contemporary jewelry collection. The show features hundreds of pieces organized into four thematic sections—Zones of the Body, Archetypes, Signals, and Play—alongside a historical retrospective titled "Connecting the Dots." The exhibition highlights experimental and often impractical works that blur the lines between wearable objects and sculpture, featuring artists such as Brian Fleetwood, Joyce J. Scott, and Peter Chang.

‘OC Made’ at Fullerton Museum Center showcases local artists

The Fullerton Museum Center has launched "OC Made," a new biennial juried exhibition dedicated exclusively to artists living and working in Orange County. Curated by Georgette Collard and Jasmine McNeal, the inaugural show features over 130 artworks by more than 100 local artists selected from a pool of 260 submissions. The exhibition includes a diverse range of mediums, from glass sculptures and ceramics to photorealistic paintings of local landmarks, and awarded top honors to artists Ramón Vargas, Jaime “Germs” Zacarias, and Mahta Jafari.

The Bascom Opens Photography Resident Exhibition April 18 with Free Artist Talk

The Bascom: A Center for the Visual Arts is set to debut a new exhibition by photography resident Dean Kessmann titled "realism succumbing to abstraction or is it the other way around" on April 18, 2026. The show features medium-format digital photographs captured during Kessmann’s sabbatical residency, focusing on the overlooked textures of urban landscapes such as sidewalks, graffiti, and signage. The exhibition includes unique physical presentations, with some works mounted on oriented strand board to mirror the industrial surfaces depicted in the images.

Bennington Museum hosts 2026 Annual Student Art Show

The Bennington Museum recently hosted its 2026 Annual Student Art Show, an event featuring works from local students ranging from kindergarten to high school seniors. The exhibition showcased a diverse array of mediums, including watercolor, ceramics, and mixed-media self-portraits, while offering free admission and family-oriented activities to the community.

Worthwhile textiles: artist Faig Ahmed’s Art@Bainbridge exhibit

The Princeton University Art Museum’s Art@Bainbridge space has launched "Faig Ahmed: Textiles of Consciousness," a solo exhibition featuring the innovative woven sculptures of the Azerbaijani artist. The show presents ten textiles across four themed galleries, including works from his "GLITCH" series that utilize digital aesthetics and pixelated distortions to subvert traditional carpet-weaving forms. Notable pieces like "The Knot" and "Kutab" illustrate Ahmed's signature style of blending classical Islamic patterns with surreal, melting, or fragmented geometries.

‘Under the Red Tent’ weaves memory, labor, and community at The CAMP Gallery

The CAMP Gallery in North Miami is hosting "Under the Red Tent," an immersive fiber art exhibition presented in collaboration with Red Thread Art Studio Miami. Featuring over 20 women artists, the show transforms the gallery into a monochromatic red environment where threads are suspended, woven, and draped to create a tactile sanctuary. The exhibition launched on International Women’s Day and functions as an evolving space that integrates a living oral history archive alongside physical textile works.

Zimbabwean artist Option Nyahunzvi explores cultural values in a bold new exhibition

Zimbabwean artist Option Dzikamai Nyahunzvi has launched a major solo exhibition titled 'Zvatiri' (Who We Are) at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe. The show features a multidisciplinary approach, combining installations, live-art performances, and paintings created with a unique technique of layering and etching Fabriano paper onto canvas. The works heavily reference Shona identity, specifically the 'hunhu' (or ubuntu) belief system and the artist's own Mbizi (zebra) totem, aiming to reconnect contemporary audiences with ancestral wisdom.

Landscape ReEnvisioned Exhibition At the Monterey Museum of Art

The Monterey Museum of Art is hosting "Landscape ReEnvisioned," a group exhibition featuring six contemporary photographers who move beyond traditional West Coast landscape traditions. Curated by Helaine Glick, the show presents works by Debra Achen, Tony Bellaver, Adrienne Defendi, Charlotte Schmid-Maybach, Brian Taylor, and Vincent James Waring. These artists utilize diverse mediums—including cyanotypes, gum bichromate prints, tapestries, and sculptures—to address the urgent realities of climate change, wildfires, and environmental degradation.

What To Expect at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science’s New Brick Planet Exhibition

The Denver Museum of Nature and Science has opened "Brick Planet: A Magical Journey Made With LEGO® Bricks," a temporary exhibition by award-winning Lego artist Sean Kenney. Featuring 1.5 million bricks, the show includes life-size animal sculptures like a polar bear, a ruby-throated hummingbird, and a Galapagos tortoise, along with interactive elements such as a "Mystery Mosaic." Kenney, a former Lego Masters guest judge, has toured his Lego exhibitions globally since 2012, with this installation emphasizing nature and environmental responsibility.

Two Museum Exhibitions Reframe Amazon Civilizations

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.

Exhibit Showcases Georgia Wood Artists

The Marietta Cobb Museum of Art (MCMA) in Georgia is presenting its first juried exhibition focused exclusively on wood art and woodworking, titled "Georgia Wood Artists: A Juried Exhibition." Curated by Madeline Beck, the show features works selected from over 150 submissions by artists living in Georgia, including Arnold Abelman, Jody Pollack, Abraham Tesser, Thomas Williams, and Doug Pisik. The exhibition highlights a range of techniques such as carving, woodturning, marquetry, intarsia, joinery, and epoxy woodworking, and runs from January 10 to March 22, 2026.

The DIVAs are coming to the Denver Art Museum, an exclusive fashion exhibit featuring celebrity red carpet looks

The Denver Art Museum will host the international touring exhibition "DIVAs" from October 2026 to January 2027, making it the only U.S. venue for the show. Organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the exhibit features over 200 objects including costumes and accessories worn by icons such as Lady Gaga, Rihanna, RuPaul, Prince, Tina Turner, and Marilyn Monroe. Highlights include Rihanna's 2018 Met Gala gown by John Galliano for Maison Margiela and Tina Turner's Bob Mackie "Flame Dress" from 1978. The ticketed event will take place in the Hamilton Building.

6 Must-See Exhibitions at Phoenix Art Museum this Fall

Phoenix Art Museum has announced six must-see exhibitions opening this fall, showcasing a diverse range of works from emerging Arizona artists to international contemporary clay pieces. Highlights include the 2024 Arizona Artist Awards featuring Safwat Saleem, Elizabeth Z. Pineda, and Omar Soto; "Radical Clay: Contemporary Women Artists From Japan" with 36 Japanese women artists; "Funny Business: Photography and Humor" spanning the history of the medium; and the ongoing "The Collection 1960-now" highlighting overlooked artists. The museum also offers Pay What You Wish Wednesdays for free admission after 3 p.m.

Philadelphia Art Museum’s 49th Contemporary Craft Show is this weekend

The Philadelphia Museum of Art's 49th Contemporary Craft Show is taking place this weekend at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Center City. The event features 195 artists, including 41 newcomers, showcasing one-of-a-kind works across mediums such as fashion, jewelry, furniture, weaving, glass, and woodworking. Artists retain 100% of all sales, and attendees can connect directly with creators like collage weaver Galen Gibson-Cornell and others from across the country.

Highlighting Contemporary Art in Georgia | Seams to Be: New Approaches to Textile Techniques

The Georgia Museum of Art has organized "Seams to Be: New Approaches to Textile Techniques," a traveling exhibition opening October 2, 2025, at the Lyndon House Arts Center in Athens. Guest curated by Didi Dunphy, the show features 13 Georgia-based artists who reinterpret traditional textile methods through contemporary practices, including beaded chip bags, free-motion quilts, yarn paintings, and multimedia sculptures. It is the fourth installment of the triennial "Highlighting Contemporary Art in Georgia" series, which aims to discover and cultivate local artists and bring their work to audiences across the state.

Jack White’s first visual art show to open in London this spring

Musician Jack White is set to debut his first solo visual art exhibition, titled ‘These Thoughts May Disappear’, at Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery in London. Running from May 29 to September 13, the show will feature a diverse array of mediums including sculpture, furniture design, and large-scale installations, many of which are constructed from reclaimed industrial materials and hardware remnants.

David Hockney’s Vibrant Creations Anchor Artnet’s Contemporary Editions Auction

Artnet Auctions is staging its Contemporary Editions sale, now live for bidding through November 19, 2025, featuring three works by David Hockney: an iPad drawing titled *16th February, 2021, More Flowers in a Glass Vase* (est. $40,000–$60,000), a digitally stitched photograph *In the Studio, December 2017* (est. $50,000–$70,000), and a lithograph *Pretty Tulips* (1969) (est. $35,000–$55,000). The sale highlights Hockney’s ongoing experimentation with digital tools and printmaking, offering collectors accessible entry points into his six-decade career.

Southampton Arts Center Celebrates Opening of "Second Skin" Exhibition

Southampton Arts Center has opened its "Second Skin" exhibition, curated by Latin American art scholar Estrellita B. Brodsky. The show explores clothing as a medium for identity, gender, cultural expression, and political activism, featuring approximately 30 works by international artists and designers, including prints from Martine Gutierrez's "Indigenous Woman" series and Andy Warhol works on paper from the Jordan D. Schnitzer Foundation. The exhibition runs through December 28.

Grapeshot. Nancy Lupo by Maya Tounta

Artist Nancy Lupo is preparing a new exhibition titled "Meow Meow Real Estate" at the Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation in London. The show shares its name with a novel she is writing, both projects emerging from a period of personal displacement and a fixation on finding a home. The exhibition continues a trajectory of shows that serve as interconnected, physical manifestations of her literary and emotional exploration of place.

What if the Polaroid had existed in Biblical times? Photographer Mishka Henner asks this in a show in Modena

E se la Polaroid fosse esistita ai tempi della Bibbia? Se lo chiede il fotografo Mishka Henner in mostra a Modena

Belgian photographer Mishka Henner has opened his first solo exhibition in Italy, titled 'Seeing Is Believing,' at Palazzo Santa Margherita in Modena, presented by the Fondazione Ago. The show features 25 new works that explore the nature of photography in the age of artificial intelligence, including AI-generated images of biblical scenes presented as if they were historical Polaroids.

Rock star’s first art exhibit a bright, brash pop culture provocation at CT gallery

Rob Zombie, the heavy metal musician and filmmaker, is holding his first-ever visual art exhibition, "What Lurks on Channel X?", at the Morrison Gallery in Kent, Connecticut, through November 16. The show features 18 large-scale paintings created between 2012 and 2020, drawing on pop culture, horror, and crime iconography. Zombie briefly studied at the Parsons School of Design before leaving to pursue music and film.

Producing Cinema Inside and With Video Games: A 30-Year Festival in Milan

Produrre cinema dentro e con i videogiochi. A Milano ci fanno un festival (da 30 anni)

The Milan Machinima Festival recently celebrated the 30th anniversary of machinima, the practice of creating audiovisual works and films within video game environments. The event, curated by scholar Matteo Bittanti at IULM University, explored the medium's dual origins in 1996: the community-driven "vernacular" style seen in the Quake-based 'Diary of a Camper' and the artistic approach pioneered by Miltos Manetas in his work 'Miracle'.

Even exhibition catalogues can become manga: The case of Yuko Mohri

Pure i cataloghi delle mostre possono diventare manga. Il caso Yuko Mohri

The Pirelli HangarBicocca has released a unique exhibition catalogue for Japanese artist Yuko Mohri following her solo show, 'Entanglements,' in Milan. The publication distinguishes itself by including a 24-page manga titled 'Yuko and the Unnamed' by artist Ran Kurumi, tucked into the book's jacket. This graphic insert serves as a biographical narrative, tracing Mohri’s journey from her formative years in Tokyo’s Akihabara electronics district to her recent representation of Japan at the 2024 Venice Biennale.

Artist Hong Seung-hye opens first solo exhibition in three years, traces inspiration from 'organic geometry'

Korean artist Hong Seung-hye opens her first solo exhibition in three years, titled "On the Move," at Kukje Gallery Busan. The show traces her decades-long exploration of "organic geometry," a concept she coined after a 1997 Photoshop glitch where pixels appeared to move organically on her screen. The exhibition brings together recent works across multiple mediums, including video, sculpture, and audio, such as "Snoopy in Space" (2019), "Light Upon" (2021), "MOVE" (2022), and the new video "Emotical Practice" (2025). Hong draws inspiration from music and choreography, and she expresses wariness about artificial intelligence, preferring to control every aspect of her work herself.

'Ha Chong-Hyun' at Almine Rech, Brussels on 22 Apr–27 Jun 2026

The Almine Rech gallery in Brussels is presenting a solo exhibition of work by Korean artist Ha Chong-Hyun from April 22 to June 27, 2026. The show will feature his signature 'Conjunction' series and recent works that continue his exploration of materiality and abstraction.

Special Edition : The Photography Show presented by AIPAD

The Photography Show presented by AIPAD, the world's longest-running photography fair, takes place April 22-26, 2025 at the Park Avenue Armory in New York. The 2026 iteration features exhibitors from around the world, including new participants like Galerie Sophie Scheidecker, Ruiz-Healy Art, and Leica Gallery New York, alongside returning galleries such as Augusta Edwards Fine Art and IBASHO. The fair introduces a new solo presentation sector called Focal Point, designed by architecture firm Oficina.la, and will host the Aperture Portfolio Prize for the first time. Over a third of exhibitors are women-led or founded, and Latin American photography is prominently featured. Events include AIPAD Talks, the AIPAD Award, and the AIPAD Lifetime Achievement Award, with MUUS returning as Lead Cultural Partner.