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article news schedule Jun 15, 2026

The .ART Award Honors the Story Behind the Artwork

The .ART Award has opened for applications to mark the 10th anniversary of the .ART domain, with a total prize value exceeding $50,000. The global art prize, judged by a 10-person international panel including art critic Jerry Saltz, poet Sasha Stiles, and former auction-house specialist Shlomi Rabi, asks artists to document their creative process through a dedicated .ART domain. The Grand Prize includes $15,000, residencies at Château du Fresne in France and Anfitrion in Spain, an editorial feature in Whitewall Magazine, and a premium .ART domain. Applications close on November 1, 2026, with winners announced during Art Basel Miami.

trending_up market schedule Jun 15, 2026

Goodman Gallery restructures and launches digital platform

Goodman Gallery has restructured its operations, cutting staff, reducing its artist roster from 50 to 40 artists, and scaling back its participation in art fairs. At the same time, it has launched a digital platform featuring a monthly screening programme called Goodman Screenings and a quarterly curated series named South South, whose inaugural edition in July is curated by Dr. Zoé Whitley. Founded in Johannesburg in 1966 by Linda Givon during apartheid, the gallery expanded under owner and director Liza Essers, who took over in 2008, opening spaces in Cape Town, London, and New York. Its roster includes prominent artists William Kentridge, El Anatsui, and Carrie Mae Weems.

trending_up market schedule Jun 4, 2026

Almine Rech now represent Keita Morimoto

Almine Rech has announced representation of Japanese artist Keita Morimoto in New York and Paris. Morimoto, born in Osaka in 1990, immigrated to Canada in 2006 and earned his BFA from OCAD University. Now based in Tokyo, he is known for night cityscapes and portraits that blend Baroque lighting, American Realism, and pre-modern Genre Painting. His inaugural solo exhibition with the gallery took place in New York in 2025, and his work will be shown at Art Basel in Switzerland in June 2025, with a solo exhibition planned for Almine Rech Paris in 2027. The gallery also noted recent institutional acquisitions of his work.

article news schedule May 28, 2026

Protest against Holger John exhibition

Students at the Dresden University of Fine Arts (HfBK) have staged protests against the retrospective exhibition "66 × John" by painter and gallerist Holger John, on view at the Oktogon until June 1. The protests were triggered in part by photographs displayed at the vernissage showing John alongside Rammstein singer Till Lindemann, against whom allegations were made in 2023 before Berlin prosecutors dropped the case. Protesters repeatedly blocked the entrance gate with bicycle locks and damaged exhibition materials, leading the university to file a complaint against persons unknown.

trending_up market schedule May 28, 2026

Frank Elbaz represents Kunié Sugiura

Galerie Frank Elbaz now represents Japanese-American artist Kunié Sugiura, in collaboration with Taka Ishii Gallery. The gallery will present Sugiura's 1979 work *Christmas lights* from her Photopainting series at Art Basel in June, ahead of her first solo exhibition in Paris opening on October 19. Sugiura, born in Nagoya in 1942, moved to the US in 1963, earned her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1967, and later settled in New York. She received the Higashikawa Prize in 2007. In 2025, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art mounted her first US survey exhibition, with a parallel show at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University. Her works are held in the collections of MoMA, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and the Denver Art Museum.

museum exhibitions schedule May 26, 2026

IONOI Gallery opens in Milan

IONOI Gallery has opened at 24 via Perugino in Milan, directed by Alessia Rosato. The space offers artworks priced under €1,000, including prints, multiples, and applied art. It launched with the group exhibition “A new spring — before everything happens,” featuring 28 artists such as Cesare Fullone, Giuseppe Frangi, Franko B., Antonio Marras, and Ercole Pignatelli. The gallery replaces the former concept store IoNoi Gallery, founded in 2022 by architect and designer Fabio Novembre to showcase his industrial design collaborations with brands like Kartell, Driade, and Venini.

museum exhibitions schedule Apr 25, 2026

Caravaggio ‘Baroque Masterpieces’ on view in Charlotte

An exhibition titled 'Caravaggio | Revolution: Baroque Masterpieces from the Roberto Longhi Foundation' opens to the public on April 26 at Mint Museum Uptown in Charlotte, North Carolina. The show centers on Caravaggio's painting 'Boy Bitten by a Lizard' and includes 40 other works by leading Baroque masters from the Roberto Longhi Foundation. A section of the exhibition also explores Caravaggio's influence on modern visual storytelling through music videos, films, and photography, featuring works by artists such as David LaChapelle and Tom Hunter. Opening weekend includes a talk by Professor Cristina Acidini, president of the Roberto Longhi Foundation.

museum exhibitions schedule Oct 3, 2025

Casa Batlló to open second-floor contemporary art gallery

Casa Batlló in Barcelona will open its second floor as a contemporary art gallery starting January 2026. The space, previously used as apartments, offices, and a maintenance workshop, has been redesigned by Barcelona-based studio Mesura with a curved metal ceiling echoing Gaudí’s forms, while preserving original woodwork and stained glass. The gallery extends the Casa Batlló Contemporary program, which commissions artists for two exhibitions per year, accessible with general admission or a standalone ticket.

museum exhibitions schedule Sep 24, 2025

Emma Donnersberg to open Paris gallery

Interior designer Emma Donnersberg will open her first Paris gallery on 20 October 2025 in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. The inaugural exhibition will feature paintings by Mexican artist Ileana García Magoda alongside new furniture pieces by Donnersberg, including the Marigold sofa and chairs from her Cloud and Rainbow collections. Donnersberg, who studied at Tulane University and Parsons School of Design, began her career at Christie’s in New York and Paris before founding E. Donnersberg Interiors in Manhattan in 2008.

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