MEXICO CITY.- Mexico City’s art scene welcomes a powerful new voice this February as Jun Martínez presents his first solo exhibition in Mexico at adhesivo contemporary. Opening on February 3, 2026, during Mexico City Art Week, the exhibition will be on view through April 3, offering visitors an immersive encounter with painting as memory, territory, and resistance. Rather than arriving with finished works, Martínez transforms the gallery itself into a site of creation. The exhibition takes the form of an in-situ installation of ten paintings produced directly within the space, allowing the process to remain visible and embedded in the architecture of the gallery. This approach underscores the artist’s interest in painting not ... More
Installation view from the exhibtion. Photo: Camilla Stephan / Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.
HUMLEBÆK.- Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark is showing Headstrong featuring works by the legendary artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. The exhibition presents 49 works on paper and one single painting, Untitled from 1982, a masterpiece that established his fame. All works have one central motif: the head. Headstrong is the first museum exhibition to focus on Basquiat’s depictions of human heads. Jean-Michel Basquiat burst onto the New York art scene in 1981 with a riot of heads, figures and signs, becoming the first Black American artist to rivet the attention of the art world and the media. Basquiat was fully aware of his role as an artist at a time when hip-hop was giving the world new rhythms. He emerged out of nowhere in New York’s streets, clubs and art world. His drawings of heads are imprinted with the consciousness of a young Black artist, though they feature no explicit symbols or words pointing in that direction. Basquiat opened the art world to other cultures, voices and id ... More
LONDON.- The British Library has announced that it has acquired the archive of celebrated writer and essayist, Ronald Blythe (1922-2023). The news will be marked with an event held at the Library on 23 February, to explore Blythe’s work and legacy. Blythe was born in Suffolk and spent almost his whole life living in a small area of Suffolk and Essex. Initially a reference librarian in Colchester, Blythe was encouraged to become a writer by his friend, the artist, Christine Nash. He had a prolific output, publishing over 40 books many of which explored themes around nature and place, the most famous being Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village which was later adapted into a film with the director, Peter Hall. When writing Akenfield Blythe used his experiences and those of the people he knew to create the evocative atmosphere of the fictional, rural village of Akenfield. Blythe was a life-long Anglican, and the archive also includes drafts of the regular column Blythe wrote ... More
PARIS.- This spring, the Musée du Louvre presents a season of profound artistic dialogues and historical rediscovery through three major exhibitions. From the late Gothic mastery of Martin Schongauer, the "Beautiful Immortal" who captivated Dürer, to a monumental pairing of Michelangelo and Rodin that explores the "living body" as a laboratory of the soul, the museum traverses the evolution of Western form. Complementing these sculptural and graphic masterpieces, Primeval Waters takes us back to Ancient Mesopotamia, investigating how the cradle of civilization navigated its relationship with the life-giving—and at times destructive—power of the Tigris and Euphrates. Nicknamed 'Beautiful Martin' by Albrecht Dürer, Martin Schongauer (Colmar, about 1445–Alt-Breisach, 1491) was a prodigious painter, draughtsman and engraver who remains relatively unknown outside of a small circle of experts and enthusiasts. He was, however, one of the most popular artists of the ... More
BERLIN.- A new chapter in Saxony’s commitment to contemporary art is now on view in Berlin. The exhibition New acquisitions of contemporary art in the Art Fund 2025 – Supported acquisitions by the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony has officially opened at the Representation of the Free State of Saxony to the Federal Government, offering the public an intimate look at the latest works added to one of the region’s most important public collections. Presented by the Art Fund of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden in cooperation with the Representation of the Free State of Saxony to the Federal Government, the exhibition brings together 18 newly acquired works selected from a broader group of 26 pieces purchased in 2025. Altogether, the acquisitions represent an investment of around €95,000 in contemporary artistic production. The show reflects the Art Fund’s long-standing mission: to support artists at early stages of their careers ... More
Sam Nhlengethwa, Ode to Miles Davis, 2019. Lithograph. Work: 86.1 x 51.3 cm (33.9 x 20.2 in.) Frame: 96 x 62 x 4 cm (37.8 x 24.4 x 1.6 in.) Edition of 30.
NEW YORK, NY.- Goodman Gallery New York opened All Blues, a new exhibition by Sam Nhlengethwa that brings together a methodical and deeply personal body of work shaped by numerology, abstraction and the artist’s enduring love of jazz. Marked by milestones, tributes and memories, this show revisits various foundational moments for the artist. The exhibition centres on a series of ten square works measuring 55 x 55 cm, a format loaded with significance. In 2010, the year Nhlengethwa turned 55, marked the 50th anniversary of Miles Davis’s landmark album Kind of Blue. To honour the occasion, he staged an exhibition of the same name at Goodman Gallery Johannesburg. Ten works produced during that period – a sequence spelling out “All Blues”, the title of Davis’s celebrated composition – were set aside at the time, partly because Nhlengethwa regarded them as a private gift to himself. Fifteen ... More
FRANKFURT.- Form, colour, and light shape the visual cosmos of internationally acclaimed German photographer Jessica Backhaus. Rooted in documentary photography, her work expands this tradition through a lyrical and highly personal visual language. Small details draw her attention, opening pathways to the enigmatic and to new ways of seeing. Through intuitive, experimental processes, she explores emotional themes such as vitality, absence, and memory. Her images reveal a refined sensitivity to materiality, texture, and the subtlest inflections of colour that unfold in the fertile space between photography, painting, and object-based art. This exhibition brings together works and books from the past twenty-five years—from early documentary works to her gradual shift toward abstraction and her new series "Papyrus," presented here for the first time—offering a wide-ranging insight into her artistic oeuvre. "Jessica Backhaus. Shadows might Dance" is curated by Andrea ... More
NASHVILLE, TN.- The Frist Art Museum presents In Her Place: Nashville Artists in the Twenty-First Century, an exhibition spotlighting the central role women have played—and continue to play—in shaping Nashville’s visual arts community. Organized by the Frist Art Museum, the exhibition kicks off the Frist’s 25th-anniversary year and is on view in the museum’s Ingram Gallery from January 29 through April 26, 2026. Women artists and gallerists have long been at the center of Nashville’s vibrant visual arts community. Especially during the recent period of remarkable growth, an outsized number of local women artists are showing their work across the country and globe and receiving prestigious grants, residencies, and critical acclaim. Many have also dedicated years, even decades, to teaching or building impactful community organizations. Through the presentation of nearly 100 paintings, sculptures, ... More
COLOGNE.- Zander Galerie opened an exhibition of photographs by Santu Mofokeng and David Goldblatt, bringing together two of the most important and influential figures in South African photography. Working from different generational positions and with distinct visual sensibilities, both artists profoundly shaped how South African realities have been seen internationally, contributing decisively to the recognition of South African photography as a major artistic and cultural force. Santu Mofokeng (1956–2020) developed a photographic practice that moved beyond conventional documentary categories. Closely associated with the South African photographic collective Afrapix from 1985 onward, and shaped through sustained dialogue with David Goldblatt, his work combines visual observation with critical reflection and writing. Mofokeng’s photographs address history and land, memory and spirituality, and the lived aftermath of apartheid, forming an œuvre that is both ... More
Yasumasa Morimura, Doublonnage (Marcel), 1988, Color photograph.
NEW YORK, NY.- Luhring Augustine is presenting an exhibition of works by Yasumasa Morimura and Charles Atlas. The show highlights two artists whose practices explore distinctive and vibrant views related to gender and identity. On display in the main gallery is a selection of new and exemplary works by Morimura that span the artist’s over four-decade career. The presentation highlights his signature approach to reinventing and reimagining iconic imagery, largely pulled from the Western cultural canon — references ranging from artistic masterpieces and historic photographs to film and pop-culture. Gender and cultures coalesce and conflate in Morimura’s ingenious transformations of himself, creating subversions to assumptions related to these subjects. Through his depiction of female stars and characters, Morimura subverts the concept of the “male gaze”; within each image he both challenges the authority of identity and overturns the traditional scope of self-portraiture. In th ... More
EDINBURGH.- An immersive exhibition of giant prehistoric animals opened at the National Museum of Scotland this weekend. Giants (31 January – 14 September 2026) showcases the enormous but often overlooked creatures that roamed the Earth after the extinction of the dinosaurs. This is the Scottish debut of the spectacular touring exhibition developed by the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences and toured by Nomad Exhibitions. Giants invites visitors on a journey through time, from 66 million years ago to the present day. The exhibition features life-sized 3D models, fossils and nearly complete skeletons including Paraceratherium species , the largest land mammal ever known to have walked the Earth, Otodus megalodon, the mightiest shark of all time, and the terrific Titanoboa cerrejonensis, the world’s longest ever snake. Immersive displays transport audiences into the natural habitats of these colossal beings, providing context to their existence and eventual extinction. Interacti ... More
Britta Marakatt-Labba, Mot ljuset | Towards the Light, 2024, hand embroidery and appliqué on linen, 42 x 58 cm, Courtesy the artist and private collection. Photo: Hans Olof Utsi.
MAINZ.- Kunsthalle Mainz is staging the first ever large-scale solo exhibition of works by Britta Marakatt-Labba in a German-speaking country. Since participating in documenta 14 she has been one of the world’s most well-known Sámi artists. The show will focus on her textile pieces from the 1960s through to the present day, around sixty of which will be on display. Britta Marakatt-Labba (born in 1951 in Sápmi) found international recognition through her narrative, figurative textile pieces. Over the past fifty years she has transposed her surroundings, experiences and observations into pictorial form, creating numerous delicate motifs that are meticulously embroidered onto the background fabric. Using fabric to transport visual narratives is the artist’s method of asking questions and finding answers to existential thoughts. With needle and thread in hand, she talks not just about the Sámi people themselves but also about their history and mythology, and about the natural world which ... More
The LaQuan Smith collection modeled at the Empire State Building during New York Fashion Week, New York, 2021, photo by Charles Sykes, courtesy of Associated Press.
PALM SPRINGS, CA.- Palm Springs Art Museum presents Fashioning Architecture: What the Runway Borrows from Architecture, an exhibition that examines architecture as a central force shaping how fashion is presented, experienced, and understood. On view January 31 through June 7, 2026, at the museum’s Architecture and Design Center, Edwards Harris Pavilion, the exhibition explores the intersection of architecture, design, and fashion through the spatial frameworks of the fashion show. Through videos, photographs, and the voices of industry practitioners, the exhibition examines the sustained relationship between fashion houses and architecture, foregrounding architecture’s role in shaping one of fashion’s most influential moments of presentation. “Architecture is not a backdrop to the fashion show. It is an active force that shapes movement and meaning,” said Christine Vendredi, JoAnn McGrath Executive Director of Palm Springs Art Museum and exhibition curator. “This exhibitio ... More
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Winston Roeth returns to Ingleby Gallery for 2026 season opener EDINBURGH.- Ingleby’s exhibition programme for 2026 opens with an exhibition of work by the American painter Winston Roeth. A master of edge and surface, Roeth’s colourfield paintings combine an apparently minimalist presentation with a maximalist viewing experience. Colour is everything, colour and light and an awareness of how paintings can command and delineate architectural space. The paintings themselves operate within that space, changing in the light as the viewer moves around them. Roeth is an alchemist, mixing his pigments and applying them in velvety layers which reveal their secrets slowly. His compositions are distilled to this level of apparent simplicity through the most minimal ingredients. Sometimes the white of the wall becomes an active part of the painting, forming a geometric grid, at other times the picture itself is divided into a harmony of lines and colours, ... More
Schomburg Center, leading authors, scholars, and artists release special book list to mark centennial NEW YORK, NY.- The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture has published a special book list of Black-authored books from the past 100 years. 100 Black Voices: Schomburg Centennial Reading List was led by the Center’s reference division and features recommendations from some of the leading voices in Black history, literature, scholarship, and art, as well as the Schomburg Center’s extended library community. The 100 titles on the list are now available at The New York Public Library’s circulating and research branches. In addition, to ensure patrons can enjoy the books as soon as possible, NYPL is offering instant e-book and audiobook access to a selection of the most highly recommended titles, as well as book giveaways at select locations. “Not only were we able to engage brilliant minds about their favorite books, but we also received thoughtful ... More
Every stroke a loud space: Ronny Delrue's decades of drawing take center stage at IKOB EUPEN.- The IKOB Museum Eupen is dedicating a major exhibition to the Belgian artist Ronny Delrue, which places his decades- long, consistently focused work at the center and primarily presents Delrue as a draftsman. His daily drawings are much more than an artistic routine—they are a constant expression of personal reflection, inner necessity, and critical engagement with himself and society. Delrue’s artistic practice is marked by impressive discipline: following the principle “Nulla dies sine linea” (not a day without a line), a new work is created almost daily, whose emotional and intellectual content goes far beyond the medium of drawing. For him, drawing is not only a means of artistic expression but also a political space in which personal thinking, feeling, and forgetting are made permanently visible. At the core of his artistic attention are the visible fragments of human existence: ... More
Anne Hardy transforms VISUAL Carlow into a weather-responsive earthscape CARLOW TOWN.- VISUAL is presenting Interloper, the first project by Anne Hardy in Ireland. For this exhibition of existing and newly commissioned works, Hardy has responded to the distinct architecture of VISUAL; the concrete and glass of the Link Gallery and its connection to the ornamental pond seen through the large windows, and the blank canvas of the Studio Gallery’s white cube design and its heavily patinated floor. Interloper marks a continued evolution in Hardy’s practice. Long known for immersive, ambitious installation work, recently this has been combined with a move towards a material-rich figuration. Here the galleries are given over to an installation that combines recognisably human components with elements of the non-human, whether animal, machine, or something else entirely. These are rooted in an embrace of and experimentation with ... More
Annette Hur debuts new autobiographical abstractions at Timothy Hawkinson Gallery LOS ANGELES, CA.- While the landscapes in Annette Hur’s newest paintings have grown increasingly abstract they remain resolutely autobiographical. Horizon lines become a fading boundary. Sky, earth, and water blur. Forms from the natural world are discernible, yet move in and out of focus. Dichotomies abound. They alternate between feeling serene and agitated. Layers of vibrant, at times violent, hues of colors and lush, determined brushstrokes give the surfaces a feeling of churning, of perpetual motion. Hur creates these landscapes that are both familiar, yet alien, as pockets outside of regular life to give distance for reflection and consideration. Space, time, and memory are compressed. The shifting and amorphous environments visualizing how past and present coexist. Water is frequently the central element. Forever unfixed, moving and flowing, inherently ... More
Chronicles from the Storm: On moral exhaustion, endurance, and the fragility of hope DUBAI.- In Chronicles from the Storm at Zawyeh Gallery, Saher Nassar presents a powerful body of work that confronts the limits of emotional endurance and the ethical uncertainty of the human spirit when faced with prolonged and overwhelming suffering. Drawing from both personal and collective experiences, the exhibition unfolds as a layered reflection on how repeated trauma reshapes perception, belief, and the instinct to survive. Working across a range of mediums, Nassar translates lived realities into visual studies that move beyond immediate reaction. Rather than seeking resolution or catharsis, the works dwell in a state of moral exhaustion - where clarity is suspended and certainty dissolves. This prolonged experience becomes a reluctant muse, granting the artist the distance needed to engage more deeply with his subject mafter: studies of loss, the collapse ... More
Elena Asins returns to Málaga with Antigone, a stark contemporary reading of classical tragedy MALAGA.- The Museo Picasso Málaga has opened its 2026 exhibition program with a powerful and quietly radical proposal: Elena Asins. Antigone, now on view in the museum’s temporary galleries. The exhibition, which opened on January 30, brings together two final works by the late Spanish artist—Antigone and Hemon—in what reads less like a retrospective and more like a philosophical statement. At the heart of the show stands Antigone (2010–2015), a monumental sculpture that feels at once austere and uncompromising. Built from the Greek letters that spell the heroine’s name, the work transforms language into structure, turning typography into architecture. Its severe geometry and dark, industrial presence evoke silence, resistance, and an ethical stance that refuses negotiation. Far from decorative, the sculpture confronts visitors with the moral weight of Sophocles’ ... More
New solo exhibition by Á. Birna Björnsdóttir opens at BERG Contemporary REYKJAVÍK.- Á. Birna Björnsdóttir works like an emotional scientist who measures not in seconds but in rhythm, not in precision but in persistence. Birna’s laboratory is permeable: ceramic, copper, steel, straps, mirrors, metal, and microcontrollers. Her tools include drip vials, multimeters and vessels. The vessel becomes a form of harnessing, a way of holding without fixing, of receiving without owning. Other tools include the wind brushing her cheeks on a cold, bright day, snail sex, text messages, diary entries, astrology readings, spells and the kisses of lovers far away. She gathers data slowly through attention, exposure and care. The works in When I looked up, the moon had changed shape are both experiments and confessions. That is to say, they display aspects of the spiritual and the scientific. In Witnesses, two metallic eyes hang in slow rotation, tracing ... More
MCA Australia's artistic program revealed SYDNEY.- Step into a year of bold contemporary art at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA Australia), where over 50 artists from across Australia and the globe are showcased across 10 powerful new exhibitions and three new artist commissions. A focus on First Nations artists and multidisciplinary activations bring the Museum to life. From emerging voices to acclaimed names, the MCA highlights the vibrancy and diversity of contemporary art at its boldest, most joyous, and most experimental. Kicking off the 2026 program on 5 March, the MCA brings Egyptian artist Wael Shawky’s acclaimed moving image operatic work Drama 1882, a highlight of the 2024 Venice Biennale, to the Museum for its Australian premiere. In May, Tony Albert, one of Australia’s most prominent First Nations artists, will bring his signature humour and energy to the MCA for the Museum’s ... More
MASBEDO transforms Bologna's Oratorio into a sanctuary of sound and memory BOLOGNA.- On the occasion of ART CITY Bologna 2026 and in conjunction with Arte Fiera, the Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna presents Resto, a video installation by the artist duo MASBEDO, at the Oratorio di San Filippo Neri. The exhibition is accompanied by a critical essay by Alessandro Rabottini. Standing in the centre of the nave of the Oratorio di San Filippo Neri, MASBEDO’s video installation activates a field of resonance in which the present and memory merge into a shared grammar. Resto connects historical memory and the contemporary moment, intertwining with the history of the Oratorio itself, which was severely damaged during the bombings of 1944. By placing in dialogue the wounds of war still visible in the architecture and those that mark our own time, the installation establishes a direct relationship with the space, amplifying its original ... More
Julia Phillips reimagines the body at the Barbican LONDON.- The Barbican is staging the first UK institutional solo exhibition of the German and American artist Julia Phillips with newly commissioned works for The Curve. Through her multidisciplinary practice, which spans sculpture and drawing, Phillips gives material form to intangible concepts ranging from psychological states to biological processes. Julia Phillips: Inside, Before They Speak features new works which explore the surreal qualities of the human body, visualise the stages of conception through the lens of medical technology, and propose hypothetical apparatuses which merge the industrial with the anatomical. At the core of Phillips’s sculptural practice is her use of ceramics. She often employs a casting process, pressing and moulding thin clay slabs against her body, before firing and glazing each fragment to produce dynamic surface effects. Alongside her experiments ... More
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On a day like today, Mexican illustrator José Guadalupe Posada was born
February 02, 1853. José Guadalupe Posada (February 2, 1853 - January 20, 1913[1]) was a Mexican political printmaker and engraver whose work has influenced many Latin American artists and cartoonists because of its satirical acuteness and social engagement. He used skulls, calaveras, and bones to make political and cultural critiques. Among his famous works was La Catrina. In this image: José Guadalupe Posada, Calavera de la Catrina (Skull of the Female Dandy), from the portfolio 36 Grabados: José Guadalupe Posada, published by Arsacio Vanegas, Mexico City, Mexico, c. 1910, printed 1943, photo-relief etching with engraving, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by the friends of Freda Radoff.
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