Emanuel Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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NEW YORK, NY.- Imagine that you have just purchased the most eye-catching painting you’ve ever seen. It’s a beauty, a canvas glittering with color and that special je ne sais quoi. To art collectors, there’s almost nothing better. But there’s nothing worse than placing your new masterpiece in the wrong frame. “I’ve always believed that a painting would be better served by hanging it without a frame than the incorrect one,” says Eli Wilner, CEO and founder of Eli Wilner and Company, which specializes in period framing. "The colors, forms, and meaning of an artwork can be influenced drastically by a horrible frame.” When we think about the aesthetic impact of a work of art, our focus often, and fairly, gravitates toward the work itself. Yet as Wilner’s comment indicates, how a work is framed plays a crucial role in how it is perceived, enjoye ... More
GREENWICH, CONN.- Mesmerizing, light-infused artworks take over the Bruce Museum’s Sculpture Gallery in “Gisela Colón: Radiant Earth,” on view through June 28. Showcasing nine luminescent sculptures, the exhibition offers a powerful introduction to the work of internationally acclaimed sculptor Gisela Colón, whose radiant forms explore the profound forces and energies of the natural world. A Puerto Rican American artist based in Los Angeles, Colón is known for her abstract, light-activated sculptures. Her work draws inspiration from the landscapes of Puerto Rico and California, integrating feminist and ecological histories as well as scientific principles. Colón’s sculptures expand the legacies of Minimalism, Light and Space and Land Art, while reflecting her childhood experience with Puerto Rico’s mountainous terrain and the sublime vistas of her adoptive homeland. Colón’s ... More
Angelica Raquel, Dad’s Lantern 2025. Wool, polyfiber, felt, polyfill, cotton, buttons and fabric trim, 33 x 11 x 5 in.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Rooted in fiber, folklore and family storytelling, “Angelica Raquel: Mystic Threads” explores the space where reality and imagination intersect. The solo exhibition by San Antonio-based multidisciplinary artist Angelica Raquel showcases 18 works, including fiber sculptures, paintings and immersive installations, at the McNay Art Museum from Jan. 29-July 5. Raquel (American, b. 1993) conjures a visual world of childhood memories, dreams, urban legends and ancestral lore drawn from her upbringing in Laredo, Texas. Human-animal hybrids appear, while sculptural figures invite viewers in with soft-felted bodies, adorned surfaces and vivid colors. Acting as a new generational storyteller, Raquel creates narratives that bridge the past and present. “Storytelling is like time travel. In this exhibition, I take what has been an oral practice at social gatherings — from sleepovers ... More
Deep Kailey and Nirbhai (nep) Singh Sidhu. Photo: Courtesy without SHAPE without FORM.
CLINTON, NY,.- without SHAPE without FORM is on a journey to deepen engagement with art, spirituality and mind wellbeing. An assembly of contemporary artists, cultural practitioners, and thinkers co-founded by former Condé Nast fashion director Deep K Kailey, the organisation offers an alternative perspective to the noise, division, and disconnection that defines much of our world today. To date, it has welcomed more than 60,000 visitors into spaces of stillness and self-discovery through exhibitions at museums including the V&A in London and the Queens Museum in New York. Conceptualised by without SHAPE without FORM and Toronto-based artist Nirbhai (nep) Singh Sidhu in collaboration with the Wellin Museum of Art, the interactive performance Total Response will take place on March 7, 2026, 7:30pm at Wellin Hall as part of Hamilton College’s esteemed Performing Arts Series. Bringing together sound and Simra ... More
EAST MOLESEY.- Historic Royal Palaces, the independent charity that cares for six of the UK’s most iconic historic sites, today announces the appointment of Melissa Hamnett as Director of Palaces & Collections. In this Executive Team role, Melissa will oversee the care, and long-term stewardship of HRP’s palaces and collections, helping to ensure they remain accessible, inspiring, and relevant to audiences from all backgrounds. Melissa brings over 20 years’ experience in the cultural heritage sector, combining expertise in collections, conservation, and public engagement with a commitment for innovation and inclusion. She will lead HRP’s collections strategy, champion conservation and curatorial excellence, direct major projects, and strengthen partnerships with heritage sector partners. Melissa succeeds Adrian Phillips, who served as Director of Palaces & Collections from 2017 to 2025, steering HRP through a period of transformation and strengthening its conservation and collecti ... More
PARIS.- Based on an original idea by R.Jonathan Lambert, the gallery is presenting A Hundred Years of Chess an exhibition showcasing the influence of chess on contemporary art. In Jean-Philippe Delhomme’s still life Fleurs et jeu d’échecs, Gregor Hildebrandt’s pawn sculpture, and the paintings of Garance Matton, chess takes center stage. For Lionel Estève and Lee Bae, it emerges as a poetic evocation, while in Nick Doyle’s work, it becomes a playful allusion. The exhibition juxtaposes historical works, such as Michel Journiac's and Marcel Duchamp’s chess set (1993 and 1944), as well as sculptures by Lynn Chadwick (1970) and Man Ray (1948 and 1971), with photographs by William Wegman (2015) and Martin Parr (1997), highlighting the enduring appeal of chess to artists across generations. Additionally, the exhibition features game tables where visitors are ... More
Hammer Museum appoints Michael Wellen as Chief Curator and Regan Pro as Chief of Learning, Engagement, and Research.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Hammer Museum at UCLA today announced two key appointments to its leadership team. Michael Wellen will take on the role of Chief Curator for the museum; and Regan Pro will assume the newly created role of Chief of Learning, Engagement, and Research. Reporting to museum director Zoë Ryan, Wellen and Pro join a leadership team as primary drivers of the museum’s program alongside Naoko Takahatake, Director and Chief Curator of the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, who has been with the Hammer since 2023. Michael Wellen is currently Senior Curator of International Art at Tate Modern, where he has worked since 2016. Wellen has organized critically acclaimed exhibitions at Tate Modern, including Philip Guston (2023), Lubiana Himid (2021), and Takis (2019, co-curated with Guy Brett). He is currently finalizing ... More
Hasui (1883 - 1957), Shofuku Temple in Nagasaki, 1922. Series: Selected Views of Japan. Woodblock Print. Size (H x W): 12 x 9 (inches).
NEW YORK, NY.- Ronin Gallery opens Landscape Masters: Hokusai, Hiroshige, Hasui & Yoshida, an exhibition celebrating Japan’s most iconic interpreters of the natural world. Bringing together masterworks of both ukiyo-e and Shin Hanga, the exhibition traces more than a century of artistic innovation—from the bold vistas of the Edo period to the atmospheric modern landscapes of the early 20th century. The exhibition will be on view through April 30. Featuring standout works by Hokusai Katsushika, Hiroshige Utagawa, Hasui Kawase, and Hiroshi Yoshida, the show invites visitors on a journey through Japan’s seasons and scenery. From mist-laden harbors and snow-capped mountain passes to luminous evenings and bustling city streets, these prints reveal the enduring allure of the Japanese landscape. As travel restrictions eased in the 19th century, a new wanderlust swept through Edo. The merchant class embraced ... More
Romany Eveleigh, Nomad Series, c. 1995.
NEW YORK, NY.- Richard Saltoun is presenting Contested Surfaces, a solo exhibition dedicated to Romany Eveleigh (1934–2020). This presentation marks Eveleigh's first solo exhibition in New York in nearly two decades, highlighting her deep and historic ties to the city. During the 1970s and 80s, Eveleigh was a fixture of the New York art world, maintaining a shared studio with the painter James Bishop and exhibiting often at Artist's Space and Kouros Gallery. Her presence in the city was further solidified by the support of the renowned critic and art historian Barbara Rose, who championed her work alongside the giants of American abstraction. The exhibition follows a period of significant global reappraisal of her legacy, most notably her inclusion in the 60th Venice Biennale, Foreigners Everywhere, in 2024. This renewed international attention is mirrored by major recent institutional milestones, including the acquisition of her work by the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work is additionally inc ... More
Jean Katambayi Mukendi, artist residency for RATIO at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2025. Photo: David von Becker.
ANTWERP.- M HKA (Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp) announces its 2026 programme, structured in three seasonal chapters that reflect the museum’s long-standing commitment to artist-centred thinking, contemporary urgency, and public encounter. With a programme spanning emerging practices, historic avant-garde legacies and key international voices, M HKA positions 2026 as a year of artistic resilience, political imagination, and social relevance. Without sacrificing accessibility. There is a unique story that is not well-known enough about M HKA. Whilst many art museums historically were founded by individual patrons, who often accumulated their vast wealth through colonial extraction (think Tate, Museum Ludwig, Van Abbemuseum, etc.), it was in fact artists that played the fundamental role in the foundation of M HKA. Artists donated their artworks to form the foundations of a collection for a new institution ... More
Manuel Alvess, Hygiaphone 2002. Acrylic and metal on canvas, felt 116 x 81 cm. Inv.# MA/P 28.
PARIS.- This first solo exhibition of Manuel Alvess (1939–2009) in France—and outside Portugal—reveals the previously unseen and fascinating work of a little-known artist who produced his entire body of work in Paris, where he lived from 1963 until his death in 2009. For this inaugural presentation, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff has selected a group of paintings that have never been exhibited and had never left the artist’s studio. The work of the Portuguese artist Manuel Alvess was discovered very late, in 2005. Alvess pursued his practice on the margins of the art world, outside both the market and institutional networks, without being antisocial or cut off from the world. He worked to earn a living, briefly took part in the Parisian effervescence of the 1960s and 1970s, then withdrew, developing a practice at a distance from the art milieu while keeping contemporary creation under close watch—under surveillance. It was thanks to Lourdes Castro, who organized a visit to his ... More
LONDON.- gestalten drops a massive cultural mic with the release of Thainess – Thai Creativity Today. This is not a travel guide; it’s a blueprint for the next wave of global cool, revealing how a country once known for its beaches and temples is now exporting the most sophisticated, soul-driven culture on the planet. Thainess by gestalten is the essential playbook for understanding how authentic cultural identity—from art toys to zero-waste fashion—is redefining global taste and economic influence today, proving that sincerity is the new strategy. The book—conceived and edited by Paul Rojanathara—is a celebration of the creativity, resilience, and audacity of a new wave of Thai talent. It spotlights the artists, designers, and chefs who effortlessly blend tradition and innovation, creating a new kind of modern identity. In these pages, you'll meet the artists who are making emotion visible, like Nisa "Mo ... More
Ellen Pau, Recycling Cinema, 2000, single channel video, 8 min 37 sec.
NEW YORK, NY.- Kiang Malingue is presenting in its New York space Interstice: Whirled Music, an exhibition of video works by five artists who employ the manipulation of sound and music as a strategy, in tandem with the rhythms of bodily and camera movements, to probe social and political flux and tension. Interstice is a new occasional series, situated in between longer-form exhibitions. Extending the gallery’s ongoing commitment to moving image practices, and drawing from the framework of the interstitial, the works in the exhibition nestle within in-between spaces of the built and social environments, enact a breach in the unconscious spiral, and unravel the unseen and the unspoken. A “mishearing” of the “world music” genre, Whirled Music also embodies sonic interference as a tool that challenges notions of othering. By bringing these works together, they form a sonic composition, unique to each viewer as they enter the gallery, guided by sound, moving between one work to a ... More
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MoMA PS1 announces 50th anniversary programs LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- MoMA PS1 announced a full slate of programming and celebrations for its 50th anniversary year. To kick off the anniversary, last month the museum removed financial barriers to entry by launching free admission for all visitors, becoming the largest free museum in New York City. Hallmark anniversary programming includes the much-anticipated sixth edition of Greater New York, PS1’s signature survey of New York artists, which will span the entirety of the building beginning April 16, 2026. A large-scale public celebration of MoMA PS1’s 50th Anniversary will take place on April 18, the opening weekend of Greater New York, featuring family programs, activations by community partners, local food vendors, and more. Additional programming in PS1’s anniversary year also includes a major outdoor commission by Precious Okoyomon in the courtyard, ... More
Pat Oleszko's exhibition 'Fool Disclosure' and Ana Gzirishvili's 'In Practice' open at SculptureCenter LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- SculptureCenter presents Pat Oleszko’s first solo exhibition in a New York City institution in over 35 years. Rooted in humor, sharp social commentary, and defiance of all forms of authority, Oleszko's sculptures lend themselves to raucous performance, using linguistic wit to address various concerns, including accessible housing, women’s issues, and world politics. Spanning SculptureCenter’s entire building, this survey exhibition is constructed around Oleszko’s singular inflatables and brings together dozens of these airy, monumental works for the first time. In addition to using air as a sculptural material, Oleszko devised the strategy of exhibiting work on her body, building intricate costumes that “walked out the door,” and, in her words, used “all the world as a stooge”. The exhibition includes key works from her decades-long career, such ... More
Nunu Fine Art presents an exhibition of works by Mia Westerlund Roosen NEW YORK, NY.- Nunu Fine Art New York is presenting Then and Now, the first solo exhibition of New York- based artist Mia Westerlund Roosen (b. 1942) with the gallery. This collection of sculpture and drawing showcases works from the 1970s to the present and investigates the artist’s expansive ideas about how materiality relates to the human condition. Mia Westerlund Roosen began sculpting at a time when the practice was governed by a series of strict rules imposed by influential figures such as Donald Judd and Robert Morris, whose specific ideas about how sculpture should be made (by machine) and what it should express (nothing aside from itself) dominated the previous decade. Westerlund Roosen felt that these rules should be challenged, and that the hand of the artist and its impact on the resulting work ought to be considered legitimate means ... More
Purdy Hicks Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Ciara Roche LONDON.- The small paintings on paper and canvas by Ciara Roche (b. 1993, Wexford, Ireland) depict unnerving, cinematic inspired scenes –seemingly ordinary interiors that portray a world held in a permanent state of suspense. Her lushly rendered paintings, made with wet and quickly applied oil paint to create a sense of luminosity and movement on the surface, capture timeless moments for the viewer to contemplate. “One can’t but admire the generosity in her hand, the artist’s willingness in these paintings to step up to what’s before us, Roche’s courage. What I most appreciate, apart from her obvious skill as a painter, is akin to what good prose does; how she leaves room for us to go in and imagine, to use our intelligence, our own lives, to become skilled and wondrous in these unsettling spaces she has called us towards. Be complacent at your own peril, ... More
Galleria d'Arte Maggiore g.a.m. celebrates the radical vision of Giosetta Fioroni BOLOGNA.- Galleria d’Arte Maggiore g.a.m. presents an exhibition devoted to the research of Giosetta Fioroni, a central figure in post-war Italian art and a widely acknowledged protagonist on the international scene. The exhibition title, Il futuro è uscito dal passato / the future came out of the past, echoes a celebrated statement taken from an interview with the artist by Hans-Ulrich Obrist and immediately clarifies the horizon within which her work is situated: a constant dialogue with art history, literature and, more broadly, with memory—understood as an active space for reworking lived experience and the imagination. Not least, Fioroni’s practice stands out for its capacity to exert a deep and lasting influence, still clearly evident today, on the practices and poetics of numerous contemporary artists. An independent artist, distant from fashions and rigid affiliations, ... More
Francisco Tropa unveils "Miss America" at Palazzo De' Toschi BOLOGNA.- In conjunction with ART CITY Bologna 2026, the Banca di Bologna Hall at Palazzo De’ Toschi is hosting Miss America, an exhibition by Portuguese artist Francisco Tropa (b. 1968). Curated by Simone Menegoi, it is Tropa’s first large-scale solo show in Italy since Scenario, his project for the Portugal Pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennale. The exhibition takes its title from its main work: Miss America, a new creation that combines installation and performance. Francisco Tropa is one of the most important Portuguese artists to have risen to international prominence in the last thirty years. He has presented a long series of solo exhibitions in European institutions, participated in some of the world’s major periodic art exhibitions (São Paulo Biennial, Istanbul Biennial, Manifesta, etc.) and been invited twice to the Venice Biennale. Over the course of nearly ... More
Irish Museum of Modern Art announces 2026 exhibition programme DUBLIN.- IMMA, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, today (3 February 2026) announced highlights of its 2026 programme. It will launch with the work of Lebanese sound artist and composer Tarek Atoui, followed by Fisherwoman, Fisherwoman, a pairing of the distinct practices of Camille Souter and Alberta Whittle. Later in the year, a major group exhibition The Technologies of Peace 1990s – 2026, aims to explore the concept of peace through an artistic lens. Other highlights include the renowned Sharjah Art Foundation Collection curated by Hoor Al Qasimi, and Eltiqa: How to Work Together? presenting the work of Eltiqa an artist collective from Gaza City. The IMMA Collection will travel to Paris with an exhibition from the David Kronn Collection, and Living Canvas at IMMA will screen a programme highlighting works from the IMMA Collection. New projects, events and performances ... More
Rememory: 25th Biennale of Sydney presents participating artists and program highlights SYDNEY.- The Biennale of Sydney has today announced further artists, artworks and public programming highlights for its 25th edition, titled Rememory, being presented free to the public from March 14 to June 14, 2026. With the program curated by internationally acclaimed Artistic Director Hoor Al Qasimi, the 25th Biennale of Sydney: Rememory, takes its title from celebrated author Toni Morrison, exploring the intersection of memory and history as a means of revisiting, reconstructing, and reclaiming histories. Through Rememory, artists from Australia and around the world reflect on their own roots while engaging with Sydney and its surrounding communities and histories, exploring global themes that connect us. The edition will highlight marginalised narratives, share untold stories, and inspire audiences to rethink how memory shapes identity and ... More
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