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Beyond the canvas: How the 1950s galleries shaped the meaning of Antoni Tàpies

View of Antoni Tàpies. The Perpetual Movement of the Wall, the Museu Tàpies (Barcelona). © Pep Herrero, 2026.

BARCELONA.- The exhibition Antoni Tàpies: The Perpetual Movement of the Wall explores the development of the artist’s work over the decade of the 1950s, focusing on the ways his paintings were presented at galleries and how they were perceived and interpreted by the public. Continuing the research begun in 2025 with the exhibition Antoni Tàpies: The Imagination of the World, which focused on the artist’s earliest work, the project presents new perspectives on a period of major changes in Tàpies’ artistic practice, with the aim of looking at his legacy from different standpoints. The project delves into four case studies of individual exhibitions (Galerias Layetanas, Barcelona, 1950 and 1954; Galerie Stadler, París, 1956; and Sala Gaspar, Barcelona, 1960) in which Antoni Tàpies presented very different sets of works, each of them set up in different ways. As Imma Prieto, director of the Museu Tàpies and cocurator of the exhibition, points, “thus, the interaction between work, wa ... More

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Seeing red: Ordovas explores art's most symbolic hue from Miró to Moyer   Christie's Post-War to Present totals $32,023,889   Christie's Asian Art Week bridges centuries of tradition


Sam Moyer (b. 1983), Red Fern. Marble, granite, acrylic on plaster-coated canvas mounted to MDF, 30 x 24 in. (76.2 x 61 cm.) Executed in 2026 © Sam Moyer 2026. JSP Art Photography.

LONDON.- Ordovas presents Red, an exhibition exploring one of the most symbolic colours in the history of art, and how it has been used in the work of significant artists from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The exhibition features works by a diverse and international group of artists including modern masters such as Joan Miró, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Motherwell and Lygia Pape, alongside contemporary artists including Bridget Riley, Cecily Brown, Eric Fischl and Sam Moyer who has created a new work specifically for the show. Red is the latest in a series of exhibitions held over recent years exploring the use of a single colour; previous editions were dedicated to white in 2017, blue in 2020 and gold in 2024. Red is amongst the most powerful and vibrant colours in the history of art, representing a range of emotions from love and romance to power, danger and dominance. Its importance transcends time and cultural boundaries: one of the earliest pigments used by ... More
 

Jeff Koons, Winter Bears, polychromed wood, 48 x 44 x 15 ½ in. (121.9 x 111.8 x 39.4 cm.) Executed in 1988. This work is number one from an edition of three plus one artist's proof. Price Realized: $7,639,000.

NEW YORK, NY.- Christie's Contemporary New York Sales kicked off to a strong start on Thursday, February 26, 2026, with Post-War to Present totaling $32,023,889, selling 80% by lot and 92% by value. The sale achieved the highest total to-date for a Post-War to Present sale in the spring. The sale began with the single-owner grouping: Temple of Style: The Barbara Jakobson Collection which made $11,054,665, selling 100% by value. The group was led by Jeff Koons' Winter Bears which realized $7,639,000, more than doubling its low estimate of $3,800,000—the highest price for an artwork ever sold by any auction house in a mid-season sale. Additional top lots from the collection included Homage to the Square: Insight by Josef Albers, which sold for $952,500, and an untitled work by Robert Morris, which more than doubled its low estimate to sell for $330, 200. Additional works from Barbara Jakobson's collection are on offer in the dedicated online sale, open ... More
 

Tyeb Mehta (1925-2009), Gesture, signed and dated 'Tyeb / 77', oil on canvas, 59 x 47¼ in. (149.9 x 120 cm.) Estimate: $2,000,000-3,000,000.

NEW YORK, NY.- The March edition of Asian Art Week feature and exciting and eclectic mix of important, fine, and approachable works over seven auctions, including a new and innovative sale devoted to Japanese anime, film, and manga, their influence on popular culture, and the traditional arts that continue to influence them. Four live and three online auctions take place 18 March to 2 April, and works will be exhibited from 20 to 25 March. This season's Japanese and Korean Art sale is led by a masterpiece Great Wave by Katsushika Hokusai and a superb example of a Joseon Dynasty Moon Jar, one of the most coveted and culturally significant forms in Korean ceramics. Moon Jars — spherical, luminous white vessels dating from the 17th to 19th centuries — are considered among the highest achievements of Korean ceramic artistry and are prized for their rarity, with only handful examples surviving worldwide. The auction also features a complete set of Utagawa Hiroshige's One Hundred Views of Famous ... More


After Attention: Marina Abramović and Márta Kucsora meet at Helvetika 1575   MOCA acquires Kara Walker's Unmanned Drone, announces 158 acquisitions in 2025   Northern Star: Exploring the brilliance, ambition, and timeless impact of a true innovator


Marina Abramović, Artist Portrait with a Rose (from the series: Places of Power), 2013 (Ed. 5 + 2 AP/5/5), 2026.

ZUG.- Helvetika 1575 presents After Attention, a two-person exhibition that brings works by Marina Abramović and Márta Kucsora into a shared frame that treats attention as material and the body as its conduit. The titular moment holds onto a specific interval, namely the moment after concentration releases and before perception settles into its next rhythm. With Abramović’s photography and Kucsora’s works on canvas, both drawn from various series across each artist’s practice, the exhibition stays with Nachklang, the lingering vibration that remains once an intense encounter has slipped into the past tense yet is still immediate enough to leave a physical imprint. In Marina Abramović’s photographic works, the after is inseparable from the fact that the initiating act has already happened. Performance continues through the still image as a carried remainder, a form that preserves the pressure of practiced presence and transmits it beyond ... More
 

Kara Walker, Unmanned Drone, 2023, Bronze, 156 x 132 x 56 in. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Purchase with funds provided by Beth Swofford by exchange. © Kara Walker. Photo by Fredrik Nilsen.

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art announced that it has acquired Kara Walker’s monumental sculpture Unmanned Drone (2023), currently on view in the landmark exhibition MONUMENTS at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA and The Brick. In addition, over the course of 2025, MOCA expanded its renowned permanent collection with the addition of 158 works by 106 artists. Ann Goldstein, Interim Maurice Marciano Director, stated: “With the acquisition of Unmanned Drone, we are honored to steward this epic and historic sculpture by Kara Walker, which is at the core of our acclaimed current exhibition, MONUMENTS. A searing and crucial statement about the legacy of post-Civil War United States, it is a profound work for this moment–and for the ages. This ... More
 

Albrecht Dürer. The Complete Paintings. Selected Drawings and Prints Hardcover with fold-outs, 11.4 x 15.6 in., 17.10 lb, 798 pages ISBN 978-3-8365-8145-5

NEW YORK, NY.- Albrecht Dürer is the undisputed genius of the Northern Renaissance, a visionary unbound by a single medium. He carved a career spanning painting, printmaking, drawing, and art theory, mastering each with dazzling skill. Famous in his own lifetime for his portraits of princes and patricians, his luminous drawings and watercolors transformed the sketch into an art form in its own right: works such as Young Hare stand as marvels of observation, capturing life with a precision and sensitivity that still amaze today. He was native to the bustling city of Nuremberg, but his travels brought him face-to-face with Renaissance humanism, Venetian color, and classical ideals of beauty. These he absorbed and reimagined with northern precision. As court artist to Maximilian I, and confidant of humanists like Erasmus, he moved easily among the great minds of his age, his musings ... More


Surface Tension: William Turner Gallery celebrates the sensory depth of LA art   Heritage celebrates Pokémon 30th anniversary with opportunity to catch PSA Mint 9 Pikachu Illustrator   The Benaki Museum unveils landmark Alexis Akrithakis retrospective


Casper Brindle, Veil III (Lime), 2024, Acrylic & automotive paint on formed acrylic,
52” x 72” x 4”.


SANTA MONICA, CA.- William Turner Gallery presents Surface Tension: Focus Los Angeles, a major group exhibition of West Coast artists on view through April 11, 2026. Surface Tension: Focus Los Angeles explores surface as an active site of meaning, sensation, and perception. The exhibition foregrounds how contemporary practices use texture, layering, and materiality to shape visual and sensory experience. Bridging painting, sculpture, and works at their intersection, the featured artists employ materials ranging from pearlescent and pigmented acrylics to urethane, resin, industrial finishes, and etched line-work. Together, the works reveal surface as a dynamic interface that captures light, depth, and movement while inviting sustained, close looking. Through extended material experimentation and technical refinement, each artist demonstrates a deep attunement to their chosen medium, using surface to generate tension between ... More
 

Pokémon "Pikachu" Illustrator Unnumbered Promo CoroCoro Comics PSA Trading Card Game Mint 9 (The Pokémon Company, 1998).

DALLAS, TX.- Thirty years ago today, the phenomenon that would become the world’s highest-grossing media franchise began with the release of a pair of cartridges for the Nintendo Game Boy, Pocket Monsters Red and Pocket Monsters Green. Along with video games, the entertainment juggernaut would eventually include mobile games, movies, home video, toys and, of course, the Pokémon Trading Card Game. In 1999, for about $4, a kid could get a pack of 11. Today, an unopened original Base Set Booster Pack can easily fetch thousands of dollars. And rare cards, such as the Pikachu Illustrator card awarded as the grand prize of one of the initial three illustration contests publicized in CoroCoro Comic, can realize hundreds of thousands or even millions. With only 39 such Pikachu Illustrator cards awarded in those initial contests, opportunities to catch your own “Holy Grail” of Pokémon TCG collecting don’t come along often, ... More
 

Alexis Akrithakis, Ohne Titel, 1969. Tempera and ink on paper, 100 x 150 cm. © The Estate of Alexis Akrithakis.

ATHENS.- The Benaki Museum presents the landmark retrospective exhibition Alexis Akrithakis. A Line like a Wave, surveying the entire creative journey of the seminal Greek artist Alexis Akrithakis. The exhibition is jointly organized by the Benaki Museum and the Akrithakis Archive, is curated by Chloe Akrithaki and Alexios Papazacharias, and will be open until May 24, 2026. The exhibition also marks the beginning of the Benaki Museum’s collaboration with Rolex as the “Official Watch of the Benaki Museum,” which integrates the Athenian museum into the global network of leading cultural institutions supported by the Swiss house. The exhibition Alexis Akrithakis. A Line like a Wave brings together over 250 selected works from private and public collections. They span the artist's entire creative career and are arranged chronologically. For the first time in a retrospective, Akrithakis’s earliest works appear alongside pieces completed just before his death. The exhibition prese ... More


Deichtorhallen Hamburg publishes catalogue for Into the Unseen: The Walther Collection   National Postal Museum launches new short-form video series   Black gold, deep time: Alexandra Karakashian's oil-based inquiry at Sabrina Amrani


View of Into the Unseen—The Walther Collection, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany. Photo: Jewgeni Roppel. Courtesy of Deichtorhallen Hamburg.

HAMBURG.- Deichtorhallen Hamburg announced the publication of the catalogue for its critically acclaimed exhibition, Into the Unseen: The Walther Collection. The linen-bound volume edited by Tina M. Campt and Nadine Isabelle Henrich is scheduled for publication by Steidl Verlag in March 2026. Extending the exhibition’s curatorial and conceptual vision, the volume unsettles our understanding photography through a multisensory approach that engages the affective dimensions of this complex medium. The catalog includes an introduction by Artur Walther, essays by Henrich, Campt, and Shawn Michelle Smith, and artistic contributions by Ana María Gómez López and Felipe Romero Beltrán. Organized into six chapters that correspond to individual sections of the exhibition, the book guides readers through different sensorial encounters with photographic media. “Frequencies of Darkness”, ... More
 

The National Postal Museum is devoted to presenting the colorful and engaging history of the nation’s mail service and showcasing one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of stamps and philatelic material in the world.

WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum has launched One Minute Wonders, a new series of short-form videos designed to make postal history engaging and accessible for all audiences. Each one-minute episode spotlights a specific artifact, event or theme from the museum’s vast collection, offering concise, compelling stories about how the postal system has shaped communication, culture and innovation for over 250 years in the United States and for centuries around the globe. From rare stamps and unconventional delivery methods to surprising historical anecdotes, One Minute Wonders presents postal history through captivating visuals with expert narration in a format that fits easily into viewers’ daily routines. “You don’t need to be a stamp collector or history buff to enjoy these videos,” said Toby ... More
 

Alexandra Karakashian, Close to hand I, 2025. Used engine oil on sized paper, 100 × 70 cm.

MADRID.- These exhibitions present a body of work by Alexandra Karakashian, centred on a long-term engagement with a single material: oil. More precisely, engine oil – black oil, greasy oil, and slippery oil. Across installation, textile, and works on paper, her practice unfolds as an inquiry in which oil becomes her primary medium and feeds geopolitical questions. Oil is a material inhabited by deep time, it is an ecosystem originating from prehistoric marine life, transformed by human intervention into a substance that fuels contemporary life while bearing the trace of environmental violence. It is a matter that exceeds us, in its scale, and imperial symbolism. By working with one of the most powerful resources on earth, Karakashian’s practice exposes the contradictions embedded in oil’s omnipresence. While it structures everyday consumption, it also underlies systems of extraction, environmental injustice, and power. This material engagement resonates with broader histories of ... More



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Raised by Mountains: Silverlens exhibits works by John Frank Sabado & Leonardo Aguinaldo
MANILA.- Being raised in the mountains means always seeing the world at an altitude. The expansive becomes intuitive, and the interconnected is reliable. This is examined in John Frank Sabado’s portraits of people who have shaped his sense of communality from childhood. In Leonardo Aguinaldo’s works, the figures see themselves as seeing the world change and how they wish to be seen in it. In one of his pieces, Aguinaldo references a colonial image of Igorots gazing at rice terraces. He superimposes the view of terraces with giant blocks resembling modern buildings and teeming with the iconic drop pin symbol. In another work, a local is poised atop a horse as if surveying the land. But the mountain trails are missing, and Aguinaldo paints a map of a city. The artist connotes converting agricultural gardens into grotesque tourist theme parks, a current and popular economic ... More

Bruno Zhu. Belas Artes opens at Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian's Project Space
LISBON.- Belas Artes, a solo exhibition by Bruno Zhu (Porto, 1991), will be on view at CAM – Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian’s Project Space from February 28. Influenced by fashion design, publishing and scenography, Zhu’s object-led installations explore notions of agency, authorship, consumption, and power. The exhibition at CAM follows ‘Licence to Live’ (2024), commissioned and presented by Chisenhale Gallery in London. Amplifying the terms of the commission itself, Zhu authored a license agreement that includes a step-by–step guide to exhibition design. Belas Artes adopts the detailed instructions in that license agreement. CAM has implemented its codes for colour, display, ornamentation, and orientation, generating four distinct yet interconnected rooms. These custom-built exhibition rooms display artworks from the CAM Collection ... More

Bradley Kerl explores memory and movement at Ivester Contemporary
AUSTIN, TX.- Ivester Contemporary presents Point of Light, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Bradley Kerl. This marks the artist’s third solo exhibition with the gallery and features a body of work that explores scale, structure, and the shifting meanings of familiar imagery. Kerl set out to create paintings of varying scales that maintain equal visual and conceptual strength regardless of size, building each composition atop a framework of geometry and symmetry that is then disguised, subverted, or reworked through an intuitive, painterly process. Drawing from a wide range of source material including personal photographs, memories, vernacular painting, and his children’s drawings, Kerl constructs layered paintings that operate as both collage and invention. The works examine how symbols and settings can transform depending on context, highlighting dualities such as ... More

Matt Mullican dismantles the encyclopedia at Peter Freeman, Inc.
NEW YORK, NY.- Peter Freeman, Inc. presents The Universe, Matt Mullican’s sixth solo exhibition with the gallery, featuring a single new work comprised of 9,519 collaged and hand-numbered sheets, approximately 6,700 of which are installed in an immersive layout that fills the gallery. The Universe (2023–2025) is Mullican’s latest “book,” a category of artwork he conceived and began using in the early 1970s in various formats, including drawing, collage, prints, photos, lightboxes, and rubbings. Mullican has stated that “everything is a sequence,” and “it is hard to say when it is not a book.” For The Universe, Mullican used two copies of the 1990 edition of the Random House Encyclopedia (originally published in 1977) as his starting point, cutting out every image or chapter title per page, collaging each onto individual sheets, and numbering the sheets according ... More

Édouard Glissant's personal art collection makes US debut
NEW YORK, NY.- This spring, CARA presents The Earth, the Fire, the Water, and the Winds: For a Museum of Errantry with Édouard Glissant—the first US exhibition of the Martinican poet and philosopher Édouard Glissant's (1928–2011) personal art collection. Traveling from Instituto Tomie Ohtake in São Paulo, Brazil, The Earth, the Fire, the Water, and the Winds reveals a lesser-known dimension of Glissant’s life: his vision for a museum. He conceived of it not as a monument, but as a space capable of holding art, memories, and intertwined histories without reducing them to colonial frameworks. Errantry, central to Glissant’s thinking and this vision for a museum, is movement, encounter, and reinvention. It unfolds through the crossing of borders—geographic, linguistic, and historic—and resists the pull toward singular origins or stories. Glissant imagined both ... More

The Middle of the Flower: Jess Cochrane reclaims her roots at Sullivan+Strumpf
SYDNEY.- Sullivan+Strumpf announced their inaugural solo exhibition of London-based Australian artist Jess Cochrane, opening at their Gadigal/Sydney gallery. Developed in response to a renewed connection with her Hungarian heritage, Cochrane’s latest body is a self-exploration through the intertwined roots of culture, family history and the contemporary landscape. The Middle of the Flower is Cochrane’s first solo exhibition with the gallery following the announcement of her representation in August 2025. As a third generation Hungarian, Jess Cochrane's new work bridges self-exploration with broader questions of familial migration and reclaiming one's cultural heritage. Like many Australians with migrant grandparents, Cochrane articulates both a sense of dislocation with, and desire to strengthen, her cultural ties. The Middle of the Flower teases out these ... More

Xu Tiantian unveiled as 2026 MECCA x NGV Women in Design Commission recipient
MELBOURNE.- One of China’s most renowned female architect’s, Xu Tiantian, whose work has transformed rural communities across China, has been selected as the recipient of the 2026 MECCA x NGV Women in Design Commission, a major series inviting globally renowned designers to create groundbreaking new work for the NGV Collection. Based in Beijing, Xu’s practice uses architecture to revitalise rural and regional Chinese provinces, helping to protect their economies, cultural heritage and social wellbeing. Coining the term ‘architectural acupuncture’, referencing traditional Chinese medicine, Xu uses precise, seamless interventions to transform underutilised infrastructure and buildings. Recent projects include transforming a series of abandoned stone quarries into multi-purpose arts venues, and building a theatre stage within a bamboo forest, ... More

Galleri Nicolai Wallner now representing Man Yau
COPENHAGEN.- Galleri Nicolai Wallner announced the representation of artist Man Yau. Man Yau (b. 1991, Finland) is a sculptor and installation artist based in Helsinki, Finland. Yau's work departs from a deep understanding of materials — how they came to be, across which stretches of time and by whom they were valued, and the ways in which their references may be projected onto ideas and persons today. Gripping onto the memories embedded within a material, Yau works to turn it inside out, revealing the heartbeat underneath. Her material choices shift fluidly across glass, silk ribbons, metal, ceramic, stone, wood, and graphic work, yet each is carefully considered and chosen for its associations — used as a language to explore the feeling of "being on display and under pressure," approached from the perspective of a woman who is visibly of a minority background. ... More

Timor-Leste Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale presents Across Words
VENICE.- After over four hundred years of Portuguese colonization and a subsequent 24-year Indonesian occupation beginning in 1975, Timor-Leste gained independence in May 2002, becoming Southeast Asia’s youngest and smallest nation. For its second pavilion at the Venice Biennale—and its first in the Arsenale—Timor-Leste presents Across Words, an exploration of language and oral memory as a generative force within the nation's layered systems of communication. Curator Loredana Pazzini Paracciani said: "Rather than seeking linguistic cohesion, the people of Timor-Leste proudly locate their identity in linguistic multiplicity across ancestral dialects and official languages. Within this diversity, Timor-Leste’s unity emerges—a cohesion found across words." For centuries, the nation’s heritage was carried by more than thirty distinct local languages. It is only ... More

Museum Folkwang unveils a century of photobooks for children
ESSEN.- With L is for Look, Museum Folkwang is dedicating itself to a hitherto little-researched chapter in the history of photography: photography books for children and young people. The exhibition traces their development over a period of around 100 years and asks how photography has shaped young readers' visual habits of the world. L is for Look invites visitors of all ages on an interactive journey of discovery through the history of photography books for children and young people, from the early experiments of the 1930s to the present day. The exhibition brings together around one hundred international children's photography books that stand out for their original and creative use of photography. It draws on key figures in the history of photography, including Alexander Rodchenko, Aenne Biermann, Dominique Darbois, Tana Hoban, Duane Michals, William Wegman ... More



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On a day like today, Spanish painter Joaquín Sorolla was born
February 27, 1863. Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (27 February 1863 - 10 August 1923) was a Spanish painter. Sorolla excelled in the painting of portraits, landscapes, and monumental works of social and historical themes. His most typical works are characterized by a dexterous representation of the people and landscape under the bright sunlight of Spain and sunlit water. In this image: Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida. Portrait of Louis Comfort Tiffany, 1911. Oil on canvas. The Hispanic Society of America, A3182.



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