SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- From the ninth to the first centuries BC, in the period preceding the Roman empire, Etruscan culture flourished in present-day Tuscany, Italy, leaving behind a rich history and traditions reflected in artistic objects found in tombs, temples, sanctuaries, and homes. Organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the new exhibition The Etruscans: From the Heart of Ancient Italy presents over 150 objects from this ancient civilization, such as bronze and terracotta vessels and sculptures, dazzling gold jewelry, and other treasures, including for the first time outside of its place of discovery, the unique Liver of Piacenza, a bronze model of a sheep’s liver used by diviners to predict the future will be on display. The exhibition, at the Legion of Honor museum, presents the latest advances in scholarship, translation of the Etruscan language, and archaeological discoveries, offering visitors modern insight into the ancient culture. Visitors will also take away an understanding ... More
MADISON, WISC.- Black joy abounds in “Derrick Adams: Prints,” a new hardcover collection of vibrant artworks documenting the artist’s seven-year collaboration with Tandem Press at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The new publication showcases Adams’ longest sustained printmaking collaboration to date and highlights his bold, geometric aesthetic and his commitment to normalizing moments of rest, leisure and affirmation within the Black community. The book includes more than 20 of the artist’s prints produced at Tandem Press since 2019 alongside poetry inspired by his work, an essay that chronicles his artistic practice and an artist interview with behind-the-scenes photos. At Tandem Press, Adams leveraged specialized studio resources and pushed the boundaries of his practice, experimenting with complex multi-process techniques and screen printing and even producing a 94-piece woodblock puzzle. “Derrick Adams: Pr ... More
Maria A. Guzmán Capron in the studio. Courtesy of the artist.
SARASOTA, FLA.- What if a shadow was not something to escape, but something to embrace? That idea is at the center of “Maria A. Guzmán Capron: Penumbra,” a solo textile exhibition on view through Sept. 27 at Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College of Art and Design. The exhibition’s title, “Penumbra,” refers to the outer edge of a shadow, where light still lingers, an in-between space where forms blur and definitions soften. For Capron, that space is not something to resolve, but something to inhabit. Ten large-scale textiles transform fabric into a language of identity, memory and cultural complexity. Hand-dyed and screen-printed fabrics are stitched together, forming layered portraits that reflect the duality of human experience. Through her patchwork compositions of vivid color and eccentric characters, Capron explores cultural hybridity, a nonbinary sense of self and the tension between assimilation and visib ... More
Eugenio Donadoni, Christie's International Specialist and Auctioneer, selling the top lot of the sale An important Mamluk gilded and enamelled glass footed bowl, probably Mamluk Syria, second quarter 14th century, 12⅞in. (32.7cm.) high; 8in. (20.5cm.) diam. , which sold for £5,540,000 (estimate: £1,200,000-1,800,000)
LONDON.- Christie's much anticipated bi-annual auction of Art from the Islamic and Indian Worlds, including Oriental Rugs and Carpets on 30 April totalled £12,345,930 / $16,704,043 / €14,259,549, far exceeding the pre-sale high estimate for the sale of £9.2m. The broad array of exceptional works attracted registrants from 39 countries, with 20% of buyers new to Christie's. Exemplifying masterful craftsmanship, an extremely rare Mamluk gilded and enamelled glass footed bowl set a new world record price at auction for Islamic glass, selling for over 3 times its high estimate, realising £5,540,000/ $7,495,620/ €6,398,700 (estimate: £1,200,000-1,800,000). The celebrated Holms Hepburn Coronation Carpet which lay under the throne for the coronations of King Edward VII in 1902, King George V in 1911 and the wedding of H.R.H. Princess Mary in 1922 at Westminster Abbey realised almost double the pre-sale high estimate, selling for £76,200 (estimate: £30,000-40,000). This follows the 100% sold ... More
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Ehrlich Steinberg is presenting Delta, a solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist TJ Shin, comprising a multi-channel video installation, drawings, and a newly commissioned text by writer and professor Sunny Xiang. Taking place across the gallery’s upper rooms, the installation stages a modified version of the Prisoner’s Dilemma, a concept in game theory developed by the RAND Corporation in 1950, in which two participants repeatedly choose between cooperation and defection for collective or individual gain. For this, Shin recruited sixteen participants identifying as Asian American Pacific Islander through a Craigslist advertisement, pairing them to play one of eight games from a deck of twenty prompts devised by the artist. The prompts present hypothetical scenarios relating to finance, legality, politics, or information exchange, with a shared prize pool determined by the pair’s joint decision to cooperate or defect. Across the three rooms, footage is continuously r ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- The Center for Art, Research and Alliances announced the publication of Judith Namala: A Novella. Its release marks writer and curator Serubiri Moses’s fiction debut and the launch of a new CARA publication series, Practice. Judith Namala is an experiment in adaptation, storytelling, and translation as fictocriticism. Set in Ntinda-Kiwatule, a neighborhood of Kampala, Uganda, between the late 1970s and early 2000s, the book follows the domestic dramas of Judith Namala, a Black maid, and Esther Nambi, her Black madam. “Some say that the coming of a maid is a ritual. That the family waits patiently in the living room to inspect the maid. Others say that the maid arrives unannounced and without pretext. The house produces maids. As in a factory, the home easily finds its division of labor, its factory workers and supervisors. In the factory, she will become part of the family album,” observes the narrator. Unfolding acros ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- Space 776 opened “////,” a group exhibition bringing together four key Korean artists—Jeoung Keun Chan, Song E Yoon, Sunjoo Jung, and Beom Jun—featured in the gallery’s recent program. The exhibition explores the idea of intervals as active, generative spaces, where distinct artistic trajectories unfold in parallel rather than converge. Each body of work sustains its own formal and temporal logic, creating a dynamic field of tension in which relationships remain open, contingent, and unresolved. Rather than offering a singular narrative, “////” presents a set of coordinates—inviting viewers to navigate the shifting perceptual space that emerges between four independent yet interconnected practices. About the Artists: Jeoung Keun Chan (b. 1965) develops monochromatic abstract paintings through repetitive gestures and the accumulation of material. Subtle variations within restrained color fields register the density of time, while the surface holds ... More
Benjamin West, The Bard, 1778. Tate, Purchased 1974. Photo: Tate.
DUBLIN.- The National Gallery of Ireland is presenting a new major exhibition William Blake: The Age of Romantic Fantasy. This loan exhibition from Tate, curated in partnership with the National Gallery of Ireland, presents a selection of Blake’s most iconic works of art, alongside paintings and drawings by his contemporaries. It offers a rare opportunity to encounter one of the most visionary figures in art and literature. The exhibition runs from 16 April - 19 July 2026 at the Gallery. William Blake (1757-1827) is a singular force in the history of art. Poet, painter and printmaker, he created a visionary universe of mythic beings and prophetic scenes, exploring heaven and hell through a language entirely his own. In a world shaped by revolution and social upheaval, Blake and his peers pushed art into bold new territories using the power of the creative imagination. Wildly unconventional in terms of both technique and thought, Blake developed a distinctive visual language to explore opp ... More
VADUZ.- From 3 May to 22 November 2026, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein is presenting a new exhibition in the free-admission side-light gallery: CaccHho CucchhA. This adaptable installation by Mercedes Azpilicueta (b. 1981 in La Plata, Argentina) invites children and adults to explore, play and invent together. CaccHho CucchhA unfolds into a space for resonance in which motion, touch and interaction give rise to quiet sounds and rhythms. ‘Cacho’ is a fragment of time that is immeasurable or leftover. In Argentinian slang, ‘cucha’ means a shelter or safe place. CaccHho CucchhA refers to a time beyond any logics of productivity. Instead, it favours self-directed play as an inventive, emancipatory and community-forming activity. The central, large-format tapestry interweaves images of children playing in Gaza with the artist’s drawings and photographs of Aldo van Eyck’s play sculptures. The Dutch architect studied in Zurich during the Second World War. Back in Amsterdam, h ... More
Ashfika Rahman, Than Para — No Land Without Us, 2025–ongoing. Installation view, Still Joy, PinchukArtCentre at Palazzo Contarini Polignac, Venice Biennale, 2026. Photo: Ilona Demchenko.
VENICE.- The PinchukArtCentre and the Victor Pinchuk Foundation present Still Joy—From Ukraine Into the World as an official Collateral Event of the 61st International Venice Biennale. It will be held at the Palazzo Contarini Polignac in Venice from May 9 until August 1, 2026. Still Joy—From Ukraine into the World brings together leading international and Ukrainian artists reflecting on the concept of joy as both a vital force and a radical act of humanity. The exhibition’s starting point and disruptive agent are the testimonies collected by the Ukrainian story-gatherer Hlib Stryzhko, a marine, veteran, and former prisoner of war. These stories are anchoring fragments of reality within the exhibition. Participating artists include: Kateryna Aliinyk (Ukraine), Piotr Armianovski (Ukraine), Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller (CAN), Julian Charrière (Switzerland), Tacita Dean (UK), Ryan Gander (UK), Gabrielle Goliath (South Africa), Nikita Kadan (Ukraine), Zhanna Kadyrova (Ukraine), ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian announced Helen Frankenthaler: The Moment and the Distance, an exhibition organized in collaboration with the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation. Surveying four decades of paintings from 1960 to 1992, the exhibition features more than twenty of Frankenthaler’s largest, most ambitious works. Arranged by decade, these canvases—with their monumental scale, sensuous color, and innovative compositions—offer new perspectives on the artist’s continual reinvention of her practice. The exhibition’s title is derived from an incisive 1975 essay by Barbara Guest, a poet and friend of the artist, who wrote: “She has rewarded us with the astonishing combination of freedom with restraint, extravagance with discipline, suggestion and definition. The moment becomes the distance.” Embodying Frankenthaler’s exploratory, lyrical approach to abstraction, the canvases on view benefit from an expansive scale that enhances the exceptional visual impact of their bri ... More
Vyacheslav Akhunov, Mantra: We Will Live Under Communism, 1978. From the series “Mantras of the USSR.” Courtesy of ACDF.
VENICE.- The Centre for Contemporary Arts Tashkent (CCA Tashkent) presents Instruments of the Mind, a major solo exhibition by pioneering Uzbek conceptual artist Vyacheslav Akhunov, at Palazzo Franchetti as an official collateral project of the 61st Venice Biennale. The exhibition is open to the public from May 9–November 22, 2026 with preview days from May 5–8, 2026. Commissioned by Gayane Umerova, Chairperson of the Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation (ACDF) and curated by Dr. Sara Raza, Artistic Director and Chief Curator of the CCA Tashkent, the exhibition offers an expansive and poetic meditation on language, memory, ideology, and endurance through more than five decades of Akhunov’s artistic practice. Widely regarded as one of Central Asia’s most significant conceptual artists, Akhunov has developed a rigorous practice since the 1970s, working across drawing, text, installation and collage. Instruments of the Mind brings together historical works alongsid ... More
VENICE.- The Argentine Pavilion at the 61st International Venice Biennale presents Monitor Yin Yang, a site-specific installation by artist Matías Duville (Buenos Aires, 1974) curated by Josefina Barcia. The project transforms the pavilion into a traversable landscape constructed from salt and charcoal, expanding drawing—one of the central languages in Duville’s practice—into a spatial, sonic, and performative environment. Conceived as an immersive installation, Monitor Yin Yang proposes an open cartography that does not represent a specific place but unfolds as a territory activated by movement. Visitors traverse a fragile landscape where materials, sound, and time interact, producing a shifting field of perception. Drawing on the philosophical notion of yin and yang, the project imagines a space where opposing forces coexist: light and shadow, residue and energy, ruin and promise. Rather than resolving these tensions, the installation sustains them, suggesting drawing as a shar ... More
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Gottfried Bechtold parks 16 tons of concrete at the Heidi Horten Collection VIENNA.- A striking sculpture greets visitors at the Heidi Horten Collection: the over 16-ton Betonporsche (Concrete Porsche) by artist Gottfried Bechtold is installed directly on the “director’s parking space,“ right next to the main entrance of the museum. With the presentation of Betonporsche, the Heidi Horten Collection highlights an important position in contemporary Austrian art. Gottfried Bechtold’s work is embedded in an ongoing discourse on material, authorship, and the cultural meaning of everyday objects. Since the late 1960s, Bechtold (b. 1947) has developed a precise, concept-driven practice across sculpture, photography, drawing, text, and actions in public space, consistently examining how objects gain value within social and economic systems. A central motif in his work is the automobile, which he has explored for over five decades. The Betonporsche—one of his most iconic works—is cast from an original Porsche 911. While it precisely follows the car ... More
Shiva Ahmadi, Inferno's Embrace, 2026 acquired by the Crocker Art Museum SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Haines announced the acquisition of Shiva Ahmadi's Inferno's Embrace, 2024 by the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA. Across multiple media, Shiva Ahmadi explores urgent global issues—including political oppression, violence, immigration, and women’s rights—through imagery shaped by current events and personal experience. In Inferno’s Embrace, part of a luminous watercolor series centered on female figures, the subject's body entwines with flora and fauna, invoking mythic and primordial power. Begun during the COVID-19 pandemic, this ongoing series took on new significance following the passing of Mahsa Amini, who died while being detained by Iran’s Morality Police for her “improper” hijab. In Ahmadi's works, the female body—and hair in particular—becomes a powerful site of resistance, vulnerability, and strength. Inferno's Embrace joins an important work by Ahmadi already in the Crocker Art Museum’s collection—one of the artist's ... More
Sebastian Gladstone now tepresenting: The Estate of Franne Davids NEW YORK, NY.- Sebastian Gladstone Gallery announced the co-representation of The Franne Davids Estate in collaboration with Ricco/Maresca. The body of work left by the late artist Franne Davids makes itself only partially available to vision. This is because Davids, who spent most, if not all, of her days in a self-fashioned basement studio for nearly four decades, added countless layers of oil paint to the forty-two canvases and several hundred works on paper she left behind when she died in 2022. It seems that her consistent efforts toward painting were inaugurated by a diagnosis as a paranoid schizophrenic in the late 1970s. The irresolute dating of Davids’ output implies decades of labor. Davids worked until 2018, when her physical health deteriorated to the extent that she could no longer descend the stairs to her studio. But the individual weight of the works left in the artist’s wake speak to her resourcefulness, her tendencies toward reuse, and her intent to paint images anew from ... More
Boros Collection unveils fifth major presentation in Berlin's monumental bunker BERLIN.- In a present where external order is increasingly felt to be unstable, our emphasis is shifting toward inner states. Withdrawal, interiority and psychological intensification are becoming defining tendencies in contemporary art. The fifth presentation of the Boros Collection begins precisely where external realities start to fracture. Opening on May 3, 2026, as part of Gallery Weekend Berlin a new selection from the collection of Karen and Christian Boros will be presented. The exhibition showcases 27 contemporary positions across painting, sculpture, installation, and sound, the majority of which were recently acquired. The fifth presentation spans across all five floors of the monumental bunker, covering approximately 3,000 square meters. It primarily features recent acquisitions from the past four years, which Karen and Christian Boros place in relation to works from the collection that have not previously been presented in a collection display. Developed in close dialogue with the ... More
LGD Hammer: Lévy Gorvy Dayan launches bespoke live bidding platform to rival auction houses NEW YORK, NY.- Lévy Gorvy Dayan announced LGD Hammer—a bespoke live bidding platform that is new to the art world. Led by auction-house veterans and founding partners Dominique Lévy, Brett Gorvy, and Amalia Dayan, LGD Hammer is an exciting development to the traditional public auction model. Responding directly to the buying patterns of the gallery’s clients, this service utilizes the unrivaled expertise and the firsthand experience of the LGD senior team to make accessible major works of art to the world’s top buyers through competitive bidding. LGD Hammer provides the utmost curatorial focus, confidentiality, and transparency for both buyers and sellers. LGD Hammer uniquely presents a single work of art or a collection for auction at a designated time and date that is ideal for the chosen object—and invites a targeted list of the most active global buyers to bid in real time. Combining a museum-quality exhibition experience with the advantages of live bidding, its goal is to br ... More
Rosy Simas explores Seneca heritage in new Walker Art Center commission MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- On February 12, 2026, the Walker Art Center opened A:gajë:gwah dësa’nigöëwë:nye:' (i hope it will stir your mind), the first of two major works by transdisciplinary artist Rosy Simas (Seneca Nation of Indians, Heron clan) commissioned by the Walker Art Center as part of her ongoing two-year residency. Simas’s practice embraces choreography, the moving image, sound, and object-making to delve into her ancestors’ histories through the lens of contemporary experience. For A:gajë:gwah dësa’nigöëwë:nye:' (i hope it will stir your mind), Simas created an immersive installation that centers Onöndowa’ga:’ (Seneca Nation) views about family, community, and living in a state of peace and invites visitors into a space of personal reflection. A:gajë:gwah dësa’nigöëwë:nye:' (i hope it will stir your mind) emerges from the artist’s research into her genealogy. This multi-pronged effort has included tracking her family’s geographic connections to the land ... More
Out Here: Castlefield Gallery explores the political and poetic ground beneath our feet MANCHESTER.- Out Here brings together artists exploring our relationship with nature through drawing, film, painting, performance, photography, prints, sculpture and site-specific artwork. Their practices are grounded in researching the interaction between the human and non-human, often spending time going out into nature or working directly with natural materials. The exhibition also demonstrates our commitment to placing artists at different career stages side by side, in order to open up new dialogue between their works. Out Here sees internationally renowned artist Shezad Dawdood return to Castlefield Gallery, continuing his long standing relationship with the gallery, alongside artists living and working in the North of England. The exhibition features Episode 7: Africana, Ken Bugul & Nemo (2022), part of Shezad Dawood's expansive film series Leviathan Cycle, an integral element of Dawood's long-term multimedia project Leviathan (2017–ongoing). Leviathan looks at the intersection of both ... More
Galerie Guido W. Baudach pits painting against sculpture for Gallery Weekend BERLIN.- Galerie Guido W. Baudach is presenting a thematic group exhibition featuring five artists from the gallery's roster at this year's Gallery Weekend Berlin. Under the title Auto-Paragone, Tamina Amadyar, Thomas Helbig, Andy Hope 1930, Hinako Miyabayashi, and Markus Selg each showcase one painterly and one sculptural work in correlation. The term Paragone, as it appears in the exhibition title, comes from Italian and refers to the so-called competition of the arts, the struggle between painting and sculpture for supposed primacy among the disciplines, which was carried out with verve primarily during the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Today, now that the former issue of conviction has long since disappeared from the agenda of art discourse, it is remarkable to observe that the majority of trained painters at some point in the course of their artistic development also become involved in sculpture and, as a result, usually work in both media in parallel, which were once so fiercely compet ... More
ICA London takes the pulse of a generation shaped by financial collapse LONDON.- The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London presents the exhibition Genuine Fake Premium Economy, featuring emerging artists Jenna Bliss, Buck Ellison and Jasmine Gregory, whose work examines class, inheritance and wealth. Born in the mid-1980s in the United States, these artists transitioned into adulthood and working life in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, and probe what effect this era of financial collapse has had on societal myths of fairness and progress under capitalism. This group exhibition takes the pulse of a generation living and working in a broken global economy. The acceleration of wealth inequity, art traded as investment, and today’s commodity culture are all uncomfortable realities for a growing number
of emerging artists. While their work differs in form (Bliss works primarily in moving image, Ellison in photography and Gregory in painting and assemblage) all three artists share similar stylistic approaches to satirising, staging or appropriating the real ... More
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