SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Witness the evolution of the McNay Art Museum’s contemporary collection over the past two decades with “untitled: 20 Years of Collecting Contemporary Art,” now on view through Sept. 6. Presenting more than 100 artworks, including paintings, sculptures, photographs, videos and installations, the exhibition demonstrates the McNay’s dedication to contemporary art and celebrates the curatorial impact of René Paul Barilleaux, former head of curatorial affairs. Over his 20-year tenure, Barilleaux played a pivotal role in shaping the Museum’s collection, overseeing the acquisition of more than 200 works. In a departure from chronological and thematic frameworks, “untitled” offers visitors a fresh, innovative way to explore the collection and discover new connections across media and time periods. The exhibition presents unexpected pairings by organizing objects according to the seven elements of art — ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- A book to honor the 250th anniversary of America, uncovering the history of the United States through works of art dating from America’s revolutionary period, from the collection of the Diplomatic Reception Rooms at the US Department of State. Published as a follow-up to Rizzoli’s America’s Collection, with a new array of objects and original scholarship, this book celebrates the unparalleled collection of the Diplomatic Reception Rooms, one of America’s most astonishing yet little-known treasures, located in the US Department of State’s Harry S. Truman Building in Washington, DC, now in a more accessible price and format. The collection is home to more than 5,000 fine and decorative art objects, mostly from 1740 to 1840, which tell stories from the nation’s founding era and formative decades. This survey of 100 key works brims ... More
Janet Sutherland, the royal christening robe, 1841.
LONDON.- The christening robe worn by 62 royal babies, including Queen Elizabeth II, has gone on show this April as part of the centenary exhibition Queen Elizabeth II: Her Life in Style at The King’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace – a rare appearance that is thought to be the first time the robe has ever been on public display. Made 185 years ago, the christening robe was first worn by Queen Victoria’s eldest child, Princess Victoria, for her christening in 1841. It was then carefully passed down and worn by consecutive generations of royal babies, including by Queen Elizabeth at her christening in May 1926 when she was just one month old. The robe is among approximately 200 items from Queen Elizabeth’s fashion archive that went on display from 10 April in the largest exhibition of her clothing ever staged, charting her style across ten decades. Its display at The King’s Gallery is especially poignant as the gallery stands on the site of the private chapel at Buckingham Pa ... More
WASHINGTON, DC.- As part of its yearlong commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the United States in 2026, the National Gallery of Art presents Dear America: Artists Explore the American Experience, an exhibition examining how artists have portrayed and interpreted key aspects of American culture over the last 250 years. Comprising more than 100 works from the late 18th century to the present—including many recent acquisitions and works that have never been on view at the National Gallery before—the exhibition highlights artists’ wide-ranging depictions of American experience across time and place and is framed by the themes of land, community, and freedom. Dear America: Artists Explore the American Experience is on view in the West Building from April 11 to September 20, 2026. ... More
Edouard Manet, Pivoines dans une bouteille, oil on canvas, 25⅝ x 21⅜ in. (65 x 54.4 cm.) Painted in 1864. Estimate: $7 – 10 million.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie's announced Lasting Impression: The Collection of Marilyn Arison, a richly textured selection of rare and important works by Edouard Manet, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Pierre Bonnard and others from the collection of Mrs. Marilyn Arison, generous philanthropist and tireless champion of the arts. The collection will be featured during New York Spring Marquee Week with works in the 20th Century Evening Sale and the Day Sales, and subsequent auctions taking place throughout the year. Manet's Pivoines dans une bouteille from 1864 leads the group. Painted the year following Manet's masterpieces Le déjeuner sur l'herbe (1862-1863) and Olympia (1863) in the Musee d'Orsay collection, the work depicts the artist's favorite flower, the peony, with outstandingly modern technique. The painting belongs to a series of six known canvases from the 1860s featuring the flower, and this work is the only example remaining in private hands, with all others held between the Musée d'Orsay and the ... More
ATLANTA, GA.- Although Isamu Noguchi declared in 1949, “I am not a designer,” the internationally acclaimed artist’s work exemplifies the broadest definition of design, including sculpture, furniture, lighting, playgrounds, landscapes and theatrical sets. In spring 2026, the High Museum of Art debuts “Isamu Noguchi: ‘I am not a designer’” (April 10-Aug. 2, 2026), the artist’s first design retrospective in nearly 25 years, featuring many never exhibited and rarely seen works spanning all facets of his creative output. After the exhibition closes in Atlanta, it will travel to the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts (Sept. 19, 2026-Jan. 3, 2027), and the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York (Feb. 13-June 6, 2027). Noguchi (American, 1904-1988) is widely regarded as one of the ... More
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Barnes Foundation presents Freedom Dreams, an exhibition of powerful works in film, video, and installation by an intergenerational cohort of Black artists interested in exploring history, archives, and cultural memory. The exhibition features works by Arthur Jafa, David Hartt, Garrett Bradley, Ja’Tovia Gary, and Tourmaline that dismantle pervasive narratives around race, gender, and class in American history. Co-curated by James Claiborne, Fleischner Family Vice President for Engagement at the Barnes, and Maori Karmael Holmes, Chief Executive and Artistic Officer of BlackStar Projects, Freedom Dreams marks the first occasion these works will be presented at a museum in Philadelphia. Exploring Black American history and identity, Freedom Dreams offers an opportunity to interrogate the complex histories of the United States in relationship to the identities and legacies the featured artists bring to light through their work. ... More
Justice O. Rogeriee Thompson, portrait by Timothy J. Clark, oil-on-linen, 46 x 38 inches.
BOSTON, MASS.- The official portrait of First Circuit Judge O. Rogeriee Thompson was recently unveiled at the Moakley Federal Courthouse before an audience that included her fellow judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse, and the three of her children: William Sr., Sarah, and Reza Clifton. Chief Judge David J. Barron noted that Clark's portrait adds diversity to the court's 150-year-old collection, as it is the first portrait of an African American and only the second portrait of a woman to grace the courthouse walls. According to Judge Barron, the consensus of the court this painting is a document of our changing times and adds a modern portrait to the traditional courthouse collection. Judge Thompson has served on the Boston-based appeals court for more than a decade. Appointed by President Barack Obama, in 2010, she is widely respected for her complex opinions, written in language that is faithful to the law yet accessible to the general ... More
Haas Brothers, Bruce Willis Beyonclé, 2016. Photo: Joe Kramm. Courtesy of R & Company.
NEW YORK, NY.- This spring, the Museum of Arts and Design presents Haas Brothers: Uncanny Valley, a wildly imaginative mid-career survey that plunges visitors into the exuberant, uncanny worlds of twin artists Nikolai and Simon Haas. The exhibition makes its New York debut as part of a nationally touring exhibition organized by Cranbrook Art Museum and brings together approximately 85 works that challenge conventional distinctions between art, design, craft, and digital innovation. Through fantastical hybrid creatures, algorithmically generated landscapes, and meticulously hand-built ceramics, Uncanny Valley reveals the Haas Brothers’ singular ability to fuse cutting-edge technology with deeply tactile, human-centered making. At MAD, the exhibition comes into sharp focus as a bold exploration of how contemporary craft can shape new emotional, narrative, and material possibilities—an approach that resonates powerfully with MAD’s mission to explore the future of craft and its cultural im ... More
Klodin Erb, Danke, ich schlafe gut 4, 2026. Oil on black canvas, 60 × 50 cm. The artist and Galerie Urs Meile Photo: Oliver Kümmerli
ZURICH.- The paintings from the series Danke, ich schlafe gut (2026) by Swiss artist Klodin Erb form a loose topology of inhabited interiors. Executed in oil on black canvas, a support that is not merely a background but a structural element, these intimate-scale works allow images to surface as if drawn out of a dreamlike depth. Erb’s spatial intelligence is central to the series. Beds, draperies, upholstered seats and everyday objects gather in rooms often defined by sharply angled corners that pull the eye like magnets, reinforcing the impression of entering a psychological environment that belongs simultaneously to personal and collective reverie. Within this scenography, human figures, animals, mannequins and hybrid presences coexist in a condition of ontological equivalence, each engaged in actions that hover between self-absorption and rehearsal. Erb’s pictorial language moves along a figurative lineage that extends beyond historical ... More
Closed Down Clubs, Inangahua Arms Hotel. Douglas fir, glass, hardware, silk screen on coated aluminium foil and vinyl, surface coatings, 240 × 130 cm – 94 1/2 × 51 1/8 in. 2026.
LONDON.- Maureen Paley is presenting the second exhibition at the gallery by Los Angeles based artist Fiona Connor, held at our gallery at 4 Herald Street. Bringing together two series of works, I haven't arrived yet and Closed Down Clubs, this exhibition continues Connor’s interrogation of often overlooked peripheral forms and spatial details within sites of exchange and communication. “The process of remaking something requires obsession: you look at the object and you draw it and map it and work out how to remake it – in some sense you become the thing – and when it is made, although it reminds you of the original thing, it has a different sort of heat because it has been translated through another body and a different set of tools.” – Fiona Connor, 2019. Closed Down Clubs forms part of an ongoing archive composed of one-to-one reproductions of doors from now-closed nightclub or ... More
BERLIN.- In her work, Stephanie Comilang engages themes of labour, technology and postcolonial entanglement in the context of global mobility. Combining documen- tary footage, fictional elements and personal nar- ratives, she describes her films as “science fiction documentaries”. In “Lumapit Sa Akin, Paraiso” (Come to Me, Paradise) (2017, 26 min.), the urban space of Hong Kong is imagined from the perspective of Fili- pina migrant women. The film is narrated by Paraiso, a spirit embodied by a drone, who speaks of dis- placement, isolation and the search for meaning. On Sundays, thousands of women gather in the financial district, asserting a temporary space of care, com- munity and self-determination beyond the house- holds in which they work and live. This collective presence allows Paraiso to fulfil its task: transmitting the women’s images, voices and messages across distance. Bringing together dystopian ... More
Is Jumalon, Nest, 2026. Oil on canvas. 60h x 60w x 1.77d in, 152.5h x 152.5w x 4.5d cm.
MANILA.- Across these warped formations, tendrils, branches, roots, and other sinuous, irregular forms draw us into a new vocabulary for understanding the landscape as a genre. Enter Is Jumalon’s terrain: a fertile ground that unfixes our traditional ideas of the landscape as a pastoral, panoramic ideal of a place. Any trace of classicism that exists here is shattered by shards and harsh angles of color that evoke a mutable logic: here are habitats in the service of suggestion and intimacy, psychotropic resonance and visual stimuli. In this world, natural forms mutate to the beat of a freakish interior rhythm. While most artists turn to the landscape form as a quiet retreat from the commotions of city life, Is Jumalon is content to let all the hazards and oddities of the natural world—the crags, fluctuations, and textures—hang out in the open. And in this openness, growth and gravity, time and tenderness fill in the gaps of a narrative. What hides in plain sight, submerged bene ... More
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Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires presents its 70th Anniversary program: Our Home, The Future BUENOS AIRES.- The Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires celebrates its 70th Anniversary with its annual exhibition program Habitando el futuro [Our Home, The Future], featuring over ten exhibitions, publications, and educational programs with artists and scientists from Argentina and around the world, under the direction of Victoria Noorthoorn. The exhibitions explore artistic practices that reimagine how we inhabit the Earth amid profound social, technological, and environmental changes. They are structured around metaphors drawn from natural environments: the ocean depths, the power of rivers, the seething energy of the Earth’s core as manifested through volcanic activity, the connectedness of forests, the heavens and the cosmos. Through this artistic exploration, the Moderno addresses crucial questions facing humanity in the future. A presentation ... More
Speed Art Museum launches search for next Director LOUISVILLE, KY.- The Speed Art Museum has launched a national search for its next director, a unique opportunity to lead one of the region’s most respected cultural institutions as it enters its second century. As the Museum approaches its centennial in 2027, this leadership transition comes at a defining moment to build on the Museum’s legacy and expand its impact across Louisville, throughout the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and nationally. The Museum’s Board of Trustees has engaged management consulting and executive search firm Warren Whitney to lead the search, guided by a 12-member Search Committee formed in January 2026 and co-chaired by Board Chair John Crockett and Chair-Elect Deana Paradis. Meredith Handakas, a director at Warren Whitney, is leading the search and brings more than 17 years of experience working with museums, historic ... More
The Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg opens major survey of artist Ali Banisadr ST. PETERSBURG, FL.- This spring, the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg (MFA) presents Ali Banisadr: The Alchemist, a landmark exhibition celebrating one of the most visionary artists working today. On view from April 11 through July 12, 2026, this presentation marks the first major U.S. museum survey devoted to Ali Banisadr’s singular practice. The exhibition brings together 34 works, including 22 oil paintings and 12 works on paper, spanning nearly twenty years of the artist’s career, from 2006 to the present. Ali Banisadr: The Alchemist is organized by the Katonah Museum of Art. Born in Tehran and now based in New York, Banisadr is renowned for densely populated compositions that shimmer with energy. His synesthesia—experiencing sound as color, movement, and textures—directly informs the vibrational, orchestral quality of his surfaces. Drawing ... More
Riga Bourse explores the future of sustainable fashion through Japanese craft RIGA.- From 10 April to 3 May 2026, the international exhibition Artisanal Intelligence will be on view in the Bosse Hall of the Art Museum RIGA BOURSE in Riga, inspiring to explore the interaction between ancestral knowledge, craftsmanship and contemporary design, seeking sustainable visions for the future of the fashion and textile industry. Riga is one of the stops on the project’s European tour, and the exposition can be visited together with the exhibition Snow Melts. Japanese Art presented in the museum’s Great Hall. The exhibition Artisanal Intelligence is the outcome of an international research residency programme organised by KNOTTO in co-operation with the European Union Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka, within the framework of the Osaka World Expo. Through an open call, five artists, designers and craftspeople from various European countries were ... More
Four iconic Formula One cars to go under the hammer at RM Sotheby's LONDON.- A quartet of historic Formula One cars spanning some of the most exciting years of the sport will be offered at RM Sotheby’s upcoming Monaco auction, which takes place at the Grimaldi Forum on 25 April. Comprising two Ferraris, one Toleman, and a Fittipaldi, the Grand Prix cars are expected to sell for more than €10 million—bringing the cumulative low estimate of the Monaco auction to a staggering €87 million. Leading the pack is the earliest of the set—a 1978 Ferrari 312 T3 (Est: €4,500,000 - €5,500,000) that was driven by 12-time Formula One race winner Carlos Reutemann in no fewer than four rounds of the 1978 season, in addition to another outing at the 1979 Argentinian Grand Prix at the hands of Gilles Villeneuve. Among Mauro Forghieri’s most celebrated designs, only five chassis were built to contest the 1978 season, with this storied ... More
Stedelijk Museum celebrates record-breaking success of Erwin Olaf retrospective AMSTERDAM.- The exhibition Erwin Olaf – Freedom has been a great success; the Stedelijk Museum concludes it with over 375,000 visitors. Since the opening of the exhibition on October 10 last year, visitor interest has remained undiminished. Due to the continued interest, the museum extended the exhibition by five weeks, until Easter Monday. This makes it one of the best-attended exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum ever. This first museum retrospective following the sudden passing of Erwin Olaf two years ago was a rich tribute to the artist he was. In addition to well-known artworks and series by Olaf, the exhibition also featured lesser-known work, such as his early journalistic photographs, which have rarely been shown, as well as videos and sculptures. His series Im Wald, April Fool, and Muzen were on display in a museum for the first time. Also impressive were ... More
Castellani Art Museum bridges environmental crisis and national history in new dual-exhibition NIAGARA UNIVERSITY, NY.- The Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University invites the public to the opening of two major spring exhibitions: Human/Nature: Envisioning the Environment and USA250: Celebrating the American Vision. Together, these exhibitions offer a timely and thought-provoking exploration of where we have been—and where we are headed—inviting audiences to consider the intertwined futures of humanity, the environment, and the evolving American story. Through contemporary and historical works, the exhibitions engage themes of identity, responsibility, resilience, and imagination, asking visitors to reflect on the worlds we have shaped and the ones we are still creating. Guest curated by Douglas Tewksbury, Ph.D., Human/Nature: Envisioning the Environment (February 26, 2026–January 23, 2027) brings together seven artists whose work grapples ... More
Casco Art Institute unveils 2026 spring program UTRECHT.- Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons presents the 2026 Spring Program, move not for reason but love, featuring three distinct exhibitions by Winnie Herbstein, Avan Omar, and Ama Josephine Budge. Singular in voice, language, and commitment, the proposals converge around shared concerns with historical erasure, the politics of representation, and archival silence, while pursuing an imaginative exploration of embodied living memory as a counter-archive of history. Inseparable from this process is the experience of being moved: what draws us toward the familiar and distances us from the unfamiliar. How do we unsettle what has come to feel “given” within dominant knowledge systems, and how might we both hold space for and be/hold those stories and experiences confined to the margins of history? Across the three projects, the artists ... More
Koen Vanmechelen debuts major solo sculptural show in Venice VENICE.- Renowned Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen presents his first solo sculptural exhibition in Venice, We Thought We Were Alone, at Palazzo Rota Ivancich, coinciding with the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, running from the 9 May - 22 November 2026. The exhibition, curated by the UK independent curator and writer James Putnam, will feature 40 new sculptures and installations, created specifically for the exhibition. Moving beyond human-centred perspectives, it will explore the dynamic relationship between living organisms and the inorganic environment. Spanning the three floors of the Palazzoʼs history-marked, transient structure, the exhibition is a space of sanctuary located in Veniceʼs Castello district near San Marco. Visitors are immersed in the key themes that define Koen Vanmechelenʼs practice - crossbreeding, hybridity, ... More
Philadelphia museums map 300 years of American creativity PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) and the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) present A Nation of Artists, a landmark exhibition and collaboration with the private Middleton Family Collection, on view from April 2026 to September 2027. Organized in conjunction with America’s 250th anniversary, A Nation of Artists examines how artistic production in the United States has been shaped by creativity, exchange, expansion, conflict, and innovation. At PAFA, works made from the late 18th century to today will be arranged thematically to explore scenes of westward expansion, the rise of industry, and international exchange. At PMA, which is celebrating its 150th anniversary in 2026, visitors will encounter a chronological display of American art from 1700 to 1960, revealing the global connections that spurred artistic and technological innovation, ... More
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On a day like today, French artist Robert Delaunay was born
April 12, 1885. Robert Delaunay (12 April 1885 - 25 October 1941) was a French artist of the School of Paris movement; who, with his wife Sonia Delaunay and others, co-founded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes. His later works were more abstract. His key influence related to the bold use of colour and a clear love of experimentation with both depth and tone. Robert Delaunay, Air, Iron and Water. Study for a mural, 1936 - 1937. Gouache on paper and wood, 47 x 74.5 cm. Albertina, Wien. Batliner Collection.
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