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Annika Thiems responds to Méret Oppenheim's surrealist legacy at Bartha_contemporary
LONDON.- Bartha_contemporary presents the first solo exhibition by Annika Thiems (b. 1991), entitled On wings (or almost), on view from March 5 to April 5 2026. Conceived in response to Méret Oppenheim’s print series Parapapillonneries (1976), the exhibition unfolds as an inquiry into absurdity, surrealism, and psychoanalytic thought. The new sculptures gesture toward the repressed: futile attempts at containment and order, like an insect evading the pin. Working across textile sculpture and installation, Thiems creates soft structures that hover between utility and excess, tenderness and restraint; objects that appear to have devised their own coping mechanisms. The works feel simultaneously over-prepared and yielding, suspended between protection and exposure. Drawing on her background in psychology, Thiems employs free association and a surrealist ... More

The Grolier Club unveils the private world of Jack Kerouac in "Running Through Heaven"
NEW YORK, NY.- An exhibition at The Grolier Club examines the origins of Jack Kerouac (1922–1969), one of the most influential American authors of the 20th century, whose unfiltered, spontaneous prose style had a tremendous impact on the world’s literature. On view in the Club’s second floor gallery from March 5 through May 16, 2026, Running Through Heaven: Visions of Jack Kerouac explores the writer’s personal life from childhood to his death through approximately 65 objects from the collection of Grolier Club member Jacob Loewentheil. The exhibition features many unpublished letters, several unknown and unpublished manuscripts, Kerouac’s copies of books that were important to his evolution as a writer, his own first editions of his best-known works, critical first editions, original drawings, classic and unknown photographs, and realia. An accompanying catalogue, ... More

Tajh Rust's fictional portraits map the reciprocal relationship between subject and setting
NEW YORK, NY.- Alexander Berggruen is presenting Tajh Rust: How to Disappear. The gallery's first solo show with the artist, this exhibition opened Thursday, March 5, 2026. Tajh Rust’s paintings depict primarily Black fictional figures in leisurely settings, with particular attention to storytelling, pattern, and environment. Rooted in questions of representation, Rust explores varied painterly ways to rendering figures and their environments. Through this inquiry, he points to the reciprocal effects between subject and environment. Across silvered glass and paintings on canvas, How to Disappear reflects a meditative stance on finding unity with one’s environment. The exhibition takes as its starting point the painting Rückenfigur III. The work collapses the art historical concept of the Rückenfigur—most closely associated with Casper David Friedrich—with a scene ... More

Julia Kochetova's "War is Personal" restores empathy to the Ukrainian front line
AMSTERDAM.- Foam presents War is Personal, a solo exhibition by Ukrainian photojournalist and documentary filmmaker Julia Kochetova. As a part of a new generation of image-makers directly affected by the war in Ukraine, Kochetova documents it from within. Her images have been published in international media outlets such as The Guardian, Der Spiegel, DIE ZEIT and Bloomberg. Drawn from her own experiences, Kochetova brings visitors close to life on the front lines, where she explores the fragile boundary between documenting, mourning, and surviving. War is Personal emerged from a desire to bridge the gap between statistics and lived experience. While international media often reduce war to numbers, cropping the human presence out of images, Kochetova insists on showing that war is, above all, personal. Her images reveal how war permeates ... More

Forty Years of This... Franklin Parrasch Gallery celebrates 40th anniversary with exhibition
NEW YORK, NY.- Forty Years of This… is a memoir of an ongoing effort. What began four decades ago as an improvised, underfunded, contrarian art venue experiment, remains just that. Responding to a 1986 classified ad in The Washington Post for a “gallery space” with “free rent in exchange for managing building” I swooped in on the offer, built out the roughly 400 square foot space, and immersed myself in a hard knocks lesson in hotel management. As it turned out, “The Gallery Hotel”, on the fringe of the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, D.C., was a “by the hour” hotel. As if learning how to start and run a commercial gallery with absolutely no professional experience and no funding wasn’t enough of a trial by fire, tending to the dramas and traumas of The Gallery Hotel made the former task seem self-explanatory. I was exceptionally naïve in both ... More

Luc Delahaye's 25-year retrospective opens at Photo Elysée
LAUSANNE.- The Echo of the World is a major solo retrospective of the work of Luc Delahaye (b. 1962). The exhibition at Photo Elysée, organized in collaboration with Jeu de Paume in Paris, looks back on a quarter-century of the French photographer’s output, featuring pieces produced between 2001 and 2025. Holding a show on this scale underscores the museum’s commitment to a form of photography that critically engages with reality and its representations. Through his work, which stands out for its documentary style, formal discipline and inquiry into the nature of the image, Delahaye emphasizes the importance of holding the spectacle of current events at a distance and adding new layers of depth to the visible. In today’s age of image overload and growing uncertainty as to the boundaries of reality, the show shines a spotlight on the practice of a photographer who thinks ... More

Julien Bismuth explores the fluid boundaries of meaning and value at Layr
VIENNA.- This exhibition is a collection of images - some still, others moving - accompanied by a single object, titled every pale has its beyond. The word “pale” also means a stake or boundary marker used to demarcate a property or territory. The expression “beyond the pale” means something that is outside the limits of the “proper.” This object is a pale that marks no boundary, only the point of its location. All the works are linked by lines that fluctuate, vary, modulate and migrate, lines whose delineation shifts with every encounter. The exhibition includes a series of silkscreen prints, transferred directly onto the wall using a process invented for these works. Each image shows a set of exonumia: coin-like objects that have no legitimate value as currency ( such as subway tokens or casino chips ). These include a set of so-called Hard Times tokens from the 1830s. Hard ... More

Buffalo AKG announces Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way, a new exhibition of contemporary Latinx painting
BUFFALO, NY.- The Buffalo AKG Art Museum announced Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way, an exhibition that explores contemporary Latinx artists’ innovations and interventions within established traditions of painting. The project celebrates painting from the Latin American and Caribbean diaspora, inviting discussion on a variety of themes and revealing the diversity and expansiveness present within the field today. The fifty-eight artists in the exhibition—and those in the Latinx field more broadly—encourage us to interrogate the continued relevance of boundaries, from political borders to disciplinary confines. The exhibition is organized by the Buffalo AKG Art Museum and curated by Associate Curator Andrea Alvarez. It will ... More

Ben Rivers explores the extinction of speech at Kate MacGarry
LONDON.- For his fifth solo exhibition at the gallery, Ben Rivers presents a chapter from his film Mare’s Nest (2025), based on The Word for Snow (2007), a one-act play by the American novelist Don DeLillo. Set after an ecological catastrophe, the work imagines a future in which language begins to unravel, losing its connection to the world it once described. As landscapes vanish and species disappear, the film examines the limits of expression and the extent to which speech can disguise as much as it reveals. In this vision, words both obscure and supplant the very things they once named. They collude our inability to envisage what lies ahead, standing in for extinct animals, vanished landscapes and the irretrievable past. The scene centres on three characters, the protagonist, Moon, who encounters a ‘scholar’ and an ‘interpreter’ on a mountain. As their conversation ... More

The lost landscapes of Donald Towner return to Hampstead
LONDON.- Burgh House is presenting Amongst the Trees and Terraces: Donald Towner (1903–1985), the first exhibition in decades to celebrate the life and work of Hampstead-based painter Donald Towner. Spanning the interwar and postwar years, this exhibition traces Towner’s landscapes, cityscapes, and Hampstead views — capturing both the gentle beauty of the British countryside and the upheavals of a nation in recovery. Donald Towner lived at 8 Church Row, Hampstead, from 1927 until his death in 1985. A naturalist at heart, he painted the English countryside with quiet reverence while also recording London in flux — including the rubble-strewn streets around St Paul’s Cathedral in the aftermath of WWII. In the postwar years, Towner was commissioned by the British Tourist Board to depict landscapes across the country, positioning ... More