UTRECHT.- In 2026, the Centraal Museum presents the first major retrospective on Gerard van Honthorst (1592–1656). The Utrecht-born painter, a contemporary of Rembrandt van Rijn, travelled to Rome at a young age, where he was inspired by the work of Caravaggio, renowned for his large, lifelike figures and striking contrasts of light and shadow. In Rome, Honthorst gained a reputation for his dramatically lit night scenes, earning him the nickname Gherardo delle Notti (‘Gerard of the Nights’). This proved to be the beginning of a highly successful career. In Utrecht, the city where he was born, married and died, Honthorst is finally given the stage he deserves. The exhibition brings together around 60 paintings and 30 drawings from international collections, including the Musée du Louvre, the Royal Collection and the Galleria Borghese, alongside works from Centraal Museum’s own collection. As one of the few non-Italian artists working in Rome, Honthorst received prestigious com ... More
HUMLEBÆK.- Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark opens this year’s big summer exhibition presenting Lucian Freud (1922-2011), one of the 20th century’s greatest figurative artists. During his long life, the British artist concerned himself with what was right in front of him, recording what he saw in drawings, paintings and prints. Fictional subjects were never really an option. “Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait, even if it’s only a chair” is how Freud described his view of art. Throughout his career, he applied this insight to his models, who were all people he knew. The places he depicted were also his own – most often his studio with a limited range of props: a bed, an armchair and, almost always, floorboards. His paintings testify to lengthy processes where living subjects were pushed to the limit of their endurance. For their part, the titles leave us none the wiser. Intensifying his gaze, getting ... More
Thomas Houseago. Crystal No. 1, 2026. Patinated brass, 78¾ × 52⅜ × 37¾ inches
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LONDON.- Lévy Gorvy Dayan presents new sculptures by Thomas Houseago alongside a selection of works curated by the artist, ranging from ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Aztec artifacts to examples from the oeuvres of Joseph Beuys, Louise Bourgeois, Jacob Epstein, Lucio Fontana, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Julia Isídrez, Jacques Lipchitz, Henri Matisse, Marisa Merz, Meret Oppenheim, James ‘Son Ford’ Thomas, and Günther Uecker. Titled after the obsidian mirrors of Aztec culture, the exhibition is conceived by Houseago as a journey through sculptural histories important to his practice, fostering dialogues that span millennia. A new edition of Houseago’s Crystal No. 1 (2026) anchors the exhibition. The sculpture represents the artist’s examination of themes such as beauty, grace, and femininity, complementing his career-long explorations of towering masculine figures. Belonging to the artist’s Constructions—an important series of his mature practice—Crystal No. 1 invokes ... More
Artist Ursula von Rydingsvard pictured with Untitled, 1988-89. Color photograph. Laumeier Sculpture Park Photo Archive.
ST LOUIS, MO.- Laumeier Sculpture Park announces Untitled, a reimagining of Ursula von Rydingsvard’s 1988-89 commission. The project is the third installment in Laumeier’s Begin Again anniversary series, which honors the Park’s 50-year history of collaborating with artists and supporting new commissions and exhibitions. At the heart of the series is Begin Again: Years and Counting, an indoor exhibition, along with three new outdoor commissions by Juan William Chávez, Ursula von Rydingsvard, and Alison Saar. Each artist was invited to revisit a decommissioned work they originally created for the Park. The resulting commissions will take the form of a reinterpretation, a rebuild, or a new work inspired by the original. Von Rydingsvard's original installation was a monumental yet reflective work and a longtime public favorite in the Park’s collection. However, material decomposition and limited conservation resources ultimately required the sculpture to be permanently taken off view. ... More
SAO PAULO.- Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel presents O homem nu [The naked man], the first comprehensive exhibition of Efrain Almeida’s work at the gallery since his passing. Bringing together works produced between 1995 and 2024, the exhibition offers a broad overview of his career and considers his practice through the relationships between the body, spirituality, and desire. Born in Boa Viagem, Ceará, the artist developed a body of work deeply informed by the materials, craftsmanship, and cultural traditions of the Cariri region, working across sculpture, installation, painting, embroidery, and watercolor. Spanning nearly three decades, his practice brought together distinct geographies, beliefs, identities, and material traditions through a visual language in which wood, fabric, bronze, and paper become supports for intimate, resonant forms. The exhibition centers on Almeida’s sculptures, alongside watercolors, oil paintings, and embroidered works. Recurring motifs include human bodies ... More
Kenji Ide, Kinetic force of a page, 2026. Wood, watercolor, acrylic spray, acrylic varnish, paper, mortar, 15 x 17 x 15 cm. 5 7/8 x 6 3/4 x 5 7/8 in.
GERMANTOWN NY.- Mendes Wood DM is presenting Texture of time, an exhibition of sixteen new sculptures by the Japanese artist Kenji Ide. Ide roots his practice both in memory and in interaction with his surroundings, translating intangible experiences relating to time, atmosphere, and human relationships into delicate material forms. In his studio, the works emerge through a tentative, almost collage-like process between the built and the found, wood and stone. Installed in the Germantown gallery, the exhibition’s works dialogue with its domestic architecture, each sculpture human, personal, and somewhat fragmented in scale and scope, appearing as objects scattered through the room as much as gathered into any one piece. The plinths are cut to thirty centimeters, a traditional table height in Japan, Ide wanting the sculptures perceived as though they had been placed inside someone’s house, set at the height where a hand might naturally ... More
Barbara Hepworth, Winter Solstice, 1971. Screenprint, 29.2 x 24 cm.
LONDON.- For over a century, St Ives has occupied a significant place within British art. Drawn by its extraordinary light, dramatic coastline, and close-knit artistic community, successive generations of painters and sculptors have been irresistibly drawn to Cornwall. From Alfred Wallis's instinctive depictions of the fishing town to the radical modernism of Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth, St Ives became synonymous with one of the defining artistic movements of twentieth-century Britain. The Redfern Gallery has long played an integral role in this history. Within its first year of operating, the gallery became the first to exhibit the carvings of both Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth, signalling an early commitment to the emerging language of British modernism. In the decades that followed, The Redfern Gallery championed many artists associated with the St Ives School providing an important platform for work that would come to define post- ... More
CASCAIS .- The first edition of the Water Biennial – Traces of Water opened on 17 July and can be visited until 6 September at various venues across Cascais. At the Estoril Congress Centre, Demetrio Paparoni’s selection brings together more than ninety international artists in a project that proposes a new way of addressing the major challenges related to water through contemporary creation. Internationally curated by Demetrio Paparoni and directed by Consuelo Císcar, the Biennial turns Cascais into a meeting place for art, research, universities and institutions. Participating artists include Marina Abramović, Yoko Ono, William Kentridge, Joana Vasconcelos, Robert Longo, Thomas Ruff, Roni Horn, Zhang Huan, and the Spanish artists Isabel Muñoz, José Cosme and Miquel Navarro, making the Biennial one of the most significant international events devoted to the dialogue between art, sustainability and water culture. Beyond its exhibition dimension, the Biennial incorporates an internat ... More
Daniel Arsham, The Palm of the Ancient City, 2026. Sand sculpture, 36 x 19.625 x 17.375 in (91.44 x 49.85 x 44.13 cm).
MALLORCA.- Baró Galeria is presenting Eroded Horizon, Daniel Arsham’s fifth collaboration with the gallery and his second exhibition at Baró Mallorca. Presented as part of Art Palma Summer 2026, the exhibition brings together a selection of recent and previously unseen works that move between sculpture, drawing, and painting. Set in Mallorca, a Mediterranean island whose stones bear the imprint of Roman, Moorish, and modern hands in equal measure, Eroded Horizon unfolds as a meditation on time’s slow work upon the body and the landscape, and the place where the two meet. Across the works on view, Arsham continues to probe the space between artifact and architecture, machine and myth. Throughout Eroded Horizon, forms appear suspended between emergence and decay, permanence and erosion. Classical busts reveal technological interiors, hands become labyrinthine structures, and landscapes ... More
Jean Signovert (1919-1981), LASAghA Oil on canvas, 100 x 81cm, (39 ½ x 32in) signed and dated, January 1958, also signed, dated, and titled on reverse.
LONDON.- In 1946 the "Salon des Réalités Nouvelles" was established by Frédo Sidès in an effort to galvanise support for Geometric Abstraction which was still struggling to gain mainstream acceptance. Participating artists comprised of previous Art Concrete, and Abstraction Création members, including Albert Gleizes, Jean Arp and Sonia Delaunay, as well as a new generation of artists in search of a rational and universal aesthetic that transcended the chaos of human conflict, such as André Bloc, Edgard Pillet and Jean Deyrolle. Meanwhile several artists associated with the Surrealist group, including Camille Bryen, and Henri Michaux, had been experimenting with “automatic” writing, drawing, and then painting. Initially referred to as “Tachisme”, this technique presented a new form of abstraction, dependent on expressive gestures, emphasizing the subjective and irrational. In 1947 Bryen and Georges Mathieu organised ... More
Ken Kiff, Man and Blue Mask, c. 1974. Oil on board, 81 x 61 cm, 32 x 24 in., framed: 83.4 x 63.2 x 4 cm, 32 ¾ x 25 x 1 ½ in.
LONDON.- Pippy Houldsworth Gallery is presenting I dwell in Possibility, a group exhibition with 11 artists who explore the in-between, searching out moments that hover at the threshold of articulation, suspended in time and space. Curated in collaboration with London-based painter Shaqúelle Whyte, the exhibition draws its title from Emily Dickinson's c.1862 poem I dwell in Possibility. In her poem, Dickinson imagines poetry as a capacious home, a literary form that holds greater expressive potential than prose, ‘more numerous of windows’ and ‘superior - for Doors’. For Dickinson, the poem resists enclosure, it is mutable and alive to interpretation. As in Dickinson's verse, the paintings in I dwell in Possibility refuse fixed categorisation. Suspended between abstraction and figuration, memory and observation, presence and absence, these ... More
BERLIN.- Norman Manea, one of Romania’s most internationally recognized contemporary writers, has entrusted his literary archive to the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, bringing manuscripts, correspondence and other materials documenting decades of writing shaped by exile, dictatorship, memory and personal freedom into the institution’s collections. The announcement follows Manea’s 90th birthday on July 19, 2026. The Romanian-born author, who has lived in New York since 1988, has been a member of the Akademie der Künste since 2006. The archive offers a substantial record of Manea’s literary career. It includes manuscripts, proofs, research and working materials, as well as correspondence with an extensive network of writers, artists and intellectuals. Among the figures represented are Gabriela Adameşteanu, Louis Begley, Rosalind Belben, Matei Călinescu, Andrei Corbea-Hoişie, Edgar Hilsenrath, Mircea Iorgulescu, Edward Kanterian, Imre and Magda ... More
Rose Cupit becomes Head of Artists’ Moving Image.
LONDON.- Film London announced significant changes to its senior leadership team, with Helena Mackenzie taking on the new, expanded role Head of Talent and Business Development and Rose Cupit promoted to Head of Artists’ Moving Image. Helena continues to oversee film and TV inward investment into London, running landmark projects like the Production Finance Market (PFM) and overseeing the provision of locations and logistical support to major film and high-end TV projects filming in the capital. Helena’s new role brings Film London’s talent development work within her remit, including short film and early feature development (under the BFI NETWORK aegis, which is made possible through National Lottery funding), the organisation’s series of filmmaker-focused Labs and the ongoing development of Film London’s innovative IP showcase, Upstream. This year, for the first time, PFM attendees will have full access to Upstream, offering a unique opportunity to connect with creato ... More
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Sussex-based artist Poppy Jones presents her first institutional solo exhibition at Towner Eastbourne EASTBOURNE.- Towner Eastbourne is presenting Spirals Gathering, Time Breathing, Cecilia Fiona’s first institutional solo exhibition in the UK. Danish artist Cecilia Fiona is based in Copenhagen and works across painting, costume, performance and sculpture. Her practice is concerned with imagining and exploring the interconnected relationship between the body, the earth and the cosmos. From the microscopic realm of atoms and cells to the vast cosmic scale of the universe, Fiona envisages the movement and flow of energy through all things, picturing the universe as one vast living organism. Spirals Gathering, Time Breathing features new paintings, sculptural installations and a sound piece made in collaboration with Lucie Cure. In this new body of work, Fiona creates extraordinary dreamlike imagery: bodies and beings dissolve into ribbons, roots and tendrils, ... More
Four artists challenge perception in new exhibition at Alexander Berggruen NEW YORK, NY.- Alexander Berggruen is presenting Baoying Huang, Alexandria Mento, Nina Molloy, Cate Pasquarelli. Across painting and sculpture, Baoying Huang, Alexandria Mento, Nina Molloy, and Cate Pasquarelli challenge habitual ways of seeing. Through reflections, transparency, digital mediation, and subtle disruptions of expectation, their works destabilize distinctions between the real and the perceived. Baoying Huang’s paintings collapse multiple layers of space within domestic and consumer environments. Many of her paintings are based on photographs taken from the street while looking through the storefront windows of cafés and restaurants. From this vantage point, she captures both the interior beyond the glass and the reflections layered upon its surface. In her painting Pickled Lemon Tree, a lemon tree appears in front of a cafe window, a figure ... More
Six international artists showcase work on body and terrain in new exhibition SINGAPORE.- Ames Yavuz is presenting their flesh, a field is a group presentation with Sarah Drinan, Audrey Lukban, Monica Rani Rudhar, Julia Trybala, Apichaya Wannakit and Kaylene Whiskey. Alive, tender and ever-evolving, this exhibition explores and considers the body as a site of intimacy and terrain. It takes flesh as a porous living geography: both as a containment of memory, histories and experience, and as a vast uncontained emotive landscape. Bringing together artists across Australia, Thailand and the Philippines, it questions what it means to occupy a body in space – whether psychological or tangible. Sarah Drinan, Julia Trybala and Apichaya Wannakit present new paintings that explore the vulnerabilities and psychology of being through their depiction of the human figure as a topography of expansive emotional geographies. Drinan’s work explores the complexities of the body — its vulnerability, desires, unease, resistance, and messiness. Drawing on her background in m ... More
Alisan Fine Arts marks 45th anniversary with ink art exhibition Tradition Renewed HONG KONG.- As part of the gallery's 45th anniversary programme, "Then and Now", Tradition Renewed celebrates 4 contemporary literati masters from mainland China whose practices have played a pivotal role in the evolution of contemporary ink painting since the 1980s. This exhibition forms the "Then" chapter of a dialogue that examines the continuing transformation of Chinese ink art across generations. Featuring works by Chen Jialing, Jiang Baolin, Lu Fusheng, and Peng Xiancheng, the exhibition highlights 4 artists who have redefined the possibilities of the literati tradition. Together, they represent modern day painter-scholars who each bring a distinctive approach to landscape, figure painting, and the expressive potential of ink. The exhibition also reflects Alisan Fine Arts' longstanding commitment to introduce contemporary Chinese art from the mainland ... More
New porcelain enamel tile mural by artist Harumo Sato welcomes students at new Mission Bay School SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) and the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) this week celebrated the ribbon cutting of Mission Bay School and unveiling of a new site-specific public artwork titled ZAWA ZAWA BUZZ BUZZ, a 336-square-foot porcelain enamel tile mural by Bay Area artist Harumo Sato, installed at the east entrance of the school across three exterior walls located at 1415 Owens Street. The title of the work, “Zawa Zawa,” takes its name from the Japanese onomatopoeia for the murmur of life, “Buzz Buzz,” and depicts creatures gathering, connecting, breathing as one. This artwork honors the living tapestry of Mission Creek and the San Francisco Bay, where diverse marine species weave a resilient and interdependent community, revealing how varied species amplify the vitality of the living world. ... More
MOCAD presents solo exhibition Bend, Break, Mend by artist Karyn Olivier DETROIT, MICH.- Bend, Break, Mend is a solo exhibition by Trinidad-born, Brooklyn-raised artist Karyn Olivier at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD). Olivier’s practice moves through sculpture, installation, and public intervention to examine how landscapes, materials, and built environments carry the weight of historical memory. Working with salvaged, industrial, and transformed matter, objects shaped by labor, weathering, extraction, and use, she approaches material as an active record of time. Bend, Break, Mend brings together recent works alongside newly commissioned sculptures that are grounded in the material conditions and histories of Detroit. Drawing from the textures and residues of the region, its industrial infrastructures, waterways, architectures, and postindustrial terrains, Olivier considers how landscapes absorb the traces ... More
Ruby City unveils fall 2026: Feminist art, Matt Kleberg, & Chuck Ramirez SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Ruby City announces its Fall 2026 season, bringing together a major exhibition drawn from the Linda Pace Foundation Collection, a new site-specific mural by San Antonio artist Matt Kleberg, and a limited-time presentation of Chuck Ramirez’s beloved Christmas Trees. Together, these projects extend Ruby City’s commitment to making contemporary art freely accessible while inviting visitors to experience the campus, collection, and holiday season in new ways. Opening Saturday, September 26, Ruby City’s forthcoming, exhibition, Generative Disruption: Feminist Art from the Collection, will explore identity, gender, and the lived experiences of women through a feminist lens. Rooted in the vision of artist, collector, and philanthropist Linda Pace, the exhibition draws from the Linda Pace Foundation Collection to consider ideas of agency, ... More
Maruani Mercier presents Tony Matelli solo exhibition Sideways Dinner KNOKKE.- Maruani Mercier is presenting Tony Matelli: Sideways Dinner, the second solo exhibition of the artist, opening in the Knokke gallery on 8 August 2026. Presenting a series of new sculptures, from an extraordinary life-size self-portrait to his iconic series of Weeds and Arrangements of inverted flowers painstakingly executed in painted bronze, the works in Sideways Dinner reorient one’s perception of the everyday and upend the ordinary angle of visual and social experience. The exhibition takes its title from a new sculptural work that stages an upright arrangement of dinner plates, bottles, and glasses in a humorous take on the iconography of still-life painting. Forming a kind of pictorial plane or relief, the traces of human gathering in Sideways Dinner are at once resolutely familiar and uncanny in their defiance of the laws of physics and time. Drawing ... More
Lincoln Glenn Gallery presents exhibition dedicated to American women artists NEW YORK, NY.- Lincoln Glenn Gallery is presenting Making Space: American Women Artists and the Century of Change, the gallery’s third annual summer group exhibition dedicated to women artists whose work helped define major movements of the last century and whose influence continues to grow and shape contemporary understanding of that period. Making Space features over 25 works by artists who have played key roles in pioneering major art movements of the 20th century, all of whom have either exhibited at major museums or are represented in significant museum collections. Many of these artists were trailblazers, with early major museum exhibitions. Artists such as Mercedes Matter, Lynda Benglis, Lee Bontecou, Ida Kohlmeyer, Louise Nevelson, Virginia Berresford, Harmony Hammond, Diana Kurz, Joann Gedney, and Jane Freilicher ... More
Fondation Beyeler inaugurates its new ensemble with year-long celebrations BASEL.- This autumn, the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen near Basel will gradually start presenting its newly expanded ensemble to the public, opening fully in January 2027. This major development combines the existing museum designed by Renzo Piano with new buildings conceived by Peter Zumthor and repurposed historic buildings, doubling the size of its park and considerably enhancing the exhibition spaces. The expansion will be celebrated with a year-long programme of art exhibitions and cultural events. The Fondation Beyeler is expanding both spatially and conceptually, further enhancing the unique relationship between art, architecture and nature, for which it is internationally renowned. With the opening of a previously private, landmarked park to the public, the surrounding landscape is nearly doubling in size and is enriched with century- ... More
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On a day like today, German painter Friedrich Georg Weitsch was born
August 08, 1758. Friedrich Georg Weitsch (8 August 1758 - 30 May 1828) was a German painter and etcher. In 1794, he was elected a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts, Berlin, and married Elizabeth Schroeder. The marriage was childless. Following the death of Bernhard Rode, he went to the academy to teach art history. He was named a Rector in 1798. That same year, he was appointed a Royal Court Painter. His works may be seen at the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, the Städtisches Museum [de], and the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum. In this image: Humboldt and his fellow scientist Aimé Bonpland at the foot of the Chimborazo volcano in Ecuador (imaginary scene, 1810).
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