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Monument at El Palmar reveals earliest known Long Count date in the Maya Lowlands
CAMPECHE.- A carved monument from the archaeological site of El Palmar in Campeche is changing what scholars know about early Maya history. New archaeological and epigraphic studies have shown that Stela 46, a monument recovered from an architectural complex southwest of the site’s Main Group, contains the earliest Long Count date so far documented in the Maya Lowlands. The date, identified as 8.7.1.0.0, corresponds to A.D. 180. That makes it 112 years older than the date recorded on Stela 29 at Tikal, Guatemala, which dates to A.D. 292 and had long been considered the oldest known Long Count date in the Maya area. The discovery is the result of two decades of research by the El Palmar Archaeological Project, directed by archaeologists Kenichiro Tsukamoto, of the University of California, Riverside, and Javier López Camacho, of Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History. Using modern photogrammetry and high-resolution 3D scanning, researchers were able to read details that ... More

Whitney Museum of American Art acquires Mel Casas's Humanscape 56 (San Antonio Circus)
NEW YORK, NY.- Ruiz-Healy Art announced that The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, New York, has acquired a 1969 acrylic on canvas painting by Mel Casas, Humanscape 56 (San Antonio Circus), part of Casas’s Humanscape series. We congratulate the Mel Casas Family Trust on this important acquisition. We especially thank Dan Nadel, the Steven and Ann Ames Curator of Drawings and Prints at the Whitney Museum of American Art, for his leadership in selecting Casas’s work. As Patricia Ruiz-Healy comments, “I am so pleased to have facilitated the inclusion of Casas’s work in the exhibition and the acquisition of a major and historic painting by Mel Casas by the Whitney Museum of American Art.” In 2017, Ruiz-Healy Art presented a solo exhibition, Mel Casas: Iconic Reality, accompanied by a catalogue featuring an essay by scholar Carlos Francisco Jackson. San Antonio Circus was most recently exhibited in Sixties Surreal (September 2025-January 2026) at the Whitney Museum ... More

Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen pens Chalisée Naamani's first Swiss solo exhibition
ST. GALLEN.- The Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen is presenting Octogone, the first solo exhibition in Switzerland by French-Iranian artist Chalisée Naamani (b. 1995 in Paris). The exhibition showcases recent textile works, sculptures and site-specific installations by the artist. Through layering and collaging fabrics, images and texts, Naamani creates objects reminiscent of garments or closely connected to the body. Carefully sewn and embroidered by hand, Naamani assembles appropriated, used and reproduced materials to create “vêtements-images”. These “image-garments”, as the artist describes them, are not intended to be worn, however. Freed from their utilitarian value, they become sculptures in which the symbolic and political significance of clothing is condensed and reflected. Naamani’s references range from international protest movements, such as the emancipatory “Women Life Freedom” movement in Iran and the “Gilets Jaunes”/“Yellow Vests” movem ... More

Dickinson opens Grand Manner portraits exhibition in London
LONDON.- Dickinson has opened Face to Face: Grand Manner Portraits by Reynolds, Lawrence and Batoni, an exhibition exploring the theatrical elegance, social ambition and classical imagination of British and European portraiture in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. On view through July 17, 2026, at Dickinson’s London gallery on Jermyn Street, the exhibition brings together portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Pompeo Batoni and Sir William Beechey. Together, the works show how portrait painters transformed likeness into spectacle, using references to antiquity, Old Master painting, landscape, costume and allegory to elevate their sitters into figures of taste, refinement and status. The idea of the “Grand Manner” was famously promoted by Reynolds in his Discourses, delivered at the Royal Academy between 1769 and 1790. For Reynolds, portraiture should not simply copy nature. It should improve upon it, drawing on the antique and the great traditions of art to ... More

Goodman Gallery New York exhibits rediscovered vintage prints from a South African in exile
NEW YORK, NY.- Goodman Gallery New York presents a remarkable group of rare vintage prints by the late South African photographer Ernest Cole, which resurfaced after more than four decades. Together, these works offer an extraordinary new perspective on Cole’s years documenting Black life in the United States during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The prints, preserved within the Hasselblad collection for over 40 years, were recently returned to the Ernest Cole Family Trust. While a number of vintage prints from Cole’s American body of work are held in institutional collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, this group offers a new opportunity to encounter works that have remained largely inaccessible for decades. Following the publication of several of these photographs in The True America – the first book dedicated to Cole’s photographs of Black life in the United States – the exhibition reunites a significant body of vintage prints, many of which have been scarcely e ... More

Henry Taylor enters dialogue with his teacher James Jarvaise at Hauser & Wirth Zurich
ZURICH.- Sometimes a straight line has to be crooked is the first European exhibition bringing together the work of Henry Taylor, one of today’s most celebrated artists, in dialogue with that of his teacher, California modernist James Jarvaise (1924 – 2015). It is significant that Taylor’s debut at Hauser & Wirth in Zurich takes place in dialogue with Jarvaise—the artist who saw something special in Taylor when he was a student in the 1980s. The exhibition coincides with Taylor’s major solo exhibition at Musée national Picasso-Paris. Travelling from Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles, the exhibition features over seven decades of works that explore the artists’ mutual interest in the figure and landscape. On view are paintings and drawings from Jarvaise’s Hudson River School series, which was included in the famous 1959 exhibition Sixteen Americans at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in which Jay DeFeo, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Frank Stella also debute ... More

Kunsthaus Hamburg presents Melike Kara's solo exhibition featuring burned photographic archives
HAMBURG.- For her solo exhibition at the Kunsthaus Hamburg, the artist Melike Kara has burned parts of her photographic archive and incorporated the remains into a large-scale installation. Conceived as a garden landscape, Whispers focuses on the act of letting go and the sensory experience of eternal transformation. Melike Kara’s artistic practice has long been situated at the intersection of personal archival work, collective historiography and painterly translation. In her new installation, created specifically for the Kunsthaus Hamburg, she radicalizes this approach by burning photographs from her own archive for the first time. What remains are traces: fragments, condensations, material relics of images eluding fixation. Thus, she follows an expanded understanding of photography: not as a static image or repository of the past, but as a process—as a circulating and evolving medium of memory, identity and transformation. Starting point for Whispers is Melike Kara’s intensive e ... More

Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden opens "Bloom up!" exploring the language of flowers
BADEN-BADEN.- The Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden has opened Bloom up! The Language of Flowers, a major special exhibition of the State of Baden-Württemberg that brings together contemporary art and cultural history through one of the most familiar, seductive and symbolically charged motifs in human culture: the flower. On view through January 10, 2027, the exhibition marks the first major cooperation between the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden and the Badisches Landesmuseum. Rather than following a chronological path, Bloom up! places historic objects from the museum’s collections in dialogue with works by contemporary artists, creating unexpected conversations across centuries, materials and meanings. Few images are as universal as the flower. It appears in love rituals, religious stories, political ceremonies, domestic decoration, mourning practices and commercial exchange. Flowers can suggest beauty and tenderness, but also possession, power, violence, memory and resistance. The exhibit ... More

Summer cycle in Bern explores intersection of climate crisis, violence, and technology
BERN.- Kunsthalle Bern is presenting its summer program: the first solo exhibition of artist Tai Shani in Switzerland, the first part of a newly commissioned opera series by Jota Mombaça and its annual artistic RESPONSES contribution to the summer program, featuring a performance by Ivan Cheng. The Kunsthalle has also launched a new program of art in the public space in collaboration with Museumsquartier Bern and the Bernisches Historisches Museum entitled Horizon of Forms, honoring the legacy of former director Harald Szeemann, inaugurated by Swiss artist Vanessa Billy. The exhibitions articulate a continuum between geology, body, and infrastructure. What emerges is a shared critical framework in which climate, violence, and technology and their crises are understood not as separate, but as interdependent conditions. Shani and Mombaça both explore how systems of power decide whose lives, voices, and deaths are acknowledged—and who ... More

Maxim Gorki Theater presents its 2026/27 season
BERLIN.- Gorki Past Forward: With the 2026/27 season, Çağla Ilk begins her artistic direction of the Maxim Gorki Theater unfolding a program that claims the spaces between stage and exhibition, drama and visual art, the local and the international as its central terrain. Guided by an understanding of theater as a living organism—shaped by people, voices, crafts, spaces, memories, and aspirations—the invited artists and performers form the nucleus of a new ensemble that will continue to evolve organically alongside the program. The new Gorki is conceived as an open house: open from midday until the final performance, welcoming artists and audiences, neighbors and newcomers, unexpected encounters, collective experiences, and new forms of participation. It begins not from a closed concept, but from a threshold: a place where disciplines, publics, histories, and futures meet. As Gramsci reminds us: art is the advance worker of freedom. The season opens on September 4, 2026 ... More

MISS READ: The Berlin Art Book Fair & Festival presents its 2026 edition
BERLIN.- MISS READ: The Berlin Art Book Fair & Festival moves to silent green Kulturquartier, from June 26 to 28, 2026 with a focus on Bibliodiversity. In its eighteenth year, MISS READ continues to offer a vibrant platform for critical discourse, experimental publishing, and independent artistic practices. 235 exhibitors from 46 countries form one of the most international gatherings for independent publishing worldwide. Founded in 2009, MISS READ is Europe’s leading event for artists’ books, conceptual publications, and publishing as artistic, political, and poetic practice. MISS READ’s mission entails fostering global bibliodiversity, nurturing creative ecosystems and pushing the frontiers of publishing. The eighteenth edition of MISS READ introduces bibliodiversity as a special focus: publishing as artistic practice, the cultural plurality of experimental reading and writing, and the ecosystems of independent publishing. Coined in analogy to biodiversity, bibliodiversity desc ... More