PARIS.- Crossed by the only two biblical 'rivers of paradise' known today, whose importance and danger may have inspired the Flood myth, ancient Mesopotamia was also the place where irrigation was first invented and developed. Journeying through a bygone world where water was omnipresent, so unlike the same region that has become so arid today, the exhibition offers visitors the opportunity to draw lessons from the ancient Mesopotamians' relationship to water. From the human world to the divine, through the natural setting that characterises the region, visitors will travel to the heart of this primeval element, source of all life and prosperous civilisation, but also of dramatic destructions and periods of turmoil, such as the very first conflicts around water resources – all framed within our contemporary context. These early experiments in mastering water through ... More
HOUSTON, TX.- Guyanese-British artist Hew Locke combines found materials and iconic imagery to create theatrical tableaux that address iconographies of empire, history and collective memory. “A lot of my work has to do with the burden of history and how history affects us today,” Locke has explained. “If I wasn’t an artist, I would be a historian.” From June 21 through September 13, 2026, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents Hew Locke: Passages, the most comprehensive survey to date devoted to the work of this acclaimed artist. Spanning the 1990s through to the present, Hew Locke: Passages showcases the spectrum of Locke’s practice, with over 40 sculptures, collages, and assemblages that examine the histories of colonialism across five continents, filtered through present-day realities of global trade, migration and diaspora. Highlights of the exhibition include examples of Locke’s richly detailed Infanta charcoal drawings (1998), which ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- The American folk art collected by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller—one of the three founders of MoMA, with Lillie P. Bliss and Mary Quinn Sullivan—was integral to the Museum’s early history, when folk art was positioned as an important antecedent to modernism. Works from Rockefeller’s collection were shown in the 1932 exhibition American Folk Art: The Art of the Common Man in America, 1750–1900, and several examples entered the Museum’s holdings in 1939 as a gift in celebration of MoMA’s 10th anniversary. Following the Museum’s 2024 presentation of Lillie P. Bliss: Birth of the Modern, this exhibition showcases some 50 objects from Rockefeller’s collection (now held by the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, one of the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg), including celebrated paintings such as Edward Hicks’s The Peaceable Kingdom ... More
BERLIN.- The Alte Nationalgalerie has opened InterNationalgalerie#1 – National Museum in Warsaw, the first exhibition in a new cabinet series that will invite national galleries and museums from around the world to present works from their collections in Berlin. The exhibition, on view through January 17, 2027, marks the beginning of a long-term program that looks beyond national borders to ask how museums tell their histories, shape their identities, and respond to the changing cultural questions of the present. The series begins with the National Museum in Warsaw, one of Poland’s largest and oldest museum institutions. Under the title Inventing Myths, Agnieszka Lajus, director of the National Museum in Warsaw, in conversation with Anette Hüsch, director of the Alte Nationalgalerie, selected eight works that trace Poland’s changing cultural and political conditions across three centuries. The exhibition explores themes of freedom, art, and the life of ... More
Exhibition view: COCKTAIL PROLONGÉ: F.C. GUNDLACH SPECIAL, June 5 – September 22, 2026, Hall for Contemporary Art / Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Photo: Henning Rogge.
HAMBURG.- As one of the most influential German fashion photographers from the 1950s to the 1980s, F.C. Gundlach decisively shaped the aesthetic stylization of the female body. As a private collector, however, his passion was devoted to more provocative, ambiguous, and profound forms of corporeality. Extravagance and queerness are expressed in these works just as much as vulnerability and nonconformity. Drawing on around 300 works from the F.C. Gundlach Collection, the exhibition Cocktail Prolongé: F. C. Gundlach Special explores the diverse ways in which corporeality can be staged — always with an eye to how the body becomes a medium for the portrayal of roles, fantasies, and desires, as well as for articulating critical demands. The works presented — which F.C. Gundlach began collecting in the mid-1970s — are highly topical, not only in light of the growing visibility of the queer community, but also because they reveal a fascinating and deeply intimate, indeed personal, aspect ... More
AMSTERDAM.- Illustrations by Fiep Westendorp of famous Dutch children’s book characters such as Jip and Janneke, Otje, Pluk van de Petteflet, and Pim and Pom have been loved across generations since the 1950s. Her original drawings, including corrections and annotations, have all been preserved, and around 150 of them are on display at the Rijksmuseum this summer. They range from the earliest sketches of Jip and Janneke to her illustrations for the women’s page of Het Parool newspaper, which remain highly topical. This exhibition offers a multifaceted overview of her oeuvre and explores her creative process in detail. Fiep Westendorp is on view at the Rijksmuseum from 19 June to 13 September 2026. From a young age, Fiep Westendorp (1916–2004) knew she wanted to be an illustrator. She studied at the Royal School for Art and Technology in Den Bosch, where she was the only female student, and later at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rotterdam. Her early sketchbooks in the exhibition show h ... More
VIENNA.- Tolia Astakhishvili’s practice is attuned to the ways space is continuously shaped by those who inhabit it. In the months leading up to the exhibition opening, Tolia Astakhishvili developed the project on site and shared her process with the public through Tolia Curriculum, a format that reimagines the temporality of exhibition-making. Here, the artist intervenes in conventional museum logistics by inviting visitors into production and installation phases that are typically kept out of view. In doing so, she shifts attention toward moments of transition and extends the process of transformation beyond its usual temporal limits and structures of visibility. Audiences were—and continue to be—invited to encounter the work while it is still taking shape. The format gradually folds into the exhibition Figure of the Child, where the “figure of the child” is continually incarnated anew throughout the installation, publication, and accompanying events. For the artist, ... More
MUNICH.- A new iteration of the exhibition “Are We Still up to It? – Art and Democracy” is on display at the Neues Schloss Herrenchiemsee. Building on the positive public response in 2025, this edition of the exhibition once again brings into focus the most pressing questions of our time: the core values of our democracy. Spanning from early twentieth-century modernism to the art of the present day, the exhibition brings together works by Pablo Picasso, Max Beckmann, Rosemarie Trockel, Joseph Beuys, Maria Lassnig, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol, and many more. Their works spark an exciting dialogue with the striking architecture of the palace, which was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site just last year. The show sees more than 50 major works from the Sammlung Moderne Kunst at the Pinakothek der Moderne take up temporary residency in the historic unfinished ... More
ZURICH.- Kunsthaus Zürich welcomed more than 539,500 visitors in 2025, recording the second-highest attendance figure in its history and confirming its position as the most visited art museum in Switzerland. The figures were announced during the 131st General Assembly of the Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft, held on June 8, 2026, where members approved the 2025 annual report and financial statements by a large majority. The vote signaled broad support for the museum’s current course, as Kunsthaus Zürich continues working toward long-term financial stability while maintaining its public role as one of Switzerland’s leading cultural institutions. The year was marked not only by strong attendance, but also by new initiatives that opened the museum more widely to the public. For the first time, commissioned works were presented in the freely accessible foyer and garden of the Chipperfield building. The series “Art for All,” supported by private individuals and foundations, featured ins ... More
Zohar Fraiman, Flower Power, 2025. Oil on canvas, 100 x 80 cm.
HEIDENHEIM.- At the invitation of the Kunstmuseum Heidenheim, artist Zohar Fraiman developed a dialogue between her own works and those of Pablo Picasso from the museum’s collection for the exhibition “Travelling without Moving.” The idea for the project arose because the painter takes up motifs and Picasso’s cubist approach in many of her more recent paintings, but reinterprets them from a contemporary, female perspective. In her art, art-historical classics meet motifs from current pop culture, are equipped with smartphones, or are otherwise catapulted into the fast-paced present. This approach gives the cubist idea of “simultaneity” a new meaning. This is also referenced in the title “Travelling without Moving,” which was borrowed from a song by the band Jamiroquai and also gives its name to a central piece in the exhibition. In various paintings, the Israeli-born artist explores how our relationship with mobile phones allows us to be everywhere and nowher ... More
Steven Shearer, Morning Fantasist, 2022. Oil on linen in artist's frame, 23 5/8 x 19 5/8 inches (60 x 49.9 cm) Signed and dated verso.
LONDON.- David Zwirner is presenting an exhibition of work by Canadian artist Steven Shearer at the gallery’s location in London. In My Moody Muse, Shearer presents new figurative oil paintings alongside significant loans of recent works and a selection of drawings, which collectively consider his engagement with the genre of portraiture. This exhibition marks the artist’s first solo presentation in the United Kingdom in nearly twenty years, and comes ahead of his forthcoming solo exhibition at the Aspen Art Museum in summer 2027. Shearer’s practice weds canonical art history to the contemporary moment. His work, which includes painting, drawing, assemblage, sculpture, and installation, deploys a wide range of references as well as a vast archive of historical and contemporary found images. His compositions engage classical subjects such as the artist in their studio or the Rückenfigur, ... More
MADRID.- The Museo Arqueológico Nacional has opened Misterios de la materia. Ciencia del patrimonio en las colecciones del MAN, a major temporary exhibition that brings archaeology, science, conservation and museum collections into close conversation. On view through October 18, 2026, the exhibition shows how scientific research can reveal what the eye alone cannot see: the age of an object, the materials from which it was made, the journeys it has taken, the lives of the people connected to it, and the best ways to preserve it for the future. Organized by the Museo Arqueológico Nacional together with the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), its National Center for Metallurgical Research (CENIM), and in collaboration with the Instituto del Patrimonio Cultural de España (IPCE), the exhibition offers visitors a wide-ranging introduction to heritage science, an interdisciplinary field that brings together the humanities and the sciences to better understand, care for and manage cultural herit ... More
Wisdom - Weather steel Dimensions: 6 ft. 10 in. high x 5 ft. wide x 4 ft. deep Weight: 650 lbs.
NEW YORK, NY.- Miguel Otero Fuentes, Michael V. Poast, Dianne Smith and Motohiro Takeda are featured artists with the West Harlem Art Fund on Governors Island. Located in Building 10B in the historic district of Nolan Park, sculpture is the primary medium for both the house exhibit and outdoor public art. Deep Altars, an evocative meditation on ritual, is a solo show by OTERO FUENTES, curated by Alitza Cardona, that opened on Governors Island, June 20, 2026. This body of sculpture ponders how cultural beliefs serve as a counter for hope in the face of today’s transactional behaviors. The exhibition operates as a constellation of spatial prayers. In each work, you'll see the intention behind structure, curvature, and tension. The visible structure becomes a point of orientation to invisible forces: hope, gravity, alignment, intention, and presence. With Deep Altars, the viewer's position is inverted, drawing him or her into the offering itself. In this context, ... More
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Museu de Arte Contemporânea-MAC / CCB presents 2026 programme highlights LISBON.- In Lisbon, MAC/CCB affirms its position as a leading museum for contemporary art. Articulating systematic readings of art’s historical contexts with social, political, and economic transformations, it highlights multiple ways of engaging to contemporary experience. Its programme is structured around established lines of research and developed in close collaboration with partner institutions, reinforcing the museum’s role both nationally and internationally. Across different generations, the three artists deploy the sensory, the symbolic, the ancestral, and the spiritual, alongside the popular, the carnivalesque, the magical, and the abject. Challenging singular and binary narratives, and reclaiming storytelling from systems of control, they propose narration as an intimate, porous, polyphonic practice—opening a space for dialogue, empathy, and alternative ways of imagining the present. Twenty-five years later, one of Portugal’s most acclaimed artists returns to the ... More
Artist KENBO tracks human memory and ecological decline through experimental ink and book arts SZCZECIN.- The TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art Szczecin exhibition by KENBO (Liang Guojian) presents a comprehensive overview of the Chinese artist’s practice, while creating a deliberate dialogue between Eastern and Western traditions—not only through artistic methods, but also through philosophical reflection and social engagement. KENBO was born in 1973 during the Cultural Revolution—one of the most destructive periods for art in history. He grew up in rural southern China (Foshan, Guangdong Province). From an early age he was trained in traditional Chinese painting and educated in his ancestral home. Due to his mature attitude and passion for classical literature and history, his classmates nicknamed him “KENBO” (“Old Ken”) when he was only seventeen years old. The nickname later became his artistic alias. His work spans multiple disciplines, including design, art books, experimental ink painting, installation, performance, video, and sound art. Since 2007 ... More
Last chance to see: Works by Mary Sully at James Cohan NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan is presenting an exhibition of works by Mary Sully on view at the gallery’s 52 Walker Street location from May 15 through June 26, 2026. Curated by Jenelle Porter and organized in collaboration with the Mary Sully Foundation, this exhibition is the first solo gallery presentation in New York of Sully’s work. In the late 1920s, Mary Sully began a series of inventive drawings she called “personality prints,” each a portrayal of a celebrity. Mixing both representative and abstract elements with sophisticated patterning, the artist merged her knowledge of modern art and design with Native American art forms to create a dazzling body of work. Her choice of subjects—and the ways she portrayed them—highlight the proliferating networks that characterized the modern, mechanical age. By representing the women and men who shaped modern life, Sully drew her era and, by extension, herself within that era. Her abstract drawings did not fit neatly into codifi ... More
Adam Mickiewicz Institute presents Polish participation at Manifesta 16 Ruhr ESSEN.- Manifesta 16 Ruhr opened to the public on June 21, 2026, the biennale features a significant representation of contemporary art from Poland. Across twelve former churches in Germany's Ruhr region, nine Polish artists contributed to a program that brings together more than 100 participants from 33 countries. The participating artists—Mirosław Bałka, Zuza Golińska, Nicolas Grospierre, Jarosław Kozłowski, Katarzyna Kozyra, Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, Anka Sasnal, Wilhelm Sasnal, and Mikołaj Sobczak—represent a wide range of generations and artistic approaches. Together, their works reflect the diversity and international relevance of Poland's contemporary art scene, spanning conceptual art, installation, photography, painting, film, performance, and socially engaged practices. Several artists will present newly commissioned projects developed specifically for the biennale. Organized under the title This is not a church, Manifesta 16 Ruhr takes place ... More
Dorothy Iannone's "The Berlin Beauties" shown in full for the first time in Berlin BERLIN.- The Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin has opened Dorothy Iannone: The Berlin Beauties. In Dialogue with Alejandra Pombo Su, a special presentation at the Gemäldegalerie that brings together two artists from different generations through drawing, performance, poetry, and the politics of the body. On view through September 13, 2026, the cabinet exhibition centers on Dorothy Iannone’s drawing and text series The Berlin Beauties from 1977–78, held in the collection of the Kupferstichkabinett and now being presented in its entirety for the first time. The exhibition pairs Iannone’s work with a new drawing project and a performance created especially for the occasion by Galician artist Alejandra Pombo Su. Across the decades, Iannone and Pombo Su are linked by a shared interest in corporeality, intimacy, vulnerability, and the strength that can emerge from forms of emotional and physical connection. Both artists work across media, yet drawing remains centra ... More
Centre Pompidou partners with City of Auxerre for maritime-themed modern art exhibition AUXERRE.- Since 2022, the City of Auxerre and Centre Pompidou have established a partnership to co-produce exhibitions based on a selection of modern and contemporary artworks from the Centre Pompidou collections, presented at the Abbaye Saint-Germain – Cité de la Parole et du Son, a major heritage site and a place for cultural exchange and creation. With nearly sixteen centuries of history, the Abbaye Saint-Germain houses an exceptional ensemble of monastic buildings with diverse architectural styles, some of which also present the art and history collections of the Musée Saint-Germain. From June 20 through November 1, 2026, following the Les Grands Récits festival (June 5–7), dedicated this year to the theme of the sea, Centre Pompidou anchors itself within the spaces of the abbey. In a spirit of dialogue with the abbey’s architecture and collections, The Sea Is Your Mirror offers a profound immersion into the imaginary world of the sea through 20th- and 21st-century art. Myster ... More
New solo exhibition tracks 20 years of queer assemblage art by Marc Swanson ROCKLAND, ME.- A defining voice in the queer contemporary art of his generation, Marc Swanson transforms made and found materials—photographs, taxidermy forms, ornate frames, and more—into remarkably original assemblages that conjure a faded glamor. Setting the lovingly crafted alongside the seemingly discarded, Swanson’s work manages the difficult task of appearing nostalgic and unsentimental all at once. Equally indebted to the conceptual and formal strategies of Marcel Broodthaers’s décors, the decidedly non-conceptual (and usually queer-coded) professions of window dressing and interior and set decoration, and the almost Brechtian theatricality of the drag, club kid, and goth scenes of the 1980s, his art is a profound reckoning with the cost of love, longing, and survival in our present moment. The exhibition’s title is drawn from a line uttered by down-at-heel Southern belle Blanche DuBois in Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire: “How in the hell do yo ... More
Mirae kh Rhee explores inheritance, collections, and cultural memory at the Humboldt Forum BERLIN.- The Museum of Asian Art at the Humboldt Forum has opened Mirae kh Rhee: Weiterreichen / Hand-Me-Down, a special exhibition that brings together new and recent works by the interdisciplinary, research-based artist Mirae kh Rhee. On view through February 16, 2027, the exhibition reflects on the histories of collecting, the politics of representation, and the complicated meanings of preserving and passing objects, images, and knowledge from one generation to another. Rhee, who works between Germany, California, and South Korea, approaches museum collections not as fixed archives, but as places where power, memory, exclusion, and identity continue to be negotiated. Her work asks direct but layered questions: Who collected, and why? What kinds of objects were preserved? What stories were told through them? And perhaps most importantly, whose knowledge, labor, and lives were left outside the frame? Starting from her own diasporic identity, Rhee examines collecting practices and their entangl ... More
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané opens first Sao Paulo exhibition since 2018 at Mendes Wood DM SAO PAULO.- Like a mesh of interconnected ideas, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané’s first exhibition in São Paulo since 2018 invites observation and engagement with the cosmos through works that simultaneously reveal and shift perceptions. Titled Uma folha translúcida no lugar dos olhos [A Translucent leaf instead of the Eyes], the exhibition presents works in various media, including paintings, sculptures, and holograms, which function as a magnifying glass for the web of connections between living forms, the material, the organic, and the geometric. Before pursuing the arts, Steegmann Mangrané dreamed of studying biology, and his fascination with nature never really faded. Upon fulfilling his long-held desire to explore the Amazon Rainforest and Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, the artist became interested not only in their biodiversity but also in Indigenous cosmologies and their ways of relating to the natural world. Within these cosmologies, beings and elements are configured through relationship ... More
Chloë Cheuk wins 2026 Impressions Residency at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts MONTREAL.- The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Conseil des arts de Montréal announced that Chloë Cheuk is the winner of the 2026 Impressions residency. Each year, this eight-week residency invites a visual artist from one of Montreal’s cultural communities to carry out a research-creation project at the Museum by bringing a unique and original perspective to its collection. In her artistic practice, Chloë Cheuk explores the emotional tension and structural dynamics between humans, objects, and institutional systems using video as well as kinetic and conceptual installations. Her creative process is rooted in autobiography, observation, and iterative research-creation. Each work is conceived as an experiment rather than a form of representation, revealing both the potential and limitations of systems, materials, and human interaction. During her MMFA residency, the Montreal-based Hong Kong artist Chloë Cheuk will explore the influence of institutional protocols on the public’s inter ... More
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On a day like today, Italian painter Sebastiano del Piombo died
June 21, 1547. Sebastiano del Piombo (c.?1485 - 21 June 1547) was an Italian painter of the High Renaissance and early Mannerist periods, famous as the only major artist of the period to combine the colouring of the Venetian school in which he was trained with the monumental forms of the Roman school. He belongs both to the painting school of his native city, Venice, where he made significant contributions before he left for Rome in 1511, and that of Rome, where he stayed for the rest of his life, and whose style he thoroughly adopted. In this image: The Judgment of Solomon, 1508 - 1510, now usually attributed to Sebastiano.
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