BASEL.- With over fifty works from six decades, the special exhibition Helen Frankenthaler at the Kunstmuseum Basel offers extensive insight into the expansive oeuvre of a preeminent figure of American abstraction. Frankenthaler’s intensely colorful paintings, typically in large formats, light up the galleries and engage viewers. This comprehensive in-depth- survey is the largest exhibition of her work in Europe to date and her first institutional solo show in Switzerland. A pioneering representative of Abstract Expressionism, Helen Frankenthaler (1928– 2011) occupies a central position in postwar American art. Her soak-stain technique revolutionized abstract painting and catalyzed the development of Color Field painting in the U.S. from the mid-1950s onward. A particular focus of the exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Basel is on her probing engagement with historic art she admired, which inspired many works throughout her career. For the first time, Frankenthaler’s paintings will b ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- 125 Newbury presents CHAIR SHOW, running through May 23, a group exhibition that examines the chair as receptacle, object and idea. The exhibition brings together chairs that are utilitarian, chairs transformed into the subject of art, and artworks that deal with chair-ness itself. Ranging from objects that bridge the gap between furniture and sculpture to representations of chairs in painting, drawing, and photography, CHAIR SHOW celebrates the chair as both fantasy and fact, but most of all as subject. The exhibition includes works by Gertrude Abercrombie, José Bento, Dike Blair, David Byrne, Jim Dine, Urs Fischer, Hugh Hayden, Donald Judd, Alicja Kwade, Bob Law, Robert Longo, René Magritte, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, André Masson, Louise Nevelson, Adam Pendleton, Ryan Preciado, Robert Rauschenberg, Lucas Samaras, Julian Schnabel, Joel Shapiro, Arlene Shechet, Kiki Smith, Andy Warhol, Lawrence Weiner, and Robert Wilson. As a cipher for both presence and absence—a symbol of authorit ... More
ZURICH.- From 17 April to 23 August 2026, the Kunsthaus Zürich presents the first retrospective in Europe of the work of María Sol Escobar (1930–2016), known as Marisol, an American artist of Venezuelan heritage. The exhibition spans five decades of her artistic career and offers a new experience of an exceptional oeuvre that blends popular culture, satire and social analysis in striking fashion. In the 1960s, Marisol was one of the most enigmatic personalities on the New York art scene. Her painted, often life-size wooden sculptures, which she combined with everyday objects, caused a sensation. She coupled elements of popular culture, Dada and folk art with self-portraits to create unmistakeable and frequently satirical ensembles. Andy Warhol, with whom she was close friends and who cast her in a number of his films, called her the ‘first girl artist with glamour’. Marisol’s ... More
Conservation treatment was led by the CBC Conservazione Beni Culturali firm under the direction of Caterina Barnaba. Photos: Matteo De Fina.
VENICE.- Save Venice and the Abbey of San Giorgio Maggiore – ETS branch announced the completion of the restoration of Jacopo Tintoretto’s The Last Supper and The Israelites in the Desert. The conservation work, carried out from February 2025 through April 2026, was made possible with generous support from The Stracke Family. The two monumental canvases – each measuring 370 x 570 cm – have been reinstalled in the basilica’s presbytery. The Benedictine community provided the use of the basilica's sacristy for the temporary restoration space, allowing visitors to observe the process through an educational “open worksite.” The project was overseen by officials from the Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio for the Metropolitan City of Venice. Conservation work was conducted by the CBC Conservazione Beni Culturali firm under the direction of Caterina Barnaba. Matteo De Fina led the photographic documentation, ... More
Five lots will first be presented on 27 and 28 May 2026 during The Important Watches Featuring “Kronos: Titans of Time”, “The Eternity” and “The Chronicle” Collections Live Sales, as part of the Spring Hong Kong Luxury Week.
HONG KONG.- Marking 40 years of Christie's presence in Asia, Christie's presents “Kronos: Titans of Time Collection”, an exceptional single-owner collection comprising 23 remarkable timepieces, to be offered across two seasons in 2026 in Hong Kong. With a combined low estimate exceeding HK$100 million, the collection possesses one of the highest average lot values of any watch offering in global auction history. This underscores Christie's position as a global destination for the world's prestigious collections, reaffirming its market leadership for watches in the region for six consecutive years since 2020. Among the collection, five lots will first be presented on 27 and 28 May 2026 during The Important Watches Featuring “Kronos: Titans of Time”, “The Eternity” and “The Chronicle” Collections Live Sales, as part of the Spring Hong ... More
PARIS.- Marian Goodman Gallery is presenting Ettore Spalletti Dan Graham: an exhibition of two artists in dialogue which will be on view through June 20. Though different in their artistic backgrounds, each shared a desire to offer a “space” where forms and colors—whether absorbed or reflected—draw the gaze and engage the body of the viewer and explore shifts in perception. In the work of Spalletti (1940-2019) form, color, and space come together to establish a relationship with the viewer, who in turn becomes an ally. Graham (1942-2022) placed the visitor at the center of the perceptual experience, compelling them to see themselves while observing others, within a space that transforms into a landscape. Belonging to no movement, both rejected categorization. Ettore Spalletti fostered a dialogue between classicism and contemporary art through a practice in which painting and sculpture merge in the pursuit of an essential dimension and a new conception ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- Sean Kelly is presenting The Simple Act of Positioning, José Dávila’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. With this new body of work, Dávila continues his sustained investigation into one of sculpture’s most elemental gestures: the fundamental act of placing one thing in relation to another. Rather than transforming materials through carving or modeling, he works through deliberate acts of positioning, arranging elements so that relationships, tensions, and meanings emerge between them. The exhibition will be on view from April 16 through May 30, 2026. The artist will be present. Dávila approaches sculpture not simply as an object, but as a situation in which meaning arises through the relationships between materials. His work employs stones, concrete forms, industrial materials, steel beams, sandbags, and geometric ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- On May 5, 2026, Public Art Fund will present Woody De Othello: Guardian Spirit, the artist’s first major public art exhibition in New York. Installed throughout Brooklyn Bridge Park, the exhibition debuts new monumental redwood works alongside bronze sculptures made between 2021 and 2025. The exhibition continues the artist’s ongoing exploration of nkisi, ritual objects from Western and Central Africa that embody spiritual presences and channel protective or healing forces. Along the waterfront site, Othello abstracts the figure, vessel and other commonplace objects to point towards the dissolution of our physical bodies as we move through space, time and matter. “For me, anything in the material world has the potential to become a ritual object,” says Othello. “Before something exists physically, it begins as thought. Sculpture is a way of pointing back to that unseen space, to the breath, the wind, the shared consciousness ... More
Per Barclay, (b. 1955, Norway), Atmosphere, 2025. Burnished iron. 5 x 8 x 5 in (12 x 20 x 12 cm) Courtesy of the artist and OSL Contemporary
NEW YORK, NY.- The American-Scandinavian Foundation is pleased to announce Inside Voices, Outside Light: Perspectives on West Nordic Art, opening April 18, 2026 at Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America. A group exhibition featuring 21 contemporary artists from the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland and Norway, Inside Voices, Outside Light highlights the unique perspective of these North Atlantic territories, who share cultural and historical ties while each possessing distinct identities and communities. With works ranging across photography, paintings, textiles, film, and sculpture, including three site-specific installations, the exhibition also showcases the diversity and complexity of the region. Participating artists include Morten Andenæs (NO), The Arctic Creatures (IC), Per Barclay (NO), Ask Bjørlo (NO), Jóhan Martin Christiansen (FO), Helgi Þorgils ... More
The Foundation for the Reading Public Museum repatriates a 10th-11th-century stone sculpture to the Kingdom of Cambodia.
READING, PA.- The Foundation for the Reading Public Museum announced today the voluntary return of a 10th- or 11th-century Cambodian Khmer stone sculpture to the Kingdom of Cambodia. This repatriation was conducted in close cooperation with the Cambodian government and the nation’s Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts, facilitated by Bradley J. Gordon, an attorney and advisor based in Phnom Penh. The sculpture was originally received by the Foundation as part of a recent bequest. Upon its arrival, Museum staff immediately identified the sculpture as a potential high-risk antiquity and took the proactive step of setting it aside for further study. Museum staff soon recognized the likelihood that the work had been looted from its original site and purposefully chose not to accession the object into its permanent collection. "Ensuring the proper ... More
AMSTERDAM.- STRAAT Museum presents Time Lines, a large-scale public artwork at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. During the renovation of the outdoor central transport hub (Multimodal Hub Schiphol, MKS), the museum is transforming a 690-metre stretch of construction hoardings into the longest continuous mural in the Netherlands. The result is a hybrid artwork in which digital visual language and live street art interventions converge. Time Lines will be on view throughout the renovation, until October 2027. The project was commissioned by Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and developed in collaboration with creative agency WINK. “We are pleased to bring STRAAT Museum to Schiphol with Time Lines. We see the airport as a place where countless personal timelines converge,” says Marion Wolff, director of STRAAT. “By introducing street art into this context, we create space for reflection within an environment that is constantly in motion.” “At Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, we are constantly ... More
BERLIN.- The work of Berlin-based artist Marc Brandenburg (*1965) moves between drawing, collage, installation, video, and performance. He has been a fixture of Berlin’s creative scene since the 1980s and is among the most important artist-draftspersons of the present internationally. Central to his work are detailed pencil drawings after photographic sources. Brandenburg captures them on forays through the city or finds them in magazines, films, and books. In several work steps, he inverts the pictures, reverses light and dark areas, distorts them, and finally transfers them freely to paper. What result are thus abstracted pictures of reality. As a close observer of life in the metropolis, Brandenburg seeks out the peculiarities of urban reality and directs his attention to seemingly trivial things beyond standardized notions of beauty. At the same time, pop culture symbols are part of his world of images: portraits of famous ... More
Alice Bucknell, Coyote Time, 2026. Production still. Courtesy of the artist and Counterpublic.
ST LOUIS, MO.- Counterpublic, a triennial exhibition based in St. Louis, Missouri, and one of the largest public art exhibitions in the United States, is pleased to announce the 47 participating artists, duos, and collectives gathered from around the world for its third edition, Coyote Time. On view September 12–December 12, 2026, Counterpublic 2026 will present ambitious new commissions and historical reinterpretations furthering their mission to reimagine art’s role in public life. Unfolding across five key sites shaped by St. Louis’s historical and civic conditions, Coyote Time brings together artists engaging urgent issues including education, climate, technology, and immigration. The title, Coyote Time, draws from Alice Bucknell’s 2026 triennial commission, a video game set within St. Louis’ City Museum, and refers to the brief moment in gameplay that allows a player to decide between leaping forward or returning to safety. For its 2026 edition, curated by Jordan Carter, ... More
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Canvas bodies and shibari ropes: Mariela Scafati makes her Spanish solo debut MADRID.- Travesía Cuatro announces Nombrar el Mundo, Mariela Scafati’s first institutional solo exhibition in Spain, which opens at Contemporánea Condeduque this upcoming Thursday, April 23, at 7:00 p.m. The starting point for this project is the question the artist poses to her closest circle: “What sustains you in the present and for the future?” Based on the affection exchanged in interpersonal relationships and conversations shared with friends, Mariela Scafati creates her new works, which are presented for the first time in this exhibition: on one hand, she presents eight canvas-bodies that form the backbone of this show. Created in 2026—and titled Dai, Devo, Estela, Guille, Lola, Magui, Manu, and Nico—they consist of several monochrome canvases tied together with ropes following the Japanese shibari technique and dressed in clothing, as if they were ... More
Kings and conquerors: Orkideh Torabi's comic subversion of the patriarchy NEW YORK, NY.- Asya Geisberg Gallery is presenting “Kings and Conquerors,” an exhibition of paintings by Iranian-born, New York-based Orkideh Torabi. This will be the artist's first exhibition with the gallery. Torabi has long worked within a continuum from historical to modern-day patriarchal societies, undermining male-dominated hierarchies by positing masculinity as farce. She grounds her work in the style of Persian miniatures and books such as the Shanahmeh, an astoundingly long epic with tales of heroic exploits of kings and warriors. But in Torabi’s world, men become dependent, slighted, vulnerable, and without purpose, clueless to their comical gapped teeth or buffoonish noses. Rigid geometric pattern, a sign of authority and tradition, girds the figure-heavy narratives. Festive yellows and pinks glow with the luscious liquidity of her dye-based technique, ... More
Mike Brodie now represented by Casemore SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Casemore Gallery announced its representation of Mike Brodie. This announcement precedes the gallery’s first solo exhibition with the artist opening Saturday, May 2, 5-7 pm. Michael Brodie (born 1985) is an American photographer originally from Mesa, Arizona. He began photographing in 2003 after discovering a Polaroid camera in the backseat of a car, during the final years of Polaroid’s Time-Zero film. Soon after, a series of chance encounters led Brodie to hop freight trains across the United States, embedding himself within a transient community of vagabonds and drifters he would come to document from the inside. Working under the moniker The Polaroid Kidd, Brodie produced an intimate and defining body of portraits that quickly garnered international recognition. In late 2005, following Polaroid’s discontinuation of SX-70 film, ... More
TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes presents Cabello/Carceller: Footnotes SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE.- TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes museum opened, on Friday April 17, the exhibition Footnotes, the new project by Cabello/Carceller. The exhibition—curated by the artistic director of TEA, Sergio Rubira, with the curatorial assistance of Daniasa Curbelo—includes the new production by Cabello/Carceller, The Impossible Garden of Tefía. Prologue for a Concentration Camp. Footnotes can be visited until July 5, from Tuesday to Sunday and holidays, from 10am to 8pm. In Footnotes, Cabello/Carceller take their stance on that uncomfortable place where history, when read against the grain, begins to unravel, revealing not so much what it intended to tell but instead what had been left out —what failed to be integrated into the claimed dominant narrative. Instead, what remained between the lines, at the margins, or reduced to footnotes, ... More
Mönchehaus Museum Goslar presents Frances Scholz: The Upson Girls GOSLAR.- The Mönchehaus Museum Goslar presents The Upson Girls, the first institutional solo exhibition of Frances Scholz (*1962 in Washington, D.C., lives in Cologne) in Lower Saxony, Germany. This comprehensive exhibition features works from the past five years as well as new productions created specifically for the show. At its core are interrelated series of works that unfold throughout the entire building, complemented by a video compilation spanning thirty years of artistic practice, alongside new series across painting, sculpture, photography, and video. At the same time, the exhibition marks the launch of the museum’s new visual identity (Studio Thomas Spallek, Porto) as well as its newly redesigned exhibition spaces (in cooperation with studio lennart wolff / wolff:architekten BDA, Berlin), conceived as an ongoing transformation bridging past and present. ... More
Julius von Bismarck brings elemental wonders to Melbourne Melbourne MELBOURNE.- ACCA presents Berlin-based artist von Bismarck’s first Australian solo exhibition, This is not the storm, from Friday 17 April to Sunday 14 June 2026. Spanning kinetic sculpture, photography, and ambitious video installations, this exhibition brings together more than two decades of work, much of it never before seen in Australia. This is not the storm showcases the breadth of von Bismarck’s practice, characterised by research-driven experimentation across physics, technology, and the social sciences. Whether channelling the power of raging forest fires, turbulent seas, or hurricanes, von Bismarck engages with elemental forces that defy human control. His work plays with the dual sensations of awe and terror provoked by natural phenomena, offering poetic yet unsettling meditations on perception, scale, and agency. From transformed everyday objects ... More
From mundane shapes to spatial markers: why Yashwant Deshmukh's art is more than still life AMSTERDAM.- South Asian Contemporary Art Amsterdam announces their new solo show, 'A Quiet Presence' by Indian contemporary artist Yashwant Deshmukh, which opened on the 17th of April, 2026. Through a language of restraint, the paintings of Yashwant Deshmukh reveal themselves gradually. Forms emerge within subdued fields of colour, held in a delicate tension between appearance and withdrawal. Nothing in these compositions demands immediate attention. Instead, they invite a slower mode of looking, in which perception adjusts to subtle shifts in line, tone, and spatial balance. Presented in Amsterdam, these works enter a context long attentive to light, atmosphere, and the quiet drama of observation. Within this setting, Deshmukh’s restrained pictorial language resonates with traditions of careful looking and the subtle interplay between object, light, and space. ... More
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On a day like today, German sculptor and academic Otto Piene was born
April 18, 1928. Otto Piene (18 April 1928 - 17 July 2014) was a German-American artist specializing in kinetic and technology-based art, often working collaboratively. He lived and worked in Düsseldorf, Germany; Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Groton, Massachusetts. In this image: Otto Piene, The Proliferation of the Sun, 2014. Installation view Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin. Photo: David von Becker.
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