BERLIN.- With Ruin and Rush, the Neue Nationalgalerie highlights selected works from its outstanding Classical Modern collection that explore Berlin in the 1910s and 1920s. These decades – shaped by the First Word War and the Weimar Republic – were marked by constant ten-sion between extremes: excess and poverty, emancipation and extremism, all coexisting in a rapidly growing, cosmopolitan city. Featuring around 35 works in a variety of artistic styles, the exhibition makes the ambivalence of glamour and misery, and rise and fall in Berlin of that era viscerally tangible. At the dawn of the 20th century, Berlin evolved through industrialization into not only an economic hub but, above all, a political and cultural center. With the founding of ‘Groß-Berlin’ (Greater Berlin) in 1920, the population surged to approximately 4 million, making Berlin the third-largest city in the world by population, after New York and London. Alongside sweep-ing advances in technology, constructi ... More
Francis Kéré. Building Stories. Softcover, 7.5 x 10.0 in., 2.59 lb, 444 pages ISBN 978-3-7544-0507-9
NEW YORK, NY.- Francis Kéré’s riveting first-person account reveals the ideas and values that drive him and his socially engaged architectural practice. The 2022 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize covers 26 key projects, illustrated with many unseen sketches, photographs, and drawings in a volume beautifully crafted by the Amsterdam-based graphic design studio of Irma Boom. Featured works include his Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, the Gando school projects, national assembly designs for Burkina Faso and Benin, the Thomas Sankara Memorial, and the recently revealed Las Vegas Museum of Art. Kéré’s own voice moves effortlessly between poetry and pragmatism. From the technicalities of cutting bricks on site to the political and environmental forces shaping his designs, he delights in both hands-on craft and big thinking. One chapter subtitle—How to funnel imagination ... More
Swamp Shimmer 28, 2023 Oil on panel 24 inches x 18 inches.
LITCHFIELD, CT.- This show of new paintings combines themes that I’ve been working on for many years including abstracted landscapes, watery environments and dreamscapes. This work is painted in oil on paper or wood panel and includes individual as well as modular paintings. Recently, I have come to understand that making my work is how I love the world. At every step of my process, I have opportunities to synthesize memories of color, place, and lucid dreams, all filtered through a growing sense of emotion. There is a sensational passion, a spiritual fire, that burns beneath and behind the making of, and looking at, visual art. My studio is the place where I feel most myself, and I look forward to entering it as a space where the rules of the outside world don’t apply and the images in my mind can be made visible while I’m safely ensconced. This is where I can explore the spiritual ... More
BERLIN.- The exhibition by Stefanie Heinze places her monograph Your Mouth Comes Second at its center, while simultaneously offering an expanded insight into Heinze’s artistic practice. It brings together a selection of new as well as earlier works. Stefanie Heinze’s work moves between painting and drawing and is characterized by a distinctive, often fragmentary visual language. Her works combine figurative suggestions with abstract elements, creating a dense, associative imagery in which bodies, spaces, and signs overlap. Recurring motifs are varied and shifted, so that meaning is not fixed but unfolds in the process of viewing. The presentation is accompanied on Sunday, May 3 at 12 pm by two readings, in which Sophie Robinson and Fid Fischer – both contributors to the catalogue – present their texts and offer different perspectives on Heinze’s work. A conversation between Stefanie Heinze and Mason Leaver-Yap ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian announced its participation in TEFAF New York 2026 with a presentation of new sculptures by Kathleen Ryan. The works are the latest additions to Ryan’s Bad Fruit series (2018–), in which chunks of decomposing fruit are enlarged and embellished with swathes of gems and semiprecious stones, their rinds ripped from salvaged vehicles and granted new life. The sculptures presented at TEFAF exemplify the dedicated process through which Ryan creates her Bad Fruit, one that harks back to the American craft tradition of pushpin-beaded fruit. Having allowed items of fresh produce to rot, the New York–based artist begins a slow process of emulation, rearticulating patches of mold in thousands of pearls, opals, and crystals, each fixed in place with a single steel pin. As is evidenced by Bad Cherries (Princess) and Bad Lime (Treasure) (both 2026), the result is an entrancing richness of color, texture, and surface tension that beautifies, ... More
Nao Kikuchi, Fortunastraße (E/M/Z), 2026, ceramic, spray paint, 9 3/16h x 14 1/2w x 1 3/8d in, 23.34h x 36.83w x 3.49d cm.
PORTLAND, ORE.- Adams and Ollman announced the opening of Nao Kikuchi's solo exhibition, Spur [ʃpuːɐ̯], her first in the United States. Composed of wall-based ceramic sculptures, the exhibition continues the artist's ongoing investigation into the experience of place and belonging through the language of architecture. Kikuchi's work emerges from an examination of the ways our built environment reflects shared values, customs, and history, while also holding personal memory. Of particular interest to the artist is the way objects change with human touch and with time, evoking a sense of longing for past moments and forms. Drawing on her experience of life in both her native Japan and her adopted home of Germany, Kikuchi references architectural details of each place—a tile floor, a staircase, the shape of a room, a cluster of windows. In her painterly, hand-built ceramic works, one feels the pull of the distant places and objects they represent, as well as a ... More
Lot 164. A monumental highly important brass astrolabe commissioned for Aqa Afzal, made by Qaim Muhammad and Muhammad Muqim, India, dated Rabi' al-Awwal 1021 AH May 1612 AD, est. £1.5-2.5 million.
LONDON.- Sotheby’s latest series of sales dedicated to Islamic, Orientalist, and Middle Eastern art delivered a strong and confident performance, underscoring sustained global demand for works rooted in these rich cultural traditions. Across the three auctions, the house achieved a combined total of £14.8 million ($20 million), marking its strongest season in this category since April 2023 and a notable 20 percent increase compared to the same period last year. The flagship Arts of the Islamic World and India sale led the results, bringing in £11.2 million ($15.2 million), comfortably above expectations. Bidders from 25 countries participated, while the presale exhibition drew around 2,500 visitors—clear signs of the category’s growing international reach. Momentum was particularly strong across the sale, with 64 percent of lots exceeding their high estimates. The results reflect not only competitive bidding but also ... More
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) announces the presentation of conceptual artist Rachel Lee Hovnanian’s immersive installation, Nature Deficit Disorder, on view in the museum’s historic Spring House from April 1 through May 31, 2026. This evocative work invites visitors to pause, surrender their phones, and step into a simulated nighttime forest—a space designed to encourage mindfulness and reconnection with the natural world. The presentation at the BMA marks Hovnanian’s first solo museum installation and continues her decades-long engagement with the effects of technology on our lives. The installation draws its title from a term coined by journalist Richard Louv to describe the growing disconnection from nature and its impact on mental health and attention spans—a conversation that is growing in urgency as digital overstimulation is increasingly recognized as detrimental to human wellbeing. The visitor’s experience begins prior to entering the Spring H ... More
Installation views of planchette at Regen Projects, Los Angeles, April 25–May 23, 2026.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Regen Projects is presenting planchette, an exhibition of sculpture and painting by Rachel Harrison, Liz Larner and Rebecca Morris. This is the first time these influential artists have shown together, despite their parallel contributions to the reinvigoration of contemporary abstraction. The exhibition’s title is inspired by a sculpture by Larner, V (planchette) (2013). This work, part of a series of blue-black planchette sculptures made with egg tempera-painted paper pulp, compels the viewer to move about it in order to explore its curling form and mottled texture. A planchette is a tool used in Ouija board séances, simultaneously held by a circle of hands: an object of communication that apparently takes on a will of its own, transcending the intentions of the humans manipulating it. Larner’s title is less about her sculpture’s passing resemblance to the traditionally heart-shaped planchette than it is about its capacity to command bodies around it and channel unexpec ... More
BLENHEIM.- Sealed, RM Sotheby’s private online platform for the discreet exchange of significant collector cars, announces its May offering, with bidding opening May 13 and closing May 20. Headlined by a 2014 Ferrari LaFerrari delivered new to Formula 1 driver Felipe Massa, a Ferrari Enzo, and the groundbreaking Mercedes-AMG ONE, the group reflects the precision and depth of today’s collector market. Continuing to redefine the private sale experience, the offering brings together a carefully curated group of automobiles distinguished by exceptional provenance, rarity, and specification. “Following our landmark Monaco sale, RM Sotheby’s is pleased to present an exceptional group of automobiles through Sealed this May,” said Shelby Myers, Global Head of Private Sales at RM Sotheby's. “From concours-caliber highlights such as the Maserati A6G/54 2000 Spyder Zagato to the Williams ... More
VENICE.- The Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa and Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū present Taharaki Skyside, the Aotearoa New Zealand Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale by artist Fiona Pardington (Ngāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Ngāti Kahungunu, Clan Cameron of Erracht) ONZM. This powerful series of large-scale photographs turns Pardington's lens on taxidermied manu (birds) held in museum collections across Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia—specimens shaped by the intertwined histories of colonial collecting, scientific classification, and cultural loss. Carefully staged, lit and shot, the photographs capture not just the birds’ iridescent plumage and morphology, but the essence of their spirit. Pardington’s vivid portraits contemplate the horizon, where mortality meets transcendence, and the ways in which manu traverse this physical and metaphysical threshold. They are spiritual messengers operating ... More
AUCKLAND.- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki presents Forever Tomorrow: Chinese Art Now 永远的明天：中国艺术进行时, a major survey of Chinese contemporary art. From daring artistic breakthroughs to today’s digitally native creators, Forever Tomorrow showcases how Chinese artists have grappled with China’s breathtaking transformation since the late 1970’s, producing work that remains visionary and influential today. Opening 2 May, the exhibition features 67 works by 42 artists and spans performance, photography, sculpture, installation, moving image and new media. Dr Zara Stanhope, Tātaki Auckland Unlimited Director of Auckland Art Gallery, says, “Forever Tomorrow brings to Tāmaki Makaurau a wide range of works that reveal how Chinese artists reflected the seismic shifts that have recently taken place in China and in its relationships with the world. This exhibition resonates ... More
Photographer Once Known, Muhammad Ali, n.d.; modern print on aluminum, 20 x 16 inches; Courtesy of the Sepia Photographic Archive at the African American Museum of Dallas.
DALLAS, TX.- The African American Museum, Dallas reopened to the public on Friday, May 1, following a temporary closure to complete facility improvements designed to enhance the visitor experience. Improvements include building maintenance, gallery enhancements and upgrades to visitor-facing technology that will support upcoming exhibitions and programming. Marking the reopening is the debut of People Who Make the World Go ‘Round: The Legacy of Sepia Magazine, on view May 1 through Aug. 11, 2026. Spotlighting some of the 20th century’s most influential Black icons – from Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles to Maya Angelou, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Thurgood Marshall – the exhibition draws from the Museum’s renowned Sepia photographic ... More
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New exhibition marks Karl Benjamin's centenary by tracing his photographic legacy BERLIN.- This exhibition explores, for the first time, the direct influence of Karl Benjamin’s hard-edge painting on the early conceptual photography of Grey Crawford. Though working in different media, both artists were rooted in Southern California and shared a common visual language— one grounded in the precise use of geometry, structure, and abstraction. Karl Benjamin holds a significant place in the history of postwar American art as a key figure in the development of Hard-edge painting, a movement that emerged in Southern California in the 1950s. His work is characterized by the precise organization of geometric forms, sharply delineated areas of color, and a sophisticated exploration of chromatic relationships. Benjamin’s paintings reflect a strong sense of structure and discipline. Rather than the expressive gestures of Abstract Expressionism, his work follows ... More
Mike Brodie charts two decades of itinerant American life SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Casemore Gallery is presenting New And Selected Works, a solo exhibition of work by photographer Mike Brodie covering his itinerant younger years hitchhiking and hopping trains across America, a period that produced his critically acclaimed 2004-2008 series A Period of Juvenile Prosperity, and a decade of harrowing adult trials that began in 2012, resulting in his recent series Failing. The photographs from both bodies of work are notable for being intimate and cinematic in equal measure. Becoming, by default and intent, part of the communities he encountered, he made photographs that eliminate distance between himself and his subjects, a closeness passed on to the viewer, and heightened by the warm, earthy tones of his uncompromising images. Brodie’s photographs from A Period of Juvenile Prosperity depict young people living largely ... More
From Lagos to London: Ranti Bam explores the body as a landscape of protection and ritual LONDON.- This summer, the South London Gallery is presenting a solo exhibition Sacred Groves by British Nigerian artist Ranti Bam (b.1982, Lagos), in the Fire Station galleries. Ranti Bam works across sculpture, performance, film and photography. Her ceramic practice is divided into two connected bodies of work, the Ifas and Abstract Vessels. The Ifas are large stoneware sculptures, created by Bam embracing wet clay against her body to form vessels that collapse, crack and fold. At the SLG she exhibits monumental new sculptures, her largest works to date, which are finished with a metallic glaze that reflects the body. Bam is interested in the rawness of the clay she works with, and connecting with the material enables her to connect back to the earth. Bam views clay as a language and divining tool so her practice sits closer to ritual or ancestral vessel ... More
Gülbin Ünlü makes highly anticipated Berlin debut at Galerie Barbara Thumm BERLIN.- As Uranus completes its transit into Gemini this April, marking the end of an eight-year cycle of upheaval and the birth of new beginnings, Munich-based artist Gülbin Ünlü prepares for her Berlin debut at Galerie Barbara Thumm. Currently a fellow at Villa Romana in Florence, the artist of Turkish roots arrives in the German cultural capital to present a highly curated conversation between her institutional exhibition history and her most recent experimental frontiers. Her title proposes a cognitive space for self-recognition; it is almost an ice-breaker motto for self-introduction: a clever play on words when one considers the meaning of her surname in Turkish: “celebrity, famous, well-known…” Ünlü’s complex and unique practice is defined by a signature „mash-up“ philosophy: a seamless dialogue between painting, drawing, photography, and sound. Rather than adhering ... More
ASU Art Museum presents first major retrospective of artist Carmen Lomas Garza TEMPE, AZ.- The ASU Art Museum presents “Carmen Lomas Garza: Picturing the Familiar,” the first major retrospective of the pioneering Mexican American artist in more than two decades. Born in Kingsville, Texas, Carmen Lomas Garza is an artist, educator and illustrator whose depictions of everyday Mexican American life have become deeply embedded in the cultural imagination across generations. Her work has profoundly shaped how Mexican American histories, traditions and values are seen, remembered and passed down. Visitors can see firsthand more than 50 years of artistic production at the exhibition, which opened May 2, 2026 and runs through September 10, 2026. This exhibition is organized by Senior Curator Alana Hernandez, with Latinx Curatorial Fellow Natalie Solis. Garza’s work offers a powerful and enduring reminder: To picture oneself is to preserve ... More
Lewinale Havette explores the female body as a site of power and rupture NEW YORK, NY.- Palo Gallery (New York, NY) is presenting I Love It When You Beg, the second solo exhibition by Liberian painter Lewinale Havette at Palo Gallery. Featuring a body of work across painting, work on paper, and sculpture, the exhibition uses the female body as its gravitational center. Havette offers a visceral exploration of how history and devotion shape presence, and how memory is held and transmitted across generations. “In my practice, the female body remains a living archive where power, transcendence, rupture, love, death, war, and sex meet. In I Love It When You Beg, I explore how the body absorbs and carries histories of domination and devotion, existing as both sovereign and violated, fractured yet whole,” says Lewinale Havette.
Working with an intuitive and physically engaged approach, Havette utilizes oil sticks, diluted oil paint, ... More
Major Charles Dee Mitchell estate sale to benefit Texas art museums DALLAS, TX.- Keijsers Koning is assisting the Estate of Charles Dee Mitchell, organized in collaboration with his collection manager Temple Shipley, in presenting a major art sale benefiting regional museums. This significant sale from the estate of the late Charles Dee Mitchell will take place from May 9 through May 23, featuring approximately 300 artworks assembled over more than four decades of dedicated collecting. Mitchell’s collection reflects a deep engagement with Texas regional art, alongside contemporary works on paper, sculpture and photography. Throughout his life, Mitchell championed artists’ practices and ideas through interviews, lectures, curatorial projects, and critical writing. The sale will be accompanied by a presentation of ephemera from his career as a critic, including publications featuring his work, offering further insight ... More
Tate Britain begins work on Clore Garden to create a 'green oasis' in central London LONDON.- Tate Britain celebrated works beginning on the gallery’s Clore Garden, a new green space for London. Realised in partnership with the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) and made possible by generous funding from the Clore Duffield Foundation with support from The Julia Rausing Trust, the new Clore Garden will open to the public in 2027. Over the coming year, a beautiful and inviting new green space for London designed by award-winning landscape architect Tom Stuart-Smith will be created on Millbank, placing nature, art and community at its centre. Marking the start of this exciting new chapter for the garden, pupils from local school Millbank Gardens Primary Academy today unveiled their new artwork designs outside Tate Britain’s gallery. Year 4 pupils were invited to work with artist Mónica Rivas Velásquez to design a shared garden inspired ... More
Fridericianum in Kassel launches international search for new director KASSEL.- One of Germany’s most historically significant contemporary art venues is entering a new chapter. documenta and Museum Fridericianum gGmbH has officially announced an international search for a new director to lead the Fridericianum in Kassel, signaling both continuity and renewal for an institution closely tied to the legacy of documenta. Owned jointly by the City of Kassel and the State of Hesse, the nonprofit organization sits at the heart of one of the world’s most influential exhibition platforms. Beyond organizing the renowned documenta exhibitions, it oversees the Museum Fridericianum, the documenta archiv, and the documenta Halle—forming a network dedicated not only to presenting art but also to researching, preserving, and communicating its evolving discourse. The incoming director will take on both artistic and operational leadership ... More
New two-part exhibition at The Renaissance Society explores the 'high stakes' of watching the sky CHICAGO, IL.- Palomar is a group exhibition about watching the sky, something that appears deceptively simple at first. Featuring twenty-nine artists, it unfolds in two parts, each five weeks long. Some works remain in place while others come and go, this encounter in time acting like a double exposure. Gradually, the familiar act of looking up spills over into a sense of life that is more layered and complex, or even contradictory. It turns out there is a lot at stake in the space above us. Decades ago, after the launch of the first satellite into orbit, humans had big dreams of leaving the Earth. Politicians, poets, and scientists made public comments in this spirit. Today it’s mostly billionaires who talk of escape, or of mining the planets out there. The rest of us look to the sky from the ground as life carries on. An earlier age of optimism around space exploration and human progress ... More
Studio Museum in Harlem opens Fade, the latest in its renowned series of "F" shows HARLEM, NY.- The Studio Museum in Harlem opened Fade, the sixth installment of its “F” show series of exhibitions of emerging artists. Presented in the fourth-floor gallery of the Studio Museum’s new home, where it will be on view from May 1 until September 6, 2026, Fade features the work of seventeen early-career artists of African and Afro-Latinx descent from across the United States. Comprising newly commissioned and loaned artworks from a variety of media, Fade reflects the concerns of a new generation of artists. Working across disciplines, the artists in this exhibition embrace feeling, spirituality, and non-linear conceptions of time. Through sculptural and visual interventions that foreground ancestry, spaces of refuge, land as archive, grief, and the surreal, Fade locates the in-between as a space of resistance. Fade is part of the Museum’s inaugural year of programming ... More
Sierra Leone Pavilion: A historic first at Venice marks a 'revolutionary space' for West African art VENICE.- The 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, under the visionary guidance of Koyo Kouoh and the theme “In Minor Keys”, invites us to engage in an exercise of acoustic and visual decentering. It calls for the abandonment of the major key of hegemonic narratives — those of clamor, perpetual crisis, and monumentality — in order to tune into subtler frequencies, to stories that germinate in the shadows, to silent forms of resilience. In response to this call, the National Pavilion of Sierra Leone, marking its historic first participation in the International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, presents “Worlds of Today”. The title refers not only to the present moment, but also to a process of becoming. Drawing inspiration from the philosophical concept of “minority” as a revolutionary space (in the Deleuzian sense, where language vibrates ... More
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