Bread and Puppet Theater, American, established ca. 1962, Uncle Fatso ca. 1966. Papier-mâché and fabric.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- For centuries, playwrights have used the stage to explore the human experience by celebrating victories, confronting failures, giving voice to those who are overlooked and offering a window into the future. As communities around the nation commemorate the 250th anniversary of the United States, McNay Art Museum explores theater’s role in telling the country’s story in “A People’s History: The American Experiment on Stage,” on view Aug. 6-Nov. 8. Spanning more than two centuries of theatrical history, the exhibition explores interpretations of America’s past with maquettes and set and costume designs from a range of iconic productions, including “Hair,” “Hamilton,” “The Mother of Us All,” “The Color Purple,” “Hairspray,” “In the Heights” and “Porgy and Bess.” “A People’s History” draws primarily from the McNay’s Tob ... More
Patricia Piccinini, The Osculating Curve, 2016. Silicone, fiberglass, human hair, 21 1/4 x 28 3/8 x 11 3/4 in. 54 x 72.1 x 29.8 cm.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Hair has always been prominent in Patricia Piccinini's practice, both materially and conceptually. A signifier of mammalhood, its presence (or absence) can also represent either femininity or masculinity, depending on its relationship to the body. The prelude to this presentation, a series of new ink and gouache drawings about hair, will only just begin to prepare you for the fantastically joyful kinetic installation at the heart of her exhibition. For more than two decades, Patricia Piccinini has explored the potentialities—both liberating and threatening—inherent in our advancing capabilities in genetic engineering and artificial intelligence. Her meticulously-crafted sculptures envision a co-mingling of animal, plant, machine and human, questioning the ‘otherness’ of creatures, cyber-forms, and ... More
BOULDER, COLO.- Objects spanning centuries and continents—from a commanding Māori ancestral carving and a Khmer sandstone head of Shiva to a fragmentary Coptic letter and Mexican modernist silver—will come to auction on August 13 as Artemis Fine Arts presents its Summer Marketplace | Ancient & Ethnographic sale. The online auction, beginning at 8 a.m. GMT-6, brings together Pre-Columbian, Native American and tribal material alongside antiquities from Egypt, Greece, Rome and the Near East, as well as Asian art, fossils and works of fine and visual art. Curated by Bob Dodge, the sale reflects the eclectic approach that has long characterized Artemis Fine Arts, with objects ranging from archaeological material to works made well into the 20th century. The auction house states that all ancient ite ... More
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SALZBURG.- Thaddaeus Ropac Salzburg is presenting Listening + Looking + Reaching, a solo exhibition by Not Vital. Spanning almost two decades of the Swiss artist’s practice, the exhibition brings together a selection of sculptures from 2009 to the present and his latest series of painted self-portraits, exemplifying Vital’s multidisciplinary approach and his alternative – at times humorous and illogical – strategies of representation. Rooted in the natural landscape of his native Engadin valley and shaped by the rhythms of his nomadic lifestyle, Vital’s work engages with questions of habitat and environment, as well as the intersections between painting, sculpture and architecture. Over the course of his career, he has challenged traditional notions of depiction, often adopting unconventional logics to represent the human form in its most essential and economic terms. ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- Sean Kelly will present Solid Light, 1973, 2020, 2026, Anthony McCall's seventh solo exhibition with the gallery. Bringing together three significant works spanning over fifty years of the artist's career, the exhibition traces the remarkable evolution of McCall's pioneering solid light works, from his groundbreaking Line Describing a Cone, 1973 to Skylight, 2020 and the debut of his newest work Swarm, 2026. The exhibition reveals the sustained rigor with which McCall has redefined the possibilities of sculpture, drawing, cinema, and sound, to create groundbreaking immersive environments. Anthony McCall is widely regarded as one of the most influential artists working with light and moving image. Emerging from the avant-garde film communities in London and New York during the late 1960s and early 1970s, he rejected the conventions of narrative cinema in favor of ... More
Takeshi Konomi, Prince of Tennis, 1999–2008. 42 volumes.
PORTLAND, ORE.- Tenez—the French imperative for "take this" and the etymological root of tennis itself—takes the sport as its subject, examining the court, match dynamics, and the game's psychology and formal gestures. Featuring drawing, painting, sculpture, animation, documentary film, and graphic novels, this group exhibition is presented as part of Portland's citywide Art + Sport initiative. Tenez will be on view through through August 29, 2026. Dan Attoe's (b. 1975, Bremerton, WA; lives and works in Washougal, WA) cinematic paintings feature awe-inspiring landscapes filled with natural wonders—epic mountains, towering trees, and waterfalls—and act as a stage for banal or insignificant human activity that disrupts the sublimity of nature. For Tenez, the artist uses a dramatically lit court as the setting, not for tennis, but for two young girls skateboarding—a nod to his daughters who learned to cruise around on their boards during the pandemic on their local ... More
EDINBURGH.- National Museums Scotland is launching a public call out for personal stories and garments by Jean Muir, Bill Gibb and Zandra Rhodes. A major new exhibition, A Fashion Odyssey (1 Jul – 12 Nov 2028), will explore the work of these trailblazing British designers in the centenary year of Muir’s birth. It is hoped the public can help locate treasured garments by these designers and share memories and photographs from those who wore and loved their clothes. There is particular interest in stories that demonstrate the impact of Muir, Gibb and Rhodes in Scotland. Members of the public are encouraged to get in touch with the exhibition's curators by emailing fashion@nms.ac.uk. The exhibition will examine the personal design identities of Jean Muir (1928 – 95), Bill Gibb (1943 – 88), and Zandra Rhodes (1940 – ).The designers were brought together in the ‘Odyssey’ room in Fortnum & Mason London in 1970. Between them they shaped a modern concept ... More
Honor Titus, Zsa Zsa, 2026. Oil on canvas, 152.4 x 121.9 cm | 60 x 48 inches. Unique.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- SUMMERLOVE SENSATION is an exhibition of youthful love, lust, and longing, distilled, moistened, and telegraphed in the way only Los Angeles is able. Borrowing its title from the 1974 pop hit by the Bay City Rollers, the exhibition is a dizzying love affair with love itself, featuring pinup girls (Katherina Olschbaur’s Of the Muses, 2025, and Gregor Hildebrandt’s And Again, Rain Falls Gently On Flowers, 2024), suggestive astrological readings (Jean-Michel Othoniel’s Cancer, 2024), an interspecies, floral affair (Isabelle Albuquerque’s to be the wood, to be the water, to be with you, 2025), and a functional telepathic kissing booth (Pilar Zeta’s Telepathic Kiss Portal, 2026). Taken together, the fifteen artists offer a sticky reminder that when the weather is hot and the days are long, there’s nothing better than putting on as little clothing as possible and enjoying that summer love sensation. The following excerpt is from instruction manual for Telepathic ... More
Basin known as the Baptistery of Saint Louis, Egypt or Syria, Mamluk period, ca. 1325–40. Copper alloy with engraving and inlay of silver, gold and black paste. Copyright Musée du Louvre, Dist. GrandPalaisRmn / HughesDubois.
WASHINGTON, DC.- On view for the first time in the U.S., and at its only stop, “From the Louvre: Masterpieces of Islamic Art” presents a selection of 26 artworks from the Musée du Louvre that represent the depth, technical excellence and global reach of the arts of the Islamic world. The exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art will be open Saturday, Sept. 26, through Monday, Jan. 18, 2027, featuring artworks from the seventh to 19th centuries created in Islamic regions spanning modern-day Spain to India. The exhibition tells the stories of the objects’ long and often complex journeys from their places of origin to the Louvre, as they gained recognition as “masterpieces.” “From the Louvre” invites visitors to consider how artworks become masterpieces over time, highlighting not only artistic mastery but also ... More
Microscopy study. Photograph by Mónica Vargas. CNCPC INAH.
TLAXCALA, MEXICO.- More than 15 years of monitoring at the Cacaxtla Archaeological Zone have found no significant deterioration in the site’s celebrated pre-Hispanic mural paintings, according to Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). The ongoing conservation program focuses on the 16 murals of Cacaxtla’s Great Platform, including some of the archaeological site’s best-known compositions: The Battle, Bird and Jaguar Warriors, Red Temple and Temple of Venus. The paintings are attributed to the Olmeca-Xicalanca culture and date to the Mesoamerican Epiclassic period, between approximately 650 and 900 CE. The findings are the result of a long-term effort by Mexico’s Ministry of Culture, INAH and the National Coordination for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage (CNCPC) to document subtle changes in the murals over time. “Preserving heritage requires knowledge, continuity and scientific work,” Culture Secretary ... More
Matthias Noggler, The Uselessness of Defense, 2026, Installation view, Layr Andräkirche / St. Andrew's Church, Salzburg.
SALZBURG.- With the motif of the pistol in The Uselessness of Defense, Matthias Noggler addresses an almost overdetermined subject: a tangible symbol of violence and power, but also a popular cultural trope in films and video games. We are well acquainted with pistols through media imagery and are also familiar with their toy versions. Even though they are standardized industrial products, their function as potential instruments of killing is always present. In his series of large-scale paintings, however, Noggler depicts the pistol—so striking in its symbolic clarity—in various states of deformation. Through repeated variation, the violent connotations of the motif are gradually neutralized. Schematically abstracted, larger than life, and more grotesque than monstrous, the weapon is reduced to only a few defining features—cylinder, barrel, grip. Rendered in a style informed by Pop Art and commercial graphic design, it becomes increasingly difficult to interpret as the emotionally ... More
Vasco Futscher Double Dill Dream, 2026. Ceramic stoneware, 67 x 17 x 17 cm. 26 3/8 x 6 3/4 x 6 3/4 in.
COMPORTA.- What does it mean to look at a portion of the world and find it beautiful, moving, distant, familiar, available or strange? What kind of relation is established when experiencing pleasure, desire or belonging before a view? Are these affects born from recognition, possession, longing, or from the sense of being held by what one sees? And what happens when the landscape looks back, when it refuses to remain a surface and is accepted as a living presence with a past and future history? Modern Western mindsets invented landscapes to frame the world. A landscape was a view organised from a given position. It implied a horizon, a spectator, a distance from which the world could be composed. Artists contributed to this by using paint to turn land into images. Cartography abstracted territories into surfaces. Travel writing, garden design, property regimes and colonial descriptions helped transform places into scenes to be admired, crossed, classified and possessed. Viewers stood before the w ... More
Mummy case, Egyptian, Ptolemaic Period, 320–30 BC, cartonnage, 42 cm (16½ in.) high with stand.
LONDON.- In Agatha Christie’s Death Comes as the End, the arrival of a priest’s new concubine disturbs an Egyptian household already divided by jealousy, inheritance and resentment, until her death sets in motion a sequence of murders. Published in 1944 but set at Thebes around 2000 BC, the novel took its central situation from the Heqanakht papyri, a group of Middle Kingdom letters in which an estate owner writes to his family about their refusal to accept his new wife. Working from these surviving documents, Christie and the Egyptologist Stephen Glanville reconstructed the domestic world of a society separated from them by nearly four thousand years. The novel offers an unusually vivid example of how the surviving traces of ancient Egypt can preserve more than its monumental history, allowing individual voices, family disputes and the structures of everyday life to re-emerge. As Fragments enters its final week, four works in the exhibition consider a related process of recovery, fro ... More
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Smithsonian scientists resolve the Hawaiian honeycreeper family tree WASHINGTON, DC.- Smithsonian researchers have identified the genetic relationships among all the Hawaiian honeycreeper species that were known to exist—and have subsequently faced major losses—since the arrival of Europeans to the islands. The study, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by scientists at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) and the National Museum of Natural History, places extinct and extant species of this famously diverse group of birds in their evolutionary context, informing diversity loss studies and potential conservation priorities. More than 60 Hawaiian honeycreeper species evolved from a single ancestor on the Hawaiian Islands across a relatively small time window, making them a prime example of adaptive radiation, the rapid diversification of one species into many new ones. When a species ... More
The New York Historical launches "The Story of America in 7 Books," a new literary series with a historical focus NEW YORK, NY.- The New York Historical has announced the launch of The Story of America in 7 Books, part of its ongoing commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States. Beginning this fall, Joseph Luzzi, Asher B. Edelman Professor of Literature at Bard, leads monthly conversations that explore the history depicted in the “Great American Novel”—from Moby-Dick to The Great Gatsby. “The ‘Great American Novel’ remains the ultimate literary pursuit, a quest to distill the sprawling, contradictory soul of a nation into a single, definitive narrative,” said Louise Mirrer, president and CEO of The New York Historical. “For 250 years, American literature has evolved as a continuous effort to define the essence ... More
The Palazzo Pitti revolution continues: The grand ducal palace opens a new entrance FLORENCE.- According to Director Simone Verde: “a project desired since the 1980s has become a reality” Now, Palazzo Pitti has a new entrance. This new arrangement relocates the visitors’ entrance, along with the metal detector and security, from the traditional centre door to the one to the right of the façade facing Piazza Pitti, near the ticket office; visitors will now exit through the centre door. Allowing entrance and exit flows to be clearly separated, this solution streamlines access management while also finally giving the workers an enclosed, climate-controlled space for their inspection operations. The project, then, was conceived and carried out not only to better orient visitors, but also – and above all – to improve the employees’ well-being while making the complex’s historic spaces fully legible once again, starting with Bartolomeo Ammannati’s ... More
Salon 94 Design and Cj Hendry present interactive exhibition Pastel NEW YORK, NY.- Salon 94 Design + Cj Hendry present Pastel, a show that includes beading by celebrated artist Cj Hendry. On view August 6–16, 2026, Pastel marks an energetic new series by an influential independent voice. At the heart of Pastel is a hands-on installation: a massive pit filled with pastel-colored beads, all connected to Hendry's signature visual world. Beloved characters such as juju and Balloon Dog are at play with the artist’s distinctive flowers and smiley faces. Visitors are invited to reach in and create their own collection to string on a bracelet, necklace, or charm — a participatory experience that extends Hendry's long-standing commitment to her audience in real-time. Drawings and editions of iconic imagery will also be on view, alongside her trademark swag including caps, t-shirts, jewelry trunks, leather trays, and acrylic keyrings. ... More
Vibeke Tandberg presents Bodies and Clouds exhibition at OSL contemporary OSLO.- Consisting of eight life-sized plaster sculptures cast from her own torso and six photographs of clouds that were made by a fog machine, this exhibition of Vibeke Tandberg’s new work is shockingly simple and minimal. In the thirty-three years since Brud (1993), the series of wedding announcements and photos that was her first major project, Tandberg’s work has evolved through a mysterious, consistent accretion of images, thoughts, props and experience. Across her body of work these elements appear and dissolve, combine and resurface as she pursues each constellation of thought to its limits. Tandberg’s artistic process is similar to the formation of clouds, changing their shape as water becomes vapor, cools and condenses. As Tandberg details in her 2024 novel Hestedagboken (The Horse Diary), the principal new works in the ongoing survey exhibition ... More
Three Acolhua heritage sites in Texcoco receive major restoration and maintenance TEXCOCO.- Three important archaeological sites in Texcoco have undergone a new round of conservation and rehabilitation work as part of a broader Mexican government initiative aimed at improving archaeological zones and museums open to the public. The National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) reported that Tetzcotzinco, Huexotla and Los Melones received restoration and maintenance work supported by an investment of more than 3.7 million pesos. The three sites preserve important traces of Acolhua culture and offer a window into the political, architectural and hydraulic sophistication of the region before the Spanish conquest. “Investing in heritage is a public responsibility,” Mexico’s Secretary of Culture, Claudia Curiel de Icaza, said. She added that the funding was intended not only to conserve the remains, but also to create better conditions ... More
Rare Jesuit books reveal how knowledge circulated in colonial Mexico TEPOTZOTLÁN.- Books carry more than the words printed on their pages. They also preserve the marks of the people who owned them, read them, censored them, repaired them and passed them from one institution to another. That layered history is at the center of Between Folios: Handwritten Annotations. The MNV’s Historic Library, a new exhibition at Mexico’s National Museum of the Viceroyalty that presents, for the first time, 23 books from the former College and Novitiate of the Society of Jesus in Tepotzotlán. Dating from the 16th through the 18th centuries, the volumes help reconstruct the history of the museum’s Pedro Reales Library and shed light on how knowledge was organized and circulated during the viceregal period. The exhibition was organized by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) through the museum ... More
Sable Elyse Smith brings Clockwork exhibition to The FLAG Art Foundation NEW YORK, NY.- The FLAG Art Foundation announced Clockwork, a solo exhibition featuring new and recent work by Sable Elyse Smith, the 2026 recipient of the Suzanne Deal Booth / FLAG Art Foundation Prize, on view from September 24, 2026, through February 13, 2027. Following its presentation at The Contemporary Austin, FLAG reframes Clockwork by expanding its more cinematic elements into an immersive stage set environment, where video becomes an immediate means of visualizing unseen, ordinary violence. Including sculpture, video, neon, and photography, Clockwork interrogates the fundamental systems of power that define contemporary society, as well as their cultural and psychological impacts. Through formal strategies such as seriality and repetition, disorientation, and appropriation, Smith illustrates how systems of power ... More
Contemporary Now - Edition III opens with citywide preview, conversations and cultural exchange across Chennai CHENNAI.- Contemporary Now – Edition III opened today with it’s official VIP Preview today, that brought together artists, galleries, collectors, cultural leaders and members of the media for a day of exhibitions, conversations and special previews across Chennai, marking the beginning of the platform's citywide programme running until 25 August 2026. The day commenced with an exclusive VIP Preview at Lalit Kala Akademi, where guests experienced Practices in Continuum: The Work and the World, the flagship exhibition of Contemporary Now – Edition III. Bringing together presentations from Project 88, Vadehra Art Gallery, Experimenter, TARQ, Chatterjee & Lal, Chemould Prescott Road and Ashvita's, the exhibition ... More
Exhibition celebrates legendary screenprinting workshop Brand X Editions DALLAS, TX.- The Dallas Museum of Art presents an exhibition exploring the expressive possibilities of contemporary screenprinting through the work of legendary New York City-based workshop Brand X Editions. X Marks the Spot: Contemporary Screenprinting at Brand X Editions features an eclectic array of larger-than-life works created by Brand X’s master screenprinters in collaboration with artists including KAWS, Rashid Johnson, Deborah Kass and more. Showcasing four decades of work created at Brand X—including several new prints produced in the past year—the exhibition sheds light on the creative process of screenprinting and reveals the wide range of technical and aesthetic innovations the studio has pioneered. X Marks the Spot is on view through November 8, 2026. “Many people are familiar with screenprinting, but few truly ... More
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On a day like today, Belarusian-French painter Chaïm Soutine died
August 09, 1943. Chaïm Soutine (13 January 1893 - 9 August 1943) was a French painter of Belarusian-Jewish origin of the School of Paris, who made a major contribution to the Expressionist movement while living and working in Paris. Inspired by classic painting in the European tradition, exemplified by the works of Rembrandt, Chardin and Courbet, Soutine developed an individual style more concerned with shape, color, and texture than representation, which served as a bridge between more traditional approaches and the developing form of Abstract Expressionism. In this image: Chaim Soutine, Two Pheasants.
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