SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Witness the evolution of the McNay Art Museum’s contemporary collection over the past two decades with “untitled: 20 Years of Collecting Contemporary Art,” now on view through Sept. 6. Presenting more than 100 artworks, including paintings, sculptures, photographs, videos and installations, the exhibition demonstrates the McNay’s dedication to contemporary art and celebrates the curatorial impact of René Paul Barilleaux, former head of curatorial affairs. Over his 20-year tenure, Barilleaux played a pivotal role in shaping the Museum’s collection, overseeing the acquisition of more than 200 works. In a departure from chronological and thematic frameworks, “untitled” offers visitors a fresh, innovative way to explore the collection and discover new connections across media and time periods. The exhibition presents unexpected pairings by organizing objects according to the seven elements of art — ... More
Installation view of “Ralph Steadman: And Another Thing” at Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, California, on view through May 9, 2026.
TORRANCE, CALIF.- “Ralph Steadman: And Another Thing” is on view now through May 9 at the Torrance Art Museum. The remarkable retrospective spans more than 60 years of Steadman’s career with 149 original artworks and ephemera, sketchbooks, children’s books, magazines, personal photographs and handwritten notes that tell a fuller story of how the artworks were born. “Ralph Steadman is well known for his direct and visceral drawing style and for changing and amplifying the face of satire through his illustrations,” said Andrea Lee Harris, the exhibition co-curator. “His art challenges us, teaches us and alters how we see the world. Showcasing Steadman’s genius, skill and imagination, ‘And Another Thing’ offers viewers a glimpse into the artist’s creative force. He has given us all a great gift and raised the bar for the generations following in his footsteps. Steadman’s inspired exhibition will delight diehard fans and uninitiated ... More
1975 Mesa Boogie Mark I Combo Amplifier.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Julien’s Auctions announced the results of its highly anticipated sale, Treasures From The Golden Road Featuring Property From “Big Steve,” “Ram Rod” & Trixie Garcia. The event featured an extraordinary offering of more than 300 pieces from the inner circle of the Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia. This once-in-a-lifetime collection of Deadhead gems and road-worn treasures hit the auction block yesterday, live before an enthusiastic audience at The Box SF in San Francisco, as well as online at juliensauctions.com. Topping the sale was an Alvarez-Yairi DY74CJG acoustic guitar (serial number 0001), custom-made for Jerry Garcia in 1988. Garcia frequently played instruments crafted by renowned Japanese luthier Kazuo Yairi, and this guitar predates the Garcia signature model known as the GY-1, also designed by Yairi. The guitar shattered its estimate, achieving a gavel price of $256,000. Another standout from the collection was a band-signed Grateful Dead ... More
A Greek bronze Phrygian type helmet with Scylla. Late Classical to early Hellenistic Period, circa 350-300 B.C. Estimate: €60,000 – 80,000.
PARIS.- On Monday, May 11th, the second part of the collection assembled by Christian Levett will showcase a selection from the largest group of ancient arms and armor in private hands. Spanning from the Kingdom of Urartu to the Roman period, and including Classical Greece, this represents a unique opportunity for collectors to acquire museum-quality works that were part of the permanent collections of the Mougins Museum of Classical Art for just over a decade. On Tuesday, May 12th, within the Antiquities & Islamic Art auction, the collection of Egyptian antiquities assembled by Jean-Jacques Rotthier (1932–2009) will be presented. Reflecting his passion for this civilization and its mysteries, the collection brings together remarkable pieces spanning all periods, from the Predynastic era to the Roman period. A discerning enthusiast and insatiable collector, he devoted most of his life to seeking out the next object to enrich this ... More
VENICE.- Yto Barrada represents France at the 61st Venice Biennale with Comme Saturne, curated by Myriam Ben Salah. During the Renaissance, artists were believed to be born under Saturn, the planet of melancholy, withdrawal, and slow thought. Barrada reactivates this cosmological figure and extends it across ritual and material processes, guided by her long-standing engagement with language and textile practices. The title echoes a well-known phrase from the French Revolution—“Like Saturn, the revolution devours its children”—and finds material counterpart in dévoré, a textile technique in which the surface pile of a fabric is chemically dissolved so that form emerges through absence. At once destructive and generative, this gesture anchors the exhibition’s inquiry into time and erosion. Conceived as a suite for Saturn, the pavilion unfolds through sequences and reprises. Visitors move through draped enviro ... More
Michel François, Fence, 2016-2026. Photo offset. 40 x 25 cm. Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris.
PARIS.- Born in Sint-Truiden (Belgium) in 1956, Michel François lives and works in Brussels. Since the 1980s, he has developed a body of work in which sculpture serves as a structuring practice, inspiring photography, video, art installations, performance, curatorial projects, and, more recently, painting. This freedom in the choice of medium is matched by a rigorous reflection on space, matter, volume, and the conditions under which forms appear and disappear. Far from being considered solely as an autonomous entity, the artwork is conceived here as part of a network of relations. Embedded in a system of resemblances and analogies, the works refer to one another and, together, engage with the space of representation. The exhibition thus becomes a site of interdependencies where the works and their environment give rise to unstable configurations. What might, at first glance, appear to be a dispersed collection in fact follows an organic, plural, and rhizomatic logic. The artist favours proces ... More
View of, Dyani White Hawk: Love Language, 2025. Photo: Kameron Herndon for Walker Art Center.
SASKATOON.- Following critical and public acclaim during its run at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Dyani White Hawk: Love Language opens at Remai Modern, Saskatoon, on April 25. The major mid-career survey features nearly 100 works from the past 15 years of the artist’s wide-ranging practice. Co-organized by Remai Modern and the Walker, the expansive exhibition features paintings, sculptures, works on paper, video installations, and objects that incorporate porcupine quillwork and lane stitch and loomed beadwork, as well as several new large-scale sculptural pieces and mosaics making their debut in the show. Together, the depth of works highlights White Hawk’s ongoing commitment to formal and material experimentation. White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Lakota, b. 1976) is recognized for her dynamic visual language and approach to image making. Grounded in a celebration of Lakota art forms and symbols, White Hawk’s work challenges prevailing narratives and histories of abstracti ... More
Richard Hawkins, 3 Jacks for Autumn, 2022. Courtesy the Artist; Galerie Buchholz, Cologne/Berlin/New York; and Greene Naftali, New York.
HANOVER.- The Kestner Gesellschaft is presenting Potentialities, a major survey of works by Richard Hawkins. Since the early 1990s, the Los Angeles–based artist has developed a singular practice centered nerdy research, the dynamics of fandom and desire, and on the intense pleasure of looking. Comprising more than 100 works across eight bodies of work, the exhibition offers the first major institutional overview of Hawkins’s oeuvre in more than a decade. Potentialities focuses on works produced over the past twenty years, spanning painting, sculpture, ceramic reliefs, and AI-generated videos that draw on online subcultures and shared memes. The exhibition opens with a group of paintings made through processes of cutting and pasting imagery from magazines and publications (2017–24). These works bring together sources as diverse as Greek and Roman statuary, headshots of hair models, thirst traps, gay adult film stars, and Hollywood icons, establishing ... More
Roland Reiss, Fleur du Mal I, 2008, acrylic and oil on canvas, 56" x 42".
SANTA MONICA, CA.- William Turner Gallery is presenting Roland Reiss: Unrepentant Beauty, an exhibition of late paintings by Roland Reiss (1929–2020), on view through June 20, 2026. A pioneering figure in postwar American art, Reiss spent more than six decades redefining the possibilities of painting. From his early explorations of abstraction and representation to his groundbreaking sculptural works and miniature environments, his practice consistently expanded the boundaries of the medium. This exhibition focuses on a remarkable development in his final decades: a series of vibrant, dynamic flower paintings that challenge long-standing assumptions about beauty and subject matter in contemporary art. Historically regarded as decorative or peripheral, the motif of the flower becomes, in Reiss’ hands, a site of formal and conceptual innovation. The artist approached these works with full awareness of their cultural baggage, describing the act of painting flowers as requiring “a leap of fait ... More
Urs Frei, Untitled, 1990. Lacquer on fabric, filling, cord, 78 x 86 x 23 cm. Collection Luigi Archetti. Photo: Luigi Archetti.
ST. GALLEN.- Kunstmuseum St.Gallen presents the first retrospective of Swiss artist Urs Frei (1958–2023). Three years after his death, Frei’s work is being honoured for the first time in a comprehensive exhibition. Frei is considered one of the most significant artists of his generation and gained international attention in the 1990s. Urs Frei’s oeuvre stands in the tradition of artists working with simple, everyday materials—an approach that is currently experiencing a remarkable revival among emerging international artists. Using semi-fabricated construction and packaging materials such as wood, metal, cardboard, and plastic, Frei created works that move between abstract painting, sculpture, and object art. At the core of his practice, unique within the contemporary art landscape, is an engagement with not only material, colour, and space but also, and above all, fragility, balance, and the process of making itself. The exhibition brings together key groups of works spanning m ... More
KANAZAWA.- Freedom and obstruction coexist on the street. There was once, in Japan, a type of autonomous space known as kugai: realms exempt from the dictates of fixed systems and state authority. Situated at temple and shrine gates and within post towns, these zones were open to travelers and performers alike, serving as hubs that fostered culture and exchange. While the modern rojō (shared ground) does not align perfectly with these historical precedents, it remains a site where frameworks of ownership and governance are fluid. Consequently, individuals have long sought autonomy within this space, at times through acts of resistance against institutional control. Simultaneously, rojō is more than a symbol of freedom and liberation; it also harbors discomfort and precarity born from the logic of exclusion. Taking rojō as its conceptual core, this exhibition assembles artworks, historical milestones, and critical discourses to interrogate the increasingly complex challenges ... More
Christine Howard Sandoval, Niniwas- to belong here, 2022, Courtesy of parrasch heijnen gallery.
TORONTO.- The Gardiner Museum presents the return of the International Ceramic Art Fair (ICAF), its biennial celebration of innovation and contemporary directions in ceramics, running May 28 to August 16, 2026. This year, ICAF is expanded significantly from a 10-day event to a 12-week exhibition and public program, positioning the fair at the forefront of how ceramics is evolving across art, design, and emerging technologies. At the heart of this year’s edition is the theme “the city and the commons,” presenting ceramics as both material and method for examining how we live together in rapidly changing cities. From architecture to infrastructure, ceramics shelter, connect, and ground us, offering new ways to think about belonging, resilience, and shared space. “ICAF 2026 looks at ceramics not only as one of the oldest and most deeply human artistic traditions, but as a medium shaping the future,” says Dr. Sequoia Miller, Chief Curator & Deputy Director at the Gardiner M ... More
BOLZANO.- Museion is presenting the first institutional solo exhibition in Italy by Evelyn Taocheng Wang (b. 1981, Chengdu). Working across a variety of media, including painting, writing, installation, performance, and fashion, the Rotterdam-based artist has developed a unique visual language infused with poetry, subtle humor, and critical depth. By intertwining art historical traditions, fragments of personal memory, and artistic forms of autofiction, she challenges notions of authenticity and interrogates how culture is represented, performed, and embodied. Wang’s pictorial repertoire draws on what she wittily describes as her “eyeshadow palette of art history,” blending references to her initial training in classical Chinese ink painting and calligraphy and the schools of Western ... More
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Higher Pictures unveils never-before-seen experimental cyanotypes from the 1970s by Sheila Pinkel BROOKLYN, NY.- Higher Pictures presents Sheila Pinkel: Early Works, 1974–1977, the artist’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. This is the first time these bodies of work have been shown. The exhibition features twelve cyanotypes spanning body prints, abstracted compositions, and early incorporations of computer- generated imagery. Together, they reveal the experimental foundations from which Pinkel’s decades-long investigation of light, form, and materiality grew. In the Body Cyanotypes, the body becomes a site of transformation. Working with the sun as her light source, exposing at midday for maximum contrast, the results are unmistakably surrealist: the figure floats and contorts, limbs multiply, the body grows unfixed—a record of light moving across and through form. As Pinkel recalls, “this (medium) allowed me the latitude to evolve new images ... More
The Power Plant transforms into an interactive 'adventure playground' TORONTO.- What do we want the future to look like? What if we ask the children what they want? This spring, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery invites visitors to freely interact with the artworks in Colourful Parachutes: Imagining Alternative Futures Through the Power of Play, a participatory new exhibition opening April 25, 2026. Bringing together ten artists from Canada and around the world, Colourful Parachutes transforms the gallery into an engaging, hands-on environment where visitors of all ages are encouraged to interact with the art. Designed with young audiences in mind, but just as inviting for adults, the exhibition reimagines what a gallery can be, and what’s possible for the collective future when creativity is put into action. “Colourful Parachutes is for audiences of all ages, while foregrounding children’s potential as creative agents and future-makers,” ... More
Drake Carr brings the spirit of New York portraiture to Graz GRAZ.- The Grazer Kunstverein is presenting House, the first European institutional exhibition of New York-based artist Drake Carr. The work of Drake Carr (b. 1993, Flint, MI) observes how social worlds, places, and moments can be captured, recorded, and translated into drawing. Often, his portraits respond to the textures of a place—people, gestures, décor, color, atmosphere—capturing both a fraction in time and the dynamics of social life. In projects such as Walk-Ins (2023, 2024, 2025), he has documented social scenes in New York, Paris, and Los Angeles, rendering the extraordinary and the everyday alike. Now, as part of the 40th anniversary program of the Grazer Kunstverein, Carr will install himself in the galleries and invite individuals who form part of the institution’s orbit—artists, collaborators, team members, and members of its audience— ... More
Sean Kelly brings Julian Charrière and Laurent Grasso to Beijing's 798CUBE BEIJING.- Sean Kelly announced the opening of Kairos Resounding, an exhibition featuring two artists Julian Charrière and Laurent Grasso, both of whom we represent. The exhibition at 798CUBE in Beijing, China, brings together artists whose oeuvres investigate time, perception, and planetary transformation. It also represents the first institutional solo presentations for both artists in China. Kairos Resounding presents film, sculpture, photography, and immersive installations to explore glaciers, atmospheric phenomena, and data landscapes, encompassing underwater, terrestrial, and celestial dimensions. Inspired by the ancient Greek concept of kairos, which signifies critical moments in time, the exhibition prompts reflection on our nonlinear perception of time, a series of significant events impacting ecological, technological, and epistemic systems. This exploratio ... More
Arne Quinze confronts the 'grey monotony' of modern cities in new exhibition BRUSSELS.- For more than thirty years, Arne Quinze has pushed his practice to the edge of what diversity in our contemporary world can reveal. His new exhibition, In the Crossfire: Brutal Harmony and the Fragility of Hope, at MARUANI MERCIER, confronts this tension head-on. Quinze responds to a society increasingly defined by uniformity and the systematic erasure of difference — drawing inspiration instead from the multiplicity and resilience that nature embodies. Here, he transforms his lifelong investigation of the fractured relationship between humanity and the world into a vibrant, refreshing insight into our cultural and social landscape. Quinze celebrates pure beauty, vitality, and possibility. Diversity, in all its facets, fuels his vision: flowers will always break through concrete, hope will always endure, and multiplicity will always assert itself against uniformity. ... More
Painting in an age of excess: Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille open major survey at Carré d'Art NIMES.- Carré d’Art – Museum of Contemporary Art is dedicating a major exhibition to Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille, whose collaborative practice, developed over more than twenty years, directly questions the conditions of existence of painting in a world saturated with images. Their work neither seeks to preserve the medium nor to assert its purity, but rather to expose it to excess, collision, and dissonance. Drawing on the full range of iconographic registers—landscape, portrait, still life, abstraction, advertising imagery, and scholarly references—the artists compose paintings traversed by multiple strata, interruptions, accidents, and parasitic gestures. Images are sampled, displaced, superimposed, and sometimes altered to the point of near disappearance, producing constant tensions between figuration and abstraction, recognition and loss of reference points. ... More
Sotheby's unveils The Saul and Ellyn Dennison Collection, coming to New York this May NEW YORK, NY.- This May, Sotheby’s will present works from the collection of Saul and Ellyn Dennison, two deeply engaged collectors whose lives were shaped by a sustained commitment to artists and the evolving language of contemporary art. Bringing together paintings, works on paper, and conceptual objects acquired over forty years, the collection offers a vivid portrait of a couple who approached collecting as an ongoing dialogue — with artists, with institutions, and with the cultural topics of their time. Saul and Ellyn Dennison collected with instinct, curiosity, and conviction, supporting artists at pivotal moments in their careers and remaining closely attuned to the creative energy of their moment. Their collection reflects this sensibility, with works spanning the latter half of the 20th century alongside acquisitions from the early 2000s, united not by a single medium ... More
Reopening of Kebbel Villa and 2026 program SCHWANDORF.- After several months of closure for renovation work to improve accessibility, Kebbel Villa will reopen on April 26, 2026. A key element of the renovation is the installation of a wheelchair-accessible lift connecting all levels of the building—from the print workshops in the basement to the exhibition floors and the event space above. Following the installation of a solar power system in 2024 for the Artist-in-Residence building, this marks another step toward meeting contemporary museum standards. The reopening also launches the 2026 exhibition program, beginning with a comprehensive presentation of Boris Lurie, accompanied by works by Stanley Fisher and Sam Goodman, co-founders of the NO!art movement. In summer, the focus shifts to painting, with exhibitions dedicated to Sarah Bogner and to Isabelle Heske and René Radomsky. After the annual ... More
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