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British artist Hannah Perry debuts first Belgian solo exhibition at TICK TACK
ANTWERP.- TICK TACK presents Hard Love, a solo exhibition by British artist Hannah Perry (Chester, 1984). Working across sculpture, sound, moving image and installation, Perry develops immersive environments in which industrial materials, bodily forms and emotional states intersect. Her practice synthesises personal histories and dreamlike fragments into installations that explore the architectures of construction, labour and intimacy. Starting from a deeply subjective perspective, Perry interrogates themes such as gender, social background and the relationship between body and mind. The work opens onto a visual and sonic landscape that fluctuates between joy and melancholy, where shared emotional experience resonates through material form. For Hard Love, Perry has developed a new site-specific installation that unfolds across the three floors of TICK TACK’s ... More

New exhibition reimagines the Lyman Allyn Art Museum's collection
NEW LONDON, CONN.- The Lyman Allyn presents A Tin Can on a String: Conversations from the Collection, a collaborative exhibition by artists and lifelong friends Kat Murphy and Heidi Johnson. On view from May 16 through Aug. 9, the exhibition reimagines the Museum’s collection through a contemporary lens, inviting visitors into an intimate exchange between past and present. Working both onsite and within the Museum’s digital archives, Murphy and Johnson engage in a dynamic creative dialogue with historical objects. Drawing inspiration from forms, textures, and narratives found in the collection, the artists translate their discoveries into new works spanning painting, collage, and sculpture. The result is a vibrant body of work that reflects an ongoing conversation, one that bridges time, material, and artistic perspective. A Tin Can on a String captures ... More

Maria Stabio celebrates Philippine culture and landscape in new New York show
NEW YORK, NY.- Kristen Lorello presents Maria Stabio’s second solo exhibition at the gallery featuring paintings on canvas that celebrate the culture and landscape of the Philippines through the artist’s unique, diasporic lens. The exhibition unfolds in the two main rooms of the gallery. The viewing room features a related group presentation entitled ‘Local Color,’ with six works by six artists—including Stabio—who meet regularly to study color. Stabio’s paintings are accretions of cropped figurative, landscape, and atmospheric elements, animated by vivacious colors and multidirectional patterning. Her works express the joy of exploring one’s own cultural identity through travel, research, and relationships at home and abroad. Born in San Francisco, educated in Boston and New York, and now living and working in northeastern Pennsylvania, Stabio makes frequent ... More

ROM abuzz with the fascinating lives of bees this summer
TORONTO.- Royal Ontario Museum is buzzing this summer with a new immersive exhibition that reveals the world of bees like never before. The product of 120 million years of evolution and with 20,000 known species, bees are vital to our planet’s ecosystems and essential to human existence. A fusion of art, science and technology, the exhibition invites visitors to step into the heart of a larger-than-life hive-like structure and get up close and personal with this small but mighty insect from May 16 to October 18, 2026. BEES: A Story of Survival offers an engaging multimedia experience and new ways to marvel at one of nature’s most incredible creatures – the bee. Debuting in North America at ROM, BEES: A Story of Survival was developed by National Museums Liverpool, in partnership with award-winning U.K. artist and sculptor Wolfgang Buttress, and is presented ... More

New Britain Museum of American Art opens 'John Hitchcock: We are Defined by the Beat'
NEW BRITAIN, CT.- The New Britain Museum of American Art presents John Hitchcock: We are Defined by the Beat, from May 16 through November 29, 2026, the artist’s first mid-career retrospective. For over three decades, John Hitchcock (b. 1967) has transformed the sonic and cultural rhythms of his homeland into a distinct visual language. An enrolled member of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma with Comanche and Northern European ancestry, Hitchcock merges personal expression with references to intertribal powwows, the Wichita Mountain landscape of his youth, and the symbols and languages of Great Plains Native populations. Working across printmaking, neon, textiles, sound, video, and installation, Hitchcock merges traditional and contemporary art forms to pay homage to his ancestors, confront histories of Indigenous displacement and trauma, and celebrate ... More

Plug In ICA announces new Executive Director/Curator
Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art announced the appointment of our new Executive Director/Curator, Nadja Pelkey. After a careful and considered search that attracted national and international candidates, Pelkey was selected by the search committee for her collaborative, critical, relationship-centered, and research-driven approach to curatorial, strategic, and community-based work. Nadja Pelkey is an Artist and Curator based in Waawiyatanong (Windsor, ON across the river from Detroit, MI). She holds an MFA from the University of Guelph, and brings over 15 years of experience in the arts including academic and leadership positions. Recently, Pelkey worked in curatorial, programming, and community-engaged roles at Art Windsor-Essex, collaborating across departments to lead digital strategy, cross‑sector collaborations, public art initiatives, research, ... More

New New York exhibition traces Joseph Kosuth's conceptual dialogue with Sigmund Freud
NEW YORK, NY.- Castelli Gallery is presenting Joseph Kosuth: I shall offer it to you as a ready made product, opening at 24 West 40th Street in New York. The title of the exhibition comes from the neon work 'C.S. #31', 1987, in which Kosuth appropriated a sentence from Anxiety and Instinctual Life, a lecture by Sigmund Freud published in 1933. In this work, Kosuth cancels Freud's sentence with a line, leading to what the artist called "a negated presence and positive absence."1 Kosuth's appropriation of Freud's sentence is part of a larger dialogue with Freud that the artist described "as a kind of conceptual 'architecture'- a readymade order that, while anchored to the world, provides a theoretical object, a dynamic system."2 In 1981, Kosuth began a decade long investigation into the life and writing of Freud. 'Fetishism (Corrected)', 1987, consists of a reproduction ... More

Tuan Andrew Nguyen resurrects a destroyed Bamiyan Buddha for the High Line
NEW YORK, NY.- For the fifth High Line Plinth commission, Tuan Andrew Nguyen presents The Light That Shines Through the Universe, a monument to cultural loss and enduring spirit. Carved in Vietnam, the sculpture is installed on the High Line in New York City over the intersection of 10th Avenue and 30th Streets, on view through fall 2027. The towering sculpture reinvisages, in 27 feet of sandstone, one of the two Bamiyan Buddhas, the monumental statues hewn more than a millennium ago in a cliff in Afghanistan, and destroyed by the Taliban in an act of iconoclasm 25 years ago. Now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, all that is left are two empty niches carved out of the mountain where the statues once stood. Prior to their destruction, the Bamiyan Buddhas held deep significance across different cultures and religions, even as Afghanistan shifted to become an entirely ... More

Rago/Wright achieves record-breaking $7.8 million in dual auction offering
NEW YORK, NY.- Rago/Wright announced landmark results from its May 14, 2026 dual auction offering, which achieved a combined total of $7,822,453—the highest in the firm’s history. The sale was headlined by a world auction record for Brazilian Surrealist sculptor Maria Martins, whose 1946 bronze Impossible sold for $3,170,000 — shattering the artist’s previous auction benchmark of $329,000 and announcing her rightful place among the great sculptors of the twentieth century. The result, achieved against a pre-sale estimate of $150,000–200,000, represents one of the most dramatic auction revaluations in recent memory for a modernist master, and stands as a defining moment in the critical and market reassessment of Surrealism’s overlooked voices. Believed to be the earliest of three known casts, Impossible was created during Martins’s pivotal ... More