VIENNA.- In the 18th century, painted cityscapes (in Italian vedute: “views”) became much sought-after souvenirs. Particularly so among young British aristocrats who bought these paintings on their so-called “Grand Tour,” an educational journey across Europe, as a sign of their newly acquired worldly finesse and as a keepsake of their travel experiences. Two of the most eminent exponents of veduta painting are in the center of the new exhibition at the Kunsthistorisches Museum. The Venetian painters Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto (1697–1768), and his nephew and pupil Bernardo Bellotto (1721–1780) have continued to inform our imagination of several European cities to this day. With their delicate feel for light, atmosphere, and architectural precision, Canaletto and Bellotto transformed these places into stages on which everyday life played out—and in the views of them, into places of longing. “Canaletto’s and Bellotto’s works show Euro ... More
Johann Heinrich Müntz, South East View of Strawberry Hill House, c.1755–58. Oil on canvas.
TWICKENHAM.- Strawberry Hill House & Garden has launched an appeal to raise £85,000 to acquire South East View of Strawberry Hill House by Johann Heinrich Müntz (c.1755–58), a rare contemporary painting that captures Horace Walpole’s Gothic villa at the very moment the Gothic Revival was being born. Commissioned by Walpole himself, the painting offers an extraordinary glimpse of Strawberry Hill before its dramatic transformation of 1759, when the Gallery and Round Tower were added to create the iconic silhouette we recognise today. It is one of only two known oil paintings of the house by Müntz, whose companion view is now held at the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. More than a record, the painting reveals Strawberry Hill in the process of invention. At the time it was made, the Swiss artist Johann Heinrich Müntz was living and working at the ... More
THE HAGUE.- From the early 1970s the Sicilian photojournalist, activist and politician Letizia Battaglia (Palermo 1935 – Cefalù 2022) captured the harsh reality of daily life in and around Palermo, a city plagued by extreme mafia violence, corruption and political power games. Battaglia used photography to highlight injustices: the the mafia’s victims, the traces of violence in public spaces and the consequences for the everyday lives of ordinary Sicilian people. The exhibition can be seen at the Fotomuseum Den Haag from 4 April to 23 August. Life, Love and Death in Sicily pays tribute to the work and legacy of Letizia Battaglia, a photographer internationally acclaimed for her courage and commitment. Presenting a broad survey of her work from the period 1971–2021, the exhibition shows that her photographic practice extended ... More
Joy Brown, Sitter with Crossed Legs.
NEW YORK, NY.- This year, Cavalier Galleries marks its 40th anniversary, offering a moment to reflect on a gallery that has quietly built a significant legacy across exhibitions, public art, and sculpture in the American art landscape. Founded in 1986, Cavalier’s origins are uniquely tied to the foundry world. Ronald Cavalier Jr. was shaped by the work of his father, Ronald Cavalier Sr., a pioneering art foundryman who helped advance bronze casting in the U.S. and worked with institutions including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The MET, and MOMA. That foundation established a lasting emphasis on sculpture that continues to define the gallery today. Founded by a combination of vision, passion, and perseverance, Ron opened the gallery in October 1986 in downtown Stamford, CT with minimal funds, borrowing from his only credit card to purchase pedestals and lighting. For the first five years, turning a profit was no ... More
Exhibition view, Sotheby’s, MAW23. Photo: Alice Bensi.
MONACO.- Under the High Patronage of H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco, Monaco Art Week will take place from 27 April to 1 May 2026. For its 8th edition, the event returns to its original spring schedule and once again coincides with the Art Monte-Carlo fair. On the initiative of galleries, auction houses and committed players in the art world, Monaco Art Week offers the public an artistic journey through several iconic districts of the Principality. A programme of exhibitions, talks, performances and artist encounters will punctuate this week-long celebration of art. From sculpture and painting to jewellery and design, the works on view illustrate a broad panorama spanning ancient, modern and contemporary art. The 2026 edition will bring together the following participants from different districts of the Principality: Artcurial; Christie’s; collect|mc; HOFA; Hôtel des Ventes de Monte-Carlo; Kamil Art Gallery; Elisabeth Lillo-Renner; Moretti Fine Art; NM Contemporary; Opera Gallery; Almine ... More
The Fountain of the Gods, 2026, mixed media, 206 x 220 x 15 cm.
VENICE.- The Kurdish-Turkish artist Ahmet Güneştekin returns to Italy after a major solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome. The new exhibition, titled Sessizlik / Silenzio / Silence, curated by Sergio Risaliti, coincides with the launch of the cultural activities of the Güneştekin Foundation, housed in Palazzo Gradenigo. The palazzo, located in Venice's Castello district, was purchased by the artist and underwent major restoration work over the past two years. Sessizlik / Silenzio / Silence is a complex display of artworks including paintings and sculptures, a sort of staging spread across the ground floor, the first floor and the exterior of the building. There are 11 bronze sculptures and an equal number of oil paintings displayed on the walls of the building's two floors. The sculptures, of varying sizes and dimensions, reaching over three meters in height, were created in the artist's workshops and ateliers in Istanbul and are on display for ... More
AMSTERDAM.- Foam pays tribute to the legacy of British photographer Martin Parr with the exhibition Very Modern and Rather Ugly. Bringing together a selection of his most iconic works, the exhibition celebrates Parr’s unmistakable way of seeing, witty societal observations and enduring fascination with the role of photography in everyday life. This marks Parr’s first solo museum exhibition in the Netherlands in more than twenty years. In commemoration of his recent passing, Foam will present a tribute to the legacy of Martin Parr. Across a career spanning more than five decades, Martin Parr (1952–2025) became one of the most distinctive and influential figures in contemporary documentary photography. Recognised for his saturated colours, close-up compositions, harsh flash and incisive, ironic eye, he documented the everyday rituals, behaviours, and habits of modern life. From leisure and tourism to consumerism and social class, his work exposes the humour and absurdity of ordinary e ... More
Onur Gökmen, Çay İçen Bakan [Minister Drinking Tea], 2026.
ISTANBUL.- Salt presents Subsoil by Onur Gökmen, one of the two recipients of the second edition of the Salt Artistic Research and Production Grant Program, organized in collaboration with the BBVA Foundation. The exhibition revisits a largely overlooked episode in the environmental and institutional history of Turkey: the detection of radioactive contamination in Black Sea tea following the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. In the aftermath of the explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, a team of scientists at Middle East Technical University (METU)—including the artist’s parents, İnci and Ali Gökmen—conducted a study to measure the impact of radioactive fallout on tea grown in the Black Sea region. The findings were compiled in a report and submitted to the relevant authorities. Yet, official statements tended to minimize the extent of the contamination and health risks, reflecting concerns over economic and social stability. Amid discussions around public ... More
Ryan Gander, Does anything last forever?, 2026. Inflatable sphere made of PVC (polyvinyl chloride), 3 m in diameter. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio.
KYIV.- The exhibition Joy began with an urge to start a conversation about what sustains Ukrainians today, how many forms joy can take in times of war, and how it becomes a driving force—one that unites us, sustains us, and keeps our sense of self and will to live intact. The starting point of the project was a series of written testimonies collected by Ukrainian veteran and marine Hlib Stryzhko. He conducted interviews with service members, veterans—both men and women—of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to learn what brings them joy and how they experience it today. Their stories become a disruptive agent, anchoring fragments of reality into the exhibition. Against the violence saturating our time, it offers joy and the sharing of joy as a radical act of humanity. Architect and artist Bogdana Kosmina transformed these texts into spatial objects that are just as significant within the exhibition as the works ... More
Stephanie Smith. Photo by Rachel Herman.
CHAMPAIGN, IL.- Stephanie Smith has been named the new director of Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Smith brings more than a decade of museum leadership experience, a national reputation for excellence in contemporary art and museum practice, and a capacity for guiding museums with both vision and stability. She currently serves as an independent curator and arts consultant based in Chicago and is a 2025–2026 visiting fellow at the University of Chicago's Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society. Previously, Smith served as interim director of the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, where she provided steady leadership during an extended transition period. In that role, she oversaw a $4.5 million budget, strengthened relationships with donors and advisory bodies, secured institutional support to address capital needs and stabilize finances, and positioned the museum for its next phase of leadership. Jake Pinholster, Dean of the College of Fine an ... More
PALMA .- The relation between humans and animals was once one of proximity, a shared world of glances, gestures, and unspoken recognition. With the rise of modern capitalism, this closeness has been progressively dismantled. Animals have been removed from everyday life and absorbed into systems of production, consumption, and display—transformed into commodities, spectacles, and images. In 'Why Look at Animals?', John Berger reflects on this transformation, describing a subtle but profound rupture: animals are no longer encountered as sentient counterparts but are instead objectified, managed, and consumed within an economic order that prioritizes efficiency and profit over relation. In 'Un monde à part', the Belgian painter Sabrina Dufrasne (b. 1976, Braine-L'alleud) opens a space that belongs first to the animals themselves, resisting this logic of commodification. Her paintings draw on the formal vocabulary of Etruscan tomb frescoes: flat planes of saturated colour, ornamental borders, ... More
Debbi Kenote, Spotlight, 2026. Oil on linen, 16 x 18 inches (40.6 x 45.7 cm)
NEW YORK, NY.- Cristin Tierney Gallery presents No place out of the wind, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Debbi Kenote. This marks the artist’s first solo show with the gallery, and will be on view from Saturday, April 4th, through Saturday, May 9th. An opening reception will take place on Friday, April 10th, from 6:00 to 8:00 PM, with the artist present. No place out of the wind continues Kenote’s exploration of shaped painting as both image and object. Inspired by visual motifs—such as interlocking geometries and natural forms—each canvas starts with a stretcher customized by the artist before it is stretched and layered with oil paint. The support beam becomes a primary compositional element of her paintings, creating complex forms that extend the work into space. Inspired by her upbringing in the Pacific Northwest, where she was exposed to craft traditions such as woodworking and quilting, plus her background in sculpture, Kenote approaches the canvas as a site of constr ... More
VENICE.- Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM) of Taiwan Collateral Event Screen Melancholy: Li Yi-Fan at the 61st Venice Biennale will be held at the Palazzo delle Prigioni from May 9 to November 22, 2026. During the opening week, from May 7 to May 9, a series of public programs will be held in the afternoons. The opening ceremony will take place on the evening of May 7. In this year’s TFAM of Taiwan Collateral Event, the artist and curator, who both came of age when internet technology first exploded, serve as observers of the era of digital transformation, offering fresh perspectives and contemporary insights through narratives infused with humor and absurdity. Originally conceived in Portuguese, the title “Melancolia de tela” refers to the state of melancholy induced by prolonged screen use. As it evolves across languages into English and Chinese, new nuances unfolded under different contexts. The state of “Melancholy” addresses the anxiety stemming from ... More
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TICK TACK explores the paradox of public art in 'Nothing New Under the Sun' ANTWERP.- TICK TACK presents Nothing New Under the Sun, an exhibition developed with the Collection Flemish Community and curated by seven international curators from KASK’s Curatorial Studies programme. Taking its starting point in the depot of the Collection Flemish Community in Vilvoorde, the exhibition illuminates the movement of artworks between conservation, storage and display—bringing them, for a moment, into the public view of the City of Antwerp. Created in collaboration with the Department Culture, Youth and Media, the exhibition showcases works from the Collection Flemish Community, a vast public collection that preserves, restores and lends out artworks to Flemish institutions. Both sunlight and artificial light are among the most damaging elements for many materials and techniques, causing fading, discoloration, or other degradation. ... More
Vanishing peaks: Filippo Poli wins April 2026 solo exhibition with 'Alpine Hiatus' WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA.- All About Photo presents Filippo Poli, winner of the April 2026 Solo Exhibition Contest, with his powerful project Alpine Hiatus: The Snow No Longer Tastes Like Snow. In this deeply personal series, Poli revisits the landscapes of his childhood in the Alps, only to find a world profoundly altered. Blending archival family images with contemporary photographs, he creates a quiet yet striking dialogue between past and present—between memory and reality. Alpine Hiatus reflects on the fragile state of these mountains today, where natural cycles give way to artificial interventions, and where a sense of loss becomes impossible to ignore. Both intimate and universal, the work invites us to reconsider our relationship to the landscapes that shape us—and what remains when they begin to disappear. Filippo Poli is a Milan-based photographer ... More
Sylvie Fleury explores the mechanics of desire at Thaddaeus Ropac SALZBURG.- Engaging with the mechanics of materialistic desire, aesthetics and the construction of value, Sylvie Fleury’s sleek, alluring works provide a lens through which contemporary politics of gender, beauty and consumerism can be re-evaluated. The exhibition presents new sculptures, including works from one of the artist’s most recent series, showing crossed legs made of lacquered fibreglass suspended on the wall, like the bottom half of a mannequin. Since her Shopping Bag sculptures from the 1990s, appropriating and recontextualising luxury consumer items has been a recurring theme in Fleury’s work. As a testament to the lineage of the readymade, the legs are draped with coats from a luxury fashion house. The neons on view, meanwhile, encompass two decades of Fleury’s investigation of the medium. Like many of her sculptures, they ... More
Veronica Ryan retrospective opens at Whitechapel LONDON.- Veronica Ryan: Multiple Conversations is a major exhibition dedicated to the award-winning British artist Veronica Ryan (b.1956, Plymouth, Montserrat). Encompassing more than 100 works, the exhibition draws on every aspect of her practice, revealing her multifaceted work across sculpture, textiles and works on paper. Significantly, it includes recently rediscovered works from the 1980s – large-scale sculptures made from plaster and beaten lead, as well as vivid drawings – which reveal enduring artistic interests across her career. The exhibition begins in Whitechapel Gallery’s largest exhibition space (Gallery 1) with Ryan’s most recent works, including several newly conceived for this presentation. These include Totem (2025–26), a striking ceramic sculpture derived from casts of stacked plastic bottles. This tower-like work echoes the gallery’s architectural ... More
RISD Museum unveils major Indigenous exhibition honoring the seal PROVIDENCE, RI.- The RISD Museum presents Natchiq | Onkeehq | Isuwiq: Indigenous Artists Honor the Seal, on view April 4–October 25, 2026. Organized by guest curators Nadia Jackinsky-Sethi (Alutiiq), Erin Ggaadimits Ivalu Gingrich (Koyukon Dené–Iñupiaq), and Elizabeth James-Perry (Aquinnah Wampanoag) in collaboration with María Fernanda Mancera, Assistant Curator of Indigenous Art and Conor Moynihan, Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, at the RISD Museum, the exhibition brings together historic and contemporary artworks that reflect the enduring significance of the seal across generations. Across many northern coastal cultures, people maintain longstanding relationships with the wild beings that inhabit the waters they call home. For many Indigenous communities across Arctic and subarctic regions, seals have long sustained ... More
Museo Jumex unveils major World Cup 2026 exhibition MEXICO CITY.- In conjunction with the 2026 World Cup, Museo Jumex will present Football & Art. A Shared Emotion through July 26, 2026. This exhibition explores the various intersections between contemporary art and soccer as cultural, aesthetic, and social expressions. Curated by Guillermo Santamarina, the exhibition addresses themes of gender, community, identity, and globality, while analyzing both the playful power of games and their critical and political dimensions. Santamarina states, “I see soccer as a field of thought, critical and deliberative. A playground for creativity. A universe that intertwines with art, sharing similar parame- ters, related challenges and achievements, and often, that same emotion: the feeling of being alive.” Through paintings, sculptures, installations, photographs, and videos—encompass- ing both historical works and pieces commissioned specifically ... More
Valérie Mannaerts traces three decades of metamorphosis in major solo show LEUVEN.- The multifaceted oeuvre of Valérie Mannaerts is rooted in intuition, material, and sensory experience. Through hybrid works, she questions the forms and properties of things and explores themes such as metamorphosis, identity, and the body, drawing upon feminist frameworks. Her work is layered, amorphous, and flexible. She investigates questions such as: What is the autonomy of an object? What story can an object tell? When do the organic and the inorganic interfere? Her work resists univocal interpretations as well as predetermined norms and boundaries. It remains in constant transformation and motion, balancing between representation and abstraction. In the late 1990s, Mannaerts debuted with works on paper in which she examined her own body and sexuality. She followed in the footsteps of female artists from the 1960s and 1970s, such ... More
Sean Kelly explores the 'architecture of embodiment' at EXPO Chicago CHICAGO, IL.- Sean Kelly is delighted to participate at EXPO Chicago in the Embodiment section of the fair curated by Dr. Louise Bernard, Founding Director of the Museum of the Obama Presidential Center, our booth #308 is located across from the fair’s Obama Presidential Center platform. We will present a focused selection of works that explore how contemporary artists give form to the human condition beyond traditional figuration. Through abstraction, material experimentation, and symbolic language, the featured artists consider the body as a site of memory, labor, identity, and collective experience. Anchoring the presentation are works by artists that will be featured in the Obama Presidential Center, Lindsay Adams, Idris Khan, and a third artist to be announced soon. Lindsay Adams’s abstract paintings investigate gesture, interiority, and corporeal ... More
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On a day like today, American minister and painter Edward Hicks was born
April 04, 1780. Edward Hicks (April 4, 1780 - August 23, 1849) was an American folk painter and distinguished Christian minister of the Society of Friends (a.k.a. "Quakers"). He became a notable Quaker because of his paintings. Edward Hicks' first major exhibition took place in 1860 at Williamsburg, Virginia. It got mixed reviews due to Hicks' habit of repeating various arrangements over and over again. In this image: One of over 60 versions of The Peaceable Kingdom painted by Edward Hicks, c. 1833 - 1834. Brooklyn Museum.
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