LONDON.- Paintings by Rubens, Caravaggio and Zoffany are among 120 masterpieces from the Royal Collection on display for visitors to Buckingham Palace as part of a major re-display in one of the Palace’s most important reception rooms. The Picture Gallery, one of the State Rooms that open to visitors each summer, has undergone a once-in-a-generation re-display, almost doubling the number of paintings on show from 63 to 120. The new presentation puts more works by some of the world’s greatest artists on show, bringing together paintings in inspiring and new ways. Curators have drawn on historic watercolours, photographs, inventories and architectural schemes to devise the new display, which took 875 hours to hang and brings the room closer to its historic appearance. New emerald-green silk wall hangings and updated lighting, together with the increased ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- In January 1976, as George Lucas prepared to shoot his new film, then titled The Star Wars, he asked Marvel Comics to publish a comic book for the film’s release. Marvel’s initial reluctance abated once they understood that Lucas was prepared to give the rights for free. Royalties would only be paid if the comic sold more than 100,000 copies. Upon the movie’s release in May 1977, Marvel soon realised that they had a mega-hit on their hands. The first issues, scripted by Roy Thomas and drawn by Howard Chaykin, a young artist Lucas had spotted in the indie comic Star*Reach, sold over one million copies, four times the number of Marvel’s top superhero title: The Amazing Spider-Man. Hence, Star Wars became a monthly ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- The Whitney Museum of American Art announces its upcoming exhibitions through Fall 2027, highlighting the Museum’s continued commitment to artists working across painting, sculpture, photography, film, installation, performance, and digital art. Opening this fall, the Museum will present Roy Lichtenstein: Like New, a major exhibition examining one of the defining artists of the Pop art movement, alongside Roy Lichtenstein: 1997, a focused presentation of rarely seen works from the final year of the artist’s life. The season also includes The ... More
BOULDER, COLO.- A 24-inch shoulder spike from a Kentrosaurus, a massive Tyrannosaurus rex pelvis and the skulls of two prehistoric saber-toothed predators are among the highlights of an upcoming Artemis Fine Arts auction in Louisville, Colorado. The sale, titled Fine Fossils, Native American, Asian, Ethno, begins on August 6, 2026, at 9 a.m. GMT-6. The wide-ranging auction brings together fossils, Native American artifacts, Asian art and antiquities, as well as Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Near Eastern, Pre-Columbian and Tribal objects. Fine and visual art will also be represented. Leading the selection is an exceptionally rare fossilized shoulder spike from a Kentrosaurus that lived in what is now Tanzania during the Late Jurassic period, approximately 152 million years ago. The fossil carries an estimate ... More
Dr Louis Ng has been the inaugural Museum Director of the Hong Kong Palace Museum (HKPM) since August 2019.
HONG KONG.- The West Kowloon Cultural District Authority announced that Dr Louis Ng, Museum Director of the Hong Kong Palace Museum, will retire from his role in early January 2027 upon the completion of his contract. The WKCDA expresses its sincere gratitude to Dr Ng for his exemplary leadership and contributions over the past seven years. His strategic vision, unwavering commitment, and extensive experience in museum management have been instrumental in guiding the HKPM from its planning and construction stage to its grand opening in July 2022 and its development into a world-class museum in just four years. During Dr Ng’s tenure, the HKPM curated close to 40 thematic and special exhibitions, fostered global partnerships, including collaborations with the Palace Museum and leading cultural institutions in France, the United Kingdom, Qatar, and Egypt, welcoming over 4.6 million visitors and establishing itself as Hong Kong’s cultural tourism landmark. ... More
Conservators disassembled Giovanni Bellini’s Frari Triptych in preparation for restoration treatment.
VENICE.- Save Venice announced that the conservation of Giovanni Bellini's Madonna and Child with Saints (Frari Triptych) and its richly carved and gilded frame is now underway at the Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, thanks to the generous support of Merrill Shields and Dr. M. Ray Thomasson. Experienced conservators Giulio Bono and Roberto Saccuman have completed the delicate process of disassembling and moving the 15th-century altarpiece from the sacristy into a temporary restoration laboratory in another part of the church. The restoration, expected to take up to two years, began by treating of the panel paintings and wooden frame for an infestation of wood-boring insects. Conservators will also focus on consolidating weakened areas, stabilizing the decorative elements, and improving the long-term structural stability of the frame. On panel paintings, they will address small areas of lifting and flaking paint, as well as remove of darkened and oxidized varnishes from past intervent ... More
A rendering of the center of the new Egypt Galleries: Life and Afterlife, featuring the 4,300-year-old Tomb Chapel of Kaipure, which belonged to a high-ranking treasury official during Egypt’s Old Kingdom (2686-2181 BCE). Image: Penn Museum.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- A century after first opening its Egyptian Galleries, the Penn Museum will unveil its reimagined Egypt Galleries: Life and Afterlife on December 12, a major milestone in the largest transformation project in the institution’s 139-year history. Drawing from one of the most important Egyptian collections in the United States, the new galleries will bring together more than 1,000 artifacts spanning 4,000 years to explore how ancient Egyptians lived, worked, worshipped, and prepared for eternity. Representing the first phase of the bi-level 14,000-square-foot Ancient Egypt and Nubia Galleries, the Egypt Galleries: Life and Afterlife extend across a large, central gallery and three connecting spaces, comprising the entire 7,000-square-foot Main Level of the Museum’s Eckley B. Coxe Wing—first constructed in 1926 and fully renovated ahead of the ... More
Overview of the excavated track surface with a mix of deeper hippopotamus and antelope footprints and shallower hominin tracks visible. Kay Behrensmeyer, Smithsonian.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Ancient footprints preserved along the shores of Kenya’s Lake Turkana are reshaping scientists’ understanding of one of humanity’s extinct relatives. A paper published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences describes a set of fossil trackways made by a group of ancient human relatives that were moving along a lakeshore more than 1.4 million years ago. An international team of researchers from the U.S. and Kenya analyzed a trove of fossilized footprints that were left behind by a troop of eight Paranthropus boisei hominins, first discovered nearly 50 years ago in northern Kenya by Kay Behrensmeyer, senior research geologist and curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. Behrensmeyer’s team initially discovered the trackway in 1978 and is studying how the local geology preserved ... More
The National Archaeological Museum adds 239 highly significant coins to its collection of Andalusi numismatics
MADRID.- Spain’s National Archaeological Museum has added 239 rare coins to what is already considered the world’s most important public collection of Andalusi numismatics, strengthening a group that documents nearly eight centuries of Islamic history on the Iberian Peninsula. The coins were acquired by Spain’s Ministry of Culture through several auctions held between 2024 and 2026. Together, the purchases represent an investment of €988,126 and expand the museum’s Andalusi holdings to nearly 17,000 objects. All of the newly acquired pieces come from the Tonegawa Collection and date from between the eighth and fifteenth centuries. The group includes coins of exceptional rarity, among them a gold dobla issued by Boabdil that records his complete genealogy, as well as what the museum describes as the first dirham minted in al-Andalus after it emerged as an independent political entity. For the museum, the coins are far more than examples of historical ... More
The exhibition traces Herzog & de Meuron’s evolving vision over the last two decades.
HONG KONG.- M+ will present Herzog & de Meuron: In Focus. Opening in September, this exhibition celebrates the museum’s fifth anniversary and marks the second phase of a significant donation to the M+ Collections by Herzog & de Meuron, the internationally renowned architectural firm that designed the M+ building. The exhibition traces Herzog & de Meuron’s evolving vision over the last two decades through ten key projects in China dating from 2002 to 2021, including M+ (2012–2021) and Tai Kwun in Hong Kong (2006–2018), and the National Stadium in Beijing (2002–2008). It will open to the public in the M+ Focus Gallery from Saturday, 12 September 2026 to Sunday, 10 January 2027. Inspired by the Kabinett—a foundation established in 2015 by Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron as a permanent repository of architectural thinking and knowledge for research and exchange—the exhibition displays its objects in replicas of the wooden vitrines developed ... More
Jacqeuline Kaytar, Alter Pendant 35D. Brass. Ceriops Beeswax.
SOUTH BRISBANE.- For more than two decades, Unleashed has launched the careers of some of Queensland's most exciting makers. This year, an expanded edition of artisan's career-defining biennial raises the bar by debuting at HOTA, Home of the Arts on the Gold Coast. Behind every remarkable object is a maker with a story. Some work from kitchen benches, others from backyard sheds, shared studios and converted warehouses. Their practices are as diverse as the materials they transform, yet many share a defining milestone: Unleashed. Unleashed is the exhibition where architects and interior designers discover creatives to commission. Where collectors acquire future classics. Where curators spot fresh talent. And where emerging makers take a leap from promising practice toward national recognition. On view until 8 November 2026, artisan's expanded edition of Unleashed+ brings together 12 outstanding ... More
Kent Monkman (Cree, b. 1965), The Great Mystery, 2023. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, purchased through the Miriam H. and S. Sidney Stoneman Acquisition Fund.
AKRON, OH.- The Akron Art Museum is presenting Kent Monkman: History Is Painted by the Victors, a sweeping exhibition of monumental paintings by internationally renowned Cree artist Kent Monkman. Through his bold and subversive lens, Monkman reimagines the genre of history painting to confront colonial narratives and offer urgent new perspectives on the past and present. Organized by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Denver Art Museum, the exhibition has previously been presented to wide acclaim. Akron is the only Midwest venue to host the show during its tour, offering audiences in Ohio the rare opportunity to experience Monkman’s epic body of work. The exhibition features important loans from major institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, alongside works from private ... More
Blues singer Guitar Shorty at home in Elm City, North Carolina, 1972. Photograph: Val Wilmer.
ST LEONARDS ON SEA.- Lucy Bell Gallery is presenting Val Wilmer: Blue Moments, Black Sounds, an exhibition Wilmer’s insightful photographs of Black musicians, jazz and blues, capturing the spirit of the times. Val Wilmer is a celebrated British photographer who has been documenting Black music since taking a snapshot of Louis Armstrong at the age of 14. In those early years, Wilmer attended concerts accompanied by her mother, who believed she was too young to go alone. “In 1956 the King of Jazz came to England. Louis Armstrong played several nights in West London on an extraordinary revolving stage at a hall in Earl’s Court. I went there with my family to see him, and when he and his All-Stars left for Ghana, I followed him out to the airport.” “While my brother got Louis’s autograph, I asked the trumpeter if I could photograph him, armed with my mother’s Box Brownie. At 14-and-a-half, I was on my way to a lifetime of learning.” ... More
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The Sky Has Already Fallen exhibition opens at Messums West TISBURY.- Messums West announced the inaugural presentation of The Sky Has Already Fallen, with a talk and guided tour with the artists Peachey & Mosig. The Sky Has Already Fallen is a residency-based response to a thirteenth-century barn supported by Messums ORG and The Corridor Project [TCP]. Peachey & Mosig are Australian visual artists whose practice explores the relationship between humans and the natural world through moving image, sound, textiles, and installation. Their work asks what it means to grieve ecologically, collectively, and without certainty, and whether shared acts of witness might open onto futures that feel less inevitable. Grounded in human ecology and field research, their collaborative practice explores the evolving understanding between humans and the natural world through sensory, site-responsive encounters that translate ... More
Denver Art Museum opens exhibition exploring 125 years of flatware design DENVER, CO.- The Denver Art Museum presents Knife Fork Spoon: Everyday Tools, Extraordinary Design, featuring approximately 150 flatware sets spanning over a century, from 1900 to 2026. Knife Fork Spoon will be on view through May 2028, in the Joanne Posner-Mayer Mezzanine Gallery on level two of the museum’s Martin Building and is included with general admission. From Art Nouveau’s flowing curves to Zaha Hadid’s sculptural geometries, flatware has served as a canvas for design innovation for more than a century. In the cultures that use these implements, Knife Fork Spoon reveals how designers transformed humble eating utensils into expressions of cultural identity, technological progress and artistic vision, proving that even ordinary objects can be extraordinary. Visitors will discover historic and recent flatware by Eliel Saarinen, Jean Puiforcat, ... More
Open call: Singapore Art Museum Residencies Cycle 4 (2027/2028) SINGAPORE.- Singapore Art Museum’s international residency programme is opening applications for its fourth cycle. Since its inception in 2021, SAM Residencies has hosted more than 80 residents from 35 countries at its post-industrial warehouse spaces in Tanjong Pagar Distripark. Conceived as a site of incubation, SAM Residencies draws on the museum’s networks and resources to support artistic experimentation, creative development, and international exchange through field trips, collaborations and a range of public activations. Residents will pursue independent research and are open to engage with communities and the public in Singapore as part of their process. They are also encouraged to share works in progress or research outcomes through open studios, screenings, workshops, talks, and other experimental public formats. SAM Residencies ... More
Painter Andrew Salgado shifts from figurative art to abstraction in new show LONDON.- BEERS London is presenting a new body of work by Andrew Salgado, entitled Glory! For the first time, Salgado ventures from figurative painting to present a series devoted exclusively to abstracted florals. At once funereal and joyous, these exuberant compositions occupy a space between celebration and mourning, expression and uncertainty. Bursting with colour and vitality, they embrace contradiction: frustration and release, restraint and abandon, beauty and decay. For the artist, the word "glory" is laden with possibility, at once promising and mildly unsettling; its etymology meaning majestic and light, but also heaviness, social weightiness. Given the turmoil of recent years, as well as Salgado's own increasingly literary approach to his art, this body of work is a response and reaction to his own tendency toward narrative. In recent years, his exhibitions ... More
New exhibition brings sacred, living Indigenous art to Austin AUSTIN, TX.- threads & patterns: living indigenous art of the americas brings together works from three Indigenous traditions of the Americas. Each piece in the exhibition carries meaning that predates Western art categories: these are objects of ceremony, maps of a cosmology, and transmissions of knowledge passed down through generations of makers. The works are not documentation of a vanishing practice. They are the practice itself, ongoing and alive. The Wixarika works are made by the Carrillo Bautista family, who live in Real de Catorce in the mountains of San Luis Potosí, Mexico. Their father is a maracame, a Huichol shaman and healer. The yarn paintings and beaded sculptures they produce are built thread by thread, bead by bead, pressed into wax on wooden forms, each image encoding the Wixarika cosmovision: the sacred peyote, ... More
Seven contemporary artists redefine the sacred spirit of Chinese ink at Bluerider ART MANHATTAN BEACH, CA.- Ink, as one of the foremost visual vehicles of Eastern aesthetics, rests on a twofold foundation. The first is a material system of brush, ink, paper, and water—the aesthetics of “ink in five tones.” The second is a philosophical spirit centered on “Chi-rythm, life-movement” and “knowing the black, keeping the white,” which, through the interplay of void and substance, constructs a spiritual space one can wander and dwell within. In contrast to the Western tradition of representation that, since the Renaissance, has been governed by linear perspective and chiaroscuro, ink developed a spatial vision of multiple viewpoints and the “three distances”. The irreversible, permeating nature of its materials demands an exceptional command of the fleeting “force of the brush” and “breath” of the moment. From the maturation of the Song landscape ... More
MFAH to showcase groundbreaking exhibition on Black general-interest magazines from 1930 to 1970 HOUSTON, TX.- Between 1930 and 1970, more than 300 general-interest magazines were published for the Black community—nationally, including such titles as Newspic, Sepia, and Ebony, and locally, from Cincinnati’s NIP to Harlem’s Survey Graphic and Eyes in Iowa City. Black picture magazines and their image makers chronicled Black American life across the nation. At a time before social media, these publications were the primary spaces of self-representation, helping to foster communities and define cultural standards. On view February 28 to May 31, 2027, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston exhibition Bold and Brilliant: The Rise of Black American Magazines, 1930–1970 is the first dedicated to photographers working for Black magazines across the country, spanning the eras of the Great Migration, Civil Rights activism, and the Black Is Beautiful movement. ... More
MIT Museum to open 'Crochet Coral Reef' exhibition exploring art, math and climate CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- The MIT Museum will present Crochet Coral Reef, on view from August 14, 2026, to February 14, 2027. Featuring a series of hand-crocheted forms inspired by the beauty and complexity of coral reefs, the exhibition centers on the work of Australian artists and sisters Margaret Wertheim and Christine Wertheim, alongside the paper sculpture explorations of Erik and Martin Demaine, which help visualize and understand unsolved problems in science. Converging art, mathematics, marine science, and community participation, the exhibition invites visitors into an immersive exploration of one of the planet’s most extraordinary and threatened ecosystems. This exhibition is the first of OCEANS, the MIT Museum’s thematic season dedicated to unlocking the mysteries of our ocean planet. As ocean temperatures rise and coral reefs bleach at unprecedented ... More
Queen bee pheromones help daughters decide whether to stay or leave the nest WASHINGTON, DC.- Female sweat bees need to make a pivotal life decision: remain in the nest to help their mother raise more offspring or leave to establish nests of their own. New research from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) found that queen pheromones help influence that choice, offering new insight into how cooperation evolved in insect societies. In a study published July 28 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, STRI and Princeton University postdoctoral fellow Callum Kingwell, STRI staff scientist Bill Wcislo and colleagues identified for the first time that via pheromones, sweat bee queens of the species Megalopta genalis communicate to their daughters that sticking by them is a worthwhile investment. When sweat bee daughters grow up, their lives head in one of several directions. Some remain in the nest as non-reproductive ... More
M+ Restored announces three newly restored films that honour Hong Kong's cinematic legacy HONG KONG.- M+ presents three newly restored films in 4K from the M+ Restored initiative: Cageman (1992) by Jacob Cheung, Just Like Weather (1986) by Allen Fong, and The Butterfly Murders (1979) by Tsui Hark. Together, these titles reflect the creative experimentation and technical innovation of the Hong Kong New Wave, a globally influential movement that encompasses diverse approaches to filmmaking, from social realism and hybrid forms to breakthroughs in genre cinema. Following an international film festival tour, the titles will be presented at the M+ Cinema in Autumn 2026, marking the initiative’s next phase. Since its debut in 2025, M+ Restored has expanded the global recognition of Hong Kong’s cinematic heritage. As of June 2026, close to one hundred screenings have taken place across thirty-six cities worldwide, including major film festivals ... More
Nine Hong Kong artists reinterpret Chinese heritage at Hong Kong Palace Museum HONG KONG.- The Hong Kong Palace Museum unveiled its latest thematic exhibition “The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: A Day in the City ─ An Experimental Study of Things Across Time” (“A Day in the City”). Bringing together nine established and emerging Hong Kong artists across diverse disciplines, “A Day in the City” creates a remarkable space for dialogue between the majestic grandeur of the Forbidden City and the vibrancy of contemporary Hong Kong. Bridging Chinese heritage and contemporary art, the exhibition invites visitors on a journey across time to discover how historical wisdom and traditions continue to resonate in modern life. Through experimental artistic expression, it reimagines cultural heritage for the contemporary city with renewed vitality. A centrepiece of the exhibition is a participatory artistic space dedicated to public workshops ... More
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On a day like today, German war photographer Gerda Taro was born
August 01, 1910. Gerta Pohorylle (1 August 1910 - 26 July 1937), known professionally as Gerda Taro, was a German war photographer active during the Spanish Civil War. She is regarded as the first female photojournalist to have died while covering the frontline in a war. Taro was the companion and professional partner of photographer Robert Capa, who, like her, was Jewish. The name "Robert Capa" was originally an alias that Taro and Capa (born Endre Friedmann) shared, an invention meant to mitigate the increasing political intolerance in Europe and to attract the lucrative American market. Therefore, a significant amount of what is credited as Robert Capa's early work was actually created by Taro.
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