Installation view of Gainsborough: The Fashion of Portraiture at The Frick Collection. Photo: Joseph Coscia Jr.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Frick Collection presents its first special exhibition dedicated to the English artist Thomas Gainsborough, and the first devoted to his portraiture ever held in New York. Displaying more than two dozen paintings, the show explores the richly interwoven relationship between Gainsborough’s portraits and fashion in the eighteenth century. The works included represent some of the greatest achievements from every stage of this period-defining artist’s career, drawn from the Frick’s holdings and from collections across North America and the United Kingdom. The trappings and trade of fashion filled Gainsborough’s world—in magazines and tailor shops, at the opera and on promenades—and his portraits were at the heart of it all. This exhibition invites visitors to consider not only the clothing the artist depicted in his paintings, but also the role of his canvases as both records of and players in the larger conception of fashion: encompassing everything from ... More
AUSTIN, TX.-Frank Gehry & Robert Tannen: Art, Architecture & IdeasFrank Gehry & Robert Tannen: Art, Architecture & Ideas presents a richly illustrated and deeply personal account of the lifelong friendship, artistic exploration, and professional dialogue between two seminal figures in contemporary architecture and design: Frank Gehry and Robert Tannen. Published by Artvoices Books, the volume combines essays, personal reflections, archival materials, and a wide range of visual work — from architectural models and sculptures to paintings, printmaking and urban planning projects — underscoring how the dialogue between art and architecture has animated both practitioners’ work. At the heart of the book is the remarkable collaboration between Gehry, internationally recognized for redefining contemporary architecture with iconic structures such as the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and Walt Disney Concert Hall, and Tannen, whose multifac ... More
For the first time, Portugal is repatriating stolen archaeological artifacts to Mexico. Photo: INAH.
MEXICO CITY.- In a landmark gesture of cultural cooperation, Portugal has returned three pre-Hispanic archaeological objects that were illegally removed from Mexico, marking the first time the European nation has restituted heritage pieces to the country. The artifacts were formally handed over to the Mexican Embassy in Lisbon on February 12, 2026, in a ceremony that underscored growing international collaboration against the illicit trafficking of cultural property. The objects—representing distinct cultures and historical periods of ancient Mesoamerica—will be repatriated to Mexico via diplomatic pouch in the coming weeks. Mexico’s Secretary of Culture, Claudia Curiel de Icaza, described the restitution as an important milestone in bilateral cooperation and in Mexico’s broader efforts to safeguard its cultural legacy abroad. “This return confirms that international cooperation protects who we are,” she said in a statement. “Each restitution restores memory ... More
Francis Bacon, Self-Portrait, 1972. Estimate: £8,000,000–12,000,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- A storied Francis Bacon self-portrait—painted in 1972 in the shadow of devastating personal loss—leads an extraordinary quartet of paintings from The Lewis Collection, set to headline Sotheby’s Modern & Contemporary sales in London. Two career-defining portraits by Lucian Freud, and Leon Kossoff’s Children’s Swimming Pool—widely considered the artist’s masterpiece—complete the group. Together, these paintings capture the School of London at its height and the zenith of each artist’s career— raw, psychologically charged, and profoundly human. Assembled over decades by Joe Lewis and his daughter Vivienne, among the movement’s greatest champions, each of these museum-quality works holds a central place in the story of postwar painting. These artists’ unflinching focus on the human figure laid the foundations for figurative painting today, influencing a generation of artists worldwide—from Jenny Saville and Tracey Emin, to Ce ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art will mark the nation’s 250th anniversary with a series of summer programs and a free membership for New York State arts educators. An exhibition on the Museum’s third floor will feature folk art collected by one of MoMA’s three founders, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. It will highlight America’s vibrant tradition of vernacular art-making, and the key role that folk art played in MoMA’s early history. A film series focused on immigration and the American dream will reflect on the historically unprecedented movement and mixture of peoples that has inspired creativity in the US. Honoring the American ideal of “one out of many,” a collective art-making project will invite visitors to collaboratively create a work of art that will be hung on the walls of the Donald and Catherine Marron Family Atrium, ... More
John Skoog, Detail from "Svalebo" in REDOUBT, 2026 Photo: Peo Olsson/Moderna Museet.
MALMO.- How do we build safety in a world that trembles? In the Turbine Hall at Moderna Museet Malmö, John Skoog and his collaborators present “REDOUBT”, a monumental sculptural and filmic work that reflects on fear, care, and collective unease in our own time. Coinciding with the exhibition, Skoog’s new feature film of the same title premieres in Swedish cinemas. Armoured bunker or a simple hut? A protective redoubt for a Scanian village – or a brutalist sculpture? In “REDOUBT”, visitors move through the borderlands of twilight: between fantasy and reality, between play and gravity. Here are austerity and petrified paranoia – but also the deepest care. It was in the Scanian plains, near Hörby, that agricultural worker Karl-Göran Persson (1894 –1975) transformed his home into an armoured fortress: protection against a war he feared, a war that never came. He poured fear into concrete, and loneliness became masonry in a structure ... More
Jack Vettriano, Another Married Man, 2001. Work on museum-grade paper. 39 × 30.5 cm.
ROME.- A major retrospective celebrating the life and work of Scottish painter Jack Vettriano has opened at Palazzo Velli, offering Italian audiences a rare opportunity to revisit the cinematic, emotionally charged world of one of Britain’s most popular modern artists. The exhibition, now on view through July 5, 2026, brings together more than 80 works spanning Vettriano’s career, alongside photographs, works on paper, and archival material that illuminate both his artistic journey and enduring public appeal. Curated by Francesca Bogliolo and organized by Pallavicini s.r.l. in collaboration with Jack Vettriano Publishing, the show traces the evolution of an artist whose evocative scenes of romance, mystery, and sensuality captured the imagination of collectors worldwide—even as critics remained divided about his work. Born Jack Hoggan in Fife, Scotland, in 1951, Vettriano’s rise to international recognition is often described as a story straight out of a Victorian novel. R ... More
LONDON.- The British Museum announced it has raised the £3.5 million of funding needed to acquire the Tudor Heart Pendant for its permanent collection, ensuring it will be on public display for generations to come. The campaign to acquire the unique 24-carat-gold pendant linked to Henry VIII and his first wife Katherine of Aragon started last October with the aim of raising enough funding before April 2026 to keep the Heart in a public collection. The campaign has reached its target in time for Valentine's Day thanks to the £1.75 million award from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, marking its 45th anniversary as a fund of last resort for the UK's most exceptional heritage. The National Heritage Memorial Fund award, and the overwhelmingly positive public response and major awards from other arts bodies and donations from individual philanthropists, secured the campaign's success and meant the funding target has been reached before April. Supported by the ... More
Sarah Lucas, Bunny Rabbit, 2022. Bronze, concrete, mild steel, 94 x 78 x 114,5 cm.
ROME.- Tim Van Laere Gallery Rome is presenting Lust for Life, a group exhibition with works by Carroll Dunham, Gelitin, George Grosz, Sarah Lucas, Ben Sledsens, Rinus Van de Velde, Franz West, and Rose Wylie. Borrowing its title from the iconic Iggy Pop anthem, Lust for Life stands as a rejoinder to the tension and uncertainty of the present. Rather than retreat, the show places emphasis on energy, desire, humor, defiance, and the irrepressible drive to create. Across generations and sensibilities, these artists share an insistence on the charged, combustible experience of being alive and on art as a space where that vitality can be confronted, celebrated, and felt. The works The Invasion and Waiting for Better Times by George Grosz stand at the heart of this exhibition. These works of 1947 and 1933 resonates strongly with our current times. They present lust for life turned inside out: what happens ... More
Benni Bosetto “Rebecca”. Exhibition view, Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2026 Courtesy the artist and Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan Photo Agostino Osio.
MILAN.- Pirelli HangarBicocca is presenting Rebecca, the first solo exhibition by Benni Bosetto in a museum. Conceived as an environment to be inhabited, the works transform the museum into a domestic and imaginative space, where lightness, rest, and pleasure take on a critical dimension. The exhibition unfolds as a “sensorial manifesto” reflecting on some of the most urgent tensions of the present—between freedom and control, self-determination and constraint, productivity and desire—affirming daydreaming as a form of resistance. "The exhibition is an invitation to reclaim public and museum spaces as places to dream. Daydreaming becomes a collective exercise in imagining a desirable future based not on productivity, but on sensitivity, emotion, and transformation", explains Benni Bosetto. Benni Bosetto (born in Merate in 1987; currently lives and works in Milan) explores ... More
EDINBURGH.- Two spectacular stone altars from a Roman fort near Edinburgh have been acquired for the National Collection ahead of a major exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland. The rare carvings are among the finest examples of sculpture from Roman Britain and will go on display for the first time in Roman Scotland: Life on the Edge of Empire (14 November 2026 – 28 April 2027). Once the centrepiece of the most northerly known temple to the god Mithras in the whole of the Roman empire, the altars were excavated at Inveresk, East Lothian and are the only examples to be found in Scotland. Dating to the 140s - when southern Scotland was reoccupied under Antoninus Pius - they reveal new details about the lives and beliefs of soldiers on the frontier. Mithras was a secretive, male-only religion which celebrated the triumph of good over evil and light over darkness. The altars would have been a striking focal point in the underground Mithraeum. One depicts the ... More
MONTREAL.- The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is presenting the Canadian premiere of an exhibition dedicated to legendary photographer Richard Avedon (1923-2004). Bringing together some 100 portraits of well-known and lesser-known cultural and political figures, this poignant presentation is an unflinching exploration of aging from one of the 20th century’s most renowned photographers. “In a culture enthralled by youth and beauty, Richard Avedon turned his lens on the universal experience of aging with unflinching candour. The faces he photographed are not softened by nostalgia or sentiment; they are inscribed with time and the weight of lived experience. Refusing the comfort of idealization, Avedon’s portraits offer deeply human encounters, where each wrinkle bears witness to a singular life lived,” says Mary-Dailey Desmarais, the Zhao-Ionescu Chief Curator of the MMFA. Few artists have addressed this subject as ... More
VIENNA.- Home but Not at Home is dedicated to Friedl Kubelka’s painting, which has scarcely been presented publicly until now. Internationally famous for her conceptual photographs and experimental short films, Kubelka has also been working continuously with drawing and gouache since the beginning of her artistic career around 1970s. The exhibition at the Belvedere 21 is now showing this central group of works for the first time on a larger scale – together with seven short films, some of which have yet to be released. Friedl Kubelka (b. 1946 in London), who has called herself Friedl vom Gröller as a filmmaker since 2009, lives and works in Vienna and Paris. For more than five decades, she has been uncompromisingly engaging with all aspects of human existence in her transmedia practice. She focuses on psychological states in relation to external conditions, intrapersonal relationships and emotional and moral marginal zones. She approaches them with analytical acuity, empathy, humor an ... More
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New York State Museum celebrates Black women of the Great Migration with new display ALBANY, NY.- The New York State Museum is honoring the Black women whose faith helped shape Albany’s communities with the opening of its newest collections feature, Fashion and Faith: Hats from the Great Migration. Between 1910 and 1970, more than seven million African Americans left the South, with New York State becoming a popular destination for those seeking higher wages, better housing, less discrimination, and improved educational opportunities for their children. The display explores the lived experiences of women during the Great Migration through their church hats, which became vibrant, impactful expressions of identity, connection, and possibilities. The display features 25 hats worn by women who primarily settled in Albany’s South End, Arbor Hill, and Rapp Road neighborhoods. Visitors will learn about the lives and legacies of influential community builders and leaders, including Lady Florine Delores “Sue” Johnson, First Lady of the Greater St. John’s Church of ... More
Figge Art Museum presents Preston Singletary: Raven and the Box of Daylight DAVENPORT, IOWA.- This winter, the Figge Art Museum presents Preston Singletary: Raven and the Box of Daylight, an immersive exhibition that brings ancestral storytelling into the present through glass, sound, and light. On view February 14 through August 2, 2026, the exhibition invites visitors to step inside an Indigenous creation story that continues to shape how people understand their world, their communities, and themselves. Rooted in Tlingit oral tradition, the exhibition centers on Raven, a powerful trickster figure who transforms the world by releasing light. Rather than treating this story as something fixed in the past, Singletary approaches it as a living narrative, one that evolves as it is retold, reimagined, and shared across generations. His glass sculptures, paired with music, soundscapes, and immersive imagery, create an environment where story is not simply observed, but experienced. As visitors embark on a multisensory journey from darkness into light, they move through the galleries ... More
Aranya Art Center presents 2026 exhibition program in Qinhuangdao and Guangzhou GUANGZHOU.- Aranya Art Center announced its 2026 exhibition program. In the spring of 2026, Aranya Art Center Guangzhou will lead the season with In Absence and in Presence: Works from the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection, alongside the first solo exhibition in China by Lebanese artist Haig Aivazian. Meanwhile, Aranya Art Center in Qinhuangdao will, for the first time, bring historical collections into dialogue with contemporary art through the group exhibition After Fire. Concurrently, Swedish artists Nina Mangalanayagam and Marie Dilmaya Bergqvist will present their first exhibition in China, A Song from Across the Sea. In the fall of 2026, Aranya Art Center Guangzhou will launch the group exhibition Towards the Land, which departs from the Pearl River Delta to engage in a global discourse on the complex interplay between land and humanity. At Aranya Art Center, a number of artists from the Aranya Winter Residency will unveil parallel new solo projects within the group exhibition To Ask by Touc ... More
MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow 2026: Fifteenth anniversary program KRAKOW.- The fifteenth anniversary of the MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, which falls in 2026, will be a time of exceptional artistic intensity and a look into the future. It will also be the first year under the guidance of the new director Adam Budak. The focus will be on exhibitions by three internationally renowned artists: Ewa Partum, Kiki Smith, and Eleanor Antin. Long overdue, the program will be enriched with strong and important positions represented by female artists. And these are not the only strong feminist voices that will build a space for dialogue with art in our museum! In 2026, we can look forward to three seasons and major events connected with the opening of new exhibitions by renowned artists—from March 7, we will see the exhibition Ewa Partum: Contemplating Art, Contemplating Love (season I), on July 25—Kiki Smith: Human Condition (season II), and on December 5, Eleanor Antin: Retrospective (season III). Ewa Partum (born 1945) is celebrating her 80th ... More
The intelligence of the swarm: Diambe's 'Bees beings beans' opens in Basel BASEL.- In Bees beings beans, Diambe begins with a seemingly pure and simple material: beeswax. However, in the artist’s hands, it turns into something else entirely. It softens, melts, resists, remembers. It presents a way to reflect on transformation, about how forms hold together or fall apart, and about the silent force of matter as it moves through time or across temp- erature scales. The exhibition, unfolding through sculpture, painting, and film, develops from early encounters with bees in Diambe’s São Paulo studio; what began as observation gave way to entanglement. Bees entered the space uninvited and stayed. Their presence introduced new rhythms of awareness and new questions: about the porousness between living systems and built environments and about how bodies gather, adapt, or refuse containment. The exhibition's architecture follows the logic of a beehive. Sculptures rest on modular, honeycomb-like platforms. Visitors move among them, pause, and regroup, like a swarm r ... More
National Gallery of Canada celebrates Indigenous women carvers OTTAWA.- From February 13 to July 26, 2026, the National Gallery of Canada presents Women Carvers on the Northwest Coast, a landmark exhibition that shines a long-overdue spotlight on the Indigenous women artists of wood and argillite carving. For decades, the global recognition of Northwest Coast carving has been predominantly focused on male artists. This exhibition shatters that lens, featuring close to 60 intricate works—including totem poles, masks, and ceremonial bowls—from 14 artists whose hands have shaped the Indigenous visual and cultural identity on the coast of British Columbia since the 1950s. The works are on loan from public and private collections across Canada and the United States. Organized by the Audain Art Museum (AMM), the exhibition is a condensed version of its 2024–25 show Curve! Women Carvers on the Northwest Coast, co-curated by renowned artist and filmmaker Dana Claxton and Curtis Collins, PhD, Executive Director of the AAM. This exhibition marks a fir ... More
A legend turns 90: Hauser & Wirth Somerset honors Don McCullin's seven-decade journey LONDON.- Hauser & Wirth celebrates ‘Don McCullin. 90’ in the photographer’s home county of Somerset, marking his 90th year and coinciding with ‘Don McCullin. Broken Beauty’ at The Holburne Museum, Bath. This special presentation spans the Bourgeois and Rhoades Galleries, hung in chronological order to map the dynamism of McCullin’s life and journey in photography to date. The exhibition features works from McCullin’s 2019 Tate Britain exhibition in London, alongside seminal images across his prolific seven- decade career. McCullin’s only self-portrait, taken in 1963 at Crowthers Reclamation Yard, Isleworth, is being exhibited for the first time in the UK, alongside two new images taken in 2026 in West Papua, Eastern Indonesia. Unlike McCullin’s widespread photojournalism, this focused curation is not anchored to a specific marker in recent history but instead provides an unbound homage to quieter moments within the everyday. McCullin conjures the pow ... More
Mennour unveils a dialogue between Jean Degottex and Sidival Fila PARIS.- Mennour is presenting an original dialogue between two artists: one historical, Jean Degottex (1918–1988, France), the other contemporary, Sidival Fila (born in 1962, Brazil). At the turn of the 1980s, Jean Degottex began one of the most simplified periods of his career. After the gestural intensity of the previous decades, his painting seemed to enter a new phase of meditation. The gesture disappears, the sign withdraws, the surface becomes the support of traces, prints, scratches, as if the artist was trying to reach a zone in which only the tension of the painting remains. His interest in Eastern philosophy, the Zen emptiness, the breath (qi) fashioned a thought in which the painting gradually fades. It is the outcome of a slow process in which the artist sought a fundamental reduction. The canvas becomes a field in which the pictorial gesture only happens at its point of equilibrium: enough to produce a vibration but not enough to be called a motif. The sign is dissolved in a ... More
New Transformer Station exhibit reclaims Cleveland's neighborhood stories CLEVELAND, OH.- In partnership with Cleveland Print Room, the Cleveland Museum of Art presents Improper Frames at Transformer Station, the museum’s satellite location in Ohio City’s Hingetown neighborhood. On view from February 14 through May 10, 2026, this free exhibition brings together artists and photographers working through Cleveland’s internal boundaries, partial views, and shifting frames. Their works engage a city recently rendered legible through a comprehensive property inventory, classifying and evaluating land across the city. The exhibition features work by Amber Ford, Jon Gott, Michael Indriolo, Da’Shaunae Marisa, Vivica Satterwhite, and Alejandro Vergara, and is curated by Theodossis Issaias. Between 2022 and 2023, a citywide property inventory was conducted by municipal and nonprofit partners. Two-person teams walked every street, day after day, for six months. Equipped with tablets and a GIS-linked survey application, they moved parcel by parcel through the city, ... More
Medals of WW2 tank commander purchased by museum DORSET.- The medal group of a WW2 tank commander photographed with Winston Churchill has been purchased by The Tank Museum, with support from the Arts Council England/V&A Purchase Grant Fund. The group of eight medals belonged to Lieutenant Colonel Stewart Inglis Howard-Jones from the Royal Tank Regiment, who served in Normandy and commanded a battalion at the Crossing of the Rhine. Joining the army as a Private in 1933 to indulge his love of sports, Howard-Jones’ earned his commission in 1938 and quickly established teams in 8th Battalion, Royal Tank Corps. His actions in Normandy 1944 earned him a Military Cross, where he “led his Squadron with such skill and daring that they were able to destroy three Panther tanks, one Tiger and one MKIV German ta ... More
Previously unpublished Stephen F. Austin letter heads to auction DALLAS, TX.- At the beginning of 1832, Stephen F. Austin, the “Father of Texas,” was resolute in his desire to protect Texas’ interests, despite battling poor health and exhaustion following decades of public service. He was losing confidence in the Mexican government, and he was so concerned about the future of Texas that he dictated in a letter his final words to his fellow Texans, should he die in a hazardous looming journey: “Be calm, be prudent, but firm and united.” That message comes from his January 10, 1832, letter to his political ally David G. Burnet, who would go on to be the interim president of Texas immediately following the Texas Revolution, serve as vice president of the republic under Mirabeau B. Lamar and become Texas’ first secretary of state after annexation to the United States. In the missive, he rails against the Law of April 6, 1830, which sought to halt immigration from the United States and canceled empresario grants — conditional gifts ... More
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