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Julie Green's "The Last Supper" is on display at the Georgia Museum of Art
ATHENS, GA.- Thanks to a generous loan from Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art as part of Art Bridges’ Partner Loan Network, the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia is displaying plates from Julie Green’s “The Last Supper” series through August 16. Green painted each secondhand ceramic plate with cobalt blue mineral paint to illustrate death row inmates’ final meal requests as well as the state and date of their execution. Green, who used gender-neutral pronouns, planned to create 50 plates every year until they reached 1,000 plates or until capital punishment was abolished — whichever came first. They completed the thousandth plate in September 2021, one month before their death. Of the 1,000 plates, the Georgia Museum has selected 377 that focus on the Southeast and neighboring states, encouraging local viewers to consider how their ... More

New York Friars Club treasures top Legends of Comedy at Julien's Auctions
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Julien’s Auctions wrapped Legends of Comedy Featuring the New York Friars Club, its highly anticipated presentation and celebration of the bastion of American comedy with bidders from across the globe participating on Wednesday, March 4, 2026 online on juliensauctions.com. Treasures from the landmarked New York Friars Club, housed in the elegant and glamorous six-story townhouse in midtown Manhattan, along with the collections of comedy icons Gallagher and Louie Anderson were offered to the public for the first time in this historic event presented exclusively by Julien’s. Rare and important items featuring some of the Friars’ most famous members, infamous celebrity roasts and toasts, honorary luncheons, testimonial dinners and other events, as well as archival material chronicling the legendary times held at the famed showbusiness enclave ... More

Sir Jony Ive & LoveFrom design new Christie's rostrum
LONDON.- Christie's rostrum, originally designed and made in the 1700s for James Christie by Thomas Chippendale, has been re-designed by Sir Jony Ive and his team at LoveFrom. It was unveiled today, March 5, in the company headquarters on London's King Street, at the beginning of the 20/21 evening sale to a packed saleroom. This year marks 260 years since the company was founded in 1766. Over the last 260 years the rostrum has stood central to the most important auction moments in the world. From the first sale which included a pair of sheets, two pillowcases, two chamber pots, and four irons, through revolutions, global and category expansion, records set and broken, it is at the heart of the Christie's brand and the auction world. It was thus only fitting that any evolution of the rostrum acknowledges the integrity of the brand's history and values, while positioning ... More

ABN AMRO Art Award winner Ivna Esajas debuts "Wayward Lines"
AMSTERDAM.- From 7 March 2026, Ivna Esajas will present Wayward Lines. Consent Not to Be a Single Being at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. The exhibition is part of the 13th ABN AMRO Art Award, which she won last year. Esajas invited artists Siomara Ratna van Bochove, Sondi and Jaasir Linger, as well as DJ LOVESUPREME, to contribute to the exhibition. Ivna Esajas’ work moves at the intersection of drawing and painting. Her figures flow into each other and form temporary connections that are both fragile and resilient. In a poetic and playful way, she raises questions about our interconnectedness and our relationship to history. This commitment to collectivity is at the heart of this project. From her practice – where perspectives continuously intertwine — the exhibition was developed as a call-and-response, a concept based on interaction, to which different ... More

Léon Spilliaert's nocturnal vision returns to Paris
PARIS.- David Zwirner is presenting an exhibition of work by Belgian artist Léon Spilliaert (1881–1946) in collaboration with Agnews, Brussels, which is on view on the second floor of the gallery’s location in Paris. Best known for his works on paper, Spilliaert developed a unique vision characterized by its psychological intensity and aura of mystery over nearly fifty years. This presentation follows a major exhibition in France at the Musée d’Orsay in 2020–2021, as well as an acclaimed exhibition at David Zwirner New York in 2025. The exhibition, such as in New York, is curated by Dr. Noémie Goldman, specialist of nineteenth-century Belgian art and director of Agnews, Brussels. Spilliaert’s distinctive and highly enigmatic compositions reveal myriad inspirations ranging from symbolist literature to the seaside city of Ostend, Belgium. Rarely working from a dedicated ... More

Portraits of Pauline Boty now in the collection of The Museum of Contemporary Art, LA
LONDON.- Gazelli Art House announced that a selection of five portrait photographs of Pauline Boty by photographer Micheal Ward are now in the collection of MOCA, LA. Pauline Boty was also photographed by, among others, David Bailey, Lewis Morley, Michael Seymour and Roger Mayne and Ward’s images undoubtedly number amongst her best and most well-known portraits. "Pauline Boty lingers intensely in the minds of those who knew her. She exhibited with all the leading figures of British Pop, held a well-received solo in London in 1963 and created a vibrant, innovative body of work that enriches Pop Art from a female perspective ...The mores of that time dictated that, as a woman, you could be either sexual or serious and most women artists, needing a footing in the male dominated art world, hoped the fact they were women would not be noticed. Boty rejected ... More

Govett-Brewster Art Gallery presents its 2026 Autumn programme
NEW PLYMOUTH.- Whiria ko te iwi tuna is a major newly commissioned project by artist collective Toiaa Taiao: Tihikura Hohaia, Alex Monteith and Maree Sheehan. Through immersive visual and sonic storytelling, the project gives form to the underwater lifeworlds of Te Whanganui—a manga in the rohe of Ngaati Moeahu, which meets Te Moana-Taapokopoko-a-Taawhaki near the western-most point of Taranaki. Focussing on the ngutuawa—the last 100-meters of the manga before it meets the sea— the project foregrounds the impact of continuing legislative failures, which enable capitalist exploitation of land and waters, and undermine hapuu authority in enacting kaitiakitanga. The project is accompanied by a newly commissioned text by Rachel Buchanan (Taranaki iwi, Te Ātiawa, Taranaki Whānui ki Te Upoko o Te Ika) which locates the project within “a whakapapa ... More

Rania Matar's portraits of resilience and dignity debut in Indiana
BLOOMINGTON, IN.- The Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art is presenting the featured exhibition, Rania Matar: Where Do I Go? لوين روح؟, on view in the Rhonda and Anthony Moravec Gallery, March 5–August 2, 2026. In this latest body of work, Where Do I Go? (2020–ongoing), Rania Matar collaborates with the young women of Lebanon to collectively commemorate the present and reimagine the future of a country defined by half a century of conflict and catastrophe. Of the project, Eskenazi Museum Curator of Contemporary Art Elliot Josephine Leila Reichert shared, “The exhibition is the culmination of a long and fruitful relationship between the Eskenazi Museum of Art and photographer Rania Matar, whose work is represented in the museum’s collection. We are honored to debut her latest and most powerful photographic project and its accompanying catalogue, ... More

Kimbell announces appointment of Emerson Bowyer as Chief Curator
FORT WORTH, TX.- The Kimbell Art Museum announced today the appointment of Emerson Bowyer as chief curator. An expert in British and French art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Bowyer was most recently the Searle Curator and Curator, Painting and Sculpture, Jeffrey and Carol Horvitz Collection, at the Art Institute of Chicago. Prior to that, he worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and The Frick Collection. Born and raised in Sydney, Australia, Bowyer studied art history and law at the University of Sydney and art history at Columbia University. He begins his position at the Kimbell today. “On behalf of the Kimbell Art Foundation, I am pleased to welcome Emerson Bowyer to the Kimbell’s curatorial team,” said Eric Lee, director of the Kimbell Art Museum. “Emerson brings a strong history ... More

Marianna Simnett transforms the Secession into a visceral "Circus"
VIENNA.- At the Secession, Marianna Simnett presents Circus, a multimedia exhibition comprising light, sound, and sculptural works that draw on her Yugoslav heritage. Personal references, including a work that was inspired by her Jewish-Croatian grandfather’s experience during the Holocaust, intersect with nods to folkloric bogeywomen, who may interchangeably figure as threat or ally, and the traditional Balkan skirt that stages the delicate play of revealing and concealing intimate body parts. The show’s Circus theme manifests itself in a variety of ways throughout the presentation: in the maniacal spinning of a skirt overhead, alluding to a circus tent; in a stage for a performance; in the sound of torturous laughter; or in dazzling lights illuminating a darkened space. Simnett’s practice consistently engages with intense corporeal states – urinating, fainting, ... More