Monday, April 27, 2026

The Ogunquit Museum of American Art presents Looking for America

Installation view of Looking for America at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art. Image courtesy of the Ogunquit Museum of American Art. Photo by Luc Demers.
OGUNQUIT, ME .— The Ogunquit Museum of American Art (OMAA) presents the exhibition Looking for America from April 10 through July 19, 2026, featuring the work of world-renowned artist Hank Willis Thomas alongside, for the first time, a selection of artists he has collaborated with, in response to America’s 250th anniversary. The exhibition highlights the power of creative communities, while asking the timely question: What does it mean to look for America, and whose America are we seeking? Bringing together the work of Hank Willis Thomas and a multigenerational group of artists connected through years of shared studio space, conversation, and collaboration, the exhibition unfolds as a collective inquiry—one shaped by dialogue, proximity, and the exchange of ideas. Artists whose works are included in the exhibition are Chris Bernsten, Adam Easterling, Sam Giarratani, Jennifer Hoffman-Williamson, Jessica Frances Grégoire Lancaster, Hector René Membreño-Canales, Andina Marie Osorio, Karinne Smith, Will Sylvester, Hank Willis Thomas, Deborah Willis, and Christine Wong Yap. Looking for America is curated by Helen Banach, Creative Director, Hank Willis Thomas Studio; Kalia Brooks, Program Officer, Fundamental Philanthropy; and Devon Zimmerman, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Ogunquit Museum of American Art. Explains Zimmerman, “Ideas of collectivity have long been a sustained theme of investigation—and a model for making—within Thomas’s practice. We are thrilled that this exhibition explores his engagement with shared action and community building, as seen through the artists he has collaborated with, past and present, whose works are presented in dialogue with his own.” Anchored by Thomas’s exploration of history, visual culture, and archival imagery, Looking for America e...
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Woody Auction to offer 300 lots of rare American Brilliant Period cut glass with no reserves

DOUGLASS, KAN.— The single-owner cut glass collection of Harold “Bill” Sandars, who curated an impressive and diverse grouping of fine cut glass pieces over the years, will come up for bid in an auction planned for Saturday, May 16, by Woody Auction, online and live in the Woody auction hall located at 130 East 3rd Street in Douglass, starting at 9:30am Central Time. “Bill was a familiar face at our auctions over the years,” said Jason Woody of Woody Auction. “With something for every cut glass enthusiast, this auction offers both depth and variety. We invite everyone to join us in person to fully appreciate the beauty of this thoughtfully assembled collection—and perhaps take home a piece of it, too. Every lot will be sold without reserves.” Highlights include punch bowls, whiskey sets, lamps, ice cream sets, tantalus sets, decanters, jugs, bowls,
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Shapero Rare Books to sell important letter by one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America

LONDON.— Shapero Rare Books has just acquired an extraordinary, rediscovered letter in the hand of the Anglo-American revolutionary Thomas Paine (1737-1809), whose pamphlet Common Sense was crucial in building support for independence in the 1770s. Paine's letters rarely come to the market and this one is of particular significance as Paine shares his view that George Washington should retire as president. Washington's retirement ultimately led to the introduction of the two-term presidency. This letter carries an asking price of $125,000. Paine was a British-born French Revolutionary, inventor, political philosopher, and statesman, and he wrote this letter in Paris in January 1797 to Colonel John Fellows (1759-1844), who participated in several major battles during the American Revolutionary War. Paine discusses his publications, in particular The Age of Reason and wonders if his stinging letter to Washington, describing
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This year's exhibition brings Margate to Turner's House in St. Margarets

LONDON.— This year's exhibition at Turner's House in St. Margarets, near Richmond, London, “Unfinished Business: The Mystery of Margate and Turner’s Bequest” gives visitors the opportunity to see an extraordinary sea painting by one of Britain's greatest maritime artists, displayed within the house he designed and had built in Twickenham by 1813. Sandycombe Lodge, as he called it, was his country retreat from the rigors of the London art world. On loan from the National Gallery, London, Margate (?), from the Sea, one of his later works from circa 1835-1840, is the focus of an exhibition that uncovers the complex and fascinating story of the Turner Bequest, and reveal how attitudes to Turner's work changed across the centuries. Curated by Alan Crookham, the National Gallery's Chief Librarian and Archivist, the exhibition is the first partnership with the organisation and Turner's House Trust. The exhibition
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Female Artists of the Mougins Museum announces a major rehang of its collection

MOUGINS.— FAMM (Female Artists of the Mougins Museum), the world’s first museum outside the USA with a permanent collection dedicated to women artists, founded by the philanthropist and collector Christian Levett and situated in the heart of the historic village of Mougins between Cannes and Nice, is completely renewing its permanent collection exhibition. Previously spanning from Impressionism to contemporary, the museum’s journey through art history now begins earlier, with the Baroque period. The museum will feature an exceptional work over two metres tall, dating from c. 1649 -50, created by the pioneering artist: Artemisia Gentileschi, now regarded as an icon of feminist art history. The exhibition then continues with the Impressionists. Visitors will encounter the key figures of the impressionist movement, such as Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassat, Marie Bracquemond and Eva Gonzales, before delving into dreamscapes
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Queen Alexandra's trailblazing Coronation gown goes on show as Edwardian treasures arrive in Edinburgh

EDINBURGH.— The innovative gown worn by Queen Alexandra for her Coronation, a never-before-exhibited royal portrait of Queen Mary, and a wartime portrayal of North Queensferry are among more than 150 works of art from the Royal Collection that are on show in a major exhibition exploring the glamour of the Edwardian era. More than half of the items are on show in Scotland for the first time. The Edwardians: Age of Elegance at The King’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh explores the lives of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, and their son King George V and his wife Queen Mary, during a period of great opulence and fast-paced change. On display for the first time in Scotland are the spectacular outfits worn by King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra for their Coronation in 1902. Alexandra – renowned for her trendsetting fashion sense – selected the female-led Parisian fashion house Morin Blossier to design her ensemble, which included a mauve velvet mantle and a gown laced
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Mauritshuis invites Stephan Vanfleteren into dialogue with the Dutch masters

THE HAGUE.— This spring, the Mauritshuis is offering visitors a fresh way to experience some of the most celebrated paintings of the Dutch Golden Age. Beginning April 23, the museum opens Pentimenti – Stephan Vanfleteren among the Masters, a new exhibition that places contemporary photography in direct conversation with 17th-century masterpieces. At the center of the project is acclaimed Belgian photographer Stephan Vanfleteren, known internationally for his powerful black-and-white portraits and emotionally charged visual storytelling. Rather than simply responding to history, Vanfleteren was invited to engage deeply with the Mauritshuis collection and reinterpret its themes for a modern audience. The result is a series of sixteen photographs, fifteen of them newly created, installed throughout the museum among works that have shaped European art history for centuries. Instead of presenting the photographs in a separate gallery, the Mauritshuis
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Anselm Kiefer transforms Paris gallery into a sanctuary of myth and matter

PARIS.— Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Pantin presents Nymphäum, an exhibition of new works by Anselm Kiefer. Across more than 20 paintings, the artist orchestrates richly layered paint and collaged elements to reimagine narratives sourced from classical mythology. The title of the exhibition translates as ‘nymphaeum’, referring to sanctuaries consecrated to the nymphs in ancient Greece and Rome. Kiefer transforms the gallery into his own painterly nymphaeum: a new chapter in the interweaving of myth and matter that has defined his practice for more than five decades. Kiefer amasses and continually reworks motifs as tools to excavate the depths of human history. In this new body of work, he turns his attention to nymphs: embodiments of nature rooted in classical mythology and yet urgently contemporary. These figures become conduits for an idea at the heart of Kiefer’s artmaking: humanity’s profound entanglement
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The King of Pop in Paris: Aguttes unveils landmark Michael Jackson collection

PARIS.— For the first time in Europe, the public can visit and see 50 items from an exhibition titled Pop Culture & Memorabilia: Michael on show from May 30 to June 2, 2026 at Aguttes Auction house in Paris. The sale of these 50 outstanding and historic items which once belonged to Michael Jackson will take place on June 3, 2026. Aguttes estimate the individual items in the collection at between €400 and over €100,000. The overall estimate of this collection amounts to €500,000 / €1,000,000. Arthur Perault, Head of Aguttes Pop Culture & Memorabilia Department, says: “Curating this exhibition-sale is an extraordinary privilege. Michael Jackson remains the undisputed King of Pop, surrounded by an aura that is both mystical and mythical. Structuring this retrospective is like a biopic and is a way of paying tribute to his absolute genius: reliving his trajectory through the objects that carried his story and magnified his legend.” The top item in the sale is a
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MAXXI opens major Andrea Pazienza exhibition celebrating the enduring force of an Italian icon

ROME.— MAXXI has opened a sweeping new exhibition dedicated to Andrea Pazienza, offering visitors one of the most comprehensive museum tributes ever staged to the legendary artist and graphic innovator. Titled Andrea Pazienza. Not Always Do We Die, the show marks the 70th anniversary of Pazienza’s birth and is now on view in Rome. The exhibition serves as the second chapter of a larger project that began at MAXXI L’Aquila, where an earlier presentation explored Pazienza’s formative years and first creative breakthroughs. In Rome, the story expands into a full portrait of an artist whose influence continues to resonate across comics, illustration, contemporary art, and visual culture. Few figures in modern Italian culture have left a mark quite like Pazienza. Celebrated for his restless imagination, sharp wit, and extraordinary draftsmanship, he transformed comics into a more experimental and expressive language. His work captured
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Cyprus Pavilion at the Venice Biennale presents Marina Xenofontos: It rests to the bones

VENICE.— Marina Xenofontos will represent the Republic of Cyprus at the 61st Venice Biennale with a solo exhibition of new work titled It rests to the bones. The exhibition is curated by Kyle Dancewicz. It rests to the bones brings together diverse approaches to artmaking that Xenofontos has developed over the last fifteen years, including motorized machines; “historical” sculpture that physically replicates sites or events, often from archival sources; and documentary audiovisual forms. The exhibition includes Passer, an animatronic sculpture of a sparrow clinging to life, and Threads, an installation of copper cylinders that rotate on their axes (all works 2026). Where earlier traditions of kinetic production—from automata to some twentieth-century sculpture—sought to imbue inert materials with “liveness” or to render imperceptible phenomena visible, Xenofontos’ machines foreground something close to, but not quite, life: mechanical
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Debbie Lawson's Persian carpet predators emerge in New York

NEW YORK, NY.— Sargent’s Daughters is presenting “In a Cowslip’s Bell I Lie,” a solo exhibition of new works by British multimedia artist Debbie Lawson, which will be her second solo with the gallery and her largest exhibition in the United States to date. Lawson’s sculptures of life-sized animals seem to emerge miraculously from Persian carpets through a trope-l’oeil effect, provoking questions about the relationships between decoration and nature, craft and camouflage. Lawson begins each work by sculpting the bears, cougars, wild dogs, and monkeys, often creating a wire and masking tape armature, and then finishing them in Jesmonite resin. Each creature is then covered in patterned carpet, which Lawson meticulously cuts and pieces to create a seamless surface. In this body of work, some animals sit on or emerge from furniture or rugs, and Lawson precisely aligns the patterns to create the illusion of a continuous surface. Lawson’s work transforms these quotidian o
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Mexico City's Amparo & Manuel Foundation makes US debut at Museum of Sex

NEW YORK, NY.— The human body and fragility of life take center stage this spring at the Museum of Sex New York with the debut of “The Life Force: Portraits from the Amparo & Manuel Foundation”. Organized in collaboration with the Mexico City-based Amparo & Manuel Foundation, an organization dedicated to education, human development and cultural engagement, the exhibition marks the foundation’s first presentation in the United States. The Life Force brings together 45 works from the collection, including paintings, sculptures, drawings and photographs, exploring the body, desire and resilience of human nature. The exhibition examines the tension between Eros and Thanatos–the life instinct and the death drive–revealing how sex and vulnerability act as expressions of life in the face of death. Figures appear in moments of reflection and exploration, while cracks cross bodies and environments evoke the structural stresses that lie beneath everyday composure. Within this landscap
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Kunsthall Trondheim performance and public program: Spring-fall 2026

Culture comes from the Latin “colere”—to till, to cultivate soil. To be a companion is to share bread—“com”, together; “panis”, bread. The roots of the art we show to one another have always been tangled up with what we grow, what we prepare, and what we consume in each other's presence. Kunsthall Trondheim's spring–fall 2026 performance and public program continues our annual curatorial inquiry into the norms and systems that govern inclusion and exclusion, bringing artists and communities together around questions of what gets nourished and what gets suppressed in bodies, languages, histories, and streets. Across lecture-performances, public interventions, communal dinners, and shared readings, it follows the politics of food, the intimacy of shared language, and the persistence of people and cultures. Join Arijit Bhattacharyya

MIT Museum to unlock the 'alien world' of the deep in major new thematic season

The MIT Museum announced OCEANS, a new thematic season of programming that will unlock our understanding of one of Earth’s greatest unknowns. Running from September 2026 through March 2027, this series of ​ exhibitions, programs, and events will uncover the complexity, beauty, and critical importance of the world’s oceans, while inspiring curiosity, courage, and human connection. Kicking off on September 30, OCEANS will welcome visitors to immerse themselves in one of the world’s most fascinating and significant subjects. Global oceans make up 71% of the Earth’s surface yet remain largely unmapped; more is known about the surface of Mars than the ocean floor. As the origin of life on Earth, they sustain more than two hundred thousand species and support humanity’s global trade and food systems, but they contain the ecosystems

Slovenian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale presents Nonument Group: Soundtrack for an Invisible House

The Republic of Slovenia presents Soundtrack for an Invisible House at the 61st Venice Biennale, curated by Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez and developed by the Nonument Group (Neja Tomšič, Martin Bricelj Baraga, Nika Grabar, and Miloš Kosec). Installed in the Arsenale Exhibition Spaces, the project transforms a forgotten architectural trace into a resonant space for listening, reflection, and historical re-examination. Soundtrack for an Invisible House is rooted in a little-known episode of European history: the construction in 1917 of a temporary wooden mosque by the Austro-Hungarian Army in Log pod Mangartom, near Slovenia’s northwestern border. Built to serve Bosnian Muslim soldiers fighting on the Isonzo Front during World War I, the mosque functioned as part of the empire’s military infrastructure, where religion was mobilised in the service

Nazli Madkour, a forty-year retrospective at Zamalek Art Gallery

Zamalek Art Gallery, Cairo, presents “Terra Cantus”, a forty-year retrospective of Egyptian artist Nazli Madkour. This monographic show visually chronicles the development of self-taught artist Madkour, a creative journey that started with figurative representation, progressing into abstraction and eventually maturing into a communion of both. While her technique has evolved radically over the years, there are continuities nevertheless; the early years of her practice were imbued with scenes from the desert, oases, the women who inhabit them and work the land, nature, foliage, dunes and mountains, rock formations and architecture-all would be elements that re-emerge subsequently in later years in one form or another. For over eight years she travelled widely over Egypt, drawing and painting on location, she paid close attention to colour, line, textures and forms in

Walmajarri artist John Prince Siddon unveils his largest work ever for the 2026 Foyer Wall Commission

The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia unveiled the 2026 Circular Quay Foyer Wall Commission, Worra Munga! Ernie and Bert Dreamtime voice by Walmajarri artist John Prince Siddon – the largest work of his career to date and his most significant presentation on Australia’s east coast. Prince's monumental 15-metre-long multi-panel painted mural transforms the MCA’s Circular Quay entrance into an expansive, technicolour world which blends political commentary, desert storytelling and striking contemporary imagery. The work was conceived by Prince between Broome, Boorloo/Perth and Fitzroy Crossing – deep in Western Australia’s remote West Kimberley region. A highly original and celebrated artist, Prince is known for his vivid, surreal and layered paintings that weave together the traditional craft of boab nut carving, desert iconography,

Greek Pavilion at the Venice Biennale presents Andreas Angelidakis: Escape Room

The Ministry of Culture has selected artist Andreas Angelidakis (b. 1968, Athens) to represent Greece at the 61st International Art Exhibition—the Venice Biennale in 2026, with the presentation of an extensive installation at the Greek Pavilion. The project is curated by George Bekirakis, with the Metropolitan Organisation of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki (MOMUS) serving as National Commissioner. With a long-standing and distinguished presence on both the Greek and international art scenes, Andreas Angelidakis has forged a hybrid, research-driven practice that brings architecture into vivid dialogue with the visual arts and digital media. For the 61st International Art Exhibition—the Venice Biennale, Angelidakis presents Escape Room, transforming the Greek Pavilion into a present-day Platonic Cave. Plato’s seminal text is reimagined as an immersive,

Refik Anadol Unveils DATALAND in Los Angeles

Co-founders Refik Anadol and Efsun Erkılıç announce today that DATALAND, the world’s first Museum of AI Arts, opens to the public on June 20, 2026. Located at The Grand LA, the Frank Gehry-designed complex in the heart of downtown Los Angeles, DATALAND is the newest addition to the performing arts and cultural institutions that comprise the Grand Avenue Cultural District. Conceived as a living museum where architecture is no longer static, but part of an intelligent framework, DATALAND was built without compromise, utilizing the most advanced technologies available and redefining artistic expression in the age of machine intelligence. “After a journey of many years, we are so excited to finally share DATALAND with the public,” said Anadol. “LA is the center of creativity. It is a city that defines the future of art, music, cinema,
Flashback: On a day like today, French painter Yves Klein was born
Yves Klein (French pronunciation: (28 April 1928 - 6 June 1962) was a French artist considered an important figure in post-war European art. He was a leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme founded in 1960 by art critic Pierre Restany. Klein was a pioneer in the development of performance art, and is seen as an inspiration to and as a forerunner of minimal art, as well as pop art. In this image: Yves Klein, “Untitled Fire-Color Painting (FC 1),” 1961. Private Collection. © 2010 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Image courtesy Yves Klein Archives.

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