Art

132 New York Artists Receive $903,000 in Grants

The NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship program awards each recipient $8,000 in unrestricted cash.

Mayor Mamdani Should Reclaim the City’s Jefferson Statue

The fact that the quill of David d’Angers’s statue of the third US president broke during the nation’s 250th anniversary provides more than an irresistible symbolic trope.

Giant Wieners, Drag Queens, and Curtis Sliwa at “The Most American Pageant Ever!”

The absurdist performance art event at Times Square felt more like an elegy during this national moment.

Ecuador’s national museum picks new design for $100m home following pushback to original selection and resignations

After criticism on social media, the government scrapped the original selection of a design by Estudio Campo Baeza and Maoda, opting for a proposal led by the Japanese firm Sanaa

Benoît Maubrey’s sound sculptures are an ‘ohmage’ to the inherent goodness in people

STIR talks to the Berlin-based sculpture artist on his journey and learnings from decades of creating public installations using upcycled loudspeakers.

More Than Cat Food reveals advertising's longest-running visual accomplice

Published by everyedition, Alberto Vieceli’s latest book is a visual archive that charts how adverts have enlisted felines to sell everything (except cat food).

Three Ancient Egyptian tombs with ‘significant’ inscriptions discovered in Saqqara necropolis

Rare carvings may reveal important information about New Kingdom era connections to the Near East and ancient domestic life

A lifetime of war: meet the 94-year-old Ukrainian artist Oleksandr Dubovyk

Having survived his country’s numerous adversaries from Stalin to Putin, the artist has opened his first large-scale retrospective in Kyiv

Protesters Decry Chinatown Museum's Acceptance of “Jail Money” at Town Hall

Leaders of New York’s Museum of Chinese failed to persuade protesters that a $35 million grant from the city was not tied to the construction of a borough jail.

Remembering Christine Borland, John Will, and Astrid Furnival

This week, we honor an artist who explored human fragility through science, a pioneering British textile artist, and a champion of digital art.

You Can Love David Hockney and Still Hate His iPad Paintings

No amount of curatorial artspeak counters the sense that the late artist’s massive digital painting lacks the inventive mark-making and use of color that characterized his life’s work.

Artists Sue NYC Gallery The Hole for Nonpayment

The suit filed by Daniel Um and Nastaran Shahbazi concerns nearly $50,000 in payments allegedly owed to the artists.

Jessica Morgan named new Tate director

Currently the director of Dia Art Foundation in New York, Morgan will succeed Maria Balshaw as director of the UK museum network from January 2027

Lisbon's Museu Calouste Gulbenkian returns to its mid-century modern roots following major renovation

The Portuguese private art collection, which features fine and decorative art from antiquity to the 20th-century, reopened on 18 July

Artforum bids farewell to back-cover star in style

Long-running series of quirky advertisements for Bruno Bischofberger’s Swiss gallery has come to an end

Museum acquisitions round-up: a Kandinsky ‘Improvisation’ and a canvas by Minimalist pioneer Agnes Martin

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide

Yoko Ono’s most famous performance art piece cuts both ways in Los Angeles

The artist MPA put her twist on the seminal "Cut Piece" at Redcat, in tandem with the Broad’s presentation of Ono’s traveling retrospective

Shuttered San Francisco arts school will become college co-named for Nvidia founder Jensen Huang

The anchor institution for Vanderbilt University’s Bay Area campus will be the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of Art, Architecture and Design, in recognition of the couple's $75m gift

Comment | How much can one artist take from another before it is copyright infringement?

An EU court's decision in a case relating to the sampling of a Kraftwerk track will have implications across the arts

House of Memories’ porous brick interstices envelope nostalgia and stillness

Designed by Studio Lagom, the building takes cues from Indian vernacular architecture, catalysed by reclaimed wood furniture from the client’s old home.

The Armory Show reveals 230-gallery line-up and move to late September

Caribbean-focused curatorial programme and expanded sections for emerging galleries headline 2026 edition of the New York City fair

Renovation of Bolivia's national archaeology museum gives repatriated treasures pride of place

The museum in La Paz had been closed for a year; its new permanent collection exhibition includes a mummified girl repatriated from the US and an Andean sculpture that was stolen by a Swiss traveller in the 19th century

Head of V&A’s academic programmes resigned citing ‘racist’ and ‘culturally insensitive’ behaviours, letter reveals

Yuko Kikuchi wrote a letter to the museum’s leadership that was supported by 12 academics and included student testimonials

Seymour Chwast's The Picture Book Book explores his art of children's book design

STIR speaks with the celebrated American graphic designer about the new retrospective publication by gestalten that chronicles the lesser-known world of his children's books.

Arbitrary Nations by Asbestos invents new collectives through imagined flag designs

STIR speaks with the Irish creative on his ongoing project reimagining the rigidity of nation states through myriad flag designs, probing identity, community and symbolism.

West Bund Museum's Material Matters on learning through the hands and the eyes

A double solo exhibition of Sheila Hicks and Shi Hui unpacks two independent artistic worlds through material, memory and the unmediated experience of making.

We Must Imagine It by Unfold Projects advocates for regenerative art and design

Using salvaged wood, wild earth, copper remnants and more, the exhibition at ICA San Diego / North brings together 20 regional creatives exploring regenerative approaches to making.

Vitra Design Museum stirs form, colour and space for Verner Panton’s birth centenary

Taking a closer look at the comprehensive retrospective at the Vitra Schaudepot in Weil am Rhein, STIR explores the enduring relevance of the 20th-century designer.

Sunhil Sippy on the fading art of analogue photography and building a living archive

At Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, photographer Sunhil Sippy joins Shivendra Dungarpur and Mortimer Chatterjee to discuss the effects different photographic formats tap into.

Experimenter Curators’ Hub and the new, rhizomatic structures of the art world

This July, Experimenter Kolkata will host the 15th edition of the Curators’ Hub, where select global curators gather to broaden conceptions of curation in a circular model.

A monastic relic at the edge of time: Monologue café by SOSOKKI ANAC

A sequence of folded planes articulates this café in South Korea, which emerges as a single-storey fortress of red brick, concrete, stainless steel and orchestrated light.

Architectures of Amnesia: Donald Judd and America’s “Forgotten War” in Korea

Andrew Sungtaek on the geopolitical and conceptual traces that haunts Donald Judd’s legacy.

The Algorithm and the Antichrist: Political Theology at the Sunset of Silicon Valley

Giorgio Cesarale and Matteo Pasquinelli trace Carl Schmitt’s influence on Peter Thiel.

Do Androids Dream of AGI?

Vinícius Portella argues that no democratic or socialist future will ever be possible unless digital technology is liberated for the common good

Remembering Steve Kurtz (1958–2025) of Critical Art Ensemble, Part 1

Remembrances of Steve Kurtz by Nato Thompson, Claire Pentecost, Brooke Singer, David Garcia, Rich Pell, and Lucas Fortunato. (Part 1 of 2. )

Remembering Steve Kurtz (1958–2025) of Critical Art Ensemble, Part 2

Remembrances of Steve Kurtz by Nicola Triscott, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Samuel Ashford, Doug Ashford, Julie Ault, and Trevor Paglen. (Part 2 of 2.)

Suzanne Jackson: What Is Love

On May 14, the Walker Art Center will open Suzanne Jackson: What Is Love, the first major museum retrospective dedicated to the work of groundbreaking artist Suzanne Jackson.

Igshaan Adams: Unsettling Dust—The Body’s Archive

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is pleased to present Igshaan Adams. Unsettling Dust: The Body’s Archive, the third chapter of the Museum’s in situ series.

Maja Malou Lyse: Things to Come

The Danish Arts Foundation presents Things To Come, by Danish artist Maja Malou Lyse at the Danish Pavilion for the 61st Venice Biennale, curated by Chus Martínez.

Issue 148 May/June 2026

ArtAsiaPacific issue 148 out now.

Living to Learn: Art & Education for the Common Good

Living to Learn: Art & Education for the Common Good presented by Inventory Press.

Tolia Astakhishvili: Figure of the Child and Tolia Curriculum

Figure of the Child is Tolia Astakhishvili’s first solo museum exhibition and her largest presentation to date.

Spring–fall 2026 exhibition season

The Querini Stampalia Foundation presents its summer–fall 2026 exhibition season.

Three-day programme in Venice

From Thursday, May 7 until Saturday, May 9, Palazzo Grassi—Punta della Dogana, Pinault Collection presents three consecutive days of performances and musical interventions.

In Another Man’s Yard

Marking the second presentation of The Bahamas at the Venice Biennale following a 13-year hiatus, the Pavilion is an intergenerational dialogue between Bahamian artists John Beadle and Lavar Munroe.