Monday, August 24, 2026

Fujiko Nakaya fills Paris Bourse de Commerce with artificial fog installation

Entitled Cloud #07156, this Fog Sculpture takes the form of a thick white cloud made of water vapour that enters into dialogue with Tadao Ando’s architecture.
PARIS.— Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya (born 1933) has taken over the Rotonde de la Bourse de Commerce to create a new work, specially designed for the exhibition "Clair-obscur". Entitled Cloud #07156, this Fog Sculpture takes the form of a thick white cloud made of water vapour that enters into dialogue with Tadao Ando’s architecture.

Ancient Cambodia's monumental Vishnu makes a rare journey to San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.— Nearly one thousand years ago, a colossal bronze image of the Hindu god Vishnu rested on a man-made island in the middle of a vast reservoir in the Khmer kingdom of Angkor in present-day Cambodia. Reclining atop a cosmic serpent and floating on the primordial waters, the sculpture embodied both divine power and the prosperity of one of the world’s great civilizations. Then it disappeared. Buried for centuries and rediscovered only in 1936, the monumental sculpture — now recognized as the largest ancient bronze ever found in Southeast Asia — will be the centerpiece of the special exhibition Vishnu’s Cosmic Ocean, on view at the Asian Art Museum from October 23, 2026, through January 25, 2027. Presented in the museum’s Osher Foundation Gallery, the exhibition marks the final stop on an international tour and offers visitors a rare opportunity
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Zander Galerie Paris announces exhibition of vintage prints by Lee Friedlander

PARIS.— Zander Galerie Paris announced its upcoming exhibition showcasing a special selection of ten photographs by acclaimed American photographer Lee Friedlander. Taken and printed by the artist in the 1960s and 1970s, these rare vintage gelatin silver prints offer a compelling look into Friedlander’s vision of the American way of life. Created during a defining period of his career, the works reveal the visual wit, acute observation, and formal complexity that have made him one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century. Born in Aberdeen, Washington, in 1934, Lee Friedlander is widely regarded as a pioneer of American social landscape photography. Drawing on the legacy of Walker Evans, yet forging a radically personal visual language, Friedlander transformed the documentary tradition into an exploration of perception itself. In 1967, John Szarkowski
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Ketty Gottardo returns to the Louvre to lead prints and drawings department

PARIS.— The Louvre has announced the appointment of Ketty Gottardo as director of its Department of Prints and Drawings, following a ministerial decree issued by France’s Minister of Culture. Gottardo will take up the post on October 1, 2026, for a renewable three-year term. The appointment was announced by Christophe Leribault, President-Director of the Musée du Louvre, marking a return to the institution where Gottardo began her career in 1999. An art historian specializing in Old Master drawings, Gottardo studied in Udine, Italy, before continuing her education in London at the Courtauld Institute, where she earned both a master’s degree and a doctorate in art history. She began her professional career at the Louvre in the Department of Prints and Drawings before moving to the United States, where she worked at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and focuse
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Marguerite Humeau unveils living forest installation at Kistefos Museum

JEVNAKER.— Deep in the Norwegian woods, Turner Prize-nominated French artist Marguerite Humeau has created one of her most ambitious works to date: a living, evolving environment that unfolds across the forest at Kistefos, bringing together sculpture, ecology, ritual, and seasonal transformation. The Garden of Resuscitation is the 60th work to enter the sculpture park. Conceived specifically for the site, the project transforms the surrounding forest itself into an artwork, incorporating plants and fungi, river currents, cultivated species, seasonal processes and annual rituals into the work itself. Situated in the southern forest zone along the Randselva river, the work is experienced as an immersive journey through the landscape, as visitors enter an unfolding environment through a garden cultivated as a recipe for an elixir, benches cast from paper-pulp that create places to pause within the work, and a boardwalk that takes us
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Graces Mews presents Youth, a solo exhibition by Chardchakaj Waikawee

LONDON.— Graces Mews is presenting Youth, a solo exhibition by Chardchakaj Waikawee (b. 1980). The exhibition takes it’s title from the Thai phrase wai run, a term that extends beyond a simple description of age, evoking youth as a spirit, an attitude, a way of inhabiting the world. It suggests a condition of continual movement; identities, images and histories remain open rather than settled. Bringing together a body of analogue, handprinted photographs taken between 2008 and 2020, the exhibition presents portraits of people living on the margins of Bangkok's streets, individuals often rendered invisible due to circumstance, or economic position. Here, youth is understood less as a demographic than as a capacity for adaptation, reinvention and resilience within a city shaped by rapid urbanisation, global consumer culture and enduring spiritual traditions. The exhibition opens with a film portrait of Waikawee, introducing the artist's life, practice and philosophy of photography. Continuin
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Shantell Martin to present major retrospective installation at Grounds For Sculpture

HAMILTON, NJ.— Explore the fleeting nature of time through murals, daily meditative practices and newly commissioned sculptures in “Shantell Martin: Past, Present, Future,” on view Sept. 20, 2026-July 23, 2028 at Grounds For Sculpture (GFS). The immersive, site-specific installation will feature new work indoors and sculptures in the park’s gardens. The artist is known for her impactful and visually captivating work that often involves performance, philosophy, and linework. Self-exploration and continuous curiosity are key to her practice, and she invites viewers to join in a creative process that is as much about kindness as the act of creating. “Shantell Martin’s works explore the meditative nature of artmaking with collaboration and playfulness,” shared Kathleen Ogilvie Greene, chief audience officer at Grounds For Sculpture and the exhibition’s curator. “This balance between curiosity, partnership and joy reignites the way GFS engages with many communitie
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Atlas Gallery presents group exhibition SPLASH exploring sea, beach, and pool

LONDON.— Atlas Gallery is turning its attention to the sea, the swimming pool and the rituals of summer in SPLASH: Sea, Beach and Pool, a group exhibition on view in London from June 10 through August 29, 2026. Bringing together photographs spanning nearly a century, the exhibition explores the many ways artists have approached water and the shoreline: as landscape, playground, stage, abstraction and backdrop for fashion, leisure and human drama. The selection moves freely between documentary photography, portraiture, fashion imagery and more conceptual approaches, creating a wide-ranging visual history of life beside — and sometimes inside — the water. Among the earliest works is George Hoyningen-Huene’s 1929 photograph Horst and Models, Swimwear by Lelong, an elegant image from the formative years of fashion photography. Edward Weston is represented by Shells from 1927, while later works by Bill Brandt bring the British and French coastline into the
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Bienvenu Steinberg & C presents Raphaël Denis's US debut exhibition

NEW YORK, NY.— Bienvenu Steinberg & C will present Fates of Works, Raphaël Denis’s first exhibition in the United States. Bringing together works and series from 2018 to the present. An artist-researcher, Denis has spent more than ten years examining the looting of Jewish property during World War II. His conceptual practice takes the form of objects and installations. addressing questions of provenance and the future of artworks as political, historical, and civilizational issues. Fleeing Nazism before moving to New York during World War II, Paul Rosenberg was a Parisian art dealer of the interwar period. Hundreds of works from his personal collection and gallery inventory—including paintings by Matisse, Picasso, Braque, Léger, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Renoir, Degas, Cézanne, and Bonnard—were looted by the German occupiers. After the war,
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Miles McEnery Gallery presents Suzanne Caporael's tenth solo exhibition Fitting

NEW YORK, NY.— Suzanne Caporael’s tenth solo exhibition with the Miles McEnery Gallery, Fitting, demonstrates an ongoing interest in the visual manifestation of theoretical concepts. In this series, using the four-color theorem of cartography, the artist fits polyomino shapes into one another. Tertiary colors describe their adjacency and boundaries within the image as a whole. These shapes serve as an organizational syntax, forming a constructive proof that explores the tension between rigid systems and the fluidity of perception. As these polyominoes interlock and tessellate across the canvas, their boundary edges are softened by xCaporael’s signature paint handling; the multiple semi-opaque layers merge to create a uniquely textured surface that recapitulates the receptive nature of the linen beneath. Susan Tallman, in her essay “NP-Complete,” notes that in addition to mathematical and statistical physics, polyominoes are also used in games. “Games play out in time; paintin
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Japan House London opens first photography exhibition Kyotographie

LONDON.— Japan House London’s first photography exhibition, Kyotographie: Kawada Kikuji x Iwane Ai (previously announced as Invisible), presents two major Japanese photographers: Kawada Kikuji (b. 1933) and Iwane Ai (b.1975). Kawada’s diverse and prolific output is often interpreted as an ever-evolving view of Japan’s identity, starting in the years of national reconstruction following World War II. He came to prominence in the 1960s, when he founded the VIVO collective, a groundbreaking group of emerging photographers, and was exhibited at MoMA, New York in 1974. In 2011, he received a lifetime achievement award from the Photographic Society of Japan. Iwane hails from Tokyo and attended high school in the United States. Much of her work is transnational in nature, such as her series Kipuka (2018), exploring the lives of Japanese immigrants in Hawaii. Originally photographing on assignment for magazines, her award-winning work has been shown at the Tokyo
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Berggruen Gallery presents debut solo exhibition by Liam Everett

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.— Berggruen Gallery will present an exhibition of recent paintings by the Northern California artist Liam Everett. This show marks Everett’s first solo exhibition with the gallery and will be on view from September 10 through October 29, 2026. The gallery will host an artist discussion, moderated by Mari Robles, Chief Executive Officer of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, September 10, 2026, followed by an opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Liam Everett is not looking at light; he is reading it. Inspired by quantum biology, Everett’s most recent body of work is shaped by his research on the interplay between light and living beings, particularly the relationship between ultraviolet light, photons, and physiology. Pointing to the infra-visible electromagnetic field and the vital information it contains, Everett uses painting as a medium to articulate the place between the visual and the non-visual. He considers light beyond its symbolic or illuminating f
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Chicano artist César A. Martínez honored with major El Paso retrospective

SAN ANTONIO, TX.— Ruiz-Healy Art congratulates gallery artist César A. Martínez on his exhibition, El Otro Camino: An Intimate Portrait of César A. Martínez, the first large-scale, comprehensive exhibition of the acclaimed Chicano artist in the El Paso Southwest region. Organized by the MACC and guest-curated by Diana Molina, the selections are drawn primarily from the artist’s personal collection created between 1975 and 2026, offering an intimate glimpse into Martínez’s work as a painter, printmaker, sculptor, photographer, and collage artist. This exhibition marks milestones in his prolific career, showcasing iconic selections from his “Batos y Rucas,” “Serape,” “Mestizo,” and “South Texas” series. The exhibition will be on view from August 22, 2026, to January 24, 2027. Martínez was born in Laredo, Texas, in 1944, and graduated from Texas A&I University in Kingsville in 1968. He now lives and works in San Antonio, Texas. A significant figure in the l
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The greatest space fantasy of all! The first journey into the Star Wars comic book universe

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 publication. With no new film due to drop for at least a few years, and fans ravenous for more stories, Lucasfilm released

Italian Pavilion at the 16th Gwangju Biennale presents The Look is A Li(k)e

The Italian Cultural Institute in Seoul presents The Look is A Li(k)e, the Italian Pavilion at the 16th Gwangju Biennale. Presented at the Donggok Museum in Gwangju and curated by Irene Campolmi, curator for Art, Technology, and Society at Amos Rex, the exhibition gathers five Italian and Korean artists to investigate the ontology of the look: the image of the self circulating between physical and digital spaces, where global trends drive the shaping of both people and objects to look increasingly alike. Playing on its title—framing a look as both a (digitally approved) like and a (socially constructed) lie—the exhibition examines appearance not as a passive reflection of reality, but as a force that actively constructs perception, function, recognition, and belonging. Moving beyond traditional national representation, the pavilion

Neue Galerie to reopen Café Sabarsky, Book Store, and Design Shop October 1

Neue Galerie New York announced today plans to reopen it's doors on October 1, 2026 following a successful Summer 2026 restoration project on the museum's historic building. Café Sabarsky, the Book Store, and Design Shop, all located on the first floor of the museum's Gilded Age mansion building, will resume regular hours of operation on Thursday, October 1: The museum's galleries, which are located on the second and third floors of the building, will reopen to the public with the “25th Anniversary Exhibition,” which debuts on Thursday, November 12, 2026. Café Sabarsky, under the direction of Executive Chef Christopher Engel, draws its inspiration from the great Viennese cafés that served as important centers of intellectual and artistic life at the turn of the century. The café bears the name of Neue Galerie New York co-founder Serge

Brent McKeever explores identity and hyperreal photography in debut solo show

SETAREH presents LOOK, the debut solo exhibition of Los Angeles-based artist Brent McKeever. Known for his hyperreal photographic practice, McKeever’s distinctive visual language combines glamour, unease, fantasy, and performance to examine the role of image-making in contemporary culture. Working across lenticular photography, lightbox, sculpture, installation, and self-portraiture, LOOK considers how images manufacture, disrupt, and fracture identity. Beneath this inquiry lies a quieter proposition: that the images we desire, repress, fear, and idealize are often the very places through which we come to know ourselves. Lined with lenticular works, the gallery’s main room reimagines the act of digital consumption: images shift, dissolve, and reappear as the viewer moves through the space. Echoing the mechanics of scrolling, the works

Anna Munk presents first solo gallery exhibition Ombres at Galleri Nicolai Wallner

Munk's work sits within multiple registers, crossing the historical, exploratory, formal and conceptual. Within her paintings, there can be found traces of the intimate and personal alongside material and theoretical questioning of society's visual hierarchies. 'Ombres' comprises seven still-life paintings, each simultaneously ephemeral and substantial, with their larger-than-life scale and objects that dissolve into the background. Each of the seven works uses as its point of departure a historical still lifepainting and a colour palette from the iconic Chanel line of eyeshadows, from whence the exhibition and each painting take their names. Powdered marble, rabbit-skin glue, oil paint, wax, eyeshadows, varnish, and the digital archives of national museums all work equally to give a work its form, acting as materials rather than subjects of an image. Like

Galerie Urs Meile Beijing presents Cai Dongdong solo exhibition Mount of Time

Galerie Urs Meile Beijing announced Mount of Time, a solo exhibition by artist Cai Dongdong (b. 1978). This exhibition presents a series of new works by the artist created in recent years, rooted in film photography and spanning a diverse range of media, including photography, installation, and mixed media. Drawing on the artist’s longterm practice, the exhibition explores the relationship between images, materials, and lived experience, and further delves into the structural connections in themes such as body, family, labor, memory, and history that are not easily discernible. Since first engaging with photography in 2000, Cai Dongdong has persistently worked with film, personally producing all his prints by hand in the darkroom. In his practice, photography is not merely a method of image production, but also a concrete material process. This approach differs

Jana Euler unveils major three-part installation at Museum Ludwig

Every two or three years, an artist is invited to make a new work for the Museum Ludwig’s largest wall, located in front of the main staircase in the foyer. The name “Schultze Projects” refers to Bernard Schultze and Ursula (Schultze-Bluhm) whose estates are held by the museum and in whose memory the series was initiated in 2017. For the fifth edition of Schultze Projects, Jana Euler (born 1982 in Friedberg) has developed a new work, Triptych–Image Viewer Connections, that deals with specific ways of seeing and perceiving art, and with the interaction between work and audience. The museum is one of the few places where seeing itself becomes an activity. Unlike in the cinema, where the gaze is guided and fixed in time, the museum experience is marked by movement: we walk, linger, talk, and discuss what we have seen. In contrast to the fast,

Aleana Egan presents new sculptures and paintings in solo show dove passages

The sculptures and paintings in dove passages are initiated by a sense of touch and movement alongside a sense of sight. For Aleana Egan, painting is imagined as an activity of passage and continuum; an internal language that permeates the artists‘ practice in indirect and associative ways. In this exhibition the compositional power of dreaming is given focus. It’s ephemeral nature, the having and then losing of an area of a painting, is akin to the elusive qualities of dreaming: slippages and grasping are integral to both. The materials in the exhibition share a porosity and intimation to what they were before: papier-mâché mixed with pigment holds its pulpy quality and absorbs colour within; the inflow and resistance of different types of paint and fabrics give hints and signals about the temporal nature of materials and the various registers that they can hold.

Behind-the-scenes "Austerity Tours" to show decades of funding stagnation

Like virtually all cultural institutions in Canada, the Museum of Vancouver (MOV) is facing the consequences of decades of deferred investment. To show the tangible impacts of stagnant public funding, Ryan Hunt, the MOV’s CEO, is offering behind-the-scenes “Austerity Tours,” showing what is lost when all levels of government choose not to invest in public assets. “We’re winning national awards for our impact one day and then watching decades-old pieces of critical equipment inch ever-closer to failure the next. No matter how successful we are, sustainable funding feels unreachable,” the MOV’s CEO says. “Over the past 30 years, admissions have grown faster than the industry average and even faster than Vancouver’s population growth, but during that same period, we’ve seen government support decrease against the rate of inflation. It feels

MIT Museum announces Sensing Oceans exhibition exploring marine ecosystems

The MIT Museum will present Sensing Oceans, on view from September 30, 2026, to February 21, 2027. Sensing Oceans joins Crochet Coral Reef as part of OCEANS, the MIT Museum’s thematic season dedicated to unlocking the mysteries of our ocean planet, and invites visitors into the rich, dynamic marine environment through the technology, research, and interpretation that expands our capacity to sense and understand the oceans. Sensing Oceans is a multifaceted exploration of an environment that covers three quarters of the planet and which, without technology, is largely beyond human reach. Exhibiting works that range from autonomous vehicles and sonar images to immersive artistic installations and robots that mimic fish, Sensing Oceans presents pieces from the MIT

The Gund and Hirshhorn jointly acquire two important early artworks by Joan Jonas

In a milestone collaboration between two American centers of modern and contemporary art scholarship, The Gund at Kenyon College and the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden announce the joint acquisition of two watershed artworks by Joan Jonas: “Mirror Pieces Installation II” (1969/2014) and “Wind” (1968). These are the first works by the pioneering American artist to enter both collections. Widely recognized as one of the founding figures of American performance art, Jonas began bridging film and video, installation and sculpture, and body art in the mid-1960s, often experimenting with movement, mirrors and natural forces to forward her inquiry into perception. “Mirror Pieces Installation II” is a multimedia installation that incorporates the viewer through the inclusion of multiple mirrors. A dress and a jacket decorated
Flashback: On a day like today, French painter Henri Fantin-Latour died
Henri Fantin-Latour (14 January 1836 - 25 August 1904) was a French painter and lithographer best known for his flower paintings and group portraits of Parisian artists and writers. In this image: People gather in Arthur Rimbaud's museum as part of celebrations marking the 150th anniversary of the famed poet's birth, Wednesday Oct.20, 2004 in his native town Charleville-Mezieres, eastern France. Rimbaud is seen at left on a copy of Fantin Latour's painting "Rimbaud en discussion avec Verlaine" (Rimbaud Talks with Verlaine). Other characters on painting are unidentified.

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