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50 stories across Contemporary, Sculpture, New York, and Painting. Latest: Almine Rech Announces Three Tomokazu Matsuyama Projects in New York.
Almine Rech has announced three projects by artist Tomokazu Matsuyama in New York. At Columbus Circle, a six-foot soccer ball sculpture titled "Softly Distance" was commissioned for the FIFA World Cup 2026.
The new contemporary art center Large, located at Pointe des Arts on Île Seguin, opens with its inaugural exhibition 'Moteur Imaginaire,' curated by Cecilia Alemani.
On July 14, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac gallery announced an exhibition of new works by David Salle, titled "Painting in the Present Tense," at the Palazzo Cini in Venice.
On July 20, 2026, Galerie Max Hetzler announced the publication of Eddie Martinez's debut monograph, "Eddie Martinez: 20 Years of Painting," which focuses solely on the artist's paintings and is divided into key themes.
Cory Arcangel presented a new site-specific installation at Kappa FuturFestival in Turin, Italy, one of Europe's leading electronic music festivals. Titled "fulgura frango" (2026), the work is a custom-cast bronze bell installed on the festival's Lab Stage, adjacent to the DJ decks.
On Friday 10 November 2023, Hauser & Wirth launched its Learning program at its New York location on 18th Street with a series of panel discussions titled 'Learning Exchange: Art Education Matters'.
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Kelly Akashi's 2026 bronze sculpture 'Undergrowth (Headlands)' is included in the Headlands Art Center Benefit Auction 2026, announced on June 4, 2026. The work, measuring 24 × 14 × 14.5 inches, was created using lost-wax and direct burn-out casting with a wire-brushed finish.
On June 10, 2026, Art21 announced the premiere of the new episode "Human Nature," the third installment of Season 12 of its series "Art in the Twenty-First Century." The episode features four artists, including Josh Kline, who explore questions of humanity, environmental impact, social systems, a.
On June 4, 2026, Pace Gallery released an 'Artists on Artists' film by Anicka Yi exploring the exhibition 'Paul Thek: Dream of Vanishing,' on view at Pace’s New York gallery through August 14.
The Royal Academy of Arts has announced its 258th Summer Exhibition, opening on June 9, 2026. The 2026 edition explores the theme of 'Interconnectedness,' examining relationships between people, art, and the wider world.
Toby Ziegler has been awarded the 2025 Jean-François Prat Prize in Paris. The prize, presented by the Jean-François Prat Foundation, recognizes contemporary artists for their body of work.
On May 27, 2026, Matthew Marks Gallery announced an exhibition of Berlin-based artist Thomas Demand. The exhibition runs from May 27, 2026, to January 24, 2027, and fuses the visual power of theatre and opera with Demand's artistic methods.
On July 14, 2026, Pace Gallery announced that artists Maya Lin and Kiki Smith have installed permanent works at the Obama Presidential Center Museum in Chicago.
Lucy Raven and Deantoni Parks will present a live film-performance of Raven's 'Murderers Bar' (2025) on July 28, 2026, at T-Lazy-7 Ranch in the Roaring Fork Valley, Colorado, hosted by the Aspen Art Museum.
Thaddaeus Ropac Milano presents "Dialogues are Mostly Fried Snowballs," an exhibition pairing works by Marcel Duchamp and Sturtevant.
Internationally renowned artist Stephan Balkenhol has created an installation of figures from the world of opera, now on view at Residenzplatz and in the state-rooms of the DomQuartier Salzburg.
On July 3, 2026, the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen announced a memorial display dedicated to Georg Baselitz, who died recently.
On July 16, 2026, Gagosian announced that artist Nathaniel Mary Quinn has been commissioned to create the cover for the Rolling Stones' album 'Foreign Tongues,' released July 10, 2026, on Polydor/Universal Music.
On July 16, 2026, Galerie Max Hetzler announced that artist Giulia Andreani will participate in a finissage event for her first institutional solo exhibition in Germany, 'Sabotage', at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin.
Thaddaeus Ropac is presenting Georg Baselitz's final sculptural work, 'Stravinsky' (2026), in the foyer of the Großes Festspielhaus during the Salzburg Festival.
On July 15, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac announced "FLO," a photographic-essayistic book project documenting the artistic development of Florentina Holzinger and her ensemble over eight years.
Thaddaeus Ropac Seoul opened 'By Sooyoung Choi Studies', a solo exhibition of Alex Katz featuring small-scale studies painted from the 1990s to the present, running until August 1.
On July 14, 2026, the Mori Art Museum announced that its ongoing Ron Mueck exhibition surpassed 200,000 visitors as of July 9, 2026. Co-organized with the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, the show marks the artist's first major solo presentation in Japan in 18 years.
On July 14, 2026, White Cube announced that Raqib Shaw's exhibition 'Night Sonnets' will open at Compton Verney in Warwickshire, UK, on September 19, 2026, and run through February 21, 2027.
On July 14, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac announced that the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation has donated three works from the artist's "Gluts" series (1986–87) to Artist Rooms, a collection jointly managed by Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland.
On July 13, 2026, White Cube announced that the Wallace Collection in London will present 'Metamorphoses', an exhibition of porcelain sculptures by Rachel Kneebone, running from September 23, 2026 to April 25, 2027.
On July 13, 2026, White Cube announced an exhibition of works by Sara Flores at proyectoamil in Ardez, Switzerland, from July 25 to August 31, 2026.
The Saint Louis Art Museum will present 'Unsettling the City: Julie Mehretu's "Epigraph, Damascus"', an exhibition centered on the artist's monumental six-panel print from 2016.
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, opened 'Hiroshi Sugimoto: Extinction' on July 14, 2026, running through September 13, 2026. The exhibition features approximately 60 gelatin silver photographs drawn from 13 of Sugimoto's series, spanning from the late 1970s to the present.
On July 13, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac released a new episode of its 'Under the Influence' series featuring New York-based painter Joan Snyder.
On July 14, 2026, White Cube announced that the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, will present 'Isamu Noguchi: “I am not a designer”', a major retrospective running from September 19, 2026 through January 3, 2027.
On July 13, 2026, White Cube announced that Christian Marclay's 24-hour video installation "The Clock" (2010) will be presented at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) from July 26 to August 23, 2026. This marks the first Los Angeles presentation of the work since 2015.
LongHouse Reserve has installed a painted steel sculpture by Sean Scully titled '48' (2024) in its garden, on view from July 14, 2026, through December 24, 2028.
On June 20, 2026, Museum SAN announced 'Drawing on Space', a solo exhibition by Antony Gormley that marks the largest presentation of the artist's work in Korea to date.
On June 20, 2026, Antony Gormley opened his solo exhibition "Drawing on Space" at the Cheongjo Gallery of Museum SAN in Wonju, Gangwon Province, South Korea.
On July 10, 2026, White Cube announced a two-person exhibition, 'Images and Other Conversations,' at Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK, running from July 11 to October 11, 2026.
On July 11, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac gallery announced it will present a solo exhibition of works by Austrian choreographer and performer Florentina Holzinger, marking her first solo show with the gallery.
On July 10, 2026, ARTnews published a survey of Robert Rauschenberg's career on the occasion of "Rauschenberg 100," a celebration of the artist's centennial year.
Sean Scully will present the complete Stack painting series, selected Cactus paintings, and his new Natured series of drawings at Château La Coste, France. The exhibition, curated by Michel Gauthier, opens August 23, 2026, and is organized by Thaddaeus Ropac gallery.
On July 11, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac gallery announced an exhibition of Joan Snyder's paintings, drawn from her 'Strokes' series begun in the late 1960s.
Otobong Nkanga (born 1974, Kano, Nigeria) will receive the Sikkens Prize 2026 on October 26, 2026, the Sikkens Foundation announced July 10, 2026. The prize honors an artist or collective pioneering in the field of color.
On July 9, 2026, White Cube announced Hospital Rooms' tenth-anniversary campaign '10 Years. 10 Artists. 10,000 Artworks', which will bring ten posters by ten artists into every NHS inpatient mental health hospital in England.
On July 10, 2026, Galerie Max Hetzler announced the publication of a new catalogue for Tal R's solo exhibition "The Elephant in the Room" at Millesgården, Stockholm.
Carroll Dunham's new monograph "Studio on Another Planet" has been published, featuring his latest body of work that depicts a fictional sculptor's interplanetary voyage of self-discovery.
On June 26, 2026, Charles Ede, a London-based antiquities gallery, released a statement from its director explaining why the antiquities market operates differently from the broader art market.
On July 6, 2026, Dior published details of its Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2026/27 collection, designed by Jonathan Anderson, which takes inspiration from the work of American artist Lynda Benglis.
Almine Rech has announced that Alejandro Cardenas's 2024 painting 'Elements of Chance' has entered the Blanca and Borja Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection. The work, executed in oil on linen measuring 127 x 101.6 cm, will be placed on loan to the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, Spain.
On July 8, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac announced the opening of 'Nymphäum', a new exhibition by Anselm Kiefer at its Pantin gallery. The exhibition features large-scale, multi-sensory paintings that the artist describes as ophthalmic, haptic, immersive, and olfactory.
On July 9, 2026, Sadie Coles HQ announced that Alvaro Barrington has been commissioned for the thirteenth edition of the Sonsbeek Biennial in Arnhem, the Netherlands.
On July 9, 2026, Sadie Coles HQ announced that Paloma Varga Weisz is participating in the 31st edition of ROHKUNSTBAU at Schloss Altdöbern in Altdöbern, Germany. The exhibition, titled "die Kunst des Überschreitens" (The Art of Transgression), is on view until November 1, 2026.
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