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Thursday, June 25, 2026 · No. 175

Photography

All Photography news curated by The Cultural Signal — real-time press release coverage across the global art world.

50 stories across Photography, Contemporary, Modern, and New Media. Latest: Thaddaeus Ropac Features Jack Pierson 'Hope' Word Collage for Museum Corridor.

Thaddaeus Ropac Features Jack Pierson 'Hope' Word Collage for Museum Corridor

Thaddaeus Ropac Features Jack Pierson 'Hope' Word Collage for Museum Corridor

June 18, 2026, New York-based photographer Jack Pierson has installed a Word Collage spelling “Hope” using vintage signage along a prominent corridor leading into the center’s museum.

ExhibitionContemporaryNew YorkPhotography
Mori Art Museum Stages Mariko Mori Retrospective 'All That Shines'

Mori Art Museum Stages Mariko Mori Retrospective 'All That Shines'

The Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, presents Mariko Mori: All That Shines from October 31, 2026 to March 28, 2027. The exhibition is the first major retrospective of the artist in Japan since 2002 and is organized in collaboration with The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.

ExhibitionContemporaryTokyoNew Media
Getty Museum Explores the Historical and Technical Evolution of White Pigments in Art

Getty Museum Explores the Historical and Technical Evolution of White Pigments in Art

The Getty Museum has published an article examining the use of white across art history, from Paleolithic cave drawings made with calcite and chalk to lead white pigment in European painting and modern photographic prints.

Old MastersPhotographyModern#city-los-angeles
Getty Museum Uses Rollout Photography to Reveal Original Design of Chinese Vase

Getty Museum Uses Rollout Photography to Reveal Original Design of Chinese Vase

On June 17, 2026, the Getty Museum released details of a technical study on a hard-paste porcelain gu-form vase from China dating to 1662–1722.

PhotographyDecorative Arts#city-los-angeles
Getty Publications Releases 'Marching West' Book on Los Angeles Civil Rights Movement

Getty Publications Releases 'Marching West' Book on Los Angeles Civil Rights Movement

On June 16, 2026, Getty Publications released Marching West: The Los Angeles Civil Rights Movement in Photographs, a new book co-authored by Karin L. Stanford and Mark Speltz.

OtherPhotographyLos AngelesPublication
Rijksmuseum Expands Research into Queer History with Baker McKenzie Partnership

Rijksmuseum Expands Research into Queer History with Baker McKenzie Partnership

On June 17, 2026, the Rijksmuseum announced new research into historically underrepresented subjects including queer history based on its collection from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.

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Bonhams Knightsbridge to Auction Terence Stamp Collection

Bonhams Knightsbridge to Auction Terence Stamp Collection

Bonhams will offer the personal collection of Terence Stamp (1938-2025) for the first time at its Knightsbridge location.

Auction ResultLondonPhotography#priority-featured
A4 Arts Foundation Presents Three Curated Projects in Cape Town Through August 2026

A4 Arts Foundation Presents Three Curated Projects in Cape Town Through August 2026

On June 15, 2026, A4 Arts Foundation in Cape Town opened three projects under its 1, 2, 3 series, each organized by an in-house curator with practitioner collaborators.

ExhibitionContemporaryPhotographyCape Town
Galerie Max Hetzler Notes Thomas Struth Speaking Event, Exhibitions and Soane Award

Galerie Max Hetzler Notes Thomas Struth Speaking Event, Exhibitions and Soane Award

On May 27, 2026, Galerie Max Hetzler reported that Thomas Struth will speak at the Jeu de Paume in Paris as part of the ‘Le 7 à 9 de Chanel’ series led by journalist Anaël Pigeat.

AwardContemporaryPhotographyExhibition
Getty Museum Launches West Hollywood Photo Series Marking Pride Month

Getty Museum Launches West Hollywood Photo Series Marking Pride Month

June 10, 2026, the Getty Museum published a new series of photographs from its collection exploring West Hollywood through historical and cultural moments.

ExhibitionPhotographyLos AngelesContemporary
Getty Research Institute Highlights Jerry McMillan’s Archive Documenting Mid-Century Los Angeles Art Scene

Getty Research Institute Highlights Jerry McMillan’s Archive Documenting Mid-Century Los Angeles Art Scene

Jerry McMillan died in February at his home in Pasadena at the age of 89. The Getty Research Institute acquired his archive in 2015, which consists of approximately 7,000 negatives, 150 contact sheets, and 375 prints along with ephemera.

ContemporaryPhotographyLos Angeles#city-los-angeles
Sadie Coles HQ Presents 'Kindred' Featuring Alayo Akinkugbe and Lily McMenamy

Sadie Coles HQ Presents 'Kindred' Featuring Alayo Akinkugbe and Lily McMenamy

Sadie Coles HQ is presenting KINDRED. Alayo Akinkugbe, author of Reframing Blackness, participates alongside Lily McMenamy. The project also references BUTT.

ExhibitionContemporaryLondonPhotography
Tate Britain to Open Major Exhibition Exploring Art and Fashion of the 1990s

Tate Britain to Open Major Exhibition Exploring Art and Fashion of the 1990s

Tate Britain will stage the first exhibition to explore the art, photography and fashion of the 1990s from October 8, 2026 to February 14, 2027.

ExhibitionContemporaryLondonPhotography
Bonhams to Auction Original Duffy Archive Items Featuring David Bowie’s 'Aladdin Sane' Cover

Bonhams to Auction Original Duffy Archive Items Featuring David Bowie’s 'Aladdin Sane' Cover

The original dye transfer print artwork for the inside cover of David Bowie's Aladdin Sane album leads Bonhams' The Mona Lisa of Pop: The Duffy Archive sale at Bonhams New Bond Street in London. The top lot carries an estimate of £250,000-300,000.

Auction ResultPhotographyLondonContemporary
National Portrait Gallery Acquires Only Known Ada Lovelace Photographs Through Bonhams

National Portrait Gallery Acquires Only Known Ada Lovelace Photographs Through Bonhams

The National Portrait Gallery in London has acquired the only known photographs of Ada Lovelace through a private treaty sale facilitated by Bonhams.

AcquisitionPhotographyLondonPortrait
Centre Pompidou Announces Nicolas Floc'h Exhibition at Abbaye Saint-Germain, Auxerre

Centre Pompidou Announces Nicolas Floc'h Exhibition at Abbaye Saint-Germain, Auxerre

On June 3, 2026, Centre Pompidou co-produced the exhibition "La mer est ton miroir" with the city of Auxerre.

ExhibitionContemporaryParisPhotography
National Portrait Gallery Acquires Only Known Photographs of Ada Lovelace via Bonhams Private Treaty Sale

National Portrait Gallery Acquires Only Known Photographs of Ada Lovelace via Bonhams Private Treaty Sale

The National Portrait Gallery in London has acquired the only known photographs of Ada Lovelace through a private treaty sale facilitated by Bonhams.

AcquisitionPhotographyLondonNineteenth Century
Artspace and The Kitchen Announce Limited Edition Prints by Garrett Bradley and Michael Kagan

Artspace and The Kitchen Announce Limited Edition Prints by Garrett Bradley and Michael Kagan

Artspace and The Kitchen have released the limited edition In the palm of my hand, 2026 by American artist and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Garrett Bradley. The edition captures Bradley’s cinematic language in still form, with focus on light, tension, and atmosphere.

OtherArt FairContemporaryNew York
Albertina Museum Announces Major Richard Prince Retrospective in Vienna Through August 2026

Albertina Museum Announces Major Richard Prince Retrospective in Vienna Through August 2026

The ALBERTINA Museum in Vienna is presenting a major exhibition of works by New York-based artist Richard Prince. The show, on view until August 16, 2026, comprises some 150 works spanning the 1970s to the present, with an emphasis on his photographic oeuvre.

ExhibitionContemporaryPhotographyVienna
Sadie Coles HQ Announces Upcoming Programming Featuring Arthur Jafa, Richard Prince, and Sarah Lucas

Sadie Coles HQ Announces Upcoming Programming Featuring Arthur Jafa, Richard Prince, and Sarah Lucas

On May 31, 2026, Sadie Coles HQ released a roster of exhibitions featuring Arthur Jafa and Richard Prince in Helter Skelter, Sarah Lucas in VENUS VICTORIA and Monster Chetwynd in A Friends Making Machine.

ExhibitionContemporaryLondonNew York
SFMOMA Names CrossLypka, Em Kettner and Chanell Stone as 2026 SECA Art Award Recipients

SFMOMA Names CrossLypka, Em Kettner and Chanell Stone as 2026 SECA Art Award Recipients

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has named CrossLypka, Em Kettner and Chanell Stone as the recipients of the 2026 SECA Art Award. The three artists were selected by curators Alison Guh and Delphine Sims after a review of more than 140 nominees and studio visits with 16 finalists.

AwardContemporaryPhotographySculpture
V&A South Kensington to Launch 'Lost Music Venues' Exhibition Celebrating UK Club Culture

V&A South Kensington to Launch 'Lost Music Venues' Exhibition Celebrating UK Club Culture

On May 28, 2026, the Victoria and Albert Museum announced the Lost Music Venues display at V&A South Kensington. Opening 30 May 2026 and running to 30 October 2027, the free display presents over 100 objects from around 50 UK venues and clubs active between the 1980s and 2010s.

ExhibitionContemporaryLondonPhotography
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Opens 'House Beautiful' Collection Presentation Featuring New Acquisitions

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Opens 'House Beautiful' Collection Presentation Featuring New Acquisitions

The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is presenting works from its collection in the South Wing under the title 'House Beautiful', drawn from Martha Rosler's photomontage series.

ExhibitionContemporaryModernAcquisition
Thaddaeus Ropac Announces Harun Farocki Exhibition Exploring 'Operational Images' and Visual Labor

Thaddaeus Ropac Announces Harun Farocki Exhibition Exploring 'Operational Images' and Visual Labor

Tom Holert examines Harun Farocki’s views on the function of film and images, referencing a 2014 Berlin Documentary Forum panel where Farocki discussed the early twentieth-century shift of film toward entertainment and education.

ExhibitionContemporaryNew MediaBerlin
Gladstone Gallery Announces Carrie Mae Weems Installation for Obama Presidential Center Opening

Gladstone Gallery Announces Carrie Mae Weems Installation for Obama Presidential Center Opening

The Obama Presidential Center in Chicago will present Carrie Mae Weems' The Cool Blue Wind opening June 19, 2026. The work is a photographic collage printed on silver and gold metallic paper accompanied by original music.

ExhibitionContemporaryPhotographyChicago
Getty Center Features Commercial Photographer Barbara DuMetz in Black Arts Movement Exhibition

Getty Center Features Commercial Photographer Barbara DuMetz in Black Arts Movement Exhibition

Barbara DuMetz's 1977 Kraft Foods Advertisement is included in the Getty Center exhibition Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985, on view through June 14, 2026.

ExhibitionPhotographyContemporaryLos Angeles

Zeitz MOCAA to Host First Museum Survey of Zohra Opoku in September 2025

Zeitz MOCAA presents We Proceed in the Footsteps of the Sunlight, the first museum survey exhibition of Ghanaian-German artist Zohra Opoku.

ExhibitionContemporaryCape TownPhotography
Thaddaeus Ropac Announces Robert Mapplethorpe Photography Exhibition in Rome Featuring 200 Works

Thaddaeus Ropac Announces Robert Mapplethorpe Photography Exhibition in Rome Featuring 200 Works

May 29, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac presents a selection of approximately 200 photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe. The New York-born artist, who lived from 1946 to 1989, used a Hasselblad to sculpt space with geometric vision and absolute classicism rather than simply photographing subjects.

ExhibitionContemporaryPhotographyRome
Pinault Collection to Present Major Photography Survey 'Remember Me' at Bourse de Commerce

Pinault Collection to Present Major Photography Survey 'Remember Me' at Bourse de Commerce

Bourse de Commerce — Pinault Collection presents the group exhibition 'Remember Me' featuring around 700 works by more than 70 artists.

ExhibitionPhotographyContemporaryModern
Bourse de Commerce — Pinault Collection to Present Major Photography Survey 'Remember Me' in Paris

Bourse de Commerce — Pinault Collection to Present Major Photography Survey 'Remember Me' in Paris

Bourse de Commerce — Pinault Collection presents the exhibition 'Remember Me' featuring approximately 700 works by more than 70 artists.

ExhibitionPhotographyContemporaryModern
Stedelijk Museum to Present 2024 Best Book Designs Exhibition Starting November 8

Stedelijk Museum to Present 2024 Best Book Designs Exhibition Starting November 8

The Stedelijk Museum and Stichting De Best Verzorgde Boeken present the annual selection of the most carefully designed Dutch publications of 2024.

ExhibitionContemporaryAmsterdamPhotography
Musée Maillol Launches 'Hypotheses and Demonstrations' Series Focused on Sculpture and Photography

Musée Maillol Launches 'Hypotheses and Demonstrations' Series Focused on Sculpture and Photography

An educational endowment fund based at the Musée Maillol is launching an annual series of Hypotheses and Demonstrations. The series invites museum professionals to share experiences, reflections and research with the public around a common theme.

ModernSculpturePhotographyParis
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Announces 2025 Exhibition Schedule Featuring Marisol, Robert Longo, and Kaari Upson

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Announces 2025 Exhibition Schedule Featuring Marisol, Robert Longo, and Kaari Upson

The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is presenting a series of exhibitions drawn from its collection and featuring international artists. A large-scale display of works acquired between 2022 and 2025 runs December 2, 2025 to April 6, 2026.

ExhibitionContemporaryModernPhotography
Getty Publications to Release Photographic History of Los Angeles Civil Rights Movement

Getty Publications to Release Photographic History of Los Angeles Civil Rights Movement

Getty Publications has released Marching West: The Los Angeles Civil Rights Movement in Photographs by Karin L. Stanford and Mark Speltz.

OtherPhotographyModernLos Angeles
Sprüth Magers Announces Thomas Demand Exhibition Exploring Theater and Opera Themes

Sprüth Magers Announces Thomas Demand Exhibition Exploring Theater and Opera Themes

May 27, 2026, Sprüth Magers presents an exhibition by Berlin-based artist Thomas Demand. The show fuses the visual power of theater and opera with his artistic methods.

ExhibitionContemporaryPhotographyBerlin
Galleria Continua and JR to Present 'Inside Out' Project at Milan's Piscina Cozzi

Galleria Continua and JR to Present 'Inside Out' Project at Milan's Piscina Cozzi

A solo show curated by Sabato De Sarno and presented by Vanity Fair runs at Piscina Cozzi, Viale Tunisia 35, Milano, Italy. The exhibition occupies the historic swimming pool venue from April 21, 2026 to April 26, 2026.

ExhibitionContemporaryMilanPhotography
Lisson Gallery to Present 'Who Does Not Love a Tree?' Exhibition by Rodney Graham

Lisson Gallery to Present 'Who Does Not Love a Tree?' Exhibition by Rodney Graham

Lisson Gallery is presenting 'Who Does Not Love a Tree?', a new exhibition of work by the late Canadian artist Rodney Graham. The show includes monochrome C-prints such as Oak, Milcombe, captured in Oxfordshire in 1990 and inverted as though hanging upside-down.

ExhibitionContemporaryPhotographyLondon
LACMA to Present 'City of Cinema: Paris 1850–1907' Exploring Origins of Film

LACMA to Present 'City of Cinema: Paris 1850–1907' Exploring Origins of Film

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents City of Cinema: Paris 1850–1907, an exhibition exploring the emergence of film in 19th-century Paris.

ExhibitionPhotographyModernLos Angeles
LACMA to Present 'Fútbol Is Life' Exhibition Featuring Animated Sculptures by Lyndon J. Barrois, Sr.

LACMA to Present 'Fútbol Is Life' Exhibition Featuring Animated Sculptures by Lyndon J. Barrois, Sr.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents Fútbol Is Life: Animated Sportraits by Lyndon J. Barrois, Sr. The exhibition features one-inch-high sculptures made primarily from chewing gum wrappers that depict unforgettable moments from the histories of women's and men's soccer.

ExhibitionContemporaryLos AngelesNew Media