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50 stories across Photography, Contemporary, Modern, and Paris. Latest: Getty Museum Presents Photographs Documenting Malibu's Surf Culture.
On August 4, 2026, the J. Paul Getty Museum announced a selection of photographs from its collection that capture Malibu's evolution into an international surfing destination.
On August 4, 2026, the J. Paul Getty Museum published a feature highlighting photographs from its collection that capture Malibu's evolution from a rural ranch to a global surfing destination.
On August 5, 2026, Galerie Max Hetzler announced that Thomas Struth has received the Soane Honors Award for Photography.
On August 3, 2026, the Guggenheim New York announced "Taryn Simon | Father Country I Do Love You," opening September 18, 2026. The exhibition fills the rotunda with a new body of work—the first such rotunda dedication to a photography-based artist and the largest debut of new work at the museum.
On May 27, 2026, Matthew Marks Gallery announced an exhibition of works by Berlin-based artist Thomas Demand. The exhibition, which opens the same day and runs through January 24, 2027, merges the visual language of theatre and opera with Demand's artistic methods.
The Mori Art Museum in Tokyo will present a solo exhibition by Katayama Mari, winner of the first-ever Mori Art Award Grand Prize, from October 31, 2026, to March 28, 2027.
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The Whitney Museum of American Art is presenting 'Farah Al Qasimi: TAILSPIN,' a solo exhibition centered on the artist's video work of the same name.
On July 30, 2026, Galerie Max Hetzler announced that Thomas Struth has been awarded the Soane Honors Award for Photography. Struth's work is also featured in 'MATERIA.
Yvonne Jordan, a teacher and lead practitioner at Central Foundation Girls’ School in Tower Hamlets, London, has been named the inaugural recipient of the Slade Director’s Studio Summer Residency.
The New Museum in New York announced that 'Arrivederci, Piggies!' will open on September 24, 2026, alongside 'Arthur Jafa: I Am Tony' and 'The Bowery: Devil’s Mile'.
Tate Modern will open "Light & Magic: The Birth of Art Photography" on October 14, 2026, marking the first major exhibition to explore Pictorialism as a global photographic movement.
The Museum of the City of New York (MCNY) has opened 'Robert Rauschenberg’s ‘New York: Pictures from the Real World’', an exhibition centered on the artist's photographs of his adopted hometown.
On July 21, 2026, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk announced 'Sleep', a major thematic exhibition examining sleep through art, science, and cultural history.
On July 15, 2026, the Getty announced a feature highlighting stylish attendees at the first two concerts of its Off the 405 summer series, featuring aja monet and Hunx and His Punx. The piece, written by Cassia Davis, explores how music influences concertgoers' outfits and everyday clothing.
On July 23, 2026, Gagosian announced that Sally Mann will speak with Jill Medvedow, director emerita of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, about her latest book "Art Work: On the Creative Life" (2025) at the Martha's Vineyard Book Festival's Author Series.
Thaddaeus Ropac gallery has announced 'The Last Human Kiss', an exhibition examining the kiss as a symbol of love, intimacy, devotion, betrayal, and belonging across millennia.
The Musée d'Orsay in Paris has acquired a collection of 19th-century photographs documenting the construction of the Eiffel Tower and the Gare d'Orsay, the museum's former railway station.
The Musée d'Orsay announced the acquisition of 333 historical photographs from a private collection, featuring works by early photographers such as Robert Jefferson Bingham, Henri de La Blanchère, and Adolphe Hervier.
On July 17, 2026, Centre Pompidou announced a photographic series titled "The Great Sleep" by French photographer Romain Laprade (born 1988), commissioned exclusively for the museum.
On July 16, 2026, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) announced 'Eileen Cowin: Between Panic and Paradise,' the Los Angeles–based artist's first major museum exhibition.
Marwan Bassiouni's series 'New Dutch Views', featuring photographs of Dutch landscapes framed by Islamic motifs, patterned walls and prayer rugs, is the subject of an exhibition at Fotomuseum Den Haag.
Frieze has released a series of features and videos in conjunction with Frieze New York 2026. The fair includes a special commission by an artist and photographer depicting Latinx and global diasporic women of New York City.
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.
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.
The Musée d'Orsay has published a listing of works featuring urban and landscape views from the 19th and early 20th centuries, including photographs by Thomas Annan of Glasgow streets (circa 1868–1871) and views of Paris, Pau, and Venice by artists such as Adolphe Humbert de Molard and René Laliq.
On July 3, 2026, Galerie Max Hetzler announced that Rineke Dijkstra's 2012 photograph 'Isabel, Berlin, Germany, June 26, 2003' has entered the collection of the Collezione Ettore Molinario in Milan, a collection spanning photography from its origins to the present.
The Musée d'Orsay in Paris has extended its exhibition 'Splendeurs et misères' through July 5, 2026.
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.
Bonhams will offer the personal collection of Terence Stamp (1938-2025) for the first time at its Knightsbridge location.
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.
Sadie Coles HQ is presenting KINDRED. Alayo Akinkugbe, author of Reframing Blackness, participates alongside Lily McMenamy. The project also references BUTT.
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.
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.
The National Portrait Gallery in London has acquired the only known photographs of Ada Lovelace through a private treaty sale facilitated by Bonhams.
The National Portrait Gallery in London has acquired the only known photographs of Ada Lovelace through a private treaty sale facilitated by Bonhams.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Zeitz MOCAA presents We Proceed in the Footsteps of the Sunlight, the first museum survey exhibition of Ghanaian-German artist Zohra Opoku.
Bourse de Commerce — Pinault Collection presents the group exhibition 'Remember Me' featuring around 700 works by more than 70 artists.
Bourse de Commerce — Pinault Collection presents the exhibition 'Remember Me' featuring approximately 700 works by more than 70 artists.
The Stedelijk Museum and Stichting De Best Verzorgde Boeken present the annual selection of the most carefully designed Dutch publications of 2024.
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.
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.
Getty Publications has released Marching West: The Los Angeles Civil Rights Movement in Photographs by Karin L. Stanford and Mark Speltz.
Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town is presenting a season of exhibitions beginning with Spring Is Rebellious: The Art & Life of Albie Sachs, which opens 24 July 2025 and runs through 31 August 2026.
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