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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.
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.
Serpentine Galleries has opened 'processing…', an open-access archive display in the Education Space at Serpentine South, running from July 20 to September 6, 2026.
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.
Thaddaeus Ropac Milano presents "Dialogues are Mostly Fried Snowballs," an exhibition pairing works by Marcel Duchamp and Sturtevant.
Louvre Abu Dhabi has introduced a new experimental Art Scan feature within its mobile app, allowing visitors to access content about artworks directly on their screens by scanning the pieces.
Louvre Abu Dhabi has launched a free mobile application offering guided tours, podcasts, and an AI-powered artifact scanner in seven languages: Arabic, English, French, Chinese, Russian, German, and Hindi.
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.
A Frieze article explores how Instagram meme accounts have become a primary method of institutional critique within the art world.
The Getty Museum has released a new episode of its "Close Looking" video series, featuring a mechanical table made around 1760 by Jean-François Oeben, cabinetmaker to King Louis XV.
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.
Louvre Abu Dhabi has opened the Quantum Dome Project, a new collective virtual reality experience that transports visitors through historical landscapes spanning Imperial Rome, Medieval Baghdad, and Mughal India.
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.
On July 8, 2026, the Museum der Moderne Salzburg's Altstadt (Rupertinum) location announced an exhibition of new works by New York-based painter Georgia Gardner Gray (b. 1988).
On July 1, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac announced Mandy El-Sayegh's solo exhibition 'Jewel Tones', presenting silkscreen printing frames, vitrine objects, and her signature collaged and painted prints on canvas.
On July 3, 2026, Lisson Gallery announced that MOCA Cleveland will present 'Tishan Hsu: permeable surface', a career-spanning survey running from August 28, 2026 to March 7, 2027.
The Musée d'Orsay in Paris has suspended the creation of new professional accounts for tourism operators and works councils until Monday, June 1, 2026, as part of ongoing construction work that requires revised visitor access procedures.
The Établissement public des musées d'Orsay et de l'Orangerie (EPMO), the public institution managing the Musée d'Orsay and Musée de l'Orangerie, published its standard legal notice for its website.
On June 29, 2026, the Rijksmuseum announced that KPN, the leading Dutch mobile and internet provider, will become the museum’s new Founder, the highest tier of corporate partnership.
The Ministry of Culture has launched the “Felicità” communication campaign for the National Museum System and the Musei Italiani app developed under the PNRR Accessibility initiative.
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