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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.
Jenkin van Zyl's first major solo exhibition, 'Surrender,' has opened at Edel Assanti in London, featuring an immersive installation centered on Japanese love hotels and queer desire.
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.
A Frieze article explores how Instagram meme accounts have become a primary method of institutional critique within the art world.
Frieze has partnered with Seoul's Art Sonje Center to present the LIVE programme for its Seoul fair, showcasing female, queer, and intersectional artists. The programme includes performances by Yagwang and Chang Younghae, among 11 Korean artists.
The Musée du Louvre will host an exhibition showcasing works by guest artists Kader Attia and Elizabeth Peyton, created during two-year residencies in the museum. The exhibition, held in the Salle de la Chapelle, runs from September 24 to December 14, 2026.
On June 4, 2026, Lisson Gallery announced the exhibition "Motherscape" by Japanese Swiss artist Leiko Ikemura at the Albertina in Vienna. The show features paintings, drawings, sculpture, and an animated film, with scenography by the artist's husband, architect Philipp von Matt.
Tokyo Node will present 'Tony Oursler: Between Technology and Spiritual Knowledge - Magic, Media, and Art' from July 3 to September 27, 2026.
On 19 June 2026, Shirazeh Houshiary will be in conversation with Sir Gabriele Finaldi at The National Gallery's Friday Lates series in London.
Tate Modern will open the UK's first major exhibition dedicated to multidisciplinary artist Ana Mendieta (1948-1985) in over a decade, running from July 15, 2026 to January 17, 2027.
On June 10, 2026, Art21 announced the premiere of its new episode "Human Nature," the third installment of Season 12 of "Art in the Twenty-First Century." The episode features four artists, including Josh Kline, who explore themes of humanity's impact on the environment, social and economic syste.
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 8, 2026, Art Basel announced a feature article in which four artists with current summer exhibitions discuss the books and writings that have shaped their artistic practice and thinking. The piece also reveals the titles each artist plans to read this summer.
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.
On July 1, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac announced that Oliver Beer's solo exhibition 'The Sky in the Cave' is on view at its London gallery through July 31.
Getty announced on June 16, 2026, the launch of its first video podcast, "OMMM: Our Museum Mindfulness Meditation," hosted by gallery educator Lilit Sadoyan.
Art Basel’s Zero 10: The Condition program features an artist and co-curator who addresses how artificial intelligence is disrupting authorship, ownership, and image-making. The discussion centers on digital art’s established role in examining contemporary conditions.
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.
On June 12, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac released an interview with a performance artist exploring solidarity through the collective presence of women of various ages and body types.
LAS Art Foundation presents an afternoon of conversations on the evolving landscape of quantum technologies on June 20, 2026, at Grand Palais in Paris.
Lucy Raven and Deantoni Parks will present Raven’s Murderers Bar (2025) on July 28 at T-Lazy-7 Ranch in the Roaring Fork Valley.
Nathaniel Mary Quinn's work Stones Trinity, 2025 is featured on the Rolling Stones' album Foreign Tongues, scheduled for release on July 7, 2026. Quinn creates hybrid fractured portraits on paper and linen using charcoal, gouache, pastel, paint stick and oil paint.
Tate Modern opens an exhibition dedicated to Julio Le Parc featuring over 60 works spanning the artist’s 70-year career.
The Bourse de Commerce — Pinault Collection has installed Fujiko Nakaya's Fog Sculpture Cloud #07156 in the Rotonde as part of the exhibition Clair-obscur.
The Fondation Louis Vuitton presented the video and poetry program "Une brise d’amour dans la nuit a passé" on June 6, 2026, from 20h to 00h as part of Nuit Blanche 2026.
Metrograph presents a screening event on June 19, 2026, at the New Museum Theater in New York, featuring Tishan Hsu's emergent mesh (2025) alongside David Cronenberg's eXistenZ (1999). The program coincides with the New Museum’s exhibition New Humans: Memories of the Future.
On June 3, 2026, Tokyo Node announced the exhibition 'Tony Oursler: Between Technology and Spiritual Knowledge - Magic, Media, and Art', which runs from July 3 to September 27, 2026.
The Hirshhorn Museum distributes a weekly newsletter summarizing its newest art experiences tied to current events in a three-minute format. A separate biweekly newsletter delivers creative projects for children of all ages inspired by Hirshhorn artists.
The sale and purchase of contemporary works of art by Public Administrations is placed at the centre of attention alongside reform of the Patronage Law. Collecting is positioned as an integral part of the cultural system. The ACB Collection is presented in connection with Tasis School Portugal.
Demolition/Escape is on view at Fluentum in Berlin until July 25, 2026. The exhibition brings together three artists working in video and sound and features Tina Keane’s Escalator (1988), which has been fully restored and is exhibited for the first time in over thirty years.
Louvre Abu Dhabi has released a free mobile app that provides audio content and podcasts about the museum's collection, architecture and exhibitions.
Sadie Coles HQ is presenting multiple projects by artists including Diego Marcon with titles such as salut! hallo! hello!, Krapfen, Prom and FORZA CANI.
The group exhibition Di quadro in quadro: l'arte della citazione runs at MART - Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto in Rovereto, Italy from June 12, 2026 to November 1, 2026. It includes works by Ai Weiwei and is curated by Daniela Ferrari.
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.
Zeitz MOCAA has launched the world’s first museum Insta Map in partnership with advertising agency M&C Saatchi Abel. The dynamic map guides visitors through the museum’s seven floors and over 60 galleries using Instagram.
Zeitz MOCAA presents We Proceed in the Footsteps of the Sunlight, the first museum survey exhibition of Ghanaian-German artist Zohra Opoku.
Nora Turato presents her performance pool7 at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam on August 29. The work uses exclusively self-written material performed through physical gestures including convulsions and tremors, with no recordings or documentation permitted.
The Getty Museum offers mindfulness-based tours including the Breathe Tour, Art & Nature Tour, Memento Mori and Moving Mindfully tours led by head of education Keishia Gu.
Tate Liverpool announced that Asad Raza will create the first major commission for the Art Hall, a new space at the heart of the transformed gallery when it reopens in 2027.
Lisson Gallery is presenting Spencer Finch: Following Nature. The gallery is hosting talks involving Mark Boulos in connection with the project.
M+ in Hong Kong will present Lee Bul: From 1998 to Now at the M+ West Gallery from March 14 to August 9, 2026.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art will host its 14th Art+Film Gala on November 1. The event honors artist Mary Corse and filmmaker Ryan Coogler. LACMA trustee Eva Chow and actor Leonardo DiCaprio serve as co-chairs.
Art Basel has appointed artist Trevor Paglen and digital art strategist Eli Scheinman to curate the third edition of Zero 10 at the flagship fair in Basel.
Serpentine Galleries will present a major solo exhibition of new and existing works by New Delhi-based artist Amar Kanwar at Serpentine North. The exhibition runs September 23, 2026 to January 31, 2027 and marks the premiere of the seven-screen film installation The Charcoal Man.
Serpentine Galleries will launch the second annual issue of the Serpentine Reader, titled Issue 02: I Hope This Finds You Well, on March 9, 2026.
DEMO2026 festival tickets are now on sale for the event at the New Museum’s Expanded Building in New York. The festival runs from June 3–5 with showcases on view from June 3–10. Speakers include Xin Liu, Dr. Sarah Lewis, Germane Barnes, Felix Burrichter and Tao Leigh Goffe.
The episode of Becoming Artsy shows host Jessie visiting the Getty Museum’s Drawings Room to examine two bird watercolors by artist Sarah Stone. She next meets ornithologist Allison Shultz at the Natural History Museum, where a collection of taxidermied tanager birds is displayed.
Getty Museum podcast Becoming Artsy released episode 502 hosted by Jessie Hendricks. The episode features fashion designer Peder Cho transforming old Getty exhibition banners into wearable art.
Tate Britain has shortlisted Simeon Barclay, Kira Freije, Marguerite Humeau and Tanoa Sasraku for the Turner Prize 2026. An exhibition of their work will be held at Teesside University’s MIMA, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, from 26 September 2026 to 29 March 2027.
The episode follows host Jessie as she learns drawing techniques from the Charles Bargue Drawing Course with artist and instructor Peter Zokosky, including copying plates, identifying negative shapes, and using a measuring stick for 3D objects.
Kamasi Washington will perform his work Harmony of Difference at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s new David Geffen Galleries.
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