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Jessica Morgan Appointed Next Director of the Tate
Jessica Morgan Appointed Next Director of the Tate
In one of the most high-profile appointments in institutional art leadership, British curator Jessica Morgan has been named the next director of the UK's Tate museum network. Morgan, who has... Read more...
Gagosian London Plots Blockbuster René Magritte Survey as Surrealism Hits Market Highs
Gagosian London Plots Blockbuster René Magritte Survey as Surrealism Hits Market Highs
Gagosian London has announced an ambitious autumn exhibition dedicated to Belgian Surrealist René Magritte. Running from September 24 to December 12, 2026, at the gallery's Grosvenor Hill space, the survey... Read more...
How Ghana’s Hand-Painted Movie Posters Built a Folk Art Revolution
How Ghana’s Hand-Painted Movie Posters Built a Folk Art Revolution
Sitting on a shaded porch in Teshie, near Accra, the artist Heavy J dips his brush into crimson oil paint. He dabs a fresh layer of blood onto a knife... Read more...
60 Years Later at The Broad: Why Yoko Ono's 'Cut Piece' Still Matters
60 Years Later at The Broad: Why Yoko Ono's 'Cut Piece' Still Matters
On July 20, 1964, Yoko Ono walked onto a stage at Yamaichi Concert Hall in Kyoto, placed a pair of metal scissors on the floor in front of her folded... Read more...
The Album Art Music Left Behind: Record Covers as Standalone Visual Art
The Album Art Music Left Behind: Record Covers as Standalone Visual Art
Peter Saville did not listen to Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures before designing its pulsar wave cover. Neither did Reid Miles listen to the Blue Note jazz albums he designed, including... Read more...
The Bayeux Tapestry Is Coming to London (and It Isn't Really a Tapestry)
The Bayeux Tapestry Is Coming to London (and It Isn't Really a Tapestry)
In the early hours of Friday, July 10, 2026, a 68-metre strip of embroidered linen rode a train under the English Channel, packed in a climate-controlled crate sitting on shock-absorbing... Read more...
Morgan Library Exhibition Reclaims Tarot as Renaissance Art
Morgan Library Exhibition Reclaims Tarot as Renaissance Art
Long before it became a tool for fortune-telling, the tarot was a courtly game of skill, played by Italian aristocrats under the painted gaze of gilded saints and virtues. If... Read more...
Beyond Beige: Why Dense, Map-Like Abstraction is Taking Over
Beyond Beige: Why Dense, Map-Like Abstraction is Taking Over
Walk into the soaring Haas, Jr. Atrium at SFMOMA, and you are immediately confronted by two massive, opposing forces. Julie Mehretu’s diptych, HOWL, eon (I, II), flanks the main staircase... Read more...
Inside the New York Historical’s $175M Tang Wing
Inside the New York Historical’s $175M Tang Wing
Museums are often seen as quiet vaults for old objects, but the New York Historical is taking a different approach. The city's oldest museum just opened the Tang Wing for... Read more...
The Factory as a Family: Andy Warhol's Obsessive Polaroid Archive
The Factory as a Family: Andy Warhol's Obsessive Polaroid Archive
In the mid-1960s, Andy Warhol purchased his first Polaroid camera. It wasn't a casual purchase. That clunky piece of plastic would quickly become an extension of his own hand, a... Read more...
Art Basel Tributes to David Hockney: California Color for Your Walls
Art Basel Tributes to David Hockney: California Color for Your Walls
Walk through the aisles of Art Basel this week, and you will see a unified, vivid tribute playing out across the world's most prestigious gallery stands. Following the passing of... Read more...
Tate Modern Opens 'Frida: The Making of an Icon' (And Why She Belongs on Your Wall)
Tate Modern Opens 'Frida: The Making of an Icon' (And Why She Belongs on Your Wall)
The art world has a habit of flattening its most complex figures into merchandise, and few have suffered that fate quite like Frida Kahlo. But London's Tate Modern is aiming... Read more...