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The 2026 art book season is legible because its defining lists are dated and public. Publishers Weekly's spring preview, published 5 December 2025, leads with an enigmatic Dutch master, two queer American visionaries, and Laurie Anderson. By June, Wallpaper* counted a summer shelf led by Thames…
The sculpture park had a defining 2026. Yorkshire Sculpture Park announced a year-long programme inviting reflections, in its own words, on land, material, memory and community, headlined by over 60 works by more than 30 Indigenous North American artists. New York's Storm King opened commissions…
The season's clearest signal about where the art market is heading came from a sculptor who died in 1957. Pace Gallery announced global representation of the Constantin Brancusi Estate on May 18, 2026, bringing the father of modern sculpture's legacy into a commercial gallery framework alongside…
America's decorative arts museums spent 2025 and 2026 watching their federal funding survive by court order. The Institute of Museum and Library Services reinstated every grant it had terminated after a November 21, 2025 federal ruling in Rhode Island, and the administration later withdrew its…
The Guggenheim announced on August 3 that Taryn Simon's "Father Country I Do Love You," opening September 18, will fill the museum's entire rotunda, its first monographic exhibition for a photography-based artist. The show premieres 42 artworks, nearly a decade in the making, tracing the real…
Princeton University Art Museum has received a landmark gift of 34 twentieth-century Haitian paintings from collectors Kay Culbreath Heller and J. Roderick Heller, works by Hector Hyppolite, Philomé Obin, Rigaud Benoit, Wilson Bigaud, and Édouard Duval-Carrié. The collection centers on the…
Richmond International Airport has installed its first public artwork: Travel Companions, a 24-foot sculpture by conceptual artist Matthew Mazzotta depicting three hummingbirds and a flowering dogwood, Virginia's state tree. The Capital Region Airport Commission awarded the $400,000 project…
Museum restorations of decorative art are usually funded by dedicated grant programs, not acquisition budgets. In April 2026, Bank of America announced 18 Art Conservation Project grants across 10 countries, while the TEFAF Museum Restoration Fund, established 2012, named the Minneapolis…
The Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi announced on August 4, 2026 "the appointment of Dr. Valerie Hillings as the inaugural Director of Guggenheim Abu Dhabi." The museum, a Frank Gehry-designed building with 30 galleries in the Saadiyat Cultural District, is scheduled to open on…
The Aspen Art Fair closed its 2026 edition on August 1 at the Hotel Jerome in downtown Aspen, with more than 35 galleries installed across the hotel's rooms. The sales report from The Art Newspaper recorded Hexton "reporting more than $400,000 in sales during the two first days" and Boesky…