Natalie Ioele Alexander Calder, Dispersed Objects with Brass Gong, 1948... Photo: courtesy of Calder Foundation, New York / Art Resource, New York Alexander Calder is the focus of the latest major retrospective, Calder: Rêver en équilibre (Dreaming in Equilibrium), which opened April 15th at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris. Curated by Olivier Michelon, the exhibition spans the entire three floors of the Frank Gehry building and comprises more than 300 works. In recent ye

Milla Peerutin Tracey Emin, I Need Tomorrow, 2026... Photo: Counter Editions On Wednesday evening at the London Original Print Fair, Counter Editions unveiled a suite of six new lithographs, entitled I Need Tomorrow, by Tracey Emin. This comes as a complete shock to many, even Emin herself, following her landmark retrospective, A Second Life currently on show at the Tate Modern. By the time most people heard of the series, they had almost entirely already sold out.  I Need To

The strike marks the culmination of 3 days of protest led by the collective Art Not Genocide Alliance (ANGA) Demonstrators protest in front of the Giardini this afternoon... Photo: Tien Albert Tien Albert, Editor-in-Chief At least 236 artists, curators, and art workers involved in the Venice Biennale are taking part in a 24 hour strike that has culminated in a protest in front of Venice’s Giardini this afternoon. Several hundred demonstrators participated, chanting pro-Palest

Tien Albert, Editor-in-Chief The 25-year-old Lagosian painter brings vibrancy, and colour to London’s Saatchi Yates as he turns it into his studio for the month. It’s a shame the art can be slightly boring… A half pipe turned into a collaborative artwork... Courtesy of Saatchi Yates. Around 30 canvases, a skate ramp, a Nintendo Switch 2, and a Big Mac meal on the floor. These scenes greet the visitor as they enter the Saatchi Yates gallery on Bury Street, in London. Just a tw

Sofia Stefani Press Image for Mirror / Rite of Spring . Header image ©️ Thomas Alexander Mirror, a striking new contemporary dance piece from the Alexander Whitley Dance Company (AWDC), opens as an intimate duet. A pair of dancers take the stage, moving in fluid embrace as their performance begins. Immediately evident in their costume design, however, is a foreshadowing of technological disruption to their dance. The performance’s titular theme of interrogating the risks of d

Where is the art market headed in 2026? Is Certainty Truly Certain? Yuval Aluf Image courtesy of TEFAF. By mid-afternoon on the preview day of TEFAF Maastricht, small red dots begin to appear. One by one, they mark the walls of the fair: beside an Old Master portrait, next to a glazed Egyptian bronze, on the label of a twentieth-century sculpture. Dealers lean toward collectors in low conversations; champagne glasses clink, waiters balance trays between the vitrines. Between

Julia Antonczuk Black Madonna of Częstochowa, unknown artist (attributed to St. Luke), c. 13th–14th century. Tempera on wood panel, Housed at the Jasna Góra Monastery, Częstochowa. “ Fast from Words ” is this year’s Lenten theme in the Catholic Church. It encourages the faithful to abstain not only from harmful speech, such as gossip, criticism, and negativity, particularly on social media -- but also to cultivate intentional silence. This silence is not merely the absence

Dana Aben David Hockney: A Year in Normandie and Some Other Thoughts about Painting , installation view, Serpentine North, 2026 © David Hockney. Photo: Dana Aben. At the Serpentine North Gallery, David Hockney’s A Year in Normandie and Some Other Thoughts About Painting unfolds as both a meditation on time and a reconfiguration of how painting operates in the digital age. Moving from Kensington Gardens into the gallery, one is struck by a subtle continuity: the landscape seem