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Rene Matić has won the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2026, one of Europe’s leading photography awards. The artist was announced as the winner of the £30,000 ($39,964) prize at The Photographers’ Gallery in London on Thursday by author and broadcaster Liv Little.Matić, who was born in Peterborough, U.K., in 1997, received the award for their exhibition “AS OPPOSED TO THE TRUTH,” which was on view at CCA Berlin from November 8, 2024, through February 15, 2025. The exhibition featured

Never one to do things by halves, New York this week is playing host to more than 350 art fair booths across various venues in Manhattan. The six fairs listed below form the spine of New York Art Week, when the city’s art scene comes alive with gallery openings, events, auctions, and enough programming to keep art lovers’ step counts—and calendar events—high.With a higher concentration of fairs, galleries, and auctions than any other city, the lineup affirms New York’s status as the de facto cap

An overcast day on the Upper East Side did little to dampen the spirits at the Park Avenue Armory, as a typically glamorous crowd convened for TEFAF New York 2026.Marking its 12th edition in New York and its 10th in the May slot, the fair is an established fixture of New York Art Week, complementing the more contemporary-minded fairs taking place this week—such as Independent, NADA, and Frieze—with a more historically focused selection of exhibitors.That has very much been TEFAF’s stock in trade

New York’s the Neue Galerie has announced it will merge with The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2028. The institution will be renamed to the Met Ronald S. Lauder Neue Galerie, known as the Met Neue Galerie. The merger, announced Thursday, was arranged to ensure that the museum and its collection remain intact when its founder, cosmetics heir Ronald Lauder, will no longer be around.“This represents an enormous opportunity,” said the Met’s director Max Hollein, who has also served on the board of t

Frieze New York 2026 kicked off its 15th edition at The Shed in Manhattan on Wednesday, May 13th with a VIP preview that drew a smart mix of collectors, museum heads, artists, and other cultural figures. 68 galleries from 25 countries are participating in this year’s fair, which runs through May 17th.Among those in attendance on Wednesday were boldface names including Leonardo DiCaprio, Julia Fox, and Sharon Stone, in addition to major collectors and patrons including Don and Mera Rubell, Beth R

Frieze New York 2026 opened its VIP day at The Shed on Wednesday, May 13, hard on the heels of the Venice Biennale’s opening week—the latest major stop on a packed run of international openings, events, and previews for the contemporary art world.Now in its 15th edition, the fair anchors New York Art Week, the rolling tangle of fairs, gallery openings, auctions, and parties that takes over the city each May. When the art world arrives in New York, it arrives in numbers: Fellow fairs NADA New Yor

Though painter Allison Katz lived in New York for seven years, she hasn’t shown in Manhattan for over a decade. Her debut solo show in the city with Hauser & Wirth’s Wooster Street location offers a major return for the mid-career artist. To mark the occasion, Katz created a suite of New York–centric paintings, featuring the city’s museums and skyscrapers, as well as an ironically small “Big Apple” composition. Her new show, titled “Outta the Bag,” reaffirms her place as a rising star of contemp

It’s been quite a year for art in the Gulf area. In early February, the debut of Art Basel Qatar brought international art world attention to the region. A few weeks later, the U.S. attacks on Iran created turmoil across the Gulf and led airlines to cease operations to Qatar, the U.A.E., and nearby locales. The conflict has impacted plans for Art Dubai, which had to scale back its event to a smaller, more focused fair in mid-May. Artists and galleries in the Gulf had to momentarily close their s

Trios, 2024 Elizabeth Tremante Spinello Projects A new study by the University College London published this week demonstrates that people who engage with art have a tendency to age at a slower pace, with benefits similar to those of physical activity. The research shows that both participating in art as well as observing it leads to peo

Installation has begun on a new monumental trompe-l’oeil work from French artist JR, which will transform Paris’s Pont Neuf into an immersive cave this summer. La Caverne du Pont Neuf (2026) reimagines the city’s oldest bridge as a cave within a limestone quarry from which it and many of Paris’s buildings were constructed. The French photographer and street artist’s work pays homage to Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s seminal work, The Pont Neuf Wrapped (1985), and will be on view day and night from

The 2026 Venice Biennale opened to the public last weekend, weighted with politics and emotion. The main exhibition, “In Minor Keys,” was conceived by the late Cameroonian Swiss curator Koyo Kouoh—the first African woman appointed to lead the Biennale—who died unexpectedly in May 2025. Her curatorial team, including Rasha Salti, Marie Hélène Pereira, and Gabe Beckhurst Feijoo, carried forward her vision, which reflects Kouoh’s belief in art as a “shared and sustaining force.” Throughout opening

The Loewe Foundation has announced Korean ceramicist Jongjin Park as the winner of the 2026 edition of the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize. Park was selected for his piece Strata of Illusion (2025), a partially-collapsed seat-like form crafted from paper and coated in porcelain slip, for which he has received €50,000 ($58,700). His work, alongside the rest of those shortlisted, will be on view in an exhibition at the National Gallery Singapore that opens tomorrow and runs through June 14.The artist

This May leaves no time for jetlag as the art world comes in hot off the Venice Biennale and cruises straight into a stacked New York Art Week. Get your coffee to go, too, because for the second year in a row, all the fairs—headlined by Frieze, TEFAF, and Independent—are locked into a single week.And more art is waiting to be discovered beyond the fair circuit. New York galleries are opening their major spring shows while curators and collectors are in town. This season, there’s a mix of discove

Assouline has released Basquiat: The World of Jean-Michel, a 348-page volume featuring more than 200 artworks and archival photographs from Jean-Michel Basquiat and priced at $1,400. The book launches as part of the publisher’s Ultimate Collection of large-format, hand-bound volumes.The volume unfolds thematically across six chapters, including Basquiat’s depictions of heads, the imprint of New York City on his visual language, his use of silkscreens and multilayered surfaces, and the spiritual

New York is never short on great art. But New York Art Week is exceptional: Over the course of a week, an unusual collision of high-quality work descends on the city, spanning a half-dozen fairs—including Frieze New York, Independent New York, TEFAF New York, and NADA New York—alongside gallery openings from Tribeca to the Upper East Side, and auction previews ahead of the marquee sales at Sotheby’s, Christie’s, and Phillips.While it’s an especially exciting time for the out-of-town art crowd, i

This spring, Abraham González Pacheco’s monumental series of murals, collectively titled Orogenic (2026), engulfs the façade of the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. These concrete, metal, and pigment depictions of a maelstrom of archaeological objects take inspiration from the museum’s collection and introduce viewers to the 59th edition of the institution’s Carnegie International. The newly commissioned work suggests a key theme of the show: the ways in which museums and hist

Radiohead singer Thom Yorke and writer and artist Stanley Donwood have unveiled a new body of work in a solo show at Castello 2432 in Venice this week. Timed to the start of the 61st Venice Biennale, the show with Tin Man Art, titled “No Go Elevator (Not Without No Keycard),” brings together new ink drawings and a large-scale painting, the majority of which were executed in London earlier this year. It is the duo's first-ever exhibition outside the UK and will run through June 7.Yorke and Donwoo

It’s the art world’s most important art exhibition. But for 2026, the Venice Biennale arrives carrying unusual baggage. Koyo Kouoh was announced in 2024 as the curator—the first African woman to hold the role—for the 61st edition of the main show, which opens this week and runs through November. A tour de force, she had built her name connecting the international art world to artists and institutions from Africa and the Global South. She passed away suddenly in 2025, leaving behind an artist lis

Indonesian multimedia artist Dian Suci has been named the winner of the 10th edition of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women. The news was announced by the prize’s curator and jury chair, Cecilia Alemani and others today in Venice at a celebration held at the Serra dei Giardini. Suci was selected from a shortlist of five finalists that included Betty Adii, Dzikra Afifah, Ipeh Nur, and Mira Rizki. She was chosen by a jury organized and chaired by Alemani and made up of Museum MACAN director, Venus La

The Venice Biennale, contemporary art’s most closely watched international showcase, has opened its 61st edition, with more than 80 countries staging their own national pavilions across the city.“In Minor Keys,” the theme of the Biennale, envisioned by the late curator Koyo Kouoh, is felt across the city as artists and curators ask visitors to slow down and pay attention—to their surroundings, and to a great deal of art. And while controversy and loss have characterized the run-up to the Biennal