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Swiss Institute (SI), one of New York’s leading platforms for experimental contemporary art, has announced the acquisition of the ground floor and lower level of 250 Bowery in Manhattan. The move marks the first time in its 40-year history that the institution has owned its premises. The new location will open to the public in spring 2027 and will remain free of charge.Founded in 1986 by artists and art patrons, SI has established itself as a distinctive force in the city’s cultural landscape, k

São Paulo is a cultural powerhouse, and it’s home to the São Paulo Bienal (the second-oldest in the world) as well as Latin America's largest art fair, SP-Arte. Yet for all its scale, the city’s art scene “feels like it grew in secret, slowly, almost by accident,” in the words of Fernanda Brenner, founding artistic director of the nonprofit space Pivô. São Paulo spans more than 1,500 square kilometers and defies easy navigation; what holds it together for art lovers is a network of distinct cult

Belgium’s Red Devils advanced to the Round of 16 of the 2026 World Cup with a dramatic 3–2 extra-time victory over Senegal in Seattle on July 1st, wearing a jersey designed as an explicit homage to Belgian Surrealist artist René Magritte. Created in partnership with Adidas, the shirt features a robin’s egg blue base color and a pattern of repeated pink and blue soccer balls, evoking Magritte’s recurring motif of round shapes such as apples, moons, and suns, which feature in his most celebrated w

Soccer, 1983 Robert Peak RoGallery Whether they call it soccer, football, or the beautiful game, soccer and art share points of intersection beyond aesthetics. Both are primarily visual experiences that viewers feel passionate about. Some stadiums have been compared to cathedrals or museums for the sport, and a direct crossover between s

As the art world gears up for summer 2026, you can bet on women artists drawing crowds at museums across the world. These include a Frida Kahlo exhibition in London (which has already smashed records with its ticket presales) and the Japanese video artist Mako Idemitsu, who will have a broad survey in Japan. It’s also a busy season for new museum openings. Paris’s Centre Pompidou, currently closed for renovations, inaugurates a new outpost in Asia after previously launching a space in Shanghai i

French artist Jean-Marc Bustamante will open Fonds Bustamante, a new independent cultural foundation, in Arles, southern France, on July 9, 2026. Housed in the newly renovated 12th-century Église Sainte-Croix in the heart of the city, the foundation opens with an inaugural exhibition, “En Miroirs,” running until October 30, 2026, timed to coincide with the opening week of the Rencontres d’Arles, the city’s annual summer photography festival. Born in 1952, Bustamante has been a central figure in

Straight Curve, 1963 Bridget Riley El Museo del Barrio Large Fragment 2, 2009 Bridget Riley Cristea Roberts Gallery Widely regarded as a leading figure in

A free, artist-designed activity guide is being distributed across all five boroughs of New York City this summer as part of a partnership between Mayor Zohran Mamdani, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the FIFA World Cup 2026 New York New Jersey Host Committee.Designed by Rich Tu, the artist behind the official FIFA World Cup 2026 New York New Jersey Host City Poster, the guide invites participants of all ages to explore themes of community, culture, and team spirit through art and play.

Song Burnsoo, whose decades-long investigation into textile, symbolism, and spiritual form made him one of the defining figures of Korean contemporary art, died on June 15th. He was 83. Gallery Baton, which represented him since 2019, announced his passing on June 18th.Song was born in 1943 in Gongju, South Korea, and studied at Hongik University in Seoul, where he would return as a faculty member from 1980 to 2008 and later held the title of professor emeritus. He also founded the Maga Art Muse

Philadelphia’s art scene has sharpened in the last few years into something distinctive: institutionally serious, community-driven, and unusually porous between artists, curators, designers, musicians, and chefs.Proximity to New York and relative affordability are part of the story—Philly can sustain experimentation in ways many cities increasingly can’t.New spaces dedicated to contemporary art and design have opened alongside artist-run collectives, while a younger generation of galleries has t

CAN Art Fair Ibiza turns five this year, and the anniversary fits its age. Running June 25th to 28th at the FECOEV exhibition center on the outskirts of Ibiza Town, the fair has expanded to match its rising visibility on the crowded fair circuit. A record 32 international exhibitors made the trip to the Spanish island this year, with a strong showing of local Spanish galleries settling in next to spaces from as far afield as Bucharest, Romania; Los Angeles; and Shanghai. As a surprisingly thick

Styrofoam, 2021 Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde Instantdreams Pop band Cigarettes After Sex has tapped Belgian photographer Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde for the cover of its new single “Twizzler,” bringing one of the artist’s most recognizable photographs to a global audience.The artwork, Styrofoam (2021), is a photograph depicting a

Portraits are crucial to understanding Frida Kahlo: both those she made and those others made of her. Together, they reveal how the Mexican artist transformed the defining events of her life: from her first love and near-fatal bus accident to her turbulent marriage, distinctive personal style, and enduring cultural legacy. This year, Tate Modern’s major exhibition brings together more than 200 works—those by Kahlo herself as well as pieces by artists she inspired. Through self-portraits, photogr

Even in the 1980s, Keith Haring’s distinctively spry drawing style seemed to be ubiquitous. His striking, flat line compositions featured an endless flow of dogs barking, or television and computer screens broadcasting his “radiant baby” figures. Elsewhere, he portrayed UFOs radiating powerful beams of energy, beating hearts, and mythical creatures. These graphics covered every surface imaginable in downtown New York—the city was his home and studio. Working prolifically until his death from AID

An exhibition of works by Scottish artist Douglas Gordon, centered around his landmark double-screen film Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (2006), will open at Gagosian Beverly Hills next month. Titled “Magic is sometimes very close to nothing at all,” the exhibition coincides with the FIFA World Cup 2026, which is being hosted across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, with several matches taking place in Los Angeles.Made in collaboration with French artist Philippe Parreno, Zidane: A 21st Ce

The National Portrait Gallery has awarded the first prize in the Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award 2026 to Marc Dalessio. The Los Angeles–born artist, who is currently based in southwest France, was awarded the prize for his work Jean-Denis (2025), a portrait of his neighbor painted in natural light over six sittings at his studio.The award, one of the most prestigious portrait painting competitions in the world, attracted 1,474 submissions from artists across 63 countries. Some 51 s

As a child, artist Sara Flores learned Kené—a sacred geometric design system of the Shipibo-Konibo of the Amazon—at her mother’s side. Her mother learned in much the same way. The art form, passed through matrilineal lines linking back to an ancient ancestral past, expresses an accumulated knowledge of medicine, cosmology, ethics, and community care.These compositions, entrancing in their detailed repetition, are now earning Kené a new international audience. Flores is currently representing Per

Israeli artist Yaacov Agam, whose pioneering explorations of movement and perception helped define kinetic art in the postwar era, died on June 21st at age 98.Born in Rishon LeZion, then part of British Mandate Palestine in 1928, Agam was raised in a religious household by his father, a rabbi and kabbalist. He studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem before continuing his education in Zürich under Bauhaus painter Johannes Itten. In 1951, Agam moved to Paris, where he develop

“It’s big.” That was the first thing James Turrell said to Rebecca Matthews, director of ARoS Aarhus Art Museum (ARoS), when he stepped inside the dome of his newest Skyspace, As Seen Below (2026).By any measure, As Seen Below is big: the largest Skyspace ever made for a museum, a dome more than 130 feet in diameter and 52 feet high, with a nearly 20-foot oculus opening to the sky. It is also Turrell’s 100th Skyspace—his signature genre of installation involving an enclosed room with a crisp ce

The first public memorial service celebrating the life and work of David Hockney will take place in London in spring 2027, according to a statement released by the artist’s representatives. In accordance with the artist’s wishes, Hockney’s official funeral, which took place last week, had only two guests: his partner, Jean-Pierre Gonçalves de Lima, and his great-nephew, Richard Hockney. Both mourners are trustees of the David Hockney Foundation, which is dedicated to the preservation, exhibition