Art Camino

June 2026 Prestige Auction Results

The major June sales delivered a clear signal to the trade: the upper end of the market is functioning again, and the source of that strength is concentrated, identifiable, and worth examining closely. London Carries the Month The defining event of the season was Sotheby's…

Sales

June 2026 Prestige Auction Results

Fairs

Art Basel 2026: A Working Read on the Flagship Show

Art Basel's flagship Swiss edition ran from June 18 to 21, 2026, with preview days on June 16 and 17, bringing 290 galleries from 43 countries and territories into Messe Basel for the year's most closely watched gathering of the international art trade. This edition offered…

Museums England

Oxford: A Working Visit for Artists

Oxford rewards the art historian and museum professional with a density of collections that is difficult to match outside London. Within a compact city centre, a visitor encounters the founding of the modern public museum, one of the world's most important holdings of…

Museums England

A Guide to the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

The Ashmolean Museum on Beaumont Street in Oxford occupies a singular position in the landscape of British institutions: it is, by most reckonings, Britain's first public museum, having opened in 1683 to house the cabinet of curiosities assembled by the gardeners and travellers…

Public Art

Vivid Sydney 2026 Opens with Opera Mundi

Vivid Sydney entered its sixteenth year on the evening of 22 May 2026, with the harbour precinct activating more than forty light installations stretching along a 6.5-kilometre walk from Circular Quay through The Rocks, Barangaroo, and Darling Harbour. The centrepiece work,…

Sales

White Glove Result at Art Leven First Nations & Australian Fine Art Auction of Dame Marie Bashir Sir Nicholas Shehadie Collection AC OBE

The Art Leven White Glove Auction and the Legacy of Dame Marie Bashir On the evening of 19 May 2026, Art Leven's First Nations and Australian Fine Art Auction at Artspace, Woolloomooloo, achieved what the auction world calls a white glove result — every lot sold, a 100 per cent…

Fairs

Frieze New York 2025

Art at The Shed Frieze New York concluded its thirteenth edition on 11 May 2025 at The Shed in Hudson Yards, marking the fifth consecutive year the fair has occupied the venue. Over five days, the fair welcomed 25,000 visitors from 60 countries, with more than 65 galleries from…

Museums

The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Neue Galerie Plan to Merge in 2028

The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Ronald S. Lauder Neue Galerie New York announced an agreement to merge the two institutions by 2028, subject to the necessary regulatory approvals. The announcement, timed to coincide with the Neue Galerie's approaching twenty-fifth…

07 Jennifer West Stitched Cosmos curated by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi at Ca Foscari University of Venice

Biennale

The 61st Venice Biennale and the Fracturing of a Prize System

The 61st Venice Biennale opened to the public on 9 May 2026 under circumstances that no institutional director, curator, or gallery representative could have anticipated at the start of the year. The world's oldest and most closely watched international exhibition of…

Art Prizes

Richard Lewer Wins the Archibald Prize 2026

Presence and Responsibility On 8 May 2026, the Art Gallery of New South Wales announced Melbourne-based artist Richard Lewer as the winner of the Archibald Prize 2026, Australia's most prestigious portrait award, for his work Iluwanti Ken — a life-size portrait of Pitjantjatjara…

Art Prizes

The Wynne and Sulman Prizes 2026

Landscape, Legacy and the Living Image Two of Australia’s most enduring art prizes — the Wynne and the Sir John Sulman — have announced their 2026 winners, with this year’s results offering a considered cross-section of contemporary Australian artistry, from Yolŋu cultural…

Biennale

Venice Beyond the Flags: City Exhibitions at the 61st Biennale Arte

Fondazione Prada’s Richard Prince and Arthur Jafa show The 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, In Minor Keys, runs from 9 May to 22 November 2026, with its central presentation spread across the Giardini and the Arsenale. Yet for visitors navigating the…

Sales

The Lewis Collection at Sotheby's London

A Defining Moment for the UK Art Market When Sotheby's London presents the Lewis Collection this June, it will be the most valuable single-owner collection ever offered for sale in the United Kingdom. The estimate of between £150 million and £200 million places it well ahead of…

Biennale

Venice Biennale Jury Walks Out

Nine days before the 61st International Art Exhibition was due to open its doors to the art world on 9 May 2026, the entire international jury of the Venice Biennale resigned. The jury was made up of its president, Brazilian curator Solange Farkas, alongside Zoe Butt, Elvira…

Art Prizes

Turner Prize Shortlist for 2026 Announced

Turner Prize 2026 Four Artists, One Northern Stage Tate Britain announced the four shortlisted artists for the Turner Prize 2026 on 23 April, with the accompanying exhibition to be held at Teesside University's MIMA — the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art — from 26 September…

WebRes Installation Photography The Ark at The Church Sag Harbor. Photo Joe Jagos

Exhibitions

Powerhouse Arts Opens First Major Public Exhibition with Animal Sculpture Survey

Powerhouse Arts (PHA) will open The Ark, a group exhibition composed entirely of animal sculptures, on June 11, 2026, at its Gowanus, Brooklyn facility. The show marks the institution's first major public exhibition and inaugurates a year-round exhibitions program under the…

Art Prizes

Ibrahim Mahama Receives the 2026 Arnold Bode Prize in Kassel

The city of Kassel has awarded the 2026 Arnold Bode Prize to Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama, announced by his gallery White Cube on 20 April 2026. The award carries a prize of €10,000 and represents one of the more considered honours within the German contemporary art landscape,…

02 Jennifer West Stitched Cosmos curated by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi at Ca Foscari University of Venice

Biennale

Stitched Cosmos: Jennifer West Brings the Harvard Women Computers to Venice

A new environmental installation at Ca' Foscari University of Venice reclaims the overlooked contributions of women scientists who mapped the stars — and asks what it means to do that work now, when scientific research itself is under pressure. 61st Venice Biennale Arte • Ca'…

Biennale

Doubt as Resistance: The Malta Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale

Arts Council Malta returns to the Arsenale this May with a proposition that runs counter to the noise of contemporary life. No Need to Sparkle; Experiments in Love and Revolution, the group exhibition curated by Margerita Pulè and featuring the work of Adrian MM Abela, Charlie…

Museums USA

Los Angeles County Museum of Art David Geffen Galleries Open to the Public

On Sunday, 19 April 2026, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art opeed the doors of its long-anticipated David Geffen Galleries — a purpose-built permanent collection building designed by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor that has been in development for the better part of two…

Exhibitions

Hilma Af Klint - Grand Palais, Paris

Hilma af Klint at the Grand Palais: A Long-Overdue Encounter 6 May – 30 August 2026, Galerie 8, Grand Palais, Paris Co-produced by GrandPalaisRmn and the Centre Pompidou France has waited a long time for this. Despite the considerable international reassessment of Hilma af…

Museums England

Project Domani: The National Gallery London's Century-Defining Expansion

A £750 million campaign — the largest transformation of the National Gallery London since its founding in 1824 — sets out to reshape both the institution's physical footprint and the reach of its collection. For those working in galleries and art institutions, the implications…

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