The Corning Museum of Glass will open its new exhibition Tough Stuff: Women in the American Glass Studio on May 16, 2026, as a major initiative of the Museum’s year-long celebration of its 75th anniversary. Tough Stuff is the first survey exhibition of work by women artists working in glass during the breakthrough decades of
May 2026 Art News
“Fridamania” is reaching new heights as museums, opera houses, and cinemas across continents celebrate the enduring legacy of Frida Kahlo in 2026. This collective reckoning with her highly curated self-image and body of work comes at a time when many are searching for personal meaning and unity in an age of simultaneous hyper-connectedness and geopolitical division.
The Stars We Do Not See is the poetic, but also challenging, title of the biggest, most comprehensive exhibition of Australian Indigenous art to be exhibited outside the continent to date, some shown for the first time abroad. The title is partly inspired by the late Yolŋu artist Gulumbu Yunupiŋu from Yrrkala in Arnhem Land, known for her mesmerizing mappings of the night sky, several of which are in the exhibition.
At a Venice Biennale often defined by spectacle, scale, and geopolitical performance, some of the most consequential exhibitions of 2026 unfold quietly—through the language of vessels, memory, and care.
Although museums have long housed clothing in “costume institutes” removed from their painting and sculpture galleries, a series of exhibitions and events is collapsing the distance between fashion and art this spring.
Studio Shop Gallery presents Roland Petersen at 100: A Life in Painting, a major retrospective honoring the celebrated Bay Area Figurative artist’s centennial year. Opening Friday, May 8, with a black-tie reception celebrating Petersen’s life and legacy, the exhibition traces eight decades of artistic innovation—from early 1950s abstractions to his latest painting completed in 2026.
Mid-morning January 7, 2025, a fire broke out in the Santa Monica Mountains. By the noon hour, fanned by intense winds with gusts up to 100 miles an hour, the fire had reached the perimeter of the Getty Villa property. Thus began a new odyssey for Getty, as we defended the Villa from the flames.
Since its start in 2009, Independent has been called the art world’s favorite art fair, and this year, there will be a lot more to like as it expands with a pair of major moves. This month, Independent’s contemporary art fair will migrate from its Tribeca digs to the much larger Pier 36 on the Lower East Side.
Attention to detail, subtle shifts of perspective, angles of surface, and objects overlapping or jutted up against one another; Giorgio Morandi’s sheer inventiveness with ordinary objects is distinctive.
