June Kelly Gallery will present a memorial exhibition for the painter Sandra Lerner, who passed away in November 2025, opening Friday, February 6, 2026.
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The Persian Gulf is witnessing unprecedented art fair expansions as major players like Art Basel and Frieze compete for dominance outside slower American and European markets. Despite the Middle East’s reputation for a thin collector base, vast individual wealth and recent government investments in art are drawing auction houses and dealers to the region.
Soulis Fine Art Auctions, a regional powerhouse near Kansas City, Missouri, will present their 20th annual winter sale as a two-day event on February 21 and 22, 2026.
This past February, the Art Institute of Chicago became the recipient of a transformational gift, approximately 2,250 works of French art spanning the 16th through 19th centuries, said to be the largest holding of its kind in the United States. The donors were collectors Jeffrey Horvitz, a private investor, and his wife, Carol, a trustee of the Art Institute.
“The Smithsonian is not going to show somebody like me right now — specifically me,” Catherine Opie says in a recent Teams interview from Los Angeles, her voice matter-of-fact. “I’m not welcome right now in America.”
Dadaism or Dada is an art movement of the early twentieth century characterized by irreverence, subversion, and nonsense. Dada art, performance, and poetry emerged in Zurich as a reaction to the horror and misfortune of World War I.
The Savannah College of Art and Design presents the 17th edition of SCAD deFINE ART, the university’s annual series of exhibitions, talks, and special presentations celebrating influential leaders in contemporary art. This year’s programming, presented Feb. 23–26, includes conversations with today’s most prominent artists, including SCAD deFINE ART 2026 honoree Laurie Anderson, about their practices and works on view.
One of the most lively and engaging events on the international art scene, Mexico City Art Week made its return with Zona Maco leading the way, followed by Feria Material, Salón ACME, CLAVO, and Unique Design X—making the cosmopolitan capital the place to be at the start of February.
In late January, the Smithsonian announced that it would return a Shiva Nataraja statue and two other Chola Dynasty bronzes to India from the National Museum of Asian Art under a “shared stewardship” policy introduced in 2022.
I was working in music and playing poker, and the combination of those things led me to the art world. I’m from a highly educated yet not affluent background, and I had never thought much about the art world, never met a working artist or a gallery owner. Then I met Slater Bradley, who was at the time the youngest artist to have a solo show at the Whitney Museum. He invited me to an all-artists poker game at Dirk Skreber’s studio in Brooklyn.
