The art world is full of wonderful things to discover, but it can also be hard to keep up. New exhibitions open, artists gain attention, auctions make headlines, museums announce major shows, and important stories can easily get lost in the noise. Art & Object’s weekly newsletter helps make sense of it all.
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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.
The Bruce Museum is pleased to announce Gisela Colón: Radiant Earth, on view in the Sculpture Gallery from January 24 through June 28, 2026. This exhibition presents a comprehensive primer of the internationally acclaimed sculptor Gisela Colón, featuring nine luminescent sculptures that explore the profound forces and energies of the natural world.
When the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) opened its David Geffen Galleries on April 19, visitors were met with works from vastly different cultures and centuries hung together without the hierarchies that have long shaped how Western museums arrange their collections.
In the United States, the historical formulation of the “self-taught artist” is loaded with assumptions about class, race, and mental health that have obfuscated the figure of the maker. Because these artists practiced outside of conventional art school, gallery, museum, and peer-exchange systems, their works have oftentimes been interpreted through the lens of their discoverers and collectors.
For more than six decades, Yoko Ono has challenged the conventions of art by inviting the audience into the work itself—either by being part of the art or stepping on it. A new exhibition at The Broad museum in Los Angeles traces the evolution of her practice from the early Fluxus experiments of the 1950s through her sweeping participatory installations of the 2000s.
The allegorical manifestation of "the four continents" is a visual staple of Western art from the colonial period and the 18th century in particular. Used to uphold the idea of European superiority and justify colonialism itself, the iconography associated with each continent is deeply rooted in racism.
The Akron Art Museum is proud to present Kent Monkman: History Is Painted by the Victors, a sweeping exhibition of monumental paintings by internationally renowned Cree artist Kent Monkman. Through his bold and subversive lens, Monkman reimagines the genre of history painting to confront colonial narratives and offer urgent new perspectives on the past and present.
A quiet ceremony at the Canadian Conservation Institute in Ottawa marked a turning point in international cultural property law in recent weeks.
Nestled in the sagebrush-dusted mountains of northern New Mexico, more than 5,000 feet above sea level, is a small, quaint city constructed mainly of adobe and dating back to 1607 that just happens to be one of the world’s biggest and most vibrant art centers. Italy has a term for its urban cultural treasures—città d’arte, or art city.
