The 82nd edition of the Whitney Biennial opened to the public on March 8, 2026. Curated by Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer, Sawyer comes to the Whitney after several years at the Brooklyn Museum, and Guerrero took on her role in 2022—the first Latina to co-curate the Biennial. With press and VIP previews starting as early as March 3, the arts media was flooded with wildly varied opinions on this iteration, most leaning towards the negative.
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Returning for its 22nd edition, SP-Arte 2026 featured 180 exhibitors including national and international art galleries and design studios, museums, independent spaces, and publishers spread across three floors of the iconic Bienal Pavilion, designed by Oscar Niemeyer, in São Paulo’s Ibirapuera Park, from April 8 to 12, 2026.
From the moment Pablo Picasso finished painting Guernica in 1937 for the World’s Fair as a response to the German and Italian bombing of Gernika, the over-25-foot canvas has functioned as both an artwork and an argument.
Riding the waves of history and biography, Annette Hur gives shape to passion, disillusion, longing, fear, and self-realization. Bridging her native South Korea and her adopted hometown of New York, she has embarked on a watery route from shore to shore, holding the extremities apart and in place, secured by an unbreakable psychological magnetism and the gravitational pull of the moon.
Marilyn Monroe has never really faded away. One hundred years after her birth, and more than six decades after her death, she continues to hold a place in pop culture. Billie Eilish channeled her at the 2021 Met Gala. The novel and film Blonde reopened familiar debates over the model's life.
The Harlem Renaissance was an artistic and political movement that redefined Blackness in the United States as an act of liberation from post-antebellum discrimination and stereotypes, evidenced by Jim Crow laws and an abundance of blackface on-screen. Within this movement, Harlem in New York City served as the epicenter of Black philosophy, art, and music from the mid-1920s through the 1930s.
The Buffalo AKG Art Museum announced Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way, a current exhibition that explores contemporary Latinx artists’ innovations and interventions within established traditions of painting. The project celebrates painting from the Latin American and Caribbean diaspora, inviting discussion on a variety of themes and revealing the diversity and expansiveness present within the field today.
In the late hours of March 22, four thieves broke through the front door of the Magnani-Rocca Foundation, a private museum housed in a Neoclassical villa outside Parma in Italy.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Michael C. Rockefeller Wing was built over the course of the 1970s to showcase the world-class collections of art from sub-Saharan Africa, Oceania, and the Ancient Americas assembled by Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller.
Improvisation, the ability to respond spontaneously to the moment, is a defining characteristic found in the work of two giants of modern art, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) and Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). Improv is also a necessary element in understanding and playing jazz, the freestyle musical genre born in the late 19th and early 20th century in African American communities in the southern United States.
