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The retrospective, which opened on 15 July 2026, brings together Mendieta's early paintings, newly remastered film works, and her late sculptures — decades of work exploring the body, the land, and violence as subjects of performance.
A good moment to revisit performance and body-based art on the site — a direction still thinly represented in the Creators section.
Go to sourceTo mark the 250th anniversary of John Constable's birth, his most famous painting has left the National Gallery in London and is on view at Christchurch Mansion in Ipswich until 4 October 2026 — near the very landscape it depicts.
The site has a dedicated artist page — read about Constable and The Hay Wain in the Creators section. John Constable on this site
Go to sourceOn 8 July 2026 the museum announced the return to Italy of ancient bronzework, marble dishes, and other objects dating from the 9th to 4th centuries BCE — the result of an investigation into their questionable origins.
Restitution is a recurring theme for major encyclopedic museums; read more about the Met itself in the Museums section of this site. The Met on this site
Go to sourceChristie's reported $3.4bn in sales (+71% year-on-year), Sotheby's $2.3bn (+88%), and Phillips $507m (+60%). The growth is driven by trophy collections and blue-chip estates, while the market's middle segment is recovering more slowly.
These figures are worth keeping in mind alongside the Masterpieces section — it is exactly this tier of work that drives top auction sales.
Go to sourceThe painting will leave the crowded Salle des États for its own roughly 3,000 sqm space beneath the Cour Carrée. The roughly $400 million project is expected to be completed by 2031.
One of the most talked-about museum projects of the decade — read about the painting itself and about the Louvre in the relevant sections of this site. The Mona Lisa on this site
Go to sourceFrom 2 July to 20 September 2026 the gallery presents the UK's first solo exhibition of the Austrian 19th-century painter Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller — a master of meticulously rendered Biedermeier landscape and portraiture.
A good reason to visit the Museums section, where the National Gallery, London has its own page. The National Gallery on this site
Go to sourceFrom 25 July to 25 October 2026 London hosts a major retrospective of the Victorian painter Richard Dadd — paintings, watercolours, and drawings, many made during his decades of confinement in a psychiatric hospital.
Another case of an artist's personal drama becoming part of art history — a theme this site develops throughout the Creators section.
Go to sourceThe 61st International Art Exhibition, titled In Minor Keys, remains one of the main reference points for museums, curators, collectors, and viewers this season.
For this site, it is a strong entry point into contemporary art: the Biennale shows which themes, forms, and regions are shaping the global scene now.
Visit sourceThe Basel fair remains one of the main meeting points for the market and museums, bringing together galleries, private collections, institutions, and new commercial signals.
Even for viewers who do not buy art, Art Basel shows which artists, media, and themes are gaining global visibility right now.
Visit sourceThe Whitney Biennial traditionally works as a cross-section of current art in the United States: new voices, contested practices, social themes, and experimental forms meet in one route.
It is a useful reference for the contemporary creators section because the Biennial helps identify practices that have moved beyond local scenes.
Visit sourceThe museum is marking its anniversary year, developing free admission, and placing Greater New York 2026 at the center of a conversation about the city’s art ecology.
For viewers, it is a good example of how an institution can connect archive, city, new voices, and access rather than simply stage an exhibition.
Visit sourceThe new V&A East site shows how a museum can speak about design, music, urban culture, fashion, and visual art as one living system.
This matters for anyone watching how museums are rethinking the relationship between art, community, design, performance, and urban culture.
Visit sourceThe Louvre brings Michelangelo and Rodin into one route about the body, movement, soul, and sculptural energy, creating a rare dialogue between two epochs of Western sculpture.
For art audiences, it is one of the strongest exhibition landmarks of spring 2026, where classicism and modernity can be read as one continuous story of form.
Visit sourceThe Met’s exhibitions page remains one of the major checkpoints for the museum agenda, spanning classic art, archaeology, design, photography, and contemporary practice.
The Met matters to this site as an encyclopedic museum: its program helps connect masterpieces, periods, artists, and museum context into one art map.
Visit sourceThe future Los Angeles museum is building its program around visual storytelling, from painting and cinema to illustration, comics, photography, and popular imagery.
It marks an institutional shift: museum language increasingly recognizes mass visual culture as part of art history, not only academic painting.
Visit sourceThe Bentonville museum is developing its campus and gallery expansion, strengthening the conversation around American art, museum architecture, and access.
Projects like this show that major art centers are growing not only in New York, London, or Paris, but across a wider museum geography.
Visit sourceThe new Art Basel and UBS report records cautious growth in the global art market after a difficult period and shows renewed weight for fairs, galleries, and auctions.
This matters not only for the market, but for the whole ecosystem of art: museums, fairs, galleries, collectors, and cultural policy.
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