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The Menil Collection is a public art museum in Houston built around the idea that art should be free and open to everyon...
08/19/2026

The Menil Collection is a public art museum in Houston built around the idea that art should be free and open to everyone.

Founded in 1954 by philanthropists John and Dominique de Menil, the couple who built an entire cultural ecosystem around their collection, the institution now has several buildings and 30 acres of green space, holding more than 25,000 works from the prehistoric era to today.

The Menil Collection houses works from across Africa, the ancient Mediterranean, Europe from the 4th to 18th centuries, Indigenous Americas, the Pacific Islands, and modern and contemporary art. Its galleries also explore Surrealism, with works regularly rotated to give visitors new ways to encounter the collection.

Learn more https://www.prazzlearts.com/editorial/inside-the-menil-collection-in-houston-art-architecture-and-30-acres-of-green-space

Images shared with permission: The Menil Collection, main building galleries. Photo by Hung Truong.

Represented by Pace Gallery and Gallery 1957, and having represented Ghana at the 23rd International Exhibition of Trien...
08/17/2026

Represented by Pace Gallery and Gallery 1957, and having represented Ghana at the 23rd International Exhibition of Triennale Milano, Appah continues to establish himself as an artist to watch.

Following a six-week residency in Italy, we speak with Gideon Appah about the childhood memories that continue to shape his practice—including a shoreline in Accra where people live out lives that rarely make it into official records. Working in series, he shares his process, from photograph to finished canvas, and reflects on what comes next after a season of deliberate rest.

🔗 Link in bio to read the full interview.

Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica is a major international exhibition examining the influence of ...
08/16/2026

Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica is a major international exhibition examining the influence of Pan-Africanism on artistic and cultural production across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Curated by Elvira Dyangani Ose (Elvira Dyangani Ose), along with Antawan Byrd (Antawan I. Byrd), Adom Getachew (Adom Getachew) and Matthew S. Witkovsky, it explores how artists and cultural producers across Africa, Brazil, the Caribbean, North America have responded to the political, social, and intellectual movements.

🔗 Lear More https://www.prazzlearts.com/exhibitions/369/project_a_black_planet_the_art_and_culture_of_panafrica_at_barbican_art_gallery

On view: BARBICAN CENTRE Barbican Centre
Through till 6 September 2026

At Tate Modern (Tate), a major exhibition dedicated to the life and work of Ana Mendieta brings together the radical pra...
08/14/2026

At Tate Modern (Tate), a major exhibition dedicated to the life and work of Ana Mendieta brings together the radical practice of an artist who reshaped contemporary art.

The exhibition brings together iconic works, newly remastered films, early paintings, and later sculptural pieces, with many works being shown in the UK for the first time. Extending beyond the gallery walls, the exhibition also reflects Mendieta’s profound connection to nature and the natural world.

Working in the 1970s and early 1980s, the Cuban-born American artist addressed themes of identity, exile, and belonging, questions that remain urgent today. This first in-depth UK exhibition of her work in over a decade reaffirms Mendieta’s enduring influence and her place as one of the most important artists of the 20th century.

🔗 Learn More https://www.prazzlearts.com/exhibitions/135/ana-mendieta-exhibition-at-tate-modern

“What else could I feel when people profit from the trust of people, often not even rich people?” — Artist, Alena Malové...
08/13/2026

“What else could I feel when people profit from the trust of people, often not even rich people?” — Artist, Alena Malové.

This issue is what I would describe as opening a can of worms.

We believe in being transparent about this: we also shared ABSTRACT MAG’s Summer Residency opportunity with our community when we first saw it. After receiving multiple messages from artists and seeing the growing number of concerns raised online, we began looking more closely.

What began as a $25 residency application through Summer Residency/Abstract Mag left artists believing they had been personally accepted, when they had actually only advanced to another stage of review.

The case raises a wider question about the growing number of questionable opportunities targeting artists, and the responsibility of both artists and organizations to conduct proper due diligence.

Because not every alleged scam looks the same. And sometimes, opening one can of worms reveals an entire system underneath.

This is the third strand of OFF THE RECORD— a new editorial series featuring occasional contributions from journalists, editors, publishers and media experts, examining the unofficial systems that shape arts, culture and media.

Comment “OFF THE RECORD” to receive the full piece and our guide on how to navigate opportunities.

Bergen Assembly has named Lucia Pietroiusti () and Filipa Ramos (Filipa Ramos) as Convenors for its 2028 edition. Known ...
08/13/2026

Bergen Assembly has named Lucia Pietroiusti () and Filipa Ramos (Filipa Ramos) as Convenors for its 2028 edition.

Known for their interdisciplinary project ”The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish“, the duo will develop the triennial through research, public engagement and collaboration across Bergen. Their first Prelude gathering takes place on 12 September 2026, exploring technology and ecstasy.

Their previous collaborative projects include presentations at the 8th Biennale Gherdëina (2022), the 1st Klima Biennale Wien (2025), and the 13th Shanghai Biennale (2020 - 21), alongside other interdisciplinary initiatives.

🔗 Learn More https://www.prazzlearts.com/editorial/lucia-pietroiusti-and-filipa-ramos-appointed-to-lead-bergen-assembly-2028-with-a-focus-on-art-ecology-and-consciousness

Elvira Dyangani Ose (Elvira Dyangani Ose) has been named the new Artistic Director of Cape Town institution Zeitz MOCAA ...
08/13/2026

Elvira Dyangani Ose (Elvira Dyangani Ose) has been named the new Artistic Director of Cape Town institution Zeitz MOCAA (Zeitz Museum Of Contemporary Art Africa), beginning October 1, 2026.

With leadership experience at MACBA, The Showroom and Tate, where she helped shape its collecting strategy for art from Africa and its diaspora, Dyangani Ose brings a global curatorial perspective to Cape Town.

Her appointment marks a new chapter for Zeitz Museum Of Contemporary Art Africa as it approaches its 10th anniversary and looks to expand its ambitions across exhibitions, research, collections and audiences.

Precious Okoyomon () has turned the MoMA PS1 () courtyard into something between a wild garden and a fever dream, and at...
08/13/2026

Precious Okoyomon () has turned the MoMA PS1 () courtyard into something between a wild garden and a fever dream, and at its center sits a 25-foot teddy bear you enter through the rear and exit through a slide in its mouth.

Among the Flowers I Learned to Love: A Garden of Decreation opened July 31 and stays up through 2028, making it Okoyomon’s largest outdoor work to date and the inaugural piece in MoMA PS1’s new Courtyard Commission series, a biannual program built to hand artists the museum’s outdoor space at scale.

The installation is free to visit as part of MoMA PS1’s new open-admission policy, and runs alongside the museum’s Warm Up summer series through August 28.

🔗 Learn More https://www.prazzlearts.com/editorial/inside-precious-okoyomons-garden-of-decreation-at-moma-ps1-a-25-foot-teddy-bear-you-enter-through-the-rear-and-exit-through-a-slide-in-its-mouth

Images: Portraits and Installation view of Courtyard Commission: Precious Okoyomon. Courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo: John Kim

I was speaking to a collector the other day, they are really passionate about the arts and have nurtured some names who ...
08/12/2026

I was speaking to a collector the other day, they are really passionate about the arts and have nurtured some names who are now considered ’big‘.

We talked about what it means to discover talent before the wider world catches on. The introductions. The conversations. Writing about their work. Sharing their work with new audiences. Opening doors. Sometimes even helping with things that have nothing to do with art.

Then they said something that stayed with me:

“Ann, they are now too big. We can’t reach them anymore.”

It made me think about what happens when recognition arrives.

An artist is accessible while emerging. Then comes the major museum acquisition, prominent collector, big gallery or institutional exhibition, an interview or feature in the Big Media and suddenly, they have “arrived.”

There is a legitimate conversation around artists controlling their work and setting boundaries. But there is also a bigger question about access as power. Is exclusivity creating value, or is value creating exclusivity?

Because the people who believe in an artist before everyone else does are not merely an audience. They can be part of the infrastructure that makes visibility possible in the first place.

So what happens when that infrastructure is no longer needed? Do relationships become obsolete once recognition arrives? Or has the art world simply taught us that accessibility has a shelf life?

OFF THE RECORD examines the unofficial systems behind arts, culture and media: who controls visibility, how cultural stories are shaped, and what happens when the people who helped build the system are no longer granted access to it.

✍🏽 Ann Austin, EIC, Prazzle

At Gagosian’s Grosvenor Hill in London, Christo: Air brings to life Air Package on a Ceiling, a monumental installation ...
08/12/2026

At Gagosian’s Grosvenor Hill in London, Christo: Air brings to life Air Package on a Ceiling, a monumental installation first conceived by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in 1968 but never realised until now. It is the first presentation of the work, nearly six decades after its conception.

Suspended above visitors, the internally illuminated polyethylene form makes the invisible visible. You can walk beneath it, move around it, and look up at something that appears almost impossibly light despite its monumental scale. The work belongs to the artists’ longstanding fascination with wrapping, enclosing and transforming ordinary materials and spaces, an approach that turned familiar landmarks into temporary spectacles.

Christo: Air is on view at , Grosvenor Hill, London, until 21 August 2026.

🔗 Learn More https://www.prazzlearts.com/exhibitions/454/gagosian_presents_air_by_christo

Images: Air, 2026, installation view, Artwork © Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation, Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd, Courtesy Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation and Gagosian

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