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Alexandra Jicol doesn’t chase trends. Her art is personal, introspective, and raw in a way that invites you to slow down. She doesn’t pretend to have all the answers. Instead, she walks alongside the viewer—observing, feeling, and asking questions. Born and raised in Bucharest, Romania, Jicol came of age during a time of political tension and limited freedoms. That early experience shaped how she looks at the world—with care, curiosity, and restraint. It also explains her deep sensitivity to nuance. Rather than painting for spectacle, she paints to reflect. Her work isn’t decorative. It’s an invitation to listen. Her ongoing relationship…

Our weekly news roundup is an extension of Paint Drippings, which drops first in The Back Room, our lively recap funneling only the week’s must-know art industry intel into a nimble read you’ll actually enjoy. Artnet News Pro members get exclusive access—subscribe now to receive this in your inbox every Friday. Art Fairs – NADA New York announced 111 galleries that will exhibit at its 11th edition in May, including newcomers like Gallery Common (Tokyo), Galerie Noah Klink (Berlin), and Dohing Art (Seoul). The fair will have a new location this year: the Starrett-Lehigh Building in the West Chelsea gallery district. (Press release) – The 10th edition of Photo London will run at Somerset House with 99exhibitors from May 14 through…

At long last, Meow Wolf is bringing its otherworldly enchantment to New York City, with plans to open its seventh permanent exhibition at Pier 17 in South Street Seaport. The immersive experience company, which launched as an art collective in Santa Fe in 2008, announced the project at the SXSW festival in Houston today. For years, Meow Wolf fans have been waiting for the company to come to the East Coast. The success of the original Santa Fe exhibition, which opened in 2016, inspired ambitious expansion plans announced in 2019 to open 15 locations in the next five years. The pandemic slowed things down, and scuttled plans for an interactive hotel in…

Welcome to Wet Paint in the Wild, the freewheeling—and free!—spinoff of Artnet News Pro’s beloved Wet Paint gossip column, where we give art-world insiders a disposable camera to chronicle their lives on the circuit. To read the latest Wet Paint column, click here (members only). The macabre and narrative qualities of Georgia Gardner Gray’s paintings were what originally got me hooked on the artist’s practice when I first encountered them at Reena Spaulings about two years ago in New York. After that show, to my great delight, I learned that her darkly surrealist sensibitlies extended to a sculptural and playwriting practice. At…

Societal expectations, cultural norms, and hierarchies of value are deeply subjective and personal. At the same time, they are shaped by communities and vary from person to person and place to place. For Thai artist Kantapon Metheekul, better known as Gongkan, the space between these shifting boundaries serves as a powerful site of exploration—one where he reflects on his own journey while also examining broader personal and collective experiences. Gongkan, Private Hot Springs (2025). Courtesy of Tang Contemporary Art. Opening March 22, 2025, Gongkan’s solo show “Asynchronous Affinities” at Tang Contemporary Art in Hong Kong uses the proverbial idea of “right person, wrong time”…

To witness the launch of the media artist Refik Anadol’s AI-powered generative art installation, Living Architecture: Gehry, at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao—projected on the towering interior walls of Frank Gehry’s architectural masterpiece as part of the exhibition in situ: Refik Anadol—is to be reminded of the long history of architect’s visionary dreams. It is a history that ranges from the weightless Baroque of Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s multi-level “capricci”; to the monumental spheres and pyramids of the 18th-century visionaries Claude-Nicolas Ledoux and Etienne-Louis Boullée; and to the neo-Classicist CR Cockerell’s sublime The Professor’s Dream (1848) , a receding vision, covering Ancient Egypt to High Renaissance, heaping…

The Fine Art Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF) and the city’s Asian Art Museum could see layoffs and reduced public hours as a result of a major cut in the city’s budget.The San Francisco Chronicle’s Aidin Vaziri and Tony Bravo reported last week that FAMSF—which oversees the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor museum—has proposed eliminating 23 of its 99 city-funded positions and shuttering the two museums’ doors on Tuesdays. Meanwhile, the Asian Art Museum may need to lay off 13 security guards. These moves come in response to the San Francisco mayor’s office warning institutions to plan for a 15% cut in city funding as…

The UK Labour government’s recently unveiled AI opportunities action plan will position the UK as a global leader in artificial intelligence by investing in infrastructure, talent and innovation. “A battle for the jobs of tomorrow is happening today,” said the UK prime minister Keir Starmer in a 13 January speech announcing the plan. The government intends to “ramp up” AI adoption across the UK by expanding AI computing capacity twentyfold, creating AI growth zones to attract private sector investment, and developing the National Data Library to enhance access to data for AI research. While the plan is not specifically focused…

Anthony Caro is remembered as one of the most prominent British sculptors of his generation, who built up an impressive art collection of his own of leading works by his friends and contemporaries. Christie’s will sell a handful of pieces from Caro’s personal collection in May during the auction house’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale. The leading lot from the collection is by Caro’s close friend and leading American Colour Field painter Kenneth Noland. Purkinje Effect (1964) is a painting from Noland’s short-lived ‘chevron’ series, estimated to sell for between $1m and $1.5m. Another of Noland’s paintings, Exmoor (1970-71), carries an estimate of $200,000…

Art Market Veena McCoole Interior view of ARCOmadrid 2025. Courtesy of ARCOmadrid. Despite the drizzle and clouds overhead, collectors, fairgoers, and gallerists from across Europe and Latin America gathered in force for ARCOmadrid’s 44th edition in the Spanish capital, which concluded on Sunday, March 10th. Hosting 214 galleries from 36 countries—including nine international exhibitors making their ARCO debut—the fair is a highlight not only for Spain’s art world, but the art industry at large. About one-third of the booths this year were Spanish galleries, with strong contingents from Portugal, France, Germany, Brazil, and Argentina. Vienna-based gallerist and former ARCOmadrid advisory committee…