David Hockney’s first-ever Serpentine exhibition opens.
David Hockney is presenting a new body of intimate portraits and iPad paintings at London’s Serpentine North Gallery, marking the influential British artist’s first exhibition at the institution. The show features new portraits alongside still lifes. It also includes large-scale digital works such as A Year in Normandie, a 90-meter frieze composed of more than 100 iPad paintings depicting the changing seasons around his Normandy home, highlighting the artist’s continued experimentation with digital media at age 88.
Nifty Gateway has shut down.
The marketplace Nifty Gateway, once a major platform during the digital-art boom, shut down at the end of February, becoming one of several high-profile casualties of the cooling NFT market. Founded in 2018 by Duncan and Griffin Cock Foster and acquired by the Winklevoss-owned crypto exchange Gemini in 2019, the platform became known for curated NFT “drops” from artists such as Beeple, Pak, and XCOPY, helping introduce a broad audience to blockchain-based art through features like credit-card payments and simplified onboarding.
An exhibition on “The First Homosexuals” debuted in Basel.
“The First Homosexuals: The Birth of New Identities 1869–1939,” on view at Kunstmuseum Basel, examines the early visibility of same-sex desire and gender diversity in art following the first appearance of the term “homosexual” in 1869. The exhibition brings together around 80–100 paintings, photographs, sculptures, and works on paper, exploring how artists depicted queer networks, intimate relationships, coded desire, and evolving ideas about gender and identity in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The Affordable Art Fair New York will spotlight photography.
The Affordable Art Fair New York Spring Edition (March 18–22, 2026) at the Starrett-Lehigh Building in Chelsea will feature “Sight Unseen: How Photography Shapes Perception,” a special exhibition exploring the evolving role of photography in contemporary art. Co-curated by Sherri Nienass Littlefield, Galina Kurlat, and Parsley Steinweiss, the presentation highlights artists using new image-making technologies, alternative photographic processes, and sculptural or time-based approaches to expand the medium beyond traditional photography. Featuring works by artists including Epiphany Knedler, Max Warsh, Amanda Marchand, and Davis Hernease, the exhibition reflects the fair’s broader mission to present accessible contemporary art priced between $100 and $12,000 while encouraging audiences to reconsider photography as both image and physical object shaped by material, process, and time.
Beeple’s pooping dogs are heading to Berlin.
Digital artist Beeple will present “Regular Animals” at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie, featuring a pack of autonomous robotic dogs fitted with hyper-realistic heads modeled on figures such as Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, and Beeple himself. The robots roam within a defined space, photographing their surroundings with built-in cameras and using A.I. to reinterpret the images, which are then physically printed and distributed to visitors, turning algorithmic perception into tangible artworks. The project—first shown at Art Basel Miami Beach 2025—satirizes the growing power of technology platforms.
Today’s attractive distractions:
Maison Margiela cast Max Richter—and an orchestra of kids.
Photographer Eric Petsche captured the quiet magnificence of the new Vipp Pavilion Upstate New York.
314 Architecture Studio proposes a UFO-like winery concept for Greek vineyards.
One winner of this year’s BNP Paribas Open: lululemon’s Indian Wells apparel.
