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Beth Lo, Boy and Girl Atop Bamboo Scaffolding, 2025. Porcelain.
CONCORD, MASS.- Lucy Lacoste Gallery announce their upcoming exhibition Lore/Talk Story June 7- July 5, 2025, with the iconic ceramic sculptors Beth Lo and Adrian Arleo, both from the state of Montana. Friends and colleagues for over 30 years, each artist draws from their own family history and narrative to express themselves through the art of figurative sculpture. The title Lore/Talk Story came about with contributions from both artists. Lore refers to the collection of knowledge, traditions, and stories held by a specific society, culture, or universe, whether real or imagined. Talk-Story comes from a Chinese phrase Jiang gùshì relating to the act of storytelling, both factual and fictional narratives. With this exhibition, Beth Lo, a long-time represented artist at Lucy Lacoste, marks her fifth show at the Gallery. Lo contributed Talk Story to the title in reference to a Chinese phrase Jiang gùshì, she heard from her immigrant parents regarding oral storytelling ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The comprehensive solo exhibition of works by Julian Charrière at Museum Tinguely presents photographs, sculptures, installations and new video works that deal with our relationship to Earth as a world of water - ;a liquidity that covers most of our planet with seas, lakes and ice, both habitat for a myriad of organisms and host to circulatory systems critical for the stability of our climate.
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| Moss Galleries presents Beate Wheeler's Abstract Rhythms: 1960s on 10th Street | | British Library acquires rare manuscripts that shed light on medieval Britain and Ireland | | National Portrait Gallery opens first major museum exhibition in the UK dedicated to Jenny Saville |
Beate Wheeler, Untitled, 1970s. Oil on canvas, 34 x 24 in © Beate Wheeler Estate.
FALMOUTH, ME.- Moss Galleries is presenting Beate Wheelers Abstract Rhythms: 1960s on 10th Street, a vibrant retrospective of the expressionistic color painter Beate Wheeler (19322017), on view from June 13 to August 9 at the Falmouth gallery. A painter of melodic, lyrical abstraction, Wheelers work from the 1960s through the 1990s radiates with teeming color and emotional vitality. Though long overlooked by the mainstream art market, Wheeler was deeply embedded in the avant-garde circles of her era, sharing creative space with titans of 20th-century American art. Beate Wheelers work feels like a revelationvivid, emotionally charged, and visually expansive, said Elizabeth Moss, owner and director of Moss Galleries. She represents the best of what Abstract Expressionism could offer: freedom, depth, and deeply personal innovation. Were honored to bring her work ... More | |
Richard Rolles The Form of Living and related works: Add MS 89790 © The British Library Board.
LONDON.- The British Library has announced it has acquired five exceptional medieval manuscripts from the private library at Longleat House. The manuscripts provide fresh insight into different areas of medieval life, from Jewish-Christian relations to the administration of a medieval town, theological debates and medieval devotional art. They are vital additions to the British Librarys collection that will help inform the study of the Middle Ages by researchers in the future. This acquisition has been made possible with a £1m grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and support from Art Fund, The American Trust for the British Library, British Library Collections Trust and Friends of the Nations Libraries. The works were acquired by the British Library, in negotiations brokered by Christies in a Private Treaty Sale. The Trilingual Dictionary, Psalter and Hebrew Grammar is an ... More | |
Jenny Savile, Drift, 2020-2022 by Jenny Saville, Private Collection courtesy Gagosian © Jenny Savile.
LONDON.- Opening on 20 June 2025, Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting will be the first major museum exhibition in the UK dedicated to the work of one of the worlds foremost contemporary painters. Bringing together 50 works made throughout her career to date, the exhibition is broadly chronological in scope and will trace the development of Savilles practice from the 1990s to today. Highlighting key artworks, from monumental oil paintings to smaller scale charcoal drawings, the exhibited works will reveal the inventiveness of Savilles practice. Curated by Sarah Howgate, Senior Curator of Contemporary Collections at the National Portrait Gallery, and created in close collaboration with the artist, the exhibition will explore her deep passion for the painting process. Rising to prominence in the 1990s following her acclaimed degree show at the Glasgow School of Art, Saville ... More |
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| The Museo Picasso Málaga is presenting the work of the painter Ãscar DomÃnguez | | The Seoul Museum of Art opens solo exhibition by Christian Hidaka | | The Grateful Dead, Zappa, Family Dog and more lead Heritage's July 11-12 Concert Posters Auction |
Sunday or Marine Rutting, 1935. Oil on canvas, 93 à 73 cm. TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes. Cabildo insular de Tenerife. Colección Ãscar DomÃnguez. © TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Courtesy: © Ãscar DomÃnguez, VEGAP, Málaga, 2025.
MÃLAGA.- Ãscar DomÃnguez (19061957) was a notable painter born on the island of Tenerife, Spain. His work is characterised by a bold and experimental style and contrast-filled compositions in which the real and the imaginary merge to produce disturbing and enigmatic images. DomÃnguezs ability to create these striking images earned him significant recognition within the Surrealist movement and a reputation as one of the most original and provocative artists of his time. Born into a family that owned banana plantations on the island of Tenerife, in 1927 DomÃnguez moved to Paris to run the family business, living there until his death. The 21-year-old soon immersed himself in the vibrant artistic scene that flourished in the city in the 1930s. It was in this context that he established links with the Surrealists, including André Breton and Salvador DalÃ, ... More | |
Installation view: Christian Hidaka, Theatres of the Sky, Skies of the Theatre. Image courtesy: The Seoul Museum of Art.
SEOUL.- When we trace the history of painting, we discover that it began with the impulse to remember. Whether through ancient cave paintings that recorded early human life or portraits created to honor those we love, we have long believed in the power of images to hold memories. The Children⁺ Exhibition Christian Hidaka: Theatres of the Sky, Skies of the Theatre grows from this idea. It poses a fundamental question about the relationship between image and memoryand, more broadly, about how art helps us make sense of the world. Born to a Japanese mother and a British father, Christian Hidaka studied and now practices painting in the United Kingdom. Drawing on reflections about the role of painting in the digital age, he creates immersive, hand-painted worlds filled with subtle echoes of artists such as Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso, alongside fragments of natural elements, mythologies, and history. By weaving ... More | |
The Rolling Stones 1965 Charlotte, NC Jumbo Globe Day-Glo Concert Poster.
DALLAS, TX.- It's standard practice for teens of any generation to pepper their walls with the photogenic pop stars of the hour, but those posters are designed for thumb tacks and fleeting crushes. Concert posters, conversely, were initially designed to simply get people to live-music gigs. Now, they're often celebrated as works of art, and artists design them with longevity in mind in hopes of being saved and collected. One thing that hasn't changed: Each creation potentially marks life-changing performances or even milestone events like first concerts, first dates or, in the case of Heritage's July 1112 Concert Posters Auction, the birth of an art form. The two-day event boasts a range of prints of a certain age, a.k.a. the time frame when concert posters began to grab a new kind of attention and spotlight. These are posters for psychedelic art fans as well as intrepid followers of acts like the Doors, Otis Redding, Fleetwood Mac, The Rolling Stones and B.B. King not to mention commi ... More |
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| John Booth reappointed as Chair of the National Gallery's Board of Trustees | | Exhibition at Marc Straus brings together a vibrant collection of works | | Julian Charrière's "Midnight Zone" dives deep into humanity's relationship with water at Museum Tinguely |
John chairs a number of public and private companies including the London Theatre Company.
LONDON.- John Booth CVO has been appointed by the Prime Minister as a Trustee of the National Gallery for a second term of four years from 20 August 2025 to 19 August 2029. John chairs a number of public and private companies including the London Theatre Company. He also serves as a non-executive director of several investment management businesses and has venture capital interests in e-commerce, media and telecommunications. He is Vice President of The Kings Trust, Chairman of The Royal Drawing School and a trustee of the Chatsworth Settlement and the Arts Foundation. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and of Merton College, Oxford, a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and Ambassador for the homelessness charity Depaul International. John joined the Board of the National Gallery in March 2021. As a result of his reappointment, the National Gallery Truste ... More | |
Rona Pondick, Small Red Oranges, 2020-22. Pigmented resin and acrylic, 7½ x 7⅞ x 9⅜ in (19.05 x 20 x 23.91 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- The gallery presents Past Tense/Future Perfect, an exhibition that brings together a vibrant collection of works, both by gallery artists and artists new to the space, who together explore the multifaceted nature of identity, expression, and femininity. Rather than offering a singular perspective, the works included in the exhibition range from the introspective to the irreverent. They weave together personal histories, cultural commentary, and imaginative leaps. The exhibition celebrates nuance, contradiction, and creative freedom, offering a space where emotion becomes form and where wit and wonder are equally powerful tools of expression. Past Tense/Future Perfect invites us into the twilight spaces of imagination and introspectionplaces where transformation begins and where ambiguity is welcomed. Here, shadows are places that define form, shape, ... More | |
Julian Charrière, Midnight Zone (Detail), 2025. © 2025 ProLitteris, Zurich; Copyright the artist. Photo: Jens Ziehe.
BASEL.- A core concern of French-Swiss artist Julian Charrière is how human beings inhabit the world and how the world, in turn, inhabits us. The comprehensive solo exhibition at Museum Tinguely presents photographs, sculptures, installations and new video works that deal with our relationship to Earth as a world of watera liquidity that covers most of our planet with seas, lakes and ice, both habitat for a myriad of organisms and host to circulatory systems critical for the stability of our climate. Unfolding over three floors, the exhibition Midnight Zone engages with underwater ecologies, from the influential local presence of the Rhine to distant oceans, exploring the complexity of water as an elemental medium affected by anthropogenic degradation. Reflecting upon its flow and materiality, profundity and politics, its mundane and sacral dimensions, the solo show acts as a kaleidoscope, inviting us to dive deep. ... More |
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| New photography exhibit by Marina Grize opens at Adams and Ollman | | Copenhagen Contemporary unveils "Soft Robots": A major exhibition exploring tech's soul | | Five historic gardens and managed landscapes selected for WMF's Cultivation Resilience program |
Marina Grize, Bathers 79 (Mia), 2025, dye diffusion transfer print, glass, artist's frame, 8 1/4h x 6 1/4w in, 20.95h x 15.88w cm.
PORTLAND, ORE.- Adams and Ollman presents Marina Grize: In-Between Touch, a solo exhibition featuring photographs from the artist's ongoing series of women in and around water. The exhibition opens with a reception on Friday, June 20, from 57pm and is on view through August 2, 2025. If the movie or television screen is a lens and a mirror, a point of connection and a reminder of distance, Grize's work becomes a site of reclamation as she archives and records stills of women in water from lesbian cinema. Her photographs, dye diffusion transfer prints made with expired film, are diffuse, veiled, liminal, and richly colored. Grize's figures are often closely cropped or turned away from the camera; out of focus, obscured, or introspective, rather than available for the voyeuristic gaze. By releasing her subjects from the specificity of their narrative contexts, Grize retrieves these moments as personal traces of longing and desire. Water has long been associated ... More | |
A.A.Murakami, Beyond the Horizon © A.A.Murakami. Commissioned by M+, 2024. Film and photography by Adam Kovář and PETR&Co. Model by Ashley Lin. All images & videos courtesy of the artist.
COPENHAGEN.- Why does technology evoke so much fear and so much hope? A new international group exhibition at Copenhagen Contemporary explores the soul of technology. Soft Robots is the title of this years major exhibition at Copenhagen Contemporary (CC), opening on June 20th and taking over the first two halls of the art center a total of 1,700 m2 with sensory and thought-provoking world- class art. The exhibition brings together 15 prominent international contemporary artists and Danish talents working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, and spiritual longing: Can the artificial be authentic? Can a robot touch our emotions? Many of the featured artists are being shown in Denmark for the first time. With an experimental and critical approach, they search for the breath and soul that may be hiding in the cityscapes of the future, among doppelgängers, and poetic machines. Through its curatorial ... More | |
Exterior of Tower of London. Photo: Historic Royal Palaces
NEW YORK, NY.- World Monuments Fund (WMF) today announced five new sites as part of Cultivating Resilience, a global initiative helping historic gardens and managed landscapes adapt to the growing impacts of climate change. The selected projects span four continents and represent a range of typologiesfrom sacred groves to floating farms. The green spaces include the Chinampas of Xochimilco, Mexico; Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove, Nigeria; Waru Waru Agricultural Fields, Peru; the Tower of London Moat, United Kingdom; and Central Park, United States. Announced in January 2024 as a key pillar of WMFs Climate Heritage Initiative, Cultivating Resilience addresses the escalating environmental pressures threatening historic gardens and green heritage spaces around the world. From prolonged droughts and increased flooding to biodiversity and ecosystem loss, the effects of climate change pose serious risks to these living cultural landscapesplaces that for centuries have held deep ... More |
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Call for papers: symposium "Lights On! Sustaining Light-Based Art"BERLIN.- On November 13, 2026, Hamburger Bahnhof â Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart will host a one-day symposium dedicated to the preservation of light-based artworks. Starting point for this symposium is Dan Flavinâs iconic light installation Untitled (1996), with its blue and green fluorescent lamps spanning both the main façade and the interior of Hamburger Bahnhof. Created on the occasion of the museumâs opening in 1996, this site-specific work has become a landmark in Berlin. Flavinâs artistic practice relied almost exclusively on commercially available fluorescent lamps, which have since become obsolete due to market shifts and evolving regulations in both Europe and the U.S. However, the availability of compatible materials is crucial for the preservation and ongoing presentation of works like Flavinâs. The long-term care of light-based art presents unique challenges related to sustainabili ... More Crawford Art Gallery announces recipient of Gibson Travelling Fellowship AwardCORK.- Crawford Art Gallery is delighted to announce visual artist Basil Al-Rawi as the recipient of the inaugural Gibson Travelling Fellowship Award. Basil Al-Rawi will become the first Gibson Travelling Fellow following a highly competitive open-call selection process, which sought to identify a clear vein of innovation, experimentation, and impact. Al-Rawis practice explores the landscapes of personal and cultural memory, hybrid identity, and the digital mediation of reality. He will use the award to support an extended period of self-determined enquiry across Lebanon, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and France. The Cork-based Irish-Iraqi artist was selected from a shortlist by a panel of experts working in the field of contemporary art: Dragana Juriić (artist and educator), Megs Morley (Director/Curator, Galway Arts Centre), Paul McAree (Curator, Lismore Castle Arts), and chaired by Mary ... More National Gallery Singapore presents Angin Cloud by Art Labor and Eidolon by Vong Phaophanit and Claire OboussierSINGAPORE.- National Gallery Singapore is presenting two new OUTBOUND commissions for 2025. Inaugurated in 2018, OUTBOUND is an initiative that reimagines key entrances and circulation spaces at the museum through a series of unique artwork commissions, developed in collaboration with leading artists from around the world, to provoke critical reflection, curiosity, and playfulness. This year, the museum has commissioned ambitious and site-specific art works by the Vietnam-based art collective Art Labor and London-based artist duo Vong Phaophanit and Claire Oboussier. Presented from January to November 2025, Angin Cloud is a multi-floor installation by Art Labor. It includes Jrai wood sculptures at street level, suspended pillars that reference ... More Lesia Vasylchenko wins main award of the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2025KIEV.- Lesia Vasylchenko is the main prize winner of the 8th edition of the PinchukArtCentre Prize, a nationwide prize for Ukrainian artists aged 35 or younger. Vasylchenko was awarded 400,000 UAH (about $10,000) and will automatically be shortlisted for the next edition of the Future Generation Art Prizea worldwide contemporary art prize. Offering a view into the artistic practices of the next generation of Ukrainian artists, the PinchukArtCentre prize gives support and a platform for young Ukrainian artists to create new works with the full institutional support of the art centre. During the award ceremony, the artist announced that she would donate the entire prize sum to charitable contributions in support of the army. Kateryna Aliinyk received the first Special prize for her work, and Yevhen Korshunov won the second Special prize as well as the Public Prize Award. In addition to 100,000 UAH ... More Akinola Davies Jr. to premiere new film 'rituals: union black' at Somerset House Summer SeriesLONDON.- Somerset House announces a landmark event in the 2025 Somerset House Summer Series with American Express: the world premiere of rituals: union black, a new film by Sundance award-winning and BAFTA-nominated filmmaker and Somerset House Studios resident Akinola Davies Jr., taking place on Monday 14th July in the iconic open-air courtyard. Today, it has been revealed that Mercury Prize winner Sampha, multifaceted jazz pioneer Moses Boyd and the legendary percussion section of Afro-jazz trail blazers Balimaya Project will join the formidable lineup of contemporary musical visionaries, including Kwake Bass, Dennis Bovell, Charlie Dark, and Klein set to perform a live score which will be presented alongside this powerful film. With more artists to be revealed, the live score has been specially commissioned by Somerset House in a Summer Series first. This ... More David Lynch Collection hauls in $4.25 million total in white glove saleLOS ANGELES, CA.- Juliens Auctions and Turner Classic Movies concluded today its headline making event The David Lynch Collection in a fantastic white glove sale that sold nearly 450 marquee items owned by the celebrated auteur and artist David Lynch, whose masterpieces and name would define the Lynchian style and aesthetic known today in modern cinema. Production items, props, memorabilia and film-related items from his iconic films, Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive, Eraserhead, Dune, The Straight Story, Inland Empire and his unfinished works, as well as musical instruments, recording and sound equipment, fine art, furniture, home decor, coffee machines and tools from his home woodshop, attracted hundreds of collectors and fans at the live auction held Wednesday, June 18, 2025 at the Peninsula Beverly Hills and online from around the world in a bidding frenzy ... More RAF Museum appoints artist David Tovey for LGBT+ art commissionLONDON.- The Royal Air Force Museum has appointed artist David Tovey for an art commission which will examine the experiences of veterans affected by the gay ban (1967-2000) legislation which prevented gay, lesbian and bisexual individuals from serving in HM Armed Forces. The artwork will also explore experiences of currently serving LGBT+ personnel. Marking the 25th anniversary of the bans repeal (12 January 2000), Tovey will collaborate closely with LGBT+ veterans and personnel in a series of community workshops to produce an artwork which not only shares their experiences but reflects on their achievements and contributions to the RAF, which were formerly effaced and delegitimised by the ban. Tovey, himself an Army veteran affected by the ban, described his interest in working with these communities: I want us to build something together that is breathtaking open, ... More Iranian photographer Hannah Darabi wins Prix Elysée 2025LAUSANNE.- Photo Elysée announced that Iranian photographer Hannah Darabi has won the Prix Elysée 2025. Her project Why Don't You Dance? was chosen by an international jury amongst eight nominated propositions. Based in Paris, Iranian photographer Hannah Darabi wins the Prix Elysée 2025. Her project will be previewed during Paris Photo in November 2025. It will then be published and exhbited at Photo Elysée in June 2026. She was chosen amongst eight nominated artists: Roger Eberhard (Switzerland), Rahim Fortune (USA), Camille Gharbi (France), Samuel Gratacap (France), Seif Kousmate (Marocco), Felipe Romero Beltrán (Colombia) and Anastasia Samoylova (USA). "Hannah Darabi has developed a unique style, mixing her photographs with images from a variety of sources - ephemera, archives and contemporary pop culture. In Why Don't You Dance?, ... More Angèle Ferrere, first recipient of the Martine Franck Curatorial Research GrantPARIS.- Following the deliberations held on June 17, 2025, at the Fondation Henri Cartier Bresson in Paris, the jury of the first edition of the Martine Franck Curatorial Research Grant unanimously selected Angèle Ferrere for her project dedicated to social struggles in the work of Martine Franck. This research will lead to an exhibition at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in the fall of 2026, and a publication. Created in 2025, the Martine Franck Curatorial Research Grant aims to help researchers and curators develop a research and exhibition project on the work of Martine Franck and/or Henri Cartier-Bresson, working fromt the Foundations archives. Awarded every two years, it contributes to renewing curatorial approaches to the work of both photographers by encouraging new contemporary perspectives. Selected upon application by a jury of five professionals from the ... More Director of Tate Britain and Volunteer Guide at Tate both recognised in King's Birthday HonoursLONDON.- Alex Farquharson, Director of Tate Britain, and Mary Maidment, a volunteer at Tate for 45 years, have both been recognised in the Kings Birthday Honours List. Alex was awarded an OBE and Mary was awarded a BEM. Alex Farquharson has led Tate Britain since 2015, overseeing its programme of displays, exhibitions, commissions and events. He implemented the comprehensive rehang of the gallery in 2023, presenting a more expansive story of British art and leading to a 20% increase in visitor figures. Many of Tate Britains most successful ever exhibitions have taken place under his leadership, including David Hockney in 2017 and Van Gogh and Britain in 2019, and he co-curated the acclaimed exhibition Life Between Islands: Caribbean British Art, 1950sNow alongside David A Bailey. Alex also chairs the Turner Prize jury and co-chairs the British Art Network, ... More Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center presents Tomokazu Matsuyama: Morning Sun NYACK, NY.- Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center presents Tomokazu Matsuyama: Morning Sun, an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by the contemporary Japanese American artist Tomokazu Matsuyama (Matsu). The exhibition offers a contemporary tribute to Edward Hoppers iconic 1952 painting Morning Sun (Columbus Museum of Art), delving into the complexities of solitude and life in a globalized, consumer-driven worldrecurring themes in Matsus work. To engage with Hoppers themes, Matsu intricately weaves together diverse visual references that reflect his cross-cultural background and observations of contemporary society. The exhibition will be on view from June 20 through October 5, 2025 with a members and public opening reception on the opening day at 6:30pm, (RSVP via Museum website.) The exhibition centers around Matsus ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German painter Kurt Schwitters was born June 20, 1887. Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters (20 June 1887 - 8 January 1948) was a German artist who was born in Hanover, Germany. Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including dadaism, constructivism, surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography, and what came to be known as installation art. He is most famous for his collages, called Merz Pictures. In this image: Kurt Schwitters, Mz 302, Linden, 1921. Collage on paper, 7 1/8 x 5 5/8 in. Private collection. © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.
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