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The First Art Newspaper on the Net Established in 1996 Monday, January 13, 2025 "Les étés de Poliakoff": Unveiling the artist's experimental process through gouaches Serge Poliakoff Composition abstraite, 1957. Gouache on paper, 47.6 x 61.6 cm - 18 3/4 x 24 1/4 in (unframed). 63 x 77.7 x 2.5 cm - 24 7/8 x 30 5/8 x 1 in (framed). PARIS.- Almine Rech Paris, Matignon is presenting 'Les étés de Poliakoff', Serge Poliakoff's second solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from January 11 to March 1, 2025. 'L’heure était venue de m’exprimer dans un langage de couleurs' — Serge Poliakoff Throughout his life, Poliakoff’s true experiments were in his gouaches, which he painted in the summer as part of a daily practice. "He always painted a series of four gouaches," his son Alexis recalls. "Every morning, he began a new series, revisiting those drying from previous days, making additions or corrections. After spending his mornings on this, he would head to the races." This routine yielded 30–40 series of gouaches over the summer. Poliakoff reviewed his work, signing one sheet from the series he found fulfilling, selecting a dozen or so as inspirational motifs. Back in the studio, these served as the foundation for new oil paintings. The uniqueness of Poliakoff’s gouaches lies in their space for ex ... More The Best Photos of the Day The exhibition of the 21 shortlisted artists for the 7th edition of the Future Generation Art Prize is on show at the PinchukArtCentre in Kyiv until 19 January 2025. Featuring new works and recent projects by shortlisted artists, selected from over 12,000 entries across almost 200 countries, the artists bring unique cultural perspectives and a diversity of artistic approaches to Kyiv to engage with today’s most pressing issues. Lost highway found: Ancient Pan-American Road unearthed in Mexico City National Museum of Women in the Arts presents photography exhibition Samantha Box: Confluences Many Small Cuts: Schulze and Suggs explore architecture, memory, and loss through intricate art Guadalupe Padilla Alue, DSA-INAH archaeologist. Photo: Mauricio Marat. INAH. MEXICO CITY.- Beneath the bustling Indios Verdes transportation hub in Mexico City, a team of archaeologists has unearthed a fascinating piece of Mexican history: a section of the original Pan-American Highway. This discovery offers a tangible link to a pivotal moment in the nation's development, when the dream of connecting Mexico to its northern neighbor became a reality. Imagine the scene: construction crews working on upgrades for the Metrobús and Mexibús transport systems, when suddenly, they stumble upon something unexpected – a layer of basalt rock, neatly aligned, hinting at something buried beneath. This wasn't just any rock; it was a piece of the first-ever highway connecting Mexico City to Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, a vital artery that would transform trade, travel, and cultural exchange with the United States. This isn't the first time this team from INAH's Directorate of Archaeological Salvage (DSA) has made such a find. Just a few months prior, they uncovered another section of the ... More Samantha Box, Baby, near Occupy Wall Street (Zuccotti Park), from the series “The Shelter, The Street,” 2011; Archival inkjet print, 20 x 16 in.; Courtesy of the artist; © Samantha Box. WASHINGTON, DC.- An exhibition of documentary and studio photography by Bronx-based artist Samantha Box (b. 1977) is on view at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) from November 20, 2024, through March 23, 2025. Box is known for her arresting and nuanced work that shares stories of lives shaped by the intersections of nationality, race, class, gender and sexual orientation. Samantha Box: Confluences presents a survey of photographs from two series spanning 20 years of work, “Invisible” (2005–18) and “Caribbean Dreams” (2018–ongoing). This presentation marks the first time these series are on view together. Confluences is the artist’s debut solo exhibition in Washington, D.C. An illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition. In her breakthrough series “Invisible,” Box photographed a community of young people living at Sylvia’s Place, an ... More Elspeth Schulze, Small Charms (Red), 2024. Birch Plywood, gypsum cement, mason stain, vinyl paint, 44 x 32 in. LOS ANGELES, CA.- Abigail Ogilvy Gallery is presenting Many Small Cuts, a two-person exhibition featuring new works by Elspeth Schulze and Leigh Suggs. The exhibition highlights the artists’ profound precision and care that goes into their creative process, while also welcoming moments of chance and randomness that allow warmth and softness. The strong visual architecture is dominated by shapes and objects resembling windows and doors: framing a view of what is beyond. “Many Small Cuts” connotes a laborious undertaking. A new series of Leigh Suggs’ work is created using the process of Marquetry, carefully reassembling scraps of paper that were discarded from other works into one large new sheet of paper, where colors and patterns intersect to form controlled chaos. The labor-intensive cutting, assembling, and attention to detail yield intricate designs and imagery. In Schulze’s studio, artworks are highly calculated, with each piece undergoing ... More Ancient Egyptian coffin lid, dating back over 2,700 years, heads to auction in London Julie Mehretu awarded Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture Harlem Sculpture Gardens announces its second large-scale exhibition to open May 2025 The upper part of a lid from a wooden coffin. Estimate £15,000-£30,000. LONDON.- A rare piece of ancient Egyptian history is set to go under the hammer at Apollo Art Auctions on January 25th, 2025. The auction, titled "Fine Ancient Art, Antiquities & Jewellery," features a wide range of artifacts from across various civilizations, but a highlight is expected to be the upper part of a lid from a wooden coffin. Estimated Price: £10,000 - £30,000 (approximately $12,000 - $36,000 USD) Dating back to the Third Intermediate Period of ancient Egypt (approximately 945 - 700 BC), the fragment is believed to have originated in Lower Egypt. The ornately decorated piece features: • A vulture headdress - a symbol of the goddess Wadjet, associated with protection and the afterlife. • A striped archaic wig - a style commonly depicted on funerary art. • A central black scarab symbol - representing rebirth and transformation. • A pink-hued ... More Portrait of Julie Mehretu, photo by Josefina Santos. NEW YORK, NY.- Marian Goodman Gallery announced that Julie Mehretu has been awarded the rank of Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. Julie’s remarkable body of work has been exhibited at Galerie Marian Goodman since 2013. Her most recent exhibitions at our Paris location include a collaboration with Robin Coste Lewis in 2022 and with Tacita Dean in 2018. The prestigious award recognizes eminent artists and creators, and those who have contributed significantly to furthering the arts and culture in France and throughout the world. Julie Mehretu, (b. 1970, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) lives and works in New York City. She received a B.A. from Kalamazoo College, Michigan, studied at the University Cheik Anta Diop, Dakar Senegal, and received a Master’s of Fine Art with honors from The Rhode Island School of Design in 1997. In exploring palimpsests of history, from ... More Iliana Emilia Garcia. NEW YORK, NY.- West Harlem Art Fund and New York Artist Equity Association announced the second rendition of Harlem Sculpture Gardens (HSG), a large-scale outdoor exhibition, curated to foster joy and beauty within the Harlem community. Opening on May 2nd this exhibition runs until October 30, 2025. Sculpture and design works will be displayed in three historic parks and one plaza. Among the sites are: Morningside Park, St. Nicholas Park, Jackie Robinson Park, Montefiore Park Featured Artists will include Motohiro Takeda, Coby Kennedy, Peter Miller, David Sheldon, Dianne Smith and Iliana Emilia Garcia. Sculpture parks were first created in the United States between the 1960s and the 1980s, including Griffis Sculpture Park, Storm King, Olympic Sculpture Park, Socrates Park, and Ann and Jim Goodnight Museum Park, which is affiliated with the North Carolina Museum of Art. Newer parks include the EJI ... More A California artist redefines the legacy of watercolor painting Verne Dawson finds timeless beauty in Blue Ridge springs at Karma Gallery Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw's plans for the first year in its new home Timothy J. Clark, Cuenca Cathedral, 2015, Watercolor, 40.5 x 31 in. ORANGE, CA.- The Hilbert Museum of California Art invites art lovers to discover the extraordinary world of acclaimed artist Timothy J. Clark through the exhibition, Timothy J. Clark: Going Places, now on view through March 8, 2025. Clark, celebrated for redefining watercolor, merges tradition and innovation to create works that transform everyday scenes into visual symphonies of color and light. From the quiet dignity of a Mexican church to the bustling energy of a European market square, each painting provides a window into our shared humanity. This exhibition offers visitors an immersive experience into the world of an artist who honors tradition while pushing boundaries Clark’s work exemplifies technical brilliance and emotional depth. His pieces—created using hand-ground pigments, archival-quality paper, and unconventional tools such as feather quills and Buddhist candles—echo the mastery of Turner and Sargent yet his style remains distinctly his own ... More Verne Dawson, Through the Forest, 2024. Oil on canvas, 14 × 11 in. NEW YORK, NY.- Karma presents an exhibition of new paintings by Verne Dawson, on view at 22 East 2nd Street, New York, from January 8–February 28, 2025. Dawson’s recent paintings center around a spring near the artist’s home in the Blue Ridge Mountains in western North Carolina. As depicted by Dawson, whose approach, unmediated by contemporary technology, foregrounds the primacy of subject, artist, and paint, the spring becomes a place outside of time, at once enchanted and very real. In Karma’s new monograph on Dawson, critic Jennifer Krasinski hones in on the artist’s atemporal ambitions, writing that “he devoted himself to painting because it offers ‘the much-desired possibility to escape time,’ eluding the dupe finitudes (like now and then) and instead calling attention . . . to time’s suppleness.” His monumental canvas Saluda Crystal Springs (all works 2024) invites the viewer to step into the utopic spaces of the spring and painting itself. Whil ... More The Building of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. Photo: Maja Wirkus. WARSAW.- 2025 will be a year of numerous exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw—including an extensive presentation of the museum’s own collection. Traditionally, and in line with the institution’s mission, the exhibitions will be accompanied by many other events: tours, lectures, performances, workshops, and educational exercises for children, young people and adults, as well as screenings at Kinomuzeum complementing the exhibitions. The doors of the first-floor galleries will open to the public on 10 January 2025, when the museum will once again host the Refugees Welcome exhibition. See you soon at MSN Warsaw! The new home of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, opened on 25 October 2024, has already been visited by over 300,000 people. Following the intense period of inaugural events greeting the new building at ul. Marszałkowska 103, MSN Warsaw has begun preparations for long-planned exhibitions, including large ones ... More Artist Raquel Rabinovich dies at 94, leaving a legacy of monochromatic mastery National Gallery of Kosovo presents a solo exhibition and the personal archive of Sanja Iveković Paintings bathed in evening light: Afterglow opens at Louis K. Meisel Gallery Rabinovich in her Huntington, NY studio, 1970. NEW YORK, NY.- It is with great sadness that we announce that Raquel Rabinovich passed away peacefully on January 5, after a short battle with cancer. She leaves behind a rich legacy as a visual artist built over more than seven decades of rigorous practice. Rabinovich never subscribed to specific movements or trends in art, while engaging from her own unique perspective with some of the dominant tendencies of the past century, including hard-edge abstraction and land art. Born in Buenos Aires in 1929 into a Russian and Romanian Jewish immigrant family, Rabinovich lived and worked in the United States since 1967 and resided for the last 30 years in Rhinebeck, New York She was raised in Córdoba, Argentina, and moved to Europe where she would live throughout the mid-late 1950s. She was an active member of the Hudson Valley artistic and Buddhist communities. She was very ... More Installation view. PRISTINA.- Women’s House, presents the solo exhibition and personal archive of Sanja Iveković. A pioneer of video, performance, and conceptual art in Yugoslavia during the 1970s, Iveković is renowned for her feminist examination of gender relations within the socialist Yugoslavia and the post-socialist transition. The exhibition consists of two parts, a selection of the artist’s works, curated by Hana Halilaj and spanning fifty years of the artist’s practice, and an archival exhibition based on the research of Iveković’s archive, curated by Ivana Bago. Meeting Points: Documents in the Making, 1968–1982, takes its cue from Iveković’s first major solo show Documents 1949–76 in 1976 in Zagreb, in which the artist purported to “document” her personal history while constructing a critical history of the present. Based on Ivana Bago’s year-long research of Iveković’s practice, the exhibition spans the years ... More Andrew Valko, I've Been Waiting for you, 2018, acrylic on panel, 18 x 14 inches. NEW YORK, NY.- The Louis K. Meisel Gallery is presenting Afterglow, a selection of works from our roster of artists. This exhibition features paintings focusing on the effects produced by evening light, from the setting sun to the diffused neon haze of the urban landscapes to the welcoming amber glow of interior scenes. Notoriously difficult to capture, these representations create a contemplative atmosphere, rich in color and tonality. Night Scene and Flamingo by Raphaella Spence record the elusive transitions of the twilight. The optical phenomenon generated by the saturated pink and purple hues create a dreamlike landscape that leaves the viewer with a lingering sense of hopeful optimism. The intimate light of the interior scenes by Johannes Müller-Franken and Andrew Valko captures the essence of midwinter solitude, a limbo period of longing for ... More Carsten Höller: Giant Triple Mushroom More News Lethaby Gallery presents new exhibition exploring food, culture and sustainability LONDON.- Lethaby Gallery at Central Saint Martins presents Soil, Toil & Table, a pioneering exhibition exploring our complex relationship with land, food production, culture, consumption and waste. Running from 5 December 2024 – 25 January 2025, the exhibition is uniquely driven by the creative body at Central Saint Martins, entirely curated by current students and recent graduates. Featuring over 70 thought-provoking works created by students, alumni and staff, each artwork offers an innovative approach to some of today’s most urgent global issues. Spanning disciplines including fashion, installations, bio-inspired sculptures and ecological design, the works explore how we engage with our food systems, shedding light on critical issues such as environmental degradation, cultural disconnects and unsustainable practices. The exhibition ... More A new space for contemporary art to open in Murano VENICE.- Opening on 12 February 2025 at 6pm, Barovier&Toso ARTE is a new gallery on Murano dedicated to contemporary artists who integrate glass as a fundamental part of their artistic identity. The primary aim of Barovier&Toso ARTE is to present contemporary artworks crafted in glass, embedding them within an interdisciplinary context that embraces painting, sculpture, drawing, textiles, and other artistic practices. Glass is envisioned here as a dynamic form of expression, far removed from the preconceptions that confine it solely to the realm of craftsmanship, becoming instead a sophisticated creative tool for today's artists. Alongside Barovier&Toso, which traces its roots back to 1295 when Barovier established the world’s oldest glassmaking company—now specialising in luxury lighting and design—Barovier&Toso ARTE positions ... More Upland - bright, bold and turning 10 DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY.- Upland - a bold champion of the arts in Dumfries Galloway – is launching a special exhibition for the start of its 10thbirthday celebrations. Despite tough times for the creative sector (hit by everything from public spending cuts to COVID and the Cost-of-Living Crisis) it has successfully promoted the region’s artists and makers at home and overseas. The free-to-enter Decade exhibition, at the Kirkcudbright Galleries (18 January to 9 March), will be a chance to see pieces by 45 artists and makers highlighting the extraordinary breadth of talent within Upland’s membership. Decade will span painting, sculpture, ceramics, film and more. Founded in 2015, the visual art and craft development organisation runs a year-round creative programme featuring exhibitio ... More Exhibition at The Postal Museum explores how postal workwear has changed over time LONDON.- From smartly dressed Victorians in formal frockcoats to modern posties and their all-weather activewear, uniforms have helped make postal workers an iconic feature of life in the UK. Early postmen were known as Letter Carriers. They would call on houses for mail deliveries and collections. Letters had to be paid for on delivery so identifying who was an official carrier of the mail was important. Fraud was widespread with illegal carriers delivering mail and collecting the money for themselves. In 1728 the Post Office issued brass tokens to Letter Carriers. Bearing the King’s Arms, these tokens identified them as official Post Office employees, helping to identify who was a legal Letter Carrier. This desire for easy, public identification of official Post Office employees drove the introduction of uniform and remains a key reason behind ... More Shin Gallery extends Indigenous Amazonian drawings exhibition until January 25 NEW YORK, NY.- Shin Gallery is presenting Drawing Life: Indigenous Amazonian and the Universal Eye, a compelling exhibition showcasing a survey of drawings by Indigenous artists from the Amazon Basin. The late Amazonian artist Francisco “Chico” da Silva (1910 - 1985) said that “[t]he drawing is what the hand gives and the color is what the details ask for. A house is engineering, while painting is autonomy.” These Amazonian drawings reify an abstract cosmology into legible images. Animistic relationships and motifs are abundant in these works, and the symbolism they contain is deceptively enigmatic, hidden in the seemingly straight-forward compositions. To flesh out these subtle complications, and support the “autonomy” referenced by Chico da Saliva, Shin Gallery is presenting these works alongside the works of Altamira, CoBrA, Outsider, ... More "Banshees": Eight women sculptors unleash powerful voices at Asya Geisberg Gallery NEW YORK, NY.- Asya Geisberg Gallery is presenting "Banshees," a group exhibition of eight women sculptors whose work uses traditionally femme signifiers to subvert gendered narratives and traditions through a manipulation of scale, material, and surface. The banshee is a female spirit in Irish folklore who heralds the death of a family member, usually by screaming, wailing, or shrieking. The cry of the spirit is mournful beyond all other sounds on earth, in the silence of the night. Here, the Banshee is re-embodied as contemporary cries of protest and refusal, and the notion of “good girl” / “bad girl.” With concrete, neon, steel, ceramic, wood, glass, and leather - distinctive material choices and juxtapositions - a disregard for rules of the game unfolds. The Banshees negotiate tensions through dream theory, mythology, and history. The works’ physical presence ... More Haus der Kunst: Programme Preview 2025 │ Where the future happens MUNICH.- Haus der Kunst is changing fast. The Programme 2025 continues the focus of working with living artists, on generating new lines in art history, and on questioning canons and stereotypes. The themes for 2025 extend to “language” and “play” in the arts. Following Philippe Parreno’s radical exhibition shaped by AI and machine learning, and conducted by human and non-human voices, Haus der Kunst invites all to participate in different forms of learning. Andrea Lissoni, Artistic Director: “With a view to the future, we have conceived intertwined exhibitions, live events, and participation-oriented projects. As we push for innovative forms of engagement and challenging artistic practices, we invite you to join us on this journey.” The annual live exhibition ECHOES this year blends ancient myth and contemporary technology. “Plot Twist” is an ... More Salt announces its 2025 programs: Exhibitions at Salt Beyoğlu and Salt Galata ISTANBUL.- Founded by Garanti BBVA, Salt offers its visitors and users a space for encounter, research, and expression through a range of programs. Designer’s Note at Salt Beyoğlu, on view until February 2, explores the evolution of graphic design in Türkiye from the 1970s to the 1990s. Organized in collaboration with the Lumbardhi Foundation, Translated into Socialism at Salt Galata presents the little-known history of the Turkish-speaking community in Yugoslavia, namely in Kosovo and Macedonia, and is on view until February 23. The 2025 exhibitions and accompanying programs at Salt Beyoğlu and Salt Galata will focus on various subjects, including ecology, critical animal studies, and social realism in cinema in Türkiye. The projects selected for the first edition of the Salt Artistic Research and Production Grant Program, realized in collaboration with ... More Kei Imazu's "Tanah Air": Weaving myth, history, and environment in a powerful solo debut TOKYO.- Kei Imazu’s first large-scale solo exhibition presents the artist’s weaving of personal, historical, and mythological narratives, as an expansive reflection on Japan, where she has her roots, and her present situation in Indonesia. Kei Imazu (b. 1980) uses computer applications to process and compose images taken from various media such as the internet and digital archives, producing oil paintings on canvas based on these initial sketches. In 2017, Imazu moved to Bandung, Indonesia to live and work. In recent years, her works have shifted to represent her research into contemporary issues of urban development and environmental pollution in Indonesia, all of which capture the reality of the artist’s immediate surroundings. These issues are never directly expressed in Imazu’s works, but are rather woven and linked between ... More CIAF comes full circle: 2025 season heralds return to iconic, one-stop arts and culture hub, Tanks Arts Centre CAIRNS.- The Cairns Indigenous Art Fair (CIAF) is set to bring Queensland’s largest and most beloved First Nations arts and cultural celebration home in 2025, returning to its original birthplace within the iconic, atmospheric, and lush botanical surrounds of Tanks Arts Centre. Announcing the move ahead of CIAF’s 16th annual season, scheduled for July, CIAF CEO Dennis Stokes highlighted Tanks Arts Centre’s compelling combination of history, heritage, and state-of-the-art capability housed within its three multi-purpose tanks and rainforest setting. “We are excited to announce our return to Tanks Arts Centre and the many opportunities it affords, not the least of which is the convenience of everything in one place,” ... More Commanderie de Peyrassol announces artistic program 2025: Jonathas de Andrade FLASSANS-SUR-ISSOLE.- As part of the Brazil - France 2025 cross-season, the Commanderie de Peyrassol will present a monographic exhibition by Jonathas de Andrade (born in Maceió in 1982), a major artist on the Brazilian art scene who represented his country at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022.The exhibition offers a reading of the artist's work, taking shape in his approach to nature and territories, revealing the poetic force that runs through his practice. In a minimalist atmosphere, the exhibition echoes the contemporary issues and reflections defined as the thematic axes of the Brazil - France 2025 season, notably climate and ecological transition. At the heart of the exhibition, the two videos O Peixe (2016) and Nó na garganta (2022) form a dialogue on the relationship between man and animal, sometimes powerful, sometimes vulnerable. ... More PhotoGalleries KUSAMA Gabriele Münter TARWUK Awol Erizku Flashback On a day like today, Belarusian-French painter Chaim Soutine was born January 13, 1893. Chaïm Soutine (13 January 1893 - 9 August 1943) was a Russian-French painter of Jewish origin. Soutine made a major contribution to the expressionist movement while living in Paris. Inspired by classic painting in the European tradition, exemplified by the works of Rembrandt, Chardin and Courbet, Soutine developed an individual style more concerned with shape, color, and texture over representation, which served as a bridge between more traditional approaches and the developing form of Abstract Expressionism. In this image: Chaim Soutine, Two Pheasants. © 1996 - 2024 Founder: Ignacio Villarreal (1941 - 2019) Editor & Publisher: Jose Villarreal (52 8110667640) Art Director: Juan José Sepúlveda Ramírez Writer: Ofelia Zurbia Betancourt

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