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The First Art Newspaper on the Net Established in 1996 Monday, January 20, 2025 A century of urban change: Photography exhibition explores cities from Berlin to Kyoto Lovers Lane, 1981, New York City, USA © Thomas Hoepker | Magnum Photos. BERLIN.- Galerie Buchkunst Berlin is taking viewers on a photographic journey through time and across continents with its new exhibition, "From the Heart of the City." The show brings together a diverse collection of international photographers whose work captures the ever-evolving nature of urban landscapes. From post-war Berlin to bustling Hong Kong and serene Kyoto, the exhibition offers a compelling look at how cities have shaped human experience over the past century. The exhibition features works by renowned photographers including Thomas Hoepker, Michael Wolf, Stéphane Duroy, Yasuhiro Ogawa, René Groebli, and Roger Ballen, with photographs spanning from 1952 to 2024. The exhibition's concept draws inspiration from Walter Benjamin's idea of Paris as the "capital of the 19th century," applying a similar lens to Berlin's turbulent 20th-century history. The city's transformations, marked by war, division, and reunification, serve as a powerful backdrop for exploring broader themes of urban c ... More The Best Photos of the Day The Figge Art Museum opened Marvin Cone: Painter, an exhibition celebrating the extraordinary career of Marvin Cone, one of Iowa’s most well-known artists. The exhibition opened on Saturday, January 18 in the second-floor Lewis Gallery and will remain on view through June 18. New Director of Collections announced at The British Museum From sound installations to site-specific works: Shilpa Gupta's diverse practice on display in Asia Mary Cassatt's revolutionary legacy: Ruth E. Iskin's insightful portrait of an icon Xerxes Mazda has been the Director of Collection and Curation at the British Library since 2021 and has spent the past thirty years in the cultural and museum sector. LONDON.- The British Museum has today announced that Dr Xerxes Mazda will be joining its Executive team as the new Director of Collections. Mazda will be responsible for the stewardship and care of the collection, and will play a key role in the strategic leadership of the Museum, as well as on the Masterplan. Mazda is currently Director of Collection and Curation at the British Library. He has spent the past thirty years in the cultural and museum sector working for major UK institutions, including eight years at the British Museum from 2005–2013. He was Head of Interpretation and then Head of Learning, Volunteers and Audiences responsible for the British Museum’s visitor experience, overseeing the public programming of 20 major special exhibitions and six new permanent galleries. Dr Xerxes Mazda said: “I am delighted to be coming back to the British Museum at this turning point in its history to lead the committed curatorial teams who look after one of the greatest collections ... More Shilpa Gupta, Untitled (Jailed Poet Drawings), 2018. Commissioned by YARAT Contemporary Art Space. Courtesy of the artist and Art Jameel. Photo: Pat Verbruggen. From the Art Jameel Collection. DUBAI.- Ishara Art Foundation opens 2025 with Lines of Flight, Shilpa Gupta’s first solo exhibition in West Asia. Featuring a diverse selection of artworks from 2006 to the present that include a new sound installation, site-specific interventions, sculptures, drawings, prints and videos, the exhibition foregrounds Gupta’s longstanding critical engagement with narratives of mobility, control and acts of resilience. Over the last two and a half decades, Shilpa Gupta’s interdisciplinary art practice has challenged how individual and collective identities are perceived, governed and orchestrated by state and societal forces. Her work questions how people, places, everyday objects and languages get recast through nationality, gender and economic relations. By focusing on moments of unrest, Gupta’s work encourages viewers to participate in imagining a new poetics of resistance. Lines have occupied an important place in Gupta’s art practice since the beginning ... More Ruth E. Iskin’s Mary Cassatt between Paris and New York: The Making of a Transatlantic Legacy offers a groundbreaking reevaluation of Cassatt’s life and career NEW YORK, NY.- Mary Cassatt, a trailblazing artist whose work bridged the gap between American and French art, remains a pivotal figure in the history of Impressionism. Born in Pennsylvania in 1844, she defied societal norms, leaving the confines of 19th-century expectations for women to pursue a career in the arts. Cassatt's journey led her to Paris, where she became deeply embedded in the Impressionist movement, forging friendships with luminaries like Edgar Degas and leaving an indelible mark on the artistic world. Today, her paintings, celebrated for their intimate depictions of women and children, grace the walls of institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Ruth E. Iskin’s Mary Cassatt between Paris and New York: The Making of a Transatlantic Legacy offers a groundbreaking reevaluation of Cassatt’s life and career, positioning ... More Katja Strunz explores fragmentation and transformation through folding at Contemporary Fine Arts Melike Kara: Mapping motherhood, heritage, and belonging at Bortolami Gallery Frankfurt photographer Götz Diergarten finds abstraction in everyday glass Katja Strunz, Guten Morgen, Erwachen, 2024. Collage, handmade paper, 64.5 x 43 cm. KS/C 52/00. BASEL.- In Japan, the art of paper folding; Origami – is a spiritual practice, a meditation on transience and form. Katja Strunz adds a new dimension to this long history of folding in art – one that goes far beyond a purely formal exploration. Her new series of works combines the ancient practice of folding with cutting-edge satellite images, creating a tension between micro and macro perspectives, tradition and technology. The satellite images depict Earth in its vulnerable beauty, but also in its fragmentation: deforested landscapes, dwindling riverbeds, and traces of human intervention. These images, originally conceived as analytical tools, undergo a transformative artistic process in Strunz’s hands. Here begins the actual act: folding. Strunz folds the images as if resisting their rigid narratives. Through this physical reshaping, new connections emerge between details and larger structures. Boundaries that seem self-evident in everyday life dissolve. The clear lines of a river blur into ... More Melike Kara, duderi, 2024, Oil stick and acrylic on canvas, 78 3/4 × 70 7/8 in (200 × 180 cm). NEW YORK, NY.- Bortolami gallery is presenting an exhibition of new work by German-Kurdish artist Melike Kara. Materially symphonic, Kara employs painting, installation, and photography to map heritage, origin, and belonging. For this exhibition, the artist expands the registers from which we identify, previously centered on cultural affiliation, to include her new role as mother. In exploring the attenuation of self and tradition under the expansive condition of motherhood, the artist intwines a new web of associations that marries history and the contemporary moment from which she speaks. For was uns bleibt—what we have left—Kara has woven rose-colored texts and black and white images into a wallpaper-like collage spanning the length of the exhibition wall. The fragmented and borrowed texts and associated images approach a collective, yet inherently subjective, image of motherhood— the generative conduit through which care and home is passed and, with this, inevitably lost and transf ... More Götz Diergarten, o.T. 2 (outside-in / Frankfurt-Altstadt), 2023. Fine art print, mounted on Signicolor, UV protection, 60 x 45 cm. Edition of 8 + 2 AP © Götz Diergarten / VG Bildkunst Bonn, 2025. FRANKFURT.- For photographer Götz Diergarten, glass isn't just a transparent material; it's a lens through which reality can be transformed into abstract art. His fascination with glass began during a project with Wilhelm Opatz and the Deutscher Werkbund, where he was tasked with photographing Frankfurt's church architecture. It was during this assignment that Diergarten discovered the diverse aesthetic possibilities of glass—from ribbed and ornamental to wired glass and even simple glass blocks. He became captivated by its ability to refract light and create abstract interpretations of the world. This initial spark led Diergarten to explore similar structural elements in other urban settings, particularly the "New Frankfurt" housing estates built in the 1920s under the direction of Ernst May. These modernist buildings, with their extensive use of glass, provided a rich source of inspiration. The resulting photographs occupy ... More Fluid forms and luminous surfaces: Lesley Vance's latest works on view in Los Angeles Musical instruments take center stage in Maarten Baas's bold new show Rare Amarna Period pharaoh statue fragment to headline Apollo Art Auctions sale Lesley Vance, Untitled, 2024, oil on linen, 54 x 45 x 1 1/2 inches (137.2 x 114.3 x 3.8 cm). Photo: Flying Studio. LOS ANGELES, CA.- David Kordansky Gallery is presenting Paintings, Watercolors, an exhibition of new work by Lesley Vance. The exhibition is on view in Los Angeles, where it occupies two of the gallery’s spaces at 5130 W. Edgewood Pl., through February 23, 2025. Vance’s newest works find her entering into an ever more profound engagement with multiple legacies of painting. The exhibition features large- and medium-scale canvases, including several in formats that are new for the artist, along with a group of new watercolors. In addition to her perennial interests in color and visual movement, Vance experiments here with greater contrast between areas defined by expressive brushwork and those defined by uniform fields of color. The brushwork exudes a particularly active life of its own, providing clues to the unruly, emotionally fertile place from which the paintings begin. As ... More Crescendo! is both an exhibition of Maarten Baas’s newest creations and a retrospective of his career spanning over 20 years. Photos: Jonathan de Waart. AMSTERDAM.- Galerie Ron Mandos is presenting Crescendo!, the first solo exhibition by Maarten Baas in Amsterdam. In this exhibition, Baas takes a bold approach, using a series of musical instruments to explore the tension between grand aspirations and practical reality. The show runs from January 18 to March 9, 2025. Maarten Baas, an internationally acclaimed artist and designer, is renowned for his unique ability to challenge conventions and push creative boundaries—both his own and those of his collaborators. The theme of navigating and redefining limits often takes center stage in his work. “In his first solo exhibition at the gallery, Maarten makes his debut in the art world. Apart from a few examples of his world-renowned designs, the exhibition primarily focuses on his fine art. In Crescendo!, Maarten Baas reinvents himself by bravely entering this new ... More A remarkably well-preserved fragment of a monumental quartzite statue. Estimate £60,000-£90,000. LONDON.- A remarkably well-preserved fragment of a monumental quartzite statue from Egypt's fascinating Amarna Period is set to be a star lot at Apollo Art Auctions' sale on January 26th. The piece, dating back to the 18th-19th Dynasty (circa 1351-1334 BC during the reign of Akhenaten), offers a rare glimpse into this transformative era of Egyptian history. The substantial base fragment, weighing 47.5kg and measuring 380mm x 360mm, depicts a pharaoh kneeling in a gesture of offering. The finely pleated kilt and carefully carved legs demonstrate the exceptional skill of the ancient Egyptian artisans. Experts believe the pharaoh was originally presenting a ritual object to a deity, possibly the god Atum, a prominent solar deity associated with Heliopolis. A significant inscription on the rear pillar of the fragment reads: "Beloved of Atum, ruler of Heliopo ... More Paul Wonner's vibrant still lifes on view at Paul Thiebaud Gallery Ragnar Kjartansson's "The Brown Period": A year-long exploration of art and experimentation at i8 Grandi Gökhun Baltacı's first solo exhibition in Italy opens at kaufmann repetto Paul Wonner, Green Cloth, Orange Juice, and Magnifying Glass, 2000. Acrylic and charcoal on paper, 38 x 27 inches © 2025 Estate of Paul Wonner and William Theophilus Brown, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento. SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- On view from the artist’s estate are twelve paintings on paper from Wonner’s heralded series of still lifes from the second half of his career. Full of produce, cut flowers, and other everyday objects arranged on broad flat surfaces, Wonner’s works celebrate the common objects of contemporary life through his modern reinterpretation of the historic genre of the still life. The exhibition will be on view through March 8, 2025. Using vivid colors and complex compositional arrangements, Paul Wonner took his inspiration for this series from 17th and 18th century Dutch still life paintings. In doing so, however, Wonner turned the traditional notions about the appearance and meaning of a still life completely on their head. Through Wonner’s artistic lens, the perspectival plane has been tilted up to exaggerate the ... More Ragnar Kjartansson, A Boy and a Girl and a Bush and a Bird, 2025, two-channel video installation with sound, duration 44 minutes. Courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York and i8 Gallery, Reykjavik. REYKJAVÍK.- i8 Gallery is presenting The Brown Period, a year-long exhibition by Ragnar Kjartansson at i8 Grandi. This presentation, which is Kjartansson’s sixth solo show at i8, opened on 18 January and will be on view until 18 December 2025. Throughout the year, the artist will exhibit new works and existing projects over two rooms, each painted in a shade of brown. The opening presentation debuts a new two-channel video by the artist, A Boy and a Girl and a Bush and a Bird (2025), which features Kjartansson and his longtime collaborator Davíð Þór Jónsson. The Brown Period is an extended project, intended to be a dive into the realms of the experimental. As i8 Grandi is a short walk from Kjartansson’s studio, the artist will treat the gallery as a project space where lucky strikes and failure collides. For the artist, the bass drum in the project space will be new ... More Gökhun Baltacı’s artistic practice is marked by a continuous exploration of the subconscious. MILAN.- kaufmann repetto is presenting The sky is black and golden and the moon is shining red, the first solo exhibition of Turkish artist Gökhun Baltacı in Italy. In this new series of pastel works, Baltacı’s vision unfolds as viewers navigate through scenes that seem familiar at first, only to reveal a deeper, more complex narrative at a closer inspection. What initially appears simple is soon complicated by subtle details — unassuming objects that, as they accumulate, begin to shift the tone of the work, creating a quiet but unsettling atmosphere. These meticulous additions form a constellation of references, drawing the viewer into Baltacı’s unique world, where the boundaries between the known and the strange blur. Born in Ankara in 1989, Gökhun Baltacı took part in his city’s underground art scene already during his early years at the Hacettepe University, co-founding the Avareler collective, a street-art group that focused on thought-provoking int ... More The astonishing stories of working at the National Gallery in the 1960s More News Marc D'Estout: A 20-year survey of sculptural haikus opens at the Triton Museum SANTA CLARA, CALIF.- Although Marc D’Estout is now primarily an object maker, his formative art career was rooted in conceptualism and installation. Later his focus shifted to art furniture, which eventually became more conceptual and less functional, until he pivoted to making purely sculptural objects. This exhibition begins at the end of that pivot. Formed in succinct visual dialogues, D’Estout’s minimalist sculptures and drawings often subtly reveal a dark humor or uncanny, subliminal associations. The artist thinks of his current works as sculptural haikus–formalist reductions. In conceiving them, he experiments with imagery in response to observations of social and cultural memes, personal (mis)communication, politics, or pop culture. His life-long love of automobile and aviation design is also integral to his visual ... More Raúl Colón's colorful creations on view at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art AMHERST, MASS.- A new exhibition at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art honors the work of celebrated artist Raúl Colón, whose signature style of textured watercolor and colored pencil paintings are showcased in more than 50 books. On view from January 18 through June 1, 2025, Created in Color: The Picture Book Art of Raúl Colón includes images for tales inspired by the artist’s Puerto Rican heritage, biographies of Latin American heroes, and stories of activists who fought for justice, as well as books about creativity and poetry. Organized by the National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature, Created in Color features more than 80 original works on display with bilingual (Spanish/English) exhibition texts. “A daydreamer since childhood, Raúl Colón has never stopped capturing the world around him or imagining new ... More Beijing Art and Technology Biennale presents second edition Earthwise BEIJING.- The second edition of Beijing Art and Technology Biennale is on view until February 23, 2025. With its theme Earthwise, this edition is curated by Fei Jun and Naiyi Wang, and invites 50 artists and scientists from around the globe to reconsider multiple forms of intelligence, animals, plants, machines, planetary intelligence, etc. What does it mean to be intelligent? Earthwise aims to break human-centric notions of intelligence, and comprises a selection of provocative works that ruminate on notions of intelligence, offering new perspectives that have extended to large-scale processes, including natural systems and planetary systems. Thomas Feuerstein believes that “intelligence” today means rethinking the differences and boundaries between Us and The Other. In his installation METABOLICA-HYDRA, the narrative actors are algae and bacteria, ... More Boris Huang's exquisite featherwork on display at Craft in America Center LOS ANGELES, CA.- Huang's recent feather work, made expressly for this exhibition, are on display at the Craft in America Center. In Hawaiian culture there is a long tradition of feather garments made to protect and distinguish royalty, and more commonly known, feather leis are used to symbolize welcoming and compassion. Boris Huang settled in Hawaii when he landed a good job after his education there. Taking interest in the local culture, he took a workshop on Hawaiian featherwork and became so enamored with the craft that he asked to apprentice with Hawaiian Feather Lei Master, Aunty Mary Louise Kekuewa. Over the five years of working with her, he mastered the laborious technique of individually tying single feathers to a net base to create leis, capes and other adornments. The feathers Huang uses for his work are sustainably ... More Being John Smith: A personal reflection by avant-garde filmmaker at Kate MacGarry LONDON.- Kate MacGarry is delighted to host Tanya Leighton, Berlin and Los Angeles, with a joint presentation of new work by John Smith as part of CONDO London 2025. The centrepiece of the exhibition is Being John Smith (27 mins, 2024), a personal work in which the artist reflects on the ordinariness of his name and its profound impact on his sense of self. Through a mix of humour and melancholic self-reflection, Smith navigates his lower middle class roots and his rise to prominence as an influential avant-garde filmmaker. As Toronto International Film Festival curator Jesse Cumming observed, Being John Smith is ‘a deceptively wry and deeply felt work’ in which Smith ‘grapples with his own mortality and legacy through a minimal, unassuming deployment of text, image and voice’. But through this autobiographical focus the film also addresses ... More Galerie Rupert Pfab opens solo shows of works by Isabelle Borges and Simone Lucas DUSSELDORF.- Isabelle Borges’ exhibition title Forking Paths – is based on the short story “The Garden of Forking Paths” by the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges. The story is about the infinite realities that open up when people are faced with decisions and the non-linear aspect of time and space. Analogously, Isabelle Borges refers to the numerous decisions she has to make as an artist when she chooses a particular painting. Before she begins to paint, she photographs natural structures of plants reflected in a particular lake in Brandenburg, which she visits regularly. She transfers the lines, surfaces and spaces she observes there, which are formed by the reeds in the lake, into her paintings as abstract elements. Her paintings are non-representational and radiate an enchanting lightness, despite their geometric rigor. They invite the viewer ... More Figge Art Museum celebrates Marvin Cone's legacy in new exhibition DAVENPORT, IA.- The Figge Art Museum opened Marvin Cone: Painter, an exhibition celebrating the extraordinary career of Marvin Cone, one of Iowa’s most well-known artists. The exhibition opened on Saturday, January 18 in the second-floor Lewis Gallery and will remain on view through June 18. Born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Marvin Cone (1891–1965) was a visionary artist and teacher whose career spanned over five decades. Known for his versatility and technical brilliance, Cone’s artistic output ranged from serene impressionistic landscapes and mysterious surreal interiors to bold geometric abstractions. Cone’s art resonates deeply with audiences for its ability to blend technical precision with his distinctive vision of the world around him. Cone was a close friend and contemporary of Grant Wood, with whom he shared a lifelong artistic ... More Art, Design & Architecture Museum presents a group exhibition exploring the visual language of California SANTA BARBARA, CALIF.- The Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara announces Public Texts: A Californian Visual Language, an exhibition examining the unique and surprising way Californian artists utilize text in their creative practices. Curated by Alex Lukas, Associate Professor of Print and Publication, the exhibition opened on Saturday, January 18 and will remain on view through April 27, 2025. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 12:00pm to 5:00pm. Free admission. The visual output of Californian artists has, for over half a century, embraced the written word as the site for aesthetic play. Spanning painting, drawing, printmaking, and more, Public Texts: A Californian Visual Language brings together more than twenty artists rooted in the state who play with the boundary between language and image as a central ... More Etsu Egami's first German solo show opens in Berlin BERLIN.- KÖNIG GALERIE is presenting MELODY, a solo exhibition by Japanese artist Etsu Egami. On view in the Chapel of St. Agnes, the show marks the artist’s first solo presentation in Germany. MELODY features six new, visually complex paintings that contain a series of portraits reduced to broad, translucent brushstrokes. Egami is known for her color-rich paintings and captivating compositions that bring together the traditions of figurative and Japanese painting into an entirely new kind of aesthetic experience. The six oil-on-canvas works that comprise MELODY make use of a similar palette and gestural approach to the language of portraiture. Departing from the traditional bust format, Egami’s faces seem to float, ethereally, above a swirling context of color and gesture, the image more at home in the shadowy ephemera of the screen than ... More Young photographers awarded prestigious IBB Prize, exhibition opens in Berlin BERLIN.- Two emerging photographers, Lasse Müller and Konrad Friedländer, have been awarded the prestigious IBB Photography Prize, and their work is now on display at the Kommunale Galerie Berlin until March 30, 2025. The exhibition, which opened on January 18th, showcases the diverse and innovative approaches to photography that impressed the jury. The IBB Photography Prize, a joint initiative of the Investitionsbank Berlin (IBB) and the Freundeskreis der UdK Berlin | Karl Hofer Gesellschaft, aims to support talented young artists and document the evolution of contemporary photography. This year, 15 artists from various disciplines at the Universität der Künste (UdK) Berlin competed for the award, demonstrating a wide range of themes and techniques. After careful deliberation, the jury—comprising Elke ... More PhotoGalleries Silk Road Oasis Wim Delvoye KUSAMA Gabriele Münter Flashback On a day like today, French painter Jean-François Millet died January 20, 1875. Jean-François Millet (October 4, 1814 - January 20, 1875) was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his scenes of peasant farmers; he can be categorized as part of the Realism art movement. In this image: The Angelus by Jean Francois Millet. © 1996 - 2025 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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