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Span Intuit Signage Hero. Photo: Lisa and Nick Albertson.
CHICAGO, IL.- A 30-year fixture of the Chicago arts community, Intuit was a center that stood apart as a leader in the genre of outsider and self-taught art. But as its building and organization underwent a complete renovation, evolving into a full-fledged museum, it partnered with design studio Span for a new identity that invites a broader audience to share in the work and stories of these singular artists. Originally named Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, the organization focuses on Art Brut (raw art) or Outsider Art terms that include art by individuals without traditional training who may be on the margins of society and compelled by an internal impulse to create. As the institution entered its new era, Span hoped to find a balance between honoring its past and shifting sentiments around the genre. Labels like Outsider Art and Art Brut remain a complicated issue ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 8-July 6, 2025).
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| Solo exhibition of new paintings by Italian abstract artist Monica Maja Richardson opens in Notting Hill | | Talks & Events programme now open for booking at Classic Art London | | Pearl artist Eiji Uemura brings His Firefly Pearls to Gallery Max New York |
Monica Maja Richardson Primavera. Photographs by Sky Sharrock.
LONDON.- Italian abstract artist Monica Maja Richardson has revealed a new series of paintings from her Primavera series in a solo exhibition located in Londons vibrant Notting Hill. Monica Maja Richardson draws inspiration from her Italian roots and the arrival of spring, and the exhibition is curated by Culturalee Founder Lee Sharrock. Bold new large-scale canvases are juxtaposed with smaller paintings that celebrate the beauty of nature and changing of the seasons, and reflect Richardsons abstract expressionist influences. Primavera presents the first opportunity to view a new painting titled Are we Human, Or Are We Dancer by Richardson which has been selected for display at the London Art Biennale 2025 at Chelsea Old Town Hall in July 2025. The exhibitions title Primavera is a nod to Richardsons Italian roots and conjures up images of Botticellis famed Renaissance panel painting depicting the Three Graces, Mercury, Zephyr and other figures from cla ... More | |
Gösta Adrian-Nilsson (GAN) (18841965), Abstract II, 1919, oil on panel, 46 x 37 cm, Ben Elwes Fine Art.
LONDON.- An extensive talks and events programme accompanies Classic Art London, the new art event which takes place in galleries in Mayfair and St. James's, Cecil Court and Belgravia (Pimlico Road) from 23 June to 4 July 2025. Leading art dealers specialising in old and modern masterworks are staging museum quality exhibitions. The selling exhibitions are accompanied by talks and events for international collectors, museum buyers and those who appreciate or wish to discover more traditional art genres. Booking opens on Monday, 2 June and most talks and events are free, but early booking is encouraged. A full day's programme sponsored by art insurers Lockton at the Society of Antiquaries will take place on 30 June. Appealing to curators, museum professionals and collectors, the panel discussions will cover Shared Ownership in the Art World; Climate Change - the challenges for art institutions; and Fifty Shades of Latin American Private Museums by ... More | |
My fluorescent Firefly pearls are a metaphor for hidden beauty," says Uemura. "They symbolize the radiance we carry within, waiting to be seen under the right light."
NEW YORK, NY.- Gallery Max New York will present The Art of Pearls, an exhibition featuring the work of acclaimed Japanese pearl artist and materials innovator Eiji Uemura. The exhibition, Uemuras eighth with the gallery, will feature ten of his Firefly cultured pearl necklaces and rings, giving visitors a rare opportunity to see Uemura's pioneering cultured pearl invention. In addition, the exhibition will include 400 pieces of Uemuras unique wearable pearl art including examples of traditional Makie (Japanese lacquer sprinkled with gold and silver powder), Kiriko (faceted pearls), and a combination of pearls with Kurochiku (Black Bamboo) as well as rubies and diamonds. His oversized pearls with uncommon shapes like cubes will also be on display. Renowned for his experimental approach to organic materials, Uemura and his team spent five years (2019-2024) developing their innovative process for ... More |
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| Pace announces representation of Friedrich Kunath | | Alison Saar unearths bitter truths in "Sweet Life" exhibition at Galerie Lelong | | Chase Hall's new portraits unpack hybridity at Galerie Eva Presenhuber Vienna |
Friedrich Kunath, Viva Las Blues, 2022 © Friedrich Kunath, courtesy Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace announced its representation of the German-born, Los Angeles-based artist Friedrich Kunath, who is known for his layered, lyrical work across painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, and video. Many of his paintings depict vibrant landscapes of otherworldly beauty, and he often incorporates poetic phrases and quotations from music or film into his canvases. Drawing inspiration from German Romanticism, the Hudson River School, American popular culture, music, and his own personal history, Kunath imbues his art with a myriad of seemingly disparate references and resonances, navigating the murky spaces between irony and sincerity, tragedy and comedy. Combining aesthetics of 19th century painting and contemporary culture, his work explores universal experiences of love and despair, hope and fear, and melancholy and longing, inviting varied interpretations and readings. The artist will open his first solo show with Pace at the gallerys 510 West 25th Street ... More | |
Alison Saar, Citizen Cane, 2025. Wood, ceiling tin, chain, machetes, 182 x 60 x 60 cm (71 11/16 x 23 5/8 x 23 5/8 in).
PARIS.- Galerie Lelong is presenting "Sweet Life", the first solo exhibition in Europe by American artist Alison Saar, whose poetic yet critical approach explores the complex history of sugar cane in America and its links to Africa and Europe. Through a series of sculptures, paintings and prints, the artist unfolds a visual narrative in which the bitter irony of the title underlines the brutality of the historical reality it evokes: European and American prosperity built on the exploitation of deported African populations. For several decades, Alison Saar has been drawing on historical archives, popular imagery and cultural traditions to explore the mechanisms of memory and the transmission of diasporic narratives. In "Sweet Life", she looks at the history and representation of the sugar trade from the 17th to the 20th century, drawing on a variety of sources - illustrations in cookery and manners books, advertisements, etc. â that reveal the paradoxes of an industry that was both synonymous w ... More | |
Chase Hall, Lorene (Liberation), 2023. Acrylic and coffee on cotton canvas, 51 x 40.5 cm / 20 x 16 in © Chase Hall.
VIENNA.- Galerie Eva Presenhuber is presenting Mommas Baby, Daddys Maybe, the gallerys second solo exhibition with the US artist Chase Hall. For his first exhibition in Vienna, Hall has produced a series of new paintings and works on paper. The title, a phrase used to question the complexities of parenthood, shapes the context of the exhibition as a whole: an intensely personal meditation on belonging. Painted at his studios in the Hudson Valley and the East Village of New York, the works are almost entirely portraits. Some depict individual characters a golfer in tie, cardigan and forest green breeches, or a movie theatre cashier framed within his curtained kiosk while others portray groups of young men, from cowboys to tennis players. The subjects are aware that they are being looked at, just as we are ourselves. There is honesty in the confrontation. They share a sense of poise and quiet dignity, and despite their various props and accoutrements (musical instr ... More |
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| Fondation Beyeler premieres Jordan Wolfson's mind-bending VR installation, "Little Room" | | Erin Shirreff: Permanent Drafts presents art at the intersection of photography and sculpture | | Unseen passions: Early David Hockney paintings unveil artist's formative years |
Jordan Wolfson (*1980), Little Room, 2025. 3D scanning booth, VR headset, high-definition video. Dimensions variable © Jordan Wolfson. Courtesy Gagosian, Sadie Coles HQ, and David Zwirner.
BASEL.- The Fondation Beyeler premieres Little Room, a new virtual reality (VR) installation by American artist Jordan Wolfson (*1980). This immersive work, on display for the first time at the Fondation Beyeler, invites visitors to step into an experimental environment where they play a central role in the unfolding experience. Upon entering the exhibition space, visitors are paired either with a companion of their choice or with a stranger, and after an individual 3D full-body scan, they are transported into a virtual space, within which, each participant sees themselves through the body of the other, leading to increasingly strange and disorienting physical and spatial distortions. Little Room delves into the complex intersection of real, virtual, and imaginary realms. Wolfsons work examines the darker aspects of the human experience while raising profound existential ... More | |
Erin Shirreff (Canadian, b. 1975), Maquette (split circle), 2021. Bronze. 39 3/8 à 31 1/2 à 23 in. Courtesy of the artist and Sikkema Malloy Jenkins, New York. © Erin Shirreff.
MILWAUKEE, WI.- The Milwaukee Art Museum presents the most comprehensive exhibition in a decade of works by Erin Shirreff, a highly regarded contemporary artist at the forefront of sculpture, photography, and video. Erin Shirreff: Permanent Drafts showcases over 40 recent works, including installations specific to the Milwaukee Art Museum, and is on view May 30August 31, 2025, in the Museums Herzfeld Center for Photography and Media Arts. Erin Shirreff (b. 1975) creates boundary-crossing art that explores the gap between images and the things they picture. Trained as a sculptor, Shirreff understands photography as a significant but imperfect means of conveying three-dimensional objects. Her work focuses on the reproductions through which we often access art, inviting audiences to consider how each of us sees and interprets the world around us. Shifting across time, material, ... More | |
David Hockney, I'm in the Mood for Love, 1961. Oil on canvas, 50 x 40 1/8 inches; 127 x 102 cm.
LONDON.- Exhibited together for the first time, these early paintings embellished with love hearts, graphic text, suggestive shapes and depictions of friends and lovers reveal David Hockneys precocious talent during the most formative chapter of his career. In 1959, Hockney moved from Bradford to begin his studies at the Royal College of Art, London, where he was determined to experience the capitals postwar bohemian culture as well as absorb the modern and contemporary art in its museums and galleries. The exhibition focuses on this period before Hockney relocated to the United States at the end of 1963 and reveals his discovery of an unmistakably personal style of painting that would establish him as the most important artist of his generation. In these early years Hockneys art boldly celebrated his sexuality, well before the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1967. The love paintings, around which this exhibition is centred, are candid expressions of ... More |
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| Romance in bloom: Nicole Wittenberg's enormous floral paintings dazzle at CMCA | | Mungo Thomson's "Time Life" series transforms consumption into monumental art | | Kara Blond named Director of Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and Smithsonian Affiliations |
Nicole Wittenberg, Climbing Roses 4, 2024, oil on canvas. Courtesy of the artist.
ROCKLAND, ME.- The Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA) is presenting the exhibition Nicole Wittenberg: Cheek to Cheek, a new grouping of the artists largest paintings to date. Depicting lush, color-saturated flowers, stems, and leaves against hot, florescent grounds, the enormous canvases surround the viewer with unabashed beauty. Its always been a hope of mine to make romance pictures, says Wittenberg. Presented in CMCAs Main Gallery, lit by Maines inimitable north light, the exhibition remains on view through September 14, 2025. Known for her previous erotic works of figures in the landscape, in recent years, Wittenberg has spent long periods each summer immersed in the landscape of coastal Maine, where she encountered the wildflowers that serve as references for her current imagery. Capturing their ephemeral nature in quick pastel studies created on-site, the artist uses these small-scale drawings as jumping off points for the mural-sized paintings created ... More | |
Volume 16. FOLK2NS, or The Encyclopedia of Guitar Chords, 2025. 4K video with sound, 4:14 minutes, performed by Lee Ranaldo; Mixed by Adrian Garcia.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Mungo Thomsons work uses and subverts the technologies of consumption and mediation to explore the interpenetration of subjectivity, perception, and cultural memory. His ongoing series of stop-motion videos, Time Life, compress how-to guides, reference encyclopedias, and production manuals into rapidly flickering moving images. These anthropological hallucinations, suspended between digital and analog worlds, are presented in distinct chapters, projected at monumental scale, and propelled by musical scores. On view here is Thomsons newest cycle, volumes 816. The artist first used the technique of stop-motion animation in 2009 to make Untitled (Margo Leavin Gallery, 1970), which catalogs the contents of his former Los Angeles gallerists Rolodex on Super 16mm film. Just as his choice of celluloid befit the era in which Leavin began her record of names and addresses, ... More | |
Most recently, Blond served as the executive for presidential libraries at the National Archives and Records Administration.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian has announced the appointment of Kara Blond as the new director of the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and Smithsonian Affiliations (SITES | Affiliations) effective June 30. With a distinguished career spanning museum and archives leadership, exhibition development, strategic planning and community engagement, Blond brings more than 25 years of experience to this pivotal role. Karas appointment reflects our ongoing commitment to expanding the Smithsonians reach and enriching the ways we connect with communities across the country, said Lonnie G. Bunch III, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Her extensive experience and strategic vision will be vital as we work to share Smithsonian stories and meaningful educational experiences. Blond will oversee SITES | Affiliations efforts to share Smithsonian content through traveling exhibitions, ... More |
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Whitney Museum presents first major Christine Sun Kim surveyNEW YORK, NY.- Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night is the artists first major museum survey. Co organized by the Whitney Museum and Walker Art Center, the exhibition foregrounds how Christine Sun Kim (b. 1980, Orange County, California; lives and works in Berlin, Germany) utilizes sound, language, and the complexities of communication in her wide-ranging approach to artmaking. All Day All Night brings together over 90 artworks spanning 2011 to the present across three floors of the Museum and features drawings, site-specific murals, paintings, video installations, and sculptures. Using musical notation, infographics, and languageboth in her native American Sign Language (ASL) and written EnglishKim has produced a perceptive, poetic, humorous, and political body of work. In her artwork, activism, and public voice, Kim confronts the systemic marginalization ... More Mark Leonard unveils "Common Threads": A retrospective of emotion and geometryWEST HOLLYWOOD, CA.- Louis Stern Fine Arts is presenting Mark Leonard: Common Threads. This selection of paintings provides a comprehensive view of Leonards artistic development throughout his career and highlights his unique synthesis of intellectual and emotional approaches to painting. From the artists recent works to some of his earliest, created as he first began training as a painter, Leonard has retained the same fundamental methodology: mining a timeless vocabulary of recurring geometric motifs to give material shape to the pleasures and perils of human experience. The woven forms, twisted ropes, and lustrous spheres that appear, withdraw, and re-emerge in Leonards works throughout the decades connect them across time and narrative concerns. The orderly arrangement of their elemental structures supplies a logical framework for the underlying emotive ... More Michaela Yearwood-Dan's joyful debut takes over Hauser & Wirth LondonLONDON.- Through paintings, sculpture, site-specific murals and installations, Michaela Yearwood-Dan endeavors to build spaces of community, abundance and joy. Yearwood-Dans debut exhibition with Hauser & Wirth is taking place in London, featuring new paintings ranging from monumental to intimate in scale, including an expansive 11m-long panelled landscape painting, alongside richly adorned ceramic sculptures and benches. Through these multiple mediums, Yearwood-Dan explores the quieter tones of femininity and queer community guided by deep intuition. The lyrical quality of the paintings has been complemented by a new immersive sound piece made in collaboration with the composer Alex Gruz, a reflection on the analogous experience of art and music alike, setting the tone with which to view the paintings. The title of the show, No Time for Despair, is a call to action ... More Tomoo Gokita unveils "NAKED": A surreal & subversive take on the nude at BLUMLOS ANGELES, CA.- BLUM is presenting NAKED, an exhibition of new paintings by Tokyo-based artist Tomoo Gokita. This is the artists third solo exhibition with the gallery. Known for his uncanny approach to figuration, Gokita has long explored the tension between familiarity and distortion in his psychologically charged compositions. Working in both monochrome and vibrant colors, he has built a distinctive visual language that merges portraiture, abstraction, and cultural memory. Early works often originated from found imageryvintage magazines and old newspapersserving as visual springboards that he would intuitively warp and reimagine through his tactile process of painting. In recent years, however, Gokita has shifted his practice inward. No longer relying on pre-existing media, he channels his subjects from memory and subconscious invention. The resulting formspart- ... More Native America: In Translation opens at Asheville Art Museum, curated by Wendy Red StarASHEVILLE, NC.- The Asheville Art Museum presents Native America: In Translation, an exhibition curated by Apsáalooke artist Wendy Red Star, on view from May 22 through November 3, 2025. Featuring work by seven Indigenous photographers and lens-based artists from across North America, the exhibition explores urgent questions of identity, heritage, land rights, and the ongoing impact of colonialism. Building on Red Star's role as guest editor of the Fall 2020 issue of Aperture magazine, Native America: In Translation continues the conversation through personal and often experimental visual storytelling. Using self-portraits, performance-based imagery, and multimedia assemblages, the artists offer new perspectives on Native life and representation today. In the Apsáalooke language, ÃakiwilaxpaakePeople of the Earthspeaks to Indigenous communities' deep ... More Mercedes-Benz Art Collection presents BE-LONGINGMEXICO CITY.- BE-LONGING. An Exhibition of the Mercedes-Benz Art Collection in Mexico City brings together selected works from the Mercedes-Benz Art Collection and contemporary artists living and working in Mexico. The exhibition explores the theme of identity, a subject deeply embedded in contemporary artistic discourse and continuously negotiated within society at large. The works by 32 international artists illustrate not only the relevance and complexity of the chosen topic, but also its potential to promote individual and collective resilience. The exhibited works deal with identity-forming aspects such as bodies, origins, memories, geographies and vocations. These thematic strands allow for multiple interpretations and perspectives on identity emphasizing the concepts of fluidity, dialogue, and the interplay between different points of view. Visitors are invited to contribute ... More Kehinde Wiley unveils "Flourish" in Netherlands debut at Museum Van LoonAMSTERDAM.- Museum Van Loon is presenting Flourish: Kehinde Wiley x Museum Van Loon, an exhibition of new portraits by renowned American artist Kehinde Wiley. This marks Wileys first solo exhibition in The Netherlands. His new body of work constitutes a visual response to the portrait collection and historic interiors of Museum Van Loon. Melted into the museums collection, Flourish addresses ties between Western portraiture, Dutch global colonial presence and contemporary art as social and cultural practice. Simultaneously, Flourish highlights beauty and grace in the 21st century, captured through models the artist met in Suriname. The exhibition is on display at Museum Van Loon from 29 May to 31 August 2025. The collaboration between Museum Van Loon and Kehinde Wiley started a few years ago. Inspired by the museums portrait collection and its ties to Dutch global ... More The Art Marketplace achieves rapid traction and notable sales within first monthNEW YORK, NY.- Just one month after its public release, The Art Marketplace, founded by Elliot Safra and partners from leading art world institutions, is already making waves in the private fine art market. The centralized online platform, built to unify disparate global art networks, has already successfully facilitated several notable transactions involving works by esteemed artists such as Kenny Scharf, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kathryn Bernhardt, and Joel Mesler, demonstrating the immediate viability and appeal of its model. The genesis of The Art Marketplace stemmed from the team's firsthand experience with collector frustrationsboth in finding buyers for pieces they wanted to sell and in locating works they wanted to acquire. Recognizing that traditional art networks remained largely geographic and fragmented, they developed a platform where fine art listings and inquiries are handled ... More Lyz Parayzo challenges modernism at EfraÃn LópezNEW YORK, NY.- EfraÃn López is presenting You Need to Be Aggressive to Be a Sculptor, Really!, an exhibition featuring new works by Lyz Parayzo, a Brazilian-born artist based in Paris. This exhibition marks her first collaboration with the gallery and follows her participation in the 17th Lyon Biennale. Borrowed from Louise Bourgeois, the title captures the bold and uncompromising spirit of Parayzos sculptural practicewhere the violence directed at her travesti body is transformed into both formal and political force. Her work critically reinterprets Brazilian modernist traditions through the lens of gender, identity, and dissent. Coming from a lineage of goldsmiths, Parayzo embodies an ancestral savoir-faire that informs her sculptural gestures and shapes her instinctive relationship with metal. On view from May 9 to June 21, 2025, the exhibition features new sculptures cast in earth, created ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch photographer Rineke Dijkstra was born June 02, 1959. Rineke Dijkstra (born 2 June 1959) is a Dutch photographer. She lives and works in Amsterdam. Dijkstra has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society, the 1999 Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize (now Deutsche Börse Photography Prize) and the 2017 Hasselblad Award. In this image: Rineke Dijkstra, I See a Woman Crying 2009 (videostill, detail), collection De Pont Museum. Photo: Peter Cox.
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