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Alberto Giacometti, Standing Woman, 1956, bronze, 30.5 x 7 x 9.5 cm, Giacometti Foundation © Succession Alberto Giacometti / ADAGP, Paris 2025.
MARSEILLE.- For the first time in Marseille, the work of sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti is being celebrated in a monographic exhibition organized by the Cantini Museum in collaboration with the Giacometti Foundation. Bringing together iconic worksplaster and bronze sculptures, paintings, drawings, and printsthe exhibition explores the theme of the void, a central concern in Giacomettis practice, around which the various periods of his career are structured. An artist of the Void, whose work was described by Jean-Paul Sartre as a way of experiencing space, Giacometti created imaginary spaces from which forms, figures, and often isolated characters emergeinseparable from their environments. In his sculptures as well as in his drawn and painted works, the void becomes a tool for artistic expression. The exhibition opens with a section devoted to the synthetic, solid, and dense forms of sculptures created by Giacometti in the late 1920s, such as ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Behrang Karimi: Child in Time | Morena di Luna, Hove | 31 May - 7 September 2025.
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| Graciela Iturbide wins Spain's Princess of Asturias Arts Award | | George III giltwood mirrors take top spot at Roland Auctions May 31st Multi-Estates auction | | Sherrill Roland unlocks "The Turning Away From" at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery |
Graciela Iturbide has won international acclaim for her evocative documentary photography. (Mario Jasso/Cuartoscuro).
NEW YORK, NY.- Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide, renowned for her haunting black-and-white images that bridge documentary realism and poetic symbolism, has been awarded the 2025 Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts. The honor recognizes her five-decade career capturing Mexicos cultural essence and global human experiences through a lens that jurors called a profound, respectful and evocative gaze. Jurors also praised Iturbides innovative perspective and hypnotic world blending harsh realities with spontaneous magic. Graciela Iturbide has been represented by Throckmorton Fine Art in New York for more than 30 years. From her Mexico City home, Iturbide, 83, said, Im very happy and very pleased for photography in Mexico. She emphasized that the win celebrates all of the countrys incredible photographers. Iturbide also won ... More | |
Pair of George III Giltwood mirrors, circa 1780, with scrolling and pierced gilt frames. Sold for $42,250.
GLEN COVE, NY.- Roland Auctions NY hosted their most recent Multi-Estates auction on May 31st, offering hundreds of impressive items from multiple noteworthy estates and collections, including the exquisite personal collection of art and antiques from the estate of prominent Long Islander Laura Leonard Ault. Noteworthy lots from Laura Leonard Ault included decorative arts items like porcelain, glassware, an extensive group of Scottish Terrier memorabilia, doorstops, stunning sterling silver pieces from Tiffany and Georg Jensen and more
all offered along with Rolands always anticipated selection of Fine and Contemporary Art, Antique furniture pieces, 20th Century Modern, Silver, Decorative Arts, Asian Arts, Textiles and Lighting. Topping the very successful auction were an exquisite pair of Pair George III Giltwood Mirrors, circa 1780, with scrolling and pierced gilt frames, likely gilded later, retailed by Kentshire ... More | |
Sherrill Roland, Courtship II, 2025. Stainless Steel, Paint, 36 x 32 x 30 inches; 91.4 x 81.3 x 76.2 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is presenting Sherrill Roland: The Turning Away From, the artists third solo exhibition with the gallery, and second in New York, on view from June 5 through July 31, 2025. Through his interdisciplinary practice, Sherrill Roland explores the impossible conditions and harsh aesthetics employed in the American criminal justice system. The Turning Away From presents new bodies of work that grapple with the extremes of life inside: the push and pull between intimacy and claustrophobia, comfort and violence, individuality and belonging, dissociation and distress. Drawing on his own experience of a wrongful conviction that was later overturned, Roland articulates these striking dualities in elegant forms, illuminating the lasting burdens and effects of incarceration. Upon entering the system, each prisoner is assigned a unique identification code that is used to track their status and ... More |
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| National Museum of Contemporary Art from Romania presents Kazimir Malevich: Outliving History | | "Candy Wrap": Hiroshi Sugito's latest works explore transparency and delicate palettes | | Anselm Kiefer now on view at the Abbey Church of St. Peter in Salzburg |
Kazimir Malevich, Suprematist Composition with a Green and a Black Rectangle, 1918. Oil on canvas, 65 Ã 41,5 cm. Photo: Serioja Bocsok.
BUCHAREST.- The National Museum of Contemporary Art from RomaniaMNAC Bucharest is joining the international debate around the heritage of the Russian avant-garde with an exhibition bringing together three works signed by Kazimir Malevich, and fourteen Romanian abstract art works from the Museums collections. Well aware of the turmoil created lately by various claims of unknown Russian avant-garde works uncovered by private collectors, MNAC assumed that the expertise assessing the authorship of the three Malevich pieces, and the explanation of their provenance through an adventurous rescue from the Soviet Union to Israel are solid enough to allow the public exposure. Through this exhibition, MNAC is challenging several clichés. First of all, the prejudice that an art museum is bound to the rules operating in the commercial environment: museums have the role to harbour contemplation, debate, intelligent ... More | |
Hiroshi Sugito, Untitled, 2025. Oil on canvas, 20.87 x 13.78 in.
SAO PAULO.- Fortes DAloia & Gabriel is presenting candy wrap, an exhibition by Hiroshi Sugito (Nagoya,1970), featuring a new body of work produced in 2025. This marks the artists fourth time showing in São Paulo, following three shows with the gallery in the early 2000s. Sugito is known for his ethereal paintings, which draw from Nihon-ga, the Japanese tradition in which he first trained. Defined by layers of pigment and a hazy, delicate palette with acidic overtones, his paintings draw in their environment, from the artists gestures to the weather and daily studio processes, becoming absorptive vessels of the pictures outside. His compositions often feature recurring motifs and shapes that hint toward landscapes or still lifes, inhabited by floating forms reminiscent of sails and canoes, houses, skewed buildings, and drapery. Some works produced especially for the exhibition are large-scale paintings on paper strips. Curtain-like elements around the frame mark a theatrical ... More | |
Anselm Kiefer, heilige Dorothea, 2024. Emulsion, oil, acrylic, shellac, dried flowers, gold leaf and sediment of electrolysis. 346 à 190 cm (136.22 à 74.8 in). © Anselm Kiefer. Photo: Ulrich Ghezzi.
SALZBURG.- Two paintings by Anselm Kiefer are now permanently installed in the Abbey Church of St. Peter in Salzburg. Commissioned specifically for the antechamber of the church by the Salzburg Foundation, Kiefers large-scale works depict the martyrs Saint Appolonia and Saint Dorothy. With architectural elements dating back to the 13th century, this space serves as a transitional area, its contemplative atmosphere intended to prepare visitors for entry into the sanctity of the church. Founded in the 7th century, St. Peters Abbey is considered the oldest monastery still in existence in the German-speaking world. Saint Appolonia of Alexandria was martyred during the persecution of Christians under the Roman Emperor Decius. According to letters by Saint Dionysius of Alexandria, her teeth were knocked out, her jaw shattered, and she was threatened with being burned alive unless she renounced ... More |
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| Pace London unveils a sweeping survey of Emily Kam Kngwarray's groundbreaking art | | Stéphanie Mansy's exhibition at Galleria Continua traces human and natural histories through paper and drawing | | Winston Wächter Fine Art presents Sally Gall's "Vertical World," A monumental photographic exploration of rock |
Installation view, Emily Kam Kngwarray: My Country, 6 June-8 August 2025, Pace Gallery, London. © Emily Kam Kngwarray / Copyright Agency. Photo: DamianGriffiths, courtesy Pace Gallery.
LONDON.- Pace is presenting an exhibition of works by renowned Australian artist Emily Kam Kngwarray, in collaboration with DLan Contemporary, at its London gallery this summer. The showtitled My Countryopened on June 6 and runs through August 8, coinciding with Tate Moderns major survey of the artist, which will open in July. My Country traces Kngwarrays artistic evolution from her early organic forms to her later vibrant, dot-filled color fields, culminating in the minimalist compositions that defined her mature work. To reflect her profound influence on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, as well as on women artists and the broader Australian art landscape, the exhibition also includes historical and contemporary batiks by artists inspired by Kngwarrays pioneering practice. Emily Kam Kngwarray (ca. 191496) is one of Australias most critically acclaimed ... More | |
Stéphanie Mansy, Les Félécités #3, detail, 2025. 40 x 30 cm, mixed media. Photo: Stéphanie Mansy.
PARIS.- The Art & Futur space at Galleria Continua invites all audiences to experience art and engage in dialogue with local communities. The gallery fosters exchanges between local actors and international networks, creating a platform for collectively imagining the present and future. Welcoming Stéphanie Mansy into Galleria Continuas spaces has once again brought attention to the dense and layered landscape surrounding the gallery. This is a place marked by the flow of the Grand Morin River, whose course has nourished human activities along its banks since the 14th century. Mansys intervention traces these two parallel trajectories human and natural, through a dual lens of documentary research and artistic exploration. Central to her approach is a profound interest in paper, which she uses as a true artistic medium, exploring its history, physical properties, limits, and possibilities. This curiosity led her to seek out remnants of industrial archaeology from the ... More | |
Installation view.
NEW YORK, NY.- Winston Wächter Fine Art is presenting Vertical World, an exhibition of new large-scale photographs by Sally Gall, which continues her decades long exploration of the natural world. In her second solo show with the gallery, Gall examines the most elemental of earths raw materials: rock. During a rafting trip through the Grand Canyon in 2021, Gall was thrilled by the monumental walls of rock seen at eye level. She describes the experience: I was dwarfed by a massive alien world, a world that was writhing, a beautiful world that felt very alive. Thus began her photographic investigation of rock walls that have been shaped over time by rain, erosion, mudslides, earthquakes, geothermal activity; natural phenomena continually and often imperceptibly, transforming the planet. Subsequently, she made several photographic trips to the Colorado Plateau, investigating rock with variegated texture and color. By eliminating context and through her compositional means, Galls ... More |
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| Academy Museum announces new exhibitions scheduled for 2026 | | Center for Maine Contemporary Art appoints Grant Wahlquist as Curator | | Hammer Museum opens the first U.S. institutional survey of Noah Davis |
Hidden Worlds: The Films of LAIKA - Opening December 13, 2026. Photo, courtesy of LAIKA.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures today announced new exhibitions to open in 2026. New exhibitions include Studio Ghiblis PONYO, an exploration of Hayao Miyazakis Ponyo (2008), focusing on the animation process and highlighting a donation of original production materials that Studio Ghibli made to the Academy Collection; Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood Icon, a centennial celebration of iconic actor Marilyn Monroe that examines many facets of how she created and shaped her public image through a stunning array of original screen-used costumes, photographs, personal items, and more; and Hidden Worlds: The Films of LAIKA, a traveling exhibition that explores the groundbreaking work of LAIKA, and dives into the technology and artistry of stop motion animation through its filmography, including Coraline (2009), ParaNorman (2012), and Kubo and the Two Strings (2016). This incredible array of exhibitions demonstrates how ... More | |
Grant Wahlquist, Photograph courtesy of Smith Galtney.
ROCKLAND, ME.- The Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Grant Wahlquist as its new Curator. A widely respected curator, gallerist, and writer with deep ties to Maines arts community, Wahlquist brings nearly two decades of curatorial and critical experience to CMCA. He assumes the role this week. Wahlquist will lead CMCAs dynamic exhibition program which includes 10 to 12 changing exhibitions each yearboth solo and group exhibitionsthat explore timely themes and ideas in contemporary art. As Curator, Wahlquist will collaborate closely with Executive Director Robert Wolterstorff to shape CMCAs artistic vision, develop exhibitions, and engage with the public and the broader arts community throughout Maine. "Grant brings an extraordinary depth of knowledge, intellectual rigor, and an authentic commitment to artists, said CMCA Executive Director Robert Wolterstorff. He has championed innovative contemporary work throug ... More | |
Noah Davis, The Year of the Coxswain, 2009 © The Estate of Noah Davis Courtesy The Estate of Noah Davis.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Hammer Museum at UCLA is presenting Noah Davis, the first U.S. institutional survey of the visionary artist Noah Davis (19832015). Following its debut at DAS MINSK in Potsdam and the Barbican in London, this landmark exhibition is a meaningful homecoming to Los Angeles, a city where Davis lived, worked, and left an enduring legacy. The exhibition is on view from June 8 to August 31, 2025. The exhibition will travel to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2026. Organized chronologically, Noah Davis brings together over 50 works spanning painting, sculpture, and works on paper, offering a comprehensive overview of his practice, including his curatorial and community-building efforts as co-founder of the Underground Museum, Los Angeles. The exhibition traces Daviss prolific career from 2007 until his untimely passing in 2015, featuring works that delve into his exploration of politics, current affairs, everyday ... More |
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 Emily Gernild presents a series of paintings on canvas at OSL ContemporaryOSLO.- Lets start with a book. Writer Ryoko Sekiguchi tells us that there is a word for that sensation we feel when we know a fruit, a harvest of the earth, is nearing the end of its seasonality. Its the final taste. The flavour changes, the scent grows denser. Its a physical perception, but also an emotional one: we know that soon that fruit will no longer be on our tables. We will miss its taste and the ability to possess it, and it will miss us in returnmutually. The season comes to a close, and something within us prepares to make room for its departure. Nagori. La nostalgie de la saison qui vient de nous quitter (P.O.L., 2018) by Sekiguchi is not only a book, it is a sensory and emotional adventure through the millenary history of the relationship between human beings, the Earth, and its fruits. Nagori is also the title of the exhibition by artist Emily Gernild, which presents a series of paintings ... More Kunsthalle Tübingen opens SCHÖNER WOHNEN: Architectural Visions from 1900 to TodayTÃBINGEN.- The theme of habitation (Wohnen) is a more topical than ever. How and where we live influence our sense of well-being and shape our behaviour and our identity. Since time immemorial, artists and architects have captured their initial ideas of a future architecture in drawings. Architectural drawings from past eras, however, are not only a means of generating ideas or a medium for documenting building projects. As catchment organs of internal and external life (Aby Warburg) they also provide information on the attitude of the architect and on the spirit of the time. Adopting this cultural-scientific approach, the Kunsthalle Tübingen is focussing on the artistic architectural drawing as an art form of the past one hundred years. On the basis of sketches as well as selected models and sculptures dating from the 20th century to today, the exhibition will highlight how ... More Wilfrid Almendra: Where the Sun Pauses opens at Kunsthalle LingenLINGEN.- From June 7 to August 17, 2025, Kunsthalle Lingen hosts Wilfrid Almendras first institutional solo exhibition in Germany. Co-produced with the Fondation Pernod Ricard, the project reflects the Foundations long-term commitment to supporting the French art scene. It is entitled Where the Sun Pauses and primarily presents new works created for the exhibition. The title itself conveys a sense of suspension and transition and complements an evocative image that the entire exhibition offers. Where the Sun Pauses speaks of a moment that oscillates between two intensities, a kind of heat that lingers in the materials, in the gestures, in the landscapes that are characterised by the history of the rural population, the working class and the diaspora. Installations made of glass modules that act as partitions in the space, complemented by dried wild plants such as poppies, convey ... More Denver Art Museum presents photography exhibition What We've Been Up To: LandscapeDENVER, CO.- The Denver Art Museum opened What Weve Been Up To: Landscape, a unique selection of photographs that have never been shown to the public, chosen from the DAMs Photography departments collection since it was established in 2008. The show features acquisitions from the past 17 years that have never been shared with visitors, on view from June 8 to Dec. 7, 2025, in the Photography galleries on level six of the museums Martin Building and included with general admission. The word landscape means different things to different people, and its no surprise that it means different things to different photographers as well. This exhibition represents the variety of ways that landscape photographs help us see and appreciate other times and places and consider where the world has been and what it is becoming. Ultimately, these pictures are invitations to see ourselves ... More Galeria Municipal do Porto announces its current exhibition programPORTO.- Galeria Municipal do Porto presents the four projects currently on view in its premises at the Jardins do Palácio de Cristal. Launching a new annual open-air commission, Andreas Angelidakis reimagines the courtyard as a ruinous, participatory playground. Indoors, solo exhibitions by Pauline Curnier Jardin, Mónica de Miranda, and Francisco Pedro Oliveira engage with themes of ritual and desire, utopian memory, and vernacular spirituality. Spanning film, performance, installation, and sculpture, these projects offer immersive and playful reflections on materiality, embodiment, and imaginative resistance. Inspired by the Grand Tours of the 17th to 19th centuries elite journeys in search of classical antiquity Beach Ruins by Athens-based artist and architect Andreas Angelidakis reimagines the gallerys courtyard as a ruinous, open-air lounge. Giant soft columns, doubling as inhabitable ... More Fondation Pernod Ricard presents first edition of its Nouveau Programme: Sorry SunPARIS.- The Fondation Pernod Ricard announced artists Saodat Ismailova, Alexandre Khondji, and Hélène Yamba-Guimbi as the first participants of its Nouveau Programme, curated by Liberty Adrien. Continuing its long-standing support for the contemporary art scene in France, the Fondation Pernod Ricard introduces the Nouveau Programmean evolution of the Foundation Prize, which, for nearly 25 years, has championed artists in the early stages of their careers. This new format reflects a meaningful shift: a reframing of the notion of emergence and a commitment to engagement that unfolds through a plurality of forms and over a longer period. The programme includes a group exhibition accompanied by a publication featuring a commissioned essay on each artist. It also offers tailored opportunities for each participant, such as support for a solo show with a partner institution, the production ... More Museum für Moderne Kunst seeking Lead ConservatorFRANKFURT.- The Museum für Moderne Kunst is seeking a full-time Lead Conservator to join its team. The Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt am Main is one of the worlds leading institutions for contemporary art. Since its founding in 1991, the museum has served as an important platform for the production, presentation, and discussion of contemporary art, always with the aim of questioning and reflecting on the present. Each year, the MMK organizes six to eight new exhibitions in its three venues: the MUSEUM MMK, the TOWER MMK, and the ZOLLAMT MMK. Exhibitions range from retrospectives to critically engaged group exhibitions and new productions by young artists. With a collection of more than 5,000 works from 1904 to the present, the museum strives to offer different perspectives on the present through thoughtful presentations and programming to open ... More Sharjah Art Foundation announces autumn 2025 programme and launch of two initiativesSHARJAH.- Following the successful opening of Sharjah Biennial 16, followed by the annual March Meeting and April Acts, Sharjah Art Foundation is pleased to announce its autumn 2025 programme. Highlights include the first institutional solo exhibitions in the region by Afra Al Dhaheri, Leda Catunda and Rachid Koraïchi, as well as a significant presentation of works from the Foundations collection at Kalba Ice Factory. Autumn 2025 also includes the launch of two recent initiatives by the Foundation: a new photography gallery in Al Manakh and the opening of Al Majarrah Park, designed by the artist collective Superflex. The season includes the 2025 editions of Perform Sharjah, Sharjah Film Platform and Focal Pointthe Foundations annual film festival, performance programme, art book fair in addition to music events. Internationally, recent and new work by artist Mounira Al Solh is on view ... More Shelagh Keeley and Emmanuel Osahor at The Power PlantTORONTO.- The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery announced its current exhibition season with two solo presentations by Toronto-based artists Shelagh Keeley and Emmanuel Osahor. Through immersive installations that use either traditional mediums or moving images, both artists consider the complex histories and uses of gardens as built environments. Keeleys film notebooks trace the artists journey and her continued efforts to bring forward the intricacies and contradictions of the world we live in, while Osahors layered paintings invites visitors to contemplate beauty in the seclusion of a night garden. Both exhibitions were curated by Adelina Vlas, Head of Curatorial Affairs. The exhibitions will run until September 14, 2025. Admission is free. At the core of Shelagh Keeleys work is a drawing practice based on an intuitive and embodied response to readings and research in poetry, politics, ... More Takuji Hamanaka delves into nature-inspired woodcut abstractions in solo showNEW YORK, NY.- Kristen Lorello is presenting a solo exhibition of new works on paper by Takuji Hamanaka. It is the artists fifth solo exhibition at the gallery and deepens his ongoing research of traditional Japanese woodcut printmaking and polychrome, collage-based abstraction. Softening forms found in nature as well as a play between dense patterns of color and areas of open space inspire this new group of images. A full color brochure with a new essay by Melinda Narro, Curatorial Assistant for Prints & Drawings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is available. Utilizing the 19th Century Bokashi technique, where an unevenly inked block is pressed onto paper to produce a gradated effect, Hamanaka cuts and collages sections of printed papers into vibrant patterns that suggest organic structures. His new works are a blend of rigid and softening forms, colors that form and recede, and past ... More BAMPFA unveils world's largest African American quilt collectionBERKELEY, CALIF.- The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive is organizing an exhibition of more than one hundred quilts by approximately eighty artists, the most expansive presentation to date of a transformative bequest of African American quilts that the museum received in 2019. Opening in Berkeley this summer, Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California is a groundbreaking historical survey of the relationship between quiltmaking traditions and the history of Black migration to California from the southern United States. The exhibition highlights the ongoing work of an ambitious multi-year initiative that BAMPFA has undertaken to research, catalog, and conserve the nearly three thousand African American quilts and several hundred unattributed quilts in its care, which are believed to comprise the largest collection of its kind. Also featured in the ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Jacob Lawrence died June 09, 2000. Jacob Lawrence (September 7, 1917 - June 9, 2000) was an African-American painter known for his portrayal of African-American life. As well as a painter, storyteller, and interpreter, he was an educator. Lawrence referred to his style as "dynamic cubism", though by his own account the primary influence was not so much French art as the shapes and colors of Harlem. In this image: Jacob Lawrence, âForward Together,â silkscreen on paper, 25.5â x 40.125â, 1997. © 2018 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
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