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Diana Al-Hadid, Blue Medusa, 2023. Photography by Charlie Rubin. Image courtesy of the artist and Kasmin Gallery, New York.
EAST LANSING, MI .- Sculptor Diana Al-Hadid defies centuries-old conventions of femininity and womanhood in unbecoming, on view June 7-Dec. 14 at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University (MSU Broad Art Museum). The survey exhibition features large-scale installations that consume the gallery and push visitors to adjust to their presence, standing in stark contrast to antiquated social norms that define a becoming woman as subtle and quiet. Women are often told not to take up space, whether thats by physically getting out of the way, not sharing their opinions or being told to limit their emotions or reactions, said Rachel Winter, Ph.D., assistant curator. Taking up space puts a woman at risk of being deemed unbecoming. Diana Al-Hadids unbecoming invites visitors to rethink how expectations for women and definitions of unbecoming have taken shape over time and to embrace the unbecoming as full of potential. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Centro BotÃn is presenting âEnredos II: Nuno da Luzâ, the second chapter of the exhibition programme Enredos, through which the museum invites artists who have received a scholarship of Art of Fundación BotÃn --- and who are at the midpoint of their careers --- to reconnect with the collection, spaces, teams, and audiences of the Fundación BotÃn's art centre in Santander.
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| Morphy's sets house record with May 19 auction of Morgan Silver Dollars, Mormon gold coins | | Ordovas exhibition explores the poetic power of the void in modern and contemporary art | | Bruce Museum celebrates contemporary and Indigenous art with Passamaquoddy artist retrospective |
1850 Mormon $5 coin, AU53 PCGS. Sold for $60,000 against an estimate of $30,000-$40,000.
DENVER, PA.- At Morphys May 19 Premier Coins Auction, all that glittered was not gold, but it was a dazzling gold bar from Californias Gold Rush days that rose to the top of prices realized and capped a highly successful $3.2 million event for the Pennsylvania company. We were ecstatic with the results. It was the highest-grossing coin sale in our history, said Dan Morphy, who founded the eponymous auction house in 2003 and serves as its president and principal auctioneer. The boutique sale of 187 lots exclusively featured a single-consignor collection that was the source of not only the gold bar but also a unique grouping of high-grade Morgan Silver Dollars and the largest offering of rare Mormon gold coins ever to come to public auction. Nothing in the sale had a reserve, Morphy said. We were very confident that collectors would recognize the rarity and exceptional quality of everything in the collection and that they would bid ... More | |
Installation view.
LONDON.- Ordovas presents Sculpted, an exhibition bringing together sculptures by leading modern and contemporary artists, and exploring the ways in which they approach the materiality and dimensionality of the medium. United by a notion of the âvoidâ, the works presented highlight how negative space has been used in sculpture to evoke emotion and response by some of the most notable artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. The exhibition presents a selection of works diverse in size and subject, and executed in a range of mediums and techniques; they range from a standing mobile by Alexander Calder and an abstract sculpture in bronze by Barbara Hepworth to three recent ceramic creations by Yassi Mazandi, the Iranian-born artist whose work is driven by a response to nature. The catalogue includes an essay written by Jon Wood, former Research Curator at the Henry Moore Institute. Sculpted is the third in a series of summer exhibitions to b ... More | |
Jeremy Frey (Passamaquoddy, born 1978), Dawnland, 2022, ash, sweetgrass, and dye, 17 1/2 x 11 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches. Collection of Jim and Sara TenBroek. © Jeremy Frey. Image courtesy Paul-David Young.
GREENWICH, CONN.- Immerse yourself in the rich tradition of Indigenous artistry with Jeremy Frey: Woven, on view June 5-Sept. 7 at the Bruce Museum. It is the artists first solo museum exhibition and the first major retrospective of a Passamaquoddy artist presented at fine art museums in the United States. Woven offers a comprehensive exploration of Freys decades-long career with more than 50 woven baskets crafted from natural materials like sweetgrass, cedar, spruce root and porcupine quills. The exhibition also features work in other media, including print and video. Frey (Passamaquoddy, b. 1978) is best known for his innovative approach to basketmaking and his skilled exploration of new weaving techniques and forms. He consistently pushes the limits of his practice, introducing new materials and boldly ... More |
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| A window to poetic realism: Saul Leiter's vision now open at Royal Palace of Monza | | Musée du Luxembourg unveils a dazzling dialogue between Fernand Léger and modern masters | | Daniel Lelong, co-founder of Galerie Lelong and art world visionary, dies at 91 |
Saul Leiter, Untitled, undated © Saul Leiter Foundation.
MONZA.- Step inside the beating heart of our cities, where concrete and steel rise to meet soaring passions. The Royal Palace of Monza's Belvedere is currently hosting "Saul Leiter. A window dotted with raindrops," the first major Italian exhibition dedicated to the enigmatic American photographer and painter. On view until July 27, 2025, this show offers an unparalleled journey into Leiter's lyrical, intimate, and profoundly original vision of mid-20th century urban life. Saul Leiter (1923-2013) was a quiet revolutionary. While his contemporaries pursued grand, documentary narratives of New York's imposing modernity, Leiter found poetry in the subtle, often overlooked details. "He transformed everyday moments into lyrical and intimate compositions, finding poetry in steam rising from manholes, umbrellas in the rain, and reflections in shop windows," states the exhibition's curatorial team. His work presents a "fairytale realism," composed of fleeting glimpses rather than direct observations â ... More | |
Fernand Léger, La Danseuse bleue © GrandPalaisRmn - Adrien Didierjean © Adagp, Paris, 2025 - 72.
PARIS.- A vibrant journey through the evolution of modern art has officially opened its doors, inviting visitors to explore the surprising connections between pioneering artist Fernand Léger and a constellation of influential figures from the 1960s to today. Titled "Tous Léger !" (All Light! / All Easy!), this groundbreaking exhibition, co-organized by GrandPalaisRmn, the National Museums of the 20th Century of the Alpes-Maritimes, and the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MAMAC) in Nice, offers an unprecedented dialogue between Léger's iconic works and over thirty pieces by European and American avant-gardes. Conceived primarily from the rich collections of the National Fernand Léger Museum in Biot and MAMAC in Nice, the exhibition shines a particular spotlight on the powerful historical and artistic link between Léger (1881-1955) and the generation that immediately followed him: the New Realists. This influential movement, launched ... More | |
Daniel Lelong, 2009, Galerie Lelong, Paris.
NEW YORK, NY.- Galerie Lelong mourns the passing of one of its founding partners, Daniel Lelong, who died in Paris on June 4, 2025. Daniel Lelong was born in Nancy, France, November 9, 1933. After a career at the Conseil dEtat in Paris, he was invited by Aimé Maeght to join the Galerie Maeght in 1961, first assisting with the legal formation of the Fondation Maeght at Saint-Paul-de-Vence, which opened in 1964. Over time he began his long collaborations with artists, notably Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Joan Miró, Eduardo Chillida, Antoni Tà pies, Francis Bacon, and Edward and Nancy Kienholz. This resulted in decades of exhibitions, museum shows and significant placement of artworks to many of the 20th centurys most notable collections, including Seymour Knox (Albright Knox Gallery, now Buffalo AKG Art Museum), Joseph Hirshhorn (the Hirshhorn Museum), and Museo Sofia Imber (Caracas). After Aimé Maeghts death in 1981, together with Jacques Dupin and Jean Frémon, Daniel Lelong was a ... More |
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| New Secretary and Chief Executive of the Royal Academy of Arts appointed | | MAXXI unveils "STADI. Architecture and Myth": A journey through humanity's grand arenas | | BLUM welcomes the Estate of Kimiyo Mishima |
Wallis has over 30 years' experience in the art world.
LONDON.- The Royal Academy of Arts announced today that Simon Wallis has been appointed as the new Secretary and Chief Executive of the Royal Academy of Arts. He replaces Axel Rüger, who stepped down from the role in October 2024. Simon Wallis is currently the Director of The Hepworth Wakefield. Wallis has over 30 years' experience in the art world. In his earlier career, he held curatorial positions at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge and Tate Liverpool. He was the Director of Chisenhale Gallery, London before being appointed as founding Director of The Hepworth Wakefield in 2008. The appointment has been approved by the Royal Academy's Council, General Assembly and His Majesty The King. He will start his new role at the Royal Academy in September 2025. Simon Wallis said: "The Royal Academy of Arts is at a pivotal moment of development and positive change. I am excited by the opportunity to foster further inspirational creativity, entrepreneurial spirit and reac ... More | |
Installation view of "Stadiums. Architecture and Myth." Photo: Pasqualini-Fucilla_MUSA.
ROME.- Step inside the beating heart of our cities, where concrete and steel rise to meet soaring passions. The MAXXI National Museum of 21st Century Arts in Rome has thrown open the doors to "STADI. Architecture and Myth," the first major exhibition in Italy dedicated to these monumental structures. Far more than just sports arenas, stadiums are revealed as vibrant symbols of human experience, cultural identity, and profound social change. Curated by Manuel Orazi, Fabio Salomoni, and Moira Valeri, with the guidance of Lorenza Baroncelli, MAXXI's Director of Architecture and Contemporary Design, this groundbreaking show invites visitors on an extraordinary journey across centuries and continents. It's a kaleidoscope of architectural brilliance, urban evolution, economic power, and the shared human drama that unfolds within these "lay cathedrals" of our time. As anthropologist Marc Augé aptly put it, stadiums are "a place of meaning, ... More | |
Kimiyo Mishima, Untitled, 1967.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- BLUM announced the global representation of the late artist Kimiyo Mishima (b. 1932, Osaka, Japan; d. 2024, Osaka, Japan), a pioneer of ceramics and assemblage whose work complements the international artistic milieus of Neo-Dada, Pop art, and environmental art, while remaining wholly distinct. An avid and acute observer of everyday life, Mishima often incorporated daily newspapers, printed ephemera, and the detritus of mass consumerism and the information age into her workinitially taking the form of silkscreened collage paintings. Mishimas work will be presented by BLUM for the first time at Art Basel, Switzerland, this June. Following in September, BLUM New Yorks inaugural exhibition, Written with a Splash of Blood, will spotlight Mishimas innovative collage paintings and sculptures. A major survey of Mishimas work will be unveiled thereafter in November at BLUM Los Angeles. Mishimas prolific artistic practice anchors BLUMs ... More |
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| Nelson-Atkins Director awarded highest rank in France's Order of Arts and Letters | | Helsinki Biennial 2025 opens to the public | | Christian Kosmas Mayer opens exhibition at Skulpturenpark |
He received the title Officer in a Paris ceremony in 2014, and his promotion to Commander is a testament to his expanding impact on the art world. Photo: Dana Anderson.
KANSAS CITY, MO.- The most distinguished and highest arts honor in France has been bestowed upon Director & CEO of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Julián Zugazagoitia for his exceptional contributions to furthering arts and culture in France and throughout the world. This honor, Commander of the French Order of Arts and Letters, recognizes Zugazagoitias lifetime achievements and was presented in Kansas City in early June. In March 2005, Zugazagoitia was initially received into the Order of Arts and Letters (Lordre des Arts et des Lettres) at the level of Knight, the first of three degrees of merit: Knight (Chevalier), Officer (Officier), and Commander (Commandeur). He received the title Officer in a Paris ceremony in 2014, and his promotion to Commander is a testament to his expanding impact on the art world. The Order of Arts and Letters (Ordre des Arts et des Lettres) was established in 1957 by the ... More | |
Hans Rosenström, Tidal Tears, 2025. Photo: HAM / Helsinki Biennial / Sonja Hyytiäinen.
HELSINKI.- The third edition of Helsinki Biennial, Shelter: Below and beyond, becoming and belonging, opens to the public on June 8 with 57 artworks unveiled across the city. Set against the backdrop of Helsinkis maritime position, the biennial unfolds across the unique natural landscape of Vallisaari Island, as well as the mainlands HAM Helsinki Art Museum and for the first time, Esplanade Parkthe green heart of Helsinki. Curated by Blanca de la Torre and Kati Kivinen, the biennials central theme of Shelter encourages a shift away from human-centric perspectives and instead invites artists to foreground non-human actorssuch as plants, animals, fungi and mineralsas protagonists in their works. By considering alternative perspectives, the biennial reimagines humanitys relationship with nature to inspire climate optimism and positive environmental action. Featuring new commissions and site-specific works, just under half of the exhibits are previously unsee ... More | |
Christian Kosmas Mayer: Zeit, Zuwendung und Raum (Time, Care and Space), 2025. © Christian Kosmas Mayer, Bildrecht, Wien, 2025. Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek, May 25, 2025.
PREMSTÃTTEN.- The Austrian Sculpture Park invites artists annually to create temporary works that engage with the landscape and its layered history in poetic and critical ways. For the 2025 edition, Vienna-based artist Christian Kosmas Mayer is presenting a multifaceted project entitled Zeit, Zuwendung und Raum (Time, Care and Space). At the heart of the installation is an extraordinary artifact: a petrified tree trunk, around 20 million years old, from whose hollow interior a young tree is growing upwards. Over the next few decades, this Manna ash (Fraxinus ornus) will gradually merge with the ancient fossil. Its natural life-span is roughly one century, the same hundred-year period during which the adjacent time capsule will lie buried close to this sculptural ensemble. This stainless-steel capsule contains a message from the artist that is both a technological innovation and a ... More |
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Louyse Moillon's âMarchande de fruits à son étalâ
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The Met in partnership with Vacheron Constantin launches artisan residencyNEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced three individuals selected for a new artisan residency program that emphasizes the preservation and reinterpretation of traditional craft techniques. The artisans are Aspen Golann, an American artist, furniture maker, and educator; Joy Harvey, a British-Italian jewelry artist; and Ibrahim Said, an Egyptian-American ceramicist. The 18-month residency program is one of several initiatives undertaken by the Swiss watchmaker and The Met as part of a partnership that reflects a shared dedication to preserving and celebrating the arts. "We are thrilled to inaugurate this artisan residency program in collaboration with Vacheron Constantin. This initiative embodies our mutual commitment to artistic innovation and cultural dialogue, said Max Hollein, The Mets Marina Kellen French Director and Chief Executive Officer. ... More  Francis Upritchard's new solo exhibition at Kate MacGarry weaves together mythology and the natural worldLONDON.- Kate MacGarry is presenting Francis Upritchards sixth solo exhibition at the gallery, featuring figurative sculptures, ceramics, and fabric masks. Made for her recent show Any Noise Annoys an Oyster at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, the works weave together subtle references and connections to antiquity and the natural world. Mythological references surface throughout the show. In Medusa, the gorgons snake hair is reimagined as writhing eels, while Sing Siren invokes the song of the mythic women who lured sailors. Upritchard draws freely on these archetypes, infusing them with a playful strangeness and emotional ambiguity. Made out of balata, a natural rubber that must be quickly manipulated into shape while submerged in water, they maintain a sense of urgency and visceral unpredictability. As Upritchard notes, The point is visual. The communication aspect is secondary. ... More Artist Joe Fig debuts new works in exhibition that captures one of the largest gatherings of Vermeer paintings to date NEW BRITAIN, CONN.- The New Britain Museum of American Art presents special exhibition Joe Fig: Contemplating Vermeer from June 6, 2025 - January 11, 2026. In 2023, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam hosted a monumental exhibition of Johannes Vermeer, showcasing 28 of the 35 masterpieces attributed to the enigmatic Dutch painter. Drawing on his own visit to this historic show, artist Joe Fig created a body of new paintings. In these works, featured in Contemplating Vermeer, Fig not only pays homage to the seventeenth-century painters mastery of light, color, and verisimilitude, but also reflects on the aesthetic experience in the Rijksmuseums galleries. Expanding on his decade-long Contemplation series, he captures his subjectsartworks and their viewersand their surroundings, exploring how people engage with or contemplate artworks ... More François Ghebaly now representing Salim GreenNEW YORK, NY.- François Ghebaly announced the co-representation of Salim Green with Société, Berlin. His debut exhibition with the gallery will open in September at our Los Angeles location. Salim Greens practice engages with concepts of concealment, visibility, and opacity across a range of media including painting, sculpture, video, performance, installation, sound, and writing. Through different mediums and modes of abstraction, Green considers strategies to navigate social constructs and our built environment. In his research and writing, Green often refers to the Dark Forest Theory, a speculative idea that interplanetary civilizations hide from each other out of self-preservation, and to prevent conflict over resources. Using this concept as a model for relational politics and Black experience, Greens work assumes the metaphorical position of hiding - from ... More Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab presents Sounds of BabelTAIPEI.- From June 7 to August 10, the Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB) will present its annual exhibition, Sounds of Babel. With language as its central theme, the exhibition examines how our communication medium inspires diverse forms of imagination and discourse. It brings together 22 artists and collectives from nine countries across Asia and Europe, including Taiwan. Taking the symbols, sounds, and meanings embedded in language as the starting point, the participating artists explore the power dynamics inherent in languages and the complex, intractable condition of identity they present. In January, C-LABs Contemporary Art Platform launched its annual program, Heteroglossia-Lecture Performance Gathering, inviting audiences to witness the allure of languages and the aesthetic potential of performance art in a series of lectures on performances and video ... More Foam presents Hiền Hoàng's award-winning work, weaving human-nature connection and colonial legaciesAMSTERDAM.- In 2024, Hiền Hoà ng was awarded the 18th Foam Paul Huf Award. Now, Foam presents her solo exhibition Garden of Entanglement, which encourages a multi-sensory reflection on the connection between humans and nature. Her practice is deeply shaped by interdisciplinary collaborations with scientists and technologists which reveal the ambivalent role of technology as both a means to understand nature and a force that distances us from it. Hoà ngs multidisciplinary practice seamlessly weaves together photography, sculpture, video, installation, and performance. Central to her work is the theme of migrationexplored not only through the personal lens of her familys history, but also through the lasting traces of colonialism embedded in nature. In the exhibition Garden of Entanglement, Hoà ng explores these narratives through three of her recent projects: Garden of ... More Nedko Solakov's early works on view at Galleria Continua Paris/MaraisPARIS.- Galleria Continua is presenting YOUNGER (a fairy tale), 1980-1990, a solo exhibition by Nedko Solakov, at its Paris / Marais space. Retracing the early years of Nedko Solakovs career and presenting for the first time in France a historical body of his work, the exhibition offers a critical lens on the cultural tensions and transformations that shaped Bulgarian and Eastern European society between 1980 and 1990. In a historical moment on the verge of monumental change - marked by the Perestroika reform movement beginning in 1985, the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the eventual decline of the USSR - Solakov entered a pivotal decade of artistic production. His work during this period captures the transition from communism to capitalism, while also anticipating the uncertain realities that followed the collapse of the socialist regime. As one of the most influential artists in Bulgaria ... More Arnolfini opens vibrant exhibition co-created with Latinas in BristolBRISTOL.- Arnolfini presents Como la Cigarra, a vibrant new exhibition co-created with Latinas in Bristol, running from 7 June to 10 August 2025. This community-led show is a celebration of Latin American resilience, identity and creativity, brought to life through collaborative textile-based works. The exhibition features richly layered pieces that draw on traditional and contemporary craft practices, reflecting shared stories, personal journeys, and collective expressions of home, migration and womanhood. The title - Como la Cigarra (Like the Cicada) - is inspired by the culturally significant song by Argentine writer and musician Maria Elena Walsh. Sung across Latin America as a symbol of survival, resistance and rebirth, the song draws on the metaphor of the cicada - a creature that lives underground in silence for years, only to emerge and sing with strength and clarity. This image ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter and sculptor Paul Gauguin was born June 07, 1848. Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (7 June 1848 - 8 May 1903) was a French post-Impressionist artist. Unappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of color and Synthetist style that were distinctly different from Impressionism. In this image: Paul Gauguin. Figure Tahitienne circa 1892-3. Height 10 5/8 in. Wood. Inscribed with the monogram PGO (at the bottom).
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