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The First Art Newspaper on the Net Established in 1996 Sunday, December 8, 2024 National Gallery exhibition celebrates Parmigianino's Madonna and Child with Saints Parmigianino, 'The Madonna and Child with Saints John the Baptist and Jerome', 1526-7. Oil on poplar 342.9 x 148.6cm. © The National Gallery, London LONDON.- As part of its 200th anniversary year, the National Gallery celebrates Parmigianino’s Madonna and Child with Saints (1526‒7) which returns to public view for the first time in a decade, following meticulous conservation treatment. A masterpiece of 16th-century Italian painting, it was presented to the Gallery in 1826, two years after its foundation. Also known as 'The Vision of Saint Jerome', a title acquired in the 19th century in response to the unusual depiction of the apparently sleeping saint, the altarpiece is being displayed for the first time alongside a selection of some of the most important preparatory drawings, tracing the development of Parmigianino’s unique final composition. Through generously lent works from major national and international collections, this exhibition offers visitors a rare opportunity to foll ... More The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of Sophie Calle: Overshare. Photo by Eric Mueller. Courtesy Walker Art Center. Hamburger Bahnhof opens the first comprehensive retrospective of the Turkish painter and opera singer Semiha Berksoy Traveling survey of five decades of work by Martha Diamond on view at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Exhibition offers a groundbreaking new look at Pablo Picasso's lifelong experimentation with paper Semiha Berksoy. Singing in Full Colour, exhibition view Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, 6.12. – 11.5.2025 © Courtesy Semiha Berksoy & GALERIST, Istanbul / Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, photo: Jacopo LaForgia. BERLIN.- Hamburger Bahnhof presents the first comprehensive retrospective of the renowned Turkish painter and opera singer Semiha Berksoy (1910-2004) in Germany. From 1936 to 1939, Berksoy studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin, captivating audiences with her talent. The exhibition spans over six decades of artistic creation, focusing on Berksoy's paintings and tracing her lasting connection to Berlin. It highlights central themes in her work, including her bond with her mother, painter Fatma Saime, her relationships with Turkish artists such as the poet Nazim Hikmet, iconic opera roles, and the key places and events that shaped her career. With more than 100 paintings and works on paper, as well over 150 archival documents, film excerpts, and audio recordings, the exhibition showcases Berksoy’s significant influence on the cultural landscape of Turkey and beyond. This layered presentation invites visitors to explore the intersections of Berksoy’s ... More Martha Diamond: Deep Time (installation view, left, High-C, 1982, Collection of the Martha Diamond Trust; right, Palisades, 1982, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME, Gift of Alex Katz, 1986.048), The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, November 17, 2024 to May 18, 2025. Photo: Jeffrey Jenkins Projects. RIDGEFIELD, CONN.- The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is presenting Deep Time, a traveling survey of five decades of work by Martha Diamond, marking the artist’s first solo museum presentation in thirty-six years. Martha Diamond: Deep Time is on view at The Aldrich through May 18, 2025, and is accompanied by the artist’s first major monograph. Diamond’s ties to The Aldrich extend back to 1972 when Larry Aldrich, the Museum’s founder, visited the artist’s Bowery studio and purchased the seven- by-six-foot acrylic on canvas painting, Untitled, 1972, marking her first museum acquisition. This painting was included in Diamond’s debut exhibition, Contemporary Reflections 1972-73, an annual series at the Museum that spotlighted emerging artists with no gallery representation. Aldrich bought another painting from Diamond a year later, Untitled, 1973. It would be included in three ... More Violin, Paris, fall 1912. Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973). Laid paper, wallpaper, newspaper, wove wrapping paper, and glazed black wove paper, cut and pasted onto cardboard, with graphite and charcoal; 65 x 50 cm. Musée national Picasso-Paris, Pablo Picasso Gift in Lieu, 1979. MP367. Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée national Picasso-Paris) / Mathieu Rabeau. © 2024 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. CLEVELAND, OH.- The long-anticipated exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Picasso and Paper, offers a groundbreaking new look at Pablo Picasso’s lifelong experimentation with paper. Opening Sunday, December 8, 2024, and on display through March 23, 2025, in both the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Exhibition Hall and Gallery spaces, Picasso and Paper showcases nearly 300 works spanning Picasso’s almost eight-decade career. The artist’s diverse use of paper is the subject of this blockbuster exhibition, which was organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in partnership with the Musée national Picasso- ... More Foam 3h opens the first solo museum exhibition by artist Sarah Amrani Walker Art Center opens major exhibition of Sophie Calle, featuring iconic bodies of work and lesser-known pieces Exhibition at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein looks at the gig economy in Germany Strategy of Beautification, 2018 © Sarah Amrani. AMSTERDAM.- Foam 3h presents Terror of Beauty, the first solo museum exhibition by artist Sarah Amrani. With her work, Amrani explores the complex relationship between technology, culture and beauty standards. The multimedial exhibition invites visitors to think critically about how our perception of beauty and identity is shaped in the digital age. Sarah Amrani explores the effect of social media and technologies on the experience of female identity, with a focus on the face as a battleground of beauty. In a time where we are constantly confronted with unrealistic beauty standards, through our phones, television and advertising, Terror of Beauty offers a moment to reflect. The exhibition also explores AI-driven beauty filters that are used to construct a preview of physical surgical procedures. Disguised as a tool, this contributes to the pressure to meet certain standards. An important topic for Amrani is the hijab as a visual frame of the female ... More Sophie Calle, In Memory of Frank Gehry's Flowers © 2014 Sophie Calle and Gemini G.E.L. LLC © 2024 Sophie Calle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- The Walker Art Center opened Sophie Calle: Overshare, the first North American exhibition to explore the full range of the artist’s practice across the past five decades. Through examples of major bodies of work as well as lesser-known pieces, the exhibition captures the ways in which Calle’s early work anticipated the rise of social media as a space to shape and present lived experience. The exhibition features photography, text-based works, video, and installations, highlighting the artist’s efforts to probe the boundaries between public and private; truth and fiction; control and chance. Overshare is the first large-scale exhibition to engage North American audiences with the significance of Calles’ recurring themes, and to capture their ongoing relevance to contemporary experiences ... More Alicja Rogalska, 2024 © Photo: n.b.k. / Jens Ziehe. BERLIN.- Alicja Rogalska designs collective situations – such as workshops, performances, dinner parties, and live action role-playing games (LARP) – that evolve through shared negotiation of both process and outcome. The artist specifically invites individuals from certain communities to engage in dialogue, make their voices heard, and develop emancipatory approaches for the future. Rogalska often collaborates with people from economically or politically precarious contexts, including migrant farmworkers on the channel island of Jersey, street musicians in Jakarta, and flower farmers in the Czech Republic. She also involves activists, lawyers, and researchers to examine social inequalities related to labor, migration, gender, climate, and rural areas. While these gatherings are frequently translated into video works, they may also result in songs, images, or objects that reflect the collective process. Rogalska’s practice incorporates methods of experimental learning, feminist k ... More 'You Belong Here: Place, People, and Purpose in Latinx Photography' opens at the Chazen Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki opens solo exhibition and new commission by Olafur Eliasson Exhibition chronicles the history and legacy of the Berlin Wall Sofia Córdova, Still from GUILLOTINÆ Wanna Cry, Act Yellow: Break Room, 2019–21. Two-channel video, color, sound. MADISON, WI.- Contemporary artists invite visitors into their homes and neighborhoods to share experiences with family and friends in “You Belong Here: Place, People and Purpose in Latinx Photography,” on view Dec. 9, 2024-March 7, 2025 at the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The exhibition includes approximately 50 photographs and two videos by established and emerging Latinx artists from across the country who explore the complexities of Latinx identity; highlight themes of family, community and culture; and confront the ongoing struggle for visibility and belonging within the Latinx community. They also address a range of societal issues including gentrification, isolation, migration and police violence. “‘You Belong Here’ offers a powerful lens through which to explore the vibrancy of Latinx culture and the complexity of identity in the United States. Through visual storytelling, the artists give voice to Latinx ... More Olafur Eliasson, Under the weather, 2022; Installation view: ‘Olafur Eliasson: Nel tuo tempo’, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 2022; Photo: Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio; Courtesy of the artist; neugerriemschneider, Berlin; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York / Los Angeles. © 1993 Olafur Eliasson. AUCKLAND.- Auckland Art Gallery is presenting the exhibition Your curious journey by globally renowned artist Olafur Eliasson, marking the first solo showcase of the Icelandic-Danish artist in Aotearoa New Zealand. This retrospective highlights over 30 years of Eliasson’s practice, featuring installations, sculptures, and photographs that explore themes of human perception, experimentation, and environmental awareness. Eliasson describes the exhibition as a collection of diverse artworks that invite visitors to embark on their own journeys. “What fascinates me is how the different ways we observe natural phenomena can connect us, not just to each other, but also to the larger world around us. That’s something I try to work with in my art: experiences that welcome everyone.” Tātaki Auckland Unlimited, Director of Auckland ... More Graffiti an der East Side Gallery, 2021 © Gottfried Schenk. BERLIN.- A new exhibition, presented as a photographic narrative, explores the historical journey of the Berlin Wall, from its days as a symbol of division and suffering to its transformation into a site of awe and remembrance. On the night of November 9, 1989, images of people dancing on the Wall at Brandenburg Gate captivated the world, marking the end of Berlin’s division. In less than a year, events that once seemed impossible unfolded: the collapse of East Germany's ruling Politburo, the first free elections in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), the establishment of an economic and currency union, and the reunification of Germany on October 3, 1990. Berlin-based photographer Gottfried Schenk documented the Wall’s historical milestones and its gradual dismantling. His work captures the evolution of the 161-kilometer structure, originally composed of over 40,000 segments, 186 watchtowers, and 31 checkpoints. While the Wall became increasingly porous after the border opening, the ... More Norton hosts exhibition of experimental photographer Fabiola Menchelli Halle für Kunst Steiermark opens French artist Caroline Mesquita's first solo exhibition in Austria Santa Barbara Museum of Art presents exhibition 'Dario Robleto: The Signal' Fabiola Menchelli (Mexican, born 1983), Magma II, 2023 Unique C-print photogram folded inside custom wood frame, 25 ½ x 31 ½ x 3 1/8 in. (64.8 x 80 x 8 cm). Courtesy of the artist, Arroniz Arte Contemporáneo and Marshall Gallery. WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.- The Norton Museum of Art hosts artist Fabiola Menchellis first solo museum show in the United States, certain silence, from December 7, 2024, through March 23, 2025. Menchellis work engages with photographys materiality, and the works showcased in the exhibition considers a range of conceptual theories, including visual perception, the relationship between viewer and artwork, the language of abstraction, poetry, and more. Comprised of more than 20 works, including a selection of previously unseen pieces, her atmospheric photographs test the limits of perception as she folds, exposes, and develops works that may appear straightforward but contain complexities brought forth by chance and accident, all created without a camera or negatives. The exhibitions final month coincides with M ... More Caroline Mesquita, CuCO & CO, 2024. Exhibition view, HAB gallery, Nantes. Photo: Jean-Christophe Lett. GRAZ.- The French artist Caroline Mesquita is regarded as a key interpreter of contemporary sculpture and its performative qualities. She creates sculptural bodies reminiscent of humans, animals and various hybrid creatures. These bodies are formed from brass and metals, and, despite the durability of the materials used, are characterized by a lightness and playful potential that animates them – almost as if they were living puppets. For Verdet Bath, Mesquita creates a bathing spa consisting of a swimming pool, changing rooms and drinking fountains, in which a multitude of her creatures and their audience cavort. Caroline Mesquita’s work encompasses sculptures, murals, large-scale installations with integrated architectural elements, as well as film and video works. She creates her sculptural works from copper and brass sheets, using various oxidation techniques. Mesquita is particularly drawn to metal, a traditional sculptural material, but she ... More Based in Houston, Robleto is a multidisciplinary artist, researcher, materialist poet, and self-proclaimed citizen-scientist. SANTA BARBARA, CALIF.- A solo exhibition featuring the internationally renowned Texas artist, Dario Robleto: The Signal opens at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) on December 8, 2024. The exhibition’s centerpiece is Robleto’s newly commissioned film Ancient Beacons Long for Notice, an immersive, 70-minute movie based on a rare and forgotten document—the first audio recording of warfare made in 1918—which was considered for inclusion on NASA’s Golden Record. Presented in SBMA’s McCormick Gallery, the film, co-commissioned by SBMA, will be projected in a black-box installation. It is accompanied by a selection of Robleto’s works on paper and sculptures that augment the story of the film. The exhibition was co-organized with the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, where it was on view May 12 through October 27, 2024. Spanning film, sculpture, and works ... More Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876-Now More News Exhibition at Camera Austria focuses on the destructive characteristics of photography GRAZ.- The desire to destroy photography in an era as addicted to pictures as ours seems paradoxical. In light of the steady triumphal procession of the mass media of photography and film, the French poet Paul Valéry already prophesized in 1928: “just as water, gas, and electricity,” pictures would soon, be brought into our homes, “appear[ing] and disappear[ing] at a simple movement of the hand”1; and, today, we are indeed being confronted every day with more photographs than lie dormant in the family albums of entire generations, determining discourses and debates to a greater extent than the written word, undergirding, indeed producing ostensible knowledge, and transcending society as if having a life of their own. Yes, of course, the relevance of photographic images today is being gnawed at, abraded, scratched, and shaken up across ... More MAAT-Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology announces 2025 exhibitions LISBON.- In 2025, MAAT—Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, in Lisbon, will present ten exhibitions. The program brings together internationally renowned names and Portuguese artists with established careers, in the process of affirmation and revelation. MAAT will host the first solo exhibition in Portugal by renowned photographer Jeff Wall, and one of the largest of his work to date. It will comprise 60 photographs produced over more than 40 years and will occupy the entire exhibition space of MAAT Gallery. Also, Miriam Cahn will present her work for the first time in a solo exhibition in Portugal, following her participation in the Venice Biennale in 2022 and exhibitions at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2023, and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 2024. The exhibition will focus mainly on her recent work, particularly her paintings and drawings, ... More MoMA announces new partnership with watchmaking brand Richard Mille NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art announces a new partnership with innovative watchmaking brand Richard Mille that will provide key support for MoMA’s contemporary collection installations, and for MoMA’s Media and Performance program, including programming in the Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Studio. “We are delighted to partner with Richard Mille, known around the world for innovation, creativity, and the highest caliber of design, to help us create more opportunities for audiences to engage with the art of our time in new and exciting ways,” said Glenn D. Lowry, the David Rockefeller Director, MoMA. “We couldn’t be more thrilled to begin the partnership with their support of a new presentation of Christian Marclay’s The Clock, an inspiring artwork that is both a cinematic tour-de force and a functioning timepiece.” “This new partnership ... More Vienna's Secession exhibits films, sculptures, installations and drawings by Ali Cherri VIENNA.- With his films, sculptures, installations and drawings, Ali Cherri visualizes history and cultural value not as something neutral or universal, but as constructed narratives, deeply influenced by colonialism, nationalism and geopolitics. Cherri was born in Beirut in 1976, a year into the Lebanese Civil War that would continue for fourteen more (1975–1990). During its course, about 120,000 people died and almost one million were forced to leave the country. But Cherri, who was initially trained as a graphic designer, experienced the vibrant heyday of Beirut’s art scene in the 1990s. Thus, not only the conceptual and material engagement with violence, but also the belief in the power of imagination as a political force carries his work. Mythology and ancient history as well as the afterlife of cultural artefacts play a key role in Cherri’s ... More 'Soft Impressions: Helen Cammock, Ingrid Pollard and Camara Taylor' opens at Dundee Contemporary Arts DUNDEE.- Dundee Contemporary Arts is presenting the cross-generational group exhibition by Helen Cammock, Ingrid Pollard and Camara Taylor: Soft Impressions. It runs from Saturday 7 December 2024 – Sunday 23 March 2025. This major exhibition, spanning both gallery spaces at DCA, includes new and existing print work from the early 2000s to present day. Soft Impressions focuses on the artists’ shared engagement with and strategic use of the medium of printmaking, contextualised alongside works in installation, moving image, textiles and a painted mural. The exhibition draws its title from printmaking, where each work pulled from a printing plate is called an impression - the same term can be used to denote the application of pressure in creating prints. Soft Impressions engages with printmaking’s role in the historic distribution of ideas ... More Mary Katharine Tramontana's 'Serious Pleasures' opens at JERGON, Berlin BERLIN.- Against the backdrop of a new era of sexual regression across the political spectrum, Tramontana’s poetry and photography remind us that sex is a fundamental way of being human. Reclaiming her eroticism from her Catholic upbringing and global, secular, anti-female sexuality dogma, her corporeal self-portraits and photography series of young bisexual men, Boys (2023-ongoing), offer a queer perspective on art history’s legacy of the male artist desiring the female body. "The disciplining mechanisms of misogyny vary from country to country, but one consistent tenet is that a woman’s value is determined by how hard it is to fuck her. I wanted to create a body of work purely for my gratification," Tramontana said. "As a poet, I’m in a submissive position to my desire. As a photographer, I intentionally objectify my male subjects in a power ... More Paloma Varga Weisz's Multiface: A comprehensive artistic exploration HANOVER.- The solo exhibition Multiface stands as one of the most extensive presentations of Paloma Varga Weisz's work. Showcasing her latest creations alongside key pieces from over three decades, it offers a profound glimpse into her poetic yet subversive artistic practice. Her body of work – including sculptures, watercolors, drawings, and installations – delves into existential questions surrounding identity, memory, vulnerability, and transformation. Figures and forms inhabit a liminal space between the familiar and the uncanny, the physical and the narrative. Trained as a wood sculptor, Varga Weisz purposefully disrupts traditional craftsmanship. By mastering and simultaneously undermining traditional techniques, she produces works that challenge classical notions of materiality and form. Her sculptures blend historical references with ... More First solo institutional exhibition in the US by Carmen Amengual opens at Smack Mellon BROOKLYN, NY.- Smack Mellon and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School announced A Non-Coincidental Mirror, an exhibition by 2022–2024 VLC Fellow Carmen Amengual. A Non- Coincidental Mirror is a film installation by the Los Angeles-based Argentine artist and her first solo institutional exhibition in the US. The exhibition results from ongoing research that Amengual started in 2022 about a little explored event in the cultural history of Global South solidarities: the First Third World Filmmakers Meeting in Algiers in 1973 and its second iteration in Buenos Aires in 1974. The events served as hubs where self-identified “third-world” filmmakers discussed the role of filmmaking in anti-colonial struggles, made agreements, and strategized about how to produce and distribute films under dire political conditions. Based ... More PhotoGalleries Gabriele Münter TARWUK Awol Erizku Leo Villareal Flashback On a day like today, Mexican painter Diego Rivera was born December 08, 1886. Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez (December 8, 1886 - November 24, 1957) was a prominent Mexican painter born in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, an active communist, and husband of Frida Kahlo (1929 - 1939 and 1940–1954). His large wall works in fresco helped establish the Mexican Mural Movement in Mexican art. Between 1922 and 1953, Rivera painted murals among others in Mexico City, Chapingo, Cuernavaca, San Francisco, Detroit, and New York City. In 1931, a retrospective exhibition of his works was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. In this image: A couple look at the painting 'Portrait of Gilda Blanca' (R) by Mexican Diego Rivera during an exhibition to celebrate the 65th anniversary of Mexican National Institute of Fine Arts in Mexico City, Mexico, 04 July 2011. © 1996 - 2024 Founder: Ignacio Villarreal (1941 - 2019) Editor & Publisher: Jose Villarreal Art Director: Juan José Sepúlveda Ramírez Writer: Ofelia Zurbia Betancourt

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