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From Odesa to Berlin. European Painting of the 16th to 19th Centuries, Exhibition View, Gemäldegalerie 2024, © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker.
BERLIN.- The Berlin Gemäldegalerie is presenting 60 works by European painters from the 16th to 19th centuries from the Odesa Museum of Western and Eastern Art. The paintings are among the highlights of the collection and were taken to safety prior to the hostilities in the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa (based on Ukrainian spelling). In the exhibition, they enter into a dialogue with paintings from the Berlin collections. The German-Ukrainian cooperation project is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and is an expression of the close cultural ties between Germany and Ukraine. Founded in 1923 and opened in 1924, the Odesa Museum of Western and Eastern Art is located in the centre of the endangered historic old town of the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa. It houses an extensive art- and cultural-historical collection. European paintings, sculptures, prints and applied art from the Renaissance to the 20th century form a major focus. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Precious Okoyomon at KUB, 2025. Photo: Miro Kuzmanovic © Kunsthaus Bregenz. Courtesy of the artist.
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| "The Monster" unleashed: Robert Nava curates exhibition of monstrous bodies at Pace Gallery | | From cheese graters to globes: Mona Hatoum transforms everyday objects into thought-provoking art | | Raymond Saunders's paintings and works on paper explore identity and artistic expression |
Huma Bhabha, Untitled, 2024, ink, pastel, acrylic, charcoal, and collage on paper, 531⁄2 à 52" © Huma Bhabha, courtesy the artist and David Kordansky Gallery.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Pace is presenting The Monster, an exhibition curated by artist Robert Nava, at its Los Angeles gallery. On view from February 1 to March 22, 2025, this presentation brings together paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by an intergenerational group of artistsincluding several LA-based artistswithin and beyond the gallerys program and coincides with this years edition of Frieze Los Angeles. Inspired in part by Mary Shelleys Frankenstein, this exhibition, organized by Nava in collaboration with Paces Chief Curator Oliver Shultz, celebrates monstrous bodies and fabulations of monstrosity in contemporary artnot the everyday monsters of waking life, but rather the fantasy monster, the monster of childhood, the mythical beast, the shapeless creature of the unconscious. This monster is a pre-image, an inchoate nightmare, a being neither human nor animal with the power to both terrify and enamor. The Monster features ... More | |
Hot Spot III, 2013. Stainless steel and neon tube, 234 x 223 x 223 cm. ©Mona Hatoum. Courtesy of the artist and MdbK Leipzig (Photo: dotgain.info)
AMERSFOORT.- Kunsthal KAdE starts the year with a solo exhibition dedicated to the work of British-Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum. Entitled Inside Out, the exhibition features work spanning the artists entire career: from her performance and videos of the 1980s to recent sculptures, installations and works on paper. This will be the first comprehensive survey of the artists work in the Netherlands. Hatoum was born in Lebanon as the daughter of Palestinian exiles and has lived in London since 1975. Her work revolves around the tension between the concept of home, displacement and exile. With a minimalist aesthetic and poetic use of the ordinary, Hatoum manages to transform themes of global conflict into imaginative sculptures and installations that are both compelling and thought provoking. Everyday objects are electrified, the terrestrial globe becomes a buzzing red neon map and glass forms are trapped inside cage-like structures. The concept of 'home' is a recurring motif in Hatoum ... More | |
Raymond Saunders, Untitled, 2006 © Estate of Raymond Saunders. Courtesy of the Estate of Raymond Saunders and David Zwirner.
PARIS.- David Zwirner is presenting Déménagement, an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by American artist Raymond Saunders (b. 1934) at the gallerys Paris location. Curated by Ebony L. Haynes, this presentation is Saunderss second solo exhibition with David Zwirner and marks the artists first exhibition in Paris in twenty years. Saunders once called Pariswhere he kept a studio, spent summers, and regularly exhibited during the 1990s and 2000sa home away from home, embracing the French capital as a generative place for art making and community building. The city offered a hopeful environment and freer way of life with fewer of the social and racial constraints endemic to American culture, one that held opportunities for artists to be in broader conversation with audiences and institutions at large. Saunders acted on this by opening his studio as a residency of sorts to his students visiting from California, offering them some of the same opport ... More |
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| 1954 Mercedes-Benz W 196 R Stromlinienwagen sells for $53,017,370 | | Language, memory, and ritual intertwine in Paulo Nazareth's WIELS retrospective | | Never-before-seen pastels and bronze figures by Lucas Samaras at 125 Newbury |
The car has been sold by the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum to benefit its collection and restoration efforts. © Mercedes-Benz AG.
STUTTGART.- One of the worlds most historically significant racing cars, the 1954 Mercedes-Benz W 196 R Stromlinienwagen, chassis number 00009/54, has been auctioned by RM Sothebys today at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart. The vehicle had been donated to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum in 1965 by the then Daimler-Benz AG. Today, the car realised 51,155,000 when it crossed the block in the exclusive single car auction. Attracting interest from serious collectors across the globe, the W 196 R was subject to a heated bidding battle over the phones and in person, before the auctioneer brought the hammer down at a selling price that makes it the second most valuable car to be sold at auction. Few historic racing cars resonate as strongly as the famous Mercedes-Benz Silver Arrows that dominated Grand Prix racing in the immediate pre- and post-war era, admired for their advanced ... More | |
Paulo Nazareth, How is the color of my skin, 2011. Pen on cardboard and wood. Courtesy the artist and Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brussels, Paris, New York. Photo by Bruno Leão.
BRUSSELS.- With Patuá/Patois, Paulo Nazareth presents a comprehensive retrospective at WIELS, highlighting more than two decades of artistic practice. Through two powerful symbols of survival and resilience, Nazareth explores the interplay of memory, language, and ritual in communities shaped by Afro-Brazilian, Indigenous, and anti-colonial struggles. The exhibition engages with Brusselsa city where language and identity are central to social and political life. Paulo Nazareth is an artist who creates as he walks. With his self- proclaimed Arte de Preceito (precept art), his artistic practice is rooted in radical displacement and movement, such as crossing borders on foot. Through various mediafrom video and photography to found objectshe explores personal stories and routes that have been shaped by history, the impact of which is still felt today. ... More | |
Lucas Samaras, Untitled, March 13, 1962 © Lucas Samaras.
NEW YORK, NY.- 125 Newbury is presenting Lucas Samaras: Chalk and Bronze, an exhibition of two distinct yet related bodies of work by the Greek-born American artist, a pivotal figure in the New York avant-garde. This presentation brings a selection of more than two dozen vibrant, never-before-seen pastels from the 1960s into dialogue with a suite of figurative bronze sculptures that Samaras created in the early 1980s. Samaras began employing pastels at a young age, partly as a means of communication. After his family emigrated from Greece to the United States during the 1940s to escape the countrys brutal civil war, Samaras, who spoke no English upon his arrival in America, saw pastels as an outlet for his inner world. Art was the only thing I could do without speaking, the artist explained in an interview, They just gave me paper and pastels, and I drew. He carried this interest through high school and college, studying under the influential artists ... More |
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| Precious Okoyomon's immersive installations explore identity, spirituality, and nature at Kunsthaus Bregenz | | Michael Simpson's "Drawing Towards Painting" exhibition explores the breadth of his drawing practice | | Georgia Museum of Art presents "Beyond the Medici: The Haukohl Family Collection" |
Precious Okoyomon at KUB, 2025. Photo: Miro Kuzmanovic © Kunsthaus Bregenz.
BREGENZ.- Precious Okoyomonâs works traverse art, poetry, and performance. They investigate identity, colonial history, spirituality, and peopleâs relationship to things and the living environment. Intimate personal questions are linked with political and social issues. Even before the pandemic, Okoyomon was invited to exhibit at Kunsthaus Bregenz â the youngest artist in the institutionâs history, then just twenty-seven years old. Okoyomon gained the attention of a broad public with installations that incorporate materials such as soil, plants, and animals. At the Venice Biennale in 2022, the artist transformed the hall of the Arsenale into a lush, rampant ecosystem. Expansive sculptures, densely growing climbing plants, and small watercourses set in a tropical atmosphere created an experiential space that linked the processes of nature with afro-futuristic visions â and at the same time addressed the migration history of plants as well as their displacement. For Kunsthaus Bregenz, several new ... More | |
Michael Simpson, Bench, 1990. Gouache. Framed: 49.5 x 43.5 cm. 19 1/2 x 17 1/8 in. Courtesy the artist and Modern Art. Photo: Michael Brzezinski.
LONDON.- Modern Art is presenting Drawing towards Painting: Selected Drawings 1974-2024, Michael Simpsons second solo exhibition with the gallery. Widely renowned for his paintings, this exhibition examines the breadth of his drawing practice. Drawing is a daily practice for Simpson, commonly hell close out the day drawing. With materials such as carbon pencil, French chalk, Indian ink, gouache and oil paint, he draws on surfaces close to hand, from restaurant napkins, discarded cardboard, end papers to book covers such choices make clear the instinctive drive of this aspect of his practice. Each differs significantly, encompassing examples rendered with economy and speed to more graphic drawings, akin to architectural plans. Like his paintings, his drawings depict a small selection of repeated forms, especially confessionals, benches, ladders and leper squints. For this exhibition, Simpson has selected drawings from a ... More | |
Pietro Dandini (1646 1712), Esther Before Ahasuerus, 17th century. Oil on canvas, 42 11/16 Ã 65 1/2 inches. The Haukohl Collection.
ATHENS, GA.- The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia presents the exhibition Beyond the Medici: The Haukohl Family Collection from February 1 to May 18, 2025. The exhibition comes from the largest and most important collection of Florentine baroque art outside of Italy, assembled over more than 40 years by Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl, an art collector and cofounder of the Medici Archive Project. Beyond the Medici illustrates how Florentine artists of the 17th and 18th centuries influenced European art history, politics and philosophy. Extraordinary allegories, religious motifs, genre scenes and portraits by Jacopo da Empoli, Felice Ficherelli, Francesco Furini and Onorio Marinari form the core of the collection. The exhibition also devotes a section to artists, writers and scholars that sheds light on the intellectual history of Florence under the reign of the Medici grand dukes. Four polychrome stucco reliefs by Antonio Monauti ... More |
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| Haitian artist Myrlande Constant's work on view at the Figge | | Terence Gower's exhibition explores form generation through sculpture, drawing, and installation | | Art from the GDR: DAS MINSK exhibition focuses on dialogue and artistic perspectives |
Myrlande Constant (Haitian, born 1968), Guedeh Roussou Mazaca, 1997, beads and sequins on fabric, 40 x 46 inches, ©Myrlande Constant. Courtesy of Fort Gansevoort, New York.
DAVENPORT, IOWA.- The Figge Art Museum announced the exhibition Myrlande Constant: DRAPO. The exhibition features the extraordinary work of celebrated Haitian artist Myrlande Constant. Known for her innovative approach to the traditional art form of drapo (Vodou flags), Constant has intrigued audiences worldwide with her large-scale, bead and sequin-covered works. For over 35 years, Constant has redefined this Haitian tradition, transforming ceremonial Vodou flags into a contemporary art form. The exhibition showcases 17 of her intricately crafted bead paintings, some spanning more than seven feet, highlighting her ability to turn culturally rich stories into monumental works of art. Visitors will be immersed in a world of color and texture, and surrounded by depictions of the lwaspirit entities central to Vodou beliefs. Constant lives and works in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where as a child she learned beading techniques from her mother. Later she labored alongside her mother in a ... More | |
Detail of : Terence Gower, Gruen in Tehran, 2018, Portfolio of 12 prints: Woodblock, letterpress, silkscreen, aquatint etching, and digital print on paper 12 prints, 54 x 38 cm each.
PARIS.- Terence Gower (b 1965) is a Canadian artist working in New York, Mexico City, and France. Gower works in many media including video, sculpture, drawing, installation, sound, and full-scale architectural constructions. Working on a number of bodies of work concurrently, each in research and production for several years, even decades, his installations are often reconfigured each time they are exhibited. As a result of his research, Gower often appropriates period photography, narrative and documentary film, archival material, and historical artifacts. Interested in how abstract forms represent abstract ideas, including ideological concepts, much of his work is spent studying and collecting forms, mostly from the realms of architecture and art. This exhibition brings together three projects that each demonstrate a different process of form generation, in several different media, including sculpture, drawing, printmaking, and installation. Human Industry (Escalator), 2025 is a suite of s ... More | |
Wolfgang Mattheuer, Das graue Fenster [The Gray Window], 1969. Hasso Plattner Collection © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024.
POTSDAM.- DAS MINSK Kunsthaus in Potsdam is showing the exhibition IN DIALOGUEHasso Plattner Collection: Art from the GDR in spring 2025. The second presentation of the collection focuses on dialogue as a means of engaging with art from the former GDR. IN DIALOGUE shows approximately 50 works from the collection by artists like Gudrun Brüne, Hartwig Ebersbach, Ulrich Hachulla, Rolf Händler, Bernhard Heisig, Johannes Heisig, Peter Herrmann, Ralf Kerbach, Walter Libuda, Peter Makolies, Wolfgang Mattheuer, Harald Metzkes, Stefan Plenkers, Núria Quevedo, Gerhard Richter, Arno Rink, Cornelia Schleime, Willi Sitte, Gabriele Stötzer, Erika Stürmer-Alex, Werner Tübke, and Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, predominantly from the period between 1966 and 1992. The two chapters of the exhibition highlight the artists different perspectives, along with the contexts in which the works were created. The impetus came from Arno Rinks painting Portrait Henry Schumann (1968) (Portrait of Henry Schumann), whic ... More |
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Westfries Museum turns back time with "TIME in FASHION" exhibitHOORN.- Forget fast fashion! The Westfries Museum in Hoorn invites you to explore the intricate relationship between time and fashion in their new exhibit, "TIME in FASHION." Running now until June 1st, 2025, this unique exhibition showcases the work of three talented designers who use their craft to tell stories across centuries. "TIME in FASHION" goes beyond the surface, demonstrating that fashion is a complex tapestry of craftsmanship, industry, societal issues, and artistic expression. The exhibit is spread throughout the museum's rooms, each one offering a new discovery and surprise. Sepehr Maghsoudi: A Dutch-Iranian designer, Maghsoudi uses his platform to advocate for sustainability and ethical practices in the fashion world. His new menswear collection, TIME, tackles important social issues, encouraging viewers to think ... More Art exhibition unearths memories of a vanished landscapePARIS.- A poignant and evocative exhibition has opened at the Centre d'art Ygrec ENSAPC, exploring the layered memories and hidden stories of a patch of land in Paris slated for development. "The language of dreams is not in the words, but beneath them," wrote Walter Benjamin, and this sentiment resonates deeply with the exhibition, which uses a variety of media to unearth the "silent continuity of a flow" of history and experience. The story begins in 2020, when the artists began to explore a neglected plot of land, a 7,000 square meter space teeming with trees and plants that grew around tennis courts and a parking lot, a small remnant of a rural village swallowed by the expanding city. Over four years, they returned to this "plot," observing the changing seasons, the play of light and shadow, and the quiet resilience of nature in the heart of urban ... More "Mystery & Benevolence" puts secret societies on full displayCINCINNATI, OH.- Mystical, evocative, and sometimes simply strange, the art of the Freemasons and Independent Order of the Odd Fellows is rich in symbols. Mystery & Benevolence: Masonic and Odd Fellows Folk Art brings the histories, codes, and beliefs of these groups to the Taft Museum of Art, February 1May 11, 2025. Rarely traveled, the exhibition features more than 80 works of art including elaborately stitched costumes, gilded carvings and jewelry, and richly embellished ceremonial objects from the late 18th through mid-20th centuries that continue to retain their clandestine allure. For decades, members of organizations such as the Freemasons and Odd Fellows have come together to socialize, help others, and improve themselves and their communities. Mystery & Benevolence decodes and explores the objects used by these groups, ... More New Nelson-Atkins exhibition explores regional identity through storytellingKANSAS CITY, MO.- Ten photographers weave together influences from literature, history, music, and folklore, to tell compelling stories about people and rural communities in the exhibition Strange and Familiar Places, opening at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City February 1, running through July 20. This exhibition, featuring 26 large-scale contemporary works, highlights subjects in the Midwest, West, South, and Southwestern United States, challenging regional stereotypes and emphasizing the photographers deep connections to these places. Many of the photographs were recently acquired by the Nelson-Atkins and will be on view for the first time. The 10 artists in this exhibition are wonderfully creative storytellers, said Julián Zugazagoitia, Director & CEO of the Nelson-Atkins. Their intimate photographs deepen and enrich ... More Asami Kiyokawa's "Mythic Threads" weaves together nature, urbanity, and myth in Tokyo exhibitionTOKYO.- MAKI Gallery is presenting Mythic Threads, an exhibition by Japanese artist Asami Kiyokawa shown at the Tennoz gallery space. Building upon her special exhibition Mystic Weave: Stitching Myth held at Kirishima Open- Air Museum in Kagoshima Prefecture during the summer of 2024, Kiyokawa strives through her upcoming show to reimagine the ongoing human narrative from past to future at the intersection of nature and urbanity, tradition and technology. At her exhibition in Kirishima, Kiyokawa showcased a blend of her iconic works featuring embroidered photographs and new pieces inspired by Kirishimas natural heritage. These works expressed the complexity and beauty of contemporary society whilst exploring new relationships between humanity and nature. In a time when technological advancement and urbanisation increasingly ... More Kateryna Lysovenko's largest solo exhibition to date opens at Kunstverein HannoverHANNOVER.- In her work, Kateryna Lysovenko (b. 1989 in Odessa) deals with power structures and ideologies underlying the Soviet past and the omnipresent war in Ukraine. Lysovenko explores the language of conflict and the comparisons of humans to animals deployed by wartime propaganda in categorical terms, especially when it comes to acts of violence. Her figurative works often feature ghostly figures, animals and hybrid creatures. They could be borrowed from mythology, hail from dreams or emerge from the depths of memory. The images address trauma and evoke a longing for peace, harmony and security. Lysovenkos vibrant figurative paintings are inhabited by hybrid creatures, mermaids, centaurs, giant spiders and trees that hail from mythology, folklore, and collective memory. The artist does not understand these transformations as ... More The Nasher Sculpture Center opens 'Haegue Yang: Lost Lands and Sunken Fields'DALLAS, TX.- The Nasher Sculpture Center unveiled Haegue Yang: Lost Lands and Sunken Fields. The exhibition presents a dense, subterranean ensemble of existing works and debuts small-scale sculptures that mark an exciting turn in the artist's oeuvre, all of which continually subvert modernist ideas about sculptural production. The exhibition is curated by Nasher Curator Dr. Leigh Arnold and will be on view until April 27, 2025. Over the past three decades, Haegue Yang (born 1971, Seoul, South Korea) has developed a prolific and hybrid body of work that folds quotidian objects and folk traditions into the canon of modern and contemporary sculpture-making. Informed by in-depth exploration into vernacular techniques and related customs and rituals, along with her continual movement through disparate cultures, Yangs work is both homage ... More Gabriel Orozco's museum-wide survey opens at Museo JumexMEXICO CITY.- Museo Jumex presents Gabriel Orozco: Politécnico Nacional, the artists first museum exhibition in Mexico since 2006. A museum-wide survey featuring 300 objects displayed over four floors and the museums public plaza, the exhibition explores key themes in Orozcos practice, showcasing how he has constantly challenged what art can be and how it is made. Politécnico Nacional shows how the artists multiple techniques and strategies have developed over the course of a celebrated career that began in the early 1990s. Each floor of the exhibition activates different aspects or elements within Orozcos practice. The order is not chronological but instead based on the artists interrogation of the fissure between his work and the world, questioning where one ends and the other begins. In Orozcos vocabulary, ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Mexican illustrator José Guadalupe Posada was born February 02, 1853. José Guadalupe Posada (February 2, 1853 - January 20, 1913[1]) was a Mexican political printmaker and engraver whose work has influenced many Latin American artists and cartoonists because of its satirical acuteness and social engagement. He used skulls, calaveras, and bones to make political and cultural critiques. Among his famous works was La Catrina. In this image: José Guadalupe Posada, Calavera de la Catrina (Skull of the Female Dandy), from the portfolio 36 Grabados: José Guadalupe Posada, published by Arsacio Vanegas, Mexico City, Mexico, c. 1910, printed 1943, photo-relief etching with engraving, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by the friends of Freda Radoff.
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