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Mildred Howard, I've Been a Witness to This Game XXII, 2016, Monoprint/digital with collage and gold leaf, Museum purchase, The Nancy Gray Sherrill, Class of 1954, Collection Acquisition Fund 2016.127, Courtesy of the artist.
WELLESLEY, MASS.- Sovereign Memory: Photography, Remembrance, and Displaced Histories, a new exhibition on view at the Davis Museum, explores photography as a strategy for healing. The artists each employ the photograph as a connective tissue, stitching together individuals, families, and communities to severed histories and identities. About 40 works are on view from February 7 to June 1, 2025, along with two other new exhibitions at the Davis Museum, all highlighting new acquisitions. Sovereign Memory reflects on how artists employ the medium of photography to reimagine the stories we tell ourselves about our past and present, said Jessica Orzulak, Associate Curator and Curatorial Affairs Manager at the Asheville Art Museum and former Linda Wyatt Gruber 66 Curatorial Fellow in Photography at the Davis Museum who curated Sovereign Memory. Photographs can capture intimate moments of ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Lisson Gallery is presenting a compelling exhibition of new works by the renowned artist Ai Weiwei, showcasing a provocative exploration of contemporary issues through the lens of historical and artistic reference.
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| Zentrum Paul Klee celebrates 20 years with major Le Corbusier exhibition | | Goya in print: The Prado Museum unveils groundbreaking online archive | | Hammer Museum opens first museum exhibition dedicated to the legacy of Alice Coltrane |
Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret), Nature morte au siphon, 1928. Oil on canvas, 134 à 115 à 7 cm. Fondation Le Corbusier, Paris © 2025, FLC/ProLitteris, Zurich.
BERN.- 20 years of Zentrum Paul Klee. The first major special exhibition in the Jubilee Year is devoted to Le Corbusier: between 8 February and 22 June 2025 the Zentrum Paul Klee is showing Le Corbusier. The Order of Things. The exhibition focuses on the working process of the Swiss-French artist-architect, designer and urban planner, and places Le Corbusiers three-dimensional thought centre-stage. It offers a comprehensive overview of his entire output from an artistic perspective, and includes both iconic items and groups of works that have so far remained largely unknown. Charles-Ãdouard Jeanneret, world famous under the pseudonym Le Corbusier, is one of the most important guiding lights of modern architecture in Switzerland. He was also among the most prominent and globally influential protagonists of international modernism. Le Corbusier (b. 1887, La Chaux- ... More | |
Inventory of printed references. 1771-1828.
MADRID.- Art enthusiasts and scholars worldwide now have unprecedented access to the life and times of Francisco de Goya, thanks to a remarkable new online resource launched by the Museo Nacional del Prado. "The Inventory of Printed References. 1771-1828" is the world's first comprehensive collection of every printed mention of the legendary Spanish artist during his lifetime, offering a unique glimpse into his public image and evolving reputation. Funded by European funds from the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, this ambitious project brings together scattered references from books, newspaper articles, advertisements, and prints, some of which were previously difficult to access. Imagine being able to trace Goya's growing recognition in real-time, from his first mention in 1771 to his death in 1828 â this archive makes it possible. The Prado's initiative isn't just a dry list of citations. The online inventory is a rich tapestry of information, organized chronologically with d ... More | |
Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal, installation view. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, February 9May 4, 2025. Photo: Sarah Golonka.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Hammer Museum at UCLA is presenting Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal, the first museum exhibition inspired by the life and legacy of jazz musician and devotional leader, Alice Coltrane (19372007). Curated by Erin Christovale, the exhibition features archival ephemera from the Coltranes archive alongside works by 19 American artists, including Steven Ellison (aka Flying Lotus), Star Feliz, Rashid Johnson, Jasper Marsalis, Cauleen Smith, Martine Syms, and more. Works featured in the show range from sculpture, painting, and photography to installation and performance, and many works were created especially for this exhibition. They are presented alongside ephemera from Coltranes personal archivemuch of which has never before been on viewincluding handwritten correspondence, unreleased audio recordings, and rarely seen video footage. Alice Coltrane, Monument ... More |
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| Fotomuseum in Maastricht presents British-Dutch artist Jimmy Nelson | | Suda Yoshihiro transforms Sadie Coles HQ into a living environment with life-size flora | | Baltimore Museum of Art explores the pivotal role of water in 17th-century Dutch society |
Jimmy Nelson, Aysha, Arnemuiden, Zeeland, 2021.
MAASTRICHT.- Fotomuseum aan het Vrijthof in Maastricht, the Netherlands, presents 'Between the Sea and the Sky', an impressive exhibition by renowned photographic artist Jimmy Nelson, running from 9 February until 21 September 2025. The exhibition debuts analogue large-format portraits as part of a collection of 65 photographs and two videos, capturing the essence of twenty different Dutch communities in traditional folk costumes. Set against the picturesque backdrops of fishing villages, polder landscapes, and fortified towns, each image is bathed in the famous Dutch light. With his colourful work, Nelson celebrates the beauty, cultural richness, and authenticity of humanity. The British-Dutch photographer enjoys international acclaim for his groundbreaking projects 'Before They Pass Away' (2013) and 'Homage to Humanity' (2018), which brought global attention to unique indigenous communities from the worlds most remote areas. For the coffee table book 'Between the Sea and ... More | |
Suda Yoshihiro, Poppy, 2024. © Suda Yoshihiro. Courtesy of Gallery Koyanagi.
LONDON.- At Bury Street, unexpected life-size flora profoundly transforms the quiet gallery into a living environment. For three decades Suda Yoshihiros flowers have discreetly emerged from cracks and crevices, unpredictably appeared through windows, grown from the spaces around light switches and domestic fixings, and forced their way between inconspicuous fractures in architecture. Always using strong, light magnolia or hoo wood that is soft to carve, Suda imbues his sculptures with a sense of history; the magnolia tree evolved into its shape almost one hundred million years ago yet has remained mostly unchanged since. The spontaneous germination and lifelike appearance of his meticulously hand-carved and decisively painted botanical motifs demand close scrutiny. Each in-bloom creation be it a poppy, morning glory or common clump of weeds holds traces of Sudas careful handiwork. They are innately ... More | |
Frans Hals (Dutch, c. 1582-1666), Dorothea Berck, Wife of Joseph Coymans, 1644. Oil on canvas, 33 x 27 1/2 in. (83.8 x 69.9 cm.) The Mary Frick Jacobs Collection 1938.231
BALTIMORE, MD.- Across geographies and time, water has played a critical part in shaping landscape, driving economic fortune, and inspiring technological and artistic innovation. This February, the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) will open Watershed: Transforming the Landscape in Early Modern Dutch Art, an exhibition that reflects on the importance of water in the development of the new Dutch Republicpresent-day Netherlandsleading up to and following its liberation from Spain in the 17th century. Through approximately 40 paintings and works on paper by such acclaimed artists as Frans Hals, Balthasar van der Ast, Rembrandt van Rijn, and Jacob van Ruisdael, among many others, the exhibition highlights the pivotal role of water in the political, social, economic, and ecological evolution of the emergent country. Watershed will be on view at the BMA ... More |
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| Madrid's National Archaeological Museum exhibits an art installation by Bernardà Roig | | Peter Joseph: Early works and the genesis of his signature style at Lisson Gallery | | Intersections of Islamic art and science: Groundbreaking McMullen exhibition |
Bernardà Roig, Entrance, 2024. 1000 x 240 x 4 cm. Enamel on iron.
MADRID.- The National Archaeological Museum (MAN) in Madrid is embarking on a fascinating journey, bridging the gap between ancient history and contemporary art with its latest exhibition, "Caps [y] Bous. The Third Horn," by Mallorcan artist Bernardà Roig. Running until May 25, 2025, the exhibition invites visitors to see the museum's collection through a fresh, thought-provoking lens. Roig, a celebrated Spanish artist known for his diverse work spanning sculpture, video, drawing, painting, and text, has created six pieces specifically for this exhibition. Inspired by the very essence of the museum its spaces, its artifacts, and the stories they hold Roigs work meditates on universal themes of memory, time, and identity. It's not just about placing modern art in an old setting; it's a conversation across millennia. The exhibition's title, "The Third Horn," hints at the central inspiration: the Costitx Bulls, three striking bronze sculptures from ... More | |
Peter Joseph, Four Colour Square, Red, Yellow, Green and Blue (1968). Acrylic on cotton duck, 51 x 51 x 2.2 cm. 20 1/8 x 20 1/8 x 0 7/8 in © Peter Joseph, courtesy Lisson Gallery.
LONDON.- British painter Peter Josephs 17th solo exhibition with Lisson Gallery presents a selection of early and rare works from the 1960s and 70s that track Josephs development from vividly coloured, geometric compositions and shaped canvases through to the muted rectangular and square paintings that would define the following decades of his career. Spanning the years from 1964 to 1978, the exhibition features 12 paintings, as well as previously unseen sketchbooks, which chart Josephs experiments with colour and form. The presentation journeys from earlier paintings that focus on vibrant primary colour and performativity for which he received wide critical and institutional acclaim, including exhibitions at Camden Arts Centre and Kenwood House in 1966 to his Cinema Paintings which pre-figure Joseph's signature Border paintings of the 1980s ... More | |
Surya Surrounded by Signs of the Zodiac. India, ca. 1830. Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper. The San Diego Museum of Art, Edwin Binney 3rd Collection, 1990.1312.
CHESTNUT HILL, MASS.- The McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College explores sources of wonder in the upcoming exhibition, Wonders of Creation: Art, Science, and Innovation in the Islamic World. Organized in collaboration with the San Diego Museum of Art (SDMA), the exhibition examines intersections of science and craft in Islamic material culture and contemporary art through the framework of a thirteenth-century text by Zakariyya ibn Muhammad al-Qazwini (120283) describing the wonders of the universe. Wonders of Creation will be on view from February 9 through June 1, 2025 in the McMullen Museums Daley Family and Monan Galleries, the second and final venue for the exhibition, which debuted this fall at the SDMA. The McMullen is pleased to present, in collaboration with the San Diego Museum of Art, this landmark interdisciplinary ... More |
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| Patricia Piccinini's skywhales return to tour Australia | | Rare Hollywood treasures: Iconic film & TV posters hit the auction block | | Carmen Winant's Public Art Fund exhibition offers rare personal project connecting intergenerational journeys |
Patricia Piccinini, Skywhalepapa, 2020, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, © Patricia Piccinini.
CANBERRA.- The National Gallery of Australia presents a second national tour of leading contemporary artist Patricia Piccininis beloved Skywhale and Skywhalepapa. The National Gallery has partnered with venues in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and, for the first time ever, Western Australia to bring the hyperreal hot air-balloon sculptures to regional communities. Skywhales Across Australia offers a unique 90-minute experience in the early hours of the morning where audiences can witness the magic of the skywhales at sunrise. The slow inflation of the balloons, with cold air, then hot, allows the sculptures to rise from the ground and come to life. When fully inflated, and with weather permitting, they take to the skies together. This tour follows the successful 202223 National Gallery Touring Event Skwhales: Every Heart Sings, which saw the sculptures visit communities across the country including Mparntwe/Alice Springs, ... More | |
Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938) - One Sheet Poster (27 x 41) Folded.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Propstore announced its upcoming Collectible Posters Auction, featuring an extraordinary collection of rare and highly sought-after film posters. Taking place March 7 8, 2025, this event offers collectors and film fans the opportunity to own a piece of cinematic history. From near-impossible-to-find vintage classics to contemporary designs that have cemented their iconic status, this event is sure to excite film buffs and memorabilia collectors alike. Among some of the standout auction lots is an extraordinary DRACULA (1931) One Sheet estimated between $150,000 - $300,000 - this is a hauntingly beautiful piece of horror history, featuring Bela Lugosis piercing gaze and dramatic silhouette, as captivating today as it was nearly a century ago. Another showstopper is the FRANKENSTEIN (1931) One Sheet, estimated at $125,000 - $250,000, this poster is a true holy grail for collectors, showcasing Boris Karloffs iconic monster in a striking, unforgettable desig ... More | |
Carmen Winant, the Dream, 2024. Super 8 and 35mm film prints. Photo: Nicholas Knight, Courtesy of Public Art Fund, NY.
NEW YORK, NY.- Public Art Fund presents Carmen Winant: My Mother and Eye, the artists largest and most wide-reaching public exhibition to date, featuring 11 compositions of more than 1,200 film stills, now on view on 300 JCDecaux bus shelters across New York, Chicago, and Boston. For My Mother and Eye, Winant assembled hundreds of stills from films she and her mother each made as teenagers driving across the US: one made by her mother at age 18 on a Super 8 camera and the other made on 35mm film by Winant at age 17. The resulting works explore agency and self-discovery amid familiar American landscapesfrom Niagara Falls to the Rocky Mountains, surrounded by cornfields, rolling plains, coastal scenes, and dream-like episodes often seen through the looking glass of a car windshield. Winant disrupts linear time in My Mother and Eye, creating non-sequential compositions that reflect the cyclical nature of generational stories. Echoing filmmaker ... More |
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Kate McNamara named new interim John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Director
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts announced Kate McNamara as the new Interim John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Director. A dedicated curator, educator, and arts advocate, McNamara brings a wealth of experience in contemporary art leadership and public engagement. Kate M. McNamara is a curator, educator, and author based in Providence, RI. She is the founder of ODD-KIN, a contemporary art space in East Providence, and Executive and Creative Director of My HomeCourt, a nonprofit revitalizing city parks through collaborations with contemporary artists. McNamara co-founded the Warhol Foundation funded regional Interlace Grant Fund and is a Visiting Critic at the Rhode Island School of Design and Sothebys Institute of Art. Previously, McNamara was Curator-at-Large and Interim Director ... More
Black and white landscapes: LAUNCH Gallery explores nature's majesty and destruction
LOS ANGELES, CA.- LAUNCH Gallery is presenting the solo exhibitions by artists whose work is defined by their monochromatic paintings in black. Both Todd Carpenter and Tom Pazderka examine landscape painting through use of materials and techniques that heighten and enhance the relationships and interactions among natural forces, history, science, and humanity. Todd Carpenter presents complex themes through richly detailed oil paintings examining landscapes in their natural and majestic stillness. While Tom Pazderkas medium of paint and ash portrays the natural world violently disrupted by powerful forces of both nature and man. Awestruck by the splendor of nature in all its manifestations of beauty and complexity, Tom Pazderka pays homage to it by documenting its energy and power. In 2016, Tom began photographing ... More
Haggerty Museum of Art receives $2.4 million grant
MILWAUKEE, WI.- Lilly Endowment Inc. has awarded the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University a $2.4 million grant to develop an exhibition and educational program that will provide fair, accurate and balanced portrayals of the role religion has played and continues to play in the U.S. and around the world. Marquettes grant was one of 33 given through the latest round of Lilly Endowments Religion and Cultural Institutions Initiative. The national initiative, launched in 2019, is supporting efforts to improve the public understanding of religion and, as a result, foster greater knowledge of and respect for people of diverse religious traditions. We appreciate the tremendous support from Lilly Endowment for this initiative which connects well to our mission, helping to grow a greater understanding of religion, President Kimo Ah Yun said. ... More
Déjà-Vu: A Haunting Exploration of Memory and Intimacy at Galerie John Ferrère
PARIS.- Gallery John Ferrère announce the group exhibition Déjà -vu with the works of Elvire Bonduelle, Francisce G Pinzón Samper, Frédérique Loutz, Tommy Lecot, Ivan Argote, Joël Andrianomearisoa, Nan Goldin, Giulia Andreani, Kyle Keese. On view from February 6 through March 1, 2025 in the gallery space, 18 rue Dauphine, Paris 6. Déjà -vu is a disconcerting sensation, a suspended moment where past and present seem to intertwine. This universal experience, hovering between memory and perception, raises profound questions about time, repetition, and identity. This exhibition seeks to connect this enigmatic feeling to the realm of the intimate: the interior of a home, a cocoon, where every object, every space feels both familiar and imbued with an inexplicable strangeness. By recreating the atmosphere of a domestic interior, ... More
"We Say What Black This Is": Amanda Williams' art and student voices explore Black identity at Spelman
ATLANTA, GA.- We Say What Black This Is, organized by the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, is an exhibition of paintings by Chicago-based visual artist Amanda Williams in conversation with artworks from several Atlanta collections. Trained as an architect, Williams uses her expertise to interrogate systemic racism through the lens of spatial dynamics. The exhibition features oil and watercolor paintings from her series What Black Is This You Say?, which was created in response to Blackout Tuesday, the social media moment when people and organizations posted a solid black square in protest of police brutality in 2020. In response, Williams created a range of abstract paintings in the same square format as the Instagram grid, rich in texture and hue. Williams explores cultural, social, and political dimensions of Black identity in this series, ... More
Sous Les Etoiles Gallery opens new exhibition featuring works by Joanne Dugan and Nadezda Nikolova
NEW YORK, NY.- Dual Perspectives considers the subject of traditional photographic process- photogram, collage, wet collodion that allows for new experiments and original aesthetics. The two artists Joanne Dugan and Nadezda Nikolova take on this subject in their own way to configuring the narrative of their purpose. Joanne Dugan explores the intersections between analog photography, painting, sculpture and mindfulness. Her work focuses on photography as a physical medium and on seeing as a dynamic, cognitive process that connects people through shared, contemplative viewing experiences. Through my practice I seek to unearth the potential for the movement hidden within traditional still photographic processes. I am attracted to photographic abstraction and collaged, repeated forms because they allow for open interpretation by the viewer ... More
Art Central announces gallery and artist highlights ahead of milestone tenth edition
HONG KONG.- Art Central and its lead partner, UOB, announce today gallery and artist highlights for its milestone tenth edition. Cementing Art Central as a cornerstone event of Hong Kongs much-celebrated art week, the Fair will be held from 26 to 30 March 2025, with a VIP Preview on 25 March, at its iconic Central Harbourfront location. Enoch Cheng returns as curator of gallery programmes and the celebrated Yi Tai Sculpture and Installation Projects sector, shaping visitor experiences that foster creativity through connection and engagement. Art Central 2025 is financially supported by the Mega Arts and Cultural Events Fund under the Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government. Art Central 2025 will present over 100 galleries and 500 artists from Asia and across the globe. Committed ... More
Sharjah Art Foundation presents Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry
SHARJAH CITY.- Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry (SB16) unveiled more than 650 works by nearly 200 participants, including more than 200 new commissions. Curated by Alia Swastika, Amal Khalaf, Megan Tamati-Quennell, Natasha Ginwala and Zeynep Ãz, the Biennial convenes under the title to carry, a multivocal and open-ended proposition. Exploring the ever-expanding questions of what to carry and how to carry it, SB16 is an invitation to encounter the different formations and positions of the five curators as well as the constellation of resonances they have gathered. The works in the Biennial are presented alongside an extensive programme of activations, performances, music and film in more than 17 venues across the Emirate of Sharjah, including sites in Sharjah City, Al Hamriyah, Al Dhaid and Kalba. SB16 looks at how we navigate life within spaces that are ... More
Kunstverein in Hamburg opens solo exhibitions by Olga Balema and Prateek Vijan
HAMBURG.- For his first institutional solo exhibition, and Others who wish to remain anonymous, commissioned by Kunstverein in Hamburg, Prateek Vijan is developing an expansive installation that negotiates the material, judicial, bureaucratic, and ideological apparatus through which colonial loot is kept and circulated within museum collections. Through sculptures, installations, and films, Vijan explores how colonial legacies might be confronted and disrupted. To this end, he has developed the concept of counterloot, an analytical framework for identifying the sociopolitical constellations that determine the legitimacy of colonial ownership claims. Counterloot aims to restore agency to those affected by colonial history today, to reclaim what was stolenwithout seeking permission from those in power. For its implementation, Vijan draws upon the narrative ... More
Across the U.S., artists are going to work to build connections between rural and urban communities
ST. PAUL, MN.- As some politicians exploit rural-urban tensions to sow discord, 35 artists are taking a different approach. A four-state partnership, led by Minnesota-based Springboard for the Arts, has launched Rural-Urban Solidarity, an initiative supporting artist projects in Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, and Colorado, using the arts to push back against polarization and develop shared solutions. The pilot initiative launched with four partners: Minnesota-based Springboard for the Arts, Kentucky Rural-Urban Exchange (RUX), CultureSource in Michigan, and RedLine Contemporary Art Center in Colorado. Each brings a wealth of experience and innovative approaches to bridging community divides through the arts. These organizations will distribute small grants to support artist-led projects fostering understanding, interaction, and compassion ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American artist Robert Morris was born February 09, 1931. Robert Morris (February 9, 1931 - November 28, 2018) was an American sculptor, conceptual artist and writer. He was regarded as having been one of the most prominent theorists of Minimalism along with Donald Judd, but also made important contributions to the development of performance art, land art, the Process Art movement, and installation art. In this image: Robert Morris, Blind Time IX (Grief), 2009. Courtesy the artist and Sprüth Magers Berlin London.
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