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TAMEKANE Yoshikatsu, Silver Garden I, 11/60, woodcut, 2024.
FALMOUTH, MASS.- Highfield Hall & Gardens on Cape Cod is the exclusive U.S. venue for the prestigious juried exhibition, Trailblazers: Celebrating Contemporary Japanese Prints, on view through October 26. Organized by the College Womens Association of Japan (CWAJ), Trailblazers features 140 acclaimed Japanese printmakers, showcasing a range of printmaking techniques from traditional woodblock and intaglio to lithography, etching, aquatint, silkscreen, and contemporary innovations. The exhibition highlights five groundbreaking women artists whose contributions have shaped the evolution of contemporary Japanese printmaking: SHINODA Toko (1913-2021), YOSHIDA Chizuko (1924-2017), IWAMI Reika (1927-2020), YANAGISAWA Noriko (1940- ), and TATSUNO Toeko (1950-2014). These visionaries overcame social and academic barriers to pursue professional careers in the visual arts, paving the way for future generations of artists. Their work reflects bold innovation, resilience, and a dedication to artistic express ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Karma is presenting a new exhibition featuring the latest works by Jane Dickson. Step into a world where the everyday meets the extraordinary, as Dickson's signature style brings urban landscapes and human narratives to life with raw energy and vibrant observation.
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| David Kordansky Gallery hosts major Grateful Dead photo exhibition | | First major Claes Oldenburg show in Tokyo since '96 unveils sculptures and prints at Pace | | Karma opens an exhibition of works by Jane Dickson |
Jay Blakesberg, Deadhead at the Oakland Civic Auditorium, Oakland, CA, 1979 / 2025, archival giclée print, 26 x 40 1/8 inches (66 x 101.9 cm), framed: 26 5/8 x 40 3/4 x 2 inches (67.6 x 103.5 x 5.1 cm), edition of 3, with 1 AP.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- David Kordansky Gallery presents An American Beauty: Grateful Dead 19651995, an exhibition of photographs of the iconic psychedelic rock band curated by photographer Jay Blakesberg and his daughter, Ricki Blakesberg. Timed to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the band, as well as the release of a major new publication of the same name, the show is on view in Los Angeles at 5130 W. Edgewood Pl. from July 15 through August 16, 2025. An American Beauty: Grateful Dead 19651995 features 28 large-scale and 32 smaller photographic prints documenting all eras of the Grateful Dead experience. Selected from the 275 photographs included in the book, these exhibition images were taken by notable Grateful Dead photographersRon Rakow, Jay Blakesberg, Rosie McGee, Adrian Boot, Beth ... More | |
Claes Oldenburg, Alphabet in Form of a Good Humor Bar, 1970 © Claes Oldenburg, courtesy Pace Gallery.
TOKYO.- Pace presents This & That, an exhibition of work by American artist Claes Oldenburg, at its Tokyo gallery from July 17 to August 23. Bringing together sculptures and prints that exist in series created by the artist between the 1960s and mid 2000s, this lively survey will showcase the importance of multiplicity in Oldenburgs practice, inviting visitors to immerse in the artists madcap world and uncover resonances and touchpoints to Japanese culture. Curated by Pace CEO Marc Glimcher and Maartje Oldenburgdaughter of Oldenburg and his wife and longtime collaborator Coosje van Bruggen, and head of the artists estatesthe exhibition is organized as part of the gallerys 65th anniversary year celebration. It will also be Paces first major presentation of Oldenburgs work since the gallery announced its global representation of the Oldenburg estate, the van Bruggen estate, and the Oldenburg and van Bruggen estate, continuing its commitment to shar ... More | |
Jane Dickson, From the Ferris Wheel, 2025. Oil stick on linen, 40 x 24 in., 101.60 x 60.96 cm. 40 5/8 x 24 7/8 x 2 in., 103.19 x 63.18 x 5.08 cm (framed).
NEW YORK, NY.- The interrelation of desiredeferred or briefly fulfilledand entertainment is the current that runs through Jane Dicksons five decades of work. The artist made her earliest paintings of carnivals and theme parks in the 1980s, while living in Times Squareanother place promising pleasure for the right price. She translated imagery from her photographs into nocturnal compositions in which the neon lights of ferris wheels and game booths pop against inky grounds. Still fascinated by the way spectacle can take us on a ride, Dickson revisited the subject matter in the first years of the twenty-first century. Featuring paintings made between 2004 and 2025, Wonder Wheel emphasizes how fairgrounds seduce not despite their artificiality but because of it. Dickson represents New York carnivals such as the Feast of San Gennaro and Coney Islands amusement park from a multitude of perspectives, simulating the way ... More |
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| Haus der Kunst explores art through a child's lens in major new exhibition | | The Norton Simon appoints Mikka Gee Conway as General Counsel | | Female philanthropists preserve performing arts history with major support for national collection and new museum |
Rivane Neuenschwander in collaboration with Guto Carvalhoneto, The Name of Fear/Vaduz (Enge Räume/People in Disguise), 2021. Cotton twill, polyester, quilt batting, pvc, buttons, 98 x 92 x 10 cm. Photo: Mateus Augusto Rubim.
MUNICH.- What happens when artists place children at the centre of their process? From 18 July 2025 to 1 February 2026, Haus der Kunst pursues this question with the group exhibition For Children. Art Stories since 1968. As exhibition highlight of the year, For Children presents works specifi- cally created for children and young adults from 1968 to the present and extends across various indoor and outdoor spaces of the building. It explores universal topics such as humanity, society, politics, economics, ecology, technology, and the future that we first encounter as children and that continue to resonate in adulthood. While the works primarily address children, these fundamental subjects invite visitors of all ages to engage in an intergenerational dialogue. The exhibition inhabits different spaces ... More | |
Mikka Gee Conway. Photo: Enid Arvelo.
PASADENA, CA.- The Norton Simon Museum announced the appointment of Mikka Gee Conway as General Counsel, overseeing the diverse range of legal matters for the Museum and its affiliated foundations. Conway comes to the organization with more than three decades of professional experience at arts institutions across the United States, including the National Gallery of Art and the Getty. She will join the Norton Simons executive team on June 30. We are delighted to welcome Mikka Gee Conway to the Norton Simon, said Walter W. Timoshuk, President and Chief Executive Officer. With her impressive legal expertise and leadership experience in the arts, Mikka will be a strong partner as we advance our organizations objectives. Added Conway, The Norton Simon Museum is an iconic Southern California institution with a spectacular collection and talented staff. I am honored and delighted to be joining them as General Counsel, and to have a role in helping navigate the next ... More | |
Custom-painted turquoise blue Steinway M baby grand piano manufactured 1962, customised in 2019 by Jim Wilson Photo by Mia McDonald.
MELBOURNE.- Arts Centre Melbourne today announced that three leading Melbourne female philanthropists Susan Yates (Peter and Susan Yates Foundation), Virginia Boon (Harry and Virginia Boon Foundation), and Krystyna Campbell-Pretty have provided transformative donations of approximately $1 million each, committing to bringing the wonders of performing arts history back into the spotlight. The donations have been given to the construction of the new Australian Museum of Performing Arts (AMPA) opening at the end of this year, and to secure major acquisitions for the Australian Performing Arts Collection. Philanthropists Susan Yates and Virginia Boon have both contributed to the construction of AMPA, which opens on Hamer Halls Riverside Terrace in December. AMPA will present exclusive exhibitions, featuring both rare and treasured objects from the Australian ... More |
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| Nara Roesler Rio presents 24 unseen works by artist Karin Lambrecht | | Rosebud, the iconic sled from Citizen Kane, breaks auction records and sells for $14.75 million at Heritage Auctions | | Julien's Auctions announces four top music and entertainment executives to drive business development |
Karin Lambrecht, Murmur, Whisper the Sea, 2025. Pigments in acrylic resin on canvas, 170 x 150 cm. 66.9 x 59.1 in.
RIO DE JANEIRO.- Nara Roesler Rio de Janeiro is presenting The Intimacy of Light, a solo exhibition by artist Karin Lambrecht, featuring a curatorial text by Fernanda Lopes. The show brings together 24 previously unseen works by the artist, including paintings and watercolors on paper, all part of her recent production created throughout 2024 and 2025. With a career that began in the 1980s, Lambrecht belongs to a generation of artists who explored new possibilities for painting, its supports, and materialities. In her practice, she engages with a wide range of pictorial materials, from those traditionally associated with painting, such as soft pastels, to more unusual elements like copper, charcoal, and the canvas itself, which she often cuts and sews. Karin Lambrecht has also expanded the boundaries of painting by producing installation-based and performative works. Lambrechts recent production reflects the transformations ... More | |
Citizen Kane (RKO, 1941), "Charles Foster Kane's" Practical Riding "Rosebud" Sled.
DALLAS, TX.- On July 16, the second day of Heritage Auctions blockbuster Entertainment auction sessions taking place July 15-18, the sled famously known as Rosebud, from Orson Welles Hollywood classic masterpiece Citizen Kane, sold for a remarkable $14.75 million, including the buyers premium. The iconic prop has belonged to Gremlins director Joe Dante since 1984. After Heritages 2024 sale of the Ruby Slippers from The Wizard of Oz for $32.5 million, this Rosebud is the second most-valuable piece of movie memorabilia ever sold. The previous auction records for an example of screen-used Rosebud only a few versions were produced for the 1941 production are $60,500 sold to producer-director Steven Spielberg in 1982, and $233,000 to an anonymous buyer in 1996. Ive had the honor of protecting this piece of cinematic history for decades, says Dante. To see Rosebud find a new home and make history in the process is both surreal an ... More | |
Erica Ollwerther previously worked at Sothebys as Senior Vice President of Global Product Management.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Julien's Auctions announced four key executive appointments today to steer their unprecedented growth and expansion of Business Development into the next era of Juliens record-breaking sales success and distinction as a behemoth of the worlds best entertainment memorabilia auctions. Music industry maverick Danny Bennett was named as Senior Managing Director, Business Development to help grow the companys Pop Culture sector, bringing his rich experience as an award-winning producer, marketing pioneer, and tech innovator. As founder of RPM Productions, he represented a diverse slate of recording artists, mostly noted for the reinvention of his father Tony Bennett's career through progressive and innovative marketing strategies as well as heading up multi-faceted campaigns for icons such as Ozzy Osbourne, Pearl Jam, Jamiroquai, and Elvis Costello. As an executive producer for film, television and music projects, he's ... More |
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| 'The Silicon F1': 1997 McLaren F1 to be offered for the first time in over a decade via sealed auction at RM Sotheby's | | GRIMM New York channels Bosch's "Garden of Earthly Delights" in summer group show | | Liz Collins: Motherlode features more than 80 works, across the full arc of the artist's genre-defying career |
RM Sothebys Sealed presents one of just seven McLaren F1s delivered new to the US, and is available for purchase with cryptocurrency. Photo: Zach Brehl / © 2025 Courtesy of RM Sotheby's.
BLENHEIM.- RM Sothebys announces the upcoming sale of a remarkably original 1997 McLaren F1, one of just seven US-delivered registered new. Finished in Magnesium Silver and showing fewer than 6,500 miles, the car has remained California-registered since new and has had just three private owners who are all based in the San Francisco Bay Area. A longtime fixture in the heart of the tech world, the car embodies the forward-thinking engineering that has long resonated with Silicon Valley collectors. Now, in another nod to its modern relevance, the F1 is available to purchase with cryptocurrency through RM Sothebys Sealed, with bidding set to open on August 13 at 10 a.m. PDT and close on August 16 at 1 p.m. PDT. The car will also be on display during RM Sothebys Monterey 2025 auction preview, offering interested bidders and enthusiasts the chance to view the F1 in person. "The Silicon F1 has been carefully ... More | |
Sophie Birch, Fugue, 2025. Oil on canvas, 180 x 150 cm | 70 7/8 x 59 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- GRIMM is presenting a group exhibition in New York this summer inspired by the iconic painting The Garden of Earthly Delights (1490 - 1500) by Hieronymus Bosch. Artists include: Sophie Birch, Gabriella Boyd, Anthony Cudahy, Sarah Esme Harrison, Volker Hüller, Hettie Inniss, Matthew Day Jackson, Jochem Mestriner, Francesca Mollett, Fischer Mustin, Ken D. Resseger, mosie romney, Kiki Xuebing Wang, Shiwen Wang, and Georg Wilson. The exhibition hinges around the ideas of natural beauty, pleasure, and our environment. Responding to the bucolic beauty of Eden, the surreal madness of hell, and the suspended time before man, this show invites viewers to explore the strange, layered world Bosch so masterfully created. The Garden of Earthly Delights brings together a group of contemporary artists who reflect not only on natures forms but also the moments between the real and imagined. Some artists ruminate on the original work in the abstract, while others use known forms to connect these ... More | |
Liz Collins, Zagreb Mountain Rug, 2022. Liz Collins Studio. Photograph courtesy of Liz Collins.
PROVIDENCE, RI.- On July 19, the RISD Museum will open the first U.S. survey of artist Liz Collins genre-defying work. For more than three decades, Collins has moved fluidly among the realms of fine art, fashion, and design, pushing material and technical boundaries to create works that evoke a depth of emotion, energy, and individual expression. The exhibition, titled Liz Collins: Motherlode, will feature more than 80 objects, capturing for the first time the full arc of Collins career from the 1980s to the present day. Motherlode includes important examples of her immersive textile installations and wallworks, intricate and monumental woven hangings, fashion, needlework, drawings, performance documentation, and ephemera. In keeping with the RISD Museums commitment to centering makers and broadening perspectives, the exhibition vividly showcases the trailblazing nature of Collins work as well as the artists deep commitment to illuminating Queer feminist creative practice ... More |
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Art Gallery of Ontario presents solo exhibition by Oakville printmaker Naoko MatsubaraTORONTO.- On view at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) beginning July 17, 2025, Naoko Matsubara is a career-spanning exhibition of exuberant woodcut prints by the celebrated Japanese-Canadian artist. Demonstrating her innovative handling of the medium, her vibrant prints explore nature and human connection, portraying hands at work, bodies in motion and colourful abstractions. On view on Level 1, Naoko Matsubara is curated by Renée van der Avoird, Associate Curator of Canadian Art, AGO. The exhibition features 20 woodcut prints made over the last six decades and is accompanied by a nine-minute documentary film, highlighting the artist in her studio and in her garden, produced by Puncture and the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre in partnership with the AGO and Abbozzo Gallery. For more than six decades, woodblock printmaking has been at the core of Matsubaras artistic ... More The Latvian Pavilion announces first details of its presentation for the Biennale Arte 2026VENICE.- The Latvian Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale presents Untamed Assembly: Backstage of Utopia, an exhibition dedicated to the radical legacy of the Untamed Fashion Assembly (UFA), a one-of-a-kind interdisciplinary event at the intersection of experimental fashion and visual art, held in Riga throughout the 1990s. Curated by Inga Lāce and Adomas Narkevičius, the pavilion brings together archival material and new scenographic interventions to revisit the projects visionary spirit through the work of UFAs founder, Bruno Birmanis, and the contemporary artist-designer duo MAREUNROLS. Commissioned by the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art and supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia, the exhibition will run from 9 May to 22 November 2026. Untamed Fashion Assemblies (1990-1999), initiated by artist and designer Bruno Birmanis, ... More  Derek Eller Gallery presents André Ethier's new paintings: Anxious goblins and fantastical landscapesNEW YORK, NY.- Derek Eller Gallery is presenting a solo exhibition of recent paintings by Canadian artist André Ethier entitled Canned Heat. For his eighth solo exhibition at the Gallery, Ethier evokes a society of goblin men that exist in anxious movement apart from their implied idyllic homeland. Two fantastical landscapes provide a locale to which the goblins are seemingly indigenous. Ethier paints freely without preliminary sketches or a formal plan. Paintings are approached one at a time and are often completed in a single sitting; only in retrospect does a relationship between images occur. To that end, this series of paintings feels almost diaristic, as subliminal forces affecting the artists life guide the content. Ethier reflects on this group of work as related to the inevitable collision of the grotesque and sublime. The goblins inconclusively move to, from, and apart from their homeland, ... More POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair 2025 announces participating galleriesBERLIN.- From 11 to 14 September 2025, the twelfth POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair will transform the impressive Hangar 7 at Tempelhof Airport into a spectacular platform for modern and contemporary art: As permanent partner and the only art fair of Berlin Art Week, it offers a concentrated overview of current trends and is also a central meeting place for collectors, curators and art enthusiasts. 75 selected galleries from 18 countries present their most important artistic positions at POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair. Galleries from Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Canada, Latvia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Romania, Switzerland, South Korea, Taiwan, the Czech Republic, Turkey and Ukraine will be represented. This year's special country focus is on Japan, represented by seven participating galleries, among a total of twelve Asian galleries. 22 galleries ... More Nick Angelo's "Edifice" at Sebastian Gladstone: A dry acknowledgment of cultural commodificationNEW YORK, NY.- Many ravers have a similar memory, a zeitgeist recollection of low-end pulsations traveling through space, concrete, and rock. Disorientating color lights, phase-shifting frequencies, and hallucinogens in the bloodstream are all familiar echoes. Yet, those memories are often accompanied by a persistent sense of aesthetic and even social fatigue. A gnawing sense that the scene was better before. Entering the gallery and exhibition Edifice by Los Angeles-based artist Nick Angelo, one confronts a series of large images whose materiality touches the viewer at the subliminal smell of plastic vinyl. The smell fades over time, as it does with machine-produced printing whether on paper, canvas, or PVC sheeting complementary to the transient musk of polyvinyl chloride (vinyl) records. In Edifice, Angelo maps the relationships between libidinal cultural and subcultural ... More New group show "Second Body" invites reflection on permeable formsLOS ANGELES, CA.- David Kordansky Gallery presents Second Body, an exhibition of works by nearly thirty artists that explores the dissolving boundaries between all life on earth. On view from July 15 through August 16, 2025, in Los Angeles at 5130 W. Edgewood Pl., the exhibition considers the porous intersections of the individual body, the environment, and technology. Curated by Molly Everett, an artist liaison at the gallery, and inspired by Daisy Hildyards 2017 essay The Second Body, the exhibition invokes her concept of how every human is a singular being, made of flesh and bone, at once separate yet simultaneously diffuse and intimately joined; one of many implicated in the whole world. Considering this interconnected and pluralistic presence of the individual body and the increasing permeability of boundaries in the face of climate change, the featured ... More  S.M.A.K. seeks a Head of Programmation, Collection and Research, and a Curator of Contemporary ArtGHENT .- S.M.A.K., the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art in Ghent, is hiring two key positions shaping the artistic future of the museum: Head of Programming, Collection and Research Curator of Contemporary Art S.M.A.K. brings contemporary art from around the world into dialogue with its own collection, striving to reflect and respond to todays complex and fragmented world. Accessibility and inclusivity are central to the museum's mission. As Head of Programming, Collection and Research, you play a key role in the museum's artistic direction. You will translate the museum's mission into a powerful and coherent policy on exhibition programming, collection development and research. You will work closely with the general director, be part of the management team and lead the five-member team of curators and collection experts. You have a particular focus on cross-cutting operations within the ... More Foreword: The inaugural exhibition of International Centre for the Image, DublinDUBLIN.- Curated by Ãngel Luis González Fernández and Julia Gelezova, "Foreword" presents works by 17 artists brought together in conversation to underline the curatorial concerns that the new International Centre for the Image will be dedicated to: the critical role of the still and moving image in arts discourse and for contemporary society. "Foreword" includes several new works exhibited for the first time. The selection of works presents a conversation around the complex dynamics within technology and image making, the politics of representation, and arts practice. The exhibition offers a rich diversity of narratives and artistic approaches through installation, photography, and video works. In Justice Never Enough, Abigail O'Brien (IE) considers misogyny as presented on screen and media, taking the symbol of the Aston Martin in her series of works. In 100 Years of Solitude, ... More Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist unveils new "Total Art" experience at UCCABEIJING.- In a solo exhibition centered on newly commissioned video installation works, internationally acclaimed Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist takes on the spatial dynamics of UCCAs Great Hall. These creations further expand Rist's pioneering and incisive visual lexicon, seamlessly integrating her enduring ecofeminist perspectives with Taoist philosophical reflections on nature and the interconnectedness of all life. The exhibition invites viewers to shift fluidly between intimate microcosms and sweeping macro-perspectives, exploring cycles of ongoing transformation that govern bodily mechanisms, food consumption, digestion, and cultivation within todays complex ecosystems. A dynamic journey into Rists Total Art, this exhibition encompasses video, installation, and sculpture in a profound sensory experience. Rist will present a large-scale, site-specific commission for the Great ... More Laguna Art Museum awarded Festival of Arts Foundation grantLAGUNA BEACH, CALIF.- Laguna Art Museum announced it has been awarded a $3,000 grant from the esteemed Festival of Arts (FOA) Foundation. This generous funding will support the museums thirteenth annual Art + Nature Family Festival Block Party, a vibrant, all-day celebration of creativity and environmental appreciation featuring hands-on activities and educational experiences for all ages. We are incredibly grateful to the Festival of Arts Foundation for this meaningful support, said Julie Perlin Lee, Executive Director of Laguna Art Museum. This funding will help us offer families a memorable and impactful way to explore the powerful relationship between art and nature in our community. The FOA Foundation has long supported Laguna Art Museums educational programming, from sponsoring Art + Nature and LAMs Imagination Celebration to underwriting field trip ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German-American painter and caricaturist Lyonel Feininger was born July 17, 1871. Lyonel Charles Feininger (July 17, 1871 - January 13, 1956) was a German-American painter, and a leading exponent of Expressionism. He also worked as a caricaturist and comic strip artist. In this image: Hellmut Seemann president of the foundation "Weimarer Klassik", right, talks with William Timken, US ambassador to Germany, left, about drawings of artist Lyonel Feininger after the opening of the "Feininger" exhibition at the Bauhaus museum in Weimar, eastern Germany, Saturday, Feb. 18, 2006.
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