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The First Art Newspaper on the Net Established in 1996 Tuesday, February 11, 2025 MoMA opens an exhibition highlighting design as an agent of change Installation view of Pirouette: Turning Points in Design, on view at The Museum of Modern Art, New York from January 26 through October 18, 2025. Photo: Jonathan Dorado. NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art announces Pirouette: Turning Points in Design, an exhibition highlighting design as an agent of change, on view from January 26, 2025 to October 18, 2025. The exhibition includes a wide range of objects, drawn largely from MoMA’s collection, that have had a deep impact, whether on the design field or on the world at large—including furniture, electronics, symbols, information design, and more—spanning from the 1930s to today. Some of these objects are universally recognizable, while others might be known only to a smaller audience of fans and experts. Some have transformed behaviors, provoked departures from previous typologies and stereotypes, or embodied innovation in materials, form, or function. They have offered unconventional solutions to conventional problems, or designed brand new, constructive problems that lead to new and more evolved studies and solutions. Seen together, the objects in the exhibition highlight how design helps people b ... More The Best Photos of the Day Tobias Spichtig, Nude (Psyche), 2023, installation view, in: Tobias Spichtig, Everything No One Ever Wanted, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024. Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel. A just and fair solution: Campendonk painting will remain in Krefeld 2025 de Young and Legion of Honor exhibitions Robots, television, and Fluxus: Busan Museum of Contemporary Art unveils Nam June Paik's art-science fusion Heinrich Campendonk, Wirtshaus, 1917. Öl auf Leinwand. Sammlung Kunstmuseen Krefeld © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024. Photo: Dirk Rose. KREFELD.- Thanks to an amicable agreement, the City of Krefeld has been able to retain Heinrich Campendonk’s painting Wirtshaus (Tavern) as a permanent part of the collection of the Kunstmuseen Krefeld. It originally belonged to the collection of the Jewish shoe manufacturer Alfred Hess. Together with the rightful heir of Tekla and Hans Hess, the Kunstmuseen Krefeld have arrived at a “just and fair solution.” The agreement was preceded by extensive provenance research, conducted on behalf of the Kunstmuseen Krefeld by recognized experts in the field and supported by the German Lost Art Foundation (Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste). Campendonk’s 1917 oil painting has been in the museum’s collection since 1948. It is one of the preeminent works of this Krefeld-born artist and leading protagonist of Rhenish Expressionism in the municipal art museums’ holdings. “In view of the crimes of National Socialism, we have a continuing responsibility ... More Édouard Manet, "Berthe Morisot with a Bouquet of Violets," 1872. Oil on canvas, 21 7/8 x 15 15/16 in. (55.5 x 40.5 cm) Musée d'Orsay. SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco shared a vibrant schedule of exhibitions for 2025. Newly announced exhibitions anchor this dynamic year, including Art of Manga at the de Young and Manet & Morisot at the Legion of Honor. Opening in September, Art of Manga will be the first exhibition in the Americas to explore manga as an art form and will spotlight its influence on global storytelling and its function as social commentary. In October, Manet & Morisot will be the first major exhibition ever dedicated to the pivotal relationship between the French Impressionist painters Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot; it will serve as the penultimate exhibition in the centennial celebrations of the Legion of Honor 100. “Featuring pioneering ideas, research, and artists such as Paul McCartney, Wayne Thiebaud, Isaac Julien, Rose B. Simpson, Édouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, and Yinka Shonibare, among others, our forthcoming year of exhibitions testify to art’s enduring power to inspire, pro ... More Paik-Abe Video Synthesizer, 1969 (1972), 168 x 64 x 114 cm. 2 CRT TV sets, 2 enamel coils, 2 CCTV cameras, 1 amplifier, 5 audio generators, control board. Nam June Paik Art Center Collection. BUSAN.- “TV will gain many branches two-way interactive TV for shopping, library research, opinion polling, health consultation, inter-office data transmission, and 1,001 new applications a nuclear energy in information and society-building, which I would call tentatively ‘Broadband Communication Network.’” There has been no prophecy about today’s global web and media industries that is as accurate as the one made by Nam June Paik in 1974. He was someone who constantly crossed back and forth over the line that divides art and science, inventing machines that gave religion a new mode of expression and would only be realized long after his death. “Nam June Paik, Nam June Paik, and Nam June Paik,” a retrospective co-hosted with the Nam June Paik Art Center, pays homage to an artist who saw the future more clearly than anyone else. It shows his robots, machines, musical instruments, and various artworks not as relics of a bygone era but eerily prop ... More Christie's to present Wolfgang Tillmans: The Way We Look across its Day and Online sales Gripping tales of ancient heroes and their adventures will captivate you at the Sinebrychoff Art Museum Mickalene Thomas's monumental portraits dazzle in 'All About Love' Wolfgang Tillmans, JAL, 1997. © Christie's Images Ltd 2025. LONDON.- Christie’s will present Wolfgang Tillmans: The Way We Look, a collection of 15 photography works by renowned German artist Wolfgang Tillmans, all coming to market for the first time from a distinguished private collection. With estimates ranging from £3,000 to £120,000, these iconic works represent a rare opportunity to acquire seminal examples of Tillmans’ oeuvre. An exhibition of the collection, open to all, will be on view at Christie’s King Street in London from 12 to 21 February 2025. Wolfgang Tillmans: The Way We Look captures a transformative period in art and culture, spanning the late 20th century and culminating in his pivotal works of the 1990s. Reflecting on a decade of profound cultural shifts, including the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the formation of the European Union in 1993, the collection highlights Tillmans' deep connection to the transformative spirit of the era. These events, combined with his extensive career in London, shaped his groundbre ... More Berndt Abraham Godenheim (1799–1881), Laokoon, 1827. Finnish National Gallery / Ateneum Art Museum. Photo: Finnish National Gallery / Hannu Pakarinen. HELSINKI.- The Sinebrychoff Art Museum offers you drama, strength, beauty, sacrifice, and incredible plot twists. Ancient hero tales are certainly not short of action or powerful emotions. “The narratives often follow a similar pattern. The beginning looks promising and everyone has good intentions, but then it all explodes and the story goes in the opposite direction,” Claudia de Brün, curator of the exhibition, says. The Greek heroes’ adventures are described in ancient epic poems, they appear in works of art and, in the classical period, step onto the theatre stage. In Greek tragedies, the viewer is subjected to feelings of fear, pity and compassion, since, according to the ancient theory of poetry, this allows us to release negative emotions. Fascination with and enjoyment of art thus lead to catharsis, to purification of the soul and mind. No wonder, then, that ancient tales have been part of Western culture for more ... More Mickalene Thomas, Mama Bush_ (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher, 2009. © Mickalene Thomas. LONDON.- The Hayward Gallery will present Mickalene Thomas: All About Love as the pioneering artist’s first solo presentation in a UK public art gallery from 11 February to 5 May 2025. Thomas is a trailblazer of portraiture and collage, widely renowned for her large scale paintings of Black women posed against boldly patterned backgrounds embellished with rhinestones. As an artist who fearlessly transcends creative boundaries, her artworks have also adorned album covers (Solange’s EP True, 2013) and emblazoned fashion runways (Dior, 2023). Thomas has redefined beauty and identity through her vibrant and dynamic compositions. Her work, characterised by a unique blend of colour, pattern, and subject matter, challenges societal norms and provides a powerful counter-narrative to mainstream depictions of beauty and identity. The exhibition’s title, All About Love, reflects the artist’s expansive and empowering ... More Homemade instruments and seismographic scores: Jay Heikes maps humanity's fragile arc A dialogue of surface and chance: Two radical visions come together in Paris Carlos Almaraz at Marc Selwyn Fine Art: A vibrant tribute to LA's Chicano pioneer Installation view, Jay Heikes, Second Wave at Adams and Ollman. PORTLAND, OR.- Adams and Ollman is presenting Second Wave, a solo exhibition by Jay Heikes (b. 1975, Princeton, NJ; lives in St. Paul, MN and works in Minneapolis, MN). The exhibition, an immersive installation featuring new sculptural objects and sound continues through February 22, 2025. Heikes is well-known for his world-building and expansive exhibitions that span multiple media—painting, drawing, performance, sculpture, and installation. His work alludes to various histories and events, from personal narratives to cultural milestones to geological events. Heikes continues his interventions into the way we experience and understand the arc of human existence. Rather than following a rational or linear timeline, his work creates circular narratives that fold back upon themselves, suggesting an intricate alchemy of time. In Second Wave, Heikes explores the paradoxical relationship between human progress and extinction. The artist examines a central dissonance: how advancement ... More Jean Dubuffet, Femme et son petit (Webel 28), 14/10/1944. Black lithography 34 x 24 cm. N° 5/10. PARIS.- À propos: Made in vastly different contexts, the lithographies by Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985, France) - painter, sculptor and founder of the art brut movement - resonate in many ways with the contemporary photographic works by Chuck Kelton (1952, USA). Both bodies of work consider questions of process, matter and surface; the artistic gesture vs. chance. Upturning the conventional practice of their medium, both artists seek a humble art form, a modest yet universal beauty. The exhibition title is a handwritten note found in Chuck Kelton’s preparatory notebooks that describes the emotion he seeks to evoke with his works. Interestingly, just as Dubuffet was a passionate collector of art brut, Chuck Kelton is also an avid collector and an American museum recently exhibited his personal collection of African masks, acquired over several decades, alongside his own experimental chemigrams. Jean Dubuffet's lithography is a lesser-known aspect of his opus yet his printmaking was prolific: ... More Carlos Almaraz, Beggar’s Prayer (after Marsden Hartley), 1989. Oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches. BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF.- Marc Selwyn Fine Art is presenting Carlos Almaraz – Los Angeles, the gallery’s first exhibition of work by the artist. A pioneer of the Chicano art movement, Almaraz (b. Mexico City, 1941–d. Los Angeles, 1989) was among the earliest artists who lent his support to causes such as César Chávez’s United Farm Workers, creating social realist works that pushed forward the politics of the Chicano Civil Rights movement, often called El Movimiento. Almaraz created a body of work representative of the rich multiculturalism he experienced as an artist and Mexican American growing up in East LA. Alongside fellow artists Roberto “Beto” de la Rocha, Gilbert “Magu” Luján and Frank Romero—Almaraz co-founded the East Los Angeles-based artist collective Los Four in 1973, working together to create a bi-lingual and bi-cultural form of art making. Presented for the first time in 1973 at the gallery of UC Irvine, Los Four: Almaraz / de la Rocha / Lujan / Romero received substantial attention, and led to i ... More Everyday objects, transformed: A playful look at instability in Ornaghi & Prestinari's new exhibition LAM museum acquires new piece by artist behind viral beer-can artwork Gagosian to participate in Frieze Los Angeles 2025 with Chris Burden's Nomadic Folly Ornaghi & Prestinari - Sbilenco 2024, saffron and acrylic on linen, 44,7 x 35,2 cm. Photo: Hafid Lhachmi © ADAGP Paris, 2025. PARIS.- GALLERIA CONTINUA is presenting Blursday, the new solo exhibition by the artist duo Ornaghi & Prestinari, in its Paris exhibition space in the heart of the Marais. The title of the exhibition refers to the English neologism Blursday, coined to describe the temporal and emotional disorientation experienced during the lockdowns imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, when the days of the week seemed to blur into a single indistinct sequence. For Ornaghi & Prestinari, the term becomes a metaphor for an abstract condition in which time loses its linearity, and the boundaries between yesterday, today, and tomorrow dissolve, giving rise to a blurred and undefined emotional state. Decontextualized here, the term outlines the suspended atmosphere and sense of displacement that permeate the exhibition. Valentina Ornaghi and Claudio Prestinari began working together in 2009, driven by the desire to develop each project through dialogue and ... More One of Alexandre Lavet’s hand-painted beer cans from the LAM museum’s collection. LISSE.- The LAM museum in Lisse, the Netherlands, has acquired the artwork C’est si bon by the French artist Alexandre Lavet. Last year, another piece by Lavet — two hand-painted beer cans — made global headlines after being mistaken for rubbish and thrown in the bin at the Dutch food art museum. The newly acquired piece, C’est si bon, is characteristic of Lavet’s work. At first glance, it appears to be no more than an ordinary takeaway bag from a bakery in Brussels. But look closer, and you will see that the paper bag was entirely handcrafted, carefully crumpled and hand-painted on Japanese paper. The artwork will be on display from Wednesday, 12 February 2025 until the end of the year as part of the LAM museum’s new exhibition. Alexandre Lavet (1988) is known for his art featuring everyday objects. While attending a residency in New York, he was once asked to keep his receipts for expense claims. Struck by their beauty, he decided to recreate some of the receipts by hand. He soon began to dr ... More Chris Burden, Nomadic Folly, 2001. Wood platform, 4 cloth and metal umbrellas, woven carpets, braided ropes, pillows, silken fabrics, glass and metal lamps, CD player, and speakers, 11 1/2 x 20 x 20 feet (3.5 x 6.1 x 6.1 m) © 2025 Chris Burden/Licensed by the Chris Burden estate and Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy Gagosian. LOS ANGELES, CA.- Gagosian announced its participation in Frieze Los Angeles 2025 with Nomadic Folly (2001), an enveloping large-scale installation by Chris Burden that was produced for the seventh Istanbul Biennial, incorporating locally sourced materials and objects. This is the first time that the work has been exhibited in the United States. At a profoundly difficult moment for the city of Los Angeles, this project by one of its greatest artists—perhaps his gentlest and most humanistic—offers visitors a place to gather in safety and community. A radical figure with a fierce political consciousness, Burden possessed a unique ability to wield conceptual art as a tool for sociopolitical change, and as a metaphor for the power dynamics of industry and institution. In a counterpoint ... More Artist Yayoi Kusama on Using Her Art to Fight For Peace More News Azkuna Zentroa opens the photographic research on Lemoiz by the artist Ixone Sádaba BILBAO.- Azkuna Zentroa - Alhóndiga Bilbao, Bilbao City Council's Centre for Society and Contemporary Culture, opened its 2025 exhibition programme with the project Escala 1:1 by the artist Ixone Sádaba. In the presentation of this exhibition produced by Azkuna Zentroa was attended by Gonzalo Olabarria, Councillor for Culture and Governance of Bilbao City Council, the artist Ixone Sádaba, and the curator of the exhibition, Carles Guerra. The presentation was also attended by Ianire Anaya, assistant to the General Management of Giroa - Veolia, Azkuna Zentroa's partner in this project. The exhibition produced by Azkuna Zentroa displays the photographic research of the Biscayan artist on the material, symbolic and political legacy of the Lemoiz nuclear power station. As they explained in the Exhibition Hall, Escala 1 ... More Ana Briz joins The Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara as Assistant Director SANTA BARBARA, CALIF.- The Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara announced the hire of Ana Briz as Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions. Ana is a researcher, writer, and curator. Born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, she currently calls Southern California home. The abolitionist imaginary informs her curatorial practice and research interests. Her research is situated in the field of performance, art, and visual culture in the United States, and focuses on queer, feminist, and anti-racist work by Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) in California. She is broadly interested in issues related to social justice, displacement, and resistance in contemporary art and culture. “I am thrilled to join the AD&A Museum and serve the UC Santa Barbara student body," Briz says. "As a regional historian of California art and performance, ... More Five Figge Art Academy students recognized in New York Times art contest DAVENPORT, IA.- Five students from the Art Academy at the Figge Art Museum have been recognized in the New York Times “Teens on Politics Today” contest, which received over 1,700 submissions from around the world. The competition asked students to visually or verbally express what it’s like to grow up in today’s political climate. Sherry Tang, a standout from the Art Academy at the Figge, was named a top 18 finalist for her piece on artificial intelligence’s impact on the arts. Her work emphasized that art is meant to express human thought and emotion and not rely on AI-generated content. Hannah Stortz received an Honorable Mention for her artwork, which depicted her reliance on Christian faith to navigate today’s media landscape, symbolized by headphones plugged into a Bible to “tune out” the noise. Additionally, Isabelle Heine, Leo Nedved, and Hadley ... More Lynn Hershman Leeson's "Of Humans, Cyborgs, and AI" opens at Nevada Museum of Art LAS VEGAS, NEV.- For nearly 60 years, artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson has been probing key issues within society, including the relationship between humans and technology, issues of surveillance, gender, and privacy. She has received international acclaim for her pioneering contributions to photography, video, film, performance, web-based and interactive art. In 1988, Leeson asked us to, “Imagine a world in which there is a blurring between the soul and the chip, a world in which artificially implanted DNA is genetically bred to create an enlightened and self-replicating intelligent machine, which perhaps uses a human body as a vehicle for mobility.” Today, Leeson expands on the cyborg—a precursor of artificial intelligence—as an inevitable outcome of human development in a technologically driven society. Lynn Hershman ... More 15 years in full color: P420 celebrates anniversary with cross-generational showcase BOLOGNA.- For its 15th anniversary, P420 presents 15 Years, a group show that celebrates for the first time all the artists who have contributed to set the course of the gallery founded in 2010 by Fabrizio Padovani and Alessandro Pasotti. Like the neutral gray of Pantone 420, which lends its name to the gallery, a perfect backdrop to enhance any color, P420 sets out to be an ideal background to bring out the unique quality of every artist. The works on view intertwine like the threads of a narrative that crosses geographical and temporal boundaries, generating a multiplicity of different visions. Behind each work there is an artist, and behind each artist an encounter with the founders, a very personal tale to tell. From the first artists included in the program, initially most of whom already had a place in history, to the artists of closer generations, thanks ... More David Jones: Line + Color opens at Arte Vallarta Museo in Puerto Vallarta PUERTO VALLARTA.- NYC architect David Jones’s exhibition, Line + Color, opened at the Arte Vallarta Museo, in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, on February 1, 2025, with the artist in attendance. The exhibit takes a 21st century look at the 20th century DeStijl Movement, a movement that began largely in response to the horrors of World War I and the wish to remake a fresh society in its aftermath by two pioneering abstract artists, Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg. The term DeStijl, in Dutch, simply means “the style.” DeStijl looked at art as a means of social and spiritual redemption. It embraced a utopian vision of art and its transformative potential. Its adherents believed in expressing the artists' search "for the universal.” In doing so, it created an austere language, a visual language, consisting of precisely rendered geometric forms: Usually straight ... More EMMA's current Director Pilvi Kalhama to head the new Museum of Architecture ESPOO.- The long-time Director of EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Pilvi Kalhama (Ph.Lic.), has been appointed Director of the new Museum of Architecture and Design in Helsinki. Kalhama will remain Director of EMMA until the end of July and will take up her new position on 4 August 2025. The Board of Directors of the EMMA Art Museum Foundation will launch the recruitment process for a new director in February. “We at EMMA are proud and happy about Pilvi’s appointment,” says Saija Äikäs, Chair of the Board of the EMMA Art Museum Foundation, noting that EMMA is in excellent shape after Pilvi Kalhama’s tenure. “We expect the new Director of EMMA to have strong, visionary expertise in art and design, as well as international experience. We also require demonstrable people-management and business skills. The new Director will oversee ... More MUMA launches 50th year with powerful and timely exhibition exploring image making in the digital age MELBOURNE.- Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA, Australia’s leading contemporary university art museum, launched its 50th year with Image Economies, a powerful and timely exhibition featuring 18 acclaimed artists and collectives from across Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand and the Asia Pacific including significant works from the Monash University Collection. Running from 8 February to 17 April 2025, the exhibition explores the role of evolving digital technologies in reshaping storytelling, identity and cultural practices, asking fundamental questions about agency and communication in a world mediated by machines. “In an era where images circulate online and influence our lives—shaping elections, mobilising movements and defining social norms—Image Economies provides a timely and thought-provoking exploration of how the systems ... More Vero Beach Museum of Art presents Timeless: Robert Farber's Fashion Photography VERO BEACH, FLA.- Vero Beach Museum of Art presents Timeless: Robert Farber’s Fashion Photography on view in the Stark Gallery from February 10 through August 31, 2025. This original exhibition is curated by the Vero Beach Museum of Art’s Chief Curator, Caitlin Swindell. Robert Farber (b. 1944) is a renowned photographer whose five-decade career spans both commercial and fine art photography. His diverse portfolio includes subjects ranging from fashion and portraiture to still life and landscapes, captured from around the world. This exhibition features two of his fashion-related series: “Vintage Fashion,” primarily drawn from his commercial work, and “Deterioration,” a series of fashion photographs transformed by the natural aging of their film transparencies. Over time, exposure to heat, humidity, and other environmental ... More PhotoGalleries Mystery & Benevolence Anne Frank Moore and Malaparte Gauguin Flashback On a day like today, English photographer Henry Fox Talbot was born February 11, 1800. William Henry Fox Talbot (11 February 1800 - 17 September 1877) was an English scientist, inventor, and photography pioneer who invented the salted paper and calotype processes, precursors to photographic processes of the later 19th and 20th centuries. In this image: London Street, Reading, c. 1845, a modern positive from Talbot's original calotype negative. © 1996 - 2025 Founder: Ignacio Villarreal (1941 - 2019) Editor & Publisher: Jose Villarreal (52 8110667640) Art Director: Juan José Sepúlveda Ramírez Writer: Ofelia Zurbia Betancourt

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