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Cover Banner of Venue, Volume 1, published August 31, 2022. Photo: VGreen Design.
The Midwest Art History Society is proud to announce Venue, a peer-reviewed digital journal. The journal serves as a venue for the publication of outstanding peer-reviewed and edited content primarily relating to themes of significance to the Midwest Art History Society (MAHS) and its members. Material may take the form of scholarly essays on a chosen art historical theme or national contemporary issue that develops based on the conferences keynote lecture and/or a group of related sessions, a foundational figure in MAHSs history, a particular Midwestern art collection, or historiography of art historical scholarship. Although MAHS was originally founded in 1973 as a Midwest organization, its board of directors, membership, and conference participants are drawn from across the country. It is a recognized affiliated society of the College Art Association. As an organization, ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Hayward Gallery presents the first UK solo exhibition at a public art gallery by leading Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara. The major retrospective invites viewers to immerse themselves in the intriguing world of one of todayâs most celebrated artists through four decades of work, including recent paintings and drawings, as well as sculptures and iconic portraits brought to life through richly layered colours.
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| So far, so close: Guadalupe, Mexico, in Spain opens at the Prado Museum | | Miller & Milller announces results of 5 days of auctions | | Morphy's June 21 Santa Fe Old West auction features Clayton Moore's Lone Ranger mask and Colt Revolvers |
Third Apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe Attributed to Juan Correa (c. 1646-1716) Oil on canvas c. 1690-1700 Seville, Hermanas de la CompañÃa de la Cruz.
MADRID.- So far, so close: Guadalupe, Mexico, in Spain offers a new perspective on the role of the Virgin of Guadalupe as a miraculously created image, an object of worship and symbol of identity in the Hispanic world. Through nearly 70 works, including paintings, prints, sculptures and books, the exhibition shows how this manifestation of the Virgin, which first appeared on the Cerro del Tepeyac or Tepeyac Hill in 1531, transcended the borders of New Spain to become a powerful presence in the Spanish collective imagination. The project, curated by the Mexican professors Jaime Cuadriello (UNAM) and Paula Mues Orts (INAH), is the result of years of research and collaboration between institutions. The exhibition is structured into eleven thematic sections, combining small and large-format works that range from the earliest depictions of apparitions of the Virgin to the sophisticated vera effigies reproduced for devotional or political purposes. The exhibition begins with a visual cartography that ... More | |
Canadian 1940s Sweet Caporal Cigarettes single-sided lithographed tin sign, featuring an image of the Majorette, the longtime symbol of Sweet Caporal cigarettes (CA$16,520).
NEW HAMBURG, ON.- A rare, Canadian early 1900s 3 Strikes Cut Plug pocket tobacco tin, one of the most important pieces of Canadian tobacco history, was the overall top lot in five days of auctions held May 21st-25th by Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd. The tin came into the May 25th auction with a $10,000-$12,000 pre-sale estimate but ended up bringing $64,900. All prices in this report are in Canadian dollars and include an 18 percent buyers premium. The first three sales were online-only, with no live webcast portion. They included a Toys, Banks & Beatles Memorabilia auction on May 21st, featuring the Christopher Dennett collection; a Vintage Comics & Comic Art auction on May 22nd; and a Soda Advertising & Push Bars When Push Comes to Shove auction May 23rd, featuring Part 1 of the Glenn Buchanan collection. The last two auctions were also online-only, but bidders could tune in to the live webcast to watch lots close in real time. They included ... More | |
William Gilbert Gaul (1855-1919, Member of National Academy of Design), Indian by Campfire, oil on canvas, artist-signed at lower right. Size: 39½in x 29½in (sight). Provenance: Sothebys New York, March 14, 2001, Lot 153. Estimate: $30,000-$50,000.
SANTA FE, NM.- Hundreds of top-notch dealers from across the United States will be set up at the June 21-22, 2025 Old West Show in historic Santa Fe, New Mexico, offering a tremendous variety of Western art and antiques for every level of collector. When the hustle and bustle of opening day concludes, all eyes will turn to a special onsite attraction: a 472-lot Western auction hosted by Morphys and conducted by the companys president and principal auctioneer, Dan Morphy. The auctions start time is 5pm MT (7pm ET), and all forms of remote bidding will be available, including absentee, by phone, via mobile app, or live online through Morphy Live. All auction goods may be previewed in person during the show setup on Friday, June 20 from 9-5, on Saturday, June 21 from 9-4, or anytime online. Both the auction and preview are free and open to the public. The high-quality array of auction merchandise includes Western fine ... More |
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| Olafur Eliasson, 'Long daylight pavilion' & 'Viewing machine' in Helsinki | | Yoshitomo Nara retrospective opens at Hayward Gallery, marking UK solo debut | | Major public and private investment secured for the transformation of Tate Liverpool |
Olafur Eliasson, Long daylight pavilion, 2025; Installation view: Kruunuvuorenranta, Helsinki, 2025; Photo: HAM / Maija Toivanen; Commissioned by City of Helsinki; Courtesy of HAM Helsinki Art Museum © 2025 Olafur Eliasson.
HELSINKI.- City of Helsinkis and HAM Helsinki Art Museums most extensive public art project to date, Olafur Eliassons Long daylight pavilion, is now open in Wiirinkallio, Kruunuvuorenranta. The contemporary art event Helsinki Biennial, open June 8 September 21, also presents Eliassons large-scale artwork, Viewing machine, which is being featured on Vallisaari Island. Long daylight pavilion is a site-specific artwork that marks the suns path through the sky above the city of Helsinki on the summer solstice. Curated by HAM Helsinki Art Museum, the light installation is inspired by time, the sun, and the geographical location of Helsinki. The artwork highlights Kruunuvuorenrantas profile as the district of light art. Long daylight pavilion is Olafur Eliassons first public artwork in Finland. Its a great honor for me to see my work ... More | |
Yoshitomo Nara, Miss Moonlight, 2020. Courtesy Mori Art Museum, Tokyo. © Yoshitomo Nara, courtesy Yoshitomo Nara Foundation.
LONDON.- The Hayward Gallery presents the first UK solo exhibition at a public art gallery by leading Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara. The major retrospective invites viewers to immerse themselves in the intriguing world of one of todays most celebrated artists through four decades of work, including recent paintings and drawings, as well as sculptures and iconic portraits brought to life through richly layered colours. Expanding on the blockbuster exhibition from the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Yoshitomo Nara offers a window into the inner-workings of the artist, providing an insight into how Naras life experiences are intrinsically linked to his output through core themes and motifs. Yoshitomo Nara is best-known for his striking images of child-like figures and animals with large heads and wide eyes that challenge viewers with their direct gaze and defiant stance. Both captivating and ominous, ... More | |
Exterior view North © 6a architects.
LIVERPOOL.- Tate Liverpool today announced major public and private investment towards the reimagining of the landmark gallery on Royal Albert Dock. This included £12m of funding from the DCMSs Public Bodies Infrastructure Fund as well as generous philanthropic donations from the Garfield Weston Foundation, and The Ross Warburton Charitable Trust. The redevelopment of Tate Liverpool will transform the UKs most-popular modern and contemporary art gallery outside London. The project is now entering the final phase of fundraising ahead of the gallerys reopening in 2027. A beacon for cultural regeneration in the north since it first opened in 1988, the gallerys transformation has been described as Britains most important cultural project and will make a vital contribution to Liverpools £6bn visitor economy. Last month Tate Liverpool announced that the first major retrospective of artist Chila Kumari Singh Burman will form part of the reopening programme, which will ... More |
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| Exhibition featuring the work of Julia Margaret Cameron on view at The Morgan Library & Museum | | Alte Nationalgalerie unveils "Camille Claudel and Bernhard Hoetger: Emancipation from Rodin" | | V&A opens Design and Disability exhibition |
Julia Margaret Cameron, Call, I Follow, I Follow, Let Me Die!, 1867. Carbon print. © The Royal Photographic Society Collection at the V&A, acquired with the generous assistance of the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Art Fund, Museum no. RPS.735-2017.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Morgan Library & Museum is presenting Arresting Beauty: Julia Margaret Cameron, a major exhibition exploring the revolutionary work of one of photographys most pioneering and influential figures. On view from May 30 through September 14, 2025, it brings together a remarkable selection of Camerons evocative portraits and staged compositions, offering a rare glimpse into the artistic vision of a woman who transformed photography into an expressive art form. Organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), London, the exhibition features works drawn from the V&As extensive holdings of nearly one thousand of Camerons photographs, which comprise the largest and most comprehensive collection of her work in the world. Arresting Beauty includes an array of Camerons most striking works, ... More | |
View of the exhibition Camille Claudel & Bernhard Hoetger in the Alte Nationalgalerie ©Nationalgalerie/David von Becker.
BERLIN.- The Alte Nationalgalerie on Museum Island Berlin has opened "Camille Claudel and Bernhard Hoetger: Emancipation from Rodin," an exhibition that brings together the sculptures of two artists whose careers intersected in early 20th-century Paris. The exhibition, which opened on June 5, 2025, will run until September 28, 2025. This special presentation marks the first time since 1905 that works by Claudel and Hoetger have been collectively exhibited, highlighting their shared pursuit of artistic recognition and their distinct paths away from the influence of Auguste Rodin. The exhibition aims to illuminate a historically under-examined encounter in European art, showcasing the artistic vitality they developed amidst the Parisian avant-garde. The core of the exhibition revisits a dual show organized in 1905 by Parisian gallerist Eugène Blot, which featured twelve of Claudel's bronzes and 33 of Hoetger's bronze sculptures, along ... More | |
Installation image of Design and Disability at V&A South Kensington. Photo by Isobel Greenhalgh.
LONDON.- V&A South Kensington opened Design and Disability, an exhibition that centres disability as an identity and culture through design. This exhibition showcases the radical contributions of Disabled, Deaf, and neurodivergent people to contemporary design and culture from 1940s to now. It acts as both a celebration of Disabled-led design and a call for action, affirming the importance of embedding the experiences and expertise of Disabled people in design processes. 170 objects are on display across three sections Visibility, Tools and Living spanning design, art, architecture, fashion, and photography. It shows how Disabled people have designed for every aspect of life through their own experience and expertise as well as trace the political and social history of design and disability. Through examples of disability-first practices showcasing the work of Disabled people and their collaborators, the exhibition demonstrates how design can be made more equitable ... More |
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| BAMPFA appoints Chief Development Officer | | Ivan Falardi brings "Eyes in Havana" to Cuba: A fresh look at vision | | Three iconic Ferrari Daytonas offered exclusively through a sealed bid at RM Sotheby's |
Kathryn Wagner appointed Chief Development Officer at BAMPFA.
BERKELEY, CALIF.- The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive announced today the appointment of Kathryn Wagner as its Chief Development Officer. Wagner joins BAMPFA from Cal Performances, where she currently serves as the Major Gifts Officer for UC Berkeleys internationally renowned performing arts presenter. She brings to BAMPFA more than a decade of leadership experience working in arts and educational nonprofits, including a successful tenure as Cal Performances Interim Development Director. Wagner will begin her role at BAMPFA on June 16. In her new position, Wagner will oversee all aspects of BAMPFAs fundraising program, ranging from donor stewardship and board engagement to institutional grants and fundraising events. As a member of BAMPFAs senior leadership team, she will supervise a five-person development department and work closely with Executive Director Julie Rodrigues Widholm to advance a vibrant ... More | |
Ivan Falardi, EYES #75, stampa su ChromaLuxe, 2023.
HAVANA.- Ivan Falardi's first solo exhibition in Cuba, "Eyes in Havana," is currently on display at the Fábrica de Arte Cubano (FAC) in Havana. The exhibition, which opened on June 7, 2025, will run until August 31, 2025, and explores the concept of vision and perception. Curated by Patricia Silverio Guzmán and sponsored by the Italian Embassy in Havana, the exhibition features over 300 works by the Bergamo-based artist. The works invite visitors to consider the nature of vision, drawing inspiration from photographer Robert Frank's idea of "listening with one's eyes," which suggests perceiving underlying meanings and silent resonances in images. Ivan Falardi, who previously worked in television and cinema as a producer and director, has explored the subject of vision through various mediums. This exploration began with a theatrical performance titled La Grammatica dello Sguardo (The Grammar of the Gaze) and continued with the 2023 installation EYES. 206 Punti di Vista (206 Points of View), exhi ... More | |
RM Sothebys Sealed Bid presents three irreplaceable Ferrari Daytonas. Photo: Robin Adams © 2025 Courtesy of RM Sotheby's.
BLENHEIM.- RM Sothebys announces the upcoming sale of three remarkable Ferrari Daytonas, including a 1973 365 GTB/4 Daytona Competizione with Le Mans and Daytona history. The Daytonas will be offered through RM Sothebys Sealed Bid platform, with bidding set to open June 5 and close on June 26. Its rare to see three Daytonas this significant offered together, said Shelby Myers, Global Head of Private Sales at RM Sothebys. From the N.A.R.T.-campaigned Competizione to the unrestored Coupe and well-preserved Spider, each highlights a different chapter in the 365 GTB/4 story and together represent the perfect trifecta of Daytonas for any collection. 1973 Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona Competizione: The first of five third-series Daytona Competiziones built by Ferrari, this car was delivered new to Luigi Chinettis North American Racing Team (NART) and campaigned by them throughout the 1973 and 1974 seasons. It ... More |
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Exhibition showcases the vibrant history of Eugene's lesbian communityPORTLAND, OR.- Outliers and Outlaws showcases the vibrant history of Eugenes lesbian community from the 1960s through the 1990s. This groundbreaking project, developed through the Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project and shared with many as a museum exhibition, digital exhibition, digital archive, and full-length documentary film, captures the stories of 83 women who were instrumental in shaping the citys social and political landscape. The exhibition highlights an extraordinary period when Eugene was known as a lesbian mecca, creating a unique community that challenged traditional societal norms. At OJMCHE, visitors can dive into the history of the Jewish-Lesbian Balabustas community, including memories from the 1992 Freedom Seder organized around the opposition to the antigay Oregon ballot measure 9, which was eventually rejected by voters. Museums ... More Tarik Kiswanson, Fatima Moallim, Lisa Tan: 3 somrar/3 summers opens at Lunds konsthallLUND.- This years summer exhibition at Lunds konsthall features three topical and accomplished artists with connections to Sweden: Tarik Kiswanson (born in Halmstad in 1986, lives in Paris), Fatima Moallim (born in Moscow in 1992, lives in Malmö) and Lisa Tan (born in Syracuse, New York, in 1973, lives in Stockholm). Their different modes of artistic expression reflect the varied output of the contemporary art scene. Nevertheless, one unifying trait is how these artists personal experiences of place and time become articulated in their productions perspectives that also deepen our understanding of the multitude of voices that constitutes society today. Another unifying trait is their relationship to writing and text, emphasised by the exhibition title, 3 summers. It is borrowed from a book from 2016 by Canadian essayist and poet Lisa Robertson, whose writing renders our inner ... More Museum Angewandte Kunst celebrates 100 Years of The New FrankfurtFRANKFURT.- In 2025, The New Frankfurt is celebrating its 100th birthday. The Museum Angewandte Kunst is marking the occasion by hosting numerous exhibitions and events dedicated to the modernist design movement of the 1920s. The wide range of topics is also informing the major cultural project World Design Capital Frankfurt RheinMain 2026, questioning the present and future of designing and shaping our society. Talk of the modernist design movement in Frankfurt often references the political, social and creative upheaval in the city after the First World War. This New Frankfurt not only included an urban and housing construction program, but also shaped a more universal approach regarding product, fashion, interior, industrial and communication design. It aimed to address all areas of human life using new forms and shaping a new urban society in connection ... More Edwin Hale Lincoln's "Wild Flowers" on display at Boston AthenaeumBOSTON, MASS.- The Boston Athenaeum has launched its newest exhibition, Wild Flowers of New England, which features the photographic work of Massachusetts-based Edwin Hale Lincoln (18481938), highlighting his career dedicated to documenting and preserving New Englands wildflowers. On display at the Boston Athenaeum from June 10 September 5, 2025, Wild Flowers of New England presents, together for the first time in over a century, Lincolns botanical photographs, glass plate negatives, and his collected pressed specimens of flowers from his 1910-1914 self-published series of the same name. Through Lincolns preservationist lens, visitors will experience a meticulous photographic practice capturing botanical methodology, artistry, and the timeless allure and beauty of New Englands wildflowers. Lincoln approached his photography with a deep botanical knowledge, ... More  Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Jonny Briggs LONDON.- Mens formal leather dress shoes are the central motif of Fitting In, Jonny Briggs solo exhibition at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Wandsworth. They appear as sculptures in absurdist, animalistic forms with elongated tips bent into bizarre angles, creating playful interventions within the gallery space; as props worn by the artist in a series of monochrome photographs; and as residual marks: bright pink footprints scaling the gallerys walls. For Briggs, these shoes, in their unaltered form, symbolise a rigid kind of masculinity and gendered expectations that his performative practice critiques and reconfigures. Briggs uses archival family portraits and objects as an entry point into a complex and painful past, which he endeavours to reinterpret through his adult perspective, often by splicing apart frames or inserting his present-day self into photographic prints. While there are no direct portraits ... More Freudian Typo (Ghazaleh Avarzamani and Ali Ahadi): Condensed Word, Displaced Flesh at Delfina FoundationLONDON.- Delfina Foundation presents Condensed Word, Displaced Flesh, a newly commissioned body of work by Iranian-Canadian artist duo Freudian Typo (Ghazaleh Avarzamani and Ali Ahadi). The exhibition unfolds debt not as a financial anomaly but as a key element that forms the contemporary political economy. The exhibition highlights how historical systems of accumulation and coercion bind singular lives into perpetual debt, turning precarity into a universal human condition. Departing from the English translation of Chad Gadyaan allegorical tale that operates on a chain of catastrophes and punishments after a little goat is bought for two zuzim (coins)the exhibition invokes the cunning, crafty, and beguiling tactics of capital, where all accumulation ... More  Ali Cherri's "The Watchers" opens at [mac] Marseille, weaving new narratives with city collectionsMARSEILLE.- The [mac] Museum of Contemporary Art of Marseille presents the exhibition Ali Cherri, The Watchers, centered around the totemic sculptures The Gatekeepers Fire and Water by Ali Cherri, acquired in 2024 by the Museums of Marseille. On this occasion, the [mac] invites the artist to select works from across the citys museum collections from Antiquity to the contemporary era to place them in dialogue with his own sculptures, drawings, and videos. Within an immersive and cinematic scenography, Ali Cherri offers a renewed perspective on these pieces through themes central to his work: sleep, vulnerability, animality, hybridization, the gaze, the face, materiality, resistance, and representations of the living. The voice-over of Jean Negroni, narrator of the film Les statues meurent aussi (Statues Also Die), the famous anti-colonial film essay by Alain Resnais, Chris Marker, ... More Deichtorhallen Hamburg presents second Viral Hallucinations symposiumHAMBURG.- The second symposium in the Viral Hallucinations series examines the transformative impact of digital technologies, algorithmic gaze, and social media on how we perceive bodiesour own and those of others. Bringing together artists, researchers, and curatorial perspectives that explore the politics of presenceboth physical and onlinethe symposium analyzes how tensions and frictions are negotiated between human, embodied seeing and machine vision. How do the visual worlds of body images, imaginaries of hybrid selves, and political conflicts that unfold online reshape our sense of self, our presence in public spaces, and the ways in which we navigate and inhabit them with others? In which ways do the implicit or explicit forces of surveillance, censorship, othering, and rituals of judgment influence how we navigate networked body images? Art historian and curator ... More Antonis Donef declares himself "Time's Witness" in new Kalfayan Galleries showTHESSALONIKI .- Kalfayan Galleries presents the solo exhibition of Antonis Donef, titled "Time's Witness". The opening of the exhibition will take place on Tuesday, June 10, 2025, from 19:00 to 21:00. The text accompanying the exhibition is written by Panos Giannikopoulos (Curator Art Historian). In his fifth exhibition at Kalfayan Galleries, Antonis Donef declares himself a Time's Witness", transforming the gallery space into a "library of time" where anything can happen, and all interpretations are possible. His work is both a renegotiation of knowledge and time. Remaining true to the fundamental elements of his techniqueinterventions on pages where knowledge is gathered (archival printed materials such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, maps, etc.) and the organic development of the design with ink in the form of automatic writingAntonis Donef adds more color to his new ... More Rachel Jones unveils "Gated Canyons" at Dulwich Picture Gallery, her first UK solo showLONDON.- Dulwich Picture Gallery presents Gated Canyons, an exhibition by acclaimed artist Rachel Jones and the first solo show by a contemporary artist in the Gallerys main exhibition space. Renowned for her expressive choreography of abstract and figurative motifs, distinctive approach to colour and use of un-stretched canvases, Jones engages with painting as a multi-sensory language. This exhibition will include a newly commissioned body of work, comprising eight large-scale and six smaller works, in addition to selected paintings created during the last seven years of Jones practice. Jones works will appear in dialogue with Flemish artist Pieter Boels Head of a Hound (c. 16605). This painting from Dulwich Picture Gallerys Collection, most likely a preparatory study for a larger work by Boel, resonated with ongoing preoccupations in Jones practice and acted as a point of departure ... More Ruby City acquires work by artist Robert HodgeSAN ANTONIO, TX.- Ruby City announced that Robert Hodges Promise You Will Sing About Me, 2019, a recent acquisition to the Linda Pace Foundation Collection, will be joining Irrationally Speaking: Collage & Assemblage in Contemporary Art beginning June 12, 2025. To make space for this exciting addition, selections from the Timeline series, 2004-5 by Linda Pace, will be deinstalled on June 9, 2025. Ruby City has been pleased to have shared Paces work with the public and look forward to welcoming visitors to experience this new addition. Promise You Will Sing About Me is a multidimensional, altar-like structure that weaves together everyday materials and reclaimed objects to explore themes of cultural memory, loss, and resilience. Featuring fabric, LP sleeves, found images of the Black Panther Party, acrylic flowers, a model ship, and a small globe, the work evokes ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French-Swiss painter Gustave Courbet was born June 10, 1819. Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (10 June 1819 - 31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the Romanticism of the previous generation of visual artists. In this image: A visitor observes the painting 'The girl at the Seine'(1856/57)of French painter Gustave Courbet at the Schirn museum in Frankfurt Main, Germany. The artwork is a part of the exhibition 'A Dream of Modern Art - Courbet', which is under the patronage of German President Christian Wulff and French President Nicolas Sarkozy and at the Schirn from 15 october 2010 until 30 January 2011.
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