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The First Art Newspaper on the Net Established in 1996 Tuesday, June 17, 2025 Re-discovered British Surrealist painter's revelatory New York work on view at Kate Oh Gallery American Landscape. NEW YORK, NY.- At Kate Oh Gallery, featuring Californian and New York subjects on canvas and paper by surrealist master Henry Orlik (b. 1947), absent from public discourse for over four decades. Following two sell-out shows in the UK in 2024, this is the first major selling show to take place in the US. This exhibition coincides with the centenary of both the Surrealist movement and Theo Von Harbou’s 'Metropolis' (1G25), whose futuristic urban visions echo throughout Orlik's prophetic canvases. ... More The Best Photos of the Day The Museum of Cycladic Art is presenting Marlene Dumas: Cycladic Blues, the first solo museum exhibition in Greece by renowned artist Marlene Dumas, one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary art. Photo. Paris Tavitian © Museum of Cycladic Art. Pace Seoul unveils major James Turrell exhibition, featuring never-before-seen "Wedgework" Export bar placed on &pound10 million Botticelli painting Ancient DNA reveals heartbreaking secret: Sacrificed child in Paquimé was product of close kin marriage James Turrell, After Effect, 2022 © James Turrell. SEOUL.- Pace is presenting an exhibition of five recent installations by James Turrell—including a new, never-before-seen, site-specific Wedgework made specifically for this presentation—at its Seoul gallery. Spanning all three floors of the gallery, The Return, opened June 14 and running through September 27, also features a selection of photographs and works on paper that shed light on the artist’s process for his installations and the construction of his massive Roden Crater project. The exhibition is accessible by advance reservation only. Marking Turrell’s first solo exhibition in Seoul since 2008, this show is organized as part of Pace’s 65th anniversary year celebration, during which the gallery is mounting exhibitions around the world of work by major artists with whom it has maintained decades-long relationships. Born in Los Angeles in 1943, Turrell is a key member of the California Light and Space movement. He has dedicated his practice to what he has deemed ... More Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, called Sandro Botticelli (1444/5–1510) The Virgin and Child enthroned, early 1470s Tempera on panel, 83.3 x 44.9 cm. LONDON.- An export bar has been placed on a painting by Italian master, Sandro Botticelli, which is at risk of leaving the UK. Botticelli was one of the leading Florentine painters of the second half of the fifteenth century and one of the most recognisable names in art history. Botticelli became well-known for his mythological and religious paintings, often with a focus on beauty and harmony. His most famous works include The Birth of Venus and Primavera. Valued at more than £10.2 million (£9,960,000 + £272,000 VAT) the painting depicts an image of the Virgin Mary enthroned with the Christ Child and is believed to have been painted in the 1470s, early in Botticelli’s career. If saved by a cultural institution, the painting would represent a significant addition to the body of work by Botticelli in UK collections. Very few early Botticelli’s remain in the UK and it would provide a richer and more ... More Researchers suggest the infant's sacrifice was 'a ritual carried out by an elite family to boost their social standing.' PAQUIMÉ.- A chilling discovery from the ancient city of Paquimé, a sprawling archaeological site in Chihuahua, Mexico, is shedding new light on the lives – and deaths – of its inhabitants over 500 years ago. A groundbreaking paleogenomic study, a collaborative effort between Mexican and U.S. researchers, has analyzed the DNA of a young child, believed to have been sacrificed, revealing an astonishing degree of consanguinity between the child's parents. The findings, published in the esteemed journal Antiquity, edited by Cambridge University, paint a poignant picture of a society where elite families may have used even the ultimate sacrifice to solidify their social standing. "This research is a testament to the power of interdisciplinary and cross-border collaboration," explains José Luis Punzo Díaz, a professor and researcher at Mexico's National ... More Wolfgang Tillmans takes over Centre Pompidou's library for unique curatorial experiment Ancient echoes, modern strokes: Marlene Dumas debuts in Greece with Cycladic-inspired show Zurich hosts first Swiss solo exhibition of pioneering abstractionist Ed Clark Wolfgang Tillmans in the Bpi, Januaryr 2025 © Centre Pompidou. PARIS.- The Centre Pompidou has given free rein to German artist Wolfgang Tillmans, who has come up with an original project to round off the programme at the Paris building. He has moved into Level 2 of the Public Information Library (Bpi), transforming the 6,000 m2 of space in a curatorial experiment that establishes a dialogue between his work and the library space, questioning it both from an architectural standpoint and as a place for the transmission of knowledge. The exhibition explores almost 40 years of artistic practice through a variety of photographic genres in a retrospective whose order and logic are determined in response to the library space. His work is displayed in a wide variety of forms, exploiting the verticality of the walls and the horizontality of the tables, defying all attempts at categorisation. In addition to his photographic work, Wolfgang Tillmans incorporates video, music, sound and text into this vast installation, in a scenographic approach that utilises the li ... More Installation view. Photo. Paris Tavitian © Museum of Cycladic Art. ATHENS.- The Museum of Cycladic Art is presenting Marlene Dumas: Cycladic Blues, the first solo museum exhibition in Greece by renowned artist Marlene Dumas, one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary art. The exhibition is on view from June 5 to November 2, 2025. Curated by independent curator Douglas Fogle in close collaboration with the artist, the exhibition emerges as a direct response to the histories of figuration that Dumas explored within the archaeological collections of the Museum of Cycladic Art. For this exhibition, Dumas has personally selected works from across her oeuvre, while, in a rare gesture, she has also hand-picked a group of fourteen archaeological artefacts from the Museum’s collection to be presented alongside her own works. Born in South Africa in 1953 during the years of Apartheid, but having lived and worked in Amsterdam for nearly five decades, Marlene Dumas has spent her career using the practice of painting to ... More Ed Clark, Untitled (Paris), 1988. Acrylic on canvas, 175.9 x 142.6 x 2 cm / 69 1/4 x 56 1/8 x 3/4 in © The Estate of Ed ClarkPhoto: Thomas Barratt. ZURICH.- On view in Zurich, ‘Ed Clark. Paint is the Subject’ is the first solo exhibition in Switzerland dedicated to this pioneering American abstractionist. Curated by Tanya Barson in close collaboration with the artist’s estate, the exhibition at the Limmatstrasse gallery brings together key works spanning seven decades, offering a comprehensive overview of the groundbreaking practice of Ed Clark. The exhibition features a broad selection of his dynamic large-scale paintings and works on paper, as well as early works and an example of his use of the shaped canvas. The presentation has been complemented by archival photographs and documents that provide biographical and historical context, tracing the evolution of his innovative approach and lasting impact on modern painting. Clark remained under-acknowledged for much of his career, but he received late recognition in his lifetime, a recognition that continues ... More Norbert Bisky unveils "Polympsest": A vibrant & urgent take on urban life at Esther Schipper Western Maryland Fine Arts Museum hosts major Frida Kahlo exhibition Infinities Commission by Christelle Oyiri opens at Tate Modern Exhibition view: Norbert Bisky, Polympsest, Esther Schipper, Berlin, 2025. © the artist / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025. Photo: © Andrea Rossetti. BERLIN.- Esther Schipper is presenting Polympsest, Norbert Bisky’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. On view are all new paintings and two lamp sculptures. Norbert Bisky has established a formal vocabulary in which bodies become representations of existential states. The title, Polympsest, a neologism composed from the word palimpsest and the prefix poly, already signals two main tenets of the new body of work. It emphasizes the plurality of influences and the layered iconography, which is a contemporary urban equivalent of the ancient practice of overwriting manuscripts, to which the word palimpsest originally referred. Bisky’s figures—painted in bright and seductive colors yet fragmented, falling, untethered—have always been a symbol of the precarious nature of man in totalitarian societies and under capitalism. The new paintings provide this intuited meaning with concrete narrative underpinnings: The young men have banded together in ... More The exhibition consists of 115 images out of the 450 images and objects acquired in 2003 by Cuban-born Vicente Wolf. HAGERSTOWN, MD .- This summer and fall, visitors to the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts (WCMFA) in Hagerstown, Maryland, have the opportunity to view Mexican artist and activist Frida Kahlo’s life as she saw it – not through her paintings, but through her personal photographs, as captured by friends, lovers and family members. Frida Kahlo: Picturing an Icon, on view now and running through October 5, offers an intimate view of the celebrated artist’s life and consists of 115 images out of the 450 images and objects acquired in 2003 by Cuban-born Vicente Wolf, a New York City-based interior designer believed to be the owner of the largest known collection of personal and family photographs of Kahlo in private hands. “My intention was to focus on the most iconic and emotionally resonant images—those that best capture Frida’s presence, her aura, and the complexity of her personal life,” Wolf told the museum. “I was especially drawn to those that offered an inti ... More Installation Photography, Infinities Commission: Christelle Oyiri, In a perpetual remix where is my own song, Tate Modern, 2025 © Tate Photography / Joe Humphreys. LONDON.- Tate Modern today unveils an original installation by French artist Christelle Oyiri, the recipient of the Infinities Commission 2025 - a new annual commission showcasing the limitless experimentation of contemporary art. Titled In a perpetual remix where is my own song? this new installation made specially for the Tanks, Tate Modern’s unique spaces dedicated to performance, installation and film, traces the effects of digital culture on how we construct identity. Influenced by her personal experiences of the entertainment industry, the artist uses tools from her music practice to reflect on contemporary beauty standards and how they are stimulated by our online lives. Inspired by cut-up and fragmentation techniques used in DJ-ing and experimental writing, Oyiri’s new work draws similarities between these methods and those used in cosmetic surgery and digital image-making technologies. The first of its kind, this large-scale, site- ... More "Wish You Were Queer" exhibit shines a light on LGBTI* history in Schwäbisch Gmünd Ancient art saved: INAH reveals hidden details in Chihuahua's Cueva de las Monas Exhibition explores the rich, complicated, and evolving topic of the American landscape Herbert Rolf Schlegel, Portrait of W. K., 1930. © Schwules Museum Berlin. SCHWÄBISCH GMÜND.- A groundbreaking new exhibition, "Wish You Were Queer," has just opened its doors at the Museum im Prediger, inviting visitors to delve into centuries of self-perception and public visibility for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI*) individuals. This compelling show, running until September 27th, offers a vital look at how queer lives have been lived, hidden, and ultimately celebrated. The exhibition powerfully illustrates the profound impact of the 1969 Stonewall Uprisings in New York. These pivotal days, when queer individuals finally stood up to violent police raids at the Stonewall Inn, marked a turning point, igniting a global movement for emancipation and fostering a growing sense of self-confidence that continues to inspire Pride demonstrations worldwide. "This invisibility," explains Dr. Martin Weinzettl, deputy museum director, "is a characteristic aspect of queer art and history." He notes that the historical pressure to conceal one's true ... More Cleaning and consolidation efforts have enabled a more precise documentation and interpretation of the motifs, leading to the identification of more elements. CHIHUAHUA.- Hidden beneath layers of grime, graffiti, and campfire soot, vibrant details of ancient rock art are re-emerging at the Cueva de las Monas (Cave of the Monkeys) in Chihuahua. Thanks to dedicated efforts by specialists from Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), this invaluable historical site is slowly revealing more of its rich past, offering new insights into both pre-Hispanic life and the era of Spanish influence. For years, the cave, nestled in a hill 60 kilometers north of Chihuahua City, has suffered from the wear and tear of time and human impact. But recent cleaning and consolidation work, part of the fourth field season led by the INAH Chihuahua Center, is meticulously restoring the site. "With patience, expertise, and the appropriate use of materials, we can now observe much clearer representations than those identified four years ago," said Jorge Carrera Robles, ... More Albert Bierstadt (American, born Prussia, 1830-1902), In the Yosemite Valley, 1866. Oil on canvas. The Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt Collection, 1905.22 HARTFORD, CONN.- The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art presents (Un)Settled: The Landscape in American Art, a collaborative exhibition that explores the rich, complicated, and evolving topic of the American landscape, from its origins in 19th-century painting to the present. The exhibition is the culmination of a multi-year collaboration between four participating museums in the Art Bridges Cohort Program’s American South Consortium. (Un)Settled is on view at the Wadsworth June 12–September 14, 2025. (Un)Settled uniquely brings together artworks from each of the partners’ collections to broaden the story of American art. The show presents a more expansive and complex view of landscape and its relationship to identity by including artwork spanning hundreds of years and representing regions across the United States and sites in Latin America. “In collaboration with our three nationally acclaimed museum ... More Kids react to 'The Courtyard of a House in Delft' More News Sara Messinger's "Shadow of a Teenage Daydream" opens in Florence FLORENCE.- Crumb Gallery in Florence inaugurated "Shadow of a Teenage Daydream," a solo exhibition featuring recent photographs by American artist Sara Messinger, last Thursday, June 12th. The exhibition, which marks Messinger's first individual show in Italy, will be on view through September 20th, 2025. The exhibition showcases 14 analog photographs drawn from a larger, ongoing body of work that Messinger began in 2021. The project originated from a chance encounter with a group of teenagers in Tompkins Square Park in New York City's East Village. Over the past four years, Messinger has closely documented their lives, focusing on themes of self-discovery, identity formation, and the challenging of societal norms within this adolescent community. According to the gallery's press release, Messinger's approach emphasizes "the honesty of the moment" over ... More The Cellar of William I. Koch: The Great American Collector auction achieves $28.8 million NEW YORK, NY.- The once-in-a-generation collection from renowned collector William I. “Bill” Koch ignited spirited bidding, achieving $28.8 Million and setting a record as the largest single-owner wine collection ever sold in North America. The celebratory three-day auction was held at Christie’s Rockefeller Center achieving 154% of the low estimate. The sale attracted global participation across generations, with 42% of registrants being new to wine auctions at Christie’s. The highest price realized was the 1999 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, Romanée-Conti, a Methuselah, which sold for $275,000. Closely following was a lot of three Magnums of the same wine, achieving $237,500—more than double its high estimate. Bill Koch comments: “I hope these wines that I have spent years collecting and curating will bring joy and great memories to their new owners. Drink them in ... More The Design Museum's new display explores the boundaries between the artificial and natural world LONDON.- Tomorrow the Design Museum opens Artificial, a thought-provoking new display showcasing innovative responses to the climate crisis. Presented by Future Observatory in partnership with the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the free display explores the perceived boundary between what is ‘natural’ and what is made by humans, finding that the two are in fact intricately intertwined. On show from 17 June to 21 September 2025, the featured works emerge from the Design Museum’s Design Researchers in Residence programme – a long-standing annual residency that supports emerging designers who respond to a chosen theme. The 2024/25 residents – Christie Swallow, Hani Salih, Laura Lebeau and Neba Sere – have spent the past eight months exploring the theme of Artificial and questioning the limits of human-centred design in a more-than-human ... More Camera Austria presents a kaleidoscopic insight into Paul Albert Leitner's rigorously analog oeuvre GRAZ.- “Paul Albert Leitner’s Photographic World” could also be the name of a specialized, knowledgably organized photo business, of which very few still exist today. This association is not odd if one considers that in his meanwhile more than forty years of photographic work, Paul Albert Leitner has established his own personal brand dedicated to a rigorously analogue approach to the world, whose best (and only) representative is the artist himself when he—at times dressed in his “photo suit” for his iconic self-portraits—sets out to conduct “fieldwork.” A central element in this work of approaching and representing in the “field” is slowly and precisely exploring his surroundings, his attentive look at urban environments, but also at seemingly random details, which the flaneur Leitner encounters all around the world. In 1998, he already wrote in his artist’s book Kunst und Leben. ... More High organizes first US museum exhibition for South African artist Ezrom Legae ATLANTA, GA.- This summer, the High Museum of Art presents “Ezrom Legae: Beasts” (June 13 Nov. 16, 2025), the first major museum exhibition in the United States for celebrated South African artist Ezrom Legae (1938-1999). The more than 30 works on view address apartheid in South Africa through form and metaphor, exemplifying the ways in which Legae, like other artists at the time, used coded visual languages to subvert and endure tyranny. “The poignant symbolism in Legae’s work reminds us of the expressive power of art, especially for those living through oppression,” said the High’s Director Rand Suffolk. “Through this exhibition, we are bringing new attention to Legae’s art in the United States, and by extension, telling a story of 20th century South Africa, which is particularly timely as we enter the third decade after the end of apartheid.” Legae’s life was ... More "Space Making" exhibition unlocks new dimensions in painting OSLO.- Space Making is an exhibition addressing depth and spatiality in painting. It features the work of eight artists, who span generations and bridge contemporary positions with historical context. The modernist notion of painting as a medium of flatness and two-dimensionality has always also implied its ability to create a sense of space and depth. The artists presented here employ the language of painting as a vehicle for spatial construction: on canvas, in architecture, and as a conceptual tool. Several distinct approaches emerge in and amongst these works: an emphasis on the physical space of the exhibition or the physicality of the painted object itself; the use of painterly techniques to construct depth—both as an abstraction and as tangible, physical spatiality; and space as metaphor—investigating how the painted surface can hold psychological or metaphysical depth through ... More White hot in Hong Kong: Robert Ryman's first solo show opens in Greater China HONG KONG.- David Zwirner is presenting an exhibition of works by Robert Ryman (1930–2019) at the gallery’s Hong Kong location. Marking Ryman’s first solo presentation in Greater China, this exhibition features a range of works from the early 1960s through the 2000s, offering a concise survey of the materials, supports, painterly treatments, and ways of engaging with the wall that Ryman utilized over the course of his six-decade-long career. Ryman is widely celebrated for his tactile works using white paint in all its many permutations, which he executed using a range of painterly mediums on various supports including paper, canvas, linen, aluminum, vinyl, and newsprint. Emerging in the 1960s, Ryman eschewed self-contained representational and abstract imagery, instead giving precedence to the physical gesture of applying paint to a support. Unlike many of the artists ... More Reality reimagined: Nika Kupyrova blurs lines between digital and dream in "Simulacra" LINZ.- In Simulacra, Nika Kupyrova explores the blurred boundaries between the real and the imaginary, the virtual and the non-virtual, the organic and the mechanical. The solo exhibition of the artist—recipient of the Kardinal König Art Prize—is on view at the Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz until 17 August 2025. With Simulacra, Lentos presents the artist’s first solo museum exhibition. Kupyrova weaves digital aesthetics, pop-cultural references, and mythological motifs into a dense visual language, envisioning a digital animistic cosmology—a world poised between dream, technology, and reality. Kupyrova draws upon a personal digital archive grown over years: .jpgs, .pngs, and screenshots serve as raw material in her reflections on reality and illusion. The internet becomes a collective repository of images, emotions, and cultural codes. “I spend a lot of time online, which is why many ... More A "Wunderbild" unfurls: Katharina Grosse transforms Hamburg with monumental art HAMBURG.- Katharina Grosse is best-known for her expansive in-situ paintings, in which she paints directly onto architecture, interiors and landscapes to create vivid, haptic environments. Her bold large-scale paintings propose a direct bodily experience, jolting the viewer towards a new understanding of our relationship to place and to each other. From June 5 to September 14, 2025, Deichtorhallen Hamburg presents Grosse’s major work Wunderbild, accompanied by a new spatial installation developed especially for Hamburg. The exhibition also features a selection of studio paintings as well as drawings and sketch books, that are on view for the first time, and have been complemented by the world premiere of a new documentary film by Claudia Müller, offering special insights into Grosse’s studio process. Katharina Grosse transforms the 3,000-square-meter Hall for ... More PhotoGalleries Monica Bonvicini Carlos Cruz-Diez Consuelo Kanaga Brooklyn Museum at 200 Flashback On a day like today, Dutch illustrator M. C. Escher was born June 17, 1898. Maurits Cornelis Escher (17 June 1898 - 27 March 1972) was a Dutch graphic artist who made mathematically-inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints. In this image: Installation view, ESCHER. The Exhibition & Experience at Industry City, June 8, 2018 - February 3, 2019. Photo by Adam Reich. Courtesy Arthemisia. © 1996 - 2025 Founder: Ignacio Villarreal (1941 - 2019) Editor: Ofelia Zurbia Betancourt (52 8110667640) Art Director: Juan José Sepúlveda Ramírez

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