Private galleries bring immersive Art Week experience

Private galleries and pop-ups are collaborating with venues and brands to bring immersive experiences during Miami Art Week 2025. Highlights include the launch of CONTRA, a private events platform, with a VIP grand opening at Wyncatcher in Wynwood featuring DJ sets and an installation by Daniel Allen Cohen. The NFL returns with an expanded Artist Replay experience, including debut artworks from active player Marco Wilson and legend Martellus Bennett. Opera Gallery Miami presents “In Dialogue with Color: Mid-20th Century to Now” with works by Roy Lichtenstein, Yayoi Kusama, and others. London-based SLAWN debuts “Heroes, Villains, and Violence” at The Art of Hip Hop, while artists Amanda Linares and Lee Pivnik install site-specific works for the City of Miami Beach’s “No Vacancy 2025” program at hotels.

55 years. Berggruen Gallery

Berggruen Gallery in San Francisco announces its 55th Anniversary Exhibition, a group show running from June 26 to August 14, 2025. The exhibition features paintings, works on paper, sculpture, film, and archival ephemera from the SFMOMA Library and SFAI archive, showcasing museum-quality works by contemporary and historical artists. Many pieces are on loan from private collections and rarely exhibited publicly. The gallery, founded by John Berggruen in 1970 on Grant Avenue, quickly became a nationally recognized force in shaping the West Coast art scene, bridging New York and international artists with local collectors.

exiled belarus free theatre brings exhibition on authoritarianism to the venice biennale

The exiled Belarus Free Theatre will stage a major exhibition titled "Official. Unofficial. Belarus." as an official collateral event at the 61st Venice Biennale. In the absence of a formal national pavilion, the group show will occupy the Church of San Giovanni Evangelista, featuring works by artists like Sergey Grinevich and Vladimir Tsesler that utilize religious iconography and prison materials to critique state surveillance and political repression.

Van Gogh Museum Explores the Artist's Obsession with Yellow

van gogh yellow exhibition

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam has launched a major exhibition centered on Vincent van Gogh’s profound obsession with the color yellow. The show explores how the artist utilized the hue—from the 'pale sulfur' of his Arles landscapes to his iconic sunflowers and the famous Yellow House—as a symbol of life-giving sunshine and modernity. Beyond Van Gogh’s own masterpieces, the exhibition features works by 19th- and 20th-century masters like Wassily Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint, as well as a contemporary light installation by Olafur Eliasson.

sam falls collaborates with ruinart

Sam Falls has created two paintings, "Rewilding" (2024) and "King's Crossing" (2024), for Ruinart's "Conversations with Nature" program, following a residency at the Champagne house's Taissy vineyard near Reims. The works, which incorporate natural materials and ecological processes, will debut at Art Basel Miami Beach in December 2024 before traveling to Ruinart's headquarters. Falls's practice involves arranging plants on canvas and using pigment that reacts to humidity and sunlight, reflecting a collaboration with the environment.

lucia painted her own myth

The article profiles Lucia Wilcox, a nearly forgotten Surrealist painter born in 1899 who lived an extraordinary life—raised in Beirut, partying with Surrealists in Paris, fleeing to New York in 1938, and becoming a doyenne among expatriate artists in the Hamptons. She painted joyful, mythical women and was shown by major dealers Sidney Janis and Leo Castelli, but after her death in 1974 she faded into obscurity. Now, a tightly curated exhibition titled "Lucia Wilcox: LUCIA" at Berry Campbell in New York (through June 28) reintroduces her work, focusing on over 20 paintings from the 1940s, including the vibrant "Untitled (Jungle)" (1944).

thalita hamaoui botanical dramas

Brazilian artist Thalita Hamaoui presents her New York debut exhibition "Nascer da Terra" at Marianne Boesky Gallery, featuring large-scale, jewel-toned landscapes inspired by her grandmother's stories of Romania. Hamaoui, who was raised in São Paulo and had never visited Romania, translates her grandmother's vivid tales into fantastical, tropical-infused scenes filled with explosive plant life and dreamlike terrains. The exhibition runs through June 14 and includes paintings and drawings created during lockdown, reflecting her instinctual compositional process and influences from Brazilian Tropicália and artist Alberto da Veiga Guignard.

Why yellow was Van Gogh's favourite colour

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam has launched a new exhibition titled "Yellow: Beyond Van Gogh’s Colour," running until May 17. The show explores Vincent van Gogh’s profound obsession with the color yellow, featuring eight of his works alongside pieces by contemporaries like Paul Gauguin and Aubrey Beardsley. It highlights Van Gogh's technical use of chrome yellow pigments to capture the "high yellow note" of the Provencal sun and the symbolic association of the color with modernity and life-giving energy.

The Best Miami Art Exhibitions of 2025

The article surveys the best art exhibitions in Miami during 2025, highlighting a diverse range of shows from major museums to underground galleries. Key exhibitions include "Art and Life in Rembrandt's Time" at the Norton Museum, featuring Dutch Golden Age masters like Rembrandt and Vermeer for the first time in Florida; "Black Mans Shadow Work" at Queue Gallery, a duo show with New York-based artists Torrance Hall and Karryl Eugene; and "Dreams Without Riders" at Homework Gallery, an immersive installation by German-Nicaraguan artist Brigette Hoffman. The piece also notes the ongoing influence of private collections and the role of alternative spaces like Tunnel Projects in shaping Miami's art scene.

20 Fall Art Excursions Outside New York City

This article is a guide to 20 fall art excursions outside New York City, highlighting exhibitions in Upstate New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. Featured shows include the 'Trees Never End and Houses Never End Biennial Exhibition' at Sky High Farm in Germantown, Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez's 'Dream Map and Cornucopia' at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, and 'All Manner of Experiments: Legacies of the Baghdad Modern Art Group' at the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College. Other notable stops include Jeffrey Gibson's exhibition at MASS MoCA, Kiyan Williams's installations at Art Omi, and 'Human Marks: Tattooing in Contemporary Art' at the Joseloff Gallery in Connecticut.

New York Museums are Showcasing African American Art, Exhibitions Feature Lorna Simpson, Rashid Johnson, Beauford Delaney, Amy Sherald, Black Dandyism & More

New York museums are presenting a wave of major exhibitions focused on African American art this spring and summer, many running through fall 2025. Solo shows include the largest-ever surveys of Rashid Johnson at the Guggenheim Museum, Amy Sherald at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Jack Whitten at the Museum of Modern Art. The Drawing Center hosts the first museum exhibition dedicated to Beauford Delaney's drawings, while the Brooklyn Museum presents the first museum show for sculptor Nancy Elizabeth Prophet. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, highlights include the newly renovated Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, a Lorna Simpson painting exhibition, a roof garden installation by Jennie C. Jones, and the Costume Institute's "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" exploring Black dandyism.

The Underrated Architect of the Avant-Garde

Der unterschätzte Architekt der Avantgarde

The Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare in Bolzano is hosting a comprehensive retrospective dedicated to Ilja Sdanewitsch, known as Iliazd, a Georgian-Russian-French avant-garde polymath. The exhibition, titled "Toutité Iliazd. Die Erforschung der Form," showcases his diverse output as a writer, designer, and publisher who viewed the book as a primary art object. The display includes architectural reliefs, textile designs for Coco Chanel, and his significant collaborations with icons like Picasso and Duchamp.

Asian painters were ‘othered’ in Paris a century ago. Now, the art world is taking note

A new exhibition at Singapore's National Gallery, "City of Others: Asian Artists in Paris, 1920s-1940s," highlights the experiences of Asian painters who worked in Paris during the interwar period. These artists, including Le Pho, Sanyu, Tsuguharu Foujita, Liu Kang, and Georgette Chen, faced marginalization and exoticized expectations from European critics, who dismissed their work as either not "Asian" enough or insufficiently Western. Despite these challenges, they produced significant bodies of work blending Eastern and Western traditions.

Chaïm Kaliski’s Drawings Haunted by the Shoah Revealed in an Exhibition at mahJ

Les dessins hantés par la Shoah de Chaïm Kaliski se révèlent dans une expo au mahJ

The Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme (mahJ) in Paris is hosting the first monographic exhibition dedicated to Chaïm Kaliski, a Belgian artist who began drawing at the age of 60 to process the trauma of the Holocaust. After his death in 2015, thousands of drawings were discovered in his Brussels apartment, documenting his family's history and the fate of Polish Jews in Belgium. The exhibition features 120 works that blend childlike aesthetics with haunting historical narratives, including poignant depictions of his parents' final moments at Auschwitz.

Centre Pompidou Hanwha to open its Seoul space in June 2026.

The Centre Pompidou Hanwha is scheduled to open its doors in Seoul in June 2026, following a three-year construction period. Located within the iconic 63 Building in the Yeouido district, the 10,000-square-meter facility replaces a former aquarium with a four-story "box of light" designed to maximize natural illumination.

The Relentless Avant-Garde of The Renaissance Society

The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, founded in 1915, has consistently championed avant-garde contemporary art from its modest gallery space on the fourth floor of Cobb Hall. Under the leadership of current director Myriam Ben Salah (since 2020), the institution continues its legacy of presenting visionary works by artists who later become household names, including Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, and Félix González-Torres. The article traces the society's history through its pioneering female directors—Eva Watson Schütze, Frances Strain Biesel, and Suzanne Ghez—who shaped its forward-thinking exhibition program, from early modernist shows to local Chicago talent and cross-disciplinary collaborations.

Minneapolis Institute of Art announces artists for its first juried crop art exhibition

Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) has announced the artists for its first juried crop art exhibition, "Cream of the Crop," opening September 6, 2025. The exhibition features winners and honorable mentions selected from crop art entries at the Minnesota State Fair. Jeanne Morales won best interpretation of a Minnesota landmark, story or tradition with "My Chagall Dream," while Amy and Steve Saupe won best interpretation of an artwork at Mia with "The Treachery of a Pronto Pup." The selections were made by Mia director Katie Luber, associate curator Galina Olmsted, and associate curator Leslie Ureña. Honorable mentions include works by Jill Osiecki, Jill Moe, Amanda Cashman, and Ursula Murray Husted.

“Berthe Weill, Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-garde” in Montreal

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) has opened a major exhibition titled "Berthe Weill, Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-garde," showcasing over 100 works that Weill exhibited in her Paris galleries between 1901 and 1940. The show highlights her role in launching the careers of artists such as Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani, and Suzanne Valadon, and includes paintings, drawings, sculptures, and archival materials. Weill, born to a poor Jewish family, opened her first gallery at age 36 using her mother's dowry, never charged for exhibitions, and often sold her own possessions to keep her spaces afloat. Despite her immense contributions, she died in poverty and has been largely omitted from art history.

galerie de linstitut

Galerie de l'Institut, a family-run Parisian gallery specializing in prints since 1954, is currently staging "Picasso. Dessin. 1903–1972," a major exhibition showcasing Pablo Picasso's prints and works on paper spanning nearly seven decades. The gallery, led by siblings Marc Lebouc and Anne-Gaëlle Lebouc (the second generation), with the third generation (Louis Lebouc) now involved, has expanded its focus from prints to include unique works and strengthened its online presence through platforms like Artnet. The exhibition marks both Picasso's 144th anniversary and the opening of the gallery's third space.

Andrew Cranston’s Paintings of Dreamlike Domesticity

Scottish artist Andrew Cranston has opened a new solo exhibition titled 'I’m going in a field' at Modern Art gallery in London. The show features eleven paintings that blend landscape, memory, and domestic scenes, drawing inspiration from the artist's childhood in Hawick, Scotland, and his reflections on activities like golf, which he views as a form of landscape experience.

‘The doorbell went at 5am. Six masked men were outside’: Belarus Free Theatre bring totalitarian terror to the Venice Biennale

Belarus Free Theatre (BFT), an exiled troupe based in London, is presenting its first major visual art project, titled 'Official. Unofficial. Belarus.', at the Venice Biennale. The installation, masterminded by the founders' daughter Daniella Kaliada, features contributions from former political prisoners, painters, sculptors, composers, and world-renowned chef Rasmus Munk, who created a dish evoking detention under an authoritarian regime. The work includes a giant ball of banned books, surveillance cameras attached to an iron crucifix, and a custom scent of a freshly dug grave, all reflecting the terror of life under Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko.

claire tabouret notre dame windows grand palais

French artist Claire Tabouret is presenting her full-scale maquettes for Notre-Dame Cathedral's new stained glass windows at the Grand Palais in Paris, in an exhibition titled "In a Single Breath." The six windows, each over 20 feet tall, were selected by a committee from over 100 submissions last December, replacing 19th-century designs by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. The project has sparked controversy: conservation group Sites and Monuments launched a petition with over 328,000 signatures and a legal case arguing the replacement violates the 1964 Venice Charter and French historic monuments law. A Paris administrative court ruled in favor of the state in late November, but the group plans to appeal. Tabouret's designs are now being fabricated by the historic Atelier Simon-Marq glass workshop.

Famous “Walk” by Marc Chagall to be exhibited in Minsk

The National Art Museum of Belarus in Minsk has opened a special exhibition featuring Marc Chagall’s 1917 masterpiece, "The Walk." On loan from the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, the painting is being showcased alongside a VR tour developed by students from the Minsk Hlebau Art College. The exhibition, which runs until July 6, focuses on this singular programmatic work that depicts the artist and his wife, Bella Rosenfeld, in a gravity-defying expression of love.

Monet, Picasso & More: Houston's Newest Gallery Is Now Open And Is Completely FREE To Visit

Opera Gallery has officially opened its first Texas location in Houston’s River Oaks district, marking the 16th global space for the Singapore-founded network. The inaugural exhibition, running through April 19, 2026, features a high-caliber selection of Modern and Post-War masterworks by Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, and Marc Chagall alongside contemporary pieces by Yayoi Kusama and Kehinde Wiley. The gallery is free to the public and intends to host several curated exhibitions annually.

Houston Has a New Art Gallery with Picassos—and It’s Free

Opera Gallery has officially opened its first Texas location in Houston’s River Oaks District, debuting with a high-caliber exhibition featuring original works by masters such as Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, and Yayoi Kusama. The space functions as a hybrid between a commercial gallery and a museum, offering the public free access to museum-quality pieces that are typically held in private collections or behind glass.

Houston's Own Opera Gallery Opens In River Oaks District — An International Art Coup Draws A-Listers

Opera Gallery has officially opened its latest international location in Houston’s River Oaks District, marking the occasion with a series of high-profile events including a collector's preview and a VIP opening. The new space debuted with an impressive inventory of modern and contemporary masterpieces, featuring works by blue-chip artists such as Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Yayoi Kusama, and Keith Haring. The opening festivities drew a significant crowd of Houston’s social and art elite, signaling a major addition to the city's luxury retail and art landscape.

Opera Gallery Houston Grand Opening

Opera Gallery has officially opened its 14th international location in Houston’s River Oaks District, marking a significant expansion of its global footprint. The new space debuted with a high-profile presentation featuring masterworks by Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, and Marc Chagall, alongside contemporary pieces by Yayoi Kusama and Kehinde Wiley. Led by Director Gregory Lahmi and Deputy Director Kara Przybyl McIver, the gallery plans to host several curated exhibitions annually focusing on Modern and Post-War art.

Monet to Matisse exhibition coming to Birmingham Museum of Art in 2026

The Birmingham Museum of Art (BMA) will premiere "Monet to Matisse: French Moderns, 1850–1950" on January 30, 2026, featuring over 100 masterworks from the Brooklyn Museum's European collection and supplemented by 50 works from BMA's own holdings. The exhibition includes paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by artists such as Monet, Matisse, Chagall, Degas, and Renoir, and will run through May 24, 2026, with accompanying public programs like lectures, guided tours, and workshops.

‘Degenerate’ or ‘woke,’ Paris museum exhibit shows what happens to art in the crosshairs of politics

The Picasso Museum in Paris has opened an exhibition titled "Degenerate Art: Modern Art on Trial Under the Nazis," the first such show in France, running until May 25. It features works by Van Gogh, Klee, Picasso, Kandinsky, Chagall, and others that were condemned by Hitler and the Third Reich as "degenerate" — targeted for destruction, sale, or concealment. The exhibition is organized thematically around Nazi persecution, including sections on race, museum purges, and the art trade, and highlights the fates of artists like Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, who died by suicide, and Otto Freundlich, who was murdered in a concentration camp.

Au musée de l’Image d’Épinal, les talents multiples de Frans Masereel, entre autres inventeur du roman graphique

The Musée de l'Image d'Épinal is presenting a comprehensive exhibition on Belgian artist Frans Masereel (1889–1972), widely credited as the inventor of the graphic novel in 1918 with his wordless narratives composed of black-and-white woodcuts. The show, curated by Samuel Dégardin, brings together loans from major institutions and a private collection to reveal the full breadth of Masereel's practice, which spanned drawing, animation, painting, theater, ceramics, tapestry, and satirical press illustration. It highlights his pacifist activism during World War I, his collaborations with writers such as Stefan Zweig and Romain Rolland, and his humanist vision of a unified Europe.