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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 9, 2025 visibility 13 link 4 artists

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The Toledo Museum of Art has opened the first major exhibition dedicated to Dutch Golden Age painter Rachel Ruysch, organized with the Alte Pinakothek in Munich and traveling next to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The show features Ruysch's vibrant still lifes of fruits and flowers, often animated by insects, and places her work alongside that of her sister Anna Ruysch and other female scientific illustrators like Maria Sibylla Merian. Curator Robert Schindler's rediscovery of Anna Ruysch's work helped inspire the exhibition, which also draws on botanical research to catalog the global plant species Ruysch depicted, reflecting colonial trade networks.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 27, 2026 visibility 14 link 1 artist, 2 galleries

Wohin in Mitte?

The article previews the Berlin Gallery Weekend, focusing on the Mitte district as a hub for contemporary art. Highlights include Pae White's exhibition 'pushmi-pullyu' at Neugerriemschneider, featuring oversized insects, crabs, and kaleidoscopic wall sculptures, alongside other shows with photo art on copper, queer historical explorations, and mobile urban interventions along Linienstraße, Oranienburger Straße, and Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 22, 2026 visibility 19 link 3 artists

Artist Jan Tichy plans to plunge MSU's Broad Art Museum into darkness

Artist Jan Tichy has created a major exhibition titled "Darkness" at the Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, opening January 30, 2026, and running through late July. The exhibition transforms the museum's main floor galleries by blacking out Zaha Hadid's iconic angular windows and entrances, using projections and modulated lights to simulate a 24-hour day-night cycle. Tichy, who previously worked with the museum on a Flint water crisis project in 2017, collaborated with MSU researchers—including the Department of Entomology—to create works inspired by academic studies, such as photographic prints made from insects collected on the museum grounds over a year.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 1, 2025 visibility 20 link 6 artists

Women in the Arts museum brings golden age artists into focus

The National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., has opened a new exhibition titled "Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600-1750," which showcases works by largely forgotten female masters of the Dutch Golden Age, including Judith Leyster, Maria van Oosterwijck, Clara Peeters, and Rachel Ruysch. The show features over a dozen artists and highlights paintings rich in symbolism, such as van Oosterwijck's "Vanitas Still Life" and Leyster's "The Concert," while also addressing how many of these women were celebrated in their own time but later misattributed or omitted from art history.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 1, 2025 visibility 17 link 9 artists

Lord of the Flies: How This Artist Enlists an Army of Tiny Collaborators

Los Angeles artist John Knuth uses flies as collaborators to create paintings, with over one million insects contributing to his current exhibition 'The Hot Garden' at Hollis Taggart Downtown in New York. Inspired by flyspecks he noticed on a windowsill in 2005, Knuth orders fly larvae by the thousands, letting them hatch on canvases where their regurgitation deposits pigment. The show features works priced between $700 and $20,000, and a custom enclosure at the gallery allowed visitors to see the flies working live during the opening. Knuth's fly paintings gained viral attention in 2013 after a video by the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art received over 100,000 views, helping launch his career.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 30, 2026 visibility 17 link 1 artist

New Currents: Liu Shuai

Liu Shuai, a multimedia artist from Shandong province, China, presented an interactive installation titled "The Kiss" (2025) at VILLA tbh in Shanghai during the 15th Shanghai Biennale (2025–26). The work, co-created with carpenter bees, features bamboo stalks punctured by the insects and transformed into hanging instruments. It was part of the biennale's "City Projects" and housed in Liu's temporary studio within the Shanghai Botanical Garden, offering a poetic exploration of interspecies collaboration.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 31, 2026 visibility 15 link 2 artists

MSU Entomology Partners With Artist Jan Tichy for Darkness Exhibit at Broad Art Museum

Chicago-based artist Jan Tichy has created a new exhibition titled 'Darkness' at Michigan State University's Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum. The project is the result of a nearly nine-month collaboration with four MSU labs, most prominently the Department of Entomology, where Tichy worked with researchers and students to incorporate insects and scientific methods like blacklight sampling into the artwork.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 22, 2025 visibility 13 link 2 artists

Seeing God in nature: US National Gallery exhibition celebrates art from the dawn of European natural history

The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, is presenting "Little Beasts: Art, Wonder and the Natural World," an exhibition of 16th- and 17th-century European paintings and prints by artists including Jan van Kessel, Joris Hoefnagel, and Teodoro Filippo di Liagno. The works, drawn from the dawn of European natural history, depict insects, animals, and natural specimens with extraordinary detail, reflecting the era's expanding trade routes and fascination with the natural world.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 20, 2026 visibility 20 link 4 artists, 6 galleries

Exhibition | Claudia Keep, 'Waggle Dance' at Marguo, Paris, France

American artist Claudia Keep presents a new solo exhibition, 'Waggle Dance,' at the Marguo gallery in Paris. The exhibition features a poignant body of paintings that depict bees, flowers, and insects at a larger-than-life scale, conceived as records of an ever-changing world and imbued with an awareness of fragile ecological timelines.

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museum exhibitions schedule Mar 31, 2026 visibility 9

The language of termites: Liss Fenwick’s The Colony – in pictures

Artist Liss Fenwick has created a photobook titled 'The Colony' by feeding a collection of historical Australian novels, described as 'settler fan fiction,' to a colony of termites. The insects consumed the books over several years, leaving behind hollowed, sculptural remains that Fenwick photographed. The resulting work documents this process of organic transformation, where the physical texts are digested and reshaped.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 28, 2026 visibility 11 link 4 artists

Artist's books by Guido Strazza in Subiaco (Rome): the exhibition at Santa Scolastica

The State Library of Santa Scolastica in Subiaco, Rome, is hosting an exhibition titled 'Libri d’artista. Guido Strazza for Subiaco' from April 30 to June 2, 2026, dedicated to the artist's books of Guido Strazza. Curated by Simona Ciofetta with scientific coordination by Stefano Petrocchi, the show is part of Subiaco's initiatives as Italian Book Capital 2025. It explores the artist's book as an autonomous art form blending text, image, and materials, featuring limited-edition works and engravings by Strazza, including his 1980 portfolio 'Insects'.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 2, 2025 visibility 15 link 7 artists

Jodhpur turns into an open air art gallery this week

Jodhpur Arts Week, inaugurated on 1 October 2025, transforms the historic city of Jodhpur into an open-air art gallery for the first time. Founded by Sana Rezwan and curated by the Public Arts Trust of India (PATI), the week-long festival features exhibitions, installations, panel discussions, and workshops across iconic sites such as Toorji Ka Jhalra, Ghanta Ghar, Mandore Gardens, and heritage hotels like Daspan House and Khaas Bagh. Highlights include a video projection by Raqs Media Collective, a neon installation by Chila Kumari Singh Burman, and works by artists Gaspard Combes, Richa Arya, Jenjum Gadi, Awdhesh Tamrakar, and others, blending contemporary art with Rajasthan's traditional crafts.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 9, 2026 visibility 12

These Artisans, Showing at TEFAF New York, Push the Limits of Materials

TEFAF New York is showcasing a group of artisans who are pushing the boundaries of traditional craft. Exhibitors include a couple who grow their own furniture, an artist who polishes metal to a mirror-like finish, and another who collaborates with insects in their creative process. These works challenge conventional definitions of craft and material use.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 8, 2026 visibility 10 link 4 artists

An exhibition in Venice on Stéphane Dubé's painting of insects and snakes

The Museum of Oriental Art in Venice is presenting "MUSHI 虫. Dragonflies and Other Insects in the Painting of Stéphane Dubé," a solo exhibition featuring twenty-seven gouache works on paper. Curated by Marta Boscolo Marchi, Sachiko Natsume, and Giulia Passante, the show is organized into three thematic sections focusing on dragonflies, moths, and dead snakes. These contemporary works are displayed in dialogue with traditional Japanese artifacts from the museum's permanent collection, such as netsuke and military items, highlighting the symbolic significance of these creatures in Eastern culture.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 13, 2026 visibility 12

GALLERY: Creepy crawlies and plant characters at Okotoks Art Gallery

The Okotoks Art Gallery recently launched two solo exhibitions by artists Neil McClelland and Beany Dootjes, marked by an opening reception on April 11. McClelland’s exhibition, "Earthly Delights," utilizes a multi-layered process of photography, digitization, and painting to personify plants as characters. In the adjacent small gallery, Dootjes presents "Ruin & Reclamation: Re-iterated," featuring oversized sculptures of insects like lice and bed bugs meticulously crafted from repurposed men’s business attire.

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