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museum exhibitions schedule May 21, 2026 visibility 7 link 11 artists, 2 galleries

In Vancouver, artists imagine life after climate change

The Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG) has opened 'Future Geographies: Art in the Century of Climate Change,' an exhibition curated by Eva Respini that brings together artists from British Columbia, Canada, and beyond to imagine futures shaped by the climate crisis. The show features dozens of works created within the last 25 years, including large sculptures from repurposed waste like Liz Larner's 'Meerschaum Drift' and Brian Jungen's whale skeleton 'Cetology' made from plastic patio chairs, as well as John Akomfrah's three-channel film 'Vertigo Sea.' The exhibition runs at the VAG until January 10 before traveling to the Art Gallery of Ontario in March.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 22, 2026 visibility 6 link 9 artists, 1 gallery

150 photos depict 185 years of the US mining industry in world-first historical exhibition

The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., will present "Beneath the Surface," a world-first photographic exhibition dedicated to 185 years of the U.S. mining and natural resource extraction industries. Featuring 150 images from 100 photographers, the show spans from California Gold Rush daguerreotypes to 20th-century industrial documentation, including works by Dorothea Lange and Lewis Wickes Hine. The exhibition will be on view at the National Gallery from May 23 to August 23, 2026, before traveling to the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 23, 2026 visibility 2 link 4 artists, 1 gallery

How the National Gallery of Art Used Video to Take an Exhibition Beyond Its Walls

The National Gallery of Art's production studio created a multi-platform video strategy around its 2025 traveling retrospective of artist Elizabeth Catlett. The centerpiece was a documentary following contemporary artist LaToya Hobbs as she created a new linocut portrait of Catlett's granddaughter, Naima Mora, using high-resolution time-lapse filmmaking. The project was presented at the Museum Digital Summit 2026 by a team including Sarah Turner, Chad Lawrence, Adam Enatsky, Karla Carnewal Torallas, and Amelia Mylvaganam.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 26, 2026 visibility 2 link 2 artists

Art Farm Iowa Presents “The Upcycled Garden”

Art Farm Iowa presents "The Upcycled Garden," an exhibition by artist Daniel “Attaboy” Seifert, opening May 29th with a reception from 5-8 p.m. The show transforms discarded materials into sculptures, assemblages, and mixed-media installations exploring sustainability and joyful reinvention. A Paper Plate Succulent Workshop will be held on May 30th, led by Attaboy, using recycled materials. The exhibition runs through August 1st before traveling to the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 23, 2026 visibility 5 link 3 artists

Jaime Vallardo Chavez Announces International Exhibitions

Jaime Vallardo Chavez, known as 'El Artista de las Monedas Mundiales,' has announced a series of international exhibitions across Peru, France, Italy, and Colombia, alongside the launch of his traveling museum initiative 'Cruzada y museo itinerante del Continente Americano el Bicentenario de America.' The exhibitions include venues such as Museo Amano in Lima, the Bienal de Biarco in Colombia, the Salon d'Automne in Paris, the MAXXI National Museum in Rome, the Naval Museum of the Caribbean in Cartagena, and the Carrousel du Louvre. The traveling museum project, developed during the pandemic, commemorates bicentennial anniversaries of independence across the Americas and has gathered over 600 participating artists.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 20, 2026 visibility 2

‘A masterclass in authentic, emotionally resonant storytelling’: The best museum exhibition in Britain to visit in 2026

Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings in Worcestershire, UK, won the Permanent Exhibition of the Year category at the 2026 Museums + Heritage Awards for its exhibition 'Revealing the Hidden Stories of the Showmen Community'. The show centers on a 1910 showman's grand living wagon owned by Tom Clarke, and includes 38 historic fairground signs, swing boats, an oral history section with 25 showmen, and hand-painted signage by commercial fairground artist Amy Goodwin. The exhibition was developed by collections manager Steven Hearn, who discovered the wagon in 2022 and collaborated with the National Fairground and Circus Archive and the Fairground Heritage Trust.

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