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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 23, 2025 visibility 16 link 8 artists, 1 gallery

cooper hewitt triennial home

The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has opened "Making Home," the seventh installment of its Triennial, featuring 25 newly commissioned projects that explore the concept of home through memory, construction, and rupture. Co-curated by Alexandra Cunningham Cameron, Christina L. De León, and Michelle Joan Wilkinson, the exhibition is organized across three themes—Going Home, Seeking Home, and Building Home—and marks the first partnership between Cooper Hewitt and another Smithsonian museum, the National Museum of African American History and Culture. The show is on view through August 10.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 1, 2025 visibility 20 link 23 artists, 3 galleries

The Opening Gambit: Generative Alterities and the Paradigm of the Salon

The Opening Gallery has opened a new space at 41 Division Street in New York with the exhibition "Generative Alterities," curated by director Sozita Goudouna. The show features artists from the Global South and Global North, including Lloyd Foster, Nan Goldin, Max Blagg, Annu Yadav, Victoria Bartlett, Jamie Martinez, and others, with works ranging from suspended sculptural portraits to mixed-media installations and photography. The gallery aims to create a contemporary salon atmosphere that encourages active dialogue rather than passive viewing.

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museum exhibitions schedule Feb 17, 2026 visibility 19 link 7 artists

nybg mr flower fantastic orchid show

Anonymous floral artist Mr. Flower Fantastic has created this year's Orchid Show at the New York Botanical Garden, titled "Mr. Flower Fantastic's Concrete Jungle." The exhibition transforms the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory with approximately 7,000 orchids arranged in installations that pay homage to New York City's urban landscape, including a subway station, a pizzeria, a newsstand, a dumpster, and a brownstone.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 7, 2026 visibility 20 link 2 artists

S&M-inspired Greek Pavilion in Venice confronts its fascist chains

The Greek Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale, titled "Grecia" and conceived as a drag artist, presents an S&M-inspired installation by artist and architect Andreas Angelidakis. The immersive space features a red neon-lit floor, soft sculptures resembling beanbags, fragmented marble columns wrapped in chains, and souvenirs bearing images of queer artists and the late activist Zak Kostopoulos (Zackie Oh). The pavilion aims to deconstruct the idea of a fixed national identity, exploring themes of queerness, fascism, and historical trauma.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 18, 2025 visibility 12 link 7 artists, 1 gallery

New York Gallery Show Spotlights Iconoclastic Comic Artist Paul Pope

Comic artist Paul Pope is the subject of a new gallery exhibition at Philippe Labaune Gallery in New York, opening June 19, 2025. The show spans his three-decade career, featuring never-before-seen original works and curated selections from his archives, coinciding with the release of his career retrospective monograph *Pulp Hope 2: The Art of Paul Pope* (Boom! Studios, 2025). Pope is known for works such as *Batman: Year 100*, *Heavy Liquid*, and *Battling Boy*, blending American, European, and Japanese influences.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 13, 2026 visibility 11 link 2 artists

'Cigars!' exhibit at Florida Museum of Photographic Arts captures a fading history

The Florida Museum of Photographic Arts has launched "Cigars! Photography, Industry and Identity," a new exhibition by local photographer Zack Wittman. The show documents the architectural remnants of Tampa’s historic cigar industry, which once boasted over 200 factories but has dwindled to approximately 25 standing brick buildings. Through a collaboration with the J.C. Newman Cigar Company, Wittman captured both preserved and derelict structures that define the unique personality of Ybor City.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 21, 2026 visibility 5 link 1 artist, 2 galleries

"Seasons and Soliloquies" by Zack Thurmond

Zack Thurmond will present a solo exhibition titled "Seasons and Soliloquies" at Idaho Art Gallery (IAG) in downtown Boise, opening Thursday, May 7, 2026, from 5 to 9 pm. Thurmond, a largely self-taught artist with a BFA from Boise University, creates paintings rooted in direct observation of place, often starting as plein air studies and expanding into larger studio works. His pieces are held in collections across North America and Europe, and he currently serves as Chief Preparator at the Boise Art Museum.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 10, 2025 visibility 16 link 6 artists

LA-Based ModA Curations Opens New Space in NYC With A Contemporary Art Exhibition Called “Love”

ModA (Modern Anthropology) Studios, a Los Angeles-based creative organization founded by George Fan, opened its first permanent location at 227 E 24th Street in Manhattan's Lower East Side on June 27, 2025, with a contemporary art exhibition titled “Love.” Curated by Sia Fang, the show features nine artists divided into main-exhibiting artists and a subsection called Untapped, the Collection. Artists include Ellen Carpenter, Magali, A Cult, Ching-Wei Wang, Felisa Nguyen, Ibtisam Tasnim Zaman, Edd Ravn, Hongshan, and Agen Xin, working across performance, installation, painting, and mixed media.

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