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Simone Leigh’s largest exhibition yet to explore ‘art made under fascism’

Simone Leigh will present her largest-ever exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London in late 2027, featuring new monumental bronze and ceramic sculptures alongside film installations. The show, curated by Tarini Malik, will explore the theme of architecture and art created under fascist regimes, with Leigh citing the current political climate in the United States as a driving influence. Leigh, who represented the US at the 2022 Venice Biennale and won the Golden Lion, has noted that some artist commissions have been stalled or canceled due to anti-DEI policies.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 26, 2025 visibility 18 link 10 artists

Dallas Museum of Art to Host “International Surrealism” Exhibition

The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) will present "International Surrealism," a major exhibition in collaboration with Tate London, opening November 2, 2025, and running through March 22, 2026. Marking the centenary of the first Surrealist exhibition in 1925, the show features over 100 works from Tate’s collection, including pieces by René Magritte, Salvador Dalí, Lenora Carrington, Wifredo Lam, Malangatana Ngwenya, Alberto Giacometti, Dorothea Tanning, and Jackson Pollock. The exhibition aims to decentralize Surrealism by presenting works from around the world, alongside printed ephemera and publications from the early 1900s. Tickets go on sale October 7, 2025, with early access for DMA members on October 6.

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New Museum’s longtime director to retire after building expansion opens

Lisa Phillips, the director of the New Museum in Manhattan since 1999, will retire in April 2026 after the completion of an $82 million expansion designed by OMA and Cooper Robertson. The expansion, which doubles the museum's exhibition space, is set to reopen this autumn, marking the culmination of Phillips's transformative 26-year tenure. She will become director emeritus and curate an exhibition on the Bowery's artistic history.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 26, 2025 visibility 14 link 6 artists

‘I don’t want to compare myself with these masters’: Giorgio Armani placed side by side with Raphael and Caravaggio in Milan exhibition

Milan's Pinacoteca di Brera has opened a major exhibition titled *Giorgio Armani: Milano, per amore*, juxtaposing over 120 garments designed by the legendary fashion designer Giorgio Armani—who died this month—with Renaissance masterpieces by Caravaggio, Bellini, Raphael, and Mantegna. Unveiled on September 24 during Milan Fashion Week, the show was planned by Armani until shortly before his death, making it his final project. The exhibition also includes a catwalk event in the museum's courtyard on September 28, originally conceived to celebrate 50 years since the Armani fashion house launched in the Brera district.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 26, 2025 visibility 23 link 32 artists

Princeton University Art Museum Announces Inaugural Exhibitions in New Building

Princeton University Art Museum will open its new building on October 31, 2025, with two inaugural exhibitions: *Princeton Collects* and *Toshiko Takaezu: Dialogues in Clay*. *Princeton Collects*, curated by director James Steward and the museum’s curatorial team, features approximately 150 works donated during a “campaign for art” that began in 2021, including pieces by Sean Scully, Willem de Kooning, Joan Mitchell, and Zanele Muholi. *Toshiko Takaezu: Dialogues in Clay* highlights the pioneering ceramic artist and longtime Princeton professor, showcasing her “closed forms” alongside works by her teachers and contemporaries.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 26, 2025 visibility 8 link 15 artists

An exhibition at Cranbrook Museum of Art spotlights overlooked perspectives from the midcentury modern movement

The Cranbrook Museum of Art has opened a new exhibition that highlights underrepresented voices and overlooked perspectives within the midcentury modern movement. The show features works by artists and designers who were historically marginalized or excluded from the dominant narrative of midcentury modernism, including women and people of color.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 25, 2025 visibility 13 link 2 artists

North America's 1st large-scale manga exhibit opens at San Francisco's De Young Museum

San Francisco's De Young Museum has opened North America's first large-scale exhibition of manga art, featuring over 600 works spanning comic books, fine art, and animated features. Curated by Nicole Rousmaniere, the show includes pieces by artist Mari Yamazaki, who blends classical painting with manga storytelling, and highlights globally popular titles like "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure." The exhibition runs through January.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 25, 2025 visibility 21 link 3 artists

Marina Abramović to have historic solo exhibition at Venice’s Galleria dell’Accademia in 2026

Marina Abramović will have a historic solo exhibition at Venice’s Galleria dell’Accademia in May 2026, during the art biennale. Titled "Transforming Energy," the show first debuted at the Modern Art Museum (MAM) Shanghai in 2024 and is inspired by her 1988 walk across the Great Wall of China with former partner Ulay. Abramović becomes the first living female artist to exhibit solo at the Accademia in its 250-year history, following her 2023 milestone as the first woman with a solo show at London’s Royal Academy of Arts and her 1997 Golden Lion win at the Venice Biennale. Curated by MAM artistic director Shai Baitel in collaboration with the artist, the exhibition will feature historic performances such as Rhythm 0 (1974) and Imponderabilia (1997), alongside newer works incorporating precious stones and a photograph of Pietà (with Ulay) (1983) displayed alongside Titian’s Pietà.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 25, 2025 visibility 15 link 15 artists

Prague’s best autumn 2025 art exhibitions and events

Prague's autumn 2025 art season features a wide range of exhibitions, from classical paintings celebrating Czech identity to contemporary digital art. Highlights include Spanish painter Miquel Barceló's major show at DOX, an exhibition marking 150 years of Bedřich Smetana's 'Vltava' at Jízdárna Pražského hradu, and the largest-ever exhibition of Czech pop artist Pasta Oner at Municipal House Gallery. Other notable shows include a retrospective of sculptor Aleš Veselý at Veletržní palác, the Jindřich Chalupecký Award 2025 exhibition, and the opening of Prague's first permanent digital art gallery, Signal Space, with its inaugural exhibit 'Echoes of Tomorrow'.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 25, 2025 visibility 16 link 8 artists

Ackland’s new exhibit adds splash of ‘Color’

The Ackland Art Museum at UNC-Chapel Hill has opened a new exhibition titled "Color Triumphant," featuring 54 modern paintings, sculptures, and works on paper from the collection of Julian and Josie Robertson. The show spans from the 1870s to the present, highlighting the liberation of color in modern art with works by Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pablo Picasso, Frank Stella, and André Derain, whose painting "The Jetty at L'Estaque" serves as the flagship piece. Curated by deputy director Peter Nisbet, the exhibition was developed in collaboration with the Robertson Foundation after Julian Robertson's death in 2022, and includes student research support. It runs through January 4, with related lectures and film screenings, and a second iteration, "Color Concentrated: A Salon-Style Hang from the Robertson Collection," opening January 30.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 24, 2025 visibility 14 link 3 artists

Ruth Orkin: Women on the Move | Exhibition

The National Museum of Women in the Arts is presenting "Ruth Orkin: Women on the Move," an exhibition of 21 vintage photographs by the mid-20th-century American photographer Ruth Orkin (1921–1985). Drawn from the museum's collection, the show highlights Orkin's depictions of women in diverse settings—from Hollywood celebrities and Broadway stars to Women's Army Auxiliary Corps members, tourists in Europe, and families in an Israeli kibbutz. Orkin, who was barred from joining the cinematographers' union due to her gender, turned her narrative eye to photography, often collaborating with her subjects to invert the conventional male gaze. The exhibition runs from December 12, 2025, to April 19, 2026.

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Century-old art studio in need of urgent repairs

The Charleston Trust has launched a £250,000 fundraising campaign called Studio 100 to urgently repair a century-old studio at Charleston in Firle, East Sussex. The studio, originally built in a chicken shed in 1925 by artists Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, and Roger Fry, was intended as a temporary space but has become a globally significant site. The total project cost is about £470,000, with support already secured from Arts Council England. Repairs will focus on the roof, windows, doors, and fragile painted surfaces, along with installing climate control systems, scheduled from November 2026 to April 2027.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 24, 2025 visibility 24 link 21 artists

13 Art Exhibitions You Don’t Want To Miss This Fall

This fall, galleries and museums across the United States are presenting a series of exhibitions centered on Black life, ranging from historic pioneers to contemporary voices. Highlights include Athi-Patra Ruga's immersive installation 'Lord, I gotta keep on (movin')' at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, which imagines a queer Black nation called Azania; 'Edmonia Lewis: Indelible Impressions' at Stanford's Cantor Arts Center, showcasing the 19th-century sculptor's Neoclassical works; and 'Data Consciousness: Reframing Blackness in Contemporary Print' in New York, inspired by W. E. B. Du Bois's data visualizations. Other notable shows include 'A Taste of Beauty' at the Crocker Art Museum, featuring carved African spoons, and the reopening of the Studio Museum in Harlem, alongside the global energy of Art Basel Miami Beach.

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Thaddaeus Ropac is betting on Milan—will it pay off?

Austrian dealer Thaddaeus Ropac opened a new gallery in Milan on September 20, capitalizing on Italy's newly reduced 5% VAT on art imports—the lowest in the EU—and an influx of wealthy expats from London following the UK's abolition of non-dom tax status. The gallery occupies the first floor of the historic Palazzo Belgioioso, with Elena Bonanno di Linguaglossa appointed as director. Ropac's move follows his earlier successful expansions into Seoul and Pantin, which proved prescient.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 23, 2025 visibility 20 link 6 artists

LACMA Expands Local Access Initiative with New Museum Partners and Exhibitions

LACMA has expanded its Local Access initiative by adding three new museum partners: the California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) University Art Gallery, the Millard Sheets Art Center at the L.A. County Fair, and the Ontario Museum of History & Art. Supported by the Art Bridges Cohort Program, these institutions join four existing partners in creating exhibitions sourced from LACMA’s permanent collection. The program’s latest exhibition, "Act on It! Artists, Community, and the Brockman Gallery in Los Angeles," will open at the Vincent Price Art Museum on September 27. Local Access, launched in 2021, was the first Art Bridges Cohort Program in the Western United States.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 23, 2025 visibility 13 link 7 artists

Krannert Art Museum exhibition examines significance of early modern European prints

Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will present "Imagination, Faith, and Desire: Art and Agency in European Prints, 1475-1800," an exhibition of over 100 early modern European prints drawn from private collections. The show, curated by Maureen Warren, runs from September 25 through February 28 and includes works by masters such as Rembrandt, Parmigianino, and Goya, exploring how prints functioned as Europe's first visual mass media.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 23, 2025 visibility 19 link 6 artists

Fra Angelico masterworks reunited for two-venue Florence exhibition

Florence is opening a comprehensive double-venue exhibition of over 140 works by Fra Angelico, the early Renaissance master. The show, titled simply "Fra Angelico," runs at the Museo di San Marco and the Palazzo Strozzi, reuniting dispersed altarpieces and panels for the first time in over two centuries. It traces his evolution from late Gothic to early Renaissance, featuring reconstructed altarpieces with panels gathered from major European and American museums, alongside works by his influences like Masaccio, Lorenzo Ghiberti, and Lorenzo Monaco.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 23, 2025 visibility 18 link 9 artists

Southeast Asia’s largest French Impressionist exhibition is opening in Singapore with over 100 artworks

National Gallery Singapore will host "Into the Modern: Impressionism from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston," the largest French Impressionist exhibition ever staged in Southeast Asia, from November 14, 2025 to March 1, 2026. The show features over 100 artworks across seven thematic sections, including 17 pieces by Claude Monet and masterpieces by Renoir, Degas, Cézanne, Pissarro, Sisley, and Morisot, all on loan from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. None of the works have been displayed in Southeast Asia before.

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Dog in Rembrandt’s The Night Watch was copied from widely available book, suggests new research

New research suggests that the barking dog in the lower right corner of Rembrandt's *The Night Watch* (1642) was copied from a title-page illustration by the Dutch artist Adriaen van de Venne. Anne Lenders, curator of 17th-century Dutch paintings at the Rijksmuseum, recognized the resemblance while visiting an exhibition on Van de Venne at the Zeeuws Museum. Macro X-ray fluorescence scans of the painting's underdrawing confirmed the similarity, though Rembrandt modified the dog's posture and added a tongue to make it appear alert and barking at a drum.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 22, 2025 visibility 17 link 1 artist

Picasso: From the Studio

The article, titled "Picasso: From the Studio," appears to be a page from the National Gallery of Ireland's website. However, the actual content is blocked by a security verification service (CAPTCHA) that prevents access to the article text. The page indicates that the user must enable JavaScript and cookies and pass a security check to view the content.

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article news schedule Sep 22, 2025 visibility 14 link 9 artists

Ai Weiwei: ‘Nothing scares me anymore—being terrified does not help’

Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has unveiled a major new commission in Kyiv, Ukraine, titled 'Three Perfectly Proportioned Spheres and Camouflage Uniforms Painted White,' on view until November 30. The site-specific installation, commissioned by the non-profit cultural platform Ribbon International, features three spheres wrapped in camouflaged fabric dotted with animal images, responding to escalating global armed conflicts. Ai recently traveled to the front line of the war in eastern Ukraine near Kharkiv, meeting Ukrainian fighters and cultural figures, and also planted sunflower seeds and buttons in a field there as a ceremonial act.

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gavel restitution schedule Sep 22, 2025 visibility 11 link 1 artist

Jewish collector's heirs revive Nazi loot claim to Van Gogh Sunflowers painting

Heirs of Jewish banker and collector Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy are appealing a lower court's dismissal of their lawsuit against Japanese insurer Sompo Holdings over Vincent van Gogh's painting *Sunflowers* (1888-89), valued at $250 million. The plaintiffs—Julius H. Schoeps, Britt-Marie Enhoerning, and Florence von Kesselstatt, representing over 30 beneficiaries—claim the work was sold under Nazi pressure in 1934. Sompo bought the painting in 1987 for a record $25 million at Christie's London. The case was heard by a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on 17 September 2025, under the 2016 Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act.

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trending_up market schedule Sep 22, 2025 visibility 12 link 6 artists

Picasso painting not seen in 80 years heads to auction in France

A Picasso painting unseen for over 80 years, *Buste de femme au chapeau à fleurs (Dora Maar)* (1943), will be auctioned at the Drouot salesroom in Paris on 24 October by Lucien Paris auction house. The work, depicting the artist's lover and muse Dora Maar, has been held in a private French collection since 1944 and carries an estimate of €8 million. The auction catalogue includes an authentication certificate from the Comité Picasso and notes the painting was documented in *Cahiers d’art* and photographed by Brassaï.

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Letter calls on Judy Chicago and Pussy Riot's Nadya Tolakonnikova to cancel Tel Aviv exhibition

More than 50 artists and cultural figures, many based in Israel, have signed a letter urging American artist Judy Chicago and Pussy Riot co-founder Nadya Tolokonnikova to cancel their collaborative exhibition "What if women ruled the world?" at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. The show, which opened last week, features a digital quilt responding to the titular question. The letter, seen by The Art Newspaper, argues that holding the exhibition in Israel makes the artists "complicit" in what the signatories describe as genocide in Gaza, citing a recent UN commission finding. Tolokonnikova stated she is not involved in the ongoing project, while Chicago declined to comment. The museum defended the exhibition as a space for reflection and dialogue, not an endorsement of any political position.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 22, 2025 visibility 16 link 6 artists

'Age alone does not guarantee value': Thomas S. Kaplan is showing his Dutch Old Master collection in US for first time

Collector Thomas S. Kaplan and his wife Daphne Recanati Kaplan are bringing their Leiden Collection, one of the world's largest private holdings of 17th-century Dutch art, to the US for the first time. Around a third of the collection's 220-plus works will be shown in "Art and Life in Rembrandt’s Time: Masterpieces from The Leiden Collection" at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach from 25 October 2025 to 29 March 2026. Kaplan is also in discussions to fractionalise the collection into shares and float it as an IPO.

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article policy schedule Sep 22, 2025 visibility 21 link 14 artists

Is This the Breaking Point for Museums?

Museums across the West are facing a severe funding crisis as governments slash public support. In the U.S., President Donald Trump’s deep cuts to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) have resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in lost funding, while stock market volatility and increased endowment taxes further strain budgets. In Europe, Berlin cut €130 million from cultural funding in December 2024, and other countries face similar pressures, forcing museums to confront dwindling subsidies and shifting philanthropy.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 21, 2025 visibility 17 link 2 artists

Olafur Eliasson: Your curious journey | June 21 - September 21, 2025

The article announces Olafur Eliasson's traveling exhibition 'Your curious journey,' running from June 21 to September 21, 2025, at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum. Featuring 17 works spanning installation, painting, sculpture, and photography, the show reflects on the Icelandic-Danish artist's three-decade career and marks his first major presentation in the Asia-Pacific region. The exhibition will later travel to the Singapore Art Museum, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Museum MACAN in Jakarta, and MCAD Manila - Museum of Contemporary Art and Design.

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trending_up market schedule Sep 21, 2025 visibility 17 link 16 artists

The Red-Hot Market for South Asian Modernism Has a New Star

A 1989 painting by Bangladeshi modernist S.M. Sultan, titled *Untitled (Cultivation)*, sold for $50,800 at Christie’s New York on Wednesday, more than doubling its high estimate of $25,000 and setting a new auction record for the artist. The work was acquired by a South Asian institution. Sultan, who died in 1994, is known for his depictions of muscular peasants and has only 14 recorded auction results, with his previous record of $19,500 set just two months earlier at Sotheby’s.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 20, 2025 visibility 22 link 25 artists

Marianne and Edward Gibson Art Museum opens at SFU Burnaby campus

The Marianne and Edward Gibson Art Museum, a new 12,100-square-foot facility on the Simon Fraser University Burnaby campus in British Columbia, has officially opened to the public. Designed by Siamak Hariri of Hariri Pontarini Architects, the museum features B.C.-sourced mass timber beams, floor-to-ceiling windows, and a layout that integrates with the surrounding forest. Its inaugural exhibition, "Edge Effects," includes works by artists such as Debra Sparrow, Cindy Mochizuki, Patrick Cruz, Lorna Brown, and Jin-me Yoon, and the museum also houses approximately 5,900 works from the Simon Fraser University Art Collection.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 19, 2025 visibility 14 link 16 artists

‘A really pivotal moment’: 6 neurodivergent artists highlighted in a sensory-dense, striking exhibition

An exhibition titled 'LOOK HERE' opens at Haverford College's Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, featuring six neurodivergent artists from Greater Philadelphia who are connected with the Center for Creative Works (CCW). Curated by Jennifer Gilbert alongside CCW artists Paige Donavan and Mary T. Bevlock, the show highlights diverse works including mixed-media sculptures by blind artist Cindy Gosselin, textured ceramics by Clyde Henry, marker drawings by Allen Yu, and contributions from Kelly Brown, Tim Quinn, and Brandon Spicer-Crawley. The gallery is designed for accessibility, with lowered paintings, sensory backpacks, braille booklets, ASL-embedded videos, and custom seating by artists.

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