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Wandering Between Worlds Exhibition at Pullen Arts Center

Pullen Arts Center in Raleigh, North Carolina, is presenting the group exhibition "Wandering Between Worlds" in its Main Gallery, featuring seven local artists: Alison Coleman, Ari Ferro, Jenn Hales, K. Orr Ambrose, Nancy Goodrich, Marcia Moran, and Min Zhong. The show explores landscapes both real and imagined, with a closing reception scheduled for October 25 and an artist talk on September 18. The exhibition is free and open to the public, and artwork is available for purchase through the center.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 24, 2025 visibility 16 link 2 artists

Pablo Picasso: Private Creative Realms Revealed in Dublin Exhibition

The National Gallery of Ireland presents 'Picasso: From the Studio', an exhibition opening 11 October 2025 that explores Pablo Picasso's private creative spaces across his career. Featuring sixty works, including paintings, sculptures, and ceramics, the show reconstructs the artist's studios from Montmartre's Le Bateau-Lavoir to the Mougins farmhouse, using archival photographs as ghostly backdrops. Key pieces like 'Violin and Bottle on a Table' (1915) and 'Tête de femme' (1931-32) reveal how specific environments—a cramped Parisian garret, a sun-drenched villa in Avignon, a Normandy stable—shaped his stylistic reinventions from Analytic Cubism to postwar ceramics.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 24, 2025 visibility 18 link 22 artists

The new era of fashion’s art exhibitions

LACMA's upcoming David Geffen Galleries, opening in 2026, will feature over 130 costumes and textiles in its inaugural installations—more than any other time since the museum opened in 1965. The museum also plans exhibitions such as 'Fashioning Chinese Women: Empire to Modernity' (with mannequins by Jason Wu) and 'Fashioning Fashion' (1900–2025). Other major fashion exhibitions include 'Virgil Abloh: The Codes' at Paris's Grand Palais, 'Westwood Kawakubo' at the National Gallery of Victoria, and 'Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art' at London's V&A. The article notes that fashion exhibitions are increasingly popular and profitable for museums, citing the Met's Costume Institute and its record-breaking Met Gala fundraising.

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American Museum of Natural History announces free admission for low-income New Yorkers

The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City has launched the Discoverer program, offering free admission and educational programming to low-income New Yorkers who receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. The program, developed with NYC's Department of Cultural Affairs and Human Resources Administration, allows SNAP beneficiaries to bring up to four guests and reserve advance tickets online, with membership renewable annually. Nearly 1.8 million city residents rely on SNAP, and the initiative aims to remove financial barriers to museum access.

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Artist Amy Sherald has canceled her upcoming show at the Smithsonian

Artist Amy Sherald has canceled her upcoming solo exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, scheduled to open September 19. The cancellation stems from a dispute over her painting *Trans Forming Liberty* (2024), which depicts a trans woman with pink hair and a blue gown holding a torch. Sherald stated that the museum expressed concerns about including the portrait, leading to discussions about removing it. She claims the Smithsonian planned to replace the painting with a video of people reacting to it, which she opposed as it would debate the value of trans visibility. The Smithsonian denies the painting was to be replaced, saying the video was meant to provide context. Sherald's exhibition, *Amy Sherald: American Sublime*, was organized by SFMOMA and is currently on view at the Whitney Museum.

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trending_up market schedule Jul 23, 2025 visibility 33 link 29 artists, 3 galleries

Waddington Custot to open in Paris ahead of Art Basel Paris

Waddington Custot has announced it will open a new gallery at 36 rue de Seine in Paris, occupying the historic space formerly home to Lansberg Gallery in the 6th arrondissement. The gallery is set to open in October 2025, ahead of Art Basel Paris, and will be managed by Isaure de Roquefeuil and Antoine Clavé. The inaugural exhibition will focus on the Nabis painters, followed by a group show of modern and contemporary artists. The 200-square-meter space is located in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district. (Note: The opening has since been rescheduled to early 2026.)

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 23, 2025 visibility 18 link 6 artists

Seattle mural festival, shows that make you think and more visual arts

Seattle's visual arts scene remains vibrant after the Seattle Art Fair, with a packed schedule of exhibitions and events. Highlights include the politically charged "Latin American Land/Escapes" at SOIL Gallery, featuring 14 Mexican artists whose names were withheld due to immigration concerns; "Hugh Hayden: American Vernacular" at the Frye Art Museum, the artist's first solo museum show on the West Coast; a new mural by Charlene Liu at the Henry Art Gallery; and the ongoing "Ai, Rebel: The Art and Activism of Ai Weiwei" at the Seattle Art Museum. The Belltown Mural Festival also returns for a second year, with live painting performances starting Aug. 4.

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National Museum of African Art

The article is a visitor's guide to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C., describing its hidden, underground location behind the Smithsonian Castle and its extensive collection of ancient and modern African art. It highlights specific works on display, including a mixed media piece by Mary Sibande titled *Sophie-Merica* (2009), a sculpture by Ghada Amer titled *The Blue Bra Girls* (2012), and *Untitled* (2009) by El Anatsui, along with numerous masks, textiles, and photography exhibits by artists such as Lalla Essaydi.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 22, 2025 visibility 10 link 7 artists

Allegory and Abstraction: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Department of Drawings and Prints has installed a new rotation in the Robert Wood Johnson, Jr. Gallery titled "Allegory and Abstraction." The exhibition features up to 100 works on paper, including Henri Matisse's 1947 series "Jazz," Louise Bourgeois's "He Disappeared into Complete Silence" (1947), and watercolors by J.M.W. Turner and Thomas Girtin marking the 250th anniversary of their births. The show explores how artists embed complex meanings through symbols (allegory) or through line, color, and pattern (abstraction).

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trending_up market schedule Jul 21, 2025 visibility 19 link 8 artists

Bill Viola’s complete moving-image works and a William Dobson self-portrait: the latest museum acquisitions

Tate and the National Portrait Gallery in London have jointly acquired William Dobson's rare self-portrait (circa 1635-40) for £2.4 million, supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. The painting will debut at Tate Britain in November before touring the UK. Separately, the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York, will digitize the complete moving-image works of Bill Viola, following a donation of over 200 works by the Viola-Perov Trust. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has acquired a monumental Tiffany Studios stained-glass window by Agnes F. Northrop, originally installed in a San Antonio chapel, for its campus expansion opening in 2026.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 21, 2025 visibility 18 link 4 artists

Exhibition at The Met Highlights Role of Photography in Cross-Dressing Community in 1960s New York

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition "Casa Susanna," on view from July 21, 2025 to January 25, 2026, brings together approximately 160 photographs and publications created by and for a community of cross-dressers who gathered in New York City and the Catskills Mountains during the 1960s. The works, discovered at a Manhattan flea market in 2004, document safe spaces provided by Susanna Valenti and Marie Tornell at two modest resorts, where guests used cameras—especially Polaroids—to affirm their femme identities and connect a nationwide community. The exhibition is organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario and Les Rencontres d’Arles in collaboration with The Met, and includes collections from the Art Gallery of Ontario, artist Cindy Sherman, and donor Betsy Wollheim.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 21, 2025 visibility 13 link 5 artists

Frye Art Museum opens three new summer exhibitions

The Frye Art Museum in Seattle has opened three new summer exhibitions: Hugh Hayden's 'American Vernacular,' Jamie Wyeth's 'Unsettled,' and the latest installment of the 'Boren Banner Series' featuring photography by Tarrah Krajnak. The exhibitions were launched with a summer reception on July 11. Krajnak's banner, which blends performance, art, and photography, is displayed on the museum's exterior wall until Sept. 28. Wyeth's indoor exhibit includes paintings and sculptures, notably pieces from his 'Screen Door Sequence,' and runs until Oct. 5. Hayden's show, a collection of mixed-media sculptures organized into thematic spaces like the nursery and the gym, is on view until Sept. 28.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 21, 2025 visibility 18 link 11 artists

A new art foundation in Uruguay highlights Latin American artists and curators

Fundación Cervieri Monsuárez (FCM), a contemporary-art space designed by the late Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly, has opened in the exclusive coastal village of José Ignacio, Uruguay. The foundation aims to become a year-round hub for Latin American art, launching with a reinstallation of the Uruguay Pavilion from the 2024 Venice Biennale, featuring artist Eduardo Cardozo's work "Latente." FCM presents three exhibitions per year, giving curators carte blanche, and has already hosted shows by Vivian Suter, Claudia Casarino, and Gabriel Chaile, with upcoming exhibitions by Chonon Bensho and Ana Segovia.

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article policy schedule Jul 20, 2025 visibility 12 link 13 artists

Can you mount an art exhibition about race in the age of Trump?

The article reports on the exhibition "The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture" at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, which challenges visitors to reconsider how American sculpture has reinforced racist social orders. The show features 82 works from 1792 to 2023, including John Rogers’ 1864 sculpture "The Wounded Scout, a Friend in the Swamp," and includes interpretive prompts about race as a human invention and a tool of power. President Donald Trump issued an executive order condemning the exhibition for promoting "divisive narratives," and Vice President JD Vance, who sits on the Smithsonian’s Board of Regents, has been tasked with stopping government funding for exhibits that do not align with a celebratory national agenda. The Smithsonian has begun a review of content across its museums, raising concerns about future candid discussions of race and history.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 18, 2025 visibility 19 link 8 artists

Sea State: restored Norfolk mansion puts on water-themed exhibition by Maggi Hambling and Ro Robertson

Wolterton Hall, an 18th-century Palladian country house in Norfolk, England, has reopened to the public after a restoration completed by its new owner Richard Ellis. The estate is launching a water-themed exhibition titled "Sea State," featuring site-specific works by artists Maggi Hambling and Ro Robertson. Robertson's outdoor steel sculpture "The Swell" will be the first permanent outdoor artwork on the grounds, while Hambling presents new pieces from her "Wall of Water" series and an installation called "Time" dedicated to her late partner. The exhibition is co-curated by Simon Oldfield and Gemma Rolls-Bentley.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 18, 2025 visibility 14 link 17 artists

Arts of Life Celebrates 25 Years

Arts of Life, a Chicago-based nonprofit supporting artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities, is celebrating its 25th anniversary with its first museum exhibition, "Community on the Make | Arts of Life 2000 – 2025," at the Design Museum of Chicago from August 11 to September 30, 2025. The retrospective features works by over 50 artists, staff, and volunteers, including founding member Veronica "Ronnie" Cuculich, and highlights collaborative pieces such as David Krueger and Ben Marcus's Love Man series. Related programs include a public reception on August 21 and artist residency hours throughout September.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 18, 2025 visibility 16 link 9 artists

“She’s a Real 20th Century Figure”: Thelma Golden on the ICA’s Mavis Pusey Retrospective

The Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, in collaboration with the Studio Museum in Harlem, has opened "Mavis Pusey: Mobile Images," a retrospective of the Jamaican-born abstract artist Mavis Pusey (1928–2019). The exhibition spans two floors of Pusey's paintings and archival materials, showcasing her geometric abstractions that translate urban construction and gentrification into fractured planes and rhythmic blocks of color. The show was sparked by Studio Museum director Thelma Golden's discovery of Pusey's work in an online auction catalog a decade ago, leading to a collaboration with curator Hallie Ringle.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 18, 2025 visibility 15 link 5 artists

‘Fearless exploration’: visionary Australian artist Janet Dawson gets her first retrospective aged 90

The Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) has opened 'Janet Dawson: Far Away, So Close,' the first-ever retrospective for Australian artist Janet Dawson, now aged 90. The exhibition spans over six decades of her career, from her teenage years at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School—where she was the only child student accepted by realist painter H. Septimus Power—through her abstract period in Europe, her defiant practice in conservative 1960s Melbourne, and her later retreat to rural NSW. The show includes major works, photos, and ephemera, arranged chronologically across four rooms, highlighting Dawson's evolution from tonal realism to abstraction and her 1973 Archibald Prize win for a portrait of her husband, theatre director Michael Boddy.

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trending_up market schedule Jul 17, 2025 visibility 17 link 4 artists

Phillips Sues Wealthy Scion for Failure to Come Through on Pollock Purchase

Phillips auction house has filed a lawsuit against film producer David Mimran, alleging he failed to pay $14.5 million for a Jackson Pollock painting after serving as a third-party guarantor. The untitled ca. 1948 white-on-black drip painting, which had appeared in a 1998 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, received no bids at a November auction in New York, leaving Mimran legally obligated to purchase it. Mimran missed two payment deadlines and later claimed he could not meet a third, prompting Phillips to file a complaint with the Supreme Court of New York.

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Moving On Up: 24 Museum Curators and Art Leaders Who Took on New Appointments in First Half of 2025

Culture Type has published its annual list of new appointments among museum curators and arts leaders for the first half of 2025, highlighting two dozen hires and promotions at major institutions. Notable appointments include Deana Haggag as program director for arts and culture at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Ann Collins Smith as chief curator at the New Orleans Museum of Art (the first Black American in a full-time curatorial role there), and Vincent van Velsen as head of exhibitions at Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam. The list also features curators such as Alisa Chiles at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and Brittany Webb at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 17, 2025 visibility 17 link 5 artists

NYU’s Grey Art Museum Presents ‘June Leaf: Shooting From the Heart’ Sept. 9–Dec. 13

NYU’s Grey Art Museum will present the exhibition ‘June Leaf: Shooting From the Heart’ from September 9 to December 13. The show focuses on the work of American artist June Leaf, known for her expressive drawings, paintings, and sculptures that explore the human figure and emotional states.

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rate_review review schedule Jul 16, 2025 visibility 15 link 3 artists

“Feeling Color” at The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

The article reviews "Feeling Color: Aubrey Williams and Frank Bowling" at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, an exhibition that pairs works by two artists from Guyana who worked in London in the late 20th century. Both explore abstraction, materials, and sociopolitical themes, with Bowling's color field paintings and Williams' geometric, Pre-Columbian-inspired works displayed in alternating galleries. The reviewer describes the show as dense and vibrant, noting the sensory experience of the paintings and the subtle dialogue between the artists.

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Mexico City’s Museo Dolores Olmedo to reopen in 2026 amid controversy

Museo Dolores Olmedo in Mexico City, home to the largest collection of works by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, has announced it will reopen in 2026 after being closed since 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The announcement follows years of uncertainty, including a controversial 2021 proposal to relocate the collection to Chapultepec’s Parque Aztlán, which contradicts the founder’s wish that the art remain at the original site, La Noria Hacienda in Xochimilco. The museum is now run by Dolores Phillips, granddaughter of founder Dolores Olmedo, who has faced criticism over plans for a 40-year loan of the collection to Aztlán.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 15, 2025 visibility 18 link 8 artists

Avignon becomes artist Jean-Michel Othoniel's gallery in his biggest ever exhibition

French artist Jean-Michel Othoniel has mounted his largest-ever exhibition across the city of Avignon, installing 270 artworks—140 of them new—in 10 locations including the Palais des Papes, city museums, public courtyards, building facades, and the medieval St Bénezet bridge. The show, commissioned to mark Avignon’s 25th anniversary as European Capital of Culture and 30th year as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2025, took nearly six weeks to install and involved a team of hundreds, including glassblowers, metalworkers, gilders, and dancers. Othoniel took the 14th-century Italian poet Petrarch as his thematic starting point, exploring different facets of love across the venues.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 15, 2025 visibility 15 link 6 artists

Appreciation and demand for Minnesota artist's work surges as The Met opens solo exhibition

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will open "The Magical City: George Morrison’s New York" on July 17, the first solo exhibition for the late Minnesota-born Ojibwe artist. The show features over 30 works by Morrison, an abstract expressionist who painted alongside Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Franz Kline, and whose large wood-and-granite collages, totems, and paintings are widely installed across Minnesota and internationally. The exhibition coincides with a surge in demand for his work, driven by recent high-profile gallery shows and a 2022 USPS Forever Stamp series.

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trending_up market schedule Jul 15, 2025 visibility 25 link 12 artists, 7 galleries

Meyer Riegger and Jocelyn Wolff Open Joint Seoul Gallery Ahead of Frieze

Berlin's Meyer Riegger and Parisian Galerie Jocelyn Wolff will open a joint gallery in Seoul's Hannam-dong district on 2 September 2025, marking their first permanent Asian outpost. The new space, named Meyer Riegger Wolff and led by director Gaia Musi, will represent artists from both galleries including Clemens von Wedemeyer, Miriam Cahn, and Marcel Duchamp. The inaugural exhibition, "Heute Nacht geträumt (Dreamed Last Night)" (2 September–7 November 2025), will explore drawing across four centuries in a salon-style format.

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Christie’s celebrates the late Syrian artist Marwan with non-selling London show

Christie’s is presenting a non-selling exhibition titled "Marwan: A Soul in Exile" at its London headquarters this summer, featuring over 150 works by the late Syrian artist Marwan (1934-2016). The show draws from major private and institutional collections including the Barjeel Art Foundation, the Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation, the Pinault Collection, and the Berlinische Galerie. This marks Christie’s third such non-selling exhibition of Arab art in London over the past three summers, following shows focused on Arab artists from the Barjeel collection and Saudi artist Ahmed Mater. The exhibition coincides with Christie’s 25th anniversary in the UAE and a broader surge in the Middle Eastern art market, including a recent white-glove sale for its online Modern and contemporary Middle Eastern art auction in Dubai.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 14, 2025 visibility 16 link 5 artists

Blood, skeletons and syphilis: the story of Edvard Munch’s obsession with health

An exhibition at the Munch Museum in Oslo, titled "Lifeblood," explores Edvard Munch's lifelong obsession with health and medicine by juxtaposing his paintings, drawings, and prints with historical medical objects. The show opens with Munch's painting "On the Operating Table" (1902-3), inspired by a bullet removal surgery after a dispute with his fiancée Tulla Larsen, paired with an early x-ray of his injured hand. It features works like "The Sick Child" (1885-6) alongside tuberculosis-related artifacts such as stethoscopes, sputum bottles, and a jar of arsenic, drawing from Munch's personal experiences with illness and his family's medical background—his father and brother were doctors.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 13, 2025 visibility 16 link 11 artists

Frida Kahlo’s Month in Paris: A Friendship with Mary Reynolds

The Art Institute of Chicago is presenting "Frida Kahlo’s Month in Paris: A Friendship with Mary Reynolds," an exhibition running from March 29 to July 13, 2025. It focuses on Kahlo's first and only trip to Europe in 1939, where she fell ill and convalesced at the home of American avant-garde bookbinder Mary Reynolds. The show features approximately 100 objects, including paintings, book bindings, and letters, drawn from the Art Institute's Mary Reynolds Collection and loans from the US, Mexico, and Europe.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 13, 2025 visibility 21 link 7 artists

The Art of the Tour: King Charles's Traveling Painters

King Charles III has sponsored an exhibition titled “The King’s Tour Artists” at Buckingham Palace, featuring 43 artists he recruited to paint during 70 royal tours over the past 40 years. The show, open until September 28, includes 74 paintings selected from over 300 works in the King’s private collection, alongside a companion book, *The Art of Royal Travel: Journeys with The King*. The idea originated from Peter St. Clair-Erskine, the 7th Earl of Rosslyn, who catalogued the collection. Critics have dismissed the works as polite and old-fashioned, but the exhibition highlights Charles’s long-standing patronage of representational art and his own practice as a watercolorist.

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