Multifaceted artist Poonam Arora has launched a new art studio called 'Studio Art Life' in Chandigarh's NAC, Manimajra market. The space debuted with a multi-artist exhibition featuring works by fourteen artists, including paintings in watercolor, oil, and acrylic, as well as sculptures and decoupage pieces. The exhibition runs through November 2, 2025.
The article reports on the 'Ghosts of the Hunt' exhibition, a photography show hosted by Greyhound Welfare SA (GWA) in Cresta, Johannesburg. The exhibition features two photographic series: one by Dean Bush, founder of GWA, documenting greyhounds rescued from the Yat Yuen racetrack in Macau, China—a facility that killed 20,000 dogs over 54 years before closing in 2018—and another by professional photographer Warren Johnson, focusing on locally rescued greyhounds. The article also highlights ongoing controversies, including a recent auction in Bela Bela, Limpopo, where SA breeders paid R2.4 million for 65 greyhounds destined for international racing, and lobbying by the Amaphisi Hunters' Association to decriminalize dog hunting in South Africa.
A new exhibition titled 'Unseen' has opened at The Old School House in Boscombe, showcasing the work of 37 local artists. Curated by Millie Lake, a Fine Art graduate from Arts University Bournemouth, in collaboration with Open School Creative, the show runs from October 30 to December 12 and features paintings, prints, mixed media, and ceramics responding to the theme of being unseen. A free open house celebration on November 1 includes a creative writing session and a community music performance.
The City of Homestead is bringing back its 'Artist in the Spotlight' program on November 15, 2025, at the Historic Seminole Theatre. The event, presented by Councilwoman Jenifer N. Bailey in partnership with The ArtBeat and Friends of the Seminole Theatre, features a month-long visual arts exhibition titled 'Blackity: Reframing Race, Ethnicity & Nationality Across the Diaspora,' curated by founding artist Ms. Tawana in collaboration with ArtWalk Presents. The opening reception includes live performances and opportunities to meet the artists.
A new abstract art exhibition titled 'Dimensions' has opened at Gallery 506 in Elsmere, Kentucky, featuring works by local artist Frank Herrmann. The show, running through December 20, 2025, includes paintings, drawings, watercolors, and sculptures characterized by bright colors, organic shapes, and playful forms. Herrmann, a professor emeritus of fine arts at the University of Cincinnati who earned his MFA there in 1972, works primarily in acrylic on stretched canvas but also experiments with mixed media such as sand, brick dust, and soot. His career includes exhibitions across the U.S., residencies at MASS MoCA and the Foundation for Contemporary Art in the Czech Republic, and pieces held in corporate and private collections.
An exhibition titled 'Armor,' curated by Brianna Osborne, has opened at Creative Haverhill’s downtown gallery in Haverhill, Massachusetts. The show features fifteen artists and students from across New England, including participants from Waltham High School’s ceramics program, who explore the concept of armor in its physical, emotional, inherited, and self-made forms. The gallery will host special hours during Haverhill’s inaugural Hill-o-Ween event on October 31 and an artist reception on November 1.
A new art installation has opened at Springfield Town Center in Fairfax County, Virginia, featuring seven works by three local artists—Tumôhq Abney, Jován Bethel, and Isabella Merlos. The exhibition, titled “ArtsFairfax Presents at Springfield Town Center,” is a collaboration between the mall and ArtsFairfax, the county's official arts agency, and was unveiled on October 16, 2025, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The show is part of ArtsFairfax’s month-long artoberVA celebration, organized in partnership with CultureWorks, and will remain on display through March 31, 2026, with all works available for purchase.
The Wichita Eagle reports on a new collaborative body of work by a well-known married couple of Wichita artists. The article highlights how their individual artistic practices merge in these new pieces, blending their distinct styles and techniques into a unified creative output.
The Leslie Powell Gallery in Lawton, Oklahoma, will open three art exhibitions on November 15 with a reception from 6-8 p.m. The shows include "Discovery" by Thomas Stotts, featuring landscape works on canvas and wood; "So the Days Pass: Works on Paper" by Christen Humphries, a Cameron University alumna and adjunct professor; and a special exhibition of works by Eisenhower High School students. The exhibits remain on display through December 19.
South Texas College’s Technology Campus Library Art Gallery presented its annual STC Alumni Series exhibit, featuring three former Visual Arts students: Elijah Dueñas, Irma Garza Garcia, and Michelle Ramirez. The artists, who studied under STC Art Instructor Luis Corpus and later at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley under painter Rigoberto Gonzalez, reunited for a reception celebrating their work and the mentorship that shaped their careers. The exhibit runs until December 1 at the STC Technology Campus Library Art Gallery.
The Plantation Artists’ Guild & Gallery (PAGG) in Amelia Island, Florida, is hosting an opening reception titled "All Wrapped Up" on Friday, November 7, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The exhibit features new artwork by PAGG members, with Osprey Village catering the event. All proceeds from the reception will be donated to Alzheimer’s research.
Local artist Di Gomery will present her latest works in an exhibition titled "Floresce at Rise" at Bluebird Bakery’s evening venue in Acomb, York, from October 24 to December 18, 2025. The show features large-scale paintings inspired by her sketchbook drawings, following a recent exhibition at York Hospital. A preview evening will be held on October 24, and Gomery plans to donate 25 percent of painting sales to Médecins Sans Frontières.
Northwest Missouri State University’s School of Fine and Performing Arts will host an exhibition of work by Arkansas-based illustrator and artist Sean Fitzgibbon at the Olive DeLuce Art Gallery, opening November 3, 2025. Fitzgibbon will deliver a lecture, visit art classes, and conduct studio critiques. The exhibition features original pages from his graphic nonfiction book “What Follows is True: The Crescent Hotel,” which investigates the Crescent Hotel’s history as a Depression-era cancer hospital in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Fitzgibbon is a 2022 recipient of the Arkansas Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship Award.
The Tucson Artists Protest group has launched an unjuried exhibition titled "Expression Against Repression" at the Historic Y arts space in downtown Tucson. The show opened Sunday with a parade, film screening, and poetry reading, featuring 82 works including a paper mache effigy of President Donald Trump, a comic strip about healthcare, and a portrait of a father and child. Founder Betty Harris, also first vice-chair of the LD20 Democratic Committee, organized the exhibit to merge art and politics without campaign advertising, inspired by an earlier "Roots of Resistance" show at Raices Taller 222 Art Gallery and Workshop.
A faculty exhibition titled 'All That Remains' opens Oct. 21 at Tyler Art Gallery on the SUNY Oswego campus, featuring works by art faculty members Peter Cardone and Christopher McEvoy. Cardone presents a photographic series of the Oswego West Pierhead Lighthouse, capturing empty interior spaces and lake views that evoke presence and absence. McEvoy contributes large abstract paintings with layered organic and geometric forms that explore perception, memory, and the construction of meaning. The exhibition includes related events on Oct. 28, such as a presentation by H. Lee White Maritime Museum curator Michael Pittavino, artist talks, and a poetry reading with faculty poets.
A new mural in Black Mountain, North Carolina, is drawing crowds and boosting local business ahead of the grand opening of Cherry Street Gallery. The mural, designed by Atlanta-based designer Ben Rupp and adapted and painted by artist Jonathan Bidwell, was commissioned by the gallery and completed in late July 2025. Local residents and tourists have been stopping to take photos, with the artwork generating significant foot traffic and online visibility for nearby shops like the bookstore Sassafras.
Kuching North City Hall (DBKU) has proposed organizing a large-scale art exhibition for next year’s Kuching City Day celebration, aiming to strengthen the city’s reputation as a cultural and creative hub. The proposal was announced by Kuching North Datuk Bandar Dato Hilmy Othman at the opening of the Sarawak Artists Society (SAS) 40th Annual Art Show, themed 'Heritage Reloaded', at Westbury Galleria. The exhibition features 44 local, native, and international artists, runs until November 16, and is free to the public with works available for purchase. DBKU is also preparing for the Borneo International Islamic Arts and Digital Technology Expo 2026.
The 2025 Mansfield Youth Art Exhibition concluded its month-long run at the Mansfield Information Centre Gallery, showcasing works by seven local artists aged 14 to 20. The exhibition launched on September 5 with an opening attended by 40 guests, featuring live music by Alana Beattie. Two awards were presented: the Amplify Artist Award to Abigail Wettenhall for her multi-medium display, and the 'Framing the Future' People's Choice Award to Molly Purcell for her oil and acrylic painting Obsidian, which won over 200 public votes.
A new art space has launched with an inaugural exhibition featuring works by South African artist Nico Krijno. The exhibition marks the opening of the venue, which aims to bring contemporary art to a broader audience.
Gowanus Open Studios returns on October 18-19, inviting the public into the studios of hundreds of local artists across dozens of locations in Brooklyn. The event, organized by Arts Gowanus, features individual studio visits, group shows, and two featured exhibitions: "Add/Subtract" curated by Tegan Brozyna, and a retrospective of the late Samuel Heller. Highlights include the first affordable artist studios secured through the 2021 Gowanus rezoning, with about 22 new subsidized spaces opening at The Shop BK and Society Brooklyn, where artists like Mayowa Nwadike now work after winning a lottery for affordable space.
Philadelphia-based artist John E. Dowell, Jr., now 84, is preparing for a solo exhibition titled 'I Got Through It' at the James Oliver Gallery, opening October 18, 2025. The show features over 20 works spanning printmaking, painting, photography, and music-inspired pieces. Dowell, a professor emeritus at Temple University's Tyler School of Art and Architecture, discusses his lifelong creative journey, his use of jazz and blues as inspiration, and his experiments with translating visual art into sound.
The Marion Hyde Retrospective has opened at the Tippetts & Eccles Galleries in the Chase Fine Arts Center at Utah State University. The exhibition celebrates the late Utah artist and educator Marion R. Hyde, who taught painting, drawing, printmaking, and art education at USU for 35 years, serving as department head. Curated by his son Matt Hyde (a current art teacher at Bear River High School) alongside current Art + Design Department Head Kathy Puzey, the show spans Hyde’s artistic journey from his master's thesis to his final works, including his last painting completed shortly before his death. The chronological display highlights his evolution through figurative work in the 1970s, woodcut prints of Mexican landscapes in the 1980s, a series on Park City in the 1990s, and later Utah landscapes focused on Capitol Reef.
Artist Tyler Thrasher is opening Materia, a new studio and shop in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on October 25. The launch event at 2421 East Admiral Blvd will feature a blackout environment with UV floodlights and over 4,000 glowing flowers, along with local vendors, food, and a chance for attendees to create their own glowing flower. The space includes Thrasher's lab for crystallizing insects and will host workshops and interactive experiences. Thrasher, who draws inspiration from his landscaping upbringing, uses phosphorescent mineral powders to create preserved, glowing plants sourced sustainably from florists and invasive species removal.
Mind of the Masters, in collaboration with the West African Specialty Coffee Association (WASCA) and NK Art Space, is hosting an art exhibition titled “The Spirit of Coffee” at The Spotlight Hub in Victoria Island, Lagos, from November 29 to December 12, 2025. The exhibition features 20 artworks curated by Mind of the Masters and NK Art Space, created by professional artist Lenrie Preks, whose works such as “The Spirit of Coffee,” “Coffee Blitz,” and “Flavour of Coffee” explore coffee culture through ritual, memory, and geometric abstraction.
An art exhibition called The Crow Gallery is opening in Westport, County Mayo, during the Westival 2025 arts and music festival. Housed in the vacant The Local public house on Castlebar Street, the show features work from local artists with disabilities and participants of an Open Call centered on disability justice. The exhibition explores perceptions of disability, challenges ableism, and aims to spark dialogue about inclusion. It is the first phase of a long-term project to establish a permanent gallery, coffee shop, gift shop, and artist studios where disabled and non-disabled artists collaborate, with people with disabilities leading the space. The project was inspired by local artist Maitiu Quinn and Amber Walsh, and is driven by Anna Wall, who participated in Social Entrepreneurs Ireland's Ideas Academy and a Mayo County Council Arts Office workshop facilitated by artist Kari Cahill.
Artist Linny Venables presents 'Sweet Factory,' a new exhibition at The Atkinson in Southport, opening October 18, 2025 and running through February 28, 2026. The show draws parallels between glassmaking and sweet-making processes, featuring Venables' glass artworks alongside pieces created by workshop participants from Southport and Bootle, as well as research and objects from local sweet factories.
A group of artists, curators, and gallerists from Xinjiang, operating anonymously as the collective Yixak, have publicly criticized the Beijing exhibition "Greetings" held at the Maca Art Center from March to June 2025. The show, featuring works by Han Chinese artist Dan Er, focused on her travels through Xinjiang and its heritage arts. Yixak accuses the exhibition of cultural appropriation, misrepresentation, and reinforcing ethnic stereotypes, including conflating distinct ethnic cultures, stripping traditional Adras textile patterns of context, and mislabeling Xinjiang traditions. The collective also claims the show failed to credit local collaborators and excluded Xinjiang communities. Both Dan Er and Maca declined to comment, citing "irresistible factors."
Artist Casey Tosh presents his latest exhibition, "Merchants and Musicians," at The Old Butchers Shop Gallery in Soldiers Hill, running from October 11 to October 26. The show features portraits of local community figures, including butcher John Harbour, and musicians such as Warren Ellis, reflecting Tosh's background in hospitality and his connections to the area.
The Wondai Regional Art Gallery hosted its October 2025 Open Art Competition on Friday, 3 October, drawing artists, art lovers, and community members. Katrina O'Shanassey won the $3,000 Mayor’s Acquisitive Art Prize for her work 'Free Spirit', with Mayor Kathy Duff, Deputy Mayor Ros Heit, and gallery president Elaine Maddill present at the announcement.
The Nicolaysen Art Museum in Casper, Wyoming, is hosting an opening reception on October 9 for its new exhibition, the Arts Council Biennial Fellowship Exhibition: Wyoming Wind. The event will feature a curatorial conversation with curator Ginger Shulick Porcella and will showcase works by ten Wyoming artists selected as Visual Arts Fellowship recipients, including Aubrey Edwards, Adrianna Hinds, Wendell Field, and others. The exhibition runs from October 3 to December 19.