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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 16, 2025 visibility 5 link 1 artist, 2 galleries

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Jeffrey Gibson has installed four large bronze animal sculptures—a deer, a coyote, a squirrel, and a hawk—on the facade of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, collectively titled “The Animal That Therefore I Am.” At a talk with Met curator Jane Panetta, Gibson explained that the works draw on his early paintings on brain-tanned elk hides and his ongoing exploration of Indigenous kinship philosophies, which honor all living beings as extensions of ourselves. The sculptures, each adorned with ceremonial regalia inspired by Native American traditions, are designed to be viewed as four-sided paintings and connect the museum’s Central Park location to Gibson’s home in the Hudson River Valley.

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trending_up market schedule Sep 16, 2025 visibility 3 link 3 artists, 2 galleries

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Alexander Calder's market remains strong despite a broader art market downturn. Thirteen Calder works have sold for over $1 million at auction this year, all within or above estimates, led by Christie's sale of *Gypsophila* (1949) for $8.5 million. Next month, Gladstone Gallery will bring Calder's standing mobile *Caged Stone on Yellow Stalk* (ca. 1955) to Art Basel Paris, priced at $5.5 million, after it sold for $3.2 million at the Gerald Fineberg collection sale in 2023. This market resilience coincides with major institutional shows: the opening of Calder Gardens in Philadelphia and a Whitney Museum exhibition celebrating the centennial of Calder's *Circus* (1926–31).

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article news schedule Sep 11, 2025 visibility 8 link 17 artists, 1 gallery

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A lost painting by 17th-century Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens has been discovered in France. The 1613 painting of Jesus on the cross was found in September 2024 by French auctioneer Jean-Pierre Osenat in a Paris mansion. Experts confirmed its authenticity via X-ray imaging and pigment analysis, with German art historian Nils Buttner delivering the news to Osenat. The painting will be offered for sale on November 30. Separately, the National Gallery in London has announced it will begin collecting art made after its long-held 1900 cut-off date, leading to concerns about renewed rivalry with the Tate, as the two institutions had previously maintained an agreement dividing which works went to which collection.

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article news schedule Sep 10, 2025 visibility 4 link 2 artists, 1 gallery

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The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, along with JFK Millennium Partners, is investing $4.2 billion to bring art from four major New York cultural institutions—the American Museum of Natural History, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art—into the new Terminal 6 at John F. Kennedy International Airport. The terminal will feature loaned works from these institutions in the international arrivals corridor, plus 19 permanent site-specific installations curated by Public Art Fund and rotating local artwork curated by Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning. Highlights include a 140-foot mural from Lincoln Center, an installation by Yoko Ono inspired by her 2019 work *Peace is Power* for MoMA, and installations from the other two museums. The terminal is designed by architect Stanis Smith and will include 10 gates, with the first six opening this year and completion by 2028.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 9, 2025 visibility 3 link 9 artists, 3 galleries

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A major survey of Donald Locke's work, titled "Resistant Forms," has opened at Spike Island in Bristol, England, in collaboration with Ikon Gallery in Birmingham and Camden Art Centre in London. Featuring over 80 works spanning five decades, the exhibition includes early biomorphic ceramics, monochromatic black paintings from the 1970s, collage paintings, mixed-media sculptures, and personal writings and photographs. Highlights include the black paintings series addressing colonial subjugation, such as "The Cage" (1976–79), and later whimsical works like "Reconstructed Bottle with Pearls #11 (Pearls for Mahalia)" (2008). The show traces Locke's journey from his birth in Guyana, his time in the UK as part of the Windrush Generation, and his eventual move to the US, where he lived until his death in 2010.

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rate_review review schedule Sep 5, 2025 visibility 3 link 9 artists, 1 gallery

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The article reviews Stephen Shore's book *Early Work*, which collects photographs he took between the ages of 13 and 18, from 1960 to 1965. Despite his youth, the images display remarkable sophistication, a feat Shore attributes to an atypical childhood that included early access to cameras and a copy of Walker Evans's *American Photographs*. The book includes a "pre-history" essay in which Shore reflects on his formative influences, including time spent at Andy Warhol's Factory and a friendship with headmaster William Dexter, who deepened his interest in photography. The earliest image in the book is a portrait of Dexter taking a photograph, which Shore describes as a metanarrative of a photographer photographing a photographer.

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article news schedule Sep 4, 2025 visibility 2 link 3 artists, 1 gallery

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Amy Sherald's exhibition "American Sublime" will now open at the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) in November, after the artist canceled its planned iteration at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in July over censorship concerns. The show, which features some 50 works and is one of the largest presentations of Sherald's work, was originally organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and is currently on view at the Whitney Museum through August 10. Sherald, who attended the Maryland Institute College of Art and previously served on the BMA's board, called the BMA presentation a homecoming.

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trending_up market schedule Sep 3, 2025 visibility 3 link 16 artists, 9 galleries

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Mathieu Borysevicz, founder of Shanghai's Bank gallery, launched a six-month pop-up on New York's Lower East Side earlier this year, aiming to introduce his program to new audiences amid growing Asian art interest in the city. By mid-summer, however, Borysevicz observed a sharp market downturn as collectors withdrew, reflecting a broader trend of gallery closures, lawsuits, and fair cancellations that have marked a turbulent period for the art world.

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trending_up market schedule Aug 27, 2025 visibility 6 link 9 artists, 4 galleries

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Gladstone Gallery has secured U.S. representation of Peter Saul, the 91-year-old painter known for his garish satirical canvases, and appointed Anna Christina Furney, formerly a partner at Venus Over Manhattan, as director. Saul will continue to be represented in the U.S. and UK by Michael Werner Gallery. Furney had represented Saul for 14 years at Venus Over Manhattan, which recently closed after founder Adam Lindemann announced he would shutter the gallery and return to being a collector.

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article policy schedule Aug 25, 2025 visibility 6 link 5 artists, 2 galleries

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Amy Sherald, the painter who canceled her exhibition “American Sublime” at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in July due to censorship issues, has broken her silence in a MSNBC article. Sherald canceled her September show after the museum considered removing her painting *Trans Forming Liberty* (2024), depicting model and performance artist Arewà Basit as a Black transgender Statue of Liberty. In her op-ed, Sherald explains that institutional fear shaped by political hostility toward trans lives played a role, and she cannot comply with a culture of censorship targeting vulnerable communities.

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person people schedule Aug 20, 2025 visibility 3 link 3 artists, 2 galleries

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The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) has appointed Brian Ferriso, the longtime director of the Portland Art Museum (PAM), as its next director, effective December 1. Ferriso succeeds Agustín Arteaga, who left last year to lead the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. During his 18-year tenure at PAM, Ferriso grew the endowment by $40 million, eliminated $7 million in debt, doubled curatorial staff, and made the museum free for visitors 17 and under. He also oversaw major collection diversification, co-commissioned Jeffrey Gibson’s U.S. Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale, and will open a 100,000-square-foot expansion funded by a $140 million capital campaign.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 19, 2025 visibility 4 link 3 artists, 2 galleries

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The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) will mount a comprehensive retrospective for interdisciplinary artist Maren Hassinger, opening in June 2025. Titled "Living Moving Growing," the exhibition will span her five-decade career, featuring early wire rope and tree branch sculptures from the 1970s, large-scale recreations, performances, and workshops. Co-curated by chief curator Margot Norton and senior curator Anthony Graham, the show aims to highlight Hassinger's dual practice as a sculptor and performer, with some works staged in partnership with the University of California Botanical Garden.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 14, 2025 visibility 4 link 4 artists, 1 gallery

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Rosa Barba's exhibition "The Ocean of One's Pause" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York surveys 15 years of her work, featuring over a dozen cinematic sculptures arranged as a single installation. Central to the show is her latest 25-minute film *Charge* (2025), co-commissioned by MoMA and the Vega Foundation, shot at CERN in Geneva. The film will also screen at Moynihan Train Hall and in Times Square as part of the "Midnight Moment" program throughout July. Barba transforms a black box gallery into a cello-like space, with long wires and film projectors creating a celluloid symphony through mechanical clicks and analog apparatuses.

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article news schedule Aug 13, 2025 visibility 6 link 7 artists, 6 galleries

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Nearly five years after closing at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, the influential New York alternative art space Art in General is relaunching under new leadership. Xiaoyu Weng, currently director of the Tanoto Art Foundation and former head of modern and contemporary art at the Art Gallery of Ontario, has been appointed as the organization's new director. The revived nonprofit will not have a permanent physical location initially but will stage exhibitions across New York, starting with a fundraising show at YveYANG Gallery on August 22. New board members include gallery founder Yve Yang, digital strategist Jiajia Fei, artist Paul Pfeiffer, and curator Jeanne Gerrity.

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trending_up market schedule Aug 11, 2025 visibility 4 link 6 artists, 3 galleries

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Palestinian American artist Samia Halaby has experienced a dramatic surge in market value and institutional recognition over the past decade, with eight of her top 10 auction results occurring in the last three years. A Christie's sale in May 2025 saw her 2013 painting *Water Lilies* sell for $138,600, more than triple its 2020 result, while her 1974 work *Mediterranean #279* set her current auction record at £400,000 ($534,000) in 2020. Her first US museum survey opened in 2024 at Michigan State University's Eli and Edyth Broad Art Museum, and her work has been shown at MoMA, Tate Modern, and the Centre Pompidou, which acquired a piece last year.

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article news schedule Aug 6, 2025 visibility 6 link 5 artists, 2 galleries

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Sara Nadal-Melsió, the former associate director of the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program (ISP), has spoken out about her termination in June 2025, which occurred shortly after the museum's director Scott Rothkopf announced a suspension of the 50-year-old program. In an essay published in Hyperallergic, Nadal-Melsió describes her dismissal as retaliation for her public protest against the Whitney's cancellation of a pro-Palestinian performance titled "No Aesthetic Outside My Freedom: Mourning, Militancy, and Performance." She characterizes the museum's actions as part of a broader pattern of institutional obfuscation, corporate culture, and disregard for workers' rights.

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article news schedule Jul 29, 2025 visibility 3 link 14 artists, 6 galleries

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Yinka Shonibare, the London-based British-Nigerian artist, established the nonprofit Guest Artists Space (G.A.S.) Foundation in Nigeria in 2019 to address the lack of artistic infrastructure in Lagos. The foundation, which grew out of his earlier Guest Projects initiative in London, operates two facilities: the G.A.S. Lagos Residency and the G.A.S. Farm House in Ijebu, Ogun State. It hosts residencies and programs supporting artists and curators from Africa and beyond, and launched the G.A.S. Fellowship Award in 2022. The article highlights the experience of 2024 fellow Amanda Iheme, an architecture photographer who expanded her practice during her residency. Shonibare funds the foundation partly from his own art sales, and the piece notes his recent major exhibitions, including at the Venice Biennale and Serpentine Galleries, as well as his current show at Fondation H in Madagascar.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 29, 2025 visibility 3 link 4 artists, 10 galleries

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The second edition of the Aspen Art Fair returns to the historic Hotel Jerome from July 29 to August 2, marking the launch of Aspen Art Week. The fair has more than doubled its exhibitor count from 21 to 44 galleries across 15 countries, including newcomers like Sean Kelly and Marianne Boesky, alongside international participants such as Praise Shadows, Anat Ebgi, the Sunday Painter, La Loma Projects, and 193 Gallery. Programming includes talks with artists Mickalene Thomas and Issy Wood, curated home tours, and a site-specific exhibition inspired by *A Room of One’s Own*. Cofounders Becca Hoffman and Bob Chase emphasize the fair's intimate, un-boothlike atmosphere, with in-room installations transforming guest suites into salon-style exhibitions.

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article news schedule Jul 24, 2025 visibility 1 link 4 artists, 2 galleries

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Painter Amy Sherald has canceled her upcoming solo exhibition “American Sublime” at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery after the museum considered removing her painting *Trans Forming Liberty* (2024), which depicts a Black transgender Statue of Liberty. The show was scheduled to open in September. Sherald stated she was informed of internal concerns about the painting and that discussions arose about replacing it with a video featuring reactions and discussion of trans issues, which she opposed over fears it would include anti-trans views. She wrote to Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III that institutional fear shaped by political hostility toward trans lives compromised the integrity of her work.

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article policy schedule Jul 22, 2025 visibility 6 link 7 artists, 1 gallery

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The article reports that despite the Trump administration's efforts to eliminate federal funding for cultural agencies like the NEA, NEH, and IMLS, many US states have continued to support their arts and humanities agencies, though at reduced levels. According to the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA), states and territories allocated nearly $650 million to these agencies in fiscal year 2026, a 7.4% drop from 2025. While 29 states increased arts funding, others saw significant cuts: New Hampshire reduced its arts funding by 90% due to a revenue shortfall, while California, Missouri, Kansas, and Hawaii also experienced notable reductions. Conversely, Florida, North Dakota, Connecticut, and Oregon increased their arts appropriations, helping to offset overall losses. Per capita, Minnesota leads arts funding at $7.85, while New Hampshire, Georgia, and Wisconsin allocate less than $0.20.

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article news schedule Jul 22, 2025 visibility 1 link 7 artists, 2 galleries

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The article reports on two major stories. First, the trial has begun in the legal battle between billionaire art collector Ronald Perelman and his insurance companies over five paintings by Cy Twombly, Ed Ruscha, and Andy Warhol, worth a combined $410 million. Perelman claims the works lost their 'oomph' after a 2018 fire at his East Hampton estate, while insurers dispute the damage and his claims about not trying to sell them. Second, President Donald Trump is accused of making a crude sketch of a naked woman for Jeffrey Epstein, as reported by the Wall Street Journal; Trump denied the drawing and sued the paper for libel. The article also covers Jennifer Saunders becoming the first woman director of the New York State Museum, layoffs at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, a dinosaur skeleton sale at Sotheby's, and a lawsuit over a Sam Gilliam painting.

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trending_up market schedule Jul 20, 2025 visibility 1 link 2 artists, 6 galleries

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Drax Fine Art, LLC has filed a lawsuit against David Kordansky Gallery, the Sam Gilliam Foundation, and the late artist's widow Annie Gawlak, alleging they conspired to disavow and defame an authentic Sam Gilliam drape painting from 1972. Drax claims the work was acquired from Carl Solway Gallery in Cincinnati, installed in an architectural firm's lobby, and later purchased by Drax. The plaintiff seeks $6 million in damages, accusing the defendants of blocking an auction sale by claiming restoration efforts constituted irreparable damage. The defendants call the claims "absolutely frivolous," asserting the unsigned, undated piece does not conform to Gilliam's practice and may be a studio remnant.

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article news schedule Jul 16, 2025 visibility 3 link 18 artists, 2 galleries

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Former New York governor Andrew Cuomo relaunched his New York mayoral campaign as a third-party candidate on July 14, after losing the Democratic primary to Zohran Mamdani by 12 points on June 24. A recent ARTnews data analysis reveals that prominent art world figures have donated to both campaigns, with Cuomo receiving contributions from Christie's executives, Phillips and Sotheby's staff, Gagosian directors, art dealers, and museum leaders, while Mamdani drew support from foundation directors, museum curators, gallery directors, and numerous artists. The pro-Cuomo super PAC Fix the City received $5 million from billionaire Michael Bloomberg and $250,000 from Top 200 collector Daniel Loeb, while the pro-Mamdani super PAC raised about $1.4 million.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 15, 2025 visibility 6 link 4 artists, 2 galleries

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The Fondation Beyeler in Basel, Switzerland, is hosting a retrospective of Vija Celmins featuring roughly 90 works. The exhibition traces Celmins's career from her early still lifes of studio objects, through her grayscale depictions of war imagery like bombers and nuclear tests, to her later graphite drawings of clouds, ocean waves, and desert surfaces. The show also includes her bronze casts of stones painted to resemble the originals, presented in the installation *To Fix the Image in Memory*.

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gavel restitution schedule Jul 15, 2025 visibility 2 link 2 artists, 1 gallery

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Arthur Brand, a self-proclaimed art detective, recovered 25 documents stolen from the Netherlands National Archives in 2015. The trove includes items on UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register, such as a 1602 report of the Dutch East India Company’s first meeting, a 1700 report of a visit to Mughal India’s Emperor Aurangzeb, and a ship’s log by 17th-century admiral Michiel de Ruyter. Brand was contacted after a person clearing an attic found the box and showed it to a former history professor. Brand took possession on condition of returning the documents to the National Archives, which had been unaware the items were stolen.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 9, 2025 visibility 6 link 10 artists, 6 galleries

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A new boutique art fair called Echo Soho, dedicated to women-led galleries, will debut in London from October 16 to 19, 2025, running alongside Frieze London. Founded by gallery owner India Rose James, the fair will take place at Artist’s House on Manette Street, featuring 12 exhibitors across two floors of a Georgian townhouse. With stand prices starting at £850 and booth sizes from 20 to 30 square feet, Echo Soho aims to lower barriers for mid-sized and emerging galleries, offering support with installations, art handlers, and booth photography. Confirmed participants include Pipeline, Gillian Jason Gallery, and Awita, with support from Soho Estates, Soho House, and Cass Art.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 8, 2025 visibility 7 link 5 artists, 3 galleries

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The United States will host its first major Marcel Duchamp retrospective in over 50 years, opening at the Museum of Modern Art in New York on April 16, 2026, before traveling to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in fall 2026 and then to the Grand Palais in Paris in 2027. Organized by MoMA’s Ann Temkin and Michelle Kuo and the Philadelphia Museum’s Matthew Affron, the exhibition features nearly 300 objects spanning Duchamp’s entire career, including iconic works such as *Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2* (1912) and *Fountain* (1917). The show aims to reveal lesser-known aspects of Duchamp’s practice, emphasizing his transatlantic life between France and the United States.

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article culture schedule Jun 30, 2025 visibility 5 link 7 artists, 2 galleries

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Shana Moulton, an artist and chair of the art department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, discusses her exhibition "Meta/Physical Therapy" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and her retrospective at the Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art. The article centers on Moulton's semi-autobiographical alter ego, Cynthia, a hypochondriac navigating New Age wellness culture through video installations, performances, and a collection of eccentric objects. Moulton explores themes of hypochondria, hospital art, and the absurdity of wellness consumerism, drawing from her upbringing in a California mobile home park and her long-running video series "Whispering Pines" (2002–18).

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 28, 2025 visibility 4 link 9 artists, 2 galleries

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The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Miami has opened "Mildred Thompson: Frequencies," the first comprehensive retrospective of the late artist Mildred Thompson (1936–2003). Spanning five decades, the exhibition brings together 49 works—including wood assemblages, monochromatic prints, and oversized triptychs—sourced from the artist's estate and Galerie Lelong & Co. It traces Thompson's career as she moved between the United States and Germany, highlighting her stylistic evolution and her deep engagement with abstraction, science, and spirituality. The show follows earlier focused presentations like "Against the Grain" (2018) at the New Orleans Museum of Art and the 2017 "Magnetic Fields" exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 27, 2025 visibility 2 link 10 artists, 2 galleries

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Liz Collins created two monumental 16-foot-long tapestries for the 2024 Venice Biennale, titled *Rainbow Mountains: Moon* and *Rainbow Mountains: Weather* (both 2023). Initially conceived as a single 40-foot weaving, the project proved too ambitious and was split in two. Collins worked at the TextielLab in Tilburg, Netherlands, switching to a lighter yarn after a failed trial, and ultimately brought the finished works to New York in duffel bags before curator Adriano Pedrosa selected them for the Biennale. The textiles depict mountain ranges emitting rainbows through dark skies, exploring themes of duality—danger and joy, precarity and euphoria.

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