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San Diego Museum of Art celebrates 100 years with new exhibitions

The San Diego Museum of Art (SDMA) is celebrating its 100th anniversary with a series of special exhibitions and a public birthday party. The centennial exhibition "SDMA 100 Years" opens January 24, 2026, featuring photographs, memorabilia, and film footage of key moments in the museum's history. Other exhibitions include "Local Visions: Reimagining the Façade" (through July 26), "Cafes and Cabarets: The Spectacular Art of Toulouse-Lautrec" (April 4–September 20), and "Forging a Legacy: 15 Years of Landmark Acquisitions" (May 16–September 7). The museum will offer free admission and extended hours on February 28 for its birthday fest with live music, art-making, and cake tasting.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 16, 2026 visibility 18 link 7 artists, 1 gallery

San Francisco museum rejects permanent space in favour of site-specific exhibitions

The Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco (ICA SF) has abandoned plans for a permanent physical space, instead adopting a nomadic model focused on site-specific exhibitions. Its first project under this new approach launches during San Francisco Art Week at the Transamerica Pyramid Center, featuring installations by artists Lily Kwong and Tara Donovan. Kwong's EARTHSEED DOME is a 3D-printed soil structure embedded with native seeds that will bloom in the adjacent redwood grove, while Donovan's Stratagem series uses recycled CDs to create light-scattering columns inside the building's Annex Gallery.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 12, 2026 visibility 18 link 12 artists, 3 galleries

5* Art Openings in London this week.

Five major art openings are taking place in London this week, headlined by museum-scale gallery shows featuring Joseph Beuys, Nan Goldin, and Richard Avedon. Thaddaeus Ropac presents 'Bathtub for a Heroine,' the first UK exhibition focusing on Beuys' monumental sculpture, while Gagosian shows all 126 photographs from Goldin's 'The Ballad of Sexual Dependency' and Avedon's 'In the American West' series. The weekend culminates with Condo London, a city-wide collaborative exhibition linking 50 galleries across 23 spaces.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 15, 2025 visibility 27 link 53 artists

56 participating artists, duos and collectives revealed for 2026 Whitney Biennial

The Whitney Museum of American Art has announced the 56 artists, duos, and collectives participating in the 2026 Whitney Biennial, the 82nd edition of the landmark U.S. contemporary art survey. Co-curators Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer have chosen not to give the exhibition a thematic title, instead letting conversations with artists guide the selection. The roster includes well-known figures like Andrea Fraser, Kamrooz Aram, Precious Okoyomon, Pat Oleszko, and Julio Torres, alongside emerging talents and historical or overlooked figures such as Carmen de Monteflores, José Maceda, and Kimowan Metchewais. The exhibition opens March 8, 2026, occupying most of the Whitney's Manhattan building with performances, public events, and online programming.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 13, 2025 visibility 22 link 8 artists

Noah Davis's exhibition

The Philadelphia Museum of Art announces a landmark survey of the late American artist Noah Davis (1983–2015), bringing together over 60 works across painting, sculpture, works on paper, and curating. The exhibition marks the final stop of an international tour organized with DAS MINSK in Potsdam, the Barbican in London, and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Highlights include "40 acres and a unicorn" (2007), "Isis" (2009), "Savage wilds" (2012), and the "Pueblo del rio" series (2014). Curated by Eleanor Nairne and Wells Fray-Smith, the show is accompanied by a catalog co-published by Prestel with contributions from Tina M. Campt, Claudia Rankine, and others.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 25, 2025 visibility 15 link 6 artists

Frenemies or rivals? Tate Britain show explores Turner and Constable's turbulent relationship

Tate Britain will present "Turner and Constable," a major exhibition spanning 2025–2026 that explores the intertwined careers and rivalry of J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851) and John Constable (1776–1837). For the first time, a show is devoted to both artists, featuring historical reconstructions such as the famous 1831 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition pairing of Turner's *Caligula’s Palace and Bridge* (1831) and Constable's *Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows* (1829–31). Curated by Amy Concannon, the exhibition includes loans from private collections and rarely seen works, including Turner's *The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16 October 1834* (1835) from the Cleveland Museum of Art, on show in the UK for the first time since 1883.

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article news schedule Nov 21, 2025 visibility 19 link 9 artists

The $236m Klimt, Cop 30 and the art world, Caravaggio’s Victorious Cupid—podcast

This podcast episode from The Art Newspaper covers three major art-world stories. Gustav Klimt's "Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer" (1914-16) sold for the second-highest price ever at auction during Sotheby's New York sale of works from the late billionaire Leonard Lauder's collection, a "white-glove" auction that has sparked debate about a market recovery. Additionally, the episode discusses COP30-related art commissions appearing on posters across the UK and Brazil under the theme "It's Not Easy Being Green," alongside the Gallery Climate Coalition's new Stocktake Report on carbon emissions. The episode's Work of the Week is Caravaggio's "Victorious Cupid" (1601-02), which has traveled from Berlin's Gemäldegalerie to the Wallace Collection in London for an upcoming exhibition.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 19, 2025 visibility 21 link 16 artists

Albuquerque exhibition depicts German art made during the tragic ascent of authoritarianism

The Albuquerque Museum has opened a landmark exhibition titled "Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910–1945: Masterworks from the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin," featuring German and European art from the early 20th century. The show traces the trajectory from the German Empire through World War I, the Weimar Republic, Nazi rule, and World War II, including works by Max Beckmann, George Grosz, Hannah Höch, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee, and others. Many pieces were originally condemned as "degenerate art" by the Nazis. The exhibition, which has three U.S. stops, is currently in Albuquerque after appearing at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth and will travel to the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

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person people schedule Nov 12, 2025 visibility 20 link 18 artists

The Interview: Thelma Golden

Thelma Golden, director and chief curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem, is interviewed ahead of the museum's reopening in a new Adjaye Associates-designed building following a $300 million capital campaign. Golden reflects on her career, including curating the politically charged 1993 Whitney Biennial and the landmark exhibition "Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art" (1994–95), as well as her influential 2001 show "Freestyle," which introduced the concept of "post-Black" art. The article also highlights the museum's first exhibition in the new building, focusing on artist Tom Lloyd, whose work was featured in the museum's inaugural show in 1968.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 25, 2025 visibility 15 link 2 artists

Curator Conversation: Behind The Honest Eye

On October 25, 2025, co-curators Clarisse Fava-Piz, Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, and Nerina Santorius will host a conversation at the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska, offering a behind-the-scenes look at the exhibition "Pissarro’s Impressionism." The talk will explore Camille Pissarro’s life and legacy, from his Caribbean roots to his role in Impressionism, and detail how over 80 works were assembled for the first major U.S. retrospective of the artist in over 40 years. The event is sold out in person but will be livestreamed.

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trending_up market schedule Oct 17, 2025 visibility 20 link 2 artists

Rare wooden Alexander Calder mobile heads to Christie’s

Christie’s has secured the consignment of Painted Wood (1943), a rare wooden mobile by Alexander Calder, which will lead its 20th Century Evening Sale next month. Specialists estimate the work will sell for between $15 million and $20 million, the highest auction estimate ever placed on a Calder piece. The mobile comes from the collection of prominent Latin American art collector Patricia Phelps de Cisneros and was featured in Calder’s landmark 1943 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where he became the youngest artist to receive a solo exhibition at the museum.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 16, 2025 visibility 15 link 4 artists

Extravagant Munich museum dedicated to Symbolist Franz von Stuck to reopen after €13.5m renovation

Munich's Museum Villa Stuck, the former home of Symbolist artist Franz von Stuck, reopens on 18 October after a €13.5m renovation. The project upgraded infrastructure, restored the facade, and renewed historical rooms, including music and reception salons with restored Pompeii-inspired wall paintings and new silk curtains. The museum's display of Stuck's paintings has been reconfigured, with fresh exhibits such as a recently donated work, and the total number of Stuck paintings on view has increased. The reopening coincides with a contemporary art exhibition, 'A Song of Ascents,' featuring Manchester-based artist Louise Giovanelli.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 6, 2025 visibility 21 link 4 artists

From royal visitors to extortionate eBay sales: new book offers rare behind-the-scenes glimpse of Vermeer blockbuster

The Rijksmuseum's 2023 Vermeer exhibition, widely considered the most successful show of the century, drew 650,000 visitors and assembled 28 of the artist's 37 known paintings. A new book, *Closer to Vermeer: New Research on the Painter and his Art*, reveals behind-the-scenes details: the initial plan for a broader thematic show was abandoned in favor of a focused Vermeer-only presentation; nine paintings could not be borrowed, including *The Concert* (stolen in 1990) and *The Astronomer* (on loan to Louvre Abu Dhabi); the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum refused to lend *Girl with a Wine Glass*, even rejecting an offer of buses for schoolchildren. The book also discloses that the Dutch king and queen visited multiple times during regular hours, that a quarter of visitors felt context was missing, and that over 3,500 complaints were filed about photography. The most expensive resold ticket on eBay reached $2,724.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 1, 2025 visibility 25 link 5 artists

Top Art Exhibits at Chicago Museums | 2025 Guide

Chicago museums are presenting a diverse slate of fall 2025 exhibitions, including a major Yoko Ono retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the National Museum of Mexican Art's 39th annual Día de Muertos exhibit, a landmark Elizabeth Catlett retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago, a Marvel's Spider-Man interactive show at the Griffin Museum of Science & Industry, and Italian artist Diego Marcon's U.S. debut at The Renaissance Society.

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person people schedule Sep 26, 2025 visibility 18 link 7 artists

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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article local schedule Sep 24, 2025 visibility 21 link 4 artists

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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trending_up market schedule Sep 21, 2025 visibility 19 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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trending_up market schedule Sep 18, 2025 visibility 21 link 18 artists

Christie's specialist's Post-War to Present highlights

Christie's specialists highlight key works from their upcoming 'Post-War to Present and Photographs' sale, including Joan Mitchell's 'Peinture II' (1964) from the collection of Vivian Fusillo, Matthew Wong's '5:22 PM', Alejandro Obregón's 'Chivo expiatorio', and a lifetime print by Francesca Woodman. The sale coincides with Mitchell's centennial and a landmark Jack Whitten exhibition, with the auction scheduled for 18 September 2025.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 16, 2025 visibility 17 link 9 artists

Comment | Picasso’s ‘Three Dancers’ sparked my love of art. Let's give others the chance to find their own way in

Tate Modern’s exhibition *Theatre Picasso*, opening this week, centers on Pablo Picasso’s painting *The Three Dancers* (1925), which the artist himself valued above *Guernica*. The show marks the painting’s 100th anniversary, featuring Tate’s entire Picasso collection alongside major loans, and is staged by artist Wu Tsang and writer-curator Enrique Fuenteblanca with contributions from contemporary dancers and choreographers. The article’s author recounts a personal journey with the painting, from initial confusion in a secondary school art room to a lifelong passion ignited by teacher Jean Morrison and a school trip to Paris.

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article news schedule Sep 5, 2025 visibility 13 link 5 artists

Smithsonian under fire from Trump, Frieze Seoul, Dara Birnbaum and Quantum—podcast

The Art Newspaper's podcast 'The Week in Art' returns with three major stories. Ben Luke hosts a discussion with Ben Sutton, the publication's editor-in-chief in the Americas, about the Trump administration's announced comprehensive internal review of eight Smithsonian museums and artist Amy Sherald's cancellation of a long-scheduled exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, citing censorship and institutional fear. The episode also covers Frieze Seoul 2024, the season's first major art fair, with correspondent Lisa Movius reporting from the South Korean capital amid political turmoil. The Work of the Week segment features Dara Birnbaum's landmark video artwork 'Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman (1978-79)', part of a new exhibition 'The Quantum Effect' at the San Marco Art Centre in Venice, curated by Daniel Birnbaum and Jacqui Davies with physicist Ulf Danielsson.

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gavel restitution schedule Sep 3, 2025 visibility 18 link 4 artists

Reynolds works acquired by Waddesdon Manor under UK's acceptance in lieu scheme

Two major paintings by 18th-century British artist Joshua Reynolds—David Garrick Between Tragedy and Comedy (1761) and Portrait of Joanna Leigh, Mrs Richard Bennett Lloyd (1775-76)—have been acquired by Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire under the UK’s acceptance in lieu (AIL) scheme. The works, from the estate of Jacob Rothschild who died in February 2024, settled a combined £24.5 million in inheritance tax. Both paintings had been on loan to Waddesdon Manor, a National Trust property managed by Rothschild, since 1995.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 26, 2025 visibility 29 link 8 artists

The Biggest-Ever Raphael Exhibition in the U.S. Is Opening at the Met

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will host the largest-ever U.S. exhibition dedicated to Raphael, opening March 29, 2026. Titled "Raphael: Sublime Poetry," the show will bring together over 200 works from more than 30 international lenders, including the Louvre, Uffizi, Vatican Museums, and the Prado. Curated by Carmen Bambach, the exhibition spans Raphael's career from Urbino to Rome, featuring paintings, preparatory sketches, tapestries, and decorative objects, with highlights such as the Alba Madonna and works rarely loaned before.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 26, 2025 visibility 18 link 6 artists

Fall and Winter 2025 Programming at the National Museum of Women in the Arts

The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in Washington, D.C., has announced its fall and winter 2025 programming lineup. Highlights include the monthly after-hours series NMWA Nights, the landmark exhibition "Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600–1750" opening September 26, and a mixed-media photography show by Baltimore-based artist Tawny Chatmon. The season also features hands-on workshops in paper-cutting with Janelle Washington, Pilates sessions in the museum's Great Hall, Fresh Talk discussions on fashion and the gender pay gap, Free Community Days, and a holiday Makers' Market.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 15, 2025 visibility 12 link 4 artists

Petala Ironcloud

Petala Ironcloud, a contemporary artist known for her multimedia works exploring Indigenous identity and environmental themes, has been announced as the subject of a major solo exhibition at a prominent museum. The show, scheduled to open next year, will feature a new series of sculptures and installations that draw on her Native American heritage and address issues of land rights and cultural preservation.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 15, 2025 visibility 31 link 15 artists

Landmark George Morrison show foregrounds Abstract Expressionism’s debt to Native art

A new exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, titled "The Magical City: George Morrison’s New York," showcases the largest-ever show of works by Ojibwe abstract painter George Morrison (1919-2000). Running until 31 May 2026, the exhibition features 25 works and archival materials, highlighting Morrison's Abstract Expressionist style and the tension between his life in New York City and his roots on the Grand Portage Chippewa reservation. The show includes pieces like "The Antagonist" (1956) and "Aureate Vertical" (1958), revealing his dual experiences of urban glamour and Native displacement.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 7, 2025 visibility 12 link 9 artists

Australian Aboriginal artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye exhibition at Tate Modern

The Tate Modern in London is hosting a landmark retrospective of Australian Aboriginal artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye (c. 1914–1996), running from July 10 to January 11, 2026. The exhibition features 70 works spanning her career, from early batik designs to her final acrylic paintings, and is organized in collaboration with the National Gallery of Australia, the Utopia Art Centre, and Kngwarreye's descendants. It is the first major solo exhibition of her work in Europe, highlighting her deep connection to her ancestral country and culture.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 18, 2025 visibility 17 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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trending_up market schedule Jul 11, 2025 visibility 30 link 14 artists

Crystal Bridges Museum and Art Bridges receive 90 works of contemporary Indigenous art in landmark acquisition

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and its Art Bridges Foundation have acquired 90 contemporary works by Indigenous artists from the John and Susan Horseman Collection. Art Bridges will receive 81 works for long-term loans across the U.S., while nine pieces will join Crystal Bridges' permanent collection. Artists include Kent Monkman, George Morrison, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, and Cannupa Hanska Luger. The acquisition is part of a broader strategy to expand the museum's holdings in Indigenous and craft art, with works set to debut in exhibitions starting November 2024.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 9, 2025 visibility 25 link 14 artists

At the Amon Carter Museum, two exhibitions explore the American West

Two concurrent exhibitions at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth explore the American West from distinct perspectives. "Richard Avedon at the Carter" marks the 40th anniversary of Avedon's landmark 1985 series "In the American West," featuring 124 unflinching portraits of working-class subjects like oilfield workers and ranchers, alongside archival photographs by Laura Wilson that show the project's human side. Across the hall, "East of the Pacific: Making Histories of Asian American Art" presents 48 works from the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, spanning from the 1849 gold rush to the present, highlighting Asian American artists including Bernice Bing, Roger Shimomura, Chiura Obata, and Toshiko Takaezu.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 1, 2025 visibility 12 link 3 artists

Minneapolis Institute of Art will host a crop art exhibition after the State Fair wraps

The Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) will host a crop art exhibition titled "Cream of the Crop: A Minnesota Folk Art Showcase" opening September 6, 2025, after the Minnesota State Fair concludes on September 1. The show will feature 10 works of crop art, including winners of two new awards sponsored by Mia: best interpretation of an artwork at Mia and best interpretation of a Minnesota landmark, story or figure. A curatorial team from Mia, including director Katie Luber, will judge entries at the State Fair, and the winning pieces will be displayed in the museum's rotunda alongside eight additional notable works. The exhibition builds on Mia's history with crop art, including a 2004 show of portraits by crop art legend Lillian Colton and a 2015 centennial commission of a large-scale crop art field.

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