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art young photographer hero bean stevenson

Hero Bean Stevenson, a New York-based photographer, is featured in Cultured's "29" series, nominated by Brigitte Lacombe. Stevenson has shot for clients like Maison d’Etto and Carven, co-founded the Los Angeles gallery Raum, and developed a spare black-and-white photographic style. The article includes Stevenson's reflections on portraiture, citing influences such as Peter Hujar, Robert Mapplethorpe, and a memorable 2023 portrait session with filmmaker Werner Herzog.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 11, 2025 visibility 9 link 3 artists

dale chihuly exhibition kentucky makers mark

Dale Chihuly has opened a new exhibition titled 'Chihuly x Maker’s Mark' at the Maker’s Mark distillery in Kentucky, featuring nine sculptural glass works installed across the grounds of Star Hill Farm. The show includes pieces such as the 12-foot 'Sapphire and Platinum Waterdrop Tower' (2017) and 'Moonbow Fiori' (2025), with the permanent installation 'Spirit of the Maker' (2013) at its center. The exhibition is accompanied by after-dark tours, limited-release whisky pours, and a revamped restaurant, Star Hill Provisions.

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person people schedule Apr 8, 2026 visibility 25 link 7 artists

Knight Foundation Names 2026 Recipients of Its $50,000 Art + Tech Fellowships

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has announced the five recipients of its 2026 Arts + Tech Fellowships. Administered by United States Artists, the program awards $50,000 in unrestricted funds to artists LIZN’BOW, Miguel Novelo, Rhonda Holbertson, Taeyoon Choi, and Wesley Taylor. These creators, based in California, Detroit, and Miami, utilize diverse technologies including computer vision, game engines, and custom code to explore the intersection of digital systems and human experience.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 12, 2025 visibility 17 link 11 artists, 2 galleries

Kellogg Gallery spotlights unconventional, colorful artists

Cal Poly Pomona's W. Keith and Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery is presenting "Color & Quirk," an exhibition running from August 25 to November 18, 2025, curated by Michele Cairella Fillmore. The show features unconventional, colorful artists who avoid white, black, and gray, including Megan Geckler, known for immersive flagging tape installations like "You can never quarantine the past," Colin Roberts, who creates plexiglass sculptures inspired by glass architecture, and Seda Saar, whose work explores perception, light, and color through interior architecture and themed entertainment design.

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Poly Auction Hong Kong Spring Auctions 2026 concluded on a high note

Poly Auction Hong Kong's Spring 2026 season concluded with a total of HKD 255 million in sales, representing a 23% increase over the previous autumn cycle. The auction was headlined by Liu Wei’s 1995 painting "You Like Pork?", which fetched HKD 27.6 million, followed by a Ming Dynasty 'Grapes' foliate-rim dish that sold for HKD 24.6 million. The event saw participation from collectors across 17 countries, with significant growth in the Modern and Contemporary Art and Jewels and Watches sectors.

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museum exhibitions schedule Mar 4, 2026 visibility 16 link 5 artists, 1 gallery

A new home for Asian contemporary art opens in landmarked building in Manhattan's Chinatown

The Wang Contemporary has officially opened its doors in a landmarked Beaux Arts building at 58 Bowery in Manhattan’s Chinatown. Founded by fashion designer Alexander Wang and his mother, Ying Wang, the cultural organization debuted with a site-specific installation by the Brooklyn-based conceptual collective MSCHF titled '20,000 Variations On A Paper Plane In Flight.' The performance featured red and gold paper planes launched from the building's central oculus, blending traditional Lunar New Year symbolism with conceptual art in a space that formerly served as a bank.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 18, 2026 visibility 6 link 1 artist

The largest U.S. showcase of ancient Italy's fascinating Etruscan culture debuts at Legion of Honor.

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco have opened "The Etruscans: From the Heart of Ancient Italy" at the Legion of Honor, the largest U.S. exhibition dedicated to the ancient Etruscan civilization. Curated by Renée Dreyfus, the show brings together approximately 150 objects borrowed from 28 institutions, including the Vatican, the British Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It explores Etruscan engineering, architecture, art, and social customs, including the elevated status of women, and features highlights such as a granulated gold drinking bowl and the bronze Liver of Piacenza.

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article culture schedule May 5, 2026 visibility 15 link 2 artists

No One Understood the 2026 Met Gala Theme Quite Like Bad Bunny

At the 2026 Met Gala, Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny arrived in a transformative look that made him nearly unrecognizable. He wore a black pussy-bow blouse, wrap blazer, and trousers, with prosthetics and makeup by Mike Marin turning him into an old man, accessorized with a cane. The gala's theme, inspired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's 'Costume as Art' exhibition, had a dress code of 'Fashion is Art,' and Bad Bunny's choice specifically highlighted the aging body, aligning with the exhibition's focus on the body at all stages.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 10, 2026 visibility 22 link 1 artist, 1 gallery

Exhibition | Etsu Egami, 'Blessings from Afar' at Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong

Japanese artist Etsu Egami is set to debut a solo exhibition titled "Blessings from Afar" at Tang Contemporary Art’s Wong Chuk Hang space in Hong Kong on March 21, 2026. The showcase features over ten recent works that bridge the artist's cross-cultural background with her evolving visual language of rainbow hues and rhythmic line work. The exhibition specifically explores themes of miscommunication and sonic perception, drawing from Egami's experiences living between Japan, China, Germany, and the United States.

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museum exhibitions schedule Mar 11, 2026 visibility 16 link 6 artists, 1 gallery

Sonoma Valley Museum of Art announces artist exhibitions for 2026

The Sonoma Valley Museum of Art (SVMA) has unveiled its 2026 exhibition schedule, themed "A Year of Joy Through Art." The lineup features four distinct solo presentations: a retrospective of Northern California Funk Art movement figure Maija Peeples-Bright, a portrait series exploring Puerto Rican identity by Norma I. Quintana, shimmering queer-themed tapestries by John Paul Morabito, and a narrative-driven survey of M. Louise Stanley’s humorous paintings and personal archives.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 23, 2026 visibility 18 link 12 artists, 1 gallery

Studio Ahead’s installation for The Future Perfect recalls the pre-internet days of IRL antique hunting

Studio Ahead, led by curators Homan Rajai and Elena Dendiberia, has created an installation for The Future Perfect titled 'The Houses Are Haunted by White Night-Gowns,' running as a satellite to the 12th edition of FOG Design+Art in San Francisco through January 25, 2026. The show features 13 designers who each produced unique bowls, displayed on a stacked arrangement of vintage furniture sourced from Berkeley-based Mid Century Møbler and San Francisco's C. Mariani Antiques, blending Scandinavian design from the 1940s–1970s with 17th–19th century antiques.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 2, 2025 visibility 15 link 3 artists

Guide to Seattle Art Museum’s ‘Farm to Table’ exhibit

The article provides a guide for families visiting the Seattle Art Museum's (SAM) current exhibition 'Farm to Table,' which explores the journey of food from farm to table through French paintings and sculptures. It offers practical tips for parents to engage children, such as using open-ended questions like 'What’s going on here?' and turning the visit into a treasure hunt, highlighting specific works like 'Still Life with Brioche' and 'The Gleaners.'

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 26, 2025 visibility 14 link 3 artists

Florida’s rich Seminole history comes alive in new art exhibit

The HistoryMiami Museum has opened a new exhibit titled “Yakne Seminoli” (Seminole World), showcasing the work of over 25 Seminole artists. The show features a range of art forms including sweetgrass basketry, wood carvings, textiles, and paintings, with pieces from artists such as Hali Garcia, Jimmy John Osceola, Erica Deitz, Elgin Jumper, and Wilson Bowers. Garcia, a Seminole sweetgrass basket weaver, incorporates contemporary influences like video games and anime into her traditional craft, including a basket inspired by Sonic the Hedgehog. The museum partnered with the Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum in the Big Cypress Reservation to present the exhibition, which includes items originally sold in tourist camps as a means of survival.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 13, 2025 visibility 13 link 1 artist

From silk murals to jade inlays: Forbidden City’s Qianlong Garden reopens after 25-year conservation project

The Qianlong Garden in Beijing's Palace Museum (Forbidden City) has reopened to the public after a 25-year, $20 million conservation project in partnership with the World Monuments Fund (WMF). The 1.6-hectare garden, built between 1771 and 1776, features 27 buildings with elaborate decorations including rare silk trompe l'oeil murals, jade inlays, and bamboo thread marquetry. The restoration began with the Juanqinzhai pavilion in 2002 and was completed in 2008, followed by work on three other structures. The project also involved recreating traditional materials and techniques that had fallen out of practice.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 26, 2025 visibility 14 link 1 artist

Bowdoin College Museum of Art Announces Major Exhibition and Long-Term Loan Partnership with Wyvern Collection

The Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) has announced a major exhibition and long-term loan partnership with the Wyvern Collection, a prestigious London-based private collection of medieval art. The first exhibition, "Medieval Art from the Wyvern Collection: Global Networks and Creative Connections," will open this fall, featuring more than 57 artworks on long-term loan combined with objects from BCMA's own holdings. The show highlights cross-cultural connections across a vast geographic range—from Japan to Mexico, northern Europe to Africa—challenging traditional Eurocentric views of the Middle Ages.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 17, 2025 visibility 11 link 2 artists

FSU MoFA exhibition examines Indigenous relationships with water

Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts (MoFA) has opened "Water Ways: Indigenous Ecologies and Florida Heritage," an exhibition examining Indigenous relationships with water through historical artifacts and contemporary art. Curated by Elizabeth A. Cecil, the show features works by Harold García V (El Quinto), Samboleap Tol, and Wilson Bowers, alongside ancient cypress dugout canoes, ceramics, tools, and a mask from the New Orleans Museum of Art. The exhibition runs from September 18, 2025, to March 14, 2026, with accompanying events including artist talks, a symposium, and a book club.

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Alberta Foundation for the Arts opens first gallery in Calgary

The Alberta Foundation for the Arts (AFA) opened its first-ever gallery in Calgary on September 10, 2025, called the AFA art house, located on the second floor of the Edison building. The space, previously used as a temporary gallery by the Glenbow Museum during its renovation, will host rotating exhibitions from the AFA’s 10,000-piece collection, including the opening show "New Views" featuring 50 works purchased in the last decade. The gallery also allows Alberta artists to display and sell their art, and will feature a solo exhibition by Samantha Williams-Chapelsky, the 2024-25 AFA Alberta Artist in Residence, beginning in October.

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

In a new exhibition, Turkey displays the success of its heavyweight heritage drive

Turkey has opened a new exhibition titled "The Golden Age of Archaeology" at a national library in Ankara, showcasing 570 ancient artifacts—most unearthed in the past two years and displayed for the first time. Highlights include 11,500-year-old Neolithic vessels, a Bronze Age tablet revealing a previously unknown language (Kalasma), and a repatriated bronze statue of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, which was smuggled out of Turkey in the 1960s and recently returned from the Cleveland Museum of Art after a legal battle. The exhibition is part of the government's Heritage for the Future project, which spends around $150 million annually on excavations, visitor centers, and museums, with active digs rising to about 800.

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article local schedule Jul 24, 2025 visibility 12 link 2 artists

Ferris State alumni, faculty, and students recognized among leading regional artists in 2025 West Michigan Area Show

Ferris State University's Kendall College of Art and Design (KCAD) alumni, faculty, and students have been recognized in the 2025 West Michigan Area Show, a juried exhibition hosted by the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts. The 64th annual competition drew nearly 500 entries from 14 Michigan counties, with 64 selected for inclusion. Eleven pieces by artists with KCAD connections were featured, and three received distinguished awards from juror Hubert Massey, a Detroit-based artist and educator. Notable winners include Lee Ann Frame, who won the Ward H. and Cora E. Nay Director’s Purchase Prize and the Southwest Michigan Printmakers Excellence in Printmaking Award, and Tatsuki Hakoyama, who received The Martin Maddox Prize for Imaginative Realism. Other participants include professor emeritus Jay Constantine, alumni Beth Purdy and Jackson Wrede, and students Sydney Donath and Kaylee Dirkmaat.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 8, 2025 visibility 10 link 1 artist

Le Petit Salon: The Journey of an Eighteenth-Century Room from Paris to Vermont

The Middlebury College Museum of Art will reassemble Le Petit Salon, an 18th-century French neoclassical paneled room designed by Pierre-Adrien Pâris in 1776 for the duc d’Aumont’s Parisian mansion. Gifted to the college in 1959 by Susan Dwight Bliss, the room had been in storage since the 1990s. The exhibition, running from July 8 to December 6, 2025, traces the room’s journey from Paris to Manhattan—where it decorated the Bliss family’s Gilded Age mansion for fifty years—and finally to Middlebury, where it became part of Le Château, the college’s French language dormitory. The show also features Pâris’s original watercolor elevations and studies from his time in Rome and Naples, with loans from Bowdoin College, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, and the Fine Arts Museum of Besançon.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 26, 2025 visibility 12 link 2 artists

City announces art exhibition for Las Vegas Civic Center Art Gallery

The City of Las Vegas is partnering with the future Las Vegas Museum of Art (LVMA) to present a contemporary art exhibition titled "Family Album" at the newly unveiled Las Vegas Civic Center Art Gallery. Organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the show features family photographs from over 20 intergenerational artists, including Dannielle Bowman and Janna Ireland, and runs from September 4, 2025 through January 9, 2026. This marks the first public-facing program for LVMA, which has been in development since 2023 and is expected to break ground on a $150 million facility in Symphony Park as early as 2026, with a projected 2028 opening.

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article local schedule May 20, 2025 visibility 16 link 10 artists, 1 gallery

9 must-see Seattle art exhibits for the next month

This article highlights nine visual art exhibitions in Seattle for June, curated as staff picks to embrace themes of change, regeneration, and healing. Featured shows include "Taking Care: Embrace with Tenderness" at Seattle University's Hedreen Gallery, which closes next year when the building is razed for a new museum; "Jill Kyong: Between Spaces" at SlipStitch Studio; "Mel Carter: bitter, the mourning" at Gallery 4Culture; "Gina Ariko: Ikebana and the Art of Resilience" at Gallery 110; "Healing Our Roots" at The Fishbowl gallery; and "Third Eye" at Base Camp Studios, among others. The exhibitions span photography, glass art, floral arrangements, and group shows, all free and open to the public.

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article local schedule May 20, 2026 visibility 7 link 8 artists

UPSTATE ART WEEKEND: OPEN HOURS to Return to Kaatsbaan Cultural Park

Upstate Art Weekend is bringing back its OPEN HOURS program to Kaatsbaan Cultural Park in Tivoli, New York. The event, organized by BroadwayWorld, offers extended hours for visitors to explore the park's artistic and cultural offerings, including exhibitions and performances, during a dedicated weekend in the Hudson Valley region.

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article culture schedule May 19, 2026 visibility 2 link 2 artists

Man Can’t Tell if Friend’s Art Show Surrealist or Bad

Local man Brian Jacobs attends a friend's high-profile surrealist art show in New York but cannot determine whether the works are genuinely surrealist or simply poorly executed. He describes a painting of a five-eyed fisherman holding a melting bowling ball as looking like it was painted by a first grader. The artist, Gavin McCloud, interprets Jacobs's bewildered reactions as impressed awe and plans to gift him the melting bowling ball painting. Gallery owner Christine Morgan admits she sometimes hosts derivative work from donors' children in exchange for large checks, and advises artists to claim ambiguity as the real art if questioned.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 16, 2026 visibility 15 link 12 artists

In Kyoto, a photography festival unites artists on society's fringes

Kyotographie, an independent international photography festival in Kyoto, has announced 'The Edge' as its theme for the 2026 edition, following a focus on humanity in 2025. The festival will feature exhibitions exploring fringes, darkness, and extremes of life, including a posthumous show of Fatama Hassona's 'The Eye of Gaza', a focus on South Africa with works by Lebohang Kganye, Pieter Hugo, and a peripatetic library from A4 Arts Foundation, as well as Ernest Cole's 'House of Bondage' at the Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art—his first exhibition in Japan. Other highlights include Linder Sterling's survey 'Goddess of the Mind' at the Museum of Kyoto Annex and Anton Corbijn's 'Presence' at the Shimadai Gallery.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 24, 2026 visibility 20 link 21 artists

In Dancehall and Reggaetón’s Evolution, MCA Chicago Charts a Global Awakening

The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago has opened "Dancing the Revolution: From Dancehall to Reggaetón," an ambitious exhibition exploring the historical evolution of dancehall and reggaetón as cultural movements and their influence on contemporary art. Curated by Carla Acevedo-Yates, the show features over 40 international artists including Isaac Julien, Edra Soto, Alberta Whittle, Carolina Caycedo, supakid, and Lee "Scratch" Perry, tracing the genres' roots from Afro-Caribbean traditions through their emergence in Jamaica, Panama, and Puerto Rico to global mainstream dominance by figures like Daddy Yankee and Bad Bunny.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 13, 2026 visibility 25 link 4 artists

New York's New Museum Unveils $82 Million Expansion

The New Museum in Manhattan has officially unveiled its $82 million expansion, a transformative project designed by architects Rem Koolhaas and Shohei Shigematsu. The renovation has doubled the institution's footprint, adding three levels of gallery space and a new 'public spine' featuring an atrium staircase. To mark the reopening, the museum launched 'New Humans: Memories of the Future,' a massive 732-object survey curated by Massimiliano Gioni that explores the intersection of art, visual culture, and emerging technologies like AI.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 20, 2026 visibility 11 link 8 artists

Portraiture and Design at Guild Hall

Guild Hall in East Hampton is opening two exhibitions on Sunday: “Jason Bard Yarmosky: Time Has Many Faces,” a decade-long series of meticulously rendered portraits focusing on the artist’s aging grandparents, and “Liberty Labs: A Decade of Design,” featuring furniture, lighting, and objects by 33 current and former members of the Liberty Labs Foundation design collective. The portraits blend 17th- and 18th-century painting techniques with contemporary, often playful imagery, while the design show highlights collaborative experimentation. Museum director Melanie Crader, who curated both shows, notes that the artists share Brooklyn bases and East End ties.

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trending_up market schedule Jan 15, 2026 visibility 18 link 8 artists

Tony Hawk, Banksy, Powell-Peralta, Beastie Boys Items Lead Street Art & Culture Auction

Julien's Auctions has announced a 'STREET ART & CULTURE' auction featuring 70 lots that blend skate culture, street art, and music memorabilia. Highlights include Tony Hawk's personal T-shirt and signed poster from his historic 1999 X Games '900' trick (estimate $6,000-$8,000), a Banksy signed limited-edition 'Sale Ends' screenprint (estimate $20,000-$30,000), and boards from Powell-Peralta such as Steve Caballero's 'Half Cab Dragon'. The sale also includes works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jamie Reid, Shepard Fairey, and memorabilia from Gorillaz, Beastie Boys, and Wu-Tang Clan. The online auction is scheduled for February 4, 2026.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 19, 2025 visibility 10 link 4 artists

BGSU Fine Arts Gallery Presents, “Italy In The Artist’s Imagination,” A Student-curated Exhibition

Bowling Green State University's Fine Arts Gallery presented "Italy In The Artist’s Imagination," a student-curated exhibition running from November 21 to December 10, 2025, at the Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery. The show featured nearly a hundred works from the university's permanent collection alongside student submissions, spanning Renaissance masters like Albrecht Dürer to contemporary artists, all exploring how Italy has inspired artistic creativity over centuries. Curated by students enrolled in Dr. Allie Terry-Fritsch's Professional Practices in Art History course, the exhibition highlighted pieces such as Dürer's woodcut "Christ Taking Leave of His Mother" (1511), Jessica Faber's screen print "Prospecttiva" (2024), and Jules Maidoff's "Lo Studio."

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