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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 8, 2025 visibility 25 link 22 artists

art new york museum exhibition guide winter

Cultured magazine has published a winter exhibition guide for New York museums, highlighting six major shows running through early 2026. Featured exhibitions include Ayoung Kim's "Delivery Dancer Codex" at MoMA PS1, a survey of UFO-themed works at The Drawing Center, a Ruth Asawa retrospective at MoMA, Renoir drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, Robert Rauschenberg's photography at the Museum of the City of New York, and Alexander Calder's circus at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Each entry provides dates, curatorial context, and visitor tips.

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art ali eyal young artist

Ali Eyal, a 31-year-old artist based in Los Angeles, was featured in CULTURED's 2025 Young Artists list. His multidisciplinary practice addresses the violence he and his family experienced from the U.S. military during his upbringing in Baghdad in the 1990s and 2000s, as well as what he calls 'the after war.' His work uses grotesque, cartoonish figures to depict state violence, and he cites pieces like his video installation *Tonight's Programme* and a planned reconstruction of his father's burned car as central to his practice. Eyal was a standout in the latest Istanbul Biennial and the Hammer Museum's 2025 'Made in L.A.' exhibition.

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art young artists list anniversary

Cultured magazine celebrates the tenth anniversary of its Young Artists list by reuniting 27 artists from past editions for a photoshoot at MoMA PS1, photographed by Dana Scruggs. The article reflects on the 247 artists featured since 2016, noting their diverse backgrounds—from MFA graduates to autodidacts—and includes candid responses from artists about challenges like financial survival, creative evolution, and absurd collector questions.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 12, 2025 visibility 18 link 12 artists, 4 galleries

art new york chelsea exhibtion guide

The article surveys current Chelsea gallery exhibitions, highlighting two major shows: "Louise Bourgeois. Gathering Wool" at Hauser & Wirth (through April 2026) and "Milton Avery: The Figure" at Karma (through December 2025). The Bourgeois exhibition features rarely seen works from the artist's last three decades, including the motorized sculpture "Twosome" (1991) and the fountain "Mamelles" (1991/2005), curated by Philip Larratt-Smith. The Avery show presents a survey of his figure paintings from the 1920s to 1964, emphasizing his flat, interlocking forms and unexpected color palettes.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 26, 2025 visibility 15 link 13 artists

art made in la biennial hammer museum

The Hammer Museum has announced the lineup for the seventh edition of its biennial survey "Made in L.A.," curated by Essence Harden and Paulina Pobocha. Starting with a list of over 1,000 artists and no predetermined theme, the curators visited numerous studios over six months to select 28 participants. The exhibition includes artists working beyond traditional definitions, such as online archivist Jerald Cooper and DJ programmer Michael Donte, alongside experimental filmmakers, choreography, ceramics, and installations. The show features works by Pat O'Neill, Carl Cheng, Greg Breda, and others, reflecting Los Angeles's car culture, light, and evolving landscape.

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trending_up market schedule May 7, 2026 visibility 17 link 39 artists, 3 galleries

Your guide to Christie's 20/21 auction week in New York

Christie's is holding its 20/21 auction week in New York from May 9–22, 2026, featuring seven live auctions and two online sales at its Rockefeller Center galleries. Highlights include the dedicated sale "MASTERPIECES: The Private Collection of S.I. Newhouse" (led by Constantin Brancusi's *Danaïde* and Jackson Pollock's *Number 7A, 1948*), the Impressionist and Modern Art Day Sale, and "Defined Space: The Collection of Henry S. McNeil, Jr.," which focuses on Minimalist works by Donald Judd and Dan Flavin. Other consignors include prominent collectors Agnes Gund, Marian Goodman, and Joanna Carson. The public can view works for free from May 9–21.

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trending_up market schedule Jan 27, 2026 visibility 23 link 16 artists, 1 gallery

The Art Market Enters 2026 With Renewed Confidence and a Sharper K-Shape Divide

ArtTactic's Global Art Market Outlook 2026 report reveals renewed confidence in the art market, with 51% of participants expecting growth and 42% anticipating stability. Strong sales in London, Paris, and Miami Beach, along with multi-billion-dollar November auction results, have buoyed sentiment. The recovery is uneven but meaningful, driven by selective demand for established names: Impressionist art rose 80.4%, Modern art 19.4%, and Old Masters 68.7%. The K-shaped divide is sharpening, with robust performance at the top end (above $1 million) and accessible tiers (below $50,000), while the middle market remains sluggish. Top performers include Klimt, Picasso, Rothko, and Calder, while ultracontemporary artists like Nicolas Party and Matthew Wong have seen significant declines.

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trending_up market schedule Dec 16, 2025 visibility 15 link 12 artists, 2 galleries

Drawing attention

Collector Patricia Poon and artist Angel Hui are among the figures highlighted in a series examining how Hong Kong women artists are gaining market share and recognition. The article reports that major auction houses Christie's, Sotheby's, and Phillips have moved their Asia headquarters to Hong Kong and now employ young women in key auctioneering roles. It notes a sharp increase in women artists featured in Chinese auctions, from 79 in 2019 to 231 in 2024, with 201 of those in Hong Kong. Works by artists like Firenze Lai, Elaine Chiu, and Kristy M Chan have performed strongly at auction, and Phillips has made promoting Hong Kong women artists a key priority.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 24, 2025 visibility 33 link 24 artists, 1 gallery

Lévy Gorvy Dayan Recreates the Dazzle of 1980s New York

Lévy Gorvy Dayan has opened "Downtown/Uptown: New York in the Eighties," a sweeping survey staged at its Beaux-Arts townhouse on East 64th Street. Organized in collaboration with legendary dealer Mary Boone, the exhibition brings together a stellar roster of artists whose careers defined the decade, including neo-expressionists like Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Julian Schnabel, as well as appropriation and conceptual artists such as Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger, Andy Warhol, and Jeff Koons. The show explores the era's dual currents—raw painterly energy versus critical media interrogation—while acknowledging the AIDS epidemic, Reagan-era excess, and the rise of the art star. Immersive staging, a custom disco soundtrack, and works spanning multiple floors evoke the decade's theatricality and volatility.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 20, 2026 source 4 sources visibility 37 link 11 artists

Drones, Uncle Sam, and Grand Master Rafael: 10 Must See Exhibits This Spring

New York City’s museum landscape is entering a major spring season characterized by high-profile retrospectives, institutional reopenings, and the 82nd Whitney Biennial. Key highlights include a massive Raphael survey at the Metropolitan Museum of Art featuring over 200 works, the reopening of the expanded New Museum with a tech-focused exhibition on the future of humanity, and a major survey of sculptor Carol Bove at the Guggenheim. The season also features thematic shows exploring American folk art, Dutch Golden Age masterpieces, and the relationship between Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.

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article policy schedule May 14, 2026 visibility 11 link 2 artists

Parliamentary Report Outlines Major Issues In French Museums After The Louvre Heist

A French parliamentary commission released a report on May 13 detailing severe security deficiencies in French museums, following a December 2025 heist at the Louvre where French Crown Jewels worth $100 million were stolen. The report, overseen by MPs Alexis Corbière and Alexandre Portier, draws on over 20 hearings and highlights that only 25% of surveyed museums have a finalized security plan, with the Louvre itself criticized for dilapidated conditions and ignored audit warnings from 2017 and 2019 that predicted the thieves' modus operandi. Former Louvre director Laurence des Cars, who resigned in February, faced criticism for delays in implementing a security master plan.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 1, 2026 visibility 22 link 8 artists

After His Untimely Death, Rutherford Chang’s Survey Rewrites What a Square Can Do

Rutherford Chang, who died last year at age 45, is the subject of a posthumous survey at UCCA Center for Contemporary Art Beijing titled "Hundreds and Thousands." The exhibition centers on Chang's socially engaged works that explore value, circulation, and systems through the deceptively simple form of the square. His best-known piece, "We Buy White Albums" (2013–25), involved amassing roughly one percent of the first pressing of the Beatles' "White Album," highlighting how objects accrue personal and economic worth through use and history. Other works include melting 10,000 copper pennies into a cube and assembling Wall Street Journal portraits from 2008 into a grid that captures a year of crisis and change.

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rate_review review schedule Apr 30, 2026 visibility 26 link 6 artists

Nancy Holt review – cosmic thrills as the universe’s hidden power is unleashed

The Guardian reviews a major UK exhibition of land artist Nancy Holt (1938-2014) at Goodwood in West Sussex, the largest show of her work to date. The exhibition features two large outdoor installations—Ventilation System, a metallic tubular structure resembling building lungs, and Hydra’s Head, six concrete pools arranged like the Hydra constellation in a chalk quarry—alongside indoor photographs, diagrams, and light works. The review praises the cosmic scale and bodily connection of the outdoor pieces but finds the indoor works less effective at conveying Holt’s themes of universal vastness and interconnectedness.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 14, 2026 visibility 17 link 4 artists

France's Château La Coste hosts four decades of work by designer Marc Newson

Australian designer Marc Newson is presenting a comprehensive survey of his four-decade career at Château La Coste in Provence. The exhibition, housed in a pavilion designed by Oscar Niemeyer, features fifteen seminal works including the iconic 1988 Lockheed Lounge and a complex 2017 glass armchair. A highlight of the show is the 6-meter-tall sculpture 'Electra,' originally commissioned for the 1996 Olympics but never installed, which has been restored and recently acquired by collector Philip Serafim.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 10, 2026 visibility 19 link 4 artists

beeple elon musk robot dog san francisco viral stunt

Digital artist Beeple, also known as Mike Winkelmann, has deployed a robotic dog featuring the likeness of Elon Musk to the streets of San Francisco. The viral stunt, orchestrated by the Palo Alto-based Node Foundation, serves as a teaser for the artist's upcoming mid-career survey, "INFINITE_LOOP," which opens on April 18. The robot, part of the "Regular Animals" series, interacts with the public by "pooping" printed images generated from its surroundings through an algorithm based on Musk’s visage.

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article culture schedule Apr 7, 2026 visibility 20 link 3 artists

Gangnam styles: South Korea’s brutalist gems – in pictures

Photographer Paul Tulett has captured the stark, concrete landscapes of South Korea in his new book, *Brutalist Korea*, published by Prestel. The photo series highlights a range of architectural landmarks, from Tadao Ando’s minimalist Jeju Glass House and Zaha Hadid’s futuristic Dongdaemun Design Plaza to the playful geometry of the Paju Kindergarten. Tulett’s work documents how the raw, monumental aesthetic of Brutalism has evolved from the country’s postwar industrialization into a sophisticated tool for modern urban experimentation.

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museum exhibitions schedule Mar 23, 2026 visibility 24 link 4 artists

British artist Simon Fujiwara’s new Luxembourg exhibition tackles Guernica, syphilis and the death of a Japanese pornstar

British artist Simon Fujiwara has opened a major career survey, 'A Whole New World,' at Mudam Luxembourg. The exhibition features a reinterpretation of Picasso's *Guernica* using his cartoon character Who the Baer, alongside works addressing his personal experience with syphilis and a commemorative installation for Japanese gay porn star Koh Masaki. The show is structured as a thematic 'theme park' exploring contemporary issues.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 2, 2026 visibility 11 link 5 artists

edita schubert profusion museum susch

Croatian artist Edita Schubert (1947–2001), a contemporary of Marina Abramović, is the subject of a major retrospective at Muzeum Susch in Switzerland. Titled "Edita Schubert: Profusion," the exhibition is the first comprehensive survey of her work outside Croatia, spanning twelve galleries and covering her evolution from early anatomical realism to abstraction, collage, sculpture, and performance. Curated by historian David Crowley, the show draws its name from a description by critic Ješa Denegri, who called Schubert a pioneer of Yugoslav art and her practice a "profusion." The exhibition highlights Schubert's conceptual rigor and her engagement with the human body, influenced by her work as a draftswoman at the University of Zagreb's Institute of Anatomy.

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article culture schedule Dec 8, 2025 visibility 15 link 3 artists

frank lloyd wright didnt just design buildings he invented fonts too

Frank Lloyd Wright, renowned for his iconic architectural designs, also created distinctive hand-lettered typefaces that appeared on his architectural drawings. These letterforms, characterized by unique features like nearly meeting arcs in 'O's and double crossbars in 'A's and 'H's, were integral to his holistic artistic vision. The article traces how these lettering styles have been digitized into fonts, starting with Eaglefeather in 1993, designed by David Siegel in partnership with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, followed by other typefaces like Exhibition, Terracotta, and Midway released by P22 Foundry, each drawing from different Wright projects.

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article news schedule Dec 5, 2025 visibility 20 link 4 artists

daughter of marisa merz cancels show in kassel over documentas antisemitism policy

An exhibition of work by late Arte Povera artist Marisa Merz, planned for the Fridericianum museum in Kassel, Germany, has been canceled by her daughter Beatrice Merz. Beatrice, president of the Fondazione Merz, called off the show in protest of Documenta's newly adopted Code of Conduct, which uses the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism. The exhibition was originally scheduled to open in August 2025 and was replaced with a Robert Grosvenor survey. The cancellation was confirmed by Andreas Hoffmann, managing director of Documenta and the Fridericianum.

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article culture schedule Nov 18, 2025 visibility 18 link 14 artists

coreen simpson aperture monograph

Coreen Simpson, an 83-year-old photographer born in Brooklyn in 1942, is the subject of a new eponymous monograph published by Aperture as part of its Vision and Justice Book Series. The book surveys five decades of her work, spanning street photography, fashion photography, studio portraits in Harlem, images of the early hip-hop scene, and later collage experiments. Simpson is known for merging fashion and social photography, capturing both celebrities like Muhammad Ali, Toni Morrison, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, as well as unnamed individuals in her series “Nitebirds/Nightlife,” all with a frontal, confident gaze that emphasizes the subject's self-presentation.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 12, 2025 visibility 20 link 13 artists

sao paulo bienal 36 2025 bonaventure sharon hayes

The 36th São Paulo Bienal, curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and his team, explores the theme of humanity through six chapters, from the primordial to the transcendent. The exhibition features works by artists such as Precious Okoyomon, Frank Bowling, Aline Baiana, Gervane de Paula, Frankétienne, and Sharon Hayes, with a focus on textiles, sound, and jewel-toned aesthetics. The curators draw inspiration from avian migration and estuaries, structuring the show like tributaries connecting "the river to the sea," a phrase echoing Palestinian sovereignty without explicit mention. Highlights include Okoyomon's installation of dirt and plants, a career-spanning Frank Bowling survey, and Gervane de Paula's playful wood carvings that reveal subtle, provocative details upon close inspection.

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article culture schedule Jun 26, 2025 visibility 13 link 3 artists

28 years later antony gormley angel of the north

The article examines the appearance of Antony Gormley's iconic 1998 sculpture *Angel of the North* in the zombie film *28 Years Later*. The Cor-Ten steel work, which towers 66 feet tall near Gateshead, appears in an overgrown field as a symbol of post-apocalyptic abandonment, reflecting the film's themes of failed quarantine and societal collapse. Director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland use the sculpture to critique conservative British politics, with the film's ending making explicit reference to a British celebrity posthumously accused of rape.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 10, 2025 visibility 15 link 5 artists

new institute of sexology celebrates history of erotic art film photography

The Wellcome Collection in London has opened a new exhibition titled "The Institute of Sexology," celebrating the history of erotic art, film, and photography. The show features a wide range of objects including archival material, ethnographic and medical artifacts, erotica, and works by contemporary artists such as John Stezaker, Sharon Hayes, Zanele Muholi, and Timothy Archibald. It highlights pioneers of sexology like Sigmund Freud, Alfred Kinsey, and Marie Stopes, and marks the first exhibition after the institution's £17.5 million expansion, inaugurating a new gallery for large, year-long shows.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 10, 2025 visibility 17 link 7 artists

the gates christo jeanne claude

Artist duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude developed 'The Gates' for New York City's Central Park in 1979, but the project faced over two decades of bureaucratic hurdles before finally being installed in 2005 under Mayor Michael Bloomberg. The work consisted of 7,503 steel gates with orange nylon fabric along 23 miles of pathways, using 5,390 tons of steel. Now, on its 20th anniversary, a comprehensive survey titled 'Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Gates and Unrealized Projects for New York City' is being held at the Shed, accompanied by an augmented reality experience via the Bloomberg Connects app.

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article news schedule Jun 9, 2025 visibility 11 link 7 artists

citigroup mexico bank

Citigroup is selling its Mexican retail banking operation, Citibanamex, along with a collection of approximately 2,000 Mexican artworks dating from the 18th century to the present. The collection includes works by Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, Leonora Carrington, and Remedios Varo, and is considered the most important private painting collection in Mexico. Citibanamex has stated the collection is an integral and indivisible part of the sale and will not be sold separately.

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article culture schedule May 16, 2025 visibility 13 link 9 artists

salvador dali mustache origin

Salvador Dalí's iconic mustache, voted the Most Famous Mustache of All Time in a 2010 Telegraph survey, originated in the 1940s after he initially sported a more subdued "Menjou" style in the 1930s. The artist developed his flamboyant upturned mustache, first appearing in his painting *Soft Self-Portrait with Grilled Bacon* (1941), and maintained it with meticulous daily grooming using date-based wax. Dalí treated the mustache as a personal logo and creative symbol, even co-authoring a 1954 book with photographer Philippe Halsman titled *Dalí's Mustache*, featuring 28 surreal photographs.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 14, 2026 visibility 12 link 5 artists, 1 gallery

Billboards celebrating peace will arrive in L.A. as part of the Broad's Yoko Ono exhibit

Yoko Ono will install seven digital billboards across Los Angeles bearing peace messages like "THINK PEACE" and "IMAGINE PEACE," as part of her upcoming exhibition "Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind" at the Broad museum opening May 23. The billboards echo her 1969 "WAR IS OVER!" campaign with John Lennon. Ancillary programming includes re-creations of her performance works "Cut Piece" (1964) and "Sky Piece to Jesus Christ" (1965), plus a concert series "Yoko Only" guest-curated by Yuka Honda featuring Yo La Tengo, Nels Cline, Sleater-Kinney, and others.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 29, 2026 visibility 20 link 13 artists, 1 gallery

11 Art Shows to See in the Hudson Valley in May 2026

The article surveys 11 art exhibitions opening across the Hudson Valley in May 2026, highlighting a regional preoccupation with structure, materiality, and resistance to singular narratives. Featured shows include "Surface, Structure, String" at Hudson Hall, a textile survey curated by Richard Saja with artists like Portia Munson and Laleh Khoramian; "Jose Picayo: 35 Years in Photographs" at Robin Rice Gallery; "The Linda McCartney Retrospective: From the Light" at the Fenimore Art Museum; "Carol Seitz: Growth in Difficult Places" at Convey/er/or; and "Stephen Olivier: Hazmat" at ASK in Kingston, among others.

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museum exhibitions schedule Mar 2, 2026 visibility 19 link 21 artists, 1 gallery

5 small Denver art exhibits offer big thrills in the coming weeks

Denver’s art scene is currently highlighting several intimate yet impactful exhibitions during the transitional spring season. Key highlights include a multi-venue celebration of Colorado artist Ana María Hernando with solo shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver and the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, alongside a group showing at Robischon Gallery. Additionally, the Denver Art Museum is showcasing its textile and photography archives through two distinct exhibitions: "Conversation Pieces," featuring high-fashion acquisitions from Chanel to McQueen, and "What We’ve Been Up To: People," a survey of portrait photography spanning from the 19th century to the present.

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