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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 16, 2025 visibility 8 link 10 artists, 2 galleries

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A major survey of Portuguese French artist Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (1908–92) is on view at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice through September 15, before traveling to the Guggenheim Bilbao. The exhibition highlights her maze-like abstractions, which feature vibrant tile-like squares and interwoven lines, and includes works from her World War II–era figurative period, such as *The Disaster* (1942). The show follows a traveling exhibition in Marseille and Dijon (2022–2023) and her inclusion in the Centre Pompidou’s 2021 “Women in Abstraction” exhibition, signaling a resurgence of interest in her work.

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article news schedule Jul 16, 2025 visibility 11 link 18 artists, 1 gallery

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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 11 link 4 artists, 1 gallery

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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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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 28, 2025 visibility 5 link 9 artists, 1 gallery

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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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trending_up market schedule Jun 26, 2025 visibility 12 link 18 artists, 3 galleries

design market report 2025 auction results tiffany lalanne 1234745884

Amid a sluggish broader art market, the design category is surging. Major auction houses—Sotheby’s, Christie’s, and Phillips—held design sales in early June 2025 that far exceeded expectations. Sotheby’s New York design sales totaled $37.5 million, Christie’s $23.6 million, and Phillips $4 million, representing a 62.3 percent year-on-year increase across all three houses. Notable highlights include the Goddard Memorial Window by Tiffany Studios, which sold for $4.29 million, the second-highest price for a Tiffany window at auction. The sales attracted many new buyers, with Sotheby’s and Phillips reporting over 20 percent of buyers were new to the houses.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 18, 2025 visibility 9 link 2 artists, 2 galleries

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Audemars Piguet Contemporary (APC) and the Aspen Art Museum have co-commissioned a new sculpture by Argentinian artist Adrián Villar Rojas, titled (Untitled) The Language of the Enemy. The work will debut in November in the Jura Mountains, near APC's hometown in the Vallée de Joux, before traveling to the Aspen Art Museum for a multi-floor exhibition in 2026. The sculpture draws a parallel between paleontology and speculative memory, imagining that an encounter with fossilized dinosaur remains might have sparked the earliest act of art-making. APC curator Audrey Teichmann emphasized the organization's role in supporting the artist through inception, research, fabrication, and project management, as well as providing continuous support for a second exhibition and storage of the work between shows.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 11, 2025 visibility 10 link 6 artists, 1 gallery

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The article details the career of artist Grace Hartigan, who by 1954 had overcome self-doubt and gained critical and commercial success with her bold, figurative-abstraction paintings. It recounts her solo exhibitions at Tibor de Nagy, acquisitions by MoMA and the Whitney, and her defiance of critic Clement Greenberg. The piece then focuses on a new exhibition at the North Carolina Museum of Art, "Grace Hartigan: The Gift of Attention," curated by Jared Ledesma, which explores how her relationships with avant-garde poets like Frank O'Hara and Barbara Guest shaped her work and provided a sense of belonging in the downtown New York scene.

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candle obituary schedule Jun 9, 2025 visibility 9 link 15 artists, 1 gallery

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Daniel Lelong, the influential French gallerist who cultivated deep relationships with 20th-century modern artists, died at age 92. Lelong began his career drafting statutes for the Marguerite and Aimé Maeght Foundation before working at Galerie Maeght, where he organized exhibitions for icons like Joan Miró, Alexander Calder, and Alberto Giacometti. After Maeght's death in 1981, Lelong became director of Galerie Maeght-Lelong alongside Jean Frémon and Jacques Dupin, and the gallery was renamed Galerie Lelong & Co. in 1987, with locations in New York and Zurich. He showed at the first Art Basel in 1970 and maintained close ties with artists such as Jaume Plensa, Jannis Kounellis, and Sean Scully.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 3, 2025 visibility 8 link 8 artists, 2 galleries

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Thaddeus Mosley, a 98-year-old sculptor based in Pittsburgh, creates monumental wood sculptures that weigh hundreds of pounds and rise high into the air. Working alone in a cavernous studio, he carves cherry and walnut using gouges, comparing his process to judo. Despite his long career spanning seven decades, Mosley remained largely unknown outside Pittsburgh until recently. He has now gained wider recognition following his inclusion in the 2018 Carnegie International, and his work is currently featured in a major exhibition at New York's City Hall Park, where he shows giant bronze versions of his wood creations.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 7, 2025 visibility 11 link 36 artists, 8 galleries

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Gordon Robichaux, a gallery located on the ninth floor of a high-rise in New York's Union Square, has opened two exhibitions dedicated to the late artist and curator Jenni Crain, who died suddenly from Covid-19 in 2021 at age 30. The shows feature an unrealized floor sculpture by Crain, completed by her foundation and collaborators, and an untitled exhibition including works by artists who influenced her, such as Tee Corinne, March Avery, and Kate Millett. The gallery is also dedicating its booth at Frieze New York to Crain, highlighting her role as a friend, curator, and salesperson during the gallery's early years.

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article news schedule May 5, 2025 visibility 5 link 7 artists, 1 gallery

michael werner to open second gallery in new york us government finally invites artist proposals for venice biennale sothebys to sell bhudda jewels morning links for may 5 2025 1234740589

The US State Department has finally posted a grant for artists to submit proposals for the 2026 Venice Biennale pavilion, after an unusual delay that sparked speculation the Trump administration might skip the event. The posting includes new "MAGA-fied criteria" that remove previous language about diversity and equity, instead requiring compliance with Federal anti-discrimination laws and prohibiting programs promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Meanwhile, the National Endowment for the Arts canceled grants and the Trump administration proposed eliminating the agency entirely. Other news includes a trove of Buddha relics heading to auction at Sotheby's Hong Kong, Michael Werner opening a second New York gallery, and the Art Institute of Chicago's president taking leave amid an investigation.

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candle obituary schedule May 2, 2025 visibility 9 link 10 artists, 2 galleries

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Dara Birnbaum, a pioneering video artist known for subverting mainstream media through her re-edited television clips, has died at age 78. Her longtime representative, Marian Goodman Gallery, confirmed her death but did not disclose a cause. Birnbaum rose to prominence in the late 1970s and 1980s by pirating TV programs and resequencing their images to disrupt passive viewing. Her most famous work, *Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman* (1978–79), loops clips of Lynda Carter as the superhero, exposing hidden politics and questioning the show's brand of feminism. The piece is now regarded as a landmark in both feminist art and video art.

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article news schedule Apr 27, 2025 visibility 4 link 11 artists, 1 gallery

death of artist sarah cunningham ruled accidental 1234739121

An inquest has ruled that the death of London-based artist Sarah Cunningham, 31, was accidental. She went missing in the early hours of November 2 in Camden, and her body was later found on the tracks at Chalk Farm Underground Station. On April 9, London’s Poplar Coroner’s Court determined that Cunningham jumped down onto the northbound train track and walked into the tunnel, where a train hit her 18 minutes later, but the coroner found she did not intend to take her own life. Cunningham was a rising artist represented by Lisson Gallery.

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article news schedule Apr 25, 2025 visibility 4 link 7 artists, 1 gallery

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US artists Spencer Finch and Lindsay Adams have been commissioned to create new installations for the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, which is set to open in early 2026. Finch will produce a 70-foot-long tiled mural for the Forum building's lobby, inspired by Barack Obama's memoir *Dreams from My Father*, while Adams will adapt a 2024 painting into fabric panels for the center's public café. The commissions are led by museum director Louise Bernard and curator Virginia Shore, who are building a collection of approximately 20 public artworks for the campus, including pieces by Julie Mehretu, Richard Hunt, and Maya Lin.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 1, 2026 visibility 34 link 7 artists, 1 gallery

Zurbarán in London, the Carnegie International, Walter Sickert’s Ennui—podcast

This episode of The Art Newspaper's podcast covers three major art events opening this weekend. The largest career survey of 17th-century Spanish master Francisco de Zurbarán since the 1980s opens at the National Gallery in London, co-curated by Francesca Whitlum-Cooper. The 59th Carnegie International, titled "If the word we," opens at the Carnegie Museum of Art and other venues in Pittsburgh, directed by Eric Crosby. The Work of the Week is Walter Sickert's "Ennui" (c.1914), featured in the exhibition "Walter Sickert: Working Notes" at Charleston in Lewes, curated by Robert Travers of Piano Nobile in partnership with Charleston.