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winston artory merger launches

Art appraiser Winston Art Group and art-tech firm Artory have merged to form the Winston Artory Group (WAG), a new company offering art appraisal, advisory, and digital collection management services. The merger is backed by a strategic investment led by Strobe Ventures, with support from CMT Digital, Galaxy Digital, and the family office of Eijk van Otterloo. WAG combines Winston's valuation expertise with Artory's blockchain-backed technology and a database of over 50 million art market transactions, aiming to provide secure, data-rich valuations to insurers, banks, family offices, and collectors. The firm expects to handle $15 billion in valuations this year.

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a i summaries venice architecture biennale reply

The curatorial team of the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale has responded to criticism of their use of AI-generated summaries in the exhibition "Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective." They clarify that the 35-word AI summaries were an intentional experiment, left unedited except for gross factual errors, to juxtapose human intelligence (the 250-word project descriptions) with artificial intelligence. The team acknowledges the reflections and critiques published in Artnet and other outlets, viewing them as validating the experiment's purpose.

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Primavera 2026 artists announced: Introducing the next generation of Australian artistic talent | MCA Australia

The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) has announced the six artists selected for its prestigious Primavera 2026 exhibition, a key annual showcase dedicated to emerging Australian artists aged 35 and under. The selected cohort includes Khadim Ali, Moorina Bonini, Dennis Golding, Jazz Money, Kate ten Buuren, and Constantina, whose practices span painting, sculpture, video, installation, and digital media, reflecting a diverse and interdisciplinary approach to contemporary art.

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Fractured Horizons Returns to NYCxDesign 2026 with Imaging After Images, Marking Its Second International Spotlight at the Festival

Fractured Horizons: Imaging After Images, the second edition of VSDesign's international exhibition series, returned to the NYCxDesign Festival in 2026, running for a week in New York. Organized by VSDesign in partnership with RAC Studio and Asia Design Week, the exhibition featured 60 works by artists and designers from across Asia and North America, spanning architecture, urbanism, product design, visual communication, and interactive media. The show explored how images no longer simply depict space but actively produce, operate, and regulate it, treating the image as a spatial mechanism rather than a neutral surface.

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Creativity as Curation

Yalin Hu, a Creative Director, has led several international exhibition projects over the past year, including "Infinite Weave" during New York Design Week (NYCxDESIGN Festival), the online exhibition "Unraveling" during London Design Festival, and "Touching the Void" at The Blanc Gallery in New York. In May 2026, she will lead "Becoming" at Artech Space in New York. Hu approaches each project as a complete creative system, focusing on theme development, spatial structure, audience journey, and cross-media integration, blending art, design, digital technology, and public experience.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 11, 2026 visibility 14 link 3 artists

The Navy and the painters: a splendid exhibition of maritime paintings at the Navy Museum - photos

The Navy Museum in Paris is hosting a major exhibition titled "The Navy and the Painters" from May 13 to August 2, 2026, featuring nearly 150 paintings spanning the 17th to 20th centuries. The show traces the evolution of maritime art and the French Navy's history, with works by artists such as Manet, Signac, and Le Lorrain, alongside a special section on the Navy's Official Painters (POM) with 84 contemporary works.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 7, 2026 visibility 16 link 3 artists

National Geographic announces extended tour of The Greatest Wildlife Photographs

The National Geographic Society has announced an extended tour of its exhibition "The Greatest Wildlife Photographs," following its run at The Momentary in Arkansas, USA. The show features a curated selection of iconic wildlife images from National Geographic magazine, chosen by picture editor Kathy Moran, and includes works by renowned photographers such as Michael “Nick” Nichols, Steve Winter, Paul Nicklen, Beverly Joubert, and David Doubilet. The exhibition will be available for booking in the US and globally as a digital delivery, and is currently on view at The Momentary from November 22, 2025, to June 7, 2026.

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OCU exhibit turns old discs into immersive art

Artist Leticia R. Bajuyo presents "Signal Convergence," a large-scale installation at Oklahoma City University's Nona Jean Hulsey Art Gallery that transforms discarded CDs and DVDs into immersive sculptural works. The exhibition runs from May 15 through Sept. 18, featuring horn-like structures built from thousands of discs, and includes a special collaborative performance on Sept. 10 with OCU music theory professor Kate Sekula using a theremin to direct sound through the installation.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 29, 2026 visibility 13 link 5 artists

For The First Time In Miami, An Exclusive Group Exhibition That Was A Success In NYC Arrives At The Museum of Sex — Featuring Works By Over 30 Local Artists

The Museum of Sex in Miami is presenting a new group exhibition titled "F*ck Art 2026: Nature & Artifice," opening April 29, 2026. Featuring over 30 local artists including Ana María Caballero, Cheryl Pope, and Justyna Kisielewicz, the show explores themes of bodies, desire, identity, surveillance, censorship, and intimacy through painting, textiles, sculpture, photography, and digital media. Works are displayed in glass vitrines to mimic the experience of browsing a digital feed.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 27, 2026 visibility 12 link 2 artists

Dallas' African American Museum reopens with iconic Sepia photo exhibit

The African American Museum in Dallas reopens on May 1 after temporary renovations, featuring the exhibition "People Who Make the World Go ‘Round: The Legacy of Sepia Magazine." The show highlights influential Black icons such as Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Maya Angelou, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Thurgood Marshall through photographs from the museum's archive of over 40,000 images. Sepia magazine, founded in Fort Worth in 1946, chronicled Black life and culture for nearly four decades, offering a Southern perspective that rivaled national publications like Ebony and Jet.

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Vantaa Art Museum Artsi's exhibition Empathy explores the multilayered nature of emotion, power, and connection

The Vantaa Art Museum Artsi has launched "Empathy," a multifaceted exhibition exploring the psychological, social, and technological dimensions of emotional connection. The show features diverse works that examine how facial expressions and gestures communicate feelings, while also addressing the power dynamics of who is allowed to tell their story. A central highlight is Ali Akbar Mehta’s immersive installation, which utilizes an archive of 30,000 video clips and XR technology to analyze how digital algorithms and visual overexposure to violence affect human compassion.

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Tokyo yokai immersive exhibition brings old legends alive

The "Yokai Immersive Experience Exhibition Tokyo" has opened at Warehouse Terrada, utilizing projection mapping and 3D technology to bring over 300 supernatural creatures from Japanese folklore to life. The exhibition features digital recreations of historical emaki scrolls and ukiyo-e prints by masters such as Utagawa Kuniyoshi and Katsushika Hokusai, alongside contemporary works from the Yokai Art Museum in Shodoshima.

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Casa Batlló opens new contemporary art space

Casa Batlló, the iconic Antoni Gaudí-designed building in Barcelona, has opened a new contemporary art space on its second floor. The inaugural exhibition, 'Beyond the Façade' by Matt Clark and United Visual Artists, uses light, sculpture, technology, and choreography to create an immersive experience inspired by Gaudí's vision and the philosophical system of Ramon Llull.

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Gamers to perform live alongside musicians about technology in Ilford

Spanish artist Robert Cervera presents 'Hiddenware,' an exhibition at SPACE Ilford on January 31 that blends gaming, sound, and visual art. Three local gamers will perform live video game sessions accompanied by musicians playing a custom instrument made from PC liquid cooling tubes, creating real-time soundtracks based on the gameplay. The event runs from 4pm to 7pm, with a live stream on Twitch, and the exhibition remains open until April.

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Robert Smith & José Bayro C.’s “Parallel Origins” Exhibition to Open at Barton Art Galleries

Barton Art Galleries in Wilson, North Carolina, will open "Parallel Origins: From Distant Roots to Shared Worlds" on February 5, 2026, featuring works by Robert Smith and José Bayro C. The exhibition runs through March 13 and pairs two artists who share a studio in Puebla, Mexico, but present distinct bodies of work exploring memory, material, and personal history. It marks Barton College's first dual-artist residency, during which Smith and Bayro will collaborate with students in the "Studio Concepts" course, lead community workshops, and engage in open studio sessions and interdisciplinary conversations.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 20, 2025 visibility 10 link 2 artists

Check out a multi-sensory experience at Hong Kong’s first large-scale art dome

Hong Kong's first large-scale art dome, FutureScope, has opened at Kai Tak Sports Park, running from December 19, 2025 to January 4, 2026. The dome features 'Perpetual Records', an immersive exhibition co-created by local media art studio XCEPT and Japanese artist Daito Manabe. Visitors can interact with 360-degree projections using facial recognition technology that translates their expressions into geometric patterns and alters an adaptive soundscape. Ticketed performances from January 2 to 4 offer deeper engagement with the artwork through live audio-visual sessions guided by XCEPT's artistic director Chris Cheung (h0nh1m).

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Lynn University celebrates the future of art and design

Lynn University hosted the Lynn NFT Art Museum 2025 Opening and All Hands on Deck Skateboard Deck Design Competition at the Boca Raton Innovation Campus (BRiC). Organized by the College of Communication and Design under Dean Cesar Santalo, the event featured a panel titled "Collecting Culture: How Toys and Comics Shape Our Stories" moderated by Michael Williams, with participants including toy designer Matt Nuccio, illustrator Mark Sparacio, and others. Exhibitions included Digitalism 2025, curated by Pixar RenderMan specialist Leif Pedersen; Stolen Data, featuring net-artists Vuk Ćosić, Rodolfo Peraza, and Rhea Myers; and the Fugitive Commons AI Animation and Video Art Contest, won by Tery Spataro. The skateboard deck competition showcased over 450 boards from students across eight countries.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 15, 2025 visibility 12 link 1 artist

A Whole New World: Microscope Art Exhibit Makes Major Community Connections

Michigan Technological University's Rozsa Art Galleries has opened "Nanowonder: Images from the Microscopic World," an exhibition featuring photographs taken with a Hitachi scanning electron microscope. The show displays magnified images of everyday objects like butterfly wings, toy cars, and spider legs, and is part of Hitachi's Inspire STEM Education Outreach Program. The opening reception on September 27 drew a diverse crowd, with attendees bringing their own samples for live magnification, and included special guest Sonnet the Pigeon, whose feather was featured in the exhibit.

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Lots to play for: Serpentine exhibition explores censorship and connection through video games

Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley's exhibition *The Delusion* opens today at Serpentine North in London, running until 18 January 2026. The Berlin-based artist and video game designer presents a series of multiplayer video games that challenge players to confront ethical, political, and moral choices. Games like *The Unifier* require collaborative problem-solving while prompting reflection on censorship, and *The Validators* transforms an arcade shooter into a contemplative experience addressing censorship, dehumanisation, and hope. The exhibition was developed with a team of artists, researchers, technologists, and members of Brathwaite-Shirley's Black trans and queer community, and builds on the artist's ongoing work archiving Black trans histories.

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Third National Art Gallery to open in Ipoh, to feature immersive exhibition

Malaysia's Tourism, Arts and Culture Ministry announced the opening of a third National Art Gallery branch in Ipoh, housed in the historic Ipoh Old Post Office building starting next year. The new venue will feature two main exhibition spaces showcasing visual arts with digital elements, including masterpieces from Malaysian and Southeast Asian artists, and a lower level dedicated to what officials describe as the country's most extensive immersive exhibition. Secretary-general Datuk Shaharuddin Abu Sohot and National Art Gallery director-general Amerrudin Ahmad attended the announcement during the Ipoh Suka Langka Programme.

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Rocket Man Jacky Tsai’s interstellar adventure

London-based Chinese artist Jacky Tsai painted the exterior of a ZQ-2E Y2 rocket, which launched into space in May from China's Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The project, titled "Chang'e Flying to the Moon," was a collaboration with commercial space company LandSpace, reimagining the Chinese moon goddess in a cosmic context. Tsai worked with engineers to apply aerospace-grade paint, avoiding colors like green that could interfere with tracking systems. He had planned to recover separated rocket parts for a sculptural installation or charity auction, but all painted sections were incinerated upon re-entry.

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Trump seeks to defund Institute of American Indian Arts

President Donald Trump's proposed 2026 federal budget seeks to eliminate all federal funding for the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), the only four-year school dedicated to contemporary Indigenous arts. IAIA relies on federal funding for 75% of its operational costs and received $13 million in the prior two fiscal years; the budget also cuts over $500 million from the Bureau of Indian Education, which supports 37 tribal colleges including IAIA.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 13, 2025 visibility 14 link 3 artists

Newly opened Photography Museum of Seoul plans to become a ‘cultural anchor’ for the region

The Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA) has opened the Photography Museum of Seoul (Photo-SeMA) in Dobong-gu district, marking South Korea's first public museum dedicated to photography. Spanning 7,048 square meters, the new venue draws from SeMA's collection of over 20,000 photographs and archival materials from the 1920s to the 1990s. It launches with two exhibitions themed around 'light obsession'—'Storage Story,' featuring commissioned works by six contemporary artists, and 'The Radiance: Beginnings of Korean Art Photography,' showcasing five pioneering Korean art photographers. The museum will eventually become part of an eight-branch network run by SeMA.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 5, 2025 visibility 13 link 5 artists

Artists, Fashion Designers Tap State-of-the-Art AI for NVIDIA GTC Paris Gallery

NVIDIA GTC Paris, held June 10-12 at VivaTech, will feature a curated AI art gallery showcasing seven artists and fashion designers who use machine learning to create artwork. Exhibitors include aurèce vettier (Paul Mouginot), whose series 'le travail des rêves' and 'the light that is not seen' train AI on personal childhood photos to generate dreamlike oil paintings, and Senegalese artist Linda Dounia Rebeiz, whose project 'Once Upon a Garden' documents extinct flora from West Africa's Sahel region using AI-generated imagery. The gallery aims to demonstrate how AI can serve as a creative partner rather than just a tool.

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Two new art centres set to open in Venice

Two new art centres are set to open in Venice in early May 2025. The San Marco Art Centre (SMAC) will launch on 9 May on the second floor of the Procuratie in St Mark’s Square, founded by David Hrankovic, Anna Bursaux, and David Gramazio. It will focus on temporary exhibitions spanning art, architecture, fashion, technology, and film, and is funded through admissions and sponsors. Its inaugural shows, timed with the Venice Architecture Biennale, feature architect Harry Seidler and landscape designer Jung Youngsun. Separately, the Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation opens a non-profit venue in the Dorsoduro district on 7 May, with a site-specific installation by Georgian artist Tolia Astakhishvili.

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Cracow Art Week KRAKERS 2025

Cracow Art Week KRAKERS has announced the first program details for its 14th edition, taking place April 24-30, 2025, under the motto “At times I think I am dreaming.” The theme is drawn from Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz’s novel "622 Downfalls of Bungo," honoring the 140th anniversary of his birth. The program includes a special inauguration event at the Palace of Art curated by Kamil Kuitkowski, regular exhibitions, a Laboratory Section with ten funded projects, and four exhibitions in cooperation with the University of the National Education Commission in Krakow. Highlights include a subway-themed exhibition split across two locations, a series of guided walks called Kultour, and a family walk titled “A river that doesn’t exist.”

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 18, 2026 visibility 12

At Milan Design Week, Noodling Around With an Italian Classic

Milan Design Week is hosting a provocative exhibition centered on the intersection of technology and culinary tradition through 3-D-printed pasta. The showcase features a variety of experimental shapes and textures that challenge conventional manufacturing methods, presenting pasta not just as food, but as a feat of precision engineering and industrial design.

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Is Art Good for Your Health?

A new book titled 'Art Cure' by scientist Daisy Fancourt argues that engaging with the arts has significant, measurable benefits for both mental and physical health. The author, a professor of psychobiology and epidemiology, compiles extensive research to claim arts experiences can prevent suicides, help manage epidemics, increase life expectancy, reduce depression, aid trauma recovery, enhance neuroplasticity, and even encourage healthier eating habits.

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Nintendo, Nostalgia and Gaming as Accumulation

The article examines the Nintendo Museum in Kyoto and the company's 137-year history, tracing its evolution from hanafuda playing cards to global video game dominance. It highlights how the museum curates nostalgia through interactive exhibits and preserved artifacts, framing Nintendo's journey as a sequence of applying technology for fun and profit.

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Li Yi-Fan: Poet of the Enshittosphere

Taiwanese artist Li Yi-Fan is preparing to present work at the Venice Biennale. His video works feature a digitally animated character, voiced and puppeteered by the artist himself, which delivers improvised, punkish lecture-performances critiquing technology, algorithmic control, and the loss of human agency.

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