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article local schedule Apr 15, 2026 visibility 14 link 1 artist, 2 galleries

10 Apartments OK’d For Ex-Art Gallery Building

The New Haven City Plan Commission has unanimously approved the conversion of the historic John Slade Ely House into 10 studio apartments. The Elizabethan mansion, which served as a prominent local arts hub since 1961, was most recently home to the Ely Center of Contemporary Art before the organization vacated the property in December 2025. The redevelopment plan by G.L. Capasso includes preserving the building's exterior while creating small residential units, including one designated affordable housing unit.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 7, 2026 visibility 14 link 3 artists, 1 gallery

Artist confronts experience as Sixties Scoop adoptee in Salmon Arm exhibition

Indigenous artist Scott Kwah is set to debut a deeply personal exhibition titled "A.R.E.N.A. babies" at the Salmon Arm Art Gallery, running from April 11 to June 16, 2026. The installation centers on 18 hand-cast concrete figures seated on vintage chairs that emit audio of fragmented, childlike voices questioning their origins and loss of language. The work directly confronts Kwah’s history as a survivor of the Sixties Scoop, specifically referencing the Adoption Resource Exchange of North America (ARENA) program that facilitated the cross-border displacement of Indigenous children.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 13, 2026 visibility 9 link 1 gallery

Birds Flock Amid Vibrant Blooms in Vasilisa Romanenko’s Acrylic Paintings

Vasilisa Romanenko’s solo exhibition, *Flora & Flight*, is on view at Arch Enemy Arts in Philadelphia through May 31. The show features her detailed acrylic paintings, ranging from six to 28 inches tall, depicting birds like white doves, dark-eyed juncos, and lesser goldfinches amid vibrant blossoms such as peonies, poppies, and hollyhocks. The gallery notes that each bird carries a strong sense of form and character, and each leaf and flower feels varied and alive.

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museum exhibitions schedule Mar 25, 2026 visibility 15 link 1 gallery

Explore a Growing City of Meticulously Crafted Miniature Paper Buildings by Charles Young

Artist Charles Young is expanding his intricate city of miniature paper buildings, with 258 structures already completed from a series inspired by Sanzo Wada's color theory book. He is currently working on the final 90 models from the first volume, which explores two-color combinations, and has also created works featuring multiple colors.

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museum exhibitions schedule Mar 23, 2026 visibility 17 link 1 gallery

Stephen Morrison’s Trompe-L’œil ‘Dog World’ Paintings Are Fetching

Artist Stephen Morrison is presenting a solo exhibition titled 'Dog Show #5: Field Recordings' at SLAG&RX gallery in New York. The show features his vibrant, trompe-l'œil paintings that embed canine features into compositions of everyday objects and textiles, referencing his personal connections to Paris, New York City, and Maine.

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candle obituary schedule Mar 27, 2026 visibility 19 link 1 gallery

Mario Rodriguez

Mario Rodriguez, the co-founder of the influential New York gallery Lisson Gallery and a respected figure in the contemporary art scene, has passed away. Rodriguez was instrumental in bridging the gap between European and American minimalism and conceptualism, helping to establish a global platform for artists who challenged traditional aesthetic boundaries.

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museum exhibitions schedule Mar 11, 2026 visibility 15 link 1 gallery

Studio Montclair Honors Volunteers With ‘Good Works’ Exhibition

Studio Montclair is launching "Good Works," a dedicated exhibition at the Leach Gallery in Montclair, New Jersey, to honor the artist members who volunteer for the organization. Running from March 13 to April 10, 2026, the show features a diverse range of media including acrylic paintings, photography, and oil works by seventeen participating artists.

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article local schedule May 21, 2026 visibility 4 link 1 artist

Masuk Senior Art Show displays young talent across different mediums

Masuk High School in Monroe, Connecticut, hosted its Senior Art Show in the school's media center, featuring 20 works by students in mediums including oil and acrylic paintings, charcoal drawings, sculptures, and ceramics. Organized by art teacher Monika Gagnon and ceramics teacher Dana Moraniec, the event replaced the canceled da Vinci Festival and included AP art portfolios alongside themed pieces exploring social commentary, personal experience, and identity. Students like Olivia Neel (adolescence and divorce), Seraphine Lambert (nature, memory, and religion), and Christian Kloter (metaphors of self) presented and discussed their work with visitors.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 20, 2026 visibility 5 link 1 artist

Lakshmi Shankarreddy’s Art Exhibition Explores Life Between India And California

Artist Lakshmi Shankarreddy presented a solo exhibition titled 'Bringing Two Cultures Through Art' at the Consulate General of India in San Francisco on May 15. The show featured paintings exploring landscapes, florals, and portraits that bridge her Indian heritage and life in California, including the work 'Blossoms,' now part of the Consulate's collection. Shankarreddy, who studied fine art at Stanford University and has worked for over three decades in impressionistic and abstract styles, also uses her art for philanthropy, supporting organizations like Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 20, 2026 visibility 5 link 2 artists

Gryphon Gallery presents "Absence of Gravity" - a Robin Love solo exhibition

Robin Love's solo exhibition "Absence of Gravity" opens at Gryphon Gallery in Califon, New Jersey, on May 30, 2026, running through September 27. The show features 22 small-format oil-on-paper paintings created over the past year, half of which were made during a residency in Orquevaux, France, along with larger works and a selection of oil-on-linen paintings. It marks Love's first solo exhibition of oil paintings, following a career as a photographer and co-founder of a multidisciplinary design studio with her late partner David Derrick.

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article local schedule May 6, 2026 visibility 15 link 2 artists

From Ashes to Light, Brooklyn Arts Group Rebounds After a Fire

After a fire destroyed its home base in Red Hook in September 2025, the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC) is presenting its first in-person exhibition, "Unmoored / Unbound," at Powerhouse Arts in Gowanus, Brooklyn. The juried group show features 40 artists working across various mediums, exploring themes of loss, transition, liberation, and resilience. The exhibition runs from May 22 to August 9, 2025, with an opening reception on May 21.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 16, 2026 visibility 12 link 1 artist

Lamentation and Celebration

Quilt artist Lois Klassen presents her first Manitoba exhibition, "Lamentation and Celebration," featuring a series of collaged textile works that explore the duality of grief and beauty. The exhibition showcases Klassen’s signature style of juxtaposing found, recycled, and commercial fabrics with traditional needlework fragments to create complex visual patterns and textures.

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article local schedule Apr 12, 2026 visibility 16 link 1 artist

Art exhibition at Colchester Hospital to raise funds for North Essex cancer charity

Local artist Claire Vaughan has launched a solo exhibition at Colchester General Hospital, showcasing a series of works inspired by her personal journey of recovery and the loss of her lifelong friend, Debbie Cuthbert. The exhibition serves as a tribute to Cuthbert, who passed away from ovarian cancer, with proceeds from art sales being donated to the Cancer Wellbeing Centre.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 11, 2026 visibility 15 link 2 artists

Daegu Kansong Art Museum Opens Exhibition on Chusa Kim Jeong-hui's Painting Legacy

The Daegu Kansong Art Museum has launched a special exhibition titled "Chusa's Painting Lessons" to mark the 240th anniversary of the birth of Kim Jeong-hui, the legendary Joseon Dynasty scholar and artist. While most retrospectives of Kim's work focus on his revolutionary calligraphy and academic scholarship, this showcase specifically highlights his paintings and his pedagogical influence on his students. A centerpiece of the exhibition is the "Yerim Gapeulrok," a document that illustrates the artistic exchanges and critiques shared between the master and his disciples.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 8, 2026 visibility 12 link 1 artist

Admiring memories and more in Rollins museum’s ‘Souvenir’

The Rollins Museum of Art has unveiled "Souvenir," a new exhibition that explores the intersection of physical objects and personal or collective memory. Featuring works such as Cruz Castillo’s "Loss Came First"—a piece constructed from discarded lottery tickets—the show examines how everyday items, from kitsch keychains to historical relics, serve as vessels for nostalgia and reminders of the past.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 2, 2026 visibility 19 link 2 artists

The Noble Maritime Collection hosts OCEANUS ocean art exhibit April 2026

The Noble Maritime Collection in Staten Island will host an exhibition titled 'OCEANUS' in April 2026, featuring art focused on ocean themes. The show is scheduled to run for the entire month.

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article local schedule Mar 29, 2026 visibility 14 link 1 artist

Rome Art Center to host ‘Out of the H2O’ exhibit | Content Exchange

The Rome Art and Community Center (RACC) in Rome, New York, is set to debut a new group exhibition titled “Out of the H2O” on April 2, 2026. The show features over 40 works from local artists across various mediums, including photography, painting, and mixed media, all centered around the thematic exploration of water.

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article local schedule Jan 30, 2026 visibility 9 link 1 artist

Tampa artist Fary Charles channeled rage, disappointment, and a desire to prove himself into his latest solo show

Artist Fary Charles, also known as Junkyrd, channeled personal struggles into his first major solo exhibition, "It's Yours," at The Tampa Edition in November 2025. The show featured some of his largest works and was motivated by a recent job loss and financial hardship. Several pieces sold, marking a significant step in his career.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 7, 2026 visibility 9 link 2 artists

Northwestern College's Te Paske Gallery features exhibit by Iowa artists

Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa, will host “Grounded,” a joint exhibition featuring ceramicist Danielle Whigham and painter Emily McQueen, from January 13 to February 26, 2026, at the Te Paske Gallery. Whigham’s functional ceramic pieces are wheel-thrown and hand-carved with earth-inspired textures, while McQueen’s layered paintings combine printmaking and oil paint to explore nature, seasonality, and loss. Both artists, who live in Glenwood, Iowa, share a thematic focus on the natural world.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 25, 2025 visibility 14 link 3 artists

How Delaware’s ‘King of Transit’ turned a lifelong love of buses into an art exhibit

Geraldo Gonzalez, known as the 'King of Transit,' has turned his lifelong passion for public transportation into an art exhibition titled 'Artist of Life' at the Mezzanine Gallery in Wilmington, Delaware. The show features 11 artworks that capture the charm, history, and culture of buses and trains, including detailed depictions of bus wraps and transit scenes. Gonzalez, a Puerto Rican artist, began sketching buses as a teenager after moving from Pennsylvania to Delaware, and his work reflects both realism and psychedelic colors. The article also recounts a 2010 incident where Wilmington police detained him for photographing near an Amtrak station, highlighting the tension between artistic inspiration and public suspicion.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 9, 2025 visibility 14 link 1 artist

University Libraries to host exhibition of artist Karen Blessen’s journals

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries will host an exhibition titled “The Muck, the Seeds, the Weeds, the Blossoming: The Journals of Karen Blessen,” featuring 24 personal journals donated by the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic artist and UNL alumna. Opening September 18 and running through February 2026 on the second-floor link of Love Library, the show marks the first public display of Blessen’s journals, which span 2013 to 2022 and offer intimate insight into her creative process, personal struggles, and artistic strategies. The exhibition team includes Camilo Sanchez, curator of exhibitions at the International Quilt Museum, who designed the installation.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 28, 2025 visibility 10 link 6 artists

‘Chutzpah Girls’ Portraits to be Showcased in Art Exhibits Across the U.S.

The Times of Israel reports that a series of portraits titled 'Chutzpah Girls' will be showcased in art exhibits across the United States. The series features portraits of Jewish women who exemplify boldness and resilience, created by an unnamed artist or collective. The exhibits are set to tour multiple venues, bringing these empowering images to a wide American audience.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 23, 2025 visibility 12 link 2 artists

25 Artists in Gaza Stage Exhibition of New Works Expressing Grief Amid Genocide

In July 2025, 25 artists in Gaza staged an exhibition titled "Aphenix" inside a coffee shop in Gaza City, organized by Mohaned Asayas, a student at Al-Aqsa University. The exhibition featured 55 new works created during a month-long workshop that provided a rare space for artistic expression amid the ongoing war, offering materials like soft charcoal, pastel, and acrylic. Artists such as Bisan Al Amasy produced pieces addressing themes of starvation, displacement, bombardment, and loss, using symbolic imagery like a fatigued donkey to represent Gaza City.

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candle obituary schedule Aug 13, 2025 visibility 12 link 1 artist

Ukrainian ‘artist of pain’ David Chichkan killed on frontline

David Chichkan, a prominent Ukrainian contemporary artist known for his anarchist ideals and avant-garde iconography, was killed while fighting Russian forces in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region on August 8, 2024. The Ministry of Culture and Strategic Communications reported that he died repelling an assault by Russian infantry. Chichkan, born in Kyiv in 1986, came from a dynasty of artists and was known for works infused with references to Ukraine's activist and anarchist history. His death adds to a growing list of Ukrainian cultural workers killed since Russia's full-scale invasion began in February 2022, with PEN Ukraine recording 221 cultural figures dead.

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article culture schedule Jul 30, 2025 visibility 16 link 2 artists

Comment | From restitution to confronting authoritarian regimes, here are five ways museums can be more ethical

The article previews the upcoming book "Towards the Ethical Art Museum" and outlines five key strategies for museums to become more ethical institutions. These include developing ethics codes in collaboration with advisory bodies like ICOM and the UK Museums Association, changing mindsets on restitution to focus on mutual benefit rather than loss, and addressing internal "employee activism" to build diverse and equitable workplaces.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 15, 2025 visibility 10 link 2 artists

No One Knows All It Takes // Haggerty

The Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University will present the exhibition "No One Knows All It Takes" from August 22 to December 20, 2025. Curated by Christopher Jobson and Grace Ebert of Colossal, the show features four artists—Bryana Bibbs, Raoul Deal, Maria Gaspar, and Swoon (Caledonia Curry)—whose work addresses the effects of concealed trauma, including addiction, incarceration, immigration, and lack of systemic support for caregivers. The exhibition aims to move beyond individual self-care to highlight root causes of trauma and systemic issues undermining collective well-being.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 14, 2025 visibility 9 link 1 artist

Orange Art Center to present first Emerging Artist Residency exhibition this summer

The Orange Art Center in Pepper Pike, Ohio, will present its first Emerging Artist Residency exhibition this summer, featuring multi-media artist Lauren Sylvia. Her show, “The Many Hues Between Brown and Blue,” explores themes of love, loss, and remembrance inspired by her late cat Twila, using watercolor, acrylic, and experimental materials. The exhibition opens during the Orange Community Art Fest on August 16 and runs through September 30.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 3, 2025 visibility 13 link 1 artist

An Artist Honors Extinct Plants and Animals at New York’s Swiss Institute

The New York Times reports on an exhibition at New York's Swiss Institute where an artist pays tribute to extinct plants and animals through their work. The show features installations and artworks that memorialize species lost to extinction, blending scientific documentation with artistic expression to create a poignant reflection on biodiversity loss.

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article local schedule May 1, 2025 visibility 13 link 3 artists

Artist Keni Arts Transforms Altadena Fire Aftermath Into Exhibition of Hope

Local artist Keni Davis, known as Keni Arts, will present his exhibition "Beauty for Ashes" at the Altadena Main Library throughout May 2025. The show documents the aftermath of January's Eaton Fire, which destroyed over 9,000 homes and businesses in Altadena, including Davis's own home, studio, and most of his paintings. Through his watercolor works, Davis captures the destruction, renewal, and emerging hope in the community he has called home since 1977.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 28, 2025 visibility 10 link 3 artists

A New Art Exhibition Ponders the Perpetual Cycle of Urban Transition

The article reviews "Contemporary Ruin future visions," an exhibition at Drexel University's Leonard Pearlstein Gallery curated by artist Nancy Agati. The show explores the perpetual cycle of urban construction, demolition, and renewal, focusing on Philadelphia's evolving neighborhoods. Featured artists include Sophie White, who documents rapid gentrification in Fishtown/Kensington through plein-air gouache paintings, and Jennifer Johnson, whose sculptural maps trace the transformation of the Black Bottom area from 1725 to 2025. Joseph E. B. Elliott contributes photographs of decaying buildings, such as Saint Bonaventure Church and Richmond Generating Station, capturing ruins both past and present.

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