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Yale University Art Gallery withdraws federal funding applications over anti-diversity regulations

The Yale University Art Gallery has withdrawn two federal grant applications submitted to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for an upcoming exhibition on African art exploring the migration of Nguni peoples, scheduled for 2026. The gallery objected to new anti-DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) restrictions imposed by the Trump administration, which require that funded projects do not promote certain ideologies based on race or gender. The gallery will instead use Yale University's $46 billion endowment to cover the $200,000 exhibition costs. This follows a previous instance where the gallery opted out of NEA funding, and a separate $30,000 NEA grant for the exhibition "Nusantara: Six Centuries of Indonesian Textile" was rescinded, though that show will proceed with support from the Robert Lehman Endowment Fund.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 28, 2025 visibility 17 link 11 artists

Exhibition as Séance at Seoul Mediacity Biennale with Anton Vidokle, Hallie Ayres, and Lukas Brasiskis

The 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, titled “Séance: Technology of the Spirit,” will open in August 2025 at the Seoul Museum of Art. The exhibition is curated by Anton Vidokle, Hallie Ayres, and Lukas Brasiskis of e-flux, who previously organized the Shanghai Biennale in 2023. The curators aim to structure a film program as an extension of the exhibition, engaging with themes of Cosmism and spiritual séance. They have collaborated with the Hong Kong-based architecture firm COLLECTIVE to transform the museum’s white-wall space into a scenography evoking different metaphysical realms, using color and light to enhance the experience.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 27, 2025 visibility 18 link 16 artists

Roaring: Art, Fashion, and the Automobile in France, 1918–1939

The Saint Louis Art Museum is presenting "Roaring: Art, Fashion, and the Automobile in France, 1918–1939," a major exhibition on view from April 12 to July 27, 2025. Curated by Genevieve Cortinovis, the show brings together automobiles, haute couture, painting, sculpture, photography, film, and decorative arts to explore the intertwined evolution of fashion and car design in early 20th-century France. Highlights include a 1917 painting by Henri Matisse depicting the view from his Renault, juxtapositions of Alfa Romeo and Citroën logos with works by Piet Mondrian and Charles Loupot, and a c. 1927 dress by Suzanne Talbot inspired by Tutankhamun's funerary mask. The exhibition draws heavily from local and midwestern collections, including the Missouri Historical Society.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 22, 2025 visibility 10 link 7 artists

Allegory and Abstraction: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Department of Drawings and Prints has installed a new rotation in the Robert Wood Johnson, Jr. Gallery titled "Allegory and Abstraction." The exhibition features up to 100 works on paper, including Henri Matisse's 1947 series "Jazz," Louise Bourgeois's "He Disappeared into Complete Silence" (1947), and watercolors by J.M.W. Turner and Thomas Girtin marking the 250th anniversary of their births. The show explores how artists embed complex meanings through symbols (allegory) or through line, color, and pattern (abstraction).

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 21, 2025 visibility 17 link 4 artists

Exhibition at The Met Highlights Role of Photography in Cross-Dressing Community in 1960s New York

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition "Casa Susanna," on view from July 21, 2025 to January 25, 2026, brings together approximately 160 photographs and publications created by and for a community of cross-dressers who gathered in New York City and the Catskills Mountains during the 1960s. The works, discovered at a Manhattan flea market in 2004, document safe spaces provided by Susanna Valenti and Marie Tornell at two modest resorts, where guests used cameras—especially Polaroids—to affirm their femme identities and connect a nationwide community. The exhibition is organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario and Les Rencontres d’Arles in collaboration with The Met, and includes collections from the Art Gallery of Ontario, artist Cindy Sherman, and donor Betsy Wollheim.

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rate_review review schedule Jul 16, 2025 visibility 15 link 3 artists

“Feeling Color” at The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

The article reviews "Feeling Color: Aubrey Williams and Frank Bowling" at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, an exhibition that pairs works by two artists from Guyana who worked in London in the late 20th century. Both explore abstraction, materials, and sociopolitical themes, with Bowling's color field paintings and Williams' geometric, Pre-Columbian-inspired works displayed in alternating galleries. The reviewer describes the show as dense and vibrant, noting the sensory experience of the paintings and the subtle dialogue between the artists.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 14, 2025 visibility 15 link 5 artists

Blood, skeletons and syphilis: the story of Edvard Munch’s obsession with health

An exhibition at the Munch Museum in Oslo, titled "Lifeblood," explores Edvard Munch's lifelong obsession with health and medicine by juxtaposing his paintings, drawings, and prints with historical medical objects. The show opens with Munch's painting "On the Operating Table" (1902-3), inspired by a bullet removal surgery after a dispute with his fiancée Tulla Larsen, paired with an early x-ray of his injured hand. It features works like "The Sick Child" (1885-6) alongside tuberculosis-related artifacts such as stethoscopes, sputum bottles, and a jar of arsenic, drawing from Munch's personal experiences with illness and his family's medical background—his father and brother were doctors.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 8, 2025 visibility 18 link 12 artists

Once upon a time in New Mexico: 12th Site Santa Fe International focuses on the art of visual storytelling

The 12th Site Santa Fe International, titled "Once Within a Time," has opened at Site Santa Fe in New Mexico, running until January 12, 2026. Guest curated by Cecilia Alemani, director of New York's High Line, the biennial centers on visual storytelling, featuring over 70 artists and 27 historical figures. Highlights include Helen Cordero's Cochiti-inspired storyteller figurines, a film by Lebanese artist Ali Cherri at the New Mexico Military Museum, and works by literary figures D.H. Lawrence and Vladimir Nabokov. The exhibition extends beyond the main building to a dozen locations across Santa Fe, including museums, a former foundry, and storefronts.

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article culture schedule Jul 1, 2025 visibility 17 link 7 artists

An expert’s guide to Edvard Munch: five must-read books on the Norwegian Expressionist

The article presents a curated reading list on Edvard Munch, compiled by Trine Otte Bak Nielsen, a curator at the Munch Museum in Oslo. The list includes five key books: Ali Smith's essay "So in the Spruce Forest" (2025), Gerd Woll's catalogue raisonné "Edvard Munch: Complete Paintings" (2009), "Living Lines: Five Contemporary Artists on Edvard Munch's Drawings" (2021) edited by Halvor Haugen, Rolf E. Stenersen's biography "Edvard Munch: Close-up of a Genius" (1944/2013), and Stanislaw Przybyszewski's "Das Werk Des Edvard Munch" (1894). The selection coincides with the museum's exhibition "Lifeblood: Edvard Munch," which explores the artist's work through themes of health and sickness.

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trending_up market schedule Jul 1, 2025 visibility 14 link 10 artists, 1 gallery

New world record for Canaletto as view of Venice sells for £31.9m

A Canaletto painting, *Venice, the Return of the Bucintoro on Ascension Day* (circa 1732), sold for £27.5 million (£31.9 million with fees) at Christie’s in London on July 1, setting a new auction record for the artist. The work, once owned by Britain’s first prime minister Robert Walpole, exceeded its $20 million estimate and was purchased by an anonymous phone bidder. The sale drew five bidders from Asia, Europe, and North America, and the painting was backed by a third-party guarantor.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 27, 2025 visibility 14 link 11 artists

“Dyke is our armor:” A conversation with dyke artist Sarah-Joy Ford’s about her new exhibition Dykeland (2025)

Dr. Sarah-Joy Ford, an artist and independent scholar based in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, has opened her exhibition "Dykeland: Volume 1" at The Whitaker Museum & Art Gallery in Rossendale on June 7, 2025. The show explores the history of dyke and lesbian landscapes in the UK, focusing on queer relationality to placemaking and preservation. It interweaves historical material, personal memory, and fantasy in response to Jane Cambell's upcoming poetry collection "Dykeland and other secret islands," and is displayed alongside Cambell's art. Ford uses quiltmaking as a medium to share lesbian and queer archival material, continuing a tradition of queer fabric art that includes recent installations like the ACLU's 258-square-quilt display on the National Mall and the Euphoria Quilt by Eliot Anderberg.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 24, 2025 visibility 24 link 15 artists

Albuquerque Museum Presents German Modernism Amid Empire, Democracy, and Dictatorship

The Albuquerque Museum will present "Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910-1945: Masterworks from the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin" from August 23, 2025, to January 4, 2026. The exhibition features over 70 paintings and sculptures tracing German modern art from the early 20th-century avant-garde through the Weimar Republic to the Nazi dictatorship, including works by Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Hannah Höch, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Salvador Dalí, many rarely shown in the U.S.

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article local schedule Jun 24, 2025 visibility 18 link 5 artists

Fort Worth’s 7 Must-See Museum Exhibits This Summer

Fort Worth's top museums are presenting seven must-see exhibitions this summer, ranging from a deep dive into the life of primatologist Jane Goodall at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History to a joint survey of abstract painters Aubrey Williams and Frank Bowling at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Other highlights include a hands-on exploration of indigenous knowledge in 'Roots of Wisdom,' a survey of pop-culture-infused paintings by Alex Da Corte, and a behind-the-scenes look at photographer Richard Avedon's process at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 19, 2025 visibility 12 link 3 artists

Guest Artists Space Foundation announces ambitious 2025–26 programme exploring African art archives

Guest Artists Space (G.A.S.) Foundation and Yinka Shonibare Foundation have announced the 2025–26 edition of 'Re:assemblages', a programme focused on African and Afro-diasporic archives as sites for artistic inquiry and decolonial practice. Curated by Naima Hassan with contributions from Maryam Kazeem, Ann Marie Peña, and Jonn Gale, the initiative includes international convenings, symposia, fellowships, and micro-publications, anchored by a two-day symposium in Lagos during Lagos Art Week (4–5 November 2025). The programme draws on the Picton Archive at G.A.S.'s Lagos campus and is supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art, featuring four curatorial themes: Ecotones, The Short Century, Annotations, and The Living Archive. It also launches the African Arts Libraries Lab (AAL Lab), a pan-African network of libraries and publishers across Lagos, Dakar, Marrakesh, Cairo, Nairobi, Cape Town, and Limbe.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 19, 2025 visibility 18 link 3 artists

Julian Charrière: ‘The deep sea is a phantasmagorical space’

French Swiss artist Julian Charrière presents 'Midnight Zone' at Museum Tinguely in Basel, an exhibition that plunges viewers into the oceanic abyss through four new commissions and earlier works. The show features video installations, sculptural works, and acoustic pieces that explore deep-sea ecologies, including a film set in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone targeted for deep-sea mining, and a rotating Fresnel lens installation that translates low-frequency noise pollution into vibration. Charrière’s multidisciplinary approach draws on fieldwork in extreme geographies like the Arctic and deep ocean.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 19, 2025 visibility 15 link 3 artists

Special exhibit on artist Mary Cassatt opens at Honolulu Museum of Art

A special exhibition titled "Mary Cassatt at Work" has opened at the Honolulu Museum of Art (HoMA), running from June 21 through October 12. The show features 35 works, including 22 on loan from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, eight from HoMA's own collection, and five Japanese prints from the museum's holdings. Curator Alejandra Rojas Silva highlights Cassatt's deep connection to HoMA—founder Anna Rice Cooke owned a Cassatt print—and the artist's fascination with Japanese woodblocks, which influenced her printmaking. The exhibition traveled from the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, with artworks carefully shipped across the Pacific.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 17, 2025 visibility 17 link 4 artists, 5 galleries

Basel's new satellite fair rides the wave of interest in contemporary African art

A new satellite art fair called Africa Basel has launched in Basel, Switzerland, founded by artist Benjamin Füglister and Photo Basel director Sven Eisenhut-Hug. The fair brings together 18 galleries, half from Africa, in a 14th-century building that once housed Dieter Roth's studio. Participants include non-commercial organizations like Ghana's Nubuke Foundation and Zambia's Modzi Arts, with prices ranging from SFr3,000 to SFr150,000. The fair aims to provide a platform for galleries specializing in contemporary African art and its diaspora to enter the global scene.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 17, 2025 visibility 14 link 15 artists

Artist Eric Smith won 3 Archibalds, then vanished. A new show reveals his unseen works

A new exhibition at Macquarie University Art Gallery reveals unseen works by Eric Smith (1919-2017), a celebrated Australian artist who won three Archibald Prizes and six Blake Prizes before unexpectedly vanishing from public life. Despite his early fame—including a role in launching Australian abstract expressionism with the group show Direction 1—Smith's career stalled after the death of his gallerist Rudy Komon in 1982, leaving him without a connection to the art world. He continued painting prolifically for four more decades, working daily in his studio, but destroyed more than half his output and had no major gallery shows after 1989.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 17, 2025 visibility 19 link 10 artists, 13 galleries

In pictures: Art Basel's Unlimited section offers visions of utopia

Art Basel's Unlimited section, curated by Giovanni Carmine, features monumental works and performances with themes of utopia, community, and being in sync. Highlights include Oscar Murillo's participatory drawing installation, David Owens' film on Lonnie Holley, Alia Farid's tapestries on Middle Eastern-Cuban migration, Taloi Havini's shell money piece, Atelier Van Lieshout's 160-sculpture march to utopia, Andrea Büttner's shame punishment prints, and Mario Merz's inhabitable igloo.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 17, 2025 visibility 15 link 7 artists

New CAM Exhibition Shows Food’s Role in French Art

The Cincinnati Art Museum has opened a new exhibition titled "Farm to Table: Food and Identity in the Age of Impressionism," organized by the American Federation of Arts and the Chrysler Museum of Art. Featuring works by Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, and others, the show explores the role of food in French art and society from the 1870s onward, juxtaposing scenes of peasant labor with depictions of upper-class abundance. Curator Andrew Eschelbacher highlights how food was central to French identity during a period marked by war, famine, and social upheaval, with Impressionist brushstrokes often veiling deeper sociopolitical realities.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 13, 2025 visibility 16 link 10 artists

Cincinnati Exhibition Explores Why These Late 1800s French Artists Focused on Food

The Cincinnati Art Museum presents "Farm to Table: Food and Identity in the Age of Impressionism," a new exhibition running from June 13 to September 21, 2025. Curated by Peter Bell, the show features over 60 paintings and sculptures from late 1800s France, exploring how artists depicted food production and consumption in the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune. Works by artists such as Julien Dupré, Victor Gilbert, Rosa Bonheur, James Tissot, and Gustave Courbet are included, with the exhibition divided into sections on production and consumption, juxtaposing images of labor, market scenes, and dining practices.

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person people schedule Jun 13, 2025 visibility 20 link 15 artists

Brittany Webb is Joining Museum of Fine Arts, Houston as Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art: 'There is A Lot That Attracted Me to the MFAH'

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) has appointed Brittany Webb as curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, effective late summer 2025. Webb joins from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), where she served as the Evelyn and Will Kaplan Curator of 20th-Century Art and the John Rhoden Collection since 2018. At PAFA, she organized several exhibitions including a comprehensive retrospective of sculptor John Rhoden, and added over 200 works to the permanent collection. MFAH Director Gary Tinterow praised Webb's passion, community connections, and track record of thoughtful exhibitions of American and African American art.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 11, 2025 visibility 14 link 9 artists

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts exhibition highlights the art of conservation

The Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (AMFA) in Little Rock is opening an exhibition titled "The Long View: From Conservation to Sustainability: Works From the Bank of America Collection" on June 13, running through August 31. The show features paintings, photographs, prints, and sculptures from the mid-19th century to the present, highlighting artists who advocated for conservation and sustainable habitats. A free family event, "Family Fest: Into the Wild," will be held on June 14 with activities led by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, including artmaking, live animals, and outdoor demonstrations.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 10, 2025 visibility 18 link 10 artists

Souto’s work featured in Joslyn’s ‘Made in the Plains’ exhibition

Francisco Souto, a professor of art and director of the School of Art, Art History and Design at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, is one of 20 artists featured in the exhibition "Made in the Plains" at the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, running from June 7 to September 21, 2025. The show highlights new and recent work by artists living in Nebraska, Iowa, and South Dakota, showcasing diverse materials and approaches. Souto is debuting a new polyptych, "8 Million Broken Dreams," consisting of eight circular panels with stone arrangements that reference the over eight million people who have left Venezuela, incorporating visual elements inspired by Carlos Cruz-Diez's mosaic floors at Simón Bolívar International Airport.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 6, 2025 visibility 29 link 5 artists, 27 galleries

Which galleries are returning to Frieze London and Frieze Masters 2025—and which are not?

Frieze London and Frieze Masters have announced their 2025 exhibitor lists, with nearly 290 galleries set to participate in Regent's Park from October 15 to 19. Frieze London's 22nd edition will feature over 160 exhibitors, including blue-chip names like Gagosian, Pace, Goodman, and Sprüth Magers, alongside London staples The Approach and Corvi-Mora. Notable absentees from last year include Tanja Wagner, Magician Space, and Lia Rumma, while newcomers such as Carbon 12, Anat Ebgi, and Simões de Assis join the main section. The Focus section for emerging galleries debuts eight first-time participants, and a curated section organized by Jareh Das will highlight artists from Brazil, Africa, and their diasporas. Across the park, Frieze Masters, under new director Emanuela Tarizzo, will host around 120 galleries, with first-timers including Champ Lacombe and Vito Schnabel Gallery, and the Studio section curated by Sheena Wagstaff.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 31, 2025 visibility 12 link 4 artists

Artists come together to celebrate Black art at the Harn

Gainesville art enthusiasts gathered at the Harn Museum of Art for its free 'Silver Linings' Community Day, featuring line dancing, screen printing, notebook making, and a community mural activity titled 'Pieces of Us.' The event centered on the exhibition 'Silver Linings: Celebrating the Spelman Art Collection,' on loan from Spelman College, which includes 39 works by nearly 30 artists of African descent, such as Benny Andrews, Sam Gilliam, and Faith Ringgold. Artist-in-residence Jessica Clermont led the community mural project, inviting visitors to decorate abstract puzzle pieces reflecting personal 'silver linings.'

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museum exhibitions schedule May 30, 2025 visibility 13 link 6 artists

New art show opens in Roswell Park's gallery

A new exhibition titled "Hallwalls Founding Artists From the Gerald Mead Collection" has opened at the Art Heals Gallery on the first floor of Roswell Park's main campus in Buffalo. Running from June 2 to August 28, 2025, the show features 18 works in various media by seven artists—Diane Bertolo, Charles Clough, Nancy Dwyer, Robert Longo, Larry Lundy, Cindy Sherman, and Michael Zwack—who founded Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in 1974. The exhibition coincides with Hallwalls' 50th anniversary celebration and draws from the private collection of Gerald Mead, an award-winning artist, educator, and leading authority on Western New York art.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 30, 2025 visibility 22 link 4 artists

Steamy scenes in urban underworlds were Edward Burra’s great subject—now they're coming to Tate Britain

Tate Britain is staging a major retrospective of Edward Burra (1905-76), the English painter known for his vivid depictions of urban underworlds, jazz clubs, and later brooding landscapes. The exhibition, curated by Thomas Kennedy, features over 80 paintings and newly discovered archival material spanning Burra's career from the 1920s to the 1970s, including rarities like 'Cornish Clay Mines' (1970) from a private collection. It also draws on Burra's extensive correspondence—described by his biographer Jane Stevenson as 'grubby letters'—which offers unprecedented insight into his personal world and chronic pain from rheumatoid arthritis and anemia.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 29, 2025 visibility 15 link 7 artists

Intuit Art Museum has its big reopening: ‘I don’t want this to be a traditional art museum’

The Intuit Art Museum in Chicago has reopened after a landmark $10 million renovation, marking a significant rebranding from its former name, "Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art," to simply "Intuit Art Museum" (IAM). The museum, which collects work by self-taught artists, replaced a traditional ribbon-cutting with a collaborative ribbon-tying ceremony, creating an interconnected artwork that will remain in its collection. The renovation tripled its gallery space and introduced new exhibitions, including a refurbished Henry Darger installation with LED screens and an immersive recreation of the artist's apartment, as well as a rotating permanent collection display featuring artists like Mr. Imagination, Lee Godie, and Wesley Willis. The second floor is dedicated to the special exhibition "Catalyst: Im/migration and Self-taught Art in Chicago," featuring works by artists such as Drossos Skyllas, Thomas Kong, Pooja Pittie, and Carlos Barberena.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 29, 2025 visibility 15 link 10 artists

Melbourne exhibition celebrates the long overlooked contributions of Indigenous Australian artists

An exhibition titled "65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art" opens at Melbourne University’s Potter Museum of Art on 30 May, celebrating the long-overlooked contributions of Indigenous Australian artists. Co-curated by Judith Ryan and Marcia Langton, the show argues that Indigenous art dates back millennia before European settlement but was only recognized as fine art from the 1980s, having been previously confined to ethnographic categories. It highlights frontier artists like Tommy McRae, William Barak, and Mickey of Ulladulla, as well as contemporary photographers Ricky Maynard, Naomi Hobson, and Destiny Deacon, while addressing the link between racist policies and the denial of Indigenous art's value.

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