Chinese American artist May Yang has opened a new solo exhibition titled "Echoes of Elsewhere" in Virginia. The show presents a collection of her recent work, marking a significant presentation of her art in the region.
The Arts Council of East Orange has officially opened the “Gallery Under the Stairs” at City Hall, marking a significant revival of the city’s cultural programming. The inaugural exhibition features the work of Warren Murray, his late brother Russell Murray, and Janette Crayne Belcher, highlighting themes of family legacy and community storytelling. The event served as a public debut for Warren Murray, who began painting to honor his brother’s artistic memory, turning a personal grieving process into a community-facing creative practice.
Kansas City artist is debuting a new exhibition titled 'In Full Bloom,' showcasing a collection of works created entirely from memory. Despite losing her sight several years ago, the artist has continued her creative practice, adapting her techniques to produce vibrant visual art without the use of her vision.
The NewBridge Project in Newcastle’s Shieldfield neighborhood has established itself as a vital community hub and artist collective, housing 130 visual and cross-disciplinary artists across 90 studios. Beyond providing affordable workspace, the organization operates an independent bookshop, a youth program, and a memory cafe, positioning itself as a "third space" that bridges the gap between professional art production and local social engagement.
Rashwood Care Home in Droitwich recently transformed its communal spaces into a pop-up art gallery, featuring a diverse collection of works by local artists and residents. The exhibition included needle-felted topiary, Egyptian-themed art, and handcrafted floral pieces created by the nursing staff. The event was inspired by social engagement co-ordinator Ann Shilton, who used the platform to honor her late mother’s previously unseen artwork.
Artist Harriet Millar is launching a site-specific exhibition featuring a series of paintings dedicated to Christchurch’s local dairies. In a creative turn, Millar has leased the abandoned Cranford St Dairy, which has been closed since 2021, to serve as both the gallery space and her future art studio. The collection includes oil and acrylic works depicting various neighborhood convenience stores, such as the Springfield Discounter and Clyde Road Dairy, captured with bold brushstrokes and geometric focus.
A new exhibition titled "Local Life: A Retrospective" is on display at the Sussex Emmaus community in Portslade, featuring the work of Sussex artist Monica Long. The two-week show, running from February 10 to February 21, presents 29 paintings donated by Long's daughter Jacqueline, capturing everyday scenes from memory and small sketches made in cafés, on buses, and at concerts.
An art gallery has opened in the West York borough building in memory of fallen police Officer Andrew Duarte, featuring one of his own photographs from a trip to Portugal. The gallery held an opening reception on January 22, 2026, where his mother, Nancy Duarte Matarese, expressed that her son would have loved the tribute.
The New York Times profiles a painter in her 90s who has finally begun to address the trauma she experienced during the Nazi era through her artwork. The article details how she survived persecution and displacement as a child under Nazi rule, and how for decades she avoided directly depicting those experiences in her paintings. Now, late in life, she is creating works that confront her past, using art as a means of processing long-suppressed memories and emotions.
The Tacoma Art Museum has opened a new fall exhibition titled 'Haunted,' which explores the lingering presence of memory through a blend of visual art and film. Curated by Ellen Ito, the immersive show invites visitors to reflect on how the past echoes in everyday life, combining cinema and fine art to evoke emotional responses. Ito discussed the exhibition on 'ARC Seattle' with co-anchor Tyrah Majors.
An online art exhibition is set to launch on World Alzheimer's Day, organized by SA Good News. The exhibition aims to raise awareness about Alzheimer's disease through visual art, showcasing works that explore themes of memory, identity, and care. The initiative leverages digital platforms to reach a broad audience and engage communities in South Africa and beyond.
The Postal Museum in London has launched a collaborative project with victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal, working with a group of current and former sub-postmasters to create a lasting legacy documenting the impact of the faulty Horizon IT system. Over 900 sub-postmasters were prosecuted between 1999 and 2015 based on incorrect data from the software, leading to wrongful convictions, imprisonment, and financial ruin. The museum is partnering with the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry, led by high court judge Wyn Williams, and has held initial meetings with twelve sub-postmasters to discuss how to mark the scandal in history.
A San Francisco art exhibition has unveiled hidden histories through a stunning display of works that challenge conventional narratives. The show brings together diverse artists whose pieces explore overlooked stories, using mixed media and installation to reveal layers of cultural and personal memory. The exhibition is presented at a prominent local venue, drawing attention for its provocative and deeply researched content.
Oolong Gallery in La Jolla, California, is presenting 'Sun Goin’ Down,' the first solo exhibition of painter John Singletary, a 2025 UC San Diego MFA graduate. The show features a series of haunting, symbolic paintings that explore memory, myth, and themes of death, love, and fear through techniques like sgraffito and sanding. It runs through June 25, with a special Juneteenth event planned for June 19.
A full-length sculptural relief of Joseph Stalin was reinstalled in Moscow's Taganskaya metro station as part of efforts to restore original designs. The work, a 3D-printed copy of a 1950 original, has been criticized by art historian Elizaveta Likhacheva as poorly made and crudely painted. Visitors have laid flowers at the site, while critics note that over 95 Stalin monuments have been installed under Vladimir Putin's rule, including in occupied Ukrainian territories.
Barnstable Town Hall's Artist Spotlight program is hosting an exhibition of work by Barnstable High School Studio Art 3 & 4 students, on display in the James H. Crocker, Jr. Hearing Room and Selectmen’s Conference Room through June 30, 2025. The show includes portraits created for the Memory Project, a global initiative in which students make handmade portraits for disadvantaged children, this year featuring children in India, alongside a digital photography showcase by first-year students in the school's Digital Photography program.
Three graduating seniors at Syracuse University—Lily Ryan, Rumini “Rumi” Nguyen, and Zoe Requena Bustillo—are preparing capstone projects for a final exhibition at the Warehouse Gallery, culminating their studio arts B.F.A. program. Ryan’s work explores queer identity, nostalgia, and the uncanny through mixed-media tinkering; Nguyen crochets objects from memory to process homesickness; and Requena Bustillo creates a puppet theater addressing Venezuelan history, displacement, and immigration.
The solo exhibition "Burmica" by artist Ubatsat has opened at Suvannabhumi Art Gallery on Huay Kaew Road, opposite Kad Suan Kaew. The show presents "The People’s History of Burma" and will run until 1 July 2022.
The CAB / Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos in Spain has opened "Me olvidé de mis ojos" (I Forgot My Eyes), an exhibition by Argentine artist Matías Ercole. The show explores landscape as a living memory, blending Latin American and European visual traditions through the artist's signature sgraffito technique, which reveals hidden layers of light and color. The works are arranged as architectural elements, guiding viewers through a reflective journey on identity, memory, and cultural construction.
Nereida Apaza Mamani presents a solo exhibition at ICPNA Cultural in Miraflores, Lima, featuring 150 works across watercolor, painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, embroidery, and installation. The show traces stories of migration and displacement through cartographies, maps, and family trees, drawing on embroidery techniques inherited from her mother and grandmother. Curated by Miguel López, the exhibition explores belonging in a country marked by discrimination and centralism, incorporating the artist's notebooks begun in 2009 and works that address political violence and memory.
A REINTERPRETATION OF THE FUENTES ANGARITA COLLECTION AT LA NEOMUDEJAR
Museo La Neomudéjar in Madrid is presenting a major exhibition titled '30 Years of Irreverence and Vision in the Fuentes Angarita Collection.' The show features over 130 works from the collection of Venezuelan artist and collector Andreína Fuentes Angarita, curated by Néstor Prieto and Omar Castañeda. It is structured as a living archive, mapping three decades of Latin American political art through four thematic stations: the collective self, diaspora, identity and gender, and the memory of the body.
The Cultural Center of Spain in Panama is hosting an exhibition titled 'The Dimension of the Invisible: Ecofeminist Traces of Panamanian Art' until April 1, 2026. The show features traditional and digital works by ten Panamanian and international artists who explore the intersections of nature, culture, and the body from an ecofeminist viewpoint, challenging established boundaries between the human and non-human.