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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 23, 2025 visibility 14 link 11 artists

Rwanda boosts culture infrastructure with new non-profit contemporary art centre

The Gihanga Institute of Contemporary Art (GICA) opened this week in Kigali, Rwanda, as the country's first non-profit centre dedicated to promoting Rwandan art, culture, and history while fostering local and Pan-African artistic exchange. Founded by curator Kami Gahiga and artist-educator Kaneza Schaal, the institute was designed by Rwandan architect Amin Gafaranga and features an exhibition space, reference library, screening room, and residency studios. Its inaugural exhibition, "Inuma: A Bird Shall Carry the Voice," includes works by Rwandan artists and explores themes of faith and subtle expression. The Mellon Foundation provided crucial development support.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 17, 2025 visibility 14 link 5 artists

Art Museum and Galleries at W&L: Winter 2026 Programs and Exhibitions

Washington and Lee University's Art Museum and Galleries is hosting five temporary exhibitions through Winter Term 2026, including "Edward Burtynsky: Taking Place" at the Reeves Museum of Ceramics, "Moffat Takadiwa: Recoded Memories" at the Watson Galleries, and "Luminous Layers: Glazed Surfaces and the Art of Reflection" alongside "Points of Exchange: Asian Ceramics in the Reeves Collection" at the Reeves Museum, plus "Expressions of Color: Paintings by Evelyn Dawson" at the McCarthy Gallery. The museum is also offering free public programming such as Artful Yoga sessions and an MLK Week Open House featuring artworks connected to the Civil Rights movement.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 10, 2025 visibility 16 link 9 artists

Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck

This article introduces the work of Finnish modernist painter Helene Schjerfbeck (1862–1946), whose career spanned eight decades and evolved from naturalism to near abstraction. Born in Helsinki, she studied in Paris under French naturalist painters and initially gained recognition for history paintings celebrating Finnish heritage. Later, retreating to Hyvinkää to care for her mother, she abandoned naturalism, paring down her figure paintings and still lifes to simplified, materially intense compositions. The exhibition features key works such as 'View of St Ives' (1887) and 'Clothes Drying' (1883), highlighting her shift toward ethereal, boundary-testing imagery that early Finnish critics dismissed.

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Savannah Penven creates a space for young artists to thrive

Savannah Penven, a 2024 graduate of Virginia Tech, has returned to the Center for the Arts as exhibitions program manager, a decade after her own artwork was featured in the center's first "Young Artists" exhibition in 2014. She now coordinates the current "Young Artists: dreamscapes" show, featuring 39 students from Craig County High School, and works to create validating, professional-level exhibition experiences for young creatives.

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Good praxis: How a former brothel became one of Adelaide's leading arts spaces - InReview

The article profiles praxis ARTSPACE in Adelaide, Australia, which was originally a former brothel and is now a leading arts space celebrating its tenth anniversary. Founded and directed by Patty Chehade, the space offers professional exhibition facilities for emerging and established artists, featuring a mix of one-person and thematic shows. Notable artists exhibited include Liz Butler, Dianne Longley, Olga Sankey, and Margaret Ambridge.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 19, 2025 visibility 10 link 5 artists

In his own words: Antwerp museum uses AI to recreate Magritte's voice

The DEK Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA) has used artificial intelligence to recreate the voice of Surrealist artist René Magritte for its exhibition "Magritte. La ligne de vie." The AI-generated voice delivers Magritte's 1938 lecture—the only time he spoke publicly about his work—which was never recorded but survived through slides and a transcript by fellow Surrealist Marcel Mariën. The exhibition, on view until February 2026, features over 100 works and is structured around key themes from that lecture.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 14, 2025 visibility 13 link 2 artists

Jacksonville-born Whitney Oldenburg with exhibition at hometown museum

The Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville (MOCA) will open "Whitney Oldenburg: left behind" on November 20, 2025, the first institutional survey of the artist's paintings and drawings. The exhibition features 23 sculptures and 19 drawings exploring the complex relationship between humans and objects in contemporary culture, and will remain on view through April 19, 2026. Oldenburg, a Jacksonville-born artist now based in New York, incorporates repurposed consumer items, personal belongings, and craft materials into her work, which challenges viewers to question their attachments to material possessions.

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Happy 100th Mirthday, Robert Rauschenberg

The New York Times celebrates the centennial of artist Robert Rauschenberg, born in 1925, reflecting on his groundbreaking career and enduring influence. The article highlights his innovative combines, which blurred the boundaries between painting and sculpture, and his collaborative spirit that reshaped postwar American art.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 3, 2025 visibility 14 link 10 artists

Quilts by local artist stitch together pieces of Miami

Miami International Airport has opened a new art exhibition titled "Curious Geometries" at the Gate D31 Gallery, featuring large-scale quilted artworks by local textile artist Regina Durante Jestrow. The exhibition, on view until March 9, 2026, showcases sewn compositions and free-form art quilts made from repurposed fabrics sourced from various Miami locations, including the airport itself. Jestrow employs improvisational dyeing and piecing techniques inspired by Gee's Bend quilters, Anni Albers, Rosie Lee Tompkins, and Gego, blending organic geometry with tropical color palettes to explore the relationship between craft and fine art.

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trending_up market schedule Sep 26, 2025 visibility 19 link 8 artists

Philadelphia’s Bankrupt UArts Sells off Library of Rare Art Books

Philadelphia’s bankrupt University of the Arts (UArts) sold off rare books and manuscripts from its library at a Freeman’s | Hindman auction on September 10, 2024. The 38 lots from UArts’ collection fetched $163,328, nearly 20% of the sale’s $806,519 total. Top lots included a deluxe first edition of Andre Level’s 1928 monograph on Pablo Picasso, signed by the artist, which sold for $35,200; a complete portfolio of Josef Albers’s 1965 *Die Oberflache*, which brought $21,760; and a limited edition of James Joyce’s *Ulysses* illustrated by Robert Motherwell, which sold for $16,640. UArts closed abruptly in June 2024, citing financial fragility and declining enrollments, and later filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, selling its real estate holdings for nearly $75 million.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 13, 2025 visibility 20 link 22 artists

3 New Galleries to launch at No.1 Poultry

Hypha Studios has announced the launch of three new galleries at No.1 Poultry, the iconic James Stirling-designed postmodern building in the City of London. Opening on 24 September with celebratory events, the galleries will host a year-long programme of culture, each presenting eight unique exhibitions. Galleries 1 and 3 will feature contemporary artists and curators, while Gallery 2, in partnership with recessed.space, will focus on exhibitions related to the living environment. The inaugural shows include "The Turn" curated by Shakthi Shrima, featuring artists such as Cajsa von Zeipel and Janine Antoni, and a group exhibition led by maker Nina Oltarzewska from Blackhorse Lane Makers.

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article culture schedule Aug 29, 2025 visibility 15 link 2 artists

James Turrell Is Still Following the Light

James Turrell, the renowned American artist known for his immersive light installations, continues to explore the perceptual and spiritual dimensions of light in his latest works. The article highlights his ongoing projects, including the monumental Roden Crater in Arizona, a volcanic crater transformed into a naked-eye observatory, and recent exhibitions that showcase his signature use of light as a medium. Turrell, now in his 80s, remains deeply committed to his artistic vision, pushing the boundaries of how viewers experience space and illumination.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 29, 2025 visibility 13 link 2 artists

Playful and Provocative, the Artist Tom Friedman Lands in Seoul and New York

The New York Times profiles American artist Tom Friedman, known for his playful and provocative sculptures and installations that often use everyday materials like toothpicks, aspirin, and cereal boxes. The article highlights his concurrent exhibitions in Seoul and New York, showcasing his career-spanning work that blends humor, meticulous craftsmanship, and conceptual depth.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 28, 2025 visibility 18 link 12 artists

A century of Art Deco celebrated at Sarasota Art Museum

Sarasota Art Museum will present "Art Deco: The Golden Age of Illustration" from August 31, 2025, through March 29, 2026, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the style's debut at the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris. The exhibition features 100 rare posters from the 1920s and 1930s drawn from the William W. Crouse Collection, one of the world's most important private collections of Art Deco posters, with works by artists including A. M. Cassandre, Leonetto Cappiello, and Paul Colin. Alongside the posters, the show includes sculptural pieces, vintage cocktail shakers, and furniture from The Wolfsonian-Florida International University, highlighting the luxurious materials and modern design of the Machine Age.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 7, 2025 visibility 19 link 9 artists

Di Rosa Center opens satellite museum in San Francisco with a celebration of Northern California artists.

The di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art has opened a new satellite museum, di Rosa San Francisco, at the Minnesota Street Project. The debut exhibition, 'Far Out: Northern California Art from the di Rosa Collection,' features works by artists including Michele Pred, Enrique Chagoya, Paul Kos, Roy De Forest, Ester Hernandez, and Joan Brown. The show is organized into three sections—Material Worlds; Piracy and Protest; and Tricksters, Scavengers, and Scamps—highlighting how Northern California artists experiment and push against mainstream conventions. The exhibition runs through October 4th.

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rate_review review schedule Jul 25, 2025 visibility 20 link 10 artists

Folkestone Triennial 2025 review: environmental catastrophe—but also hope, joy and a jolly salamander

The Folkestone Triennial 2025, titled "The Lie of the Land," features 18 artists across the seaside town in southeast England. Works include Sara Trillo's chalk cob sculptures inspired by Iron Age urns, Emilija Skarnulyte's film on nuclear decommissioning at Lithuania's Ignalina plant, Katie Paterson's amulet installation made from planetary crisis materials, and Cooking Sections' activist project on UK sewerage pollution. The triennial runs through the ancient port's historic role as a site of arrival and departure.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 23, 2025 visibility 9 link 3 artists

Boston’s streets transform into open-air galleries

Boston has launched its first-ever citywide public art exhibition, the Boston Public Art Triennial, titled "The Exchange." The exhibition features 21 large-scale installations by local and international artists placed across neighborhoods including Dorchester, Roxbury, Mattapan, Downtown Crossing, and the Charlestown Navy Yard. Works address themes such as indigeneity, sustainability, shared humanity, affordable housing, and Black motherhood. The triennial also includes an accelerator program that funds and supports local artists with professional development. The exhibition runs through October 31, 2025, with over 100 associated events citywide.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 17, 2025 visibility 18 link 3 artists

Artists travel back in time with work created from ancient wood discovered at site of lost London river

The artist twins Jane and Louise Wilson are presenting a new exhibition, "Performance of Entrapment," at London Mithraeum Bloomberg Space from 17 July 2025 to 1 January 2026. The show features 2,000-year-old oak stakes unearthed during excavations by the Museum of London Archaeology (Mola) at Bloomberg's European headquarters between 2012 and 2014. These timbers, dated to AD50-80, were preserved in the waterlogged conditions of the lost Walbrook river valley. The Wilsons also incorporate films and layered works, including images from scanning electron microscopy of the ancient wood.

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trending_up market schedule Jul 8, 2025 visibility 11 link 4 artists

Works by Stanley Spencer 'never been seen before' to be auctioned this week

A collection of previously unseen artworks and personal memorabilia from the Stanley Spencer family archives will be auctioned this week. The sale, titled 'Kindred Spirits: The Artistic World of Sir Stanley Spencer,' includes drawings, paintings, early sketchbooks, letters, and personal artefacts that have never been published or exhibited. The collection was consigned by the Estate of Sir Stanley Spencer and offered by his grandson John Spencer, the last direct descendant, following the deaths of Spencer's daughters. The auction takes place at Dreweatts' Modern & Contemporary Art sale on July 10, 2025, featuring works by Spencer, his wife Hilda Carline, and his brother Gilbert Spencer.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 1, 2025 visibility 14 link 14 artists

Hunterdon Art Museum exhibition explores the wonder of … paper

The Hunterdon Art Museum in Clinton, New Jersey, presents "Pulp: The Fluid and the Concrete," a group exhibition featuring 26 artists who explore the artistic potential of handmade paper. Curated by Gail Deery and Cynthia Nourse Thompson, the show transforms the museum's second floor into a celebration of paper as a versatile, sculptural medium, with works ranging from Joan Hall's marine-inspired "Red Tide Returning" to Michelle Samour's intricate paper installations and Marc Rosenquist's pulp sculptures.

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article culture schedule Jun 30, 2025 visibility 14 link 4 artists

The Artist Who Keeps Remaking His Childhood Home

The New York Times profiles an artist who repeatedly recreates his childhood home through various artistic mediums, exploring memory, loss, and the passage of time. The article details how the artist reconstructs the house from memory, using materials ranging from drawings and sculptures to immersive installations, each iteration reflecting a different emotional or psychological state.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 27, 2025 visibility 14 link 2 artists

Three thought-provoking art exhibitions open at Kochi’s Durbar Hall Art Gallery

Three art exhibitions opened simultaneously at Kochi’s Durbar Hall Art Gallery on June 27, 2025. The shows include 'The Whispering Walls' by C. Unnikrishnan, featuring kiln-baked soil blocks that explore indigenous folklore; 'Liminal Continuities' by Abhijith Udayan, an introspective look at sabbaticals; and 'Axiomatic Ipso Facto' by Sajeesh Pallikkara, which examines the intersection of dream and reality. The exhibitions were inaugurated by painter Riyas Komu and MLA P V Sreenijan.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 18, 2025 visibility 14 link 5 artists

Ser Serpas: ‘I’m hoping I can add a bit of what I think is a healthy dose of unease’

Ser Serpas, an American artist and activist, presents her multifaceted practice in the exhibition 'Of my life' at Kunsthalle Basel. Known for assemblages from found and discarded materials, she now emphasizes painting, creating large-scale works that double as props and backdrops for a collaboration with the Margo Korableva Performance Theatre from Tbilisi, Georgia. Serpas discusses her sourcing process in Basel, her partnership with director David Chikhladze, and the evolution of her work from sculptures to paintings that record studio activities.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 30, 2025 visibility 17 link 5 artists

At Kunsthalle Praha, Anna-Eva Bergman and Hans Hartung are reunited in art, as they were in life

Kunsthalle Praha has opened a dual exhibition, "Anna-Eva Bergman & Hans Hartung: And We’ll Never Be Parted," reuniting the two artists in art as they were in life. The show traces their youthful infatuation, creative partnership, divorce, and reunion, highlighting Bergman's neglected contributions to abstract art inspired by nature and Hartung's prominence in the Art Informel movement. Featuring paintings, sketches, archival material, and mutual gifts, it is billed as the first major museum exhibition to place the two in dialogue.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 19, 2025 visibility 18 link 6 artists

6abc Loves the Arts: "Soft/Cover" on view through August 17 at Fabric Workshop and Museum

The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia is presenting "Soft/Cover," an exhibition featuring 90 works by 65 artists drawn from the museum's history from the late 1970s to today. Co-curated by Katy Donoghue and former chief curator DJ Hellerman, the show spans three floors and is arranged thematically around home items, shelter, and suiting, including soft architecture, garments, and tapestries. Eight artists-in-residence created new works for the exhibition, with seven produced on-site, such as Aimee Koran's "Mama's Space Suit" inspired by Louise Nevelson's 1985 "Opera Costume." Notable artists featured include Lynda Benglis, Roy Lichtenstein, Pat Steir, and Richard Tuttle.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 3, 2025 visibility 15 link 6 artists

Winterthur’s ‘Almost Unknown’ offers immersive look at Black history and art

Winterthur Museum in Delaware has opened a new exhibition titled "Almost Unknown: The Afric-American Picture Gallery," which brings to life a fictional gallery imagined in 1859 by Black writer and schoolteacher William J. Wilson, writing under the pseudonym Ethiop. In a series of columns for the magazine "The Anglo-American," Wilson described an imaginary museum of Black history and art, featuring works like a depiction of a slave ship, a bust of poet Phillis Wheatley, and images of Crispus Attucks and Haitian Revolution heroes. Curator Jonathan Square has transformed Wilson's fantasy into an immersive, haunted-attraction-style exhibition using objects from Winterthur's collection, with dark lighting, sound effects, and false walls that evoke a carnival ride inspired by Jordan Peele films and "The Shining."

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 28, 2025 visibility 13 link 2 artists

Immersed in Pink: Christo’s Legacy Anchored in NSU Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale

The NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale has become the permanent home of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's "Surrounded Islands," featuring over 43 original preparatory drawings and collages by Christo, along with large-scale photo murals, photographs, engineering surveys, environmental reports, permits, personal correspondence, scale models, and actual fabric segments from the project. The exhibition is ongoing and includes rare archival materials gifted by the Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 26, 2025 visibility 13 link 2 artists

Godzilla the Art 70th Anniversary Exhibition

The article announces the 'Godzilla the Art 70th Anniversary Exhibition,' a special exhibition celebrating seven decades of the iconic monster franchise. The show brings together contemporary artists and original film production materials to explore Godzilla's visual legacy across art and pop culture.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 22, 2025 visibility 13 link 12 artists

Exploring Memory, Material, and Movement: Highlights From Third Week of Senior Art Studio Thesis Exhibition

The third week of the University's 2025 art studio senior thesis exhibitions opened on April 9, 2025, at the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, featuring works by eight seniors: Kerri Bel, Beatrice Campomori Garuti, Olivia Gomez, Vicky Gong, Will Hardison, Aleah Hurwitz, Ava Liberace, and Alp Yücel. The exhibition spans diverse mediums and themes, including Vicky Gong's "Ether," which explores technology, intimacy, and alienation through material and affect; Will Hardison's "The Sand Remembers the Waves," a monotype series about memory and landscape; and Alp Yücel's "Obstructed View," a sculptural installation that challenges visual perception and physical movement through the gallery space.

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museum exhibitions schedule Mar 11, 2026 visibility 63

Indonesia Returns to Venice Biennale for 2026 Edition

Indonesia will return to the Venice Biennale in 2026 after a six-year absence. The national pavilion, titled "Printing the Unprinted," will be curated by Aminudin TH Siregar and will feature archival materials alongside works by 14 emerging artists, aiming to explore the country's cultural identity and art history.

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