The inaugural exhibition "The City is Our Studio" by the Urban Sketchers Doha community opened at Lusail's Art Factory in Qatar. The show features works created en plein air by the group's members, who practice on-location drawing and painting to capture the essence of Doha's landscapes and everyday life.
A new student-curated exhibition titled “Through Different Eyes: Industrial Worlds by Women Artists” will open on January 22 at the Earth and Mineral Sciences Museum and Art Gallery at Penn State University Park. The exhibit, curated by undergraduates Alexis Woodring and Gabriella Heidorn, features works from the EMS Steidle Collection of American Industrial Art, highlighting women artists in 20th-century industrial Pennsylvania. The opening reception runs from 4 to 6 p.m. and is free to the public.
Grundy Art Gallery in Blackpool is celebrating its 115th birthday in 2026 with a winter exhibitions programme that includes a giant birthday cake drawing installation in the foyer, the largest-ever Grundy Open Exhibition for local artists, newly commissioned paintings by locally based artist Jayne Simpson, and a collection spotlight exhibition themed around 1926 featuring loans from Showtown History Centre. The gallery invites the public to a special launch on January 24, 2026, and the exhibitions run through March 7.
An exhibition at Salt Beyoğlu titled 'We’ve Been at the Tapestry Studio Since the 90s' explores the art education practices of the Tapestry Studio, part of the Painting Department at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University (MSGSÜ). The show presents a collage of collective productions, individual works, archival materials, and personal testimonies from artists who have passed through the studio, tracing its physical and conceptual evolution since its founding in the early 1990s. It highlights the studio's unique pedagogical approach, which combines tapestry weaving with contemporary art, collaborative learning, and open programs that challenge academic hierarchies and gendered norms.
Coup D’état, a boutique located on Detroit’s east side, has been recognized by the New York Times as one of the 50 Best Clothing Stores in America. It is one of only two shops in Michigan to receive this honor. Owner and founder Angela Wisenski-Cobbina opened the space in 2019 with a mission to create an inclusive retail environment accessible at all price points. In 2025, the store hosted an art exhibition celebrating the legacy of Detroit photographer Bill Rauhauser, showcasing his documentation of everyday life in the city throughout the 20th century.
The article reports on the 'Ghosts of the Hunt' exhibition, a photography show hosted by Greyhound Welfare SA (GWA) in Cresta, Johannesburg. The exhibition features two photographic series: one by Dean Bush, founder of GWA, documenting greyhounds rescued from the Yat Yuen racetrack in Macau, China—a facility that killed 20,000 dogs over 54 years before closing in 2018—and another by professional photographer Warren Johnson, focusing on locally rescued greyhounds. The article also highlights ongoing controversies, including a recent auction in Bela Bela, Limpopo, where SA breeders paid R2.4 million for 65 greyhounds destined for international racing, and lobbying by the Amaphisi Hunters' Association to decriminalize dog hunting in South Africa.
The article reports on the exhibition 'D.I.Y. in the District' at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library (MLK Library) in Washington, D.C., which celebrates the city's artist-run spaces. The show highlights the grassroots, self-organized venues that have shaped D.C.'s visual art scene, featuring works and histories from collectives and alternative galleries that operated outside traditional institutions.
Palestinian artists have launched the Gaza Biennale in New York, an exhibition showcasing works that reflect life under siege in Gaza. The show features paintings, photographs, and installations by artists living in Gaza and the diaspora, organized to amplify Palestinian voices through contemporary art.
Brooklyn-based street artist RAE BK has transformed a modular home at 1049 Samsonville Road in Kerhonkson, New York, into an immersive exhibition titled “Faraday Cage.” The house, slated for demolition by spring 2026, has been painted and reimagined as an art installation before its materials are recycled. The exhibition includes themed rooms such as the “Eggman” room, and was documented on September 14, 2025.
Trinidadian artist Martin Superville presents his latest exhibition, "Twilight Zone: Tovaco et Iere II," at Studio Joli in St. James, Trinidad, opening September 6 and running through September 18. The show draws on the indigenous names for Trinidad and Tobago, reflecting Superville's decades-long practice of documenting local culture, history, and landscapes through oil paint, charcoal, ink, and watercolor. Superville, who launched his fine-art career in 1988 and owns The Art Gallery in Tobago, has exhibited internationally in Barbados, Anguilla, Antigua, Washington, and New York.
The Regional Historical Museum – Sofia is opening an exhibition titled "Chronicles from the Studio. 130 years of Vasil Zahariev – artist, teacher, researcher" on July 17, 2025, running through November 30, 2025. The show marks the 130th anniversary of the birth of Bulgarian graphic artist Vasil Zahariev, featuring original works, personal belongings, documents, and photographs from his archive. Zahariev was also a lecturer and rector at the Academy of Arts, and a researcher of Bulgarian Renaissance art.
Cape artist Jackie Reeves is installing her exhibition "No Fixed Address" at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod in South Yarmouth, Massachusetts. The show, documented in photographs taken on July 23, 2025, features Reeves's painted canvases and includes a depiction of the U.S. Capitol building, with the artist seen setting up works in the gallery and vault room.
East Los Angeles College’s Vincent Price Art Museum is hosting an exhibition through August that spans three decades of Latina lesbian activism in Los Angeles, from the 1980s to the late 2000s. The show features photos, posters, letters, and ephemera highlighting the fight against anti-gay hate crimes, alongside struggles for LGBTQ+ healthcare, affordable housing, fair wages for janitors, and immigrants’ rights. Co-curated by Jocelyne Sanchez and Vanessa Esperanza Quintero, the exhibition is a collaboration with UCLA’s Latina Futures 2050 Lab and pays tribute to activists including the late archivist Yolanda Retter Vargas.
The Luckiest Light, a non-profit organization in Havre de Grace, Maryland, held its grand opening on Monday. The space features an art gallery with works by local artists, including Joe Harter, JP Henry, and Anthony Allerton, and includes artist stations for painting, string art, and other creative activities. The event was documented in a series of photos by Jeffrey F. Bill, showing visitors, artists, and the owners Kim and Justin Waszkiewicz with their children.
A new exhibition titled "Signal & Trace" opens at Gallery One in Albuquerque's City Hall on July 10, featuring artworks by faculty from the University of New Mexico's Electronic Art & Technology program. The show includes interactive video, electronic textiles, thermal imaging, and speculative documentary works by artists such as Marie Alarcón, Chanee Choi, Stewart Skylar Copeland, Ramona Emerson, and others, exploring themes of surveillance, autonomy, memory, and identity through technological mediation.
Norman Teague is the subject of a documentary film produced by Firelight Media in association with The WNET Group for the PBS series 'American Masters.' The film, directed by Adewole A. Abioye and produced by Aderemi Abioye, explores Teague's life and creative journey as a visual artist. The program is part of the 'In the Making' series and is funded by multiple foundations including the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Rosalind P. Walter Foundation.
Ukrainian Railways (Ukrzaliznytsia) has partnered with the Howard G. Buffett Foundation to launch an 'art train' — three train cars converted into a traveling gallery — that is currently crossing Ukraine. The exhibition, titled *Courage of a Nation*, features photographs taken by billionaire Howard Buffett during his 19 trips to Ukraine between April 2022 and February 2025, documenting the country's resilience after Russia's full-scale invasion. Curated by Pulitzer Prize-winning National Geographic photographer Muhammed Muheisen, the show will make 63 stops over four months, starting in Odesa. Due to security risks, the exact timetable is not publicly announced. A book of the same name, with a foreword by Ukraine's first lady Olena Zelenska, has also been published.
The National Museum of the Marine Corps in Triangle, Virginia, will open a temporary exhibition titled “United States Marine Corps: 250 Years of Dedication, Determination and Courage” on June 27, 2025. Curated by Joan Thomas, the show features 91 original works—including oil and acrylic paintings, prints, pastels, mixed media works, and sculptures—drawn from a collection of over 3,000 pieces. The artworks span from the Revolutionary War to the present, with many created by active-duty or former Marine combat artists, such as Staff Sgt. Kristopher Battles and former Marine Joseph Winslow Jr., who depict scenes of combat, camaraderie, and service.
Che Onejoon, a South Korean artist, has shifted his focus from documenting North Korea's Cold War-era monument-building in Africa to working directly with West African migrant communities in South Korea. His earlier projects, including the Mansudae Masterclass series and films like *Black Monument* (2017) and *My Utopia* (2018), explored the little-known history of North Korean-built statues and buildings across at least 20 African nations. More recently, he co-founded Space AfroAsia, the Afroasia Eco Museum, and the AfroAsia Artist Collective, and now lives and works in the Bosan-dong "Africa Town" near the Demilitarized Zone, creating multilingual music videos and even a K-pop girl group with a mixed Korean-African lineup.
A new exhibition at the Artworks Center for Contemporary Art in Loveland, Colorado, titled "And Still It Remains," showcases 24 works by 15 artists living with or impacted by Long COVID. The show includes a collaborative tapestry project by artist Heather Schulte called "Stitching the Situation," which documents U.S. COVID-19 cases and deaths with blue and red stitches. The exhibition was organized by artist and nurse Sally Hartshorn, who aimed to provide a creative outlet for those affected by the condition.
The exhibition "Time Anatomy" by Czech artist and photographer Hana Vojáčková is presented as part of PHotoESPAÑA 2025's OFF program at the Moneo Brock architecture studio's exhibition space, _2B space to be. The photographic series documents three teenage dancers over five years, capturing them annually in the same poses to reveal the bodily and emotional transformations of adolescence through dance and photography.
The New York Times article profiles several immigrant artists in the United States who are responding to heightened anti-immigrant rhetoric and policy changes by doubling down on their creative practices and public engagement. Rather than retreating, these artists are using their work to assert their presence, explore themes of displacement and belonging, and challenge xenophobic narratives. The piece highlights specific artists and their recent projects, exhibitions, and statements that directly confront the current political climate.
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.
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.
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.
The New York Times reports on a new climate change-themed exhibition in Connecticut, inspired by a curator's visit to Alaska. The exhibit uses visual art to explore the environmental impacts of global warming, featuring works that document melting glaciers, shifting ecosystems, and the human experience of climate change in the Arctic region.
The Rubin Center for the Visual Arts at the University of Texas at El Paso is presenting "Iterations of Interrupted Space," an exhibition curated by the duo Un Dique (Octavio Castrejón and Alonso Robles). Selected through the center's Genius Loci open call, the show features works from eight of Un Dique's projects since 2023, including a video of DJ Conejx performing in a Juárez market, Nayeli Hernandez's installation exploring masculinity and grief, and Mariana Ajo's prints on shifting beauty standards. The exhibition transforms the gallery into a space where art becomes ephemera, documenting past events and happenings.
The article announces an exhibition at the Thomas J. Watson Library titled "The Magic of Marbling: The Art of Karli Frigge," showcasing the work of pioneering paper marbler Karli Frigge (born 1943). The display includes her sample books, recipe books, instruction guides, and workbooks from Watson Library's collection, spanning her career from 1960 to 2000. Frigge studied bookbinding in the Netherlands and is known for signature patterns like landscape, tiger eye, and alchemy marbles. The exhibition also features her biographer Sidney E. Berger's account and her 2023 publication "Set of Historical Marbled Papers."
Cambodian artists are celebrating Khmer New Year with the free exhibit “My Soul of Gold” at Xia Gallery & Cafe in St. Paul, Minnesota, running through April 27, 2025. The show features portraits of cyclo drivers and elders by photographer Hao Taing, paintings by Cambodian American artist Sara Gregor, and traditional wedding dresses, all exploring themes of heritage, war, and displacement. Inspired by kintsugi, the exhibit uses art to “fill in the cracks” left by the Khmer Rouge regime and historical erasure. Separately, documentary photographer Drew Arrieta is debuting “Infinite Bonds” at Resource gallery in Minneapolis, blending photography, audio, and personal objects to explore intimate relationships.
The German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) is introducing a legislative bill to ban the commercial trade of personal Holocaust documents and artifacts, such as letters from concentration camps, Gestapo cards, and yellow stars. The initiative follows international outrage over a planned auction in Neuss in November 2025, which was halted at the last moment; around 460 objects from that auction were transferred to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation. The bill, to be presented at the Bundesrat session on May 8, aims to prohibit the sale of items directly linked to Nazi victims, while exempting museums, archives, and research institutions.