From a football feast to deceitful dolphins: three art exhibitions not to miss at the Manchester International Festival

The Manchester International Festival (MIF) returns with a new edition featuring three standout art exhibitions. At Aviva Studios, "Football City, Art United" pairs top footballers like Vivianne Miedema and Ella Toone with artists such as Suzanne Lacy and the collective Keiken to create 11 co-produced works exploring gender, ritual, and identity. At the Whitworth gallery, the first international solo show of Indigenous Uitoto artist Santiago Yahuarcani presents over 30 works on bark canvas, addressing ancestral cosmology and the legacy of colonial violence during the rubber boom.

Sanford doctor's travel photography displayed in airport art exhibition

Dr. David Clardy, a cardiologist at Sanford Health in Fargo, has his travel photography displayed above the baggage claim area at Hector International Airport. The exhibition, installed on June 17, 2025, pairs landscape and portrait images from his travels to Cambodia, Ethiopia, and Peru. Clardy, who began taking photography seriously in 1999 and resumed in 2016 after a break, participated in workshops with National Geographic photographers and now shares his work through the airport's ArtWORKS program, which places local art in public spaces.

2025 Summer + Fall Exhibitions at the WaterFire Arts Center

WaterFire Arts Center in Rhode Island has announced its summer and fall 2025 exhibition lineup, featuring five shows from June through November. Highlights include Kate Blacklock's solo exhibition "Inside Out" (June 5–July 6), which explores memory and identity through large-scale narrative paintings; "Growing the Networks" (July 10–August 31), a group show building on the 2024 NetWorks Rhode Island and Chazan Collection; "Family Business" (September 11–October 19), an immersive installation by the WaterFire Accelerate 2024–2025 cohort of six emerging artists; and "Nothing Follows its Spontaneous Course" (October 23–November 9). The season also includes the BuyArt holiday sale, reinforcing WaterFire's role as a hub for local creativity.

Mystic Seaport Museum exhibition chronicles whale oil industry's far-reaching impact

The Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut has opened a new exhibition titled "Monstrous: Whaling and Its Colossal Impact," which explores the deep connection between the US whaling industry and capitalism. Featuring objects from the museum's permanent collection—including 19th-century photographs, blubber hooks, ship models, captain's logbooks, a sperm whale jawbone, a jar of blue whale fetuses, and whale oil products—the show illustrates how whale oil lit lamps and greased machines for over a century. A giant scratchboard mural by contemporary artist Jos Sances, titled "Or, The Whale" (2019-20), dominates the space, while references to Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick" permeate the exhibition, which also includes a copy of a 1930 illustrated three-volume edition.

Palmer Museum unfolds contemporary exhibition on the ancient medium of paper

The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State has opened a new exhibition titled "Washi Transformed: New Expressions in Japanese Paper," running from June 7 to July 27. The show features nine contemporary Japanese artists—Hina Aoyama, Eriko Horiki, Kyoko Ibe, Yoshio Ikezaki, Kakuko Ishii, Yuko Kimura, Yuko Nishimura, Takaaki Tanaka, and Ayomi Yoshida—who transform traditional handmade washi paper into textured two-dimensional works, sculptures, and installations. The exhibition explores paper's versatility through techniques like layering, weaving, and folding, highlighting its connection to the natural world.

Years of Michael Dinning's dreams conspire to bring new art gallery featuring local artists to downtown Spokane

Spokane artist Michael Dinning and his wife Stephanie opened D2 Gallery and Studio on May 2 in downtown Spokane, located at the corner of West First Avenue and South Bernard Street. The gallery focuses on showcasing local artists, with Jim Dhillon featured as the star for two consecutive months. Dinning, who has a background in museum curation and art management, returned to art after a decade-long hiatus and now creates mixed-media sculptures that combine painting with found objects like stone arrows and violin bows.

58th Annual Art of the State 2025 Exhibition Winners Announced

The Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission and the State Museum of Pennsylvania have announced the winners of the 58th Annual Art of the State 2025 exhibition. From over 2,300 entries, 96 works were selected across five categories—painting, craft, sculpture, photography/digital media, and work on paper—with cash awards totaling $5,300. First-place winners include Polly Bech (Craft), Judith Pekala Hawkins (Painting), Mary Elizabeth Kulesa (Photography/Digital Media), Brynn Hurlstone (Sculpture), and Libby Soffer (Work on Paper). The exhibition runs through September 14, 2025, at The State Museum of Pennsylvania.

Crosscurrents Art Exhibition Open at Stifel Center; Winners Announced

The annual Crosscurrents art exhibition has opened at Oglebay Institute’s Stifel Fine Arts Center in Wheeling, West Virginia, running through July 12. Now in its 46th year, the show features 92 works selected from over 250 submissions by artists across six states and Washington, D.C. Pittsburgh-based artist Michael Lotenero served as juror, awarding Best in Show to Asha Cabaca for “Unit,” with second and third prizes going to Jade-Lynn Lewis and Jesse Baggett, respectively.

Local Notes: Alex is Student of the Year at Ballina school

This article from Ballina, Ireland, reports on local community events and recognitions. Alex Healy was named Student of the Year at St Muredach's College annual awards night. Upcoming events include a Sketch & Spin life drawing workshop for teens as part of Cruinniú na nÓg, a national day of free creativity for children, led by artist Mary Callaghan and featuring drag artist Miss Neon Love. Other events announced are the Gathering of the Boats on the River Moy during the Ballina Salmon Festival, a call for volunteers for the Ballina Fringe Festival, and a free DJ workshop for teens at Ballina Arts Centre.

Tribute exhibition celebrates ‘extraordinary’ Devon artist

A tribute exhibition titled "Jennifer Johnson: Atmosphere, Colour and Light" will be held at The Loft Studio, Salcombe Art Club, from May 24 to June 7, 2025, celebrating the life and work of Devon-based artist Jennifer Johnson, who died last year after a long battle with cancer. The exhibition, organized by her son Christopher Derrick, will showcase her extensive body of work—including watercolours, oils, drawings, collages, and digital art—and will raise funds for St. Luke’s Hospice, which cared for her in her final days.

State Museum Announces Finalists for 58th Annual “Art of the State” Exhibition

The State Museum of Pennsylvania has announced the finalists for the 58th annual "Art of the State" exhibition, featuring 96 artists from over 30 counties across the Commonwealth. Selected from 2,344 entries submitted by 696 artists, the finalists' works span five categories: paintings, photography/digital media, crafts, sculptures, and works on paper. A panel of selection jurors—Brenton Good, Shin-hee Chin, and Lauren Whearty—chose the finalists, while awards juror Denise Ryner will determine first, second, and third place winners in each category. Cash prizes totaling $5,300 will be awarded, including the Art Docents’ Choice Award. The exhibition opens June 8, 2025, with free admission on opening day, and runs through September 14, 2025.

Aaward-winning art retailer celebrates two decades of fine art

Hepplestone Fine Art, an award-winning art retailer in Lancashire, is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Founded by Clive and his son Giles, both avid art collectors, the gallery opened in 2004 in a small space at the Carrington Centre in Eccleston. In 2010, it relocated to a purpose-built gallery at Heskin Hall Shopping Village, which allowed for expanded exhibitions and evening events. The gallery gained national recognition by winning Art Retailer of the Year from the Fine Art Trade Guild in 2016 and 2018. In 2024, it opened a second location in Wilmslow, Cheshire. A highlight was hosting the first UK gallery appearance by American artist Todd White, who continues to exhibit with them every two years. The gallery now represents emerging talents like Stockport's Lucy Manfredi and remains focused on bringing fine art to collectors both in-person and online.

ART06870 Gallery Announces Opening Reception for “Recycle Reuse Repurpose” on Saturday

ART06870 Gallery in Old Greenwich, Connecticut, will host the opening reception for "Recycle Reuse Repurpose" on Saturday, May 3, from 6:00–8:00 PM. The exhibition features artists working with recycled and repurposed materials such as plastics, discarded newspapers, and found objects. It is timed with Earth Day celebrations at Old Greenwich School and the annual beach cleanup by the Live Like Luke Foundation. The gallery partnered with the Developing Artist Program and the Greenwich Alliance for Education to host a creative workshop where students created art from washed-up plastics, guided by artist Alejandro Durán.

Nobu Hotel London Portman Square To Host Asako Iwamizu Solo Exhibition

Japanese artist Asako Iwamizu will present a month-long solo exhibition at Nobu Hotel London Portman Square's White Box gallery starting May 1, 2025. The show features her signature "Kimekomi Art," which combines traditional Japanese kimekomi techniques with fabric scraps and remnants, using both Japanese and British textiles. The exhibition includes interactive workshops on May 17 and 18, and coincides with London Craft Week (May 12–18, 2025), a major annual festival celebrating craftsmanship. Iwamizu will also collaborate with tailors from Savile Row to create new works from local fabric waste.

A major traveling event arrives in Verona where books are bought by the kilo: an interview

A Verona arriva un grande evento itinerante dove i libri si acquistano un tot al chilo: intervista

The traveling literary event Librokilo is set to arrive in Verona on April 11–12, 2026, hosted at the independent cultural space Habitat 83. This initiative allows attendees to purchase second-hand and rare books at a fixed price of 10€ per kilogram, aiming to rescue titles that would otherwise be sent to landfills. Since its inception in 2022, the project has recirculated over 120,000 books across Italy, addressing the systemic issue of overproduction in the publishing industry.

Super Mario Galaxy is the first true video game film

Super Mario Galaxy è il primo vero film videoludico

The article analyzes the 2023 animated film 'Super Mario Galaxy – Il film,' arguing it represents a significant evolution in video game adaptations. The film, a sequel to 'Super Mario Bros. – Il film,' abandons traditional narrative concerns and instead structures itself like a video game, constantly introducing new characters, power-ups, and scenarios directly from the Super Mario game series, as if the protagonists are moving through game levels.

Art for All: Camas galleries showcase art show openings, artist talks, fundraisers in June

Downtown Camas, Washington, galleries hosted multiple art show openings and receptions during the Downtown Camas Association's First Friday event in June 2025. Highlights include Gallery 408's one-year anniversary fundraiser for Cascade AIDS Project, featuring donated works by artists including Chuck Bloom, Joanne Cavallaro, Kim Nickens, and Michelle Purvis; the Attic Gallery's reopening with a show by Pacific Northwest artist Michael Ferguson; and the Second Story Gallery's 'Storyteller Quilters' exhibition of narrative art quilts by artists such as Gerrie Thompson, CarolAnne Olson, and Judith Phelps. The RedDoor Gallery also featured paintings by Oleg Ulitskiy.

About Hunger & Resilience: Cowell’s art exhibitions focus on hunger, resilience, and campus food systems - UC Santa Cruz

The Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery at Cowell College, UC Santa Cruz, is presenting "About Hunger & Resilience," an exhibition by photographer Michael Nye featuring portraits and oral histories on hunger in America, collected over four and a half years. The show is paired with "Circuit," a student-led photographic installation by Morgan Yacullo that maps campus food systems, including the UCSC Farm, Chadwick Garden, Redwood Free Market, and Cowell Coffee Shop. The exhibitions are part of a yearlong campus focus on food systems and food justice, curated with support from the Basic Needs team and curatorial intern Sloane Harris.

Get a first look at the immersive art exhibit that takes over 80 rooms in a shuttered downtown L.A. hospital

The 'Hospital of Emotions' is an immersive art exhibition occupying 80 rooms across four floors of the shuttered St. Vincent Medical Center in downtown Los Angeles. Running from May 27 through July 31, the 45,000-square-foot show features over 70 artists whose works are organized into emotional departments such as grief, fear, hope, joy, and sadness. Installations incorporate the hospital's existing fixtures—surgical lights, beds, IV bags—transforming former medical spaces into interactive art experiences, including a life-size Twister game, ceramic egg-covered walls, and neon-lit beds.

Spectral Nomenclature. Anastasia Pavlou  by Arnisa Zeqo

Artist Anastasia Pavlou’s practice is explored through her engagement with literature, memory, and the materialization of language. Her large-scale paintings, which draw formal comparisons to Art Informel and Abstract Expressionism, function as conceptual lexicons where titles—often direct citations from writers like Dionne Brand and Virginia Woolf—carry as much weight as the paint itself. Works such as "The Reader Interrogates Narrative, but Poetry Interrogates the Reader" demonstrate her interest in the "spectral" side of nomenclature, where naming serves to summon ghosts of the past while acknowledging the failures of language to capture emotion.

music coachella outstanding in the field dinner series

Land artist Jim Denevan's Outstanding in the Field dinner series returns to the Coachella Valley during both weekends of the annual music festival, starting April 10, 2025. Held in the VIP Rose Garden overlooking the festival grounds, the family-style culinary event features a winding table and a rotating lineup of award-winning chefs, including Michael Beckman, Alan Sanz, Jonathan Harris, Charles Namba, Donnie Masterton, Christian Herrera, and Nico de Leon, who prepare dishes inspired by local produce and global cuisines.

brooklyn botanical garden bonsai collection 100 year anniversary

Brooklyn Botanic Garden's bonsai collection is celebrating its 100-year anniversary. The institution and its C.V. Starr Bonsai Museum have launched expanded offerings, added accessible signage, and arranged commemorative activations. The collection, one of the oldest and largest outside Japan, includes over 400 trees that require meticulous care. Horticulture Director Shauna Moore describes bonsai as an invitation to slow down amid New York City's bustle. The garden pioneered bonsai classes in the U.S. after World War II, when returning GIs brought the practice home, and flourished under bonsai master Frank Okamura, who became a key figure in the craft over four decades.

In the Studio with Harley Burns

Asheville-based artist Harley Burns discusses their transition from a career in public health to a full-time painting practice centered on trans and gender-nonconforming identity in the American South. The interview focuses on Burns's triptych "Buttoning Back Up" (2025), which translates a vulnerable public performance of chest-binding into a series of oil paintings that explore the hypervisibility and invisibility of non-binary bodies.

Face-to-Face: Nalini Sharma Talks MFA Boston’s “Divine Color” Exhibition and the Power of Indian Art

Nalini Sharma, an art patron and honorary member of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston's Board of Advisors, discusses the museum's exhibition "Divine Color: Hindu Prints from Modern Bengal" in an exclusive video interview. The show, supported by Nalini and Raj Sharma, features nearly 40 vibrant lithographs and over 100 objects including prints, paintings, sculptures, and textiles, exploring Hindu devotional prints from 19th-century Calcutta (now Kolkata). It is the first U.S. exhibition devoted to these works, which were mass-produced using lithographic technology and deeply embedded in daily life across India and the diaspora.

CSUF student artists capture childhood wonder at biannual ASI art show

Cal State Fullerton recently hosted its biannual Associated Students Inc. (ASI) Art Show at the Titan Student Union Center Gallery, centered on the theme of "Memory and Nostalgia." The exhibition showcased 20 student works spanning traditional oil paintings, digital illustrations, and 3D-printed media. Awards were presented across multiple categories, highlighting pieces such as Michael Butorac’s acrylic painting "Unforgotten Friday’s" and Victor Castaneda’s digital photograph "Becoming."

Korean National Treasures: 2,000 Years of Art

The Art Institute of Chicago will present 'Korean National Treasures: 2,000 Years of Art,' the museum's largest Korean art exhibition in forty years, from March 7 to July 5, 2026. The show will feature 140 works, including 22 officially designated National Treasures or Treasures, spanning from the 6th century to the late 20th century.

Rijksmuseum to host study exploring potential benefits of art for people with Parkinson’s

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is participating in an 18-month scientific study, funded by a $200,000 research prize from the Michael J. Fox Foundation, to investigate whether viewing art can reduce symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. The study will compare three groups: people with Parkinson’s who experience the Rijksmuseum’s collection via digital tours and low-sensory evenings, those who actively make art, and a control group with no art engagement. The research builds on a pilot study showing that creative arts therapy reduced anxiety, stress, and tremors, and even decreased hospital visits.

Emory student art featured in High Museum education center exhibit | Emory University | Atlanta GA

Emory University undergraduate students are exhibiting their artwork at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta through November 2, in the museum's Greene Family Education Center. The exhibition, the first of a planned annual show, features 18 pieces by six students, three of whom curated the show after being selected by a panel of judges from Emory Libraries and the Michael C. Carlos Museum. Students worked with faculty sponsors and High Museum staff to install the work, gaining hands-on experience in exhibition planning, artist statements, and professional presentation.

New videos of African cultural sites add contemporary context to Rockefeller Wing’s historical artefacts at the Met

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s newly reopened Michael C. Rockefeller Wing features a series of short documentaries by Ethiopian American filmmaker Sosena Solomon, commissioned to add contemporary context to the wing’s historical artifacts from Africa, Oceania, and the ancient Americas. Solomon spent two years traveling to 12 sites across sub-Saharan Africa, creating videos that highlight royal burial grounds in Uganda, ancient rock paintings in Botswana, bronze casters in Benin City, and the rock-hewn churches of Lalibela and Tigray in Ethiopia. Three of the videos are displayed on screens in the wing, while others are accessible via QR codes and online.

Calling all artists and makers – submissions now open for a special Stockport Centenary Open Exhibition

Stockport War Memorial Art Gallery is celebrating its centenary by launching a special Centenary Open Exhibition, inviting artists and makers from the Stockport area to submit one artwork each. Submissions are open for 2D, 3D, video, or digital works in various media, with entries accepted on a first-come, first-served basis from June 12–15, 2025. The exhibition will run from June 22 to August 22, 2025, and the public will vote for their favorite pieces, with winners announced in August. Additionally, the Michael Hartley Rose Award, presented by Stockport Art Guild, will recognize an artist aged 17–25.