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Frieze Seoul’s fourth edition takes on tariffs and a tough market

The fourth edition of Frieze Seoul (3-6 September) will host around 120 galleries at the Coex convention centre in Gangnam, including mega-galleries like Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, Pace, David Zwirner, and White Cube. The fair welcomes about 20 new exhibitors, such as 10 Chancery Lane Gallery and de Sarthe from Hong Kong, The Breeder from Athens, Carvalho from New York, Make Room from Los Angeles, and Ota Fine Arts from Tokyo. However, more than 40 galleries are not returning, including Karma, Mariane Ibrahim, Michael Werner, and Neugerriemschneider. The event unfolds amid significant political and economic turbulence in South Korea, including the impeachment of former president Yoon Suk Yeol after a martial law declaration, the election of new President Lee Jae Myung, and ongoing tariff negotiations with the United States, all contributing to a climate of uncertainty.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 29, 2025 visibility 15 link 9 artists

America’s Largest-Ever Exhibition on Raphael Will Open at the Met Next Year

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will host "Raphael: Sublime Poetry," the largest-ever U.S. exhibition dedicated to the Renaissance master, opening March 29, 2026. Featuring over 200 works, the show includes loans from major institutions such as the Uffizi, Prado, Galleria Borghese, British Museum, Louvre, and National Gallery of Art. Curated by Carmen Bambach, who previously organized the Met's blockbuster 2017 Michelangelo exhibition, the show spans Raphael's three career periods—Urbino, Florence, and Rome—and highlights recent scientific discoveries and his portrayal of women. A centerpiece is the reunion of Raphael's preparatory sketches with his painting *The Alba Madonna*.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 29, 2025 visibility 15 link 15 artists

Caravaggio’s ‘Judith Beheading Holofernes’ coming to Kimbell Art Museum from Rome

The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth announced on August 29, 2025, that it will display Caravaggio’s monumental painting *Judith Beheading Holofernes* (1599–1600) as a Guest of Honor loan from the Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica in Rome, where it normally hangs in the Palazzo Barberini. The canvas, approximately six feet wide and five feet tall, will be on view in the Louis I. Kahn Building from September 14, 2025, through January 11, 2026. The painting depicts the biblical moment of Judith decapitating the Assyrian general Holofernes, showcasing Caravaggio’s signature bold realism and dramatic chiaroscuro. The loan follows the museum’s 2022 Focus Exhibition “SLAY,” which featured Artemisia Gentileschi’s and Kehinde Wiley’s interpretations of the same subject.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 27, 2025 visibility 18 link 6 artists

Seoul Mediacity Biennale searches for the mystical in contemporary art

The 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, titled "Seance: Technology of the Spirit," opens at the Seoul Museum of Art and other venues across Seoul until November 23. Curated by Anton Vidokle, Hallie Ayres, and Lukas Brasiskis, the biennale brings together 49 artists and collectives exploring spirituality, mysticism, and shamanism as counterpoints to the anxiety and alienation of technological advancement. The theme emerged from the curators' work on the 2023 Shanghai Biennale and includes works by Hilma af Klint, Jane Jin Kaisen, Angela Su, Hsu Chia-Wei, and the late Nam June Paik, alongside sound and experimental theatre sections hosted at Nakwon Arcade.

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article policy schedule Aug 27, 2025 visibility 20 link 17 artists

Teiger Foundation gives grants totalling $7m to 85 curators

The Teiger Foundation, a US-based nonprofit supporting art curators, has announced its 2025 grantees, awarding a total of $7 million to 85 curators at institutions across the country. This nearly doubles last year’s grants as the foundation transitions to a biennial model, with individual grants ranging from $50,000 to $150,000 for exhibitions, research, touring shows, and three years of programming. Notable projects include a major survey of the late artist L.V. Hull organized by curators Ryan N. Dennis, Annalise Flynn, and Yaphet Smith, and a Theresa Hak Kyung Cha retrospective curated by Victoria Sung and Tausif Noor.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 26, 2025 visibility 27 link 8 artists

The Biggest-Ever Raphael Exhibition in the U.S. Is Opening at the Met

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will host the largest-ever U.S. exhibition dedicated to Raphael, opening March 29, 2026. Titled "Raphael: Sublime Poetry," the show will bring together over 200 works from more than 30 international lenders, including the Louvre, Uffizi, Vatican Museums, and the Prado. Curated by Carmen Bambach, the exhibition spans Raphael's career from Urbino to Rome, featuring paintings, preparatory sketches, tapestries, and decorative objects, with highlights such as the Alba Madonna and works rarely loaned before.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 25, 2025 visibility 14 link 10 artists

Hispanic art tour winds down in Texas

The Hispanic Society Museum and Library's traveling exhibition, "Spirit & Splendour: El Greco, Velázquez and the Hispanic Baroque," has reached its final stop at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas. The show features 57 works from the Hispanic Society's permanent collection, including all three of its Diego Velázquez paintings, and runs from August 24. The Blanton iteration adds key pieces from its own collection, such as El Greco's 1570s Pietà and a sculpture by Luisa Roldán, to contextualize the Spanish and Latin American masterpieces.

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article local schedule Aug 24, 2025 visibility 16 link 11 artists

Combine art with nature at these local sculpture parks and trails

This article highlights several outdoor sculpture parks and trails in Luxembourg where visitors can experience art integrated with nature. It features the Domaine Mondorf park in Mondorf-les-Bains, which houses 21 sculptures by local and international artists, including works by Wil Lofy, Lucien Wercollier, and Catherine Lhoir. The sculpture trail in Lultzhausen, established in 1999, showcases site-specific stone works by artists like Georg Ahrens, Ton Kalle, and Bertrand Ney, designed to harmonize with the landscape around the Upper Sûre reservoir.

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person people schedule Aug 21, 2025 visibility 18 link 9 artists

Person of the Day | Chase Quinn Adopts Multi-Discipline Approach to Art-Museum Exhibits, Programs

Chase Quinn has been appointed as the inaugural creative director and curator of special projects at the Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) in Jackson, starting in January 2025. In this newly created role, he oversees both curatorial and education departments, focusing on inclusive, cohesive content development and storytelling. Quinn, previously co-director of education and programs and curator of special projects at the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, South Carolina, was inspired by Carrie Mae Weems’ series “From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried” at Tate Modern in the mid-1990s, which shaped his approach to complicating narratives around race in museum exhibitions.

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trending_up market schedule Aug 20, 2025 visibility 17 link 3 artists, 2 galleries

How Banksy’s Stenciled Satire Took the Aughts by Storm

Four screenprints by Banksy from the 2000s are featured in Artnet Auctions’s Contemporary Editions sale, running through August 28, 2025. The lots include 'Bomb Love (Bomb Hugger)' (est. $25,000–$35,000), 'Welcome to Hell (Pink)' (est. $30,000–$50,000), and 'Morons (Sepia)' (est. $25,000–$35,000), tracing the artist’s rise from Bristol street graffiti to international fame. The article highlights key milestones: his 2002 Los Angeles show 'Existencilism,' his counterfeit £10 notes featuring Princess Diana, and the Oscar-nominated documentary 'Exit Through the Gift Shop.'

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 19, 2025 visibility 20 link 12 artists

Walker Art Center hosts the work of Jessi Reaves in her first major museum show

The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis has opened "Jessi Reaves: process invented the mirror," the New York-based artist's first major solo museum exhibition. Curated by Walker director Mary Ceruti, the show features a single body of new work that blends readymade furniture, found objects, and recycled materials, exploring the tension between functionality and absurdity. Ceruti, who previously worked with Reaves at the SculptureCenter in 2016, describes the work as playful yet rigorous, pushing viewers to reconsider how objects function in daily life.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 18, 2025 visibility 15 link 10 artists

This Week at LACMA

LACMA announces a week of programming from August 18–24, headlined by the opening of *Now Showing: Youssef Nabil’s I Saved My Belly Dancer*, an exhibition featuring the artist’s 2015 video starring Tahar Rahim and Salma Hayek, alongside related photographs and Egyptian movie posters. Member previews run August 21–23 before the public opening on August 24. Other highlights include a mindful evening with Buddhist art tied to the ongoing exhibition *Realms of the Dharma: Buddhist Art Across Asia*, plus concerts, workshops, and family programs.

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article culture schedule Aug 13, 2025 visibility 20 link 15 artists

A brush with… Jane and Louise Wilson—podcast

Jane and Louise Wilson, identical twin artists born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1967, are featured in a podcast interview where they discuss their collaborative practice since the late 1980s. Working primarily in video installation, photography, and sound, they explore duality and selfhood through loaded sites like abandoned military bases and borderlands. The podcast covers their early inspirations, including John Martin and Cindy Sherman, and the influence of filmmakers such as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Jean Cocteau, and Stanley Kubrick. Their current exhibitions include 'Performance of Entrapment' at London Mithraeum Bloomberg SPACE (until 10 January 2026) and 'Dendrophiles' at Leadenhall Building as part of Sculpture in the City, London (until spring 2026).

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trending_up market schedule Aug 7, 2025 visibility 24 link 11 artists, 8 galleries

‘Everyone's suffering right now’: New York and Los Angeles gallery Clearing will close

Clearing, the influential New York and Los Angeles gallery that launched the careers of many prominent artists, will close both locations. Founder Oliver Babin announced the closure on August 7, citing crushing overhead costs—rent, shipping, and art fair expenses—that outpaced declining revenue. The gallery opened in 2011 in Bushwick, later moved to the Bowery in Manhattan in 2023, and expanded to Brussels and Los Angeles. Babin described the decision as inevitable, noting that the gallery had been kept alive by hope but now faces no viable path forward. The closure follows a wave of US gallery shutdowns this summer, including Kasmin, Venus Over Manhattan, and Tim Blum’s spaces.

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article culture schedule Aug 5, 2025 visibility 16 link 6 artists

New book offers a suitably poetic vision of Blake and his legacy

A new book titled "William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love" by biographer and critic Philip Hoare explores the life and work of William Blake, focusing on the three years the artist spent in Felpham, a coastal village in England, starting in 1800. Hoare argues that the ocean profoundly influenced Blake's art and poetry, using the sea as a metaphor to examine Blake's visionary prints, poems like "Milton," and his androgynous, fluid figures. The book also weaves in a cast of other historical figures—including Herman Melville, Paul Nash, and Nancy Cunard—whom Hoare dubs "sea monsters" for their rebellious, queer, and amphibious spirits.

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gavel restitution schedule Aug 4, 2025 visibility 13 link 10 artists

Museums in New York and Los Angeles receive collection of 63 Modern works

The Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation has announced the distribution of its 63-work collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and modern art among three major US museums: the Brooklyn Museum (29 works), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA, 6 works), and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA, 28 works). The collection includes pieces by Chaïm Soutine, Edgar Degas, Amedeo Modigliani, Vincent van Gogh, Édouard Manet, and Paul Cézanne. The foundation, established in the 1950s by Brooklyn-born businessman Henry Pearlman and his wife Rose, had long-term loans to the Princeton University Art Museum and organized traveling exhibitions before deciding to permanently place the remaining works.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 1, 2025 visibility 18 link 9 artists

Lord of the Flies: How This Artist Enlists an Army of Tiny Collaborators

Los Angeles artist John Knuth uses flies as collaborators to create paintings, with over one million insects contributing to his current exhibition 'The Hot Garden' at Hollis Taggart Downtown in New York. Inspired by flyspecks he noticed on a windowsill in 2005, Knuth orders fly larvae by the thousands, letting them hatch on canvases where their regurgitation deposits pigment. The show features works priced between $700 and $20,000, and a custom enclosure at the gallery allowed visitors to see the flies working live during the opening. Knuth's fly paintings gained viral attention in 2013 after a video by the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art received over 100,000 views, helping launch his career.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 24, 2025 visibility 18 link 22 artists

The new era of fashion’s art exhibitions

LACMA's upcoming David Geffen Galleries, opening in 2026, will feature over 130 costumes and textiles in its inaugural installations—more than any other time since the museum opened in 1965. The museum also plans exhibitions such as 'Fashioning Chinese Women: Empire to Modernity' (with mannequins by Jason Wu) and 'Fashioning Fashion' (1900–2025). Other major fashion exhibitions include 'Virgil Abloh: The Codes' at Paris's Grand Palais, 'Westwood Kawakubo' at the National Gallery of Victoria, and 'Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art' at London's V&A. The article notes that fashion exhibitions are increasingly popular and profitable for museums, citing the Met's Costume Institute and its record-breaking Met Gala fundraising.

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trending_up market schedule Jul 23, 2025 visibility 31 link 29 artists, 3 galleries

Waddington Custot to open in Paris ahead of Art Basel Paris

Waddington Custot has announced it will open a new gallery at 36 rue de Seine in Paris, occupying the historic space formerly home to Lansberg Gallery in the 6th arrondissement. The gallery is set to open in October 2025, ahead of Art Basel Paris, and will be managed by Isaure de Roquefeuil and Antoine Clavé. The inaugural exhibition will focus on the Nabis painters, followed by a group show of modern and contemporary artists. The 200-square-meter space is located in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district. (Note: The opening has since been rescheduled to early 2026.)

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article policy schedule Jul 20, 2025 visibility 12 link 13 artists

Can you mount an art exhibition about race in the age of Trump?

The article reports on the exhibition "The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture" at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, which challenges visitors to reconsider how American sculpture has reinforced racist social orders. The show features 82 works from 1792 to 2023, including John Rogers’ 1864 sculpture "The Wounded Scout, a Friend in the Swamp," and includes interpretive prompts about race as a human invention and a tool of power. President Donald Trump issued an executive order condemning the exhibition for promoting "divisive narratives," and Vice President JD Vance, who sits on the Smithsonian’s Board of Regents, has been tasked with stopping government funding for exhibits that do not align with a celebratory national agenda. The Smithsonian has begun a review of content across its museums, raising concerns about future candid discussions of race and history.

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person people schedule Jul 17, 2025 visibility 14 link 15 artists

Moving On Up: 24 Museum Curators and Art Leaders Who Took on New Appointments in First Half of 2025

Culture Type has published its annual list of new appointments among museum curators and arts leaders for the first half of 2025, highlighting two dozen hires and promotions at major institutions. Notable appointments include Deana Haggag as program director for arts and culture at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Ann Collins Smith as chief curator at the New Orleans Museum of Art (the first Black American in a full-time curatorial role there), and Vincent van Velsen as head of exhibitions at Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam. The list also features curators such as Alisa Chiles at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and Brittany Webb at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

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person people schedule Jul 11, 2025 visibility 18 link 4 artists

Bronx Museum of the Arts appoints Shamim M. Momin as director and chief curator

The Bronx Museum of the Arts has appointed Shamim M. Momin as its next director and chief curator, effective September. Momin, who previously served as director of curatorial affairs at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, succeeds Klaudio Rodriguez, who left to lead the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida. She is also a co-founder of the Los Angeles Nomadic Division and has curated biennial exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

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article policy schedule Jul 11, 2025 visibility 14 link 2 artists

Why ‘devastating’ climate control rules for museum collections need a rethink

Museums are rethinking decades-old climate control standards that dictate strict temperature and humidity ranges for preserving collections. These guidelines, originally based on 1970s research for paintings in London, have been widely adopted globally despite being designed for temperate climates. Conservator Caitlin Southwick of Ki Culture argues this is a "big misunderstanding," as the standards were never intended for diverse collections like stone in Brazil or tapestries in Italy. Climate control systems now account for 60-70% of a typical museum's energy consumption, creating high costs and carbon footprints.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 2, 2025 visibility 24 link 27 artists, 11 galleries

8 Must-See Solo Gallery Shows in July

Galerie magazine has curated a list of eight must-see solo gallery shows across the United States for July, highlighting exhibitions from New York to California. Featured artists include Nancy Dwyer, whose word-based paintings and sculptures are on view at Ortuzar in New York; Marcel Dzama, showing storytelling drawings and a surreal film at David Zwirner in Los Angeles; Francis Picabia, with a focus on his Art Informal period at Hauser & Wirth in New York; and Igshaan Adams, presenting tapestries and textile works at Casey Kaplan in New York, among others.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 30, 2025 visibility 13 link 17 artists

LACMA shares images of Zumthor-designed David Geffen Galleries building

LACMA has released new images of the David Geffen Galleries, the centerpiece of its campus transformation designed by architect Peter Zumthor. The building, which is currently under construction, will house the museum's permanent collection and is part of a larger overhaul of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's campus.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 19, 2025 visibility 19 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 18, 2025 visibility 18 link 28 artists

Landmark Exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts Reframes an Iconic Historical Era

The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in Washington, D.C., will present "Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600–1750" from September 26, 2025, to January 11, 2026. This landmark exhibition features nearly 150 artworks by 40 Dutch and Flemish women artists, including Judith Leyster, Rachel Ruysch, and Clara Peeters, alongside works by unnamed textile makers. Co-curated by Virginia Treanor and Frederica van Dam, the show includes loans from over 50 institutions such as the Rijksmuseum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Prado Museum. It will travel to the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent, Belgium, from March to May 2026.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 17, 2025 visibility 15 link 9 artists

The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Middleton Family Present a Landmark Exhibition of American Art Celebrating the Nation’s 250th Anniversary

The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) have announced a landmark collaboration with the Middleton Family Collection to present "A Nation of Artists," a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition celebrating America's 250th anniversary. Opening from April 2026 to September 2027, the show will feature over 1,000 works across both venues, spanning three centuries of American art from Charles Willson Peale to Mickalene Thomas, with selections from the private Middleton Family Collection interwoven throughout.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 16, 2025 visibility 16 link 2 artists, 1 gallery

A natural history of the studio

William Kentridge presents his first exhibition with Hauser & Wirth in New York, titled "A natural history of the studio." The show features his acclaimed episodic film series "Self-portrait as a coffee-pot" (completed in 2024) alongside over seventy works on paper and sculptures. Spanning two floors at 542 West 22nd Street and extending to the gallery's 18th Street location, the exhibition includes charcoal drawings used in the film's animation, Paper procession sculptures, and the animated video "Fugitive words" (2024). The installation, designed by longtime collaborator Sabine Theunissen, evokes Kentridge's Johannesburg studio environment.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 10, 2025 visibility 14 link 1 artist

Gaza comes to an art gallery near you

The article reports on a growing trend of art galleries in Western countries hosting exhibitions that focus on the ongoing conflict and humanitarian crisis in Gaza. These shows feature works by Palestinian artists, as well as international artists responding to the situation, aiming to bring visual representation of the war to audiences far from the region.

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