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Ohio Annual Exhibition showcases best art, crafts from across the state

The Zanesville Museum of Art has opened submissions for its 80th Ohio Annual Exhibition, a juried showcase of fine art and craft from across the state. Open to current and former Ohio residents, the competition accepts entries in categories ranging from painting and sculpture to glass and fiber arts through April 24. Dr. Sarah Spinner, Director of the Kent State University Museum, will serve as this year's juror, with the exhibition set to open on June 18 featuring a $1,000 Best of Show prize.

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Amid Iran war, Paterson Middle East art show carries layered meaning

Tehran-born artist and human rights lawyer Sanam Ghandehari is presenting a new body of work in Paterson, New Jersey, against the backdrop of escalating military conflict in Iran. Her multi-layered pieces reflect the duality of the current crisis, juxtaposing the hope for democratic liberation with the immediate trauma of seeing her childhood home bombarded.

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article culture schedule Apr 14, 2026 visibility 12 link 1 artist

The business of body art

The article explores the evolving economic landscape of the professional tattooing industry, shifting from a counter-culture fringe to a sophisticated global business sector. It details how artists and studio owners are adopting traditional corporate structures, including brand licensing, specialized retail products, and digital marketing strategies to capitalize on the increasing mainstream acceptance of body art.

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Final Touches: BA Art Exhibition

Southwestern University’s Sarofim Fine Arts Gallery recently debuted the Spring 2026 B.A. Senior Art Exhibition, showcasing the final projects of seven graduating Fine Arts majors. The exhibition features a diverse range of media and themes, including Christopher Bowers’ historical-fantastical landscapes, Sophie Kinkade’s Y2K-inspired "spill art," and Trinidad Laurenzi’s exploration of Catholic iconography and body horror. Other featured artists include Maeve Lloyd, Aris Morgan, Grace Sapienza, and Isa Wilson, whose works span sculpture, anime-influenced illustration, and charcoal drawings addressing mental health.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 13, 2026 visibility 17 link 2 artists

Actor-Painter Park Shin-yang Breaks Fourth Wall in Solo Exhibition

Renowned South Korean actor Park Shin-yang has launched a solo exhibition titled 'The Fourth Wall' at the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts in Seoul. The show features a unique performative element where fifteen clowns roam the gallery, acting as surreal extensions of the canvases to bridge the gap between the artist and the public. Park, known for his roles in 'Lovers in Paris,' presents a diverse body of work including paintings of donkeys and bullfighters that symbolize the burdens of life and the struggle for creative expression.

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REVIEW: Now is not forever, when art mimics reality

Theresa-Anne Mackintosh’s solo exhibition, "Now is not Forever," recently debuted at the Wits Art Museum (WAM), featuring a provocative blend of older paintings and new sculptures. The show centers on anthropomorphic figures and the erasure of senses, notably in the "hear no evil, see no evil, do no evil" series, where body parts are painted over to symbolize the avoidance of moral decay. These works, alongside vivid sculptures representing the artist's alter egos, challenge viewers to look past aesthetic surfaces to confront the inherent chaos and dysfunction of contemporary society.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 12, 2026 visibility 8 link 1 artist

Frederick artist Todd Gardner makes the personal universal in ‘iCommentary’ exhibition

Frederick-based artist Todd Gardner is presenting a new body of work in his solo exhibition titled ‘iCommentary.’ The show features a series of mixed-media pieces that blend personal narratives with broader social observations, utilizing a distinct visual language to bridge the gap between individual experience and collective consciousness.

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article local schedule Apr 8, 2026 visibility 14 link 3 artists

Photo: Juried Student Art Exhibit opens at MSU Billings on Thursday

Montana State University Billings is launching its annual Juried Student Art Exhibition at the Northcutt Steele Gallery. The exhibition, which features works selected from the student body, officially opens this Thursday and will be celebrated with a formal reception and awards ceremony on April 16th.

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article local schedule Apr 3, 2026 visibility 12 link 1 artist

Swan Hill Studios to Host Exhibition Inspired by Cancer Stories

Swan Hill Studios is set to host the 'Spring Art Exhibition' from May 1st to 3rd, featuring works by internationally renowned artist John Wragg alongside pieces created by cancer patients and survivors. The exhibition serves as a fundraiser for Lingen Davies Cancer Support, showcasing art inspired by personal experiences with the disease. A highlight of the event includes an intimate conversation with Wragg, who has donated his entire body of work to the charity.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 2, 2026 visibility 8 link 4 artists

“Art means the world to me”: artists with Parkinson’s discuss creativity after Deep Brain Stimulation treatment

An online exhibition titled "The Art of Parkinson's," sponsored by medical technology company Abbott, launched on April 1, 2026, showcasing paintings by eight artists with Parkinson's who have undergone Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) treatment. Featured artists include Margie Burns-Kohn from Florida, Clive Couperthwaite from Australia, Ann Harwell from North Carolina, and Roger Saunders from Queensland, all of whom describe how DBS alleviated tremors and restored their ability to create art, with many experiencing a surge in creativity post-treatment.

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museum exhibitions schedule Mar 19, 2026 visibility 11 link 2 artists

Peer Bode’s video art exhibition at VSW recalls the 1970s and ‘80s

Artist Peer Bode’s experimental video works from the 1970s and 1980s are currently on display at the Visual Studies Workshop (VSW) in the exhibition "Signal into Memory." The show features twelve screens and two digital prints, showcasing Bode’s "Process Tapes" created during his time at the Experimental Television Center (ETC). The works utilize analog technology, such as Portapak cameras and cathode ray tube televisions, to explore the nature of video signals, temporal dissonance, and the physical process of image-making.

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article local schedule Mar 18, 2026 visibility 9 link 3 artists

Exhibit at Lord Baltimore Hotel by local artist Mark Anthony West Jr. evokes starry skies

Baltimore-born artist Mark Anthony West Jr. is debuting a new body of work titled "Seven Stars Between Two Skies" at the Lord Baltimore Hotel. Created during a residency in Rio de Janeiro, the exhibition features portraits of American and Brazilian creatives depicted as sovereign forces, utilizing signature elements like terra cotta noses, metallic leaf, and symbolic ribbons to explore Afro-diasporic themes and spiritual lineage.

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Innocent mistake? Italy's prime minister appears as a cherub in Rome church

A fresco restoration in Rome's Basilica of St. Lawrence in Lucina sparked a political controversy after a cherub was found to bear a striking resemblance to Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. The artist, Bruno Valentinetti, initially denied the intentional likeness before admitting he had painted the figure based on the Prime Minister's features. Following an intervention by the Vatican's administrative body, the Curia, the face was subsequently painted over and removed from the chapel.

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museum exhibitions schedule Mar 4, 2026 visibility 9 link 1 artist

Little Artists Art Studio, Singapore Shines at Art Capital 2026

Little Artists Art Studio, a Singapore-based institution, marked its second consecutive year of participation at Art Capital 2026 held at the Grand Palais in Paris. Following their historic 2025 debut as the first children ever included in the event's 200-year history, the studio presented a curated body of work from students across various age groups, including neurodiverse and special-needs artists. The young artists exhibited alongside established professionals within the main salon framework, engaging with international media, critics, and collectors.

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museum exhibitions schedule Feb 25, 2026 visibility 15 link 2 artists

Female Hysteria Opening Night at the Pierro Gallery

The Pierro Gallery in South Orange is hosting the opening night for "Female Hysteria," a group exhibition featuring nine women artists. The show directly confronts the historical use of "hysteria" as a misogynistic medical diagnosis used to pathologize female emotions and bodies, instead reclaiming the term as a source of creative power.

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article local schedule Feb 12, 2026 visibility 9 link 1 artist

New TOOLSONG Gallery opens in renovated MadJax space

A new art exhibition space, TOOLSONG Gallery, has opened in downtown Muncie, Indiana, within the MadJax Maker Force creative hub. The gallery, located in a renovated former transformer shaft of a historic industrial building, launched with an inaugural exhibition titled "Untied: On Process, Drift, and Letting Go" by artist Kevin R. Klinger.

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museum exhibitions schedule Feb 10, 2026 visibility 7 link 1 artist

UW’s Art Lofts open “Ghost Writer: someone who writes something for someone else”

The University of Wisconsin's Art Lofts Main Gallery opened the MFA qualifier exhibition "Ghost Writer: Someone Who Writes Something for Someone Else" by artist Daniella Thach on February 4, 2026. The exhibition explores Thach's Cambodian American identity and the merging of timelines across familial memory, aiming to shed light on the 50th anniversary of the Cambodian genocide.

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museum exhibitions schedule Feb 3, 2026 visibility 12 link 3 artists

Florida State University announces Spring 2026 exhibitions and community programming

Florida State University's Museum of Fine Arts and College of Fine Arts have unveiled their spring 2026 schedule of exhibitions and public programs. The lineup includes student and faculty exhibitions across multiple campus gallery spaces, a series of public workshops on topics like experimental cartography and basket weaving, and special events like an art crawl and family storytime sessions. Key exhibitions include "A Place Within," "Horizon: Speculative Worlds and Interdisciplinary Research," and the MFA thesis shows.

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article local schedule Feb 1, 2026 visibility 8 link 1 artist

AL probate office calls for Black History Month artwork ahead of show

The Montgomery County Probate Court in Alabama has issued an open call for artists to submit original works for a Black History Month exhibition titled 'Through the Artist’s Eye: Montgomery’s Black History.' The exhibition, which will run from February 13 to 28 at the Juliette Hampton Morgan Memorial Library, seeks works that reflect the city's African American history, culture, and experiences. Submissions are due by February 9 and should be sent to County Archivist Dallas Hanbury.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 26, 2026 visibility 13 link 2 artists

‘A force of nature’: Posthumous show at Lawrence gallery celebrates the feminist textile art of Becky Johnson

A posthumous exhibition at Off-Site Art Space in Lawrence, Kansas, celebrates the feminist textile art of Becky Johnson, who died in September 2025 at age 47 from bladder cancer. The show features her weavings and feltwork, including a floor loom programmed by Johnson where visitors can contribute to a communal weaving using scraps from her studio. Co-curated by Merry Sun, the exhibition spans two rooms and includes experimental pieces with materials like felt tucked into pockets, showcasing Johnson's prolific output from a brief year-and-a-half period in grad school.

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article local schedule Jan 21, 2026 visibility 11 link 2 artists

Exhibits planned at Pitt State this spring

Pittsburg State University's Art Department will host a series of free exhibitions and receptions this spring at Porter Hall, featuring works by Virginia Derryberry, Marie Hines Cowan, and Richard Alpert, along with a faculty exhibition. Derryberry's "Private Domain" series blends mythological narratives with collage, Cowan's "Musing" presents immersive graphic-novel-style installations, and Alpert's "Primary Trances" showcases sculpture, film, and performance art.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 5, 2025 visibility 14 link 3 artists

‘Endless scrolling induces permanent craving’: panGenerator highlights our unhealthy relationship with technology

An exhibition titled 'Elusive Sense: On the Fluid Boundaries of Perception' at London’s art’otel featured five contemporary Polish artists, including the collective panGenerator. Their interactive installation 'Infinity' (2020) invites viewers to kneel and endlessly scroll through nonsensical digital shapes on a screen, mimicking social media's infinite scroll. The work aims to make users feel uncomfortable and reflect on their daily digital habits, drawing parallels between trust in technology and religious belief. Another panGenerator piece, 'Hash to ash' (2017), lets visitors take a selfie that melts into ash, critiquing selfie culture and the fragility of digital photos.

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article local schedule Nov 20, 2025 visibility 8 link 2 artists

Artists Donate their Works to Help Save Cambodia’s only Photography School

Artists and photographers, both Cambodian and foreign, have donated works to an exhibition at Brown Coffee in Phnom Penh to raise emergency funds for Studio Images - House of Photography, Cambodia's only professional photography school. The school opened in 2024 but lost its funding for the next six months due to external circumstances, threatening the graduation of students in its two-year associate-degree program. The exhibition, titled "Art for the Future," is hosted at the café located in the former home of architect Vann Molyvann, with proceeds supporting the school's operations through the 2025-2026 school year.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 28, 2025 visibility 11 link 1 artist

Springville Museum of Art hosts John Hafen exhibition

The Springville Museum of Art has opened the first major retrospective of John Hafen, a co-founder of the Springville Art Movement and one of Utah's most influential artists. The exhibition features 64 of Hafen's paintings, including works from the museum's own collection and loans from other museums and private owners. Highlights include the painting "Girl Among the Hollyhocks" and "The Sycamore Tree," alongside a biography of the artist and interpretive quotes from his writings. Hafen, a Swiss-born plein-air painter who studied in France and settled in Utah, is known for his tonalist landscapes that emphasize mood and sentiment over exact representation.

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article local schedule Oct 24, 2025 visibility 10 link 2 artists

New works by well-known Wichita artists marry the couple’s talents

The Wichita Eagle reports on a new collaborative body of work by a well-known married couple of Wichita artists. The article highlights how their individual artistic practices merge in these new pieces, blending their distinct styles and techniques into a unified creative output.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 2, 2025 visibility 14 link 2 artists

Art exhibition preserves a moment in time using historical scientific research, microbiology and macabre curiosity

Artist Emily Mulvaney has opened her debut solo exhibition, "Preservation of Bodies," at Off-Site Art Space, exploring themes of preservation and degradation through a blend of art and science. The show features bioplastics, mold, vacuum-sealed bags, and synthetic organ-like forms, drawing on historical scientific research from the Kenneth Spencer Research Library and the Linda Hall Library. Mulvaney, who was the Lance Williams Art and Science Artist-in-Residence at the University of Kansas, uses materials like bioplastics to address ethical and environmental concerns, collaborating with PhD student Eryk Yarkosky on bacterial communication pieces.

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A World Reshaped by A.I. Needs Museums More Than Ever

The New York Times article argues that as artificial intelligence rapidly transforms society, museums have become more essential than ever. It contends that museums offer a crucial counterbalance to the speed and abstraction of AI by providing spaces for slow, embodied, and critical engagement with history, culture, and human creativity. The piece emphasizes that museums are not just repositories of the past but vital institutions for fostering the kind of deep thinking, empathy, and perspective needed to navigate an AI-driven world.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 10, 2025 visibility 15 link 1 artist

Video | Tamil Nadu News | From Chess to Canvas | Vishy Anand’s Son Akhil’s Stunning First Solo Art Show

Teen artist Akhil Anand, son of chess grandmaster Viswanathan Anand, held his debut solo art exhibition titled 'Morphogenesis' in Tamil Nadu. The show features intricate works that blend themes of mathematics, mythology, nature, and conservation, reflecting his unique artistic vision. His parents, Viswanathan and Aruna Anand, shared insights into his journey from early sketches to a bold, pattern-filled body of work.

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article local schedule Aug 6, 2025 visibility 14 link 3 artists

Popular Bottle Alley Art Market to return bigger than ever before

The Bottle Alley Art Market (BAAM) returns for its third year on August 23, transforming the 480-meter seafront walkway between Hastings and St Leonards into the UK's longest beachside art market. Featuring 70 artists from local talents to national figures, the free event includes live portrait sessions by Xinchu Zhang, performances by Jude Montague and Caroline Gregory, DJ sets from Simon and the Pope, and a fabric installation by Mew Welch, David Harris, and Zeroh. Organised by Zeroh, Daniel Hardiker, and Neil Hetherington, the market runs from 10am to 6pm on the bank holiday weekend.

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article culture schedule Jul 30, 2025 visibility 16 link 2 artists

Comment | From restitution to confronting authoritarian regimes, here are five ways museums can be more ethical

The article previews the upcoming book "Towards the Ethical Art Museum" and outlines five key strategies for museums to become more ethical institutions. These include developing ethics codes in collaboration with advisory bodies like ICOM and the UK Museums Association, changing mindsets on restitution to focus on mutual benefit rather than loss, and addressing internal "employee activism" to build diverse and equitable workplaces.

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