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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 14, 2025 visibility 21 link 3 artists

Curator’s Corner: What Goes into Making an Exhibition?

Janet McLean, curator of Modern Art at the National Gallery of Ireland, discusses the process of curating the upcoming exhibition "Picasso: From the Studio," the first major Picasso show in Ireland since a student-led exhibition in 1969. That earlier exhibition, held by Trinity students in a library storage room, attracted 42,000 visitors and featured 97 works by Picasso. McLean explains that curation is about creating connections and a "conversation" between pieces, balancing narrative with practical constraints like light levels, copyright, and lender approvals. The new exhibition, with a sole lender—the Musée National Picasso-Paris—traces Picasso's life in France from 1913 to 1973, showcasing his evolution as an artist.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 10, 2025 visibility 17 link 4 artists

Ball State University’s David Owsley Museum of Art Presents Two Special Exhibitions this Fall

Ball State University's David Owsley Museum of Art (DOMA) will present two special exhibitions this fall, running from September 18 to December 19, 2025. The first, "Cercle et Carré and the International Spirit of Abstract Art," organized by the Georgia Museum of Art, features over 60 works by members of the short-lived but influential modernist collective founded in Paris in 1929, including Wassily Kandinsky, Fernand Léger, Alexandra Exter, and Franciska Clausen. The second, "Indiana Pastoral: The Photography of Lamar Richcreek," showcases 28 photographs by the Ball State graduate (1947–2018), whose work documents the postwar transformation of rural Indiana from a banker-turned-photographer's perspective. Both exhibitions are free and open to the public.

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Chef Daniel Humm Is the Latest Star to Leave Their Mark on Sotheby’s Contemporary Curated Auction Series

Chef Daniel Humm, the renowned culinary figure behind Eleven Madison Park, has guest-curated Sotheby's Contemporary Curated auction series, selecting artworks with the same rhythmic and intentional approach he uses in menu creation. In an interview with CULTURED, Humm describes how a transformative encounter with Claude Monet's Water Lilies at the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris inspired his curatorial philosophy, emphasizing stillness, contemplation, and dialogue between works. His selections include pieces by Roni Horn, Alex Katz, Keith Haring, Sarah Crowner, and Jean Dubuffet, reflecting personal friendships and a desire to create an immersive, sensory experience akin to a multi-course meal.

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Metropolitan Museum gifted 188 Dada and Surrealist works

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has received a promised gift of 188 Dada and Surrealist works from collector and trustee John Pritzker, known as the Bluff Collection. The gift includes pieces by Man Ray, Max Ernst, Marcel and Suzanne Duchamp, Jean Arp, Lee Miller, and others, with 35 works debuting in the upcoming exhibition "Man Ray: When Objects Dream" (14 September 2025 – 1 February 2026). Pritzker is also donating over 100 books and ephemera, and funding a new research initiative, the Bluff Collaborative for Research on Dada and Surrealism, through his family fund.

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London’s National Gallery receives record-breaking donations for new wing—and will start collecting contemporary art

London's National Gallery has announced plans for a major new extension, costing around £400 million, with £375 million already raised in record-breaking donations. Two anonymous pledges of £150 million each, from Michael Moritz's Crankstart foundation and the Julia Rausing Trust, are described by director Gabriele Finaldi as the largest-ever known cash donations to any cultural institution globally. The new wing, to be built on the site of St Vincent House, will open in the early 2030s following an international architectural competition launching on 12 September. The gallery also revealed it will begin collecting 20th-century and contemporary art, expanding its traditional cutoff of around 1900, in collaboration with Tate.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 6, 2025 visibility 15 link 6 artists

On Loss and Absence: Textiles of Mourning and Survival

The Art Institute of Chicago presents 'On Loss and Absence: Textiles of Mourning and Survival,' an exhibition running from September 6, 2025, to March 15, 2026. Featuring over 100 objects from antiquity to the present, the show draws primarily from the museum's own collection and is organized into four thematic sections: Death and Mourning, Transition of Realms, Care and Repair, and Resistance and Survival. Works include funeral hangings, burial cloths, mourning samplers, Indonesian ship cloths, a Taoist priest's robe, and contemporary pieces by artists such as Nick Cave, Carina Yepez, the Noqanchis collective, and Diné weaver Barbara Teller Ornelas. The exhibition is curated by four artist-educators from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Fiber and Material Studies department: Isaac Facio, Nneka Kai, L Vinebaum, and Anne Wilson, with senior museum advisor Melinda Watt.

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trending_up market schedule Sep 5, 2025 visibility 26 link 51 artists, 25 galleries

The Armory Show jumpstarts New York art market after summer of hand-wringing

The Armory Show opened its 2024 edition in New York with solid sales during the VIP preview on September 4, providing a positive signal for the city's art market after a summer marked by gallery closures and economic uncertainty. The fair saw the return of over 20 galleries that had previously taken a hiatus, including Andrew Kreps, Uffner and Liu, Instituto de Visión, and White Cube for the first time since 1994. Fair director Kyla McMillan emphasized the importance of rooting the fair in New York and praised exhibitors for taking risks with experimental works, such as Nikita Gale's installation 'Interceptor' (2025), which sold for $60,000 before the preview began.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 3, 2025 visibility 16 link 6 artists

Capturing a Major Artist in Print

The Syracuse University Art Museum has opened a new exhibition titled “What If I Try This?”: Helen Frankenthaler in the 20th-Century Print Ecosystem, running from August 26 through December 9. Curated by Melissa Yuen, the show features 56 works—including prints, paintings, photographs, and letters—by Frankenthaler and her contemporaries, highlighting her experimental approach to printmaking over nearly 50 years. The exhibition includes 11 prints and process proofs gifted by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation in 2023, along with 24 works borrowed from national and area collections, and draws on Frankenthaler’s correspondence with artist Grace Hartigan.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 1, 2025 visibility 17 link 4 artists, 2 galleries

Antony Gormley: ‘Everything I make now is a surprise to me’

Antony Gormley, the British sculptor best known for public works like *Angel of the North* and *Another Place*, is opening his first solo exhibition in Seoul this September, titled *Inextricable*, simultaneously at White Cube and Thaddaeus Ropac. The shows coincide with Frieze Seoul and explore how urban infrastructure shapes human consciousness. Gormley also discusses his ongoing collaboration with Japanese architect Tadao Ando at Museum SAN, where their permanent installation *Ground* (2025) is on view, and reflects on past unrealized projects in Korea, including a utopian proposal with the Kim Dae-jung Foundation.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 31, 2025 visibility 13 link 7 artists

Wausau, WI Prepares To Celebrate 50 Years Of ‘Birds In Art’

The Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, Wisconsin, is preparing to open the 50th annual 'Birds in Art' exhibition over Labor Day weekend. The show features 102 juried artists from 16 countries, selected from over 700 applicants, and includes paintings, sculptures, and works on paper. Museum director Matt Foss notes that the exhibition has evolved from traditional realism toward more diverse, contemporary interpretations of birds, with artists experimenting with new styles and mediums.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 29, 2025 visibility 16 link 6 artists

Fragments of Home: A Dual Review of New Exhibitions at the Amarillo Museum of Art

The Amarillo Museum of Art is hosting two concurrent exhibitions: "Home, Love, and Loss" (May 31 – September 14, 2025) and "Jeri Salter: Rugged Beauty of the Texas Panhandle" (June 20 – September 28, 2025). The first, organized in partnership with the Amon Carter Museum of Art, features over 60 works by artists including Thomas Hart Benton, Rania Matar, and Francisco Delgado, exploring family dynamics, identity, and belonging. The second showcases Jeri Salter's pastel landscapes of the Texas Panhandle alongside miniature studies by 19th-century artist Frank Reaugh.

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article policy schedule Aug 27, 2025 visibility 22 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 21 link 4 artists

Epic Palmer Museum exhibition explores 30 years of ecology and art

The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State is opening "Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman: Journey to Nature’s Underworld" on August 30, the first survey of the two artists' work spanning three decades. The exhibition features sculptures, paintings, works on paper, and a new collaborative diorama, exploring themes of ecology, environmental collapse, invasive species, and climate change through scientific and artistic lenses. Both artists, who met in New York in the 1980s, combine intensive research, dark humor, and museum display methods to subvert traditional narratives about nature and humanity.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 25, 2025 visibility 16 link 7 artists

Chicago Art Exhibitions to See: September 2025

The article lists five major art exhibitions opening in Chicago in September 2025, including a retrospective of Elizabeth Catlett at the Art Institute of Chicago, a summer residency show by Industry of the Ordinary at SoNa, a collaborative exhibition by Mayumi Lake and Bob Faust at the Elmhurst Art Museum, a Helen Frankenthaler print exhibition at the Block Museum, and the third annual Chicago Exhibition Weekend featuring over seventy galleries and public spaces.

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article news schedule Aug 22, 2025 visibility 13 link 2 artists

Mickalene Thomas’s ex-fiancée accuses the artist of sexual harassment and stealing millions of dollars from her

Mickalene Thomas’s former fiancée, curator and model Racquel Chevremont, has filed a summons against the artist, accusing her of sexual harassment and claiming she owes at least $10 million in damages. The summons, signed in Manhattan on 8 August, cites breach of contract, unjust enrichment, conversion, and retaliation, alleging that Thomas created a hostile working environment and improperly diverted funds from their jointly-owned entity. Chevremont, who collaborated with Thomas for a decade and appeared in several of her works, claims she was underpaid despite a written agreement and that Thomas terminated her employment after she refused to resume their romantic relationship.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 18, 2025 visibility 18 link 4 artists

Art brings ideas about ocean to landlocked place

The Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas has opened "Soundings: Making Culture at Sea," an exhibition exploring connections to the ocean from the landlocked state of Kansas. Curated by Emily Casey and Celka Straughn, the show runs through December 14 and features works from the museum's collection, including a Winslow Homer watercolor, a carved wooden mermaid, and photographs of Greenland glaciers, alongside a video by Isaac Julien. The exhibition is organized into four sections covering maps, ocean crossings, ecological threats, and maritime trade.

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article culture schedule Aug 13, 2025 visibility 22 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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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 11, 2025 visibility 22 link 10 artists

‘You’re so close you can see how their toes grip the floor’: Wayne McGregor on his radical new immersive dance experience

Wayne McGregor, artistic director of the Biennale Danza in Venice, has created a new immersive dance installation titled 'On the Other Earth' in collaboration with artist Jeffrey Shaw and digital museologist Sarah Kenderdine. The work features a 360-degree 'nVis' environment with a massive 12K LED screen, allowing dancers from McGregor's company and the Hong Kong Ballet to perform in extreme close-up. The installation will travel to the Venice Film Festival, Stone's Nest in London as part of McGregor's exhibition 'Infinite Bodies' at Somerset House, and later to the Tai Kwun Centre for Heritage and Arts in Hong Kong.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 7, 2025 visibility 12 link 9 artists

Australian Aboriginal artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye exhibition at Tate Modern

The Tate Modern in London is hosting a landmark retrospective of Australian Aboriginal artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye (c. 1914–1996), running from July 10 to January 11, 2026. The exhibition features 70 works spanning her career, from early batik designs to her final acrylic paintings, and is organized in collaboration with the National Gallery of Australia, the Utopia Art Centre, and Kngwarreye's descendants. It is the first major solo exhibition of her work in Europe, highlighting her deep connection to her ancestral country and culture.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 6, 2025 visibility 17 link 3 artists

Thom Yorke Embraces ‘Terrifying’ Work as a Visual Artist in First Museum Exhibit

Thom Yorke, frontman of Radiohead, is presenting his first-ever museum exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, UK. Titled 'This is What You Get', the show runs until January 2026 and features the complete catalog of album covers, unseen sketchbook pages, and recent paintings created in collaboration with artist Stanley Donwood. Yorke, who trained as a visual artist before turning to music, describes returning to physical painting as 'absolutely terrifying' and sees the exhibition as a reclamation of his original artistic identity.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 1, 2025 visibility 20 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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candle obituary schedule Aug 1, 2025 visibility 26 link 14 artists

Robert Wilson, experimental playwright, director and artist, has died, aged 83

Robert Wilson, the visionary experimental playwright, director, and visual artist known for his highly stylized theatrical productions, has died at age 83. He passed away at his home in Water Mill, New York, on July 31 following a brief acute illness, according to a statement from the Watermill Center, the arts organization he founded. Wilson's most famous works include the silent opera *Deafman Glance* (1970) and the epic collaboration with composer Philip Glass, *Einstein on the Beach* (1976). He was also a prolific visual artist, creating drawings, sculptures, and video portraits, including a series featuring Lady Gaga, Pope.L, and Isabella Rossellini, and his work was exhibited at institutions such as SFMoMA, the Centre Pompidou, and the Louvre.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 29, 2025 visibility 17 link 6 artists

‘I'm excited for the future because it's in great hands’: winners of Somerset House's Talent 25 on what the programme means to them

Somerset House in London has announced the first five winners of its Talent 25 programme, a scheme supporting artistic innovators within its creative community. The awardees—Shanti Bell, Tyreis Holder, enorê, Identity 2.0 (founded by Arda Awais & Savena Surana), and Piarvé Wetshi—each receive an £8,000 bursary and mentorship from artist-designer Yinka Ilori to develop new work. Their creations will be exhibited in September as part of the Step Inside 25 Weekend, celebrating 25 years of Somerset House's public opening.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 28, 2025 visibility 18 link 11 artists

Exhibition as Séance at Seoul Mediacity Biennale with Anton Vidokle, Hallie Ayres, and Lukas Brasiskis

The 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, titled “Séance: Technology of the Spirit,” will open in August 2025 at the Seoul Museum of Art. The exhibition is curated by Anton Vidokle, Hallie Ayres, and Lukas Brasiskis of e-flux, who previously organized the Shanghai Biennale in 2023. The curators aim to structure a film program as an extension of the exhibition, engaging with themes of Cosmism and spiritual séance. They have collaborated with the Hong Kong-based architecture firm COLLECTIVE to transform the museum’s white-wall space into a scenography evoking different metaphysical realms, using color and light to enhance the experience.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 24, 2025 visibility 17 link 2 artists

Pablo Picasso: Private Creative Realms Revealed in Dublin Exhibition

The National Gallery of Ireland presents 'Picasso: From the Studio', an exhibition opening 11 October 2025 that explores Pablo Picasso's private creative spaces across his career. Featuring sixty works, including paintings, sculptures, and ceramics, the show reconstructs the artist's studios from Montmartre's Le Bateau-Lavoir to the Mougins farmhouse, using archival photographs as ghostly backdrops. Key pieces like 'Violin and Bottle on a Table' (1915) and 'Tête de femme' (1931-32) reveal how specific environments—a cramped Parisian garret, a sun-drenched villa in Avignon, a Normandy stable—shaped his stylistic reinventions from Analytic Cubism to postwar ceramics.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 21, 2025 visibility 19 link 4 artists

Exhibition at The Met Highlights Role of Photography in Cross-Dressing Community in 1960s New York

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition "Casa Susanna," on view from July 21, 2025 to January 25, 2026, brings together approximately 160 photographs and publications created by and for a community of cross-dressers who gathered in New York City and the Catskills Mountains during the 1960s. The works, discovered at a Manhattan flea market in 2004, document safe spaces provided by Susanna Valenti and Marie Tornell at two modest resorts, where guests used cameras—especially Polaroids—to affirm their femme identities and connect a nationwide community. The exhibition is organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario and Les Rencontres d’Arles in collaboration with The Met, and includes collections from the Art Gallery of Ontario, artist Cindy Sherman, and donor Betsy Wollheim.

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article policy schedule Jul 20, 2025 visibility 13 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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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 18, 2025 visibility 15 link 17 artists

Arts of Life Celebrates 25 Years

Arts of Life, a Chicago-based nonprofit supporting artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities, is celebrating its 25th anniversary with its first museum exhibition, "Community on the Make | Arts of Life 2000 – 2025," at the Design Museum of Chicago from August 11 to September 30, 2025. The retrospective features works by over 50 artists, staff, and volunteers, including founding member Veronica "Ronnie" Cuculich, and highlights collaborative pieces such as David Krueger and Ben Marcus's Love Man series. Related programs include a public reception on August 21 and artist residency hours throughout September.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 18, 2025 visibility 17 link 9 artists

“She’s a Real 20th Century Figure”: Thelma Golden on the ICA’s Mavis Pusey Retrospective

The Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, in collaboration with the Studio Museum in Harlem, has opened "Mavis Pusey: Mobile Images," a retrospective of the Jamaican-born abstract artist Mavis Pusey (1928–2019). The exhibition spans two floors of Pusey's paintings and archival materials, showcasing her geometric abstractions that translate urban construction and gentrification into fractured planes and rhythmic blocks of color. The show was sparked by Studio Museum director Thelma Golden's discovery of Pusey's work in an online auction catalog a decade ago, leading to a collaboration with curator Hallie Ringle.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 18, 2025 visibility 20 link 8 artists

Sea State: restored Norfolk mansion puts on water-themed exhibition by Maggi Hambling and Ro Robertson

Wolterton Hall, an 18th-century Palladian country house in Norfolk, England, has reopened to the public after a restoration completed by its new owner Richard Ellis. The estate is launching a water-themed exhibition titled "Sea State," featuring site-specific works by artists Maggi Hambling and Ro Robertson. Robertson's outdoor steel sculpture "The Swell" will be the first permanent outdoor artwork on the grounds, while Hambling presents new pieces from her "Wall of Water" series and an installation called "Time" dedicated to her late partner. The exhibition is co-curated by Simon Oldfield and Gemma Rolls-Bentley.

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