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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 6, 2025 visibility 30 link 5 artists, 27 galleries

Which galleries are returning to Frieze London and Frieze Masters 2025—and which are not?

Frieze London and Frieze Masters have announced their 2025 exhibitor lists, with nearly 290 galleries set to participate in Regent's Park from October 15 to 19. Frieze London's 22nd edition will feature over 160 exhibitors, including blue-chip names like Gagosian, Pace, Goodman, and Sprüth Magers, alongside London staples The Approach and Corvi-Mora. Notable absentees from last year include Tanja Wagner, Magician Space, and Lia Rumma, while newcomers such as Carbon 12, Anat Ebgi, and Simões de Assis join the main section. The Focus section for emerging galleries debuts eight first-time participants, and a curated section organized by Jareh Das will highlight artists from Brazil, Africa, and their diasporas. Across the park, Frieze Masters, under new director Emanuela Tarizzo, will host around 120 galleries, with first-timers including Champ Lacombe and Vito Schnabel Gallery, and the Studio section curated by Sheena Wagstaff.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 6, 2025 visibility 22 link 7 artists, 6 galleries

Amid tariff and economic struggles, the newly rebranded Beijing Art Season persevered

Beijing's art week, rebranded as the Beijing Art Season, ran from 22 May to 1 June, featuring three concurrent events: Art021 Beijing (formerly JingArt) at a new venue in the 798 Art District, Gallery Weekend Beijing (GWBJ), and the fair Beijing Dangdai. The 798 gallery complex merged with the adjacent 751 complex, becoming the 798 751 Art District. GWBJ scaled back this year, suspending its curated selling exhibition and international visiting sector, instead hosting only one pop-up gallery. Organizers cited economic struggles and tariffs as challenges, with gallerists reporting slower sales and cancelled US orders due to new tariffs.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 4, 2025 visibility 18 link 6 artists

Review: Guadalupe Rosales crafts an analog Wayback Machine for a vibrant show at Palm Springs Art Museum

Guadalupe Rosales presents a solo exhibition titled "Tzahualli: Mi memoria en tu reflejo" at the Palm Springs Art Museum, centered on a checkerboard dance floor with a makeshift DJ booth, motorized blue spotlights, and mirrored disco fixtures. The show gathers ephemera from the 1990s—magazines, snapshots, lowrider bicycle parts, bandannas, street signs, and more—used in assemblage sculptures and display cases. Four thematic sections include a dance room, an entryway, a nighttime space, and a car culture gallery, with imagery referencing Chicana culture, Los Angeles' Eastside, and historic clubs like Arena and Circus.

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article culture schedule Jun 3, 2025 visibility 17 link 4 artists

A biography of Turner and Constable that goes beyond the stereotypes

Nicola Moorby, curator of British art 1790-1850 at Tate, has published a new book titled *Turner & Constable: Art, Life, Landscape*, which examines the lives and careers of J.M.W. Turner and John Constable side by side for the first time in such depth. Published in the 250th anniversary year of Turner's birth and ahead of Constable's in 2026, the study uses a thematic approach within a chronological framework to compare their approaches to landscape painting, including their treatment of rivers like the Thames and the Stour, their differing paths to success, and famous flashpoints at Royal Academy exhibitions.

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article culture schedule Jun 3, 2025 visibility 23 link 14 artists

June Book Bag: from the cool influence of Ice Age art to the story of Arshile Gorky’s early years in the US

This article presents a roundup of six new art books released in June, covering a diverse range of topics. Titles include a monograph on Arshile Gorky's early years in New York, a collection exploring interspecies consciousness from the Serpentine Galleries, a book accompanying a British Museum exhibition on Ice Age art, a lavish Taschen monograph on Salvador Dalí, and a three-volume photographic study of the American West by Maryam Eisler and Alexei Riboud.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 30, 2025 visibility 19 link 11 artists

Amid a wave of political hostility, the Getty Center uses photography to tell stories of queer resistance and love

The Getty Center in Los Angeles has opened a new exhibition, "Queer Lens: A History of Photography," coinciding with Pride Month amid rising political hostility toward LGBTQ+ communities. Curated by Paul Martineau over six years, the show features 300 photographs from the 19th century to the present, including works by Claude Cahun, Imogen Cunningham, and Peter Hujar, alongside anonymous and amateur images. A companion exhibition at the Getty Research Institute, "$3 Bill: Evidence of Queer Lives," displays printed ephemera from the Merrill C. Berman Collection, highlighting queer resistance and community-building.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 30, 2025 visibility 17 link 6 artists

Monet to Matisse exhibition coming to Birmingham Museum of Art in 2026

The Birmingham Museum of Art (BMA) will premiere "Monet to Matisse: French Moderns, 1850–1950" on January 30, 2026, featuring over 100 masterworks from the Brooklyn Museum's European collection and supplemented by 50 works from BMA's own holdings. The exhibition includes paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by artists such as Monet, Matisse, Chagall, Degas, and Renoir, and will run through May 24, 2026, with accompanying public programs like lectures, guided tours, and workshops.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 28, 2025 visibility 15 link 4 artists

Pallets, not plinths: the V&A opens its vast storehouse to the public

The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London will open its V&A East Storehouse on 31 May, a vast open-access working store at the 2012 Olympics site in Stratford. Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the 16,000 sq. m space holds over 250,000 objects and 1,000 archives, allowing visitors to browse collections without glass cases via a self-guided route and an 'Order an Object' booking service. Deputy director Tim Reeve compares the experience to shopping at Ikea, emphasizing flexibility and public access.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 27, 2025 visibility 16 link 5 artists

Westminster muralist Grow Love readies to show off work at new exhibition in Colorado Springs

Westminster-based muralist Grow Love (Robyn Frances) will participate in a group exhibition titled "Justice of the Piece: Resistance in Unity in Street Art" at the Galleries of Contemporary Art at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, opening next month. The show features three female muralists: Grow Love, Lady Pink, and Sydney G. James, whose work explores resistance, reclamation, and collective healing through public murals and studio practice. An accompanying arts market will allow local creatives to sell their work for free.

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trending_up market schedule May 23, 2025 visibility 14 link 2 artists

Kimbell Art Museum acquires Chardin still life after record-breaking auction sale falls through

The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, has acquired Jean Siméon Chardin's still life *The Cut Melon* (1760) from the Rothschild family after a record-breaking auction sale at Christie's Paris in June 2024 fell through. The winning bidder, Italian real estate promoter Nanni Bassani Antivari, never paid, leading Christie's to sue him for compensation. The Rothschilds then sold the painting directly to the Kimbell, which had been the underbidder at auction. The work, which retains its original frame from its 1761 Salon debut, went on view at the museum on 22 May in the French still life gallery.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 22, 2025 visibility 13 link 4 artists

‘Art is an important way of depicting these atrocities’: London show shines a light on sexual violence in conflict

The Imperial War Museum (IWM) in London has opened "Unsilenced: Sexual Violence in Conflict," the first major UK museum exhibition to address the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war. Featuring video testimony from journalist Christina Lamb, the show draws on the IWM's collections and new testimonies from survivors, including propaganda posters, photographs by Lee Miller, and a newly acquired miniature Sonyeosang statue. Curators Maeve Underwood and Helen Upcraft re-examined the museum's holdings to uncover hidden narratives of sexual slavery and humiliation from World War II to the Russia-Ukraine war.

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article news schedule May 22, 2025 visibility 8 link 1 artist

London’s Tate Modern Art Gallery Will Soon Start Opening Earlier For Special Tours

Tate Modern in London is launching exclusive 'Before Hours' tours in partnership with GetYourGuide, allowing visitors to explore the gallery before it opens to the public. Starting over the upcoming bank holiday weekend, the hour-long small-group tours will be led by expert guides or curators and cost £69 per person. The initiative is part of GetYourGuide's 'All Art, No Crowds' campaign, which also includes similar early-access programs at MoMA in New York and the Vatican Museums, responding to growing traveler concerns about crowding and overtourism.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 22, 2025 visibility 19 link 2 artists

Lee Ufan donates eight paintings to Dia Art Foundation

Korean artist Lee Ufan, a key figure in the Mono-ha movement, has donated eight paintings from the 1970s to the 1990s to the Dia Art Foundation in New York. The works, from his From Point, From Line, and With Winds series, will be featured in a spring 2026 exhibition at Dia Beacon alongside sculptural installations already in the foundation's collection. Lee is also collaborating with Avant Arte on a limited-edition print release to support Dia's programming.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 21, 2025 visibility 16 link 7 artists

European art weeks join forces for new ‘spider network’

European art weeks across cities including Amsterdam, Berlin, London, Lisbon, and Antwerp are joining forces to form a new collaborative network called the 'Spider network.' The initiative, spearheaded by directors such as Martina Halsema of Amsterdam Art Week and Mona Stehle of Berlin Art Week, aims to share ideas, expertise, sponsorship strategies, and press coverage. Amsterdam Art Week runs until 25 May 2025 with 220 events across 70 venues, featuring artists like Melanie Bonajo, Kimsooja, and Pamela Rosenkranz. Berlin Art Week, scheduled for 10–14 September 2025, attracted 130,000 visitors last year and has grown from 11 partners in 2012 to over 100 this year.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 20, 2025 visibility 11 link 4 artists, 1 gallery

Artist couple open north London not-for-profit in former Zabludowicz gallery

Artist couple Philip and Charlotte Colbert have opened a new not-for-profit art space called Camden Arts Projects (CAP) in north London, taking over the former Zabludowicz Collection gallery at 176 Prince of Wales Road. The venue, a former Methodist church, was bought by the Colberts last year and now operates under an umbrella company called Contemporary Culture Collective. The opening exhibition features works by Turner Prize-winning artist Martin Creed, including an immersive balloon installation and a neon piece, and is free to the public. Curator Hala Matar, formerly of The Little House in Los Angeles, is running the exhibition programme.

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trending_up market schedule May 17, 2025 visibility 23 link 20 artists, 4 galleries

11 New Artist Auction Records Set in May 2025

During New York's spring auction week starting May 12, 2025, major houses Sotheby's, Christie's, Phillips, and Bonhams collectively brought in $1.27 billion, slightly above the estimated $1.25 billion but down 17% from the previous year. The top lot was Piet Mondrian's *Composition with Large Red Plane, Bluish Gray, Yellow, Black and Blue* (1922) at $47.56 million, but the mood was tense as trophy works like Andy Warhol's *Big Electric Chair* (1967–68) were withdrawn and several top lots, including Alberto Giacometti's *Grande tête mince* (1955), failed to sell. Amid this volatility, 11 new artist auction records were set, five of which were for women artists, notably Marlene Dumas's *Miss January* (1999) selling for $13.65 million—the most expensive work by a living woman artist at auction.

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trending_up market schedule May 14, 2025 visibility 45 link 14 artists

Metropolitan Museum receives 6,500 works from photography collector Artur Walther

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has received a promised gift of more than 6,500 works from German American photography collector Artur Walther and his Walther Family Foundation. The trove spans post-war and contemporary photography from Africa, Japan, Germany, and China, alongside vernacular photos from Europe and the Americas. A special showcase of African photographers' works will debut in the Met's Michael C. Rockefeller Wing when it reopens after renovation later this month. The collection, which has operated exhibition spaces in Neu-Ulm, Germany, and New York's Chelsea district since 2010, includes major names such as Malick Sibidé, Zanele Muholi, Ai Weiwei, Bernd and Hilla Becher, and Thomas Struth.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 14, 2025 visibility 20 link 6 artists

Chicago Is The Only City To Host 'The First Homosexuals,' An Extensive Collection Of Queer Art

The article reports that 'The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity, 1869-1939,' a major international exhibition of queer art, is currently on view at Wrightwood 659 in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood. Curated by art historian Jonathan D. Katz, the show features around 350 works from over 100 lenders, including private collectors and major museums, and runs through July 26. Katz notes that no other institution in the world has agreed to host the exhibition, citing widespread refusals from venues in the United States, Europe, South America, and Asia.

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trending_up market schedule May 13, 2025 visibility 17 link 4 artists

Why is the art market turning Gulf-wards?

The art market is shifting its focus toward the Gulf region, particularly Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, following a sharp decline in Chinese luxury goods sales (18–20% drop in 2024) and a 31% slump in Chinese art sales. Auction houses like Sotheby’s and Christie’s have established outposts in Saudi Arabia, with Sotheby’s first auction in Diriyah generating $17.3 million and attracting 35% new buyers. The UAE’s tax-haven status and lack of sanctions on Russians have drawn wealthy residents, while Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 campaign, led by Mohammed bin Salman, is pouring money into cultural projects such as AlUla, Art Week Riyadh, the Islamic Arts Biennale, and a new teamLab Borderless museum in Jeddah.

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article culture schedule May 13, 2025 visibility 15 link 5 artists

Comment | The greatest failure of PST Art: its successes are not travelling

The article critiques PST Art (formerly Pacific Standard Time), a $20 million Getty-funded initiative in Southern California, as its current edition wraps up. It highlights the closure of key exhibitions like "For Dear Life: Art, Medicine and Disability" at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego before major art events like Frieze Los Angeles, and notes that only 7 of the 72 exhibitions are traveling to other institutions. The piece questions the initiative's purpose and effectiveness in reaching broader audiences.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 13, 2025 visibility 21 link 7 artists

Behind the scenes of the Met’s revamped Rockefeller Wing with its acclaimed architect

Kulapat Yantrasast, the Bangkok-born architect behind Why Architecture, has completed a $70 million overhaul of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, which houses the arts of Africa, Oceania, and the ancient Americas. Working with executive architect Beyer Blinder Belle, Yantrasast redesigned the 40,000-square-foot exhibition hall to address longstanding conservation issues caused by a 200-foot glass wall on Central Park that exposed fragile objects to heat and light. The wing reopens to the public on May 31 after four years of construction.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 12, 2025 visibility 18 link 5 artists

"Trevor Yeung: Courtyard of Detachments", a new configuration of the artist's solo exhibition representing Hong Kong in the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, opens at M+ on Saturday, 14 June 2025

A new configuration of Trevor Yeung's solo exhibition "Courtyard of Detachments," originally representing Hong Kong at the 60th Venice Biennale, will open at M+ museum in Hong Kong on June 14, 2025. The presentation reimagines the artist's acclaimed Biennale project for the museum context.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 8, 2025 visibility 12 link 2 artists

Man Ray: When Objects Dream

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will present "Man Ray: When Objects Dream," an exhibition exploring the artist's pioneering rayographs—camera-less photographs created by placing objects on light-sensitive paper. Featuring approximately 60 rayographs and 100 additional works from the Met's collection and over 50 international lenders, the show is the first to situate this technique within Man Ray's broader practice of the 1910s and 1920s, including paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, films, and photographs.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 7, 2025 visibility 19 link 4 artists

Whitney Museum of American Art invites visitors to take in the river view

The Whitney Museum of American Art is celebrating the tenth anniversary of its Meatpacking District building by inviting visitors to experience Mary Heilmann's installation "Long Line" on the fifth floor. The work features a large-scale mural of sea green and foamy white waves, accompanied by whimsically colored boxy chairs that visitors can rearrange. The installation, which runs until January 19, 2026, encourages rest and contemplation, with floor-to-ceiling windows offering views of the Hudson River. Curator Laura Phipps notes that Heilmann, who created the inaugural commission "Sunset" for the building in 2015, has long prioritized visitor comfort and seating in her work.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 5, 2025 visibility 19 link 23 artists

Ford Foundation Gallery and NXTHVN presents THIS IS NOT A RETREAT! NXTHVN Through the Years

The Ford Foundation Gallery and NXTHVN present "THIS IS NOT A RETREAT! NXTHVN Through the Years," an exhibition opening June 5, 2025, at the Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice in New York. The show features work by alumni artists from the first five years of NXTHVN's intensive 10-month fellowship program, which has supported 41 artists and 12 curators since 2018. Co-founded by artist Titus Kaphar and impact investor Jason Price, the exhibition is curated by Marissa Del Toro and spans drawing, painting, prints, installation, etchings, and sculpture. A concurrent group show, "The Things Left Unsaid," featuring NXTHVN's Cohort 06 Fellows, runs from May 8 to June 21, 2025, at James Cohan Gallery.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 2, 2025 visibility 19 link 2 artists

Maine’s Ann Craven spotlighted at Farnsworth Art Museum

The Farnsworth Art Museum in Maine will host a major exhibition titled *Ann Craven: Painted Time (2020–2024)*, showcasing approximately 30 paintings by the celebrated Maine-based artist Ann Craven. The exhibition, running from May 3, 2025, through January 4, 2026, is organized into four thematic sections—moons, trees, flowers, and birds—highlighting Craven's exploration of seriality, repetition, time, and the natural world. It will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue and a film by Fiumi Studio. The exhibition anchors the 2025 Maine in America Award, a lifetime achievement honor recognizing Craven's contributions to Maine's arts and culture, with companion presentations at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art and the Portland Museum of Art.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 1, 2025 visibility 25 link 10 artists

This Month the Museum Will Open "Ann Craven | Painted Time: Moons (Laboratory)"

The Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) will open "Ann Craven | Painted Time: Moons (Laboratory)" on May 22, 2025, featuring Ann Craven's moon paintings created between 2020 and 2024. The exhibition highlights Craven's direct observation of the moon, with each work documenting the date, time, and place of creation. The show includes a "laboratory" of lunar studies stored in labeled cardboard containers, offering insight into her process. It will be presented in three rotations curated by Anne Collins Goodyear, Jay Sanders, and Adam Weinberg, with about 20 paintings per rotation selected from over 150 compositions. The exhibition runs until August 17, 2025, and is accompanied by a digital catalogue. It coincides with two concurrent solo shows of Craven's work in Maine: at the Farnsworth Art Museum and the Portland Museum of Art.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 30, 2025 visibility 22 link 17 artists

Artist’s Choice: Arthur Jafa—Less Is Morbid

Arthur Jafa has curated a new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) as part of the museum's ongoing Artist's Choice series. Titled "Less Is Morbid," the show runs through July 5 and features over 80 objects selected from MoMA's collection. Jafa, an artist and filmmaker known for his emotionally charged collages and installations, brings together works by figures such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Cy Twombly, Lygia Clark, Roy DeCarava, Piet Mondrian, and Lutisha Pettway. The exhibition challenges binary oppositions like minimalist/maximalist and sparse/dense, and critiques the historical hierarchies that have governed art institutions.

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rate_review review schedule Apr 30, 2025 visibility 18 link 5 artists

Turner vs Constable: is it time for art historians to choose?

Art historian and author James Hall, writing in The Art Newspaper, reviews Nicola Moorby's new book "Turner and Constable: Art, Life, Landscape" and uses it as a springboard to argue that art historians should not shy away from making value judgments about artists. He compares the legacies of J.M.W. Turner and John Constable, noting that Turner currently dominates popular and institutional esteem—appearing on banknotes, celebrated by Tate Britain as the greatest British artist, and fitting modern conceptions of the artist as a rebellious, eccentric genius. Hall contrasts this with Constable's more conservative image and declining presence in commercial culture.

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rate_review review schedule Apr 28, 2025 visibility 16 link 14 artists

Surprised by Jack: A Review of “Jack Whitten: The Messenger” at MoMA in New York

The Museum of Modern Art in New York is hosting "Jack Whitten: The Messenger," the largest survey ever mounted of the late abstract artist Jack Whitten, who died in 2018. The exhibition features 175 works spanning his sixty-year career, from early quasi-representational pieces to his innovative "slab" paintings made with a custom squeegee device and his later "tesserae" works that mimic glass tiles using acrylic paint. The show includes archival audio of Whitten discussing his creative process, which blended philosophy, craft, and science, and is curated by MoMA's Michelle Kuo, who knew Whitten personally.

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