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Francis Kéré's design for Las Vegas Museum of Art revealed

The Las Vegas Museum of Art (LVMA) has revealed renderings for its new 60,000-square-foot building, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Francis Kéré. Set to open in 2029 at Symphony Park in downtown Las Vegas, the four-floor museum features a stone mosaic façade sourced from the Red Rock Mountains, a shaded front porch, a canyon-like grand staircase, and galleries inspired by Modernist architect Paul R. Williams. Baobab trees, symbolizing community, inform the design. The $200 million capital campaign, supported by the late Elaine Wynn and other trustees, has passed the halfway mark. The museum is a partnership with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma) and will showcase works from its collection, with Lacma director Michael Govan serving as a founding trustee. A satellite exhibition, Family Album, is currently on view, and a 15,000-square-foot gallery and media lab will open next year.

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Exhibition Tour— Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is hosting a virtual exhibition tour of "Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck," led by Dita Amory, Robert Lehman Curator in Charge, and Max Hollein, Marina Kellen French Director and CEO. The exhibition highlights the Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck (1862–1946), who is celebrated in Nordic countries for her highly original style but remains relatively unknown elsewhere. Featuring nearly 60 works, including loans from the Finnish National Gallery / Ateneum Art Museum and private collections, the show traces her evolution from traditional realism to a spare, abstract style developed in isolation.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 4, 2025 visibility 13 link 4 artists

This Vietnam veteran lost his sight, but not his vision. Now, his art hangs in the Denver Art Museum

Jim Stevens, a Vietnam War veteran who was shot in the head and later became legally blind after a stroke in 1993, has created a new painting technique using monofilament as a canvas. His artwork, "Blues Man," now hangs in the Denver Art Museum as part of the exhibition "Beyond the Military: From Combat to Canvas," which Stevens helped organize. Stevens serves as president and director of Denver's Veterans Arts Council and has earned Veterans Affairs’ National Gold Medals for Fine Art.

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London's National Gallery announces £750m fundraising drive towards new wing and expanded collection

London's National Gallery has announced a £750m fundraising drive, called Project Domani, to expand its collection into the 20th and 21st centuries and build a new wing on the site of St Vincent House, north of the Sainsbury Wing. Around half the target has already been pledged, including two record £150m donations from the Crankstart foundation and the Julia Rausing Trust. A shortlist of six architectural firms—including Foster + Partners, Kengo Kuma and Associates, and Selldorf Architects—has been released to design the extension, with a final choice expected by April and the wing opening in the early 2030s.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 2, 2025 visibility 15 link 1 artist

Mario Ayala Unveils Life Sized Van Portraits at CAM Houston

Mario Ayala's first U.S. solo museum exhibition, 'Seven Vans,' has opened at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH). The show, on view from November 14, 2025, through June 21, 2026, features seven life-size van paintings that use the vehicle's rear body as a shaped canvas. Ayala removes wheels and functional markers, turning the vans into motionless 'pseudo-portraits' that convey owners' personalities through details like faded stickers, patchy repairs, and custom airbrush work inspired by auto body painting. The artist describes his process as 'Research While Driving,' documenting rear vehicle perspectives over six years.

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Hurricane Melissa relief: artists and art organisations lead fundraising efforts for devastated Caribbean

One month after Hurricane Melissa devastated the Caribbean, causing an estimated $48bn-$52bn in damage and over 100 deaths, artists and art organizations are leading fundraising efforts. The National Gallery of Jamaica launched a donation drive through its western branch, while New York-based nonprofit Forgotten Lands, artist Ania Freer, the Lemon Seed Project, and the Prints for Jamaica initiative have raised thousands of dollars for relief, medical aid, and heritage preservation.

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Best new awards & arts prize winners: November 2025

The article reports on several major arts and literary prize winners announced in November 2025. Swedish photographer Martina Holmberg won the £15,000 Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize for her portrait 'Mel,' with other prizes awarded to Luan Davide Gray, Byron Mohammad Hamzah, and Hollie Fernando. Australian author Helen Garner won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction for 'How to End a Story.' The Forward Poetry Prizes named joint winners Vidyan Ravinthiran and Karen Solie for best collection, while Bogdan Ablozhnyy received the Camden Art Centre Emerging Artist Award. Historian Sunil Amrith won the British Academy Book Prize for 'The Burning Earth,' and the Women's Prize for Playwriting announced its longlist.

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Grunwald Gallery showcases legacy of visiting artist series

The Grunwald Gallery of Art at Indiana University's Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture and Design is hosting “Re:Visit | Celebrating a Decade of McKinney Visiting Artists,” an archival exhibition that highlights 10 years of the McKinney Visiting Artist Series. Founded in 2016 through an endowment by IU alumni Meredith McKinney and Elsa Luise Barthel McKinney, the series brings artists to campus for short residencies, lectures, workshops, and collaborative learning. The exhibition features work by 11 participating artists, including Tetsuya Noda, Yvonne Osei, and Martin Venezky, and runs through Nov. 15.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 10, 2025 visibility 15 link 7 artists

Seeing beyond: Issam Kourbaj on mentoring three young artists for Abu Dhabi Art

Artist Issam Kourbaj is curating and mentoring three emerging UAE-based artists—Salmah Almansoori, Maktoum Al Maktoum, and Alla Abdunabi—for the Beyond Emerging Artists programme at Abu Dhabi Art, which runs November 19–23 at Manarat al-Saadiyat. The artists are creating new works for the fair and separate outdoor installations in Al Ain, including at historical sites like Al Ain Oasis and Jebel Hafeet Tombs, with the outdoor pieces on view for six months. Kourbaj, a Syrian-born artist based in Cambridge, selected the trio for their diverse materials and shared focus on place and memory.

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Lacma staff move to unionise as $720m new building nears completion

Staff at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma) announced their intent to unionize as part of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). The new union, Lacma United, will represent over 300 museum employees across curatorial, visitor services, education, and publications departments. Workers cite fairer compensation, expanded benefits, and increased transparency as key motivations, and have requested voluntary recognition by November 5. The effort joins AFSCME Cultural Workers United District Council 36, which has supported union campaigns at other Los Angeles institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.

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gavel restitution schedule Oct 22, 2025 visibility 12 link 2 artists

Eric Ravilious and Tirzah Garwood woodblocks rescued from eBay sale go on display in UK

A collection of 27 original woodblocks hand-carved by British artists Eric Ravilious and Tirzah Garwood, dating from 1930 to 1950, was rescued from an eBay sale through collaboration between the artists' heirs and the Art Loss Register (ALR). The blocks, believed missing or stolen since the 1950s, were listed on eBay last summer, prompting the family—including daughter Anne Ullman and granddaughter Ella Ravilious—to contact the ALR to halt the sale. The blocks have now been catalogued and split between The Fry Art Gallery in Suffolk and Towner Eastbourne, where they are on public display.

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article local schedule Oct 14, 2025 visibility 13 link 2 artists

Knight Artist-in-Residence Michael Takeo Magruder Showcases Art, Mentors Students

Michael Takeo Magruder, the Knight Fund Distinguished Artist-in-Residence at Knox College, presented a new exhibition titled "re:GeneratedPrairie" at the Borzello Art Gallery in the Ford Center for the Fine Arts from September 16-30, 2025. The show featured digital prints, canvases, 4K videos, and soundscapes inspired by the prairie burn and regrowth at Knox's Green Oaks ecological site. Magruder, who has held over 300 exhibitions in 35 countries, was invited by Knight Distinguished Chair Robert M. Geraci and also mentored students during his residency, helping them with exhibition setup, curation, and offering critiques.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 7, 2025 visibility 16 link 2 artists

SLU art exhibition lets students connect personally with art

The SLU Contemporary Art Gallery opened its exhibition “To Make and Be Received: Analyzing the Artistic Process” on October 2, curated by Thomas Walton. The show features works by seven artists—Diana Appaix-Castro, Jessica Lynne Brown, Brooke Cassady, Danielle Fauth, Ben Hamburger, Keir Johnston, and Eric Whitaker—and runs through November 5. Unlike traditional exhibitions, visitors are asked to view the artwork without any prior context, then respond to reflective questions before listening to recorded artist interviews. An artist talk is scheduled for October 30, and the gallery’s next exhibition, “Fall 2025 Senior Exhibition,” opens November 20.

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

Citizen Recommends: LOOK HERE, Art for All

Haverford College's Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery is hosting 'LOOK HERE,' an exhibition curated by Jennifer Gilbert, Paige Donovan, and Mary Bevlock from the Center for Creative Works (CCW). The show features works by Philadelphia artists with physical, intellectual, and developmental disabilities, and is designed for multi-sensory access—including touch panels, audio descriptions, sniffable panels, and sensory backpacks—so that visitors of all abilities can experience the art. Artists include Kelly Brown, Cindy Gosselin, Clyde Henry, Tim Quinn, Brandon Spicer-Crawley, and Allen Yu.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 26, 2025 visibility 17 link 4 artists

Work of late Wilmington artist sees surge of national attention with 2 touring exhibits

The work of late Wilmington artist Minnie Evans is featured in two separate national exhibitions. One show, "The Visionary Art of Minnie Evans," is currently at the Boston Museum of Fine Art after opening at The Gund museum at Kenyon College, while a larger exhibition, "The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans," will open at Atlanta's High Museum of Art in November 2025 before traveling to New York's Whitney Museum in summer 2026. Evans, a self-taught artist who worked at Wilmington's Airlie Gardens and died in 1987, gained initial recognition in the 1960s after being discovered by photographer and art historian Nina Howell Starr, but had not been the subject of a major national gallery show since the 1990s.

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trending_up market schedule Sep 15, 2025 visibility 17 link 2 artists

Ovartaci at auction: The Art Brut master behind surreal figures and smoking phantoms

On September 23, Bruun Rasmussen will auction ten works by Ovartaci, the Danish Art Brut master born Louis Marcussen. Ovartaci, who lived at the psychiatric hospital in Risskov for 56 years, created surreal figures, abstract female forms, and distinctive 'smoking phantoms'—handcrafted cigarette holders turned into magical beings. His breakthrough came in 1979 with the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's 'Outsider' exhibition, and he has since been shown at the Venice Biennale and the CoBrA Museum of Modern Art. The online auction is already open for bidding, with a preview in Aarhus.

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Broomfield’s Buku Gallery Unveils New “Rekindled Spaces” Exhibit

Buku Gallery, a new pop-up art gallery in Broomfield, Colorado, has announced its upcoming exhibition “Rekindled Spaces,” running from September 12 to October 4, 2025. The show features eight Colorado artists—Mike Andrews, Missy Borden, Elissa Quist, Parker Rice, Lydia Riegle, Camie Rigirozzi, Eric Wall, and Mary Williams—presenting works in painting, sculpture, photography, and mixed media. Highlights include steel sculptures, abstract paintings, vivid oil works, and hand-cut weavings. The opening reception will be held on September 12 from 6 to 9 PM at the gallery, which operates as a rental space within Missy Borden Art Studio.

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article news schedule Aug 21, 2025 visibility 14 link 4 artists

‘We’ve faced immense new pressures’: Shanghai museum director on the challenges—and benefits—of going free entry

Shanghai’s Rockbund Art Museum (RAM) became one of the only private museums in China to offer free admission in May 2025, marking its 15th anniversary. The move initially required pre-booked timed entry via WeChat, but after city-wide guidance encouraged removing barriers, the museum eliminated the booking system, leading to long wait times and visitor complaints on social media. One visitor reported receiving an inappropriate response from the museum’s official account, prompting apologies from both the museum and its executive director and chief curator, X Zhu-Nowell. A hybrid system of day-ahead reservations and same-day walk-ins was later implemented.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 21, 2025 visibility 13 link 4 artists

UA Little Rock Kicks Off Fall Semester with New Exhibits

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UA Little Rock) has launched its fall semester by opening new art exhibits on campus. The exhibitions feature works by various artists and are intended to engage students and the local community with contemporary visual art.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 20, 2025 visibility 15 link 4 artists

LUMA’s Richard Hunt exhibition offers an inspiring message for young artists

Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA) opened "Freedom in Form: Richard Hunt" on July 11, 2025, running through November 15, 2025. Originally planned as a celebration of the renowned Chicago sculptor's career while he was still alive, the exhibition became a posthumous tribute after Hunt died on December 16, 2023, at age 88. The show originated at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum (ALPLM) in Springfield, suggested by Illinois First Lady MK Pritzker, and was later brought to LUMA in Hunt's hometown. It features sculptures, maquettes, tools, his personal workbench, and over 250 books from his library of 5,000 volumes, highlighting his seven-decade career and his role as an adjunct faculty member at Loyola University Chicago.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 19, 2025 visibility 21 link 3 artists

San Francisco’s de Young Museum opens revamped Native American art galleries

San Francisco's de Young Museum will unveil its newly reinstalled galleries of Native American art on August 26, following a years-long overhaul led by a group of predominantly Native curators. The reimagined spaces, called the Arts of Indigenous America galleries, feature contemporary works alongside historical pieces—some over 1,000 years old—as well as recent acquisitions and new commissions. One gallery focuses on Native California with rotating regional exhibits, while another covers all of North America, with ceramics, textiles, paintings, beadwork, and basketry arranged thematically. The museum consulted the communities of origin for historical pieces, as required by the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, and invited members to help interpret the works.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 8, 2025 visibility 17 link 15 artists

Simon Fraser University to open The Marianne and Edward Gibson Art Museum

Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, will open The Marianne and Edward Gibson Art Museum (The Gibson) on September 20, 2025. The 12,100-square-foot facility, designed by Siamak Hariri of Hariri Pontarini Architects with Iredale Architecture, is the university's first purpose-built gallery. It will consolidate SFU Galleries and house the SFU Art Collection of over 5,800 works. The inaugural exhibition, "Edge Effects," features 12 new or rarely seen works by Canadian artists, including 10 commissions, with artists such as Liz Magor, Lorna Brown, and Jin-me Yoon, alongside Cindy Mochizuki's "Arboreal Time."

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 5, 2025 visibility 17 link 12 artists

New Canadian art museum seeks to connect disparate disciplines and a university campus

Simon Fraser University (SFU) near Vancouver will open the Marianne and Edward Gibson Art Museum on September 20, its first purpose-built art museum. The inaugural exhibition, "Edge Effects," features 15 artists including Sameer Farooq, Liz Magor, Cindy Mochizuki, and Debra Sparrow, and reflects the interdisciplinary ethos of the original SFU campus designed by Arthur Erickson and Geoffrey Massey. The 12,000-square-foot building by Hariri Pontarini Architects and Iredale Architecture includes a research laboratory, art studio, courtyard, and salon, and will be admission-free.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 15, 2025 visibility 14 link 9 artists

Science inspired art on display at White City

Eight artworks created live during the Great Exhibition Road Festival, as part of the annual science-art project Paint Lab, will go on display at Imperial College London's White City campus from July 16 to September 18. The large-scale paintings were produced by local London artists collaborating with Imperial scientists, drawing inspiration from research topics such as space weather prediction, plant self-preservation, early Parkinson's detection, and human connection during cancer treatment. The festival, organized by Imperial in partnership with the Science Museum, Natural History Museum, and V&A, attracted 55,000 visitors.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 15, 2025 visibility 13 link 2 artists

LMU Student Art Featured in Design Museum of Chicago Exhibition

Nine studio arts students from Loyola Marymount University (LMU) have their poster designs featured in the Design Museum of Chicago's 2025 "Great Ideas of Humanity" exhibition. The students—Alfonzo Dave, Nicole Dressel, Olivia Giganti, John Leary, Jestene Passolt, Leila Walker, Dezia Washington, Lucien Weber, and Eddie Young—created the works as part of Professor Garland Kirkpatrick's Typography II course. The museum selected all nine student designs for the professional exhibition, where they are displayed alongside their professor's work, rather than in the museum's student showcase.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 9, 2025 visibility 13 link 9 artists

King Charles Shares Art from His Personal Collection for an Inside Look at Royal Tours

King Charles and Queen Camilla held a reception on July 9, 2025, to celebrate a new exhibition at Buckingham Palace featuring 72 artworks from the monarch's personal collection. The works, created by artists who accompanied Charles on foreign tours over the past 40 years, include paintings, sketches, and even an iPad image. The exhibition, titled "The King’s Tour Artists," opens to the public from July 10 to September 28 and marks the summer opening of the palace. Charles began inviting artists on tours in 1985, and since then, 43 artists have joined him on 70 tours to 95 countries, with the King acquiring at least one piece from each artist.

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Column | I road-tripped the Midwest’s best art museums. It was anything but an escape.

Art critic Sebastian Smee embarked on a summer road trip to visit seven major art museums across five Midwestern cities over five days. The column reflects on how the rapid succession of artworks and ideas from these institutions—ranging from the Art Institute of Chicago to the Cleveland Museum of Art—creates oblique connections and correspondences, both among the works themselves and between art and the outside world. Smee describes the experience as anything but an escape, as the art continually mirrors real-world events and emotions.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 9, 2025 visibility 18 link 5 artists

Never Before Seen Art From King Charles’s Royal Tours Debuts at Buckingham Palace

A new exhibition titled "The King's Tour Artists" has opened in the Buckingham Palace Ballroom, showcasing over 70 works from King Charles III's private collection. The artworks, created by 43 different artists during 70 royal tours to 95 countries and regions since 1985, are displayed together for the first time. The exhibition was viewed by the King and Queen during a reception marking 40 years of the King's initiative to bring artists on official tours. Highlights include a 1985 watercolor from Italy and 2007 portraits of Charles and Camilla by James Hart Dyke from a visit to the Gulf States. The show runs from July 10 to September 10, 2025, as part of the Palace's summer opening.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 8, 2025 visibility 16 link 8 artists

As an Emily Kam Kngwarray survey opens at Tate Modern this week, contemporary Indigenous artists are finally taking centre stage in the UK

Tate Modern opens its first major exhibition of Indigenous Australian artist Emily Kam Kngwarray (c. 1914–96), featuring over 70 works including early batiks and vast late-career paintings. The show, adapted from a presentation at the National Gallery of Australia, is co-curated by Hetti Perkins and Kelli Cole, who emphasize presenting Kngwarray's work within its Anmatyerr cultural context rather than through a Western abstraction lens. Concurrently, London's Camden Art Centre hosts an exhibition of Duane Linklater and his family, and a Manchester show features Santiago Yahuarcani, signaling a broader UK focus on contemporary Indigenous artists.

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Tate chair floats selling Turbine Hall naming rights for ‘a minimum of £50m’

Tate chair of trustees Roland Rudd has suggested that naming rights for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern could cost a minimum of £50 million. The proposal, reported by The Telegraph, is tied to the institution's new Tate Future Fund, launched last week with a goal of reaching £150 million by 2030. Rudd stated that endowing curators, directors, or naming the iconic space are all potential options for donors, though a Tate spokesperson emphasized the comments were hypothetical and the fundraising campaign is just beginning.

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