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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 5, 2025 visibility 23 link 23 artists, 5 galleries

Dealers get creative pairing artists at Duet—just don’t call it an art fair

Duet, a pop-up exhibition conceived by curators Zoe Lukov and Kyle DeWoody, debuts in Manhattan’s Financial District with 11 galleries and a group show running until 8 September. Housed in the WSA building, each gallery occupies a glass-walled meeting room and pairs two artists around a thematic connection—such as Pace showing Nina Katchadourian with Matthew Day Jackson, or Galerie Sardine pairing Jenna Kaës with Anthony Banks. A group exhibition features works by Marina Abramović, Lynda Benglis, Maya Lin, Radcliffe Bailey, Karon Davis, Miles Greenberg, Carlos Motta, Sam Moyer, Brendan Fernandes, and Naama Tsabar, with performances by Fernandes and Tsabar.

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“Feeling Color” at The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

The article reviews "Feeling Color: Aubrey Williams and Frank Bowling" at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, an exhibition that pairs works by two artists from Guyana who worked in London in the late 20th century. Both explore abstraction, materials, and sociopolitical themes, with Bowling's color field paintings and Williams' geometric, Pre-Columbian-inspired works displayed in alternating galleries. The reviewer describes the show as dense and vibrant, noting the sensory experience of the paintings and the subtle dialogue between the artists.

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article local schedule Jun 24, 2025 visibility 18 link 5 artists

Fort Worth’s 7 Must-See Museum Exhibits This Summer

Fort Worth's top museums are presenting seven must-see exhibitions this summer, ranging from a deep dive into the life of primatologist Jane Goodall at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History to a joint survey of abstract painters Aubrey Williams and Frank Bowling at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Other highlights include a hands-on exploration of indigenous knowledge in 'Roots of Wisdom,' a survey of pop-culture-infused paintings by Alex Da Corte, and a behind-the-scenes look at photographer Richard Avedon's process at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.

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Ahead of new fair in 2026, Qatar takes centre stage at Art Basel

Qatar is making a major push at Art Basel this week, highlighted by the announcement of Art Basel Qatar, a new fair launching in February 2026. Models of upcoming cultural venues, including the Herzog & de Meuron-designed Lusail Museum, are on display in the Collectors Lounge, while Qatar Airways has announced a global partnership with Art Basel. Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani made a rare public appearance, speaking on a panel about the country's cultural ambitions and the role of art in addressing post-colonial identity and conflict.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 3, 2025 visibility 10 link 2 artists, 1 gallery

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Artist Antonio Pichillá Quiacaín, born in 1982 and based in San Pedro La Laguna, Guatemala, presents his solo exhibition “Umbilical Cord” at Elizabeth Xi Bauer gallery in London. The show, on view through August 2, 2025, features new and recent works that explore Maya visual culture, Indigenous craft traditions, and the knot as both a formal element and a metaphor for connection, life, and time. A 3:22-minute video from 2021 shows the artist in a forest with traditional weaving materials, while the exhibition also marks the gallery’s announcement of representing the artist.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 16, 2026 visibility 9 link 8 artists, 1 gallery

Contemporary Indian Art at the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg is hosting "Sediments of Becoming: Fossilised Present, Summoned Pasts," an exhibition curated by Marina Schulz and Tunty Chauhan that features works by eleven contemporary Indian artists, including Afrah Shafiq, Anindita Bhattacharya, Debashish Mukherjee, and others. The show positions contemporary Indian artistic practice within a broader international and civilisational discourse, set against the Hermitage's historic backdrop of over three million objects spanning centuries.

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article news schedule Apr 21, 2026 visibility 21 link 5 artists, 1 gallery

Interview: Lukas Amacher Is Building a Chatbot for the Art World

Curator, collector, and entrepreneur Lukas Amacher, in partnership with developer David Simon, has launched CONTXT, an A.I.-powered chatbot platform designed for art exhibitions. The software allows visitors to ask questions about artworks via a chat interface, with answers sourced directly from an institution's curated materials like catalog essays and curator notes, rather than generic internet searches. The platform is currently being tested in a public preview with bitforms gallery.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 5, 2025 visibility 18 link 8 artists, 2 galleries

Art Basel Miami Beach Diary: big feet, big muscles and big voices descend on Miami

Art Basel Miami Beach 2024 has kicked off with a series of high-energy events, including a Japanese women's wrestling match at the Miami Beach Bandshell featuring the Sukeban league, where Ichigo Sayaka was crowned victor with a belt designed by Marc Newson. The fair also features a performance by Diana Ross at Alex Prager's Mirage Factory launch, a set by rapper 2 Chainz at Soho Beach House, and notable artworks such as Sadao Hasegawa's erotic paintings at Garth Greenan's stand and Pat Oleszko's 13ft-tall inflatable 'Big Foots' at the David Peter Francis stand.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 22, 2025 visibility 14 link 10 artists, 1 gallery

Spencer Finch and Lindsay Adams to create large-scale commissions for Obama Presidential Center

The Obama Presidential Center has commissioned new site-specific works by artists Spencer Finch and Lindsay Adams for its 19-acre campus in Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood. Finch will create a wall tile installation inspired by the color palettes of Honolulu, Nairobi, Jakarta, and Chicago—cities formative to Barack Obama's life—while Adams will translate her 2024 painting "Weary Blues" into silkscreened fabric panels for the public cafe. The center, opening in the first half of 2026, will feature over 20 commissioned artworks, including previously announced pieces by Maya Lin, Richard Hunt, and Julie Mehretu.

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person people schedule Apr 15, 2026 visibility 18 link 4 artists

The Bennett Prize Opens Fifth Call for Entries

The Bennett Prize has launched its fifth call for entries, inviting women figurative realist painters to compete for a newly increased grand prize of $75,000. The award, established by collectors Steven Alan Bennett and Dr. Elaine Melotti Schmidt, includes a two-year stipend and a traveling solo exhibition that debuts at the Muskegon Museum of Art. Applications are open through September 19, 2026, with a jury featuring prominent figures like curator Miranda Lash and artist Julie Heffernan.

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article news schedule Apr 9, 2026 visibility 38 link 25 artists

Obama Presidential Center announces new work by Jeffrey Gibson, Rashid Johnson, Lorna Simpson.

The Obama Foundation has unveiled the final group of artists commissioned to create site-specific works for the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago. This prestigious roster includes Jeffrey Gibson, Rashid Johnson, Lorna Simpson, and Njideka Akunyili Crosby, whose works will be integrated into the 19.3-acre campus. The announcement completes the artistic vision for the center, which aims to blend public space with high-caliber contemporary art when it opens on June 19th.

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article culture schedule Mar 20, 2026 visibility 47 link 7 artists

7 Contemporary Artists to Follow If You Like Cecily Brown

The article presents a curated list of seven contemporary artists whose work shares aesthetic or thematic connections with the painter Cecily Brown. It highlights artists like Jenna Gribbon, known for intimate, luminous portraits; Issy Wood, who blends Old Master techniques with contemporary malaise; and others such as Flora Yukhnovich, Doron Langberg, Louis Fratino, Maia Cruz Palileo, and Somaya Critchlow, each exploring figuration, sensuality, and painterly abstraction in distinct ways.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 17, 2026 visibility 25 link 8 artists

Qatar Pavilion Announces Artists for 2026 Venice Biennale

The Qatar Pavilion has unveiled its artist lineup and conceptual framework for the 61st Venice Biennale in 2026. Titled "untitled 2026 (a gathering of remarkable people)," the exhibition will feature a collaborative presentation centered around a tent-like structure designed by Rirkrit Tiravanija. The pavilion will include a film by Sophia Al-Maria, a large-scale sculpture by Alia Farid, sound performances by Tarek Atoui, and a culinary program curated by chef Fadi Kattan, all hosted within a temporary site in the Giardini designed by architect Lina Ghotmeh.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 5, 2026 visibility 15 link 4 artists

Venice exhibition of site-specific films aims to capture the hyper stimulating times we are living in

The Fondazione In Between Art Film presents "Canicula," the third and final exhibition in its Trilogy of Uncertainties, opening on 6 May at the Complesso dell’Ospedaletto in Venice. Curated by Leonardo Bigazzi, the show features eight newly commissioned site-specific films that explore themes of excess, sensory overload, and geopolitical tension. Works include Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk's "Affirmations" (2026), depicting fictional deathbed testimonies of Russian soldiers, Lawrence Abu Hamdan's "450XL: The Story of a Fugitive Sound" (2026) about a sonic attack in Belgrade, and Maya Watanabe's "Jarkov" (2025-26) reflecting on Arctic ice melt and Pleistocene remains.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 12, 2026 visibility 16 link 15 artists

A festival of young European photography

The 16th edition of the Circulation(s) festival has launched at the Centquatre-Paris, showcasing the work of 26 emerging European photographers. Running from March 21 to May 17, 2026, the exhibition highlights contemporary projects that reflect the current intuitions, social commitments, and creative challenges facing the next generation of lens-based artists.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 21, 2026 visibility 14 link 2 artists

Marina Xenofontos on Representing Cyprus at the 61st Venice Biennale

Artist Marina Xenofontos will represent Cyprus at the 61st Venice Biennale in 2026. Her exhibition, centered on an animatronic sparrow titled 'Passer' and incorporating folk songs recorded by her grandmother and great-aunts, explores themes of memory, endurance, and the quiet persistence of culture.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 23, 2026 visibility 26 link 10 artists, 1 gallery

‘Studio Iron’ to Launch at Saatchi Yates, Blurring the Boundaries Between Art and Design

Saatchi Yates is partnering with creative director and makeup artist Isamaya Ffrench to launch Studio Iron, a new design gallery whose inaugural exhibition opens April 30 and runs through June 7, 2026. The show presents a dense, post-industrial landscape dominated by steel and iron, featuring works by artists including Jannis Kounellis, Paul McCarthy, Jordan Wolfson, Anne Imhof, Marina Abramovic, Nico Vascellari, and others. Furniture, sculpture, installation, and painting collide in a space that resists categorization, hovering between function and non-function, utility and image.

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Guatemala stakes claim to stone lintel by 'the Michelangelo of the pre-Columbian era' that was repatriated to Mexico

A Maya stone lintel, dating from AD600-AD900 and depicting a ritual scene associated with the ruler Cheleew Chan K'inich, was repatriated to Mexico on April 16 after being turned over to the Mexican consulate in New York by an unnamed US businessman. However, hours after the ceremony, experts determined the lintel actually originated from Guatemala's Petén Basin. Guatemala's cultural ministry, led by minister Luis Méndez Salinas, has formally requested the object's return through diplomatic channels, citing technical analysis and consultations with archaeologists.

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Bad Bunny, the Puerto Rican musician, touched a Mayan stela on display at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City and posted an image of the act on Instagram. Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) publicly reprimanded him, stating that physical contact with archaeological property is prohibited and that security staff had repeatedly warned him. The post has since been deleted.

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article news schedule May 14, 2025 visibility 13

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YouTube megastar MrBeast (James Donaldson) released a video titled "I Survived 100 Hours in an Ancient Temple" on May 10, amassing over 55 million views in four days. Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) confirmed that the production had full permission from federal and state authorities to film at Mayan archaeological sites including Chichén Itzá, Calakmul, and Balamcanché, and that all shoots occurred in public areas without disrupting other visitors. However, INAH also pointed out several inaccuracies in the final cut: no drones were flown inside El Castillo, no helicopter descents occurred, no one spent the night at a site, and a funerary mask shown in the video was a contemporary reproduction, not an authentic artifact.

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article local schedule May 1, 2026 visibility 16 link 7 artists

Students Selected for Autry Museum's Arts Exhibition

Twenty-seven students from South Pasadena High School have been selected to exhibit their work in the Autry Museum of the American West's "Visions of Humanity" student show, marking the largest number of SPHS students ever accepted into the exhibition. The display runs through May 31 at the Autry Museum in Griffith Park, featuring fourteen students in painting and drawing and thirteen in photography, taught by teachers Rouzanna Berberian and Aimee Levie-Hultman.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 30, 2026 visibility 20 link 1 artist

National Museum of Asian Art Presents Paintings From India’s Himalayan Kingdoms in New Exhibition

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, DC, has announced a new exhibition titled “Of the Hills: Pahari Paintings from India’s Himalayan Kingdoms,” running from April 18 to July 26, 2026. The show features 48 paintings and colored drawings, including canonical masterpieces and never-before-seen works, drawn largely from the museum’s 2017–2018 acquisitions of the Ralph Benkaim and Catherine Glynn Benkaim collection. The exhibition explores three key periods from 1620 to 1830, highlighting the collaborative creativity of artists in the small Hindu kingdoms of the Himalayan region.

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article local schedule Apr 22, 2026 visibility 12 link 7 artists

SPUSD Snapshot | 27 SPHS Artists Juried into Autry Museum Exhibition

Twenty-seven students from South Pasadena High School (SPHS) had their artwork selected for the "Visions of Humanity" student exhibition at the Autry Museum of the American West. The selected works span painting, drawing, and photography and will be on display at the museum from April 18 to May 31, 2026.

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article local schedule Apr 16, 2026 visibility 14 link 2 artists

UBC Okanagan art students curate final-year exhibition

Graduating students from the University of British Columbia Okanagan (UBCO) are launching their annual year-end exhibition, titled "Odds and Ends." The showcase features a diverse array of works from Bachelor of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Media Studies students, spanning traditional mediums like painting and sculpture to digital media, game design, and immersive art. The exhibition is the result of a year-long collaborative effort between the two programs, culminating in a public showcase held at the Creative and Critical Studies Building.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 18, 2025 visibility 13 link 4 artists

Emerging Voices at AMA

The Arlington Museum of Art (AMA) presents the Annual Juried UTA Student Exhibition from October 30, 2025, through February 22, 2026, featuring 27 graduate and undergraduate students from the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). The exhibition was juried and curated by Clare Milliken, Assistant Curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, who selected works across bronze, blown glass, painting, photography, sculpture, and video art. UTA painting faculty Benjamin Terry coordinated the show for the second year, noting a shift toward introspective, material-focused works compared to last year's politically charged selections.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 16, 2025 visibility 15 link 3 artists

National Museum of Asian Art Presents Paintings From India’s Himalayan Kingdoms in New Exhibition

The Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art announced a new exhibition, "Of the Hills: Pahari Paintings from India's Himalayan Kingdoms," on view from April 18 to July 26, 2026. Featuring 48 paintings and colored drawings, the show includes canonical masterpieces and never-before-displayed works from the renowned Benkaim Collection, acquired by the museum in 2017–2018. The exhibition explores collaboration and creativity across three key periods from 1620 to 1830, highlighting intricate details, naturalistic figures, and vivid stylizations created with materials like ground pigments, beetle wings, and gold.

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trending_up market schedule Dec 15, 2025 visibility 11 link 2 artists

Istanbul Modern’s Gala sees record interest led by Azade Koker’s 'Orchestra'

Istanbul Modern's annual Gala Modern fundraising auction raised ₺29.6 million (over $693,000) through the sale of 12 artworks, with Azade Köker's specially created collage 'Orchestra' achieving the top price of ₺6 million (over $140,500). The event, held at the museum during a private gala, featured a Support Auction with contributions from 13 Turkish and international artists, drawing collectors, patrons, and cultural figures including Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 23, 2025 visibility 12 link 1 artist

The Walters Art Museum: New leadership and a new exhibition

The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore has appointed Kate Burgin as its new director, succeeding Dr. Julia Alexander, who left the museum after 11 years to run a foundation in New York and passed away suddenly at age 57 earlier this month. Burgin, previously the museum's deputy director, now leads the institution while the community mourns Alexander's loss. Meanwhile, the museum has opened its first permanent exhibition of Latin American art, featuring works from over 40 cultures across North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 14, 2025 visibility 12 link 3 artists

2025 MFA Thesis Exhibition Transforms the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery

On April 26, 2025, the School of the Arts held its annual MFA Thesis Exhibition at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, featuring twenty-nine emerging and established artists. Curated by Amal Issa, the show spans a wide range of mediums including installations, videos, paintings, drawings, and sculptures, with many works exploring themes of memory, ancestry, and identity. Notable pieces include Maya Dixon's immersive installation using gourds and found objects, Daniel Castro's surreal cityscapes, and Ridwana Rahman's interactive carpet piece that invites reflection on direction and prayer.

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A Gerhard Richter pavilion and a new creative visa—Qatar’s Sheikha al-Mayassa reveals future plans

Sheikha al-Mayassa, chair of Qatar Museums and a leading collector, revealed significant cultural initiatives during a talk at the inaugural Art Basel Qatar fair. She announced a new "creative visa" to attract artists, with Egyptian artist Wael Shawky as the first recipient, and confirmed a Gerhard Richter pavilion will open in November as part of the Rubaiya Qatar quadrennial. She also highlighted upcoming institutions like the Art Mill museum and the Lusail Museum.

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