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museum exhibitions schedule May 4, 2026 visibility 18 link 2 artists

lina lapelytė fills hamburger bahnhof with 400,000 cubes, inviting visitors to build and sing

Lithuanian artist Lina Lapelytė has filled Berlin's Hamburger Bahnhof museum with 400,000 lightweight foam cubes, creating an interactive installation titled "The Singing Cube." Visitors are invited to stack, carry, and rebuild the cubes while participating in collective singing performances, transforming the museum into a participatory sound and sculpture environment. The installation evolves over time through the collaborative actions of participants, blending architecture, music, and social interaction.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 30, 2026 visibility 26 link 5 artists

50 years of art-inspired floral installations at the MFA

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its annual 'Art in Bloom' event, where floral designers and volunteers from 50 garden clubs and community organizations create arrangements inspired by artworks in the museum's collection. This year, participants were assigned to 50 objects, including John Singer Sargent's 1895 painting 'Helen Sears,' which was featured in the inaugural 1976 event. The tradition was conceived by Chuck Thomas to boost early spring attendance, and has grown from 18 arrangements drawing 4,300 visitors to becoming the museum's largest public event, attracting 29,000 visitors in 2025.

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article local schedule Apr 27, 2026 visibility 22 link 2 artists

Kids Day: When Nature Becomes Art

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice offers a free weekly workshop series called "Kids Day" for children aged 4 to 10, held on Sundays at 3 pm. The upcoming session, "When Nature Becomes Art," introduces young participants to collage techniques inspired by Surrealist artists such as Eileen Agar and André Masson, who used natural materials like shells, sand, feathers, and plants. The program includes a brief guided tour of the museum followed by a hands-on art workshop, conducted in Italian with interpretation available upon request.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 16, 2026 visibility 25 link 9 artists

Norton Museum showcases women artists like few others

The Norton Museum of Art is celebrating the 15th anniversary of its "Recognition of Art by Women" (RAW) series with a solo exhibition by painter Danielle Mckinney titled "Shelter" and a retrospective of past participants. Since its inception in 2011, the RAW initiative has provided a significant platform for mid-career women artists, featuring notable figures such as Jenny Saville and Rose B. Simpson. Mckinney’s exhibition, curated by J. Rachel Gustafson, explores themes of domestic and mental interiority through intimate, spotlighted paintings that often reference art historical canon.

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article local schedule Apr 7, 2026 visibility 28 link 5 artists

Gallery One plans bus trip to ‘A Nation of Artists’ in Philadelphia

Gallery One in Ocean View is organizing a curated bus excursion to the Philadelphia Museum of Art for the landmark exhibition "A Nation of Artists." Scheduled for April 27, the trip offers participants a guided opportunity to view a massive survey of American creativity spanning three centuries, featuring masterworks by iconic figures such as Mary Cassatt, Edward Hopper, and Mark Rothko.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 6, 2026 visibility 22 link 3 artists

Objekt/Object—An Order of Things and the Construction of the World

Malmö Konstmuseum has announced its annual seminar, "Objekt/Object: An Order of Things and the Construction of the World," scheduled for April 16, 2026. The event features a series of lectures and panel discussions involving international scholars, curators, and artists, including philosopher Roman Krznaric and professor Ariella Aïsha Azoulay. The seminar uses the museum's current exhibition, "An Order of Things," as a case study to examine how historical classification systems and contemporary curatorial choices shape collective memory and societal values.

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museum exhibitions schedule Mar 19, 2026 visibility 27 link 8 artists

to Exhibit Recognized Works From New York City Participants in the 2025 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has launched the eleventh annual New York City Scholastic Art & Writing Awards exhibition, titled "Filling in the Gaps." Hosted at the Uris Center for Education, the showcase features 316 artworks and 300 literary pieces from local students in grades 7–12 who earned the prestigious Gold Key distinction. The exhibition highlights original works in painting, printmaking, and drawing, while providing digital access to the winning writing entries.

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museum exhibitions schedule Mar 5, 2026 visibility 29 link 13 artists

Lee Ufan retrospective will be among 2026 Venice Biennale collateral events

The Venice Biennale has announced 31 official collateral events for its 2026 edition, headlined by a major Lee Ufan retrospective at the San Marco Art Centre. Curated by Dia Art Foundation director Jessica Morgan, the exhibition will celebrate the artist's 90th birthday by tracing his seven-decade career from the Mono-ha movement to his recent dimensional paintings. Other notable collateral participants include national presentations from Scotland and Wales, a floating synagogue installation by Ukrainian artist Anna Kamyshan, and a Gaza-focused exhibition organized by the Palestine Museum US.

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museum exhibitions schedule Feb 25, 2026 visibility 25 link 98 artists

Venice Biennale Names 111 Artists for International Exhibition

The Venice Biennale has officially announced the 111 artists, duos, and collectives selected for the 61st International Art Exhibition, titled "In Minor Keys." The exhibition follows the vision of the late Cameroonian curator Koyo Kouoh, who passed away in May 2024 after conceptualizing the show and selecting the majority of its participants. The roster features a diverse global lineup including Wangechi Mutu, Kader Attia, Khaled Sabsabi, and Laurie Anderson, with a curatorial focus on quiet resistance, poetic improvisation, and the "lower frequencies" of social and psychic life.

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museum exhibitions schedule Feb 23, 2026 visibility 15 link 2 artists

UK exhibition celebrates the artisans throughout history who went to war

The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge is launching "War Craft," an exhibition dedicated to art and objects created by non-professional soldiers on or near the front lines. Curated by Richard Kelleher, the show features a diverse array of items ranging from First World War shell cases engraved by the Chinese Labour Corps to a contemporary Ukrainian ammunition tin decorated with Sharpie drawings. The collection includes scavenged battlefield materials transformed into personal mementos, alongside significant works by established artists like J.M.W. Turner, John Singer Sargent, and C.R.W. Nevinson.

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museum exhibitions schedule Feb 12, 2026 visibility 22 link 12 artists

This year's Carnegie International will feature 61 artists, including Jasleen Kaur and Li Yi-Fan

The Carnegie Museum of Art has announced the full list of 61 artists and collectives for the 59th Carnegie International, which opens in May. The exhibition will feature a record 36 new commissions and includes notable participants such as 2024 Turner Prize-winner Jasleen Kaur and Li Yi-Fan, who will represent Taiwan at the Venice Biennale, alongside a significant number of Indigenous artists.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 30, 2026 visibility 16 link 11 artists

Scholastic Art Awards – Wisconsin Exhibition Opens January 31 at the Milwaukee Art Museum

The Milwaukee Art Museum is opening the 2026 Scholastic Art Awards: Wisconsin Exhibition, showcasing over 350 award-winning works by students in grades 7–12 from across the state. The exhibition, which runs from January 31 to March 15, marks the 50th anniversary of the museum hosting this prestigious student competition.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 21, 2026 visibility 17 link 4 artists

Marina Abramović rolls into Davos with an immersive project that encourages world leaders to take a digital detox

Marina Abramović has unveiled a new immersive work titled THE BUS at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, running until 23 January. The piece, part mobile sculpture and part meditation capsule, invites world leaders and participants to step away from the forum's intense schedule for a digital detox and inner reflection using the Abramović Method. The project was curated by Mirjam Varadinis, curator-at-large at the Kunsthaus Zürich, and developed through Abramović's institute (MAI). It marks Abramović's debut at the WEF, which this year also features eco-artist Thijs Biersteker, multimedia artist Ronen Tanchum, and street artist JR.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 13, 2026 visibility 20 link 37 artists

The Aldrich Names Artists for First-Ever Decennial

The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Connecticut has announced the 40 participating artists for its first-ever Aldrich Decennial, a survey exhibition titled "I am what is around me." Opening June 7 and running through January 10, 2027, the show focuses on artists living and working in Connecticut who have never had a solo museum exhibition in the state. Notable participants include painter Dominic Chambers, multimedia artist Arghavan Khosravi, and novelist-poet Renee Gladman. The exhibition draws its title from a 1917 poem by Wallace Stevens, a longtime Connecticut resident.

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article culture schedule Jan 9, 2026 visibility 15 link 5 artists, 1 gallery

Comment | In worrying times for politics and the environment, art can still provide hope

In a reflective essay for 2026, the author draws on conversations with artists Luc Tuymans and Olafur Eliasson from the "A brush with…" podcast to explore art's capacity to offer hope amid political and environmental crises. Eliasson discusses his climate-focused works like the glacier melt series "1999/2019" and his despair after COP30, emphasizing action over hope, while Tuymans addresses political trauma through his exhibition at David Zwirner, including a riff on Géricault's "The Raft of the Medusa" that compares the United States to a fruit basket.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 21, 2025 visibility 27 link 3 artists, 35 galleries

Frieze lines up more than 95 exhibitors for next Los Angeles fair

Frieze Los Angeles will return to Santa Monica Airport from February 26 to March 1, 2026, for its seventh edition, featuring more than 95 galleries from 22 countries. The fair includes returning blue-chip participants like Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, and David Zwirner, alongside a strong local Los Angeles gallery presence and more than a half-dozen first-time exhibitors. Special sectors include Sector for emerging artists, supported by Stone Island and curated by Essence Harden, and outdoor commissions organized with Art Production Fund. The Deutsche Bank Frieze Los Angeles Film Award and the Frieze Impact Prize, presented with Titus Kaphar’s Nxthvn incubator, will also return.

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article culture schedule Nov 14, 2025 visibility 11 link 6 artists

Inside the 19th-century Parisian club that became a safe haven for female artists

Art historian Jennifer Dasal's new book "The Club" tells the story of the American Girls' Club, a Parisian safe haven founded in 1893 by Elisabeth Mills Reid at 4 Rue de Chevreuse in Montparnasse. The club provided affordable housing and meals for aspiring female American artists who faced obstacles their male counterparts did not, including societal pressure toward marriage, financial constraints, and safety concerns. Notable residents and participants included painters Anne Goldthwaite, Florence Lundborg, and sculptors Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller and Alice Morgan Wright, whose works and lives are chronicled in Dasal's account.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 11, 2025 visibility 22 link 11 artists

59th Carnegie International's inaugural artist commissions revealed

Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh has announced the first 14 artists for its 59th Carnegie International, running from May 2026 to January 2027. Participants include Torkwase Dyson, Alia Farid, Sanchayan Ghosh, Jonathan González, Abraham González Pacheco, Eric Gyamfi, G. Peter Jemison, Liz Johnson Artur, Arturo Kameya, Claudia Martínez Garay, Cinthia Marcelle, Shala Miller, Brooke O’Harra, Sofu Teshigahara, and Ginger Brooks Takahashi. The exhibition, curated by Ryan Inouye, Liz Park, and Danielle A. Jackson, will feature commissions across multiple disciplines, including a planetarium animation, sound installations, photography, performance, and public outdoor works. Venues include the Carnegie Museum of Art, Children’s Museum, Kamin Science Center, Mattress Factory, and Thelma Lovette YMCA.

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

One Way to Shake Up Museum Curation? Hand the Keys to the Kids.

Museums across the United States are experimenting with youth-curated exhibitions, handing curatorial authority to teenagers and children. The Orange County Museum of Art's "Piece of Me" exhibition, part of its larger biennial, was organized by 15 members of the Orange County Young Curators program, who surveyed the museum's collection, selected a theme and artworks, collaborated with conservators and designers, and wrote wall text. Similar initiatives are underway at the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where young people are curating shows with staff guidance.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 10, 2025 visibility 93 link 8 artists

An exhibition in New York City takes on censorship in the art world

Art at a Time Like This, a non-profit organization, has opened the exhibition 'Don’t Look Now' in New York City's Nolita neighborhood (October 10–25), featuring 24 contemporary artists whose work has been censored or blacklisted. Participants include Marilyn Minter, Shepard Fairey, Dread Scott, Danielle SeeWalker, and Yvonne Iten-Scott, whose pieces were removed from shows, rescinded from residencies, or targeted by officials due to political content. The exhibition responds to the Trump administration's crackdown on free speech in the culture sector, including mass layoffs at the NEA and NEH, proposed funding cuts, and canceled shows at institutions like the Smithsonian.

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article policy schedule Sep 12, 2025 visibility 15 link 6 artists

Nicholas Galanin pulls out of Smithsonian event, claiming censorship

Nicholas Galanin, a multidisciplinary artist and member of the Sitka Tribe of Alaska, withdrew from a symposium hosted by the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM), citing government censorship. The symposium accompanies the exhibition *The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture*, which President Donald Trump labeled as “divisive” and “race-centred” in a March 27 executive order. Galanin alleged that the event was made private with a curated guest list and that he was asked not to record or share it on social media. SAAM denied the censorship claims, stating the event was never publicly listed and that participants were encouraged to share with their networks. Galanin’s 2016 work *The Imaginary Indian (Totem Pole)* is featured in the exhibition.

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article news schedule Aug 29, 2025 visibility 13 link 3 artists

Want to be a museum influencer? London’s National Gallery launches open call for content creators

London's National Gallery has launched an open call for its next cohort of content creators as part of its 200 Creators programme. Following the success of the inaugural 2024 initiative—which generated 42 million views and 2.2 million engagements—the museum is now seeking 50 new social media influencers (applications due by 31 August). Selected creators will receive access to exhibition previews, workshops, out-of-hours gallery access, and four paid opportunities of £4,000 each. Applicants are suggested to have at least 50,000 followers on YouTube, 100,000 on Instagram, or 50,000 followers with a million likes on TikTok, though the museum encourages those with followings on other platforms to apply.

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article news schedule Aug 19, 2025 visibility 14 link 4 artists

Israeli art spaces and workers join nationwide strike and protests, calling for hostage deal and end to war in Gaza

On 17 August, a nationwide strike and protests swept across Israel, with organizers estimating 2.5 million participants demanding a hostage deal and an end to the war in Gaza. Israeli art spaces and workers joined the action: the Tel Aviv Museum of Art closed operationally but opened its lobby to protesters and projected Michal Rovner's video work *Signaling (2024)* on its façade; the Israel Museum illuminated its Shrine of the Book in yellow; the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and Shenkar College also struck, while the Mishkan Museum of Art ceased activities in solidarity.

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article local schedule Aug 8, 2025 visibility 13 link 5 artists

Artists who didn’t make Minnesota State Fair get second chance in ‘Rejects’ show

The article reports on the 2025 'State Fair Rejects' show at Douglas Flanders & Associates Gallery in Minneapolis, which accepts artworks that were not selected for the Minnesota State Fair's juried fine arts exhibition. Artist Attila Ray Dabasi, who had been accepted regularly in the past but was rejected this year, is among about 75 participants displaying works like his sculpture 'Armageddon.' The gallery, led by owner Doug Flanders, started the show last year to give rejected artists a second chance to exhibit and sell their work, with all drop-offs accepted. The State Fair received 2,834 submissions but only 337 were chosen, highlighting the competitive nature of the fair.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 1, 2025 visibility 19 link 1 artist

Meet the Curator: Informal Conversation on Monet’s Floating Worlds

The Portland Art Museum is hosting a series of informal, interactive conversations with curators and a conservator about the exhibition "Monet’s Floating Worlds at Giverny." Participants include Jeannie Kenmotsu, The Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Curator of Asian Art, and Hugo Torii, Garden Curator at Portland Japanese Garden. The free events explore connections between Monet’s waterlilies, Japanese printmaking, and conservation, encouraging open discussion and audience engagement.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 28, 2025 visibility 17 link 11 artists, 1 gallery

Works by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith and Reena Saini Kallat to go on sale as Frieze Sculpture returns to London

Frieze Sculpture returns to London's Regent's Park for its 13th edition, running from September 17 to November 2, 2025, alongside Frieze London and Frieze Masters. Curated by Fatoş Üstek under the theme "In the Shadows," the exhibition features works by 14 artists, including the late Jaune Quick-to-See Smith and Reena Saini Kallat. All sculptures are for sale, with highlights including Andy Holden's bronze bird-song pieces, Kallat's sound sculpture using calls of extinct birds, and Smith's tribute to Indigenous memory. Other participants include David Altmejd, Grace Schwindt, Henrique Oliveira, Timur Si-Qin, Burçak Bingöl, Assemble, and Abdollah Nafisi.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 17, 2025 visibility 18 link 4 artists, 5 galleries

Basel's new satellite fair rides the wave of interest in contemporary African art

A new satellite art fair called Africa Basel has launched in Basel, Switzerland, founded by artist Benjamin Füglister and Photo Basel director Sven Eisenhut-Hug. The fair brings together 18 galleries, half from Africa, in a 14th-century building that once housed Dieter Roth's studio. Participants include non-commercial organizations like Ghana's Nubuke Foundation and Zambia's Modzi Arts, with prices ranging from SFr3,000 to SFr150,000. The fair aims to provide a platform for galleries specializing in contemporary African art and its diaspora to enter the global scene.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 6, 2025 visibility 29 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 May 8, 2025 visibility 18 link 13 artists

Could 17th-century Italy provide a useful model for today’s challenging art market?

An exhibition at Nicholas Hall Gallery in New York, titled "Beyond the Fringe," explores the understudied early art market of 17th-century Italy, featuring 30 works on loan from public and private collections. The show highlights how barbers, tailors, innkeepers, and other tradespeople became part-time art dealers, while a decentralized network of collectors and middlemen emerged alongside foreign artists in Rome, such as the Bentvueghels, who produced new genres like landscape and genre scenes. The exhibition and its catalogue, with new research by art historians Patrizia Cavazzini and Caterina Volpi, trace the rise of art as an alternative asset class independent of traditional aristocratic and ecclesiastical patronage.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 29, 2025 visibility 14 link 1 artist

UD Scholars Explore Depths of Wyeth’s Art

In September 2024, nearly two dozen students and faculty from the University of Delaware's Department of Art History gathered at the Brandywine Museum of Art for a study day at the Andrew & Betsy Wyeth Study Center. William L. Coleman, the center's new director and a Wyeth Foundation Curator, led the group through the facility, showing drawings, paintings, and Wyeth's personal library, and curated the exhibition “Every Leaf & Twig: Andrew Wyeth’s Botanical Imagination,” featuring previously unseen watercolors and drawings.

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