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San Francisco’s Museum of the African Diaspora marks 20 years with a show about Blackness and the cosmos

San Francisco's Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) has reopened its renovated ground-floor lobby to mark its 20th anniversary, alongside two new exhibitions. The larger show, "Unbound: Art, Blackness & the Universe" (on view until 16 August 2026), explores Blackness and the cosmos through painting, photography, sculpture, and installation. Curated by MoAD's first full-time curator Key Jo Lee, the exhibition features 17 artists including Torkwase Dyson, Barkley L. Hendricks, Lorna Simpson, Oasa DuVerney, and Mikael Owunna, organized under three themes: "Geo-Cartographic," "Religio-Mythic," and "Techno-Cyborgian." The $500,000 renovation also upgraded lighting and HVAC systems.

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Louvre heist sparks cross-party ire amid reports of ‘persistent delays’ to security updates

Two masked thieves stole ten pieces of 19th-century royal and imperial jewelry from the Louvre in Paris on 19 October, using a goods lift and grinders to break into the Apollo Gallery. They escaped on scooters after seven minutes, leaving behind a broken crown and tools, while an employee prevented a fire. The stolen items include a diamond brooch and diadem belonging to Empress Eugénie, and a royal emerald necklace.

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article local schedule Oct 9, 2025 visibility 14 link 5 artists, 2 galleries

HOPE Outdoor Gallery Makes Its Long-Awaited Return

The HOPE Outdoor Gallery, a beloved open-air graffiti art space in Austin, is preparing to reopen after six years of closure. Founder Andi Scull announced that the new site, located on an 8-acre plot near Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, is purpose-built with four distinct sectors including a courtyard, a roofless circular structure, a garden, and a village of shipping containers. The layout is designed to spell out "HOPE" when viewed from planes landing or departing. The original location on Baylor Street closed in 2018, and the team has been working since then to secure a new home, with the goal of opening before the end of the year, pending permits.

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article local schedule Aug 28, 2025 visibility 17 link 39 artists, 2 galleries

NEXT in the Gallery: September art in Pittsburgh is about landscapes, Scandinavian lore and ... sun-dried tomatoes

NEXTpittsburgh's September art guide highlights a packed month of gallery shows, art fairs, and festivals across Pittsburgh. Key events include A Fair in the Park (Sept. 5-7) featuring 101 artists, the Firebox Art Party in Carnegie, the Pittsburgh Latin American Art Festival, and the Pittsburgh Art Book Fair at Carnegie Museum of Art. Major exhibitions opening include Yasmine El Meleegy's 'Red Gold' at the Mattress Factory, which examines Egypt's sun-dried tomato industry, 'Black Photojournalism' at Carnegie Museum of Art showcasing 60 pioneering Black photojournalists, and 'Forum 91: Charles Harlan' featuring the Georgia-born sculptor's work with found objects.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 23, 2025 visibility 15 link 16 artists, 1 gallery

Body Vessel Clay: Black Women, Ceramics & Contemporary Art

The Ford Foundation Gallery in New York presents "Body Vessel Clay: Black Women, Ceramics & Contemporary Art," opening September 10, 2025. The exhibition features over fifty works across ceramics, film, photography, and archives, bringing together three generations of Black women artists. It highlights the legacy of Nigerian potter Ladi Dosei Kwali (1925-1984) and traces how Black women artists have transformed ceramics over seventy years. Curated by Dr. Jareh Das, the U.S. debut includes new works by Adebunmi Gbadebo, Simone Leigh, and Anina Major, following critical acclaim at Two Temple Place in London and York Art Gallery in 2022.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 28, 2025 visibility 17 link 10 artists, 1 gallery

Texas-born Artist to be Featured in Solo Exhibition at Frieze London

Portrait painter Amy Sherald has selected Kingsville-born artist René Treviño to present a solo exhibition at Frieze London this October. Treviño's presentation, titled "Moscas en la Pared (Flies on the Wall)," will debut in the fair's Artist-to-Artist section, a curated program launched in 2023 that invites renowned artists to nominate emerging talents. Treviño, who is represented by Erin Cluley Gallery in Dallas, adapts Mayan and Mexíca symbology in his multimedia work, which often incorporates vibrant colors, queer sensibilities, and restorative storytelling. His exhibition record includes shows at the Wadsworth Athenaeum, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and a 2024 career survey at The Wellin Museum of Art.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 26, 2025 visibility 20 link 6 artists, 1 gallery

DESTE’s Summer Convergence Offers the Art World a Rare Pause Between Market Frenzies

The article covers the DESTE Foundation's summer convergence on Hydra, Greece, which offers the art world a respite between market frenzies. It highlights works by Greek artists Sofia Rozaki and Danae Io, whose pieces explore identity, memory, and the impact of politics and economics. The foundation's exhibition "In a Bright Green Field" builds on its legacy of promoting contemporary Greek art, alongside other Athens shows like Marlene Dumas's "Cycladic Blues" at the Museum of Cycladic Art and Michael Rakowitz's "Allspice" at the Acropolis Museum.

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trending_up market schedule Jun 19, 2025 visibility 18 link 9 artists, 4 galleries

In Basel, alternative art fairs spring up in new places

In Basel, alternative art fairs are proliferating as dealers seek new ways to engage collectors outside the main Art Basel fair. Maison Clearing, a pop-up group exhibition by the New York and Los Angeles-based Clearing gallery, occupies a four-story villa in central Basel, featuring works by 46 artists including Kayode Ojo, Jasmine Gregory, and Jean-Marie Appriou. The rental cost of $2,000 per day is roughly one-third the price of a medium-sized stand at Art Basel. Meanwhile, the Basel Social Club (BSC) returns for its fourth edition in a former bank building near the Kunstmuseum, hosting over 100 spaces filled with art, performances, and hospitality offerings, including artist-led services like a hairdresser and a blood bank.

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trending_up market schedule Jun 4, 2025 visibility 14 link 11 artists, 6 galleries

Artworks That Give Back. Our Selection of 10 Artists at the Artis Arundo Spotlight.

The article highlights the Artis Arundo Spotlight, a chapter of the TOP CHARITY Art exhibition in Warsaw, featuring 10 contemporary artists including Helena Stiasny, Courage Hunke, Aleksandra Liput, and Zuzanna Szary. Their works are available in an online charity auction until June 8, 2025, with proceeds supporting artist grants, residencies, and project funding. The exhibition, held at the King John III Palace Museum in Wilanów, also includes a preview of the OmenaArt Foundation's African art collection, a Sculpture Garden with Opera Gallery, and a tribute to Amedeo Modigliani's Tête de Cariatide.

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article local schedule May 5, 2025 visibility 15 link 7 artists, 1 gallery

Sharpsburg’s ZYNKA Gallery turns 5: reflecting on growth and future exhibitions

ZYNKA Gallery in Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania, celebrates its fifth anniversary. Founded by Jeff Jarzynka in November 2019, the gallery represents over 50 mostly regional artists. Its current exhibition, “Time Between Echoes,” features Dutch-born artist Hans Neleman and runs through June 8. The gallery faced an early challenge when it had to close just months after opening due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but it reopened in summer 2020 with timed visits. Jarzynka has since expanded his curatorial work, including curating exhibitions for The Portal Art Gallery at Bakery Square in East Liberty since February 2024.

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trending_up market schedule Apr 30, 2025 visibility 14 link 8 artists, 5 galleries

6 Questions Every New Art Buyer Should Ask a Gallery

Annabel Keenan's article offers practical guidance for first-time art buyers navigating the gallery system. It outlines six essential questions to ask galleries, covering price transparency, provenance, and the artist's market context. The piece features insights from gallery director Joseph Clarke of Anima Mundi, collector and MCA Chicago trustee Ellen-Blair Chube, and gallerist Madelyn Jordon of Madelyn Jordon Fine Art, who emphasize that asking questions is key to building confidence and knowledge as a collector.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 23, 2025 visibility 17 link 6 artists, 1 gallery

Review: "Home, Love & Loss" at the Art Museum of South Texas

The Art Museum of South Texas is presenting "Home, Love & Loss," the third exhibition from a partnership between the Amon Carter Museum of American Art and the Art Bridges Foundation Cohort Program. The show brings together artworks from five institutional collections, organized into four themes: Home, Family, Honor, and Loss. Featured works include Raymond Bonilla's "Escuchas" (2009), a diptych about Puerto Rican family traditions; Terry Evans's aerial photograph of Fourth of July gatherings; Earlie Hudnall, Jr.'s intimate portrait of Black children; Ave Bonar's stark image of Border Patrol detainees; and Francisco Delgado's serigraph referencing immigration politics. After closing in Corpus Christi, the exhibition will travel to the Amarillo Museum of Art and the Ellen Noël Art Museum in Odessa.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 21, 2025 visibility 15 link 5 artists, 1 gallery

Oklahoma slam dunk: Indigenous artist invites visitors to shoot hoops as part of his latest show

Edgar Heap of Birds, a Cheyenne and Arapaho artist, presents a retrospective at Oklahoma Contemporary titled "Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds: HONOR SONG" (through 20 October). The exhibition features over 100 works, including monoprints, abstract paintings, glassworks, and sculptures, alongside two new public art installations—most notably a pair of basketball courts in Campbell Art Park that are open for public play for at least a year. The courts draw inspiration from his Neuf series and Native Hosts series, incorporating hand-painted murals and a scoreboard recreating a 1982 Times Square project. The indoor portion includes works such as "Most Serene Republics" (2007) from the Venice Biennale and "Surviving Active Shooter Custer" (2018).

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museum exhibitions schedule May 19, 2026 visibility 3 link 7 artists, 1 gallery

How Can Art Depict Everyday Violence?

Anuar Maauad and Roger Muñoz have cocurated the exhibition "La Alegría de Vivir" at Estudio Anuar Maauad in Mexico City, featuring works by Jorge de León, Benjamin Orlow, Miguel Ángel Rojas, Berenice Olmedo, Miguel Ventura, Paul McCarthy, and Teresa Margolles. The show confronts themes of necropolitics and systemic violence through sculptures, photographs, and installations that depict war, state power, and human suffering as ongoing, normalized conditions.

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article news schedule May 12, 2026 visibility 14 link 16 artists, 2 galleries

Fundación Casa Wabi x ArtReview Open-Call Residency Prize 2026–27

Fundación Casa Wabi and ArtReview have announced the ninth annual open-call residency prize for three artists or collectives, offering a residency at Casa Wabi in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico. The residency includes lodging, studio space, meals, and support for a community project, with applications due by 14 June 2026 and winners notified in July 2026. The prize aims to foster cultural cross-pollination between artists and local communities, with past winners including artists from Australia, the UK, Germany, Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 13, 2026 source 2 sources visibility 21 link 6 artists

MMCA exhibition explores 80 years of artistic exchanges between Korea, Japan

The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) in Korea, in collaboration with the Yokohama Museum of Art, has organized "Art between Korea and Japan since 1945," an exhibition opening at MMCA's Gwacheon branch. Featuring about 200 works by 43 artists and teams, including Paik Nam-june, Lee Ufan, Lee Bul, Jiro Takamatsu, Takashi Murakami, and Koki Tanaka, the show traces 80 years of artistic exchanges between the two countries. It is structured in five sections, beginning with a tribute to Zainichi Koreans, and highlights key works such as Paik's 1986 satellite project "Bye Bye Kipling." The exhibition runs through September 27.

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trending_up market schedule Apr 23, 2026 source 2 sources visibility 51 link 76 artists

KAWS | Untitled (KAWS X Mocad) (2019)

Bidding has concluded for KAWS's 2019 screenprint, *Untitled (KAWS X Mocad)*, a limited-edition work produced for the artist's solo exhibition "Alone Again" at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. The work was offered through Palm Beach Modern Auctions, with detailed condition reports and terms available to prospective bidders.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 10, 2025 source 2 sources visibility 29 link 18 artists

The 10 Best Paris Art Shows of 2025

The article highlights the 10 best Paris art shows of 2025, including major exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou, Fondation Cartier, and Fondation Louis Vuitton. Featured shows include Olga de Amaral's sculptural tapestries, Otobong Nkanga's multi-media works, Meriem Bennani's footwear-as-soundscape, Wim Delvoye's 'Énormément Bizarre' at Centre Pompidou, 'Paris Noir: Artistic Circulations and Anti-Colonial Resistance, 1950-2000' at Centre Pompidou, and 'David Hockney 25' at Fondation Louis Vuitton. The year also saw the closure of Centre Pompidou's Beaubourg building for renovation and the relocation of Fondation Cartier to a new site near the Louvre.

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trending_up market schedule May 13, 2026 visibility 16 link 21 artists, 3 galleries

Renowned Gallery Air de Paris Bankrupted, Closing This Week

Air de Paris, the Paris gallery known for its punk ethos and commitment to cutting-edge Conceptual art, will close this week after 36 years and more than 400 exhibitions, amid bankruptcy proceedings. Founded in Nice in 1990 by Florence Bonnefous and Edouard Merino, the gallery was named after Marcel Duchamp’s 50cc of Paris Air and became legendary for its inaugural show, “Les Ateliers du Paradise,” which featured artists living in the gallery and later influenced critic Nicolas Bourriaud’s theory of relational aesthetics. The gallery moved to Paris in 1994 and later to Romainville in 2019, showing artists such as Paul McCarthy, Raymond Pettibon, Liam Gillick, Pierre Huyghe, and Dorothy Iannone.

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person people schedule May 12, 2026 source 3 sources visibility 18 link 6 artists, 1 gallery

FAD News: Gozo Yoshimasu awarded inaugural Serpentine x FLAG Art Foundation Prize

Gozo Yoshimasu has been awarded the inaugural Serpentine x FLAG Art Foundation Prize, a new biennial award providing £200,000 per recipient over ten years, totaling £1 million in artist support. The jury included Michelle Kuo, Venus Lau, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jonathan Rider, and Rirkrit Tiravanija. Yoshimasu, born in Tokyo in 1939, is known for his interdisciplinary practice spanning poetry, performance, photography, and experimental moving image. As part of the prize, he will stage a solo exhibition at Serpentine North in autumn 2027, traveling to The FLAG Art Foundation in New York in spring 2028—his first major solo institutional presentations in Europe and the United States.

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trending_up market schedule Apr 24, 2026 source 3 sources visibility 41 link 6 artists, 1 gallery

Cy Twombly | Untitled | Art & Prints

This article is a listing for Cy Twombly's artwork "Untitled" (1960-61), a graphite and wax crayon on paper piece offered at Christie's. It provides a detailed biography of the artist, noting his birth in Lexington, Virginia, his studies at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Art Students League of New York, and Black Mountain College, and his permanent move to Rome in 1957. The listing includes his major exhibitions, such as retrospectives at MoMA and the Whitney Museum, and highlights his high auction record of $70.5 million for "Untitled" (1970) at Sotheby's in 2015.

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person people schedule Jan 16, 2026 source 2 sources visibility 17 link 2 artists, 1 gallery

peruvian artist antonio paucar wins 11th artes mundi award

Peruvian artist Antonio Paucar has won the 11th Artes Mundi Award, receiving £40,000 to support his performance, sculpture, and video practice rooted in Andean culture and his Peruvian heritage. The award ceremony took place on January 15 at Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum in Cardiff, where a group exhibition of the six shortlisted artists runs through March 1. Paucar plans to use the prize money to convert his family's ancestral adobe home in the central highlands of Peru into a combined museum and art school, addressing the lack of such institutions in the region.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 17, 2025 visibility 18 link 2 artists, 1 gallery

mildred howard retrospective oakland museum of california

The Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) will host a major retrospective for Bay Area artist Mildred Howard, titled “Poetics of Memory,” opening in June 2025. The exhibition spans five decades of Howard’s work, including new pieces, and will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalog with plans for a national tour. Howard, a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow, has a long history with OMCA, which owns her 1989 installation *TAP: Investigation of Memory*. Senior curator Carin Adams, who worked with Howard on reinstalling *TAP* in 2019, proposed the retrospective to honor Howard’s legacy in the Bay Area arts scene.

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candle obituary schedule Dec 11, 2025 visibility 24 link 4 artists, 4 galleries

ceal floyer dead

Ceal Floyer, a conceptual artist known for her spare, witty sculptures that transformed everyday objects into thought-provoking art, died on Thursday at age 57 after a long illness. Her Berlin-based gallery Esther Schipper, along with Lisson Gallery and 303 Gallery, confirmed her death. Floyer gained international recognition for works like *Light Switch* (1992–99), which projected an image of a light switch onto a wall, and *Bucket* (1999), a plastic bucket with a recorded dripping sound but no water. She participated in major exhibitions including the Venice Biennale (2009) and Documenta (2012), and won the Preis der Nationalgalerie in 2007.

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trending_up market schedule Oct 31, 2025 visibility 18 link 10 artists, 5 galleries

project native informant gallery london closes

Project Native Informant, a London gallery known for its focus on internet-influenced art, announced it will close after 12 years. Founder Stephan Tanbin Sastrawidjaja cited the volatile global economic, political, and social environment, along with personal factors, as reasons for the decision. The gallery launched in 2013 in a Mayfair garage before moving to the East End, and its final show was a solo exhibition for Sean Steadman that closed over the summer.

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trending_up market schedule Oct 22, 2025 visibility 20 link 2 artists, 8 galleries

paris internationale debut milan edition spring 2026

Paris Internationale, the emerging art fair known for hosting independent galleries, announced it will launch a Milan edition in April 2026, just before its 11th edition opened in Paris. The fair, founded in 2015 by a group of independent galleries, plans to establish a lasting presence in Milan, with founder Nerina Ciaccia citing alignment with the fair's values and approach to the art market. The Milan edition is partly driven by Italy's recent reduction of VAT on art exchanges from 22% to 5%, making it more competitive than France's 5.5%. The fair has not yet secured a venue but intends to choose an architecturally historic location, continuing its nomadic tradition.

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candle obituary schedule Apr 29, 2025 visibility 16 link 4 artists, 1 gallery

suki seokyeong kang dead

Suki Seokyeong Kang, a South Korean artist known for blending traditional Korean heritage with contemporary abstract forms, died on Sunday at age 47 (48 in Korean reckoning) after a battle with cancer. Her New York representative, Tina Kim Gallery, confirmed the cause. Kang's work spanned painting, textiles, sculpture, and installation, often incorporating postminimalist structures, craft techniques, and industrial materials. Notable series include her precarious "Grandmother Tower" sculptures and "Mountain" pieces made from curved steel and thread. She was born in Seoul in 1977, studied at Ewha Womans University and the Royal College of Art in London, and later became a professor of painting.

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candle obituary schedule Apr 28, 2025 visibility 16 link 6 artists, 2 galleries

suki seokyeong kang sculptor dead

Suki Seokyeong Kang, a Korean sculptor known for reimagining traditional Korean artistic forms in contemporary sculpture, died on Sunday at age 48 after a years-long battle with cancer. Her passing was announced by Seoul’s Kukje Gallery and her New York representative, Tina Kim Gallery. Kang’s work drew from centuries-old practices such as Joseon Dynasty painting and 600-year-old musical notation, translating them into highly conceptual, visually seductive sculptures that appeared in biennials worldwide, including Gwangju and Venice, and in museum surveys such as a 2023 show at Seoul’s Leeum Museum of Art. At the time of her death, her largest-ever US exhibition was on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, featuring her "Mountain" series inspired by the traditional Korean style si-seo-hwa.

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rate_review review schedule Apr 1, 2026 visibility 25 link 8 artists, 2 galleries

art doron langberg paintings israel

The article reviews Doron Langberg's exhibition "Landscapes" at Jeffrey Deitch in New York, featuring large-scale oil-on-linen paintings that reflect on the artist's identity as a Jewish Israeli painter after October 7, 2023, and the subsequent conflict in Gaza. The works depict three personally significant locations: Yokneam in Israel, Drohobych in Ukraine (where the artist's father survived the Holocaust), and a queer beach community on Fire Island. Langberg's accompanying statement asserts that Palestinians deserve justice and liberation, framing painting as a means to confront atrocity.

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rate_review review schedule Nov 19, 2025 visibility 19 link 8 artists, 1 gallery

art david rimanelli alex katz matthew barney

The article reviews Alex Katz's latest exhibition at Gladstone Gallery in New York, featuring 11 large orange-and-white canvases depicting the road to his Maine home, alongside Matthew Barney's three-channel video work "DRAWING RESTRAINT 28" showing Katz at work on a ladder. The show, on view through December 20, 2025, pairs Katz's new paintings with Barney's video, continuing a collaboration first seen at O'Flaherty's gallery. Katz, now 98, reflects on his artistic evolution, citing Matisse's "The Red Studio" as inspiration while asserting his move away from literal representation.

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