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Arlington museum to host Hollywood-themed show on author Jane Austen

The Arlington Museum of Art will open a new exhibition in January 2026 titled "Dressed for the Drawing Room: Fashion in Jane Austen’s World," celebrating the author's 250th birthday. The show features costumes and jewelry from the 2005 film adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice" and the 2020 film "Emma," loaned from NBCUniversal Archives & Collection, and is presented in partnership with the Jane Austen Society of North America - North Texas Chapter. The exhibition runs from January 9 to March 22, 2026, and is free to the public.

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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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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 Dec 9, 2025 visibility 15 link 5 artists

Jerrell Gibbs: From NFL Dreams To His First Solo Museum Exhibition

Jerrell Gibbs, a former college football player and two-time college dropout, is now the subject of his first solo museum exhibition, "No Solace in the Shade," at the Brandywine Museum of Art. The article traces his unlikely journey from working double shifts in direct care to rediscovering his passion for drawing after seeing a photo of his wife and daughter, eventually earning a spot at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and building a career as a painter.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 8, 2025 visibility 13 link 3 artists

How ‘archaeological ceramicist’ Yasmin Smith has forever changed the way I look at flint

Yasmin Smith, an Australian artist described as an 'archaeological ceramicist,' presents her solo exhibition *Elemental Life* at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) in Sydney, running until June 8. The show features sculptural installations that use ceramics and glaze technologies to decode environmental and human histories. Key works include *Seine River Basin (2019)*, commissioned by the Centre Pompidou, which uses ash-glazed stoneware replicas of tree branches to reflect the chemical history of the River Seine, and *Chicxulub (2025)*, which draws on samples from the asteroid impact crater in Mexico to explore mass extinction. Smith’s practice involves extensive field research and collaboration with ecologists, archaeologists, and local communities, creating site-specific glazes that act as chemical records of place and time.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 26, 2025 visibility 14 link 6 artists

DIVA

Denver has been announced as the exclusive US venue for 'DIVA,' a major fashion and iconography exhibition organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. The show will run from October 4, 2026, to January 31, 2027, at the Denver Art Museum’s Hamilton Building, featuring over 200 objects and more than 50 costumes worn by legendary performers including Maria Callas, Cher, Lady Gaga, Rihanna, RuPaul, Prince, Tina Turner, and Marilyn Monroe.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 22, 2025 visibility 14 link 3 artists

People Watching at an Auckland Art Gallery opening night

Illustrator Toby Morris attended the opening party for the 'Pop to Present: American Art' exhibition at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, as part of his regular 'People Watching' series for Sunday magazine. The exhibition is drawn from the collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and features American art from the Pop era to the present day.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 12, 2025 visibility 12 link 4 artists

17th-century jewels, historic photographs focus of Kimbell museum’s 2026 exhibitions

The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth has announced two major exhibitions for 2026. From March 15 to June 28, the museum will host "The Holy Sepulcher: Treasures from the Terra Sancta Museum, Jerusalem," featuring over 60 silver, gold, and bejeweled objects gifted by Holy Roman Emperors and European monarchs to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. In the fall, from October 4, 2026, to January 17, 2027, the Kimbell will present "Photography's First Century: Masterworks from the Bibliothèque nationale de France," its first-ever photography exhibition, showcasing more than 150 early images from pioneers like Henri Le Secq, Gustave Le Gray, and Félix Tournachon.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 24, 2025 visibility 14 link 1 artist

Korean National Treasures: 2,000 Years of Art

The Art Institute of Chicago will present "Korean National Treasures: 2,000 Years of Art" from March 7 to July 5, 2026, featuring 140 artworks spanning from 6th-century Buddhist sculpture to contemporary paintings. The exhibition includes 22 objects officially recognized as National Treasures or Treasures by the Korean government, all drawn from a landmark 2021 donation of over 23,000 works by the family of late Samsung Group chairman Lee Kun-Hee. Highlights include Joseon dynasty ceramics, Buddhist paintings, and works by modern artists such as Kim Whanki and Park Rehyun.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 17, 2025 visibility 16 link 6 artists

‘Unfolding Events,’ an exhibition of artists’ books

Yale Library is presenting 'Unfolding Events: Exploring Past and Present in Artists’ Books,' an exhibition at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library through March 1. Curated by Jessica Pigza and Bill Landis, the show draws from the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library and Beinecke collections, featuring works that explore marginalized communities and personal responses to contemporary life. Highlights include Clarissa Sligh's accordion-style book 'What’s Happening With Momma?' (1988) and Tia Blassingame's '’Pause' (2024), which addresses Black women's experiences with menopause.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 15, 2025 visibility 20 link 7 artists

Hew Locke Unpacks the Complexity of Empire in His Biggest Museum Show Yet

Artist Hew Locke's most comprehensive museum exhibition to date, "Hew Locke: Passages," has opened at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven. The show features 49 works spanning nearly three decades, including photography, sculpture, and drawing, and explores themes of empire, identity, and migration. Curated by museum director Martina Droth, the exhibition runs through January and includes key works such as "Veni, Vidi, Vici (The Queen's Coat of Arms)" (2004) and "Koh-i-noor" (2005), which critique British imperial symbols using found objects and textiles.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 10, 2025 visibility 11 link 1 artist

Jerrell Gibbs Finds Healing With New Exhibition, ‘No Solace In The Shade’ - Essence

Jerrell Gibbs presents his first solo museum exhibition, 'No Solace in the Shade,' at the Brandywine Museum of Art, featuring over 30 large canvases that depict intimate scenes of Black life drawn from family photo albums. The show, on view through March 1, 2026, includes works such as 'The Electric Slide' (2024) and 'Boys Planting' (2021), and is accompanied by his debut monograph. Gibbs, a Baltimore-born artist and father of two, describes the exhibition as a culmination of years of personal and artistic growth, rooted in his graduate studies at MICA and a deep exploration of his family history.

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Andrea Carlson: A Constant Sky

The Denver Art Museum will present "Andrea Carlson: A Constant Sky," the first museum survey of mixed-media visual artist Andrea Carlson, from October 5, 2025, to February 16, 2026. The exhibition features over 30 works on paper, three large-scale paintings shown together for the first time, and a monumental sculptural work titled "Columns for a Horizon." Carlson, who descends from Grand Portage Ojibwe and European settlers, creates intricate, colorful works that challenge colonial narratives in American landscape painting and museum collections.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 1, 2025 visibility 14 link 6 artists

Every Year This Wisconsin Museum Hosts the Best Modern Bird Art in the World

The Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, Wisconsin, celebrated the 50th anniversary of its annual "Birds in Art" exhibition in September 2024. The show, the largest in its history, features 142 artworks by 142 artists from 16 countries, including paintings, sculptures, and collages. The exhibition originated in 1976 as "Birds of the Lakes, Fields, and Forests," organized by wildlife artist Owen J. Gromme, and has since become a premier global showcase for modern bird art. This year's selection included 101 works chosen from 1,160 entries, plus 41 pieces by past Master Wildlife Artists from the museum's collection.

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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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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 22, 2025 visibility 15 link 6 artists

'Age alone does not guarantee value': Thomas S. Kaplan is showing his Dutch Old Master collection in US for first time

Collector Thomas S. Kaplan and his wife Daphne Recanati Kaplan are bringing their Leiden Collection, one of the world's largest private holdings of 17th-century Dutch art, to the US for the first time. Around a third of the collection's 220-plus works will be shown in "Art and Life in Rembrandt’s Time: Masterpieces from The Leiden Collection" at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach from 25 October 2025 to 29 March 2026. Kaplan is also in discussions to fractionalise the collection into shares and float it as an IPO.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 17, 2025 visibility 11 link 4 artists

Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art Opens Nicolai Fechin: An Artistic Journey October 2025

The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma will open "Nicolai Fechin: An Artistic Journey" on October 3, 2025. The exhibition features over fifty drawings and paintings spanning the Russian artist's career, drawn from the museum's permanent collection, the Eugene B. Adkins Collection, and a private Oklahoma collection, with many works on public view for the first time. The show explores Fechin's travels from Russia to New York, New Mexico, and Southern California, highlighting how family, training, and cultural encounters shaped his vibrant portraits.

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Southern Plains Indian Museum to Open 2025 Fall Exhibition

The Southern Plains Indian Museum in Anadarko, Oklahoma, announced the opening of its 2025 fall exhibition, "Newly Acquired Contemporary Works from the Southern Plains Indian Museum Collection," running from September 8, 2025, through January 8, 2026. The exhibition features two- and three-dimensional works by 14 Native American artists from the Southwest, Northern Plains, and Southern Plains, including Jack Anquoe Jr., Beth Bush, Nocona Burgess, and others, showcasing oil and acrylic paintings, ledger drawings, beadwork, quillwork, silverwork, pottery, and textiles.

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A Stunning New Italian Restaurant Inspired By Classic Paintings Has Opened In The National Gallery For Picturesque Dining

Acclaimed Italian chef Giorgio Locatelli and his wife Plaxy have opened a new restaurant called 'Locatelli' and an espresso bar named 'Bar Giorgio' in the National Gallery's refurbished Sainsbury Wing in London. The openings on May 10 mark the completion of a two-and-a-half-year Bicentenary renovation project of the wing. The menu and decor draw inspiration from the gallery's surroundings and the works of Caravaggio, featuring Italian classics and seasonal dishes. Bar Giorgio offers Italian coffee and maritozzi pastries, aiming to bring Italian coffee culture to gallery visitors.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 1, 2025 visibility 14 link 6 artists

In Florence, an exhibition that tells the story of Beato Angelico

From September 26, 2025 to January 25, 2026, the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and Museo di San Marco in Florence are jointly presenting a major exhibition dedicated to the 15th-century painter Beato Angelico. The show brings together over 140 works—including paintings, drawings, sculptures, and miniatures—from prestigious institutions such as the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery in Washington, the Vatican Museums, and the Rijksmuseum. It explores Angelico’s artistic development, his collaborations with contemporaries like Masaccio, Filippo Lippi, and Lorenzo Ghiberti, and his influence on Renaissance art, with a special focus on his frescoes at the Museo di San Marco, including the iconic Annunciation.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 29, 2025 visibility 13 link 11 artists

A Rarely Seen Caravaggio Masterpiece Makes Its Way to Florida

A rarely seen Caravaggio masterpiece, *Boy Bitten by a Lizard* (1593–94), is traveling to the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, for a new exhibition titled “In Caravaggio’s Light: Baroque Masterpieces from the Fondazione Roberto Longhi.” The show features 40 paintings by Caravaggio and his followers, the Caravaggisti, drawn from the collection of the Fondazione Roberto Longhi in Florence. The last time this painting was in the U.S. was in 2012 at the Kimbell Art Museum, and the Longhi collection has never before had a dedicated exhibition in America.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 26, 2025 visibility 17 link 3 artists

The US’s largest Raphael exhibition is opening at the Met next year

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will present the largest-ever Raphael exhibition in the Americas next spring, titled "Raphael: Sublime Poetry" (29 March–28 June 2026). Curated by Carmen Bambach, the show brings together over 200 works—including paintings, drawings, decorative objects, and tapestries—spanning Raphael’s career from Urbino and Florence to Rome. Major loans include the Alba Madonna from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione from the Louvre; and works from the British Museum, Uffizi, Prado, and Vatican Museums. The exhibition is structured chronologically, with special focus on recent scientific analysis and Raphael’s depictions of women.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 25, 2025 visibility 14 link 2 artists

Art gallery exhibition of works by Alberto Rey through Nov. 21

An exhibition titled “ATLAS: Historical Works and Recent Journeys of Alberto Rey” is on view at the Marion Art Gallery through November 21. The show features 133 paintings, drawings, and ceramics by Alberto Rey, a SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus who taught at Fredonia from 1989 to 2022. The works were created during and after a five-month expedition to 14 countries and 22 UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 2024, alongside pivotal pieces from past series such as “Binary Forms,” “Extinct Birds,” and “Critically Endangered Palms of Cuba.” The exhibition also includes journal entries, sketchbooks, and art supplies from the voyage.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 21, 2025 visibility 12 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 12, 2025 visibility 18 link 6 artists

The Metropolitan Museum of Art to Present Largest-Ever Exhibition of Works by American Artist John Wilson

The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present "Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson" this fall, the largest-ever exhibition of works by American artist John Wilson (1922–2015) and his first solo museum show in New York. Featuring over 100 artworks—including paintings, prints, drawings, sculpture, and archival material—the exhibition draws from The Met, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and a dozen other lenders, with many works never before shown. Co-curated by Jennifer Farrell and Leslie King Hammond, the show spans Wilson's six-decade career, addressing themes of racial violence, labor, the Civil Rights Movement, and family life.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 1, 2025 visibility 14 link 3 artists

Chicken buckets, baked beans, liters of coke: the final meals of death row inmates

Artist Julie Green spent 22 years painting the last meals of 1,000 death row inmates on ceramic plates, resulting in the exhibition "The Last Supper" at the Boise Art Museum. The cobalt-blue images on second-hand white plates include specific requests like tacos, doughnuts, fried chicken, and lobster, drawn from newspaper accounts of executions. The exhibition features plates from across the U.S., including two from Idaho, and was inspired by Green's reading of a 1999 newspaper article about a condemned man's final meal.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 28, 2025 visibility 10 link 9 artists

53rd annual Prix de West exhibit brings works by top Western artists to OKC: See our photos

The 53rd annual Prix de West Invitational Art Exhibition & Sale is on view through August 3, 2025, at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. The show features more than 270 original paintings and sculptures by over 90 leading Western artists, including works by Thomas Blackshear II, John Coleman, Dan Friday, Teresa Elliott, Dan Ostermiller, Joshua Tobey, and Paul Moore. Highlights include John Coleman's monumental bronze sculpture "Victory! Plenty Coups" and Sandy Scott's bronze "Yonder is Jackson Hole."

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 23, 2025 visibility 15 link 2 artists

Immersive Game of Thrones exhibition blows ‘The Winds of Winter’ into Arlington

The Arlington Museum of Art will host "Game of Thrones: The Exhibition," an immersive showcase of over 60 original costumes and props from the HBO series, running from October 4, 2025, to April 5, 2026. The exhibition, produced in partnership with Warner Bros. Discovery Globe Experiences, includes behind-the-scenes sketches and design insights highlighting the historical influences behind the show's iconic looks, from Daenerys Targaryen's gowns to Jon Snow's Night's Watch gear.

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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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Art Gallery of Algoma celebrates 50 years and Group of Seven Day

The Art Gallery of Algoma celebrated its 50th anniversary on July 7, which also marked the inaugural Group of Seven Day in Ontario. The gallery opened its current home with a ribbon-cutting by A.J. Casson, the last living member of the Group of Seven. Festivities included family art activities, live music, an exhibition tour, a talk on the Group of Seven in Algoma, birthday cake, and Indigenous art activities led by Lucia Laford. The gallery's connection to the Group of Seven dates back to its first exhibition, which featured works by the group, and the artists frequently painted in the Algoma region during the 1920s.

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