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‘Art is an important way of depicting these atrocities’: London show shines a light on sexual violence in conflict

The Imperial War Museum (IWM) in London has opened "Unsilenced: Sexual Violence in Conflict," the first major UK museum exhibition to address the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war. Featuring video testimony from journalist Christina Lamb, the show draws on the IWM's collections and new testimonies from survivors, including propaganda posters, photographs by Lee Miller, and a newly acquired miniature Sonyeosang statue. Curators Maeve Underwood and Helen Upcraft re-examined the museum's holdings to uncover hidden narratives of sexual slavery and humiliation from World War II to the Russia-Ukraine war.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 21, 2025 visibility 16 link 7 artists

European art weeks join forces for new ‘spider network’

European art weeks across cities including Amsterdam, Berlin, London, Lisbon, and Antwerp are joining forces to form a new collaborative network called the 'Spider network.' The initiative, spearheaded by directors such as Martina Halsema of Amsterdam Art Week and Mona Stehle of Berlin Art Week, aims to share ideas, expertise, sponsorship strategies, and press coverage. Amsterdam Art Week runs until 25 May 2025 with 220 events across 70 venues, featuring artists like Melanie Bonajo, Kimsooja, and Pamela Rosenkranz. Berlin Art Week, scheduled for 10–14 September 2025, attracted 130,000 visitors last year and has grown from 11 partners in 2012 to over 100 this year.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 20, 2025 visibility 13 link 1 artist

John Singer Sargent exhibition in London shines a light on the lives of the ‘dollar princesses’

English Heritage has opened an exhibition titled 'Heiress: Sargent’s American Portraits' at Kenwood in London, featuring 18 portraits by John Singer Sargent of American heiresses known as the 'dollar princesses.' These women traveled to the UK in the late 19th century to marry into the British aristocracy, bringing wealth that helped restore estates like Blenheim Palace. The show marks 100 years since Sargent’s death and includes never-before-displayed works, such as a charcoal portrait of Consuelo Vanderbilt. Curator Wendy Monkhouse emphasizes that the exhibition focuses on the sitters as individuals, addressing themes of misogyny, stereotyping, and xenophobia.

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Summer Shows Coming to South & West Texas

Museums and art venues across South and West Texas have announced a series of summer exhibitions opening between May and September 2025. Highlights include "The Wyeths: Three Generations" at the Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi (May 23–Aug 24), featuring works by N.C., Andrew, Henriette, and Jamie Wyeth; "PAINT: Rachelle Thiewes" at the El Paso Museum of Art (May 30–Sep 21), showcasing jewelry and sculpture inspired by lowrider culture and the Chihuahuan desert; "Midland Collects" at the Museum of the Southwest (Jun 3–Sep 21), displaying private and foundation collections; a solo show by Doylene H. Land at the Ellen Noël Art Museum in Odessa (Jun 6–Aug 24); "Visions of the West" at the International Museum of Art & Science in McAllen (Jun 21–Sep 28); and "Los Encuentros" at Ballroom Marfa (July), a group exhibition centered on Latinx culture and community collaboration.

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Aboriginal art returns to Sotheby’s New York two years after pioneering dealer Tim Klingender's death

Two years after the death of pioneering Aboriginal art dealer Tim Klingender in a boating accident, his widow Skye McCardle-Klingender is organizing a multi-owner auction at Sotheby’s New York on 20 May. The sale includes 65 lots from Klingender's personal collection and other owners, featuring works by leading Aboriginal artists such as Emily Kam Kngwarray, Ginger Riley Munduwalawala, Rover Thomas, Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri, and Richard Bell. McCardle-Klingender is working with former National Gallery of Australia curator Wally Caruana to assemble the auction, which aims to continue Klingender's legacy of elevating Indigenous Australian art on the global stage.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 15, 2025 visibility 18 link 4 artists

New Amon Carter Museum exhibitions spotlight distinct views of the American West

The Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth is opening two new exhibitions on May 18: “Richard Avedon at the Carter” and “East of the Pacific: Making Histories of Asian American Art.” The Avedon show marks the 40th anniversary of the museum’s original 1985 presentation of his “In the American West” series, featuring 40 portraits alongside archival photographs by Laura Wilson. The second exhibition explores Asian American influence on the West Coast, reframing the U.S. as east of the Pacific.

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Peabody Essex Museum opening new gallery of Korean art and culture May 17, 2025

The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, Massachusetts, will open the Yu Kil-Chun Gallery of Korean Art and Culture on May 17, 2025. This landmark installation showcases PEM’s historic Korean collection, featuring works from the late Joseon dynasty through the early 20th century and into the present day, including rare objects, textiles, and recent acquisitions by artists like Nam June Paik. The gallery is supported by the Korea Foundation and the National Museum of Korea, and is curated by Dr. Jiyeon Kim.

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Rejected by Museums Around the World, This New Art Exhibition Explores the Historical Roots of the Term 'Homosexual'

An ambitious new exhibition titled “The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity, 1869-1939” has opened at Chicago’s Wrightwood 659 gallery, featuring over 300 works by more than 125 artists from 40 countries. Curated by Jonathan D. Katz, the show traces the historical roots of the term 'homosexual,' coined in 1868 by Hungarian writer Karl Maria Kertbeny, and explores the artistic and social transformations surrounding the emergence of homosexual identity up to 1939. The exhibition includes loans from major institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Musée d’Orsay, with works by artists such as George Catlin, Jean Cocteau, John Singer Sargent, and Thomas Eakins, organized into eight thematic sections.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 10, 2025 visibility 19 link 5 artists

Denver Art Museum Announces Mexican Modernism Exhibition with Artworks by Celebrated Artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera

The Denver Art Museum announced an upcoming exhibition titled "Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection," featuring over 150 artworks by Kahlo, Rivera, and their contemporaries including Lola Alvarez Bravo, Gunther Gerzso, María Izquierdo, and Carlos Mérida. Organized by MondoMostre and curated locally by Rebecca Hart, the show will run from October 25, 2020, to January 17, 2021, in the museum's Anschutz and Martin & McCormick Galleries, highlighting the role of art and indigenous culture in forging national identity after the Mexican Revolution.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 9, 2025 visibility 21 link 20 artists

Technology, art and sculptures of fog: LUMA Arles kicks off the 2025/26 season

LUMA Arles has launched its 2025/26 season with three exhibitions, including 'Sensing the Future: Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.)', which explores the 1960s collaboration between artists and engineers from Bell Labs, featuring works by Andy Warhol, Jean Dupuy, and Forrest Myers. The season also includes 'Maria Lassnig: Living with art stops one wilting!', examining the Austrian artist's 'Body Awareness' concept and her connection to curator Hans Ulrich Obrist. The exhibitions are bookended by fog and cloud-themed works, including a fog sculpture by Fujiko Nakaya.

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An Interview with Asheville Art Museum Associate Curator Jessica Orzulak

Jessica Orzulak, associate curator and curatorial affairs manager at the Asheville Art Museum, participated in an interview discussing her personal interests and professional insights. She spoke about her love for hiking trails in the Appalachian Mountains, missing the desert landscapes of the West Coast, and her current TV preferences including "Severance" and "Star Trek: The Next Generation." The interview also covered her work presenting artist Pedro Lasch's "Black Mirror" series as part of the public program "What Can Become of Us?" at the museum, part of a collaboration with the Stanford Institute for Advancing Just Societies and Zócalo.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 8, 2025 visibility 19 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 May 8, 2025 visibility 12 link 2 artists

Man Ray: When Objects Dream

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will present "Man Ray: When Objects Dream," an exhibition exploring the artist's pioneering rayographs—camera-less photographs created by placing objects on light-sensitive paper. Featuring approximately 60 rayographs and 100 additional works from the Met's collection and over 50 international lenders, the show is the first to situate this technique within Man Ray's broader practice of the 1910s and 1920s, including paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, films, and photographs.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 7, 2025 visibility 19 link 17 artists

The best museum shows to see during Tefaf New York 2025

The article highlights several major museum exhibitions opening during Tefaf New York 2025. At the Brooklyn Museum, "Solid Gold" (through July 6) traces the material's historical and cultural significance across fine art, fashion, jewelry, and design, featuring works from ancient Coclé gold plaques to pieces by Agnes Martin, Louise Nevelson, and Alexander Calder. The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents "Sargent and Paris" (through August 3) for the centenary of John Singer Sargent's death, reuniting his scandalous "Portrait of Madame X" with preparatory sketches and exploring his formative decade in Paris. The Jewish Museum offers "The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt" (through August 10), examining the biblical story's influence on 17th-century Dutch art through works by Rembrandt and his contemporaries.

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Women’s Work: The art of Dana Boussard (museum exhibition)

In 1973, three pioneering women artists—Lela Autio, Dana Boussard, and Nancy Erickson—proposed an exhibition of their soft sculpture at the University of Montana in Missoula, but were denied because their work was dismissed as "women's work." Undeterred, they staged the show in the empty Carnegie Library building in 1974, and a year later the Missoula Art Museum (MAM) was founded. Now, MAM's special exhibition "Women's Work" celebrates the museum's 50th anniversary by featuring works from these three artists, including three pieces by Dana Boussard: "The Rialto" (1971), "Sister" (1970), and "Another Time, Another Place" (1970). The exhibition honors the radical spirit of the original 1974 show and the fiber-art movement, which gained momentum alongside the women's movement and feminist art.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 5, 2025 visibility 19 link 23 artists

Ford Foundation Gallery and NXTHVN presents THIS IS NOT A RETREAT! NXTHVN Through the Years

The Ford Foundation Gallery and NXTHVN present "THIS IS NOT A RETREAT! NXTHVN Through the Years," an exhibition opening June 5, 2025, at the Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice in New York. The show features work by alumni artists from the first five years of NXTHVN's intensive 10-month fellowship program, which has supported 41 artists and 12 curators since 2018. Co-founded by artist Titus Kaphar and impact investor Jason Price, the exhibition is curated by Marissa Del Toro and spans drawing, painting, prints, installation, etchings, and sculpture. A concurrent group show, "The Things Left Unsaid," featuring NXTHVN's Cohort 06 Fellows, runs from May 8 to June 21, 2025, at James Cohan Gallery.

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Humanitas Bong Joon Ho in conversation, new student art, and beach photos

Oscar-winning filmmaker Bong Joon Ho will visit Yale University on May 5-6 for a public conversation with photographer Gregory Crewdson about filmmaking, followed by a Schwarzman Session for students and the community. The visit coincides with a film retrospective of Bong's work organized by Marc Francis, including screenings of "Parasite," "The Host," and "Mickey 17." Separately, the Schwarzman Center has launched a virtual Storyboard exhibition titled "over time," featuring artworks by 10 Yale students responding to a prompt about the future, curated by Airi Gavan. The article also notes an upcoming summer exhibition of photographs by Yale School of Art professor emeritus Tod Papageorge.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 1, 2025 visibility 25 link 10 artists

This Month the Museum Will Open "Ann Craven | Painted Time: Moons (Laboratory)"

The Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) will open "Ann Craven | Painted Time: Moons (Laboratory)" on May 22, 2025, featuring Ann Craven's moon paintings created between 2020 and 2024. The exhibition highlights Craven's direct observation of the moon, with each work documenting the date, time, and place of creation. The show includes a "laboratory" of lunar studies stored in labeled cardboard containers, offering insight into her process. It will be presented in three rotations curated by Anne Collins Goodyear, Jay Sanders, and Adam Weinberg, with about 20 paintings per rotation selected from over 150 compositions. The exhibition runs until August 17, 2025, and is accompanied by a digital catalogue. It coincides with two concurrent solo shows of Craven's work in Maine: at the Farnsworth Art Museum and the Portland Museum of Art.

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Walk the auction: your guide to Christie’s 20th and 21st Century Art sales in NY this May

Christie’s is holding its spring 20th and 21st Century Art sales week in New York from 12–15 May 2025, featuring over 500 works across six live auctions. Highlights include the single-owner collection of Leonard and Louise Riggio, led by a rare Piet Mondrian and René Magritte’s *Les droits de l'homme*; the 20th Century Evening Sale headlined by a Claude Monet from his *Les Peupliers* series; and the 21st Century Evening Sale, where Jean-Michel Basquiat’s *Baby Boom* sold for $23.4 million. Other notable consignors include Anne and Sid Bass, Tiqui Atencio, and Ago Demirdjian. The free public exhibition runs from 3–15 May at Christie’s Rockefeller Center galleries.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 30, 2025 visibility 11 link 1 artist

With a cut and a caress: Italian exhibition explores Rebecca Horn’s legacy

Castello di Rivoli near Turin is hosting "Rebecca Horn: Cutting Through the Past," the first major Italian exhibition dedicated to the German artist since her death in September 2024 at age 80. The show, co-organized with Munich's Haus der Kunst, centers on Horn's kinetic installation of the same name and explores her six-decade career through kinetic sculptures, early performance videos, and drawings. Chief curator Marcella Beccaria emphasizes a focus on Horn's spiritual concerns and the motif of circularity, with works displayed in the museum's narrow Manica Lunga corridor.

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Mind-bending work of M.C. Escher alters reality, space at new Arlington exhibition

The Arlington Museum of Art has opened "M.C. Escher: Infinite Variations," an exhibition featuring nearly 150 of the Dutch artist's prints, including his famous lithograph "Relativity" (1953). The show spans Escher's career from the early 1930s to the late 1960s, with themed galleries covering his early works, book illustrations, tessellations, and impossible worlds. The exhibition runs through August 3 and includes an Infinity Mirrored Room as an immersive finale.

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Art Institute’s Frida Kahlo-Themed Exhibit Highlights Artist’s Paris Years

The Art Institute of Chicago has opened "Frida Kahlo’s Month in Paris: A Friendship With Mary Reynolds," its first dedicated exhibition to the Mexican artist. The show explores Kahlo’s 1939 stay in Paris, where she lived with American bookbinder Mary Reynolds and artist Marcel Duchamp after being hospitalized with a kidney infection. Featuring 100 objects—including seven self-portraits, letters, photographs, and book bindings—the exhibition draws on the Art Institute’s own Mary Reynolds Collection and loans from public and private collections across the U.S., Mexico, and Europe. Curated by Caitlin Haskell, Tamar Kharatishvili, and Alivé Piliado, the display reveals new details about Kahlo’s recovery and creative re-inspiration in the avant-garde hub of Reynolds and Duchamp’s home.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 29, 2025 visibility 13 link 7 artists

Indigenous Identities: Here, Now & Always

The Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, is presenting "Indigenous Identities: Here, Now & Always," on view from February 1 through December 21, 2025. This exhibition is the largest and final show organized by the late Native artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, featuring over one hundred works by ninety-seven artists representing some seventy Nations and communities. The show is organized around four thematic sections—Political, Tribal, Social, and Land—and includes a separate gallery of Quick-to-See Smith's own prints, notably the "Survival Suite" (1996). The exhibition is intergenerational, with artists ranging from their eighties to those born at the end of the twentieth century, and most works date from the twenty-first century.

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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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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 28, 2025 visibility 11 link 2 artists

Rashid Johnson Finds His Promised Land at the Guggenheim (Published 2025)

Rashid Johnson has mounted a major exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, titled "Rashid Johnson: The Promised Land." The show spans the artist's career, featuring his signature works in sculpture, painting, and installation that explore themes of Black identity, history, and the African diaspora. It includes iconic pieces such as his "Anxious Men" series and large-scale works incorporating materials like shea butter, books, and plants.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 25, 2025 visibility 13 link 3 artists

Emily Sargent: Portrait of a Family

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is presenting "Emily Sargent: Portrait of a Family," an exhibition featuring recently rediscovered watercolors by Emily Sargent (1857–1936), alongside works by her brother John Singer Sargent and their mother Mary Newbold Sargent. The show draws entirely from The Met's collection and includes a debut of 26 Emily Sargent watercolors gifted by the artists' heirs, complementing the museum's concurrent exhibition "Sargent and Paris."

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Untitled: Artist Takeover April 2025

The Denver Art Museum hosted 'Untitled: Artist Takeover' in April 2025, an evening event featuring performances, artmaking, and installations by Indigenous artists. Highlights included a fashion show by SunRose IronShell, drag tours of the Kent Monkman exhibition, poetry readings, dance performances, and a finale titled 'Planting Seeds' with Sarah Ortegon Highwalking. Drop-in experiences offered ledger art, yarn art, temporary tattoos, and frybread-making, alongside one-night-only installations by Sarah Ortegon Highwalking.

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Pope Francis and art, J.M.W. Turner’s 250th birthday, John Singer Sargent’s ‘Madame X’—podcast

This episode of The Art Newspaper's podcast 'The Week in Art' covers three major art stories. Host Ben Luke is joined by managing editor Louis Jebb to discuss Pope Francis's deep engagement with art and the Vatican collections following his death on Easter Monday. The podcast also marks the 250th anniversary of J.M.W. Turner's birth, featuring an interview with Tate Britain senior curator Amy Concannon about Turner's enduring appeal. The episode's 'Work of the Week' is John Singer Sargent's 'Madame X' (1883-84), discussed with co-curator Stephanie L. Herdrich ahead of a major Sargent exhibition opening at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and traveling to the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 22, 2025 visibility 11 link 2 artists

Escher’s Impossible Worlds Are Coming to the Arlington Museum of Art

The Arlington Museum of Art will host "M.C. Escher: Infinite Variations" from April 26 to August 3, 2025, featuring over 150 works from the largest private collection of M.C. Escher's art. The exhibition includes iconic pieces like "Snakes" (1969), his final print, alongside early bookplates, tessellations, and impossible constructions, with interactive and digital elements designed to immerse visitors in Escher's perceptual puzzles.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 21, 2025 visibility 18 link 7 artists

The Brooklyn Museum Announces Summer Exhibitions featuring Red Grooms, Mimi Gross, and The Ruckus Construction Co. Christian Marclay ; and Melissa Joseph

The Brooklyn Museum has announced its summer 2025 exhibition lineup, featuring a diverse range of installations. Highlights include "Red Grooms, Mimi Gross, and The Ruckus Construction Co.: Excerpts from 'Ruckus Manhattan'," which brings back the immersive 1970s tribute to New York City with works like "Dame of the Narrows" (1975) and a new addition, "42nd Street Porno Bookstore" (1976). Christian Marclay's film "Doors" (2022) will debut in New York, while fiber artist and UOVO Prize winner Melissa Joseph presents a site-specific outdoor installation titled "Tender" on the museum's plaza. Additionally, the Rubin Museum Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room will be relocated to the Brooklyn Museum's Arts of Asia galleries.

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