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article culture schedule Aug 13, 2025 visibility 20 link 15 artists

A brush with… Jane and Louise Wilson—podcast

Jane and Louise Wilson, identical twin artists born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1967, are featured in a podcast interview where they discuss their collaborative practice since the late 1980s. Working primarily in video installation, photography, and sound, they explore duality and selfhood through loaded sites like abandoned military bases and borderlands. The podcast covers their early inspirations, including John Martin and Cindy Sherman, and the influence of filmmakers such as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Jean Cocteau, and Stanley Kubrick. Their current exhibitions include 'Performance of Entrapment' at London Mithraeum Bloomberg SPACE (until 10 January 2026) and 'Dendrophiles' at Leadenhall Building as part of Sculpture in the City, London (until spring 2026).

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trending_up market schedule Aug 7, 2025 visibility 24 link 11 artists, 8 galleries

‘Everyone's suffering right now’: New York and Los Angeles gallery Clearing will close

Clearing, the influential New York and Los Angeles gallery that launched the careers of many prominent artists, will close both locations. Founder Oliver Babin announced the closure on August 7, citing crushing overhead costs—rent, shipping, and art fair expenses—that outpaced declining revenue. The gallery opened in 2011 in Bushwick, later moved to the Bowery in Manhattan in 2023, and expanded to Brussels and Los Angeles. Babin described the decision as inevitable, noting that the gallery had been kept alive by hope but now faces no viable path forward. The closure follows a wave of US gallery shutdowns this summer, including Kasmin, Venus Over Manhattan, and Tim Blum’s spaces.

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article local schedule Aug 6, 2025 visibility 13 link 3 artists

Visualizing a “god of queer liberation:” An interview with queer artist Daniel de Jesús about their new Philadelphia exhibition

Philadelphia-based queer artist Daniel de Jesús, also a cellist and composer, is featured in a group exhibition at the William Way LGBT Community Center that opened July 10, 2025. In an interview with Emma Cieslik, de Jesús discusses their paintings blending Catholic iconography, mysticism, and queer identity, drawing on symbols like Saint Sebastian and the unicorn. They describe how a Philadelphia Museum of Art exhibition on colonial Latin American art inspired their exploration of religious syncretism and the reclamation of Catholic imagery by queer and trans people.

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article local schedule Aug 6, 2025 visibility 19 link 7 artists

New $31m art-filled park planned for downtown Pittsburgh

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust (PCT) will open a four-acre art-filled park called Arts Landing in 2026, part of a $600 million government plan to revitalize the city's cultural district. The $31 million project will feature ten regional artists, including Pittsburgh-based vanessa german, whose work 'Lifted' honors local elders, and Thaddeus Mosley, whose exhibition 'Touching the Earth' will travel from New York's City Hall Park via a partnership with the Public Art Fund. Other commissions include Darian Johnson's wildlife sculptures with VaultArt Studio and John Peña's interactive kinetic work with the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 1, 2025 visibility 13 link 8 artists

Catch These Glamourous Summer Exhibitions at SCAD Lacoste

SCAD Lacoste, the Savannah College of Art and Design's campus in Provence, France, is hosting three summer exhibitions: 'Christian Dior: Jardins Rêvés', the first Dior exhibition in southern France, featuring over 30 haute couture silhouettes and 60 accessories by Dior and his successors; 'DRIFT: Unfold', a permanent interactive installation by the Dutch artist duo DRIFT that transforms visitors' heartbeats into audiovisual displays; and 'Studio Bee: 100% Made by SCAD', showcasing work by recent SCAD fashion graduates. The Dior show runs until September 28, while the Studio Bee exhibition continues until November 2.

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article policy schedule Jul 31, 2025 visibility 19 link 3 artists

Yale University Art Gallery withdraws federal funding applications over anti-diversity regulations

The Yale University Art Gallery has withdrawn two federal grant applications submitted to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for an upcoming exhibition on African art exploring the migration of Nguni peoples, scheduled for 2026. The gallery objected to new anti-DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) restrictions imposed by the Trump administration, which require that funded projects do not promote certain ideologies based on race or gender. The gallery will instead use Yale University's $46 billion endowment to cover the $200,000 exhibition costs. This follows a previous instance where the gallery opted out of NEA funding, and a separate $30,000 NEA grant for the exhibition "Nusantara: Six Centuries of Indonesian Textile" was rescinded, though that show will proceed with support from the Robert Lehman Endowment Fund.

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

Exhibition as Séance at Seoul Mediacity Biennale with Anton Vidokle, Hallie Ayres, and Lukas Brasiskis

The 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, titled “Séance: Technology of the Spirit,” will open in August 2025 at the Seoul Museum of Art. The exhibition is curated by Anton Vidokle, Hallie Ayres, and Lukas Brasiskis of e-flux, who previously organized the Shanghai Biennale in 2023. The curators aim to structure a film program as an extension of the exhibition, engaging with themes of Cosmism and spiritual séance. They have collaborated with the Hong Kong-based architecture firm COLLECTIVE to transform the museum’s white-wall space into a scenography evoking different metaphysical realms, using color and light to enhance the experience.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 24, 2025 visibility 18 link 22 artists

The new era of fashion’s art exhibitions

LACMA's upcoming David Geffen Galleries, opening in 2026, will feature over 130 costumes and textiles in its inaugural installations—more than any other time since the museum opened in 1965. The museum also plans exhibitions such as 'Fashioning Chinese Women: Empire to Modernity' (with mannequins by Jason Wu) and 'Fashioning Fashion' (1900–2025). Other major fashion exhibitions include 'Virgil Abloh: The Codes' at Paris's Grand Palais, 'Westwood Kawakubo' at the National Gallery of Victoria, and 'Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art' at London's V&A. The article notes that fashion exhibitions are increasingly popular and profitable for museums, citing the Met's Costume Institute and its record-breaking Met Gala fundraising.

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trending_up market schedule Jul 23, 2025 visibility 32 link 29 artists, 3 galleries

Waddington Custot to open in Paris ahead of Art Basel Paris

Waddington Custot has announced it will open a new gallery at 36 rue de Seine in Paris, occupying the historic space formerly home to Lansberg Gallery in the 6th arrondissement. The gallery is set to open in October 2025, ahead of Art Basel Paris, and will be managed by Isaure de Roquefeuil and Antoine Clavé. The inaugural exhibition will focus on the Nabis painters, followed by a group show of modern and contemporary artists. The 200-square-meter space is located in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district. (Note: The opening has since been rescheduled to early 2026.)

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 18, 2025 visibility 14 link 17 artists

Arts of Life Celebrates 25 Years

Arts of Life, a Chicago-based nonprofit supporting artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities, is celebrating its 25th anniversary with its first museum exhibition, "Community on the Make | Arts of Life 2000 – 2025," at the Design Museum of Chicago from August 11 to September 30, 2025. The retrospective features works by over 50 artists, staff, and volunteers, including founding member Veronica "Ronnie" Cuculich, and highlights collaborative pieces such as David Krueger and Ben Marcus's Love Man series. Related programs include a public reception on August 21 and artist residency hours throughout September.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 15, 2025 visibility 16 link 7 artists

Christie’s celebrates the late Syrian artist Marwan with non-selling London show

Christie’s is presenting a non-selling exhibition titled "Marwan: A Soul in Exile" at its London headquarters this summer, featuring over 150 works by the late Syrian artist Marwan (1934-2016). The show draws from major private and institutional collections including the Barjeel Art Foundation, the Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation, the Pinault Collection, and the Berlinische Galerie. This marks Christie’s third such non-selling exhibition of Arab art in London over the past three summers, following shows focused on Arab artists from the Barjeel collection and Saudi artist Ahmed Mater. The exhibition coincides with Christie’s 25th anniversary in the UAE and a broader surge in the Middle Eastern art market, including a recent white-glove sale for its online Modern and contemporary Middle Eastern art auction in Dubai.

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article policy schedule Jul 11, 2025 visibility 14 link 2 artists

Why ‘devastating’ climate control rules for museum collections need a rethink

Museums are rethinking decades-old climate control standards that dictate strict temperature and humidity ranges for preserving collections. These guidelines, originally based on 1970s research for paintings in London, have been widely adopted globally despite being designed for temperate climates. Conservator Caitlin Southwick of Ki Culture argues this is a "big misunderstanding," as the standards were never intended for diverse collections like stone in Brazil or tapestries in Italy. Climate control systems now account for 60-70% of a typical museum's energy consumption, creating high costs and carbon footprints.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 2, 2025 visibility 24 link 27 artists, 11 galleries

8 Must-See Solo Gallery Shows in July

Galerie magazine has curated a list of eight must-see solo gallery shows across the United States for July, highlighting exhibitions from New York to California. Featured artists include Nancy Dwyer, whose word-based paintings and sculptures are on view at Ortuzar in New York; Marcel Dzama, showing storytelling drawings and a surreal film at David Zwirner in Los Angeles; Francis Picabia, with a focus on his Art Informal period at Hauser & Wirth in New York; and Igshaan Adams, presenting tapestries and textile works at Casey Kaplan in New York, among others.

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article culture schedule Jul 1, 2025 visibility 17 link 7 artists

An expert’s guide to Edvard Munch: five must-read books on the Norwegian Expressionist

The article presents a curated reading list on Edvard Munch, compiled by Trine Otte Bak Nielsen, a curator at the Munch Museum in Oslo. The list includes five key books: Ali Smith's essay "So in the Spruce Forest" (2025), Gerd Woll's catalogue raisonné "Edvard Munch: Complete Paintings" (2009), "Living Lines: Five Contemporary Artists on Edvard Munch's Drawings" (2021) edited by Halvor Haugen, Rolf E. Stenersen's biography "Edvard Munch: Close-up of a Genius" (1944/2013), and Stanislaw Przybyszewski's "Das Werk Des Edvard Munch" (1894). The selection coincides with the museum's exhibition "Lifeblood: Edvard Munch," which explores the artist's work through themes of health and sickness.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 1, 2025 visibility 12 link 3 artists

Minneapolis Institute of Art will host a crop art exhibition after the State Fair wraps

The Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) will host a crop art exhibition titled "Cream of the Crop: A Minnesota Folk Art Showcase" opening September 6, 2025, after the Minnesota State Fair concludes on September 1. The show will feature 10 works of crop art, including winners of two new awards sponsored by Mia: best interpretation of an artwork at Mia and best interpretation of a Minnesota landmark, story or figure. A curatorial team from Mia, including director Katie Luber, will judge entries at the State Fair, and the winning pieces will be displayed in the museum's rotunda alongside eight additional notable works. The exhibition builds on Mia's history with crop art, including a 2004 show of portraits by crop art legend Lillian Colton and a 2015 centennial commission of a large-scale crop art field.

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trending_up market schedule Jul 1, 2025 visibility 15 link 10 artists, 1 gallery

New world record for Canaletto as view of Venice sells for £31.9m

A Canaletto painting, *Venice, the Return of the Bucintoro on Ascension Day* (circa 1732), sold for £27.5 million (£31.9 million with fees) at Christie’s in London on July 1, setting a new auction record for the artist. The work, once owned by Britain’s first prime minister Robert Walpole, exceeded its $20 million estimate and was purchased by an anonymous phone bidder. The sale drew five bidders from Asia, Europe, and North America, and the painting was backed by a third-party guarantor.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 27, 2025 visibility 14 link 11 artists

“Dyke is our armor:” A conversation with dyke artist Sarah-Joy Ford’s about her new exhibition Dykeland (2025)

Dr. Sarah-Joy Ford, an artist and independent scholar based in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, has opened her exhibition "Dykeland: Volume 1" at The Whitaker Museum & Art Gallery in Rossendale on June 7, 2025. The show explores the history of dyke and lesbian landscapes in the UK, focusing on queer relationality to placemaking and preservation. It interweaves historical material, personal memory, and fantasy in response to Jane Cambell's upcoming poetry collection "Dykeland and other secret islands," and is displayed alongside Cambell's art. Ford uses quiltmaking as a medium to share lesbian and queer archival material, continuing a tradition of queer fabric art that includes recent installations like the ACLU's 258-square-quilt display on the National Mall and the Euphoria Quilt by Eliot Anderberg.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 25, 2025 visibility 15 link 10 artists, 4 galleries

Taste test: artist-made desserts will be shown (and eaten) in New York gallery’s one-night exhibition

On Saturday, June 28, the Lower East Side gallery Olympia will host CAKE, a one-night exhibition and feast featuring desserts donated by dozens of New York-based artists, including Hannah Beerman, Mie Yim, Wells Chandler, Robin F. Williams, Hein Koh, and Melissa Joseph. The event functions as a fundraiser for the gallery and a participatory performance art piece, with tickets priced at $45. The gallery's founder and director, Ali Rossi, conceived the show as a community-centric alternative to typical summer group exhibitions, and all desserts will be photographed before consumption to preserve documentation.

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trending_up market schedule Jun 25, 2025 visibility 19 link 15 artists

Nudes by Tamara de Lempicka and Jenny Saville lead quiet Sotheby’s Modern and contemporary sale

Sotheby’s June Modern and contemporary art evening sale in London netted £50.8m (£62.5m with fees) from 48 lots, with an 87% sell-through rate, falling below the pre-sale estimate of £55.2m to £81.1m and marking a 25% decrease from last year’s equivalent sale. The top lot was Tamara de Lempicka’s *La Belle Rafaëla* (1927), which sold for £6.1m (£7.4m with fees), while a Jenny Saville drawing *Mirror* (2011-12) achieved an auction record for the artist at £1.7m (£2.1m with fees). Several high-profile works were passed, including Egon Schiele’s *Portrait Study (Head of a Girl, Hilde Ziegler)* and Barbara Hepworth’s *Vertical Forms*, reflecting cautious bidding in a bearish market.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 19, 2025 visibility 19 link 3 artists

Julian Charrière: ‘The deep sea is a phantasmagorical space’

French Swiss artist Julian Charrière presents 'Midnight Zone' at Museum Tinguely in Basel, an exhibition that plunges viewers into the oceanic abyss through four new commissions and earlier works. The show features video installations, sculptural works, and acoustic pieces that explore deep-sea ecologies, including a film set in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone targeted for deep-sea mining, and a rotating Fresnel lens installation that translates low-frequency noise pollution into vibration. Charrière’s multidisciplinary approach draws on fieldwork in extreme geographies like the Arctic and deep ocean.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 19, 2025 visibility 21 link 10 artists

One Fine Show: “Alex Da Corte, The Whale” at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth has opened “Alex Da Corte, The Whale,” a solo exhibition dedicated to the painting practice of artist Alex Da Corte (b. 1980). Featuring more than forty paintings, the show highlights Da Corte’s lesser-known work in two dimensions, as he is more widely recognized for his installations and video pieces. The exhibition includes works such as *Siren (After E K Charter)* (2015) and *Electronic Renaissance* (2021), and places Da Corte’s paintings alongside those of Robert Mapplethorpe and Vija Celmins to explore themes of self-representation and perception.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 18, 2025 visibility 14 link 2 artists

Design Miami announces 2025 international events and exhibitions programme

Design Miami has announced its 2025 international events and exhibitions programme, dubbed Design Miami.In Situ, in celebration of its 20th anniversary. The initiative includes a one-day design event in Aspen with Range Rover on July 31, a 14-day exhibition in Seoul titled 'Illuminated: A Spotlight on Korean Design' in September, the third edition of its Paris fair at L'hôtel de Maisons in October, and the 21st edition of its flagship Miami Beach fair in December. The programme expands beyond the fair's traditional model, with events curated by Ashlee Harrison, Hyeyoung Cho, and Glenn Adamson.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 18, 2025 visibility 13 link 8 artists, 1 gallery

In pictures: the best of the Liste art fair in Basel

Liste Art Fair Basel is celebrating its 30th anniversary, showcasing works by artists under 40 from international galleries. Highlights include Nahum B. Zenil's self-portrait exploring LGBT and Indigenous identity, Magdalena Petroni's taxidermy rat sculptures, Al Freeman's internet-age art comparisons, Inuuteq Storch's Greenlandic love story, Javier Barrios's orchid revenge narrative, and Jonathan Sanchez Noa's Afro-Cuban spiritual installation.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 18, 2025 visibility 13 link 3 artists

Beyond Surrealism: Basel show explores the many sides of Meret Oppenheim

A new exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Basel, titled 'Beyond Surrealism,' explores the multifaceted career of Meret Oppenheim, best known for her fur-covered teacup 'Object' (1936). The show presents a range of her work, including melancholic wartime oil paintings, elegant abstract sculptures, and later witty pieces like 'Eichhörnchen' (1970) and 'Das Auge der Mona Lisa' (1967), highlighting her refusal to be confined to any single style or movement.

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trending_up market schedule Jun 18, 2025 visibility 12 link 2 artists

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

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

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article news schedule Jun 18, 2025 visibility 18 link 10 artists

Tanks, castles and Hodlers: Swiss foundation tackles a fervent collector’s legacy

The Swiss Foundation for Art, Culture and History (SKKG) has spent years cleaning, inventorying, and digitizing the chaotic collection of Bruno Stefanini, a real estate magnate and obsessive hoarder who died in 2018. His estate included over 100,000 objects—ranging from valuable paintings by Ferdinand Hodler and Cuno Amiet to a full-sized tank, Kaiser Wilhelm II’s portable washroom, and Charlie Chaplin’s pajamas—many contaminated with mildew, asbestos, or radioactivity. The collection is now searchable online, and the foundation, led by Stefanini’s daughter Bettina, is conducting provenance research and considering restitution of works with Nazi-era looting concerns.

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

John Middleton's art collection to be featured in 2-museum show in Philadelphia for U.S.'s 250th anniversary

John Middleton, managing partner of the Philadelphia Phillies, and his family are lending over 120 paintings and furniture pieces from their private collection to a two-museum exhibition in Philadelphia titled "A Nation of Artists." The show is a collaboration between the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, featuring more than 1,000 works to celebrate the U.S. semiquincentennial. Works by Edward Hopper, Charles Willson Peale, John Singer Sargent, and Horace Pippin will be included. The exhibition runs from April 2026 to September 2027.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 17, 2025 visibility 21 link 10 artists, 13 galleries

In pictures: Art Basel's Unlimited section offers visions of utopia

Art Basel's Unlimited section, curated by Giovanni Carmine, features monumental works and performances with themes of utopia, community, and being in sync. Highlights include Oscar Murillo's participatory drawing installation, David Owens' film on Lonnie Holley, Alia Farid's tapestries on Middle Eastern-Cuban migration, Taloi Havini's shell money piece, Atelier Van Lieshout's 160-sculpture march to utopia, Andrea Büttner's shame punishment prints, and Mario Merz's inhabitable igloo.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 17, 2025 visibility 19 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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person people schedule Jun 16, 2025 visibility 23 link 7 artists

‘The works I add to my collection need to give me goosebumps’: Nicola Erni on the art she collects and why

Swiss collector Nicola Erni discusses her private art collection built over 25 years, focusing on photography from the 1960s and 70s, fashion photography by Helmut Newton, Mario Testino, and Annie Leibovitz, and contemporary works by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol. She recounts acquiring Warhol's 'Sixty Last Suppers' (1986), now on loan to Fondation Beyeler, and reveals her emotional decision-making process for purchases, as well as a regret over missing a Basquiat-Warhol collaboration at auction.

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