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Lansing’s gallery and museum scene lively, despite losing a big one

The Lansing area lost the Lansing Art Gallery this year, but the local arts scene remains vibrant with several other venues. The Michigan History Museum offers immersive exhibits on state history, including the special exhibition “Black Bottom Street View” about Detroit’s historic neighborhood. The MSU Museum is undergoing an 18-month renovation but hosts a pop-up exhibition “Physical Spells [The Wor(l)d in the Atom]” featuring artist Violeta López López. The Nelson Gallery in downtown Lansing continues to showcase local contemporary art and plans holiday events, while Struk Studio, founded in 2023 by David Such, offers a contemporary mixed bag of works.

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article local schedule Aug 28, 2025 visibility 13 link 8 artists

Unique Cork art exhibition raises thousands in funding for charities

An art exhibition titled 'Retrospective of Works' held at the West End Art Studio in Mallow, Ireland, from July 23 to August 3, raised €6,600 for two charities. Organized by Colman Dalton and his wife Marie, the 10-day show featured approximately 65 works by Irish, British, and French artists, including pieces by James O’Halloran, Paul Kelly, Jack Vettriano, T.S. Lowry, and others. The opening night was so crowded that 20 people had to wait outside. A raffle on opening night generated the funds, which were split equally between Focus Ireland, a homelessness charity, and HART, a local dog rescue charity.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 27, 2025 visibility 13 link 2 artists

“Art Macao” public artwork Time Tower jointly created by artists from China, Japan and South Korean commemorates the cultural bonds and spiritual connections among East Asian cities

The "Art Macao: Macao International Art Biennale 2025" has unveiled a new public artwork titled "Time Tower" at the Macao Cultural Centre Plaza. Created collaboratively by artists Guan Huaibin (China), Hirotoshi Sakaguchi (Japan), and Kim Sang-yeon (South Korea), the piece commemorates Macao's designation as a "Culture City of East Asia" this year. The biennale features over 30 exhibitions across six sections, including the "Public Art Exhibition" themed "Waves & Ways," which integrates art into Macao's urban fabric. Additionally, the Community Co-Creation and Mutual-Aid Project at San Mei On Building has launched residencies with artists like Jason Ho, Wang Ying, Shen Jialu, and Zhang Xiao, engaging local residents through interactive works.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 31, 2025 visibility 16 link 4 artists

A Brooklyn Afrofuturist Art Exhibit Explores a New World With Reparations

A new Afrofuturist art exhibition titled 'Futures of Repair' has opened at 195 Morgan Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, featuring six Black artists who imagine a world where Black and Indigenous people receive reparations. The show, a collaboration between creative studio Intelligent Mischief and curator Mia Imani Harrison, includes works by Alisha B. Wormsley, Terence Nance, Ari Melenciano, and American Artist, among others. Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the exhibition runs through March 2026 and presents video, installation, sound, and tech-driven pieces that explore reparations from personal and communal perspectives.

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article local schedule Jul 25, 2025 visibility 5 link 2 artists

New In Town: Elliði, RÝMD, La Boutique Design Gallery, Starbucks

The Reykjavík Grapevine highlights four new establishments in Reykjavík: Elliði, a coffeehouse with a gallery space in Elliðaárdalur; RÝMD, an artist-run space in Breiðholt reopening with a new team; La Boutique Design Gallery, a design store that has transformed its first floor into an exhibition space; and a new Starbucks on Laugavegur, which the article criticizes as part of the city's commercialization.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 14, 2025 visibility 14 link 3 artists

Six Indian artists reframe the ladies compartment of a Mumbai local train

Ladies Compartment, an exhibition by Method (India) now showing at Galerie Melike Bilir in Hamburg, features six Indian women artists—Anushree Fadnavis, Avani Rai, Darshika Singh, Keerthana Kunnath, Krithika Sriram, and Shaheen Peer—who reframe the gendered space of a Mumbai local train's ladies compartment through photography, pigment, video, and self-portraiture. The show coincides with India Week Hamburg 2025 and marks Method's debut in Germany, curated by Sahil Arora.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 14, 2025 visibility 14 link 2 artists

Duke Riley’s Art Exhibition at the MOCA in Virginia Beach

The Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Virginia Beach is presenting "O'er the Wide and Plastic Sea," an exhibition of multimedia works by Brooklyn artist Duke Riley, running through August 31. The show spans two decades of Riley's practice, with the centerpiece artwork created from beach trash—including lighters, buoy pieces, and syringes—collected largely from Virginia Beach shores. Riley's work explores tensions between individual and collective behavior, institutional power, and nature's struggle with modern problems, blending early American styles, folklore, and sea-craft aesthetics.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 11, 2025 visibility 10 link 2 artists

Brooklyn-based artists shine in The Shed’s free summer exhibition, ‘Open Call: Portals’

The Shed in Hudson Yards has opened 'Open Call: Portals,' a free summer exhibition featuring twelve early-career New York City artists. Curated by Dejá Belardo, the show includes works across multimedia, sound, and sculpture, such as Tyson Houseman's live soundscape 'The Six Seasons,' Zain Alam's audiovisual piece 'Meter & Light: Night,' and Mel Corchado's sugar-based garment installation '$ticky $in$.' The artists were selected based on their pitches and given a year to develop their pieces, with the exhibition exploring themes of spirituality, colonialism, migration, and identity.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 8, 2025 visibility 14 link 6 artists

100 Years of Leighton House

Leighton House in London has announced a year-long centenary program for 2026, marking 100 years since the house opened as a museum. The centerpiece is "The Arab Hall: Past and Present" (21 March – 4 October 2026), featuring three site-specific installations by artists Ramzi Mallat, Kamilah Ahmed, and Soraya Syed, a short film by Syrian filmmaker Soudade Kaadan, and an exhibition of original designs by George Aitchison, William De Morgan, and Walter Crane, alongside new research by Dr. Melanie Gibson published in a fully illustrated book. The museum is also collecting public memories and memorabilia for a Centenary Archive, and has formed an Advisory Panel to inform the exhibition.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 3, 2025 visibility 16 link 4 artists

46 artists to be involved in Art Macao Biennale: IC

The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) of Macau announced that the 2025 Art Macao Biennale will open on July 19, featuring 46 artists from four Chinese regions (mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan) and 12 foreign countries. The event includes 30 exhibitions across six segments, with a main venue at the Macao Museum of Art, and will run through October 19. Chief curator Feng Boyi introduced the theme “Hey, what brings you here?” focusing on Macau’s local history and global presence. The budget is 4.5 million patacas, and 27% of participating artists are from Macau.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 26, 2025 visibility 13 link 2 artists

Paul Kooiker on photographing 42 art-school students for Acne Paper Palais Royal debut

Dutch photographer Paul Kooiker has opened a new exhibition titled '2025' at Acne Paper Palais Royal in Paris, featuring portraits of 42 students from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, where he taught photography for 25 years. Commissioned by Acne Studios' magazine offshoot Acne Paper, the show marks the first exhibition in the brand's new permanent gallery space. Kooiker shot the students spontaneously in corridors and classrooms, capturing them in his signature black-and-white style that blends timelessness with a sense of the unsettling, though this project breaks from his usual anonymity by focusing on faces and a specific moment in time.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 21, 2025 visibility 14 link 13 artists

2025 Summer + Fall Exhibitions at the WaterFire Arts Center

WaterFire Arts Center in Rhode Island has announced its summer and fall 2025 exhibition lineup, featuring five shows from June through November. Highlights include Kate Blacklock's solo exhibition "Inside Out" (June 5–July 6), which explores memory and identity through large-scale narrative paintings; "Growing the Networks" (July 10–August 31), a group show building on the 2024 NetWorks Rhode Island and Chazan Collection; "Family Business" (September 11–October 19), an immersive installation by the WaterFire Accelerate 2024–2025 cohort of six emerging artists; and "Nothing Follows its Spontaneous Course" (October 23–November 9). The season also includes the BuyArt holiday sale, reinforcing WaterFire's role as a hub for local creativity.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 20, 2025 visibility 16 link 4 artists

Local feminist art coalition tackles censorship in current exhibition at San Diego Central Library

The Feminist Image Group (FIG), a local feminist art coalition, is opening a new exhibition titled "In the Land of…" at the San Diego Central Library on Sunday, running through Oct. 12. Originally invited to exhibit before the pandemic, the group shifted focus to address censorship after facing criticism directed at libraries and books. The show features 15 members' works in various media, including paintings, sculpture, fabric art, embroidery, and collage, confronting banned books, silenced histories, and the fight for free expression. Member Jennifer Spencer, a local photographer and painter, helped organize the exhibition and contributed an accordion-fold book piece inspired by Project 2025.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 17, 2025 visibility 10 link 2 artists

Mystic Seaport Museum exhibition chronicles whale oil industry's far-reaching impact

The Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut has opened a new exhibition titled "Monstrous: Whaling and Its Colossal Impact," which explores the deep connection between the US whaling industry and capitalism. Featuring objects from the museum's permanent collection—including 19th-century photographs, blubber hooks, ship models, captain's logbooks, a sperm whale jawbone, a jar of blue whale fetuses, and whale oil products—the show illustrates how whale oil lit lamps and greased machines for over a century. A giant scratchboard mural by contemporary artist Jos Sances, titled "Or, The Whale" (2019-20), dominates the space, while references to Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick" permeate the exhibition, which also includes a copy of a 1930 illustrated three-volume edition.

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article local schedule Jun 15, 2025 visibility 13 link 2 artists

Union Public Library & Arts Center hosts a grand opening

The Union Public Library & Arts Center in Union, New Jersey, held a grand opening celebration for its newly renovated three-level facility. The event featured an art gallery unveiling with works by acclaimed artist Winston Young, a Black Box Theater plaque unveiling with live performances, a parade from the interim library location, a ribbon cutting, and activities including LEGO workshops led by Corey and Travis Samuels, origami, caricature drawing, face painting, and a book sale. Library director Kassundra Miller expressed excitement about offering new amenities such as a sensory room, creativity lab, study rooms, podcast room, and musical instrument lending.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 13, 2025 visibility 15 link 3 artists

Newly opened Photography Museum of Seoul plans to become a ‘cultural anchor’ for the region

The Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA) has opened the Photography Museum of Seoul (Photo-SeMA) in Dobong-gu district, marking South Korea's first public museum dedicated to photography. Spanning 7,048 square meters, the new venue draws from SeMA's collection of over 20,000 photographs and archival materials from the 1920s to the 1990s. It launches with two exhibitions themed around 'light obsession'—'Storage Story,' featuring commissioned works by six contemporary artists, and 'The Radiance: Beginnings of Korean Art Photography,' showcasing five pioneering Korean art photographers. The museum will eventually become part of an eight-branch network run by SeMA.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 9, 2025 visibility 7 link 2 artists

Très Riches Heures: Chantilly exhibition offers ‘once-in-a-lifetime opportunity’ to see famed medieval manuscript

The Condé Museum at the Château de Chantilly, north of Paris, has opened a special exhibition of the Très Riches Heures, the celebrated 15th-century illuminated manuscript. For the first time in decades, the public can view the 12 monthly calendar pages as independent works, detached from the manuscript after a painstaking conservation project. The exhibition, running until October, also features around 100 loaned medieval manuscripts, sculptures, and paintings to contextualize the manuscript's importance. The Très Riches Heures, commissioned by the Duc de Berry and begun by the Limbourg brothers around 1411, has been held at Chantilly since 1856 and is normally never lent out due to the conditions of the Duke d'Aumale's bequest.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 5, 2025 visibility 14 link 5 artists

Artists, Fashion Designers Tap State-of-the-Art AI for NVIDIA GTC Paris Gallery

NVIDIA GTC Paris, held June 10-12 at VivaTech, will feature a curated AI art gallery showcasing seven artists and fashion designers who use machine learning to create artwork. Exhibitors include aurèce vettier (Paul Mouginot), whose series 'le travail des rêves' and 'the light that is not seen' train AI on personal childhood photos to generate dreamlike oil paintings, and Senegalese artist Linda Dounia Rebeiz, whose project 'Once Upon a Garden' documents extinct flora from West Africa's Sahel region using AI-generated imagery. The gallery aims to demonstrate how AI can serve as a creative partner rather than just a tool.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 14, 2025 visibility 13 link 3 artists

BFA graduates exhibit creative excellence at downtown Turlock art space

Stan State’s Art Space in downtown Turlock is hosting its annual Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) graduate exhibition, on display through May 23. The exhibition opened May 8 with a reception and artist talk, where attendees received catalogs featuring the artists and their works. Dean de Cocker, Director of the Art Space Main Gallery, welcomed guests, and faculty honored each of the 14 graduating BFA students, including Alex Cobain, Amora Ilene Cruz, Zehl Day, and others. The show features diverse media—painting, sculpture, multimedia, and conceptual art—with standout pieces like Riddick McCoy's "Lived Life Experience (Metal Up Your Ass)" and a solo exhibition by Fatima Gutierrez titled "Homenaje a la Memoria."

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article local schedule May 13, 2025 visibility 13 link 6 artists

Explore diverse artworks at Peer Studios with Ventnor Artists Collective Open Studios exhibition

Four members of the Ventnor Artists Collective—Melanie Ayres, Robert Carter, Mary King, and Marilyn Mittelheuser—will exhibit their work at Peer Studios in Ventnor as part of the Isle of Wight Open Studios. The exhibition runs daily from 11am to 4pm between Friday 16th and Monday 26th May, offering visitors the chance to meet the artists, learn about their creative processes, and purchase original artworks. Each artist brings a distinct style: Ayres focuses on nature-inspired printmaking, Carter paints traditional oils, King explores emotion through mixed media, and Mittelheuser creates colorful textured works on canvas.

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candle obituary schedule May 12, 2025 visibility 17 link 3 artists

‘An immense void in the world of contemporary art’: Koyo Kouoh, curator of the 2026 Venice Biennale, has died, aged 57

Koyo Kouoh, the acclaimed Cameroonian-born curator who was appointed to organize the 2026 Venice Biennale, died on Saturday at a hospital in Basel, Switzerland, at age 57. Her husband confirmed she died of cancer following a recent diagnosis. Kouoh had been selected in December to become the first woman from Africa to curate the prestigious international exhibition, and the Biennale's statement mourned her loss as leaving "an immense void in the world of contemporary art."

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museum exhibitions schedule May 3, 2025 visibility 13 link 5 artists

There Is Still A Tomorrow, Mother: An Imelda Cajipe Endaya Exhibition

Imelda Cajipe Endaya, a pioneering Filipino feminist artist, will hold her first U.S. solo exhibition in nearly two decades at Silverlens New York, opening May 8, 2025. Titled "There is Still a Tomorrow, Mother" and curated by Eugenie Tsai, the show spans works from 1982 to 2023, highlighting the overlooked roles of Filipino women through colonialism, war, and dictatorship. The exhibition features mixed-media pieces incorporating materials like cloth gloves, woven bamboo, and crocheted textiles, alongside paintings such as "Tutol ni Dolorosa" and the installation "The Wife is a DH," which address themes of erasure, migration, and resistance.

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article local schedule Apr 29, 2025 visibility 8 link 6 artists

‘Preserving Beauty’: Art exhibition spotlights artistic talent among Bay Area mothers

The Creative Mamas Collective organized the 'Preserving Beauty' art exhibition at the Google Huddle building in the Bay Area, featuring visual art and musical performances by 12 local mothers. The show, curated by floral artist Mandi Lin, included works such as Reshma Bhoopal's fused glass 'Ebb & Flow,' Annapurna Devagiri's watercolor 'Sun Kissed Petals,' Shruti Gopinathan's mixed-media 'Once Upon a Redwood Grove,' and Isabelle Ip's textile piece 'Solace,' all inspired by nature and environmental preservation.

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article local schedule Apr 28, 2025 visibility 15 link 21 artists

A guide to Bay View Gallery Night 2025

The 14th annual Bay View Gallery Night will take place on Friday, May 30, 2025, in Milwaukee's Bay View neighborhood. The free, community-focused event features over 60 participating sites including galleries, breweries, restaurants, and shops, showcasing local artists, musicians, and makers. Highlights include live painting, tattoo art, virtual reality art, pet-friendly activities, and a complimentary shuttle service between key venues like Lincoln Warehouse and Hide House.

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article culture schedule May 10, 2026 visibility 17

New Books Provide Divergent Views of the Art Market

Three new books offer contrasting perspectives on the art market, just in time for New York Art Week. The titles include a sweeping work of nonfiction, a cheeky memoir, and a dual biography, each examining the business of buying and selling art from different angles.

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article culture schedule Mar 12, 2026 visibility 14

In Shaker Design, a Zeal for No Zeal

The New York Times explores the enduring influence of Shaker design on contemporary artists and designers, highlighting how its principles of simplicity, utility, and spiritual integrity resonate in today's world. The article features creators like furniture maker Thomas Moser and ceramicist Mary Law, who draw directly from Shaker aesthetics of plainness, proportion, and honest craftsmanship.

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article local schedule May 23, 2026 visibility 7 link 1 gallery

Desert X Student Art Exhibit Showcases More Than 100 Local Young Artists

More than 100 local students from the Desert Sands Unified School District are showcasing their artwork in the Desert X Art Club Student Exhibition, now on display at Melissa Morgan Fine Art in Palm Desert through June 7. The pieces were created as part of a free after-school program that introduces young people to diverse artistic expression across the Coachella Valley, featuring a range of styles and mediums.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 16, 2025 visibility 15 link 1 gallery

Comic strips look to the future at the Cartoon Museum in London

The Cartoon Museum in London has opened a new exhibition titled "The Future Was Then," showcasing visions of the future through the eyes of comic book artists. Running until 21 March 2026, the show features iconic characters such as Dan Dare, Judge Dredd, Buck Rogers, and Tank Girl, tracing how comic strips have imagined tomorrow from the 1940s to the present day. Highlights include a single page from the 1941 strip *Brick Bradford* that compresses a million-year history of nuclear war and planetary disaster, and Judge Dredd's dystopian quasi-fascism, which debuted in 1977 in *2000AD* comic.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 20, 2026 visibility 6 link 19 artists

A Roma si celebra il fotografo riminese Marco Pesaresi a 25 anni dalla morte: docu-film e mostra

Rome is celebrating the work of Rimini-born photographer Marco Pesaresi (1964–2001), 25 years after his death, through two events organized by the photography training center Daylight School, led by Marco Sconocchia. A documentary film titled "Il granchio nudo – La storia di Marco Pesaresi," produced by Riccardo Caccia and Michela Fragomeni and directed by Marta E. Antonioli and Elena Padovan, will be screened on May 21 at Nuovo Cinema Aquila. The film features unpublished materials, including Pesaresi's diaries and poems, and includes interviews with those who knew him. A group exhibition, "UNDERGROUND. Il mondo sotto. Omaggio a Marco Pesaresi," opens May 29 at Daylight School, reinterpreting the themes of his photobook "Underground" through the eyes of 15 photographers.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 20, 2026 visibility 6 link 1 artist

A Torino arriva una provocatoria fiera d’arte dedicata all’olfatto inventata da una artista-erborista

The first edition of Olfacta Art Fair, a provocative art fair dedicated to scent, will take place from September 18 to 20, 2026, at EDIT Garden in Turin, Italy. Conceived by artist and herbalist Francesca Casale (born 1990) and her association Olfacta, the fair features ten artists and independent spaces under the curatorial direction of Gianluigi Ricuperati, with exhibition design by Maurizio Cilli. The event transforms the venue into an immersive environment where smells, emanations, and olfactory traces interact with installations, performances, scientific research, and sensory design, challenging traditional notions of art as a collectible object.

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