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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 12, 2025 visibility 22 link 6 artists, 23 galleries

More than 200 galleries are signed on for The Armory Show's next edition

The Armory Show has announced over 200 galleries for its September 2025 edition at the Javits Center in New York, including more than 135 returning exhibitors and around 55 first-time participants. New features include a design-focused sector called Function, curated by Ebony L. Haynes, and a large-scale sculpture sector Platform led by the nonprofit Souls Grown Deep. The fair will also introduce a non-profit sector and honor Silke Lindner with the Gramercy International Prize.

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Tate Liverpool receives £12m from UK government to support delayed revamp

Tate Liverpool has received a £12m grant from the UK government's Public Bodies Infrastructure Fund, bringing the Department of Culture, Media and Sport's total contribution to the gallery's redevelopment to £18.6m. The funding, combined with additional philanthropic donations from the Garfield Weston Foundation (£3m), the Wolfson Foundation (£1.25m), and the Ross Warburton Charitable Trust, plus a £10m award from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, has raised a minimum of £32.85m toward the project, now costed at £35m. The gallery, closed since October 2023, had postponed its planned 2025 reopening to 2027 due to fundraising difficulties.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 11, 2025 visibility 15 link 4 artists

Renowned Chicago Sculptor’s Work Comes Home to Chicago this Summer

Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA) in Chicago will host "Freedom in Form: Richard Hunt" from July 11 to November 15, 2025, a major exhibition celebrating the late sculptor Richard Hunt (1935–2023). The show features sculptures, maquettes, tools, books, photographs, prints, and video interviews, tracing Hunt’s 70-year career from his early days at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago to international renown. For the first time, it pairs two pivotal works: "Hero’s Head" (1956), created after the funeral of Emmett Till, and "Hero Ascending," a monument designed for Till’s childhood home. The exhibition includes a catalogue with contributions from Christina Shutt, Rev. Michael J. Garanzini, curator Ross Stanton Jordan, biographer Jon Ott, and historian Timothy J. Gilfoyle.

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

'Hugh Hayden: American Vernacular' at the Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA, United States

The Frye Art Museum in Seattle will present 'Hugh Hayden: American Vernacular' from June 28 to September 28, 2025, marking the artist's first solo museum exhibition on the West Coast. The show features Hayden's meticulously crafted wooden sculptures and multimedia installations that transform everyday objects—such as designer shoes carved from tree bark and basketball hoops woven from grain stalks—into darkly humorous commentaries on identity, desire, and belonging.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 29, 2025 visibility 15 link 1 artist

Pompidou to launch outpost near Unesco heritage site of Iguaçu falls in Brazil

The Centre Pompidou has signed a five-year partnership with Brazil to open its first South American outpost near the Iguaçu falls, a UNESCO World Heritage site, in the city of Foz do Iguaçu. Scheduled to launch in November 2027, the 10,000 sq. m. museum will be designed by Paraguayan architect Solano Benitez, with a construction budget of R$200 million ($36 million). The venue will host exhibitions, live performances, festivals, film screenings, lectures, and artist residencies focused on the cultures of Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 28, 2025 visibility 16 link 3 artists

See Inside The Met's New $70M Wing Ahead Of Grand Opening

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Michael C. Rockefeller Wing will reopen to the public on May 31 after a $70 million renovation. The wing houses the museum's collections of art from Africa, the Ancient Americas, and Oceania, and features a new sloped glass wall, a dedicated gallery for light-sensitive Andean textiles, and over 1,800 works spanning five continents. The reopening day celebration includes live music, art-making activities, and a conversation between Met director Max Hollein and architect Kulapat Yantrasast.

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Alfred Ceramic Art Museum celebrates a 125-year legacy

The Alfred Ceramic Art Museum celebrated Alfred University's 125th anniversary with the exhibition "History: a Legacy in Motion, Alfred Ceramic Art 1900–2025." The show highlights ceramic works by faculty members past and present, centering on 25 pieces by Charles Fergus Binns, the founding director of the New York State School of Clay-Working and Ceramics. Curated by museum director Wayne Higby and assistant director Benjamin Evans, the exhibition features over two dozen artists including Marion Fosdick, Charles Harder, and Linda Sikora, many of whose works have not been displayed in recent years.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 27, 2025 visibility 12 link 3 artists

The Gallery Children’s Biennale Is Back, With 8 Baby-Friendly Interactive Zones & Free Entry

The Gallery Children’s Biennale returns for its 5th edition at National Gallery Singapore, launching on 31 May 2025. Themed “Tomorrow We’ll Be…”, the exhibition features eight interactive artworks by Singaporean and Asian artists, including Fern Wong, Wyn-Lyn Tan, Hiromi Tango, Souliya Phoumivong, and Vicente Delgado. For the first time, the Biennale is baby-friendly, with zones designed for infants and toddlers. The event runs in conjunction with the National Gallery’s 10th anniversary and SG60, celebrating Singapore’s 60th year of independence.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 27, 2025 visibility 17 link 1 artist

Paris is getting a huge new art museum this year

The Fondation Cartier, a contemporary art gallery in Paris for the past 30 years, is opening a new flagship location at 2, place du Palais-Royal, opposite the Louvre and near the Ministry of Culture. Occupying an 8,500-square-meter space in a building dating to 1852, the interior has been redesigned by architect Jean Nouvel. The new venue, set to open on October 25, 2025, will be the largest private art center in Paris, with half its space dedicated to exhibitions and the other half housing a restaurant, bookshop, auditorium, and offices. The inaugural exhibition, 'Exposition Générale,' will feature nearly 600 works from the foundation's collection of over 2,500 pieces.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 24, 2025 visibility 14 link 8 artists

Art, ancestors and the land: summer season opens at Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (AGGV) opens its summer season with three contemporary exhibitions centered on Indigenous perspectives, identity, and land. The anchor show is Meryl McMaster's "Bloodline," opening June 18, featuring large-scale photographs, sculptural elements, and immersive video that trace her mixed Plains Cree, Métis, Dutch, and British heritage through the lives of her grandmothers from the Red Pheasant Cree Nation. Alongside it, "Lekwungen: Place to Smoke Herring" by Brianna Bear and Eli Hirtle presents a film installation on Songhees Nation language and land stewardship, while "Architectures of Protection," curated by Dr. Toby Lawrence, features works by Dana Claxton, Jessica Karuhanga, Emilio Rojas, Beth Stuart, and France Trépanier exploring care and resistance.

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article local schedule May 23, 2025 visibility 13 link 7 artists

Fire-damaged room at Castle Howard brought back to life by meticulous restoration

The Tapestry Drawing Room at Castle Howard, a historic stately home in Yorkshire, England, has been meticulously restored after being gutted by a fire in 1940. The room, originally adorned with early 18th-century tapestries woven by John Vanderbank and based on scenes by David Teniers, was reduced to a scorched shell. Nick Howard, whose family has lived in the house for three centuries, oversaw the restoration, which involved reinstalling the original tapestries—found rolled up in the attic—after conservation by Alison Stanton. The centerpiece, a painting by Marco Ricci titled *Judgment of Paris*, and a newly built fireplace based on archival photographs complete the revival.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 14, 2025 visibility 15 link 2 artists

From Africa to the Arctic Circle, this public artwork is stampeding into cities with a cry for climate action

A mobile public artwork called *The Herds* is traveling from the Congo Basin through Africa, Europe, and up to the Arctic Circle, featuring life-sized animal sculptures made from recyclable materials. The project began in April in Kinshasa and will pass through eighteen cities including Lagos, Marrakech, Madrid, London, and Copenhagen, culminating in Trondheim, Norway on July 30. Created by South Africa-based artists and led by artistic director Amir Nizar Zuabi, the herd grows as local species are added in each region, engaging communities through parades, performances, and workshops.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 12, 2025 visibility 14 link 4 artists

The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Michael C. Rockefeller Wing reopened in May 2025 after a multiyear renovation, presenting reimagined galleries for the arts of Africa, the ancient Americas, and Oceania. The 40,000-square-foot space, designed by Kulapat Yantrasast of WHY Architecture, now houses the three collections as independent entities, featuring digital features, commissioned films, new wall text, and objects on view for the first time—including major acquisitions of historic and contemporary works, a gallery for light-sensitive ancient Andean textiles, and contemporary commissions by Indigenous Pacific artists.

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Wes Anderson’s priceless ‘Renaissance portrait’ to go on show in London

The Design Museum in London will host "Wes Anderson: The Archives" from November 21, 2025 to July 26, 2026, featuring over 600 items from the filmmaker's career, including props, sketches, and notebooks. A highlight is the "priceless Renaissance portrait" Boy with Apple from the film The Grand Budapest Hotel, which was actually painted in 2012 by British artist Michael Taylor as a commission for Anderson.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 12, 2025 visibility 9 link 2 artists

Teen Artists Challenge Traditional Boundaries at Fort Worth Gallery Show

The Pool Near Southside Arts Space in Fort Worth hosted the NAMNAL Exhibition, the city's first art and AI exhibition featuring twenty-two emerging youth artists. The show, which closed May 12, was the culmination of a STEAM-based initiative called NAMNAL (New Age Media – New Age Learning), founded by Sri Lankan American artist and AP art teacher Dhananjaya “DJ” Perera. The exhibition displayed 25 core works reimagined across mediums—from sketches to 3D prints, projection mapping, and embroidery—developed in collaboration with TCU’s College of Fine Arts and UT Dallas’ Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 8, 2025 visibility 16 link 2 artists

‘We are all part of this intergalactic universe’: Saya Woolfalk’s solo show immerses viewers in her “Empathic Universe”

Saya Woolfalk's solo exhibition "Empathic Universe" at the Museum of Arts and Design (Mad) in New York presents two decades of her visionary world-building practice. The show unfolds in five chapters, featuring sculptures made from textiles, videos, performances, and immersive digital installations that trace the evolution of fictional plant-and-human hybrid races. Woolfalk discusses the origins of her project, which began after her return from Brazil with works like "Winter Garden: Hybrid Love Objects" (2005) at MoMA PS1, and how the Empathic Universe came into focus during her time in the Whitney Independent Study Program around 2006, drawing on mythology, anthropology, technology, and feminist theory.

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article local schedule May 1, 2025 visibility 12 link 5 artists

Cincinnati Art Museum curator of fashion showcases women designers

This episode of WYSO's Studio Visit series takes listeners to the Cincinnati Art Museum to meet Cynthia Amnéus, the museum's Chief Curator and Curator of Fashion and Textile Arts. Amnéus discusses her focus on women fashion designers, highlighting iconic figures such as Rei Kawakubo (Comme des Garçons), Bonnie Cashin (Coach), Ann Lowe (who designed Jackie Kennedy's wedding dress), and the lesser-known 1930s designer Elizabeth Hawes, whose progressive views on comfort and gender-neutral clothing were ahead of her time. Amnéus also reflects on past exhibitions, including a 2017 show on Iris Van Herpen's 3D-printed sculptural fashion, and her current interest in sustainable designers like Collina Strada and Chopova Lowena.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 30, 2025 visibility 12 link 2 artists

Immediately after the Second World War, how did six exhibitions attempt to make sense of the atrocities?

Berlin's Deutsches Historisches Museum has opened an exhibition titled "On Displaying Violence: First Exhibitions on the Nazi Occupation in Europe, 1945-48," which revisits six post-World War II exhibitions that attempted to process the atrocities of the war. These shows took place in venues ranging from the Grand Palais in Paris to a Czech villa formerly occupied by a Nazi official, and included displays such as the UK's Daily Express "The Horror Camps" (1945), the French traveling show "Hitlerian Crimes" (1945), "Warsaw Accuses" (1945) at the National Museum in Warsaw, and "Our Path to Freedom" (1947) at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The Berlin exhibition uses original objects, film footage, photographs, and recordings to recreate the experience of these early post-war shows.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 28, 2025 visibility 11 link 5 artists

Mohonk Mountain House Unveils a New Art Exhibition Celebrating History and Nature

Mohonk Mountain House, a historic resort in New York's Hudson Valley, has unveiled a new art exhibition titled "Essence by Design" on Earth Day (April 22). The exhibition features 41 hand-painted glass slides from 1902, originally created by artist Walter T. Weaver, depicting exotic and native flora. The slides, preserved in the resort's archives thanks to Daniel Smiley and his daughter Pril Smiley, have been digitized into large-scale prints (26×32 inches) and permanently installed in the Grove building. Pril Smiley, a fourth-generation steward and Director of Art, curated the selection to continue the legacy of founder Albert Smiley, who believed in blending indoor and outdoor experiences.

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article policy schedule Apr 28, 2025 visibility 15 link 6 artists

‘It’s much more extreme’: US institutions and artists enter a new culture war

Since President Donald Trump took office, his administration has rapidly dismantled parts of the U.S. cultural infrastructure through executive orders and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk. Key federal funding bodies—the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)—have faced staff cuts, grant cancellations, and threats of further reductions. Trump has also replaced leadership at the Kennedy Center and signaled similar moves against the Smithsonian Institution, while DOGE visited the National Gallery of Art to discuss its legal status. Arts organizations and advocates are scrambling to assess the damage and find alternative funding.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 28, 2025 visibility 14 link 7 artists

Wonders of Nature: New nature-themed art exhibition featuring Japanese artists like Go Yayanagi and more

New Art Museum Singapore has launched 'Wonders of Nature', its first immersive exhibition designed for children and families. Curated by local creative Warren Wee, the show features works from eight international and local artists including Go Yayanagi, Go Ogawa, Yuji Kanamaru, Masato Inagaki, Osamu Watanabe, Jackson Tan, and Jesse Franklin. The exhibition includes interactive zones such as the Animal Kingdom with candy-colored sculptures, a Canyon of Cuddles playground with inflatable cacti and a ball pit, a digital ocean with life-sized projected fish, and a Garden of Senses with augmented reality games. A pop-up by Waga Waga Labs offers matcha drinks inspired by the exhibition's colors and themes. The exhibition runs until October 5, 2025, at the museum's Tanjong Pagar Distripark location.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 7, 2026 visibility 11

A Fashion Revolution at the Met

The New York Times reports that the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute is undergoing a major transformation, moving from its basement location to become the museum's main entrance gallery. This shift, framed as "Costume Art," elevates fashion exhibitions to a central, welcoming role within the institution, signaling a new era for the department.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 18, 2026 visibility 11

Wisconsin’s Chazen Museum of Art Explores New Ways to Display Its Collection

The Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin–Madison is implementing a radical reinstallation of its permanent collection galleries. This new curatorial strategy centers each gallery around a single "focus object," which is then surrounded by a "constellation" of supporting artworks designed to highlight specific thematic, historical, or technical connections rather than following a traditional chronological or geographical layout.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 18, 2026 visibility 13

Barber Osgerby, a British Design Team, Is Honored in Milan

The Triennale Milano is hosting a dedicated exhibition celebrating the prolific output of the British design duo Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby. The showcase highlights the studio's influential career, featuring a range of industrial design projects that have defined modern British aesthetics over the past two decades.

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candle obituary schedule Mar 20, 2026 visibility 16

Thomas Gentille, Artist Who Made Wearable Sculpture, Dies at 89

Thomas Gentille, an influential American artist and master jeweler, has died at the age of 89. His work, which he described as "wearable sculpture," blurred the lines between jewelry and contemporary art, favoring abstract, architectural forms in materials like eggshell, wood, and stone over traditional precious gems and metals.

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museum exhibitions schedule Mar 12, 2026 visibility 14

Donna Distefano Recreates Centuries-Old Jewelry for the Frick Collection

Donna Distefano, a contemporary jewelry designer, has meticulously recreated 16th-century jewelry pieces for The Frick Collection's exhibition "Gold, Silver, and Rare Stones: Renaissance Jewelry in the Robert Lehman Collection." Her work involved extensive research into historical techniques and materials, resulting in wearable replicas of intricate pendants and brooches originally owned by European nobility.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 23, 2026 source 3 sources visibility 10 link 4 artists

design the winter show antiques preview

New York's art, design, and philanthropic leaders gathered at the Park Avenue Armory for the Winter Show's Opening Night Preview, marking the fair's 72nd edition and honoring Caroline Kennedy. The event featured 75 international exhibitors, with co-hosts including Executive Director Helen Allen, East Side House Settlement Executive Director Daniel Diaz, Honorary Co-Chair Wendy Goodman, and designers Noz Nozawa, Ben Pentreath, Jane Keltner de Valle, Giancarlo Valle, Michael Bargo, and CULTURED Editor-in-Chief Sarah Harrelson. Attendees included fashion designer Cynthia Rowley, interior designers Reed and Delphine Krakoff, and architect Peter Marino, among others.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 13, 2026 source 2 sources visibility 12 link 5 artists, 1 gallery

EAT/ART Space to inhabit ETSU's Tipton-Ashe Galleries

EAT/ART Space, a collaborative project merging food and visual art, will take over ETSU's Tipton-Ashe Galleries. The initiative transforms the gallery into an interactive environment where visitors can engage with art through culinary experiences, blurring the lines between gallery viewing and dining.

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article news schedule May 5, 2026 visibility 18

New Flagship Space for SAMoCA Announced As Part of Saudi Vision 2030

The Saudi Arabia Museum of Contemporary Art (SAMoCA) will receive a new flagship space as part of the government-backed Diriyah Company's Saudi Vision 2030 initiative. The museum, financed by a $490 million grant from the Diriyah Company (owned by the Public Investment Fund), will be designed by British architecture firm Godwin Austen Johnson and built by Albawani Company and Hassan Allam Construction – Saudi Arabia. Spanning 77,000 square meters, the project is part of the $63.2 billion Diriyah giga-project aimed at transforming the city into a premier cultural destination.

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article culture schedule May 13, 2026 visibility 32 link 4 artists

Why artists’ love for opera will never die

This article explores the enduring fascination that visual artists have with opera, tracing a historical lineage from figures like Oskar Kokoschka and David Hockney to contemporary practitioners such as William Kentridge and Tacita Dean. It examines how opera's fusion of music, drama, and visual spectacle has inspired artists to create set designs, costumes, and even direct productions, often blurring the boundaries between fine art and performance.

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