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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 22, 2025 visibility 19 link 10 artists

Magnum Photos agency’s first exhibition, lost for a half-century, to make its North American debut

The Image Centre in downtown Toronto will stage the North American debut of Magnum Photos' first-ever exhibition, originally titled 'Gesicht der Zeit' (Face of Time) and shown in Austria in 1955-56. The show, lost for half a century, was rediscovered in 2006 in the basement of the Institut Français in Innsbruck, Austria, along with its original poster and hanging instructions. It features 83 original gelatin-silver prints by legendary Magnum photographers including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Inge Morath, Ernst Haas, and Marc Riboud. The exhibition will run concurrently with 'Chim’s Children of Europe,' a show devoted to Magnum co-founder David 'Chim' Seymour's 1949 Unesco project on postwar European children.

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From PBS to Priceless: Bob Ross Paintings Smash Auction Records

Bob Ross paintings shattered auction records at Bonhams New York's American Art Online auction (July 28–August 7, 2025). Two mountain landscapes by the beloved "The Joy of Painting" host sold for $95,750 and $114,800, with the latter more than doubling its high presale estimate. The previous record of $69,300 had been set just weeks earlier at Eldred's auction house for a painting originally purchased for $250 at a PBS auction in the 1980s.

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Trump accuses Smithsonian of being too focused on ‘how bad slavery was’

US President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social accusing the Smithsonian Institution of focusing excessively on negative aspects of American history, specifically citing exhibits about slavery and the struggles of marginalized groups. He claimed the organization is "out of control" and instructed his attorneys to review its museums, mirroring recent actions against universities. The White House has initiated a four-month review of eight Smithsonian museums, including the National Museum of African American History and Culture and the National Portrait Gallery, with a directive to replace "divisive or ideologically driven language" with "unifying, historically accurate" descriptions.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 20, 2025 visibility 22 link 22 artists

Sarasota Art Museum celebrates 100th anniversary of Art Deco with exhibition of 100 rare advertisement posters

The Sarasota Art Museum will open an exhibition titled "Art Deco: The Golden Age of Illustration" on August 31, featuring 100 rare fine art advertisement posters from the 1920s and '30s. The posters, created by early master graphic designers such as A. M. Cassandre and Leonetto Cappiello, are drawn from the Crouse Collection, considered the most significant private collection of its kind. The exhibition also includes sculptural works, cocktail shakers, and Art Deco furniture on loan from the Wolfsonian Museum at Florida International University.

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Trump administration’s anti-woke campaign targets Smithsonian museums

The Trump administration has launched a campaign targeting Smithsonian museums, accusing them of promoting an "anti-American agenda" through exhibits that focus on oppression rather than national achievements. A White House document, obtained by the Guardian, lists problematic exhibits at seven museums, including a Benjamin Franklin display linking his scientific work to slave ownership and a film about George Floyd's murder. The administration has demanded content corrections and threatened to remove what it calls "woke" ideology from the institution.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 18, 2025 visibility 16 link 4 artists

Art brings ideas about ocean to landlocked place

The Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas has opened "Soundings: Making Culture at Sea," an exhibition exploring connections to the ocean from the landlocked state of Kansas. Curated by Emily Casey and Celka Straughn, the show runs through December 14 and features works from the museum's collection, including a Winslow Homer watercolor, a carved wooden mermaid, and photographs of Greenland glaciers, alongside a video by Isaac Julien. The exhibition is organized into four sections covering maps, ocean crossings, ecological threats, and maritime trade.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 18, 2025 visibility 17 link 10 artists

This Week at LACMA

LACMA announces a week of programming from August 18–24, headlined by the opening of *Now Showing: Youssef Nabil’s I Saved My Belly Dancer*, an exhibition featuring the artist’s 2015 video starring Tahar Rahim and Salma Hayek, alongside related photographs and Egyptian movie posters. Member previews run August 21–23 before the public opening on August 24. Other highlights include a mindful evening with Buddhist art tied to the ongoing exhibition *Realms of the Dharma: Buddhist Art Across Asia*, plus concerts, workshops, and family programs.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 15, 2025 visibility 31 link 15 artists

Landmark George Morrison show foregrounds Abstract Expressionism’s debt to Native art

A new exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, titled "The Magical City: George Morrison’s New York," showcases the largest-ever show of works by Ojibwe abstract painter George Morrison (1919-2000). Running until 31 May 2026, the exhibition features 25 works and archival materials, highlighting Morrison's Abstract Expressionist style and the tension between his life in New York City and his roots on the Grand Portage Chippewa reservation. The show includes pieces like "The Antagonist" (1956) and "Aureate Vertical" (1958), revealing his dual experiences of urban glamour and Native displacement.

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Rediscovered David Wojnarowicz mural could disappear from view again

A large mural by David Wojnarowicz (1954-92), rediscovered in a Louisville, Kentucky building in 2022, is at risk of being concealed again behind drywall as the building is redeveloped into high-end residences. The site-specific work was created in 1985 for the group exhibition *The Missing Children Show: Six Artists from the East Village on Main Street*, organized by dealer Potter Coe to benefit the Kentucky Child Victims’ Trust Fund. The building's current developers plan to turn the mural's floor into a waiting room for a boxing gym, covering it with sheetrock, though they have guaranteed no damage. The artist's foundation and gallery, PPOW, have proposed covering it with transparent plexiglass instead, but the mural's removal is unlikely due to its size and brick surface.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 14, 2025 visibility 14 link 7 artists

Guggenheim Fellows Featured in Stockton’s Art Gallery

Stockton University’s Art Gallery in Galloway, New Jersey, will present a fall exhibition titled “Diverse Perspectives in Photography: Four Black Guggenheim Fellows in the Philadelphia Region,” running from September 4 to November 8. The show features works by four African American photographers who are Guggenheim Fellows: Donald E. Camp (1995), Ron Tarver (2021), William E. Williams (2003), and Wendel A. White (2003). The exhibition opens with a free reception and panel discussion moderated by Julie L. McGee, associate professor at the University of Delaware, and includes a lecture by Laura Auricchio, vice president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, on the fellowship’s 100th anniversary.

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National Museum of Asian Art Presents “Korean Treasures: Collected, Cherished, Shared”

The Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art will present "Korean Treasures: Collected, Cherished, Shared" from November 8, 2025 to February 1, 2026, marking the first U.S. exhibition of masterpieces from the Lee Kun-Hee Collection. Featuring over 200 works including a dozen Korean National Treasures, the exhibition spans 1,500 years of Korean art—from ancient Buddhist sculptures and ceramics to Joseon dynasty furnishings and 20th-century modern paintings. The collection, donated to the Republic of Korea in 2021 by the family of the late Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-Hee, comprises more than 23,000 works accumulated over 70 years. The exhibition is co-organized by the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Museum of Korea, and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, with additional loans from the Leeum Museum of Art shown exclusively in Washington, D.C.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 12, 2025 visibility 19 link 5 artists

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

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

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 8, 2025 visibility 19 link 5 artists

'Paul McCartney Photographs 1963–64: Eyes of the Storm' to Open at Frist Art Museum, Nashville

The Frist Art Museum in Nashville will host 'Paul McCartney Photographs 1963–64: Eyes of the Storm,' an exhibition featuring nearly 300 recently discovered photographs taken by Paul McCartney during the height of Beatlemania. Organized by the National Portrait Gallery, London, the show runs from November 7, 2025, to January 26, 2026, and includes personal images of The Beatles—John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr—captured between December 1963 and February 1964, along with ephemera and an audio tour narrated by McCartney.

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article local schedule Aug 8, 2025 visibility 15 link 5 artists

Artists who didn’t make Minnesota State Fair get second chance in ‘Rejects’ show

The article reports on the 2025 'State Fair Rejects' show at Douglas Flanders & Associates Gallery in Minneapolis, which accepts artworks that were not selected for the Minnesota State Fair's juried fine arts exhibition. Artist Attila Ray Dabasi, who had been accepted regularly in the past but was rejected this year, is among about 75 participants displaying works like his sculpture 'Armageddon.' The gallery, led by owner Doug Flanders, started the show last year to give rejected artists a second chance to exhibit and sell their work, with all drop-offs accepted. The State Fair received 2,834 submissions but only 337 were chosen, highlighting the competitive nature of the fair.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 6, 2025 visibility 12 link 2 artists

Preston Park Museum's new exhibition space to open with host of exciting exhibitions celebrating the railway

Preston Park Museum is opening a new multi-million pound exhibition space in 2025 with a series of railway-themed exhibitions called 'Tracks of Change', part of the S&DR200 festival celebrating the bicentenary of the Stockton and Darlington Railway. Highlights include 'Corridors', a suspended floral installation by internationally acclaimed artist Rebecca Louise Law; 'All Aboard', an interactive playscape for children; 'Gateway to the World', a collection of nationally significant paintings; and 'Perfume', a light-and-sound installation by visual artist Yann Nguema. All exhibitions will be free with museum admission.

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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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Five new art books to look out for this autumn, including publications on US monuments and Vermeer close-ups

Five new art books are set for release this autumn, covering topics from US monuments and Vermeer's techniques to post-war British culture and contemporary Pakistani-American art. Titles include 'Closer to Vermeer' (Thames & Hudson), 'Monumental: How a New Generation of Artists Is Shaping the Memorial Landscape' (MIT Press), 'British Blonde' (Paul Mellon Centre), 'Art Is: A Journey into the Light' (Yale), and 'Shahzia Sikander' (Lund Humphries), each offering fresh scholarship or monographic depth.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 1, 2025 visibility 20 link 19 artists

Cranbrook Art Museum's "Eventually Everything Connects" Is Mid-Century Modern Design History

Cranbrook Art Museum has opened a new design exhibition titled “Eventually Everything Connects: Mid-Century Modern Design in the United States,” showcasing over 200 works by nearly 100 designers, including Harry Bertoia, Florence Knoll Bassett, and Charles and Ray Eames. The show draws from the museum's extensive collection of mid-century modern artifacts—furniture, textiles, ceramics, lighting, and graphic design—spanning 1945 to 1970, and is curated by director Andrew Satake Blauvelt and MillerKnoll Curatorial Fellow Bridget Bartal.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 1, 2025 visibility 19 link 1 artist

Meet the Curator: Informal Conversation on Monet’s Floating Worlds

The Portland Art Museum is hosting a series of informal, interactive conversations with curators and a conservator about the exhibition "Monet’s Floating Worlds at Giverny." Participants include Jeannie Kenmotsu, The Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Curator of Asian Art, and Hugo Torii, Garden Curator at Portland Japanese Garden. The free events explore connections between Monet’s waterlilies, Japanese printmaking, and conservation, encouraging open discussion and audience engagement.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 30, 2025 visibility 13 link 13 artists

New Smithsonian exhibit highlights American fairs, including crop art, butter from Minnesota

A new exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution spotlights the history and artistry of American state and county fairs, featuring unusual exhibits such as crop art and butter sculptures from Minnesota. The show explores how these community events have long served as platforms for creative expression, agricultural pride, and local tradition.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 30, 2025 visibility 17 link 2 artists

Final Weeks to Experience Kent Monkman: History is Painted by the Victors

The Denver Art Museum is hosting 'Kent Monkman: History is Painted by the Victors,' a major exhibition of the Cree artist's provocative, large-scale paintings that challenge Western art history through an Indigenous lens. The show, co-organized with the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, runs until August 17 before traveling to Montreal in September. It has drawn widespread critical acclaim and emotional visitor responses, with reviewers praising its blend of humor, beauty, and political urgency.

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article policy schedule Jul 24, 2025 visibility 18 link 3 artists

American Museum of Natural History announces free admission for low-income New Yorkers

The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City has launched the Discoverer program, offering free admission and educational programming to low-income New Yorkers who receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. The program, developed with NYC's Department of Cultural Affairs and Human Resources Administration, allows SNAP beneficiaries to bring up to four guests and reserve advance tickets online, with membership renewable annually. Nearly 1.8 million city residents rely on SNAP, and the initiative aims to remove financial barriers to museum access.

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trending_up market schedule Jul 21, 2025 visibility 20 link 8 artists

Bill Viola’s complete moving-image works and a William Dobson self-portrait: the latest museum acquisitions

Tate and the National Portrait Gallery in London have jointly acquired William Dobson's rare self-portrait (circa 1635-40) for £2.4 million, supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. The painting will debut at Tate Britain in November before touring the UK. Separately, the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York, will digitize the complete moving-image works of Bill Viola, following a donation of over 200 works by the Viola-Perov Trust. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has acquired a monumental Tiffany Studios stained-glass window by Agnes F. Northrop, originally installed in a San Antonio chapel, for its campus expansion opening in 2026.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 21, 2025 visibility 19 link 4 artists

Exhibition at The Met Highlights Role of Photography in Cross-Dressing Community in 1960s New York

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition "Casa Susanna," on view from July 21, 2025 to January 25, 2026, brings together approximately 160 photographs and publications created by and for a community of cross-dressers who gathered in New York City and the Catskills Mountains during the 1960s. The works, discovered at a Manhattan flea market in 2004, document safe spaces provided by Susanna Valenti and Marie Tornell at two modest resorts, where guests used cameras—especially Polaroids—to affirm their femme identities and connect a nationwide community. The exhibition is organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario and Les Rencontres d’Arles in collaboration with The Met, and includes collections from the Art Gallery of Ontario, artist Cindy Sherman, and donor Betsy Wollheim.

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Can you mount an art exhibition about race in the age of Trump?

The article reports on the exhibition "The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture" at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, which challenges visitors to reconsider how American sculpture has reinforced racist social orders. The show features 82 works from 1792 to 2023, including John Rogers’ 1864 sculpture "The Wounded Scout, a Friend in the Swamp," and includes interpretive prompts about race as a human invention and a tool of power. President Donald Trump issued an executive order condemning the exhibition for promoting "divisive narratives," and Vice President JD Vance, who sits on the Smithsonian’s Board of Regents, has been tasked with stopping government funding for exhibits that do not align with a celebratory national agenda. The Smithsonian has begun a review of content across its museums, raising concerns about future candid discussions of race and history.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 18, 2025 visibility 16 link 5 artists

‘Fearless exploration’: visionary Australian artist Janet Dawson gets her first retrospective aged 90

The Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) has opened 'Janet Dawson: Far Away, So Close,' the first-ever retrospective for Australian artist Janet Dawson, now aged 90. The exhibition spans over six decades of her career, from her teenage years at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School—where she was the only child student accepted by realist painter H. Septimus Power—through her abstract period in Europe, her defiant practice in conservative 1960s Melbourne, and her later retreat to rural NSW. The show includes major works, photos, and ephemera, arranged chronologically across four rooms, highlighting Dawson's evolution from tonal realism to abstraction and her 1973 Archibald Prize win for a portrait of her husband, theatre director Michael Boddy.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 18, 2025 visibility 17 link 9 artists

“She’s a Real 20th Century Figure”: Thelma Golden on the ICA’s Mavis Pusey Retrospective

The Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, in collaboration with the Studio Museum in Harlem, has opened "Mavis Pusey: Mobile Images," a retrospective of the Jamaican-born abstract artist Mavis Pusey (1928–2019). The exhibition spans two floors of Pusey's paintings and archival materials, showcasing her geometric abstractions that translate urban construction and gentrification into fractured planes and rhythmic blocks of color. The show was sparked by Studio Museum director Thelma Golden's discovery of Pusey's work in an online auction catalog a decade ago, leading to a collaboration with curator Hallie Ringle.

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

NYU’s Grey Art Museum Presents ‘June Leaf: Shooting From the Heart’ Sept. 9–Dec. 13

NYU’s Grey Art Museum will present the exhibition ‘June Leaf: Shooting From the Heart’ from September 9 to December 13. The show focuses on the work of American artist June Leaf, known for her expressive drawings, paintings, and sculptures that explore the human figure and emotional states.

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person people schedule Jul 17, 2025 visibility 16 link 15 artists

Moving On Up: 24 Museum Curators and Art Leaders Who Took on New Appointments in First Half of 2025

Culture Type has published its annual list of new appointments among museum curators and arts leaders for the first half of 2025, highlighting two dozen hires and promotions at major institutions. Notable appointments include Deana Haggag as program director for arts and culture at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Ann Collins Smith as chief curator at the New Orleans Museum of Art (the first Black American in a full-time curatorial role there), and Vincent van Velsen as head of exhibitions at Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam. The list also features curators such as Alisa Chiles at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and Brittany Webb at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 14, 2025 visibility 17 link 5 artists

Blood, skeletons and syphilis: the story of Edvard Munch’s obsession with health

An exhibition at the Munch Museum in Oslo, titled "Lifeblood," explores Edvard Munch's lifelong obsession with health and medicine by juxtaposing his paintings, drawings, and prints with historical medical objects. The show opens with Munch's painting "On the Operating Table" (1902-3), inspired by a bullet removal surgery after a dispute with his fiancée Tulla Larsen, paired with an early x-ray of his injured hand. It features works like "The Sick Child" (1885-6) alongside tuberculosis-related artifacts such as stethoscopes, sputum bottles, and a jar of arsenic, drawing from Munch's personal experiences with illness and his family's medical background—his father and brother were doctors.

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