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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 21, 2026 visibility 16 link 1 artist, 2 galleries

Amoako Boafo Brings Accra to LA in ‘I Bring Home with Me’

Amoako Boafo's third solo exhibition with Roberts Projects, titled 'I Bring Home with Me,' opens January 17 in Los Angeles. The show recreates the artist's Accra, Ghana studio within the gallery through an architectural collaboration with designer Glenn DeRoche, featuring vibrant wallpaper, grid windows, and light-filled passages. Boafo presents new portraits using his signature fingertip painting technique, integrated into the studio structure and a folding wooden sculpture inspired by the Adinkra symbol nkyinkyim.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 12, 2026 visibility 28 link 7 artists

National Museum of African Art Announces “Here: Pride and Belonging in African Art”

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art has announced “Here: Pride and Belonging in African Art,” an exhibition opening January 23 through August 23, 2026. Featuring nearly 60 works by LGBTQ+ artists from Africa and its diaspora—including Zanele Muholi, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Leilah Babirye, Jim Chuchu, and Ṣọlá Olúlòde—the show spans painting, photography, sculpture, installation, video, and digital art. Co-curated by Serubiri Moses and Kevin D. Dumouchelle, the exhibition is built on years of dialogue with artists and communities, centering their voices and lived experiences.

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The Big Review | Jacques-Louis David at the Musée du Louvre, Paris ★★★★★

The Musée du Louvre in Paris has opened a major retrospective of Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825), the greatest Neoclassical artist, marking his biggest survey in nearly four decades. The exhibition, mounted for the 200th anniversary of his death, comprises just over 100 works, including strategic loans from France and eight other countries, and complements the Louvre's own holdings. The show aims to redefine David beyond the Neoclassical label, presenting him instead as both a "realist" and an "idealist," and is compared to blockbusters like the Rijksmuseum's Vermeer show.

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The eight hotly awaited art-venue openings we are most looking forward to in 2026

The article previews eight major art-venue openings expected in 2026, including the long-awaited Guggenheim Abu Dhabi on Saadiyat Island, Cardiff's first contemporary art museum (AMOCA), the V&A East Museum in London, the revived Palais de Danse studio of Barbara Hepworth in St Ives, and the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles. It also notes the uncertain status of the Museum of West African Art in Benin City amid political disputes. These projects range from vast new museums and subterranean expansions to restored artist studios, many delayed by funding, planning, or construction challenges.

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trending_up market schedule Jan 5, 2026 visibility 27 link 13 artists, 2 galleries

How much should art cost? The pitfalls and paradoxes of pricing works

The article examines the current state of the art market, which is in its third consecutive year of contraction. It traces how low interest rates fueled speculative price inflation, leading to a boom in ultra-contemporary art that has now burst, with collectors shifting toward Old Masters. Dealers like Larry Gagosian are now advocating for lowering primary market prices, while private sales stall due to sellers' 'anchoring' to peak valuations. The piece highlights the disconnect between high prices and long-term value, using examples such as auction records being manipulated (e.g., Patrick Drahi's anonymous bidding on a Francis Bacon triptych) and the reality that most artworks in even celebrated collections depreciate.

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rate_review review schedule Jan 3, 2026 visibility 14 link 3 artists

Highs and Lows at Princeton’s New Art Museum

Brian T. Allen reviews the newly opened Princeton University Art Museum, praising its architectural design while questioning the curatorial direction. He contrasts the new building's impressive appearance with his concerns about the museum's exhibition choices, recalling past successful shows like the Berlin Painter exhibition and a Clarence White photography show that he found more intellectually rigorous.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 2, 2026 visibility 18 link 5 artists

How Gertrude Abercrombie and her Magic Realist cohorts shifted the dial on American Regionalism

A new exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Museum, 'Gertrude and Friends: The Wisconsin Magic Realists,' highlights a group of artists active in the Midwest from the early 1940s who challenged the dominant American Regionalism aesthetic. The show features 17 works by artists including John Wilde, Karl Priebe, Sylvia Fein, Marshall Glasier, and Dudley Huppler, who were friends and correspondents of the eccentric painter Gertrude Abercrombie (1909-77). The exhibition is designed as a companion to a major Abercrombie retrospective that is currently touring the United States, having originated at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Art and now on view at the Colby College Museum of Art.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 1, 2026 visibility 18 link 6 artists

New York City Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Exhibition Now on View at The Met

The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the nonprofit Alliance for Young Artists & Writers have opened the seventh annual Scholastic Art & Writing Awards: New York City Regional Exhibition at The Met’s Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education. Running through May 21, 2021, the free exhibition features over 200 works of art and writing by New York City-based Gold Key recipients in grades 7–12, selected from more than 10,000 submissions across 28 categories. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the works are displayed as framed prints to ensure equitable access.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 26, 2025 visibility 28 link 12 artists

Paris exhibition provides a new canon-busting vision of Minimalism

The Bourse de Commerce in Paris hosts "Minimal," a groundbreaking exhibition curated by Jessica Morgan, director of the Dia Art Foundation. The show centers on five large-scale natural-material works by 81-year-old US artist Meg Webster, while featuring over 100 works by more than 50 artists to challenge the traditional narrative that 1960s-70s Minimalism was exclusively a white, male, American movement. It includes thematic sections on light, balance, and monochrome, a gallery devoted to Japan's Mono-ha movement, and retrospectives of Agnes Martin and Lygia Pape, drawing largely from the Pinault Collection with international loans.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 24, 2025 visibility 14 link 3 artists

Surrealism at 100 Sprawls and Seduces in Philadelphia

The Philadelphia Museum of Art has opened a major exhibition titled "Surrealism at 100," marking the centennial of the Surrealist movement. The show brings together a vast array of works from the movement's key figures, including Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, and Max Ernst, alongside lesser-known artists, aiming to capture the full breadth and subversive spirit of Surrealism across painting, sculpture, photography, and film.

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trending_up market schedule Dec 19, 2025 visibility 28 link 7 artists, 11 galleries

Art market 2025 review: all eyes on the Gulf as Trump destabilises global order

The global art market continued to contract in 2025, with prominent galleries such as Blum, Clearing, Sperone Westwater, Tilton, Kasmin, TJ Boulting, Project Native Informant, Nir Altman, and Altman Siegel closing due to challenging macroeconomic conditions. However, a rebound emerged at the top end by autumn, driven by Sotheby's white-glove sale of the Pauline Karpidas collection, strong VVIP sales at Art Basel Paris, and New York's November auctions, where Klimt's *Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer* (1914-16) sold for $236.3 million and Frida Kahlo's *El Sueño (la cama)* (1940) for $54.7 million. Christie's and Sotheby's reported increased sales from 2024, with second-half auctions up 26% year-on-year, though recovery remains uneven and concentrated in classic secondary-market tastes.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 16, 2025 visibility 22 link 11 artists

MoMA explores how African studio portraits offered a new vision of freedom

The Museum of Modern Art in New York has opened a new exhibition, 'Ideas of Africa: Portraiture and Political Imagination,' surveying West and Central African studio portrait photography from the 1950s and 60s. The show features works by photographers including James Barnor, Seydou Keïta, Malick Sidibé, Jean Depara, Sanlé Sory, Kwame Brathwaite, Samuel Fosso, Silvia Rosi, and the collective Air Afrique, alongside a reading room exploring print culture. Curated by Oluremi C. Onabanjo, the exhibition presents these portraits not as documentary records but as imaginative acts of self-definition and political expression.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 13, 2025 visibility 20 link 11 artists

'What's possible for art in this city': Striking exhibition brings diverse artists to Allentown studio

Rigo Peralta Art Studio in Allentown, Pennsylvania, opened the "Hyperrealism & Realism" exhibition on a Friday night, featuring a diverse group of artists from the United States, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela. Curated by Peralta and Ruddy Tavera, the show juxtaposes hyperrealistic and academic realist works, including pieces by Ismael Checo, Francisco Collado, Juanairis Collado, and others. The exhibition runs through February and aims to present a fresh artistic experience for the local community.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 13, 2025 visibility 21 link 15 artists

Museum of the African Diaspora caps 20th anniversary celebration

The Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a public celebration on December 13 and two exhibitions: “Continuum: MoAD Over Time” and “UNBOUND: Art, Blackness and the Universe.” Since opening in 2005, MoAD has been defined by Chester Higgins’s photomosaic “The Girl from Ghana,” which features over 3,000 stamp-sized images from contributors worldwide. Under executive director Linda Harrison (2013–2019) and current CEO Monetta White, the museum shifted from a focus on historical and anthropological narratives to centering contemporary Black artists, hiring its first full-time staff curator, Key Jo Lee, in 2023.

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trending_up market schedule Dec 10, 2025 visibility 12 link 2 artists

In the bag: Sotheby’s inaugural Abu Dhabi Collectors’ Week finds success with Birkins and bling

Sotheby’s inaugural Collectors’ Week in Abu Dhabi (2-5 December) achieved a total of $133.4m across five live auctions held on a beachfront stage. The sale featured luxury items including a Hermès Birkin Voyageur owned by Jane Birkin ($2.9m), a 31.68-carat pink diamond called The Desert Rose ($8.8m), and a Patek Philippe watch set that became the second most valuable watch sold in Sotheby’s history ($11.9m). No art was offered, but the auction house sold 50 items privately, including the world’s largest fancy deep green diamond. The sell-through rate was strong, with only one piece of real estate and a couple of cars unsold, outperforming Sotheby’s earlier Saudi Arabia sale.

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article local schedule Dec 10, 2025 visibility 23 link 10 artists

Local Art Books to Gift This Holiday Season

Several artists with ties to Baltimore have released new art books just in time for the holiday season. The featured publications include a debut monograph on Derrick Adams from Phaidon's Monacelli imprint, a book by rising painter Jerrell Gibbs titled 'No Solace in the Shade' published by Rizzoli, the exhibition catalogue for Amy Sherald's retrospective 'American Sublime' at the Baltimore Museum of Art, and Jackie Milad's debut art book 'Shabtis Gather' produced in partnership with BmoreArt. The article also recommends gifting a subscription to BmoreArt magazine.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 9, 2025 visibility 22 link 12 artists

Exhibition program 2026

The Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst in Bremen has announced its 2026 exhibition program, featuring three major shows. The collection exhibition "The Way We Are" (February 21, 2026–January 30, 2028) presents an updated survey of contemporary art from the 1960s to the present, with new thematic areas exploring self-portraiture, power and empowerment, patriarchal structures, and representations of the body, featuring works by over 100 artists. A solo exhibition, "Anys Reimann: Mirrorball" (May 2–October 4, 2026), marks the first museum show dedicated to the Düsseldorf-born artist, known for her works addressing identity, Black womanhood, and postcolonial themes through collage-paintings, leather sculptures, and an immersive black garden installation. Additionally, "Edition S Press" (September 12, 2026–August 29, 2027) at the Centre for Artists’ Publications examines the experimental publisher's output of concrete poetry, Beat poetry, and acoustic art from 1970 to 2005, featuring works by over fifty artists including John Cage, Allen Ginsberg, and John Giorno.

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candle obituary schedule Dec 8, 2025 visibility 24 link 4 artists

The art world pays tribute to Martin Parr, an ‘extraordinary photographer of people and life in the UK’

Martin Parr, the renowned British photographer known for his vivid, satirical documentation of British life and class, has died at age 73 at his home in Bristol, as announced by the Martin Parr Foundation on 7 November. Tributes have poured in from across the art and photography worlds, including from the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, and fellow artists such as Grayson Perry and Joel Meyerowitz. Parr's major projects include *The Last Resort* (1983-85) and *The Cost of Living* (1987-89), and an exhibition of his work, *Global Warning*, is scheduled to open at Jeu de Paume in Paris in January 2026.

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article local schedule Dec 5, 2025 visibility 15 link 2 artists

Lima’s historic city centre to be restored after years of earthquake damage and abandonment

The Metropolitan Municipality of Lima has launched an ambitious revitalization project called Lima 2035 to restore the city's historic center, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1991. Decades of neglect, earthquakes, and urban flight have left many buildings abandoned and damaged, particularly those made of adobe and quincha. The project, led by architect Luis Martín Bogdanovich Mendoza, involves over 500 professionals working since 2019 to rehabilitate the area, with completion timed for Lima's 500th birthday in 2035.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 5, 2025 visibility 13 link 2 artists

Mysterious woman captivates in "The Clouds are Luminous" exhibit at Allentown Art Museum

The Allentown Art Museum is hosting a new exhibition titled "The Clouds are Luminous," which centers on a mysterious woman as its subject. The show features works that explore themes of luminosity, atmosphere, and enigmatic female presence, drawing visitors into a contemplative visual experience.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 4, 2025 visibility 21 link 5 artists

One Fine Show: “Camille Pissarro’s Impressionism” at the Denver Art Museum

The Denver Art Museum has opened a new exhibition titled “The Honest Eye: Camille Pissarro’s Impressionism,” organized in collaboration with the Museum Barberini in Potsdam, Germany. The show brings together over 100 paintings and objects from nearly 50 international museums and private collections, highlighting Pissarro’s role as a foundational Impressionist. The exhibition’s title comes from a letter in which Pissarro described his artistic approach as “honest,” emphasizing a realistic, detail-oriented style that contrasted with the more radical tendencies of his peers. Works on view include “Lordship Lane Station, East Dulwich” (1871) and “The Garden of Les Mathurins, property of the Deraismes Sisters, Pontoise” (1876), which showcase his nuanced use of color and texture, as well as his engagement with social and political themes.

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rate_review review schedule Dec 2, 2025 visibility 17 link 7 artists

Review: Art museum’s big fall fashion show is captivating, sexy and fun, albeit with glitches

The Cleveland Museum of Art has opened a major fall exhibition titled "Renaissance to Runway: The Enduring Italian Houses," featuring roughly 80 garments and accessories from top Italian fashion houses such as Gucci, Pucci, Armani, Versace, Valentino, Ferragamo, Max Mara, and Missoni. The show juxtaposes these modern and contemporary designs with over 40 Renaissance, Mannerist, and Baroque artworks from the museum's collection, exploring how Italian couture has drawn inspiration from art history. A digital video installation by filmmaker Francesco Carrozzini and photographer Henry Hargreaves, using AI technology, humorously depicts models "invading" the museum, underscoring fashion's disruptive cultural power. Despite some pacing and spatial choreography issues, the exhibition makes a compelling case for fashion as high art.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 2, 2025 visibility 27 link 12 artists

Portland Art Museum’s Black Art and Experiences Galleries Are an Art World Game Changer

The Portland Art Museum has launched its new Black Art and Experiences Initiative, a permanent, multigallery project that debuts with the reopening of the Rothko Pavilion. The initiative includes four galleries dedicated to Black art, community reflection, artist residencies, and partnerships with Black-led organizations, guided by local Black artists, curators, and advocates. It follows a series of earlier exhibitions—including 'Constructing Identities' (2017), 'All Things Being Equal' (2018), and 'Black Artists of Oregon' (2023)—that built momentum toward this institutional commitment.

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The Rembrandt robber: five takeaways from an insider’s book on a notorious art thief

Myles Connor, an experienced career criminal, stole Rembrandt's "Portrait of Elsbeth van Rijn" from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston on April 14, 1975, using the painting as leverage in another crime. In his new book "The Rembrandt Heist," Anthony Amore—director of security at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum—analyzes Connor's motivations and methods, presenting five key takeaways from the heist.

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article culture schedule Dec 2, 2025 visibility 12 link 2 artists

An expert’s guide to late Pablo Picasso: five must-read books on the second half of his career

Pablo Picasso remains one of the most prolific and studied artists in history. This article presents a curated reading list of five essential books focused on the second half of his career, timed to coincide with the exhibition 'Late Picasso' at Stockholm's Moderna Museet. The books, selected by curators Dieter Buchhart and Anna Karina Hofbauer, include 'Picasso: Painting Against Time' (2006), 'A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932' (2008), 'Picasso: Endlessly Drawing' (2024), 'Picasso's Animals' (2014), and 'Pablo Picasso: A Retrospective' (1980), each offering unique insights into his later works, personal life, and artistic evolution.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 1, 2025 visibility 14 link 1 artist

New exhibition explores how Max Beckmann's hard-edged signature style first emerged in his drawing

An exhibition opening at Frankfurt's Städel Museum focuses on Max Beckmann's drawings, featuring 80 works that trace the emergence of his hard-edged signature style. Curated by Regina Freyberger, Stephan von Wiese, and Hedda Finke, the show spans from before World War I to the artist's final years in the US, including loans from major collections. It highlights how Beckmann's drawing evolved from preparatory studies to autonomous artworks, with key pieces like a 1928 portrait of his wife Quappi and the eerie watercolor 'The Murder' (1933).

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 28, 2025 visibility 20 link 9 artists

A vocabulary of touch: exhibition of sculpture by blind and partially blind artists opens in Leeds

The Henry Moore Institute in Leeds has opened "Beyond the Visual," the first major UK exhibition of sculpture centered on blind and partially blind artists and curators. Co-curated by Ken Wilder, Aaron McPeake, and Clare O'Dowd, the show features works by 16 international artists including Henry Moore, Barry Flanagan, Lenka Clayton, Emilie Louise Gossiaux, David Johnson, and others. The exhibition prioritizes touch, sound, and sensory engagement, with all objects available to handle, textured flooring mats, high-contrast signage, and audio descriptions. It includes new commissions such as David Johnson's "Nuggets of Embodiment" (2024-25), made of 10,000 stone-plaster Digestive biscuits with Braille text.

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rate_review review schedule Nov 28, 2025 visibility 17 link 7 artists

The Big Review | Fra Angelico at Palazzo Strozzi and Museo di San Marco, Florence ★★★★★

A major two-venue exhibition dedicated to early Renaissance master Fra Angelico (c. 1395-1455) has opened at Palazzo Strozzi and Museo di San Marco in Florence. The show, four years in the making, features unprecedented loans from over 70 museums and 28 newly conserved works, including the Fiesole Altarpiece (c. 1420-23) and the San Marco Altarpiece (1438-43). It reunites dispersed predella panels and decorative components looted during the Napoleonic era, presenting the most complete picture of Fra Angelico to date while challenging the notion that his work was archaic.

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rate_review review schedule Nov 27, 2025 visibility 23 link 12 artists

Comment | Turner gets all the kudos, but it was Constable who was the truly radical painter

A commentary argues that John Constable, not J.M.W. Turner, was the truly radical painter, despite Turner receiving far greater public recognition through a museum, a prize, and a place on the £20 note. The article highlights a new exhibition, "Turner and Constable," opening at Tate Britain (until 12 April 2026), which recreates their 1831 Royal Academy display and contrasts Constable's English pastoral scenes with Turner's dramatic, un-British visions. It contends that Constable's full-size oil sketches, such as those at the Victoria and Albert Museum, had a deeper and more lasting effect on modern painting than Turner's work.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 24, 2025 visibility 14 link 4 artists

Theaster Gates redeems discarded materials in Smart Museum’s ‘Unto Thee’

Theaster Gates's first solo exhibition in his hometown of Chicago, 'Unto Thee,' opens at the Smart Museum of Art, featuring materials collected over his career that are tied to the University of Chicago. The show includes slate from Rockefeller Chapel, glass lantern slides from the art history department, and the 4,500-volume archive of a late colleague, all transformed into sculptural installations that explore the changing meaning of objects.

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