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On January 7, 2025, the Palisades and Eaton Fires erupted in Los Angeles, fueled by drought and Santa Ana winds exceeding 90 mph, destroying over 12,000 structures. The fires devastated Pacific Palisades and Altadena, including the homes and studios of numerous artists, collectors, and art professionals. The Getty Center and Getty Villa were under evacuation but remained safe. Artist Paul McCarthy lost three family homes and his son's editing studio, while many others like Christina Quarles, Analia Saban, and Ruby Neri also suffered losses.

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The article explores Frederic William Burton's iconic Victorian watercolor *Hellelil and Hildebrand, the Meeting on the Turret Stairs* (1864), held at the National Gallery of Ireland. It recounts the tragic medieval Danish ballad that inspired the painting, in which the noblewoman Hellelil and her guard Heldebrand are doomed lovers. Burton, an Irish painter influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, worked exclusively in watercolor and gouache, making this delicate piece a technical marvel. The museum displays it only one hour twice weekly to protect it from light damage.

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Bonhams auctioned 29 lots from the collection of late musician and actor Marianne Faithfull in its recurring 'Sound & Cinema' online sale, which concluded on November 24. The lots included eight artworks personally owned by Faithfull, such as an intimate portrait by South African painter Marlene Dumas that sold for $5,806—exceeding its estimate—and works by Anita Pallenberg, Martin Sharp, and others. The entire Faithfull consignment brought in $85,723, with proceeds going to her son Nicholas Dunbar.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 2, 2025 visibility 6 link 5 artists

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The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York will host a two-week screening series starting December 10, featuring 15 films that showcase the special effects work of the late mechatronics maestro Carlo Rambaldi. Co-curated with Rome's Cinecittà studios, the series spans Rambaldi's career from Italian arthouse and exploitation films to Hollywood blockbusters like *Alien* (1979), *E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial*, *King Kong* (1976), and *Dune* (1984). The screenings include films directed by Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Dario Argento, and David Lynch, among others. Rambaldi, who would have turned 100 this autumn, was also honored earlier this year with an exhibition at Long Island City Culture Lab and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 27, 2025 visibility 8 link 5 artists

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The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver has organized the first exhibition dedicated to conceptual artist Roni Horn's long-standing engagement with water. Titled "Roni Horn: Water, Water on the Wall, You're the Fairest of Them All," the show spans sculpture, photography, drawing, and bookmaking, exploring water's mutability, ecological resonance, and paradoxical purity. Horn, who has received a Ford Foundation grant, Guggenheim Fellowship, and three NEA fellowships, has shown at major institutions including the Menil Collection, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum, and Tate Modern, and is represented by Hauser and Wirth.

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article culture schedule Nov 26, 2025 visibility 5 link 5 artists

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This article explores Andy Warhol's lifelong passion for perfume, detailing how the Pop Art icon collected and wore fragrances, created his own scent called "You're In / Eau d'Andy" in 1967, and produced screen-prints of Chanel No. 5 bottles as part of his "Ads" series in 1985. It notes that the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh holds his half-used bottles, referred to as his "Permanent Smell Collection," and that his love of scent was tied to his Catholic upbringing and work as a window display designer.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 25, 2025 visibility 3 link 5 artists

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The Musée Rodin has brought Auguste Rodin's collection of ancient Egyptian art to the United States for the first time, in an exhibition titled "Rodin's Egypt" at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW). The show presents about 60 objects across two galleries, including Egyptian artifacts Rodin collected from the 1890s onward, alongside a dozen of his own sculptures. Curated by Bénédicte Garnier and Roberta Casagrande-Kim, the exhibition highlights Rodin's deep engagement with Egyptian art and features loans from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as objects tied to the Brummers family of art dealers.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 19, 2025 visibility 13 link 11 artists

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced its Spring 2026 Costume Institute exhibition, “Costume Art,” which will open on May 10, 2026, inaugurating the new 12,000-square-foot Condé M. Nast gallery designed by Peterson Rich Office. The exhibition will feature artworks from across the Met’s collections in dialogue with garments from the Costume Institute, focusing primarily on Western art from prehistory to the present. Major sponsors include Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos, with additional support from Saint Laurent and Condé Nast. Curator Andrew Bolton and museum director Max Hollein spoke at the press conference, where preview objects included Rei Kawakubo’s Comme des Garçons ensemble and Hans Bellmer’s "La Poupée."

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New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced plans to convert its centrally located gift shop off the Great Hall into a new gallery space dedicated to its Costume Institute, with a $50 million fundraising goal and an expected opening in 2026. The 11,500-square-foot space will replace the current Anna Wintour Costume Center, offering a more prominent location for the institute's annual blockbuster exhibitions, such as this year's "Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty." Anna Wintour, Condé Nast global editorial director and Vogue editor, will lead fundraising for the project, which also includes reconfiguring ground-floor dining and retail spaces and opening a new public entrance at East 83rd Street and Fifth Avenue.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 19, 2025 visibility 6 link 5 artists

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Singer-songwriter Jewel, a Grammy nominee and former sculpture student, will debut her first solo exhibition titled "Matriclysm: An Archeology of Connections Lost" at Salone Verde in Venice from May 10 to November 22, 2025, coinciding with the 62nd Venice Biennale. The show, presented by Crystal Bridges Museum of Art and organized by curator-at-large Joe Thompson, features new paintings, sculptures, tapestries, installations, and sound works exploring feminine power, climate change, and universal connection. Highlights include a massive plaster sculpture of a pregnant woman created with artist Patrick Bongoy, a glass installation produced at the Toledo Museum of Art, and works incorporating data from NASA, NOAA, Stanford University, and UC Berkeley.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 22, 2025 visibility 8 link 13 artists

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The Toledo Museum of Art has opened "Infinite Images: The Art of Algorithms," an exhibition tracing the history of code-based art from the 1960s to the present. Curated by Julia Kaganskiy, the show features 24 artists including pioneers like Sol LeWitt, Josef Albers, and Vera Molnár, alongside contemporary digital creators such as Larva Labs, Snowfro, Dmitri Cherniak, Operator, and Emily Xie. Works range from Molnár's "Interruptions" series (1968–69) to recent generative and on-chain pieces like CryptoPunks (2017) and Chromie Squiggles (2020), many drawn from the collection of hedge fund manager Alan Howard.

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article culture schedule Jul 9, 2025 visibility 6 link 8 artists

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HBO's *The Gilded Age* introduces John Singer Sargent (played by Bobby Steggert) in its third season, depicting the artist painting a portrait of Gladys Russell. The show coincides with the 100th anniversary of Sargent's death and major exhibitions on both sides of the Atlantic. The episode features the unveiling of the portrait, which was actually a photograph printed on canvas with fake brushwork.

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article news schedule Jul 2, 2025 visibility 6 link 7 artists

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Performance Space New York is auctioning naming rights to the stalls in its fourth-floor unisex restroom as a fundraising campaign. Artist Bailey Hikawa will create custom resin toilet seats and commemorative plaques for each stall, collaborating with donors to reflect their personal aesthetics. One stall remains available and will be auctioned online this summer. The campaign coincides with a sound installation by Kevin Beasley that transforms the restroom into an immersive acoustic environment. Senior director Pati Hertling produced a promotional video using AI tools, featuring a synthetic newscaster announcing the fundraiser.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 19, 2025 visibility 8 link 11 artists

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A new exhibition at the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, South Carolina, titled “Picturing Freedom,” highlights Harriet Tubman’s role in the Combahee River Raid of 1863, where she guided Union troops to free 756 enslaved people in a single night. The show features works by Jacob Lawrence, Aaron Douglas, Elizabeth Catlett, and Faith Ringgold, alongside contemporary artists, and includes multimedia elements such as audio interviews with descendants, a video reenactment, and landscape photographs by J. Henry Fair. Guest curated by Vanessa Thaxton-Ward of Hampton University Museum, the exhibition is based on Edda L. Fields-Black’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book "COMBEE."

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 10, 2025 visibility 9 link 4 artists

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Christo and Jeanne-Claude's posthumous project to wrap the Arc de Triomphe in Paris has been completed and inaugurated by French President Emmanuel Macron. The monument is covered in 25,000 square meters of silvery blue polypropylene fabric and 3,000 meters of red rope, with the installation open to the public from September 18 to October 3, 2021. The €14 million project was entirely funded by the sale of Christo's artworks and overseen by the couple's nephew, Vladimir Yavachev, along with the Center of Monuments Nationaux.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 9, 2025 visibility 6 link 3 artists

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The Kunstmuseum Den Haag in the Netherlands is presenting "Grand Dessert," an exhibition that explores the social significance of sweets through a mix of historical artifacts, contemporary painting, video, and sculpture. Guest curated by dessert expert Janny van der Heijden—host of the Great Dutch Bake Off—alongside curator Suzanne Lambooy, the show features works by Wayne Thiebaud, Piet Mondrian, and Natasja Sadi, among others, and includes sections on pudding, chocolate, cake, and ice cream. The exhibition has been extended by six months due to its popularity, drawing over 250,000 visitors.

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person people schedule Jun 5, 2025 visibility 12 link 12 artists

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Actor Robert De Niro announced that artist R.H. Quaytman has won the 2016 Robert De Niro Sr. Prize, awarded to a mid-career painter for excellence and innovation. Quaytman, represented by Gladstone Gallery and Miguel Abreu Gallery, is known for mixed-media works on wood panels that blend photography, printmaking, and technology, often organized into series called "chapters." She will receive a $25,000 prize at a ceremony in New York on December 14. The selection committee included curators from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Whitney Museum.

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article culture schedule Jun 4, 2025 visibility 7 link 11 artists

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The article explores the artistic friendship between Renaissance masters Raphael and Albrecht Dürer, who never met but exchanged letters and artworks across 600 miles. Initiated when both were at the height of their careers, the correspondence began with Dürer sending Raphael a gouache self-portrait, to which Raphael responded with drawings, including "Two male nude studies" (1515) and "Three Standing Men" (1514-16). The friendship lasted only five years, ending with Raphael's death in 1520 at age 37. The exchange is documented by Giorgio Vasari in "The Lives of the Artists," and one surviving drawing bears an inscription by Dürer acknowledging Raphael's gift.

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Art critic Ben Davis shares a personal three-and-a-half-step method for getting the most out of visiting an art exhibition alone. The process begins with a quick walkthrough of the entire show to build a cognitive map of the space and note artworks that immediately stand out. The second step involves a systematic, slower tour to read wall texts, examine individual works, and uncover connections and hidden details, with special attention to time-based media like video art.

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article culture schedule May 19, 2025 visibility 3 link 5 artists

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Artists Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe have announced a collaborative music project titled *Lateral* and *Luminal*, two albums set for release on June 6, 2025. The albums, recorded intermittently over 2024, reflect distinct moods: *Lateral* is described as “Space music” led by Eno, while *Luminal* is “Dream music” headed by Wolfe. Early singles include “Suddenly” from *Luminal* and “Big Empty Country” from *Lateral*. The duo first met at the South by Southwest Festival in 2022, where they discussed art and climate, and later reconnected while holding exhibitions at separate London galleries. Their collaboration extends beyond music to a conceptual framework that names specific emotions—such as “fèath,” “pronoia,” “dor,” and “mono no aware”—to make feelings more tangible.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 17, 2025 visibility 7 link 21 artists

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A new cultural institution called Fenix has opened in Rotterdam, Netherlands, dedicated entirely to the topic of migration. Housed in a 1923 waterfront warehouse that once served the Holland America Line—a major transporter of cargo and passengers—the museum occupies nearly 175,000 square feet in the Katendrecht neighborhood, a historic gateway for millions of immigrants in the 19th and 20th centuries. Designed by Ma Yansong of MAD Architects, the building features a central double-helix staircase nicknamed the Tornado, leading to a rooftop observation deck. Three inaugural exhibitions, including “All Directions,” showcase over 150 artworks and objects by artists such as Max Beckmann, Willem de Kooning, Sophie Calle, and Yinka Shonibare, alongside personal mementoes from local families.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 16, 2025 visibility 6 link 7 artists

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Michelle Grabner, a Milwaukee-based artist known for examining overlooked visual languages, has created a new series of porcelain sculptures at the Kohler Company's MakerSpace in Wisconsin. These works, which mimic janitorial supplies like sponges, sinks, and mop carts, are being shown at the Independent art fair this week with Cleveland's Abattoir Gallery. Grabner, who co-curated the 2014 Whitney Biennial and served as the inaugural artistic director of FRONT International, continues to expand her practice beyond painting into industrial materials, while also holding two concurrent museum retrospectives: "Underdone Potato" at the Schneider Museum of Art and "Under the Sink" at the Haggerty Museum.

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article culture schedule May 12, 2025 visibility 8 link 20 artists

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Frieze Week in New York has arrived, drawing tens of thousands of visitors to The Shed for displays from over 65 international galleries. The article offers a collection of art historical trivia to help attendees impress peers, including tales of a potentially fake Picasso gifted to Robin Williams by Disney, Piet Mondrian's fondness for Disney's *Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs*, and a legend that Raphael's pupil Giulio Romano created erotic frescos in the Vatican's Sala di Constantino out of anger over delayed payment from Pope Clement VII.

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article culture schedule May 5, 2025 visibility 1 link 6 artists

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Lincoln Logs, the iconic wooden construction toy that has entertained American children for over a century, was designed by John Lloyd Wright, the second-eldest son of famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright. John conceived the toy while in Japan with his father between 1916 and 1917, inspired by the interlocking wooden foundation Frank Lloyd Wright designed for the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo to make it earthquake-resistant. The toy, named after Abraham Lincoln, went on to become a classic, inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame in 1999.

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Herman Miller has launched the New Mexico Collection, a limited-edition furniture line inspired by Georgia O'Keeffe's desert home in Abiquiú, New Mexico. Created in collaboration with the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, the collection includes the Eames Wire Chair Low Base (300 pieces, $1,995) and the Girard Snake Table (100 pieces, $895), both drawing on O'Keeffe's friendship with textile designer and architect Alexander Girard. The chair reimagines a prototype gifted to O'Keeffe by Charles and Ray Eames, while the table is based on a never-produced Girard design from the 1950s.

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article culture schedule May 2, 2025 visibility 1 link 9 artists

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The article recounts the first meeting between artists Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray in 1915, when a language barrier threatened their connection. They broke the ice with an impromptu tennis match using old rackets and a ball, with no net, as Man Ray called out tennis scores and Duchamp simply replied 'yes.' This playful encounter launched a five-decade friendship and prolific collaboration, during which they co-created works ranging from photographs and installations to experimental films, and became central figures in New York Dada.

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trending_up market schedule May 1, 2025 visibility 9 link 49 artists

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Artnet News and Morgan Stanley have released an analysis of the global art market, examining auction performance by artists from different regions over the past decade. The report breaks down sales by region—North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East—and by genre categories including Old Masters, Impressionist and Modern, Postwar and Contemporary, and Ultra-Contemporary. Key findings show that North American and European artists dominate the market, while African-born artists have seen notable but uneven growth, and Asia-Pacific-born artists have experienced a marked decline.

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rate_review review schedule Apr 24, 2026 visibility 19 link 9 artists

Handpicked review – delightful dancing dahlias and petals so pillowy you can feel them

The Guardian reviews "Handpicked," an exhibition at Kettle's Yard in Cambridge that brings together over 40 artists from the 20th century to the present, all sharing a floral passion. The show features works by Rory McEwen, Vanessa Bell, Cedric Morris, Christopher Wood, Tirzah Garwood, Celia Paul, Gluck, and Caroline Walker, among others, displayed on white and leaf-green walls inspired by the fresh flowers and floral paintings in the neighboring house. The review highlights specific pieces, such as McEwen's exquisite tulip watercolor and Garwood's poignant painting from the last year of her life, noting the technical variety and emotional depth across the exhibition.

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

Wilhelm Sasnal review – his wild juxtapositions are almost obscene

Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal's new exhibition at Sadie Coles HQ in London presents a disorienting array of paintings. The works juxtapose disparate and often disturbing images, including a grotesque depiction of the Oval Office, portraits of his family, album art for the industrial band Throbbing Gristle, and a forest scene linked to the Holocaust, creating a deliberate sense of fragmentation and broken connections.

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article culture schedule Mar 25, 2026 visibility 8 link 2 artists

I thought my cuckoo clock was amazing, but it’s got nothing on my statue of Bert the cheery chef | Adrian Chiles

Adrian Chiles, a writer and broadcaster, recounts his acquisition of a whimsical figurine of a cheerful chef, which he named Bert after the reclamation yard owner from whom he bought it in the Black Country. He describes the personal joy and daily lift the statue brings him, contrasting it with a cuckoo clock whose novelty eventually wore off. Chiles details the statue's charming, slightly worn appearance and its role as a conversation piece, particularly due to the West Midlands slang word "bostin'" written on its menu board.

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