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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 19, 2025 visibility 17 link 14 artists, 2 galleries

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Ballroom Marfa in Marfa, Texas, presents the exhibition “Los Encuentros,” on view through March 29, 2026, featuring five Latinx artists—Ozzie Juarez, Justin Favela, Antonio Lechuga, Narsiso Martinez, and Yvette Mayorga—who transform everyday materials like blankets (cobijas) and piñatas into works exploring Latinx identity. Curated by Maggie Adler, the show prioritizes local community engagement over the international art world, with works such as Juarez's "Coatzomaki" (2025) synthesizing LA street art and Aztec culture. The exhibition grew from Adler's existing relationships with the artists and her belief in working beyond institutional walls.

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The estate of Robert Colescott, the influential American painter who died in 2009, has signed with Gladstone Gallery for representation. Gladstone will debut Colescott's work at Art Basel Miami Beach next month and mount its first solo exhibition for the artist in 2025. Colescott is best known for satirical, large-scale paintings like "George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware: Page from an American History Textbook" (1975), which critiques the exclusion and caricaturing of Black figures in American history and art. The estate sought new representation after its longtime gallery, Blum, closed this summer. Gladstone senior partner Max Falkenstein said the gallery had long admired Colescott and that the partnership felt like a natural fit given the gallery's focus on identity and politics.

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article news schedule Nov 6, 2025 visibility 21 link 18 artists, 3 galleries

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The United States Pavilion at the upcoming Venice Biennale faces an uncertain future after a proposal by artist Robert Lazzarini and independent curator John Ravenal collapsed. The proposal, selected by the US State Department in early September, fell through when the University of South Florida’s Contemporary Art Museum declined to sign the contract, citing a shortened timeline and financial obligations. Ravenal attributed the breakdown to bureaucratic misalignment rather than ideological disagreement, while the State Department declined to comment. The selection process also shifted this year, with the National Endowment for the Arts excluding itself due to staffing transitions, leaving the State Department to handle it alone.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 30, 2025 visibility 22 link 9 artists, 1 gallery

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A rare exhibition of works by the late artist Matthew Wong, including never-before-exhibited pieces, will open in Venice during the 2026 Biennale. Titled “Matthew Wong: Interiors,” the show is curated by John Cheim and organized by the artist’s foundation, run by his mother Monita Wong. The 35-work exhibition focuses on interior spaces, both physical and psychological, and highlights Wong’s vibrant color palette and expressive brushwork, which he developed before his death by suicide at age 35 in 2019.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 24, 2025 visibility 19 link 9 artists, 3 galleries

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Naotaka Hiro's latest paintings, on view at Bortolami gallery in New York through November 1, were inspired by a harrowing experience seven years ago when he discovered a stranger living in the crawlspace beneath his Los Angeles home. Hiro now creates his works by lying supine with his canvas suspended just 13 inches above his body—the exact height of that crawlspace—often cutting holes through the canvas and wrapping it around himself with ropes to paint from all angles. The resulting abstractions, filled with forms resembling plants, fish gills, and veins, function as a 360-degree body scanner and a form of self-exploration.

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article culture schedule Oct 21, 2025 visibility 26 link 14 artists, 1 gallery

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This article argues that the traditional view of art as a vanguard force predicting cultural change is outdated in the early 21st century. It contends that the rapid acceleration of mainstream culture, driven by social media and news cycles, makes it nearly impossible for traditional fine art media like painting and sculpture to stay ahead of the curve. The author suggests that forward-looking art now emerges from para-artistic digital practices such as AI experiments, Red Chip art, NFTs, memes, and TikTok lore, which often challenge conventional aesthetic and ethical standards. Citing Claire Bishop's 2024 book *Disordered Attention*, the piece notes that contemporary artworks tend to be symptomatic of larger conditions rather than anticipatory, and that artists like Artie Vierkant, Joshua Citarella, and Brad Troemel have pivoted from art-making to art-adjacent content creation.

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person people schedule Oct 20, 2025 visibility 26 link 10 artists, 3 galleries

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Gladstone Gallery now represents British painter Celia Paul, known for her moody figurative works drawn from her life. Paintings by Paul are on view at Art Basel Paris this week, and the gallery plans a solo New York exhibition in 2026. Paul has long been represented by Victoria Miro in London but lacked a New York gallery presence since a 2015 show at Gallery Met. Her market has grown following a 2018 exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art and a recent profile in The New Yorker by Karl Ove Knausgaard. Her auction record was set in 2023 when Self-Portrait (2017) sold for $122,700 at Christie’s London.

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article news schedule Oct 9, 2025 visibility 18 link 6 artists, 1 gallery

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Berlin gallery Société has announced that it now represents Edi Rama, the Prime Minister of Albania, as an artist. Rama, who has been in office since 2013, studied at the Academy of Arts in Tirana, worked as an artist in Paris in the 1990s, and served as Albania's minister of culture before entering politics. His work includes boldly colored ceramic sculptures and abstract works on paper, often created on repurposed official documents during meetings. He previously exhibited at Marian Goodman's Paris space in 2024.

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article news schedule Oct 6, 2025 visibility 18 link 2 artists, 3 galleries

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Artist Odili Donald Odita, known for his recent atrium commission at the Museum of Modern Art, has filed a lawsuit against Jack Shainman Gallery, the New York gallery that represents him. Filed in New York's Supreme Court, the suit alleges that the gallery withheld $1.12 million worth of his artworks and stopped paying a monthly stipend of $14,000 in October 2024, while continuing to sell his work. Odita claims the gallery's accounting became "extremely suspect" and that it refused his proposal to return the art so he could sell it himself to cover an alleged deficit. The gallery disputes all claims and says it will respond in court filings.

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article local schedule Oct 3, 2025 visibility 18 link 13 artists, 5 galleries

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Luke Agada, a Nigerian painter who completed his MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2023, chose to remain in Chicago rather than move to New York or Los Angeles, citing the city's balance of opportunities. He opened his solo exhibition "To Translate Is to Move Across" at Monique Meloche Gallery during the third edition of Chicago Exhibition Weekend (CXW), a four-day event involving over 70 galleries, talks, studio visits, and a tennis mixer. CXW was founded by Abby Pucker of the consultancy firm Gertie and co-organized with Expo Chicago, expanding this year to include the Chicago Architecture Biennial and a curated exhibition of conceptual art.

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article news schedule Oct 1, 2025 visibility 28 link 26 artists, 4 galleries

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ARTnews has announced the nominees for the 2025 ARTnews Awards, which honor excellence in art at US institutions and galleries. The awards, now in their second year, feature six categories: Emerging Artist, Established Artist, Lifetime Achievement, Best Thematic Museum Exhibition, Best Gallery Group Show, and a newly introduced Best Historical Artist category. The jury includes five top US curators and two ARTnews editors, with winners to be celebrated in November.

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trending_up market schedule Sep 25, 2025 visibility 26 link 11 artists, 7 galleries

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The inaugural edition of Untitled Art, Houston, opened with 88 galleries—half the size of its Miami Beach counterpart—and generated strong sales and high attendance. Los Angeles-based Megan Mulrooney sold out its booth entirely, while Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino led sales with a Carlos Cruz-Diez work for $415,000. Other notable transactions included a bronze piece by Clare Rojas for $150,000 at Jessica Silverman and two John Alexander paintings at McClain Gallery fetching $70,000–$125,000. Most galleries reported consistent mid-market sales in the $25,000–$50,000 range, with collectors from Houston, Dallas, Austin, the Bay Area, New Orleans, Los Angeles, and San Francisco actively acquiring.

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article culture schedule Sep 24, 2025 visibility 19 link 8 artists, 1 gallery

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During New York Fashion Week, Canadian designer Jason Wu unveiled his latest collection in a Brooklyn Navy Yard warehouse, but the runway show was preceded by a ten-piece installation of screen prints by American artist Robert Rauschenberg, on loan from the Rauschenberg Foundation. Wu spent months researching the artist's archive, focusing on the little-studied Hoarfrost series, and incorporated image transfers from 1970s newspapers and magazines into his garments. The show also featured other designer-art crossovers, including Proenza Schouler's debut under Rachel Scott at Olney Gleason gallery and Ashlynn Park's presentation at the International Center of Photography alongside works by Iranian artist Sheida Soleimani.

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trending_up market schedule Sep 10, 2025 visibility 21 link 17 artists, 3 galleries

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Cristin Tierney, a seasoned art dealer, has opened a new gallery space in New York's Tribeca district, marking her fourth relocation in fifteen years. The inaugural exhibition, titled “Fifteen,” is a group show featuring over 30 artists who have shaped the gallery's identity, including Dread Scott, Mary Lucier, Judy Pfaff, and Shaun Leonardo. Tierney's move comes amid widespread reports of gallery closures, positioning her expansion as a strategic bet on the viability of midsize, independent dealers. The gallery's model combines a conceptual front-room program with secondary-market sales, a practice Tierney likens to the legacy of Leo Castelli.

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article news schedule Aug 13, 2025 visibility 24 link 7 artists, 1 gallery

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Nearly five years after closing at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, the influential New York alternative art space Art in General is relaunching under new leadership. Xiaoyu Weng, currently director of the Tanoto Art Foundation and former head of modern and contemporary art at the Art Gallery of Ontario, has been appointed as the organization's new director. The revived nonprofit will not have a permanent physical location initially but will stage exhibitions across New York, starting with a fundraising show at YveYANG Gallery on August 22. New board members include gallery founder Yve Yang, digital strategist Jiajia Fei, artist Paul Pfeiffer, and curator Jeanne Gerrity.

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article news schedule Jul 29, 2025 visibility 17 link 16 artists, 3 galleries

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Yinka Shonibare, the London-based British-Nigerian artist, established the nonprofit Guest Artists Space (G.A.S.) Foundation in Nigeria in 2019 to address the lack of artistic infrastructure in Lagos. The foundation, which grew out of his earlier Guest Projects initiative in London, operates two facilities: the G.A.S. Lagos Residency and the G.A.S. Farm House in Ijebu, Ogun State. It hosts residencies and programs supporting artists and curators from Africa and beyond, and launched the G.A.S. Fellowship Award in 2022. The article highlights the experience of 2024 fellow Amanda Iheme, an architecture photographer who expanded her practice during her residency. Shonibare funds the foundation partly from his own art sales, and the piece notes his recent major exhibitions, including at the Venice Biennale and Serpentine Galleries, as well as his current show at Fondation H in Madagascar.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 29, 2025 visibility 23 link 4 artists, 6 galleries

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The second edition of the Aspen Art Fair returns to the historic Hotel Jerome from July 29 to August 2, marking the launch of Aspen Art Week. The fair has more than doubled its exhibitor count from 21 to 44 galleries across 15 countries, including newcomers like Sean Kelly and Marianne Boesky, alongside international participants such as Praise Shadows, Anat Ebgi, the Sunday Painter, La Loma Projects, and 193 Gallery. Programming includes talks with artists Mickalene Thomas and Issy Wood, curated home tours, and a site-specific exhibition inspired by *A Room of One’s Own*. Cofounders Becca Hoffman and Bob Chase emphasize the fair's intimate, un-boothlike atmosphere, with in-room installations transforming guest suites into salon-style exhibitions.

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trending_up market schedule Jul 22, 2025 visibility 21 link 10 artists, 3 galleries

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The article reports on a severe downturn in the art market during summer 2025, with gallery closures, declining auction sales, and widespread pessimism. Notable dealers Tim Blum and Adam Lindemann have shut their galleries, and a survey by France's Professional Committee of Art Galleries (CPGA) found 85% of respondents pessimistic about the sector's economic health, with turnover down 6% in 2024. The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) canceled its October Art Show in New York, and some dealers are considering small business loans to cover costs. Meanwhile, galleries like Goodman Gallery are embracing e-commerce to adapt.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 18, 2025 visibility 17 link 9 artists, 2 galleries

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Brazilian sculptor Solange Pessoa is the subject of a solo exhibition at the Aspen Art Museum, featuring her evolving installation *Bags – Aspen version* (1994–2025). The work, originally created in 1994, consists of burlap sacks filled with organic materials such as coffee beans, seeds, feathers, dried peppers, and records by Brazilian musicians, arranged in towers on a dirt-covered floor. Pessoa, who has long been based in Belo Horizonte, has recreated the piece in various locations over three decades, and this iteration marks one of her few solo museum shows outside Brazil.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 16, 2025 visibility 21 link 16 artists, 2 galleries

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A major survey of Portuguese French artist Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (1908–92) is on view at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice through September 15, before traveling to the Guggenheim Bilbao. The exhibition highlights her maze-like abstractions, which feature vibrant tile-like squares and interwoven lines, and includes works from her World War II–era figurative period, such as *The Disaster* (1942). The show follows a traveling exhibition in Marseille and Dijon (2022–2023) and her inclusion in the Centre Pompidou’s 2021 “Women in Abstraction” exhibition, signaling a resurgence of interest in her work.

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article news schedule Jul 16, 2025 visibility 23 link 26 artists, 5 galleries

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Artnet News' Wet Paint column reports a wave of gallery closures and rumors in New York's art scene. Blum and Venus Over Manhattan have recently shut down, while Clearing's Bowery space temporarily became a Tank Air clothing pop-up, not a permanent closure. Micki Meng sent a cryptic 'I'm quitting' email but clarified it was a reference to Marcel Duchamp, not a business closure. Jack Barrett Gallery is relocating, not closing, and Tramps has closed its Washington Square Park location while planning a new Paris outpost. Jack Hanley, who closed his gallery in January, is now painting in the Hamptons.

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trending_up market schedule Jul 16, 2025 visibility 18 link 10 artists, 2 galleries

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New York-based dealer Harper Levine is planning to open a new location of his gallery, Harper's, in Bangkok, Thailand, in spring 2026. The 2,500-square-foot space will be in the Siam Patumwan House, headquarters of Siam Motors Group, near the Jim Thompson House and Bangkok Art and Culture Centre. The expansion follows a pop-up show in Bangkok last year and will include an exhibition space, an advisory for Southeast Asian clients, a hospitality program, and an artist residency starting in 2026. StudioMDA, which has worked with Harper's and Marian Goodman Gallery, is handling the design.

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trending_up market schedule Jul 9, 2025 visibility 23 link 17 artists, 1 gallery

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Art Collaboration Kyoto announced 72 exhibitors for its fifth edition, with 25 first-time participants. Patti Wong, former Sotheby's executive, launched New Perspectives Art Partners with Ed Dolman, Brett Gorvy, and others. Art Fair Tokyo's 20th edition saw sales of ¥2.86 billion, down 10% from last year. Lisa Horikawa and Mizuki Takahashi were appointed co-curators of Japan's pavilion at the Venice Biennale. The Sharjah Art Foundation named Angela Harutyunyan and Paula Nascimento curators of the 17th Sharjah Biennial. YDP, a new non-profit space in London, will open with a solo show by Duan Jianyu. At Sotheby's London, Yu Nishimura's painting sold for £292,100. Hong Kong collector Adrian Cheng resigned from New World Development's board.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 7, 2025 visibility 17 link 9 artists, 1 gallery

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Artist Maja Ruznic has created a suite of large, luminous canvases responding to early 20th-century paintings glorifying Spanish colonization at the St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art, as part of the 12th Site Santa Fe International. The exhibition, curated by Cecelia Alemani and titled "Once Within a Time," opened last week. Ruznic, a Bosnian war refugee living in Placitas, New Mexico, confronts the problematic history depicted by artist Donald Beauregard, who died at 29 before completing the commission, which was later finished by uncredited artists Carlos Vierra and Kenneth Chapman.

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article news schedule Jul 3, 2025 visibility 28 link 44 artists, 7 galleries

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Artnet News' Wet Paint column reports on two summer art parties. The White Columns benefit auction in New York raised $350,000, with works donated by 60 commercial galleries. Highlights included a KAWS 'Companion' piece selling for $16,500 and a Florian Krewer painting for $14,000, auctioned by director Matthew Higgs. Separately, London gallerist Sadie Coles has vacated her 1 Davies Street space after a decade and will open a new 6,000-square-foot location at 17 Savile Row, a historic townhouse that once housed the Burlington Fine Arts Club.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 23, 2025 visibility 16 link 17 artists, 1 gallery

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Rosemarie Beck, a once-promising abstract painter celebrated in the 1940s and 1950s by the Whitney Museum and mentored by Robert Motherwell, abandoned abstraction in 1958 to pursue figuration. Despite early success and shows at prestigious venues like the Stable Gallery, her shift to mythological and literary themes caused her to fade from art historical memory. A new exhibition, "Rosemarie Beck: Earthly Paradise," at Van Doren Waxter in New York, showcases over 25 figurative works from 1959 to 2000, marking a major reappraisal of her career.

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article news schedule Jun 23, 2025 visibility 19 link 9 artists, 9 galleries

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This week's art industry roundup covers a range of developments: a new wave of younger, deliberate collectors is reshaping the art market, as reported from Art Basel; the Independent art fair will relocate to Pier 36 in New York in 2026; Riga Contemporary, a new fair, launches in Latvia; and the inaugural Arrival art fair took place in North Adams, Massachusetts. In auctions, seven never-before-seen Picasso ceramic plates sold in Geneva for nearly double their estimate, while a Giacometti sculpture made the top 10 sales list. Galleries news includes Nara Roesler now representing Asuka Anastasia Ogawa, a new gallery called Open Studio opening in New York, and Andrew Edlin Gallery relocating. In museums, a government watchdog found the Trump Administration broke the law by withholding funding for the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and UC Irvine and the Orange County Museum of Art plan to merge. A legal battle over an El Greco painting withdrawn from Christie's auction is advancing, with the owner revealed as Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 20, 2025 visibility 21 link 21 artists, 5 galleries

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A new art fair called Arrival made its debut at the Tourists hotel in North Adams, Massachusetts, featuring 36 exhibitors and attracting curators, collectors, and artists from across the country. The fair, which closed June 15, offered an intimate format with world-class art, deep conversation, and a relaxed atmosphere that included swimming between sales, set against the backdrop of cultural attractions like Mass MOCA, the Clark Art Institute, and the Williams College Museum of Art.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 12, 2025 visibility 14 link 2 artists, 3 galleries

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Art Busan wrapped its 14th edition on a high note, with over 100 galleries participating and a special exhibition titled “CONNECT” curated by Wonseok Koh under the theme Territories and Boundaries. The fair, part of Busan Art Week, saw strong engagement from international galleries such as Société (Berlin) and Canada (New York), with directors noting maturing visitors and serious local collectors. A new partnership with Tokyo Gendai will bring 10 Korean galleries to Japan this September, and the fair debuted a Future Art Award for emerging galleries.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 10, 2025 visibility 21 link 7 artists, 2 galleries

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A new exhibition and book, "The Making of Modern Korean Art: The Letters of Kim Tschang-Yeul, Kim Whanki, Lee Ufan, and Park Seo-Bo, 1961-1982," at Tina Kim Gallery in New York presents the early correspondence and artworks of four pioneering Korean artists. The show, on view through June 21, features paintings by Lee Ufan, Kim Whanki, Park Seo-Bo, and Kim Tschang-Yeul, alongside letters that document their struggles and aspirations during the 1960s and '70s, before they gained international recognition. The accompanying book, published by Gregory R. Miller & Co. and Tina Kim Gallery, is edited by art historians Yeon Shim Chung and Doryun Chong.

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