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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 29, 2025 visibility 7 link 7 artists, 1 gallery

Intuit Art Museum Showcases Self-Taught Artists, Work About Migration in ‘Catalyst: Im/migration’

The Intuit Art Museum in Chicago has extended its exhibition “Catalyst: Im/migration and Self-Taught Art in Chicago” through March 22, 2026. Featuring nearly two dozen artists, the show highlights the creative contributions of migrants and immigrants alongside the rise of self-taught art in 20th-century Chicago. Among the works is Pooja Pittie’s interactive piece “What We Build to Belong,” a hand-knotted net-like structure where visitors can add notes, drawings, or string. The museum is hosting a free community day on Feb. 7, 2026. The exhibition includes artists from diverse backgrounds, such as the late Tae Kwon “Thomas” Kong, who made collages from packing materials at his convenience store, and Charles Warner, a carpenter who created wood-carved cathedral models. Three artists came to Chicago from the South as part of the Great Migration.

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article local schedule Nov 12, 2025 visibility 5 link 2 artists, 1 gallery

Impact Leadership Academy Students to Showcase Artwork at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston Exhibition

Students from Aldine ISD's Impact Leadership Academy will debut their collaborative artwork in the Shared Grounds exhibition, hosted by the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH). The opening takes place on November 18, 2025, at the University of Houston's 3rd Space Art Gallery, featuring large-scale paintings created under the guidance of teaching artist Carlos Mendoza and art teacher Toby McCraw. The works explore themes of place, memory, and the future.

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article local schedule Sep 15, 2025 visibility 2 link 1 artist, 1 gallery

A Stunning New Italian Restaurant Inspired By Classic Paintings Has Opened In The National Gallery For Picturesque Dining

Acclaimed Italian chef Giorgio Locatelli and his wife Plaxy have opened a new restaurant called 'Locatelli' and an espresso bar named 'Bar Giorgio' in the National Gallery's refurbished Sainsbury Wing in London. The openings on May 10 mark the completion of a two-and-a-half-year Bicentenary renovation project of the wing. The menu and decor draw inspiration from the gallery's surroundings and the works of Caravaggio, featuring Italian classics and seasonal dishes. Bar Giorgio offers Italian coffee and maritozzi pastries, aiming to bring Italian coffee culture to gallery visitors.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 25, 2025 visibility 4 link 2 artists, 1 gallery

Art gallery exhibition of works by Alberto Rey through Nov. 21

An exhibition titled “ATLAS: Historical Works and Recent Journeys of Alberto Rey” is on view at the Marion Art Gallery through November 21. The show features 133 paintings, drawings, and ceramics by Alberto Rey, a SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus who taught at Fredonia from 1989 to 2022. The works were created during and after a five-month expedition to 14 countries and 22 UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 2024, alongside pivotal pieces from past series such as “Binary Forms,” “Extinct Birds,” and “Critically Endangered Palms of Cuba.” The exhibition also includes journal entries, sketchbooks, and art supplies from the voyage.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 15, 2025 visibility 4 link 1 artist, 1 gallery

LMU Student Art Featured in Design Museum of Chicago Exhibition

Nine studio arts students from Loyola Marymount University (LMU) have their poster designs featured in the Design Museum of Chicago's 2025 "Great Ideas of Humanity" exhibition. The students—Alfonzo Dave, Nicole Dressel, Olivia Giganti, John Leary, Jestene Passolt, Leila Walker, Dezia Washington, Lucien Weber, and Eddie Young—created the works as part of Professor Garland Kirkpatrick's Typography II course. The museum selected all nine student designs for the professional exhibition, where they are displayed alongside their professor's work, rather than in the museum's student showcase.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 11, 2025 visibility 2 link 2 artists, 1 gallery

New ‘Of the Earth’ art exhibition opens at Detroit Lakes’ Ortenstone Gardens

A new public art exhibition titled 'Of the Earth' has opened at Ortenstone Gardens and Sculpture Park in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. The exhibition features three sculptures by Polish-American artist Olga Ziemska, who is also the park's first artist-in-residence, supported by local nonprofit Project 412. The works incorporate natural materials like river rocks, sticks, and grass, and join Thomas Dambo's troll sculpture 'Barefoot Frida' as permanent attractions at the 50-acre park, which was donated to the city by the Mark and Cindy Fritz Foundation.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 2, 2026 visibility 10 link 1 artist, 1 gallery

Yamamoto Masao’s Otherworldly Portraits Introduce Us to Expressive Owls

Photographer Yamamoto Masao is presenting a solo exhibition titled 'Ten Owls' at Yancey Richardson gallery in New York. The show features intimate, small-scale gelatin silver prints of owls, creatures that inhabit the forests near his Japanese home, with the works intended for close viewing to foster a connection with the elusive birds.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 15, 2026 visibility 8 link 4 artists, 1 gallery

“Where it doesn’t reach” at Lo Brutto Stahl, Paris

Lo Brutto Stahl in Paris is hosting a group exhibition titled "Where it doesn’t reach," featuring the works of Hélène Janicot, Park McArthur, and the late conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader. The show creates a dialogue between contemporary sculpture and installation by Janicot and McArthur and historical lens-based media by Ader. Notably, the exhibition's reach extends beyond the Parisian gallery space to include a presence in Basel.

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article local schedule May 5, 2026 visibility 5 link 2 artists

To-Do List: A night of poetry at the art museum, the rodeo comes to town and a Beatles tribute

This article is a weekly events roundup from Free Times, listing activities in the Columbia, South Carolina area from May 6-11. It includes an art exhibition by sculptor Ellen Emerson Yaghjian at Stormwater Studios, a poetry and performance night at the Columbia Museum of Art responding to Rodney McMillian's exhibition, a Beatles tribute concert, a rodeo, an oil paint-making workshop, a music concert, a historic walking tour, a teen craft workshop, and a rock concert.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 30, 2026 visibility 9 link 12 artists

Expansive Exhibition Highlights U.S. History Through ‘A Nation of Artists’

The United States is marking its 250th anniversary in 2026 with a major collaborative exhibition titled *A Nation of Artists*, presented simultaneously at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) and the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA). The show features over 1,000 works—paintings, photographs, sculptures, and decorative arts—spanning from the late 18th century to the present, including more than 120 rarely seen pieces from the Middleton Family Collection, one of the country's most significant private holdings of American art. PAFA organizes the works thematically around westward expansion, industrialization, and globalization, while PMA, celebrating its 150th anniversary, presents a chronological survey from 1700 to 1960, highlighting international exchange, technological innovation, and shifting cultural economics.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 27, 2026 visibility 8 link 3 artists

Picturing Absence – 3 Photographs in the DAM's Collection

The Denver Art Museum (DAM) highlights three photographs from its collection that explore themes of absence and presence. Yoko Ikeda's 2008 image of a Japanese home threshold captures the unseen inhabitants through details like slippers. Keisha Scarville's "Untitled #17" (2017) uses her mother's clothing to evoke grief and memory after her death. David Maisel's "Library of Dust (267)" (2005) documents corroded copper urns containing cremated remains of unclaimed patients from Oregon State Hospital, revealing unique mineral blooms that symbolize individuality.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 25, 2026 visibility 10 link 3 artists, 4 galleries

How ‘Continnum’ reimagines art in domestic spaces

The exhibition 'Continuum,' curated by artist-curator Gauri Minocha at The Art Hub Gallery in Gurugram, presents over 100 artworks by South Asian artists within a refurbished house turned home gallery. Works are displayed across rooms, hallways, stairways, and terraces, moving away from the traditional white cube model to allow viewers to experience art in a domestic setting. The show spans from the 1950s to 2026, featuring modern masters like Ram Kumar, Jamini Roy, and Rubin Mondal, with each room defined by a distinct color palette and mood.

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article culture schedule Apr 24, 2026 visibility 17 link 20 artists

‘The pictures are evil!’ The great art-quake of 1910

The article reviews David Boyd Haycock's slim new book 'Art-Quake, 1910,' which examines the explosive 1910 exhibition 'Manet and the Post-Impressionists' at London's Grafton Galleries. The show introduced British audiences to revolutionary artists like Cézanne, van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Picasso, provoking outrage from critics and the public, who called the works 'evil,' 'hysterical,' and a threat to civilization. The book is part of a series from Old Street publishing that also includes titles on the Degenerate Art exhibition and the Cultural Revolution.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 23, 2026 visibility 9 link 1 artist

Protest Art Exhibitions

The CART Department has organized an exhibition titled 'Ai Weiwei LEGO Story' at Free Parking in New York, running from April 24 to May 3, 2026. The show presents a focused selection of the artist's brick-based works, including pieces from his Zodiac and After series and his BMW art car, highlighting accumulation and repetition as core methods.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 14, 2026 visibility 7 link 2 artists

Abstract Thinking at the Cafesjian Art Trust Museum

The Cafesjian Art Trust Museum in Shoreview has launched "Abstraction and Ourselves," an ambitious exhibition that bridges the gap between contemporary abstract painting and monumental glass sculpture. Curated by Jill Ahlberg Yohe, formerly of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the show pairs the museum’s renowned glass collection—including works by Stanislav Libenský and Jaroslava Brychtová—with significant loans such as a Georgia O’Keeffe oil painting and works by Dyani White Hawk.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 13, 2026 visibility 24 link 4 artists, 2 galleries

Peter Blake’s studio brought to life at Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery

Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery in West London has announced a major retrospective of Sir Peter Blake, scheduled to open in November 2026. The exhibition, titled 'Peter Blake: In the Studio,' features a full-scale reconstruction of the artist's Hammersmith workspace, providing an immersive look at the environment where his seven-decade career unfolded. The show will display a wide range of media, including his iconic Pop Art paintings, sculptures, and recent collages that respond to the works of William Hogarth.

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article news schedule Apr 7, 2026 visibility 9 link 6 artists

A $15 million Compton arts center is in the works thanks to this formerly incarcerated painter

Fulton Leroy Washington, the self-taught painter known as Mr. Wash, has unveiled plans for a $15-million community arts hub in Compton, California. Designed by the renowned firm Morphosis Architects, the proposed Art by Wash Studio & Community Center will provide housing, studio space, and a small-business incubator specifically for formerly incarcerated artists. The project was launched alongside Washington’s latest exhibition, “The City of Compton: Then & Now,” which serves as a fundraiser for the construction.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 6, 2026 visibility 25 link 2 artists

Visual Art and Jazz: A Crossover of Media

The Art Institute of Chicago is preparing to host an exhibition exploring the profound intersection between modern art and jazz music. Focusing on the works of Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, the show highlights how the concept of improvisation—a cornerstone of jazz—served as a vital creative catalyst for these two masters of modernism.

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museum exhibitions schedule Mar 6, 2026 visibility 9 link 2 artists

Maryland artist examines Matisse's legacy in upcoming Museum of Art exhibit

The Baltimore Museum of Art is set to host "Fratino and Matisse: To See This Light Again," a major exhibition pairing the works of Maryland-born artist Louis Fratino with those of Henri Matisse. The show features approximately 30 works by the French master alongside Fratino’s contemporary pieces, marking the MICA graduate's first significant institutional exhibition in the United States.

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

Banksy, Basquiat, Haring and more coming to Mobile Museum of Art

The Mobile Museum of Art in Alabama announced a major upcoming exhibition titled "Gateway from Graffiti to Gallery," opening September 1 and running for a year. The show will feature 28 works by five iconic street artists: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf, Banksy, and Kaws, including a room-sized installation by Scharf. The works, never before assembled together, are on loan from collectors and investors worldwide through a collaboration with Masterworks, a company that enables fractional investment in blue-chip art. The museum also revealed plans for a 2027 exhibition of 25 leading female artists from the post-World War II abstract expressionist movement.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 1, 2026 visibility 7 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 11, 2025 visibility 4 link 3 artists

Collection of 61 Matisse works—mostly portraying his daughter Marguerite—donated to Paris museum

Barbara Dauphin Duthuit, the wife of Henri Matisse’s late grandson Claude Duthuit, has donated 61 works by Matisse to the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris. The donation includes seven paintings, one sculpture, 28 drawings, and eight etchings, most of which depict Matisse’s eldest daughter Marguerite. Many of the works were featured earlier this year in the museum’s exhibition *Matisse and Marguerite: Through Her Father’s Eyes*. The pieces span the first half of the 20th century, from early childhood portraits to moving works created in 1945 after Marguerite survived deportation for her role in the French Resistance.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 29, 2025 visibility 6 link 12 artists, 1 gallery

Comment | I went to see Sarah Lucas and Damien Hirst sculptures in an ancient UK cave system—and it was eerily brilliant

The article describes a visit to "Back to the Cave: The Full Spectrum," an exhibition of around 70 sculptures by contemporary artists including Damien Hirst, Antony Gormley, Sarah Lucas, and Maggi Hambling, held in the ancient Clearwell Caves in the Forest of Dean, England. The show was organized by Rungwe Kingdon and Claude Koenig of Pangolin Editions, a sculpture foundry that fabricated many of the works, and required significant ingenuity to install large, heavy pieces in the deep, dark, damp cave system.

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gavel restitution schedule Sep 3, 2025 visibility 5 link 3 artists

Reynolds works acquired by Waddesdon Manor under UK's acceptance in lieu scheme

Two major paintings by 18th-century British artist Joshua Reynolds—David Garrick Between Tragedy and Comedy (1761) and Portrait of Joanna Leigh, Mrs Richard Bennett Lloyd (1775-76)—have been acquired by Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire under the UK’s acceptance in lieu (AIL) scheme. The works, from the estate of Jacob Rothschild who died in February 2024, settled a combined £24.5 million in inheritance tax. Both paintings had been on loan to Waddesdon Manor, a National Trust property managed by Rothschild, since 1995.

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trending_up market schedule Aug 20, 2025 visibility 4 link 3 artists, 2 galleries

How Banksy’s Stenciled Satire Took the Aughts by Storm

Four screenprints by Banksy from the 2000s are featured in Artnet Auctions’s Contemporary Editions sale, running through August 28, 2025. The lots include 'Bomb Love (Bomb Hugger)' (est. $25,000–$35,000), 'Welcome to Hell (Pink)' (est. $30,000–$50,000), and 'Morons (Sepia)' (est. $25,000–$35,000), tracing the artist’s rise from Bristol street graffiti to international fame. The article highlights key milestones: his 2002 Los Angeles show 'Existencilism,' his counterfeit £10 notes featuring Princess Diana, and the Oscar-nominated documentary 'Exit Through the Gift Shop.'

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 13, 2025 visibility 4 link 6 artists

The Art of the Tour: King Charles's Traveling Painters

King Charles III has sponsored an exhibition titled “The King’s Tour Artists” at Buckingham Palace, featuring 43 artists he recruited to paint during 70 royal tours over the past 40 years. The show, open until September 28, includes 74 paintings selected from over 300 works in the King’s private collection, alongside a companion book, *The Art of Royal Travel: Journeys with The King*. The idea originated from Peter St. Clair-Erskine, the 7th Earl of Rosslyn, who catalogued the collection. Critics have dismissed the works as polite and old-fashioned, but the exhibition highlights Charles’s long-standing patronage of representational art and his own practice as a watercolorist.

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rate_review review schedule Jul 3, 2025 visibility 3 link 2 artists, 2 galleries

In ‘A Natural History of the Studio,’ Many William Kentridges Add Up to One

William Kentridge's latest exhibition, 'A Natural History of the Studio,' at Hauser & Wirth in New York presents over 70 drawings from his nine-part film series 'Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot,' alongside new sculptures. The works, created during the pandemic, explore self-portraiture through charcoal, pastel, and collage, often featuring doppelgängers that argue and disagree, reflecting the artist's engagement with theater and the materiality of his forms.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 22, 2025 visibility 2 link 2 artists

Lee Ufan donates eight paintings to Dia Art Foundation

Korean artist Lee Ufan, a key figure in the Mono-ha movement, has donated eight paintings from the 1970s to the 1990s to the Dia Art Foundation in New York. The works, from his From Point, From Line, and With Winds series, will be featured in a spring 2026 exhibition at Dia Beacon alongside sculptural installations already in the foundation's collection. Lee is also collaborating with Avant Arte on a limited-edition print release to support Dia's programming.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 11, 2025 visibility 2 link 6 artists

Iconic photos are part of Gordon Parks exhibition at Wichita Art Museum

The Wichita Art Museum opens "Homeward to the Prairie I Come," an exhibition of 71 photographs by Gordon Parks, running from May 11 to July 27, 2025. The works come from a collection Parks curated and donated to Kansas State University in 1973, now held by the Beach Museum of Art, which co-curated the touring show with Aileen Wang and Sarah Price. The exhibition is organized thematically around five large iconic images, including portraits of Muhammad Ali, Alexander Calder, Malcolm X, and Flavio da Silva, the subject of Parks' first film.

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trending_up market schedule Nov 13, 2025 visibility 4 link 1 artist, 1 gallery

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Three original paintings by beloved American television icon Bob Ross were auctioned at Bonhams on Tuesday, selling for a combined total of $600,000. The works—Cliffside (1990), Home in the Valley (1993), and Winter's Peace (1993)—were among the top lots in a California and Western art sale. Proceeds from this and future sales of 30 Ross canvases will benefit American Public Television, a nonprofit syndicator affected by federal budget cuts. The idea originated with Joan Kowalski, president of Bob Ross Inc., after earlier Ross paintings sold well above estimates at Bonhams.

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