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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 19, 2025 visibility 14 link 3 artists

New Exhibition Reflects on “MAD” Magazine at the CAM

The Cincinnati Art Museum (CAM) will host "What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of MAD Magazine," a traveling exhibition from the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, opening November 21. The show traces MAD's evolution from a satirical comic book launched in 1952 to a magazine format adopted in 1955 after clashes with the Comics Code Authority, featuring original covers, illustrations, interactive galleries, and thematic sections on mascot Alfred E. Newman, fold-ins, Spy vs. Spy, and spoofs of famous artworks.

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The Woman Question 1550–2025 The City of Women

The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (MSN Warsaw) will launch two concurrent exhibitions, "The Woman Question 1550–2025" and "The City of Women," running from November 21, 2025, to May 3, 2026. Featuring nearly 200 women artists from around the world—spanning from Artemisia Gentileschi and Frida Kahlo to Yoko Ono and Tala Madani—the shows aim to present five centuries of art by women, curated by Alison M. Gingeras and a team of researchers including Julia Bryan-Wilson, Michalina Sablik, Vera Zalutskaya, Karolina Gembara, and Wiktoria Szczupacka. The exhibitions include works borrowed from major international institutions such as the Uffizi Gallery, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, and the Nasjonalmuseet.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 17, 2025 visibility 24 link 22 artists

Portland Art Museum to unveil $116m transformation with Mark Rothko at its heart

The Portland Art Museum (PAM) will unveil a $116 million expansion and renovation on November 20, the largest single-organization arts investment in Oregon history. The centerpiece is the new Mark Rothko Pavilion, a multi-story glass structure designed by Hennebery Eddy Architects and Vinci Hamp Architects, which bridges the museum's 1932 building with a former Masonic Temple. The project adds 100,000 square feet of renovated space, including new plazas with sculptures by Ugo Rondinone, Roy Lichtenstein, Anthony Caro, and Clement Meadmore. The Rothko family is lending major paintings from their private collection for display over two decades, with a promised gift at the end of that period, and made a six-figure donation to the museum's $146 million capital campaign.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 16, 2025 visibility 22 link 12 artists

Exhibition of large scale contemporary art at Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum

The Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum will present "Big Things for Big Rooms," an exhibition tracing the development of immersive, large-scale artworks from the late 1960s to the present. Organized by head curator Evelyn C. Hankins and curatorial assistant CJ Greenhill Caldera, the show features 10 works—five on view for the first time—drawn largely from the museum's collection, including pieces by Robert Irwin, Richard Long, Sam Gilliam, Dan Flavin, Lygia Pape, Mika Rottenberg, Olafur Eliasson, Spencer Finch, Rashid Johnson, and Paul Chan. The exhibition runs from November 21, 2025, through July 4, 2027, and is divided into two parts: the first explores pioneering "Environments" from the 1960s, while the second highlights contemporary artists expanding on those ideas.

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Transform Your Art Practice at UC Davis: The Maria Manetti Shrem Art Studio MFA Program

UC Davis has announced the Maria Manetti Shrem Art Studio MFA Program, a two-year graduate program supported by a $14 million endowment from Maria Manetti Shrem. The program offers generous funding, spacious private studios, and culminates in a thesis exhibition at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art. It features renowned faculty, visiting artists such as Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Wangechi Mutu, and partnerships with institutions like the Headlands Center for the Arts and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Applications are open until January 5, 2026, with a virtual MFA Open House on December 8, 2025.

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Inside the 19th-century Parisian club that became a safe haven for female artists

Art historian Jennifer Dasal's new book "The Club" tells the story of the American Girls' Club, a Parisian safe haven founded in 1893 by Elisabeth Mills Reid at 4 Rue de Chevreuse in Montparnasse. The club provided affordable housing and meals for aspiring female American artists who faced obstacles their male counterparts did not, including societal pressure toward marriage, financial constraints, and safety concerns. Notable residents and participants included painters Anne Goldthwaite, Florence Lundborg, and sculptors Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller and Alice Morgan Wright, whose works and lives are chronicled in Dasal's account.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 14, 2025 visibility 13 link 1 artist

‘The Hay Wain’ to go on show in Constable's home county for the first time

John Constable's iconic painting *The Hay Wain* (1821) will be exhibited in Suffolk, the artist's home county, for the first time in 2026 as part of the 250th anniversary of his birth. The work, on loan from the National Gallery in London, will be shown at Christchurch Mansion in Ipswich from 11 July to 4 October 2026, within the exhibition *Constable: Walking the Landscape*. It will be reunited with preparatory sketches from the Ipswich collection and accompanied by loans from the Tate, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Royal Academy of Arts, and the National Galleries of Scotland. Two additional exhibitions at Christchurch Mansion—*Constable: A Cast of Characters* and *Constable to Contemporary*—also form part of the broader Constable 250 project, which is funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and supported by the Weston Loan Programme.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 13, 2025 visibility 17 link 1 artist

Children curate exhibition of Clyfford Still works inspired by their reservation

The Clyfford Still Museum in Denver has handed curatorial authority to 100 children from the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation for the exhibition "Tell Clyfford I Said ‘Hi’" (on view until May 10, 2026). The show features works by Clyfford Still, who in 1936 traveled to the Colville Reservation with colleague Worth Griffin to document tribal members and landscapes. The museum collaborated with tribal youth from three schools—Nespelem School, Nespelem Head Start, and Hearts Gathered Montessori—who selected artworks from facsimiles of Still’s paintings and photographs, drawing connections between his abstract works and their own cultural experiences, such as a student noting that a painting resembled a pow wow blanket.

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Ackland's new exhibit displays modern art from Robertson Scholarship founder's collection

Ackland Art Museum at UNC-Chapel Hill has opened a new exhibition, "Color Triumphant," featuring 54 modern artworks from the collection of Julian and Josie Robertson. Julian Robertson, a UNC alumnus and founder of the Robertson Scholars Leadership Program, died in 2022. The exhibition traces the evolution of modern art from the late 19th century to the present, displaying works by 33 artists including Pablo Picasso, Oscar-Claude Monet, and Frank Stella. It includes paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, and is part of a traveling exhibition that will also visit Salisbury, North Carolina; San Antonio, Texas; and Austin, Texas.

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article news schedule Nov 11, 2025 visibility 20 link 16 artists

World Economic Forum and J. Paul Getty Trust bring art world leaders together to find ‘Connection in Times of Division’

The World Economic Forum and the J. Paul Getty Trust co-hosted a "cultural table" dinner for art world leaders on 23 October at the Hotel Le Meurice in Paris, themed "Bridging Worlds: Culture as a Force for Connection in Times of Division." The event, held in the Pompadour Room—where Pablo Picasso celebrated his 1918 wedding—was co-hosted by Getty president Katherine Fleming and WEF arts head Joseph Fowler, and marked the first collaboration between the two organizations. Fowler described the initiative as a global movement to place culture at the heart of systemic change, while Fleming emphasized art's unifying power and its measurable health benefits.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 11, 2025 visibility 22 link 11 artists

59th Carnegie International's inaugural artist commissions revealed

Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh has announced the first 14 artists for its 59th Carnegie International, running from May 2026 to January 2027. Participants include Torkwase Dyson, Alia Farid, Sanchayan Ghosh, Jonathan González, Abraham González Pacheco, Eric Gyamfi, G. Peter Jemison, Liz Johnson Artur, Arturo Kameya, Claudia Martínez Garay, Cinthia Marcelle, Shala Miller, Brooke O’Harra, Sofu Teshigahara, and Ginger Brooks Takahashi. The exhibition, curated by Ryan Inouye, Liz Park, and Danielle A. Jackson, will feature commissions across multiple disciplines, including a planetarium animation, sound installations, photography, performance, and public outdoor works. Venues include the Carnegie Museum of Art, Children’s Museum, Kamin Science Center, Mattress Factory, and Thelma Lovette YMCA.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 8, 2025 visibility 19 link 15 artists

Art Review | Impressionist Field Day

The Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) is hosting a major traveling exhibition, "The Impressionist Revolution: Monet to Matisse from the Dallas Museum of Art," alongside its own companion show, "Encore: 19th-Century Art from the Santa Barbara Museum of Art." The exhibition features works by Monet, Matisse, Pissarro, Berthe Morisot, and others, including rare pieces from SBMA's permanent collection such as Monet's "Villas in Bordighera." The show marks the 150th anniversary of the first Impressionist exhibition and includes related movements like Post-Impressionism, Pointillism, and Fauvism.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 7, 2025 visibility 13 link 9 artists

A Story of South Asian Art: Mrinalini Mukherjee and Her Circle

The Royal Academy of Arts in London presents "A Story of South Asian Art: Mrinalini Mukherjee and Her Circle," a visually thrilling exhibition running from 31 October 2025 to 24 February 2026. Curated by Tarini Malik, the show pivots around the work of Mrinalini Mukherjee (1949-2015), placing her in dialogue with key figures of the Indian cultural scene, including her parents Benode Behari Mukherjee and Leela Mukherjee, as well as artists Gulammohammed Sheikh and Nilima Sheikh. The exhibition highlights Mukherjee's hemp sculptures like 'Adi Pushp II' (1998-99) and bronze works such as 'Forest Flame IV' (2009), and emphasizes the importance of art schools and places—Santiniketan, Baroda (Vadodara), and New Delhi—in shaping her practice.

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gavel restitution schedule Nov 7, 2025 visibility 15 link 6 artists

MFA Boston returns work by enslaved artist David Drake to his heirs, Wifredo Lam, Ghirlandaio’s Adoration of the Magi—podcast

The Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston has agreed to return two 1857 works by the enslaved potter David Drake to his descendants. One vessel will remain on loan to the museum for at least two years, while the other, known as the "Poem Jar," has been purchased back by the museum for an undisclosed sum, now carrying a certificate of ethical ownership. The episode also covers the opening of the exhibition "Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, featuring the modernist painter of African and Chinese descent, and discusses Domenico Ghirlandaio's "Adoration of the Magi" (1488) in the context of a new book on Renaissance foundlings.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 7, 2025 visibility 16 link 7 artists

4 notable art exhibitions opening around the world

Four major retrospective exhibitions are opening around the world in late 2025 and early 2026, celebrating the work of Robert Rauschenberg, Wes Anderson, Vivienne Westwood, Rei Kawakubo, and Wifredo Lam. At M+ in Hong Kong, "Robert Rauschenberg and Asia" explores the artist's collaborations with artisans in India, China, and Japan. The Design Museum in London presents "Wes Anderson: The Archives," featuring over 600 items from his film sets. The Museum of Modern Art in New York hosts "Wilfredo Lam: When I Don't Sleep, I Dream," the most extensive US retrospective of the Cuban-born artist. A creative conversation between designers Vivienne Westwood and Rei Kawakubo is also highlighted.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 6, 2025 visibility 15 link 2 artists

Blanton Museum of Art To Showcase Transformative Gifts of Art in 2027 Exhibition

The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin has announced a major upcoming exhibition titled “Shaping the Future: Transformative Gifts to the Blanton Collection,” opening in March 2027. The show will feature significant artworks donated by alumni, Austinites, and collectors from across the country, including pieces by Ellsworth Kelly and John Singer Sargent. The exhibition debuts at a fundraising gala on March 6, 2027, and opens to the public on March 14, 2027, honoring donors whose gifts have strengthened the museum’s collection and supported its growth.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 6, 2025 visibility 20 link 24 artists

The Top 10 Exhibitions to See Around the World This November

This article presents a curated list of the top 10 exhibitions to see around the world in November, highlighting key shows such as 'Project a Black Planet' at MACBA, which explores Pan-Africanism through art and culture, Sylvie Fleury's installation 'She-Devils On Wheels Headquarters' in New York, and Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook's survey at Jameel Arts Centre. Other featured exhibitions include Karolina Jabłońska's paintings of pickled beets and severed limbs, among others, each offering unique perspectives on identity, gender, and mortality.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 5, 2025 visibility 17 link 6 artists

Opening date for London’s V&A East Museum announced

The V&A East Museum in London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park will open on 18 April 2026, completing the institution's east London cultural campus. Designed by O'Donnell + Tuomey, the five-story museum will feature two free permanent "Why We Make" galleries co-curated with local youth groups, showcasing over 500 objects from the V&A collection alongside contemporary works by artists including Yinka Ilori, Tania Bruguera, Carrie Mae Weems, and Thomas J. Price. The opening exhibition, "The Music Is Black: A British Story," will chart the influence of Black British music from 1900 to the present.

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

Inside the Jewish Museum’s $14.5m renovation in New York City

The Jewish Museum in New York City reopened its third and fourth floors on October 24 after a $14.5 million renovation led by United Network Studio and New Affiliates Architecture. The redesigned 20,000-square-foot space features thematic galleries displaying centuries-old artifacts alongside works by Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, and contemporary artists, as well as a new Robert and Tracey Pruzan Center for Learning with art studios and a children's archaeological dig. A highlight is the display of 139 Hanukkah lamps from the museum's collection, arranged geographically in a 50-foot vitrine.

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National Gallery Singapore celebrates 10 years

National Gallery Singapore (NGS) celebrates its 10th anniversary with a weekend event on November 15-16, 2025, featuring extended hours, free exhibitions, a rave, a pop-up market, and food trucks. The gallery, housed in the restored Supreme Court and City Hall buildings, opened on November 24, 2015, after a delayed launch, and has since welcomed over 14 million visitors. Highlights include the blockbuster show "Into The Modern: Impressionism From The Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston," with works by Monet, Cézanne, and Degas never before shown in Singapore, plus exclusive merchandise from local brands.

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article culture schedule Nov 4, 2025 visibility 18 link 7 artists

The story of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s brief but dazzling life, as told by an art-world insider

Doug Woodham, former president of Christie's Americas and current managing partner of Art Fiduciary Advisors, has authored a new biography titled "Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Making of an Icon." The book is divided into two halves: the first offers a straightforward biography of Basquiat's life from his gifted childhood in Brooklyn to his rise as a star artist, his friendship with Andy Warhol, and his tragic death from a heroin overdose at age 27. The second half analyzes how Basquiat achieved such early success, examining the influence of his father Gerard, the legal battle with dealer Vrej Baghoomian over the artist's estate, and the roles of collectors like Peter Brant and José Mugrabi. Notably, the Basquiat estate refused permission to include images of his artwork because the book openly addresses sensitive issues about his character and life.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 4, 2025 visibility 20 link 11 artists

Exhibition explores two transformative decades of innovative art created in Japan, for the world

The exhibition "Prism of the Real: Making Art in Japan 1989-2010" at the National Art Center, Tokyo, examines two transformative decades of Japanese art framed by the death of Emperor Hirohito in 1989 and the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and Fukushima disaster. It features works by artists such as Yasumasa Morimura, Tadasu Takamine, Lieko Shiga, and Shimabuku, alongside international figures like Pierre Huyghe and Rirkrit Tiravanija, challenging fixed notions of national identity and highlighting global exchanges.

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A rare jewellery box identified in Vermeer paintings sheds new light on the artist’s connections

New research by curator Alexandra van Dongen of Rotterdam’s Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum reveals that a rare Indo-Portuguese jewellery casket depicted in two Johannes Vermeer paintings—Mistress and Maid and A Lady Writing (both 1664-67)—is a real, surviving object. Van Dongen tracked down the sole known example in the Távora Sequeira Pinto collection in Porto, with help from Amsterdam dealer Dickie Zebregs. Her findings, published in the book De tastbare wereld van Johannes Vermeer, suggest the casket likely belonged to Vermeer’s patron Maria de Knuijt, a wealthy Dutch East India Company shareholder who may have asked the artist to include it in her paintings.

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article culture schedule Nov 3, 2025 visibility 13 link 3 artists

Comment | Fifty years on, John Berger’s writing is still relevant—and troublingly prescient

The article reflects on the enduring relevance of John Berger, the influential art critic and writer best known for his 1972 series and book "Ways of Seeing." It highlights two current cultural events that underscore his legacy: a new edition of his 1975 book "A Seventh Man," which examines migrant labor in Europe through text and photographs by Jean Mohr, and a dance-theatre collaboration between Nederlands Dans Theater and Complicité titled "Figures in Extinction," which draws on Berger's writings about humanity's relationship with nature and the economy of the dead.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 30, 2025 visibility 23 link 14 artists

Performa brings digital doubles, kids reciting animal noises and more to New York

Performa, New York's performance art biennial, returns for its 20th anniversary edition with a main slate of eight commissions, seven by women artists and one by a male-female duo. Projects include Ayoung Kim's live motion capture choreography exploring body doubles and digital avatars at Canyon, Diane Severin Nguyen's remix of Vietnam War-era protest songs with an 11-person supergroup at Bric, and Tau Lewis's staging of the Sumerian epic 'The Descent of Inanna' using textile sculptures and experimental opera at Harlem Parish. The biennial also features a Lithuanian Pavilion with Augustas Serapinas's mobile wooden shack and Lina Lapelytė's piece 'The Speech,' in which 270 children perform animal vocalizations at Federal Hall.

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German artist Anselm Kiefer featured in new Saint Louis Art Museum exhibit

The Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM) unveiled German artist Anselm Kiefer's exhibition "Becoming the Sea" on October 18, 2025, after 2.5 years of development. Spanning nearly 30,000 square feet, the show features enormous paintings shipped from Kiefer's Paris suburb studio, some cut into sections to fit shipping constraints. The exhibition includes works influenced by Kiefer's wife's hospitalization, his studies as a constitutional lawyer, and themes of anti-nationalism and philosophy. Kiefer requested no stanchions in front of artworks and that window shades remain up to encourage visitor immersion and connection with the outdoors.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 30, 2025 visibility 12 link 7 artists

Turner winner Jasleen Kaur announces first permanent public work

Turner Prize winner Jasleen Kaur has announced her first permanent public artwork, titled *Was.Is.Will.Be*, to be unveiled on 28 November at Southmere Lake in Cygnet Square, Thamesmead, southeast London. The sculpture is funded by housing association Peabody and was selected with input from a creative studio that includes five local residents, among them filmmaker Comfort Adeneye and painter Gonzalo Fuentes. Other project partners include Studio Danmole, Company, Place, and youth culture specialist Joseph Gray. The work incorporates fragments of local conversation and features the phrase 'horses are here' written in the sky.

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article news schedule Oct 27, 2025 visibility 12 link 8 artists

Forged Picasso, Rembrandt and Kahlo paintings seized by Bavarian police

Bavarian police seized forged artworks falsely attributed to Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Juan Miró, Amedeo Modigliani, and Frida Kahlo in coordinated raids across Germany, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein on October 15. The operation targeted a 77-year-old German man and ten suspected accomplices, who are accused of conspiring to commit fraud with art forgeries. The main suspect attempted to sell two fake Picasso paintings—including a portrait of Dora Maar—out of a car boot, prompting a buyer to alert authorities. Other seized works include a copy of Rembrandt's *The Syndics*, offered for SFr 120 million, and pieces falsely attributed to Anthony van Dyck, with prices ranging from €400,000 to €14 million.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 25, 2025 visibility 13 link 2 artists

Camille Pissarro Member Preview Saturday

The Denver Art Museum and the Museum Barberini in Potsdam have co-organized a new exhibition titled 'The Honest Eye: Camille Pissarro's Impressionism,' which opens with a member preview on Saturday. The show is supported by a wide range of donors, including Jana and Fred Bartlit, Barbara Bridges, Bridget and John Grier, the Kristin and Charles Lohmiller Exhibitions Fund, Craig Ponzio, and many others, as well as by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities and promotional support from CBS Colorado.

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article policy schedule Oct 24, 2025 visibility 10 link 3 artists

Baltimore Museum of Art receives $10m gift to support education initiatives

The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) has received a $10 million gift from the Stoneridge Foundation, founded by philanthropists Amy and Marc Meadows, to support its art education department. This is the largest single donation in the museum's history. The funds will expand educational initiatives including transportation for school visits, free family activities, a two-year pass system for students, teaching apprenticeships for undergraduates from nearby universities like the Maryland Institute College of Art, and new educator positions. The gift also supports a series of events exploring museums as civic organizations and fostering diversity in the field.

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