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Portraiture and Design at Guild Hall

Guild Hall in East Hampton is opening two exhibitions on Sunday: “Jason Bard Yarmosky: Time Has Many Faces,” a decade-long series of meticulously rendered portraits focusing on the artist’s aging grandparents, and “Liberty Labs: A Decade of Design,” featuring furniture, lighting, and objects by 33 current and former members of the Liberty Labs Foundation design collective. The portraits blend 17th- and 18th-century painting techniques with contemporary, often playful imagery, while the design show highlights collaborative experimentation. Museum director Melanie Crader, who curated both shows, notes that the artists share Brooklyn bases and East End ties.

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Comment | Reflecting on my father’s art and life on the occasion of his posthumous exhibition

The article is a personal essay by the author reflecting on the life and art of their father, Samuel Kahn (1927-2007), a self-taught artist and clinical psychologist who struggled with bipolar depression. A posthumous exhibition titled "Samuel Kahn, Ph.D. + Friends" opens on 29 January at the Gordon Art Galleries at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, featuring around 50 of his wood-carvings, paintings, and sketches. The author describes how they once believed their father had wasted his life, but now sees his vibrant, untrained works as a source of joy and connection.

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Kochi Biennale co-founder Bose Krishnamachari steps down as president

Bose Krishnamachari, co-founder of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in India, has stepped down as president of the Kochi Biennale Foundation and as a board trustee after 14 years, citing pressing family reasons. His departure will not affect the ongoing sixth edition, titled "For the Time Being," which opened last month and runs until March 31. Krishnamachari founded the biennial in 2012 in Fort Kochi, Kerala, alongside fellow artist Riyas Komu, who left in 2018 amid sexual harassment allegations.

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Model masterpieces by Eduardo Paolozzi to be auctioned this week

Several works by Scottish-Italian artist Eduardo Paolozzi, gifted to his longtime collaborator and model maker Ray Hardinge Campbell Watson, are being auctioned at Lyon & Turnbull in Edinburgh. The collection includes a bronze statue titled *Hermes/Mondrian Head – 1996* (estimate £10,000–£15,000), along with plaster sculptures, prints, and folio sets, many bearing personal inscriptions. The sale reflects a creative partnership that spanned over thirty years, during which Paolozzi and Watson collaborated on major projects such as the Tottenham Court Road murals for London Underground and a Pizza Express mural in the late 1960s.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 27, 2025 visibility 14 link 3 artists

Oliver Jeffers: Artist's first Belfast exhibition in more than 20 years

Artist and author Oliver Jeffers is holding his first exhibition in his hometown of Belfast in over 20 years. The show, titled "Disasters and Interventions," is on view at the Naughton Gallery at Queen's University and features a series of works where Jeffers inserts calamitous scenes—such as an oil tanker spill or an airship crash—into tranquil vintage landscapes, transforming calm into catastrophe. The project began when he found a discarded print in New York's Chinatown and began painting into it, eventually building a collection over 14 years that balances tragedy with a wry, thoughtful humor.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 22, 2025 visibility 16 link 4 artists

A museum packed with once banned art is flourishing in the Uzbek desert

The I.V. Savitsky State Art Museum in Nukus, Uzbekistan, near the former Aral Sea, houses nearly 100,000 works of 20th-century art, including Russian avant-garde pieces and Central Asian folk art. After a 2024 exhibition in Florence and Venice, the museum underwent a major renovation led by Italian academics and new director Gulbahar Izentaeva, reopening with updated galleries and a new exhibition, "The World of Igor Savitsky." The project is backed by the Art and Culture Development Foundation (ACDF), which also launched the inaugural Bukhara Biennial and partnered with Art Basel Paris.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 22, 2025 visibility 16 link 4 artists

Inside Kashi Hallegua House, The Historic Kochi Mansion Hosting One of the Biennale’s Most Provocative Art Exhibition

The historic 200-year-old Kashi Hallegua House in Kochi's Jewish quarter has been transformed into Ishara House, hosting the exhibition "Amphibian Aesthetics" during the Kochi-Muziris Biennale season. Running from December 13, 2025, to March 31, 2026, the show features 12 international artists including Shilpa Gupta, Michelangelo Pistoletto, and Dima Srouji, with works responding directly to the building's architecture and maritime histories. The exhibition is organized by Ishara Art Foundation and curated with an "amphibian" lens, exploring themes of transition, climate crisis, and cultural displacement.

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Bill Koch’s collection could fetch $50m at Christie’s as interest in American Western art grows

Christie’s has announced the consignment of billionaire Bill Koch’s American Western art collection, estimated to fetch at least $50 million across two sales on January 20 and 21. The collection, described as the most valuable tranche of the genre ever to appear at auction, features works by Frederic Remington—including his painting *Coming to the Call* (estimated $6–8 million)—and Charles Marion Russell, among others. The sale aims to spotlight a niche but growing sector of the art market.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 16, 2025 visibility 17 link 10 artists

Ecuador's Bienal de Cuenca marks 40th anniversary with a playful theme but a serious tone

The 17th Bienal de Cuenca, titled "The Game," opened on 24 October in Cuenca, Ecuador, marking its 40th anniversary. The biennial features 51 artists selected by 17 international curators, with works displayed across multiple venues including museums, gardens, and the airport. The event highlights artists and curators from the Global South, focusing on social and political concerns rather than market priorities. It opened just two days after political protests ended, with a ceremony featuring an Andean ritual led by artist Carmen Vicente, whose installation "Infinite Steps" won the acquisition prize.

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‘Hippopotame Bar’ Shatters Design Auction Records, Sells for $31.4 Million

François-Xavier Lalanne's 1976 'Hippopotame Bar,' a whimsical copper, steel, and wood cabinet shaped like a hippopotamus with hidden compartments, sold for $31.4 million at a Sotheby's auction on December 10, 2025. Originally commissioned by the late oil heiress and philanthropist Anne Schlumberger, the piece sparked a 26-minute bidding war that far exceeded its $7–10 million estimate, making it the most valuable design object ever sold at auction and shattering Lalanne's previous auction record.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 8, 2025 visibility 11 link 1 artist

Philadelphia Art Museum Announces 2026 Exhibitions

The Philadelphia Art Museum has announced its slate of exhibitions for 2026, prominently featuring Marcel Duchamp's iconic mixed-media work "Étant donnés: 1° la chute d'eau, 2° le gaz d'éclairage . . . (Given: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas . . . ), 1946-1966." The announcement includes details about the work's complex media assemblage and its acquisition history as a gift from the Cassandra Foundation in 1969.

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Rope used to topple Colston statue to be sold

A rope used to pull down the statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol during a 2020 Black Lives Matter protest, along with a Banksy T-shirt given to one of the 'Colston Four' defendants, is being auctioned by Auctioneum Ltd. The lot is expected to fetch between £10,000 and £15,000 in a specialist sale on December 29, 2025. The four protestors were acquitted of criminal damage in 2022 after a jury trial.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 5, 2025 visibility 21 link 10 artists

In pictures: a season for newcomers at Art Basel Miami Beach’s Meridians

Yasmil Raymond returns for her second year as curator of Art Basel Miami Beach’s Meridians sector, focusing on showcasing a more diverse group of artists and providing opportunities for newcomers. She highlights several works, including Huang Yong Ping’s political sculpture referencing a US spy plane incident, Stephanie Syjuco’s critique of Western culture through a photography-studio installation, Ward Shelley’s post-truth library, Jesús Rafael Soto’s immersive Pénétrable, Luisa Rabbia’s feminist reimagining of a labor strike painting, and Anne Samat’s woven family portrait made from thrift-store objects.

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Medieval triptych ventures out of Dorset to sell for £5.7m in London Old Master auctions

A late 15th-century Netherlandish triptych, *The Five Miracles of Christ*, sold for £5.7 million at Sotheby’s London Old Master auction. The work, kept for centuries at St. John’s Almshouse in Sherborne, Dorset, had never before appeared on the market. The charity sold it to fund affordable housing, and the buyer—an unnamed Christian charitable foundation—plans to keep the painting publicly viewable in the town. Other highlights included a Rembrandt reattribution, *Saint John on Patmos*, which sold for £6.8 million, and a record £3.2 million for a Hans Eworth portrait of the 4th Duke of Norfolk.

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When Masha met Ragnar: Pussy Riot member’s life-changing encounter

Maria "Masha" Alyokhina, a member of the protest group Pussy Riot, recounts her life-changing meeting with Icelandic performance artist Ragnar Kjartansson at the opening of the GES-2 art centre in Moscow in late 2021. In an extract from her new book *Political Girl: Life and Fate in Russia*, she describes their encounter, during which Kjartansson praised her group's "Punk Prayer" as one of the greatest performances in art history. The book charts her years of dissent, including her 2012 imprisonment with fellow Pussy Riot founder Nadya Tolokonnikova and her 2022 escape from Russia disguised as a food courier, allegedly facilitated by Kjartansson.

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Tyler’s reimagined Pyramid Club gallery enters final exhibition month

Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University opened an archive exhibition at the Tyler Contemporary Art Gallery on September 5, reimagining the historic Pyramid Club, a cultural hub for Black professionals in North Philadelphia from 1937 to 1963. Curated by Matthew Jordan-Miller Kenyatta, the show features 34 paintings and 35 photographs by John Mosely, alongside works by contemporary artists like Shawn Theodore, and draws from archives by William Dodd, Leslie Willis-Lowry, and the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection. The exhibition runs through its final month, with events drawing over 200 attendees.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 28, 2025 visibility 15 link 5 artists

‘We need to rethink’: new exhibition revisits an Israeli conceptual art project, 53 years on

A new exhibition at the Givat Haviva Art Gallery in northern Israel revisits a landmark 1972 conceptual art project called Metzer-Meiser, which took place along the seamline between Kibbutz Metzer and the Arab village Meiser. The original project involved four Israeli artists—Dov Or-Ner, Moshe Gershuni, Avital Geva, and Micha Ullman—who created actions exploring Jewish-Arab coexistence, including burying personal items, parcelling land, scattering books, and exchanging soil between the two communities. The contemporary exhibition, "Metzer-Meiser: Take 2," co-curated by Anat Lidror and Tali Tamir, includes two of the original artists (Geva and Ullman) alongside ten contemporary Jewish and Palestinian artists, responding to the original project's themes of connection, fear, and trust.

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Artistic discs

Kolkata Ink Studio presented a group exhibition of graphic art at Gallery Charubasona, featuring 18 artists who each contributed two disc-shaped copperplates and matching prints. The works ranged from Manik Kumar Ghosh's clever double-disc brassiere to Partha Pratim Deb's absurd clownish figures, Laxma Goud's restrained goddess imagery, and Rm. Palaniappan's three-dimensional illusions. Other highlights included Siddhartha Ghosh's identity-less human figures, Sukla Poddar's environmental themes, and Swapnesh Vaigankar's archaeological inspirations. The exhibition was described as neat but lacking in challenge, with most works in monochrome and only faint touches of color.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 22, 2025 visibility 14 link 7 artists

Artist Arunava Mondal’s solo show at Tejas Art Gallery, Kolkata delves between light and shadow

Artist Arunava Mondal's solo exhibition "Ambient Landscapes" is currently on view at Tejas Art Gallery in Kolkata. The show explores the liminal spaces between light and shadow, memory and sensation, featuring abstract works that evoke atmospheres rather than specific topographies. Mondal builds his surfaces in translucent layers, using surreal colors and impossible geometries to create environments where observed reality merges with dreamlike logic. The exhibition includes a conversation with the artist about his inspirations, his travels through India, and his approach to nature as his ultimate muse.

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Klimt portrait sets new modern art record at $236.4 million New York auction

Gustav Klimt's portrait *Bildnis Elisabeth Lederer* (1914–1916) sold at Sotheby's New York on November 18 for $236.4 million, becoming the second most valuable artwork ever sold at auction and the most valuable modern work. The painting was the highlight of the Leonard Lauder collection sale, which totaled over $600 million. After a 20-minute bidding war, the portrait hammered at $205 million before fees, surpassing its $150 million estimate. The work, stolen by the Nazis during World War II, was acquired by Lauder in the 1980s.

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Klimt painting becomes most expensive modern art ever sold at auction

Gustav Klimt's "Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer" sold for $236.4 million at Sotheby's, becoming the most expensive work of modern art ever sold at auction. The sale occurred after a 20-minute bidding war that drew gasps and applause from the room, and it also set a record as the most expensive artwork ever sold by the auction house globally.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 13, 2025 visibility 15 link 13 artists

“100 Years of Creative Visions”: Mills College Art Museum celebrates a century of diversity and community

The Mills College Art Museum in Oakland, California, has opened "100 Years of Creative Visions," a centennial exhibition running through April 26 that showcases major works from its permanent collection. The show highlights the museum's long history of supporting diverse artistic communities, featuring pieces such as Hung Liu's "White Rice Bowl" and works by Diego Rivera, Alfredo Ramos Martinez, and members of the f/64 photography group including Imogen Cunningham, Ansel Adams, and Tina Modotti. The exhibition emphasizes creative friendships and the museum's role as a laboratory for risk-taking, with artists like Young Suh and Weston Teruya discussing how the institution encouraged experimental approaches.

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The most beautiful artwork at Frieze London? My newborn

A new mother recounts her chaotic experience attending Frieze London with her three-month-old baby. She struggles to find a private space to breastfeed, is directed away from a stack of chairs reserved for an art installation, and ultimately feeds her baby on a crowded bench near the entrance. After a diaper change, she finally joins a tour of the fair's curated section "Echoes in the Present" and connects with works by artists like Bunmi Agusto.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 29, 2025 visibility 17 link 2 artists

Ruin and beauty loom 30 feet over museum visitors at new St. Louis Art Museum exhibition

The St. Louis Art Museum has opened "Anselm Kiefer: Becoming the Sea," the first American survey of the German-born artist's work in 20 years. The exhibition features five monumental 30-foot-tall paintings, including the 2024 work "Lumpeguin, Cigwe, Animiki," inspired by Kiefer's 1991 visit to St. Louis and his memories of the Mississippi River. Museum Director Min Jung Kim curated the show, which explores Kiefer's signature use of texture, sculpture techniques, and themes of ruin and resurrection.

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The Big Review | 36th Bienal de São Paulo ★★★★

The 36th Bienal de São Paulo has opened with a site-specific installation by Nigerian-American artist Precious Okoyomon, titled "Sun of Consciousness. God Blow Thru Me – Love Break Me" (2025), which features a spiraling path of moss-covered earth and waterfalls evoking Brazil's deforested Cerrado region. The biennial, curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung with an international team, includes 125 artists—97 international and 28 Brazilian—with more than half of the works commissioned for the exhibition. Notable presentations include a career-spanning display of over 20 paintings by British artist Frank Bowling, alongside works by Brazilian artist Gervane de Paula, who has the largest presence in the show.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 21, 2025 visibility 13 link 1 artist

Ragnar Kjartansson's politically charged soap opera—halted by the Russia-Ukraine war—goes on show in Reykjavík

Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson's video work *Soap Opera*—a recording of his durational performance *Santa Barbara: A Living Sculpture*—is on view for the first time at i8 Grandi in Reykjavík. The original performance, staged at the V-A-C Foundation's GES-2 House of Culture in Moscow from December 2021 to February 2022, featured Russian and Ukrainian actors reenacting episodes of the American soap opera *Santa Barbara*, which had been a cultural phenomenon in post-Soviet Russia. The production was halted at episode 81 on February 24, 2022, the day Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

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article culture schedule Oct 17, 2025 visibility 15 link 1 artist

We All Know Grandma Moses, Right? But Not Fully, It Seems

A New York Times article reexamines the life and legacy of the beloved American folk artist Grandma Moses (Anna Mary Robertson Moses), suggesting that the public's understanding of her is incomplete. It delves into lesser-known aspects of her biography and artistic practice, challenging the simplistic, sentimental image often associated with her work.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 15, 2025 visibility 13 link 5 artists

Welsh exhibition with rare pieces at "The Most Rock n Roll Gallery in Wales"

A new exhibition titled "Print" opens at Awen gallery in Llanfyllin, Wales, running from October 23 to November 30, 2025. The show features the debut of Seren Morgan Jones, known for detailed portraits of Welsh women exploring social and political themes, alongside emerging artist Angharad Smith, who presents stained glass works including "Nid Yw Cymru Ar Werth." Notably, the exhibition includes three rare pieces by the renowned artist duo Gilbert & George, held in private collections since the 1970s.

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In pictures: p(art)y people at the Frieze London VIP preview

Celebrities and art world figures gathered at Regent’s Park in London for the VIP preview of Frieze London 2025. The event featured appearances by arts broadcaster Kate Bryan, artists Young In Hong, Kimsooja, David Shrigley, Thomas J Price, Elsa James, Larry Achiampong, Michael Landy, Gillian Wearing, and Ryan Gander, alongside curator Fatoş Üstek, curator Zoé Whitley, architect Kulapat Yantrasast, model Claudia Schiffer, and musician Neil Tennant. Photographs by David Owens captured the scene.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 8, 2025 visibility 10 link 3 artists

Glimpsing the future: William Kentridge opera has its New York premiere in Brooklyn

William Kentridge's award-winning chamber opera *Waiting for the Sibyl* (2019) makes its New York premiere this week at Powerhouse Arts in Brooklyn, as part of the inaugural Powerhouse: International arts festival. The opera, which won an Olivier Award in 2023, features an original score by Nhlanhla Mahlangu and Kyle Shepherd, and incorporates Kentridge's animated ink drawings, collages, text projections, and sculptures. Inspired by the Cumaean Sibyl of ancient legend, the work explores themes of fate and uncertainty, with paper leaves from texts like Dante's *Divine Comedy* symbolically blowing through the action. The production was originally commissioned by the Rome Opera as a companion piece to Alexander Calder's 1968 *Work in Progress*.

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