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An art project 150 years in the making

Artist Janet Fry discovered a 150-year-old pocket diary belonging to her great-great-grandmother, Caroline Currey Kelso, which had been stored in a nightstand drawer for nearly two decades. In May 2024, Fry decided to create an exhibition titled "The 1875 Diary Project" at Storage Space Gallery, opening October 17. The show features recorded diary excerpts read by 12 women artists, enlarged reproductions of the diary pages, and Fry's own artistic responses. Fry transcribed the diary using a magnifying glass, revealing Kelso's experiences as a 19th-century Illinois housewife, including her loneliness, daily chores, and repeated pregnancies.

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article news schedule May 10, 2026 visibility 17 link 1 gallery

Social documentary network ZEKE award 2026 winners – in pictures

The 2026 ZEKE award winners have been announced, with Ginevra Bonina winning the award for systemic change for her project 'Out for Blood,' which documents period poverty in India and the women fighting to reclaim their bodies. Ebrahim Alipoor won the award for documentary photography for his long-term project 'Bullets Have No Borders,' capturing the lives of border porters carrying goods across the Iran-Iraq mountains.

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article culture schedule Apr 26, 2026 visibility 18 link 2 artists

“Yellow Letters”: arte e politica, libertà e censura nel nuovo film di İlker Çatak

Ilker Çatak's fifth film, "Yellow Letters," premieres on April 30, 2026, distributed by Lucky Red. The story follows Derya and Aziz, a Turkish artist couple whose lives unravel after Aziz, a professor at Ankara University, receives a "yellow letter" terminating his employment. The film, inspired by post-2016 coup purges in Turkey, shifts to Berlin and Hamburg, where the director deliberately avoids mimicking Turkish locations, instead using explicit captions like "Berlin as Ankara" to create a Brechtian alienation effect. Çatak explores how arbitrary state repression fractures personal relationships and moral boundaries, drawing on interviews with artists who faced unjust dismissals.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 19, 2026 visibility 24 link 1 artist

New SLAM exhibition brings ancient Rome to life in ‘Ancient Splendor: Roman Art in the Time of Trajan’

The Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM) has opened “Ancient Splendor: Roman Art in the Time of Trajan,” a major traveling exhibition featuring a seven-foot-tall marble statue of Emperor Trajan and a vast array of artifacts from his reign. Organized in collaboration with the Italian organization StArt and curated by Roman expert Lucrezia Ungaro alongside SLAM’s Hannah Segrave, the show is structured into three thematic sections: the imperial household, the domestic lives of everyday Romans, and the public sphere. To enhance immersion, the museum has integrated sensory elements including scent stations that replicate ancient fragrances and a commissioned soundscape.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 24, 2026 visibility 3 link 1 artist, 2 galleries

Final Ivan Wheale art exhibition and sale at Perivale Gallery attracts large crowd

The Perivale Gallery in Spring Bay, Ontario, hosted the final exhibition of renowned Manitoulin artist Ivan Wheale, titled 'THROUGH IVAN’S EYES - A NORTHERN VISION LIVES ON.' Wheale, who passed away in September, had been a fixture at the gallery for over four decades. The opening featured his last works, including 'Tranquility,' his final completed painting, which he finished from his hospice bed. An unfinished piece sat on his custom easel, marking the end of a long tradition of annual shows.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 15, 2026 visibility 7 link 2 artists, 1 gallery

New exhibit at Art Museum of Eastern Idaho celebrates region's agricultural identity

A new exhibition titled "Sacred Spaces: Visions of the West from the Prosaic to the Sublime" has opened at The Art Museum of Eastern Idaho in Idaho Falls, featuring works by six contemporary artists—David Dibble, Bryan Mark Taylor, Josh Clare, Allie Zeyer, Louisa Lorenz, and Carson Thompson. The show, curated by museum Executive Director Alexa Stanger, focuses on the agricultural landscapes of the American West, portraying farms, ranches, and working spaces not as scenic backdrops but as living environments shaped by labor, memory, and generational stewardship. It runs through July 3.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 11, 2026 visibility 15 link 2 artists, 1 gallery

Last Ivan Wheale exhibition and sale May 16 at Perivale Gallery

Perivale Gallery on Manitoulin Island will host 'Through Ivan’s Eyes: A Northern Vision Lives On' on May 16, a final exhibition and sale of works by the late artist Ivan Wheale. The event includes Wheale’s last painting, completed shortly before his death, and pieces from his personal collection, marking the last chance to acquire his work from his official gallery.

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article culture schedule Dec 23, 2025 visibility 12 link 2 artists

film mohamad abdouni michael bailey gates cold cuts

Lebanese photographer, filmmaker, and Cold Cuts magazine creative director Mohamad Abdouni has released a new documentary titled "Treat Me Like Your Mother," which documents the lives of trans women in Lebanon. The film, drawn from an Arabic expression asking for mercy, reframes motherhood as an ethical position rooted in responsibility for the trans community. Rather than extracting trauma, Abdouni allows the women to tell their own histories in personal, nonlinear, and surprising forms. The documentary evolved from a book project featuring oral histories of ten women, and the film centers Abdouni's own reflections on what these women represented to him growing up. In a dialogue with photographer Michael Bailey-Gates for CULTURED, Abdouni discusses the importance of letting trans women define the terms of their own visibility.

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article culture schedule Sep 18, 2025 visibility 13 link 9 artists

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Cultured magazine has announced its annual selection of 12 emerging photographers, aged 24 to 35, chosen by top names in the photography world. The list includes artists such as Adali Schell, Ashley McLean, Camille Farrah Lenain, Charlie Denis, Chris Cook, Hannah Altman, Hero Bean Stevenson, Iva Sidash, Jak Bannon, Jasmine Clarke, Michael Wolever, and Sara Messinger, who work across traditional darkroom techniques and AI tools, drawing on personal histories and community perspectives.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 21, 2026 source 2 sources visibility 13 link 6 artists, 1 gallery

Syracuse’s ArtRage Gallery hosts new exhibit exploring global plastic crisis

ArtRage Gallery in Syracuse is hosting a new exhibition titled 'A Rising Tide of Plastic in Art,' featuring works by members of the international collective Project Vortex. The show includes sculptures, photographs, and installations created from reclaimed plastic waste, with artists like Alejandro Durán, Nicole Hixon, Anne Percoco, and Blue McRight transforming debris into commentary on pollution.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 3, 2025 visibility 17 link 1 gallery

オノ・ヨーコ「A statue was here　一つの像がここにあった」@ 小山登美夫ギャラリー六本木／天王洲

Yoko Ono's solo exhibition "A statue was here" is being held simultaneously at Tomio Koyama Gallery's Roppongi and Tennozu spaces from June 10 to July 5, 2025. The show features conceptual objects and participatory works spanning Ono's career, including early pieces like *Mind Object I* (1960/1966) and *Mind Object II* (1966/1967), as well as *Mend Piece* using porcelain fragments damaged in the Noto Peninsula earthquake, and the debut of *Three Lives* (2019). The Roppongi space focuses on conceptual objects, while Tennozu emphasizes audience participation and performance.

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article local schedule Apr 11, 2026 visibility 13 link 4 artists, 1 gallery

BHS Senior Art showcase at Gallery 323

Bluffton High School is set to host its annual senior art exhibition at Gallery 323, showcasing the creative achievements of its graduating class. The event kicks off with an opening reception on April 23, 2026, and will remain on public display through early May.

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museum exhibitions schedule Feb 6, 2026 visibility 13 link 2 artists, 1 gallery

Young artist honours Pekan Nenas’ pineapple farmers

Young Malaysian artist Lee Wei Heng, 22, has opened his first solo exhibition titled "Ananas" at Artas Gallery in Petaling Jaya. The show features 17 oil paintings that document the grueling lives of pineapple farmers in Pekan Nenas, Johor, where his grandparents worked as laborers. Lee, who studied fine arts and worked part-time in the plantations during school holidays, captures the farmers' daily struggles—from cutting thorny fruit under the sun to praying for protection against wild animals. His works, such as the monochromatic "Old Farmer," use motifs like the parang (machete) to symbolize both the farmers' hidden identities and their pain.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 2, 2026 source 2 sources visibility 17

Gê Viana: Afterlives of the African Diaspora

Artist Gê Viana's monumental sound system installation, 'A colheita de Dan (The Harvest of Dan, 2025)', was a standout work at the most recent Bienal de São Paulo. The piece, a towering radiola painted in black, white, and red, combines photomontages of Black reggae parties, Afro-Indigenous religious shrines, and medicinal plants, while playing a loop of Brazilian reggae and songs from Maranhão's quilombo communities.

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article news schedule Apr 3, 2026 visibility 17

Archaeologists Discover 19th-Century Shipwreck in Copenhagen Harbor

Marine archaeologists from Denmark's Viking Ship Museum have discovered the wreck of the 18th-century Danish warship Dannebroge in Copenhagen harbor. The ship was destroyed during the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801, when the British fleet under Admiral Horatio Nelson attacked to dismantle the League of Armed Neutrality. Divers have recovered cannons, uniform fragments, bottles, and sailors' remains from the site.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 1, 2026 visibility 10

‘How can you forget me’: show details Filipino Americans’ rich history

Antonio Somera discovered 26 steamer trunks belonging to early 20th-century Filipino migrants in a Stockton, California basement in 2005. The trunks' contents, including a pillowcase embroidered with the phrase "HOW CAN YOU FORGET ME," form the core of the exhibition "How Can You Forget Me: Filipino American Stories" at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington DC, offering an intimate look at the lives of the Manong Generation of laborers.

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article news schedule Mar 23, 2026 visibility 18

Massive Cache of 42,000 Pottery Shards Reveals Daily Life in Ancient Egypt

Archaeologists from the University of Tübingen and the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities have unearthed a massive collection of over 42,000 inscribed pottery shards, known as ostraca, at the ancient site of Athribis. The shards, dating from the 3rd century B.C.E. to the 11th century C.E., contain tax receipts, religious texts, school exercises, and personal notes written in Demotic, Greek, Hieratic, Coptic, and Arabic scripts, offering an unprecedented window into the daily lives of ordinary people.

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article policy schedule Mar 23, 2026 visibility 28

Statue Removed from Delaware During Black Lives Matter Protests to Be Reinstated in Washington D.C.

A statue of Caesar Rodney, a signer of the Declaration of Independence who enslaved over 200 people, is set to be reinstated in Washington D.C.'s Freedom Plaza. The National Park Service plans to place the statue as part of the nation's 250th birthday celebrations, six years after it was removed from Wilmington, Delaware, during Black Lives Matter protests.

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article local schedule Jan 14, 2026 visibility 8

rome tour well preserved underground dwelling livestream

Rome is offering livestream tours of the House of the Griffins, an ancient Roman home on the Palatine Hill that has never been open to the public. Dating to the 2nd-1st century BCE, the dwelling features well-preserved frescoes, mosaics, and two stucco griffins. Starting March 3, after years of restoration, small groups of up to 12 visitors can watch a guide with a head-mounted camera explore the underground structure, with narration in English or Italian.

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article policy schedule Oct 15, 2025 visibility 14

austin black artists matter rainbow crosswalk to be removed

The city of Austin, Texas, is set to remove a 'Black Artists Matter' street mural and a rainbow crosswalk after Governor Greg Abbott directed the Texas Department of Transportation to comply with a federal order from President Donald Trump. The July 1 directive from Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy requires states to eliminate political messages and artwork from roadways, citing driver and pedestrian safety. Austin Mayor Kirk Watson has identified about 16 locations that may be affected and warned that non-compliance could jeopardize $175 million in state and federal grant funding. The mural, painted in June 2020 in Austin's historically Black East side neighborhood by local artists with the Austin Justice Coalition and Capitol View Arts, was created in response to the police killing of George Floyd and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement.

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article policy schedule Aug 22, 2025 visibility 13

mutter museum philadelphia new policy human remains

The Mütter Museum in Philadelphia, a medical history institution that has faced controversy over its handling of human remains, announced a new policy on August 19 for exhibiting its collection. The policy shifts focus toward the lives of patients and changes in medical history, developed through the two-year Postmortem Project involving focus groups and public meetings. The announcement follows backlash after former executive director Kate Quinn removed online exhibits in June 2023 as part of an ethical review, and subsequent staff departures.

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Student artwork sells for record $525K at RodeoHouston School Art Auction

The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo School Art Auction set new records at its 2026 event, with student artworks attracting unprecedented bids from donor groups. The grand champion piece, a painting titled 'Between Boots and Moccasins' by Pasadena Memorial High School senior Joshua Washington, sold for a record $525,000, nearly doubling the previous year's top sale. The auction, held at NRG Arena, showcases artwork selected from a statewide competition involving over 200,000 students, highlighting the program's scale and impact on young Texas artists.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 18, 2026 visibility 5 link 1 artist

Chandra Bhattacharjee magnifies lives pushed to the margins in his latest Kolkata showcase

Artist Chandra Bhattacharjee presents a new body of work titled "A Star Amongst Too Many" at the Sarala Birla gallery within the Birla Academy of Art and Culture in Kolkata. Curated by Uma Ray, the exhibition features large-scale charcoal drawings that depict marginalized figures such as ragpickers, trash collectors, beggars, and street vendors. The works use black-and-white charcoal with occasional bursts of yellow and rust—the latter symbolizing neglect—to highlight the overlooked lives of these individuals. The show runs until May 24, 2026.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 15, 2026 visibility 11 link 6 artists

‘Art is story, and stories save lives’: In St. Walburg, a travelling exhibit gives voice to stories often left untold

The Susan Velder Gallery and More in St. Walburg, Saskatchewan, is hosting 'Invisible Winds: Stories You Can Not See, Journeys toward Wholeness,' a traveling exhibition curated through the Organization of Saskatchewan Arts Councils (OSAC). Featuring 19 local artists, the show explores hidden emotional realities such as adoption, PTSD, trauma, and resilience through mixed-media works, including Holly Hildebrand's textured portraits 'Ghosts and Shadows: Heather' and 'Ghosts and Shadows: Teanna.' Visitors are encouraged to scan QR codes to hear artists' stories, and many return multiple times to absorb the heavy themes.

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article local schedule May 1, 2026 visibility 19 link 2 artists

Art exhibit is about ‘Completing the Journey.’ It offers window into hospice through patients’ eyes

Masonicare Hospice & Palliative Care has launched "Completing the Journey: The Art of Hospice Care," an art exhibit featuring works created by patients in hospice care across its senior living communities in Connecticut. The exhibit, the first of its kind from Masonicare in over 15 years, includes small artworks on self-standing screens, accompanied by portraits of the artists and brief statements about their creative process. It opened at the Hartog Activities Center in Wallingford on April 28 and will travel to other Masonicare facilities, including Rocky Hill, after previous stops in Chester and Mystic. The project was funded by the Masonic Charity Foundation of Connecticut.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 17, 2026 visibility 20 link 8 artists

Sound Minds: The Artists Decoding the Noise That Dominates Our Contemporary World

The exhibition "état bruit" at Konschthal Esch explores the concept of noise as a form of interference, cultural signal, and political tool. Featuring works by seven contemporary artists, including Nik Nowak’s Indonesian-inspired sound truck and Open Group’s haunting video installation of refugees mimicking artillery, the show investigates how sound reflects both community identity and the trauma of conflict.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 7, 2026 visibility 16 link 6 artists

Wynn Newhouse awards: SU art exhibit celebrates ‘vulnerability and strength’

Syracuse University Art Museum is hosting "Possible Worlds: 20 Years of the Wynn Newhouse Awards," an exhibition curated by Daniel Fuller. The show features 11 artists selected from a pool of 115 past grant recipients, all of whom live with physical or mental disabilities. Notable works include Courttney Cooper’s expansive ballpoint pen maps of Cincinnati, Kambel Smith’s intuitive architectural models, and the Rev. Joyce McDonald’s clay portraits, showcasing a diverse range of media from oil painting to multimedia installations.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 3, 2026 visibility 14 link 1 artist

Rania Matar’s new Eskenazi Museum exhibit highlights women’s resistance in Lebanon

Photographer Rania Matar has opened a new exhibition at the Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University. The show features her work focusing on the lives, resilience, and resistance of women and girls in Lebanon, particularly in the aftermath of the 2020 Beirut port explosion.

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museum exhibitions schedule Mar 18, 2026 visibility 14 link 1 artist

30th annual Prison Creative Arts Project exhibition showcases work by incarcerated artists

The Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) at the University of Michigan has launched its 30th annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons at the Duderstadt Center Gallery. The landmark show features 872 artworks created by 613 incarcerated individuals across 26 Michigan correctional facilities, making it the largest and longest-running program of its kind in the United States. The opening event included a celebration program with performances and testimonials from artists who credit the program with providing vital creative direction and personal transformation.

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museum exhibitions schedule Mar 4, 2026 visibility 13 link 1 artist

‘Shaping Community & Shifting Narratives’ art exhibit opening reception to take place March 6

The Flint Institute of Arts Museum & Art School is hosting the opening reception for 'Shaping Community & Shifting Narratives,' an exhibition featuring works by 12 women artists of African descent aged 60 and older. Representing the communities of Flint, Lansing, and Detroit, the show includes a diverse range of media such as ceramics, painting, glass, and fiber arts. A special tribute will be included for the late textile artist Ernestine Bains, whose legacy is being carried forward by her granddaughter, Camille Baines.

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