Northeastern University has launched a new exhibition titled "The Data at Hand: Data Physicalizations of Earth and Space" at its Gallery 360 on the Boston campus. The show, a collaboration between the university's Boston and Oakland campuses and the Mills College Art Museum, features works by artist Nathalie Miebach and the collaborative 'just practice' that translate data into physical sculptures using materials like fiber, wood, and glass.
Twelve artists from the Hidden Gems Art Studios collective are exhibiting their work in a month-long group show titled Hidden Gems @ The Unicorn at The Unicorn Collection in Sturt Street, Ballarat, running until 1 March. The exhibition features painting, photography, textiles, ceramics, and mixed media, with a Meet the Artists session scheduled for the evening of 6 February. Artists include Sylvia Aguirre, Jeannie King, Kate Wise, and Anne Langdon, among others.
The University of New Hampshire Gallery of Art opened its Spring 2026 exhibition, InGathering, on January 20, with a reception held on January 23. Curated by UNH alum Alex Leith, the show features ten artists including several UNH alumni, with works ranging from oil paintings to glass blowing. The exhibition was organized on short notice after a construction-related scheduling gap, and emphasizes themes of community, nourishment, and shared energy.
The CaminARTE art walk returns to historic downtown Laredo, Texas, on the first Friday of February. The event, organized by the Laredo Cultural District, features art exhibits, live music, and a Valentine's-themed market across multiple downtown venues including the Laredo Center for the Arts, Casa Ortiz, and La Posada Hotel. It showcases local and visiting artists, performers, and vendors, bringing activity to Iturbide Street.
The Sandusky Public Arts and Culture Commission is hosting an opening reception for the 2026 City Hall Art Gallery on February 5. The exhibition, themed "Journey," features work by local artists curated by the commission in collaboration with local artist and gallery owner Darian Shepherd.
Howard University third-year architecture students traveled to New York City to see their work displayed in an exhibition at Leroy Street Studio in Chinatown. The exhibit features sun shading devices for window frames, designed in an environmental systems class led by Assistant Professor Nea Maloo and Associate Professor Danny Sagan of Norwich University, integrating biophilic design principles. Students also participated in a sketching exercise led by architect Danai Metoyer and networked with professionals like Natalka Khodarchenko.
CookieRun: Kingdom, the mobile game franchise, is opening a new art exhibition titled "Legacy of the Kingdom" at the Ara Art Center in Insa-dong, Jongno District, central Seoul, running from Friday through April 23. The exhibition features 10 high-quality collaborative artworks by Korea's master artisans, including lacquerware inlaid with mother-of-pearl (najeon chilgi) by Sohn Dae-hyun, a buncheong vase by Park Sang-jin, and gold-leaf work by Kim Gi-ho, alongside interactive media art by Nerdy Artist Union. Visitors can use special wristbands to trigger projections and visual effects. Devsisters CEO Cho Kil-hyeon announced plans to expand the exhibition to the United States, Australia, Britain, Canada, Taiwan, and Thailand, given that 70% of players are from outside Korea.
The Parkersburg Art Center in Parkersburg, West Virginia, will host an opening reception on January 16, 2025, for two new exhibitions: "Rinse and Repeat: An Exhibit by ArtBeat Studio" and "Rabbit Medicine and Other World-Building" featuring work by Savannah Schroll Guz. The exhibitions run through February 21. "Rinse and Repeat" marks the return of a show that originally opened in March 2020 and closed after just one day, featuring artists from the Wood County Society’s ArtBeat Studio, a collaborative community arts center that supports artists with developmental differences. "Rabbit Medicine and Other World-Building" showcases Guz’s work, which draws on folklore, memory, and imagination, and has been exhibited across the East Coast and Midwest.
An exhibition at Salt Beyoğlu titled 'We’ve Been at the Tapestry Studio Since the 90s' explores the art education practices of the Tapestry Studio, part of the Painting Department at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University (MSGSÜ). The show presents a collage of collective productions, individual works, archival materials, and personal testimonies from artists who have passed through the studio, tracing its physical and conceptual evolution since its founding in the early 1990s. It highlights the studio's unique pedagogical approach, which combines tapestry weaving with contemporary art, collaborative learning, and open programs that challenge academic hierarchies and gendered norms.
Canada's monument to the victims of communism in Ottawa, officially opened a year ago, will no longer include individual names on its Wall of Remembrance after a federal government report revealed that many of the unvetted "victims" had ties to Nazi or fascist groups. Originally designed by architect Paul Raff to feature 553 entries, the Department of Canadian Heritage reversed its decision following alarms raised by Jewish groups and independent media outlets like Ricochet and The Maple, which found that more than half of the 550 names should be removed. The department stated that the wall will now feature only thematic content aligned with Canadian values of democracy and human rights.
Google has launched Gradient Canvas, an exhibition of 13 newly commissioned artworks from multidisciplinary artists that explore the co-evolving relationships between people, nature, and machines. Inspired by the Bay Area’s local ecology, the works were created using Google tools and AI, and are presented both online via Google Arts & Culture and in a physical installation at Google's Gradient Canopy office in Mountain View. The initiative celebrates over a decade of artistic experimentation with AI, tracing back to Google researcher Alex Mordvintsev's development of DeepDream in 2015 and earlier residency programs.
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln's School of Art, Art History and Design will host the Fall 2025 Studio Art Capstone Exhibition from December 15 to 19 at the Eisentrager-Howard Gallery. The show features work from seven graduating seniors—Lola Lafficher Agena, Nathan Anderson, Melissa Hewitt, Elle Marroquin, Lim Puoch, Ethan Schepers, and Carli Sorge—spanning sculpture, drawing, painting, and photography. A closing reception is scheduled for December 19 from 5 to 7 p.m., and admission is free.
Mvskoke Waters Gallery, the first tribally owned art gallery in the Tulsa metropolitan area, announces its grand opening on December 13, 2025, in Jenks, Oklahoma. The inaugural exhibition, titled "Mvskokvlke: Road of Strength," features works by over 20 Muscogee artists and is co-curated by Muscogee artist Bobby C. Martin, who describes the project as an honor and a labor of love.
Six artists from the Artē Collective in Luggate, New Zealand, have opened their first group exhibition titled "Collective Circles" at their newly established gallery. The show features 20mm round artworks in painting, ceramics, and sculpture, created on-site as the artists take turns staffing the gallery. Works sold before the paint was dry, according to sculptor Andi Regan. The exhibition runs from December through January, with an opening event on December 5.
Artists and photographers, both Cambodian and foreign, have donated works to an exhibition at Brown Coffee in Phnom Penh to raise emergency funds for Studio Images - House of Photography, Cambodia's only professional photography school. The school opened in 2024 but lost its funding for the next six months due to external circumstances, threatening the graduation of students in its two-year associate-degree program. The exhibition, titled "Art for the Future," is hosted at the café located in the former home of architect Vann Molyvann, with proceeds supporting the school's operations through the 2025-2026 school year.
Artists participating in a 'Visual History of the Unions' exhibition at the University of Michigan's Michigan Union have accused the University Unions administration of unprofessional conduct and censorship. The show, a collaboration between the Inclusive History Project, the Arts Initiative, and University Unions, was originally planned to run from October 2025 to January 2026 in high-traffic areas, but was reduced to a six-week run in a small alcove. One artist, Toby Millman, created a quilt depicting a 2024 pro-Palestine protest, and after submitting it, she and others received vague emails about delays and stakeholder concerns, leading them to believe the work was being suppressed.
Andi Crist presents her first solo museum exhibition, “Live, Laugh, Labor: Thoughts on Usefulness and Other Myths,” at the Cleve Carney Museum of Art, on view until January 11, 2026. The show explores the hidden labor behind art production through works like “How to Hang a Painting,” a cast-aluminum instructional piece, and includes preparatory sketches, a recreated “The Door,” and ceramic works such as “Good Idea/Bad Idea (trash can)” and “Target Practice.” Crist, who identifies as a creative, designer, fabricator, art handler, and comic, uses humor and self-deprecation to expose the messy realities of making art.
San Antonio ceramic artists Michelle Hernandez, Hilary Rochow, and Rikkianne Van Kirk initiated ClaySA, a grassroots effort to unite the local ceramics community. The program includes a group exhibition titled "The Mark of the Hand," featuring 23 local artists working in clay, and 12 studio tours across two weekends in November. The exhibition, curated by Rochow, builds on a previous show called "Clay Symphony" and is supported by an all-volunteer committee including Contemporary Art Month Executive Director Roberta "Nina" Hassele and other artists.
Olfactory artist and perfumer Gabriel De Carvalho presents 'The Smell of Sanctity: From Devotion to Decomposition,' a multi-sensory exhibition at The Olfactory Art Studio in London from 26 to 30 November 2025. The installation explores the historical concept of the 'odour of sanctity'—the sweet fragrance said to emanate from saints—through the lens of biochemistry, using bespoke scent compositions, sculptural diffusers, and light to blur the boundaries between sacred spaces and scientific laboratories.
A new exhibition titled 'Unseen' has opened at The Old School House in Boscombe, showcasing the work of 37 local artists. Curated by Millie Lake, a Fine Art graduate from Arts University Bournemouth, in collaboration with Open School Creative, the show runs from October 30 to December 12 and features paintings, prints, mixed media, and ceramics responding to the theme of being unseen. A free open house celebration on November 1 includes a creative writing session and a community music performance.
Multifaceted artist Poonam Arora has established a new art studio called 'Studio Art Life' in NAC, Manimajra, Chandigarh, to support both emerging and established artists. The studio opened with a multi-artist exhibition featuring 14 artists, 22 paintings, three sculptures, and a collection of decoupage artworks, running from October 30 to November 2, 2025. Arora, who previously struggled to find exhibition spaces as a solo artist, aims to provide a collaborative platform for artists to create, exhibit, and connect.
The City of Homestead is bringing back its 'Artist in the Spotlight' program on November 15, 2025, at the Historic Seminole Theatre. The event, presented by Councilwoman Jenifer N. Bailey in partnership with The ArtBeat and Friends of the Seminole Theatre, features a month-long visual arts exhibition titled 'Blackity: Reframing Race, Ethnicity & Nationality Across the Diaspora,' curated by founding artist Ms. Tawana in collaboration with ArtWalk Presents. The opening reception includes live performances and opportunities to meet the artists.
A new art installation has opened at Springfield Town Center in Fairfax County, Virginia, featuring seven works by three local artists—Tumôhq Abney, Jován Bethel, and Isabella Merlos. The exhibition, titled “ArtsFairfax Presents at Springfield Town Center,” is a collaboration between the mall and ArtsFairfax, the county's official arts agency, and was unveiled on October 16, 2025, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The show is part of ArtsFairfax’s month-long artoberVA celebration, organized in partnership with CultureWorks, and will remain on display through March 31, 2026, with all works available for purchase.
The Wichita Eagle reports on a new collaborative body of work by a well-known married couple of Wichita artists. The article highlights how their individual artistic practices merge in these new pieces, blending their distinct styles and techniques into a unified creative output.
The Tread of Pioneers Museum in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, will open the exhibition “This Is Native Art” on October 22, featuring works by over 26 contemporary Native American artists. Curated by artist, activist, and author Danielle SeeWalker, the show originated at the Colorado State Capitol as an initiative of Colorado Creative Industries, then traveled to the Golden History Museum before arriving at its current venue. Executive Director Candice Bannister secured the exhibition after attending the Indigenous Connections Summit in Golden, collaborating with the Golden History Museum, SeeWalker, and state arts officials to bring it to the Western Slope.
The University of Wyoming's Biodiversity Institute is seeking artwork to display in the gallery located in the atrium/lobby of the Berry Biodiversity Conservation Center. Submissions are open to UW students, faculty, professionals, children, and groups, with exhibitions featuring biodiversity-related media such as photography, paintings, sculptures, and collaborative scientist-artist projects. The next exhibition, titled "Adventures on the Kinabatangan: UW Field Course 2025," will showcase work from UW students who traveled to Borneo.
Mind of the Masters, in collaboration with the West African Specialty Coffee Association (WASCA) and NK Art Space, is hosting an art exhibition titled “The Spirit of Coffee” at The Spotlight Hub in Victoria Island, Lagos, from November 29 to December 12, 2025. The exhibition features 20 artworks curated by Mind of the Masters and NK Art Space, created by professional artist Lenrie Preks, whose works such as “The Spirit of Coffee,” “Coffee Blitz,” and “Flavour of Coffee” explore coffee culture through ritual, memory, and geometric abstraction.
An art exhibition called The Crow Gallery is opening in Westport, County Mayo, during the Westival 2025 arts and music festival. Housed in the vacant The Local public house on Castlebar Street, the show features work from local artists with disabilities and participants of an Open Call centered on disability justice. The exhibition explores perceptions of disability, challenges ableism, and aims to spark dialogue about inclusion. It is the first phase of a long-term project to establish a permanent gallery, coffee shop, gift shop, and artist studios where disabled and non-disabled artists collaborate, with people with disabilities leading the space. The project was inspired by local artist Maitiu Quinn and Amber Walsh, and is driven by Anna Wall, who participated in Social Entrepreneurs Ireland's Ideas Academy and a Mayo County Council Arts Office workshop facilitated by artist Kari Cahill.
A group of artists, curators, and gallerists from Xinjiang, operating anonymously as the collective Yixak, have publicly criticized the Beijing exhibition "Greetings" held at the Maca Art Center from March to June 2025. The show, featuring works by Han Chinese artist Dan Er, focused on her travels through Xinjiang and its heritage arts. Yixak accuses the exhibition of cultural appropriation, misrepresentation, and reinforcing ethnic stereotypes, including conflating distinct ethnic cultures, stripping traditional Adras textile patterns of context, and mislabeling Xinjiang traditions. The collective also claims the show failed to credit local collaborators and excluded Xinjiang communities. Both Dan Er and Maca declined to comment, citing "irresistible factors."
Miami University students explore intergenerational connections through art in the 10th Student Response Exhibition, titled "Bridging Generational Gaps," presented by the Richard and Carole Cocks Art Museum (RCCAM) in collaboration with the university's Department of Art. Inspired by Professor Megan Gerhardt's book "Gentelligence," the exhibition features works in ceramics, photography, textiles, drawing, and poetry from students across disciplines, responding to prompts about defining and bridging generational divides. Visitors can vote for their favorite pieces, with cash awards sponsored by the Art Museum's Members Association, and a reception and awards ceremony will be held on October 29.