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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 10, 2025 visibility 15 link 6 artists

Art & the Book* and Spineless Wonders: The Power of Print Unbound**

Two concurrent exhibitions in central London this summer—'Art & the Book' at the Warburg Institute and 'Spineless Wonders: The Power of Print Unbound' at Senate House Library—celebrate the contemporary and historical impact of print and small-press publishing. The shows feature a spectrum of materials from socialist pamphlets and activist flyers to artists' books and ephemera, drawn from special collections to highlight the deep history of paper and print as a medium for autonomous production. The Warburg exhibition, curated by Matthew Harle with guest curators Arnaud Desjardin and Hlib Velyhorskyi, centers on artists' books and includes residencies, talks, and an art bookfair, all open to the public.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 9, 2025 visibility 17 link 3 artists

Rose Art Museum Presents Fred Wilson: Reflections August 20, 2025 – January 4, 2026

The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University will present "Fred Wilson: Reflections," a major survey of the artist's work from 2003 to the present, on view from August 20, 2025, through January 4, 2026. Curated by Dr. Gannit Ankori, the exhibition spans three sections, including Wilson's glassworks inspired by the 2003 Venice Biennale, his black-and-white Flag paintings, and the debut of a new immersive installation, "Black Now!," which features over 2,500 found objects collected since 2005 that explore themes of race, identity, and material culture.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 9, 2025 visibility 19 link 15 artists, 1 gallery

football city, art united transforms manchester's aviva studios into a pitch for creativity

Manchester International Festival 2025 presents "Football City, Art United" at Aviva Studios, a group exhibition co-curated by former footballer Juan Mata, curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Josh Willdigg. The show pairs eleven international footballers with artists across media—including Ryan Gander with Eric Cantona, Keiken with Ella Toone, and Suzanne Lacy with Vivianne Miedema and Ali Riley—to explore intersections of sport and contemporary art. Works range from a holographic tribute to Diego Maradona by Jill Mulleady to an interactive installation by Stefano Boeri Architetti with Sandro Mazzola. The exhibition runs through August 24, 2025.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 8, 2025 visibility 18 link 12 artists

Once upon a time in New Mexico: 12th Site Santa Fe International focuses on the art of visual storytelling

The 12th Site Santa Fe International, titled "Once Within a Time," has opened at Site Santa Fe in New Mexico, running until January 12, 2026. Guest curated by Cecilia Alemani, director of New York's High Line, the biennial centers on visual storytelling, featuring over 70 artists and 27 historical figures. Highlights include Helen Cordero's Cochiti-inspired storyteller figurines, a film by Lebanese artist Ali Cherri at the New Mexico Military Museum, and works by literary figures D.H. Lawrence and Vladimir Nabokov. The exhibition extends beyond the main building to a dozen locations across Santa Fe, including museums, a former foundry, and storefronts.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 30, 2025 visibility 13 link 17 artists

LACMA shares images of Zumthor-designed David Geffen Galleries building

LACMA has released new images of the David Geffen Galleries, the centerpiece of its campus transformation designed by architect Peter Zumthor. The building, which is currently under construction, will house the museum's permanent collection and is part of a larger overhaul of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's campus.

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article news schedule Jun 30, 2025 visibility 15 link 9 artists

UK mental health hospitals are about to get more art

More than 50 artists, including Lakwena Maciver, Veronica Ryan, Peter Liversidge, and Alberta Whittle, will create site-specific works for mental health hospitals across the UK as part of a new three-year initiative by the charity Hospital Rooms. The project, delivered in collaboration with NHS Trusts in Birmingham, Bristol, North East London, and South West Yorkshire, is backed by a £600,000 Arts Council England National Lottery grant and additional support from the Garfield Weston Foundation and the Hiscox Foundation. Hospital Rooms will also develop a National Framework for Equal Access to Arts in Mental Health Services, aiming to integrate trauma-informed, autism-friendly, and culturally competent arts programmes into mental healthcare settings.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 30, 2025 visibility 15 link 6 artists

Home of murdered Pakistani artist Ismail Gulgee becomes a museum

The home and studio of murdered Pakistani Modernist artist Ismail Gulgee has been transformed into a museum by his son, installation artist Amin Gulgee. Opened in February 2025 in central Karachi, the museum preserves the late artist's work, including his Expressionist calligraphic paintings and later abstract canvases, which had been locked away since Gulgee, his wife, and a maid were killed in 2007 by their driver and an accomplice. The building, designed by architect Nayyar Ali Dada, now houses a carefully curated collection that traces Gulgee's evolution from formal calligraphy to vibrant abstraction.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 29, 2025 visibility 15 link 8 artists

Whiteley showcase reveals struggles with addiction and pursuit of beauty

A touring exhibition from the Brett Whiteley studio in New South Wales, titled *Inside The Studio*, has arrived at the Shepparton Art Museum in Victoria—its final stop and only Victorian venue. The show features drawings, ceramics, sketchbooks, photographs, Whiteley's iconic Sydney Harbour painting, and his 1976 Archibald Prize-winning self-portrait. Wendy Whiteley, the artist's former wife and an artist herself, shares memories of their turbulent marriage, including his struggles with addiction and his intense dedication to his craft. She has also repurchased several of her favorite sketches of her in the bathtub, which had been auctioned off over the years.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 27, 2025 visibility 14 link 11 artists

“Dyke is our armor:” A conversation with dyke artist Sarah-Joy Ford’s about her new exhibition Dykeland (2025)

Dr. Sarah-Joy Ford, an artist and independent scholar based in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, has opened her exhibition "Dykeland: Volume 1" at The Whitaker Museum & Art Gallery in Rossendale on June 7, 2025. The show explores the history of dyke and lesbian landscapes in the UK, focusing on queer relationality to placemaking and preservation. It interweaves historical material, personal memory, and fantasy in response to Jane Cambell's upcoming poetry collection "Dykeland and other secret islands," and is displayed alongside Cambell's art. Ford uses quiltmaking as a medium to share lesbian and queer archival material, continuing a tradition of queer fabric art that includes recent installations like the ACLU's 258-square-quilt display on the National Mall and the Euphoria Quilt by Eliot Anderberg.

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trending_up market schedule Jun 25, 2025 visibility 19 link 15 artists

Nudes by Tamara de Lempicka and Jenny Saville lead quiet Sotheby’s Modern and contemporary sale

Sotheby’s June Modern and contemporary art evening sale in London netted £50.8m (£62.5m with fees) from 48 lots, with an 87% sell-through rate, falling below the pre-sale estimate of £55.2m to £81.1m and marking a 25% decrease from last year’s equivalent sale. The top lot was Tamara de Lempicka’s *La Belle Rafaëla* (1927), which sold for £6.1m (£7.4m with fees), while a Jenny Saville drawing *Mirror* (2011-12) achieved an auction record for the artist at £1.7m (£2.1m with fees). Several high-profile works were passed, including Egon Schiele’s *Portrait Study (Head of a Girl, Hilde Ziegler)* and Barbara Hepworth’s *Vertical Forms*, reflecting cautious bidding in a bearish market.

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article news schedule Jun 24, 2025 visibility 11 link 3 artists

London’s Queen Elizabeth II memorial to feature contemplative Yinka Shonibare sculpture

A team led by architect Norman Foster and British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare has won the competition to design a national memorial to Queen Elizabeth II in St James’s Park, London. The winning proposal includes a series of royal gardens linked by a stone path, a new bridge inspired by the Queen Mary fringe tiara, and Shonibare’s Wind Sculpture as a contemplative centerpiece. The project also features figurative sculptures of the Queen and Prince Philip, a Prince Philip gate, and a main monument beside the Mall. The design will be developed with the Queen Elizabeth Memorial Committee, which will select a sculptor for the figurative elements later this year; the final design is due in April 2026, with a provisional budget of £23m–£46m.

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article culture schedule Jun 20, 2025 visibility 13 link 7 artists

Van Gogh's suicide: Ten reasons why the murder story is a myth

The article argues against the theory that Vincent van Gogh was murdered, asserting that he died by suicide on July 27, 1890. The murder theory, popularized by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith's 2011 biography "Van Gogh: The Life," claims that 16-year-old René Secrétan shot the artist, and that van Gogh protected him by claiming suicide. The author counters this with ten reasons, including that van Gogh's doctor Paul Gachet, his brother Theo, friends like Emile Bernard, and Paul Gauguin all believed it was suicide, and that police records support this conclusion.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 19, 2025 visibility 18 link 15 artists

Renewed Bern Kunsthalle works to reframe Switzerland's history

The Kunsthalle Bern has reopened after a year-long transformation led by director iLiana Fokianaki, marked by a new entrance designed by ALIAS architects and a trio of exhibitions by Black artists. The reopening follows a symbolic intervention by Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama, who wrapped the building in jute sacks referencing the colonial history of Swiss cocoa extraction in Ghana, echoing Christo and Jeanne-Claude's 1968 wrapping of the same building. The inaugural shows feature solo exhibitions by Melvin Edwards, Tuli Mekondjo, and Tschabalala Self, with Edwards's retrospective traveling from the Fridericianum in Kassel to the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 18, 2025 visibility 18 link 28 artists

Landmark Exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts Reframes an Iconic Historical Era

The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in Washington, D.C., will present "Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600–1750" from September 26, 2025, to January 11, 2026. This landmark exhibition features nearly 150 artworks by 40 Dutch and Flemish women artists, including Judith Leyster, Rachel Ruysch, and Clara Peeters, alongside works by unnamed textile makers. Co-curated by Virginia Treanor and Frederica van Dam, the show includes loans from over 50 institutions such as the Rijksmuseum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Prado Museum. It will travel to the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent, Belgium, from March to May 2026.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 17, 2025 visibility 18 link 10 artists

The Met to Present Focused Exhibition of George Morrison Works from the Artist’s Early Years in New York

The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present "The Magical City: George Morrison’s New York," a focused exhibition of works by George Morrison (1919–2000), a Native American artist from the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. Running from July 17, 2025, to May 31, 2026, at The Met Fifth Avenue, the show highlights Morrison’s early years in New York City, where he became a key figure in the American Abstract Expressionist movement. It features paintings, drawings, and archival materials from his time at the Art Students League and his interactions with peers like Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline, tracing his evolution from figurative work to abstract automatism infused with Ojibwe aesthetics.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 16, 2025 visibility 17 link 2 artists

Katharina Grosse: ‘Imagination doesn’t have a scale’

Katharina Grosse has created a monumental site-specific commission titled CHOIR (2025) for the Messeplatz at Art Basel, covering the entire square and the Messe building with her signature spray-painted veils of high color. In an interview with The Art Newspaper, Grosse discusses how she tackled the vast urban space, emphasizing the immediacy of entering the square without any transitional experience, and describes her process of painting over roofs, facades, a fountain, and even a clock, using only magenta and white to create luminous effects. The work is part of a busy summer for the artist, who also has exhibitions at the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg and the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart.

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trending_up market schedule Jun 13, 2025 visibility 16 link 5 artists

‘Very beautiful’ portrait of Gallagher brothers to go to auction for £1.5m

Sotheby's will auction a 1996 portrait of Oasis brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher by American artist Elizabeth Peyton at its June contemporary art sale in London, with an estimate of £1.5m to £2m. The painting, based on a 1995 photograph by Stefan De Batselier, captures the siblings at the height of Britpop fame, shortly after Noel allegedly hit Liam with a cricket bat. Sotheby's specialist Antonia Gardner notes the "quiet tension" in the work and Peyton's tendency to feminize macho pop stars.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 9, 2025 visibility 15 link 4 artists

Albanian dictator’s fortress-like palace becomes ‘hub for artistic experimentation’

Vila 31, a Brutalist compound in Tirana that once served as the fortress-like residence of Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha, has been transformed into an artistic hub called Vila 31—Art Explora. Opened in April by the Paris-based Art Explora Foundation, the site now hosts up to 30 international artists annually for residencies and experimentation, with programming developed in collaboration with the École nationale supérieure d’arts de Paris-Cergy, the Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje, and Oral History Kosovo. The conversion, led by NeM Architectes, preserves key elements of the original structure while radically reimagining its interior, turning a symbol of repression into a center for creative freedom.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 5, 2025 visibility 15 link 5 artists

New museum of contemporary art, designed by David Chipperfield Architects, to open in Slovenian mountains

A new museum of contemporary art, Muzej Lah, will open in the Slovenian town of Bled next summer. Designed by David Chipperfield Architects, the 5,000 sq. m building will house the Fundacija Lah art collection, built over 30 years by Slovenia’s sixth richest family, Igor and Mojca Lah. The collection includes over 800 post-war works by artists such as Anselm Kiefer, William Kentridge, and Zoran Mušič, as well as pieces from the political art collective Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK). The museum will feature galleries, a library, research centre, restaurant, and spaces for performances and educational initiatives.

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article news schedule Jun 4, 2025 visibility 24 link 10 artists

Whitney Museum pauses Independent Study Program amid accusations of censorship

The Whitney Museum of American Art has suspended its prestigious Independent Study Program (ISP) for the 2025-2026 academic year, citing a leadership gap following the 2023 retirement of longtime director Ron Clark. The decision follows accusations of censorship after the museum canceled a performance titled "No Aesthetics Outside my Freedom: Mourning, Militancy and Performance" by Fadl Fakhouri, Noel Maghathe, and Fargo Tbakhi, which addressed the war and humanitarian crisis in Gaza. An open letter signed by over 360 alumni, faculty, and supporters, including philosopher Judith Butler and artists Andrea Fraser and Walid Raad, condemned the cancellation as an act of censorship and expressed solidarity with the current cohort.

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article culture schedule Jun 3, 2025 visibility 21 link 14 artists

June Book Bag: from the cool influence of Ice Age art to the story of Arshile Gorky’s early years in the US

This article presents a roundup of six new art books released in June, covering a diverse range of topics. Titles include a monograph on Arshile Gorky's early years in New York, a collection exploring interspecies consciousness from the Serpentine Galleries, a book accompanying a British Museum exhibition on Ice Age art, a lavish Taschen monograph on Salvador Dalí, and a three-volume photographic study of the American West by Maryam Eisler and Alexei Riboud.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 3, 2025 visibility 16 link 20 artists

Must-See Art Installations in NYC, June 2025

This article highlights several must-see art installations and events in New York City for June 2025. Highlights include "Van Gogh's Flowers" at the New York Botanical Garden, featuring floral displays inspired by van Gogh's paintings; Photoville, a citywide pop-up photography festival with over 80 international exhibits; Pigeon Fest on the High Line, celebrating Iván Argote's pigeon sculpture "Dinosaur"; AMPLIFIED, an immersive rock 'n' roll experience at ARTECHOUSE NYC presented by Rolling Stone; and Lily Kwong's living installation "Gardens of Renewal" in Madison Square Park.

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article culture schedule Jun 3, 2025 visibility 16 link 4 artists

A biography of Turner and Constable that goes beyond the stereotypes

Nicola Moorby, curator of British art 1790-1850 at Tate, has published a new book titled *Turner & Constable: Art, Life, Landscape*, which examines the lives and careers of J.M.W. Turner and John Constable side by side for the first time in such depth. Published in the 250th anniversary year of Turner's birth and ahead of Constable's in 2026, the study uses a thematic approach within a chronological framework to compare their approaches to landscape painting, including their treatment of rivers like the Thames and the Stour, their differing paths to success, and famous flashpoints at Royal Academy exhibitions.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 30, 2025 visibility 16 link 3 artists

From Origin to Future. Opening Exhibition for the Naoshima New Museum of Art by Tadao Ando

Architect Tadao Ando has designed the Naoshima New Museum of Art, the latest addition to the Benesse Art Site Naoshima project in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. This marks Ando's tenth contribution to the site and the first museum to bear the island's name. The museum will open on May 31, 2025, with an inaugural exhibition featuring works by twelve artists and groups, including both longtime collaborators and newer voices. The building, which includes one above-ground floor and two basement levels, features a large roof integrated with the hills and a cafe overlooking the Seto Sea.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 30, 2025 visibility 15 link 8 artists

Museum openings: V&A East Storehouse and the Met’s Rockefeller Wing, plus Rachel Whiteread at Goodwood Art Foundation—podcast

This episode of The Art Newspaper's podcast 'The Week in Art' covers three major museum developments. Ben Luke tours the V&A East Storehouse in London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, a new facility offering unprecedented public access to the Victoria and Albert Museum's collection, speaking with deputy director Tim Reeve, lead technician Matt Clarke, senior curator Georgia Haseldine, and director of collections care Kate Parsons. Ben Sutton visits the Metropolitan Museum of Art's newly revamped Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, which houses collections from Africa, the Ancient Americas, and Oceania, interviewing curator Alisa LaGamma and contemporary artist Taloi Havini. The episode also features Rachel Whiteread's new work 'Down and Up (2024-25)' as Work of the Week, part of her debut exhibition at the Goodwood Art Foundation in West Sussex.

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article policy schedule May 30, 2025 visibility 18 link 5 artists

Trump claims he has fired director of US National Portrait Gallery

US President Donald Trump claimed on his Truth Social platform that he has fired Kim Sajet, director of the National Portrait Gallery (NPG), alleging she is a "highly partisan person" and a supporter of diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. Sajet, who became the first woman to lead the NPG in 2013, has not commented, and the Smithsonian declined to comment. It remains unclear whether Trump has the legal authority to fire Smithsonian employees, as the institution is governed by a board of regents and receives partial federal funding.

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article news schedule May 29, 2025 visibility 19 link 5 artists

Stanford University acquires Filipina American artist Pacita Abad’s archive

Stanford University has acquired the archives of Filipina American artist Pacita Abad, a gift from the Pacita Abad Art Estate that also includes funding to catalog 120 linear feet of archival materials—photographs, correspondence, exhibition records, and personal artifacts. The archive will be stewarded by Stanford University Libraries' Bowes Art and Architecture Library in collaboration with the Cantor Arts Center, and is expected to be available to students and scholars within a year. The acquisition follows Abad's posthumous traveling retrospective that opened at the Walker Art Center in 2023, which brought her prolific 32-year practice to the attention of U.S. institutions.

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article local schedule May 28, 2025 visibility 12 link 2 artists

Washington, DC street renamed ‘Alma Thomas Way’ in honour of renowned abstract painter

A block of 15th Street NW in Washington, DC, where renowned abstract painter Alma Thomas (1891-1978) lived for most of her life, has been renamed “Alma Thomas Way.” The street signs now stand at the corners of 15th and Church streets and 15th and Q streets, bookending the house at 1530 15th Street NW that her parents purchased in 1907. The renaming follows a bill introduced by District Councilmembers Christina Henderson and Brooke Pinto, who led a ceremony to honor the artist. Henderson stated the goal is to “elevate and introduce local heroes to folks for the next generation.”

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museum exhibitions schedule May 28, 2025 visibility 22 link 17 artists

The Met to Reopen Its Arts of Africa Galleries on May 31, Following a Multiyear Renovation

The Metropolitan Museum of Art will reopen its Arts of Africa galleries on May 31, 2025, after a multiyear renovation that began in summer 2021. The redesigned Michael C. Rockefeller Wing features some 500 works spanning from the medieval period to the present, including a 12th-century fired clay figure from Mali and Abdoulaye Konaté's 'Bleu no. 1' (2014). A quarter of the works are recent acquisitions or gifts, displayed for the first time. The project was led by Kulapat Yantrasast of WHY Architecture with Beyer, Blinder, Belle Architects LLP and the Met's Design Department, and involved a network of international scholars and digital partnerships with the World Monuments Fund and filmmaker Sosena Solomon.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 28, 2025 visibility 18 link 7 artists

The Met Reopens Newly Reimagined Galleries Dedicated to the Arts of Africa, the Ancient Americas, and Oceania, Following a Multiyear Transformation of The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has reopened its newly reimagined galleries dedicated to the arts of Africa, the Ancient Americas, and Oceania, following a multiyear transformation of the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing. The renovated spaces present a refreshed installation of the museum's extensive collection, highlighting cross-cultural connections and updated interpretive approaches.

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