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Agosto Machado, a legendary downtown New York artist, archivist, and activist, died on March 21, 2026, at an estimated age in his 80s. The article recounts his life through a personal tribute, describing a drag performance in Chicago honoring him, and details his decades-long career as a street queen, Warhol-era fixture, and participant in the Stonewall uprising and first Gay Liberation March. Machado performed in Off-Off-Broadway plays, created solo shows, and amassed an extensive archive of ephemera, art, and photographs of his friends and community.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 5, 2026 visibility 5 link 6 artists

Mind the baby! Visitors to the Japanese Venice Biennale pavilion will be asked to look after dolls

Ei Arakawa-Nash, a Japanese-born artist who no longer holds Japanese citizenship, will represent Japan at the Venice Biennale with an exhibition titled "Grass Babies, Moon Babies." The pavilion will feature over 100 baby dolls that visitors are invited to adopt and carry, engaging in caregiving tasks such as changing a nappy. Each doll corresponds to a historically significant date tied to minority communities, linking intimate acts of care to broader historical narratives. The project also includes a collaboration with the Korean Pavilion, marking the first such partnership between the two national pavilions in Biennale history.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 19, 2025 visibility 7 link 3 artists

Special exhibit on artist Mary Cassatt opens at Honolulu Museum of Art

A special exhibition titled "Mary Cassatt at Work" has opened at the Honolulu Museum of Art (HoMA), running from June 21 through October 12. The show features 35 works, including 22 on loan from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, eight from HoMA's own collection, and five Japanese prints from the museum's holdings. Curator Alejandra Rojas Silva highlights Cassatt's deep connection to HoMA—founder Anna Rice Cooke owned a Cassatt print—and the artist's fascination with Japanese woodblocks, which influenced her printmaking. The exhibition traveled from the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, with artworks carefully shipped across the Pacific.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 15, 2025 visibility 15 link 14 artists, 2 galleries

Frieze London's Artist-to-Artist section highlights talent emerging amid political tensions

At Frieze London 2025, the Artist-to-Artist section features emerging artists selected by established names, including René Treviño chosen by Amy Sherald and Ilana Harris-Babou nominated by Camille Henrot. Treviño's solo presentation centers on the sculpture 'Regalia, Moscas Brillantes (Rojo)' (2025), which addresses queer resistance and colonial histories through a fusion of Aztec and European aesthetics. Other presentations include Katherine Hubbard's photographs about her mother's dementia (nominated by Nicole Eisenman), T. Venkanna's delicate works on gender and patriarchy (picked by Bharti Kher), Ana Segovia's subversive cowboy paintings (selected by Abraham Cruzvillegas), and Neal Tait's paintings (chosen by Chris Ofili).

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article local schedule May 20, 2025 visibility 6 link 10 artists, 1 gallery

9 must-see Seattle art exhibits for the next month

This article highlights nine visual art exhibitions in Seattle for June, curated as staff picks to embrace themes of change, regeneration, and healing. Featured shows include "Taking Care: Embrace with Tenderness" at Seattle University's Hedreen Gallery, which closes next year when the building is razed for a new museum; "Jill Kyong: Between Spaces" at SlipStitch Studio; "Mel Carter: bitter, the mourning" at Gallery 4Culture; "Gina Ariko: Ikebana and the Art of Resilience" at Gallery 110; "Healing Our Roots" at The Fishbowl gallery; and "Third Eye" at Base Camp Studios, among others. The exhibitions span photography, glass art, floral arrangements, and group shows, all free and open to the public.

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article culture schedule Nov 3, 2025 visibility 5 link 3 artists

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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article local schedule Apr 29, 2025 link 6 artists

‘Preserving Beauty’: Art exhibition spotlights artistic talent among Bay Area mothers

The Creative Mamas Collective organized the 'Preserving Beauty' art exhibition at the Google Huddle building in the Bay Area, featuring visual art and musical performances by 12 local mothers. The show, curated by floral artist Mandi Lin, included works such as Reshma Bhoopal's fused glass 'Ebb & Flow,' Annapurna Devagiri's watercolor 'Sun Kissed Petals,' Shruti Gopinathan's mixed-media 'Once Upon a Redwood Grove,' and Isabelle Ip's textile piece 'Solace,' all inspired by nature and environmental preservation.

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article news schedule Apr 28, 2025

Older women artists go it alone as new report reveals how the traditional art world is failing them

A new report commissioned by the grant-giving body Anonymous Was A Woman and authored by journalists Charlotte Burns and Julia Halperin reveals that museums and galleries are failing women artists, particularly those over 65. Based on a survey of 1,263 female artists (91% based in the US), the report finds that 63% cite a lack of museum backing and 59% cite a lack of gallery support as hindering their careers. As a result, 55% of all respondents are selling work independently, with women over 65 leading the way—59% have sold directly to collectors in the past five years. The report also highlights that female artists work 49 hours per week but spend only 38% of that time making art, with the rest consumed by administrative tasks and other paid work, and that art sales provide only 16-18% of household income.

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person people schedule Dec 2, 2025 visibility 2 link 1 artist

art panteha abareshi young artist

Panteha Abareshi, a 26-year-old Canadian-born artist based in Tucson, creates performances, videos, sculptures, and installations that explore their experience as a disabled and chronically ill person. Their work often tackles taboo subjects, such as a recent solo exhibition at Human Resources in Los Angeles that screened pornography and sparked discussion about the representation of disabled bodies in fetish materials. A key piece, "CAREGIVING," features a silicone hand with a finger pulled back by a string nailed into its own wrist, symbolizing the violent balance in medical care and caregiving.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 30, 2025 visibility 5 link 3 artists

‘Seeds of Life’: The art of caregiving pulses through every brushstroke in Jen Hintz Eggers’ new exhibition

Artist Jen Hintz Eggers presents 'Seeds of Life,' a new exhibition at the Mezzanine Gallery in Wilmington, Delaware, that explores the emotional complexities of early motherhood. Through paintings featuring sacred geometry motifs like the seed of life and flower of life, Eggers translates her personal experiences with breastfeeding, caregiving, and her son's growing independence into layered oil works. Notable pieces include 'As Above So Below,' which depicts two mirrored yet distinct seed-of-life patterns symbolizing the bond between mother and child, and 'Memento Vivere,' a five-canvas series inspired by the Latin phrase 'remember to live' that incorporates memories of nature and family moments.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 2, 2026 visibility 3

May at NHAA- Sue Werner Thoresen Exhibition

The New Hampshire Art Association (NHAA) is presenting the Sue Werner Thoresen Juried Exhibition at its Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery in Portsmouth, opening May 1, 2026. The show features 73 artists whose works explore the experiences of women, girls, and gender-diverse people, inspired by the New Hampshire Women’s Foundation’s Status of Women in New Hampshire report. Themes include education, healthcare, economic opportunity, caregiving, safety, representation, and societal expectations, with attention to intersections of race, class, ability, sexuality, geography, and access to resources. The exhibition is held in memory of Sue Werner Thoresen (1944–2024), a longtime advocate for community well-being and gender equity, and includes awards in her honor.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 16, 2025 visibility 3

SU master’s students present their work at local gallery

Three master’s students from Stellenbosch University—Rebekah Pringle, Thabo Ngwenya, and Emily Fitzgerald—launched an exhibition titled "Matter of Self: Private fragments, public forms" on 7 August at the Gallery University Stellenbosch (GUS). The show is part of a master’s review series that highlights their academic year progress. Pringle’s work explores her domestic experience and caretaker relationship with her grandmother using repurposed furniture; Ngwenya’s pieces address alienation as a Ndebele man in Zimbabwe through pop culture references and self-portraits as "boundary objects"; Fitzgerald’s art challenges patriarchy and heteronormativity using archival photographs, clay, and photolithographic processes.

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