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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 11, 2025 visibility 24 link 10 artists, 2 galleries

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WangShui, an artist known for AI-assisted abstract paintings, challenges the stereotype of tech-focused artists as isolated nerds. In a studio visit, they described their practice as a spiritual project, using machine learning to create works like 'Scr∴ pe II (Isle of Vitr∴ ous)' at the 2022 Whitney Biennial and pieces at the 2024 Venice Biennale. Their latest collaboration with Maryam Hoseini, 'The Demon and the Muse (DM),' is on view at SITE Santa Fe International, covering the facade with red oil and black ink. WangShui emphasizes that AI is a tool for exploring consciousness and healing, not a replacement for human creativity.

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Rebecca Salsbury James, an artist who mastered reverse painting on glass and colcha embroidery, is gaining renewed attention. Born in 1891 in London to parents involved in the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show, she later moved to Taos, New Mexico, where she lived until her death in 1968. She was married to photographer Paul Strand, a close friend of Georgia O'Keeffe, and exhibited at Alfred Stieglitz's gallery. Recent milestones include her inclusion in the 2025 Site Santa Fe International, a new acquisition by the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, and a record auction price for her work at Christie's in 2016.

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article news schedule Oct 1, 2025 visibility 27 link 26 artists, 4 galleries

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ARTnews has announced the nominees for the 2025 ARTnews Awards, which honor excellence in art at US institutions and galleries. The awards, now in their second year, feature six categories: Emerging Artist, Established Artist, Lifetime Achievement, Best Thematic Museum Exhibition, Best Gallery Group Show, and a newly introduced Best Historical Artist category. The jury includes five top US curators and two ARTnews editors, with winners to be celebrated in November.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 7, 2025 visibility 15 link 9 artists, 1 gallery

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Artist Maja Ruznic has created a suite of large, luminous canvases responding to early 20th-century paintings glorifying Spanish colonization at the St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art, as part of the 12th Site Santa Fe International. The exhibition, curated by Cecelia Alemani and titled "Once Within a Time," opened last week. Ruznic, a Bosnian war refugee living in Placitas, New Mexico, confronts the problematic history depicted by artist Donald Beauregard, who died at 29 before completing the commission, which was later finished by uncredited artists Carlos Vierra and Kenneth Chapman.

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Diego Marcon, an Italian video artist known for his uncanny and meticulously crafted films, is gaining significant attention in the United States. He recently had his first American solo show at the Renaissance Society in Chicago and is preparing for another at the New Museum in New York. His work, such as the video "La Gola" (2024), features hyper-realistic, inanimate busts with animated eyes that speak about bodily experiences, blending narrative with structuralist film techniques. Marcon's films often explore family dynamics and the materiality of film, creating dreamlike experiences that haunt viewers.

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person people schedule Dec 6, 2025 visibility 23 link 4 artists, 2 galleries

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Charisse Pearlina Weston, a rising artist known for transforming industrial materials like shattered glass and concrete into harmonious abstract works, is the subject of a profile highlighting her rapid ascent. Her first solo exhibition with Jack Shainman Gallery, titled "Mis-/Mé- (Squeeze)," opened in New York's Chelsea and runs through December 20, 2025. Weston, who gained attention with a solo presentation at Patron gallery during Frieze New York 2024, was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in April 2025 and has an installation at the Cecilia Alemani-curated SITE Santa Fe International. She will also have dual representation at Art Basel Miami Beach next month.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 26, 2025 visibility 13 link 18 artists, 2 galleries

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This article from Cultured magazine highlights several art exhibitions and museum openings around the world that are worth traveling for in summer 2025. Featured shows include Andra Ursuța's "Apocalypse Now And Then" at the Deste Foundation in Hydra, Greece; Wangechi Mutu's "Black Soil Poems" at Galleria Borghese in Rome; Ha Chong-Hyun's "Light Into Color" at Château La Coste in France; Cindy Sherman's "The Women" at Hauser & Wirth in Menorca; the 12th Site Santa Fe International in New Mexico; and the opening of the Naoshima New Museum of Art in Japan, designed by Tadao Ando. Each entry includes a brief description of the artist's work and practical tips for visitors.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 8, 2025 visibility 18 link 4 artists

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The article reviews "Legacies: Asian American Art Movements in New York City," an exhibition at 80WSE in New York, curated by Howie Chen, Jayne Cole Southard, and christina ong, running from September 11 to December 20, 2024. Billed as the first institutional survey of Asian American artists in New York City, the show features 90 artists and spans the period from 1969 to 2001, centering on three key organizations: Godzilla: Asian American Art Network, the Basement Workshop, and the Asian American Arts Centre. The exhibition highlights how many of these artists did not solely make work about their race, complicating the link between identity and art, and includes lesser-known pieces such as David Diao's 1974 painting "Odd Man Out" and a provocative 1985 photograph by Hanh Thi Pham.

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article culture schedule Sep 2, 2025 visibility 27 link 30 artists

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The article introduces the annual 'Icons' issue of Art in America, profiling artists whose decades-long practices reflect deep commitment to their mediums. Featured artists include Paul Pfeiffer, who became hyper-aware of image grammar through early video work; Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, who found her voice in textiles; David Diao, who references Barnett Newman; and the late Joel Shapiro, who explored transformation through wood sculpture. The issue also includes an interview with Tehching Hsieh on freethinking and art, plus departments on curatorial challenges, a Bukhara Biennial curator Q&A, and an appreciation of Dara Birnbaum.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 12, 2025 visibility 23 link 19 artists

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Curator Cecilia Alemani has organized the latest edition of the SITE Santa Fe International, titled "Once Within a Time," inspired by Godfrey Reggio's 2022 film of the same name. The exhibition, which opened in 2025, centers on storytelling and features Reggio's trippy 55-minute film alongside works by over a dozen artists, including Helen Cordero, D.H. Lawrence, Louise Bonnet, Norman Zammitt, Joseph Yoakum, John McCracken, Karla Knight, and Ali Cherri. The show extends beyond SITE Santa Fe to multiple venues across New Mexico, such as the New Mexico Military Museum, a hotel, and a cannabis shop, weaving together themes of eros, energy, the military, and the state's archetypes like UFOs, Land art, and Native spirituality.

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trending_up market schedule Sep 29, 2025 visibility 20 link 13 artists, 2 galleries

25 of 2025: 5 Painters Who’ve Been Catching Our Eye

Artnet News has spotlighted five painters in its '25 of 2025' series, highlighting emerging talents defining the year. Among them are Pol Taburet, a Parisian painter known for bold color palettes and a rising market presence, with works selling above estimates at Sotheby's and Artcurial, and Maja Ruznic, a Bosnian-born artist whose haunting, jewel-toned works earned comparisons to Klimt and Rothko and a standout at the 2024 Whitney Biennial. Taburet is set to feature in the 36th Bienal de São Paulo, while Ruznic recently opened a solo exhibition at Karma Gallery and is included in Site Santa Fe International.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 24, 2025 visibility 18 link 7 artists, 1 gallery

Rediscovering Norman Zammitt, a 1960s Visionary of the Light and Space Movement

Karma gallery in New York has opened 'Norman Zammitt: A Degree of Light', the first New York exhibition in nearly 60 years dedicated to the late Light and Space movement artist. The show features two key bodies of work: his laminated-acrylic pole sculptures and hard-edge 'Band Paintings', reintroducing Zammitt's pioneering colorist practice to a contemporary audience. Zammitt, who died in 2007, was a Canadian-born artist of Mohawk and Italian descent who studied at Otis College of Art and Design and was represented by Felix Landau's gallery in Los Angeles.

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article culture schedule Aug 20, 2025 visibility 24 link 10 artists, 1 gallery

A brush with… Teresita Fernández—podcast

This article is a podcast interview with artist Teresita Fernández, who discusses her three-decade career as a landscape artist and sculptor. She explores landscapes not only as visual phenomena but also as cultural spaces, using materials like graphite, iron ore, gold, and pyrite. Fernández reflects on influences including Wilfredo Lam, Eva Hesse, Jack Whitten, Robert Smithson, and Cecilia Vicuña, and shares insights from her studio practice. The podcast is sponsored by Bloomberg Connects, which highlights institutions that have shown her work, such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, MASS MoCA, and SITE Santa Fe.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 22, 2025 visibility 20 link 6 artists

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Louise Bonnet, a Los Angeles-based painter known for her cartoonish yet sophisticated depictions of the female nude, discusses her latest work ahead of two major exhibitions. Her two-person show with Elizabeth King, titled "De Anima," opens at the Swiss Institute in New York, focusing on shared approaches to figuration that balance objecthood and liveliness. Bonnet also created a new series for the next edition of the SITE Santa Fe International biennial, opening in June. In an interview with ARTnews editor Emily Watlington, Bonnet explains her shift to tighter cropped compositions emphasizing routine gestures like tying shoelaces or fastening bras, inspired by World War II British spies and films like Rosemary's Baby.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 12, 2025 visibility 23 link 4 artists, 2 galleries

How Artist Uman Channeled a Turbulent Year Into Calm Abstraction

Artist Uman opened her first solo museum exhibition in the United States, titled “After all the things…,” at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Connecticut. In an interview, she discusses her initial reluctance to enter the institutional world, preferring to focus on commercial success, but found the right partnership with chief curator Amy Smith-Stewart. The show features large paintings, a video, and works that blend landscape with abstraction, reflecting her life in upstate New York and a turbulent year transformed into calm, internal peace.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 17, 2025 visibility 14 link 10 artists

site santa fe international

Site Santa Fe has announced its 12th International exhibition, titled "Once Within a Time," opening June 27 and running through January 2026. Curated by Cecilia Alemani, who previously curated the 59th Venice Biennale, the show draws its name and dreamlike logic from a 2022 film by Santa Fe artist Godfrey Reggio. Featuring over 70 artists and more than 300 works—including new commissions, archival interventions, and contemporary selections—the exhibition uses 20 figures with ties to New Mexico as narrative catalysts, among them Navajo code talker Chester Nez, novelist Willa Cather, and the Fire Spirit from local folklore. For the first time, the International will be fully embedded within Santa Fe's urban fabric, activating sites such as a historic foundry, a toy store, and a dispensary alongside traditional cultural partners. Participating artists include Simone Leigh, David Horvitz, and Dominique Knowles, with contributions from writers Tommy Orange, Lucy R. Lippard, and Estevan Rael-Gálvez.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 8, 2025 visibility 17 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 27, 2025 visibility 16 link 7 artists

Arthur Jafa and Mark Leckey, Cecilia Alemani on SITE Santa Fe, Trisha Brown and Robert Rauschenberg—podcast

An exhibition opening at Conditions in Croydon, London, pairs two landmark video works: Mark Leckey's "Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore" (1999) and Arthur Jafa's "Love is the Message, the Message is Death" (2016). Ben Luke interviews both artists about the show. Separately, the 12th SITE Santa Fe International, titled "Once Within a Time," opens under artistic director Cecilia Alemani. The episode also features the Trisha Brown Dance Company's 1979 piece "Glacial Decoy," a collaboration with Robert Rauschenberg, now the subject of a Walker Art Center exhibition curated by Brandon Eng.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 21, 2025 visibility 17 link 13 artists, 3 galleries

Summer Guide 2025: Gallery Openings

The Summer Guide 2025 highlights a diverse array of gallery openings in Santa Fe, New Mexico, focusing on both established and emerging art spaces. Notable exhibitions include Gerald Peters Contemporary's "Material Girl: Pop Culture and the Female Gaze" (June 13), featuring six female artists examining gender and commodification through Pop Art; Daniel Cooney Fine Art's "George Dureau, Photographs" (May 31), showcasing intimate portraits of New Orleans' counterculture; and Station 5 Micro-Gallery's two shows—"ACCUMULATION" (June 7) by Michael Sumner and Melody Sumner Carnahan, and "THE NARROW LINE TO THE INTERIOR" (August 2) inspired by poet Bashō. Other highlights include ELECTR∆ Gallery's queer mysticism group show "The Third Way" (July 11), new works by Tim Jag (June 12), and Pie Projects' "MOMENTUM" (June 14) featuring Florence Miller Pierce's rediscovered resin reliefs.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 15, 2026 visibility 9 link 6 artists, 2 galleries

Summer 2026 Santa Fe gallery shows are awash in new works

Santa Fe galleries are presenting a wave of new summer 2026 exhibitions, featuring works by artists such as Kate Rivers, Rick Stevens, and Guillermo Galindo. Shows range from Rivers' book-based explorations of human connection at Kay Contemporary to Stevens' landscape-inspired abstract paintings and Galindo's multimedia, border-dissolving photographic works at Aurelia Gallery. The exhibitions run from May through September, with openings and receptions scheduled across the city's historic Canyon Road and Plaza districts.

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