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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 27, 2025 visibility 19 link 17 artists, 1 gallery

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Aspen Art Museum will launch its new flagship initiative AIR on July 29, 2025, a program combining a public festival and private retreat focused on the intersections of art and technology. The inaugural edition features filmmaker Werner Herzog as a keynote speaker, alongside architect Francis Kéré and artist Maya Lin. Other participants include artist Matthew Barney, who will debut a new performance piece titled "TACTICAL parallax," as well as Paul Chan, Mimi Park, Jota Mombaça, Cannupa Hanska Luger, and the duo of Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Rafiq Bhatia. The program includes site-specific art, dialogues, and conversations exploring themes such as ecstatic truth, artificial intelligence, and the origin of life.

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article news schedule Feb 6, 2026 visibility 17 link 11 artists

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Qatar has announced details for its inaugural contemporary art quadrennial, Rubaiya Qatar, set to launch in November alongside Frieze Abu Dhabi. Organized by Qatar Museums, the event will feature over 50 artists and new commissions, with a major exhibition titled 'Unruly Waters' curated by Tom Eccles, Ruba Katrib, Mark Rappolt, and Shabbir Hussain Mustafa. Confirmed artists include Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Sophia Al Maria, Mohamed Bourouissa, and Lydia Ourahmane. Additionally, a previously unpublicized pavilion dedicated to Gerhard Richter will open within the quadrennial. Separately, revelations from the Epstein files show ties between Jeffrey Epstein and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, including a donated artwork and potential financial backing for a piece by Neri Oxman. A small Michelangelo drawing of a foot sold at Christie's for $27.2 million, setting a new auction record.

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museum exhibitions schedule Feb 11, 2026 visibility 13 link 3 artists

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NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery has launched its first Gulf Quinquennial, titled "Between the Tides," featuring around 30 artists from the Gulf Cooperation Council countries. The exhibition presents a coherent selection of videos, installations, paintings, and traditional record-keeping practices, aiming to deepen and complicate the cultural narrative of the Arabian Peninsula by highlighting its diversity, linguistic interactions, and migrant labor.

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museum exhibitions schedule Feb 5, 2026 visibility 16 link 9 artists

Lawrence Abu Hamdan and Lydia Ourahmane among artists confirmed for new Qatar quadrennial

Qatar has announced details for its inaugural Rubaiya Qatar quadrennial, set to open in November across Doha and the wider state. The headline exhibition, 'Unruly Waters,' will feature over 50 artists, including Lawrence Abu Hamdan and Lydia Ourahmane, and more than 20 new commissions. It will be curated by a team led by Tom Eccles and Ruba Katrib, and will incorporate historic objects from Qatar Museums.

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