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The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (MOCA) has extended the closure of its Geffen Contemporary space through the weekend as National Guard troops continue to confront anti-ICE protesters nearby. The museum cited safety concerns for staff and visitors, and also halted Pussy Riot member Nadya Tolokonnikova's durational performance 'POLICE STATE,' which had continued even after the initial shutdown on June 8. In other news, two Frenchmen—expert Bill Pallot and carpenter Bruno Desnous—were sentenced to suspended prison sentences and fines for selling fake 18th-century furniture, including chairs falsely attributed to Queen Marie Antoinette, duping the Château de Versailles and a Qatari prince. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump was booed by the audience at a Kennedy Center performance of Les Misérables, and Tamara de Lempicka's painting 'La Belle Rafaëla' (1927) is headed to auction at Sotheby's London with a high estimate of £9 million.

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article news schedule Jun 10, 2025 visibility 3 link 7 artists, 1 gallery

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The Smithsonian Institution publicly affirmed its independence from the Trump administration after President Donald Trump attempted to fire National Portrait Gallery director Kim Sajet, citing her perceived criticism of him. Sajet has continued reporting to work, and the Smithsonian's Board of Regents backed Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch's authority over personnel decisions, while also directing him to ensure exhibits remain nonpartisan. Separately, Los Angeles's Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) closed its Geffen branch early on June 8 as National Guard troops clashed with anti-ICE protesters, though Russian artist Nadya Tolokonnikova continued her durational performance "Police State" inside the closed museum. The protests unfolded in front of Barbara Kruger's 1990 mural "Questions," which Kruger said was a prophetic commentary on the current political moment.

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article culture schedule Jun 10, 2025 visibility 3 link 16 artists, 3 galleries

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The article profiles ten young female artists who are using their work to explore and assert feminist perspectives in the face of contemporary misogyny, particularly referencing the US president-elect's rhetoric. Featured artists include Emma Sulkowicz, known for her durational performance 'Carry That Weight' protesting campus rape culture, and Sarah Maple, a British artist whose multimedia works tackle identity and gender with provocative humor. The piece highlights how these artists address themes such as sexual violence, gender fluidity, and the reclaiming of femininity through mediums ranging from performance and video to painting and photography.

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article culture schedule Nov 19, 2025 visibility 3 link 6 artists

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In a podcast interview with Louis Theroux, Marina Abramović revealed that curator Klaus Biesenbach was initially skeptical of her landmark 2010 performance "The Artist Is Present" at MoMA. Biesenbach, then chief curator at large at the Museum of Modern Art, had invited Abramović for the institution's first performance art retrospective, proposing the title "The Artist Is Present." When Abramović suggested sitting silently in the museum's atrium every day for three months, Biesenbach reportedly called the idea "ridiculous," predicting no one would participate. Despite his doubts, the performance drew some 1,500 visitors, with one person sitting for an entire day, and became a defining moment in 21st-century art.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 21, 2025 visibility 3 link 8 artists

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Offscreen, the nomadic Parisian art salon founded by former Paris Photo director Julien Frydman, returns for its fourth edition from October 21 to 26, 2025, held concurrently with Art Basel Paris. This year, the event takes over La Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière, a historic church on the grounds of a former hospital that once detained and studied women labeled as “degenerate” or “insane.” The venue previously hosted exhibitions by Anselm Kiefer, Nan Goldin, and Christian Boltanski. Offscreen features 28 artists from 27 galleries, including a guest of honor tribute to late video-sculpture pioneer Shigeko Kubota, a durational performance by Maria Stamenković Herranz, and new talks and museum acquisitions from the Centre Pompidou and ZKM.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 18, 2025 visibility 4 link 21 artists, 2 galleries

The Best Art Shows Around the World in 2025

Hyperallergic's editors and contributors have compiled their favorite art exhibitions of 2025, spanning cities across the United States, Europe, and Asia. Highlights include shows by Nan Goldin, Noah Davis, Stan Douglas, Yoko Ono, Tishan Hsu, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and a group exhibition on Japanese American women artists at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The list also features the Louvre's presentation of Cimabue, Fra Angelico's frescos in Florence, a durational performance by Pussy Riot founder Nadya Tolokonnikova in Los Angeles, and works by Cara Romero, Ruth Asawa, Huguette Caland, and H. C. Westermann.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 30, 2025 visibility 3 link 4 artists

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Tehching Hsieh, a Taiwanese-born performance artist who fled to the U.S. in 1974 as an undocumented immigrant, is the subject of a major retrospective at Dia Beacon opening October 4. The exhibition features his five iconic yearlong 'lifeworks' from 1978 to 1986, including living in a cage, punching a time clock every hour for a year, and abstaining from art entirely, plus his final work, 'Tehching Hsieh 1986–1999 (Thirteen Year Plan).' The article includes an interview with Hsieh discussing the retrospective and his philosophy of time and repetition.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 11, 2025 visibility 2 link 5 artists, 1 gallery

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Nadya Tolokonnikova, cofounder of Pussy Riot, has created a performance installation titled "Police State" (2025) at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles (LA MOCA). The work recreates a Russian jail cell where Tolokonnikova performs daily activities—making music, creating art, and resting—observed by visitors via security camera footage and peepholes. The installation also features artworks by current and former political prisoners from Russia, Belarus, and the United States, curated through Tolokonnikova's Art Action Foundation and the Artistic Freedom Initiative. Originally scheduled for June 5–14, the show was extended due to the museum's closure amid anti-ICE protests and National Guard deployment.

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article news schedule Dec 15, 2025 visibility 4 link 4 artists, 1 gallery

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A Moscow court designated the feminist art collective Pussy Riot as an extremist organization on December 15, following a lawsuit from Russia's Ministry of Justice. Founder Nadya Tolokonnikova, currently living in exile, condemned the ruling, warning that owning a balaclava, having a song on a computer, or liking a post could lead to prison time. She learned of the lawsuit while finishing her durational performance "Police State" at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, which she described as a warning about surveillance authoritarianism. Tolokonnikova co-founded Pussy Riot in 2011 and was previously imprisoned for performing anti-Putin songs at a Moscow cathedral.

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article news schedule Jun 12, 2025 visibility 1 link 4 artists

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The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (MOCA) has closed its Geffen Contemporary space through the weekend due to nearby anti-ICE protests and increased military activity, including National Guard deployment. The closure affects an Olafur Eliasson exhibition and has postponed a durational performance by Pussy Riot's Nadya Tolokonnikova, who turned part of the venue into a prison cell-like installation. The protests began after ICE raids in Los Angeles, leading to arrests, a curfew, and vandalism of MOCA's facade.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 10, 2025 visibility 1 link 5 artists

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Artist Nadya Tolokonnikova, a founding member of Pussy Riot, began a durational performance titled *Police State* at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles on Thursday, inhabiting a cell and sewing clothing. The following day, protests erupted in the city after ICE raids in the garment district, leading to clashes with police and the deployment of 2,000 National Guard troops by President Donald Trump. MOCA closed its Geffen branch early on Sunday for safety, while Tolokonnikova continued her performance, live-streaming audio from the protests into her installation.

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rate_review review schedule Jan 12, 2026 visibility 3 link 5 artists

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Internet personality MacKenzie Thomas staged a four-hour durational performance titled "I Said What I Said" in New York, where she read aloud every post she made on X over the past year, interspersed with personal essays. The performance, which sold out both New York showings, will travel to Los Angeles at Heavy Manners. Thomas recounted intimate details of her life, including a breakup, her dog's death, health struggles, and family dynamics, while notably omitting her success as an influencer with half a million followers.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 21, 2025 visibility 4 link 1 artist, 2 galleries

Ragnar Kjartansson's politically charged soap opera—halted by the Russia-Ukraine war—goes on show in Reykjavík

Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson's video work *Soap Opera*—a recording of his durational performance *Santa Barbara: A Living Sculpture*—is on view for the first time at i8 Grandi in Reykjavík. The original performance, staged at the V-A-C Foundation's GES-2 House of Culture in Moscow from December 2021 to February 2022, featured Russian and Ukrainian actors reenacting episodes of the American soap opera *Santa Barbara*, which had been a cultural phenomenon in post-Soviet Russia. The production was halted at episode 81 on February 24, 2022, the day Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 6, 2025 visibility 2 link 6 artists, 1 gallery

Pussy Riot co-founder starts Los Angeles prison performance with existential scream

Nadya Tolokonnikova, co-founder of Pussy Riot, began a durational performance titled "Police State" at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles on June 5, 2025. Inside a mock prison cell at the Geffen Contemporary, she screams, plays a pink toy piano, synthesizer, and laptop, and layers live music with sampled prison noises to create an 80-hour experimental soundscape. The performance, running until June 15, references her own 2012 imprisonment in Russia for an anti-Putin protest. On the fourth day, MOCA closed due to clashes between ICE agents, the California National Guard, and protesters over immigrant raids, prompting Tolokonnikova to post: "Police State exhibit closed today due to police state."

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 22, 2025 visibility 3 link 1 artist

Right royal style: 90 years of Queen Elizabeth II’s fashion to go on show at Buckingham Palace

The Royal Collection Trust will mount an exhibition titled "Queen Elizabeth II: Her Life in Style" at the King's Gallery at Buckingham Palace in London in spring 2026, marking the centenary of the late monarch's birth. The show will feature around 200 pieces, including the dresses she wore at her 1947 wedding and 1953 coronation, both designed by Norman Hartnell, along with diplomatically significant gowns, everyday attire, and never-before-exhibited colorful prints from the 1970s by Ian Thomas. Sketches and correspondence with her couturiers will also be on display.

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