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15 Art Shows to See in NYC This May

Hyperallergic's May 2025 guide to New York City art shows highlights 15 exhibitions, including a survey of Hawaiian Japanese-American artists from the Metcalf Chateau group at Ryan Lee Gallery, a retrospective of Malian photographer Seydou Keïta at the Brooklyn Museum, and Renée Green's multimedia project 'Secret' at Bortolami Gallery. The article also features Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's quietude-focused works, a meditation on grief and death, and a document of a city devastated by the AIDS crisis through portraits of inanimate objects, among other shows.

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article culture schedule Jul 18, 2025 visibility 22 link 10 artists, 6 galleries

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Allison Rose, a restaurateur and investor, and her husband Dan Rose, a tech venture capitalist, have purchased a working cattle ranch on Rose Spur Road in Snowmass, Colorado, near Aspen. The couple, who were drawn to the area after multiple visits following their 25th wedding anniversary in 2021, are restoring the property with a menagerie of miniature Highland cows, donkeys, and a mini horse named Pop Tart, while planning a greenhouse and future cattle raising. Allison Rose, who also owns a ranch in Hawaii and serves on the boards of the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco and the Aspen Art Museum, shares her vision for the ranch and her thoughts on Aspen's culinary scene in an interview with Cultured.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 24, 2026 source 2 sources visibility 26 link 3 artists

Refik Anadol’s AI Art Museum DATALAND Will Open in Los Angeles in June

Refik Anadol and Efsun Erkılıç will open DATALAND, a museum dedicated to AI art, in Los Angeles on June 20, 2026. Located in the Grand LA complex designed by Frank Gehry, the 25,000-square-foot venue will feature five gallery spaces plus 10,000 square feet for supporting technology. Its inaugural exhibition, "Machine Dreams: Rainforest," created by Refik Anadol Studio, uses AI trained on ecological datasets to generate sensory experiences, including a version of Anadol's Infinity Room with a 1987 recording of an extinct Hawaiian bird and AI-generated scents. Membership starts at $350 per year.

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article culture schedule May 12, 2025 visibility 25 link 19 artists

7 art history facts

Frieze Week in New York has arrived, drawing tens of thousands of visitors to The Shed for displays from over 65 international galleries. The article offers a collection of art historical trivia to help attendees impress peers, including tales of a potentially fake Picasso gifted to Robin Williams by Disney, Piet Mondrian's fondness for Disney's *Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs*, and a legend that Raphael's pupil Giulio Romano created erotic frescos in the Vatican's Sala di Constantino out of anger over delayed payment from Pope Clement VII.

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article culture schedule Sep 25, 2025 visibility 18 link 11 artists, 4 galleries

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Paul Pfeiffer's studio visit reveals his ongoing exploration of media spectacles, particularly through his "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" series (2001–), which digitally isolates NBA basketball players by erasing teammates, opponents, and jersey details from archival images. The artist discusses his counterintuitive relationship to sports, his intense Christian upbringing in Hawaii and the Philippines, and the influence of horror films like "The Exorcist" on his work, which examines the religious undertones of secular activities and the mechanics of voyeurism.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 8, 2025 visibility 24 link 40 artists, 12 galleries

Despite external chaos, Frieze Seoul soldiers on

The fourth edition of Frieze Seoul (3-6 September) took place alongside the Korea International Art Fair (Kiaf) at the Coex convention centre in Gangnam, amid economic concerns and a slower art market. Despite a modest 0.8% expected growth in South Korea's economy and fewer Western exhibitors, the fair saw strong institutional attendance, including curators from M+, the Museum of Modern Art, and the San Francisco Asian Art Museum, as well as celebrity visitors like BTS members and Blackpink's Lisa. Galleries reported cautious but steady sales, with a notable presence of Asian collectors, particularly from Japan, and a Stand Prize awarded to Kohesi Initiatives for a politically charged booth by Timoteus Anggawan Kusno.

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article news schedule Jan 16, 2026 visibility 17 link 6 artists, 1 gallery

Hawai’i at the British Museum, a Venice palazzo for sale, Joseph Beuys’s ‘Bathtub’—podcast

The latest episode of The Art Newspaper's podcast 'The Week in Art' covers three distinct stories. Host Ben Luke tours the British Museum's new exhibition 'Hawaiʻi: a kingdom crossing oceans' with Alice Christophe, head of Oceania, discussing the museum's revised approach to stewarding its Hawaiian collection. The episode also examines the sale of Ca' Dario, a famed Venetian palazzo on the Grand Canal, with Anna Somers Cocks, who recounts its eerie history and supposed curse. Finally, Luke speaks with Thaddaeus Ropac about Joseph Beuys's late bronze sculpture 'Bathtub' (1961-87), which is featured in a new show at the Thaddaeus Ropac gallery in London.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 25, 2025 visibility 20 link 23 artists, 1 gallery

Interisland - Department of Art and Art History

The Art Gallery at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa presents "Interisland: New Paintings from New York & Hawaiʻi," a survey exhibition running from August 31 to December 7, 2025. Featuring approximately 40 painters from New York City and Hawaiʻi, the show explores commonalities and differences in contemporary painting across these geographically distant regions. Curated by Liam Davis, Jan Dickey, and Debra Drexler, the exhibition marks the ten-year anniversary of "New New York: Abstract Painting in the 21st Century" and includes a spectrum of representational and nonrepresentational works from artists such as Cody Anderson, Kiko Bordeos, and Clare Grill.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 17, 2025 visibility 20 link 17 artists

The Big Review | David Hockney 25 at Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris ★★★★

The Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris has opened "David Hockney 25," a major retrospective billed as focusing on the past quarter-century of the British artist's work but actually spanning his entire career, from a 1955 portrait of his father to recent Yorkshire landscapes. The exhibition, curated by Norman Rosenthal and supported by the foundation's substantial budget, features loans from institutions worldwide and private collections, including the striking "Berlin: A Souvenir" (1962). It is the largest Hockney show ever staged, filling the Frank Gehry-designed museum with iconic swimming pool scenes, double portraits, vibrant landscapes, and densely hung salon-style galleries of family and friends.

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museum exhibitions schedule Feb 19, 2026 visibility 15 link 3 artists, 1 gallery

Japanese painting tradition meets street materials in new exhibition at the Spencer Museum of Art

The Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas has launched "Street Nihonga: The Art of Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani," the most comprehensive exhibition to date of the late artist's work. Curated by Kris Ercums and Maki Kaneko, the show features 145 works that trace Mirikitani’s journey from his Nihonga training in Japan to his incarceration in a U.S. internment camp during WWII, and finally his years as a homeless street artist in Lower Manhattan. The exhibition is accompanied by a major scholarly catalog and documentary footage by filmmaker Linda Hattendorf.

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Allison Sarofim, a Houston-born patron and founder of the clean skincare line Loulu Hawai‘i, is profiled in a CULTURED questionnaire. She recounts her art-collecting journey, which began with a Mark Rothko given by her father to her mother upon her birth, later gifted to her on her 30th birthday. Her first purchase was an Andy Warhol gold-leaf portrait of Stuart Preston. Sarofim serves as a founding board member of Ballroom Marfa, which recently acquired the 75-year-old Auction Sale Barn (the Bull Room) to transform into a performing arts space. She also discusses the inspiration behind her beauty line, rooted in Hawaii's botanicals and the spirit of aloha, and plans for new products in 2026.

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person people schedule Jun 30, 2025 visibility 17 link 9 artists

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Paul Leong, a Hawaii-born finance executive and co-chair of Friends at the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, discusses his provocative art collection in an interview with Cultured. Leong favors challenging, conceptual works that he describes as "ugly painting," including pieces by Merlin Carpenter, Jana Euler, Matt Browning, Claire Fontaine, Michael E. Smith, Rayan Yasmineh, and Stefan Tcherepnin. He credits art advisor Thea Westreich with teaching him to prioritize meaning over appearance, and recounts the hard-won acquisition of a Jana Euler work from a 2020 show at Artists Space in New York after persistent engagement with her galleries.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 20, 2026 visibility 8 link 10 artists

People and places

Elisa Contemporary Art Riverdale Gallery will open a new group exhibition titled "People and places" on May 20, 2026, running through September 2. The show features works by six artists: Betty Ball, Carol Bennett, Sherry Karver, Mitch McGee, Dean Moore, and Jeffrey Palladini, with a focus on uplifting summer themes including water scenes, poolside figures, and bright yellow elements. The exhibition includes new works from Ball's Land & Sea series and introduces Sherry Karver as a new gallery artist.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 24, 2026 visibility 32 link 4 artists

The World's First Museum of A.I. Art Will Open in Los Angeles as the Art World Ponders Questions of Ethics and Sustainability

Dataland, billed as the world's first museum dedicated to A.I.-generated art, will open on June 20 in downtown Los Angeles. Founded by digital artists Refik Anadol and Efsun Erkiliç, the 35,000-square-foot museum is located in the Grand LA complex designed by Frank Gehry. Its inaugural exhibition, "Machine Dreams: Rainforest," features immersive, multisensory installations powered by an open-access A.I. model called the Large Nature Model, trained on millions of nature images. The exhibition includes soundscapes incorporating oral histories of the Yawanawá people and the last recorded call of the extinct Kaua‘i ‘ō‘ō bird.

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museum exhibitions schedule Feb 12, 2026 visibility 16 link 6 artists

Hawai‘i Ceramic Artist Toshiko Takaezu Retrospective Exhibit Opens This February

A major retrospective of Hawai‘i-born ceramic artist Toshiko Takaezu opens at the Honolulu Museum of Art on February 14, 2026. Titled 'Worlds Within,' the exhibition features over 100 works, including her signature closed ceramic forms, textiles, paintings, and a bronze bell, and marks the final stop of a two-year national tour that began at The Noguchi Museum in New York in 2024.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 24, 2025 visibility 18 link 10 artists, 1 gallery

Queer sexuality in Islamic art explored in Norway exhibition

A new exhibition titled "Deviant Ornaments" opens at the National Museum (Nasjonalmuseet) of Norway in Oslo, running from 27 November 2025 to 15 March 2026. Curated by Noor Bhangu, a South Asian curator and scholar based in Norway, the show explores queer desires and practices in the visual cultures of the Islamic world, bringing together over 40 works spanning 1,000 years. It connects historical objects—such as a Safavid textile, a 19th-century armband, and 13th-century Iranian wall tiles—with works by 12 contemporary artists, including Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Alize Zorlutuna, Shahzia Sikander, Taner Ceylan, Damien Ajavon, Rah Eleh, Kasra Jalilipour, and Sa’dia Rehman. Four works are newly commissioned.

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Van Cleef & Arpels cashes in on lucrative secondary market for vintage jewellery

Van Cleef & Arpels has capitalized on the growing secondary market for vintage jewelry through its Heritage Collection, launched in 2007. The collection offers around 150 curated 20th-century pieces, authenticated and restored by the maison, allowing clients to buy directly from the jeweler rather than through auction houses like Sotheby's, Christie's, and Artcurial, which sold over €120 million in Van Cleef jewels in 2024.

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museum exhibitions schedule Feb 26, 2026 visibility 14 link 3 artists

Rare Gates of Paradise replica restored and on display at the BYU Museum of Art

The BYU Museum of Art (MOA) has unveiled a meticulously restored gypsum cast replica of Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Renaissance masterpiece, the "Gates of Paradise." The restoration project spanned a decade and involved approximately 13,000 hours of labor, largely performed by BYU students who repaired damage and applied gold leaf to the ten ornate panels. The restored work is now the centerpiece of the exhibition "Gilded Paradise," which features immersive projections of Florence and will remain on view through October 2026.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 6, 2026 visibility 12 link 3 artists

A taster of the British Museum's Hawaii show in three objects

The British Museum in London is opening a major exhibition titled 'Hawai‘i: a Kingdom Crossing Oceans' (15 January–25 May), accompanied by a catalogue featuring over 150 works from ancient Hawaiian treasures to contemporary pieces. The show explores the historical and cultural ties between Hawaii and the UK, highlighting objects such as an 18th-century feather cloak gifted to a British captain, portraits of King Kamehameha II and Queen Kamāmalu from their 1824 London visit, and a crested helmet. The catalogue includes an inventory of the entire Native Hawaiian collection at the British Museum, the largest outside Hawaii.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 24, 2025 visibility 19 link 3 artists

Reviving Metcalf Château: Celebrating Hawaiʻi artists who redefined modern art

A new exhibition at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Walter Dods, Jr. RISE Center honors the Metcalf Château, a pioneering collective of Asian-American artists who gathered in a house on Metcalf Street in the 1950s to redefine modern art in Hawaiʻi. Curated by Allison Wong and initiated by longtime university supporter Walter Dods, the show features works by founding members Bumpei Akaji, Satoru Abe, Tadashi Sato, Edmund Chung, Tetsuo “Bob” Ochikubo, Jerry T. Okimoto, and James K.K. Park, with a ceremonial blessing by Kahu Kordell Kekoa.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 19, 2026 visibility 8 link 5 artists, 1 gallery

Meet the Hawaiʻi creatives behind a workout video featured in a New York art exhibition

A satirical workout video titled "20 minute workout" created by the Hawaiʻi-based artist initiative kekahi wahi is featured at the Whitney Biennial in New York. The video shows dancers in spandex stretching in front of the Captain Cook Monument at Kealakekua Bay on Hawaiʻi Island, set to electronic music. The project was part of a larger effort to reimagine public space and challenge commemorative monuments in Hawaiʻi, drawing on the energy of debates over Confederate statues in the continental U.S.

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article local schedule May 14, 2026 visibility 16 link 5 artists, 2 galleries

Celestial wildlife paintings plus ceramics at featured art show starting May 16

Artist Sarah Soward and ceramist Hillary Klem will be featured in a joint show at the Redlands Art Association starting May 16, with an open house on Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m. Soward presents multiple series including "Starry Nights" acrylic paintings inspired by constellations, surrealist works imagining origin stories for animals, and laser-cut bee designs aimed at raising awareness of endangered species. Her artwork was previously selected for the Lunar Codex's "Legends of the Moon" capsule sent to the moon in 2022, and she has won "Best of Show" at the National Orange Show.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 23, 2025 visibility 12 link 1 artist

Hui Noʻeau Visual Arts Center presents Annual Juried Exhibition 2026

Hui Noʻeau Visual Arts Center on Maui is presenting its Annual Juried Exhibition from January 16 to February 20, 2026. The open-theme show features works in ceramics, printmaking, sculpture, photography, painting, digital media, jewelry, Hawaiian cultural arts, wood, fiber, and more, juried by Denise Karabinus, Executive Director of Honolulu Printmakers. The exhibition opens with a juror walkthrough and reception on January 16, and artists from Maui and beyond were invited to submit work created within the past two years.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 9, 2025 visibility 15 link 3 artists

Maui art exhibit to showcase works by Satoru Abe

The Maui Arts & Cultural Center will present "Satoru Abe: Reaching for the Sun," a retrospective exhibition showcasing over seven decades of work by the late Hawaiʻi-based artist Satoru Abe (1926–2025). Running from September 16 to November 22, 2025, at the Schaefer International Gallery, the show features more than 70 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper drawn from the Honolulu Museum of Art’s permanent collection and private lenders. Co-curated by HoMA curators Katherine Love and Alejandra Rojas Silva, the exhibition traces Abe’s evolution from figurative works in the 1950s through abstract explorations of natural forms, marking his first solo exhibition on Maui.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 9, 2025 visibility 17 link 7 artists, 1 gallery

'60 Years Of The Grateful Dead' Unveils Band’s Most Comprehensive Art Exhibition Yet [Photos]

The Chambers Project Gallery in Grass Valley, CA, has opened '60 Years of the Grateful Dead,' billed as the most comprehensive exhibition of original Grateful Dead artwork ever assembled. Curated by Brian Chambers, the show features historic posters, album covers, sketches, and rare artifacts from key artists like Rick Griffin, Stanley Mouse, Alton Kelley, Victor Moscoso, and Wes Wilson, alongside collaborators such as Bill Walker and Owsley 'Bear' Stanley. Highlights include Bill Walker's original Anthem of the Sun mandala, stored for years in his sister's garage, and Edmund J. Sullivan's 1900 'Skeleton Amid Roses' illustration, reinterpreted for the band's iconic 1971 album cover. The opening weekend also featured a concert by the supergroup White Lightning at the Bodhi-Hive.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 13, 2026 source 2 sources visibility 14 link 2 artists, 1 gallery

Doosan Yonkang Foundation Backs Venice Korean Pavilion

The Doosan Yonkang Foundation has announced its sponsorship of the Korean Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale, which will take place from May 9 to November 22, 2026, at Giardini Park in Venice, Italy. The Korean Pavilion, titled "Liberation Space: Fortress and Nest," explores political events and historical transitions in Korean society from 1945 to the present, under the artistic direction of Choi Bitna. Participating artists include Noh Hyeri and Choi Goeun, along with fellows such as novelist Han Kang, farmer and activist Kim Huju, writer and singer Lee Lang, photographer Hwang Yeji, and artist Christian Nyampeta. Notably, Noh Hyeri and Choi Bitna are alumni of the foundation's support programs, Doosan Art Lab and Doosan Curator Workshop, respectively.

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A new study published in the Journal of Cultural Heritage warns that rising sea levels will impact Chile’s Rapa Nui National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site, by 2080. Coastal flooding threatens at least 51 culturally significant artifacts, including the iconic Moai statues—nearly 1,000 volcanic tuff figures created by a native Polynesian tribe over 500 years ago, some weighing up to 80 tons. Researchers from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa used advanced computer models to simulate wave patterns and map projected flooding, overlaying this data with the locations of cultural assets provided by local partners.

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article local schedule Apr 23, 2026 visibility 18 link 4 artists

City Galleries Burst with Spring Art (sponsored)

The City of Gaithersburg is presenting spring art exhibitions across four of its galleries, along with the Arts Barn Spring Artisan Market. Shows include "Beyond The Canvas," a three-dimensional exhibition of relief and sculptural works by 27 artisans at the Arts Barn; the Gaithersburg Fine Arts Association’s 40th Annual Membership Juried Exhibition at Kentlands Mansion, juried by artist J. Jordan Bruns; "Big, Bold & Bright" at the Activity Center at Bohrer Park, featuring large-scale abstract works; and an Asian-influenced exhibition by the Harmonious Art Group at the Benjamin Gaither Center celebrating Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Heritage Month. The Spring Artisan Market on April 25 will offer handcrafted gifts from local makers.

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museum exhibitions schedule Feb 19, 2026 visibility 8 link 1 artist

Masako Yasuki, Clifford Iwao Arinaga Visiting Artist

Kyoto-based painter Masako Yasuki will serve as the Clifford Iwao Arinaga Visiting Artist at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, featuring an exhibition at The Commons Gallery from March 3 to 10, 2026. The showcase highlights Yasuki’s unique technical approach, which blends traditional East Asian mineral pigments and gold leaf with Western oil and tempera paints, alongside her use of frottage to document urban and natural landscapes.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 22, 2025 visibility 16 link 5 artists

Seattle art exhibit centers immigrant histories, experiences

More than 20 local artists are showcasing works in the "Wildest Dreams" exhibit at Nino Studio & Gallery in Seattle's Pioneer Square, running through July 31. Curated by Seattle-based artist Rya Wu, the show honors the histories, experiences, and cultures of first-, second-, and third-generation immigrants. Artists like Yaminee Patel use grains and legumes to depict the journey of food, while Allan Carandang addresses U.S. colonialism and the legacy of Spam in Guam. The exhibit is an extension of Wu's larger series "Have You Eaten," which began in 2023 to explore identity and home for the Asian diaspora.

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