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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 16, 2025 link 2 artists, 1 gallery

At London's Barbican, Lucy Raven chronicles the destruction of a California dam

Lucy Raven's video installation "Murderers Bar" (2025) has its European premiere at the Barbican's Curve gallery, chronicling the 2023-2024 demolition of four dams on the Klamath River in Oregon and California. The film focuses on the destruction of the Copco No. 1 dam, built in 1918, which devastated local ecosystems and salmon populations vital to Indigenous communities including the Yurok, Karuk, Klamath, Hoopa, and Shasta Indian Nation. Raven's work, the final part of her trilogy "The Drumfire," uses aerial photography, drones, lidar, and sonar to capture the moment of release as water rushes toward the Pacific, followed by the transformed landscape. The exhibition also includes a new kinetic sculpture, "Hardpan" (2025), which physically manifests themes of force and pressure.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 5, 2025 visibility 7 link 18 artists, 6 galleries

Political statements at Art Basel Miami Beach are sparse but strident

At Art Basel Miami Beach, one year into Donald Trump’s second presidential administration, most galleries are avoiding overt political themes, though a few notable exceptions stand out. The most talked-about piece is Maurizio Cattelan’s marble sculpture *Bones (2025)*, a crashing eagle metaphor for the nation’s state, shown on Gagosian’s stand. Other politically charged works include Nicholas Galanin’s burned totem pole and drone-inspired rug, David Hammons’ *African American Flag (1990)*, and Tim Youd’s typewriter performance of Hunter S. Thompson’s book. Most exhibitors, however, focus on apolitical American iconography or market-driven choices.

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article news schedule Sep 15, 2025 link 22 artists, 1 gallery

leonard lauders klimt painting likely top lot this auction season controversy at tasmania museum and more morning links for september 15 2025 1234751787

A new report reveals that the University of Tasmania's RA Rodda Museum kept and displayed 177 human remains without family consent, collected from coroners' autopsies between 1966 and 1991. The remains were removed from public display in 2018 after a curator raised concerns in 2016, and the university has since apologized and met with affected families. Separately, the late art patron Leonard Lauder's estate includes a Gustav Klimt painting, *Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer* (1914), valued at over $100 million, expected to be the top lot this auction season at either Sotheby's or Christie's.

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