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article news schedule Jun 9, 2025 visibility 25 link 20 artists, 5 galleries

wet paints summer guide 2025

Artnet News' Wet Paint gossip column presents a selective summer guide for the art world, highlighting key exhibitions and social hotspots. In Manhattan, the Upper East Side offers the Park Avenue Armory's Diane Arbus photo exhibition, the Met's John Singer Sargent show, and the newly opened Frick with its Westmoreland café. Downtown, Bar Oliver in Two Bridges has become an art world haunt, co-created by Olmo and Cy Schnabel. The column also previews themed group shows: "Hope is a dangerous thing" at P.P.O.W. and "CAKE" at Olympia Gallery, featuring edible artworks. Exclusive news reveals the engagement of Lucas Zwirner to Charlotte Lindemann, merging two powerful art-dealing families. Additionally, Sky High Farm in Germantown, New York, is launching a new biennial with works by Anne Imhof, Rudolf Stingel, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 11, 2025 visibility 21 link 15 artists, 1 gallery

lana del rey group show ppow

P·P·O·W gallery in New York has opened a group exhibition titled "Hope is a Dangerous Thing," running from June 6 to July 12, 2025. Curated by director Eden Deering, the show features artists including Robin F. Williams, Marianna Simnett, Kyle Dunn, Kayode Ojo, Raque Ford, and Diane Severin Nguyen, all united by their devotion to singer Lana Del Rey. The exhibition explores themes of art and artifice, sincerity and spectacle, with works that reference Del Rey's persona and millennial nostalgia, incorporating elements like AI, pop culture, and fast fashion.

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museum exhibitions schedule Feb 12, 2026 visibility 17 link 5 artists

high line art commissions 2026

High Line Art has announced its 2026 season of public art commissions for New York's elevated park. The program includes a billboard work by Katherine Bernhardt and three major installations by Patricia Ayres, Ximena Garrido-Lecca, and Derek Fordjour, alongside video works for the High Line Channel by Saba Khan and a film grouping by Marianna Simnett, Filip Kostic, and Ana Hušman.

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trending_up market schedule Jun 17, 2025 visibility 18 link 17 artists, 9 galleries

big questions art basel

Art Basel, the flagship art fair, returns to Basel, Switzerland from June 17 to 22 amid a period of market contraction and geopolitical instability. The article explores key questions surrounding the fair, including whether the proliferation of new Art Basel editions in Paris and Doha is diluting interest in the original Swiss event. Gallerists and collectors weigh in, noting that while Paris is rising in importance, Basel retains unmatched prestige and draws a genuinely engaged international audience. The piece also highlights the fair's new "Premiere" section, which spotlights mid-career and established artists, featuring London gallery Edel Assanti's debut presentation of American artist Lonnie Holley.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 1, 2026 visibility 28 link 17 artists

ArtReview April & May 2026 Issue Out Now

ArtReview's April & May 2026 issue explores boundaries and limitations in art, with a focus on the 61st Venice Biennale opening amid global conflicts. The cover features Japanese-American performance artist Ei Arakawa-Nash with his husband and twin babies, whose collaborative installation at the Japanese Pavilion incorporates the unpredictability of childcare. The issue includes coverage of controversial national pavilions (Russian, Israeli, American), profiles of artists representing Mongolia and Singapore, and features on Beverly Buchanan, Arthur Jafa, Richard Prince, and Zehra Doğan's report from Rojava. It also reviews the 82nd Whitney Biennial, the 25th Biennale of Sydney, and the 15th Shanghai Biennale.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 12, 2025 visibility 24 link 36 artists, 12 galleries

Art Basel 2025: Masterpieces, new galleries, and swimming the Rhine

Art Basel 2025 will feature a large-scale public artwork by Katharina Grosse transforming Basel's Messeplatz, along with a new sector called Premiere for mid-career galleries, the inaugural Art Basel Awards, and 20 first-time exhibitors. Director Maike Cruse highlights major works on offer, including a late-career Pablo Picasso painting at Pace, a Joan Mitchell abstract at Pace, Helen Frankenthaler's 'Swan Lake I' at Yares Art, Leonora Carrington's rare triptych at Di Donna Galleries, and a Heidi Bucher latex imprint at Lehmann Maupin. The Unlimited sector will present 67 monumental works, including Martin Kippenberger's 'Transportable Subway Entrance' and daily performances by Cairo-based dance collective nasa4nasa.

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trending_up market schedule May 20, 2026 visibility 4 link 1 artist

Marianna Simnett schafft eine exklusive Edition für Monopol

Marianna Simnett, one of the most radical contemporary artists known for exploring metamorphosis, myth, ecstasy, sex, and pain, has created an exclusive edition titled "The Healer" for the German art magazine Monopol. The work is a watercolor depicting a naked female figure licking a lion lying on the ground, with other lions roaring in the background. The edition is an archival pigment print in a size of 60 x 79 cm, published in an edition of 25 plus two artist's proofs, priced at 950 euros plus VAT.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 20, 2025 visibility 21 link 19 artists

fata morgana nicola trussardi massimiliano gioni hilma af klint

"Fata Morgana," an exhibition organized by the Fondazione Nicola Trussardi at Palazzo Morando in Milan, presents works by 78 artists past and present who embody Marcel Duchamp's idea of the artist as a "mediumistic being." The show includes nuns, mediums, psychiatric patients, and contemporary stars like Marianna Simnett and Rosemarie Trockel, alongside avant-garde icons such as Man Ray and Duchamp himself. Curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Daniel Birnbaum, and Martha Papini, the exhibition explores creativity as compulsion, featuring drawings by James Tilly Matthews, séance photographs by Stanisława Popielska, and works by Madge Gill and Emma Jung, among others.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 19, 2026 visibility 5 link 4 artists, 2 galleries

‘Entertainment is often violence shrouded in a fun disguise’: Marianna Simnett on being tickled for hours and having Botox injected into her throat

Marianna Simnett, a Croatian British multi-disciplinary artist, discusses her new exhibition 'Circus' at the Secession in Vienna, which features a light, sound, and sculpture installation in a pitch-black basement. The show includes works like 'Catherine Wheel' (2026), a blue spinning reflective skirt accompanied by the sound of the artist being tickled for four hours, and 'Fountain' (2026), a neon of a woman urinating referencing Balkan folklore. Simnett explores themes of violence, desire, pain, and power, often using her own body as a site of transformation, as in her earlier work 'The Needle and the Larynx' (2016) where she had Botox injected into her throat.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 2, 2025 visibility 18 link 9 artists

This NY Art Exhibit Is Inspired by Lana Del Rey

Curator Eden Deering has organized a group exhibition titled “Hope is a dangerous thing” at P·P·O·W Gallery in New York, inspired by the final track of Lana Del Rey’s 2019 album *Norman F-cking Rockwell!*. The show features artists Kyle Dunn, Raque Ford, Paul Kopkau, Diane Severin Nguyen, Kayode Ojo, Marianna Simnett, and Robin F. Williams, who were encouraged to channel their most exaggerated, ambitious, and passionate selves. On view until July 11, the exhibition blends camp humor with emotive paintings, installations, and videos, exploring themes of vulnerability, performance, and the tension between genuine emotion and theatrical self-invention.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 16, 2025 visibility 15 link 11 artists

In pictures: highlights from Art Basel's city-wide exhibition, Parcours

New York-based curator Stefanie Hessler has organized the second edition of Art Basel's Parcours exhibition, featuring 21 works installed across Basel in unconventional spaces such as hotels, shops, and private apartments. Highlights include Agnieszka Kurant's chemical gardens made from computer-manufacturing metals, Finnegan Shannon's accessible benches with rest-oriented texts, and Hylozoic/Desires' 80-meter fabric installation referencing a colonial-era customs line. The exhibition clusters along Clarastrasse and extends to the Münsterplatz in the Old Town.

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museum exhibitions schedule Mar 30, 2026 visibility 13

Marianna Simnett “Circus” at Secession, Vienna

Marianna Simnett has opened a new multimedia exhibition titled "Circus" at the Secession in Vienna. The show features a combination of light, sound, and sculptural works that delve into her Yugoslav heritage, weaving together personal family history with folklore.

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