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Installation view. Photo: Helmut Reinelt.
REMAGEN.- Water, an elemental substance that gives life and shapes landscapes, takes center stage in a new exhibition at the Arp Museum titled Im Fluss (In Flow). Featuring around 50 masterpieces ranging from the early 17th century to modern works, this thoughtful show guides visitors through the art history of waterhighlighting its beauty, serenity, and unrelenting force. Curated by Dr. Susanne Blöcker, the exhibition presents a wealth of paintings, sculptures, and photographs that illuminate shifting attitudes toward water over the centuries. From the dramatic baroque portrayal of the Great Flood by Johann König to the tranquil 18th-century vision The Cascades of Tivoli by Johann-Martin von Rhoden, visitors witness how artists have depicted water both as an overpowering, primordial force and as a scene of peaceful respite. Especially noteworthy are 19th-century French masters like Eugène Boudin, Claude Monet, and Paul Signac, whose interpretations of waters reflective s ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Michelangelo Pistoletto 'Metawork' exhibition view, Reggia di Caserta, 2024. Photo: Alessandra Ammirati.
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| From streets to screens: Children's games take center stage in immersive exhibition | | Louvre unearths centuries of jesters, jesters, and more jesters | | Michelangelo Pistoletto's "Metawork" exhibition on view at the Royal Palace of Caserta |
Childrens Game #41: Chapitas. La Habana, Cuba, 2023; 3:53 min. In collaboration with Julien Devaux and Félix Blume.
PORTO.- With a career spanning four decades, Francis Alÿs (born 1959, Antwerp, Belgium) has forged a unique and radical practice ranging from painting and drawing to film and animation. Trained as an architect and urbanist in Belgium and Italy, Alÿs became interested in the civic role of the urban environment. He moved to Mexico City in 1986 where the rapidly transforming city and the consequent changes to social dynamics in the late 1980s inspired him to become a visual artist. Action is at the centre of Alÿss practice. He was the protagonist of most of his interventions in the 1990s, using his own body because it was immediately available. Childrens Games (1999present) marks a clear shift: his agency was expanded and redistributed as children became the subjects. Taking its title from one of the earliest films in the series Childrens ... More | |
Master of 1537, Portrait of a madman looking through his fingers © Antwerp, The Phoebus Foundation.
PARIS.- Fools are everywhere. But are the fools of today the same as the fools of yesteryear? The Musée du Louvre is dedicating an unprecedented exhibition to the myriad figures of the fool, which permeated the pictorial landscape of the 13th to the 16th centuries. Over the course of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the fool came to occupy every available artistic space, insinuating himself into illuminated manuscripts, printed books and engravings, tapestries, paintings, sculptures, and all manner of objects both precious and mundane. His fascinating, perplexing and subversive figure loomed large in the turmoil of an era not so different from our own. The exhibition examines the omnipresence of fools in Western art and culture at the end of the Middle Ages, and attempts to parse the meaning of these figures, who would seem to play a key role in the advent of modernity. The fool ... More | |
Installation view. © Photo: Alessandra Ammirati.
CASERTA.- From November 27th to June 30th, the majestic Royal Palace of Caserta hosts "Metawork," a major exhibition showcasing the revolutionary reflections of Michelangelo Pistoletto on art and society, offering a journey into the visionary concepts of "metamorphosis" and "interconnection." Over sixty works by Michelangelo Pistoletto (Biella, 1933) occupy the halls of the Grand Gallery of the Royal Palace of Caserta for seven months. This UNESCO World Heritage Site, a museum of the Ministry of Culture, welcomes one of the most prolific and influential contemporary Italian artists, a key figure in the radical renewal of artistic language and a protagonist of Arte Povera. The "Metawork" exhibition takes its name from the artwork Metawork-United Portraits, presented for the first time on this occasion. Created from photographic portraits of eight citizens of Cittadellarte, it recombines them through an artificial intelligence program, allowing the transition, alread ... More |
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| Ai Weiwei asks "Who Am I?" in first Bologna solo exhibition | | Massive book chronicles the rise of NFTs as art form | | Julio Le Parc exhibition on view at Palazzo delle Papesse in Siena |
Palazzo Fava is hosting an exhibition of work from the creative universe of this Chinese artist and activist.
BOLOGNA.- The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, a long-time defender of human rights, is holding his first solo exhibition in Bologna entitled: Ai Weiwei. Who am I?. Promoted by Fondazione Carisbo as part of the Genus Bononiae cultural project and produced by Opera Laboratori in collaboration with Galleria Continua, the exhibition is curated by Arturo Galansino. As the title inspired by a conversation between the artist and artificial intelligence suggests, the exhibition at Palazzo Fava presents the artist through the lens of his creative universe, in constant tension between tradition and experimentation, preservation and destruction. Large installations, sculptures, videos and photographs testify to the versatility and depth of his research, with over fifty works of art occupying the entire space of this historic palazzo, from the grand staircase, through the monumental halls and rooms beneath frescoes painted by the Carracci and ... More | |
Robert Alices On NFTs is the first major art historical survey text on the most compelling, disruptive area of contemporary art today.
NEW YORK, NY.- TASCHEN, the renowned art book publisher, has released "On NFTs," a monumental survey exploring the burgeoning world of non-fungible tokens in art. This comprehensive volume, edited by artist and NFT pioneer Robert Alice, is being hailed as the first major art historical examination of this disruptive contemporary medium. The book delves into the entire NFT ecosystem, from algorithmic art and generative projects to avatars and profile picture collections. It connects this cutting-edge form of artistic expression to its historical context, drawing parallels with established art movements and exploring the influence of artists like Sol LeWitt on today's digital creators. "On NFTs" features 10 academic essays from leading figures in the art and blockchain worlds, including Hans Ulrich Obrist. These essays provide in-depth analysis and critical perspectives on ... More | |
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SIENA.- The groundbreaking exhibition Julio Le Parc: The Discovery of Perception is now on view at the historic Palazzo delle Papesse in Siena, Italy. Running until March 16, 2025, this major retrospective celebrates over 60 years of the celebrated Argentine artists career and is the most comprehensive solo exhibition of his work ever held in Italy. Featuring more than 80 works, the exhibition offers an immersive exploration of Julio Le Parcs pioneering contributions to kinetic and optical art. Visitors can engage with his dynamic creations, which challenge traditional notions of static art by emphasizing movement, light, and viewer interaction. Highlights of the exhibition include: Sphere Verte (2016): This striking suspended sculpture of green plexiglass tesserae reflects light in dynamic patterns, transforming the entryway of Palazzo delle Papesse. Kinetic Light Installations: Iconic works such as Continuel Lumière Mobile and Continuel Lumiè ... More |
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| Elger Esser's unique technique brings the French landscape to life | | Ludwig Museum opens exhibition featuring older and new works by Márton Nemes | | Exhibition at Passerelle is the first wide-scale presentation of Daniel Gustav Cramer's 'Tales' series |
A unique aspect of Esser's work is his distinctive printing process. Using analog photography, he transfers images onto silver-plated copper plates with a direct pigment printing technique, finishing them with shellac varnish.
BITBURG.- Renowned photographer Elger Esser presents a new exhibition, "The Narrow Waters," exploring the evocative landscapes of the Loire and its tributaries, particularly the Evre River, through a blend of photography and literary inspiration. The exhibition delves into the beauty of the French countryside, echoing the works of literary giants like Marcel Proust, Gustave Flaubert, and Guy de Maupassant, and paying homage to the reclusive writer Julien Gracq. Esser's landscapes are more than mere depictions of scenery; they are pictorial homages to nature, capturing the essence of a place at different times of day and year. His preferred hazy conditions and soft light, combined with long exposures, create images that seem to transcend time, evoking the atmosphere of early 19th-century photography. The exhibition at Bitburg specifically focuses on the Evre, a river immortalized in Gracq's ... More | |
Márton Nemes, Everyday We Start Again 01, 2020. PVD-coated stainless steel, car paint, steel, acryl, canvas, wood, 136 x 96 cm. Photo: Dávid BIRÃ, Krisztina BILÃK © Ludwig Museum Museum of Contemporary Art.
BUDAPEST.- The visual, acoustic and interactive content of the multimedia, multi-sensory project unfolded through the combined effects of light and colour, object and light movement, sound, light frequency and airflow. The project, conceived as an immersive environment, a Gesamtkunstwerk based on painting, exemplifies the expansion of the genre of painting, increasingly characteristic of the artists creative method, to other media. Márton Nemes work is strongly influenced by techno subcultures, and the dismantling and rearrangement of the pictorial field gives his paintings a distinctive psychedelic character, which extends across abstract realms and evokes the visual and light atmospheres of todays nightclubs. Combining elements of painting and sculpture, his paintings and multimedia installations create a hypnotic spatial dynamic that sucks the viewer out of the harshness of the real world ... More | |
Daniel Gustav Cramer, Tales 78, 2019 Westwood, Los Angeles, USA, November 2014 7 framed C-prints, each 28 x 22 x 2 cm.
BREST.- From the very beginning of his career, Daniel Gustav Cramer (1975, Germany) has divided his work between photography, video, sculpture and the writing of short texts, resulting in both exhibitions and the publication of books. Using landscape as a starting point (a turquoise sea, a pine forest, a mountain lake), the works of the German artist, born in 1975, take the form of micro-tales whose meaning gradually becomes clear through the succession of images. The Tales series, begun in 2000, is particularly representative of this approach, combining photographic sequences organised in diptychs, triptychs or larger groups of images. In each sequence, an ordinary landscape is photographed from a distance, generally featuring a discreet element somewhere in the scene. From one image to the next, this element moves or changes, thereby constituting the central thread of a story: a dog by the side of a road, watching the passers-by, a ray of sun glinting on snow-covered ground, a bo ... More |
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| Bob Dylan's teacher, Norman Raeben, celebrated in first Venice retrospective | | Malcolm de Chazal: The visionary of cosmogonies on view at Halle Saint Pierre | | The Fondation Beyeler's 2025 exhibition programme: Northern lights, dreams, galaxies and infinity |
The exhibition reconstructs Raeben's artistic evolution and explores his influence on American artists and Jewish immigrant intellectuals of Yiddish culture.
VENICE.- Venice is hosting the first-ever retrospective exhibition of Norman Raeben (1901-1978), a Ukrainian-American Jewish artist best known as the influential teacher of music legend Bob Dylan. The exhibition, titled "Norman Raeben. The Wandering Painting," runs from November 24, 2024, to January 14, 2025, at the Ikona Gallery in Campo di Ghetto Novo. Born Numa Rabinovitz, Raeben was the son of Sholem Aleichem, the celebrated Yiddish author considered the "father of modern Yiddish literature." The exhibition features forty of Raeben's works, displayed across the gallery to create a journey through the places that shaped his artistic life and travels: Paris, New York, Venice, and Provincetown. The exhibition reconstructs Raeben's artistic evolution and explores his influence on American artists and Jewish immigrant intellectuals of Yiddish culture. Among the portraits on display are depictions of prominent figures like ... More | |
Malcolm de Chazal, Sans titre, Coll Amstrong. Gouache © Zoe Forget.
PARIS.- The Halle Saint Pierre in Paris is currently hosting a remarkable exhibition celebrating Malcolm de Chazal, one of the most influential Mauritian artists of the 20th century. Renowned as both a painter and a poet, Chazals work vividly captures the essence of Mauritius while exploring universal themes of spirituality, nature, and harmony. Acclaimed by cultural icons such as André Breton, George Bataille, and Léopold Sédar Senghor, Chazals art is a profound synthesis of poetic intensity and visual simplicity. Senghor famously described his work as a geyser of sap, a torrent of lava, a jungle of metaphors, highlighting its dynamic and transformative power. This exhibition invites visitors into Chazals utopian vision, where humanity and nature coexist in perfect harmony. His works, deeply rooted in his connection to the natural world, use vibrant imagery of birds, fish, flowers, and trees to evoke a paradise lostand perhaps rediscovered. ... More | |
Hilma af Klint, Sunrise (Preworks for Group III), 1907. Oil on canvas, 95 x 60 cm, HaK 37, By courtesy of the Hilma af Klint Foundation.
BASEL.- The Fondation Beyeler announced its 2025 exhibition programme. Visitors can look forward to a fascinating group exhibition entitled «Northern Lights» (26 January 25 May 2025). The exhibition will focus on around 80 modern landscape paintings by artists from Scandinavia and Canada, including Hilma af Klint and Edvard Munch, who all drew inspiration from the boreal forests, the worlds largest primeval forest. In February, the exhibition «The Key to Dreams» (16 February 4 May 2025) will for the very first time present Surrealist masterpieces from the Hersaint Collection. In the summer (15 June 21 September 2025), the artist Vija Celmins will be honoured with a large solo exhibition, bringing to vivid life the mesmerising effect of her pictorial worlds. It will be the most significant presentation of Celmins work in Europe in almost 20 years. The first retrospective devoted to Japanese artist ... More |
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Loris Cecchini exhibition: Leaps, gaps, and overlapping diagrams at Ca' Rezzonico, VeniceVENICE.- The historic Ca Rezzonico Museo del Settecento Veneziano in Venice is currently hosting Leaps, Gaps, and Overlapping Diagrams, a captivating exhibition featuring ten new works by contemporary artist Loris Cecchini. Curated by Luca Berta and Francesca Giubilei, in collaboration with Galleria Continua and VeniceArtFactory, the exhibition highlights Cecchinis innovative exploration of modular elements. For over 15 years, Cecchini has used his artistic practice to investigate the in-between spaces and morphologies created by leaps, gaps, and overlapping diagrams, blending architecture, design, and engineering. The exhibition opens with monumental installations, such as Waterbones and Arborexence, which greet visitors on the ground floor. These structures, made of modular steel and aluminum components, mimic molecular ... More Eva Jospin's Selva exhibition enchants visitors at Museo Fortuny, VeniceVENICE.- The Museo Fortuny in Venice is currently hosting Selva, an enchanting exhibition by renowned Parisian artist Eva Jospin. Curated by Chiara Squarcina and Pier Paolo Pancotto, in collaboration with Galleria Continua, the exhibition transforms the historic Palazzo Pesaro degli Orfei into a dreamlike exploration of nature, art, and architecture. Known for her intricate sculptural works made from humble materials like cardboard, plant fibers, and metal, Jospin creates immersive landscapes that bridge the real and the fantastical. Jospins work thrives in a liminal space between reality and imagination. Through her use of diverse media, she reimagines forests, geological formations, and architectural landscapes, evoking a magical, almost mysterious tone. The pieces on display at Museo Fortuny are site-specific, designed to engage in dialogue ... More The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presents Diaries of HomeFORT WORTH, TX.- Diaries of Home features works by women and nonbinary artists, who explore the multilayered concepts of family, community, and home. These artists challenge documentary photography by pushing it into conceptual, performative, and theatrical realms. They probe preconceptions about domestic, familial, and communal spaces in the United States, which are often considered feminine spheres. Such environments and their relationship to feminism and feminist art have a history dating back to the 1970sespecially in photography, where women artists have been among the strongest voices. The photographers presented in Diaries of Home show us the dynamics of both biological and constructed families; for example, Sally Mann takes up her three children as subject matter in lush portraits that are intimate and compelling, ... More Walker Art Center presents Stanley Whitney: How High the MoonMINNEAPOLIS, MN.- The Walker Art Center opened Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon, the artists 50-year career retrospective and the first exhibition to explore and contextualize the full depth and range of Whitneys practice. The expansive presentation charts Whitneys career-long engagement with abstraction, from early works characterized by bold experimental palettes and a dynamic sense of rhythm, produced in the 1970s and 1980s, through to his current celebrated large-scale paintings that examine variations of color within the confines of a fluid grid. How High the Moon will remain on view at the Walker through March 16, 2025. The exhibition is organized by the Buffalo AKG Art Museum and is curated by Cathleen Chaffee, the Charles Balbach Chief Curator at Buffalo AKG. At the Walker, the presentation is being ... More MUSEION presents its 2025 program highlightsBOLZANO.- Celebrating 40 years of Museion, we embrace art as a force for wellbeing, resistance, and social responsibility. Through vibrant exhibitions, emerging voices, and collaborations, we continue to empower future generations to shape culture and urban space. Bart van der Heide, Museion Director Under the title THE SOFTEST HARD, Museion is following a new research line that explores art as an urban and social practice and a non-violent form of resistance. In times of omnipresent international violence, this approach recognizes softness as a strength and a key to democracy, solidarity, and equality. The new research line explores urban activism in art, reclaiming living spaces for community, collectivity, and social engagement. With Graffiti, Museion presents the first institutional exhibition in Italy to focus on the relationships ... More On the Shoulders of Giants: The Modern Prehistory of Costantino NivolaORANI.- The Monte Prama Foundation and the Nivola Foundation announced the first exhibition to explore the connection between Costantino Nivolas art and the Prehistory of Sardinia. This engaging exhibition showcases a comparison between masterpieces of Eneolithic and Nuragic sculpture and architecture, alongside significant works by Nivola. For the first time, it reconstructs the relationship between Nivola and Prehistory, presenting the artists sculptures alongside the sources that inspired him, thanks to a series of important loans from public and private collections. The title of the exhibition alludes to the medieval aphorism according to which we are, compared to the ancients, like dwarves on the shoulders of giants, and to the actual Giants of Monte Prama, monumental Nuragic statues found close to Cabras, Sardinia, ... More Juliette Vanwaterloo's textile art confronts state violence and injusticeCHARLEROI.- A graduate of the Ãcole Supérieure dArt et de Design in Angers (France) with a master in Tapestry and Textile Arts from the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels (Belgium), Juliette Vanwaterloo (FR, 1998) works with hand embroidery, bobbin lace, tufting1, and other textile techniques, which she combines with an installation-based practice. As an activist artist committed to feminist, ecological, and decolonial issues, she has tackled the long-term issues of State violence, injustice, and systemic oppression throughout her career. In 2018 and 2019, Juliette Vanwaterloo embroidered laws, excerpts from the Civil Code, the Labour Code, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Citizen on table doilies and cotton handkerchiefs. While these citations are embellished with floral or Japanese-inspired motifs, this contrast serves ... More PIASA announces upcoming auctionsPARIS.- The first auction of 2025 will be dedicated to Belgian art from the 20th and 21st centuries. Post-war abstract art will be particularly highlighted, with some remarkable pieces. Among them, a rare 1954 painting by Jo Delahaut, emblematic of the use of the characteristic arch motif from that period, as well as a vibrant work by Englebert van Anderlecht from 1959. The Dutch artist Bram Bogart, highly sought after by collectors, will be represented by a striking textured piece from 1972, titled Degroeneblauw. Two significant works by Maurice Wyckaert will also capture attention. Among contemporary artists, Wim Delvoye and Walter Swennen will be featured. Finally, a selection of sculptures by Marcus de Vestele and André Dekeijser will showcase an abstraction still deeply rooted in human dimensions, despite their distinct universes. Following the auction ... More Birds in focus: Photo exhibit brings avian wonders to rural FranceLANNION.- LImagerie is launched "à vol d'oiseau" (Bird's-Eye View), a traveling photography exhibition exploring humanity's fascination with birds through the lens. This initiative is part of the "Les Rayons" (The Rays) outreach program, a multi-year project (2023-2025) aimed at democratizing access to photography and contemporary art in rural and peri-urban areas, while also preparing for L'Imagerie's relocation in 2025. For centuries, birds, with their diverse appearances and lifestyles, have captivated scientists and enthusiasts alike. Before the advent of color photography, drawing and engraving were the primary means of representing them, as exemplified by John James Audubon's famous work, Birds of America. The arrival of color photography in the 20th century marked a turning point, paving the way for specialized photographers ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German-American painter Max Beckmann died December 27, 1950. Max Beckmann (February 12, 1884 - December 27, 1950) was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the movement. In the 1920s, he was associated with the New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit), an outgrowth of Expressionism that opposed its introverted emotionalism. In this image: Auctioneer and Global President Jussi Pylkkänen selling Max Beckmann’s Hölle der Vögel (Birds’ Hell) (1937-38), for £36,005,000. © Christie’s Images Limited 2017.
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