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Joel Shapiro, untitled, 2024 © Joel Shapiro / Artists Rights Society, New York.
TOKYO.- Pace is presenting an exhibition of work by Joel Shapiro at its Tokyo gallery from January 17 to February 22, 2025. The first presentation dedicated to Shapiros work to be organized in Tokyo in more than 30 years, this show spans both floors of the gallery, featuring freestanding and wall-mounted sculptures created by the artist over the last five decades, from 1975 and the present. This survey showcases the sculptors longstanding investigations of color, form, gravity, and movement, as well as his enduring interest in engaging and energizing space and architecture. One of America's most renowned artists and a major figure in the history of sculpture in the 20th century, Shapiro has pushed the boundaries of sculptural form over the past six decades with a body of work distinguished by its dynamism, complexity, and formal elegance. Since the early 1970s, Shapiro has sought to transcend the constraints of Minimalism to introduce a more referential, intimate, and psychological ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The High Museum of Art is presenting âThinking Eye, Seeing Mind: The Medford and Loraine Johnston Collectionâ (Jan. 17-May 25, 2025), featuring their collection, which is a promised gift to the museum.In this image: Bruce Conner (American, born 1933), Inkblot Drawing â 2/17/95, 1995, ink on paper, The Medford and Loraine Johnston Collection, promised gift to the High Museum of Art. Photo: Mike Jensen.
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| Rinus Van de Velde's imaginative world comes to life at Galerie Max Hetzler in Berlin | | Liam Gillick's "The Sleepwalkers" reflects on post-industrial society | | Photographer Ross O'Callaghan rejects outdated stereotypes about Irish men with 'The Paddy Irishman Project' |
Rinus Van de Velde, I really hope I can become someone, who isn't quite worth the trouble, ..., 2024. Oil pastel on paper, 65 3/8 x 44 1/8 in. © Rinus Van de Velde, courtesy the artist and Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris | London | Marfa.
BERLIN.- Galerie Max Hetzler is presenting an exhibition of new works by Rinus Van de Velde at GoethestraÃe 2/3 and BleibtreustraÃe 15/16 in Berlin. This is the artists third solo exhibition with the gallery, and his first in the Berlin spaces. In a practice spanning drawing, installation, sculpture and video work, Rinus Van de Velde creates a fictional autobiography, drawing on imagined memories of a life never lived. In his pictorial world, the possibilities of reality have no limits. Due to their unusually large format, Van de Veldes drawings are reminiscent of paintings, giving the medium an autonomous character. While he initially worked exclusively with charcoal, in recent years the artist began to introduce colour to his works, creating larger oil pastels, alongside small pencil drawings. In the works ... More | |
Liam Gillick, (still) The Sleepwalker, 2021. 4K video, 16 minutes 30 seconds, looped © Liam Gillick, courtesy Maureen Paley, London.
LONDON.- Maureen Paley presents Liam Gillicks fourth solo exhibition at the gallery, The Sleepwalkers. The exhibition features five artworks from the 1990s and 2000s and a recent film from 2021 shot in Korea. All the works stem from his interest in the aesthetics of our socio-political infrastructure the zones of strategy, negotiation, projection, and scenario-thinking that are the backdrop to daily life in post-industrial society. The works in the main gallery are bound together by Introduction (2002), a text that wraps mid-height around the walls. Three plinths carry pieces that relate to an ongoing critique of systems of mediation and soft control within a neo-liberal context. McNamara Setting (1994) focuses on the role of an advisor or political strategist, comprising mid-century mens business apparel heaped into an airport security tray along with fake snow, working torches, cigarette ... More | |
'The Paddy Irishman Project' explores new narratives of a nation.
DUBLIN.- Photographer Ross OCallaghan reacted against outdate tropes about Irishmen with a unique photographic project challenging Irish stereotypes, launched in partnership with sponsor Tourism Ireland and Irish creative agency The Brill Building. OCallaghans Paddy Irishman series is a not-for-profit visual arts project designed to challenge preconceptions of what an Irish Man is or looks like. OCallaghan created a photographic project centred around men in Ireland with the name Paddy, Pat or Pádraig and documented their stories, in a bid to challenge historical stereotypes about Ireland and reframe the often derogatory pejorative of Paddy. OCallaghans unique series of portraits tells a visual story of contemporary Irish men with the name Paddy, Pat or Pádraig and presents a new narrative of contemporary Ireland. The Paddy Irishman Project was originally launched in 2023 in New York ... More |
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| "Eye Filmmuseum celebrates Nuri Bilge Ceylan: First Dutch exhibition showcases his cinematic and photographic genius | | Sara Raza appointed Artistic Director and Chief Curator of the CCA in Tashkent | | Exploring the photographic genius of Boris Mikhailov at Marian Goodman Gallery |
Nuri Bilge Ceylan: Inner Landscapes, Eye Filmmuseum Amsterdam, 2025, © Hans Wilschut.
AMSTERDAM.- Eye Filmmuseum presents the first exhibition in the Netherlands devoted to the work of acclaimed Turkish filmmaker and photographer Nuri Bilge Ceylan. For this occasion, Eye is bringing together his prize-winning films and lesser-known landscape photographs for the very first time. That combination reveals not only Ceylans masterly photographic eye and sense of mise-en-scène, light and composition, but also the deeply compassionate way he explores universal themes from a Turkish perspective. Born in Istanbul in 1959, Ceylan is renowned for his literary style of cinematography in which he skilfully explores the condition humaine. His protagonists are authentic individuals who navigate personal struggles, seeking meaningful connections and learning to overcome loneliness and communication challenges. Although his films touch on the universal, they are inextricably rooted in recent Turkish history and its myriad contrasts: between city and countryside, religion and secularism, intel ... More | |
Sara Raza, Artistic Director and Chief Curator of the Centre for Contemporary Art in Tashkent. Courtesy of ACDF.
TASHKENT.- The Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation (ACDF) announces the appointment of Sara Raza as the Artistic Director and Chief Curator of the Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) in Tashkent, set to open in September 2025. The Centre, an ACDF initiative, will serve as a global arts and culture hub, fostering artistic and creative exchange, empowering artists and designers through residencies, exhibitions, workshops and educational programmes, and contributing to Uzbekistanâs cultural ecosystem. London-born, New-York-based Raza, an internationally celebrated curator, writer, and educator, is known for her critical curatorial and writing accomplishments and her ability to bridge diverse artistic and scholarly disciplines. Raza brings to the Centre two decades of curatorial experience across Asia, the Caucasus, the Middle East, Europe, and North America. She previously served as the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative curator for the Middle East and North Africa and has curated ... More | |
Boris Mikhailov, At Dusk, 1993. Chromogenic Print, 19 3/4 x 43 1/4 in. Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery. Photo: Alex Yudzon.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marian Goodman Gallery is presenting an exhibition of works by the acclaimed Ukrainian photographer Boris Mikhailov which will be on view until 22 February 2025. Known for his groundbreaking photographic practice which combines his interest in cinema, documentary, per- formance, and writing, Mikhailov has been an inventive, tender but uncompromising witness to the changing fate of his native Ukraine and the consequent experiences of war and displacement. The exhibition explores his rethinking and reworking of the photographic image by including two video works one from the late 60s-70s, Yesterdays Sandwich, and the most recent, Our Time is Our Burden, 2024 as well as showcasing three iconic photographic series from the 80s and 90s. One of the most acclaimed photographers of the former USSR, he represented Ukraine at the Venice Biennale in 2007 and 2017, and debuted his work in the United States at the Carnegie International in ... More |
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| Paul Thiebaud Gallery showcases William Theophilus Brown's studio drawings and paintings | | Light itself takes center stage in Marta Djourina's "Glowing Attraction" exhibition | | Jane Dickson to create art commission at JFK Airport's New Terminal 6 |
William Theophilus Brown, Self Portrait, 1998. Acrylic and graphite on paper, 11 x 8 1/2 inches © 2025 Estate of Paul Wonner and William Theophilus Brown, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Paul Thiebaud Gallery will open William Theophilus Brown: In the Studio, an exhibition of thirteen paintings on canvas, panel, and paper from the artists estate. Well known as a member of the Bay Area Figurative Painting movement and for his focus on painting the male form, the exhibition features a selection of Browns works from across five decades of his career. Sometimes clothed, but more often nude, the selected paintings include single figures in various poses, depictions of studio drawing sessions with a model and other artists, images of Browns favorite model Jamie Yates, and a self-portrait at the age of 79. The exhibition will be on view through March 8, 2025. First emerging as a member of the Bay Area Figurative Painting movement in the 1950s, by the end of the 1960s William Theophilus Brown began searching for new subject matter and a fresh style of painting. He found his ... More | |
Marta Djourina, from the series 'Glowing Attraction', 2020 2022. Unique piece. © Marta Djourina / VG BildKunst Bonn, 2025.
BERLIN.- Forget cameras and lenses. In Marta Djourinas captivating exhibition, Glowing Attraction, at Haus am Kleistpark | Projektraum, light itself becomes the artist, the medium, and the subject. Djourina abandons traditional photography, instead working directly with light sources and photographic paper to create stunning abstract works where light transforms into color. This analog approach offers a refreshing contrast to todays digital world, taking us back to the very essence of photography. Its not just about capturing light; its about letting light create the image, revealing phenomena usually confined to the laboratory or other controlled environments. The exhibition showcases several series that explore different facets of light. Works from Glowing Attraction (2019/20) were created using the mesmerizing glow of bioluminescent algae. The Foxfire series (2021-2023) captures the ethereal luminescence of bioluminescent ... More | |
Jane Dickson joins 18 other artists previously announced for commissions inside the new Terminal.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and JFK Millennium Partners (JMP), the company selected to build and operate the highly anticipated $4.2 billion Terminal 6 (T6) at John F. Kennedy International Airport, set to open to passengers in 2026, today announced that an additional public art commission has been awarded. Artist Jane Dickson has been selected to create a bronze medallion for the arrivals plaza, where arriving passengers will first set foot in New York City as they depart the terminal. The art program is led by Public Art Fund, the independent nonprofit organization dedicated to art in public spaces. Dickson, who lives and works in New York City, joins 18 featured artists (including 10 others from New York) who will capture the spirit of the city with a diverse range of artworks seamlessly integrated into the terminal. The exterior medallion, located at the arrivals plaza, will welcome visitors and will be located near a terrace with greenery. The 14-foot-diameter ci ... More |
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| Koos Breukel's intimate portrait exhibition opens at Foam | | Mexico's cultural world mourns the loss of Jaime Bali Wuest, champion of history and heritage | | Pangolin London showcases sculptures capturing the essence of wildlife |
Ulay, Amsterdam 2018 © Koos Breukel.
AMSTERDAM.- Foam presents Meet the Artist, an exhibition that offers a special insight into the life and career of one of the Netherlands' leading portrait photographers: Koos Breukel. This exhibition not only offers an overview of his impressive oeuvre, but also invites visitors to meet the artist himself and engage in conversation with him. In a specially equipped photo studio within the exhibition, there is even the possibility to be photographed by Breukel himself. The exhibition features 100 mostly artist portraits, that represent a cross-section of Breukel's career, from 1982 to the present. His photographs are known for their ability to capture the everyday and the coincidental, with attention to vulnerability and authenticity. His portraits have a timeless and pure appearance. Thanks to Breukel's empathetic approach and the creation of an atmosphere of mutual trust, his subjects dare to be vulnerable, which is reflected in the photos. Meet the Artist highlights the people who have played a ... More | |
Jaime Bali Wuest. Photo: Mauricio Marat, INAH.
MEXICO CITY.- Mexicos cultural landscape has lost a dedicated champion of history, anthropology, and heritage with the passing of writer and editor Jaime Bali Wuest on January 16, 2025, at the age of 85. Bali Wuest dedicated his life to sharing Mexicos rich past with the world, leaving an indelible mark on the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) and the broader publishing world. While his initial studies focused on engineering at the National Polytechnic Institute and a professorship in agricultural education at the Autonomous University of Chapingo (UACh), Bali Wuests true passion lay in the world of books and cultural dissemination. He became a driving force behind making Mexico's history and heritage accessible to a wide audience. His impact on INAH was profound. In 1983, at the behest of then-Director General Enrique Florescano Mayet, Bali Wuest established the INAH Publications Directorate, which he then led. During this time, he oversaw the publication of la ... More | |
Michael Cooper, Octopus, 2021. Bronze, 22 x 18 x 17 cm. 8 5/8 x 7 1/8 x 6 3/4 in. Edition 5 of 9.
LONDON.- For millennia, humans have turned to animals as a source of inspiration. Animal Instinct explores this enduring fascination, bringing together contemporary sculptors who translate the nature of animal life into tangible, expressive forms. From Joseph Paxtons texturally rich sculptures, which capture the essence of birds and other animals found in the Welsh countryside, to Isaac Okwirs beautifully observed depictions of Ugandas vibrant wildlife, this exhibition explores the myriad ways artists interpret and reimagine the animal kingdom. For artists such as Anita Mandl, whose background as a zoologist informs her elegant forms, encounters with animals are both scientific and emotional. Similarly, Jon Bucks dynamic sculptures - shaped by his early career as a bird keeper at Bristol Zoo - reveal his fascination with avian life and the ways in which animals and humans coexist. A highlight of the exhibition is a monument ... More |
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Kikuchi Tomo's legacy: Showcasing Japanese contemporary ceramics at the Kikuchi Kanjitsu Memorial Tomo MuseumTOKYO.- Ceramics often make up the form of a vessel, hence, are associated with objects for everyday use. However, when it comes to the field of contemporary ceramic artworks, these can be observed as a three-dimensional form, even when the work is reminiscent of a vessel. With the existence of materials, techniques, and traditions surrounding ceramics, contemporary ceramic artworks may have been the result of artists, each exploring their self-expression. KIKUCHI Tomo (1923-2016), the founder of Kikuchi Kanjitsu Memorial Tomo Museum, began collecting the late 20th century Japanese contemporary ceramic artworks, as she was fascinated by these enigmatic philosophies and sense of beauties. In 1983, she organized Japanese Ceramics Today Masterworks from the Kikuchi Collection which was on view at the Thomas M. Evans ... More Grazia Toderi and Gilberto Zorio transform Oratorio di San Filippo Neri with site-specific installationBOLOGNA.- The Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna presents a site-specific installation by Grazia Toderi and Gilberto Zorio, as a part of Art City 2025, curated by Cristina Francucci, with texts by Gianfranco Maraniello. The work Torri: Terra almost entirely occupies the central space of the Oratorio di San Filippo Neri, establishing a dialogue with its late-Baroque architecture and history, renewing the spatial-temporal boundaries of the place. In the darkness of the Oratorio, the five points of the two Torri Stella by Gilberto Zorio one of the leading figures of the Italian Arte Povera movement, which emerged in the 1960s meet and intertwine in a dance marked by different symmetries. Made from hundreds of stacked white masonry blocks, the towers create an alternation of cracks, gaps, and openings that establish a connection between ... More 2024 BusanMoCA Platform: I'm sorry -D-a-v-e- I'm afraid I can't do thatBUSAN.- BusanMoCA Platform, an annual exhibition initiated by the Busan Museum of Contemporary Art in 2023, is dedicated to sharing ongoing social reflections and concerns about the environment and ecosystems in the context of global transformation. This exploration connects to the evolution of collaborative processes among creators, researchers, and technologists across various fields. It aims to establish a new consensus among humanity, nature, the environment, and technology. Building on the 2023 inaugural exhibition, 2023 BusanMoCA Platform: Ingredients Mining, which explored the primal relationship between nature and humanity, the 2024 exhibition, 2024 BusanMoCA Platform: Im sorry -D-a-v-e- Im afraid I cant do that, extends this journey to address the sustainability of future environments. It explores the convergence ... More François Ghebaly Los Angeles reopens in Los AngelesLOS ANGELES, CA.- Across a breadth of modes and media, Noctis Imago considers six artists' critiques, extrapolations, and expansive reimaginations of the meeting points between bodies and the systems and institutions that orient them. Prominent within each artist's work are hybridic or mythological metaphors for the often self-contradictory facets of embodiment in society. Chimeras, biomechanical forms, dizzying parallax views, and impossible, recombinative landscapes become ways to imagine and interface these double conditions. With inventiveness and clarity, these artists reflect on the political and epistemic systems whose reach continues to color and complicate perspectives on the body: medicalism, biopolitics and philosophies of science, bureaucracy, geographical borders, certain art histories, and colonialism to name a few. Hailed ... More The Noise of Nothingness: Group exhibition explores presence and absenceCOPENHAGEN.- NILS STÃRK is presenting the opening of The Noise of Nothingness, a group exhibition featuring works by DarÃo Escobar, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Mads Gamdrup, Michael Kvium, Miriam Bäckström, and Runo Lagomarsino. The exhibition opens Saturday, January 18, from 11 am to 3 pm at Glentevej 49, Copenhagen. The Noise of Nothingness brings together seven artworks that explore the tension between presence and absence, noise and silence, materiality and void. Through diverse mediums, the artworks probe the subtleties of perception and meaning; how it is constructed, fragmented and often left unresolved. Together, the pieces reflect on the paradoxes of representation, resonating with the noise of contemporary existence: a ceaseless clash of signals that gestures toward the ineffable silence and nothingness beneath. ... More Hood Museum opens first major solo museum exhibition of photographs by artist Cara RomeroHANOVER, NH.- The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth opened its landmark exhibition Cara Romero: Panûpünüwügai (Living Light), the first major solo museum exhibition of artist Cara Romeros photographs. Including over 60 large-scale photographs, this exhibition showcases Romeros iconic imagesspanning two decadesalongside new work on a scale never seen before. The exhibition is curated by Hood Museum Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs and Curator of Indigenous Art Dr. Jami Powell and will be on view at the Hood Museum from January 18 through August 10, 2025. Romero explains, The title of the exhibition, Panûpünüwügai, means living light in the Chemehuevi language. The way that weve put the words together, Panûpü-nüwügai, is a translation of the spirit of light. So, it has multiple meanings. Its not just about the subject matter thats in the show, its also about ... More Feathers as symbols of yearning: Chris Maynard's art at Craft in America CenterLOS ANGELES, CA.- Imagine carving into a single bird feather with a surgical scalpel to cut several individual bird outlines. That is the art practice of Chris Maynard. Over his career, he has carved hundreds of tiny birds and arranged them into delicate configurations both contained in shadow boxes and scattered over wall installations. These configurations allude to a range of bird activities, from dynamic murmurations to the ecosystems they are part of. A selection of Maynard's work, including an in-situ wall installation, will be on display at the Craft in America Center starting January 18, 2025. Maynard carves feathers into intricate art and creates elegant arrangements in order to heighten awareness of their natural beauty. His work highlights the subtle patterns and colors of the feathers themselves, inviting the viewer to look deeply. For ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English fashion designer and photographer Cecil Beaton died January 18, 1980. Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton CBE (14 January 1904 - 18 January 1980) was an English fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, painter, interior designer and an Academy Awardâwinning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre. In this image: Marylin Monroe. © Sothebyâs Cecil Beaton Archive.
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