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The First Art Newspaper on the Net Established in 1996 Sunday, March 2, 2025 A century snapped: Royal family portraits shine in Edinburgh Installation view. © Royal Collection Enterprises Limited 2025 | Royal Collection Trust, photograph: Jane Massey. EDINBURGH.- A portrait of Queen Elizabeth II standing against the dramatic Highlands landscape of Balmoral is among almost 100 rarely seen photographs, negatives, and archival materials from the last 100 years that are on display at The King’s Gallery in Edinburgh. Royal Portraits: A Century of Photography charts the evolution of royal portrait photography from the 1920s to the present day, unveiling the stories behind the creation of some of the most iconic images of the Royal Family. The exhibition brings together little-seen vintage prints (the original works produced by the photographer, or under their direct supervision), contact sheets and proofs from the Royal Collection, alongside documents including letters and memorandums held in the Royal Archives. It is the first time many of the works have been shown in Scotland, following the exhibition’s successful run in London. ... More The Best Photos of the Day Installation view "Hans Haacke. Retrospective", Belvedere 21. Photo: Kunst-Dokumentation.com, Manuel Carreon Lopez / Belvedere, Vienna. Sports gear becomes art in spring exhibition George Cole Auctions will hold a massive multi-estates auction on March 8 Thomas Scheibitz unveils 'Argos Eyes' at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery Sophie Inard, “First base en rose,” 2023. Vintage hockey helmet with cotton yarn. Courtesy of the artist. © Sophie Inard. SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Basketballs, footballs, tennis rackets, hockey sticks, jerseys, punching bags and other sports gear and paraphernalia become art in “Sport and Spectator,” on view March 1-July 27 at the McNay Art Museum. The exhibition celebrates American sports culture and confronts its complex intersection with race, gender and class. “Sport and Spectator” includes approximately 40 sculptures, textiles, screenprints and sports-themed installations by contemporary artists Brandon J. Donahue-Shipp, Jeffrey Gibson, Raul Rene Gonzalez, Sophie Inard, Brian Jungen, Justin Korver, Esmaa Mohamoud, Betsy Odom, Hank Willis Thomas and Tyrrell Winston. Each work offers a recognizable element of sports while inviting viewers to consider athletics’ role in shaping society. Donahue-Shipp, who aspired to a career in professional basketball, uses his artistic practice to explore social and cultural realities in Black and Brown ... More There are five original oil paintings in the sale by Emile Gruppé (American, 1896-1978), to include this vibrant signed oil on board seascape signed by Gruppé, framed (est. $5,000-$8,000). EWD HOOK, NY.- Nearly 500 lots of fresh-to-market antique and estate merchandise, hand-picked from the Hudson Valley region, will come up for bid on Saturday, March 8th, by George Cole Auctions, online and live in the gallery located at 7578 North Broadway in Red Hook, just north of the CVS Drug Store on Route 9 and a quarter-mile north of the Rt. 199/W intersection. “We’ll be selling Rhinebeck and Saugerties estate contents, along with select others, so folks need to mark their calendars and plan to attend this massive, important auction,” said George Cole of George Cole Auctions. “We invite everyone to join the infamous ‘Cooper Cork Pop’ to kick off the auction promptly at 4 pm. Also, come hungry. Our caterer has many tasty offerings.” There are five original oil paintings in the sale by Emile Gruppé (1896-1978), the American artist best known for his impressionistic ... More Installation view, Argos Eyes, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, February 27 – April 18, 2025. Photo by Jason Wyche. Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York / Los Angeles. NEW YORK, NY.- Tanya Bonakdar Gallery opened Thomas Scheibitz: Argos Eyes, the gallery’s eleventh solo exhibition with the artist since 1998, and his first show in the United States in nearly five years. Internationally renowned for his mastery of painting, Scheibitz subverts traditional notions of the medium with radical juxtapositions of color and a unique formal language that lands ambiguously between abstraction and representation. Drawing from classical painting and architecture, the contemporary urban landscape, and popular culture, Scheibitz deconstructs and recombines signs, images, shapes, and architectural fragments in ways that challenge expected contexts and interpretations. Scheibitz’s practice has been at the center of contemporary artmaking since the late 1990s with early solo exhibitions at the ICA London, the Stedelijk ... More Maria Brunner's 'Acqua Felice' flows at Capitain Petzel Exhibition marks Brooklyn Museum's anniversary year by exploring the collection's rich history and evolution Exhibition of rare paintings by Bernd Koberling on view at Contemporary Fine Arts Studio view Maria Brunner. © Maria Brunner. Courtesy the artist and Capitain Petzel, Berlin. BERLIN.- Capitain Petzel is presenting Maria Brunner’s solo exhibition Acqua Felice. The exhibition’s title, Acqua Felice, references the historic Roman aqueduct, which once transformed the city’s water supply, echoing Maria Brunner’s engagement with flow and movement. The artist previously worked in a hyper-realistic mode, a process that ultimately became an act of constraint, a self-imposed discipline that led to a rupture. The new body of work in the exhibition marks a return to fundamentals – gesture, material, surface – making a connection to her early drawings. While traces of realism remain, such as a reference to the self-portrait of the famous physicist Ernst Mach from his own perspective in the painting ALLES WALZER, DEIN ERNST, they recede into something more elusive, a fragmented presence. Maria Brunner’s new body of work unfolds as a meditation on her process. The artist has constructed a space, in which her work is neither ... More Georgia O’Keeffe, Brooklyn Bridge, 1949. Oil on Masonite. Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Mary Childs Draper, 77.11. Photo: Brooklyn Museum. BROOKLYN, NY.- From groundbreaking early acquisitions to striking new additions, the Brooklyn Museum’s collection has long championed artists and artworks that catalyze imaginative storytelling and brave conversations. As the Museum commemorates its 200th anniversary, Breaking the Mold: Brooklyn Museum at 200 celebrates its unique legacy. Comprising three sections that boast long-time favorites and brand-new standouts, the exhibition brings fresh narratives to the fore while exploring the collection’s rich history and evolution. Breaking the Mold is organized by curators across the institution, featuring works from all collection areas. “This exhibition is a celebration of everything the Brooklyn Museum represents,” says Catherine Futter, Director of Curatorial Affairs and Senior Curator of Decorative Arts. ”As we mark the Museum’s 200th anniversary, this exhibition contextualizes the current moment in our long, ... More Bernd Koberling, “Lichtgewebe”, 1992. Oil on canvas, 220 x 160 cm. BERLIN.- Contemporary Fine Arts is presenting an exhibition of works by Bernd Koberling featuring paintings from the years 1968 to 1992. As one of the few native Berliners (born in 1938), Koberling has never shown an interest in the themes of urban life. His Nordic landscapes and sceneries are created in Berlin, though he repeatedly escapes the city through travels to Iceland, Scotland, and Lapland. Volcanic terrains, block lava rock, cormorants, nesting birds, landscapes, beach workers, whales, and metamorphoses—these subjects seem far removed from urban reality. In contrast to the dominant urban world, he presents a self-contained and ever-present natural reality. It is the immediacy of nature, more tangible in Arctic regions than in landscapes shaped by human intervention, that defines his work. And yet, does a painter today not embrace escapism when depicting poppies, cormorants, whales, or river estuaries in the midst of a metropolis? The question ultimately turns on ... More Works by founding figure of political conceptual art and institutional critique on view at Belvedere 21 From prehistory to pigment: Oliver Beer's sonic art opens in Paris André Butzer unveils monumental paintings at Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris Hans Haacke, Large Condensation Cube, 1963–67. Courtesy the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York © Hans Haacke / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Bildrecht, Vienna 2025. VIENNA.- As one of contemporary art’s central protagonists, Hans Haacke (b. 1936) redefined the relationship between art and society, and influenced generations of artists. His work remains highly topical and strikingly relevant in today’s world. Stella Rollig, General Director of the Belvedere: Hans Haacke’s sharp view of institutions, politics, ecology, and society reflects the explosive issues and conflicts of our present, not only calling for critical debate but also demanding us to take a position. Haacke’s artistic work sensitizes us to diversity, freedom of opinion, and democratic values—attitudes of the utmost importance at a time when democracies are coming under siege worldwide. From the 1960s onwards, the German-American artist initially reflected on physical, biological, and ecological systems before turning his attention to socio- ... More Oliver Beer, Resonance Painting (Shadows), 2025. Pigment on canvas. Unframed 120 x 85 x 3,6 cm (47,24 x 33,46 x 1,41 in). Courtesy Thaddaeus Ropac gallery, London · Paris · Salzburg · Milan · Seoul. Photo: Eva Herzog. © Oliver Beer. PARIS.- Following his critically acclaimed installation at the 17th Biennale de Lyon (2024–25), created in the Palaeolithic painted caves of Dordogne, British artist Oliver Beer brings his groundbreaking Resonance Paintings to Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Marais for the first time. This exhibition deepens his conceptual exploration of the hidden ties between collective musical memory and visual expression, revealing how sound can shape form and how abstraction is embedded in the way we hear. Beer is known for pushing the boundaries between visual art, music and space. In his Resonance Paintings series – developed over years of research and experimentation – he employs sound vibrations to compose precise forms on canvas, ‘using sound as his paintbrush’, as he puts it. Drawing ... More André Butzer, Frau am Tisch mit Früchten (1), 2024–2025 © André Butzer, photo: def image. PARIS.- Galerie Max Hetzler is presenting Frau am Tisch mit Früchten, André Butzer’s third solo exhibition with the Paris gallery. André Butzer envisions things astutely and in earnest with shocking clarity: table, fruit, woman. In four monumental paintings, created for the main hall of the gallery, he intertwines them in a planarly whole: Frau am Tisch mit Früchten (1–4), 2024 2025. With each painting, Butzer leads us onto the same threshold. A red plane, hemmed in by the white of the canvas, opens up an enormous interior space within the image. The abundant red hue does not only constitute the surrounding ambient colour, it is the site of the painting itself. Butzer merges all spatial properties in total flatness. The entire image is a colour field, a room, a wall, a floor, a tableau, a table and even a tablecloth. With light and transparent strokes, Butzer lets the plane sway into the depths. The image sways in the plane and in the depths of the chromatic expanse, being both flat ... More Monet's Floating Worlds at Giverny: Portland's Waterlilies resurfaces Marguerite Hersberger's "Floating Structures" captivates A helicopter upside down: Paola Pivi exhibits at the Church San Carlo Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926), Waterlilies, 1914-1915, oil on canvas, image: 63 1/4 in x 71 1/8 in; frame: 68 3/4 in x 76 9/16 in x 3 1/4 in, Museum Purchase: Helen Thurston Ayer Fund. Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, 59.16 PORTLAND, OR.- After more than 60 years, Claude Monet’s celebrated masterpiece Waterlilies emerges in a new light at the Portland Art Museum. Thanks to a meticulous conservation process, the painting has been carefully returned to its original brilliance—without varnish—to reveal Monet’s intended color harmonies and luminosity. The newly revived Waterlilies painting will be the centerpiece of the exhibition Monet’s Floating Worlds at Giverny, a tribute to the artist’s groundbreaking work and the influences that shaped it. The exhibition opened today and will be on view through August 10, 2025. Monet’s Floating Worlds at Giverny offers visitors new insights into Monet’s artistic lens, revealing his inspiration from Japanese woodblock prints—ukiyo-e, often referred to as “pictures of the floating world”—that captivated ... More Marguerite Hersberger, Out of the Center Nr. 31, 2007. Acrylglas, Acrylfarbe, 100 x 100 cm. BIELEFELD.- A sense of ethereal lightness has settled over the city's art enthusiasts with the opening of Marguerite Hersberger's latest exhibition, "Floating Structures." The renowned artist, a key figure in the Zurich Concrete movement, is once again demonstrating her mastery of light, geometry, and space. Following her acclaimed 2024 retrospective at Haus Konstruktiv, Hersberger's new collection of 25 works offers a compelling exploration of the interplay between surface, space, and light. Visitors are drawn into a world where geometric forms seem to dance, suspended in a delicate balance between materiality and the intangible. "It's not just about seeing; it's about experiencing," shared one attendee during the exhibition's opening. "The way Hersberger manipulates light and shadow creates this mesmerizing, almost dreamlike environment." Hersberger's dedication to the principles of Concrete Art is evident. Her works, characterized by their precise ... More Installation view. Photo: Nicola de Crecchio. CREMONA.- Paola Pivi presents an Agusta 109 helicopter, flipped upside down and placed on the floor of the central nave of the church San Carlo. This positioning transforms an object known for its functionality and association with movement into an unexpected and disorienting presence. The inversion emphasizes the tension between the helicopter’s tangible materiality and its symbolic connection to flight, challenging visitors to reconsider their perceptions and interactions with familiar objects, which in this context take on a new and surprising dimension. The inverted helicopter exhibited at San Carlo recalls other interventions by Paola Pivi in which recognizable vehicles and objects are transformed in unexpected ways. Her previous works include “Camion” (1997), a sculpture consisting of a lorry flipped onto its side; “Untitled (airplane)” (1999), a fighter jet turned upside down and presented at the Venice Biennale; and the inverted helicopter Westland Wessex shown i ... More Amoako Boafo. Proper Love More News Australia's primary showcase of contemporary Western Australian Aboriginal art returns to the heart of Boorloo/Perth PERTH.- In 2025, the monumental state-wide annual art market and exhibition Revealed: New and Emerging WA Aboriginal Artists returns to Boorloo/Perth featuring works from more than 400 artists – presented by the Aboriginal Art Centre Hub Western Australia (AACHWA), in collaboration with the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) and the WA Museum – from 11 April to 15 June 2025. For its 17th year, after nearly one decade, Revealed returns to the state’s CBD, enveloping Perth’s Cultural Centre for Australia’s most significant display of Western Australian Aboriginal art – comprising a free exhibition, art market and program of special events – across multiple art forms. Spanning Western Australia’s sprawling country ... More New York State Education Department launches national search for next Museum Director ALBANY, NY.- The New York State Museum today launched a national search for its next Museum Director, with Dr. Brent D. Glass, Director Emeritus of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, leading the effort. With decades of experience in museum leadership, cultural diplomacy, and historical preservation, Dr. Glass is uniquely positioned to guide this important search as the Museum seeks a visionary leader to shape its future. Board of Regents Chancellor Lester W. Young Jr. said, “We stand at a pivotal moment where preserving our history, educating the public, and advancing the work of our dedicated researchers and scientists at the State Museum is more important than ever. This critical work requires a forward-thinking, innovative leader at the helm. We are honored to have Dr. Glass spearhead the effort to identify such a candidate." ... More Artium Museoa presents the exhibition 'Inés Medina. Plastic Arts Analytical Research, 1978-1995' VITORIA-GASTEIZ.- Artium Museoa, Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country presents the exhibition Inés Medina. Plastic Arts Analytical Research, 1978-1995 [A3 Gallery, until 1 June 2025]. The exhibition presents the plastic arts research of the artist Inés Medina (Cáceres, 1950), ranging from her first monochrome experiments to, taler, the introduction of the computer into her creative processes. To mark the exhibition, Artium Museoa has published a publication that includes an extensive interview with the artist by the researcher Sara Abisambra Borrero. This new exhibition presents the plastic arts research of the artist Inés Medina (Cáceres, 1950), ranging from her first monochrome experiments in 1978 until the mid-1990s, coinciding with her trip to New York, where she stayed for the next 15 years until her definitive return to the Basque Country. Divided ... More Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige and Slavs and Tatars in the Islamic Arts Biennale 2025 JEDDAH.- Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige and Slavs and Tatars new commissions are on view now at the 2nd Islamic Arts Biennale, And All That is In Between, curated by Muhannad Shono with Joanna Chevalier and Amina Diab as Associate Curators. Commissioned by the Diriyah Biennale Foundation for the Islamic Arts Biennale 2025, I Was Looking At The Garden When I Saw The Sky (Jeddah) by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige underlines the Biennale’s theme of the “In-Between.” The work lifts above the ground a garden patch that forms part of the outdoor layout of the Biennale spaces. The suspended garden references soilless, hydroponic agriculture techniques and questions entanglements of context, extraterritoriality, and globalization. It stems from the artists’ exploration of soils and subsoils and their interpretive techniques in revealing the geologic ... More Catalina Museum opens new exhibition, Catalina Clay: Unveiling the Island's Artistic Heritage AVALON, CA.- Catalina Museum for Art & History has announced the exhibition, Catalina Clay: Unveiling the Island’s Artistic Heritage, a captivating showcase celebrating the artistry of the Catalina Clay Products Company. On view from March 1, 2025 through January 4, 2026, this exhibition highlights the ceramics that transformed Catalina Island’s cultural landscape during the 1920s through the 1940s, bringing vibrancy, craftsmanship and innovation to the art of decorative pottery. “Catalina Clay showcases the artistry and craftsmanship that made Catalina pottery so extraordinary,” said Sheila Bergman, Executive Director of Catalina Museum for Art & History. “With its striking colors and innovative designs, these ceramics infused everyday objects with a sense of vibrancy and style that defined an era. This exhibition brings to life the creative spirit of the Catalina ... More Ming Fay, renowned sculptor and installation artist, dies at 82 NEW YORK, NY.- Ming Fay, a celebrated New York City-based artist known for his immersive sculptural gardens and public art installations, passed away on February 23, 2025, at the age of 82. Fay’s artistic practice explored the symbiotic relationship between humans and the natural world. Drawing from his deep knowledge of Chinese and American horticulture and mythology, as well as a close observational practice involving personally collected items such as seeds, seashells and bones, Fay sculpted larger-than-life fruits and other organic forms, often reworking known flora to create imaginary and otherworldly “hybrid” botanical species. His immersive installations invited visitors to wander through lush “gardens” or “jungles” of both real and fictional plant life. He often used the concept of the garden as a symbol of abundance or utopia—a metaphorical space ... More MFAH hosts national touring retrospective of groundbreaking 20th-century artist Toshiko Takaezu HOUSTON, TX.- Born of Okinawan heritage in Hawai‘i, Toshiko Takaezu (1922-2011) was a groundbreaking 20th-century American artist most celebrated for her prolific output of expressively glazed “closed form” ceramic sculptures that ranged in scale from palm-sized works to immersive environments. Informed both by her cross-cultural heritage and deep appreciation for nature, Takaezu radically reimagined the vessel form as a site for limitless experimentation, seeking to harness the expressive potential of both abstract painting and sculpture. Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within traces the evolution of the artist’s renowned practice, considering both the worlds she conjured within individual ceramic forms and majestic installations. The exhibition will be on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston from March 2 through May 18, 2025. Featuring some 100 objects ... More Opacity in art: Caribbean voices reflect disaster and hope at Centre d'art contemporain Passerelle BREST.- In 1902 the volcano Mount Pelee erupted on the island of Martinique, solidifying its place as the worst volcanic disaster of the 20th century. The eruption killed nearly thirty thousand people and completely destroyed the port town of Saint Pierre. Four decades later, across the Atlantic Ocean, U.S. troops aggressively liberated the German-occupied city of Brest in one of the fiercest battles of World War II. The aftermath was a devastated, rubble-strewn landscape and thousands of casualties. Though the specifics of the two events differ, the outcome was the same: two vibrant cities, full of life, were razed and silenced. The photographic documentation of these calamities left behind emotionally charged and hauntingly captivating images of destruction: hallowed structures, dusty streets framed by bright skies and visible horizons. Beautiful ... More Miles McEnery Gallery now representing Karel Funk NEW YORK, NY.- Miles McEnery Gallery announced representation of Karel Funk. Though Funk’s portraits have all the drama of Renaissance paintings, they are not theatrical—the subject does not acknowledge the viewer, nor do they perform for us. Instead, they are transfixed, their gaze drawn to something beyond our reach, unaware of their own audience. The absence of a visible face doesn’t create distance but instead draws us closer; through their anonymity, they become projections of the viewer’s own emotions and narratives. The use of flat, monochromatic backgrounds further focus our attention on his exacting photorealistic details: seams pucker under their own pressure while minute wrinkles cast shadows like the topography of a craggy landscape. Funk’s figures dwell in the ambiguous space between the seen and unseen. Here, the familiar and ordinary ... More Art Paris 2025: Promises, an all-new sector focussing on young galleries and emerging artists PARIS.- As Art Paris finally makes its return to the Grand Palais, the 27th edition of the fair is more than ever committed to supporting young galleries and emerging artists. No less than 25 galleries founded in the last 10 years have been selected by independent curator and Art Paris selection committee member Marc Donnadieu for the Promises sector, which will occupy a new location along the Grand Palais balconies. The fair supports 45% of participating galleries’ exhibitor fees and each gallery can present up to 3 artists. Galleries come from all over the world – this year 59% of the exhibitors are international galleries and there are 17 first-time exhibitors from France and abroad. Marc Donnadieu, is an independent exhibition curator and art critic. He has been curator in chief at Photo Élysée (Musée Cantonal pour la Photographie, Lausanne), after previously ... More Diné multimedia artist explores the relationship between land, memory, and place SANTA FE, NM.- SITE SANTA FE launched its 2025 program with a solo exhibition by Dakota Mace. DAHODIYINII – Sacred Places is a rich, multimedia presentation of photography, weaving, beadwork, sound, and installation, drawing on the artist’s Diné heritage to explore the importance of Land to generational memory. Through her excavation of personal and local New Mexico history, the artist posits that a locus of sorrow can transform into a space for healing. As the recipient of the 2023 Ellsworth Kelly Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Mace’s ambitious exhibition—years in the making— references one of the most appalling episodes in American history: the US Army’s expulsion of the Diné people from their ancestral homeland, Dinétah, as an act of ethnic cleansing. DAHODIYINII – Sacred Places features over 2,000 newly commissioned ... More PhotoGalleries Gerard Byrne Mystery & Benevolence Anne Frank Moore and Malaparte Flashback On a day like today, French painter Berthe Morisot died March 02, 1895. Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot (January 14, 1841 - March 2, 1895) was a painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. She was described by Gustave Geffroy in 1894 as one of "les trois grandes dames" of Impressionism alongside Marie Bracquemond and Mary Cassatt. In this image: Berthe Morisot, Grain field, c.1875, Musée d'Orsay. © 1996 - 2025 Founder: Ignacio Villarreal (1941 - 2019) Editor & Publisher: Jose Villarreal (52 8110667640) Art Director: Juan José Sepúlveda Ramírez Writer: Ofelia Zurbia Betancourt

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