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The First Art Newspaper on the Net Established in 1996 Thursday, March 13, 2025 Exhibition explores how artists reimagine religious iconography to address contemporary phenomena Installation view. LONDON.- Halcyon presents Sacred & Profane at its flagship gallery at 148 New Bond Street. Featuring Andy Warhol, David LaChapelle, Dominic Harris, Graceland London, Mitch Griffiths, Pedro Paricio, Robert Montgomery, and Santiago Montoya, this new exhibition explores how artists reimagine religious iconography, and deeply rooted art historical themes to address contemporary phenomena, juxtaposing the past with the present. For many centuries, art served primarily religious purposes with paintings and sculptures acting as focal points for devotion or as educational tools about morality – the art in Sacred & Profane draws from this tradition and its rich iconography, inviting the viewer to reflect on the role of spirituality in today’s world. By reimagining ancient symbols and narratives, the art challenges perceptions of faith, culture and society. ... More The Best Photos of the Day In Mingei Modern, Dai Ichi Arts, Ltd. presents a group of ceramic works by Kawai Kanjiro (1890-1966), one of the founding figures of the Mingei Movement. From left to right: the flat, square jar from the mid-1950s, the 1961 stoneware flask featuring Kawai's signature Gosu blue glaze, and the 1955 platter with a Hakeme glaze, which reflects Kawai's deep engagement with traditional Korean ceramic techniques. Documentary revives the mystery of Palenque's Red Queen Michelangelo's rare sketches make US debut in exhibition now open at Muscarelle Museum of Art National Portrait Gallery stages its first ever exhibition of portraits by Edvard Munch Panoramic view of the nuclear area of Palenque, in which Temple XIII or Temple of the Red Queen is located. Photo: Rafael Morales. PALENQUE, MEXICO.- Nearly three decades after the discovery of a richly adorned tomb in the heart of the Mayan city of Palenque, a new documentary seeks to bring the enigmatic figure known as the Red Queen back to life. "The Tomb of the Red Queen of Palenque," set to premiere online on March 14, 2025, offers a compelling look at one of Mexico's most significant archaeological finds. The documentary, produced by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), revisits the 1994 excavation of Temple XIII, where archaeologists unearthed a monolithic sarcophagus containing the remains of a woman covered in red pigment, along with a wealth of funerary offerings. Through interviews with the original excavation team, including custodians and researchers, the film reconstructs the painstaking ... More Installation view. WILLIAMSBURG, VA.- Michelangelo destroyed many of his sketches, leaving fewer than 50 surviving drawings from the Sistine Chapel ceiling. The Muscarelle Museum of Art at William & Mary presents the rare opportunity to view nearly half of the artist’s sketches in “Michelangelo: The Genesis of the Sistine,” open now through May 28. The exhibition, exclusive to the Muscarelle, celebrates the 550th anniversary of Michelangelo's birth. “The Genesis of the Sistine” unfolds across five galleries, with the first three enveloped in deep blue hues and soft lighting that evoke the intimate atmosphere of the Sistine Chapel. The exhibition focuses on 25 rarely displayed masterpiece drawings by Michelangelo for the Sistine Chapel ceiling and “The Last Judgement,” including the world debut of one believed to be his first exploration of the Sistine Chapel. In total, 38 objects, including engravings, lithographs and ... More Edvard Munch, Felix Auerbach, 1906 © Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation). LONDON.- The National Portrait Gallery opened its spring exhibition Edvard Munch Portraits. Curated by Alison Smith, previously Chief Curator of the National Portrait Gallery and now Director of Collections and Research at the Wallace Collection, the exhibition will show how Munch (1863-1944) painted portraits as commissions and for personal reasons, with many pictures doubling up as icons or archetypes of the human condition despite being based on the direct observation of named individuals. Contrary to the typical portrayal of Munch as an artist isolated from the mainstream, he will be presented as a social being, exploring his wide network of creative contacts across Scandinavia and Northern Europe. Including more than 40 works, the exhibition is arranged thematically and chronologically, taking visitors on a four-part journey through Munch’s immediate ... More Christie's presents its Modern British and Irish Art Sales on 19 and 20 March 2025 Museum Angewandte Kunst showcases illuminated manuscripts from the museum collection George Rickey's kinetic art explores natural laws at Maruani Mercier Barbara Hepworth, Maquette (Variation on a Theme) conceived in 1958. Estimate: £ 120,000 - £180,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2025. LONDON.- Christie’s announced its March 2025 Modern British and Irish Art sales in London, as part of Christie’s flagship 20th/21st Century Art auction series. Taking place on 19 March (Evening Sale) and 20 March (Day Sale), the auctions will showcase the very best of British and Irish art from 1900 to the present day, and include artists such as Frank Auerbach, Sean Scully, Lynn Chadwick, Bridget Riley, L. S. Lowry, Sir Winston Churchill, William Scott and Dame Barbara Hepworth, among others. The Modern British and Irish Art Sales exhibition will be open to the public at Christie’s King Street, London, from 13 to 19 March 2025. Leading the Modern British and Irish Art Evening Sale is Lynn Chadwick’s Sitting Couple on Bench, conceived in 1990 (estimate: £1,200,000 – 1,800,000). A monumental testament to one of the artist’s most celebrated motifs, this work embodies Chadwick’s life-long exploration of human relationships, formal dynamism and material innovati ... More Antifonary, 3rd quarter of the 16th century, Swabia, 23 × 16.5 × 4.4 cm. © Museum Angewandte Kunst. FRANKFURT.- For the first time, the Museum Angewandte Kunst is showcasing its complete collection of late medieval illuminated manuscripts in the Text & Spirit exhibition. These include books and fragments decorated with exquisite illuminations and ornaments in gold, lapis lazuli or purple. What use are books of hours from the Middle Ages to us today? Text & Spirit sheds light on various parallels between then and now, drawing a comparison between the books of hours and today’s smartphones. The focus lies on the impact of both as life companions, which are simultaneously means of communication and objects of prestige. Their significance reaches the status of fashionable, performative accessories. The fact that the use of both media leads to a mental detachment from the immediate environment and becoming encapsulated in the mind is particularly impressive. The exhibition thus offers a new perspective on medieval books of hours based on the 21st century as the age of digital communication. Text & Sp ... More George Rickey, Column of Five Lines with Gimbal II, 1990. Stainless steel, 74 x 46 x 46 cm, 108 x 18 x 18 in. Ed. 2/3. BRUSSELS.- Maruani Mercier presents George Rickey: Drawing in Space, an exhibition of important works by a pioneering figure in kinetic sculpture, spanning four decades of Rickey’s artistic production. From the early suspended mobiles of the 1950s, to the geometric compositions of lines and planes characteristic of the artist’s later work, Drawing in Space highlights Rickey’s preoccupation with the natural laws of motion and the temporal dimension of the sculptural medium. Employing increasingly complex mechanisms throughout his career, Rickey constructed precisely calibrated sculptural works which move with quiet, poetic deliberation. Having turned to sculpture in the early 1950s, the artist soon began using gyroscopic forms of movement, constructing mechanisms that responded to the slightest fluctuations in air currents. Executed in stainless steel, the elements in Rickey’s kinetic works rotate, extend and pleat in the air, projecting a sense of ... More Self-taught artists at Hirschl & Adler Modern: Blurring lines between reality and imagination Julien's Auctions to offer over 150 lots of memorabilia from Paul Oakenfold's expansive career BMW Art Car Collection celebrates 50th anniversary with global tour Bill Traylor (1854-1949), Mother and Child, 1939. NEW YORK, NY.- Hirschl & Adler Modern presents Self-Taught Artists at the Crossroads of Fact and Fiction, an exhibition featuring works by a distinguished group of self-taught artists, including Bill Traylor, James Castle, Willard Watson (The Texas Kid), Purvis Young, Lonnie Holley, Jeanne Brousseau, and James Edward Deeds. This compelling show offers a unique exploration of the intersection between reality and imagination, where the distinctions between truth and fiction blur, creating deeply personal and thought-provoking narratives. The exhibition showcases the diverse visions and creative expressions of artists who, without formal training, developed innovative approaches to artmaking, often infused with personal histories, memories, and cultural storytelling. Their works span a range of media, from drawing and painting to sculpture, and represent a wide spectrum of emotional intensity, from the raw energy of Bill Traylor’s vivid imagery to the meditative abstraction of Lonnie Holley’s ... More The sale spans his early days as an A&R man in ‘80s London to his current status as a top-tier producer, DJ, and head of Perfecto. LOS ANGELES, CA.- Julien's Auctions returns to Los Angeles for " Ready, Steady, Bid ” celebrating Superstar DJ - Paul Oakenfold . This auction will take place on Friday, March 28th at 10am PST and live online at juliensauctions.com . The sale features a spectacular lineup of over 150 pieces of dance music history owned and used by the pioneering DJ, Oakenfold himself. Items include awards and plaques, rare vintage posters, flyers and photos, fine art, DJ equipment, and much more. Details below. Oakenfold’s influence extends far beyond clubs and festivals, redefining electronic music through groundbreaking performances. He is the first DJ to perform at the legendary Glastonbury festival to a 90K+ audience, he has shaped the genre for over three decades and remains a global force. Three time Grammy®-nominated, his career highlights include three world tours opening for Madonna and U2, historic DJ sets at Stonehenge, ... More BMW Art Car World Tour 2025/26. BMW Art Car Collection in front of BMW Headquarters, Munich. Photo: Enes Kucevic. © BMW AG. NEW YORK, NY.- For the past 50 years, the BMW Art Car series has provided artists fascinated by automobiles with a perfect playground of art and design, technology and innovation, motorsport and engineering. The 20 “rolling sculptures”—from Alexander Calder’s first-ever Art Car to Julie Mehretu’s latest—offer a cross-section of art history over the past five decades: minimalism, pop art, magical realism, abstraction, conceptual art and digital art. To mark the 50th anniversary, the BMW Art Car World Tour features an exhibition programme spanning all five continents and including numerous accompanying events. Calder, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Holzer, Hockney, Koons, Rauschenberg, Mahlangu, Eliasson, Baldessari, Cao Fei, Mehretu. Since its invention nearly 140 years ago, artists worldwide have engaged with the automobile both critically and enthusiastically. And over the last 50 years, the BMW Art Car series has contributed ... More RM Sotheby's announce Nigel Mansell's Legacy Collection Part III From ramps to audio guides: Park McArthur's work explores degeneration and dependency Mexico celebrates return of 915 Pre-Hispanic artifacts from U.S. The entirety of the collection will be offered without reserve. Photo: © Neil Fraser. Courtesy of RM Sotheby's. LONDON.- RM Sotheby’s announced the sale of Nigel Mansell’s Legacy Collection Part III, which will be sold in the Shift Online: Europe and Middle East auction that will run from 23-28 April. The collection will be offered directly from legendary Formula 1 World Champion Nigel Mansell, and comprises 40 exceptional lots ranging from race-worn items to collectible timepieces. Highlights include a 1992 Canon Williams Arai Nigel Mansell Formula 1 Helmet that was worn by Mansell when he drove for Canon Williams Renault in his Championship-winning 1992 Formula 1 season (Estimated at £25,000 - £50,000 GBP). Also offered is his 1992 FIA World Formula 1 Drivers' Championship Trophy, which was awarded to Mansell by the FIA following his Championship victory. For racing fans, it represents a once in a lifetime opportunity to acquire a World Championship winner’s trophy direct from the driver (Estimate: £20,000 - £30,000 GBP). Further exceptional lots set to be offered include a 1990 Scuderia ... More A closeup of a smartphone displaying mumok’s webpage for the exhibition Contact M by Park McArthur. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Jason Hirata. VIENNA.- This exhibition of artist Park McArthur (born 1984, North Carolina, US) brings together, for the first time, artworks made between the 2010s and 2020s. Co- organized by mumok in Vienna and Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, the exhibition is a collaboration between both institutions and will be presented simultaneously at both locations. Questions of simultaneous experience and access to art and culture shape this project’s format and purpose. This exhibition serves as an occasion to consider McArthur’s practice and presence among a recent generation of artists whose materialist and institutionally-responsive strategies refuse to separate critique from imagination. Introduced to a wider public with her solo exhibition of temporary ramps, disabled parking signage, and Wikipedia entry on disabled writer and activist Marta Russell (Ramps, 2014), McArthur’s work has been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions. Since then, processes of degeneration and dependency, ... More The government of Mexico celebrates restitution of more than 900 archaeological artifacts from the U.S. Photo: Gerardo Peña, INAH. MEXICO CITY.- In a significant repatriation, the Mexican government announced the return of 915 archaeological artifacts from the United States, a collection spanning three millennia of pre-Hispanic history. The handover, which took place on March 3, 2025, represents a major victory for Mexico in its ongoing efforts to recover its cultural patrimony. The artifacts, ranging from Olmec sculptures to Mayan pottery, were formally received by officials from Mexico’s Secretariats of Foreign Relations (SRE) and Culture, as well as the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). The collection’s return was facilitated by the Mexican Embassy in Washington, D.C., and consulates in Los Angeles and New York, with crucial support from private citizens and institutions. Among the most notable contributors was Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, which voluntarily returned 828 pre-Hispanic pieces, adding to a previous restitution of 67 items. The university’s cooperation highlights a ... More Artist Rirkrit Tiravanija: "As an artist, I can only make signs." More News RCA celebrates 11 years as world's best art & design university LONDON.- The Royal College of Art (RCA) in London has been ranked the number 1 university for art & design internationally for the 11th year in a row, according to the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025 – the largest world-wide survey of academic and industry opinion, with other UK institutions also being highly ranked. The latest results demonstrate the College's reputation with an overall score of 97.4 percent. As with previous years, University of the Arts London takes up the second place in the Art and Design rankings, with both UK institutions ahead of major international universities including Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rhode Island School of Design and Parsons School of Design in the US, and European institutions such as Aalto University in Finland and Politecnico di Milano in Italy. Meanwhile, the Royal College of Music and Royal Academy of Music ... More Exhibition at Bozar reimagines Eastern Europe beyond Western perspectives BRUSSELS.- Familiar Strangers is an exhibition of contemporary art reflecting upon recent changes in Eastern Europe. Sadly, it is only since the violent invasion of Ukraine that the self-understanding of the European collective has expanded beyond the Western viewpoint. The exhibition presents political and social processes from the perspectives of multiple and critical identities in a region that was long considered to be culturally homogenous, even if this was never truly the case. Familiar Strangers is an encounter of various voices: specifically of diasporas and minorities and their political struggles. It shows how fragile and complex those two-way negotiations are, between the transcultural and the local, the individual and the collective, the familiar and the uncanny in a post-communist society on its way to becoming a post-migrant one. Its title is inspired by Stuart ... More Enrique Ramirez's exhibition at Michel Rein asks questions of displacement and belonging BRUSSELS.- Michel Rein presents The gesture where the sea is made, the artist’s seventh solo exhibition at the gallery. « ‘‘ What will we do...’’ (Que ferons-nous) ? The question appears in neon, illuminating a space of uncertainty and echo. Inspired by Mahmoud Darwish’s poem, this phrase resonates like a beacon throughout the exhibition, marking a threshold where displacement, borders, and identity intertwine in a play of gestures. The gesture, in its repetition, in its fragility and strength, shapes this universe. It is the invisible thread that connects generations, territories, and cultures, like a map woven between doing and being. Each artwork in the exhibition is born from a manual act that is also an act of belonging: molding, engraving, sculpting, weaving, painting. The ceramics evoke a language in transit, a fragmented script attempting to articulate the inarticulable— ... More Maia Cruz Palileo presents new work at David Kordansky Gallery LOS ANGELES, CA.- David Kordansky Gallery presents SATOR ROTAS, its first exhibition of new work by Maia Cruz Palileo. The exhibition will occupy two spaces at the gallery’s Los Angeles location, and will include paintings, ceramic sculptures, and works on paper, shedding light on the multi-faceted nature of the artist’s project and their poetic engagement with the Filipino diaspora. SATOR ROTAS is on view at 5130 W. Edgewood Pl. from March 13 through April 26, 2025. Palileo looks at their own Filipino heritage to better understand the routes by which their family arrived in the United States, but also as a way of entering into deeper communication with their own psychological and imaginative responses to the contemporary world. In each phase of Palileo’s work, they give shape to otherwise invisible forces that animate landscapes, drive historical ... More Fabio Miguez's "Ichnographies" explores architectural space and painting at Nara Roesler New York NEW YORK, NY.- Nara Roesler New York presents Fabio Miguez: Ichnographies, the first solo show by Fabio Miguez (b. 1962, São Paulo, Brazil) at the gallery’s New York headquarters. Curated by Luis Pérez-Oramas, the exhibition offers a comprehensive overview of the artist’s work, featuring a selection of recent pieces interspersed with paintings developed by the artist in the last decade. According to the curator, the title of the show references an observation by the 17th-century French architect and poet Charles Perrault, who noted that the so-called ichnographic view of a building— its projective and initial plan—inevitably coincides with its final trace as a ruin, the mark of its existence on earth, thus articulating concept and life in a single, inexorable becoming. One of the founders of the Casa 7 studio—along with Carlito Carvalhosa, Nuno Ramos, ... More Gallery Henoch opens two solo shows NEW YORK, NY.- Gallery Henoch presents Bouncing Forward, a solo show featuring a series of works by Annette Davidek. The show will run from March 13th to April 5th, 2025. The exhibition features oil paintings that draw inspiration from the natural world. Inspired by Asian art and botanical diagrams, Davidek incorporates these elaborate forms into her paintings. The repeated motifs can be seen throughout the entire body of work. Each shape is layered over the other through the application of transparent glazes of oil paint, resulting in a juxtaposition of luminous color. Davidek's unique approach to color draws inspiration from plant life, yet she aims to push the boundaries of nature by creating bold and surprising compositions, as in her piece #24-19 where the vibrant yellow acts as a sheer background for contrasting shapes with varying levels of opacity. Annette ... More Travesía Cuatro announced the representation of La Chola Poblete MADRID.- The work of the artist La Chola Poblete (Guaymallén, Mendoza, Argentina, 1989) includes painting, sculpture, installation and performance. Taking up again the tools and formats around which she builds her own language and iconography, La Chola intervenes in historical and contemporary imaginaries to explore the ambiguities and undefinable zones of the narrative of the past and the current political discourse, criticizing stereotyping and exoticization of the original peoples. In 2023, she was awarded 'Artist of the Year' by Deutsche Bank and, as part of the recognition, she presented Guaymallén at Palais Populaire, Berlin (2023). Following several other major international exhibitions, her participation in the 60th Venice Biennale Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere, curated by Adriano Pedrosa (Venice, 2024), stands out, during ... More The Sunderland Collection makes its first loan of rare cartographical objects to a public institution NORWICH.- For the first time in its 40-year history, The Sunderland Collection, a private collection of rare antique cartography, is loaning items to a public institution. The collection is lending eight atlases and maps to the Sainsbury Centre, a public art museum in Norwich, UK which is affiliated with the University of East Anglia. A World of Water (15 March – 3 August 2025) is part of Can the Seas Survive Us?, a series of Sainsbury Centre exhibitions bringing together works by British and international artists from the last 250 years who have offered a unique perspective on evolving marine ecosystems and oceanic habitats. Featuring artworks by Maggi Hambling, Ólafur Elíasson, Josh Kline and many more, A World of Water delves into humanity’s profound and intricate connection with the sea, raising pivotal questions about the global response to climate change, ... More Isabelle Hayeur's "Wild Times" exhibition captures apocalyptic aftermath of forest fires VERNON, BC.- Major bodies of works in Hayeur’s studio practice are focused on environmental changes caused by human development or natural causes. Her photographs document the destruction of natural habitats and whole ecosystems. The exhibition titled "Wild Times" presented at the Vernon Public Art Gallery consist of photographs of landscapes affected by forest fires in Quebec and British Columbia in the 2020 and 2021 summer seasons. The photographs from sites near Las Saint-Jean depict the after effects of the wildfire which changed the ecosystems in the largest forest fire in the province’s history. The images captured in 2021 show the active fires in British Columbia. The oppressive plumes of raising smoke changed the appearance of the landscape and the thick smoke was hardly penetrated by the sun’s rays. The toxic smoke drifted through ... More Art Paris 2025 returns to Grand Palais with 170 exhibitors and 26 solo shows PARIS.- A total of 170 exhibitors from 25 countries are coming together at Art Paris from 2 - 6 April 2025. For its return to the Grand Palais, the 27th edition of the fair features a selection of 26 Solo Shows dotted around the fair which allow visitors to discover or rediscover in detail the work of modern, contemporary and emerging artists. As far as historical artists are concerned, Galerie Claude Lemand has chosen to put the "transfigurative" work of Shafic Abboud (1926-2004) in the spotlight. Combining influences from the Middle East and the West, this Lebanese painter close to the New School of Paris was one of the few Arab artists to take part in the first Biennale de Paris in 1959. Oniris.Art is paying tribute to Vera Molnár (1924-2023) with a solo show that bears witness to her connection with abstract geometry and use of computers in the 1970s to produce ... More PhotoGalleries Brooklyn Museum at 200 Gerard Byrne Mystery & Benevolence Anne Frank Flashback On a day like today, French painter Georges de La Tour was born March 13, 1593. Georges de La Tour (March 13, 1593 - January 30, 1652) was a French Baroque painter, who spent most of his working life in the Duchy of Lorraine, which was temporarily absorbed into France between 1641 and 1648. He painted mostly religious chiaroscuro scenes lit by candlelight. © 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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