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The First Art Newspaper on the Net Established in 1996 Wednesday, February 19, 2025 Klimt's secrets revealed: Cutting-edge technology uncovers hidden details in masterpieces Gustav Klimt, Nach dem Regen (Detail), 1898. Photo: Belvedere, Vienna. VIENNA.- What secrets are hiding beneath the surface of Gustav Klimt’s famous works? How did the artist apply gold and other precious metals to the canvas? Today’s technologies offer unprecedented opportunities to ascertain Klimt’s methods and reconstruct the process by which his works were created. This exhibition in the Orangerie of the Lower Belvedere uses eight paintings from the collection to present the results of radiological investigations and studies of material technology performed on Klimt’s works in recent years. According to General Director Stella Rollig, One of the Belvedere’s most important tasks is to expand knowledge about our magnificent collection. Scientific and technological methods are employed to learn more about the materials and methods used to create the works. In recent years, all of Gustav Klimt’s paintings have been thoroughly examined, which yields valuable new information about their conservation status and insights into Klimt’s ... More The Best Photos of the Day Installation view: Peter Joseph, The Early Works, Lisson Gallery London (7 February - 15 March 2025) © Peter Joseph, Courtesy Lisson Gallery. The Emotional Tapestry of Urban Spaces: Sève Favre, Henrik Langsdorf and Jingyao Huang "Visages": A star-studded exploration of the human face at Almine Rech Gstaad Echoes of "Degenerate Art" resonate in Paris exhibition Sève Favre, Sensitive Peregrination, interactive installation. NEW YORK, NY.- PS122 Gallery is presenting The Emotional Tapestry of Urban Spaces, featuring Sève Favre, Henrik Langsdorf, and Jingyao Huang. Urban planning generally prioritizes strict rationality and function over human experience. As a result, it often dismisses the crucial role emotions play in how we live, remember, and connect with spaces. This exhibition seeks to challenge this standard by elevating the overlooked effects—emotions, feelings, and intuitions—that people invest in their surroundings. The Emotional Tapestry of Urban Spaces reveals cities as landscapes, where memory, identity, trauma, and feeling converge beyond or despite functional constructs. Each artwork invites viewers to uncover the layers of ... More Genieve Figgis, Lady with a hat, 2024. Acrylic on gesso panel, 40 x 30 x 0.5 cm - 15 3/4 x 11 3/4 x 1/4 in (unframed), 43.8 x 34 x 4.1 cm - 17 1/4 x 13 3/8 x 1 5/8 in (framed). GSTAAD.- Almine Rech Gstaad is pleased to present ‘Visages’, a group show on view from February 12 to March 16, 2025. Karel Appel, Georg Baselitz, Miriam Cahn, Nina Childress, Genieve Figgis, Günther Förg, Françoise Gilot, Marie Laurencin, Pablo Picasso, Richard Prince, Kenny Scharf, Claire Tabouret, Francesco Vezzoli, and Andy Warhol. Why faces now? Well, because faces always and forever, as long as each of us has one and animal life manages to persist. But there are other reasons, too. In recent years, the surgeon general diagnosed a national epidemic of loneliness, isolation, and disconnection doing serious damage to individual ... More George Grosz, Metropolis, 1916 – 1917, Huile sur toile, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid © Estate of George Grosz, Princeton, N.J. / Adagp, Paris, 2024. PARIS.- A chill wind whispers through the halls of the Picasso-Paris National Museum, a stark contrast to the vibrant, often defiant art it houses. "Degenerate Art". The trial of modern art under Nazism," a groundbreaking exhibition that opened its doors this week, isn't just a historical account; it's a visceral experience. For the first time in France, the exhibition confronts the systematic assault on modern art by the Nazi regime, a chilling reminder of how art can become a battleground for ideology. Stepping into the exhibition is like walking back in time. The opening room sets the stage, starkly outlining the Nazi campaign to eradicate what they deemed "degenerate" – any art that dared to challenge convention, explore ... More Daniel Neuberger: Unveiling the master of wax deception at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Centre Pompidou mourns the loss of former President Serge Lasvignes blink-182's Mark Hoppus to sell Banksy's Vettriano Remix at Sotheby's Daniel Neuberger, Self Portrait of the Artist flanked by Minerva and Saturn (Chronos (detail). Wax, wood, glass, tortoiseshell. Museum August Kestner Hannover © Landeshauptstadt Hannover, Museum August Kestner. Photo: Detlef Jürges. VIENNA.- The Kunsthistorisches Museum presents the first exhibition on Daniel Neuberger (1621– 1680) and his impressive art of deception. Neuberger was one of the most important and versatile artists at the imperial court in Vienna, where the Augsburg born artist worked between 1650 and 1663 as a wax sculptor, ‘Konterfetter’ (portraitist), and lapidary for Emperor Ferdinand III and his sons Ferdinand IV and Leopold I. He was a sculptor, painter, lapidary, and writer – but he achieved his greatest mastery in ‘wax embossing’, the art of sculptural moulding in wax. His artworks, frequently only a few centimetres in size, were highly sought-after at many European courts, but also attracted the attention of other artists. Neuberger was particularly well known for his ability to imitate or even surpass ... More Serge Lasvignes © Thibaut Chapotot. PARIS.- The art world and the French cultural landscape have lost a dedicated leader and visionary. Serge Lasvignes, who served as President of the Centre Pompidou from 2015 to 2021, passed away this week, leaving behind a legacy of innovation, inclusivity, and unwavering commitment to the arts. News of Lasvignes' death has been met with profound sadness at the Centre Pompidou, where he is remembered as a passionate and respected figure. "He was an exceptional servant of the State, imbued with universal culture," said Laurent Le Bon, the current President of the Centre Pompidou. "His mandate was marked by the impetus and realization of essential projects for the future of our institution. He was a passionate president, respected and appreciated by all." Lasvignes' tenure at the Centre Pompidou was defined by his vision of the institution as a vibrant hub of culture, life, and debate, open to everyone. He championed the Centre, along with the Bpi, Ircam, and the Centre ... More Mark Hoppus. Photo: Max Montgomery. LONDON.- A rare, entirely hand-painted work by Banksy is set to headline Sotheby’s Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction on 4 March in London, with an estimate of £3-5 million. Crude Oil (Vettriano) comes to the market from the collection of Mark Hoppus, the vocalist, bassist and founding member of American pop-punk band blink-182. Acquired by Mark and Skye, his wife, in 2011, the painting will go on public view at Sotheby’s New York today through to 20 February, before heading to London for Sotheby’s preview exhibition from the 26 February through to 4 March. Emerging from the skate punk scene in Southern California in the 1990s, blink-182 gained fans and notoriety with their irreverent humour, scalding the music scene just as Banksy scalded the art world. Both band and artist have since cemented their enduring cultural relevance: blink-182 becoming one of the biggest bands of their generation and Banksy becoming one of the most decisive social commentators of all ... More Exhibition at A Gentil Carioca celebrates 20 years of the OPAVIVARÁ! collective Geneviève Asse's intimate notebooks take center stage at the BnF Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, presents largest-ever exhibition of works by Roxbury artist John Wilson OPAVIVARÁ!, Karaokente, 2025, ft [ph]: Pedro Agilson, cortesia [cortesy artist] artista & A Gentil Carioca. SAO PAULO.- A Gentil Carioca is presenting the exhibition “QUEM VIVER VIVARÁ!”, celebrating 20 years of the OPAVIVARÁ! collective. The show's critical text is written by curator Pollyana Quintella. Part of the show presents an overview of the collective's work, including works never seen in Brazil or São Paulo, as well as new objects and installations. As is characteristic of the group, all the works are relational and require the active participation of the public, which, by interacting with them, contributes to the construction of an authorial horizontality. “In a world that is fractured, fragmented and hyper-individualized by virtual relationships, we have always created works that call for being together, sharing desires, bringing bodies closer together and horizontalizing relationships,” says the collective. For them, the “public moment” is activated in the shared experience — it is not something given or instituted, but generated in collective and open coex ... More Geneviève Asse, La Ligne bleue, [carnet, huile n°18], 1971 BnF, département Estampes et photographie © ADAGP, Paris, 2024. PARIS.- The Bibliothèque nationale de France is presenting an exhibition of Geneviève Asse's notebooks, running from February 18 to May 25, 2025. This free exhibition is made possible by a donation of twenty-five notebooks from Asse's widow, Silvia Baron Supervielle, in 2022. The notebooks are displayed alongside a selection of Asse's prints and artist's books already in the BnF's collection. These notebooks offer insight into Asse's artistic process and are considered significant works in their own right. Asse, a painter and engraver born in Vannes in 1923 and who died in Paris in 2021, is known for her large monochrome canvases, particularly her use of a distinctive blue often called "Asse blue." Her work, which spans from early still lifes to later abstract canvases, explores the theme of light. She also collaborated on books with writers such as Pierre Lecuire, Yves Bonnefoy, and Silvia Baron Supervielle. The donated notebooks, many of which are ... More John Wilson, The Young Americans: Gabrielle (detail), 1975. Colored crayon and charcoal on paper. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. © Estate of John Wilson. BOSTON, MASS.- Born in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood, John Wilson (1922–2015) is one of the city’s most esteemed artists, who dedicated his career to imagining different futures, exposing injustices, and advocating for authentic and positive representation of Black Americans. For more than six decades, he made powerful works that continue to resonate with the persistent realities of disenfranchisement and inequality. Co-organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson is the largest-ever exhibition of the artist’s work. Featuring approximately 110 works in a wide range of media—drawings, prints, paintings, sculptures, and illustrated books—the retrospective explores how Wilson’s work speaks to shared experiences, while also displaying his personal search ... More Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo presents 'MOT Annual 2024: on the imagined terrain' Shu Lea Cheang: A groundbreaking survey of cybernetic art at Haus der Kunst Heard Museum welcomes 2025 with new exhibition Yuki Shimizu, Passage of Meteorites, 2024. Installation view, MOT ANNUAL 2024: on the imagined terrain, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2024. © Yuki Shimizu. Photo: Kazuo Fukunaga. TOKYO.- The MOT ANNUAL is a group exhibition that has explored the latest currents of contemporary art in Japan through the work of emerging artists, held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT) since 1999. For its 20th edition, MOT ANNUAL 2024: on the imagined terrain features four artists: Yuki Shimizu, Satoshi Kawata, Ryohei Usui, and Asami Shoji, who present their latest works. Yuki Shimizu creates narratives by weaving together photographs and text based on her research of local history and folklore. In recent years, she has focused on ambiguous places such as seashores which constantly shift with the movement of waves and tides, attempting to capture the contours of Japan. In her latest work, Passage of Meteorites, Shimizu draws on the fictional story of Dalian’s coastal area and Tokyo Bay composed of photographs and recitation. Satoshi Kawata ... More Shu Lea Cheang. KI$$ KI$$. Exhibition view Haus der Kunst München, 2025 Photo: Milena Wojhan. MUNICH.- The first institutional survey of Shu Lea Cheang (b. 1954, Taiwan) updates her works and artefacts of the past three decades into new landscape formations. Each gallery is its own world in which internet-based installation and software interaction invite to explore and participate. KI$$ KI$$ takes Shu Lea Cheang’s first feature film Fresh Kill (1994) as a starting point. Cheang moved to New York in the 1980s, where she joined the vibrant scene of independent cinema and started experimenting with video, live TV, and network technologies. Since the 1990s her work has challenged and furthered our understanding of digital culture. Cheang anticipated the advance of alternative currencies, investigated gamified societies, and probed bio-technologies. Her works often develop over several years, through different stages and media, including video, installation, performance, and various forms of cinema. The exhibition spans four gallery spaces, in which artworks and artifacts are brought i ... More Storyteller: The Photography of Jerry Jacka celebrates the life and work of Jerry Jacka. PHOENIX, AZ.- The Heard Museum’s first exhibition in the new year, Storyteller: The Photography of Jerry Jacka, opened on Jan. 24, 2025. Jacka, a Phoenix native, was one of the most widely published photographers in the Southwest, having devoted more than 50 years to photographing the region and its people. “Jerry Jacka’s award-winning photography has profoundly influenced how generations of people think and feel about the landscapes of the American Southwest,” said David M. Roche, Heard Museum CEO. “Of particular interest to the Heard Museum are his portraits of Native American artists, which reveal the people behind the works of art that we share with our visitors. The gift of the Jerry Jacka archive to the Heard makes us stewards of one of the largest and most consequential collections of documentary photography of Native American artists in the nation.” In 2024, the Heard Museum received a landmark gift of the Jerry Jacka archive, which makes ... More James Turrell's “Path Taken” at Almine Rech Paris, Matignon More News LABoral Art and Industrial Creation Centre presents Digital Machines: Technology, Industry, Society GIJON.- Machines, through their interaction with humans and nature, revolutionize the world. From the power loom and the steam engine, the electric generator and the microchips, to the Internet and its data centers and planetary-scale computing systems that characterize the present era. This exhibition invites to explore, in an amazing way, the digital machines shaping industry and society today. Through detailed visual narratives, we will discover for example, how the algorithm of the world’s largest social network works; how the exploitation of natural resources and human labor supports an artificial intelligence device; and how communication, computation, classification and control systems have evolved since 1500. But this exhibition also invites you to discover alternative digital machines that imagine other possible relationships between technology, industry ... More Museum de Fundatie presents its 2025 exhibition program ZWOLLE.- Museum de Fundatie in Zwolle, The Netherlands present their 2025 exhibition program. Jesus and Mary in reverse roles. Queen Wilhelmina as a circus director. Snoop Dogg as a totem pole. With twisted versions of historical figures, Folkert de Jong shows how history could have gone differently and is still changing. He wants to make the viewer wonder how history is actually written and—with a changing zeitgeist—rewritten again. This is the first solo museum exhibition by Jonathan van Doornum. His sculptures, drawings and performances bring together technology, communication and magic. Van Doornum’s works are often made of cold materials like aluminum. He gives a soft, narrative power by shaping it, for example, into flames, curls or bows. In his most recent work, Van Doornum focuses mainly on the relationship between the city and the countryside. ... More Exhibition programme 2025 at José de Guimarães International Arts Centre BRAGA.- The CIAJG 2025 exhibition programme embraces a zigzag dynamic. The exhibition in our gallery unfolds into a journey through different temporalities and spaces. With the poetical and technical assistance of many individuals (choreographers, writers, travellers, artists, collectors, ancestors, “old masters”, art makers ), we hope that our programme will raise awareness about the importance of the shared experience of art. As the artist José de Guimarães once said: Art is invention, it is unreal in the present. Following his naturalistic approach in A Natureza Aborrece o Monstro at Culturgest (Lisbon) Alexandre Estrela presents the second instalment of a three-part exhibition—an interlude engaging in a dialogue with animation and cartoons. Continuing to explore the exhibition as a medium in its own right, Estrela will transform the ground floor of CIAJG ... More Belgrade's transformations: Photographer documents city's shifting identity at Alternative Space LOOP SEOUL.- Born in Belgrade, Bojan Fajfrić has spent the past decade documenting three key locations in his hometown through photography: the buildings of Army Headquarters, heavily damaged in the 1999 NATO bombing; the Belgrade Waterfront, a controversial development project reshaping the city’s fabric; and the remnants of a movie set that reconstructed 1930s Belgrade. This exhibition presents a three-channel video installation that traces the transformations of these sites, drawing from an archive of more than 6,000 photographs. The Army Headquarters was built between 1954 and 1963 as a modernist architectural project designed to reflect the identity of the Yugoslav Federation through innovative architectural aesthetics. Architect Nikola Dobrović, selected through an open competition, drew inspiration from Henri Bergson’s philosophy, ... More Life Chronicles: A 3.5 billion-year journey made possible by virtual reality in the Old Port of Montreal MONTREAL.- With over 250,000 visitors captivated by Horizon of Khufu, PHI Studio presents Life Chronicles in Montreal. After being launched at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle in Paris in October 2023, the experience has toured major cultural hubs including Shanghai, London, and Lyon. Excurio’s experiences have welcomed over 1.5 million visitors to date. As for Life Chronicles, this expedition offers a vertiginous dive into the history of Earth and living organisms, tracing over 3.5 billion years of evolution through virtual reality. Accessible for ages 8 and up, this original 45-minute free- roaming experience, halfway between education and entertainment, is designed to turn audiences from mere spectators into physically and emotionally engaged players. How can we illustrate the evolution of the planet and the various life forms that have walked ... More Framer Framed presents Past Disquiet AMSTERDAM.- Framer Framed will present Past Disquiet from February 27 to May 25, 2025. Drawing on over a decade of research by curators Kristine Khouri and Rasha Salti, this documentary and archival exhibition uncovers a largely forgotten history of politically engaged artists and initiatives and their role in anti-imperialist solidarity movements from the 1960s to the 1980s. This iteration of Past Disquiet also casts a special focus on the history of artistic solidarity within the Netherlands, and particularly in Amsterdam where many solidarity organisations were based. It explores how international movements from the 1960s, ‘70s and ‘80s, such as the anti-apartheid, anti-Vietnam War, and Chilean resistance efforts, were met with local activism. Past Disquiet traces its research to four forgotten ‘museums in solidarity’: the International Art Exhibition ... More KINDL - Centre for Contemporary Art presents its 2025 exhibition program BERLIN.- With the exhibition Caught in a Landslide, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) and the KINDL present recent works by international artists living in Berlin who were awarded the 2024 visual arts work stipend of the Berlin Senate. Spanning two venues, the exhibition features works across the mediums of video, sound, painting, sculpture, installation, and performance. A project by Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) in cooperation with the KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art. Aslan Goisum (b. 1991 in Grozny, lives in Berlin) works with found or recreated objects, video, works on paper, sculpture and language, achieving a progression of forms that are at the same time abstract and concrete, composed and open-ended. He creates pictorial and architectural spaces that undermine access to understanding. Suspect is Goisum’s first institutional solo project ... More PhotoGalleries Mystery & Benevolence Anne Frank Moore and Malaparte Gauguin Flashback On a day like today, Romanian-French artist Constantin Brâncuși was born February 19, 1876. February 19, 1876. Constantin Brâncuși (February 19, 1876 - March 16, 1957) was a Romanian sculptor, painter and photographer who made his career in France. Considered a pioneer of modernism, one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th-century, In this image: The 1911 gilded bronze sculpture "Prometheus" by Constantin Brancusi is displayed during a preview of "Brancusi Serra" at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao October 7, 2011. Curator Oliver Wick described the third element of the interaction between the two sculptors as Frank Gehry, architect of the museum. © 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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