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Disco comes after several moments of great international critical acclaim following her participation in Documenta 14, 2017 and her exhibitions at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina SofÃa, Madrid, and the Vienna Secession.
LISBON.- MAAT in Lisbon inaugurated two completely new exhibitions, Disco by Vivian Suter and Rooms by Anthony McCall, thus completing the openings of its autumn program. In one of the most important shows of the year, MAAT presents Disco, an exhibition of approximately 500 paintings by Vivian Suter (b. 1949), the Swiss-Argentine artist who explores the possibilities of painting, particularly its relationship with nature. Over the last four decades, Swiss-Argentine painter Vivian Suter (b. 1949) has been building a monumental body of work in Panajachel, Guatemala. Disco, named after the artists dog, presents the culmination of this work, showcasing over 500 paintings, including 163 pieces being exhibited for the first time. Vivian Suters geographic location plays a pivotal role in her artistic practice, profoundly influencing both her creative process and the outcome of her paintings. As Vivian Suter says: Nothing I have ever worked on as an artist would have any meaning witho ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view from Tove Jansson - Paradise. HAM Helsinki Art Museum 25.10.2024-6.4.2025. Tove Jansson: Electricity and Resting After Work, 1945. HAM Helsinki Art Museum. © Tove Jansson Estate. Photo: HAM / Maija Toivanen.
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| Discover the legacy of Paul Durand-Ruel and Post-Impressionist masters at Fundación Mapfre | | Milestone's January 18 Premier Military Auction surveys 250 years of war and conflict | | Significant archaeological discoveries unveiled by INAH in 2024 |
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Durand-Ruel, 1910, Oil on canvas, Private collection,
MADRID.- Art enthusiasts and cultural aficionados have a compelling reason to visit Fundación Mapfre this season as it hosts a captivating exhibition titled "Paul Durand-Ruel and the Last Glimmers of Impressionism." This remarkable showcase celebrates the influential figure of Paul Durand-Ruel, a pioneering art dealer whose unwavering support for modern art reshaped the French art market in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The exhibition delves into the transformative period when Impressionism and Post-Impressionism revolutionized the art world. Beginning in the second half of the 19th century, Impressionism challenged the dominance of academic art by introducing innovative theories about light and color. Shortly thereafter, Post-Impressionism emerged, further altering artistic conventions and paving the way for future avant-garde movements. Central to this transformation was Paul Durand-Ruel (1831-1922), a visionary gallerist and collector based ... More | |
Stellar WWII US Naval grouping of Rear Admiral William Clayton Butler Jr., recipient of the Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism and distinguished service. Estimate: $3,000-$5,000
WILLOUGHBY, OHIO.- Milestone Auctions will ring in the New Year with a January 18 Premier Military Sale that commands collector attention throughout its 705 high-quality, well-provenanced lots. The 250-year timeline starts in the 18th century with coveted Revolutionary War items and progresses to the modern-war era. Significant sections are devoted to Civil War (Confederate and Union) and World War II/Nazi relics, including important uniform groupings, helmets, flags, medals and insignia; photographs, and a comprehensive array of military swords, knives, daggers and katanas. All forms of bidding, in-person and remote, will be available for this auction, which will be webcast live from Milestones gallery. Leading the exceptional selection of World War II Axis artifacts is a massive handsewn Imperial Japanese flag IDd to the Battleship Nagato. It was recovered from the Nagato ... More | |
The INAH presented The Man from Bilbao, discovered in the Coahuila desert. Photo: INAH Coahuila Center Archive.
MEXICO CITY.- This year has been remarkable for Mexican archaeology, with the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) announcing a series of groundbreaking discoveries that shed new light on the countrys rich prehistoric heritage. From submerged structures in bustling avenues to hidden settlements in dense jungles, these findings not only enhance our understanding of ancient societies but also pose intriguing questions for future research. In a surprising revelation, archaeologists discovered a pier and a canal dating back to the Late Postclassic period (1200-1521 AD) beneath Chapultepec Avenue in Mexico City. Located two meters below the bustling modern street, these structures were part of the ancient beach of a peninsula at the foot of ChapulÃn Hill. Additionally, a contemporaneous dwelling was found on the grounds of the historic Ministry of Health building, providing invaluable ... More |
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| Exhibition at musée du quai Branly addresses the zombification associated with the Haitian voodoo religion | | Guimet - French National Museum of Asian Arts exhibits treasures from Kazakhstan | | MoMA announces the first comprehensive retrospective of Wifredo Lam in the United States |
Magic statuette, before 1886 Democratic Republic of Congo © musée du quai Branly â Jacques Chirac, photo Pauline Guyon.
PARIS.- At the crossroads of the world of the living and the dead, the zombie has strongly influenced global popular culture and fantasy cinema. It initially comes from a complex syncretism, linked to the colonisation of Haiti and the transatlantic slave routes which, from the 16th century, brought together magical and religious practices and beliefs from sub-Saharan Africa, elements of Roman Catholicism and indigenous Caribbean knowledge associated with the mastery of natural drugs. The exhibition addresses the zombification associated with the Haitian voodoo religion, in which an individual who had committed a misdeed would be judged, condemned, drugged, buried alive, exhumed then exiled and transformed into a slave under the supervision of a master (bokor). Featuring objects linked to the zombification ritual, a reconstructed voodoo temple and cemetery, and an "army of Bizango warriors", Zombies. Death is not the End ? challenges a polymorphous anthropological reality, between knowledge and ... More | |
Ornamental elements from the Golden Man Discovered in Issyk (Almaty region), 4th-3rd millennium BCE, National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
PARIS.- Land of the Golden Man and the great kurgans, Kazakhstan is a country of legends on the edge of the steppes of Central Asia. Its vast landscape, across which a web of silk routes once stretched, is steeped in rich cultural and human history. With Kazakhstan, Treasures of the Great Steppe, Guimet sheds light on moments that have marked this civilisation through five unique cultural stories, dating from third century BCE to the 18th century. Thanks to exceptional loans from prominent Kazakh museums, these five treasures including the original headdress from the emblematic Golden Manare presented in a poetic and innovative exhibition which plunges the objects and visitors into the extraordinary landscapes of Kazakhstan. The sensorial and immersive world designed by scenographer Sylvain Roca transports visitors to the land where these five masterpieces were created: successive projections and sound creations will animate the ... More | |
Wifredo Lam. Title page from Fata Morgana. 1941. 11 à 9″. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. © 2024 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art announces Wifredo Lam, the most extensive retrospective devoted to the artist in the United States, on view at MoMA from November 10, 2025, through March 28, 2026. Spanning the six decades of Lams prolific career, the exhibition will present more than 150 rarely seen artworks from the 1920s to the 1970sincluding paintings, large-scale works on paper, collaborative drawings, illustrated books, prints, ceramics, and archival materialwith key loans from the Estate of Wifredo Lam, Paris. The retrospective will reveal how Laman artist born in Cuba who spent most of his life in Spain, France, and Italycame to embody the figure of the transnational artist in the 20th century and forged a unique visual style at the confluence of European modernity, African diasporic culture, and Caribbean traditions. Wifredo Lam is organized by Christophe Cherix, The Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings and Prints, and Beverly Adams, The Estr ... More |
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| Bridging past and present: How 'Fire and Salt' chronicles Mesoamerica's coastal legacy | | British Museum updates on progress with its Masterplan | | National Gallery Singapore opens the most extensive and comprehensive survey of Teo Eng Seng's work |
Fire and Salt traces the history of how human activities have helped build the littoral landscape of Pacific coastal southern Mesoamerica over the past five thousand years.
NEW YORK, NY.- In "Fire and Salt," anthropologist Hector Neff delivers a meticulously researched and compelling exploration of how human activities have shaped the littoral landscapes of Pacific coastal southern Mesoamerica over the past five millennia. As a professor at California State University, Long Beach, and coeditor of Ceramics of the Indigenous Cultures of South America, Neff brings a wealth of expertise to this significant volume, which seamlessly integrates archaeological evidence with contemporary environmental concerns. "Fire and Salt" delves into the intricate relationship between humans and their coastal environment, utilizing a diverse array of methodologies including airborne lidar, surface reconnaissance, excavation ... More | |
Initial concept design, the pavilion resets the visitorâs relationship with the forecourt and landscape. © Studio Weave.
LONDON.- The British Museum has announced the winner of its competition to design new visitor welcome pavilions for the Museums central London site. The chosen project was submitted by a team led by Studio Weave, with Wright & Wright Architects, Webb Yates Engineers, Tom Massey Studio and Daisy Froud. The team will now work with the British Museum and local partners to develop the designs and prepare a planning application, with new pavilions expected to be in place by spring 2026. This project forms part of the Museums longer-term Masterplan, a major programme of capital projects which will renovate and transform the British Museums iconic Camden site, build new storage and research facilities near Reading, and ensure its extraordinary collection is housed in buildings and galleries fit for the 21st century. ... More | |
Installation view.
SINGAPORE.- Revisit local and global events from the mid-20th century to the present through the ironic and sometimes tragicomic lens of veteran artist Teo Eng Seng at National Gallery Singapores latest exhibition. As part of its ongoing SG Artist series, National Gallery Singapore presents Teo Eng Seng: Were Happy. Are You Happy?, the most extensive and comprehensive survey of this trailblazing multidisciplinary innovator to date. Until 2 February 2025, visitors can see close to 70 artworks from Teo, who is a key figure in developing, advocating, and nurturing Singapores arts scene. In recognition of his contributions to the local arts, Teo was conferred the Cultural MedallionSingapores highest arts accoladein 1986. As an art teacher, Teo encouraged his students to find their creative voices by using contemporary art to respond to social issues. This is reflected in his practice, where he ... More |
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| HAM Helsinki Art Museum takes audiences on a journey into Tove Jansson's visions of paradise | | Gregg Bordowitz retrospective explores art, activism, and the AIDS crisis | | Terrestrial Waves: Group exhibition at the 101 Art & Design Center in collaboration with ENSAPC |
Tove Jansson: Self-Portrait with Wicker Chair, 1937. Private Collection. © Tove Jansson Estate. Photo: Didrichsen Art Museum / Rauno Träskelin.
HELSINKI.- The exhibition takes an in-depth look at Janssons public paintings, through which she shared joy, beauty and windows into magical worlds of storytelling. Tove Jansson: Paradise offers an unprecedented exploration of the public paintings by one of Finlands most beloved artists, Tove Jansson (19142001). Spanning 1,300 square meters, the exhibition features more than 180 works of art and objects, including an array of hand-drawn sketches that have never been seen by the public before. Among the highlights are six life-sized charcoal studies for Janssons large-scale murals, which provide an intimate look into her creative process. These previously unseen sketches were unrolled specifically for this exhibition. The exhibition spans a wide array of mediums, from oil paintings and pencil sketches to book cover illustrationssuch as the iconic Summer Book ... More | |
Gregg Bordowitz, Säule II, 2024, wood, cement, posters, 441 à 150 cm (Ã). Photo: Mareike Tocha.
BONN.- Each day presents us with fresh assaults on the senses. What do we feel as we witness atrocities that cast us as the atomised elements of a whole constantly in a state of collapse? What do we feel as we are revealed to be the particulate elements of a whole constantly exhausting; a whole that encompasses all as an imperfect holding environment that nonetheless coheres our very existence... until it ultimately fails? These are the opening lines of Notes on Knowing and Unknowing, an excerpt from the daily writing practice of Gregg Bordowitz. The notes take the shape of a furious, strange and sincere essay they grapple with care, obligation and the efforts to keep on writing. As the first large-scale exhibition of Gregg Bordowitz work in Europe, Dort: ein Gefühl centres on the artists enduring commitment to writing as an activity of thought. Realised across two chapters, at Bonner Ku ... More | |
Alexandre Parizet © 101 Art & Design Center.
FUZHOU.- To what extent and how could art, education, research, and collaboration through new technologies help human beings find solutions and alternatives that enable ecological development? British playwriter and writer Howard Barker once explained in a lecture that artists can't save the world. In his presentation, he compared the artist to two people in a barge, waving at the Titanic and screaming, "Change your path!". Neither artists nor art provides solutions. They, however, open up questions, develop our critical thinking, and create awareness. It is then up to us to listen to it or not. The curatorial challenge was to create an exhibition that delves into the broad topics of new technologies and the sea without resorting to superficial, illustrative, or binary representations. We aimed to produce a narrative that avoids a thematic exhibition that only touches on these two subjects while maintaining a critical approach. We also sought to create cohesion through ... More |
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Water Walks: Taey Iohe in Walthamstow Wetlands
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Jong Oh, opening this Sunday at Timothy Hawkinson GalleryLOS ANGELES, CA.- A few lengths of hand-painted strings, some monofilament lines that quickly disappear, an impossibly thin chain or two. Most of Jong Ohs materials could fit into one closed fist when disassembled and feel pretty unremarkable. However, once he assembles them into constellations floating in space they feel infinite. Solid and knowing, revealing hitherto unknown information. Clueing their audience into the universal and hinting at the foundations of reality. They ultimately seek to gently recalibrate how the audience sees the subtle details of life when they leave the exhibition space. Jong Ohs sculptures take a moment to notice. They arent kinetic, but they do prompt viewers to move themselves around the pieces to fully see or understand them. Their overall precision makes them initially seem fully pre-planned, from ... More Annika Eriksson granted the Sundén Art Foundation Award 2024 STOCKHOLM.- Annika Eriksson is the recipient of the 2024 Sundén Art Foundation Award, making her the Foundations second awardee. The jurys statement follows: Annika Eriksson has created seminal works that have been exhibited widely internationally. Since the early 1990s, she has developed a unique artistic practice spanning film, photography, performance and installation. Her works recurrently depict social interactions between individuals and groups against the backdrop of a society that both nurtures and abandons. Despite distinctive frameworks, Eriksson leaves room for the unpredictable, for freedom and experimentation. The result is an artistic practice that never becomes rigid, that remains thought-provoking, slippery yet precise, and wondrous. In her early works, Annika Eriksson (born 1956, Malmö) staged real-life, social situations in front ... More Naoshima New Museum of Art to open spring 2025NAOSHIMA.- Fukutake Foundation announces the opening of the Naoshima New Museum of Art, located on a hilltop near the Honmura district of Naoshima and with Akiko Miki as director. Naoshima New Museum of Art, designed by Tadao Ando, will be his tenth architectural work for Benesse Art Site Naoshima. It will exhibit and build a collection of major works, including newly commissioned, site-specific pieces by artists and groups from the Asian region. The works will be displayed across four gallery spaces in a three-story building that houses two basement levels and a ground floor, as well as in the café area and outdoor grounds. The inaugural exhibition will feature works by eleven artists and groups, including Makoto Aida, Martha Atienza, Cai Guo-Qiang, Chim↑Pom from Smappa!Group, Heri Dono, indieguerillas, Takashi Murakami, ... More Kiasma presents 2025 exhibition programmeHELSINKI.- In 2025, Kiasma will present four solo exhibitions alongside a new thematic collection exhibition. In March, Monira Al Qadiri will open her first solo show in the Nordic countries. That will be followed by the biggest institutional solo exhibition to date by Berlin-based Finnish artist Dafna Maimon. Towards the end of the year, Kiasma will have the pleasure of hosting Sarah Lucas first solo appearance in the Nordic countries, as well as a show by Finnish artist Essi Kuokkanen, which concludes our exhibition year. An artwork always exists in relation to material and physical reality. Kiasmas collection exhibition examines the manifold meanings of materials, questions of authorship and technology, and different modes of perception. The materiality of the exhibition works also offers perspectives on current social and cultural phenomena, and on our living ... More Kunsten invites Danish fashion designer Stine Goya to explore the museum's collectionAALBORG.- Step into a poetic and sensory universe and experience works from Kunstens collection, staged and curated by the Danish fashion designer, Stine Goya. Kunsten has invited the internationally renowned Danish fashion designer Stine Goya to explore the museums collection of nearly 4,000 artworks. The result is an aesthetic, intuitive art experience featuring carefully selected works that, in interaction, create a narrative about separation, longing, dreams, and desire. Instead of following a classical art historical narrative, the exhibition emphasizes an aesthetic, sensory-driven, and personal approach, offering new perspectives and insights into Kunstens collection. For Stine Goya, the personal focus in curating the exhibition has revolved around separation as a fundamental condition o ... More Inaugural Gilliam Visiting Artist Program: vanessa german and Eric N. MackLOUISVILLE, KY.- The Speed Art Museum announces the launch of the Gilliam Visiting Artist Program, a new initiative designed to strengthen engagement with living artists by bringing two artists to Louisville each year to create fellowship and new dialogues with Kentucky artists and community members, culminating in new collaborations and public programming both at the Museum and beyond. The inaugural 2025 Gilliam Visiting Artists will be multi-media artists vanessa german (b. 1976) and Eric N. Mack (b. 1987). Developed in collaboration with the Sam Gilliam Foundation in recognition of the late artists commitment to the city of Louisville where he spent many of his formative years, the initiative also includes the creation of the Sam Gilliam Assistant Curator of Artist Programs, a new full-time position that will work cross-departmentally with the Speeds ... More Jameel Arts Centre presents its exhibition programme autumn 2024-spring 2025DUBAI.- Art Jameel, an organisation that supports artists and creative communities, presents more than 55 artists from 25 countries across five solo and group exhibitions at Jameel Arts Centre, Dubais hub for contemporary art and ideas. Featuring new commissions, the Art Jameel Collection, site-specific installations with sand, sound, water and moving images, the exhibitions unfold throughout the 10 galleries of the museum space. Three Tired Tigers delves into the ways animals adapt and thrive in urban environments shaped by human activity. Curated by Lucas Morin, Art Jameel Senior Curator, the exhibition draws from politics, history, economics and urbanism to stage a playful yet serious exploration of human-animal relationships. It ties into Dubais urban wildlife, making a direct connection to the street cats near Jameel Arts Centre. ... More Passerelle Centre d'art contemporain exhibits works by Juliette DennemontBREST.- Juliette Dennemont (1995, Saint Pierre in Réunion) spent 3 months at Passerelle under the reciprocal residency scheme: Breizh Renyon From one ocean to another. In 2024, Passerelle Centre dart contemporain and La Cité des Arts in Réunion together created this residency for research and experimentation in the visual arts to offer emerging artists from Réunion a residency in Brest and those from Brittany a residency in Saint-Denis in Réunion. This demonstrates our firm commitment to encouraging the collaboration and movement of artists across different territories. Juliette Dennemont is a painter and originally from Réunion. She graduated from the Ãcole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 2020, and mainly uses the airbrush technique, a tool that sprays paint using compressed air. She learned this from a fairground ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Chinese painter Qi Baishi was born January 01, 1864. Qi Baishi (1 January 1864 - 16 September 1957) was a Chinese painter, noted for the whimsical, often playful style of his watercolor works. Born to a peasant family from Xiangtan, Hunan, Qi became a carpenter at 14, and learned to paint by himself. After he turned 40, he traveled, visiting various scenic spots in China. After 1917 he settled in Beijing. In this image: Qi Baishi, Crabs, circa 1930. Album leaf, ink on paper. University of Michigan Museum of Art. Gift of Sotokichi Katsuizumi, 1949/1.199.
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