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Installation view, UMAN. A FANTASTIC WOMAN at Hauser & Wirth Zurich, Limmatstrasse, 23 January 23 May 2025 © Uman. Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth and Nicola Vassell Gallery. Photo: Jon Etter.
ZURICH.- For her second exhibition with Hauser & Wirth and her first solo show in Switzerland, Uman presents all new paintings and works on paper at the gallerys Zurich location on Limmatstrasse in equal partnership with Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York NY. Working in Upstate New York, Umans new paintings reflect her reverence for the natural world. Fluidly navigating in-between realms to explore both the physical and spiritual, the artist intertwines abstraction, figuration and meditative patterning. Expanding on this unique visual language, Umans new body of work also explores ideas of color field painting. With some works suspended from the ceiling and a site-specific wall mural that will transform part of the gallery space, Uman invites the viewer to be immersed in her lavishly detailed and opulently colored worlds, replete with gesture, geometry and evocations of the sublime. The selection of large-scale works on view in Zurich presents a development in Umans approa ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day For Condo 2025, The Approach has invited Philipp Zollinger, Zürich, presenting Renée Levi (b. 1960) and Cassidy Toner (b. 1992). Courtesy of the artists, The Approach, London and Philipp Zollinger, Zurich. Documentation by Michal Brzezinki.
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| National Gallery of Art acquires Manfred Heiting Library | | The Met launches new blockchain game "Art Links" | | Georgia Museum of Art lifts up Ukrainian art in "gesture of solidarity" |
Louis Aragon, Une vague de rêves, 1924/1938, National Gallery of Art Library, Manfred Heiting Library. Image courtesy of Manfred Heiting
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art recently acquired the library of noted photography and photobook collector, designer, and author Manfred Heiting. The Heiting Library, which includes more than 4,500 items, will expand the National Gallerys remarkable holdings of illustrated books, bound volumes of photographs, and photobooks from around the world and complement its collection of photographs. Made possible in part by a gift from Heiting, this acquisition also underscores the museums commitment to supporting photography research and scholarship and continuing to expand the breadth and depth of the nations art and research collections. At the core of the Heiting Library is an extraordinary concentration of bound volumes of 19th-century photographs and 20th-century photobooks of exceptional quality, scope, and significance. These works, along with earlier 16th- to 19th-century publications adorned with woodcuts, engravings, and etchings, enable the Heiting Library to offer ... More | |
The serialized game, which releases new challenges weekly, features over 140 works of art from across The Met collection.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art has launched a new short-session game, Art Links, that invites players to identify common threads and intriguing connections between works of art from The Met collection. This is the first Web3-based experience (a game that is built using blockchain technology) at The Met. Designed in partnership with the art and tech platform TRLab, this mobile-first, browser-based, blockchain-powered game presents an innovative way to engage with the Museum, and offers the opportunity to collect special in-game NFT badges and win exciting in-person and digital rewards. Art Links launches today, January 23, and is available on The Mets website at artlinks.metmuseum.org. The serialized game, which releases new challenges weekly, features over 140 works of art from across The Met collection. Upon successfully finding art-based connectionsor "chains"between works, players can claim free NFT "badges" and earn "achievements" by tackling in-game challenges. ... More | |
Serafima Senkevich (Ukrainian, 1941 2021), Portrait of a Young Woman, 1966. Oil, 31 1/2 Ã 25 inches (framed). Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Museum purchase with funds provided by the William Parker Endowment. GMOA 2023.250.
ATHENS, GA.- With war raging in Ukraine since 2022, numerous works of art, monuments and historic sites are facing destruction. The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia is striving to help preserve Ukrainian art and to show its beauty and variety with the exhibition The Awe of Ordinary Labors: 20th-Century Paintings from Ukraine, on view January 18 to June 1. Forty-four Ukrainian paintings from between 1930 and 1980, all from the museums collection, capture varieties of socialist realism. This style is characterized by its optimistic pictures of Soviet life and Communist ideologies. Artists were supposed to show the endless battle of the working class against their oppressors. Art was to show not reality but ideals. These demands led to numerous works of Soviet art, including those produced in Ukraine, being purely political propaganda. Nevertheless, many artists were able to navigate the margins ... More |
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| Scholten Japanese Art showcases pioneering printmakers | | The New York Public Library acquires archive of Jhumpa Lahiri | | Rachel Khedoori's new sculptures transform space at Hauser & Wirth Zurich |
Kiyoshi Saito (1907-1997), New York (B), 1963, woodblock print with mica, 27 1/8 by 21 1/8 in., 69 by 53.5 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Scholten Japanese Art is presenting for its Winter 20242025 gallery exhibition a collection of woodblock prints by a group of preeminent Japanese sosaku hanga artists. The show includes self-carved and self-printed works by Shiko Munakata (19031975), Junichiro Sekino (19141988), Kiyoshi Saito (19071997), Toshi Yoshida (19111995), and his younger brother, Hodaka Yoshida (19242017), along with Hodakas wife, Chizuko Yoshida (19242017), as well as another set of spouses, Ansei Uchima (19212000) and his wife, Toshiko Uchima (19182000). The unifying theme of this exhibition is the vital role of each of these artists in bringing sosaku hanga to the United States and, in particular, New York. Exposing this uniquely Japanese art form to wider audiences, some created important works during their time in New York, others demonstrated and provided ... More | |
Unaccustomed Earth Kindle Edition by Jhumpa Lahiri.
NEW YORK, NY.- The New York Public Library has acquired the archive of Jhumpa Lahiri, shedding new light on the award-winning author and multilingual translator. Comprising 31 boxes of material stretching to nearly 40 linear feet, the archive, which will become publicly available in 2025, chronicles Lahiris literary accomplishments from a young age and her commitment to critical reading, the nuances of language, and the craft of writing. Lahiri is widely considered one of the most exciting authors working today, and has been since her debut story collection, The Interpreter of Maladies, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2000. Her writing explores subtle complexities around the Indian-immigrant experience, the art of translation, and feelings of foreignness. In recent years, Lahiris work took a linguistic turn as she began writing in Italian and translating works, including her own, between Italian and English. The acquisition compliments a growing collection of notable women ... More | |
Rachel Khedoori, Untitled, 2024. Resin infused polymethyl methacrylate and encaustic wax, 141.5 x 45 x 45 cm / 55 3/4 x 17 3/4 x 17 3/4 in. Photo: Jon Etter.
ZURICH.- This January, the artist Rachel Khedoori presents an installation of new work in the second-floor gallery of Hauser & Wirth Zurich, Limmatstrasse. Over the course of a career spanning 30 years, Khedoori has worked in various mediumsfilm, sculpture and installation to reinterpret space and challenge perception through the discrete displacement of her mediums, materials and forms. For her new work in Zurich, Khedoori has applied a range of materials and technique cast aluminum, bronze, 3-D printing, resin, encaustic paint and paperto produce an ensemble of sculptural works that oscillate between constructed and deconstructed states. The works on view form an interconnected vocabulary, consisting of various compositions of flat forms that evoke facades of buildings or camera shutters. Some are placed in front of glass panes and lit to produce ... More |
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| BAMPFA to honor Cheryl Dunye and Trevor Paglen at 2025 Art and Film Benefit | | Winston Churchill portrait Blood, Sweat & Tears by Frank Salisbury acquired by The Society of the Four Arts | | Renée Levi and Cassidy Toner presented by The Approach and Philipp Zollinger |
Trevor Paglen.
BERKELEY, CALIF.- The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive announced today that its 2025 fundraising benefit will pay tribute to Cheryl Dunye and Trevor Paglen, two singular visionaries in the fields of art and film. Dunye and Paglen are the latest pair of honorees to be celebrated at BAMPFAs annual Art and Film Benefit, an event that reflects the museums unique dual dedication to art and film by honoring one artist and one filmmaker each year. Proceeds from the benefit support the full scope of BAMPFAs mission, with a particular focus on the museums student engagement programs. With their groundbreaking work and strong ties to the Bay Area, we are thrilled to recognize Cheryl Dunye and Trevor Paglen this year, said BAMPFAs Executive Director, Julie Rodrigues Widholm. Both of these important artists make visible what has historically been invisible which truly changes the way we see the world around us. To help BAMPFA honor these ... More | |
Francis Owen Salisbury (December 18, 1874 August 31, 1962) was an English artist who painted portraits and historical events, particularly involving heads of state.
PALM BEACH, FLA.- The painting Blood, Sweat & Tears depicts one of the most instantly recognizable subjects of the 20th century: Sir Winston Churchill. The Society of the Four Arts recently acquired this large oil on canvas painting, which is adorned with a magnificent, gilded wood frame, from a bequest by Mr. David Harrison Gilmour. Both the painting and its frame have been cleaned and conserved. Executed by English artist Frank O. Salisbury (1874 1962), it is one of few portraits of the sitter made during Churchills Second World War premiership, rather than in his later days as a fêted elder statesman. From 1970 until 1996, when Mr. Gilmour acquired the painting, it hung at 10 Downing Street. In addition to painting large canvases of historical and ceremonial events and designing stained glass and book illustrations, Salisbury ... More | |
Renée Levi, Myra, 2024. Acrylic on cotton, 120 x 120 cm. 47 1/4 x 47 1/4 in. Courtesy of the artist, The Approach, London and Philipp Zollinger, Zurich. Documentation by Michal Brzezinki.
LONDON.- For Condo 2025, The Approach has invited Philipp Zollinger, Zürich, presenting Renée Levi (b. 1960) and Cassidy Toner (b. 1992). For over thirty years Renée Levi has been questioning the medium of painting, she investigates colour, the application of paint, its body and its space on various image carriers as well as installations. Levi was born in 1960, in Istanbul and grew up in Aargau. Today she lives and works in Basel. After studying architecture at the HTL Muttenz/Baseland, she studied at the Zürich School of Art and Design. Renée Levis gestural and colour-block compositions reveal an intuitive painting practice. Using a brush, roller and even cleaning rags as her painting utensils, Levis assertive marks revel in the materiality of paint. It is a methodology that questions the medium not only through its application ... More |
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| Annet Gelink Gallery announces the representation of artist Helen Verhoeven | | From dreams to canvas: Mia Enell's intuitive art at Bienvenu Steinberg & C | | Kunstverein München presents its winter/spring program 2025 |
Helen Verhoeven in her studio in Berlin. Photo by Marcel Wogram, Het Parool, 2021.
AMSTERDAM.- Helen Verhoeven (1974) is a Dutch/American artist, based in Berlin, who grew up in the Netherlands and moved to the US in 1986. She received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1995 and in 2001 her MFA from the New York Academy of Art under Eric Fischl. In 2005/06 she was a resident at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, where she has been an advisor since 2021. Verhoeven was a recipient of the Dutch Royal Painting Prize in 2008, the Wolvecampprijs in 2010 and the ABN-AMRO Art Prize in 2019. Her work has been exhibited internationally in institutions such as the Bonnefantenmuseum in Maastricht, The Kestnergesellschaft in Hannover, The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, The Gemeentemuseum in Den Haag, The Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Museum Nikolaikirche in Berlin, The Saatchi Gallery in London, the FLAG Art Foundation in New York and Kunstmuseum Bonn. Since 2023 she is a painting professor at Dresden University of Fine Arts. Helen Verhoeven ... More | |
Mia Enell, Disco - Vanitas, 2020, pencil, watercolor, paper, 11 x 14 inches, 28 x 35.5 cm
NEW YORK, NY.- Bienvenu Steinberg & C presents Mia Enell's second solo exhibition with the gallery. The titular painting, Disco to Death, sets the tone for Enell's new body of work. In this triangular composition anchored by a red womb, a headless woman holds a skull in one handâin a Shakespearean pauseâand a disco ball in the other. Inspired by friends who radiated life even as their days were numbered, the works in this exhibition reflect on the ebbs and flows of existence. The communal joy of the dance floor meets the inevitability of death in a form of happy nihilism. Trusting her intuitive process, Enell distills disparate thoughts and images into deeply resonant ambiguous works. Born in Sweden, she is best known for her paintings and drawings that explore the eccentricities of her inner life. Drawing from her Scandinavian roots, Enell employs dark humor to address themes traditionally considered somber, flattening taboos into comic parables to make difficult truths more digestible. Her work is ... More | |
Kosen Ohtsubo, Linga Japonica, April 1991. Iris, soil, variety of branches and flowers. Photo: the artist. Courtesy of the artist. © Kosen Ohtsubo.
MUNICH.- The artists Kosen Ohtsubo and Christian Kōun Alborz Oldham share an unusual approach to ikebana and an interest in how one person enables the work of another. With Flower Planet, Kunstverein München presents two artists in ongoing dialog with each other who create fragile sculptures that challenge us to see the earth as a living entity and not as territory to be owned. Working with living material, their practices confront us with questions of being in and with this world, processes of decay, and the elusive nature of human control. The Japanese artist Kosen Ohtsubo is one of the most important practitioners and teachers of the art form of ikebana. Traditionally, the ikebana arrangement is intended to bring nature into the human habitat through precious plants, arranged in such a way to represent the cosmic order. In the 1970s, however, Ohtsubo became well-known for his use of everyday materials such as vegetables and ... More |
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Artist Conversation: Feminist Portraiture from Paula Modersohn-Becker to Renee Cox
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Nici Cumpston OAM takes on new role as the Director of Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art CollectionADELAIDE.- The Art Gallery of South Australias Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art and Artistic Director of Tarnanthi, Nici Cumpston OAM today announced that after seventeen years at AGSA, she will take up the position as Director of Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA in May 2025. A proud Barkandji artist, curator, writer and educator, Cumpston was appointed as the inaugural Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at AGSA in 2008, and, since then, has contributed to the curation of sixteen major exhibitions and accompanying publications. In 2014, she was appointed as the inaugural Artistic Director of Tarnanthi AGSAs acclaimed platform for contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, which, in 2025, will celebrate its tenth anniversary when ... More Survival and intimations of immortality: The art of Alice Lok Cahana, Rabbi Ronnie Cahana, and Kitra CahanaPORTLAND, OR.- Talents are passed down from generation to generation. But are memories? The Cahana family provides a very strong argument for the transmission of both talent and memory via DNA. Survival and Intimations of Immortality: The Art of Alice Lok Cahana, Rabbi Ronnie Cahana, and Kitra Cahana has its international debut at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education on Jan. 26 the day before International Holocaust Remembrance Day and closes May 25. The powerful exhibition of 16 paintings, five multi-media sculptures, 18 photographs, three documentary films, 21 family photographs and videos, and poems displays the artistic expressions of three members three ... More The Institut d'art contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes presents its annual programVILLEURBANNE.- In 2025, the Institut dart contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes (IAC) will present four exhibitions within its walls exploring subjects such as resilience, image production, porosity between matters, histories and worlds. In the region, as is customary every two years, the IAC will present the Galeries Nomades program, which supports the production and development of monographic projects by artists who graduated one or two years ago from one of the five art schools in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. The 2025 programme reflects IACs commitment to the international art scene, featuring artists such as Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, Laurie Charles, Gabrielle Goliath, Eisa Jocson, melanie bonajo, Phoebe Boswell or Denise Ferreira da Silva and Arjuna Neuman. Additionally, IAC will host debut exhibitions in France by Yi-Fan ... More From landscapes to gold leaf - Save the date for 2025 Borders Art FairKELSO.- Two artists from the same village, but with very different styles, will be among more than 70 exhibitors at the 2025 McInroy & Wood Borders Art Fair (BAF). Gary Anderson was well known for his geometric paintings, inspired by the urban environment of Edinburgh, but more recently started creating abstracted landscapes reflecting the rural landscapes of the Borders. A fellow resident of Stow, just north of Galashiels, Alexandra Warren, uses materials such as gold leaf, to create striking images often large scale on wooden boards. Alexandras work shows the influence of icons and similar artworks that she loved to see in churches and museums during her upbringing in Greece. Since settling in Scotland in 2003 she has focused on developing her career as an artist and has found the Borders Art Fair (often known as the friendliest ... More Centro BotÃn sees record crowds in 2024, connecting art and communitySANTANDER.- The Centro BotÃn in Santander is celebrating a banner year, with visitor numbers surging to a record 176,783 in 2024, a 6.5% jump from the previous year. This news, shared at the FITUR tourism fair by BotÃn Foundation General Director Ãñigo Sáenz de Miera, highlights the centers growing appeal both locally and internationally. More than just a place to view art, the Centro BotÃn has become a vibrant hub of activity. Over 54,000 visitors participated in the centers diverse program of 367 artistic, cultural, and educational events, from workshops and performances to lectures and film screenings. These events proved incredibly popular, boasting a 90% attendance rate and consistently high satisfaction scores, averaging 4.75 out of 5. Were thrilled to see so many people engaging with the Centro BotÃn, said Sáenz de Miera. ... More Cartoon hands and distorted figures: Paco Pomet's commentary on photographyMUNICH.- KÃNIG BERGSON is presenting BRAND NEW PRISTINE TURMOILS, a solo exhibition by Spanish artist Paco Pomet, his first with the gallery. The show features 14 oil-on-canvas paintings, most from 2024, which use appropriated imagery as their point of departure black-and-white photographs in particular, once deployed as guarantors of authenticity and truth. Pomet has developed a particular approach to the distortion and exaggeration of his sources, infusing his pictures with a kind of comic grotesque reminiscent of earlier European satirists like William Hogarth and Honoré Daumier. Like these predecessors, Pomet understands the visual as a site of power and influence for the public at large. Using photographs as the basis for his ludic additions to the pictorial ground of these sources, Pomet highlights the claims to truth ... More Sabrina Mezzaqui "Collects Words" in new exhibition at Galleria Continua FLORENCE.- Galleria Continua is hosting in its San Gimignano spaces the exhibition by Sabrina Mezzaqui titled Raccogliere parole (Collecting words). Held on the ground floor of the former cinema theater where the gallery is located, the exhibition features a substantial number of works, mostly new and created over the past year. Sabrina Mezzaqui draws inspiration from the evocative and symbolic power of words, translating them into plastic forms. Her artistic practice involves cutting, recomposing, and returning shards of life, fragments of thoughts, and visions, aiming for a natural harmony. Her work is characterized by a dialogic, interpretive approach that generates partial epiphanies for sharing. Her pieces crystallize the passage of time through a manual process fueled by repeated gestures; they often include writing, small texts, memories, ... More Sarah Carrington has been appointed the new Director of The LineLONDON.- Sarah will be taking over from The Lines Co-Founder, Megan Piper, who has decided to step down from her role as Director this summer to focus her energies on her life in Folkestone. Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, since an initial idea formed between Megan Piper and Clive Dutton OBE to leverage the legacy from the 2012 Olympics, The Line has grown into a dynamic public art trail that last year was enjoyed by an estimated 5.5 million people. The next 10 years will build on the strong foundations of the first, honouring The Line's founding principle to democratise access to art. Sarah, who is currently Deputy Director, joined The Line in 2019 and has been instrumental in its development over the last six years. She will take over as Director on 1 July 2025, and Megan will stay on in an advisory role. Michele Faull, Chair ... More Virtual exhibition explores harmony between nature and technologyBERLIN.- Presented by OFFICE IMPART and Blueshift, Down the Silicon Meadow features works by seven contemporary artists calling us to expand cohabitation beyond humans, plants and animals to include machines and technologies. This virtual exhibition focussing on digital art and addressing contemporary issues around the environment and sustainability in a broader context. What if machines could learn from the cycles of a forest? What if they could carve stones like rivers in need of passage, or grow like roots reaching for water? Down the Silicon Meadow explores a world where nature and technology are not competing for dominance but are rather allies, developing side by side. Inspired by biomimicry and ecological entanglement, this exhibition is a story of coexistence, challenging the dualities we know too much: human vs. ... More |
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Silk Road Oasis 
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Gabriele Münter
Flashback On a day like today, American painter Robert Motherwell was born January 24, 1915. Robert Motherwell (January 24, 1915 - July 16, 1991) was an American painter, printmaker, and editor. He was one of the youngest of the New York School (a phrase he coined), which also included Philip Guston, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko. In this image: Robert Motherwell, The Hotel Corridor, 1950. Oil on masonite, 44 x 55 inches, 111.8 x 139.7 cm. © Dedalus Foundation, Inc./ Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.
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