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Anne-Marie Zanetti, Whispers of Elysium. Oil on canvas, 43 x 38 inches. Signed.
NEW YORK, NY.- Rehs Contemporary announces its exhibition, Bloom, a vibrant exploration of flowers in contemporary art. This exhibition brings together a diverse group of artists who use floral themes to explore life, love, and identity. With Bloom, flowers are not merely aesthetic objects but rich symbols that reflect human emotions, societal concerns, and personal expression. The exhibition features both paintings and sculptures that highlight how contemporary artists use flowers to comment on the complexity of the world around us. Through the lens of an artist, flowers represent more than just beautythey are metaphors for life, death, and transformation. From vibrant depictions of blooming flowers symbolizing vitality and renewal to more subtle representations of wilting petals, the works featured will challenge the viewer to consider the delicate balance between growth and decay. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Exhibition View "Biedermeier" © Leopold Museum, Vienna, Photo: Leni Deinhardstein.
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| Leopold Museum presents a comprehensive look at the Biedermeier era | | Ana Jotta's "beaucoup, peu, rien" explores a unique artistic universe at Marian Goodman Gallery | | Howard Greenberg announces representation of Danny Lyon |
Zipora Fried, Untitled, 2024. Signed by artist, verso, colored pencil on archival museum board, paper: 20 x 16 inches (50.8 x 40.6 cm).
VIENNA.- The Leopold Museum is dedicating a large-scale spring exhibition to the fascinating era of the Biedermeier, which lasted from the Congress of Vienna in 1814/15 to the bourgeois revolutions of 1848. The presentation features around 190 works by more than 70 artists, including paintings, watercolors and drawings, as well as furnishings, glass, porcelain, dresses, and much more. Following the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Europe was shaped by massive political and social upheaval, which profoundly changed society. The exhibition Biedermeier. The Rise of an Era focuses not only on Vienna as the capital and residential city of the Habsburg Empire but also on the magnificent centers of the crown lands, including Budapest, Prague, Ljubljana, Venice and Milan, and their environs. Rather than concentrating only on the Viennese masters, such as Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller and Friedrich von Amerling, the presentation ... More | |
Ana Jotta, Volto jà , 2019. Embroidered work, 220 1/2 x 24 in. (560 x 61 cm)
PARIS.- Marian Goodman Gallery is presenting in Paris beaucoup, peu, rien, a solo exhibition by Ana Jotta, proposed and organized by Ampersand, with whom the artist has collaborated regularly in recent years. Over the decades, Ana Jotta has shaped a unique artistic universe that defies classification and explores a variety of mediums, aesthetic categories and sources of inspiration. For this exhibition, the artist is unveiling a new project, specially designed for the gallery space at 66 rue du Temple. Ana Jotta: My work never surprises me: it's good or it's bad. When something 'stirs', I make sure it keeps going. I'm stubborn. You have to keep at a task, come back, and I come back and I keep at it! Ampersand: Is there life after work? AJ: [laughter] I once read this sentence on a wall: "Haverá vida depois do trabalho?" And until then I thought that there wouldn't be, that it wasn't possible to separate, and it also became the title of an exhibition I did in Lisbon [2001]. But now it's more.. ... More | |
Memorial Day Run, Milwaukee, 1966. Copyright Danny Lyon, courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Howard Greenberg Gallery has announced representation of acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Danny Lyon. Lyon is best known for his powerful images made while immersing himself in the worlds of his subjects including the Chicago Outlaw Motorcycle Club, Civil Rights protestors, and the Texas penitentiary system. The gallery will present a selection of unique "decorated prints" made by Lyon in the 1970s at The Photography Show presented by AIPAD from April 23 through 27 at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City. Lyons first solo exhibition at the Howard Greenberg Gallery will be on view from December 6, 2025, through January 31, 2026. Danny Lyon, Texas Prisons: Photographs, Films and Drawings will feature 1960s photographs made in Texas penitentiaries, and include correspondence, films, and interviews with the incarcerated. Danny and I have known each other since around 1982 when we lived close by in upstate New Y ... More |
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| Art Basel unveils program highlights for the 2025 edition | | Exhibition at Kunsthaus Biel explores Susan Hiller's art of the subjective and the repressed | | Alfonso Artiaco inaugurates new Naples space with Ugo Rondinone's homage to Vesuvius |
Art Basel in Basel 2024. Courtesy of Art Basel
BASEL.- Art Basels highly anticipated 2025 edition will bring together 290 leading galleries from 42 countries and territories, presenting an extraordinary array of works across all mediafrom painting and sculpture to photography and digital art. The show will feature an unparalleled lineup of artists, spanning early-twentieth-century Modern pioneers to groundbreaking contemporary talent. As the leading premier event of the global art market, Art Basel in Basel remains the ultimate destination for discovery and connection. Beyond outstanding presentations in its Galleries, Premiere, Feature, Statements, and Edition sectors, the show will once again push boundaries with 67 monumental works and performances in Unlimited, curated by Giovanni Carmine, Director of the Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen. Meanwhile, the Kabinett sector will return to the Basel show, offering 22 curated highlights within exhibitors main boothsfurther elevating the depth and dialogue of the fair. A must-s ... More | |
Susan Hiller, Ten Months, 1977-1979 (Detail).
BIEL.- Born in 1940 in the United States, Susan Hiller moved to London in 1970, where she died in 2019. In a career spanning almost 50 years, she became interested in automatic writing, dreams, postcards, television programmes, magic, encounters with extraterrestrials and many other vernacular practices, guided by a quest for alternatives to the supposedly objective neutrality of science. As a woman in a patriarchal world, attentive to the fate of social minorities and non-Western cultures, Hiller notes that what is repressed is relegated to the realm of the subjective and the sensitive, considered to be negligible. This is what led her to take an interest in minor, low-profile, socially marginalised subjects, which she approaches not as objects to be examined with detachment but as phenomena to be experienced. Susan Hillers work celebrates subjectivity, elevated to the level of knowledge. The artist claimed to be transformed by each encounter with cultural artefacts, ... More | |
Ugo Rondinone, sechstermärzzweitausendfünfundzwanzig, 2025, watercolor on canvas, artist's frame, 31,5 x 46,5 x 2,5 cm.
NAPLES.- Alfonso Artiaco is presenting Ugo Rondinones first solo exhibition at the gallery, entitled ORA BLU. The solo show inaugurates the gallerys new location at Palazzo Partanna, Piazza dei Martiri 58, Naples. The exhibition opens on Friday, April 4th at 7pm, in the presence of the artist. Born in Brunnen, Switzerland, in 1964 and now based in New York, Ugo Rondinone is recognised as one of the most significant artists of his generation. His practice is distinguished by a deeply poetic language, where metaphorical and iconographic imagery converge in a meditation on time, nature, and human experience. Moving fluidly across sculpture, installation, video, and performance, Rondinone explores the intersection of modernity and archaism, precision and spontaneity, form and emotion. Suspended between pathos and ... More |
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| BFI rare 68mm collection inscribed on UNESCO international Memory of the World register | | Montclair Art Museum unveils 25 years of photography acquisition in new exhibiition | | Sean Kelly presents Zipora Fried: An exhibition spanning precise drawings to monumental sculptures |
Victorian Film 68mm 35mm comparison. BFI National Archive.
LONDON.- BFI announced that the precious 68mm Mutoscope and Biograph films held in the collections of the Eye Filmmuseum (Amsterdam), BFI National Archive, MoMA, Museum of Modern Art (New York) and the CNC, Centre national du cinéma et de limage animée (Paris) have been added to UNESCOs International Memory of the World Register, assuring the future of this unique collection of large format, high quality films from the earliest days of the moving image in the Victorian era, the IMAX films of their day. The addition of three hundred films to the UNESCO Memory of the World Register has been announced by the UN organisation. The Mutoscope and Biograph Collection at Eye Filmmuseum is the largest existing collection of these early large-format films in the world, including over 200 titles; the BFI has 100 titles, MoMA 36 rolls of Biograph films and the CNC collection has five Biograph titles. This collection follow ... More | |
William Richardson (18761935), Grand Central Station, N.Y., ca. 1927-28. Vintage gelatin silver print, 19 7/8 x 15 7/8 in. Museum purchase; Collectors Forum Fund 2007.12
MONTCLAIR, NJ.- What does a museum photography collection look like in the 21st century and how does it take shape? Platinum to Postcards: Collecting Photography at MAM (2000 2025) offers a rare look at the Montclair Art Museums photography acquisitions over the past 25 yearsfrom early 20th-century prints to bold contemporary works. On view now, the exhibition invites visitors to experience the breadth and evolution of the mediumand the Museums expanding vision. Curated by Chief Curator Gail Stavitsky, the exhibition showcases more than 40 photographs acquired since the year 2000, from platinum prints to archival pigment prints, Polaroids to postcards. The result is a dynamic portrait of photographys role in shapingand reflecting American art, culture, and identity. This is more than a collection of beautiful images, says Stavitsky. Its a ... More | |
Zipora Fried, Untitled, 2024. Signed by artist, verso, colored pencil on archival museum board, paper: 20 x 16 inches (50.8 x 40.6 cm).
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Sean Kelly is presenting Trust Me, Be Careful, I Like Your Shoes, Zipora Frieds first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. Bringing together four bodies of work; large works on paper, new intimately scaled drawings, ceramic sculptures, and a monumental hanging drawing, this exhibition highlights Frieds mastery of mark-making and her continued exploration of the transformative, manipulative potential of form, color, and gesture. Simultaneously an overview of her oeuvre and a step into a new, dynamic phase of her career, the exhibition captures a shift in Frieds practice toward heightened energy and a more liberated, expressive engagement with her materials. Spanning drawing, installation, and sculpture Zipora Frieds practice explores the tension between surface presence and subconscious depth. Layers of line, color, and material accumulate, dissolving interpretation in favor of a more visceral experience. ... More |
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| Istituto Svizzero Milan program inaugurates with Vincent Grange's "The House of Dorothy" | | Alexander Berggruen presents "Yuri Yuan: Hide and Seek," exploring existential themes in landscape and interior | | Midlands Arts Centre opens first major solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Marcia Michael |
The House of Dorothy by Vincent Grange at Istituto Svizerro. © Souplex Atelier.
MILAN.- Istituto Svizzero inaugurates its Milan programme with The House of Dorothy, the first solo exhibition in Italy by artist Vincent Grange (*1997, born in Geneva, lives and works in Geneva). Grange presents an architectural installation designed for the spaces of Istituto Svizzero. The title of the project draws inspiration from the expression friends of Dorothy, a code used by the gay community and later the LGBTQIA+ communityin the United States starting in the 1950s to identify one another and evade persecution for homosexuality. The term was so widespread that in the 1980s the Naval Investigative Service launched a lengthy but ultimately futile investigation to locate Dorothy, believing her to be a real person. At the intersection of spatial design and queer history, The House of Dorothy reconstructs the home of this imagined figure, whose name was likely a tribute to the character played by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz (1939). The various rooms narrate Do ... More | |
Yuri Yuan, The Rain Still Finds Me, 2025. Oil on canvas, 60 x 48 in. (152.4 x 121.9 cm.) Photo: Dario Lasagni.
NEW YORK, NY.- Alexander Berggruen is presenting Yuri Yuan: Hide and Seek. Alexander Berggruen will publish a forthcoming exhibition catalogue featuring the paintings in this exhibition and new essays about Yuans work. Yuri Yuans landscape and interior paintings explore existential themes of longing and loss through ambiguous figure-ground relationships. While these themes could evoke melancholy, Yuan consistently offers a symbol of hopeoften represented by light. Known for framing her work as either looking in or looking out, she deepens this concept in her solo exhibition Hide and Seek. True to her preference for open-ended narratives, Yuan leaves it uncertain whether her figures are hiding, seeking, or doing both simultaneously. Through visual symbolism, metaphor, and magical realism, she reveals how a subjects surroundings can reflect internal psychological states. Having lived in multiple major cities and now residing in New York City, Yuan is inti ... More | |
Marcia Michael with Dominique Nok. Courtesy Midlands Arts Centre. Photo: Will Pace.
BIRMINGHAM.- Experience a powerful reimagining of The Family Album, exploring the beauty and depth of family connections across time while celebrating the body as a site of history and memory. This first major solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Marcia Michael is a massive love letter to family and celebrates the sense of belonging and joy found through family connections. The Family Album is a deeply personal exploration of kinship that pieces together a rich family history through contemporary photography, sculptures, ceramics, and print design. The works of the British artist of African and Caribbean descent centre around three interconnected series: The Study of Kin, The Family Album, and The Object of my Gaze. These moving collections, archived as a revolutionary act of remembrance, display Michaels ongoing journey to reconnect with and preserve memory, love and identity. Michaels intimate portraits of herself and close family members - particularly her mother - ... More |
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Painting is a Gift: Angel Otero reads from Jack Whittenâs 'Notes from the Woodshed'
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Aoife McCloughlin appointed as the Provost's Curatorial Fellow at The Douglas HydeDUBLIN.- Established in 2020, the Provosts Fellowship in Curating offers recent graduates of Trinity College Dublin the opportunity to work within The Douglas Hyde over a period of twelve months. Through hands-on work and mentorship, the Fellow is given insight into the daily workings of the organisation and its programme, while contributing to discourses within the Gallery, Trinity College and further afield. The Fellowship, which is generously supported by the Office of the Provost, fosters new generations of arts professionals by giving practical experience of working within one of Irelands leading contemporary art spaces. Provost Linda Doyle notes, "I extend my congratulations to Aoife McCloughlin on receiving the Provosts Fellowship in Curating at The Douglas Hyde. I really look forward to seeing what she will do with this role! The Douglas Hyde is a really vibrant ... More Annely Juda Fine Art announces representation of artist Nicola TurnerLONDON.- Turner creates sculptures and site-responsive installations that explore fundamental dichotomies: life and death, human and non-human, attraction and repulsion. Using dead materials such as horsehair and wool alongside found objects, her works touch upon the history and memory of materials, dissolving boundaries amid the interconnectedness of ecosystems. With a background in set and costume design, Turner completed an MA in Fine Art at Bath Spa University in 2019 and in 2023 founded FORM-ica, an independent collective of artists in her hometown of Bath. She gained attention in 2024 for her site-responsive installation The Meddling Fiend which interacted with the statue of Sir Joshua Reynolds in the Courtyard of the Royal Academy, London, for the duration of the Summer Exhibition. Turners works possess an animalistic quality, ... More New NYC gallery opens with rediscovered Leonor FiniNEW YORK, NY.- Leonor Fini (19071996) was a singular figure in 20th-century art, known for her refusal to conform whether to artistic movements, societal expectations, or gender norms. Though often associated with the Surrealists, she distanced herself from the group, rejecting André Bretons rigid dogma and his tendency to reduce women to passive muses. Nevertheless, she was one of the few women included in the landmark 1936 International Surrealist Exhibition in London, alongside artists such as Salvador Dalà and Max Ernst. Unlike many of her male contemporaries, she did not see the unconscious as a realm of male dominance but rather as a space of fluid identities, shifting power, and self-possession. Finis work was deeply thematic, returning obsessively to certain recurring figures: sphinxes, feline creatures, skeletons, sorceresses, and ambiguous androgynous ... More Alma Pearl presents "Veils of Space," Hannah-Sophia Guerriero's London solo debut in miniature paintingLONDON.- Alma Pearl is presenting Veils of Space, Hannah-Sophia Guerrieros debut solo exhibition in London since completing the Apollo Painting School. Sensuous and intimate are some of the adjectives that come to mind when confronted with Guerrieros miniature paintings. Her painted depictions are drawn from highly selected details of her own photographs, exploring the ephemeral nature of the everyday through a personal focus and lens. Direct, one of the two works in the presentation, is a self-portrait referencing Hans Holbein's A Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling here a cameo of sorts to the artist who painted some of the earliest and most beautiful known miniatures in Western painting. At Ease explores the hidden beauty of the mundane by overlapping two of the same photographs, captured while driving through the Peak District. In both instances, Guerriero ... More 2025 Sobey Art Award longlist revealedOTTAWA.- The 30 longlisted artists, hailing from coast to coast to coast, for the 2025 Sobey Art Award, Canadas preeminent contemporary visual arts award, were announced today by the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) and the Sobey Art Foundation (SAF). Last year, a sixth region Circumpolar was added to increase representation from across the country. The richest award in the country and one of the most generous in the world, the Sobey Art Award propels the careers of artists, of all ages, through financial support and recognition in Canada and beyond. A total of $465,000 in prize money, funded by the Sobey Art Foundation, will be awarded. The six shortlisted artists, whose names will be unveiled on June 3, will be featured in an exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada next fall (October 3, 2025, to February 8, 2026). Were thrilled to announce ... More Last chance to see: Exhibition of works by Gamaliel RodrÃguez at Sperone WestwaterNEW YORK, NY.- Sperone Westwater is presenting La Luz de Alante (The Light Ahead), the gallerys first solo exhibition of Puerto Rican artist Gamaliel RodrÃguez. The show features RodrÃguezs recent work, exploring themes of ecological transformation, colonial legacies and the precarious balance between nature and industry in the Caribbean. The exhibition title refers to a Puerto Rican saying, La luz de alante es la que alumbra The light ahead is the one that shines. This phrase underscores the importance of taking initiative and seizing opportunities, rather than waiting for the perfect moment, a guiding principle in RodrÃguezs work as he navigates the complexities of life and artistic practice in Puerto Rico. Over the past year, RodrÃguez traveled to Guadeloupe to study plant life, and to compare cultures and landscapes there. Through his paintings ... More Paris exhibition explores visionary Japanese Avant-Garde artist Taro OkamotoPARIS.- The Musée du quai Branly Jacques Chirac is currently presenting an exhibition dedicated to the multidisciplinary artist Taro Okamoto (1911-1996), a central figure of the Japanese avant-gardes. Focusing on the period from 1930 to 1970, the exhibition aims to illuminate the unique vision of this resolutely avant-garde artist whose work spanned painting, sculpture, photography, and writing, among other fields. Okamoto's journey took a significant turn when he arrived in Paris in 1930. He quickly immersed himself in the city's vibrant artistic scene, gravitating towards abstract and surrealist movements. His intellectual pursuits also led him to study ethnology at the prestigious Musée de l'Homme in 1938, where he was mentored by renowned figures such as Marcel Mauss and Paul Rivet. During this time in Paris, he also developed a close association with writer and philosopher ... More lbf contemporary, London presents Benjamin Levy: Keeping Up With The CorbiesLONDON.- Benjamin Levys work interrogates the intricacies of our desires in an age when they have increasingly been manipulated and the objects of those desires aggregated into a seemingly endless carousel of images. The revival of figurative painting in recent years, partly as a corrective to the domination by stealth of visual information on digital screens, has been accompanied by a well-meaning critique of consumerism, greed, and over production, in which the working person and their desires are ridiculed. Levy sidesteps this cliché, not only because he isdispiritinglyone of only a handful of noteworthy figurative artists working today who are from working-class backgrounds but because he recognises that wealth is not absolute; it is relative to desire. Rather than teasing the consumers, we may scrutinise a society which encodes unspoken assumptions about status, ... More Maurice Ravel's Mother Goose brought to life in stunning mixed-media installationGATESHEAD.- A captivating new installation, Mother Goose, is now open at The Glasshouse International Centre for Music in Gateshead. Created by renowned artist James Bulley, the work has been co-commissioned by Yorkshire-based arts organisation Mediale. Inspired by Maurice Ravels 1910 suite, Ma Mère l'Oye, an intriguing series of magic cabinets blends music, natural materials and field recordings to create immersive environments that will enrapture audiences. Each sound box represents one of the suites movements, including Sleeping Beauty and Beauty and the Beast, with music specially recorded for the installation by Royal Northern Sinfonia, conducted by Dinis Sousa. This exciting collaboration reimagines Ravels work, offering audiences a unique fusion of sound, art and narrative.Each sound box is a self-contained world, crafted using a variety of woods, ... More Pulitzer Arts Foundation presents Veronica Ryan: Unruly Objects and Jess T. Dugan: I'm right here with youST. LOUIS, MO.- This spring, the Pulitzer Arts Foundation presents two exhibitions, Veronica Ryan: Unruly Objects and Jess T. Dugan: Im right here with you. These exhibitions bring together decades of artistic explorationfrom Ryans sculptural works that reimagine everyday materials to Dugans meditative botanical drawings, marking their first foray into this medium. As Ryans first comprehensive solo exhibition in the U.S., Unruly Objects is co-organized by the Pulitzer and the Wexner Center for the Arts and curated by Tamara H. Schenkenberg, Curator, with Molly Moog, Curatorial Associate, Pulitzer Arts Foundation. Among the more than a hundred sculptures, textiles, and works on paper are objects made of traditional art materialsi.e., bronze, marble, and plasteras well as others sourced from such unexpected everyday items as seeds, pods, mango stones, orange ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Russian-French illustrator Erté died April 21, 1990. Romain de Tirtoff (23 November 1892 - 21 April 1990) was a Russian-born French artist and designer known by the pseudonym Erté, from the French pronunciation of his initials. He was a diversely talented 20th-century artist and designer who flourished in an array of fields, including fashion, jewellery, graphic arts, costume and set design for film, theatre, and opera, and interior decor.
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