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Annie Blazejack and Geddes Levenson, Hungry Eyes, 2019. Oil on canvas, 48 x 66 inches. Image courtesy of the artists.
VERO BEACH, FLA.- Discover natures fragility, its power, and its potential to transform and endure in A Tangled Plot: Works by Annie Blazejack and Geddes Levenson, an original exhibition on view at the Vero Beach Museum of Art (VBMA) from July 12 through October 5. In more than 40 paintings and mixed-media works, the duo reveals their unique and highly collaborative artistic process. The works illuminate their deep connections to the Florida landscape through exploration of its diverse wildlife, marine life, and intricate ecosystems, including swamps, marshes, hardwood hammocks, and mangrove forests. Blazejack and Levenson, who both hail from Miami, Florida, draw inspiration from literature, poetry, ecology, and science fiction, among other sources, reimagining them in a world uniquely their own. A Tangled Plot refers both to an unruly plot of land and to a narrative structure filled with intricate, interwoven storylines. The works included a ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Museum of Flight's major new exhibit for 2025 opened June 21 with the world premiere of The MiG-21 Project, South African artist Ralph Zimanâs 5-year, multidisciplinary project transforming a 51-foot by 24-foot decommissioned Cold War era, Soviet-designed MiG-21 fighter jet into a stunning work of art, entirely covered in tens of millions of colorful glass beads.
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| American Estate Buyers: Breathing new life into the secondary art market | | Joan Jonas's drawings take center stage at Pace Tokyo | | Janet Werner's "Hell and Happiness" opens at Almine Rech Brussels |
Though based in Southern California, American Estate Buyers serves clients nationwide.
PASADENA, CA.- In a world where fine art often lingers unseen in private collections or estates, American Estate Buyers is redefining how that art reenters the market. As a leading buyer and seller of estate and investment-grade artworks, the company offers a streamlined, transparent solution for collectors, heirs, and fiduciaries seeking immediate liquiditywithout the long lead times or uncertainties of auctions. Founded on the belief that art should be accessible, appreciated, and in motion rather than locked away, American Estate Buyers operates at the crossroads of traditional collecting and modern asset management. Its mission is simple: connect sellers with buyers quickly and ethically, and ensure that significant works of art continue to find meaningful homes. Unlike many dealers or auction houses that rely on consignment models, American Estate Buyers offers immediate buyout options for fine art, this approach removes uncertainty ... More | |
Joan Jonas, Untitled, c. 2016-2021. Oil stick and ink on paper, 11-3/4" à 8-1/4" (29.8 cm à 21 cm), sheet 14-1/2" à 11" à 1-1/2" (36.8 cm à 27.9 cm à 3.8 cm), framed.
TOKYO.- Pace is presenting an exhibition of works on paper by American artist Joan Jonas at its Tokyo gallery. On view from May 17 to July 3 and curated by artist Adam Pendletonone of Jonass oldest friendsthis show sheds light on the centrality of drawing in Jonass practice as well as her enduring connection to Japan, where she first traveled in 1970. The exhibition, which includes works that were created during her previous travels in Japan, is being presented ahead of Japanese Contemporary Art and the World 1989-2010, a survey featuring a video installation by the artist, which will open at the National Art Center Tokyo in September. Born in New York in 1936, Jonas is a major figure in video and performance art, though she trained as a sculptor and nurtured a multidisciplinary practice also encompassing installation and drawing. She rose to prominence in New Yorks downtown ... More | |
Janet Werner, Lobster, 2025. Oil on canvas, 193 x 152.4 cm. 76 x 60 in.
BRUSSELS.- Almine Rech Brussels is presenting 'Hell and Happiness', Janet Werner's first solo show with the gallery, on view from June 12 to July 26, 2025. Since the late 1980s, Janet Werner has focused her artistic practice exclusively on portraits. She paints women in all their conditions and assigned roles. Previously, she painted from her imagination, but since 2016 she has changed her approach by using photos from fashion magazines. These glossy images are then transposed to the canvas. Janet Werners objective in painting from photos is to make the photos disappear. She says: Ive been wrestling with the photograph all along because I dont like what it signifies and I dont like how it makes forms. The artist relentlessly strives to deconstruct the photographic image by merging it with painterly gestures and layers of paint. She adds: I often have to destroy a portrait when it gets too photographic. I get angry and start undoing the portrait, ... More |
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| Kunstmuseum Bern releases comprehensive Nazi-looted art principles, restitutes Sisley painting | | Sculptural forest blooms at Crac Occitanie: Leonor Antunes challenges art, design boundaries | | "Andrew Wyeth at Kuerner Farm: The Eye of the Earth" opens at the Brandywine Museum |
Alfred Sisley, Le Chemin des Bois à Ville-d'Avray, 1879.
BERN.- The Stiftung Kunstmuseum Bern announced a significant consolidation and expansion of its principles for addressing Nazi-looted art. Simultaneously, the museum revealed its decision to return Alfred Sisley's painting Le Chemin des Bois à Ville-d'Avray (1879) to the heirs of Carl Sachs, a victim of Nazi persecution. The museum's newly defined position on handling Nazi-persecution-related art losses is outlined in a dedicated basic document, emphasizing clarity and transparency. This refined approach extends to both the museum's existing collection and the Cornelius Gurlitt bequest. In the case of the Sisley painting, which entered the museum's collection in 1994 as a bequest, provenance research revealed "anomalies" connected to its sale in Switzerland in September 1940. Carl Sachs (1858-1943), a merchant and collector, fled to Switzerland with his wife in February 1939 due to Nazi persecution; other family members died in concentration camps. The sale to art dealer Theodor Fischer was e ... More | |
View of the exhibition "the constant inequalities of leonor's days*" by Leonor Antunes, 2025, Crac Occitanie, Sète. "Sadie," 2024, silk, glass beads, nylon thread. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Nick Ash.
SÃTE.- the constant inequality of leonors days* is a new sculptural installation by Leonor Antunes (born in 1972 in Lisbon), spread across six rooms on the ground floor of the Crac Occitanie. For over twenty-five years, Leonor Antunes has been developing a body of work made up of sculptural suspensions that inhabit architectures, while offering a critical interpretation of the sites and their histories. At the Crac, visitors are invited to freely roam a forest of objects that combine the language of sculpture with those of decorative arts, costumes, and stage furniture, decompartmentalising the conventional categories of art, design, and architecture. the constant inequality of leonors days* is a readaptation of the exhibition presented in Lisbon. The title is followed by an asterisk indicating that it is a citation. Leonor Antunes borrows this title from a drawing ... More | |
Andrew Wyeth (1917 2009), Loden Coat, 1975, watercolor on paper. Private collection. © 2025 Wyeth Foundation for American Art/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
CHADDS FORD, PA.- Opening at the Brandywine Museum of Art this summer, Andrew Wyeth at Kuerner Farm: The Eye of the Earth brings together some of the artists most iconic works featuring the landscape, buildings, and inhabitants of Kuerner Farm in Chadds Ford, PA. Now a National Historic Landmark owned and operated by the Brandywine, Kuerner Farm inspired nearly 1,000 artworks by Andrew Wyeth in a wide variety of genres and media. Andrew Wyeth at Kuerner Farm is the first focused exhibition on this defining subject, surveying the artists sustained engagement with the site over the span of seven decades. This nationally traveling exhibitionco-organized by the Brandywine and the Reynolda House Museum of American Art in Winston-Salem, NChas been years in the making and features nearly 50 paintings, including major works loaned from both private ... More |
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| Mindy N. Besaw appointed Wilma E. Kelley Director of the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art | | Iconic Kylie Minogue costumes added in new display in the Australian Music Vault | | The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston opens 'From India to the World: Textiles from the Parpia Collection' |
Besaw currently serves as director of fellowships, research and university partnerships and curator of American art at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
BLOOMINGTON, IN.- Indiana University Bloomington has appointed Mindy N. Besaw as the next Wilma E. Kelley Director of the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, effective Aug. 15. Besaw brings more than two decades of curatorial and museum leadership experience with a focus on innovative exhibition design, expansive storytelling and academic collaboration. She succeeds interim director Mariah Keller, who has led the museum since August 2024. The Eskenazi Museum of Art stands at the heart of Bloomingtons cultural life and serves as a magnet for patrons near and far, IU Bloomington Chancellor David Reingold said. With Mindy Besaws leadership, the museum is poised to broaden its public reach serving as a dynamic bridge ... More | |
Installation view. Photo by Jason Lau.
MELBOURNE.- The Australian Music Vault announced a new display, Kylie Minogue: The Music Videos featuring six iconic costumes including the white jumpsuit worn in the video clip for Cant Get You Out Of My Head and, a Jean-Paul Gaultier outfit worn in the video for fan anthem All The Lovers. The Gaultier costume will be on display to the public for the first time in honour of the 15th anniversary of the hit. The new display features costumes from Kylies video clips including Hand on Your Heart, Did It Again, On A Night Like This, Can't Get You Out of My Head, I Believe In You and All the Lovers. Australian Music Vault curator Olivia Jackson said: the format of music videos with special effects, lighting and editing allowed Minogue to experiment with more adventurous costumes, themes and narratives that would be otherwise difficult to convey in live performance. Jack ... More | |
Ceremonial Textile [detail], Gujarat, India, for the Indonesian market, c.1600, block-printed, hand- drawn, resist-dyed, and mordant-dyed, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Banoo and Jeevak Parpia Collection, museum purchase funded by the Alfred C. Glassell Jr. Accessions Endowment.
HOUSTON, TX.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is presenting the exhibition From India to the World: Textiles from the Parpia Collection, featuring 67 pieces from a significant group of 187 superb Indian textiles that the museum has recently acquired from the collection of Ithaca, New York-based Banoo and Jeevak Parpia. The Parpias have, over more than 40 years, assembled one of the most significant holdings of Indian textiles in private hands outside of India. The exhibition will be on view June 22 through September 14, 2025. Following on the loan exhibition Woven Wonders: Indian Textiles from the Parpia Collection, presented at the MFAH in 2023, From India to the ... More |
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| Epic art exhibit premieres at The Museum of Flight | | 'The Work of Repair: Redress & Repatriation at the MOV' opens at the Museum of Vancouver | | The Reading Public Museum features recent works by Puerto Rican artist Patrick McGrath Muñiz |
MiG-21 Tail detail.
SEATTLE, WA.- The Museum of Flights major new exhibit for 2025 opened June 21 with the world premiere of The MiG-21 Project, South African artist Ralph Zimans 5-year, multidisciplinary project transforming a 51-foot by 24-foot decommissioned Cold War era, Soviet-designed MiG-21 fighter jet into a stunning work of art, entirely covered in tens of millions of colorful glass beads. The re-imagined jet turns an icon of violence into a symbol of resilience and collaboration, and is the centerpiece of the exhibit, which will be on view until Jan. 26, 2026. The MiG-21 Project is the culmination of Zimans Weapons of Mass Production Trilogy, a 12-year project inspired by the artists experiences growing up in Apartheid South Africa and produced by teams on two continentsZiman and his team in Los Angeles in collaboration with Southern African beadwork artisans. Together, they addressed the impact of the arms trade on global conflicts and the continued militarization of police forc ... More | |
Tŝilhqotin elders Irene Toby (Tŝideldel) and Selina Myers (Yuneŝitin) examining their ancestors qatŝay (coiled root baskets) at the Museum of Vancouver repatriation in February, 2024. Photo Courtesy of the Museum of Vancouver.
VANCOUVER.- Since the 1980s, the Museum of Vancouver (MOV) has been grappling with how to decolonize its work and repair its relationships with Indigenous communities. The Work of Repair: Redress & Repatriation at the Museum of Vancouver digs into some of these efforts by highlighting three ways the MOV is working towards repair: repatriation, community engagement, and research that reconnects Indigenous belongings to their histories. Nexwenen Nataghelʔilh is an exhibition within an exhibition exploring the emotional impact of the repatriation of over 60 Tŝilhqotin ancestral belongings from the MOV collection. The Tŝilhqotin National Government (TNG) partnered with the MOV to undertake their first repatriation, completed in February 2024and this work is reflected in the exhibition ... More | |
Patrick McGrath Muñiz (American, b. 1975), Entre Tierras, 2024, oil on canvas, 45 x 65 inches, Courtesy of and copyright of Patrick McGrath Muñiz.
READING, PA.- The Reading Public Museum announced the first of its summer shows: Patrick McGrath Muñiz: Recolecciones / Recollections on view through August 24, 2025 in the Irvin and Lois E. Cohen Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art. The exhibit brings together a body of work by an artist who was raised in Puerto Rico and currently lives and works in Texas. The paintings and drawings move between the personal and the collective, the analog and the digital, the past and the ever accelerating present. The show consists of fifteen paintings, including a group of four large altarpieces inspired by the four seasonseach fusing allegory, archetype, and lived experiencealongside eight ink drawings, intimate retablos, and detailed preparatory drawings for La Isla, the artists Puerto Ricoinspired Lenormand deck of cards. The bilingual title evokes two modes of remembering. ... More |
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Speed Art Museum presents first major museum exhibition of works by Gloucester Caliman (G.C.) CoxeLOUISVILLE, KY.- This summer, the Speed Art Museum presents Louisvilles Black Avant-Garde: Gloucester Caliman (G.C.) Coxe, the third installment of its signature exhibition series highlighting the founding artists of the Louisville Art Workshop a 1960s, Black-led arts collective that shaped the art scene in Louisville by fostering community and advancing the careers of artists excluded from museums and galleries. The first major solo museum exhibition of experimental abstract artist Gloucester Caliman (G.C.) Coxe (1907-1999), Louisvilles Black Avant-Garde: Gloucester Caliman (G.C.) Coxe showcases works from throughout Coxes career alongside new art historical scholarship and is on view from June 7 through September 7, 2025. Comprising nearly two dozen works, the retrospective examines Coxes artistic output over the course of his 40-year career, highlighting his experimental ... More Kunsthalle Münster presents its summer 2025 programMUNSTER.- Rosa Tharrats solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Münster is the first presentation of works by the Catalan artist in Germany. Her work is characterised by a reflection on community networks, cohesion and sustainability; this runs through her sculptures, installations, performances and videos in different ways. The artist invites us to reconsider our relationship with the world around us as well as to recognise the intrinsic value of each element as a constant reminder of the continuous flow inherent in the cycles of life. In her sculptures, we experience not only the sensual and spiritual interplay of materials and forms, but also the pulse of life that stimulates vitality to grow and flourish. Recurring themes in her works are transformation, symbiosis, process, composition, grass roots, the connection between microscopic and macroscopic life, the visible and the invisible, the exploration ... More New exhibition "Focus and Fatigue" explores material exhaustion and digital overloadBERLIN.- A thought-provoking new exhibition titled "Fokus und Fatigue" (Focus and Fatigue) has opened at HAUS am KLEISTPARK, showcasing the photographic and sculptural works of German artists Marie Rief and Silja Yvette. The exhibition delves into the contemporary issues of material and resource exhaustion, creating a dynamic interplay between its titular concepts that resonate across media, society, and the environment. The concept of "Focus" in the exhibition highlights photography's ability to concentrate attention, while also acknowledging the challenge of maintaining concentration in a hyper-technological, distraction-filled world. Conversely, "Fatigue" prompts a critical examination of the consequences of relentless innovation and overconsumption. Through their innovative blend of photography and sculpture, Rief and Yvette tackle pressing modern questions: ... More  Cabo Verde's Insular Textile Matrix: A transdisciplinary project for climate, culture & communityLISBON.- At the Centro Agroecológico do Madeiral, on the São Vicente Island, Cabo Verde, the three-year project Insular Textile Matrix Managing community sovereignty and or designing new futures was officially presented. Rooted in the legacy of the artistic collective Neve Insular, the initiative seeks to revitalise the cotton cycle and the production of Pano dObratwo key elements of the archipelagos textile heritage. This occasion marked the official launch of a new stage of creation where matter (the earth, cotton, and hands) gives shape to the imagined, inaugurating a new identity deeply rooted in the commitment to the Madeiral and Calhau community and the fate of the islands' textile heritage. Thus, the first gestures of a collective future that the project aims to build have been announced. Coordinated by Ãngelo Lopes, architect on Oficina de Utopias and emerging from the long ... More Andrea da Montefeltro unveils visionary "Arcana" exhibition in FrontoneFRONTONE.- A breath of mystery and majesty today inaugurated the opening of the exhibition "Arcana: The Lion of the New Horizon" at the Castello della Porta in Frontone. In an afternoon that will remain etched in memory, the ribbon-cutting ceremony marked the beginning of a fascinating journey through the visionary sculptures of master Andrea da Montefeltro, who has been awarded the prestigious UN World Peace Prize in Art. The exhibition will remain open until September, offering an unmissable cultural experience. The chosen date for the inauguration is not casual, but a profound and heartfelt tribute: June 7 celebrates the birth of Duke Federico da Montefeltro, one of the greatest figures these lands have ever known, and probably the Duchy's greatest patron of art and beauty. It is a special honor that the works of Andrea da Montefeltro, a spiritual heir to this glorious ... More New book unearths decades of art insights from renowned historian Adelina Moya ValgañónBILBAO.- A treasure trove of art historical knowledge is now available to the public with the release of "Con el tiempo: Investigaciones, estudios y otros escritos" (Over Time: Investigations, Studies, and Other Writings) by acclaimed historian, researcher, and professor Adelina Moya Valgañón. Published by the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum in collaboration with the BBK Banking Foundation, this new book gathers nearly all of Moya Valgañón's diverse writings on art, many of which were previously scattered across out-of-print catalogs, magazines, and monographs. The 464-page anthology features 34 texts dating from the mid-1980s to the present day. These writings offer a deep dive into art, reflecting not only the evolution of Moya Valgañón's distinguished career but also her significant contributions to understanding art history. She's particularly noted for her work in recovering ... More Sound Art Korea presents Touchy-Feely: SeoulSEOUL.- Caregiving was feminized and sexualized during industrialization, rendered invisible and unpaid under capitalism, delegated to women who are expected to always care for those in need. Because it often requires the touching of bodies, care work has been disdained and undervalued as inferior to the work of the intellect and industry. Since globalisation, care work is increasingly commodified, with migrant women from the Global South caring for bourgeois families in the Global North and poor women caring for wealthy women. The global economy would grind to a halt without care work, but the structure that separates it into the private sphere and exploits it is intensifying around the world. Care for children, spouses, and the elderly, along with daily tasks like cleaning and cooking, requires creativity and imagination, and deep attentiveness to the needs and preferences of the cared- ... More Santa Barbara Museum of Art presents Vian Sora: OuterworldsSANTA BARBARA, CALIF.- The Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) is pleased to announce Vian Sora: Outerworlds, a multi-venue mid-career survey of internationally renowned abstract painter Vian Sora (b. 1976, Baghdad). Organized jointly by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Asia Society Texas, Houston; and Speed Art Museum, Louisville, this exhibition will assemble approximately 20 of Soras major works, charting her growth as an artist over a period of seven years (20162023). Outerworlds is Soras first solo museum exhibition in the United States and will tell the story of how her multivalent paintings abstractly channel the tumultuous events of her life, ancient Mesopotamian history, and Iraqs diverse natural landscapes, including its deserts, rivers, and archeological sites. Vian Sora: Outerworlds will debut at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art on June 22, 2025 before ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Clyfford Still died June 23, 1980. Clyfford Still (November 30, 1904 - June 23, 1980) was an American painter, and one of the leading figures in the first generation of Abstract Expressionists, who developed a new, powerful approach to painting in the years immediately following World War II. In this image: Designed by Brad Cloepfil of Allied Works Architecture, the new building reflects the Clyfford Still.Museum's mission to preserve, present, and celebrate the work of the artist.
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