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"Where is Mundicoin?" Photo: R.S. Mundi.
NEW YORK, NY.- In the early days of blockchain and cryptocurrency as emerging mediums for artistic expression, artists Elliott Arkin and Marc Lafia never imagined that their pioneering conceptual work, Mundicoinpart of the Real Salvator Mundi projectwould one day serve as the legal rationale for a cryptocurrency launched by none other than the President of the United States ($Trumpcoin). Unlike the other art cryptocurrencies at the time, Mundicoin was both a cryptocurrency and an artwork, backed solely by a philosophical conceit rather than any tangible asset. Now, even more shockingly, the artists have come to suspect that their original artwork has been destroyed by Europes largest asset management company. Mundicoin gained widespread recognition in February 2018 when Tim Schneider, founder of the Gray Market and art business editor at Artnet News, published a defining three-part essay exploring artists working with blockchain. In the second ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Kate MacGarry is presenting the second exhibition of works by Rose Finn-Kelcey (1945-2014) at the gallery. Finn-Kelcey first came to prominence in the early 1970s as an artist central to the emerging communities of performance and feminist art in the UK.
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| Exhibition at Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien explores the shift from enlightenment to romantic irrationalism | | Blond Contemporary present Timothy Gatenby solo exhibition "And All Shall be Memorialised" at new London gallery | | Centenary of Scottish artist Ian Hamilton Finlay celebrated in new exhibition in Edinburgh |
Heinrich Friedrich Füger, Klopstock, The Messiah, Canto IX: Condemnation of the Soul of Judas Iscariot, 18131818 © Paintings Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
VIENNA.- Decades before the French Revolution, the Age of Enlightenment saw a sudden outbreak of irrational sentiment, expressed in exuberant emotions, notions of spiritualistic gender switching, and a fragmented, heroic, and introspective view of art. This was the onset of an epochal shift with consequences for pictorial art: reliance on the actual appearance of things gave way to the mystical and diffuse, accompanied by a greater interest in the realm of acoustics. Nothing seems to better define this acoustic turn than the trope of the blind prophet and lyrical poet, which functioned as a literary model for this new epoch, as seen in the figures of Homer, Ossian, and John Milton. Miltons grand inner images were proclaimed to be the ... More | |
Timothy Gatenby 'Le Baiserâ, 2025, Acrylic on canvas, 80 x100cm.
LONDON.- Blond Contemporary and Guerin Projects present And All Shall be Memorialised, a solo exhibition of paintings by Timothy Gatenby. Timothy Gatenby has produced a completely new series of work exclusively for Blond Contemporary for his first major UK solo exhibition, curated by Guerin Projects founder MC Llamas. Renaissance meets Pop Art in Gatenbys hyper-real paintings referencing iconic cultural moments from Michelangelos David to Warhols Coca-Cola Bottle. Timothy Gatenby And All Shall be Memorialised runs from 14th March until 9th April, 2025. Timothy Gatenbys solo exhibition is the inaugural show in Blond Contemporarys 2025 exhibition programme. Blond Contemporary will be celebrating their new permanent location at 7 Piccadilly Arcade in the heart of St Ja ... More | |
Ian Hamilton Finlay installation image by Neil Hanna.
EDINBURGH.- The centenary of the remarkable Scottish artist Ian Hamilton Finlay (19252006) is being marked in a new free display of his work at Modern Two in Edinburgh from 8 March to 26 May 2025. This exhibition showcases key highlights from Ian Hamilton Finlays artistic career, starting in the early 1960s until his death in 2006. Hailed as a unique combination of poet, sculptor, printmaker, gardener and provocateur, Finlays practice covered a wide range of media which is reflected in this display of sculptures and prints as well as never- before-seen archival materials and a room-sized installation, all from Scotlands national collection. From the Classical world to the French Revolution, the Enlightenment to World War Two, Finlay, a self-proclaimed anti-modernist, often looked to history for inspiration. Recurring motifs including boats, tanks, wallflowers and ships ... More |
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| Małgorzata Mirga-Tas challenges stereotypes and celebrates Roma women in expansive exhibition | | Elizabeth Catlett retrospective showcases 150+ works | | Dickinson announces highlights to be exhibited at TEFAF Maastricht |
Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, exhibition view at Kunstmuseum Luzern, 2025, Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Marc Latzel.
LUCERNE.- Małgorzata Mirga-Tas (*1978) was the first ever Roma to represent a country at the Venice Biennale. In 2022, her expansive textile images entitled Re-Enchanting the World in the Polish pavilion captivated the public. The exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Luzern extends over four rooms and focuses on the aspect of community. In addition to the textile images, the work groups with paravents and Herstories are presented. Her film Noncia is being shown for the first time in the context of an exhibition. Małgorzata Mirga-Tas collects fabrics from among her family members and friends in order to tell viewers, from a feminist viewpoint, about the everyday life of the Roma, and also about their rather stigmatising, stereotypical, and often racist depiction throughout the history of European art. Together with women from her community, the artist creates highly expressive images out of tablecloths, curtains, bed linen and items of clothing . These images tell us about heroines and mystica ... More | |
Elizabeth Catlett, Links Together, 1996. Lithograph on wove Arches paper, image: 57.3 x 47 cm (22 9/16 x 18 1/2 in.) sheet: 74.4 x 58.3 cm (29 5/16 x 22 15/16 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington, Purchased as the Gift of Art Information Volunteers in Honor of Dianne Stephens © 2024 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The retrospective exhibition Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies showcases the enduring legacy of Elizabeth Catlett (19152012) as a visionary artist and an unwavering activist. As the most comprehensive presentation devoted to Catlett in the United States, it features more than 150 works, including well-known sculpture and prints, rare paintings and drawings, and important ephemera. The exhibition is co-organized by the Brooklyn Museum and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and presented in collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago. Catlett was an avowed feminist, lifelong activist, and deft formalist. Coming of age as an artist during the 1930s and 1940s, an era marked ... More | |
Elisabetta Sirani (1638 - 1665), The Madonna and Child with a swallow, c. 1663.
LONDON.- As Dickinson prepares to exhibit at The European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht once again, they are looking forward to welcoming many friends and collectors to their stand. In advance of the opening of the fair, and for those who will be unable to visit, the gallery shared a small selection of the impressive artworks they will be showing this year. At the heart of the display is Jan van Bijlert's large-scale painting, The Five Senses, which depicts five allegorical figures gathered around a stone table, with a cupid in attendance. Having returned from Italy to his native Antwerp in 1624, Bijlert developed this masterpiece - which dates from the early 1630s - in a style that combines the traditions of Dutch realism with which the artist was deeply familiar with the Caravaggesque chiaroscuo of the paintings he had seen in Rome only a few years before. The result is a monumental work so life-like and dramatic in its execution that, upon viewing it, our own senses seem to be heightened. On a ... More |
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| Haus der Kulturen der Welt presents Musafiri: Of Travellers and Guests | | Exhibition at Andréhn-Schiptjenko highlights "in-between" states and emotional connections to art | | Emilia Neumann's "Kumbhaka": Sculptures explore movement and stillness at Galerie Parisa Kind |
Anna Samat, Wide Awake And Unafraid #3 (2024), rattan sticks, kitchen and garden utensils, beads, ceramic, metal and plastic ornaments, handwoven tapestry, 670x365 cm. Courtesy of the artist. Installation view of the exhibition Musafiri: of Travellers and Guests, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), 2025. Photo: Hanna Wiedemann/HKW.
BERLIN.- Public discourse and politics are increasingly characterized by fearswith Germany being one of the starkest examples of this. Fears that stem from a narrow, often hegemonic, and at the same time localized view of the world. As such, the exhibition Musafiri: Of Travellers and Guests constitutes an urgent plea to acknowledge and assert the polyphonic worlds brought together by the experience of those who have moved past their points of origin. The Arabic word musafir resonates with stunning phonetic consistency across languages and within strikingly different cultural spaces, from Romanian to Turkish, Farsi, Urdu, Hindi, Swahili, Kazakh, Malay and Uygur, among others, in a vast, uninterrupted ... More | |
Installation view of FEEL FIRST, THINK LATER at Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, 2025.
STOCKHOLM.- This group exhibition brings together three young artists at the beginning of their careers with one of the gallerys most established artists in a dialogue about how we approach works of art. The title of the exhibition is derived from a quote by Sally von Rosen on how she would like her works to be perceived letting the intuitive meeting with an artwork precede the intellectual interpretation of it. Annika Elisabeth von Hausswolffs The Blind Woman from 1998, depicting a woman being led by her guide dog in the night down a brightly lit staircase, takes on the role of a symbolic portal into the discussion on that act of letting go and trusting that both ones intuition and senses leads one in the right direction. Without wishing to force the different artistic practices into a shared narrative, there are still elements in their work which can be seen as unifying. In the respective practices of Dhunsi, Ngọc Nguyễn and von Rosen there is a sense of tens ... More | |
Emilia Neumann, Kumbhaka I, 2025. Polymergips, Pigment, steel. Dimensions variable.
FRANKFURT.- Galerie Parisa Kind opened the exhibition Kumbhaka by Emilia Neumann. In this exhibition, the gallery presents a new installation as well as sculptures by the artist. The Frankfurt-based sculptor (b. 1985) primarily works with polymer plaster and concrete, which she colors with pigments during the casting process.Integral elements of her sculptures are everyday objects that she disassembles, cuts apart, and reassembles. After casting, the artist polishes some areas to a high gloss, while leaving others raw. In their new form, the sculptures exhibit traces of industrial production as well as seemingly organic growth. They appear both familiar and alien, resisting clear identification and thus opening up ever-new possibilities for interpretation. They appear familiar yet evade clear identification, thereby opening up ever-new possibilities for interpretation. In doing so, the artist engages with fundamental questions ... More |
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| Berlin exhibition explores digital disconnection through photography and sculpture | | Fahey/Klein Gallery celebrates iconic photographer's spontaneous vision | | Aglaia Konrad's "Autofictions in Stone": Secession exhibition reimagines architecture and perception |
Sinta Werner, Ansichten von Bild und Welt, 2018, Duraclear hinter Glas kaschiert, NuÃholz, 62 x 45 x 9cm. Courtesy Alexander Levy Galerie.
BERLIN.- Villa Heike Berlin has opened its doors to an exhibition featuring the works of Anja Nitz and Sinta Werner, focusing on how our increasingly digital world affects our perception of space and physical connection. The show, part of the ongoing EMOP 2025 photography festival, uses glass and mirrors as metaphors for the shift in how we see and experience the world through screens. The exhibition, titled "What Stands Between Us," addresses the impact of constant digital engagement on human interaction. Nitz's framed photographs and Werner's sculptural installations, which incorporate photographic elements, are on display together, creating a dialogue about these themes. Anja Nitz, whose work examines the interior spaces of significant institutions, captures the underlying narratives within these environments. Her photographs, featuring places like museums, hospitals, and power plants, document how ... More | |
Arthur Elgort, Christy Turlington, NYC, Interview Magazine, 1987 © Arthur Elgort, courtesy of Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Fahey/Klein Gallery is presenting Reverie, photographs by Arthur Elgort. To celebrate his long career, this exhibition showcases Elgorts spontaneous energy through expertly crafted photographs that have the unforced look of a personal snapshot. Born in New York City in 1940, Elgort discovered his passion for photography after initially studying painting at Hunter College. Finding the solitary nature of painting unfulfilling, he turned to photography and soon found his calling. His early work capturing ballet dancers in motion laid the foundation for his signature aesthetic: natural, unposed, and full of life. In 1971, his breakthrough came when British Vogue published one of his images, launching a career that would redefine the industry. At a time when fashion photography was dominated by rigid, studio-bound compositions, Elgort introduced a fresh, relaxed perspective. He encouraged models to move ... More | |
Aglaia Konrad, Autofictions in Stone, installation view, Secession 2025, photo: Peter Mochi.
VIENNA.- Stone is omnipresent in all our lives; not least saliently, in the form of the architectures in which we live and work. In films, photographs, and sculptures, Aglaia Konrad grapples with the utopias and contradictions implicit in those architectures. The artist grew up in the Alps, and stone as the primeval material of rock formations and mountain landscapes as well as architecture has been central to her work from the outset. For her installation projects, Konrad always begins from the given features of the exhibition venue. Her show Autofictions in Stone is a characteristic example: rather than abiding by the customary succession of the gallerys rooms, the artist inverts the passage through them, starting in the long narrow room in the rear, which is illuminated by daylight from a broad ribbon window beneath the ceiling. She has also restored the exhibition spaces to their original condition: window openings and doorways that were later walled up have been ... More |
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ARCOmadrid establishes itself as a must-see event for the quality of its artistic contentMADRID.- ARCOmadrid, organised by IFEMA MADRID, closed its 44th edition this evening reporting positive results in terms of attendance and commercial activity, with a special emphasis on the exceptionally high-quality content, which has attracted a highly active national and international collector base. ARCOmadrid, which once again had the support of the Royal Family with the presence last 5 March of the King and Queen of Spain during the opening ceremony, expects to exceed a total of 95,000 visitors. Likewise, the high level of professional attendance has been remarkable, bringing together around 40,000 professionals from around the world. With the participation of 214 galleries from 36 countries, the International Contemporary Art Fair, ARCOmadrid, and the city of Madrid gaining prominence and recognition in the current international art scene, establishing ... More Milestone move as National Galleries of Scotland to host the Scottish Portrait Awards 2026 for the first timeEDINBURGH.- The Scottish Portrait Awards are back and bigger than ever, as the Scottish Arts Trust and National Galleries of Scotland announce a landmark move that will see the 2026 awards hosted at the Portrait gallery in Edinburgh for the first time. This exciting new home for the 2026 awards will bring deserved attention to the many talented contemporary portrait artists in Scotland today. Applications to participate in the 2026 Scottish Portrait Awards will open on 1 September 2025 and close 15 January 2026. Submissions are open to anyone over the age of 16 on 1 November 2026 and born or living or studying in Scotland, regardless of experience. The Scottish Portrait Awards are excited to welcome television presenter and journalist Kirsty Wark as Guest Judge. With an impressive broadcast career, Kirsty presented BBC Two's Newsnight for 30 ... More Artis-Naples, The Baker Museum presents Entangled in the Mangroves: Florida Everglades Through InstallationNAPLES, FLA.- ArtisNaples, The Baker Museum is presenting Entangled in the Mangroves: Florida Everglades Through Installation, a dynamic exhibition featuring the work of nine Florida-based artists who explore the critical importance of the Everglades through diverse media, including painting, photography, ceramics, film, poetry and installation. Climate change poses a significant threat to these vast wetlands, home to a diverse array of plants, wildlife and communities. On view from March 8 through September 21, 2025, this exhibition highlights the ecological and cultural importance of one of Floridas most distinctive landscapes and the urgent need for its preservation in the face of this threat. Curated by The Baker ... More The Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, opens Kimono: The Triumph of Japanese DressST. PETERSBURG, FLA.- The Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg is presenting Kimono: The Triumph of Japanese Dress, an extraordinary exploration of Japanese fashion and culture. On view from March 8 through June 8, 2025, this remarkable exhibition features over 150 exquisite objects, including kimono dating from the late Edo period (16031867) through the Shōwa era (19261989). These garments, most on public display for the first time, offer an unparalleled glimpse into Japans rich cultural heritage and the meticulous artistry behind traditional kimono design. The exhibition, curated by Dr. Stanton Thomas, Chief Curator, and Jason Wyatt, Director of Collections Management, highlights the diversity and cultural significance of the kimono, inviting visitors to explore these garments as art, fashion, and historical artifacts. The kimono featured ... More Vian Sora's new works at David Nolan Gallery blend personal history and mythical landscapesNEW YORK, NY.- David Nolan Gallery is presenting Vian Sora: Sky from Below, the gallery's second solo exhibition with the Iraqi-American artist who is one of the strong new energetic and authentic voices of our time. Sky from Below is on view from March 7 until May 3, 2025, in advance of her solo museum show opening in June 2025 at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and traveling to the Speed Art Museum, Louisville, and the Asia Society Texas, Houston. This traveling museum tour is a culmination of Soras great success of the last decade. Sora was born in Baghdad in 1976 and currently lives in Louisville, Kentucky. The idea for the body of new work on view in Sky from Below began to percolate when the artist recently revisited the Middle East and flew over Iraq. After 18 years away, she still recognized traces of familiarity within the significantly changed ... More Susanne Kriemann's "Hey Monte Schlacko": Photography as a recording system in contaminated landscapesGRAZ.- Susanne Kriemann, in her radically expanded conception of photography, researches geological periods and challenges the politics of visibility: What could it mean to understand the world as a giant recording system, as a photograph? Camera Austrias exhibition space in the Eisernes Haus (Iron House) forms the backdrop for the project Hey Monte Schlacko, dear Slagorg (since 2024). In the contaminated, exploited landscape of a vacant site for mining ore, there are mosses and lichens interacting with other plants, regenerating the soils alongside rocks; echoing in the scenography is the exhaustion, resistance, and trauma of these anthropocentric geographies. This most recent work dialogues with Susanne Kriemanns ... More Pia Paulina Guilmoth's "Flowers Drink the River": Documenting trans life and resilience in rural MaineNEW YORK, NY.- CLAMP presents Flowers Drink the River, a solo exhibition by Pia Paulina Guilmothher first with the gallery. In this deeply personal body of work, Guilmoth documents the first two years of her gender transition while living in a rural, predominantly right-wing town in Maine. Her large-format photographs reflect beauty and terror in a world where queer existence can be at turns both euphoric and deeply perilous. Haunting nocturnes replete with moths, snakes, and owls, are animated by raw, animistic rituals, representing Guilmoths search for beauty, sanctuary, and resistance amid the wild landscapes and intimate relationships that define her life. The exhibition is accompanied by a monograph of the same title published by Stanley Barker. Spanning themes of transformation, belonging, and defiance, Flowers Drink the River ... More Barbara Walker's "Being Here": Acclaimed exhibition arrives at Arnolfini after Manchester successBRISTOL.- Following a hugely successful inaugural run at the Whitworth in Manchester, Arnolfini presents Barbara Walker: Being Here for Spring 2025. Described as one of the most important British artists working today, Being Here charts Walkers compelling figurative practice, from the 1990s to today. Walkers wide ranging formal experimentation in painting, drawing and embossed print techniques critically engages with social justice and belonging, transforming Black presence in contemporary society and throughout history. Walker is celebrated for her sensitively rendered drawings, grounded in extensive periods of research. From delicate pencil drawings on archival documents to monumentally scaled wall charcoal drawings, she uses the most traditional of techniques to give powerful presence to the conditions of our time and the histories they are rooted in. Playing ... More Bridging art and science, new exhibition highlights environmental concernsNAPA, CA.- di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art is presenting Second Nature, a new exhibition on view at di Rosa Downtown. Second Nature is on view at di Rosas downtown satellite gallery March 8 June 1. Second Nature features work by three Northern California artists: Annette Goodfriend, Ruth Tabancay, and Esther Traugot. Straddling the line between art and science, these artists craft dream-like representations of the natural world. Using varied media, ranging from organic materials such as insects, urchin shells, and tea bags to industrial steel and rubber, Goodfriend, Tabancay, and Traugot examine the changes human activity has wrought upon the world, and the need to better care for all the planets creatures. Working primarily with epoxy, resin, rubber, wax, and plaster, Annette Goodfriend creates sculptures that explore human anatomy, often ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, sculptor and furniture designer Harry Bertoia was born March 10, 1915. Harry Bertoia (March 10, 1915 in San Lorenzo, Pordenone, Italy - November 6, 1978 in Barto, Pennsylvania), was an Italian-born American artist, sound art sculptor, and modern furniture designer. In this image: Since 2000, Wright has sold more than 550 sculptures by Bertoia - more than any other auction house or gallery.
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