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Edward Hopper, Study for Excursion into Philosophy, 1959. Charcoal on paper, 8 3/8 x 10 15/16 in. (21.3 x 27.8 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Drawing was an essential part of the creative process of the painter Edward Hopper, whose particular brand of cinematic and voyeuristic realism has given us some of the most iconic images in American art. Hopper drew constantly and relied on his drawings as essential documentation in the creation of his paintings, connecting observed reality with the one he created on the canvas. In Portrait of Orleans, (1950), a study for a painting in the collection of the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, we see a nostalgic view of Main Street America in a depiction of a small town on Cape Cod. Hopper and his wife Jo spent summers on Cape Cod beginning in 1930, and bought a house in Truro in 1934. They would spend 40 years summering on Cape Cod. Illustrating the tension between stillness and impending motion, Orleans depicts the town from the point of view of a driver deciding whether to continue straight onto Main Street or to veer off to the right onto Route 6A. A chronicler of life between the W ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day 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 (1603 - 1867) through the Shōwa era (1926 - 1989).
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| "Francis Picabia. Eternal Beginning" unveils artist's bold postwar sbstractions in New York | | Sasha Ferré's "Daughter of Earth and Water" transforms canvas into limitless space | | Christine Sun Kim's third solo exhibition with François Ghebaly opens in LA |
Francis Picabia, La terre est ronde (The Earth Is Round) 1951. Oil on canvas, 78 x 62.5 cm. Photo: courtesy Mercatorfonds, Belgium, and Comité Picabia Geier Family Collection © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Organized in collaboration with the Comité Picabia, and co-curated by its President, Beverley Calté, with art historian Arnauld Pierre, Francis Picabia. Eternal Beginning is the first major exhibition to focus on the compelling final years of the French avant garde artists prolific career. Traveling to New York from Hauser & Wirth Paris, this presentation features over 20 paintings created by Picabia between 1945when he returned to Paris from the South of Franceand 1952, the penultimate year of his life. Representative of Picabias restless artistic spirit, the works on view highlight his singular approach to abstraction, his iconoclastic tendency to repaint earlier works and his enduring attention to both surface texture and novel sources of inspiration. The first 30 years of Picabias ... More | |
Sasha Ferré, C'était le son de l'eau contre le sable ou contre les rochers, c'était le vent, 2025. Oil stick and tempera on linen, 200 x 160 cm. 78 1/2 x 63 in.
BRUSSELS.- Almine Rech Brussels is presenting 'Daughter of Earth and Water', Sasha Ferré's third solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from April 23 to June 7, 2025. How to paint something that, once present and visible, will no longer obstruct my eyes or my body? How to paint so that my eyes and my body will encounter, before and around them, nothing but a crossable space: a medium, like a palpable ether, where seeing becomes endless, and the body limitless? Sasha Ferré establishes space, meaning that she opens it. She is armed only with her approach to the canvas, this way of painting that resembles a dancers movement: her quick hand curls around itself, leading the body to follow. Thus she advances, constructing and erasing at the same time, making a path through the openness. An oil stick becomes an extension of her hand and is warmed in her grasp, becoming ... More | |
Installation view.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- François Ghebaly opened a new solo exhibition by the acclaimed artist Christine Sun Kim. American Sigh Language, Kims third solo exhibition with the gallery, coincides with the artists major museum survey, Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night, which is co-organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, where it is on view in New York through July 6, and the Walker Art Center, where it will travel in Spring 2026. Known for her incisive explorations of sound, language, and social relations, Christine Sun Kim has built a renowned practice that examines the nature and complexity of communication. Working through an interdisciplinary approach, Kim pulls from an array of visualization tactics, including musical notation, infographics, and her own sign language notation system. She often uses her own life experiences as her direct material, creating works with both diaristic origins and widely metaphorical implications. In her new exhibition American Sigh Language, ... More |
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| INAH conservators restore sea-themed mural at San Miguelito's Dragon Complex | | Sean Kelly unveils Sam Moyer's "Subject to Change" with monumental stone-inlaid canvases | | Christie's presents Miss January by Marlene Dumas from the Rubell Family Collection |
Mural painting at the Dragon Complex in the San Miguelito Archaeological Zone stabilized. Photo: Mónica López Portillo.
MEXICO CITY.- A team from Mexicos National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) has successfully stabilized a fragment of ancient mural painting in the Dragon Complex of the San Miguelito Archaeological Zone in Cancún. For years, the northernmost of the three small sanctuaries in this complex has displayed traces of a vivid sea-themed frescocomplete with turtle- and fish-like formsyet exposure to rain, humidity and wind had left its painted plaster dangerously weakened. In April, specialists led by INAH-Quintana Roo conservator Mónica López Portillo Guzmán, together with independent restorer Claudia MartÃnez Ãvila, cleaned away microbial growth and consolidated loose polychrome layers with careful physical-chemical treatments, ensuring the artworks survival. Prior to beginning conservation, custodians Silverio Arceo and Abelardo Peñalozajoined by tourism student intern Luis Bermúdezrepaired the sites protective polycarbonate roof. ... More | |
Sam Moyer, Sprig 1, 2024, marble, acrylic on plaster-coated canvas mounted to MDF, 63 x 49 1/4 x 1 inches. Photo: JSP Art Photography © Sam Moyer Courtesy: the artist and Sean Kelly, New York/Los Angeles.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sean Kelly is presenting Subject to change, Sam Moyers fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. Featuring a dynamic body of new work, the exhibition features Moyers latest stone paintings, highlighting her distinctive combination of reclaimed stone and painted canvas, as well as oil on panel paintings and handmade paper works produced as artist in residence at Dieu Donné in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Sam Moyers works merge abstraction and materiality, redefining conventional sculptural forms through her innovative use of natural materials. Inlaying stone into canvas, she blurs the boundaries between painting and sculpture, creating wall-mounted works that emphasize variations in surface and light. In these new paintings, Moyer meditates on the dualities inherent in lifethe coexistence of decay and growth, loss and perspective, endings and emergent beginnings. Reflecting on what she describes ... More | |
Marlene Dumas, Miss January, oil on canvas, Painted in 1997. 111 x 40 in. (281.9 x 101.6 cm.) Estimate: $12 - 18 million. © Christie's Images Ltd 2025.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announced Miss January by Marlene Dumas as a leading highlight of the 21st Century Evening Sale taking place on Wednesday, May 14 at Rockefeller Center in New York City. Miss January stands as the most significant work from Marlene Dumas to ever appear at auction. Carrying an estimate of $12 million - $18 million, it is poised to set the highest price at auction for an artwork by a living female artist. The work comes to Christies from the Rubell Family Collection, among the most distinguished private collections of contemporary art worldwide. The Rubell family is parting with its prized Marlene Dumas painting Miss January in order to continue the familys mission of collecting and championing emerging artists. Sara Friedlander, Deputy Chairman, Post-War and Contemporary Art, Christies, remarks: Through its monumental scale and singular subject matter, Miss January is truly the magnum opus of Marlene Dumas. ... More |
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| MCA Chicago opens Paul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom | | SANAA receives King's Royal Gold Medal for Architecture | | Festival d'Aix-en-Provence mourns visionary Director Pierre Audi |
Paul Pfeiffer, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (30), 2015. Fujiflex digital C-print; 48 à 70 in. (121.9 à 177.8 cm). Private collection. © Paul Pfeiffer. Courtesy of the artist; Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; carlier | gebauer, Berlin/Madrid; Perrotin; and Thomas Dane Gallery, London.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago announces Paul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom, on view until August 31, 2025. Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom is a survey that covers twenty-five years of work from artist Paul Pfeiffer (b. 1966, Honolulu, HI; lives in New York), whose practice interrogates ideas of spectacle, celebrity, and mass culture. The exhibition brings together works from across Pfeiffers career, spanning from his early photo and video works to his latest experiments in sculpture and installation. Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom focuses on the artists use of media manipulation to reveal audiences participation in both adoration and objectification. Mining imagery from our media-saturated world, Pfeiffer recontextualizes global ... More | |
Ryue Nishizawa (left) and Kazuyo Sejima (right). Photo: Morley von Sternberg.
LONDON.- On Thursday 1 May, at a celebration at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) London headquarters, SANAA, the collaborative practice of Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, were honoured as the winners of the 2025 Royal Gold Medal. RIBA President, Muyiwa Oki, presented the ceremonial medal to Sejima and Nishizawa ahead of His Majesty, King Charles III officially presenting them with the medal at a private ceremony later this year. For nearly three decades, SANAAs work has pioneered sustainable, user-centred design and was praised by the 2025 RIBA Honours Committee for shaping a universal language of architecture that resonates with people everywhere. Balancing boldness with sensitivity to the local environment, their works demonstrate that architecture can be both functional and profoundly elegant, offering a sense of calm amidst an increasingly complex and chaotic world. SANAA are the 46th ... More | |
Pierre Audi © Sarah Wong.
AIX-EN-PROVENCE.- It is with great sadness that the Festival dâAix-en-Provence team has just learned of the sudden death of Pierre Audi, which occurred on the night of Friday, May 2nd to Saturday, May 3rd May in Beijing. The world of artistic creation has lost an immense artist and institution director, a citizen of the world who lived at the crossroads of Mediterranean and Western cultures. As a stage director, he devoted himself entirely to the works, his productions combining a sense of narrative, purity and embodiment â spanning four centuries of music, but with a particular predilection for the baroque era, the works of Wagner and contemporary opera. He was the director of prestigious institutions: The Almeida Theatre, London, from 1979 to 1989, the Dutch National Opera for three decades, from 1988 to 2018, the Holland Festival between 2004 and 2014, and The Park Avenue Armory, New York, since 2015, where he constantly sought to renew the relationship between works, places and audiences, between op ... More |
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| A rare stone capital decorated with a menorah design revealed to the public for the first time | | Anne Austin Pearce debuts "Returned to Universe" with layered paper paintings at Walter Maciel | | Sun Yitian's "Romantic Room" transforms Esther Schipper into a hyperreal fairy tale |
The capital as found in the field. Photo: Shai Halevi, Israel Antiquities Authority.
JERUSALEM.- A one-of-a-kind stone capital, a type never found anywhere in the world, decorated with an eight-branched lamp over 1,500 years old, will be revealed to the public for the first time at the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein National Campus for the Archaeology of Israel in Jerusalem, in honor of Independence Day events. Made of limestone, the capital was unearthed in 2020 during Israel Antiquities Authority excavations conducted prior to constructing the new Jerusalem city entrance, and financed by the Netivei Israel National Transport Infrastructure Company. Since then, experts of the Israel Antiquities Authority and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem have subjected it to a range of scientific and historical investigations. The capital a rare architectural artifact that has no archaeological parallels, was discovered in a Byzantine period building (6th-7th Century CE), resting upside-down on one rooms flooring. The researchers believe it was placed into this structure in ... More | |
Rooted in her keen observation of the natural world, Pearce applies pigment using an interplay of impulsive movements with precise, contemplative mark-making.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Walter Maciel Gallery is presenting Returned to Universe, the gallery's first solo exhibition by Anne Austin Pearce. The exhibition includes a carefully curated selection of works on paper detailing the various ways Pearce connects pattern, shape and line to create her intricate paintings. Rooted in her keen observation of the natural world, Pearce applies pigment using an interplay of impulsive movements with precise, contemplative mark-making. She begins with layers of acrylic washes on heavy stock paper that form spontaneous shapes to create the foundation and structure for each painting. Using one small pool of pigment at a time, Pearce employs a complex interplay of ink, watercolor, collage, and iridescent marks. Each bold layer perfectly forms upon one another to create depth and rhythm. Tighter, more controlled strokes are applied in a repetitive motion vacillating between movement and stillness like the ebb and flow of tidal forces. The ... More | |
Sun Yitian, Virgin Mary in the Mirror, 2024. Acrylic on canvas, 208,6 x 161,6 x 9 cm (framed).
BERLIN.- Esther Schipper opened Romantic Room, an exhibition by Sun Yitian with all new paintings. This is Sun's third project with the gallery, following her exhibition in Paris and a presentation at Berlin's Niche space, both in 2023, the year she joined the program. Sun Yitian is best known for her paintings of monumentally enlarged mass-produced objects: Generally based on staged photographs taken by the artist herself, inflatable toys or severed doll headsboth frequent motifsare lovingly rendered in colorful acrylic paint. Romantic Room continues Sun Yitian's multi-layered approach to understanding what an image is and can be in contemporary painting. The paintings explore her personal history, intertwined with cultural and societal changes in China, through the countrys image worlds, as well as by how Western culture has been depicted in Chinese everyday life. For this exhibition, the artist draws on imagery from art history, mass-produced consumer objects and toys, amus ... More |
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Henie Onstad seeks Chief Curator/Director of Collections and CuratorHÃVIKODDEN.- Henie Onstad Kunstsenter is seeking a Chief Curator and Director of Collection, as well as a Curator. Henie Onstad Kunstsenter is one of Norways most important museums for modern and contemporary art. The centre is situated on the outskirts of Oslo, surrounded by a sculpture park as well as fjords, woodland and beaches. The Henie Onstad Collection consists of about 8000 works of modernist and contemporary Scandinavian and International art, and the art center present an ambitious programme with three to five temporary exhibitions per year. Henie Onstad opened its doors for the first time in 1968, founded by the figure skater and filmstar Sonja Henie (191269) and her husband Niels Onstad (190978). As well as both historical and contemporary exhibitions, the museum has always been an important site for cross-disciplinary artistic productions, ... More Roméo Mivekannin subverts Orientalism at Galerie Barbara ThummBERLIN.- For this years Gallery Weekend, Galerie Barbara Thumm presents Spleen, an exhibition featuring a striking series of paintings by Roméo Mivekannin (b. 1986, Bouaké, Côte dIvoire). Known for his unique reinterpretations of canonical European artworks, Mivekannin draws upon a vast colonial visual archivefrom 18th- to 19th century Orientalist paintings to early colonial photographyto interrogate and subvert historical representations of otherness, power, and desire. Mivekannins second solo show at Galerie Barbara Thumm revisits the history of Orientalism with a bold intervention in the original paintings that he uses for inspiration. Presented as free-hanging canvases, his paintings do not merely reference the Orientalist tradition; they irritate it. In a subversive act, which Mivekannin refers to as visual irritation, he reinterprets the original paintings or photographs ... More Sonia Romero debuts new island-inspired prints and paintingsAVALON, CA.- The Catalina Museum of Art & History is presenting From Los Angeles to Catalina: The Art of Sonia Romero, an intimate and visually striking exhibition by celebrated Los Angeles-based artist Sonia Romero. On view May 3 through September 27, 2025, the exhibition features a curated selection of Romeros iconic silkscreen prints, paintings and a brand-new site-specific work that captures the nostalgic charm and layered cultural history of Catalina Island. Romero, widely recognized for her intricate paper-cutting, printmaking and mixed-media paintings, spent the summer of 2024 in Avalon researching and connecting with the local community. Her time on the island included leading museum-hosted workshops and exploring the museums vast archive of vintage Catalina ephemerafrom postcards to brochures and ticket stubsgathering visual references and historical ... More Sabine Mirlesse unveils "Instruments" at Andréhn-Schiptjenko, bridging art and ancient toolsSTOCKHOLM.- Andréhn-Schiptjenko is presenting Sabine Mirlesse's solo exhibition Instruments. In conjunction with the exhibition, the gallery also unveiled Ode to Measurement, a bronze sculpture installation by Mirlesse, set in the waters off the island of Skeppsholmen, Stockholm. Following her 2024 debut at Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Paris, Franco-American artist Sabine Mirlesse has conceived a new body of work specifically for the Stockholm gallery and its surrounding archipelago landscape. The sculptures presented in Instruments were inspired by research Mirlesse conducted in Stockholm, notably through the SMHI (Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute) and in the archaeological collections at the Historiska Museet. An off-site installation in the Baltic Sea will inaugurate the exhibition and act as its conceptual centerpiece, inviting viewers to consider tools ... More Alex Olson's intimate new works debut in San FranciscoSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Altman Siegel is presenting a new exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Alex Olson, marking the final show at our Presidio Heights location, 3067 Sacramento Street, San Francisco, CA. The suite of gouaches on view here is part of a series Olson began during her first trimester of pregnancy, when the toxicity of oil painting necessitated a change in medium. Perhaps subconsciously influenced by this state of bodily transformation, these intimately-scaled works demonstrate a particular lightness and buoyancy. Shades of spring green, bubblegum pink, and yolk yellow intermingle with more earthy, tertiary tones of mud, moss, and algae. Olson's brushwork functions as both an object, image, and calligraphic marks. While Olsons practice has consistently engaged with notions around the indexicality of mark-making, these paintings on paper can be read ... More The Thomas Cole National Historic Site opens "Emily Cole: Ceramics, Flora & Contemporary Responses" CATSKILL, NY.- The Thomas Cole National Historic Site opened a new exhibition titled Emily Cole: Ceramics, Flora & Contemporary Responses at the historic site in Catskill, NY. The exhibition and accompanying publication illuminate the life and work of Emily Cole (1843- 1913), daughter of transformational artist Thomas Cole (1801-1848), and place her work into conversation with eight, internationally celebrated, 21st century artists within the Cole familys historic home and studio. The contemporary artists whose work is included in the exhibition are Ann Agee, Jacqueline Bishop, Francesca DiMattio, Valerie Hegarty, Courtney M. Leonard, Jiha Moon, Michelle Sound, and Stephanie Syjuco. Emily Cole was an esteemed professional artist in her own right, who painted dynamic botanicals on porcelain and watercolors on paper. She exhibited and sold her art in New York City and the Hudson ... More ACE presents Push / Pull, a major new exhibition and live programs ADELAIDE.- Co-curated by ACE Artistic Director, Danni Zuvela and Henry Wolff, Push / Pull features tactile installations, short and durational performance, lecture performance, re-enactment, video, poetry, plants, food, sound, and experimental music. With a strong emphasis on live, experiential, and post-object practice, the program explores what it means to gather around the non-haveable: practices that resist commodification in favour of presence, process, and provocation. Drawing from Adelaides legacy as a centre of experimental and post-object art, Push / Pull asks: What kinds of encounters are possible, when the shock of the new is a local tradition? With new commissions and existing works from more than 40 Australian artists and collaborators, Push / Pull is grounded in experimentation and live exchange. Across installations, performances, workshops, community activations ... More Looped coyote projections haunt suburban decay in Banks Violette's new solo exhibitionWASHINGTON, DC.- von ammon opened i like america and america likes me, a solo show by American artist Banks Violette. The project is primarily composed of moving image works: looped projections on transparent scrim which generate hologram-like specters in the gallery space. Recent sculpture and works on paper accompany the moving-image works. Using footage sourced from Suburbia (1983, d. Penelope Spheeris), the main gallery space foregrounds two projections of the wild dogs that punctuate the movies plotline. These animals travel in packs through the movies neglected inner-suburban settinga stagnant community apparently coming undone alongside its derelict tract housing. The animals embody the myth of foreign elements corrupting a sacrosanct American idyll: the beloved archetype of the family dog is miscegenated and corrupted by the coyote, ... More Ogden Contemporary debuts dual solo shows exploring female power and western mythosOGDEN, UTAH.- Ogden Contemporary Arts is presenting two solo exhibitions by artists Lu Wei and Scout Invie, whose work powerfully examines identity, land, and feminine narratives in the West, through distinct yet thematically resonant perspectives. The exhibitions opened May 2 and run through July 13, 2025. As always at OCA, Admission is free. Entering Into The Serpent by Lu Wei, based in Taipei, Taiwan, explores the darker creative powers of women and mother figures. For the past two years, she has turned her attention to indigenous cultures in the American Southwest and Mexico, focusing on their connection to concepts of land and bridging them to ink paintings cosmology. She has been inspired by Chicana feminist Gloria Anzaldúa's work "Borderlands / La Frontera," in which the Serpent is a powerful symbol of femininity, the body, the earth, fertility, healing, death, ... More Alexander Berggruen now representing Gabriel MillsNEW YORK, NY.- Alexander Berggruen announced representation of Gabriel Mills. The gallery will hold its next solo show with the artist in Fall 2025. Gabriel Mills (b. 1992, New Rochelle, NY) creates both thickly layered abstractions and realistic scenes, embracing a self that contains multitudes. In his work, painting becomes a symbolic act through layering and erasure. His abstractions feature textured, topographical surfaces that strike a balance between atmosphere and materiality, evoking both celestial and terrestrial landscapes. His uniquely constructed titles stem from a linguistic game he developed while working as a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he rearranged words from museum displays based on their formal properties. This exploration of language parallels his artistic process, as he continuously builds and revises in a gesture of deep reflection. Speaking ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Russian painter and architect Viktor Hartmann was born May 05, 1834. Viktor Alexandrovich Hartmann (5 May 1834, Saint Petersburg - 4 August 1873, Kireyevo near Moscow) was a Russian architect and painter. He was associated with the Abramtsevo Colony, purchased and preserved beginning in 1870 by Savva Mamontov, and the Russian Revival. In this image: The Paris Catacombs.
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