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Exhibition view The World of Tomorrow Will Have Been Another Present, May 23, 2025 to April 6, 2026. Anita Witek, Eskaliernendes Commitment, 2022. Antoine Pevsner, Konstruktion für einen Flughafen, 1934. Photo: © Klaus Pichler/mumok.
VIENNA.- The exhibition The World of Tomorrow Will Have Been Another Present draws connections between works of classical modernism and contemporary art, between the 1920s and the 2020s. The exhibition features five large-scale installations, five exhibitions in one exhibition, linked together by the participating artists shared interest in the topic of time. Nikita Kadan, Barbara Kapusta, Frida Orupabo, Lisl Ponger, and Anita Witek were invited to select works of classical modernism from the mumok collection and enter into a dialogue with them. In an exchange and in debate, confronting issues against the backdrop of disparate temporal conditions, through formal analogies and aesthetic contradictions, the five artists tackle both historical and contemporary subject matters: be it image politics between propaganda and critique, from careless to sensitive practices of appropriation, body images between identity politics and universalism, or the constitution of society between the desire for ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Social Fabric at Espoo Museum of Modern Art explores the ways that fashion is part of our lives and speaks of our cultures and values. © Paula Virta / EMMA - Espoo Museum of Modern Art.
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| Of extraordinary rarity: First Munch painting at auction in Germany | | Shapero Rare Books launches first Science and Medicine catalogue | | Fifty women artists brought back into the frame in Dangerously Modern at AGSA |
Edvard Munch, Das rote Haus (Det røde hus), 1926. Oil on canvas. 110 x 130 cm, estimate: 1.2 1.8 M.
MUNICH.- Ketterer Kunst is selling an Edvard Munch painting in its auction on June 6. This is nothing short of sensational, as it marks the first time a painting by the great Norwegian artist is offered on the German auction market (source: Artprice.com). On the global market, paintings by Munch have fetched prices in the millions for years. The domestic market has been limited to high-quality prints by Munch, an artist known for his lifelong innovative and experimental approach. Paintings by Munch are rare, making this occasion all the more remarkable, not only for its extraordinary quality but also for its outstanding provenance. Showcasing his works in minor exhibitions, works by the Norwegian painter caused a stir right from the start. People were baffled and thrilled. He depicted emotional torment and inner demons in a way that was both moving and disturbing, sometimes explicitly, sometimes in pictorial subtext. He was not easy to categorize. Were his works symbolic in nature? Was he one o ... More | |
Richard Feynman's copy of Introduction to Quantum Mechanics with Application to Chemistry by Linus Pauling and E. Bright Wilson from 1935.
LONDON.- Shapero Rare Books has launched its first catalogue curated by specialist Laura Massey who is heading up the new science department - Science & Medicine. It brings together over 100 landmark works spanning disciplines from anatomy and natural history to astronomy, genetics, and early computing. It's a comprehensive selection that celebrates the breadth of scientific inquiry across the centuries. Among the highlights is the second edition of the 'first great general work on mathematics printed' (Smith, Rara arithmetica, p56) and the first printed text to set out the method of double-entry bookkeeping, leading to its description as 'the most influential work in the history of capitalism' and earning Luca Pacioli (d. 1517) the title 'Father of Accounting'. Furthermore, Summa de arithmetica, first published in 1494, is the first printing of any of the works of the great 13th Century mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, called Fibonacci (c. 1175- ... More | |
Bessie Davidson, born Adelaide, South Australia 1879, died Paris, France 1965, An interior, c 1920, Paris, France, oil on composition board, 73.1 x 59.7 cm; Gift of Mrs C. Glanville 1968, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.
ADELAIDE.- Dangerously Modern: Australian Women Artists in Europe 1890-1940 is a major exhibition presented by the Art Gallery of South Australia and the Art Gallery of New South Wales that reveals a new Australian art history. Illuminating the stories of fifty trailblazing women artists who were once dismissed as messenger girls by influential Australian art historian Bernard Smith, Dangerously Modern is the first exhibition to focus on their vital role in the development of international modernism. Dangerously Modern will feature more than 200 works of art by both celebrated and rediscovered women artists, encompassing paintings, prints, sculpture and ceramics. The exhibition will premiere at AGSA in Adelaide from 24 May to 7 September 2025 before being presented at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney from 11 October ... More |
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| Patricia Piccinini unveils hybrid creatures and sneaker-inspired sculptures in "With Open Arms" | | The business of art: Andy Warhol's screenprints take center stage at The Warhol Museum | | Legendary photographer Candida Höfer invites us to see the soul of empty spaces |
Patricia Piccinini, The Bond 2016. Silicone, fibreglass, hair, clothing, 162 x 56 x 50 cm. Edition 3 of 3.
MELBOURNE.- Tolarno Galleries is presenting With Open Arms, a new exhibition of sculptures by Patricia Piccinini. On display in Gallery 1, With Open Arms brings together six sculptures composed of silicone, resin and other materials. Encompassing human, animal and hybrid forms, the exhibition opens with an arresting series of figures in seductive colours that riff on the contemporary fetish for sneaker wear. Arranged on freshly found 'yellow box' plinths, these diminutive creatures attest to Piccininis habit of bringing together unlikely bedfellows to create art objects that are new, distinctive and emblematic of the culture from which they are drawn. I am returning to a very personal hybridity that I have explored for many years, merging organic creatures and bodies with entirely artificial objects, says Piccinini. So
we find birds representing freedom, optimism, resilience intermingling with another long-held fascination of mine: ... More | |
Andy Warhol, $ (1), 1982, © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
PITTSBURGH, PA.- The Andy Warhol Museum announces Good Business: Andy Warhols Screenprints, on view May 23 September 1, 2025. Good Business: Andy Warhols Screenprints examines why screenprints are an essential part of Warhols body of work. Facilitating experimentation and mass distribution, prints can be simultaneously challenging and accessible. Warhol embraced mechanical processes early in his career and found in screenprinting the perfect vehicle for image repetition, both for his works on canvas and for portfolios of prints on paper. Through collaborations with his studio assistants and established print publishers, Warhol generated nearly 20,000 prints throughout his career. Screenprinting techniques allowed him to create series of images in an assortment of color variations, resulting in one of his most recognizable signatures (the same image rendered in different colorways) ... More | |
Exhibition view of "Candida Höfer. Photographs" © Candida Höfer/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025, Photo: A. Ebert, HLMD.
DARMSTADT.- For over five decades, Candida Höfer has been photographing the world's grandest interiors, but not in the way you might expect. Her photographs of museums, libraries, and opera houses are famously devoid of people, yet they hum with an undeniable human presence. Now, the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt is offering a rare and expansive look into her remarkable career with "Candida Höfer. Photographs," an exhibition that not only showcases her iconic works but also unveils intriguing new directions. Höfer, born in 1944, is a true titan of German photography, having emerged from the esteemed Düsseldorf Art Academy where she studied under the legendary Bernd and Hilla Becher mentors to a generation of photographic stars like Andreas Gursky and Thomas Ruff. But even early in her career, she knew that traditional studio shots ... More |
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| On Kawara: Rules of Freedom, Freedom of Rules opens at Tai Kwun Contemporary | | Works from the Museo Jumex go on show at the South London Gallery | | Martin Boyce unveils "Unhome" - transforming familiar spaces into eerie art at Esther Schipper Paris |
On Kawaras studio, New York, 1966. © One Million Years Foundation.
HONG KONG.- Every postcard sent, every date painted, every journey mapped: On Kawara transformed these seemingly banal daily acts into a conceptually profound artistic language that speaks across time. His systematic documentation of existence, begun long before our era of digital sharing, used the communication technologies of his timepostcards, telegrams, calendars, and CDsto mark his presence and connect with others in ways that remain startlingly relevant today. On Kawara: Rules of Freedom, Freedom of Rules presents the pioneering conceptual artists most iconic series, spanning five decades of work and marking the first major retrospective in the world conceived after his passing in 2014. Through distinct, fastidious approaches epitomised by his renowned Date Paintings, these works fundamentally reshape our understanding of time and existence. At the heart of Kawaras practice lies a constant negotiation between self-imposed creative rules and lived experience. What this ... More | |
Frida Orupabo, Turning, 2021. La Colección Jumex, Mexico.
LONDON.- The South London Gallery (SLG) and Museo Jumex, Mexico, announced a new collaboration. As part of their shared commitment to showcasing the best in international contemporary art, works from La Colección Jumex, Mexico, will be displayed in the SLGs Fire Station galleries this spring. This group show includes a selection of pieces from the international collection of more than 3,300 artworks from one of the most important contemporary art collections in Latin America. Installation, sculpture, video, and photography works by a wide range of contemporary artists across different generations and regions will be on show in two exhibitions, the first from May - August 2025 and the second opening this autumn. The first of these presentations, both curated by Kit Hammonds, Chief Curator of Museo Jumex, will feature artists from around the world, including Ana Pellicer and Tania Pérez Córdova from Mexico, Salla Tykkä from Finland and Norwegian-Nigerian artist Frida Orupabo. Highlights inc ... More | |
Detail: Martin Boyce, Not yet titled, 2025, painted steel, galvanised steel, hand blown glass, electrical components, 300 x 300 x 200 cm overall. Glass production: Cirva, Marseilles. Photo © Eoin Carey.
PARIS.- Esther Schipper is presenting Unhome, Martin Boyces second solo exhibition with the gallery, and his first in the Paris space. It is part of two concurrent exhibitions of Boyces work opening on the occasion of Paris Gallery Weekend, the second show, titled Walk with Me, being hosted by Galerie Natalie Seroussi. In Unhome, Boyce invites viewers to reconsider the boundaries between the intimate and the domestic, introducing a sense of eeriness and uncertainty into our perception of familiar spaces. At our gallery located on Place Vendôme, he unveils a collection of new sculptures and photographic works, brought together in an immersive installation that oscillates between decay and renewal, offering a sensitive meditation on the passage of time. Martin Boyce has reworked and reformulated objects from the built environment, developing his own pictorial language based on a reading of the formal and conceptual histories ... More |
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| Tate St Ives unveils "Arise Alive": A major six-decade survey of kinetic artist Liliane Lijn | | Two major ceramic exhibitions open at the Vancouver Art Gallery | | Tchoban Foundation presents unseen GDR architectural art |
Liliane Lijn, Aluminium Koancuts, 1971. Photo: Maximilian Geuter © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024.
ST IVES.- This summer, Tate St Ives presents Arise Alive, a major exhibition of the work of Liliane Lijn. Surveying Lijns career over six decades, this expansive survey features key works by an artist whose wide-ranging practice includes sculpture, installation, painting, drawing, collage, video and performance. Lijn one of the first women artists to create kinetic works explores the intersection of art, poetry and science, combining surrealism, mythology, philosophy, scientific innovation and feminism. Organised by Haus der Kunst in Munich and mumok in Vienna, in collaboration with Tate St Ives, Arise Alive is the most comprehensive survey of the artists work to date. The exhibition explores three key themes that span Lijns career: kinetic art initially through motorisation and optical effects; light and energy giving visible form to immaterial and invisible forces; and feminism and the body challenging dominant ideas of the feminine in ... More | |
Otani Workshop, A Boy with a Yellow Button, 2024, ceramic, 432 x 305 x 279 mm, Kaikai Kiki and Perrotin, Photo: Vancouver Art Gallery, ©2024 Otani Workshop/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
VANCOUVER.- This spring, the Vancouver Art Gallery presents two bold new exhibitions that celebrate the imaginative and enduring power of clay. Opening May 25, 2025, Written in Clay: From the John David Lawrence Collection invites visitors to explore the rich ceramic traditions of British Columbia while Otani Workshop: Monsters in My Head offers an immersive journey into the world of one of Japans most exciting contemporary artists. We are excited to present a season devoted to clayone that we hope will inspire visitors to engage with the mediums layered history, says Eva Respini, Interim Co-CEO and Curator at Large at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Together, these two exhibitions celebrate clay not only as a medium but as a vessel of memory, imagination and community. We are deeply grateful to our many collaborators, ... More | |
Hans-Dietrich Wellner, Querfurt Castle, Princely House, 1986. Felt-tip pen and watercolour on drawing cardboard, 32 à 24 cm. © Hans-Dietrich Wellner.
BERLIN.- The question whether distinctive features marked the drawings and creative process of architects and planners in the GDR may seem obvious, but looking at individual pictures alone is unlikely to lead to new insights. During the decades of specific GDR architecture, up to the mid-1980s, East German planning offices worked with the standard tools used all over the world. As everywhere, talents were unevenly distributed, each design collective having its own particularly gifted drawing ace to provide the decisive visualisations of a building idea for important project presentations or competition submissions. So it would be quite possible to illustrate a stylistic history of four decades of GDR architecture with the help of selected drawings from various years and regions. A close-up view of the relevant architects, however, reveals another world ... More |
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New York exhibition showcases vibrant Vietnamese contemporary artNEW YORK, NY.- Eli Klein Gallery is presenting Ceci Nest Pas Une Guerre - This Is Not A War, a group exhibition of 17 Vietnamese artists showcasing 24 works. Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, the exhibition seeks to challenge the long standing tendency to confine Vietnamese contemporary art within narrow narratives of war, trauma, and survival. Audiences are invited to move beyond inherited narratives and experience the breadth, complexity, and vitality of Vietnamese contemporary art today: unbound, unpredictable, and charged with energy. The exhibition prompts a reconsideration of how Vietnamese visual culture is presented within a global context. While artists have engaged deeply with the past fifty years of history after the War, their works have often been interpreted through the lens of the aftermath. Within the context ... More Nantucket Historical Association opens Behind the Seams: Clothing and Textiles on NantucketNANTUCKET, MASS.- Organized by the Nantucket Historical Association, the exhibition Behind the Seams: Clothing and Textiles on Nantucket is on display at the Nantucket Whaling Museum presenting more than 150 objects from the NHAs costume and textile collections to tell stories of making, meaning, and island identity from across Nantucket history. So many aspects of island history can be explored through textiles and clothing, said Michael Harrison, NHA Chief Curator and Obed Macy Research Chair. The NHA is excited to present visitors with a rare look at some of the most intriguing objects in our collectionthe clothing and textiles that people created and used on Nantucket in the past." On view from May 23 through November 2, Behind the Seams features clothing, accessories, household textiles, and tools for sewing and textile production from the NHAs 2,000-piece costume ... More Exhibition explores the cultural fabric of fashion, its rituals and trepidationsESPOO.- Clothing has the power to connect us with communities and networks and how we consume and produce fashion is tied to cultural behaviours both locally and globally. Social Fabric invites visitors to explore fashion beyond mere garments. It creates a space to celebrate the artistry and craftmanship of fashion, and a platform for reflecting on the complex role fashion plays in our lives. Characteristic of EMMA, the exhibition bridges art and design; the engaging display consists of fashion, textile art, sculpture, and film, by 10 established and emerging designers and artists. Contemporary fashion designers are spearheading a new critical practice of fashion. They are exploring complex cultural structural issues, as well as how social bonds are sustained and the role that fashion plays in challenging these, the exhibitions curator, Ane Lynge-Jorlén from ALPHA emphasises. Highlighting ... More Liam Gillick explores abstraction and activism in new exhibitionDUBLIN.- à bientôt, jespère
presents an array of archetypal abstract works by Liam Gillick, alongside a revisiting of his work relating to the French film collective Groupe Medvedkine (19671974) Since the 1990s, Gillicks abstract work has drawn upon the visual language of renovation, recuperation and re-occupation. He absorbs the aesthetics of neo-liberalism, which restage the remnants and surfaces of modernism as in the production of false ceilings, cladding systems and walls dividers. For Gillick, car production and kitchen design remain the two shadows cast when the aesthetics of advanced technology mask the failure of the modernist project and have been at the centre of a number of key works and exhibitions, including the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2009. Alongside this is a focus upon the rise contemporary artist as a compromised figure, ... More New multimedia thematic exhibition: "The Ways in Patterns: An Immersive Digital Exhibition from the Palace Museum"HONG KONG.- The Hong Kong Palace Museum and the Palace Museum today jointly unveiled the new thematic exhibition The Ways in Patterns: An Immersive Digital Exhibition from the Palace Museum. The exhibition will be open to the public in Gallery 7 of the HKPM until 13 October 2025. The Ways in Patterns is the first thematic in-gallery multimedia exhibition jointly organised by the Hong Kong Palace Museum and the Palace Museum. Themed around patterns and grounded in the concept of immersion, the exhibition draws traditional patterns from the Palace Museums architecture, ceramics, and embroidered textiles, reimagining them through cutting-edge digital innovation. This approach presents the cultural connotations behind traditional ... More Of Anarchy in Music: More Journeys in Sound on view at National Taiwan Museum of Fine ArtsTAICHUNG CITY.- The NTMoFA and the Centre Pompidou jointly stage the exhibition Of Anarchy in Music: More Journeys in Sound. In collaboration with the Centre Pompidou, the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMoFA) presents the major exhibition Of Anarchy in Music. More Journeys in Sound. Bringing together remarkable works by 30 artists and artist groups from Taiwan and around the world, the exhibition invites visitors to explore interlacing paths around sound as a medium of choice in contemporary art. Curated by Marcella Lista (chief curator, New Media Collection, Centre Pompidou), this exhibition highlights pivotal developments over the past twenty years at the intersection of experimental music, sound installation and post-conceptual practices. Drawing from the phenomenology of acoustic space to the training of networked data, sound today prompts incisive and vivid ... More Manuela Morales Délano explores geopolitical borders and belonging at Kendra Jayne PatrickBERN.- Kendra Jayne Patrick introduces Manuela Morales Délanos first solo exhibition at the gallery, Nachbarn. German for Neighbors, Nachbarn parses the facts and fetishes of geopolitical borders in a time of supernatural devotion to money. Working with three of her foundational motifs - circles, mountains, and shoes - Délano examines the colonial-cum-capitalist dispositions shaping ideas on the subject. Artworks in this show are grounded in one aspect of this ideology or another, dosed heavily with Manuelas deft aesthetic tendencies towards camp, double entendre, and (worker) solidarity. She asks, who gets to choose whom we get to call neighbor? She grew up in the mountains of Chile, and now finds herself surrounded by the differently mythical Alps. Majestic and dangerous, their geological abilities to protect and boundary their attendant societies make mountains a most ... More Galerie Urs Meile moves headquarters to ZurichZURICH.- In June 2025, Galerie Urs Meile will inaugurate its new flagship gallery space at Ankerstrasse 3, Zurich, marking a pivotal evolution in the gallerys trajectory. More than just an expansion, the new venue represents a renewed focushonoring the gallerys distinctive legacy while reimagining its vision for the future. Founded in 1992 in Lucerne, Galerie Urs Meile has cultivated a distinctive position over the past three decades, deriving its significance from a steadfast commitment to fostering contemporary art in China and Europe and facilitating meaningful exchanges between the two. As one of the first Western galleries to enter China, Galerie Urs Meile began its activities there in 1995 and has maintained a permanent space in Beijing since 2005, now led by René Meile. Since 2020, under the directorship of Karin Seiz-Meile, the gallery has broadened its Swiss presence through an exhibition ... More Lighting of the sails: Kiss of Light by David McDiarmidSYDNEY.- The striking, kaleidoscopic artwork of pioneering Australian visual artist and queer activist David McDiarmid (1955-1995), animated by creative technologists VANDAL, illuminates the Sydney Opera House sails during Vivid Sydney from 23 May 14 June 2025. Pulsing with energy and the dream of the underground, Kiss of Light celebrates David McDiarmids specific alchemy of lust, rage and hope. Marking 30 years since the artists death in 1995 of AIDS-related illnesses, the seven-minute projection showcases McDiarmids queer and distinctly Sydney-inspired aesthetic of vibrant technicolour markings, swirling fabrics and prismatic forms. The evocative animation traces his camp, punk sensibility through iconic works like Rainbow Aphorisms, Bedsheet Paintings and Disco Kwilts, depicting the dynamism of McDiarmids bold activism as a provocation to celebrate equality, joy and freedom. ... More "Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity" debuts at the Jewish MuseumNEW YORK, NY.- This spring, the Jewish Museum presents the first U.S. retrospective in nearly half a century dedicated to social realist artist and activist Ben Shahn (1898-1969). Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity examines the prolific and progressive artists commitment to chronicling and confronting crucial issues of his era, spanning from the Great Depression to the Vietnam War, as well as his exploration of spirituality and Jewish texts. Featuring 175 artworks and objects from the 1930s to the 1960s, including paintings, mural studies, prints, photographs, commercial designs, and ephemera, the exhibition highlights the enduring relevance of Shahns art across media, while revealing new insights into the complexity of his aesthetic and his decisive shift from documentary to allegorical and poetic styles in pursuit of a visual language that would resonate widely. On view from May 23 ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Pontormo was born May 24, 1494. Jacopo Carucci (May 24, 1494 - January 2, 1557), usually known as Jacopo da Pontormo, Jacopo Pontormo or simply Pontormo, was an Italian Mannerist painter and portraitist from the Florentine School. His work represents a profound stylistic shift from the calm perspectival regularity that characterized the art of the Florentine Renaissance. In this image: Jacopo Carrucci, known as Pontormo (1494-1557), Portrait of a Bishop (Monsignor Niccolò Ardinghelli?), c. 1541-1542. Oil on panel; 102 x 78.9 cm. Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1961.9.83.
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