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The First Art Newspaper on the Net Established in 1996 Sunday, February 23, 2025 L'Space Gallery opens 'Playing with Light: Danielle Frankenthal' curated by Lilly Wei Danielle Frankenthal, Cloud (3), 2024, Acrylic paint, oil stick, and metal gilding on acrylic resin, 48 x 48 inches. NEW YORK, NY.- L’Space Gallery presents Playing with Light, a solo exhibition featuring the groundbreaking work of Danielle Frankenthal, curated and accompanied by a catalog essay by art critic Lilly Wei. On view from February 20th to April 5th, 2025, the exhibition invites audiences to experience a world where light, transparency, and spatial perception redefine the boundaries of contemporary abstraction. Danielle Frankenthal is celebrated for her pioneering approach of using acrylic panels layered with various paint techniques. Over three decades, she has developed an innovative visual language that merges physical and illusionistic space. Her multidimensional works evoke ephemeral landscapes and atmospheric nuances, brought to life through dynamic brushwork, pearlescent grounds, and gilded details. The exhibition showcases Frankenthal’s Gardens and Clouds series, which transforms traditional ideas of depth and perspective in ... More The Best Photos of the Day AMBOS, Frieze Los Angeles 2025. Photo by Casey Kelbaugh. Courtesy of Frieze and CKA. A homecoming for heritage: Mexico returns 54 cultural treasures to Guatemala Bruce Conner's "THREE SCREEN RAY" makes UK debut at Thomas Dane Gallery Eskenazi Museum explores African photography through portraiture and archives The collection is made up of 25 ethnographic and 29 archaeological objects, among which a Chinautla-style pot from the Highlands stands out. MEXICO CITY.- In a heartwarming act of international cooperation, Mexico has returned 54 cultural treasures to Guatemala, marking a victory for heritage preservation and a testament to cross-border collaboration. The returned items, a mix of archaeological artifacts and ethnographic pieces, were officially handed over in a ceremony in Mexico City, with representatives from both countries' foreign ministries present. This remarkable gesture began with a Guatemalan citizen residing in Guanajuato, Mexico. Deeply connected to her roots, she wished to return these objects to their rightful place in Guatemala, ensuring they would be properly researched, protected, and eventually shared with her fellow citizens. This individual contacted Guatemala's Ministry of Culture and Sports (MCD), who then reached out to Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). In December 2024, INAH's Guanajuato representatives received the collection. Jaime Alejandro Bautista Valdespino, deputy director of ... More Bruce Conner, THREE SCREEN RAY, 2006. Three-channel synchronised video installation, black and white film, sound (music by Ray Charles), multi-channel editing and composition by Michelle Silva. 5 minutes 16 seconds. LONDON.- Thomas Dane Gallery is presenting the first UK exhibition of Bruce Conner’s THREE SCREEN RAY (2006), following on from the Gallery’s presentations of THE WHITE ROSE in 2022, BREAKAWAY in 2019–2020, A MOVIE in 2017 and CROSSROADS in 2015. Before music videos and rapid-fire editing pervaded popular culture, Conner pioneered techniques of vertical montage and subliminal messaging with his 16mm film, COSMIC RAY (1961). While Conner first gained attention for his film work with found footage, COSMIC RAY incorporated both found material and footage he shot himself after he relocated to San Francisco, including shots of the Bay Area artist Beth Pewther (1938–2024) dancing, the painter Joan Brown (1938–1990) in costume, and a fireworks display. Conner then meticulously spliced together this collection of varied imagery to a live recording of Ray Charles’ hit rhythm and blues song, What’d I Say (1959), ... More Tijani Àdìgún Sitou (Nigerian, 1932–1999). Wealthy Maraka-Man, 1989. Inkjet print, 2006, image: 12 x 12 in. (30.48 x 30.48 cm). Gift of the family of Èl Hadj Tijani Àdìgún Sitou, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2007.107. BLOOMINGTON, IN.- The Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University is presenting the exhibition, Portraiture and Archives in African Photography, on view February 22–August 31, 2025, in the Rhonda and Anthony Moravec Gallery. Portraiture and Archives in African Photography explores how five artists of African descent have innovated approaches for using archives as tools to activate their art through personal and community connections. The exhibition is co-curated by contemporary artist Ibrahima Thiam, who was in residence at the museum during the summer of 2024; Laura and Raymond Wielgus Curator of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and Indigenous Art of the Americas Dr. Allison Martino; and IU Professor of Anthropology Dr. Beth Buggenhagen. This approach to curating an exhibition with a contemporary artist, art historian, and anthropologist brings together different perspectives on ... More Dzibanché awakens: Ancient Mayan city in Quintana Roo reopens to the public after modern makeover Citra Sasmita's "Into Eternal Land": A multi-sensory journey through ancestral memory Photographs recognize sites of Black history The reopening of Dzibanché is a significant moment for both history buffs and those simply seeking a connection to the past. MEXICO CITY.- Deep in the heart of Quintana Roo, where the whispers of the jungle mingle with the echoes of a glorious past, the ancient Mayan city of Dzibanché has reopened its doors to the public. After a significant revitalization effort, this once-powerful city, a key player in the Mayan world, is ready to share its secrets once more. Imagine walking in the footsteps of Mayan kings, traversing the same "sacbe'ob," or white roads, that connected Dzibanché's impressive architectural complexes. Now, thanks to a major facelift as part of the Tren Maya project's Promeza program, that experience is more enriching than ever. Visitors can now enjoy modern amenities like updated ticket booths, restrooms, and clear signage, making their journey through time more comfortable and accessible. But the real magic lies in the enhanced understanding of this fascinating site. Recent archaeological work, spearheaded by Sandra ... More Citra Sasmita, Act Three, 2024, from Into Eternal Land, The Curve, Barbican, 2025 © Citra Sasmita. LONDON.- Indonesian artist Citra Sasmita transforms The Curve for her first solo exhibition in the UK: a new commission titled Into Eternal Land. Working fluidly across painting, sculptural installation, embroidery and scent, Sasmita invites visitors on a symbolic, multi-sensory journey through the 90-metre-long gallery to explore ideas of ancestral memory, ritual and migration. An interdisciplinary artist, Sasmita’s practice challenges fixed ideas in relation to gender roles, hierarchies of power, systems of oppression, and more. Her work refuses categorisation both in terms of materials and iconographies, questioning reductive, colonial conceptions of traditional Indonesian art and the historic marginalisation of craft traditions. Into Eternal Land speaks to universal and urgent concerns: connecting with ancestral traditions, grappling with the power and precarity of the natural world, and proposing the possibility of feminist resistance. Sasmita’s practice often engages with the I ... More William Earle Williams, Old Lyme Marina, Old Lyme, Connecticut, 2023. Silver gelatin print, 7 ½ x 7 ½ in. Courtesy of the artist. OLD LYME, CONN.- The FloGris Museum in Old Lyme, CT, presents its first solo exhibition by a contemporary Black artist, Their Kindred Earth: Photographs by William Earle Williams, February 22 through June 22, 2025. The exhibition of newly commissioned photographs makes visible little-known sites across Old Lyme (as well as the state and nation) significant to enslavement, emancipation, and African Americans’ contributions to Connecticut history and culture. The title Their Kindred Earth is drawn from the poem “An Appeal to Women” by Black abolitionist Sarah Louise Forten Puvis (1814-1883) in which she calls for racial equality by understanding that all people, regardless of their skin color, return to the earth after death. Williams’s 120 poignant images acknowledge and honor the lives of the Black and Indigenous people who contributed in essential and often unrecognized ways to Connecticut’s society, culture, and economy. An array ... More A Century of The New Yorker opens at The New York Public Library Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger's first solo exhibition at a German museum opens in Dusseldorf Kemper Art Museum at WashU presents Seeds: Containers of a World to Come Eric Drooker (b. 1958), cover artist, The New Yorker, November 7, 2005. © Eric Drooker, courtesy Condé Nast. NEW YORK, NY.- A Century of The New Yorker opened at The New York Public Library, showcasing the history of The New Yorker from its launch in 1925 to present day and bringing to life the people, stories, and ideas that have defined the iconic magazine. Founding documents, rare manuscripts, photographs, and timeless cover and cartoon art drawn from the Library’s rich holdings, along with artifacts from other renowned institutions, are featured in the dynamic exhibition, which takes visitors behind the scenes of the making of one of the United States’s most important magazines. The exhibition explores the literary cosmopolitanism The New Yorker forged throughout its one-hundred-year history, from the roaring twenties through the digital age, and highlight the role of both well-known creators such as E.B. White and Vladimir Nabokov as well as underrepresented and unsung contributors—from artists and copyeditors to typists and fact checkers. A Century of The New Yorker is a centerpiece of ... More Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger, Halala n.10, 1993, oil and photocopic dust on paper mounted on canvas, 22 x 19 cm, Courtesy the Artist, © BRACHA. DUSSELDORF.- The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen is presenting the first German museum survey of the groundbreaking painter, psychoanalyst, philosopher, and peace activist Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger (BRACHA). Born in Tel Aviv in 1948, BRACHA is known for her small-format oil paintings that are driven by unconscious processes and created over the course of up to eight years. BRACHA transforms photographic material, including evidence of violence against women and children during the Shoah, into painterly images of inner states that visibly change over decades. At the heart of the exhibition are twelve recent paintings, some of which are shown outside the artist’s studio for the first time. With more than 80 works, including a selection of early work from the 1980s, the Bel Etage of K21 presents a singular concept of art. It combines psychoanalysis and painting, a feminist rethinking of identity and gender relations, radical vulnerability, and the hope for a peaceful way of dealing with confl ... More Kapwani Kiwanga (French and Canadian, b. 1978), Vivarium: Apomixis, 2020. PVC, steel, color, and MDF. Installation view, Remediation, MOCA Toronto, 2023. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin. © 2024 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Laura Findlay. ST. LOUIS, MO.- The Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis presents Seeds: Containers of a World to Come. The exhibition features recent works and new commissions by ten nationally and internationally known artists for whom the seed is the kernel, both literally and metaphorically, for their investigations into issues of environmental fragility, preservation, and possibility in the face of the global climate crisis. Participating artists include Shiraz Bayjoo, Carolina Caycedo, Juan William Chávez, Beatriz Cortez, Ellie Irons, Kapwani Kiwanga, Jumana Manna, Anne Percoco, Cecilia Vicuña, and Emmi Whitehorse. Working within a multiplicity of geographical and cultural contexts—both local and global—these artists create sculptures, films, installations, and paintings that range from abstract to speculative to documentary. Through these ... More NBMAA presents "Masterworks of Color: Shaker Painted Furniture and the Art of George Chaplin" Planet Pammesberger: A hilarious and sharp-witted look at Austria through the eyes of a master caricaturist The San Luis Obispo Museum of Art opens a solo exhibition by Esteban Cabeza de Baca George Chaplin, Kasumi, 2013, Oil on Canvas, 36 x 36 in., Courtesy of EBK Gallery. NEW BRITAIN, CT.- The New Britain Museum of American Art presents special exhibition Masterworks of Color: Shaker Painted Furniture and the Art of George Chaplin from February 21 through October 2025. Joy in Shaker life was expressed through color. Stark black and white photographs led to the persistent misconception that Shaker life was not only dull, but stern and colorless. Life in the community was hard in many ways. Six days of every week were filled with work. Their surroundings were simple, devoid of luxury items. They lived apart from the rest of the World. Yet, austerity did not mean grimness. Shaker life offered converts security, shelter, sustenance, and support, while building a model of heaven here on earth. The wooden objects in the gallery, large and small, and the textiles have color that was applied up to two hundred years ago. These are and were a source of joy in Shaker life up to the present. Sharing the gallery are paintings by the ... More Michael Pammesberger at his workplace © Private archive Michael Pammesberger. KREMS.- The Krems Caricature Museum is throwing a party, and everyone's invited – especially if you enjoy a good dose of satirical wit. To celebrate the 60th birthday of Michael Pammesberger, one of Austria's most prominent caricaturists, the museum is hosting a major solo exhibition, "Planet Pammesberger," running from February 22, 2025, to February 1, 2026. Pammesberger isn't just any caricaturist; he's a chronicler of the times, fearlessly capturing the political absurdities and social quirks of Austria with his sharp pen and even sharper humor. Since 1992, his work has graced the pages of major Austrian newspapers, and since 1997, he's been a daily fixture in the Kurier. His motto? "I don't shy away from anything when I draw." And he means it. This exhibition offers a delightful cross-section of Pammesberger's work, showcasing his evolution over the past 30 years. From his early pieces to his current takes on Austrian politics and society, the exhibit also features his illustrated ... More “March To Sacramento”, Acrylic and cochineal on canvas, 6ftx6ft, 2024. Courtesy of the artist. SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA.- The San Luis Obispo Museum of Art is presenting Memories of the Future, a solo exhibition by artist Esteban Cabeza de Baca. On view in the Museum’s Gray Wing February 22 – June 22, 2025, this collection of 11 paintings signifies the artist’s West Coast debut. Esteban Cabeza de Baca's paintings dance between histories, landscapes, and time – speaking to his ancestry and inviting visitors to consider all stories of immigration, Indigenous identity, and resistance. Cabeza de Baca was born into a family of labor activists working in San Ysidro, California, and spent his childhood driving the long journey between California and New Mexico. Ranging from 2015 to 2024, the eleven paintings in the gallery explore issues of belonging and identity, activism, and joy and celebration. It is the artist's first solo Museum exhibition on the West Coast. Often painting on square canvases, Cabeza de Baca’s paintings feel like snippets of time, as if recreated from a dream or a c ... More The Babylonian Map of the World with Irving Finkel More News Mexico and France join forces to safeguard cultural treasures with cutting-edge technology MEXICO CITY.- The echoes of history resonated in the National Museum of Anthropology (MNA) this week as Mexico and France launched a collaborative effort to protect their shared cultural heritage. Officials from both nations inaugurated the "Innovation and Use of Technology in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage" meeting, a two-day event designed to explore how cutting-edge technology can preserve precious artifacts and historical sites for generations to come. José Luis Perea González, representing INAH Director Diego Prieto Hernández, emphasized the importance of this partnership, highlighting the shared commitment to protecting "our historical and human memory." This sentiment was echoed by Blanca Jiménez Cisneros, Mexico's ambassador to France, who spoke of the long-standing cooperation between the two countries, united by a vision ... More In focus: Agnes Pelton at Frieze Los Angeles LOS ANGELES, CA.- Michael Rosenfeld Gallery's presentation at Frieze LA includes two luminous paintings by pioneering American modernist Agnes Pelton (1881–1961), exemplifying her distinctive, visionary approach to abstraction. “These pictures are like little windows,” Pelton wrote in a 1929 artist’s statement, “opening to the view of a region not yet much visited consciously or by intention—an inner realm, rather than an outer landscape. Here color is like a voice, giving its message directly.” Born in Stuttgart, Germany to American parents, Agnes Pelton was raised in Brooklyn, NY. She moved to Long Island in 1921, where, inspired by her garden and the changing seasons, she turned to abstract painting with a deep, zen-like reverence for nature. Today, she is most commonly associated with the Southern California desert, where she moved ... More Exhibition at Tucson Museum of Art considers the American West from an expanded lens TUCSON, AZ.- Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block presents Divergence of Legacy: Art of the American West in the 21st Century (February 22- June 22, 2025). This exhibition, developed with eight community curators, explores how mythic, authentic, and nuanced cultural items, experiences, and artistic practices may work in dialogue with one another and offer contemporary understandings of the Western region and Tucson. Using TMA’s collection with select loans from the Tia Collection in Santa Fe, the exhibition offers visitors opportunities for new understandings of Art of the American West, its significance to the past and present, and a broadening of social contexts and traditional conventions. With the inclusion of works of art created between the 1870s and 2024, this exhibition positions the major theme of defiance and reimagination as a necessity ... More Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum presents It Always Sounds Somewhere BEIJING.- It Always Sounds Somewhere: Sounding Sound Practice in Mainland China and Hong Kong Since the 1990s explores the history and evolution of sound practice in mainland China and Hong Kong from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition examines sound as a dynamic and pervasive form of practice, probing its capacity to engage with reality. Rooted in over a decade of research and fieldwork by British curator and researcher Dr. Edward Sanderson, this exhibition draws from his extensive observations, experiences, and recordings of sound practices in both regions. Featuring over 50 works by 57 artists, it places particular emphasis on recent works by those who have shaped the landscape of sound creation over the past 20 years. Alongside these works, the exhibition presents a rich archive of materials documenting sound practice since ... More Lauriston Avery's "Outer Ones": Ethereal sculptures conjured from everyday materials NEW YORK, NY.- Dutton presents Outer Ones, a solo exhibition of recent sculptures, wall constructions, and drawings by Lauriston Avery. Formed from lo-fi utilitarian materials commonly sourced from hardware stores and interspersed with found ingredients ranging from faux fur to dust, Avery’s works rely on the subtlety of white, muted hues, texture, light and shadow to express ghostly visages that are at once matter of fact and ethereal. Tightly compressed passages interwoven with structural and rhythmic line interplay over scarred psychic fields where super-sensory, celestial-like figures manifest in material substance and recede into abstraction. For Avery, this practice can be interpreted as conjuring. Alternating between feverishly building and impulsively excavating, he champions intuition as an interface with the metaphysical. His obsessive process and transmutation ... More Temple Bar Gallery + Studios presents its 2025 exhibition programme DUBLIN.- In 2025, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios (TBG+S) presents five exhibitions including new commissions by Irish and international artists, alongside the fifteenth edition of Dublin Art Book Fair. In partnership with Culture Ireland and Southwark Park Galleries, London, a summer group exhibition presents the work of three Irish artists, one of whom will be selected for their first international solo exhibition. Katarzyna Perlak’s ‘tender crafts’ series explores how heritage and traditional handwork practices can be re-imagined from contemporary feminist, queer and migrant perspectives. Focusing on vernacular stories, proverbs, and collective memories, her approach reflects experiences of shared precarity, and what it means to belong. The exhibition is guest curated by Marysia Więckiewicz-Carroll. Jorge Satorre unearths and reinforces overlooked ... More Save the date: Haute Photographie Rotterdam 2025 ROTTERDAM.- With only a few weeks to go, we’d love to tell you more about what to expect at Haute Rotterdam. Like former successful editions, Haute focusses on independent photographers without gallery representation, but there is so much more the fair has to offer. Read on to learn more about our extensive program. Haute Photographie has long been a platform for new faces in photography, offering emerging talents the space to showcase their work. Each year, the fair presents a fresh selection of promising photographers, giving them the opportunity to share their unique perspectives with the world. From autodidacts to recent graduates, Haute is the place to discover the next generation of image makers at the start of their careers. During Haute, you can also immerse yourself in photobooks, both new and vintage. Our Amsterdam bookstore will ... More Graham Sutherland: "Magical Unease" and the metamorphosis of reality at Palazzo Franchetti VENICE.- Defined as the Damien Hirst of his time, ACP - Palazzo Franchetti by Fondazione Calarota, under the patronage of the British Embassy in Rome, hosts the exhibition dedicated to Graham Sutherland, one of the greatest innovators of contemporary British painting. Curated by Roberta Perazzini Calarota, the show explores some of the artist's most cherished themes—nature, with its lush green landscapes and the animal world through a selection of important oil paintings, watercolors, and meticulously chosen lithographs from the artist's most renowned cycles, including the famous "The Bestiary". Always balancing between reality and imagination, Sutherland’s enigmatic creations align with surrealism and immerse us in what Francesco Arcangeli described as a “magical unease,” characterized by allusive metamorphoses and the tension ... More LAS Art Foundation presents Laure Prouvost: WE FELT A STAR DYING BERLIN.- LAS Art Foundation presents Laure Prouvost WE FELT A STAR DYING, a newly commissioned art installation at Kraftwerk Berlin that explores quantum phenomena and their sensitivity to cosmic and planetary forces. 2025 marks a century since quantum physics became established and today its applications are predicted to enact a paradigm shift in our world. WE FELT A STAR DYING follows Prouvost’s rare access to a quantum computer and is born out of two years of research and development with philosopher Tobias Rees and scientist Hartmut Neven at Google Quantum AI. Their conversations and experiments helped shape this original and interdisciplinary new work. In Berlin, the result is a multi-sensory and immersive environment, including video developed with a quantum computer, as well as sound, scent and sculptural elements tuned ... More Turner Contemporary presents "Resistance' - An exhibition curated by Steve McQueen MARGATE.- Turner Contemporary is presenting Resistance, an exhibition conceived by acclaimed artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen and curated in collaboration with Clarrie Wallis. The exhibition explores how acts of resistance have shaped life in the UK and the powerful role of photography in documenting and driving change. A major new publication, released by 4th Estate, accompanies the exhibition. Renowned for amplifying underrepresented voices, McQueen contributes a compelling exploration of overlooked histories, shedding light on the forgotten stories of individuals whose actions have helped define Britain's history. Presenting a century of activism, Resistance spans from the radical suffrage movement in 1903 to the largest-ever protest in Britain’s history—the Anti-Iraq War Protest in 2003. The exhibition brings together ... More PhotoGalleries Mystery & Benevolence Anne Frank Moore and Malaparte Gauguin Flashback On a day like today, Ukrainian painter and theorist Kazimir Malevich was born February 23, 1878. February 23, 1878. Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (February 23, 1878 - May 15, 1935) was a Russian painter and art theoretician. He was a pioneer of geometric abstract art and the originator of the avant-garde Suprematist movement. He was a devout Christian mystic who believed the central task of an artist was that of rendering spiritual feeling.In this image: Kazimir Malevich, Self-Portrait, 1908 or 1910-1911. Gouache on paper, 27 x 26.8. © 1996 - 2025 Founder: Ignacio Villarreal (1941 - 2019) Editor & Publisher: Jose Villarreal (52 8110667640) Art Director: Juan José Sepúlveda Ramírez Writer: Ofelia Zurbia Betancourt

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