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Installation view «Vija Celmins», Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, 2025. Photo: Mark Niedermann.
BASEL.- This summer, the Fondation Beyeler presents one of the most comprehensive solo exhibitions ever devoted to the American artist Vija Celmins (*1938, Riga) in Europe. Best known for her deeply absorbing paintings and drawings of galaxies, moon surfaces, deserts and oceans, Celmins work invites the viewer to pause, look closely and immerse oneself in their captivating surfaces. Like a spiders web, they draw the observer in, encouraging them to contemplate the tensions between surface and space, closeness and distance, stillness and movement. Organised in close collaboration with the artist, the exhibition brings together around 90 works, mostly paintings and drawings, as well as a small number of sculptures and graphic works. Born in Riga, Latvia in 1938, Celmins became a refugee in 1944 before emigrating with her family to the United States in 1948. She grew up in Indianapolis and later as an art student moved to Los Angeles, then to New Mexico, New York and Long Island, wher ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Marija Rinkevičiūtė, exhibition view of «What remains» at Irène Laub gallery, Brussels (BE), 2025 (© Hugard & Vanoverschelde).
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| Scholten Japanese Art unveils recent works by pioneering printmaker Chizuko Yoshida | | Kunstmuseum Stuttgart opens major Joseph Kosuth survey | | Almine Rech opens an exhibition of works by Gregor Hildebrandt |
Chizuko Yoshida (1924-2017), Butterflies with Water Lily (Suiren ni Asobu), 20 3/4 by 16 1/4 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Scholten Japanese Art announced the gallery's most recent works by Chizuko Yoshida (1924-2017) received from the Yoshida Family Collection and available now on their website. Before joining the Yoshida family by marriage to the younger son Hodaka, Chizuko Inoue lived a life immersed in the arts. From a young age she studied music, played the violin, and performed in competitive dance including tap, ballet and Japanese dances. After graduating from the Sato Girl's High School in Tokyo in 1941, Chizuko studied traditional Western-style realism including life drawing at the Hongo Art Institute, and oil painting privately in the studio of Kitaoka Fumio (1918-2007) who was also a woodblock printmaker. In the late 1940s, Chizuko joined a group of avant-garde artists who called themselves the Century Society (Seiki no kai) and eventually moved away from academic realism and began painting abstract compositions. In 1956, Chizuko co-founded the Joryu ... More | |
Joseph Kosuth, Five Words And Five Colors-A Description, 1965, Ruby red, violet, green, yellow and cobalt blue neon mounted directly on the wall, 10 x 185 cm, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025 / Photo: Frank Kleinbach, Stuttgart.
STUTTGART .- Kunstmuseum Stuttgart opened 'Non autem memoria', a comprehensive survey of seminal works by Joseph Kosuth, commemorating his 80th birthday year. The exhibition spans an impressive fifty-year history and presents all of Joseph Kosuth's works in the museum's collection. Joseph Kosuth is regarded as a pivotal figure in conceptual art, recognized not only for his innovative artworks, but also for his influential writings that have shaped the theoretical framework of the movement. His philosophy is succinctly captured in the title of an early series, Art as Idea as Idea, which encapsulates the radical approach established in the 1960s. Kosuths exploration of meaning over aesthetics asserts that meaning, and not shapes, colors and materials, is the essence of his artistic practice, with language serving as a primary ... More | |
Gregor Hildebrandt, Im Hof, 2022. Laser gravure on granite, 128 x 107 cm. 50 1/2 x 42 in.
LONDON.- Few if any artists have been able to harness the power of music in their work without making a peep, as has Gregor Hildebrandt. In his latest show, 'AUF FALSCHER SEITE IN DIE FALSCHE RICHTUNG' (On the wrong side in the wrong direction), he again brings his charmed silent cacophony to London. The shows title refers to his experience biking in London (where traffic flows in the "wrong" direction to that in Continental Europe). It is translated into the labyrinthine layout of the exhibitions entry which leads us to Im Hof, (2020) a self-portrait on granite of the artist on a bike wielding a gigantic paintbrush à la Don Quixote charging windmills. This is perhaps the only work in the show that is neither a collage nor has a direct connection to musictwo mainstays in the artists oeuvre. There is a distinct Warholian bent in the shiny, glossy, pop glamour of Hildebrandts work, but his engagement with music is the driving force. For the past 25 years, Hildebrandt ... More |
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| Steve McQueen returns to Schaulager with "Bass," his most abstract work yet | | Adam Budak appointed Director of MOCAK The Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków | | The Nivaagaard Collection acquires rare 17th-century paintings by Flemish female artist |
Steve McQueen, Bass, 2024LED Light and Sound, Courtesy the artist, Co-commissioned work by Laurenz Foundation, Schaulager Basel and Dia Art Foundation, 15 June 16 November 2025, Schaulager® Münchenstein/Basel (Installation view), Photo: Pati Grabowicz, © Steve McQueen.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Laurenz Foundation, Schaulager Basel announce Bass (2024), one of the most recent works created by Steve McQueen. The world-renowned artist and Academy Award-winning filmmaker is returning to Schaulager in June 2025, with his most abstract work to date and 12 years after the ground- breaking exhibition, conceived as a City of Cinemas with over 20 video and film installations. Specifically attuned to the architecture of Schaulager, Bass is largely inspired by McQueens keen interest in the effect of light, colour and sound on our physical perception of space and time. What I love about light and sound is that they are both created through movement and fluidity. They can be molded into any shape, like vapor or a scent; they can sneak into any nook ... More | |
Adam Budak. Photo: R. Sosin.
KRAKOW.- Having won the first competition in the history of the institution, Adam Budak has been appointed Director of MOCAK. The curator and art critic has set out to create a museum open to innovation, social dialogue and international collaboration. He will take up his post on 14th July. In his programme proposal for MOCAK The Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków, Adam Budak focuses on art that engages and provokes reflection on contemporary social, ecological, and philosophical issues. His approach centers on creating a museum that not only presents art but generates creative energy which can power the society. Budak emphasises the importance of local context, asserting that art should be deeply connected to the place in which it is presented and to the everyday life of society. His vision for MOCAK is to create a museum open to dialogue between artists, audiences, and the local community, while also addressing the broader challenges of contemporary civilisation. Adam Budak has ... More | |
Catharina Ykens II (1659after 1689), 'Two Still Lifes with Flowers I', c. 1687-1688?, The NIvaagaard Collection (Oil on panel, each 23,2 x 17,2 cm).
COPENHAGEN.- From Tuesday, June 17, 2025, visitors to The Nivaagaard Collection can experience two rare works by a 17th-century female artist: Two Flower Still Lifes (c. 16871688?) by Flemish painter Catharina Ykens II. With this acquisition, the museum includes the first woman artist in its collection of Dutch Baroque paintings. Catharina Ykens II (1659 after 1689) was born into a family of artists in Antwerp. Her father, uncle, and brother were all painters, and she is also recorded as being a painter in official records. The phrase filia devot added after her inscribed signature suggests a connection to the Church, though she was likely a lay sister rather than a nun. Many female Baroque painters in the Netherlands specialized in still lifes with flowers and fruitssubjects that were long considered of lesser importance by art historians. Today, however, these works are appreciated for their aesthetic qualities, historical ... More |
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| 13th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art opens | | Change of leadership at CCA Tel Aviv-Yafo | | Myriam Boulos: Winner of Foam Paul Huf Award 2025 |
Anawana Haloba, Looking for Mukamusaba An Experimental Opera, 2024/25, installation view, 13th Berlin Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 2025. Courtesy Anawana Haloba, Sammlung / Collection Hartwig Art Foundation; image: Marvin Systermans.
BERLIN.- The 13th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, titled passing the fugitive on, opened on June 13, 2025, at four locations in Berlin with over 170 works by more than 60 artists. More than half of the artworks are newly commissioned. The encounter with foxes within the inner city of Berlin is a starting point for the 13th Berlin Biennale as an investigation of fugitivity. It examines the ability of works of art to set their own laws in the face of legislative violence in unjust systems, and to allow thinking to continue even under conditions of persecution, militarization, and ecocide. The title, passing the fugitive on, may be read as a missive or instruction piece to the receiver. Some fugitive content is passed, and the audience is now the receiver of cultural evidence. The artists of the 13th ... More | |
Hila Cohen-Schneiderman. Photo: Nurit Agozi Weiner.
TEL AVIV.- The Center for Contemporary Art Tel Aviv-Yafo announced the appointment of Hila Cohen-Schneiderman as its director and chief curator succeeding Nicola Trezzi, the Centers director and curator for the past seven years, who has been appointed curator at Pinacoteca Agnelli in Turin. Cohen-Schneiderman brings extensive expertise in curating, exhibition-making, and institutional leadership within Israels contemporary art scene. Her practice focuses on experimental approaches and engages with art in urban and environmental contexts. The recipient of the 2021 Curatorial Award from the Ministry of Culture and Sports, she served as chief curator of MoBY: Museums of Bat Yam from 2018 to 2024. Between 2016 and 2017, she was the curator and artistic director of the Liebling Program in Tel Aviv, and from 2012 to 2016, she was curator at the Petach Tikva Museum of Art. Cohen-Schneiderman teaches at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, the newly established MFA program at ... More | |
Sexual Fantasies, 2023 © Myriam Boulos.
AMSTERDAM.- Foam announced that the 19th Foam Paul Huf Award goes to Myriam Boulos (1992, Lebanon). Boulos consistently elevates personal searching into something universally resonant, within the pressing context of war and political conflict within her home country of Lebanon. Her work shows how people who live outside dominant norms still manage to find one another within a social system that would rather render them invisible. As the winner of the award, she represents a new generation of visual storytellers who understand that the political is deeply personaland that photography is far from a neutral observer; it is a vital, lived tool for resistance, reflection, and the visible claiming of the right to exist in all forms of identity. A jury of five industry specialists reviewed the submissions of 95 artists, who had been brought forward by 24 international nominators. Myriam Boulos, nominated by nominated by both Munem Wasif (artist, curator at the Chobimela International Festival of P ... More |
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| Audain Art Museum exhibits rare drawings from the National Gallery of Canada's vault | | Western MD Fine Arts Museum names new curator | | Tomo Museum presents retrospective of living national treasure Fujimoto Yoshimichi's porcelain art |
Vassily Kandinsky, Braun, 1924, watercolour, gouache and ink on beige wove paper, 48.6 x 33.8 cm. Partial gift in memory of Martin Landmann, 2024. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Photo: NGC.
WHISTLER, BC.- This summer, the Audain Art Museum presents Gathered Leaves: Discoveries from the Drawings Vault, a landmark travelling exhibition offering a rare glimpse into the hidden art treasures of the National Gallery of Canada (NGC). On view from June 14 through October 13, 2025, the exhibition features over 130 works on paper and canvas by 84 artists, revealing centuries of artistic innovation and storytelling to AAM visitors. Featuring graphite sketches alongside delicate ink, pastel, and watercolour renderings, Gathered Leaves offers a wide range of techniques and styles by internationally celebrated artists. The exhibition highlights renowned figures such as Edgar Degas, Pablo Picasso, Gustav Klimt, Edvard Munch, Marc Chagall, and Wassily Kandinsky, as well as powerful contributions by historically underrepresented women artists, ... More | |
Linda Johnson, Ph.D.
HAGERSTOWN, MD .- Linda Johnson, Ph.D., currently Visiting Professor of Art History at the University of Michigan-Flint, has been named as the new Agnita M. Stine Schreiber Curator, effective July 2025, for the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts in Hagerstown, MD. Johnson is a curator and historian of American art specializing in painting, sculpture, and works on paper from the18th-20th centuries, with a special emphasis on American impressionism and realism, landscape art and environmental studies, and intercultural encounters between Euro-American artists. A member of member of the Association of Museum Art Curators and active in the College Art Association, Johnson currently holds a senior fellowship in the Visual Arts at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, where she is on the editorial board for The Journal of Animal Ethics, and is the author of Art, Ethics and the Human Animal Relationship (Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2021), as well as numerous academic journal articles. She also held a Summer ... More | |
Vase with Seppaku Glaze and Yubyo (Colored Glaze), Overglaze Enamels and Gold, Depicting a Night Heron》1990.
TOKYO.- Fujimoto Yoshimichi (1919-1992) explored ways to depict realistically through porcelain with overglaze enamels and in 1986, he was appointed as a holder of Important Intangible Cultural Property in the field of porcelain with overglaze enamels. His main motif in his works was birds and he depicted these subject matters three-dimensionally by the contrast of the pigments. To merge the three-dimensional subject matter with the surface of the white porcelain, Fujimoto created a technique called yūbyōkasai (lit. adding color with painted glaze) which blended the colors of the background, creating a watercolor-like effect. After studying craft design at the Tokyo Fine Arts School (present-day Tokyo University of the Arts), Fujimoto enrolled at the Craft Technical Training Institute, operated by the Ministry of Education. There, he studied under Tomimoto Kenkichi (1886-1963) and with Kato Hajime (1900-1968), who were later ... More |
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The story of gold in Duccio's Siena: The Chemistry of Colour
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Kunsthuis SYB presents Selma Selman: 600 Years of Migrant MothersBEETSTERZWAAG.- Kunsthuis SYB is presenting 600 Years of Migrant Mothers, a new solo exhibition by Selma Selman. The exhibition features a new series of monumental paintings, along with films, drawings, and research material. This project is a collaboration between two Frisian art institutions: Kunsthuis SYB and Arcadia - Paradys. The exhibition brings forward a larger research project by Selman, in which she delves into her foremothers going back six hundred years in her family lineage. Selman tries to give a face to the women from whom she descends. Women who have helped shape her into who she is today, but who themselves often remain invisible. 600 Years of Migrant Mothers addresses the intimate bond between knowledge and power. Who has access to their foremothers, the artist asks? And how does that access constitute power dynamics on a broader ... More Upcoming summer exhibitions at Beijing Inside-Out Art MuseumBEIJING.- Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum announces three new exhibitions for its summer programme, each examining experimental creative practices at the margins through urgent, historical, meta-reflexive lenses: the free world constructed by Zhao Wenliang and Yang Yushu; life rehearsals for atypical individuals; and curatorial methods that transmute economic constrains into economical techniques. These practices present how limitations can be reimagined and transformed into distinctive attributes and particularity, challenging conventional boundaries between normality and abnormality, freedom and containment, rudimentary and efficiency, thus opening innovative pathways for artistic engagements with todays world. Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum has long supported the artistic practice of the autism community. Through its Autistic or Artistic series, the museum has ... More The Third Line showcases Nima Nabavi's latest creations, marking a significant shift in his practiceDUBAI.- The Third Line is presenting Sunrise at the Vortex, the second solo exhibition by Nima Nabavi at the gallery. Featuring a selection of new works made by the artist between 2022 and 2025, the show marks a significant evolution in his practice, both conceptually and technically. Rooted in his travels to sites across the world considered to be energy centers by different communities, the works reflect Nabavis deepened commitment to introspection, geometry, and modes of making that embrace technology alongside traditional tools. Spending quiet time in these sites, the artist forged a stronger connection to himself and the universe, which prompted a turn to his practice as a way for meditation and self-exploration. Created in concentrated, inspired bursts within makeshift studios in Roswell, Brooklyn, Los Angeles, and Dubai, the resulting works exude increasing complexity ... More Mona Filleul builds a shimmering, sacred city in new exhibitionPARIS.- Welcome to Air de Tranny! When I look around, I start to think that Mona Filleul has built a city here. In Monas city, although theres no places to go shopping, no business district or luxury hotels, theres a metal verticality that recalls that of skyscrapers steel frames their shine, their coldness, their texture and their angles. I cant quite make out my reflection in the façades of these buildings, but Im sure that I can glimpse something of our western capital cities, of their ambiguities, perhaps something of their rigidity, too. Mona takes us with her through these stripped back walls to show us whats going on within. She marks out zones and thresholds, and builds an architecture thats at once narrative and sentimental, emptying out all the things that usually stay hidden. She even recreates the sky
Mona is an iconophile, one of those people who venerate images and try to save ... More John Wood and Paul Harrison's "OH" exhibition opens at Kunsthalle GöppingenGÃPPINGEN.- John Wood and Paul Harrison opened their exhibition OH at the Kunsthalle Göppingen. British artists John Wood and Paul Harrison have worked together since 1993. Through their films, drawings, objects, and sculptures, they examine human behavior, communication, and the norms of daily life. The artists films are minimalist in their staging and move between chance and control. Wood and Harrison combine seriousness and absurdity in short sequences that humorously reflect on everyday situations. They integrate and test objects and actions within clear choreographies, often leading to unexpected events. Their works have a pseudoscientific quality and take place in specially designed environments. Wood and Harrison's OH highlights the artist duo's video works, featuring a selection from the past 25 years. The exhibitionis completed by the installation 21 Signs ... More Eye Filmmuseum presents Garrett Bradley's first European solo museum showAMSTERDAM.- Eye Filmmuseum is presenting the first European solo museum exhibition by US artist and Oscar nominated filmmaker Garrett Bradley. The exhibition invites visitors into her world: a rich blend of engagement and artistic experimentation, in which she critically examines (film) history and image-making from a contemporary perspective. In 2023, Bradley was awarded the Eye Art & Film Prize. Garrett Bradley explores how images help shape our view of the world. She is particularly interested in the ways America is represented through visual culture. Spanning narrative, documentary, and experimental forms of filmmaking, this exhibition reflects the artists turn towards abstraction and the increasingly sculptural nature of her work. Bradley invites us to take a step back and consider how and in what ways looking is socially and culturally informed. In doing so, she points to the pitfalls ... More Summer 2025 exhibitions at Palais de TokyoPARIS.- As an alternative to certain tendencies towards withdrawal, our institutions, more than ever, embrace openness. In other words, they must no longer be hermetic, aseptic and reserved, but rather open-air places in direct contact with their environment. This openness should be applied to various aspects: open to cultures, to varied topics and histories, to the most innovative forms and imaginations, to the most diverse audiences, and to the most disruptive questionseven to natural elements. The basic rules of architecture remind us that, to remain healthy and sustainable, all buildings must breathethat is, maintain constant exchange with the outside world. A beautiful and edifying paradox: openness is the best protection. For this summer season 2025, the Palais de Tokyo literally opens upboth physically and symbolically. On the occasion of Disco, an exhibition by artist ... More Christopher Kulendran Thomas unveils monumental painting challenging colonial art history at Capitain PetzelBERLIN.- Capitain Petzel opened Christopher Kulendran Thomas solo exhibition. The exhibition consists of one monumental painting and three small works on glass that algorithmically metabolize the colonial art history that came to dominate in Sri Lanka after the artists family, who are Tamil, left escalating ethnic violence in the country. The big painting, which gives the exhibition its title, spans the entirety of the exhibition space. The composition is densely packed with bodies emerging from, and fading into, a dark forest. Distinctions between figure and environment and between creation and destruction are almost indistinguishable. This new painting, the artists largest to date, raises questions that are particularly urgent in the aftermath of conflict and erasure: ... More Phoenix Art Museum explores the role of comedy throughout photography's historyPHOENIX, AZ.- This summer, Phoenix Art Museum explores the use of comedy throughout the history of photography in Funny Business: Photography and Humor. Drawn primarily from the collection of the Center for Creative Photography (CCP) at the University of Arizona in Tucson, the exhibition presents 70 photographs that showcase the mechanics of photographic humor, while examining the reasons for which artists throughout time have employed it as a strategy in their work. Funny Business: Photography and Humor is on view at the Museum from June 14, 2025, through January 4, 2026. Spanning nearly the entire history of the medium, Funny Business offers a compelling view into the ways artists have utilized visual humor not only to provoke laughter and delight, but also as a means of resistance, an antidote to the heaviness of the world, and a way to interrogate and subvert ... More New exhibition at the Lyman Allyn explores the early U.S.-China tradeNEW LONDON, CONN.- Lyman Allyn Art Museum announces the opening of China from China: Porcelain and Stories of Early American Trade, on view from Jun. 14 through Sept. 14, 2025. This exhibition explores the early U.S.-China trade, with a focus on Connecticut merchants and sailors who participated in this transpacific exchange, helping to shape American identity, industry, and global presence. With over a hundred examples of fine and decorative arts, China from China reveals how cultural and economic trade between China and the United States helped to shape a young nation and set the stage for a geopolitical relationship that endures today. The exhibition is a collaboration between the Lyman Allyn and the Dietrich American Foundation, showcasing the Dietrich collection of Chinese export porcelain and paintings, a portion of which was exhibited at the Chinese ... More The George Economou Collection presents Charline von Heyl: The Giddy Road to RuinATHENS.- The George Economou Collection announced The Giddy Road to Ruin, the first survey exhibition by German-American artist Charline von Heyl (b. 1960) in Greece. Across three floors of gallery space, The Giddy Road to Ruin will feature select works from the last several decades. The earliest is an outstanding painting from the George Economou Collectionan emblematic example of the artists practiceUntitled (11/93, I) (1993), while the most recent is her first-ever photographic work, Athens, made in 2024. The title of the exhibition, The Giddy Road to Ruin, derives from her 2015 painting of the same name and may be interpreted as a reflection of her thinking as well as the nature of painting itself. Displayed at the exhibitions beginning and considered within the context of Greeces ancient and modern landscape, the painting takes on greater significance, especially ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, painter Paul Georges was born June 15, 1923. Paul Georges (June 15, 1923 - April 16, 2002) was an American painter. He died at his home at Isigny-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, aged 77. He painted large-scale figurative allegories and numerous self-portraits. In January 1966, the cover of Art News featured "In The Studio" now in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Works were included in Whitney Museum Annuals of 1961, 1963, 1967 & 1969. In this image: Muse Comes to Consult, 72 x 120 w, 1983.
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