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Chris Friday. "The only thing deviled round here is eggs," 2025. Hand-built, kiln-fired ceramic, glaze, solid gold luster, 24 pieces. Courtesy of the artist.
SARASOTA, FLA.- In an ever-changing social landscape, artist Chris Friday finds rest and freedom in her childhood memories filled with quietude, joy and love. These memories overwhelmingly potent and deeply rooted inspire her first solo museum exhibition, Where We Never Grow Old, on view May 4-Aug. 10 at Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College of Art and Design. Fridays multi-disciplinary practice explores memory and nostalgia, revealing their power to preserve community and identity and provide a temporary escape from modern injustices. While breathtaking in its exquisite realism, Chris Fridays art transcends mere representation. With her distinct visual language that evokes awe and serene reflection, she shares intimate stories passed down through generations. Her stunning and moving work invites us to listen, understand and recognize ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Nohra Haime Gallery presents, Ana Mosseri: The Persistence of Blossom In Cerezos en Flor: iPad Drawings, Colombian artist Ana Mosseri (b. 1969) invites us into a space that transcends the geographic and aesthetic boundaries of her national context.
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| The National Gallery acquires large 16th-century mystery altarpiece not exhibited in public for over sixty years | | Merci! John Giorno: Paris salutes the poet-provocateur 10 years after "I ♥ John Giorno" | | Highlights at Firsts London 2025: Books in Bloom at the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea, London from 15 to 18 May 2025 |
Unknown Netherlandish or French artist, 'The Virgin and Child with Saints Louis and Margaret', about 1510.
LONDON.- This picture is the latest acquisition of the Gallery, which is celebrating its 200th anniversary during 2024‒25. It will go on display from 10 May as part of C C Land: The Wonder of Art, the Galleryâs biggest and most ambitious rehang of its collection displays and the opening of the newly transformed Sainsbury Wing. 'The Virgin and Child with Saints Louis and Margaret' served as an altarpiece, perhaps for the urban priory of Drongen (Tronchiennes) in Ghent in modern Belgium, where it was first documented in 1602. Enthroned in the middle of an open-air chapel, the Virgin and Child are flanked by two music-making angels, the holy king of France Saint Louis, and Saint Margaret. Sumptuously dressed, she rises unharmed from the broken shell of the dragon that swallowed her. Of the two angels, one plays a mouth harp while the other holds a song book, inscribed with an identifiable Marian hymn, Ave Regina Caelorum, Mater regis angelorum. (Hail, Queen of Heaven, Hail, Lady of Angels.) ... More | |
John Giorno, DIAL-A-POEM (Push-Button Edition), 1986-2019. Edition 10 of 20. Telephone, computer with 282 recorded poems from 132 poets and artists, 5 x 11 x 10 3/4 in. Courtesy of Giorno Poetry System and Almine Rech. Photo: Ana Drittanti.
PARIS.- Almine Rech Paris and Giorno Poetry Systems announce 'Merci! John Giorno,' on view from April 26 to June 7, 2025, a group show celebrating the work of John Giorno (1936 - 2019) and the ten-year anniversary of the Palais de Tokyo's landmark 2015 exhibition 'Ugo Rondinone: I ♥︎ John Giorno.' To celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the Palais de Tokyo exhibition 'Ugo Rondinone: I ♥︎ John Giorno,' Almine Rech and Giorno Poetry Systems present an exhibition of works by, for, and inspired by John Giorno (1936 - 2019) in two galleries in Paris, as well as a range of collaborations in museums in the city and the region throughout 2025. A portion of the funds from the sale of artworks will benefit Giorno Poetry Systems, the New York-based nonprofit organization Giorno founded in 1965 and that still operates today. The two-part ... More | |
Firsts London 2025 will transform the Saatchi Gallery into a hothouse of botanical beauty.
LONDON.- Books in Bloom is this year's theme for Firsts London, the UK's leading international rare book fair at the Saatchi Gallery in London's Chelsea from 15 to 18 May 2025 with over 100 dealers from around the world bringing a wide range of rare books, manuscripts, maps and prints. With just a few days before the iconic Chelsea Flower Show starts around the corner, the rare book fair celebrates all things horticultural and will display a showcase of floral and botanical examples from print history, from early herbals to contemporary art books. Two of the top highlights among the botanical works are Basilius Besler's masterpiece, a first edition of The Hortus Eystettensis, the first great florilegium, printed in an edition of only 300 copies in 1613. Complete examples are rare, with only five copies appearing at auction over the last 40 years and Shapero Rare Books has one with a price tag of £300,000. The ... More |
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| In memoriam: Dara Birnbaum, visionary who transformed TV footage into radical art | | New exhibition celebrates three generations of street photographers | | "Floating World" immersive environments at the MFAH will fuse the forces of technology and nature |
Portrait of Dara Birnbaum at Fondazione Prada. Photo: Francesca DâAmico.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marian Goodman Gallery announced the passing of Dara Birnbaum (1946â2025), a trailblazing figure in video and media art. Her groundbreaking practice has had a profound influence on contemporary art and visual culture. Over the past five decades, Birnbaumâs work critically examined the ideological and aesthetic constructs of mass media, challenging historical memory, public address, and the transmutability of images. Her seminal works, including Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman (1978â1979), Kiss the Girls: Make Them Cry (1979), Transmission Tower: Sentinel (1992), Arabesque (2011) and Journey: Shadow of the American Dream (2022) are widely recognized as foundational to the history of media art and have been exhibited internationally at institutions such as the Fondazione Prada Osservatorio, Milan (2023); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2023; also 2008), Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-On-Hudson, New York (2022); Miller Institute of Contemporary Art, Pittsburgh (2022), MoMA PS1, N ... More | |
Joseph Rodriguez, Pulaski Skyway, New Jersey 1984, Gelatinesilberpapier, Abzug 1988, 25,2 x 37,2 cm © Joseph Rodriguez, Courtesy Galerie Bene Taschen. Repro: Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln.
COLOGNE.- The street life of cities has always been a fascinating subject for photographers, who have approached it in a variety of ways, from candid images documenting urban unrest to portraits that shine a spotlight on individuals. Since the nineteenth century, cities and photography have been directly linked through the idea of modernity. With the introduction of compact cameras such as the Leica, street photography developed into its own genre in the mid-twentieth century. Small-format cameras gave photographers greater flexibility and enabled them to respond quickly while remaining discrete. They explored public space without obtruding and, in contrast to staged photography, captured candid and spontaneous moments that had previously been considered unworthy photographic subjects. Influenced by Henri Cartier-Bressons concept of the decisive moment, these photographers sought to capture the fleeting instant when light, composition, and subject aligned ... More | |
A.A.Murakami, Under a Flowing Field, commissioned by and exhibited at Hyundai Motor Studio, Busan, South Korea, 2023, interactive installation. © A.A.Murakami. Image courtesy of the artist.
HOUSTON, TX.- A series of four sensory landscapes will unfold across the galleries of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, immersing visitors in environments of light, fog, plasma and sound. Opening May 4 and running through September 21, Floating World: A.A.Murakami, a project by the acclaimed Tokyo- and London-based artist duo A.A.Murakami, melds science, art and nature to create unique environments. This is the first exhibition in a U. S. museum of the work of these remarkable artists, noted Gary Tinterow, director and Margaret Alkek Williams chair of the MFAH. The term that A.A.Murakami has used to characterize their work -- Ephemeral Tech -- aptly captures the uncanny nature of these mesmerizing environments, which rely on the latest innovations in artifice and science to evoke the timeless, fleeting moments of natures forces. Said Bradley Bailey, Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao curator of Asian art at the MFAH, These ethereal installations of light and ... More |
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| Hinako Miyabayashi explores materiality and metaphor in first German solo show | | Marco A. Castillo maps Cuba's modernist legacy in NYC debut | | MoMA debuts North America's first full-scale retrospective of revolutionary filmmaker Sarah Maldoror |
Hinako Miyabayashi, Bookmark Face, 2024, origami, oil, charcoal on wood, 33.3 x 24 x 2 cm, photo: Roman März.
BERLIN.- Galerie Guido W. Baudach is presenting its first solo exhibition of works by Hinako Miyabayashi for this years Gallery Weekend Berlin. Under the title wood, oil and spiral, the Tokyo-based artist is showing new paintings in a wide variety of formats. Hinako Miyabayashi paints with colors and other materials on various substrates. But what forms does she create in doing so? And where on the respective surface does she paint the colors? How does she apply them? Thickly, thinly, in clusters or scattered like by a firework? Many small decisions lead to an art work that adresses a multitude of thoughts and feelings. Hinako Miyabayashi paints her pictures in such a way that all the colors used remain clearly recognizable. Through her gift of taking the painting materials seriously, she draws us to her picture and lends us invisible hare ears, with which we can hear the colors. Although this metamorphosis remains a fantasy, as such it fulfills the purpose of illustrating ... More | |
Marco A. Castillo, Lam Palo 3, 2025. Wood sculpture (mahogany), mesh and rubber, 205,7 x 134,7 x 37 cm. 81 x 53 x 14.6 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Nara Roesler New York is presenting From the Circle to the Star, the first solo exhibition in New York by Marco A. Castillo (Havana, Cuba, 1971), marking a significant moment in the artists career and introducing American audiences to his artistic practice, which reflects on the subtle connections between and the collective tensions of their expressions, politics and design, function and form, history, art, and decoration. Castillo carries out extensive research in the fields of architecture, design, and sculpturefundamental aspects of his artistic practicewhich is characterized by installations, drawings, and sculptures that engage with space and negotiate, with notable humor, the functional and the non-functional. In his works, Castillo reflects on Cubas modernization process during the 1960s and 1970s, referencing influential Cuban artists, architects, and designers. His most recent sculptures and works on paper combine elements ... More | |
Louis Aragon: Un masque à Paris (Louis Aragon: A Mask in Paris). 1980. Directed by Sarah Maldoror. Courtesy Association of Friends of Sarah Maldoror and Mário de Andrade.
NEW YORK, NY.- MoMA presents a full-scale retrospective of Sarah Maldoror (19292020), the first of its kind in North America, celebrating the pioneering French filmmaker whose work gave voice to the anti-colonial independence movements of Angola and Guinea-Bisseau; who observed the rich cultural traditions of carnival, music, and poetry in Martinique, Haiti, Guyana, and Cape Verde, as well as the experiences of African immigrants in France; and whose friendships with influential authors and political thinkers like Jean Genet, Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor, and Marguerite Duras situated her at the heart of French avant-garde theater and the Négritude movement and led to remarkably vital film collaborations. The exhibition premieres eight new restorations, including her debut short Monangambééé (1968) and her groundbreaking Sambizanga (1972), likely the first feature to have been directed by a woman in sub- ... More |
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| "Con lo zucchero in bocca" unveils the bittersweet truth behind sweetness and extraction | | Lisa Milroy's ultramarine universe unfolds at Kate MacGarry | | Derek Eller Gallery unveils Santa Monica pop-up with Jameson Green's West Coast debut |
Binta Diaw, Nero Sangue, (2020/2025). Group exhibition Con lo zucchero in bocca, Istituto Svizzero, Roma, 2025. Vitrified tomatoes, acrylic paint, transfer of xerox ink on cotton, variable dimensions.
ROME.- The group exhibition Con lo zucchero in bocca explores the relationship between resource extraction and sweetness. The project is inspired by the villa that now houses the Istituto Svizzero in Rome, once owned by Carolina Maraini-Sommaruga and Emilio Maraini, a Ticinese pioneer in the beet sugar industry in Italy. Taking sugar and the history of its production as a starting point, the exhibition addresses the imagery associated with the exploitation of resources, exposing how notions of sweetness, romance and desire often contribute to softening narratives of domestication and conquest. The exhibition presents both new and existing works by artists working with sculpture, painting, installation and film. Through historical accounts, autobiography or fiction, the protagonists of these ... More | |
Installation view.
LONDON.- Kate MacGarry is presenting Lisa Milroys second solo exhibition at the gallery. Milroys appreciation of blue stems from her birthplace and the distinctive coastal landscape of Vancouver where the mountains, sky and ocean embody three registers of the colour - as a solid, liquid and a manifestation of light and space. Ultramarine blue is a key colour in Milroys studio practice, the basis of all her greys and shadows, and used in every single painting she has made since the 1980s. The paintings in the exhibition share the colour blue as a unifying feature and were all made in her new studio at Lydd-on-Sea, UK. Milroy has long been interested in the human relation to objects and, through depicting them, explores questions of representation and the nature of looking at and making paintings. In the 1990s, Milroys first landscapes skies and waterfalls were a means to explore aspects of time and duration in painting, and how landscape, ... More | |
Jameson Green, Aut Viam Inveniam Aut Faciam, 2025, oil on linen, 77 x 80 inches.
SANTA MONICA, CA.- Derek Eller Gallery announce their temporary exhibition space in Santa Monica, CA, which will open on Sunday, May 4th with new paintings by Jameson Green. This will be Green's first solo show on the West Coast. Entitled Aut Viam Inveniam Aut Faciam which translates as I will either find a way or make one, Greens exhibition explores the tragedy and promise inherent to the human condition in a visual vernacular informed by comics, caricatures, outsider art, and the western canon. Greens expressionistic figurative compositions are ambiguous allegories which touch on issues of sacrifice, perseverance, the power of speech, and corruption. Without being didactic, the narratives present familiar scenarios with the possibility for open-ended interpretations. The theme of resilience in the face of adversity runs through several works in the show, as ... More |
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Laurel Gitlen opens Domestic (1): A Shaggy DogNEW YORK, NY.- This exhibition is the first in a series of shows in a domestic space in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Domestic (1): A Shaggy Dog is a large group show of mostly small and very small works, arranged on shelves alongside books and objects. The installation will take the form of a private conversation between things, between myself and a dear friend and collaborator*, between artists, and with the viewer who will be seeing works in an intimate landscape of sorts, within a private space, and with someone's personal effects. The exhibition has taken shape (as most things do these days) across text chains about what's for dinner, art, books, cocktails, politics and interior design. There have been messages/images sent over Instagram, shared Dropboxes, Google docs, video meetings and some excellent sandwiches. This intimacy, and some ... More Bennington Museum unveils Vermont girls' samplers exhibit spanning two centuriesBENNINGTON, VT.- Bennington Museum opened an exhibit of Vermont girls' samplers from the 18th and 19th century. Through twenty-four unique pieces, this exhibit explores how the ideals displayed in girls embroidery 200 years ago shaped the America we know today, how education couched in detailed needlework could ultimately provide a path to independence, and how teenagers will still be teenagers across the centuries. Vermont became the 14th state in 1791, a time when the success of the American experiment (an idea articulated by George Washington in his inaugural address in 1789) was in no way guaranteed. Education was understood to be the foundation of a flourishing democracy, but the role of women and their education was hotly debated, because at this time women lacked the right to vote. A girls' education was often interwoven with domestic skill-craft such ... More Lyman Allyn presents word-based paintings by John Boone NEW LONDON, CONN.- Lyman Allyn Art Museum announces the opening of John BooneWHATSWHAT. Attuned to idioms and their layers of meaning, Boone (American, born 1951) explores the complexity of language in his word-based paintings. At once playful and serious, he engages the viewer with segments of familiar phrases, initiating a conversation and inviting the viewer to imagine what comes next. This exhibition is on view May 3 through August 10, 2025. WHATSWHAT features a selection of more than 50 of Boones mature paintings from 1994 to the present, with several groupings that explore a key word with a rich range of associations. Time - Pieces is one such series, while Hands is another, each comprised of canvases at the same scale that pivot around these words, including Its out of my hands and On one hand
. By isolating and connecting certain ... More Edinburgh photographer's new exhibition focuses on traditional bathing in JapanEDINBURGH.- Scottish fine art photographer Soo Burnell has turned her focus to Japanese culture for a new exhibition, building on her acclaimed poolside collections which included historic Scottish swimming pools. At the Onsen, A Journey Into Stillness, takes place at Edinburghs Saorsa Gallery from 3-11 May, and is an opportunity to see 40 new pieces by an artist who is highly praised for her striking images (Stephanie Wade, Editor, IGNANT). Soo has long had a fascination with the atmosphere and beauty of the places we create for bathing as well as the rituals and traditions they embody. Her photography has a sense of mystery, drawing viewers into mesmerising parallel worlds. Soo said: Ive been desperate to visit Japan for as long as I can remember. Ive been fascinated by Japanese culture and the beautiful architecture, shrines and gardens. After shooting so many ... More Lenbachhaus presents Voices Unbound: Artists in Conversation with SERAFINE1369, Jimmy Robert, Julien CreuzetMUNICH.- In cooperation with the Lenbachhaus, Magnus Elias Rosengarten curates a series of personal conversations with artists. Set in the artists studios, their exchanges address existential concerns, including questions of belonging, identity, and migration. Woven into the artists creative processes, Voices Unbound: Artists in Conversation charts an emotional approach to the works and affords public audiences more intimate insights than a conventional interview situation could. All participants share a strong focus on the human body as their medium and point of reference. The series will feature artists from France, Guadeloupe and the UK who work across disciplines (performance, film/video, drawing and painting) and are primarily active within the global ... More The Academy Museum announces Judd Apatow as guest curator of new comedy film exhibitionLOS ANGELES, CA.- The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures announced today that legendary writer, director and producer Judd Apatow would be the Academy Museums first guest curator of its newest comedy film exhibition focused on celebrating and presenting the comedy genre and filmmakers. The announcement occurred during the Academy Museums 20th Anniversary celebration and screening of Apatows hit feature directorial debut, The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), as part of an onstage conversation between Apatow, Steve Carell, Catherine Keener, Jane Lynch, Gerry Bednob, and Kat Dennings in the museums David Geffen Theater. On the evening of the event, audiences were treated to behind-the-scenes stories of the making of the film and heartfelt moments and anecdotes from Apatow, Carell, Keener, Lynch, Bednob, and Dennings on how this classic ... More Letter by Letter: Agnès Thurnauer turns language into luminous sculptures and paintingsLA CHAUX-DE-FONDS.- This monographic exhibition, which is held on the first floor and basement of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in La Chaux-de- Fonds, in a series of eight rooms covering almost 800 m2, is the first monographic exhibition in Switzerland dedicated to Agnès Thurnauer, offering an overview of her work and highlighting her major contributions to contemporary art. The display of nearly 80 works, paintings and sculptures, highlights the different aspects of Agnès Thurnauers work through a multidimensional approach, with her Prédelles taking center stage, tracing a grand poem throughout the exhibition, while at the same time engaging in an extended dialogue with her other series. A tribute to an artist who, for decades, has questioned the role of women in art, language and society, while proposing new forms of narrative and re-presentation and constantly ... More Pace Berlin debuts at Die Tankstelle with "Reverse Alchemy"BERLIN.- Pace is presenting the inaugural exhibition at its new space in Berlins Schöneberg neighborhoodmarking a major milestone for the gallerys presence in Europe. Reverse Alchemy: Dubuffet, Basquiat, Nava brings together works on paper by three artists of different generations who have transgressed and disrupted the language of figuration: Jean Dubuffet, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Robert Nava. Anchored in Dubuffets anti-cultural celebration of art brut, this exhibition focuses on the medium of paper to explore how these artists perform a reverse alchemy, transmuting the gilded surfaces of high art back into its base elementsthe raw, crude, and unhewn matter of mark-makingdismantling and exploding the figure in the act of rendering it. On view from May 2 through June 14, the exhibition inaugurates Paces new chapter in Berlin by reflecting on the outsized and profoundly ... More MoMA Design Store Soho to undergo renovation, reopening in fall 2025NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art announced today that MoMA Design Store Soho will undergo a major renovation led by architects Peterson Rich Office. The store, located at 81 Spring Street, will close to the public on May 16, 2025, and reopen to customers in Fall 2025. MoMA Design Stores midtown location at 44 West 53rd Street, stores located inside MoMA at 11 West 53rd Street, and the website store.moma.org will remain open to shop during the renovation. MoMA Design Store plays a vital role in extending the Museums mission beyond its walls connecting our audiences to the values of good design through everyday experiences, said James Gara, Chief Operating Officer, The Museum of Modern Art. This renovation strengthens that connection, creating a renewed cultural and retail destination rooted in both MoMAs legacy and Sohos creative energy. The ... More "Curiosity, Courage and Adventure" illuminates a century of women's travel photographyINGELHEIM AM RHEIN.- The Kunstforum Ingelheim has opened its doors to Curiosity, Courage and Adventure: Women Photographers on the Road, a sweeping survey of female lens-makers from Germany, Austria and Switzerland whose work spans more than a century of travel photography. On view through July 13, the exhibition brings together 21 photographers and over 180 black-and-white and color images that chronicle journeys to some thirty countries, from the 1920s to the present day. The first section of the show focuses on commissioned assignments, beginning in 1929, when professionally trained women began traveling alone under often arduous conditions to fulfill editorial requests. Their photographs document urban centers, rural landscapes and the rhythms of everyday life, portraying local labor, tradition and the uneasy coexistence of modernity and heritage. ... More Barbara Kruger launches a new installation on a Ukrainian Intercity TrainKYIV.- Launched on 1st May 2025 and commissioned by RIBBON International in collaboration with Ukrzaliznytsia (Ukrainian Railways), the ground-breaking visual artist Barbara Kruger launches a major new graphic installation on the exterior of a Ukrainian Railways Intercity train, with Kruger applying her iconic typographic intervention to its surface. Barbara Kruger says: "Thinking about the power of the everyday, of beginnings and ends, of joy and loss." Translated into Ukrainian on the trains surface, Krugers newly commissioned text - Untitled (Another Again) - is a poem of relentless rhythm and stark oppositions, echoing the mechanical constancy of the railway itself: Running from the 1st of May to 14th July and curated by Maria Isserlis, Barbara Krugers intervention on a Ukrainian Intercity train is an act of solidarity, and a recognition of both the suffering and defiant ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Frederic Edwin Church was born May 04, 1826. Frederic Edwin Church (May 4, 1826 - April 7, 1900) was an American landscape painter born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters, perhaps best known for painting large panoramic landscapes, often depicting mountains, waterfalls, and sunsets, but also sometimes depicting dramatic natural phenomena that he saw during his travels to the Arctic and Central and South America. In this image: Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900), Winter Twilight from Olana, about 1871-2. Oil on paper, 25.6 x 33 cm© New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation / Olana State Historic Site, Hudson, NY (OL.1976.4).
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