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âThe Raven Flies,â courtesy of Robert Rock Belliveau and Rita Deanin Abbey Foundation
LAS VEGAS, NEV.- âThe Raven Flies,â a large-scale historical piece by American Artist Rita Deanin Abbey, is now on display in Las Vegasâ only single-artist museum, the Rita Deanin Abbey Art Museum. Adding a distinct dimension to the museum's collection is âThe Raven Flies,â a mixed media piece created in 1975. This artwork is part of Abbeyâs Texture Series, where she experimented with building up canvases using acrylic paint, sand, and sawdust combined with polymer gloss medium to achieve rich, earthy textures. The highly textured surface of âThe Raven Fliesâ evokes geological processes and forms, with Abbeyâs careful use of color expressing the earthâs natural tension, movement, and ever-changing contours. The interplay between reflective and absorbent materials creates a dynamic visual experience, challenging the viewer's perception of light, space, and form. Abbey herself noted that embracing such âcontrapositionâ fuels innovation and the exploration of new possibilities within her art. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Anna Zorina Gallery is presenting William Schaeubleâs solo exhibition, Town & Country. Schaeubleâs paintings exist between sincerity and satire, nostalgia and absurdity. Rooted in the landscapes and rhythms of Midwestern life, his work is semi-autobiographical and surreal, blending personal memories with exaggerated fiction.
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| Sting backs Baltic with major donation to kickstart the gallery's endowment fund campaign | | Detroit Institute of Arts welcomes Sara Moy as Director of Conservation | | Gagosian exhibits ten new paintings by Rudolf Stingel in London |
Sting. Photo: Eric Ryan Anderson.
GATESHEAD.- Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead is today announcing a major donation from North East musician Sting that kickstarts the art gallerys fundraising campaign for an Endowment Fund. Having welcomed its 10 millionth visitor in April 2025, Baltic is looking to the future with an ambitious initiative to fundraise a £10 million Endowment Fund. Championing Baltic as a beacon of creativity, Wallsend-born Sting has generously donated to Baltic to launch the Endowment Fund. As the Most Visited Free Cultural Venue in the North East (VisitBritain), the annual investment income from the Fund will combat the ongoing challenge of rising costs that threaten free entry in a region where a third of children grow up in poverty. Annually, Baltic engages 183,000 children and young people through activities and programmes that enhance their confidence, skills, and wellbeing. The Endowment will safeguard this crucial activity and creative futures on Tyneside by sustaining free access to Balt ... More | |
Distinguished conservator brings global experience and expertise in contemporary art preservation.
DETROIT, MICH.- The Detroit Institute of Arts announced the appointment of Sara Moy as its new Director of Conservation. Moy brings more than two decades of broad and dynamic conservation experience across leading museums and institutions in the United States, Europe, and Asia. She officially assumed her role, May 19. As Director of Conservation, Moy will lead the museums conservation department, overseeing the care, preservation, and research of the DIAs world-class collection. She most recently served as Senior Conservator and Interim Head of Conservation and Research at M+ in Hong Kong, where she was the founding conservator in 2013 and returned in 2023 to continue her pioneering work. Specializing in modern and contemporary art, Moy focuses on preserving complex installations, evolving media, and artworks that transform over time. Her approach reflects a deep understanding of the ever-changing nature of art in the 21st century, and she ... More | |
Rudolf Stingel, Untitled (Vineyard V), 2024. Oil and enamel on canvas, 90 x 59 1/8 inches (228.6 x 150 cm) © Rudolf Stingel. Photo: Object Studies. Courtesy the artist and Gagosian.
LONDON.- Gagosian is presenting an exhibition of new paintings by Rudolf Stingel, opening at the Grosvenor Hill gallery on June 12, 2025. The works on view mark the inaugural presentation of the artists 2024 series, Vineyard Paintings. Stingel has spent his career in pursuit of exposing the mechanisms of painting, challenging its boundaries and conventions and confronting the notion of its obsolescence. In a new and enchanting body of work, he turns to the roots of abstraction and its mimetic relationship to nature. These paintings negotiate the threshold between nature and the studio and are imbued with poetic references to time, memory, and sensation. Returning to a method from earlier in his practicespraying pigment through fabric gauzeStingel produced this latest series in his studio on the Massachusetts island of Marthas Vineyard. The works, consisting of vertical canvases ... More |
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| Visionary artist Günther Uecker, 95, a central figure of Group Zero, passes away | | Christie's announces 'Madame Simone Steinitz, The Legacy of Taste' | | National Gallery of Art receives gift of modern and contemporary drawings from Lenore and Bernard Greenberg |
Portrait of Günther Uecker, Düsseldorf, 2020.
NEW YORK, NY.- Lévy Gorvy Dayan announced the passing of Günther Uecker. A visionary force in the development of postwar painting and sculpture, the artist has passed away at the age of 95. He was a central figure in Group Zero, which counted among its members Enrico Castellani, Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, and Piero Manzoni along with founders Heinz Mack and Otto Peine. For seven decades, Uecker developed white-painted reliefs comprising undulating fields of hammered nails. âMy objects are a spatial reality, a zone of light,â he explained. âI use mechanical means to overcome the subjective gesture, to objectify, to create a situation of freedom.â Through endless iteration of his sonic hammering ritual, Uecker consistently yielded poetry anew in his bristling, ethereal surfaces. Born in 1930 in Wendorf, Germany, Uecker grew up on the Wustrow peninsula, where his family operated a small farm. The landscape left an indelible impression on the artist: âThe inspiration for my work comes from natureâ ... More | |
The total pre-sale estimate of the Madame Simone Steinitz, The legacy of taste sale is 3,3 - 5,2M. © Christies Images Ltd 2025.
PARIS.- Christies presents the sale Madame Simone Steinitz, The Legacy of Taste, on the 19th of June in Paris, which will be dedicated to the role and influence still too little acknowledged - of Simone Steinitz, wife of the renowned antiquaire Bernard Steinitz, founder of the eponymous gallery. The sale offers Benjamin Steinitz, now at the head of the gallery, a precious opportunity to pay tribute to his mother, who throughout her life was much appreciated by leading art historians, collectors, and decorators, such as François-Joseph Graf, Jacques Grange, Peter Marino, Daniel Alcouffe and Juan Pablo Molyneux. Having known her for many years, sometimes decades, they valued her refinement, her eye, and her decisive role in the mis-en-scene, in the selection and dialogue between the works of art and they touchingly pay tribute to her in the auction catalogue. The 130 pieces of furniture and works of art, part of her world and ... More | |
Ed Ruscha, Study for OOF", 1962. Oil and pastel on paper, sheet: 29.85 x 27.31 cm (11 3/4 x 10 3/4 in.) National Gallery of Art, Gift of Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg 2025.16.45
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art has received a transformative gift of over 60 works of art by more than 40 artists from longstanding museum benefactors Lenore and Bernard Greenberg. The centerpiece of the gift is a selection of 53 exceptional drawings that meaningfully enhance the museums collection of modern and contemporary works on paper. One of the most significant collections of modern drawings ever acquired by the National Gallery, the gift includes superb examples by Vija Celmins, Willem de Kooning, Alberto Giacometti, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Franz Kline, Brice Marden, Bruce Nauman, Susan Rothenberg, Ed Ruscha, Shahzia Sikander, and Cy Twombly, among others. The gift also includes photographs by John Baldessari, Roni Horn, Uta Barth, and Hiroshi Sugimoto, and a 1929 wire sculpture by Alexander Calder, The Acrobatsexpanding the National ... More |
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| Nara Roesler New York presents "On Blindness": An exploration of poetic vision beyond sight | | 'Citizen Kane' Rosebud Sled, DeMille's Ten Commandments tablets are among Hollywood treasures offered at Heritage | | Now Open: Rubin Museum Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room at the Brooklyn Museum |
Carlito Carvalhosa, Untitled (P31/11), 2011. Beaten aluminum, 200 x 100 cm. 78.7 x 39.4 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Nara Roesler New York is presenting On Blindness, a group exhibition curated by Mateus Nunes, that explores the phenomenon of blindness as a poetic catalyst. The exhibitions concept arises from the intersection between literature and the biography of Jorge Luis Borges (18991986), the Argentine writer who lived the last three decades of his life in blindness. Featuring a wide range of artists from different generations and backgrounds working across various mediaincluding painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, and videothe works explore the possibilities of artistic and poetic experience beyond vision: through obscure, excessive, metaphysical, tactile, and minimal sight. On Blindness brings together historical works by artists Agnes Martin, Armando Reverón, Robert Mapplethorpe, Antonio Dias, Mira Schendel, Milton Resnick, Tomie Ohtake, BrÃgida Baltar, and Leonilson; key works by established artists including Carlito Carvalhosa, Fernanda Gomes, Paulo Monteiro, ... More | |
The "Lost" Rosebud Sled from Citizen Kane, stumbled upon by film director Joe Dante in 1984 while working on the former RKO Pictures studio lot.
DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions the largest fine art and collectibles auction house founded in the U.S. and largest collectibles auctioneer in the world will present a landmark entertainment auction event from July 15-18, 2025. Collectors and cinephiles will find invaluable pieces of entertainment history from beloved films and television shows throughout the auction series. Featured pieces served as the building blocks upon which blockbusters were built, such as the sled named Rosebud from Orson Welles masterpiece Citizen Kane, the inscribed tablets from Cecil B. DeMilles epic The Ten Commandments, Indiana Jones bullwhip from The Last Crusade, Luke Skywalkers Red Five X-wing from The Empire Strikes Back and artist Bob Peaks original key artwork for Apocalypse Now, to name a few. The four-day event will begin on Tuesday, July 15 with treasures from the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Collection. From Wednesday, July 16-Friday, July 18, the Hollywood ... More | |
Rubin Museum Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room at the Brooklyn Museum.
BROOKLYN, NY.- The Rubin Museum Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room, one of the Rubin Museums most beloved installations, opened today, June 11 in a dedicated space within the Brooklyn Museums Arts of Asia galleries, where it will be on loan for six years as part of a dynamic partnership between the two institutions. The Shrine Room is accessible with a general admission ticket to the Brooklyn Museum, which is available to all visitors at pay-what-you-can pricing. As a global museum, we are reaching more people in more places, which includes continuing to serve diverse audiences in New York City, said Jorrit Britschgi, executive director of the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art. Its fitting that the Shrine Roomdescribed by many visitors as the heart of the Rubin Museumwill be at home at the Brooklyn Museum for the next six years, where visitors from across the city and beyond can experience Himalayan art in its cultural context. The Shrine Room also deepens Brookl ... More |
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| Bennington Museum successfully reaches $2.7 million milestone for the Century Campaign | | Igual que Long Beach, duo show by Darya Diamond and Esther Gatón | | MAXXI presents Nacho Carbonell: Memory, in practice for inaugural edition of ENTRATE |
The Courtyard will be leveled and expanded so that it can better accommodate large visiting groups or performers.
BENNINGTON, VT.- Bennington Museum announced that, through the tremendous support of our community, they have successfully reached their initial fundraising goal of $2.7 million for the ambitious Century Campaign. This multifaceted capital initiative, which aims to raise a total of nearly $8 million, is set to significantly enhance the museum experience for all visitors. The funds will be utilized to transform the approach and entrance to the Museum, renovate the beloved Grandma Moses Schoolhouse into a multi-purpose meeting and creator space, and relocate administrative offices, thereby allowing for expanded galleries and storage. This achievement is a testament to the collaborative spirit and commitment of our community, reflecting our shared vision for a more inclusive and engaging cultural hub. Project 1 focuses specifically on exterior infrastructure improvements to the parking lot and courtyard that will directly improve visitor ... More | |
Esther Gatón, Igual que guantes grises, 2024. Diptych. Clay, paint, metal flakes, glitter and varnish on stained birch wood. Title comes from a verse by Leopoldo de Luis.
SANT'ARPINO.- Peripherally co-regulatory and permeable, Diamond and Gatón use extensions of their private lives as materials in their studio practice. Evoking touch, complex intimacies and blurry representations of their immediate environments, the exhibition re-contextualises intimate labour. Igual que Long Beach is developed from friendship, and brings to the scene a casual conversation on the conditions of labour, interiors, and femininity. Formally, Diamond and Gatón come from different backgrounds. Yet, their practices connect deeply, addressing varied forms of eroticism and female-identified social presence and oscillating between permeable pleasure and pleasing work. There is a gentle framing of reproductive labour, the status of sexuality and domesticity as precarious and invaluable economies that take place inside the home. Igual que Long Beach serves as a continuation of Tetillas, the first joint exhibition ... More | |
Prototype of the installation. Photo: Boudewijn Bollmann.
ROME.- Spanish designer Nacho Carbonell (Valencia, 1980) transforms the MAXXI hall into a visionary landscape dominated by a striking seven-meter-tall tree. Beneath its branches, which are woven with fishing nets, an inhabitable space emerges. This welcoming environment is filled with objects and furnishings that allow visitors to pause, observe, and imagine. Nacho Carbonell: Memory, in practice, curated by Martina Muzi, inaugurates the first edition of ENTRATE, a multi-year programme dedicated to design, launched by the Department of Architecture and Contemporary Design under the direction of Lorenza Baroncelli. At the core of Carbonells artistic practice is a recurring and intimate theme: personal memory. The designers creative process is characterised by an invisible thread that binds together the materials, gestures, and forms, drawing upon the natural landscapes of his childhood. For Carbonell, memory is not a static repository of recollections; rather, it is a dynamic instru ... More |
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Artist Anthea Hamilton: "I love the idea of the magic of image making."
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Megan Rooney dives into color and storytelling in 'Yellow Yellow Blue' at Thaddaeus Ropac LondonLONDON.- Thaddaeus Ropac London is presenting an exhibition of new paintings by Megan Rooney. In Yellow Yellow Blue, Rooney allows her mark-making to be led almost entirely by colour, as she continues her ongoing investigation into abstraction as a means of storytelling. The London exhibition follows the recent opening of the exhibition JOAN MITCHELL / MEGAN ROONEY: PAINTING FROM NATURE (2025), at Espace Louis Vuitton Beijing, which continues until 19 October 2025, as well as Rooneys first major UK solo exhibition, Echoes & Hours at Kettles Yard, Cambridge (2024). Spanning the gallerys two floors at Thaddaeus Ropac London, Yellow Yellow Blue presents a group of new works on canvas in Rooneys signature wingspan format, equivalent to the full reach of the artists outstretched arms, alongside a number of large-scale canvases which invoke the encompassing presence ... More  Maureen Gallace unveils fifth exhibition at Maureen Paley, spanning both London locationsLONDON.- Maureen Paley is presenting a new exhibition by Maureen Gallace, marking her fifth with the gallery and the first to take place across both of our London locations. Maureen Gallace is known for her paintings that draw on American landscape and still life traditions. They often depict modest domestic structures such as houses and shacks, along with their surrounding environs. Gallaces work illuminates the tension between nostalgic imagery and modern painting. Her buildings shift between being inviting and distant, at times lacking doors or windows altogether. Her landscapes may present a seemingly perfect rainbow, twin roses, or crashing waves which offer beauty and quietude, while she also questions their attainability. Despite possessing universal legibility, the work is regionally inspired. New England and her home state of Connecticut, where she resides part time, are a primary source. ... More Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne presents Jardin d'Hiver #3: DECORAMALAUSANNE.- The Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne (MCBA), is presenting DECORAMA, the third iteration of Jardin dHiveran exhibition dedicated to the contemporary art scene of the Lake Geneva regionbringing together artists whose practices use ornament and decoration as tools to question notions of taste, class, and gender. Today, ornament is recognized as a fundamental marker of our humanity and individuality. Yet its value and legitimacy have always been questioned. For a long time, it was seen either as a useless decorative addition or, conversely, as a symbol of the divine and a vehicle for knowledge. In either case, this notion is closely tied to how we think about the relationship between function and beauty. With the rise of modernism in the early 20th century, ornamentoften equated with mere decorationwas discredited by functionalist movements ... More All eyes on Belfast as annual photo festival launches city-wide visual takeoverBELFAST.- Belfast Photo Festival, the UK and Irelands largest annual photography festival, has officially launched, transforming public spaces across the city of Belfast and beyond into a living gallery with over 30 exhibitions from homegrown and international photographic talent. This years Biosphere theme transcends documentation and creativity, inviting audiences to experience new imagery, commissions, and projects that spark positive change in how we view and inhabit our shared Earth. Five major photographic commissions explore the fragility and beauty of Northern Ireland's natural heritage. Made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund, they focus on Lough Neagh, peatland, marine areas, the wider Belfast Hills, and temperate rainforests. As part of UK/Poland Season 2025, the festival is presenting Metamorfoza a compelling collaboration with renowned Polish artists ... More Sakshi Gallery unveils "The Body Politic": A group show exploring bodies, landscapes, and powerMUMBAI.- Sakshi Gallery presents The Body Politic, a group show curated by Riya Kumar. The show opens on June 12, 2025 in conjunction with Art Night Thursday and remains on view until July 19, 2025. The Body Politic explores the relationship and interactions between bodies and the landscapes that they inhabit. The show brings together seven artistic practicesBhanu Shrivastav, Kshetrimayum Gopinath Singh, Jayanta Roy, Ritesh Ajmeri, Ritika Sharma, Salik Ansari, and Siddhartha Kararwal examining how personal histories, urban infrastructures, and political systems intersect on and through the body. Salik Ansari turns attention to sites under construction, investigating urban structures that conceal human displacement. In Ansaris work, the subject is implied, encoded through absence. Kshetrimayum Gopinath Singhs paintings, devoid of explicit human references, ... More  New Contemporaries announces 75th anniversary exhibition in partnership with Christie's LondonLONDON.- New Contemporaries, the leading organisation supporting early career and emerging artists, and Christies Private Sales have partnered on a joint exhibition with Christies London, 75 Years of New Contemporaries. The selling exhibition will feature works donated by acclaimed contemporary artists, including New Contemporaries alumni, and will run from 1924 June at Christies King Street. An accompanying online exhibition will also be live on christies.com from 12 June to 14 September 2025. This charitable initiative will raise vital funds for New Contemporaries to ensure that emerging artists continue to thrive. This is the first time in the organisations history that it has galvanised support from its artists to raise essential funds in support of its ongoing mission. Artists donating work to the exhibition include: Hurvin Anderson, Sarah Ball, Fiona Banner, Basil Beattie, Michael ... More KÖNIG TELEGRAPHENAMT presents Erin Armstrong's "Trial By Fire" exhibitionBERLIN.- KÃNIG TELEGRAPHENAMT is presenting TRIAL BY FIRE, Erin Armstrongs first exhibition with the gallery. Erin Armstrong paints a familiar story. The exhibition TRIAL BY FIRE is a reflection on what it feels like to be a woman in todays worlda time that can feel regressive, disorienting, and dangerous. The work speaks to the emotional and physical vulnerability women are experiencing, as rights are stripped away and power imbalances deepen. Armstrong gestures toward larger forcessocial, political, and historicalthat often leave women feeling exposed, silenced, and unprotected. It begins with a battle cry: two men raise their instruments in a symbolic gesture of threat or control. From there, only women remain in Armstrongs world. Women hide in the forest, alert and ready, yet vulnerable. The figures are naked, exposed to both the natural elements that surround ... More Works by Frank Reaugh, G. Harvey and Fred Darge lead Heritage's Texas Art AuctionDALLAS, TX.- In 1923, when she was just 15 years old, Josephine Oliver embarked on a monthlong plein-air sketching trip to West Texas with the legendary artist Frank Reaugh and his students. These rugged trips, where students sleeping in canvas tents were expected to sketch up to four pastels a day, are the stuff of legend for collectors of early Texas art. It would be the first of eight such expeditions for the young Oliver, who left her home in Dallas to travel through the wilderness in a rattletrap Model T car nicknamed "the Cicada." Like her famed instructor, Oliver made pastels on small pieces of paper to capture the fleeting light and color of the Texas plainsa practical solution to painting on the move, and a deliberate artistic choice that favored contained, poetic impressions of the vast Texas landscape. Oliver would go on to marry Dallas-based artist Olin Travis, whom she met on her ... More IMMA announces 2025 summer programmeDUBLIN.- IMMA, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, launches Summer at IMMA 2025, a dynamic programme of free events for all ages, that includes exhibitions, performances, screenings, talks, workshops, tours and more, taking place in the beautiful surroundings of the Royal Hospital Kilmainham from June to August. The 2025 summer programme launches with a major new exhibition Sam Gilliam: Sewing Fields, presenting for the first time in Ireland a solo exhibition by Sam Gilliam (1933 2022) one of the great innovators in post-war American painting, opening on 13 June 2025. Also showing this summer is a major display from IMMAs Permanent Collection Art as Agency; a stunning exhibition of quilts by the Gees Bend Quiltmakers; and an ambitious new exhibition Staying with the Trouble showcasing the work of over 40 artists which includes a life performance event on 26 ... More The K21 Global Art Award 2025 goes to the Artist TadáskÃaDUSSELDORF.- The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, in cooperation with the Friends of the Kunstsammlung and with generous financial support from the Reydan + Roger Weiss Foundation, is presenting the K21 Global Art Award for the third time. This award is unique in its global approach and is one of the most highly endowed art prizes in Germany. The nominated artists were proposed by an international jury consisting of Doryun Chong, Koyo Kouoh, Omar Kholeif, and Jochen Volz. The 2025 nominees are Sin Wai Kin, Simon Fujiwara, Hashel Al Lamki, Celia Hempton, Sallisa Rosa, and TadáskÃa. The museum is delighted to announce that the winner of the 2025 K21 Global Art Award is the Brazilian artist TadáskÃa. The award ceremony will take place on October 9 at K21. Susanne Gaensheimer, Director of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen: I am delighted that, thanks ... More UK AIDS Memorial Quilt shown in Tate Modern's Turbine HallLONDON.- From 12 to 16 June 2025, Tate Moderns visitors will have a rare opportunity to see the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt. Begun around 1989, this vast work consists of 42 quilts and 23 individual panels which represent 384 individuals affected by HIV and AIDS. It will be laid out in a grid across the floor of the Turbine Hall, echoing how it has previously been shown outdoors to raise awareness of the ongoing AIDS pandemic. The UK AIDS Memorial Quilt is one chapter of the largest community art project in the world. It began in the USA in 1985, when American activist Cleve Jones started inviting people to create textile panels to commemorate the friends, family and loved ones they lost to AIDS. These individual panels were sewn together to create larger quilts, which were then shown outdoors as a form of protest to raise awareness about HIV and AIDS. The displays often included a reading ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Austrian painter Egon Schiele was born June 12, 1890. Egon Schiele (12 June 1890 - 31 October 1918) was an Austrian painter. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. His work is noted for its intensity and its raw sexuality, and the many self-portraits the artist produced, including naked self-portraits. In this image: Egon Schiele, Häuser mit bunter Wäsche,“Vorstadt” II, 1914. Estimate: £22-30 million/ $36-50 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
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