Chris Rose, Eiders on the foreshore, 2024, oil on linen.
WAUSAU, WI.-The Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of Birds in Art this fall. Since 1976, Birds in Art has presented original paintings, sculptures, and graphics created by artists from around the world, celebrating avian marvels through fresh artistic interpretations. When the daughters of Leigh Yawkey Woodson–Nancy Woodson Spire, Alice Woodson Forester, and Margaret Woodson Fisher – and their families envisioned an art museum in honor of their mother and as a gift to Wausau and north central Wisconsin, none of them could have predicted what ensued. That Alice Woodson Forester and her husband John E. Forester would call upon their friend, artist, ornithologist, and environmentalist Owen Gromme, to lend a hand in developing the Woodson Art Museum’s inaugural exhibition was not only serendipity, but also fortunately auspicious. That ... More
Artemisia Gentileschi, Susanna and the Elders (1644–48). Oil on canvas, 200 × 150 cm.
NIVÅ.- The Nivaagaard Collection has acquired the painting Susanna and the Elders (1644–48) by the eminent female Italian Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi. The work is the most important addition made to the collection since 1908; a collection which also includes a masterpiece by another of art history’s major female pioneers, the sixteenth-century artist Sofonisba Anguissola. The Nivaagaard Collection has, as the first museum in Denmark, acquired a major work by a truly outstanding woman artist of the seventeenth century: the Italian Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi (1593 – c. 1656). Created by Artemisia Gentileschi between 1644 and 1648, the newly acquired painting depicts the story of Susanna and the Elders, a central ... More
BOULDER, COLO.- A striking example of Guerrero’s Mezcala culture is set to take center stage at Artemis Fine Arts’ upcoming auction in Louisville, Colorado. Beginning September 18, 2025, at 8:00 AM (GMT-6), collectors will have the opportunity to bid on a Mezcala stone temple model with central figure, a masterwork of Pre-Columbian abstraction and ritual symbolism. Dating from ca. 500 BCE to 100 BCE, this temple model embodies the distilled geometry and powerful minimalism that define the Mezcala tradition. Fashioned from grey stone, the rectangular facade features a stepped roofline and a recessed niche containing a stylized figure. With its simplified head and body, the figure is both human and architectural, merging the sacred pre ... More
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), Photograph and signature. Estimate $700-$900.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Turner Auctions + Appraisals will present the Edwin W. Sims Collection of Political Ephemera, plus offerings of books, maps, historic collectibles, and much more on Saturday, September 13, 2025, at 10:30 am PDT. The sale showcases the collected archives of late Chicago lawyer and politician Edwin W. Sims (1870-1948), plus his family. Among the Sims family offerings are letters signed by Theodore Roosevelt and the Gemini IV astronauts, campaign and other buttons and pins from the 1910s-1970s, and Republican Convention ephemera from the early 1900s. In addition, this eclectic and diverse auction features John Lennon drawings; maps and medals of Europe; maps, real estate tracts, and related ephemera ... More
Jacob Littlejohn, Hinkypunk, 2025. Oil on canvas, 98¾ × 78¾ in. (250.8 × 200 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- What the Thunder Said presents a new body of work that extends Jacob Littlejohn’s investigations into how painting might re-enchant our relationship with the natural world. Inspired by visionary poetry; accounts of apparitions from Scottish and Celtic folklore; and walks in the wilderness, the artist approaches his compositions through a dance of addition and subtraction. Scraping, incising, pouring, and brushing, among other techniques, Littlejohn composes abstractions that offer contact, if momentarily, with phenomena irreducible to scientific explanation. To transform the surfaces of his large works, Littlejohn applies and then partially removes layers of paint using palette knives or by blotting with pieces of newsprint. In Fool’s Gold (2025), rhythmically distributed passages of excavated paint float over an implied horizon, revealing the canvas underneath. The swirling incisions that slash through Lava Skylight in Kamokuna (2025) call to mind what it might ... More
Carina Yepez. Made in collaboration with Maricela Herrera (auntie) and Lula Yepez (mom) and in gratitude to Amalia Martínez from La Haciendita, Guanajuato, Mexico. Mujeres (Women), 2023. Collection of the artist.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago announces On Loss and Absence: Textiles of Mourning and Survival on view September 6, 2025 through March 15, 2026. Drawn primarily from the Art Institute of Chicago’s collection, On Loss and Absence brings together more than 100 objects from diverse cultures dating from antiquity to today to reveal the ways people use textiles to sustain spiritual beliefs, understand death, cope with grief, remember those who have passed, and heal from trauma, both personally and collectively. Four themes structure the presentation. “Death and Mourning” highlights how textiles help people negotiate experiences of loss and grief and includes funeral hangings, burial cloths, and mourning samplers, along with works by contemporary artists. “Transition of Realms” expresses spiritual beliefs about life, death, and other cosmologies that are woven ... More
SAINT-GILLES.- La Patinoire Royale Bach is presenting La Fin du Monde, the first exhibition by Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar at the gallery. The renowned contemporary artist is known for his powerful architectural and conceptual works that probe pressing current social issues, human rights, and the ethics of representation. La Fin du Monde focuses on extractive industries and the global supply chains of critical minerals — the natural resources required for the tools and technologies essential to our daily life, from our phones to computers to electric cars. The exhibition centers on a single work The End of the World (2023-2024) composed of ten of the most precious minerals in the world: cobalt, rare earths, copper, tin, nickel, lithium, manganese, coltan, germanium, and platinum. “The end of the world is a provocation, but it is also a reflection of the sorry state of our planet, of the ecology of the planet,” Jaar said. ... More
SYDNEY.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia opened Primavera 2025: Young Australian Artists. Now in its 34th year, Primavera continues to be a vital platform for showcasing the work of Australian artists aged 35 and under. Primavera 2025, curated by the MCA’s Tim Riley Walsh, brings together five early-career Australian artists whose work reimagines the language of production through a sculptural lens. The exhibition tells powerful stories of labour, technology, and transformation. Collectively these artists consider what it means to make art in a digital and post-industrial era. The exhibition features ambitious new and recent works by Francis Carmody (VIC/NSW), Alexandra Peters (VIC), Augusta Vinall Richardson (VIC), Keemon Williams (QLD) and Emmaline Zanelli (SA). From boomerangs to birdcages, bronze to corten steel, video to enamel paint, the five Primavera artists for 2025 work in diverse mediums. Their works open up new ways of thinking about the contested ... More
BRUSSELS.- Architecture and sculpture are distinct disciplines, yet they have much in common. Architects thrive on art, while for artists, the built world can be a domain for research, allowing them to incorporate elements into a creative process. The work of Portuguese artist Fernanda Fragateiro positions itself within this creative field. Through publications, she developed a fascination with the work of Belgian architect Marie-José Van Hee (°1950). The title of her exhibition at Irene Laub Gallery: She Always Starts by Planting a Tree is based on a text written by Florian Heilmeyer, published in 2023. Van Hee does not opt to suggest visual spectacle or movement; she seeks tranquility and restraint. With her attention to detail, use of color, and especially her intense search for the correct proportions of the interior spaces. There is a strong affinity between Fragateiro’s work and Van Hee’s practice. Both are looking for the intimate scale of human experience. ... More
Nina Chanel Aney, Make it Enough, 2025. Ink on paper. Unframed : 159.1 × 116.8 cm | 62 5/8 × 46 5/8 inches. Framed : 167.6 × 127 cm | 66 × 50 inches.
PARIS.- Perrotin Paris is presenting Now What? Or What Else?, the debut solo exhibition in Paris by acclaimed American artist Nina Chanel Abney. Shaped by the emotional aftermath of sustained crisis, this new body of work speaks to what it feels like to live in a world where collapse is ongoing, not exceptional. The exhibition reflects not only ecological disaster, but the broader psychic toll of political dysfunction, cultural absurdity, and social fatigue. The environmental imagery functions less as documentation and more as metaphor. In the shadow of authoritarian resurgence, climate denial, and the normalization of chaos, the show quietly asks: how do we keep going? Abney’s practice has long blurred the lines between humor and horror, figuration and abstraction, public spectacle and private psychology. In this new series, her bold, graphic compositions depict a surreal kind of everyday life: couples ... More
Delano Dunn, Get Your Money, Let’s Get Rich, And We'll Kick It, 2021. Paper, glitter, tape, copper, aluminum, shoe polish, cellophane, spray paint, rhinestones, stones, and resin on board, 30 x 20 in. 76.2 x 50.8 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Friedrichs Pontone is presenting Places & Spaces, a group exhibition curated by Emann Odufu. Featuring works by Sarah-Mecca Abdourahman, William Buchina, Nancy Baker Cahill, Edgar Cano, William Corwin, Delano Dunn, Simon Fernandes, Ivan Forde, Tomokazu Matsuyama, Suchitra Mattai, Maliyamungu Muhande, Chelsea Odufu, Dennis Osadebe, Umar Rashid, Laurie Simmons, Pap Souleye, Sergio Suarez, Kiyomi Quinn Taylor, Chester Toye, and Yatreda. Places & Spaces opened on September 5, 2025, and will close on September 28, 2025. The exhibition is located at the gallery’s flagship location at 273 Church Street in New York City. Curatorial Statement by Emann Odufu: In 1974, Sun Ra famously declared “Space is the Place,” channeling cosmic philosophy and sonic mythmaking to imagine liberatory worlds beyond the confines of history. Years earlier, Guy Debord coined the term psychogeography as a framework for decoding how environments, urban ... More
In Dudley’s recent works on paper, on view is a selection from 2014 to 2023, dynamic forces are at play: planes and elements seem to overlap, intersect, and fold across each other.
COLOGNE.- Zander Galerie opened an exhibition of work by New York-based artist Don Dudley, featuring early and recent works on paper complemented by a modular wall installation. Known since the 1960s for transcending abstract painting by embracing industrial materials such as lacquer spray paint and aluminium, Dudley’s practice bridges the divide between Minimalist art movements of the American East and West Coasts. The clear-cut shapes and colours in Dudley’s oeuvre are rich in underlying complexity and continue to explore the perception of form, dimensionality, and space. Born in Los Angeles in 1930, Dudley studied at Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, where he was influenced by Abstract Expressionist painting. Through the 1960s, he worked and taught in Southern California, becoming associated with the Finish Fetish school and West Coast Modernism. Dudley taught drawing at Chouinard Art Institute and, invited by famed curator and museum director Walter Hopps, at the Pasadena Mu ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- Over the past four decades, Sonia Boyce DBE RA has cultivated a multidisciplinary practice that explores play, language and pattern, while questioning the nature of representation and authorship. For her inaugural exhibition with Hauser & Wirth, Boyce presents two new films alongside her latest wallpaper and photographic works. In the first film on view, Boyce weaves together footage captured at a silent disco, a paradoxically hushed event in which a roomful of dancers responds to music heard only through headphones. Inspired by both Roy DeCarava’s ‘Dancers, New York’ (1956) and Adrian Piper’s ‘Funk Lessons’ (1983)—groundbreaking works by artists who have centered Black culture—Boyce’s ‘Silent Disco’ (2025) revels in the dancers’ unguarded gestures, flickering emotions and ephemeral exchanges. Using montage and repetition, among other techniques, the film takes these ... More
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HMKV Hartware MedienKunstVerein presents Genossin Sonne (Comrade Sun) DORTMUND.- The exhibition Genossin Sonne (Comrade Sun) was created in 2024 at the invitation of Milo Rau, artistic director of the Vienna Festival, as a collaboration between the Kunsthalle Wien and the Vienna Festival | Free Republic of Vienna. In 2025, Genossin Sonne will now be presented in an expanded form and in twice the exhibition space at the HMKV Hartware MedienKunstVerein. Before the term “revolution” was used in the 18th century—under the influence of the Haitian and Caribbean, French and North American revolutions—to describe a “violent overthrow of the existing political or social order,” it was used in astronomy to describe the rotation of celestial bodies. The essayistic group exhibition Genossin Sonne (Comrade Sun) is dedicated to artistic works and theories that link the cosmos and in particular the sun, the energy supplier for life ... More
Bienal de Arte Paiz presents 24th edition The World Tree GUATEMALA CITY.- The Fundación Paiz para la Educación y la Cultura presents the complete list of the 46 participants and collectives, as well as the 11 venues, for the 24th edition of the Bienal de Arte Paiz, titled The World Tree [El Árbol del Mundo]. Unprecedented in scale, ambition, scope, number of artists, and venues diversity, this edition, curated by acclaimed Italian curator Eugenio Viola, Artistic Director of MAMBO (Bogotá Museum of Modern Art), marks a historic milestone. Extending over three months, the Biennial, for the first time, unites artists from all five continents, presenting works in both exhibition spaces and public areas. Since its founding in 1978, the Paiz Art Biennial has been Central America’s premier contemporary art event, ranking as the world’s sixth-oldest and Latin America’s second-oldest Biennial. Its 24th edition, The World Tree, draws ... More
Chicago artists Mayumi Lake and Bob Faust explore "borrowed scenery" in new Elmhurst Art Museum exhibition CHICAGO, IL.- This Fall, the Elmhurst Art Museum presents Shakkei: Work by Mayumi Lake and Bob Faust, the first major museum exhibition for Chicago-based artists Mayumi Lake and Bob Faust. Lake and Faust are mutually inspired by the Japanese principle of Shakkei (“borrowed scenery”), a design philosophy that incorporates organic features and architectural designs. The artists’ kaleidoscopic works use color and pattern to create immersive optical experiences, interpreting the Eastern concept broadly as a metaphor for empathy, adaptability, and the ability to hold multiple viewpoints simultaneously. The exhibition features recent large-scale artworks by Lake and Faust in separate galleries, as well as a collaborative new work combining ... More
University at Buffalo Art Galleries celebrates 25 years with Martha Jackson exhibition BUFFALO, NY.- This fall, the University at Buffalo Art Galleries presents Martha Jackson in Paris, an exhibition that brings new focus to one of the most visionary figures in postwar American art. On view from September 4, 2025 through May 17, 2026 at the UB Center for the Arts Gallery, the exhibition explores how Buffalo native and trailblazing gallerist Martha Jackson (1907–1969) reshaped the art world—not only through the artists she supported, but through the relationships she nurtured across continents. A champion of abstraction, Op Art, and installation-based practices, Jackson cultivated an international network of artists whose work defined the postwar era. Her regular travel to France, financial support of artists, and investment in her son David Anderson’s Paris-based Gallerie Anderson-Mayer made her a central connector in a Paris-New York art axis that remains ... More
Danae Mattes' new exhibition explores the language of clay and earth SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Dolby Chadwick Gallery is presenting Of Water, Dust, and Light, an exhibition of new work by Danae Mattes. Mattes’ career is a dynamic, ever-evolving relationship with water and clay. For over three decades, she has sculpted, poured, and painted with the earth in its raw form. In her studio, she weaves clay’s minerals and water into an intimate language between land and the human hand. This confluence now manifests as a mature vocabulary shaped by repeated interaction with the earth itself. Interaction ripples into evolution. What emerges is not only a visual field but a record of deep listening: to earth’s histories, to the exquisite circumstance of water circulating throughout the biosphere, and to the restless threshold between form and flux. Her process begins with clay poured directly onto the canvas to establish an elemental ground. ... More
2025 SALA Award winners announced ADELAIDE.- The curtain has closed on the 28th South Australian Living Artists (SALA) Festival with the winners of the 2025 SALA Awards revealed at The Lab (ILA) last night. The awards honoured both emerging and established practitioners, recognising their creativity and contribution to the state’s visual arts landscape. This year’s festival saw more than 11,000 artists participate across more than 700 exhibitions throughout Adelaide and regional South Australia, demonstrating the festival’s reach and enduring impact as the national’s most inclusive celebration of visual art. SALA Festival Acting CEO Bridget Alfred said “The 2025 SALA Festival has been a spectacular celebration of South Australian Artists, Audiences and community. There has been high level of participation, and the quality and expanse of work has been a joy to see. The community activations and participation ... More
New exhibition honors Bellingham broadcaster Elaine Horn BELLINGHAM, WA.- The Whatcom Museum presents Elaine Horn: Broadcasting from Bellingham, the newest exhibition from the museum’s Photo Archive. Horn (1920–1998) was a broadcasting trailblazer with a career that spanned three decades, bringing her into homes from Canada to southern Washington State. The exhibition officially opened Saturday, September 6, 2025, in Old City Hall. “It is our honor to showcase Elaine Horn’s story through more than 80 photographs that truly capture an era,” said Whatcom Museum Acting Executive Director Maria Coltharp. “Beyond her role as a dynamic TV personality, Horn was a career woman at a time when that was not a common feat, and she shared the spotlight by centering women in her work.” Horn’s career began in radio in the 1940s, but by 1962, she had moved into television. In a year when Wagon Train and Bonanza ... More
Academy Art Museum opens "More Clay: The Power of Repetition" EASTON, MD.- The Academy Art Museum announced the opening of “More Clay: The Power of Repetition,” a groundbreaking exhibition of ceramic sculpture guest curated by Rebecca Cross. On view through February 2026, the exhibition features seven acclaimed artists—Zimra Beiner, Bean Finneran, David Hicks, Walter McConnell, J.J. McCracken, Kate Roberts, and Vanessa Ryerse—whose works explore repetition, abundance, and transformation through clay. Blurring the lines between craft and fine art, these artists transcend clay’s traditional functionality to create works that are monumental in scale, ambitious in concept, and captivating in execution. Through innovative construction, repetition, and assemblage, they magnify their messages and challenge viewers to reconsider the potential of this humble, sustainable material. Originally organized in 2022 by the Katzen ... More
Kunsthalle Bern's fall exhibition explores colonial legacy in art BERN.- Kunsthalle Bern announces its fall exhibition program, which continues the examination of how coloniality continues to dictate the way we understand life and culture in the Plantationocene. For her solo exhibition Bleed at Kunsthalle Bern, Sung Tieu continues her ongoing enquiries into architectures of power embedded in institutional and bureaucratic frameworks—structures that have shaped statecraft, historiography, and the global distribution of knowledge. For her commission she centres herfocus on Switzerland’s entanglement in colonial economies, particularly through the rubber trade in Vietnam and the scientific gains extracted from colonised territories, which contributed to the advancement of Western medicine and industry. Tieu brings to the fore the life story of Swiss-born physician and bacteriologist Alexandre Yersin. Working in Vietnam in the 1890s, ... More
Visual Artists Ireland presents online conference "New Institutional Approaches to Curating" DUBLIN .- Visual Artists Ireland announces its inaugural curatorial programme, New Institutional Approaches to Curating—a one-day online gathering examining the shifting relationships between artists, institutions, curators, and audiences. In response to political, ecological, and technological uncertainty, institutions are reconsidering their responsibilities to collections, publics, and histories. This closed-door convening brings together five curators from leading European contexts to reflect on commissioning, mediation, and the conditions sustaining artistic production. • 10am: John Kenneth Paranada, Curator of Art and Climate Change, Sainsbury Centre, University of East Anglia • 11am: Linsey Young, Curator of Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970–1990 • 12pm: Jon Uriarte, Curator of POV, Tabakalera, International Center of Contemporary Culture, ... More
SMAC San Marco Art Centre announces The Quantum Effect VENICE.- SMAC, the pioneering new arts venue in the heart of Venice, which opened earlier this year announced that the second exhibition, The Quantum Effect, co-curated by Daniel Birnbaum & Jacqui Davies, opened to the public on 5 September 2025. SMAC’s exhibition programme is realised in collaboration with world-class institutions and curators, and this exhibition is produced by SMAC and OGR Torino, a culture and innovation hub in a vast former railway repair building. The Quantum Effect explores spatial and temporal paradoxes introduced by quantum theory: parallel universes, time travel, teleportation, supersymmetry and dark matter. The exhibition includes works by some of today’s most prominent artists woven into a cinematic narrative using imagery from contemporary science and from the worlds of science fiction and pop culture. Birnbaum and Davies ... More
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On a day like today, French artist, sculptor André Derain died
September 08, 1954. André Derain (10 June 1880 - 8 September 1954) was a French artist, painter, sculptor and co-founder of Fauvism with Henri Matisse. In this image: A Christie's employee poses with a 1905 painting 'Bateaux a Collioure' by Andre Derain on display at the auction house in London, Friday, Feb. 4, 2011. The painting, last seen in public in 1965, was auctioned at an Impressionist and Modern Art sale on Feb. 9 with an estimated price of 4 to 6 million pounds ($6.5 to 9.7 million or 4.7 to 7 million euro).
