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Elizabeth Catlett: "A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies" opens at The Art Institute of Chicago |
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Elizabeth Catlett. Alto a la agresión, 1954. Colección Academia de Artes, México. © 2024 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago opened Elizabeth Catlett: “A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies” on view August 30, 2025 through January 4, 2026 . The exhibition is a long-overdue retrospective that brings together more than 100 works from across Elizabeth Catlett’s career, showcasing the significant role she played in her time and the influence she still has today. Catlett was a deft sculptor and printmaker, an ardent feminist, and a lifelong social activist—ultimately, making her a defining artist of the 20th century. Catlett’s powerful work as both a revolutionary artist and radical activist continues to speak directly to all those united in the fight against poverty, racism, and imperialism. She remained steadfast in her commitment to both her art and political beliefs across nearly 100 years—from Jim Crow segregation through the Cold War and into Barack Obama’s first term as president. Catlett was born in Washington, DC, and growing ... More |
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| A family affair: Museum de Fundatie unveils first-ever exhibition on the Ter Borch dynasty |
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Christie's presents THE MELLON BLUE |
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Tursic & Mille challenge painting itself in 'Lavis en Rose' at Galerie Max Hetzler |
Gerard ter Borch II and Gesina ter Borch, Memorial Portrait of Moses ter Borch, c. 1667-1669. Collection Rijksmuseum.
ZWOLLE.- At Home with Ter Borch opened at Museum de Fundatie in Zwolle on 6 September. The exhibition, staged in collaboration with the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, for the first time tells the story of the ‘workshop’ of the Ter Borchs, a family of artists from Zwolle, and the exchange of artistic inspiration between its members: father Gerard and his children Gerard the Younger, Gesina, Harmen, Anna and Moses. More than 70 works on paper and 35 paintings from Dutch, European and American museums and private collections are on display in Zwolle. The exhibition, curated by Marjorie E. Wieseman, curator and Head of the Department of Northern European Paintings at The National Gallery of Art (Washington), provides an overview of the most recent academic insights and discoveries. At Home with Ter Borch is also a collaboration between several ... More |
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THE MELLON BLUE Fancy Vivid Blue pear-shaped cut diamond of 9.51 carats Estimate: US$20,000,000-30,000,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2025.
GENEVA.- Christie's presents THE MELLON BLUE, the first jewellery highlight of the second half of 2025 to come to auction. THE MELLON BLUE, an exceptional Fancy Vivid Blue diamond, weighing 9.51 carats, graded Internally Flawless and recently set as a ring, will lead the Magnificent Jewels live auction taking place on 11 November at the Four Seasons Hotel des Bergues in Geneva. It is a rare expression of nature's brilliance and remarkable for both its intense colour and its extraordinary purity. One of the finest coloured diamonds to appear on the market (estimate $20,000,000 – 30,000,000), for decades, the stone - then set as a pendent - belonged to Rachel Lambert Mellon, better known as Bunny Mellon (1910-2014), an American horticulturalist, philanthropist, and ... More |
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PARIS.- Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris, is presenting Lavis en Rose, an exhibition by Tursic & Mille. This is the artists’ sixth exhibition with the gallery, and their first presentation in the Paris space. With an artistic partnership spanning more than two decades, painters Tursic & Mille engage in a profound reflection on painting and the notion of representation. Through an empirical pictorial practice open to all conceptual and material possibilities, and to the accidents inherent to the medium, they approach painting both as object and subject. Giving as much importance to the concept, process and materiality of painting as to the use of imagery, the artists ceaselessly reinvent their practice, developing a distinctive way of thinking through painting today. Lavis en Rose begins, through its title, with a homophony, a play on words, a misunderstanding: Lavis ‘wash’ / La vie ‘life’. Thus a cliché, a promise of happiness, is transformed into a simple technical pr ... More |
| Portland Art Museum partners with celebrated Portland art collector to present works by today's leading artists |
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Zander Galerie presents seminal early works by Lewis Baltz in new exhibition |
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After 80 years, a lost treasure of German art returns home |
Dinh Q. Lê, I am Large, I Contain Multitudes, edition AP 1/1, 2009, bicycle, steel, mirrors, wood, plastic, rubber, and metal lock. Published by the artist. Collection of the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation. © Courtesy of Elizabeth Leach Gallery and the Dinh Q. Lê Estate. Photo: Aaron Wessling.
PORTLAND, ORE.- The Portland Art Museum presents Global Icons, Local Spotlight: Contemporary Art from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer. The exhibition shares works by some of today’s leading artists drawn from the holdings of one of the world’s leading art collectors and lifelong Portland resident, Jordan D. Schnitzer. The exhibition will be on view through January 11, 2026. Highlighting recent acquisitions from the collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation, the exhibition includes more than 65 works by celebrated artists of the 20th century, such as Andy Warhol, Helen Frankenthaler, Ellsworth Kelly, and Robert Rauschenberg, in addition to contemporary luminaries such as Nick Cave, Jenny Holzer, Julie Mehretu, Wendy Red Star, and Judy Chicago. A stalwart of the local community, Schnitzer is a ... More |
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Lewis Baltz, South Wall, Mazda Motors, 2121 East Main Street Irvine, 1974 © Successors of Lewis Baltz.
COLOGNE.- Zander Galerie is presenting an exhibition of seminal early work by Lewis Baltz from the 1960s and 1970s, showcasing his landmark serial work The New Industrial Parks near Irvine, California and selected photographs from The Prototype Works. Lewis Baltz’s work describes landscapes created as epiphenomena of a post-industrial society. Born in 1945 in Newport Beach, California, he experienced the rapid development of the technology and leisure industries and the suburban expansion in the American West. His aesthetic is cleanly composed and detached. Focusing not on the particular or idiosyncratic but on generic forms of appearance, Baltz uses photography as a tool to reflect on socio-economic structures and critically expand the documentary discourse. His redefinition of landscape photography was instrumental in conceptual photography taking its place among other media in contemporary art. Baltz’s earliest body of work are The Prototype Works, which he started in 1965 while still a stu ... More |
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Wilhelm Busch, The Three Robbers (from: The Bold Miller's Daughter), 1868, Black chalk on wove paper, 14.7 x 13.8 cm, © National Museums in Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett / Antje Penz.
BERLIN.- A story of loss, perseverance, and a surprising turn of events has brought a long-lost Wilhelm Busch drawing back to its rightful place. After disappearing during the chaos of World War II, the charming and macabre drawing "The Three Robbers" has been returned to the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett (Museum of Prints and Drawings), an emotional moment for the institution and a powerful example of the ongoing work of art restitution. For 80 years, the small black chalk drawing was considered a "war loss," one of countless cultural artifacts displaced or destroyed in the final years of the war. Wilhelm Busch, the famed poet and caricaturist known for his satirical stories like "Max and Moritz," created the drawing in 1868 to illustrate his less-known but equally delightful poem, "The Bold Miller's Daughter." It depicts three shadowy figures—wild and silent—creeping around a house, a scene that now, through a twist of fate, reflects ... More |
| Hauser & Wirth opens an exhibition of works by Ambera Wellmann |
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Florian Krewer's new exhibition explores the emotional depths of modern life |
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Eija-Liisa Ahtila's new exhibition puts the spotlight on the rhythms of nature |
Ambera Wellmann, People Loved and Unloved 2025. Oil on linen; diptych, 213.4 x 365.8 cm / 84 x 144 in © Ambera Wellmann. Courtesy the artist, Company Gallery and Hauser & Wirth Photo: Sarah Muehlbauer.
NEW YORK, NY.- The mood here and now is apocalyptic, nuclear heat, climate cataclysm, the end. Death appears to be thrashing towards us, as opposed to us moving calmly and expectedly towards her, following in the footsteps of everything that’s ever been alive. This sense of doom thickens time and its passage, sometimes it runs slippery, others it curdles, acting viscous and unpredictable—as Lenin put it, “there are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen,” our era is chock-full of the latter. Through that strange intermittence of crisis, images—no matter their provenance, whether art historical or social media rot—find a way of staying with us, metabolizing within us, individuating and transducing only to one day splatter back to the very center of our mind’s eye: at once, three different things will clearly become one—past, present and future coalescing into a single visual ... More |
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Florian Krewer, “Untitled”, 2025. Oil on linen, 18 x 15 inches. 45.5 x 38 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Michael Werner Gallery, New York is presenting cold tears released, an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by German-born, New York-based painter Florian Krewer. Psychologists, philosophers, scientists, and artists have long explored and analyzed the connection between dreams and the creative process. Both dreamers and artists utilize symbols or archetypes to access underlying, universal feelings and desires. In Krewer’s new paintings, animals often embody emotions or events that are too powerful or painful to depict directly. The artist’s paintings are his salve to the cruelty of man in modern society, which he views as manifested in humanitarian issues like poverty, climate change, and oppression. To Krewer, man is more isolated and displaced than ever, and his paintings depict the injustices, as well as the joy and glimmers of hope, that he sees in the modern world. Florian Krewer (born in Gerolstein, Germany in 1986) has exhibited around the world. Recent solo ... More |
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Eija-Liisa Ahtila, On Breathing. Single channel installation. Image 4K UHD. Audio 2.0. 9 min. 45 sec. Looped. Crystal Eye 2024.
PARIS.- Marian Goodman Gallery Paris is presenting a new exhibition by Eija-Liisa Ahtila, which features the French premiere of two new large-scale video installations, On Breathing and APRIL ≈ 61°01' 24°27', 2024. A master of cinematic installations, Ahtila challenges the idea of moving image perspective and constructs an experience of several co-existing temporalities and spaces for the viewers. A continuation of her research over the last decade, the works in the exhibition each explore in their own way forms of ecological narrative and their modes of presentation. Since abandoning a more anthropocentric viewpoint, Ahtila has been seeking to make visible the non-human world, with a focus on trees in particular. While On Breathing depicts the subtle intertwinement of tree branches with the morning mist, APRIL captures the silent passage of one season to the next through spatial movements among the trees and the attentive observation of a forest ... More |
| Mingei exhibition recreates mid-century California design from a historic 1950s showroom |
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Paula Cooper Gallery debuts Sophie Calle's expanded work, On the Hunt |
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Thomas Rehbein Galerie exhibits works by Herbert Warmuth |
Digital scan of Design Center advertisement published in Magazine San Diego, Dec. 1950. Photographer unknown. San Diego Public Library, California Collection.
SAN DIEGO, CA.- Mingei’s exhibition, Inside the Design Center brings to life a vignette of mid-twentieth century interior, lighting, and furniture design, featuring pieces by significant California designers, manufacturers, and craftspeople as selected by Ilse Ruocco for her 1950 showroom. For Mingei’s Art of the People podcast and blog, guest Curators Dave Hampton, Steve Aldana, and Todd Pitman unwrap this show, their history, and the celebration of mid-twentieth century folk art, craft, and design. “To be a part of San Diego's small Modernist community in 1950 would have been a little bit demanding, but there was enough of a community that a place like the Design Center could bring everyone to this one location that's still standing—there was just nothing else like it.” — Guest Curator, Dave Hampton Inside The Design Center directs attention to the innovative work of mid-twentieth century California designers by ... More |
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Sophie Calle, On the Hunt, 1950–1960 (Good Catch, Able to Replace Late Mother / Essentially Kind and Gentle), 2024, diptych of two text panels and four photographs (color, black and white) in two double-sided frames text panels. © 2025 Sophie Calle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Steven Probert.
NEW YORK, NY.- Paula Cooper Gallery is presenting On the Hunt, a new body of work by Sophie Calle. First conceived as À l’affût for the Musée de la Chasse in Paris (2017), On the Hunt is the work’s expanded and final form, now incorporating photographs and additional texts. On the Hunt premiered in Overshare, Calle’s first U.S. retrospective, at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (November 2024–January 2025). The retrospective will travel to the Orange County Museum of Art, where it opens on January 22, 2026. Calle describes On the Hunt as “a catalogue of the qualities most desired in women by men, and in men by women, drawn from personal ads published in Le Chasseur français between 1895 and 2010.” Calle discovered copies of the magazine in the archives of the Musée de la Chasse. ... More |
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Herbert Warmuth, Dunkelrosa durch Blau, 2025. Acryl hinter und durch Plexiglas / acrylic behind and through plexi glass, 50 x 30 cm.
COLOGNE.- Herbert Warmuth’s works question the very essence of painting. They examine the interplay between color, medium, material, and environment, revealing how these elements relate to one another. What initially presents itself as a Bild in Warmuth's work is, in truth, a contingent state, an unfolding situation—capturing the tension between visible order and the movement that has occurred. In this way, color itself becomes a tangible force: it pushes, shapes, deforms, and elevates the surface. Warmuth’s acrylic paintings, framed through and behind Plexiglass, present tranquil panels in a range of tones—from soft, subtle shades to more intense hues. Their mirror-like surfaces reflect not only the surrounding space but also the viewer, creating an almost sealed effect. The crack running across the surface arises from an injury, a rupture—where color presses through, breaking free. This fracture is no mere accident; it is a deliberate disturbance, a disruption of ideal ... More |
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 Maggie Roberts' new solo exhibition explores a "Sheer Presence" to confront ecological collapse
LONDON.- IMT Gallery is presenting Sheer Presence: While They Are Here…, a solo exhibition by multimedia artist Maggie Roberts, exploring presence as a transformative force through watercolour paintings, digital collage, textiles and video. Responding directly to the ongoing ecological collapse, violent destruction, and the pervasive sense of uncertainty, Sheer Presence acts as a cosmopolitical manifestation tool—a profound call to remain awake, intentional, and attuned to unseen forces shaping our shared reality. Drawing inspiration from Blaise Agüera y Arcas’ recent book What Is Life? Evolution as Computation (MIT Press, 2025), the exhibition explores Sheer Presence as the distinct intrusion of another entity—often animal or virtual—disrupting the human order. Echoing the 8th-century Tibetan Buddhist Tattvasangraha text (verses 2892-2893), Roberts emphasises ... More The Museum of Modern Art announces João César Monteiro: Symphonies of a Libertine
NEW YORK, NY.- João César Monteiro (1939–2003) is often mentioned alongside Manoel de Oliveira as one of the most influential Portuguese directors of the 20th century. Yet while Oliveira’s fascination with religious and theatrical representations of life made him an obsessive formalist, Monteiro was inspired by the Marquis de Sade and symbolist and surrealist literary movements to bring an anarchistic, anticlerical spirit to his films. A true libertine, Monteiro subverted trends and definitions in a body of work that, in the vein of Erich von Stroheim, focuses on the perverted mysteries of pleasure, decay, and the poetic translation of the sublime into art—whether film, music, or literature—while striking out at a corrupt sociopolitical status quo he identified with fascism in its many guises. These tendencies are given form in his alter-ego, João de Deus (named after a Portuguese patron ... More Jakub Jansa, Selmeci Kocka Jusko, and Peter Sit to represent Czech and Slovak Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale
VENICE.- National gallery Prague and Slovak National Gallery together announce their representation at the 61st Venice Biennale from May 9 to November 22, 2026. Year 2026 will mark the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Czechoslovak Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. To celebrate, the common Czech and Slovak presentation, will bring together artists Jakub Jansa, Selmeci Kocka Jusko working with curator Peter Sit and commissioner Michal Novotný to realise the project The Silence of the Mole. At the center of The Silence of the Mole is Mr. M., an exhausted actor who has played the character of the mole for decades. Once an embodiment of childhood innocence and poetic silence, the Mole has turned into a mascot of cultural diplomacy, ... More Arter welcomes upcoming season with Nilbar Güreş: Velvet Stare
ISTANBUL.- Arter opens its new season on September 11 with Velvet Stare, which marks Nilbar Güreş’s first institutional solo exhibition in Türkiye. Alongside the new addition to its programme, Arter also presents two ongoing exhibitions: the group exhibition Under Pressure Above Water and Franz Erhard Walther’s solo exhibition Attempt to be a Sculpture. Velvet Stare delves into Nilbar Güreş’s practice, which blurs the boundaries between humans and non-humans, reality and fiction, representation and abstraction. Presenting an extensive selection spanning the artist’s early pieces to her most recent productions, the exhibition encompasses works realised in diverse media, including painting, engraving, collage, photography, sculpture, and video. Blending storytelling with critical and dissenting narratives, Güreş creates a vibrant universe where humans, animals, plants, and mythological ... More Tina Gillen's new exhibition at valerie_traan captures the mood of a changing world
ANTWERP.- In Tina Gillen's work, space is rarely neutral. Her paintings bear traces of landscapes, structures, objects and moods, but they cannot be easily interpreted. They evoke a sense of closeness and, at the same time, distance. They elicit recognition and, at the same time, a strangeness that needs no explanation. Gillen does not construct explanatory images, but paints situations that are in motion, spatially, psychologically, inwardly. The exhibition “The Places We Carry” is based on the idea that a landscape is not only something external, but also a carrier of inner time. Gillen's paintings often arise from observations of the environment, near or far, but those observations are never purely visual. They are coloured by memory, dreams, current events and emotion. In her practice, personal images, news flashes, intuitive impressions and mental projections overlap. They permeate ... More HALLEN 06: A sprawling new exhibition brings together diverse artistic voices from Berlin's galleries
BERLIN.- On the occasion of Berlin Art Week 2025, the Wilhelm Hallen in Reinickendorf are opening for the group exhibition. Berlin galleries and collections present their works under the title HALLEN 06. Contemporary works by over 50 national and international artists from Berlin galleries and collections will be exhibited in a 9,000 sqm space. The group exhibition HALLEN 06 will be accompanied by an extensive supporting programme for young and old with performances and panel discussions. Ana María Caballero (*1981) is a multidisciplinary, award-winning Colombian-American poet and artist. Her work explores how biology delimits our societal and cultural rites, ripping the veil off romanticized motherhood and questioning notions that package sacrifice as a virtue. The speakers in her poems find their voice by navigating the intellectual and the everyday, daring ... More Lagos Biennial issues limited-edition publication
LAGOS.- The Lagos Biennial presents its long-anticipated publication, a landmark volume chronicling the last four editions of the Biennial, alongside curatorial reflections from the forthcoming 2026 edition. With its title taken from Bisi Silva’s 2017 essay, Lagos: The making of an African Capital of Culture, this architecturally conceived book invites readers to explore groundbreaking artistic interventions staged across Lagos’ iconic colonial and post-independence sites, including the Nigerian Railway Corporation (2017), Independence House (2019), and Tafawa Balewa Square (2021 & 2024). It offers a powerful narrative of how artists from Africa and across the world continue to engage, shape, and inhabit these evolving urban spaces, while denoting the internationality of Lagos. Featuring contributions from 161 international artists, the publication captures the vibrancy and complexity ... More "Jean Shin: Bodies of Knowledge" opens at The Dorsky Museum
NEW PALTZ, NY.- The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz presents “Jean Shin: Bodies of Knowledge,” an exhibition in which textiles and communication technologies are shown mediating information and reminding us that it is conveyed through material objects. On view Sept. 6 through Dec. 7, 2025, Shin’s sculptures, videos and installations encourage thoughtful reflection on the relationships between technology, sustainability and modes of social interaction that are either newly emerging or almost obsolete. As platforms for generating and sharing information appear increasingly dematerialized and integrated with forms of artificial intelligence, “Bodies of Knowledge” redirects attention back to the living beings and physical substrates on which human knowledge depends. Interweaving craft traditions with fleeting technologies, the exhibition explores ... More "Pigeon Crib: Houston Edition" presents Robert Lugo's defiant, genre-making ceramic works
HOUSTON, TX.- Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC) and R & Company are co-presenting Pigeon Crib: Houston Edition, the first solo exhibition of work by celebrated ceramic artist Roberto Lugo in Texas. Roberto Lugo is known for infusing traditional ceramics with a 21st-century street sensibility. His defiant, genre-mixing practice confronts the colonial legacy embedded in the history of ceramics, while affirming clay’s universal resonance across cultures and centuries. Lugo’s amphora forms inspired by Classical antiquity feature contemporary cultural icons such as Selena, Dennis Rodman, and Tupac Shakur, among others. Elsewhere, dragons and ornate surface motifs from Chinese imperial porcelain fuse with Hip Hop emblems like Nike Air Force 1 sneakers and pitbull-shaped umbrella stands, remixing decorative traditions with autobiographical ... More |
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On a day like today, American painter Grandma Moses was born
September 07, 1860. Anna Mary Robertson Moses (September 7, 1860 December 13, 1961), better known as "Grandma Moses", was a renowned American folk artist. She is often cited as an example of an individual successfully beginning a career in the arts at an advanced age. In this image: While Mamie Eisenhower points out a feature on the Grandma Moses canvas of their Gettysburg farm President Dwight Eisenhower smiles his pleasure Jan. 18, 1956, as he receives the painting, a gift from the Cabinet to commemorate the third anniversary of his inauguration. A gold serving dish, on the table before them, was presented on behalf of the Nation's Republican women. From left to right are President Eisenhower; Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey; Mrs. Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. At left is Vice President Richard Nixon.
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