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The living legacy of sculptor Carole Feuerman |
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Carole Feuerman at her studio in Brunswick, New York.
ATHENS.- Renowned American super‑realist sculptor Carole Feuerman has been awarded the A World of Peace Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts, honoring her enduring contribution to contemporary sculpture and her lifelong dedication to art as a force for empathy and human connection. The award was presented by Ada Iliopoulos, President of the Soleil Foundation, in collaboration with the City of Athens and the Mayor of Athens, the renowned curator Giovanna Cicutto, and the ceremony was under the auspices of the city of Athens and of the Peace Ambassador for art of UNESCO & Vice President of the United Nations federation, Mrs. Guila Clara Kessous. The award was a real artwork by the famous Greek artist Kostis Georgiou, who designed the sign of Peace by people who work all together to create peace around the world with their creations, work, and spirit. The award had taken place during a distinguished ceremony held at the Acropolis Museum. ... More |
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| François Rouan returns to Paris with a major exhibition at Galerie Templon |
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Rare Steinway Dutch Rococo piano tops Roland's Holiday Estates Auction |
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Thaddaeus Ropac announces the death of Arnulf Rainer at age 96 |
François Rouan.
PARIS.- Recently honoured by a major exhibition at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, entitled Empreintes, French painter François Rouan is now the subject of a new show at Galerie Templon in Paris. Nearly twenty major works unfold an oeuvre that can be rediscovered, in the words of Alfred Pacquement, as “possessing a density and depth rarely encountered along the pathways of contemporary art.” From the outset, Rouan was associated with the Supports/Surfaces movement, though he never adhered to it fully. His singular approach led him to deepen the pictorial gesture through collage, and, from 1965 onwards, through the invention of weaving (tressage). In the 1980s, his exploration of new media – photography and film – prompted him to broaden the field of painting, deconstructing traditional pictorial structures in order to reinvent them. The exhibition brings together primarily paintings from the Transis and Recordas series. In the former, executed in wax, ... More |
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Steinway & Sons Dutch Rococo Parquetry PianoBench. Sold for $19,500.
GLEN COVE, NY.- Roland Auctions NY hosted their Holiday Estates Auction on December 13th, 2025, with an exquisite, rare Steinway & Sons Dutch Rococo Parquetry Piano and a Neoclassical Bronze & Micromosaic Top Coffee Table, specially made for J.A. Lehman in Rome in 1857 were the top sellers of the day, while Contemporary Art, always a crowd pleaser at Roland, also had a very good showing for the holidays. Both pieces were expected to do well, with the Steinway & Sons Dutch Rococo Parquetry Piano/Bench, Steinway & Sons Dutch Rococo parquetry inlaid and carved piano with bench, Model O, selling high for $19,500 and the very unique Neoclassical Bronze & Micromosaic Top Coffee Table, Antique micro-mosaic floral wreath decorated table top possibly from the atelier of Michelangelo Barberi, with bronze and metal figural base, top Rome, last half of the 19th century, the base of three ... More |
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Portrait of Arnulf Rainer, 2019. Photo: © Javier Gutierrez
LONDON.- Thaddaeus Ropac announced the passing of Arnulf Rainer, who established himself as one of the most influential artists of the post-war period. Surrounded by his family, he died peacefully on December 18th at the age of 96. For him, Rainer once said, art history is not a history in which one style replaces another. For him, art has a cumulative quality; what he has painted will remain a part of his knowledge. An artist makes the past his own and adds something new. — Rudi H. Fuchs, art historian and curator Born in Baden, Austria in 1929, Arnulf Rainer ceaselessly searched for new means of expression throughout his lifetime. The artist garnered international critical acclaim with his ‘overpaintings’, a groundbreaking typology of work he commenced in 1952 and pursued throughout his career. Painting over existing artworks – both his own and, from 1953, that of others such as Emilio Vedova (1919–2006) – the artist created densely textured abstract ... More |
| Evidence for medieval hair styling at the iconic Eilean Donan castle is revealed as rich archaeological assemblage |
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Lee Bae transforms brushstrokes into bronze in a meditative exhibition at Perrotin Tokyo |
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Royal Ontario Museum appoints Kate Cooper as first Nick Mirkopoulos Associate Curator of Ancient Greece & Rome |
Gravoir. © National Museums Scotland.
EDINBURGH.- A rare 13th century tool used for styling hair has been acquired by National Museums Scotland after being discovered during archaeological excavations at one of the country's most famous castles. The ‘gravoir’ was found during a research-led programme of excavation at Eilean Donan castle in the Highlands. One of the most popular visitor attractions in Scotland, the castle is an iconic image of Scotland recognised around the world, however very little was known about its medieval heyday until these excavations were carried out by FAS Heritage. Positioned at the gateway to Skye, it has appeared in films including Highlander and The World is not Enough. Inspired by medieval fashions in France, the gravoir would have been used to part hair precisely and create elaborate styles. Carved from local red deer antler and featuring a figure wearing a hood and holding a book, it is one of only three examples from the UK, and the first to be found in Scotland. Gravoirs are generally made ... More |
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Lee Bae, Brushstroke S6, 2025. bronze. 106 × 62 × 56 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin.
TOKYO.- Lee Bae’s exhibition at Perrotin Tokyo presents a new series of sculptures titled Brushstrokes, works made of bronze inspired by brushstrokes of charcoal ink. Once weightless and ephemeral, these forms have become three-dimensional shapes that are dense, twisted, almost organic. We immediately see that Lee Bae has opened up the space: some works are placed on the ground, others thrust toward the walls, and one of them is suspended from the ceiling, spreading in columns, knots, and arabesques through the air, as if the arm’s movement, immo- bilized by metal, still continued to extend in all directions. In this multipli- cation of angles and perspectives, the artwork is directly materialized in three dimensions. The borders tremble, as the painting becomes a sculpture. The techniques are varied and perfectly controlled, and the artistic gesture is especially fertile. Are these vertebrae? A framework or the shelves of a library? The skeleton of a strange ... More |
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Dr. Kate Cooper. Photo: Matthew Dochstader/Paradox Images.
TORONTO.- Royal Ontario Museum announced the appointment of Classical archaeologist Dr. Kate Cooper as the Museum’s inaugural Nick Mirkopoulos Associate Curator of Ancient Greece & Rome. Cooper has worked with ROM since 2012 in various capacities, initially as the Rebanks Postdoctoral Fellow for Greece and Rome. In 2015, she acted as Assistant Curator for the exhibition Pompeii: In the Shadow of the Volcano and then as a Research Associate until her appointment as Associate Curator in January 2025. Before joining ROM, Cooper held curatorial positions in the UK at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, where she reimagined the permanent Greece and Rome gallery, and in the Department of Greece and Rome at the British Museum. “We are thrilled to appoint Kate to this vital and newly created role, bringing expertise and leadership to stewarding the Museum's Ancient Greek and Roman collections while providing strategy on provenance related ... More |
| Age of Dinosaurs gallery reopens at Royal Ontario Museum after exciting new expansion |
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Neues Museum Nuremberg stages first major photobook retrospective of Martin Parr |
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Fossil discovery reveals new species of fanged reptile that once roamed Scotland |
Zuul & Gorgosaurus, The James and Louise Temerty Galleries of the Age of Dinosaurs, © ROM.
TORONTO.- Just in time for the holiday season, the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) welcomes visitors back to a grand expansion of ROM’s beloved dinosaur gallery – including the long-anticipated reappearance of one very famous ankylosaur. The James and Louise Temerty Galleries of the Age of Dinosaurs – newly expanded by 3,500 square feet – and the Reed Gallery of the Age of Mammals reopened to the public on December 5, 2025, featuring new displays and programming, including the permanent return of Zuul crurivastator, one of the best-preserved large dinosaurs ever found. ROM, together with the ROM Foundation, acknowledges with gratitude the ongoing generosity of the Temerty Foundation, which continues its vital ongoing support of this essential gallery – allowing the Museum to showcase even more of its world-class paleontology collection. The reopening of the galleries, which had been temporarily closed from November 3 to 28, in preparation to welcome visitors back to the revam ... More |
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Nikita Teryoshin for Grand Hotel Parr. The PhotoBookMuseum, 2025.
NUREMBERG.- Neues Museum Nuremberg (NMN), in collaboration with The PhotoBookMuseum, Cologne, is presenting the first major retrospective of British photographer and Magnum member Martin Parr’s photobooks. Since the 1980s, Parr (1952-2025) has captured the absurdities of global consumer and leisure culture like no one else, translating them into a distinctive visual language. With an unflinching eye and a touch of humour, the photobooks featured in GRAND HOTEL PARR reveal a bizarre world of pomp and kitsch, four-star luxury and all-inclusive resorts, crossing social boundaries and national identities. The exhibition space itself is transformed into a British seaside hotel, complete with red carpeted floors and veneer-panelled walls, creating an immersive setting that invites visitors to explore the hotel’s facilities and browse Parr’s photobooks in the “Reading Lounge”. A passionate collector and networker, Parr has played a key role in ... More |
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Dr Stig Walsh with a cast of the Breugnathair elgolensis fossil. Image © Duncan McGlynn.
EDINBURGH.- A study published in Nature by an international team of researchers, led by the American Museum of Natural History and including National Museums Scotland, describes a previously unknown Jurassic reptile that lived around 167 million years ago. The species has been given the Gaelic name Breugnathair elgolensis meaning ‘false snake of Elgol’, referencing the area of southern Skye where it was discovered. Breugnathair had snake-like jaws and highly recurved teeth, similar to those of modern-day pythons. Unlike living snakes, it had the proportions and limbs of a lizard. The fossil is among the oldest and most complete Jurassic lizards known to science. Breugnathair was a squamate, the largest order of scaled reptiles, including lizards and snakes. The species has been placed in a new family Parviraptoridae, an enigmatic group of extinct, predatory squamates. Previously known from very incomplete remains, parviraptorids were thought by some to be the first snakes. Breugnathair m ... More |
| Zander Galerie reconstructs Robert Frank's What We Have Seen as a living visual diary |
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KÖNIG Mexico City presents Christian Achenbach's first exhibition in the Americas |
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Jonas Englert explores memory, bodies, and images in new exhibition |
Robert Frank, Untitled, Undated © Robert Frank Foundation.
COLOGNE.- Zander Galerie announced an exhibition that brings to life the visual narrative of What We Have Seen from Robert Frank’s celebrated series of visual diaries. It explores people and places across his long and multifaceted life through images and fragments of memory presented through the artist’s original maquette. The exhibition has been realized in close collaboration with the Robert Frank Foundation and reconstructs the image sequence as conceived by the artist. What We Have Seen / Was Haben Wir Gesehen was published by Steidl in 2016 and belongs to Robert Frank’s late group of photobooks that function as visual diaries. The work brings together photographs, fragments, handwritten words, and recurring motifs, moving between different times and places in Frank’s life. Rather than following a linear narrative, the sequence characteristically unfolds as a rhythm of memory and perception. Images of friends and family, everyday surroundings, travel, ... More |
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Portrait by Mika Gentili © Courtesy of the artist.
MEXICO CITY.- KÖNIG Mexico City is presenting Christian Achenbach’s first exhibition in the Americas, and his second with the gallery. Achenbach is a Berlin-based German painter and sculptor. His practice is rooted in the traditions of art history, yet reimagined through a contemporary lens. He often draws on familiar landscape motifs, transforming them through a vibrant and expressive color palette into timeless visions. In doing so, he composes a vivid symphony where memory, nature, and history converge. For this exhibition in Mexico City, Achenbach engages deeply with the legacy of Josef Albers, whose encounters with Mexico left a lasting mark on modern abstraction. Achenbach is widely recognized for his bold use of saturated color, producing powerful visual impact. His color palette is not representational, but rather compositional: it builds rhythm, movement, and atmosphere. Achenbach’s canvases can be read almost as “visual music,” a reflection of his long-standing engageme ... More |
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Jonas Englert, Declaration of Principles, 2022, mixed media, 149.3 x 127.5 x 9.5 cm, installation view, Galerie Anita Beckers, photo: Elias Michael.
FRANKFURT.- Galerie Anita Beckers is presenting ce qui nous hante, Jonas Englert’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition brings together works created between 2015 and 2025, in which Englert explores the political, aesthetic, and media-related dimensions of memory, the body, and the image. The exhibition’s title – ce qui nous hante (“what haunts us”) – draws on Jacques Derrida’s theory of hauntology, which conceives of past and present as intertwined temporalities. For Derrida, the ghost is not a metaphor but a conceptual figure for understanding moments in which something seemingly absent continues to exert influence in the present – a trace, a remnant, an afterimage. Hauntology describes the persistent return of the past in the present: the reappearance of repressed images, gestures, and meanings that subtly shape our perception. Englert’s work occupies precisely this liminal space. His pieces ... More |
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 San Carlo Cremona extends Massimo Bartolini's 100 Giorni
CREMONA.- The church nave hosts an installation that embodies some of the most emblematic themes of Bartolini’s work: the tension between the visible and the invisible, the suspension between the real and the symbolic, the transformation of light into both matter and narrative. At the entrance, a large unlit luminaria forms an architectural body composed of modular geometries. This marks the second time Bartolini has worked with Sicilian luminarie, here shown in a dormant state, deprived of light and reduced to an essential framework. These traditional lights from Southern Italy, typically used for religious and civic celebrations, become in this context a diaphanous space, suspended between promise and disillusionment, where the festivity seems frozen, perhaps already over, or perhaps yet to begin. At the back of the altar, a red neon light turns on, illuminating and giving ... More How modern was modern China? New exhibition reframes architecture under socialism
MONTREAL.- M+ is presenting How Modern: Biographies of Architecture in China 1949–1979. A research project organised by the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), Montreal, in collaboration with M+, it encompasses an exhibition which is presented at the CCA’s Main Galleries from 20 November 2025 to 12 April 2026. How Modern: Biographies of Architecture in China 1949–1979 reframes architectural histories and experiences of modernism in the three decades between the establishment of the People’s Republic of China and the later Reform and Opening Up. Drawing on the perspectives of architects, institutions, and inhabitants of the buildings, it shows how architectural production was carried out during a period of shifting ideologies and socio-economic pressures. The exhibition is curated by Shirley Surya, Curator, Design and Architecture, M+, in collaboration ... More Kunstmuseum Luzern embraces polyphony with a bold exhibition program for 2026
LUCERNE.- In 2026, Kunstmuseum Luzern is dedicating its exhibition program to polyphony: we experience the simultaneity of different realities that shape and challenge our society as a moment of reflection and enjoyment of art. Maria Pinińska-Bereś (1931–1999) is regarded in Switzerland as a new discovery; in her native country, Poland, she has long since been famous as a pioneer. The Kunstmuseum Luzern is devoting a comprehensive retrospective exhibition to this feminist artist. Pinińska-Bereś’s oeuvre includes sculptures, installations and performances that engage critically with gender roles and social structures. Her work is testimony to the experiences of an artist who liberated herself from social constraints and the patriarchal order during the Cold War. She broke with the conventions of her traditional training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow and ... More Cristiano Lenhardt explores portals, perception, and code at Fortes D'Aloia & Gabriel
RIO DE JANEIRO.- Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel is presenting Brotocarta: Natureza e Artifício, Cristiano Lenhardt’s first solo exhibition in Rio de Janeiro, bringing together new works that expand his ongoing investigations into language, perception, and visual codes. The logic behind the show’s title reflects a process the artist has revisited throughout his practice, in which forest sounds and animal onomatopoeias are translated into a graphic script which are then employed as visual emblems. Formed from the words broto [sprout] and carta [letter], the title synthesizes an articulation between natural forms and mobile subjectivity. Each piece functions as transcriptions of environmental occurrences — a visual system that reimagines the relationships between human and nonhuman worlds, sound and writing, memory and invention. The exhibition unfolds across a variety ... More Nasher Museum of Art presents Dis/orient: Contemporary Art of the Asian Diaspora
DURHAM, NC.- The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University presents Dis/orient: Contemporary Art of the Asian Diaspora, a focused exhibition that examines how artists of Asian descent confront long-standing stereotypes embedded in the word “Orient.” Rooted in Western imperialism, the term historically enforced a sense of distance and “otherness” that continues to shape cultural perceptions today. Dis/orient brings together artists who use humor, memory, tradition, and personal narrative to challenge this legacy and illuminate the richness and multiplicity of the Asian diaspora. Featuring works ranging from Stephanie H. Shih’s ceramic sculptures inspired by everyday grocery items to Asuka Anastacia Ogawa’s dreamlike paintings shaped by her Japanese and Brazilian heritage, the exhibition highlights how layered symbols and stories can expose the subtle ... More Maren Ruben explores unconditional love and the fragility of the digital age at MACT/CACT Ticino
BELLINZONA.- Born in 1967 in what was then the Soviet satellite of East Germany, Maren Ruben presents the second stage in her ÉTAT D’AMOUR FRAGMENTÉ (Fragmented State of Love) project. After PISSENLIT. HERBES TROUBLANTES (Bedwetter. Disturbing Herbs), now is the turn of L’EXIL DE L’IMAGINAIRE (The Exile of Imagery), with which the artist, who now lives and works in France, offers us her reflections about unconditional love in general and its interferences. But this artist does not restrict her message to a discussion of feelings related to issues of the heart. What Ruben offers us here is a sort of reflection about the state of the meta-contemporary world’s health, in which the individual’s relationship with the social group is subjected to the fragmentation of a society that struggles to recognise humanist pride as an inevitable element of a society with a strong ... More Ruby City announces a year of connection, creativity and contemporary art
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Ruby City’s upcoming winter/spring season offers a dynamic slate of free, community centered programs followed by new fall exhibitions that invite visitors of all ages to engage with contemporary art in meaningful ways. Highlights include a special screening of ASCO: Without Permission, presented with MonteVideo at Slab Cinema Arthouse, followed by a conversation with artist Kathy Vargas and scholar Dr. Ellen Riojas Clark moderated by Ruby City Director, Elyse A. Gonzales. Monthly meditation sessions led by Pamela Martinez will also continue, offering a restorative start to each third Sunday. Artist-focused programming includes a walkthrough and reception for Bedroom Paintings on view at Ruby City through May, 10, 2026, with artist Joey Fauerso and Director Elyse A. Gonzales, alongside creative workshops such as dreamwork sessions with Leigh ... More Film Forum to screen multi-generational portrait of Black farmers in Georgia
NEW YORK, NY.- Film Forum will present the U.S. theatrical premiere of Brittany Shyne’s SEEDS on Friday, January 16. As both director and cinematographer, debut filmmaker Brittany Shyne immerses the viewer in the absorbing rhythms and intimate materiality of African American farm life in Georgia. Shyne’s patient, poetic eye and ear attune to one farmer’s tender attention to his great-granddaughter, alongside the sights and sounds of a community’s honest day’s work—repurposing spent corn cobs for feed, shelling pecans for market, the profound rumble of a massive cotton harvester. As the story of dwindling government support for Black farmers unfolds, exquisite black-and-white imagery lovingly captures the rough-worn hands, faces, and tools-of-trade of octogenarian patriarchs fighting to preserve their family legacies and century-old homesteads. SEEDS ... More Santa Barbara Museum of Art announces 2026 winter/spring exhibition schedule
SANTA BARBARA CA.- In the new year, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art offers a sweeping look at how artists engage with time. Works grounded in personal histories, inherited traditions, and collective memory speak to the past while giving us new ways to access it in the present. Contemporary materials and lived experience illuminate the world as it is now, yet they also open space for reflection and reinterpretation. Digital experimentation and visionary forms gesture toward the future, and at the same time expand how we record, memorialize, and remember. Seen together, these exhibitions reveal art as a continuum—one in which past, present, and future coexist, overlap, and remain vividly alive today. As if in a Dream: History, Fantasy, Future (March 1, 2026 – January 3, 2027) explores how artists merge memory with imagination. Landscapes rooted in personal ... More The Mennello Museum of American Art presents Juan William Chávez: Art Pollination
ORLANDO, FLA.- Juan William Chávez: Art Pollination is part of how the City of Orlando is being recognized with the Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge in 2025. Orlando is one of only eight winners chosen from over 150 project proposals from various U.S. cities, including Atlanta, Baltimore, Honolulu, Houston, Philadelphia, Phoenix, and Salt Lake City. The Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge is a highly competitive program that selects projects based on their ability to transform communities through public art. Juan William Chávez: Art Pollination explores the social practice of artist Juan William Chávez, grounded in his holistic perspective on aesthetics, ecology, ritual, craft, labor, activism, and his Peruvian heritage. Featured in the exhibition, Art Pollination is a multimedia installation comprising drawings, embroidery, zines, artifacts, ... More Somerset House announces new courtyard installation 'Dana-Fiona Armour: Serpentine Currents'
LONDON.- For its annual spring commission, Somerset House presents Serpentine Currents - Fragments of a Changing Future, a new courtyard installation from artist Dana-Fiona Armour, which combines sculpture, technology, and science, to raise awareness of issues surrounding marine ecosystems and changing ocean conditions. Serpentine Currents marks the start of the Somerset House 2026 programme. The three-part sculpture, which is modelled on a 3D scan of an endangered sea snake species, will be illuminated day and night by mesh LED lights. Animated by historic and predicted ocean data from the British coastline, these lights will react to rising sea temperatures and decreasing ocean salinity – evoking how sea snakes act as a bioindicators for ocean health. Snaking across the Somerset House courtyard, and suspended above the dancing water fountains, the installation ... More |
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On a day like today, American painter Jean-Michel Basquiat was born
December 22, 1960. Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 - August 12, 1988) was an American artist. Basquiat first achieved fame as part of SAMO, an informal graffiti duo who wrote enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the late 1970s where the hip hop, punk, and street art movements had coalesced. By the 1980s, he was exhibiting his neo-expressionist paintings in galleries and museums internationally. The Whitney Museum of American Art held a retrospective of his art in 1992. In this image: Basquiat: Boom For Real. Installation view Barbican Art Gallery 21 September 2017 – 28 January 2018 © Tristan Fewings / Getty Images Artwork: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled, 1982 Courtesy Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. © The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York.
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