ATHENS.- It is an exhibition – a collaboration between the Ministry of Culture – Ephorate of Antiquities of Cyclades and the Museum of Cycladic Art – that brings together in Athens 180 unique masterpieces from almost all the islands of the Cyclades: Amorgos, Andros, Delos, Thera, Ios, Kea, Kythnos, Melos, Mykonos, Naxos, Paros, Seriphos, Sikinos, Siphnos, Syros, Tenos and Pholegandros. The exhibits date from early prehistory to the 19th century and the birth of the Greek state. Unique works, most of which have never travelled either outside the Cyclades or outside the Museum of Cycladic Art; some have never before been presented to the public. Alongside the marble Cycladic figurines of the Early Cycladic period from the Museum of Cycladic Art, 135 exhibits from the collections of the Ephorate of Antiquities of the Cyclades and artefacts from the Canellopoulos Museum, the Epigraphic Museum of Athens, the Ephorate of Paleoanthropology and Speleology and important private collections are on displ ... More
Livien Yin (b. 1990, Boston, Massachusetts; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY). All You Can Ache, 2022. Oil on canvas. Collection of Suzanne Modica and Brandon McGregor, New York. Image courtesy of the artist and Micki Meng. Photo: Zhidong Zhang.
STANFORD, CALIF.- The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University is pleased to present Livien Yin: Thirsty, the first solo museum exhibition of Brooklyn-based Chinese-American artist and Stanford MFA ’19 alum Livien Yin. On view until February 2, 2025, the exhibition features new and recent paintings by Yin that reflect their research-driven approach to creating imaginative reconstructions of contemporary subjects alongside historical Asian Americans and their environments. Livien Yin: Thirsty is one of three 2024 exhibitions of the Asian American Art Initiative (AAAI)—a cross-disciplinary, institutional commitment at Stanford University dedicated to the study of artists and makers of Asian descent—curated by AAAI co-founder, Associate Curator Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander with Kathryn Cua, curatorial assistant for the AAAI. “This exhibition perfectly exemplifies ... More
FRANKFURT.- With the exhibition Martin Parr. Early Works on view at the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt (FFF) shows another highlight in its 40th anniversary year. As an observer of life, the ironic and socially critical eye of Magnum photographer Martin Parr has become an integral part of the history of photography. This exhibition of rarely seen black and white images made by the British photographer between 1970 and 1985 is on view for the first time in Germany. Bird clubs in Surrey, pilgrimages to see the Pope in Ireland, holiday resorts, sports and village banquets are only a few of the places and social activities which first grasped Martin Parr’s attention. In a special selection of fifty-eight black and white images, this show focuses on the subtleties of the unnoticed episodes found in the everyday: be it in communities draped in local traditions, street life and in the unforgettable fluctuating island weather, Parr makes us always look twice, to cherish the funny sides of life. Included ... More
The result of an extensive campaign of new photography, this edition has sourced images of artworks from over 100 institutions worldwide.
NEW YORK, NY.- Few artists in history command the same enduring fascination as Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849). While his iconic woodblock print Under the Wave off Kanagawa—colloquially known as “The Great Wave”—remains one of the world’s most instantly recognizable artworks, there is far more to this visionary of Edo-period Japan than his famous ocean scene. TASCHEN’s new monograph, Hokusai, presents a panoramic view of the artist’s prolific legacy, revealing the extraordinary depth and diversity of his work over the course of nearly nine decades. Setting itself apart with both scholarly rigor and visual grandeur, this hardcover tome spans 722 pages and weighs over 15 pounds. It offers a multilingual experience—English, French, and German—making it accessible to a wide international audience. Cited by Sky Arte as “the most thoroughly researched monograph on Hokusai ever to be published,” the book exemplifies meticulous academic ... More
Charcoal Vol. II presents the charcoal drawings of American artist Robert Longo from 2012 to the present.
NEW YORK, NY.- Few artists working today capture the zeitgeist of social and political unrest as viscerally as Robert Longo. Renowned since the 1980s as a founding figure of the Pictures Generation, Longo returns with a new publication that both expands on—and intensifies—the powerful legacy of his charcoal drawings. Robert Longo: Charcoal Volume 2 offers a commanding visual journey through the artist’s 2012-to-present oeuvre, meticulously printed and handsomely bound in half linen, creating a physical object that rivals the monumental scale of Longo’s work. Serving as the sequel to Charcoal (2011), this second volume forms a comprehensive compendium of Longo’s more recent series, including Death from Above (2012–16), Hungry Ghosts (2015–17), and The Destroyer Cycle (2016–20). Together, the two volumes stand as perhaps the best single resource on Longo’s charcoal practice, illustrating his singular commitment to pushing the limits ... More
James Franco, One Day At A Time (Batman), 2022.
ZURICH.- James Franco is certainly the only Hollywood star to read Marcel Proust on Spiderman films sets. Twice Golden Globe-awarded (2002 for James Dean role; 2018 for The Disaster Artist), Oscar-nominated, the 46 year old actor played in some hundred films and series since he was 16. Actor-director-producer, James Franco has been parallelly acting in life as an academic with a PhD from Yale, a writer publishing poetry, a model for Gucci, and mostly as a visual artist since his teenage years developing a considerable visual work mixing painting, video art and performance. After shows with MOCA Los Angeles (Rebel, 2012, along with artists friends Paul McCarthy, Douglas Gordon, Ed Ruscha…) and in galleries including Pace and Gagosian, Franco presents his new exhibition at Galerie Gmurzynska, Zurich, titled Hollywood is Hell. A powerful series of rough and complex collages composed of various layers of images and signs, symbols and text. 28 shocking canvases and objets d’art appearing a ... More
VIENNA.- Kunsthalle Wien presents the first solo exhibition in Austria by Diego Marcon (b. 1985, Busto Arsizio). The exhibition sees the Kunsthalle’s ground floor space in the MuseumsQuartier transformed into a bespoke theatre to present his new film La Gola (2024). Marcon’s work draws upon different cinematic vocabularies from diverse genres including musicals, melodrama, horror and slapstick comedy. His uncanny, singular imagery employs various technical devices such as robotics, prosthetics and CGI. This is supported by musical scores or scripts that deploy spoken language and sound. La Gola (2024) is structured by a series of letters between two correspondents, Gianni and Rossana. Over the course of eight letters, Gianni describes the successive ... More
AMSTERDAM.- Janneke van der Wijk will join the directorate of the Rijksmuseum on 1 March 2025. As Director of Audiences she will oversee the Rijksmuseum’s educational and public programming, fundraising, relationship management, and communication and marketing. Janneke van der Wijk is currently the director of the ELJA Foundation. Janneke van der Wijk brings with her a wealth of knowledge and experience, and she is able to connect large groups of adults and children with the arts. –Alex Wynaendts, Chair of the Rijksmuseum Supervisory Board The public is of central importance to the Rijksmuseum. Janneke van der Wijk and her colleagues will be dedicated to ensuring that any visit to the Rijksmuseum, whether physical or digital, is an unforgettable experience. She will also seek out connections beyond the walls of the museum in order to show the treasures of the Rijksmuseum to broad audiences throughout the Netherlands. –Taco Dibbits, Director of the Rijksmuseum Janneke van der Wij ... More
Antonio Obá, Banhistas nº 3 – Espreita, 2020. Courtesy of the artist and Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brussels, Paris, New York. Copyright of the Artist. Photo by Bruno Leão.
GENEVA.- The Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève is presenting Rituals of Care, the first mid-career survey in Europe dedicated to Brazilian artist Antonio Obá. Antonio Obá’s multifaceted practice encompasses painting, sculpture, photography, installation, video, and performance. His œuvre interrogates and subverts historical representations, reappropriating spiritual practices and stigmas of racism. Obá endeavors to reclaim his African heritage in a societal framework that has historically sought to dilute Black culture. His works therefore confront the violence inflicted over centuries upon African-Brazilian traditions and communities with new narratives. Antonio Obá (b. 1983, Ceilândia, Brazil) lives and works in Brasília, Brazil. Obá investigates the influence and contradictions within the cultural construction of Brazil, giving rise to an act of resistance and reflection on ... More
Chico da Silva, Untitled, 1967. Gouache on cardstock, 50 x 66 cm. 19 3/4 x 26 in.
SAO PAULO.- Mendes Wood DM is presenting Alvaro Barrington & Chico da Silva, an exhibition that places renowned Venezuelan-born contemporary artist Alvaro Barrington (b. 1983) in dialogue with the works of Chico da Silva (1910 – 1985), a Brazilian artist of Ashaninka origin, an indigenous group located in the Peruvian Amazon. Despite temporal and spatial distances, meaningful connections between the artists reveal themselves through technical characteristics – such as chromatic vibration, gesturality, and their use of unconventional materials – and, above all, through their shared commitment to representing culturally heterogeneous communities. During a visit to Brazil for the opening of his first solo exhibition at Mendes Wood DM in 2023, Alvaro Barrington came across the self-taught artist’s drawings. Inspired by the fantastical and vivid nature of da Silva’s works, Barrington created five paintings of fish that are being ... More
Alejandro Cardenas Pale Blue Dot, 2024. Oil on linen, 127 x 101.6 cm. 50 x 40 in.
GSTAAD.- Almine Rech Gstaad is presenting 'OLYMPIA', Alejandro Cardenas's sixth solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from December 21, 2024 to February 2, 2025. In Ancient Greek mythology, the god Prometheus is best known for giving humanity fire and thus sparking the creation of civilization - and in turn its downfall. For the artist Alejandro Cardenas, this archetypal starting point is also a way to discuss our contemporary relationship to culture and meaning. His exhibition 'OLYMPIA' brings together a suite of artworks that questions the role of painting in the context of accelerated image culture. The artist draws from the mutable nature of mythology, though in a very loose way, instead, we see an unfolding set of narrative works where unreal characters engage and play with fire in their pictorial landscape. Art history is central to Cardenas’ work. ... More
Maria Pinińska-Bereś, exhibition view, 9.11.24-23.2.25, GfZK – Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst. Photo: Alexandra Ivanciu.
LEIPZIG.- The GfZK presents Germany’s first comprehensive solo exhibition of Maria Pinińska-Bereś (1931–99), one of the most extraordinary personalities of 20th century Polish art. Pinińska-Bereś created a unique body of work including sculptures, objects, installations and performances. A central element of her poetic and political art is the exploration of femininity and the societal constraints associated with it. Along with colleagues such as Natalia LL or Ewa Partum, Pinińska-Bereś is seen as a pioneer of feminist art in Poland. She positioned herself against the structural violence of both the State and the Church, and critically questioned the art industry from this perspective. While her sculptural works from the 1950s were still in keeping with modernist traditions, her art later incorporated influences from ... More
Alicia Viebrock, No Title in blue, 2024. Acrylic and ink on canvas, 90 x 70 cm. 35 3/8 x 27 1/2 in.
VIENNA.- Galerie Kandlhofer is presenting Bellaboteurs, the third solo exhibition of Alicia Viebrock (b. 1986, Munich) at the gallery. The title is an amalgamation of the words ‘bella’ and ‘saboteur’, fusing the concepts of beauty and deliberate destruction. These seemingly diametrically opposed notions are re-appraised by Viebrock, who considers the possibility for closeness between these ideas - instances where a pursuit of an ideal may lead to the destruction of the very objective itself. Viebrock’s works are a stage where these notions play out, oscillating across extremes such as dense colourfield and empty spaces, total spontaneity and deliberate placement, as well as shifting between monochromatic and vibrant colour palettes. Painting, as both process and result, is highly personal for Viebrock. Requiring total immersion and absorption into her surroundings, ... More
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Arter opens an exhibition of works by Koray Ariş ISTANBUL.- Arter presents Koray Ariş’s solo exhibition The Skin We Live In in its second-floor gallery between December 12, 2024 and August 3, 2025. Curated by Selen Ansen, the exhibition will weave together through a site-specific arrangement the artist’s works from different periods and series, as well as objects and materials documenting the production processes in his studio. The Skin We Live In offers a comprehensive view on Ariş’s six-decade-long sculptural practice through the lens of figure, skin, sound, movement and balance—central themes in his work. Reflecting the metamorphosis of forms, the approximatively 300 works and objects on display will embody a shared territory where sculpture takes on a sensual dimension through various materials like wood, stone, metal and leather. An extensive publication featuring new texts ... More
First retrospective in France of American-Lithuanian artist Aleksandra Kasuba NÎMES.- Carré d’Art - Musée d’art contemporain de Nîmes presents Imagining the Future, the first major exhibition in France, and also in Europe, of the pioneering artist Aleksandra Kasuba (1923- 2019), known for her multidisciplinary practice on the threshold of design, architecture and experimental art. The Lithuanian-born US artist Aleksandra Kasuba (born Fledžinskaitė, 1923–2019) was a visionary of the 20th century space exploration era. A retrospective of her work is constructed as a bright, inspiring narrative about losses and possibilities as well as futures that emerge in the face of turbulent times. It is the story of how Kasuba who was forced to flee her home country after World War II and emigrated to the USA. She settled in New York and became an artist creating visionary spatial environments made of tensile fabrics; a story about an imaginary ... More
The Islamic Arts Biennale presents full artist list and new commissions for 2025 edition JEDDAH.- The Diriyah Biennale Foundation announces the artists participating in the second edition of the Islamic Arts Biennale in Jeddah, opening on January 25, 2025. By juxtaposing contemporary and newly commissioned artworks with historical objects from Islamic cultures, the Biennale explores how faith is experienced, expressed, and celebrated through feeling, thinking, and making. The Biennale presents works from over 30 artists from Saudi Arabia and from around the world, in both indoor and outdoor spaces. Saudi artist Muhannad Shono acts as the Biennale’s Contemporary Art Curator with Joanna Chevalier and Amina Diab as Associate Curators. Alongside Artistic Directors Julian Raby, Amin Jaffer, and Abdul Rahman Azzam he has commissioned new works to be installed in dialogue with historical objects. The works of contemporary ... More
Kunstraum Lakeside presents Glitch: Exhibitions 2025 and 20th anniversary KLAGENFURT.- What if a supposedly stable system begins to slip, even slips out of hand, because of a tiny little mistake? If ruptures, cracks, and faults not only distort but also make what was previously a matter of course all the more tangible? If the emergence of otherwise invisible infrastructures unintentionally creates something new? In its 2025 annual program “Glitch” and for its 20th anniversary, Kunstraum Lakeside explores the potential of temporary disruptions beyond human control. The short circuits our technical devices increasingly produce are but one starting point. Obstacles are the principle, in both artistic and societal contexts. We see the glitch as a necessary when not welcome social, technological, and cultural interruption of the everyday. An interruption that counters the violence of homogeneity and celebrates diversity ... More
Winners of the 2024 Art Explora-Académie des beaux-arts European Award 2024 PARIS.- On Wednesday, December 11, 2024, the Art Explora—Académie des beaux-arts European Award was presented to five cultural organisations recognized for their particularly innovative projects engaging with audiences. The Award ceremony took place during the annual Arts & Audiences Now! event, a unique gathering for cultural professionals interested by the new formats of dialogue between the arts and audiences. The event was held under the iconic dome of the Institut de France, in Paris, offering an extraordinary space for connection and exchange. Category I: cultural organisations with an annual budget of up to 500,000 EUR
Udruga Skribonauti (Croatia) with the project “Go on With the Story” which enable inmates from the only female penitentiary in Croatia, writers, visual artists, and musicians to create together a digital ... More
Eighteen contemporary artists explore the relationship between humans and nature at the Castello di Miramare TRIESTE.- The Historical Museum and Park of Castello di Miramare in Trieste presents the group exhibition Naturae. Contemporary Art Environments, a collective journey on the theme of the deep connection between nature and humans, curated by Melania Rossi. The exhibition will be running from December 6th, 2024 to November 9th, 2025 as part of the Contemporary Miramare series, organised by MondoMostre and CoopCulture in collaboration with the Miramare Museum. Naturae. Contemporary Art Environments is an invitation to deeply reflect on the connection between humans and nature, shining a spotlight on the ways in which art can become a place of contemplation and introspection and a means ... More
The Smell of Freshly Chopped Wood at Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb ZAGREB.- The exhibition The Smell of Freshly Chopped Wood tells about our life, work and belonging to specific landscapes, forests, islands, plateaus and valleys of Balkans and Mediterranean region, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Italy, which at first sight look like idyllic nature. In fact, they are “living archives” whose “documents” are trees marked for felling, artificial lakes, objects left behind by refugees or the memories of the people who live there, their traditions, knowledge and experiences. The hills of Parg, Pleševica, the fields of Lika, the forests of Pešter, the island of Brač, the village of Oliveto Lucano and Ulassai at first glance look as if they have not yet been affected by the problems of civilization, but in the works of our artists presented at the exhibition we see that this is not the case. In Croatia, ... More
Para Site presents How to be Happy Together? HONG KONG.- Para Site is presenting How to be Happy Together?, curated by Zairong Xiang. Departing loosely from Wong Kar Wai’s Happy Together (1997), the exhibition enacts a critique of dualism and the questions raised by the dual and its split—between intimate and antagonistic partners, between political entities, between “us” and “them,” and even between “I” and “me,” transcending the logic of “either/or” central to racial capitalism and colonial modernity. The primary setting for Wong Kar Wai’s queer Hong Kong cinema classic is Buenos Aires—the literal opposite side of the world from Hong Kong. Featuring over twenty artists from Hong Kong, its neighbouring localities, and Latin America, the exhibition alludes to Hong Kong’s clichéd status as a para-site “between east and west,” and “between tradition and modernity, ... More
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, unveils "The Knowledge Keepers" by Alan Michelson BOSTON, MASS.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, unveiled The Knowledge Keepers by Alan Michelson, the first in a new series of sculptural commissions for the MFA’s Huntington Avenue Entrance, which invites contemporary artists to engage the site in all of its complexity. Western artists have frequently depicted Indigenous subjects as exotic, anonymous figures frozen in time and represented in poses of subjugation, violence, or reverie. By contrast, Michelson, a Mohawk member of Six Nations of the Grand River who was raised in Boston, represents two contemporary local Indigenous cultural stewards—Aquinnah Wampanoag member Julia Marden and Nipmuc descendant Andre StrongBearHeart Gaines, Jr. Occupying the two large plinths outside the Museum’s historic building, the life-sized sculptures are posed in dynamic gestures of public ... More
Pinault Collection announces 2025 exhibitions and cultural programing PARIS.- In 2025, Pinault Collection is featuring a new exhibition programming. Drawing on the notion of portraiture and bodily expression, the Venice museums have invited two major contemporary figures, Tatiana Trouvé and Thomas Schütte. In France, in Paris and in Rennes, the exhibitions focus on the representation of the human figure in resonance with art history and an affiliated programming of live performances that echoes the fundamental role that music plays in the work of certain artists. At the Palazzo Grassi Pinault Collection dedicates a major solo exhibition to artist Tatiana Trouvé. In her most ambitious exhibition to date, and first major monographic show in Italy, the artist transforms the grand interior of the Palazzo Grassi into a vast labyrinth of physical and imaginary spaces, populated by sculptures and drawings in which inner ... More
Through film, sculpture and works on paper, artists examine key ideas relating to land DUBLIN.- The Douglas Hyde presents a group exhibition with significant works by artists Brook Andrew, Bassam Issa Al-Sabah, Brian Jungen & Duane Linklater, Marianne Keating, Pınar Öğrenci, Jumana Manna, and Kathy Prendergast. Filmworks are presented in biweekly episodes with discursive events throughout the exhibition’s duration. Through film, sculpture and works on paper, the artists presented examine key ideas relating to land – from processes of mapping and nation formation to resource extraction and the enduring impact of colonisation. The exhibition’s title plays on different meanings of land, as a country or state; as a denoted area of possession or occupation; or more literally as the ground beneath our feet. The first work encountered in the exhibition is Kathy Prendergast’s The Road (2019) presenting a series ... More
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On a day like today, French painter Maurice Utrillo was born
December 26, 1883. Maurice Utrillo (26 December 1883 - 5 November 1955), was a French painter who specialized in cityscapes. Born in the Montmartre quarter of Paris, France, Utrillo is one of the few famous painters of Montmartre who was born there. In this image: Maurice Utrillo, Ruelle des Gobelins à Paris, 1921, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right Maurice, Utrillo, V, Mars 1921, signed, dated and titled on the reverse Maurice Utrillo, V, Mars 1921, 65 x 92 cm.
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