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NEW YORK, NY.- The art world mourns the passing of Italian-American sculptor Bruno Lucchesi, who died in New York at the age of 99, just weeks before his 100th birthday. For more than seven decades, Lucchesi created figurative sculptures in bronze, terracotta, and marble inspired by everyday life. His work explored themes of family, compassion, spirituality and the human experience. Born in 1926 in Fibbiano Montanino, Lucca, Italy, Lucchesi studied from 1947-1950 at the Istituto d'Arte "A. Passaglia" in Lucca before serving as an Assistant Professor in 1953, at the University of Florence. Bruno created several public works in Florence during 1953-1957 and then, in 1958, he immigrated to New York City, where he had his first solo show in 1961. He began teaching in 1962 at the New School and then at National Academy of Design, establishing himself as one of America's leading figurative sculptors. "Bruno had an extraordinary gift for capturing the human spirit," said Ron Cavalier, founder of

CLAMP opens 'From the Ground Up' exhibition featuring Anthony Peyton Young		Mirror Moon unveiled at Royal Observatory Greenwich		Wellcome Collection stages first museum retrospective of artist Audrey Amiss
Anthony Peyton Young; "The Glory," 2026; Glazed ceramic vessel with luster; 17.5 x 6 x 5.5 inches. NEW YORK, NY.- CLAMP announces "From the Ground Up," an exhibition of recent ceramic sculptures and drawings by Anthony Peyton Young. Merging historic Southern craft traditions and contemporary explorations of identity, Young employs humor and caricature both to dismantle received stereotypes and to explore how those same stereotypes may contribute to the formation of subjectivity. By the 1840s, a tradition arose in the Edgefield District of South Carolina of creating face jugs, also known as face vessels or grotesque jars. These ceramic vessels in the form of human heads often bore distorted features, giving them a humorous or frightening aspect, but, for the Black artisans, probably enslaved, who made them, they almost certainly held ritual significance. Kaolin, plentiful in the area, was used for the white eyes and teeth, tracing a relationship back to Africa, where power figures were made with the same material. In addition to spiritual meanings, the effigies produced by the Black potters of the ... More		Mirror Moon at the Royal Observatory Greenwich. GREENWICH.- Mirror Moon by multi-disciplinary British artist Luke Jerram is on display at the Royal Observatory Greenwich. He is best known for his large-scale public engagement artworks including Museum of the Moon and Earth artwork Gaia, which have been displayed internationally. This new artwork draws on his expertise in combining arts, science and engineering to bring people closer to our closest celestial neighbour. Acting as a ‘cultural mirror’ to society, the moon has always inspired humanity, reflecting the ideas and beliefs of people around the world. It is a unifying symbol for humanity and has inspired artists, poets, writers and musicians throughout history. Every culture has looked to the Moon, developing their own understandings about its importance and influence on the world below. Mirror Moon reflects Jerram’s interest in this history. Made of stainless steel and measuring two metres in diameter, this new installation uses accurate topographic data from NASA to map t ... More		Audrey Amiss, Avenue of Autumn Plane Trees, Clapham Common, ca. 1983. Oil on canvas board, 290 x 340 mm (framed). © Wellcome Collection. LONDON.- Audrey Amiss: The Surviving Exhibitions at Wellcome Collection is the first museum exhibition dedicated to artist Audrey Amiss (1933–2013) and opens July 2026. The exhibition features drawings, paintings and ephemera and explores Amiss’s work as an artist and campaigner, revealing how she used art to advocate for people who have experienced harmful treatment in the mental health system. Born in Sunderland, UK, Amiss received a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Arts in the 1950s where she studied painting until a mental health crisis and subsequent encounter with psychiatric treatment prevented her from completing the final year of her course. Although she continued to make, exhibit and sell art, alongside a career in the Civil Service and in retirement, the breadth of her work was not fully known until after her death. Her archive was donated to Wellcome Collection in 2014. From the 1950s, Amiss exhibited in artist society group exhibitions and, from the 1980s, organised so ... More

Ackland Art Museum debuts two contemporary acquisitions exhibitions		Tai Kwun Contemporary to debut Isaac Chong Wai's first solo live art exhibition in Hong Kong		Benjamin Franklin's Revolutionary War loan agreement with France sells for $484,151 at auction
CHAPEL HILL, NC.- The Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announces two new exhibitions, Care and Concern: Recent Acquisitions of Modern and Contemporary Art, and Continental Shift: Recent Acquisitions of African Art, both on view from July 10 through November 15, 2026. Care and Concern explores how artists communicate their cares and concerns about our world. Spanning an array of media, the selection centers on both the personal feelings conveyed by artists and the emotions they hope to inspire in viewers. The works of art range from expressions of love and disappointment to anxiety and solace. These sentiments shape how individuals navigate interpersonal relationships and societal systems through attention, empathy, and critique. “Care and Concern explores the premise that artists frequently use their talents not simply to reflect the world around them, but also to scrutinize it. Such artworks often ask viewers to join artists in envisioning a more beautiful worl ... More		Isaac Chong Wai, An Intimate Surrender, 2026. Performances and durational interventions. Courtesy of Tai Kwun Contemporary. Photo: Tai Ngai Lung. HONG KONG.- Tai Kwun Contemporary presents Isaac Chong Wai: An Intimate Surrender, the Berlin–based Hong Kong artist’s first solo live art exhibition in Hong Kong, on view from July 10 to August 9 in the 3/F galleries of JC Contemporary. In An Intimate Surrender, Chong takes the celebrated Chinese novel and film Farewell My Concubine as a point of departure, revisiting it to examine the performance of gender in the arts. This newly commissioned project, curated by Tai Kwun’s Associate Curator Louiza Ho, unfolds around the conceptual frameworks of “gender performativity” and “queer temporality” to interrogate constructs of Asian masculinity and other entrenched perceptions of identity. Born in 1990, Isaac Chong Wai is noted for his ability to transmute interpersonal tensions, affects and memories into a minimalist, performative lexicon that negotiates between individual and collective vulnerability, intimacy, and self-identity. Building on his recent performance projects, including his participatio ... More		Benjamin Franklin Twice-Signed 1,500,000-Livre Promissory Note Binding the United States to Repay France for Funding the Revolutionary War - Printed on Franklin’s Own Press (1782). Sold For: $484,151. BOSTON, MASS.- A twice-signed 1782 promissory note completed entirely in Benjamin Franklin’s hand sold for $484,151 at RR Auction’s Spirit of ’76: America’s 250th Anniversary Auction, which closed July 8. The document bound the United States to repay France 1,500,000 silver livres in Revolutionary War funding. Executed on April 10, 1782, while serving as Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States in France, the document states in part: “I, Benjamin Franklin, Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of North America…promise in its name…to make payment and reimburse the Royal Treasury of His Most Christian Majesty.” Franklin completed the document entirely in his own hand and signed it twice. The promissory note was produced at Franklin's celebrated Passy press outside Paris. The document records the first installment of the final French loan of the Revolutionary War. It commits the United States to repay the Royal Treasury of Louis XVI with annual intere ... More

Columbia Museum of Art appoints new executive director		Exhibition at Asya Geisberg Gallery explores the subversion of body horror tropes		Open call for the selection of the curator of the Luxembourg Pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale 2028
Laura J. Mueller, Ph.D. Photo courtesy of Haus of Portraits, Santa Fe, New Mexico. COLUMBIA, SC.- The board of trustees of the Columbia Museum of Art announces the appointment of Laura J. Mueller, Ph.D., as the museum’s new executive director. Mueller most recently served as the interim executive director of the New Mexico Museum of Art and Vladem Contemporary in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She officially takes the helm as executive director on August 3, 2026. “The CMA board of trustees is delighted to welcome Dr. Mueller to the museum,” says Therese Griffin, board president. “In addition to her well-rounded museum management and curatorial experiences, the board was drawn to her strong world view, cultural leadership, and work around strengthening museums through strategic positioning and capacity building.” The appointment culminates an extensive seven-month search that drew interest from both national and international candidates. Upon the announcement of the former executive director’s departure in October of last year, the CMA board of trustees formed a ... More		Eva Tellier, Gatekeeper, 2025. Stoneware, glaze, beeswax, piercings, silicone, synthetic hair, 18h x 14w x 8.50d in. 45.72h x 35.56w x 21.59d cm. NEW YORK, NY.- In Ursula K. Le Guin’s essay “Is Gender Necessary?,” she states: “One of the essential functions of science fiction, I think, is precisely this kind of question-asking: reversals of a habitual way of thinking, metaphors for what our language has no words for as yet, experiments in imagination.”* The works in the exhibition “Under the Skin” energize Le Guin’s words and break away from presumptions of how a woman’s body “should” perform and be categorized. They are in dialogue with the aesthetics associated with body horror in film, addressing the antagonistic nature of the monstrous feminine. In body horror, emotions fluctuate between disgust, grief, insecurity, fascination, and repulsion when the viscerality of the body is foregrounded in the messy nature of women’s biology. Notable examples include: Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession (1981), David Cronenberg’s The Brood (1979), and more recently Jonathan Glazer ... More		Luxembourg Pavilion. VENICE.- Kultur \| lx - Arts Council Luxembourg, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and Casino Luxembourg—Forum d’art contemporain, is launching a call for applications open to curators based in Europe for Luxembourg’s participation in the 62nd Venice Biennale. The renowned international contemporary art exhibition will take place from May to November 2028. By supporting Luxembourg’s regular participation in the Venice Biennale, the Ministry of Culture ensures the presence of Luxembourgish artists in one of the most prestigious contemporary art events, thus contributing to the representation of its artistic scene on a global level. Since 2018, the Luxembourg Pavilion has been presented at the Arsenale, one of the two main venues of the Venice Biennale, thereby benefiting from increased visibility among both the general public and professionals. For the Venice Art Biennale 2028, the organisation of the Luxembourg Pavilion is entrusted to Kultur \| lx in cooperation with Casino Luxembour ... More

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Silverlens New York opens 'Carmen Argote: Soft Perimeter'
NEW YORK, NY.- For Carmen Argote’s debut solo gallery show in 2010, she exhibited a 720-square-foot carpet that once covered the floors of her childhood home in Los Angeles, hanging it from the ceiling in the manner of a monumental tapestry. She painted most of the carpet white, leaving a wide strip of the original chestnut brown around the edges; over time, stains from years past bled through the paint, like memories slowly returning to the surface of consciousness. Many of the formal, material, and conceptual concerns of 720 Sq. Feet: Household Mutations return, refined and elaborated, in the work gathered together for “Soft Perimeter,” Argote’s first solo gallery show in New York. The sculptural object that gives the exhibition its title, Soft perimeter of home (2026), similarly maps a domestic interior: the hybrid home and studio the adult Argote shares with her mother (a frequent collaborator) and a handful of chickens (also collaborators), a space where art making is just on ... More

National Portrait Gallery announces details of major photography Tim Walker exhibition
LONDON.- Today the National Portrait Gallery reveals details of a major new exhibition created by renowned photographer Tim Walker, presenting a body of new work celebrating Queer culture and life. The project is the result of five years of connecting with Queer people and their allies in Britain and beyond and marks a decisive shift in Walker’s artistic focus. Walker rose to prominence in the 1990s with his unique style of fantastical photography. Since then, his fashion pictures and portraits have graced the pages of magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, W, Love, Another Man and i-D. He has published seven books and staged solo exhibitions at museums around the world, while his short films and projects with musicians have won international acclaim. Curated by Susanna Brown, the exhibition engages with the historical gallery setting, presenting both unsung heroes and established giants of Queer history. Designed by Walker’s longtime collaborator Shona Heath with support from the Nati ... More

Major exhibition explores the evolution of Korean contemporary art
SEOUL.- Conceptual art is an approach that emphasizes the artist’s ideas and concepts over the outward appearance or material results of the artwork. It first appeared in Western art in the mid-1960s, raising fundamental questions about what “art” meant as it brought words and language—areas that had been excluded from visually focused modernist art—into the artistic realm. Through around 140 works by 28 artists, the exhibition This is (Not) Conceptual Art explores the conceptual shift that occurred in Korean contemporary art amid its transition from the visual (the eye) to language and thought. Rather than completely eliminating materiality or reducing the artwork to a purely linguistic system, Korean conceptual art pursued an approach that treated language and concepts alongside materials and form. In Korean art, the tendency to place greater emphasis on thought (language) and concepts than on visuality or materiality began to emerge within the context of experimenta ... More

Hauser & Wirth announces two major exhibitions with George Condo in Paris and Palo Alto in 2027
NEW YORK, NY.- On the heels of George Condo’s internationally acclaimed 2025 career survey at Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris a five-decade immersion described by the Financial Times as ‘accentuating not just Condo’s sustained virtuosity, but his diverse forms of expression, techniques, recurring invented characters and art historical allusions’. Hauser & Wirth has announced it will present two major exhibitions in 2027 with the renowned American artist in its Paris and Palo Alto locations. Featuring new and historical works, this pair of exhibitions will continue the gallery’s history of important solo shows with George Condo held in New York, Los Angeles and London. In a statement, Condo wrote: ‘I’m very excited to be looking toward 2027 and my next exhibitions with Hauser & Wirth in distinct locations that hold such resonance and allure for me. My love affair with Paris may be decades long but it’s endlessly self-renewing. I’ve always been inspired by ... More

Budds Auctions to sell the largest collection of Dickie Bird's personal memorabilia
WELLINGBOROUGH.- Once in a while someone comes along who simply captures the heart of the nation – Dickie Bird was one such man, universally loved, he brought a smile to all faces. He was a central and essential fixture of British cricket for decades. David Convery of Budds comments: “We are truly honoured to be entrusted with this fabulous collection of poignant items from the home of the legendary, the one and only, the irreplaceable Dickie Bird OBE.” On his death The Guardian wrote of him: “The legendary cricket umpire Dickie Bird died at his home on September 22, 2025, at the age of 92. Revered as a national treasure, he transcended the sport through his scrupulous fairness, quirky mannerisms, and infectious humanity, officiating 66 Tests and three World Cup finals during an iconic career.” “Dickie Bird, was one of the most beloved, proficient and eccentric sporting figures of his generation. That an overwrought cricket umpire would become one of the most instantly ide ... More

Solar-powered frozen sculpture joins Danish museum's permanent collection
HUMLEBÆK.- This summer, visitors to Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark, can experience a new work by the Swiss artist duo Fischli/Weiss in the museum’s sculpture park: a snowman in a freezer! Snowman, as the work is entitled, has been acquired for the Louisiana’s collection and has been given a permanent location in the Sculpture Park. Snowman is the second work by Fischli/Weiss in the Louisiana’s collection. The acquisition fulfils a long-standing ambition for the museum, made possible not least thanks to a donation from the New Carlsberg Foundation. “For many years, it has been an almost unattainable ambition at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art to present Snowman in the museum’s sculpture park. We owe both Peter Fischli and the New Carlsberg Foundation our sincere thanks for making it possible,” says Louisiana Director Poul Erik Tøjner. David Weiss (1946–2012) sadly passed away in 2012, and it is therefore Peter Fischli who has been working out ... More

Busan Museum of Contemporary Art presents Body, Under Experiment
BUSAN.- Three laboratories. Three months. One opens each month, and only when the last is illuminated does the whole reveal itself. Body, Under Experiment is structured as a sequence of monthly activations. Three discrete experimental spaces are opened in succession; each laboratory remains lit as the next is added. The full picture of the exhibition emerges only at the moment the final laboratory opens. This structure engages directly with a problem performance art has never fully resolved: what does it mean to exhibit what exists only in the present? The assumption that documentation is already a betrayal of the live event has long produced an uneasy tension between performance and the exhibition form. Body, Under Experiment does not sidestep this tension but makes it structural, embedding it within the temporal architecture of the exhibition itself. Each laboratory is at once a trace of performance and an ongoing event, a field of latency for the one yet to come. The opposition between live ... More

Belvedere 21 to host Miao Ying's first solo museum exhibition in Europe
VIENNA.- In her first solo museum exhibition in Europe, Miao Ying draws an unusual analogy between artificial intelligence (AI) and animals. At Belvedere 21, the Chinese artist investigates society’s relationship with AI-driven systems both critically and playfully, offering a fresh perspective on a group of technologies that are increasingly permeating our day-to-day lives. For nearly two decades, Miao Ying (born 1985 in Shanghai) has been interrogating the social impacts of digital infrastructure in her art. Her generation came of age with the early internet, the one-child policy, and digital censorship in China, and her work deeply engages with mechanisms of surveillance, control, and media manipulation. In recent years, her artistic practice has increasingly centered on AI. Even as algorithmic systems become commonplace, their inner workings remain largely concealed. Miao Ying responds to these developments with questions of her own: How are these technologies influencing our perceptio ... More

Artist Ai Weiwei to create a major new public artwork for MCA Australia
SYDNEY.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA Australia) announces today one of the world’s most influential contemporary artists, Ai Weiwei (b. 1957, Beijing), as the 2026 Neil Balnaves Tallawoladah Lawn Commission artist. Ai will unveil a major new public artwork on the iconic Tallawoladah Lawn on the Warrane/Sydney Harbour foreshore in September 2026. Ai is an acclaimed global artist who for more than four decades has used sculpture, film, architecture, writing and social media to move hearts, change minds and challenge authority. The artist first found critical acclaim with artworks such as Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn and Study of Perspective (both 1995), before reaching a global audience with large-scale installations and architectural projects. These include co-designing with architects Herzog & de Meuron the iconic ‘Bird’s Nest’ stadium for the 2008 Beijing Olympics and filling Tate’s Turbine Hall with 100 million handmade porcelain Sunflower Seeds in 201 ... More

Chemould Prescott Road pairs recent paintings with poetry and archival lectures by Prabhakar Kolte
MUMBAI.- The exhibition Asymmetrical Synthesis presents recent works by Prabhakar Kolte, along with writings, poems, lectures and videos as archival notes that impress upon the spontaneity and conviction of his creative awareness. The artist’s voice percolates with the reading of Dnyaneshwari alongside his lecture-conversations with students. We thus enter the anterior chamber of Kolte’s mind, and amidst the intermingling of sound, one sees the drips of paint: binding, building, erasing, filling, forming, --- each canvas mirroring an active multiplicity of perceptive gestures, formless amoeba that births creation, and the search of what preceded before. Here, the ensemble reverses the order of the conductor, where each musician plays to his own accord, breaking convention, following the creative impulse of that moment and letting the play of chance, rhythm and movement precede. In Asymmetrical Synthesis, Kolte offers an array of sounds, movements and actions: interspersed, intermixed ... More

Formafantasma announced as Serpentine Lead R&D Fellows, Ecology
LONDON.- Serpentine announced a multi-year collaboration with Formafantasma, who will join the organisation as Lead R&D Fellows, Ecology. The partnership strengthens Serpentine’s long-term commitment to embedding environmental thinking across its programme, operations, and organisational culture. Formafantasma, the research-based design studio led by Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin, explores the environmental, historical, political, and social forces shaping contemporary design. Working across Serpentine’s programmes and systems, they will help develop new approaches to integrating ecological thinking into Serpentine’s day-to-day activities and long-term strategy. Beginning in summer 2026, the appointment will span curatorial guidance, institutional advisory, and knowledge-building across exhibition-making, daily operations, resource use, labour, and Serpentine’s civic role. The collaboration will begin with an in-depth research phase to map Serpentine’s existing processes and systems, fro ... More

David Kordansky Gallery hosts South Korean artist Moka Lee's US solo debut
LOS ANGELES, CA.- David Kordansky Gallery presents Persona Works, a solo exhibition of recent paintings by South Korean artist Moka Lee. Lee’s first exhibition with David Kordansky Gallery also marks her first solo exhibition in the United States. Persona Works is on view in Los Angeles at 5130 W. Edgewood Pl. from July 10 through August 22, 2026. Moka Lee makes paintings that simultaneously register the psychological landscapes of her subjects and the digital gloss they live behind. At once pleasurable to look at and unnerving to contemplate, Lee’s portraits and still lifes are masterfully executed responses to the contemporary muddling of person and persona. Her pictures evoke the familiar unease, in our algorithmically determined reality, with which the illusion of virtual connection becomes the lived experience of atomization, vulnerability underlies facades of self-possession, and what is beautiful conceals, on closer inspection, telltale signs of instability. The paintings in Persona Wo ... More

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On a day like today, Mexican painter Saturnino Herrán was born

July 09, 1887. Saturnino Herrán Guinchard (9 July 1887 - 8 October 1918) was a Mexican painter influential to Latin culture in the late 19th and early 20th century. Herrán completed majestic paintings of Mexican Indigenous people, giving them heroic strength, beauty, and dignity. In 1910, he participated in the exhibition commemorating the Centennial Anniversary of Mexico's Independence. Herrán died suddenly in Mexico City on 8 October 1918, at the age of 31, "from a gastric complication. In this image: La Cosecha (The Harvest), 1909.

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