Darío Escobar: The Weight of Memory. Installation photo.
COPENHAGEN.- NILS STÆRK is presenting The Weight of Memory, Darío Escobar’s fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. Reality traverses symbols and poetics, adjusting itself to the times. Kukulkan II, a seminal work by artist Darío Escobar, created for the 53rd Venice Biennial in 2009, serves as a contemporary allegory of the Pre-Hispanic god who governed and created astronomical sciences. This deity's significance in Mesoamerican cultures stems from its ability to synthesize past and future, connecting them symbolically through the serpent. By employing this image, Escobar establishes a dialogue between this recurring cultural motif and the industrial products ubiquitous in modern society. The sculpture consists of approximately 1000 bicycle tires fastened together with screws, suspended from the ceiling through a system of pulleys balanced with plumb bobs. It occupies an expansive 250 square meters of the exhibition space. Kukulkan II unfolds in space like an elongated shadow. Viewed externally ... More
BERLIN.- Galerie Max Hetzler is presenting ESCAPISM, a solo exhibition of new works by Toby Ziegler, at Bleibtreustraße 45 in Berlin. This is the artist’s ninth solo exhibition with the gallery. Memory and the passing of time have long been two of the central themes in Ziegler’s work. In his practice, the artist combines figurative and abstract elements, computer modelling and painting, careful planning and chance. In his preparatory modelling of the images on the computer, a process which he describes as both alienating and mathematical, Ziegler builds non-narrative scenes. He creates a sense of stillness within his compositions, comparable to Dutch Old Master paintings, or the work of Giorgio Morandi and Vilhelm Hammershøi, where the experience of a long stretch of time is compressed into a single image. One of the entry points of the current series of works is elements taken from family photographs, which Ziegler has altered and transposed into imagined ... More
VANCOUVER.- The Vancouver Art Gallery announced a promised gift of 122 artworks from Vancouver–based collectors Brigitte and Henning Freybe. The Freybes began collecting art in the 1970s and have built a unique and diverse collection, spanning painting, printmaking, sculpture, film, photography and installation. The gift to the Vancouver Art Gallery encompasses works by some of the most important European and North American artists working in the last 50 years—many rarely shown in Vancouver—including Carl Andre, Nairy Baghramian, Christian Boltanski, Daniel Buren, Tacita Dean, Frank Stella, Alicja Kwade, Wolfgang Tillmans, Robert Rauschenberg, Julie Mehretu and William Kentridge. The Freybes’ collection also celebrates Vancouver, where they call home, through the support of many artists based in BC whose works will be gifted, including Beau Dick, Stan Douglas, Geoffrey ... More
Emil Carlsen, Golden Tree, 1904, oil on canvas. Private collection, Connecticut.
FAIRFIELD, CONN.- Fairfield University Art Museum is presenting Dawn & Dusk: Tonalism in Connecticut, a major exhibition of tonalist paintings on view from January 17 through April 12, 2025, in the Museum’s Bellarmine Hall Galleries. This selection of 70 works, ranging from 1878 to 1917, by twenty-two different artists, explores the evolution of the Tonalist movement in landscape paintings. The term Tonalism is associated primarily with a type of landscape and seascape produced by artists working in and around New York and Boston during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Their predecessors were the landscape painters of the early to mid-nineteenth-century who comprised what came to be called the Hudson River School, painting canvases that explored the beauty of the Americas, proclaimed the idea of Manifest Destiny, and served the heady optimism of the young United States. The Tonalist painters embraced the ideas of a new era as the psychological wreckage of the Civil War and increas ... More
Valerio Adami, Scenografia con minareto, 2000. Acrylic on canvas, 77,95 x 57,87 in – 198 x 147 cm.
PARIS.- From January 23rd, Tornabuoni Art Paris will host an exhibition dedicated to the paintings of Valerio Adami. The gallery’s Parisian space will feature a selection of canvases that showcase some of the most iconic themes defining the artist’s prolific career, spanning from the 1960s to the early 2000s. Marking 90 years since Adami’s birth and five decades since his first French retrospective at the Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris in 1970, this exhibition revisits the artist’s evolving exploration of key motifs: tributes to fellow artists, interiors, travel and the theatrical realm. Born in Bologna in 1935, Adami’s artistic journey began at Felice Carena’s atelier. His first works were influenced by expressionism and marked by his childhood memories of the end of the Second World War. A pivotal encounter with Oskar Kokoschka in Venice expanded his artistic ... More
Includes specimens originally collected in Manhattan in 1823.
ALBANY, NY.- A historically significant collection of lichen specimens believed to have been lost to an 1866 fire was recently rediscovered by Dr. James Lendemer, curator of botany at the New York State Museum. The serendipitous find will allow scientists to reliably reconstruct pre-industrial lichen communities from New York City, a task that up until now was not thought to be possible. The specimens, collected in Manhattan more than 200 years ago by naturalist Abraham Halsey, provide a rare glimpse into the city's 19th-century environment and its dramatic transformation. The discovery, which took place at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden herbarium, is detailed in full by Dr. Lendemer in the December issue of the Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society. “This discovery not only brings a pioneering naturalist's work back into the light but also provides critical insights into ... More
LONDON.-A stunning Ptolemaic-era gold snake bracelet, crafted over two millennia ago, is set to be a highlight of Apollo Art Auctions' upcoming sale on January 25th. The 21-carat gold piece, dating from approximately 332-30 BC, is expected to attract significant interest from collectors of ancient jewelry. The bracelet, weighing 45 grams and measuring 90mm x 60mm, is designed as a coiled snake with five turns. The head and tail are rendered with remarkable realism, featuring individually engraved scales that showcase the exquisite craftsmanship of the period. A smooth band section in the middle of the snake's body provides a visual contrast to the detailed head and tail. Snake imagery was highly significant in ancient Egyptian culture, often associated with royalty, protection, and rebirth. This bracelet, therefore, would have been a valuable and symbolic piece of adornment for its ... More
LONDON.- Maureen Paley hosts Air de Paris at Studio M for Condo 2025, presenting an exhibition of work by Pati Hill and Wolfgang Tillmans. Both artists have explored the photocopier’s capacity for duplication and abstraction and how the device can be both the subject of an image, and the facilitator of its production. A selection of Pati Hill’s unique xerographs made between 1977 and 1990 are presented alongside a single inkjet print by Wolfgang Tillmans from 2011. Pati Hill was a multidisciplinary artist and writer who started to use the photocopier as an artistic tool to publish her first ‘copy works’ in the early 1970s. After the birth of her only child in 1962, Hill claimed to “quit writing in favour of housekeeping” and began a thirteen-year period that she later described on her resume with the words “Housewife, mother.” As she resumed her creative output, she proposed that the copier machine could unite writers and artists owing to its original fun ... More
Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Dudoute_Toaster_Absolu (AMVK 1981-2025), Galerie
Barbara Thumm, 2025, Photo: Olga Litetskaya.
BERLIN.- Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven (AMVK, *1951 in Antwerp, Belgium) has blazed a distinctive trail in contemporary art, renowned for her iconic collages, drawings, and mixed-media works that fuse art and technology. For over five decades, her prolific career has been marked by relentless innovation and an unceasing drive to create. Trained in Graphic Design at the Fine Arts Academy of Antwerp, AMVK’s journey as an artist officially began in 1974 with works on paper. However, she often notes that her creative drive started much earlier. A pivotal shift occurred in the 1980s when she embraced computer-generated graphics, opening up an immense world of possibilities for her practice. AMVK’s work spans a diverse array of media, including drawings, collages, digital animations, text, sound, and video. Her pieces are visually and conceptually striking, often forging connections between elements that seem, at first glance, disparate or even contradictory. Her practice consistently engages wit ... More
Ethan Assouline, réalité(tous les jours), 2025. Wood, screws, paper, plastic, acrylic paint, 130 x 7,5 x 8 cm. Unique. Photo: Aurélien Mole.
PARIS.- The first exhibition at the gallery, "Moon Star Love" (14.11.2009–23.01.2010), outlined less of a program than an atmosphere and a way of working together—confronting our subjectivities and harmonizing like two instruments that would now play together. The exhibition “explicite lyrique [explicit lyrical]” marks 15 years of Marcelle Alix by celebrating the inclusion of a third subjectivity: Florence Bonnefous and the program of Air de Paris. Thus, we continue to imagine the gallery as a space for sharing and discussing, and the exhibition as an expression of friendship. Isabelle Alfonsi: Thanks to you, Florence, I met Dorothy Iannone when she exhibited her work Story of Bern at the Centre Culturel Suisse in Paris (3.06–10.07.2016) and I was able to discuss with her the powerful nonconformity of her work, where explicitness radiates as a synonym for equality, where the joy of making art is inseparable from the expression of freedom. When we began exchanging ideas with Cécilia about what ... More
Tobias Spichtig, Everything No One Ever Wanted, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, exhibition view, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel.
BASEL.- In painting, drips are to be avoided. Generally considered blunders, they are thought to interrupt what a painter might otherwise be trying to represent: this is what painting tutorials will tell you. Except Tobias Spichtig doesn’t seem to agree. Conspicuous drips can be found on nearly all his canvases. They flow, without the Swiss artist wishing to tame them, from the peaks of his mountain abstractions, the feet of his nudes, and from sullen faces—each a portrait of a friend, model, designer, or actor. To make the latter, he primarily works from photographs, rarely from live models, often looking to several different images to create his composite vision. Frequently, there is enough of a likeness that you might (just) recognize the subject. Still, with or without their eyes painted in, this is an eerie bunch, all cheekbones and contouring, as pale as vampires seen in raking light. That they all seem undead is not just formal because, for Spichtig, it goes deeper than that: ... More
The exhibition pairs William S. Burroughs with his longtime friend and frequent collaborator David Bradshaw.
FORT MYERS, FLA.- The Bob Rauschenberg Gallery at Florida Southwestern State College announced their new exhibition “David Bradshaw & William S. Burroughs: Propagation”. Running through April 12th, 2025, this is the final show until major Humanities Hall/Building L renovations temporarily relocate the exhibition programming to the new Bob Rauschenberg Gallery Annex space in Building J – Library Lobby (J-118) for a twenty-month to two-year period. Following the recent success of the “William S. Burroughs & Laurie Anderson: Language is a Virus” exhibition, the gallery once again world premieres previously unseen original artworks by the legendary, late and highly-influential Beat Generation author/artist – this time, pairing Burroughs with his longtime friend and frequent collaborator David Bradshaw. Often associated with the circulation of harmful messages, dangerous ideologies or even viruses, the term “propagation” ... More
Cloaca is a machine that mimics human digestion. Photo courtesy the artist and rodolphe janssen, Brussels.
BRUSSELS.- rodolphe janssen opened the exhibition Wim Delvoye: Cloaca. Celebration 2000-2025. The exhibition celebrates the 25th anniversary of Cloaca, the groundbreaking work that brought Delvoye international fame. Wim Delvoye (b. 1965, Wervik, Belgium) is internationally known for his innovative, provocative, and technically refined artworks, in which he explores the boundaries between art, science, and consumer society. With Cloaca, a machine that mimics human digestion, Delvoye challenged the art world in 2000 by mechanizing and exhibiting an everyday biological process. According to curator Harald Szeemann, Cloaca is “the pinnacle of Belgian surrealism.” By combining humor, technology, and social critique, Delvoye confronts the viewer with fundamental questions about art, value, and production. For the first time, Wim Delvoye presents a series of over 40 original drawings related to Cloaca, illustrating his graphic and technical research ... More
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UK Art Museum presents major exhibition of Jay Bolotin works LEXINGTON, KY.- The work of interdisciplinary artist Jay Bolotin, which includes prints, drawings, sculptures, sets and animated films, is on exhibit at the University of Kentucky Art Museum through June 21. Weaving together personal musings and universal myths, Bolotin formed epic narratives requiring years of labor-intensive studio activity and the mastering of both traditional and state-of-the-art techniques. A gifted storyteller, Bolotin was informed by children’s bedtime reading, biblical tales (and their interpretation) and the writings of the Brothers Grimm, Franz Kafka, Bruno Schulz and Flannery O’Connor, among others. Oral histories and songs from his upbringing in Lexington also played a role in his development. “To engage with Jay Bolotin’s art is to commit to active looking, reading, and pondering — and accepting that you may never compre ... More
Fischersund: Faux Flora exhibition at National Nordic Museum extended until February 23, 2025 SEATTLE, WA.- Fischersund: Faux Flora, the groundbreaking immersive exhibition at the National Nordic Museum, has been extended and will now run until February 23, 2025. Combining scent, sound, sculpture, 3D graphics, and photography, this acclaimed exhibition has enchanted audiences and drawn visitors from around the region for the past three months. Created by Jónsi (Jón Þór Birgisson), lead vocalist of the renowned post-rock band Sigur Rós, and his sisters Inga, Lilja, and Sigurrós, Faux Flora invites visitors to explore the boundaries between the natural and the artificial. Drawing inspiration from Iceland’s nearly 500 native plant species and the intricate relationship between scent and memory, the exhibition presents an olfactory and visual journey through the human experience as mirrored in the life cycle of plants— ... More
Who owns the land and water? "Between Waves and Soils" questions human-nature boundaries KAOHSIUNG CITY.- Between Waves and Soils represents the ever-changing boundary between land and water, while also metaphorically reflecting the constantly shifting borders of living spaces between humans and non-human life forms. Who owns the land and water? How are the boundaries of “ownership”—be they defined by communities, nations, economic zones, or colonies—established and demarcated? These inquires fuel the inspiration behind this exhibition. Long before humans appeared, the planet we rely on for survival had already been undergoing continuous geographical changes. However, as human civilization developed on a massive scale, territorial conflicts, national disputes, and land and water exploitation have caused impacts far more pronounced and disruptive than those of other life forms cohabiting this planet. ... More
Sophie Esslinger exploring the fluidity of emotions at Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin BERLIN.- If she were an emoji, Sophie Esslinger claims she would be a tear. Both round and sharp, tears defy a constant shape or structure. What defines them is their constant state of flux—they are in perpetual motion, always shifting, evolving, and transforming. Just like whirls, storms, or stars, they are not static objects or fixed forms as we imagine them; these optical phenomena, and the analogies between them create a wide spectrum of possible combinations and arrangements within a canvas, and, beyond it. Hard and soft; hot and cold; blunt and sharp; inside and out; up and down—these are only a few of the juxtapositions that Esslinger believes to constitute our world—or at least our perception of it. They expand, shrink and multiply with every brushstroke, and every new gaze. Esslinger’s paintings set a stage for these ... More
MoMA PS1 announces complete lineup for winter public programs NEW YORK, NY.- This winter, MoMA PS1 presents a series of public programs including performances, convenings, and talks by artists and scholars, details of which are newly announced and included below. As part of the major exhibition Ceremonies Out of the Air: Ralph Lemon, a program of six collaborative performances will continue through March. The Museum also inaugurates Winter Talks, a lecture series with distinguished speakers pushing forward critical discourse on issues urgent for artists, scholars, and cultural workers. As part of the March Open House program, artist DonChristian Jones presents Gotham Ball, a celebratory kiki ball to conclude their exhibition The Sumptuous Discovery of Gotham a Go-Go. All events are open to the public and free with RSVP. “Building on the enthusiastic reception of recent scholarly lectures at the museum, ... More
ARoS achieves impressive visitor numbers in 2024 AARHUS.- With over 565,000 visitors in 2024, ARoS has achieved impressive and highly satisfactory visitor numbers. A comprehensive experience, eight exhibition openings, a wide range of events, debates, and talks, along with ARoS’ own collection, attracted 565,484 visitors to the museum throughout the year. In addition, another approximately 85,000 people used our free welcome area, enjoying an impressive architectural ARoS experience, bringing the total number of visitors to the art museum to 650,830 in 2024. 2024 marked ARoS’ 20th anniversary in the iconic building on Aros Allé. The anniversary was celebrated with two new exhibitions featuring works from the museum’s collection and a special presentation of the iconic sculpture Boy. In the anniversary year, Boy was accompanied by two other works by sculptor Ron ... More
INAH appoints Thalía Velasco Castelán to lead cultural heritage conservation efforts MEXICO CITY.- Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) has a new leader at the helm of its crucial cultural heritage conservation efforts. Restorer Thalía Velasco Castelán has been appointed as the new National Coordinator of Cultural Heritage Conservation (CNCPC), taking over from María del Carmen Castro Barrera. INAH Director General Diego Prieto Hernández emphasized the importance of the CNCPC, describing it as a vital link to the communities who cherish and protect their heritage. He expressed confidence that Velasco Castelán's extensive experience will ensure the continued success of INAH's work in safeguarding and promoting Mexico's rich cultural patrimony. INAH Technical Secretary José Luis Perea González further highlighted the significance of the National Conservation Strategy, developed within the CNCPC. ... More
Juchitán's cultural heartbeat restored: House of culture and historic parish reopen after earthquake Damage JUCHITÁN.- After nearly eight years of recovery following the devastating 2017 earthquakes, the vibrant cultural scene of Juchitán, Oaxaca, is celebrating the reopening of two of its most cherished landmarks: the Casa de Cultura (House of Culture) and the Parroquia de San Vicente Ferrer (Parish of San Vicente Ferrer). The restoration project, officially unveiled on Friday, January 17, 2025, marks a significant milestone in the community's healing and revitalization. Representing President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, Secretary of Culture Claudia Curiel de Icaza joined Governor Salomón Jara Cruz, INAH Director General Diego Prieto Hernández, and Juchitán Mayor Miguel Sánchez Altamirano for the reopening ceremonies. Curiel de Icaza emphasized the importance of these spaces as centers of art, memory, music, and community ... More
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive announces its upcoming exhibitions BERKELEY, CALIF.- Tanya Aguiñiga (b. 1978, San Diego; raised in Tijuana, Mexico) creates sculptures and installations using natural materials and objects gathered from her environment. Participating in a redefinition of the distinctions between art, design, and craft, Aguiñiga upsets these hierarchies through her innovative practice. She situates her work in conversation with urgent issues affecting our world today, from tensions that define national politics to rapid climate change affecting the environment. Border Fall Height, Aguiñiga’s first solo presentation in the Bay Area, consists of a series of rust prints depicting a thirty-foot ladder. These works were made using an actual object that Aguiñiga found near the US–Mexico border, where the boundary between nations has been demarcated by a thirty-foot fence, among other militarized forms of division. ... More
Honoring the overlooked: Jakkai Siributr's tapestries explore grief, migration, and social injustice LONDON.- Flowers Gallery is presenting the work of Jakkai Siributr (b.1969), one of Southeast Asia's leading contemporary artists, working primarily in textile. Based in Bangkok, Siributr is known for his intricately handmade tapestries, quilts, and installations, which convey powerful responses to contemporary and historical societal issues in Southeast Asia, migration, and personal stories of grief and remembrance. On display within this exhibition are multiple series spanning from 2016 to 2023, addressing themes of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on economic and ethnic minorities and exploring the experiences of displaced refugees. Siributr’s practice highlights overlooked and neglected stories and experiences of groups that have been largely ignored. Siributr's exhibition at Flowers Gallery coincides with his first institutional ... More
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