Liz Schreiber, State Fairs: Growing American Craft, 2024-2025, various seeds and flower petals, Courtesy of Liz Schreiber.
WASHINGTON, DC.- State fairs have sparked the American imagination with their celebrations of agricultural bounty, mechanical innovations and skilled handcrafts since the first fair was held in 1841 in upstate New York. Craft has always been an essential element of state fairs and Native American tribal fairs, expressing the creative and practical values of handmade goods in American society. State fairs enable artists to display and sell their work and help sustain unique regional and cultural traditions. “State Fairs: Growing American Craft” occupies both floors of the Renwick Gallery, the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s branch location for contemporary craft, from Aug. 22 to Sept. 7, 2026. It is the first exhibition dedicated to artists’ contributions to the great U.S. tradition of state fairs. With more than 240 artworks on view, dating from the mid-19th century to the present, this exhibition registers the many ways the craft of state fairs has enriched the lives of artists a ... More
Smithsonian traveling exhibition explores prevalence of American Indian images, words and stories in American history and contemporary life.
WASHINGTON, DC.- A traveling version of the thought-provoking Smithsonian exhibition “Americans” will begin a six-year national tour in August. Based on the major exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, “Americans” explores how deeply intertwined American Indians are in the history, popular culture and identity of the United States. Through a collaboration between the Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street (MoMS) and state humanities councils and cultural organizations, “Americans” will launch simultaneous yearlong tours of Kansas, Kentucky and Colorado. The exhibition opens Aug. 23 at the River Discovery Center in Paducah, Kentucky, and the Watkins Museum of History in Lawrence, Kansas, in partnership with Haskell Cultural Center and Museum. It will open Sept. 13 at Fort Garland Museum and Cultural Center, a Smithsonian Affiliate, in Fort Garland, Colorado. “Americans” ... More
This exhibition takes seemingly disparate works created on a typewriter.
ATLANTA, GA.- Cristin Tierney Gallery announces Tim Youd's exhibition Striking Characters: Typewriters, Literary Worlds, and The Art of Tim Youd at the Michael C. Carlos Museum. Striking Characters: Typewriters, Literary Worlds, and the Art of Tim Youd, opening on August 27, 2025, in Woodruff Library’s Schatten Gallery, explores how the typewriter has sparked the cultural imagination and radically transformed storytelling, literature, and visual art over nearly two centuries. This exhibition takes seemingly disparate works created on a typewriter—a typescript draft of The Wiz, a retyped diptych of An American Marriage, Vietnam-era protest flyers made by Emory students, first editions of Bram Stoker’s Dracula,and L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz—and puts them in conversation with one another and with the works of LA-based performance artist Tim Youd. The show sets the vast riches of Emory Libraries' literary archives and the performance and ... More
TZUSOO, Agarmon 5, 2025. Agar, moss, piercing, 15×13×18cm. Courtesy of the artist and Independent Garden.
SEOUL.- The MMCA×LG OLED Series, making its debut this year as part of a collaboration between MMCA and LG Electronics, is a futuristic project that goes beyond the intersection of digital and contemporary art to explore possibilities for expansion in visual art today. The project aims to use technology as a medium to broaden the world that we can sense, and to share new artist narratives and emergent moments. The MMCA×LG OLED Series exhibits new works by a single artist, selected through recommendation and evaluation by experts from the art world, in the Seoul Box, the central space at MMCA’s Seoul branch. The chosen artist’s works are designed to reflect the specific characteristics of the Seoul Box. By offering opportunities to artists with a deep understanding of space, originality and a sense of experimentation, MMCA strives to create futuristic museum landscapes forged ... More
Bring it to the Runway, Runway by Spencer Harrison. Photo by Eugene Hyland; Source - Museums Victoria.
MELBOURNE.- For those who have yet to bounce on Beci Orpin’s Bunny Dearest or browse nostalgically for their favourite video tape in Callum Preston’s Videoland, or those who simply want to do it again - good news is at hand. Due to popular demand, the much-loved Joy exhibition has been extended at Immigration Museum until 7 December 2025. Since opening in March 2024, Joy has welcomed more than 155,000 visitors through its colourful doors. Rave reviews have been flowing in: ‘Joy made me feel like a child again...this was the happiest I've felt in a long time. Wishing I could live in the Joy exhibition’. ‘It was just a thoroughly beautiful immersive joyful experience’. ‘I've been very stressed and have been reflecting recently on the need for more joy in my life and what that would look like...the exhibit is timely and made me feel seen. It was moving and thought ... More
RM Sotheby’s achieved over $165 million in total sales, with an 87% sell-through rate and bidders from 46 countries.
MONTEREY, CALIF.- RM Sotheby’s concluded its 28th annual Monterey auction with record-breaking results, headlined by the $26 million sale of a one-of-one 2025 Tailor Made Ferrari Daytona SP3. The result established a new world record as the most valuable new car ever sold at auction. Across the two-day sale, RM Sotheby’s achieved a total of over $165 USD in sales, with bidders from 46 countries and 87 percent of all lots sold, including 37 lots surpassing $1 million and six exceeding $5 million. “Monterey has always been a stage for historic results, and this year will be remembered as one of the finest,” said Gord Duff, President of RM Sotheby’s. “We brought cars the market truly wanted, and the results speak for themselves. From setting a world record with the Daytona SP3 to remarkable results for the LaFerrari Aperta, ... More
Derek Franklin, TOS (Theater of Survival) #41, 2024. Oil on canvas, 50 x 62 x in | 127 x 157.48 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Derek Franklin’s The Shadows That Haunt the Rooms Behind Our Eyes addresses a climate of antinomy and acquiescence. Franklin’s paintings, sculptures, and site specific installations present a conversation about the performance of images, and how what is presented to the outside may be a concealment, perhaps even unknowingly, of inner resistance. This interplay takes place at the intersection of sculpture, image-making, and theater, and is elaborated with objects encountered inside domestic spaces such as coatracks and flowers. A loop of repair is intentionally placed within the works for the viewer to contemplate relationships to vital needs. Using the proscenium, which is an ancient theatre model traditionally separating performers from audience, the artist presents a chance to reconsider the images seen every day, which feed into our expectations ... More
Ben Horns, Untitled (Bed), 2025, oil on linen, 28 x 41 inches.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- parrasch heijnen will present Ben Horns: Another Nature, the gallery’s first solo exhibition with the New York-based artist (b. 1989, Palos Heights, IL). Another Nature presents oil paintings that suture Horns’ own photographs of shifting vistas and interiors alongside his interpretations of landscape imagery extracted from the earliest surviving American, British, and Soviet color films, which date to the 1920s and 1930s. In this latest body of work, Horns explores the degrees and modes of realism embedded in contemporary and outmoded imaging technology. Collapsing personal imagery with visual manifestations of a far-off collective visual unconscious, the artist’s paintings catalyze in the gap between the two. Through the visual apposition of motionlessness and fluidity, Horns’ interior paintings reflect a transfiguration of nature and technology, where each reproduction, circulation, and/or cropping of an image removes it further from its original context. Detache ... More
Brea Souders, Hanging Vines, 2024, from Blue Women. Archival Pigment Print, 20 x 16 in (50.80 x 40.64 cm), Edition of 3 +1AP.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- EUQINOM Gallery announces Blue Women, the first solo exhibition of Brea Souders with the gallery. Exhibited together for the first time, Blue Women and Another Online Pervert trace intimate entanglements between technology, identity, and image. Both projects explore how human subjects are shaped, mediated, and transformed, whether by algorithms, commercial fantasy, or environmental decay. Using contrasting approaches – rephotography in public space, and private dialogue with an AI – Souders' work reveals how desire, memory, and meaning endure across artificial interfaces and organic systems. Another Online Pervert (2021–2023) derives from a years-long series of conversations between Souders and an early, pre-ChatGPT female AI chatbot. These exchanges are interspersed with entries from Souders’ diary spanning two decades and paired with photographs from her personal archive. Through this intimate layering ... More
MADISON, WI.- This retrospective aims to trace the evolution of her practice and reframe Takaezu as one of the most compelling and conceptually innovative American artists of the last century. It will serve as an in-depth consideration of the range, depth, and development of Takaezu’s work, with a particular focus on the worlds she conjured within individual forms, and in stunning environmental installations. The title of the show is meant to evoke the vital sense of resonant space expressed in Takaezu’s work, and allude to her assertion that the most important aspect of her closed forms is “the dark space that you can’t see” — the hidden worlds within. Of Okinawan heritage and born in Hawai‘i, Toshiko Takaezu was a groundbreaking twentieth-century abstract artist most celebrated for her prolific output of expressively glazed “closed form” ceramic sculptures that ranged ... More
Forms of Remembrance, Chris Salas’s first solo exhibition, emerged from an abiding interest in the relationship between heritage, memory, materials, and material culture.
MILWAUKEE, WI.- Chris Salas: Forms of Remembrance opened at the Lynden Sculpture Garden on Saturday, August 23, 2025. In Forms of Remembrance, the artist explores material cultures as living reflections of ecological and ancestral relationships across the Americas. From ceramic, to dirt, to seed—what vibrant stories are held within their inanimacy? The exhibition remains on view through Sunday, November 2, 2025. Forms of Remembrance, Chris Salas’s first solo exhibition, emerged from an abiding interest in the relationship between heritage, memory, materials, and material culture. During summer residencies at the Lynden Sculpture Garden in 2024 and 2025, these interests became rooted in Lynden’s landscape and particularly the gardens stewarded by artists-in-residence Open Kitchen (Rudy Medina and Alyx Christensen). ... More
Marie-Claire Messouma Manlanbien. Cure and Care, 2024. Tapestry with various thread types, ceramics, salmon leather, semi-precious stones, plants and paper. Courtesy the artist and Cecile Fakhoury.
LONDON.- Gasworks presents Mémoires des corps [Embodied Memories], the first UK solo exhibition by Paris-based artist Marie-Claire Messouma Manlanbien. Through textile, drawing, sculpture, video-performance and installation, Marie-Claire’s work explores how ideas of femininity and the cosmos intersect across cultures, generations and materials. Born in Paris in 1990, Marie-Claire grew up between France, Guadeloupe and Cote d’Ivoire. From a young age she was taught contemporary and traditional manual craft techniques by her mother and grandmother. Adapting these traditions and experiences, as well as her Creole heritage, Marie-Claire’s multidisciplinary practice is infused with the materials and ideas surrounding her. Artworks become complex maps of plural identities, diverse ecosystems in which natural ... More
Isaac Julien, Vagabondia - Reflection.
MIAMI, FLA.- The Bass announces Isaac Julien: Vagabondia, presenting the artist’s celebrated 2000 film and video installation recently gifted to The Bass’s collection by Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz. Sir Isaac Julien (b. 1960), KBE RA, is a British artist and filmmaker who has devoted his four-decade career to expanding the possibilities of the moving image. Coming to prominence in 1980s London, his work—spanning film, video, and photography—combines poetic visual storytelling with critical explorations of cultural memory and the dispersion of Black individuals and communities throughout the diaspora. His films unsettle histories shaped by institutions and mainstream narratives, foregrounding voices and perspectives that are often overlooked. Vagabondia (2000), a two-screen film installation that recently entered The Bass’s collection, brings these concerns into sharp focus. Set within London’s Sir John Soane’s Museum—founded in 1837 and ... More
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"Jack Boul: Land, City, Home" to open at The Blowing Rock Art & History Museum BLOWING ROCK, NC.- The Blowing Rock Art & History Museum (BRAHM) announces a new exhibition, “Jack Boul: Land, City, Home,” which will open on August 30, 2025, and remain on view in the Atwell Gallery through March 7, 2026. Jack Boul (1927–2024) was a painter, printmaker and sculptor whose work captured the quiet rhythms of life in urban, agrarian and domestic landscapes. Born in Brooklyn, he spent much of his career in Washington, D.C., where his urban landscapes took on the form of architectural portraits, focusing on the relationships formed within the built environment. His works often explore the stillness and structure of city streets, facades and rooftops, where the presence of people is implied by the spaces they inhabit, but rarely depicted. Boul’s pastoral and cultivated landscapes, in contrast, focus on the land itself, fields, farmsteads ... More
The Wexner Center for the Arts presents the first survey of Turner Prize winner Veronica Ryan COLUMBUS, OH.- The Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University presents Veronica Ryan: Unruly Objects. Co-organized by the Wexner Center and the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, the first comprehensive solo exhibition of the Turner Prize-winning artist will be on view at the multidisciplinary arts space through January 11, 2026. Unruly Objects features more than 100 works made over four decades by the British artist, known for her singular ability to convert the most common materials into revelatory art. It is curated by Tamara H. Schenkenberg, curator, with Molly Moog, curatorial assistant, Pulitzer Arts Foundation. Among the sculptures, textiles, and works on paper are pieces made of traditional materials including bronze and marble, as well as others sourced from everyday items such as seeds, pods, orange peels, bandages, and plastic bottles. ... More
Foam to present major solo exhibition of Dutch duo Blommers & Schumm AMSTERDAM.- Foam presents the first major solo-exhibition of Dutch artist duo Blommers & Schumm, offering a deep dive into over 25 years of their playful and provocative image-making. Anuschka Blommers and Niels Schumm met at Amsterdam’s Gerrit Rietveld Academy and began collaborating shortly after graduating in 1997. Since then, they have become leading figures in international fashion photography, known for blurring the line between editorial work and autonomous art, creating timeless imagery that moves beyond the seasonality of fashion. Blommers & Schumm have developed a singular visual language — both conceptually rich and visually striking. By challenging the conventions of fashion photography and embracing the unexpected, their work invites us to reconsider what we see and how we preceive that. In an era of computer-generated imagery, ... More
Bill Reid Gallery explores the Potlatch tradition with premiere of - NDN Giver - VANCOUVER, BC.- Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art presents the world premiere of NDN Giver, from September 17, 2025 – January 25, 2026. Curated by the gallery’s Assistant Curator Amelia Rea in her solo curatorial debut, the exhibition examines reciprocity, identity, and the evolving practice of gift-giving within potlatch traditions. Bringing together contemporary potlatch gifts such as prints and mugs alongside archival records of historical potlatches, NDN Giver features select pieces from Amelia’s personal collection as well as works by artists from communities across the coast, including the Haida and Heiltsuk Nations. “The preparation for NDN Giver has been deeply personal and community-oriented,” says Rea, Bill Reid Gallery Assistant Curator. “It has meant revisiting my own collection of potlatch gifts, reaching out to artists and knowledge holders, and navigating ... More
Stremmel Gallery to present new works by Linda Infante Lyons and Jon Farber RENO, NEV.- Stremmel Gallery will present an exhibition of new works by painters Linda Infante Lyons and Jon Farber, on view from September 4 – October 4, 2025. The exhibition marks the first show for both artists at Stremmel Gallery. Linda Infante Lyons, a registered Alutiiq Alaska Native, blends European religious iconography—like halos and sacred poses—with Alutiiq cultural motifs. Her simplified forms and tranquil landscapes evoke spiritual depth, often portraying still, expansive scenes devoid of human presence. Rooted in Alutiiq cosmology, her work reflects the belief that all things—living or inanimate—possess a soul, using light, color, and balance to express this unseen spiritual energy. Lyons earned a degree in biology at Whitman College, WA, and studied art at the Vila del Mar Fine Arts Institute in Chile. Her work can be found in the permanent collections ... More
Miles McEnery Gallery to feature new works by Lisa Corinne Davis NEW YORK, NY.- Miles McEnery Gallery will present Syllogism, New York-based artist Lisa Corinne Davis’ second solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition is on view 4 September through 25 October 2025 at our 525 West 22nd Street gallery. Accompanying the exhibition is a fully illustrated catalogue featuring an essay by Connie H. Choi. The title of Davis’ newest exhibition, Syllogism, hints at her ongoing fascination with how systems of reasoning are woven, as well as how they unravel. In response to this decades-long, epistemic investigation, she has built a distinct visual language of geometric abstraction, which bears resemblance to maps or blueprints. While her compositions carry the visual and historical weight of these codes, she manages to transform them into something altogether new. Her paintings avoid absolutism, and offer multiple paths (both literal and interpretive) ... More
New exhibition explores questions of becoming and belonging SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY.- The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College presents All These Growing Things, a year-long exhibition of contemporary and historical paintings, prints, textiles, photography, and sculpture from the Tang Museum collection that explores questions of becoming and belonging. Organized around four central ideas—Ancestries, Masks, Transformations, and Hybrids—the exhibition traces personal, ancestral, and cultural histories; considers masking as both revelation and concealment; explores the transformative possibilities of our lives; and highlights interconnections among humans, plants, and animals. Hybrids functions as a cross-cutting thread that weaves through the other three sections to draw out these interconnections. The exhibition will be on view from August 23 through July 19, 2026. ... More
Art Omi presents fall/winter 2025 exhibitions GHENT, NY.- Art Omi presents three major projects this fall: Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio's first East Coast outdoor installation examining colonial histories through botanical extraction, YATTA's immersive exploration of Black wandering and West African musical heritage, and Harold Stevenson's first New York institutional solo exhibition, celebrating four decades of fearless figurative work. This autumn, Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio premieres Invernadero herido (para Huerta) [Wounded greenhouse (for Huerta)] (2025), a new commission by Art Omi and his first outdoor installation on the East Coast, centered around the Wardian case, a nineteenth-century device of colonial extraction that became the basis for the Crystal Palace in London. This apparatus ... More
Opening soon at Georgetown University Art Galleries: McArthur Binion & Lorraine O'Grady WASHINGTON, DC.- Notes on Form (Intimate Structures) explores McArthur Binion’s work from 2009 to the present, highlighting his ongoing use of form, shape, and a deeply personal language of abstraction. Born in 1946 in Mississippi and raised as one of eleven children, Binion’s early life continues to inform the material and conceptual foundation of his practice. Referring to each work as a self-portrait, he layers oil stick and ink in hatched lines of a grid, a signature characteristic of Binion’s oeuvre, on top of a collage of personal documents such as birth certificates, photographs, address book pages, and images of his childhood home. Each canvas becomes an extension of the “under conscious,” a term he uses to articulate the deeply embedded personal histories that materialize in his work. While Binion’s compositions gesture towards the minimalist style of a grid, ... More
Goodman Gallery to present a Group Exhibition with Maxwell Alexandre, Pélagie Gbaguidi, and Ibrahim Mahama JOHANNESBURG.- Goodman Gallery Johannesburg will present ‘Carriers’, a group exhibition that brings together the work of Maxwell Alexandre, Pélagie Gbaguidi, and Ibrahim Mahama. This exhibition marks the first time Alexandre and Mahama have exhibited at the gallery. These three artists’ practices bear witness to histories that have been inscribed on bodies, materials, and territories. Across painting, installation, photography, and assemblage, each artist engages the act of “carrying”; as a burden, a legacy, a gesture of continuity, and a strategy of resistance. Opening during FNB Art Joburg, a pivotal moment in Johannesburg’s cultural calendar. Together, these artists engage the concept of carrying: transporting the past into the present, ... More
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On a day like today, German-born photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt died
August 24, 1995. Alfred Eisenstaedt (December 6, 1898 - August 24, 1995) was a German-born American photographer and photojournalist. He is best known for his photograph of the V-J Day celebration and for his candid photographs, frequently made using a 35mm Leica camera. In this image: Harold Gray, chairman of the board of United Technologies Corp., points to a print as he discusses the photo with photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt at Manhattan’s International Center for Photography in New York in Jan. 22, 1981. The display of photographs titled “Eisenstaedt Germany” was organized by the Smithsonian Institution of Washington and made possible by United Technologies.
