Monday, January 05, 2026

New exhibitions explore Beverly Buchanan's vision of belonging

Beverly Buchanan (American, 1940 – 2015), “Shot Gun House,” 1992. Mixed media, 14 1/4 × 10 1/4 × 15 1/2 inches. Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Gift of Ann Oliver in loving memory and honor of her husband Ted Oliver. 2019.321.
ATHENS, GA.— What makes a place feel like home? The Athenaeum and the Georgia Museum of Art, both at the University of Georgia, are exploring this question through joint exhibitions on the work of Beverly Buchanan. “Shacks, Stories and Spirit: Beverly Buchanan’s Art of Home” will be on view at the Georgia Museum January 3 to June 28, 2026. “Beverly’s Athens” will be on view at the Athenaeum, the university’s non-collecting contemporary art venue, affiliated with its Lamar Dodd School of Art, January 16 to March 21, 2026. Although known nationwide, Buchanan lived in Athens from 1987 to 2010, where she found inspiration in the everyday spaces around her. Using found materials, she built sculptural shacks and photographed humble dwellings across the region. Buchanan also made vibrant drawings that brought these places to life. Through her work, Buchanan argued that these overlooked structures mattered and held stories worth preserving. “Beverly Buchanan’s art speaks to the South in such an intimate, powerful way,” said Shawnya Harris, Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Curator of African American and African Diasporic Art. “She lived here, she knew its landscapes, and she turned everyday materials into narratives of belonging.” “Beverly’s Athens” is the first major solo exhibition of Buchanan’s work in the city. Guest curated by Mo Costello and Katz Tepper and funded through a grant from Teiger Foundation — a private foundation devoted exclusively to supporting contemporary art curators — it focuses on her the local and lived conditions that shaped her work in Athens. The exhibition emphasizes two intertwined threads from Buchanan’s Athens years: her modes of surviving chronic illness in the absence of an equitable healthcare system, and her multidisciplinary efforts to study and commemorate Black southern geography, traditions and forms. “Shacks, Stories and Spirit” a...
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Faux and fabulous: A dazzling collection that celebrates the beauty and artistry of imitation gems

NEW YORK, NY.— Discover the sparkling story of costume jewelry through the extraordinary collection of Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. In the early 20th century, New York became the epicenter of paste jewelry design, as artisans fleeing war-torn Europe rebuilt their craft in America. Their expertise propelled the city to fashion’s forefront, ushering in an era of bold, beautiful, and accessible bijouterie. This gorgeous book, with texts by Carol Woolton and Maria Luisa Frisa—who pens a personal reflection on Patrizia and her collection—showcases nearly 600 of the finest pieces from the 1930s to the new millenium. With stunning photography by Luciano Romano, it follows jewelry’s democratization, as women embraced statement accessorizing and a newfound fashion freedom. Beyond their beauty, these baubles embodied rebellion and transformation: they adorned Hollywood’s greatest icons, and became symbols of identity and creativity. Explore the visionary designers
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Pace will unveil the luminous final works of Richard Pousette-Dart

NEW YORK, NY.— Pace will present Richard Pousette-Dart: Geometry of Summer at its 540 West 25th Street gallery in New York from January 16 through February 28, 2026. The show will spotlight a selection of works created by Richard Pousette-Dart between 1974 and 1992 within the light-filled, natural environs of his home and studio in Rockland County, New York. Building on the gallery’s 2022 exhibition Richard Pousette-Dart: 1950s Spirit and Substance in New York, this presentation focuses on the final two decades of the artist’s life, in which he continued to explore the complex relationships between light and form, the physical and the visual, and the body and the spirit. Geometry of Summer will be the seventh exhibition dedicated to Pousette-Dart mounted by Pace since the gallery began representing his estate in 2013. Pousette-Dart’s process always centered on investigations across media, and he refused
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Vitra Design Museum unveils the century-long history of the fashion show

WEIL AM RHEIN.— They last barely fifteen minutes, yet their images are seen around the world: fashion shows are media spectacles, social rituals, and style-defining statements. With the exhibition »Catwalk: The Art of the Fashion Show«, the Vitra Design Museum is dedicating a major show to the phenomenon of fashion shows. The exhibition explores the history and cultural significance of the fashion show from its early forms around 1900 to the present day and brings together fashion houses such as Azzedine Alaïa, Balenciaga, Chanel, Dior, Gucci, Maison Martin Margiela, Prada, Viktor & Rolf, Louis Vuitton, Yohji Yamamoto, and many others. Original collection pieces, film and photographic material, stage objects, and show invitations animate over 100 years of fashion history on the catwalk. The exhibition focuses on the fashion show as a Gesamtkunstwerk. What began as an intimate presen- tation in Parisian salons has evolved into a global event where
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Michel Paysant reimagines Monet's Water Lilies at Musée de l'Orangerie

PARIS.— Michel Paysant’s work is built upon contact with science: “Making art interests me, but collaborating with fields that, a priori, have nothing to do with it, different genres, is fascinating”, he confides. Which is why he developed a type of drawing based on recordings of his eye movements. The project, titled DALY, standing for Dessiner avec les yeux (Drawing with my Eyes), is implemented with the help of an eye tracker (an oculometric procedure that highlights eye activity, the visual path, its fixation points and movements). So the eye rather than the hand becomes the tool. For the last thirty or so years, the artist has collaborated with numerous laboratories in creation of these works, including at the Louvre, the Centre Pompidou, the MUDAM in Luxembourg, the Zentrum Paul Klee in Berne, the Dadu Museum in Beijing, the Nouveau Musée National in Monaco and
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Sophie Taeuber-Arp's radical geometry arrives at Hauser & Wirth

PARIS.— This sharply focused historical exhibition, ‘Sophie Taeuber-Arp. La règle des courbes / The Rule of Curves’ is curated by Briony Fer and is the gallery’s first solo display of Taeuber-Arp’s work, featuring over 45 artworks spanning a four-decade period from 1916 – 1942. Coming from the German Arp Foundation (Stiftung Hans Arp und Sophie-Taeuber-Arp e.V.) and important private and public collections, the show includes paintings, drawings, gouaches, wooden reliefs and an iconic Dada head. The exhibition draws attention to the artist’s formal vocabulary of the curve, which she used in innovative ways to stretch, bend and warp the language of geometric abstraction. Sophie Taeuber-Arp is one of the most important artists of the 20th-century avant-garde. Dismantling conventional oppositions between Dada
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Paul Reed retrospective at D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc. traces the sixties' color revolution

NEW YORK, NY.— The exhibition at the gallery complements Paul Reed's major retrospective at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art curated by David Gariff, senior lecturer at the National Gallery of Art. The retrospective includes over one hundred paintings, sculptures, and works on paper drawn from the Oklahoma City Museum of Art's holdings, several DC museums, and private collections across the country. The retrospective runs from November 22, 2025 to April 12, 2026. The Oklahoma City Museum of Art has a long history with the Washington Color School artists, which includes Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Gene Davis, Thomas Downing, Howard Mehring, and Paul Reed. In 1968 the museum purchased the entire collection of the Washington Gallery of Modern Art, founded in 1961 to increase attention given to contemporary art in the nation's capital. Facing closure
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Chez Matisse: A century of modernity invades CaixaForum Madrid

MADRID.— CaixaForum Madrid is hosting an exhibition devoted to Henri Matisse (1869–1954), featuring works from all periods of his career, shown in dialogue with major figures of 20th-century art and a selection of contemporary artists who pay tribute to him. The result of a collaboration between Centre Pompidou and the ”la Caixa” Foundation, the show brings together 46 works by Matisse and 49 by other artists, creating a web of cross-references that sheds light on a century of creativity and avant-garde expression. The exhibition devoted to Matisse is the first under the second major strategic partnership renewed between the ”la Caixa” Foundation and Centre Pompidou in Paris to jointly organise exhibitions. It is on display
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Footwear fantasy: Exclusive access to the shoe collection of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology

NEW YORK, NY.— Sky-high, ornate, and the pinnacle of glamour, both restrictive and liberating, art object and deeply ordinary, shoes tell the story of shifting attitudes toward desire, power, and wealth throughout history. Lace up for a journey through the most enviable shoe closet from the permanent collection at The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology—and four centuries of fashion’s hardest working accessory. Featuring designs from the likes of Louis Vuitton, Salvatore Ferragamo, Chanel, Gucci, Saint Laurent, Roger Vivier, Christian Louboutin, and more, Shoes A–Z. The Collection of The Museum at FIT celebrates fashion’s most revolutionary and coveted labels with more than 400 styles selected from the Museum’s pristinely preserved collection. Texts from Daphne Guinness, Valerie Steele, Colleen Hill, and The Museum’s expert team of curators explore the unique legacy of each of the featured designers and the lasting cultural impact of the shoe. Also featured are
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Rare ritual bath found beneath Western Wall bearing witnesses to 70 CE destruction

JERUSALEM.— A rock-hewn mikveh (ritual purification bath) dating to the final days of the Second Temple period, bearing ash remains that testify to the destruction of the Temple, was discovered in recent days during excavations conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority and the Western Wall Heritage Foundation beneath the Western Wall Plaza. The discovery was made as part of ongoing efforts to uncover Jerusalem’s glorious past. The mikveh is rectangular in shape, measuring 3.05 meters in length, 1.35 meters in width, and 1.85 meters in height. It is hewn into the bedrock and its walls are plastered. Four hewn steps leading into the mikveh were exposed on its southern side. The ancient installation was found sealed beneath a layer from the Second Temple period, dated to the year 70 CE. Within this layer, which contains burned ash bearing witness to the destruction, numerous pottery vessels were discovered, along with stone vessels characteristic of the Jewish population that lived in the c
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Zimmerli unveils decades of "hidden" Armenian art

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ.— Nearly 60 artworks—most of which have not been exhibited in decades—reveal a lesser-known cultural landscape of Armenian art during the Soviet era, uncovering hidden perspectives of cultural autonomy within a constrained political system. Topographies of Dissent: Armenian Art from the Dodge Collection, which is on view at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers, features more than 30 artists who captured the ideological, stylistic and aesthetic diversity of Armenian nonconformism from the 1960s to 1990. Topographies of Dissent is the Zimmerli’s first exhibition dedicated to Armenian nonconformist art, prompting an international curatorial partnership. Zimmerli curator Julia Tulovsky, head of the museum’s Department of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union and Arts of Eurasia, collaborated with Lilit Sargsyan, one of Armenia’s leading art
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Display of Cubist art at The Met celebrates the collection and legacy of Leonard A. Lauder

NEW YORK, NY.— Now on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a display of nearly 40 works of Cubist art honors the extraordinary life and legacy of Leonard A. Lauder (1933–2025), one of the Museum’s greatest patrons and champions. The Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection, which was promised to the Museum in 2013, has been fully accessioned into The Met collection this year. Distinguished by its quality, focus, and depth, the collection is unsurpassed in its number of paintings, sculptures, collages, and works on paper critical to the development of Cubism. The three-room installation in the Museum’s European Painting and Sculpture Galleries presents a significant selection of paintings and sculptures of the four pioneering Cubists—Georges Braque, Juan Gris, Fernand Leger, and Pablo Picasso—placing them in dialogue with one another. It also offers visitors the opportunity to make connections between Cezanne,
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The Icelandic Pavilion moves to a historic new venue

VENICE.— The Icelandic Pavilion will be presented in a new venue at Docks Cantieri Cucchini in San Pietro di Castello, located between the two main International Art Exhibition venues, the Giardini and the Arsenale. A former shipyard once used for the construction of Venetian boats, the Docks comprise a series of interconnected indoor and outdoor spaces, with buildings dating from the late 1800s and 1950s. This distinctive setting will be incorporated into Ásta’s project, becoming part of the artistic experience, where encounters with the audience are as important as the forms themselves, each moment unfolding in ways that cannot be fully anticipated. Ásta will present a new multidisciplinary exhibition that weaves different mediums together with poetry, creating portals that guide visitors through overlapping timelines, perspectives, and storylines. The Icelandic Pavilion will unfold as an environment where nothing exists in isolation: every object, gesture, and sound forms part of a larg
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A striking pink dildo sculpture by Maja Malou Lyse is now on view at ARoS

ARoS has added a new, sensational work to its collection, which is on view in the exhibition ARoS Collection: 1960 – now: a sculpture of an oversized pink dildo, created by Danish artist Maja Malou Lyse. The work Sex Is Not a Natural Act (2019) was created for ARoS’s exhibition Art & Porn, which commemorated the 50th anniversary of the release of visual pornography. It was presented at both ARoS and Kunsthal Charlottenborg in 2019. The work has now returned to ARoS and can be experienced in the collection exhibition alongside Ron Mueck’s Boy (1999) and works by Jenny Holzer, Simon Dybbroe Møller, Tove Storch, Nina Beier, and Liu Shiyuan. “Maja Malou Lyse’s work brings both humour and urgency to the ways in which sexuality is shaped by culture, power, and representation rather than by nature alone. Welcoming this now-iconic piece into the ARoS

PoMo unveils rapidly growing collection of global icons

The newly established PoMo Collection is growing rapidly. The collection is constantly evolving, with new works that contribute to its relevance, distinctiveness and high international quality. The museum is also committed to ensuring that the collection represents a wide diversity of artists, across gender, generations, backgrounds and artistic expressions. In this way, the works reflect the cultural and political shifts of our time, while maintaining a timeless relevance. Through the permanent exhibition, you can experience several of PoMo’s new classics, first presented in the opening exhibition Postcards From the Future: Simone Leigh’s Sphinx (2021), Andra Ursuța’s Thought Bubblelessness (2023), and Cui Jie’s Gulustan Residence, Baku (2020). You can also revisit Katharina Fritsch’s Madonnenfigur / Madonna (1987/2024). The presentation also offers

A master of German absurdism makes his U.S. museum debut at Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami

Featuring paintings and sculptures from 1982 to the present, “Special” is the first solo museum exhibition in the United States for the German painter Andreas Schulze. Though never formally part of any movement or group, Schulze first emerged in 1980s Cologne during the rise of neo-expressionism, forming a singular practice to depict everyday life while challenging the conventions of abstraction and figurative representation. The exhibition surveys the range of Schulze’s distinctive visual language, which features tableaux rich with absurdist humor. Schulze’s imaginative studies of the objects around him are enlivened as their surfaces and volumes take on exaggerated gradients, evoking studio lighting and memory, as well as the dream worlds of surrealism and the gleaming surfaces of pop art. “Special” explores Schulze’s mining of the everyday

Art : Concept launches new collaborative exhibition cycle

In 2026, Art : Concept launches Ménage à Trois, a new exhibition cycle dedicated to presenting, for the first time in France, the work of artists in collaboration with the galleries that represent them. To inaugurate this new cycle, Art : Concept is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Jan Eustachy Wolski, in collaboration with Neue Alte Brücke. Titled after the Polish amalgam Powłoka, the exhibition takes its name from a term that does not fully yield itself to translation. Its semantic field spans notions of membrane, paint covering, film, and any surface that shelters from view, filters perception, or selectively reveals. Unlike in prior works, the series veers from abstraction to figuration in a way that it grants near-equal weight. At times, solitary figures are paired with disorienting, chromatic fields; elsewhere, cityscapes get corrupted into congested, loose paint patches. While

Painter, butcher, banker: Zhao Gang unmasks the identity of a post-global gentleman

Zhao Gang’s second solo presentation with Lisson Gallery The Basterd Gentry, curated by independent curator Evonne Jiawei Yuan, extends his ongoing depiction of landscape, portraiture and still life into an elaborate, performative triad. Coinciding with Shanghai’s art season, the project is structured as an ongoing enactment of exhibitions and conversations across multiple locations in Shanghai, including ASE Foundation. The Basterd Gentry stands as Zhao’s most autobiographical project to date, rooted in the complex negotiation of self-positioning and identity formation over the past four decades—a period during which he has built parallel careers in art and finance across Beijing and New York. Situated at the intersection of reality, representation, and projection, the project interrogates the three roles Zhao embodies—the painter, the butcher,

First major retrospective for sculptor Emma Stebbins on view at the Heckscher Museum of Art

This exhibition is the first to recognize Emma Stebbins (1815–1882) as one of the most significant American sculptors of the nineteenth century. While her Bethesda Fountain in Central Park has been a global icon for 150 years, the full scope of Stebbins’s life and work is virtually unknown. From 1857 to 1870, she created innovative sculptures while living in Rome with her wife, renowned Shakespearean actress Charlotte Cushman, who championed her career. Stebbins modeled inventive and incisive interpretations of literary and biblical subjects, unprecedented allegories of American industry, and notable portraits of her friends and family. In 1863, with the order for the Bethesda Fountain, she became the first woman to earn a commission for a public sculpture from the city of New York. When Bostonians installed her statue of educator Horace Mann

Storm King Art Center announces 2026 exhibitions by Anicka Yi and Saif Azzuz

Storm King Art Center announced their 2026 exhibition schedule. New temporary commissions by Anicka Yi and Saif Azzuz will open to the public on Sunday, May 17, 2026, with a VIP preview on Saturday, May 16. “The 2026 season is exemplary of what Storm King does best: championing artists as they expand the boundaries of their practice, commissioning works that unite sculpture and nature, and creating dialogue between the great mid-century artists in our collection and contemporary artists of today," said Storm King’s Executive Director Nora Lawrence. "Anicka Yi has long been an artist who I knew would enliven our landscape in ways we haven’t yet imagined. Saif Azzuz is creating a project that is also deeply rooted in the land and gives new life to found materials. It is an honor to realize these ambitious outdoor works."
Flashback: On a day like today, French painter and sculptor Gustave Doré was born
Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré (6 January 1832 - 23 January 1883) was a French artist, printmaker, illustrator, comics artist, caricaturist and sculptor who worked primarily with wood engraving. In this image: Gustave Doré, Souvenir of Loch Lomond, 1875. Oil on canvas, 131 × 196 cm. French & Co. LLC.

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