Fragments of the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts (Volumes II and III). Photo credit: National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC: S1982.84.1-5
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art has deaccessioned fragments of the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts (fourth–third century B.C.E.) from its collection and formally transferred them to the National Cultural Heritage Administration (NCHA) of the People’s Republic of China during a ceremony at the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C., May 16. This transfer strengthens century-old collaborations between the National Museum of Asian Art and Chinese archaeological sites and museums. More broadly, this act embodies the museum’s commitment to research, access and collaboration. Known by scholars as Volumes II and III, these fragments and the bamboo basket that contained them, which was also deaccessioned and transferred, are associated with the primary Eastern Zhou Zidanku Silk Manuscript (Volume I), which is privately owned. The manuscripts, which are a kind of divination guide that illuminates key concepts in ancient Chinese philosophy, are exceptionally significant ... More
The Unruly Archive is Syjuco’s first monograph, weaving together her research-based practice with a substantial array of visual source material.
AUSTIN, TX.- Syjuco, a Filipino‑American artist known for research‑driven installations and tactical public projects, has long interrogated how institutions frame racialized bodies. “I do not make work about Filipino identity; I make work about the white gaze, and those are two totally different things,” she notes early in the book. That uncompromising stance anchors a 320‑page volume published by Radius Books in May 2024. It gathers nearly three decades of practice alongside newly commissioned essays and extensive visual documentation. The editorial team—including writers Astria Suparak, Carmen Winant, Pio Abad, Wendy Red Star, and others—sets Syjuco’s projects against wider debates on empire, museum anthropology, and activist image‑making. Their multiple perspectives keep the tone discursive rather than celebratory, allowing readers to weigh evidence instead of accepting a single thesis. True ... More
Burial Urn, 600–850 CE. Artist: K’iché (Maya). Earthenware, post-fire paint. Gift of John Bourne, 2009.
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Walters Art Museum debuts Latin American Art / Arte Latinoamericano, presenting 200 works created over four thousand years and representing 40 cultures from North, Central, and South America, as well as the Caribbean. Latin American Art / Arte Latinoamericano is the museum’s first long-term installation dedicated to the cultural, historical, and social exploration of Indigenous art of the Americas based on its permanent collection, and highlights examples of ancient ceramics, gold, paint, shells, silver, stone, and textiles. With the opening of this installation, the Walters becomes an essential destination for Latin American art in Maryland. Latin American Art / Arte Latinoamericano features works by 10 contemporary Latino artists alongside historical works, touch and scent stations, reading nooks, community-centered video integrations, and bilingual didactic materials in English and Spanish. The installation was informed by advisory ... More
Georges Kars (1882–1945), In the Painting Gallery, 1933. Private collection. Photo Jana Hojstričova.
MONTREAL.- In an exclusive showing in Canada, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) is bringing to light the story of Berthe Weill: a nearly forgotten figure of Modern art who played a seminal role in the development of Avant-garde movements in France in the first half of the 20th century. A trailblazing female art dealer, Berthe Weill (1865-1951) was the first to sell Pablo Picasso’s work and to exhibit Henri Matisse. She was also the only dealer to organize a solo show for Amedeo Modigliani during his lifetime. Passionate, outspoken and visionary, Weill unwaveringly supported fledgling artists, many of whom went on to become icons of Modernism. Comprising over 100 works and archival documents, Berthe Weill, Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-garde features exceptional paintings and sculptures by major figures of Modern art ranging from Pablo Picasso to Suzanne Valadon. It is the first large-scale exhibition dedicated to the career and artistic vision of Berthe Weill. Weill opened ... More
Nairy Baghramian, Resting Arms. Photo: Vegard Kleven. Courtesy the artist and Kistefos.
JEVNAKER.- For the opening of the 2025 season, Kistefos unveiled the 56th permanent work in the museum’s sculpture park: Resting Arms by the Iranian-born, German artist Nairy Baghramian (b. 1971). The sculpture, a highly abstracted portrait of primary joints in the body, was made in white Carrara marble and steel. By highlighting the vulnerability of the human form, Baghramian challenged the traditional connotations of durability and monumentality often associated with these sculptural materials. The sculpture’s two blocks of marble are heavily veined and pitted on their surface, suggesting fragility, sensitivity and, in the artist’s own words, ‘possible collapse’. They resemble arms and elbows, which the artist has given respite from centuries of upright poses and postures. Baghramian moves the joints from their typical orientation, allowing them to rest and to recover from the stress and impact of daily use. Sited on Kistefos’ terrain, the sculpture invites ... More
This is the captivating story of the spectacular architecture of the century-old Wrigley Building—its design, construction, and enduring significance as one of Chicago’s most emblematic buildings.
AUSTIN, TX.- The Wrigley Building: The Making of an Icon invites readers to rediscover that landmark through nearly four hundred pages of meticulously researched narrative and luminous photography. Published by Rizzoli Electa in April 2025, the hardcover traces the skyscraper’s journey from early sketches to enduring civic emblem. Author Robert Sharoff, celebrated for his architectural profiles, collaborates with photographer William Zbaren, Chicago historian Tim Samuelson, and architect John Vinci. Their combined expertise positions the book at the intersection of scholarship and visual storytelling, ensuring both accuracy and accessibility. Sharoff’s prose distills complex planning decisions into vivid anecdotes. He explains how William Wrigley Jr.’s desire for a “magnet on the river” spurred an ... More
LONDON.- Tate Modern celebrated its 25th anniversary this month, marking the occasion with a special weekend of art, performances, talks, screenings and workshops, organised in partnership with UNIQLO. Over 76,000 people visited over the course of Friday, Saturday and Sunday to join the celebrations. Over 70% of those visitors were under 35 years old, well over double the 30% of under-35s typically seen at Tate Modern. A record 2,000 visitors also signed up to Tate Collective, the gallery’s free scheme for 16-25 year olds, taking the total number of Tate Collective members to over 180,000. It is now the largest arts membership scheme for young people in the world. On Monday, Tate Modern continued its 25th anniversary programme by hosting 25 school groups from across London. Over 600 children enjoyed special workshops and experiences that brought artworks to life, including making collages in response to the free collection ... More
BERLIN.- An art installation by British artist Anna Berry, titled "The Constantly Moving Happiness Machine," is set to open at the DenkRaum "Time & Timeliness" within the Dahlem Research Campus of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. The exhibition, running from May 18 to July 20, 2025, delves into the complex relationship between time, consumption, and manipulation in contemporary society. Berry's installation aims to address the acceleration of consumption and the continuous generation of desires, presenting these as fundamental mechanisms of the current economic system. The work encourages visitors to reflect on their roles as consumers and their participation, often unconscious, in global capitalism. A key feature of "The Constantly Moving Happiness Machine" is its interactive component. Visitors are invited to turn a crank, setting the installation in motion. According to exhibition materials, this action is intended to evoke the immediate gratification associated with everyday consu ... More
Amy Boone-McCreesh, Remember Me, 2025, collage, fabric, beads, embroidery, mixed media on paper, 22 x 21 x 1/2 in, 61 x 55.9 x 0.6 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Morgan Lehman Gallery is presenting Future Histories, a solo exhibition of new works by Baltimore-based artist Amy Boone-McCreesh. Rooted in the historic labor of women—particularly the traditions of sewing samplers, domestic work, and the politics of decoration—Boone-McCreesh's practice draws on textiles, folk art, and advertising to examine how materials and visual language signal class and socio-economic status in American culture. Her work engages with the idea of interiority—both as a psychological space and as a reflection of interior design—where ornament and accumulation reveal identity, taste, and aspiration. At the heart of the exhibition is a suite of intricate works on paper, each formatted to the size of a standard cloth napkin. These vibrant, tactile pieces combine sewing, painting, and personal materials, including clothing belonging to the artist, to form layered compositions rich with hidden messages and symbolic detail. Echoing the ... More
SALEM, MASS.- The Peabody Essex Museum opened a landmark installation of the museum’s remarkable Korean collection in the Yu Kil-Chun Gallery of Korean Art and Culture. PEM is the oldest continuously operating museum in the United States and the first American institution to collect Korean art. The gallery opened on May 17, 2025, thanks to the support from the Korea Foundation and other generous funders, including the National Museum of Korea, who also support PEM’s Curator of Korean Art position. Visitors will see key works of art that reflect life in Korea from the late Joseon dynasty (1392–1910) and early 20th century — a period of cross-cultural connection and transformation — through to the present day. These early works, often rare and one of a kind, vividly show how people lived and interacted with each other in Korea, as well as exemplify their thoughts, values and dreams. Visitors will also see how Korean ... More
In Between One celebrates 25 years of Priska Pasquer Gallery, 2025, Paris, exhibition view, courtesy Priska Pasquer Gallery.
PARIS.- To mark its 25th anniversary, Gallery Priska Pasquer is proud to present In Between One, a group exhibition on view from May 17 to June 17, 2025, at Priska Pasquer PARIS, 6 Rue Couture Saint-Gervais next to the Picasso Museum in the Marais. This deeply personal project reflects the gallery’s journey over the past quarter century, celebrating the richness, complexity, and transformation of art across time, media, and cultural contexts. The exhibition brings together a wide spectrum of works ranging from the 1920s to the present—spanning photography, painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, watercolors, video, digital media, and performance. Carefully curated by Priska Pasquer, In Between One is both retrospective and forward-looking, embodying the gallery’s signature approach: connecting historical positions with contemporary artistic voices and showcasing art as a mirror of societal transformation. The title In Between One refers to transitional or ... More
Ad Astra fully reinstalled on the National Mall entrance. Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum has announced the next phase of gallery openings at its flagship building in Washington, D.C. Five new exhibitions, the Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater and the museum’s redesigned entrance on Jefferson Drive along the National Mall will open Monday, July 28. The project to renovate the entire museum began in 2018 and will culminate next year when the remaining galleries open July 1, 2026, the 50th anniversary of the museum in Washington and in time for the United States’ 250th anniversary. Thousands of artifacts will go back on display in the reopened galleries. Favorites such as the Spirit of St. Louis, the North American X-15, John Glenn’s Mercury Friendship 7 capsule, Apollo Lunar Module 2 and the touchable moon rock will be back on view. Several artifacts new to the building in Washington will include the Sopwith F.1 Camel, Virgin Galactic’s RocketMotorTwo, a Blue Origin New Shepard crew capsule mockup and a Godd ... More
BERLIN.- George Tamihana Nuku is one of New Zealand's leading contemporary artists. As a sculptor, he works with stone, bone, wood and shell, but above all with polystyrene and Plexiglass. From 18 May 2025, the Ethnological Museum will be presenting three large-scale interventions by the Māori artist in two rooms of the ‘Oceania’ exhibition area in the Humboldt Forum. These were created during two fellowships that George Nuku completed in March 2024 and from March to May 2025 as part of the “The Collaborative Museum” initiative. “Manatunga is the Māori word given for precious objects, heirlooms and ancestral treasures. The word itself implies that they are standing - upright. It is also used in the context that these special pieces are concentrated repositories of histories and emotions.” says George Nuku, explaining the title of his exhibition. The interventions created by George Nuku especially for the Oceania ... More
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Ximena Garrido-Lecca: Germinations opens at The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago CHICAGO, IL.- Originating in extensive research and culminating in material sculptures or installations, Ximena Garrido-Lecca’s work foregrounds indigenous knowledge systems and artisanal traditions along with modern technological infrastructures. Often grounded in the specific histories of Peru, where she was born, her body of work also tracks how extractive industry and related economic paradigms have taken on increasingly global dimensions. For a new large-scale project at the Renaissance Society, Germinations, Garrido-Lecca continues her research into plants originally domesticated by Andean and Mesoamerican cultures and their subsequent global dissemination. Taking center stage here is Solanum tuberosum, a tuber known in many places as the potato. Domesticated more than 8,000 years ago in the Altiplano region, the potato has been a pillar in the lives of Andean ... More
Randa Mirza's "BEIRUTOPIA" explores Beirut's dramatic transformations through photography THE HAGUE.- In the exhibition BEIRUTOPIA, Lebanese photographer Randa Mirza (1978) examines the dramatic changes that Beirut, the city she was born and grew up in, has undergone. In recent decades, Lebanon has been rocked by a succession of political, financial and social crises and its people have been burdened by a political elite that enriches itself at their expense. BEIRUTOPIA is a personal visual essay in which we see the city through Mirza’s eyes. In several series of photographs made between 2000 and 2025, Mirza shows how Lebanon has been gripped by the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East. In each series, she has chosen a specific visual language to express her observations and feelings. Her poetic work is characterised by the interplay between truth and fiction, questioning the image as a reliable representation of reality. In the exhibition ... More
Museo Nivola presents a site-specific exhibition by Nathalie Du Pasquier ORANI.- Museo Nivola is presenting Volare Guardare Costruire (to fly, to look, to build), a site-specific project by Nathalie Du Pasquier, a French artist and designer based in Milan, curated by Giuliana Altea, Antonella Camarda, Luca Cheri. Conceived especially for the museum’s spaces, the exhibition takes the form of a retrospective dedicated to the artist’s painting production from her beginnings to the present day. At the same time, it is an environmental installation that merges painting, architecture, and design. The exhibition unfolds through a series of structures designed by the artist, transforming the museum into a space to walk through, explore, and inhabit. The exhibition thus initiates a dialogue between the artist’s ephemeral architectures and the historical structure of the building – the former washhouse of Orani, now the beating heart of Museo Nivola. Inside these “rooms” ... More
Kunstinstituut Melly opens three exhibitions ROTTERDAM.- Paulo Nimer Pjota is a São Paulo-based artist whose painting practice channels the spirit of remix. Drawing from archaeology, street culture, mythology, and pop iconography, he builds layered compositions that often unfold across raw canvas and scrap metal. Paulo sees equivalence between his role as an artist and that of a hip-hop producer sampling sounds; he lifts and collages imagery across time periods and contexts—dissolving distinctions between varied forms of visual, popular, and cultural iconography. With A Lua e Eu (The Moon and I), Paulo debuts an entirely new body of work that marks a shift in focus—from urban visual culture to the rural environments of his youth. Drawing on memories of growing up in São José do Rio Preto, this exhibition moves through interior scenes, plant life, and mythological figures to explore more introspective terrain—the ... More
National Museum of Asian Art and the Royal Commission for AlUla in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia announce collaboration WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art (NMAA) and the Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU) have formalized a collaboration agreement to enhance cultural exchange and mutual understanding between museum professionals and scholars in the United States and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This historic collaboration, signed May 14 by Chase Robinson, the museum’s director, and Abeer AlAkel, the CEO of RCU, during a state visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, builds upon the commitment of both institutions to preserve and celebrate cultural heritage and cultural exchange between the two nations. This collaboration will foster new research, deepen understanding of ancient Arabian art and culture through ... More
The Common Guild presents Myths of the new future GLASGOW.- Myths of the new future is an exhibition that brings together the work of five artists who, in varying and distinct ways, address psychosocial tensions in present-day urban life. Identifying a particularly anxious, unstable, and incoherent texture to our late-capitalist period, Myths of the new future circulates around the question of how it feels to be alive now, through experimental and conceptual works in sculpture, video, drawing, poetry and photography. The artists involved offer propositions that explore affective states, emotional intensities and the unsettling character of our urban social sphere today. Drawing on the title of a 1982 short story by J. G. Ballard (1930–2009), the exhibition evokes many “Ballardian” tropes: hostile architectures, corporate control, maleficent technologies, civil collapse, a social body motivated by brutality and desire—making connections with the material ... More
Adams and Ollman opens Antonia Kuo's first West Coast solo show PORTLAND, ORE.- Adams and Ollman is presenting Subcycle, an exhibition with Antonia Kuo, the artist's first solo show on the West Coast. Kuo investigates key concepts of emptiness and the void with new two- and three-dimensional works that explore the potential of the photographic medium to record and create; to interrogate and conceal; and of industrial processes to act as a metaphor for creation and destruction, autonomy and connection, the individual and the group. The exhibition is on view through June 14, 2025. Inherent in all of Kuo's works is an exploration of how to capture light, time and the artistic process in the studio. Working with light-sensitive paper and photochemistry, Kuo creates layers of imagery that are informed by industrial materials, machine parts, trace gestures of her body, and chance. Her unique photochemical paintings celebrate the unknowable or unseeable, ... More
Haim Steinbach presents "Objects for People" in first Belgian museum solo at MACS HORNU .- Haim Steinbach (born 1944) has redefined the object of art through the selection, arrangement and presentation of everyday objects. They are placed on various supports: shelves, cases, stud walls, and scaffolding. Steinbach is known for the wedge-shaped shelf apparatus he devised in 1984. His laminated wood shelf is triangular in section. It distributes a wide range of objects that are part of the quotidian exchange of cultures and functions. These functions operate in the framework of context and intervention. Steinbach’s practice is focused on the play of everyday living, from the home to the store, to the museum. Like a rebus puzzle, the objects Haim Steinbach presents become the forms of visual language. In this game of gaps between objects, the supports also play their part. Unlike a pedestal which elevates one object above others, a shelf, by virtue ... More
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On a day like today, Italian painter Sandro Botticelli died
May 17, 1510. Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi (c. 1445 - May 17, 1510), known as Sandro Botticelli, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. He belonged to the Florentine School under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici, a movement that Giorgio Vasari would characterize less than a hundred years later in his Vita of Botticelli as a "golden age". In this image: Alessandro Filipepi, called Sandro Botticelli, The Madonna and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist. Tempera, oil and gold on panel / 46.3 x 36.8 cm. Estimate: $5,000,000-7,000,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
