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The Whitney celebrates 10 years downtown
NEW YORK, NY.- The Whitney Museum of American Art presents Decade Downtown, a series of on-site public programs and events spanning ten weeks, starting in May 2025 and running through mid-July to celebrate ten years of the Whitney in the Meatpacking District. Since May 2015, the Museum has called this neighborhood home in its Renzo Piano–designed building at 99 Gansevoort Street. As part of a neighborhood rich in history, creativity, and cultural exchange, the Whitney has played an integral role in contributing to this vibrant cultural center on Manhattan’s west side by bringing art, ideas, and community together with its state-of-the-art exhibitions, education programing, free admissions initiatives, and strong engagement with partner organizations and neighbors. To mark this exciting milestone and celebrate many more years to come, Decade ... More

Chimeras unleashed: Medieval meets modern art in new Musée de Cluny exhibition
PARIS.- The Musée de Cluny in Paris today opened its doors to "Summoning Chimeras. Medieval Heritage in Contemporary Art," a captivating exhibition that forges a dialogue across centuries, placing medieval artworks in conversation with contemporary pieces. The exhibition explores the enduring question of how the Middle Ages continues to fuel the imaginations of artists working today. A collaboration with the Fonds régional d’art contemporain (Frac) Île-de-France as part of their "Berserk & Pyrrhia" program, the show weaves approximately fifteen contemporary works from the Frac's collection and other artists into the museum's existing displays. This creates a fascinating interplay, where modern "chimeras" emerge from the backdrop of medieval artifacts. A key theme explored is the shared fascination with the fantastic. The exhibition highlights how contemporary artists ... More

"PROCESS" exhibition explores Afrodiasporic creativity, community, and defiance
OSLO.- PROCESS is an exhibition in development by Marie Cole, Haweya Jama, Ayesha Jordan, and Lara Okafor. It is an inquiry into creative processes and how they encourage critical thinking, communal growth, exchange, and defiance; specifically, from Afrodiasporic perspectives. Their aim to co-create an ever-evolving environment that can be influenced by the numerous bodies and ideas that engage with the space. The six weeks are divided into three chapters: cleanse, cultivate, and harvest. These three seasons are in conversation with plant cycles. They also describe the PROCESS we hope participants will engage in during the exhibition period. Artists Ayan Abdi, Javon Bennett, and Waldane Walker will use the gallery as an open studio, allowing their practices to evolve in dialogue with the public. We are living in a time where we need more than just production ... More

daadgalerie presents Ting-Jung Chen: Here on the Edge of the Sea We Sit
BERLIN.- Does power whisper? How are territories communicated? Is there a sensory vision of collective identity? In her first solo exhibition in Germany, Taiwanese artist Ting-Jung Chen explores these profound questions, crafting a scenario both conceptual and immersive. The exhibition resonates with the echoes of public political speeches as well as public monuments, offering a critical perspective on how narratives, power, and identity are not only constructed but also expressed and contested within public and private spheres. Chen’s multi-layered installation explores the interplay between sound and the sensory emotions it evokes, paying attention to how power structures exploit these elements to consolidate control. Chen questions the systems and stories that define our shared histories. Her work critically examines the “ideal” narratives and imagery often embedded ... More

Pera Museum celebrates Samih Rifat's multifaceted genius in new exhibition
ISTANBUL.- Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Pera Museum presents the exhibition titled Samih Rifat: "Much Is to Be Done", offering a glimpse into the world of art and thought of the multifaceted intellectual Samih Rifat. The exhibition, which sheds light on his intellectual journey, interdisciplinary transitions, and poetic sensibility, brings together his notebooks and notes alongside his works in photography, writing, poetry, translation, drawing, film, and music in a comprehensive manner for the first time and welcomes visitors until August 17. On its 20th anniversary, Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Pera Museum presents the exhibition titled Samih Rifat: "Much Is to Be Done" – photographs, films, drawings, poems, notebooks, books, and music…, centering on an intellectual of “a thousand arts”, Samih Rifat. The exhibition, which sheds light on Rifat’s intellectual journey, ... More

New exhibition illustrates the power of graphic design in societal context
LONDON.- A new exhibition devoted to the legacy of Czech graphic design entitled IDENTITA - The Story of Czech Graphic Design opened at Notting Hill’s Window and Bouda galleries. The exhibit, which received much acclaim in its homeland, showcases an extensive collection of Czech graphic design from early 20th century to the present day, highlighting its most significant achievements as well as the evolution of the discipline and the effect it has on society. “Czech graphic design is known in the world mainly thanks to masterpieces from the modernist era. However, the exhibition shows that other periods are also worthy of attention, especially the last twenty years. ” says Filip Blažek, curator of the exhibition. From state symbols to books and from road signage to film posters, graphic design is a form of visual language shaping th ... More

On April 1, get Kim Hastreiter's "STUFF: A New York Life of Cultural Chaos"
NEW YORK, NY.- Kim Hastreiter, co-founder of the beloved PAPER magazine, has spent her entire career participating in, documenting, and creating explosive cultural movements that began in downtown New York City and quickly spread throughout the world. For over 50 years she has also amassed a vast and iconoclastic collection of amazing stuff. This volume, aptly titled STUFF: A New York Life of Cultural Chaos (Damiani Books, 2025), chronicles an extraordinary slice of history and the people who defined it, using Hastreiter’s singular edit of art, fashion, design, photography, books and ephemera as a lens. The book features rare cover art by the elusive, yet legendary artist Jim Joe, best known for their iconic album cover for Drake’s If You're Reading This It's Too Late. "I am a fanatical collector and curator of ‘stuff,’” writes Hastreiter. “Mostly stuff that I think is amazing, ... More

Tang Teaching Museum announces Queer Archives Symposium, April 4-5
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY.- The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College announced the Queer Archives Symposium, a two-day program of conversations, presentations, and screenings on April 4–5, culminating with a special dance and music performance. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition a field of bloom and hum—a survey of work from more than 160 queer artists from the past 100 years—the symposium brings together a vibrant group of artists, scholars, archivists, dancers, and musicians to explore the complexities and power of queer art to assert a place for queer identities and communities. In one session, art history students will create new oral histories in a public interview with exhibiting artists Siobhan Liddell and Liz Collins. Other sessions feature scholars and artists discussing the legacy of Steven Arnold, David ... More