BERLIN.- The Neue Nationalgalerie is presenting Brazilian artist Lygia Clark’s (1920–1988) first retrospective in Germany. With around 120 artworks, the comprehensive exhibition in the upper hall shows her oeuvre from the late 1940s to the 1980s, ranging from geometric-abstract paintings to participatory sculptures and performances. The interactive approach in Clark’s work is a central aspect of the exhibition. Visitors can interact with a large number of replicas created especially for the show. Klaus Biesenbach, Director of Neue Nationalgalerie: "We are delighted to present Lygia Clark, one of the most important and yet – in Germany – least known artists of the 20th century. For the first time in Berlin, a large public will be able to discover her important, influential and engaging work presented comprehensively at Neue Nationalgalerie.” Lygia Clark is regarded as a radical innovator as she fundamentally redefined the relationship between artist and viewer, artw ... More
Brazilian rosewood and mixed wood rocking chair by Sam Maloof (American, 1916-2009),crafted in 1988 and signed, dated and numbered (45) to the underside of the seat. Estimate: $20,000-$30,000.
ATLANTA, GA.- A Brazilian rosewood and mixed wood rocking chair by Sam Maloof (American, 1916-2009), a pressed paper pulp in colors painting by Ellsworth Kelly (American, 1923-2015), and two signed and numbered prints from Sandy Skoglund (American, b. 1946) are a few choice lots in Ahlers & Ogletree’s Modern & Contemporary Art & Design auction planned for Wednesday, June 4th. The following day –Thursday, June 5th – Ahlers & Ogletree will hold a separate auction titled Translucence: Contemporary Studio Art Glass, with 153 lots of studio art glass by artists such as Dale Chihuly (many pieces), Kevin Gordon, Stephen Bradbourne, Nancy Callan and Richard Royal, starting promptly at 10am Eastern time. That auction will also be held online and live in the gallery. Both auctions will begin at 10am Eastern time and will be held online (via Bid.AandOauctions.com, LiveAuctioneers.com and Invaluable.com) and live in the ... More
PORTLAND, ME.- For more than 70 years, Alex Katz has redefined contemporary painting, honing his distinctive vision and disciplined approach. This creative legacy extends to the works collected by the Alex Katz Foundation. The Foundation’s support in the form of gifts of art works has shaped a transformative partnership with the Portland Museum of Art (PMA). On view from May 23 to September 14, 2025, Painting Energy: The Alex Katz Foundation Collection at the Portland Museum of Art celebrates over a decade of gifts to the museum, reflecting Katz’s deep personal and professional ties to Maine. “Alex’s belief that Maine deserves great art has inspired his investment in the artistic landscape of this great state,” says Mark H. C. Bessire, Judy and Leonard Lauder Executive Director ... More
Installation view of Roni Horn: Mother, Wonder (2025) at i8 Gallery, Reykjavík. Photo by Vigfús Birgisson.
REYKJAVÍK.- i8 Gallery is presenting Roni Horn: Mother, Wonder, a solo exhibition of new work by Roni Horn, on view from 22 May until 12 July 2025. The show, Horn’s sixth solo presentation at i8 Gallery, debuts a photographic series of Landbrot, an area in southern Iceland known for its mossy, undulating landscape. Featuring portraits of pseudocraters, a volcanic form created as lava flows through wetlands, Horn’s photographic compositions couple the rolling hills, emphasising an anthropomorphisation of the terrain. The acts of pairing and doubling, often used by Horn in her work, invite deeper consideration from the viewer and underscore the surreality and indeterminacy of the hills. Initially printed in the eleventh volume of Horn’s ongoing publication project To Place (1990–ongoing), published in 2023 by Steidl, the images in Mother, Wonder were taken by Horn in multiple sessions between 2010 and 2012. Currently, the To Place series comprises eleven unique publications delvi ... More
Marisa González, Lumena Self-Portraits, 1986. Intervened images, digitally created with Lumena equipment on paper. 2 pieces of 98 x 38 cm each. Collection of the artist.
MADRID.- Following her receipt of the prestigious Velázquez Prize in 2023, Marisa González (Bilbao, 1943) is the subject of a major anthological exhibition that revisits her groundbreaking career. The show offers a comprehensive look at an artist who has consistently been ahead of her time, blending artistic innovation with technological experimentation and social commentary. González’s journey into the intersection of art and technology began in the 1970s, during her time at the Department of Generative Systems at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. There, she produced a series of works that revealed her early fascination with communication and image reproduction technologies—an interest that would later position her as a pioneer of media experimentation in Spain. Her participation in Procesos (1986), the inaugural ... More
Coco Fusco. Photo: Miquel Coll.
BARCELONA.- Born in New York in 1960, Coco Fusco has developed a multidisciplinary career that encompasses video art, performance, writing and education. With commitment and critical reflection, her work examines themes such as cultural identity, colonial power, the representation of the other and human rights, its harsh subject matter balanced with a poetic and evocative aesthetic. This characteristic equilibrium is represented in the exhibition that opened at MACBA on 22 May, entitled I Learned to Swim on Dry Land, the first sentence of the 1957 poetic micro-story Natación (Swimming) by the Cuban writer Virgilio Piñera. The exhibition is curated by the museum’s director, Elvira Dyangani Ose, and is a project developed in collaboration with El Museo del Barrio, New York, and supported by the Ford Foundation. The exhibition brings together approximately one hundred pieces in diverse media, grouped into five areas: Cuba as an Empty Square; The Agency of the Other; Power and Prison, Civil Disob ... More
Mary Cassatt, American, 1844–1926, Summertime, 1894, Oil on canvas, 39 5/8 x 32 in., Daniel J. Terra Collection, Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago, IL, 1988.25, Photo courtesy of Terra Foundation for American Art.
COOPERSTOWN, NY.- This summer, Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, New York, presents Mary Cassatt / Berthe Morisot: Allies in Impressionism, on view May 24 – September 1, 2025. The exhibition highlights the influence these two artists had on one another and their overarching impact on the Impressionist movement. The Parisian art scene in the late 19th century was fueled by change. Artists were branching out from the stuffy and stifling Paris Salon and experimenting with new styles and methods of depicting modern life. Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) and Berthe Morisot (1841-1895), thrust together due to their involvement in the Impressionist circle in the 1870s and 1880s, rose within the ranks to become two of the most important women artists of the period. For countless years they have served as an interesting ... More
Elizabeth Atterbury, Second Feet (Molting), 2025, Ceramic, glaze, shells, rock, 9 3/4 x 6 x 3 inches (each foot). Photo by Boru O’Brien O’Connell.
ROCKLAND, ME.- The Center for Maine Contemporary Art announces the exhibition of Portland, ME based artist, Elizabeth Atterbury, titled Leaf Litter. This exhibition will be on view until September 7, 2025. Throughout her practice, Elizabeth Atterbury explores the shifting legibility of objects—the way forms can be reworked, recontextualized, and transformed through material and scale. Atterbury’s sculptures emerge through a process that is deliberate and intuitive, embracing both intention and improvisation as ways to engage with history, memory, and personal narrative. In Leaf Litter, she examines how objects carry traces of past lives and accumulate meaning over time—how a shell outlives its inhabitant or how an oversized fan, scaled beyond human use, takes on a mythological presence, its exaggerated form conjuring the feeling of something both familiar and out of reach. The works in Leaf Litter—rendered ... More
BRUSSELS.- Lithuanian artist Marija Rinkevičiūtė inaugurated her first Belgian solo exhibition, “What remains,” at Irène Laub Gallery on 22 May 2025. The show, which occupies all three rooms of the gallery at 29 Rue Van Eyck in Ixelles, runs through 5 July and is open free of charge from Tuesday to Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Visitors arriving for the vernissage encountered an installation that blurs the boundary between painting and sculpture. Wax-coated linen panels share the walls with stacked paper forms that lean like architectural fragments; cardboard “skins” hang lightly in mid-air, shifting with every movement in the room. The display follows the artist’s long-standing interest in what she calls “the material trace of passing time,” an idea she pursues by layering pigments, dust, and found objects until surfaces appear both fragile and resilient. In the exhibition’s accompanying text, Tania Nasielski, artistic director of Brussels ... More
Tarralik Duffy, Klik, 2023. Leather and thread. Photo: Daisy Wu. Courtesy of WAG-Qaumajuq.
SASKATOON.- On May 24, Remai Modern opened the first solo Saskatchewan exhibition by multidisciplinary artist, writer, and designer Tarralik Duffy. Klik My Heels features recent digital drawings and soft sculptures that evoke personal and collective cultural memories, tracing her journey from Salliq (Coral Harbour), NU, to Saskatoon, SK, where she now lives. Moving between North and South, past and present, Duffy reveals how culture is carried forward—not only through what is preserved, but through what is adapted, reimagined, and shared. Many of her works emerge through acts of visiting, shaped by stories, laughter, and wisdom passed between generations—exchanges that continue to inspire her practice. The exhibition’s title brings together two soft sculptures: Klik (2023)—the canned luncheon meat familiar across the North—and Ruby Red Kamiks (2025), a pair of red leather kamiik (Inuit boots) inspired by her mother’s high heels and her father’s traditional footwe ... More
Vincent Valdez, "Look What You Created" (Nineteen Ninety-Two), 2024. From the It Was a Very Good Year series, 2024–ongoing. Cast bronze and colored pencil, 1 x 14 x 14 in. Courtesy of the artist.
NORTH ADAMS, MASS.- MASS MoCA is presenting Vincent Valdez: Just a Dream…, the artist’s first museum survey, including previously unexhibited and new bodies of work. Co-organized by MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) and Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH). Spanning over two decades of his work, from early career drawings to recent monumental portraits, Just a Dream… cements Valdez as one of the most important American painters working today — imaging his country and its people, politics, pride, and foibles. Born in San Antonio, Texas, Valdez began painting murals at age ten, catalyzing a lifelong commitment to ‘create images about people, and for people’. He makes artwork to counter the social amnesia he sees recurring through history, encouraging us to find new paths forward by reckoning with the past. Valdez asserts that the unfolding American tale is an ever-expanding ... More
Yellow-Orange/Red-Orange. January to April 2025. Oil on wood, 77 x 65 cm.
COLOGNE.- Imagine stepping into a room where colors don't just sit on a canvas, but hum, whisper, and dance around you, creating a feeling as immersive as a late-night jazz session. That's the sensation awaiting visitors at Rehbein Galerie's new exhibition, "Round Midnight Blue," featuring the latest works by acclaimed artist Peter Tollens. Now open, the show invites you into a world where blues, pinks, and oranges aren't merely hues, but "states of being," as Tollens himself might suggest. The exhibition title itself is a nod to a jazz legend, Thelonious Monk's "Round Midnight," whose soulful, lingering notes resonate through Tollens' layered oils and folded paper pieces. But it's not just music echoing here; art history buffs will recognize the subtle homage to Barnett Newman's profound 1962 painting, also titled "Round Midnight," a dark, almost monochrome work that redefined space with a single, powerful line. "Tollens isn't just reflecting what's come before; he's carrying the conversation f ... More
Three figurines in wood carved by Jørgen C. Garnaas (undated, mid 1700s). The University Museum of Bergen.
BERGEN.- The wide-ranging exhibition Nordmandsdalen explores the intersection of power, materials and art during the era of absolute monarchy in Denmark-Norway. Between 1764 and 1784, a grandiose sculpture park was created at Fredensborg Palace, north of Copenhagen. It featured 70 life-sized statues of Norwegian, Sámi and Faroese men and women. The sculpture park was called Nordmandsdalen – ‘The Valley of the Norsemen’. These works were created by the court sculptor Johann Gottfried Grund (1733–1796), who received his commission from the king of Denmark-Norway. The Nordmandsdalen park is often referred to as the first “democratic” project in Dano-Norwegian art history as it represented something new in the 1700s. Rather than depicting classical mythological figures or royalty—as was typical at the time—the sculptural program portrayed “ordinary people”: fishermen, farmers, loggers and hunters. A lesser-known aspect ... More
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Brandywine presents "This Earthen Door: Nature as Muse and Material" CHADDS FORD, PA.- Opening at the Brandywine Museum of Art this month, This Earthen Door: Nature as Muse and Material is a remarkably immersive, cross-disciplinary exhibition focused on nature. The exhibition is the culmination of an almost five-year project of artists Amanda Marchand (b. 1972) and Leah Sobsey (b. 1973). Combining natural materials with historical and contemporary photographic processes and inspired by a book of pressed flowers—known as an herbarium—created by renowned poet Emily Dickinson in the mid-nineteenth century, Marchand and Sobsey utilized pure pigments extracted from flowers to make a vibrant series of plant-based artworks. The resulting exhibition is a kaleidoscope of colors comprising over 50 works, including two site-specific commissions. Though now celebrated as one of the country’s foremost poets, Dickinson in her lifetime was ... More
Cookie Factory debuts with Sam Falls' "Nothing Without Nature" DENVER, CO.- For its inaugural exhibition, Cookie Factory presents Nothing Without Nature by Los Angeles-based artist Sam Falls. Created specifically for the site, the exhibition features new paintings, sculptures, outdoor banners, and a live video installation that bring the immensity of Colorado’s landscapes into the gallery through direct collaboration with the natural world. Falls’ nomadic process embraces unpredictability and elemental forces. Working en plein air, he allows sunlight, wind, rain, and plant life to shape his canvases—surrendering control and inviting nature to act as co-author. To create the paintings on view, Falls embedded himself in Colorado’s Yampa River Valley and Flat Top Mountains, responding to the region’s ecological richness and layered history. His monumental “drop paintings,” formed by layering flora and natural pigments, act as environmental impressions ... More
Fourth edition of Jeonnam International Sumuk Biennale: Somewhere Over the Yellow Sea MOKPO.- Jeonnam International Sumuk Biennale is the only biennale in the world dedicated to exploring East Asian identity through the contemporary language of Sumuk (ink painting). Launched in 2018, the biennale takes place in the southwestern province of Jeollanam-do, Korea, and reimagines Sumuk, rooted in the aesthetics of East Asian brush and ink traditions, not as a static cultural heritage, but as a living, evolving medium for global artistic dialogue. Rather than simply preserving tradition, the biennale invites artists from across the world to engage with Sumuk as a conceptual and material practice that resonates with questions of memory, place, temporality, and transformation. By bridging past and present, local and global, it aims to shape a new aesthetic discourse grounded in the cultural sensibilities of East Asia while speaking to the urgencies of the contemporary world. ... More
Artpace receives $40,000 award from the Ruth Foundation for the Arts SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Artpace is has been named one of the 29 recipients of the 2025 Artist Choice award, the flagship grant program of the Ruth Foundation for the Arts (Ruth Arts). This recognition includes a $40,000 unrestricted grant that will support Artpace’s continued investment in contemporary art and public programming. Now in its fourth year, the Artist Choice program is uniquely guided by an artist-driven nomination process. Each year, Ruth Arts invites a different group of esteemed artists to nominate organizations that have shaped their creative practices and contributed to the broader cultural landscape. This year’s nominators include: Nayland Blake, Jamal Cyrus, Krista Franklin, Nina Ghanbarzadeh, Joy Harjo, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Bill T. Jones, Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Ken Lum, Gesel Mason, Bebe Miller, Senga Nengudi, Laura Ortman, Paul Pfeiffer, Walid Raad, ... More
Berlin artist Male Shibari weaves trust, art, and masculinity at Semjon Contemporary BERLIN.- In a quiet corner of Berlin, at Semjon Contemporary (Schröderstr. 1), an artist known simply as "Male Shibari" is drawing international attention for his striking and intimate exploration of an ancient Japanese practice through a modern European lens. His focus? The art of rope bondage, or Shibari, centered entirely on the male form. For those unfamiliar, Shibari (縛り), and its close cousin Kinbaku (緊縛), are Japanese art forms involving the intricate, aesthetic, and often erotic tying of a person with ropes. But Male Shibari insists it’s "more about the journey than the finished image." And for this internationally recognized artist, that journey is a deeply personal one, dedicated to capturing men in states of both vulnerability and strength. His chosen name isn't just a label; it's a clear declaration of his unique artistic mission. It's a mission that resonates. Men from all corners of the globe ... More
Explore the diverse perspectives of seven artists in exhibition at Clervaux - Cite de l'Image CLERVAUX.- The exhibition invites you to see the world with different eyes. At a time when the flood of information and visual impressions often leads to a uniform, almost automated way of seeing, the exhibition asks: How does our perception change when we break out of familiar patterns and take on different perspectives? The works on display open up unexpected angles and invite you to question and expand your own view. In his new series of photographs on the marketplace, Steven Cruz focuses, showing how a district of Lisbon, steeped in history and emotion, was pushed into the shadows of its own existence during the reconstruction in 2001 and lost its soul to urbanization. In the arcades, towards the church, the artist Emilie Vialet takes us to European zoos, where our gaze is drawn to the 'naturalness' in artificial environments. In the garden opposite the church, Samantha ... More
Shen Wei unveils intimate worlds in 'A Season Particular' AMSTERDAM.- Galerie Ron Mandos is presenting A Season Particular, a solo exhibition by Shen Wei. The show brings together intimate photographic works from his series A Season Particular, alongside pieces from his ongoing Self-Portrait series, which he has been developing for over a decade. In A Season Particular, Shen Wei invites us into a world where intimacy and spontaneity collide, yielding a series of photographic encounters that are as raw as they are tender. The artist’s work is a delicate and visceral exploration of the human body, captured in soft, explicit close-ups that grab your attention instantly. These images, deliberately printed with a density that mirrors the subjects’ flesh, draw the viewer into a realm of evocative lust and fluidity. Wei’s approach is not merely about documentation but about immersion. The viewer is invited to participate rather than observe from a distance, ... More
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On a day like today, Italian painter Pontormo was born
May 24, 1494. Jacopo Carucci (May 24, 1494 - January 2, 1557), usually known as Jacopo da Pontormo, Jacopo Pontormo or simply Pontormo, was an Italian Mannerist painter and portraitist from the Florentine School. His work represents a profound stylistic shift from the calm perspectival regularity that characterized the art of the Florentine Renaissance. In this image: Jacopo Carrucci, known as Pontormo (1494-1557), Portrait of a Bishop (Monsignor Niccolò Ardinghelli?), c. 1541-1542. Oil on panel; 102 x 78.9 cm. Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1961.9.83.
