Samira Abbassy, Chimera, Collage, acrylic and gouache on board, 16 x 20 in. Courtesy of the artist.
PORTLAND, ME.- Moss Galleries presents Samira Abbassy: Dialogical Narratives, a solo exhibition on view through August 30 at Moss Galleries Portland. Featuring a powerful selection of paintings and works on paper, the exhibition showcases the internationally acclaimed Iranian-born artist Samira Abbassy, whose work explores themes of cultural displacement, fragmented identity, and the transformational power of storytelling. Drawing from Islamic miniatures, Sufi cosmologies, and her personal diasporic experiences in the UK and New York, Abbassy constructs a unique visual language that bridges figuration, allegory, and symbolic fragmentation. Her luminous, archetypal figures become vessels for historical, psychological, and ancestral voices, layered in a cosmology where multiple truths coexist. “Abbassy’s work invites deep reflection on what it means to inhabit multiple identities,” said Elizabeth Moss, founder and director of Moss Galleries. “Her paintings speak to both personal and universal experienc ... More
Kim Martindale, newly-appointed senior consultant in the Western & Tribal Arts department at Morphy Auctions.
DENVER, PA.- Dan Morphy, founder and president of Morphy Auctions, today announced the appointment of renowned Western art and antique show promoter Kim Martindale to the position of chief event consultant. Over the past several years, Morphy’s, an international firm headquartered in Pennsylvania, has magnified its presence in Western, tribal and ethnographic art with the acquisition of the Las Vegas Old West Show & Auction and the Santa Fe Old West Show & Auction. With his incomparable track record as a specialist event promoter, Martindale is infinitely qualified to advise and guide Morphy’s show production and marketing team as they scale and improve the company’s Western show series. Dan Morphy, founder and president of Morphy Auctions, explained why the decision was made to approach Martindale about a senior-level consultancy. “With the Las Vegas and Santa Fe shows running ... More
BERLIN.- The exhibition unites the work – and life paths – of three photographers in Berlin in the 1990s, the first decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The three photographers share an outside perspective onto the foreign city that was just starting to become one again after the devastation caused by bombing and demolition, highway construction and the Wall. In 1990/91, their paths crossed for the first time through their joint interest in urban photography. Peter Thieme and André Kirchner are equally fascinated by the urban wastelands as they are of the architectural voids that they turned upside down on the matt screen of their large-format analog cameras. Nelly Rau-Häring, by contrast, put people at the center of her work. The classic photographs range from the documentary to the poetic, conveying the atmosphere in Berlin in those years. This enables us not only to explore the transformation of the city of Berlin and the influence of history on the lives ... More
New initiatives set an international precedent for students, educators and artists.
SARASOTA, FLA.- As artificial intelligence rapidly reshapes every industry, including the arts, top-ranked art and design institution Ringling College of Art and Design is equipping creatives with the essential skills and ethical understanding necessary to thrive. Through ongoing research and collaboration across the field, Ringling College is setting an international precedent for AI instruction that acknowledges AI’s potential value as a creative partner while keeping core art and design skills central to the curriculum. Faculty across various disciplines are integrating AI into their instruction while continuing to foster a commitment to human creativity and connection. “At Ringling College of Art and Design, we advocate for artists and designers to reckon with artificial intelligence on their own terms,” said Rick Dakan, AI coordinator and professor of creative writing at Ringling College. “For some, that means using the tools responsibly. Many object ... More
In the work, the author considers the Templo Mayor a precise astronomical observatory. Photo: Melitón Tapia, INAH.
MEXICO CITY.- The mythical founding of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, the awe-inspiring capital of the Aztec empire, may have been intrinsically tied to the winter solstice, according to a groundbreaking new book. Between the Sky and the Lake: The Founding of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, by University of Tepeyac researcher Ismael Arturo Montero García, offers a fresh perspective by blending archaeology, astronomy, and ancient cosmology. As Mexico commemorates 700 years since the birth of this formidable pre-Hispanic metropolis, Montero García, who also contributes to INAH's underwater and high-mountain archaeology projects, delves into how the Mexica people chose to build their city in such an inhospitable lake environment. His work explores the interplay of space, time, mythology, and urban design, shedding new light on why this "wandering people" chose this spot as their universe's sacred center. "We're ... More
Marija Oniščik’s unfinished map of Kaunas, Lithuania c. 1941, 2024–25. Pen, marker, pencil, colored pencil, graph paper, and notebooks. Courtesy of Marija Oniščik.
NEW YORK, NY.- The 2025 Studio Residency program will feature Jonathan Berger, an artist whose expansive projects often traverse space and time. Berger’s residency, titled Chapter One: Everything in Reverse, will present a handmade, scaled reconstruction of Kaunas, Lithuania, as the city existed in 1940, just before it came under Nazi occupation. The first attempt at an accurate model of the city from this pivotal moment, the piece will be based on a map made by the Russian-born, Lithuanian-based amateur cartographer Marija Oniščik. The model will be built on site over the course of the artist’s monthlong Studio residency by the community of craftspeople with whom Berger regularly collaborates. The process of assembly will be accompanied by a series of public programs that explore the personal relations and cultural histories prompted by the model. The completed sculpture will serve as a major component of a forthcoming large- ... More
DESPLAIN, 1974. Acrylic on canvas, 86¾ × 110¾ in. (220.4 × 281.3 cm)
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Robert Duran arrived at painting through Minimalist sculpture, creating enigmatic abstract works that bucked the hard-edged trend then dominating the 1960s New York scene of which he was a part. In the following decade, the contours of his colorful glyphs softened and stretched, eventually reaching vertically from top to bottom of his unprimed canvases. 1970–1977, the sequel to Karma’s 2019 survey 1968–1970, is the first presentation of the artist’s watercolors and acrylic paintings in California, where he was born in 1938. In 1970, Duran was working at his most vibrant, embracing the high-key colors and subtle translucency offered by then recently-available Liquitex acrylic paint. Circling canvases that he spread on the floor of his studio on Broome Street, Duran manipulated acrylic to create blooming, aqueous forms that Martin Herbert describes as “recently dissolved geometry, like watching clouds break apart in the sky.” Color morphs, melts, ... More
Anabelle Mandeng is a German artist with Cameroonian heritage whose works focus on her identity as a biracial German.
BERLIN.- It’s that time of the year again when Luisa Catucci Gallery traditionally hosts its women’s group show, with feminine energies aligning with the strength and vitality of summer. This year, the gallery presents ROOTS, featuring seven exciting, positive, and dynamic artists: Yvonne Andreini, Michelle Blancke, Aniana Heras, Parsa Hosseinpour, Hyon-Soo Kim, Anabelle Mandeng, and Loreal Prystaj. In their works, ROOTS emerge as both literal and symbolic forces—markers of origin, vessels of memory, and systems through which life, culture, and selfhood persist and evolve. These seven artists explore roots not only as lineage—ancestral, cultural, and emotional—but also as systems of growth, erosion, interconnection, and transformation. Together, they form a rich ecosystem of rootedness that spans the personal, social, ecological, and metaphysical. The exhibition ROOTS acts as ... More
View of DRIFT: Amplitude / Meadow, MUSAC, León, Spain, 2025. Courtesy of the artists. Photo: Imagen MAS.
LEÓN.- MUSAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León is presenting its summer exhibition season, running July 12–October 19, 2025. Amplitude / Meadow is the title of the first exhibition in Spain by the Dutch duo DRIFT [Lonneke Gordijn (1980) and Ralph Nauta (1978)], internationally acclaimed for their installations, sculptures and performances that interweave technology, nature, and humanity. Alongside this exhibition, Secundino Hernández (Madrid, 1975)—one of the most prominent figures in contemporary Spanish painting—presents Total Station, a faithful reflection of the artist’s key concerns over the past decade, with a particular focus on abstraction. Both exhibitions will be on view until October 19. Founded in Amsterdam in 2007 by artists Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta, DRIFT is now composed of a multidisciplinary team of 45 designers, engineers, artists ... More
Dale Grant, Iris “Amarillo Rojo”, 2025, C-Print on Dibond, 120 x 90 cm.
BERLIN.- After the great success at the art fairs in London and Basel, we are now showing works by Dale Grant, Deni Horvatić and Daniel & Geo Fuchs in Berlin. Three artistic positions, three photographic perspectives – united under the poetic and sombre title: Bloom & Doom. The positions thematise the fragile beauty of nature, its destruction by humans – but also its renewal and resilience. Dale Grant has embarked on a unique artistic journey to capture the beauty of decay. For him, flowers represent a profound allegory of life. The artist sees flowers not only as colourful creatures, but also as a symbol of the cycle of life – from youth to wilting, from brilliance to transience. In his ongoing series ‘FADING BEAUTY’, Dale Grant reveals the true and unique beauty of flowers as they begin to wither. The petals fully unfurl and their vibrant colours become more muted until they finally become transparent and fragile. The incoming light penetrates the petals, giving ... More
LINZ.- The exhibition in the grounds of the former imperial summer residence in Bad Ischl focuses mainly on Erwin Wurm’s sculptural work and includes pieces from the past three decades. The exhibited works, some of which provide very personal insights into the artist’s life, sometimes deal with experiences from his childhood—feelings of powerlessness and confinement. In addition to the Fat House, the Fat Car and other classics from Wurm’s oeuvre, the School, the counterpart to the Narrow House, a narrow replica of Wurm’s childhood home, will also be part of the exhibition. While the Narrow House is a symbol of socialization through the parental home, the School stands for education by the state. Wurm’s explorations of the themes of philosophy, architecture, fashion and luxury form important series of works. The artist also draws on culinary representatives of Austrian culture. Bread, bread rolls and pastries, ... More
KARLSRUHE.- How must we change our society so that the Earth remains habitable in the long term? In July 2025, Fellow Travellers. Art as a Tool to Change the World will open the new exhibition chapter Assembling Grounds. Practices of Coexistence. The chapter was developed in India and Sri Lanka on the basis of the ZKM travelling exhibition initiated by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel, Critical Zones: In Search of a Common Ground (2022-24). The travelling exhibition was prepared and realized by the ZKM together with the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai and with the support of the network of Goethe-Instituts South Asia—an inspiring collaboration that is now continued. On its journey, the exhibition brought together diverse locations, local communities, and ideas from different contexts. Artists who participated in the exhibition project through local networks have now been invited to respond to Fellow Travellers questions as part of Assembling Grounds. The works that resulted, includin ... More
Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen, Sunset hill, 1941. Oil on canvas, 80 x 56 cm. Signed and dated lower right.
NEW YORK, NY.- Nordic Surrealism is a landmark exhibition tracing the emergence and evolution of Surrealist ideology in Scandinavia from the 1930s through the 1960s. Featuring works by Stellan Mörner, Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen, Lambert Werner, Max Walter Svanberg, and Eric Cederberg, the exhibition re-examines a critical yet overlooked chapter in modern art history. Surrealism was codified in Paris in the 1920s, but quickly became a transnational movement. In the Nordic countries, it took shape not as a unified group, but through individual artists who engaged with its ideas in distinct and personal ways. These artists absorbed Surrealism's revolutionary language—automatism, symbolism, eroticism, and metamorphosis—and translated it into forms shaped by Nordic visual traditions, mythologies, and psychological introspection. From the early adoption and promotion of Surrealist theory by Bjerke-Petersen in Denmark, to the independent ... More
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Harold Stevenson: Less Real Than My Routine Fantasy at Art Omi GHENT, NY.- This summer, Art Omi presents Harold Stevenson: Less Real Than My Routine Fantasy, the artist’s first institutional solo exhibition in New York, on view from June 28 to October 26, 2025. The exhibition traces forty years of Stevenson’s exploration of the body as an expanded field across painting, drawing, and writing. In the pre-Stonewall era, Stevenson’s unflinching commitment to the male nude led to trouble: a jail sentence for his gallerist, Iris Clert, in 1962; his work’s removal from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1963; and, in response to an Artforum feature on his work in 1966, a published letter of complaint excoriating the magazine for promoting such “contemporary trash and moral depravity” in its pages. Stevenson’s career was filled with near breaks. He was invited to participate in the 1963 exhibition Six Painters and the Object at the Guggenheim Museum ... More
Missoula Art Museum presents "Through a Cheyenne Woman's Eyes" MISSOULA, MT.- The Missoula Art Museum invites the community to celebrate the opening of "Through a Cheyenne Woman's Eyes," a powerful solo exhibition featuring nationally recognized artist Alaina Buffalo Spirit, during First Friday on August 1, 2025. Buffalo Spirit, a senior member of the So'taa'ee band of the Northern Cheyenne Nation, presents contemporary ledger drawings and mixed media paintings that illuminate the cultural heritage and historical perspectives of Cheyenne women. The exhibition offers an intimate glimpse into stories passed down through generations. "Ledger art began as an outlet for Cheyenne and Kiowa warriors who were jailed in the barracks of Ft. Marion, Florida, in the mid-1800s," Buffalo Spirit explains. "I found out that there were also a handful of women ledger artists. I questioned, 'What were the women doing during this time?' Thus, I began drawing ... More
Faces of resistance: New exhibition honors Mayan social war descendants in Tulum TULUM.- A poignant new exhibition, "The Last Witnesses," is set to open at the Regional Museum of the Eastern Coast (Mureco) in Tulum, offering a powerful tribute to the 178th anniversary of the Mayan Social War, often known as the Caste War. This solo show by Canadian photographer Serge Barbeau aims to honor history, preserve the memory of indigenous communities, and acknowledge the enduring legacy of Mayan resilience. The National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) invites the public to the temporary exhibition's inauguration on July 30, 2025, at 12:00 PM, in the Kaab Room. The exhibition will be on display through February 1, 2026. "The Last Witnesses" features 20 compelling portraits of direct descendants of the Mayan insurgents who fought in the conflict. These images are intended to convey the symbolic strength and humanity of those whose ancestors endured ... More
BoCA Biennial 2025 charts the Camino Irreal between Lisbon and Madrid LISBON.- From Lisbon’s gothic monuments to Madrid’s neoclassical halls, BoCA Biennial 2025 cuts a new cultural route across two capitals, bringing more than twenty world and national premieres to theatres, museums, gardens, cinemas and public spaces. Titled Camino Irreal (Unreal Path) the fifth edition of the Lisbon-based Biennial explores the distortions of post-truth, the echoes of colonial memory, and the transformative potential of artistic displacement. Running from 10 September to 26 October, BoCA 2025 activates a new Iberian axis for contemporary creation. The programme spans new commissions and interdisciplinary projects across performance, visual art, music and cinema — with works that traverse geographies, disciplines and identities. Among the major premieres is Adilson, an opera directed by Dino D’Santiago — one of Portugal’s most celebrated contemporary ... More
National Air and Space Museum opens five new galleries July 28 WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum will open five new galleries, the Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater and the museum’s redesigned entrance on Jefferson Drive along the National Mall Monday, July 28. The renovation 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. “We are thrilled to open this next phase of exhibitions to the public,” said Chris Browne, John and Adrienne Mars Director of the National Air and Space Museum. “Reopening our main hall with so many iconic aerospace artifacts, as well as completely new exhibitions, will give visitors much more to see and enjoy. We are nearing the end of this multi-year renovation project, and we look forward to welcoming many more people into these modernized and inspiring ... More
Tate Modern announces regular late openings following record number of young visitors LONDON.- Tate Modern is to stay open until 21:00 every Friday and Saturday from 26 September 2025, offering free evening access to the world’s most popular modern art museum. This follows the record number of young visitors to Tate Modern’s 25th birthday weekend, held in partnership with UNIQLO, when over 76,000 people came to the gallery in three days, 70% of whom were under 35. It also builds on the success of Tate Modern Lates, the ongoing series of specially curated evening events held at the end of each month, which has welcomed over three-quarters of a million people since launching in 2016. Tate Modern’s extended opening hours will contribute to the vibrancy of London’s night-time cultural offering, giving many visitors the chance to enjoy art after work on a Friday and Saturday. Welcoming the news of Tate Modern’s late openings and the launch of July’s Tate ... More
TICK TACK presents "Sojourn": A powerful critique of history and remembrance by Allen-Golder Carpenter ANTWERP.- TICK TACK presents Sojourn, the first Belgian solo exhibition by Allen-Golder Carpenter. Inspired by the Japanese anime film Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance, Sojourn explores cycles of life, death, and reincarnation as a framework for thinking through history and the burden of its preservation. Through a critique of monu- ments, memory, and cultural canon, Carpenter asks urgent questions: What gets to be remembered? Who decides? And what forms can remembrance take? Developed across multiple interconnected formats—a site-specific installation, paintings, a short story, and a film—Sojourn unfolds as a fractured narrative across all three levels of TICK TACK, with each element interpreting the others. This layered structure reflects the unstable nature of historical perspective, and our collective struggle to hold onto truth in the face of erasure. With this project, ... More
Call for applications: G.Map Project Lab Global Residency 2025 GWANGJU.- G.MAP announced the open call for G.MAP Project Lab Global Residency 2025. G.MAP (Gwangju Media Art Platform) is the central hub of Gwangju, a UNESCO City of Media Arts, dedicated to fostering a dynamic ecosystem for digital art and technology convergence. Through collaborations between artists and experts, G.MAP is shaping Gwangju’s identity as a city of digital creativity, hosting exhibitions, education programs, research initiatives, and international partnerships. G.MAP Project Lab Global Residency 2025 invites international artists to Gwangju to pursue convergence projects utilizing digital art and emerging technologies. The selected artist will be supported throughout their creative process—from conception to production—culminating in a public showcase in December 2025. Key features include expert mentoring; production support grants; workshops, ... More
Dia Art Foundation presents a new site-specific exhibition by Amy Sillman at Dia Bridgehampton BRIDGEHAMPTON, NY.- Dia Art Foundation is presenting Amy Sillman: Alternate Side (Permutations #1–32), a yearlong exhibition at Dia Bridgehampton. This multifaceted installation features a newly commissioned, site-specific work painted and screenprinted directly onto the gallery walls, superimposed with a unique series of framed screenprints created during Sillman’s 2024–25 residency at Two Palms, a New York print studio. Alternate Side (Permutations #1–32) demonstrates Sillman’s ability to toggle back and forth between media as well as between improvisational and systematic approaches, abstraction and legibility. Through this hybrid process, she layers, distributes, and excavates to produce uncanny perspectival shifts among flatness, volume, color, and shape. “Amy Sillman’s transformation of the gallery into a space of site-responsive experimentation ... More
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On a day like today, Ignacio Villarreal Junco founder of ArtDaily died
August 26, 2019. July 26, 2019. Ignacio Villarreal Junco (December 20, 1941 - July 26, 2019) Journalist, graphic designer and publicist between the 1960s and 1990s, creator of concepts, images, slogans, logos, campaigns and founder of ArtDaily.com The First Art Newspaper on the Net. As editor he published the magazines: Gala (1965), Creatividad (1972-1977), Espacio (1983-1984), Museos (1995-1996). For ten years he made the Agenda del Arte (1987-1997). He made the serigraphic editions titled: 1976-Calendario Gráfico, 1977-Alfabeto Gráfico. He also edited serigraphs with the visual artists: José Luís Cuevas, Juan Soriano, Juan Genovés. Corporate Identities: 1968 - Hylsa, 1970 - Universidad de Monterrey, 1974 - Banpaís, 1978 - Akra, 1985 - Ábaco, 1990 - Club de Fútbol Monterrey, 1991 - Socrates Rizo Campaign, 1992 - Confía, 1993 - Mexlub, 1993 - Rogelio Montemayor Campaign, 1996 - Monterrey400 (Fourth centenary of the city), 2002 - UANL Tigres Soccer Club. As a publicist, he received 18 national awards: Teponaxtlis de Malinalco and as founding editor of ArtDaily, an art newspaper that has received 51 awards or distinctions.
