Installation view of Recasting the Past: The Art of Chinese Bronzes, 1100–1900, on view February 28–September 28, 2025 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo by Paul Lachenauer, courtesy of The Met.
NEW YORK, NY.- In ancient China, bronze vessels were emblems of ritual and power. A millennium later, in the period from 1100 to 1900, such vessels were rediscovered as embodiments of a long-lost golden age that was worthy of study and emulation. This “return to the past” (fugu) was part of a widespread phenomenon across all the arts to reclaim the virtues of a classical tradition. An important aspect of this phenomenon was the revival of bronze casting as a major art form. On view now at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Recasting the Past: The Art of Chinese Bronzes, 1100–1900 aims to be the most comprehensive study of Chinese bronzes during this period. This exhibition, co-organized by The Met and the Shanghai Museum, where it will open following its display in New York, presents the new aesthetic represented by these creative adaptations of the past, while exploring their cultural and political significance throughout China’s long history. “While bronze as an art form has l ... More
LONDON.- Artist Pie Herring is exhibiting a new series of paintings in a solo exhibition “I Am Because We Are: Paintings from a Ghanaian Residency” with Arms Around the Child at CasildArt Contemporary in London from 28th February to 8th March 2025. The exhibition is curated by co-founder of AATC Art Residency Jason Colchin-Carter. Pie Herring produced 20 paintings and a limited edition print of the main Exhibition painting ’Senya’ during an artist residency at the newly opened Arms Around the Child ‘Christian Atsu Educational Centre’ in Senya Beraku, Ghana in 2023-2024. This series showcases a kaleidoscope of multi-figured paintings seeped in colourful activity, as well as a collection of intimate portraits fusing classical methods with contemporary flair. Herring’s work is a celebration of the cultural richness that shaped her experience of painting along Ghana’s coast. On display is an array of bustling fishing scenes, lively markets, and women adorned ... More
FORT WORTH, TX.- Alex Da Corte: The Whale is the first museum exhibition to survey the interdisciplinary artist’s long relationship with painting. Focusing on the past decade of Da Corte’s career, this exhibition features more than forty paintings, several drawings, and a video that considers painting as a performative act. Da Corte is globally recognized for his hybrid installations marrying painting, performance, video, and sculpture. Immersed in the history of art, design, and pop culture, Da Corte’s combinations evoke mixed feelings, such as fantasy and malice, while crossing hierarchies of high and low culture. His works combine modernist color theory and the spatial experiments of post-minimalist sculpture to consider topics including consumerism, persona, sex, invisible labor, taste, power, and desire. The exhibition’s title, ... More
Jean Miotte Untitled, 1948. Oil on linen canvas, 46.2 x 38.2 x 2 cm. 18 x 15 x 1 in (unframed), 50.5 x 42.5 x 4.6 cm. 20 x 16 1/2 x 2 in (framed).
SHANGHAI.- Almine Rech Shanghai is presenting Jean Miotte's second solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from January 10 to March 15, 2025. In 1980, Miotte was the first Western painter to be invited to show his work after Mao’s regime. Painting is a gesture from within Almine Rech Shanghai presents twelve paintings by French artist Jean Miotte (1926-2016), one of the masters of Art Informel. Miotte always refused to be associated with any particular school—conveniently forgetting that his work was shown in the “Informel” section at the first Paris Biennial in 1959. He expressed a personal lyricism that found its source in the energy of unresolved gestures something that differentiates him from other abstract painters of his time. His artistic impulse contained an inherent anxiety from the acknowledged risk of avoiding the pitfalls of triviality and indulgence. He had to face the possible failure ... More
Karel Appel, Portrait, 1946. Oil on canvas, in artist's frame, 70 x 50.5 x 3 cm.; 27 1/2 x 19 7/8 x 1 1/8 in.
BERLIN.- Galerie Max Hetzler is presenting The Classic Themes, an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Karel Appel at Bleibtreustraße 45 in Berlin. Building on the artist’s important retrospective at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag (today Kunstmuseum Den Haag) in 2016, The Classic Themes marks the sixth exhibition of Karel Appel at the gallery. ‘The major Karel Appel retrospective at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag in 2016 – ten years following the artist’s death – was set to radically renew the traditional view of Appel’s extensive oeuvre. Within its thematic structure, only one of the six large halls was dedicated to the CoBrA movement, while three of the others focused on very classical themes – nude, landscape or portrait. The prominence given to these classical themes flagrantly contradicted CoBrA’s primitivism. In addition, it was shown for the first time that Appel did not always paint ... More
LONDON.- Luxembourg + Co., announces the opening of Drawing on Matisse, an exhibition organised together with Sylvie Fleury at its London gallery space on Monday, 3 March 2025. The exhibition presents the work of Fleury (b.1961) in response to a large body of original drawings and cut-outs by Henri Matisse (1869-1954) from the artist’s estate, including works that were not shown publicly before. Since the beginning of the 1990s, the work of Sylvie Fleury has been raising questions concern- ing taste, fashion, and desire in twentieth century culture, and tackling art’s ever-growing status as commodity. Forming a significant part of her practice, Fleury repeatedly and strategi- cally mimics, appropriates, and at times even embeds, the work of major historical artists into her own installations to this end. Such historical explorations are often executed as responses to the cultural and gendered legacy that artists such as Piet Mondrian, Jean Dubuffet, and Frank Stella ... More
Isabella Ducrot, Trembling Blue Yellow Flowers, 2024. Signed and dated recto. Pastel, pigments, ink, fabrics and collage on paper, 46 x 33 cm. 18.1 x 13 inches.
BERLIN.- Isabella Ducrot is an artist and writer, whose career spans over four decades. In her nineties, she approaches art with an acute sense of immediacy, unburdened by the need to anticipate the future. For her, creation is no longer a preparation for what is to come but a full immersion in the present moment. This immediacy translates into works that feel both intuitive and profound – gestures of pure artistic presence, where the act of making is inseparable from the act of being. The exhibition showcases Ducrot‘s latest works, focusing on floral motifs. Rather than treating flowers as decorative elements, Ducrot distills their forms into distinct compositions, emphasizing the physicality of her materials. She works with Japanese Gampi paper, a rare and highly prized fiber known for its translucent delicacy yet surprising resilience. This interplay between fragility and strength mirrors the themes of her collaged works, in which floral ... More
DENVER, CO.- The Denver Art Museum continues its collaboration with the National Museum of Korea and other institutions in Korea, inviting visitors to explore an important art form of Korean culture in the new exhibition Lunar Phases: Korean Moon Jars, on view from March 2 to June 8, 2025. The exhibition features 21 objects including 12 moon jars. This show can be seen in the Charles P. and Diane Gallagher Family Gallery on the first level of the museum’s Hamilton Building and included with general admission. Perfectly Imperfect: Korean Buncheong Ceramics, co-organized with the National Museum of Korea, was the first of this series of planned exhibitions and programs focused on Korean art, which opened at the DAM in December 2023 and will be on view through Dec. 7, 2025. Curated by Hyonjeong Kim Han, Joseph de Heer Curator of Arts of Asia and Ji Young Park, National Museum of Korea Fellow of Korean Art ... More
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Fraenkel Gallery is presenting an exhibition by Sophie Calle. For more than forty years Calle has made work that draws from her life, transforming elements from her public and private relationships into intimate narratives. The exhibition features several series exploring questions about legacy and loss, topics Calle approaches with her typical humor and candor. Making its U.S. debut, catalogue raisonné of the unfinished focuses on projects Calle previously conceptualized but didn’t pursue. Each piece pairs fragments from the project with Calle’s text about its failure. Another series, Picassos in lockdown, comprises photographs Calle made at the Musée National Picasso in Paris during the pandemic. Each shows a painting covered for protection while the museum was closed. The exhibition also features a selection of works looking at death and remembrance through the lens of Calle’s relationship with her parents. This will be Calle’s fifth exhibition at Fraenkel Galler ... More
Anh Trần, The dream I had with you is the dream I have now, 2025. Oil, acrylic and flashe on linen, 243.5 x 183 x 2 cm. 95 7/8 x 72 x 3/4 in. Courtesy the artist, Société, Berlin and Modern Art, London. Photo: Modern Art.
LONDON.- The group exhibition Place Revisited at Modern Art Helmet Row brings together five painters, Richard Aldrich, Prunella Clough, Masanori Tomita, Anh Trần and Terry Winters. Working in different contexts and times, each is recognised for building a system of idiosyncratic shapes and signs, drawing from diverse sources such as architecture, geometry, science, pop culture, and personal biography. The writer John Berger referred to Prunella Clough’s paintings as ‘abstract still life’. Fittingly, the resulting work of all five acknowledges its source material tacitly, without directly engaging in representational painting. Via repeated marks and layers, these artists build up a surface that supports bold and defined forms, contesting the relationship between figure and ground in painting. Each artwork is executed within a different time frame, specific to the artist’s working practice. What unites these five artists is an appreciation of time’s influence on their work, allowing for pai ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- This exhibition of photographs by Denis Piel is an overview of his varied career. It includes his sensual and cinematic photographs for VOGUE and designers such as Donna Karan in the 1980s, and his abstract Padièscapes works, which are inspired by his organic sustainable farm in southwest France. Denis Piel was born in France in 1944 and his family moved to Australia at the end of the war. After beginning his career in Brisbane and Melbourne, he was encouraged to move to Europe and then New York where he began to concentrate on fashion. His photographs were brought to the attention of Condé Nast and his rise began. Immediately recognizable for their cinematic quality, his images were a sensational departure from the posed models of his predecessors. His always-sensual photographs tell a story which must be guessed at as several interpretations are possible. Often featuring reclining models lost in thought or engaged in mysterious ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- Sarah Charlesworth (1947–2013) is known for her conceptually driven and visually alluring photo-based works that subvert and deconstruct cultural imagery. Entitled Desire and Seduction, the current exhibition examines how these themes emerged and recurred within Charlesworth’s work from the early 1980s through the mid-2000s. Populated with fetish objects and silken fabrics, isolated body parts and masked strangers, the exhibition invites the viewer to locate their own desire. Beginning with her celebrated Objects of Desire series (1983–88), Charlesworth sought to make visible the “shape of desire.”[1] Meticulously excising images from a range of sources—including fashion magazines, pornography, and archeological textbooks—she then re-photographed the cutouts against fields of pure color. In each work, Charlesworth has paired the image with a signifying color: ... More
Queen Elizabeth II by Andy Warhol (1985). Credit: Courtesy of UCR ARTS.
AVALON, CA.- The Catalina Museum for Art & History is presenting Pop Icons, an exhibition that brings together some of the most influential artists of the Pop Art movement, drawing from the celebrated Sweeney Art Gallery Collection at UCR ARTS at the University of California, Riverside. The exhibition showcases works from the 1950s-1970s by artists whose influence continues to shape visual culture today. From iconic figures like Andy Warhol to thought-provoking pieces by Sister Corita Kent, Pop Icons presents a unique exploration of art’s relationship with consumer culture and everyday life. Featured in the exhibition is Warhol’s screen print of Queen Elizabeth II (1985), one of his most recognizable works that exemplifies the blending of pop culture with high art. Warhol’s Campbell's Soup series, including the Consomme (Beef) (1968) print, also graces the gallery, alongside works by other renowned Pop Art figures such as Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Claes Oldenburg. These pieces reflect t ... More
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Matthew Lutton OAM appointed as Artistic Director of the Adelaide Festival ADELAIDE.- The Adelaide Festival Corporation Board announced today that Matthew Lutton OAM has been appointed as Artistic Director, Adelaide Festival 2026 – 2028. Lutton will take the creative leadership of Australia’s pre-eminent cultural event after nine years as Artistic Director and co-CEO of the acclaimed Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne. His appointment follows an extensive global search and significant interest from candidates both internationally and within Australia. Lutton will come to Adelaide following his groundbreaking tenure at the helm of one of Australia’s most innovative cultural institutions. During his time as Artistic Director and co-CEO, Lutton elevated Malthouse Theatre’s reputation as a space where classic works are reinterpreted, and visionary worlds are brought to life. Lutton’s leadership shaped Malthouse into a hub of theatre, opera, and dance, ... More
Joan Jonas' "Empty Rooms": Sculpture, video, and memory intertwine in New York exhibition NEW YORK, NY.- Gladstone presents Joan Jonas’ Empty Rooms, an exhibition comprised of sculpture, works on paper, and video, opening this March in New York. This presentation includes new work while also exploring the artist’s process of revival. In Empty Rooms, Jonas’ cultivation of a resonant, fragmented space brings together objects and imagery that invite viewers to contemplate the throughlines that connect familiarity with loss. Typical of Jonas’ practice, her work is not illustrative but highly interpretive; meaning is not fixed but emerges and recedes in poetic layers. Central to the exhibition are a series of 12 hanging sculptures constructed of handmade Japanese Torinoko paper sewn onto custom designed steel wire frames. Simple, white, and austere without adornment or embellishment, the 12 aerial sculptures embody the titular “empty rooms” and float ... More
Group show celebrates hope and mourns loss at Klaus von Nichtssagend NEW YORK, NY.- Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery is presenting “So-Long, Bobby,” a group show featuring works by five artists in the front gallery at 87 Franklin Street. In 1968, following Robert Kennedy’s assassination, the presidential candidate’s body was transported from New York to Washington, D.C. by train. Magnum photographer Paul Fusco captured an image of mourners along the train tracks holding a sign that read, “So-Long Bobby.” In 2021, artist Deborah Bright reimagined this sign as a “logo for the nation, a neon sign reminding us of what kind of country we once had the possibility of becoming.” This show, taking its title from Bright’s work, brings together pieces that individually express admiration and a celebration of hopefulness in the face of loss, as Bright saw in Kennedy’s presidential run. Timothy Hull’s geometrically patterned paintings of shirts ... More
Bremen show features sculptural paintings by Monique S. Desto and Klaartje van Essen BREMEN.- Monique S. Desto and Klaartje van Essen share a sensitivity for the relationship between painting, sculpture, memory, and space in their extended image practices. Their works switch from two dimensions to three and back again, stretching, straining, supporting, and disintegrating. Both artists share an interest in traces and moldings, friction and dissolution. The latex used by Desto picks up three-dimensional traces of its carrier material, but due to exposure to light brings decomposes when exhibited. Already before this process has reached final disintegration, Desto works with digital documentation or animation, which is eventually the only state in which the works will exist. Klaartje van Essen often works with wax or plaster. The material may be poured into pre-existing mold-like objects that van Essen appropriates from the streets or her studio. She ... More
Katja Mater reimagines time: FOMU exhibition unveils hidden stories in photography collection ANTWERP.- Upon FOMU’s invitation, visual artist Katja Mater (NL, b. 1979) explores the museum’s collection and creates a remarkable selection around the theme of time. Mater designs unusual frameworks for the collection items and creates spatial installations with them. The exhibition No Longer Not Yet allows you to experience ‘time’ in a variety of ways: from solar time and the rhythm of the body to times of remembrance and asynchronous, cosmic, or even invisible time. Mater frames the works, their (anonymous) makers, and the subjects depicted in the photographs with care and precision. Mater points to elements that are often overlooked or forgotten, such as a message written on the back of a photograph. Meanwhile Mater also creates new works inspired by objects from the museum’s collection, including one of the FOMU collection’s highlights: ... More
AdE's "FREAK YOU!" explores erotic mythology and future beasts NEW YORK, NY.- kaufmann repetto is presenting FREAK YOU! the first solo exhibition in the United States by AdE (Atelier dell’Errore/Atelier of Mistakes), a collective of neurodivergent artists based in Reggio Emilia, Italy. In a literal occupation of the first and second floors of the gallery, FREAK YOU! brings together over 20 of the collective’s most recent works, including drawings, sculptures, video, and a series of paintings created expressly for the exhibition. In a practice spanning more than two decades AdE’s sole subject matter has always been imaginative animals protagonists of a visionary zoology of the future. Their approach places value on mistakes, forming the foundation of a creative process that is profoundly and rigorously collective. Informed by the tensions and fragilities of the young artists in AdE’s earlier years, these animals once served ... More
Gladstone now representing Brook Hsu NEW YORK, NY.- Gladstone Gallery announced representation of American painter Brook Hsu. The artist joins Gladstone’s roster following her solo presentation of new paintings, The Oklahoma Nature Theater, at Gladstone’s East 64th Street location in November 2024. Gladstone represents Hsu with Kiang Malingue and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler. Hsu intertwines the mythic with personal narrative, exploring how story telling and representation imbue meaning within her painterly practice. Employing a diverse range of materials, she transforms imagery drawn from art history, film, literature, and her observations into abstract and figurative forms. By creating a host of reworked signs and motifs, her work examines how the language of storytelling both shapes and is shaped by the world around us. “Brook’s engagement with art history and the inspiration she derives ... More
Participants in SITE Santa Fe's 12th International SANTA FE, NM.- Once Within a Time takes its title from the most recent film by Godfrey Reggio, the legendary experimental filmmaker who has long resided in Santa Fe. Reggio’s Once Within a Time (2022) intertwines fairytale atmospheres with apocalyptic landscapes, pursuing a form of storytelling that blends the fantastical and the mundane in a moving portrait of the existential condition. Inspired by the film’s circular narratives, the 12th International places storytelling at its heart, exploring New Mexico’s multilayered history through the lens of more than 90 participants. Once Within a Time revolves around the stories of a vibrant collection of over twenty characters—both current and historical, real and imagined— with ties to the region. The diverse cast encompasses historical figures, mythical beings, local heroes, unassuming ... More
Moderna galerija presents its 2025 exhibition highlights LJUBLJANA.- Tracing developments in the medium of photography through the various artists’ practices and positions, the exhibition takes the concept of heterotopia as a model or metaphor. Curated by Ana Mizerit. The exhibition displays works of art that critically reflect on various aspects of the life of the city of Ljubljana. Curated by Igor Španjol. The exhibition represents the latest iteration in a series of Proposals for Monuments that address the postcolonial period, the Non-Aligned Movement and the lives and deaths of monuments. Curated by Bojana Piškur. In collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montenegro. The selection highlights works from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje and Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, featuring art made from natural materials, as well as pieces reflecting the artists’ engagement with nature. It focuses ... More
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On a day like today, French painter Berthe Morisot died
March 02, 1895. Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot (January 14, 1841 - March 2, 1895) was a painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. She was described by Gustave Geffroy in 1894 as one of "les trois grandes dames" of Impressionism alongside Marie Bracquemond and Mary Cassatt. In this image: Berthe Morisot, Grain field, c.1875, Musée d'Orsay.
