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The Pola Museum of Art presents an exhibition featuring the most recent works of Ryan Gander
HAKONE.- The Pola Museum of Art presents an exhibition featuring the most recent works of Ryan Gander. Ryan Gander (b.1976) is an internationally acclaimed artist based in Suffolk, UK, whose practice encompasses painting, sculpture, video, text, VR installations, architecture, publications, typefaces, rituals, and performances. Through this wide-ranging, multifaceted body of work, Gander continually reexamines the frameworks and meanings of art. In addition to his own creative activities, he is deeply engaged in curating exhibitions, teaching at universities and art institutions, and supporting young artists and children through various initiatives. He has also written and edited numerous books and has both produced and appeared in television programs that promote art and culture. His practice reimagines the role and subjectivity of the artist for the contemporary era. Describing ... More

Missoula Art Museum names Brandon Reintjes as new Executive Director
MISSOULA, MT.- The Missoula Art Museum announced that at its board meeting held on Tuesday, June 24, the Board of Directors (unanimously) voted to appoint Brandon Reintjes as the museum’s next Executive Director, effective July 1, 2025. Reintjes has served as MAM’s Senior Curator for the past decade, and his thoughtful curatorial vision, deep relationships with artists, and strong record of scholarship and collaboration have long made him an essential part of the museum’s success. His appointment marks a significant and exciting moment for MAM as it transitions from the transformative 35-year leadership of Laura Millin, who will retire on June 30, 2025. “Brandon is someone we know well, and he has earned our respect with his keen eye for exceptional artwork and his thoughtful demeanor,” said Matt Gibson, President of MAM’s Board of Directors. “During the search process, he distinguished ... More

Sharjah Art Foundation announces curators of Sharjah Biennial 17
SHARJAH.- Sharjah Art Foundation announced that Angela Harutyunyan and Paula Nascimento have been appointed as the curators of Sharjah Biennial 17, opening in January 2027. Harutyunyan is Professor of Contemporary Art and Theory, Berlin University of the Arts and Nascimento is an independent curator and architect based in Luanda. “Since 2003, Sharjah Biennial has been a platform for creative experimentation, collaboration and social impact. Rooted in our local context, we have fostered a place of significant regional and international exchange, bridging cultures and shared histories,” says Hoor Al Qasimi, President and Director of Sharjah Art Foundation. “Angela Harutyunyan and Paula Nascimento each bring distinct perspectives shaped by their individual practices. Sharjah Biennial 17 will be a space for critical engagement and collective reflection, where their curatorial ... More

James Cohan now representing Ranti Bam
NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan announced the representation of British-Nigerian artist Ranti Bam. Ranti Bam (b.1982, Lagos, Nigeria) creates vessels made of clay, their surfaces and contours evoking vulnerability. Bam’s practice engages with the semiotic aspects of the feminine; confronting notions of intimacy, care and fragility. The artist’s sculptures embody this life force spanning two related bodies of work: abstract vessels and Ifas. James Cohan’s representation follows last year’s debut solo exhibition with the gallery, Anima, which was on view at 291 Grand Street from May 17 through July 26, 2024. Bam’s work will be featured in the upcoming exhibition at The Campus, which opens this Saturday, June 28. Ranti Bam’s vibrant and delicately constructed abstract vessels fuse painterly gesture and form. Built from thin slabs of overlapping earthenware, they are often supported ... More

Grazer Kunstverein exhibits recent and newly commissioned work in sound and image by James Richards
GRAZ.- Sometimes, there is a fever to perception—a heat that builds when an image lingers too long, when a sound worms its way beneath language. Nothing is stable here, only fragments: half-memories, soft violence, quiet ecstasies. Images stutter, flare, recede. Looking does not lead to clarity but a kind of exposure. Fever, after all, is not an illness but a response—a regulated shift in the body’s set point, an internal decision to raise the heat. In fever, the body’s own systems intensify, working to defend and to heal, but also to open and purge—turning inward and outward at once. Fever is the body’s rebellion, an insistence on its own agency. It signals not just intrusion or injury, but the body’s refusal to remain neutral—to stay cool and contained. In the heightened temperature of fever, the senses sharpen. Colors burn brighter, sounds penetrate deeper. Periphery becomes urgency, each sensation ... More

Emily Weiner's hypnotic art debuts at Miles McEnery Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Miles McEnery Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Emily Weiner. The artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery opens on 26 June at 511 West 22nd Street and remain on view through 15 August. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated digital publication featuring an essay by Mitch Speed. Emily Weiner’s hypnotic scenes hover between the conscious and subconscious. Using symmetry, architectural cues, and planetary bodies, her compositions are trance-like and deeply resonant, luring the viewer into and beyond the painted surface. Despite featuring familiar forms (waxing and waning moons, poised hands, even F-holes from a violin) Weiner’s paintings do not insist on any single narrative. Folded curtains, portals, and spotlights recur as theatrical elements throughout Weiner’s work, as if scenes on stage. But unlike theater—which often relies on illusion, ... More

Esther Schipper announces Martin Boyce's second solo exhibition with the gallery
PARIS.- Esther Schipper is presenting Unhome, Martin Boyce’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, and his first in the Paris space. It is part of two concurrent exhibitions of Boyce’s work opening on the occasion of Paris Gallery Weekend, the second show, titled Walk with Me, being hosted by Galerie Natalie Seroussi. In Unhome, Boyce invites viewers to reconsider the boundaries between the intimate and the domestic, introducing a sense of eeriness and uncertainty into our perception of familiar spaces. At our gallery located on Place Vendôme, he unveils a collection of new sculptures and photographic works, brought together in an immersive installation that oscillates between decay and renewal, offering a sensitive meditation on the passage of time. Martin Boyce has reworked and reformulated objects from the built environment, developing his own pictorial language based ... More

Hugh Hayden: American Vernacular to open at the Frye Art Museum
SEATTLE, WA.- The Frye Art Museum will present Hugh Hayden: American Vernacular, the artist’s first West Coast solo museum presentation. Hayden is a pathbreaking contemporary sculptor whose visceral artworks reveal the complex markers of identity and aspiration within American culture. His darkly humorous objects probe the ways in which we find belonging and a sense of self through education, sports, fashion, food, and beyond. This major survey features intricately carved wood sculptures and multimedia installations that encompass the breadth of Hayden’s ambitious artistic output from the past decade, as well as several new works that will debut in this exhibition. Hayden is an innovative and diverse maker, pursuing meticulous craft-based methods such as wood carving, weaving, and casting in combination with ready-made forms, materials, and twenty-first century ... More