WELLESLEY, MASS.- A long-overlooked voice in postwar American art, Robert Huot (b. 1935) is receiving renewed attention for his radical redefinition of painting in the 1960s. Working at the intersection of hard-edge abstraction, minimalism, and conceptual art, Huot’s experimental practice challenged the formalist orthodoxy of his time and paved the way for a reimagining of the medium’s possibilities. Emerging at a time when painting was grappling with the dominance of post-painterly abstraction and Clement Greenberg’s modernist doctrines, Huot reoriented the pictorial medium through geometric structures, shaped canvases, and spatially-aware compositions. Beginning in 1962, he created works that emphasized the objecthood and materiality of painting. In 1965, Donald Judd compared Huot’s work to Ellsworth Kelly’s, and that same year Barbara Rose featured him in her seminal “ABC Art” essay, aligning him with early minimalism. Major exhibitions followed, including Systemic ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace is presenting Robert Indiana: The American Dream, a major exhibition including seminal examples of paintings and sculpture created by the artist beginning in the early 1960s and developed throughout subsequent decades of his artistic career, shown at its 540 West 25th Street gallery in New York from May 9 to August 15. Examining Indiana’s critique of the duality of the American Dream—both its promise and its privations—this exhibition highlights the connections between the artist’s personal history and the social, political, and cultural realities of postwar America. Reflecting on the critical and political underpinnings of Indiana’s work, as well as his enduring impact as an artist, Pace’s presentation includes loans from several prominent institutions. One of the preeminent figures in American art since the 1960s, Robert Indiana–born Robert Clark in the state of Indiana in 1928–played a central role in the development of assemblage art, ha ... More
Jan van Kessel the Elder, Insects and a Sprig of Rosemary, 1653. Oil on panel, overall: 11.5 × 14 cm (4 1/2 × 5 1/2 in.) National Gallery of Art. The Richard C. Von Hess Foundation, Nell and Robert Weidenhammer Fund, Barry D. Friedman, and Friends of Dutch Art 2018.41.1
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art opened Little Beasts: Art, Wonder, and the Natural World, an exhibition exploring the rich exchange between artists and naturalists at the dawn of European natural history. Thanks to an unprecedented collaboration with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), the National Gallery is displaying nearly 75 prints, drawings, and paintings alongside some 60 objects from NMNH, marking the first time their collections of art and specimens have been displayed together. A new film by contemporary artist Dario Robleto further examines the intersection of art, science, and the natural world, bringing history into dialogue with contemporary culture. The exhibition is on view from May 18 to November 2, 2025, in the National Gallery’s West Building. Little Beasts explores ... More
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art opened Black Earth Rising, an exhibition that celebrates the transcendent power of nature through vivid and compelling works by contemporary African diasporic, Latin American, and Native American artists. Organized by renowned curator and writer Ekow Eshun, the exhibition brings together monumental paintings, sculpture, film, and mixed-media works by some of today’s most acclaimed artists, including Alejandro Piñeiro Bello, Frank Bowling, Teresita Fernández, Todd Gray, Sky Hopinka, Wangechi Mutu, Otobong Nkanga, and Alberta Whittle. Together, their works evoke resplendent moments of beauty and joy even as they shed light on the effects of colonialism, cultural displacement, and climate change on the natural world. The featured artworks are as aesthetically ecstatic as they are conceptually thoughtful and moving, creating a multilayered experience that allows visitors ... More
The piece dates from the Classic Maya period, between the years 600 and 900 AD, and is speculated to come from the Puuc region which covers north-central Campeche and southern Yucatán. Photo: NMMA.
CHICAGO, IL.- A significant fragment of a Classic Maya panel, after decades in the United States, has officially been repatriated to Mexico. The National Museum of Mexican Art (NMMA) in Chicago facilitated the return in collaboration with the Mexican government. The piece was formally received by Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) following expert assessment and conservation review. The repatriation was announced during a press conference held at the NMMA on May 16, 2025. Diego Prieto Hernández, Director General of INAH, highlighted the museum's willingness to return the artifact as an "exemplary gesture" and a "milestone" in relations between U.S. and Mexican museums, promoting active collaboration to recover Mexican heritage found illicitly abroad. Representing the Ministry of Culture, an anthropologist stated that, in cooperation with the NMMA, the ... More
Frances Bagley (American, b. 1946), Centrifugal Torso, 1990. Bronze. 39 1/2 x 20 x 18 inches (100.3 x 50.8 x 45.7 cm). Gift of Barrett Collection, Dallas, Texas, 2021. Photo by Kevin Todora, courtesy of the Nasher Sculpture Center.
DALLAS, TX.- The Nasher Sculpture Center announces its 2025 summer show, Generations: 150 Years of Sculpture, on view May 17 – August 24, 2025. Drawn from the Nasher’s permanent collection, the new selection of works features numerous recent acquisitions and offers conversations about the possibilities for sculpture, both past and present. Traversing much of the museum’s galleries and garden, Generations is a collaboration between the museum’s curators—Interim Director and Chief Curator Jed Morse, Senior Curator Dr. Catherine Craft, Curator Dr. Leigh Arnold, and Curatorial Assistant Sydney Smith—and demonstrates the Nasher's continued efforts to expand and deepen the representation of key practitioners of the medium. From the beginning, founders Raymond and Patsy Nasher collected works by artists ... More
PARIS.- A relatively little-known fact: Chinese art can be found at the Louvre. The Department of Decorative Arts holds more than 600 Chinese works, most of which come from the collections of Adolphe Thiers and Adèle de Rothschild and from the royal collections. Among them, some veritable treasures are to be found. A number of these were highlighted by recent research among the collection of Adolphe Thiers, who was a journalist, historian, and a major political figure in the 19th century (as deputy, minister, president of the council and, ultimately, president of the French Republic). The exhibition aims to reveal these exceptional works to the general public, putting them in the historical, diplomatic and cultural context of their creation and their acquisition by Thiers for his collection. It explores Thiers’s little-known passion for China. The exhibition presents over 170 works dating mainly from the 18th and 19th centuries: scrolls, album pages, engravings, prints, porcelains, jades, ... More
MARSEILLE.- The Museums of Marseille present at the Centre de la Vieille Charité “Tattoo. Histories of the Mediterranean”, an exploration of tattoo practices through the centuries, from Antiquity to contemporary culture. From the earliest traces found in Egypt, Syria, and the Cyclades, to Greece, tattooing in the Mediterranean has traversed the ages, influenced by medical, religious, political, and aesthetic uses, eventually becoming a fully-fledged artistic expression in modern times, fueled by pop culture. The exhibition traces this evolution, from ancient tattoos to contemporary influences, particularly in the city of Marseille, where tattooing has also become an expression of Marseille identity. From Italy to Algeria, the Balkans to Iran, and from Spain to Cyprus, this project is grounded in the methodologies of global art history, embracing the complex geographies of the Mediterranean, as well as gender studies and ... More
Ricardo Gonzalez, Floating Head, 2025. Acrylic on linen, 60h x 48w in. 152.40h x 121.92w cm.
LONDON.- Asya Geisberg Gallery opened “Traces”, Ricardo Gonzalez’s third show with the gallery. Coming on the heels of a two-museum retrospective in Querétaro and Oaxaca, Mexico, Gonzalez here presents a return to the nuanced minimal style of his first exhibition with the gallery. “Traces” has solidified the artist’s command of quick, spare, and deliberate gestures - the artist's hand knowing explicitly just how implicit a brushstroke can remain. Barely present black strokes on canvases the color of manila - suggestive of the elementary nature of charcoal on paper - all flirt with a perception of fundamentality and conviction, as when a child need only make a square and triangle to suggest a house. Indeed Gonzalez has always elevated the unself-conscious freedom of his earlier years, by equating them with the pantheon of European and American Expressionists. Recently, Gonzalez has embraced the notion of archetypes, emanating from Carl Jung’s philosophy, connot ... More
THE HAGUE.- Photographer Lucas Foglia has transformed the world’s longest butterfly migration into a powerful metaphor for connection across international borders. For millions of years, Painted Lady butterflies have migrated between Africa, the Middle East, and Europe in search of blooming wildflowers. As climate change shifts when and where wildflowers bloom, these resilient butterflies increasingly rely on human-planted parks, farms, and gardens to survive. Constant Bloom weaves together the story of this delicate yet determined species with that of people, drawing poignant parallels between the butterflies and refugees who follow similar routes in search of safety and sustenance. The series offers a message of hope and resilience in the face of environmental and geopolitical uncertainty. Constant Bloom is on view at the Fotomuseum Den Haag from 17 May to 28 September 2025. The exhibition opens as Painted Lady butterflies arrive in the Netherlands from across the Mediterranean. The Painted ... More
This series of works follows the artist’s solo presentation for the Albanian Pavillion at the 2024 Venice Biennale.
ANTWERP.- Iva Lulashi’s paintings are sensual and disquieting. In ‘Wedding Invitation’ the nude shoulders and face of a young woman are hazily foregrounded, as though caught in a moment of movement, against a backdrop of cattle and off-kilter ceiling. ‘Non aspettarla’ features one naked figure straddling another, their tangle of limbs seeming to blend into a single being, against a warm, sunny landscape. A woman wanders alone in ‘Non disse ma sibilò’, losing herself in the wilderness. On view together for ‘Cold in My Mouth’, these paintings invite the viewer to contemplate their own position in looking at the works. Are we peeping Toms, enjoying a covert glimpse? Or welcome parties, part of the landscape and bodily exploration happening on canvas? This series of works follows the artist’s solo presentation for the Albanian Pavillion at the 2024 Venice Biennale. Her project explored the “glass of water theory” related to Russia’s pr ... More
Nao Kikuchi, Schillerstraße #10, 2025, ceramic, 12 3/8h x 14 3/8w x 1 1/8d in, 31.43h x 36.51w x 2.86d cm.
PORTLAND, ORE.- Adams and Ollman is presenting On a very quiet morning, on the same piece of toast, featuring new sculptural works composed of ceramic, wood, and metal by Japanese artists Noriko Kawana, Nao Kikuchi, and Hikari Ono. The exhibition is curated by artist Kenji Ide, whose show, American Friend, was on view at Adams and Ollman in January 2024. For this exhibition, Ide brings together three artists who share common interests in gesture, space, and architecture, and an aesthetic that is minimal, intimate, and haptic. In particular, the artists approach object-making through their hands, which act as a conduit between the internal and physical worlds. On a very quiet morning, on the same piece of toast opened on May 17, 2025, and continues through June 14, 2025. Of the exhibition, Ide noted, "I consider this sense of touch to be a very important part of Japanese art. It is from there that small ... More
In 1884, the City of Calais commissioned Auguste Rodin to sculpt a monument illustrating the patriotism of the Burghers of Calais, a universal symbol of sacrifice.
CALAIS.- In 2025, the Calais Museum of Fine Arts continues in the transformation of its permanent exhibition, initiated in 2023. The spaces dedicated to Auguste Rodin, sculptor of the Monument to the Burghers of Calais which has contributed to the city’s fame, has been fully renovated. This redesign of the Rodin Gallery is of particular importance to the museum, which has historically been very closely linked to the artist. Known as the father of modern sculpture, Auguste Rodin was commissioned by the City of Calais in 1884 to create the famous Monument to the Burghers of Calais. This sculptural group still stands proudly on the square before the City Hall. Eight other bronze copies, located across the globe, echo this seminal work. The new Rodin Gallery at the Calais Museum of Fine Arts offers a glimpse into the context of artistic circles in the second half of the 19th century and early 20th century, through ... More
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Abel Alejandre's new exhibition explores legacy at LAUNCH Gallery LOS ANGELES, CA.- LAUNCH Gallery and The National Tourism Board of Xicanoland present new drawings by celebrated Mexican-American artist Abel Alejandre. In this new series, The Age of Heroes, Abel honors twelve pivotal figures whose brilliance forged modern Xicanoland. Themes of masculinity, valor, patriarchy, and the capacity to look to the future with purpose and assurance are addressed through twelve ink portraits on paper, each capturing a statesperson, scientist, or cultural luminary whose vision reshaped Xicanoland. Inseparable from Xicanoland’s belief in cyclical life, every human portrait in The Age of Heroes is accompanied by a painting of a Xoloitzcuintle—the sacred dog that, by tradition, escorts the soul into the next realm. These twelve canine guardians transform the gallery into a spiritual corridor, guiding visitors through a meditation on legacy, mortality, and endurance. ... More
STRAAT Museum offers a unique insight into the artistic journey of South African street artist Faith XLVII AMSTERDAM.- STRAAT Museum opened ORIGINS: Family & Legacy, an exhibition celebrating the creative journey of South African street artist Faith XLVII (Faith47). Widely recognized as one of the most influential figures in contemporary street art, Faith is joined by her son, rising star Keya Tama, and Keya’s father, the coveted artist and tattooist Tyler B. Murphy. The exhibition is on view from April 18 to June 8, 2025 and contains new pieces created especially for the exhibition. ORIGINS: Family & Legacy is the first presentation to bring together Faith XLVII, Keya Tama, and Tyler B. Murphy, presenting an intimate collection of memorabilia, solo and collaborative sketches, paintings, drawings, and tapestries. Led by the matriarchal force of Faith XLVII, it offers a rare glimpse into the family’s shared artistic journey. The exhibition introduces two new mural-scale canvases, created specifically for ... More
Paul Thiebaud Gallery announces representation of Dennis Leon Estate, opens first exhibition SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Paul Thiebaud Gallery announced its representation of the Estate of Dennis Leon (1933-1998) and the gallery’s first exhibition of the artist’s works. On view starting May 17th, Dennis Leon: Collage, Pastels, and Sculpture 1975-1990 will have its celebratory reception on Saturday, June 7th, from 3-5 pm with remarks at 3:30 pm. Featuring a monumental collage, six pastels of different sizes, and four intimately scaled, unique cast bronze sculptures, each work conveys Leon’s interest in the landscape and his desire to intervene in the land to make is artistic mark. The exhibition will be on view through July 3, 2025. An important member of the Land Art movement in the United States, Dennis Leon’s interventions in the natural environment were distinctly different in their intention and execution from those of his contemporaries, including Agnes Denes, ... More
Exhibition represents over a decade of creative work by Clifford Ward HAMILTON, NJ.- This spring, Grounds For Sculpture presents Clifford Ward: I’ll Make Me a World, an exhibition guest curated by Noah Smalls, which is on view in the Museum Building from May 18, 2025 through January 11, 2026. Spanning over a decade of creative work, much of which was created at Clifford Ward’s studio on the GFS campus, this exhibition presents a rich tapestry of themes and concepts in his expansive practice. Ward is inspired by a diverse array of cultural influences, including contributions from the African diaspora, Australian Aboriginal people, and Native American and Māori cultures. His work often explores geometry, Cubism, mythology, and anthropomorphism. Together, these myriad influences, themes and concepts transcend temporal and geographical confines, resonating with the collective human experience. “We’re delighted to showcase an extensive ... More
Martin Beck's largest US solo museum show explores environments RIDGEFIELD, CONN.- Martin Beck: ... for hours, days, or weeks at a time explores the methods and means through which environments are captured, compressed, and represented. Using drawing, sound, video, and installation, the exhibition presents a suite of works informed by Beck’s research into environments, a series of eleven vinyl records from the 1970s produced by the Syntonic Research Inc. label that registered the acoustics of nature and meditative sounds with high-fidelity recording technology. Marketed as psychoacoustic experiences with the potential to alter domestic and workspace atmospheres—for listeners to transcend the monotony of bureaucratic space and activity—the records laid the groundwork for an emerging industry catering to the care, efficiency, and control of the self. Beck’s interest in these records is their pioneering role as atmospheric ... More
Kistefos Museum announces architect shortlist for spectacular new gallery JEVNAKER.- Kistefos Museum, a much-admired art and heritage destination, an hour north of Oslo, today [6 March 2025] announced its architect shortlist for a new site-specific standalone gallery. Due to open in 2031, the new museum building will become a permanent home for the significant art collection built up by museum founder, investor and art collector Christen Sveaas. The project benefits from a picturesque site within the wider Kistefos Museum sculpture park and post-industrial campus. Kistefos Museum commissioned an invited design competition with a project brief to create an original design and exemplar of sustainable design and practices. The shortlist of teams chosen for the competition’s second stage includes celebrated and emerging international architects (in alphabetical order): • BIG (DK) • Christ & Gantenbein (CH) • Ensamble Studio ... More
From physics to sculpture: Arcangelo Sassolino's "Present Tense" exhibition opens SAN GIMIGNANO.- GALLERIA CONTINUA is presenting in its San Gimignano space the exhibition Present Tense by Arcangelo Sassolino. The exhibition brings together a series of new, never-before- seen works, exploring the theme of matter in constant transformation in an attempt to capture a present that is constantly slipping away. Industrial oil, a central element of the works displayed, becomes liquid sculpture and a metaphor for the constant instability of time and space: a dense, opaque fluid that moves, expands, and contracts, engaging in a continuous dialogue between control and unpredictability. Arcangelo Sassolino’s work emerges from the intersection of art and physics, with a consistent focus on mechanics and technology. Over his 35-year career, he has exhibited in some of the world’s most prestigious public and private venues, from the Palais de Tokyo in Paris ... More
Calvin Marcus presents "Skin Paintings" in first European institutional solo show SINT-MARTENS LATEM.- Calvin Marcus’s solo exhibition Skin Paintings presents oil paintings on linen that depict magnified renderings of the artist’s flesh alongside bronze and ceramic vessels. Skin Paintings extends Marcus’s investigation of media, process, and the abject in the familiar. This is the artist’s first solo presentation at a European institution. Calvin Marcus (b. 1988, San Francisco) works serially, creating stylistically distinct bodies of work that probe unsettling subjects, both psychic and social, across a variety of media. For each new suite, Marcus develops unique material processes—discussing his slippery subject matter and free approach to craft, the artist explains: “I feel no loyalty to one particular medium, I let the idea dictate the form and go from there.” Marcus lives in Los Angeles. The artist has been the subject of solo and two-person exhibitions at Karma, ... More
Heman Chong's conceptual practice across two decades featured at Singapore Art Museum SINGAPORE.- Singapore Art Museum is presenting This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness, a solo exhibition by Heman Chong. One of Singapore’s most iconic contemporary artists, Heman Chong epitomises a generation of artists from Southeast Asia that emerged in the late 1990s and early 2000s, riding a post-Cold War wave of globalisation to find international acclaim. From artworks first made in 2003—the year Chong first participated in the Venice Biennale, disavowed video art, and began to curate internationally—to recent works made specifically for this occasion, the exhibition charts trajectories of Chong’s conceptual practice across two decades marked by internationally networked art production and the emergence of social media platforms. The title of this exhibition is a readymade text-based artwork, appropriated ... More
UCCA Beijing presents "Chen Ke: Bauhaus Unknown," shining light on women of the Bauhaus BEIJING.- UCCA Center for Contemporary Art presents “Chen Ke: Bauhaus Unknown,” a solo exhibition featuring the latest body of work from the artist’s “Bauhaus Gal” series (2020-ongoing). Since emerging into the art scene in the early 2000s, Chen Ke (b. 1978, Sichuan province) has gained renown for her evocative visual language exploring the emotional complexities of the individual within broader social and historical contexts. This exhibition focuses on the lives and often-overlooked contributions of the women associated with the Bauhaus, focusing in particular on their role in the school’s weaving workshop and their lasting impact on textile art. The poignancy of Chen’s works is heightened by the exhibition’s setting within UCCA’s flagship location in Beijing’s 798 Art District—a post-industrial compound originally designed in the 1950s by architects from the state design institute ... More
Curator Hiromi Kinoshita on "Mythical Creatures: China and the World"
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On a day like today, Flemish painter and illustrator Jacob Jordaens was born
May 19, 1593. May 19, 1593. Jacob (Jacques) Jordaens (19 May 1593 - 18 October 1678) was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and tapestry designer known for his history paintings, genre scenes and portraits. After Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, he was the leading Flemish Baroque painter of his day. In this image: Jacob Jordaens, The Tribute Money - Peter finding the silver coin in the mouth of the fish, 1630-1645, Collection Rijksmuseum.
