Giorgio de Chirico, Ettore e Andromaca davanti a Troia, 1968, oil on canvas. Courtesy of Foundation Giorgio and Isa de Chirico. Photo: G. Schiavinotto.
MÄNTTÄ.- A creator of metaphysical art, Giorgio de Chirico’s work in the field of stage design and his relationship with the city of Rome take centre stage in the exhibition De Chirico and the Theatre, on display at Serlachius from 15 March to 17 August 2025. This is the first time the artist’s work is presented so extensively in Finland. Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico (1888–1978) is known for creating the metaphysical art movement in the 1910s. His paintings depict bizarre spaces and landscapes where architectural elements and perspectives create a dreamlike atmosphere. De Chirico is considered one of the most significant innovators in 20th-century painting. The exhibition at Serlachius showcases de Chirico’s set and costume designs for the Rome Opera, as well as finished sets and costumes. There are also many of his paintings and drawings from the Foundation Giorgio and Isa de Chirico, including works that have never been publicly displayed before. The exhibition is cur ... More
Keita Morimoto Familiar Light, 2025. Acrylic on panel, 18 x 14 x 2 cm. 7 x 5 1/2 x 3/4 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Almine Rech New York, Tribeca is presenting 'To Nowhere and Back,' Keita Morimoto's first solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from March 14 to April 26, 2025. Keita Morimoto’s paintings investigate the interplay of light and shadow, offering a reimagined perspective on the modern urban landscape. Rooted in classical techniques and infused with contemporary sensibilities, his works transform everyday scenes into cinematic tableaux that hover between reality and dream. Morimoto challenges viewers to uncover beauty in the mundane and magic in the overlooked by marrying meticulous observation with an otherworldly atmosphere. In 'To Nowhere and Back' at Almine Rech in New York City, he continues his exploration of light as a transformative force, turning the quotidian into the paranormal. Through the construction of liminal spaces, his paintings ... More
Tavares Strachan, Son of Andromeda (Malcolm X), 2025. 2 panels; oil, enamel, pigment, fiber, acrylic panel, ceramic, neon, transformer, 84 x 84 x 2 in. (213.4 x 213.4 x 5.1 cm) (overall). Ceramic: 23 5/8 x 9 7/8 x 10 5/8 in. (60 x 25 x 27 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery. Photo: Tom Powel Imaging.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marian Goodman Gallery New York opened a solo exhibition of Tavares Strachan titled Starless Midnight. This immersive presentation features several new and existing bodies of work across seven diverse and site-specific environments. Through an interconnected array of works comprising painting, sound, robotics, neon, marble, and hair, Starless Midnight is a testament to Strachan’s multifaceted artistic practice, structured by a visual language of storytelling. Strachan’s boldly inventive and ambitious work summons historical and cultural references, expressing the affinities, contradictions, and dependencies within oft-untold stories of historically marginalized individuals, ... More
Anna Wypych, Thinker.
NEW YORK, NY.-The Kosciuszko Foundation will present The Real Within: A New Generation of Polish Realism, a group exhibition showcasing the work of eight contemporary Polish painters. Marking the centennial of the Foundation’s activities, the exhibition pays homage to Poland’s artistic heritage while highlighting a new generation of artists whose work exemplifies the strength and vibrancy of Polish realism today. While distinct in style and approach, these contemporary works reflect the enduring tradition of Polish realism, long recognized for its technical mastery and deep emotional resonance. Presented alongside the Foundation’s permanent collection—home to masterpieces by 19th-century Polish luminaries—these paintings affirm realism’s continued evolution and relevance in contemporary art. The Real Within explores how a new generation of artists engages with realist figuration, expanding its emotional and ... More
Joseph Wright of Derby. Self-Portrait in a Fur Cap, 1765/68. The Art Institute of Chicago, Clarence Buckingham Collection.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago opened Lines of Connection: Drawing and Printmaking, on view March 15 through June 1, 2025. Featuring more than 90 works on paper by some of the greatest artists in the Western tradition, this is the first major exhibition to explore the multiple connections between drawing and printmaking. This exhibition reveals the interconnected relationship and creative exchange between the two mediums, which have historically been viewed separately. Showcasing traditional forms like preparatory drawings for prints, printed imitations of drawings, and drawn copies of prints alongside a selection of hybrid works, the show uncovers the inner workings of these artists’ creative process and offers new ways to think about the links between drawing and printmaking. “By bringing together this particular selection of works spanning the four hundred years between the emergence of printmaking ... More
George Nama, Untitled 1958-1959 painted collage 8 1/18 x 5 1/4 inches.
PASADENA, CALIF.- Jack Rutberg Fine Arts presents a significant exhibition of works by New York artist George Nama. Located at 600 S. Lake Avenue in Pasadena, this exhibition continues the gallery's presentation of museum quality exhibitions since its move to Pasadena, as one of the longest established fine art galleries in Los Angeles. The exhibition, "George Nama: 60 Years of Selected Works" includes bronze sculptures as well as painted collages. Some are large, but in contrast, included are a group of small scale works from 1958, with Nama’s intent to create monumentality on an intimate scale - in notable contrast with the predominant tendency of Abstract Expressionism at that formative time. The works of George Nama defy easy categorization. They are at once monumental and yet, ephemeral. Figuration is the root of his imagery, but Nama’s forms are as invented as any non-objective painting or drawing might be, since nature is but a starting ... More
Shim Moon-Seup. Re-Present (detail), 2024. Acrylic on paper. 65 x 50 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin.
NEW YORK, NY.- Perrotin is presenting A Certain Landscape, a solo presentation of works on canvas and paper by Korean born artist Shim Moon-Seup (b. 1943). Looking towards the seascapes of Tongyeong, the coastal city where Shim grew up and has since returned to, the works on view continue the artist’s ever expansive and empathetic outlook on time, space, and nature––then, and now. In 2010, Shim began making an ongoing series of works on canvas entitled The Presentation. Known primarily as a sculptural artist in the decades prior, this material turn coincided with the artist’s relocation to childhood hometown Tongyeong in 2012, after a five-year sojourn in Paris (and prior to that, in the suburb of Seoul.) The return to familiar bodies of water and a slower pace of life not only allowed the artist to reconnect with the seascapes which has nurtured his curiosity and sensibility since childhood, but also allowed for a vital reengagement with the core of Shim’s personal and artis ... More
Harland Miller: XXX exhibition. Photo by Duncan Lomax.
YORK.- Internationally acclaimed artist and writer Harland Miller returns to York Art Gallery this March to present ‘XXX’, a new exhibition showcasing paintings and works on paper from his renowned ‘Letter Paintings’ series. Inspired by his upbringing in 1970s Yorkshire and an itinerant lifestyle in New York, New Orleans, Berlin and Paris during the 1980s and ’90s, Miller creates colourful and graphically vernacular works that convey his love of popular language and attest to his enduring engagement with its narrative, aural and typographical possibilities. Says Miller, who was born in York: “It’s great to be coming back to York again with this new show. Five years ago we opened the exhibition ‘York, So Good They Named it Once’, so it’s kind of appropriate in some sense to be doing it once more… but this time with an entirely new body of work which has never been seen anywhere all together before, so it’s very exciting. This show is ... More
Man’s Royal Ceremonial Robe, Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba people, early 20th century, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Marcel and Zaira Mis Collection, purchased with funds from the LACMA 50th Anniversary Gala.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Ritual Expressions: African Adornment from the Permanent Collection. Bodily adornments, such as ritual textiles, clothing, and headwear, are created by the many cultures throughout the African continent. A testament to the meticulous craftsmanship of its creators, these pieces display vivid colors, mesmerizing patterns, and symbolic motifs that often signify prestige and power. Ritual Expressions is a focused presentation that brings together more than 30 examples of a rich diversity of textiles, clothing, and headwear representing more than 20 cultures from Africa, all drawn from LACMA’s permanent collection. The exhibition explores how adornments are constructed ... More
More than eighty works by the greatest Italian and European artists tell the story of the revolution launched by Saint Francis’s Canticle of the Sun, in the year that marks its eighth centennial.
PERUGIA.- The National Gallery of Umbria in Perugia is hosting the exhibition Fratello Sole, Sorella Luna. Nature in Art, from Fra Beato Angelico to Corot, on the occasion of the eighth centennial of the composition of the Canticle of the Sun by Saint Francis of Assisi. Not only one of the very first works of poetry in old Italian, it was also the first expression of a new relationship with Nature, to which the saint spoke for the first time in terms of intimacy, in an ecological ideal, in the etymological sense of the term, that was to exert an incredible influence on art from the thirteenth century onwards. Curated by Costantino D’Orazio, Director of the National Museums of Perugia – Umbria Regional Directorate of National Museums, together with Veruska Picchiarelli and Carla Scagliosi, art historians ... More
Mary Ijichi, Assemblage #28, 2024 Colored pencil, mylar, plastic, beads, acrylic, linen tape, and museum board, 27 5/8 x 27 3/8 inches framed.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Paul Thiebaud Gallery opened its first solo exhibition of works by Bay Area artist Mary Ijichi. On view are twelve of Ijichi's signature Assemblage works, including a monumental tetraptych, her largest work in this series to date. Constructed by applying colored pencil onto frosted mylar and attaching a painted mixed media structure behind it, Ijichi’s works employ subtle shifts of light, shadow, and color to create sublime visual experiences. The exhibition will be on view through May 10, 2025. Requiring countless hours and attention to the smallest details, Mary Ijichi’s assemblages are formed through the layering of colored pencil rubbings on mylar over a field of carefully placed beads that are attached to a painted architectural grid. What appear to be simple drawings at first glance, each Assemblage is a perceptual ... More
Georgie Hopton, All The Rides, 2021. Courtesy of the artist and Lyndsey Ingram, London
BATH.- The Gallery at No.1 Royal Crescent in Bath presents a unique, collaborative project focused on the work of two women artists, Mary Delany (1700–1788) and Georgie Hopton (1967–) curated by Ingrid Swenson. This meeting of artistic minds across two and a half centuries will combine the display of the British Museum Touring Exhibition The botanical world of Mary Delany, installed in conjunction with artworks and newly commissioned designs for wallpaper and fabric by Georgie Hopton. Connecting these two artists is their shared passion for and knowledge of plants and specifically flowers, explored with their creative skill and ability for exquisite handcrafting. Delany’s work is being displayed as high-resolution digital prints of the artist’s original collages, which she described as ‘paper mosaiks’. These artworks were created using a painstaking technique she ... More
HANNOVER.- A new photography exhibition, "ZUHAUSE" (Home), opened today, offering a multifaceted exploration of the universal theme of home through the works of award-winning photographers. The exhibition, a collaboration between the VONOVIA AWARD FÜR FOTOGRAFIE, the Marktkirche in Hannover, and various public spaces, presents a range of perspectives on what "home" means in contemporary society. The exhibition features the work of six photographers, including Sibylle Fendt, winner of the "Professionals" category, and Jakob Eckstein, winner of the "New Talents" category. Fendt's series, "Before It's Time," sensitively documents the experience of individuals caring for loved ones in their final days at home, highlighting the comfort and security found in familiar surroundings during times of grief. Christian Heymann's "expectations" ... More
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MoCA CT opens the solo exhibition Banks Violette: American Standard WESTPORT, CONN.- MoCA CT announces American Standard, Banks Violette’s first major solo exhibition since 2008. His austerely beautiful drawings, sculptures, video, and installation mix influences from postwar art, politics, and pop culture to evoke America’s rise and decline, its unique mix of pleasure and destruction. The exhibition of approximately 20 objects focuses on three extraordinary works, each presented in its own room: a massive American flag sculpture, a monumental gas station installation, and a haunting video. Together they form a layered narrative about American excess, its discontents, and unclear future. The steel and electric light sculpture of the American flag resembles a worn-out road sign. Violette sees the flag not just as a national symbol but also as a reflection of the systems that constitute America as a sovereign nation, ... More
TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol opens an exhibition of works by Hannelore Nenning INNSBRUCK.- In the present moment, the dispute over the autonomy or heteronomy of art appears to have been reignited. But it is indisputable that artistic and curatorial action always takes place in a context, at least in a lifeworld and an artistic setting. Art comments on the world, questions its rules or imagines them differently—it always presupposes positionality and is therefore never neutral. Hannelore Nenning’s position could be described as activist watercolor painter. Her subject is the alpine waterways of Tyrol and Austria—the specific and different forms of flowing water coursing through the landscape—which she has portrayed for many decades. Nenning invites us to admire these highly diverse varieties of flowing water, all of which create habitats, and to carefully consider whether we are prepared to destroy them to increase the flow of capital. ... More
Para Site presents Wing Po So: Take Turns HONG KONG.- Take Turns by Hong Kong artist Wing Po So is a newly commissioned exhibition at Para Site that examines the shifting dynamics among nature, the body, and materiality using Chinese medicine drawers as vessels. Growing up in a family-run Chinese medicine shop, So was immersed in the world of materia medica, and this upbringing has deeply influenced her artistic practice. Central to the exhibition are salvaged drawers from now-defunct traditional Chinese pharmacies in Hong Kong, reimagined as sites of transformative healing. The drawers’ worn surfaces bear witness to cycles of preservation, decay, and regeneration. Recast to hold the artist’s works, they prompt reflections on material change while highlighting the interconnectedness of living beings, geology, and human-made objects. The exhibition presents works across three ... More
LACMA announces 2025 plans toward 2026 grand public opening of new David Geffen Galleries LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced that the public will be able to begin exploring multiple features of the new David Geffen Galleries in summer 2025, as the museum prepares for the April 2026 opening of this new home for its permanent collection. Major construction of the building, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Peter Zumthor, was completed at the end of 2024, and LACMA has begun to move in key operating functions. While this process continues, the building and its surroundings will start to come to life with installations of outdoor sculpture, the openings of dining and retail spaces, and special preview events. Named in recognition of David Geffen’s extraordinary $150 million gift, the new building, for which the County of Los Angeles invested $125 million, straddles Wilshire Boulevard, with floating ... More
Galerie Esther Woerdehoff presents an exhibition of new works by Thomas Jorion PARIS.- Thomas Jorion's latest work is a series of Monolithes, concrete blocks on which the artist prints views of industrial cities. The 1976-born French artist, known for creating singular, timeless landscapes in natural light, has learned to make concrete casts which, due to the iron support inside, drip rust onto often damaged edges. This brutal material responds to the vision of great cities in ruins, and also recalls the artist's beginnings, when he traveled the world to eternalize colonial buildings, once chic and noble but now abandoned and returned to nature, or this construction of a nuclear power plant that was never completed and left to decay today. Thomas Jorion, French photographer born in 1976, lives and works in Paris. Self-taught man and great traveller, he takes his images with a 4x5” large format camera. For more than fifteen years, his work has been developed ... More
"Facial Recognition" at Jane Lombard Gallery: Artists confront AI and surveillance in contemporary portraiture NEW YORK, NY.- Facial Recognition gathers a group of artists with unique approaches to portraiture, all working in a moment in history when AI and facial recognition algorithms are inescapable. Taken together, these artists–Pixy Liao, Helina Metaferia, Kambui Olujimi, Azita Moradkhani, Russell Craig, Lau Wai and LuYang–spark a conversation about a shift in depictions of the human face, given the ubiquity of this new technology that insinuates itself into our everyday lives. AFR–or Automatic Facial Recognition technology–is both invisible and intrusive; from iPhones to TSA, from convenience to surveillance, we take its benefits along with its dangers. Two artists–LuYang and Lau Wai–have mastered facial capture technology ... More
Adam Mickiewicz Institute presents "European Kinship-Eastern European Perspective" conference BUDAPEST.- Professional Weekend—March 27–29, 2025—includes a conference, an exhibition by Lia Dostlieva, and Budapest Portfolio Reviews. These events accompany the exhibition European Kinship—Eastern European Perspective at Capa Center in Budapest (February 12–April 20, 2025). The accompanying events are organised in collaboration with the Capa Center, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, the Polish Institute in Budapest, REZO Agency and the British Journal of Photography. How can Eastern Europeanism be defined? What is it that is distinctively its own, that binds the peoples who live here and share a common history and geography? And what are the global solutions to local specificities? Or what and how does all this become one in Euro-ness? What are the trends towards deeper European integration and more international ... More
MIT List Visual Arts Center presents the 2025 Max Wasserman Forum: Visions of Sustainability CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- The MIT List Visual Arts Center announced the 2025 Max Wasserman Forum: Visions of Sustainability, taking place on April 5, 2025, at the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, MA. This year’s Forum will focus on climate change and sustainability within arts institutions, engaging artists, curators, and scholars in discussions on the transformative role of art in addressing environmental degradation, climate justice, and sustainable futures. Through a series of panel discussions and a keynote lecture, this year’s Wasserman Forum will explore the intersections of artistic practice, ecological advocacy, and cultural systems to reconsider how the arts can respond to the climate crisis. Bringing together leading voices in contemporary art and environmental discourse, the 2025 Wasserman Forum will feature speakers including filmmaker ... More
The Philippines unveils 'Oculu' as its inaugural cultural program as guest of honour at the Frankfurter Buchmesse 2025 HEIDELBERG.- Heightening anticipation for its Guest of Honour role at the Frankfurter Buchmesse 2025, the Philippines presents Oculus, an exhibition that brings together moving image, research and installation to reflect on what it means to “see things.” Artists Stephanie Misa and Joscha Steffens work out how seeing, shaped by both ecology and imagination, can give rise to visions. Oculus immerses audiences in a space where scientific knowledge and aesthetic education intersect, and where the line between real and spectral blurs. One of the entry points of the exhibition is Philippine National Hero Jose Rizal’s ophthalmological studies in Heidelberg and his novel, Noli Me Tangere, parts of which he wrote when he was in the same ... More
Walker & Bromwich and Trading Zone 2025 at Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh EDINBURGH.- Glasgow-based duo Zoe Walker and Neil Bromwich create projects that bring together utopian, socialist and animist ideals to create spaces for communities to come together around issues of climate change and social justice. Searching for a Change of Consciousness draws together a number of artworks made with different communities including working-class communities in Wales, anarchists in Denmark, environmental scholars and Indigenous representatives from the Colombian Amazon, for the first time. Sometimes funny, sometimes sombre, and always hopeful, their projects are often built around unique giant inflatable works that fall between sculpture and processional objects. Visitors will be immediately confronted with the colossal Serpent of Capitalism enveloping the gallery, setting the stage for a story that runs from foundation ... More
Lecture: Anatomy of Armor
Flashback
On a day like today, English fashion designer Alexander McQueen was born
