Thursday, December 04, 2025

David Schwartz unveils "Music as Medication" at LVMH THE STUDIO MIAMI

New sculptural series channels nostalgia, vibration, and the healing power of sound for Miami Art Week 2025.
MIAMI, FLA.— For Miami-based artist and designer David Schwartz, sound has never been something to only listen to. It is something to hold, remember, and—in many ways—heal with. This December, Schwartz brings that philosophy to Miami Art Week with Music as Medication, a new sculptural series debuting at LVMH THE STUDIO MIAMI in the Design District. The exhibition builds on Schwartz’s expanding Rhyme Capsule universe, a body of work rooted in preserving the emotional weight of music history. His new pieces take the language of nostalgia—mixtapes, boombox culture, and the unmistakable colors of vintage album art—and merge it with the aesthetics of pharmaceuticals. The result is a collection of resin and crystal “prescriptions” that imagine music as something to soothe the mind, lift the spirit, or unlock memories that time has softened. Each object nods to albums that marked entire generations, from Prince and De La Soul to Sade. Like time capsules, the sculptures invite viewers to remember not only the music itself but the moments in their lives that unfolded alongside it. “If I’m not creating, I go to a dark place,” Schwartz says. “These pieces can uplift your vibration, either by sight or as a reminder to go stream that particular song or album.” That intimate connection between healing and creativity stems from Schwartz’s own history. Raised in Minneapolis, he studied art before leaving school to pursue music full-time under the mentorship of Prince. He spent years recording at Paisley Park, touring, and absorbing the late icon’s uncompromising approach to blending sound and image. Those early years gave Schwartz a vocabulary that now appears not in music studios, but in sculpture. Read More

Hito Steyerl unveils new film installation The Island at Fondazione Prada's Osservatorio

MILAN.— The exhibition “The Island” by artist and lecturer Hito Steyerl opens to the public tomorrow, 4 December 2025. Presented by Fondazione Prada at Osservatorio in Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan until 30 October 2026, “The Island” unveils a new film created by Steyerl, which converges into a video installation and gives rise to a series of objects, structures, and video interviews. With this site-specific project Hito Steyerl delves into multiple narratives united by the recurring element of flooding, addressing urgent topics such as current authoritarian tendencies fostered by the use of AI, the climate crisis, and political pressures on scientific research. Through the artist’s exhibited works, time and space are reorganized by borrowing the logic
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Royal Academy announces plans to expand its free collection gallery

LONDON.— The Royal Academy announced the expansion of its Collection Gallery in Burlington Gardens into an ambitious and elegant double-height space. This project will significantly enhance the RA’s free offer for visitors by allowing a greater selection of works from the RA’s rich collection to be displayed. The RA has received generous support from an anonymous donor to realise this project. It is designed by David Chipperfield Architects, who completed the RA’s transformative redevelopment in 2018 and the RA Schools restoration and renewal project in 2024, together with Julian Harrap Architects. Burlington Gardens was originally designed by Sir James Pennethorne for the University of London and opened in 1870. The RA Collection Gallery project will restore, in
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National Gallery unveils £375m Project Domani and shortlists six architects for major new wing

LONDON.— On 9 September 2025, the National Gallery, one of the world’s pre-eminent collections of paintings made in the Western tradition, announced Project Domani, its largest transformation since its foundation 200 years ago, backed by an unprecedented £375m of cash pledges. Project Domani also includes the Gallery's move to extend its historic collection beyond 1900, making Trafalgar Square the one place in the world that presents the complete history of Western painting. As part of this exciting development, the Gallery launched an international architectural competition for a brand-new wing to house its expanded collection. Sixty-five submissions were received. Today (3 December 2025), the Gallery has announced the six shortlisted architects (listed in alphabetical order).
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Christie's Hong Kong autumn Luxury sales total US$129M

HONG KONG.— Christie's Hong Kong Luxury Week live auctions of jewellery, watches, handbags, and wine concluded on 27 November 2025, achieving a market-leading total of HK$987,152,660 / US$127,483,757 with 95% of lots sold and a hammer price 117% over the low estimate. The consistently strong results across all categories and spirited bidding throughout the season demonstrate a positive shift in collector confidence and participation – total sales were up 27% year-on-year. The Luxury categories continue to drive growth and global engagement – close to 20% of buyers in the sales were new, and 20 countries spanning 4 continents participated, with spending led by Greater China followed by Southeast Asia, and notable growth from the Middle East. Tech-savvy Millennials and Gen Z were a strong presence, and almost half of buyers bought online. Overall, Christie's Luxury Autumn Sales, including online, have reached HK$1 billion / US$129 million. Watches Online: Featuring "The Eternity Part 2" an
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"Color Meets Form" brings together Amaranth Ehrenhalt and David Hayes in a dynamic two-artist dialogue

NEW YORK, NY.— Anita Shapolsky Gallery is presenting a new exhibition, “COLOR MEETS FORM,” featuring two masters who, over the course of their long artistic careers, have brilliantly explored both color and form. Amaranth Ehrenhalt's evocative and bold paintings are exhibited in Gallery 1 (located downstairs), while David Hayes's abstract sculptures, made of welded and painted steel, are on display in Gallery 2 (located upstairs). The exhibition centers on the dialogue between the movement and dynamic, interactive brushstrokes in Ehrenhalt’s paintings and the playful, abstracted natural and organic forms in Hayes's sculptures. The interplay between two-dimensional canvases and three-dimensional sculptures invites viewers to engage with color, light, structure, shadow, and texture. By placing paintings and sculptures in conversation, the exhibition highlights how different mediums can challenge perception and deepen visual experience. Amaranth Roslyn Ehrenhalt (1928-2021) was an America
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Hamburger Kunsthalle reframes 1800s art through modern debates

HAMBURG.— Art Around 1800 revisits the legendary exhibition cycle of that name at the Hamburger Kunsthalle. That series, presented in nine parts from 1974 to 1981, examined the impact of art in the »Age of Revolutions«, launching seminal debates on the social relevance of art that continue to resonate today. The current show critiques the historical displays created under then director Werner Hofmann from a contemporary perspective, updating their approach to classifying and ordering things. Over 50 paintings, books and works on paper dating to the era around 1800 from the Kunsthalle’s collection are supplemented by 70 selected loans and works by five contemporary artists. Around 100 artists are represented. Like the original series, the current exhibition is being shown in the rotonda on the upper floor of the new museum wing inaugurated in 1919. In the 1970s, this area served as a central »space for contemplation« and for curatorial experiments. Arranged in ten stations, Art Around 1800 u
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Carl Cheng's six-decade exploration of nature and technology opens at Museum Tinguely

BASEL.— Nature Never Loses surveys six decades of the prescient, genre-defying work of artist Carl Cheng (b. 1942, San Francisco; lives and works in Santa Monica). Having studied both fine art and industrial design, Cheng began his artistic career in the 1960s amid political unrest, an interdisciplinary art scene, a booming post-war aerospace industry, and a rapidly transforming landscape. This exhibition, which comes to Switzerland for the first time following shows in the United States and the Netherlands, presents the most comprehensive view of Cheng’s work to date. From 3 December 2025 to 10 May 2026, Museum Tinguely showcases his early photographic sculptures, his Art Tools he created as part of his two key mailer ephemera works, and his Nature Machines that anticipate an artificial, human-made world. Extensive documentation highlights Cheng’s anticipatory visualizations of planetary fictions, including the Santa Monica
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"Paper Jane" celebrates Jane Austen's 250th birthday at the Grolier Club

NEW YORK, NY.— A special exhibition at The Grolier Club marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Jane Austen (1775–1817), arguably the best-known author in the English language after William Shakespeare. Celebrating Austen’s birthday on December 16, Paper Jane: 250 Years of Austen is on view in the Grolier Club’s second floor gallery from December 4, 2025 through Valentine’s Day, 2026. The exhibition showcases the author’s growing fame through more than 100 objects, including rare first editions, manuscripts, popular reprintings, movie posters, illustrations, theater playbills, and other paper ephemera. Organized chronologically in fifty-year intervals (1775–1825, 1825–1875, 1875–1925, 1925–1975, and 1975–2025), Paper Jane features objects from the collections of Grolier Club members Janine Barchas, Mary Crawford, and Sandra Clark. In addition to chronicling the printed history of Austen’s novels from elite first editions to popular paperbacks
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Masterpieces by Botticelli, Titian, and Cranach anchor Bozar's bold year-long inquiry into beauty and perception

BRUSSELS.— Bozar opens 2026 with an exhibition programme that stimulates the senses. What is beauty? What is ugliness? In the Renaissance, these concepts were often seen as two sides of the same coin, with deviations from the ideal carrying a moral undertone. Bozar presents Bellezza e Bruttezza, a historical exhibition that marks the starting point of a programme exploring how we perceive these dual notions today. Precious works of Botticelli, Titian, Tintoretto, Cranach the Elder, Matsys, and many others are displayed in Belgium for the first and only time. Picture Perfect explores the pressures of looking beautiful through an exhibition of lens-based media. 55 contemporary artists – from Martha Rosler and Cindy Sherman to Zanele Muholi and Moshtari Hilal – challenge beauty norms and their photographic representations over the past 50 years. For his first exhibition in Belgium, the established Singaporean artist Ho Tzu Nyen presents a new multimedia installation. Using AI, algorithms a
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Claudia Pagès Rabal explores border histories and topographies in Feudal Holes at mumok

VIENNA.— Claudia Pagès Rabal (born 1990 in Barcelona) is a visual artist and writer. In her video installations, performances, sculptures, and drawings, she often addresses themes such as the protean history of the Iberian Peninsula, global migration movements, territorial appropriation, and the cultural diversity and mix in the Mediterranean region. At mumok, Claudia Pagès Rabal expands on her longstanding research into the Silk Route, the legendary network of trade routes that stretched from Central and East Asia to the Mediterranean region, transporting not only goods but also capital in the form of knowledge for centuries. In the exhibition Feudal Holes, the artist’s research transports visitors to the so-called Hispanic March, a historical border region established by European Carolingians in the ninth century as part of a protective wall against the Arab al-Andalus. This territory, marked by Moorish influences, served as a military buffer zone between what is
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Transformative feminist art collection donated to the Dayton Art Institute

DAYTON, OH.— The Dayton Art Institute announced a transformational gift from Sara and Michelle Vance Waddell, who will donate a major collection of feminist art, which includes hundreds of works by local, national and international women artists, to the museum. The gift builds on the success of the DAI’s 2024 exhibition Riveting: Women Artists from the Sara M. and Michelle Vance Waddell Collection, deepening the conversation that began when audiences were first introduced to the breadth and vision of the remarkable collection. In recognition of this extraordinary gift, the museum will establish the Sara M. & Michelle Vance Waddell Gallery for Feminist Art, a space dedicated to showcasing the voices and visions of women artists. The Vance Waddells will also fund a curatorial position for four years. After that period, the DAI and the Vance Waddells will revisit the possibility of endowing
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Lisa Brice unveils a fierce new trilogy of paintings for Sadie Coles HQ's townhouse debut

LONDON.— For the opening exhibition of Sadie Coles HQ's townhouse gallery on Savile Row, Lisa Brice presents new paintings in three distinct groups arranged sequentially in the spaces of the building. Using a repeated viewpoint to form an architectural horizon across consecutive paintings, the audience is offered a parade of dynamic empowerment. Known for her depictions of feminine actors in interior spaces and working environments, Brice reflects on the erosion of safety in the current socio-political climate. She gives her protagonists codes of collective assertiveness, an emboldened and defensive response, willing the triumph of the underdog. The characters here are powerful, proactive, effective: they are David not Goliath, Judith not Holofernes. Drawing on images of violence in art history from the likes of Gentileschi, Caravaggio, Manet and Magritte, Brice was similarly inspired by Honor Blackman’s 1965 Book
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'Surfaces in Balance': Cortesi Gallery unites six decades of Italian art in Lugano

Cortesi Gallery Lugano announced the reinstallation of Superfici in Equilibrio (Balanced Surfaces), the group exhibition on view from 20 September 2025 at the Lugano gallery, newly presented with additional works and open until 15 February 2026. The project brings together a selected group of Italian and International artists, active from the 1960s to the present day, united by a deep reflection on the surface as an active space: a dynamic threshold between matter and vision. On view: Agostino Bonalumi, Enico Castellani, Pietro Consagra, Heinz Mack, Gianfranco Pardi, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Giuseppe Santomaso, and, extending the dialogue into contemporary times, Maurizio Donzelli, Chiara Dynys, and Tiziana Lorenzelli. Through an open dialogue between painting, sculpture, and installation, Superfici in Equilibrio explores the surface as a place of tension and

The Suñol Foundation presents a groundbreaking exhibition linking art, health, and memory

The Suñol Foundation in Barcelona opened MORTALES+ on 3 December 2025, a powerful exhibition that brings together art, collective research, and lived experience to reflect on four decades of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The project, created by artist Albert Potrony with the collaboration of curator and educator Roser Sanjuan, marks an expansion of the earlier MORTALES initiative, deepening its focus on illness, care, and the emotional and social landscapes shaped by HIV. Over the past year, Potrony and Sanjuan worked closely with a group made up of people living with HIV, researchers, activists, and healthcare professionals. Their voices and stories form the backbone of the exhibition. Access to the Suñol Soler Collection allowed the group to engage directly with artworks that span decades, creating a dialogue between personal testimony and contemporary

KW Institute for Contemporary Art presents its 2026 program

“KW Institute for Contemporary Art’s 2026 program continues to explore how the city of Berlin and KW’s building can serve as a framework for a program centered on artists and their processes, local production, community and partnerships, and the social, technological, and ecological present. Our opening season draws from the city itself—its materials, people, and architecture. In the summer, a collaborative festival with the Kyiv Biennale centers a local diaspora with a global concern, and in the fall, the program plays with our perceptions and memories of place and time.” —Emma Enderby The first large-scale survey as well as the first institutional solo exhibition of artist Klara Lidén in Berlin. Having lived in the city since the 2000s, Lidén has become a distinctive voice attentive to power relations, the dynamic between interior and exterior space, and forms of civil

A arte Invernizzi presents Mario Nigro's pioneering "Spazio totale" cycle in new solo exhibition

On Thursday, 4 December, A arte Invernizzi gallery opens the solo exhibition by Mario Nigro, curated by Paolo Bolpagni, which will focus on works belonging to the “Spazio totale” [“Total Space”] cycle created between 1952 and 1955. A leading figure in Italian art after World War II, Mario Nigro (Pistoia, 1917 - Livorno, 1992) developed a radical pictorial language that combined constructive rigor with expressive intensity. His scientific and musical training had a profound influence on his compositional method: his painting is structured according to rhythmic-musical rules of repetition and variation, which generate a continuous tension between order and dissonance, calculation and emotion. For over a decade (1952-1965/66), “Spazio totale” was the focal point of Nigro’s artistic research: he visualized the interpenetration of different degrees of reality and dimensions

Gold Robbins medallion that circumnavigated the moon leads Heritage's space exploration auction

One of only five known Gold Robbins Medallions produced for the crew aboard the Apollo 13 mission will launch in to a new collection when it is sold in Heritage’s Dec. 11-12 Space Exploration Signature® Auction. The Apollo 13 Flown Gold Robbins Medallion Originally from the Personal Collection of Mission Lunar Module Pilot Fred Haise, with LOA, is one of just five restruck for crewmembers on the mission — a trio that also included James A. Lovell, Jr., and John L. Swigert, Jr. Because of a last-minute change to the crew and technical issues that prevented the mission from reaching the moon, the original medals were melted down. “The Apollo 13 mission was the seventh crewed Apollo mission, and it was supposed to be the third lunar landing,” says Brad Palmer, Heritage’s Space Exploration Director. “But two days in to the mission, an oxygen tank exploded,

Leo Kandl returns to the streets of his childhood in new exhibition at Fotohof

FOTOHOF in Salzburg presents a deeply personal yet universally resonant exhibition by Austrian photographer Leo Kandl, whose new series “Brünner Straße” opens on December 4, 2025. The show, on view through January 31, 2026, revisits the urban landscape of Floridsdorf, the Vienna district where Kandl grew up and where his parents once ran a small shop selling paints, varnishes, and household goods. Across decades, Kandl has quietly cultivated a body of work that observes the ordinary rhythms of daily life. Rather than chasing dramatic moments or eye-catching compositions, he turns his lens toward the subtle, unadorned scenes that shape the experience of a city. In Floridsdorf—a district once defined by rural culture and later by its working-class identity—Kandl finds a living stage where long-time residents and new arrivals move through streets, squares,

Jasmijn Vermeeren challenges perceptions of health and identity in first solo exhibition at Foam 3h

Foam 3h presents You Don’t Look Sick, the first solo exhibition by artist Jasmijn Vermeeren. From a deeply personal perspective, Vermeeren sheds light on living with an invisible disability. In conversations about diversity and inclusion within society, the position of people with hidden mental and/or physical disabilities often remains underexposed. You Don’t Look Sick offers an intimate experience, inviting visitors to step into the everyday reality of those for whom this life is the norm. The exhibition is a reflection of the artist’s personal experiences with chronic pain and the social assumptions she encounters. She identifies as crip: an activist term originating from the American Disability Rights Movement that encompasses various forms of disability, including physical, mental, sensory and learning differences. As an artist with an invisible disability,

Emilija Škarnulytė explores deep time and invisible worlds in major Tate St Ives exhibition

This winter, Tate St Ives will present a major exhibition of the work of Lithuanian-born artist Emilija Škarnulytė. Working between documentary and the imaginary, Škarnulytė creates films and immersive installations that explore deep time and invisible systems, as well as power structures hidden within the cosmic and geological order. In her explorations of climate change, nuclear energy, fantasy, folklore and mythology, Škarnulytė’s work covers the poetic, personal and political. From the perspective of a ‘future archaeologist’, Škarnulytė traverses spaces that we do not readily see, such as Cold War military bases, mining sites, neutrino observatories, decommissioned power plants and deep-sea data storage units. She reveals them to us as relics of a lost human culture, in which technological advancements have wrought a complex future laden with environmental

Rago / Wright welcomes Jason Stein as Senior Design Specialist

Rago / Wright announced the addition of Jason Stein as Senior Specialist, Design, based in the Los Angeles office. Jason brings more than three decades of experience in the auction industry and an exceptional depth of knowledge in 20th- and 21st-century design, further strengthening our expanding West Coast presence. A California native, Jason has spent most of his life in Los Angeles, beginning his auction career more than 34 years ago after a serendipitous encounter with a Sotheby’s couple during a post-college trip through the South Pacific. That chance meeting sparked a lifelong passion for the auction world and marked the start of a distinguished career that has included senior roles at Bonhams, Christie’s, Butterfield & Butterfield, Paddle8, and Viyet. Most recently, Jason spent eight years as a specialist and auction leader

Zayed National Museum officially opens today to the public in Abu Dhabi

Zayed National Museum, the national museum of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the centrepiece of Saadiyat Cultural District, opened to the public today. Zayed National Museum offers visitors a journey through the history of the UAE, from the earliest evidence of human habitation to the civilisations that shaped its culture and identity. The museum serves as a cultural bridge connecting the seven emirates, emphasising their deep shared history and heritage. The museum reflects how the story of the UAE’s Founding Father, the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, is deeply intertwined with that of the UAE, presenting his life as a lens through which to explore the values and aspirations that underpin the nation. Zayed National Museum showcases a collection of more than 1,500 objects within its six permanent galleries, combining archaeological
Flashback: On a day like today, French impressionist painter Claude Monet died
Claude Monet (14 November 1840 - 5 December 1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant). In this image: A visitor looks on a painting by French artist Claude Monet (1840-1926) entitled Nympheas during a press preview in Hong Kong, China, 27 May 2011. The painting was expected to fetch in excess of 17 to 24 million GBP (19 to 27 million Euro), at auction at Christie's London Impressionist Modern Paintings on 21 June 2011.

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