Sunday, October 19, 2025

Chrysler Museum celebrates Susan Watkins and her contemporaries in fall exhibition

Susan Watkins (American, 1875–1913), “Le Five O’Clock (Tea),” ca. 1903. Oil on canvas. Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Miles.
NORFOLK, VA.— Journey to a transformative period in American art and celebrate the talent, resilience and impact of artists who were often overlooked in “Susan Watkins and Women Artists of the Progressive Era,” on view Oct. 17, 2025-Jan. 11, 2026, at the Chrysler Museum of Art. Organized by the Chrysler Museum of Art, the exhibition features approximately 75 works by more than 20 artists, including Susan Watkins, Lilla Cabot Perry, Minerva Chapman and Anna Elizabeth Klumpke. This year marks the 150th anniversary of Susan Watkins’ birth, and her remarkable achievements anchor the exhibition. Watkins (1875-1913) exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon and earned praise from American art press, both uncommon for women artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Her career was steeped in the values of her time yet defined by her distinctly personal vision. Though the American painter’s life ended prematurely at age 38, her story offers a compelling window into the social and professional context of the transatlantic artistic world that shaped her and her contemporaries. Susan Watkins (American, 1875–1913), “The 1830 Girl (Portrait of Miss M. P. in Louis Philippe Costume),” 1900. Oil on canvas. Chrysler Museum of Art, Bequest of Goldsborough Serpell 46.76.147 “‘Susan Watkins and Women Artists of the Progressive Era’ provides a fresh perspective on a transformative moment in American art history,” says Corey Piper, Ph.D., the Chrysler Museum’s Brock curator of American art. “This exhibition highlights the innovation and determination of Watkins and her peers, who forged remarkable careers despite the barriers they faced. By showcasing their work, we hope to inspire a deeper understanding of their impact and to broaden the narrative of American art to include these lo...
Read More

Wolfgang Tillmans weaves constellations of image and time in new Munich exhibition

MUNICH.— The Espace Louis Vuitton München is presenting Passages Silencieux, an exhibition dedicated to the work of Wolfgang Tillmans. This exhibition is a new chapter in the Fondation Louis Vuitton’s Hors-les-murs programme, designed to reach an international audience through the Espaces Louis Vuitton in Tokyo, Venice, Beijing, Seoul, Osaka and Munich. A central figure within the Collection, Tillmans’s photographic constellations were already showcased in Fondation Louis Vuitton‘s inaugural show in 2014. His Passages Silencieux (“Silent Passages”) reaffirms the Fondation’s commitment to the artist‘s work, building on the success of the Centre Pompidou’s major retrospective, in Paris, which concluded on 22 September 2025 ahead of the museum’s renovation. The works presented here have been personally selected by the artist himself from the Collection. Wolfgang Tillmans was born in 1968 in Remscheid
Read More

Sonia Gomes debuts first UK solo exhibition at Pace London

LONDON.— Pace announced É preciso não ter medo de criar, the first solo exhibition in the UK by São Paulo-based artist Sonia Gomes, on view at its gallery in London from October 14 to November 15. Curated by Paulo Miyada, the exhibition will feature all-new works, including the artist’s signature pendants and torsions, alongside paintings and new sculptural explorations in bronze. This presentation coincides with the publication of Gomes’s new catalogue, Assombrar o mundo com Beleza (I Haunt the World with Beauty), which will be available to purchase at the gallery. One of Brazil’s foremost contemporary artists, Gomes combines second-hand textiles with everyday materials such as birdcages, driftwood, and wire to create abstract sculptures that reclaim traditions rooted in Afro-diasporic experiences and craft modes of artmaking from the margins of history. In 2015, she was the only Brazilian artist invited by the late curator
Read More

Christopher Wool's expansive exhibition opens at Gagosian London, highlighting interconnected practice

LONDON.— Gagosian opened an exhibition by Christopher Wool at its Grosvenor Hill location in London. Featuring over fifty works on paper, sculptures, and prints from the most recent period of his career, this long-awaited exhibition is the most expansive presentation of Wool’s work in London for many years and his third with the gallery. As in his latest self-staged exhibitions—last year in New York and this year in Marfa, Texas—the London exhibition highlights the essential interconnectivity of the artist’s practices, in which he continues to engage with the limits of abstraction. For Wool, process and subject go hand in hand. The range of processes employed in each of Wool’s multilayered works on paper reveals the extraordinary breadth of his artistic strategies. He began to silkscreen his own works in the 1990s, flattening an image and applying it to canvas before adding gestures of paint. This approach has become more complex over time, as the artist explores the ef
Read More

Walter De Maria's final sculpture, Truck Trilogy, makes European debut at Gagosian Le Bourget

PARIS.— Walter De Maria’s final sculpture, Truck Trilogy, will be shown for the first time outside of the United States in an exhibition at Gagosian’s Le Bourget gallery beginning on October 19, the month that would have marked De Maria’s ninetieth birthday. Incorporating three classic pickup trucks from the 1950s, the sculpture has been presented only once before, at Dia Beacon in New York, from 2017 to 2019. Shown alongside a selection of other rarely seen sculptures, drawings, films, and archival materials, Truck Trilogy is the centerpiece of an exhibition that illuminates De Maria’s lifelong preoccupation with precise measurement and the imagined. The Singular Experience is curated by Donna De Salvo, senior adjunct curator at Dia Art Foundation, the entity that commissioned, maintains, and
Read More

VMFA appoints Dr. Wai Yee Chiong as the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Curator of East Asian Art

RICHMOND, VA.— Following an international search, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts announced today that Wai Yee Chiong, Ph.D., will join the museum as its new E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Curator of East Asian Art. She began her work at VMFA on October 10, 2025. “We are delighted to have someone with Wai Yee’s deep knowledge, thoughtful vision and extensive experience joining the curatorial team at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,” said Director and CEO Alex Nyerges. “As an accomplished curator with an international reputation in the field, she will advance the curatorial vision for the museum’s renowned collection of East Asian art.” VMFA’s E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Curator of East Asian Art oversees a collection of more than 2,500 works of Chinese, Japanese and Korean art, including bronzes, ceramics, decorative arts, glass, jades, porcelain and paintings. The position was previously held by Li Jian, who retired in August 2024 after
Read More

Tetsuya Yamada's playful and poetic ceramic works on view at Paula Cooper Gallery vitrine

NEW YORK, NY.— An exhibition of ceramic sculptures and wall reliefs by Tetsuya Yamada is on display in the Paula Cooper Gallery vitrine in October 2025. Yamada is known for his rigorous investigation of the conceptual possibilities of clay, and his sensitivity to surfaces and materials. Each work employs ceramic in a surprising way, presenting forms that are playful, poetic and unexpected. The exhibition features several sculptures from Yamada’s recent museum survey at the Walker Art Center in 2024, which included more than 50 works from 2001 to the present. Meticulous techniques with glazes and clays allows Yamada to disguise ceramics as other media. Two sculptures formed of intersecting tubes of clay, for example, are glazed to resemble the patina of aluminum or oxidized copper, while a work from the Gravitation series presents a thin slab of clay, folded and hung over a rope like a piece of fabric. On the walls are works from Yamada’s Smoke (2013) and Dust after the Rain (2021) series. I
Read More

Christie's 20/21 Marquee Week in London achieves a running total of $189,670,078

LONDON.— Christie's 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale on 15 October 2025 generated a total of £106,925,400 / $142,852,334/ €122,750,359, and was 92% sold by lot and 90% sold by value. Peter Doig's Ski Jacket (1994) realised £14,270,000 / $19,064,720 / €16,381,960 and was the top lot of the evening, selling after over 13 minutes of bidding across six bidders. On 16 October, Spellbound: The Hegewisch Collection achieved a total of £8,935,720 / $11,982,801 / €10,258,207, with 72% of the lots offered selling above their high estimates - reaffirming the continued strength and appeal of Christie's Prints and Works on Paper sales, and highlighting Christie's expertise in managing single-owner collections. The top lot of the evening was Pablo Picasso's Nez quart de Brie (Étude pour Les Demoiselles d'Avignon ou Nu avec draperie) (1907), a pencil on paper drawing that sold for £889,000 / $1,192,149 / €1,020,572. It was followed by Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn's celebrated etching
Read More

Ruoxi Jin's debut solo exhibition at Mennour navigates fear, separation, and rebirth

PARIS.— Mennour is presenting its first solo exhibition of Ruoxi Jin, whose work transforms the space into a peculiar territory—a spacetime in which found objects full of intimate echoes coexist with one another. Under the title “Microclimats”, the exhibition is like an inner journey, a narrative whose implicit temporality is that of an airplane flight, from takeoff to landing. This metaphorical trip explores the artist’s relationship to the fragility of existence, conjuring up fear, separation and death. Each artwork acts as a microclimate, being autonomous and yet connected to the others, like so many parallel realities sharing the same present. The exhibition can be understood in this way as a voyage, interspersed with moments of turbulence, calm and suspense that mark the stages of a personal itinerary. The objects become fleeting moments, memories surging up in the wake of a train of thought, like freeze-frames in the continuous
Read More

Van Gogh Museum appoints WildBrain CPLG for global licensing representation

AMSTERDAM.— WildBrain CPLG, a trusted licensing partner for leading brands worldwide, has signed a new representation agreement with Amsterdam’s iconic Van Gogh Museum to spearhead a global (excluding Benelux) licensing programme for the cultural brand. Beginning on 1 January 2026, the strategic licensing partnership will celebrate Vincent van Gogh’s extraordinary legacy, rich storytelling, and creativity— to inspire fans around the world with his masterpieces through diverse and aspirational products and collaborations. WildBrain CPLG’s programme will focus on key categories, including home and deco, stationery and paper goods, gift and novelty, apparel and accessories, with further opportunities across toys and games (excluding mobile games), puzzles, footwear, luggage and bags, health and beauty, collectibles, mobile accessories, electronics, and outdoor products. Maarten Weck, EVP, Global Partnerships and Licensing at WildBrain, said: “The Van
Read More

The Museum of Modern Art appoints Jodi Hauptman as The Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings and Prints

NEW YORK, NY.— The Museum of Modern Art announced the appointment of Jodi Hauptman as The Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings and Prints following a comprehensive search by the Museum in partnership with search firm Russell Reynolds. In this role, Hauptman will guide all aspects of the department’s wide ranging program, from exhibitions and publications, to acquisitions and research, to The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Study Center—a collection of more than 70,000 drawings, prints, illustrated books, multiples, and ephemera that has been central to MoMA since its founding. “Jodi is a curator of uncommon clarity and imagination,” said Christophe Cherix, The David Rockefeller Director of The Museum of Modern Art. “Her exhibitions and publications have changed how we look at works on paper, and as The Robert Lehman Chief Curator she will deepen the strength of MoMA’s collection
Read More

Stephen Lawrence Prize 2025 awarded to St Mary's Walthamstow

LONDON.— The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced St Mary’s Walthamstow by Alex Spicer at Matthew Lloyd Architects as the winner of the Stephen Lawrence Prize 2025. Founded by Baroness Doreen Lawrence OBE and the Marco Goldschmied Foundation, the annual Prize was established in 1998 in memory of Stephen Lawrence, a teenager and aspiring architect who was the victim of a fatal racist attack in 1993. The award focuses on encouraging and nurturing new talent, and exclusively recognises projects led by an early career project architect, typically someone who has qualified within five years prior to the project’s completion date.  St Mary’s, the oldest and — with its Grade II* listed status — most protected building in Walthamstow, has been sensitively repaired and transformed into a flexible, inclusive and welcoming space for the whole community to enjoy, as well as a place of worship. The jury were impressed by the architects’ clever
Read More

First posthumous retrospective of Ruth Asawa's work explores the full range of the artist's practice

NEW YORK, NY.— The Museum of Modern Art announces Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective, the first major museum exhibition to fully consider every aspect of the artist’s expansive, groundbreaking practice, on view from October 19, 2025, through February 7, 2026, in the Steven and Alexandra Cohen Center for Special Exhibitions. Coinciding with the centennial of the artist’s birth, the exhibition will include some 300 objects that highlight the core values of experimentation and interconnectedness pervading all dimensions of Asawa’s practice. The retrospective will span the six decades of Asawa’s ambitious career, presenting a range of her work across mediums, including wire sculptures, bronze casts, paper folds, paintings, and a comprehensive body of works
Read More
America is a pioneer in throw away art.
Brian O'Doherty when referring to Pop Art

More News

Largest-ever survey of Maruja Mallo's innovative art arrives at Museo Reina Sofía

The exhibition Maruja Mallo. Mask and Compass, on view at the Museo Reina Sofía from 8 October 2025 to 16 March 2026, is the biggest retrospective to date on one of the most innovative artists in Spanish and international avant-garde art. Maruja Mallo (Viveiro, Lugo 1902 – Madrid, 1995) is a salient artist from the Generation of ‘27 and a core figure among the artists who, for the first time, put forward a female world view from an unprecedented perspective: the modern woman, free, active and independent. Organised jointly by the Museo Reina Sofía and Fundación Botín, the show is curated by art historian Patricia Molins and comprises a hundred paintings, thirteen from the Museo Reina Sofía Collections, around seventy drawings, and a further one hundred photographs and documents from the artist, some unexhibited and many acquired recently

Academy Art Museum appoints Brian J. Lang as Director of Curatorial Affairs

The Academy Art Museum announced the appointment of Brian J. Lang as Director of Curatorial Affairs, marking a transformative new chapter for the institution as it advances toward construction of the Freeman Annex & Hormel Research Center—a state-of-the-art facility for collections care, research, and scholarship. Lang joins AAM following more than a decade of service as Chief Curator and Windgate Foundation Curator of Contemporary Craft at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (AMFA), where he played a pivotal leadership role in the museum’s ł100 million campus renovation and expansion. Collaborating directly with internationally acclaimed firms Studio Gang and SCAPE, Lang helped realize one of the most celebrated museum redevelopments in the nation—hailed by Forbes as “America’s most inviting art museum.” Prior to AMFA, Brian was Curator

Best show of 2025 awarded to Anselm Kiefer exhibition

Anselm Kiefer – Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, a collaboration between the Stedelijk Museum and the Van Gogh Museum, was voted winner of the Museumtijdschrift Exhibition Prize 2025 by the public. The prize was awarded on October 15 at the Kunsthal Rotterdam. According to Museumtijdschrift, Anselm Kiefer – Sag mir wo die Blumen sind was “chosen by a convincing majority as the favorite exhibition of the past season. The double exhibition placed Kiefer at the center, highlighted his admiration for Vincent van Gogh, and showed works from the collection of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam for the first time, alongside new and previously unseen work.” Visitors described the exhibition as “overwhelming”, “emotional”, and “the best Kiefer exhibition in years.” The grandeur of the canvases and the unique design of the diptych made a deep impression on the public.

Edmund de Waal unveils site-specific installations at The Huntington

This fall, The Huntington presents the evocative works of acclaimed British artist and author Edmund de Waal in “the eight directions of the wind: Edmund de Waal at The Huntington.” The yearlong exhibition comprises de Waal’s site-specific installations in the Huntington Art Gallery, the Chinese Garden, and the Japanese Garden. Each installation incorporates text, natural materials, and recent works by de Waal that create new perspectives and connections among The Huntington’s collecting areas. These installations—exploring the movement of ideas, people, and objects—invite visitors to reflect on the transmission of stories and histories that shape contemporary culture. Like the primary points of a compass rose, “the eight directions of the wind” serves as a thought-provoking guide to travel through The Huntington’s iconic

S.M.A.K. presents first museum solo exhibition for Belgian photographer Marc De Blieck

From October 18, 2025 to March 8, 2026, S.M.A.K. presents the first museum solo exhibition by Belgian artist Marc De Blieck. Entitled Point de voir, the exhibition brings together various series of photographs from the past 25 years. Marc De Blieck (b. 1958, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium) questions the expectation that a photographer must communicate a particular insight or viewpoint. He challenges the viewer by disrupting the link between point of view as physical position and point of view as opinion. The exhibition’s title refers to the concept of point de voir (point of seeing), a term coined by the French pedagogue, philosopher, writer, filmmaker, and artist Fernand Deligny. Unlike a point de vue (viewpoint), a 'point of seeing' is imaginary. It cannot, therefore, be taken or occupied. Although his images don’t make statements about the world they depict, they are neither vague

New display at the New York State Museum illuminates a forgotten industry

The New York State Museum announced the donation of a significant clock collection from historian and author G. Russell Oechsle. Featuring more than 80 rare clocks made in upstate New York between 1818 and 1927—with a strong concentration from the 1820s and 1830s—the collection offers a vivid window into a once-thriving regional industry shaped by the opening of the Erie Canal. Now on view, the exhibition highlights selections from the donation, capturing the entrepreneurial spirit that fueled clockmaking workshops along the canal corridors. Some shops lasted only a few years; others prospered for decades. Together, these clocks showcase exceptional craftsmanship and reveal the social and economic forces that transformed communities across New York State. Among the exhibition highlights are a striking 1834 shelf clock

Darren Waterston deconstructs the pastoral in Works and Days exhibition at DC Moore Gallery

DC Moore Gallery is presenting Darren Waterston: Works and Days, an exhibition of new paintings, works on paper, and a site-specific mural. Waterston’s new body of work explores the history of landscape painting and the inherent tensions in the genre. Following the completion of site-specific murals for the Frick Collection this year, the new paintings further develop his study of the pastoral landscape. Taking inspiration from Italian and Northern Renaissance landscapes, Waterston complicates these idealized visions of nature and reveals their underlying psychological dimensions. This new body of work also draws inspiration from the ancient Greek poet Hesiod’s epic poem Works and Days, from which the exhibition takes its title. A foundation of pastoral literature, Hesiod’s conception of human life as gradually degrading from an idyllic harmony with nature

1899 Bank of Egypt pound brings record $66,000 to lead Heritage's World Paper Money Auction above $2 million

An Egypt National Bank of Egypt 1 Pound 5.1.1899 Pick 2b PMG Choice Very Fine 35 inspired a flurry of competitive bidding until it set an auction record at $66,000 to lead Heritage's Oct. 16 World Paper Money Signature® Auction to $2,084,001. This magnificent note features two camels on its obverse vignette in a popular image considered in Egypt to be a token of prosperity. The final result made it one of many notes in the auction that more than doubled its pre-auction estimate. "The market continues to grow," says Dustin Johnston, Senior Vice President of Numismatics at Heritage Auctions. "With one in five lots realizing more than twice the estimate, there is no better barometer to illustrate the growth than the incredible selection

Five Hours, Fifty Days, Fifty Years: David Claerbout's survey of technical imagery opens at Konschthal Esch

For his solo exhibition at Konschthal Esch, his first one in Luxembourg, Belgian artist David Claerbout chose the title Five Hours, Fifty Days, Fifty Years. Implying the accumulation of time conducted by his practice as if it were scientific research or a life cycle, the title points to the scope of the exhibition, which brings together a condensed yet layered selection of both recent and earlier works by the artist. Ranging from experimental cinema and video installations to digital animation and generative moving images, Claerbout’s art practice is a relentless exploration of the status, function, and impact of the technical image. However, his works are not entirely devoted to exposing the underlying mechanism of photographic imagery in the digital era, nor are they exclusively determined by the repercussions of its circulation through and between communication

Juergen Teller inaugurates Onassis Ready with his largest Greek solo exhibition

Juergen Teller inaugurates Onassis Ready with a landmark exhibition, marking his largest solo show in Greece to date. Honest, tender, yet always unpredictable—Juergen Teller has famously bridged fashion with contemporary art, establishing his own unique subversive style within popular culture. From October 19 to December 30, Onassis Stegi invites you to Juergen Teller’s most extensive solo exhibition to date in Greece, you are invited, at Onassis Ready, the Onassis Foundation’s new space in Athens. Including iconic images (such as his portraits of Iggy Pop, Kate Moss and Charlotte Rampling), still-lifes and family portraits, this solo exhibition encourages retrospection between past and present work, celebrating Teller’s re-energized perspective to form an active dialogue that acknowledges the shifting modes of exploration in his creative journey. While Teller

MOCA Toronto presents Jeff Wall Photographs 1984-2023

The Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto unveils Jeff Wall Photographs 1984–2023, a comprehensive survey of one of Canada’s most influential living artists. Opening October 19, 2025, and on view through March 22, 2026, it is Wall’s first major Canadian survey in over 25 years, and his first in Toronto in 35 years. It traces four decades of his practice, offering the opportunity to experience the full scope of his contributions to contemporary photography and visual culture. Featuring over 50 works, the breadth of this presentation allows viewers to see the evolution of Wall’s working methods. From his very early incorporation of digital image compositing and editing in the early 1990s, and the expansion of his range, from transparencies in light boxes, to classic black and white prints in the 1990s, and colour inkjet prints in the 2000s. "Jeff Wall Photographs
Flashback: On a day like today, Dutch painter Aelbert Cuyp was born
Aelbert Jacobsz Cuyp (October 20, 1620 - November 15, 1691) was one of the leading Dutch landscape painters of the Dutch Golden Age in the 17th century. The most famous of a family of painters, the pupil of his father Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp (1594-1651/52), he is especially known for his large views of the Dutch countryside in early morning or late afternoon light. In this image: The Negro Page circa 1652, oil on canvas; Royal Collection.

Founded by Ignacio Villarreal - www.ignaciovillarreal.org
Contributors. Editor & Publisher: Jose Villarreal - Consultant: Ignacio Villarreal Jr. - Art Director: Juan José Sepúlveda - Marketing: Carla Gutiérrez - Web Developer: Gabriel Sifuentes - Special Contributor: Liz Gangemi - Special Advisor: Carlos Amador - Contributing Editor: Carolina Farias.
Royalville Communications, Inc. Produces:
ignaciovillarreal.org - ArtDaily founder's Website.
theavemaria.org - The most varied versions of this beautiful prayer.
juncodelavega.org - Hommage to a Mexican poet.
facundocabral-elfinal.org - Hommage to one of the best Argentinean composers.