In his paintings and pastels, the artist-activist turned to symbolism, metaphor, and memory to convey a world where savagery and distress are rampant.

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03.04.2025

An Artist’s Thirty-Year Affair With Copper

“No Man’s Land,” Pakistani artist Amin Gulgee’s first comprehensive monograph, maps his interest in exploring ritual, science, grief, and healing in a visual language all his own.

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03.04.2025

Researchers Discover Joan Miró Painted Over a Portrait of His Mother

The revelation comes almost 50 years after the artist’s foundation first detected the likeness of a mysterious woman behind the deep blue of “Painting” (1927).

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03.04.2025

Salvaging the Historic Tiles of California’s Burned Fireplaces

After devastating fires blazed through the region, residents are holding on to the intricate glazed tiles that survived — small but meaningful remnants of their homes.

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03.04.2025

The Japanese American National Museum Is a Site of Remembrance and Belonging

Located in the heart of LA’s Little Tokyo neighborhood, the museum embraces the Japanese-American experience in all its permutations, including aspects that other persecuted and marginalized communities can recognize.

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03.04.2025

Artist Pulls Out of Harvard Talk Over Academic Freedom Concerns

The university was meant to host artist Janiva Ellis in conversation with art historian Rizvana Bradley, who has also withdrawn her participation.

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03.04.2025

Opportunities in April 2025

Residencies, fellowships, grants, and open calls from the Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers.

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03.04.2025

After Modernism Is a Lesson in Curating

This exhibition of works from the Neumann family collection takes a unique approach, bringing University of Pennsylvania art students into the curatorial process.

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03.04.2025

10 Art Shows to See in Upstate New York, April 2025

Paddy Cohn’s cloud-gazing, Cathy Wysocki’s unforgettable remembrance, an autobiographical group show, and much more.

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03.04.2025

“The Encampments” Documentary Tells Columbia It’s Not Over Yet

A new film extricates the movement from the grips of mainstream and conservative media narratives and places it back in the hands of its organizers.

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02.04.2025

What Can Art Expose About Us?

Exposure at Ulterior Gallery might not offer the quick answers our ever-shrinking attention spans demand, but much in this show is worth a second view.

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02.04.2025

LA Artist Joe Goode, Who Put His Own Spin on Pop Art, Dies at 87

His practice was driven by a constant striving to reframe how we see works of art and the world around us.

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02.04.2025

Luis Fernando Benedit Exposed the Politics of World-Making

The artist’s bioart habitats eerily reflect human environments where sociopolitical and socioeconomic cultural conditions force the illusion of standardization as a natural state.

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02.04.2025

New York City Shows We Love Right Now

The exhibitions below, featuring such artists as Deborah-Joyce Holman and Luis Fernando Benedit, ask viewers to spend time with art that’s slower to reveal itself.

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02.04.2025

Dozens of Museum Agency Workers Put on Leave Amid Trump Overhaul

Processing of 2025 grant applications has been halted after Trump moved to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

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02.04.2025

Artists Meditate on the Rose as a Symbol

The injunction of a group show centered around the multivalent flower is to wander the field and pluck what suits you.

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02.04.2025

Rebecca Purdum’s Art Beyond Language

Purdum’s layered and scraped-away paintings may resemble aspects of the natural world but they allude to an experience beyond language.

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02.04.2025

Deadly Myanmar Earthquake Devastates Cultural Sites

Amid a rising death toll and worsening human rights crisis, the 7.7-magnitude quake took down mosques, pagodas, monasteries, and other landmarks.

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01.04.2025

Brooklyn Museum Announces “Pay What We Wish” Admissions

The policy is the museum’s newest attempt to shift its financial burden onto its lowest-ranking staff and the public.

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01.04.2025

Netflix Releases New Reality TV Spinoff Art Is Blind

The show invites participants to fall in love with a work of art without ever seeing it.

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01.04.2025

You’ve Heard of “The Scream,” Now Get Ready for “The Ick”

Much like the iconic piece, a suite of five “never-before-seen” works tackles big emotions.

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01.04.2025

Trump Withdraws US From Venice Biennale, “Too Diverse”

The president called for “a return to showcasing the great art of this country in a context-free void” and “definitely not in a liberal European swamp.”

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01.04.2025

Archeologists Unearth Fresco Predicting the Coming of “Saint Luigi”

The painting depicts a handsome figure with thickset brows and the Latin words “Mora, Negare, Deponere” (“Delay, Deny, Depose.”)

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01.04.2025

“Fasc-isms” Announced as This Year’s Met Gala Theme

An accompanying exhibition at the Costume Institute aims to diversify our understanding of the movement, emphasizing that “fascists are not a monolith.”

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01.04.2025

Museum of the American Proud Boy to Open in DC

The initiative is part of President Trump’s push to restore “American greatness” at the Smithsonian.

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01.04.2025

Majority of Artists Only Read Reviews of Their Own Work, Survey Finds

Some respondents added that they will occasionally hate-read a negative review of an artist they vehemently dislike, which “just hits different.”

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31.03.2025

Deborah-Joyce Holman’s Quietly Radical Black Femininity

Through abstraction and nonlinearity, Holman invests in cinematic practices that unseat “spectacle” as the prominent mode of Black representation.

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31.03.2025

The Mughal Empire’s Paradise on Earth

An exhibition showcases the sophisticated cultural language developed in the Indian subcontinent from around 1560 to 1660 across the reign of three emperors.

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31.03.2025

10 Shows to See in Los Angeles, April 2025

Madam X’s spiritual diagrams, Umar Rashid curates Robert Colescott, Carole Caroompas’s anti-hero journey, 50 years of L.A. Louver, and more.

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29.03.2025

Brooklyn’s First Print Fair Puts Community Over Commercialism

At Powerhouse Arts in Gowanus, independent shops, galleries, and high-profile publishers come together in shared passion for the craft and the connection it elicits.

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29.03.2025

Christophe Cherix Named MoMA’s New Director

The museum’s longtime prints and drawings curator will take over from Glenn Lowry, whose tenure was marked by controversy.

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29.03.2025

Pratt’s 2025 Fine Arts MFA Thesis Exhibitions, on View in the Brooklyn Navy Yard

Pratt Fine Arts is delighted to invite visitors to a two-part show curated by Dejá Belardo at Dock 72 in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

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29.03.2025

Trump Whitewashes History in New Smithsonian Executive Order

Among other disturbing and demonstrably false distortions, the mandate suggests that race is a “biological reality” — a tenet of racist pseudoscientific beliefs.

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29.03.2025

What to Look for When Selecting a Print

We asked the experts what first-time collectors should keep in mind when shopping for lithographs, screenprints, and more.

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29.03.2025

The World’s Biggest Print Fair Returns With Surprises

At once overwhelming and exhilarating, the IFPDA show in New York City is a trip through the gallerina looking-glass of prints from around the globe.

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28.03.2025

Celia Paul Paints Her Place in the World

A new monograph brings the artist’s life into focus as she returns to the same subjects again and again: the women in her family, the British Museum, and the sea.

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28.03.2025

A View From the Easel

“My studio has tile flooring, which is forgiving when it comes to messes.”

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28.03.2025

RISD Shuts Down Students’ Pro-Palestine Art Show

The school said it would relocate the exhibition, which was on view in a public cafe, to a private building in order to “uphold safety.”

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28.03.2025

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Enjoy Summer Marathons in Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture at New York Studio School

Irving Petlin’s Haunted Visions of History

An Artist’s Thirty-Year Affair With Copper

Researchers Discover Joan Miró Painted Over a Portrait of His Mother

Salvaging the Historic Tiles of California’s Burned Fireplaces

The Japanese American National Museum Is a Site of Remembrance and Belonging

Artist Pulls Out of Harvard Talk Over Academic Freedom Concerns

Opportunities in April 2025

After Modernism Is a Lesson in Curating

10 Art Shows to See in Upstate New York, April 2025

“The Encampments” Documentary Tells Columbia It’s Not Over Yet

What Can Art Expose About Us?

LA Artist Joe Goode, Who Put His Own Spin on Pop Art, Dies at 87

Luis Fernando Benedit Exposed the Politics of World-Making

New York City Shows We Love Right Now

Dozens of Museum Agency Workers Put on Leave Amid Trump Overhaul

Artists Meditate on the Rose as a Symbol

Rebecca Purdum’s Art Beyond Language

Deadly Myanmar Earthquake Devastates Cultural Sites

Brooklyn Museum Announces “Pay What We Wish” Admissions

Netflix Releases New Reality TV Spinoff Art Is Blind

You’ve Heard of “The Scream,” Now Get Ready for “The Ick”

Trump Withdraws US From Venice Biennale, “Too Diverse”

Archeologists Unearth Fresco Predicting the Coming of “Saint Luigi”

“Fasc-isms” Announced as This Year’s Met Gala Theme

Museum of the American Proud Boy to Open in DC

Majority of Artists Only Read Reviews of Their Own Work, Survey Finds

Deborah-Joyce Holman’s Quietly Radical Black Femininity

The Mughal Empire’s Paradise on Earth

10 Shows to See in Los Angeles, April 2025

Brooklyn’s First Print Fair Puts Community Over Commercialism

Christophe Cherix Named MoMA’s New Director

Pratt’s 2025 Fine Arts MFA Thesis Exhibitions, on View in the Brooklyn Navy Yard

Trump Whitewashes History in New Smithsonian Executive Order

What to Look for When Selecting a Print

The World’s Biggest Print Fair Returns With Surprises

Celia Paul Paints Her Place in the World

A View From the Easel

RISD Shuts Down Students’ Pro-Palestine Art Show

Shape Your Future in the Art World With Sotheby’s Institute of Art’s Online Certificate

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