Colorized postcard of College Hall before the fire. Collection of Erika Buchmiller, Wellesley College Senior Groundskeeper.
WELLESLEY, MASS.- Destroyed by fire in 1914, College Hall, once the heart of the Wellesley College campus, became the focus of a community-based excavation aimed at uncovering historical artifacts linked to its classrooms, dormitories, laboratories, and cultural collections. These artifacts are the focus of Digging Into History: The Wellesley College Hall Archaeology Project, a new exhibition on view from September 19 through December 14, 2025 at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College. It is one of three exhibitions marking the 150th anniversary of Wellesley College. Led by former Wellesley faculty member Dr. Elizabeth Minor ’03, more than 100 students and volunteers joined the community excavation from 2017 to 2023. They unearthed fragments of daily life— from ... More
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art presents Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985, an exhibition exploring the work of American and Afro-Atlantic diaspora photographers in developing and fostering a distinctly Black visual culture and identity. The first presentation to investigate photography's role in the Black Arts Movement, a creative initiative comparable to the Harlem Renaissance in its scope and impact, which evolved concurrently to the civil rights and international freedom movements, the exhibition reveals how artists developed ... More
Cizhou-Type Bottle with Cut-glaze Lotus Flower-and-Leaf Design. 13th century. Baltimore Museum of Art, Purchase with exchange funds from Gift of Howard C. Hollis, and Bequest of Saidie A. May, BMA 1990.156.
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art opened The Way of Nature: Art from Japan, China, and Korea, which draws on the museum’s extensive holdings to consider the importance of nature in East Asian cultures. The exhibition features more than 40 objects, from magnificent ink drawings to beautifully crafted stoneware and poignant contemporary photographs and prints. Collectively, the works reflect on nature as a vital source of creative inspiration and spiritual connection and consider human existence within the complexity of the vast natural world across centuries and into the present day. The Way of Nature: Art from Japan, China, and Korea is on view ... More
BOULDER, COLO.- Collectors and scholars of Asian art are turning their attention to Louisville, Colorado, where Artemis Fine Arts will open its upcoming sale Asian | Ancient | Ethnographic | Fine Art on October 2, 2025 at 8:00 a.m. (GMT-6). Among the curated global treasures offered, one exceptional lot stands out: a monumental Ming dynasty wooden figure of Guanyin, dating to the late 16th–17th century CE. Carved from wood and standing more than three feet tall (36.3 inches / 92.2 cm), the sculpture presents Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, seated in the posture of royal ease (lalitasana). One leg dangles gracefully over a rocky pedestal, while the other folds upward, the relaxed pose balancing serenity with authority. Her right han ... More
OSLO.- The National Museum of Norway presents ART·HAND·WORK, an ambitious new exhibition exploring contemporary craft today. Set across two thirds (1600 m²) of the museum’s spacious Light Hall, it features around 100 works by more than 90 international, Nordic and Sámi artists including Bouke de Vries (Netherlands), El Anatsui (Ghana), Hanne Friis (Norway), Irene Nordli (Norway), Máret Ánne Sara (Norway), Maria Bang Espersen (Denmark), Rui Sasaki (Japan), Stian Korntved Ruud (Norway), Yinka Shonibare (United Kingdom), and Bjørn Båsen (Norway). Spanning ceramics, textiles, glass, metal, wood, video and large-scale installations from the last 25 years, the exhibition reflects the growing tendency among artists to transcend disciplinary boundaries and rethink material practices. Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Norske Kunsthåndverkere (the Norwegian Association for Arts and Crafts), the exhibition ... More
Installation view of Rebecca Morris #34 at Regen Projects, Los Angeles. September 13–October 25, 2025. Photo: Flying Studio.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Regen Projects is presenting #34, Los Angeles-based artist Rebecca Morris’s first solo exhibition with the gallery and the thirty-fourth of her career. Over the past thirty years Morris has established a sophisticated visual lexicon to expand the limits and possibilities of non-objective abstraction in painting. As Hamza Walker has written, “Rebecca Morris’s commitment to abstraction lies somewhere between the poles of fierce and rabid, a prerequisite for coping with a pluralism arising not only from across disciplines but from within the discipline of painting itself.” Grounded in the conviction that the constituent elements of a painting should disrupt as much as they harmonize, Morris’s work generates an internal language that responds to its own codes of meaning. The artist establishes decision-making systems and visual motifs, revisiting and adjusting them as she works. In some cases, she begins her paintings with the canvases on the floor and applies oil ... More
David C. Driskell. Self-Portrait, 1953. Oil on board, 15 3/4 x 11 inches. Portland Museum of Art, Gift of the Thelma Driskell Trust, 2024.28
PORTLAND, ME.- David C. Driskell: Collector celebrates the David C. and Thelma G. Driskell Collection at the Portland Museum of Art. This exhibition presents selections from this iconic collection alongside Driskell’s own works, offering audiences an intimate view of his artistic vision and impact. By exploring the ways Driskell engaged with art as a creator, mentor, educator, and collector, the show highlights his enduring influence on museums, art history, and the cultural landscape of Maine. David C. Driskell (1931–2020) was not only a distinguished artist and scholar but also a friend and mentor to others. Together with his wife, Thelma G. Driskell, he developed a personal collection over decades—through strong relationships with artists, scholars, and fellow collectors. His collection reflects a broad lineage, spanning from 19th-century landscape painter Edward Mitchell Bannister to late-20th-century icons such as Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, and Alma Thomas. ... More
Rendering of Aranya Art Center Guangzhou. Courtesy of Vector Architects.
GUANGZHOU.- One year after inaugurating its first branch—the Aranya Art Center North, Aranya Art Center will officially open the Aranya Art Center Guangzhou at CTG-Aranya-Jiulonghu in October 2025. As its first branch in a different city, the new venue marks a significant milestone, establishing Aranya Art Center's presence across both northern and southern China. “With the expansion of its network of venues, Aranya Art Center’s programming will evolve from a primary focus on contemporary art to embrace a broader spectrum of contemporary visual culture. It aims to become a platform that brings together diverse disciplines and media, including art, architecture, design, music, and film.” —Damien Zhang, Director of Aranya Art Center Aranya Art Center Guangzhou was designed by Chinese architect Dong Gong. Situated on the riverside within the CTG-Aranya-Jiulonghu community, the center covers an area of ... More
Paulo Nimer Pjota, A mágica e o caminho, 2025, oil, tempera and acrylic on canvas, 210 x 163.5 cm.
PARIS.- You have to be at least three to make a society – and so at least three for a splitting off to take place. Three, too, to make a family – and from that simple truth, many aspects of our relation to the world begin to unfold. Space is experienced in three dimensions, while a chord requires three notes to resonate, and life itself is divided into three ages. The triad is powerful, and religions are evidence to that: the Three Jewels of Buddhism – Buddha, Dharma, Sangha; Hinduism’s Trimūrti of creator, preserver, and destroyer; the divine triads of Ancient Egypt (Osiris, Isis, and Horus, among others); Christianity’s Holy Trinity; even Greco-Roman mythology, with its Fates, Graces, and Furies, which all come in threes. It’s a matter of balance, yes – but also of dynamism, completeness, mediation. It is in this spirit that Paulo Nimer Pjota conceived Os alquimistas estão chegando – its title borrowed from a song by Jorge Ben Jor, a central figur ... More
DRESDEN.- To mark the 70th birthday of William Kentridge, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Dresden State Art Collections, SKD) are dedicating a major exhibition festival to the South African artist under the title William Kentridge. Listen to the Echo. It is being organised by three museums of the SKD in cooperation with the Museum Folkwang in Essen. As well as the world-famous artist Kentridge himself, the Centre for the Less Good Idea in Johannesburg, which was founded by him and Bronwyn Lace, is also acting as a curatorial and artistic partner for the festival in Dresden. For the first time, William Kentridge’s visual art and the Centre’s radically creative practices can be experienced simultaneously in an international exhibition. Based on his experiences under South Africa’s apartheid regime, Kentridge’s works deal with the wounds of racism, exploitation, and injustice ... More
P. Staff, Impact Play, 2023. Five-channel video installation, color, silent, 3:45 min., looped, with five holographic fans, diameter: 63 cm each. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Sultana. Photo: Aurélien Mole.
ROCHECHOUART.- To mark its 40th anniversary, the Musée d’art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne—Château de Rochechouart is celebrating with a group exhibition including some of the most emblematic works in its collection. Opened in 1985 at the initiative of the Conseil général de la Haute-Vienne in the prestigious Château de Rochechouart, the museum has set itself apart through a continuous dialogue between contemporary art and historical heritage. Three fundamental themes have prevailed in the composition of its collection: history, landscape and the imaginary. Over the years, the museum has built up a remarkable collection that today includes more than 2,200 works by artists of international renown. A sample of this collection is presented here, through works that have marked the history of the museum and its programming, sometimes rarely exhibited. Several loans and a new long-term loan from the Centre national des arts plastiques complete the display ... More
Kunié Sugiura, Clematis B, 2000, toned silver gelatin print, 39 5/8 x 29 1/2 in (100.5 x 74.9 cm). From the permanent collection of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University (Ithaca, NY).
ITHACA, NY.- Alison Bradley Projects announced Kunié Sugiura: Discoveries, a new retrospective exhibition, on view at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY) from Thursday, September 18, through Sunday, December 21, 2025. This exhibition focuses on the relentless experimentation and scientific exploration, driven by artistic impulse, of Kunié Sugiura's sixty-year engagement with photography. Born in Nagoya, Japan, in 1942, and one of the first students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago to specialize in photography in the 1960s, Sugiura has worked for most of her life in the New York City studio where she has also lived since 1974. There, she has created experimental series that pay little mind to the traditional trappings of and discourses around photography, and stand apart from the trends that have variously defined the medium over the decades. Her oeuvre includes sculptural assemblages that combine ... More
Aleksandra Kasuba, Spectral Passage, 1975. Reconstruction Haus der Kunst München, 2023. Photo: Dan Leung. Image courtesy of M+, Hong Kong.
HONG KONG.- M+, Asia’s global museum of contemporary visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District (WestK) in Hong Kong, is presenting Dream Rooms: Environments by Women Artists 1950s–Now. This special exhibition presents twelve environments by trailblazing women artists from Asia, Europe, and North and South America from the 1950s to the present, including three newly commissioned installations by Asian women artists. These immersive, multisensory works invite visitors to enter and interact with the space, underscoring that art is experienced and understood through both the mind and the body. The exhibition was first presented at Haus der Kunst München in 2023 with the title Inside Other Spaces. Environments by Women Artists 1956–1976. The presentation at M+, the first edition of this travelling exhibition in Asia, is curated by Andrea Lissoni, Artistic Director, Haus der Kunst München, and Marina Pugliese, Director, Museum of Cultures, Intercultural Projects and Public Art, ... More
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New book 'Alphabet in Motion' makes typography interactive NEW YORK, NY.- Ever wonder how we ended up with so many different styles of letters? Open any text editor, email client or design app and you will immediately be bombarded with a buffet of typographic choices. Serif or sans serif? Display or text? Classical or contemporary? Formal or casual? Featuring 17 stunning interactive pop-ups, this ABC pop-up book explains—as well as demonstrates—the technologies and philosophies that have shaped letterforms through the ages. Readers will learn about '60s psychedelic type by projecting light through a phototypesetting pop-up; how screen technology shaped letterforms by turning on and off anti-aliasing; or the aesthetics of typographic modularity by reconfiguring the puzzle pieces of Josef Albers' Kombinations-Schrift. Type history is often technical and always visual. It is therefore challenging to fully explain in text or in diagrams ... More
New Ana Benaroya show explores gender and desire in 'Eternal Flame' NEW YORK, NY.- The FLAG Art Foundation is presenting Eternal Flame, an exhibition of new and recent works by Ana Benaroya. With an expansive selection including paintings, works on paper, and monotypes, the exhibition presents the full breadth of Benaroya’s reimagining of women’s bodies as a form where femininity and masculinity coexist, intertwine and transform one another. By referencing both art historical motifs and drawing upon contemporary culture—from music to comics to movies—Benaroya situates her subjects within the ever-evolving discourse around how women are seen, understood and desired. Benaroya’s exploration of how women’s bodies have been depicted—as both form and idea—has remained the singular focus of her practice. Driven not only by her attention to the long history of representation of women, but also by an attempt ... More
Julien Heintz's first solo show at Mennour captures spectral portraits from collective memory PARIS.- Impressions, remnants, vestiges… The paintings of Julien Heintz seem to capture the faces of passersby who remain in the distance of our subconscious, like residual traits imprinted on our memory and conserved beyond our will. Tightly cropped to contain just enough to render the defining lines of a face, his compositions hover diligently on the limit of figuration. Stretched across the canvas as if sliding across a screen, the features of Julien Heintz’s subjects are rendered in an aqueous blur, almost impossible to capture in the impetus of movement. Suspended in time and space, they exist in the confines of our collective mind, as phantasmagorical strangers whom we are drawn to, invited to pay closer attention. For his first solo show at Mennour, Julien Heintz presents a series of new oil paintings and pastels on paper. Having constructed over several years ... More
Pioneering photographers P.H. Emerson and Susan Derges paired in new exhibition at Purdy Hicks Gallery LONDON.- Purdy Hicks Gallery brings together the work of pioneering 19th-century photographer P. H. Emerson and contemporary artist Susan Derges, exploring their focus on the natural world through their distinctive photographic processes and times. The presentation of original vintage photogravures and platinum prints by P.H. Emerson, has been organised in conjunction with Robert Hershkowitz; the renowned 19th Century photography specialist. P. H. Emerson (1856–1936) was an English photography pioneer, known for capturing the life and landscapes of the East of England’s agrarian community. A vocal and early advocate for ‘truthful’ photography as an art form, he held a celebrated, and at times controversial, position within the contemporary photographic establishment. Emerson aimed to preserve the old ways of country life with new photographic ... More
New group exhibition showcases four photographers at Galerie Ron Mandos AMSTERDAM.- Galerie Ron Mandos presents Four Photographers Unseen, a group exhibition featuring Mayte Breed, Scarlett Hooft Graafland, Kevin Osepa, and Gilleam Trapenberg. The exhibition opened on Saturday, September 20, and runs through Sunday, October 26. This group exhibition of four photographers was originally planned for Unseen Photo Fair. While the edition planned for September 2025 in Amsterdam has been canceled, Unseen will return next year, joining forces with Art Rotterdam. In the meantime, the scheduled Unseen presentation is being hosted at the gallery. Scarlett Hooft Graafland is known for creating staged photographs in remote landscapes, from Bolivian salt flats to Arctic ice, Icelandic lava fields, and Madagascar beaches. Working with local communities, she builds playful and surreal interventions, captured on medium- ... More
Aargauer Kunsthaus presents Klodin Erb's largest solo exhibition to date AARAU.- Klodin Erb (*1963, Winterthur) is one of the most important Swiss painters of our time. In 2022, she received the prestigious Prix Meret Oppenheim award in recognition of her artistic career spanning nearly three decades. The show at the Aargauer Kunsthaus is Klodin Erb’s largest institutional solo-exhibition to date, and gives insight into the artist’s sensual, profound, and humorous oeuvre, which celebrates constant change and life itself. Klodin Erb’s art gets under the skin. Layer by layer, viewers dive into her fascinating pictorial worlds. These are both serious and funny, strong and fragile, sensual and reasoned. Klodin Erb’s work reveals diverse metamorphoses with a liberating effect: Neither human nor animal, neither man nor woman, neither young nor old—the characters in her paintings elude traditional thought patterns and categories. In her expressive, ... More
James Casebere's 'The Spatial Unconscious' retrospective spans four decades BROOKLYN, NY.- Sean Kelly and the Williamsburg Biannual announced James Casebere: The Spatial Unconscious, a major presentation of the artist’s work at the Williamsburg Biannual. Spanning four decades, and three floors, this exhibition brings together a selection of Casebere’s rarely seen works in various media many of which have not previously been shown in New York. Spanning from the mid-1980s to the present, the exhibition includes working Polaroids, waterless lithographs, early black-and-white and recent color photographs, as well as sculpture. Casebere has long been recognized for his innovative approach to photography, merging the sculptural and the architectural with the conceptual. As a central figure of the Pictures Generation, his practice has consistently challenged the boundaries of medium, using photography not as documentation but as the artwork ... More
Legendary photographer Moriyama Daido's work spans decades in new exhibition SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Casemore Gallery presents Dog and Man, a new exhibition of iconic and more recent images by legendary Japanese photographer Moriyama Daido. This exhibition focuses the city of Tokyo as seen through the constantly sprinting Moriyama’s lens in his latest color and black-and-white works, in addition to some of his iconic images from the 60s and 70s. Known as a master of snapshots, Moriyama Daido, one of Japan’s preeminent photographers, began his career in the 1960s, and achieved initial notoriety as one of the members of Provoke photomagazine. Their style, which came to be described as “are, bure, boke” (rough, blurry, out of focus), sent shockwaves through the photography world and created nothing less than a new lingua franca of photography, with its grainy, high-contrast, kinetically composed snapshots of a post-war Japan rapidly transforming itself. Moriyama described their work in simple terms—“Japan ... More
ETH Zurich presents its fall 2025 exhibitions ZÜRICH.- % for Art: Regulating Civic Space in Zurich pairs archival research on the relationship between public artworks and architecture in Zurich with an installation by the artist Coumba Samba, titled The National Expo, in which the artist questions our everyday interaction with public objects that exist as signifiers of histories and national identity. The exhibition is realized in collaboration with André Bideau, gta Archives, and students of the Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) in History and Theory of Architecture. Bettina’s (1927–2021) conceptual practice unfolds across sculpture, photography and a mural that wraps around the entire exhibition space. Titled Expression Repression Digression Supression Depression Oppression Regression Aggression, the exhibition includes a mural with photographs of the United States flag swaying in the wind, or rather, ... More
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT) 30th anniversary exhibition: Choreographies of the Everyday TOKYO.- To mark its thirtieth anniversary, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo presents Choreographies of the Everyday. This exhibition considers how the museum can mobilize and nurture artistic practice in sustaining forms of publicness amid the shifting sociopolitical and cultural conditions of today and in the days to come. The works of over thirty artists and collectives from multiple generations and geographies explore the dynamics between people’s agency and societal forces embedded in institutional spaces, such as the museum, homes shaped by gender norms, and urban places like Okinawa and Mumbai. Including new commissioned works, performances, and workshops, the exhibition probes the cultural, political, and economic forces entangled in ordinary conditions, bringing to light systemic violence, inequalities, and the lasting impact of oppression. Such critical ... More
Exceptionally rare 1827 first edition of America's earliest drawing book heads to auction LOS ANGELES, CA.- Nate D. Sanders Auctions will offer an extraordinarily rare first edition of Fielding Lucas' Progressive Drawing Book at auction on September 25, 2025. This landmark publication represents the earliest and most important American drawing instruction book, predating John Gadsby Chapman's "The American Drawing Book" by two decades. Published in Baltimore in 1827 by cartographer and publisher Fielding Lucas Jr., the complete title reads "Lucas' Progressive Drawing Book, in Three Parts…Consisting Chiefly of Original Views of American Scenery, and Embracing the Latest and Best Improvements in the Mode of Instruction." Lucas created this groundbreaking work to establish a distinctly American alternative to the drawing books that had gained popularity in England. The book features stunning original American views including: • The ... More
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On a day like today, Italian painter Alessandro Allori died
September 22, 1607. Alessandro di Cristofano di Lorenzo del Bronzino Allori (31 May 1535 - 22 September 1607) was an Italian portrait painter of the late Mannerist Florentine school. In this image: Portrait of Grand Duchess Bianca Capello de Medici, by Allori, Dallas Museum of Art.
