BRUSSELS.- A pioneer of post-AI art, Christopher Kulendran Thomas has been using Artificial Intelligence technologies over the last decade to make genre-defying work that examines the foundational fictions of Western individualism. His paintings metabolise the colonial art history that came to dominate in Sri Lanka after his family, who are Tamil, left escalating ethnic violence there. Often these are shown with immersive video installations that remix propaganda and counter-propaganda into a cyclonic vortex of speculative scenarios. Safe Zone combines painting with auto-edited television to confront the historical mediums of soft power.

Kulendran Thomas presents a series of newly commissioned works at WIELS

Guadalupe Maravilla, Bless You Magic Flying Woman Retablo, 2022. Oil on tin (painting by Alfredo Vilchis), dried gourd, cotton and glue mixture on wood overall: 266.7 x 160.02 x 60.96 cm (105 x 63 x 24 in.) National Gallery of Art New Century Fund 2024.22.2 © the artist. Courtesy of Guadalupe Maravilla and P•P•O•W, New York.

Significant works by contemporary Latinx and Latin American artists acquired by National Gallery

BRUSSELS.- Over the course of the past five decades, Ana Jotta (1946, Lisbon, Portugal) has developed a deeply personal artistic vocabulary that rejects and even antagonizes all forms of classification and identification. Instead of any recognizable style, she takes from, subverts, and trespasses across various aesthetic categories, making a world that exists only on her own terms. Instead of attempting to encompass Jotta’s entire practice, the exhibition narrows its focus around a specific aspect of her work: the expanded sense she brings to the act of drawing.

Exhibition at WIELS features work from the late 1980s until the present day by Ana Jotta

New York City, NY

ZURICH.- Galerie Eva Presenhuber will present Signs, a group of important new paintings by New York-based artist Wyatt Kahn, the gallery’s seventh exhibition of his work. Kahn’s new body of work glows with restrained color. After more than a decade working in a severely reduced, largely all-white palette, the artist here presents a suite of shaped, deconstructed canvases in an etiolated spectrum of greens, oranges, yellows, and blues. Made by adding paint to a mixture of beeswax and Turpentine – a procedure borrowed from Brice Marden – and applying it flatly with minimal visible brushwork, the smooth, matte surfaces absorb ambient light with stately, quiet authority.

Galerie Eva Presenhuber will present a group of important new paintings by artist Wyatt Kahn

Known for vibrant depictions of landscapes, still lifes, and portraiture, Glabush’s new works explore the interplay of nature and memory, blending familiar and abstract scenes through expansive, colourful, and textural compositions. NEW YORK, NY.- Stephen Friedman Gallery presents The letters of this alphabet were trees, an exhibition of new...

Stephen Friedman Gallery will present an exhibition of new paintings by Canadian artist Sky Glabush

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A young preschool-aged boy accidentally shattered a nearly 3,500-year-old jar predating the Bronze Age, while visiting a museum in Israel last Friday.

Boy accidentally destroys 3,500-year-old artifact in Israeli museum

Milwaukee, WI

The Haggerty Museum of Art welcomes new Director John McKinnon to lead visionary growth as the museum launches its 40th anniversary programming. MILWAUKEE, WI .- John McKinnon has joined the Haggerty Museum of Art as it prepares to celebrate its 40th anniversary over the course of the 2024-25 academic year. McKinnon has 17 years of experience leading teams, managing an organization’s creative output, cultivating community support, and overseeing growth, doing so at the Elmhurst Art Museum, Society for Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Milwaukee Art Museum. In 2022, he was featured in Newcity Design’s “Design 50: The Fifty People Who Shape Chicago.”

Haggerty Museum of Art welcomes Director John McKinnon

Los Angeles, CA

LOS ANGELES, CA.- As cultural institutions are recognizing the potential for pooling resources, the Hammer Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles are establishing a joint collection of contemporary art by Los Angeles artists, to be founded through the acquisition of nearly 300 artworks from collectors Jarl and Pamela Mohn.

3 Los Angeles museums team up to acquire art

AOKI Mika, Her songs are floating, 2007. H.170×W.380×D.150 cm. Installation view of the exhibition “Born in HOKKAIDO” at the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, 2007. Photo: Yoshisato Komaki. TOKYO.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT) presents the exhibition “A Personal View of Japanese Contemporary Art:...

A personal view of Japanese contemporary art: Takahashi Ryutaro Collection

Jacopo Bassano (c. 1515–1592), Sleeping Shepherd, c. 1568. Szépművészeti Múzeum | Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. Photo: Szépművészeti Múzeum/ Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest,2023. HELSINKI.- The Sinebrychoff Art Museum is showing paintings by a 16th-century Italian Renaissance master. This exhibition of...

Major works by Jacopo Bassano 16th-century master of the Venetian Renaissance at Sinebrychoff Art Museum

NEW YORK, NY.- Franklin Parrasch Gallery will present Ellen Siebers: Bouquet, the gallery’s first solo exhibition with the artist (b. 1986, Madison, WI). Ellen Siebers’ highly atmospheric, evocative paintings revel in the possibility of beauty and visual poetry and the capacity to depict a fleeting experience or sensation in each lived moment, transforming the quotidian into something extraordinary. Siebers’ interest is in not just the fundamentals of painting but the beauty of her earthly surroundings. As she has noted, “Observation gives way to the importance of each brush stroke, in devotion to process.”

franklin parrasch gallery announces "Ellen Siebers: Bouquet"

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The first work I saw by the Australian photo-media artist Anne Zahalka was her regendered version of Tom Roberts’ A Break Away! (1891). In Zahalka’s 1985 rendering, the heroic rider has been given a plait. 

It was part of her series The Landscape Re‑presented, where the young artist had used photomontage to change heroic images of Australian art into a gender-inclusive multicultural Australia.

This was the body of work that in 1986 persuaded the Australia Council to award Zahalka a year-long residency at Berlin’s Künstlerhaus Bethanien. The experience of Berlin, with its great art and embedded history, opened the eyes of...

The stunning photographs of Australian artist Anne Zahalka: remembering the past and recording the present

"Girl with a Pearl Earring" is Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer's most famous work. The painting is on permanent display at the Mauritshuis museum.

Masterful Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer rendered famous 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' during Golden Age

As the Loire River glides gently east to west, officially separating northern from southern France, it has come to define one of France's most popular tourist regions. Because of its history, this region is home to hundreds of castles and palaces in all shapes and sizes. When a "valley address" became a must-have among 16th-century hunting-crazy royalty, rich Renaissance palaces replaced outdated medieval castles.

Amboise’s Loire Delights and Leonardo da Vinci Sights

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The oldest cave art in the world has been discovered, but scientists don’t think it was humans who did it.Cave paintings dating back 24,000 years have previously been uncovered in Spain. But, in the grand scheme of history, they have been blown out of the water by a discovery made on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.Paintings discovered in a Sulawesi cave are now the oldest known to man, dating back 51,200 years. Their discovery raised questions about the history of human activity on the island and migration more broadly.Advances in technology have now been able to analyse the artwork, which...

Oldest cave art in the world discovered – and it wasn't made by humans

Las Vegas, NV

Jutting rocks and natural caves carved out by erosion and weathering along the Redstone Trail in Lake Mead National Recreation Area, in Nevada. Two men who were captured on camera toppling and damaging an ancient natural rock formation at Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Nevada in April were indicted last week, federal prosecutors said. (NPS/A. Harrison via The New York Times)

2 men charged with damaging ancient rock formation at Lake Mead

NEW YORK, NY.- The American Folk Art Museum will present the exhibition Anything but Simple: Gift Drawings and the Shaker Aesthetic, opening on September 13, 2024. The Shakers, often celebrated for their minimalist approach to design, will be showcased in a new light with this exhibition. The “gift” drawings on display represent a departure from the simplicity typically associated with Shaker material culture. Made by women in the mid-19th century and believed to represent divine messages, these intricate and vibrant drawings offer a unique glimpse into the interior world of the Shakers.

Exhibition of rare Shaker drawings to open at the American Folk Art Museum

History never ceases to amaze us and there is much out there that is still unknown. There were several generations that lived before us and many are yet to come into existence. So, when archaeologists and other experts discover something new about the old, it’s always a fascinating journey of understanding what really went down there. In 2000, French archaeologist and head of the European Institute of Maritime Archaeology, Franck Goddio, led a team that successfully located the ancient city of Thonis-Heracleion, which was Egypt’s only port on the Mediterranean coast about 2,500 years ago.

Newly discovered underwater temple of Aphrodite leaves everyone in wonder and awe

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AN HISTORIAN has revealed the disturbing horrors of “human zoos” – where human beings were treated like animals by cruel, racist keepers. Guido Gryseels, the former boss of the Africa Museum where King Leopold II opened the disturbing exhibit, told The Sun that Belgium still needs to come to terms with its brutal colonial past. […]

Inside Belgium’s disgraceful ‘human zoo’ – where country’s brutal colonial past was exhibited by King Leopold II

Montgomery, AL

MONTGOMERY, AL .- An exhibit at Troy University’s Rosa Parks Museum examines the issue of homelessness through the work of sculptor Jim Hager. The exhibit, “Homeless,” opened August 8, and will be on display through Oct. 26 in the museum’s gallery. Inspiration for the exhibit came...

Rosa Parks Museum examines homelessness through work of sculptor Jim Hager

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De Pont will present the first solo exhibition of the iconic Colombian artist Beatriz González in the Netherlands

TILBURG.- From 5 October 2024, De Pont will present the first solo exhibition of the iconic Colombian artist Beatriz González (1932) in the Netherlands. The undisputed...

De Pont will present the first solo exhibition of the iconic Colombian artist Beatriz González in the Netherlands

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