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Arts

Who is eligible? Museums on Us is available to Bank of America, Merrill or Bank of America Private Bank credit or debit cardholders during the first full weekend of every month. One free general admission is limited to the individual cardholder. This offer is not transferable. This offer does not guarantee admission. Not to be combined with other offers. Excludes fundraising events, special exhibitions and ticketed exhibitions.

Staff at the Musée du Louvre yesterday staged another walk out, citing concerns around working conditions and infrastructure and demanding that controversial plans for a new entrance be scrapped. The action led the the Paris museum to close on Monday morning before partially reopening at noon. Some of the museum's most iconic works, including the Mona Lisa, the Venus de Milo and the Winged Victory of Samothrace were then accessible, while all other galleries remained closed.

Art, at its very best, reminds me that there is a world out there that I not only belong to but trust - perhaps even love. Sandra Vázquez de la Horra's beeswax-dipped drawings of erupting women, mystical landscapes, and hallucinatory flora in The Awake Volcanoes at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, did just that. Oh, that old mystery of finding oneself reflected in the material fragments of someone else's private imaginary.

Combining a variety of fabrics, buttons, shells, and beads, Stephen Towns' mixed-media textile pieces draw on the rich heritage of quilts made especially by Black women in the American South. Tableaux reminiscent of family portraits and vacation snapshots lend themselves to an exploration of the power of pleasure and community during an era when the South was still racially segregated.

Time Out has named the London Museum as the best new thing to do in the capital in 2026. We can't wait for its reopening not only because of its dashing new rebrand (which features a logo of a ceramic pigeon), but also because of its its shiny new home in Smithfield Market.

Apocket dynamo of a man who seemed to bounce as he walked along, Frank Dunlop will be remembered for many outstanding and remarkable achievements, but most notably as the founding director of the Young Vic in 1969 and as a controversial director of the Edinburgh international festival from 1983 to 1991. He was a key member of Laurence Olivier's National Theatre at the Old Vic, which he joined in 1967 as an associate director with a determination to initiate a young people's programme;

Cezanne Fondation Beyeler, Basel, 25 January-25 May Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) represented a powerful inspiration for the artists who came after him; as Pablo Picasso famously put it, he was "the father of us all". Now, an ambitious exhibition focusing on the French artist's later works, when he was at the height of his powers, will open at Basel's Fondation Beyeler in January.

Topped with a roof shaped like a crabshell, Le Corbusier's Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut is a sanctuary amid the French mountainside. The 1955 construction rests atop a hill in Ronchamp, standing unobstructed by the otherwise forested inclines. As the sun rises and falls, light filters in through the mélange of rectangular windows tinted to cast streams of color around the space. The stained glass apertures of Le Corbusier's modernist chapel are a clear reference point for Luftwerk's "Open Frame."

It stands a hair shy of five feet tall and is a bit over one-and-a-half feet wide. Made of nine interlocking pieces of gray ribbon slate, it feels as though a small push would completely wreck it. Humpty Dumpty stands on three legs, but it looks two-dimensional. It has an ovoid shape, and it juts upwards like a flat rocket ship.

"We can't escape the language of the internet; it's now our emotional alphabet," Minginowicz says. "Sometimes a hashtag or emoji expresses more than an entire essay." "I don't intentionally insert trends into my paintings... but I also don't filter them out. I absorb the world, I scroll, observe, analyze. So yes, the internet seeps into my work, through color, gesture, distortion, glitches. Humor, or rather, bitter absurdity, emerges from that saturation."

I was intrigued by the similarity between two paintings recently featured in the Guardian: the Ecce Homo as restored by Cecilia Gimenez (Cecilia Gimenez, famed for Monkey Christ' mural mishap, dies at 94, 30 December) and Tete de Femme by Pablo Picasso (1m Picasso portrait up for grabs for 100 in charity raffle, 31 December). Perhaps Cecilia's work is in need of a reappraisal. Steve Shearsmith Beverley, East Yorkshire

The beloved creepy, kooky and hilarious characters came out of the fertile imagination of American cartoonist Charles Addams. Having retouched photos of corpses for True Detective magazine may have contributed to the macabre characters he later created for The New Yorker, appropriately dubbed The Addams Family. His cartoons attracted the attention of television producer David Levy, which led to the successful television series.

You're Going to Die: Poetry, Prose & Everything Goes... is an open mic event, the communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying, to embrace our losses & mortality, to grieve, bereave & honor what we've lost & love, in laughter & in tears... while all the while making room for the joy & gratitude at simply being ALIVE.

It's a free, walkable outdoor event that blends sculpture, projection art, interactive exhibits and even giant Roaming Gnomes (more about them later) and takes place Jan. 17-Feb. 15. It's the eighth time around for an event patterned after light festivals in Europe and elsewhere (see Fete des Lumieres in Lyon, France; Berlin Festival of Lights in Germany; and Vivid Sydney in Australia), and it draws both artists and spectators from around the globe.

The Broadway musical Wicked has been such a gargantuan success that it almost makes you forget about its most humiliating defeat. On the night of June 6, 2004, Radio City Music Hall erupted in cries of disbelief as Avenue Q, a ragtag puppet musical with songs like "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist," won the Tony Award for Best Musical, beating the big-budget box-office sensation about the witches of Oz.

A good recommendation I recently received: My friend put the 1988 film Crossing Delancey on an end-of-year recommendation list, and it turned out to be the perfect nightcap for a dreary winter's day: a wry romantic comedy of errors that doubles as an ode to Manhattan's Lower East Side. Its love interest is a pickle salesman-utterly charming!

Quiet and understated, the show presents the work of 17 artists, who are either represented by the gallery or part of its wider network. In the exhibition text, the smallness in question is discussed not on the level of "scale or spectacle," but rather speaks to the idea of "concentration over expansion." The intention of the exhibition, positioned as a "living index," very much depends on where we place our attention.

Titled 'Collective Imagination in the Era of Optimization,' this year's edition asked: How can artists, communities and technologies rewire shared futures when the dominant narratives emphasize acceleration and optimization? And what forms of togetherness and resistance surface through media within the context of artistic practices today? The core program‑keynote lectures by Ruth Catlow, Harold Hejazi and Dzina Zhuk (of the artist collective eeefff)‑highlighted emerging forms of rebellious, joyful, multispecies collectivity and solidarity in a time of rising fascism and technocracy.

HfG Offenbach, together with the Höchster Porzellan-Manufaktur (HPM) and supported by the Crespo and Aventis Foundations, is inviting applications for RESIDENCY 5.0 - exploring porcelain. This international program offers artists and designers the chance to experiment with porcelain, pushing the limits of material, form and design. The residency is open to postgraduate alumni of art colleges, academies or related institutions with strong experience in ceramics.

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