And what a year it's gonna be for the city's gallery-botherers, with blockbuster exhibition after blockbuster exhibition on the way over the next twelve months. There's monumental sculpture, pointillist landscapes and flashy photography, massive names from Renoir to Hockney, and so many big shows by women that the Guerrilla Girls might have to get a new schtick. RECOMMENDED: The best theatre shows in London for 2026.
A double dose of alma is on tap at the library's West Branch with tamales karaoke, a song session for tweens, teens and anyone who wants to unleash their inner Bad Bunny (or Selena), combining pop songs with a yummy Mexican dish.
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Whether you want to catch a cool concert or the Golden Globes, or just settle down to a decadent lasagna dinner, we are here for you. So let's get to it, shall we? (As always, be sure to double check event and venue websites for any last-minute changes in health guidelines or other details.) Meanwhile, if you'd like to have this Weekender lineup delivered to your inbox every Thursday morning for free, just sign up at www.mercurynews.com/newsletters or www.eastbaytimes.com/newsletters.
WooJung Park + 22 Category: Churches, Memorial Center Architects: Woojin Lim, Yunseok Kwak (AEV Architectures) + Jungim Yoo + Yunhee Lee (TONN Architect) Participating Artists: Andrea Roggi, Ignazio Campagna, Jeeyean Shim, Soon-phil Maeng More SpecsLess Specs WooJung Park Text description provided by the architects. A Place of Memory and Reconciliation Created by Light In the tranquil village of Mangyeong, located three hours south of Seoul, a deeply meaningful commemorative space has been established.
Located on Jambiani beach along Zanzibar's east coast, Drifting Cloud is a by Vincent Leroy that interacts directly with the wind. The sculptural work is constructed from carbon rods, joints, and kite- discs, forming a lightweight structure capable of responding to subtle air currents. The installation's modular components move independently while remaining part of a connected whole, generating a dynamic, constantly changing composition. Movements vary according to wind strength, ranging from fine vibrations to broader gestures, producing an organized yet unpredictable rhythm.
Supporting existing research on the benefits of viewing original artwork versus reproductions, a new study found that seeing authentic art can help drop cortisol levels, among other positive effects on the nervous system. Still in pre-print since its submission last October, "The Physiological Impact of Viewing Original Artworks vs. Reprints: a Comparative Study" was conducted by researchers from the Department of Psychological Medicine at King's College in London working in collaboration with the Courtauld Institute of Art.
"Spirit is Life. It flows thru the death of me endlessly like a river unafraid of becoming the sea." -Gregory Corso ST. LOUIS - At 2,340 miles, the "mighty" Mississippi River borders no fewer than eight American states. Missouri is among them, where the city of St. Louis has been the site of both tenacious (and pugnacious) expansionist gusto and, in the wake of midcentury de-industrialization, precipitous decline.
LOS ANGELES Alan Jackson, the high-power attorney representing Nick Reiner in the stabbing death of his parents, producer-actor-director Rob Reiner and photographer Michele Singer Reiner, withdrew from the case Wednesday. Reiner will now be represented by public defender Kimberly Greene. Wearing a brown jumpsuit, Reiner, 32, didn't enter a plea during the brief hearing. A judge has rescheduled his arraignment for Feb. 23.
Now, the nation's largest distributor of print books to public libraries Baker & Taylor is set for imminent closure. For nearly 200 years, Baker & Taylor has played a key role in getting books from manufacturers to warehouses to library patrons' hands. Partnering with more than 5,000 U.S. libraries, the company has been a staple in the industry, selling books at wholesale prices and providing them with labels and lamination so libraries don't have to.
A Parisian court has found 10 individuals, including a French gallerist, guilty of cyberbullying France's First Lady Brigitte Macron in a crackdown against a widespread conspiracy that she was born male. Among the individuals convicted on Monday, December 5, was 56-year-old art dealer Bertrand Scholler, who is listed as an owner of the gallery 55 Bellechasse, blocks from the Rodin Museum in Paris's 7th arrondissement.
Renowned for his classic pin-up illustrations, Al Moore created a series of elegant, playful images that appeared in a 1950 calendar. These works capture the optimism and charm of postwar American visual culture. h/t: vintag.es Before turning to art, Moore had an unusual path: he played college football at Northwestern University and briefly for the Chicago Bears. After studying at Chicago's Art Institute and Academy of Art, he opened a commercial studio in New York in the late 1930s.
And at Santa Clara's Triton Museum of Art, there's not one but four exhibits opening in January, ranging from slashed-and-bleached abstractions to uncanny paintings of suburbia that hearken to Edward Hopper and David Lynch. That latter show, opening Jan. 10, comes from South Bay artist Jonathan Crow who grew to fame with drawings of U.S. vice presidents wearing octopuses on their heads.
For this exhibition, Reinecke presents variations of leisure activities in an imaginary wooded landscape and cozy warm interiors infused with sentimentality. Reinecke highlights common outdoor activities such as hiking, swimming and fishing to simple domestic pleasures such as applying nail polish to a loved ones toes upon a green shag carpet in front of a blazing fire ( Cherries in the Snow, 2025).
Two years ago, the annual Under the Radar festival (which showcases international, experimental and multidisciplinary theater) was unexpectedly canceled by the Public Theater, its longtime presenter, due to financial issues. In response, the festival was quickly reconceived as a citywide effort involving several other theater companies, allowing it to move forward. The festival, now in its 21st edition, returns this month with productions at theaters across the city from Jan. 7 to 25.
Paintings by the late US president Jimmy Carter and the family's personal effects will go to auction this month as part of a sale at Christie's in New York dubbed We the People: America at 250, marking the country's semiquincentennial this year. The works on offer from Carter's collection were selected by Amy Carter, the daughter of Carter and his wife Rosalyn.
The first-ever exhibition on Europe's most important early female painter, Catharina van Hemessen, will open later this year in Antwerp and come to London in 2027. It starts at the (15 October-31 January 2027), a museum of 16th- and 17th- century Flemish art in the city where she worked, and then goes in a more focused form to the National Gallery (4 March-30 May 2027).
Once a week, in the late hours of what used to be "not considered late," a group of degenerates and misfits gather to perform a seance unlike anything seen before. So comically evil that you may get sick to your stomach. The Ritual will be improvised, gut wrenchingly funny, with a tinge of fuckery. While you can just sit there and enjoy the show, you are welcome to participate should you so choose.
The lights are completely free to see and will switch on every evening from 5pm to 10pm until January 31. For 2026, the festival's theme is 'Dreamscape', which promises an 'an exploratory journey of the surreal and ethereal'. Expect interactive displays, colourful projections and magnificent installations from world-renowned light artists, as well as pop-up food stalls to keep you fuelled along the way.
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.
Consider Hans Holbein the Younger's portrait of Henry VIII's fourth wife, Anne of Cleves: an enigmatic look, cast from beneath heavy-lidded eyes; a long nose, the soft breath from which is almost felt; a red velvet gown richly adorned with gold and pearls, set against a blue background made more vivid by its recent restoration. Serving as the cover image for Elizabeth Goldring's biography, it is a painting that conveys much of her subject's continuing
Kathleen Goncharov, a longtime curator who served as the United States Commissioner for the 50th Venice Biennale, has died at the age of 73. The news of her passing was announced by a group of friends and her partner, poet and artist Charles Doria. She died of natural causes in her Boca Raton home on New Year's Eve. Goncharov is remembered as a doting friend, a champion of artists, and a gifted and intuitive curator.
A lot has changed since the last time I popped up in your inbox - a little Christmas snow (or close enough) for the first time in a very long time. And we swore in a new mayor in the bowels of an abandoned subway station. (If you didn't get an invite to that ceremony, here's a tip: Stay on the downtown 6 after the last stop, and you'll loop around that gorgeous station.)
"I think the last week is going to bring a lot of confidence back into the market," said Madeline Lissner, Sotheby's global head of fine art and major collections, in an interview with the online magazine Puck in November, after a mood-changing $2.2bn series of Modern and contemporary art auctions in New York. "I'm talking beyond auction, to the landscape of dealers and advisors,"
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.
