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fromwww.eastbaytimes.com
4 days ago

Observations of a Still Life' on display at Walnut Creek's Bedford Gallery

Observations of a Still Life presents contemporary still-life artworks by 22 artists across media, reinterpreting everyday objects to examine modern desire, identity, and slowed attention.
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days ago

Turner seascapes and Damien Hurst sharks: Liverpool anniversary exhibition hopes to surprise

Visitors to a major JMW Turner exhibition may well be surprised to see the opening work is by Jeff Koons, and Damien Hirst sharks, a Bridget Riley stripe painting and some Doc Marten boots supplied by the curator herself are also on display. Surprised? That's what we're hoping, said Melissa Gustin, the curator of British art at National Museums Liverpool. But by the end it will all make perfect sense, she hopes. That is the vibe we are after.
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fromColossal
5 days ago

A Japanese Exhibition Places Contemporary Woodcarving Within the Continuum of Art History

Japan is an island nation rich in timber, from cypress (Hinoki) to cedar (Sugi) to larch (Karamatsu). Its renowned woodworking heritage dates back centuries, taking the form of immaculately carved wooden beams in houses, ornate storage boxes, and revered religious statuary. For some artists working today, this timeless tradition translates perfectly into contemporary expressions. Hand-hewn from timber, expressive faces and dynamic motifs emerge in the sculptures of Kigaku - Re(a)lize - at FUMA Contemporary Tokyo.
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#confederate-monuments
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fromAnOther
6 days ago

An Unreal Weekend at Istanbul's IST.FESTIVAL

Art functions as frontline resistance, offering artists freedom and survival amid Istanbul's multilayered, immersive exploration of reality's shifting nature.
fromThesanjoseblog
1 week ago

Silicon Valley Asian Art Center Opens in Downtown San Jose

Downtown San Jose welcomed a new cultural gem with the opening of the Silicon Valley Asian Art Center at 150 East Santa Clara Street on October 17. The midday ribbon-cutting ceremony featured remarks from Mayor Matt Mahan, Councilmember Anthony Tordillos, Assemblymember Ash Kalra, representatives from the San Jose Downtown Association, and owner Jianhua Shu. This event marked the expansion of the center from its original Santa Clara location, established in 2004, which has long showcased modern and ancient artworks.
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fromArchDaily
1 week ago
France news

Fondation Cartier Reopens in Jean-Nouvel-Designed Paris Building With Exhibition by Formafantasma

fromArchDaily
1 week ago
France news

Fondation Cartier Reopens in Jean-Nouvel-Designed Paris Building With Exhibition by Formafantasma

fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
1 week ago

San Francisco's Museum of the African Diaspora marks 20 years with a show about Blackness and the cosmos

"You'll also find a primer for the exhibitions," Monetta White, the director and chief executive of MoAD, tells The Art Newspaper. "You'll find a framework, some vocabulary, some definitions of the themes." Meanwhile, she points out, much of the rest of the $500,000 renovation has gone into critical infrastructure improvements visitors will hardly notice, such as lighting upgrades and a new heating, ventilation and air-conditioning system.
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 week ago

collectible body art: tattoos by lawrence weiner, peter marino and more hit the auction block

Pharrell Williams's JOOPITER launches Inked, a standalone tattoo auction of sixteen commissioned designs available for global bidding October 22–31, 2025.
Graphic design
fromdesignyoutrust.com
1 week ago

"Surfboards and Skeletons": The Beachside Whimsy and Existential Humor in Illustrations of Kentaro Yoshida

A wide range of contemporary visual art and illustration showcases global causes, fantasy and surrealism, historic reimagining, social commentary, and creative repurposing.
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fromdesignyoutrust.com
1 week ago

Artist Rutger Paulusse Turns Geometry into Living, Breathing Sculptures

A diverse collection of creative, bizarre, and nostalgic visual-art and human-interest pieces showcasing DIY projects, crafts, photography, transformations, and unusual cultural artifacts.
#design
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fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
1 week ago

'Wear layers and chic waterproof shoes': Cherry Cheng on the art she collects, the London food she loves and how she survives Frieze week

Cherry Cheng founded Jouissance, a high-end British perfume house that blends art history and feminist theory into fragrances inspired by female erotic writers.
#gallery-closure
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fromianVisits
1 week ago

Screaming Norwegians and brooding Swedes: Nordic art brings a chilly edge to the British Museum

A diverse Nordic art exhibition at the British Museum shows over 150 works by 100 artists, free in Room 90 until 22 March 2026.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Britain's colonial botany, tiny landscapes and great bohemian outlaws the week in art

UK exhibitions showcase colonial botanical history, miniature landscapes, Egyptian influence, queer modernists, and contemporary international artists, highlighted by Frieze's extravagance.
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fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
1 week ago

'We are in a very special situation as collectors': Petr Pudil on opening the Kunsthalle Praha in Prague, and the art he collects

Petr Pudil founded the Pudil Family Foundation and Kunsthalle Praha housing a 2,000+ work contemporary art collection shown in rotating thematic exhibitions.
fromAnOther
1 week ago

Inside Clarissa, the Hottest Art Show of Frieze Week

Once a London district made up of neon-lit sex shops and late-night clubs, King's Cross has been polished by regeneration, yet here, the curators draw on the history of the space to choreograph a dialogue between art, architecture, and the city, attempting to explore how contemporary artistic practices might inhabit, and even provoke, the residues of urban change and regeneration.
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fromTime Out London
1 week ago

The Serpentine Galleries have just announced huge names for their 2026 exhibition programme

The gallery has been on a solid run in recent months, with a well-received edition of its annual from young British artist and video game designer Serpentine Pavilion designed by Bangladeshi artist and architect Marina Tabassum, and two buzzy autumn shows in the first major solo exhibition Danielle Brathwaite Shirley and the latest show from Peter Doig - famed for being the most expensive living artist in Europe - inspired by sound system culture.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Some of the best facelifts money can buy!' The madness and millionaires of Frieze art fair review

This is the market laid bare, with all of its champagne, ludicrous outfits and obscene excess on brazen display for anyone willing to fork out a wodge on a ticket. That's what reviews of Frieze generally complain about, all the greedy capitalistic knives being stabbed into the heart of their beloved, pure art. But Frieze, and the more refined Frieze Masters, isn't really about art.
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fromDesign Milk
1 week ago

Take 5: An Artful Handbag, Graphic Ephemera, + Sultry Suitcases

Fendi’s Peekaboo was reimagined through Edoardo Piermattei’s translation of pigmented cement into leather and fur, celebrating handcrafted innovation within cross-disciplinary collaboration.
fromwww.anothermag.com
1 week ago

Inside Jefferson Hack's Paradigm Shift Celebration Dinner

On Sunday (12 October), Jefferson Hack hosted a special dinner to celebrate the opening of new exhibition Paradigm Shift: New Dimensions in Moving Image, presented by 180 Studios in partnership with Ray-Ban Meta. Kicking off Frieze week, the dinner took place at 180 Strand, and welcomed featured artists from the exhibition, including Gillian Wearing, Mark Leckey, Julianknxx, Josefa Ntjam, Arthur Jafa, Sophia Al Maria and Babak Radboy.
Photography
fromColossal
1 week ago

The First Monograph to Survey Derrick Adams' Career Comes Ahead of a Major Exhibition

Whether portraying families at play, people walking along urban streets, or portraits of individuals, Derrick Adams celebrates Black identity and experience. His collage-like compositions evoke West African masks, reliquary figures, and other carved sculptures, highlighting contemporary, everyday scenes and leisure activities of Black Americans. A new monograph from Monicelli surveys more than two decades of Adams' geometric paintings, made in his signature multihued, faceted style. Derrick Adams is the first monograph to survey the artist's entire career, tracing his stylistic evolution and the themes that recur throughout his paintings.
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#illustration
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fromArchitectural Digest
1 week ago

7 of the Coolest German Creatives Show Us How They Style Their Apartments

German creatives source vintage furniture from flea markets and online to create sustainable, story-rich interiors blending kitsch, Danish design, and art.
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fromPortland Mercury
2 weeks ago

The Mercury's Do This, Do That: Your Top Events for October 13-19

Portland galleries and venues present new exhibitions and events blending organic-themed art, ambient music, and community programs this week.
#street-art
fromJuxtapoz
3 weeks ago
Design

Juxtapoz Magazine - Triple Trouble: Shepard Fairey, Damien Hirst and Invader @ Newport Street Gallery, London

fromJuxtapoz
3 weeks ago
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Juxtapoz Magazine - Triple Trouble: Shepard Fairey, Damien Hirst and Invader @ Newport Street Gallery, London

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fromElite Traveler
2 weeks ago

The Art World Descends: What to See and Where to Be at Frieze London 2025

Frieze London spotlights contemporary artists with increased representation of overlooked female, African, Latin American and Indigenous artists, while Frieze Masters pursues rediscovery of historical works.
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fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 weeks ago

"Beneath the Desert Moon": The Dark, Surreal and Fantasy Artworks of Xavier Ortiz

A diverse showcase of contemporary visual art and design highlighting innovation, humor, nostalgia, and social commentary across multiple media.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Triple Trouble: Fairey, Hirst, Invader review the most revolting visual soup imaginable

Down in Vauxhall in London, three artists have mashed themselves together to create the most revolting visual soup imaginable, an exhibition that isn't so much the sum of its parts as a total negation of anything good any of them has ever done. Whatever qualities YBA kingpin Damien Hirst and street artists Shepard Fairey and Invader might have, none of them are on display in this staggeringly vast exhibition
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fromColossal
2 weeks ago

In 'The Party is Over,' Murmure Confronts the Absurd Spectacle of the End Times

Murmure uses dark wit and surreal imagery to expose consumerism, environmental collapse, and human folly through unsettling paintings and charcoal drawings.
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fromVulture
2 weeks ago

Fossils From a Future Apocalypse

Andra Ursuța's ovoid glass slabs encase half-formed figures that fuse archaeological ruin and futuristic prophecy, emphasizing fragility, loss, and grotesque monumentality.
fromHi-Fructose Magazine - The New Contemporary Art Magazine
2 weeks ago

Color Theory: The Prismatic Tunnel Vision of Jen Stark - Hi-Fructose Magazine

As the exhibition title suggests, Stark plays with painting and sculpture by adding or accentuating the dimensions of her work, often transforming two-dimensional objects into three-dimensional ones," the gallery said. "'Squared,' which is composed of thirty-five square sheets of powder coated aluminum, inhabits the wall like a painting. Each sheet is painted a different color and has a concentric square fold that extends outside the picture plane towards the viewer.
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fromFuncheap
2 weeks ago

Free Admission Day at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA)

YBCA is a contemporary arts center in San Francisco's SOMA offering galleries, theater, performance, film, civic engagement, and free Wednesday gallery entry.
#performance
fromFuncheap
2 weeks ago
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Free Admission Day at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA)

YBCA is a multidisciplinary arts center in San Francisco's Yerba Buena/SOMA neighborhood, centering artists across contemporary art, performance, film, civic engagement, and public programs.
fromFuncheap
2 weeks ago
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Free Admission Day at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA)

YBCA is a contemporary arts center in San Francisco's SOMA offering galleries, theater, performance, film, civic programs, and community-focused public engagement.
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fromianVisits
2 weeks ago
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Suited, booted, and unmuted: Gilbert & George fill the Hayward with glossy chaos and self-portraits

fromianVisits
2 weeks ago
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Suited, booted, and unmuted: Gilbert & George fill the Hayward with glossy chaos and self-portraits

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fromLondon On The Inside
2 weeks ago

Get 2-For-1 Tickets to the Affordable Art Fair

The Affordable Art Fair returns to Battersea with over 100 contemporary galleries, affordable works from £100, curated sections, events for families and evening Lates.
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fromwww.amny.com
2 weeks ago

Mark Kostabi: The eternal mirror of our age | amNewYork

Mark Kostabi creates faceless, universal figures in saturated color fields, distilling modern life and reshaping authorship through collaborative studio production.
Philosophy
fromAeon
2 weeks ago

Finding the spirit of Haiti through a tour of its contemporary art | Aeon Videos

Haiti's contemporary artists use literature, music, and visual art to explore national identity, spirituality, history, beauty, and challenges, shaping and reflecting the nation's stories.
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fromColossal
2 weeks ago

'We AmeRicans' Celebrates Puerto Rican Community, Pride, and Cultural Hybridity

A New York group exhibition celebrates Puerto Rican identity, resilience, and diasporic culture through multi-media works amid heightened cultural and political visibility.
fromArtforum
3 weeks ago

A Question of Stance

The morning before this year's Aichi Triennale officially opened, I was unexpectedly caught in what meteorologists later declared the most ferocious thunderstorm to strike Tokyo all summer. The trains ceased operation in near unison-first my local commuter line, then the entire Tokaido Shinkansen. Having endured another of Tokyo's "hottest summers on record" (a refrain that seems to repeat every year), I stood under the flickering departure board at the Tokyo Station Shinkansen gate, watching delayed announcements as they came in.
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fromDocumentjournal
3 weeks ago

The curators shaping the future of archives: Ruba Katrib

Ruba Katrib centers archives as living, tactile tools that connect past and present, privileging slowness, research, and embodied encounters in curatorial practice.
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
3 weeks ago

designboom radar: exhibitions to see around the world this october

October's exhibitions present global retrospectives and new installations across art, design, and architecture, featuring Virgil Abloh, Frank Lloyd Wright, teamLab, Dream Rooms, and supernatural-themed shows.
#casa-batllo
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fromAFAR Media
3 weeks ago

4 Days in the Hudson Valley: Wild Apple Ciders, Centuries-old Estates, and Vibrant New Art Spaces

Hudson Valley is experiencing a cultural and culinary revival with new art spaces, converted historic properties, and acclaimed chefs relocating from New York City.
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fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
3 weeks ago

The new chief curator of Uzbekistan's Centre for Contemporary Art is bringing insights from London to the youth of Tashkent

Sara Raza, an internationally experienced curator with Uzbek ancestry, leads CCA Tashkent while promoting artists' subtle social expression amid Uzbekistan's restrictive political context.
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Tina Kukielski leads Art21, expanding access to contemporary art through documentary film, curatorial translation, public programs, and cross-network cultural engagement.
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fromArtforum
4 weeks ago

Telepathy Curating

Vienna's Curated By festival framed 2025 as "Fragmented Subjectivity," prompting galleries to respond to postmodern fragmentation with structured or intuitive exhibition strategies.
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fromJuxtapoz
1 month ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - The MELANCHOLIA FUTURA Has Come to Berlin

Human existence and material reality are in constant flux, expressed through artistic practices that transform, erase, and mutate imagery to reveal impermanence.
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 weeks ago

Want to know the grotesque truth about the oil industry? Then look at their tacky paperweights

I find them so alluring, almost like perfume bottles or snow globes, but so grotesque, she explains as we handle the etched and sculpted objects, which each have a precious drop of crude oil at their centre. They have these shiny, dazzling exteriors, but when you get close you see the death mulch inside. All presentations of power are fragile; they collapse once you get close enough.
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fromJuxtapoz
1 month ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Through the "Haze" with Sasha Gordon

Sasha Gordon's hyperrealistic narrative paintings use her likeness and surreal scenarios to examine fragmented selves, memory, mythology, and psychological ambiguity through vivid, uncanny imagery.
Fashion & style
fromstupidDOPE | Est. 2008
1 month ago

Jahan Loh Unveils "I Have Seen the Future" Capsule with Billionaire Boys Club, ACU, and Co-Museum | stupidDOPE | Est. 2008

Jahan Loh's "I Have Seen the Future" capsule fuses ancient Chinese star charts with contemporary streetwear, an interactive exhibition blending art, culture, memory.
fromFuncheap
1 month ago

Shipyard Fall Open Studios (Oct. 18-19)

SILENT AUCTION! A silent Art Auction, featuring works from Open Studios artists! This is a great way to preview a cross-section of the participating artists, discover your favorites, and plan which studios to visit. Free reception October 3, 6-8 PM. Shipyard Gallery in Building 101. needed. Live music - Enjoy jazz by Guitar Trifecta and classical music with Charith Premawardhana performances throughout the weekend.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Turner prize 2025 review puzzling banners, tinkling bells, burning landscapes and bum-like sculptures

A soundtrack of a 16th-century Lutheran hymn and peals of church bells create an unresolvable conflict with the small photographs trapped behind glass on a low shelf in Rene Matic's installation. The voices of Nina Simone and bell hooks are dragged from the ether, along with the chants of trans rights activists and commuters calling for a free Palestine. Rihanna sings Lift Me Up a cappella
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fromColossal
1 month ago

'Companions' Celebrates Our Animal Friends and Colleagues

A group exhibition portrays human-animal companionship through diverse media, showing pets as both shaped by human culture and possessing independent personalities.
#portland-events
fromArtforum
1 month ago

Agnes Gund (1938-2025)

Though born into wealth, which she used in part to establish an unparalleled private art collection, Gund gave and gave and gave some more, promising many works to institutions, where they might be enjoyed by all, and selling others to raise money for political and social initiatives. By the time of her death, noted the New York Times, the first publication to report her passing, the cupboard was bare.
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fromArtforum
1 month ago

Virtual Dementia Tours

Catharine Czudej staged a two-level exhibition combining black-and-white QR-code paintings with a basement multimedia video installation critiquing gaming, livestream culture, and performance.
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fromdesignyoutrust.com
1 month ago

The Incredible Otherworldy Post-Apocalyptic Sci-Fi and Horror Illustrations by Yang Jialun

A broad showcase of contemporary visual art presents surreal, fantastical, humorous, nostalgic, and socially resonant works across painting, illustration, sculpture, and creative reinterpretations.
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fromFilmmaker Magazine
1 month ago

TIFF 2025: The Christophers, I Saw the Face of God in the Jet Wash, Rose of Nevada

The Christophers examines how contemporary art, market forces, and appraisal shape legacy, authenticity, and commodification of creative expression within global capitalism.
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fromBOOOOOOOM!
1 month ago

Artist Spotlight: Russna Kaur

Russna Kaur's exhibition layers materials and South Asian personal references to reveal cultural disorientation, using color to conceal pain while reframing memory.
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fromdesignyoutrust.com
1 month ago

"What're You Hiding Back There?": The Superb Sci-Fi Concept Artworks of Yintion J - Jiang Geping

Contemporary artists and designers employ collage, surrealism, digital manipulation, and illustration to remix pop culture, critique society, and create playful, dystopian, and satirical visual work.
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fromLondon On The Inside
4 years ago

DIY Art Market Online Sale | What's On | London On The Inside

DIY Art Market Christmas edition moves online; UK artists sell originals, prints, ceramics, zines, jewellery and more via Instagram Stories on 12 Dec.
fromstupidDOPE | Est. 2008
1 month ago

Duddell's Reopens With Danh Vo's "Let's start over" Exhibition | stupidDOPE | Est. 2008

Hong Kong's beloved cultural destination Duddell's is stepping into a new chapter with a refreshed look and a powerful curatorial statement. Following an extensive redesign by the award-winning Andre Fu Studio, the restaurant and gallery hybrid has reopened its doors and is marking the occasion with Let's start over, a solo exhibition by Vietnamese-Danish artist Danh Võ. The exhibition, curated by William Zhao, runs from September 17, 2025, through April 6, 2026, and serves as both a celebration of Duddell's revival and a retrospective of Võ's acclaimed practice.
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fromstupidDOPE | Est. 2008
1 month ago

SOLO CSV Opens in Madrid, Redefining the City's Contemporary Art Scene | stupidDOPE | Est. 2008

Madrid has long been celebrated as a sanctuary for the Old Masters, a city where works by Picasso, Goya, and Bosch are revered in world-class museums. Yet over the past decade, the Spanish capital has been reshaping its artistic identity, carving out space in the global conversation around contemporary art. The latest - and perhaps most ambitious - development in this evolution is SOLO CSV, a new arts and culture space from the internationally renowned Madrileño project, SOLO.
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fromTime Out London
1 month ago

One of London's 'ugliest' buildings will soon have three new public art galleries

London already boasts a formidable art and gallery scene - and soon it's getting three more arty institutions. Even more intriguingly, they'll be inside one of the most aesthetically controversial buildings in the city (and City): No 1 Poultry. The new galleries have been launched by art charity Hypha Studios, and they'll open next week (on September 24). The venues will then be open to the public for 12 months and totally free to access.
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fromItsnicethat
1 month ago

The many colours of Rotterdam, through the eyes of From Form

Rotterdam's unapologetic vibrancy and distinctive character arise from postwar rebuilding and a diverse, colour-obsessed creative community shaping public life and design.
#museum-architecture
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