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April 2025 Art News
It was 1939, just two years after Picasso painted his anti-war masterpiece, Guernica, in response to the fascist bombing of the titular city in northern Spain. France and Britain declared war on Germany in response to the latter’s invasion of Poland, and artists like Picasso were finding Paris a nerve-wracking place to live.
A graffiti art exhibition at Arts Arkade near Piccadilly Circus in London was shut down early after vandals swooped in overnight and smeared profanity on the walls.
Films about “great” male artists like Picasso and Van Gogh abound, but if you look hard and dig deep enough you’ll find films about great women artists, some well-worth watching, others, not so much.
The visual directness of Christina Ramberg’s paintings can be misleading. Take Shady Lacy (1971), which shows the back of a shapely figure dressed in a lacy matching set. Ramberg renders the figure boldly, almost schematically, except for the daisies delicately patterned across the lace.
Opening at TEW Galleries in Atlanta on April 11th and on show until late May 2025; A Study in Contrasts; works by the German artist Otto Neumann (1895 – 1975) and London-based painter, Haidee Becker.
Even though Dostoevsky’s drawings feel like a byproduct of his writing process and Plath’s more like an independent form of expression, both still seem linked to an abundance of creativity and the works generated feel like art. Can anyone who makes art truly be called a non-artist?
In honor of this week kicking off the 63rd edition of Milan Design Week, running from April 7th through the 13th, let’s take a moment to revel in the fair’s history.
Japanese painter Keita Morimoto's first solo exhibition, To Nowhere and Back, opened at the Almine Rech Tribeca gallery March 14th. Running through April 26th, the exhibition highlights Morimoto's striking urban nightscapes. His almost cinematic vignettes masterfully depict solitude, disorientation, and alienation, while also invoking the strange beauty and instances of transcendent hope found within mundane moments of city life.
Produced by Schaechter as a Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics artist-in-residence, the stained-glass dome is featured at the Michener, a Bucks County art museum known for American craft, before touring the country
DOYLESTOWN, PA (February 20, 2025)—Michener Art Museum’s original exhibition, Judith Schaechter: Super/Natural, is the first to feature the internationally-known glass artist’s newest, monumental work, a stunning eight-foot-tall stained-glass dome designed for a single viewer.
