Emerging artist Wenhui Hao (2000) has been drawing attention with her striking blend of figuration and abstraction. The 2024 Royal College of Art graduate now lives and works in Beijing and London and has had a number of popular exhibitions across Europe and Asia. Her first U.S. solo exhibition opened June 11th at Half Gallery in NYC.
June 2025 Art News
In Rome, after nearly two decades in the making, a new piazza in front of the ancient tomb of the Roman Emperor Augustus is finally open– at least partially.
In the vacant 42,000-square-foot space of an office building in the Lower East Side of New York, a new type of hybrid museum will open in 2026. This nonprofit institution, Canyon, will be a cultural venue centered around video, performance, sound, and immersive art.
Copying within the context of the art world has evolved over the centuries. What was once understood as a vital tool for study and learning is now often perceived, especially by laymen, as a kind of cheating. Even so, copying sometimes is ethically questionable.
“Blacksmith, I set ye a task. Take these harpoons and lances. Melt them down. Forge me new weapons that will strike deep and hold fast.” - Captain Ahab, Moby Dick by Herman Melville, 1851
Art has long been identified, even romanticized, as an ideal way to launder money. There’s a thread of logic here: the art world accommodates anonymous, high-dollar buyers and the industry allows large cash deals. For racketeers, it’s difficult to conjure up a more attractive set of circumstances.
Just last year, a seemingly ordinary oil painting, attributed to a “follower of Julius Caesar Ibbetson,” an 18th-century British painter, sold for £400 ($506) at Dreweatts auction house in London. The buyer initially believed the piece to be that of Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg’s, a French refugee and painter living in London. However, when the painting was sent out for cleaning, it was returned to its new owners with J. M. W.
Indiana Jones is a terrible archeologist. Yet, despite the films having next to nothing to do with actual archeological work, he is somehow the most famous icon of the field. Those within the field might perhaps be able to console themselves with the hollow comfort that “all press is good press.” But when the primary poster child of one’s field has dedicated their life to being an ethical and moral nightmare gussied up under the mask of a heartthrob’s charming smile, the sentiment rings a bit too dissonantly.
Sun Brothers: Dean, Elliott, Hagege in the Land of Enchantment is the spectacular summer and fall exhibition at Couse-Sharp Historic Site, featuring three artists who are among the most dynamic and skilled in painting the Southwest: Glenn Dean, Josh Elliott and Logan Maxwell Hagege.
During the Victorian era, one name constantly echoed within the walls of every English art enthusiast was Edwin Landseer (1802 – 1873). Son of John Landseer, an engraver and writer among other things, Edwin displayed an early talent for painting with his earliest drawings, mostly of animals, dating back to when he was only five years old. By 24, he was already an Associate of the Royal Academy.
