Surrealism became the focus of many art institutions in 2024 in response to the 100th anniversary of the 1924 publication of Andre Breton’s (1896-1966) Surrealist Manifesto. Now, in a moment when female visionary artists like Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) and Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) are being rediscovered, Ithell Colquhoun (1906-1988) stands out.
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The exhibition Scottish Colourists: Radical Perspectives opened at Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh, Scotland, on February 7th.
This April, the Whitney Museum of American Art opens Amy Sherald: American Sublime, and consequently cements the artist as the new Miss Americana. This is Sherald’s debut solo exhibit in New York City, and in true American fashion, it will cross the country to San Francisco and Washington D.C.—fitting for a collection so decidedly nestled in excellence and American realism.
On March 30, 2025, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston threw a birthday bash. Cupcakes were served and local artist Nick Shea (best known for his pop-ups on the Boston Common) was available to draw your portrait on the spot.
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.
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.
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.
Internationally renowned Malagasy artist Joël Andrianomearisoa (b. 1977) creates stunning installations using a variety of media, including textiles, paper, wood, minerals, and unexpected objects (mirrors, perfumes, etc.).
Artistic patronage did not flee Rome following its traumatic sack by mutinous Spanish and German soldiers of the Holy Roman Empire in 1527. Seven years later, Alessandro Farnese (1468-1549) was elected Pope Paul III and sponsored a series of urban projects intended to revitalize the scarred city.
The exhibition, Heart On, at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Art Gallery of Ontario brings long-overdue attention to Joyce Wieland’s pioneering work in film and visual art.
