Echoing a pilot program launched in 1950, the Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) will now allow cardholders to borrow select pieces of art for up to three weeks, as of November 3rd.
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Leonardo Drew is the embodiment of form and content. His expansive personality explodes with associations and ebullience; so does his art. “Superadditive,” he calls it. There really don’t seem to be any limits to his art, which is free-form yet meticulously crafted.
When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream, the major retrospective now on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, positions Wifredo Lam as a political, spiritual, and insurgent force—a world-builder who ultimately slips classification.
While Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Elizabeth Lederer was sold for a record-breaking $236.4 million after a 20 minute bidding war, a solid gold toilet, titled America by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, drew far less fanfare at Sotheby’s recent auction.
Oeno Gallery presents Fired Up! — Pushing Boundaries in Ceramics & Glass, an exhibition celebrating ten internationally acclaimed Canadian artists. On view through January 11, 2026, Fired Up! Is a contemporary reimagining of two of the oldest art forms.Decades of Mastery and Transformative Art
Having celebrated its 100-year anniversary in 2024, the Surrealism movement remains highly relevant today, with Surrealist ideas and techniques widely embraced by contemporary artists. Its revolutionary approach to art and thought continues to influence art, culture, fashion, and film— offering a powerful perspective on current social and political concerns.
Henki Art presents What the Water Knows, a digital exhibition and debut catalog dedicated to the shifting role of water in contemporary culture, ecology, and daily life. Gathering five international artists working across photography, performance, and media, the exhibition reflects on water as witness, memory, and force in an era of accelerating environmental change.
“In this search for my own identity, I seek the power of the rock, the magic of the water, the religion of the tree, the color of the wind and the enigma of the horizon.”–George Morrison
As empires fell and made way for nation-states, dissolving Medieval social structures, rapid industrialization led to the development of Realism, a period from the mid-to-late nineteenth century that rejected the conservative and elitist structure of the Neoclassical movement that had ruled since the Renaissance.
This fall, the Lightner Museum will present The Wiener Werkstätte: Art, Luxury, and Beauty in Modern Vienna, an exhibition showcasing 60 works of art from the prestigious Richard H. Driehaus Collection (Chicago, IL). On view from November 20, 2025, through July 14, 2026, the exhibition introduces audiences to one of the defining design movements of the early twentieth century. The exhibition is a curatorial collaboration between the Lightner Museum and the Richard H.
