The first major exhibition since 1955 of over 140 works by the great Florentine master Fra Angelico (1395-1455) was featured during the past year at the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and the Museo di San Marco, a Medici-commissioned Dominican convent in Florence where Angelico lived and worked. The event has created an opportunity for a unique dialogue between institutions and the region.
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As artificial intelligence continues to reshape everything from consumerism to creative expression, the world’s first museum dedicated entirely to the exhibition of AI-generated art is set to open this spring. DATALAND will offer visitors a multisensory journey through machine-created worlds in each of its five galleries at a Frank Gehry-designed complex in downtown Los Angeles.
More than a century after they were founded, the Vienna Secession and Wiener Werkstätte movements have shot back into the interior-design limelight. With their geometric patterning, deeply saturated colors, and obsessive focus on craftsmanship, these iconic European styles are being rediscovered by today’s designers putting together spaces that unapologetically traverse genres and eras.
Upside Down Zebra, the felicitously named exhibition at The Watermill Center (the storied experimental art venue and residency founded by the late Robert Wilson in 1992 on Long Island’s East End), is, in a word, dazzling.
A spacetime grid is a visual diagram in physics to grasp a four-dimensional reality—three dimensions of space and one of time.
In November, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) opened its doors to international fanfare, unveiling the entire contents of Tutankhamen’s tomb, together for the first time since their excavation in 1922. The sprawling 5.4-million-square-foot complex near the Great Pyramids of Giza represents more than two decades of planning and an immense investment in Egypt’s infrastructure.
Upon reopening this April, The Frick Collection in New York will welcome visitors to climb its grand staircase—or ride one of its newly-installed elevators—to the second floor for the first time in the museum’s history.
PFA is pleased to announce Dorothy Fratt: Explorations in Color, an exhibition focused on works on paper mounted on canvas produced by the artist throughout her career. Grounded in her signature flair for spatial complexity and bold color pairings, these works highlight the breadth of her experimental rigor on an intimate scale.
When the new National Museum of Art, Architecture, and Design opened in Oslo in 2022, its ambition was to challenge rigid boundaries between creative disciplines.
The last few months have seen a flurry of gallery space relocations and consolidations as owners seek more affordable locations to reduce overhead. Rising commercial rents, stiff competition from online platforms, and pressure to support artists have weighed heavily on the art market during recent years.
