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Commercial goes pastoral: the draw of showing art in the open air

The Art Newspaper

© Jean Tinguely, DACS 2025, Photo: Ken Adlard, Courtesy of the artists and Hauser & Wirth Since it opened in 2014, Hauser & Wirth Somerset has brought contemporary art, burrata and around 110,000 visitors a year to the small town of Bruton in southwest England. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2025. Education is a key component.

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Renewed Bern Kunsthalle works to reframe Switzerland's history

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In place of plastic, the Ghanaian artist enfolded the building in a material evocative of global labour and trade—jute sacks made in Southeast Asia and imported to Ghana for the transportation of cocoa beans to European markets. ft of polyethylene over the Neo-Classical façade of the Kunsthalle Bern—their first wrapping of an entire building.

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London’s Queen Elizabeth II memorial to feature contemplative Yinka Shonibare sculpture

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Within this setting, Shonibare’s Wind Sculpture will be a “space for reflection and shared experience”, says a project statement. The project also incorporates new figurative sculptures of the late Queen alongside her husband Prince Philip at Birdcage Walk, a Prince Philip gate and a main monument to Elizabeth II to be built beside the Mall.

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Orange County Museum of Art in talks to merge with University of California, Irvine

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“As a university committed to discovery, creativity and public service, we see great potential in combining our strengths to expand access to the arts, deepen engagement with California’s artistic legacy and support new generations of creators and scholars.”

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New venue for video, sound and other durational art forms coming to Manhattan

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A new venue for durational art, Canyon , will open its doors on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 2026. The artists working in time-based media today are grappling with everything from artificial intelligence and facial recognition to climate anxiety and cultural memory. The 40,000 sq.

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Amid geopolitical tensions, Pakistani and Indian art worlds unite in London exhibitions

The Art Newspaper

The irony is lost on no one that the seat of the British Empire, whose rule and hasty exit from the subcontinent lies at the root of the present conflict, should play host to fertile artistic exchanges between India and Pakistan, but right now in London there are multiple examples of collaboration.

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Capitalism, cityscapes and the climate crisis take centre stage at Luma Arles

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The artist acknowledges that, given his location, this should perhaps not have been a surprising experience, and yet it gave rise to a new idea. the artist asks, laughing as he lists these titles, which he says simultaneously fascinated and repulsed him. This work, the artist says, feels necessary. “I What the f**k is that?”