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.
Art Galleries & Museums
This September 2025, the Museum of Modern Art’s current director, Glenn D. Lowry, is retiring. Lowry acquired the honor of being the Museum’s longest-serving director, stepping into the position three decades ago in 1995. During his time at the MoMA, he has helped to initiate its tremendous growth–doubling the size of its galleries and expanding its endowments–and even created the education and research center.
The newly expanded Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William and Mary in Virginia is a fitting showcase for Michelangelo: The Genesis of the Sistine, an exhibition of 25 rarely seen preparatory drawings for the frescos on the ceiling of Vatican City’s Sistine Chapel by art history’s archetypal Renaissance man.
ᐆᒻᒪᖁᑎᒃ uummaqutik: essence of life exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts presents a curated selection from the museum's Inuit collection, thoughtfully arranged by Inuk artist, filmmaker, and guest curator asinnajaq, in collaboration with Jacques Des Rochers and Léuli Eshrāghi.
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.
DOOM: House of Hope is a three hour long performance by Anne Imhof at the Park Avenue Armory, curated by Klaus Biesenbach. It opened to the public on March 3rd and will run through the 12th.
The exhibition Qi Baishi: Inspiration in Ink, on view at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco until April 7th, 2025, celebrates the 160th birth anniversary of the renowned Chinese painter Qi Baishi (1864-1957).
Alexis Rockman is having a busy year. The multidisciplinary painter's work is currently on display in simultaneous shows across America. At the New York-based gallery Magenta Plains, his show Naples: Course of Empire is on view until March 1st. For that show, Rockman produced large-scale oil paintings that recall 18th-century history paintings.
