The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State announced the openings of two remarkable summer exhibitions that bring the rich visual culture of twentieth-century Mexico to life. Under the Mexican Sky: A Revolution in Modern Photography, drawn from the significant private collection of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg, is the major exhibition for the season and is on view from June 1 through July 28. The exhibition is organized by art2art Circulating Exhibitions. Following the upheaval of the Mexican Revolution in 1910–20, Mexico City became a magnet for an international roster of prominent modernist photographers who used their cameras as tools to embrace social and political subjects, experiment with light and form, and represent or comment on modern life and its contrast to older, traditional methods and depictions. “Under the Mexican Sky narrates the important story of modern photographers whose experience in Mexico i

In the year of the 500th anniversary of his death, the youth masterpiece of the Tuscan Maestro returns to Italy, 35 years after his only exhibition at the 13th UNESCO Creative Cities Network Annual Conference in Fabriano. The Hermitage therefore, unlike others, has chosen to celebrate the genius of the great Italian artist in his native country, with exceptional works starting with the “Madonna Benois” in Fabriano, where the precious pieces of art are on display at the Pinacoteca Comunale di Fabriano of Marche until 30 June 2019. Conceived and promoted by Maria Francesca Merloni, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for Creative Cities with the State Hermitage Museum, the event takes place in collaboration with the City of Fabriano, the Pinacoteca Civica of Fabriano and Hermitage Italia, under the patronage of the MiBAC and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. The exhibition is curated by the art historian

Kovacek Contemporary (Spiegelgasse 12, 1010 Vienna) is the first gallery in Europe to present the New York City-based artist Doug Argue. Both the dynamic and the effect of depth play an important role in Doug Argue’s art. His style is defined by large formats and intensive colors. Biomorphic shapes are just as much part of his Oeuvres as geometric, moving or seemingly unstable surfaces. Finally, his art is characterized by illusion, abstraction and coloring on the one hand, and the ability to discuss critical topics on the other. Culled from literary classics such as Moby-Dick to sonnets by thirteenth century poet Petrarch, Argue’s atomized texts are inspired by psycholinguistic and scientific phenomena. Argue has developed an interest in literature at the early stages of his career: “The Chicken” (1994), a well-known monumental painting which depicts thous