Geoff McFetridge opens at Cooper Cole Gallery, July 16, 8-PM, Ontario Canada.

Geoff McFetridge  Grasslands July 16 - September 5, 2026 Opening reception: Thursday, July 16, 6-8pm Request a preview     For all other inquiries please contact the gallery: info@coopercolegallery.com +1.416.531.8000     COOPER COLE is pleased to present Grasslands, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Geoff McFetridge. This new body of work extends McFetridge’s ongoing investigation into perception, memory, and the spaces between observation and imagination. Figures, animals, architecture, and landscape elements occupy scenes that feel at once recognizable and elusive, suspended between lived experience and dream. The paintings evoke a cinematic stillness reminiscent of Alex Colville’s psychologically charged scenes, yet they turn westward into a distinctly unreal landscape where narrative remains suspended and unresolved. While rooted in observations of the everyday, the works in Grasslands carry traces of the vast horizons and spatial sensibilities of the Canadian prairies where McFetridge was raised. Familiar motifs appear transformed, existing somewhere between recollection and invention, certainty and dream.   Materially, the exhibition marks a subtle shift in the artist’s approach. Layers of oil paint are applied over graphic acrylic foundations, creating surfaces that feel atmospheric and luminous. Rich colours emerge through veils of softened paint, producing an effect that is both saturated and sun-bleached. Contrast is deliberately reduced, flattening distinctions between foreground and background, and dispersing attention across the entire composition. Rather than directing the viewer toward a central protagonist, the paintings invite a slower form of looking in at which figures and environments exist in quiet relation to one another.     Geoff McFetridge (b. 1971, Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is interested in how images exist in between or outside of language, and in turn how this encourages more open-minded approaches to cognition. In his paintings, images become language; in the artist’s words, “it should feel like something, rather than look like something.” In the pictorial spaces he creates, definitions are less finite and can slip between interpretations. As indicated by their titles, many of his paintings whimsically play with the bodily experience of design, using simplified figures to both think about forms and collective experiences. McFetridge received his BFA from the Alberta College of Art and Design and his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. McFetridge was part of the infamous Beautiful Losers exhibition which debuted in downtown New York in 1991 and went on to tour the world. He has continued to exhibit in international galleries including Cooper Cole, Toronto; Contemporary Calgary, Calgary; Half Gallery, New York; V1 Gallery, Copenhagen; Gallery Target, PlayMountain, Tokyo; and Heath Gallery, Los Angeles. McFetridge has also been included in museum exhibitions at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver; the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Yale University Art Museum, New Haven; Museum of African American Art (MAAA), and The Geffen Contemporary at MoCA; Los Angeles. McFetridge currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California, USA.     Image: Geoff McFetridge, Untitled, 2026, pencil on paper, 8.5 x 11 inches (21.59 x 27.94 cm)       Geoff McFetridge  Grasslands July 16 - September 5, 2026

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The Andy Warhol Museum named Hannah Klemm as the new Milton Fine Art Curator. She has a lengthy list of credential listed below!

 Fine Art Magazine blog opinion: AS part of the Carnegie Museums the Warhol Museum oversees the validation, exhibition, and lending of Andy Warhol's works Ms. Klemm's work will  hopefully expand awareness of art as a shaper of cultural change socially within subtle critique. 

July 14, 2026 Hannah Klemm Named Milton Fine Curator of Art Hannah Klemm, photo by Manny Alcala   The Andy Warhol Museum announces that Hannah Klemm has been named the new Milton Fine Curator of Art. Klemm is currently the curator of modern and contemporary art at the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin. Before joining the Blanton Museum of Art, she served as associate curator of modern and contemporary art for the Saint Louis Art Museum and held a variety of curatorial fellowship positions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Art Institute of Chicago and the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago. She will join The Warhol on August 17, 2026. “I am thrilled to join The Warhol at such an exciting moment in its history,” Klemm said. “What has always inspired me about both Warhol and the museum is a belief that art does not happen in isolation. It emerges through communities, conversations and the exchange of ideas. The museum actively cultivates these encounters, serving as a vital place for learning, dialogue and discovering the transformative power of creativity.” “I am excited to welcome Hannah to The Warhol team,” said Mario Rossero, director of The Warhol. “I’m confident that through her curatorial expertise and collaborative spirit that she will bring a unique approach to the collection and our exhibitions program.” As curator of modern and contemporary art at the Blanton Museum of Art, Klemm organized exhibitions, commissions, publications and public programs and stewarded the museum’s contemporary collection. Her most recent exhibition, Run the Code: Data-Driven Art Decoded by Thoma Foundation X Blanton Museum of Art an exhibition of digital art that uses coding, data or AI to interact with museum visitors, was covered by The New York Times. As associate curator of modern and contemporary art at the Saint Louis Art Museum, Klemm oversaw Currents, a long-running series commissioning new work by living artists and the New Media Series, dedicated to single-channel video. She also co-organized The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century with the Baltimore Museum of Art. The international touring exhibition examined mass culture, celebrity, branding and artistic production through a collaborative, multimedia exhibition that integrated local partnerships and community engagement into its exploration of hip hop’s impact on contemporary art and culture. “I am looking forward to becoming part of Pittsburgh’s remarkable arts community and to work alongside the museum’s talented team to build exhibitions, programs and collaborations that illuminate the enduring significance of Warhol’s work while supporting contemporary artists who continue to expand and reimagine Warhol’s legacy in our present moment,” Klemm said. Klemm received a BA in art history and visual arts with a concentration in printmaking from Sarah Lawrence College, a MA in art history from Courtauld Institute of Art and a PhD in art history from the University of Chicago.

The Andy Warhol Museum Located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the place of Andy Warhol’s birth, The Andy Warhol Museum holds the largest collection of Warhol’s artworks and archival materials and is one of the most comprehensive single-artist museums in the world. The Warhol is one of the four Carnegie Museums. Additional information about The Warhol is available at warhol.org. The Warhol receives state arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency; and The Heinz Endowments. Further support is provided by the Allegheny Regional Asset District. Carnegie Museums Established in 1895 by Andrew Carnegie, Carnegie Museums is a collection of four distinctive museums: Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Carnegie Science Center, and The Andy Warhol Museum. The museums reach more than 1.4 million people a year through exhibitions, educational programs, outreach activities, and special events. Copyright © Carnegie Museums, All rights reserved. You opted into a Carnegie Museums press list. The Andy Warhol Museum warhol.org #warholmuseum#miltonfineart#fineartmagazineblog.blogspot.com#sunstormfineartmagazine.com #artfunpop#artfunnow#artfunhappy#artfuntoday

The African Film Festival NY, SoundTrack to a ~Coup d" Etat~. screen at Snug Harbor, Staten Island NY, Thursday July 16, 7:30

Kick off the summer with AFF at our first outdoor screening of the season! Join us this Thursday at Snug Harbor for a special screening of the award-winning Soundtrack to a Coup d'État at 7:30 PM, preceded by a live jazz performance by Craig Harris. THU, JULY 16 AT 7:30PM 'Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat' by Johan Grimonprez Snug Harbor - South Meadow 1000 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, NY 10301 United Nations, 1960: The Global South ignites a political earthquake, jazz musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach storm the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe, and the U.S. State Department sends jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to Congo to deflect attention from the CIA-backed coup. In this gripping essay film, director Johan Grimonprez traces the collision of African politics and American jazz, revealing the forces behind the 1961 assassination of Congo's leader Patrice Lumumba. Through eyewitness accounts, government memos, speeches, and a rich soundtrack of jazz icons, ‘Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat’ examines colonial history in a story whose political resonance remains strikingly relevant today. Watch the trailer here The screening will be preceded by a live jazz performance by Craig Harris! SUN, JULY 19 2026 AT 2PM 'Rediscovering Fanon' by Rico Speight The Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space 2537 Broadway at 95th Street New York, NY 10025 Rediscovering Fanon is an independent feature documentary that explores the life, work, and enduring legacy of Frantz Fanon, the Martinican psychiatrist, philosopher, and revolutionary whose writings transformed global conversations about racism, colonialism, decolonization, and human liberation. Combining interviews, archival materials, music, and contemporary political reflection, the film demonstrates the continuing relevance of Fanon's ideas in the twenty-first century.

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