![Posters for Peace exhibition on display at Latvian National Library](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2024/07/thumbnail/1/o54t.png)
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![Posters for Peace exhibition on display at Latvian National Library](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2024/07/thumbnail/1/o54t.png)
![New season opens soon at Rothko Center, Daugavpils](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2024/05/thumbnail/1/nrn2.jpg)
Friday, May 31 will see the Summer exhibition season officially opened in the courtyard of the Rothko Museum in Daugavpils.
![Rīga Photography Biennial's exhibits open](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2024/04/thumbnail/1/nj3l.jpg)
On April 18, the Riga Photography Biennial was opened, addressing existential issues such as the impact of technology on human beings, human-nature relations, and the informative code of the contemporary image.
![New contemporary art essays explore 'Decolonial Ecologies'](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2024/04/thumbnail/1/ni54.jpg)
The Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (LCCA) has published a new collection of essays titled “Decolonial Ecologies”, which brings together artistic explorations of ecology and socio-political change in the Baltic region today.
![Wondrous strange Latvian pavilion open at Venice Biennale](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2024/04/thumbnail/1/nhx9.jpg)
The Latvian pavilion at the 60th international art exhibition of the Venice Biennale was opened this week.
![Harassment reports come from Art Academy, too](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2024/03/thumbnail/1/n9gi.jpg)
Sexual remarks, harassment, and more serious offenses have also been reported at other universities. Latvian Television (LTV) has received complaints about Andrejs Ameļkovičs, an assistant professor at the Latvian Academy of Art, who has already been suspended from his post previously. At the Academy of Culture, a lecturer has been dismissed after complaints from students, Latvian Television reported March 13.
![Rothko Museum hosts annual graphic art symposium](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2024/03/thumbnail/1/n7uf.jpg)
From March 8 to 22, the Rothko Museum in Daugavpils will host the twelfth International Latgale Graphic Art Symposium, which will bring together artists from Poland, France, Croatia, Italy, Estonia, Latvia, and Taiwan.
![Three for the Weekend: Art, Art, Art](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2022/02/thumbnail/1/h90z.jpg)
It's finally March. Spring and art go hand in hand, so here are some artsy events to spend your weekend at.
![Spring season beckons at Rothko Museum in Daugavpils](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2024/02/thumbnail/1/n433.jpg)
On March1, the Rothko Museum in Daugavpils will open its all-Latvian spring exhibition season featuring four exciting visual projects.
![Photo exhibitions to mark two years of war in Ukraine](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2024/02/thumbnail/1/n3h5.jpg)
A new photography exhibition in Rīga will mark two years since the start of Russia's war against Ukraine.
![Three Exhibitions for the Weekend in Latvia](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2024/02/thumbnail/1/n1wp.png)
For this weekend, we offer a selection of three exhibits of different styles for you to view.
![Latvian 'September' photo gets Sony World Photography prize](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2024/02/thumbnail/2/mzte.jpg)
Latvian Viktors Rimarevs has received the Baltic Regional award in Sony World Photography Awards 2024 contest, Sony representatives in Latvia said.
![Art exhibition to explore 'otherness'](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2024/02/thumbnail/1/mzgs.jpg)
The Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (LCCA) will open an exhibition and public program titled 'All’s Good
Between Us' on February 14.
Between Us' on February 14.
!['Kidnapped by Russia' art exhibit set up near Russian Embassy in Latvia](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2024/02/thumbnail/2/my7o.jpg)
At the same time as the conference in Rīga on Thursday, which sought solutions for the recovery of Ukrainian children deported to Russia, an art object “Kidnapped by Russia” was created in Kronvalda Park opposite the Embassy of Russia – a distressed playground in barbed wire.
![Contemporary art center could get a new home](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2024/02/thumbnail/2/my3l.jpg)
The "KIM?" contemporary art center could soon have a permanent home in Rīga at Hanzas iela 22, after the Latvian Saeima expressed its willingness February 1 to hand over suitable premises free of charge
![Riga Bourse represented in Director's Choice art book series](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2024/01/thumbnail/1/mrvw.jpg)
The Riga Stock Exchange art museum "Riga Bourse" has the honor to represent Latvia and the Baltic for the first time in the circles of art institutions in the book series “Director's Choice” of the highly acclaimed London publishing house “Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers”. Latvian Television reports.
![Augmented reality shows Liepāja's war history](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2024/01/thumbnail/1/mqyt.jpg)
What the planes made in Liepāja's Karosta (Naval Port) and the weapons placed in Fort Liepāja looked like can now be seen in an augmented reality program – the mobile app and website “ART+”, TV Kurzeme reported January 3.
![The art of Christmas on display at Latvian Art Academy](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2023/12/thumbnail/1/mne0.jpg)
The annual Art Academy of Latvia student art exhibition, showcasing more than 5,000 works, has opened its doors to visitors and comes with the added incentive that if you see something you like, there is a very good chance you can buy it on the spot.
![Paintings from Rīga Bourse collection on show at Versailles](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2023/12/thumbnail/1/mjy7.jpg)
To mark the 400th anniversary of the Palace of Versailles in France, on November 21, a retrospective exhibition of the French painter Émile Jean-Horace Vernet (1789–1863) was opened at the former royal palace.
![Winter season imminent at Rothko Museum in Daugavpils](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2023/11/thumbnail/1/mied.jpg)
Friday, December will see the Rothko Museum in Daugavpils open its Winter Exhibition Season. The opening ceremony at 16:00 will be followed by a public exhibition tour with the featured artists.
![Peace mural unveiled on Rīga Ukrainian High School](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2023/11/thumbnail/4/mh2u.jpg)
Two women harvesting and a dove – a mural, titled "Daughters of the Sun" has appeared on the facade of the Rīga Ukrainian High School on November 22. The women represent Latvia and Ukraine.
![Baltic Assembly prizewinners announced](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2023/10/thumbnail/1/m4h8.jpg)
The Baltic Assembly Prize in the Arts has been awarded to Estonian artist Peeter Laurits for his outstanding and diverse artistic work and the project ‘Biotopia’, according to a release from the Estonian parliament October 6.
![New attractions and new name at 'Mark Rothko Museum' in Daugavpils](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2023/09/thumbnail/1/m16x.jpg)
At 4 p.m. on Friday, September 29, the Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre (soon to be renamed the 'Rothko Museum'), will unveil No. 2 [Untitled] – a new exhibition of selected artworks from its collection displayed in the gallery space leading up to Mark Rothko’s originals.
![Venice Biennale exhibit comes to Rīga](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2023/09/thumbnail/1/lz3v.jpg)
From September 23 to November 19, the exhibition “We Walked the Earth” – the spectacular Danish pavilion of the Venice Biennale, remade in Rīga – will be displayed in the new exhibition hall “New Hanza Biroji” of the Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art, the exhibition organizers said.
![Rothko center prepares Autumn exhibition season](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2023/08/thumbnail/1/ltrw.jpg)
Friday, 8 September will see the Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre launch its autumn exhibition season with an awards ceremony for the Martinsons Award 2023.
![Acclaimed ceramicist has solo exhibition in Rīga](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2023/08/thumbnail/1/lppo.jpg)
From August 18, the "Rīga Art Space" (Rīgas Mākslas telpa) gallery will host a solo exhibition named "Terra" by artist Sanita Ābelīte, which will open the program of the 4th Latvian Ceramics Biennale, representatives of the exhibition hall have announced.
![Huge 'puzurs' on display in Sigulda](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2023/08/thumbnail/4/lp56.jpg)
Around 100,000 straws have been incorporated in a giant 'puzurs' made by Ārija Bērze, which will decorate the great stage of the cultural center Siguldas Devons in August.
![Rīga and Helsinki in 3D images viewed at Āgenskalns market](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2023/08/thumbnail/1/lnjy.jpg)
In Rīga, Āgenskalns Market 'Youth Station', the personal exhibition of the Finnish artist Juho Poesiloe Pöysti has been unveiled. It displays 3D photographs taken in Rīga and Helsinki, Latvian Radio reported August 7.
![Sabīne Vernere art exhibition opens this week](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2023/08/thumbnail/1/lnjv.jpg)
A new exhibition opens this week at the Latvian Artists' Union (LMS) gallery in Rīga. Sabīne Vernere's exhibition “Aklā zona” (Blind zone) will be unveiled on August 10 at 19:00.
![Smiltene to host contemporary art summer school](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2023/07/thumbnail/1/lkg7.jpg)
This year’s Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (LCCA) annual summer school is entitled “Care of Earth, Care of People” and will focus on issues that address the changes needed in different systems to promote inclusion and sustainability in the broadest sense.
!['Salt of Freedom' project wants your stories for Ukraine](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2023/07/thumbnail/1/lk8y.jpg)
Latvia-based Ukrainian artist Daria Kalashnikova has issued a call for stories about 'freedom' as part of her latest project, titled 'The Salt of Freedom'.
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