NEWPORT, RI.- During the Gilded Age, America’s wealthy elite looked to the past even as they embraced the future. The same people who engineered a modern nation, with its fast transportation and mass manufacturing, also emulated the aristocracy of a bygone era, especially of France. Their newly built mansions, financed with industrial fortunes and equipped with the latest technology like electricity and telephones, were modeled after centuries-old French palaces and decorated with furnishings, artworks and designs lifted from 17th- and 18th-century Versailles. Nowhere can this be better seen than in Newport. The Gilded Age’s most fashionable summer resort still boasts many of the finest houses from that era, preserved by private owners as well as nonprofit organizations such as The Preservation Society of Newport County. On November 6 and 7, the Preservation Society ... More
LONDON.- The V&A will double the size of its Gilbert Galleries in March 2026, unveiling seven newly transformed rooms dedicated to one of the world’s most dazzling collections of decorative arts. The free galleries will showcase masterpieces of silver, enamel, gold boxes, stone and glass micromosaics — including a monumental table-top made by Michelangelo Barberi for Tsar Nicholas I of Russia, newly revealed after pioneering laser cleaning by V&A conservators. The transformation of the original gallery space will create the museum’s first double aspect gallery, overlooking both the John Madejski Garden and the Exhibition Road Quarter. The new gallery spaces have been achieved by incorporating adjacent former offices, re-opening historic brick archways and embracing natural sustainability through the reinstatement of original Victorian solar shading. As the only permanent V&A galleries devoted to a private collection the Gilbert ... More
Tiffany & Co. finely carved rosewood Chippendale style musical library clock, surmounted by a pagoda-form top with carved finials and foliate detail, on paw feet. Estimate: $10,000-$25,000.
ABERDEEN, MISS.- A Tiffany & Company musical library clock, a rare Baltimore Pillar (or “Mint Julep”) cabinet, a monumental classical carved tester bed and a Thomas Brooks signed étagère are a few of the expected top lots is Stevens Auction Company’s Premier Autumn Auction slated for Saturday, October 18th, online and live in the Stevens gallery located at 129 East Commerce Street in Aberdeen. The sale will get underway promptly at 10am Central Time. Offered will be approximately 400 lots of 19th century American and European furniture, Southern decorative arts, fine art (oil paintings and prints), clocks and timepieces, Tiffany and period lighting, Persian rugs and textiles, porcelain and decorative accessories and estate jewelry items, mostly from private collections across the South but also consigned from historic estates in Memphis, Tenn. (the Hunt-Phelan Mansion in Memphis in particular), as well as Alabama. “This auction showcases some of the best 19th century ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie's announced The Edlis | Neeson Collection, an exemplary group of post-war and contemporary art and design that will headline Christie's 21st Century Evening Sale in New York on Wednesday, November 19, 2025. The collection hails from the legendary collectors and renowned philanthropists Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson, presenting important examples by many of the late twentieth century's most coveted names, including Andy Warhol, Ed Ruscha, Diego Giacometti, Richard Prince, George Condo and John Currin. The selection featured within the 21st Century Evening Sale and Post-War and Contemporary Day Sale is expected to realize more than $40 million, with additional works scheduled to be offered in December and throughout 2026. Sara Friedlander, Christie's Deputy Chairman of Post-War and Contemporary Art, remarks, “We are thrilled to be entrusted with The Edlis | Neeson Collection, an exquisite array of best-in-class art and objects from the post-war period's most important artis ... More
Installation view of Gilbert & George: 21ST CENTURY PICTURES. BAGRAVE (2020). Photo: Mark Blower. Courtesy of the Hayward Gallery.
LONDON.- The Hayward Gallery will present Gilbert & George: 21ST CENTURY PICTURES, a landmark exhibition of art by the pioneering London-based artists (7 Oct 2025 – 11 Jan 2026). The presentation highlights Gilbert & George’s evolution over the past 25 years, exploring how technology has made their reflections of today’s society bigger and bolder than ever before. Transforming the space with over 60 floor-to-ceiling installations, the artists will debut new pictures alongside acclaimed pictures in a larger-than-life journey through the modern world as they see it. Gilbert & George are iconic artists, epitomised by their monumental commitment to being ‘living sculptures’ spanning the last five decades. Inspired by our modern world, they act as visual archaeologists of our times by capturing elements of our changing society. From newspaper headlines to road signs, postcards and overheard conversations, the artists blend images and text from everyday ... More
Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln), Signature Sheriff Hat from The Walking Dead (AMC 2010-2022, Season 1).
DALLAS, TX.- This Halloween, Heritage Auctions and AMC Networks offer fans of The Walking Dead Universe a truly once-in-a-lifetime thrill: the chance to own a piece of one of the most popular franchises in television history. The Walking Dead Universe Auction, taking place October 6 through November 1, features more than 1,000 lots from all 11 seasons of the groundbreaking The Walking Dead series and each of its acclaimed spinoffs, including Fear the Walking Dead, The Walking Dead: Dead City and The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, among others. This event encompasses the full scope of the franchise's storytelling and production, bringing together a staggering range of iconic on-screen props, hero costumes, vehicles, weapons, set pieces and prosthetics that defined the series' post-apocalyptic world. "This auction is a celebration of The Walking Dead Universe's incredible legacy and devoted global fanbase," says Rob Fox, Executive Vice President of Production for AMC Networks and AMC Studios. "Partnering ... More
John R. Shannon, [¡Three Amigos! production photograph, Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, and Martin Short], 1986. Lorne Michaels Collection. Harry Ransom Center.
AUSTIN, TX.- Beginning this fall, the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin invites visitors to explore the creative legacy of one of television’s most influential producers. Live from New York: The Lorne Michaels Collection opened September 20, 2025, offering an unprecedented look behind the scenes of the early career of Lorne Michaels, his groundbreaking work on Saturday Night LIve, and his wide array of iconic film and television productions. “UT is a destination for the arts,” said UT Interim President Jim Davis. “We couldn’t be more excited that Lorne Michaels chose the Forty Acres as the home to his iconic work that so many of us watched growing up and that singlehandedly shaped American pop culture. We are equally excited that his collection expands research opportunities for our students. We can’t wait for his exhibit to open and to welcome many more visitors to our campus to see ... More
Detail of the Funerary Monument to Doge Francesco Foscari, before restoration. Sponsors are needed for this historic campaign. Photo: Matteo De Fina.
VENICE.- Save Venice has launched a new conservation project in the Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari: the majestic 15th-century Funerary Monument to Doge Francesco Foscari. Standing along the right wall of the presbytery, adjacent to Titian’s celebrated Assunta, the monument is an elaborate synthesis of stone reliefs, freestanding sculptures, and frescoed draperies. When, on November 4, 1457, Francesco Foscari’s dead body was carried across Venice under a canopy of cloth gold, the whole city came out to see the spectacle. Foscari had been deposed just a few days before, on 22 October 1457, but his sudden illness and death had aroused wide public sympathy. On that cold, Winter morning, the new doge Pasquale Malipiero with the Signoria, the clergy, the scuole grandi, the nobles, and the citizens of Venice, lined up to escort Foscari on his last journey to the Basilica of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari. After the funeral oration by historian ... More
Christie's presents a remarkable ensemble that captures the essence of Art Deco fashion and its visionary creators.
PARIS.- As the Musée des Arts Décoratifs unveils its first monographic exhibition dedicated to Paul Poiret, and Paris prepares to mark the centenary of Art Deco, Christie's presents a remarkable ensemble that captures the essence of Art Deco fashion and its visionary creators. On November 18th, during The Exceptional Sale, an embroidered muff signed by Paul Poiret will be offered for the first time on the market (€30,000–40,000). A central figure in Parisian haute couture, Paul Poiret played a major role in liberating women's bodies. Bold and colorful, his creations often featured Orientalist lines and were chosen for the inaugural issue of the luxurious magazine Modes et Manières d'Aujourd'hui, created in 1912 by Pierre Corrard. Georges Lepape, well known for the covers he later created for Vogue in New York, was selected to illustrate the magazine's first issue. A remarkable set of thirteen original plates by Georges Lepape will be auctioned at Christie's on ... More
Marie Bracquemond, La pêche aux écrevisses (c.1870-80).
LIVERPOOL.- Walker Art Gallery has acquired a painting by Marie Bracquemond (1840-1916) through the generous support of The Rick Mather David Scrase Foundation. La pêche aux écrevisses (Crayfish fishing), painted about 1870-1880, represents the first painting by Marie Bracquemond to enter a public collection in the UK. Marie Bracquemond was one of only three women who participated in the original Impressionist exhibitions, alongside Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot. Art critic Gustave Geffroy famously described these artists as "les trois grandes dames" (the three great ladies) of Impressionism in 1894. The acquisition reinforces the Walker's reputation as a gallery which has historically celebrated women artists and ensures that the stories of pioneering women artists continue to be told. In her early career, Bracquemond exhibited at the prestigious Paris Salon and studied art under the Neoclassical painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. She later became a copyist at the Louvre where she met Félix ... More
Stan Douglas, Overture: In which Convicted Brigand Captain Macheath is Transported to the West Indies Where He will be Impressed into Indentured Labour, 2024.
LONDON.- Victoria Miro is presenting Stan Douglas’ sixth solo exhibition with the gallery, which features the European premiere of the Canadian artist’s multi-channel video installation, Birth of a Nation, and works from a new photographic series, The Enemy of All Mankind: Nine Scenes from John Gay’s Polly. Since the late-1980s, Stan Douglas has examined complex intersections of narrative, fact and fiction while simultaneously scrutinising the media he employs, technology’s role in image making and its influence on our understanding of reality. This exhibition marks the European premiere of Birth of a Nation, Douglas’ new multi channel video installation that confronts D.W. Griffith’s controversial 1915 film The Birth of a Nation, a technically groundbreaking but deeply racist work that exalts white supremacy. Griffith’s ... More
Installation view. Photo: Matheus José Maria (Sesc SP).
SAO PAULO.- Extended through March 29, 2026, at Sesc 24 de Maio, HIP-HOP 80’sp—São Paulo na Onda do Break (HIP-HOP 80’sp—São Paulo on the Break Wave) invites visitors on an immersive journey into the origins and explosive rise of hip-hop in 1980s São Paulo.More than an exhibition, it is an encounter with a cultural movement that transformed the city’s streets into spaces of art, resistance, and community expression. Curated collectively by OSGEMEOS, Rooneyoyo O Guardião, KL Jay (legendary DJ of Racionais MC's), Thaíde, pioneering artists Sharylaine and Rose MC, and b-boy ALAM Beat, the show gathers over 3,000 pieces from personal collections—including those of Nelson Triunfo and Electric Boogies—and from major international archives. The selection bridges local memories with the global roots of hip-hop, revealing how the movement’s energy was adapted, reinvented, and celebrated in Brazil. Highlights include rare photographs by Martha Cooper, whose work docum ... More
Marc Chagall (1887-1985), Maternité sur fond bleu, 1976. Estimate: 460 000 - 560 000 €.
PARIS.- The Selected 20/21 auction will gather a curated selection of masterpieces, chosen to highlight the vitality and diversity of modern and contemporary artistic creation. Among the highlights of this second edition will be Cock’s Comb (1961) by Alexander Calder (estimate: €300,000 – 500,000), a painted sheet metal sculpture that embodies the light and poetic power of the American artist’s celebrated stabiles. Alongside it, Marc Chagall’s rare canvas Maternité sur fond bleu (1976) (estimate: €460,000 – 560,000) will unfold the lyrical dimension of the artist’s pictorial language. The auction will also feature a major triptych by Jean Hélion, titled Le Jugement dernier des choses (estimate: €300,000 – 600,000), a powerful testimony to the artist’s modernity in the 1970s, as well as a bronze by Pierre Soulages, a painting by Fernando Botero, and works by leading names such as Simon Hantaï, Robert Combas, Serge ... More
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Mami Kataoka and Arja Miller appointed Head Curators of Helsinki Biennial 2027 HELSINKI.- The Head Curators of the 2027 Helsinki Biennial are internationally acclaimed Curator Mami Kataoka and Finnish museum professional and contemporary art expert Arja Miller. The major international visual arts event will take place for the fourth time in summer 2027. Built with a big heart for a broad audience, the biennial is founded on the unique connection between art, nature, and the maritime city. Mami Kataoka is the Director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo. Her curatorial work emphasises social themes, intercultural dialogue, and the role of art in exploring global structures and the equilibrium of fundamental cosmic elements. Kataoka brings diverse perspectives and an extensive network from Asia and beyond to the Helsinki Biennial, opening new opportunities for Finnish art. Kataoka’s previous roles include Chief Curator at the Tokyo Opera ... More
Aimee Ng appointed Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator of The Frick Collection NEW YORK, NY.- The Frick Collection today announced the appointment of Dr. Aimee Ng as the museum’s next Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator. She will assume the post starting in November. Ng currently serves as the Frick’s John Updike Curator and has been an instrumental member of the Curatorial Department since 2015. Throughout the institution’s recently completed renovation and enhancement project, she has played a pivotal role, co-curating the display of the permanent collection at the museum’s temporary home, Frick Madison, as well as the reinstallation of the galleries in its revitalized historic buildings at 1 East 70th Street. Ng succeeds Xavier F. Salomon, who has been Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator since 2014, in addition to serving as Deputy Director since 2020. Salomon is departing the Frick in November to become Director of the Calouste Gulbenkian ... More
Jonathas de Andrade centers Jangada Sailors in first solo show at Nara Roesler SAO PAULO.- In Jonathas de Andrade: Permanência Relâmpago [Permanent Lightning Strike], Jonathas De Andrade’s (b. 1982, Maceió, Brazil) first solo exhibition at Nara Roesler São Paulo, the artist presents a new body of works centered on the Jangada Sailors and canoeists of Alagoas – figures whose lives and labor are intertwined with the sea along the coast and the São Francisco River, in the hinterlands – and their relationship to the colors and abstraction found in sails and boats. Curated by José Esparza Chong Cuy, executive director and chief curator at Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, Permanência Relâmpago [Permanent Lightning Strike] encompasses three sets of works within this universe that Jonathas de Andrade has been devoting himself to in recent months. Among them are pieces developed from the artist’s ongoing research ... More
Tate launches new initiative to bring nation's art collection to schools LONDON.- Tate today launched Tate Schools, a new online platform for teachers to bring the nation’s art collection into classrooms across Britain. This bespoke new website offers free resources for teachers and students to use in their lessons, inspired by the world-class art in Tate’s collection. Pupils from Orkney to Penzance can now take part in activities and challenges featuring works from Tate’s national collection to help encourage confidence and self-expression. The platform’s development has been guided by teachers’ input to equip schools with the tools they need to bring art to the classroom. Director of Tate Maria Balshaw said “Art can be transformative for children, improving visual literacy, empathy, and creative thinking. But we know that teachers’ time and resources are stretched thinner than ever, and that makes it increasingly difficult to take school trips to museums ... More
Finest National Bank of Egypt pound note, once thought to bring prosperity, emerges at Heritage DALLAS, TX.- A rare Egyptian bank note thought by some to bring prosperity will find a new home with a lucky bidder after it is sold in Heritage’s Oct. 16 World Paper Money Signature® Auction — a 500-lot event that features strong offerings of Netherlands Indies and Surinamese notes, as well as a bounty of choice material from numerous other countries, including the Netherlands, Panama, Curacao and Canada. The Egypt National Bank of Egypt 1 Pound 5.1.1899 Pick 2b PMG Choice Very Fine 35 features two camels in its obverse vignette. This note is exceedingly rare in high grades, and the example offered in this auction is the finest among just 23 in the PMG Population Report. “The iconography of the two camels on the 1899 1 Pound is quintessentially Egyptian,” says Dustin Johnston, Senior Vice President of Numismatics at Heritage Auctions. “This note was favored by Egyptians as a token of prosperity in the household that owns one, rumored to be sought after because of the parab ... More
David Zwirner Los Angeles debuts Josh Smith's kinetic new canvases LOS ANGELES, CA.- David Zwirner is presenting Destiny, an exhibition of new paintings by Josh Smith, on view at the gallery’s 606 N Western Avenue location in Los Angeles. This is Smith’s first solo presentation in Los Angeles. For Destiny, Smith has made a series of paintings that continue his long-running dialogue with the grim reaper, a figure that has appeared in his work for years in countless guises. In these new canvases, the reaper is set loose in New York City, riding a bicycle through familiar streets, cutting past landmarks like the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty. The once faceless symbol of death now has eyes and stares back at you, tangled in the swirl of the city. It is funny, unsettling, and alive. Smith’s paintings are built out of seemingly contradictory parts: loose but controlled, casual but deliberate, improvised yet tightly bound. He uses the bikes almost ... More
Kemper Art Museum presents Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection ST. LOUIS, MO.- In the Kemper Art Museum’s largest seasonal exhibition to date, Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection highlights more than eighty works created by pioneering women artists in the last eight decades, including Andrea Bowers, Suzanne Jackson, Julie Mehretu, Howardena Pindell, Joan Mitchell, Lorna Simpson, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Sarah Sze, Kay WalkingStick, and Mary Weatherford, among many others. Featuring a wide spectrum of artworks—including painting, sculpture, installation, textile, beadwork, and ceramics—the exhibition emphasizes dialogues between artists who have circumvented and broken conventions in art-making by embracing craft techniques, new technologies, conceptual inquiries, inventive methods, and uncommon materials. Making Their Mark is organized into six sections that illustrate ... More
Awakening Histories reveals deep ties between Australian First Nations Peoples and Indonesian Makassans MELBOURNE.- Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA is proud to present Awakening Histories, a landmark exhibition opening from 4 October – 6 December 2025 that explores the deep connections between the First Nations Peoples of Northern Australia and the Makassan seafarers of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. The exhibition brings together 27 artists and collectives from Australia, Indonesia, China and the Philippines, including seven new commissions, alongside significant works from national and international collections, honouring a shared history of migration, trade and cultural exchange that spans more than a millennium. “Foregrounding Indigenous sovereignty and ocean-centred storytelling, Awakening Histories offers a powerful counter-narrative to Eurocentric notions of ‘discovery’ and colonisation, says Dr Rebecca Coates, Curatorium member ... More
Helen Marten unveils Treatise of a Coat at Sadie Coles HQ LONDON.- Helen Marten exhibits a distinct series of new wall-based works at Sadie Coles HQ Bury Street gallery this October. Each work is a layered sequence of drawing within painting and harnesses a dazzling multitude of mark making. Presented as a holistic architecture of six objects, the exhibition immerses the viewer in an ecliptic environment and is presented in tandem with the artist’s new monographic publication of collected works on paper of the same title (published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, with texts by Felix Bernstein, Eve Esfandiari-Denney, Claire Gilman and Elfriede Jelinek). Treatise of a Coat has multiple physical and linguistic folds. The title is a forcing of the homonymic similarities of “coat”: the literal jacket that is unfurled to expose the naked and unruly shame of human forms; the fur or hair of an animal; the verb-function ... More
Auckland Art Gallery opens New Zealand's first solo exhibition of Louise Bourgeois AUCKLAND.- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki is presenting the first solo exhibition in Aotearoa New Zealand of Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010), one of the most intriguing and influential artists of the last century. Louise Bourgeois: In Private View brings together a selection of works from an international private collection, exhibited publicly for the first time. The exhibition spans over six decades of Bourgeois’s career, from early paintings made in 1945 to a fabric work from the final year of her life. Auckland Art Gallery Senior Curator, Global Contemporary Art, Natasha Conland, says, “Bourgeois remains a defining figure in late twentieth-century art with the ripples of her influence still being felt today. She is known for her highly personal and idiosyncratic sculptural practice which has lent her a special place in the history of art.” “The works in the exhibition are from ... More
From isolation to vision: Sveva Caetani's 'Forma e Frammento' arrives at MAXXI ROME.- Titled "Forma e Frammento," this is the first retrospective in Italy dedicated to Sveva Caetani (Rome, 1917 – Vernon, Canada, 1994), on view at Spazio Extra MAXXI from October 3, 2025, to January 4, 2026. The exhibition, curated by Chiara Ianeselli, features over 200 works, documents, and archival materials, reconstructing the artistic and personal journey of this understudied figure and restoring the complexity and depth of her story. The exhibition explores the many facets of her work —painterly, literary, and spiritual— combining fragments of her life and imagination. Alongside the artistic production, biographical, sometimes dramatic, details emerge as essential keys to understanding the deep roots of her expression. Sveva was the daughter of Leone Caetani, one of the leading Islamic scholars of the twentieth century, and a descendant of the noble ... More
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On a day like today, American photographer Irving Penn died
October 07, 2009. Irving Penn (June 16, 1917 - October 7, 2009) was an American photographer most known for his fashion photography, portraits, and still lifes. Penn's career included work at Vogue magazine, and independent advertising work for clients including Issey Miyake, and Clinique. His work has been exhibited internationally, and continues to inform the art of photography even after his death. In this image: A collector, left, makes a comment as a Christie's auction house worker holds Irving Penn's classic image of Jean Patchet that appeared at the Vogue magazine' cover in 1950, during a presentation in London, Friday May 13, 2005.
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