Max Cole, Pale Horse II, 1995, acrylic on linen, 68 x 80 inches.
SANTA FE, NM.- The work of Max Cole feels elemental. Like the clean white bone of a deer found on a trail, a few chips of ancient mosaic uncovered buried beneath a street, or the crystalline crust of salt on the shore of a drying lake, these paintings seem composed of the essentials, of what is left behind when all noise and complication is stripped away. Pale Horse presents a selection of Max Cole’s work from over the course of her career as an artist, with paintings from the seventies through the twenty-teens. While Cole had begun exhibiting her work earlier, it was in the early to mid-seventies that she began working with raw canvas in earnest, and as she says, “realized that I needed to stop exhibiting completely and shut myself in the studio away from all distractions so I could define my direction, which I did for about two years.” Cole emerged from this time with a direction that she has carried forward for five decades, continuing, as she puts it, her artistic “search of u ... More
BERN.- Between 12 September 2025 and 11 January 2026, Kunstmuseum Bern is showing the exhibition Kirchner x Kirchner. It features some 65 high-calibre works by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) that have rarely been shown in Switzerland. The artist is one of the most outstanding protagonists of modern art. With this exhibition, Kunstmuseum Bern is recalling the most extensive retrospective in the artist’s lifetime, which was held in 1933 in Kunsthalle Bern, and which he himself curated. For the first time, Kirchner x Kirchner places the artist as the curator of his own work at the centre, and shows how he interpreted and presented some works from his artistic career through deliberate juxtapositions and reworkings. One highlight is the reunification of Sunday in the Alps. Scene at the Well from the collection of Kunstmuseum Bern and its pendant, Mountain Peasants on ... More
Installation view of they teach us to be sensitive and to trust our instincts issi / awi / deer, 2025
NEW YORK, NY.- The acclaimed interdisciplinary artist Jeffrey Gibson has transformed the iconic niches of the Museum’s Fifth Avenue facade with a series of four large-scale sculptures that explore the metamorphic relationships between all living beings and the environment. A member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent, Gibson draws from his distinctive style fusing worldviews and imagery with abstraction, text, and color to create these new figurative works cast in bronze. On view through June 9, 2026, The Genesis Facade Commission: Jeffrey Gibson, The Animal That Therefore I Am marks Gibson’s first major exploration of this material at a monumental scale. "Jeffrey Gibson is one of the most remarkable artists of his generation and a pioneering figure within the field of native and Indigenous art," said Max Hollein, The Met’s Marina Kellen French Director and Chief Executive Officer. "These new works are based on his signature use of unconventional ... More
Gosotei Hirosada (Sadahiro I) 1826?-1865. Actor Sawamura Kito II as Daughter Koito (Musume Koito, Sawamura Kito). chuban tate-e 9 7/8 by 7 1/4 in., 25.2 by 18.5 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Scholten Japanese Art announces their gallery presentation, DRAMA QUEENS & KABUKI KINGS: Stars of Edo and Osaka, an exhibition of approximately fifty 19th century woodblock prints and drawings. The exhibition focuses on portraits of stars and superstars of the kabuki world, including several who expanded their preeminence on the stage by going on tour—traveling back and forth to the major metropolitan arenas of Edo, Osaka and Kyoto, and other regional theaters. These kabuki luminaries enjoyed the adoration of their loyal audience who formed fan clubs (hiiki-renchu, or renju) that frequently and strategically fanned the flames of professional rivalries between actors and their clans, with occasional overzealous fandom that resulted in fiery confrontations and even street fights. Kabuki was the theater of the people, and images related to the bombastic ... More
BOULDER, COLO.- Collectors of ancient art and history will soon have the chance to acquire a remarkable artifact when Artemis Fine Arts opens its “Pre-Columbian | Ancient | Ethnographic” auction. Among the carefully curated pieces is a rare Chinese Six Dynasties pottery kneeling warrior figure, estimated at $2,500 to $3,500. Dating to approximately 221–589 CE, the pottery warrior exemplifies the artistry and cultural practices of China’s Six Dynasties era. Modeled in a dynamic stance, the figure kneels on one leg with arms raised, as if frozen in mid-action. Once likely brandishing a weapon, the warrior is distinguished by almond-shaped eyes, a finely incised mustache, and a stern expression beneath a fitted cap. His belted tunic, still showing faint traces of original pigment, reveals the skill of early c ... More
LONDON.- Christie's Prints and Multiples and Contemporary Edition: London online sales are now open for browsing on christies.com and on view at King Street, London, until 25 and 30 September respectively. This season's Prints and Multiples sale presents works by some of the most influential artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. Highlights include Erich Heckel's Paar (1910, estimate: £70,000–100,000), a rare German Expressionist woodcut and one of only five known impressions in the red-and-black colourway, alongside Joan Miró's Makemono (1950–55, estimate: £10,000–15,000), a monumental 10-metre lithograph inspired by Asian scrolls. The auction also features works inspired by iconic imagery, in Andy Warhol's Details of Renaissance Paintings, Sandro Botticelli (Birth of Venus, 1482) (1984, estimate: £60,000–80,000) and Eva Mudocci ... More
Woman’s Ceremonial Skirt (Tapis), Indonesia, Sumatra, Lampung, 16th–17th century. Cotton and silk; warp-faced plain weave, warp ikat, and embroidery. Yale University Art Gallery, Robert J. Holmgren and Anita E. Spertus Collection, Promised gift of Thomas Jaffe, B.A. 1971
NEW HAVEN, CONN.- The Yale University Art Gallery is presenting Nusantara: Six Centuries of Indonesian Textiles, a sweeping exhibition that celebrates the elaborate textile heritage of Indonesia and explores the ancient interisland links found in this vast maritime region. Presenting more than 100 examples of unparalleled craftsmanship and artistic innovation, the exhibition offers a singular opportunity to dive deep into the cultural and historical significance of one of the finest collections of Indonesian textiles in the Western Hemisphere. The wide array of textiles from the 14th to the 20th century displayed in the exhibition are drawn from the Gallery’s ... More
Steve McQueen, Occupied City - photo: Rijksmuseum/Jordi Huisman.
AMSTERDAM.- The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam presents a 34-hour version of the British director and artist Steve McQueen’s epic film Occupied City. McQueen, who won an Oscar for his film 12 Years a Slave, has created two interlocking portraits: a door-to-door excavation of the occupation during World War II that still haunts the city today, and a vivid journey through the years of the pandemic. One version of the extraordinary work, Occupied City (still), will be shown continuously on the south façade of the museum from 12 September 2025 to 25 January 2026. In the auditorium of the Rijksmuseum a version of the 34-hour film with sound and voice-over will be shown during the museum’s opening hours. The film covers more than 2000 addresses and is based on Atlas of an Occupied City. Amsterdam 1940-1945, by the historian and filmmaker Bianca Stigter. The presentation coincides with Amsterdam’s 750th anniversary and the commemoration of 80 years of liberation. "T ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace is presenting an exhibition of work by photographer Paolo Roversi at its 508 West 25th Street gallery in New York. Opening on September 12, during New York Fashion Week, and running through October 25, this focused retrospective will feature works produced by Roversi between the early 1990s and the present, highlighting the artist’s relationships with his many collaborators in the fashion industry. Roversi’s upcoming exhibition with Pace in New York—his first solo show with the gallery since 2019—will present an overview of his storied career through a selection of photographs created over the past 35 years.“Every portrait is a meeting, an exchange, a mutual intimate confession,” Roversi has said of his work. The show will shed light on Roversi’s legacy as the artist behind some of the most iconic fashion images of our time. Drawing inspiration from the work of August Sander, Robert Frank, and Diane Arbus, Roversi developed a distinctive style th ... More
LONDON.- A landmark auction of Exceptional Paintings from The Personal Collection of Prince & Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan at Christie's London on 28 October will present the market with the unsurpassed opportunity to acquire masterpieces of Indian and Persian painting. Comprising 95 works, the sale features the paintings that Prince Sadruddin and Princess Catherine Aga Khan chose to live with at their home, Chateau de Bellerive, on the shores of Lake Geneva. This is truly a personal collection that reflects their impeccable taste and discerning eye for quality, rarity and beauty. The group includes some of the most important examples of their kind in any collection in the world, many having been studied and published by leading scholars of the 20th century and featured in ground-breaking exhibitions. With estimates ranging from £2,000 to £1,000,000, this personal collection is expected to realise in excess of £8 million. Sara Plumbly, Christie's Head of Islamic & Indian Art ... More
LONDON.- Cristea Roberts Gallery is presenting a major solo exhibition by Idris Khan (b. 1978), the first dedicated to his editions, which traces four years of practice up to the present day. The exhibition, which is also the artist’s first show with the gallery, comprises new prints and wall mounted acrylic reliefs, comprised of layered musical notation and texts that appear to float, suspended in time. For the last four years, Idris Khan has taken a markedly sculptural approach to printmaking, printing on multiple layers of acrylic to produce abstract editions. After the setting sun, 2025, a new series of six wall-mounted reliefs, exemplify this technique. This body of work, which is exhibited at the gallery for the very first time, is inspired by Soleil Couchant, 1914–1926, a painting of water lilies at dusk by the Impressionist Claude Monet (1840 – 1926), housed in the Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris. Each edition contains three layers of acrylic printed with ... More
Silvestro dei Gherarducci. Ascension. Gradual of San Michele a Murano. Italy, Florence, ca. 1392–1399. Morgan MS M.653.3. Single Leaf, 590 x 400 mm. The Morgan Library & Museum, Photography by Graham S. Haber.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Morgan Library & Museum will present Sing a New Song: The Psalms in Medieval Art and Life, the first exhibition of its kind devoted to the importance of the Psalms throughout medieval art, prayer, and everyday life. On view from September 12, 2025, through January 4, 2026, Sing a New Song traces the impact of the Psalms on people in medieval Europe from the sixth to the sixteenth century, encompassing daily practices and performance, as well as the creation and illumination of Psalters (Books of Psalms). Drawing on five years of scholarly research, the exhibition and accompanying publication take the Psalms out of their established place in religious texts and paint a vibrant picture of the people who used them—men, women, and children—both religious and lay. Psalms are some of the most beloved texts ... More
William Orpen, Ferris Blight St. George, c. 1921. Estimate: €60,000-€80,000.
DUBLIN.- Whyte’s auction of Irish & International art promises to deliver another exciting opportunity for collectors to acquire rare artworks of outstanding quality and enduring value. On Monday 29 September 2025 the auction has 152 lots of Irish & International art valued at €1.2 million. The live auction will take place at the Freemasons Hall, Molesworth Street, Dublin 2 and online at bid.whytes.ie. Viewing takes place at Whyte’s Galleries in Molesworth Street from Monday 22 September to Friday 26 September, 10am to 5pm, Saturday and Sunday 27 & 28 September, 1pm to 5pm and Monday 29 September – day of sale - 10am to 4pm. Bidders and browsers can avail of useful auction features on Whytes.ie such as extra photographs of each work, including in domestic settings, as well the free Art Realizer App allowing you to project pictures to scale on walls to see if a work will suit your home or office; frame sizes and condition notes for every lot are published on our website, and, ... More
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Jesse Mockrin's 'Echo' unveils new paintings inspired by AGO's collection TORONTO.- Channeling the intense drama, scale, and emotion of 17th-century Baroque art, acclaimed American painter Jesse Mockrin presents new and recent works reimagining female figures from myth and the Bible. Extracting details and scenes from historical paintings in the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Collection of European Art, Mockrin’s large-scale multipaneled paintings zoom and crop heroines, propelling their stories out of the past and into the present tense. Shown in dialogue with select works from the AGO’s collection, Jesse Mockrin: Echo opened at the AGO on Sept. 11, 2025. Widely celebrated for her 2020 portrait of Billie Eilish rendered in the style of a Caravaggio painting, Mockrin’s interest in historical oil painting transcends subject matter and is reflected in her meticulous adoption of late 17th-century painting technique, with its highly realistic attention to detail, ... More
Capitain Petzel presents 'It Used to Be,' Ross Bleckner's new solo exhibition BERLIN.- Capitain Petzel is presenting It Used to Be, Ross Bleckner’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. The title of the exhibition implies a contemplation of things past and transitory states – what lingers at the threshold between form and void, presence and absence, of what used to be. It primes us for an experience that is at once elegiac and reflective, exemplary of the artist’s delicate approach to painting and the construction of images. Bleckner often treats organic forms with an optical softness, blurring their edges until they seem to hover in light. These motifs appear as distilled essences, rather than literal studies. Plants in his work often dissolve into luminous bodies or patterned repetitions, their physical specificity replaced by an atmospheric presence. Rain, when it emerges, tends to take on the form of vertical drips, scattered droplets, or hazy veils of paint. ... More
New exhibition at Haus der Kulturen der Welt examines the resurgence of a dark ideology BERLIN.- Around the world, there is a glaring turn towards a dark form of politics. One is reluctant to name it for what all its recognizable signs point to, for fear of accepting the reality that fascism is here and it is everywhere. But delaying this admission does not arrest this growing hydra; it only postpones strategic thinking about how to counter it. The essential processes of recognizing the demonic character of fascism in history have sometimes made it difficult to recognize the demons in the now and the everyday. They take many forms. The exhibition Global Fascisms does not merely seek to trace the historical roots of fascism nor to enumerate the bad men (and a few women) who have come to power in many places during the last decade, but rather to examine this newly resurgent ideological formation’s deeper mechanisms—its claims, actions, aesthetics, affects, ... More
Samson Young 'Pavilion' opens at New Taipei City Art Museum TAIPEI.- Kiang Malingue shared that Samson Young has been invited as the inaugural artist of the New Taipei City Art Museum’s “NTCAM COMMISSION,” presenting the new work Pavilion. The exhibition focuses on the inseparable relationship between humans and technology in a media-saturated present marked by the exponential rise of artificial intelligence, asking how technology reshapes our ways of sensing the world and thinking about the self. The commissioned work looks back to the IBM Pavilion at the 1964 New York World’s Fair, where Charles and Ray Eames produced the multi-screen film THINK. Created at the dawn of computer technology, the work likened computational processes to an expansion of human consciousness, proposing a new way of seeing the world. It revealed both optimism and trust in technology, while reflecting Cold War anxieties about ... More
Philipp Modersohn unveils 'Unclosure,' a new installation at Galerie Guido W. Baudach BERLIN.- In his fifth solo exhibition with Galerie Guido W. Baudach, entitled Unclosure, Philipp Modersohn presents a new multifaceted installation in situ. Starting point is the examination of structures of demarcation and division that can lead to isolation. Possibilities for emancipation from these structures are explored using various everyday objects: a stone that cannot be categorised, a monitor that no longer displays anything and instead reveals its materiality made visible by heating, a room that opens up to an undefined weather event, ... Parallel to the exhibition, the first comprehensive publication on Modersohn's artistic practice, entitled Attitudes of Stone, is being released by Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite publishers, Berlin, edited by Wilma Lukatsch and the Kunstverein Oldenburg. The book contains short poetic and theoretical contributions by authors from various ... More
nora chipaumire selected to create Tate Modern's Infinities Commission in 2026 LONDON.- Tate Modern today announced the second artist to undertake the Infinities Commission, the new annual commission to showcase the limitless experimentation of contemporary art. Each year, an expert panel is asked to select an innovative and boundary-breaking international artist to create a visionary new work for the Tanks, Tate Modern’s unique spaces dedicated to performance, installation and time-based art. This year’s jury has selected Zimbabwean artist, dancer and choreographer nora chipaumire, whose commission will be unveiled in June 2026. Today, Tate also announced that funding for the Commission has been secured for the next decade, enabling it to happen each year until at least 2035. Internationally acclaimed choreographer and performer nora chipaumire is known for her powerful and thought-provoking work that explores identity ... More
Riga Museum to showcase Roche's progressive architecture and graphic design RIGA.- From 13 September to 23 November 2025, the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design in Riga invites to visit the exhibition Courage and Care. Architecture and Design: The Roche Vision, which reveals the Swiss pharmaceutical company’s progressive approach to architecture and graphic design highlighting the shared scientific and cultural values between Switzerland and Latvia. The aim of the exposition is to tell the contemporary viewer how the bold thinking, tolerance and care of the company’s management were directed both towards the development of pharmaceutical science and the creation of its own visual identity – accurate and high-quality. The best professionals were invited to work; architects and graphic designers were given creative freedom and the opportunity to experiment, thus creating a new functional architecture and an unusually diverse graphic ... More
Grazer Kunstverein seeks Artistic Director GRAZ.- Grazer Kunstverein is an internationally recognized institution for contemporary art. Since its founding in 1986, it has developed a distinctive voice within Austria while engaging in active dialogue with international artistic and curatorial practices. Conceived as a site for artistic production, exhibition-making, and mediation, the Kunstverein collaborates with artists from around the world to foster and support compelling artistic practices, while offering audiences sustained engagement with the processes and contexts of contemporary art. Grazer Kunstverein’s current Artistic Director, Tom Engels, will be leaving at the end of December 2025 to take up the position of Director of Kunstverein München. Grazer Kunstverein is now seeking a new Artistic Director (full-time, 40h/week) for a fixed term of four years, to take office on January 1, 2026. The successful candidate ... More
Han Bing's solo exhibition 'Atlas' explores the fragmentary nature of urban life LONDON.- Thaddaeus Ropac London is presenting Atlas, the first-ever exhibition of Han Bing’s work in the UK. Han Bing is recognised for her sensitive yet disruptive paintings that capture the fragmentary textures of her urban surroundings. Spanning the gallery’s ground floor, the exhibition includes new paintings alongside a series of works on paper, executed, as is signature for the artist, on found pages of newspaper. Atlas continues the artist’s exploration of the city as a site of image-making – an ever-shiffing topography where forms collide in vivid and unexpected ways. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue featuring a text by the art historian Doris von Drathen. Based in Paris, Han Bing was born in China and has lived in New York, Los Angeles and Shanghai. Her paintings develop from the visual impressions that she gathers and unconsciously absorbs as she moves ... More
Gabriel Orozco translates music to geometry in new exhibition 'Partituras' NEW YORK, NY.- Marian Goodman Gallery announces Gabriel Orozco: Partituras, on view in New York from 12 September – 25 October 2025. For this exhibition, Orozco will present a new series of work which takes its starting point in music. Having played the piano improvisationally for many years, Orozco compares this practice to drawing in time and space, using sound and acoustics. The Partituras paintings explore the translation of these musical sketches into his distinctive geometric language, creating works that resonate with shifting rhythms and tempos. In her text on the new series, the art historian Briony Fer writes: “if Orozco’s unlikely course in this new body of work explores a relationship to music, it is, of course, not in search of the spiritual in art. Instead, he turns this mythic origin on its head to break the musical score down into its most basic material units; instead ... More
The Gund receives major promised gift and $1 million endowment GAMBIER, OH.- The Gund at Kenyon College announced a promised gift that consists of 72 works by long-time supporters David Horvitz and Francie Bishop-Good. The gift includes works by contemporary artists, notably Sophie Calle, Vija Celmins, Ann Hamilton, Julie Mehretu, Lorna Simpson, and Mickalene Thomas. With 63 of the 72 works by women artists, the gift makes a strong statement for the creative practices of women, and solidifies The Gund’s commitment to showcasing more nuanced historical narratives of modern and contemporary art history. “Francie and David have been remarkable supporters of The Gund and Kenyon College, long before my arrival in 2021,” says Daisy Desrosiers, David and Francie Horvitz Family Foundation Director and Chief Curator of The Gund. “Their generosity affirms a commitment not only to our museum but to the ongoing ... More
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On a day like today, German painter Anselm Feuerbach was born
September 12, 1829. Anselm Feuerbach (12 September 1829 - 4 January 1880) was a German painter. He was the leading classicist painter of the German 19th-century school. His works are housed at leading public galleries in Germany. Stuttgart has the second version of Iphigenia; Karlsruhe, the Dante at Ravenna; Munich, the Medea; and Berlin, The Concert, his last important painting. In this image: Francesca da Rimini und Paolo Malatesta c. 1864.
