IWAMI Reika, Water Goes Well with Fuji, Woodcut, 1995. Artist Proof. Courtesy of CWAJ.
FALMOUTH, MASS.-Highfield Hall & Gardens presents Trailblazers: Celebrating Contemporary Japanese Prints, the exclusive U.S. venue for this prestigious juried exhibition organized by the College Women’s Association of Japan (CWAJ). On view through October 26, the exhibition showcases 140 works by acclaimed Japanese printmakers, representing a wide range of techniques from traditional woodblock and intaglio to lithography, etching, aquatint, silkscreen, and cutting-edge contemporary practices. At the heart of Trailblazers is a tribute to five pioneering women artists whose vision helped shape the course of modern Japanese printmaking: SHINODA Toko (1913–2021), YOSHIDA Chizuko (1924–2017), IWAMI Reika (1927–2020), YANAGISAWA Noriko (1940– ), and TATSUNO Toeko (1950–2014). Defying social and academic barriers, these artists forged professional careers in the visual arts, opening doors for future generations. ... More
Oil on canvas Old Master portrait of a gentleman attributed to Robert Levrac-Tournieres (French, 1667-1752). Estimate: $7,000-$10,000.
BLOOMFIELD, NJ.- Nye & Company Auctioneers’ upcoming two-day sales event slated for Wednesday and Thursday, September 10th and 11th, will feature an extraordinary selection of property descended in and collected by the DeWolf, Herreshoff and Brown families of Rhode Island alongside Nye & Company’s signature Chic and Antique Estate Treasures auction. This sale offers collectors, historians and connoisseurs an unprecedented opportunity to acquire objects with direct ties to some of New England’s most storied families—including John Brown, Nicholas Brown, Karl Friedrich Herreshoff, and their descendants through the DeWolf and Lewis families. All were key players in Rhode Island’s mercantile and maritime economies. “Don’t miss this rare opportunity to acquire rare objects with direct ties to Rhode Island’s First Families,” said Andrew Holter of Nye & Company Auctioneers. “From Brown’s 18th-century carved furniture to Herreshoff maritime ephemera, these ... More
Highly detailed scale model (about one inch per foot) of a San Quentin prison cell, crafted by its onetime occupant, Morris Solomon, Jr., an inmate at the prison. Estimate: $1,500-$2,000.
DAVENPORT, WASH.- OK all you crime collectors out there – stick ‘em up. On Wednesday, September 10, starting at 9am Pacific Time, Grant Zahajko Auctions will hold a Mob, Gangster, True Crime & Criminal Memorabilia auction, with 223 lots featuring many of history’s most notorious crimes and criminals, online and live in the gallery at 510 Morgan Street in Davenport. “An estate find of Al Capone, “Lucky” Luciano and “Mad Dog” Coll items started the curating of what has turned into a dedicated sale containing fingerprint cards, booking cards, vintage and antique prison keys, Deer Lodge and Walla Walla prison horsehair bridles, letters, postcards, photos, signed books, serial killers, wanted posters and historical memorabilia from infamous individuals,” said Grant Zahajko, who curated the sale along with Timothy Gordon Appraisals. Some of the gangster-related items are from the estate of Gordon Pouliot ... More
Yupik, Native American, Anorak (Imarnan), 1900 - 1920, seal intestine skin, vegetable fibers, cord. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase with funds from Gilbert B. and Lila Silverman, Mary Martin Semmes Fund, 2025.105.
DETROIT, MICH.-The Detroit Institute of Art announced today the recent acquisition of nearly 70 works that significantly expand the museum’s celebrated permanent collection across multiple departments. The new acquisitions span from the late 16th century to the early 21st century, representing artistic traditions from Europe, Asia, and North America. Together, these works demonstrate the museum’s ongoing dedication to building a collection that reflects the breadth of human and artistic creativity. Individually and collectively, these acquisitions strengthen key areas of the DIA’s permanent collection, including Italian Renaissance armor, German Expressionist painting, mid-century American photography, and contemporary Chinese conceptual photography. The new acquisitions include: • Chinese Conceptual Photography, 1995–2004, various artists, China • Photographs ... More
Jeff Koons in his studio, New York, 2024. Courtesy the artist and Gagosian.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian announced that Jeff Koons is now represented by the gallery. Challenging borders between mass culture, the history of art, and spectacle to produce contemporary icons, Koons is one of the most influential artists working today. Over two decades, Gagosian has staged thirteen solo exhibitions by Koons in Beverly Hills, Hong Kong, London, and New York. The gallery has shown sculptures and paintings from defining series, including Celebration (1994–2019), Easyfun–Ethereal (2000–02), Popeye (2002–13), Hybrid (2003–13), Hulk Elvis (2004–), Antiquity (2008–), and Gazing Ball (2012–). In 2014, Gagosian presented Split-Rocker (2000) at Rockefeller Center, New York, a monumental sculpture covered with over fifty thousand flowering plants, coinciding with Koons’s retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Jeff Koons rose to prominence in the mid-1980s as part of a generation of artists exploring the meaning of art and ... More
Buddhist Praying Mirror, Japan, 14th–15th century, bronze, Source Unkown, x1961.2
CINCINNATI, OH.- A new exhibition will reveal the untold stories behind East Asian masterpieces long housed in the Cincinnati Art Museum’s (CAM) collection. Featuring approximately 60 objects—ranging from Japanese armor and Chinese scrolls to Korean lacquer—Rediscovered Treasures brings to light transformative discoveries made possible by decades of scholarship, archival research and conservation efforts. Rediscovered Treasures will be on view September 19, 2025, through January 18, 2026. While many of the featured works entered the museum in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, they remained un-accessioned or misidentified due to a lack of staff expertise in Asian art at the time. Since 2002, when the museum formally established its Asian art department, ongoing research led by Hou-mei Sung, PhD, Curator of East Asian Art, has dramatically improved the understanding of these objects. Their rediscovery has not only reframed the museum’s collection, ... More
Prior to joining Firefly, Ardillo served as a Senior Consultant with Johnson, Grossnickle and Associates (JGA).
INDIANAPOLIS, IN.- Newfields announced the successful appointment of Tim Ardillo as the institution’s Chief Development Officer. Ardillo brings a wealth of experience in development leadership. Tim Ardillo, CFRE, has built a career of more than 25 years in non-profit leadership, fundraising, donor cultivation, corporate and individual philanthropy and public relations. His expertise in community-based, state and national organizations is an impactful addition to the Newfields executive team. “I, along with the entirety of the Newfields team, am thrilled to have Tim Ardillo joining our staff,” said Le Monte Booker, Newfields President & CEO. “Tim will lead our fundraising efforts, strengthen relationships with donors and help us grow the resources that make our exhibitions, programs and gardens possible.” Ardillo joins Newfields after serving as the Chief Development Officer for Firefly Children and Family Alliance, a 174-year-old organization in Indiana ... More
Mathilde Dietrichson, Self-Portrait, 1865. Oil on canvas, 49,6 x 37,2 cm, Oslo Museum
Photo Rune Aakvik, Oslo Museum
DUSSELDORF.- Overlooked, forgotten, suppressed—numerous female artists of the 19th and early 20th centuries are not represented in the canon of art history. The major special exhibition Women Artists! From Monjé to Münter is now the first comprehensive exhibition to focus on the lives, works, and challenges of those women who were artistically active in Düsseldorf during this period. A multi-year research project uncovered around 500 names, many of which are virtually unknown today. With over 100 exhibits, the show tells the story of female art production in a place that stood for generations of artistic education and networking, shedding new light on a chapter of art history that has been largely overlooked until now. In the 19th century, Düsseldorf was a magnet for artists from all over Europe. Numerous women also came to the city—even though they were not allowed to study at the art academy until the 1920s. They ... More
Valeska Soares, Up-side down (Ponta-Cabeça), 2023. Bronze and brass, 72 x 38 x 40 cm [28.3 x 14.9 x 15.7 in].
SAO PAULO.- Valeska Soares’ exhibition Tableau, opening August 30th at Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, in São Paulo, presents new and recent works that delve into themes of absence, ghostly presences, impermanence and eroticism. The title alludes to the narrative dimension of Soares’ work, in which each piece functions as a fragment in a larger plot. Meaning remains open to interpretation, but the enigmas and ambiguities weave a network of allusions that connect and enhance many of her longstanding conceptual concerns: the tensions between sight and sound, memory and erasure, objects and desire. The show is composed of three distinct bodies of work. In the Blindface (2025) series, a development of her previous Doublefaces, Soares employs discarded images of female nudes, mounting them backward on frames and cutting the canvas to reveal glimpses of landscape and body fragments. The work tampers with visibility and ... More
Portrait of the artist. Photo: Tim Van de Velde.
WASSENAAR.- Mark Manders (1968) explores the quiet depths of human consciousness. The internationally acclaimed artist fixes thoughts and moments in sculptures, paintings and installations that hover between the tangible and the elusive. His oeuvre breathes a poetic tension: intimate and universal, concrete and mysterious. For Voorlinden he brings together more than eighty works –both iconic and more recent pieces – which together form a layered journey through his world of thought. The solo exhibition Mindstudy is on display from 20 September 2025 to 18 January 2026. Mark Manders, who grew up in Volkel in North Brabant, is one of the most respected artists of his generation. From his studio in Ronse, Belgium, he creates a rich, idiosyncratic body of work of sculptures — often with androgynous faces — layered paintings and installations that radiate a quiet, timeless intensity. They balance between the familiar and the uncanny and force you to look more closely: what do you act ... More
Jordan Nassar in his Brooklyn studio, August 2025. Photo by Takamasa Ota.
NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan will present REVELATION, an exhibition of new work by Jordan Nassar, on view from September 5 through October 4, 2025, at the gallery’s 48 Walker Street location. This is Nassar’s fourth solo exhibition with James Cohan. The gallery will host an opening reception with the artist on Friday, September 5, from 6-8 PM. In REVELATION, Nassar reimagines traditional craft techniques across expansive multipanel embroideries and transportative mosaics to explore inherited nostalgia, history, and heritage. His recent embroideries are poignant meditations on color, as well as light and darkness; they reveal and conceal brilliantly-hued landscapes. In the front gallery, mosaics echoing Byzantine ruins wrap around the walls, eliciting the past in a contemporary site. Nassar’s intricately hand-stitched works were made with the participation of Palestinian craftswomen living and working in Bethlehem, Ramallah, and Hebron. Notably, ... More
DENVER, CO.- The Denver Art Museum presents mixed-media visual artist Andrea Carlson’s first museum survey, Andrea Carlson: A Constant Sky. The exhibition features 30 works which are on view from Oct. 5, 2025, through Feb. 16, 2026, on level one of the museum’s Hamilton Building. Carlson (descended from the Grand Portage band of Ojibwe and European settlers, born 1979) creates works that challenge injustices caused by settler narration, while utilizing a combination of text and complex visual references to animals, art objects and cultural belongings. These elements are organized in prismatic layers of colorful landscape, which the artist views as “inferred political space.” Carlson’s practice challenges assumed hierarchies, considers who holds the right ... More
Von Wolfe, Secret Journey, 2025. Oil on canvas 180 x 180 cm.
BRUSSELS.- Maruani Mercier will present The Space In Between, an exhibition of new paintings by British artist Von Wolfe, opening on 4 September at the Brussels Gallery. Portraying figures in restrained interiors or expansive landscapes, the works in The Space In Between evade attribution to a fixed space and time. The works are developed in collaboration with artificial intelligence, but not as mere tools of image generation. Instead, Von Wolfe treats the AI as an errant interlocutor - producing a flood of visual propositions, outliers, and uncanny hybrids. From this visual delirium, the artist isolates moments of particular psychic intensity, reworking them by hand in oil with classical precision. What results is a new kind of mythic realism – one that emerges from the machine’s subconscious and the artist’s instinctual logic. Compositional elements surrounding the figures, such as toy trains, houses or pearls stand out for their specificity and alluring strangeness, yet remain p ... More
Quote I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture. Claude Monet
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Somerset House announces full public programme and additional details for Jennie Baptiste: Rhythm & Roots exhibition LONDON.- Somerset House announces the complete public programme and exhibition details for Jennie Baptiste: Rhythm & Roots, the first major solo exhibition from trailblazing Black British photographer Jennie Baptiste, opening in Somerset House’s Terrace Rooms this October. Commissioned as part of Somerset House’s 25th birthday programme, which champions alternative perspectives and diverse British creativity, this exhibition highlights the significance of Baptiste’s contribution to contemporary photography and British cultural history, offering a timely celebration of her enduring legacy. Born in London to parents who migrated from St. Lucia in the 1960s, Jennie Baptiste roots her photographic process in authenticity and has often turned ... More
Thinking Pilgrimage presented by Asia Contemporary Art Forum KHIVA.- After a five-year hiatus, the Asia Contemporary Art Forum’s (ACAF) FIELD MEETING series returns with its latest and most transformative chapter: FIELD MEETING Take 7: Thinking Pilgrimage. This edition convenes 20 artists, curators, and spiritual practitioners for a contemplative caravan-style journey across Uzbekistan’s sacred cities and landscapes—Khiva, Samarkand, Bukhara, and Tashkent—anchored by meditations, performative dialogues, site-specific responses, and healing rituals. As they traverse architectural marvels and elemental landscapes long revered by seekers, the journey invites deep reflection and communal exchange, enacting the “field” not only as a geographical site but as a shared state of consciousness—a space to cultivate new ways of knowing, where pilgrimage itself becomes a curatorial method: a liminal terrain in which knowledge ... More
Antica Namur Fine Art Fair announces 48th edition and exhibitors NAMUR.- Antica Namur Fine Art Fair announced the participating galleries for the 48th edition of the fair, taking place from 8 to 16 November 2025 at Namur Expo. Since its founding in 1977, Antica Namur has grown into a leading event on the European art calendar, where collectors, enthusiasts, and professionals come together. This year, the fair brings together 115 renowned galleries from across Europe and welcomes over 21,000 visitors annually. The fair covers the full spectrum of art history, from antiquity to the 21st century, offering a rich variety of specialties: old and modern paintings, jewellery, silverware, curiosities, furniture from the Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and 18th-century periods, as well as contemporary artworks. In addition, Antica Namur presents a high-quality program of conferences and meetings with specialists. The 2025 edition of the fair will run from 8 to 16 November, ... More
Linda Arreola and Rochelle Botello opening September 6th at LAUNCH LA LOS ANGELES, CA.- LAUNCH Gallery will present solo exhibitions by Linda Arreola and Rochelle Botello whose work celebrates an exploration of life through contemporary abstract painting, drawing and sculpture. Linda Arreola’s Almost Home, draws on her appreciation of architecture and form, specifically ancient Mesoamerican architecture, as the underlying foundation of her work. Her paintings are built using primary colors and elemental geometric forms to construct maps for, and recall memories of, her life’s artistic journey. In Wild Child, Rochelle Botello’s series of drawings materialize after hours in the studio surrendering control and embracing the unknown while putting ink, graphite and acrylic paint to paper. Her new sculpture, born from less permanent materials like cardboard, wood, tape and paper, examines the relationship between form and space while mirroring ... More
British Art Fair 2025 will be held 25 - 28 September LONDON.- British Art Fair looks afresh at Modern British artists who have been overlooked, as part of a dynamic programme for 2025 that includes Digitalism and SOLO CONTEMPORARY and introduces Hospital Rooms as the new charity partner. British Art Fair is a flagship for British art, and an important fixture in the art world calendar enjoyed by over 12,000 visitors a year. Saatchi Gallery’s spacious galleries create an elegant atmosphere for visitors to view paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography, prints and ceramics, and enjoy an exciting programme of curated events. Specialist dealers are on hand to discuss every aspect of buying art. On sale are works by celebrated artists including Frank Auerbach, Banksy, John Craxton, Tracey Emin, Terry Frost, Barbara Hepworth, Damien Hirst, Ivon Hitchens, David Hockney, Albert Irvin, Gwen John, L.S. Lowry, Henry ... More
Swedenborg House presents Elective Affinities LONDON.- Swedenborg House announces Elective Affinities, a landmark exhibition marking 100 years at its historic Bloomsbury premises. Running from September 18, 2025 to February 27, 2026, the exhibition will span all four floors of the building and bring together rare archival treasures with contemporary works by leading artists, filmmakers and writers. Taking inspiration from the term coined in early chemistry, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s 1809 novel, and a celebrated painting by René Magritte, Elective Affinities explores the mysterious connection between objects, ideas and inner experience. At its core lies the thought of Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772), whose philosophy of correspondences proposed a resonance between objects, places and events and our thoughts and affections. Curated by Stephen McNeilly, the exhibition features rarely seen items from ... More
A study in motion: Ann Gale's exhibition explores the shifting nature of portraiture SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Dolby Chadwick Gallery announces an exhibition of new work by Ann Gale, on view during the month of October. Gale paints her human subjects not as fixed entities, but as sites of ongoing experience. Her canvases gather time, compressing shifts in light, posture, and perspective into portraits set in motion. Each painting is a study in simultaneity, where the body is both precisely rendered and dissolved in time. The artist’s relationship to her subjects is sustained and deeply felt. She returns to the same people over years, allowing the arc of their presence to unfold in paint. These are not fleeting encounters but evolving collaborations. “There is always something that makes me want to paint someone again,” she observes. What compels her is a sense of both presence and the human condition: our fragility, our strength, and the quiet resilience ... More
OtherNetwork: Transmigração at ifa-Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen TORORÓ.- OtherNetwork will continue its nomadic curatorial project with Transmigração, opening at Pivô in Salvador on the weekend of September 6–7, 2025. The exhibition is guest-curated by the Puerto Rican artist-led initiative Beta–Local. Centered on the concept of transmigration, movement across and between bodies, territories, and functions, the project serves as both a curatorial and conceptual framework, shaping a dynamic exhibition and series of rituals at Casa Boulevard and throughout Salvador. “It all started with a conversation. During our first visit to Salvador as a collective, we were told a story at the Casa do Boulevard about festive gatherings held there in the 1960s. At those events, a collective soup was prepared—one that, according to those who lived it, didn’t just feed bodies but helped hold together a spirit of experimentation that contributed to what ... More
Sophia Ainslie and Kirstin Lamb to open solo exhibitions at Gallery NAGA BOSTON, MASS.- Gallery NAGA announced its 49th season of exhibitions, featuring Woven by Sophia Ainslie and The Woods by Kirstin Lamb. Both exhibitions will be on view from September 2nd through September 27th. A public reception will be held on Saturday, September 6th, from 1-3 PM, with artist remarks at 2 PM. Sophia Ainslie's exhibition Woven delves into themes of identity, memory, and self-formation through her meticulous painting process. Ainslie builds her artworks through the repetition and accumulation of line, mark, and color, which create rhythm, structure, and a sense of time, reflecting the history of her artistic decisions. She likens her process to natural phenomena like weather patterns and changing terrains, highlighting constant motion and evolution. Ainslie primarily uses acrylic and Flashe paint on paper, often incorporating sand from various ... More
Tufts University Art Galleries awarded curatorial grant from Teiger Foundation BOSTON, MASS.- Tufts University Art Galleries have received a $75,000 grant from Teiger Foundation. This grant will support the exhibition How do you throw a brick through the window..., co-organized with the John Michael Kohler Arts Center (JMKAC), on view September 2–November 9, 2025 at TUAG / Boston with a community-wide reception on September 4. The funds granted by Teiger Foundation will enable TUAG to present new commissions and recent works of art from seven artists exploring how individuals with disabilities, chronic illnesses, and neurodivergence navigate forms of protest despite the normalization of ableism in public spaces. This grant will also support the creation of an accompanying publication expanding the histories and themes of the exhibition through essays by activists, scholars, artists, and poets, Amanda Cachia, torrin a. greathouse, Mev ... More
2026 Adelaide Festival first shows announced ADELAIDE.- International stage and screen star Isabelle Huppert as Mary Queen of Scots, and a three-concert series by renowned French choir and orchestra Ensemble Pygmalion, are the first on-sale events and Australian exclusives in the 2026 Adelaide Festival program. Last seen at Adelaide Festival in 2012, Isabelle Huppert brings her trademark virtuosity to her portrayal of one of history’s most enigmatic women in Mary Said What She Said. With a book by American novelist Darryl Pinckney and a score by Italian pianist and composer Ludovico Einaudi, the one-woman show is performed in French with English surtitles. Rich in the symbolism and imagery that earned director and designer Robert Wilson the title of “world’s foremost vanguard theatre artist” before his recent death in July 2025, Isabelle’s hypnotic and mesmerising depiction has captivated ... More
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August 28, 1969. Mary Anna McCartney (previously McCartney-Donald) is a photographer. The first biological child of rock photographer Linda Eastman McCartney and Paul McCartney of The Beatles, Mary was named after her paternal grandmother, Mary McCartney. In this image: British photographer Mary McCartney, daughter of Linda Eastman McCartney and Paul McCartney poses for a photograph next to her photographs during the opening of the exhibition 'From where I stood' in the gallery Contributed in Berlin, Germany.
