W. Patrick Edwards, Ébeniste with a “Treasure Box”.
WEST HOLLYWOOD CA .- Ébeniste Patrick Edwards was commissioned a few decades ago by patrons of the Crocker Museum in Sacramento, Anne and Malcom McHenry, to recreate a suite of Biedermeier furniture using vintage hand tools and the exotic wood veneers loved by Viennese artisans. After their deaths the pieces were returned to Edwards in a bequest from their estate. The Denenberg Fine Arts Gallery is delighted to share these never-before publicly exhibited exquisite works of art with our clientele. We are especially pleased to report a pre-opening acquisition: the pair of “Tulip” chairs is going to the Mak Center, the important decorative arts museum in Vienna, Austria. A highlight of the McHenry collection is a floor-standing jewel chest containing 31 secret compartments; it is on exhibit for sale. Priced at $35,000. Also on view is a recent work, a “treasure box” and stand inspired by a 17th century marquetry coffer in t ... More
Palitoy Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1983) General Madine Tri-Logo 70 Back-B, AFA 80 NM, with accessory ‘staff.’ Estimate: $20,000-$35,000.
YORK, PA.- So far this year, fans of Star Wars and other action figures have had two prime opportunities to dip into the world-class collection of Colorado supercollector Jeff Jacob. In January, Hake’s made international headlines as the first auction house ever to break the million-dollar mark with an auction focused exclusively on action figures, as Part I of Jeff’s collection rocketed to $1.45 million. Highlights were led by a Kenner 1978 Star Wars Double-Telescoping Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi 12 Back-A action figure that sold for $105,182, a world auction record for a figure of its type. Less than four months later, Hake’s returned to the auction spotlight with a second helping from the stellar collection, which closed the books at $1.2 million and became the second action-figure-specific sale in history to land in seven-figure territory. Now it’s time for America’s first pop culture auction house to roll out Part III of the Jacob trove in a cataloged auction ... More
BERLIN.- The Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin has opened a remarkable new exhibition titled YES TO ALL. The Paul Maenz and Gerd de Vries Donation. The show celebrates the extraordinary generosity of art patrons Paul Maenz and Gerd de Vries, who have entrusted the museum with nearly 900 works on paper—one of the most significant gifts in its recent history. This is not the first time the two collectors have enriched the Kupferstichkabinett. Back in 2004, they donated 250 works, setting the foundation for what has now become a long-lasting relationship with the museum and its supporting society, the Graphische Gesellschaft zu Berlin. “With this donation, they send a strong signal of civic commitment to museums and enrich our collection with first-rate and multifaceted works,” said museum director Dagmar ... More
Fresh-to-the-market factory-engraved Colt 1911A1 .45 ACP semi-automatic pistol with Colt Archives letter. The auction’s top lot, it sold for $102,000 against an estimate of $40,000-$60,000.
DENVER, PA.- At Morphy’s September 9-11, 2025 Firearms & Militaria Auction, some of the finest and most important firearms ever to appear for public sale flew past their high estimates to land in the hands of elated new owners. The 1,285-lot selection of antique and modern rifles, shotguns, handguns, and Fully Transferable NFA-registered machine guns and accessories surpassed all expectations to gross more than $7.5 million, inclusive of buyer’s premium. The top lot of the sale was a fresh-to-the-market factory-engraved Colt 1911A1 .45 ACP semi-automatic pistol accompanied by a Colt Archives letter. It was originally shipped to Tritch Hardware of Denver, Colorado, on October 16, 1925 as a shipment of one. Its features included a half-moon front sight, U-notch flat-top rear sight, checkered spurred hammer, long A1 grip safety, arched mainspring housing with lanyard loop, and ... More
LONDON.- Gagosian will participate in the 2025 edition of Frieze Masters with an installation by Glenn Brown in the fair’s Studio section. For its third iteration, the section is premised on the theme of the studio as a time machine through which historical memory inspires contemporary creativity. Featuring new paintings, drawings, and a sculpture together with works from three decades of Brown’s career, the presentation also includes historical works on paper from the Brown Collection. Brown mines art history, transforming divergent imagery through intricate line and pattern, heightened palette, and elaborate gesture. Compositing variations of his pictorial sources with natural forms and adding distortions of human anatomy—including doubled heads—he presents a vision that is at once sensuous, alluring, and grotesque. Brown’s works at Frieze Masters incorporate elements ... More
PARIS.- The Louvre has opened an exhibition that shines a spotlight on one of its most fascinating yet lesser-known treasures: the mechanical arts. With works spanning more than two millennia—from ancient Egyptian water clocks to contemporary horological masterpieces—the exhibition reveals humanity’s enduring desire to capture, measure, and even control time. Visitors enter a world where science, craftsmanship, and artistry intersect. Among the earliest pieces is a fragment of an Egyptian clepsydra, a water clock from the Ptolemaic period, which once measured the hours of the night by dripping water drop by drop. Fast forward to 10th-century Córdoba, and a magnificent fragment of a peacock automaton—possibly designed to dazzle with moving parts—demonstrates the ingenuity of Islamic artisans. The journey continues through Renaissance and Baroque Europe. A spherical watch signed by Jacques de La Garde in 1551, the oldest known signed French watch, showcases the refinemen ... More
Rahul Kadakia, Christie's newly appointed President, Asia Pacific, auctioning Pablo Picasso's Buste de femme for HK$96,750,000 / US$12,409,419 during the 20th / 21st Century Evening Sale in Hong Kong.
HONG KONG.- Christie's marked its first anniversary at The Henderson in Hong Kong with the 20th/21st Century Evening Sale on 26 September, which totalled HK$565,649,000 / US$73,038,183. Pablo Picasso's Buste de femme sold for HK$196,750,000 / US$25,404,911 to a client on the telephone after over 15 minutes of intense bidding, achieving the auction record for the artist in Asia, and Zao Wou-Ki's 17.3.63 achieved HK$85,200,000 / US$11,001,263. Combined with the Basquiat sold in March 2025, Christie's has now sold the top three most valuable works so far this year in Asia. The diverse selection engaged the market, 92% of all lots sold and the overall hammer price was 116% above the low estimate. Ada Tsui, Head of Evening Sale, 20th/21st Century Art, Christie's Asia Pacific commented: “We wanted to present quality, fresh, and diverse artworks to the Asia market this season and we did that tonight. ... More
LONDON.- Two new publications share with readers the remarkable and diverse natural history drawings and watercolours from the Royal Library and Print Room at Windsor Castle. Animalia from the Royal Collection and Botanicals from the Royal Collection, published by Royal Collection Trust, are full of rich and beautiful illustrations of flora and fauna, making them perfect gifts for plant and animal lovers and anyone inspired by the natural world. The works depicted date from the late 15th century to the late 19th century, a period when European knowledge of the natural world was transformed by extensive engagement with Africa, Asia and the Americas. Introductions by Royal Collection Trust curators offer expert insights and context as well as highlighting the most recent research into the artists and naturalists that made some of the greatest natural history illustrations in ... More
Alfred Waugh, founder and principal of Formline Architecture + Urbanism.
VANCOUVER, BC.- Following a rigorous, months-long search, the Vancouver Art Gallery has named Formline Architecture + Urbanism and KPMB Architects as the architectural team to lead the next phase of design for its new purpose-built home at Larwill Park, located at 181 West Georgia Street. Selected from proposals submitted by 14 leading Canadian firms, this decision marks an important milestone in the Gallery’s renewed vision to create a destination for art and culture that reflects the diversity of its audiences. This is the beginning of a collaborative process toward a new conceptual design in 2026, one shaped by listening, dialogue and the perspectives of the communities the Gallery serves. The selection was approved by the Gallery’s Board of Trustees based on the recommendation of the Architect Selection Committee, ... More
Sakhmet Standing. Artist: Egyptian. Acquired by Henry Walters, 1929. Accession number: 54.2071. Photo: The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.
BALTIMORE, MD.- Three exhibitions at the Walters Art Museum center around animals and their representations in art, providing visitors with a fascinating look at how people have related to wildlife and their own animal companions across cultures and time periods. Paws on Parchment opened in August 6, 2025, Soulful Creatures: Animal Mummies in Ancient Egypt, organized by the Brooklyn Museum, followed on September 27, 2025, and Art From Wildlife will round out a year of animal-themed offerings on November 5, 2026. This trio of exhibitions, featuring works ranging from Egyptian antiquities to medieval manuscripts to contemporary video installations, masterfully weaves together narratives that leverage artworks both from the wide breadth of the Walters’ permanent collection ... More
Jakob Kudsk Steensen, The Song Trapper, 2025. Moving Image, virtual performance and spatialised sound. Courtesy of the artist.
PARIS.- Jakob Kudsk Steensen (1987, Denmark) is the new guest of Open Space, the Fondation Louis Vuitton’s contemporary art program. On the occasion of this solo exhibition—his first in a Paris institution—the Danish artist presents The Song Trapper (2025), a new immersive installation including moving image, virtual performance, and spatial sound supported by the Fondation. Jakob Kudsk Steensen is a multidisciplinary artist exploring ecological and psychological themes whilst challenging our relationship with technology. For more than a decade, he has experimented with game engines, generative systems, photogrammetry, and has combined this with environmental fieldwork to construct new virtual worlds. He is particularly interested in unknown, rare, or threatened ecosystems—from desert lakes to submarine volcanoes, from wetlands to glaciers. Each time the artist does so, he seeks to evoke different memories, ... More
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DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions’ landmark event The Guillermo del Toro Collection: Bleak House Part 1 realized $1.65 million including buyer’s premium Sept. 26, drawing impassioned bidding from more than 700 collectors around the globe. The once-in-a-lifetime offering marked the first public opportunity to acquire treasures from the Academy Award-winning filmmaker’s famed Bleak House — a sanctuary of monsters, myths and imagination that has inspired his films and captivated cinephiles for decades. From screen-used props to concept art and original illustrations, the auction offered a revelatory glimpse into the mind of one of cinema’s most visionary storytellers. Among the highlights, an original painting by H.R. Giger, a concept design for an unproduced script titled The Tourist, achieved $325,000 and realized an auction record for the artist, while artist Bernie Wrightson’s haunting published illustration plate for Marvel’s novel adaptation of ... More
Jamel Robinson (American, b. 1979). Beneath The Blue, 2025. Acrylic paint & oil stick on canvas. Courtesy of the artist.
YONKERS, NY.- The Hudson River Museum presents two timely and powerful exhibitions that grapple with issues of “heat” in literal and metaphorical ways, and from the ideological to the environmental. DRAW: Heat features more than forty contemporary artists who explore the theme of heat through the ephemerality and urgency of drawing. Throwing Shade on Extreme Heat: Designing Shade Structures for Yonkers, a partnership with Yonkers-based environmental nonprofit Groundwork Hudson Valley, addresses extreme heat challenges in Southwest Yonkers through community-driven solutions and innovative environmental strategies. Director and CEO Masha Turchinsky states, “We’re bringing together artistic rigor, climate resilience, and community input around the topic of heat in two captivating exhibitions this fall. In DRAW: Heat, the mark of the human hand conveys the emotional and environmental weight of this global issue, while ... More
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Over one million visitors at the Louvre Couture exhibition PARIS.- 'Louvre Couture' recently closed its doors to the public. Over the course of seven months, it admitted over a million visitors (1,059,205), making it the second most visited exhibition in the history of the museum after the 2019 monographic presentation dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci. Unique in its scenography and its chosen topic, 'Louvre Couture' offered a fresh and fascinating dialogue between masterworks from the Department of Decorative Arts and key pieces from the history of contemporary fashion from 1960 to 2025. Covering nearly 9,000 square metres, the exhibition featured a hundred different looks and accessories. Each piece was selected for its intellectual or poetic resonance with the history of the decorative arts, shifting styles, craftsmanship and ornamentation; each piece represents an exceptional loan made to the Louvre for the first time by 45 ... More
Center for Contemporary Culture KRAK presents Zvono 2025 BIHAć.- The works of the Zvono Award finalists, Irma Beširević, Milica Bilanović, Pavle Golijanin, and Milena Ivić, are significant indicators of social conditions brought to light through the artistic practices of young artists. Although seemingly disparate, their thematically and medially diverse works and practices converge in the realm of social sensitivity, addressing political, systemic, and traditional categories, as well as contemporary issues of the post-digital human. Just as tissue, in a biological sense, represents a group of similar cells with a common origin, the award finalists gather around shared characteristics of a capitalist society, whose problems often remain invisible, with art opening the door to dialogue. The Zvono Award winner, Milena Ivić, has focused her practice on exploring various paradoxes of institutional systems and human rights, viewed through ... More
Bana Kattan to curate the National Pavilion UAE at the Venice Biennale 2026 VENICE.- The National Pavilion UAE announces the appointment of Bana Kattan, Curator and Associate Head of Exhibitions at the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, as curator of the UAE’s upcoming participation in the 61st International Venice Biennale in 2026. Kattan was selected by a committee of leading figures from the UAE's creative sector, including representatives from government, museums, and universities. The Pavilion’s presentation at the Venice Biennale 2026 will be accompanied by a dedicated publication. Before joining the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, Kattan served as Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, where she curated exhibitions featuring multigenerational artists, including Wafaa Bilal (2025), Maryam Taghavi (2024), and Mona Hatoum (2023). Previously, at the NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery, she curated a research-driven exhibition program ... More
Escape: Frank Gaudlitz's portraits of flight open in Berlin BERLIN.- The Museum of European Cultures in Berlin has opened a powerful new exhibition, Escape. Photographs from Moldova, Armenia, and Georgia by Frank Gaudlitz. Running until March 1, 2026, the show invites visitors into the intimate realities of people who were forced to leave their homes because of war and political repression. For more than three years, photographer Frank Gaudlitz traveled through Moldova, Armenia, and Georgia. His camera captured around forty portraits of individuals and families who fled the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. Each face carries a story—of bombed cities, destroyed homes, and family separations. The portraits are accompanied by interviews and direct quotations. These voices, recorded during long conversations, bring depth to the images. Visitors hear stories of trauma and uncertainty, but also of resilience and hope. ... More
First Babe Ruth card steps to plate in Heritage's Fall Sports Catalog Auction DALLAS, TX.- The first card ever made of the player widely considered the greatest in baseball history will claim the spotlight in Heritage’s Fall Sports Catalog Auction Oct. 24-26. The Babe is known best, of course, as the New York Yankees’ biggest star over 15 seasons from 1920-34, and even casual fans know he started his Major League Baseball career as a lanky left-handed pitcher with the Boston Red Sox. But the 1914 Baltimore News Babe Ruth Rookie SGC VG 3 that headlines this event celebrates Ruth’s time as a player in the city where he was born: Baltimore. “Not only is this an absolutely incredible rookie card of baseball’s first superstar, Babe Ruth,” says Chris Ivy, Heritage’s Director of Sports Auctions, “it is also one of the rarest cards of any issued during Ruth’s career, with only 10 examples ever graded and encapsulated. If a collector wishes to have a seat ... More
Art Jameel presents its autumn 2025 - spring 2026 exhibition programme DUBAI.- Art Jameel, an organisation that supports artists and creative communities, presents a season of solo and group exhibitions at Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai's hub for contemporary art and ideas. Featuring surveys and new commissions by Mohammad Alfaraj, Bady Dalloul, Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, Jumana Emil Abboud and Kamruzzaman Shadhin, alongside the large-scale group exhibition Global Positioning System, the programme unfolds across galleries and courtyards through photography, film, sculpture, works on paper, textiles and site-specific installations. Together, the exhibitions span themes of memory, ritual, desire, mortality, migration and everyday narratives, while critically engaging with landscapes, mapping systems and the infrastructures of movement. Seas are sweet, fish tears are salty, the first institutional solo show by Mohammad ... More
400 artifacts unearthed in Kaliakra reveal centuries of history KALIAKRA.- The ancient fortress of Kaliakra has once again proven to be a treasure trove of history. The recently concluded Kaliakra 2025 archaeological expedition, led by Associate Professor Dr. Boni Petrunova, Director of Bulgaria’s National History Museum, has uncovered more than 400 valuable artifacts that shed new light on the region’s rich past. For two months, the team focused their efforts on the Golden Necropolis and the so-called “Quarter of the Rich,” where excavations revealed a wide array of finds dating from the 6th to the 14th centuries. Among the discoveries were gold coins, over 50 silver coins, and rings engraved with pentagrams—each piece offering a glimpse into the life and wealth of Kaliakra’s medieval elite. One of the most remarkable finds came from the grave of a young woman, where archaeologists uncovered a prochelnik (head ... More
Architecture's most influential, innovative and beloved underground magazine, reissued for the first time NEW YORK, NY.- Inspired by comic-book culture, Pop art, psychedelia, the space race, sci-fi, Constructivism and Buckminster Fuller, the hugely influential British collective Archigram was the epitome of 1960s avant-garde architecture. Their self-published, lo-fi but materially ingenious magazine Archigram, begun in 1961, announced their ideas for such visionary concepts as "Walking City," "Plug-In City" and "Instant City." It also served to connect the international avant-garde of the 1960s. Archigram forged links with the Metabolists in Japan, Frei Otto, Utopie and Haus-Rucker-Co in Europe, and Buckminster Fuller in the US. They were also championed by critics such as Charles Jencks and Reyner Banham, who brought Archigram's famous fourth pop-up issue to the US in 1966. Today Archigram is one of the rarest major small-press publications of the 1960s, with individual ... More
LAUNCH Gallery showcases Linda Arreola and Rochelle Botello in dual solo exhibitions LOS ANGELES, CA.- LAUNCH Gallery is presenting 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 ... More
The Royal Scottish Academy announces the death of Dr Ian McKenzie Smith CBE PPRSA EDINBURGH.- The Royal Scottish Academy announced the death of Dr Ian McKenzie Smith CBE, former President of the Academy, who died on Wednesday 24 September 2025. Born in Montrose in 1935, Ian McKenzie Smith studied at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen, and at Hospitalfield, Arbroath, where he met his wife Mae. Influenced early in his career by the Danish, Dutch and Belgian artists of the COBRA group, Ian’s practice centred on abstract painting, often inspired by the landscape. In 1958 a travelling scholarship took him to Paris where encounters with the Japanese artist Kenzo Okada and Zen philosophy left a lasting impression. A sense of balance and calligraphic finesse instigated by these experiences remained central to his work throughout his life. Alongside his career as an artist, Ian made significant contributions to the cultural life of Scotland. ... More
Museo Jumex presents Gabriel de la Mora: La Petite Mort MEXICO CITY.- Museo Jumex presents Gabriel de la Mora: La Petite Mort, an in-depth survey of the artist's practice over the past two decades. The exhibition brings together nearly ninety works with minimal and often monochromatic surfaces that belie great technical complexity, conceptual rigor, and embedded information. Born in Mexico City in 1968, Gabriel de la Mora is known for transforming found, discarded, and obsolete materials through seemingly alchemic processes into exquisite objects and lustrous and alluring finishes. Installed in the museum’s 3rd floor gallery, the exhibition explores the recurring presence of desire and eroticism in de la Mora’s practice, engaging both the surface tension of the works and the deeper unconscious creative drives that inform them. There is also an implied loss, a symbolic or physical death involved in the majority of de la Mora’s artworks, most often displayed through the materials he uses. “Gabriel de ... More
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September 30, 1955. James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 - September 30, 1955) was an American film actor. He is a cultural icon, best embodied in the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause (1955), in which he starred as troubled Los Angeles teenager Jim Stark. The other two roles that defined his stardom were as loner Cal Trask in East of Eden (1955), and as the surly ranch hand, Jett Rink, in Giant (1956). Dean's enduring fame and popularity rests on his performances in only these three films, all leading roles. His premature death in a car crash cemented his legendary status. In this image: Actor James Dean is seen in a scene from the Warner Bros. 1956 epic, "Giant." Years after the making of the movie, teenagers are still trying for the cool that was James Dean, the poster boy for the tortured netherworld between child and adult.
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