Working in Southern California, Hayward developed his practice in dialogue with the reductive tendencies of the Los Angeles art scene, including Minimalism and the L.A. Fetish Finish aesthetic.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.-Modernism, San Francisco brings together nearly four decades of work by James Hayward [1943–2026] in James HAYWARD: Works 1975–2013, the first exhibition devoted to the artist’s work since his passing earlier this year. Spanning the development of Hayward’s practice from the 1970s through the early 2010s, the retrospective offers an occasion to reconsider his sustained engagement with the monochrome and the material possibilities of paint. From the formal Automatic Paintings of the late 1970s to the densely worked monochromes of his mature practice, the exhibition examines Hayward’s sustained investigation of color, surface, gesture and the material possibilities of paint. For more than fifty years, Hayward pursued the monochrome not as a restrictive format but as a field of inexhaustible variation. His earli ... More
Toothy, two-faced cast-iron devil still bank by A C Williams in near-mint condition, well-detailed with visible teeth, a turned-up mustache and riveting eyes. Estimate: $800-$2,000.
DENVER, PA.- Where else but Morphy Auctions can you find a sale featuring Babe Ruth, Mickey Mouse, Superman and the devil himself? The Pennsylvania company’s November 10-12 Toys, Sports & General Collectibles Auction is loaded with rare, highly desirable antique and vintage items from a wide array of collecting categories. Many would make wonderful holiday gifts or prized additions to a collection. A substantial number of higher-estimated lots will be sold on Day 2, November 11. The Sultan of Swat, Babe Ruth, is central to an array of tantalizing memorabilia that includes: • A 1933 Goudey #53 Babe Ruth baseball card, graded SGC 60 EX 5. The low-series #53 Ruth is a favorite with collectors, and this card is clean and in excellent to near-mint condition. The estimate is $30,000-$50,000. • A 1932 U.S. Caramel Babe Ruth #32 baseball card, graded PSA VG-EX+ 4.5. One of several baseball players represented in the set, this example has a deep red ... More
Important 18th century blue and white ‘Crane and Tortoise’ ovoid jar (Joseon Dynasty, Korea) 13 ½ inches tall and diameter. Sold for $344,400, blasting through its $10,000 high estimate.
STAMFORD, CONN.- An important 18th century blue and white ‘Crane and Tortoise’ ovoid jar (Joseon Dynasty, Korea) blasted through its $10,000 high estimate to finish at $344,400 in ACES Gallery’s Fall Estates Auction held October 18th. The jar was the top lot in a sale that contained 452 lots and totaled $940,000. All prices quoted are inclusive of the buyer’s premium. “I had my suspicions about the jar when I found it sitting on the living room floor of an unassuming Bedford, New York home with a potted plant inside,” said Alex Fonarow, appraiser, auctioneer and owner of ACES Gallery. “Diligent research, several trips to the library, and a strong marketing plan drew the gaze of eager bidders and they all agreed it was the real McCoy.” The jar, 13 ½ inches tall and the same in diameter, was decorated in underglaze blue. Divine tortoises and cranes were arranged in alternating circular medallions, each with a cloud or auspicious vapor. The iconography of the crane ... More
FRANKFURT.- Leonor Fini (1907–1996) was a rebel, both as an artist and in her private life. From October 23, 2026, to February 21, 2027, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt will present the first retrospective of the artist in Germany. In around 100 works—including paintings, drawings, photographs, costumes, masks, and books—the exhibition offers a comprehensive insight into her fascinating oeuvre. Born in Buenos Aires and raised in Trieste, the self-taught artist remained independent throughout her life despite her proximity to the Surrealist movement. Influenced by the Renaissance, Symbolism, German Romanticism, and Magical Realism, Fini developed a distinctive visual language that fluidly moved between dream, myth, fantasy, and theatrical staging. Through her signature style reminiscent of old master painting, she created dreamlike scenes featuring priestesses, sphinxes, and hybrid beings who subvert traditional gender roles. Powerful portrayals of women and androgynous figures emerg ... More
Installation view of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham's exhibition at Tate St Ives.
ST IVES.- Tate St Ives opens a major retrospective dedicated to Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912–2004), one of the most innovative figures in British modernism and a key member of St Ives’s groundbreaking mid-century artistic community. This long overdue celebration of Barns-Graham’s work marks the first exhibition to span the full breadth of her practice, tracing its evolution from early landscapes and interior paintings to the increasingly abstract and gestural compositions of her later years and showing the vitality and range of a remarkable eight-decade career. Bringing together over 150 paintings, drawings and prints, alongside rarely seen archival material and the largest ever museum presentation of her glacier series to date, the exhibition reveals Barns-Graham as an endlessly inventive artist whose work speaks powerfully to our relationship with the natural world and the enduring possibilities of abstraction. For Barns-Graham, the landscape was not simply a subject to be obse ... More
Millard Rogers (1988); photograph by O. Joseph Galli, from the Mary R. Schiff Library & Archives, Cincinnati Art Museum.
CINCINNATI, OH.- The Cincinnati Art Museum has launched an innovative new curatorial leadership model, appointing its first Director of Academic Partnerships & Research and launching an international search for Director of Curatorial Affairs & Initiatives. Honoring a high-impact past director of the museum, Millard F. Rogers, director 1974-1994, CAM also announces a $4 million anonymous gift to endow the permanent curatorship of European paintings, sculpture and drawings at the museum. Peter Jonathan Bell, PhD, assumes the new dual role of Millard Rogers Curator and Director of Academic Partnerships & Initiatives at CAM. The museum’s work with universities and fellowships expands under this appointment, as does leadership of the Mary R. Schiff Library & Archives. Following a national search, Jennifer Hardin is appointed as Head Librarian and Geoffrey Edwards as Head Archivist as of September 2026. Both bolster and strengthen the museum’s ... More
METZ.- Sixteen years after the opening of the Centre Pompidou-Metz, Shigeru Ban takes over the museum he designed with Jean de Gastines to showcase over forty years of architecture: from early experiments to major cultural buildings, from emergency structures in the wake of disasters to explorations of wood, paper, and recyclable materials, the exhibition reveals an architectural vision of remarkable coherence. For Building a Better World, Shigeru Ban personally oversees both the curation and the scenography. In a rare occurrence, the architect thus presents his work from within one of his own creations. The Centre Pompidou-Metz becomes at once the venue, the subject, and one of the experiences of the exhibition: a dialogue between a building, its architect, and a philosophy that has never separated constructive invention from responsibility and care for those who inhabit the architecture. For Shigeru Ban, building a museum, a house, a school, a cathedral or a temporary shelter does not belon ... More
Fourteen-minute bidding battle for a 2,000-year-old marble sculpture leads a white-glove auction spanning Roman antiquities, Old Master paintings, French royal furniture and Islamic art.
NEW YORK, NY.- A Roman marble torso dating from the first century A.D. stole the spotlight at Sotheby's in New York on Wednesday evening, October 21, selling for $34.3 million after an intense, nearly 14-minute bidding contest and establishing a new auction record for a Roman antiquity. The dramatic result helped propel the auction house's Magnum Opus Evening Auction to $63 million, surpassing its $47.6 million high estimate and achieving a 100 percent sell-through rate. The evening marked the opening chapter of an ambitious series of auctions devoted to an extraordinary private collection assembled across centuries, cultures and artistic disciplines. From Roman imperial sculpture and Venetian painting to French royal furniture, Islamic textiles and modern drawings, the sale offered a glimpse into a collecting philosophy guided less by conventional ... More
John Mahli Lawa' Hampton, photo by Hayden Schutz.
WINNIPEG.- Following an extensive international search, the Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq announced the appointment of John Mahli Lawa' Hampton as Director & Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective December 10. As WAG-Qaumajuq’s Director & CEO, Hampton will lead the art museum’s finances, operations, and capital expansion projects while fostering a culture of creativity and innovation and advancing the strategic vision of Canada’s oldest civic art gallery, connecting art, culture, learning, and community, while being recognized internationally for its world-renowned collection of contemporary Inuit art. Hampton will work with WAG-Qaumajuq’s Board of Governors to support sustainable growth and further the Gallery’s reputation as a model for the new museum in Canada, one that balances historical collections, contemporary art, Indigenization and reconciliation, and inclusive community learning. Hampton will strengthen collaborations with local and national partners and enri ... More
1970 Barris T Buggy — $25,000 - $35,000 USD.
SCOTTSDALE, AZ.- RM Sotheby’s will offer The Boeckmann Collection across two distinct sales in 2027, featuring 120+ cars that capture the creativity, eccentricity, and unmistakable spirit of California car culture. The collection will headline The Arizona Auction, expanding the event to two days, with 50+ cars crossing the block on January 28, followed by an online sale featuring the remaining 60+ vehicles, with bidding closing February 4. Drawn from a collection assembled over decades by lifelong enthusiast, collector, and Galpin Motors President Beau Boeckmann, this eclectic selection breaks nearly every convention of traditional car collecting. This is not a collection defined by a single lane of car culture. Hot rods and landmark customs appear alongside muscle cars, Hollywood icons, rare Fords, vivid Porsches, Aston Martins, Lotuses, Mercedes-Benzes, and machines that seem to have escaped from a designer’s sketchbook at midnight. Some carry the glamour of film and television; others reca ... More
Iria Leino, Conviction (166), 1980. Mixed media on canvas, 76.5 x 62.5 x 8 cm. 30 1/8 x 24 5/8 x 3 1/8 in. Photo: Angel Gil / Galerie Forsblom.
HELSINKI.- In Iria Leino’s art, the Finnish landscape is intertwined with a spiritual quest. Born in Helsinki and active as an artist in New York from the 1960s onward, Leino seamlessly incorporated imagery drawn from Finland’s lakes, forests and waterways, as well as from meditation and the avant-garde artist circles of SoHo. In her work, Leino sought to preserve her Finnish heritage and connection to nature, fueled by her spiritual search in Buddhism. From Pouring to Paintings-as-Sculpture is Leino’s first themed exhibition to explore the evolution and significance of her three-dimensional paintings. Her first posthumous exhibition in Finland, and her debut at Galerie Forsblom, took place in 2025, featuring the color-drenched works of the Elephant series. Curated by art historian Peter Hastings Falk, this new exhibition focuses on Leino’s later oeuvre and her gradual transition from flat pictorial surfaces towards a more sculptural approach to painting. The ... More
Endowment Campaign Städel remains Städel. With your contribution to our endowment.
FRANKFURT.- The Städel Museum has launched an ambitious fundraising campaign aimed at securing its financial independence for future generations, inviting the public to contribute to an endowment fund with a long-term target of at least €100 million. Announced on October 21, the initiative marks what the museum describes as the first comprehensive endowment campaign undertaken by a German art museum. Under the slogan "Städel remains Städel," the institution is asking visitors, supporters, and the wider Frankfurt community to help strengthen the financial foundations of a museum whose history has been closely tied to private philanthropy for more than two centuries. Unlike conventional fundraising campaigns that collect donations for immediate expenses or specific projects, the Städel Endowment is designed to preserve its capital permanently. Contributions become part of the legally protected assets of the nonprofit Städelsches Kunstinstitut, while income generated by the fund will be used to ... More
PARKES.- From 24 October 2026 to 14 February 2027, Rosalie Gascoigne brings together over 80 significant works spanning the artist's career, offering a major retrospective of her pioneering practice and deep connection to Kamberri/Canberra, which she called home for over 50 years. Aotearoa/New Zealand-born Rosalie Gascoigne (1917 – 1999) is renowned for her remarkable ability to transform discarded everyday materials into poetic sculptural assemblages. Inspired by nature, Gascoigne’s art reflects the diversity and nuances of the Australian landscape. Drawing inspiration from Kamberri/Canberra and the surrounding region, Gascoigne developed a distinctive visual language that reimagined the ordinary and revealed the poetry of place. Constructed from diverse materials including retro-reflective road signs, soft drink crates, enamelware, feathers and weathered wood, ... More
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Jean-Pierre Laffont's photographs of America's turbulent decades to go under the hammer in Paris PARIS.- From Martin Luther King Jr. addressing opponents of the Vietnam War to Muhammad Ali preparing for one of boxing's most celebrated rematches, French photojournalist Jean-Pierre Laffont captured a nation struggling with its identity. More than 150 of his photographs will be offered at auction by Gros & Delettrez in Paris on November 16, bringing together images of political upheaval, social movements, counterculture, and everyday American life from the 1960s through the 1980s. The sale, titled "Jean-Pierre Laffont, l'Amérique rebelle" ("Jean-Pierre Laffont: Rebellious America"), comes as the United States marks the 250th anniversary of its independence. At 91, Laffont is expected to attend the auction, which coincides with the publication of his new book, Rebels with a Cause, by Damiani. Born in Algiers in 1935 and raised in Morocco ... More
From personal memory to global crisis: Jan Håfström returns to Moderna Museet STOCKHOLM.- Jan Håfström is one of the most noted artists in Swedish contemporary art. He has been active for sixty years with exhibitions both in Sweden and internationally. At Moderna Museet, visitors will encounter art that he has been working on recently, and that comes directly from his studio. Jan Håfström (born 1937) works with painting, sculpture, prints, installation, drawing and film. He debuted in the 1960s and his artistic work moves between the personal and the universal. Ever since childhood, when he used to draw in a quiet corner of the home, the studio has been a sanctuary for Jan Håfström. There, as he himself has put it, “a constant murmuring conversation between different ages in life” takes place. On the walls and floors of the studio, paintings, sculptures and painted objects meet, forming temporary clusters or larger wholes. Here, works ... More
Foam presents Lebanese photographer Myriam Boulos's first museum solo exhibition AMSTERDAM.- Foam presents the first museum solo exhibition of Lebanese photographer Myriam Boulos, recipient of the 19th Foam Paul Huf Award. Bringing together an intimate and deeply personal body of work, largely made in her hometown of Beirut, Boulos turns her camera towards the spaces, bodies and intimate encounters that exist beyond the immediately visible. Her photographs explore sexuality, desire and fantasy, while reflecting on the ways bodies and land are shaped by systems of power and oppression. A Collective Diary: Sexual Fantasies brings together several series, including Looking for Tenderness, What’s Ours, Sexual Fantasies and Fragments of a Collective Diary in Times of War. In What’s Ours, she explores how people and land are shaped by systems of power and subjugation, such as military aggression, while Looking ... More
MAO Turin opens Song Dong's first solo exhibition in Italy TURIN.- From 23 October 2026 to 27 June 2027, MAO, Turin is hosting Song Dong. Soul Out, the first solo exhibition in Italy of works by the artist Song Dong (Beijing, 1966), curated by Li Zhenhua and Davide Quadrio, with Francesca Filisetti and Rebecca Ricci, and with the curatorial and scholarly contribution of Manuela Lietti. The exhibition is conceived as a site-specific project that involves the whole museum, transforming it into a narrative device in which Song Dong's works enter into dialogue with the permanent collection and the historical architecture of Palazzo Mazzonis. Bringing together some of the artist's most iconic installations, along with an archive of photographs and videos of performances dating from the 1990s to today, Song Dong. Soul Out traces back over more than thirty years of work, highlighting a practice that intertwines individual ... More
Major exhibition examines human agency, automation, and AI VILNIUS.- What does it mean to live in an age in which technology defines every level of reality? Will our sense of self and our societies shatter into fragments—only to be pieced together again by markets or political campaigns? In a world where everything is personalised, what makes us truly individual? Do we still have a choice, or are we increasingly shaped by the codes that surround us? At a time of deep uncertainty, marked by climate crisis, wars, and global instability, it is no longer clear what can help us navigate the future. For a long time, we believed that science and technology would eventually solve all our social problems. But the story is more complicated: scientific and industrial advances have also caused catastrophic accidents and lasting environmental damage. Artists often embrace the creative potential of technology while also warning ... More
'Stonewall' Jackson Harpers Ferry flag leads Heritage's Nov. 11-12 Political Americana Auction DALLAS, TX.- Led in value by an eight-star Virginia Confederate flag flown at Harpers Ferry circa April–May 1861 during Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson’s first command, Heritage Auctions’ Nov. 11–12 Political Americana Signature® Auction presents a broad and compelling selection spanning presidential campaigns, the American West, maritime history and pivotal moments in the nation’s political and military past. Completely handsewn and constructed in the pattern of a Confederate First National Color, this Harpers Ferry flag features eight white wove cotton stars hand-stitched and applied to a two-width flat-fell and seamed navy-blue wool canton, stitched with three horizontal wool bunting bars. One of the rarest and earliest of authenticated Confederate flags, this particular eight-star pattern represented Virginia’s secession on April 17, 1861 and technically ... More
People, place and the power of tradition meet in two November auctions at Heritage DALLAS, TX.- A dancer brought to life in brilliant color, a ranch foreman portrayed against the land he tended and a gold figure poised in ritual movement: Across two consecutive November auctions, Heritage Auctions explores the many ways artists express identity, community and connections to place. The Nov. 5 Texas & Western Art Signature® Auction and the Nov. 6 Ethnographic Art: American Indian, Pre-Columbian and Tribal Signature® Auction bring those themes into focus through paintings and objects spanning centuries and continents. Leading the Texas & Western Art highlights is John Nieto’s Pow-Wow Dancer (1989), the auction catalog’s cover lot and one of three paintings by the artist in the sale. More than seven feet tall, the canvas sets the dancer’s vivid regalia against a deep blue ground, using expressive brushwork and electric color to convey ... More
Kunsthaus Graz presents Eva Schlegel's disorienting spatial survey 'Falling up' GRAZ.- The nature of space lies at the heart of some of the most fundamental questions in philosophy and physics. How space is conceived, perceived and experienced is also a subject explored by many cultural theories. Whatever the approach, it remains a phenomenon that both fascinates and challenges us. These different perspectives form the starting point for Eva Schlegel’s artistic practice. For some time now, she has been examining how perception and immateriality shape our relationship with space. Working across sculpture, photography, video, image objects and augmented reality, she creates moments of disorientation and reorientiation, transforming them into spatial experiences. Blurring, reflection and materiality are for her a way of breaking down familiar patterns of perception and challenging the seemingly fixed boundaries of space. ... More
Science Museum announces 'Becoming America' exhibition exploring science's role in US founding LONDON.- The Science Museum will open Becoming America: How Science Shaped a Nation, supported by Griffin Catalyst. This significant free exhibition will reveal how science and technology shaped the land, peoples and identity as the United States of America came into existence. The exhibition will examine interwoven stories of how Anglo-American colonists, enslaved and free people of African descent, and Indigenous Americans used their knowledge, skills and tools to live, cultivate the land and exert power. Through remarkable maps, stunning paintings and scientific instruments and artefacts, Becoming America will chart four decisive decades in the history of North America: beginning in the 1760s, when Britain took over territorial control from France, through the founding of the United States to the first US presidency in 1790s. Visitors ... More
Cosmologies and deep time collide in Andrius Arutiunian and Saodat Ismailova exhibition KLAIPĖDA.- KCCC Exhibition Hall, Klaipėda, presents Recurse, an overview of recent works by Armenian-Lithuanian artist and composer Andrius Arutiunian and Uzbek artist and filmmaker Saodat Ismailova. Between two mirrors, you find a recursion of your point of view: an image repeated inside itself. Recurse stages such a doubling. Arutiunian and Ismailova, artistic kindred spirits who have connected on a shared imaginary space since 2022, are brought into direct conversation across common terrain: Eastern cosmologies such as Zoroastrianism, vernacular knowledges, alternate temporalities, esotericism, life in the presence of death, forces of nature, and the extractive transformation of the Earth. Visitors move through the myths that shape both artists’ worlds, where ancient rituals, buried resources, and dreams of utopia return in different guises ... More
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