Madeline Hollander (Los Angeles, California 1986–Los Angeles and New York present) Heads/Tails: Walker & Broadway 4, 2020. 73 Automobile headlights and taillights customized with LEDs and real-time software program Infinite, Display: 120 x 240 in. Collection of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation.
AUSTIN, TX.- At the Blanton Museum of Art, Run the Code: Data-Driven Art Decoded brings together a group of artists who use software, live data, machine learning, sensors, and digital systems to examine the structures shaping contemporary life. Organized in collaboration with the Thoma Foundation, the exhibition moves beyond the spectacle often associated with technology-based art. Rather than focusing primarily on the machinery behind the works, Run the Code looks at how digital systems can reflect memory, movement, surveillance, environmental change, and human behavior. Across the galleries, technology appears not as an isolated subject, but as a tool for translating invisible networks into physical and visual experiences. One of the exhibition’s most striking works is Madeline Hollander’s Heads/Tails: Walker & Broadway 4, a large-scale installation ... More
Milan Madge, Master Model Designer at the LEGO Group, Stephanie Auer, Belvedere Curator, Stella Rollig, Belvedere General Director and Wolfgang Bergmann, Belvedere Managing Director. Photo: Ouriel Morgensztern / Belvedere, Vienna.
VIENNA.- The LEGO Group, in collaboration with the Belvedere, invites fans to discover the golden age of art with the new LEGO® Art Gustav Klimt – The Kiss set. This 4,000-piece LEGO Art set is a striking three-dimensional tribute to one of the world’s most iconic paintings, and the largest LEGO Art Masterpiece set released to date. Inspired by Klimt’s celebrated masterpiece The Kiss, the set captures the emotion, ornamentation and luminous colour palette that defined the Austrian modernist painter’s work and the Vienna Secession movement. Reimagined through LEGO bricks, the artwork becomes an immersive creative experience that blends art, design and mindful building. Created in collaboration with the Belvedere in Vienna, where the original painting is permanently displayed, the set faithfully ... More
Jennings Sun Chief 25¢ slot machine, an eye-catching chromed red unit that retained its original Flamingo Hotel (Las Vegas) pictorial insert. TV provenance: featured on Season 4, Episode 5 of A&E’s American Pickers. Sold for $24,000, eight times its high estimate.
WILLOUGHBY, OHIO.- Entertainment came in many forms at Milestone’s June 28 auction of antique and vintage amusements, including coin-op, slot and vending machines; breweriana, gas and oil-related memorabilia; trade stimulators, and rare light-up advertising signs that once rode atop city taxis. Packed with nearly 1,000 high-quality lots, the sale boasted many prized pieces from the collection of Rick Frink, as well as those of other advanced coin-op enthusiasts. At the end of the day, Milestone closed the books at a robust $802,000, inclusive of 20% buyer’s premium. Rising to the top of prices realized, a Jennings Sun Chief 25¢ slot machine came to auction with exciting provenance. The flashy one-armed bandit had a Las Vegas history and, much later in its life, made a memorable TV appearance. The upper part of the heavily chromed red ... More
Alice Neel, Woman in Café 1975. Oil on canvas. Courtesy of the Estate of Alice Neel.
PORTO.- The Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art announces Alice Neel: Beautifully Imperfect (July 16, 2026 – January 17, 2027), an exhibition celebrating one of the most radical voices in 20th-century American painting. Organized thematically and curated by the Museum’s Chief Curator, Inês Grosso, the exhibition highlights Neel’s belief that imperfection lies at the heart of human experience and explores the artist’s deeply human portrayals of identity, intimacy, and social struggle. Bringing together nearly 90 works not widely seen in Europe, Alice Neel: Beautifully Imperfect is organized to reflect Neel’s central preoccupations, including intimacy, the female body, motherhood, aging, and the lives of people in marginalized communities, among them queer activists, immigrants, her Black and Puerto Rican neighbors in Spanish Harlem, and individuals whose identities challenged dominant social norms and conventional ideals of beauty. Her paintings engage ... More
BERLIN.- “Matter of Care, Care of Matter” presents sculptures and site-specific installations by [ materialistin ], a collective of eight sculptors working in Leipzig. Consisting of Laura Eckert, Enne Haehnle, Elisabeth Howey, Lucy König, Agnes Lammert, Wibke Rahn, Theresa Rothe, and Sophie Uchman, the group exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart highlights the significance of artistic community and new forms of collaboration. Stone, clay, concrete, plaster, steel, wood, plants, natural fibers, textiles, found materials, light, and writing are transformed into highly diverse sculptural forms. The exhibition showcases the diversity of contemporary sculpture in Leipzig. [ materialistin ] is a group of women artists from Leipzig whose work and activities focus on the broader field of sculpture. The artists work ... More
GYEONGGI-DO.- “Cybernetics, the science of pure relations, or relationship itself, has its origin in karma...The Buddhists also say ‘Karma is samsara,’ and ‘Relationship is metempsychosis.’ We are in open circuits.” —Nam June Paik, “Cybernated Art,” Manifestos: A Great Bear Pamphlet, 1966 In his 1966 essay “Cybernated Art,” Nam June Paik used “relationship” as a language to connect modern technological concepts with Eastern thoughts. Instead of a world that coalesces all entities into a single order, the “open circuits” in his essay envisioned a realm in which diverse beings and signals influence one another to continuously reconfigure their surroundings. The exhibition Stars, Trigrams examines the breadth of Paik’s cosmic vision, which gazed far beyond humanity and the Earth, and his reading of the world through the Eastern tradition of viewing things in shifting relationships — two elements that frequently inters ... More
A major institutional exhibition from The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art | 16th July – 21st August 2026.
LONDON.- The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi and Christie's London announce The Meeting Ground: Scenes from the KNMA Collection. This major institutional exhibition takes place at Christie's King Street, London, from 16th July to 21st August 2026, as part of Christie's summer exhibition series. Presenting this exhibition in London extends KNMA's ongoing international programme, bringing South Asian artistic histories to wider audiences and creating new contexts for engagement with the collection. Kiran Nadar, Chairperson of Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, said: “Since its founding, KNMA has been committed to situating South Asian artistic practices within broader international conversations. Presented during a pivotal moment of institutional expansion, The Meeting Ground reflects both the depth of the collection and the evolving role of KNMA as a multidisciplinary cultural institution speaking with the world from South Asia. International engagement is a pillar of our ... More
LONDON.- Historic Royal Palaces, the independent charity that cares for the Tower of London, today unveils plans for a once-in-a-generation transformation of learning and community spaces at the world-famous site. As a powerful fortress, a royal palace and an infamous prison, the Tower of London has helped shape Britain’s story for nearly 1,000 years. Now, supported by extraordinary philanthropic support, the UNESCO World Heritage Site is being reimagined as one of the UK’s most inspiring places for learning, creativity and community connection. Historic Royal Palaces is transforming how it welcomes and works with schools at the Tower of London, creating world-class learning experiences at the heart of one of the world’s most iconic visitor attractions. New, fully accessible facilities designed by Jamie Fobert Architects will include two new learning centres, dedicated spaces for community use and an Archive Study Centre as well as a green classroom ... More
Signed Lionel Messi 2022 World Cup Jersey Back.
NEW YORK, NY.- The FIFA World Cup 2026™ is the world's biggest sporting event, and the 2026 edition is the biggest World Cup in history: 3 host nations, 16 cities, 48 teams, 104 matches, and six billion viewers. Now, for the first time, fans can bid on authentic game-used balls, jerseys signed by national teams, and outfits worn by performers in the first-ever FIFA World Cup 2026™ Final Halftime Show. Christie's and Global Citizen, the world's largest movement to end extreme poverty, announce ONE GOAL: AN AUCTION TO BENEFIT THE FIFA GLOBAL CITIZEN EDUCATION FUND, a special online sale on Christie's website, taking place July 22-29, 2026. All lots are offered without reserve. Proceeds from the sale will support the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund, an initiative to raise $100 million to expand access to quality education and sports for children in underserved communities, supporting grassroots organizations worldwide. Beginning on July 22, anyone around the globe can register to bid on t ... More
LAUSANNE.- Iranian artist Hannah Darabi (b. 1981) was selected as the laureate of the 2025 Prix Elysée by an international jury. In her work, she uses photographs, videos and archive materials to explore popular dance as a form of identity-based resistance rooted in the social and political history of her native country. Her series set images in dialogue with archives, texts and objects to lay bare the political complexity of contemporary Iran. Darabi’s project Why Don’t You Dance? is inspired by the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement, a recent nationwide protest against the restrictive laws imposed on women by the Iranian government. The exhibition is divided into three sections, each centering on a pivotal figure from the Iranian popular dance scene. The parts function independently while also connecting to the others across time and between Iran and its diaspora. Mahvash, a leading cabaret figure of the 1950s, forms the foundation ... More
Sofie Dawo, Untitled (Wall hanging), 1963, wool, cord, linen, wool weft on linen warp, knotted, H 250 cm, W 95 cm Photo: Jochum Rodgers, Berlin.
BERLIN.- The Kunstgewerbemuseum at Berlin’s Kulturforum is presenting a major exhibition devoted to Sofie Dawo, an artist who pushed weaving beyond traditional ideas of craft and transformed textiles into autonomous, sculptural works. Titled Sofie Dawo: Textile Experiments, the exhibition opens to the public on July 17, 2026, and remains on view through January 17, 2027. An opening event will take place on July 16 at 7 p.m. The presentation has been organized by the Kunstgewerbemuseum – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in cooperation with Hans-Peter Jochum and Jett Rodgers. Born in Saarland, Dawo developed an unconventional approach that treated destruction not as an end point, but as a creative method. She cut threads, scratched textile surfaces, damaged intact fabric and combined traditional fibers with materials such as metal, nylon and polyester. Rather than concealing how a work had been made, Dawo allowed the process to remain visible. The physical mani ... More
Ana Elisa Egreja, Window with Scarlet Tanagers and a Golden Sky [Janela com Tiês-Sangue e Céu de Ouro], 2026. Oil and 24 karat gold leaf on canvas, 31 1/2 x 31 1/2 inches / 80 x 80 cm.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Jessica Silverman is presenting the first US solo show of Brazilian artist Ana Elisa Egreja, “The Flight of Color,” on view from July 16 to September 3, 2026. In 15 new oil paintings, Egreja transforms the everyday into the subtly miraculous. Working at life size, the artist fills domestic interiors with wild animals, flora, and foods drawn from her life in São Paulo. With intense colors and precise brushwork, her paintings bridge realms conventionally kept apart: the native and the imported, the sacred and the commercial, the sublime and the absurd. Her scenes are not surreal but magic realist; as she explains, they are “improbable, but not impossible.” Egreja describes herself as a “contemporary archaeologist.” Drawn to everyday objects that carry strong cultural identity or evoke shared memories, she uses the still life to preserve the collective consciousness in time. She catalogs what captivates her—from ... More
Sun Kyoung Park (Every Move Counts). Courtesy of the Photo SeMA, 2026.
SEOUL.- The Photography Seoul Museum of Art, in collaboration with Magnum Photos and Martin Parr Foundation, presents We Are Martin Parr, a major retrospective held in Asia following the artist’s passing. The internationally renowned photographer Martin Parr (1952–2025) spent decades persistently photographing ordinary moments of consumption and leisure unfolding within everyday life. The photographs he left behind, shaped by his distinctive humor and keen observation, have become a vast landscape through which we experience contemporary visual culture today. This exhibition approaches Parr’s photography not through a single lens centered on social satire or the critique of consumer culture, but through the candid and direct way of looking that he sustained throughout his life. Figures captured at an uncomfortably close range, objects saturated with intense color, and a gaze that lingers on seemingly trivial moments all invite viewers to look again at the everyday scenes they so ... More
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National Portrait Gallery launches a new free membership scheme for young people aged 16 to 25 LONDON.- This summer, the National Portrait Gallery has welcomed its inaugural members to CLUB NPG, a new free membership scheme for young people aged 16 to 25. Free to join, CLUB NPG connects members with the people, stories and ideas shaping culture today through the Gallery’s varied programme of exhibitions and events. By joining, members receive £5 exhibition tickets, discounted event tickets, seasonal newsletters, free online access to the NPG’s quarterly Face to Face magazine and early access to special retail experiences and art edition launches. Created in collaboration with young people and building on the Gallery’s youth programme, CLUB NPG aims to reduce the price of exhibition and event tickets for its members across the UK and beyond. Research undertaken by the Gallery with visitors aged 16 to 25 showed that for 25% of young ... More
Purdy Hicks Gallery announces the passing of Ralph Fleck LONDON.- Born in 1951 in Freiburg, Germany, Ralph Fleck lived and worked in Freiburg and Sóller, Mallorca. Formerly Professor of Painting at the Nuremberg Academy, he was the most generous of teachers; his encouragement of the students led to an unforgettable exhibition of their work, Meisterschüler at Purdy Hicks in 2014. Ralph Fleck developed a painterly language that was distinctly his own. Working with densely layered oil paint, he transformed familiar subjects into works of great presence and intensity. Whether painting the complexity of a city, the order of stacked books, a field of flowers or the changing surface of the sea, he was less interested in recording a particular place than in capturing its essential character. Every part of the canvas received the same attention, and each brushstroke retained the immediacy and vitality that became a hallmark ... More
Pat Oleszko receives The Whitney's 2026 Bucksbaum Award NEW YORK, NY.- The Whitney Museum of American Art announces that Pat Oleszko is the recipient of the 2026 Bucksbaum Award. Oleszko was selected from the group of 56 intergenerational artists and collectives working across disciplines and mediums in Whitney Biennial 2026. For more than five decades, Oleszko has developed compelling bodies of work in contemporary American art, combining sculpture, performance, costume, installation, film, and public participation into exuberant, genre-defying spectacles. Through humor, satire, and elaborate handcrafted environments, Oleszko transforms absurdity into a powerful, critical, and thought-provoking language, using amusement to examine systems of politics, gender, labor, environmental crisis, and the folkways that shape everyday life. In Whitney Biennial 2026, Oleszko's immersive installation includes two aspects ... More
Pola Museum of Art exhibits its entire nineteen-painting Claude Monet collection HAKONE.- Claude Monet (1840–1926) is one of the great masters of Impressionism. The Pola Museum of Art holds nineteen oil paintings by Monet, the largest collection of its kind in Asia. Ranging from landscapes of the Seine, Saint-Lazare Station, leisure resorts, and the seaside, to the London and Venice series and the late “Water Lilies,” this collection covers major works from every stage of Monet's career. Marking the centenary of Monet and the 25th anniversary of the museum, The New Vision: Monet and the Contemporary Gaze presents this remarkable collection in its entirety. Monet possessed an eye that astonished even his contemporary Paul Cezanne. He was also a pioneer who proposed a radical aesthetic vision, one that departed decisively from the artistic traditions of the past. Why is it that Monet's paintings, seen from our vantage point ... More
Heritage Auctions sets new world record as Luke Skywalker's lightsaber realizes $3.75 million DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions has once again rewritten the record books for Star Wars memorabilia. Mark Hamill’s original screen-used Luke Skywalker lightsaber, wielded during the climactic Cloud City duel with Darth Vader in Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back, realized $3,750,000 Wednesday during Heritage’s ongoing Hollywood & Entertainment Signature® Auction, establishing a new world auction record for a screen-used Star Wars prop. The sale further cements Heritage’s position as the market leader for Star Wars collectibles. With Wednesday's result, Heritage now holds auction records in three of the hobby’s most coveted categories: the most valuable screen-used Star Wars prop, the most valuable Star Wars filming model and the most valuable original Star Wars artwork ever sold at auction. Heritage established the auction record ... More
The Disney Experiences Auction - Rare and remarkable finds comes to D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event DALLAS, TX.- Disney fans attending D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event presented by Visa® will have the opportunity to bid on select, verified pieces from Disney’s theme parks and resorts during The Disney Experiences Auction - Rare and Remarkable Finds, conducted by Heritage Auctions on Sunday, Aug. 16, at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. Featuring 50 significant lots consigned by Disney, the auction will be presented live during D23 while also welcoming online participation through Heritage Live®. The offering spans decades of Disney Experiences history, bringing together original park-used, park-displayed and event-used artifacts from Disneyland®, Walt Disney World® and other Disney destinations. From attraction props and ride vehicles to anniversary banners, signs and displays, the sale reflects the creativity and craftsmanship ... More
Eighty-six global galleries selected for POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair 2026 BERLIN.- From 10 to 13 September 2026, the thirteenth POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair will take place in the impressive Hangars 5 and 6 at Tempelhof Airport. As the only art fair and a long-standing partner of Berlin Art Week, it offers a focused overview of current trends in modern and contemporary art and is also a key meeting place for collectors, curators and art enthusiasts. 86 selected galleries from 20 countries are presenting their most important artistic positions. The galleries represented are primarily from Germany, Japan, Canada, Republic of Korea, The Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, Türkiye, Ukraine and many other parts of the world. This year, there is a special focus on Türkiye. Besides that, no fewer than 28 galleries from Berlin are showcasing their most important artistic positions and using the fair as a platform for engagement, sales and exchange ... More
König Galerie presents Arghavan Khosravi's solo exhibition 'The Shape of Absence' BERLIN.- König Galerie is presenting The Shape of Absence by Iranian-born, US-based artist Arghavan Khosravi at St. Agnes in Berlin. The exhibition marks the artist’s second presentation with the gallery. Khosravi’s work often departs from lived, cultural, and historical experience, yet it extends beyond a specific geography or moment. Through painting and sculpture, she constructs worlds in which questions of power, agency, visibility, and control unfold through symbolic language. Fragments of bodies, architectural spaces, veils, cages, hands, shadows, and openings frequently reappear in her work. Together, they form visual metaphors that remain open to interpretation rather than declarative. Above all, Khosravi’s works are poetic. They can be read as visual poems: meticulously composed, rhythmic, and layered with meaning. They draw the audience into spaces ... More
Gallery Wendi Norris presents generation-spanning group exhibition 'Architects of Absence' SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Gallery Wendi Norris is presenting Architects of Absence, a generation-spanning exhibition pairing paintings and works on paper by Surrealist masters Remedios Varo and Marcel Jean with new works by Dabin Ahn, Selva Aparicio, and Yaxkin Fuentes-Barrientos. Spanning distinct eras, mediums, and geographies, these five artists are united by a shared project: navigating the voids that shape existence. Whether investigating the psychic, mythic, and alchemical realms of the imagination, documenting the material remnants of industrial and biological change, or harnessing loss and memory into resonant forms, their works map the absences that define reality. A highlight is Aprendiz de Ícaro (1959), a luminous and exquisitely detailed mixed media work on bristol board by Remedios Varo (1908, Anglès, Spain – 1963, Mexico City, Mexico). ... More
Cal State LA arts leader teaches inaugural Harvard course on arts administration and museum leadership CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- Nicholas A. Mestas, executive director of The Luckman Fine Arts Complex at Cal State LA, recently designed and taught a new graduate-level course at Harvard University during the first term of Harvard Summer School, the nation’s oldest summer academic program. Harvard invited Mestas earlier this year to develop the graduate seminar. The inaugural cohort included 15 established and emerging leaders in the arts and culture sectors from six countries, representing a varied range of professional backgrounds in the museum and arts presenting fields. The four-credit, 12-session course, titled Cultural Leadership and Institutional Strategy, focused on equipping cultural leaders to build institutions that are adaptive, audience-centered, and resilient through participatory and narrative-driven models of engagement and extension. ... More
Borges Labyrinth on Venetian island restored to mark 40th anniversary of writer's death VENICE.- The restoration of the Labyrinth of the Giorgio Cini Foundation, dedicated to the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), occured on the fortieth anniversary of his death. Considered one of the most beautiful and evocative labyrinths in Italy, it has been renewed after fifteen years, thanks to the support of PwC Italy, which participated as the main sponsor in this important restoration project. The Borges Labyrinth has become an iconic landmark on the Island of San Giorgio, forming an integral part of the monumental complex. Designed by Buora and Palladio, it is almost a third cloister, capable of uniting the ancient with the contemporary, architecture with literature, and the landscape. Opened to the public in 2021 thanks to guided tours organised by VisitCini, it has attracted over 25,000 visitors in the last five years. Renata Codello, Secretary ... More
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On a day like today, Italian painter Andrea del Sarto was born
July 16, 1486. Andrea del Sarto (16 July 1486 - 29 September 1530) was an Italian painter from Florence, whose career flourished during the High Renaissance and early Mannerism. He was known as an outstanding fresco decorator, painter of altarpieces, portraitist, draughtsman, and colorist. Although highly regarded during his lifetime as an artist senza errori ("without errors"), his renown was eclipsed after his death by that of his contemporaries Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael. In this image: S Filippo Benizi's Death and Child restored to Life (detail), 1509-10, SS Annunziata, Chiostrino dei Voti.
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