After Vincent van Gogh died, a large portion of his art and collection remained within the family. V.W. van Gogh and the Dutch government made an unprecedented agreement in order to prevent the collection from being dispersed. Photo: Jan Kees Steenman
AMSTERDAM.- If the Dutch government does not stick to the promises it made to the ‘Engineer’, a major project to carry out vital maintenance cannot be financed, and the museum will be forced to close. ‘If this situation persists, it will be dangerous for the art and dangerous for our visitors’, says Van Gogh Museum Director Gordenker in The New York Times. ‘This is the last thing we want — but if it comes to that, we would have to close the building.’ After Vincent van Gogh died, a large portion of his art and collection remained within the family. V.W. van Gogh and the Dutch government made an unprecedented agreement in order to prevent the collection from being dispersed. V.W. van Gogh transferred ownership of the entire collection — over two hundred paintings, five hundred drawings and nine hundred letters, as well as artworks by Vincent's contemporaries that were collected over the years — to the Vincent van Gogh Foundation, established specifically ... More
Naves, 2024, metal and wood, 20 x 18 x 10 cm, unique.
BRUSSELS.- In Italian cuisine, mantecatura refers to the technique of combining pasta or rice with sauce to achieve a creamy, smooth texture. In Sébastien Bonin’s latest solo exhibition, mantecatura represents Savoie, the missing link in the artist’s work. This mountainous department, bordering Italy, embodies part of the artist’s identity and family heritage, which he draws on to give his experience a universal scope. In Sébastien Bonin’s artistic universe, mountains and rurality connect identities, eras and techniques, nourishing and shaping his work. Sébastien Bonin, who in painting loves above all the assembly of colors, composition and framing, offers us here his own unique cut-outs, combining three dimensions with two dimensions for a layered exhibition, both in space and in levels of interpretation. First, there is a play of dichotomies in the works presented, creating a constant tension between the personal and the universal, the ancestral and the contemporary, the art ... More
LONDON.- This September, the V&A unveils The Ripple Effect—a newly commissioned ceramic installation by Polish artist and designer Alicja Patanowska, created for the John Madejski Garden as part of the programme curated by the V&A for London Design Festival 2025. Formed from 2,000 hand-made ceramic tiles, the installation doubles as both a place of rest and a meditation on our relationship with natural resources. At its heart, a working fountain directs water into the central pond, inviting visitors to sit, recline and touch the surface of the tiles, making it both a contemplative sculpture and a welcoming shared space. Much of the work is made from mining waste sourced from Żelazny Most in southwest Poland—one of Europe’s largest industrial depositories. By reusing waste as a material for craft, Patanowska highlights the hidden consequences of copper mining and consumer demand. Alicja Patanowska is a Polish artist and designer whose practice combines traditional ceramic cra ... More
On loan from the Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica in Rome, the painting will be on view September 14, 2025–January 11, 2026.
FORT WORTH, TX.- The Kimbell Art Museum announced today that it will display Caravaggio’s Judith Beheading Holofernes as a Guest of Honor on loan from the Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica in Rome, where it normally hangs in the Palazzo Barberini. The monumental canvas ranks among Caravaggio’s most groundbreaking masterpieces for its bold realism and the theatrical staging of its biblical subject. The painting will be on view in the Louis I. Kahn Building from September 14, 2025, through January 11, 2026. “The Kimbell’s audiences are fortunate to be able to experience this fall and into the new year one of Caravaggio’s most dramatic and famous paintings,” said Eric M. Lee, director of the Kimbell Art Museum. “A star of the recent, historic Caravaggio exhibition in Rome that attracted more than 450,000 visitors, Judith Beheading Holofernes joins the Kimbell’s own beloved painting by Caravaggio, ... More
Catherine Maize, Self Portrait, 2025. Oil on panel, 4 x 4 inches.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Paul Thiebaud Gallery announces the opening of Catherine Maize: Recent Paintings on Saturday, September 13, 2025, with a reception from 3-5 pm and remarks at 3:30 pm. The exhibition features a selection of twenty recent oil paintings on Masonite panels depicting contemplative still-lifes, glimpses of landscapes, and a rare self-portrait, with each work being an exploration of subtlety and precision in painting. The exhibition will be on view through November 8, 2025. At first glance, Catherine Maize’s paintings are quiet and reserved, yet they beckon the viewer to engage in a little world where settings and objects are carefully composed, offering a lasting impression. In this newest body of work, Maize is keenly focused on the formal concerns of shape, volume, and compositional relationships. As viewed in Tabletop Vases with Lemon, Maize pairs multiple objects of various sizes, textured surfaces, and contrasting values resulting in a composition that appears ... More
L-R: Yellow Vase with Lugs, 2016, Rust Coloured Vase, 2017, Yukon Black Jar with Geometric Lugs, c. 2000s, Thin Vase with Cast Iron Glaze, 2014, White Vase, 2016.
NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan will present Wayne Ngan: Spirit and Form, on view in the gallery’s 48 Walker Street viewing room from September 5 through October 4, 2025. Wayne Ngan (b.1937 Guangdong, China - d.2020 Hornby Island, BC, Canada) is recognized as one of Canada’s premier ceramic artists. Ngan’s lengthy career spanned over six decades. At the age of thirteen, Ngan moved from Guangdong, China to a vastly different British Columbia, Canada. Ngan was determined to make a name for himself as an artist despite challenging circumstances. His practice drew influence from traditional Chinese, Korean, and Japanese pottery, as well as Modernist painting, pre-Columbian and ancient Egyptian art. Ngan’s extensive knowledge of these historic precedents and his connection to the natural beauty of Canada’s Hornby Island informed his abstract sculptural forms. This exhibition spotlights a selection of cornerstone ... More
Mike Bouchet, "Noble House", 2025 (Detail). Mixed media, Aluminiumrahmen, 122 x 240 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Parisa Kind,Frankfurt/M.
FRANKFURT.- In a radical act of artistic transformation, Mike Bouchet has destroyed his monumental sculpture Sir Walter Scott. The entire work was fed into an industrial machine that shreds wood into fibers for OSB panels. From this material, Bouchet has created his new Relivare wall reliefs, now on view at Galerie Parisa Kind. The sculpture Sir Walter Scott (2010) was itself already a reincarnation. It was made from Watershed (2009), a 300-square-meter suburban home that was floated, sunk, and re-floated in the Arsenale lagoon at the Venice Biennale. The house was later cut apart and transformed into Sir Walter Scott, a large-scale sculpture exhibited at institutions including Schirn Kunsthalle in 2010 and subsequently acquired into a private collection. Nearly fifteen years later, Bouchet has subjected this work to yet another metamorphosis. In an act of material violence, the sculpture was ground down into the coarse fibrous mass used for OSB. These fragments form the basis of the ... More
Christopher Morley. The Haunted Bookshop. Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1919.
DALLAS, TX.- Bibliophiles aspiring to create or add to their own personal libraries have one last opportunity to bid on hundreds of rare items from a legendary collection at the Sept. 10-11 Important English and American Literature: The William A. Strutz Library, Part III, Rare Books Signature®Auction. This third and final sale comprises a wider and deeper selection from the celebrated library formed over 60 years by attorney and avid reader William A. Strutz of Bismarck, North Dakota. Heritage Auctions established numerous record prices in its $5.6 million sale of the first part of the Strutz library on June 27, 2024, and realized more than $1.2 million with the second sale in December 2024. “This final portion of the sale of the Strutz Library is the largest in volume and range of material and further represents the depth of Mr. Strutz’ collecting taste, with a focus on books of literary significance, in superb original condition and with important provenance. Presentation and associati ... More
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Photographer and artist Matthew Rolston, in partnership with Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, ArtCenter College of Design, Daido Moriyama Museum / Daido Star Space, and Leica Gallery, Los Angeles, present a multi-venue Los Angeles exhibition of his latest series Vanitas: The Palermo Portraits, alongside the release of a special limited-edition monograph on Nazraeli Press. In production for well over a decade, Vanitas represents a cumulative effort by Rolston to aesthetically capture the fraught human relationship to death through the medium of photography, a profound narrative, as seen through the decaying faces of mummified individuals in Palermo, Sicily’s Catacombe dei Cappuccini. These vivid, painterly compositions bring forth an interwoven meditation on beauty, mortality and art through Rolston’s uniquely photographic lens. The monumentally scaled, richly hued Vanitas prints will be framed in patinated gold ... More
Gabrielle Goliath, Daria, A quiet rush (still), from the series “Personal Accounts (a quiet rush)”, 2025. 11-channel video & sound installation (video still). Courtesy of the artist.
KYIV.- The PinchukArtCentre presents Gabrielle Goliath’s Personal Accounts, an ongoing, deeply moving video installation in which women and gender-diverse collaborators share personal stories of survival and repair, within contexts of patriarchal violence. Unfolding across different geographies and political landscapes, its latest chapter, a quiet rush, was filmed in Ukraine in March 2025, amid the full-scale war. It is presented alongside earlier chapters recorded in South Africa, Italy, and Scotland. In each location, Goliath creates a space of care—an environment shaped by presence, consent, and emotional resonance. Her work doesn’t seek to display trauma but to honour the agency of those who have lived through it. Participants—women, queer, trans, and non-binary individuals—were invited to share not only their stories, but ... More
Naotaka Hiro, Sandwaves, Internally, Volume 1, 2025, Studio view. Courtesy the artist.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bortolami will present Of Two, Naotaka Hiro’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Hiro continues his dialectical approach to mark-making, working across canvas, wood, and bronze. “Whether drawing or painting,” Hiro says, “my practice unfolds in two steps: the first is subjective, intuitive, and organic; the second is objective and analytical. These steps repeat, with two personas—instinctive and reflective—continually agreeing and conflicting throughout the work.” For his wood paintings, Hiro works beneath each panel as it hovers horizontally a foot above the floor. He pushes his body against the underside, so close to the surface that he cannot discern his progress, at least until he flips the panels over to observe, analyze, and edit the paintings from above. Likewise with Hiro’s vertical unstretched canvas works, the artist wraps his body in the loose material, painting and drawing in two-hour intervals before unfurling the ... More
Samantha Yun Wall, Parting Gift, 2025, Ink and conté crayon on Claybord, 60 x 42 inches.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Samantha Yun Wall delves into our collective stories to better understand contemporary social structures that stigmatize difference. She focuses on the female archetypes found throughout global mythologies, folktales, and creation narratives. Vilified figures, such as ghosts, monsters, healers, and storytellers, are the most revealing. The women described defy traditional expectations and are consequently marginalized, transformed into altered beings, made invisible or hyper-visible, and treated as outcasts. Wall has found striking reflections in these stories of her lived experience as a multiracial woman navigating a world that often alienates and exoticizes those perceived as Other. Her highly detailed monochromatic images draw from personal narratives, science fiction, and Korean folklore to examine cultural taboos that perpetuate secrecy and silence. They explore themes of hybridity, ... More
David Shongo Café Kuba III, 2025 Essaie d’une contre-fiction Digital print on Classic Bariet 47,5 x 36,5 cm Edition 3+2AP.
ANTWERP.- Tommy Simoens announced that artist and composer David Shongo has been awarded the Main Prize State of the ART(ist) at Ars Electronica 2025. His new installation Café Kuba will be on view at the Ars Electronica Festival from 3 to 7 September, in the exhibition PANIC yes/no at Postcity, the festival’s central venue in Linz. The prestigious State of the ART(ist) prize honors artists who face threats to their existence, whether through political repression, war, environmental disaster, or economic precarity. It recognizes practices that persist despite adverse conditions and celebrates voices that bring global urgencies into focus through art. In awarding the prize to Shongo, the jury emphasized the precision, conceptual clarity, and courageous engagement of his project. Later this year, Café Kuba will travel on to DOK Leipzig 2025, the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary ... More
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Winners and exhibition of Wellcome Photography Prize 2025 LONDON.- Curated by Laurie Britton Newell and Ligaya Salazar, the Wellcome Photography Prize exhibition features images that reflect a wide spectrum of health experiences, from everyday routines to global challenges. Using techniques such as portraiture, cyanotypes, drone photography, and light and electron microscopy, the image makers show how health is lived, documented and researched around the world. Many of the works respond to Wellcome’s core focus areas, mental health, climate and health, infectious disease and discovery research. Together, they reveal how these issues overlap and take shape in different cultural and geographic contexts. The result is a layered and often unexpected portrait of health today, told through voices and perspectives that are frequently overlooked. Among this year’s highlights are Marks of Majesty: Vanessa by Julia Comita ... More
Serge Tiroche Contemporary presents two new exhibitions at ACEL Art Company SEOUL.- Next week, in the heart of Gangnam, ACEL Art Company opens its doors as Seoul’s newest cultural destination, bringing a bold new model to South Korea. More than a gallery, ACEL is a next-generation platform designed to connect international galleries, collectors, and cultural partners with Korea’s dynamic art market through strategic, flexible, and high-impact collaborations. Launching in perfect sync with Frieze Seoul 2025, ACEL offers a five-story standalone space that houses expansive galleries, a members’ cultural lounge, and private viewing rooms, creating an environment where art, ideas, and global networks meet. Positioned at the crossroads of Asia’s rapidly evolving art infrastructure, ACEL serves as a vital bridge between the local and the international, fostering new forms of cultural exchange. For its inaugural season, ACEL proudly joins forces ... More
Galerie 1900-2000 presents "New York Selections" of modern masters NEW YORK, NY.- Galerie 1900-2000 will present New York Selections: Works on Paper and Beyond, a group exhibition on view at Fleiss-Vallois from September 5 through December 20, 2025. The exhibition features important works by Hans Bellmer, Erwin Blumenfeld, Victor Brauner, Alexander Calder, Jorge Camacho, Paul Delvaux, Marcel Duchamp, Arshile Gorky, Wifredo Lam, Man Ray, Roberto Matta, Wolfgang Paalen, Francis Picabia, Alice Rahon, Kurt Seligmann, and Joseph Stella. The exhibition highlights the importance of works on paper as a space for experimentation and innovation, while also including select pieces in other media that complement and expand these dialogues. Duchamp’s graphic works distill his conceptual investigations, while Bellmer’s Surrealist drawings explore desire and the unconscious. Gorky’s drawings bridge Surrealist automatism ... More
FotoFocus announces fall 2025 symposium: Photo-Economics CINCINNATI, OH.- FotoFocus announces its Fall 2025 Symposium: Photo-Economics, an all-day event on Saturday, October 4, 2025, at Lightborne Studios (212 E 14th Street). Delving into the industrial history of photography and its role in shaping social narratives, the lineup includes leading voices, such as artists Mitch Epstein, Katy Grannan, Alison Rossiter, and Lauren Bon, as well as scholars such as Robert Slifkin, Monica Bravo, Lee Ann Daffner, and Benjamin Young, each exploring aspects of photography's part in systems of global industrialization and distribution, including the impacts of these realities on social and political systems. A reception following the symposium will feature live music from local band Red Cedars. “The FotoFocus symposium and biennial themes always address some essential aspect of photography while at the same time exploring how that aspect ... More
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery opens fall season with group show focused on memory NEW YORK, NY.- Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery will open its fall season on September 5, 2025 with a group show of five artists whose work engages the physical and emotional impressions left by moments, events, or places. Working in mediums both traditional and experimental, each artist points to the past as something to be carried forward through visual and tactile means. Sophia Chai’s practice involves drawing directly onto the walls and floors of her studio to construct spaces that are rendered through photography. These environments, defined by perspectival lines and shadows, appear deceptively simple, yet are made complex through the act of being photographed. Chai takes inspiration from Mohist scholars (named for the ancient Chinese Scholar Mo-Ti (470-391 BC), who used concave or convex mirrors to closely examine the relationship between objects and their corresponding images and shadows. They observed that while shadows and reflections move with their source objects, ... More
Paulo Nazareth honors family and history in new exhibition at Mendes Wood DM SAO PAULO.- NAZARETHANA tells many stories. The exhibition begins with the experiences of Paulo Nazareth’s mother, Ana Gonçalves da Silva, and grandmother, Nazareth Cassiano de Jesus, while also speaking about mothers and grandmothers around the world. It invokes divinities of diverse origins – Greco-Roman, African, of the Americas, Brazilian, and pre-Cabral. Organized in Cantos, the exhibition unfolds like an epic about faith, religiosity, politics, and science. Combining narratives that belong to both the artist and humanity, multiple rooms are divided by colors chosen by the artist as manifestations of art, “sacred manifestations,” echoing his mother’s saying that art is sacred. In this way, the exhibition weaves together oral tradition and official history. The story of the artist’s mother and grandmother anchors NAZARETHANA. Nazareth Cassiano de Jesus, his grandmother, ... More
Landmark Lindy Lee survey exhibition opens in Chengdu CHENGDU.- Sullivan+Strumpf shared the news that acclaimed Chinese Australian artist Lindy Lee's landmark exhibition, Myriad States Between Myriad Worlds, officially opened at A4 Art Museum in Chengdu, China. Lee’s most significant survey exhibition outside of Australia, and her first in China, features an extensive survey of works from across her celebrated career, including new works created for the exhibition. Curated by Dr Shen Qilan, with the support of A4 Art Museum Director Sunny Sun, Myriad States Between Myriad Worlds is a profound meditation on the flow of time and the ceaseless rising and falling of all phenomena. “The exhibition The Myriad States Between Myriad Worlds invites audiences to journey along Lindy Lee’s path: her origins, her destinations, and the innermost round of our shared being. ”- CURATOR DR. SHEN QILAN “My work ... More
Remai Modern presents online panel Indigenous Artists on the Work of Humour SASKATOON.- Since time immemorial, humour has been integral to Indigenous life. Facilitating connection and strengthening relations, humour is oft employed in a variety of forms of storytelling: offering entertainment while imparting wisdom, engaging with the absurdities of life, and communicating cultural sensibilities. Levity features largely within the work of visual artists Shelley Niro, Tarralik Duffy, and actor and comedian Adrianne Chalepah. In this online program, the panelists will reflect on the ways in which they utilize humour into their respective creative practices, while also discussing its deployment as a tool that generates joy, enacts subversion, fosters resilience, and engenders healing. It’s Funny Because It’s True: Indigenous Artists on the Work of Humour is being held in conjunction with the current Remai Modern exhibitions Shelley Niro: 500 Year Itch and Tarralik ... More
Rinus Van de Velde blurs reality and fiction in new Tim Van Laere Gallery exhibition ANTWERP.- Tim Van Laere Gallery presents its ninth solo exhibition of renowned Belgian artist Rinus Van de Velde. In this exhibition, Van de Velde presents a new series of oil pastel drawings, a large-scale self-portrait in charcoal and a new series of sculptures. In addition he reveals elements from his upcoming fourth film, which is currently in production, by presenting a large-scale installation and he introduces a new medium to his oeuvre by presenting his first monumental aluminum sculpture in the outdoor patio. Nobel laureate Albert Camus claimed that “fiction is the lie by which we tell the truth.” A paradoxical statement that also encapsulates the essence of Rinus Van de Velde's artistic practice. Since the beginning of his artistic career, Van de Velde has explored the relationship between fiction and reality, not as opposites but as compatible elements: reality shapes fiction and fiction reveals the hidden layers of our reality. ... More
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art looks toward the future, announcing a new strategic plan and leadership additions KANSAS CITY, MO.- Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art looks toward the future with a new strategic plan and leadership additions. Having celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2024, during which time it named new Executive Director Jessica May (January 2024) and Chief Curator Jessica Hong (September 2024), the Museum has already begun a new era. With the new strategic plan, Kemper Museum has defined a fresh mission and vision, along with a detailed plan for growth and innovation over the next five years. The Museum continues to build on the strong leadership team who will implement the plan, naming William (Bill) Gautreaux as Board Chair, Erica McGeachy Crenshaw as Vice Chair, and appointing Mary Kemper Wolf as a Lifetime ... More
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On a day like today, American photographer Helen Levitt was born
August 31, 1913. Helen Levitt (August 31, 1913 - March 29, 2009) was an American photographer. She was particularly noted for "street photography" around New York City, and has been called "the most celebrated and least known photographer of her time. She lived in New York City and remained active as a photographer for nearly 70 years. New York's "visual poet laureate" was notoriously private and publicity shy.
