AMSTERDAM.- One hundred years after Willem de Kooning left Rotterdam for a new life in New York, Rijksmuseum brings de Kooning back to the Netherlands with the major exhibition Willem de Kooning at work. De Kooning became one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Featuring more than 120 works, Rijksmuseum’s landmark exhibition is a retrospective overview of his drawn works, complemented by a selection of de Kooning’s most celebrated paintings and sculptures. The drawings trace the development of a modern master who changed art forever, offering unprecedented insight into the practice of an artist in constant search of renewal. Alongside the exhibition, two of de Kooning’s most iconic paintings – Woman I and Woman and Bicycle – will be displayed concurrently in the Rijksmuseum’s Gallery of Honour, placing de Kooning ... More
The finest specimen available, second only to “Bloody Mary” of the famed “Dueling Dinosaurs". Photo: Matthew Sherman.
NEW YORK, NY.- Nearly three months after the record-breaking sale of “Gus” – which sold for $50.1 million at Sotheby’s New York earlier this year, becoming the most valuable dinosaur ever sold at auction – Sotheby’s is set to bring another remarkable dinosaur to market. “Jodi” is an exceptionally rare mounted skeleton of Nanotyrannus and one of only three such skeletons known to science. Its emergence follows the long-awaited confirmation of Nanotyrannus as a distinct genus (now split into two species, N. lancensis and N. lethaeus), challenging long-held assumptions that Tyrannosaurus rex was the sole large predator of the Cretaceous. Measuring approximately 6.5 feet tall and 19.6 feet long, “Jodi” is the first Nanotyrannus to come to market following the confirmation of the genus’s validity last year. The finest and most complete Nanotyrannus available, “Jodi” is an exceptional example of this elusive predator, boasting ... More
Darth Vader's Screen-Matched Hero Dueling Lightsaber from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1983).
DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions announced the November 12 Ultimate Star Wars Auction, spanning Episodes I through IX and recent hit TV series and films. The auction brings together screen-used props, life-size character figures, a complete ultra-high-grade 330-card set of the 1977 Topps Star Wars series, vintage Kenner action figures, original concept artwork, cast-signed movie posters and much more. Leading the offering is the most expansive collection of Star Wars lightsabers ever assembled for public auction, with examples wielded by many of the saga’s most celebrated Jedi and Sith. Among the premier highlights is Darth Vader’s screen-matched hero dueling lightsaber, used in both The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983). Its offering follows Heritage’s record-breaking $3.75 million sale on July 15 of Luke Skywalker’s lightsaber and severed hand effects rig from the unforgettable Cloud City confrontation. Vader’s lightsaber, ... More
The Bulgari Pink, a 24 carat fancy intense pink diamond, estimate CHF10,000,000 - 15,000,000.
GENEVA.- Headlining Christie's Autumn Luxury Week in Geneva is a remarkable 24.00-carat Fancy Intense Pink emerald-cut diamond ring by Bulgari. This exceptional diamond will be offered on 10 November in Christie's Magnificent Jewels auction with an estimate of CHF10-15 million | US$12-18 million. From the collection of a distinguished European noble family, this fabulous stone has remained in private hands for over 70 years and has never before been offered for sale at auction. According to family lore, the rough diamond was acquired in India during the 1950s by the current owner's great-grandfather and was later entrusted to Bulgari, where it was transformed into the elegant pink diamond ring seen today. At the time Bulgari, the Roman jeweller, was emerging as a destination for some of the world's most discerning collectors and patrons, making it a natural choice for a diamond of such rarity. The 1950s coincided with Rome's emergence as the centre of ... More
NEW HAVEN, CONN.- The Yale University Art Gallery presents Sarah Sze: Images in Translation. Curated by Keely Orgeman, the Gallery’s Seymour H. Knox, Jr., Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, this focused exhibition highlights the work of New York–based artist Sarah Sze (born 1969; B.A. 1991), featuring new paintings publicly displayed for the first time. Sze has become widely known for works that challenge the static nature of painting and sculpture by blending these art forms and incorporating aspects of other media, particularly drawing, installation, photography, printmaking, and video. The Gallery’s exhibition brings together her new paintings with an earlier, room-size sculpture to consider the points at which the two categories of Sze’s work diverge and converge. Both integrate imagery drawn from popular and ... More
Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1967. Estimate $10-15 million.
NEW YORK, NY.- United by a singular vision, collectors and philanthropists Theodore and Ruth Baum’s infectious passion for life, art, design and philanthropy led them on a deeply personal, decades-long pursuit to cultivate an extraordinary collection – one that was not only among the most distinguished private collections encapsulating the developments of 20th-century art history, but reflective of the forward-thinking vision, refined elegance and intellectual rigor that defined them as partners in life and collecting. As storytellers in every sense, the Baums were guided by their insatiable curiosity as they built a collection that transcended movements, generations and geographies. Throughout the course of two decades, they traveled around the world in pursuit of great works by the visionaries of American abstraction, the innovators of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptualism, and the radical experimenters of post-war Italian art, assembling a constellation of artists engaged in dialogue with on ... More
Waring Hopkins also pursued an active policy of lending works to major international institutions.
PARIS.- Christie's announced Waring Hopkins, un américain à Paris, an auction taking place in Paris on 10 December, followed by an online sale running from 4 to 15 December. The approximately 500 lots offered are drawn entirely from the personal collection of this distinguished dealer, whose passions ranged from Symbolism, the Nabis and Surrealism to contemporary art, as well as classical furniture, decorative arts and design. A free-spirited eye, a taste unconstrained by convention, and a sensibility that transcends periods emerge from one work to the next in a subtle and harmonious dialogue. The intimate poetry of Édouard Vuillard finds an unexpected resonance in the organic fantasy of Claude Lalanne and in the inventive, multifaceted ceramic wall composition specially commissioned from Fabrice Hyber. The refined elegance of Delft faience converses with the raw materiality of Jean Dubuffet and armchairs stamped by Jacob Frères. A tribute to the most personal choices ... More
Horacio Coppola, Nocturno. Calle Corrientes, desde Reconquista hasta Plaza de la República (Nocturne. Corrientes Street, from Reconquista to Plaza de la República), 1936. Gelatin silver print, 11 13/16 × 15 3/4 inches. Estate of Horacio Coppola and Grete Stern. Courtesy of Galería Jorge Mara–La Ruche, Buenos Aires.
ST. LOUIS, MO.- The Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis presents Buenos Aires Modern, 1935–1950, the first exhibition in the United States to examine the inventive activities of a thriving, cross-disciplinary artistic community of locals, exiles, and immigrants living in Buenos Aires during the early twentieth century. During the late 1930s, European artists, exiles, and refugees began arriving in Buenos Aires in vast numbers. They made the transatlantic journey to escape oppression on multiple fronts, from the Spanish Civil War to World War II to the Holocaust. One of these migrant-artists was Grete Stern, a German Jewish photographer and graphic designer who trained at the Bauhaus before she was forced to flee Germany ... More
1970s painting by Willem de Kooning carrying the highest estimate ever placed on a work by the artist at auction in London. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sotheby’s has unveiled highlights from its autumn Modern British, Irish and Contemporary exhibitions in London, bringing together major works by Willem de Kooning, Gerhard Richter, Mark Rothko, David Hockney, Barbara Hepworth, L.S. Lowry, Frank Auerbach, Bridget Riley and others during Frieze Week. Among the leading works is Willem de Kooning’s Untitled from 1977, estimated at £8 million–12 million, the highest estimate ever placed on a work by the artist at auction in London. The painting belongs to the celebrated group of large-scale, colour-saturated canvases de Kooning made during a period of intense creative renewal in the late 1970s. Comparable works from the period are held by institutions including The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Guggenheim Museum, the Menil Collection and the Centre Pompidou. The Contemporary Evening Auction will also feature Gerhard Richter’s monumental ... More
Henry Chalfant, Writers Scene.
AMSTERDAM.- STRAAT Museum presents ART IS NOT A CRIME. Henry Chalfant: Capturing graffiti culture, NYC, 1977–1987. The exhibition showcases the legacy of photographer and documentary maker Henry Chalfant (United States, 1940), whose work and personality continue to shape graffiti culture to this day. It is the first major retrospective exhibition in the Netherlands to approach graffiti from its own documentary core. Chalfant began his artistic career as a sculptor in New York in the 1970s, before turning to photography and film. During his daily subway rides, he discovered how young people from across the city's neighbourhoods were transforming rundown subway cars into rolling works of art, and he decided to capture this on camera. Over the following years, he built up a world-famous archive of more than 800 photographs of painted subway trains, supplemented by hundreds of anthropologically oriented portraits and documentaries of the artists and the community behind the emerging ... More
Drake’s descendants began communications with VMFA regarding Double-handled Jug in February 2026.
RICHMOND, VA.- On Wednesday, October 7, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) signed a historic agreement with the descendants of enslaved artist David Drake (ca. 1800–ca. 1870) regarding his 1840 stoneware storage jug also known as a “poem” vessel. VMFA has restored ownership of Double-handled Jug to Drake’s descendants and will purchase it back for the museum’s permanent collection in return for an authorized certificate of ethical ownership. The restitution of Drake’s vessel marks the first time that VMFA has resolved an ownership claim for a work of art made under the conditions of slavery. The agreement was signed by Drake’s oldest living heirs, Ms. Pauline Baker (79), Ms. Daisy Whitner (87), and Mr. Johnny Williams (84) in a ceremony that included remarks by Mr. Drake’s fourth great-grandson Yaba Baker, advisor to Mr. Drake’s descendants George Fatheree III, VMFA Director and CEO Alex Nyerges, and Dr. Susan J. Rawles, VMFA’s Elizabeth Locke As ... More
Emily Sundblad, A Wedding, 2025, Oil and pastel on linen mounted on panel, 28 1/2 x 47 1/2 inches (72.5 x 121 cm). Courtesy the artist and Bortolami. Photography by Guang Xu.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bortolami announced the representation of Emily Sundblad (b. 1977, Dalsjöfors, Sweden; based in New York). The gallery will present a new painting by Sundblad at Art Basel Miami Beach this December. Working across painting, performance, and music, as well as being the Co-founder of Reena Spaulings Fine Art and a member of the Reena Spaulings collective, Sundblad moves fluidly between identities and collaborative contexts. In Sundblad’s paintings, the fight for happiness is wildly inclusive of subject matter and any momentary impulse...dreams, costumes, writing, sentiments, animals, others, daily life. It’s in the multiplicity of motifs, as one scene happens upon the next and then colors begin to blaze and flower in excess of whatever information they bring. The paintings are “legion” and also dream-like in their spatial distortions and in the sprouting ... More
HAMBURG.- The Hamburger Kunsthalle is devoting a large-scale retrospective to the painter David Novros (b. 1941 in Los Angeles, California), showcasing a fascinating body of work spanning more than six decades. To mark the artist’s 85th birthday, more than 50 of his paintings, copper reliefs and works on paper – some of them monumental – will be on view across two floors of the Galerie der Gegenwart. David Novros explores in his work the impact of colour, form and surface in space. His art is expansive and immersive, ranging from site-specific murals to multi-panel paintings hung on museum walls. As they interact with the surrounding architecture, these wall-covering works make tangible the interrelationships between artwork, space and viewer. During a trip to Europe in 1963, Novros saw for the first time a range of interiors adorned ... More
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Galleri Nicolai Wallner opens Cornelia Baltes solo show exploring sight and playful illusion COPENHAGEN.- Galleri Nicolai Wallner is presenting The Moon, Slightly Late, a solo exhibition of new works by Cornelia Baltes. As the audience enters the exhibition, they step into a scene already in motion. Baltes’ paintings form a kind of cosmic stage, populated by characters whose identities remain just out of reach. Something quietly absurd appears to be unfolding, though what set it into motion, and where it is heading, are never revealed. Each work can be read on its own terms or as part of a larger exchange, and the relations between them, orchestrated carefully by the artist, shift with each viewing. The logic of Baltes’ work skirts past direct symbolism or narrative, expressing something more subtle and intuitive. In The Moon, Slightly Late, discs recur throughout the new works, in pale pink, orange, and black, suspended somewhere between celestial ... More
Guggenheim Bilbao debuts Steve McQueen sound installation '66-76-26' BILBAO.- Throughout the history of art and across various fields of human creativity, some works have served as a reference and source of inspiration for the creation of new pieces. In 66–76–26, the poignant musical theme Wild is the Wind is the starting point and basic component of the installation that British artist and filmmaker Steve MᶜQueen is now presenting at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Originally written by Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington for the 1957 eponymous film, the song was performed in the film by Johnny Mathis and nominated for an Oscar. Since then, the song has been covered on numerous occasions, most notably by Nina Simone (in 1966) and David Bowie (in 1976); MᶜQueen himself included the song in a sequence of his 2018 film Widows. This time, MᶜQueen revisits these two versions that have fascinated him for decades, ... More
Friedrichs Pontone presents Joseph Cohen's infrared-fluorescing canvases in New York NEW YORK, NY.- Friedrichs Pontone is presenting To Be Here, a solo exhibition of new paintings by American artist Joseph Cohen, on view from October 9 through November 14, 2026. Cohen’s practice begins from a simple but enduring question: how do we live meaningfully in a world shaped by change, contingency, and limits? His answer is the title of the exhibition. Each painting is built from countless gestures, accumulated over time. Each gesture marks a moment when the artist chose to remain present: attentive, engaged, accountable, even as conditions shifted. Presence, in these works, is not a mood but a practice. Every mark stays in the painting, visible or buried, and the finished surface is the record of how long, and how completely, someone stayed. “These paintings are not proclamations but records of showing up, layer after layer, mark after ... More
Katerina Gregos appointed curator of 11th Triennial of Contemporary Art U3 LJUBLJANA.- Moderna galerija Ljubljana announced the appointment of Katerina Gregos as curator of the 11th Triennial of Contemporary Art in Slovenia—U3, to be held from June, 18, through November, 14, 2027. Founded by Moderna galerija in 1994, U3 offers a curator’s perspective on contemporary art in Slovenia. Each edition responds to changes in artistic practice and society, while the triennial’s alternating appointments of Slovenia-based and international curators bring different perspectives to the local scene. Previous curators include Tomaž Brejc, Peter Weibel, Gregor Podnar, Christine Van Asche, Jurij Krpan, Charles Esche, Nataša Petrešin Bachelez, Boris Groys, Vít Havránek, and Tevž Logar, who curated the tenth edition. Across these editions, U3 has examined subjects ranging from the conditions of artistic production to ecology and forms ... More
Barbara Takenaga's 25-year abstract survey 'Awestruck' opens at Kemper Museum KANSAS CITY, MO.- Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art presents the exhibition Barbara Takenaga: Awestruck, on view October 9, 2026, through April 11, 2027, the first major survey of the artist’s work in nearly a decade. Presenting abstract paintings made over the past 25 years, the exhibition brings together dazzling demonstrations that highlight the many approaches to abstraction that have shaped Takenaga’s career. Featuring over 45 works from institutional and private collections, this exhibition includes paintings up to her most recent, revealing Takenaga’s continued push to further her approach across increasingly expanding canvases, opening new paths within her ongoing exploration of abstraction. Takenaga reminds us that painting is a practice of both action and chance, so too is looking and perceiving: we make the work through ... More
Kerlin Gallery opens an exhibition of new landscape paintings by Elizabeth Magill DUBLIN.- Kerlin Gallery presents Northern Sky, an exhibition of new painting by Elizabeth Magill. “The drama is these paintings is released and withheld. Sometimes there is wind; sometimes there is stillness. What is plain sits uneasily beside what is visionary. There is no simple meaning; instead there is much ambiguity and strange, coiled beauty. Something might be about to happen, but that possibility is contained. It is as though the landscape is holding its breath and releasing its breath." -- (Colm Tóibín in the publication Northern Sky, 2026) Elizabeth Magill is one of Kerlin Gallery’s longest-standing artist collaborations, established when the gallery first opened in 1988. Since then, she has enjoyed a wonderful international career exhibiting in multiple public and commercial galleries across UK, Europe and Asia. She returns to Kerlin Gallery with a new ... More
Rago Wright ceramics sales top $2 million, underscoring market leadership in clay CHICAGO, IL.- Rago Wright's October 7 presentations of The Private Collection of Gertrud & Otto Natzler and Post War & Contemporary Ceramics together realized more than $2 million in sales, reinforcing the auction house’s position as a leading international marketplace for important works in clay. Enthusiastic bidding was seen throughout the day, with numerous lots realizing two and three times their low estimates and, in several cases, considerably more, demonstrating sustained collector demand across generations of modern and contemporary ceramic art. The day began with The Private Collection of Gertrud & Otto Natzler, an intimate offering of more than 50 works retained by the artists for their own collection. The sale achieved white-glove results for a total of $440,064, selling 297% by value. Most works had never previously appeared on the open ... More
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On a day like today, French painter Jean-Antoine Watteau was baptised
October 10, 1684. Jean-Antoine Watteau (baptised 10 October 1684 - died 18 July 1721) was a French painter and draughtsman whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour and movement, as seen in the tradition of Correggio and Rubens. He revitalized the waning Baroque style, shifting it to the less severe, more naturalistic, less formally classical, Rococo. Watteau is credited with inventing the genre of fêtes galantes, scenes of bucolic and idyllic charm, suffused with a theatrical air. Some of his best known subjects were drawn from the world of Italian comedy and ballet.
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