LAS VEGAS, NEV.- Sourcing rare, fresh-to-the-market coin-op machines and antique advertising is a year-round mission for the team at Morphy Auctions. While their decades-long tradition of holding coin-op and advertising specialty sales at their Pennsylvania flagship gallery will never change, twice a year they head west to Nevada to present exciting new finds to motivated collectors at their Las Vegas location. Morphy’s next semiannual Vegas Coin-Op & Antique Advertising sale is slated for October 16-18, with a lineup that includes 1,672 expertly-curated auction lots from a variety of subcategories. The colorful selection includes rare music, arcade, gambling and vending machines, plus a bumper crop of exceptional antique and vintage signage touting everything from tobacco and alcoholic beverages to soda pop, barbers’ goods, and the various products that would have been stocked at general stores more than a century ago. The atmosphere at these entertaining Las Vegas events is always upbeat an ... More
Center for Creative Photography cold storage chamber for acetate collection materials. Photo: Miles Scott.
TUCSON, AZ.- The University of Arizona’s Center for Creative Photography announced the completion of its state-of-the-art cold storage facility. With this facility, the CCP joins a small yet growing number of museums to have this advanced capability, a project led at the Center by Dana Hemmenway, Arthur J. Bell Head of Conservation. Encompassing approximately 4500 square feet, the new cold vaults have been seven years in the making and now serve as the occasion for the first major collection storage expansion—the Collection Sustainability Initiative—in more than 36 years, since the current building opened in 1989. “This cold storage facility is a necessary step to fulfill our commitment to responsible collection stewardship,” said Todd J. Tubutis, director of the CCP. “For fifty years, we have been charged with preserving the photographs, negatives, and archival materials of some of the most significant photographers in the history of the medium. We hold these material ... More
Portrait of Vaginal Davis. 1993. Courtesy the artist and Reena Spaulings Fine Art NY/LA. Photo: Reynaldo Rivera.
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- This fall, MoMA PS1 presents a major exhibition of Vaginal Davis, spanning five decades of her practice as a performer, visual artist, author, filmmaker, musician, educator, self-proclaimed “Blacktress,” and countercultural icon. Originating at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Vaginal Davis: Magnificent Product makes its US debut at PS1. Organized thematically, the exhibition includes major installations, video, paintings, zines, audio works, sculptures, and cross-disciplinary collaborations, as well as extensive archival materials. The presentation spotlights Ms. Davis’s role as an underground trailblazer in the overlapping realms of art, music, performance, and queer politics—as well as her uncompromising glamour. An archival display focused on her early career in her hometown, Los Angeles, traces the tributaries of her early career in the 1980s and ‘90s. A founding mother of the city’s queercore scene, Ms. Davis was, in her own words, “too gay for ... More
BASEL.- Art Basel Qatar will feature 84 artist presentations by 87 galleries when the fair debuts in Doha next February. Presented in partnership with Qatar Sports Investments (QSI) and QC+, the fair – Art Basel’s fifth globally – will be held from 5-7 February 2026 (with Preview Days 3-4 February). The 87 participants span 31 countries and territories, and 16 galleries will be showing with Art Basel for the first time – bringing new voices and perspectives onto our global platform. Conceived under the curatorial direction of Egyptian-born artist Wael Shawky, Art Basel Qatar’s first edition departs from the traditional booth model to present an open-format exhibition in which artist presentations respond to a central curatorial theme of Becoming. A meditation on humanity’s constant transformation and the systems that shape how we live, believe, and create meaning, it will unfold across two key venues – M7 and the Doha Design District – as well as selecte ... More
Murphy joins Art Basel from Christie’s, where she has served since 2021 as Senior Vice President, Head of Client Strategy for the Americas.
BASEL.- Art Basel announced the appointment of Carly Murphy as its new Global Head of Collector and Institutional Relations. Taking up the role in October, Murphy will work internationally to strengthen and expand Art Basel’s relationships with leading private collectors, museums, and cultural institutions – and to foster engagement across the fair’s global gallery network. Reporting to Vincenzo de Bellis, Chief Artistic Officer, Global Director Art Basel Fairs, Murphy will be focused on advancing strategies that enhance the relationships galleries forge with stakeholders across the ecosystem. Murphy joins Art Basel from Christie’s, where she has served since 2021 as Senior Vice President, Head of Client Strategy for the Americas. Prior to this, she held senior roles at Sotheby’s, where she began her career in 2003. After working across several departments, she joined the Contemporary Art Client Strategy team in 2007, later expanding into broader strategic roles. Murphy serves on the Advisory ... More
Installation view, Everyday Rebellions: Collection Conversations . Brooklyn Museum, October 10, 2025–July 5, 2026. (Photo: Paula Abreu Pita).
BROOKLYN, NY.- This fall, the Brooklyn Museum will open Everyday Rebellions: Collection Conversations in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, marking the first collection-focused show presented in the Center for Feminist Art since Out of Place: A Feminist Look at the Collection in 2021. The exhibition pairs newly acquired works with objects from across the Museum’s diverse holdings, including Arts of the Americas, Arts of Asia, Contemporary Art, and European Art. Everyday Rebellions: Collection Conversations opens on October 10, 2025. Inspired by Gloria Steinem’s bestselling 1983 autobiographical essay collection, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, the exhibition highlights how artists use juxtaposition, scale, and unexpected materials to spark dialogue about our place in the world. Featured works include Beverly Semmes’s Chorus, a dynamic installation made from oversized red velvet dresses; Sarah Sze’s Cave Painting, a complex mixed-media landscape; Sahana Rama ... More
Sung Tieu, Bleed. Installation view at Kunsthalle Bern, 2025. Photo: David Aebi.
BERN.- Kunsthalle Bern presents a new solo exhibition by Berlin-based artist Sung Tieu (*1987, Hai Duong, Vietnam). Working across sculpture, installation, drawing, text, video, and sound, Tieu examines the architectures of power embedded within bureaucratic, archival, and institutional frameworks. In exhibition settings, Tieu’s practice often takes on the appearance of a minimalist intervention in the form of a precise aesthetic that destabilizes the spatial, psychological, and perceptual expectations of the viewer. For her exhibition Bleed at Kunsthalle Bern, Tieu develops a new body of work that traces Switzerland’s historical entanglements with colonial economies, centering on the cultivation of caoutchouc (natural rubber) in French Indochina. The project engages with the legacy of Swiss-born physician and bacteriologist Alexandre Émile Jean Yersin, whose presence in Southeast Asia from 1890 onward exemplifies how scientific knowledge and colonial extraction were co-constitutive ... More
Sophie von Hellermann. Courtesy the artist and Pilar Corrias, London, photo: Daniel Gurton.
VIENNA.- Kunsthalle Wien opened the second in its series of annual public art commissions in the Museumsquartier. Sophie von Hellermann (b. 1975, Munich) has created an extensive new work on canvas for the 62-metre vitrine on the south-west wall of the Kunsthalle’s building. Von Hellermann’s paintings quote fact and fiction, drawing diversely from history and culture to develop expansive, narrative compositions. Using broad-brushes to apply acrylic and raw pigment on unprimed canvas, her images are imbued with a luminosity and a sense of movement and weightlessness that contributes to their fleeting, dream-like or cinematic quality. Get Your Head Around It pays tribute to the writer, cybernetician, language theorist and musician Oswald Wiener (b. 1935, Vienna; d. 2021, Steiermark) with whom von Hellermann studied Erkenntnistheorie (epistemology) while at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in the 1990s. The work is inspired by a conversation between the artist and her tutor, referring to Wie ... More
Elizabeth Taylor, 1955, Gelatin silver print, The Cecil Beaton Studio Archive, London.
LONDON.- Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World at the National Portrait Gallery is the first exhibition to exclusively explore Beaton’s pioneering contributions to fashion photography. From Hollywood stars and titans of art, to high society and royalty, the exhibition features portraits of some of the twentieth century’s most iconic figures, including Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando; Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret; as well as Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon and Salvador Dalí. The exhibition is curated by photographic historian and Contributing Editor to Vogue, Robin Muir. Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World (9 October 2025 - 11 January 2026) at the National Portrait Gallery is the first major exhibition to spotlight the renowned twentieth century photographer’s trailblazing fashion photography, the core of his illustrious career which laid the foundation for his later successes. Often highlighted, but rarely examined in detail, the exhib ... More
Joos van Cleve (?), Mona Vana Nuda, second quarter of the 16th century (?), oil on walnut panel, inscribed with a false signature Leonardo Vince. National Gallery in Prague
OLOMOUC.- The Olomouc Museum of Art brings an exhibition of Dutch painting from the 15th and 16th centuries. With a certain degree of exaggeration, one of the artists of that time, Karel van Mander (1548–1606), is the co-author of the exhibition, too. In his day, he was and still is one of the most respected Dutch painters. His works are part of the exhibitions of older Dutch art in major museums and galleries around the world. However, he is truly exceptional as the author of Het Schilder-Boeck (The Book of Painting), first published in 1604, in which he provided key information about the lives and works of his predecessors and contemporaries. "The exhibition and the selection of artists are similar to the narrative of van Mander's publication," explains curator Miroslav Kindl. "Through paintings, drawings, prints and books, it presents not only important works of Dutch painting from the 15th and 16th centuries, but also the principles of early modern art collecting and the intellectual wo ... More
LONDON.- Gagosian announces Etched Letters, an exhibition of editioned prints, unpublished proofs, and related drawings produced by Brice Marden between 2007 and 2012, on view at the Burlington Arcade gallery from October 10 to November 29. Curated by the Estate of Brice Marden, this is the first gallery display of Marden’s prints in London, and reflects the artist’s dedication to printmaking, which began in the 1960s and continued throughout his career. While his 2006–07 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, was traveling, Marden embarked on an international trip of his own. At the National Palace Museum in Taipei, he encountered “Seven-character Poem (Besotted by Flower Vapors)” (1087), a Song dynasty verse by Huang T’ing-chien (1045–1105). This example of Chinese calligraphy, which was mounted to an album page with blank borders on both vertical edges, inspired Marden to make the first drawings in what became the Letter paintings and works on ... More
AB+DM, Ji Shuyan, Paris, 2025, pigmented inkjet print, Angry Birds, Haute Couture collection, Autumn/Winter 2025/26. Commissioned by the High Museum of Art, Gift of Lauren Amos.
ATLANTA, GA.- For more than three decades, Dutch fashion artists Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren have explored the boundaries between haute couture and art with breathtaking virtuosity. The self-confessed fashion world outsiders have garnered critical acclaim for their unconventional designs that reveal technical prowess and a deep knowledge of fashion and history, and their creations have been embraced by artists including Cardi B, Lady Gaga, Madonna and Tilda Swinton. This fall, the High Museum of Art will be the exclusive U.S. venue to present “Viktor&Rolf. Fashion Statements” (Oct. 10, 2025-Feb. 8, 2026), the first major retrospective of their work, organized by curator Thierry-Maxime Loriot and the Kunsthalle Munich in Germany, where it debuted in February 2024. “Just like other important fashion exhibitions presented at the High, ‘Fashion Statements,’ featuring the stunning work of Viktor&Rolf, demonstrates how wearable art is among the most provocative and inventive ... More
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Marina Abramović retrospective at Albertina Modern spans five decades VIENNA.- Marina Abramović (born 1946 in Belgrade) is one of the most eminent contemporary artists. Considered the founder of modern performance art, she has written art history with her legendary appearances. From her beginnings in the Belgrade of the 1970s, she has, over the course of a career spanning more than fifty years, firmly established performance as a genre of visual art. Already in 1978, she had her first appearance in Vienna at the International Performance Festival. The exhibition, curated in cooperation with Kunstforum Wien, will offer a comprehensive overview of the artist’s oeuvre. The focus of the presentation at the Albertina Modern will be on reenactments of the historical performances, which will be shown daily throughout the exhibition. Performance art has a long tradition in Vienna, with Actionism as its best-known manifestation. Marina Abramović’s early performance series Rhythm combined concept with physicality, endurance with empathy, complicity with loss of c ... More
Warhol Museum exhibition explores icon's obsession with mortality in Andy Warhol: Vanitas PITTSBURGH, PA.- The Andy Warhol Museum announces Andy Warhol: Vanitas, on view October 10, 2025 – March 9, 2026. Andy Warhol: Vanitas explores the ephemeral nature of life as seen through the eyes of one of the most iconic artists of the 20th century. Andy Warhol, a pivotal figure in the Pop Art movement, was strongly influenced by his Byzantine Catholic upbringing and the religious iconography that pervaded his early life. This spiritual undercurrent appears throughout his oeuvre, where themes of mortality, vanity and the passage of time are recurrent motifs. This exhibition examines Warhol’s contemplation of life’s transient nature through the lens of three themes: Mortality, Vanitas and Temporality. Each theme offers a lens through which his fascination with death, the fleeting nature of beauty and the passage of time can be understood. Warhol explored these themes in his work with seriousness, and he infused them with irony and humor, showcasing his unique, often philosophical and c ... More
A King reborn: Velázquez's Philip IV gallops back to glory at the Prado MADRID.- After months in the expert hands of restorers, one of the Spanish Golden Age's greatest treasures has galloped back into the spotlight. The Museo Nacional del Prado, with the essential support of the Iberdrola España Foundation, today unveiled the fully restored equestrian portrait of King Philip IV by Diego Velázquez. The masterpiece, a cornerstone of the historic Hall of Realms project, is now on display, shimmering with the brilliant colors the Sevillian master originally intended. For four months, restorer María Álvarez Garcillán meticulously worked on the painting, stripping away layers of oxidized varnish that had dulled the canvas to a sickly yellow. The cleaning has dramatically resurrected the work’s chromatic richness, allowing viewers to appreciate the sheer genius of Velázquez's technique—the combination of dry, rapid brushstrokes with heavy impasto that makes the king, horse, sky, and landscape emerge with breathtaking naturalness. As Prado Museum Director Miguel ... More
Essi Kuokkanen paints the ineffable HELSINKI.- We all experience moments when we need support and encouragement—when doors close, or dreams drift just out of reach. In Holding a Cloud, Essi Kuokkanen reflects on what it means to be human—and how we coexist with other life on Earth. Her exhibition of paintings and drawings opens at Kiasma on October 10, 2025. Essi Kuokkanen lends shape to emotions and experiences that stir quietly beneath the surface. In her works, uncertainty crouches behind a fragile shell; spiders spinning their webs evoke the relentless passage of time; and other people appear elusive, like translucent ghosts. Beneath the inviting surfaces of her paintings runs a muted undercurrent of melancholy and solitude. Many of the works in the exhibition revolve around themes of growth and transformation. Like in a fable, Kuokkanen reflects on what it means to be human by drawing parallels with other life forms. Dogs appear as recurring figures—creatures bound to the rules and rituals of human life, whether by choice or n ... More
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On a day like today, British artist Simeon Solomon was born
October 09, 1840. Simeon Solomon (9 October 1840 No. 3 Sandys Street, Bishopsgate, London, England – 14 August 1905 in St. Giles's Workhouse, Endell Street) was an English Pre-Raphaelite painter. Examples of his work are on permanent display at the Victoria and Albert Museum and at Leighton House. In December 2005/January 2006, there was an important retrospective of his work, held at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, and in London at the Ben Uri Gallery in October / November 2006. In this image: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, 1863.
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