Cárdenas, who holds degrees in both Civil Engineering and Fine Arts, brings a technical and conceptual depth to his sculpture.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Nohra Haime Gallery presents Sculptures and Maquettes for Monumental Sculptures, a solo exhibition by Colombian artist Ricardo Cárdenas, and his first with the gallery. On view from September 4 to October 11, 2025, the exhibition showcases 17 works, ranging from sculptural maquettes to large-scale installations, highlighting the artist’s innovative approach at the intersection of art, architecture, and environmental activism. Cárdenas, who holds degrees in both Civil Engineering and Fine Arts, brings a technical and conceptual depth to his sculpture. His work is influenced by his background in materials science and metallurgical engineering, resulting in pieces that are structurally refined while engaging with global ecological concerns, particularly the deforestation of the Amazon and the fragility of natural systems. At the heart of his practice is the transformation of satellite imagery into sculptural forms. Geographic coordinates taken from threatened ... More
Massive Lincoln Mercury Safe Buy Used Cars porcelain neon dealer sign with lighted movement. Ordered in early 1950s by Fore Rivers Motors of Quincy, Mass. Estimate: $80,000-$120,000.
WILLOUGHBY, OHIO.- Milestone Auctions’ gallery will come alive with dazzling neon mega-signs and the bad-boy sounds of coveted vintage motorcycles in a September 28 Auction Spectacular that collectors won’t soon forget. The electrifying 643-lot auction, rich with signage rarities and bikes from long-held collections, goes above and beyond any other event the suburban Cleveland company has produced in its colorful 11-year history. Beaming brightly over the stellar array of neon is a sensational “unicorn” from the Depression Era: a Harley-Davidson bullnose dealership sign that sat crated and “sleeping” for decades in a rural schoolhouse until fate landed it in the hands of its present owner. That gentleman, a fan of both motorcycles and antique advertising, chose to consign it to Milestone’s September 28 sale, where it is expected to attract a hefty six-figure price. The auction headliner writes ... More
BERLIN.- Pace will present spray light layer emerge, an intimate selection of paintings and works on paper from Adam Pendleton’s Black Dada and Untitled (Days) bodies of work, presented across both floors of Die Tankstelle, the gallery’s new space in Berlin. The exhibition’s title, spray light layer emerge, reflects the various “acts” played out in the Black Dada paintings: materially, theoretically, poetically, and ultimately, visually. The exhibition will be on view from September 11 through November 2, coinciding with Berlin Art Week. A central figure in contemporary American painting, Pendleton is known for continuously redefining the medium as it relates to process and abstraction. His paintings begin on paper by exploring the full breadth of mark-making. He layers paint, spray paint, ink, and watercolor, while integrating fragmentary text and geometric forms, often using stenciling techniques. These works on paper are photographed and then combined through a scree ... More
Oil on canvas portrait painting by acclaimed British artist Jonathan Richardson (1665-1745), titled Portrait of Mrs. Hooper, possibly depicting Lady Dorothy Hooper (1680-1749) (estimate: of $5,000-$10,000).
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- An oil on canvas portrait painting by acclaimed British artist Jonathan Richardson (1665-1745); an oil painting by the legendary Louisiana folk artist Clementine Hunter (1887-1988); and a selection of fine watches (including Rolexes) are just part of Crescent City Auction Gallery’s Important Estates Auction planned for the weekend of September 19-20. The sale will be held online as well as live in the Crescent City showroom located at 1330 St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans, starting at 10am Central Time both days. In all, 696 lots will come up for bid, featuring property from the estates of William and Beverly (Gallo) Caulffield and William Prentice Farrington, both of New Orleans, and other fine local and regional estates. Achille Gallo was a New Orleans-born musician, artist and marathon runner whose collection of musical instruments, gathered ... More
Hans Josephson, Untitled, 1995–1996. Brass, 155 x 68 x 46 cm.; 61 x 26 3/4 x 18 1/8 in. Edition 2 of 6, plus 2 AP.
BERLIN.- Galerie Max Hetzler is presenting Hans Josephsohn and Günther Förg – A Dialogue at Potsdamer Straße 77-87, Berlin. In this first joint exhibition of the two artists, sculptures by Josephsohn with their tactile surfaces are juxtaposed with Förg’s grid paintings from the 1990s. Reliefs by both artists from different decades are on display on the upper floor of the gallery. Hans Josephsohn and Günther Förg came from different generations and only met a few times, but from the late 1990s onwards, Förg was familiar with Josephsohn’s sculptures. Following his usual practice, he studied his fellow artist's work and was especially fascinated by its materiality. Through Förg’s advocacy, Rudi Fuchs, then director of the Stedelijk Museum, became aware of the sculptor’s work, which led to Josephsohn's solo exhibition in Amsterdam in 2002. In contrast to Förg’s keen interest in his contemporaries, Josephsohn ... More
Typed list of songs from "The Wizard of Oz". Gift of Rita Arlen. Photo by Shawn Miller.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Library of Congress has acquired rare music and lyric sketches from composer Harold Arlen and lyricist E.Y. “Yip” Harburg, best known for their collaboration on the score of the iconic film “The Wizard of Oz” in 1939. The film opened in theaters 86 years ago on Aug. 25, 1939, and was inducted into the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1989. The new acquisition includes 35 manuscript items from Arlen and Harburg’s creative work, including the first handwritten drafts of music and lyrics from some of the most beloved songs from “The Wizard of Oz.” The collection also includes draft song lists and correspondence from the director of the film, Mervyn Leroy. The star of the collection: the only lyric sketch for “Over the Rainbow” known to exist. “Some day I’ll wish upon a star + wake + find the darkness far behind me,” Harburg scrawled in pencil on a scrap of yellow legal paper. This was perhaps the start of his cre ... More
Fernando Mignoni, Untitled, 1987.
MADRID.- Galería Elvira González opens on Thursday, September 11, the first exhibition of Fernando Mignoni in the gallery. Twenty works dated between 1969 and 1991 from his beginnings as a young painter interested in the human figure, his subsequent evolution towards structured compositions where nature and landscape replace the figure, to his latest works: abstract, constructivist and denoting interest in space. The exhibition coincides with Apertura Madrid Gallery Weekend. Fernando Mignoni (Madrid, 1929 - 2011) studied at the San Fernando School of Fine Arts, but considered himself a self-taught artist. With a tormented personality, he was a passionate painter and a great draftsman. Influenced by classical Italian paintings, especially by the italian artists of the Quattrocento, he inherited from his father, the Italian scenographer Fernando Mignoni Monticelli, a taste for color that he used as another form of expression. The paintings from the 1960s are solitary figures that denote a certain ... More
Kim Tschang-Yeul, *Waterdrops ABS N°2*, 1973. Oil paint on canvas, 195 × 130 cm. Wellside Gallery collection.
SEOUL.- This retrospective exhibition of Kim Tschang-Yeul (1929–2021), one of the most prominent figures in Korean contemporary art, offers a comprehensive look into the artist’s creative vision. It reexamines his body of work within the historical and art-historical context of modern and contemporary Korea. The rapid modernization of South Korean society in the midst of war, division, industrialization, and urbanization in the mid-twentieth century left profound emotional scars on the artist. His experiences were eventually transformed into a unique visual language. In the 1950s, Kim played a leading role in the Korean Art Informel movement, pioneering efforts to blend Western modernist idiom with a Korean sensibility. His journey passed through New York in 1965 and culminated in a relocation to Paris in 1969, where he continued his commitment to artistic experimentation and exploration in search of his voice. The early 1970s marked the beginning of his iconic Water Drop composition ... More
Thomias Radin, Ode to Ismael Ivo, 2025. Oil on linen, artist frame, 167 x 123 cm (unframed) 193 x 125 x 4,5 cm (framed).
PARIS.- Esther Schipper is presenting Entre ciels et terres : contingences humaines, Thomias Radin’s third exhibition with the gallery and his first at the Paris space. On view are new paintings and sculptural works, as well as a wall painting. Thomias Radin’s (b. 1993) Entre ciels et terres : contingences humaines bring together key elements in the artist’s practice. Especially conceived for the space in Paris, the exhibition begins with a suite of new paintings that reflect a sustained attempt to capture fleeting movements. Works appear executed in broad, dynamic gestures, with figures caught mid-motion. The figures are often seen only in fragments. Motifs of feet or muscular backs play with the ambiguous mix of beauty and threat. The tension felt in the depiction of young Black bodies ‒ objectified and instrument of cultural expression ‒ bespeaks this dual legacy. In the front room, several paintings on wooden, hand-carved panels have a sculptural presence and ret ... More
LONDON.- On the last Friday in September, Londoners will be able to join award-winning singer-songwriter Joy Crookes for an exclusive performance in Tate Modern’s iconic South Tanks. For one night only, visitors to Tate Modern’s Late can hear Crookes perform songs from her deeply personal new record, Juniper, surrounded by evocative photographs and outfits that have shaped her latest creative journey. Crookes’ music on the new album engages with themes of migration, memory and place, and is partly inspired by the connection to the work of artist Do Ho Suh, whose major solo exhibition, The Genesis Exhibition: Do Ho Suh: Walk the House, has been drawing crowds to Tate Modern throughout the summer. Similarly to Suh’s exploration of how we carry meaningful places with us across space and time, Crookes’ songwriting draws on her much-loved hometown of London and areas of it that are important to her, such as Brixton, Elephant and Castle and Brick Lane, highlighting ... More
Professor Margaret Burbidge FRS, By Soheila Sokhanvari, Egg tempera and 23.75ct shell gold on calf vellum, 2025, Commissioned for Artists First with kind support from the CHANEL Culture Fund, 2025, NPG S33(3).
LONDON.- This weekend the National Portrait Gallery opens Artists First: Contemporary Perspectives on Portraiture, a new programme of contemporary commissioning made possible through a continued partnership with the CHANEL Culture Fund. The new works in a variety of media reclaim untold narratives for display alongside works from the National Portrait Gallery’s historic collection. Installation, textile, painting, collage, drawing and film works will be shown across galleries from 6 September 2025, coinciding with a programme of special events with participating artists. Visitors to the Gallery on Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 September can drop in to take part in a variety of free activities, including a curator-led tour, pop-up artist talks and a silhouette booth run by British artist and Director of UCL Slade School of Fine Art, Mary Evans. Displayed in the Main Entrance, Evans’ ... More
Almeida’s new body of work—and the exhibition’s title—draws inspiration from Brazilian musician Tim Maia’s song Over Again, which she embraces as a mantra urging liberation from rigid patterns in mind, body, and daily life.
NEW YORK, NY.- Stephen Friedman Gallery, New York, presents Over Again, an exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Brooklyn-based, Brazilian artist Ana Cláudia Almeida. This marks the artist’s first solo exhibition in New York. Almeida is an artist whose work explores materiality through movement and mark-making, incorporating a range of media including paper, plastic, oil pastels, paint, video, and sculpture. Her practice seeks to disrupt the functional role of objects by examining the dynamic tension between interior and exterior, individual and environment. The fluttering nature of her works on fabric, the shifting quality of her sculptures, and the kaleidoscopic fragmentation of her large-scale paintings transform intangible memories into physical form. In Over Again, drawing, oil painting, sculpture, and plastic collide in what Almeida describes as an “ecosystem of pieces,” where ... More
DUSSELDORF.- Sex can connect, liberate, hurt and control people. With the exhibition SEX NOW, the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf invites visitors to discover lust, bodies and desire in all their complexity. From latex fashion, furniture design, photography and media art to dolls and toys: featuring around 400 objects across ten themed rooms, the show stages an intimate dialogue about sexuality and society. It explores erotic fantasies, queer perspectives and new realities – free of taboos and stigmas. To accompany the exhibition, the NRW-Forum is also launching its own OnlyFans account to share exclusive material and uncensored glimpses behind the scenes. From traditional gender roles to the sexual revolution of the late 1960s and current debates, SEX NOW begins with a historical overview of shifting sexual attitudes, culminating in SexPositivity. Objects such as the Sexualkunde Atlas (Sex Education Atlas) of 1969 and purple dungarees as a symbol of political emancipation are juxtaposed with the Fleshi ... More
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Carmignac Photojournalism Award announces Nicole Tung selected as the laureate of its 15th edition PERPIGNAN.- The Carmignac Photojournalism Award announced that Nicole Tung has been selected as the laureate of its 15th edition, dedicated to Southeast Asia and the human and environmental rights violations linked to illegal fishing and overfishing. Nicole was officially announced as the laureate, and her work unveiled at the Visa pour l’image festival on Thursday, September 4, 2025. Her report was carried out over a nine-month period with the support of Fondation Carmignac. It examines the complex dynamics of industrial fishing in the region and its consequences for marine ecosystems and coastal communities. Through field reporting in Thailand, the Philippines, and Indonesia, Tung documents a highly opaque industry in which access is often limited—especially at sea, where operations remain largely hidden from public scrutiny. Her report explores issues ... More
Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2026 invites the world to "Listen" CAPE TOWN.- The Investec Cape Town Art Fair (ICTAF) announces its theme for the 2026 edition: Listen. This powerful concept will guide the fair's curated sections for the 13th edition, set to take place from 20 — 22 February 2026 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC). In an era of global turbulence and rapid change, ICTAF 2026 positions itself as a vital platform for reflection, connection, and transformation through the act of listening. In a shared statement from the fair’s team, “In a world saturated with noise, urgency and individualistic self-expression, listening is an increasingly radical act. Listening is not passive. It is an active, embodied, ethical gesture.” The fair will feature ten distinct sections, including four curated by international art world luminaries: • Tomorrows/Today: ‘If You Listen Carefully, The Air is Full of Laughter’ curated ... More
Portsmouth Historic Dockyard to host an immersive experience from Hong Kong artists Kingsley Ng + Stephanie Cheung PORTSMOUTH.- Acclaimed Hong Kong-based artists Kingsley Ng and Stephanie Cheung have created A Sea of Words for Portsmouth, a large-scale immersive experience shaped by the voices of Portsmouth. Presented by creative producers Crying Out Loud with local artists’ organisation 432 Nomads, it is the first art of event in its kind in the Grade II-listed Boathouse 5 in the historic Portsmouth Historic Dockyard and transforms the space into a place for contemplation, connection and collective expression. This new commission builds on Ng’s and Cheung’s acclaimed work Over the Ocean, first created for Hong Kong’s Chater Garden in 2017. Originally conceived as an artistic response to urban migration, the installation has evolved with each ... More
Opening of the Bukhara Biennial: Recipes for Broken Hearts BUKHARA.- The inaugural edition of the Bukhara Biennial, Recipes for Broken Hearts, opened its doors to the public today, Friday September 5 until November 20, with over seventy site-specific commissions by more than 200 participants from 39 countries and six continents. Commissioned and spearheaded by Gayane Umerova, Chairperson of the Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation (ACDF) and curated by Artistic Director Diana Campbell, the debut edition unveils works, performances and installations born through collaborations between artists and artisans. Conceived as a living body nourished through shared experiences, Recipes for Broken Hearts will see, among other events, ambitious culinary activations unfold over the ten-week period at the biennial’s Café Oshqozon. Meaning ‘stomach’ and ‘vessel for cooking’ in Uzbek, the café will feature ... More
Amos Rex ends the summer with a 24-hour retrospective exhibition of Tony Cokes's video works HELSINKI.- Next Friday, 12 September 2025, Amos Rex will conclude the summer season with an exceptional retrospective exhibition, 24 hours with Tony Cokes, which unfolds across several spaces around the museum. During the event, visitors can, among other things, screen-print their own t-shirt or take part in an artist talk. The event is free of charge and open to everyone. The exhibition presents the American artist Tony Cokes’ video works as a one-day-only experience, complemented by live performances in an urban setting. The programme features Vladislav Delay (Sasu Ripatti) and the Sonic Wilderness Remix group, made up of musicians active in Finland, including AGF (Antye Greie-Ripatti), Islaja and Cucina Povera. The event transforms the museum’s Bio Rex cinema, corridors, façade and the Lasipalatsi Square into a vibrant arena for music, screenings and artistic ... More
Archives of American Art presents "Breaking Down Walls: Art as a Portal for the Incarcerated" WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art presents “Breaking Down Walls: Art as a Portal for the Incarcerated,” an exhibition that showcases two separate prison art projects led by nationally acclaimed artists Lily Yeh (b. 1941) and Emanuel Martinez (b. 1947). The exhibition highlights the role of the arts in creating transformative experiences for inmates and their communities. It will be on view Sept. 5–Jan. 18, 2026, in the Fleischman Gallery at the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture in Washington, D.C. “Breaking Down Walls” features approximately 50 objects, including correspondence with inmates, documentary footage of artmaking, personal writings, photographs, scrapbooks, exhibition flyers and original works of art from the collections of Martinez and Yeh. It focuses on two prison art projects: the Emanuel ... More
Diana Cepleanu's paintings capture the quiet poetry of everyday life NEW YORK, NY.- kaufmann repetto presents the work of Diana Cepleanu (b. 1957, Romania) in Now, the first solo exhibition of the artist in New York. The exhibition takes an atemporal lens to seventeen paintings made over the last three decades: each work holds the weight of its own against time, each its own ‘now’ of Cepleanu’s complete immersion in a moment. Like the quiet discipline of Renaissance still lifes, Cepleanu’s compositions privilege attention over spectacle, repetition over climax. Her practice is rooted in a dynamic oscillation between detail and whole: a process of zooming in and out, deeply embedding her observation in the materiality of painting itself, each brushstroke claiming absolute focus. Whether portraying her children, herself, or fragments of the natural world, Cepleanu’s works reveal a sincere attention to her daily life in Bucharest. Freed from the strictures ... More
Pre-Columbian cylinder vases and stonework headline Heritage's Sept. 13 Ethnographic Art Auction DALLAS, TX.- A ruler in elaborate dress and headdress appears to dance and speak or sing, two attendants — one wearing a jaguar pelt and head — joining in, bundles and a short mushroom-shaped pillar on the palace floor between them. The scene was painted on the outside of a Maya polychrome cylinder vase sometime around 600 to 800 CE and tells one tale that has been lost to time, but which nonetheless is a part of the vast and complicated story of the Americas. This vase is just one of the many artifacts spanning from Pre-Columbian time to the present belonging to the incredible, evocative collection of one Scottsdale, Arizona, couple, who will offer them to the public in Heritage’s Sept. 13 William and Joey Ridenour Ethnographic Art, Western Memorabilia, & Antique Firearms Signature® Auction. Delia Sullivan, Heritage Auctions’ Ethnographic Art Director, ... More
MACA Art Center presents Gawęda & Kulbokaité: Spit and Image BEIJING.- Spit and Image marks the first solo exhibition in China by the artist duo Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė. This debut brings together their most significant work and their newest pieces. The title, while originally signifying "perfect likeness," is here expanded to suggest a nuanced doubleness—one that creates polyphonic and polyporous dimensions within a seemingly repetitive and mirrored structure. The space of MACA is transformed into an ambiguous zone of liminality, in which perceptual boundaries dissolve into a site of superimposition, entanglement, and chaos. Self and doppelgänger, body and technology, real and virtual, scent and mist, membrane and screen: as various materialities and temporalities permeate and traverse this realm, a speculative contemporary hauntology emerges. The artists position their Slavic and Baltic cultural background ... More
Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne presents Giulia Essyad: Other Planes LAUSANNE.- The Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne (MCBA), will present Giulia Essyad’s solo exhibition Other Planes, commissioned for its Project Space. Giulia Essyad stages and transforms her own body, seeking to challenge the mechanisms of commodification that shape our relationship to desire within a society where advertising is omnipresent. Continuing her exploration of the relation between self-representation and inner life, she transforms the Espace Projet gallery into an immersive installation that weaves together DIY technology, digital imagery, and personal memory. For over fifteen years, the artist has continually returned to the self-portrait—a genre she began exploring as a teenager through drawing, and which she continues to pursue by subverting the commercial aesthetic of lightboxes. Recently, she has focused on the invisible aspects of the body: emotions, ... More
Opening of the 36th Bienal de Sao Paulo: Not All Travellers Walk Roads-Of Humanity as Practice SAO PAULO.- The 36th Bienal de São Paulo opens to the public on September 6, 2025, at the Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion, after a year and a half of curatorial engagements and encounters in different parts of the world. The public program began in November 2024 with the Invocations convened in four locations: Marrakech, Guadeloupe, Zanzibar, and Tokyo. Each stop brought together artists, poets, musicians, and activists in performances, debates, rituals and presentations, discussing and enacting the spectrum of humanity through themes such as belonging, memory, togetherness, emancipation, interdependence, care, technology and transitions. These experiences served as an “initial ritual” that now flows into the exhibition in São Paulo, carrying stories and languages, tastes and sounds, aesthetics and rhythms that have crossed oceans and borders. The metaphor ... More
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On a day like today, Spanish-born illustrator Sergio Aragonés was born
September 06, 1937. Sergio Aragonés Domenech (born 6 September 1937, Sant Mateu, Castellón, Spain) is a cartoonist and writer best known for his contributions to Mad Magazine and creator of the comic book Groo the Wanderer. In this image: Mad Magazine cartoonist Jack Davis, seated far right, takes a photo of fellow cartoonist Sergio Aragones, left, and Benjamin Meglin during an event to honor Aragones, Davis, and others, including Benjamin's grandfather former magazine editor Nick Meglin, Friday, Oct. 11, 2011 in Savannah, Ga. Aragones and Davis where among eight veteran MAD contributors gathering Saturday for a rare reunion.
