The Immortal Magu scroll was under conservation in 2024 and then restored using innovative conservation techniques.
WELLESLEY, MASS.- Following significant conservation work to repair severe damage to an ancient Chinese silk hanging scroll painting, the Davis Museum at Wellesley College is featuring The Immortal Magu: A Sixteenth-Century Chinese Painting Up Close, an exhibition to highlight this painting of Magu, a beautiful female deity and detail the extensive work required to bring back the painting back to life. “In September 2022, just after starting my job at the Davis Museum, I saw the painting in storage. I was immediately drawn to its scale, artistic quality, and its important representation of the Immortal Magu. However, the painting had never been known to the public and art historians due to its very poor condition,” said Dr. Yuhua Ding, Kemper Assistant Curator of Collections and Academic Affairs, who curated the exhibition for the Davis. “A year later, we decided to launch ... More
The Michelangelo drawing was part of Christie's Old Master and British Drawings sale, which included drawings by Rembrandt, Titian, and William Blake, among many others.
NEW YORK, NY.- A photograph sent to Christie's online Request an Auction Estimate portal by an unsuspecting owner resulted in a major discovery: a previously unknown study by Michelangelo for perhaps his most famous work, the frescoes on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Today, this newly discovered drawing sold for an extraordinary $27.2 million, nearly 20 times its low estimate and a record for Michelangelo at auction. The prior record was $24.3 million for another drawing, set at Christie's in Paris in 2022. There was approximately 45 minutes of intense bidding at Christie's in Rockefeller Center for the drawing, the only unrecorded study for the Sistine ceiling ever to come to auction, and one of only about 10 Michelangelo drawings known to be in private ... More
Early Marklin (German) hand-painted early musical carousel, finely crafted and hand-painted with ornate railings, decorative lamp globes, and the original striped canopy, $120,000.
VINELAND, NJ.- An early Marklin (German) hand-painted early musical carousel knocked down for $120,000 and a circa-1912-1915 Marklin Series II clockwork-driven model of the Battleship Brooklyn achieved $90,000 at Bertoia’s auction of the Martin and Deborah Maloy Collection, held on December 13, 2025. The Maloy collection was gathered over a period of 60 years and grew to become a world-class assemblage of European tin toys, autos and boats, biscuit tins, Marklin and other rare European trains, early Ives trains and accessories; airplanes, wind-up toys and more. The collection was the entire focus of the 400-lot auction, which totaled more than $1.6 million. An early Marklin musical carousel was the overall top lot of the auction, selling ... More
BOULDER, CO.- Collectors with wide-ranging tastes—from ancient art and ethnographic objects to fashion and fine painting—will find plenty to explore at the upcoming Timed Marketplace: Ancient, Ethno, Fine Art auction presented by Artemis Fine Arts. The online sale opens for bidding ahead of its February 8 close at 11:00 AM CST, with lots offered from Louisville, Colorado. Positioned as an accessible yet scholarly marketplace, the auction brings together objects that span continents and millennia, inviting both new collectors and seasoned buyers to discover works that balance historical depth with visual presence. Among the most compelling highlights is a 17th-century Chinese seated lohan from the late Ming to early Qing dynasty, estimated at $3,600–$5,400. Carved in wood and seated on a red-lacqu ... More
LONDON.- This March, seven works from an exceptional German private collection will headline Sotheby’s Contemporary Evening Auction in London. Treasured within the same private collection for six decades, the group brings together seminal works by Lucio Fontana, alongside key pieces by Alberto Giacometti and Sam Francis. Together, the works carry a combined estimate in the region of £15 million. Although assembled in Germany, the collection is, at its core, profoundly Italian - anchored by the vision of Lucio Fontana, whose intellectual audacity and formal innovations reshaped the trajectory of post-war art. Few artists of his generation saw their ideas travel so widely, or imprint themselves so forcefully, across both European and international avant-gardes. Comprising five works by Fontana, the collection represents the most extensive and nuanced survey of Fontana’s work to appear on the market in recent memory. Seen together for the first time, the works reveal ... More
Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Psychic Energy and Lifeline Energy Blossoming, 2025. Charcoal, marker, watercolor, and colored pencil on paper. Paper size: 32 x 28.3 cm / 12 ⅝ x 11 ⅛ in. Frame size: 71.5 x 47.8 x 2.8 cm / 28 ⅛ x 18 ⅞ x 1 ⅛ in.
LONDON.- The second exhibition in Sadie Coles HQ's new galleries on Savile Row is a group show inspired by Oscar Wilde’s novella, Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime. Wilde’s story, with its eclectic cast of characters situated in acidly etched London, is the stimulus for an exhibition of works of various scales and mediums. The building was initially built as an arts club in 1870, recalling a period of intimate exhibitions and society gatherings that Wilde fictionalised within the milieu of Mayfair. The restored gallery reflects the neighbourhood’s artistic lineage, and the artists participating in the Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime exhibition sit with the shadows of those exhibited in the area since the founding of the Royal Academy in the late eighteenth century. Set within spaces that once hosted similar salons, with a scenography that responds to that maximalist ... More
HONG KONG.- Christie's begins a year of 40th Anniversary celebrations in Asia and commences the Hong Kong spring season with the announcement of Gerhard Richter's seminal and incandescent Abstraktes Bild (estimate: HK$78,000,000 – 98,000,000 / US$10,000,000 – 13,000,000). The masterpiece will make its auction debut as a leading highlight of the Hong Kong 20th/21st Century Evening Sale on 27 March 2026, taking place live at Christie's Asia Pacific headquarters at The Henderson during Hong Kong Art Week. Presented amidst surging global interest in Richter, ignited by the acclaimed retrospective currently on view at Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, the piece hails from the artist's famed 'Abstraktes Bild' series – one of the most celebrated bodies of work in late 20th century painting. An exceedingly rare example within Richter's oeuvre, it was only in the year 1991 that he painted canvases dominated by the colour red, ... More
Joel Sternfeld, Space Center Houston, Houston, Texas, March, 1979. Archival inkjet print, 142 x 177,8 cm. 56 x 70 in.
BERLIN.- The Buchmann Galerie will open an exhibition by Joel Sternfeld featuring works from his iconic American Prospects series, alongside previously unpublished works selected by the artist from this significant body of work. Joel Sternfeld is one of the most influential figures in contemporary photography. As a leading representative of New Color Photography, he played a key role in establishing color photography—previously marginalized—as an artistic medium in its own right. Through a conscious engagement with the Straight Photography of the interwar period and its political consciousness, exemplified by artists such as Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange, Sternfeld developed a new, color-based visual language in which photographic rigor and painterly sensitivity enter into a productive tension. Between 1978 and the mid-1990s, Joel Sternfeld systematically traveled across the United States with an 8×10-inch large-format camera. The series American Prospects, created during these trav ... More
BERLIN.- For Cornelia Parker, violence and destruction are central to sculptural practice. In her sculptures and installations, deconstruction meets reinvention. Everyday objects are exposed to forces that alter their form and generate new meanings. Her art often plays with time and history – a practice of translation, transformation, and allusion. A striking example is her large- scale sculpture on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: Transitional Object (PsychoBarn) (2016), which references both the Bates Motel from Hitchcock’s film classic Psycho and the red wooden farmhouse of rural North America. Parker creates visual metaphors for the political, intellectual, and cultural state of our world – often with an apocalyptic undertone. Her works open onto the unconscious, to violence and trauma, but also to collective beliefs and desires. This approach is powerfully demonstrated in works such as her early piece Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View (1991), where Park ... More
John Rivas, Yo Sola Me Mando, 2026. Airbrush, pearls, hand stitching on canvas, oil pastel, fabric cut-outs, wood burning, tattoo on synthetic skin, wood carving on wood blocks, 10 x 8 x 4 inches (25 x 20 x 10 cm.)
NEW YORK, NY.- François Ghebaly New York presents Rise above it, John Rivas’ second solo exhibition with the gallery and first time presenting at the Lower East Side location. Salvadoran-American artist John Rivas holds close to ancestry and cultural identity in his work. In raw, expressive scenes of loved ones, domestic life, childhood memories, and familial histories, Rivas aims his art-making through a deeply personal lens, honoring the work and voices of those closest. His practice has long been characterized by material resourcefulness and a necessity-driven approach that layers found fabrics, dry goods, heirlooms, embroidery, gifted materials, household supplies, and painting into earnest, sensitive representations of the people and places around him. In his newest exhibition Rise above it, Rivas expands on his familiar mixed-media vocabulary, venturing into hand-carved and painted wooden sculpture as an extension of the assemblage-based language of his practice. ... More
ATLANTA, GA.- Over the last 50 years, photographer Mimi Plumb has expertly and poignantly captured the evolution of the Western U.S. landscape and the lives of those within it. In her first solo museum exhibition, “Blazing Light: Photographs by Mimi Plumb” (Feb. 6-May 10, 2026), the High Museum of Art presents three of her major bodies of work, featuring more than 100 photographs, including 26 recent acquisitions, captured in and around San Francisco and across the American West. Collectively, they contemplate how changes in geopolitics, the economy and the environment have shaped the anxieties of American life from the 1970s to today. After it debuts at the High, the exhibition will travel to three more venues: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University (Ithaca, New York), the Norton Museum of Art (West Palm Beach, Florida) and the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago. ... More
Baseera Kahn, I AM A BODY, 2018. Wool, handmade with hook embroidery in Kashmir Niru Ratnam.
FRANKFURT.- With the exhibition Wool. Silk. Resistance., the Museum Angewandte Kunst is dedicating itself exclusively to rugs, carpets, and tapestries for the first time in 45 years. This comes at a time when interest in handmade textiles of all kinds is experiencing a resurgence, reflected in a striking number of international exhibitions. Rather than approaching rugs, carpets, and tapestries from a stylistic or art-historical perspective, the exhibition presents them within a trajectory that exists outside established Western approaches to textile studies. The title introduces a series of questions: Can resistance be articulated through textile materials? And if so, in what ways do rugs, carpets, and tapestries express an “aesthetics of textile resistance”? The exhibition centers on the perspectives of international artists working in the first quarter of the twenty-first century, who engage with different dimensions of resistance through rugs, carpets, and tapestries ... More
Pippen’s 1997 NBA Finals jersey, worn during the iconic ‘Flu Game,’ represents one of the most mythologized nights in sports history, when championship resolve eclipsed physical limitation. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- On 23 June 1987, Scottie Pippen was selected fifth overall in the NBA Draft by the Seattle SuperSonics before being traded on draft night to the Chicago Bulls. Arriving in Chicago as a raw but versatile forward out of Central Arkansas, Pippen quickly developed into a foundational piece of the Bulls’ ascent. By the 1990–91 season, Pippen had emerged as one of the league’s premier two-way players, helping lead the Bulls to their first NBA Championship and beginning a dynasty that would define an era. Renowned for his defensive brilliance, playmaking ability, and basketball IQ, Pippen was instrumental in guiding Chicago to six NBA titles over eight seasons, cementing his place as one of the most complete players the game has ever seen. Over the course of his seventeen-year NBA career, Pippen achieved a level of sustained excellence and championship ... More
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Wilt Chamberlain rookie uniform anchors Heritage's star-studded Winter Platinum Night Sports Auction DALLAS, TX.- One of the superlatives that captures the attention, and bids, of many serious collectors is when an item is the first of something, such as the first jersey that a player wears during his rookie season. The photo-matched 1959 Wilt Chamberlain Game-Worn Philadelphia Warriors Rookie Jersey and Shorts are in play Feb. 28-March 1 in Heritage’s Winter Platinum Night Sports Auction is relics from what is universally regarded as the greatest rookie season in NBA history — and perhaps in any sport. During his rookie campaign, Chamberlain set the single-season scoring record and rebounding record en route to being named the NBA’s Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player. This uniform from that incredible debut season was acquired directly from Chamberlain decades ago, and it has been photo-matched to every home game the Warriors ... More
Sonsbeek unveils artists and theme for 2026 edition ARNHEM.- Arnhem will host the thirteenth edition of Sonsbeek, the large-scale recurring exhibition for art in public space. Taking place in Park Sonsbeek and at partner institutions in the city, Sonsbeek 2026 opens on 2 July and runs through 11 October 2026. Sonsbeek 2026 is curated by Amira Gad and Christina Li, two internationally acclaimed curators based in the Netherlands, with assistant curator Berber Meindertsma. Known for their transnational perspectives and their commitment to artistic experimentation, Gad and Li bring extensive experience across artistic disciplines and institutional frameworks. Orlando Maaike Gouwenberg, director of Sonsbeek art projects, says: “Amira Gad and Christina Li are invited for their courageous and precise curatorial vision. Together, they shape a bold artistic direction for Sonsbeek 2026, guiding the program into the future by addressing ... More
Mischa Kuball's 'public preposition' project debuts at Baukunstarchiv NRW DORTMUND.- How can public space be defined today—and who has access to it? With public preposition, Mischa Kuball addresses these questions directly in urban space and transfers them into the exhibition context of the Baukunstarchiv NRW in Dortmund. The project is grounded in the observation that public space is not a static condition, but emerges through relationships between places, people, and movement. Kuball renders these relational networks visible by foregrounding historical, political, and everyday contexts and rearticulating them in new ways—through three interventions in Dortmund’s urban space, an exhibition conceived as an ongoing process, and an in-depth symposium on March 6, 2026 at the Bauhausarchiv NRW. In the project series public preposition, Mischa Kuball situates the question of public space within a broader social and political ... More
Niloufar Emamifar's first Swiss solo show redefines Kunsthalle Zürich ZURICH.- Kunsthalle Zürich presents Offcut, the first institutional solo exhibition by Niloufar Emamifar in Switzerland. Developed on site, the exhibition is conceived as a spatial syntax articulated through indeterminacy of scale, proximity and endurance. The exhibition centres around an architectural adjustment that raises the floor of Kunsthalle Zürich by a few centimetres. Finished with a black sprung surface as customarily used by Ballet Zürich, this elevated plane functions both as a discrete piece and a spatial recalibration through which a series of new works unfold. Curated by Fanny Hauser. Niloufar Emamifar’s exhibition is made possible thanks to the support of SüdKulturFonds. With special thanks to Otto Bonnen, Fredi Fischli, Gina Folly, Janis Frank, Seline Fülscher, David Ganzoni, Jacqueline Granwehr, Mike Guyer, Salome Hohl, Sara Izzo, Lily Koper, Moritz Lehner, ... More
Anna Moreno reflects at MACBA on the limits of utopian architecture through the work of Ricardo Bofill BARCELONA.- The absence of documentary evidence on Méchraâ Houari Boumédienne, a nomadic settlement project in the Algerian desert designed by architect Ricardo Bofill, is the starting point for the centrepiece of The Third Twist, presented by artist Anna Moreno at MACBA. The work is the final instalment in a trilogy, which forms part of the MACBA Collection, in which Moreno draws inspiration from Bofill's unfinished or abandoned projects to question the utopian architecture of the 1970s. The Third Twist is on display at MACBA from 5 February to 28 September 2026, on the occasion of Barcelona's World Architecture Capital. Hiuwai Chu oversees the project as MACBA's head of exhibitions, together with assistant curator Zaida Trallero. The exhibition is structured around three elements. The main piece is the film The Terminal Beach, which viewers can watch ... More
A lifetime of sacred geometry: Max Gimblett celebrates 90 years with 'Where Dreams Come' SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Max Gimblett — who recently celebrated his 90th birthday — is a painter, storyteller, teacher and Rinzai Zen monk. His third solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery focuses on his calligraphic work on paper and books, and his use of the motifs of the lotus and quatrefoil to articulate his journey. Stylistically, his painting practice is a hybrid of the New York school of abstract expressionism and traditional Sumi ink painting. Known for his masterful brushwork and eccentric and sophisticated color sense, Gimblett marries modernism with mysticism. Conceptually, Gimblett's work aligns with the Dharmic religions. His calligraphic practice is an all-mind/no-mind meditation that he describes as coming directly from his unconscious. In this exhibition, a series of drawings referring to the lotus (symbol for what is divine in humanity — purity and honesty, regeneration ... More
Even an Oak Went Mad: Four artists explore the physical force of abstraction SAO PAULO.- Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel presents Até um carvalho enlouqueceu [Even an Oak Went Mad], a group exhibition featuring works by Richard Aldrich (USA), Laís Amaral (Brazil), Bruno Dunley (Brazil), and Marina Rheingantz (Brazil). Opening February 7 in Barra Funda, the exhibition brings together artists from different contexts whose practices share a sustained engagement with abstraction as a material, perceptual, and temporal process — turning the invisible into tangible pictorial elements. The exhibition title refers to the myth of Orpheus, whose music was said to move animals, stones, and even trees, suspending distinctions between animate and inanimate matter. In these accounts, the force of music lies not in narrative or meaning but in sound itself, acting directly on bodies and substances. This idea provides a framework for the exhibition, ... More
Petals and patterns: Frye Art Museum reimagines the floral still life in 'Wallflowers' SEATTLE, WA.- The Frye Art Museum presents Wallflowers, a group exhibition that reconsiders one of art history’s most enduring yet underestimated genres: the floral still life. Bringing together nineteenth- and twentieth-century paintings from the Frye’s collection with newly commissioned wallpaper designs by contemporary artists, Wallflowers explores how artists across centuries have turned to floral imagery as fertile ground for experimentation and reinvention. Although still lifes are among the least represented genres in the Frye’s holdings (outnumbered by portraits and landscapes), they have long offered artists a rich site for technical challenge and symbolic play. From the loosened brushwork of modernist painters to the digital collages of contemporary makers, the genre has proven remarkably durable, capable of holding centuries’ worth of ideas about beauty, impermanence, ... More
Tove Storch's pink concrete experiment challenges sculptural form at NILS STÆRK COPENHAGEN.- With Untitled (2021), Tove Storch initiates a large casting experiment. A large construction holds a thin, flexible metal shell from collapsing, while a pink-colored concrete mass forces it out of its stringent form. Pulled in opposing directions – outward by the structure, inward and downward by the concrete – the folded, rectangular metal shell is transformed into an organic, complex shape that can recall a ship or a feminine symbol. Storch combines stringent and minimal constructions with a soft, delicate tone. Using industrially manufactured materials such as steel pipes and fabric, she works with their different properties and embedded potential meanings in a restrained and sensitive formal language, where abstraction and figuration meet. At the core of the work is a physical experiment: a yielding mold, held in place only by a gigantic structure, resists ... More
de Appel calls for participants for their Curatorial Programme 2026/27 AMSTERDAM.- The de Appel Curatorial Programme in Amsterdam is one of the earliest curatorial training programmes in the world. It was created in 1994 to help emerging curators learn through praxis rather than only studying theory. What distinguishes it is its small group size and deep emphasis on collective praxis. Participants travel together, meet artists and cultural practitioners, and build lasting relationships while exploring how to shape public cultural programmes through curating a project together at de Appel and beyond. de Appel invites applications for the 2026/27 Curatorial Programme, a ten-month programme that brings together a small international group of participants to collectively study, travel, research and develop a curatorial project together in Amsterdam. The 2026/27 edition is centred on a set of interconnected themes and practices that de Appel is engaged ... More
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On a day like today, English painter Margaret Fownes-Luttrell was born
February 07, 1726. Margaret Fownes-Luttrell (7 February 1726 - 13 August 1766) was a British heiress, the wife of Henry Fownes Luttrell. She was the heiress of Dunster Castle, under the stipulation in her father's will that her husband should take the additional surname of Luttrell. Four portraits of her exist in Dunster castle and a fifth at Bathealton Court.
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