LONDON.- Georges Seurat’s painting of cancan dancers 'Le Chahut' (1889‒90) has gone on display in the UK for the first time as a star loan in a major new exhibition at the National Gallery - its first-ever devoted to the Neo-Impressionist art movement. Seurat’s painting is one of several by the artist included in Radical Harmony: Helene Kröller-Müller’s Neo-Impressionists (13 September 2025 ‒ 8 February 2026). Largely drawn from the outstanding collection of the German art collector Helene Kröller-Müller (1869‒1939), at the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, in the Netherlands, the exhibition shows radical works of French, Belgian and Dutch artists, painted from 1886 to the early 20th century. These include Anna Boch (1848‒1936), Jan Toorop (1858-1928), Théo van Rysselberghe (1862‒1926), Paul Signac (1863‒1935) and Georges Seurat (1859–1891) himself. One of the first great women art patrons of the 20th century, Kröller-Müller, assembled what ... More
COPENHAGEN.- Out with reason and control, in with instincts and impulses. The Surrealists’ radical project is to set art free, and when the new artistic movement takes shape in 1920s Paris, the Surrealists place works on paper at the heart of their practice. SMK – National Gallery of Denmark presents more than 100 of the movement’s finest drawings, sketches, collages and collective works in the exhibition Surreal on Paper and shows how the Surrealists use drawing to explore their artistic project and to understand themselves, each other and their time through playful experiments and collective creative processes. An exhibition of this kind has never before been held in Northern Europe, and it offers a new entry point to the art of the Surrealists. After the horrors of the First World War Europe undergoes major political and cultural changes. It is during this time that Surrealism emerges – an artistic movement seeking to think and create art in new ways. Inspired by psychoanalys ... More
Joan Snyder, Ancient Radar, 2013. Paper pulp with berries, fabric and dried flowers on burlap. 87.63 x 69.85 cm (34.5 x 27.5 in).
LONDON.- Love from an Abstract Artist is an exhibition spanning over six decades of American artist Joan Snyder’s work on paper. Featuring nearly 50 new and historical works, dating from the mid-1960s to the present day, it bears witness to the important position drawing has always held in Snyder’s practice. Often diaristic and autobiographical, these varied works encompass Snyder’s grids, symbols, landscapes and strokes, and incorporate collaged materials including fabric, rope, berries, herbs and hand-pressed paper pulp, among others. Snyder has continually expanded the possibilities of drawing. Her works on paper are, as the American critic and art historian Faye Hirsch writes, ‘independent and self- sufficient objects’. Love from an Abstract Artist follows the artist’s first solo exhibition, Body & Soul, at Thaddaeus Ropac in London in 2024. Snyder is recognised for developing a new, distinctly embodied language ... More
Mai Trung Thứ (1906-1980), Le concert, 1978, 1 793 280€ 2nd world record for the artist and world record for a silk by Mai Trung Thứ.
PARIS.- On September 9, 2025, Aguttes auction house orchestrated its 48th sale dedicated to modern Asian art and totaled over €6.2m. Of the 33 works presented at auction, three exceeded the million-euro mark. « The market paid tribute to the talents of the artists trained at the Indochina School of Fine Arts, whose remarkable works were presented. As Vietnam celebrated its national holiday last week, art lovers, sensitive to this artistic period, once again affirmed their enthusiasm for this remarkable heritage. » — Charlotte Aguttes-Reynier, Associate Director in charge of the Fine & Asian Arts division • Lot 3 - Mai Trung Thứ (1906-1980), Le concert, 1978, 1 793 280€ - 2nd world record for the artist and world record for a silk by Mai Trung Thứ • Lot 5 - Lê Phổ (1907-2001), La femme nue, circa 1942, €1,372,200 • Lot 4 - Lê Phổ (1907-2001), Paysage du Tonkin, Hanoï, circa 1930-1935, €1,231,840 - world record for a ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie's Private Sales will present Fernando Botero: Selected Works, a curated selling exhibition, showcasing a selection of paintings, sculptures and works on paper, available for immediate purchase. The exhibition will be open at Christie's New York September 12th through October 8th and spans seven decades of production, providing a comprehensive view of Botero's unparalleled artistic achievements and his enduring legacy. Kristen France, Head of Department, Latin American Art, comments, “We are delighted to bring Fernando Botero: Selected Works to life here at our iconic Rockefeller Center location and online, as we kick off an exciting fall season of sales at Christie's New York. The works presented in this special selling exhibition will take viewers on a visual journey of Botero's life through art, from his very modest beginnings as an ambitious young man, newly arrived in New York in the 1960s, to the apex of his ever-ascending career. Today, Botero's ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- In Joel Shapiro’s influential exhibitions at Paula Cooper Gallery in the 1970s, diminutive sculptures in cast iron and bronze sat directly on the floor or mounted on the wall, enlarging the surrounding space with subtle manipulations of scale. The work was condensed, austere and psychologically potent, embracing narrative with latent figuration. The current exhibition at 521 West 21st Street revisits this important period in Shapiro’s career with a concise presentation of works from 1971 to 1980 in bronze, cast iron and wood, and charcoal or gouache on paper. A tribute to an endlessly engaging and dynamic artist, this will be the gallery’s twenty-second one-person exhibition of Shapiro’s work. In 1982, Roberta Smith succinctly described the progression of Shapiro’s work in the 1970s: “Shapiro started from scratch with sculpture, working from rudimentary, innately elegant ... More
Frank Bowling, Dog’s Conversation, 2021. Acrylic and acrylic gel on paper, 39 1/8 x 27 3/4 inches.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Marc Selwyn Fine Art announces the gallery’s fourth exhibition with Sir Frank Bowling O.B.E., RA, opening September 14. Frank Bowling, Works on Paper: 2020-2023 features a selection of the artist’s recent paintings on paper that explore Bowling’s enduring experimentation with materiality and abstraction. A fully illustrated catalogue featuring an essay by curator Sarah Roberts will be published on the occasion of the exhibition. In her essay, Roberts traces how Bowling engages with paper as a three-dimensional, responsive material and how living alongside waterways, from his birthplace, Guyana, to his current home in London, has influenced his abstractions. The present exhibition is made up of twenty-three works of distinct character that utilize some of the techniques for which Bowling is best known: bold washes of color, traces of daily life in the studio, and edges cut with pinking shears, an homage to childhood memories of his mother’s labor with fabric. Include ... More
The legendary actor’s 1952 Hudson Wasp will be offered at RM Sotheby’s 19th annual Hershey auction, October 8–9, 2025.
BLENHEIM.- RM Sotheby’s announced a very special consignment for its 19th annual Hershey sale: Steve McQueen’s 1952 Hudson Wasp 'Twin H-Power' Two-Door Brougham, famously described by the actor as his “Sunday-go-to-church-car.” McQueen, the legendary “King of Cool,” drove the Hudson regularly around Santa Paula, often using it for school runs and weekend errands. Period photos show McQueen standing alongside the Wasp at his Santa Paula Airport hangar, where he stored parts of his collection and even lived for a time while his home was under renovation. Showing just 63,537 miles, the 1952 Hudson Wasp is powered by its inline six-cylinder engine fitted with the rare Power Dome cylinder head, the desirable Twin-H Power carburetor setup, and an optional Hydra-Matic Drive transmission. These performance options, combined with Hudson’s step-down chassis and short-wheelbase design, made the ... More
Larry Bell, Untitled SS, 2025. Peacock and True Fog laminated glass 30,5 x 40,6 x 40,6 cm (12 x 16 x 16 in.).
PARIS.- The exhibition “The Field” gathers for the first time in Europe1 the works of Larry Bell (Chicago, 1939) and Liam Everett (Rochester–New York, 1973), two American artists separated by several decades but driven by the same exploration of light as a phenomenon at the same time physical, perceptual and metaphysical. From the 1960s, Larry Bell, a pioneer of minimal art and research on the materiality of glass, has been leading an in-depth investigation on the optic properties of light. His sculptures in dichroic glass, partially covered in reflecting metallic films, play with the effects of refraction, transparency and opacity. Varying with the spectator’s viewpoint and the light conditions, the volumes seem to metamorphose, revealing a light sculpted, diffracted, trapped. In Larry Bell’s work, the field is no longer that of the canvas but that of the sculptural and architectural space redefined by the light. For Liam Everett, painting is a territory of experiment ... More
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LOS ANGELES, CA.- Wilding Cran Gallery is presenting Blobs and Bod, an exhibition of recent sculptural works by renowned photographer and multimedia artist Polly Borland. Known for her psychologically charged portraiture and documentary photography, Borland’s latest series marks a shift into sculptural form: one that continues her exploration of the human body as a site of discomfort, vulnerability, and transformation. The exhibition Blobs and Bod, pushes this inquiry further, presenting figures that are by turns playful, grotesque, and tender. Through uncanny figurative distortion, Blobs and Bod investigates the relationship between identity and the body, pulling it apart to reveal a current of fluidity. Working with live models, Borland uses materials such as foam, nylon, and rubber bands—compressing and distorting the human form into unfamiliar configurations. These intuitive constructions are immediately 3D scanned and cast in situ, preserved within the moment of their creation. ... More
Kadar Brock, something you're not, 2023 - 2025. Oil on canvas, 60 x 48 x 2 inches. 152.4 x 121.9 x 5.1 cmCourtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY. Image by: JSP Art Photography.
NEW YORK, NY.- Miles McEnery Gallery is presenting coming home, New York-based artist Kadar Brock’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition is on view 4 September through 25 October 2025 at our 515 West 22nd Street gallery. Accompanying the exhibition is a fully illustrated digital catalogue featuring an essay by Alex Bacon. Kadar Brock’s painterly process is one where destruction begets creation; he begins by applying layers of paint to stretched canvas, only to unstretch it, and erode the very image he’s created with a power sander and razor blade. Cycling through this process, each repetition excavates layers of paint beneath it, and blurs the boundaries between them until the final composition becomes an amalgam of each constituent part. Each iteration of this destructive process introduces an element of chance, as Brock unearths hidden paths of paint beneath the surface, which guide his mark- ... More
COLOGNE.- A new exhibition, "73 Years of Stoff-Pavillon Moeller," opens today to commemorate a remarkable chapter in Cologne’s history, focusing on the city's post-World War II reconstruction and the architect who helped shape it. The exhibition, running from September 12 to 28, 2025, is part of the annual Day of the Open Monument. The centerpiece of the show is the work of architect Wilhelm Riphahn and his iconic Stoff-Pavillon, which was inaugurated on September 6, 1952. The exhibition highlights Riphahn's influential role in rebuilding a city that lay in ruins. His designs, characterized by open floor plans, transparent facades, and light-filled spaces, were more than just functional buildings. They were a conscious statement of a new, democratic society. The exhibition, titled "Karl Hugo Schmölz: Destruction and Awakening – Cologne's Rebirth Through Wilhelm Riphahn," features Schmölz’s historical photographs of the city’s destruction and images of the new constructions in ... More
deLima joins the Art Center following the retirement of Jay Ewart who has held the position for the past 21 years.
DES MOINES, IA.- The Des Moines Art Center announced the appointment of Jonathan deLima as Director of Installations. deLima brings over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art world, with an impressive background in exhibitions, managing collections, and developing impactful art programs. Previously, he served as Manager of the Contemporary Art Collection for Krause Group, where he led major installations across international sites and expanded the collection’s reach and engagement. deLima’s career also includes key roles at Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills, CA, where he implemented more than 60 exhibitions and oversaw a major architectural expansion. deLima holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music with a concentration in English from Amherst College and has a strong foundation in education and community engagement. He has served on the board of the Greater Des Moines Public Art Foundation since 2019. About his appointment deLima ... More
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Bangkok-based architecture practice all(zone) curate the second edition of RAM assembles SHANGHAI.- Launched in 2023, RAMa is the Rockbund Art Museum’s (RAM) biennial festival of architectural thinking. Conceived and led by X Zhu-Nowell, the museum’s Executive Director and Chief Curator, the initiative explores architecture’s evolving role in shaping public space. For each edition, an architect or architectural thinker is appointed as Artistic Director, tasked with developing a site-specific intervention in the ROCKBUND neighborhood, a historic district in the heart of Shanghai, focusing on the open-air Museum Plaza outside RAM’s main entrance. In addition, the Artistic Director curates a series of public programs and events that activate the broader ROCKBUND. For the second edition, Zhu-Nowell has invited all(zone), a Bangkok-based architecture practice, as Artistic Director. all(zone)’s concept of “Shanghai Picnic” proposes a flexible, open-ended framework ... More
A S A P: Andréhn-Schiptjenko Archive & Projects - a new project space in Stockholm STOCKHOLM.- October marks 34 years since Ciléne Andréhn and Marina Schiptjenko opened their now legendary gallery on Kammakargatan in Stockholm in 1991. Since 2019, Andréhn-Schiptjenko has a second gallery in Paris and is now opening ASAP, Andréhn-Schiptjenko Archive & Projects, in the premises next door to the gallery at Linnégatan 31 in Stockholm. ASAP is intended to function as both an archive and a project space, a place that highlights the gallery's roots in an analogue era when art and luxury were worlds apart and the term ‘the art industry’ had not yet been coined. “We have realised that there are many people working in the art world who were in nursery school or not even born at the time, so for them and for those who have followed us over the years – and not least for our own sake – we think it is interesting to look back from time to time. At ASAP, we ... More
Onassis Culture presents the 2025/26 Onassis AiR Fellows ATHENS.- This September, a new season begins at Onassis AiR in Athens, bringing together a new group of Fellows for a residency program focused on research, experimentation, and community exchange. Onassis AiR, the international artistic research and residency program of the Onassis Foundation, has supported more than 200 Fellows since its launch in 2019. The program’s mission is to support artistic process and creative development by providing space and time for arts professionals from diverse backgrounds and disciplines to deepen their practice without the pressure of producing a final work. For 2025–26, the program extends its role as a platform for experimentation and broadens its community with Onassis AiR Fellows working across an expanded range of practices. This year the program has a particular focus on practices at the intersection ... More
D.A.P. announces new book featuring Lisette Model's photographs of jazz musicians NEW YORK, NY.- Shelved during the McCarthy era, Model's photographs of jazz musicians—together with a text by Langston Hughes—are finally published for the first time Street photographer Lisette Model spent more than 10 years documenting Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Percy Heath, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and countless other luminaries of America's jazz scene. From the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival to nightclub shows and raucous afterparties in cramped apartments, Model's images are effusive and full of empathy, celebrating jazz at a time when the genre was under increasing political and cultural scrutiny. During the 1950s, the New York Photo League was investigated by the House Un-American Activities Committee for purported connections to the Communist Party. Model was interviewed by the FBI and eventually placed on its National Security ... More
Frank Frazetta's defining image of Conan sells for record-shattering $13.5 million at Heritage Auctions DALLAS, TX.- Frank Frazetta’s cover painting for the 1967 Lancer/Ace Conan paperback, a landmark of modern fantasy art commonly known as Man Ape (1966), sold for a record-shattering $13.5 million including the buyer’s premium on September 12 at Heritage Auctions. This new world record for an original Frazetta painting follows the parade of Frazetta records set by the auction house in recent years and illuminates the ever-increasing desirability of the American artist’s works. This is currently the highest auction result for any Frazetta work and any Comic or Fantasy artwork globally. “This is one of the most important paintings in the history of fantasy art ever to come to auction,” says Todd Hignite, Heritage’s Executive Vice President. “Frazetta didn’t just illustrate Conan — he transformed him into an icon. This result is a testament to the power and permanence ... More
Jaws: The Exhibition opens at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures LOS ANGELES, CA.- On September 14 the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will open Jaws: The Exhibition. This is the museum’s first large-scale exhibition dedicated to a single film, and the largest exhibition ever mounted showcasing Universal Pictures’ landmark summer blockbuster, which earned three Academy Awards® and was nominated for Best Picture. The exhibition celebrates the 50th anniversary of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws (1975) and will remain on view through July 26, 2026. The Academy Museum has also announced that in 2028, it will honor the legacy of Steven Spielberg and mount the first-ever retrospective exhibition dedicated to Spielberg’s era-defining career, providing visitors with insight into his creative process and bringing them closer than ever to his filmography. “This exhibition is awesome,” said Spielberg. “Every room has the minutiae ... More
25 years of Preis der Nationalgalerie: the Freunde der Nationalgalerie announce new format and location BERLIN.- This year, the Freunde der Nationalgalerie (Friends of the National Gallery) are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Preis der Nationalgalerie (Prize of the National Gallery). Since its foundation in 2000, the prize has been an important museum award that recognises artistic positions that have had a decisive influence on contemporary art and presents them to a broad public in Berlin. The Preis der Nationalgalerie has always seen itself as a recognition that reflects the vital international art scene and transfer it into an institutional context. In this spirit, the prize in 2026 will remain flexible and open for changes and will be continued in a new format at Neue Nationalgalerie. From 2026, artists who set international standards and whose work has not yet been comprehensively presented in Berlin, will be honoured in the form of a solo exhibition. The change ... More
RM Sotheby's announces two further incredible cars heading to Abu Dhabi Collectors' Week in December ABU DHABI.- With only 64 road specification McLaren F1s ever produced, it is exceptionally rare for one to be offered at auction, and for such a car to be offered alongside a Gordon Murray Automotive T.50 is nothing short of history in the making, marking the first time a T.50 has ever been offered at auction. With the F1, Gordon Murray and his team of designers at McLaren did not set out to create the world’s fastest road car; they set out to design a car that harnessed Formula 1 technology and pioneering carbon fibre construction to create the ultimate driving experience. With an incredible 6,064-cc BMW V-12 engine which produced 627 brake horsepower, McLaren created a road car of such magnificence and capability that it broke all the established performance records of the era, and continued to be the benchmark by which all subsequent supercars were measured ... More
Anne-Lise Coste: Pussybilities, Dance Club at Musée d'art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne ROCHECHOUART.- This fall, artist Anne-Lise Coste takes over the entire top floor of the museum with her exhibition Pussybilities, Dance Club. Driven by a rebellious spirit and the subversion of language in the tradition of Dada, the artist often produces her works in a burst of spontaneity and urgency using the materials around her. Here, she plays on the contrast between the historic location and the deliberately contemporary nature of her work: collages, assemblages, neon lights, and a new photographic collaboration. In this former attic marked by a monumental 16th-century wooden framework, the artist imagines an alternative horizon, a place of celebration as much as resistance. She revisits the imagery of the dance club, a place where individual and collective experiences intertwine, but also a symbol of queer and feminist struggles; a place for all “pussybles.” Born in 1973 ... More
BADA announces Art Prize 2025 Judges LONDON.- The British Antique Dealers’ Association announced the four judges for the 2025 BADA Art Prize. Now in its fifth year, the BADA Art Prize seeks to promote “the antiques of tomorrow” by awarding a £1,000 grant to an emerging contemporary artist whose work exemplifies the enduring ingenuity and quality illustrated by our members’ objects. The winner will be announced at a VIP reception in St James’s, London in November 2025. Quoting Louise Phillips, Chairman, ‘when I suggested the idea of designing a work of art for tomorrow, in the hope of helping to promote contemporary and emerging artists, I never thought we would be supported by such esteemed people from the world of art, antiques and collectors. The panel has been headed in the past by Alain Dominique Perrin, Founder and President of the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art and has been ... More
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On a day like today, Japanese architect Tadao Ando was born
September 13, 1941. Tadao Ando (born September 13, 1941, in Minato-ku, Osaka, Japan and raised in Asahi-ku in the city) is a Japanese architect whose approach to architecture was categorized by Francesco Dal Co as critical regionalism. Ando has led a storied life, working as a truck driver and boxer prior to settling on the profession of architecture, despite never having taken formal training in the field. He visited buildings designed by renowned architects like Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Kahn before returning to Osaka in 1968 and established his own design studio, Tadao Ando Architect and Associates.
