LONDON.- Gary Hume RA (b.1962) is one of the foremost British painters of the last 40 years. In this new book, Martin Gayford explores the evolution of the artist’s oeuvre and examines the opportunities and dilemmas that helped to shape Hume’s singular pathway. Profusely illustrated, the book underlines Hume’s important and unique contribution to British contemporary art and provides a fascinating window into the creation of a rich and varied body of work. Hume came to prominence alongside other artists associated with the Young British Artists generation and his work, often completed using high-gloss industrial paint, fuses high-modernist abstract formalism with an enigmatic, sign-like quality. Although his early work was concerned with the representation of hospital doors, Hume’s restless spirit has led him to continue to probe and experiment with his chosen medium and expand his subject matter — from snowmen and wonky wheels to birds, flowers and people. Martin Gayfo ... More
Stunning Thomas Ellin & Co (Sheffield, England) cutlery display board likely dating to the Victorian era, with 100+ pieces of cutlery laid out in exhibition-grade manner. 48 inches by 38 inches. Sold for $17,640.
DENVER, PA.- The first-ever DWM 1900 Swiss Luger semi-automatic pistol, made by DWM in May 1901 with serial number 01, hit the mark at $307,500; and a Singer Model 1911A1 .45 ACP semi-automatic pistol made by the Singer Sewing Machine Co (Elizabeth, NJ) in 1940, rang up $184,500 at Morphy’s 400-lot Firearms & Militaria auction held May 12-14, 2026. Antique and collectible firearms of superior quality and historical significance were on full display at the auction, with a special selection honoring the 250th anniversary of the Revolutionary War that showcased the collections of David Grunberg and Gary Schlottstein. The DWM 1900 Swiss Luger semi-automatic pistol was the top lot of the sale. This auction example was in fact the very first Military Contract Luger produced as part of a 610-gun contract for Switzerland, and which became known as the Model ... More
Rotterdamsche Lloyd – Java Sumatra (1931), Art Deco travel poster by J.A.W. von Stein for the Rotterdamsche Lloyd.
ROTTERDAM.- During the recent May auctions at Venduhuis Rotterdam, Fenix, the art museum about migration, purchased an iconic Art Deco poster of the Rotterdamsche Lloyd. Multiple versions of the design by J.A.W. von Stein (1896–1965), titled Rotterdamsche Lloyd Java Sumatra, are known in various sizes and with different prints in multiple language editions. The popular poster is well known through thousands of later reproductions worldwide and is still available. The original poster at Fenix, dating from 1931, is the rare large version, measuring 110.5 x 63.2 cm. The 1930s marked a golden age for large, luxurious ocean liners. Increasingly comfortable ships transported passengers between all continents in ever shorter travel times. Shipping companies competed with seductive posters created by famous designers such as the Frenchman A.M. Cassandre. His posters for the Statendam of the Holland America Line (1928) and the French ship Normandie (1935) rank among the most beautiful, along with the ... More
LONDON.- Christie's announces changes to the Board of Christie's International PLC with the appointment of François-Henri Pinault as Chairman and Non-Executive Director and Bryan Lourd as Non-Executive Director. Bonnie Brennan, Christie's Chief Executive Office, said: “I would like to acknowledge Christie's great fortune and express our immense gratitude for the stability of ownership we have enjoyed for the past 28 years. The Pinault family's deep understanding of our market and unwavering support have allowed us to grow and to serve our clients in exceptional ways. The impact of this stewardship on the strength of our company cannot be overstated. With the appointment of François-Henri Pinault as Chairman, joining his son, François Pinault on our Board, and with François Pinault remaining as Honorary Chair we are fortunate to have the continued support of the Pinault family.” François-Henri Pinault commented: “It is a privilege to assume the role as Chairman of the Board of Chr ... More
Created in 1960 and estimated at CHF 100,000–150,000, Cuadro belongs to a decisive period in the work of the Spanish artist Manolo Millares, founding member of the group El Paso and a key figure of Spanish Informalism.
GENEVA.- Piguet announced the auction of a major work by the Spanish artist Manolo Millares (1926–1972) in its upcoming modern and contemporary art sale, which will take place in Geneva on Wednesday, June 10, starting at 6 pm. Created in 1960 and estimated at CHF 100,000–150,000, Cuadro belongs to a decisive period in the work of the Spanish artist Manolo Millares, founding member of the group El Paso and a key figure of Spanish Informalism. During this period, Millares fully asserted his singular visual language, making burlap canvas the very core of his artistic research. He achieved international recognition with exhibitions notably in New York City at the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. In this composition of rare intensity, the material becomes alive: torn, stitched, knotted and repaired, the burlap ceases to be a simple support and acquires an almost corporeal presence. The large black areas, the sections of raw canvas, the gaping cavities and the sutu ... More
Vilhelm Hammershøi, "Two Candles on a Table", c. 1901, oil on canvas, 31 × 22.5 cm. Donation from architect Henning Larsen.
COPENHAGEN.- Vilhelm Hammershøi is Denmark’s most famous painter today, and his works are in great international demand. SMK - National Gallery of Denmark has just received three of the artist’s paintings in a distinguished donation from the estate of architect Henning Larsen. The paintings are now on public view at SMK, which holds the world’s largest collection of works by Hammershøi. Henning Larsen, known in architectural circles as the ‘master of light’, was a great admirer of Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864–1916). Larsen was fascinated by the artist’s universe conjured up in shades of grey, by his remarkable ability to capture light and by his supreme command of compositions in which every line and form is carefully calibrated. The late architect had a number of outstanding works by Hammershøi in his home, which his widow, Lone Backe, has bequeathed to SMK as a donation from her husband. In addition, SMK has received an important work by Vilhelm Lundstrøm (1893– ... More
Charles Willson Peale (1741–1827), Portrait of Mrs. Rubens Peale, ca. 1820. Oil on canvas; Doyle Lot 24.
WINTERTHUR, DE.- Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library recently acquired eight rare works of art and a series of personal correspondence, nearly all from the collection of artist Mary Jane Peale (1827–1902), bolstering the museum’s already distinguished Peale family holdings ahead of a major exhibition of these works scheduled for 2027. The acquisition brings to Winterthur a collection of firsts: the institution’s first miniature by Anna Claypoole Peale, its first work by Rubens Peale, its first Peale landscape, and the first portraits of Mary Jane, Rubens, and Charles Willson Peale to enter the permanent collection. Together, these objects deepen Winterthur’s capacity to tell a fuller, more equitable story of one of America’s most consequential artistic dynasties. Led by portrait painter Charles Willson Peale, the first family of American art included his brothers, sons, daughters, nieces, nephews, and grandchildren, including Mary Jane, as well as Moses Williams, a formerly ens ... More
Installation view. Courtesy of London Gallery Weekend. Photo: Linda Nylind.
LONDON.- London Gallery Weekend (LGW), now an established convening moment in the international art calendar, returns for its sixth edition. This city-wide celebration of London’s contemporary art sector sees galleries and art spaces open their doors to the public, showcasing the breadth and diversity of the city’s arts ecosystem. Across the distinct communities of galleries spanning central, south and east London, LGW spotlights London’s continually evolving art scene that remains Europe’s largest art market and a leading global art centre, home to internationally renowned artists, many of the world’s most widely visited institutions and esteemed art schools. Jeremy Epstein & Sarah Rustin, Co-Directors of London Gallery Weekend: “London Gallery Weekend’s sixth edition is a convening moment that is both local and global in its scope and audience, reflecting the year-on-year revitalisation and evolution of the capital’s contemporary art scene. The range o ... More
MADRID.- Long before the Renaissance swept across Europe, Italy was the birthplace of an artistic revolution spearheaded by masters such as Giotto, Duccio, Simone Martini and the Lorenzetti brothers, a revolution destined to resonate across the continent. It is not by coincidence that the Hispanic kingdoms were among the first Western regions to embrace the artistic manifestations of the Italian Trecento, where they astonished viewers due to their innovative aesthetic and technical refinement. In addition to the highly effective Mediterranean communication networks (commercial, diplomatic, political, etc.,) that facilitated the arrival of artists and works, Spanish masters paid particular attention to the innovations emanating from the Italian peninsula. This was a fascinating creative sensibility. Among the principal arguments demonstrated in this exhibition, which is benefiting from the exclusive sponsorship of Fundación BBVA, is the fact that in the hands of Hispanic masters, the Trecento st ... More
Joan Mitchell, Untitled, oil on canvas, 64 x 38 ¼ in. (162.6 x 97.2 cm.) Painted in 1965. Price Realized: $5,382,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie's New York continued its phenomenal series of sales with the final live auction of 20/21 Spring Marquee Week, the Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale achieving remarkable results for a Day Sale, with a total of more than $100 million—achieving a final results of $102,854,700, --the sale's highest total since 2019 – selling 93% by lot and 96% by value. Throughout the entirety, the sale experience lively bidding on the phones, online and live in the Rockefeller Center saleroom, and brought the week's running total to $1,449,655,356. Marquee Week Sales conclude tomorrow, with two online sales: Picasso Ceramics and Breaking Ground: The Private Collection of Marian Goodman Part I, closing Friday, May 22. The top lot of the day was an untitled painting by Joan Mitchell from 1965, which realized $5,382,000, followed by the second highest price for Endangered Species a set of screenprints by Andy Warhol that sold for $4,467,000. The third highest lot came for a work by Jo ... More
LONDON.- Opening in spring 2026, the Wallace Collection presents a major retrospective of Sir Winston Churchill’s (1874-1965) paintings – the first substantial UK exhibition devoted to his art since his death. Bringing together more than 50 works – around half from private collections that are rarely accessible to the public – this exhibition will shed new light on a world-famous figure who was defined by politics but sustained by a lifelong passion for painting. Churchill began painting in 1915, at a moment of personal and national crisis. What started as a private refuge after the Dardanelles catastrophe of World War I, became a lasting creative discipline. Over the next five decades he produced more than five hundred canvases, painting wherever he travelled: in England, France, Italy and, most famously, under the intense light of Marrakech. Following a chronological approach, Winston Churchill: The Painter traces Churchill’s artistic journey from tentative beginnings ... More
Marilyn Lerner in her studio, New York, NY, 2026.
NEW YORK, NY.- Miles McEnery Gallery announced representation of Marilyn Lerner. Based in New York City since 1964, artist Marilyn Lerner has developed a distinguished career centered on color theory and soft-edge kaleidoscopic abstractions on wood. Her paintings are informed by her global travels and the evocative relationship between sound and sight, where diverse musical genres directly influence her selection of shapes and palettes. Lerner utilizes a color theory that is based on instinct; she adheres to a rigorous framework where she prioritizes the interplay of warm and cool colors and ensures each pigment is composed of no fewer than three distinct shades. Speaking with Mary Jones for The Brooklyn Rail, Lerner shares that she feels painting should be “something intangible—that takes you somewhere to give you an experience.” Marilyn Lerner (b. 1942 in Milwaukee, WI) received her BS from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, and her MFA from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. ... More
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Frist Art Museum presents midcareer retrospective of Pakistani American artist Anila Quayyum Agha NASHVILLE, TENN.- The Frist Art Museum presents Anila Quayyum Agha: Interwoven, an exhibition spanning two decades of the Pakistani American artist’s multifaceted practice. Interwoven features mesmerizing installations, drawings, and sculptures that address some of the most urgent issues of our time. Organized by The Westmoreland Museum of American Art, the exhibition will be on view in the Frist’s Gordon Contemporary Artists Project Gallery from May 22 through August 30, 2026—the final stop on a four-venue tour. Born in Lahore in 1965, Agha moved to the United States in 1999 and now resides in Indianapolis. Her experiences as a woman and an immigrant dealing with discrimination, invisibility, and oppression inform her art, as does environmental devastation. “I do not have a single story,” Agha says. “I have multiple stories that become interwoven to create a tapestry that is colorful, that is varied, that has pattern, that has beauty and light.” Her wide-ranging influ ... More
Montclair Art Museum names Kate Kraczon Chief Curator MONTCLAIR, NJ.- The Montclair Art Museum (MAM) today announced the appointment of Kate Kraczon as Chief Curator, effective June 15, 2026, marking a significant step in the Museum’s vision for its next chapter. A nationally respected curator with more than two decades of experience leading contemporary art institutions, Kraczon will help shape an ambitious curatorial program centered on artistic excellence, contemporary relevance, and meaningful community connection. Kraczon joins MAM at a pivotal moment as the Museum expands its commitment to presenting exhibitions that bring internationally recognized artists into dialogue with regional and emerging voices, while strengthening its role as an essential cultural gathering place for Montclair and the surrounding region. In her role as Chief Curator, Kraczon will lead the Museum’s exhibition strategy and collection initiatives, with an emphasis on contemporary art that speaks directly to the questions, experiences, and complexities of the pres ... More
Haus der Kunst's landmark exhibition For Children to close ahead of Brazil tour MUNICH.- "For Children. Art Stories Since 1968" comes to a close at Haus der Kunst on 31 May 2026, the eve of International Children's Day, a fitting moment that reaffirms the exhibition's core commitment: taking children seriously as audience, as co-creators, and as social actors. What opened in July 2025 as the result of several years of research has, over the course of ten months, grown into one of the most-visited presentations in Haus der Kunst’s recent history. More than 131,000 visitors, a strikingly intergenerational public that included numerous school classes, as well as group and family visits, a four-month extension, and a nomination for the ART Curators’ Award for the best exhibition of 2025 mark the Munich chapter of the exhibition. In addition, international cultural practitioners and institutions have expressed strong interest in the exhibition's participatory approach, seeking exchange with Haus der Kunst. Conceived and developed at Haus der Kunst, "For Children" now ... More
Künstlerhaus Stuttgart presents Shepherdology exhibition by art collective INLAND STUTTGART.- Shepherdology is the study of pastoralism in the expanded sense, considering pastoral care as a methodology for both material and metaphorical practice… an outlook which very much grasps the practice of INLAND Campo Adentro, who bring their work and engagement with pastoralism to the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart under that title. The collective’s involvement with this ancestral way of life, eschewing mere representation or cultural extractivism, is direct: they have their own flock of sheep and goats, whom they consider full-fledged members of the collective and with whom they follow the annual cycle of seasonal pastures from the valley to the mountains and into the park at heart of the city of Madrid, where they built a Forest Flock Classroom. The collective’s work with the Shepherd’s School which operates under its auspices – the only school of its kind in Europe to operate and function as an art project and to provide formal education in the herding, husbandry and ... More
V&A announce £4m The National Lottery Heritage Fund commitment to transform its historic South Asia gallery LONDON.- The V&A has today announced a £4m funding commitment from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to transform its South Asia Gallery into a globally significant space for one of the world’s most important collections of South Asian art and design. This follows initial development funding of £250,000 awarded in September 2024. Made possible by National Lottery players, the redesigned gallery will open in Spring 2028, celebrating the richness, diversity and global impact of South Asian creativity. Rare historic objects—many not seen in public for decades—will be displayed alongside new acquisitions and modern and contemporary works. Fresh research and interpretation will explore the colonial history of the collection and the complex story of how these works of South Asian heritage came to the UK. Tristram Hunt, Director of the V&A said: “This remarkable support from The Nation ... More
National Gallery's podcast 'Stories in Colour' launches series two LONDON.- The second series of Stories in Colour, a podcast by the National Gallery, launches today (20 May 2026). Today we have access to over 16 million digital colours, and modern chemistry can produce a huge range of stable pigments for every hue imaginable, but this has not always been the case. Stories in Colour explores the hidden histories woven into colour from antiquity to the present day. In series two, we explore the forgotten women colour theorists, toxic pigments, and how everyone went mauve mad in the 19th century and so much more. Across eight episodes, host Beks Leary from the Gallery’s Digital department talks to experts from the Gallery and beyond, including curators, scientists, historians, and artists, about how colour has changed the world, scientifically, religiously, artistically and more. This new series follows on from the success of Series one, which launched in May 2025, and our Gold miniseries that launched last a ... More
One the finest portraitist of the era will be the star of Christie's Old Masters Evening Sale LONDON.- Sir Thomas Lawrence painted this celebrated portrait of the Duke of Wellington, Britain's greatest military hero, following his defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Considered by Wellington himself to be 'one of the best if not the best' that Lawrence ever painted, it will be the highlight of Christie's Old Masters Evening Sale on 30 June, during Classic Week in London (estimate: £8,000,000-12,000,000). This is an outstanding example of Lawrence's work that helped secure his reputation, and has enthralled subsequent generations of artists and collectors. Begun in 1820, the year that Lawrence was elected President of the Royal Academy where the picture was later exhibited to great acclaim in 1822, the artist succeeded in penetrating Wellington's aura of heroism and masterfully capturing the essence of the man. It was this portrait – of the eight that Lawrence executed of Wellington – that the sitter chose to gift to his friends and admirers in the form of a me ... More
Sebastian Gladstone Gallery opens solo exhibition of new paintings by Clayton Schiff LOS ANGELES, CA.- In his new show at Sebastian Gladstone Gallery in Los Angeles, Clayton Schiff has made the most arresting paintings of his career, images of the daily panorama that make it clear what we see is surreal, terrifying, mystifying. The canvases are exploding renderings of the uncanny, pushing Schiff to lean more into the ochres and violets of fresh earth. They feature his iconic dream-skewed people, wide-eyed in wonder, each let loose into Schiff’s distinct world. The paintings come from walks. On a stroll recently in Forest Hills, Queens, Schiff stopped to cross the road, looking at a street sign. A mini-flock of birds were fighting, engaged in an ancient beak-stab dance to get a berry for their kids. Feathers went everywhere. Later Schiff was on a walk through Yonkers, a speck of green that’s been scalpel-driven into the city on the banks of the Hudson. Looking down, the tendrils of a tree were gnarling up the sidewalk and enveloping a man asleep using its trunk for a pillow. Th ... More
Baltimore Museum of Art announces Anoushka Mirchandani for Sherman Family Residence BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art today announced the selection of Anoushka Mirchandani for the third year of the Sherman Family Foundation Residency in Maine. Mirchandani (b. 1988, Pune, India) uses painting to confront the complexities of identity across shifting contexts—an ongoing process of locating and relocating her sense of self following the artist’s emigration from India to the United States in 2006. Over the past decade, the San Francisco-based artist has been exploring the layered nature of selfhood with paintings centered on figures suspended between repose and action—often women posed with quiet confidence, unbothered by expectations of modesty or restraint. Their bodies dissolve into surrounding forms, delineated only by gestures of oil stick or pastel. The tension between bold poses and vanishing contours evokes questions of visibility and vulnerability: what parts of ourselves do we suppress, and what do we allow to emerge in unfamiliar spaces? The Sherman Fam ... More
Tolarno Galleries opens solo exhibition of new works by Brent Harris MELBOURNE.- Tolarno Galleries is presenting Writing poems to the moon, a new exhibition of drawings and related paintings by Melbourne artist Brent Harris. Installed across both gallery spaces, the exhibition encompasses a series of 15 conté drawings on laid paper and seven related paintings in Gallery 1, alongside eight hand-coloured prints based on an earlier work in Gallery 2. Harris connects the exhibition’s title to the idea of a drawing or painting forming in a similar way to that of a poem – as a phrasing of forms – giving rise to an oblique and personal symbolism. As the moon is for Harris, so it has often been a muse for ageing poets as they contemplate their mortality with melancholic reflection. Although there is no actual moon visible, the drawings do have a moonlike glow. “The light from the moon is a reflection,” says Harris. “It’s second-hand moonlight but still contemplative.” Numbered #1–#15, the conté drawings are Harris’s visual ... More
Exhibition brings a decade of visionary landscapes by Hulda Guzmán to Turner Contemporary MARGATE.- Turner Contemporary presents the first European institutional exhibition of Dominican artist Hulda Guzmán. Spanning a decade of work and featuring major new paintings, the exhibition introduces new international audiences to Guzmán’s distinctive vision of landscape as a site of mysticism, ecology and Caribbean identity. Drawing on folk art, Caribbean vernacular traditions and art history, Guzmán's paintings open portals into vibrant, dreamlike worlds where the artist, her family, animals and mythical beings exist in close dialogue with nature. Guzmán lives in the rainforest mountains of Samaná in the Dominican Republic and this biodiverse environment profoundly shapes her visual language. Her richly layered compositions of landscapes and interiors echo the lush abundance of her surroundings while engaging with questions of Caribbean identity, belonging and the urgent realities of climate change. Please awake – asked Nature kindly is Guzmán’s most extensive solo presentat ... More
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On a day like today, American painter and educator Mary Cassatt was born
May 22, 1844. Mary Stevenson Cassatt (May 22, 1844 - June 14, 1926)[1] was an American painter and printmaker. She was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh's North Side), but lived most of her adult life in France, where she befriended Edgar Degas and exhibited with the Impressionists. Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children. In this image: Mary Cassatt, Maternal Caress, 1896. Oil on canvas, 15 × 21 1/4 in. (38.1 × 54 cm). Philadelphia Museum of Art: Bequest of Aaron E. Carpenter, 1970-75-2.
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