Installation view of Gothic by Design: The Dawn of Architectura Draftsmanship, on view April 16–July 19, 2026 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo by Eugenia Burnett Tinsley, Courtesy of The Met.
NEW YORK, NY.- This spring, The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents Gothic by Design: The Dawn of Architectural Draftsmanship, the first-ever exhibition to examine Gothic architecture drawings in an art historical context. The Gothic era produced some of the most monumental and beautiful structures of the Western world, recognized to this day as icons of the European cityscape, yet rarely discussed as the product of the ingenious and innovative contributions of individual architects. This design legacy has, however, been preserved in a substantial though obscure body of preparatory drawings and prints. Gothic by Design will introduce this remarkable body of work to a general audience and the scholarly community, illuminating the significant impact the practice of drawing had on stylistic developments during the Gothic period. The exhibition is on view from April 13 through July 19, 2026. “Until now, few have been given a glimpse into the meticulous design process that imbued Gothic architecture ... More
Harrison-Hiett Rare Books will be selling a first edition of the scarce album Patrioty, Album politique et allégorique de 1850.
LONDON.- Firsts: London’s Rare Book Fair at the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea from 14 to 17 May 2026. This year's theme is ‘Revolution’ which will cover books, manuscripts, maps, and ephemera relating to all types of revolutions - may they be political, cultural, social or scientific. This year's fair will see around 100 international booksellers bringing highlights, some of which are marking the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the document that shaped the course of the American Revolution. A letter by one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, Thomas Paine (1737-1809), whose publication of Common Sense and other pamphlets in the 1770s proved crucial in building support for independence, will be offered by Shapero Rare Books for a six figure sum. Paine was a French Revolutionary, inventor, political philosopher, and statesman, and this letter is from January 1797, written in Paris to Colonel John Fellows (1735-1808), who participated ... More
1806/5 Bust Half Dollar coin, the Overton-103a variety, remarkably original and graded PCGS MS63+, placing it firmly in the Choice to Near-Gem Mint State range. Estimate: $50,000-$60,000.
DENVER, PA.- An exquisite example of a US Bust Half Dollar coin with the desirable 1806/5 overdate, a stunning Gem-grade 1879-CC Morgan Dollar, and a 1798/7 overdate $10 Capped Bust Heraldic Eagle with 9x4 stars (one of three Capped Bust Heraldic Eagles up for bid) are just a few of the expected top performers in Morphy’s Premier Coins auction scheduled for Tuesday, April 28. The catalog is a numismatist’s dream, loaded with 368 lots of antique and vintage US gold and silver coins (high-grade silver dollar coins especially abundant), rare Lincoln head and Indian head pennies, mint coin sets, tokens, paper money spanning multiple generations, foreign currency, bank drafts, commemorative coins, solid gold bars, and more. Most of the coins in this auction are being offered for the first time in many years. The 1806/5 Bust Half Dollar coin, the Overton-103a variety, is remarkably original. It’s graded PCGS MS63+, placing ... More
Nikola Tesla signed holograph manuscript page from “Tidal Wave to Make War Impossible,” an article he authored that was published in English Mechanic and World of Science in May 1907.
CORAL GABLES, FLA.- A holograph page from a Nikola Tesla scientific manuscript from 1907, signed in full and containing Tesla’s bold vision of a world in which warfare is rendered virtually obsolete, is the expected headliner in One of a Kind Collectibles’ internet-only auction, online now at www.OAKauctions.com and ending Thursday, April 30, at 8pm Eastern Time. Officially titled Tesla, Einstein & the American Presidency: Rare Autographs & Historical Documents, the auction showcases an exceptional array of scientific, presidential, literary and aviation material spanning centuries of American and international history. Offerings in the catalog pertain to items signed by some of history’s brightest luminaries, including Tesla, Albert Einstein, Charles Lindbergh, numerous past US Presidents and Declaration signers. The Nikola Tesla signed manuscript is arguably one of the most audacious weapons concepts ever committed to paper. It is ... More
DALLAS, TX.- Among the lunar lots is Oued El Hamim 001 (OEH 001), an officially classified 608.73-gram lunar fragmental breccia recovered in Ajdabiya, Libya, and recognized in the Meteoritical Bulletin as one of only 48 known specimens. Further, it could contain evidence of water on the Moon, which would represent a major shift in current understanding of its composition. “This could be highly significant because it is aqueous-altered,” Kissick says. “That may have been caused by impact-related processes on Earth, or it could have been caused by ancient lunar volcanic activity.” A matched pair of pieces from another lunar meteorite, NWA 16683, is an intriguing specimen. Classified as troctolitic anorthosite, a lithology associated with the deep crust of the Moon, the sliced pair weighs a combined 689 grams and presents complementary perspectives of this very special extraterrestrial rock. The main mass of the Martian meteorite NWA 17754, representing a ... More
Batman #1 (DC, 1940) CGC NM 9.4 White pages.
DALLAS, TX.- As part of its never-ending efforts to better serve the collecting community, Heritage Auctions offers a new direct sale platform, the Comic Books and Comic Art Boutique. The Comic Books and Comic Art Boutique is a curated selection to complement the company’s industry-leading auctions. Spanning the Golden Age to the contemporary, these treasures are offered publicly from Heritage for a fixed price for the first time, available to be shipped immediately from the auction house’s Dallas headquarters. The Comic Books and Comic Art Boutique is not Heritage’s first foray into direct sales related to the hobby, merely a newly curated public format for the significant private sales the department has been facilitating for years. Previous examples include the December 2025 $1.95 million sale of Frank Frazetta’s Death Dealer 6 and a recent $13 million transaction, one of the largest private comics sales ever recorded, comprising a Batman No. 1 CGC 9.4, the highest-graded kno ... More
Prior to joining Smithsonian Libraries and Archives, Edwards served as deputy director of the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and Smithsonian Affiliations (SITES | SA), where she provided executive leadership for strategic planning, development and operations.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian has announced the appointment of Tricia Edwards as director of Smithsonian Libraries and Archives, effective Monday, April 20. Edwards has served as interim director since September 2025. “Tricia brings deep institutional knowledge and a lifelong commitment to education and public service,” said Lonnie G. Bunch III, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. “Her breadth of experience across the Smithsonian and her dedicated leadership over the years make her exceptionally well suited to lead Smithsonian Libraries and Archives into its next chapter.” “It is a privilege to lead Smithsonian Libraries and Archives and to work alongside the staff who care for these collections and make them accessible,” Edwards said. “This work plays an essential role ... More
National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution.
WASHINGTON, DC.- In honor of the United States’ 250th anniversary in 2026, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art presents a roster of exhibitions, public programs and digital initiatives that highlight the long-standing and ever-evolving cultural exchange between Asia and the United States. The museum’s offerings reflect its origins as a gift to the nation and its role in American history as a leading global resource for Asian arts and cultures. “That the first national art museum is devoted to making the arts of different cultures accessible to all is a testament to the American ideals of cross-cultural exchange and understanding,” said Chase F. Robinson, the museum’s director. “As the nation turns 250, we honor the past and look to the future by serving as a dynamic, collaborative institution, grounded in cultural diplomacy, international partnerships and greater access to our collections and initiatives for both American and global audiences.” The ... More
Objects Include Olympic Uniforms, Emergency Services Gear, Props From “Survivor” and a John Sayles Movie, Original “Superman IV” Painting and More
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History recently acquired several significant artifacts that reflect key moments in American sports, entertainment and popular-culture history, as well as items from American philanthropic and emergency services advancements. The new acquisitions represent a diverse range of fields highlighting American achievements, including Olympic jerseys, ice dancing costumes, a painting that inspired the Superman IV movie posters, gear from a Jewish female EMS group and African American firefighters, and props from the hit TV show Survivor. “These new artifacts joining our permanent collections highlight the museum’s ongoing commitment to preserving and showcasing the fascinating breadth of American culture and how these objects tell the stories of critical events in the history of the United States,” said Anthea M. Hartig, ... More
KANSAS CITY, MO.- A stunning exhibition examining the graphic art of Alphonse Mucha opened at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City April 18. Timeless Mucha: The Magic of Line features nearly 150 works showcasing the evolution of Mucha’s Art Nouveau style and how it was rediscovered by later artists. Organized by the Mucha Foundation, which is run by the artist’s descendants, the show features not only their extensive holdings of Mucha’s posters, drawings, and paintings, but a wide selection of album covers, manga illustrations, comic book covers, and other artworks inspired by him. The exhibition runs through Aug. 30. “Alphonse Mucha’s harmonious compositions and organic lines not only defined Art Nouveau, but transcended their time, shaping visual culture across continents and mediums—including Parisian theater posters, American ... More
PARIS.- Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Marais presents Roman Campagna, an exhibition of new paintings and charcoal drawings by Adrian Ghenie. Created in his studio in Rome following his recent relocation, these works mark a decisive shiff in the artist’s practice, drawing on land- scape painting as both subject and form. Ghenie reworks the genre from within, folding art-historical reference into his distinctive painterly language to create works poised between pastoral idealism and contemporary unease. In his new oil paintings, Ghenie portrays flurried figures atop the cobblestones of a well-preserved stretch of the Appian Way, where he now lives. One of the earliest and most significant Roman roads, the Appian Way cuts through a landscape central to the development of European painting. Ghenie cites Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorrain, whose atmospheric renderings of this region helped establish landscape as an autonomous genre. Retracing this lineage, Ghenie explores the idea of the ‘invente ... More
John Chamberlain, Silver Plait, 1976. Painted and chromium plated steel, 89 x 78.5 x 65 cm (35 x 31 x 25 2/3 in) Cat. Rais. J. Sylvester 1986 # 544
COLOGNE.- Galerie Karsten Greve is presenting the solo exhibition of John Chamberlain at the Cologne gallery. John Chamberlain (1927–2011) is one of the central figures of the international post-war avant- garde. As one of Galerie Karsten Greve’s earliest artists, John Chamberlain has been represented by the gallery since 1973. Across the decades, John Chamberlain and Karsten Greve were connected not only by friendship but also by a close working relationship, which has been reflected in numerous solo and group exhibitions. The presentation brings together works from different phases since 1960, combining both Chamberlain’s sculptural and photographic oeuvre. The exhibition pays tribute to a ground-breaking and uniquely distinctive work, highlighting its outstanding importance for post-war art. Raised in Chicago, amid a highly industrialized urban environment of factories, workshops, and constant ... More
BERLIN.- For the very first time, Alfred Ehrhardt’s film work is the focus of an exhibition. The photographer, documentary filmmaker, and Bauhaus-trained artist created more than sixty films—an oeuvre that has long been overshadowed by his photographic work. Now, the Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung bring his films to the fore, offering a fresh aesthetic and historical perspective on one of the most prolific German cultural filmmakers of the twentieth century. A selection of twenty key short and feature-length films will be presented across ten screens in two program phases: ten films during the first five weeks of the exhibition, followed by ten further works in the second half. The selection includes nature studies, films on art and cultural history, as well as productions from the Nazi era that have rarely been shown to date. The exhibition features Ehrhardt’s so-called “shell films” devoted to snails, mussels, and corals; his investigations of nature as a master ... More
Quote It is the power of enchantment which matters. René Magritte
More News
Württembergischer Kunstverein presents siren eun young jung: resistant theatre STUTTGART.- With resistant theatre, the Württembergischer Kunstverein presents a major solo exhibition by the South Korean artist siren eun young jung. The exhibition focuses on the latest and final part of jung’s theatre trilogy, featuring three new video installations on view outside South Korea for the first time. The trilogy draws on the artist’s long-standing engagement with Yeoseong Gukgeuk—a genre of musical theatre popular in South Korea in the 1950s, in which all roles, including male characters, are performed by women. In the performances, videos, and archival installations resulting from this artistic research, jung creates trans* and queer-feminist spaces of discourse and action beyond Western narratives. The first part of the trilogy, trans theatre, examines the first generation of performers of male roles in Yeoseong Gukgeuk and offers a queer reading ... More
Sikkema Malloy Jenkins now representing Isabel Nolan NEW YORK, NY.- Sikkema Malloy Jenkins announced the representation of Isabel Nolan, in collaboration with Kerlin Gallery in Dublin. Isabel Nolan’s expansive practice unites sculpture, textile, painting, and drawing within a constellating model of artistic inquiry and meaning-making. Nolan is fascinated by the contingency of history and the inter-subjectivity of human experience. Her subject matter is drawn from chance and cumulative encounters with a wide variety of sources, including historical records, hagiographies, literary and artistic traditions, and cosmological phenomena. The material scope and scale of her practice are similarly expansive, ranging from architectural sculptures and monumental tapestries to colored pencil drawings and water-based oil paintings on canvas. Drawn to both intimacy and vastness, Nolan’s work reveals the strangeness and beauty ... More
Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab presents FUTURE VISION LAB 2026 TAIPEI.- C-LAB’s signature experimental program FUTURE VISION LAB 2026 returns this spring, taking place from April 18 to June 7 over eight consecutive weekends at the FVL DOME, located on the East Lawn of Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab. Bringing together 19 works across 16 programs from artists in Taiwan, France, Spain, Hungary, Austria, South Korea, Japan, the United States, and Canada, this year’s edition spans live performances, exhibitions, and immersive screenings—offering a dynamic cross-section of contemporary media art. At the core of the program are five live performances that foreground immediacy, interaction, and shared sensory experience. Austrian audiovisual artist MONOCOLOR’s Noosphere stages a striking visual dialogue between collective human consciousness and climate change. Korean artist Kohui’s Panphony: Circular ... More
James 'Jimmy' Hayward, defining figure of West Coast monochrome painting, dies at 81 SANTA MONICA, CA.- It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of the revered artist and dear friend, James “Jimmy” Hayward, who died this morning. Born in San Francisco in 1943, Hayward spent the majority of his life in Los Angeles, where he became a defining figure in the region’s post-minimal and monochrome painting tradition. Until recently, Hayward lived in an airstream on his beloved horse farm in Moorpark, an image that suited him: a painter who was part philosopher, part cowboy, and wholly singular. For more than four decades, Hayward pursued a deeply committed investigation into gesture, materiality, and the physical act of painting. Associated with the lineage of West Coast abstraction, he developed a distinctive monochrome practice defined by densely worked surfaces of thick oil paint. Built through deliberate, diagonal strokes across ... More
Call and response: Neïl Beloufa explores the glitchy disconnect of the digital age LOS ANGELES, CA.- François Ghebaly is presenting Call and Response, Neïl Beloufa’s sixth exhibition at the gallery. Call and Response considers a handful of ideas: enduring effects of cyclical media feeds that careen between brutality and hyper-individualism; and iterative or seemingly infinitely reduplicated scenarios in war, art, and advertisement. The exhibition is organized around two adjacent installations. The main gallery features a new multimedia installation of the same title, which comprises six lightboxes made from pigmented resin, MDF, and LEDs, materials not unlike those in our handheld and laptop technologies. The different images in each lightbox, ”beach,” “flowers,” and “portrait,” for example, are deliberately placeholding or picturesque. Additional layers of multicolored resin further obscure the underlying images, causing them to resemble, ... More
The flower is built, not painted: Anthony Akinbola's durag still lifes arrive at Carbon 12 DUBAI.- CARBON 12 is delighted to present Get Well Soon an exhibition of new paintings by Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola. Moving through a long history of botanical and floral painting, in this series Anthony Akinbola places himself in conversation with artists who have approached this genre across centuries. He enters this lineage through the arrangement of his long-explored material, the durag. Durags are stretchable fabrics worn over the head to shape and protect the hair and in Akinbola’s practice, they are both culturally loaded objects and a material he can reconfigure. In Get Well Soon, Akinbola assembles durags into compositions that are drawn from the structure of classical floral still lifes. Translating this genre into fabric, seams and folds allows the image to form through construction rather than illusion, while the durag’s cultural charge continues to circulate within ... More
Smithsonian Associates presents "Faith in Harmony" series exploring the soundscapes of American spirituality WASHINGTON, DC.- Smithsonian Associates will present a dynamic program series that explores the roles of sound and music across diverse religious traditions in the United States. Blending live performance with engaging conversation, the five-part series invites audiences to experience how sound functions as a powerful expression of faith, identity and community. The series opens with “Faith in Harmony: Soundscapes of American Spirituality: Horn” Thursday, May 14, at 6 p.m. at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Featuring the music of brass bands, the sounding of the shofar and more, the first session explores how American spiritual communities use the horn today to celebrate their faith in harmony. Rooted ... More
National Museum of African Art announces promised gift: The "African Ceremonies" photographic collection WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art has announced a promised gift, the “African Ceremonies” collection, that features archival materials documenting the work of photographers Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher. Beckwith and Fisher have dedicated their careers to showcasing African cultures and traditions for five decades, from the late 1970s to the present. “African Ceremonies” features more than 150 cultural groups from 35 African countries. The collection documents cultures and traditions through photographs, journals, films, publications and digital media. The museum will house the “African Ceremonies” collection as part of its commitment to expanding public understanding of the arts, histories and cultures of Africa and its diasporas. It will increase the African Art Museum’s archival holdings by 28%. In the future, the museum ... More
Artist Annette Messager: "If I think too much, I don’t work."
PhotoGalleries
Flashback
On a day like today, German sculptor and academic Otto Piene was born
April 18, 1928. Otto Piene (18 April 1928 - 17 July 2014) was a German-American artist specializing in kinetic and technology-based art, often working collaboratively. He lived and worked in Düsseldorf, Germany; Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Groton, Massachusetts. In this image: Otto Piene, The Proliferation of the Sun, 2014. Installation view Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin. Photo: David von Becker.
The OnlineCasinosSpelen editors have years of experience with everything related to online gambling providers and reliable online casinos Nederland. If you have any questions about casino bonuses and, please contact the team directly.
The OnlineCasinosSpelen zonder CRUKS editors have years of experience with online gambling providers and reliable online casinos Nederland. If you have any questions about casino bonuses and, please contact the team directly.
