Akbar Padamsee (Indian, 1928-2020) untitled 20th Century oil on canvas depicting an abstract composition, in a gold leaf frame. signed and dated lower left 1962.
GLEN COVE, NY.-Roland Auctions NY will present a rare, never viewed before 1962 oil on canvas painting by acclaimed Indian Modernist painter Akbar Padamsee (1928 – 2020), who was once a protégé of The Aga Khan. One of the pioneers and stalwarts of Indian modern art, Akbar Padamsee went to live in Paris from his native Mumbai in the early 1960’s, after his family got the blessing of the Aga Khan, the religious and spiritual head of the Khoja Muslim community to which Akbar’s family belonged - who, at that time, was visiting India. He not only endorsed Akbar’s desire to specialize in art but also suggested he should go to Paris for further studies. The Aga Khan’s approval and blessings, in effect, sealed Akbar’s destiny. This untitled painting will be the highlight of Roland Auction’s much-anticipated March 28th2026 spring auction, and had previously been ... More
Mark Rothko, No. 15 (Two Greens and Red Stripe). Estimate: in the region of $80 million.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie's will present The Collection of Agnes Gund, a selection of three masterpieces from the personal collection of one of the most generous, beloved, and impactful art patrons of all time. The collection of Agnes “Aggie” Gund will be a centerpiece of Christie's Marquee Week in New York in May 2026, offering works by pioneers of the modern and post-war eras: Mark Rothko, Cy Twombly and Joseph Cornell. These works represent the very essence of both Agnes Gund and her collection: passion, excellence, and connoisseurship. This will be a convening moment to come together and celebrate the legacy of Gund, an inimitable collector and activist whose legacy of supporting artists, promoting access to the arts, making transformative gifts to museums, and working tirelessly for causes she believed in continues to shape the art world. Bonnie Brennan, Christie's Chief Executive Officer, remarks, “Agnes Gund was singular. A renowned ... More
Kenner Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1983) AT-AT Imperial All Terrain Armored Transport Vehicle, AFA 85 NM+. Sold for $50,762 against an estimate of $4,000-$8,000.
YORK, PA.- The Jeff Jacob Collection continued its march into the history books on February 4, 2026 as Hake’s auctioned Part IV of the Colorado-based consignor’s phenomenal trove of Star Wars, GI Joe and other rare and sought-after toys. Chalking up $844,000, the latest offering boosted the series subtotal so far to a heady $4.4 million, with the fifth and final installment of action figures from the stellar collection set to cross the auction block later this year. The February 4 event was led by a daunting Kenner Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1983) AT-AT Imperial All Terrain Armored Transport Vehicle, AFA 85 NM+, with its original pictorial box touting the contents as “One Large Vehicle With Articulated Legs, Opening Side Entrance, Remotely Operated Pulsating, Flashing Laser Cannons And A Head Which Moves Up And Down And Side To Side Via A Lever.” At the time of cataloging, ... More
Roy Lichtenstein, I Love Liberty.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie's will present Contemporary Edition: New York, an online sale open for bidding from 17-26 February. The sale is an array of more than 150 post-war and contemporary prints and multiples, with estimates starting at under $1,000—offering an exciting opportunity for seasoned and emerging collectors alike. Highlights in the sale include works by icons of the post-war era such as Roy Lichtenstein, Ellsworth Kelly and Helen Frankenthaler; as well as outstanding contemporary examples by the most coveted names including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Damien Hirst, and many more. The top lot of the sale is Gold Band an exemplary work by El Anatsui (estimate: $60,000-80,000). Additional top lots include Andy Warhol's screenprint of Mick Jagger (estimate: $60,000-80,000) and I Love Liberty by Roy Lichtenstein (estimate: $40,000-60,000). The sale notably features a fantastic selection of work being sold to benefit Studio in a School, a non-profit organization Christie's ... More
MADRID.- Spain’s minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, the president of the Museo Reina Sofía’s Board of Trustees, Ángeles González-Sinde, Museo Reina Sofía director, Manuel Segade, and the Museo’s deputy artistic director, Amanda de la Garza, today unveiled Collection. Contemporary Art: 1975 - Present, the new presentation of the Museo Reina Sofía Collections spanning fifty years of contemporary art from Spain, from the Transition to democracy to the present day, via three exhibition routes. By way of a selection of 403 works by 224 artists, this new narrative seeks to cast light on the contribution of Spanish contemporary art. Spain’s minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, described this fresh presentation of the Collection as “a major cultural event that strengthens contemporary art, widening its scope and gathering more voices and more gazes, particularly the gazes ... More
Catherine Christer Hennix Bichromatic Tangle of Topological Space Curves from the series Topological Studies of Closed Curves, 1993/2026. Pigment on paper. Photo: Helene Toresdotter. Courtesy of Empty Gallery, Hong Kong.
MALMO.- Beginning in the late 1960s, Catherine Christer Hennix (1948–2023) developed a singular, interdisciplinary practice that placed sound at its center. Best known for her long-duration compositions, she integrated music, mathematics, philosophy, language, and visual forms in work that exceeds the bounds of any single medium, unfolding instead as an integrated inquiry into structure, perception, and knowledge itself. Born in Stockholm, Hennix was immersed from an early age in the city’s experimental music and art scenes. While she performed as a jazz drummer, she studied biology and linguistics before turning to philosophy and mathematical logic. As one of the initial members of Elektronmusikstudion (EMS), she created text-sound compositions alongside more wellknown figures like Åke Hodell and Sten Hanson. In 1968, ... More
Roderic O'Conor (1860-1940), Le Loing at Sundown, c.1902.
DUBLIN.- Whyte’s auction of Irish & International art promises to deliver another exciting opportunity for collectors to acquire rare artworks of outstanding quality and enduring value. On Monday 9 March 2026 the auction will include 129 lots of Irish & International art valued at €1 million. The live auction will take place at the Freemasons Hall, Molesworth Street, Dublin 2 and online at bid.whytes.ie. Viewing takes place at Whyte’s Galleries in Molesworth Street from Monday 2 March to Friday 6 March, 10am to 5pm, Saturday and Sunday 7 & 8 March, 1pm to 5pm and Monday 9 March – day of sale - 10am to 4pm. Bidders and browsers can avail of useful auction features on Whytes.ie such as extra photographs of each work, including in domestic settings, as well the free Art Realizer App allowing you to project pictures to scale on walls to see if a work will suit your home or office; frame sizes and condition notes for every lot are published on our website, and, ... More
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Pace’s booth at this year’s edition of Frieze Los Angeles will spotlight works by artists with strong connections to the city, including a never-before-seen, rounded-diamond installation by James Turrell; new paintings by Mary Corse and Friedrich Kunath; a suite of works on paper by David Lynch, who is the subject of exhibitions at the gallery’s Berlin and Los Angeles spaces this year; a 2018 work on paper by David Hockney; a 2020 sculpture by Peter Alexander; and photographs by Richard Misrach. The presentation will showcase the gallery’s contemporary program with works by Robert Longo, Kohei Nawa, Marina Perez Simão, Alejandro Piñeiro Bello, and Mika Tajima. Historical works on the booth will include paintings by Jean Dubuffet, Emily Kam Kngwarray, and Richard Pousette-Dart; a sculpture by Lynda Benglis; a 1969 painting by Kenneth Noland; and mixed media wall reliefs by Louise Nevelson, whose retrospective at the Centre Pompidou-Metz is on view through August 31. ... More
AMSTERDAM.- Tata Ronkholz was one of the first students in Bernd and Hilla Becher’s famous photography class at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Her fellow students included Candida Höfer, Axel Hütte, Thomas Ruff and Thomas Struth, all of whom became artists of world renown. Oddly enough Tata Ronkholz’ work is only now receiving the same international acclaim. The retrospective Designed World: Through the Eyes of Tata Ronkholz (1940–1997), on show at Huis Marseille from 14 February until 21 June 2026, is the first large-scale tribute to this many-sided artist. Tata Ronkholz was a photographer, product designer, and interior architect. Her photographic series lie within the tradition of objective, documentary photography, a tradition which was decisively shaped by the artist couple Bernd and Hilla Becher. Like theirs, Ronkholz’ work is characterised by clear compositions, a serial approach, and a documentary focus on architectural ... More
Joan Miró, Peinture, 1949. Estimate: £1,500,000–2,500,000.
LONDON.- Christie's will present the 25th edition of The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale, a highlight of its 20th/21st Century Art London Marquee Week, taking place on 5 March 2026. The auction is the only international sale devoted exclusively to Dada, Surrealism, and their enduring influences. Held by Christie's since 1989 - longer and with greater consistency than any other auction house - The Art of the Surreal is celebrated for the exceptional quality of its offerings. The sale has repeatedly achieved record-breaking results and continues to play a defining role in shaping the market for Surrealist and Dada art. This year's edition brings together an outstanding selection of works that capture the imagination, innovation and enduring power of these revolutionary movements, including highlights from René Magritte, Max Ernst, Odilon Redon, Dorothea Tanning, Joan Miró, Paul Delvaux, and Toyen among others. Leading the sale is Magritte's Les grâces naturelles (circa 1961; estimate: £6,500,000& ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- Templon New York presents Iván Navarro: Light Years, a chronological overview of the artist’s work from 2004 onward. Conceived as an anniversary exhibition, Light Years marks a double milestone: the gallery’s 60th anniversary and over twenty years of collaboration with Iván Navarro. The exhibition is structured around three foundational works that function as conceptual vehicles: Landless Land (2023), Flashlight: I’m Not From Here, I’m Not From There (2006), and Resistance (2009). Envisioned as electrically animated sculptures activated through movement and video performance, these works form the core of Navarro’s practice. Their titles—borrowed from electrical terminology—ground metaphor in material reality and signal the artist’s strategy of diverting utilitarian objects into political and existential instruments. The exhibition begins with Landess Land, a 2023 silent reprise of the original 2004-2005 work Homeless Lamp, The Juice Sucker, now i ... More
Installation view of Yin Xiuzhen: Heart to Heart. Photo: Mark Blower. Courtesy of the Hayward Gallery.
LONDON.- The first major UK survey of work by leading Chinese artist Yin Xiuzhen, Heart to Heart invites visitors to step into her spellbinding world. Spanning the entire lower-level galleries, the exhibition brings together seminal projects from the past three decades, alongside new commissions and historic works reimagined for the space. Through large-scale installations made from everyday objects, industrial materials and used items of clothing, Heart to Heart invites us to see the familiar in new ways, revealing the personal and collective stories these overlooked items carry. Yin is a pioneering artist of her generation who first emerged on the contemporary Chinese art scene in the early 1990s. Like many of her contemporaries, her career developed at the same time as major cultural, economic and social changes in China. Observing the country’s fast economic growth, urbanisation and global integration, Yin was keen to explore how living in an increasingly connected world can impact ide ... More
Erwin Thomasse, Turn Panic into Magic, Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, 2022. Photo: Peter Cox.
EINDHOVEN.- The Van Abbemuseum is committed to presenting and collecting modern and contemporary art, activating artistic intelligences to explore and prototype how people might live, (un)learn, and move together. As a municipally funded museum within Eindhoven’s social welfare framework, the institution carries a public responsibility: to ensure art remains a living, socially engaged force, capable of addressing technological, ecological, and political urgencies. Founded in 1936, it is one of the first public museums for contemporary art in Europe and holds over 3,600 artworks in its collection and 140,000 volumes in its art library, as well as a host of special archives. The Van Abbemuseum commissions, collects, and presents art as a method of inquiry. The Van Abbemuseum is in the midst of a process that continues a tradition of engaging artists as system thinkers who shape not only exhibitions, but also the museum’s way of working. This approach informs the forthcoming collection disp ... More
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First Nauru National Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale VENICE.- Nauru, the world's smallest island country, debuts with a national pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale titled AIM Inundated, Imagining Life After Land and curated by Khaled Ramadan, which positions the South Pacific Ocean microstate as an early and universal example of loss, adaptation, and resilience. Presenting ecological precarity not as a distant horizon, but as an ongoing condition, the Pavilion acknowledges Nauru as a place where the long-term consequences of global economic and political decisions have been materially lived, and thresholds have already been crossed, and so reframes it from being a remote or marginal territory to become both a universal warning and a crucial guide for a shared future. Situated at the convergence of rising sea levels, environmental exhaustion, and the enduring legacies of colonial extractivism, Nauru stands as one of the most ... More
Christie's New York presents Outsider Art NEW YORK, NY.- Christie's announced the sale of a diverse selection of Outsider Art selling across two auctions in New York's Contemporary Art Sales this February. The first auction, Outsider Art, is open for bidding February 11 - February 27, 2026. The sale comprises more than 170 works by up‑and‑coming names from the field and established artists of the category, including Bill Traylor, Nellie Mae Rowe, Thornton Dial, and Elijah Pierce. The sale's top lot is Seated Girl, a limestone sculpture executed circa 1930s (estimate: $200,000-300,000) by William Edmondson—the first Black artist to be featured in a solo show at the Museum of Modern Art in 1937. Additional top lots in the online sale include Vile Milliarden Stund (Double-Sided), a work on paper by Adolf Wölfli (estimate: $40,000-80,000), Untitled (Large figure) by James Castle (estimate: $30,000-50,000), and ... More
Kunstraum Niederoesterreich presents its annual program 2026 Fragile Fictions VIENNA.- The Kunstraum’s annual program 2026 focuses on the status of the fictional in art and politics. What does it mean to uphold the distinction between fiction and truth in an era of deepfakes, slopaganda, and alternative facts? How do storytelling and political imagination relate to one another? Which (future) narratives are popular at the moment and why? Besides the manipulative and demagogic aspects of fiction, the Kunstraum will explore emancipatory forms of storytelling and collective imagination. Under this year’s theme Fragile Fictions, the program comprises three group exhibitions, a series of live events, and a wide range of art mediation formats, many with an embodied and movement-centered approach. At the end of 2026, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich will publish the book Instituting Performance. Improvising the Institution? together with Verlag für moderne ... More
Spring 2026 program at O-Overgaden COPENHAGEN.- Founded for artists by artists in 1986, O—Overgaden is one of the few large-scale contemporary art institutions in Denmark with an unwavering focus on mounting solo exhibitions by emerging artists, local and international. This spring, O present solo shows by practitioners including visual artist Freja Sofie Kirk, sculptor ihsan saad ihsan tahir, painter Morten Knudsen, and artist collective coyote. Alongside commissioning new works, each exhibition is accompanied by a publication in O’s monographic series—with upcoming contributors including, among others, Elisa R. Linn, Mariam Elnozahy, and Kristian Vistrup Madsen—designed by fanfare and released in print and online for free download. The unsettling, intertwined spin of desire-and-death in entertainment industry imagery is central to Freja Sofie Kirk’s (1990, Denmark) photographic ... More
AGO explores the fashion, music and impact of Beatlemania TORONTO.- A revealing portrait of a multifaceted artist, Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64: Eyes of the Storm makes its Canadian debut this winter at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO). Opening in Toronto on February 18, 2026, the exhibition presents an extraordinary archive of more than 250 photographs made by British musician Paul McCartney at the moment The Beatles catapulted from British sensations to global superstars. Organized by the National Portrait Gallery, London, and featuring video clips and archival material, this celebrated exhibition is a unique glimpse into the cultural phenomenon that was Beatlemania. On view through June 7, 2026, Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64: Eyes of the Storm is curated by Paul McCartney with Sarah Brown for MPL Communications and Rosie Broadley for the National Portrait Gallery. The AGO presentation ... More
MUMA's first 2026 exhibition examines spiritual and embodied knowledge amid global distrust MELBOURNE.- Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA, opened 2026 with Knowing Otherwise from 7 February to 2 April, a group exhibition exploring how artists are enacting ancestral, spiritual and embodied forms of knowledge amid eroding trust in government and dominant Western frameworks. Knowing Otherwise foregrounds both historical and contemporary practices that challenge who has the power to define knowledge. It brings together five new commissions (Paola Balla (Wemba Wemba, Gunditjmara), Carla Cescon, Mel Deerson, Clare Milledge and Karina Utomo), works from the Monash University Collection (Gail Mabo (Meriam), Naminapu Maymuru-White), Tracey Moffatt and Heather B. Swann), and key works from Australian and international artists (Yin-Ju Chen, David Egan, Leyla Stevens and Suzanne Treister). Among the featured ... More
Jackson Hole Art Auction surpasses $1 million in sales with 91% sell-through rate JACKSON, WY.- Jackson Hole Art Auction held two successful auctions last week: Attainable Art for the Emerging Collector concluded February 11th, and the live online auction was broadcast on February 12th. 91% percent of the 435 lots were sold, realizing over $1 million in sales. JHAA Managing Director Kevin Doyle led the live sale with energy and precision, sparking lively bidding throughout the auction. The Winter 2026 lineup featured fresh-to-market artworks from important private collections, including fine examples of Cowboy, Sporting, Wildlife, and Native American art and sculpture. The range reflects JHAA’s reputation as one of the country’s leading venues for Western art. Both sales brought strong sales results for bronze sculptures, and artwork featuring Indigenous subjects, both classic and contemporary, performed well. The top-selling lot across ... More
William Leavitt to bring surreal California dreamscapes to Felix Art Fair 2026 LOS ANGELES, CA.- Marc Selwyn Fine Art announced a presentation of paintings by William Leavitt for the Felix Art Fair 2026. A critical figure in the West Coast conceptual art movement of the 1960s and 1970s, Leavitt’s multidisciplinary work includes paintings, works on paper, installations, and screenplays that assemble mysterious motifs and figures in environments that draw largely from the landscape and architecture of Southern California. A critical figure in the West Coast conceptual art movement of the 1960s and 1970s, Leavitt’s multidisciplinary work includes paintings, works on paper, installations, and screenplays that assemble mysterious motifs and figures in environments that draw largely from the landscape and architecture of Southern California. The paintings in this presentation, created between 1995 and 2017, layer setting, object, and figure together in enigmatic ... More
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