Vero Beach Museum of Art Athena Society Members viewing La Méduse, 2008, by Yinka Shonibare, CBE (British Nigerian, b. 1962). Image courtesy of the Vero Beach Museum of Art. Photo by Nicolas Ellis.
VERO BEACH, FLA.-The Vero Beach Museum of Art (VBMA) is acquiring Wind Sculpture in Bronze VI, 2025, by British Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare, CBE (b. 1962), further strengthening the institution’s distinct and growing collection of global contemporary art. Towering over six feet tall, the work is part of a recent series of hand-painted sculptures by the artist that captures the dynamic movement of fabric billowing in the wind. Wind Sculpture will be featured prominently in the sculpture garden of VBMA’s expanded new museum, designed by Allied Works and Unknown Studio, opening in 2028. Wind Sculpture in Bronze VI was elected for purchase and acquired with the support of the VBMA’s Athena Society, which has played a pivotal role in shaping the Museum’s permanent collection by voting on and supporting major acquisitions each year. Since its inception, the Athena Society has helped the VBMA strategically grow its modern and con ... More
Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) Anxious Girl, Painted in 1964. Estimate: $40-60 million.
NEW YORK, NY.- Anxious Girl was first acquired by Horace and Holly Solomon, important collectors and early champions of Pop Art. Active figures in New York's art scene in the 1960s, the couple's apartment came to be filled with canonical works by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, and Claus Oldenburg. In 1966, Holly Solomon commissioned Andy Warhol to produce his now famous 9-paneled portrait of her and in doing so immortalized her reputation as the 'Princess of Pop.' This persona was further developed with more portraits of her by leading artists of the era, including Robert Mapplethorpe, Richard Artschwager, Robert Rauschenberg and Roy Lichtenstein—among them, Lichtenstein's masterpiece I...I'm Sorry, featuring a distressed young woman in tears, painted just one year after Anxious Girl. Formerly owned by Ms. Solomon, the 1965 painting now resides in the collection of The Broad in Los Angeles. ... More
Eugenio Donadoni Christie's International Specialist and Auctioneer selling the top lot of the sale.
LONDON.- Christie’s auction of The Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection of Indian Painting and Calligraphy totalled £5,278,882/ $7,121,212/ €6,086,551, over 3 times the pre-sale estimate. The collection was 100% sold, attracting registrants from 21 countries, with 14% of bidders new to Christie’s. Telling stories of emperors, poetry, love, faith, and daily life across India and the Islamic world, this private collection of these celebrated Seattle-based collectors was keenly anticipated from announcement. Following the record-breaking results of the Exceptional Paintings from the Personal Collection of Prince & Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan in October 2025, these results build on the strength of demand for important works from this category. The star lot was A Courtier Holding a Book, the painting ascribed to Manohar, Mughal India, early 17th century; the calligraphy signed 'Abdullah Al-Husayni, Mughal India, dated ... More
Lighted sculpture inspired by open weave textiles anchors the newest Antigravity installation by neon artists Kelsey Issel and Meryl Pataky.
CORNING, NY.- Luminous forms welcome visitors to The Rockwell Museum, a Smithsonian Affiliate, in “True Gravity,” the latest installation in its Antigravity series. Created by neon artists and founders of She Bends Studios, the installation was designed by Kelsey Issel in collaborative mentorship with Meryl Pataky. The work will be on view through March 2027 in the first-floor entryway. Suspended within the Museum’s historic rotunda, the installation explores glass, light and the subtle forces that shape form. She Bends is a neon organization and teaching studio dedicated to the practice and study of neon craft and contemporary art, highlighting the contributions of women and gender-expansive artists who bend their own glass and push the boundaries of the material. “‘True Gravity’ is a study in balance: breath, heat and gravity conspiring with two artists to make something ... More
Josef Albers, Study for Homage to the Square, 1976. Est. $80,000-120,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s and the Yale School of Art will come together this May to present a benefit auction during The New York Sales, in support of a major long-term initiative to expand access to arts education. Bringing together works donated by artists, alumni, collectors, and galleries, the sale reflects a shared commitment to bolstering the next generation of artists through meaningful, lasting financial support. This collaboration marks a rare partnership between a leading university and an international auction house, grounded in a common goal: to strengthen access to artistic training at one of the world’s most influential art schools. Proceeds from the sale will be directed to the Yale School of Art Dean’s Scholarship Fund, contributing to an ongoing effort to build endowed resources that support students over time. Since 2021, the Yale School of Art has significantly expanded its commitment to financial aid access for students, increasing scholarship funding and broadening ... More
VIENNA.- “Tell these people who I am!”—surely nothing captures the high artistic aspirations of the famous designer Vally Wieselthier (1895−1945) as concisely as her own words. Radically expressive, confident, and far ahead of her time, she broke the mold of functional pottery. She considered herself a sculptor and created masonry heaters, fountains, wall friezes, as well as impressive sculptures, but she was also a successful textile artist and graphic designer. With its first comprehensive retrospective on the artist entitled VALLY WIESELTHIER: Ceramic Sculptor, the MAK is turning the spotlight on her career in Europe and the United States and demonstrating her lasting and ongoing impact on Austrian ceramic art on the basis of 160 select objects. The exhibition was inspired by the partial bequest of her estate by her family in the US. Wieselthier was a student of Josef Hoffmann and Michael Powolny at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts and is ... More
The most valuable watch auction ever held in Asia.
HONG KONG.- History was made on Friday at Sotheby’s Hong Kong as its Important Watches auction achieved a record-breaking HK$414.2 million / US$52.9 million, marking the highest total ever realized for a watch sale at Sotheby’s and the most valuable watch auction ever held in Asia at any auction house. Central to this landmark result was the debut of The Shapes of Cartier: The Finest Vintage Grouping Ever Assembled, the largest and most comprehensive collection of vintage Cartier watches ever presented at auction. The 82-piece ensemble achieved a combined total of HK$108 million / US$13.8 million, more than seven times its pre-sale estimate with 100% of lots sold. Leading the sale was a rare yellow-gold Cartier London Crash, circa 1987, which, over the course of a nine- minute bidding battle amongst collectors online, on the phones, and in the room, more than doubled its pre- sale estimate to achieve HK$15,616,000 / US$1,993,539 (Est: HK$3,200,000-6,000,000 / US$400,000- 750,000). Acquir ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- GRAY announces Next is our skin, an exhibition of work by the trailblazing Polish sculptor and fiber artist Magdalena Abakanowicz (1930-2017). With a selection of work spanning four decades, from the 1960s to the 1990s, this exhibition examines the evolution of her practice and her continuous inquiry into the human condition. Next is our skin traces this line of inquiry specifically through her use of materials—from the earliest work in fiber, Szara, an abstract weaving from 1965, whose natural sisal and horse hair protrude from the surface as if to animate the work, to the more disquieting figurative works from the 1980s and ’90s. Working first in burlap and later in bronze, Abakanowicz’s art represents the human struggle to maintain individuality against political and social oppression. Spending her formative years under Nazi occupation and then Soviet control, Abakanowicz went on to develop a perturbing artistic vocabulary outside the modernist binary of abstraction a ... More
“The Lake Isle of Innisfree.” Manuscript. W.B. Yeats. 1890. First published in The National Observer newspaper in 1890. Courtesy of the Risings co-curators, Alan Klein and Alexander Neubauer.
NEW YORK, NY.- This spring, a new exhibition at The Grolier Club explores the formation of Irish identity through the Irish Literary Revival of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the parallel political quest for Irish nationhood. Presented in collaboration with The New York Public Library and featuring newly discovered material from their collection, Risings: The Irish Literary Revival and the Making of a Nation is on view in The Grolier Club’s ground floor gallery from April 29 through July 25, 2026. Curated by Alexander Neubauer and Alan Klein from their collections, Risings features approximately 150 objects, with more than 30 items drawn from the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection at The New York Public Library. The exhibition features rare books, manuscripts, letters, theatre pamphlets, political ... More
ROME.- Gagosian presents Lately I Find a Sliver of Mirror Is Simply to Slice an Eyelid, an exhibition of photographs by Francesca Woodman (1958–1981), opening on April 29. Focusing on her affinities with Surrealism, the exhibition features nearly fifty prints Woodman made during her lifetime, many of which have never previously been exhibited. Picturing her own body as well as those of other models in natural landscapes and dilapidated interiors, Woodman used composition and mise-en-scène to convey a sense of mystery and theatricality. Destabilizing boundaries between bodies, objects, and settings, her photographs enact both assertions of self and themes of dissociation. They feature figures nude, clothed, or shrouded; exposed or partially hidden; and juxtaposed with everyday objects—eggs, gloves, masks, seashells, teacups, fruit, and fish—that hint at symbolic ... More
Jacquie Maria Wessels, Garage Still #02/2014 Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Analogue C-print, 120 x 120 cm.
LONDON.- At Photo London 2026, Galerie Baudelaire is presenting a solo show of work by the artist Jacquie Maria Wessels (NL), offering an overview of her recent artistic practice. The works on show explore the tension between nature and industry and enter into a dialogue with one another. Diverse in its thematic underpinnings, Wessels’ analogue photography is as poetic as it is sinister. Photo London’s eleventh edition marks an exciting new chapter as the UK’s leading photography fair launches in its new home at Olympia in Kensington. Jacquie Maria Wessels is always searching for new ways with which to tell her story. While analogue photography remains the basis of her work, she is not bound by the medium or a two-dimensional surface. Increasingly, she pushes the boundaries of photography by combining it with other materials, such as textiles, like in her most recent series "In the Sky" (2025) and "Memory Master". The analogue ... More
David Hockney (b. 1937), Lithographic Water Made of Lines, Crayon and Two Blue Washes, 1978-1980. Lithograph in colors on TGL handmade paper, 29-1/8 x 34-1/8 in.
DALLAS, TX.- Heritage’s April 23 Prints & Multiples Signature® Auction realized just over $2.07 million and set five auction records, led by a standout result for David Hockney and strong performances across a tightly curated selection of postwar and contemporary works. The top lot of the sale — and a new auction record for the edition — was Hockney’s Lithographic Water Made of Lines, Crayon and Two Blue Washes (1978–80), which achieved $225,000. A second major Hockney, Hotel Acatlan, Two Weeks Later, from Moving Focus (1985), realized $162,500, reinforcing sustained demand for the artist’s technically ambitious prints. “This was a very focused sale, and the results show that collectors are responding to quality and significance,” says Desiree Pakravan, Heritage’s Consignment Director of Prints & Multiples. “When you bring together works that represent key moments in an ... More
Jim Gaylord lives and works in New York City.
NEW YORK, NY.- DC Moore Gallery announced representation of Jim Gaylord. The artist will have his first solo exhibition with the gallery in Spring 2027. Jim Gaylord explores the possibilities and boundaries of abstraction, adapting languages of formalism, geometry, ornament, and iconography. He interlayers motifs from both man-made and organic structures, finding connections between engineered and naturally occurring patterns. Recontextualizing symbols from our visual culture, his work resonates in ways that are specific yet enigmatic, inviting multiple readings. “My reliefs combine details that draw from both the monumental and the sensorial. A fragment of a skyscraper’s crown, the curvatures of a body, the roundness of an egg, geometric ornamentation and quotations of ancient glyphs may all coincide within the same composition,” the artist says. Evoking qualities of marble friezes and the façades of buildings, his compositions reference elements of architectural space, recombined acc ... More
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Marta Djourina explores the physical power of light in new Berlin exhibition BERLIN.- Marta Djourina returns to Feldbusch Wiesner Rudolph this spring with Blushing, her second solo exhibition at the gallery, opening April 29 and running through May 30, 2026. The presentation introduces three new bodies of work that continue the artist’s ongoing investigation into light as both subject and material. Known for pushing the boundaries of photography, Djourina works without a camera, creating images directly in the darkroom through carefully controlled interactions between light and photosensitive paper. Using handheld tools such as laser pointers and diodes, she “draws” with light in choreographed gestures refined over years of experimentation. For Djourina, light is more than a technical necessity—it is the foundation of perception itself. “Without light, we could see nothing,” the artist explains, describing it as an essential starting point for her practice. Rather ... More
Fashion industry maverick NIGO inaugurates his first ever retrospective at the Design Museum in London LONDON.- Opening 1 May 2026, the Design Museum in London is staging the very first retrospective on NIGO. The visionary designer and creative director is credited as one of the first designers to bridge the worlds of streetwear and luxury fashion. One of the founding fathers of ‘hype culture’, NIGO has applied his creative mind to some of the world’s most recognisable brands and cultural icons, as well as pioneering his own streetwear and luxury fashion labels. NIGO, the first Japanese Artistic Director of Paris fashion house KENZO since its founder Kenzo Takada, rose to prominence with his streetwear brand A Bathing Ape in the 1990s; going on to launch Billionaire Boys Club with American musician Pharell Williams in 2003 and HUMAN MADE in 2010. Recognised for his unique ability to identify trends and sample cultural references across wide-ranging disciplines, ... More
Two-day symposium to explore art as a site of political action MAASTRICHT.- Artistic Prefigurations, Institutional Becomings is a two-day symposium exploring how artistic practice engages with the institutional, economic, and political conditions that surround it, not only as constraints, but as sites of action: conditions to be questioned, unsettled, and reshaped to test, in the present, other ways of organizing social, political, and civic life yet to come. At a time of deepening socio-political division and the erosion of cultural infrastructures, such engagement is urgent. These reflections underpin the European Cooperation Project Institution(ing)s: Co-Creating Inclusive and Sustainable European Art Institutions, a collaboration between eight organizations across seven countries to develop new institutional models. Within this framework, the concept of instituent practices, as proposed by philosopher and theorist Gerald Raunig, is central ... More
Yanomami artist Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe opens landmark solo show in Sao Paulo SAO PAULO.- Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel presents Thapiri/Sonho, Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe’s first exhibition at his gallery in São Paulo, following a 2023 solo presentation at MASP, Tudo Isso Somos Nós. Hakihiiwe, a Yanomami artist based in the Venezuelan Amazon, brings to FDAG Jardins a group of paintings and monotypes that articulate a visual language rooted in Indigenous knowledge and ways of seeing. Composed of lines, dots, circles, and repeating patterns, the works on view, previously shown in an eponymous exhibition at MAC Parque Forestal in Santiago, Chile, draw from daily encounters in the forest. Animal traces, plant structures, and natural formations are translated into a graphic vocabulary shaped by synthesis and rhythm. Based in the Yanomami community of Mahekoto-Theri, Hakihiiwe has developed a practice that reflects the continuity between lived ... More
Tina Keane's landmark Escalator installation restored for Berlin survey BERLIN.- Demolition/Escape brings together three artists whose work with video and sound shares a concern with movement, risk and inversion. The exhibition features Tina Keane’s Escalator (1988), fully restored and exhibited for the first time in over thirty years, alongside newly commissioned works by Hilary Lloyd and James Richards. First presented in the 1980s, Escalator organizes attention through verticality and serial arrangement. Across eleven pairs of stacked monitors, the left screens show suited city workers ascending into a world of glass and steel, while the right show the city’s homeless occupying underground stations. Its looping ascent and descent do not resolve into arrival but return the viewer to the same point, producing a suspended, repetitive temporality. Reversal and replay estrange familiar gestures from habitual meaning and lend everyday ... More
New Britain Museum of American Art receives Henry Luce Foundation grant NEW BRITAIN, CT.- The New Britain Museum of American Art announced a generous $200,000 grant recently awarded by the Henry Luce Foundation to support Puerto Rico in Focus: Historical Interventions, one of three projects planned as part of the New Britain Museum of American Art’s multi-year initiative that explores the historical and contemporary intersections of Puerto Rican and U.S. art. The Puerto Rico in Focus initiative seeks to deepen public understanding of Puerto Rico’s historically complex relationship with the United States through exhibitions, scholarship, and community engagement. This relationship will be addressed through exhibitions of both Historical Interventions, which will pair historical Puerto Rican art with the Museum’s holdings, and Contemporary Views, which will feature contemporary Puerto Rican artists. This grant from the Henry ... More
Treasure House Fair returns with a trove of discoveries and curiosities LONDON.- Continuing a tradition of London summer art fairs established in 1534, Treasure House Fair returns this June with a trove of masterpieces, discoveries and curiosities worthy of the wonders that once captivated its first royal patron, Queen Mary, and generations of collectors since. Sixty galleries - from distinguished newcomers to established dealers who have shaped the fair over the decades - will convene on the historic grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea from 24 to 30 June 2024. Together, they will showcase an exceptional panorama of collecting today, from fine art and furniture to jewellery, horology and more. Highlights this year also include a major exhibition celebrating 50 years of British Surrealism, with rarely seen works from Southampton City Art Gallery and a Sculpture Walk, featuring monumental artworks. A “treasure house” of the rare ... More
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