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Diego Rivera exhibition opens at the Capitoline Museums in Rome |
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ROME.- A major exhibition dedicated to Diego Rivera and the rise of modern Mexican art has opened at the Capitoline Museums – Villa Caffarelli, offering visitors a vivid journey through the colors, politics and cultural imagination of 20th-century Mexico. Titled Diego Rivera and the Construction of Modern Art in Mexico in the 20th Century, the exhibition runs through December 13, 2026, and brings together more than 140 works, including 30 by Rivera, the celebrated Mexican painter and muralist whose art helped shape a new visual language for modern Mexico. Presented alongside Rivera’s works are pieces by some of the most important figures in Mexican art, including Frida Kahlo, José María Velasco, José Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros, María Izquierdo, Rufino Tamayo, Dr. Atl, Saturnino Herrán and others. The exhibition also includes videos and photographs, among them images of Rivera taken by Tina Modotti. The show places Rivera at the center of a br ... More |
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| Exhibition of selected works from the Valeria Rodnianski collection on view at Beck & Eggeling gallery |
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Christie's to offer outstanding works from the collection of The Hon. Patrick and Lady Amabel Lindsay |
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Artcurial to auction Louis Grandchamp des Raux's modernist collection during Art Basel Paris |
Georg Baselitz, Mann mit Hund. Pencil and charcoal on paper, 1966. 27,6 x 20,8 cm. Verso signed and dated "Baselitz 66".
DUSSELDORF.- Art from War to War: Chasing Butterflies on the Verge of a Cliff unfolds across a historical arc marked by two violent turning points: the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 and Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Between these two thresholds lies a long and complex period shaped by ideological confrontation, political upheaval, and profound cultural transformation. The exhibition brings together artists from Germany and from the Soviet and post-Soviet space contexts once separated by the Iron Curtain during the Cold War between the two victorious blocs of the Second World War. Many of these artists worked under conditions of censorship, ideological pressure, and historical trauma, while navigating the promises and failures of competing utopian visions. Even after 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union dissolved, the intellectual and psychological structures shaped by decades ... More |
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Auguste Rodin, Eve au Rocher. Estimate: £1,000,000-1,500,000.
LONDON.- Outstanding works from The Collection of The Hon. Patrick and Lady Amabel Lindsay will be presented across a series of six specialist sales at Christie's between June and October. Five Old Master paintings and two Italian illuminations will be offered on 30 June, 1 and 8 July respectively during Classic Week London this summer, while a major Rodin bronze and Modern British works will be offered in the autumn as part of the 20/21 October sales season. These all had key places in the Lindsays' house at 12 Lansdowne Road, leaving an indelible impression on their many visitors. Orlando Rock, Chairman Christie's UK, commented: “Patrick and Amabel Lindsay were towering figures in Christie's recent history. A brilliant Old Master paintings expert who led the firm with flamboyance and a hunger for speed - from racing cars to arriving at valuations in an aeroplane - Patrick's enduring influence on Christie's and the Old Master paintings market was legendary, and Amabel's ... More |
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Maurice Denis (1870–1943), Sancta Martha, 1893 Estimate: €600,000 – 800,000.
PARIS.- On October 24th, 2026, during Art Basel Paris, Artcurial will auction Louis Grandchamp des Raux's collection, La Modernité en partage, a testament to a discerning yet sensitive eye, shaped over twenty years of passionate collecting. Bringing together nearly seventy-five works by forty-four artists, this remarkably cohesive collection spans the major movements that shaped French and Belgian painting from the late 19th to the mid-20th century: from Impressionism to Symbolism, from the Nabis to the Pont-Aven School, right up to the chromatic explosion embodied by Bonnard. Among the highlights of the sale are Maurice Denis’s L’île Chevalier, the star lot estimated at €700,000–1,000,000, Pierre Bonnard’s La petite fenêtre (est. €550,000–750,000), and Édouard Vuillard’s Misia Natanson dans les bois (est. €450,000–650,000) represent the pinnacle of a collection where masterpieces and discoveries coexist with equal elegance. The ... More |
| Africa Basel announces full programme for 2026 edition |
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Christie's wine auction of Silicon Valley pioneer's cellar brings in over $3.2m |
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Gagosian presents France's first solo exhibition of paintings by Tetsuya Ishida |
Taking place alongside Art Basel in Basel, Africa Basel Contemporary African Art Fair returns as a boutique and focused fair dedicated to contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora.
BASEL.- Africa Basel announced the full programme for its 2026 edition, taking place from Tuesday, 16 to Sunday, 21 June 2026 at Klybeck 610, Basel. Bringing together galleries, artists, collectors, curators, institutions and the public, the fair presents contemporary African art and its global diaspora through a programme that extends beyond the exhibition booths into dialogue, performance, music and public encounter. Opening with the invitation-only Curious Cats Preview and Africa Basel Vernissage on Tuesday, 16 June, the fair will be open to the public from Wednesday, 17 to Sunday, 21 June. Alongside gallery presentations, visitors can experience Africa Basel Conversations, Fountain Talks, Curator’s Guided Tours, Private Africa Basel Experiences, special projects and evening events across the city. A key highlight of the public programme is Mapping Contemporary African Art, a keynote by Mary Corrigall, whose work ... More |
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The top lot of the auction was Domaine Georges Roumier, Bonnes‑Mares 1971 (6 bottles), which realized $100,000, nearly tripled its high estimate.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Exceptional Private Cellar of a Silicon Valley Pioneer was offered on 5 June at Christie's Rockefeller Center, achieving $3,230,175, with the sale concluding 100% sold by lot and 132% sold by low estimate. This outstanding result underscores both the depth of the single‑owner collection and the continued strength of the fine‑wine market. The top lot of the auction was Domaine Georges Roumier, Bonnes‑Mares 1971 (6 bottles), which realized $100,000, nearly tripled its high estimate. Additional notable results included Domaine de la Romanée‑Conti, La Tâche 1990 (11 bottles), which also achieved $100,000; Domaine Dujac, Clos Saint‑Denis 1985 (12 bottles), selling for $93,750 against a low estimate of $60,000; and Domaine Armand Rousseau, Chambertin‑Clos de Bèze 1985 (10 bottles), which realized $81,250. In addition to the standout Burgundy results, all categories were strongly represented, with exceptional prices achieved across American, ... More |
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Tetsuya Ishida, Convenience Store Mother and Child, 1996. Acrylic on board, 57 3/8 x 40 5/8 inches (145.6 x 103 cm) © Tetsuya Ishida Estate. Photo: Robert McKeever. Courtesy Gagosian.
PARIS.- Gagosian announces an exhibition of paintings by Tetsuya Ishida (1973–2005). The first exhibition dedicated to the artist’s work in France, Tetsuya Ishida opens on June 10 at 4 rue de Ponthieu. Ishida came of age during Japan’s “lost decade” of the 1990s, an era that saw a severe, long-lasting recession accompanied by social challenges and economic displacement that significantly affected his generation. The scenarios in Ishida’s vivid, hyper-detailed paintings address those travails, their absurdities resonating on both psychological and sociological levels. Many of Ishida’s protagonists are young people or working-age men with blank expressions, their generic anonymity recalling René Magritte’s bowler-hatted figures. Isolated and desperate, they face bizarre, dreamlike situations and are often subject to mechanical or animalistic metamorphoses. Drawing on Social Realism, Surrealism, ... More |
| Urs Fischer transforms Gagosian Athens with new Los Angeles-inspired landscape paintings |
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Esther Schipper Seoul announces Merikokeb Berhanu's first solo exhibition in Asia |
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The Southbank Centre launches weekend festival exploring the future of technology, creativity, and art |
Urs Fischer, Slush Puppie (detail), 2026. Gesso, latex, acrylic paint, alcohol ink, and modeling paste on canvas, 88 x 110 inches (223.5 x 279.4 cm) © Urs Fischer. Courtesy of the artist and Gagosian.
ATHENS.- Gagosian announces Eugène Atget, an exhibition of new paintings by Urs Fischer. This is the artist’s first solo presentation at the gallery in Athens. Through an enormous diversity of materials and techniques, Fischer explores themes of perception and representation by reimagining familiar images and objects. Employing various technologies to manipulate his sources, which include historical motifs, he unites the real and the imagined. In Eugène Atget, the artist transforms the intimate neoclassical interior of 22 Anapiron Polemou Street with a selection of metropolitan landscapes that represent the experience of speeding through a contemporary environment saturated with figures and faces, graphics and text. Combining silkscreening, hand-painting, and stenciling, Fischer applies a collage aesthetic—informed by the work of artists from Robert Rauschenberg to Cady ... More |
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Exhibition view: Merikokeb Berhanu, Cellular Memory, Esther Schipper, Seoul, 2026. Photo © Haengjin Lee.
SEOUL.- Esther Schipper Seoul announced Merikokeb Berhanu’s exhibition Cellular Memory. This is the artist's first solo presentation in Asia and her second with the gallery. On view are seven new paintings. Born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Merikokeb Berhanu's formal language, color palette, and recurring motifs fuse elements from the history of Ethiopian art and its absorption and transformation of modernist influences, while also reflecting her experience in the United States, where she has been based for nearly a decade. Merikokeb received her Diploma of Fine Arts from Addis Ababa University in 2002, studying painting under Getahun Assefa at the Alle School of Fine Arts and Design. Getahun belonged to a generation of Ethiopian artists who expanded upon the work of modernist pioneers such as Skunder Boghossian* through greater abstraction and engagement with social realities, and whose influence on Merikokeb's practice remains palpable. ... More |
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© Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg Ltd. Courtesy the artist.
LONDON.- This September, Creative Intelligence takes over the Southbank Centre for a weekend-long festival exploring the future of technology and creativity. Over three days (11-13 September), the Southbank Centre will become a playground for creative technologies, exploring how human agency and imagination interact and intertwine with technology and innovation. The festival programme encompasses art, performance, live gigs, demos, and debate, with space for play and experimentation alongside learning and discussion. The offer ranges from hands-on activities for curious newcomers, to in-depth, specialist talks tailored for creatives and industry experts. Inspired by the spirit of innovation which powered the Festival of Britain in 1951, Creative Intelligence explores how art and technologies, including AI, are combining to shape the future. This is the first edition of an ambitious annual festival that will host debate, play, art, and technology. Creative Intelligence is commissioned and produc ... More |
| KÖNIG GALERIE opens Wunderkammer exhibition by Danish artist Tue Greenfort |
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Katinka Lampe moves beyond traditional portraiture in new gallery exhibition |
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MAK pairs Van Cleef & Arpels high jewelry with masterpieces from its collection |
Tue Greenfort, Sacca San Mattia, I, 2022. Plaster, beach debris, Murano glass waste, 40 x 40 x 10 cm. 15.7 x 15.7 x 3.9 in. Unique.
BERLIN.- KÖNIG GALERIE presents WUNDERKAMMER, an exhibition of new and existing works by Danish artist Tue Greenfort in the Chapel of St. Agnes. It is the artist’s ninth solo exhibition at the gallery. Tue Greenfort’s work explores the ways in which nature and the environment are perceived, categorized, and hierarchized by humans. Rather than merely deconstructing the anthropocentric view of nature, which often romanticizes it, he seeks to expand perspectives on flora, fauna, and ecology together with the viewers, raising new questions and awakening curiosity. At the same time, his work addresses possible new forms of coexistence between humans and nature. The exhibition examines in the form of a "Wunderkammer" how Greenfort engages with these questions across different media and artistic forms, approaching a wide range of themes through artistic practice. The hexagonal ceramic work ... More |
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Portrait of Katinka Lampe, Photo by Jonathan de Waart.
AMSTERDAM.- Galerie Ron Mandos is presenting Zacht, a new exhibition by Katinka Lampe, shown alongside Pip Greenaway’s solo Too Much To Swallow. In this new body of work, Lampe allows the portrait to move into the background. Out of the light and into the shadow. Alongside this shift, she introduces paintings with multiple figures on a single canvas, exploring what happens when attention is divided and when the gaze moves beyond the spotlight. For decades, portraiture has been the framework of Lampe’s practice. It allows her to reflect on how we look at one another, and how we ourselves are being percieved. In this new series, Lampe questions how central the portrait still needs to be within her work. Her paintings move through a process of appearance and disappearance: figures gradually emerge from the canvas, only to fade back into shadow. Several works no longer include the human body at all. Rows of dresses, based on garments from the collection of Museum Rotterdam, speak about ident ... More |
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MAK Exhibition View, 2026 GLANZSTÜCKE. Van Cleef & Arpels High Jewelry × Masterpieces from the MAK Collection. MAK Exhibition Hall (ground floor) Chapter Nature © Ivan Erofeev.
VIENNA.- The exhibition GLANZSTÜCKE: Van Cleef & Arpels High Jewelry × Masterpieces from the MAK Collection creates a dialogue between unique and rarely shown objects from every part of the MAK Collection with jewelry art from the 120-year history of High Jewelry Maison Van Cleef & Arpels. The project is the result of an intensive collaboration and inspiring discourse between the two institutions that are united by their shared enthusiasm for outstanding designs, exceptional craftsmanship, and visionary ideas. Some 500 objects spread across six chapters illustrate the principle of excellence that guided this unique exhibition cooperation. Born from the marriage of Alfred Van Cleef and Esther (known as Estelle) Arpels, Van Cleef & Arpels was founded on Paris’ Place Vendôme in 1906. The MAK was established in 1863. As the world’s second-oldest museum of applied art, ... More |
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 Gwangju Biennale presents participating artists and groups for 16th edition
GWANGJU.- The 16th Gwangju Biennale, You Must Change Your Life, announces its participants. Opening on September 5, 2026 at the Gwangju Biennale Exhibition Hall, it brings together 43 artists and groups from around the world to explore how new capacities and forms of life emerge through artistic practice. The title of the 16th edition is the final line of Rainer Maria Rilke’s 1908 poem Archaic Torso of Apollo: “You must change your life”—a call at once urgent yet open, forceful yet generous. The Biennale approaches change as a continuous practice through which bodies and perceptions are reorganized. Though change is often most apparent in moments of rupture, it also emerges through the gradual accumulation of everyday practices that expand our capacity to affect—and to be affected. The Biennale unfolds as a journey across scales—from the molecular ... More Springfield Art Museum Foundation launches endowment with lead gifts and names new board leadership
SPRINGFIELD, MO.- Following a thorough strategic planning process in Fall 2025, the Friends of the Springfield Art Museum (Foundation) continues its organizational and fundraising growth. Today, the Museum Foundation announced the establishment of an endowment fund; future proceeds from which will further benefit Museum programs and Foundation operations. Four families have stepped forward with lead gifts to launch the Foundation’s endowment effort: Matt and Jenny Edwards, Julie Aton Leeth and Sally Aton Baird in memory of their parents Nancy J. and Ray F. Aton, the Michael Kaye Carlie Trust, and the late Dr. Sandra L. D’Angelo. “Endowments are the unsung heroes of nonprofit support,” stated Kate Francis, Foundation executive director. “Long-term, restricted investments augment annual operating needs and help organizations weather ... More Samstag Museum of Art presents bold new durational performance by Ida Sophia
ADELAIDE.- South Australian artist Ida Sophia will present her new installation and performance work, Patience and Penitentia, at Samstag Museum of Art from 26 June to 18 September 2026. Presented in Samstag Gallery 2 as part of the 2026 SALA Festival, Patience and Penitentia is a durational performance confronting silence and estrangement as corrosive cultural practices. It focuses on the “silent treatment”, an insidious and devastating form of punishment that perpetuates exclusion and abuse across families and communities. By turning this usually hidden tactic into a public, ritualised performance, the work invites recognition, conversation, and the possibility of breaking cycles. Across this live ritual, Sophia will undertake a 40-day durational performance committing to a staggering 276 hours of perfor ... More Adelaide Fringe appoints Matt Tarrant as Foundation Chair
ADELAIDE.- Adelaide Fringe has announced internationally recognised magician, producer and long-time Fringe artist Matt Tarrant as the new Chair of the Adelaide Fringe Foundation. Tarrant is taking over the role of Chair from David Pearson who stepped down after five years. A Foundation member since 2023 and member of the Adelaide Fringe Board since October 2025, Tarrant brings more than two decades of Fringe experience to the role, with a career spanning independent performance, production, mentoring and advocacy for artists. One of Adelaide Fringe’s most successful self-produced artists, Tarrant has sold more than 100,000 tickets, won major festival awards including BankSA Pick of the Fringe, founded MindBlown Productions and supported emerging talent through his annual One to Watch award. As Chair, Tarrant will work with Adelaide ... More The Art Museum expands its curatorial team with two new appointments
TORONTO.- The Art Museum welcomed two new members to its team: Srimoyee Mitra as Senior Curator, Exhibitions and Programs, and Denise Birkhofer as Curator, Academic and Collections Initiatives. Born in Mumbai, Srimoyee Mitra began her career as an arts writer in India for publications such as Art India and Time Out Mumbai before moving to Canada to pursue an MA in art history at York University in 2008. After serving as Program Coordinator at South Asian Visual Arts Centre (SAVAC) from 2008 to 2011, Mitra joined the Art Gallery of Windsor as Curator of Contemporary Art from 2011 to 2017, where she produced award-winning exhibitions such as Border Cultures (2013–2015), We Won’t Compete (2014), and Wafaa Bilal: 168:01 (2016). In 2017, she was appointed Director of Stamps Gallery at the University of Michigan, where her wide-ranging ... More Intricate belt by Alaskan native Denise Wallace leads Heritage's June 17 Ethnographic Art Auction
DALLAS, TX.- A magnificent belt made of intricately detailed pendants by famed Alaskan Native jeweler Denise Wallace leads a superlative assemblage of American Indian, Pre-Columbian and Tribal art lots spanning from time out of mind to the modern age at Heritage Auctions’ June 17 Ethnographic Art Signature® Auction. The belt is one of several of the auction’s pieces of American Indian art that reflect contemporary life of Indigenous people while incorporating longtime cultural traditions. Those pieces include several others by Denise Wallace as well as a necklace by her daughter Dawn Wallace. “Denise Wallace is a fabulous artist,” says Delia Sullivan, Heritage Auctions’ Ethnographic Art Director. “She has been working for decades, forging the traditions of her culture into modern masterpieces. This belt, entitled Women of the World, is composed of 10 large ... More 2026 Jerwood Artists in Residence at the Soane Museum announced
LONDON.- Lacey Law and Kanto Ohara Maeda will be the next two artists to occupy Soane’s historic Drawing Office at the central London Museum dedicated to his legacy. Supported by Jerwood Foundation, Sir John Soane’s Museum in London is delighted to announce that the 2026 Jerwood Artists in Residence are Kanto Ohara Maeda (b.1998) as the Summer Resident and Lacey Law (b.1992) as the Autumn Resident. Law and Maeda will follow last year’s inaugural Jerwood Artists in Residence - Simon Farid and Mohammed Qasim Asfaq - who took up their roles working in the atmospheric Drawing Office, within the heart of the Museum. It is the earliest surviving example of a working architectural office, having been originally installed in Sir John Soane’s home in Lincoln’s Inn Fields over 200 years ago, in 1823. The residency programme, first launched in 2023 following ... More |
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On a day like today, French painter Jacques Villon died
June 09, 1963. Jacques Villon (July 31, 1875 - June 9, 1963), also known as Gaston Duchamp, was a French Cubist and abstract painter and printmaker. An exhibition of Jacques Villon's work was held in Paris in 1944 at the Galerie Louis Carré, following which he received honors at a number of international exhibitions. In 1938 he was named Chevalier (Knight) of the Legion of Honor. In this image: Le Petit Manège, rue Caulaincourt, 1905, University of Michigan Museum of Art.
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