Ongoing technical examination by HE-CT scanning is providing new insight into one of the earliest known examples of hollow core lost wax casting, furthering appreciation of the advanced art making techniques that were a hallmark of ancient Mesopotamia.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Republic of Iraq announced today preliminary findings from a collaborative research project into a copper-alloy sculpture from ca. 2500 BCE, Vessel Stand with Ibex. The ibex in the center of this extraordinary work of art is among the oldest known examples of the use of a clay core in casting a human or animal figure by direct lost wax casting—an innovative breakthrough that enabled the creation of large and complex metal sculptures and continues to be used by artists today. While later large-scale castings from the ancient world have been extensively studied, the much earlier examples from Mesopotamia have not been fully examined until now. The Vessel Stand with Ibex was purchased by the Museum in 1974 and was displayed nearly continuously for decades. Recent provenance research by the Museum’s scholars established that the work rightfully belongs to the Republic of Iraq, prompting the Museum to reach out to H.E. Nazar Al Khirullah, Amb ... More
Cindy Gosselin, Untitled, 2023 Mixed media sculpture with cardboard tissue box, acrylic toothbrush, cotton thread, masking tape.
HAVERFORD, PA .- This fall, Philadelphia’s leading progressive art studio, the Center for Creative Works (CCW), is partnering with Haverford College’s Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery to present LOOK HERE, a dynamic, multi-sensory exhibition illuminating the nuanced and revelatory perspectives represented in the work of neurodivergent artists. Ranging from colorful illustrations that meticulously catalogue differences in categories of food, transit, and appliances, to found object sculptures that form relics of a world understood through touch, the exhibition invites visitors to look, listen, smell, and touch to connect with a diversity of ways of “looking” at the world. LOOK HERE features six artists with studio practices based out of CCW – Kelly Brown, Cindy Gosselin, Clyde Henry, Tim Quinn, Brandon Spicer-Crawley, and Allen Yu. Curated by Jennifer Gilbert alongside two CCW artists – Mary T. Bevlock and Paige ... More
Defying Power: Johannes Vermeer’s Allegory of the Catholic Faith as a Precursor to Pablo Picasso’s Guernica.
NEW YORK, NY.- Celebrated painter Johannes Vermeer was at the height of personal and professional risk when he painted Allegory of the Catholic Faith, a harsh, unequivocal challenge to Holland’s state-sanctioned and Calvinist-driven civic and religious repression. Author Neil Thomas Proto looks at Vermeer in a new light and places Allegory alongside Pablo Picasso’s Guernica in its classical spirit of artistic dissent and prophetic warning of his nation’s ethical and moral crisis. April 1937. In the midst of the Spanish Civil War. The military forces under the direction of General Francisco Franco—in collaboration with the Catholic Church; with the financing of large industrialists, including some in the United States; and, by then, with the support of Nazi Germany and fascist Italy—sought the overthrow of the duly elected Republican government of Spain. ... More
Exceedingly rare 1952 Topps #311 Mickey Mantle card, graded PSA 1 Poor but still desired by collectors as a true “holy grail” sports collectible, one of two Mantles in the sale (CA$38,350).
NEW HAMBURG.- Not one but two 1952 Topps #311 Mickey Mantle baseball cards – both of them flawed but still considered a “holy grail” sports collectible in any condition – sold for a combined $51,330 in Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd.’s Pre-1980 Sports Cards & Memorabilia auction held September 28th. It was an online-only sale; no live bidding. All prices in this report are in Canadian dollars and include an 18 percent buyer’s premium. One of the Mantle cards sold within estimate for $38,340 and was the auction’s overall top lot. The card was recently graded by PSA and received a lowly grade of 1 Poor. It had rounded corners and wear to the field, but was still a must-have card in the 1952 Topps baseball card set, widely regarded as one of the most significant sets in the world of baseball card collecting. The other Mantle card ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- Evocative treasures from notable private collections spanning the 16th to 20th centuries will be presented this season in Christie's online sales series Collections, New York, London and Paris. Comprising a veritable trove of European, English and 19th century furniture and works of art, silver, ceramics, glass, clocks and gold boxes, the sales will collectively celebrate the inspiring craftsmanship and beauty of important decorative arts. The auctions will open for browsing on 3, 8 and 15 October respectively (New York, London and Paris) and open for bidding from 7, 15 and 22 October to 21 and 29 October (New York and London) and 4 November (Paris). Estimates range from works offered with no reserve up to $200,000 / £150,000 / €170,000. The New York Collections sale will present an exceptional array of European decorative arts, spanning from the grandeur of the Baroque to the elegance of the Gilded Age. This carefully curated sale unites important works from three distinguished c ... More
COLOGNE.- The exhibition Five Friends: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly tells the story of an influential yet often overlooked network of five prominent artists. While each of these artists has received considerable recognition, their friendship and the strongly influential relationships, both artistic and romantic, between them have gone largely unexamined. As individuals and as a group, these artists played a central role in postwar art, making decisive contributions to the history of art, music, and dance through their interdisciplinary approaches. Today, their work continues to inspire new generations of artists. With its focus on the interactions between these five artists, the exhibition also reflects on the experience of being a gay artist in the 1950s, providing new insights into the dynamics of postwar art in the United States ... More
Michael has loyally served the museum for 14 years and will leave a legacy of servant leadership and a dedication to inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility.
DAYTON, OH.- The Board of Trustees of the Dayton Art Institute announced that Michael R. Roediger will be stepping down from his role as Director & President on Friday, October 31, 2025. Michael has loyally served the museum for 14 years and will leave a legacy of servant leadership and a dedication to inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility. He has also fostered the care of his team, strong relationships, community service and an extraordinary commitment to making the collection more inclusive of marginalized artists. Michael is a member of the Association of Art Museum Directors and is the first Director to be born and raised in Dayton. In his time at the DAI, he has led the organization in the retiring of $16 million in debt and raised an additional $19 million in capital and endowment funding. He has overseen the renovation of the museum’s historic grand staircases, fountains, galleries, the Rose Auditorium and the education floor, as well as making the museum more ... More
Milan or Genoa. Chasuble from the Red “Jerusalem Cross” Set of Pontifical Vestments, ca. 1600. Silk velvet, gold and silver thread, 45 11/16 × 28 3/8 in., 2.98 lb. (116 × 72 cm, 1.35 kg) Terra Sancta Museum, Jerusalem.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Frick Collection presents a stunning exhibition of more than forty objects on loan from the Terra Sancta Museum. Ranging from liturgical objects in gem-encrusted gold and silver to richly decorated vestments in velvet, damask, and other fine materials, the works were created for the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem and were largely unknown until their rediscovery by scholars in the 1980s. They represent the pinnacle of European craftsmanship in these fields during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and many have no parallel anywhere in the world. To the Holy Sepulcher: Treasures from the Terra Sancta Museum offers visitors the opportunity to view these objects for the first time in North America. The exhibition features a selection from the Treasure of the Custody of the Holy Land, established in 1309 by the Franciscan order to oversee Christian holy ... More
HUMLEBÆK.- Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark is presenting 100 works by the artist Marisol in the first comprehensive survey of her work in Europe. Shooting to fame in the 1960s, Marisol helped shape the experimental New York art scene, especially Pop art. Born María Sol Escobar in Paris, to Venezuelan parents, Marisol (1930-2016) moved to New York, where she stayed on and off for the rest of her life. This was also where she made her breakthrough in the art world in the early 1960s. Today, she stands as one of the most radical and visionary artists of her generation. Marisol will be unknown to many Europeans. She is sparsely represented in European collections and has never previously been the subject of a major exhibition in Europe. Thanks to many generous loans, we are finally getting a chance to show Marisol’s expansive and deeply original work. -- Kirsten Degel, curator, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Soon ... More
Laurent de La HYRE (Paris, 1606 - 1656), The Banquet of the Lapiths. Oil on canvas, 204 x 270 cm. Estimate : €500,000/700,000.
PARIS.- Cécile Solibieda, auctioneer at the Hôtel des ventes Orléans Madeleine, in collaboration with Cabinet Turquin, has rediscovered an important painting by Laurent de La Hyre, considered to be one of the undisputed masters of 17th-century French painting. This large work (2.04 x 2.70 m), lost since the painter's death inventory in 1657, had been hanging in the stairwell of the Château de Villebourgeon in Sologne (Loir-et- Cher) since 1850 without its owners having identified it. The work will be sold at auction with an estimate of €500,000/700,000 at the Hôtel des ventes d'Orléans Madeleine on 15 November 2025, along with around a hundred other paintings and works of art from the same provenance. The rediscovery of this painting is a major event for art historians, who will see it as shedding new light on the artist's body of work. Its sale will provide an opportunity to bring together a number of works of art selected for a prestigious sale. The early career of this ... More
Johanna Mirabel, Injured Foot (Pied blessé), 2025. Oil on canvas, oil stick, charcoal, gel medium image transfer, 210 x 170 cm (82 5/8 x 66 7/8 inches).
BRUSSELS.- Gallery Nathalie Obadia is presenting I Wish, Johanna Mirabel’s first solo exhibition in Brussels, following her show last year at the gallery’s Beaubourg location. A graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2019, Johanna Mirabel is a French artist of Guyanese descent whose work is gaining increasing recognition on both the French and international art scenes. She was awarded the Ritzau Art Prize in New York (2022), the Emerige grant in Paris (2023), and the CPGA Etant Donné prize in Miami (2024). Together with her sister Esther Mirabel, she has been selected for the 2026 Villa Albertine programme. In September 2025, Frac Auvergne will devote a major solo exhibition to her work. In her earlier series Adieu la Chair, the artist focused on representations of carnival, creating a dialogue between classical painting—referencing works by Ensor—and carnival traditions in French Guiana, exploring their syncretic entanglements. A proponent of non-militant universalism, ... More
PARIS.- The Frac Île-de-France is hosting Mathilde Denize’s first solo exhibition at an institution in the Paris region, for which she is taking over Le Plateau. Denize’s artistic practice combines painting and sculpture—which she considers inseparable—with installation, video and performance. She has developed a unique body of work in which forms are born of assembly, transformation and recycling. Her paintings, which often resemble garments or costumes, are both pictorial surfaces and portable objects, existing on the border between painting, volume, and scenography. She cuts up her old canvases and attaches fragments of found materials and discarded objects to them. Her cutting and editing techniques are reminiscent of filmmaking. This personal archaeology results in hybrid works: costumes without bodies that are somewhere between armour and camouflage; floating silhouettes; and suspended figures. ... More
Benin artist, Benin Plaque, 1550–1650. Bronze; 20 1/4 in. x 14 1/8 in. Work loaned out by the National Commission for Museums and Monuments of Nigeria in Support of the International Friendship Being Fostered through this Exhibition.
DENVER, CO.- The Denver Art Museum announced the successful continuation of its long-standing relationship with the government of Nigeria, the Oba of Benin and the National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM) in Nigeria. For over five decades, this partnership has been dedicated to the respectful identification and repatriation of cultural artifacts, including the recent display of a Benin Bronze plaque on loan from the Nigerian government. In April 2025, the DAM signed an agreement with the NCMM, acting on behalf of the Oba of the Kingdom of Benin, allowing for a five-year loan so the Benin Bronze plaque can be displayed as a “cultural ambassador” at the DAM. The Benin Bronze is now on view in the Arts of Africa gallery, celebrating the rich beauty of Benin’s artistic practice and highlighting the significant impact of the looting on Benin’s heritage, past and present. ... More
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Heritage celebrates largest jewelry auction in its history with $9.2 million fall event DALLAS, TX.- On Monday, Sept. 29, Heritage’s Fall Fine Jewelry Signature® Auction soared to a $9,220,693 finish, making it the largest Fine Jewelry auction in company history. It was also Heritage’s longest Fine Jewelry auction, clocking in at just under 12 hours as more than 1,900 bidders from across the globe competed for the event’s 500-plus lots. Leading the auction was a rare fancy dark brown-greenish yellow diamond that realized $625,000 against a high pre-auction estimate of $150,000. The 41.54-carat cushion-shaped stone, set in a platinum ring with 18k gold prongs, represents the second-largest recorded example of a hydrogen-rich “whiskey-colored” diamond. As noted in the Spring 2010 issue of Gems & Gemology, the historically significant specimen belongs to the rare Type 1aAB group, exhibiting high hydrogen and nitrogen concentrations. “This is a museum- ... More
Christie's to offer the only Safavid zinc vessel in private hands LONDON.- A magnificent zinc tankard with elegant gold-decoration of royal quality – the only Safavid zinc vessel in private hands and the first to come to auction – will lead Christie's Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds including Rugs and Carpets sale on 30 October (estimate: £1,500,000-1,800,000). Highlighting the quality of works being offered, it is a rare survival from the period of Shah Isma'il I, with most of the closest comparables in the Topkapı Palace Museum, Istanbul. The rugs and carpets are led by a 16th-century large-format 'Bird' Selendi carpet from western Anatolia, known as The Zander-Cassirer Selendi carpet (estimate: £250,000-350,000). Comprising 170 lots, the sale as a whole celebrates the great variety and richness of art made in the Islamic lands and South Asia from the 7th to 19th centuries, including paintings, manuscripts, metalwork, ceramics, calligraphy, rugs, carpets and textiles. The full pre-sale public view at Christie's ... More
Bellevue Arts Museum and KidsQuest Children's Museum announce purchase and sale agreement BELLEVUE, WASH.- KidsQuest Children’s Museum and Bellevue Arts Museum (BAM) have entered into an agreement for the sale of the iconic Steven Holl-designed building in downtown Bellevue. KidsQuest is currently completing Due Diligence for the property, and the parties intend to close on the sale in early 2026. For 20 years KidsQuest has played a vital role in Bellevue’s cultural offerings and educational resources for families. “KidsQuest is rooted in community,” says Putter Bert, President C CEO of KidsQuest Children’s Museum, “from the bold vision of passionate volunteers in the 1990s and the realization of our first small Museum in Factoria Mall in 2005, to our move in 2017 into the former Rosalie Whyel Museum of Doll Art, and now, looking to our future in the BAM building. KidsQuest has always taken the right-size steps at the appropriate time for ... More
Anatomy of fragility: Frankfurter Kunstverein explores body images in art and science FRANKFURT.- From 2 October 2025 to 1 March 2026, the Frankfurter Kunstverein presents the exhibition Anatomy of Fragility – Body Images in Art and Science. The ways in which people look at, perceive and represent the body are in constant flux. Art and science have always used images of the body to tell stories about the human condition, and with each passing epoch new images and interpretations of the body have emerged. But why reflect on the body today? Do we not already know enough about it? We all have bodies. More than that: we are all bodies. The body can be observed from the outside and examined from within, measured and quantified. It can be pathologised and objectified, healed and cared for. Bodies are vulnerable entities. The vulnerability of the body is an existential condition of being human. Or is it merely a problem we seek to bring under control? ... More
Haus am Waldsee presents Beverly Buchanan: Weathering with Ima-Abasi Okon BERLIN.- The breadth of Beverly Buchanan’s (b. 1940, Fuquay, North Carolina, d. 2015, Ann Arbor, Michigan) work opens a charged space between presence and absence, a gesture that marks even as it relinquishes lasting transformations. Her practice embraces impermanence, resisting the drive towards legacy, control, and the monumental. Instead, Buchanan’s acts of ruination constitute a quiet defiance, a deep confidence in the poetics of lived experience, deeply rooted in the history of the land. While her work is in dialogue with the agendas of the dominant artistic movements of her time, it simultaneously carves out its own terrain; one shaped by self-determination and grounded in the realities of African American life. By honoring sites such as shacks, ruins, and landscapes marked by history as symbols of injustice as well as expressions of persistence, loss, resilience, ... More
National Gallery to exhibit Stubbs: Portrait of a Horse next spring LONDON.- A monumental painting of a rearing horse will go on display next spring, in a new National Gallery exhibition devoted to George Stubbs (1724–1806). The only life-size horse portrait by Stubbs still in a private collection, and only once before seen on public display, Scrub, a bay horse belonging to the Marquess of Rockingham (about 1762) will be joined in the exhibition by other paintings and works on paper by Stubbs. Visitors will also be able to draw comparisons with the artist’s masterpiece Whistlejacket (about 1762), in the National Gallery’s collection, which will be on display nearby in Room 34. The two equine portraits were painted in the same year for the Marquess of Rockingham (1730–82), who owned both of these former racehorses. He would subsequently decide not to purchase the painting of Scrub. These two paintings are the first large as life portraits of horses ... More
Stephen Friedman Gallery announces three solo presentations at Frieze London this year LONDON.- Stephen Friedman Gallery will bring three solo presentations to Frieze this year, featuring new portraits by Sarah Ball at Frieze London, a group of new landscape paintings by Anne Rothenstein at Frieze Masters and a monumental sculpture by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith at Frieze Sculpture. For Frieze London, British artist Sarah Ball (Booth B14) showcases new large and small-scale paintings and a series of 20 works on paper. These works continue Ball’s sensitive exploration of the human condition conveyed through physiognomy, hairstyles, clothes, jewellery and make-up. This coincides with Ball’s major institutional exhibition at Longlati Foundation, Shanghai, which opened in August 2025. Frieze Masters features six new paintings by British artist Anne Rothenstein (Booth C11) in the Studio section of the fair, curated by Sheena Wagstaff with Margrethe ... More
Ayyam Gallery will presents works by Sama Alshaibi at Paris Photo 2025 PARIS.- Ayyam Gallery will present a booth featuring works by Sama Alshaibi, continuing her latest solo exhibition, طرس Tterss. This body of work includes mixed-media collages and video art that reimagine Baghdad’s transformation through spatial, material, and technological fragments, narrating the story of a place and its people. Superimposed layers of imagery immerse the city’s ruins and infrastructures in a deeper narrative of alienation and memory. Alshaibi engages with the tension between historical depth and present-day modernization, emphasizing complexities that remain in the aftermath of war. Using LiDAR technology alongside her photography and archival material, she constructs compositions that explore the elasticity of imagining versus depicting. The result is a speculative space where the historical Arab city becomes a microcosm for global crises, a collision ... More
Katarina Löfström unveils Loops and Lamentations at Andréhn-Schiptjenko STOCKHOLM.- In Loops and Lamentations, Katarina Löfström creates an extensive room installation consisting of video, sculptures, a floor-covering work, painted walls and wall-installed works which extends the visual language and sound of her new video work The Elements (2025) into the gallery room. The opening will take place on 2 October, between 17:00 - 20:00. On the opening night, the composer of the soundtrack to The Elements, Marcus Price, will perform live at the gallery to the video work at 19:00. Price is a well-known name on the Swedish music scene and has in recent years been praised for his record Beats På Svenska (Beats In Swedish). In her works, Löfström has often examined different phenomena and occurrences by separating them into their smallest components and analysing them in depth. In The Elements, Löfström approaches ... More
The Scottish Gallery presents a landmark double exhibition: '50 Years of Naboland' and 'The Behrens Family' EDINBURGH.- This October, The Scottish Gallery presents a landmark double exhibition: 50 Years of Naboland and The Behrens Family. Together, these parallel shows celebrate one of the most original artistic journeys of our time, while also revealing the extraordinary breadth of creativity across three generations of the Behrens family. For half a century, Reinhard Behrens has constructed and voyaged through his mythical land of Naboland. With its submarine expeditions, dreamlike seascapes, and imaginative cartographies, Naboland has become both a place and an odyssey. It is an astonishing body of work that defies convention and redefines storytelling through art. This immersive exhibition will transform two floors of The Scottish Gallery into Naboland itself, offering audiences the chance to step inside Behrens’ unique universe. The exhibition ... More
University of Oxford to open a new world class centre for the arts and humanities OXFORD.- The Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre, a new world class centre for the Arts and Humanities, will open to the academic community on 13 October 2025 and the public cultural programme will begin in April 2026. The Schwarzman Centre, designed by leading British architects, Hopkins Architects, is a major new cultural campus in the heart of Oxford’s Radcliffe Observatory Quarter. The centre has been developed by the University of Oxford with the support of the largest single gift in modern times made to the University from philanthropist and businessman Stephen A. Schwarzman. Thanks to additional gifts, his total support towards the project now stands at £185 million. The state-of-the-art spaces will co-locate Oxford University’s internationally recognised Humanities faculties for the first time: Music, English Language and Literature, History, Linguistics, ... More
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October 02, 1948. Donna Karan (born October 2, 1948) is an American fashion designer and the creator of the Donna Karan New York and DKNY clothing labels. In this image: Designer Donna Karan appears during an event in celebration of her Urban Zen collection and foundation Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2009 in New York.
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