NOTRE DAME, IN .-The Raclin Murphy Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame has received a $5 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to support capacity-building projects and programs. The grant is one of 12 invitational grants that Lilly Endowment is making to help Indiana art museums strengthen and enhance their ability to contribute to cultural vibrancy in their communities and regions. Grounded in the Raclin Murphy’s new strategic plan and with detailed attention to engage all aspects of the Museum and its communities, this grant is organized around several initiatives including: research across collections areas, new membership and collection databases and systems, audience analytics and communication strategies, collection care and object display enhancements, and a unified, state-of-the art infrastructure for the Museum’s renowned collections of prints, ... More
LONDON.- In summer 2026 the National Gallery will present the first ever UK exhibition of paintings by the Austrian 19th-century artist Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (1793–1865). Waldmüller: Landscapes 2 July – 20 September 2026, additionally the first devoted solely to his work as a landscapist, is a collaboration between the National Gallery and the Belvedere Museum, Vienna, which is lending most of the works on display. Waldmüller is one of the most important figures in Austrian 19th-century art, significant for his work both as an artist and as an influential teacher. As well as landscapes, he painted portraits, genre pictures and still lifes (notably flowers and fruit), all characterised by his absolute commitment to truth. He was one of the leading artists of Austria’s Biedermeier period, which roughly spanned the Congress of Vienna in 1815 (which aimed to reshape Europe’s borders following the Napoleonic Wars) to 1848, the year of revoluti ... More
Woody Auction is celebrating 80 years of serving collectors, consignors and communities not just in Kansas, where it has always been based, but across the nation and around the world.
DOUGLASS, KAN.- Many businesses fail within the first year of operation, some are lucky to hit the ten-year mark, and a precious few make it to 50. But Woody Auction is proud to say it is celebrating 80 years of serving collectors, consignors and communities not just in Kansas, where it has always been based, but across the nation and the world. The three-generation, family-owned auction powerhouse has been captivating audiences live (and since the new millennium online) for decades, holding sales that often feature cut glass, art glass, porcelain, pottery, silver and other fine antiques from the 1800s through the 1920s. The firm has gaveled treasured heirlooms and important collections from around the world. Woody Auction had a humble and improbable beginning. The firm was started in 1945 by Milton James Woody (1911-1991) when he attended a church fundraiser ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- At a time when AI is dramatically changing how we see, what does it mean to visualize a world that’s no longer centered on the human mind? Pierre Huyghe’s immersive, otherworldly works have redefined how art can engage with technology, human consciousness, and the natural environment. UUmwelt, presented on freestanding screens throughout the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, uses machine learning to explore what it might look like if nonhuman entities could reconstruct our thoughts. Working with a team of neuroscientists in Kyoto, Japan, Huyghe asked a human subject to imagine a set of images while an fMRI scanner recorded their brain activity. An artificial neural network then used the data from the scans to generate thousands of visual interpretations of what they might have imagined. Hallucinatory and fragmentary, these indeterminate mental images reveal the neural network’s ... More
Auctioneer Henry Pettifer, Christie's International Deputy Chairman.
LONDON.- Marking the start of Christie's Classic Week London summer sales, the Old Masters Evening Sale and The Exceptional Sale: Masterworks Across Cultures realised a combined total of £50,717,740/ $66,947,417/ €58,832,578. The sales were led by Sir Thomas Lawrence's celebrated portrait of Britain's greatest military hero the Duke of Wellington which sold for £9,670,000/ $12,764,400/ €11,217,200, establishing a new world auction record for the artist, and an important Egyptian Limestone Pair Statue from the Hovingham Hall Collection, which realised £3,710,000/ $4,897,200/ €4,303,600. The Old Masters Evening Sale realised £38,940,700/ $51,401,724/ €45,171,212, selling 96% by value and 90% by lot. In addition to the Lawrence, further highlights included: Two superlative examples showcasing Jan van Huysum's technical virtuosity and sophisticated compositions sparked consecutive bidding battles, each breaking the previous record for the artist: Fruit and flowers in a wicker ba ... More
ST LOUIS, MO.- The Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis announces its fall 2026 exhibitions, Buenos Aires Modern, 1935–1950 and Carolina Caycedo: Growing Deep Roots, on view September 9, 2026–January 4, 2027. Buenos Aires Modern, 1935–1950 offers new perspectives on the development of modern art in Argentina through the lens of exile, displacement, and cultural exchange. Carolina Caycedo: Growing Deep Roots encourages active rethinking of humanity’s relationship with nature, emphasizing our connection to place, to what sustains us, and what we can do to reciprocate. The exhibitions reflect the Museum’s commitment to advancing art historical scholarship and presenting thought-provoking explorations of issues relevant to today’s world. This exhibition is the first in the United States to examine the vibrant artistic community that emerged in Buenos Aires during the years surrounding the Spanish Civil War and World War II, when more than 200,000 Europeans ... More
Ai Weiwei, Law of the Journey, 2017. Reinforced PVC, 300 x 600 x 6000 cm. Installation view, National Gallery, Prague, 2017. Courtesy of Ai Weiwei Studio.
MANCHESTER.- Factory International presents Ai Weiwei: Button Up!—a major solo exhibition by the internationally renowned artist and activist exploring 200 years of global history, power and resistance. The launch weekend will feature the world premiere of an exclusive, 24-hour durational live performance by Ai Weiwei himself. Sewing a Button marks the 15th anniversary of the artist’s secret detention by Public Security in China for 81 days in 2011. Ticket holders will gather before a reconfigurable cell, inside which the artist will restage and remix his experience, flanked by prison guards, interrogated by special guests and ‘dreaming’ overnight. His every movement will be broadcast via CCTV to screens both at Aviva Studios, home of Factory International, and around the world. In Button Up!, Ai Weiwei turns a lens toward the entangled legacies of British imperialism, relations between Britain and China, and the accelerating forces of globalisation. New commissions and existing ... More
[Abraham Lincoln]. The Lincoln-Herndon Law Firm American Empire Mahogany Secretary Desk, Circa 1845. Height 96 3/4 in. By Width 46 5/8 in. by Depth 30 5/8 in.
DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions announced The Alfred Orendorff Archive: Treasures from the Law Offices of Abraham Lincoln on July 30. Every student and collector of Abraham Lincoln knows the name William H. Herndon, Lincoln’s longtime law partner and biographer. However, another major figure, all but lost to history—but eminently worth remembering—is Herndon’s law partner: Alfred Orendorff (1845-1909), an Illinois-born attorney, Civil War veteran and heir to the legal firm that Abraham Lincoln himself had founded decades earlier. Orendorff preserved a breathtaking collection of Lincoln material, never publicly offered since their creation during Lincoln’s legal career, descending directly from a family connected to the succession line of the Lincoln & Herndon law office. The offering presents a remarkable opportunity to acquire primary-source artifacts from the formative years of Lincoln’s legal career—the profession that forged the intellect, judgment and characte ... More
Michel Pérez Pollo, Double Balance, 2026. Oil on linen, 78.74 x 78.74 in (200 x 200 cm).
ZURICH.- Mai 36 Galerie is presenting new paintings by Cuban-born, Madrid-based painter Michel Pérez Pollo in his fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. Michel Pérez Pollo works with objects – not as fixed forms, but as mutable structures that he observes, studies, and re-imagines, using painting as a space for speculation. In Double Gaze, Michel Pérez Pollo proposes a game of resistance – one that challenges the viewer to seek out similarities and differences, tricks and devices, errors and accuracies, the fractal and imaginary possibilities of a matter that unfolds before us into two. Like twin souls that bifurcate, like the very beginning of a human embryo, when a single cell divides into two, and so on... We never know which is the original and which the copy; nor will we ever know which is primary and which secondary. And this initial doubt draws us in: we fall easily into his web of artifices, into his diluted glazes where humidity seems to linger in the atmo ... More
Two-night illumination transforms the Smithsonian Castle using AI-driven interpretations of the institution’s collections.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian will debut “Smithsonian Dreams,” a large-scale, multisensory public art experience by Refik Anadol, internationally acclaimed media artist and director of Refik Anadol Studio, on the National Mall. On Friday, July 17, and Saturday, July 18, beginning at 9 p.m., the historic Smithsonian Castle will be transformed into a dynamic landmark, inviting visitors to experience an immersive night of light, sound and visuals. Developed by Refik Anadol Studio, the installation uses a custom AI system to reinterpret nearly two centuries of Smithsonian collections and research. Drawing on millions of digitized items, including specimens, manuscripts, photographs, artworks, objects and scientific records, the project transforms this data into a continuously evolving visual experience projected across the Castle’s red sandstone façade and towers. At its core is a custom visualization system using a UMAP (Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection) algorithm to map rel ... More
Utagawa Hiroshige / National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Freer Study Collection, Purchase, The Gerhard Pulverer, FSC-GR-780.710
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art has renewed its memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the National Institute of Japanese Literature (NIJL), part of the National Institutes for the Humanities, marking the continuation of a partnership dedicated to advancing research, accessibility and understanding of Japan’s literary heritage. Signed this spring, the renewal is paired with the launch of a new digital resource developed in partnership with the museum: the Japanese language version of an online, searchable catalog of rare Japanese texts from the museum’s Pulverer Collection. The new resource will enable comparative study on the expansive Pulverer Collection, especially with Japanese experts in literature and art history. Before this resource, the collection—while fully digitized and comprehensive—was only available in English, limiting its accessibility to scholars, researchers and students. To help NIJL build this version in Japanese, the museum ... More
Richard Deacon, "I Know What You Are Thinking #7", 2023, Glazed ceramic, 23 x 61 x 57 cm, Photo: Mareike Tocha.
BERLIN.- Galerie Thomas Schulte presents A Moment in Time: Drawings, 1991-1992, a solo exhibition by Allan McCollum. Featuring nine Collections of Drawings, the show comprises altogether 570 individual pieces from McCollum’s Drawings series, a body of work that stands among the most emblematic in his lifelong investigation of the individual within systems of repetition, reproduction, and proliferation. Coinciding with the gallery’s 35th anniversary, the Potsdamer Strasse space will be dedicated to the historic work of an artist whom the gallery has represented since its founding in 1991 and who has profoundly shaped its conceptual program ever since. From the 1970s onward, McCollum’s practice has focused on processes of cultural reception, developing bodies of work that examine the relationship between serially produced objects and the formation of meaning and value. These works often take the form of Collections—of photographs, sculptural objects, or, as in this case, of dr ... More
The campaign will support transformative renovations to the 1960 Museum of Art building.
UTICA, NY.- Munson has launched Munson For All, its first-ever capital campaign with a goal of $9.5 million. The campaign will support transformative renovations to the 1960 Museum of Art building and expanded programming, plans that will inspire and enrich the Central New York community for generations to come. Through its three program areas, the Museum of Art, School of Art, and Performing Arts, Munson engages more than 100,000 people with the arts each year. The planned renovations are aimed at expanding community access, capacity, and engagement. “The Munson For All campaign enables us to build state-of-the-art amenities in the Museum, improve the visitor experience, contribute to the revitalization of downtown Utica, and do even more to cultivate the creative spirit of the greater Mohawk Valley,” says Munson President and CEO Anna D’Ambrosio. Priority capital improvements include a revitalized Art Odyssey interactive gallery, a new Museum Cafe, an expanded Museum Shop, and up ... More
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Frist Art Museum opens exhibition spanning 100 years of contemporary Indigenous art NASHVILLE, TENN.- The Frist Art Museum presents An Indigenous Present, an exhibition that spans 100 years of modern and contemporary Indigenous art and includes 15 artists who pursue abstraction as a tool for liberated expression. Organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, the exhibition is on view in the Frist’s Upper-Level Galleries from June 26 through September 27, 2026. An Indigenous Present is cocurated by artist Jeffrey Gibson (member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent), whose work was presented at the Frist in 2023, and independent curator Jenelle Porter. The exhibition includes significant works by artists including Teresa Baker, Raven Chacon, Kimowan Metchewais, Caroline Monnet, George Morrison, Mary Sully, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, and Kay WalkingStick, among others. An Indigenous Present draws from Gibson and Porter’s landmark 2023 publication of the same title, which, through a collaborative process, brought together work by Native North ... More
Berkshire Museum repatriates Hawaiian artifact PITTSFIELD, MASS.- Berkshire Museum recently welcomed students from the Kula Manu Club of Kamehameha Schools Kapālama in Hawai’i to the city of Pittsfield for an ’Awa Ceremony on Friday, June 12. This special observance celebrated the gifting of a Hawaiian feather cape to the museum, replicated by the students by hand over the course of a few years. The cape, called an ’ahu’ula, is traditionally worn by the ali’i, or ruling class of Hawai’i. The original cape that the replica is inspired by had been in the museum’s collection since it first opened its doors in 1903, and thanks in part to the work of the students, it has recently been repatriated to Hui Iwi Kuamo’o, a Native Hawaiian organization that focuses on the repatriation of culturally sensitive Hawaiian materials. Museum leadership praised the students' work and efforts around the world to bring objects back to their native countries and destinations. “We were honored to have the Kula Manu Club com ... More
New exhibition at Mendes Wood DM by Paulo Nazareth revisits colonial archives and ancestral resistance PARIS.- There is a body that traverses territories, carrying the traces of worlds cut short. A body that moves through colonial ruins, borders, family memories, and ancestral spiritualities. As it walks, it reveals stories buried by slavery, the genocide of Indigenous peoples, forced migration, and the systematic erasure of Black and Indigenous identities in the Americas. In IMPASSE, Paulo Nazareth constructs a cartography of traumatic memory and resistance. His work emerges from movement – physical, symbolic, political, and spiritual – transforming displacement into a method of artistic production and critical thought. IMPASSE is a territory of suspension where objects cease to function as representations and become testimonies. Each work functions simultaneously as an archaeological vestige, a political document, and a ritual of survival. Through fractures, tensions, and approximations, Nazareth reveals what colonial modernity sought to erase: ancestral cosmologies, silenced revolt ... More
Photographer Polly Braden collaborates with young people to document coastal life in England BRISTOL.- Arnolfini presents Against the Tide, a new exhibition by documentary photographer Polly Braden, created in collaboration with young people growing up in some of the most deprived and often forgotten places across England. Known for her intimate, long-term collaborations, Braden’s work focuses on overlooked communities and social issues, and her distinctive style combines quiet observation with deep empathy. Against the Tide is a project led by Braden in collaboration with journalist Lisa Bachelor as part of The Guardian’s Seascape series. The pair have spent more than a year visiting coastal places in England, talking to young people about their lives and what matters to them. The result is a layered picture that goes beyond the usual, negative portrayals and which shines a light on the hope that is sometimes hidden from public view. Across intimate portraits and first-hand testimony, Against the Tide brings audiences face-to-face with a generation navigating life at the shar ... More
Zander Galerie Paris presents large-scale graphite drawing by Molly Springfield PARIS.- Zander Galerie Paris is presenting an exhibition of the five-part graphite drawing Commander Lowell by American artist Molly Springfield. Created in 2015 as part of her continuing series The Marginalia Archive and measuring over 4.5 meters in length, the work on paper explores the limits of reproduction, the translation of thought into writing, and the material conditions of reading. Through the processes of copying, annotation and transcription, Springfield investigates how meaning is mediated, altered and preserved. Molly Springfield’s work centres on acts of reproduction and the question of how information changes through repeated transmission. Working from existing printed texts, she repeatedly photocopies source material, with each generation serving as the basis for the next. Through this accumulative process, words, annotations and traces of use are enlarged and transformed. Treating text as image rather than as language alone, Springfield allows new visual forms to emerge ... More
DOOSAN Gallery launches annual humanities theater exhibition 'The Multilingual' SEOUL.- DOOSAN Art Center presents The Multilingual, a special exhibition of DOOSAN Humanities Theater 2026, on view from June 24 to August 1. Questioning conventional classifications such as nationality, gender, language, and age, the exhibition explores ways of understanding human beings as complex, fluid, and ever-changing. Through distinctive visual languages—including indirect ways of seeing, misunderstanding, abstraction, simultaneity, layering, and concealing—Choey Eun Young Cho, Chung Seoyoung, Gim Ikhyun and IM Youngzoo present fluid portraits of humanity shaped by layers of time, memory, and relationships. Working between Korea and the United States, Choey Eun Young Cho has developed a practice that treats language as material, drawing on her experience of displacement and linguistic dissonance. I Ordered a New Body and It Never Came (2026) unfolds as an audio vignette composed of individual sequences that together form a larger whole. Across its five audio sequ ... More
Galeria Municipal do Porto presents Circuitos'26 PORTO.- Circuitos’26 is the third edition of an initiative that aims to highlight the people, spaces and projects that shape the cultural fabric of Porto. Held from July 17 to 19, 2026, this city-wide programme invites the public to engage more closely with Porto’s vital and diverse contemporary art scene. More than 60 venues—including museums, artist-run spaces, project rooms, independent studios and commercial galleries—open their doors for three days. The programme includes a wide range of events across the city, from exhibition openings to performances, and from concerts to talks and informal gatherings. A pre-opening event on July 16 at the Acoustic Shel in the Gardens of Palácio de Cristal, sets the tone for the days ahead, with concerts by Conferência Inferno, B Fachada and Pongo. Circuitos’26 is rooted in the local scene yet also draws attention to broader conversations around artistic practice, access, distribution and visibility. It provides a shared moment f ... More
1888 proof double eagle headlines Heritage's Summer FUN U.S. Coins Auction DALLAS, TX.- A rare double eagle that is among the most desirable classic U.S. gold coins will be one of the top attractions in Heritage’s July 16–18 Summer FUN US Coins Signature® Auction. Boasting more than 1,400 lots, the event will feature exceptional coins of all denominations, from Colonials to proof Trade dollars, Morgan dollars, patterns and gold. An extraordinary 1888 Double Eagle, PR64 Deep Cameo PCGS hails from the 1888 proof mintage of either 102 or 105 pieces. Only 20-25 proofs remain, most of which are firmly held in advanced double eagle collections. The Cameo examples range from PR61 to PR66, with 16 examples listed. Deep cameos, including the one offered in this auction, fall between PR64 and PR66. This is one of just four carrying a PR64 grade. “This is a remarkable coin that was designed by James B. Longacre, the former Chief Engraver of the U.S. Mint, and struck during the Gilded Age, when proof gold coins were a mark of distinction for collectors,” says Todd ... More
Record $1.2 million for PSA Gem Mint 10 Pokémon First Edition Base et leads auction DALLAS, TX.- A complete PSA Gem Mint 10 Pokémon First Edition Base Set sold for $1,218,750, the record price paid for such a set in a public sale, at Heritage Auctions’ June 26–27 Trading Card Games and Manga Signature® Auction. The event took in a Heritage Trading Card Games auction record of $7,894,456, surpassing the previous all-time high of $7,620,617 set in March. Heritage Auctions Trading Card Games Managing Director Jesus Garcia says assembling a complete set in any condition of the 1999 First Edition Base Set is an accomplishment in itself, given the low population of some of the cards. To collect all 102 in PSA Gem Mint 10 condition? “Extraordinary,” Garcia says. “It takes extreme dedication, resources and patience over the course of years to find every single Pokémon from the set in top condition. I was glad to see the price show that buyers understood the incredible rarity of some of these cards and appreciated the work it took to create such an impressive assem ... More
Gary Erbe's magical world on view at The Reading Public Museum READING, PA.- Gary Erbe (American, b. 1944) has been painting the theme of the American Flag in his still life compositions for over fifty years. In the lead up to the Nation’s Bicentennial in 1976, the artist set out to commemorate the achievement in two monumental canvases. Those works are included in this fifty-year retrospective titled, Gary Erbe: Magical World. The engaging exhibition includes fifty works—both paintings and finished assemblages (models for the paintings) —with more than a dozen that feature the American flag. The American flag is a particularly timely subject as the nation celebrates its Semiquincentennial, marking 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The exhibition will be on view at the Reading Public Museum in the Jerome Marcus American Art Gallery and the Irvin and Lois Cohen Modern and Contemporary Gallery through August 2, 2026. Above all, Erbe has been celebrated for his innovative contributions to still life and trompe l’o ... More
Estorick Collection and Compton Verney announce major collaboration for 2027 LONDON.- In January 2027, the first institutional presentation in the UK dedicated to the work of Carla Accardi (Trapani, 1924–Rome, 2014) will take place across the Estorick Collection, London, and Compton Verney, Warwickshire. This unprecedented collaboration between the two institutions will spotlight one of Italy’s most influential postwar artists with two landmark exhibitions on view simultaneously, from January to June 2027. Accardi was a radical figure, whose legacy is central to the narrative of 20th-century Italian art, yet her work remains largely unfamiliar to UK audiences. She was a founding member – and the only woman – of Forma 1, a Rome-based artistic group established in 1947 that brought together artists committed to bridging abstract art with Marxist thought in the aftermath of Fascism. And in 1970, she co-founded with Carla Lonzi the revolutionary feminist group Rivolta Femminile (‘Women's Revolt’). Developed in close dialogue with the Accardi Es ... More
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On a day like today, American architect Buckminster Fuller died
July 01, 1983. Richard Buckminster Fuller Jr. (July 12, 1895 - July 1, 1983) was an American architect, systems theorist, writer, designer, inventor, philosopher, and futurist. He styled his name as R. Buckminster Fuller in his writings, publishing more than 30 books and coining or popularizing such terms as "Spaceship Earth", "Dymaxion" (e.g., Dymaxion house, Dymaxion car, Dymaxion map), "ephemeralization", "synergetics", and "tensegrity". In this image: U.S. Pavilion Montreal Expo 67. Buckminster Fuller, 1967. Image courtesy the Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller.
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