María Isabel de Braganza, Vicente López Portaña, c. 1816. Oil on canvas. Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado.
MADRID.- The Museo Nacional del Prado has opened a new gallery that brings long-overdue attention to one of the most decisive yet often overlooked figures in its history: Queen María Isabel de Braganza. Gallery 54, inaugurated on December 11, 2025, is dedicated to the queen consort of Spain whose vision, influence, and personal commitment were instrumental in the creation of what would become one of the world’s great art museums. María Isabel de Braganza (1797–1818), second wife of King Ferdinand VII, was deeply engaged with the arts at a time when royal patronage was crucial to cultural development. An honorary member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando and an amateur painter herself, she championed the transformation of Juan de Villanueva’s unfinished building on the Paseo del Prado into the Royal Museum of Paintings and Sculptures. Although she died prematurely at the age of 21 and never saw the museum open in 1819, historical records—including funerary eulo ... More
PARIS.- Christie's offered at auction Les Stern: une famille de collectionneurs the 11th and 12th of December, presented in two sessions: the first yesterday with nearly 115 lots, and the second online today featuring 240 lots. Initially estimated between €3 and €4.5 million, the sale achieved nearly five times its estimate. It was complemented by an online sale, bringing the total to €14,496,101. Assembled over more than a century by three generations of enlightened bankers and passionate aesthetes, the strength of the collection lay in its remarkable diversity. Spanning a wide range of specialties—from Old Master paintings and drawings to sculpture, from Asian art to 18th-century works of art, and from 18th-century silver to 20th-century decorative arts—all of which achieved outstanding results. Preserved within the family for decades, many works appeared on the market for the first time and generated exceptional interest among collectors, with more than 550 active b ... More
Sula Bermudez-Silverman, blister iii, 2025.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Whitney Museum of American Art announces that 56 artists, duos, and collectives will participate in Whitney Biennial 2026. Opening March 8, 2026, this is the 82nd edition of the Museum’s landmark exhibition series, the longest-running survey of American art. A presentation of the most relevant art and ideas of our time, the artists featured in the Whitney Biennial showcase work across most of the Museum’s gallery space as well as through a robust series of performance and public programs available at the Museum and online. Co-organized by two Whitney curators, Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer, the Biennial presents the work of contemporary artists working across media and disciplines, representing evolving notions of American art. “Rather than coming to our research for the Biennial with a preconceived container, Marcela and I let our conversations with artists guide us. After more than 300 visits, we found that many of the artists we gravitated toward were exploring ... More
Gucci wristwatch from the Horsebit Collection, with diamonds on the dial, a 34mm stainless steel bracelet accented with diamonds and the original box (estimate: $1,000-$1,200).
BROOKLYN, NY.- SJ Auctioneers will wave good-bye to 2025 with an online-only Toys, Collectibles, Jewelry, Décor & Silverware auction on Sunday, December 28th, starting promptly at 6pm Eastern time. The catalog contains 270 lots, many of which would make for perfect post-holiday presents for the self or a loved one, at prices that won’t be a strain on a person’s budget. “Variety and quality are the key words going into this auction,” said Erica Anderson of SJ Auctioneers. “Bidders will be presented with gorgeous silver objects by Buccellati of Italy, outstanding sterling silver flatware services and other silver items, beautiful vintage pens, fine estate jewelry, pieces from Ralph Lauren, mid-century games and toys, and Black Americana.” The Italian-made Buccellati items will be led by a group of three little monkey figurines in their famous “see no evil, ... More
A transformational appointment marks a new chapter for the Museum of Contemporary Art \ Connecticut.
WESTPORT, CONN.- The Museum of Contemporary Art \ Connecticut announced the appointment of Robin Jaffee Frank, PhD, as its next Executive Director. A highly respected senior museum leader and cultural visionary, Dr. Frank brings decades of museum, academic, and public-engagement experience to MoCA\CT at a pivotal moment in the institution’s evolution. She will begin her tenure on January 1, 2026. Dr. Frank’s appointment ushers in a new chapter of strategic focus, creative momentum, and bold artistic ambition. Building on the dedication of the MoCA\CT Board and team, she will guide the Museum into its next phase with a focus on curatorial excellence, operational strength, greater visibility, and deeper community engagement. “This is an exciting moment for MoCA\CT,” said Board of Directors President Jodi Felton. “Robin is an innovative leader whose strategic ... More
TOKYO.- The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (MOMAT) will host the exhibition Anti-Action: Artist-Women’s Challenges and Responses in Postwar Japan Tuesday, December 16, 2025, to Sunday, February 8, 2026. This exhibition reexamines the creative activities of women artists in the 1950s and ’60s based on the keyword of “anti-action” in an effort to reinterpret Japanese modern and contemporary art history. During this albeit short period, artist-women received a great deal of attention for their work in the field of avant-garde art. This was underpinned by an international abstract art movement called Art Informel (“unformed art”), which flourished in the West and arrived in Japan via France, and criticism related to the trend. ... More
Dr. Zara Stanhope.
AUCKLAND.- Tātaki Auckland Unlimited announced the appointment of Dr Zara Stanhope as Director of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, the city’s leading public art gallery and home to the most extensive collection of national and international art in Aotearoa New Zealand. Dr Stanhope will start in the role on 2 March, 2026 and will lead the Gallery’s strategic direction while overseeing its collection, exhibitions, education and public programme. The Gallery will continue to give priority to the art of Aotearoa New Zealand and toi Māori, alongside a strong programme of international art that engages audiences in Tāmaki Makaurau and beyond. Tātaki Auckland Unlimited Chief Executive Nick Hill said he is pleased to welcome Dr Stanhope back to the Gallery. “We look forward to Zara shaping the next chapter of the Gallery’s future. With experience leading strategy and programming and knowledge of art from across Aotearoa an ... More
Barbara Kasten, Construct NYC 12, 1984. Cibachrome, 96 x 78 cm. Collection Kunsthalle Recklinghausen. Acquired in 2023.
RECKLINGHAUSEN.- The 75th-anniversary of the Kunsthalle concludes with the exhibition “Affinities”, which brings together works from the Kunsthalle’s own collection, the former Vestisches Museum, and the Icon Museum, combined with nationally and internationally renowned guest artists. With works by Søren Aagaard, Marina Apollonio, Katja Aufleger, Noémi Barbaglia, Béatrice Balcou, Marianne Berenhaut, Erich Bödecker, Hal Busse, Vivian Ellis, Ayşe Erkmen, Ângela Ferreira, Isabella Fürnkäs, Christine Gironcoli, Katharina Grosse, Dor Guez, Flo Kasearu, Barbara Kasten, Tadeshi Kawamata, Per Kirkeby, Mischa Kuball, Sigalit Landau, Jeewi Lee, Julio Le Parc, James Lewis, Heinz Mack, Paola Siri Renard, Anahita Razmi, Michael Sailstorfer, Morgaine Schäfer, Mona Schulzek, Berit Schneidereit, Franz Erhard Walther, Andy Warhol and objects from the paleontological collection of the former Vestisches Museum, as well as ... More
Konrad Mägi, Portrait of a Lady (Klaara Holst), 1916. Courtesy the Art Museum of Estonia.
LONDON.- Dulwich Picture Gallery today announces its 2026 exhibition programme, featuring the UK debut of Estonian artist Konrad Mägi (1878–1925) and a showcase of American city life through photography. The year culminates with a major showing of prints by Katsushika Hokusai; his iconic Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji, which includes a rare print on display in the UK for the first time. In spring 2026, Dulwich Picture Gallery will present the first major UK exhibition of Konrad Mägi (1878–1925) in partnership with the Art Museum of Estonia. A pioneer of Estonian modernism, Mägi is renowned in his home country for his avantgarde, unique colouristic style and is widely considered the greatest Estonian artist of his generation. The exhibition will bring together over 60 of Mägi’s works, including enigmatic landscapes and arresting portraits, many of which have never been seen outside of Estonia. It will consider the influence of major European movements upon Mägi’s work, such as ... More
GREENWICH.- The National Maritime Museum (NMM) has opened a display to mark the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth on 16th December. Including manuscripts relating to her youngest brothers Francis and Charles Austen, the display examines Jane’s connections to the Royal Navy and the influence her brothers had in her works. The influence of her naval brothers’ careers and connections enriches Jane Austen’s writing, most evidently in Mansfield Park and Persuasion. Jane Austen died first of her siblings and none of her notebooks or diaries have survived while most of her letters were destroyed. However, in the NMM’s Caird Library there are manuscripts relating to Francis and Charles, who both served in the Royal Navy before and after Jane’s death in 1817. By studying these documents, Curator of Manuscripts, Martin Salmon, has drawn links between the real lives of these men and the plots of ... More
View from the exhibition "Like a Dance of Starlings: MACBA Collection — Thirty Years and Infinite Ways of Being". Photo: Miquel Coll, 2025.
BARCELONA.- Black-and-white portraits depicting Barcelona nightlife in the last decade of the previous century line the corridor on the second floor of MACBA's Meier building. This is a selection of work from Fotomatón by Onofre Bachiller (Barcelona, 1959) that will accompany visitors to Like a Dance of Starlings. MACBA Collection: Thirty Years and Infinite Ways of Being, the new exhibition from the MACBA Collection. Between 1986 and 2000, Bachiller placed a photo booth around lively nightlife spots in Barcelona. Hundreds of people had their photos taken alone or in groups in the middle of the night in a bar in Barcelona's Raval, in a gay club in the Eixample district, in a cultural centre in the Born neighbourhood... The result was a collection of 3,000 photographs depicting the advent of acid house, the drag queen parties organised by Susanne Bartsch across the city, the diversity of the streets and the emergence of the gay movement. Bachiller's work also shows the different identities and expre ... More
Francisco Bringas, Aldeana de Eaux-Bonnes, 1855. Museo BBAA Bilbao.
BILBAO.- The Museum of Sacred Art of Bizkaia has opened The spirit of Bizkaia, an exhibition that looks at how faith once shaped everyday life in the Basque territory. Organized in collaboration with the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, the show brings together art, architecture, and photography to tell a deeply human story of belief, tradition, and social change between 1870 and 1936. Rather than focusing only on religious objects, the exhibition offers a broader portrait of a society in which religion permeated both public and private life. Through 62 works arranged in seven thematic sections, visitors can see how sacred spaces functioned not only as places of worship but also as meeting points, marketplaces, and sites of celebration. Churches, hermitages, and sanctuaries emerge as powerful landmarks that shaped both the physical and cultural landscape of Bizkaia. The exhibition opens with the years of the Second Industrial Revolution, a period of intense transformation in which industry expanded rap ... More
COPENHAGEN.- Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s 2026 programme presents a series of exhibitions exploring how we experience and interpret the world around us—from intimate details of nature and community narratives to the impacts of technology on contemporary life. Throughout the year, visitors can experience solo exhibitions by Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, Amalie Smith, Jochen Lempert, and Som Supaparinya, alongside the institution’s two annual group shows—the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition and the MFA Degree Show Afgang—presenting emerging artists and new perspectives in contemporary art. “The 2026 programme examines how we understand and experience the world around us—from the minute details of nature to the digital technologies shaping contemporary ... More
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The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country, Artium Museoa presents its 2025-2026 programme VITORIA-GASTEIZ.- In November 2025, the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country—Artium Museoa opened The Land Shall Not Be Owned, an exhibition by Lebanese artist Marwa Arsanios (b. 1978) that brings together the five chapters of her ongoing body of work Who’s Afraid of Ideology? in which the artist examines the reappropriation and exploitation of land in different regions of the Middle East and Colombia. Curated by Agustín Pérez Rubio, the exhibition presents its fifth and most recent chapter, Right of Passage (2025), co-produced by Artium Museoa in collaboration with the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin and the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona. On January 16, 2026, the museum will present Looking through a circle in a circle of looks, a group exhibition critically and speculatively explores the role of the moving image in the construction ... More
Historic photographs of Boma return to the Congo River in a new open-air exhibition BOMA.- On the banks of the Congo River, in the port city of Boma – the first capital of the Congo Free State and later of the Belgian Congo – a new open-air exhibition presents, for the very first time, historical photographs of Boma in the very place where they were taken more than a century ago. This is the first major collaborative achievement of the BOMACAPITALE project, a scientific partnership between the Université Président Kasa-Vubu (UKV, Boma), the University of Kinshasa (UNIKIN) and the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA, Tervuren), supported by Belgian Development Cooperation (DGD). Installed in the public park opposite Boma’s City Hall, Boma la première – Histoires méconnues d’une capitale éternelle brings together more than seventy photographs dating from the 1880s to the 1930s, drawn from the archives of the RMCA and KADOC ... More
Kunstmuseum Bern unveils a 2026 programme of rediscoveries, from Old Masters to Franz Gertsch BERN.- With two major special exhibitions and two comprehensive presentations of the collection, in 2026 the Kunstmuseum Bern is offering a programme of rediscoveries and new discoveries. The presentation Panorama Switzerland, extended until July, shows Swiss art from three centuries, including many highlights from artists such as Albert Anker, Ferdinand Hodler and Martha Stettler. With Life in Full. Old Masters from Duccio to Liotard, the Kunstmuseum Bern presents treasures from its collection of Old Masters. Also, all the works from the Stiftung Expressionismus (Expressionism Foundation) are being shown together for the first time. August sees the opening of the spectacular double retrospective Franz Gertsch. Blow-Up, organized in collaboration with the Franz Gertsch Museum. In the autumn, the exhibition Journey into Freedom leads us to dream destinations ... More
Architecture as lyric experience in Ingeborg Kuhler's exhibition at Tchoban Foundation BERLIN.- Spaces that resonate, colours that breathe: this exhibition presents a multi-layered chapter of Ingeborg Kuhler’s oeuvre, bringing together travel sketches, watercolours and technical drawings to create a dialogue that renders architecture tangible as visual poetry. Her most famous building, the towering, wedge-shaped Technoseum in Mannheim, already demonstrated the architect’s consistent merging of space and movement into a single, dynamic narrative. Born in Dachau in 1943, Ingeborg Kuhler shaped German building culture since the 1980s – as a designer, pioneer, and the first female design professor at a West German architecture faculty, today’s Berlin University of the Arts. Drawing on her academic and practical experience, she now creates art in a medium lighter than concrete yet equally powerful: watercolours on paper. ... More
Newfields appoints Kenneth Brummel as Curator of European Art INDIANAPOLIS, IN.- The Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields announced the appointment of Kenneth Brummel as the new Curator of European Art, following an international search. He will begin his new role on January 12, 2026. Brummel joins Newfields from the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, New Zealand’s largest public art museum, where he has served as Curator of International Art since 2023. At Auckland, he oversaw a collection of more than 7,000 works spanning the late medieval through modern periods and was curatorial lead for The Robertson Gift: Paths through Modernity, an exhibition celebrating the transformative $200 million donation from philanthropists Julian and Josie Robertson of modern European masterworks by artists including Cezanne, Gauguin, Matisse, and Braque. “Kenneth’s blend of scholarly depth, strategic vision, ... More
Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum presents its 2026-27 programme TROMSØ.- In the coming years, Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum will continue to highlight art in the circumpolar North and platform artists that address the most pressing contemporary issues through an exhibition programme that stretches across the local, regional and international. We invite audiences to experience exhibitions that feature artists from the north of Norway while continuing to position Northern Norway/Sápmi as an arena for the display of important international artists. Launching the exhibition programme in 2026 is an exhibition dedicated to the work of Sámi-Norwegian artist and poet, Synnøve Persen. “Synnøve Persen: Havet gynger, himmelen hvisker», is drawn from several private and institutional collections across Sápmi and commemorates her career as a painter, poet and activist and the winner of the 2025 John Savio Prize. The John Savio Prize is awarded biannually ... More
Kistefos unveils a 2026 programme centered on the renewed power of painting JEVNAKER.- The 2026 exhibition programme at Kistefos will allow the public to immerse themselves in the resurgent role of painting in contemporary art. The programme brings together artists from the Christen Sveaas Art Foundation who, in different but related ways, explore the painterly process as both a physical action and a psychological experience. This year's programme highlights how these artists expand the language of painting – through the use of materials, movement, perception and the relationship between image and viewer – while also showing how their work is rooted in historical and cultural contexts. With works by Ragna Bley, Ida Ekblad, Oscar Murillo and Albert Oehlen in The Twist, a comprehensive solo exhibition with Issy Wood at Nybruket Gallery, and a monumental new sculpture by Dana Schutz, Kistefos invites the public to encounter ... More
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On a day like today, American artist Bruce Nauman was born
December 16, 1941. Bruce Nauman (born December 6, 1941) is an American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing, printmaking, and performance. Nauman lives near Galisteo, New Mexico. In this image: Bruce Nauman, Studies for Holograms, 1970. Suite of five screenprints. Image: 20 3/8 x 26 in. (51.8 x 66 cm) each. Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery. Photo: Elon Schoenholz.
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