Eli Wilner & Company reframed "Heart of the Andes" (1857) for the Metropolitan Museum of Art using a rare original period frame designed by Frederic Edwin Church himself.
NEW YORK, NY.-Eli Wilner & Company is pleased to report that, as of May 2026, over $25,000 in funding has been committed to support important reframing and frame restoration projects for museums and institutions across the country. An additional $150,000 in funding remains available to be awarded on a first-come, first-served basis by June 30, 2026. We would be honored if your institution might benefit from this opportunity. New applications are currently being accepted via email at info@eliwilner.com. Eli Wilner & Company reframed "Heart of the Andes" (1857) for the Metropolitan Museum of Art using a rare original period frame designed by Frederic Edwin Church himself. After extensive searches, this remarkable frame emerged as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Preserved in excellent condition and requiring only minimal alteration, its refined profile, gilded ... More
NEW YORK, NY.-The first publication to focus on a rarely seen series of jazz-infused collages that explore the African American experience and the artist’s lifelong relationship to jazz music, by one of the most important and influential visual artists of the twentieth century. Bearden (1911–1988) was a prominent African American artist often described as the consummate jazz painter, known for his innovative collages that explored themes of Black American culture, history, and personal experiences. This publication reexamines Bearden’s life and work in the context of jazz, tracing the musician’s impact from the artists’ earliest oil paintings to his iconic collages. In 1981, Bearden created nineteen collages that the artist called his “Paris Blues,” or simply “Jazz,” series. Conceived as pages for an oversized book that would be a response to the Hollywood movie Paris ... More
Circa 1900-1905 Mills ‘20th Century’ upright slot machine configured in the one-dollar denomination, one of the rarest and most desirable versions within Mills’ floor-model line. Sold for $92,250
DENVER, PA.- A circa 1905-1910 Caille Brothers Mfg “Centaur” triple slot machine with rare harp castings soared to $227,500, and a circa 1900-1905 Mills “20th Century” upright slot machine in the scarce one-dollar denomination rang up $92,250 at Morphy’s Coin-Op & Advertising auction held May 21-23, 2026 in Las Vegas. More than 1,700 lots of top-quality items were sold. The strong auction results served to reinforce Morphy’s status as the premier auction house for antique coin-op machines and antique advertising, not just in Las Vegas but nationwide. Overall, the sale totaled in excess of $3 million. A fully-restored, fully-functional Caille Brothers Mfg (Detroit) “Centaur” triple slot machine with rare harp castings was by far the auction’s top achiever, landing within its presale estimate. The visually striking ... More
Evert van Aelst (Delft 1602 – Delft 1657), Still Life with a Roemer, Tazza, and Fruit on a Stone Ledge, signed and dated E. V. aelst a° 1639 on the stone ledge. Oil on panel, panel maker G. R., with collector’s seal on the reverse, 15.35 x 12 inches (39 x 30 cm.)
NEW YORK, NY.- When we first look at Evert van Aelst’s Still Life with a Roemer, Tazza, and Fruit it appears almost restrained; a glass half-filled with white wine, a silver tazza tipped on its side, two peaches, a pear, a few scattered nuts. The objects sit on a stone ledge against a dark background. Nothing happens. And yet the longer one looks, the more vibrant and active the scene becomes. This is the paradox of Dutch still life painting in the seventeenth century. These works are often described as studies of wealth, trade, taste, or morality. But beneath the symbolism lies something far more intimate: evidence of ordinary living. Someone poured the wine, peeled the fruit, and handled the metal cup. The overturned tazza feels less like a compositional device than the ... More
Romería had its world premiere at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival and went on to screen at the New York Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, and more.
NEW YORK, NY.- Film Forum will present the U.S. theatrical premiere of Carla Simón’s Romería on Friday, June 26. Summer 2004 on the glistening Galician coast: 18-year-old Marina, a confident, budding filmmaker raised by adoptive parents seeks out her estranged paternal grandparents to obtain a signature required for her to attend university in Barcelona. Armed with a camcorder and her deceased mother’s 20-year-old diaries, Marina drifts into and around the emotionally unruly lives of her uncles, aunts, and cousins, who all orbit an imperious matriarch and superficially welcome her into the fold while evading her quest for answers. What were her parents really like? How did her father die? Not all families have the courage to reveal or reconcile their secrets and their shame; thus Marina—and Simón—fulfill their missions via the power and beauty of the imagination. Romería had its world premiere at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival and went on to screen at th ... More
Albert Joseph Moore, Pansies. Estimate: £150,000 - £250,000.
LONDON.- Dare to daydream and escape into the captivating worlds of fairies and fairytales, poetry, music and Shakespeare, presented across twenty works from The Albert Zuckerman Collection which will be offered during Christie's Classic Week in London this summer. Collected, lived with and loved by the renowned New York literary agent over three decades, the group comprises Pre-Raphaelite and Symbolist works, alongside Victorian and 19th century European Art. Having founded his now legendary literary agency Writers House in 1973, and shared his wisdom in Writing the Blockbuster Novel in 1994, Zuckerman helped many internationally celebrated authors from Dan Brown, and Ken Follett, to Stephen Hawking. Leading the collection is John Melhuish Strudwick's Thy Music…, 1893 (estimate: £700,000-1,000,000), which was bought from the artist by Liverpool shipping magnate William Imrie (1837-1906), one of the original partners in the White Star Line, the company that later launched ... More
MALAGA.- Joana Vasconcelos. Transfiguration at the Museo Picasso Málaga presents an extensive overview of the artist’s career through a selection of 13 sculptures and installations that allow visitors to experience how the artis shifts the meaning of objects without erasing their memory. The exhibition's title precisely defines this process: the textile that becomes architecture, ornaments assuming a structural role, the everyday object functioning as a critical device, the house that opens up as a public stage, and the museum transforming into a space of experience rather than mere conservation. This concept spreads across the exhibition rooms, where the daily life attains a monumental dimension, the utilitarian acquires a ceremonial character, and the domestic expands into the architectural. The act of “transfiguring” does not imply replacing or erasing the origin: it remains what it is but begins to reveal itself in a different way. Objects maintain their material identity and ... More
Carel Visser, Burcht, c. 1987, Iron, 20 x 20 x 20 cm.
AMSTERDAM.- On Saturday 30 May at 4 pm, Carolijn Visser, author of the recently published book Broers, will open the exhibition with a brief introduction and presentation of her book. Carel Visser (1928-2015) is considered one of the most important sculptors in post-war Netherlands. Whilst most of his contemporaries continued to work within academic figuration after the war, Visser chose early on to pursue an ever more radical abstraction. His work from the 1960s and 1970s connects with international developments such as Minimal Art. His oeuvre encompasses not only sculptures but also drawings, collages, reliefs and woodcuts. He transformed industrial materials into rhythmic compositions, creating tension between the mechanical and the natural. Although iron and steel were his favoured materials, he drew on an exceptionally wide range of substances, including glass, cardboard, wood and aluminium, as well as birds' ... More
Jānis Avotiņš. -. 2020. Oil on canvas. Private collection
RIGA.- Distances, a solo exhibition of Jānis Avotiņš, is on view at the Art Museum RIGA BOURSE in Riga (Doma laukums 6) from 30 May to 23 August 2026. The concept of Jānis Avotiņš’ exhibition has developed in response to the architectural aesthetics of the Art Museum RIGA BOURSE. The museum’s Great Exhibition Hall, with its fully uncovered windows flooded with daylight and views onto the various perspectives of Old Riga, evokes the most magnificent Western European metro and railway stations built in eclectic and neoclassical styles. This has prompted the artist to continue investigating, in painting, the figure–space relationships characteristic of his work, concentrating the tensions of time, history and politics within the charged, intimate surface of the canvas. In this exhibition, Jānis Avotiņš opts to work with the core of the fundamental idea that has shaped his practice to date: the recognisable historical ... More
Record for a F.P. Journe Black Label “Parking Metre”: HK$12,065,000 / US$1,539,679.
HONG KONG.- Across 27 and 28 May 2026, the two-day Important Watches: Featuring "Kronos: Titans of Time", "The Eternity" and "The Chronicle" Collections live sale in Hong Kong realised a total of HK$279,463,190 / US$35,663,779, with 93% of lots sold and a total hammer price 129% above the low estimate. The sale total recorded a strong 40% year-on-year uplift. Three remarkable private collections were 100% sold – 'Kronos: Titans of Time – Part 1', 'The Eternity– Part 3'; and 'The Chronicle – Part 4'. Christie's top-tier offering attracted intense competition across channels from 45 countries spanning six continents, affirming the vibrant demand in the international watch auction market. New and younger buyers were a key presence, with 47% of new buyers being Millennials and younger, and almost half of all buyers transacted online. Leading the sale was an extremely rare double- ... More
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ROME.- MAXXI has opened Vitalità dell’architettura italiana 1946–2026, a major exhibition that looks at eight decades of Italian architecture through the history, ideals and transformations of the Italian Republic. The exhibition, inaugurated in the presence of Italian President Sergio Mattarella and Minister of Culture Alessandro Giuli, marks the 80th anniversary of the Republic by asking how architecture has helped shape the country’s democratic life. Rather than presenting buildings as isolated works, the show frames architecture as a record of Italy’s cultural, social, economic and political evolution. On view at MAXXI’s KME Gallery from May 29 through November 15, 2026, the exhibition is curated by Pippo Ciorra and Elena Tinacci. It brings together archival materials, interviews, photographs, installations and projects by several generations of architects, from the postwar period to emerging practices working today. For MAXXI, the exhibition is also a ... More
Weird Tales #1 March 1923 Color Variant (Rural) CGC VG/FN 5.0 Cream to off-white pages.
DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions will follow up December’s record-setting premiere Signature® pulps auction, a single-consigner event focused on highlights of the legendary Dr. Richard Meli Pulps Collection, with an expansive variety of pulps and related magazines featuring an array of genres, titles, artists and authors from more than 20 consigners at the June 5–6 Pulp Magazines Signature® Auction. As with the previous pulps Signature auction, this one offers rare and top-condition pulps, but it also has beautiful midgrade pulps that new collectors should be able to acquire at attainable prices, says Sasha Fraze, Heritage Auctions Comics & Comic Art Consignment Director for Pulp Magazines. “This sale has a really wide variety of lots, a good variety of genres, title, artists and authors,” Fraze says. “It runs the gamut of every kind of cool pulp you could want — classic covers, important stories, ultra-rare pulps. Overall, there are tons of cool books that should go for ... More
John Durand (1731-1805), Jane Beekman, 1767. Oil on canvas. The New York Historical, Gift of the Beekman Family Association, 1962.72
NEW YORK, NY.- Commemorating the nation’s semiquincentennial year, The New York Historical presents Revolutionary Women, a new exhibition on view May 29 – October 25, 2026, in the Joyce B. Cowin Women’s History Gallery. Moving beyond the myths and legends that have long shaped narratives of the American founding, this exhibition draws on extensive research in The Historical’s Patricia D. Klingenstein Library to illuminate the lives of the women who helped define the American experiment. Through the close examination of overlooked primary sources—including letters, financial ledgers, and archaeological artifacts such as shoe soles and children’s toys excavated from military camps—Revolutionary Women reconstructs a compelling, evidence-based reappraisal of the 18th century, positioning women as central actors in the political, social, and economic transformations of the era. “To understand the ... More
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Fortes D'Aloia & Gabriel opens cross-generational group exhibition What Comes Next SAO PAULO.- What Comes Next / O Que Vem Depois is a group exhibition curated by Tamar Guimarães and Kasper Akhøj, bringing together artists from Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel’s program across generations. Drawing on their longstanding engagement with narrative structures, circulation, and the unstable status of images, Guimarães and Akhøj conceive the show as a spatial proposition that resists fixed definition. What is assembled here could be thought of as an archive, a business lounge, or a sacrificial site—frameworks that never fully settle, yet condition what takes place within them. Works by Anderson Borba, Cerith Wyn Evans, Cristiano Lenhardt, Efrain Almeida, Erika Verzutti, Ernesto Neto, Frank Walter, Gokula Stoffel, Ivens Machado, João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva, Leda Catunda, Mauro Restiffe, Rivane Neuenschwander, Robert Mapplethorpe, Rodrigo ... More
Alan Saret, pioneering postminimalist sculptor, dies at 81 NEW YORK, NY.- The artist Alan Saret, whose groundbreaking work expanded the possibilities of sculpture, passed away May 26, 2026. Emerging in the downtown New York art world of the 1960s, Saret defied historical categories to pursue what he termed “ensoulment,” art informed in equal parts by spirituality, mathematics, nature, and the built environment. Saret was born in New York on Christmas Day, 1944. After graduating from Cornell University with a degree in architecture in 1966, he studied art at Hunter College in New York, where he began sculpting with wire. Saret later described how using the material “broke [sculpture’s] rigid shell, and a living, breathing spirit emerged.” Following a debut solo exhibition at Bykert Gallery in 1968, his work was featured in epoch-defining group shows like Nine in a Warehouse at Leo Castelli Gallery, New York (1968) and ... More
New exhibition at Timothy Hawkinson Gallery focuses on the dark themes and resilient spirit of Rick Bartow LOS ANGELES, CA.- Terrible things happen. Seemingly again and again. On micro and macro scales. They can feel intractable and insurmountable. So much of history is just a record of things going wrong. Rick Bartow (1946 to 2016) observed and experienced tragedies throughout his life. The art and music he made over many decades emphasized how efforts can still be taken to return to a balanced position, but it is a ceaseless endeavor. A professionally trained artist, Bartow lived and worked on the Oregon coast. A member of the Wiyot Tribe, he drew from personal experiences, cultural encounters, global myths, and especially indigenous transformation narratives to explore his multifaceted identity, his tribal and personal traumas. A Vietnam veteran, Bartow returned with PTSD, along with other health and addiction issues. Art became an essential act to heal ... More
Galerie Nathalie Obadia opens summer group exhibition Ebb & Flow in Brussels BRUSSELS.- Galerie Nathalie Obadia presents in Brussels Ebb & Flow: Perceptions of Summer, a group exhibition bringing together a wide range of artists represented by the gallery, including Valérie Belin, Roger Edgar Gillet, Quentin Gouevic, Fabrice Hyber, Shirley Jaffe, Hoda Kashiha, Sophie Kuijken, Meuser, Laure Prouvost, Fiona Rae, Sarkis, Joris Van de Moortel, Victoria Palacios, and Wang Keping. Through this ensemble-combining photographs, paintings, drawings, and sculptures-the exhibition outlines a cartography of summer perceptions, between reminiscences and impressions linked to the season. The face runs through the exhibition like a discreet thread: it transforms, fragments, at times even fading in favor of the sketch. Some works still remain identifiable -such as the photographs of Valérie Belin or the paintings of Sophie Kuijken ... More
David Peter Francis to show works by Emilie Louise Gossiaux at Art Basel 2026 BASEL.- For Art Basel 2026, the gallery will present a Statements booth foregrounding the New York-based artist Emilie Louise Gossiaux (b. 1989, New Orleans, LA). As a multidisciplinary artist who is also blind, Gossiaux translates their inner worlds into the physical realm through works based on dreams, memories, and their sense of touch— an exploration of interdependence, Disability, and the interspecies kinship that centers the decade long relationship with their Guide Dog and animal companion, London. Gossiaux’s sculptural "Butterflydog" installation at Art Basel is shown amidst newly-made tactile ballpoint pen and crayon drawings. The many hybridized dogs depicted in both Art Basel and a concurrent large-scale presentation at the 2026 Whitney Biennial are representations of London—the 15 year-old Labrador who is the artist’s retired Guide Dog and animal ... More
Climate Biennial: Art, industry and territory presents inaugural edition Rehearsing the Unexpected AVILÉS.- In Avilés, weather does not arrive separately from industry. Moisture settles onto steel structures; tidal movements cut through former shipyards; factory archives coexist with public gardens, civic buildings, river sediments, and disused infrastructures. It is within this landscape—shaped simultaneously by extraction, labour, ecological transformation, and everyday life—that the first edition of Climate Biennial: art, industry and territory takes place from June 12 to September 20, 2026. Titled Rehearsing the Unexpected, the Biennial unfolds thirteen exhibition venues throughout the city and its surrounding territory, bringing together more than forty local, national, and international participants. Rather than approaching climate as a distant theme or abstract emergency, the project understands it as a material and social condition embedded within infrastructures, gestures, and collective memory. This inaugural edition operates through an expansive curatorial framework that ... More
"Masterpieces Wachau" brings art into hotels and restaurants across Austria's Wachau region KREMS.- After a successful debut last year, “Masterpieces Wachau” is returning in 2026 with a simple but evocative idea: to bring museum-quality art into the places where people gather, dine, travel and linger. The project, organized by Kunstmeile Krems in cooperation with Donau Niederösterreich Tourismus, places selected works from the Artothek Niederösterreich in hotels, restaurants and other hospitality venues throughout the Wachau region. Rather than asking visitors to encounter art only inside a museum, the initiative brings paintings and prints into dining rooms, foyers, salons and favorite local gathering places. The result is an informal, often unexpected meeting between art and everyday life. Guests may come across an original artwork while having breakfast, sharing a meal, waiting in a hotel lobby or enjoying a conversation after a day in the region’s vineyards and historic towns. The works on view range from classical to contemporary art and include pieces by artists ... More
Tanya Lukin Linklater opens Crested, her first European solo museum show, at Portikus FRANKFURT.- Portikus is presenting Crested, Tanya Lukin Linklater’s first institutional solo exhibition in Europe. Developed specifically for Portikus, the exhibition brings together a new cycle of work comprising bentwood sculptures, textile installations, beadwork and watercolors, through which Lukin Linklater engages questions of belonging, memory and Indigenous knowledge in the context of the ongoing afterlives of colonial violence. For over fifteen years, Lukin Linklater has lived in North Bay, Northern Ontario, on the territory of the Nbisiing Anishnaabeg. Her Sugpiaq roots are in Afognak and Port Lions in Alaska—a region profoundly shaped by Russian colonialism, followed by American rule. Her trajectory has unfolded between places, languages and forms of knowledge. In Crested, Lukin Linklater addresses continuance through Sugpiaq visual practices as thinking through relationships—to history, landscape, lived culture and embodiment. A key reference for the exhibition is a sm ... More
Ora-Ora to present Jiang Heng's first solo gallery exhibition HONG KONG.- Ora-Ora will be presenting the first solo show at Ora-Ora by Chinese contemporary artist Jiang Heng, titled: The Substance of Mirage. The artist, native of Guangdong Province in southern China, invites us, at an individual and at a societal level, to question what is real and what we choose to value, probing the impermanence or durability of cultural norms in a world of speed and production. Cherished viewpoints, traditions and customs may evaporate in the hunt for material advancement and fleeting pleasure. Jiang Heng has enjoyed a multi-decade career from his base in Guangzhou, narrating the rapid and continued ascent of the industrial powerhouse of southern China with his brush, and exploring its direction, tendencies, effects on the population and likely ramifications. Throughout this time of change, he has been uniquely positioned at the nexus of industry, consumer culture and tradition. The Substance of Mirage will focus on two series of the artist’s works: “Artificial ... More
Biennale Matter of Art 2026 presents its fourth edition Necessary Wishes PRAGUE.- Running from June 12 through September 13, 2026, across Prague and Pardubice, Czech Republic, the fourth edition of the Biennale Matter of Art unfolds under the title Necessary Wishes. Conceived as one of the leading platforms for contemporary art in Central and Eastern Europe, the biennale examines forms of endurance, solidarity, and collective imagination emerging under conditions of political, economic, and social instability. Curated by Jaroslava Tomanová, František Fekete, and Jakub Gawkowski, the biennale approaches “necessity” not only as a condition imposed by crisis, but also as a practice of resistance and survival. Across three venues—the Trade Fair Palace of the National Gallery Prague, GAMPA—City Gallery Pardubice, and Tusculum Prague—the programme brings together more than forty artists and collectives whose works engage questions of vulnerability, interdependence, labour, care, and political agency. Among the participating artists are severa ... More
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