NEW YORK, NY.-L'SPACE Gallery presents Shape of Dreams, an exhibition of sculptures by Leonora Carrington, on view from May 14th through July 25, 2026. The exhibition marks a rare presentation of Carrington's sculpture in the United States, offering a focused encounter with a body of work that has been less widely exhibited in this country. The presentation includes an interactive Tarot Reading Booth in which visitors encounter Carrington's voice, reconstructed through AI, delivering intimate readings from the deck she designed. Curated by the Director of L'SPACE Gallery in collaboration with Consigna Gallery in Mexico City, and presented with the support of the Leonora Carrington Council, Shape of Dreams situates the sculptures within Carrington's broader cosmology, a world in which boundaries between human, animal, and spirit dissolve, and meaning unfolds through dream, ritual, and intuition. The exhibition brings together a significant se ... More
Helen McNicoll, Buttercups (c. 1910). Oil on canvas, 40.7 × 46.1 cm. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Bequest of Sylva Gelber, 2005. Photo: NGC.
OTTAWA.- The art of Helen McNicoll (1879–1915), whose masterful use of light and colour captures intimate moments of everyday life with remarkable sensitivity, will be celebrated throughout the summer at the National Gallery of Canada (NGC). For the first time in more than a century, the most ambitious collection of works by Canadian Impressionist pioneer Helen McNicoll is being brought to light in Ottawa, from May 8 to October 12, 2026, in the exhibition Helen McNicoll: An Impressionist Journey. Created and organized by the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec and adapted by the National Gallery of Canada under the curatorial leadership of Katerina Atanassova, Senior Curator of Canadian Art at the NGC, this expanded presentation brings together more than 80 exceptional works, including more than 20 premiering exclusively in Ottawa. Covering 10 years (1904–1915) of a prolific production, the exhibition provides a rare look into the life and work of an artist who defied the constrai ... More
Distler (Germany) pre-war Disney tin litho wind-up Hurdy Gurdy toy depicting Mickey Mouse playing a barrel organ while Minnie Mouse dances on top. Estimate: $3,000-$5,000
DENVER, PA.- Morphy’s Toys & General Collectibles auction slated for June 2nd and 3rd is packed with 1,362 lots of rare, highly desirable antique and vintage toys from a wide array of collecting categories. Exceptional private collections of marbles and sports cards are also featured. A first-version 275-piece set of W Britains’ Types of the British Army No. 131 lead toy soldiers, which includes both cavalry and infantry figures, is certain to attract bidder attention. It’s housed in a wooden box measuring 45½ inches by 24 inches by 6 inches, with two trays that can be lifted out. The set has a pre-sale estimate of $25,000-$45,000. Britains’ military figures, renowned for their historical accuracy and fine detail, have been favorites with collectors since the Victorian era. The first version of their lead toy soldiers dates back to around 1893. Two baseball-themed lots are also expected to inspire competitive bidding. The first is a 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle rookie card, an abso ... More
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ROME.- The Capitoline Museums in Rome are honoring the memory of Pope Francis with a new exhibition dedicated to one of the most enduring figures in art and spirituality: the angel. Titled “Angels. Messengers, guardians and wayfarers. The sublime creatures from antiquity to the contemporary age,” the exhibition opened May 13 and will remain on view through November 1, 2026, in the ground-floor rooms of Palazzo dei Conservatori. Conceived one year after the death of Pope Francis, the show presents angels not only as artistic subjects, but also as symbols of care, guidance, protection and hope. Curated by Massimo Rossi Ruben and Viviana Vannucci, the exhibition brings together paintings, sculptures and works on parchment from museums, private collections and religious institutions. Through these works, visitors are invited to follow the evolution of angelic imagery across centuries, from its roots in ancient and medieval traditions to modern and contemporary interpretations. For gener ... More
Lilia Carrillo, Esencia (Essence), 1961. Oil on canvas on wood, 7 1/8 x 5 3/4 in. (18 x 14.5 cm.) Courtesy of Sasha Sokol Cuillery. Photo: Gabriel Batiz.
NEW YORK, NY.- Americas Society announced the exhibition Lilia Carrillo: Ruptures and Premonitions, opening on May 13, 2026. Curated by Tobias Ostrander, this landmark show introduces the work of Lilia Carrillo (1930–1974) to a New York audience, positioning her as a central force of the postwar group of Mexican painters known as the Generación de la Ruptura or the Rupture Generation. The show, which will be on view until August 1, 2026, features two dozen of her most accomplished paintings from 1961 until 1974, alongside a selection of archival photographs, letters, invitations, and publications which document her active role in the diverse and often-controversial cultural landscape of her time. “While Lilia Carrillo’s paintings dialogue with the gestural practices of her European informalist and North American Abstract Expressionist peers, they also allude these tendencies through the diversity of their mark-making and layered surfaces, maintaining an enigmatic uniqueness, one that a ... More
Andrea Bowers, Eco Grief Deforestation Series (Old Growth Stump 2), 2024, acrylic on cardboard, Courtesy of the Artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles, Photo: Jeff McLane.
VANCOUVER, BC.- The Vancouver Art Gallery presents Future Geographies: Art in the Century of Climate Change, the first major exhibition in Canada to examine the intersection of contemporary art and future climates on a global scale. Bringing together more than 30 artists and over 35 works—from immersive video installations to living sculptures—the exhibition underscores the urgency and relevance of sustainability and the environment as defining issues of our time. The exhibition opens on May 14, 2026 and runs until January 10, 2027. “Future Geographies asks: How do we face ecological change with anything other than despair? Artists are not scientists, nor are they journalists, but they have a role to play in asking questions about our future on this planet. In this century shaped by climate change, that act of imagining is both a necessity and a form of resistance.” - Eva Respini, Interim Co-CEO & Curator at Large at the Vancouver Art Gallery Organized into four thematic sections, ... More
Max Fawcett, Global Head of Jewellery, selling The Ocean Dream at Christie's Magnificent Jewels sale in Geneva.
GENEVA.- Christie's Geneva Magnificent Jewels achieved CHF 51,859,550 | US$ 66,501,674, with sell through rates of 99% by lot and 186% by low estimate. The Ocean Dream led the sale, realising CHF 13,567,500 | US$ 17,366,400 after 20 minutes of intense bidding, becoming the most expensive fancy vivid blue-green diamond ever sold at auction, and the highest priced lot sold during Luxury Week in Geneva. Of the 87 lots offered at Christie's, 84% sold over their high estimate. Clients bidding in the room, over Christie's Live and via the phone saw 41% from Europe, 27% from the Americas and 28% from Asia Pacific. This included registrants for the sale from 8 new countries, with interest coming from 40 countries in total. 13 lots sold for over US$1 million, 2 for over US$5 million, and 1 for over US$10 million. Highlights of Magnificent Jewels Included; ... More
VENICE.- Los restos unfolds in the Spanish Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale as an immersive, large-scale environment that reconfigures the space into a provisional “anti-museum” shaped by processes of accumulation and repetition. The project draws on a body of work that Oriol Vilanova has sustained over two decades through the continuous gathering of postcards sourced from flea markets and informal economies. Detached from their original circuits of exchange, these printed images—once carriers of personal messages—are reassembled into a dense visual field that foregrounds their afterlives. Rather than stabilising meaning, the installation mobilises the postcards as unstable documents, marked by circulation and loss. What emerges is not a fixed archive, but a shifting constellation of fragments that resists narrative closure. Installed across the Pavilion as a non-hierarchical display, the work avoids both chronology and typology. Its logic is instead iterative and open-e ... More
Installation view of "Carrying“.
MUNICH.- With “Carrying,” Museum Brandhorst presents an exhibition project that activates spaces inside and outside the building. Works by the international artists Hêlîn Alas, Cana Bilir-Meier, Louise Lawler, Kate Newby, Tiffany Sia, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, and Leyla Yenirce occupy historically charged sites and transit zones of the museum as well as the public space. Architectural interventions, performances, paintings, and sound and film works enter into dialogue with the museum and interrogate the entanglement of military and cultural power. The starting point is the site where Museum Brandhorst is located today, along with the Pinakothek der Moderne and other institutions of the Kunstareal Munich. This is where the Prinz-Arnulf-Kaserne, also called “Türkenkaserne” (Turks' Barracks), once stood. The name of this military complex, built in 1826, refers back to prisoners of war who were brought from the Ottoman Empire to Bavaria for forced labor in the late seventeenth c ... More
AMSTERDAM.- From 14 May to 18 October 2026 the Stedelijk presents the first major museum retrospective of Kho Liang Ie who, with his designs for furniture and interiors, played a key role in Dutch design from the 1950s to the mid-1970s. Through his poetic approach and unconventional choice of materials, he infused his functionalist designs with an element of playfulness. He also cultivated a large international network and introduced fresh design talent to the Netherlands. Although the name Kho Liang Ie may not be widely known today, in the 1960s and 1970s he was recognised as one of the foremost Dutch designers and also earned significant international acclaim. He gained worldwide recognition for his designs for companies such as Artifort and Mosa. Up until 2002, there was even a famous Dutch design award named in his honour. But even those who are not familiar with him will undoubtedly have come across his designs – whether at Schiphol Airport, or in the form of his furniture in the current ... More
Laurena Finéus, They were Legba, path openers., 2026 Oil, ink, pigment, and acrylic on canvas, 68 x 60 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Fridman Gallery presents Laurena Finéus’s first solo exhibition, Cautionary Tales: A Symphony of Anger/Kòlè. Balancing between abstraction and realism, Haitian-Canadian painter Laurena Finéus captures a liminal, evolving landscape as a metaphor for our enduring quest for freedom. Her layered surfaces, rendered in oils, ink, pigment, and acrylic on canvas, mimic the lush, rugged terrain and dense forests found in Maroon geographies, made treacherous by seasonal rains, flooding, and poor infrastructure. The intricate linework painted over abstract color fields creates depth of perception and resembles rhizomatic structures, symbolizing communal labor and regrowth of a landscape laid barren by earthquakes. Plants and elements referenced in Finéus’ work carry specific meanings: scattered magnolia seeds—once thought extinct in Haiti—embody fragility and endurance; fire symbolizes a painful yet regenerative process of liberation; pigeon pea and breadfruit seeds suggest fe ... More
Noah Latif, Lamp Chemtrail, 2026. Oil on canvas, 50 x 50 cm.
ANTWERP.- Two years after his exhibition MISSING at Tommy Simoens Gallery in Antwerp, Noah Latif Lamp presents a new series of paintings, initiated during a recent stay between the former Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. This displacement is not merely biographical, but symptomatic of a broader condition that continues to inform Lamp’s practice. His paintings emerge from a world increasingly shaped by crisis, control, and the lingering effects of emergency governance. If the state of exception, as described by Giorgio Agamben, reorganises law, bodies, and behaviour, it also recalibrates perception itself. Living under conditions of permanent emergency does not merely exhaust political agency; it alters how the world is seen. Images become unstable, potentially incriminating, or retrospectively dangerous. A small boat at sea can no longer be read innocently; even its mere appearance risks being framed as a threat – and instantly instrumentalised in a larger political scheme, partic ... More
Vik Muniz,The Great Pine, after Paul Cezanne, Brushstrokes, 2026; Archival inkjet print.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sikkema Malloy Jenkins presents Brushstrokes, a solo exhibition of new work by Vik Muniz, on view from May 14 through June 20, 2026. Vik Muniz is globally renowned for his series recreating popular and art historical imagery using unorthodox source materials—chocolate, sugar, scraps of paper, and junk, among a range of unexpected media. His practice engages the act of looking as a site of physical and symbolic experience, where the presumed nature of an artwork can be thrillingly destabilized. In Brushstrokes, Muniz presents a vibrant homage to the pictorial language of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters. The works in this series are created from distinct strokes of paint that are photographed, cut out, and arranged into compositions after artists such as Paul Cézanne, Joaquín Sorolla, Vincent van Gogh, and Edouard Vuillard. These artists proposed new ways of seeing the world, realized through sensorial expressions of color, medium, and light. Drawing on this history, M ... More
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Nara Roesler celebrates 50 years with a meeting of Brazilian generations in New York NEW YORK, NY.- Nara Roesler New York presents, throughout 2026—marking its 50th anniversary—a series of exhibitions conceived as encounters between artists from different generations, whose works establish resonances through formal and conceptual affinities. Among these dialogues, the exhibition Sobre a natureza das figuras highlights the rapprochement between Amelia Toledo (1926–2017) and Cristina Canale (b. 1961), two artists whose practices, although distinct in media and procedures, converge in their investigation of form in relation to nature and to the structures that organize the visual field. Amelia Toledo is a central figure in 20th-century Brazilian art, with a body of work that establishes decisive connections between modernism and contemporary art. In dialogue with artists such as Lygia Clark, Mira Schendel, and Lygia Pape, her ... More
Emma Talbot explores the future of humanity and AI at Kunstmuseen Krefeld KREFELD.- With Psyche, British artist Emma Talbot, MBE (*1969, Stourbridge; lives and works in London and Reggio Emilia) presents a new site-specific installation at the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum (KWM). The exhibition is part of the tenth edition of the Collection Satellite series, which since 2018 has brought contemporary artistic positions into dialogue with the collection and architecture of the Kunstmuseen Krefeld. Talbot has created an ensemble of new works that engage with Johan Thorn Prikker’s mural Lebensalter (Ages of Life) (1923), radically rethinking its vision of a cyclical life process. Internationally acclaimed for her large-scale, visually striking installations made of painted silk, Talbot combines painting, sculpture, drawing, and animation into complex spatial environments. Her visual language merges figuration, ornament, and text, unfolding ... More
Frankfurt exhibition questions if objects can liberate or oppress FRANKFURT .- Is design a tool of liberation, oppression, or both at once? From 14 May to 28 June 2026, the Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt addresses this question with the exhibition Positions on Freedom. Design and Its Boundaries . The exhibition treats its title as a method and unfolds the topic as a spectrum across three interconnected formats: a group exhibition developed through an open call and in collaboration with the museum, newly commissioned works by invited designers (fellows), and a reader featuring theoretical contributions and conversations. Between aesthetics and norms, designers create tangible objects that define what appears possible. In doing so, they not only produce solutions, but often also exclusions and new forms of normality. Through a wide range of works and formats, Positions on Freedom approaches freedom ... More
Whitney Bedford's fiery landscapes tackle the climate crisis NEW YORK, NY.- Miles McEnery Gallery announced a solo exhibition of new paintings by Whitney Bedford, on view at 511 West 22nd Street from 14 May through 20 June 2026. The exhibition is accompanied by a digital catalogue with an essay by Aandrea Stang. Bedford’s ongoing Veduta series, begun in 2019, brings historical painted vistas often taken from male landscape painters of the pre-industrial age into dialogue with contemporary Southern California. The landscape sets the stage, referencing familiar scenes from Camille Pissarro, Paul Klee, Claude Monet, and Vincent van Gogh. Through the layering of floral, cacti, and window motifs, Bedford distinguishes between historical and modern eras, creating a space where the tension between them can reside within a single composition. In the most recent works, these paintings take the form of sunset-toned ... More
Superman and Batman debut issues combine for nearly $3 million to lead sale DALLAS, TX.- Two “Holy Grails” of the comic collecting hobby each surpassed the $1 million mark Thursday to kick off Heritage Auctions’ May 7–9 Comic Books Signature® Auction, which took in a total of $10,234,100 by the end of the three-day sale. Combined with the overlapping May 8–10 Comic Art Signature® Auction take of $12,151,880, the four-day event rang up a total of $22,385,980. Offering at least one copy of the top seven most valuable issues on the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide, the Comic Books auction was led by eye-catching copies of the two most valuable issues in the hobby: a CGC 7.0 Conserved copy of Action Comics No. 1, the 1938 issue that marked the first appearance of Superman and created the concept of the modern superhero, and a CGC 6.5 copy of Detective Comics No. 27, which introduced Batman to the world ... More
Lucy Liu explores the 'murky edges of memory' in new solo exhibition NEW YORK, NY.- Alisan Fine Arts New York presents Hard Feelings, a solo exhibition of paintings by Lucy Liu. Centered on works from her ongoing what was series, the exhibition explores the emotional and psychological terrain of memory, with particular attention to family, cultural inheritance, and the shifting nature of personal history. Liu’s series began in 2017, following the death of her father. The event prompted her to revisit an archive of family photographs and to confront complex emotions surrounding a sometimes difficult childhood. As she processed these memories—childhood moments and lived fragments—she began using these images as source material for her paintings. The series began with Family Portrait, first shown in her 2023 solo exhibition at the New York Studio School. As curator Kara Carmack described, “a family of five stands motionless in a park ... More
Akinsanya Kambon's sculptural histories to take center stage at Frieze New York 2026 NEW YORK, NY.- For Frieze New York 2026, Marc Selwyn Fine Art and Ortuzar will jointly present a solo booth of sculptures by Akinsanya Kambon (b. 1946, Sacramento, California). The presentation features the artist’s figurative ceramics, which depict Pan-African spiritual traditions, histories of Black resistance, and personal narratives shaped by a lifetime of service, activism, and artistic inquiry. A former Marine Corps infantryman and combat illustrator in Vietnam, Kambon’s early experiences profoundly informed both his political consciousness and his artistic vision. Upon his return, he joined the Sacramento chapter of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, where he served as Lieutenant of Culture. On May 28, “Akinsanya Kambon: Soul Sessions,” the first multi-venue survey of Kambon’s work, will open concurrently at SculptureCenter and the Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA) in New York. Kambon’s multidisciplinary practice spans drawing, painting, and sc ... More
Andrea Festa opens an exhibition of works by Gianna Dispenza ROME.- Andrea Festa gallery will present The Sports Archive, an exhibition of new works on paper by Gianna Dispenza at Sala Nova. Part of the broader, ongoing project The Sports Section, the exhibition examines how sporting environments uniquely authorise forms of physical and emotional expression among men that are often constrained in other social contexts. Dispenza’s practice engages painting, drawing, and sculpture to investigate how gestures—particularly those tied to intimacy, vulnerability, and physical contact—are conditioned by cultural framing. The works presented are derived from an evolving archive of images collected by the artist, documenting moments across various sports. Organised into categories such as HOLDING, CRYING, COMFORTING, DANCING, and KISSING, this image bank functions as a visual taxonomy of repeated gestures and emotional release within the structured arena of sport. In their original contexts, these gestures ... More
Norman Rockwell Museum appoints new Director STOCKBRIDGE, MASS.- The Board of Trustees of the Norman Rockwell Museum announced the appointment of Graham C. Boettcher, Ph.D., as the Museum’s new Director and CEO. A seasoned museum executive and respected scholar of American art, Dr. Boettcher joins NRM at a pivotal moment as it embarks on its next chapter of strategic growth, capital improvement, and expanded national and international influence. Boettcher comes to the Museum following a transformative, 20-year tenure at the Birmingham Museum of Art (BMA), where he has served as the R. Hugh Daniel Director and CEO since 2017. Under his leadership, the BMA experienced sustained institutional growth, including the endowment of key positions, the gift of major new collections, and national recognition for innovative exhibitions, digital initiatives, and community-centered programming. ... More
Moderna Museet and Kunsthaus Zürich present House of Nisaba STOCKHOLM.- Figurative painting is once again flourishing in the twenty-first century, yet its meanings and functions are far from settled. As knowledge transforms, information accelerates, and societies splinter, this exhibition considers what painting is and can be in today’s world. In House of Nisaba: New Stories of Painting, twenty-nine international artists, of whom twenty-five have created new works for this occasion, are brought together, signalling a return to allegorical painting in contemporary art. The year is 3100 BCE and writing begins to develop in ancient Mesopotamia. At first, to count the grain for trading at the market, then to capture human life and imagination in myths, hymns, and parables, inscribed on clay tablets. The Sumerian goddess Nisaba presides over this epistemic revolution, when thousands of years of storytelling begin to take material form and ... More
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