Josef Šíma (Czech, 1891-1971), Europa, 1927. Estimate: $300,000-500,000. Property from the Ingersoll Family Collection, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.-Freeman’s announced the rediscovery of a rare and important painting by Josef Šíma, a leading figure in twentieth-century Czech art. After nearly a century out of public view, this masterwork surfaced in a Philadelphia collection and has been called “the rediscovery of the century” by Šíma scholar Rea Michalová, Ph.D. Titled Europa, the 1927 oil was painted in Paris and will be offered at auction at Freeman’s New York saleroom on April 29, 2026, as part of its Impressionist and Modern Art auction. Previously unknown to scholars, this work is a near twin to the iconic version in the Moravian Gallery in Brno—long considered Šíma’s most important painting. Offering his reflections on this exciting rediscovery is Raphaël Chatroux, Vice President, Head of Department, Impressionist and Modern Art. “We are beyond excited to present ... More
Konrad Mägi, Portrait of a Norwegian Girl, 1909. Courtesy of Tartu Art Museum.
LONDON.- Dulwich Picture Gallery will present the first major UK exhibition of Konrad Mägi (1878–1925) in partnership with the Art Museum of Estonia, from 24 March 2026 – 12 July 2026. 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 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 Pointillism, Neo-Impressionism and Expressionism, as well as the independent approaches that he took in painting as a largely self-taught artist. Mägi decided to study at the Stieglitz Art School in St. Petersburg in 1902, during this time he encountered numerous exhibitions, museums and visual art. Following the pivotal period after the Revolution in 1905, many Estonian i ... More
HONG KONG.- White Cube announced two concurrent exhibitions in Asia by renowned sculptor El Anatsui (b. 1944, Anyako, Ghana), his first with the gallery. Following the artist’s major presentation ‘After the Red Moon’ at the Museum of Art Pudong in Shanghai (2024) – adapted from his acclaimed installation ‘Behind the Red Moon’ for Tate Modern’s Hyundai Commission in 2023–24 – this new and unprecedented body of work will be unveiled across White Cube’s galleries in Hong Kong and Seoul, as well as at Art Basel Hong Kong. Working in metal, ceramic and wood, alongside continuous experiments in printmaking, Anatsui is celebrated for a highly inventive sculptural practice predicated upon sustained investigations into the layered cultural narratives, material transformation and global circulation of everyday objects. White Cube debuts a series of new sculptures that expand upon Anatsui’s unique repertoire of works made exclusively from salvaged bottle ... More
Akbar Padamsee (Indian, 1928-2020), untitled 20th Century oil on canvas, abstract cityscape in gold leaf frame. signed and dated 1962. Est. $200,000-300,000.
GLEN COVE, NY.- In celebration of Asia Week New York, Roland Auctions is presenting a rare, newly discovered prime-period “metascape” painting by highly acclaimed Indian Modernist painter Akbar Padamsee (1928 – 2020) at their upcoming “Important Art and Jewelry” auction on March 28th at 10am. Along with their top art selections, this major auction event will also feature a curated collection of very desirable high-end fine jewelry pieces, important bronze sculptures and a stand-out, large collection of unusual Asian Decorative Arts of all kinds. Additional highlights of the March 28th, 2026 auction will include a collection of items from the estates of Oleg Cassini, Inc. and Cassini Parfums, Ltd., both business entities of the legendary, late fashion designer Oleg Cassini. This collection features art, antiques, letters & correspondence, trophies, perfume bottles and more). Previews will be held on Thursday, March 26t ... More
Sanyu, Beijing Circus. Oil on Masonite, executed in 1950 / 1960s., 80.3 by 129.5 cm. Estimate: HK$ 28m – 40m / US$ 3.64m – 5.2m. Courtesy Sotheby's.
HONG KONG.- A treasure lost to the art world for half a century is poised to take centre stage this March. Sotheby’s is proud to present Sanyu’s Beijing Circus, a major rediscovery that provides important new evidence for scholars tracing Sanyu’s artistic development and his enduring international significance. Long held in a private American collection, the work was acquired by an American collector in 1976 from the estate sale of the influential Locksley Shea Gallery in Minneapolis and has remained with the same owner for nearly half a century. Newly documented beyond the 321 oil paintings currently recorded in the latest catalogue raisonné (Rita Wong, 2024), Beijing Circus is one of only three known inscribed oil paintings on this celebrated theme—and the largest among them ever to appear at auction, making it exceptional in scale and rarity. Unseen for 50 years, this painting will make its first public reappearance in Taipei from 14 -15 March before travelling to Hong Kong ... More
Per Kirkeby, Laesø I, 1982-1989. Red bricks, mortar, 33 ½ x 300 ¾ x 13 ¾ inches (85 x 764 x 35 cm)
GUANGZHOU.- VeneKlasen announced the opening of Per Kirkeby: I Make My Own System at the Tadao Ando-designed He Art Museum (HEM) in Shunde, Guangzhou, China. This marks the first exhibition dedicated to Per Kirkeby to take place in Asia in nearly two decades. The exhibition focuses on Kirkeby’s paintings, brick sculptures – presented both within the museum and throughout the city – and a series of bronzes that are models for his brick works. It also marks the debut of his brick sculptures in China. Per Kirkeby (1938–2018) is regarded as one of the most influential and versatile artists of his generation. Over a career spanning five decades, he worked across an extraordinary range of media, including painting, sculpture, and brick installations, as well as poetry, filmmaking, and set and costume design for ballet and theatre. Before enrolling at the Experimental Art School in Copenhagen in 1962, Kirkeby studied natural history and geology. During these years he took part in nume ... More
Levi Wells Prentice (American, 1851–1935). Peaches in a Basket Bushels of Peaches, n.d. Oil on canvas. 24 x 20 in. Gift of Shelley and Felice Bergman, 2025.
YONKERS, NY.- The Hudson River Museum is thrilled to announce a generous gift of five exquisite nineteenth and early-twentieth century paintings to the HRM’s collection, donated by Shelley and Felice Bergman. The works of art, ranging from large-scale landscapes to intimate still-life and genre paintings, are by esteemed painters Jasper Francis Cropsey, Levi Wells Prentice, Ernest Lawson, and John George Brown. This gift is an important addition to the Museum’s extensive collection of American art from the nineteenth century to today. This recent gift brings the total number of paintings donated by the Bergmans to twelve, including major nineteenth-century paintings by Fitz Henry Lane and Severin Roesen. “I’m thrilled Shelley and Felice Bergman have entrusted us with these works, which further solidifies our position as an anchor in American art in New York State,” states Masha Turchinsky, the HRM’s Anita K. Hersh Director and CEO. “Above all, the Hudson River Muse ... More
Ryan Gander, Irretrievably broken from the past, or Low hanging fruit, 2020, bronze and wood, 42.5 x 27 x 38.8 cm.
ROTTERDAM.- As Art Rotterdam prepares to open its doors from March 26 to 29, one of the most closely watched presentations this year comes from Amsterdam’s Annet Gelink Gallery, which arrives with a carefully curated selection that bridges sculpture, painting, film, and installation. Located at Booth F1, the gallery’s presentation brings together new and recent works by Ryan Gander and Helen Verhoeven, while extending beyond the booth into other sections of the fair with works by Marijke van Warmerdam and Meiro Koizumi. The result is not just a booth presentation, but a multi-layered presence across the fair—one that reflects on time, perception, and the shifting condition of the human experience. At the center of the booth, Ryan Gander’s sculptural work Irretrievably broken from the past, or Low hanging fruit (2020) offers a subtle yet incisive reflection on the weight of artistic legacy. Part of his ongoing ballerina series, ... More
HONG KONG.- Gagosian announced its participation in Art Basel Hong Kong 2026 with a presentation of paintings, sculptures, photographs, and works on paper by a group of international artists. The works on view offer a complex variety of approaches to interrelated themes including aspects of abstraction and perspectives on the natural world. Participating artists include Georg Baselitz, Amoako Boafo, Louise Bonnet, Carol Bove, Maurizio Cattelan, John Currin, Edmund de Waal, Jadé Fadojutimi, Urs Fischer, Helen Frankenthaler, Theaster Gates, Cy Gavin, Katharina Grosse, Jennifer Guidi, Lauren Halsey, Damien Hirst, Tetsuya Ishida, Alex Israel, Jia Aili, Jamian Juliano-Villani, Ewa Juszkiewicz, Rick Lowe, Henry Moore, Sabine Moritz, Takashi Murakami, Albert Oehlen, Nam June Paik, Giuseppe Penone, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Ed ... More
Hans Baldung Grien, Portrait of Susanna Pfeffinger, 1517.
PARIS.- A planned auction in Paris has been abruptly postponed after a rare Renaissance drawing by Hans Baldung Grien was officially classified as a National Treasure by the French government—just days before it was set to go under the hammer. The work in question, Portrait of Susanna Pfeffinger (1517), was scheduled to be sold on March 23 at the Hôtel Drouot by Beaussant Lefèvre & Associés in collaboration with the Cabinet de Bayser. However, a decree issued on March 20 by France’s Minister of Culture confirmed the drawing’s new protected status, triggering an immediate export ban and halting the sale. The classification followed the recommendation of the Advisory Commission for National Treasures, which convened on March 18 and recognized the work’s exceptional importance to France’s cultural heritage. Both the commission’s opinion and the ministerial decree were published in the Journal officiel de la République française on March ... More
Chilly, 2025. Oil on canvas, unframed: 133 x 89 cm; 523/8 x 35 in; framed: 140 x 96 cm; 55 1/8 x 37 3/4 in.
HONG KONG.- Kiang Malingue is presenting at its Hong Kong space Seeking Traces, an exhibition of recent paintings by Zheng Zhou. Zheng Zhou’s 2024 exhibition Spanish Grilled Fish at Kiang Malingue’s Hong Kong space continued the artist’s fascination with multifaceted, uncanny characters: his figures appear blurred, often rendered as simplified silhouettes, while layers of colour, decidedly saturated or subtly muted, weave these ethereal characters into profoundly alluring, vibrant environments. The current exhibition showcases the artist’s radical shift towards abstraction in recent years: rectangular colour blocks emerge irregularly as a recurring motif across multiple works, charting elementary chromatic networks through vibrant or deep hues like titanium white, scarlet, violet, and cobalt blue. In this new series, the mystifying narratives found in Zheng Zhou’s previous works give way to unrestrained rhythms: sweeping colour blocks cover the canvas like billowing brocad ... More
View of Persona: Photography and the Re-Imagined Self, Hostetter Gallery, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 2026.
BOSTON, MASS.- Persona: Photography and the Re-Imagined Self at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, on view through May 10, 2026, explores how photography has been used throughout time as a medium of expression, reinvention, and challenging personal identity. The largest contemporary exhibition at the Gardner Museum to date, Persona features 83 works by 31 internationally-recognized artists from the 1920s to today. In our social media-driven society, self-portraiture is ubiquitous and easily manipulated with filters, AI, and editing tools. Persona spotlights contemporary work, such as Azra Akšamija’s holographic video animation and Cao Fei’s prints of her Second Life alter ego, examining the intersection of identity and digital culture and exploring how technology shapes our understanding of the self, blurring reality and fiction. The exhibition also features Cindy Sherman, Carrie Mae Weems, and others whose ... More
Espoo City Office Building 2 demolition, 2021. Photo: KAMU Espoo City Museum, Virpi Talja Nerman.
JYVÄSKYLÄ.- In Finland, buildings are currently being demolished at nearly the same rate as during the peak demolition years of the 1960s and 1970s. During that period, a significant number of buildings were lost, including many Art Nouveau structures and entire wooden town districts. Today, increasingly younger buildings are under threat of
demolition – particularly those built in the 1960s and 1970s. “The current wave of building demolition in Finland has prompted actors in the field of architecture to mobilise, also in the form of a civic campaign. ‘Best not to Demolish’ seeks, on the one hand, to call attention to unnecessary demolition projects and, on the other, to highlight the usability of existing – often vacant – buildings,” says Tommi Lindh, architect and the managing director of the Alvar Aalto Foundation, who initiated the campaign. Construction accounts for roughly one third of Finland’s climate emissions and up to 40 per cent of all waste. E ... More
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Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun awarded the 2025 Gershon Iskowitz Prize TORONTO.- The Gershon Iskowitz Foundation announced Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun as the recipient of the 2025 Gershon Iskowitz Prize. The $75,000 award is presented annually to an artist who has made an outstanding contribution to the visual arts in Canada. In addition to the Prize, the Foundation will generously support a solo exhibition of his work at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in February 2027. Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun is an artist and activist based in Vancouver who is known for combining traditional Coast Salish cosmology and motifs with formal tropes borrowed from surrealism and pop art. The resulting grand-scale paintings address contemporary political urgencies, including paying witness to the horrors of colonial violence, increasing respect for the land and environmental care, and demanding justice and sovereignty for Indigenous Peoples. ... More
Paul McCarthy unmasks the psychosis of capitalism in Paris PARIS.- One of the leading contemporary American artists of his generation, Paul McCarthy has developed a distinct and subversive artistic practice throughout his career, which now spans more than five decades. This exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Paris presents works in a new series by the artist entitled ‘SS EE Saint Santa Eva Elf,’ comprising large-scale drawings and a new six-channel video installation. Marking the latest chapter in McCarthy’s ongoing collaboration with German actress Lilith Stangenberg as a continuation of his acclaimed A&E series, this new body of work sees the artist return to one of his most potent and enduring motifs, Santa Claus. McCarthy recasts the beloved holiday icon as a vessel for an unflinching examination of corporate capitalism and the spectre of fascism. Known for visceral, transgressive and politically incisive yet humorous ... More
William Lim's Hangzhou masterpieces debut at Ora-Ora HONG KONG.- Ora-Ora announced the first solo show at its gallery by celebrated Hong Kong artist William Lim. Titled Time After Time, it opens on March 24, 2026. Time After Time is composed of 23 paintings, executed at the beautiful West Lake in Hangzhou as the seasons unfolded over 2024 and 2025. Largely painted outdoors, often in sweltering heat and biting cold, each canvas is saturated with the immediate sensation of light, air, and weather, generating an immersive space that invites us to contemplate permanence through transience, and deep history through the fleeting present. Ora-Ora has represented Wiliam Lim since 2023, and the Hangzhou series had been evolved under discussion with the gallery for 15 months. Embracing the opportunity of repetition, Lim visited the same viewpoints at varying times to allow for a combination of consistency of form with ... More
15th-century Colleoni tarot cards reunited after 100 years BERGAMO.- From the luxury of the Renaissance courts to the best in contemporary creativity, a journey through tarot’s seven centuries of history. On the occasion of the extraordinary reuniting of the Colleoni deck, works from around the world describe the rich and inexhaustible seam of tarot cards, exploring their origins, their fortunes and their enduring appeal. A long-awaited project: after more than a century, the 74 cards of the Colleoni deck – the most complete pack in the world, currently split between the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo, the Morgan Library & Museum in New York, and a private collection – will at long last be reunified. This extremely rare reunion has given rise to an equally unique project: an exhibition spanning the period from the 15th to the 21st centuries that, thanks to prestigious national and international loans, explores the history, patrons, ... More
Einstein letter warned son Siemens was anti-Semitic LOS ANGELES, CA.- A remarkable letter by Albert Einstein privately warned his eldest son that German industrial giant Siemens was anti-Semitic, years before the company would employ tens of thousands of Jewish forced laborers at Nazi concentration camps — is now up for auction at Nate D. Sanders Auctions, with bidding open through March 26. Opening at $32,000, the letter represents an extraordinary convergence of personal history, Jewish history, and the origins of the nuclear age. Dated January 21, 1928, and written in German to his son Albert (known as "Hans Albert"), the two-page letter offers a remarkable window into Einstein's private concerns about antisemitism in German corporate life. Advising his son on job prospects in Germany's electrical industry, Einstein wrote: "Siemens has written you off. What else is there to consider? Siemens is — as far as I know — anti- ... More
Art Leven opens new Woolloomooloo gallery SYDNEY.- Art Leven will open its new Woolloomooloo gallery this Thursday 26 March with two inaugural exhibitions: The Places That Know Us, a major solo presentation of paintings by Mitjili Napanangka Gibson, and Gatherings, a group exhibition of aluminium and bronze sculptures created in collaboration with Urban Art Projects (UAP), presented in the gallery’s dedicated sculpture courtyard. The program will also include a screening of the short film Nana (2007), written and directed by Warwick Thornton, which offers an intimate glimpse into the life and story of Mitjili Napanangka Gibson. The opening marks the relocation of the Gallery (formerly Cooee Art) from Redfern and signals a new chapter for one of Australia’s longest-running fine art galleries dedicated to First Nations artists. Established in 1981, Art Leven has evolved over four decades through close collaboration ... More
ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe presents Envisioning AI: Legacy and Impact of the Connection Machine KARLSRUHE.- “Envisioning AI: Legacy and Impact of the Connection Machine” is an interdisciplinary hybrid conference marking the 40th anniversary of the Connection Machine (CM) series of supercomputers—a landmark in the development of massively parallel architectures and their far-reaching implications. This event revisits the origins of parallel computing as both a technical and cultural phenomenon. By bringing together voices from technology, design, theory, and art, the conference fosters dialogues that connect past innovations with contemporary developments in AI. In his 1985 MIT thesis, Danny Hillis envisioned a machine “to perform the functions of the human mind, a thinking machine.” The realization of this vision led ... More
Mozart letter, Stuyvesant land grant, and Jefferson-Madison appointment lead "Remarkable Rarities" auction BOSTON, MASS.- RR Auction’s Spring 2026 Remarkable Rarities sale, closing March 26, is one of the most sweeping offerings in the company’s 50-year history. The sale spans the full arc of civilization, bringing together historically significant documents and artifacts from Tudor England to the modern era. Among the earliest highlights is a 1510 vellum warrant signed “Henry R” by King Henry VIII, issued during the second year of his reign. Also featured is a 1601 letter signed “Elizabeth R” by Queen Elizabeth I, excusing the Archbishop of York from personally attending what would become the final Parliament of her 45-year reign. Colonial America is represented by a May 15, 1664 land grant signed by Peter Stuyvesant, issued at Fort Amsterdam four months before he surrendered New Netherland to the English, as well as a 1681 indenture signed by William Penn, conveying ... More
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