NEW YORK, NY.- Later this month, Sotheby’s will present The Great American Whiskey Collection, its first-ever live, single-owner American whiskey auction, offering the most valuable collection of its kind ever to come to market. The monumental sale will take place at the iconic Breuer Building on Madison Avenue. Estimated between $1.17–1.68 million, the collection comprises 360 bottles offered across 320 lots from a meticulously curated private holding. The landmark auction is part of Visions of America, a week-long auction and event series celebrating American art, objects, and innovation, marking the nation’s 250th anniversary this year. Assembled over many years by a dedicated collector, The Great American Whiskey Collection features an extraordinary selection of some of the rarest and most sought-after bottles of Bourbon and Rye ever bottled. The sale includes numerous private labels, exclusive single barrels, and historic bottlings that are now virtually impossible to source, with ... More
Emma Natalya Stein in the exhibition “The Art of Knowing in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayas." National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Photo by Debra Diamond.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art has announced that Jeffrey P. Cunard is endowing the museum’s curatorial position of Southeast Asian Art, which will be known as the Jeffrey P. Cunard Curator of Southeast Asian Art. The inaugural holder of that position will be Emma Natalya Stein, who received her doctorate in the history of art from Yale (2017) and has been on the museum’s curatorial staff since 2019. The museum will now be one of two museums in the nation with a dedicated, endowed curatorial position for Southeast Asian art and cultures. “I sincerely thank Mr. Cunard for this transformative gift,” said Museum Director Chase F. Robinson. “With this endowment, we reaffirm our commitment to presenting the arts and culture of that region as well as our relationships with our Southeast ... More
1956 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL ‘Gullwing’
PARIS.- On January 27th, during its Automobile Legends auction, to be held at The Peninsula Paris Hotel at 2pm, Artcurial Motorcars will present its latest discovery: a legendary Mercedes-Benz 300 SL “Gullwing” in an absolutely astonishing, 100% original condition, never restored, never disassembled, still in its original paint, and fitted with the complete set of sport options from the period catalog. Delivered new in Paris with an exceptional specification, this 300 SL Gullwing is one of the rare examples equipped with the same sport specifications as the 29 aluminum-bodied cars. Indeed, it features the full range of sport options from the original period catalog, including the highly sought-after NSL engine, Rudge center-lock wheels, and sport-tuned suspension and springs. This 300 SL is one of only 30 examples delivered new in France and one of 106 produced in Graphite Grey. Showing just 34,000 original kilometers, it retains its original paint, natural leather ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie's announced the promotion of Kimberly Miller to Global Managing Director for Luxury. This appointment follows an exceptional year for Christie's Luxury. In Geneva this November, the Mellon Blue achieved CHF 20.5M (US$25.6M)—the highest‑value jewelry lot sold at auction in 2025—contributing to a week of sales up 24% year‑on‑year. Overall, the Luxury category realized $795M, marking 17% growth from the previous year. Kimberly Miller previously served as Regional Managing Director for Luxury Americas, where she led business strategy, sales expansion, and financial performance across the Jewelry, Watches, Wine, and Handbags departments. She played a pivotal role in the integration of Gooding as part of Christie's acquisition and oversaw the successful relaunch of wine auctions in New York with The Cellar of William ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- Paula Cooper Gallery will present Bruce Conner’s three-channel film installation THREE SCREEN RAY (2006) at 521 West 21st Street in January 2026. THREE SCREEN RAY is the artist’s re-edited and expanded reworking of the experimental COSMIC RAY (1961), which pioneered techniques of vertical montage and subliminal messaging with 16mm film long before rapid-fire editing pervaded popular culture. This presentation precedes BRUCE CONNER / RECORDING ANGEL, an exhibition of seven Bruce Conner films curated by Douglas Fogle for the Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles (February 21 – July 25, 2026). Conner moved from Kansas to San Francisco in 1957 and quickly became a key member of the city’s countercultural art, music, and film movements. Following his foundational 1958 ... More
Jonathan Okoronkwo, Hard-or-Rick Paps nu, 2022, Used motor oil, dissolved metal paste from engine parts on plywood, Each: 23 1/2 × 23 1/2 in (60 × 60 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Bortolami will present an exhibition of new and recent works by Diana Al Hadid, Leonardo Meoni, Jonathan Okoronkwo, Claudio Parmiggiani, and Yunyao Zhang. The two-dimensional artworks produced by these five artists forego painting’s traditional materials; while their approaches vary, the artists’ practices are united by a shared turn toward more experimental modes of image-making. In their use of unexpected pigments and supports, the artists establish painting as an expansive field of possibilities in arrangement and form, marking the latest transformation in a long lasting technology. Hailing from and working across the globe, the artists’ materials conjure specific contexts of production, from national art historical movements to industrial trade. One of the most prominent figures of postwar Italian art, Claudio Parmiggiani began his Delocazioni (Italian for “displacement”) series in 1970, under the eave of the crisis and subsequent reinvention of the visual ... More
SALZBURG.- Thaddaeus Ropac Salzburg presents Alvaro Barrington’s most recent series of works in the artist’s second solo exhibition in Austria. The exhibition’s title, On the Road (TMS), evokes a wide range of references that run through the exhibition, including motifs from Barrington’s personal and cultural history. The title also refers literally to the works themselves: first exhibited in Barrington’s 2024 solo exhibition Grace at Tate Britain, they were subsequently expanded for the Notting Hill Carnival in 2025, installed on the Mangrove Sound Truck. Now, for its third iteration in Salzburg, this body of work is reimagined as collaged and intricately stitched wall hangings. For Barrington, who has family roots in Grenada and Haiti, ‘On the Road’ echoes a familiar phrase about meeting someone on the streets during Carnival. Caribbean Carnival traditions are vibrant celebrations of cultural fusion and were expanded geographically by diasporic communities. To ... More
Nolan Simon, Unremarkable Objects, 2024. Courtesy of the artist, Olney Gleason, New York, and 47 Canal, New York. Photography by Victoria Loeb.
NEW YORK, NY.- Olney Gleason will present Painting, Photography, Painting, an exhibition of new work by artists who use found photographs, film, and digital media as generative source material. Bringing together Thom Blair, Liza Jo Eilers, Tomas Harker, Julia Maiuri, Nolan Simon, Nana Wolke, and Leon Xu, the exhibition considers how contemporary photographic technologies continue to shape, and expand, the possibilities of painterly language. The exhibition takes its title from an essay by Carol Armstrong, which posits that “mediums exist only in relation to one another, within a matrix, and as a means of communication rather than as purely (self-)reflexive entities.” [1] Stretched, distorted, or otherwise hyper-processed, the images in Painting, Photography, Painting derive their subject matter and compositional logic from imagery produced for other media. Their translation onto canvas ... More
Amy Sillman. Photo by Bruno Staub.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner announced the representation of New York–based artist Amy Sillman. Sillman’s first exhibition with the gallery will be in New York in 2027. Amy Sillman is widely recognized as one of the most significant painters of her generation. Since the early 1990s, she has developed a multidisciplinary practice that spans painting, drawing, digital animation, printmaking, large-scale installations, and critical writing. Sillman’s process-oriented work navigates the contested terrains between images and words, line and shape, object and site, meaning and feeling. The artist’s decisive compositions emerge from accumulated layers of painting, erasure, and revision in a process that is at once slow and immediate, deliberate and impulsive, and ultimately considers notions of time. Engaging deeply with the history of painting, Sillman draws from a wide range of high and low art influences and precedents—from gestural to hard-edge painting, abstract ... More
Masha Berek. Photo: Monica Semergiu.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Board of Directors of the Museum of Craft and Design announced the appointment of Masha Berek as its next Executive Director. With more than two decades of experience building cultural institutions, Berek brings a design-trained perspective to museum leadership. A creative strategist shaped by a background in cultural policy, she is committed to anchoring ecosystems of support and service for artists, makers, and the public. Her leadership will advance MCD’s position at the local and global forefront of creative practice, where design, craft, technology, and material experimentation are continually renegotiated. “This is a challenging moment for museums, but also a generative one. Creativity often thrives in uncertain places, inviting us to rethink what museums do, whom they serve, and how they connect in a hybrid reality. With its legacy of innovation and its agile scale, MCD is an ideal laboratory for testing what a ... More
BERLIN.- Capitain Petzel will open the group exhibition Not I, on view from January 9, 2026. For the staging of Not I, a monologue which lends its name to this exhibition, Samuel Beckett stripped the theater stage, creating a barren visual field, where a striking pair of red lips, a character known as Mouth, floats in total darkness. Illuminated by a single beam of light and speaking at relentless speed, the monologue is delivered by a disembodied female voice. Both a cry of terror and recognition, Not I is representative of a life glimpsed in flashes, a self seen fragmented, a memory that insists even as it slips away. It consists of associations, thematic returns and obsessive circling. The absence of linear narrative creates a manic circularity and movement without progress, pouring out involuntary memories. Mouth attempts to distance herself from recurring images and phrases heard long ago. The ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- Alongside traditional materials, each gleaned or gifted object woven into Arthur Simms’s work “has a special significance,” he says, “in the same way as if you had to carry all your belongings with you all the time.” Collapsing time and space, he incorporates references that bridge his childhood in Jamaica with his life in New York City, Central African artefacts with American Neo-Dada sculpture, Byzantine panel painting with ancient Etruscan art, light with dark. Spanning the years 1992 to the present, Caged Bottle is the first exhibition to place his works on panel and aluminum in dialogue with his sculptures, offering an expanded picture of the central motifs and techniques of Simms’s nearly four-decade-long practice. Interior structures in Simms’s work are alternately perceptible and hidden in a constant negotiation between what he calls “concealment and revelation.” To create Sexual Tension (1992), the earliest ... More
PARIS.- The MEP presents Becoming Modern, the most significant exhibition dedicated to Edward Weston in Paris in nearly thirty years. A pioneering figure of photographic modernism, Weston helped forge a new visual language—marked by clarity, formal rigor, and a profound engagement with the essential qualities of the photographic medium. Originating from an idea by Michael Wilson—founder of the Wilson Centre for Photography in London and one of the world’s foremost collectors— Becoming Modern brings together a rare selection of vintage prints from his collection, many of which have never been exhibited in France. These works offer an exceptional insight into Weston’s evolving practice and the emergence of a distinctly photographic modernism. Spanning more than three decades, from 1908 to 1945, the exhibition traces Weston’s artistic trajectory. His early pictorialist photographs, ... More
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The City of Aarhus and ARoS to open the world's largest museum-based Skyspace by James Turrell AARHUS.- On 19 June 2026, the City of Aarhus and ARoS Aarhus Art Museum will open the monumental artwork As Seen Below – The Dome, a Skyspace by James Turrell. The City of Aarhus and ARoS Aarhus Art Museum announced today that the museum’s new monumental artwork - titled by the artist As Seen Below – The Dome, a Skyspace by James Turrell - will open to the public on 19 June 2026. The work will be James Turrell’s largest Skyspace in a museum context and completes ARoS’s long-standing vision, The Next Level. Rabih Azad-Ahmad, Alderman for Culture and Citizen Services in the City of Aarhus and the project’s client, says: “A dream will come true when As Seen Below by James Turrell is completed next year, and we can show just how impressive this artwork truly is. Look forward to it - Aarhus is about to gain another spectacular attraction of absolute ... More
Nelson-Atkins campus rejuvenated ahead of expansion KANSAS CITY, MO.- As The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City prepares for its future expansion, projects are now underway to proactively preserve and refresh the entire campus to protect the art and improve guests’ experiences. The first visible work will be done on the award-winning Bloch Building, which is now 20 years old and requires preventive maintenance to prolong its lifetime, including the replacement of the building’s original green roof. Working with the engineering company Walter P. Moore, the museum conducted an extensive study to evaluate the Bloch Building's condition and determine an improvement plan. Thanks to a generous $20 million grant from the Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation, the museum will address this work right away and ensure the vitality of the Bloch Building. “We are extremely grateful to the Bloch Family Foundation ... More
Fabian Knecht drapes the Langen Foundation in Ukrainian camouflage NEUSS.- Langen Foundation announced a major installation by German artist Fabian Knecht. For Lachen ist verdächtig (Laughing Is Suspicious), the artist drapes the Langen Foundation building with 60 camouflage nets woven from clothing and everyday textiles by Ukrainian civilians. The work transports a material texture of war and resistance to Neuss. Lachen ist verdächtig (2022–ongoing) brings a largely unseen form of Ukrainian civilian resistance to the Langen Foundation. Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, hand-knotted camouflage nets have become one of the most widespread expressions of civilian resistance in Ukraine. Found across the country—in cities and villages, at checkpoints, bridges, and sites of critical infrastructure—these nets shape everyday life nationwide. Although rarely shown in international media, precisely because they serve to conceal critical infrastructure, their presence is deeply familiar to people throughout Ukraine. The net ... More
Enrich.R explores memory and materiality at Alzueta Gallery PARIS.- Alzueta Gallery Paris is presenting Early Lines, a solo exhibition by Catalan artist Enrich.R, running from January 6 to February 7 at 8 rue des Beaux-Arts, in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Enrich.R’s paintings unfold through layers and patina. The surfaces, deliberately unstable, are marked by fissures, accidents, and subtle shifts in material. Nothing is purely decorative: each imperfection traces the slow construction of the work, the succession of layers, and the passage of time on the canvas. The painting becomes a skin—sensitive, textured, and capable of preserving the memory of every gesture. For this Paris solo show, the artist presents a series of paintings conceived as a cohesive whole. Each canvas asserts its own presence, yet resonates with the others. The space invites a holistic experience: the works unfold like a visual melody, a score of lines and colors that gradually reveals itself, moving with a rhythm at once structured and intuitive. The compositio ... More
Artpace San Antonio announces Spring 2026 International Artists-in-Residence SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Artpace San Antonio announced its Spring 2026 International Artists-in-Residence, featuring an exceptional lineup selected by guest curator Dr. Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander. Dr. Alexander currently serves as the Robert M. and Ruth L. Halperin Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and Co-Director of the Asian American Art Initiative (AAAI) at the Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University. This season's residents are Texas Artist Violette Bule, National Artist Mel Chin, and International Artist Việt Lê. Venezuelan-born conceptual artist Violette Bule combines archival research with community engagement, examining power dynamics and collective memory through documentary methods and participatory fieldwork. Her monograph De la Lleca al Cohue was named July 2024 Book of the Month by the Henri Cartier-Bresson ... More
Film London announces artists selected for this year's FLAMIN Fellowship development scheme LONDON.- Film London today (Wednesday 7 January 2026) announces the six recipients of the 2025/26 FLAMIN Fellowship – the UK’s only development and bursary scheme dedicated to the next generation of artist filmmakers. Offering early-career artist-filmmakers a unique programme of mentoring, funding and support to develop a new moving image work, the FLAMIN Fellowship nurtures cutting-edge emerging talent and has proven increasingly important to the UK’s creative ecosystem. The FLAMIN Fellowship equips artists with industry knowledge and advice on sustaining a practice through a series of monthly workshops. Workshops are convened by industry-leading artists, previously including Larry Achiampong, Hetain Patel, Heather Phillipson, and Marianna Simnett. Investing a total of £15,000 in artists' development bursaries, FLAMIN offers ... More
Larissa de Souza transforms the stage at Albertz Benda NEW YORK, NY.- Albertz Benda presents Phenomenal, the second New York exhibition by Larissa de Souza (b. 1995, São Paulo), featuring a new group of paintings that draw on the devices of stagecraft—sleight of hand, misdirection, disappearance, reveal — as a metaphor for femininity, transformation, and self-possession. Taking its title from Maya Angelou’s Phenomenal Woman, the “phenomenal” in de Souza’s paintings is located not in spectacle but in the daily insistence on dignity and complexity. Across mixed-media canvases that combine acrylic and oil with fabric, found objects, and hand-stitched threads, de Souza meditates upon themes of memory, ancestry, and womanhood. She often draws on recurring personal motifs—floating hands, shells, and other charged symbols—as anchors for poetic, psychologically rich narratives. Color is structural as well as emotional, activating each surface as a stage for encounter. “There is something untamable in the presence of a ... More
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On a day like today, American painter Albert Bierstadt was born
January 07, 1830. Albert Bierstadt (January 7, 1830 - February 18, 1902) was a German American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West. He joined several journeys of the westward expansion to paint the scenes. He was not the first artist to record the sites, but he was the foremost painter of them for the remainder of the 19th century. In this image: Albert Bierstadt (German, 1830–1902), Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast, 1870. Oil on canvas, 52 1/2 x 82 in. Seattle Art Museum, Gift of the Friends of American Art at the Seattle Art Museum, with additional funds from the General Acquisition Fund, 2000.70. Photo: Howard Gisk.
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