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How Japanese Craft, Aesthetics and Cat Culture Inform Benoît Maire's Debut Exhibition at Valerie Goodman Gallery |
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Neko stools, coffee table, chair and chimes, 2025, Brushed aluminum, raku, leather (Photo Credit: Antoine Bootz)
NEW YORK, NY.- When Benoît Maire first encountered Japanese aesthetics—and the culture’s deep affection for cats—he was immediately struck by the animal’s intuitive relationship to space. A visit to the Kyoto studio of legendary potter Kanjiro Kawai proved formative, as Maire observed the way a cat (Neko in Japanese) moved freely through the workshop: climbing, resting, stretching, and inhabiting space with quiet intelligence. This moment became the catalyst for Benoît Maire: The Neko Collection, which opens with an artist’s reception at the Valerie Goodman Gallery, on April 16, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. The exhibition opens to the public the next day and runs through June 19. The exhibition presents Maire’s latest hand-fabricated furniture and sculptural works, which treats furniture as something to be engaged with actively rather than passively used. The five piece ... More |
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| Where movement meets canvas: 'Flowing In Rhythm' arrives in the Garment District |
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Onionskin marble fetches $36,285 as Morphy Auctions sees record bids for rare glass spheres |
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Picasso's $40m harlequin leads sale of 'last Surrealist' Enrico Donati's private collection |
Dyann Klein is an abstract artist whose vibrant works emerge from an intuitive and exploratory process.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Garment District Alliance announced the latest in its ongoing series of public art exhibits, presenting Flowing In Rhythm, a collection of 19 acrylic paintings by abstract artist Dyann Klein. The exhibition explores the relationship between space, movement, and emotion through fluid, gestural compositions that invite viewers into a subtle visual dialogue. The installation is part of the Garment District Space for Public Art program, which showcases artists in unusual locations and has produced more than 200 installations, exhibits, and performances over the past 20 years. Located inside the Kaufman Arcade building on 139 W. 35th Street, in the heart of the Garment District, the free exhibit is accessible to the public through June 28, 2026. “We are pleased to welcome Dyann’s expressive and immersive work to the Garment District,” said Barbara A. Blair, president of the Garment District Alliance. “Her intuitive use of moveme ... More |
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Sulphide marble with an encased standing, painted brown bear holding a log on a green glass base, 1½ inches in diameter and featuring a nice faceted pontil, graded 9.2. Sold for $6,150.
DENVER, PA.- A shrunken core onionskin marble with colors of white, yellow, orange and blue soared to $36,285, and a scarce pink opaque lutz marble with red bands finished at $28,290 at a Premier Marbles auction held April 11 at Morphy Auctions’ flagship gallery. The best of the best in the booming hobby of marble collecting was on full display in the auction, which was packed with 478 quality lots. The wildly-colorful shrunken core onionskin marble boasted the perfect amount of floating mica to allow the core to be seen. It was expected to do well, having a high estimate of $30,000. But eager bidders pushed that to a final price of $36,285, making it the top lot of the auction. The marble, 2¼ inches in diameter and graded 9.7, showed a few as-made indentations, or hot spots. The rare pink opaque lutz marble with red bands also came into the sale with high expectations. It had a pre-sale ... More |
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The sale is led by one of Pablo Picasso’s most important early Cubist portraits,
Arlequin (Buste), est. $40m.
NEW YORK, NY.- This May, Sotheby’s will offer works from the collection of Adele and Enrico Donati, two leading figures in New York’s creative circles. A highly important presence within the Surrealist milieu, Enrico Donati, often referred to as “the last Surrealist”, was at once an artist and trusted confidant to many of the movement’s leading figures, counting Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst and André Breton among his close friends. Alongside him was his wife Adele Donati, a designer and artist, who viewed the collection with a discerning eye, informed by her work across advertising and fashion. The collection, which was rarely exhibited publicly, reflects the breadth of Enrico’s close friendships and influences. It is led by Pablo Picasso’s Arlequin (Buste), est. in the region of $40m, one of the artist’s most significant early Cubist portraits, created just two years after Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. It is among the most important works from this decisive mom ... More |
| A simple heart: Pierpaolo Campanini finds the sacred in parrots and old shoes |
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Major exhibition reveals Paula Rego's life in drawing |
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James McNeill Whistler: Largest European retrospective in 30 years |
Pierpaolo Campanini, Senza Titolo, 2026.
MILAN.- kaufmann repetto is presenting Un cuore semplice (A Simple Heart), Pierpaolo Campanini’s eighth solo exhibition with the gallery. Borrowed from Gustave Flaubert’s 1877 short story Un cœur simple, the title evokes a world in which devotion attaches itself to modest things and, through repetition and solitude, transforms them into images of unexpected intensity. In Flaubert, the life of the humble servant Félicité is marked by a succession of losses of people she holds dear, culminating in her almost mystical devotion to a parrot and, later, to its preserved remains. The artist engages with this emotional register, dwelling in the moment in which affection takes form, and form begins to detach from reality, acquiring an autonomous presence, almost a sacred residue. Campanini’s works develop through a layered process that moves between physical construction and digital elaboration. Objects assembled in the studio are ... More |
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Paula Rego, Study for The Soldier's Daughter, 1987.
LONDON.- Victoria Miro is presenting a major exhibition of drawings and works on paper by Paula Rego (1935–2022). The most comprehensive exhibition of Rego’s drawings to date, Story Line features works from the 1950s until the artist’s death, shining new light on Rego’s evolving use of line in media from pen and ink to pastel, conté, charcoal and pencil, and how it was driven by her unique approach to storytelling throughout her life. The exhibition is accompanied by a new book written by the artist’s son, Nick Willing. ‘When you write your story… invention comes when you do a drawing. As you are drawing something, it very often turns into something else, and you can go with it. It develops in a completely different way, it’s organic and it’s done with the hand. The hand makes it change and so on.’ – Paula Rego, The White Review, 2011 Paula Rego considered herself first and foremost a ‘drawrer’ (her word). From political protest t ... More |
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Arrangement in Grey: Portrait of the Painter, 1872, Oil paint on canvas, 74.9 x 53.3 cm, Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Henry Glover Stevens, in memory of Ellen P. Stevens and Mary M. Stevens.
AMSTERDAM.- The Van Gogh Museum and The Mesdag Collection present the largest European retrospective of work by James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) in thirty years – and the first ever to be held in the Netherlands. The project was developed in collaboration with Tate Britain. Whistler was one of the most influential and controversial artists of the nineteenth century. He was also a fervent advocate of the idea that art need not serve a moral, social or political purpose, but exists purely for its own beauty. Born in the United States, Whistler moved to Paris aged twenty-one and divided his time between Paris and London for nearly fifty years, moving in the circles of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Gustave Courbet, Edouard Manet and ... More |
| Moderna galerija hosts international conference Stories Beyond the Radar |
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Rare Russian trophy coin expected to spark bidding war at New York auction |
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British Art Show title, concept and artists announced for landmark 10th edition |
Walid Raad, Sweet Talk: Commissions (Beirut) _ Solidere, 1994–1997 (detail), 2019. Photo: Urša Rahne, Moderna galerija Ljubljana.
LJUBLJANA.- Stories Beyond the Radar conference takes place around Walid Raad’s exhibition at Moderna galerija in Ljubljana, where stories, photographs, videos, sculptures, and installations explore how worlds are built, inhabited, and narrated, and how objects, images, and stories shape both our historical and imaginary landscapes. The conference examines how contemporary art and theory respond to a reality marked by multiple temporalities—labyrinthine, non-linear, digital, instantaneous, eternal, asynchronous, and speculative, among others—and asks how we might rethink art history, traditions, and the museums of the future under such conditions. The conference refers to the present time as a manifestly interrupted one, not only because we live in a time of interrupted attention but for deeper structural reasons: Whereas modernity oriented itself toward the future and conceived time as continuity and progress, ... More |
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Nicholas II gold Specimen Imperial of 10 Roubles 1896-AГ SP61 PCGS.
DALLAS, TX.- An exceedingly rare Russian 10 Roubles coin will land in a new collection when it is offered in Heritage’s CSNS World & Ancient Coins Platinum Session and Signature® Auction April 29-30. An exceedingly rare Russian 10 Roubles coin will land in a new collection when it is offered in Heritage’s CSNS World & Ancient Coins Platinum Session and Signature® Auction April 29-30. The Nicholas II gold Specimen Imperial of 10 Roubles 1896-AГ SP61 PCGS is an extraordinary coin in a high grade, even rarer than originally believed. “This is a magnificent coin, one that immediately assumes a prominent place in any collection,” says Cris Bierrenbach, Vice President of International Numismatics at Heritage Auctions. “Both Krause and Bitkin reported an original mintage of just 125 pieces, but the combined census populations at PCGS and NGC include only a handful of certified pieces. That could mean the original population was smaller than initially reported, or perhaps sev ... More |
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Caroline Achaintre, Om Nom Ore Todo Custo and Mother George, all 2015 © Caroline Achaintre 2015. Installation view British Art Show 8, Leeds Art Gallery, 2015-17. Photo © Jonte Wilde Photography 2015
LONDON.- Today, Hayward Gallery Touring announces the title, concept and selection of participating artists in British Art Show 10: A Chorus of Strangers. Launching in Coventry in October 2026 before touring to Swansea, Bristol, Sheffield and Newcastle Gateshead, Ekow Eshun’s curatorial vision will bring together over 30 artists to provide a vital overview of the most exciting art produced in the UK during the past five years, including: Okiki Akinfe; Alex Margo Arden; Liz Johnson Artur; Alvaro Barrington; Shiraz Bayjoo; Lubna Chowdhary; Shawanda Corbett; Jesse Darling; Ufoma Essi; Joy Gerrard; Louise Giovanelli; Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings; Kudzanai-Violet Hwami; Nnena Kalu; Jasleen Kaur; Christina Kimeze; Julian knxx; Matthew Krishanu; Alastair Mackinven; Melanie Manchot; Lindsey Mendick; Emma McNally; Dala Nasser; Jack O'Brien; Nengi Omuku; ... More |
| Mapping Early New York returns to The New York Historical |
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RISD Museum announces 2026 Dorner Prize recipient Khalil McKnight |
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Ballads to Puerto Rico: Armig Santos explores the beauty and decay of his homeland |
Kierstede House Interior, New Amsterdam History Center’s Mapping Early New York 3D Model, all rights reserved.
NEW YORK, NY.- This spring, the New Amsterdam History Center (NAHC) brings its expanded Mapping Early New York 3D digital installation back to The New York Historical, enhancing the major exhibition Old Masters, New Amsterdam, on view May 1–August 30, 2026 and curated by Russell Shorto, Director of the New Amsterdam Project at The New York Historical, and Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., Senior Advisor to The Leiden Collection. Four hundred years ago, the Dutch established New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. At the same time in Europe, artists such as Rembrandt van Rijn, Frans Hals, and Jan Steen were painting vivid scenes of everyday life. This exhibition brings those worlds together, featuring Dutch paintings along with an immersive 3D digital reconstruction of the city that would become New York. The exhibition seamlessly blends fine art with cutting-edge digital scholarship. It invites visitors to use an interactive ... More |
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Khalil McKnight (RISD BFA 2027, Painting), The Observer, 2026. Rendering of repurposed black hoodies. Courtesy of the artist.
PROVIDENCE, RI.- The RISD Museum announced Khalil McKnight (RISD Painting, 2027) as the recipient of the 2026 Dorner Prize, the museum’s annual juried competition supporting student artists in the creation of site-specific work. McKnight’s winning proposal, The Observer, is a performance that will unfold within the museum’s Grand Gallery, offering a critical lens on institutional space, access, and presence. Selected by jurors Gabrielle Walker, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet Curatorial Assistant, and Michael Demps, Associate Professor in RISD’s Experimental and Foundation Studies, McKnight’s project centers on a series of live performances in which the artist inhabits the role of a museum visitor. Wearing a garment constructed from repurposed black hoodies, drawing inspiration from Egungun and New Orleans masquerade traditions, McKnight silently moves through the galleries while making written assessments ... More |
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Armig Santos. Una balada de cucubanos, bahías y estrellas, 2025.
NEW YORK, NY.- Lévy Gorvy Dayan announced the gallery’s first solo exhibition Baladas with Puerto Rican artist Armig Santos, opening on April 16, 2026. The exhibition will debut a series of canvases that explore the artist’s personal and pastoral relationship to the islands of Puerto Rico, drawing upon historical, archival, and ecological sources of inspiration. With the exhibition’s title, Santos nods to José Luis González’s 1ç78 novel Balada de otro tiempo (Ballad of Another Time), which remains a significant representation of traditional farming—or campesino—culture in Puerto Rico. Remarking on his new body of work, Santos states, “Every painting is a ballad to Puerto Rico in its own way. The works are reminders of the past but also a way to understand what is happening now.” History infuses Santos’s paintings in myriad ways—from colonial references to romantic portrayals of Puerto Rico’s heritage. In creating his works, the artist traverses t ... More |
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 Call for grant applications for international projects with Austrian contemporary art in 2027
VIENNA.- Phileas—The Austrian Office for Contemporary Art invites museums, biennials and art institutions to apply for grants to support international projects with Austrian and Austria-based artists in 2027. Over the last ten years, Phileas has provided funding to 154 projects around the world, enabling the production of more than 270 new artworks. We are now welcoming applications for projects taking place in 2027, with the following requirements: – Applications must be submitted by non-profit art organisations outside of Austria– Projects must present the work of an Austrian or Austria-based artist – Projects must open in 2027 – Applications can be made until Tuesday September 15, 2026 For further information and more detailed fun ... More New Britain Museum of American Art receives Mellon Foundation grant
NEW BRITAIN, CT.- The New Britain Museum of American Art announced a generous $420,000 grant recently awarded by the Mellon Foundation to support Puerto Rico in Focus, a multi-year initiative that explores the historical and contemporary intersections of Puerto Rican and U.S. art. This initiative seeks to deepen public understanding of Puerto Rico’s historically complex relationship with the United States through exhibitions, scholarship, and community engagement. Funding will initially be directed toward the launch of the initiative’s inaugural exhibition, The Museum of the Old Colony: An Art Installation by Pablo Delano, which opened in March 2026. In addition, support will underwrite the production of bilingual scholarly catalogues for each of three exhibitions within the initiative and fund the establishment of an Advisory Council composed of leading voices ... More Confederate currency and National Bank notes grab center stage in Heritage's CSNS U.S. Currency Auction
DALLAS, TX.- One type of currency that is enjoying an enormous groundswell of popularity among collectors is Confederate currency, which boasts impressive historical significance and a wide variety of notes, featuring multiple designs, denominations, signatures, printing locations and even printing errors. An exceptional array of Confederate notes will land in new collections when it is sold by the world’s premier numismatics auctioneer in Heritage’s April 28-May 1 CSNS U.S. Currency Signature® Auction. “This auction features an incredible offering of Confederate currency, including all of the major rarities at exceptionally high grade levels,” says Dustin Johnston, Senior Vice President at Heritage Auctions. “It also includes yet another impressive selection of National Bank Notes, including a trophy-level Serial Number 1 Denver territorial note that would be an impressive ... More April Concert Posters auction at Heritage hits $1.28 million
DALLAS, TX.- Heritage’s April 10 Concert Posters Signature® Auction realized $1.28 million and achieved a 100% sell-through rate, reaffirming the strength of the vintage concert poster market and sustained collector demand for rare, historically significant material. The auction drew 1,363 bidders competing across 287 lots spanning the 1940s through the 1990s — from Hank Williams to Nirvana. The sale was led by a landmark result for a 1959 Buddy Holly & the Crickets Winter Dance Party concert poster, which brought $100,000, marking a return to six-figure territory for the category. The exceedingly rare window card advertised a February 7, 1959 performance in Spring Valley, Illinois, just days after Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson were killed in the plane crash widely remembered as “the day the music died.” As one of only a handful of known ... More The 9th Triennial of Photography Hamburg 2026 presents eleven exhibitions
HAMBURG.- The 9th Triennial of Photography Hamburg 2026 presents eleven exhibitions in eight renowned museums and art institutions in Hamburg, Germany. The international festival, under the artistic direction of London-based Mark Sealy, celebrates the importance of photography in our time and demonstrates that it can do more than merely observe: photography can connect people and inspire reflection on justice, responsibility and humanity. The theme of the 9th Triennial is: Alliance, Infinity, Love—in the Face of the Other. These three guiding concepts form the common thread running through all eleven exhibitions and invite visitors to move beyond the mere contemplation of photography and become active participants in a shared cultural experience. The central exhibition Alliance, Infinity, Love—in the Face of the Other, curated by Mark Sealy, will be on ... More New landmark exhibition charts Salvador Dalí's most radical decade
NEW YORK, NY.- Di Donna Galleries presents Dalí: The Great Years, 1929–1939 — a landmark exhibition devoted to the most radical and transformative decade of Salvador Dalí’s career, opening tomorrow, Thursday, April 16th from 6-8 PM. Between 1929 and 1939, Dalí produced the most psychologically raw, formally inventive, and revolutionary work of his life. In a single decade, he shattered the conventions of painting, collaborated with Luis Buñuel on films that scandalized Paris, designed for Coco Chanel, wrote a scenario for the Marx Brothers, and arrived in New York—where galleries, collectors, and the press transformed him from a Surrealist provocateur into one of the most famous artists in the world. Dalí: The Great Years, 1929–1939, the most significant exhibition of the artist’s work in New York since the 2008 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, brings ... More At 70, Wallace Chan returns to Venice Biennale to unveil his most ambitious project to date
VENICE.- Renowned artist Wallace Chan will unveil Vessels of Other Worlds, his most ambitious and visceral project to date, in a landmark dual-site exhibition across Venice and Shanghai in 2026, coinciding with his 70th birthday. Curated by James Putnam, this major exhibition introduces a striking new series of monumental titanium sculptures, expanding both the spatial and conceptual dimensions of Chan’s practice. The first exhibition opens on 8 May 2026 at the Chapel of Santa Maria della Pietà, coinciding with the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2026. The second and parallel exhibition will open at the Long Museum (West Bund), Shanghai, on 18 July 2026. Following the success of his three previous exhibitions during the Venice Biennale – Titans (2021) and Totem (2022) at Fondaco Marcello, and Transcendence (2024) at the Chapel of Santa ... More |
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On a day like today, Spanish painter Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes died
April 16, 1828. Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (30 March 1746 - 16 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His paintings, drawings, and engravings reflected contemporary historical upheavals and influenced important 19th- and 20th-century painters. Goya is often referred to as the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of Western art. In this image: Portrait by Vicente López Portaña, 1826.
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