Sam Doyle, Dr. Boles, c. 1982-84, house paint on sheet steel, 33 1/2 x 34 1/2 in. (85.09 x 87.63 cm), American Folk Art Museum, gift of Gordon W. Bailey in honor of Jean-Michel Basquiat.
NEW YORK, NY.- Los Angeles based advocate, scholar and collector Gordon W. Bailey announced a significant gift of three works by the late St. Helena Island, South Carolina artist Sam Doyle in honor of Jean-Michel Basquiat to the American Folk Art Museum (AFAM). Bailey is the scholar most closely associated with Doyle, who—working primarily with house paint and cast-off, corrugated, metal roof panels—documented America's unique Gullah culture and African American achievement. Basquiat admired Doyle’s expressive portraits and collected a number of his works, some of which were illustrated in the catalogue for the 2022 exhibition Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure, that was organized and curated by the artist’s family. For decades, Bailey has advocated for untrained artists, particularly those who struggled in the Deep South. His commitment is sustained by his belief that many marginalized artists merit canonical inclusion. Bailey has given hundreds of works to prominent museums and his philant ... More
BOLOGNA.- Fondazione MAST presents Bernd & Hilla Becher. History of a Method, a major retrospective dedicated to the German artist couple (1931–2007 and 1934–2015 respectively). Important figures in the history of 20th-century photography, the Bechers developed a visual language based on a rigorous methodological approach, and their influence on contemporary photography is still clearly recognizable to this day. The exhibition is curated by Gabriele Conrath-Scholl, Max Becher and Urs Stahel. For the first time in Europe, it showcases the methodological and thematic breadth of the couple’s oeuvre. On display in the MAST Galleries are more than 350 original black-and-white photographs, as well as an extensive collection of related materials, including drawings, ... More
David Webb Pair of Enamel and Gold Ear Clips. Estimate $2,000-$4,000.
GLEN COVE, NY.-Roland Auctions NY will present an impressive collection of fine jewelry, all the property of the family of legendary American composer, conductor, pianist, and educator Leonard Bernstein, the first American-born conductor to achieve international stardom, at their upcoming Saturday, May 2nd , 2026 Multi-Estates Auction. As most people are aware, he is best known for composing the musical West Side Story, leading the New York Philharmonic, and bringing classical music to public television. Previews for the May 2nd auction will be held on Thursday, April 30th and Friday, May 1st from 10am until 6pm. This exquisite selection of jewels, all from Van Cleef and Arpels, Cartier, David Webb and others, were gifts from Leonard Bernstein to his beautiful wife of over 25 years, Felicia Montealegre. The auction will also feature various collections from other prominent estates, including a trove of items from the estates of Oleg Cassini, ... More
Hartigan is currently the Rose‑Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Executive Director and CEO of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian today announced the appointment of Lynda Roscoe Hartigan as the Margaret and Terry Stent Director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, effective Sept. 8. A distinguished curator, scholar and museum executive, Hartigan brings decades of leadership experience across major national and international cultural institutions. Hartigan is currently the Rose‑Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Executive Director and CEO of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. She returns to the Smithsonian American Art Museum, where she began her career, ultimately serving as its chief curator, leading internationally recognized acquisition and programmatic initiatives that significantly expanded the museum’s representation of modern, contemporary and self-taught artists. “Lynda is a visionary leader whose career reflects a deep commitment to ... More
Students sketching Gerard Soest’s Lady Borlase at the Figge Art Museum.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Made on the occasion of America’s 250th anniversary, the monumental gift from National Gallery trustee Mitchell Rales will enable countless Americans to experience masterpieces from the nation’s collection in their own communities. The National Gallery of Art has received a transformational gift of $116 million from the Mitchell P. Rales Family Foundation to endow Across the Nation, the museum’s nationwide loan partnership program launched in 2025. Made to commemorate America’s 250th anniversary this year, the landmark gift will fund the program in perpetuity. Now a foundational element of the museum’s national service, Across the Nation will continue to advance the National Gallery’s ability to reach all Americans by bringing key works from the nation’s collection on long-term loan to regional museums across the country. This is the largest gift to endow programming in the National Gallery’s history, on par with the National Gallery’s origi ... More
Wilhelm Kåge & Shōji Hamada, Shōji Hamada, Flask, 1958. Stoneware. Nihon Mingeikan, Japan Folk Crafts Museum.
STOCKHOLM.- The spring craft exhibition Wilhelm Kåge & Shōji Hamada. Ceramics Across Borders brings together two masters of ceramics – one Swedish, one Japanese. Both shared a great love of form, clay and glaze. Both shared social engagement and were driven by a desire to combine beauty with function and create beautiful everyday objects – accessible to all. The exhibition also explores cultural exchange and culture as a form of soft power. Wilhelm Kåge’s ceramics and beautifully designed everyday objects from the Gustavsberg porcelain factory hold a natural place in every Swedish home. He was also internationally renowned; and when the New York Timesreviewed a Kåge exhibition in New York in 1958, he was named one of the world’s three leading ceramicists alongside Shōji Hamada of Japan and the British potter Bernard Leach. Shōji Hamada was one of Japan’s leading ceramicists. He played ... More
PARIS.- David Zwirner is presenting an exhibition of works on paper by Swedish artist Mamma Andersson at the gallery’s Paris location. This focused presentation of Andersson’s drawing and printmaking practice features new etchings made in Paris at intaglio workshop Atelier Tazé-Lipreau-Araï alongside works on paper, engravings, and painted proofs from series recently undertaken by the artist. Œuvres sur papier is the artist’s sixth solo exhibition with the gallery, and follows Mamma Andersson: Adieu Maria Magdalena at David Zwirner Paris in 2023. Andersson was awarded the eleventh edition of the prestigious Guerlain Drawing Prize by the Daniel and Florence Guerlain Contemporary Art Foundation, Paris, in 2018. Andersson’s works recall late nineteenth-century Romanticism while also embracing a contemporary interest in layered, psychological compositions. Her enigmatic ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- In April and May 2026, Sotheby’s will present a landmark selection from the Collection of Jean & Terry de Gunzburg, an offering of approximately 117 works with a combined estimate of $65–96 million, led by Collection of Jean & Terry de Gunzburg – Design Masters, a dedicated single-owner auction on 22 April 2026 estimated in the region of $28.5–42.5 million. Comprising 107 works that together embody a truly once-in-a-generation moment for the design market, the sale represents the most valuable single-owner design sale in Sotheby’s history, and the first standalone single-owner design sale to be staged at Sotheby’s new home at the historic Breuer building. For more than four decades, Jean and Terry de Gunzburg have assembled one of the most seminal and dynamic private collections of 20th century art and design, the result of a shared endeavor guided by instinct, curiosity, and a profound sensitivity to form. Shaped largely within their ... More
Julian Opie, Standing Couples: Jade and Julia., 2024. Relief with collage on archival Museum Board, presented in a sprayed white frame specified by the artist. Framed: 113.0 x 89.0 x 4.5 cm - 44 1/2 x 35 x 1 3/4 in Image: 100.0 x 75.5 cm - 39 3/8 x 29 3/4 in. Edition of 50.
LONDON.- Cristea Roberts Gallery announces an exhibition of new works by Julian Opie. New works by Julian Opie (b. 1958) will be exhibited alongside prints and editions made over the last five years spanning the full breadth of the artist's multifaceted practice. Julian Opie features a large-scale installation of the series Everyone., begun in 2023 and continuing through to 2025, where friends, gallerists, colleagues, family members and visitors to the artist’s studio appear in almost 100 portraits. Opie approaches the vinyl portraits by reducing the sitter’s features to the bare minimum. Facial characteristics are defined by only a few bold black lines, but within this he retains the distinctions that make each person unique and recognisable. As well as drawing ... More
Mel Kendrick, Untitled, 2006. Walnut and Japan color, 27 x 10 x 10 in (68.6 x 25.4 x 25.4 cm)
NEW YORK, NY.- David Nolan Gallery announces Tilt, an exhibition of new and recent work by preeminent American sculptor Mel Kendrick (b. 1949), on view from April 23 through June 6, 2026. Marking the artist’s ninth solo presentation with the gallery, the exhibition includes free-standing and wall-based painted wood sculptures as well as cast paper drawings that represent Kendrick’s singular capacity for innovation within his own inimitable visual language. Tilt features a body of work that is as immediately familiar as it is startlingly novel. Over a career spanning more than five decades, Kendrick’s adventuresome experimentation has found seemingly endless expression within a narrow band of materials and processes. Working primarily in wood, the artist approaches sculpture as a form of drawing, using carpentry and construction tools as extensions of his own hands. Kendrick makes no preparatory sketches, but instead develops ... More
LONDON.- Internationally renowned artist Wangechi Mutu is to receive the second Contemporary Fellowship, awarded by the National Gallery, and supported by Art Fund and delivered in partnership with the Whitworth, The University of Manchester. Wangechi Mutu (born 1972) is a Kenyan/American visual artist, known primarily for her painting, sculpture, film, and performance work. Born in Kenya, Mutu now divides her time between her studios in Nairobi and in Brooklyn, New York, where she has lived and worked for over 20 years. The National Gallery Contemporary Fellowship with Art Fund is a pioneering, peer-to-peer collaboration with a non-London collecting institution, which this year is the Whitworth, a leading university art gallery in the north of England with exceptional collections of art and design. The Fellowship, which is awarded to an artist of international standing and renown with a major ... More
Portrait of Liza Lou. Photo: Mick Haggerty.
LONDON.- FAQ presents a new body of work in which Liza Lou combines glass beads and oil paint on canvas, layering two distinct temporalities on a single surface to examine the heroics of the painted gesture and mid-century abstraction. Lou uses her chosen material to denaturalise the spontaneity of the brushstroke, juxtaposing each painted drip and spatter with a process that demands painstaking care and precision. By translating fluid pigment into cell-like particles of colour, she forges a new experience of painting grounded in what she describes as the push and pull between ‘absolute control and total abandon.’ Beneath the artist’s emphatic usage of beads – her signature unit of art making for more than three decades – lies an explicitly conceptual line of investigation. As the title of the exhibition indicates, FAQ proposes a series of fundamental questions about the nature of art that Lou has returned to across decades: When is a painting not a painting? What const ... More
Richard Prince, Portrait of Cindy Sherman, lenticular print, 1983. From a group of seven rare Nimslo 3D photographs. Estimate $12,000 to $18,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- The April 30 auction of Fine Photographs at Swann will feature a selection of fine art, historical, and vernacular photographs spanning the full breadth of the medium with curated section of imagery from NASA, a special look at the history of Civil Rights photography, and works from the Kayafas Collection — celebrating the wide influence of Palm Press. Leading the auction is Dorothea Lange’s A Sign of the Times (Depression – Mended Stockings, Stenographer, San Francisco), silver print, 1934, printed circa 1960, at $18,000 to $22,000. Also by Lange is Shipyard workers, Richmond, California, silver print, 1943, printed 1950s ($3,000-4,500); Rebecca Dixon Chambers, Sausalito, California, silver print, 1954, printed 1965 ($2,500-3,500); and Sunday afternoon hurling absorbs attention of the parish’s men, Ireland, silver print, ($2,500-3,500). Additional ... More
Quote I would like not to reproduce but to reinvent the structure of light in a way pertinent to painting rather than to optics. Piero Dorazio
More News
Acaye Kerunen and Bernhard Fuchs explore memory and ecology at Kunstmuseen Krefeld KREFELD.- Since 2017, the HLHE Dialog series—held in the neighboring Haus Lange and Haus Esters—has brought together artists and designers whose works can be meaningfully related in terms of content. The works of Bernhard Fuchs and Acaye Kerunen could hardly be more different; however, both explicitly invite us to think about the future against the backdrop of past traditions and ecological models. Closely tied to this is the question of what comes next—after art. Acaye Kerunen’s work—whether as a visual artist, performance artist, author, therapist, or activist—is deeply rooted in her homeland of Uganda. For her sculptures and wall installations, she uses natural materials such as raffia, banana fiber, bark cloth, sisal, beads, natural dyes and intergenerational techniques to transform them. These materials are sourced from the wetland ... More
Plans for new statue inspired by Maid Marian unveiled NOTTINGHAM.- Nottingham City Council, BACKLIT Gallery and It’s in Nottingham, announced a vibrant new public artwork will be unveiled this summer. The artwork, which will be created by artist Alicja Biala who is renowned for her large-scale paintings and sculptures displayed in public places across Europe. The statue will be located in the new rain garden at the corner of Maid Marian Way and Upper Parliament Street - a prominent position at a key entrance to the city that will act as a welcome to everyone using the new Maid Marian Way junction and pedestrians using the new public realm. The statue will be a silhouette formed entirely of cast-metal fragments, representing Maid Marian. It will be created using cast bronze foliage of local native plants from around Nottinghamshire, including English oak, silver birch, hawthorn, bluebell, common nettle and alpine ... More
Fondation Louis Vuitton presents open Space #18: Armineh Negahdari: What color is your sky today? PARIS.- As part of its Open Space program, the Fondation Louis Vuitton presents Armineh Negahdari's (b. 1994, Iran) first solo exhibition in a French institution, on view in Gallery 8. A graduate of the University of Tehran and the École Supérieure d'Art de Clermont-Ferrand, she is now based in Bordeaux, where she has developed a practice centered on drawing. For this exhibition, the artist presents a new body of drawings in various formats, produced over the past few months. For Armineh Negahdari, drawing is more than a language; it is an experience—a way of life that responds to an urgency, an immediate necessity. She works without prior planning, immersed in an intense flow in which the hand—guided by intuition and hesitation—precedes the idea. The line emerges, driven by a physical commitment, generating images that are at once powerful and fragile, ... More
From Roman relics to Tiffany brooches: Birmingham's spring fair offers 'something for everyone' BIRMINGHAM.- For a day of discovery come to the Sixth Classic Antique Fairs’ Spring Fair at Hall Ten at the NEC from Friday 24th April until Sunday 26th April. (Opening hours, 10am-5pm Friday and Saturday and 10am-4pm on Sunday). There is something for everyone at the Spring Fair, a late Easter present, or an addition to your own collection, with pieces from the Roman period, 18th and 19th centuries, as well as vintage and contemporary pieces. Works of Art from China, Japan, Europe, Scandinavia, and the UK for all budgets. Celebrate Spring with bulb vases for your hyacinths or an 81 centimetre tall lily vase from Val St Lambert from Mark J West or a Tiffany brooch depicting a rabbit eating a carrot from Plaza Jewellery. Perhaps a Fabergé egg from T.Robert. Highlights include key pieces by Daum, Gallé, Tiffany and Loetz with M & D Moir, Solo Antiques, C & R Scattergood Ltd., and Morgan Strickland Decorative Arts Limited. Studio Glass and Pottery can be sourced from Glass of All Ages The Art ... More
Sriwhana Spong: 'HA HA HA' makes Australian debut with a focus on mist and Balinese mysticism MELBOURNE.- Mist moves through Sriwhana Spong: HA HA HA as a metaphor. This phenomenon signifies instability, unknowing as a means of knowing and refusal of cultural reductionism. Spong is often inspired by a small or contingent encounter—a text, an image, a living organism or a historical trace—which becomes the starting point for inquiry. Her practice unfolds nonlinearly, taking divergent routes as she follows these encounters through experiential, material, speculative and historical research. By engaging with multiple approaches toward a subject, she asks how knowledge is produced while making perceptible different ways of knowing. By drawing on parallel, past and unperceived currents, Spong’s work revels in a plurality that awakens our senses to other beings and languages. This is a method for living relationally instead of hermetically. Underpinning ... More
Trương Công Tùng brings Vietnamese lacquer and Central Highland myths to New York NEW YORK, NY.- Kiang Malingue presents in its New York space Wake, mayfly… [Thức dậy, phù du…], a solo exhibition by Trương Công Tùng (b. 1986, based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam), comprising lacquer paintings, drawings, and When Nothingness Becomes an Echo of Something and Something is an Echo of Nothing, a sculptural installation commissioned for the 36th Bienal de São Paulo (2025). Trương Công Tùng begins each exhibition with an invocation on vision and memory: “please look at things here as if it were your first time seeing right after birth, and as if it were your last chance of seeing. Blessed be.” Emanating from this acknowledgment of sentience and consciousness, Wake, mayfly… is a commingling of four bodies of work as living entities that cohabit a shared ecosystem, situating interrelation as a compass and measure of phenomena in forms ... More
Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation presents Bukhara Biennial Advisory Board BUKHARA.- The Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation announced the first ever Bukhara Biennial Advisory Board. The board’s inaugural members are Aya Al-Bakree, Alia Al-Senussi, Dilyara Allakhverdova, Alberto Cavalli, Aaron Cezar, Chris Dercon, and Michael Govan. The Bukhara Biennial Advisory Board brings together an international group of cultural leaders, curators, and thinkers to support the development of the biennial for 2027. Working in close dialogue with the biennial’s evolving programme, the Advisory Board offers strategic guidance on curatorial concept, artistic direction, institutional partnerships, and public engagement, ensuring the biennial remains rooted in Bukhara’s long history as a home for culture, knowledge and craftsmanship. “The Advisory Board has been conceived as a space for meaningful exchange - one ... More
MACRO-Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome presents part one of its 2026 programme ROME.- MACRO—Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome presents its 2026 exhibition programme (part one). In 2026, MACRO—Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome expands its programme, conceived by artistic director Cristiana Perrella, beyond a thematic framework, developing a set of exhibitions, commissions, and research projects that address the present through a plurality of artistic positions. Following a first season focused on Rome as a field of observation—across temporal, social, and disciplinary stratifications—the museum now opens to a broader horizon, strengthening its role as a site for production, research, and public engagement. The programme brings together major solo exhibitions, new productions, and institutional collaborations, with a focus on international artists and experimental formats. MACRO positions itself as a space where contemporary ... More
The ultimate long game: how a 'lowball' bidder's 1938 Superman comic became a million-dollar prize DALLAS, TX.- Sometime in the early 1980s, one longtime comic book fan began getting serious about collecting despite not having a serious amount of money to put into the hobby. What he lacked in wealth, though, he made up for in determination. Rather than make large bids on carefully selected prizes, he took a high-volume, low-bid approach. He would pore over auction house catalogs and call in lowball offers, hoping a listing or two had escaped the notice of deeper-pocketed collectors. Occasionally he’d win. He got a telephone call one day letting him know his had been the highest bid for a copy of Action Comics No. 1, the 1938 issue that introduced Superman to the world — the Holy Grail of the hobby then and now. The bid he’d made was ridiculously low for the pinnacle of comics collecting, half its value if even that, but nonetheless a head-swimming ... More
N. Dash explores the 'love of earth' through topographic abstractions at Hill Art Foundation NEW YORK, NY.- The Hill Art Foundation is presenting N. Dash: Geophilia, an exhibition of new and recent works by the Brooklyn-based artist N. Dash (b. 1980), shown with selections from the Hill Collection. The presentation is curated by Suzanne Hudson. Geophilia centers N. Dash’s commitment to vital forms of materiality, where accumulations of time and force become emergent compositions. The artist works fabric to the point of fraying, then photographs these diminutive sculptures—entropic objects still holding energy—and overlays their silkscreened images onto earthen grounds. Incorporating a range of materials, including acrylic and oil paint, string, and graphite, N. Dash’s often multi-panel abstract paintings thus bear traces of having been touched or structured by rituals and pragmatics of handling. The large-scale, almost topographic ... More
Palimpsest: Fidelis Joseph and Juan Manuel Salas explore the beauty of the unfinished NEW YORK, NY.- C24 Gallery presents Palimpsest, a two-person exhibition bringing together oil and acrylic canvases by Fidelis Joseph and Juan Manuel Salas. Grounded in the material logic of accumulation and erasure, this exhibition examines how images outlive their original context, taking into consideration quiet moments of daily life and collapsing the temporality of the canon. Fidelis Joseph (Nigeria, 1989) draws from an archive of collected memories, photographs of friends and family, and online images, treating each source with equal weight. For Joseph, a stranger's face discovered on the internet can carry the same potential as an intimate portrait; what matters is how each image links our human condition. His subjects emerge not through declaration but through accumulation; each work begins as a question that the process itself answers. Joseph's oils resist ... More
Writer Samantha Harvey: Life Is a Negotiation With Time
PhotoGalleries
Flashback
On a day like today, artist Sidney Nolan was born
April 22, 1917. Sir Sidney Robert Nolan (22 April 1917 - 28 November 1992) was one of the leading Australian artists of the 20th century. Working in a wide variety of media, his oeuvre is among the most diverse and prolific in all of modern art. He is best known for his series of paintings on legends from Australian history, most famously that of Ned Kelly, the bushranger and outlaw. Nolan's stylised depiction of Kelly's armour has become an icon of Australian art. In this image: Sidney Nolan, Antarctica, 1964. Estimate: AU$70,000 - 90,000. Photo: Bonhams.
The OnlineCasinosSpelen editors have years of experience with everything related to online gambling providers and reliable online casinos Nederland. If you have any questions about casino bonuses and, please contact the team directly.
The OnlineCasinosSpelen zonder CRUKS editors have years of experience with online gambling providers and reliable online casinos Nederland. If you have any questions about casino bonuses and, please contact the team directly.
