Si Lewen (American 1918–2016). The Parade (detail), ca. 1950. Manufactured charcoal, pencil, crayon, ink, scratching, and hand applied gesso on paperboard. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Estate of Louise Graham, Lila Acheson Wallace and Mark Fisch and Jessica Kayll Gifts, 2024. Image Courtesy the Estate of Si Lewen and James Cohan, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- This fall, The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents The Parade (ca. 1950), a work comprised of 63 drawings by Polish-born artist Si Lewen (1918–2016). On view from October 1, 2026, through January 5, 2027, the presentation is the first public exhibition of the work since the Museum acquired it in 2024. Created in the years following World War II, the epic sequence of charcoal, pencil, and ink drawings is informed by Lewen's extraordinary life. Born in Poland to Jewish parents and raised in Germany, Lewen fled Nazi persecution with his family in 1933, spending a brief period in France before immigrating to the United States. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army as one of the Ritchie Boys, a specialized unit of German-speaking soldiers. After seeing action in Normandy, he was present at Buchenwald concentration camp shortly after its liberation in 1945, experiences that shaped The Parade into a powerful meditation on war, memory, and the human condition. "The Parade is a remark ... More
Charlie Reynolds Uncle Sam Lawyer mechanical bank, a pre-production model from 2003 and one of only two made, 7½in long and in near mint condition. Sold for $3,000.
VINELAND, NJ.- A Mikado mechanical bank, made circa-1866 by Kyser & Rex and one of only a few known, sold for $38,400; and a scarce mechanical Alphabet Man (or Yankee Schoolmaster), part toy and part 19th-century schoolmaster’s educational aid, knocked down $20,400 at Bertoia Auctions’ Mechanical Banks & Cast-Iron Toys Auction held September 25, online and at the gallery. The auction was headlined by the outstanding mechanical bank collection of the late Dr Robert E Booth, Jr (1945-2026). Dr Booth was renowned for assembling one of America’s finest private collections of Americana and ... More
David McKay Brown 12 bore over/under shotgun with accessories and case, a fine modern gun from a noted Scottish firm that has been keeping the Dickson round-action tradition alive. Sold for $45,600.
DENVER, PA.- A rare and desirable German World War II C G Haenel MKb.42(H) machine gun – the very first Sturmgewehr – soared to $270,600, and an equally hard-to-find German World War II MG-34 machine gun with matching bolt, barrel and amnesty form hit the mark for $150,000 in Morphy’s big Firearms & Militaria auction held September 15-17. The sale featured nearly 1,200 lots of antique and collectible firearms and grossed $6.4 million. The C G Haenel MKb.42(H) machine gun was the overall top lot of the auction, with the $270,600 selling price more than doubling its $120,000 high estimate. The ... More
BOULDER, COLO.- Fossils from the Ice Age and Jurassic seas will share the auction block with prehistoric Native American art when Artemis Fine Arts presents its Fossils | Antiquities | Ancient & Ethno Art sale on Monday, October 5. The wide-ranging auction brings together natural history specimens and archaeological material spanning millions of years, with particularly strong groups of mammoth fossils and objects associated with Mississippian culture. Among the sale’s headline fossils is a sweeping Ice Age woolly mammoth fossil ivory tusk. Dating to the Pleistocene and measuring approximately 51.5 inches along its curve, the tusk is presented on a custom hardwood stand. ... More
Selma Selman, Letters to Omer, 2023. Analogue photograph. Courtesy of the artist.
BERGAMO.- GAMeC—Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo presents 1000 Tears, the first solo exhibition by artist Selma Selman in an Italian institution. Among the most significant voices on the international art scene, Selman—born in 1991 in Bihać, Bosnia and Herzegovina—has built much of her research around the history of her family and community. Her practice investigates systems of power and the ways in which they shape value, visibility, memory, and belonging. Moving across painting, film, performance, and research-based forms, she examines how social, economic, political, and cultural structures determine whose bodies, histories, labor, and experiences are recognized, represented, or erased. The core of the project is a photograph taken during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, featuring the artist as a child alongside members of her family. Selman adopts this image as a starting point to return to the people portrayed, to gather their testimonies and que ... More
EDINBURGH.- A major new exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland will challenge perceptions of one of Scotland's most renowned monarchs. Mary, Queen of Scots: Renaissance and Resistance (12 Jun – 14 Nov 2027) will bring together around 100 loans from across Europe, some never seen before in Scotland. The exhibition will present a vibrant Renaissance monarch on a European stage and a Scottish queen fiercely resisting those who conspired to take her crown, and ultimately, her life. In 1561 the widowed teenager Mary, Queen of Scots returned from France to a Scotland riven by the Protestant Reformation. This revolution had seismic consequences for Mary and for the Scottish people as the iconoclastic kirk’s tentacles extended throughout daily life and Protestantism became a key marker of Scottish nationhood. Six years later, Mary was overthrown and Scotland was transformed. This decade of disruption was also shaped by the European Renaissance. Mary’s royal Stewart forebears had enco ... More
BRUSSELS.- Bozar presents the first retrospective exhibition dedicated to Jean Brusselmans (Brussels, 1884 – Dilbeek, 1953) since 1980. Featuring 120 paintings, drawings and engravings – including masterpieces from major museum collections as well as little known gems – Bozar celebrates one of the most distinctive painters of the Belgian avant-garde. From the beginning of the 20th century, Brusselmans developed a unique oeuvre, unbound by artistic trends yet firmly rooted in the tradition of painting. Through 120 works and dialogues with his contemporaries – such as Léger, Mondrian, Morandi, Wouters and Permeke -, the exhibition delves into the world of this singular painter, between abstraction and figuration. Brusselmans’s view of the world was as modest as it was profound. He painted simple elements from his immediate surroundings and imbued them with a monumental presence. “Art lies in casting light on all things, even the most ... More
Esteban Vicente, Untitled, 1996. Courtesy of the Harriet and Esteban Vicente Foundation.
NEW YORK, NY.- In 1936, at the outset of the Spanish Civil War, Esteban Vicente (Turégano, Segovia, 1903–Bridgehampton, New York, 2001) relocated to the United States, a country where he would live for the rest of his life. There, he forged a network of personal and professional relationships that led him to become a part of the American Abstract Expressionist movement, closely associating with its leading figures and earning the esteem of its most notable gallerists and critics. These influences were met with the background of a Spanish artist who, before his departure, had visited some of Europe's greatest art capitals, like Paris and London, embracing the most advanced art of his time. From all this emerged a singular body of work of rich significance to both American and Spanish art of the second half of the twentieth century. The title of this exhibition, curated by Eren Johnson and Ana Doldán and presented at the Instituto Cervantes in New York following its run ... More
Lillian Bassman, Margie Cato (Test Shoot), New York (est. $12,000–18,000). Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s Prints & Photographs Department unveils highlights from its upcoming New York auctions, bringing together an exceptional range of works across both mediums spanning three centuries. Leading the Photographs offerings this season is an impressive selection of 20th-century works, including an early print of Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, Edward Steichen’s atmospheric portrait of Thérèse Duncan on the Acropolis, and Irving Penn’s celebrated representations of working people from his Small Trades series. Among the noteworthy prints on offer are Andy Warhol’s Cowboys and Indians portfolio from the Beverly Grossman Collection, Cy Twombly’s Roman Notes from the Collection of Anne and Stuart Robinowitz, Pablo Picasso’s celebrated linocut Buste de femme d’après Cranach le Jeune, and George Bellows’ heralded A Stag at Sharkey’s. Together, these works highlight the breadth of printmaking, from Picasso’s explorat ... More
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Fuendetodos 1746–1828 Bordeaux), The Apostle James and His Disciples Worshipping Our Lady of the Pillar, c. 1775–80, oil on canvas, 107 × 80 cm (42 ⅛ × 31 ½ in.).
MADRID.- Colnaghi Madrid is presenting The Danger of Beauty, an exhibition curated by Luis Berenguer that brings historic paintings into conversation with contemporary works to examine how ideas of beauty have shifted across time. On view through October 29, the exhibition pairs works by contemporary artists Hamish Pearch, Cece Philips and Liu Bin with paintings by El Greco, the Circle of Francisco de Zurbarán, Juan van der Hamen, Juan de Arellano and Francisco de Goya. Rather than treating beauty as a fixed ideal, the exhibition considers it as something shaped by religion, social expectations and systems of power. Across European art, beauty has often been associated with divine perfection, virtue, status and material abundance. At the same time, many of these images contain an awareness that such beauty is temporary: flowers fade, food spoils, bodies age and ... More
Siberian Mouse automaton, early 19th-century Switzerland, life-size and cast in pearls, gold and enamel. Estimate $250,000-$350,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- This December, Sotheby’s will present From the Vaults of A La Vieille Russie, a landmark sale drawn from the holdings of one of the world’s most respected authorities on Fabergé, Russian works of art, European decorative arts and antique jewelry. Celebrating its 175th anniversary this year, the family-owned New York institution has helped shape generations of collectors and major museum collections through its scholarship and connoisseurship. Reflecting both the firm’s rich history and the tastes of the extraordinary family behind it, the sale encompasses works across a remarkable breadth of periods and categories, from superb Fabergé works and masterful European gold boxes to paintings, icons, porcelain, silver, Imperial objects, and Swiss mechanical marvels. Many of the works in the sale were featured in seminal exhibitions of Fabergé and Russian works ... More
Stephanie Blake, Je veux des pâtes !, Cover, 2008. Acrylic on paper, 29,7 x 21 cm. Estimate: €1,500 - €2,500.
PARIS.- On 10th December, Artcurial will launch Artcurial Kids, a new auction entirely dedicated to the world of childhood. Held in partnership with l’école des loisirs, this inaugural edition will open with a selection devoted to children’s illustration, followed by a selection of chairs and furniture for children. True to its pioneering spirit, Artcurial will launch Artcurial Kids on 10 December, a unique auction entirely dedicated to the world of childhood. Held in partnership with l’école des loisirs, the first part of the sale will focus on children’s illustration. Thirty of the publishing house’s most celebrated authors will each present, exclusively, two original drawings from some of their best-known books. Among them are Marianne Barcillon, Stephanie Blake, Magali Bonniol, Dorothée de Monfreid, Geoffroy de Pennart, Grégoire Solotareff, Rudy Spiessert and Olivier Tallec. The sale will continue with a selection of chairs and children’s furniture, most of wh ... More
Cao Fei. Photo by Samuel Bramley, courtesy Kunstmuseum Basel.
LONDON.- In Spring 2027, the Hayward Gallery will present the largest UK solo exhibition to date by the internationally-celebrated Chinese multimedia artist Cao Fei (b. 1978). Charting the development of a figure at the forefront of technological revolution in contemporary art, the survey will mark the UK debut of The Birth (2026) alongside her most seminal works, including Whose Utopia (2006), RMB City (2007–2011) and Asia One (2018). Born in Guangzhou, Cao Fei is one of the most influential contemporary artists to emerge from China. Using film, photography and digital media, she draws on technology, video games, science fiction, pop culture, cinema and historical references to reflect our rapidly changing society. Distinctively experiential, her exhibitions transform spaces into immersive, often-surreal environments - from recreated industrial warehouses to video arcades and vintage cinema foyers - that invite us to walk the line between the real and the virtual. Cao Fei, artist, says: " ... More
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127 year-old fly launches major digitisation project in Scotland EDINBURGH.- As Scotland's Climate Week gets underway, a 127 year-old hoverfly is among the first insect specimens to be digitised as part of a major new project led in Scotland by National Museums Scotland and Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. The specimen is a Pine hoverfly (Blera fallax), which entered the Museum's collection in 1899. Blera fallax became critically endangered in Scotland and almost disappeared from the wild by the 2000 before successful efforts were made to reintroduce it in the wild in the Cairngorms National Park. The DiSSCo UK project in Scotland aims to create approximately 700,000 digital records of specimens held in Scotland’s natural science collections. The project in Scotland will initially run for two years and will see more than 250,000 insects from National Museums Scotland and 388,000 herbarium specimens from the Royal ... More
Dolby Chadwick Gallery opens an exhibition of recent works by Mayme Kratz SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Dolby Chadwick Gallery is presenting To Know the Dark, an exhibition of recent work by Mayme Kratz. For more than three decades, Kratz has transformed overlooked remnants of the natural world into luminous meditations on beauty, time, and renewal. Seedpods, branches, animal bones, and other organic materials—gathered in and around her home in Phoenix, Arizona, and during countless wanderings through the desert—are carefully arranged and suspended within layers of colored resin. Kratz does not collect indiscriminately. Certain discoveries, she explains, possess a kind of vibration, awakening memory or longing before finding their place in the studio. Sanded to a smooth, matte finish, these works invite slow, attentive looking. Familiar botanical forms dissolve into glimmering galaxies, nocturnal gardens, and otherworldly landscapes, while fragments of once-living things are not simply preserved but transfigured, their fragility acquiring new resonance. The exhibition takes its ... More
Patricia Fleming Gallery presents intimate Kevin Hutcheson retrospective in Glasgow GLASGOW.- Marking the tenth anniversary of the artist's passing, Autumn Maze brings together an extraordinary selection of collage works, notebooks, and archival material from the Kevin Hutcheson Estate. Curated as an intimate retrospective, the exhibition serves as a preview for the forthcoming monograph, Kevin Hutcheson: New Town Blues — the first comprehensive publication dedicated to evaluating the legacy of this vital figure in contemporary Scottish art. Emerging from Glasgow’s influential 1990s grassroots and post-punk scene, Hutcheson developed an aesthetic grounded in material immediacy and an economy of means. Utilising found ephemera—newspaper clippings, second-hand books, and painted sandpaper—he crafted a razor-sharp, politically engaged, and mordantly comic body of work. His paper compositions draw fluidly from Linder Sterling, British Pop Art, and Dadaist cut-up poetry to interrogate consumerism, digital media, masculinity, and class. Born in Blantyre, Scotland ... More
albertz benda presents new landscape paintings by July Guzman and Sol Summers LOS ANGELES, CA.- albertz benda is presenting a two-artist exhibition of new landscape paintings by July Guzman and Sol Summers at its Los Angeles location. On view from October 1 through November 6, the exhibition places Guzman's seascapes in dialogue with Summers's paintings of the American West. Across distinct geographies and approaches, both artists use light, atmosphere, composition, and color to move between observed landscape and the perceptual habits through which place is seen. Summers draws on landscapes across Nevada, Arizona, and Colorado, approaching the American West as both place and perceptual field. Atmospheric phenomena, lens flares, and saturated shifts at sunrise and sunset expose the idiosyncrasies of a visual language shaped by photography, including effects viewers become so acculturated to that they pass unnoticed. In dialogue with Arthur Wesley Dow and Agnes Pelton, Summers uses color, composition, and luminosity to make familiar terrain strange again. Drawing on seascapes near ... More
Landmark survey spotlights the visionaries, drafting skills, and global reach of manga artists BROOKLYN, NY.- Art of Manga makes its East Coast debut this fall, featuring more than 600 drawings by influential manga artists, highlighting the immersive power and the social impact of manga in the world today. The globally popular art form, manga, is an innovative genre of Japanese comics and graphic novels characterized by evocatively drawn artwork designed to draw readers deeply into its worlds. Art of Manga is organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and is curated at both venues by Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere, Deputy Director General, MOA Museum of Art, Mokichi Okada Art and Cultural Foundation. The Brooklyn Museum presentation is overseen by Joan Cummins, Curatorial Chair and Selz Senior Curator, Asian Art, and Pauline Vermare, Phillip and Edith Leonian Curator of Photography, with Yara Doumani, Curatorial Assistant, Arts of Africa, Asia, and the Islamic World. The exhibition explores the vital role of artists in the world of Japanese comics and graphic novels. Though manga is a va ... More
CMCA presents group exhibition 'Because the Sky is Blue' curated by Grant Wahlquist ROCKLAND, ME.- This is an exhibition of paintings that do many things at once. Many of them are monochromes—a genre associated with the apex of modernism and proclamations of the “death of painting” in the mid-20th Century—or at least they seem to be at first. Look closer, and these paintings may tell you they are also many other things: skyscapes, windows, screens. Other paintings resemble trompe l’œil, an illusionistic genre of painting dating to the Renaissance and seemingly the monochrome’s opposite, or perhaps even photorealism. Look closer, and they nonetheless have much to say about abstraction, framing, and other modernist concerns. This is also an exhibition of sculptures, prints, collages, and a film that trespass on painting, that may in fact be paintings when viewed from the right perspective. This is an exhibition of difficulty. Not just the formal difficulty of objects that refuse to be just one thing—abstract, realist, painting, photography, scul ... More
Galeria Vera Cortês opens French artist Béatrice Balcou's first Portuguese exhibition LISBON.- Galeria Vera Cortês opened the first exhibition in Portugal by the Brussels-based French artist Béatrice Balcou, The Perfect Ground. Béatrice Balcou is known for her performances, sculptures and installations that transform the handling and care of artworks into a ritual. Her work has been exhibited at institutions such as the M-Museum in Leuven, La Loge in Brussels, the Beige Gallery, La Ferme du Buisson and the Musée d’art de Joliette in Quebec. Béatrice Balcou’s work is included in the collections of various institutions, including the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), the Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP) (Paris), the FRAC Île-de-France (Paris), the FRAC Franche-Comté (Besançon, France), the FRAC Corsica (Corte, France), the FRAC Normandy (Rouen, France), the FRAC Lorraine (Metz, France), the CIRVA (Marseille, France), the Cera–M Museum (Leuven, Belgium), the CAB Foundation (Brussels), the MACS – Grand-Hornu Museum of Contemporary Art (Mons, Belgium), th ... More
Timken Museum of Art presents medieval architectural drawings by Ernest Born SAN DIEGO, CA.- This fall, the Timken Museum of Art invites visitors to view the Middle Ages through a distinctly modern eye. Abbeys, Barns, and Churches: Drawings of Medieval Architecture, an exhibition of drawings by California architect Ernest A. Born, opens October 7, 2026 and remains on view through February 28, 2027 in the Timken's intimate galleries in Balboa Park. Comprising more than 20 meticulous studies in ink, chalk, pastel, and pencil, the exhibition follows one of California's singular architectural minds as he traces the appearance of stone barns, sprawling abbeys, and small parish churches of Europe. Popular conceptions of Medieval art and architecture are shaped by contemporary media. Today's adventure films and cable network series tend to offer inhospitable views of crumbling castles, dark cathedrals, and dreary monastic communities. ... More
From David Hockney to Bill Viola: MBAL dives into the motifs of the swimming pool LE LOCLE.- This exhibition explores the swimming pool as a significant motif within the history of contemporary art. It unites artists who have explored the complexity of the pool, using it as a symbol of both prosperity and catastrophe, joy and solitude: a metaphor for our search for order and serenity in the face of an increasingly uncertain future. At once an architectural and sculptural object, a geometric space, and a stage for bodily experiences, the pool embodies the control of nature, and a form of collective dreaming tied to modernity, well-being and intimacy. It emerges as an ambivalent site, capable of evoking serenity as much as solitude, fulfilment as much as emptiness, luxury as much as ruin. Within the exhibition, the swimming pool is considered as a political instrument or environment, bearing similarities to the museum or the art gallery: a space in which light, bodies and lines are controlled, where order prevails over disorder, and where certain boundaries govern behaviours, in ... More
MoA Fort Collins explores six decades of prints and multiples from local collections FORT COLLINS, CO.- Museum of Art | Fort Collins will presents the exhibition Art & Access: New Directions in Prints and Multiples from Friday, October 2, 2026, through January 3, 2027. The exhibition features internationally acclaimed artists such as Banksy, Judy Chicago, Mickalene Thomas, Rachel Whiteread, Kehinde Wiley and many others. Spanning a period from 1967 to 2026, this exhibition explores ways in which artists around the world have worked to make their vital creations accessible to broader audiences through prints and multiples. All included artworks are on loan from area private collections. Art & Access: New Directions in Prints and Multiples is curated by Dr. Lynn Boland and Katherine McQueen. It was organized and scheduled by the museum last year, before Boland took the role of Executive Director at MoA. It originates from a desire to counter a common misperception that contemporary art is all wildly expensive, only available in the six- and seven-figure ranges and only for the ultra rich. ... More
MAMbo - Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna presents Fabio Mauri. Catalogue Raisonné BOLOGNA.- Studio Fabio Mauri and MAMbo—Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna announce the publication by Hatje Cantz and Allemandi of the Fabio Mauri. Catalogue Raisonné. Edited by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, this catalogue is published on the occasion of the centenary of the artist’s birth in Rome in 1926. This publication (Hatje Cantz—English / Allemandi—Italian) follows the online version (www.fabiomauri.com/catalogo) which appeared in 2025. One of the leading figures of the post-war Italian avant-garde, Mauri was a multifaceted figure—visual artist, writer, educator, publisher—whose work is distinguished by its prophetic insights into the power of the schermo (screen) in contemporary society and the manipulation of communication technologies in the rise of 20th-century Fascisms. In one of his last works created in the year of his passing ... More
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