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Madison Avenue Spring Gallery Walk 2026: 45 galleries to host one-day art event |
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Henri Matisse, Odalisque en manteau rouge [Odalisque in Red Coat], 1937. Oil on canvas, 21 5/8 x 18 inches (55 x 46 cm) Private Collection © 2026 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- The annual Madison Avenue Spring 2026 Gallery Walk, held in association with ARTnews, is one of the New York City’s most anticipated art events of the Spring art season. For one art-filled Spring day on Saturday, May 16 from 10am to 5pm, 45 internationally renowned galleries will welcome art collectors and enthusiasts to view their exhibitions, register to attend 10 curator talks and tours, and have the opportunity to engage with artists. From the legendary masters to the acclaimed contemporary artists at work today, the Madison Avenue Spring Gallery Walk provides an extensive overview of the current art scene. Offering the chance to see the artwork in person and to learn from the artists and gallery curators. Acquavella Galleries presents Matisse: The Pursuit of Harmony, featuring 50 works on loan from museums and private collections. Arader ... More |
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| Glass Works Auctions announces results of Premier Auction #192 |
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Hirshhorn acquires "SHELTER" by KAWS |
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Gagosian announces first Frank Gehry exhibition since the architect's passing |
This circa 1825-1835 Columbia / Eagle flask by Kensington Union Glass Works (Philadelphia, Pa.) sold for $177,840. It was a new record auction price for an American flask or bottle.
PENNSBURG, PA.- A circa 1825-1835 Columbia / Eagle flask by Kensington Union Glass Works (Philadelphia, Pa.), the very rare shorter 12-ounce mould with the single smooth wide vertical rib, sold for a staggering $177,840 in Glass Works Auctions’ online-only Premier Auction #192 held May 4th. It was a new record auction price for an American flask or bottle. The auction featured choice selections from the collection of Richard Watson, one of the best-known collectors of bottles and flasks in the country. He started collecting in the late 1950s and continued until his death in 2014 at age 82. The late Charles Gardner was his mentor. Watson published two books on bitters bottles, in 1965 and 1968. His wife Elma did the line drawings. “We knew the Columbia / Eagle flask was going to receive strong ... More |
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KAWS. Photo: Shaniqwa Jarvis.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden has announced the acquisition of “SHELTER” (2026) by American artist KAWS, a major commission that underscores the museum’s commitment to collecting vital contemporary global art since its founding in 1974. The 14-foot-tall bronze sculpture will be on view when the revitalized Sculpture Garden reopens to the public in late October. “KAWS transcends boundaries among disciplines and across art worlds in ways that unfold both within and outside a traditional museum’s walls,” said Hirshhorn Director Melissa Chiu. “In ‘SHELTER,’ he opens throughlines to foundational Pop art figures like Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg and Roy Lichtenstein as well as contemporaries like Katherine Bernhardt, Jeff Koons and Avery Singer, who similarly investigate art-historical themes, popular culture and commerce.” A versatile artist and designer, ... More |
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Frank Gehry, Bear with Us, 2014. 316L stainless steel, 45 1/2 x 84 3/4 x 43 3/4 inches (115.6 x 215.3 x 111.1 cm) © Frank O. Gehry. Photo: Benjamin Lee Ritchie Handler. Courtesy Gagosian.
BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- Gagosian announces an exhibition of works by Frank Gehry, the first since his passing in 2025. Opening at the Beverly Hills gallery on May 14, the presentation was realized in collaboration with the artist’s family and designed by the Gehry studio. Among the animal-themed works on display are the life-size sculpture Bear with Us (2014), on loan from the artist’s family; Untitled (Black Crocodile New York) (2023), which was produced in ColorCore Formica and silicone; and Fish on Fire (2023), the last of Gehry’s fish sculptures to be rendered in copper. Bear with Us portrays the titular mammal in gleaming 316L stainless steel, the intricate contours of the object’s polished metal surface lending it the appearance of crumpled foil. (The sculpture was also the basis for a clutch bag ... More |
| Christie's to sell the historic Graziella Patiño de Ortiz Linares collection in Paris |
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The Frick Collection announces three-year sponsorship by Louis Vuitton |
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The Met and the Neue Galerie New York announce plans for a landmark merger |
Philip de László, Portrait of Graziella Patiño Ortiz Linares,1928 Joaquín Cortés © de Laszlo Foundation.
PARIS.- Christie's announced the sale of the Graziella Patiño de Ortiz Linares Collection, happening in Paris on 23 September. Over more than four decades, Graziella Patiño de Ortiz Linares employed her refined taste and erudite knowledge to build a collection that would leave an indelible mark on history. Heir to one of the fortunes that would become legend in Latin America and a glittering figure of Paris in the 1920s, Graziella Patiño de Ortiz Linares' collecting style was a combination of intuition, enlightened vision and rigour. In one of the most beautiful private mansions on Avenue Foch, she brought together a group of works worthy of the greatest museums Masterpieces by Watteau and Fragonard stand alongside classical furniture at its apogee and a magnificent collection of silver. Comprising 60 lots with an overall estimate of €23–33 million, the sale will take its place in a long line of historic auctions devoted to the classical arts; following those of Hubert de Givenchy's ... More |
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Visitors enjoying a recent First Fridays event at The Frick Collection, a series to be sponsored by Louis Vuitton from June 2026 through May 2027, photos: George Koelle. © 2026 The Frick Collection, All rights reserved.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Frick Collection today announced a major three-year sponsorship by Louis Vuitton. Beginning this month, the House will be a principal cultural sponsor at the Frick, providing vital funding for several important initiatives: three major special exhibitions; one year of Louis Vuitton First Fridays, extending the museum’s ongoing series of monthly free evenings; and the creation of a two-year staff position, the Louis Vuitton Curatorial Research Associate. The sponsorship will follow the House’s presentation of its Cruise 2027 show in a series of the Frick’s first-floor galleries on Wednesday, May 20, a private event involving a few days of museum closure. Commented Axel Rüger, the Frick’s Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Director, “We are thrilled to engage with Louis Vuitton in such a meaningful and sustaining way. The House’s ... More |
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George Grosz, Portrait of John Förste, man with glass eye, 1926. Oil on canvas. Canvas: 40 1/2 x 28 3/4 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art (“The Met”) and the Ronald S. Lauder Neue Galerie New York (“the Neue Galerie”) today announced plans for a landmark agreement to merge the Neue Galerie with The Met in 2028. The agreement would bring together the most significant collection of 20th-century Austrian and German art outside Europe under a single institution—while preserving the Neue Galerie’s unique museum experience. Timed with the Neue Galerie’s 25th anniversary, the agreement marks a transformative step in preserving and advancing this extraordinary cultural legacy for future generations. The Neue Galerie’s collection features iconic works by Gustav Klimt—including the famed Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I—and by Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Max Beckmann, Gabriele Münter, Josef Hoffmann, and more. The historic joining ... More |
| Sprüth Magers celebrates a decade in Los Angeles with major anniversary exhibition |
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James Cohan presents the first New York solo exhibition of Mary Sully |
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New podcasts at Rome's Ara Pacis bring the dynasty of Augustus to life |
John Baldessari, Palm Tree/Seascape, 2010 © 2010–2026 John Baldessari Family Foundation Courtesy Estate of John Baldessari; Venice Map © Sprüth Magers
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers present10 Years LA!, an exhibition celebrating the first decade of Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles. Since opening its doors in February 2016 with an exhibition by John Baldessari, the gallery has featured solo and group exhibitions debuting new works from its iconic LA–based artists as well as major presentations by artists from around the world, often bringing their work to the city for the very first time. Throughout its programming, from intimate solo shows to major group exhibitions and installations, the Los Angeles gallery has maintained its commitment to presenting work that pushes the envelope of contemporary art-making and engages artistic dialogues within the city’s art scene and beyond. Illustrating this expansive approach, 10 Years LA! fills not only the 10,000 square feet of the gallery at 5900 Wilshire Boulevard, but also extends down the street to the disused dining ... More |
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Mary Sully, Eugene O’Neill, ca. late 1920s-early 1940s. Colored pencil, wax crayon, ink, and graphite on paper, 39 1/4 x 19 in (overall), 99.7 x 48.3 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan is presenting an exhibition of works by Mary Sully on view at the gallery’s 52 Walker Street location from May 15 through June 27, 2026. Curated by Jenelle Porter and organized in collaboration with the Mary Sully Foundation, this exhibition is the first solo gallery presentation in New York of Sully’s work. The gallery will host an opening reception on Friday, May 15 from 6-8 PM, and a conversation between historian and author Philip J. Deloria, great-nephew of Mary Sully and author of Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract, and curator Jenelle Porter on Thursday, May 28 at 6:30 PM. In the late 1920s, Mary Sully began a series of inventive drawings she called “personality prints,” each a portrayal of a celebrity. Mixing both representative and abstract elements with sophisticated patterning, the artist merged her knowledge of modern art and design with Native American art forms to create ... More |
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Plaster portrait of Marcellus. Sorgente Group Foundation.
ROME.- The Museo dell’Ara Pacis in Rome is giving new voice to one of the most powerful families in ancient history. Beginning May 15, 2026, visitors will be able to explore the stories behind the Julio-Claudian dynasty through a new series of free podcasts dedicated to the museum’s Gallery of Busts. The project, created by Fondazione Sorgente Group in collaboration with the Sovrintendenza Capitolina, offers a more personal way to encounter the figures who shaped the age of Augustus. Rather than presenting the gallery simply as a collection of faces from the ancient past, the initiative invites visitors to listen to the lives, ambitions, loyalties, and dramas behind them. The Gallery of Busts features plaster casts of portraits of key members of Augustus’s family, including six casts donated in 2017 by Fondazione Sorgente Group and based on originals from its own collection. Through eight podcasts, available in both Italian and English, visitors can learn about the people who s ... More |
| Kawayan de Guia opens "Excavations from the land of not so plenty" at Silverlens |
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Romare Bearden: Figure in Collage exhibition opens at DC Moore Gallery |
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Taylor Swift and Beyoncé join National Recording Registry for the first time |
Kawayan de Guia, Body as Spirit House II, 2026. Canvas, Acrylic, Paper, Assorted Objects, Bone, 72.24h x 62.4w x 2.66d in 183.5h x 158.5w x 6.75d cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Silverlens announces Kawayan de Guia's Excavations from the land of not so plenty, which opened today, 14 May 2026. Kawayan de Guia creates as he feels, adding, subtracting, and merging mediums, narratives, tropes, and symbols gleaned and accumulated throughout years of research into mind maps, expansions of a wider reality in which colonialism confronts its ghosts and humans their inherent contradictions. His process is a perpetual excavation: a return to the same troves of printed ephemera, religious imagery, medical diagrams, state propaganda, and touristic brochures that make up a shared visual unconscious narrative that expand beyond Philippines and its diasporas. These fragments are re-cut, painted over, distorted and set against one another until ... More |
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Romare Bearden, Untitled (Two Classical Figures), c. 1946. Watercolor and ink on paper, 25 3/4 x 19 3/4 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- DC Moore Gallery presents Romare Bearden: Figure in Collage, an exhibition that follows the evolution of Romare Bearden (1911-1988)’s approach to the figure. This selection highlights key moments of innovation across Bearden’s career, including works from his 1946 Iliad series, 1964 Projections, and 1977 Odysseus series. Featuring collage, painting, and drawing, the works on view explore the wide scope of Bearden’s creative methodology, recurring influences, and interweaving of traditions from different eras, geographies, and cultures. The earliest works in the exhibition, rarely seen drawings from the Iliad Series (1946) show Bearden’s initial explorations of abstraction, which led towards his first collage works. The calligraphic linework and ... More |
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Taylor Swift (2014). Credit: Taylor Swift.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Taylor Swift’s transformative pop album “1989,” Beyoncé’s standout “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It),” The Go-Go’s debut album “Beauty and the Beat,” Vince Gill’s signature “Go Rest High On That Mountain,” Weezer’s self-titled debut “Weezer (The Blue Album),” Chaka Khan’s crossover hit “I Feel for You,” and Broadway’s original cast album of “Chicago” have been selected as some of the defining sounds of history and culture that will join the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress in 2026. Acting Librarian of Congress Robert R. Newlen today named 25 recordings as audio treasures worthy of preservation for all time based on their cultural, historical or aesthetic importance in the nation’s recorded sound heritage. The 2026 class of inductees span 70 years of music and recorded sound, including: The Byrds’ single “Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything ... More |
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 Roshan Chhabria presents 'A Misbehaviour of Form' exploring Indian middle-class life
MUMBAI.- In A Misbehaviour of Form, Roshan Chhabria presents a new body of work that expands his long-standing engagement with the visual and social codes of Indian middle-class life. Rooted in close observation and informed by memory, humour, and everyday encounters, the exhibition unfolds across two lines of strands: one narrative, the other formal. Roshan's practice is steeped in observation, informed by early experience of looking in his father's cloth and tailoring shop in a narrow alleyway in Baroda. As a child, he spent hours observing customers, many of them from the Sindhi community, taking note of their gestures, their postures, and their negotiations of class and self-presentation. Across drawing, installation, and object-based assemblage, Roshan continues to mine these lived observations, transforming them into reflections on identity and cultural performance. ... More Klaus von Nichtssagend presents Stationery by David Gilbert in Tribeca
NEW YORK, NY.- Klaus von Nichtssagend presents Stationery, a new solo show by David Gilbert in the front gallery at 87 Franklin Street in Tribeca. An opening reception will be held for the artist on Friday, May 15 from 6-8PM. In his new body of work, David Gilbert has been fashioning castles out of paper. He photographs these drawn and cut forms as they curl off the walls of his studio, dappled in the first rays of morning light or bathed in the glow of the evening. The chateaux Gilbert chooses as subjects have a flavor of childhood, as if lifted from a fairytale. While the imagery draws on a sense of picture-book wonder, the castle as icon symbolizes power and dominance, staking a claim on land and over people. Gilbert’s rendering of these fortresses in drooping paper and scrappy cardboard defangs their power; stone heft and weight are made gossamer, the structures ... More Christopher Hartmann presents first Belgian solo exhibition at GNYP Gallery
ANTWERP.- Left alone to command a gallery, Christopher Hartmann’s exacting oil on canvas paintings not only demonstrate his ability to render and imbue, but also make aesthetic demands on his viewers. Whether ostensibly seascapes, empty bed-scapes, or erotic everyday domestic scenes, one of the overarching subjects of Hartmann’s paintings has to do with perception – our capacity to register nuance, and shifts in tone and atmosphere. In his exhibitions, we are invited to complete the triangle in a virtual constellation with an absent artist and his work. A single quality runs through his most recent paintings – a yearning that can be sensed in the artist’s loving rendering of skin and fabric, and in the peaks and troughs of ocean waves. There is nothing superficial about Hartmann’s soft, engrossing tonal surfaces; they are empathic mirrors. This is the high art ... More Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz presents Gifts of Friendship
LODZ.- Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź presents Gifts of Friendship, an exhibition bringing together nearly 150 artworks donated to the museum’s collection in 2024–2026 by 80 artists from several dozen countries. Conceived as both a presentation of these works and a reflection on the meaning of artistic solidarity today, the exhibition foregrounds the role of friendship, trust, and long-term collaboration as forces shaping institutional collection beyond market logics. The works included in Gifts of Friendship entered the collection as gestures of support for the museum and its program. Many were donated by artists who have maintained long-standing relationships with Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź, while others reflect more recent encounters and collaborations. Together, they form a multidimentional portrait of a museum understood not as a neutral repository of objects, but as ... More Art Gallery of South Australia explores cultural ties between Lombok and Bali
ADELAIDE.- Opening at the Art Gallery of South Australia on 15 May, Two Islands, One Thread: The Art and Cultures of Lombok & Bali is the first exhibition in Australia to explore the remarkable artistic and cultural connections between two distinct Indonesian societies - Muslim Lombok and Hindu Bali. Through rarely-seen textiles, drawings, paintings and objects, Two Islands, One Thread reveals how centuries of maritime contact, trade and migration across the Lombok Strait has shaped both islands’ artistic traditions while preserving their unique cultural identities. Two Islands, One Thread celebrates both the history and continuing ingenuity of artists on both islands through the shared heritage of cloth. At the heart of the exhibition are textiles - woven, embroidered, painted and tie-dyed - created by the indigenous Sasak people of Lombok and the Balinese. For local ... More ARCOlisboa: A decade of commitment to the city and contemporary art
LISBON.- ARCOlisboa, the International Contemporary Art Fair organised by IFEMA MADRID and the Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, will hold its 9th edition from 28 to 31 May at the Cordoaria Nacional. This will mark ten years of the fair’s presence and commitment to the city, once again establishing the Portuguese capital as a major artistic and cultural focal point in Europe and a meeting place for collectors, gallery owners, artists and professionals from around the world. The close collaboration between IFEMA MADRID and the Câmara Municipal de Lisboa has enabled ARCOlisboa to grow steadily while strengthening its identity and standing within the art calendar. This is reflected in the participation of 84 galleries from 18 countries, including a strong Portuguese presence of 30 galleries, accounting for 35% of the total, alongside a robust international line-up ... More Miles McEnery Gallery announces solo exhibition of paintings by Pia Fries
NEW YORK, NY.- Miles McEnery Gallery announces a solo exhibition of paintings by Pia Fries, on view at 515 West 22nd Street from 14 May through 20 June 2026. The exhibition is accompanied by a digital catalogue with an essay by Angela Stief, the Director and Chief Curator for contemporary art at the Albertina Modern in Vienna, Austria. In her ongoing practice, Pia Fries creates expansive abstract works that blend oil painting techniques with screen-printing. Her newest compositions utilize an intricate mixed-media approach, integrating images of wood and accumulated paint from her palette screen-printed directly onto wood panels. The works are inherently self-referential in their materiality and content. The usage of photography and screen printing embedded in the work is an essential component of the paintings. Stief suggests that this element “structures the pictorial ... More Museum Villa Stuck reopens to the public after major technical renovation
MUNICH.- Now that work on Museum Villa Stuck’s second phase of comprehensive technical renovation has been completed, the fully refurbished artist’s residence and its new cafe will open on May 14, 2026—in perfect timing for the VARIOUS OTHERS art festival. All areas of the museum are once again accessible and sport a fresh new look. To mark its reopening, Museum Villa Stuck is presenting a diverse exhibition program. The Museum Villa Stuck is delighted to announce a significant new acquisition: The foundation Verein zur Förderung der Stiftung Villa Stuck e. V. has given the museum a previously unknown painting by Franz von Stuck titled Portrait of a Lady à la Japonaise. The work comes from the collection of Stuck’s student Max Ackermann and now returns to the place where it was created. This not only closes a gap in the collections but, in light ... More Museion presents Som Supaparinya: Mo num en ts
BOLZANO.- Museion presents the film MO NUM EN TS (2025) by Thai artist Som Supaparinya, a work that brings together historical research and fieldwork. The film was produced as part of the Han Nefkens Foundation—Southeast Asian Video Art Production Grant 2024, dedicated to the memory of the artist Dinh Q. Lê, and realized in collaboration with Jim Thompson Art Center (Thailand), The Outpost Art Organisation (Vietnam), Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (Japan), Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Denmark), and Rockbund Art Museum (China). Following presentations at the partner institutions, the work will enter the collection of Museion. For more than two decades, Supaparinya has examined the landscapes of Southeast Asia as sites where political ideology, ecological transformation, and historical memory intersect. In MO NUM EN TS, ... More Elizabeth I: Queen and Court exhibition opens at Philip Mould & Company
LONDON.- Spring sees Philip Mould & Company presenting Elizabeth I: Queen and Court, an exhibition of truly outstanding Tudor works, including the earliest surviving life-size, full-length portraits painted during Queen Elizabeth I's lifetime, alongside some of the key figures of her reign and close circle of courtiers and confidantes. Drawn from private collections, this fascinating display features never-before-seen and rarely shown paintings and explores how portraiture functioned as a tool of power and was used to project authority, secure allegiance, and, in rare cases, register dissent. Central to the show are four portraits of Elizabeth I (1533-1603), which trace her transformation from eligible young Tudor princess to the mystic, Virgin Queen of her later years. Seen together, they reveal the sustained and strategic management of her image across a reign shaped by religious tension ... More |
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On a day like today, American artist Jasper Johns was born
May 15, 1930. Jasper Johns (May 15, 1930) was the American painter, sculptor, draftsman, and printmaker who changed the direction of postwar art by turning familiar signs into profound visual questions. Emerging in New York in the 1950s, Johns made flags, targets, numbers, maps, and letters newly strange through encaustic surfaces, layered newspaper, and a cool intelligence that challenged the emotional gesture of Abstract Expressionism. His work became a bridge toward Neo-Dada, Pop art, Conceptual art, and later forms of appropriation, while his printmaking opened another major chapter in American graphic art. With works such as Flag, Target with Four Faces, and Three Flags, Johns helped redefine what an image could mean when it was both a thing and a symbol. Jasper Johns, Two Flags, 1985 Ink on plastic 26 3/4 x 22 inches Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Gift of The American Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc., Leonard A. Lauder, President.
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