China, Yellow Wax Stone, Modern period, 20th century, Quartz from Qingyuan City, Guangdong Province, China, 20th-century wooden stand, Southern openwork style, Gift of Alan Helms 2024.15.10a-b
WELLESLEY, MASS.- For at least a thousand years, collectors in China have gathered and studied shi 石, stones prized for capturing, in miniature, the mountains, clouds and other forms of the natural world. This ancient tradition will be explored in Shi: Stories in Stone, an exhibition that opens Sept. 25 at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College and runs through May 30, 2027. The exhibition is free and open to the public Tuesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The shape of 石 shi, the Chinese character meaning "stone" or "rock," mimics a small stone falling from a high cliff. The word “shi” can be associated with three categories of material: rocks, minerals, and fossils that people have collected and studied for centuries. In English, these stones are commonly called scholar’s rocks. This name indicated that hi ... More
The Cut Melon (1760), Acquired Last Year, Is Now on View Again After Conservation.
FORT WORTH, TX.- The Kimbell Art Museum announced that Jean Siméon Chardin’s The Cut Melon (1760) is back on view following conservation treatment of both the painting and its original frame. Chardin is considered one of the greatest painters of still lifes in the history of art, and The Cut Melon one of his most remarkable works. In its original frame, a rarity for Old Master paintings, the masterpiece can now be seen as it appeared when it was first exhibited, at the Paris Salon in 1761. Acquired last year, the painting arrived at the Kimbell after being preserved in distinguished private collections since the eighteenth century. Prior to cleaning, decades of benign neglect and discolored varnish had veiled the work in warm tones. The conservation treatment allowed for the return of Chardin’s cooler tonality, particularly in the depiction of the marble tabletop, the pitcher, and the melon’s rind. Now revealed to its fullest ... More
Antique Maiolica Shallow Bowl, Antique maiolica shallow bowl, Italian, possibly Urbino. Sold for $55,250.
GLEN COVE, NY.-Roland Auction’s NY enjoyed their most successful auction of the summer season, and one of their highest-selling auctions of the year thus far, on September 19th, 2026. The auction had top selling lots in several categories, including Decorative Arts, Contemporary Art and Mid-Century furniture. Also, the important museum-quality collection of over 240 Victorian Hair Combs, Hair Pins and Ornaments, all from a private collector, did very well, featuring a Victorian brass le Roi Soleil hair comb, French, late 19th century, the arched framed with foliate terminals depicting the Louis XIV the Sun God. [4" H x 6" W], which sold for $9,750 and a Pair of Tiffany & Co. late Belle Epoque to early Art Deco diamond and platinum hairpins, circa 1910, selling for $6175. Leading the auction as top sellers, of the day, however, were an Antique Maiolica Shallow Bowl, Italian, possibly Urbino, depicting a bust of Glasco as an illustrious a ... More
Tirdad Hashemi, How Can I Take Care of My Plant in a City with No Light, 2026.
LÜBECK.- They gather, hold one another, resist, bear witness. Bodies occupy the center of Tirdad Hashemi’s paintings. Set within scenes that move between abstract floral landscapes and burning cities, Hashemi’s figures form bodily constellations through which emotional and political narratives unfold. The artist invites viewers into an intimate, interior world in which everyday gestures and encounters carry the potential for self-determination. Executed in acrylic on canvas, Hashemi’s paintings are characterized by visible brushstrokes and fluid transitions of color that lend the works a sense of immediacy. Loosely drawn figures suggest openness and vulnerability, while gestural marks introduce instability and, at times, violence. Rather than constructing singular or linear narratives, the paintings condense fragments of memory alongside the present. Figures appear at once solid and dissolving, suspended ... More
HARLEM, NY.- This fall, as the Museum celebrates the final months of its inaugural year and prepares for its sixtieth anniversary in 2028, the Studio Museum in Harlem will publish Studio Museum in Harlem: A History, the first book in the institution's lifetime that details its establishment and traces the organization’s evolution from 1968 to today. Bringing together oral histories from the Museum’s founding figures; essays by leading scholars, curators, and artists; and a trove of never-before-seen archival imagery, this dynamic and comprehensive historical record charts the organization’s catalytic role as a champion for artists of African descent and outlines the lasting impact the Museum has had on the art landscape as a whole. Now available for preorder online and in-store at Studio Store, Studio Museum in Harlem: A History will be published on October 27 of this year. Edited by Romi Crawford, Studio Museum ... More
ZURICH.- Galerie Eva Presenhuber is presenting The Case is Altered or Die Sache ist anders, the gallery’s sixth solo exhibition by the British-American artist Liam Gillick. Liam Gillick’s Mirrored Image: A Volvo Bar, first performed at the Kunstverein Munich in 2007, was later presented at the 21er Haus in Vienna and the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn in 2010. This short performance takes place in a bar next to a Volvo factory, where workers gather to boast about their expertise in building cars. A pivotal moment occurs when a curator arrives from the local museum, asking for help. The director is in the middle of a crisis and is trapped inside the building permanently. The workers mobilize to rescue culture. All of this is witnessed by a protagonist who has miraculously appeared on the day of his own birth to experience a parallel crisis – one of time, identity, ... More
Tracy L. Carey joins as Consignment Director.
DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions announces the launch of its new Stamps category under the leadership of two of the field’s most accomplished professionals: Charles F. Shreve, who joins Heritage as Vice President, Stamps, and Tracy L. Carey, who joins as Consignment Director. The appointments mark both a new chapter for Heritage and a return to one of its earliest ventures outside of Numismatics. In 1980, Heritage Auctions CEO and Co-Chairman Steve Ivy recruited Shreve to Dallas to establish Steve Ivy Philatelic Auctions, an early rare-stamps enterprise built on the modern marketing principles Ivy had successfully applied to rare coins. Carey began her career with the company in 1988 and became a licensed auctioneer two years later. Now, more than four decades after Shreve and Ivy first joined forces, and 35 years after Heritage sold its Stamp division to Greg Manning Auctions, Inc., an NYSE-listed entity, ... More
LUXEMBOURG.- In autumn 2026, Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean presents the first exhibition in Europe dedicated to women artists from Japan, spanning the period from the postwar era to the turn of the twenty-first century. Bringing together works by pioneering figures from several generations, it examines their contributions to the global artistic landscape while offering a fresh perspective on a crucial yet often overlooked chapter in art history, revealing the important continuities between modern and contemporary practices. Focusing on a period of significant social change, Kaihō: Japanese Women Artists after 1945 explores radical modes of artistic expression that emerged in Japan and its global community across Asia, Europe, United States and Brazil. Featuring works by 39 artists, the exhibition traces dynamic exchanges and ... More
Virginia Anderson. Photo by Anne Stuzin Photography.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art announced today that Virginia Anderson will join the museum as the Christiane Ellis Valone Senior Curator of American Art and head of the art of the Americas. She will assume the role in November. Anderson will lead the art of the Americas department, which stewards the National Gallery’s collection of paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts from the Americas. In this role, she will advance the museum’s continued development of a collection of art of the Americas that is reflective of the broad scope of artistic innovation across various media and time periods. Anderson will oversee a permanent collection of paintings, sculptures, and works of decorative art from the 18th century to present day, including the Kaufman Collection, one of the most significant collections of early American furniture and decorative arts ever assembled. Anderson joins the National Gallery from the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA), where she is ... More
One of the most recognized and important cinematic vehicles in Hollywood history.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Julien’s Auctions and Turner Classic Movies are shining the bat signal bright on “Batman Day” with their special announcement of their blockbuster event: “The Ultimate Batmobile Auction” featuring the Hero Vehicle from Batman Returns–considered the franchise’s most historically significant Batmobile ever to come up for auction heading to the auction block for the first time with more Gotham treasures to be offered at the ultimate destination for Hollywood memorabilia auctions’ exclusive event taking place on Monday, November 23, 2026 in Los Angeles. One of the most recognized and important cinematic vehicles in Hollywood history, this extraordinary screen-used Batmobile unleashed for Tim Burton’s 1992 groundbreaking blockbuster Batman Returns roared across the screen ushering a new era of the modern superhero and a darker, expressionist aesthetic of Batman’s Gotham City and its ... More
HOUSTON, TX.- An elegant portrait of a lady by Joshua Johnson, one of America’s first established Black painters; a pair of drawings by Théodore Géricault that reveal his ideas for what became an iconic painting of the 19th century, his Raft of the Medusa; a stunning Tamara de Lempicka portrait that until this year remained in the same family, a gift from the artist almost 90 years ago—each of these remarkable works of art, and more, are among the roster of recent acquisitions by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Commented Gary Tinterow, director and Margaret Alkek Williams chair of the MFAH, “Each of these acquisitions is extraordinary in its own right, but together they expand the stories that we can tell and deepen the connections that our visitors can make with the art in our galleries. This group includes a fanciful 17th-century French tapestry from a sought-after series; one of the most important rediscoveries from ... More
Inma Barrero. Pachamama, 2023–26. Pigments, glazes, oxides, and lusters on porcelain and earthenware, and metal wire, 94¾ × 33½ × 21 inches (240.7 × 85.1 × 53.3 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Lévy Gorvy Dayan.
NEW YORK, NY.- Lévy Gorvy Dayan opened Inma Barrero: MOTHERS, the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery. The presentation brings together eight large-scale sculptures, each on view for the first time, that represent a different maternal presence informed by prehistoric, ancient, and modern worlds across global continents. The sculptures come together to create, in Barrero’s words, a “chorus” of mother figures, “bearing witness and answering one another across the room.” The basis of Barrero’s work is the handmade ceramic bead, with hundreds of beads joining to create a single sculpture. The beads take their inspiration from divine and universal sources, from the artist’s memories of her grandmother’s rosary to Greek komboloi (worry beads), and Buddhist prayer beads, which she encountered while living and working in Kyoto. To form the beads, she employs unconventional combinations of porcelain, earthenware, and terracotta, as well as soils from Japan, ... More
LONDON.- The Korean Cultural Centre UK presents The Unclassified (25 September – 30 November 2026), a group exhibition of four leading contemporary Korean and Korean-heritage artists, Meekyoung Shin, Ayoung Kim, siren eun young jung, and Gala Porras-Kim, exploring how museums shape the way we understand, remember, and interpret culture. The exhibition interrogates the limits of the systems and assumptions through which museums produce cultural knowledge, with works that challenge what can be collected, classified and contained. The Unclassified is presented to coincide with the British Museum’s forthcoming exhibition Korea (opening 1 October 2026) which centres on the acclaimed Lee Kun-hee Collection - one of the most significant private collections in Korean cultural history. Unfolding across four key themes, The Unclassified explores the ways in which museums preserve, record, archive and make culture visible. In doing so, the exhibition offers alternative ways of thinking about cul ... More
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The Baltimore Museum of Art appoints new Curator of European Painting & Sculpture BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art today announced the appointment of Alexandra Letvin as Senior Curator and Department Head of European Painting and Sculpture. Letvin joins the museum from the Princeton University Art Museum, where she currently serves as the Duane Wilder, Class of 1951, Curator of European Art. An accomplished scholar with a Ph.D. and M.A. in art history from the Johns Hopkins University (JHU), Letvin brings extensive experience developing exhibitions, reinstalling galleries, advancing collections, and presenting European art within broader global narratives. A specialist in the art of early modern Spain, Letvin has organized exhibitions and installations spanning the medieval period to 1945. At the Princeton University Art Museum, she oversaw the museum's European painting and sculpture program and served ... More
Lonnie Mack's 'Number 7' 1958 Flying V leads Heritage's Vintage Guitars & Musical Instruments Auction DALLAS, TX.- There might not be a rock star as inseparable from one particular guitar as Lonnie Mack and “Number 7,” the 1958 Gibson Flying V that was his primary instrument for almost the entirety of his influential yet underappreciated career. It is no exaggeration to say the course of rock ’n’ roll was directed in part by Mack’s signature guitar, “Number 7” — so named, Mack said, because it was the seventh off the assembly line when Gibson introduced the forward-pointing electric guitar with the arrow-shaped body and head. Journalists seldom wrote about or photographed him without including the guitar in the story or picture, and Rolling Stone even included “Number 7” on its 2019 list of “20 Iconic Guitars.” This piece of rock history is the headline lot at Heritage Auctions’ Oct. 15 Vintage Guitars and Musical Instruments Signature® Auction. The lot also includes ... More
Major international collection exhibition opens alongside local talent at Kunsthaus Baselland BASEL .- Kunsthaus Baselland announced its fall program following its curatorial approach of positioning the diverse contemporary art of the Basel region within an international discourse as well as to strengthen emerging positions. With the cooperation Senses Enchanted realized together with the renowned Contemporary Art Collection ”la Caixa” Foundation Kunsthaus Baselland presents some of their exceptional works in dialogue with artists who have close ties to the Basel region. For the exhibition devoted to perception numerous works have been developed site-specifically for the architecture of the new building. In the upper galleries, the artist and musician Yanik Soland will present new works created over the past few months and conceived specifically for his first institutional solo show. Both the extensive sound work, as well as several sculptural installations ... More
Noir Blanche presents Josef Fischnaller's surreal photographic transformations in Düsseldorf DUSSELDORF.- Photography begins to lose its familiar boundaries in METAMORPHOSE, a new exhibition by Austrian-born, Berlin-based artist Josef Fischnaller that opened at noir blanche Galerie für Fotografie in Düsseldorf on September 18. On view through October 31, 2026, the exhibition introduces a striking new direction in the work of an artist best known for elaborate photographic restagings of Renaissance and Baroque paintings. For years, Fischnaller has constructed richly detailed portraits and still lifes whose theatrical lighting, sumptuous arrangements and carefully positioned figures draw directly on the visual language of old master painting. In METAMORPHOSE, many of those familiar subjects remain, but almost everything else has changed. Figures, flowers, fruit and elaborate arrangements are transformed into fluid fields of intense ... More
Salomé Chatriot investigates the post-digital body through 3D sculpture, video, and painting BERLIN.- New media technologies not only expand the ways in which we perceive reality; they also bring something uncanny within it to the surface. As both subject and object of these new realities, the human body has become a central concern of post-digital art. Around a century ago, it was photography—the “objective medium”—that Surrealist artists such as Man Ray and Jacques-André Boiffard used to fragment the living body into strange, object-like parts. The female torso, in its digital, biomorphic abstraction, is also the central motif of Salomé Chatriot’s Void is Seductive. In the sculpture Void is Seductive No. 2, the torso appears mounted on the wall like a trophy: larger than life and clad in black leather, defensive and powerful—somewhere between a BDSM bodysuit, a futuristic sculpture and the Winged Victory of Samothrace. Just as the wind ... More
Robert Szot debuts new paintings and works on paper at Anita Rogers Gallery NEW YORK, NY.- Anita Rogers Gallery is presenting Dust Do Shine, a solo exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Robert Szot. The exhibition, Szot’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, will be on view through October 31 at 494 Greenwich Street, Ground Floor, in New York City. Dust Do Shine marks a significant development in Szot’s practice. While his work has long been characterized by complexity, movement, and layers of visual information, the new paintings introduce larger forms, greater restraint, and more defined spatial structures. Together, the works balance intensity with quiet, and bold color with areas of openness and reflection. Across the exhibition, Szot builds his surfaces through layers of color, metal leaf, drawing, and repeated revision. Large fields of color are interrupted by fragments of charcoal and drawing, buried passages ... More
Rachel Howard returns to New York with solo exhibition 'Harvest' at 447 Space NEW YORK, NY.- Rachel Howard returns to New York for her first exhibition in the city since 2019 with Harvest, a solo presentation of new paintings at 447 Space. Opening September 25, the exhibition explores the act of witnessing, from the automated eye of an unmanned Reaper drone to the muddied infants referencing Rubens’s Massacre of the Innocents. The paintings strip away historical romance, focusing instead on the stark contrast between sterile technology and human tragedy. At a moment defined by drone warfare, surveillance and the harvesting of data, these new works confront the distance between those who watch and those who are watched. Drone imagery already comes pre-aestheticised - grainy, monochrome, geometric, oddly beautiful in its cold precision. By rendering the machine-vision in paint, Howard collapses ... More
Sargent's Daughters presents New York solo debut of Richmond-based painter Alexandra McGowan NEW YORK, NY.- Sargent’s Daughters presents Fervor, the New York solo debut of Richmond, VA-based painter Alexandra McGowan. Using fluid and improvisational techniques, McGowan creates radiant fields of color on cotton bedsheets rather than canvas. These works express the safety and joy of queer domestic intimacy, which the artist contrasts with experiences of uncertainty and fear. McGowan's approach to abstraction is affective rather than analytical, allowing viewers to immerse themselves in an emotive visual field. Each work begins with white cotton sheets that match those on the artist’s own bed. Stretched like canvas, they deliberately transgress the boundaries between McGowan’s artistic practice and her intimate life. For McGowan, her bed is symbolic of her queerness – both a place of tenderness and a political signifier. The cotton ... More
argos centre for audiovisual arts presents What the Land Remembers—Counter-Archives from Iran BRUSSELS.- In times of repression, recording becomes an act of defiance. At a moment when war is waged over Iran and communication with the country is constantly under threat, the need to preserve history grows more urgent. This exhibition, two years in the making, feels more important now than ever. With institutionalized terror, internet blackouts, bombings and the destruction of archives, every image becomes a lifeline: a witness, a storyteller and a guardian of collective memory. What the Land Remembers shows how moving images can defy official narratives and protect the stories that political powers try to erase. At its heart lies the Parking Video Library, an independent counter-archive founded in Tehran in 2004 by artist and curator Amirali Ghasemi. For over two decades, it has safeguarded a fragile yet essential collection ... More
Memphis Art Museum unveils inaugural art program, major new commissions MEMPHIS, TENN.- Memphis Art Museum announced today details about commissioned, site-specific works by artists Jordan Ann Craig, Yunhee Min, Carlos Rosales-Silva, and Eso Tolson, created for the museum’s streetfront facade, mezzanine and theater, and rooftop “art park in the sky” overlooking the Mississippi River. The works will come into dynamic interplay with their architectural and natural surroundings when the museum opens its new Herzog & de Meuron-designed cultural campus on December 6. The commissioned works are part of an extensive inaugural art program anchored by the major exhibition Making Beauty: Hooks Brothers Studio, 1907-1984, the first museum survey of the acclaimed photography studio’s decades-long documentation of Black life in the urban South. The inaugural program also features 15 thematic presentations ... More
Jewish Museum presents major exhibition of Jewish ritual art and Christian cathedral treasures NEW YORK, NY.- The Jewish Museum presents a major exhibition this fall that brings Jewish and Christian sacred art from medieval to early modern Europe into dialogue, illuminating complex, interconnected histories across more than six centuries. Sacred Splendor: Jewish Ritual Art and Christian Treasures from St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague features Christian reliquaries on loan from St. Vitus Cathedral—the most extensive presentation of this treasury ever exhibited outside Europe—together with Jewish treasures never before shown in the United States. Through a robust presentation of over 160 objects, the exhibition examines shared urban and artistic environments, and the distinct ritual and theological frameworks that shaped sacred art across Central Europe. Highlights include rarely seen medieval Jewish-owned objects from hoards buried ... More
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On a day like today, Australian painter William Dobell was born
September 24, 1899. Sir William Dobell (24 September 1899 - 13 May 1970) was an Australian portrait and landscape artist of the 20th century. Dobell won the Archibald Prize, Australia's premier award for portrait artists on three occasions. The Dobell Prize is named in his honour. Dobell was a very private man, known almost always as "Bill". He died on 13 May 1970 at his home in the Lake Macquarie suburb of Wangi Wangi of hypertensive heart disease. In this image: Sir William Dobell visiting an art class at the Newcastle Technical College Art School in 1956.
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