Blowing Smoke Rings (1938) by Isabel Bishop (1902–1988) from the collection of the Memorial Art Gallery in an Eli Wilner & Company replica frame.
NEW YORK, NY.- With assistance from their partial funding program for museums, Eli Wilner & Company recently created a replica of an early 20th century American frame by Carl Sandelin, for Blowing Smoke Rings, 1939, by Isabel Bishop, for The Memorial Art Gallery (MAG) of the University of Rochester, NY. As of January 2026, Eli Wilner & Company’s frame funding initiative is announcing another round of $150,000 available for distribution in partial grants. Exciting new projects continue to be submitted on a daily basis by museums across the country. Remaining funds will be committed to new projects by February 28, 2026, and can be used for frame restoration, historic frame replication, or mirror replication projects. Interested institutions can apply by emailing the details of their reframing or frame restoration needs to info@eliwilner.com. No project is too large. ... More
Beaux Arts and Crafts Stained Glass Window, American circa 1900. Sold for $35,750.
GLEN COVE, NY.- A rare selection of superb stained glass windows were in the spotlight at Roland NY’s first auction of the New Year on January 10th, and turned out to be some of the highest sellers of the day. The pieces included an Attributed to John La Farge, Arts and Crafts leaded glass window, circa 1900 and a Louis Joseph Lederle gothic stained glass window, circa 1920. These, along with notable lots from other estates, were highlights of the Multi-Estates auction. The top seller of the day was the Attributed to John La Farge (1835-1910, American) Arts and Crafts leaded glass window, circa 1900 with a turquoise colored ground and central rose-filled urn with butterfly, in a later illuminated window box back frame, unmarked. [59.5" H x 39.5" W x 6" D], which sold for $35,750, while the Louis Joseph Lederle (American, 1881-1949) gothic stained glass window, circa 1920, with inset glass pediment to upper, and a central hand-painted por ... More
Tracey Emin's large-scale A certain degree of anger (2016; estimate: £600,000 - 800,000), a raw, expressive meditation on love, loss and memory.
LONDON.- Christie's presents Modern Visionaries - The Roger and Josette Vanthournout Collection - one of the most thoughtful and discerning European collections to appear on the market in recent years. Meticulously assembled over six decades, and reflecting the curiosity, discipline and wide-ranging vision of its originators, the Collection spans almost 150 years of artistic creation. From Symbolism, Belgian Expressionism and Surrealism through to the Post-War avant-garde, Minimalism and Modern and Contemporary British art, it traces a dynamic and diverse story of modern art across continents. A main highlight of the London 20/21 March Marquee Week, Modern Visionaries - The Roger and Josette Vanthournout Collection carries an overall estimate in the region of £40,000,000, and will debut with three dedicated auctions: an Evening ... More
Meticulously-detailed and beautifully-executed contemporary Navajo (Diné) rug, woven in Teec Nos Pos, Arizona, impressive at 84 inches by 132 inches. Estimate: $8,000-$15,000.
LAS VEGAS, NEV.- Collectors of Western and Native-American art and antiques will soon beat a path to Las Vegas, Nevada, for the premier event of the year, as Morphy’s presents its Friday, January 23 Old West & Native American Art Auction. The highly-anticipated live auction, with all forms of remote bidding available, is at the heart of a bustling two-day get-together whose agenda also includes the Las Vegas Old West & Native American Art Show and Las Vegas Antique Arms Show, on January 23 and 24. All three events will be held under one roof at the Westgate Casino & Resort in Las Vegas, with a broad selection of top-notch goods certain to appeal to every level of collector. The auction will start at 4pm local time (7pm ET) and is loaded with Western art, antiques, jewelry, home décor, cowboy paraphernalia, important and ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- Santiago Calatrava is a world-renowned architect, structural engineer, sculptor, and artist. From the Athens 2004 Olympic Sports Complex to the World Trade Center Transportation Hub in Manhattan, he exhibits a remarkable twin prowess for aesthetics and engineering, a simultaneous sensitivity to both the appearance and the anatomy of a structure. His influences are wide-ranging: Auguste Rodin’s approach to sculpture and architecture, principles of classicism and Greek Cycladic art, NASA space design, and a deep admiration for nature, which he regards as both mother and teacher. Thus, Calatrava’s creations are at once aerodynamic and organic in their associations, with natural forms and human movement informing many of his projects. He takes a particular interest in the meeting point of equilibrium and dynamism. This compact monograph gathers detailed entries, photography, and the original watercolor sketches that set Calatrava aside as a unique creative master. It includes man ... More
PARIS.- For his eighth solo exhibition at Mennour, Tadashi Kawamata once again takes over the space at 6 rue du Pont de Lodi. The exhibition provides an opportunity to present a new series of works, Bonsai, named after miniature trees whose tradition—likely imported from China—is ancient and deeply rooted in Japanese culture. For many years, the artist has been a regular visitor at the Bonsai Museum in the Shunka-en garden near Tokyo. Tadashi Kawamata’s Bonsai are derived from a simple branch onto which the artist attaches a miniature cabin (Tree Hut). Highly poetic, these works also respond to a technical imperative imposed by the vegetal form itself: how can a construction be durably implanted in it? How can a human creation be grafted onto a fragment of nature? These Bonsai belong to the Maquettes and Models, two series the artist has been developing for many years, and which should be distinguished. The Maquettes are plywood panels, painted and ... More
Hans Baldung Grien, Portrait of Susanna Pfeffinger (Sélestat 1465 – Strasbourg 1538), wife of Friedrich Prechter, shown bust-length, three-quarter view facing left, 1517. Silverpoint on paper prepared with bone powder, 15.7 × 10.4 cm. Estimate: €1,500,000 – €3,000,000.
PARIS.- Beaussant Lefèvre & Associés, in collaboration with the expert in master drawings Cabinet de Bayser, will auction at Hôtel Drouot on Monday, 23 March 2026, on the eve of the opening of the Salon du Dessin, an unpublished work by Hans Baldung Grien (1484/85–1545), one of the greatest masters of the Renaissance. Executed in silverpoint on paper prepared with bone powder, a technique favoured by Renaissance virtuosi, this drawing has remained in the family of the sitter, Susanna Pfeffinger (1465-1538), for more than 500 years, passed down from generation to generation. It is the only silverpoint drawing by the artist still available in private hands. Indeed, only a handful of Baldung drawings remain in private collections, out of a total of approximately 250 recorded drawings. Executed in the same technique, it can be compared to those assembled in the famous ... More
“The Ascent of Rauschenberg” to open during the Rauschenberg centennial celebration.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum will open its newly renovated Flight and the Arts Center July 1. The gallery, which is part of the museum’s multi-year transformation, will open with the inaugural exhibitions “The Ascent of Rauschenberg: Reinventing the Art of Flight” and “The Art of Air and Space: Interpretations of Flight” on the 50th anniversary of its flagship building in Washington, D.C. The exhibition focused on the art of Robert Rauschenberg will open during the centennial celebration of the artist’s birth. “As visitors step into the Flight and the Arts Center, they will not only encounter evocative artworks but also engage with the stories, histories and emotional landscapes that accompany the human pursuit of flight,” said Carolyn Russo, art curator at the museum. “We are excited to present ‘The Ascent of Rauschenberg’ and offer a richer understanding of Robert Rauschenberg’s innovative ... More
Rubem Valentim, Emblema 1978, 1978. Acrylic on canvas, 50 x 35 cm 19 3/4 x 13 3/4 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Affirmation Room brings together a constellation of artists whose work articulates vocabularies capable of accessing the intangible. Curated by Germano Dushá, the exhibition takes as its departure point the notion of cataphasis – derived from Greek kata (an intensifier conveying positive assertion) and phanai (to speak) – understood here not as a theological category but as a practice of affirming the spiritual through positive construction. The gallery becomes a field of inquiry into how the unseen might be given vibration, matter, and shape. Across different languages and temporalities, the works assembled here engage transcendence through geometry, gesture, materiality, and energetic composition. Form operates not as passive belief but as an active proposition, a means of making present that which resists definition.The exhibition anchors a multigenerational conversation spanning Brazilian ... More
Lisa Mazzola. Photo by Sara Bodinson.
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.- The Norton Museum of Art has appointed Lisa Mazzola as the William Randolph Hearst Chief Officer of Learning and Community Engagement. Mazzola joins the Norton from the AIA New York | Center for Architecture, where she served as Director of Education. She also held positions at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian National Design Museum. At MoMA, Mazzola led the development of several groundbreaking digital. initiatives, including the museum’s first-ever massive open online courses, or MOOCs, reaching more than 1.6 million participants, and the creation of the MoMA Learning website. She also produced a series of educational videos for MoMA’s YouTube channel to extend engagement with global audiences, and establishing new models for digital content delivery. Mazzola will provide strategic leadership for the staff to create, develop, and lead programs in the Museum and within the community ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts announced its Fall 2025 grant recipients. The close of this grant round marked another challenging year for visual arts organizations as federal funding cuts and general economic strain continued to destabilize the cultural field. The Foundation recognizes the extraordinary efforts of organizations that continue to support artistic risk and creative development in the face of wide-ranging uncertainty; over $4million will be distributed to a diverse and dynamic group of 57 organizations, including 20 first-time grantees, whose innovative, experimental programs reflect a commitment to artistic agency and freedom of expression. The recipients represent the grant program’s wide geographic reach and include institutions and organizations located in 17 states in the United States as well as in Lebanon and Ukraine. They range from grassroots community centered spaces to storied cultural institutions that amplify artists’ voices and faci ... More
Wiedemann/Mettler, moonlight shadow, 2025, painted cotton velvet, padded, 100 x 75 x 10cm.
ZURICH.- Galerie Urs Meile will present narratief, the first exhibition of the Zurich-based artist duo Wiedemann/Mettler at its Rämistrasse location in Zurich. The exhibition brings together textile works and constructed photography, which jointly form a quiet, deliberately slowd-down visual world. narratief invites viewers to pause and enter an introspective realm in which two parallel systems—seemingly disparate at first glance—merge into an unexpected whole. At the core of narratief lies storytelling as an unfinished process. The deliberately misspelled title points to narration as an ongoing search rather than a closed account. In this sense, the exhibition does not present linear narratives but instead opens up atmospheres, traces, and points of departure—moments in which inner images begin to take shape. Wiedemann/Mettler’s velvet works, which project into the space as strongly volumetric, room-occupying forms, assert a pronounced visual presence through their depth. T ... More
The exhibition’s concept is structured around twelve thematic focuses that address the theme of loss.
ZURICH.- When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, daily life for millions of Ukrainians changed overnight. Since then, the war has seeped into every corner of existence—sometimes loudly, through explosions and sirens, and sometimes quietly, through absence, fear, and loss. That lived reality is at the heart of “The Clock of War – The Ukrainian Photo Diary,” an exhibition now on view at Photobastei Zürich. Rather than focusing on frontline combat, the exhibition invites visitors to step into the everyday lives of civilians. The images show what it means to keep going under constant threat: children studying while air-raid sirens sound, neighbors helping one another, animals finding shelter, families trying to protect what remains of home. Together, they form a moving visual diary of resilience, memory, and hope. “The Clock of War” is a concept exhibition built around twelve thematic chapters, each addressing different forms of lo ... More
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Can you trust your eyes? Report calls for visual literacy as a shield against disinformation STOCKHOLM.- Today Bildkonst Sverige (Visual Arts Sweden) issued a groundbreaking report and a call to action—to its own institutions and public, and to the international community. Titled Visual Disinformation and Visual Literacy: Key Skills for Resilience, the report issues a stark warning: society is not prepared for the rising tide of visual disinformation dominating our news feeds, from deepfakes and AI-generated false events to election interference. In response to this unprecedented threat, Sweden’s Psychological Defence Agency (MPF) commissioned Bildkonst Sverige (Visual Arts Sweden) to author the report. By bridging the defence and cultural sectors—and deploying a multidisciplinary team of researchers from the realms of psychological defence, visual studies and arts policy—this groundbreaking initiative offers a pioneering new model for societal resilience. The report ... More
Tierra del Sol Gallery presents Model World, curated by Elliott Hundley LOS ANGELES, CA.- Tierra del Sol Gallery presents Model World, a 32-artist group exhibition curated by Elliott Hundley. Opening January 17, 2026, with a public reception from 6 to 9 pm, the exhibition will be on view through March 1. Building on the gallery’s ongoing series of guest-curated exhibitions with collaborators including Alison Saar, Darren Romanelli, and jill moniz. Model World marks the first time a guest curator has invited artists from outside Tierra del Sol’s studio program to exhibit alongside its artists. This expanded curatorial framework brings together diverse voices to examine models, miniatures, and imagined worlds as ways of understanding, shaping, and rethinking the present moment. “Miniatures, blueprints, maps, and models are ways of holding the world in our hands,” says Elliott Hundley, a world-renowned artist in his own right. “They help us plan ... More
Squeak Carnwath reclaims the divine feminine at Jane Lombard Gallery NEW YORK, NY.- Jane Lombard Gallery announces Goddess of All, Squeak Carnwath’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. Squeak Carnwath merges meticulously applied layers of oil paint with text, repeated symbolic iconography, and abstract patterns. The exhibition Goddess of All presents Carnwath’s evolving visual language, which recently includes representations of the female form. Her imagery resists singular interpretations, inviting viewers to find meaning through personal experience, context, and cultural background. The exhibition will be on view at Jane Lombard Gallery from January 16th - February 28th, 2026, with an opening reception on January 16th from 6 - 8 PM. Carnwath’s words and phrases are raw, immediate, and unfiltered, offering intimate reflections that speak to the ever-evolving complexities of womanhood. Drawing on imagery of queens, ... More
40 years after Venice, Sigmar Polke's "Athanor" returns for a global 2026 tribute COLOGNE.- On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Sigmar Polke‘s Athanor installation in the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1986, the Anna Polke-Stiftung in Cologne is initiating an international, decentralized, and interdisciplinary research and education project. Under the direction of Dr. Kathrin Barutzki (Anna Polke-Stiftung) and in cooperation with numerous project partners worldwide Sigmar Polke: Athanor NOW reactivates this now-iconic constellation of works—named after the alchemical furnace intended to yield the philosopher’s stone via transformations of matter—from current artistic and scholarly perspectives. The program running throughout 2026 focuses on topics such as ecology, alchemy, materiality, politics, and technology. In offering a fresh perspective on the particularly productive phase during the 1980s, the project expands the artist’s ... More
Ancient Maya site X'baatún emerges as a major settlement in Yucatán MEXICO CITY.- Deep inside the ejidal Oxwatz Park, in the municipality of Tekal de Venegas, archaeologists are gradually revealing the true scale of X’baatún, a Maya site that is proving to be far larger and more complex than previously imagined. Fieldwork carried out in the final weeks of 2025 shows that the settlement flourished for nearly five centuries, between 700 and 1200 CE, spanning the Late–Terminal Classic and Early Postclassic periods. “What we’re finding is that X’baatún extends well beyond what we originally expected,” said archaeologist Juan García Targa, co-director of the research project. Within a core area of roughly nine kilometers, enclosed by a perimeter wall, researchers have documented close to 60 structures. And that may only be part of the story: buildings continue to appear in all directions from the site’s main nucleus, suggesting that its total ... More
Kent Chan: Three Acts of the Sun at NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore SINGAPORE.- NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore presents Kent Chan. Three Acts of the Sun, the first solo exhibition for the Amsterdam-based artist in his home country since 2019. The exhibition captures a significant chapter of Chan’s artistic trajectory, focusing on the growing entanglement of his tropical imaginaries with the escalating climate crisis. Featuring a newly commissioned film, performance, and print series alongside a selection of recent works, Three Acts of the Sun charts the tension between the reality of a planet increasingly dominated by heat and Chan’s desire to imagine the tropics in the future tense. It is from this vantage point of impending change that the artist looks forward and summons worlds to come. Set in unspecified futures, the artworks included in the exhibition envision scenarios of advanced global warming where the climate ... More
Luhring Augustine announces leadership transition NEW YORK, NY.- The partners of Luhring Augustine today announced a leadership transition that will position the gallery for its next chapter. Forty years after co-founding the gallery with Lawrence Luhring, Roland Augustine will retire to focus on philanthropic and independent advisory pursuits. Luhring will assume leadership of the gallery alongside partners Donald Johnson Montenegro and Lauren Wittels, who will join him now as gallery principals. Founded in 1985, Luhring Augustine has played a formative role in shaping contemporary art discourse in New York and internationally over the past four decades. The gallery will continue to operate from its established locations in Tribeca and Chelsea, supporting a program that spans historical depth and contemporary practice. All staff will remain in their current positions. Working alongside Luhring and Augustine, Wittels and Johnson ... More
Andrea Canepa shrouds Madrid's Palacio de Cristal in Pre-Columbian "Bundles" MADRID.- Museo Reina Sofía director, Manuel Segade, presented on Tuesday morning, alongside Peruvian artist Andrea Canepa (Lima, 1980), the installation Fardo (Bundle), a piece which will adorn the Palacio de Cristal over the course of 2026 while restoration work is carried out on the building, one of the Museo’s galleries located in Madrid’s Retiro Park. The canvas that stretches across this space references the bundles or collection of fabrics that covered the bodies of the dead in the pre-Columbian culture of Paracas, southern Peru, between 800 and 100 BC. Owing to the arid conditions of the land, the fabrics have remained in a good state of conservation, allowing studies on an often-overlooked material in historical research. In designing the canvas, Canepa has created a mosaic of fabrics, some with motifs that could correspond to pre-Hispanic culture and other ... More
Monumental Maya stela goes on public display for the first time in Campeche after years of restoration MEXICO CITY.- After decades spent in careful custody and years of meticulous conservation work, Stela 46 from El Palmar is now on public view for the very first time at the Museo de Arquitectura Maya, Baluarte de la Soledad. The unveiling marks a significant moment for Maya archaeology in the region, bringing a powerful Late Preclassic monument out of storage and into the public eye. Dating to the 1st century CE, the limestone stela originates from El Palmar, an important archaeological site in southern Campeche. The monument was transferred to the city in the 1980s to ensure its preservation, but its fragile condition meant it remained largely unseen while specialists worked to stabilize and study it. The recent restoration is the result of an interdisciplinary collaboration between experts from the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) in Campeche and the Escuela ... More
Seventeenth-century Nazareno sculpture restored to its former glory in Cusihuiriachi MEXICO CITY.- After centuries of devotion and decades of visible wear, the 17th-century sculpture of Jesús Nazareno housed in the town of Cusihuiriachi, Chihuahua, has regained its presence and dignity following a careful conservation and restoration project driven by the local community. The polychrome wooden figure, preserved in the Templo de Santa Rosa de Lima, holds deep historical, artistic, and spiritual meaning for residents of the municipality. Its recent restoration not only stabilized the fragile sculpture but also restored its visual coherence, ensuring its preservation for future generations. The work was led by independent conservator Daniela Lira Pacheco, with authorization and oversight from the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH), through César Santiago de la Riva Molina, head of the institute’s movable heritage conservation area ... More
Auctim to offer rare Jan Fabre sculptures AARTSELAAR.- Auctim, one of Europe’s leading online auction houses, announces an exceptional international auction featuring two rare sculptural works by Belgian artist Jan Fabre, including a landmark edition of his iconic sculpture The Man Who Measures the Clouds. The fully online auction will take place from 7 to 17 February 2026, offering collectors, curators and institutions a unique opportunity to acquire museum-grade works by one of Europe’s most influential contemporary artists. Headlining the auction is The Man Who Measures the Clouds (American version, 18 years older) (2016), a monumental silicon-bronze sculpture measuring 283 × 150 × 80 cm. Offered as Artist Proof I/IV, this edition represents the most exclusive version of one of Fabre’s most celebrated works. Other editions are held in major museum collections in Ghent, Kanazawa and San Francisco. The sculpture ... More
History without barriers: Historic Royal Palaces launches UK's first wordless story series LONDON.- Historic Royal Palaces – the independent charity which looks after the Tower of London, Hampton Court Palace, Kensington Palace, Hillsborough Castle and Gardens, and more – today announces the launch of its Wordless Stories project, a new initiative created to help those who find written text challenging to engage with British history. Made possible through support from The Lord Leonard and Lady Estelle Wolfson Foundation, the project marks the UK’s first ever series of fully illustrated wordless stories about iconic characters from British history. Told entirely through images, with no written text or numbers, these stories are designed to support reluctant readers, students with learning disabilities and anyone for whom traditional text-based history presents a barrier to understanding. From the outset, the project has been developed in close partnership ... More
Artist duo Quadrature nominated for the Schaufler Residency@TU Dresden 2026 DRESDEN.- The internationally active artist duo Quadrature - Juliane Götz and Sebastian Neitsch – has been nominated for the Schaufler Residency@TU Dresden 2026. As part of their six-month residency at the Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden from February to July 2026, the artists will develop the project “The Mass of Money” at TUD Dresden University of Technology. The project is conceived as a large-scale, immersive audiovisual installation that aims to interweave economic data with cosmological models. Gerfried Stocker, Artistic Director and CEO of Ars Electronica in Linz, commented on the nomination of the duo: “As a member of the selection committee for the Schaufler Residency@TU Dresden, I have followed the remarkable and continuous development of this ambitious programme with great interest since 2020. The nomination of Quadrature strikes me as both ... More
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On a day like today, French artist Berthe Morisot was born
January 14, 1841. Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot (14 January 1841 - 2 March 1895) was a French painter, printmaker and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. In 1864, Morisot exhibited for the first time in the highly esteemed Salon de Paris, listed as a student of Joseph Guichard and Achille-Francois Oudinot. Her work was selected for exhibition in six subsequent Salons until, in 1874, she joined the "rejected" Impressionists in the first of their own exhibitions (15 April – 15 May 1874), which included Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley. In this image: Berthe Morisot, Portrait de Mme Morisot et de sa fille Mme Pontillon ou La lecture (The Mother and Sister of the Artist – Marie-Joséphine & Edma) 1869/70.
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