The greatest private collection of material related to Benjamin Franklin to be formed over the last century including over 150 items spanning the full arc of Franklin’s career.
NEW YORK, NY.- This June, Sotheby’s will present The Jay T. Snider Collection of Benjamin Franklin, a dedicated sale comprising 156 items related to one of the most consequential figures in American history. With a combined estimate of $3 - 4.5 million, the collection is the greatest private assembly of Benjamin Franklin material ever to come to auction, spanning the full arc of his extraordinary career through the printed ephemera, books, letters, newspapers, almanacs, manuscripts and artifacts that one man, Jay T. Snider, has gathered over a lifetime of devoted collecting. Highlights from the collection will be unveiled today in a special exhibition at the Library Company of Philadelphia until 7 May, marking the first time all of this material will have been displayed together in the city Franklin called home. It will then travel to New York for exhibition at Sotheby’s New York between 20 - 24 June. Full descriptions and photographs of all of the items on exhibition at the Library Company ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- Accompanying a landmark solo exhibition presented at the Palazzo Tiepolo Passi during the 2026 Venice Biennale, Matthew Wong: Interiors features never-before-seen paintings and works on paper that foreground the artist's flair for domestic interior spaces. The exhibition, which is curated by John Cheim, also features an essay by leading curator and critic Nancy Spector that draws upon newly released archival material held by the Matthew Wong Foundation. In his work, Wong investigates interiority as a critical locus for resistance, reflection and gradual transformation. Through the mediums of painting and drawing, he interrogates the spatial and affective registers of the interior—both as a literal, architectural space and as a metaphor for psychological depth. These works engage with the tensions between containment and expression, memory and presence, proposing a mode of aesthetic experience that privileges introspection, slown ... More
Ultra-rare Savage Model 1907 (manuf. in 1907) 45 ACP Trials Pistol, Serial No. 18, of a type created to compete against the Colt M1911 in the U.S. military pistol test trials. Sold above high estimate for $20,400.
WILLOUGHBY, OHIO.- Milestone’s Spring 2026 Premier Firearms Auction in suburban Cleveland chalked up $1.6 million on March 21-22 with a widely varied selection of weapons that encompassed rare and historically-important antique, vintage and contemporary productions from American, European and Japanese arms manufacturers. The sale’s 1,206 hand-selected lots represented many of the most popular collector categories, including sporting shotguns and rifles, engraved and historical American handguns, and military weapons, with examples dating from the Revolutionary War through the Vietnam era. The auction’s top-10 list was led by a magnificent 1st Generation Colt Single Action Army .357 Magnum Revolver with a 7½-inch barrel and build date of May 2, 1939. Complete and in flawless mechanical ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- The first publication of Casa Kahlo, Frida Kahlo’s private Mexico City family home and personal sanctuary, and its collections of her art, clothing, jewelry, and treasured keepsakes, the house has been opened to visitors for the first time in nearly 100 years. Curated and written by her great-nieces, who lived in the house throughout their lives, this book offers an unparalleled glimpse into Frida Kahlo, opening a new perspective into this iconic artist’s family home and refuge. Casa Kahlo was more than a second home—it was a place where Frida could truly be herself away from the house she shared with her husband, the artist Diego Rivera. At Casa Kahlo—surrounded by her artistic family and the vibrant Indigenous culture she immersed herself in—she spent time with her closest confidantes (her sisters), her friends, and her lovers. The house also served as an additional ... More
Sarah Bernhardt in "Zaire" by Voltaire, 1874. Étienne Carjat (French, 1828–1906). Albumen print from wet collodion negative; 27.3 x 21.3 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1996.245
CLEVELAND, OH.- Opening this weekend at the Cleveland Museum of Art, France in the Time of Manet and Morisot offers visitors a vivid view of the people, places, and defining moments that shaped 19th-century France. With approximately 50 photographs from CMA’s rich holdings, visitors will get a firsthand glimpse of the rapid industrial growth and political upheaval in this tumultuous, yet fertile, period of time. This CMA-organized companion exhibition was designed to complement Manet & Morisot, the first ever major exhibition dedicated to the artistic exchange between Édouard Manet often referred to as the father of modern painting, and Berthe Morisot, the only woman among the founding members of the Impressionist movement. While Manet & Morisot travels nationally, this companion exhibition is uniquely presented at CMA, offering visitors an experience available only in ... More
Friends (NBC TV, 1994-2004), "The Last One: Part 1" Script Signed by the Cast.
DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions announced The Matthew Perry Estate Auction, a charity auction in partnership with Matthew Perry’s namesake nonprofit organization, The Matthew Perry Foundation, commencing Friday, June 5. The Matthew Perry Foundation works to end the stigma of addiction through collective commitment and investment in the people, programs and partnerships that make recovery possible. “Matthew Perry was someone people felt they truly knew. Through his work and his honesty, he built a connection with audiences around the world that went far beyond the screen,” says Joe Maddalena, Executive Vice President at Heritage Auctions. “This auction brings together the personal items and passions that shaped his life, offering fans a meaningful way to connect with his story. More importantly, it allows that connection to do real good, supporting the Matthew Perry Foundation and continuing his mission to help others facing addiction. It’s a powerful way ... More
Tula Telfair (b. 1961), Balancing Act. Oil on clayboard, 24 x 18 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hirschl & Adler Modern announced its representation of contemporary artist Tula Telfair (b. 1961). After 25 successful years with Forum Gallery, Telfair joins Hirschl & Adler at an auspicious time in her career. Her first solo exhibition with the gallery is planned for October 2026. Telfair is widely admired as among the most distinctive landscape painters in America. Often monumental in scale, Telfair’s work depicts the land more as it is felt than seen. Her epic vistas, somehow both familiar and unfamiliar, are informed by extensive travel to the most remote places on Earth. In that sense, there is an accuracy to the geological formations and natural phenomena she captures. But the scenes are not entirely as witnessed. Rather the elements are recombined and reimagined to convey the experience of being human before the sheer vastness of nature. Tula Telfair is a professor of Art in the Department of Art and Art History and a professor of Environmental ... More
VENICE.- On the occasion of the 61st Venice Biennale, the Istituzione Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, with the collaboration and support of the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, presents Picasso, Morandi, Parmiggiani: Still Lifes, an exhibition initiated and organized by Tornabuoni Art, with the exceptional participation of the Musée national Picasso- Paris, and curated by Cécile Debray, President of the museum. The exhibition takes place from May 7 to July 25, 2026, at the Galleria di Piazza San Marco, the main venue of the Istituzione Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa. Three masters of modern art, three distinct approaches to the object. Drawing from a focused and carefully curated selection of still lifes by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964), and Claudio Parmiggiani (b. 1943), the exhibition opens a dialogue on representation itself, capturing and mediating reality through the staging of objects within the laboratory of the artist’s studio. ... More
Obverse of a coin from the Kingdom of Alexander the Great: Macedonia, Distater, head of Athena with Corinthian helmet and snake, 323–317 BC.
HAMBURG.- With SCULPTURAL: The New Galleries, the Hamburger Kunsthalle is presenting the first show covering the entire spectrum of its sculpture collection. The exhibits, supplemented by selected key works on loan, span all genres as well as multiple media and periods, altogether comprising nearly 1,000 large and small sculptures, reliefs, paintings, graphic art, photos, and room and video installations from 2,500 years of visual history. Surprising comparisons unfold as visitors traverse an exciting circuit leading from antiquity to the present day, from the second to the third dimension, from miniature to monumental. A special focus is the museum’s newly rediscovered trove of coins, medals and sculptural reliefs in gold, silver and bronze. The research project is dedicated to comprehensively examining, identifying, restoring and digitising these ... More
LONDON.- As its collection expands into the 20th century and beyond, the National Gallery stages its first exhibition of modern paintings from Germany – and its first devoted to an artistic movement after 1900. Following its run in London in spring 2027, the exhibition will travel to the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin and opens in Autumn 2027. German Expressionism: Modern Painting 1900-1918 is the first exhibition in the UK and Ireland since the 1960s to chart the work of both of the movement’s pivotal groups Die Brücke (The Bridge) and Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) – who were active from 1900 until the end of the First World War. Made up of radical, freethinking artists working across Berlin, Dresden, Munich and elsewhere, these collectives experimented with form and brushwork to break new ground in 20th-century painting. With loans ... More
BILBAO.- The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is presenting in situ: Igshaan Adams. Unsettling Dust: The Body’s Archive, the third chapter of the Museum’s in situ series, a program that invites artists to create site-specific works in dialogue with the gallery’s architecture. Conceived as a platform for ambitious projects by leading contemporary artists, in situ highlights practices that expand the possibilities of sculpture, installation, and multimedia. Each presentation engages directly with the Museum’s distinctive gallery dedicated to the series, transforming it into environments where architecture and artistic imagination converge. Igshaan Adams (b. 1982, Cape Town) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work navigates the intersections of personal history and broader social structures. Raised in Bonteheuwel, a suburb shaped by the forced removals and spatial segregation of apartheid, Adams has long been attentive to how ideology is inscribed onto the body and the built environme ... More
Portrait of the artist. Photography by Guang Xu.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bortolami announced the representation of Seung Ah Paik (b. 1979 in Seoul, South Korea; lives and works in Pittsburgh, PA). Paik’s current exhibition Suspended Landscapes is on view at Bortolami through 30 May, and a suite of new paintings by the artist is on view at the Rubell Museum in Miami through Fall 2026. Bortolami will represent Paik’s work globally in collaboration with Gratin, New York. Paik is best known for her paintings that explore the physical and emotional geographies of the human form. Drawing upon traditional techniques of portrait painting from the late Joseon Dynasty in Korea, she creates contemporary compositions that subvert one’s own sense of embodiment through an uncanny, first-person perspective that mirrors how each of us perceives our corporeal selves. Through the meticulous and unflinching reproduction of the specificities of her own skin, Paik depicts body parts – intertwined hands, feet, limbs, ... More
GHENT.- Until June 7, KIOSK presents a new solo exhibition by Hisae Ikenaga. With Anatomies of Use, the Mexican-Japanese artist brings together an ensemble of sculptures, assemblages, and collages in which industrial materials and everyday objects are reworked into hybrid forms. Reworked materials and ceramic fragments come together in a visual language that balances between functionality and stillness, between the familiar and the estranging. Since the 2000s, Ikenaga has developed a practice based on collecting, relocating, and recomposing objects. By removing them from their original context, she questions their use, meaning, and history. In her work, standardized production collides with artisanal processes, resulting in sculptures that are at once solid and fragile, moving between utility and contemplation. For this exhibition, she presents a series of recent works, including Black Artichoke, Industrial Ruines, ... More
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Library unveils The Source, a new experiential gallery for young researchers WASHINGTON, DC.- The Library of Congress will launch The Source: Where Curiosity Sparks Discovery, a first-of-its-kind experiential research gallery designed for children and teens ages 8 to 15 on May 9. The new gallery reimagines how young people connect with history, inviting them to explore the Library’s vast collections and to create their own meaning through hands-on discovery. At its core, The Source introduces young people to how knowledge is created by engaging directly with the Library’s primary sources. Through interactive stations brimming with hundreds of collection items in text, image, sound and film formats, the gallery encourages critical thinking, media literacy, curiosity and creativity. Seven years in the making, the 4,000-foot gallery on the ground floor of the Jefferson Building is a key component of the Library’s long-term plan to create ... More
Hong Kong Asian Art Week Spring Live Sales totalled US$111.3M HONG KONG.- During Christie's Hong Kong Spring 2026 Asian Art Week from 28 – 30 April, six live auctions of Chinese Paintings and Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art achieved a combined total of HK$872,202,640 / US$111,308,233, marking a 54% increase year‑on‑year and recording the highest Asian Art Spring season total since 2018. The previews and auctions were well attended throughout the week, with competitive bidding from clients in the saleroom, telephone and online pushing the overall hammer price to 140% above the low estimate. New buyers increased by 33%, driven by Millennials and younger collectors. Strong international engagement was evident, with bidders from 23 countries across six continents. Mainland China was the leading contributing region, recording a 173% growth in spending versus last year, followed by Taiwan and Hong Kong. These results ... More
Odessa Mahony-de Vries debuts large-scale abstract works in new solo show BRISBANE.- Mitchell Fine Art presents Sunshine Coast–based artist Odessa Mahony-de Vries in her solo exhibition ‘Unbound’. This body of work features a series of energetic, large-scale abstract oil paintings shaped by a process-driven approach, where colour moves freely across the surface, unrestrained and resistant to rigid structures. Rather than beginning with a pre-determined endpoint, Mahony-de Vries enters the work through gesture, an initial mark, a wash of colour, or a textured stroke. Her practice is rooted in responsiveness, where every new element is both an echo of what came before and an invitation to what might emerge next. Her compositions grow through a series of intuition. Her surfaces often carry the visible history of their mark making. Layers accumulate, shift, and sometimes dissolve, revealing traces of earlier decisions. ‘Unbound explores embodied mark making ... More
RHA Gallery appoints Séamus Kealy as director DUBLIN.- The Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts announced the appointment of internationally renowned museum director, curator, artist and writer Séamus Kealy as its new Director. Kealy will take up the role in July 2026, bringing over two decades of international leadership and a track record of artist-centred, forward-thinking institutional development. Returning to Ireland after leading major public art institutions across Canada, Austria and Ireland since 2005, Kealy has curated more than 120 international exhibitions and established artist residencies, awards, and pioneering art projects. His appointment signals an ambitious new chapter for the RHA, reinforcing its role as a vital platform for contemporary art in Ireland and an increasingly influential voice internationally. Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh, President of the RHA, said: “After a competitive, international search, the RHA Council ... More
Exceptional Irish art sale for auction at Whyte's DUBLIN.- Whyte’s auction of Important Irish Art promises to deliver another exciting opportunity for collectors to acquire rare artworks of outstanding quality and enduring value. On Monday 25 May 2026 the auction has 132 lots of Important Irish art valued at €1.4 million. Louis le Brocquy’s Traveller series represented a significant breakthrough for the artist whose work over the decades involved a varied and deepening exploration of the human condition. For him, the Traveller group experienced exclusion based on prejudices for their difference from settled communities, and for their adherence to their nomadic way of life. Travelling People, 1945 (lot 45, €100,000-€150,000), is one of the most significant examples of the series. Even so early in his career, the artwork demonstrates Louis le Brocquy's personal, independent aesthetic. While based in figuration ... More
Sandra Vásquez de la Horra is now represented by Tanya Bonakdar Gallery NEW YORK, NY.- Tanya Bonakdar Gallery announced the representation of Sandra Vásquez de la Horra. She will have a solo exhibition at the gallery in New York in September 2026. With drawing as the foundation of her artistic practice, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra’s multidisciplinary work depicts the interconnectedness of the human body and the natural world. Taking inspiration from spiritual mythologies, folklore, religious iconographies, and Latin American popular imagery, she explores themes of the body, landscape, motherhood, gender, sexuality, and migration. Often dipping her works in beeswax or creating accordion-like paper sculptures, Vásquez de la Horra transforms them into three-dimensional objects, challenging the limits and possibilities of drawing. Born in Chile, Vásquez de la Horra lived through Augusto Pinochet’s repressive military regime, ... More
Darkness Visible: Eighteen artists revisit the scars of Argentina's dictatorship 50 years on at Spazio Punch VENICE.- Darkness Visible: The Long Shadow of Dictatorship is an exhibition to mark the 50th anniversary of the coup d’état that ushered in Argentina’s last military dictatorship (1976–1983), a regime of state terror that implemented a systematic policy of censorship, kidnappings, torture, murder and the forced disappearance of 30,000 people, while driving thousands more into exile. Under this regime, the government repressed all forms of artistic expression. This historic trauma left deep wounds in society, resulting in a trail of images, absences and scars that continue to shape how the violence is remembered and retold. Fifty years on, and in light of the current attacks on democratic institutions worldwide, the exhibition revisits the ways artists have addressed violence – both in its most overt manifestations and in its subtler, yet equally effective, forms. Bringing ... More
Patricia Low Contemporary exhibits six new, monumental paintings by Daniel Crews-Chubb VENICE.- The Belt of Venus brings together six new, monumental paintings by Daniel Crews-Chubb. The exhibition takes its title from the atmospheric phenomenon visible shortly before sunrise or after sunset, an ethereal pinkish band that separates the earth’s dark shadow from the brightening sky. This distinct afterglow serves as the direct inspiration for the artist’s colour palette. It permeates the exhibition, radiating within the gallery space and uniting the works through hues that feel simultaneously celestial and heavily grounded in the flesh. Within this atmospheric glow, Daniel extends his career-long interrogation of the human form into increasingly abstract territory, deliberately testing the limits of our perception. At the core of these new works is an active exploration of pareidolia, the psychological phenomenon where the human brain instinctively imposes a recognisable ... More
Noite Quente: Tatiana Chalhoub makes long-awaited solo return to Rio de Janeiro RIO DE JANEIRO.- Noite Quente, Tatiana Chalhoub’s exhibition at Carpintaria, marks the artist’s first solo presentation in her native Rio de Janeiro in a decade. The new body of work brings together ceramic collages, bronze reliefs, and, for the first time, a group of large-scale oil paintings that occupy a central place within the exhibition. Grounded in the technical and formal language of painting, Chalhoub here turns to oil on canvas, expanding her practice while foregrounding the medium’s capacity for depth, saturation, and transformation. These paintings extend concerns present in her more sculptural works—warped reliefs, tactile surfaces, and the fusion of image and matter—while allowing pigment to flow more freely, assuming the contours of landscapes or still lifes through layered, aqueous compositions. Across the exhibition, loose pieces, fragments, ... More
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