Francesco Francia (Italian, ca.1450–1517), The Holy Family, 1500. Oil on white poplar panel, 35 3/4 x 29 1/8 x 2 5/8 in. (90.81 x 73.98 x 6.67 cm) Gift of Mr. Jack Linsky 1968.022
NOTRE DAME, IN.-The Raclin Murphy Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame announces a major gift from the Marten Charitable Foundation through the stewardship of Gini Marten Hupfer, Foundation leader and member of the Museum’s Advisory Council. The tandem naming and endowment gift was inspired by the legacy of Virginia Marten (1925–2022), a long-standing, former member of the Advisory Council and devoted Museum supporter. The gift will confer the name “Marten Family Gallery” on the current east gallery of European Art before 1700. Works by Vicenzo Spisanelli, Claude Lorrain, Giuseppe Ribera, and Bartolomeo Veneto, among others, are featured in the gallery. With naming the gallery, a permanent feature, centered in the gallery, will be installed; to be called the “Marian Court,” it will be a permanent display featuring Marian imagery from the Raclin Murphy’s ... More
BERN.- Anni Albers (1899–1994) is one of the most important artists and designers of the 20th century. After training at the Bauhaus in Weimar, Dessau and Berlin, she emigrated to the United States in 1933, where she established herself as a weaver, textile designer and visual artist. In addition to her well-known signature pictorial weavings, Albers also devoted herself to developing new textiles for buildings and interiors, so-called ‘utilitarian’ or ‘serving objects’. Her innovative design principles and experimental approach to materials continue to inspire to this day. The Zentrum Paul Klee is presenting the artist's first solo exhibition in Switzerland. The exhibition features works from all periods of her career, with a special focus on her architectural interventions, thus highlighting the connection between art, textiles and architecture, between building ... More
NEW YORK, NY.-This volume offers a definitive critical celebration of Jean Metzinger—painter, theorist, poet, and one of the most visionary figures of the early twentieth century. A foundational architect of Cubism, Metzinger helped shape the trajectory of modern art through his radical innovations in form, color, and pictorial theory. More than a key contributor, he emerges here as one of the movement’s most original and intellectually rigorous practitioners—an artist whose ideas continue to resonate across the history of modernism. Metzinger’s multifaceted cultural production—his painting, prose, and theoretical writings—is examined here within the dynamic context of early modernism. Engaging deeply with questions of form, perception, temporality, and subjectivity, his work helped to shape the conceptual and aesthetic foundations of the modernist enterprise. This study situates Metzinger’s artistic vision with ... More
BRADFORD.- The Turner Prize 2025 has been awarded to Nnena Kalu. The winner of the £25,000 prize was announced this evening at a ceremony at Bradford Grammar School presented by magician Steven Frayne, formerly known as Dynamo, in Bradford, this year’s UK City of Culture, and broadcast live on BBC News. The jury congratulated all four nominees for their unique and bold presentations, offering an insight into contemporary art today. Working across sculpture, painting, drawing, photography, sound and installation, this year’s nominees each reflect their diverse practices and broad experience in compelling ways. The Turner Prize 2025 at Cartwright Hall Art Gallery in Bradford has attracted 34,000 visitors to date. The jury awarded the prize to Nnena Kalu, who creates hanging sculptures from wrappings of different materials making cocoon-like shapes, as well as large-scale drawings made with vigorous, rhythmic lines. The jury ... More
Poul Gernes & Aase Seidler Gernes, Target Painting, 1967. Collection: Sorø Art Museum, Photo: Anders Sune Berg.
BREMEN.- The collection exhibition The Way We Are is presenting itself in an altered form: new works, new collections, new thematic areas. Alongside these, familiar elements appear with modified emphases, tried-and-tested features as moments of recognition, participatory stations for visitors, and an enhancement of positions from the 1960s to the 1980s serving as a historical backbone. The underlying question: Who are we and who could we become? A new thematic space is devoted, for example, to the self-portrait—from passport photos past classical portraits all the way to forms of self-discovery oscillating between intimacy and staged presentation. Elsewhere, the focus is on power and empowerment, thereby raising the question of how artists reveal and challenge social hierarchies visible. Additional perspectives address patriarchal structures within the cultural field as well as the diverse representations of the body shaped by attribution, self-assertion, and transformation. With works by ... More
David MacDonald, Beaded Nyama Form, 1979. Stoneware with beads and flocking, 42 × 27 × 27 in. (106.7 × 68.6 × 68.6 cm) H. Randolph Lever Fund 2025.7
BROOKLYN, NY.- The Brooklyn Museum has acquired nearly 600 artworks so far in 2025, enriching its encyclopedic collection representing more than 6,000 years of creative excellence. These acquisitions strengthen institutional holdings across collection areas, including American Art, Arts of Africa, Asian Art, Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts and Design, Feminist Art, and Photography. Notably, the Museum has significantly expanded its Arts of Africa and Decorative Arts and Design collections and holdings of works by artists from the African diaspora. Key works by South African artist Robin Rhode and American mixed-media artist David MacDonald broaden the stories and perspectives represented within these collections. The Museum has prioritized acquiring contemporary works for the Arts of Africa collection as it prepares to reinstall dedicated galleries in 2027. The MacDonald acquisition will go on view in February 2026 in Design: 1880 to Now. Generous ... More
Louis-Cyrus Macaire and Hippolyte Macaire, Ship Leaving the Port of Le Havre, 1851, daguerreotype, acquired in 1960 upon the death of the collector Albert Gilles. Bibliothèque nationale de France.
FORT WORTH, TX.- The Kimbell Art Museum today announced two special exhibitions for 2026: The Holy Sepulcher: Treasures from the Terra Sancta Museum, Jerusalem in the spring, followed by Photography’s First Century: Masterworks from the Bibliothèque nationale de France opening in the fall. The masterpieces of The Holy Sepulcher have never before traveled to America, while Photography’s First Century will be the Kimbell’s inaugural exhibition celebrating the art of photography. “The Kimbell’s 2026 exhibitions continue the museum’s tradition of giving its visitors once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to experience great works of art from around the globe,” said Eric M. Lee, the museum’s director. “The Holy Sepulcher will feature dazzling treasures from of one of the holiest sites in Christendom, while Photography’s First Century will draw from what is arguably the world’s most important collection of photography.” This extraordinary exhibition showc ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- The Historic Cellar of Jürgen Schwarz: Five Decades of Collecting, a two‑day live auction, took place at Christie's Rockefeller Center on December 5 and 6. The sale comprised more than 800 lots and achieved $4,248,000, selling 98% by lot and 116% by low estimate. Day I totaled $1,679,275. The top lot was six magnums of Château Lafleur 1982, which realized $81,250 against a low estimate of $48,000. Other highlights included a magnum of Château Lafite Rothschild 1874 and a bottle of Château Lafite Rothschild 1806, both achieving $37,500, as well as a bottle of Château Lafite Rothschild 1865, which sold for $30,000. Day II achieved $2,569,612. The highest price of the day—and of the collection—came from 12 bottles of Henri Jayer, Vosne‑Romanée, Cros Parantoux 1999, which realized $175,000. Additional highlights include five bottles of Henri ... More
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EASTON, MD.- The Academy Art Museum (AAM) will honor the 100th birthday of iconic American artist Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008) with Rauschenberg 100: New Connections, opening December 11, 2025. Presented in partnership with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, the exhibition joins an international roster of institutions commemorating the artist’s centenary. “Rauschenberg’s belief that art could nurture empathy and cross-cultural connection is as vital today as it was in his lifetime,” said Charlotte Potter Kasic, Director of the Academy Art Museum. “We are honored to celebrate his centennial in partnership with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and to share this story from the Eastern Shore to the world.” At its center is Chinese Summerhall (1982)—a one-hundred-foot-long color photograph created in collaboration with Graphicstudio at the University of South Florida. Rarely exhibited due to its monumental scale and fragility, the work will be on loan from t ... More
Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi (1834–1904), Liberty Enlightening the World (Statue of Liberty), 1894–1901, bronze with brown patina and black lacquer, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas.
FORT WORTH, TX.- In August 2026, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art will premiere The Statue of Liberty from Bartholdi to Warhol, an examination of the Statue of Liberty’s enduring relevance in American visual culture and the evolution of its image from the 1870s to the present. Bringing together nearly 100 artworks and objects from more than 70 artists, the exhibition explores the statue’s varied manifestations—from artistic marvel and pop culture icon to symbol of immigration, patriotism, and resistance—and how successive generations of artists, including Pacita Abad, Benny Andrews, Edward Moran, Norman Rockwell, Nari Ward, and Andy Warhol, have represented its iconic form over the past 150 years. Co-organized with the Denver Art Museum, The Statue of Liberty from Bartholdi to Warhol will open at the Carter on August 16, 2026, and be on view through ... More
Charles Frodsham, a Unique and Highly Important Grande and Petite Sonnerie Small Silver Hump-Back Carriage Clock with One-Minute Tourbillon, 7-Day Power Reserve, Original Fitted Case and Winding Key, Price Realized: $952,500.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie's Important Watches achieved $9.3 million with 96% sold by lot, underscoring strength across all levels of the market. The top lot was the Charles Frodsham Silver Grande & Petite Sonnerie Hump‑Back Tourbillon Carriage Clock from the Edlis | Neeson Collection, which achieved $952,500—nearly five times its low estimate. The auction drew vibrant participation, with bidders active in the room, on the phones, and online. Clients joined globally, with 52% of bids from the Americas, 19% from Asia Pacific, and 29% from EMEA. 42% of bidders and buyers were new to Christie's. Rebecca Ross, Head of Sale, Christie's New York, comments: “We are delighted with the results of our Important Watches auction. Throughout the sale, it was exciting to witness several lots ... More
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ZURICH.- Galerie Gmurzynska is presenting the opening of Peinture Trouvée, a solo exhibition by Hubertus Hohenlohe, whose latest body of work redefines the boundaries between photography, object, and painting. On view in Zurich through the end of January, the show invites viewers to enter a world where images are not made, but found. Hohenlohe’s practice begins where most creative processes end: with the discarded, the overlooked, the thrown-away. From crumpled paper fragments and weather-creased posters to forgotten fabrics lying dormant in urban corners, the artist isolates these accidental formations and transforms them into compositions of striking texture, form, and unexpected color. Operating in the tradition of Objet Trouvé, he does not so much create as he uncovers—revealing the beauty that time, chance, and abandonment have already inscribed. This approach places Hohenlohe in a lineage that stretches back to Kurt Schwitters, who, in the wake of a fractured ... More
Kathryn Kanjo, newly appointed museum director of the UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art. Photo: Stacy Keck.
IRVINE, CA.- After a national search, Kathryn Kanjo has been appointed museum director of the UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art. Currently the David C. Copley Director and CEO of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, she will assume her new role in February 2026, where she will also oversee the UC Irvine Jack & Shanaz Langson Institute of California Art. “This is a watershed moment for the visual arts in Orange County and beyond. The UC Irvine Langson Museum unites three celebrated California art collections – Irvine, Buck, OCMA – into a singular museum supported by UC Irvine’s commitment to critical inquiry and excellence,” Kanjo said. “I am honored to lead this newly formed organization, working alongside the talented museum team, world-class faculty, and brilliant UC Irvine students to provide all visitors exceptional museum experiences while also ... More
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The Ackland to present new exhibition Bill Bamberger: Boys Will Be Men CHAPEL HILL. NC.- The Ackland Art Museum announced Bill Bamberger: Boys Will Be Men, on view from January 30 through April 12, 2026. The exhibition presents introspective portraits by distinguished Durham-based photographer and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumnus Bill Bamberger (American, born 1956) of male-identifying high school students from the Durham School of the Arts (DSA). Bamberger's images explore the diversity of American masculinity exhibited by contemporary youth facing adulthood. They are accompanied by the students' audio reflections on the expectations and experiences of coming of age. Bill Bamberger: Boys Will Be Men presents a selection of forty-two photographs drawn from the images created with over 250 student participants. The photographs are presented alongside an audio program drawn from a series of long-form interviews ... More
MMFA unveils a landmark exhibition centering Great Lakes and Rivers Indigenous art MONTREAL.- The transformation of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) continues: the fourth floor of the Claire and Marc Bourgie Pavilion has been dedicated to the presentation of temporary exhibitions that shed a new light on Quebec and Canadian art history. The very first presentation, Rising Suns: Art from the Confederacies of the Great Lakes and Rivers, offers deeper Indigenous perspectives on the territories we inhabit through some twenty works from the Museum’s collection created by artists from distinct northeastern confederacies, nations, and generations. Through a variety of techniques and media, these artists attest to the Indigenous art histories of recent centuries. Rising Suns is the inaugural exhibition in a cycle that will renew each year. Combining rarely exhibited works with a substantial number of new acquisitions, this presentation of the Museum’s ... More
The Huntington unveils 2026 exhibitions exploring California's landscapes through Aguilar, Dorame, and Rodriguez SAN MARINO, CA.- Beginning March 22, 2026, The Huntington will present a new exhibition and installations featuring work by Laura Aguilar (1959–2018), Mercedes Dorame (b. 1980), and Sandy Rodriguez (b. 1975). These individual presentations introduce recent acquisitions, site-specific projects, and ongoing research that reflect each artist’s engagement with California’s landscapes and communities. The works will be on view across multiple galleries as part of the reinstallation of the Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art. “Together, these artists create a thoughtful dialogue about land as a place shaped by history and personal connection,” said Christina Nielsen, the Hannah and Russel Kully Director of the Art Museum at The ... More
Taiwan at the Venice Biennale 2026: Li Yi-Fan and Raphael Fonseca VENICE.- Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM), organizer of Taiwan’s representative exhibition at the 61st Venice Biennale in 2026, announced that representative artist Li Yi-Fan and the TFAM team have invited Raphael Fonseca, currently the Curator of Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art at the Denver Art Museum (DAM) in the United States, to serve as the curator of the Taiwan exhibition 2026 in Venice. As a curator of the new generation from Brazil who is active in the international art scene, Fonseca will engage with the artist Li Yi-Fan, a member of the same generation, in a dialogue that spans regions and cultures. The exhibition will respond to the contemporary predicament of information and image overload, ponder the intricate connections and dialectics between humanity and technology, present how Taiwanese contemporary art resonates within the global ... More
Robert Bergman's portraits to enter dialogue with Old Master icons at the Hill Art Foundation NEW YORK, NY.- The Hill Art Foundation announced The Lost Beauty of Humankind: Robert Bergman’s Portraits in the Hill Collection, a landmark exhibition that places the portraits of American photographer Robert Bergman in conversation with select Old Master paintings from the Hill Collection, curated by David Levi Strauss. This exhibition marks the first major presentation of Bergman’s work since his celebrated solo exhibitions at the National Gallery of Art and MoMA PS1 in 2009. The exhibition features large-scale portraits of ordinary people whom Bergman encountered on American streets between 1985 and 1993. The works evoke the painterly richness of Old Master portraiture through their saturated colors, intimate framing, and nuanced attention to each individual’s features. Yet beyond these formal qualities, each subject is portrayed with a resonant, spiritual ... More
Unknown 1804 dollar sells for $6 million COSTA MESA, CA.- Silver’s record price of over $60/troy ounce wasn’t the only new record set in the world of coins and precious metals today. A newly discovered specimen of the famous 1804 dollar, “The King of American Coins,” brought $6 million at an auction held this afternoon at Griffin Studios in the Costa Mesa headquarters of Stack’s Bowers Galleries, the country’s leading specialty auction house for rare coins. The legendary rarity was consigned by the heirs of James A. Stack, Sr. (no relation to the Stack family who founded Stack’s Bowers Galleries in 1935), a New York collector who died in 1951. Despite intense interest in the 1804 dollar among American coin collectors dating back to its first publication in 1842, this specimen had never before been documented or sold publicly. No fewer than three full length books on the 1804 dollar have been published ... More
TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes Museum opens call for its Contemporary Biennial 2026 TENERIFE.- TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes museum has opened a new selection process to choose the artists and collectives who wish to be part of the TEA Contemporary Biennial 2026, which this year is conceived as a space for exploring the relationship between art, territory and community, understanding these concepts not solely as geographic or social categories, but as fields of shared experience, memory and transformation. This edition of the biennial proposes a reflection on territory as a living fabric of relationships, in which art practices act as tools of mediation, care and resistance in the face of contemporary processes of fragmentation and displacement. The selected projects will seek to activate sustainable bonds between bodies, places and communities, and to foster the emergence of shared spaces of listening and action. TEA invites artists ... More
Writer's Award 2026 goes to Jacqueline Crooks and Vanessa Londoño LONDON.- Crooks and Londoño are each awarded £20,000 and up to a year’s writing residency at the British Library to develop their forthcoming books using the Library’s Americas collections, as well as the opportunity to showcase their finished work at Hay Festival events in the UK and Latin America. They were selected from a shortlist of six writers from Europe, North and South America. Including both fiction and non-fiction, the 2026 shortlist covered a diverse array of subjects relating to the Americas including diasporic identity, indigenous mythologies, gender and race. Now in its 15th year, the Writer's Award is given annually to two writers in the early stages of a new book relating to the Americas. Along with the £20,000 grant, the winners also receive a residency at the British Library, the chance to appear at future Hay Festival editions with their published ... More
Bennington Museum receive grant for historic renovation project BENNINGTON, VT.- The Bank of Bennington Foundation, announced a $50,000 donation to Bennington Museum, supporting the renovation of the historic Grandma Moses Schoolhouse, into a more accessible, modern community space. The Grandma Moses Schoolhouse, relocated to the Museum in 1972, has served since 2005 as an interactive family center that invites children to experience what a 19th-century classroom might have been like for the celebrated local folk artist, Grandma Moses. However, space limitations and inadequate climate control have prevented the one-room schoolhouse from fully realizing its potential as a dynamic and enduring educational resource. “The Grandma Moses Schoolhouse is a wonderful introduction to both the Museum and to Grandma Moses for our youngest visitors,” says Deana Mallory, Director of Public Programs. “So many people ... More
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On a day like today, Scottish architect and painter Charles Rennie Mackintosh died
December 10, 1928. Charles Rennie Mackintosh (7 June 1868 - 10 December 1928) was a Scottish architect, designer, water colourist and artist. His artistic approach had much in common with European Symbolism. His work, alongside that of his wife Margaret Macdonald, was influential on European design movements such as Art Nouveau and Secessionism and praised by great modernists such as Josef Hoffmann. Mackintosh was born in Glasgow, Scotland and died in London, England. He is among the most important figures of the Modern Style. In this image: Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Pinks, 1923. c. CSG CIC Glasgow Museums.
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