ASHEVILLE, NC.- On Thursday, April, 9, Brunk Auctions will sell nearly 225 lots of early American and Continental furniture, samplers, works on paper, flags, early Revolutionary and Civil War military buttons and more deaccessioned from the Brooklyn Museum. The selection includes works acquired by the museum from such notable early collectors or dealers as Luke Vincent Lockwood, Colonel and Mrs. Edgar Garbisch, Mabel Brady Garvan, Mrs J. Haskell Amory and Israel Sack, among others. The sale follows 150 lots previously deaccessioned by the museum in March 2024, and nearly two dozen tapestries and carpets sold for the museum at Brunk Auctions in March 2025. Early American furniture is a strength of the April 9 offering, with several rare pieces capping the category. The sale is led by the only known New York sawn-leg table, circa 1690, that relates to a small group of high chests with similarly shaped legs and has extensive publication and exhib ... More
WILLOUGHBY, OHIO.- The United States will celebrate its 250th anniversary on July 4th, but Milestone Auctions is getting the party started early on April 18 with a Premier Military & Edged Weapons Sale that salutes our armed forces from the American Revolution through modern times. The 723-lot selection includes uniforms, helmets and headgear; medals, flags, insignia, photos, and hundreds of Nazi, Japanese and other World War II Axis relics and articles of memorabilia, including German and Japanese “Big Eye” binoculars and a cased Japanese machine gun aviation camera. The huge array of edged weapons runs the gamut from swords, knives, katanas and daggers to a bone-chilling circa-1700 executioner’s sword previously held in the Torture Chamber Collection of Nuremberg, Germany. One of the most infamous characters of World War II was fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, who proudly assumed the honorary title of Marshal of the Empire following Italy’s imperial ... More
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HONG KONG.- Christie's announced the return of the Ai Lian Tang Collection, one of the world's most admired private collections of Chinese art. Featuring a curated selection of museum‑quality ceramics spanning the Song to Qing dynasties, 'The Ai Lian Tang Collection – 800 Years of Chinese Ceramics' will be presented in a dedicated standalone live sale on 30 April during Hong Kong Asian Art Week. The auction comprises 20 iconic works distinguished by exceptional provenance from world‑renowned collections, including several published and exhibited highlights that have long captivated connoisseurs. From imperial scholars' objects to rare and important masterpieces of Chinese ceramics, the collection reflects the collector's profound and evolving engagement with the aesthetic, technical, and cultural achievements of Chinese art. This spring's offering provides collectors with a rare opportunity to acquire works of extraordinary historical resonance and enduring beauty, while reaffirmi ... More
Seminal Gerhard Richter leads at HK$92 million.
HONG KONG.- On 27 March 2026, Christie's Hong Kong 20th/21st Century Evening Sale achieved a total of HK$655,761,600 / US$83,802,193, marking a 17% increase on the Evening Sale total achieved in March 2025. The results continue the market momentum and confidence seen at Christie's globally. The sale, which comprised an outstanding and varied selection of artistry, garnered exceptional results and was 100% sold by lot, with a hammer price 117% above the low estimate. With the art world gathering in the city, the saleroom was packed and the gallery space at The Henderson was busy throughout, a fitting start to celebrations for Christie's 40th anniversary in Asia this year. The Evening Sale's leading lots and the four world auction records achieved spanned Asian and Western art. Gerhard Richter's Abstraktes Bild led the sale at HK$92,100,000 / US$11,769,799, alongside Sanyu's Cheval agenouillé sur un tapis, (Kneeling Horse on Carpet) which realised HK$63,940,000 / US$8,171,128 after heated competitio ... More
BERLIN.- Starting point of Shilpa Gupta's solo exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof is the monumental work “Truth”, situated at the intersection of language, power, and control. As visitors move between the oversized letters within the exhibition space, the artwork questions the mechanisms that preserve or obscure truth. The exhibition reveals how collective progress depends on protecting and interrogating truth and asks what endures under systems that restrict freedom of speech or access to information. Complemented by additional works from the last 20 years, Gupta's exhibition is presented in dialogue with the museum's display of works by Joseph Beuys. This parallel presentation highlights similarities in their approaches to language, participation, and social reflection. As part of the anniversary programme celebrating 30 years of Hamburger Bahnhof, the exhibition explores the search for truth and emphasizes the role of art as a medium of reflection that encourages questioning structur ... More
Anton van Wouw (Driebergen 1862 – Pretoria 1945), The Hammer Worker, bronze, 60.5 x 66 x 24 cm, signed and dated 'A van Wouw / 1911 Joh-burg'.
ROTTERDAM.- Fenix becomes the first Dutch art museum to acquire a bronze sculpture by Anton van Wouw (Driebergen, 1862 - Pretoria, 1945), widely regarded as the most prominent European sculptor active in a colonial context. The sculpture, The Hammer Worker, depicts a miner and represents a type of migrant that remains globally relevant today. Contract labourers, refugees, migrant workers and undocumented individuals continue to work in physically demanding sectors such as greenhouse horticulture and the meat processing industry. The Hammer Worker offers a timeless representation of migrant labour. Van Wouw himself is of Rotterdam origin and exemplifies the artist who relocates abroad in search of opportunity. Anton van Wouw spends his formative years in Rotterdam, where he attends the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1889, at the age of 28, he departs for Mozambique, subsequently settling in Pretoria and Johannesburg before ultimately ... More
Patrick Nagel (American, 1945-1984), Untitled (Tracy Vaccaro in Polka Dot Dress), 1983. Acrylic on canvas, 40-1/8 x 25-1/8 in. Estimate: $150,000 - up.
DALLAS, TX.- Decades after defining the look of the 1980s, Patrick Nagel is being reappraised not simply as a commercial illustrator, but as a central figure in late 20th-century American art. That reassessment continues April 21, when Heritage Auctions presents its Illustration Art Signature® Auction, led by three exceptional Nagel canvases, each fresh to the market, including one widely believed to be one of the last works he created before his death in 1984. With their crisp lines, cool palettes and unmistakable elegance, Nagel’s images of women became synonymous with an era. Yet his original canvases, estimated by some scholars to number only around 120, remain exceedingly rare. The three offered in this auction not only underscore his artistic precision and cultural impact but also reinforce a market that has steadily gained momentum over the past decade. “Patrick Nagel’s canvases occupy a unique place in illustration and fine art alike,” says Sarahjane Blum, Heritage’ ... More
LOUISVILLE, KY.- The Speed Art Museum announced today the selection of acclaimed photographer Deana Lawson (b. 1979) and Louisville-raised sculptor Brandon Ndife (b. 1991) as the second artist cohort for the Sam Gilliam Visiting Artist Program (SGVAP). Established in 2024 in collaboration with the Sam Gilliam Foundation, SGVAP honors the profound impact that Gilliam’s formative years in Louisville had on his groundbreaking career by bringing two leading artists to the city each year to create new work shaped by its communities, histories, and evolving cultural landscape. Lawson and Ndife will conduct research, engage local community members, and develop new work, which will be presented through a series of exhibitions and public programs at the Speed. “Deana Lawson and Brandon Ndife’s engagement with place, lived experience, and community through their work makes them an ideal selection for this year’s Sam Gilliam Visiting Artist Program residency at the Speed Museum,” said Ann ... More
An important Mamluk gilded and enamelled glass footed bowl, probably Mamluk Syria, second quarter 14th century, 12⅞in. (32.7cm.) high; 8in. (20.5cm.) diam. (estimate: £1,200,000-1,800,000).
LONDON.- Showcasing a broad array of exceptional works of art, Christie's Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds including Rugs and Carpets in London on 30 April will be a highlight of the season. Masterful craftsmanship is exemplified by an extremely rare Mamluk gilded and enamelled glass footed bowl from the Golden Age of Islamic glassmaking (estimate: £1,200,000-1,800,000) and an impressive Mughal Indian 'Flower and Lattice' carpet (estimate: £500,000-700,000), which are part of a small group of five works being offered by the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio to benefit their acquisitions fund. Rugs and carpets which trace the breadth of artistic production from Persia and the Caucasus, to Anatolia and Central Asia, include The Holms Hepburn Coronation Carpet which lay under the throne for the coronations of King Edward VII in 1902, King George V in 1911 and the wedding of H.R.H. Princess ... More
Amedeo Modigliani, Leon Indenbaum,1916. Oil on canvas. Gift of the Henry and Rose
Pearlman Foundation and Family. Photo: Bruce M. White.
BROOKLYN, NY.- This fall, the Brooklyn Museum will open Cézanne to Modigliani: Gifts of Modern Art from the Pearlman Collection. The exhibition, which follows LACMA’s presentation on view in early 2025, showcases more than fifty modern European works from the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth century, drawn from the renowned collection of Henry and Rose Pearlman. Featuring paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, Cézanne to Modigliani celebrates the transformative gift of this stellar collection to the Brooklyn Museum, LACMA, and MoMA. The Pearlman Foundation’s decision to entrust the stewardship of these treasures to be shared across three institutions is the ultimate manifestation of their family’s generosity and commitment to sharing their prized artworks with a wide public. This will be the Brooklyn Museum’s sixth exhibition of works drawn from the collection, ... More
LONDON.- Perrotin is presenting Squall, Sigrid Sandström’s first solo exhibition in London. Bringing together a new body of paintings, the artist explores expansive, atmospheric abstractions that evoke shifting skies, turbulence, and fragile states of equilibrium. Titled after a term that suggests both sudden meteorological change and piercing sound, the exhibition reflects Sandström’s ongoing engagement with gesture, movement, and perception, while subtly addressing humanity’s relationship to the natural world in an era of climatic uncertainty. It would be misleading to describe Sigrid Sandström’s new body of paintings as abstracted landscapes — for one thing, they do not appear to feature anything we might identify as land. Rather, if these works, with their swooping brush strokes and misty fields of colour, suggest a realm beyond that of pure paint, then surely it is the high enveloping sky. This is a place humanity can briefly visit, born up on steel wings in a blaz ... More
LIVERPOOL.- Tate Liverpool are collaborating with the Bluecoat to bring Steve McQueen’s film installation Grenfell to Liverpool. Tate has been coordinating a national tour of the artwork since 2025, and it will be presented at the Bluecoat from 16 May to 21 June. In December 2017, artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen (b.1969, London) made an artwork in response to the fire that took place earlier that year on 14 June at Grenfell Tower. 72 people died in the tragedy. Filming the tower before it was covered with hoarding, McQueen sought to create a record so that it would not be forgotten. Following the fire, a Government Inquiry was launched that was conducted in two phases. The findings of the first and second phase of the Inquiry have been reported, the recommendations of which are yet to be implemented, meaning a similar tragedy could happen again. There is an ongoing criminal investigation. Steve McQueen said “I knew once the tower was ... More
Gordon Parks, Untitled, Shady Grove, Alabama, 1956. All images courtesy of and copyright The Gordon Parks Foundation.
ATLANTA, GA.- Jackson Fine Art announced its spring exhibition Gordon Parks: The South in Color organized in partnership with The Gordon Parks Foundation. The exhibition is timed to commemorate two important milestones - the 70th anniversary of the landmark publication of Parks’ images of the segregated South in Life magazine and the 20th anniversary of the founding of The Gordon Parks Foundation. The South in Color will present more than thirty photographs from the artist’s Segregation Story series and debut a brand-new portfolio published by the Foundation. The exhibition brings together many of Parks’ images not previously shown in the gallery, alongside some of his most recognized such as At Segregated Drinking Fountain, Mobile, Alabama, to offer a fresh look at the series, and deepen its emotional and historical resonance. The South in Color will open at the gallery ... More
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Joachim Brohm and Ron Jude map the banality of the 1990s at Robert Morat Galerie BERLIN.- The exhibition looks at the early work of two internationally renowned photographers – and friends: Joachim Brohm and Ron Jude. Their images from the 1990s share a deep affinity rooted in observational rigour that regards the built environment as a site of cultural imprint. Although both artists developed in very different contexts – Brohm in post-war Germany and Jude in the rural western USA – their works overlap stylistically through a clear, unemotional view of everyday spaces. Joachim Brohm’s work from this period crystallises an approach that merges colour documentary photography with a cool, analytic detachment. His images of suburban houses, parking lots, industrial edges, and infrastructural voids resist traditional narrative cues; instead, they accumulate meaning through typological repetition and the understated tension between banality and latent cultural significance. Brohm’s palette – muted, softly diffused, and deliberately unromantic – ... More
Willie Birch and Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson anchor Fort Gansevoort's EXPO Chicago booth CHICAGO, IL.- Fort Gansevoort returns to EXPO Chicago 2026 with a focused presentation of portraiture by Willie Birch and Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson, bringing together two celebrated Black American artists whose work is grounded in close observation of community, memory, and place. Through distinct visual languages, both artists treat portraiture as a powerful form of storytelling—transforming individual likeness into a record of cultural experience. Fort Gansevoort’s presentation at EXPO Chicago coincides with significant museum exhibitions devoted to each artist. In May 2026, the California African American Museum will open Willie Birch: Stories to Tell, a major touring retrospective co-organized by the New Orleans Museum of Art and the American Federation of Arts, which will travel to institutions across the United States through 2029. Robinson’s ... More
Berlin survey unpacks the hidden history of queer art in the GDR BERLIN.- Under what conditions did “queer” art arise in the German Democratic Republic (GDR)? How did the artists’ art and lived realities become visible and what role did censorship, the State Security Service, and cultural policy play? The exhibition QUEER ART IN THE GDR? and the extensive accompanying events programme focus on a hitherto insufficiently researched chapter in German art history and contemporary history. On the basis of the checkered life stories of nine artists and their works, the exhibition encourages a new reading of art from East Germany: not as homogeneous, government-controlled art output but as a complex field of personal experiences, upheavals, and ambivalences. It shows how closely questions of identity, power, conformism, and artistic freedom are interlinked—and why it is still important to engage with these issues today. The artists brought together in this exhibition, namely Toni Ebel, Andreas Fux, Jochen Hass, Erika Stürmer-Alex, Dorothea von P ... More
Lynette Pohlman to retire after 55 years with University Museums AMES, IA.- Lynette L. Pohlman, Warren and Beverly Madden Endowed Director and Chief Curator of University Museums at Iowa State University, will retire June 3, 2026. She has served as director since 1980, a tenure of 46 years, placing her among the longest-serving museum directors in the United States. That number alone understates her history with the institution. Pohlman joined University Museums as an Iowa State University student employee in April 1971, first working to restore the Farm House Museum before the Brunnier Art Museum opened. She is the founding employee of what has grown into a five-entity system of museums and public art at Iowa State University. When the first director resigned in 1980, she stepped in as interim and was appointed to the permanent role in 1983. What followed was more than four decades of sustained, ... More
Lebanese 250 Livres leads Heritage's World Paper Money Auction to $1.54 million DALLAS, TX.- A Lebanon Banque de Syrie et du Liban 250 Livres 1939 Pick 21 PMG Extremely Fine 40 realized $43,920 to lead Heritage Auctions’ March 26 World Paper Money Signature® Auction to a total of $1,543,704, as collectors competed for elite rarities and historically significant banknotes from around the world. The Lebanese 250 Livres — the highest denomination of the landmark 1939 series printed by the Bank of France — stood as one of the most coveted offerings in the auction. An iconic rarity seldom encountered in any grade, the type saw limited issuance, with approximately 112,000 notes printed and nearly all redeemed decades ago. The example offered is the second-finest of just eight graded by PMG and features engravings of St. John’s Church on the face and the Sea Castle of Sidon on the reverse. Its strong eye appeal, crisp paper and vivid pastel ... More
1796/5 Half Eagle leads Heritage U.S. Coins Auction to nearly $12 million DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions realized $11,948,630 in its March 26-28 U.S. Coins Signature® Auction, led by a 1796/5 BD-1 Half Eagle, MS64 NGC that brought $256,200 and an 1879 Flowing Hair Stella, PR65 Cameo NGC that realized $201,300. “The results in this auction reaffirmed the demand among collectors for important coins in the early U.S. gold series,” says Heritage Auctions Executive Vice President Todd Imhof. “Collectors of rare U.S. coins, early American gold, classic pattern issues and historic shipwreck relics all were able to bolster their collections with treasures found in this auction. The top lot in the auction was the 1796/5 BD-1 Half Eagle, one of the most important issues in the early U.S. gold series. John W. Dannreuther has suggested a mintage between 1,057 and 2,000 coins, with just 80-100 examples believed to survive in all grades. ... More
Jane Birkin-signed Hermès Birkin among standout handbags in Heritage sale DALLAS, TX.- From an Hermès Birkin signed by Jane Birkin herself to dazzling creations in sterling silver and crocodile, Heritage’s April 23 Spring Luxury Accessories Signature® Auction brings together some of the world’s most coveted handbags. Among the lots is one of the rarest handbags ever to come to auction: a Bleu Marine Courchevel Leather Birkin twice signed by the iconic bag’s namesake. The first Birkin was originally created 45 years ago after the British singer and actress Jane Birkin found herself seated next to the artistic director of Hermès, Jean-Louis Dumas, on a flight from Paris to London. As Birkin tried to secure her belongings in the overhead compartment, everything inside her wicker basket spilled onto Dumas’ lap. Frustrated with the small bags of the time, she told Dumas she couldn’t find a fashionable leather handbag large enough for her liking. ... More
Amanda Heng to represent Singapore at the 61st Venice Biennale VENICE.- For the Singapore Pavilion at the Biennale Arte 2026, Amanda Heng Liang Ngim presents A Pause, an exhibition that extends her decades-long practice of working with the body and the everyday. The exhibition transforms the pavilion into a space for rest and observation, centred on ordinary actions such as sitting, waiting, and watching. Commissioned by the National Arts Council (NAC), supported by the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth and organised by SAM, Singapore’s 12th presentation at the International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia underscores the nation’s continued support for artists whose practices engage critically with the world through experimentation, participation and sustained practice. It is also a commitment to supporting Singapore artists such as Heng on international platforms, creating opportunities for them to showcase ... More
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On a day like today, English painter and educator John Constable died
March 31, 1837. John Constable RA (11 June 1776 - 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for revolutionising the genre of landscape painting with his pictures of Dedham Vale, the area on the borderland of Suffolk and north Essex surrounding his home – now known as "Constable Country" – which he invested with an intensity of affection. "I should paint my own places best", he wrote to his friend John Fisher in 1821, "painting is but another word for feeling". In this image: Hove Beach by John Constable. Photo: Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
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