Belkis Ayón and Carlos Alfonzo: Odyssey installation view, January 22, 2026. Photo by Oriol Tarridas.
MIAMI, FLA.- The aesthetic languages developed by Belkis Ayón (b.1967, Havana, Cuba–d.1999, Havana, Cuba) and Carlos Alfonzo (b.1950, Havana, Cuba–d. 1991 Miami, USA) present distinctive layers of embedded meaning. Each artist takes a strong, resolute approach to image-making. Although their individual visual styles differ, works by Ayón and Alfonzo find connection in historical myths and complex spiritualities. Raw, bold, expressive storytelling informs their work; each composition contains an unending narrative or journey. In tune with the world around them, both artists recognized violence and oppression. They experienced the challenges of scarcity and lack of freedoms afforded in their birth country of Cuba. Ayón and Alfonzo navigated their art in different ways, but they both received critical acclaim for their work during their lifetimes. Works by these artists continue to shape generations of artists and impact the ways in which contemporary art history takes shape. Odyssey provide ... More
GSTAAD.- Almine Rech Gstaad presents ‘Still Life, Living Form,’ a group exhibition on view from February 12 to March 22, 2026. The still life and the figure are perhaps the most intimate artistic motifs. Often drawn from the artist’s own immediate surroundings, these compositions represent a choice to capture and represent the mundane, documenting a fleeting moment for eternity. In Natural History Pliny the Elder designates the first artist as “the Corinthian Maid,” a young woman who traced her lover’s shadow on a wall before he left on a journey. This instinct towards preservation can be seen in these two genres across the centuries. Possibilities abound as the still ... More
Edward and John Bernard (London) English Victorian wine jug decanter from 1853, sterling silver 925, about 37cm tall, weighing 800 Grams. Estimate: $3,100-$3,400.
BROOKLYN, NY.- Fresh on the heels of a highly successful, 314-lot Winter Watch of Wanted Collectibles auction held in late January, SJ Auctioneers will build on that success with a Fabulous Collectibles, Décor, Silverware & Jewels auction on Sunday, March 1st, starting at 6pm Eastern Time. The online-only auction, with over 300 lots, is live now, on LiveAuctioneers.com. Fine silver – whether it’s in the form of spectacular individual pieces or flatware services by famous makers – is a hallmark of SJ Auctioneers and a primary reason for its recent success. Both will be in strong evidence in the March 1st sale, as eager bidders are expected to vie for items in the silver categories, as the value ... More
BOULDER, COLO.-Artemis Fine Arts will launch its Native American | Ethnographic | Ancient Art auction on February 13, 2026, at 9:00 AM (GMT-6) in Boulder, Colorado, bringing together a wide-ranging selection of legally acquired works spanning Native American, Pre-Columbian, Oceanic, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern, Asian, and ethnographic art. The sale offers collectors an opportunity to acquire objects that bridge daily life, ceremony, and artistry—many drawn from long-held private American collections. Among the most anticipated lots are several exceptional works attributed to the Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi) cultures of the American Southwest, prized for their disciplined geometry and expressive forms. This sculptural stirrup spout vessel exemplifies the balance of function and design ... More
LONDON.- Drawing into Painting will be the UK’s most comprehensive museum exhibition exploring Lucian Freud’s drawings, featuring rarely-seen drawings and preparatory studies alongside iconic paintings, offering an unprecedented insight into the creative process and working methods of one of the greatest realist artists of the twentieth century, Lucian Freud (1922-2011). Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting is curated by Sarah Howgate, the NPG’s Senior Curator of Contemporary Collections, in collaboration with David Dawson, artist, and Director of the Lucian Freud Archive. The exhibition will explore how, although Freud is best known as a painter, some of the most significant changes in his art can be traced through his drawing. Freud drew obsessively from an early age, and the exhibition’s starting point is the fascinating accumulation of childhood drawings, 48 sketchbooks, letters and unfinished paintings which comprise the Lucian Freud Archive at the National ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- Anish Kapoor’s groundbreaking explorations of scale, color, volume, and materiality unfold through a focused presentation of mirror works created between 2010 and the present. Building on the artist’s enduring investigation of spatial illusion, these sculptures challenge viewers to experience their de-stabilized presence within reflective and immersive environments. Monumental stainless-steel forms anchor the exhibition, accompanied by a select group of painted mirrors that oscillate between stillness and transformation. The exhibition directly follows Kapoor’s major museum presentation at the Jewish Museum in New York, and coincides with his first US institutional exhibition dedicated exclusively to painting at the SCAD Museum of Art (opening February 9, 2026). Preceding a landmark exhibition at Southbank Centre’s Hayward Gallery, and an ambitious presentation at Kapoor’s foundation, Palazzo Manfrin, this summer, this exhibition offers ... More
Adriaen van Stalbempt (1580–1662), Archduke Albert of Austria and Archduchess Isabella Visiting a Collector’s Cabinet. Oak panel, two boards, not cradled. Height: 59 cm. Width: 78.5 cm. Estimate: €100,000–150,000.
LILLE.- A long-overlooked Flemish painting has reemerged in Lille, sparking excitement among specialists and collectors alike ahead of its upcoming sale. The work, attributed to Adriaen van Stalbempt, belongs to one of the most dazzling genres of 17th-century art: the collector’s cabinet. These richly detailed scenes—popular in Antwerp and the Southern Netherlands—depict private galleries filled with paintings, sculptures, scientific instruments, and exotic curiosities. They celebrate not only the art of collecting but also the intellectual prestige and cultural ambition behind it. In an era when global exploration was reshaping Europe’s worldview, such images became visual declarations of knowledge, taste, and power. The newly rediscovered panel animates this world with vivid clarity. Visitors stroll through a grand gallery lined with artworks, pausing to admire paintings that cover the walls from floor to ceiling. Others examine objects ... More
Harold Gilman, Stanislawa de Karlowska, ca. 1913, oil on canvas, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund.
NEW HAVEN, CONN.- This spring, the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) presents Going Modern: British Art, 1900–1960, an exhibition tracing how artists in Britain negotiated the challenges and opportunities of modernism in a rapidly changing world. Drawn from the museum’s renowned collection, the exhibition features more than seventy paintings and sculptures by some of the most compelling figures of twentieth-century British art, including Walter Sickert, Vanessa Bell, Ben Nicholson, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, and Frank Auerbach. “Going Modern demonstrates the richness and complexity of Britain’s engagement with modernism,” said Martina Droth, Paul Mellon Director, YCBA. “The exhibition reveals how artists working within a deeply rooted national tradition responded to the changing world around them, developing innovative ... More
BERN.- The Swiss artist, architect and Bauhaus student Hans Fischli (1909–1989) is the focus of a thematic presentation as part of the permanent exhibition Kosmos Klee from 24 January to 3 May 2026 at Zentrum Paul Klee. Based on a series of delicate works on paper and three architectural projects from the turbulent 1930s and 1940s, the exhibition Fokus. Hans Fischli explores the artist’s early work. Some of the drawings on display were created during a three-month prison sentence in Meilen district prison. Following his training as a construction draughtsman in Zurich, Hans Fischli studied at the Bauhaus in Dessau from 1928 onwards, where he attended the classes of Paul Klee, Josef Albers, Wassily Kandinsky and Oskar Schlemmer. After finishing his studies, Fischli worked as a draughtsman and architect in Switzerland, while ... More
Sparrows (1926).
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Library of Congress has selected 25 films for the National Film Registry due to their cultural, historic or aesthetic importance to preserve the nation’s film heritage, the Library announced today. The selections for 2025 date back to the silent film era with six silent films dating from 1896 to 1926 – a significant number of films in this class. The newest film added to the registry is from 2014 with filmmaker Wes Anderson’s “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” which included meticulous historical research at the Library of Congress to create visually striking scenery. Iconic Hollywood films from the last 50 years selected for the registry this year include “The Karate Kid,” “Glory,” “Philadelphia,” “Inception,” and the teen comedy “Clueless.” Classic Hollywood selections include the 1954 musical “White Christmas” that enshrined the chart-topping song of the same name in American popular culture, and perha ... More
Michel François. Courtesy: the Artist and Xavier Hufkens, Brussels. Photo: Thomas Merle.
BRUSSELS.- Resisting a fixed style, Michel François’s practice unfolds through a sustained engagement with process, material behaviour, and transformation. Spanning sculpture, installation, and — more recently — painting, the works in this exhibition are formally diverse yet connected by recurring concerns: the tension between control and spontaneity, the experience of time and duration, and processes of change, repetition, and contingency. Often emerging from simple gestures — folding, cutting, casting, dripping or bending — François allows chance, instability and impermanence to actively shape his work. He frequently works with utilitarian or industrial materials, including sand, rubber, metal, paper, glass, wax and found objects. In François’s practice, small interventions or adjustments will trigger significant — often transformative — effects that can generate complex meanings. ... More
Brenda Goodman, The Race, 1973, oil and mixed media on canvas; 84 x 72 inches (213.4 x 182.9 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Sikkema Malloy Jenkins presents The Sum of Its Parts, a solo exhibition of paintings by Brenda Goodman, on view from February 12 through March 21, 2026. For nearly sixty years, Brenda Goodman has created deeply expressive works at the intersection of abstraction and figuration. Her practice is guided by a relentless drive to experiment, wielding the formal qualities of paint—tactile impasto, gauzy veils of color, and built-up surface textures—to conjure realms of psychological confrontation and physical expression. The works on view in The Sum of Its Parts span the 1970s to the present day. The Race (1973), a large-scale oil painting from early in Goodman’s career, depicts a central triangular figure affixed with paintbrushes in place of arms and legs. Scrawling—walking—across a canvas laid out on the floor, the bulbous figure evinces a vulnerability ... More
WALTHAM, MASS.- This winter, the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University presents Photorealism in Focus. On view in the museum’s expansive Lois Foster Wing, the exhibition celebrates the technical mastery, conceptual rigor, and continuing resonance of Photorealism. Emerging in the late 1960s during an era of rapid technological change and inspired by the visual language of commercial imagery, Photorealism took shape as artists such as Richard Estes, Charles S. Bell, Ralph Goings, and others created painstakingly detailed paintings based on photographs that pushed the limits of illusion. These artists challenged traditional hierarchies between photography and painting while capturing the nuanced textures of contemporary experience. Featuring over thirty artists working across painting and sculpture, ... More
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Galleri Nicolai Wallner now representing Carola Grahn COPENHAGEN.- Galleri Nicolai Wallner announced the representation of Carola Grahn. Carola Grahn (b. 1982, Jåhkåmåhkke, Sæpmie; based in Lund, Sweden) is a conceptual artist whose practice primarily unfolds through large scale projects including sculpture, installation, performances and the materialization of text and sound. Her work examines structures of power and politics, with particular attention to how these forces are embedded in everyday life. Interested in our relationships to nature, to each other and to larger narratives, Grahn often tells universal stories from a personal lens. Formally, Grahn’s work often draws on restrained sculptural strategies that recall figures such as Donald Judd and Nancy Holt, while simultaneously grounding itself in vernacular materials drawn from Sami culture and the north. This convergence foregrounds alternative knowledge ... More
Salt Galata presents Güneş Terkol's Epipe, tracing Tatar migration and memory ISTANBUL.- Salt presents Epipe by Güneş Terkol, one of the two recipients of the second edition of the Salt Artistic Research and Production Grant Program, organized in collaboration with the BBVA Foundation. Epipe is the culmination of an oral history and archival research project that Terkol has been working on with her mother, Elmira Terkol, since 2002. The artist weaves together earlier and newly produced works with materials distilled from this research, which traces the multi-stage migration of the Kazan Tatars beginning in the late 19th century, from Russia to China and eventually to Türkiye. Combining drawing, animation, and stitching, she develops a layered audio-visual narrative around migration routes, family recollections, and exchanges across geographies and generations. During the preparations for the exhibition over the past year, a series ... More
DC Moore Gallery presents Robert Kushner's ongoing dialogue with Matisse NEW YORK, NY.- Robert Kushner: I Still ♥ Matisse finds Kushner in an ongoing dialogue with Henri Matisse and a range of other influences and collaborators. This exhibition, on view at DC Moore Gallery from February 12 – March 14, presents two new and interrelated bodies of work. Three monumental variations on a 1915 Henri Matisse painting expand upon Kushner’s series of paintings inspired by Matisse still lifes, first exhibited in the 2021 exhibition I ♥ Matisse at DC Moore. Shown alongside are a series of paintings of seasonal flowers which intertwine elements from Kushner’s recent investigations of still life, varied approaches to flowers as a subject, and commitment to pattern. These paintings represent a new confluence of these longstanding interests, marked by a color palette influenced by European Modernism, sensitivity to line, and an expansive ... More
"Allan Rohan Crite: Neighborhood" brings iconic works to Zimmerli Art Museum NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ.- Born in North Plainfield, New Jersey, and raised in Boston, Allan Rohan Crite (1910-2007) created a rich visual record of Black life in 20th-century urban America, revealing a sense of community that resonates across time and place. The new exhibition Allan Rohan Crite: Neighborhood at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers—New Brunswick, offers a sweeping overview of his long career as a storyteller and cultural historian who chronicled the everyday lives of his friends and neighbors. “Crite gifted the art world with iconic imagery that spans much of the 20th century, but only recently has he gained recognition in a broader art-historical context,” said Maura Reilly, director of the Zimmerli. “The artist primarily depicted the people and places around his longtime home of Boston, but his work evokes a feeling of belonging that ... More
Sinebrychoff Art Museum explores the mysteries of night through art and poetry HELSINKI.- This exhibition at the Sinebrychoff Art Museum takes us into the night and its many different faces. Besides the artworks, poetry is also a powerful presence, guiding us into these mysterious hours. Inspired by the art and the exhibition’s theme, poet Henriikka Tavi has written poems that form an integral part of the whole. Rather than explaining away this special time of day, visitors are encouraged to feel and interpret the night. Instead of a set of distinct works, the exhibition is a total work of art, with its architecture – devised by Designer Lauri Johansson – also playing a major role. “We audaciously set about testing a completely new concept, in which collaboration with a poet opens up new interpretations. The exhibition architecture intensifies the nocturnal atmosphere with stage-set-like elements,” says Museum Director Kirsi Eskelinen. The exhibition explores ... More
The FLAG Art Foundation presents Deborah Roberts's Consequences of being NEW YORK, NY.- The FLAG Art Foundation opens Consequences of being, an exhibition of new work by Deborah Roberts, on the ninth floor. Bringing together large-format paintings, works on paper and, for the first time in her career, ceramic sculpture, the exhibition signals an expansion of Roberts’s practice and the intensification of her research into the history of colonialism. Continuing to use collage to explore identity as something that can be fragmented and rebuilt while reclaiming found materials and images in the process, in these new works Roberts focuses on how Black bodies are seen, positioned and understood on a global scale. Consequences of being broadens the historical scope of Roberts’s reflection on the impact of colonialism on Black communities to encompass the histories of Germany, the Netherlands and South Africa—nations ... More
Museo Reina Sofía surveys Alberto Greco's disruptive avant-garde practice MADRID.- Museo Reina Sofía director, Manuel Segade, presented the exhibition Alberto Greco. Viva el arte vivo on Tuesday alongside Marta Rivera de la Cruz, a representative from Madrid City Council’s Area of Culture, Tourism and Sport and a collaborator on the show, and Fernando Davis, its curator. This retrospective on the artistic and literary output of Alberto Greco (Buenos Aires, 1931 – Barcelona, 1965) is on view from 11 February to 8 June 2026 on Floor 0 of the Museo Reina Sofía’s Sabatini Building. By way of more than 200 works and documents extending across eight rooms, a chronological and conceptual survey is set forth which situates the artist in connection with the avant-garde art of his time, and with the present. The survey takes in the period stretching from 1949 to 1965, from his beginnings in literature and painting to his subsequent ... More
Gideon Rubin finds quiet openings in there are ways out. at Galerie Karsten Greve ST. MORITZ.- With there are ways out., Galerie Karsten Greve in St. Moritz presents a new body of work by Gideon Rubin, created specifically for this exhibition. Borrowed from Charles Bukowski’s poem The Laughing Heart, the title functions less as a declaration than as a poetic proposition: a quiet reminder that even in unsettled times, there remain openings for pause, attentiveness, and reflection. Rubin’s painting unfolds in a subtle tension between presence and withdrawal, between memory and imagination. His works resist closure: rather than offering fixed narratives, they propose open pictorial situations in which meaning is not asserted but gradually assembled through looking. Within this curatorial logic of openness lies a philosophical charge—what matters most is not fully stated, but suggested, entrusted to the viewer’s perceptual and emotional ... More
Tiwani Contemporary inaugurates 2026 programme with figuration-focused exhibition LONDON.- Tiwani Contemporary inaugurates its 2026 London programme with group and solo presentations across the gallery’s spaces at 24 Cork Street. The group exhibition Present occupies the main galleries and brings together the work of Bunmi Agusto, Carla Gueye, Márcia Falcão, Miranda Forrester, Ugonna Hosten, and Sikelela Owen. Through painting, sculpture, and mixed media, these artists explore figuration as a vital, expressive language for addressing the complexities of being seen, remembered, and understood. The exhibition unfolds through a series of interwoven visual and conceptual threads that ask: what does it mean to be present—emotionally, politically, spiritually, and historically—and for whom does that presence become visible? Across the exhibition, the represented body becomes both a site of narration and an instrument of inquiry. The artists ... More
Exhibition celebrates Boston's African American Master Artists-in-Residence Program BOSTON, MASS.- The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA) opens Say It Loud: AAMARP, 1977 to Now, an exhibition dedicated to Boston’s African American Master Artists-in-Residence Program. A vital outgrowth of the Black Arts Movement, AAMARP was founded by artist, educator, and activist Dana C. Chandler Jr. at Northeastern University in 1977, making it one of the first in-residence programs for Black artists in the United States. Tracing the evolution of AAMARP through the artists’ voices, their engagement with global artistic and political movements, and their deep-rooted sense of community, the exhibition illuminates a living archive of creative resistance, cultural memory, and Black artistic excellence over five decades. Say It Loud: AAMARP, 1977 to Now features more than 50 works by 39 artists spanning generations and mediums, including figurative ... More
Young V&A celebrates 50 years of Aardman with immersive family exhibition LONDON.- This week Young V&A opens its third exhibition, Inside Aardman: Wallace & Gromit and Friends. Created primarily for children and families, the exhibition invites visitors to explore the world of Aardman – creators of Wallace & Gromit, Chicken Run, Shaun the Sheep, Morph, and more – and unpacks the making of some of the most well known and loved characters of all time. Coinciding with the studio's 50th anniversary year, Inside Aardman explores the storytelling and craft that brings their familiar and fantastical worlds from the sketchbook to the screen. Moving through themed sections on concept development, model-making, filming and post-production, visitors will uncover the skills, tools and techniques behind the studio's distinctive storytelling. Over 150 objects will be on show, including Aardman’s early character sketches, concept art, puppets, character ... More
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On a day like today, German artist Max Beckmann was born
February 12, 1884. Max Carl Friedrich Beckmann (February 12, 1884 - December 27, 1950) was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the movement. In the 1920s, he was associated with the New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit), an outgrowth of Expressionism that opposed its introverted emotionalism. Even when dealing with light subject matter like circus performers, Beckmann often had an undercurrent of moodiness or unease in his works. Exhibition view "Beckmann". Photo: Städel Museum – Norbert Miguletz.
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