Installation view of Creatures of Myth and Imagination: Europe and the Americas, on view May 18–October 18, 2026 at The Met Cloisters. Photo by Richard Lee, Courtesy of The Met.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hybrid beings—imaginary creatures that combine features of different animals, humans, and even plants— abound in the history of art, reflecting the human impulse across time and space to deconstruct, interchange, and reassemble elements of the known world into inventive entities and extraordinary visions. On view this spring at The Met Cloisters, Creatures of Myth and Imagination: Europe and the Americas explores fantastic beings in the visual arts over the course of a millennium, from 500 to 1500 CE. A collaborative effort between The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Met Cloisters location and Michael C. Rockefeller Wing at The Met Fifth Avenue, this exhibition illuminates the parallel but independent traditions of Europe and the Americas to investigate the multiple functions of works depicting hybrids and the roles these objects played in people’s lives. The exhibition will be on view May 18 through October 18, 2026. "Artistic traditions throughout human history have ... More
NORFOLK, VA.- This summer, the Chrysler Museum of Art presents “Constellations: Contemporary Jewelry from the Dallas Museum of Art,” a sweeping survey of wearable art spanning nearly a century of innovation. On view July 10, 2026-Jan. 3, 2027, this exhibition brings more than 350 works to 1 Memorial Place, Norfolk, Virginia from one of the most significant contemporary jewelry collections in the United States, formed by the Dallas Museum of Art. “More than a survey of contemporary jewelry, “Constellations” celebrates artists’ ability to expand the boundaries of wearable art through innovation and creativity,” says Mark A. Castro, director of curatorial affairs at the Chrysler Museum. “The exhibition invites audiences to embrace the full range of the medium’s potential— to engage serious issues while also fostering playfulness and delight.” Featuring more than 230 artists from 41 countries, &# ... More
Late 1930s/early ‘40s Argentinian 18K gold necklace in the Art Retro style, comprised of hand-drawn tubing from a gold sheet, 16 inches long, weighing 1.95 troy ounces. Estimate: $12,000-$18,000.
BROOKLYN, NY.- A stunning Argentinian 18K gold Art Retro necklace; outstanding sterling silver objects and flatware services; dazzling jewelry pieces by David Webb and other famous makers; beautiful vintage pens; rare and highly collectible toys and games; wonderful decorative accessories and more will be featured in SJ Auctioneers’ online-only Collectible Toys, Jewelry, Silverware & Décor auction slated for Sunday, May 31st, starting promptly at 6pm Eastern Time. The auction, with nearly 350 quality lots, is live now, on LiveAuctioneers.com. The catalog is filled with world-famous artists, designers and silversmiths, such as Buccellati, Tiffany & Co., Cartier, Dominick & Haff, Louis Vuitton, Marco Bicego, Steuben, Loet Vanderveen, Royal Vienna, S. Kirk & Son, Herend, ... More
Evan Sebastian Lagache Spring Acrylic on Canvas, Estimate $7,000-$10,000.
GLEN COVE, NY.-Roland Auctions NY will present their upcoming Saturday, May 30th, 2026 Multi-Estates Auction, as we ease into the summer season. This auction will feature selections from various prominent estates, offering Contemporary and Fine Art, antique and Mid-Century Modern furniture, silver, bronze sculptures, jewelry and exquisite items in the Decorative Arts. Previews for the May 30th auction will be held on Thursday, May 28th and Friday, May 29th from 10am until 6pm. In the always prominent art arena at Roland, they are offering four contemporary acrylic on canvas paintings by artist Evan Sebastian Lagache (American, b. 1995), whose work has been featured at Julie Keyes Gallery, Art Basel, and Pulse Miami. The first is titled "Summer", an abpsychist acrylic on canvas, [48" H x 60" W], signed Evan Lagache to verso, From a private New York City Collector. Estimate ... More
John Constable (British, 1776-1837), The Cornfield (full-scale study), circa 1820-6. Oil on canvas, 55-1/2 x 47-1/2 in. Estimate: $300,000 - $500,000.
DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions will offer a previously unknown full-scale oil study by John Constable for his celebrated The Cornfield in the National Gallery, London, as the lead lot in its June 5 Important European Art auction, following a major scholarly and conservation investigation that has authenticated the work as an autograph painting by the artist. The monumental study, which remained hidden in plain sight for decades at the Jefferson Historical Society and Museum in Jefferson, Texas, fundamentally reshapes understanding of the genesis of one of Constable’s greatest paintings, now in the collection of the National Gallery, London. Widely regarded alongside The Hay Wain as one of the defining achievements of British landscape painting, The Cornfield occupies a notable position within British art history. Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1826, the painting depicts ... More
Auctioneer Adrien Meyer sells Jackson Pollock's Number 7A, 1948 the top lot of Masterpieces: The Private Collection of S.I. Newhouse, for $181.2 million.
NEW YORK, NY.- History was made Monday, May 18, 2026 at Christie's New York—for just the second time in history, a single night of auctions totaled more than $1 billion. Back-to-back sales: Masterpieces: The Private Collection of S.I. Newhouse and the 20th Century Evening Sale realized a combined total of $1,121,126,500, selling 97% by lot, with strong global participation and bidding across all regions. Two defining artists of the twentieth century, Jackson Pollock and Constantin Brancusi established new benchmarks, each eclipsing the $100 million mark, with Pollock's seminal Number 7A, 1948 from the collection of S.I. Newhouse selling for $181.2 million after seven minutes of intense bidding in the room and on telephones. The Brancusi sold for $107.6 million, the second highest total for a sculpture of all time at auction. The palpable excitement in the saleroom ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- Leila Heller Gallery is presenting the solo exhibition Wassef Boutros-Ghali: A Retrospective. Wassef Boutros-Ghali’s compositions convey a vivid sense of movement, their tensions and harmonies evoking shifting light, landscapes, and the cultural influences that informed his vision. Moving away from the conventions of figuration, he embraces abstraction as a modernist form of self-expression. Boutros- Ghali’s paintings demonstrate a refined balance between architectural precision and painterly sensitivity, transforming geometry into a contemplative language marked by constant visual flux. Spanning his distinct creative phases, the works in this exhibition reflect an enduring artistic legacy shaped across Cairo, Paris, and New York City. Boutros-Ghali’s practice was informed by both cultural hybridity and political upheaval, and his paintings mirror this duality, balancing a sense of instability with the order of architectural form. By uniting these works, ... More
2013 Bowman Chrome Draft Picks & Prospects Aaron Judge (Superfractor) #BDPP19 PSA Mint 9 - #'d 1/1 - MBA Gold.
DALLAS, TX.- A one-of-one card celebrating one of baseball’s biggest (literally) stars led Heritage’s May 15-17 Spring Sports Catalog Auction to $23,492,032, as a 2013 Bowman Chrome Draft Picks & Prospects Aaron Judge Superfractor #BDPP19 PSA Mint 9 - #’d 1/1 soared like one of the Yankee slugger’s monstrous home runs to $838,750, more than doubling the pre-auction estimate. The card, one of the most significant modern prospect cards in existence, captures Judge at the beginning of his professional career after he was selected by the New York Yankees in the first round of the 2013 MLB Draft. Its Superfractor status, iconic gold spiral refractor pattern and true one-of-one serial numbering place it among the most coveted modern baseball cards ever issued for the two-time American League Most Valuable Player. “Cards from the start of any superstar’s career always are in exceptionally high demand, and that certainly is the case for this ... More
BIRMINGHAM, AL.- In 1971, the Birmingham Museum of Art acquired a work by Henry Ossawa Tanner, the first by a Black artist to enter its collection. In the decades since, the Museum has worked to build a collection that now spans two hundred years and includes more than 1,000 works by over 250 Black artists—today, one of the most significant collections of Black American art in the country. Opening in September 2026, Roll Call: Two Hundred Years of Black American Art offers a focused examination of this legacy, presenting ninety-nine works ... More
Henri Matisse, Vegetal Elements, 1947, gouache cutout on paper mounted on canvas, Museum Berggruen, Neue Nationalgalerie.
HOUSTON, TX.- In May 2026, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston will host the U.S. debut of a selection of modern masterworks by Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse, Alberto Giacometti and other figures of the postwar European avant-garde, assembled by the famed gallerist and collector Heinz Berggruen. The exhibition explores Berggruen’s relationship with the artists, literary community and art-market network to which he was intimately connected in postwar Paris, through his Berggruen & Cie gallery on Rue de l’Université. Picasso–Klee–Matisse: Masterpieces from the Museum Berggruen will be on view at the MFAH May 20 through September 13, 2026. “I am honored to bring to the U.S. and to Houston these exceptional masterworks from the collection of the Museum Berggruen in Berlin,” comments Gary Tinterow, director and Margaret Alkek Williams chair of the MFAH. “It is especially rewarding to introduce our audiences to the life and legacy of Heinz Berggruen ... More
Eva Marengo Sanchez, Gluten-free is healthier, right, 2026, Signed bottom right, Oil on canvas, 24 x 18 x 1.5 in, 61 x 45.7 x 3.8 cm.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Ruiz-Healy Art presents Eva Marengo Sanchez: Any given Monday, our first solo exhibition of the San Antonio-based artist's works. The exhibition will be on view at the San Antonio gallery from May 20 to August 22, 2026. The artist’s still-life paintings highlight the relationships among food, identity, geography, and culture. Meticulously rendered and compositionally reminiscent of Old Master paintings, Marengo Sanchez’s work elevates the commonplace, creating snapshots of her bicultural and Tex-Mex experience. Any given Monday explores the convergence of private and public through her still lifes of everyday subjects, which hold strong associations in the artist’s personal narrative while also speaking to collective memories. Marengo Sanchez, who grew up on the city’s Southeast side, observes the natural world alongside the urban environment. A striking instance of this is her depiction ... More
J. R. R. Tolkien. The Hobbit, or There and Back Again. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, [1937].
DALLAS, TX.- An out-of-this-world assemblage of science fiction and fantasy titles broke a constellation of auction records in Heritage’s stellar David Aronovitz Collection of Important Science Fiction and Fantasy, Part I Rare Books Signature® Auction May 13, including the world record for any science fiction library sold at auction, with a sum of $3,353,626 — and counting, as Part II in December and Part III next spring will add significantly to the total. “This auction demonstrated Heritage’s ability to reach a wide range of collectors of science fiction and fantasy titles,” says Francis Wahlgren, International Director of Rare Books & Manuscripts at Heritage Auctions. “The David Aronovitz Collection is incredible — he spent around 50 years assembling it, and his discerning eye and knowledge of the science fiction market is on display throughout. The results underscored his vast knowledge of the genre, as the auction produced auction records for numerous authors ... More
Hilary Pecis, Nook, 2026. Acrylic on linen, 77 x 92 x 1 5/8 inches (195.6 x 233.7 x 4.1 cm).
LOS ANGELES, CA.- David Kordansky Gallery is presenting Love Letters, a solo presentation of new paintings by Hilary Pecis. The exhibition is on view in Los Angeles at 5130 W. Edgewood Pl. from May 16 through June 20, 2026. Like counterarguments against nihilism, the artworks in Love Letters distill everyday sites of connection into a visual language that itself feels like sustenance. Throughout the exhibition, Pecis’s vivid odes of affinity refer to people, places, and activities of particular significance. Depictions of the quotidian hang beside representations of personal milestones: the window of a friend’s art studio; the idiosyncratic signage of a Bay Area yacht club; a display of medals commemorating the dozens of races run by the artist, who likens the endurance sport to paint- ing. Pecis is best known for creating hyper-saturated still lifes, lived-in interiors, and unmistakably Californian landscapes that conjure the Los Angeles region as an intimate setting for dailiness. ... More
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ICA Watershed launches 2026 season with a major exhibition by Lucy Raven BOSTON, MASS.- This summer, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston opens its 2026 Watershed season with Lucy Raven: Rounds, on view May 20 through Sep. 7, 2026. The exhibition marks the United States’ premiere of Hardpan, 2025, a large-scale kinetic sculpture co-commissioned with Barbican Centre, London, and Murderers Bar, 2025, the final installment in Raven’s series The Drumfire. Sited at the ICA Watershed, the exhibition is organized by Ruth Erickson, Barbara Lee Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs at the ICA, with Meghan Clare Considine, Curatorial Assistant at the ICA. “We are thrilled to present the U. S. premiere of Raven’s Hardpan and Murderers Bar, two riveting and ambitious immersive works at the Watershed,” said Nora Burnett Abrams, Ellen Matilda Poss Director at the ICA. “Presented in the industrial setting of the Watershed, ... More
Gallery Wendi Norris to present Ranu Mukherjee's sixth solo exhibition SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Over the last thirty years, Ranu Mukherjee (b. 1966, Boston, MA) has developed a multidisciplinary practice that questions Western and human-centric ideas about intelligence, resilience, and survival, imagining a more tender and attentive way of relating to the world. This sensibility animates the eleven new paintings she created for The Long Middle, Gallery Wendi Norris's sixth solo exhibition with the artist. Borrowing its title from cultural theorist Lauren Berlant's phrase "the long middle of change," the exhibition reflects on our current paradigmatic shift as Mukherjee merges the autobiographical with the political, ecological, and geological—linking the pressures of mid-life, motherhood, and personal transformation with the threats of climate crisis, resource extraction, and species loss. In Mukherjee’s paintings, the transitional conditions ... More
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia unveils major First Nations public art project SYDNEY.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia is presenting Dennis Golding: On the Foreshore, a new contemporary art project created in collaboration with Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay/Biripi artist Dennis Golding and young people from the Bayside area. This work is the MCA’s 25th C3West project and marks its first expansion into Greater Sydney. Kamay Botany Bay is a place of unique importance – the site of first contact, and a continued meeting ground for diverse communities. Positioned prominently on the foreshores of Kamay Botany Bay, the project features a large-scale, digitally printed installation that wraps four stacked shipping containers, creating a stunning, striking visual landmark against the bay’s waters and headlands. The unique designs have been co-created by Dennis and local young people, influenced by the area and their experience of Country, ... More
Youssef Nabil becomes first living artist to exhibit in Musée d'Orsay's North African rooms PARIS.- The Musée d'Orsay has played a prominent part in the body of work developed with a distinctive visual style by the Franco-Egyptian photographer-videographer Youssef Nabil (born in 1972) since the 1990s. When he visited France for the first time in 1992 and admired this museum's collection, he found a source of inspiration that has been infusing his work for more than thirty years, as seen in his self-portrait The Dream (2021), in continuity with Le Rêve by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. The artist colours his works by hand to bring a nostalgic aesthetic back to life, nourished by archives and intimate narratives. His images question exile, identity and the desire to belong, often feeling melancholic while building a poetic, dreamlike universe blurring the lines between fiction and autobiography. Nabil is the first living artist to exhibit in the « Artists in North Africa » rooms ... More
Heritage's Art of Anime Vol. VIII realizes $2.5 million in record-breaking event DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions’ May 15–17 The Art of Anime, Vol. VIII Signature® Auction realized $2.5 million and established a new world record for an anime-focused Animation Art auction, surpassing Heritage’s previous benchmark of $1.48millionand underscoring the extraordinary global demand for original anime production art. The three-day event featured 1,206 lots and achieved a remarkable 100% sell-through rate, drawing participation from 2,665 international bidders and collectors competing aggressively across nearly every major anime category. “Bidding was spirited from Lot 1 on Friday through the very last lot Sunday evening,” says Jim Lentz, Heritage’s Vice President of Animation & Anime Art. “The global response to our Art of Anime animation art auction showcases the enduring love and popularity of this art form. Every major category — from ... More
From sinners to warriors: A new exhibition decodes Guercino's radical vision of women MADRID.- The museum is presenting a selection of works by Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (Cento, 1591-Bologna, 1666), known as Il Guercino, one of the most prominent figures of northern Italian Baroque painting. Centred on one of the artist’s masterpieces, Christ and the Woman of Samaria at the Well (ca.1640-41) from the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection, the exhibition brings together a group of five further key paintings which together allow for an analysis of how the artist approached the image of women in biblical narratives. These works, which have been loaned from other institutions such as the Museo Nacional del Prado, the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, and the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Strasbourg, also reflect Guercino’s narrative skill and mastery of gestural language, while simultaneously demonstrating his stylistic evolution. Guercino's choice of this subject ... More
Hartwig Art Foundation presents Aria Dean: The Color Scheme BERLIN.- After a successful premiere at Performa 2025 in New York, The Color Scheme—Aria Dean’s latest Hartwig Art Foundation × Performa commission—will have its European premiere at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin, near its original site on the historic Siegesallee. Set in Berlin’s Tiergarten shortly after the First World War, artist and writer Aria Dean’s performance The Color Scheme imagines a dialogue between two African American expatriates—the Poet and the Philosopher—as their date in the park becomes a broader meditation on the relationship between Black avant-garde aesthetics and the nascent political movements of the twentieth century. A few steps away from what is now HKW, the original statues of Kant and Goethe offer Dean an opportunity to critically examine nationalist and imperial monuments and serve as the mise- ... More
Fairytale fortresses and hairy chests: David Gilbert's transient paper worlds NEW YORK, NY.- In his new body of work, David Gilbert has been fashioning castles out of paper. He photographs these drawn and cut forms as they curl off the walls of his studio, dappled in the first rays of morning light or bathed in the glow of the evening. The chateaux Gilbert chooses as subjects have a flavor of childhood, as if lifted from a fairytale. While the imagery draws on a sense of picture-book wonder, the castle as icon symbolizes power and dominance, staking a claim on land and over people. Gilbert’s rendering of these fortresses in drooping paper and scrappy cardboard defangs their power; stone heft and weight are made gossamer, the structures light with blowy impermanence. Gilbert’s use of photography furthers this transient quality. Photography inherently captures a brief moment in time, and Gilbert’s images emphasize their temporality ... More
Heritage launches Sunday Action Figures & Toys Select Extended Bidding Auctions DALLAS, TX.- In response to ever-increasing demand from collectors and an unprecedented volume of consignments in the category, Heritage Auctions will open its first Sunday Action Figures & Toys Select Extended Bidding Auction for bidding on Sunday, May 24, and will close for initial bidding at 6 p.m. Central on Sunday, May 31. The second phase of bidding will then begin, featuring 15-minute incremental extensions. Learn more about extended bidding auctions. The new weekly auction will feature the same variety of toys offered in Heritage’s monthly Showcase auctions. Collectors can look forward to offerings from some of the hobby’s most popular lines, including Star Wars, G.I. Joe, Transformers, Aurora Models, and more. Featured items in the first Sunday Action Figures & Toys Select Extended Bidding Auction May 31 will include modern Star Wars collectibles ... More
When Silence Becomes the Medium: The Art of Katrin Rymsha NEW YORK, NY.- The art world is quieting down. After years of spectacle from immersive LED installations and AI-generated canvases to gallery-scale provocations, a different kind of work is gaining serious traction among curators and collectors.
Some may call it contemplative painting, while others name it meditative figuration. Whatever the label, the impulse is the same: art that demands stillness from its viewer, that rewards slow looking and that refuses to be consumed in a single scroll. And it is in this cultural moment that the work of Katrin Rymsha, known formally as Ekaterina Rymsha, deserves serious attention. Rymsha is an internationally-exhibited, award-winning contemporary visual artist with over a decade of professional experience in painting and watercolor. Born in Russia and educated in fine arts at the academic level, she has spent much of her career deliberately working outside the boundaries of any single art scene. ... More
The Tate Britain Garden awarded gold at the 2026 RHS Chelsea Flower Show LONDON.- Tate announced that The Tate Britain Garden designed by Tom Stuart-Smith and generously funded by the Clore Duffield Foundation and Project Giving Back, has been awarded a gold medal at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Presenting a bold new vision for how art, nature and community interact, the show garden offers a taster of the forthcoming Clore Garden, also designed by Stuart-Smith, due to open at Tate Britain on London’s Millbank in 2027. The garden takes cues from East Asian woodlands, and features resilient drought-tolerant plants suitable for London’s rising temperatures which look to the future of Tate Britain’s site. At its heart is a 1949 sculpture from the nation’s art collection, Bicentric Form by Dame Barbara Hepworth; a circular bench cast from reused materials; and a golden water channel inspired by mycorrhizal fungi. After ... More
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On a day like today, French Neo-Impressionist painter Henri-Edmond Cross was born
May 20, 1856. Henri-Edmond Cross (20 May 1856 - 16 May 1910), born Henri-Edmond-Joseph Delacroix, was a French painter and printmaker. He is most acclaimed as a master of Neo-Impressionism and he played an important role in shaping the second phase of that movement. He was a significant influence on Henri Matisse and many other artists. His work was instrumental in the development of Fauvism. In this image: The farm, evening, 1893, private collection.
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