Agnieszka Kurant. Image Courtesy of Janek Zamoyski.
NEW YORK, NY.- Rhizome, today announces the line-up for the 2026 iteration of Seven on Seven (7x7), annual landmark art and technology program returning to the New Museum on May 16. Each year since 2010, 7x7 pairs seven artists with seven technologists for a day-long collaboration and gives them a simple challenge: make something new and present the results at a public conference. This year’s theme is “Containment” and will include seven joint presentations. Against the backdrop of the New Museum’s widely acclaimed reopening exhibition New Humans: Memories of the Future, 7x7 continues the inquiry into evolving definitions of the human. The term “Containment” is often used to refer to controls imposed on AI systems to ensure their actions are predictable and aligned with human interests, but its use here is inspired by the 2000 essay “Container ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- In 1928 commercial artist Hal Foster took a job to turn Edgar Rice Burroughs’ novel Tarzan of the Apes into a 60-installment black and white newspaper comic. Initially, no American papers wanted it, so it premiered in England, to great acclaim. When U.S. papers picked it up and wanted more, Foster wasn’t interested. It was only in 1931, with the Great Depression threatening his family with starvation, that he consented to take it on as a full color, full page Sunday comic, still calling the low-paid job “a bit of pottage.” That bit of pottage fed him for the next seven years, as Tarzan became the first adventure comic, and one of the most beloved Sunday strips in America. Though newspapers complained about the violence (Burroughs countered that Tarzan’s success was the result of a “human weakness for gory and gruesome situations”) and the incessant nudity (the writer’s script notes asked for “a great deal of female nakedness”) readers f ... More
Elizabeth Strong (1855-1941), Springer Spaniel with newspaper, interior. Estimate $800-$1,200.
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA.-Turner Auctions + Appraisals will present a Family Collection on Sunday, May 24, 2026, at 10:30 am PDT. Featuring over 185 lots, most from a Northern California family, with some lots from other collectors and estates, including the Estate of Joan A. Nitis of San Francisco. The diverse sale includes artworks, sterling silver items, gold coins, European and Asian decorative arts, miniatures, books, small furniture, Persian rugs, and more. Artworks include watercolor, oil, pencil, etchings, lithographs, and sculpture, with works by Frances Marian Hebert, Ludmilla Pilat Welch, and Elizabeth Strong. There are sterling silver items, among them flatware sets, and serving pieces and table articles such as salts and spoons. The wide range of European decorative arts includes European miniatures, porcelains from Sèvres, Meissen, Minton, Royal Vienna, and Dresden. There is also an array of Asian decorative arts: ... More
Johann Baptist Lampi the Elder, Zoë and Adelaide von Tomatis, 1788/89. Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna.
VIENNA.- What do a Neoclassical family portrait and a Biedermeier depiction of Venus have in common? Both the portrait of Caroline and Viktor von Tomatis by Johann Baptist Lampi the Elder (1751 Romeno – 1830 Vienna) and Sleeping Venus with Cupid in Front of a Mirror by his eponymous son (1775 Trento – 1837 Vienna) were overpainted. Based on the results of technical investigations and art-historical research, this exhibition from the IN-SIGHT series traces the consequences of these later interventions in the work of the two artists. General Director Stella Rollig: Based on two works in the Belvedere’s collection, this show offers fresh perspectives on the oeuvres of Johann Baptist the Elder and Johann Baptist the Younger. The eventful history of these overpainted works demonstrates how they have changed over time in terms of both their formal appearance and their content and messages. In addition, the exhibition highlights ... More
VENICE.- In conjunction with the 2026 Venice Biennale, Alberta Pane hosts a solo exhibition by world-renowned American artist Judy Chicago (b. 1939) at its Venice gallery: The Materiality of Judy Chicago, curated by Allison Raddock, which runs from 8 May to 22 November 2026. This focused exhibition aims to offer a comprehensive overview of Judy Chicago’s work, through the lens of the materials and innovative techniques that have defined the artist’s six-decade career while introducing viewers to a new series of work which makes its debut at Galleria Alberta Pane. A pioneering figure in feminist art, Judy Chicago was for many years primarily associated with her iconic project The Dinner Party (1974-79)—viewed by millions of people since its creation and acquired in 2001 and permanently housed in 2007 by the Brooklyn Museum as the centerpiece of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art—to the point where the artist used to wonder, “Would the ... More
Portrait of Gozo Yoshimasu. Photo by Masashi Asada.
LONDON.- Serpentine and The FLAG Art Foundation announced that Gozo Yoshimasu has been awarded the inaugural Serpentine x FLAG Art Foundation Prize. The recipient was selected by an official jury comprising Michelle Kuo, Venus Lau, Hans Ulrich Obrist (Serpentine) and Jonathan Rider (The FLAG Art Foundation) and Rirkrit Tiravanija. The jury convened in London on Thursday 23 April to determine the winner. Over the next decade, a total of £1 million (£200,000 biennially) will be awarded to five recipients, providing unmatched support at a pivotal moment in their careers. This is the UK’s largest contemporary art prize given to a single artist. Gozo Yoshimasu (b. 1939, Tokyo, Japan; lives and works in Tokyo, Japan) will stage a solo exhibition that debuts at Serpentine North in autumn 2027, followed by a presentation reimagined for The FLAG Art Foundation in New York in spring 2028. This long-term collaboration initiates an ongoing artistic dialogue between the ... More
PARIS.- Gagosian is presenting an exhibition of three major late paintings by Francis Bacon at its rue de Castiglione gallery in Paris, through May 30. These commanding works crystallize the radical economy and psychological intensity of the artist’s final period while reaffirming his enduring dialogue with the French capital—a city in which he maintained a studio and intellectual foothold between 1975 and 1987, frequenting, among other places, the storied Hôtel La Louisiane. Widely regarded as one of the most incisive painters of the twentieth century, Bacon forged a singular visual language that collapses the boundaries between modernity and tradition. His figures—simultaneously constrained and exposed within fragile geometric armatures—seem to convulse against saturated chromatic fields, rendering the human body as a site of existential tension rather than stable form. The three ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- The New Museum today unveiled a new sculpture by Sarah Lucas (b. 1962, London, UK) as the first commission produced for the Museum’s outdoor plaza at the terminus of Bowery and Price Street—a new public space created through the New Museum’s OMA-designed building expansion. Lucas was selected as the first artist to create work for the plaza by an all-artist jury comprised of Teresita Fernández, Joan Jonas, Julie Mehretu, Cindy Sherman, and Kiki Smith. She is the first of five recipients over ten years to be selected by a rotating jury of women artists for this commission series which supports the production and presentation of public sculpture by women. Her commission entitled VENUS VICTORIA opens today, May 12, 2026, and will be on view for two years. Recognized as one of Britain’s most significant contemporary artists, Lucas has cultivated an expansive practice spanning sculpture, photography, and installation characterized by ... More
Einar and Jamex de la Torre, Chimerame, 2023, Blown glass, water jet cut aluminum, 34 x 23 x 8 in, 86.4 x 58.4 x 20.3 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Ruiz-Healy Art is presenting de la Torre Brothers: Psychopomp, marking the brothers' second solo exhibition with the gallery and their first in New York City. The exhibition is on view from May 12 to August 14, 2026. “Psychopomp” literally means the ‘guide of souls’ for a spiritual guide who leads souls on their journey to the afterlife. The de la Torre Brothers create elaborate, mixed-media glass sculptures and lenticular prints, utilizing the concept of the psychopomp to explore themes of cultural transience. Their Baroque-inspired creatures create visually dense narratives that reflect on “high” versus “low” art, diasporic experiences, and social class stratification through humorous world-building. Brothers Einar and Jamex de la Torre, born in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1963 and 1960, respectively, moved to California in 1972. They have collaborated since the 1990s, developing a signature style that combines mixed media and blown-glass sculpture ... More
Firelei Báez, View of Nature (Existing not in the cycles themselves but only in the interactions of the cycles) (detail) 2026. Oil on linen, 261.6 x 191.5 x 3.8 cm / 103 x 75 3/8 x 1 1/2 in per panel.
NEW YORK, NY.- On the heels of two major solo museum exhibitions in 2025, Firelei Báez will unveil an ambitious, enveloping constellation of radiant new paintings and works on paper, along with new large-scale bronze sculptures, in her first New York exhibition with Hauser & Wirth. Across two floors of the gallery’s 22nd Street location, Báez extends her ongoing engagement with colonial legacies and the natural, spiritual and cosmic reverberations of the African diaspora. A storyteller and world maker, Báez works within the tradition of history painting while quietly undoing the very conventions through which histories are fixed and made legible. In this presentation, she subtly shifts her focus away from the discernible, if chimerical, figures that occupy her previous bodies of work to achieve a more atmospheric sensibility, one that invites a broader, deeper understanding of how bodies and nature shape our ... More
Sotheby’s achieves most valuable watch sale in Geneva for more than a decade totalling 15 million CHF / 19.3 million USD.
GENEVA.- Last night, Sotheby’s Geneva flagship Important Watches Sale has confirmed continued buoyancy in the collectible watch market by grossing 14,982,016 CHF / 19,295,488 USD, the most valuable watch sale of the past 12 years. The standing room only live auction took place at Geneva’s Mandarin Oriental, with a high number of in person bidding, coming from an engaged audience who witnessed several records broken during the session – a reflection of the record number of overall participation in the sale with 1,500 of paddles registered. The current strong demand for high quality watches was undeniable last December, in New York, where Sotheby’s flagship watch sale became its highest grossing watch sale ever, a short-lived record shattered by Sotheby’s Hong Kong Important Watches Sale just last month. Alongside its record total, today’s Geneva sale saw record participation from collectors, with each sold ... More
Patek Philippe Nautilus ref.-5711-1A-018 circa 2022.
GENEVA.- Christie's Rare Watches live auction achieved CHF 33,054,441 / US$ 42,309,684, becoming the highest result for any various owner watch auction held at Christie's. A 99% sell through rate by lot and selling 188% above low estimate underscores the current high demand in the watch auction market. In addition, 60% of lots sold above their high estimate. One of the most anticipated watches of the auction was a 1990 Cartier Crash London, which achieved CHF 1,585,000 / US$ 2,028,800 – tripling its low pre-sale estimate and setting the new world auction record for the model. This timepiece is distinguished by its crisp, heavy gold case and matching gold 'Crash' deployant clasp, both of which have full Cartier London signatures. The top lot was an exceptionally rare F. P. Journe Platinum Tourbillon Souverain, Ref. T, achieving CHF 2,439,000 / US$ 3,121,920 (realising five times its low estimate). Introduced at Baselworld in 1999, the piece was consigned to auction by the family of the ori ... More
The collection of eight letters includes the first letter Keats wrote to Brawne in 1819. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- A remarkable group of eight autograph letters signed by John Keats to his fiancée, Fanny Brawne - recently recovered to their current owners after being stolen some 40 years ago - will now be offered at Sotheby’s. Ahead of their auction in New York this June, the letters will travel to London, where they will go on public exhibition at Sotheby’s New Bond Street, between 11th to 15th May. The occasion marks a major homecoming for the letters, which were first sold by Sotheby’s London in 1885. They will be offered at auction at Sotheby’s New York this June with an estimate of $1.5–2.5 million. The letters, which were recovered in New York this year, form part of a larger body of approximately 37 written by Keats to Brawne between 1819 and 1820, composed during their courtship and engagement. Among them is the earliest known letter Keats wrote to Brawne, dating from July 1819, in which he opens with the tender confession that “the morning is the only proper t ... More
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Richard Aldrich joins Xavier Hufkens BRUSSELS.- Xavier Hufkens announced representation of American artist Richard Aldrich. Known for a practice that approaches painting as an open, iterative field, Aldrich develops works in which gesture, revision, and material presence remain in active dialogue. His works foreground process and perception, inviting a sustained and attentive engagement with how images take shape over time. Xavier Hufkens: “Richard Aldrich’s work occupies a particularly open and inquisitive space within painting – one that embraces hesitation, revision, and the poetics of the fragment. We are very pleased to welcome him to the gallery, and look forward to engaging with a practice that continues to challenge and expand the language of painting.” The gallery will present Aldrich’s work at Art Basel in June 2026, followed by his first solo exhibition with the gallery in Brussels in spring ... More
Richard Perry estate auction features art, music and design from a legendary producer's life LOS ANGELES, CA.- Abell Auction Co. presents “The Estate of Legendary Record Producer Richard Perry” on May 21, spotlighting instruments, furnishings, gold records and memorabilia belonging to one of the most accomplished music producers of the 1970s and beyond. Together, the pieces reflect the music sessions and legendary gatherings at his Los Angeles home that shaped his world and relationships, and left a lasting impact on American popular culture. Live online bidding will begin at 10 a.m. PDT. Over the course of a career spanning more than five decades, Perry worked with an extraordinary roster of artists, including Carly Simon, Harry Nilsson, Rod Stewart, Ringo Starr, Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross, Art Garfunkel and the Pointer Sisters. Widely admired for matching the right song with the right artist, Perry was behind enduring hits such as “You’re So ... More
New exhibition at Amos Rex offers a glimpse into young people's concerns and dreams HELSINKI.- The fourth edition of the Generation triennial provides an unfiltered overview of a young generation’s thoughts, challenges, and dreams through art. The exhibition brings together 50 artists and collectives born between 2001 and 2008, many of whom are exhibiting publicly for the first time. They blur the boundaries between traditional art genres and invite us to confront the most pressing social issues of our time. The exhibition runs from 13 May to 6 September 2026. “Amos Rex has a special relationship with young people, both as visitors and as artists. Generation is an exhibition that shows our commitment to show the work of young artists on the biggest stage possible. The works are extraordinary, giving a view of how young people will express themselves in the future and of their concerns, interests, passions and attitudes to their lives,” says ... More
It's not my problem anymore: Christoph Schlingensief's radical legacy returns to Vienna VIENNA.- From filmmaker to political actionist, from theater and opera director to actor, visual artist, and bestselling author: Christoph Schlingensief’s (1960–2010) work goes beyond the limits of genres, creating exuberant layers of material and meaning that defy any categorization. Inherent in his oeuvre is a challenge to the audience to take an active stance—between irritation and insight, feeling overwhelmed and reflecting. With the exhibition It’s Not My Problem Anymore!—a (partial) quote by the artist from 2005—the MAK together with the Vienna Festival (Wiener Festwochen) | Free Republic of Vienna are dedicating the first comprehensive solo exhibition in Austria to Christoph Schlingensief (MAK Exhibition Hall, 13.5.–13.9.2026). The country, which he thrust into the heart of social contradictions with his intervention Please Love Austria – First ... More
Zineb Sedira transforms Tate Britain with the radical spirit of African cinema LONDON.- Tate Britain today unveils When Words Fall Silent, Cinema Speaks…, a major new commission by Zineb Sedira. Sedira has transformed Tate Britain’s neo-classical Duveen Galleries into an immersive installation drawing on the rich legacy of 1960s and 70s African cinema. The commission centres on Algeria following its independence in 1962, when it became one of the hubs for activist filmmakers from Africa, Asia, South and Central America to share political ideas and envision alternative futures. Exploring the role of cinema in shaping collective memory and global solidarity, Sedira’s commission reanimates historical film techniques and narratives in a celebration of cultural resilience. Visitors are greeted by the commission’s title in bright red lettering in the style of Hollywood cinema signs of the 1940s and 50s. Sedira infuses the visual language of Hollywood’s Golden ... More
For Esther III, Laurel Gitlen presents new works by Jill Goldstein and Max Guy NEW YORK, NY.- Since 2020, Jill Goldstein has been making complex and commanding embroidered works on linen. Her abstract compositions often start with a near-symmetry that is disrupted by required repairs and undulating shifts in rhythm, placing patterns against patterns and using sewn line as if drawing. The work reflects the unpredictability of life, and her grids, geometries, patterns, lace and line are dictated by the fragility of the threadbare textiles as well as intuition, spontaneity and interruption. In one work, a lumpy seam on a bed sheet is resolved with three small stitched orange rectangles, and in other works, the irregular curve of a torn edge is juxtaposed with hard geometric triangles, like zig zag teeth. Goldstein reduces six-strand embroidery floss to single and double strands, creating variable size and density. Using brightly colored and metallic thread, ... More
Mystical topographies: Bethann Parker's visionary landscapes to debut at Esther III NEW YORK, NY.- For Esther III, Adams and Ollman presents new works by Bethann Parker. Her visionary paintings reveal a spiritual connection to the landscape. Each explores the rich space between nature and abstraction, enveloping figurative forms in explosive brushwork, shape, and color. The works, buzzing with energy and emotion, unfold at the intersection of nature and spirituality, conveying a worldview of interconnectedness. Parker's work draws on American modernism, transcendentalism, Christian theology, feminism, and the occult, while remaining grounded in the artist's own unique spirituality and surroundings, and shaped by an intimate, intuitive, and exploratory process. The artist proposes painting as a form of inquiry, one that probes the dynamics of perception and belief, the external landscape and the inner life, the animate and the inanimate, ... More
Swedish artist explores the poetry of simple machines in new Stockholm show STOCKHOLM.- Galleri Magnus Karlsson presents Bella Rune’s third solo exhibition at the gallery. Planet features new works that criss-cross between two and three dimensions in sculptures, objects and works on paper. The exhibition title itself suggests an ambiguity that is characteristic of Bella Rune’s artistic practice (The word Planet can mean either planet, airplane or surface in Swedish). She utilises the everyday, the tangible and the fundamental to aim for something expansive and grand. In her most recent works, she has taken an interest in simple machines: basic mechanical devices that alter the direction or magnitude of a force to make work easier. The classic examples are the lever, the inclined plane, the wedge, the screw, the wheel and axle, and the pulley. The series Planet is a suite of works on paper engaged in a playful dialogue with geometric, non- ... More
Keith Haring's lost Amiga paintings revealed as immersive installations NEW YORK, NY.- In 1987, Keith Haring sat down at a Commodore Amiga computer and made five digital paintings for a Timothy Leary video game that was never released. Nearly four decades later, those works are being exhibited for the first time at the scale Haring envisioned, not as archival curiosities, but as large-scale immersive installations, bathing the viewer in programmable light. Martos Gallery is pleased to present Keith Haring: More Light, an exhibition drawn from the collection of Jeannie Vu and Jehan Chu. Its title comes from Goethe’s reported final words, “More light,” and the show honors that cry in full: this is the first exhibition to realize Haring’s own ambition for his digital work, displayed at a scale commensurate with his most celebrated public practice. The five works that comprise the Amiga series were created between February and April 1987 for Neuromancer: ... More
Major works featured in Post War & Contemporary Art sale NEW YORK, NY.- Rago/Wright will present two major auctions on May 14th: Pure Edge: American Geometric Abstraction, Selected Works from the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires and Post War & Contemporary Art. Together, these sales offer a compelling survey of 20th- and 21st-century artistic innovation, spanning the clarity and rigor of geometric abstraction to masterworks from a wide range of post-war and contemporary artists. A centerpiece of the Post War & Contemporary Art auction is Maria Martins’s 1946 bronze Impossible (est. $150,000–200,000), one of the most significant works by the Brazilian-born Surrealist sculptor to appear at auction in recent years. Created during her pivotal New York period, the sculpture exemplifies Martins’s distinctive synthesis of Surrealist biomorphism with the mythologies and natural imagery of the Amazon. ... More
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