Anonymous, Katagami (dyeing stencil), Nineteenth century, 30.8 × 41.6 cm, Impregnated paper, cut. The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna.
VIENNA.- “Alongside the Louvre and the British Museum, the ALBERTINA houses one of the world's largest collections of art on paper: drawings, prints and watercolours. Next year, we will be celebrating our 250th anniversary – an ideal occasion to dedicate a major exhibition to this rich treasure trove spanning 600 years of art history. Fascination with Paper focuses on the collection, which comprises over a million objects, and showcases great art treasures as well as the astonishing diversity of paper as a material: from foldable sundials to drawings and sculptures to artistic playing cards”, says Ralph Gleis, Director General of the ALBERTINA. With this extraordinary exhibition in the Bastei Hall, the ALBERTINA is dedicating itself to the medium that characterises its collection like no other. Fascination Paper focuses on the material itself for the first time and, with around 140 exhibits, highlights its diverse artistic applications and manifestations. The visual, haptic and s ... More
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MIAMI, FLA.- This holiday season, gift the artist in your life something that truly elevates their craft: Smartist Pro, a visual staging app designed for artists, by artists to help them present their work professionally, without needing a gallery, photo shoot, or expensive software. Smartist was created by Ilgar Tali, an artist who built the app out of firsthand frustration with how difficult and time-consuming it was to present work professionally without expensive software or gallery resources. While Smartist is free to download with basic features, its full potential is unlocked through Smartist Pro, a subscription that gives artists access to an expansive library of interiors and professional visualization tools designed to elevate how artwork is presented. With hundreds of curated interior scenes, multiple viewing angles, customizable layouts, and intuitive smart tools, Smartist Pro allows artists to create polished, photorealistic ... More
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Bustling streets and sidewalks, parks alive with play and plazas filled with laughter and music — this is the heartbeat of community life. “Ferias, Parques y Plazas: A Celebration of Public Space” brings together artworks from the McNay Art Museum’s collection and loans from the San Antonio artistic community that capture the energy and vibrancy of public gathering spaces. On view Jan. 8-April 12, 2026, the exhibition invites visitors to reflect on how shared environments foster connection, creativity and collective joy. The intersection of art, culture, and daily life is demonstrated through more than 15 works of art depicting markets, streetscapes, fairs, folk life, dancing and celebration across a variety of mediums and time periods. “Ferias, Parques y Plazas” explores how generations of artists have recognized the social and cultural value of public spaces and celebrates ... More
Gilbert Stuart, George Washington (Athenaeum-type) oil on canvas, 29½ x 24 1/8 in. Commissioned in 1804 by President James Madison, Estimate: $500,000-1,000,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hundreds of rare treasures including foundational American documents from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, will be offered at Christie's New York in January in two sales that mark the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. We The People: America at 250 and The American Collector will be part of the largest Americana Week in history. This landmark series will include nine auctions and around 700 lots with a combined estimate around $80 million to $120 million, taking place online and at Rockefeller Center January 13-28, 2026. Both auctions will be on view at Rockefeller Center, January 16-22, 2026. Highlights of We the People include: • A contemporary broadside edition of the Declaration of Independence, published July 12th to 16th, in Exeter, New Hampshire by Robert Luist Fowle (estimate: ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s today announced projected consolidated sales of $7.0 billion for 2025, a 17% increase versus 2024. Results were achieved through market leadership in Global Fine Art auctions, a record year in the Luxury division and particular strength in Single-Owner Collections. Auction sales rose 26% year-over-year to $5.7 billion, with sales accelerating significantly in the second half of the year, up 59% versus the second half of 2024. Private sales reached $1.2 billion, down slightly from the prior year. Both the Global Fine Art and Luxury categories posted strong gains, with Global Fine Art sales increasing 15% to $4.3 billion and Luxury sales up 22% to $2.7 billion, the division’s fourth consecutive year above $2 billion. Sotheby’s Financial Services delivered outstanding results, reaching a record high portfolio balance in excess of $1.8 billion. Sotheby's also raised $129 million for museums and charitable organizations through benefit auctions, private sales and di ... More
Luisa Roldán, The Rest on the Flight into Egypt. Museo Nacional del Prado.
MADRID.- The Museo del Prado has taken an important step in reshaping the story of Spanish Baroque art with the acquisition of The Rest on the Flight into Egypt by Luisa Roldán, known as La Roldana. Signed and dated 1691, the sculpture marks the first time one of Roldán’s works enters the Prado’s collection—despite her name having long appeared on the museum’s façade alongside Spain’s great masters. Luisa Roldán (1652–1706) was a remarkable figure in her time: the first woman to be appointed sculptor to the Spanish court, serving under both Charles II and Philip V. Yet, like many women artists of her era, her work has remained underrepresented in major museum collections. This newly acquired sculpture helps to correct that absence and brings her artistry into direct dialogue with the Prado’s holdings of Baroque painting and sculpture. The work, made of polychrome terracotta and wood, depicts the Holy Family pausing ... More
MADISON, WI.- The Chazen Museum of Art announced a generous gift of twenty-eight photographs by celebrated photographer Irving Penn (1917–2009) from The Irving Penn Foundation in honor of John Szarkowski (1925–2007), a UW–Madison alumnus and former photography curator at the Museum of Modern Art. The group of photographic prints curated by Van Vleck Curator of Works on Paper James R. Wehn, PhD, in collaboration with the foundation, represents a major addition to the Chazen’s collection, where it will augment existing holdings of photographs across multiple genres from the late 1930s to the turn of the twentieth century. The gift surveys Penn’s practice, from his earliest photographs to projects undertaken for Vogue magazine and his independent studio work. "The Chazen is thrilled ... More
The rare pendant uncovered in the excavations at the southwestern corner of the Temple Mount. Photo: Eliyahu Yanai, City of David.
JERUSALEM.- How did an ancient pendant made of cast lead, decorated on both sides with a seven-branched menorah, come to Jerusalem at a time when Jewish presence in the city was restricted? A very rare personal necklace pendant from the 6 - early 7th century CE (Late Byzantine period) was recently discovered in a large-scale archaeological excavation in the Davidson Archaeological Park of Jerusalem, conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority in cooperation with the City of David Foundation and the Company for the Reconstruction and Development of the Jewish Quarter. The rare find is decorated on both sides with an identical image of a seven-branched menorah and was apparently worn by a Jew who arrived in Jerusalem during the Byzantine period, when Jews were prohibited from entering the city. “One day while I was digging inside an ancient structure, I suddenly saw something different, gray, among the stones”, says ... More
Benin bronze.
ZWOLLE.- On November 10, Museum de Fundatie returned a Benin bronze plaque from its collection in Benin City, Nigeria. The restitution was carried out by the director of Museum de Fundatie, Beatrice von Bormann, to the National Commission of Museums and Monuments (NCMM) of Nigeria. In February 2025, the NCMM signed a management agreement with the Oba (king) of Benin for the care of Benin antiquities, including the repatriation, conservation, storage, and exhibition of these artifacts. This agreement represents a collaboration between the Nigerian government agency (NCMM) and the Royal Court, which acts as the steward of Benin’s heritage.The transfer took place at the National Museum in Benin City, where an exhibition is currently on view showcasing several returned Benin bronzes from museums around the world, as well as recently repatriated works from the Wereldmuseum. Starting February 21, 2026, the museum will host a group exhibition centered on the plaque. Ten contemporary ... More
The museum’s yearlong renovation project is coming to an end. Photo courtesy Drew Baron / The Columbia Museum of Art.
COLUMBIA, SC.- The Columbia Museum of Art announces the opening of its newly imagined collection galleries, the final phase of a legacy renovation project a year in the making. Capping off the museum’s milestone 75th anniversary year, this transformational initiative culminates on January 16, 2026, with the CMA Gala, a spectacular celebration unveiling the new CMA collection galleries. “Over the past 75 years, the CMA collection has grown in exciting and dynamic ways,” says Senior Curator Michael Neumeister. “We are delighted to reconnect with our community by freshly presenting art in our world-class galleries, with new perspectives and experiences.” The museum’s legacy project began as a matter of routine maintenance. Its previous gallery lighting system, installed in 1998 when the CMA first opened its doors on Main Street, had grown obsolete. To best preserve and showcase the art ... More
Giorgio de Chirico (Volos, Greece 1888–1978 Rome), Chevaux devant la mer (Due cavalli), c. 1927, signed, oil on canvas, 130.2 x 97.1 cm, realised price €825,000.
VIENNA.- This year, Dorotheum, the largest auction house in the German-speaking world, is set to surpass the excellent results of the previous year and to achieve a new record total. Decades of expertise in the online sector, together with the breadth of its departments – averaging two auctions per day – have ensured strong global visibility. Exemplary in this regard was the online sale of a collection of Warhol drawings from the 1950s in spring 2025, in which all 221 highly sought-after works were sold. Clients from more than 90 countries, including major international museums, participated in Dorotheum auctions in 2025. The autumn season brought the most successful auction of Modern Art to date, as well as the strongest Contemporary Week in the history of Dorotheum. During that week, the year’s highlight, Egon Schiele’s work on paper depicting a nude from the back, was sold for the sensational sum of 3.23 million euros. Further top prices in the field of Modern ... More
Konstantin Egorovich Makovsky (Russian/French, 1839-1915), HIH Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia, circa 1900. Oil on panel, 24 x 19-5/8 in.
DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions closed a significant week for Russian art with two Signature® auctions on December 16 and 17 that together realized more than $4 million, reaffirming the depth and vitality of the market for Imperial-era works across fine and decorative arts. Spanning porcelain, Fabergé, silver, enamel and museum-quality painting, the back-to-back events attracted strong international participation and underscored Heritage’s leadership in the category. Across both auctions, Heritage presented a tightly curated selection of works distinguished by scholarship, provenance and rarity. The December 17 Imperial Fabergé & Russian Works of Art Signature® Auction realized $2.76 million across 190 lots, while the December 16 Imperial Porcelain & Russian Works of Art from the Collection of A La Vieille Russie Signature®Auction brought $1.29 million across 164 lots. “We are very pleased that our Russian sales this week realized more ... More
What happens when a Taiwanese artist, a Pittsburgh museum’s staff, and a 19th-century labor uprising meet in a macaroni factory?
PITTSBURGH, PA.- Mattress Factory is presenting The Hidden Shift, by Ting Tong Chang. When Taipei-based artist Ting Tong Chang explored Pittsburgh in 2024, he learned of the role the region played in the history of organized labor. He was struck by the 1892 Homestead Strike — a violent confrontation between workers and Henry Clay Frick’s Pinkerton agents – and the power imbalances it highlighted. Drawing inspiration from these events, as well as from the Mattress Factory’s layered history of industrial and cultural production, Chang worked alongside local filmmakers Alex Abrahams and Benny Shaffer to create a story that would weave these threads together. The result is a murder mystery set in a fictional macaroni factory. The film noir–inspired work began as a three-act play. Here it becomes juxtaposed with a documentary style “making of” film. This cinematic device is further complicated by the casting of museum staff as actors, offering a behind- ... More
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Ultra-high-denomination notes command spotlight at Heritage's FUN U.S. currency auction DALLAS, TX.- A trio of ultra-high-denomination banknotes will reach for a share of the spotlight when they cross the block in Heritage’s FUN U.S. Currency Signature® Auction Jan. 13-16. “Notes with denominations like these always generate enormous interest, and these are magnificent examples,” says Dustin Johnston, Senior Vice President of Numismatics at Heritage Auctions. “Part of the attraction is simply the huge numbers on each note, but in the case of these three, it goes beyond that. They are very hard to find, and their condition is exceptional. Collectors who want the best of the best will find these difficult to resist.” Among the exceptional high-denomination offerings is a beautiful Fr. 2231-A $10,000 1934 Federal Reserve Note. PMG Choice Uncirculated 63 that has been largely out of sight for the collecting community for decades. It is a new addition to the Track & ... More
Kais Salman will unveil Remnants at Ayyam Gallery, exploring memory, loss, and fractured identity DUBAI.- Ayyam Gallery will present Remnants, the most recent body of work by Kais Salman. Please join us for the vernissage on 17th of January from 4 PM till 8 PM, in presence of the artist. Kais Salman places his audience among ruins, his recent body of work acting as a pile of forgotten images buried beneath decades of historical buildup. The canvas becomes a space for reclaiming memory through a visual archive that has survived the wreckage of existing narratives. Faces emerge through Salman’s energetic brushwork, only to fade back into the walls and dissolve into material debris. Therefore, rendering his paintings as spaces of loss - as we try to uncover the imagery embedded in Salman’s work, forms appear and vanish at once, withholding themselves even as they emerge. Stepping away from lingering romantic nostalgia, Salman reconstructs thoughts and visuals ... More
U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze announces the publication of 'Transient Worlds,' his personal guide to poetry in translati WASHINGTON, DC.- Arthur Sze, the nation’s 25th U.S. Poet Laureate, will publish a new book as a focus of his laureateship: “Transient Worlds,” his personal guide to global poetry in translation. Published by Copper Canyon Press in association with the Library of Congress on April 14, 2026, “Transient Worlds” will take readers through 1,500 years of poetry from around the world and will feature translations into English from 13 languages, including Arabic, Braj Bhasha, Greek, Japanese, Navajo, Spanish and Tzeltal. “Translation, indeed, is everywhere; and English, a composite and growing language, has been enriched and strengthened over time by accruals from languages across the world,” Sze said of his focus on literary translation as the ... More
Frist Art Museum marks 25th anniversary with presentation of A Landmark Repurposed: From Post Office NASHVILLE, TENN.- The Frist Art Museum presents A Landmark Repurposed: From Post Office to Art Museum, an exhibition celebrating the historic building the Frist is privileged to occupy—Nashville’s former main post office. The exhibition will be on view in the always-free Conte Community Arts Gallery from December 19, 2025, through August 1, 2026. Commemorating the Frist Art Museum’s 25th anniversary, this exhibition with updated design and an expanded narrative highlights the building’s role as a civic institution, from its creation as the city’s main post office in 1933−34 to its reopening as an art museum on April 8, 2001. Through archival images, architectural drawings, “Then and Now” photographs, news clippings, and original planning documents, guests will learn about the building’s distinctive architectural styles, as well as how historical events affected ... More
Nottingham Contemporary presents its 2026-27 exhibitions programme NOTTINGHAM.- Nottingham Contemporary announced their 2026-27 programme: Lines That World a River is Shahana Rajani’s (b. 1987, Pakistan) first solo exhibition in Europe. The exhibition centres practices and lineages of drawing and painting through which coastal communities in Pakistan remain connected to sacred ecologies of rivers and sea amidst the violence and erasure of infrastructure and the climate emergency. By foregrounding this sacred lineage, the exhibition centres drawing as a vital method which allows for passage, encounter and relation in a world rendered increasingly unstable. In Arabic the word for universe, alam, and the word for knowledge, ilm, share their origin in the word, alamah, a mark. To make a mark, to draw a line, is a way of knowing the world. Four Acts of Recovery (2025) is commissioned by the Han Nefkens Foundation—South Asian ... More
Electric Shock examines the growing power struggle behind electricity and technology SEOUL.- Electric Shock is a report on electricity. Electricity refers to “a fundamental form of energy expressed in terms of the movement and interaction of electrons.” It is an important resource that allows contemporary human society to function. A life without electricity is hard to imagine, for that would mean a life without household appliances, digital consumption, advanced production lines, and logistics systems. What’s more, the recent commercialization of artificial intelligence (AI) and the expansion of Big Tech have exponentially increased the consumption of electricity, putting even greater strain on the power grid. Ensuring a stable supply of electricity has become a question of paramount importance, as it is directly related to how quickly advanced technologies such as AI can be integrated into the competitiveness of a state or an enterprise. This is the age of “electric ... More
Rome meets the world at MAXXI in a major exhibition on contemporary urban life ROME.- Rome has been written about, painted, photographed, mapped, idealized, and mythologized for centuries. But how does the Eternal City truly compare to today’s global capitals—and what emerges when familiar narratives are set aside? These questions are at the heart of Rome in the World, the major exhibition that opened on December 17, 2025 at MAXXI – the National Museum of 21st Century Arts, where it will remain on view through April 6, 2026. Curated by urbanist and scholar Ricky Burdett, the exhibition places Rome in direct conversation with other major world cities, from Paris and London to Beijing, Lagos, and São Paulo. Rather than positioning Rome as an untouchable historical monument or unquestioned Caput Mundi, Rome in the World deliberately shifts perspective, presenting the city as a living, evolving metropolis shaped by many of the same forces ... More
Faith, flesh, and transformation collide in Jorge K. Cruz and Elizabeth Insogna's exhibition NEW YORK, NY.- Freight + Volume is presenting an exhibition of work by Jorge K. Cruz and Elizabeth Insogna titled Divine Myth—Faith and Flesh. The show is composed of paintings and sculptures by two artists who share an appreciation for the sensual and spiritual through their lyrical undulating gestures, ancient mark making, and redefined color palette. They also portray a subversion of given truths as the exhibition intertwines their questioning of past portrayals of the divine and reveals the potential for new embodiments. Linked by religious symbolism such as the Madonna or Greek goddesses, the swirling compositions of Cruz and auroral statues of Insogna bring into focus the mythic through materiality and the body. Gesturing to sanctify space and investigate tradition, their abstract and impressionistic painted as well as ceramic forms blur the figure then imbue ... More
Legendary Jacobson collection of early half eagles headlines Heritage's FUN Special Sessions auction DALLAS, TX.- An extraordinary collection of the rarest and most important varieties in the entire early half eagle series will take flight in Heritage’s U.S. Coins Signature Auction - FUN Special Sessions: Ellsworth & Jacobson Jan. 8. The Harvey B. Jacobson, Jr. Collection of Early Half Eagles stands as a 68-lot tribute to Jacobson’s desire to acquire the rarest of the rare, a mission that ended with his acquisition of every early gold variety that eluded Harry W. Bass, Jr., with the exception of two unique 1797 varieties that are housed in the Smithsonian Institution. “Like many of the savviest numismatists, Harvey Jacobson pursued the major rarities in this series first, and that immediate commitment to elite coins stood as the foundation for what became a magnificent collection of the rarest and most important varieties in the early half eagle series,” says Todd Imhof, Executive Vice ... More
'The Lord of the Rings' sets world record in Heritage's $2.1 million rare books auction DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions’ Dec. 15 Rare Books Signature® Auction delivered one of the most decisive statements yet about the direction of the rare books market, as science fiction and fantasy led the way in an event that realized $2.1 million across 610 lots. Anchored by two distinguished private collections and fueled by strong demand for landmark works of imaginative literature, the auction drew 1,197 bidders and culminated in a new world auction record for J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. The undisputed centerpiece of the auction was Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings — a complete three-volume set of The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King — which realized $250,000. The result more than doubled the previous auction record for an unsigned set of the works, a $103,125 mark also established by Heritage ... More
Nerman Museum presents Angeline Rivas's first institutional solo exhibition OVERLAND PARK, KS.- The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art is presenting Angeline Rivas’s first institutional solo exhibition. Angeline Rivas (b. 1981) was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri and is now based in Los Angeles, California. Rivas earned her MFA in 2022 from the ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, California and her BFA in 2005 from Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, California. Angeline Rivas and Christina Catherine Martinez artists talk: March 11, 2026, 6pm
Reception to follow—free and open to the public. Livestream option available (RSVP required). No RSVP required for in-person attendance. I’ve never told anyone this, but when I was a kid, I wandered away from the family campsite on a Fourth of July trip, taking jerky little steps through the clumps of trees that sat between BBQ pits and tiled shower facilities, ... More
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