The year marked a transformational period for the firm, defined by strong financial performance, historic auctions, and strategic growth across key collecting categories.
CHICAGO, IL.-Freeman’s today announced outstanding end-of-year results for 2025, reporting $119 million in combined sales and robust demand across categories. The firm achieved sell-through rates of 89% by volume and 109% by value, reflecting a 6.6% year-over-year increase from 2024 and underscoring the strength of Freeman’s unified platform. The year marked a transformational period for the firm, defined by strong financial performance, historic auctions, and strategic growth across key collecting categories. 2025 also represented a defining milestone with the unification of Freeman’s, Hindman, and Cowan’s under the single Freeman’s name—strengthening the firm’s mission to bring art, history, and design to life through exceptional expertise and service. 2025 affirmed our strength and the confidence our clients place in Freeman’s,” said Alyssa ... More
LONDON.- RM Sotheby’s Private Sales Division announced that it has entered into a new strategic partnership with well-known Dutch specialist, Bodie Hage and his much respected business, Real Art on Wheels. Following the company’s best year on record, RM Sotheby’s Private Sales division has formed the partnership as the next stage in its European expansion, with the Real Art on Wheels providing an exceptional Dutch facility with state-of-the-art car showroom, storage, and workshop facilities. Based in Burgerveen in the Netherlands, only a 10-minute taxi ride from Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport, Real Art on Wheels is the Netherlands’ leading collector car dealership, and represents the life’s work of founder Bodie Hage, and is now the latest addition to RM Sotheby’s growing real estate portfolio. From January 2026, both ... More
Late 19th/early 20th century Owl “Cigar Store” reverse-painted glass sign, one of the best reverse-painted glass signs known to exist, 30¼ inches by 80 inches, in a frame, $68,880.
LAS VEGAS, NEV.- A circa-1905 Cretors & Company Model D horse-drawn popcorn wagon soared to $86,100; a late 19th/early 20th century Owl “Cigar Store” reverse-painted glass sign topped out at $68,880; and a circa-1920 Mr Peanut “Red” Royal cast-iron peanut roaster realized $67,650 at Morphy’s General Antiques & Advertising Auction held December 4-6, 2025. Overall, more than 1,500 lots crossed the block in an auction that grossed more than $2.7 million. All prices quoted in this report are inclusive of a 23 percent buyer’s premium, or as stated on Morphy’s website. Held live at Morphy’s West Coast satellite gallery in Las Vegas, the sale was headlined by the classic advertising, American pop culture ... More
Abraham Abia - The Southern Art Hub, Managing Director.
LONDON.-The African Art Hub has announced its expansion and upcoming rebrand as The Southern Art Hub amid a surge in global collector interest in art from the Global South. For the past five years, The African Art Hub has brought contemporary African artists to global art fairs and audiences around the world. The nomadic gallery and online platform will be expanding its remit and relaunching as The Southern Art Hub to platform the work of artists from across the Global South, as the market surge for African and Latin American art continues to thrive. According to London art-market researcher ArtTactic works by contemporary African artists now exceed a combined annual value of over $72m – more than double their 2016 value. Throughout this ten-year market s ... More
LONDON.- Gagosian is presenting Richard Avedon: Facing West, an exhibition of rare prints from the photographic series In the American West (1979–84), including works that have not been shown since their debut in 1985. Facing West is curated by the photographer’s granddaughter, Caroline Avedon. In the American West, an extended series commissioned by and first exhibited at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, celebrated its fortieth anniversary in 2025. At the time of its debut in 1985, Avedon was well known for fashion photography, portraits of people in power, and his work with the civil rights movement. These images, which picture the heart and soul of hardscrabble, working-class America, represented a significant new development in his work. Returning to the series four decades after its initial unveiling, Facing West prompts reflection on the evolving interpretation of the photographs’ ... More
Abbie and Jolijn. Photo by Frank van der Burg.
THE HAGUE.- After more than a year of painstaking work carried out in full public view, The Bull by Paulus Potter has emerged from restoration with a renewed presence that is already reshaping how the iconic painting is experienced. The conservation project, completed in December 2025 with the application of a final varnish layer, marks a major milestone for one of the most celebrated works in the collection of the Mauritshuis. Led by conservators Abbie Vandivere and Jolijn Schilder, the restoration followed an extensive research phase and unfolded over roughly eighteen months. Throughout the process, visitors were able to watch the work up close in the museum’s publicly accessible restoration studio—an unusually transparent approach that turned conservation into a shared journey of discovery. The results are striking. Freed from centuries of yellowed varnish and later overpaintings, The Bull now appears more spatial, more luminous, and more dynamic. Depth and contrast have been restored ... More
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Fahey/Klein Gallery will present Steve Schapiro: Being Everywhere, an exhibition of photographs by one of the most significant American photojournalists of the 20th century. The exhibition celebrates Schapiro’s extraordinary six-decade career and his singular ability to bear witness to history as it unfolded. Being Everywhere takes its title from the documentary (directed by Maura Smith) chronicling Schapiro’s life and work, a phrase that perfectly encapsulates both the scope of his archive and the ethos that guided his practice. From the American Civil Rights Movement to Hollywood film sets, from intimate portraits of cultural icons to quiet human moments on the margins of society, Schapiro’s photographs form a sweeping visual record of modern American life. Beginning in the early 1960s, Schapiro worked as a freelance photographer for publications including Life, Time, Newsweek, among many others. His images ... More
View of Xiyao Wang's exhibition 'The Drifting Island' at Perrotin Dubai, 2026. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin.
DUBAI.- Perrotin Dubai is presenting the solo exhibition The Drifting Island by Chinese-born, Berlin-based artist Xiyao Wang. On view through February 28, 2026, this exhibition marks her first solo show in the Middle East. In this new body of work, painting unfolds through notions of movement, tempo, and lived experience. Rather than representing gesture directly, Xiyao Wang explores the sensation of movement itself, its flow, rhythm, and impermanence. Time is not suspended; it drifts, like a river, like wind or clouds moving through a landscape, like the body in motion within the studio. Over recent years, Xiyao Wang has gradually reduced both composition and color in her paintings, seeking to concentrate on what she considers essential: the line. Each phase of reduction is also accompanied by moments of addition. Through this ongoing process, her work reveals a deep commitment to precision.The charcoal lines, carefully ... More
Zarina, Beyond the Stars, 2014, Woodcut printed on BFK light paper collaged with 22-karat gold leaf and Urdu text mounted on Somerset Antique paper.
NEW YORK, NY.- Luhring Augustine announces a solo exhibition of work by Zarina (1937–2020), opening in our Tribeca location on January 16 and remaining on view through March 28. Marking the gallery’s first show of the artist’s work since her death, and the first in the Tribeca gallery, this presentation represents a milestone for the establishment of Zarina’s estate. Featuring works that span the artist’s seven-decade career, the exhibition highlights the breadth and enduring relevance of her artistic vision, bringing together works across a range of media from woodcut, collage, and print portfolios, to cast-paper and other sculptural pieces. Zarina’s work engages deeply with the history, politics, and culture of the twentieth century. Born in Aligarh, India, she traveled extensively and trained in printing techniques in Bangkok, Paris, and Tokyo before settling in New York. Connecting intimate ... More
PARIS.- As Parcours des Mondes prepares to celebrate its 25th anniversary this September, the leading international event dedicated to the arts of Africa, the Americas, Oceania, Asia, and archaeology has announced the appointment of Marie Duarte-Gogat as its new general coordinator. In her new role, Duarte-Gogat will work closely with Yves-Bernard Debie, general director of the event, supporting the next phase of development for a fair that has become a key annual meeting point for galleries, collectors, curators, and institutions specializing in non-Western and ancient arts. Duarte-Gogat brings with her a deep knowledge of both scholarship and the art market. Trained in art history at the École du Louvre, where she specialized in the Arts of the Americas, she went on to build her career at the Bernard Dulon gallery, collaborating with the Paris-based dealer for nearly fifteen years, including a long tenure as gallery director. A member of the Compagnie Nationale des Experts ... More
Berzock arrived at the University in January 2014, having spent eighteen years as Curator of African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago.
EVANSTOM, IL.- The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, announces that Kathleen Bickford Berzock will retire from her position as Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs in June 2026. The Block is immensely grateful for Berzock’s extraordinary contributions to the museum and to Northwestern. Berzock arrived at the University in January 2014, having spent eighteen years as Curator of African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. Her move to The Block was a natural extension of her commitment to African art and global art histories, given Northwestern’s renowned African Studies program and its exceptional Africana library resources. Across her tenure, she has championed exhibitions that connect global art histories to urgent contemporary questions, enriching Northwestern’s academic landscape and strengthening The Block’s position ... More
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LOS ANGELES, CA.- Julien’s Auctions is celebrating the intersection of art and subculture with the announcement of “Street Art & Culture”. Featuring 70 select pieces, the sale honors the icons that have shaped contemporary art and skate culture on a global scale. The online auction will take place on Wednesday, February 4th, 2026, starting at 10:00 AM PT. This collection presents foundational works and artifacts within defining moments in sports history, skate culture, and contemporary street art. Highlights include Tony Hawk’s personal T-shirt, offered at auction for the first time with a letter of authenticity from Hawk, worn during the 1999 X Games when he landed the first-ever documented “900” aerial trick. Additional offerings also include boards from the iconic Powell-Peralta brand, including the legendary “Half Cab Dragon” skateboard ridden by visionary skateboarder Steve Caballero. The selection expands into ... More
Tupac Shakur Early Recording Tape (Wax Poetics).
NEW YORK, NY.- Following the record-breaking auction of Mariah Carey’s ultra-rare 1988 demo tape, Wax Poetics kicks off the year with the launch of its next landmark auction featuring some of the rarest Tupac items from his years before any commercial studio work existed. The auction is part of the Ge-ology Collection which offers unprecedented access to the personal archive of producer, DJ, and visual artist Ge-ology and is centered around one of the earliest known surviving recordings of Tupac Shakur, previously referenced in Only God Can Judge Me: The Many Lives of Tupac Shakur, the acclaimed biography by New York Times bestselling author Jeff Pearlman, alongside handwritten lyrics, original archive photographs, and artifacts documenting a formative chapter in music and hip-hop history. The auction went live January 15th at 3 PM ET / 8 PM GMT and will remain open through February 11th. Recorded around 1988 at Ge-ology’s parent’s home in Baltimore, the cassette captures ... More
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IVAM presents its 2026 annual programme VALENCIA.- This year IVAM is presenting 13 exhibitions that delve deeper into heritage, sustainability and territory, the museum’s core lines of inquiry. The programme opens with Gently Under the Flame, a group show that explores vernacular knowledge, crafts and traditions tied to the land and rural life, where material and immaterial heritage converge. Other notable exhibitions include those by Tania Candiani, Cristina de Middel, Rosana Antolí, Regina de Miguel, Melanie Smith and Joana Vasconcelos—recipient of the Julio González Prize 2026. Another milestone is the opening of a gallery dedicated permanently to the museum’s collection. The 150th anniversary of the birth of Julio González will also be celebrated with a major exhibition and a programme of special activities. And Museo Anfibio will be presented, a museum within the museum, centred on two major axes: ... More
The Block receives major gift of 201 photographs documenting performance, experimentation, and studio life EVANSTOM, IL.- The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University has received a major gift from the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation: 201 black-and-white photographs by the artist team Shunk-Kender and photographer Harry Shunk, documenting some of the most transformative moments in postwar art. This is the largest single gift of vintage photographic prints ever received by the museum and significantly strengthens The Block’s collection in performance, conceptual experimentation, and twentieth-century documentation. “These photographs offer extraordinary opportunities for teaching at Northwestern,” says Lisa Corrin, The Block’s Ellen Philips Katz Executive Director. “They illuminate how artists in Europe and the US were experimenting ... More
Pace to present masterwork by Lynda Benglis at Art Basel Qatar NEW YORK, NY.- Pace will participate in the first edition of Art Basel Qatar, presented at M7 and the Doha Design District from February 5 to 7, as it establishes deeper connections with audiences and collectors in the Middle East. At the fair, the gallery will showcase American artist Lynda Benglis’s multi-part sculpture Elephant Necklace Circle (2016). This late career glazed ceramic masterwork—which comprises 37 abstract elements rendered in black monochrome and arranged in a circle on the floor—is part of the artist’s Elephant Necklace series in which she explores movement, fluctuation, and organic growth through biomorphic knotted forms. A pioneering figure in post-1960s art, Benglis has been at the forefront of material experimentation for six decades, continually inventing new ways of working with different media. Exploring a wide range colors, textures, ... More
Robert Bergman's street portraits meet Old Master icons at The Hill Art Foundation NEW YORK, NY.- The Hill Art Foundation announces The Lost Beauty of Humankind: Robert Bergman’s Portraits in the Hill Collection, a landmark exhibition that places the portraits of American photographer Robert Bergman in conversation with select Old Master paintings from the Hill Collection, curated by David Levi Strauss. This exhibition marks the first major presentation of Bergman’s work since his celebrated solo exhibitions at the National Gallery of Art and MoMA PS1 in 2009. The exhibition features large-scale portraits of ordinary people whom Bergman encountered on American streets between 1985 and 1993. The works evoke the painterly richness of Old Master portraiture through their saturated colors, intimate framing, and nuanced attention to each individual’s features. Yet beyond these formal qualities, each subject is portrayed with a resonant, ... More
François Ghebaly opens Dabin Ahn's "Golden Days" LOS ANGELES, CA.- François Ghebaly will present Golden Days, Dabin Ahn’s solo exhibition at the gallery’s Los Angeles space. Painter and sculptor Dabin Ahn transforms personal objects, Korean ceramic vessels, and other ephemeral still-life elements into sites of passage. Drawing from 20th century art history, Joseon dynasty porcelain traditions, and his own imagination, he creates sensitive, meticulously painted scenes that explore remembrance and impermanence. Ahn extends his practice through wooden artist frames that he carves himself, creating apertures along the canvas edge that expose secondary or tertiary images within a single composition and dissolve boundaries between pictorial and sculptural space. Light functions both compositionally and symbolically throughout his work, where pin sources like fireflies or candles––the latter a nod to Gerhard ... More
Rico Puhlmann reframed: Berlin students challenge the legacy of a fashion icon BERLIN.- In close proximity to the major retrospective "Rico Puhlmann. Fashion Photography 50s–90s" at the Museum of Photography, sixteen photography students from the Lette Verein Berlin are presenting new photographic and filmic works that engage with the fashion photographer's work in diverse ways. While Puhlmann shaped fashion photography for over four decades and developed a distinctive visual language characterized by elegance, clarity, and staging, the participating artists take up key elements of his oeuvre and reinterpret them in light of contemporary issues. Presence and posture are central to Puhlmann's photographs: His iconic fashion images are often characterized by the clearly defined figure within the urban space, condensing physicality, pose, and clothing into sculptural forms. This interplay of fashion, body, space, and gaze ... More
Sarah Grilo's transnational abstraction arrives at Galerie Lelong PARIS.- Current visitors to the MoMA or the Metropolitan Museum in New York may be surprised to see paintings that they cannot immediately identify hanging alongside those by Tàpies and Rothko. These are paintings by Sarah Grilo, which have recently been added to these collections. The artist, who died nearly twenty years ago, is finally receiving the recognition she deserves. Sarah Grilo was born in Buenos Aires in 1917. In the 1950s, she began creating figurative works influenced by Cubism. She quickly evolved towards geometric abstraction when she joined the Artistas Modernos de la Argentina group, which exhibited at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and the Museo d’Arte Moderno in Rio de Janeiro. From 1954 to 1961, Sarah Grilo lived in Paris, where her abstract work took on a more lyrical dimension. She was able to move to New ... More
Spike Island celebrates 50th anniversary with bold 2026-27 season BRISTOL.- Spike Island shared its programme for 2026–27, a year that marks 50 years since the organisation’s founding as Artspace Bristol: an experiment in creativity and collectivism. Today, that bold vision and artist-led ethos still thrive at Spike Island. Spike Island's passion lies in working closely with artists to produce ambitious, large-scale commissions at pivotal moments of their careers. It is also a site of learning and knowledge production, and directly support artists through over 70 subsidised studios and a sector-leading artist development programme. A major solo exhibition of new work by Phillip Lai (b.1969, Kuala Lumpur), bringing together a body of sculptural commissions that continue the artist’s exploration of the material world around us. Lai’s sculptures combine everyday objects with his own intensive re-makings of them to create a parallel imprint ... More
Actress and comedian Ego Nwodim will co-chair The Whitney Museum Annual Art Party NEW YORK, NY.- The Whitney Museum of American Art is thrilled to welcome actress and comedian Ego Nwodim as co-chair of the annual Art Party on Tuesday, January 27, 2026. This year’s event will be headlined by a DJ set by The Dare. Hosted by the Museum’s Whitney Contemporaries membership group, Art Party is a celebrated cornerstone of New York’s arts and philanthropy calendar. Young patrons, emerging artists, and guests from the worlds of art, fashion, business, philanthropy, and entertainment are invited to sip crafted cocktails, enjoy passed bites, explore the Museum’s galleries after hours, and dance into the night. This year, bold style takes the spotlight; guests are encouraged to come dressed in their loudest prints and most vibrant patterns and celebrate bold expression in art, style, and sound. Nwodim will join artists Martine Gutierrez and Emma Safir ... More
Inside the artist's mind: The unfinished opens today at the Capitoline Museums ROME.- What happens to a painting when the artist puts down the brush before it is finished? Beginning today, visitors to the Capitoline Museums are invited to step inside that question with the opening of The unfinished: between poetics and execution technique, a new exhibition at the Pinacoteca Capitolina that sheds light on the hidden lives of unfinished masterpieces. Open through April 12, the exhibition explores works left incomplete not as failures or interruptions, but as vivid records of artistic thinking in motion. Using advanced, non-invasive diagnostic technologies—normally reserved for conservation and restoration—the show reveals what the naked eye cannot see: revisions, second thoughts, structural changes, and technical decisions embedded beneath the painted surface. Curated by Costanza Barbieri and Claudio Seccaroni, the project offers a rare ... More
mumok's annual program 2026: A year of attention and wonder VIENNA.- mumok turns its attention to the space between artwork and viewer. Across exhibitions, new commissions, architectural interventions, and the events program, the museum is being reconfigured as a holistic experience that fosters curiosity and wonder. An attention to exhibition making and its dramaturgy will reactivate mumok’s collection while foregrounding the museum’s role as a civic space of learning and exchange. Inspired by the foundational premise of bringing art into life, the program works to narrow the distance between viewers, the artist’s studio, and the institution—rendering these relationships visible, alive, and open to collective engagement. The program premieres on the 20th of June with Terminal Piece, a group exhibition conceived in five acts, alongside a solo exhibition by Tolia Astakhishvili—her first museum presentation. In Terminal Piece, each ... More
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On a day like today, American photographer Francesco Scavullo was born
January 16, 1921. Francesco Scavullo (January 16, 1921 - January 6, 2004) was an American fashion photographer. He was best known for his work on the covers of Cosmopolitan from 1965 to 1995 and his celebrity portraits. In this image: Francesco Scavullo, Brooke Shields, 1984. Screenprint in colors on canvas. Est: $5,000-7,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
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