NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition Ideas of Africa: Portraiture and Political Imagination showcases how photographic portraits fuel ideas of Pan-African subjectivity and solidarity. On view from December 14, 2025, through July 25, 2026, the exhibition considers the transatlantic call and response that constructed Africa as a political idea, due to the “winds of decolonial change” that swept the African continent in tandem with the Civil Rights movement in the United States. Ideas of Africa is the third exhibition organized at The Museum of Modern Art in celebration of the 2019 gift of modern and contemporary African art from prolific collector Jean Pigozzi. The exhibition features core works from this gift, alongside a selection of recent acquisitions and key loans. Ideas of Africa: Portraiture and Political Imagination is organized by Oluremi C. Onabanjo, The Peter Schub Curator, with the assistance of Chiara M. Mannarino, Curatorial Assistant, The Robert B. Menschel ... More
Penn Museum engineers and conservators finish the final preparations before raising the 5-ton "false door" to the Tomb Chapel of Kaipure. Photo: Kellie Bell for the Penn Museum.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- A team of conservators and engineers from the Penn Museum have installed a massive 5-ton “false door” from the 4,300-year-old Tomb Chapel of Kaipure. The reassembly of the architectural ensemble involves nearly 100 carved and painted limestone blocks, which has not been on public view at the Museum since 1996. The offering chamber will serve as the dramatic centerpiece of the highly anticipated Egypt Galleries: Life and Afterlife on the Main Level, which will open to the public in late 2026. Excavated more than a century ago at Saqqara, the Tomb Chapel was the place where priests performed funerary rites and presented offerings to sustain the deceased in the Afterlife. The “false door” provided a symbolic ... More
Important works by Remington offered include both a large and small version of The Broncho Buster, his most iconic sculptural work.
NEW YORK, NY.- An unparalleled trove of masterpieces, Visions of the West: The William I. Koch Collection is the most important and valuable American Western Art auction in history. The low estimate of this landmark sale, in the range of $50 million, more than doubles the previous record for any American Western Art auction in history. Visions of the West is a two-part series that will take place at Christie's Rockefeller Center, with an the historic Visions of the West: The William I. Koch Collection Evening Sale on 20 January, and at high noon on 21 January, Visions of the West: The William I. Koch Collection Day Sale; works will be on view at Christie's 16-20 January. This event will offer an unsurpassed array of American Western Art, including masterworks by Frederic Remington, Albert Bierstadt, and ... More
Pyrite found at Barnham. Courtesy Pathways to Ancient Britain Project. Photo: Jordan Mansfield.
LONDON.- Researchers led by the British Museum have unearthed the earliest known evidence of fire-making, dating back over 400,000 years, in a field in Suffolk. The discovery shows humans were making fire around 350,000 years earlier than previously known. Research published today in Nature (Opens in new window) provides evidence of the earliest known instance of fire-making by humans – around 400,000 years ago. Previous recorded instances of fire-making date to only 50,000 years ago. The ability to make fire is a critical turning point in human evolution – it increased survival in harsher environments, coincided with the enlargement of the brain and contributed to the development of societal structures. Sites in Africa suggest humans used natural fire over a million years ago, but the discovery at the Palaeolithic site in Barn ... More
ST. MORITZ.- Opening this winter at Hauser & Wirth’s St. Moritz gallery, ‘Alberto Giacometti: Faces and Landscapes of Home’ is a deeply personal exhibition devoted to the artist’s intimate portrayals of his family and the alpine surroundings of his native Stampa and Maloja, located in the remote Bregaglia Valley, to which he returned to throughout his life. Curated by Tobia Bezzola, the exhibition gathers paintings, sculptures and drawings that focus on Giacometti’s lifelong engagement with those closest to him—his parents, his brother Diego and wife Annette—as well as the landscapes that shaped his early background. These portraits and views of home reveal, like no other body of work, the intensity and psychological depth that define Giacometti’s approach to representation. The exhibition is enriched by photographs by Ernst Scheidegger, ... More
Shilpa Gupta, Sound On My Skin, 2024-25 Motion Flapboard, 93.5 x 5 x 9.5 in | 238 x 13 x 24 cm, 35 mins loop. Photo: Jeff McLane.
KOCHI.- Shilpa Gupta presents an immersive constellation of sound, objects, and drawings that reflect on mobility, risk, and resilience. The exhibition invites viewers to contemplate the unseen rhythms and quiet resonances that shape our inner worlds—an ode to the persistence of hope, memory, and renewal that hum beneath the surface of daily life. At the centre of the exhibition is Listening Air, a kinetic sound installation in which microphones-turned-speakers orbit through a darkened room, carrying voices of solidarity that have migrated across landscapes and generations. Accompanying this work is Sound on My Skin, a 35-minute motion flapboard that transforms an object of transit into a poetic field of shifting text prompting viewers to question power, truth, and fear. For this space, the artist has conceived a new site-specific, interactive wall-based installation, Untitled, which invites viewers to create their own frottage drawing ... More
Janet Fish, Watermelon, Bananas, Suzani, 2009. Oil on canvas, 50 x 50 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- DC Moore Gallery announced that celebrated painter and longtime friend Janet Fish (1938-2025) passed away on December 11 at her home in Vermont. Janet Fish invigorated painting with an expansive body of work that revels in the perception of light’s behavior. Throughout her career, she pushed the formal and conceptual possibilities of still life, depicting surprising combinations of objects seen in changing lights. Dubbed a “visionary of the real” by art critic Gerrit Henry, Fish alchemized commonplace objects into radiant compositions. Fish’s innovative career began in the late 1960s, when she set herself the challenge of capturing the interaction of light with glass and plastic. As her still life paintings developed into even more complex and vibrant compositions, the effects of light and color remained central to her practice. Fish regarded light as a life force that moved through all beings, animate and inanimate, and her paintings reflect this philosophy. “ ... More
MARRAKECH.- An unmissable event for art enthusiasts, the 7th edition of A Moroccan Winter will take place on December 30th, 2025 at La Mamounia. This exceptional sale will unfold across two chapters: Majorelle & His Contemporaries, highlighting three major works by Majorelle, Roubtzoff and Dubois, tracing an artistic journey from Morocco to Tunisia; and Moroccan & African Spirit, offering a rich panorama of Moroccan, African and Middle Eastern creation. This section will notably spotlight three emblematic women artists—Chaibia, Baya and Mona Saudi—as well as a group dedicated to sculpture, featuring works by César, Hiquily, Tayou and Ndary Lo, alongside pieces by Belkahia, Melehi, Cherkaoui, Glaoui, Aboudia and Togo. On this occasion, Artcurial will present a remarkable selection of works from private collections, several of which will appear on the market for the very first time. Jacques Majorelle will be represented by five works, including Souk in Marrakech (circa 1936–1937), est ... More
Grand Duchy of Finland, Andreas Bureus, Joan Blaeu’s atlas Atlas Maior, volume 2 (c. 1662, Amsterdam). Source: National Archives.
JYVÄSKYLÄ.- A map does more than indicate location—it reflects society. Throughout history, maps have served as instru- ments of political power, works of art, conveyors of messages, and symbols of scientific and technological pro- gress. Maps help us navigate the world and understand our environment. The exhibition “Land Surveying and Mapping in Finland – Central Finland on the Map” presents the 390-year history of land surveying and mapping in Finland. This story began in 1633, when the first surveyor was sent from Sweden to Finland. Over time, the number of surveyors grew, and by the end of the 17th century, almost the entire country had been mapped. The mapping process helped settle land disputes and reduced the violence associated with them. The large-scale redistribution of farmland, known as the “Great Partition” (or Isojako), began in the late 18th century. ... More
Omega cents inspection.
COSTA MESA, CA.- Not all handfuls of pennies are created equal. Stack’s Bowers Galleries, the nation’s premier auction house for rare coins, set a record that is unlikely to ever be broken, selling 696 2025-dated cents or “pennies” for more than $16 million today. The 696 pennies were assembled into 232 3-coin lots, each composed of a circulation strike example from the Philadelphia Mint, a circulation strike example from the Denver Mint, and a special penny struck in 24 karat (.9999) gold. Each of the coins was struck with the special Omega privy mark, denoting them as the last circulation strike cents ever struck. The mintage of 232 recognizes the 232 years of penny production in the United States from the genesis of the denomination in 1793 to the recent suspension of production for circulation in 2025. The first of the 232 sets, sold as the first lot in the sale, included the first of the ... More
1997 Williams-Renault FW19 Formule 1. Sold: €1,312,400.
PARIS.- Led by Matthieu Lamoure, President of Artcurial Motorcars, and Pierre Novikoff,Vice-President, the sale was first conducted under the hammer of Maître Anne-Claire Mandine, then passed to the legendary Maître Hervé Poulain for the Formula 1 lots, before concluding with Maître Arnaud Oliveux. Over four days of exhibition, the event drew impressive attendance, bringing together Renault enthusiasts, classic car collectors and families, who came to celebrate a major chapter in French automotive history. A packed saleroom and over 1,000 registered bidders fueled intense competition, leading to spirited bidding battles and numerous record prices. Among the remarkable lots, a 1957-1958 Cargo Liberty Ship scale model sold for €17,212, while a 1994 Renault Clio Williams Series 2, preserved since new within Renault Sport, achieved €54,180. The extremely rare 1983 Renault Maxi 5 Turbo Prototype B0, developed by Jean Ragnotti and featuring components no longer available, found a new owner ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- Eli Klein Gallery is presenting Ling Jian: Between Figure and Fracture, the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition traces Ling’s ongoing inquiry into the convergence of realism and surrealism, the fragility of the human spirit, and the estrangement of our digital age. Ling Jian is among the most technically accomplished and conceptually distinctive painters to emerge from the first internationally recognized generation of Chinese contemporary artists. Working primarily in oil on canvas, Ling combines traditional Chinese motifs with contemporary forms, using flowing blood-vessel patterns in cinnabar—a pigment symbolizing life force and spiritual energy—and precise gongbi brushwork to bridge tradition and innovation. Ling Jian’s practice can be understood as a ritual invocation of the human spirit. Ling Jian’s paintings transform anxiety, tension, and uncertainty into a vivid visual language. On canvas, Ling Jian manifests fragmen ... More
Betsy Eby, Chromatic Frequency No. 12, 2025, Encaustic and oil on panel, 47.5 x 47.5 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Winston Wächter Fine Art is presenting Chromatic Frequencies, a new body of encaustic paintings by Betsy Eby exploring the visualization of sound and harmonic connection. As both a painter and musician, Eby brings a rare sensitivity to her practice, drawing on her heightened perceptual gifts, creating correspondences between color, rhythms and sound. Chromatic Frequencies emerges from Eby’s recent personal journey. Following major neurosurgery, she turned to Solfeggio Frequencies, soundscapes rooted in hertz frequencies known by researchers to have healing properties on the brain and body’s neural networks. An evolution of her lifelong practice of painting nature based abstractions, this body of work explores themes on a quantum level at once read micro and macroscopically, bringing together Eby’s love of music, colorfield painting, rhythmic line and materiality. She builds resonant color fields representing harmonic systems then disrupts those systems with the embodime ... More
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Whispers, Hubbub and Paradoxes brings together artists and activists to question dominant narratives BARCELONA.- Whispers, Hubbub and Paradoxes. Attempts towards a politics of enunciation continues a series of conversations, from the contexts in which we live, about the ways in which we inhabit the paradoxes of enunciation and representation. Artists, writers, collaborating agents, spaces of activism and critical thinking, as well as the ecosystem of the Centre d'Arts Santa Mònica itself, come together to interpret texts and oralities, revisit existing works and strain the dominant narratives by sharing ways of doing and plots of complicity. The project gives rise to a certain rhythmic polyphony—sustained among many, always incomplete—crossed by the force of the questions and the stories that can mobilise us today. To this end, we bring together a collective in which artistic practices, editorial methodologies, public activities and working groups focusing on the materiality of the enunciations converge. These areas find, in their meaningful exchange, imaginaries, experiences and knowle ... More
A City of Philadelphia leader, Foster Hardiman, named as Penn Museum's Senior Director, Finance and Facilities PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Formerly the Deputy Director of Finance and Administration for the City of Philadelphia’s Rebuilding Community Infrastructure (Rebuild) program, Foster Hardiman has been appointed as the Penn Museum’s Senior Director of Finance and Facilities. He began his new role serving as a critical part of the Museum’s Executive Leadership team on October 6, 2025. In this new position, Hardiman will oversee the Museum’s Business Office, Building Operations, and Security departments. "Penn Museum represents an important part of the University and the City of Philadelphia. Expanding access to learning about many different societies, cultures, and peoples that make up our shared history is a critical mission I am thrilled to support," says Hardiman. "I look forward to working alongside a passionate and highly-skilled team at this renowned cultural institution." For the last 13 years, Hardiman has served the City of Philadelphia in leadership roles across finance, capital programming, and administrati ... More
National Portrait Gallery announces winners of its 2025 Teen Portrait Competition WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has announced Matilda Myers of Maryland and Kate Stermer of California as winners of the 2025 Teen Portrait Competition, a triennial event inspired by the museum’s Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. The teen competition is open to students between the ages of 13 and 17 who reside in the United States and its territories. Ten finalists were selected from the 13 to 15 age group, and nine finalists were selected from the 16 to 17 age group. The selected works showcase the next wave of contemporary portraiture by teens. Myers received the top prize from the 13–15 age group, and Stermer from the 16–17 age group. The photographs by the 19 finalists will be on view in a video presentation on the second floor of the National Portrait Gallery from Jan. 24, 2026, through Aug. 30, 2026. The video will also be available to view online. Teens were invited to submit their photographic portraits through an anonymous open call. The museum received more t ... More
Rijksmuseum Twenthe acquires Calculating Empires by Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler ENSCHEDE.- Rijksmuseum Twenthe in Enschede, Netherlands has purchased the monumental installation Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power Since 1500 from the artist-researchers Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler. The 24-meter-long cartography is the museum’s largest-ever contemporary art acquisition. “With this acquisition, the museum not only adds a ground-breaking contemporary work to the Dutch National Collection; it also gains an instrument to help visitors think about the world of today, and the world we’ll be shaping tomorrow.” —Caroline Breunesse, director Rijksmuseum Twenthe In Calculating Empires, Kate Crawford (Australia) and Vladan Joler (Serbia) have created a 24-meter-long fresco illustrating how power and technology have interwoven. Calculating Empires tracks the time period from 1500 to 2025, starting with the emergence of capitalism, European colonialism, and the printing press, and follows the development of key technologies and social shi ... More
Louvre Abu Dhabi launches second call for Fellowships and Grants Programme proposals ABU DHABI.- Louvre Abu Dhabi has launched the second call for proposals for its flagship Fellowships and Grants Programme, a global initiative supporting original research in art history, museum studies and heritage science. Building on the success of the inaugural 2025 edition, the 2026 cohort will continue to champion international scholarship inspired by the museum’s commitment to advancing research and knowledge production. Designed to encourage new perspectives and cross-cultural exchange, the programme invites scholars from around the world to engage deeply with the museum’s collection and resources. It aims to foster collaboration across disciplines and expand scholarship on global artistic connections and shared visual histories. Applications are welcomed until February 7, 2026. Submissions will be carefully reviewed by a committee of distinguished museum experts, and successful fellows will be announced in May 2026. Manuel Rabaté, Director of Louvre Ab ... More
Organic and geometric forms converge in Eilis O'Connell's solo exhibition CORK.- Internationally celebrated for her large-scale public works, this solo exhibition offers a deeper insight into Eilis O’Connell’s transformative practice. Eilis O’Connell’s sculptural works often evoke states of becoming and transformation, reflecting her long-standing fascination between the organic and geometric in the natural world. This way of working melds irregularity and flow to the precise and mathematical, emblematic of a human relationship to nature. Since the beginning of O’Connell’s career in the late 70’s, she has employed this tension of configuration through her simultaneously monumental and intimate work. Her attentive process is of happenstance: a responsiveness to a materials behaviour and chance occurrences that are worked through and feel not imposed but discovered. Through careful observation of the everyday landscape in her Cork home, O’Connell’s practice instils curiosity and an unexpected sense of discovery and awarene ... More
Christie's announces strong results for design and Tiffany auctions, totaling $27 million NEW YORK, NY.- Christie's announces the results for Design, Tiffany and 1925 | A Modern Vision, in total the sales achieved $27 Million, and were 125% sold by low estimate. The series of live auctions began with 1925 | A Modern Vision a celebration of the 100th anniversary of Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes in Paris, 1925, which achieved a total of $7,557,135. Leading the sale were a series of works by Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann including a Personal Desk, 1929, and Armchair, circa 1930-1933 which sold for $1,016,000, 'Grande Cannelée à Redents' Commode from Edlis | Neeson Collection which sold for $482,600. Other highlights were the Jean Dunand Important 'Psyché à la Baigneuse' Dressing Mirror, 1927 sold for 952,500, and Ivan Da Silva Bruhns Unique and Important Carpet from the Palace of the Maharaja of Indore, Manik Bagh, circa 1930 which achieved $571,500, more than double its low estimate. The sale was rounded by Jean Dunand Pair of Folding Games Tables for Temple ... More
MMCA publishes new research volume examining publicness in art and museums SEOUL.- The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA) has published the MMCA Research Series What Do Museums Pursue?: Art, Museums, and Publicness. Building on the discussions from the 2024 international symposium, this volume examines the idea of publicness—the foundational raison d‘être of art and museums—from multiple disciplinary perspectives. Contributions from scholars, including political science, sociology, and art history, are organized into three sections: Part I, The Concept of Publicness; Part II, Publicness as the Principle of Practice; and Part III, The Site of Museums& Publicness. In the introductory essay, Kim Namin (Curator, MMCA) emphasizes that the meaning of publicness shifts depending on context, making conceptual clarity essential. She argues that the meaning of publicness operates across a spectrum depending on the museum’s functions and activities. Part I, The Concept of Publicness, begins with an essay by Kim Youngmin (Professor, ... More
Untitled (after) offers an overview of Jelena Bulajić's painting and sculpture practice MUNSTER.- With Untitled (after) the Kunsthalle Münster will present the first solo exhibition by Jelena Bulajić in a German institution, providing an overview of the work of the Serbian artist. Bulajić’s works are tools for exploring the media-mediated view of the world, speculations about dimensions of reality. They possess their own logic of showing and revealing, emerging from an intensive engagement with the pictorial, its conditions and possibilities. The exhibition brings together various groups of works by the artist, including new pieces created especially for the presentation at the Kunsthalle and, for the first time, sculptures. The juxtaposition of the different groups of works and the interplay of figuration and abstraction reveal a concept of image-making that invites viewers to engage with perception. At a time when we are constantly surrounded by digital images and confronted with the same reception on the screen, Bulajić uses the conditions of painting and scu ... More
Chus Martínez to curate Danish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2026 VENICE.- The Danish Arts Foundation announces the appointment of curator Chus Martínez to work with the artist Maja Malou Lyse on the Danish Pavilion at the 61st International Venice Biennale. The exhibition will explore how different image and value systems—science, fiction, and pornography—collaborate in shaping visions of the future, introducing a grounded, real-world dimension to public discourse through the paradoxical entanglement of fertility science and erotic imagery. The project will reflect Lyse’s media-conscious practice exploring sexuality, power, and representation in the digital age, alongside Martínez’s curatorial ethos rooted in care, criticality, and dialogue. Together, Martínez and Lyse have established a dedicated research and working group to develop a new project that expands Lyse’s ongoing inquiry: how the life of images affects the body and reality itself to such an extent that it may bear consequences for us as a species. ... More
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On a day like today, Canadian artist Emily Carr was born
December 13, 1871. Emily Carr (December 13, 1871 - March 2, 1945) was a Canadian artist who was inspired by the monumental art and villages of the First Nations and the landscapes of British Columbia. She also was a vivid writer and chronicler of life in her surroundings, praised for her "complete candour" and "strong prose". Klee Wyck, her first book, published in 1941, won the Governor General's Literary Award for non-fiction and this book and others written by her or compiled from her writings later are still much in demand today. In this image: Emily Carr, Red Cedar, 1931, oil on canvas, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Gift of Mrs. J. P. Fell.
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