Gustav Klimt’s Bildnis Elisabeth Lederer: one of the finest and most intricately conceived of thecelebrated full-length portraits created during Vienna’s early 20th century Golden Age, sold for $236.4m, doubling the artist's previous record. The work is now the most valuable work of art eversold by Sotheby’s, and second highest work of art ever sold at auction anywhere. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Last night, at Sotheby’s inaugural sale in New York’s historic Breuer Building, the Leonard A. Lauder Collection – a once-in-a-generation collection of 20th-century masterpieces – achieved $527.5m, eclipsing its estimate ($379.2 - 412.5m), and announcing Sotheby's arrival at the Breuer in spectacular fashion. The white-glove sale was led by Gustav Klimt’s towering masterpiece, Bildnis Elisabeth Lederer (Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer), 1914-16, which, over the course of a twenty minute bidding battle between 6 collectors, far-outstripped pre-sale expectations of $150m, doubling the previous record for the artist, and selling to applause at $236.4m. The painting now takes its place as the most valuable work by Klimt ever sold at auction, the most valuable work of art ever sold by Sotheby’s, and the second most valuable work of art ever sold at auction. The sale of the portrait was swiftly followed by that of two further Klimt masterpieces landscapes of the ... More
Canadian 1920s single-sided porcelain sign for Five Roses Flour (“The World’s Best Flour”), 41 ¾ inches by 26 inches, graded 8.25 for condition. Estimate: CA$15,000-$20,000.
NEW HAMBURG, ON.- A Canadian 1920s or ‘30s Eco Model 160 “clock face” Red Rose gasoline pump; a Canadian circa 1902 Worth-Martin coin-op bull’s head perfume dispenser; and a 1968 Star Trek domed lunch box with thermos will come up for bid in two days and three sessions of online auctions slated for Dec. 6 and 7 by Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd. The Saturday, December 6th Petroliana & Historic Advertising auction starting at 9am Eastern time will feature the Norm West Collection. That evening’s Petroliana, Soda & General Store Advertising session, starting at 6pm, will be highlighted by Part 1 of the Bill & Carol Johnson Collection. Part 2 of the collection ... More
Erté Diamond, 18k Gold 'Les Etoiles State Ll' Necklace. Circa 1988. Estimate $2,000-$3,000.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.-Turner Auctions + Appraisals will present the Winter Auction of Jewelry & Treasures on Saturday, December 13, 2025, at 10:30 am PST. Featuring over 220 lots from several estates for special gifts to give others or oneself, offerings include gem-set jewelry; unmounted stones; couture clothing; luxury-brand scarves, purses and bags; several fur coats; a vintage wedding dress; fine pens; and more. Jewelry lots include necklaces, rings, bracelets, pendants, brooches, earrings and ear clips, charms, stick pins, watches, a scarf ring, and a chatelaine. Most are gold or silver, including sterling or blackened; most are set with gemstones such as diamond, emerald, ruby, amethyst, pearl, sapphire, opal, garnet, jade, aquamarine, citrine, turquoise, ... More
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LONDON.- Amid an age shaped by relentless stimulation and accelerated fragmentation, Grey with a Glimmer turns its attention to the quieter states of perception, to moments where clarity softens and awareness subtly expands. Hosted by Arklink at Indra Gallery in London from November the 7th to the 10th, 2025, the exhibition assembles 38 emerging artists whose practices span painting, moving image, installation, photography, sculpture, and artist books. Together, their works trace how contemporary life shifts continuously between shadow and glimmer, stillness and emergence, illusion and reflection. Curated by Chengming Xing and Yiwen Fu, the exhibition welcomed more than two hundred guests on its opening night, transforming the gallery into a site of collective sensing and exchange. ... More
SOFIA.- A quiet stretch of the Bulgarian Black Sea coast has revealed one of its most intriguing secrets. After decades of speculation, forgotten historical notes, and scattered references in ancient texts, archaeologists from the National Historical Museum (NHM) have begun uncovering the long-lost fortress known as Erite (or Ereta). Mentioned by writers such as Pliny the Elder but never officially excavated, the site is finally emerging from obscurity thanks to a new, targeted scientific initiative. The discovery comes on the heels of a successful underwater expedition near the mouth of the Kamchia River. Encouraged by those findings, an NHM team led by Prof. Dr. Ivan Hristov, with scientific consultant Prof. Dr. Sergey Torbatov, launched the first official archaeological excavations at the site between September and October 2025. Although the dig covered just 281 square meters, the results were exceptionally rich. Erite appears in several ancient sources, including Pliny ... More
Wes Anderson at the Design Museum. Photo: Matt Alexander PA Media Assignments.
LONDON.- The Design Museum in London has unveiled its major new Wes Anderson exhibition, a landmark retrospective of the work of one of the world’s most loved filmmakers. Anderson has officially inaugurated the exhibition — titled Wes Anderson: The Archives — ahead of Friday’s public opening. He visited the museum and posed for photographs with the exhibition’s curators. Over 700 items are on show, and it marks the first time his archives have gone on display in the UK. The Design Museum also reveals today that the exhibition will bring Anderson’s career right up to date, with objects on display from his most recent feature film: 2025’s The Phoenician Scheme. Over two-dozen beautifully made items from the film are on show. These include a pipe from Dunhill and a bejewelled dagger made by contemporary artist and sculptor Harumi Klossowska de Rola. Exhibition curators Lucia Savi and Johanna Agerman ... More
William Dobson, Self-Portrait c.1635-40. Image courtesy of Tate and the National Portrait Gallery.
LONDON.- Earlier this year, Tate and the National Portrait Gallery announced their joint acquisition of one of the earliest known works by William Dobson, widely considered to be the first great painter born in Britain. The self-portrait is now available for all to see for free at Tate Britain, where it has been reunited with Dobson’s portrait of his wife. This major new addition to the collection will be on display until late 2026, after which there are plans for a national tour before it returns to London to be shown at the National Portrait Gallery in 2028. William Dobson’s painting of himself as a young man was made between 1635 and 1640 and is a groundbreaking example of English self-portraiture. An exceptionally rare work, it has an honesty and intimacy that defied the conventions of 17th century British art. Dobson used thickly applied paint to create an almost bohemian vision of the artist, with wild hair and a melancholy gaze, in stark ... More
Nick Oberthaler, Untitled (#29), 2025. Acrylic on canvas, 160 × 130 cm.
BRUSSELS.- After several years, Brussels has once again become Nick Oberthaler’s temporary place of work. At the same time, it is a central European point of intersection and convergence - of cultures, political interests, and nationalities. This specific mix resonates in the works on view through formal analogies. In the small-scale abstract paintings, the gestural merges with the geometric; sharply delineated forms are paired and balanced with indeterminate, fraying fields of color. Together with the large-format works conceived in a rigorously geometric mode, the paintings construct a vast and decidedly risky apparatus of reflection and reference: with them, the long history of abstraction inevitably enters the space, along with the question of how an artist inscribes themselves into it - or even moves beyond it. Oberthaler is well acquainted with these questions and risks; he knows the genealogies of abstract painting inti ... More
Reliquary Guardian Figure (Mbulu Ngulu), Kota peoples, Obamba or Mindumu group, Gabon, Africa, 19th century, wood, copper, and brass. Kimbell Art Museum
FORT WORTH, TX.- The Kimbell Art Museum announced today the acquisition of two significant African sculptural works from Gabon: a nineteenth-century Kota Reliquary Guardian Figure (Mbulu Ngulu) and a nineteenth- to early twentieth-century Kwele Mask with Curved Horns. Both works are of singular quality, noted for their fine craftsmanship and visual power. Beginning today, visitors can see these striking works among the Kimbell’s collection of African art, on view in the museum’s Louis I. Kahn Building. “The Kota reliquary and Kwele mask are each exemplars of technical mastery and spiritual significance,” said Eric M. Lee, director of the Kimbell Art Museum. “The reliquary figure stands out even among the vast and diverse corpus of Kota art in public and private collections, while the extremely rare and beautiful Kwele mask is made all the more special by being exceptional ... More
PARIS.- The Musée national des arts asiatiques – Guimet opened Manga. Tout un art !, a major exhibition dedicated to the artistic richness, cultural significance, and historical depth of Japanese manga. Far beyond a mass-market cultural product, manga is presented here as a dynamic artistic tradition whose roots reach deep into Japanese visual history. Bringing together original manga drawings, rare illustrated books, Buddhist sculpture, Edo-period prints, emaki scrolls, and contemporary works, the exhibition reflects the vitality of a medium that has shaped global popular culture while remaining closely connected to centuries-old artistic practices. The exhibition traces manga’s development from the 19th century to today. Early satirical magazines published in Yokohama, including The Japan Punch and Tôbaé, illustrate the first encounters ... More
Edwin Austin Abbey, Study for the figure of Sir Walter Raleigh in "The Apotheosis of Pennsylvania" mural in the House of Representatives Chamber of the Pennsylvania State Capitol at Harrisburg, about 1907. Image courtesy the Yale University Art Gallery.
LONDON.- A spectacular design for the ceiling of the House of Representatives, Pennsylvania State Capitol, Harrisburg – a palace of arts and one of the grandest public buildings ever constructed in the USA – will go on display at the National Gallery in winter 2025. The 12-feet-diameter half-scale design for 'The Hours' depicts 24 female figures representing the 24 hours of the day. Newly conserved by Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, this monumental work will be displayed as part of the first UK exhibition – for over a century – dedicated to its creator, the Philadelphia-born artist Edwin Austin Abbey (1852–1911). The exhibition subtitle, the second line of 'The Star-Spangled Banner', emphasises the importance of time and eternal vigilance in a legislator’s duties. Edwin Austin Abbey: By the Dawn’s Early Light explores Abbey’s last ... More
LONDON.- The Royal Academy of Arts presents A Story of South Asian Art: Mrinalini Mukherjee and Her Circle, a group exhibition telling the story of Indian artist Mrinalini Mukherjee (1949–2015) through a constellation of people and places that informed her practice. For the first time, a body of Mukherjee’s work is shown alongside that of some of her key mentors, friends and family. Featuring approximately 100 works that trace a century, including sculpture, painting, drawing, textiles, ceramics and printmaking, the exhibition explores how these close relationships, shared learning, and support for one another shaped not just individual careers, but formed a vibrant creative and intellectual network that influenced the trajectory of modern and contemporary art in South Asia. Drawing on the Royal Academy’s legacy as one of the oldest art schools in Europe, the exhibition highlights ... More
SEOUL.- In the wake of Joan Miró’s retrospectives at Sejong Center for the Performing Arts (2016) and My Art Museum (2022) in Korea, Thaddaeus Ropac Seoul presents an exhibition of the Catalan artist’s late bronze works, which have rarely been seen in Korea. Finding its roots in surrealist assemblage, his sculptural work evolved into an essential facet of his practice, crystallising his unrelenting spirit of experimentation. The sculptures shed light on Miró’s avant-garde use of found objects which he masterfully metamorphosed into uniquely poetic sculpted constellations. Conceived in his Majorcan studio, the works incorporate elements Miró scavenged on the Balearic island, from folk art and craftwork to coastal flora and minerals. The exhibition is accompanied by an important early gouache, as well as two photographs by Irving Penn that portray Joan Miró alongside his sculptures, translating the symbiotic relationship between the artist and his works. ... More
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Frances McDormand and Suzanne Bocanegra cradle Shaker ethos in new LA exhibition LOS ANGELES, CA.- Opening 20 November, Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles will present ‘CRADLED,’ an exhibition conceived and curated by artist Suzanne Bocanegra and actor/producer Frances McDormand in collaboration with Shaker Museum (Chatham NY). Expanding on its 2024 staging in upstate New York, the LA presentation of ‘CRADLED’ explores– through objects, sound and activations––the Shakers’ embrace of caregiving and community from cradle to grave. ‘CRADLED’ invites visitors into an environment where they are immersed, however briefly, in a vision of life shaped by the Shaker ethos of devotion made manifest in communal industry and care. Presented by Make Hauser & Wirth, the gallery’s platform for contemporary makers and engagement in the handmade, ‘CRADLED’ will be on view Saturdays and Sundays through 4 January 2026. Central ... More
Tobias Kaspar reimagines the artist's studio in "Atelier" at Galerie Urs Meile ZURICH.- Galerie Urs Meile presents Atelier, the first exhibition of Swiss artist Tobias Kaspar (*1984) at Galerie Urs Meile, Zurich. The exhibition brings together works from the past fifleen years, alongside new pieces that reconsider the idea of the artist’s studio as a space of myth, production, and projection. Through fabrics, surfaces, and gestures, the exhibition unfolds a layered reflection on authorship, representation, and the intersections between art, fashion, and consumer culture. At the center of the exhibition stands Anti-Conformṅt Conformṅt Chandelier (Afler Evian, Mountain View) (2025), a shimmering chandelier made of seventy empty Evian glass boules. The fragile construction—situated somewhere between luxury object and recycled material—condenses Kaspar’s interest in the mechanisms of branding, taste, and belonging. Evian, marketed as a symbol ... More
Vancouver photographer unpacks Japanese Canadian past and present VANCOUVER, BC.- What would you pack if you were forcibly removed from your home today? This is what photographer Kayla Isomura asked more than 80 fourth and fifth generation Japanese Canadians and Americans for her travelling exhibition, The Suitcase Project, which will be on view at the Museum of Vancouver starting November 20, 2025. In 1942, approximately 23,000 Japanese Canadians and more than 100,000 Japanese Americans living on the west coast were uprooted from their homes and placed in internment camps or incarceration. “In the Canadian context, Japanese Canadians were not allowed to return home, and their possessions were sold by the government or looted,” says Isomura. “If you were going to lose everything—your home, your business, your memories and personal possessions—what would you take outside of things for survival? ... More
James Cohan now representing Claudia Alarcón & Silät NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan announced the representation of Claudia Alarcón & Silät. The gallery presented the first New York exhibition of this pioneering collective of artists from the Wichí communities of northern Salta, Argentina, at James Cohan's 52 Walker space last spring and will feature new work by the artists at Art Basel Miami Beach in December. Claudia Alarcón (b. 1989, Argentina) is an Indigenous textile artist from the La Puntana community of Wichí people in northern Salta, Argentina. Alongside her individual practice, she leads the Silät collective (formed in 2023), an organization of one hundred women weavers of different generations from the Alto la Sierra and La Puntana Wichí communities. Wichí society is clan-based and matrilocal. Weaving with hand-spun vegetal fibers from the local chaguar plant has been a communal, female-led activity ... More
Newfields breaks ground on new Flower & Vegetable Garden opening in late 2026 INDIANAPOLIS, IN.- Newfields breaks ground on a new Flower & Vegetable Garden project set to open in late 2026 at the historic Madeline F. Elder Greenhouse. Construction, in partnership with Shiel Sexton, is now underway to restore a key part of the original estate, while reimagining nearby areas to enhance the garden experience for generations to come. Designed in partnership with RAS Landscape Architects, the garden is reminiscent of its original use on the Oldfields Estate. Both the Landon and Lilly families, previous Oldfields proprietors, dined and entertained with the flowers and vegetables grown in this very footprint when they lived on the grounds. When complete in the fall of 2026, the dynamic green space will boast a flexible-use pavilion that will double capacity for educational and wellness programming in The Garden. What is currently a disconnected ... More
Karin Schmuck traces the ancient 'ends of the world' in expansive photographic odyssey at Clervaux - Cité de l'Image CLERVAUX.- Since 2018, Karin Schmuck's long-term project World’s Ends has been dedicated to places that were considered the ‘ends of the world’ in ancient times. It is conceived as a personal odyssey spanning about a decade and combines hiking, photography and research on myths, history and the present. Each stage consists of several days (or even weeks) of walking through historically charged landscapes and culminates in a separate cycle of works. The journey began in 2019 at the Strait of Gibraltar - a place that symbolises departure and migration. Two years later, it continued to the Strait of Messina, where the focus was on the experience of the dilemma between two extremes. In 2022, the route led to the coast ... More
Gabriela Giroletti unveils luminous, shape-shifting surfaces at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery BERLIN.- Shimmering, iridescent forms that curve, bend, push, squeeze, hold and expand. Brazilian artist Gabriela Giroletti’s latest paintings take the form of shaped surfaces that evoke shards of crystal and stone, earthly textures, bodily processes, the transference of energy and elemental movement. Among ripples and folds, her fourth solo exhibition with Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, comprises all new work born out of a period of play and experimentation. For Giroletti, art-making has always balanced instinct with control, but her process is evolving. Where she once followed the interaction of colour and paint, she now begins by constructing her surfaces – cutting, sanding, and gluing pieces of wood until she reaches the desired shape. This shape becomes a container onto which she works more quickly and fluidly, allowing forms to emerge organically before she applies ... More
Deutsche Bank names Lucia Tallová Artist of the Year 2026 BERLIN.- Deutsche Bank has named Lucia Tallová its “Artist of the Year” for 2026. Born in Bratislava, Slovakia, in 1985, the artist graduated from the local Academy of Fine Arts and gained international recognition in 2022 through her participation in the 16th Lyon Biennale. Tallová works at the intersection of painting, collage, assemblage, and installation. Her primary media are paper and photography, which form the focus of the Deutsche Bank Collection. Her often room-filling installations resemble surreal tableaux that explore memory, human and geological history, and develop new forms of storytelling and archiving. Lucia Tallová was nominated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, directors of the Hamburger Bahnhof—Nationalgalerie für Gegenwart—Berlin and founders of the curatorial platform Art Reoriented. They succeed Stephanie Rosenthal, director ... More
Thea Djordjadze unveils Back Facing Front in Milan with new site-specific installations MILAN.- kaufmann repetto is presenting Back Facing Front, Thea Djordjadze’s fourth solo show with the gallery, opening in Milan on November 20. The site-specific installation brings together newly conceived structures and reconfigured existing works. Interventions operated by the artist in-situ transform each element in a force with tendencies of its own, leaving it open to dissolve and then to be re-constituted in different, future activations. For Djordjadze, the exhibition space solicits potential relationships between its architecture and the materials and forms that inhabit it for the duration of the show. Engaging with the symmetrical layout and minimalist features of the Milanese gallery, the artist conceived a wooden structure that runs along the perimeter walls, while wedge-shaped aluminum elements, originally devised for Djordjadze’s recent solo show at the Hamburger ... More
Christie's to auction magnificent jewels in New York NEW YORK, NY.- Christies' presents Magnificent Jewels, a live auction taking place on 10 December at Rockefeller Center in New York City. The sale will showcase exceptional private collections and a meticulously curated selection of historic and contemporary jewels from the world's most iconic houses, including Bulgari, Cartier, David Webb, JAR, Tiffany & Co., Van Cleef & Arpels, and more. Leading the sale is the previously announced Rockefeller Kashmir, a rare Cartier Art Deco Sugarloaf Cabochon Sapphire and Diamond Ring weighing 17.66 carats (Estimate: $1,500,000–2,500,000). Offered for the first time at auction from the Property of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd, from the Collection of Sandra Ferry Rockefeller. The sale also features Elaine: The Collection of Elaine Wynn, a widely admired figure of style and philanthropy, known for her transformative ... More
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