ASHEVILLE, NC.- Following on the heels of their successful $1.3 million auction of deaccessions from the Brooklyn Museum, Brunk Auctions presents more museum deaccessions and outstanding works in its May American, Southern, British and Continental Premier auctions, May 20-21. A rare and exceptional portrait of Maryland Revolutionary War patriot Colonel Nicholas Rogers by Charles Willson Peale is one of the stars of the American and Southern sale on May 20. The artist handsomely depicts Rogers in his full aide-de-camp military regalia, complete with gold buttons, braid, sash and epaulets ($80,000-120,000). Peale is one of the most important figures of 18th century American painting having painted George Washington from life more than any other artist. Rogers was related to Martha Custis Washington by marriage, the Aide-de-Camp to General DuCoudray and General de Kalb and the builder of Baltimore’s historic home, Druid Hill. The painting de ... More
Alejandro Cardenas, The Other Mary, 2026. Oil on linen, 101.6 x 81.3 x 4.1 cm - 40 x 32 x 1 5/8 in (unframed), 105.7 x 85.1 x 6.3 cm - 41 5/8 x 33 1/2 x 2 1/2 in (framed).
NEW YORK, NY.- Almine Rech New York is presenting 'ARACHNE,' Alejandro Cardenas' seventh solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from May 8 to June 13, 2026. A Chilean-born American artist based in Madrid, Alejandro Cardenas is celebrated for his surreal paintings and sculptures that blur the line between figuration and abstraction. Born in 1977 in Santiago, Chile, he spent his formative years in Miami, earned a BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art in 2000, and has since built a multidisciplinary career spanning illustration, music, graphic design, fashion, and fine art. Employing a unique visual language that combines science fiction, surrealism, and ancient mythology to explore a post-human future, his work often features recurring symbolic elements across his fantastical paintings, drawings, and sculptures. Returning to Almine Rech for his sixth solo ... More
Gunhild Carling dazzles audiences with her own big band shows.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Sweden’s Queen of Swing, Jazz, and Vaudeville, the sensational Gunhild Carling, will perform a multi-show residency at SF Jazz, Joe Henderson Pub in San Francisco on May 23rd and May 24th. Gunhild Carling’s San Francisco audiences, being her many hometown fans and friends, are always extra special. She lived in southern Sweden until 2018, when she relocated with her family to Cupertino, California. The multi-instrumentalist, celebrated jazz musician, singer, dancer and entertainer who has captivated audiences worldwide with her boundless energy and extraordinary musical prowess, will do the San Francisco shows in preparation for her upcoming summer tour throughout the U.S. and overseas, featuring over two-dozen performances at many of the world’s top summer Jazz Festivals. She also just recently sold out three nights at famed Jazz club Birdland in New York City, showcasing her talents as a masterful virtuoso, c ... More
Diego Velázquez, Pablo de Valladolid (after restoration). Oil on canvas. Circa 1635. Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado.
MADRID.- The Museo del Prado has completed the restoration of Diego Velázquez’s Pablo de Valladolid, one of the painter’s most admired works and a painting once described by Édouard Manet as “the most astonishing painting ever made.” The project has not only recovered the canvas’s original visual balance, but also opened a new window onto Velázquez’s working method through advanced scientific analysis. The restoration was carried out as part of the Prado’s broader conservation program for works by Velázquez, supported by Fundación Iberdrola España as a protective member of the museum’s Restoration Program. In recent years, the museum has been revisiting several paintings by the Spanish master that had not undergone major treatment since the large conservation campaign of the 1980s. At the center of this new intervention was a deceptively simple but essential goal: to recover the original relationship between ... More
Mimi Parent, En Veilleuse (« We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep » Shakespeare), 1965.
NEW YORK, NY.- Richard Saltoun Gallery is presenting Scandalous: Women in Surrealism, an exhibition dedicated to avant-garde women Surrealist artists. These pioneering figures not only participated in the movement but redefined its visual and conceptual language, expanding its capacity for transformation, resistance, and radical invention. The exhibition is held in conjunction with our presentation at TEFAF New York, and brings together major works by the Italian surrealist Manina (1918-2010). Celebrated as a muse to Erwin Blumenfeld and admired by André Breton, who described her work as “pure poetry”, Manina occupies a distinctive place within the surrealist tradition. Marking the first presentation of her work since her passing in 2010, this presentation offers a rare and compelling opportunity to rediscover a visionary practice that continues to resonate with clarity and poetic depth. Presented alongside her are works by ... More
PARIS.- Auguste Renoir's joyful, colorful paintings and iconography of guinguettes and public dancehalls led to his being dubbed a “painter of happiness”. A reputation that sometimes led to his being marginalizead among the great painters of modernity, on the grounds that modernity could only be melancholic or ironic, disillusioned or disenchanted. “I know very well how hard it is to make people admit that a painting can be truly great painting while remaining joyful”, Renoir remarked. Yet his body of work provides an original reflection on modernity, in which love is understood both as a force governing human relationships and as an emotion guiding the artist's perception of his models, the world and painting itself. The exhibition brings together this major corpus of “scenes of modern life,” for the first time – multi-figure paintings depicting contemporary subjects (distinct ... More
Installation view.
SEOUL.- Pace is presenting Mary Corse: Primary Light, an exhibition of new Diamond paintings by Mary Corse, at its Seoul gallery from April 15 through June 5. Also featuring a light box work in a separate viewing space, the presentation centers on Corse’s sensitive, decades-long inquiries into the nature of human perception. A California native, Corse has lived and worked in Los Angeles since 1964. Over the course of her distinguished career, she has investigated the perceptual and spatial properties of light through abstract works that combine aesthetic refinement with scientific rigor. Employing an empirical and materially attentive approach in her practice, she explores the ways in which light can operate simultaneously as both subject and material within the pictorial field. Though she has embraced various modes of making, including sculpture and installation, Corse has maintained a deep commitment to the medium of painting throughout her storied career. Her new body of Diamond painti ... More
Jeremy Frey, Monolith, 2026. Ash, sweetgrass, and synthetic dye, 25 × 14¼ × 14¼ in
NEW YORK, NY.- Using traditional black ash and sweetgrass alongside innovative materials and processes, Jeremy Frey expands the scope of Wabanaki basketry while maintaining its vital connection to the past. Permanence presents intricately patterned baskets, flat weaves, and relief prints alongside the debut of the artist’s bronze sculptures. “Weaving is like a language,” he has explained, “though I’m writing it slightly differently, it’s a tradition that I guard.” A seventh-generation basketmaker, Frey learned the craft from his mother. Black ash wood has long been the practice’s primary medium. Known in the languages of the four Wabanaki Nations—Maliseet, Mi’kmaq, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot—as the “basket tree,” black ash grows in the forests of what is now called eastern Maine, where the Wabanaki have lived for at least 12,000 years. Their lengthy history is echoed in the extended timeline of their basketry’s key material, whic ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- Olney Gleason presents Abstract Slavery, an exhibition of new drawings by Tony Lewis (b. 1986, Los Angeles). On view from May 7 through June 6, 2026, this marks the artist’s first solo presentation in New York and brings together four interrelated bodies of work – Word Search, Color Shorthand, White Drawings, and Floor Drawings – unified by a sustained investigation of the Atlantic slave trade through the material and conceptual possibilities of drawing. Lewis works primarily with graphite, colored pencil, and paper, materials he subjects to intensive physical manipulation – rubbing, smudging, layering, erasure – in a practice rooted in the labor of mark-making. Language, both as visual form and carrier of meaning, is a consistent subject. Over the past decade, Lewis has developed methods for collapsing the space between drawing and writing, treating ... More
Aerial view looking east. Rendering by Brooklyn Digital Foundry.
NEW YORK, NY.- Today, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts held a groundbreaking ceremony as the institution reimagines the west side of its campus, creating new spaces to advance the arts as a force for inspiration and connection for all. Lincoln Center will build a new, 2000-person venue named The Baron Theater, in recognition of donor, The Baron Family Foundation, founded by Judy and Ron Baron. The Theater will be a centerpiece of the new Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Gardens and the newest performance space at Lincoln Center. The design incorporates input from thousands of community members, part of a robust participatory process. Imagery and video of the project, and from today’s ceremony, are here. The Baron Family Foundation made a transformative $75 million gift that honors the rich artistic traditions of New York City and invests in their future on Lincoln Center’s campus. Mr. Baron has hosted. ... More
William Adolphe Bouguereau, L'Oeillet, signed and dated 'W -BOVGVERAV -1890' (upper left) oil on canvas, 24 x 19¾ in. (61 x 50.2 cm.) Estimate: $200,000 -300,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie's will present A Treasured History: The Stream Family Collection, to be offered through a live auction on June 10th and an accompanying online sale open for bids through June 17. This collection features one of the world's finest groups of Fabergé, together with an extraordinary trove of jewelry that has remained unseen for more than a century. The sales also include exceptional examples of European furniture, silver, porcelain, glass, antiquities, and paintings. For generations, the Gray Stream family has been defined by entrepreneurial achievement, cultural stewardship, and an unwavering commitment to the arts, a legacy shaped most profoundly by two extraordinary Louisiana women, Matilda Geddings Gray and her niece Matilda Gray Stream, whose discerning eyes and intergenerational collecting created one of the most significant American collections of their time. At the heart of this legacy ... More
PARIS.- The Musée d'Orsay has received an extraordinary donation from the Kan family: seventeen fans made by prominent artists, put on display to mark the museum's 40th anniversary. The Kan collection, assembled over the last twenty years, is the largest ever collection of impressionist and post-impressionist fans. This donation is of an unprecedented scale and constitutes a significant expansion of the museum's collections in this area. Featuring the work of eight artists, from Jacques-Emile Blanche and Foujita to Georges de Feure, the donation includes a fan by Degas, one from Toulouse-Lautrec, four by Gauguin, and no less than seven by Pissarro – the impressionist painter who most often used this format. The painted fan appeared in the 1850s at the Salon, and thirty years later became a very popular format among the impressionists. Up until now, the Musée d'Orsay fan collection ... More
LONDON.- Angel Otero makes his UK debut this spring, featuring a deeply personal body of work completed during an artist residency at Hauser & Wirth Somerset. Known for his physically immersive approach to paint as material, Otero transforms the medium itself—scraping, layering and peeling dried oil paint to create richly textured compositions that hover between abstraction and figuration. Moving his studio practice from Brooklyn NY and Puerto Rico temporarily to Somerset, the residency provides Otero with the opportunity to continue his exploration of memory, place and meaning in the context of a new environment. ‘I have come to understand place as a living presence within the work—not merely a backdrop, but a condition that shapes perception. Every environment holds a quiet residue of light, architecture, weather, and history. When I shift my surroundings, it stirs fragments of memory that surface through process rather than depiction. The work becomes ... More
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Laura Letinsky challenges the boundaries of photography in new Paris show PARIS.- For its spring 2026 exhibition Galerie Miranda presents a solo show of still-life works by Chicago-based artist Laura Letinsky. For over 30 years, the work of Laura Letinsky has consistently investigated what defines a photograph. In A pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information, Letinsky employs and combines historical and modern photographic processes to create images that challenge and elude predefined notions of spatial and temporal organisation: iPhone images printed as tintypes, one of the earliest photographic processes, digital pigment prints on paper and dye sublimation prints made on aluminum. The series Who Loves the Sun was initiated during the artist's 2023 residency at the Dora Maar House in Ménerbes, France. For their composition, Letinsky incorporated her own and borrowed objects, including ceramics and glassware ... More
Haggerty Museum of Art announces new exhibitions MILWAUKEE, WI.- The Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University announced a Summer season of three exhibitions featuring new works and themes of reflection and commemoration. The Greater Milwaukee Foundation's Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists 2025 exhibition spotlights the work of five Milwaukee-based artists whose novel works encompass a broad range of media. After the Empire: American Prints from the Haggerty Collection explores American identity using satire and social commentary to witness and challenge history. Defying Empire: Revolutionary Prints from Britain and America challenges traditional, nationalistic narratives of the American Revolution. All exhibitions will be on view from June 4 through August 1, 2026. "We’re proud to again partner with the Lynden Sculpture Garden to support the depth of artistic talent, passion, ... More
One-of-a-kind Aston Martin DB4 GT Continuation leads star-studded sale at Woodcote Park LONDON.- Several notable early consignments have been made to The Woodcote Park Auction, RM Sotheby’s brand-new mid-summer sale that will take place alongside and in partnership with the Royal Automobile Club Concours on 8 July. Now in its second year, the Club Concours will once again be hosted in the spectacular grounds of the RAC’s countryside retreat in Epsom, just outside London—though this time guests will be treated to a live auction with a mouthwatering array of vintage, classic, and modern collector cars available for purchase. Leading the early consignments to the sale is a very special 2018 Aston Martin DB4 GT Continuation, being the only example of Aston Martin’s limited-production Continuation series to replicate 1959 DB4 GT Prototype ‘DP199’. Priced at more than £1,500,000 when new, only a handful of these spectacular recreations ... More
MoMI celebrates America's 250th anniversary with screening series "By the People, For the People" ASTORIA, NY.- As our country celebrates the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the founding document of the United States, Museum of the Moving Image will present the screening series By the People, For the People: Real American Tales, May 29 through July 5, featuring films that take on the perspective of the nation’s historically marginalized and less frequently represented on screen. From films about collective labor and the underclass as explored in The Grapes of Wrath, Matewan, and Days of Heaven, to immigrant communities in The Exiles and Los Sures, and the disenfranchised in films such as Nothing but a Man and Buddies, these films ask what the term “American cinema” means—and what it perhaps could mean in an ideal world. Additional titles may be added as they are confirmed. The full schedule for By the People, For the People: ... More
Interactive portrait of the nation by artist Es Devlin to launch at the National Portrait Gallery LONDON.- Today the NPG announced A National Portrait for the National Portrait Gallery, an evolving digital artwork created by artist Es Devlin in collaboration with everyone across the UK who would like to participate. On display in the NPG’s History Makers gallery from 14 May to 27 October 2026, the project invites people to become co-authors of a collective portrait of the nation and see themselves exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery. Participants will be able to take a photograph of their face on the dedicated Google Arts & Culture site. There it will be transformed into an animated digital portrait, using a tool stylistically directed on Devlin’s previous charcoal and chalk drawings. At the click of a button, participants can submit their portrait to instantly become part of A National Portrait displayed at the NPG. Each participant can also download a unique digital edition of their ... More
Eliza Douglas makes New York solo debut at Gagosian NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian announced GHOSTS, an exhibition of new mixed-media paintings by Eliza Douglas, opening at Park & 75 in New York on May 12. The first in a series of solo presentations by different artists curated by Francesco Bonami, it is also Douglas’s first solo exhibition in New York and her first at the gallery. About the exhibition series, Bonami notes: “The unique and historic character of the Park & 75 location is an ideal space for a laboratory of fresh perspectives that will complement the gallery’s existing programming.” Douglas’s canvases have been characterized as “meta-paintings” that display an awareness of their own status and history. Often borrowing from the iconographies of advertising and popular culture, which she sometimes blends with gestural abstraction, the artist continually reminds viewers of art’s status as a consumable good. ... More
Christie's to sell private jewellery collection of Italian screen icon Claudia Cardinale PARIS.- Christie's announced the sale of a historic selection of jewellery formerly owned by Claudia Cardinale. These Jewels from her personal collection will be offered at the heart of the Joaillerie Paris sale, to be held online from June 19 to 26, just a few weeks after the tribute that will be paid to her at the Cannes Film Festival and 65 years after her first ascent of the red carpet in 1961. Christie's is honoured to take part in the celebration of a star who will be remembered as one of the greatest actresses in the history of Italian and international cinema, by presenting a collection of approximately twenty pieces of jewellery chosen, cherished and worn by Claudia Cardinale. For a woman who saw 'a true continuity' between her life and her roles, these pieces of jewellery reflect her most essential, personal and intimate choices. Passionate about both fashion and style, and an ... More
Christie's to offer numerous handbags with no reserve price PARIS.- Christie's presents the online Handbags sale, which will take place from June 12 to 24. Featuring nearly 300 models, a wide range of estimates, and 130 lots offered with no reserve, this sale is particularly accessible and provides an excellent opportunity for both collectors and enthusiasts to acquire iconic pieces before the summer. The highlight of the sale, an iconic white Birkin 20 Faubourg, is offered with an estimate of €180,000 to €300,000 and an opening bid of €160,000. Among the highlights, the sale places particular emphasis on two exceptional pieces from the late 1990s, which exemplify Hermès's experimentation with materials and metallic effects, and which we see featured in Leïla Menchari's magnificent display windows, inviting us to dream. A potentially one-of-a-kind piece and highly sought-after by collectors, this rare Birkin 40 in gold, silver and bronze goatskin is the perfect example of how light plays on the leather. The gold, silver ... More
Mongolian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale Entanglements: Connectivities Across Borders VENICE.- Mongolia participates in the 61st Venice Biennale with its national pavilion titled Entanglements: Connectivities Across Borders. The exhibition is distinguished by its approach of redefining Mongolia not as a fixed geography, but as a dynamic space shaped by historical and contemporary networks of exchange and dialogue. Curated by Uranchimeg Tsultem with co-curator Thomas Eller, the pavilion presents works by contemporary Mongolian artists Dorjderem Davaa, Gerelkhuu Ganbold, Nomin Bold, and Tuguldur Yondonjamts. Their multimedia artworks demonstrate how the expansive Eurasian connections once facilitated by the Mongol Empire continue to inform the worldviews that shape their contemporary art practices. Historically, Italian city-states, such as Venice, had important channels of connectivities with the Mongol Empire through trade, commerce, ... More
Arshile Gorky Exhibition at Armenian Museum of America in Watertown Extended through September 2026 WATERTOWN, MASS.- Due to overwhelming interest and positive reviews from prominent publications such as Boston Art Review and Artscope magazine, the Armenian Museum of America recently announce that “Arshile Gorky: Redrawing Community and Connections” has been extended to September 27, 2026. The show was highlighted as a top pick by the Boston Globe and by GBH Arts Editor Jared Bowen. This landmark exhibition was opened to coincide with the 100 Years of Arshile Gorky programming in the City of Watertown. Curated by Kim S. Theriault and sponsored by the JHM Charitable Foundation, the exhibition brings together works from private collectors and leading institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Housatonic Museum of Art, and Yale University Art Gallery. “Gorky’s work demonstrates an aptitude for navigating the zeitgeist ... More
Programme for Bristol Photo Festival Biennial announced with the theme 'Time Machine' BRISTOL.- Drawing on the success of the second edition, which drew over 115,000 visitors, the third edition of Bristol Photo Festival, the international biennial of contemporary photography, will open this autumn with exhibitions and events staged across the Bristol’s major visual arts institutions as well as independent and unconventional spaces. Alongside the programme, the Festival will deliver a series of long-term engagement and education projects, working with local communities to explore overlooked aspects of the city’s story. Entitled Time Machine, the third edition explores time as interwoven, where past, present and future fold into one another. Rooted in these understandings of time as cyclical, the Festival considers our present moment as a porous convergence — haunted and nourished by memory, imagination and anticipation. In this context, photography ... More
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