This work is known as “The Big Book,” a testament to the almost sacred value its many readers place in it. This working copy has an estimate of $1,000,000-2,000,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- It launched the 12-step movement, changed countless lives, and became one of the most influential books of the 20th century. Now, the original working text of Alcoholics Anonymous, complete with extensive handwritten notations and edits by the authors, will be the final lot of The Jim Irsay Collection: Icons of History sale, taking place live July 1, 2026 at Christie's Rockefeller Center. This work is known as “The Big Book,” a testament to the almost sacred value its many readers place in it. This working copy has an estimate of $1,000,000-2,000,000. All of the proceeds of the sale of this important work will be donated to philanthropic causes close to the heart of Jim Irsay, the late philanthropist and owner of the Indianapolis Colts. Christie's is marking the 250th anniversary of the United States with this The Icons of History sale, a new chapter in what has already been a record-breaking series of auctions of objects from Irsay's meticulously compiled c ... More
Historic Mobile Arts Education Platform to Enter New Chapter Through Collaborative Partnership with Larry Warsh’s Contemporary Art and Automobile Initiative.
NEW YORK, NY.-Mister ArtSee, the pioneering mobile arts education initiative and non-profit founded by artist Elliott Arkin, announced today that its iconic Mister ArtSee vehicle — together with the complete collection of original vehicle designs and conceptual development materials created in collaboration with the late artist and architect Vito Acconci and Acconci Studio — has been acquired by CART Department, the contemporary art and automobile initiative founded by collector and cultural entrepreneur Larry Warsh. Founded in 2008, Mister ArtSee transformed a vintage Mister Softee ice cream truck into a phantasmagorical, multi-functional arts platform designed to bring creativity, art experiences, and educational programming directly into underserved communities. Conceived as both a practical initiative and a broader artistic statement, the project reimagined ... More
The painting represents the culmination of an idea that had occupied Landseer for more than thirty years.
LONDON.- Monumental in scale and charged with the drama of the Scottish Highlands, Sir Edwin Landseer’s Scene in Braemar is the culmination of the artist's lifelong fascination with the Highland stag. Painted by 1857, the nearly nine-foot canvas has long been understood as a darker and more mysterious sister painting to The Monarch of the Glen - Landseer’s iconic image of the Highland stag, and one of the most recognisable symbols of British art. Unseen in public for over two decades, this summer, Scene in Braemar will be offered in Sotheby’s Old Master Evening Sale in London with an estimate of £3 - 4 million, poised to set a new auction record for the artist. Widely admired as among “the best works of the artist” when it was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1857, Scene in Braemar has remained one of the most celebrated compositions by Landseer, often dubbed the “King of animal painters”. The ... More
PORTO.- The Serralves Foundation opened Jenny Holzer: Wrong Answers, an expansive exhibition by the celebrated American artist best known for her use of language to explore the dynamics of freedom, power, and political expression. The artist’s first solo exhibition in Portugal, Wrong Answers traces the trajectory of Holzer’s career, from early text series such as Inflammatory Essays to later explorations across diverse materials and forms, including carved stone benches, sarcophagi, paintings, smashed heaps of stone, LED signs, human bones, and more. Curated by the Museum’s director, Philippe Vergne, the exhibition is being presented at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art from June 18 to November 1, 2026. Among the highlights are two collaborations with Porto-based graffiti artist Kilos, who painted over Holzer’s iconic Truisms posters in one gallery and cover ... More
PARIS.- Zoé Bernardi’s exhibition “I wanna be loved by you” explores the way femininity is constructed, transmitted and transformed through images. Borrowed from Marilyn Monroe’s song, the title offers from the outset a compelling tension: that of a femininity at the same time desired, manufactured and projected. How to construct oneself as a woman through the images that precede us, flow through us and at times, assign us a role to play? It all began with Marilyn Monroe. Discovered on television in childhood, her image generated an immediate confusion: fascination, distance, impossibility to match. Marilyn became much more than an icon of Hollywood cinema. She acted as a matrix for femi-ninity, an industrial model that could be reproduced and multiplied to infinity. An image that is disseminated, repeated, distorted, and from which other figures are generated. The exhibition opens on a gesture of embodiment: a self-portrait in which the artist makes herself up as Marilyn. ... More
TORONTO.- One of the most significant global collections highlighting handcrafted Arab textiles and cultural belongings, meticulously gathered over decades by a woman who made preserving such items her life’s work, has found an ideal home at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM). ROM announced the acquisition of The Widad Kawar Collection of Arab Dress and Heritage Arts – comprising nearly 600 garments, accessories, and historic objects of daily life from the Levant region (Jordan, Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon) as well as other Arab countries, including Egypt, Iraq, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, the UAE, and Yemen. Lifelong collector Widad Kamel Kawar personally selected ROM as the home for these unique pieces, thanks to the Museum’s deep history and expertise in collections from the Islamic World. These carefully selected 20th-century objects are of immense historical and cultural importance, transforming ROM’s collection of Middle Eastern ... More
ZURICH.- New York-based artist Avery Singer presents new paintings alongside a site-specific architectural intervention transforming the gallery’s upper floor into a casino-like environment – a space charged by surveillance. Incorporating AI-based tools into her painting process for the first time, ‘War_overlays’ examines how media and accelerating technologies shape our consciousness, destabilizing the boundaries between perception and reality. Following on from Singer’s body of work reconciling with her personal memories of 9/11, the new paintings reflect on the artist’s experience growing up amid televised conflict in the early 2000s, using distorted, AI-influenced imagery to evoke the mediated violence of the era. Influenced by Jean Baudrillard’s writings on the Gulf War, the exhibition considers how conflict in the West is primarily experienced as a media spectacle, constructed and construed through images rather than direct encounters. This dissonance is ... More
The Aldrich Decennial: I am what is around me (installation view: Em Rooney, Love Streams, 2026, Courtesy of the artist and Derosia, New York), The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, June 7, 2026 to January 10, 2027. Photo: Olympia Shannon.
RIDGEFIELD, CONN.- The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is presenting The Aldrich Decennial: I am what is around me, the debut of a recurring survey, taking place every ten years, featuring artists who live and work in Connecticut. As the state’s only institution exclusively dedicated to contemporary art, this series spotlights current artists and practices emerging from Connecticut. None of the featured artists have had a solo museum exhibition in Connecticut, and all works have been created within the last decade. The Aldrich Decennial: I am what is around me will be on view at The Aldrich from June 7, 2026, to January 10, 2027, and is accompanied by a catalogue. Connecticut has been the home to many goliaths of art history, including Anni and Josef Albers, Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy, Louise Bourgeois, Alexander ... More
G.I. Joe Firefly 2-Up Hand-Painted Preproduction Prototype (Hasbro, 1984).
DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions announced the upcoming G.I. Joe Absolute: An American Icon — Extended Bidding Signature® Auction, taking place July 12, 2026. Held just days after the 250th anniversary of the United States, the event is poised to become one of the most significant G.I. Joe-specific auctions ever assembled. Anchoring the sale is the renowned collection of Derryl DePriest, widely regarded as one of the most comprehensive and historically important G.I. Joe collections in existence. The collection reflects the lifelong passion of DePriest, a respected toy industry executive, pop-culture historian and former Vice President of Global Brand Management at Hasbro. During his tenure from 2001 to 2018, DePriest helped oversee major initiatives for both Star Wars and G.I. Joe, including collector-focused programs that reshaped the modern action-figure hobby. A longtime advocate for the collecting community and an authority on the history of the brand, DePriest assembled a collection that s ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- So much has already been said about Marilyn Monroe. After a deprived and unhappy early life as Norma Jeane Mortenson, Marilyn began her slow rise in Hollywood thanks to her agent and lover Johnny Hyde. At the time of her death at age 36, Marilyn had reached the height of celebrity and stardom - a position that has miraculously continued beyond her death. The role of the photographer has been crucial to the rise of Marilyn Monroe. As her friend and photographer Sam Shaw once said, “The camera loved Marilyn and Marilyn loved the camera.” The importance of photography to the maintenance of her legend has been demonstrated by multiple museums and gallery exhibitions celebrating her 100th birthday this year. From her years as an unknown starlet all the way through the heights of her fame, Marilyn remained a magnet to photographers who have been drawn to photograph her as no other person has been photographed. She came alive for the camera and seemingly ... More
Vidal Mouet, Untitled, 2025, Oil on canvas, (detail).
NEW YORK, NY.- C24 Gallery presents Contact Points, a two-person exhibition of works by Tony Zhao and Vidal Mouet. The exhibition brings together two painters who, despite working in distinct methodologies, share a fundamental preoccupation with the painted object as a site of pressure and negotiation. Neither artist treats the canvas as a window into something else; for both painters, the work is complete in itself, resisting close readings and analysis looking past its surface. Meaning is produced through the work’s construction: through texture, scale, edge, weight, repetition, and the physical relationship between the painting and the body that encounters it. Mouet takes inspiration from the world around him: Cardboard boxes, stacked coffee cups, and objects caught mid-use become departure points for paintings that hover between representation and form. Working with canvas, stretcher bars, and oil, he translates the contour, volume, and balance of ordinary ... More
José Roca. Photo: Urška Boljkovac. MGLC Archive.
LJUBLJANA.- MGLC, the International Centre of Graphic Arts in Slovenia, announced the appointment of José Roca as the curator of the 37th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts (2027). José Roca (Barranquilla, 1962) is a Colombian curator. He was Artistic Director of rīvus, 23rd Biennale of Sydney, Australia (2022), and Curatorial Advisor of BOG25, the inaugural Bogotá International Biennial of Art and the City, Essays on Happiness (2025). Roca was co-curator of the 1st San Juan Poly/Graphic Triennial, Puerto Rico (2004), the 27th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil (2006) and Encuentro de Medellín MDE07, Colombia (2007). He was Artistic Director of Philagrafika 2010 in Philadelphia and Chief Curator of the 8 Bienal do Mercosul in Porto Alegre, Brazil (2011). Along with his lifetime partner Adriana Hurtado, he founded and managed FLORA ars+natura, an independent space for contemporary art in Bogotá (2012–22). He was the Estrellita B. Brodsky Adjunct ... More
Caroline Coon, Gerberas and Ivy (1994). Oil on canvas, 92 x 92 cm (36 1/4 x 36 1/4 ins).
LONDON.- James Hyman Gallery announced its representation of Caroline Coon, one of the most important counter-culture figures of the last sixty years. The gallery will offer major paintings that reveal the range and power of her extraordinary career from multi-figure compositions to urban landscapes and exuberant still-lifes. Caroline Coon (b. 1945, London) is a British artist, writer, photographer and feminist activist whose work brings together post-war figuration, sexual politics and counter-cultural history. Trained at Northampton College of Art and Central Saint Martins, her painting employs a precise, heightened figurative language through which bodies, desire and social power are examined with directness and wit. Her paintings resist fixed categories of gender and sexuality, proposing instead a fluid field of identity, autonomy and self-representation. Coon co-founded Release in 1967, a legal-advice organisation ... More
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GR Gallery opens 'Made To Appear' featuring artists Viraj Khanna and Brian Robertson NEW YORK, NY.- GR gallery announces “Made To Appear” a two person exhibition featuring artists Viraj Khanna and Brian Robertson, whose works merge traditional textile techniques, contemporary imagery and cultural commentary to examine emotionally residual forms and the performative nature of today’s social media-driven world. Pushing beyond the rules of craft and fine arts, the exhibition presents mixed media threaded works that challenge perceptions of materiality, identity, and community by offering a timely exploration of modern life through texture and form. What the viewer encounters is not immediate or neutral, but constructed to produce a specific visual and emotional impression; on a perceptible level in fact the works resist instant recognition: embroidered surfaces initially register as paintings or digital images, revealing their textile nature ... More
Frankfurter Kunstverein exhibition explores Greenland's rapid geopolitical and climate transformations FRANKFURT.- Greenland – Not For Sale – Kalaallit Nunaat Forever is dedicated to a country undergoing enormous transformation and, like a magnifying glass, revealing the defining issues of our time. Through the cinematic works created by Beat Hächler and Gian Suhner and the activist art of Julie Hardenberg, German audiences encounter numerous facets of the reality of this country and its people through powerful visual worlds. Greenland is currently at the center of geopolitical ambitions. Its military-strategic location, rare earth resources, and shipping routes opening due to climate change have accelerated political shifts. At the latest with the recent public statements made by the President of the United States, the question of political independence versus geopolitical interconnectedness has come forcefully into focus. A long and painful process of decolonization ... More
Three Baltimore artists selected for 2026 MICA Summer Artist-in-Residence program BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA), Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), and the BMA’s Joshua Johnson Council (JJC) today announced Anna Divinagracia, Dirk Joseph,and Dr. Yemonja Smalls have been selected for the 2026 Summer Artist-in-Residence program at MICA jointly sponsored by the three organizations. Launched in 2022, the residency program provides selected artists the opportunity to work in studios within MICA’s Fred Lazarus IV Center over the course of eight weeks in June and July, allowing them to expand their work and scale, as well as embed themselves within the college community. Artists will also have access to MICA’s world-class fabrication studios, which include a two-dimensional prototyping studio, digital fabrication labs, biofabrication lab, and wood shops. For the first time, the Summer Artist-in-Residence ... More
Sharing the National Collection: Australian sculpture for Northcliffe PARKES.- A large bronze sculpture by Australian sculptor Lisa Roet will be loaned to Painted Tree Gallery in Northcliffe, Western Australia for five years thanks to the Albanese Labor Government’s Sharing the National Collection program. Created by Lisa Roet contemporary Australian sculptor, the cast iron sculpture weighs in at 98 kilograms. Minister for the Arts, Tony Burke, said the Sharing the National Collection program is continuing to benefit regional galleries and their visitors. “Our Sharing the National Collection program has given regional audiences a chance to see things that normally don’t make it out beyond our major cities. “The national collection belongs to the entire nation, not just to Canberra.” Senator for Western Australia, Dorinda Cox said it was great to see how the Sharing the National Collection program benefiting communities. ... More
DESTE Foundation presents 'Gen X' group exhibition in Athens from the Dakis Joannou Collection ATHENS.- The DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art is presenting Gen X: Tales from the Forgotten Generation, a group exhibition with selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection. Curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Artistic Director, New Museum with Calvin Wang, Curatorial Assistant, New Museum, and Taeyi Kim, Curatorial Fellow, New Museum, the exhibition will be on view at the DESTE Foundation in Athens between June 18th and November 26th, 2026. In the opening pages of Douglas Coupland’s defining 1991 novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, the three protagonists contemplate a barren Californian landscape—a “blank space at the end of a chapter.” Having left behind promising corporate careers for low-wage jobs, they embody a generation suspended between fading postwar optimism and uncertain futures, shaped ... More
New architecture exhibition positions raw earth as a viable, low-carbon building material LISBON.- At a time of mounting pressure on the planet’s limits, raw earth is emerging a natural, local, and readily available resource, a testing ground for contemporary architecture. To build with earth is to understand the territory and to reactivate a body of knowledge that links local resources and building culture. As old as human history itself, this material remains remarkably relevant today because of its ecological and physical properties. Unlike materials subject to irreversible transformation, raw earth remains physically reversible and non-toxic. It requires minimal processing and has low embodied carbon, relying on a deep, continuously reinterpreted understanding of soil properties developed over generations. The exhibition moves from matter to action: from the physical and mineral complexity of soil to accumulated knowledge, and to practices that reclaim earth ... More
Gajah Gallery marks 30th anniversary with major Southeast Asian group exhibition in Yogyakarta YOGYAKARTA.- In conjunction with ARTJOG, Gajah Gallery marks its 30th anniversary with Many Horizons, One Sky, a group exhibition at Gajah Gallery Yogyakarta from 18 June to 19 July 2026. The exhibition features artists associated with the gallery’s three-decade commitment to promoting Southeast Asian art, highlighting diverse practices across painting, sculpture, and expanded material approaches. Spanning multiple generations and geographies, the presentation reflects the diversity of contemporary artistic production across Southeast Asia and beyond. Many Horizons, One Sky assembles a multigenerational dialogue between practices that have shaped, and continue to reshape, the region’s contemporary art landscape. The paintings and soft sculptures by I Gusti Ayu Kadek Murniasih are marked by a radical visual language that emerged through a fearless commitment ... More
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum presents Idemitsu Mako: What a Woman Made TOKYO.- Idemitsu Mako (b. 1940) is a pioneering artist in the fields of experimental film and video art in Japan. She began creating art after spending time in the United States in the 1960s, producing works using film and early video that explored themes such as women’s lives, family, and the relationship between media and society. In particular, her video works from the 1970s onwards incorporate the narrative techniques of television melodramas to depict themes such as mother-child relationships, marital dynamics, and women’s social roles from a unique perspective. In recent years, amid growing international discourse on gender and the body, her practice has garnered renewed attention. The Tokyo Photographic Art Museum acquired Idemitsu Mako’s complete film and video works, as well as her major installation pieces, between 2016 and 2017. This exhibition ... More
Highest-graded Super Mario Bros. sells for record $3 million at Heritage's June 12-13 Video Games Auction DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions continues to blaze new trails in Video Game collecting, a category of collectibles for which it has established itself as the dominant auction house. On June 12, the highest-graded copy of the earliest sealed edition of Super Mario Bros. — the iconic game whose popularity established Nintendo’s dominance in home console gaming in the 1980s — sold for $3 million at the June 12–13 Video Games Signature® Auction, hammering the previous $2 million record set in a 2021 private sale. Bearing the gloss sticker adopted in early 1986, it is the earliest confirmed sealed copy of the most important game cartridge in history and one of only three known sealed copies from this second-production run — a variant that has never appeared in a public auction in sealed condition. “Like any collectible, be it Trading Cards, Comics or Video Games, ... More
Film Forum to host U.S. theatrical premiere of Luis Valdez documentary 'American Pachuco' NEW YORK, NY.- Film Forum will present the U.S. theatrical premiere of David Alvarado’s American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez on Friday, July 17. Groundbreaking Chicano activist/director Luis Valdez mounted agitprop performances on flatbed trucks in the 1960s with his El Teatro Campesino, mobilizing California farmworkers to secure their first union contract; authored Zoot Suit, the first Chicano play on Broadway, and directed the 1981 screen adaptation, starring Edward James Olmos; and wrote and directed the highest-grossing Hollywood Latino movie in history, the Ritchie Valens biopic, La Bamba. American Pachuco (Valdez defines pachucos as Mexican-American “street cats with style”) playfully tracks his extraordinary life and career, with rarely seen footage from his subversive theater and television work, and interviews with Valdez; actors Olmos ... More
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On a day like today, French painter Joseph-Marie Vien was born
June 18, 1716. Joseph-Marie Vien (18 June 1716 - 27 March 1809) was a French painter. He was the last holder of the post of Premier peintre du Roi, serving from 1789 to 1791, before it was abolished during the French Revolution. Joseph-Marie Vien died in Paris and was buried in the crypt of the Panthéon. He left behind many brilliant pupils, including François-André Vincent, Jean-Antoine-Théodore Giroust, Jean-Baptiste Regnault, Joseph-Benoît Suvée, Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours, François-Guillaume Ménageot, and Jean-Joseph Taillasson. In this image: Portrait of Joseph-Marie Vien by Joseph Siffred Duplessis, 1784.
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