Beate Wheeler, Untitled, 1960s. Oil on canvas, 22 x 24 inches.
GREENWICH, CONN.-Heather Gaudio Fine Art in partnership with Moss Galleries is presenting The Paintings of Beate Wheeler, on view January 31 – March 7, 2026. The exhibition features 15 paintings by the late Abstract Expressionist artist dating from the 1960s to the 1990s. Although largely overlooked in her time by the mainstream art market, Wheeler was an active Abstract Expressionist, and an indelible part of the complex narrative of American art in the 20th century. “We are so proud to present to current fine art audiences and local art enthusiasts the opportunity to discover and learn about an epochal and under-recognized female artist,” states Heather Gaudio. "From my experience working with the estates of Lynne Drexler and Judith Rothschild, the female Abstract Expressionists achieved more sophisticated and ultimately more exciting color relationships ... More
Olivia Rodrigo & Robert Smith signed and stage-played guitar from 2025’s Glastonbury Festival.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Julien’s Auctions and MusiCares® today announced the results of the highly anticipated MusiCares Charity Relief Auction, held in Los Angeles yesterday ahead of Music’s Biggest Night®. The sale featured an extraordinary lineup of one-of-a-kind donations from music’s biggest names — including Billie Eilish, Cher, Olivia Rodrigo & Robert Smith,Paul McCartney, Taylor Swift, and others — along with special contributions from MusiCares® Person of the Year honoree, Mariah Carey. With stars and fans turning out in force, the Julien’s MusiCares Charity Relief Auction once again played a vital role in sustaining MusiCares®’ mission to provide a safety net for music professionals in times of need. Held in conjunction with the Person of the Year celebration, the annual event raises essential funds that help industry workers recover from crises. Highlights included Olivia Rodrigo & Robert Smith signed and stage-played guitar from 2025’s Glastonbury Festival ( ... More
First edition copy of Joseph Smith, Jr.’s “The Book of Mormon…..” (Palmyra: Printed by E.B. Grandin, 1830), with ownership signatures on the free front endpaper. Estimate: $200,000-$250,000.
WILTON, CONN.- A first edition copy of Joseph Smith Jr.’s “The Book of Mormon” from 1830, an Abraham Lincoln autograph letter signed and dated May 6, 1861, a George Washington signed letter dated Nov. 29, 1778, and a Yousuf Karsh original photographic print signed by all three Apollo 11 crewmembers are just a few of the highlight lots in University Archives’ online-only Rare Autographs, Books Including Lincoln & Space Exploration auction slated for Wednesday, February 18th. The auction, starting promptly at 10am Eastern Time, is filled with items in many categories. The catalog in its entirety – all 420 lots – is up for viewing and bidding now on the University Archives website, www.UniversityArchives.com, plus the popular platforms Invaluable.com, Auctionzip.com and LiveAuctioneers.com. Telephone and absentee bids will also be accepted. “The February sale ... More
A 14k Gold Bracelet, Italy. The flexible bracelet, weighing 25.93 grams; length: 7 1/4 in., width: 7/8 in. Estimate $800-$1,200.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.-Turner Auctions + Appraisals will present the Winter Auction of Jewelry & Treasures, Part II, on Saturday, February 15, 2026, at 10:30 am PST. Featuring over 215 lots from several estates, offerings include gem-set jewelry; unmounted stones; luxury scarves and wraps; shoe buckles; accessories and belts; gents’ accessories; vintage children’s clothing -- plus a wide array of groupings of jewelry, women’s accessories, and boxes. Jewelry lots include necklaces, rings, bracelets, pendants, brooches, earrings, watches, dress clips, and cufflinks. Most are gold or silver, including sterling or blackened; many are set with gemstones such as diamond, ruby, amethyst, pearl, opal, jade, peridot, turquoise, agate, coral, moonstone, and labradorite. Some pieces are antique, vintage, or Southwest. Noted jewelry designers include Tiffany, Elsa Peretti, Miriam Haskell, Amy Kahn Russell, and Peter Shire ... More
PARIS.- In light of the powerful bond that united Christo and Jeanne-Claude to the French capital, the Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation has offered the City of Paris and Paris Musées an exceptional donation of 14 artworks by Christo. Some of these works have never been seen before and will significantly enrich the collections of the Musée Carnavalet - Histoire de Paris and the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris. As part of this donation, the Musée Carnavalet will receive: • An original collage related to Projet Pour Gigantesque Empaquetage, 1967. For this unrealized project, Christo and Jeanne-Claude envisioned wrapping a series of buildings from the Église de la Madeleine to the Hôtel de la Marine in Paris. • Three silkscreen prints and one lithograph relating to the Paris ... More
Portrait of Conny Maier. Photo: Sebastian Emmert.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hauser & Wirth announced its representation of Conny Maier, in collaboration with Société Berlin. German artist Conny Maier lives and works in Portugal. Shaped by the distinctly different environments of her home country and the place she now calls home, her multi-perspectival practice forges new relationships between landscape, climate and human psychology, unfolding through climactic scenes that merge geological distress with instinctual urges. Maier has attracted international attention for bold, brawny, assertively hued paintings populated by misshapen figures, interspecies entanglements, and symbolically charged motifs. Symbolic objects—flowers, animals, offerings and ritual elements—appear throughout her paintings and sculptures, acting as anchors for the emotional and psychological currents her work traces. In exploring the complexities of humankind’s relationship with nature, she infuses vivid, seemingly paradisiacal landscapes with a sense of latent unease, refl ... More
Braun, Clement & Cie. (active 1889–1910), Infanta Margarita of Austria, by Velázquez. Carbon print on a secondary cardboard support. Signed and dated, 1899. Archive of the Museo del Prado.
MADRID.- For more than a century, photography has quietly shaped the way the world sees the Museo del Prado. Long before smartphones, postcards, or digital archives, photographs carried images of its masterpieces far beyond Madrid—sometimes even before the paintings themselves entered the museum. Now, for the first time, the Prado turns the lens inward. With El Prado multiplicado: Photography as Shared Memory, the Museo del Prado presents its first monographic exhibition devoted entirely to photography, drawn exclusively from its own collections. Opening on February 2, 2026, the exhibition traces how photography has functioned not just as a tool for reproduction, but as a vital instrument in building the museum’s visual memory since the 19th century. The exhibition brings together 44 carefully selected works from a vast photographic archive of more ... More
R. Crumb, What O' Hail, 1975. Watercolor, ink, and correction fluid on paper, 10 1/4 x 7 7/8 inches (26 x 20 cm) Framed: 17 x 13 inches (43.2 x 33 cm)
LONDON.- David Zwirner is presenting There’s No End to the Nonsense, an exhibition of work by American artist R. Crumb opening at the gallery’s London location. There’s No End to the Nonsense is an intimately scaled survey of Crumb’s work that spans across the adventurous and expansive arc of his storied sixty-year career. This is his first solo exhibition in London in a decade. One of today’s most celebrated illustrators, Crumb helped define the cartoon subcultures of the 1960s and 1970s with comic strips like Fritz the Cat, Mr. Natural, and Keep on Truckin’. Instrumental in the formation of the underground comics scene, Crumb challenged and expanded the boundaries of the graphic arts, redefining comics and cartoons as countercultural art forms. The overt eroticism of his work paired with frequent self-deprecation and a free, almost stream-of-consciousness style have solidified his position as a renowned ... More
Cypriot male head. Larnaca (5th century BC). Archive of the National Archaeological Museum. Photo: Fernando Velasco Mora.
MADRID.- The Museo Arqueológico Nacional has turned its spotlight eastward. Its newly inaugurated Vitrina Cero exhibition, Between East and West: Cyprus, the Island of Aphrodite, invites visitors to rediscover the ancient Mediterranean through a rarely seen collection of Cypriot archaeology drawn from the museum’s own holdings. Renewed every three months, the Vitrina Cero space is dedicated to small, focused exhibitions that bring overlooked or little-known objects into public view. This time, the focus is on Cyprus, an island whose strategic position made it a cultural crossroads for millennia. The exhibition will remain on view until April 12, 2026, coinciding with Cyprus’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union during the first half of the year. Cyprus has long occupied a special place in myth and history alike. Homer recounts in the Odyssey that Aphrodite, born from the sea foam, was carried to the island so the Graces ... More
BERLIN.- Esther Schipper announced the representation of Celeste Rapone. The eccentric figures that populate Celeste Rapone’s paintings allegorize the generational unease, anxiety, and ennui peculiar to millennials. In a recurring compositional gesture, bodies are positioned in contorted and crammed poses. Their limbs press against the edges of the canvas, poised to burst the picture plane. As they rub against the frame, these figures appear to thrive and ache at once. Rapone works without preliminary drawings. Moments of hesitation, doubt, discontent, and revision cut across the layers of paint she applies to the canvas. Yet the autobiographical allure of her work extends beyond her technique: each painting is a narrative feast and their protagonists function as alter egos. Her upbringing in New Jersey sets a mis-en-scène tempered with nostalgia and vibrant shades. Recent works cite a muted palette of greige, referencing fashion and interior design advertising that began to pop up in Rapo ... More
Safeya Binzagr’s Coffee Shop in Madina Road smashes estimate to achieve $2.1 million. Courtesy Sotheby's.
DIRIYAH.- Sotheby’s staged its second auction in Saudi Arabia — almost one year to the day after history was made with the first-ever auction in the Kingdom. The 250-seat venue was filled to capacity as guests gathered for Origins II, a sale of modern and contemporary art showcasing leading Saudi and Middle Eastern artists alongside renowned international names. A landmark auction record for a Saudi artist was achieved early in the sale as Safeya Binzagr’s Coffee Shop in Madina Road realised $2.1 million, more than ten times its high estimate ($150,000-200,000). The result nearly doubled the previous auction record for a Saudi artist, set at Sotheby’s London in October 2023 with a work by Mohammed Al Saleem, as it also became the third highest price for a work by an Arab artist sold at auction and the most valuable work of art sold at auction in Saudi Arabia. The result also established the third highest price for a work by an Arab artist sold at auction and As the birthplace ... More
2006 Fleer Buyback Michael Jordan (1986 Fleer-Autograph) #57 PSA Authentic, Auto 10.
DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions’ Winter Sports Card Catalog Auction, held Jan. 30–31, concluded with a total of $14,578,137, driven by extraordinary demand for modern-era trophies, iconic rookie cards and period-signed autographs from the Golden Age Collection. Leading the event was a 2006 Fleer Buyback Michael Jordan (1986 Fleer-Autograph) #57 PSA Authentic, Auto 10, which realized $884,500. One of just 23 examples signed by Jordan in 2006, the card represents a convergence of rarity, condition and significance, pairing the most important basketball card of the modern era with one of the scarcest authenticated Jordan autographs. The result underscored the enduring strength of the Michael Jordan market and the continued appetite for elite basketball material. “This signed 1986 Fleer Michael Jordan Rookie card is special for several reasons,” says Chris Ivy, Heritage’s Director of Sports Auctions. “First and foremost, it is limited to one ... More
1956 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL ‘Gullwing’. Sold €4,407,800.
PARIS.- On January 27, 2026, Artcurial Motorcars kicked off the Paris Classic Car Week by organizing, for the first time, the Automobile Legends auction at the prestigious Peninsula Paris. This auction, which featured a select range of classic cars, raised a total of €15M, once again confirming Artcurial Motorcars' position as a leader and its dynamism on the international market. The Peninsula Paris garage, specially transformed for the occasion, hosted a four-day exhibition attracting car enthusiasts and collectors from around the world, showcasing a selection of rare and historic automobiles. The auction, conducted by auctioneer Anne-Claire Mandine, assisted by Matthieu Lamoure and Pierre Novikoff, was a resounding success, driven by strong international participation and a selection of iconic models. The highlight of this inaugural auction was the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL ‘Gullwing’, which sold for a spectacular €4,407,800, setting a new world record. ... More
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José Antonio Azpilikueta's cinematic prints join the Museum of Fine Arts of Bilbao's collection BILBAO.- A dozen prints by José Antonio Azpilikueta inspired by the US painter Edward Hopper have just joined the museum’s graphic works collection thank to the donation by the art publisher José Ignacio Olave. The set of works currently on display comes from the portfolio (2/5), which Olave donated to the museum last year, and join the 78 works that the publisher has donated since 2022. As an admirer familiar with Edward Hopper’s works who had visited his anthological exhibitions in London (Tate Modern, 2004) and Madrid (Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2012), Olave gave the artist complete freedom. The only stipulation was that the size of the drawings had to be larger than their purpose as illustrations would warrant, to which Azpilikueta added respect for the original proportions in Hopper’s paintings. Following these two premises, Azpilikueta individually ... More
Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale presents third edition In Interludes and Transitions DIRIYAH.- The third edition of the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, titled In Interludes and Transitions, opened its doors to the public on January 30, 2026, and runs through May 2. Organized by the Diriyah Biennale Foundation, the Biennale takes place at JAX, Diriyah’s creative district, close to the UNESCO World Heritage Site At-Turaif. Led by Co-Artistic Directors Nora Razian and Sabih Ahmed, In Interludes and Transitions is conceived as a choreography in which histories, ancestors, and migrations move together through song, stories, dance, and whirlwinds. It unfolds through various movements inspired by the flows, migrations, and transformations that have long connected the Arab region with the world. The 2026 edition features the work of 68 artists representing more than 37 nations, and includes more than 25 new commissions. The exhibition scenography, ... More
Warhol Foundation expands grant program to support small-scale organizations NEW YORK, NY.- In direct response to dramatic shifts in the national funding landscape and the precarious position of visual arts organizations around the country, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts today announced an expansion of its grantmaking program. The expansion will include a new program to support visual arts projects at US-based organizations with budgets under $200,000. The program extends the Foundation’s commitment to fostering experimental artistic practice and creative risk-taking to organizations that operate on a smaller scale but with no less rigor than those served by its longstanding grant program. Over the past year, the Foundation has seen a notable increase in the number of proposals it receives through its bi-annual open call, a trend that coincides with cuts to federal funding for the arts. Additionally, the Foundation’s 2025 collaboration ... More
Wilding Cran Gallery now representing Polly Borland Wilding Cran Gallery announced the representation of Polly Borland. Known for her psychologically charged portraiture and unmistakably idiosyncratic visual language, Borland creates work that probes identity, transformation, and the surreal with equal measures of wit and unease. Moving fluidly between photography and sculpture, she reconfigures the human form through distortion, play, and psychological tension. Her images and objects hover in the space between the familiar and the uncanny, inviting viewers to reconsider the boundaries between vulnerability and performance, humor and discomfort. Borland’s decades-spanning career has unfolded across multiple continents and includes major solo exhibitions, influential monographs, and collaborations with prominent cultural figures. Her work is held in important public and private collections around the world ... More
Amos Rex presents its 2026 programme HELSINKI.- This year, in Amos Rex’s underground spaces, the fourth edition of the museum’s flagship exhibition Generation lifts voices of a young generation of artists, while the The Other Side of the Mountain explores distance and belonging through contemporary artists from the African continent and the Afro-Nordic diaspora. Above ground, Dansbana! transforms Lasipalatsi Square to a vibrant centre for movement, performance, and dance. Amos Rex kicks off spring 2026 with the fourth edition of the Generation triennial, a flagship project for the museum and a unique celebration of emerging artistic voices. Generation 2026 brings together 50 artists and collectives aged 15–23, offering an unfiltered view into the concerns, struggles, and dreams of a young generation. The exhibition is a cornerstone of Amos Rex’s programme, anchoring the museum’s ... More
Frist Art Museum presents bold, incisive paintings and illustrations by Barbara Bullock NASHVILLE, TN.- The Frist Art Museum presents Sistah Griot: The Iconoclastic Art of Barbara Bullock, an exhibition that showcases the incisive and still-timely work of Nashville-based artist Barbara Bullock (1949−1996). Organized by the Frist Art Museum with guest curator Carlton F. Wilkinson, the exhibition is part of the Tennessee Triennial and is on view in the Frist’s Gordon Contemporary Artists Project Gallery from January 29 through April 26, 2026. Known for her precisely rendered graphite illustrations and boldly colored paintings, Bullock was active in the Nashville art community in the 1980s and 1990s until she passed away from cancer in 1996. This exhibition features approximately 40 works from private collections around the country and is an opportunity for new audiences to learn about the influential yet undercelebrated artist. “She influenced so many artists ... More
The Met hosts Lunar New Year Festival on February 7 to celebrate Year of the Horse NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art will host a Lunar New Year Festival in celebration of the Year of the Horse on Saturday, February 7. The festival will honor Lunar New Year traditions from across Asia and feature artist-led workshops, performances, and interactive activities for participants of all ages. Events will take place throughout the Museum from 12 pm to 5 pm. All activities are free with Museum admission and no registration is required. Admission is free for Members and kids under 12 and pay-as-you-wish for all New Yorkers and students from Connecticut and New Jersey. Highlights include a Lunar New Year Lion and Dragon Dance kick-off celebration by the Wan Chi Ming Hung Gar Institute; a performance by the Columbia Wushu Martial Arts team; a community hub at the Temple of Dendur showcasing community organizations around New York City ... More
Applications are now open for the 2026 Frank Van Straten Fellowship MELBOURNE.- Applications are now open for the Frank Van Straten Fellowship, a yearly fellowship that offers arts enthusiasts access to Australia’s largest specialist collection, the Australian Performing Arts Collection. Dedicated to the collection and preservation of the nation’s performing arts heritage, the Australian Performing Arts Collection now holds over 850,000 objects related to circus, dance, music, opera and theatre. Returning for its seventh year, the fellowship will provide the successful recipient $15,000 to research and develop a project on a topic of their choosing. The aim of the Frank Van Straten Fellowship is to tell stories of performance and performers through the costumes, designs, photographs and objects that make up the Australian Performing Arts Collection. The Frank Van Straten Fellowship is made possible by the generous contribution of The Van ... More
Norman Rockwell, Race, and Representation: Landmark exhibition closes March 1 WILMINGTON, DE.- In fall 2025, the Delaware Art Museum (DelArt) opened the Delaware debut of Imprinted: Illustrating Race, a landmark exhibition organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum and on view through March 1, 2026. Delaware is the first stop on the exhibition’s national tour, ahead of its presentation at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee. The exhibition examines how mass-produced, published imagery has shaped American attitudes toward race and culture for more than 300 years. Works by Norman Rockwell anchor the exhibition and are presented in dialogue with historical and contemporary responses, deepening conversations around race, identity, and power in American visual culture. Recent public statements by Rockwell’s family emphasize that he stood for “compassion, inclusiveness, and justice for all,” and would be devastated ... More
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On a day like today, Mexican illustrator José Guadalupe Posada was born
February 02, 1853. José Guadalupe Posada (February 2, 1853 - January 20, 1913[1]) was a Mexican political printmaker and engraver whose work has influenced many Latin American artists and cartoonists because of its satirical acuteness and social engagement. He used skulls, calaveras, and bones to make political and cultural critiques. Among his famous works was La Catrina. In this image: José Guadalupe Posada, Calavera de la Catrina (Skull of the Female Dandy), from the portfolio 36 Grabados: José Guadalupe Posada, published by Arsacio Vanegas, Mexico City, Mexico, c. 1910, printed 1943, photo-relief etching with engraving, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by the friends of Freda Radoff.
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