DALLAS, TX.- The popular term "Benin Bronzes" is a historical misnomer. Metallurgical and scientific analyses have revealed that the vast majority of these objects are not actually made of bronze (an alloy of copper and tin), but rather brass (an alloy of copper and zinc) and leaded brass. Why they are called "Bronzes": 19th-century European colonizers and early art historians broadly categorized all dark, heavy West African metal sculptures as "bronzes" out of a Eurocentric assumption that indigenous African cultures lacked the sophisticated metallurgy required to manufacture complex brass alloys. What they actually are: Scientifically, the royal plaques, commemorative heads, and altarpieces commissioned by the Oba are primarily composed of brass, alloyed with zinc and often containing added lead and tin. ... More
Photomaton, Half-tone Portrait of Francis Bacon, 1970s. Vintage gelatin silver print with ink and copious paint recto and verso, 22.8 x 21 cm. Courtesy of Michael Hoppen Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- A remarkable private collection of photographs and photographic material associated with Francis Bacon is to be exhibited publicly for the first time, revealing an intimate and largely unseen aspect of the artist’s working life. Collected over more than two decades by dealer and collector Michael Hoppen, the unique and rare collection brings together original photographs, contact sheets, collages, annotated prints, and source material that illuminate the working processes and intimate world of one of the twentieth century’s greatest painters. Much of the material originated from Bacon’s 7 Reece Mews studio in South Kensington, where he lived and worked from 1961 until his death in 1992. The studio, famous for its layers of photographs, books, newspapers, discarded canvases and painting materials, was not simply a backdrop to Bacon’s practice but an active part of it: a visual environment in which images accumulated, collided and acquired new possibilities. At the he ... More
Nelson, His Life and His Navy, The Clive Richards Collection of Letters and Manuscripts.
LONDON.- This Trafalgar Day (21 October), Sotheby’s is set to unveil the greatest collection of letters and documents relating to Vice-Admiral Horatio, Viscount Nelson (1758-1805) in private hands today. The offering includes letters that shed light on Nelson's character and public persona, alongside those that reveal his innermost personal struggles and endurance - whether he is recounting his victories, calling his comrades to arms, or pursuing the painful undertaking of learning to write with his left hand after the loss of his right arm in battle. There is also a trove of letters to and from his lover Emma Hamilton, with which the reader gains the most intimate picture of Nelson, as the depth of his longing for Hamilton is palpable across the pages. “This collection provides an extraordinarily rich and complex portrait of one of the most compelling figures in British history, whose extraordinary life has inspired generations and whose mastery of naval warfare played an outsize rol ... More
GRAZ.- The first institutional exhibition in Europe dedicated to the US-American painter Katherine Bernhardt presents a comprehensive overview of her recent work. With her large-scale, vibrantly colored paintings, Bernhardt has established herself as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary painting. The title of Katherine Bernhardt’s exhibition, Neonfarbblendluminanzwuchtgemaeldenetzhautkollisionsgefahr, consists of fifty-eight letters combining the individual elements essential to the exhibition concept and artistic approach, in German, into a single unit: Neon – Color – Blinding – Luminance – Force – Painting – Retina – Collision – Hazard. At the same time, the title functions as a gesture of linguistic overload and as a condensation of a logic of sensory experience: It describes less than it affects, and points to a production of images that directly targets perception, stimulus intensity, and visual superimposition. The juxtaposition ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present the first major survey in New York City since 1995 of works by the celebrated contemporary artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres (b. 1957, Guáimaro, Cuba; d. 1996, Miami). Unlike a traditional monographic presentation, Felix Gonzalez-Torres: The Spaces Between, on view June 10–October 18, 2027, will display more than 40 of the artist’s works—in installation, painting, photography, sculpture, and video, from public and private collections—in locations across the Museum, recontextualizing the galleries in 14 of The Met's collecting areas and reframing Gonzalez-Torres's work in turn. Works on view will include, "Untitled" (Go-Go Dancing Platform), 1991, an empty blue platform ringed with 48 lightbulbs, briefly activated once per day by a lamé-clad go-go dancer; "Untitled" (Perfect Lovers), 1987–1990, twin battery-powered clocks initially set to the same time that inevitably desynchronize; and "Untitled" (Revenge), 1991, an endles ... More
LONDON.- For Frieze London 2026, Gagosian is presenting six major new, large-scale paintings by Albert Oehlen. In these works, Oehlen continues to explore the still-rich possibilities of a long-established medium and format, riffing on varied fragments, forms, and motifs. Throughout his oeuvre, Oehlen reimagines diverse sources in ways that render “subject matter” less significant than the act of transforming images into new states. Combining graphic brushstrokes and painterly drips with unexpected chromatic and textural juxtapositions, he tests the limits of coherence. Oehlen blends figuration with abstraction, often employing various modes of painting within the same composition in a further disruption of modernist convention. A champion of self-consciously amateurish “bad” painting, he infuses his work with mischievous, destabilizing attitude. The paintings on view in London incorporate abstractions of the image of a man with an extravagant mustache—an art historical ... More
MALAGA.- Museo Picasso Málaga and Fundación Unicaja have renewed and expanded their collaboration, strengthening support for research into Pablo Picasso while also joining forces around one of the museum’s major exhibitions this fall, MUNCH-PICASSO. The new agreement continues Fundación Unicaja’s support for the museum’s Center for Studies and Research, which has become an important platform for scholarly work focused on Picasso, his legacy and the wider artistic and cultural contexts surrounding his career. The partnership was formally renewed by José M. Domínguez, president of Fundación Unicaja, and Bernard Ruiz-Picasso, president of the Executive Council and second vice president of the Board of Trustees of Museo Picasso Málaga. The museum’s research center develops specialized projects, seminars and academic meetings, while also working with universities and cultural institutions. Part of its mission is to make documentary collections and digital resources more accessibl ... More
LONDON.- Today, the National Portrait Gallery opens the call for entries for the prestigious Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award 2027, supported by headline sponsor, Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer. Celebrating contemporary portraiture from around the world, entries are open from Tuesday 22 September 2026 to Tuesday 1 December 2026, to all artists aged 18 and over. Entrants are invited to submit new works that have been completed after 1 January 2025. The Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award is one of the most important platforms for portrait painters. The highly successful competition aims to encourage artists over the age of 18 to focus upon, and develop, the theme of portraiture in their work. Since its inception, the competition has attracted over 50,000 entries from more than 100 countries, and the exhibition has been seen by over 6 million people. £35,000 will be awarded to the winner, one of the largest prizes for any global art competition. The second prize winner rece ... More
HAMBURG.- THIS IS THE MODERN WORLD: Breakthroughs in Art, 1900–1960 takes a fresh look at the Hamburger Kunsthalle’s Modern Art Collection, one of the premier collections of its kind in Germany. A selection of some 150 paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings – including both well-known highlights and special new acquisitions – illustrates the profusion of new ideas and techniques that emerged as artists broke with traditions during six decades marked by extraordinary upheavals in culture and society. A great diversity of approaches becomes apparent within the various modernist trends. Expressionism is embodied by iconic works produced by members of artist groups such as Die Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter, among them Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Wassily Kandinsky, while the École de Paris is represented by painters such as Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso. Also featured are pioneers of early modernism such as Edvard Munch, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Lovis Corinth, Max Beckmann and A ... More
Valérie Jouve, Sans Titre (Les Figures avec Samar) / Untitled (The Figures with Samar), 2012. Courtesy all images: the artist and Xippas, Paris; Geneva; Punta del Este. Copyright: Bildrecht, Vienna, 2026.
GRAZ.- Valérie Jouve’s photographic and filmic oeuvre interrogates the relationship between human subjects and the environments they inhabit. These environments expand to all kinds of spheres, ranging from fauna and flora to open landscapes, or to architectural and urban sites. Her artistic practice, which emerged in the 1990s, is grounded in an anthropological sensitivity that aligns her with traditions of documentary photography while simultaneously challenging its conventions. Jouve’s images resist any simple categorization: they are neither straightforward portraits nor neutral urban studies. Instead, they construct what the artist calls “figures,” composite forms that reveal how bodies, gestures, and architectures, but also trees and rocks, intertwine in order to represent a living space. For her exhibition at Camera Austria, the artist has outlined an exact dramaturgy, where the photos are presented in various dimensions, materializations, and overlapping arrangement ... More
This refrigerator is built by bacteria and powered by the sun. Xero Cool connects bio-derived xerogel insulation with heat-driven refrigeration technology, imagining a future where we collaborate with more-than-human organisms to create ecologically appropriate technologies.
LONDON.- From 16 September to 25 October 2026, Lethaby Gallery at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London presents process, a free exhibition exploring what happens between an initial idea and a finished piece of work. Bringing together work by recent Central Saint Martins graduates across art, design and performance, process looks beyond polished final outcomes to reveal the discoveries and experiments that shape creative practice. The work on display explores the non-linear creative process, where ideas can shift direction through unexpected discoveries or new ways of working. process reveals how ideas develop and transform through the act of making. Among the projects on display, ‘Xero Cool: How to Grow a Refrigerator’ by MA Biodesign graduate Audrey Levy, is a soft, cocoon-like fridge made from bacterial cellulose xerogel, a lightweight, naturally compostable material grown from bacteria. The project explores an alternative to conventional refrigeration using s ... More
LONDON.- 'Tinker, tailor...' explores the idea of tailoring as an expression of identity. It follows thread as it weaves literally or figuratively through the compositions of different artists. Referring back to the nursery rhyme in which children counted prune stones to determine their future profession (or girls the profession of their future spouse!) the exhibition investigates the idea of clothes as both a joyous expression of selfhood and the inevitable flip side; the 'uniform' as a societal straight jacket to promote conformity. Toby Grant, known professionally as Cato (b. 1999, Brighton, UK) is a multidisciplinary artist and musician. His large-scale works are distinguished by their candid portrayals of Black elders, often depicted in domestic and communal settings such as barbershops and domino games. Drawing inspiration from a diverse range of references, media, and materials, his paintings centre on “uncle-like” figures engaged in cultural exchanges that resonate across the ... More
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Städel Museum and Liebieghaus present first comprehensive Mary Magdalene exhibition in German-speaking world FRANKFURT.- Somewhere between saint, sinner and close companion of Christ: as one of the most multifaceted female figures in biblical tradition and art history, Mary Magdalene has fascinated for centuries. Her story is one of transformations: from apostle and faithful follower of Jesus to sinner and ascetic penitent, from ecstatic saint to modern, self-determined woman and role model. With “Mary Magdalene. Sin. Pray. Love.”, the Städel Museum and the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung are presenting the first comprehensive exhibition in the German-speaking world dedicated to the extraordinary figure of Mary Magdalene from 17 September 2026 to 17 January 2027. The exhibition portrays her not only as a projection screen for cultural and religious ideas, but also as an independent, multidimensional figure through whom diverse conceptions of the body, faith and social roles are revealed. Drawing on important works from the collections of the Städel Museum and the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, ... More
Amar Kanwar premieres new multi-screen work The Charcoal Man at Serpentine LONDON.- Serpentine presents a major solo exhibition of New Delhi-based artist and filmmaker Amar Kanwar (b. 1964, New Delhi, India), one of the most prominent artists working in moving image today. Presented at Serpentine North, the exhibition is now on view through 31 January 2027. For over two decades, Kanwar has developed a distinctive body of lyrical films that move between documentary, travelogue and visual essay to explore the specific conditions of the Indian subcontinent. Having produced and directed numerous films and multi-video installations, Kanwar’s poetic and contemplative works are frequently marked by the history of his country, tracing the legacies of decolonialisation and the Partition of India and Pakistan. Whilst charged with a regional specificity and deeply personal histories, Kanwar’s work grapples with some of the most pressing issues of our time. Reckoning with the past as a means to better comprehend the present, Kanwar bears witness to social upheaval, disp ... More
Artpace San Antonio unveils Fall 2026 International Artist-In-Residence exhibitions SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Artpace San Antonio invites the public to its Fall 2026 International Artist-in-Residence exhibitions. The exhibitions will remain on view through January 17, 2027. Irene Antonia Diane Reece identifies as a contemporary artist and visual activist. The topics surrounding her work are the African diaspora, social injustice, family histories, re-memory, and community health. Her practice continues by decentralizing the white gaze in photography and confronting the violence of the camera by paying homage to Black Southern pride, centering the fluidity of the Black identity, and protecting the Black archives. Previous shows include FREIZE No.9 Cork Street (London, UK), FOTODOK (Utrecht, Netherlands), Lawndale Art Center (Houston, TX), and Dak’Art: La Biennale de Dakar (Dakar, SN). Reece is a grant recipient for the 2025 PhMuseum Women Photographers Grant. Her work has been featured in TIME Magazine, NYT, Aperture, Atlanta Center for Photography, Vogue, Art Papers, OVER Journal, Hypera ... More
Lévy Gorvy Dayan presents unseen works on paper by Pierre Soulages NEW YORK, NY.- Lévy Gorvy Dayan announces Pierre Soulages: Paintings on Paper, which features more than twenty of the French artist’s works on paper, the majority of which have never been exhibited before. The gallery collaborated on this presentation with the artist’s widow, Colette Soulages, to reveal the importance of the medium to Pierre Soulages’s groundbreaking oeuvre. Paintings on Paper marks the sixth solo exhibition of Soulages’s work presented by Dominique Lévy during her decades-long relationship with the artist and his estate. The medium of paper is foundational to Soulages’s artistic practice, dating back to the mid-1940s. Paper was his first support, and he evolved his body of paintings on paper alongside and independently to his canvases; the paper works often anticipating developments he would bring to his oil compositions. Arguably, the artist’s works on paper are the purest form of his painterly expression. Rendered in walnut stain, gouache, and ink, th ... More
Jack Shainman Gallery presents Gordon Parks retrospective featuring reflections from subjects and families NEW YORK, NY.- Jack Shainman Gallery is presenting Voices in the Mirror, an exhibition that revisits images by Gordon Parks through the reflections of the people and families he photographed. For the very first time, the families of Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X, among others, have reflected on the photographs Parks made and their enduring power. Marking the 20th anniversary of The Gordon Parks Foundation, Voices in the Mirror—titled after Parks’ final memoir published in 1990—also looks deeply at the collaborative relationship between Parks, his subjects and their families as he documented the struggle for equality alongside the perseverance of Black excellence. Reaffirming the importance of Parks’ legacy in the 21st century, the exhibition provides fresh insight into his work, as memory and anecdote animate photographs long-since analyzed, studied and examined, revealing levels of detail and depth previously unavailable. Written reflections include those from Kathleen Cleaver (The ... More
Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris presents first French retrospective for Kerry James Marshall PARIS.- The Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris has opened the first exhibition in France devoted to the American artist Kerry James Marshall (born in 1955 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States). The exhibition, which opened on September 18, 2026, is on view through January 24, 2027. Originated by the Royal Academy of Arts in London in collaboration with the Kunsthaus in Zurich, the exhibition Kerry James Marshall: The Histories features seventy works, including eight new paintings made especially for the exhibition. Considered one of the most influential contemporary painters, Kerry James Marshall is known for his large-scale compositions that centre Black people, frequently elevating the everyday to the epic. By inserting Black figures into art historical archetypes, the artist invites the viewer to witness the undeniable power of presence. Kerry James Marshall addresses themes including the Middle Passage and the legacies of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, without directly depicti ... More
Birmingham Museum of Art marks 75th anniversary with major exhibition of Black American art BIRMINGHAM, AL.- In 1971, the Birmingham Museum of Art acquired a work by Henry Ossawa Tanner, the first by a Black artist to enter its collection. In the decades since, the Museum has worked to build a collection that now spans two hundred years and includes more than 1,000 works by over 250 Black artists—today, one of the most significant collections of Black American art in the country. Opening in September 2026, Roll Call: Two Hundred Years of Black American Art offers a focused examination of this legacy, presenting ninety-nine works that trace the presence, impact, and contributions of Black artists across two centuries. Drawn entirely from the Museum’s permanent collection, the exhibition brings together a wide range of works that illuminate both artistic excellence and the institutional histories that have shaped their inclusion. “Roll Call reflects both the artistic brilliance of Black artists and the ways a museum collection evolves through intentional choices and community eng ... More
Nicole Eisenman unveils ten new multi-dimensional works at Sadie Coles HQ LONDON.- It is the province of art to contain multitudes that need not (thank god) look precisely like the real world, whatever that is. At Sadie Coles HQ, ten new works (all 2026) by the French-born U.S. artist Nicole Eisenman are most prodigiously united by their incredible variety in form and subject, her singular painterly attention to surface and texture, and a compositional awareness of how many universes (spaces, lives, sensibilities, dimensions) one canvas can hold. There is the time of the world and there is the time of painting and, in spite of the static seeming nature of oil and pigment on canvas, neither is entirely fixed. For instance: a large work that unfolds over multiple canvases may show a phalanx of bodies writhing and roiling in shared bliss — a toe here, a rounded knee there, a pair of legs spread here, a hand reaching in between there. Or: each canvas might be a freeze-frame, like animated cells, and maybe it is only two bodies folding and unfolding, left to right, b ... More
Rachel Kneebone brings porcelain sculptural interventions to the Wallace Collection LONDON.- The acclaimed artist Rachel Kneebone (b.1973) is displaying a series of arresting sculptural interventions among the dazzling artworks of the Wallace Collection this autumn. For this installation, she has created two new pieces, Bower and Temple, which can be seen for the first time as part of the display. The Wallace Collection is renowned for its sumptuous collection of Old Master paintings and decorative arts, epitomised by the creations of Rococo painters such as François Boucher (1703-1770) and Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806), and its beautiful Sèvres porcelain. It is into this luxurious setting that artist Rachel Kneebone will place nine white porcelain sculptures, two of which have been specially made for the display. In displaying these works at the museum, she follows in the footsteps of artists such as Grayson Perry (2025), Flora Yukhnovich (2024), Damien Hirst (2009) and Lucian Freud (2004). White porcelain is a material traditionally associated with stillness and perfecti ... More
Artist Julia Phillips awarded prestigious K21 Global Art Award in Germany DUSSELDORF.- With the K21 Global Art Award, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen presents the most generously endowed annual prize for younger international contemporary art in Germany. Returning for its fourth edition on October 8, 2026, the award is presented in partnership with the Friends of Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen and with the support of the Reydan + Roger Weiss Foundation. The €100,000 award recognizes artists in the mid of their career whose distinctive visions and practices are shaping contemporary art today. Through an acquisition for the collection and a presentation at K21, the award also contributes to the ongoing broadening of Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen’s collection, bringing diverse artistic perspectives and practices into its galleries. The 2026 nominees are Monira Al Qadiri, biarritzzz, Julia Phillips, Mohammed Z. Rahman, Juliana dos Santos, WangShui, Wong Ping, and Cici Wu. Artist Julia Phillips is the recipient of the 2026 K21 Global Art Award. Susanne Gaen ... More
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September 22, 1913. Lillian Chestney (September 22, 1913 - August 6, 2000) was an American illustrator and painter. She studied in New York City and illustrated children's books, comic books (during the Golden Age of Comic Books), and magazine and book covers at a time when few women held artist positions in the industry. Later in life she painted waterfront scenes in Eastern Canada and Northeastern America.
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