The Year of Famine in Madrid José Aparicio Oil on canvas, 315 x 437 cm 1818 Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, on deposit in the Museo de Historia in Madrid.
MADRID.- The writer Umberto Eco imagined an ideal museum dedicated to a single work of art: a space where stories would accumulate around it, culminating, as the ultimate exercise, in the public's contemplation and understanding. This vision resonates powerfully in the Museo del Prado's new exhibition format "A work, a story", a concept ideally suited to The Year of Hunger in Madrid by José Aparicio (1818). In the words of Miguel Falomir, director of the Museo del Prado, the aim of the exhibition is “to encourage the viewer to look at a work which, aside from its aesthetic merits, helps us to reflect on aspects of art history that often go unnoticed." This canvas, one of the most acclaimed and controversial in the collection of the Museo del Prado since it first opened in 1819, is filled with events and figures that demonstrate how a single work can reconstruct the complexity of a past world without losing its contemporary relevance. The return to the Museum, albeit on a temporary basis, o ... More
First-ever DWM 1900 Swiss Luger semi-automatic pistol, made by DWM in May 1901 with serial number 1. The pistol has a prestigious pedigree and was in the collections of both Hank Vissner and Geoff Sturgess. Estimate: $400,000-$600,000.
DENVER, PA.- Antique and collectible firearms of superior quality and historical significance will be on full display at Morphy’s three-day Firearms & Militaria auction, which features a special selection honoring the 250th anniversary of the Revolutionary War. Slated for May 12-14, the 400-lot sale features the lifetime collections of David Grunberg and Gary Schlottstein. David Grunberg was born in Argentina and clearly recalls from his youth the day a police officer let him hold his Colt .45 caliber semi-automatic pistol. In particular, he never forgot the heft of the weapon. Years later, after his family had emigrated to the United States, he served in the US Army, where he was issued a Colt .45. That began a lifelong fascination for fine firearms and inspired what would become an exemplary collection. To this day, David remains passionately ... More
View of the exhibition ‘When Beauty Appears' at Perrotin Paris, 206. Photo: Claire Dorn. Courtesy of the artist & Perrotin.
PARIS.- Perrotin is presenting When Beauty Appears, the second solo exhibition by Taiwanese artist Lee Mingwei with gallery and the first in Paris location. Over the course of the exhibition, visitors will have the opportunity to encounter a selection of interactive works, including La fleur en chemin (The Moving Garden), The Mending Project, and The Copyist’s Paradox. Lee Mingwei’s work takes an approach that is different from our common conception of art. While most artists try to impose their view on the world by enclosing it within an object, Lee Mingwei does the opposite. He questions the world and offers no answer. And this way he questions us too. Directly. A question—never an assertion. Expressed through an object or a seemingly insignificant act, this question is addressed to an individual subject. The answer then belongs to us; it will always be highly personal, touching the deepest part of our being. ... More
JR brings the celebrated 1563 painting into the present as a contemporary fresco
VENICE.- For the 61st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale 2026, JR has chosen Palazzo Ca' da Mosto — The Venice Venice Hotel — as the site of a socially engaged project. The palazzo’s façade becomes the surface for a large-scale temporary artistic installation inspired by Paolo Veronese’s The Wedding at Cana — the most imposing painting in the collection of the Musée du Louvre, originally created for the monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice. Drawing on an approach central to the artist’s practice — one that brought the Chronicles project to worldwide acclaim — JR brings the celebrated 1563 painting into the present as a contemporary fresco: 176 people connected to the community of Refettorio Paris — guests, volunteers and chefs — have been photographed and recorded to form a collective composition in which every face holds a story, and every story carries its own dignity and voice. Painted in 1563, Veronese’s masterpi ... More
PARIS.- Christie's announced the Thessa Herold, une femme d'intuition sale, to be held online from 22 May to 2 June. At a time when history is restoring their rightful place to pioneering women of the avant‑garde, Christie's thus pays tribute to an exemplary figure of the Parisian art scene. Born in Malaga to a Spanish mother and a French father, Thessa Herold founded the Galerie de Seine in 1970 with her husband, Jacques‑Yves Herold, in the Saint‑Germain‑des‑Prés district, then the beating heart of Parisian artistic and intellectual life. Guided by her commitment to living creation, Thessa Herold opened a gallery bearing her name in the Marais in 1993, a new hub for contemporary energy. Several times a year, she presented artists from the historical avant‑gardes, first and foremost Surrealism, alongside emerging contemporary figures. Major exhibitions devoted to Jean Arp, Paul Klee, Roberto Matta, Serge ... More
Park McArthur, Missions, 2025. Anodized aluminum, in three parts.
NEW YORK, NY.- Peter Freeman, Inc. presents 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, a group exhibition with sculptures and drawings by Walter De Maria, Jasper Marsalis, Park McArthur, and Sung Tieu. The show’s title comes from the work by De Maria, which comprises nine stainless steel polygonal rods that are each either 5-, 7-, 9-, 11-, or 13-sided. Though their approaches differ, each artist’s work references systems of measurement and mechanisms of control, whether musical, mathematical, or spatial. Centering on themes of causality and performance, the selection of works allows for the reexamination of the personal and social structures that inform everyday experiences. All four artists have incorporated sound into their practice at some point. This connection is underscored with a sound piece program presented during the course of the exhibition. Walter De Maria (b. 1935, Albany, California; d. 2013, Los Angeles) has work in numerous public collections including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. G ... More
AMSTERDAM.- The Van Gogh Museum and The Mesdag Collection present the largest European retrospective of work by James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) in thirty years – and the first ever to be held in the Netherlands. The project was developed in collaboration with Tate Britain. Whistler was one of the most influential and controversial artists of the nineteenth century. He was also a fervent advocate of the idea that art need not serve a moral, social or political purpose, but exists purely for its own beauty. Born in the United States, Whistler moved to Paris aged twenty-one and divided his time between Paris and London for nearly fifty years, moving in the circles of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Gustave Courbet, Edouard Manet and Oscar Wilde. He was a master of self-promotion and an outspoken dandy with exquisite ... More
The collaboration introduces a broad, international audience to the work and life of Vincent van Gogh in a distinctive and engaging way.
AMSTERDAM.- The museum was recognised in the Inspired Innovation Brand Licensed Product or Range category for the LEGO® Art Vincent van Gogh – Sunflowers set. The B&LLAs are awarded annually to organisations that excel in product innovation, brand licensing management and retail. The collaboration with the LEGO Group was inspired by Van Gogh’s painting Sunflowers (1889), one of the most beloved works in the Van Gogh Museum’s permanent collection. The LEGO® Art Vincent van Gogh – Sunflowers set was developed in close collaboration with museum experts. While building the set, users can listen to a specially created podcast, in which the designer of the LEGO set and a Van Gogh Museum curator discuss the artwork and the stories behind it. The collaboration introduces a broad, international audience to the work and life of Vincent van Gogh in a distinctive and engaging way. Eva Derksen, Head of Licensing at the Van Gogh Museum: ‘What sets us ... More
Adam Francis Plummer began this diary in 1841 while enslaved in Prince George’s County, MD. After his death, his daughter Nellie Arnold Plummer continued the diary. Image Credit: Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum.
WASHINGTON, DC.- As the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum prepares to mark its 60th anniversary in 2027, the exhibition “We Make History” explores how communities in the Washington, D.C., region record their experiences and contribute to the nation’s story. The exhibition opens May 30, the 185th anniversary of the first entry in the diary of Adam Francis Plummer, and celebrates Washingtonians whose work as change makers and history keepers has had a lasting impact. Plummer’s diary serves as a centerpiece of the exhibition, which will remain on view through January 2028. In addition to the diary, “We Make History” includes artifacts like letters, photographs, sports memorabilia and even a musical instrument to show how everyday moments, personal records and cultural traditions all contribute to the community stories that are the nation’s building ... More
Patent Office, Washington, D.C., by Bierstadt Brothers, stereograph, albumen silver print, c.1865. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will present “The Spirit of Invention: Patent Office and Patentees” June 26 through June 6, 2027. The exhibition will highlight the historic Patent Office Building, which served as the epicenter of American innovation and is now the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture. “The Spirit of Invention” is curated by Senior Curator of Photographs Ann Shumard. On July 4, 1836, President Andrew Jackson signed legislation to overhaul the nation’s patent system and fund the construction of a purpose-built Patent Office in Washington, D.C. Completed in 1867, the Patent Office Building employed hundreds of staff and exhibited thousands of scale models of patented inventions. It later became the home of the National Portrait Gallery, which opened in 1968, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, which moved into the building that same year. This exhibition traces the early history of the Patent Office thro ... More
RAVENSBURG.- One year is the period in which the earth circles the sun, the unit we use to speak about age or the passing of time. For a year, Tehching Hsieh (b. Nanzhou, Taiwan, 1950, lives in New York) subjected himself to the dizzying task of punching a time clock every hour on the hour, taking a self-portrait at the same time. One Year Performance 1980–1981 (Time Clock Piece) is one of the most uncompromising works ever created on the subject of time. The exhibition It's All About Time deals with our experience of time and focuses on large-scale installations by six international artists that make us aware of various dimensions of temporal perception. Natural cycles and biological rhythms meet the pulse of late capitalism; prayer rituals that recall trance, rave and ecstasy suspend the ordinary, linear sensation of time in favor of an expanded experience of the present and ... More
Nengi Omuku, A quiet nation, 2026, oil on sanyan, 117 x 77 cm, 46 x 30 ¼ in.
LONDON.- Pippy Houldsworth Gallery will present We Were Like Those Who Dreamed, Nigerian artist Nengi Omuku’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. In new paintings Omuku explores the politics of green spaces in urban centres. With humanity’s relationship to the natural world under threat, she questions the power structures that govern climate catastrophe, proposing the garden as a radical symbol of equality and inclusiveness. In Omuku’s compositions figures are transplanted from contemporary and archival images of Lagos’ densely populated centre into Impressionistic landscapes, characterised by lush foliage and panoramic vistas, painted with rapid, pointillist brushstrokes in a distinctive Fauvist palette. Gardens offer their visitors the opportunity to learn how to move through the world more harmoniously and sustainably, while reconnecting with nature, something that Omuku has referenced with frequency in her work. Her Edenic landscapes ... More
BERLIN.- In his photographic oeuvre, artist Hannes Jung examines how individual and social traumas continue to affect people. Among other things, he is interested in the corporeal and emotional traces that violence can leave behind and how such experiences inscribe themselves into individual and collective self-understan-dings. For many years, he has been driven by the question of the effects of war on society. In subtle black-and-white photographs, Jung combines documentary research with a poetically dense visual language that relates what is visible to what can barely be spoken of. The exhibition Men don’t cry presents works created between 2017 and 2024 in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In his artistic exploration, Jung focuses on a subject that has long been taboo: sexualized violence against men. During the Bosnian War from 1992 to 1995, not only women but also men of various nationalities were tortured, abused, and forced to commit acts of violence against each other in camps and prisons. ... More
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Venetian Diary: Ilya and Emilia Kabakov's monumental tribute to the city's inhabitants VENICE.- Three years after the passing of Ilya Kabakov, Venice pays homage to one of the most significant artistic duos on the international stage with Venetian Diary, a monumental and participatory project conceived by Ilya and Emilia Kabakov. The result of their shared vision, the work places at its center the stories, memories, and objects of Venetians, offering an intense collective self-portrait of the city while reaffirming the poetic and conceptual force that has established the duo as seminal figures in contemporary art. Presented in conjunction with the 61st Venice Biennale, the project, curated by Cesare Biasini Selvaggi and Giulia Abate, unfolds as a dialogue between the city and the Biennale across two sites: the main floor of Ca' Tron, a sixteenth-century palazzo overlooking the Grand Canal, and the Venetian Pavilion at the Giardini, as part of the exhibition ... More
Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė, Spit and Image opens at Basement Roma ROME.- Spit and Image marks the first solo exhibition in Rome by the artist duo Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė. They work collaboratively across painting, sculpture, performance, and installation to explore the porous boundaries between the body, technology and the environment. Their practice considers how identity and embodiment are shaped through networks: both digital and ecological and how the spectral, the sensorial and the collective intertwine within these systems. Their practice is rooted in the act of translation between bodies and images, between code and gesture, between the visible and the invisible. “Spit and Image”—writes Yang Beichen in the exhibition text—“while originally signifying ‘perfect likeness,’ is here expanded to suggest a nuanced doubleness— one that creates polyphonic and polyporous dimensions within a seemingly repetitive ... More
Open call for 2027 residency at Vila 31 x Art Explora TIRANA.- Vila 31 x Art Explora announces the open call for its 2027 residency programme in Tirana, Albania. Following a remarkable inaugural year in 2025, Vila 31 x Art Explora has rapidly established itself as a vital platform for contemporary creation in the Balkans. In its first full year, the residency hosted 29 artists from 15 nationalities and presented over 100 public events: exhibitions, workshops, screenings, performances, and discussions—welcoming more than 30,000 visitors. Situated in the former residence of Enver Hoxha, Vila 31 is reactivated as a space for artistic research, experimentation, and dialogue. The programme supports transdisciplinary and transgenerational practices, inviting artists, curators, researchers, and writers to develop projects that engage critically with the cultural, social, and political contexts of the Balkan region and beyond. ... More
Etxepare Basque Institute presents I Baschi alla Biennale 1976/2026 in Venice VENICE.- In 1976, amid the uncertainty and the struggle for freedom that characterised the Spanish transition to democracy following the death of the dictator Francisco Franco, a group of Basque artists, musicians, poets and civil society gathered in Venice using art as a means of collective expression. At this historical moment, marked by political transformation and the emergence of democratic demands, la Biennale became a stage for international projection. Rather than standing for a consolidated institutional representation, the seminars held under the slogan Amnistia denontzat (Amnesty for All) in the context of la Biennale stemmed from a collective drive that combined political enthusiasm and commitment to articulate various forms of public expression. Fifty years later, the Basque Country returns to Venice with the project I Baschi alla Biennale ... More
Rolex 'Big Red' Daytona leads Heritage's Watches & Fine Timepieces Auction above $2.5 million DALLAS, TX.- A magnificent Rolex, Very Fine “Big Red” Oyster Cosmograph Daytona, Ref. 6265/6263. circa 1979 drew 21 bids on its way to $65,625 to lead Heritage’s April 24 Watches & Fine Timepieces Signature® Auction to $2,512,763. The auction reflected sustained global demand for collectible timepieces, with standout results across vintage Rolex, Patek Philippe and other prestigious Swiss watches. The Rolex “Big Red” Oyster Cosmograph Daytona is distinguished by its bold red “DAYTONA” text arcing above the subdial. This coveted variation remains one of the most recognizable vintage Rolex Daytona configurations among collectors. “Collectors continue to pursue the ‘Big Red’ Daytona because it represents a defining era in Rolex chronograph design,” says Jim Wolf, Heritage’s Director of Watches and Fine Timepieces. “The oversized red ‘DAYTONA’ ... More
Rare Hermès designs lead Heritage's $3.08 million Spring Luxury Accessories Auction DALLAS, TX.- On Thursday, April 23, Heritage’s Spring Luxury Accessories Signature® Auction soared to a $3,081,749 finish, drawing more than 1,300 bidders from across the globe who competed for some of the world’s most coveted handbags. “We were thrilled by the response to this auction,” says Diane D’Amato, Heritage’s Director of Luxury Accessories, Private Sales & The Boutique. “The depth of bidding and the strength of the results reflect the enduring appeal of Hermès and other legendary houses, as well as the continued demand for rare, beautifully crafted pieces at the highest levels of the market.” Leading the auction was the highly sought-after Hermès 30cm Matte White Himalaya Niloticus Crocodile Birkin, which realized $87,500. The bag is revered for its rarity and the meticulous hand-dyeing process that produces its signature ombre coloration. A masterwork ... More
Apollo 15 '8 Ball' flown to the moon sells for $375,000 at Auction BOSTON, MASS.- A flown Apollo 15 Command Module navigation instrument known as the “8 Ball” sold for $375,000 at Boston-based RR Auction. The device led the company’s recent Space Exploration and Aviation sale. Installed on Panel 2 inside the Apollo 15 Command Module Endeavour, above the Apollo Guidance Computer’s DSKY interface, the Flight Director Attitude Indicator (FDAI), known to astronauts as the “8 Ball,” is visible in post-flight interior photographs taken during recovery operations. It remains in its original configuration, with associated cabling and inspection markings consistent with its documented use aboard the spacecraft. The instrument served as the crew’s primary visual reference for spacecraft orientation, combining pitch, yaw, and roll in a single spherical display. It remained aboard during Al Worden’s spacewalk on the return to Earth, ... More
Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center launches "Visions & Voices: Stories on the Screen" WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center will debut “Visions & Voices,” a new public programming initiative celebrating Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month. The initiative presents programs across film, performance and storytelling. The inaugural program, “Visions & Voices: Stories on the Screen,” is a three-day film festival taking place Thursday, May 7, through Saturday, May 9, at the Warner Bros. Theater in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. The festival is also part of the Smithsonian’s commemoration of the nation’s 250th anniversary. The program brings together documentary and narrative films that explore the histories, cultural contributions and lived experiences of AANHPI communities that continue to shape American history. All screenings are free and open ... More
The Sherborne unveils new artworks inspired by Ancient Rome's Ovid and Dorset's James Thornhill DORSET.- A new season of exhibitions and displays, titled Of Myths and Murals, will see exciting new artworks unveiled exclusively at The Sherborne, Dorset. To mark the 300th anniversary of James Thornhill’s (1675/’76-1734) vivid mural depicting the epic Calydonian Boar Hunt from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, The Sherborne will pay homage to Dorset’s own master of baroque decorative painting with a corresponding piece created by Sir Quentin Blake (b.1932). Adorning the atrium staircase, Sir Quentin’s new mural, The Joy of the Frog, will be a playful counterpoint to Thornhill’s dramatic composition, bringing a contemporary burst of movement, humour and imagination to The Sherborne’s historic interior. “Installed during the 300th anniversary year of the completion of Sir James Thornhill’s The Calydonian Boar Hunt, it creates a wonderful juxtaposition ... More
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