Édouard Vuillard, "L’Accord parfait” (The Home of Madame Gillou), 1932-1933. Pastel on grey paper, 9 7/8 x 12 3/4 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- For Édouard Vuillard, works on paper were not merely preparatory studies for larger works; they were at the very core of his artistic production. An astute observer of daily life, Vuillard drew constantly, using a wide variety of mediums including pencil, ink, watercolor, and pastel in order to depict the day to day world he inhabited. While Vuillard’s passion for observation suggests that he was a kind of Realist, the art he produced was simultaneously very abstract. In depictions of interiors, Vuillard relegates the precisely observed details of domestic scenes into densely patterned compositions, so that glimpses of figures and objects become psychologically charged narratives. Landscapes likewise are observed, and recreated as abstract spatial arrangements of color and form, with Vuillard often flattening shapes to reflect the reality of the picture plane. This selection of 28 works on paper, spanning the late 1880s through the 1930s, provides an invaluable window into Vuillar ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- This is a richly illustrated new volume devoted to the most important works by Édouard Manet —a pivotal figure in the emergence of Impressionism and widely considered the first modern artist. With nearly one hundred seminal paintings, this publication celebrates the artist who paved the way for the Impressionist movement and the rise of modernism. Combining a radical technique with contemporary subjects, Manet’s groundbreaking works engage with modern Paris, depicting its new boulevards and fashionable parks and cafés along with a range of urban types, from ragpickers and prostitutes to barmaids and elegant Parisians. Included here are the artist’s iconic scenes of modern life such as Luncheon on the Grass, with its shocking juxtaposition of a female nude and a pair of fully dressed men, and Olympia, a modern reworking of Titian’s Renaissance masterpiece, Venus of Urbino, that scandalized Paris in the ... More
SKÄRHAMN.- The Nordic Watercolour Museum has opened a summer exhibition devoted to two of Denmark’s most important postwar artists, Asger Jorn and Per Kirkeby, bringing together watercolors and drawings that reveal the experimental force behind their larger artistic practices. On view through September 6, 2026, the exhibition explores how Jorn and Kirkeby, despite belonging to different generations and working from distinct art-historical positions, shared a deep interest in the expressive power of painting and the mysterious inner life of the image. The show focuses on watercolor and drawing, media that allow visitors to see the artists thinking on paper. Rather than presenting these works as secondary to painting, the museum highlights them as independent fields of discovery, where gesture, rhythm, structure and movement come to the surface with unusual immediacy. Jorn, born in 1914, was one of th ... More
PARIS.- Nicknamed 'Beautiful Martin' by Albrecht Dürer, Martin Schongauer (Colmar, about 1445–Alt-Breisach, 1491) was a prodigious painter, draughtsman and engraver who remains relatively unknown outside of a small circle of experts and enthusiasts. He was, however, one of the most popular artists of the late Middle Ages – and one of the major figures of this period. The exhibition brings together a hundred-some pieces to highlight Schongauer's body of work and his legacy beyond borders and time. It presents a few of his rare drawings, a wide selection of the engravings that made him famous throughout Europe and, for the first time, a near-complete collection of the paintings (altarpieces and easel paintings) thought to be by his hand, including the exceptional 1473 Madonna of the Rose Bower, his only painting on panel whose date of creation is known. The exhibition is structured in two major chapters, the first retracing Martin Schongauer's ... More
MADRID.- As part of the Blanca and Borja Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection exhibition programme, the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza presents a monographic exhibition devoted to Ewa Juszkiewicz (Gdańsk, Poland, 1984), marking the artist’s first solo museum presentation. Curated by Guillermo Solana in close collaboration with the artist, the exhibition brings together over twenty paintings spanning from 2013 to the present, with a particular emphasis on recent works, including a significant group of paintings created with this exhibition in mind. For over a decade, Ewa Juszkiewicz has reinterpreted the traditions of European portrait painting, exploring how distortion and transformation can challenge familiar visual conventions. Since 2011, she has developed a distinctive series of paintings inspired by female portraiture, particularly from the 18th and 19th centuries. In these works, her most recognisable artistic ... More
WALDENBUCH.- Over the past decades, Marguerite Hersberger has developed a body of constructive works that convey a highly atmospheric sensuality. By combining a precise geometric vocabulary with clearly thought-out design, as is typical of Concrete Art or Minimalism, she conjures up vibrant constellations of shapes and colours. Although the various series that artist has developed are quite distinct from one another, she demonstrates an enormous consistency in her engagement with the theme of space and her preference for working with acrylic glass. Her oeuvre is also consistent inasmuch as it is based throughout on the same principles: limiting herself to elementary forms and structures, and playing with transparency, colour, light and shadow to create space. After a phase of experimenting with small acrylic prisms that refract incident light, Hersberger soon began to employ transparent plastic glass, chiefly in the form of panes. ... More
SUPERFLEX. Photo: Kavian Borhani.
ISHØJ.- The artist group SUPERFLEX submerges ARKEN beneath the surface of the sea, inviting audiences to imagine the exhibition space, The Axis, as a contemporary ark. Which species and life forms will come along, and what will we leave behind as the ark moves into the future with its cargo? The exhibition presents works from more than 30 years of SUPERFLEX’s practice. It also introduces a new, site-specific project created for Come Hell or High Water, which in the years ahead will be deployed in oceans around the world. The exhibition runs from May 7th 2026 to January 3rd 2027. SUPERFLEX has famously stated that the best idea might come from a fish. If so, the second-best idea may have come from SUPERFLEX themselves. In this solo exhibition, the Danish artist group takes as its point of departure the possibility that, centuries from now, ARKEN may lie beneath the sea. The museum is reimagined as a modern ark for all species — like a sunken vessel resting deep below the ocean’s ... More
Jeppe Hein, Space in Action / Action in Space, 2002/21, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau München. Photo: Simone Gänsheimer, Lenbachhaus.
MUNICH.- The Lenbachhaus is welcoming summer with the return of Jeppe Hein’s interactive water pavilion, Space in Action / Action in Space, a work that transforms the museum’s forecourt into a place of surprise, movement, and participation. On view from May 22 through September 20, 2026, the installation brings a cooling fountain to the plaza in front of the Lenbachhaus, where walls of water rise and fall in response to visitors. At first, the fountain appears to block the view of the Propylaea behind a shimmering curtain of water. But when a visitor walks toward it, the wall suddenly collapses, opening a path into the space. Moments later, the water closes again, enclosing the interior and separating it from the surrounding streets. The result is both sculpture and experience. Hein’s fountain invites visitors not simply to look at art, but to enter it, test it, and become part of its changing rhythm. Like many of the Danish artist’s works, the piece depends on curiosity and ... More
Chen Hsia-Yu, Laborer, 1951. Bronze. 11.5 × 10 × 46.2 cm. TcAM Collection. Courtesy of TcAM.
TAICHUNG.- Taichung Art Museum hosted a joint opening ceremony for Horizon Ablaze and The Covenant of Dadu: A Diplomacy of Things between Mountains and Seas. Spanning five exhibition rooms, these works merge international contemporary perspectives with localized research, exploring how climate, history, and infrastructure shape the human condition across time and geography. This milestone further realises the museum’s mission championed since its December 2025 inauguration. Situated within Central Taiwan’s landmark Taichung Green Museumbrary—designed by the Pritzker Prize-winning architects SANAA—this joint opening brings TcAM’s ambitions into sharp focus. It reinforces the institution’s role as a vital nexus where global discourse meets regional context, offering a profound framework for rethinking art’s engagement with place in a globalized world. Horizon Ablaze is an international exhibition featuring 33 artists from 16 countries, developed through a transnat ... More
Walker Evans, The Bourroughs Family, Hale County, Alabama, 1936. Gelatin silver print, printed late 1950s or 1960s, 19 x 24 cm (20.3 x 25.2 cm) Estimate € 4,000 – 5,000.
COLOGNE.- Following a highly successful photography auction last autumn featuring the first part of the Margulies Collection, Lempertz is offering another 70 top-tier works of photographic art from the collection of the Miami-based art collector Martin Z. Margulies in its spring auction. The photography collection of this businessman and philanthropist focuses on works of social relevance. Notable examples include the works by Lewis Hine, who, from 1906, documented child labour in the USA for the National Child Labor Committee (lots 503, 504). Along with Berenice Abbott (lot 530), Walter Rosenblum (lots 557–559), Arnold Eagle (lot 563), Helen Levitt (lots 552–556), W. Eugene Smith (lot 628), and Aaron Siskind (lots 582/583), Hine later became a part of the Photo League, a group of politically engaged photographers who found their subjects on the streets and in the disadvantaged neighbourhoods of New York. ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- Art21 announces the premiere of “Human Nature,” the next episode of its acclaimed documentary series Art in the Twenty-First Century on PBS. The episode features internationally renowned artists Lenka Clayton, Josh Kline, Delcy Morelos, and Sin Wai Kin. “Human Nature” investigates our impact on the world around us, probes the social and economic systems that define our daily lives, and explores how we relate to one another. Whether working in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, or London, England, the four artists in this episode reflect critically and optimistically on the shared project of humanity. Directed by Ian Forster, produced by Andrea Chung, series produced by Nick Ravich, and curated by Tina Kukielski and Jurrell Lewis, the episode premieres Wednesday, June 10th. It will be available to watch on Art21.org, YouTube, and PBS Digital Platforms. An advance screening of “Human Nature” will be presented on Thursday, May 28th, at the SAG-AFTRA ... More
Adam Sutherland, A Rural History of Art, Culture, Thinking, and Actions, 2025. Ink on paper, 90cm x 270cm. Detail. Courtesy of Adam Sutherland.
STUTTGART.- Throughout 2026, artistic programming at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart has developed within the all-ecompassing atmosphere of what we have called A New Georgics, drawing its inspiration from Virgil’s seminal poem on agrarian life and farming practice, written over two millennia ago, but whose emphasis on care for the earth, and whose poetic conceit—often reading like a manual for permaculture written in hexameter—remain astoundingly contemporary. Virgil understands the practice of farming as the exemplary art binding humans and landscape, particularly in the wake of devastating civil war that had left the land barren and populations decimated; but farming was also a metaphor for dwelling poetically, perceiving life, landscape, “earthbeing,” not from without as something to be contended with, but from within, from the perspective of the usership and stewardship of landscapes we, like all the other plants, stones and living things, both shape and ... More
EASTON, MD.- This summer, the Academy Art Museum presents Under the Mexican Sky: A Revolution in Modern Photography, a compelling exhibition of over 50 vintage photographs created during a pivotal moment of artistic exchange between the United States and Mexico. In the decades following the Mexican Revolution, Mexico became a magnet for artists from around the world—particularly American photographers seeking new creative direction. Drawn by the country’s light, landscapes, and vibrant cultural life, these artists produced work that would redefine modern photography. At the same time, Mexican photographers were shaping their own powerful visual language, contributing to a dynamic, cross-cultural dialogue that continues to resonate today. Presented as part of the Museum’s Maryland 250– ... More
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Extremely rare gold medal from the 1924 Paris Olympics heads to auction LOS ANGELES, CA.- Nate D. Sanders Auctions will offer a rare 1924 Olympic Gold medal. The auction takes place May 28, 2026. Nate D. Sanders Auctions will offer one of the most historically significant Olympic artifacts to come to market in years: an original gold winner's medal from the 1924 Paris Summer Olympics — the VIII Olympiad — in an auction taking place May 28, 2026. The 1924 Paris Games hold a singular place in Olympic history. They were the first to officially feature the iconic five-ring Olympic symbol, designed by Baron Pierre de Coubertin, on competition medals — making every medal from those Games a milestone artifact in the story of the modern Olympics. The 1924 Games also gave rise to the Olympic motto Citius, Altius, Fortius ("Faster, Higher, Stronger") and were immortalized in the Academy Award-winning film Chariots of Fire. Designed ... More
Iconic Wines from Joseph Lau Parts I-V combined total: US$35M HONG KONG.- Christie's Hong Kong Luxury Week live sales commenced on 22 May 2026 with 'Iconic Wines from Joseph Lau Part V – The Final Part', which realised a total of HK$36,851,250 / US$4,703,443, and was 100% sold. Competitive, international bidding drove the hammer price to 129% over the low estimate. New and younger collectors were drawn to the outstanding wines offered – 24% of buyers were new, of whom 43% were Millennials. The top lot was six bottles of Henri Jayer, Vosne-Romanée Cros Parantoux 1995, which sold for HK$1,312,500 / US$ 167,519, almost tripling the low estimate. The results are a testament to strength of the fine wine market in Asia. Bringing the series to a triumphant finale, 'Iconic Wines from Joseph Lau' has achieved a combined total of HK$274,979,750 / US$35,299,899 across Parts I–V, establishing it as the most ... More
Kunsthaus Zürich expands its role as a place for art, health and social connection ZURICH.- Kunsthaus Zürich is broadening its mission beyond exhibitions, presenting a growing program of initiatives that use art as a tool for health, inclusion and social participation. The museum said its work increasingly focuses on the idea that art can do more than inspire. Through programs that connect visual art with medicine, movement, music, aging, disability access and youth support, Kunsthaus Zürich is positioning itself as a public space where people can meet, reflect and take part in creative experiences. At the center of this approach is a belief that museums can serve society not only by preserving and displaying art, but also by creating meaningful encounters. The Kunsthaus is developing projects that invite visitors of different ages, abilities and life situations to engage with art in ways that support personal expression, well-being and community. ... More
Spain's National Archaeological Museum unveils recovered Roman bronzes after international investigation MADRID.- The National Archaeological Museum in Madrid is presenting two rare Roman-era bronze sculptural groups for the first time since their recovery, offering the public a chance to see works that were looted, sold abroad and later returned to Spain through a long-running police investigation. The sculptures, dated between the 1st century B.C. and the 2nd century A.D., are now on view in the museum’s Roman Courtyard and can be seen until October 25. The museum said the pieces stand out for their exceptional quality, unusual iconography, remarkable state of preservation and the fact that they have survived intact, including their original bases. According to the museum, the bronzes were looted from an unidentified archaeological site in southern Spain between 2007 and 2008. Their origin was later concealed, and in 2012 they were auctioned outside Spain. ... More
Galeria Vera Cortês opens landmark exhibition of the estate of Portuguese icon Ana Vieira LISBON.- Galeria Vera Cortês presents the first exhibition of the Estate of Ana Vieira at the gallery, opening 26 May and staying on view until 5 September. Following the announcement of the much anticipated representation by the Lisbon gallery, last November, this first exhibition is an opportunity to encounter the work of one of the most relevant Portuguese contemporary artists. Ana Vieira (1940-2016), started exhibiting her work regularly in the late 1960s and established herself as one of the key figures of portuguese contemporary art in the decades that followed. Anchored in a critical thinking and an artistic language that explores the limits and the traditional supports of art, particularly painting and sculpture, her practice aligns with the conceptual art movement and is markedly influenced by the exploration of everyday objects, spaces, and situations. Often creating scenic installations, ... More
Bianca Bondi transforms Casino Luxembourg's secret basement into a living artwork LUXEMBOURG.- Notes on Weathering is a work in progress conceived by Bianca Bondi (born in 1986 in Johannesburg, South Africa, lives and works in Paris) for the basement of Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain, unfolding over the whole year 2026. The underground premises, which are normally not accessible to the public, are characterized by humidity, darkness and minerality. As an active milieu exposed to the vagaries of time, they are in thrall to processes of degradation, deposits, corrosion, and transformation. The term “weathering” refers to the discrete yet irreversible processes through which materials are transformed over time. In Bondi’s installation these phenomena are neither represented nor staged but rather welcomed as forces at work capable of gradually modifying matter, form, and the relationships between elements. The word “notes”, ... More
Historic tartan archive gifted to the nation will transform understanding of Scotland's textile heritage EDINBURGH.- A unique archive, the extensive J&D Paton collection has the scope to rewrite our understanding of tartan. The samples record the firm’s production from its foundation in the 1820s to its closure in the 1960s, including rare examples of tartans woven for women's fashion, textiles created for Queen Victoria and the Royal Family during the Highland revival, military fabrics supplied to the Scottish regiments and previously unrecorded clan tartans. The firm reached the height of its popularity in the late 19th century with prolific production continuing through both world wars. At its peak, J&D Paton employed around 500 people across four factory sites near Tillicoultry, in Stirlingshire. Family run for five generations, the company produced internationally-renowned tweeds and tartans, winning awards for fine fashion textiles sometimes woven through with silk. ... More
St. John the Divine commissions 50,000 glass ginkgo leaves to confront NYC housing crisis NEW YORK, NY.- The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, one of the largest Gothic cathedrals in the world and located in Morningside Heights, announces the commission of UNSEEN, a new site-specific art installation from New York- and Catskills-based glass artist Nisha Bansil, opening to the public on June 30. UNSEEN aims to raise awareness, inspire action, and honor the unhoused individuals in NYC. The installation comprises an enormous pile of glass ginkgo leaves that will cascade down stone steps inside the Cathedral’s nave, mirroring both the forest floor and the urban sidewalk. Created at the Corning Museum of Glass (CMoG) Studio Casting Center in Corning, NY, more than 50,000 cast-glass leaves will form a mound that grows during the installation’s run. Artist Nisha Bansil said: “After living in the woods and then moving to New York City, ... More
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