DRESDEN.- From 5 April 2025, the Museum für Sächsische Volkskunst (Museum of Saxon Folk Art) of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD, Dresden State Art Collections) will be paying tribute to regional crafts in ‘Easter at the Jägerhof’ and in a special exhibition on women as woodworkers. Throughout the museum, sprigs of budding branches hung with delicately decorated eggs, a wide range of interesting events, and skilful folk artists will put visitors in the mood for the festive season of Easter. At the same time, the new exhibition on the second floor will draw attention to the often-overlooked role of women in Saxony’s long-standing tradition of producing decorative wooden figures. In March 2025, their craft was acknowledged as an intangible cultural heritage by the UNESCO as part of the artisan craftwork of the Ore Mountains. Carpentry, woodturning, wood carving, and toy making tend to be regarded as male-dominated trades. However, women have always been significantly invo ... More
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Pace presents Robert Irwin in Los Angeles, an exhibition of work produced by Robert Irwin between 1960 and 1971, at its Los Angeles gallery, marking the first exhibition of Irwin’s work mounted by Pace since the artist’s death in 2023 and his first posthumous presentation in California. On view from April 5 to June 7, the show will shed light on the most prolific period of Irwin’s career—during which he began moving away from object- based art, setting out to create non-representational works centering on questions of perception—and celebrate his many contributions to the arts in Southern California. Robert Irwin in Los Angeles is presented on the occasion of Pace’s 65th anniversary year, during which the gallery is mounting exhibitions of work by major 20th century artists—with whom it has maintained decades-long relationships—at its spaces around the world. A foundational figure in the California Light and Space movement, Irwin was ... More
Three-page scientific manuscript in German handwritten by Albert Einstein, relating to his Unified Field Theory from the 1940s, with scientific calculations (Estimate: $80,000-$120,000)
WILTON, CONN.- A vivid and lifelike photograph of Abraham Lincoln with Hesler/Ayres provenance, a one-page letter signed by Lincoln in 1859 and addressed to a man he’d defended in a murder trial, and a one-page autograph letter written in Hebrew in 1948 by the first Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion are three of many tantalizing items in University Archives’ next online-only auction slated for Wednesday, April 23rd, at 10am Eastern time. All 536 lots in the Rare Autographs, Books & Photos auction (featuring the Abraham Lincoln Collection) are up for viewing and bidding now on the recently redesigned University Archives website – www.UniversityArchives.com – plus the popular platforms LiveAuctioneers.com, Invaluable.com and Auctionzip.com. Telephone and absentee bids will also be accepted. “The April 23rd auction is bursting with high-quality historical artifacts from multiple collecting categories, in addi ... More
Steven Shearer, Double Cherub, 2025. UV print on canvas Unique. Image 329.5 x 246.5 cm / 129 5/8 x 97 in. Frame 332 x 249 cm / 130 3/4 x 98 1/8 in
ZURICH.- Galerie Eva Presenhuber presents The Golden Recline, its seventh exhibition with Canadian artist Steven Shearer. The photographs in The Golden Recline were sourced from the artist’s extensive collection of found online images depicting individuals asleep. These photographs date back to the early days of the internet when platforms like Picasa, Blogger, and Photobucket played a key role in the hosting and sharing of images. None of these photographs can be found online today, nor can they be reverse image searched. While they may still exist on personal servers or digital cameras, their public-facing presence has, in most cases, vanished from the world. In this exhibition, the photographs of sleeping bodies strike various poses. Some figures lie completely unconscious, their limbs slack, seemingly detached from the waking world. Others appear spellbound in a haze of intoxication, their faces flushed and bodies loosely arranged. Extreme close-ups ... More
Claudia Schmuckli, Holly Johnson and Parker Harris Chief Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. Photography by Randy Dodson. Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco today announced the advancement of Claudia Schmuckli to Holly Johnson and Parker Harris Chief Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, a role designed to provide strategic leadership and direction on artistic and programmatic matters concerning modern and contemporary art. Schmuckli’s position has been generously endowed by longtime supporters Holly Johnson and Parker Harris. In her new role, Schmuckli’s priorities include developing a strategic vision for the presentation, collection, and community engagement with modern and contemporary art. “Strengthening the Fine Arts Museums’ long term financial sustainability through endowment-building is a top institutional priority. We are profoundly grateful to Holly Johnson and Parker Harris for their tremendous gift, which will make it possible for us to meaningfully advance both our contemporary and modern programs and our financial goals,” said Thomas P. Campbell, Director and ... More
VIENNA.- The ALBERTINA Museum presents the first museum exhibition of the American artist Francesca Woodman in Austria with works from the VERBUND COLLECTION. Since its foundation in 2004, the VERBUND COLLECTION has continuously acquired photographs by Woodman. All 82 works on display in the exhibition, including 20 photographs developed by the artist herself, are from the VERBUND COLLECTION. This means that the collection – apart from the estate – has the most comprehensive holdings of this extraordinary artist. Francesca Woodman (3 April 1958 – 19 January 1981) created her oeuvre in a nine-year creative phase from 1972 to 1981. Her work is characterized by a passionate self-presentation and the creative positioning of the female body in space, in the context of conceptual photography and performance. Most of the photographs have a small, square format, are black and white and were taken with a medium format ... More
Exhibition view Wiebke Siem. The Dream of Things, In cooperation with Fumetto Comic Festival Lucerne, Kunstmuseum Luzern, 2025, Courtesy of the artist, Photo: Marc Latzel.
LUCERNE.- The German artist Wiebke Siem (*1954) enables the fantastic and grotesque to invade everyday domestic life. Be it with costumes that invite us to slip into a different gender or furniture that lets our arms dangle, Wiebke Siem creates a cosmos which is as funny as it is unfathomable, and which renders the contradictions and inadequacies of our life-world visible with irony and hu- mour. The artist’s works combine a feminist gaze with a criticism of modernism’s problematic strategies of appropriating non-European art. The sculptures prompt numerous associations with art history, be that the figures of Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Schlemmer’s Bauhaus stage, Tadeusz Kantor’s theatre, caricatures or surrealist collages. With the interactive installation Der Traum der Dinge Wiebke Siem invites viewers to assemble their own sculptures. For this purpose, the artist has, over decades, collected wooden objects originating from households and workshops, smoothing and staining them so ... More
Will Rogan, Corner Creep, 2025. Spanish cedar, mahogany, ash, cuckoo clock chain, oil paint, watercolor and colored pencil, 8 x 8 x 4 in. 20.3 x 20.3 x 10.2 cm.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Altman Siegel is presenting "Night holds all your heart," a solo exhibition by Will Rogan. This marks the artist’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. "This work started after I took a fall off a rooftop I was helping to build. It was the kind of fall that I should have had a more major injury from or could have had. But not even a broken rib. When I hit the ground, I broke a 2 x 4” piece of wood with my head. The outcome of the head injury was to become incredibly sensitive to the death end of the life cycle. It was the peak part of the season here in Vermont. The leaves had become as red as they would and were starting to become compost. So, some of this work will be about falling, both literal falling and figurative falling, about the feeling of falling. We are all falling, all approaching that thing that will eventually take our lives. We are all eventual compost. There is a beauty to this, this falling that we are all doing. Gravity is the great leveler, pulling us ... More
Mads Gamdrup, Dark Yellow Ochre, 2025. Pigment and linseed oil on canvas, 45 x 55 x 4.5 cm. 17.72 x 21.65 x 1.77 in.
COPENHAGEN.- Mads Gamdrup’s solo exhibition In Company with Titan White presents a new series of monochrome oil paintings that explore the physical presence of color in the delicate balance between transparency and density. Layer upon layer of hand-ground natural pigment builds the surface, allowing each hue to unfold into its own internal scale of shades and intensities. As colors shift and interact within the layers, the works invite quiet contemplation – where color is not just seen but experienced. For more than three decades, Gamdrup has worked with photography, investigating the interplay of color, light, and transparency. In 2021, he presented his first solo exhibition dedicated entirely to painting, marking a significant shift in his practice. While the methodology for these new works remains consistent – monochrome paintings created with pigment – there is now a new element: Titan White. This addition raises questions about what happens when another ... More
LONDON.- London Museum Docklands opened its new major exhibition Secrets of the Thames: Mudlarking London’s lost treasures (4 April 2025 – 1 March 2026). The first major exhibition on mudlarking, it explores fascinating finds from the Thames foreshore, an internationally important archaeological site, and the role of mudlarks in uncovering thousands of years of human history. Historically a trade of the Victorian poor, in recent years mudlarking has grown to be a popular hobby for history lovers, with licensed mudlarks uncovering many significant new finds from the Thames. On display are a wide variety of objects found in the Thames, ranging from the beautiful and elegant to the bizarre and macabre. A medieval gold ring uncovers a centuries-old love. Whilst the discovery of a typeface unearths a bitter feud between business partners. An intricate 16th century ivory sundial tells of miraculous discovery with its two halves unearthed by different mudlarks eight years apart. ... More
Kitsune, 2022, Acryltusche und Öl auf Leinwand, 70 x 50 cm. Photo: Stefan Altenburger
THUN.- Rebekka Steiger (b. 1993, lives in Zurich, works in Lucerne and Beijing) is both a painter and a storyteller who spirits us away to strange and colourful dream worlds in her work. Sometimes flowery, at other times eerie, her paintings are marked by a dialectic of simultaneous movement and standstill. Those who step into her universe encounter realities near and far, discovering landscapes, nature scenes, and mythological and fantastic figures from Western and Eastern traditions. Steiger’s paintings contain narratives that tell of different worlds. These stories are in turn united by the signature exploratory painting style that distinguishes her artistic practice. Worked over in multiple layers using various experimental techniques, Steiger’s large-format canvases can be read in myriad ways. For some of her works, for example the more abstract ones, the artist uses small pieces of paper as tools for soaking up and dabbing paint onto the canvas. Once this process has been carr ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- DC Moore Gallery is presenting George Woodman: A Democracy of Parts, Paintings 1966-1978, its debut exhibition of George Woodman’s work in collaboration with the Woodman Family Foundation. Focusing on geometric abstractions from a significant period within the artist’s six-decade career, the exhibition traces the development of Woodman’s singular approach to pattern. This exhibition marks the first time the artist’s paintings from this period have been shown in New York since the 1980s. In the 1960s, George Woodman began working with systematic pattern compositions, influenced by Minimalism as well as art and architecture studied during his travels to countries including Italy, Morocco, and Spain–– a visit to study tiles at the Alhambra in 1965 proved to be pivotal. By the mid-1960s, Woodman’s intellectually rigorous approach to pattern ... More
Sheku “Goldenfinger” Fofanah, Sierra Leonean (active in Freetown), “Fairy” Masquerade Ensemble, 2022. Fabric, sequins, wood, paint, glue: life-size. Commission for the Fitchburg Art Museum. Photo courtesy of the New Orleans Museum of Art.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- The New Orleans Museum of Art opened New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations, a major exhibition presenting the work of four contemporary artists working in cities across West Africa: Chief Ekpenyong Bassey Nsa, Sheku “Goldenfinger” Fofanah, David Sanou, and Hervé Youmbi. The first presentation of its kind, New African Masquerades offers a rare look into contemporary West African masquerade by contextualizing the works of individual artists within a range of social, economic, and religious practices and examining their networks of viewership and exchange. Made from materials including wood, cloth and fabrics, sequins, feathers, gourds, raffia, and cowry shells, the ensembles on view represent a wide variety of masquerade practices and ... More
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Art Encounters Foundation presents Ștefan Bertalan retrospective In Tune With The World TIMIșOARA.- Over 250 artworks by neo-avant garde artist Ștefan Bertalan exhibited at the Art Encounters Foundation, Timișoara in a major retrospective curated by Bernard Blistène. Between April 3 and June 28 2025, the Art Encounters Foundation is delighted to present a major retrospective of the work of Romanian artist Ștefan Bertalan (1930-2014), entitled In Tune With The World, conceived by Bernard Blistène, Honorary Director of the Musée National d’Art Moderne du Centre Pompidou-Paris. The exhibition shows more than two hundred works by the artist. Paintings, works on paper, photographs, films, as well as a large body of documentary work and an installation entitled Inflatable structures (1974), created as a project of the Sigma group, will round off the most important exhibition to date of the protean work of this major figure of the European neo-avant-garde art scene. ... More
Central Asian women's power unveiled in "Beneath the Earth and Above the Clouds" at Sapar Contemporary NEW YORK, NY.- Altynai Osmo (Kyrgyzstan, b. 1988) and Aya Shalkar (Kazakhstan, b. 1996) explore themes of identity, feminine power, and gender roles, drawing on real and mythological narratives deeply rooted in their Central Asian cultures and heritage. Their works, across diverse media and artistic techniques, honor tradition and legacy while capturing the multifaceted and complex roles women play in Central Asian societies—from their positions within tribes to their divine manifestations. Osmo and Shalkar place the female experience at the intersection of history, mythology, tradition, and spirituality, illuminating narratives that have long been overshadowed. This exhibition, entitled, Beneath the Earth and Above the Clouds, showcases new bodies of art from both artists. Through three- and two-dimensional works, Osmo and Shalkar offer an anthropological perspective ... More
Pioneering computer art from the 1970s and 80s featured in exhibition at DAM Projects BERLIN.- In the foreword to the book of the same name by Herbert W. Franke, published in 1984, he explains that it has not yet succeeded in penetrating the art market. At the same time, he also notes that the artists were not orientated towards financial success, as this was not to be expected, but were completely free to develop their own art. This was certainly an advantage and characterises most of the artists of the first 40 years, making them particularly valuable! The exhibition uses this book as a basis, which brings together and briefly introduces most of the artists of this genre. We have been representing many of them for a long time, but we would like to introduce two more artists to you for the first time in this exhibition! Robert Mallary, USA (1917 - 1997), was a sculptor and a pioneer of computer graphics. We are showing plotter drawings from the 1970s ... More
Delphine Diallo's first US museum solo show explores identity and Black female representation ROANOKE, VA .- French-Senegalese artist and photographer Delphine Diallo does not want to take or capture photographs. She wants to give photographs. In her first solo museum exhibition in the United States, the Brooklyn-based Diallo shares how her personal journey to understand her identity has unfolded as she turns the lens on herself and her questions relating to power, autonomy, and connection, particularly as they relate to the repre- sentation of Black women’s bodies in photography. “For Diallo, the body and its place in history are central to this exhibition,” said Katie Hirsch, Taubman Museum of Art Deputy Director of Exhibitions. “Diallo seeks to reject the exploitative and extractive history of the photography of female bodies and to instead celebrate these bodies as sites of resilience and deep spiritual power.” Diallo’s quest is traced through ... More
Gokula Stoffel explores pictorial matter and fragmented figures in new exhibition SAO PAULO.- Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel announces Um Lugar para a Cabeça [A place for the head], Gokula Stoffel’s new solo exhibition in São Paulo. The exhibition, featuring works made over the last year, expands Stoffel’s investigations into pictorial matter and fragmentary approach to figuration. In an exploratory, process-guided practice, the artist embraces accidents and chance results as co-creators of the paintings and sculptures presented in the show. Whether unraveling a patch of paint to depict an arm or turning a human figure into the image of a landscape, Stoffel is interested in the distortions and upheavals of form and scenery. The swirling, turbulent gestures that make up her shimmering surfaces lead to creatures emerging from a liquefied atmosphere, as in Salso Reino (2025) and Morcego (2025). A range of optical vibrations appear, as a result of the artist’s ... More
Helsinki Biennial presents third edition Shelter: Below and beyond, becoming and belonging HELSINKI.- Helsinki Biennial 2025 brings together 37 artists and collectives in its third edition, Shelter: Below and beyond, becoming and belonging, curated by Blanca de la Torre and Kati Kivinen and produced by HAM Helsinki Art Museum. Inviting all, the biennial opens to the public on June 8, transforming Helsinki into a summer-long, city-wide celebration of art in unique locations across the city; from the maritime setting of Vallisaari island to HAM Helsinki Art Museum, and for the first time, Esplanade Park, the green heart of Helsinki. Featuring new commissions and site-specific works, the biennial takes inspiration from Vallisaari island’s protected ecosystem, preserved from human habitation for decades. Against this backdrop and amid the global climate crisis and loss of biodiversity, the biennial’s central theme of Shelter encourages a shift away from human-centric ... More
Swedish Institute Paris presents Barbro Östlihn Ö.- Standing at the crossroads between the American and European avant-gardes, Barbro Östlihn developed a unique painterly idiom that stands apart from established artistic movements. Only at the turn of the millennium did the work of this prolific painter gain the attention it so richly deserves. This is the first retrospective of Barbro Östlihn’s work in France. In 1961, Barbro Östlihn arrived in New York with her husband, the renowned visual artist, art critic and author Öyvind Fahlström. They moved into Robert Rauschenberg’s former loft in South Manhattan, which would serve as both their apartment and their studio. Impressed by the imposing architecture and fascinated by the endless spectacle of construction and destruction in that part of the city, Östlihn developed her own artistic idiom on the margins of pop art and Nouveau Réalisme, which were ... More
Autographs & Subculture at Swann: John Adams to David Bowie closing April 10 NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries sale of Autographs & Subculture is set to present items from iconic figures throughout history. The sale will be a timed online auction opening for bidding through Thursday, April 10. The auction will begin closing at 12 pm Eastern. Bidding is available on the Swann Galleries App and on live.swanngalleries.com. The autographs portion of auction features prominent builders—of industry, of cities, of society. Among those in the sale is one who helped fuel the machines that built the twentieth century—John D. Rockefeller—who is present with a signed photograph from 1905 ($800-1,200), and with a signed file copy of the marriage license of his daughter Elizabeth ($600-900). The Russian empress Catherine the Great who, in 1794, founded the city of Odessa in Ukraine, and who signed the vellum document appointing a captain of artillery ... More
Available May 6: "Backstage Dreams: The Secret Door to Sets" by Eric James Guillemain NEW YORK, NY.- Backstage Dreams. The Secret Door to Sets (Damiani Books, 2025) is the first monograph by photographer Eric James Guillemain, bringing together 200 works and spanning 15 years of his career. It documents the intimate and privileged moments of the actor at their most vulnerable—reserved and introspective before each performance—reflecting, contemplating, and caught off guard. Guillemain’s work is a journey of exploration, rich with fascinating contrasts between empty theatrical sets and a rare series of portraits evoking that final step, that last breath, from the wings to the stage or from the dressing room to the set. From Wim Wenders to Helen Mirren, Nick Cave, Anya Taylor-Joy, Sigourney Weaver, Isabelle Huppert, Jennifer Lawrence, Charlize Theron, Robert Pattinson, Scarlett Johansson, Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Julianne Moore, Simon ... More
On a day like today, German painter Franz Pforr was born
March 05, 1788. Franz Pforr (5 April 1788 - 16 June 1812) was a painter of the German Nazarene movement. Pforr did not live long enough to see his art acknowledged. He died of tuberculosis in Albano Laziale, Rome at age 24. In this image: Portrait by Johann Friedrich Overbeck, 1810.
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