Installation view of the Arts of the Ancient Americas Galleries. Photo by Brigit Beyer.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art reopened The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, following the completion of a major renovation. The wing includes the collections in the Arts of Africa, the Ancient Americas, and Oceania galleries, and features over 1,800 works spanning five continents and hundreds of cultures. These three major world traditions stand as independent entities in a wing that is in dialogue with neighboring gallery spaces. The galleries have been closed to the public and under renovation since 2021, and will reopen to the public on May 31, 2025, with a daylong celebratory festival. Designed by WHY Architecture in collaboration with Beyer, Blinder, Belle Architects LLP, and with The Met’s Design Department, the reimagined galleries have been designed to transform the visitor experience and incorporate innovative technologies that allow The Met to display objects in new ways. In galleries dedicated to each of the distinct collection areas, design elements reference and pay homa ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- Times Square Arts partnered with video artist Yuge Zhou for the upcoming edition of “Midnight Moment,” New York City’s largest digital public art program. Co presented with artnet for the entire month of June, Zhou’s Trampoline Color Exercise will play nightly across the legendary 92 electronic billboards of Times Square, located between 41st and 49th streets in Midtown Manhattan. Midnight Moment will be the largest platform yet for Zhou’s Trampoline Color Exercise, which has been exhibited in numerous venues worldwide, ranging from Expo Chicago to South Korea’s Gwangju Media Art Platform. The 3-minute video features a moving image collage of leaping gymnasts whose uniforms and identities shapeshift as they flip and tumble on pink gridded trampolines. Created by manipulating aerial vantage points from archival broadcasts of Olympic Games footage, the artwork is a bird’s-eye meditation ... More
Magnificent gilt sterling silver candelabra by Nardi, the Venetian silversmith and jeweler, 21 inches tall on an 8 ¾ inch base, and weighing 130.8 troy ounces. Estimate: $7,500-$8,000
BROOKLYN, NY.- A sterling silver set of three monkeys from around 1960 by the famous Italian silversmith Mario Buccellati, a Tiffany & Company 111-piece sterling silver flatware set in the “English King” pattern, and a Gucci signed 18k yellow gold bamboo link station necklace are a few of the expected top lots in SJ Auctioneers’ online-only Black Americana, Collectibles, Décor and Silverware auction scheduled for Wednesday, June 18th, starting at 6pm Eastern time. The set of three monkeys from around 1960 by Mario Buccellati (“See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil”) are made from 925 sterling silver, each one having a weight of 450 grams. They measure 8cm long, 13 cm high and 10cm wide and the set has an estimate of $15,000-$20,000. Individual sterling silver items will be led by Buccellati, ... More
Paul Nash (1889-1946), Tree Study, 1913, pen and ink, 53.3 x 39cm, Daniel Katz Gallery.
LONDON.- Classic Art London has announced highlights for its forthcoming inaugural event.
Leading galleries in Mayfair and St. James's, Cecil Court and Pimlico will be staging museum quality selling exhibitions from the 23rd June to the 4th July 2025. The exhibitions covering Old and Modern Masters and some exciting British discoveries not to be missed. An accompanying talks and events programme will be announced shortly. Charles Beddington Ltd will showcase Venice in the 19th century, “the forgotten century” as Charles describes it. A highlight will be Venice: The Volta di Canal at Night with the Festivities in Honour of Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria, 7th October, 1838 by Carlo Grubacs (1802-1870). This torch-lit view on the Grand Canal depicts the ceremonial barge carrying Ferdinand Emperor of Austria to a ball at Palazzo Foscari, following his coronation as King of Lombardy and Venice ... More
LONDON.- The Hayward Gallery will present Gilbert & George: 21ST CENTURY PICTURES, a landmark exhibition of art by the pioneering London-based artists (7 Oct 2025 – 11 Jan 2026). The presentation highlights Gilbert & George’s evolution over the past 25 years, exploring how technology has made their reflections of today’s society bigger and bolder than ever before. Transforming the space with over 60 floor-to-ceiling installations, the artists will debut new pictures alongside acclaimed pictures in a larger-than-life journey through the modern world as they see it. Gilbert & George are iconic artists, epitomised by their monumental commitment to being ‘living sculptures’ spanning the last five decades. Inspired by our modern world, they act as visual archaeologists of our times by capturing elements of our changing society. From newspaper headlines to road ... More
Wilhelm Sasnal, All American, 2025.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- BLUM is presenting Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Resisting a singular painting style—abstractions edging in on dreamy figuration—for his first exhibition at BLUM, Sasnal explores the iconography and visual lexicon of the roadways of Southern California. Painting from photographs and sketches, Sasnal captures imagery from a brief time spent living in Los Angeles as a cyclist—someone intimately familiar with the texture, palette, and imagery of the region's thoroughfares. The resulting body of work shares themes with film noir—examining the complexities of black as a lack of color; these vignettes are all at once dramatic, brooding, and exhilarating. After studying painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, Sasnal set out to create paintings that undid the restrictive methodology associated with formal painting. Making work that was more about drawing with paint than painting and preferring graphic novels or record co ... More
The curatorial proposal addresses the prominence of the ceiba tree in the sculptural and pictorial arts of the Maya throughout all periods. Photo: Courtesy of CNME. INAH.
ZHENGZHOU.- A breathtaking journey through the heart of the ancient Maya world has just begun in China! On May 29, 2025, the spectacular exhibition "Mayas: Ceiba and Cosmos" officially opened its doors at the Henan Museum, inviting visitors to step into a universe woven from sacred trees and cosmic connections. This monumental display will enchant audiences until October 8. Imagine a giant tree, its roots reaching deep into the underworld, its mighty trunk connecting to our earthly realm, and its lush canopy touching the heavens. This isn't just any tree; it's the Ceiba, the sacred axis of the Mayan cosmos, and it's the guiding spirit of this incredible exhibition. Curators have masterfully brought this ancient concept to life, showcasing how every creature and every space in the Mayan universe is deeply intertwined with this profound natural architecture. This groundbreaking ... More
John Madu, ‘Table no. 2 (Studio on University Road)’ , 2025. Courtesy of Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery and the artist.
AMSTERDAM.- The exhibition Van Gogh x John Madu: Paint Your Path opens at the Van Gogh Museum at the end of May 2025. This small-scale exhibition is a first for the museum: never before has there been a display of work by a contemporary African artist. The Nigerian artist John Madu (1983, Lagos) drew inspiration from the life and work of Vincent van Gogh. He selected seven paintings by Van Gogh from the museum collection and created ten new works in response. These works are brought together in the exhibition, where they enter into artistic dialogue. Madu explains: ‘Revisiting Van Gogh’s works and reinterpreting his visuals in a West African context allows me to create a bridge between local narratives and a global audience.’ Madu combines iconic images from European and North American art history ... More
The Original Heart of Hubble: The Power Control Unit (1990-2002) as Removed by Servicing Mission 3B, with PSA Photo Match.
DALLAS, TX.- The allure of space travel and exploration has long sprinkled its stardust across the dreams of kids, adventure-seekers and transportation buffs alike. Some no doubt have attempted to scratch that anti-gravity itch with trips to museums and NASA, but few have had the opportunity to bid on the original heart of the Hubble Space Telescope. Indeed, Heritage’s June 13-14 Space Exploration Featuring The Family Collection of Jacques Bracke Part II Signature® Auction offers up the Hubble’s original Power Control Unit, as well as other significant artifacts and critical components to historic missions. But first, back to that Hubble Heart, which is the heart of this auction. Launched in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) changed astronomy ... More
Ufuoma Essi. Half Memory. 2024. Scanned Super 8mm film (color), 27 min. Courtesy of the artist.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art is presenting Projects: Ufuoma Essi, which will highlight the artist’s distinctive approach to film as a medium for historical exploration and cultural memory. On view in the Museum’s free, street-level Projects gallery from May 22 through October 13, 2025, the exhibition will feature two of Essi’s recent works shot on Super 8mm film: Bodies In Dissent (2021) and Half Memory (2024). Projects: Ufuoma Essi is organized by Gee Wesley, Curatorial Associate, Department of Media and Performance. “In my work I seek to interrogate and disrupt the silences and gaps within historical narratives,” says Ufuoma Essi. “I locate power through the image and the ways in which we can reposition the image of the Black woman, and re-center those lives and experiences.” “ ... More
Behrang Karimi, Quell, 2025. Oil on hemp, 89 x 65 cm - 35 x 25 5/8 in. Courtesy the artist and Maureen Paley, London. Photo: Mareike Tocha.
BRIGHTON AND HOVE.- Maureen Paley is presenting the third exhibition by Behrang Karimi at the gallery, Child in Time, and his first at Morena di Luna, Hove. “These are works that developed in the studio like weeds pushing through concrete — unexpected, organic. They come from places I am still learning to identify myself, often only through long observation and reflection… What matters is that feeling — the one you get when you think deeply about the world, its origins, its meaning. That is the territory of philosophy, science, and history. There is something poetic in the fact that so much of research is speculative, bounded by what cannot be proven. That sense of mystery is powerful for me. Maybe it sounds childish, but it is a tender, restorative place. However if you need a concrete answer: my church is the forest.” Behrang Karimi (b. 1980, Schiraz, Iran) currently lives and works in Köln, Germany. He received a Masters and Diploma from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany. S ... More
Die Another Day (MGM, 2002), Production Clapperboard.
DALLAS, TX.- “Bond. James Bond.” Remarkably, these words are never spoken in Ian Fleming’s original novels. The now-iconic catchphrase was created on set and first delivered by Sean Connery in Dr. No (1962), becoming an indelible part of the spy’s cinematic identity ever since. It’s hard to imagine Fleming could have foreseen what his character would become—now over 75 years old and still thrilling global audiences. As the rights to the franchise transition from longtime stewards Eon Productions and the Broccoli family to Amazon/MGM, the world watches closely to see who the next Bond will be and how the series will evolve. Heritage Auctions has curated one of the most impressive collections of Bond memorabilia ever assembled and it hits the block on June 13. This extraordinary offering spans the full legacy of the franchise, from Ian Fleming’s literary roots to signed merchandise, iconic posters, rare props and representations from every Bond actor, including Sean ... More
Austin Irving, Six Hours, New York, NY, No. 2, 2015 / 2025, 4 x 5 Color Negative – Archival Lightjet Print on Dibond, 61 x 48 inches, 154.9 x 121.9 cm.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Wilding Cran Gallery is presenting NIGHT LIGHTS, an exhibition of large-format, analog photographs by Los Angeles based artist Austin Irving. Captured across New York, Hong Kong, and Bangalore, India, these images document abstracted, transient spaces - hotel rooms, guest quarters, and temporary interiors - bathed in the glow of urban night. Raised in New York City, Austin Irving has long been attuned to the glow of artificial city lights - the way they shape our internal rhythms, disrupt sleep, and redefine our sense of space. Printed on a large scale, NIGHT LIGHTS embraces the emotional impact of spaces that are not quite private, not quite public, but somewhere in between. Within these photographs, ambient illuminations become a kind of psychic residue, coloring the mind as much as the room. The psychological texture of the work - marked by jet lag, displacement, and a yearning for stillness - imbues each piece with a hushed intimacy. Working in ... More
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Julien's Auctions day one of "Music Icons" results announced NEW YORK, NY.- Julien’s Auctions, the world's leading celebrity auction house brought the spirit of rock & roll, pop and musical legends to life this week with their annual “MUSIC ICONS” sale. Taking place over two days at the Hard Rock Cafe in the heart of Times Square, today's event showcased about half of the nearly 700 pieces of music history from the biggest names in music. The first day of the highly anticipated annual “MUSIC ICONS” auction presented an array of treasures; from stage-played guitars to handwritten lyrics, iconic fashion, and personal artifacts. The auction featured an unprecedented collection from music royalty including Queen, Bruce Springsteen, Prince, Sting, Eric Clapton, Eddie Van Halen, Madonna, Johnny Cash, The Doors, Taylor Swift, Paul McCartney, Elton John, Britney Spears, Christine McVie, Dolly Parton, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Nirvana, ... More
Maryam Hoseini explores the amplified figure in "Swells" DUBAI.- Green Art Gallery is presenting Swells, the second solo exhibition by Iran-born, New York-based artist Maryam Hoseini. If previously, in Maryam Hoseini’s practice, the panels were stretched and extended, joined and folded, to become extended architecture, the new paintings in Swells create portals of the interior. Every component in the work revels in transplanting itself within itself. The flat figure expands and multiplies in rounded limb, breast, buttock, organ, and thigh—as motif—throughout the work, liquidly moving across it. Ground, now rectangular, sometimes rounded, is repossessed by this swell. It grows as if vegetal. Devouring itself, boring into the wood panel’s visible, soaked, grain like a termite, the figure makes of such pictorial amplification a carnal feast. Hoseini says “the figures have moved from architecture to landscape.” The dish eats itself. Hoseini seals the grain ... More
Ayyam Gallery marks 20 years with collective show on Syrian trauma and fragile hope DUBAI.- Ayyam Gallery is presenting this year’s summer collective titled Wavering Hope. The exhibition will feature works by Kais Salman, Khaled Takreti, Tammam Azzam, Abdalla Al Omari, Othman Moussa, Safwan Dahoul, Thaier Helal, Elias Izoli, Abdul-Karim Majd Al-Beik, Mohannad Orabi, Nihad Al-Turk, and Yasmine Al Awa. ‘Hope (noun): A feeling of expectation and desire for a particular thing to happen.’ — Oxford English Dictionary. Hope is a complex and often conflicting sentiment within the Syrian experience. It has served as a force of endurance and, at times, a source of sorrow, rising in fleeting moments, only to vanish in the face of renewed suffering. For over two decades of conflict, displacement, and resistance, Syrian artists have relied on their creative practices as a lifeline. Through these practices, they have fought against erasure, preserved memory, and expressed truths ... More
Onassis Culture presents Plásmata 3: We've met before, haven't we? ATHENS.- Unreal, surreal, but ultimately real, Plásmata 3, the wide-ranging exhibition by Onassis Stegi in Athens’ Pedion tou Areos park, creates a world where the boundaries between reality and illusion dissolve and the everyday becomes magical. For 20 nights, 31 points with works by Greek and international artists, more than 70 DJ sets and music producers, over 15 talks, 13 screenings of short and feature films and 4 kiosks with flavors form the diverse communities of the neighborhood will spread across the park like a midsummer night’s dream. These works converse with our daily lives and give space to the analog, the physical, and the imaginary. From 27 May to 15 June, Onassis Stegi presents the world of “Plásmata” – meaning creatures in Greek. Rather than following the main pathways of the park, Plásmata 3 spreads throughout Pedion tou Areos, inviting us into the park at night ... More
Naples honors slain journalist Giancarlo Siani with powerful permanent artwork NAPLES.- The courage and sacrifice of Giancarlo Siani, the young journalist murdered by the Camorra mafia in 1985, are being honored in a deeply moving and permanent way. A new artwork by Nicholas Tolosa, simply titled "Giancarlo Siani," has found its home at the headquarters of the Campania Order of Journalists, serving as a powerful, enduring symbol of truth and justice. Tolosa's masterful use of a stark black-and-white palette breathes life into an iconic photograph of Siani. But this isn't just a portrait; it's a profound exploration of contrasts, mirroring the stark realities Siani faced. Tolosa blends subtle chromatic nuances to create a vibrant tapestry of light and shadow, reflecting the very essence of Siani's life: hope, courage, and a relentless pursuit of change. As the artist himself conveys through his style, it's about "black and white, good and evil." The choice to depict Siani, a journalist ... More
Malik Thomas Jalil Kydd's "Angel Scale" figures invite empathy and introspection DUBAI.- In Garden of Murmurs, Malik Thomas Jalil Kydd’s body of work spanning over the past years offers a reflection into the artist’s introspection of self-identity and personal desires. Often set against the suggestion of vast, rolling landscapes, Kydd’s works are anchored in figuration and grounded in tenderness and the poetics of desire. Bridging painting, drawing and fiber art, he reconciles the tactility of textiles with a sensitive examination of form and an emotive force of line and color. These works are about a love broader than just the romantic: the love of the subject by the painter, and the love that pulses quietly through acts of care, memory, and preservation. Focusing primarily on the male figure drawn to a scale slightly larger than life-size, what Kydd refers to as an “angel ... More
$100,000 Ramsay Art Prize winner announced ADELAIDE.- The Art Gallery of South Australia today announced Jack Ball as the winner of the $100,000 Ramsay Art Prize, the nation’s most generous prize for Australian artists under forty. Ball’s winning work, a large-scale photographic and sculptural installation titled Heavy Grit will be displayed in the Ramsay Art Prize 2025 exhibition which opens on Saturday 31 May. AGSA Director Jason Smith said, ‘The Ramsay Art Prize sets out to elevate and accelerate careers for contemporary Australian artists. From a record number of entries in 2025, Heavy Grit by Jack Ball perfectly captures what the Ramsay Art Prize aims to offer artists – a platform to present their most ambitious work, unrestrained in scale and medium.’ The Perth-born, Sydney-based artist explores themes of queer intimacy and desire in their winning work. Heavy Grit was developed in response to a collection ... More
Eddie Peake unveils his first solo show in Belgium ANTWERP.- TICK TACK opened Fourth Wall Death Rattle, the first Belgian solo exhibition by the renowned British artist Eddie Peake (London, 1981), during the Antwerp Art Weekend. Eddie Peake works with performance, video, photography, painting, sculpture, sound and installation. His work explores the implicit drama within relationships in the broadest sense, and how desire, sexuality and psychological states such as depression impact on them. Peake is also preoccupied by language, and indeed it is in the discrepancy between words and any other language, say, images, emotions, bodily movements or sounds, that his art is located. Eddie Peake’s exhibitions and performances have been staged internationally including at Galeria Municipal do Porto, Portugal (2025); CIRCA, Piccadilly Circus, London (2020); White Cube, London (2018); the Fiorucci Art Trust Volcano ... More
Centro Botín opens 'Enredos II: Nuno da Luz' SANTANDER.- Centro Botín presents Enredos II: Nuno da Luz, the second chapter of the exhibition programme (Enredos) with which Centro Botín invites mid-career artists who have benefited from an Art Grant from the Fundación Botín to reconnect with the collection, the spaces, the teams and visitors of Fundación Botín's art centre in Santander. Open to the public from 31 May to 19 October 2025, this exhibition transforms the building, designed by Pritzker Prize winner Renzo Piano, into a reverberating acoustic body, where Nuno's works coexist with a selection of pieces from Fundación Botín's collection. In this way, Nuno amplifies the resonant frequencies of the waves, currents and winds felt in the Bay of Santander, entwining them with the oscillations of Centro Botín's building as well as the works of Javi Arce, Katinka Bock, June Crespo & Madi Barber, Tacita Dean, ... More
Erika Verzutti unveils "Sculptures With Wind," challenging form and stillness at Fortes D'Aloia & Gabriel SAO PAULO.- Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel presents Esculturas com Vento [Sculptures With Wind], a solo exhibition by Erika Verzutti. Her ongoing series—or “families”— are exposed to conceptual winds that distort and reshape her sculptural forms. These new works engage with a charged atmosphere, as if turbulent conditions were testing the limits of their form and structure. In recent years, the artist has reoriented her totemic, elongated sculptures horizontally, as if reclining in a state of exhaustion atop blocks of newspapers encased in resin. Here, they confront new external pressures and inner resonances. While past works suggested a collapse under the weight of today’s information and sensory overload, the formal arrangement and spatial organization of Verzutti’s new pieces lend them a resilient character, as if reacting to crisis with malleability, testing their resistance to deformation. ... More
Poetic Alchemy: Yijia Wu Transforms the Everyday into Domestic Relics LONDON.- In a world that often races past the subtle textures of daily life, London-based artist Yijia Wu invites us to pause and truly see. Her recent portfolio is a compelling journey into the heart of everydayness, migration, and the ever-shifting notion of “home” — revealing an attuned attention to the mundane that elevates ordinary materials into quietly resonant narratives. Born in China in 1997, Wu’s multidisciplinary practice, spanning performance, sculpture, and installation, showcases her unique ability to weave cultural significance into the most unassuming domestic objects. Her visual language, a fascinating blend of the absurd and the familiar, simultaneously evokes nostalgia while firmly rooting itself in the present. As an artist in residence at Sarabande Foundation and a graduate of Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art, Wu’s academic rigour underpins an approach that is both sophisticated and remarkably accessible, making her work a standou ... More
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On a day like today, American artist Ellsworth Kelly was born
March 31, 1923. May 31, 1923. Ellsworth Kelly (May 31, 1923 - December 27, 2015) was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker associated with hard-edge painting, Color Field painting and minimalism. His works demonstrate unassuming techniques emphasizing line, color and form, similar to the work of John McLaughlin and Kenneth Noland. Kelly often employed bright colors. He lived and worked in Spencertown, New York. In this image: A woman walks past the work 'White Relief with Black III' by the artist Ellsworth Kelly during a press conference at the Haus der Kunst (House of Arts) in Munich.
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