Hilma af Klint. Birch from the series On the Viewing of Flowers and Trees. 1922. Watercolor on paper, 6 11/16 × 9 13/16 in. (17 × 25 cm). Hilma af Klint Foundation, Stockholm (HaK 639).
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art opened an exhibition showcasing MoMA’s recent acquisition of Nature Studies, a portfolio of 46 botanical drawings by the Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862–1944), which is on display for the first time. On view from May 11 through September 27, 2025, Hilma af Klint: What Stands Behind Flowers explores af Klint’s engagement with the natural world. Created during the spring and summer of 1919 and 1920, the Nature Studies portfolio presents the wonders of Sweden’s flora and showcases the artist’s keen botanical eye. Af Klint combines her renowned approach to abstraction with traditional botanical drawing, juxtaposing detailed renderings of plants discovered in her surroundings with enigmatic abstract diagrams. Examples include a sunflower paired with concentric circles, a narcissus crowned by a pinwheel of primary colors, and tree blossoms accompanied by checkerboards of dots and strokes. Through these forms, af Klint seeks to reveal, in ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- Andrew Kreps Gallery and kaufmann repetto opened love and a butterfly, an exhibition of works by Corita Kent. Including early screenprints, as well as the rarely exhibited watercolors made during the last years of Kent’s life, the exhibition traces how the expressive marks of her own hand and an introspective connection to the natural world, bookend her practice. Corita Kent made her first serigraphs in the early 1950s - compositions that were equally influenced by Byzantine Art and the stained glass windows she encountered during her travels in Europe, as they were by the modern world. Depicting religious scenes and densely layered in jewel-like tones, these works belie their technical complexity, at times requiring over twenty individual screens to construct their final image. Masked by hand, Kent built a distinctive visual style in which energetic brushstrokes and swaths of color give way to figure and image. By the end of the decade, as her reputation as both ... More
GENEVA.- Christie's Geneva continued its Luxury Week with Magnificent Jewels Including A Bouquet of Gems: A Superb Collection of Jewels by JAR on Wednesday 14 May 2025. The auction realised CHF60,493,260 I $72,363,223, selling 100% by lot and with an impressive 77% of lots selling above their high estimate. The sale offered a total of 115 lots and captivated bidders for a thrilling four hours thanks to the extraordinary level of interest from bidders. Global bidding and buying for the auction came from 45 countries, with 46% of registrants from EMEA, 26% from the US and 20% from Asia. The top lot of the live auction, a Fancy Deep Blue diamond, was purchased by Moussaieff Jewellers. The emerald cut gem of 6.24 carats, mounted by Boucheron, set an auction record price per carat for a deep blue jewel. This extraordinary gem saw competitive bidding for over five minutes, finally ... More
DESSAU-ROßLAU.- Under the title Delphinium Maximum, the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation is opening an extraordinary exhibition on Saturday, 17 May 2025, at 4 pm, that makes the delphinium the centre of an engagement with art and society. It sheds light on the historical and contemporary relationship between human beings and ornamental plants and thus initiates a fascinating dialogue between nature and art. The programme for the exhibition opening is supplemented by a bar serving edible flowers and leaves by the Urbane Farm Dessau. Admission is free. In the open scenography of the Spatial Stage from 18 May to 7 September, cut delphinium flowers of local and international origin will encounter works by contemporary artists. Sarah Oos impresses with her opulent sculptures of balloon ... More
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Paul Thiebaud Gallery announced the opening of Wayne Thiebaud: Selected Paintings and Works on Paper. On view are eighteen paintings and works on paper spanning fifty-two years of Wayne Thiebaud’s oeuvre. The exhibition includes notable imagery of sweet and savory edibles, landscapes, cityscapes, figures and still lifes showcasing a range in subject matter and the utilization of different media. The exhibition will be on view through July 3, 2025. Throughout his eight-decade career, Wayne Thiebaud was fascinated with revisiting similar imagery and employing various media such as oil, acrylic, pastel, watercolor, ink and graphite as a means to explore form, color and texture. In pushing paint to create a triangular piece of pie as viewed in Pie a la Mode (n.d.) or the geometrical topography of the Sacramento River Delta landscape in Irrigation Pond (1995/2015), Thiebaud’s thickly ... More
COLOGNE.- Every two years, the Internationale Photoszene Köln organizes research residencies that allow artists to explore photographic archives and collections in Cologne. The Artist Meets Archive program highlights the complexity of archives as a source of artistic inspiration and creation. The results will be exhibited across various venues in the city, starting May 17, 2025. Alongside Museum Ludwig, participating institutions for the fourth edition of Artist Meets Archive include Kölnisches Stadtmuseum, Dombauarchiv Köln, the Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur, and Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum. At Museum Ludwig, artist Pauline Hafsia M’barek (b. 1979, based in Brussels and Cologne) unveils a new project inspired by photographs from the Agfa advertising archive, which the museum acquired in 2005. Agfa, a German chemical company, was among the world’s leading producers of photographic film and lab equipment for many decades. ... More
Ragnar Kjartansson, Margarét Bjarnadóttir, and Bryce Dessner, No Tomorrow, 2022. Video installation. Courtesy of the artists, Luhring Augustine (New York) and the i8 Gallery (Reykjavík).
TALLINN.- The solo exhibition of the Icelandic installation, performance and video artist and painter Ragnar Kjartansson (b. 1976) A Boy and a Girl and a Bush and a Bird is displayed in the Great Hall of Kumu and in the three permanent exhibition project spaces on the 3rd and 4th floors. The display in the Great Hall focusses on the artist’s latest oeuvre: the large six-channel video installation No Tomorrow (2022, with Margarét Bjarnadóttir & Bryce Dessner), the two-channel video A Boy and a Girl and a Bush and a Bird (2025) and the series of paintings Weekdays in Arcadia, created specifically for this exhibition in Kumu. Kjartansson’s earlier video installations Mercy (2004), Variation on Meat Joy (2013) and Figures in the Landscape (2018) enter into a dialogue with the permanent exhibition of Kumu. The exhibition, consisting of five video installations and a series of paintings, provides insight into Kjartansson’s oeuvre and its three dominant, often interrelated ... More
MISSOULA, MT.- In response to recent federal grant cancellations and proposed elimination of funding for key cultural agencies, directors of museums, galleries, and art centers across Montana have released an open letter calling on the public and elected officials to support arts and cultural institutions during this critical time. The letter addresses the administration's recommendation for zero funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) in the FY26 budget. Cultural institutions throughout Montana and nationwide have already received notices of grant cancellations from these agencies. "What's at stake is not just programs or places, it is the shared experiences that connect us, the histories that define us, and the spaces that invite us to dream, reflect, and belong," states the letter, which was signed by arts and cultural leaders from across the state. ... More
Black Flag (2015), Santiago Sierra. Helga de Alvear Collection. Courtesy of Helga de Alvear Museum.
CÁCERES EXTREMADURA.- Helga de Alvear Museum (Cáceres, Spain) is presenting Santiago Sierra’s major solo museum exhibition in Spain. The show highlights the relevance and presence of Santiago Sierra’s production in the Helga de Alvear Collection. It brings together historical works, new works produced especially for the occasion, the archive donated by the artist to the Museum as well as the first and the last work exhibited by Sierra at the Helga de Alvear Gallery (Madrid). With this exhibition Sierra and the museum wants to pay tribute to Helga de Alvear after her passing on February this year. Santiago Sierra is one of the most significant Spanish conceptual artists in the contemporary art scene. He has dedicated his career of more than three decades to explore and question contemporary socio-political structures through an incisive visual language that generates diverse emotions. Throughout different media such as black ... More
DUDELANGE.- In 2025, the Centre national de l’audiovisuel proudly presents an inaugural look at the Teutloff Collection. The exhibition "Facets of Humanity: Works from the Teutloff Collection", on display from 17 May to 21 September 2025 at DISPLAY01 in Dudelange, marks the first public unveiling in Luxembourg of art collector Lutz Teutloff’s holdings since their acquisition by the CNA in 2017. Lutz Teutloff, born in Berlin in 1938, began an apprenticeship as a textile merchant after boarding school, established his own label in the fashion industry and led his company to success. In 1989, Teutloff finally sold his thriving fashion label to start a new life as a gallery owner in contemporary art. His fascination with art stems from a desire to break away from the fast pace of the fashion business and devote himself to a higher, non-commercial goal. His long-standing engagement with fashion can also be interpreted as the foundation for his interest in humanistic photography: Fashion also ... More
OSLO.- The National Museum of Norway launches the season at Villa Stenersen with “Espen Gleditsch. Sanatorium Stenersen”, which looks at what our surroundings mean for quality of life and health. Villa Stenersen is a masterpiece of Norwegian functionalism. It was designed by Arne Korsmo (1900–1968) for Annie and Rolf E. Stenersen, who moved in in 1938. The house was carefully planned to accommodate the financier and art collector Stenersen’s large art collection, which is still considered one of the most important private collections in Norway. The building and property are listed. In this exhibition created especially for Villa Stenersen, artist Espen Gleditsch has focused his camera on a number of sanatoria in Europe and Norway, contemplating their design as a precursor to modern architecture. In his photographs, he explores the space of the buildings and their natural surroundings. Gleditsch’s photographs transform the abstract ideas and historical influences that ... More
June Edmonds. Photo: Chris Warmald. Courtesy Galerie Lelong, New York and Luis De Jesus Los Angeles.
NEW YORK, NY.- Galerie Lelong, New York, announced its representation of the Los Angeles-based artist June Edmonds. Edmonds will have her first solo show with the gallery in Fall 2025, marking her first major solo exhibition in New York. June Edmonds is known for her dynamic abstract paintings, rendered in bold palettes of acrylic, which draw inspiration from her ruminations on Black history and her own African American roots. Her works reference specific events, individuals, and traditions, amassing an oeuvre that honors Black joy, strength, resilience, and power. Among the topics Edmonds has engaged in past bodies of work are the Great Migration, the quiltmakers of Gee’s Bend, and the reimagination of the American flag to recognize the long-standing commitment and sacrifice of African Americans in the fight for democracy and justice—lending weight to, and offering new perspectives on, varied histories. Over a three- ... More
Franz Xavier Winterhalter, German, 1805-1873, Isabella of Spain.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Hollywood enthusiasts and collectors are invited to bid on a stunning array of items from the estate of legendary actress and singer Janis Paige during an exclusive online auction presented by Abell Auction Co. on May 22. Live bidding starts at 9 a.m. PDT. The highly anticipated sale will showcase over 300 lots of exquisite fine jewelry, furnishings, paintings and Hollywood memorabilia that once adorned Paige’s stunning Los Angeles residence – reflecting her illustrious career spanning film, television and Broadway. Born Donna Mae Tjaden on September 16, 1922, Paige delighted audiences with her vibrant personality and undeniable charm. Her early performances at the Hollywood Canteen during World War II caught the attention of a Warner Bros. talent scout, marking her breakthrough into the entertainment industry. Rising to fame during Hollywood's Golden Age, Paige became a household name starring in films like "Romance ... More
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David Kordansky Gallery presents Mary Weatherford: "The Surrealist" LOS ANGELES, CA.- David Kordansky Gallery is presenting The Surrealist, an exhibition of new paintings by Mary Weatherford. The exhibition, which occupies two of the spaces at the Los Angeles gallery, is on view at 5130 W. Edgewood Pl. from May 16 through June 28, 2025. Weatherford is a fearless believer in painting’s ability to reflect and express facets of life that would otherwise remain invisible, unexplored, and unfelt. She reveres and challenges legacies of modernist formalism, Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, and other twentieth-century—as well as a host of earlier—art historical movements in equal measure, producing both grand gestures and subtle disruptions that allow her work to communicate extremes of beauty and pathos. In The Surrealist, Weatherford demonstrates this emotional and technical range by working at an array of different scales ... More
Overbeck Gesellschaft opens an exhibition of works by Danish artist Asta Lynge LÜBECK.- The Overbeck-Gesellschaft invites you to the opening of Capacity, the first institutional solo exhibition in Germany by Danish artist Asta Lynge (*1988, Copenhagen). In Lübeck, Lynge will present a major site-specific installation alongside a series of new works that expose the skeletal power structures underpinning objects associated with comfort, stability and value. Frameworks, infrastructures and narratives of progress hold our world together, yet often remain invisible. Such systems absorb weight, give shape and enable processes—but also exert forms of control and restrict certain actions. In Capacity, Lynge works with recognizable, value-laden objects, such as pearls, sofas and guitars, and through her interventions disrupts and deconstructs their usual functions to the point of crisis. These are objects associated with stability in a conservative or figurative sense. In Lynge’s hands, ... More
James Cohan presents monumental bronzes by Toshiko Takaezu NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan is presenting an exhibition of monumental sculptures by the late artist Toshiko Takaezu (b. 1922, Pepeekeo, Hawaii - d. 2011, Honolulu, Hawaii) on view from May 16 through July 25, 2025, at the gallery’s 48 Walker Street location. Takaezu was celebrated for her experimental approach to abstraction and form over a lengthy career, which spanned the 1950s into the 2000s. While she is widely known for her painterly ceramics, Takaezu spent three decades mastering the possibilities of bronze. Toshiko Takaezu: Bronzes foregrounds her series of outdoor sculptures in the medium. Takaezu’s initial foray into bronze was tied to her strong interest in the natural world. Starting in the 1980s, she worked closely with a team of artists and apprentices at the Johnson Atelier in New Jersey to render her creations using the lost-wax casting process. Takaezu’s soaring Stack Forms, ... More
British Library takes young visitors on a journey through storytelling LONDON.- Through a fantastical environment brimming with treasures from the British Library collection, Story Explorers encourages young visitors to explore the unique role storytelling plays in forming cultures and communities. Following a special activity trail that is illustratively led by Daisy the library cat, explorers begin their journey in a library filled with incredible objects, including a Victorian record from the Library’s Sound Archive featuring animal sounds, an Indonesian shadow puppet from the early 20th century and an Ancient Egyptian stone tablet engraved with hieroglyphs. From the library the explorers will travel into space, gazing through a telescope at the full panorama of a night’s sky, before marvelling at one of the first photographs taken of the moon, almost 200 years ago by Welsh astronomer Theresa Dillwyn Llewelyn. Also in orbit is a richly illustrated ... More
Picoplanktonics: Canada Pavilion at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia VENICE.- The Canada Council for the Arts is presenting Picoplanktonics at the Canada Pavilion as part of the 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, from May 10 to November 23, 2025. Amidst the ongoing global climate crisis, the Living Room Collective has developed a ground-breaking exhibition that showcases the potential for collaboration between humans and nature. Comprised of 3D printed structures that contain live cyanobacteria capable of carbon sequestration, Picoplanktonics is an exploration of our potential to co-operate with living systems by co-constructing spaces that remediate the planet rather than exploit it. The Living Room Collective’s exhibition is the culmination of four years of collaborative research by Andrea Shin Ling and various interdisciplinary contributors. It is focused on harnessing the design principles of living systems to develop ... More
Mobull invests in the future: New art warehouse in Brussels and strategic expansion to Antwerp BRUSSELS.- The Belgian art logistics company Mobull, part of the internationally active Hasenkamp Group, is pushing ahead with its growth strategy. The group of companies is currently building a new, state-of-the-art art warehouse on the existing site in Brussels and has also expanded its radius of action to the port city of Antwerp through a company takeover. The new warehouse building, which is scheduled for completion in February 2026, comprises five floors, each with 800 square meters of space. Mobull is thus creating an additional 4,000 square meters of climate-controlled storage space to meet the growing demand for professional and secure art storage. Once completed, the building will provide space for art logistics-related services. A showroom and a restoration studio will also be set up. "With this range, we are responding in a functional and visionary way to the requirements ... More
Young Korean Artists 2025 at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art GWACHEON.- Young Korean Artists is an annual exhibition organized by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA), and is the longest-running platform supporting emerging artists in the country. First launched in 1981 under the title The Korean Young Artists Biennale, the exhibition has since explored the experimental and ambitious practices of new generations, offering critical insight into the tendencies and potential of contemporary Korean art. Young Korean Artists 2025: Here and Now marks the 22nd edition of the series and presents a dynamic view of the practices and landscape of Korea’s emerging art scene today. Young Korean Artists 2025 features up-and-coming Korean artists who are actively engaging in creative practices and gaining critical attention. The participating artists recreate the senses and concerns of their time, both as individuals and as ... More
Hayward Gallery Touring presents To Improvise a Mountain: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Curates LEEDS.- Hayward Gallery Touring presents To Improvise a Mountain, a group exhibition curated by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, one of the most important figurative painters today. For this exhibition, Yiadom-Boakye selects works that have been critical to her way of seeing and thinking, inviting audiences around the UK on a deeply personal journey across different geographies and generations of artists. First coming to prominence in the early 2010s, Yiadom-Boakye is both an artist and a writer who is renowned for her oil paintings of imagined subjects. Assertive presences who yet seem to exist outside of any definable time or place, her figures are hailed for both their technical mastery and lingering, enigmatic quality. Developed by the artist in collaboration with Hayward Gallery Touring, To Improvise a Mountain will bring Yiadom-Boakye’s work into conversation with an eclectic range ... More
Art Institute of Chicago unveils major H. C. Westermann sculpture exhibition CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago announced H. C. Westermann: Anchor Clanker which will be on view May 17, 2025 through May 17, 2026. The exhibition is the largest gathering of sculptures by American artist H.C. Westermann in Chicago in more than 20 years. Visitors will have an opportunity to see Westermann’s use of a wide-range of materials, but the show highlights his true passion with his dedication to woodworking. Westermann was a true artist from the beginning, but aside from being a talented woodworker he had many interests, and joined the marines early in his life, which later influenced his career. He studied twice at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, attending after his service in World War II and then again after his service in the Korean War. In World War II, he served on the USS Enterprise and witnessed violence that shaped his worldview and guided ... More
Castaway: The Afterlife of Plastic opens at Harvard's Peabody Museum CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- The Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology at Harvard University presents Castaway: The Afterlife of Plastic, an innovative exhibition by the art collective TRES. The exhibition opens to the public on Saturday, May 17, 2025, offering an exploration of the impact of consumer waste on our world. Founded in 2009 in Mexico City, the art collective TRES investigates the political, social, biological, and material effects of garbage and its enduring presence. The work by Ilana Boltvinik and Rodrigo Viñas, who together form TRES, bridges art and research, focusing on global patterns of discard and transformation through photographs, visual poetry, mimicry, and humor. The exhibition, presented in both English and Spanish, documents TRES’s 2016 journey along the beaches of Queensland, Western Australia, and Tasmania, where they collected and photographed varied debris ... More
Corning Museum of Glass opens a special exhibition devoted to a chromatic revolution CORNING, NY.- The Corning Museum of Glass (CMoG) has unveiled its new exhibition Brilliant Color. The exhibition is the first of its kind to address the chromatic revolution that occurred in glass during the late 19th and early 20th centuries and includes more than 140 works from the Museum’s permanent collection and Rakow Research Library. “Brilliant Color is the first exhibition that contextualizes glass within the larger craze for color that engulfed fine and decorative arts in the late 19th and early 20th centuries,” said exhibition curator Amy McHugh. “Endless experimentation by glass manufacturers resulted in iconic designs in the medium that continue to fascinate and inspire today." Brilliant Color features an array of dynamic artists from the Gilded Age to the present day, including Émile Gallé, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Frederick Carder, Leo Moser, René Lalique, Klaus Moje, ... More
Exhibition Tour---Sargent and Paris
Flashback
On a day like today, Italian painter Sandro Botticelli died
May 17, 1510. Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi (c. 1445 - May 17, 1510), known as Sandro Botticelli, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. He belonged to the Florentine School under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici, a movement that Giorgio Vasari would characterize less than a hundred years later in his Vita of Botticelli as a "golden age". In this image: Alessandro Filipepi, called Sandro Botticelli, The Madonna and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist. Tempera, oil and gold on panel / 46.3 x 36.8 cm. Estimate: $5,000,000-7,000,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
