NEW YORK, NY.-This publication explores the rich intersections of portraiture and fashion in the art of the English painter Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788), one of the most sought-after society portraitists of his age and a continued inspiration today. Gainsborough, whose importance was akin to that of later society artist John Singer Sargent, made hundreds of portraits, becoming one of the leaders of the fledging British School of artists. Very much a part of the social dynamic of the time, portraiture is described as a “means by which artists and their subjects could reinforce, resist, or break rules of social order.” The engrossing text examines how fashion was understood, often in complex ways, in Gainsborough’s time; how the artist would sometimes revisit a portrait to update a style; and how the documentation of both sitter and garment can be deciphered centuries ... More
A.I. GENERATED. From the prompt: Make a realistic color version of Ansel Adams’ iconic “Moonrise Over Hernandez”.
NEW YORK, NY.- I would like to respond to the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust recent statement criticizing my creation and exhibition of an A.I. generated color version of Ansel Adams’ famous “Moonrise Over Hernandez” at the AIPAD art fair. As the image is in the public domain I had every right to create a new and transformative work. My interest in doing this was based on my love of the iconic image, my interest in seeing how A.I. could be used as a tool for creativity, and to create an imagining of what Adams saw in real life as he was driving along US. Highway 84 that made him stop his Pontiac station wagon and scramble to set up his bulky 8x10 view camera as the sun was setting on the adobe church and cemetery crosses while the moon appeared through the clouds. I had long believed the image was in the public domain but to confirm this beyond doubt, I hired one of the most respected copyright lawyers in the country to insure this was the case. It was indeed confirmed to be in t ... More
Norman Rockwell (American, 1894-1978), ‘The Growth of a Leader,’ original oil-on-paper laid on board, a study for a 1966 calendar illustration. Signed ‘NR’ at lower right. Size: 13½in x 10½in (sight); 19¾ in x 17in (framed). Estimate: $100,000-$150,000.
DENVER, PA.- Two stunning pieces from Tiffany Studios – an important Hydrangea “Snowball” leaded-glass floor lamp and a stained-glass landscape window with irises – will share center stage with an original Norman Rockwell oil painting at Morphy’s June 10-11 Fine & Decorative Arts Auction. Nearly 1,200 top-quality, well-provenanced lots will be offered over the course of the two-day event. A magnificent fresh-to-the-market 79-inch-tall Tiffany Studios floor lamp comes from the distinguished collection of Seymour and Evelyn Holtzman. Its 24-inch-diameter leaded-glass shade is profusely adorned with blossoms denoting the iconic Hydrangea (or “Snowball”) motif. A background of gorgeous cobalt blue and lavender extends downward at the apex of the shade and is accented by prodigious mottling and freckling, which add depth and dimension to the pattern. Both ... More
Oil on canvas by Francesco Solimena (Italian, 1657-1747), titled Vision of St. Francis (or, Saint Francis Refuses the Priesthood, a Bozzetto), 25 inches by 20 inches (canvas). Estimate: $5,000-$10,000
STAMFORD, CONN.- Original oil paintings by Alexander Young Jackson (Canadian, 1882-1974) and John Meyer (South African, b. 1942); a Rolex day-date President 18K gold men’s wristwatch; a sterling silver service by Henri Louis-Chennailler and a French guilloche tea and coffee service will all be part of ACES Gallery’s Spring Estates Auction on Sunday, June 14th. The auction will begin promptly at 12 noon Eastern Time. Bidding will be available online, with telephone and absentee bidding also available. There will be no live in-person bidding, however. Internet bidding will be facilitated by LiveAuctioneers.com, Invaluable.com and Drouot.com. The auction features 425 lots, including property from the collection of Edmund and Leslie Glass of Manhattan, N.Y. and Redding, Conn.; fine art from a Rowayton couple; furnishings and objets d’art from a fine Greenwich, Conn. ... More
Kuźma said his immediate focus will be on restoring a constructive working atmosphere inside the museum
KRAKOW.- Following the dismissal of MOCAK director Adam Budak, newly appointed acting director Grzegorz Kuźma has outlined a series of priorities aimed at stabilizing the Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków and guiding the institution through what he described as current organisational challenges. In a statement issued in Kraków, Kuźma said his immediate focus will be on restoring a constructive working atmosphere inside the museum, strengthening financial stability, and rebuilding cooperation with cultural partners and the wider museum community. Kuźma said one of his first responsibilities will be to create conditions that allow MOCAK to continue operating “at the highest level” while addressing internal difficulties in a way that does not harm staff or visitors. He emphasized that the museum’s future work should be shaped by mutual respect, cooperation and a clearer sense of purpose for employees. A key part of that effort, he said, will be the creation of a mo ... More
Record for an Hermès Faubourg Birkin across all models, established by a rare edition in white, which led the sale at HK$4,318,000 / US$551,243, becoming the most valuable handbag sold in Asia.
HONG KONG.- Christie's Handbags & Accessories sale on 25 May 2026 during Hong Kong Luxury Week achieved a record Spring season total of HK$59,940,190 / US$7,652,061, up 17% year-on-year. This represents the highest total for the category globally this season, reflecting the high level of global demand. The sale was 98% sold by lot, with a hammer total 156% above the low estimate, and 70% of lots exceeding their high estimates. Enthusiastic participation was seen from 24 countries across four continents, with more than 60% of lots sold online. The category continues to attract younger collectors, with 41% of buyers Millennials and younger. The results underscore the sustained strength of the luxury handbags market and Christie's expertise in presenting highly sought-after models to a global collector base. Four new world auction records were established across the sale, ... More
Djenné Maternity Figure, 11th–12th century, Inland Niger Delta, Mali. Height: 42 cm. Estimate: €10,000 – 15,000.
PARIS.- This September in Paris, Artcurial will present the African and Oceanic art collection assembled by Belgian collector Jean-Jacques Rotthier from the 1970s onwards. Comprising major Songye, Kuyu, Luba and Djenné works, this exceptional ensemble will be revealed in its entirety for the first time during Parcours des Mondes. Following the success of the sale of Jean-Jacques Rotthier’s (1932–2009) Egyptian antiquities collection, which totalled nearly €1.5 M with 100% of lots sold, Artcurial, in partnership with Lempertz, will present the Belgian collector’s African and Oceanic art collection in Paris on 8 September, during Parcours des Mondes. Assembled from the 1970s onwards, the collection reveals the discerning eye of a passionate yet discreet collector, guided less by speculation than by an uncompromising pursuit of aesthetic excellence. Although works from the collection have regularly been lent to major ... More
Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Peru, late 18th century, Oil on canvas, 17 3/4 x 12 3/8 in. (45.1 x 31.4 cm), San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Dr. and Mrs. William Block, 2003.45
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Named one of the must-see shows this spring by The New York Times, the San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA) presents Microhistories of the Andes, an exhibition that closely examines individual objects to draw out larger stories about their culture of origin. Curated by Kristopher Driggers, Curator of Latin American Art, Microhistories of the Andes will be on view in the Golden Gallery from May 24, 2026, to May 23, 2027. The exhibition explores Andean cosmologies, cultural conceptions of agricultural practices, objects of devotion and spirituality, and the histories of materials across land and time. Microhistories of the Andes highlights textiles, ceramic sculptures, paintings, metalwork, and feather arts from the Andean region, including recent acquisitions, such as a gift from Hank Lee in memory of Margie M. Shackelford, and gifts from prominent collectors such as Lindsay and Lucy ... More
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DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions announced the John H. Freund Americana Collection Signature Auction, an extraordinary event taking place June 19, featuring an assemblage of historic documents, letters, manuscripts and broadsides that together trace the American story through the words of the individuals who shaped it. Assembled over decades, the archive spans the Revolutionary era through the modern presidency and represents one of the most comprehensive and intellectually ambitious collections of American historical material ever brought to market. Presidents, founders, military leaders, diplomats and witnesses to history create a sweeping narrative chronicling the nation’s political, military and cultural evolution across nearly 250 years. “The John H. Freund Americana Collection offers a rare opportunity to encounter American history in its most immediate and human form through the written word,” says Joe Maddalena, Executive Vice President at Heritage Auctions. “Freund collec ... More
SYDNEY.- The Art Gallery of New South Wales has received a significant gift of Australian art from the notable private art collection of the late influential Sydney broadcaster John Laws CBE and his wife Caroline Laws. Now part of the Art Gallery’s permanent collection, the John and Caroline Laws collection consists of 10 important works of art, thoughtfully collected over several decades and long displayed in the couple’s home. It includes four paintings by John Russell, the only Australian painter closely associated with leading late 19th-century French artists, including Auguste Rodin, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh and Henri Matisse, as well as two important paintings by Rupert Bunny – one of the most successful Australian expatriate artists of his generation. The collection also includes work by under-represented women artists: a watercolour of the newly completed Sydney Harbour Bridge by Adelaide painter Gwen Barringer, and an intimate oil study of gum blossoms ... More
LONDON.- One year after opening during the National Gallery’s Bicentenary celebrations, Supporters’ House has established itself as one of London’s most significant new cultural spaces - reimagining what gallery membership can mean for contemporary audiences. Located within former curatorial offices inside William Wilkins’s historic Gallery building overlooking Trafalgar Square, Supporters’ House has welcomed nearly 20,000 House Members since opening in June 2025. In that time, it has evolved from a members’ space into something more ambitious: a contemporary cultural salon rooted in the artistic and institutional history of the Gallery itself. In its first year alone, Supporters’ House has hosted 104 events, building a year-round programme of literary salons, curator talks, philosophy evenings, live music, workshops and artist-led discussions designed to foster a deeper relationship between audiences, art and ideas. To celebrate its first birthday on 2 June, ... More
Ruth Pastine (b. 1964), Blue 1, Depths Series, 2020. Oil on paper, 30 x 22 inches; 76.2 x 55.9 cm.
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA .- Louis Stern Fine Arts is presenting Infinite Horizons, an exhibition of luminous works by Heather Hutchison and Ruth Pastine. Though they work in different media, the artists share a preoccupation with the spiritual, philosophical, and emotional experience of time, space, and light. Hutchison’s mixed media constructions and Pastine’s oils on canvas and paper alchemically transcend their materiality, dissolving into hazy implications of perpetual vistas and limitless color fields. The interface of artwork, atmosphere, and mind cohere into a seamless spectrum of sensory encounters that can never be experienced the same way twice. These points of stillness dilate and contract along an eternal experiential horizon, governed by the constant and inevitable forces of change. Hutchison’s plywood and Plexiglas compositions trap and revel in ambient light. Her humble, experimental, and often unconventional materials undergo a miraculous ... More
VIENNA.- For the MAK exhibition THOMAS DEMAND: Rooms That Dream of Yesterday, the Berlin-based concept artist and photographer Thomas Demand has fused the visual power of theater and opera with his own artistic practice. Starting out from historical set designs—ranging from illusionist Baroque scenery to the densely atmospheric imagery of turn-of-the-century stage sets—Demand has developed for the MAK a unique work cycle that transposes the evocative visual world of the performing arts into the medium of photography. The works seek answers to the question—resolutely explored by Demand— of how photography as a medium constructs reality. By photographing and processing images of paper and cardboard stage sets, the artist transposes these into new optical dimensions, inviting visitors to enter a world that does not simply depict visual reality but creates its own cognitive space. Thomas Demand is well known for his ... More
Quote I don't express myself in my paintings. I express my not-self. Mark Rothko
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Cristina de Middel turns image overload into spectacle at IVAM VALENCIA.- The Institut Valencià d’Art Modern has opened “Apoteosis Now,” a new exhibition by Alicante-born photographer Cristina de Middel that transforms Gallery 6 of the museum into a vivid, disorienting and deliberately excessive field of images. Conceived specifically for IVAM, the exhibition brings together 252 photographs in different formats. Rather than arranging them in the orderly series usually associated with photographic exhibitions, de Middel has chosen to present them as a kind of visual eruption. The result is closer to a collage, a cascade or even a controlled detonation than to a traditional survey of an artist’s work. The exhibition, on view at the Centre Julio González from May 21 through October 12, was presented with the participation of regional culture secretary Marta Alonso, IVAM director Blanca de la Torre, curator Iván de la Nuez ... More
The Future Generation Art Prize invites artists from around the globe to apply KYIV.- PinchukArtCentre announces the 8th edition of the Future Generation Art Prize, with the launch of the application process on May 11, 2026. Entries can be submitted online from May 11 until June 28. Established by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in 2009, the Future Generation Art Prize is a biannual global contemporary art prize to discover, recognise and give long-term support to a future generation of artists. All artists aged 35 or younger from anywhere in the world, working in any medium are invited to apply. A highly respected selection committee appointed by a distinguished international jury reviews every application and nominates 20 artists for the shortlist. The winner of the PinchukArtCentre Prize automatically becomes the 21st nominee. These artists will be commissioned to create new works on view in exhibition at the PinchukArtCentre in Kyiv. ... More
NADA New York 2026 closes with robust sales NEW YORK, NY.- NADA concluded the 12th edition of its New York fair, welcoming 15,000 visitors over the course of the week, with outstanding exhibitor presentations, significant sales across the board, and an energized programming series which included the announcement of a new fellowship from NADA and MacDowell. The 2026 iteration of the fair featured 120 galleries, art spaces, and nonprofit organizations spanning 15 countries and 46 cities including Tbilisi, Tokyo, Mexico City, and Philadelphia. This year’s edition welcomed 45 NADA Members and 51 first-time exhibitors, including galleries Brigitte Mulholland, FORGOTTEN LANDS, Central Server Works, and Post Times; as well as 95 Gallon Gallery and Capsule in NADA Projects. The fair also featured the TD Curated Spotlight, a special section highlighting a selection of galleries organized by renowned ... More
Italian artist Diego Marcon to make his Canadian debut at the AGO with exhibition of four films TORONTO.- Acclaimed Italian artist Diego Marcon (b. 1985) makes his Canadian debut at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) this summer, with an exhibition of four films. Presented together, these works form a constellation of looping scenes in which tenderness, absurdity, and melancholy circulate without resolution. Marking the AGO’s first partnership with The Vega Foundation, Diego Marcon: The Bubble Boy opens on June 3, 2026, in the Philip Lind Gallery on Level 1. The exhibition is co-curated by John Zeppetelli, Guest Curator, and Julia Paoli, Director and Curator, The Vega Foundation, with Kate Whiteway, Assistant Curator, The Vega Foundation. Working with a small team of close collaborators, Marcon composes every aspect of his films—from set and lighting, to costume, sound, and script—playing with familiar tropes from the golden age of cartoons ... More
Silvia Giambrone deconstructs the violence of domestic life in radical new solo exhibition ROME.- Richard Saltoun Gallery presents I LIE, Silvia Giambrone's first solo exhibition, which, with a new body of work centred on lying as an ontological and political structure of the present, continues her investigation into abuse and violence. Giambrone's practice analyses the shadow zones of the contemporary with an uncompromising radicality. In an artistic landscape often crowded with superficial adherence to mainstream social themes, Silvia Giambrone — one of the first voices of her generation to elevate feminist and identity-based concerns to a cultivated, erudite and universal dimension — anticipated analyses that have since become central. Her works are genuine acts of intellectual and political resistance. Her investigation into the domestic is conducted as a systematic deconstruction of private space, understood not as a refuge but as the primary ... More
Heritage Auctions unveils sweeping 250th anniversary auction celebrating the American experience June 25 DALLAS, TX.- As the United States prepares to commemorate the 250th anniversary of its founding, Heritage Auctions will present an extraordinary series of landmark sales celebrating the people, artifacts and moments that shaped the American story. Headlining the celebration is Liberty & Legacy: Celebrating 250 Years of the American Spirit— a sweeping auction taking place June 25 featuring 94 foundational documents, iconic relics, presidential artifacts, wartime archives, early Americana and objects connected to defining moments in the nation’s development. From the birth of the republic to the emergence of the United States as a global power, the sale offers an unparalleled material narrative of the American experience. The auction highlights an extraordinary 1776 Continental Dollar struck in silver, one of only four known examples and among ... More
Galleri Nicolai Wallner now representing Anna Munk COPENHAGEN.- Galleri Nicolai Wallner announced the representation of Anna Munk (b. 1994, Denmark). Anna Munk's paintings collapse moments of fragile beauty from art history in on themselves with gestural lightness and unconventional materials. Executed on billboard-scale canvases, her works are rendered in layers of rabbit-skin glue, powdered marble, wax, oil paint, shimmering eyeshadows, silver leaf, and expired lipsticks. Works are often impregnated with custom-made scents evoking old storerooms of dusty paintings or the sweet scent of powder rooms, gently fading in time. Fruit, clouds, and plumes of smoke appear as precarious glimpses of beauty at the threshold of transformation, classical painterly motifs used as readymades. Drawing motifs directly from the digital archives of museum collections, Munk creates anachronistic clashes and distortions ... More
Giant mandala created at Waddesdon Manor as the 'Art in Nature' festival returns LONDON.- This May, Waddesdon Manor’s magnificent gardens are once again a living canvas for Yorkshire-based land artist James Brunt and Pembrokeshire based Jon Foreman of Sculpt the World, who have created another unique, collaborative artwork for the 2nd year of this exciting festival celebrating art in nature. The huge Waddesdon Manor Mandala, spanning over 70 metres, can be found on the North Front lawn in front of the Manor, and with assistance from artists Mark Ford and Eric Ford, took four days to create. If you look at the centre, you can see the pattern is inspired by architectural features of the Manor. As the pattern grows out, it has the pediments, then a round of statues, and then the outer rounds are all nature inspired. Art in Nature, which brings together leading land and environmental artists from across the UK and beyond, runs until Sunday ... More
Marilou Schultz joins Jessica Silverman SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Jessica Silverman announced the representation of Marilou Schultz, a fourth-generation weaver from the Diné nation (also known as Navajo), whose experimental textiles bridge ancestral traditions with computation and contemporary technology. Celebrated for intricate weavings of microchips, QR codes, and digital systems, Schultz redefines weaving as a foundational technology rooted not in automation but in the intelligence of the hand. Schultz was immersed in weaving from an early age. Raised on the Navajo Nation reservation, she grew up watching her mother and grandmother rear sheep, prepare wool, and weave textiles. At seven, she began learning traditional Diné weaving techniques defined by symmetry and sacred geometries. Schultz continued weaving while pursuing degrees in education, eventually becoming a mathematics ... More
Panama returns to Venice with a monumental act of memory and resistance VENICE.- In 2026, Panama has returned to the global stage with a pavilion that does not whisper, it resounds. At the 61st edition of La Biennale di Venezia, the Panama Pavilion unveils Tropical Hyperstition, a monumental installation and performance work by Antonio José Guzmán and Iva Jankovic, the artistic duo known as Messengers of the Sun. Within the pavilion space, at its centre hangs a breathtaking twenty-metre indigo-dyed hammock – handwoven, suspended, monumental. Once a domestic object tied to ancestral knowledge across the Americas and to Afro-Caribbean workers who built the Panama Canal, it is reimagined here as an architecture of refuge. But this is no passive sculpture: it is a charged spatial experience confronting colonial memory, displacement, erased towns, and the hidden human cost behind one of the most mythologised engineering ... More
ICA London exhibition exposes the anxiety, wealth and broken myths of a post-2008 generation LONDON.- The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London presents the exhibition Genuine Fake Premium Economy, featuring emerging artists Jenna Bliss, Buck Ellison and Jasmine Gregory, whose work examines class, inheritance and wealth. Born in the mid-1980s in the United States, these artists transitioned into adulthood and working life in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, and probe what effect this era of financial collapse has had on societal myths of fairness and progress under capitalism. This group exhibition takes the pulse of a generation living and working in a broken global economy. The acceleration of wealth inequity, art traded as investment, and today’s commodity culture are all uncomfortable realities for a growing number of emerging artists. While their work differs in form (Bliss works primarily in moving image, Ellison in photography ... More
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