Gallery founder Victoria Mouraux Durand-Ruel, a Paris-born art advisor and curator, is a direct descendant of Paul Durand-Ruel, the dealer who championed the Impressionists before the world was ready and introduced them to America with his celebrated 1886 New York exhibition.
NEW YORK, NY.-Mouraux Durand-Ruel Gallery is pleased to present Written by the Sun, its inaugural exhibition, on view from September 22 to October 17, 2026, at 555 West 25th Street in Chelsea. The exhibition brings together black-and-white photographs by the pioneering French photographer Lucien Clergue. Spanning from the 1950s to 2010, it showcases his celebrated nude photographs with a selection of his intimate portraits of Pablo Picasso. The exhibition takes its title from the words Picasso used to describe his friend’s photographs, images he saw as written by the sun. Their friendship began in 1953, when a nineteen-year-old Clergue photographed Picasso at a bullfight in the Roman arena of Arles. It lasted twenty years and some twenty-seven encounters, from the villa La Californie in Cannes to Notre-Dame-de-Vie in Mougins, where Clergue made his final portrait of the artist in 1971. The portraits shown here record those ... More
Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Giving Hand, 1942-46. Gelatin silver print, Vintage, 7 x 5 in.
NEW YORK, NY.-Throckmorton Fine Art will present A Century of Abstraction in Mexican Photography, a nuanced exhibition exploring how Mexico’s most iconic photographers utilized abstraction to break free from the creative constraints of nationalism and enter a broader, international dialogue. On view from July 16 through September 26, 2026, the exhibition features more than 40 works dating from 1924 to 2013. It highlights masterpieces by Mexican luminaries such as Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Flor Garduño, and Graciela Iturbide, alongside celebrated expatriates Tina Modotti and Edward Weston, who famously collaborated there. For generations, Mexican artists and writers devoted their careers to documenting a distinct national identity. However, a worldly group of photographers, wary of being pigeonholed by identity politics, found liberation in abstraction. A Century of Abstraction in Mexican Photography highlights this creative bravery while ... More
Large-format Buffalo Bill “Rough Riders” poster, produced by Wieners lithography (London and Paris) and advertising shows in Belgium, measuring 44 inches by 68 ¼ inches and mounted a frame. Sold for $9,840.
SANTA FE, NM.- A Manhattan Arms Navy Series IV Single Action Percussion Revolver with ownership attributed to the outlaw Jesse James hit the mark for $100,860 to take top lot honors at Morphy’s Old West & Native American Art Auction held June 20 at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center. The auction dovetailed nicely into the 36th Annual Old West Show, held June 19-21 at the same venue. The Old West & Native American Art Auction featured 515 lots of top-quality Western art and antiques and rang up more than $900,000, including the buyer’s premium. “It was a strong finish to our time in Santa Fe,” said Dan Morphy, the president of Morphy Auctions. “We are grateful for the support we have received over the years and look forward to continuing the event in Mesa, Arizona in May 2027.” The array of auction merchandise included ... More
20. 2020.016 The Baptism of Christ TF Jamie Stukenberg (cropped frame) (2025.08.18)
SANTA FE, NM.-The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2026 Art of the Spanish Americas Grants & Fellowships program, awarding more than $160,000 to support the conservation of significant colonial paintings and scholarship exploring the art and visual culture of the Spanish Americas. Since its launch in 2018, the Thoma Foundation has supported individuals and institutions working to preserve, study, and share the art of the Spanish Americas. The 2026 recipients continue that mission through projects that advance research, conservation, and public understanding of the region's artistic legacy. The announcement comes ahead of the opening of “Spectacles of Power and Faith: Colonial South American Art from the Thoma Foundation” at the Meadows Museum at SMU, opening August 23, 2026. Drawn from the Foundation's collection, the exhibition features paintings ... More
WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.- The Clark Art Institute today unveiled Selldorf Architects’ design for the new Aso O. Tavitian Wing, a permanent home for the Aso O. Tavitian Collection, among the most significant private collections of European art assembled in the 21st century and one of the largest gifts in the Clark’s history. “This elegant new addition to the Clark campus will be the physical manifestation of two great visions: the unparalleled eye of collector Aso O. Tavitian, and the peerless design of architect Annabelle Selldorf. When complete, the building will fit seamlessly into our landscape and greatly enhance the experience of all visitors,” said Esther Bell, Hardymon Director of the Clark. Twelve galleries on a single level will complement the exquisite works in the Tavitian Collection, many intended to be seen up close in an intimate setting. The new purpose-built wing will significantly expand the Clark’s gallery and art storage spaces and seamlessly connect the main museum b ... More
Hany Armanious, The Planets, 2026, raffia, courtesy of the artist, photograph: Jessica Maurer.
SYDNEY.- What if the most ordinary objects in your life – a coat hanger, a broken polystyrene cup, a worn noticeboard – held unexpected wonder, and were worth a second look The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA Australia) presents Hany Armanious: The Planets is a major exhibition dedicated to the Sydney-based artist whose enigmatic sculptures invite us to slow down and see the everyday in a completely new way. The Planets brings together a substantial body of recent work, including 19 new works made especially for the exhibition, alongside key sculptures from the MCA Collection made earlier in Hany Armanious’ career. It is the latest in a series of solo exhibitions at the MCA dedicated to the work of artists in the Collection. Armanious’ hyperreal sculptures invite us to reconsider the world around us. Drawn to the overlooked and the discarded, he transforms ordinary objects into mysterious forms that exist ... More
Sotheby's Masterpieces from the Lewis Collection and Contemporary and Modern Art Evening Auction, Credit Rayan Bamhayan. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s said it generated a record $4.4 billion in consolidated sales during the first half of 2026, a 58 percent increase over the same period last year, as major single-owner collections, private transactions and luxury categories drew strong demand from buyers around the world. Auction sales reached $3.4 billion, up 59 percent, while private sales climbed 52 percent to an all-time high of $826 million. The auction house also reported a 90 percent sell-through rate, its strongest since at least 2010, and an average of 4.9 bidders for each lot sold. Collectors from 119 countries participated across 170 auctions. Chief Executive Officer Charles F. Stewart said the results extended the momentum Sotheby’s began seeing in the second half of 2025. He pointed to broad demand across regions and categories, landmark single-owner collections and growth in private sales, as ... More
AMSTERDAM.- Internationally acclaimed sculptor Tony Cragg will receive the European Culture Award on 4 September 2026 at the Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam. With this honour, the European Cultural Forum pays tribute to an artist who has shaped contemporary sculpture for decades and given it fresh impetus worldwide. Born in Britain, Cragg has lived and worked in Wuppertal, Germany, for many years, where he has created a body of work that has earned international acclaim. The laudatory address will be delivered by Felix Krämer, Director General and Artistic Director of Kunstpalast Düsseldorf. Together, they realised the highly acclaimed exhibition Tony Cragg: Please Touch! at Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, inviting visitors not only to view art but also to experience it through touch. The exhibition vividly demonstrated the creative strength and innovative spirit of an artist who has continued to push the boundaries of sculpture for decades. “Tony Cragg is one of the most significant sculptors of our t ... More
Sasha Stiles, headshot, photo credit Kris Bones.
MILAN.- A piece of text that most people have seen but almost nobody has actually read will take center stage at Palazzo Citterio this summer, as American artist and poet Sasha Stiles transforms the familiar Lorem Ipsum placeholder into a shifting meditation on language, authorship and artificial intelligence. Running from July 15 through October 25, 2026, Lorem Ipsum Variorum will unfold across the large LED wall on the ground floor of Palazzo Citterio. Curated by Clelia Patella, the project is the latest in a series of digital commissions organized in collaboration with Italy’s National Museum of Digital Art. Stiles, who was born in Pasadena in 1980 to a family of Kalmyk heritage, has spent years exploring what it means to write at a time when human intelligence increasingly coexists with machine-generated language. Her new installation begins with the well-known block of pseudo-Latin commonly used by designers and publishers as temporary filler text. The words originate in a damaged an ... More
Jackson Pollock's Number 7A, 1948, the top lot sold at auction so far this year, sold from Masterpieces: The Private Collection of S.I. Newhouse, for $181.2 million, New York, May 2026.
LONDON.- Christie’s reported total revenue of $4.5 billion for the first half of 2026, describing its strongest opening six months in five years as renewed competition for major collections, museum-quality works and luxury objects helped drive auction sales sharply higher across every region. Auction sales reached $3.5 billion, up 71 percent from $2.1 billion during the same period in 2025. Private sales exceeded $1 billion, marking the company’s strongest-ever half-year result for that part of the business. The auction house also recorded a 91 percent sell-through rate, compared with 87 percent a year earlier, while the combined hammer price reached 124 percent of the aggregate low estimate. Christie’s said the improvement extended across all price levels, rather than being concentrated only among the most expensive works. “We had our best first half in five years at Christie’s, growing ... More
Adrián Villar Rojas, First Gods, Lost Animals (detail), 2026. Installation view, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado, US, 2026. Courtesy of the artist, Aspen Art Museum, kurimanzutto and Marian Goodman Gallery. Photo: Jörg Baumann.
ASPEN, CO.- The Aspen Art Museum announced its summer slate of exhibitions, featuring Adrián Villar Rojas, Arch Connelly, and Kerstin Brätsch. The exhibitions will build upon the conversations and themes of the second installment of AIR, Aspen Art Museum’s flagship initiative. AIR 2026 will take place in Aspen from July 27 to July 31, 2026. Adrián Villar Rojas’s newly opened solo exhibition First Gods, Lost Animals takes over two floors of the Museum, evoking both the geological and mythological formation of a cave. In Villar Rojas’s approach, the cave functions as a space of double accumulation: geologically shaped through eons of material deposition and mineral consolidation, and culturally layered with human projections, rituals, and symbolic activity. Within this environmental transformation sits a new sculpture co-commissioned ... More
2000 Playoff Contender Tom Brady (Championship Ticket-Autograph) Rookie #144 PSA NM-MT 8, PSA/DNA Auto 10 - #'d 083/100 - MBA Silver!
DALLAS, TX.- One of football collecting’s greatest modern treasures soared to $1,113,250 to help Heritage’s July 10–11 Summer Sports Card Catalog Auction, in which several records were set, reach $18,335,172. The 2000 Playoff Contender Championship Ticket Autograph Tom Brady Rookie #144 PSA NM-MT 8, PSA/DNA Auto 10, numbered 83/100, commemorates the beginning of the career of the quarterback who transformed from the 199th selection in the 2000 NFL Draft into the only seven-time Super Bowl champion and is regarded as one of the most significant modern football cards ever produced. It is graded NM-MT 8 with a flawless autograph and carries MBA Silver certification. Also reaching seven figures was a spectacular 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle #311 PSA NM-MT 8 that drew 37 bids on its way to $1,555,500. One of the hobby’s defining postwar cards, it remains among the most coveted collectibles in existence thanks to both Mantle’s ... More
René Morales.
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.- The Norton Museum of Art is introducing a Curator in Residence model designed to expand its curatorial capacity, deepen its contemporary collection strategy, and bring additional expertise and relationships into the institution. The residency model allows the Norton to bring distinguished curatorial voices into the institution in a flexible way, broadening its connections with artists, collectors, galleries, and cultural networks that can help shape the growth of its contemporary collection. This transitional role will also provide leadership for the Contemporary Art Council and help ready the Norton to launch an international search for a staff Senior Curator in 2028. René Morales — a seasoned curator who has held leadership positions at the Pérez Art Museum Miami and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago — has organized dozens of exhibitions including Gary Simmons: Public Enemy, Quisqueya Henríquez: The Center Can Be Everywhere, Christo and Jeanne-Claude: ... More
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Christie's and Sotheby's post an $8.9 billion first half-but the real contest is for supply, clients and profit LONDON.- Christie’s and Sotheby’s have entered the second half of 2026 with their strongest results in years, offering evidence that confidence has returned to the upper end of the global art market after a prolonged period of caution. Christie’s reported a headline first-half total of $4.5 billion, including $3.5 billion in auction sales and more than $1 billion in private transactions. Sotheby’s followed closely with $4.4 billion in consolidated sales, comprising $3.4 billion at auction and $826 million in private sales. Together, the two companies generated approximately $8.9 billion during the first six months of the year. Their public-auction businesses were separated by only about $100 million. The numbers suggest a resurgent market, but the comparison requires some caution. Sotheby’s describes its figure as consolidated sales, while Christie’s announcement refers ... More
New York State Education Department's Office of Cultural Education marks the 50th anniversary of landmark building ALBANY, NY.- Half a century ago, New York State opened the doors to the Cultural Education Center in Albany, creating a landmark public home where generations of New Yorkers and visitors from around the world could explore the history, culture, scholarship, and heritage that define the Empire State. Opened on July 1, 1976, the Cultural Education Center has served for 50 years as the home of the New York State Education Department’s Office of Cultural Education, which includes the New York State Museum, New York State Library, and New York State Archives. Located at the south end of the Empire State Plaza in Albany, the building brought three of the state’s leading cultural and educational institutions together in one ... More
"Precious Okoyomon's Creative Destruction": New Art21 film to premiere NEW YORK, NY.- Art21 today announced the release of “Precious Okoyomon’s Creative Destruction,” a new documentary film about the artist’s expansive practice. The short film traces Okoyomon’s unique creative trajectory rooted in childhood experiences gardening with their grandmother and collecting toys. Art21 follows the artist as they work on immersive botanical installations and stuffed bear sculptures at celebrated arts institutions like the São Paulo Bienal and the Whitney Biennial. Directed by Haimy Assefa, the film premieres Wednesday, July 22, 2026, at 12 pm ET on Art21.org and YouTube. “Precious's work is so vast,” explains Assefa. “At first glance, it can feel like the various mediums are in their own worlds, but I see them as layers that have a through line. In sections of the film, we literally layered Precious’s work, so you could see how the poetry, the gardens, ... More
Karikaturmuseum Krems marks 25 years with Gerhard Haderer, the NEINhorn and a playful take on feminism KREMS.- Karikaturmuseum Krems will celebrate its 25th anniversary with the simultaneous opening of three exhibitions on July 18, bringing together political satire, children’s illustration and feminist humor in a program designed to appeal to visitors of different generations. The anniversary presentations include This HADERER, a major survey devoted to Austrian satirist Gerhard Haderer; The NEINhorn by Marc-Uwe Kling and Astrid Henn, an interactive exhibition based on the popular children’s books; and Femflixt!*, a collaborative project by artists Astrid Langer and Judith Lava. Admission will be free throughout the opening day, which will feature guided tours, family activities, a picture-book presentation and reading, as well as a signing session with Haderer, Langer and Lava. Museum director Gottfried Gusenbauer and curator Anna Steinmair said the three exhibitions ... More
Henry Luce Foundation funds new archive preserving 58 years of contemporary art history ALBANY, NY.- The University Art Museum (UAM) at the University at Albany has been awarded a $200,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation’s American Art Program. This funding, along with support from the University at Albany’s Office of the President and Office of the Provost, will be used to create a dedicated Museum Archive: a centralized, accessible, and professionally maintained space for the preservation and study of the UAM’s extensive archival holdings. In addition to the creation of a physical space and the acquisition of archival storage systems, furniture, and equipment, the grant’s scope includes support for a two-year, part-time professional project archivist position. The project archivist will organize, describe, and create finding aids for the archive collections, which will be made accessible through a searchable digital database, and will help establish ... More
Call for proposals: IMPACT26 Friction Energy-On Practices of Encounter, Negotiation and Cooperation ESSEN.- We are witnessing a present in which our coexistence is increasingly drifting away from a shared reality. In economic, technological, and administrative systems, decisions are often made in isolation, regardless of their consequences. This decoupling separates realities that nevertheless remain inextricably linked. As places become locations, bodies become data, matter becomes resources, and life forms become manageable quantities, it is often only in moments of disruption, exhaustion, or detriment that we come to experience how our social and planetary web of relationships are interconnected. ›IMPACT26 – Friction Energy‹ addresses this point of rupture and is dedicated to transformative practices of coexistence in an era in which our relationships are deeply shaped by competition, exploitation, the ideology of progress, power, and social recognition. ... More
New London art fair Fair Play to launch with fee-free model for independent artists LONDON.- Fair Play Art Fair, a new art fair presenting a curated selection of 70 exceptional artists chosen by an expert-led curatorial panel, will launch at London’s One Marylebone from 15–18 October 2026. Introducing an artist-first model that removes upfront booth fees, Fair Play will enable collectors to discover, connect with and purchase directly from independent artists, bringing together contemporary art with a dynamic programme of music, performances and immersive experiences. Aiming to showcase emerging and established talent chosen on merit alone, the selection committee will choose the artists from an open call, guided by curatorial dialogue and a focus on quality. Once selected, Fair Play will work closely with each individual artist to ensure a highly tailored approach to their presentation at the Fair, guiding the artist with their expert knowledge. ... More
Barcelona Gallery Weekend returns for its 12th edition to launch the city's art season BARCELONA.- Barcelona Gallery Weekend is back for its 12th edition from 17 to 20 September. Organised by the ArtBarcelona. Galeries association, Barcelona Gallery Weekend is the annual event that marks the beginning of the city’s art season and celebrates, over the course of four days, the tireless work galleries do as culture- and knowledge-generating spaces and places for experimentation and discovery that facilitate connection and exchange between artists, collectors, the public and institutions. All the exhibitions, which are free and open to all, will open simultaneously on Thursday 17 September: from 12 noon for professionals and from 6 pm for the general public. On the weekend, the opening hours will be 12–8 pm on Friday and Saturday and 11 am–3 pm on Sunday. The 12th edition of Barcelona Gallery Weekend will see participation from 25 contemporary ... More
Joint exhibition 'Leitmotif' opens simultaneously in Chelsea and Tribeca NEW YORK, NY.- Berry Campbell and Sargent’s Daughters announced Leitmotif, a collaborative group exhibition organized in partnership between the two galleries, featuring artists from each gallery’s program. The exhibition’s title is drawn from the musical term “leitmotif,” which refers to a recurring theme or element that reappears and evolves across a composition, accruing new meaning over time. The concept of this exhibition resonates both visually and conceptually: works by gallery artists from each program are paired across generations, creating a dialogue between past and present, influence and reinterpretation. Leitmotif is being presented simultaneously in both Chelsea and Tribeca, tracing diverse stylistic approaches as they are revisited, reframed, and carried forward by successive generations. This collaboration also reflects a more personal ... More
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July 15, 1606. Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (15 July 1606 - 4 October 1669), known mononymously as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. He is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of Western art.[3] It is estimated that Rembrandt's surviving works amount to about three hundred paintings, three hundred etchings, and several hundred drawings. In this image: Rembrandt, "The Blinding of Samson“, 1636. Oil on canvas, 219,3 x 305 cm. Frankfurt, Städel Museum.
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