Hank Willis Thomas, Pauline Forlenza, Estrellita B. Brodsky and Michael Govan (photo by Margaret Fox)
NEW YORK, NY.- The American Federation of Arts presented the 2026 Cultural Leadership Awards to three visionaries of the art world: Estrellita B. Brodsky, Michael Govan, and Hank Willis Thomas. The annual Gala at The Pierre in New York gathered national leaders in art and culture to celebrate the AFA’s legacy, and the outstanding contributions to the arts by these three honorees. Proceeds from the event will support the AFA’s touring exhibitions and public programs that reach millions of museumgoers across the country. “We were truly honored to celebrate this year’s Cultural Leadership Award recipients. Each of them, in their own way, has changed how people encounter and understand art: making it more open, more urgent, and more alive for the audiences who experience it,” said Pauline Forlenza, the Director and CEO of the American Federation of Arts. “The evening was a powerful reminder of why this work matters. We ... More
New York Old Masters Evening Sale, 3 February 2027, Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun, Julie Le Brun as a Bather (estimate: $1,800,000-2,200,000).
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie's announced that paintings from a distinguished private collection including works by Osias Beert, Jan Massys, Henri-Pierre Danloux, Jan van Huysum, Jan van Os and Mihály Munkácsy will be offered in London's Old Master Evening Sale on 8 December, and Old Master Paintings Part I in New York on 3 February 2027. Highlights will tour to Paris (on view until 4 November) and London (4 – 8 December), ahead of the auctions. The lead lot of the group comes to auction for the very first time in more than two centuries: Julie Le Brun as a Bather by Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun. This important work returned to public view as part of the landmark retrospective dedicated to Vigée Le Brun at the Grand Palais in Paris and Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2015 and 2016 (estimate: $1,800,000- ... More
Marsden Hartley, Boat Abstraction, 1916.
DETROIT, MICH.-The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) announced today that its reimagined Modern and Contemporary Art Galleries, the first comprehensive reinstallation of both collections in nearly 20 years, will open to the public on Sunday, November 15, 2026. Showcasing local artists alongside national and international voices, this new chapter for the galleries will highlight the city’s creative legacy through bold new acquisitions and cross-cultural connections. Beloved masterworks appear in fresh contexts, joined by recently acquired objects and rarely displayed works that expand and energize the stories told throughout the galleries. Together, the two permanent gallery installations will show more than 375 works tracing more than 150 years of artistic innovation, from the mid-19th century to today. The DIA’s modern art galleries will present artists and designers working in Europe and the Americas through the mid- ... More
Extremely rare Britains Set #1749 Barrage, manufactured for one year only in 1939, complete with balloon, winch and #1641 underslung lorry (truck), all presented in the original box. Estimate: $2,000-$4,000.
VINELAND, NJ.- Bertoia’s annual Fall Auction slated for Friday and Saturday, November 13 and 14, promises to be the premier collectibles auction of the season. As autumn leaves are turning, so are collectors turning their attention to rare and important pieces to add to their collections. Additionally, many of the items featured in the sale would make wonderful holiday gifts. The selection chosen for the all-encompassing event includes mechanical and still banks, world-class pressed-steel automotive toys, pedal cars from Don Greene, cast-iron doorstops, toys and figural cast iron from the Allan & Terry Joy collection, Marklin boats and tin toys; European and American trains; Japanese toy autos from the Lenny Hummel collection, nearly 100 patent models, the Joe Wallis Britains ... More
PARIS.- Christophe Cherix, the David Rockefeller Director of The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA), Laurent Le Bon, President of Centre Pompidou in Paris, and Suhanya Raffel, Museum Director of M+ in Hong Kong, jointly announced today that the three institutions have formed a new cultural alliance. They are uniting to bring their extraordinary collections to their respective audiences, develop co-organized exhibitions and programs, and deepen collaborative curatorial research and conservation, providing expanded opportunities for their combined 10 million annual in-person visitors and 125 million visitors online. While each institution will maintain its independence and identity, they will function together with greater capacities than are possible individually. The museum leaders signed a Framework Agreement for the cultural alliance at an event held at M+ on October 30, 2026, in the presence of trustees and stakeholders of all three institutions. Founded respectively in 1929, 1977, and 2 ... More
'The Ai Lian Tang Collection – Gems of the Imperial Capital' achieved HK$214,490,000 / US$27,334,155, with 97% sold by lot and a hammer price 163% above the low estimate.
HONG KONG.- On 29 October 2026, Christie's Hong Kong Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art presented three prestigious single-owner collections, bringing to market a distinguished selection of rare and important works spanning imperial treasures: ceramic, lacquer and jade. The sales attracted strong participation, with a packed saleroom and sustained bidding in the room, by telephone and online. • 'The Ai Lian Tang Collection – Gems of the Imperial Capital' achieved HK$214,490,000 / US$27,334,155, with 97% sold by lot and a hammer price 163% above the low estimate. • The result brought the collection's three-season total to HK$737,824,100 / US$94,026,754, establishing The Ai Lian Tang Collection as the third most valuable Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art single-owner collection ever sold at auction worldwide. • Leading the sale was a magnificent and fine yangcai 'hundred deer' hu-form vase, which realised ... More
Acclaimed for his monumental and astonishingly detailed landscape paintings, Church was an intrepid traveler and regularly journeyed around the globe seeking inspiration for his pictures.
NEW YORK, NY.- This fall, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum presents “Frederic Church in Jamaica,” featuring the artist’s rarely exhibited sketches from his 1865 travels to Jamaica. On view Friday, Oct. 30, through Monday, Feb. 15, 2027, the exhibition brings together over 60 works documenting Jamaica’s plant life and landscapes in detailed observational studies, framed within Church’s personal biography, grieving the loss of his two young children, and the wider context of a society and environment under colonial rule. Celebrating the 200th anniversary of Church’s birth, the exhibition draws from Cooper Hewitt’s holdings of over 2,000 of the artists’ oil studies and graphite sketches—the largest collection of Church works in the world. “‘Frederic Church in Jamaica’ offers a window into the creative process of one of America’s most influential artists through oil studies and ‘en plein air’ sketches, which have rarely ... More
Frank Earle Schoonover (American, 1877-1972), Where is the Key, Sola?, A Princess of Mars book interior, 1917. Oil on canvas, 34 x 25 in.
DALLAS, TX.- Three world auction records and strong results across genres propelled Heritage Auctions’ Oct. 29 Illustration Art Signature® Auction to $2.6 million. The 366-lot sale drew 1,577 international bidders and achieved a 99.5% sell-through rate, underscoring collectors’ enthusiasm for original art created for books, magazines and calendars. “This was a very strong sale overall, with collectors responding across the range of illustration art,” says Sarahjane Blum, Heritage’s Director of Illustration Art. “The records are exciting, and the depth of bidding throughout the auction shows Heritage continuing to be a force in the field. From early pulp covers to beloved fantasy imagery, these results reflect an enduring appreciation for the artists who brought stories to life.” Leading the three artist world auction records was Laurence Herndon’s The Land of Hidden Men, which realized $52,500. Painted for the May ... More
John Quidor (1801-1881), Ichabod Crane Flying from the Headless Horseman, ca. 1828, Oil on canvas. Yale University Art Gallery, Mabel Brady Garvan Collection.
NEW YORK, NY.- The New York Historical explores the life and work of John Quidor, a visionary but historically overlooked artist whose paintings are steeped in the Netherlandish lore of New York’s Hudson Valley. On view October 30, 2026 – April 4, 2027, John Quidor: New York Stories is the first exhibition of Quidor’s work in over 50 years and highlights the artist as a sharply perceptive historian. “John Quidor: New York Stories examines the career of an artist who brought Washington Irving’s satirical stories of New York to life,” said Dr. Louise Mirrer, president and CEO, The New York Historical. “Through his unique style and subject matter, his work asks us to question how we interpret history and remember the past.” John Quidor (1801-1881) was one of the foremost literary painters of the early American period. Frenzied, cartoonish, and unlike the prevailing style of his day, Quidor’s paintings often begin with a literary narrative—most frequentl ... More
The launch of the collection in New York celebrates Mr. Cartin's influence on the New York art world during the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s.
NEW YORK, NY.- Mickey Cartin is a collector of intensity, intelligence, range, and taste, an early practitioner of today's style of cross-category collecting. Mr. Cartin began acquiring works of art four decades ago, bringing together extensive holdings of contemporary art and design, Outsider Art, Old Master paintings, drawings, and prints, 19th century Northern European and Scandinavian paintings, as well as early printed books and manuscripts. Now, a considered selection of objects from this legendary collection comes to more than 10 sales through July of 2027 in Christie's New York, London and Paris as An Alchemy of Ideas: Works from the Mickey Cartin Collection. Christie's will offer the first Cartin pieces on 18 November 2026 in the New York Impressionist and Modern Art Day Sale followed by the New York Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale on 20 November 2026, including works by Giorgio de Chirico, Walton ... More
Louis Fratino, Large self-portrait with glasses, 2024.
MUNICH.- With "In My Head. Contemporary Artistic Positions," Museum Brandhorst focuses on eight contemporary artistic positions. The exhibition invites the audience to immerse themselves in the work of these artists. On view are works by Nicole Eisenman, Jana Euler, Louis Fratino, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Deana Lawson, Martine Syms, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Kara Walker, including numerous new acquisitions and works being shown publicly for the first time. The title refers to the creative process by which perceived reality in the mind is transformed and turned into art. Each room offers a unique insight into one artistic practice. Key works here provide a vivid experience of visual ideas, thematic questions, and formal approaches working together. Painting, photography, and sculpture are presented on an equal footing, reflecting the media range of both the Brandhorst Collection and the Eva Felten Photography Collection. The works on display give artistic form to experiences of care and vulnerability, ... More
Andreas Gefeller, 048-2 (The Other Side of Light), 2022. Inkjet print on fine art paper, 130 x 104 cm.
COLOGNE.- Here, in the rooms of REHBEIN Galerie on Große Brinkgasse, the artistic positions of Heinz Breloh, Gerd Bonfert, Andreas Gefeller, and Peter Tollens converge into a rich resonance. The space that unfolds between the works of these four artists in this constellation is a resonant chamber of perception. Within it, materiality, light, physicality, and temporal processes enter into an unspoken dialogue, expanding beyond canvases, photographs, and other media to become fully tangible in all their consequence and depth within the gallery space. This arrangement simultaneously reaches far beyond the gallery walls. At this year's Art Cologne fair booth as well as in the project Heinz Breloh – Circumspectio, curated by Katie Eva Gaj surrounding the Köln Messe/Deutz transit station, this invisible, shaping presence continues. It enters the fleeting rhythm of the city and building a spatial, temporal, and intellectual bridge between ... More
Jakub Tomáš, "Motorhead", 2026. Oil on canvas, 49.2h x 39.4w in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Asya Geisberg Gallery is presenting Jakub Tomáš's exhibition "Five String Serenade," the Czech artist’s second solo show with the gallery. Tomáš initiates his painting process using small-scale paper models, made with reassembled fragments from magazines or the internet. These clunky provisional compositions are arranged and lit like stage sets, then elaborated into larger paintings. Bodies start and stop abruptly, in awkward poses, limbs jut at odd angles or end in inversely shrinking shoes, while brown eyes gape out of peach-skinned façades. The resulting works bear the fruit of Tomáš’s Czech influences: puppetry, stop-motion animation, and Carnival mask-wearing revelers. The centrality of Tomáš’s process comes to the fore immediately, yet it remains unclear if the oddness is a bug or a feature. Do the cardboard maquettes initiate the uncanny, with a chin from one and a forehead from another? Do the doubling eyes, ears, and lips ... More
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Hera Chan and Edwin Nasr curate major exhibition on political struggle at Framer Framed AMSTERDAM.- From October 30, 2026–January 17, 2027, Framer Framed in Amsterdam is proud to present the exhibition Life After Love: In Search of the Militant Image. Curated by Hera Chan and Edwin Nasr, the exhibition surveys how the visual grammar of militancy has shifted across the global uprisings of the past decade, tracing resonances between struggles that have unfolded from Hong Kong to Beirut, and from Yangon to Jenin. Life After Love asks what the changing forms of political struggle reveal about the changing forms of image-making. If the militant image of the twentieth century emerged alongside mass party politics, anti-colonial liberation movements and the project of revolutionary cinema, what becomes of that tradition within a conjuncture shaped by digital platforms, algorithmic circulation and decentralised forms of political organising? ... More
Nino Mier Gallery presents 'To New York and Back Again,' a solo show by Albert Irvin NEW YORK, NY.- Nino Mier Gallery is presenting To New York and Back Again, Albert Irvin’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, on view at 62 Crosby Street from October 29th to December 16th, 2026. The exhibition captures a watershed moment in the development of Irvin’s mature visual language. Composed long after his conversion from figuration to abstraction, the pieces straddle his visit to the USA and the change in medium from oil to acrylic that followed years later. In 1968, with the support of an Arts Council Travel Award, Albert Irvin paid an extended visit to American shores, meeting artists including Jack Tworkov and Robert Rauschenberg. The pilgrimage brought him into direct contact with a movement that had already exerted a profound influence on his development: American Abstract Expressionism had come “knocking at the door” of British ... More
Turin opens 29th edition of Luci d'Artista with major new public light installations TURIN.- Luci d’Artista, the most prestigious and historic public art project in Italy, officially opened its twenty-ninth edition on October 23. It was established in 1998 by the City of Turin, founded on the belief that art should contribute to the common good and inhabit the city’s streets, squares, and buildings: a public collection of large-scale installations integrated into Turin’s urban fabric by leading international artists. The city’s sky comes alive with 31 luminous installations, enriched this year by three new works by CANEMORTO, Flavio Favelli and Tony Oursler, whose pieces will become part of the collection, along with a special project by Samson Young made in collaboration with OGR Torino. The trio CANEMORTO presents The Radiant Van. The artwork is an ironic tribute to two of Turin’s great myths: car manufacturing and magical energies. Eighteen lucky ... More
Leyla Yenirce explores voice, memory, and Kurdish culture in 'Core' at Capitain Petzel BERLIN.- Capitain Petzel is presenting Core, Leyla Yenirce’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. Alongside three large-scale paintings from her series Chor der Frauen (women’s choir), which were first shown in 2026 in the exhibition Werdegang (pathway) at Landesmuseum Oldenburg, the exhibition features new works and a sound installation. The title Core functions as a linguistic play on words. The English term for “Kern” (core) sounds like the German word “Chor” (choir), thus articulating the exhibition’s central premise: the act of raising and searching for one’s own voice. In Yenirce’s work, this voice manifests itself not through vowels or linguistic codes, but through wild painterly gestures and electronically generated sound. Inspired by a quote from painter Charlotte Salomon’s seminal work Leben? oder Theater? (Life? or Theatre?) — “The gold in the throat ... More
Artcurial to auction François-Xavier Lalanne's €1.5M 'Capricorne III' in Paris PARIS.- On November 25th 2026, Artcurial will present its Art Deco / Design auction, bringing together an exceptional selection of works by François-Xavier and Claude Lalanne. The highlight of the sale is Capricorne III (2007) by François-Xavier Lalanne, a major work from the sculptor’s celebrated animal-inspired repertoire, estimated at €1,000,000 – 1,500,000. Around this masterpiece, the auction explores the theme of the animal in the decorative arts, featuring a Brochet à secret and a Mouton rug by François-Xavier Lalanne, as well as two examples of Diego Giacometti's Chat maître d’hôtel. The auction also presents previously unseen sets by Carlo Bugatti and Charlotte Perriand, Italian lighting, a collection of works by Georges Jouve, and Shiro Kuramata’s iconic Miss Blanche chair. Capricorne III is a major work in François-Xavier Lalanne’s fantastical bestiary. ... More
Virtual Reality experience brings iconic Peacock Room to life at Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art WASHINGTON, DC.- “A Gorgeous Surprise: The Peacock Room in VR,” an interactive and immersive virtual reality (VR) experience of the National Museum of Asian Art’s renowned Peacock Room, will open at the museum early next year in celebration of the room’s 150th anniversary. The digital experience of American artist James McNeill Whistler’s only surviving intact interior will premiere Friday, Feb. 12, 2027, and will run as a long-term installation. Named after Whistler’s description of the Peacock Room while it was in progress, “A Gorgeous Surprise” integrates a variety of visual and audio storytelling features that allow visitors to experience and interact with the space in ways not possible in the physical room. The VR experience will complement the sole U.S. debut of the landmark retrospective “James McNeill Whistler,” also opening Feb. ... More
Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden reopens on the National Mall WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum will reopen its revitalized 1.3-acre Sculpture Garden Saturday, Oct. 31, following a four-year transformation led by artist-architect Hiroshi Sugimoto. The largest renovation of the Hirshhorn campus since the museum opened in 1974, the project restores the long-closed underground passage connecting the museum and garden, expands entrances from two to five and increases the number of artworks on view across the campus from 35 to nearly 60. Designed to improve accessibility and create new opportunities for art, performance and public programs, the revitalized garden reconnects the museum’s outdoor galleries with the National Mall while preserving defining elements of architect Gordon Bunshaft's original vision. The project introduces new spaces for monumental commissions and rotating ... More
Kunstmuseum Bern explores 19th-century artist colonies and utopian retreats BERN.- Between 1830 and 1930 artists from all over Europe moved to the edges of the continent: to the island of Capri near Naples, to Skagen on the northern tip of Denmark and to Monte Verità in the Ticino. Far from the industrialised cities they sought a different life: closer to nature, closer to what they saw as ‘authentic’. The exhibition Journey into Freedom. Capri – Skagen – Monte Verità, which can be seen in the Kunstmuseum Bern from 30 October 2026 until 31 January 2027, follows this longing. Around sixty outstanding works, many of which have never been shown in Switzerland before, show both the utopian idyll and the sobering reality of everyday life. In the early years of the 19th century, the technical inventions of the industrial revolution marked the transition from an agrarian to an industrial society, and introduced a profound social transformation in ... More
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October 31, 1950. Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid (31 October 1950 - 31 March 2016) was an Iraqi and British architect, artist, and designer. She is recognised as a key figure in the architecture of the late-20th and early-21st centuries. Born in Baghdad, Iraq, Hadid studied mathematics as an undergraduate and later enrolled at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in 1972. In this image: Hans Ulrich Obrist Archives, Chapter 6: Zaha Hadid, "I think experimentation should never end," 2026 - 2027, The Tower, Archive Gallery and Cherry Tree Gallery, LUMA Arles, France.
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