Lyle Bongé, Dusti Bongé at her Palette in her Studio, 1957. Photograph.
BILOXI, MS.-The Dusti Bongé Art Foundation (DBAF/the Foundation) today announced it is publishing a digital catalogue raisonné to enable further research and document Dusti Bongé’s (1903-1993) complete oeuvre on the occasion of the Foundation’s 30th Anniversary. Expected to launch in 2028, the project furthers DBAF’s mission to promote the legacy of the Modernist artist—a native daughter of Biloxi—and her significant contributions to 20th century art. The publication will include entries and illustrations for each known work, complete descriptive information, and detailed histories of ownership, exhibitions, and literature. It will provide readers with authoritative background information on thousands of artworks by the prolific Bongé, many of which are being published for the first time. DBAF’s Executive Director Ligia M. Römer, PhD, RA, serves as managing editor and lead ... More
Cast bronze sculpture by Gaston Lachaise (French/American, 1882-1935), titled Penguin Charlie, circa 1925-1926. Estimate: $50,000-$100,000.
BLOOMFIELD, NJ.- Nye & Company Auctioneers and Appraisers will present a remarkable two-day series of auctions later this month, led by an exceptional single-owner sale: Property from the Collection of Peter and Leslie Warwick of Middletown, New Jersey, to be offered Wednesday, January 21st, beginning at 10am Eastern time. The sale is online-only and essentially unreserved, offering bidders a rare opportunity to acquire historically and artistically significant works at accessible levels. Collected over decades with extraordinary care and scholarship, the Warwick Collection represents one of the most thoughtful and well-researched assemblies of American furniture and folk art to come to auction in recent years. Peter and Leslie Warwick are widely respected collectors known for their deep commitment to provenance research, object history, and regional craftsmanship. Their work in tracing ownership histories and identifying makers has contributed meaningfully to the field of American ... More
CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago announced highlights from its exhibition schedule for the first half of 2026. This year will open with a stellar lineup of exhibitions that will invite our visitors to explore works created across two millennia. These works will range from presentations that include iconic artists like Henri Matisse and Willem de Kooning to surveys of Korean national treasures and middle eastern embroideries to contemporary and experimental works by artists including Carroll Dunham to Lucas Samaras. Celebrating a remarkable fifty-year period of artistic invention, this exhibition largely comprises drawings never before seen outside of Dunham’s own studio and highlights a more holistic look at his career. This show will strengthen our understanding of Dunham’s explorations of figuration to abstraction and everything in between. Drawn from the Art Institute’s collection, this exhibition ... More
USMC uniform of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler (1881-1940), one of the most-decorated US Marines of all time, was one of only two Marines to be awarded two Medals of Honor, and the only officer to claim the title. Sold just below high estimate, for $24,000.
DENVER, PA.- An expertly-vetted selection of rare and historical guns, armor and military artifacts drew brisk bidding at Morphy’s final Firearms & Militaria auction of 2025, which totaled more than $7 million. The 1,343-lot sale held at Morphy’s flagship gallery in Pennsylvania offered collectors a comprehensive choice of premier sporting, civilian and antique guns, as well as coveted NFA and other prized military weapons. A British brand known for its exquisite custom-made sporting shotguns and rifles, James Purdey & Sons, rose to the top of prices realized. The esteemed London company holds Royal Warrants of appointment as gun and rifle-makers to the British and other royal families, so there can be little argument that a Purdey production is, in every way, fit for a king. Morphy’s offered bidders a 28-bore ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- ERIS announced the release of River of Becoming: The Life and Times of Lucas Samaras, by Michael Skafidas: the first comprehensive and richly illustrated biography of Lucas Samaras, the revolutionary artist whose work reshaped self‑portraiture, photography, and conceptual art in the late twentieth century. River of Becoming will be published on February 10, 2026 in both paperback and deluxe hardcover editions, presenting readers with an immersive exploration of Samaras’s life, art, and singular vision. Lucas Samaras emerged from post‑war Greece into the New York avant‑garde, where he became renowned for his fearless engagement with material, identity, and the mechanics of seeing. From his immersive installations to his obsessive self‑portraits and experimental Polaroids, Samaras anticipated the visual self‑awareness that defines today’s digital era. His art, ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- In 1947, Bill Gaines inherited EC Comics, a new venture founded by his legendary father M. C. Gaines, who was responsible for midwifing the birth of the comic book as we know it during his tenure at All-American Comics, bringing the likes of Wonder Woman and Green Lantern to the world. Over the next eight years, Bill Gaines and a “who’s who” of the era including Al Feldstein, Harvey Kurtzman, and Wally Wood would reinvent the very notion of the comic book with titles like Tales from the Crypt, Crime SuspenStories, Weird Science, and MAD. EC delighted in publishing gory, morbid horror and crime comics that had snap, ironic endings—but they also pioneered the first true-to-life war comics, the first “real” science-fiction stories, and a series of tales about such then-taboo subjects as racism, bigotry, vigilantism, drug addiction, police corruption, and anti-Semitism. ... More
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NEW YORK, NY.- From Edouard Manet’s portrait of naturalist writer Émile Zola sitting among his Japanese art finds to Van Gogh’s meticulous copies of the Hiroshige prints he devotedly collected, 19th-century pioneers of European modernism made no secret of their love of Japanese art. In all its sensuality, freedom, and effervescence, the woodblock print is single-handedly credited with the wave of japonaiserie that first enthralled France and, later, all of Europe—but often remains misunderstood as an “exotic” artifact that helped inspire Western creativity. The fact is that the Japanese woodblock print is a phenomenon of which there exists no Western equivalent. Some of the most disruptive ideas in modern art—including, as Karl Marx put it, that “all that is solid melts into air”—were invented in Japan in the 1700s and expressed like ... More
LOS ANGELES, CA.- In ancient Greek and Roman architectural traditions, orders were assigned by the ornamentation exemplified in the columns of the era. Distinctive capitals and fluting defined the orders, starting with the simple Doric, followed by the increasingly ornate Ionic and Corinthian. In time, these orders began to blur and compound on one another, and the combined motifs of Ionic and Corinthian were later deemed the Composite Order. The genesis for the show and placing this theme of the Composite Order into context came from a moment when I observed a Romanesque pillar on the side of a shuttered storefront. A vent of unknown function hung defunct on the face of the pillar, and the passage of time was evident through the layers of paint that were piled upon it. I was struck by the colliding systems and doctrines that were evident. I was observing contradicting forces where both schools of thought had come to lay dormant and timeworn, as if I was a witness to a battlefield ... More
Julia Fish, [ score for ] Trio in red yellow blue, with variations for fifty-nine steps/seven flights/three stairways at 5020 South Cornell Avenue, 2006. Ccolor pencil and graphite on graph paper.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Nolan Gallery is presenting Transcriptions, Apparitions, its fourth solo exhibition by Chicago-based artist, Julia Fish. The exhibition presents new work by the artist including a three-part site-specific intervention, works on paper, and a singular photographic object, underscoring Fish’s longstanding investigation into the architectural and perceptual visualization of inhabited and transitional ‘living’ spaces. For more than three decades, Fish’s home on Hermitage Avenue has been an active site of inspiration and research, as architectural elements of the house and studio have become subjects for the artist. The physical features of the domestic space and workspace function as an evolving language of material forms through which Fish continues to explore memory and quotidian experience. In Transcriptions, ... More
Nicolas Party, Dead Fish, 2025. Oil on copper, 5 × 5⅞ in.
NEW YORK, NY.- In Dead Fish, Nicolas Party surveys his practice through oil-on-copper paintings, each of which is a small-scale reworking of an earlier composition. While copying himself, Party also engages the long art-historical tradition of reproducing paintings by the masters: from Francisco Goya’s Still Life with Golden Bream (1808–12), he has created a direct pastel-on-linen study. The study inspired a related oil-on-copper still life of Party’s own, which in turn became the basis of the pastel mural at the apex of the exhibition. This array of dead fish winds time around itself, bringing the past into the present. A low, arched doorway invites viewers into the exhibition’s first room. Coated in a dusty Rococo pink, its walls set the mise-en-scène for a cast of painted characters reprising past roles. Like Marcel Duchamp’s Boîte-en-valise (1935–41)—a suitcase containing small replicas of the artist’s major works—the exhibition is a kind ... More
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA.- The Oklahoma City Museum of Art announced today its summer and fall 2026 special exhibitions. The Sense of Beauty: Six Centuries of Painting from Museo de Arte de Ponce will open on June 20, 2026. It will be followed by The Triumph of Nature: Art Nouveau from the Chrysler Museum of Art, opening October 31. The Sense of Beauty has been organized by the Museo de Arte de Ponce in collaboration with the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. The exhibition will span a period from the 1500s through the 21st century and feature 60 paintings by European, Puerto Rican, and North American artists, including El Greco, Peter Paul Rubens, Francisco de Goya, Frederic Church, John Singer Sargent, and contemporary Puerto Rican artists Miguel Trelles and María de Mater O'Neill. "Many of these paintings ... More
Arthur Tress; "Shadow Play," The Ramble, Central Park, 1969/2025; Gelatin silver print (Edition of 10); 14 x 11 inches, sheet.
NEW YORK, NY.- CLAMP announced “The Ramble,” an exhibition of photographs by Arthur Tress, presenting a previously unseen body of work documenting a New York City clandestine queer space in the late 1960s. Toward the end of 1968, at the age of twenty-eight, Tress began bringing his Hasselblad camera to the Ramble, an overgrown, derelict woodland in the heart of Central Park that had become a discreet gathering place for gay men and queer people seeking social and erotic contact. Reflecting on the site in 2024, Tress remarked: “It was like a decaying pier in the city. I was always attracted to that kind of urban neglect.” From his apartment on 72nd Street and Riverside Drive, Tress could reach the Ramble in ten minutes, often passing through on his way to professional appointments or museum exhibitions in the city. The site became both subject and backdrop for Tress’s parallel projects, including “Open Space in the Inner City,” a commissioned ... More
PARIS.- The Board of Directors of the MEP announced the appointment of Julie Jones as the institution’s new Director. A distinguished photography historian, Julie JONES recently served as a curator at the Photography Department of the Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre Pompidou, where she oversaw several major exhibitions and initiatives to expand and showcase the collection. Her extensive knowledge of contemporary photography, her solid museum expertise and her international network are key assets that will guide the MEP into its next phase of development, ahead of its 30th-anniversary celebrations. This appointment follows a thorough selection process involving all stakeholders, including the City of Paris, the MEP’s founding partner. The Board of Directors commends the exceptional quality of the applications received and the richness of the discussions throughout the process. The Mayor of Paris has welcomed this appointment and the exciting outlook it brings for the f ... More
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Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb presents 2026 programme ZAGREB.- In 2026, the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb will present an ambitious exhibition programme grounded in interdisciplinary approaches and international collaborations, focusing on the exploration, interpretation, and reinterpretation of modernist and contemporary heritage. The programme places a strong emphasis on art, ecology, technology, and intermediality, as well as on timely, socially engaged, and critically oriented artistic practices. The first half of the year is marked by the major international exhibition Bauhaus Ecology—Networks of Continuity, developed in collaboration with the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation and the Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO) in Ljubljana. The exhibition examines ecological perspectives within the Bauhaus movement, its historical impact, and contemporary practices that reassess the relationship ... More
Babe Ruth rookie cards lead Heritage charge after $2.15 billion record-breaking year DALLAS, TX.- An extraordinary selection of 113 lots from a magnificent collection of period-signed sports cards will enjoy a huge surge in demand when they cross the block Jan. 30-31 in Heritage’s Winter Sports Card Catalog Auction. The appearance by The Golden Age Collection, Part II will mark the second installment of this remarkable collection offered through Heritage. The Golden Age Collection, Part I, enjoyed record-setting results in Heritage’s Dec. 19-21 Winter Sports Catalog Auction. “This is a remarkable collection of incredible signed cards, and they were period-signed,” says Chris Ivy, Heritage’s Director of Sports Auctions. “So many collections of signed cards include many that were signed years after the athletes retired, but that’s not the case here. The consignor got many at the stadiums, but he also visited restaurants or hotel lobbies — anywhere he thought ... More
The Glass Dream Game: Æmen Ededéen debuts mystic new works in Brussels BRUSSELS.- Maruani Mercier will present The Glass Dream Game, the first solo exhibition of Æmen Ededéen (Joshua Hagler) with the gallery, opening in Brussels on 15 January 2026. Composed of contending layers and strokes of pigment, the works in The Glass Dream Game unfold into echoes of figures in a dream-like realm. Now adding, now scraping away the paint, each gesture reveals disparate elements gradually taking shape in our visual field, assembled through the artist’s continued exploration of the unconscious. The title of the exhibition references Hermann Hesse’s renowned novel The Glass Bead Game, in which the players exercise their in-depth scholarship to unearth elegant associations across the breadth of human knowledge. Ededéen, for whom both Hesse and I Ching arrive through a long-time fascination with Jungian thought and psychoanalysis, ... More
Arno Schidlowski reimagines the Rügen landscape in new exhibition at Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung BERLIN.- Photographer Arno Schidlowski (b. 1975) presents two series of works at the Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung, Jasmund and Der Sonne Mond, which offer different approaches to landscape. His exclusively analog and handmade photographs are the result of drawn-out working processes and an intensive engagement with nature and light. Jasmund is dedicated to a frequently observed location shaped by culture, while Der Sonne Mond evokes an inner landscape that cannot be pinned down to any specific location. In both groups of works, Schidlowski draws on strategies of Romanticism, transforming them into a precise, contemplative observation of nature aligned with the tradition of Alfred Ehrhardt. The Jasmund series (2005–2011) transports viewers to the island of Rügen, to the chalk cliffs and beech forests made world-famous by Caspar David Friedrich’s paintings. ... More
Maureen Paley opens exhibitions of works by Agosto Machado, Mary Stephenson and Dirk Stewen LONDON.- Maureen Paley will host Gordon Robichaux for Condo London 2026 with an exhibition of recent work by Agosto Machado at Studio M. For his London debut he will present a group of his shrines and altars alongside related ephemera and works by Sheyla Baykal, Peter Hujar, and Jack Smith. Agosto Machado is a Chinese-Spanish-Filipino-American performance artist, activist, archivist, muse, caretaker, and friend to countless celebrated and underground visual and performing artists. He has been a vital participant and witness to cultural and creative life in New York since the early sixties, from art, theater, performance, and film to social and political counterculture and the dawn of the gay liberation movement. As part of a cohort of queer revolutionaries, including Marsha P. Johnson, Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, and Sylvia Rivera, Machado participated ... More
Beyond the body: Davide Hjort Di Fabio's sculptures explore the threshold of human form COPENHAGEN.- It is a familiar choreography: the instinctive withdrawal of the body as a needle pierces the skin – the eyes lifting toward and resting on the ceiling above. For Davide Hjort Di Fabio, this upward gaze has become tied to the perforated hospital ceiling panels he encounters during recurring blood tests. The surface overhead seems to echo the body below; its tiny openings mirror the sensation in the arm, as though space and flesh were briefly responding to one another. Architecture is so often shaped around us, attentive to our needs and vulnerabilities. Yet in this moment of reciprocity, a question gathers force: Who is modelling whom? In Clip-In, his first exhibition with NILS STÆRK, Di Fabio introduces new wall-hung and floor-based sculptures. Most works in the exhibition originate from casts of his torso in clay, acting as a point of gestural departure. Once ... More
Paris becomes the global capital of drawing: Salon du Dessin returns for 34th edition PARIS.- The Salon du Dessin is the world’s leading event showcasing the very best in Old, Modern and Contemporary drawing. It is also the central event for all the peripheral shows and sales focusing on paper-based arts during Drawing week (La Semaine du Dessin) when Paris becomes the global capital of drawing. With 39 exhibitors and a significant proportion of international galleries (18 from 7 different countries), the 34th edition of the Salon du Dessin will welcome 4 new exhibitors who have never exhibited at the Salon before : the American gallery Demisch Danant, which will host a solo exhibition of Eugène Isabey (1803–1886), the Antwerp based old masters gallery Lowet de Wotrenge, the contemporary art gallery La Forest Divonne established in France and Belgium, and the Jean-François Cazeau gallery. Several galleries will return after one or more years ... More
M announces Els Nouwen's first institutional solo exhibition LEUVEN.- Nouwen draws inspiration from images she has collected: observations from everyday life, historical and popular visual culture, optical illusions, and grotesque or humorous finds. This personal archive functions as a space for reflection, in which images are allowed to mature. The artist initially paints meticulously from photographs sourced from the media, the internet, art history, or her personal archive. However, the original image never remains intact. Once Nouwen becomes familiar with it, she intervenes: overpainting, scratching, wiping away, or adding new elements. These interventions are not decorative but essential to her working process. Nouwen seeks to reveal the scars of creation. The paint is not smoothed over, but presented in all its forms – rough or refined, lumpy or smooth, subdued or bold. The artist works across three media simultaneously – paper, ... More
Jacqueline de Jong Foundation established to honor artist's life AMSTERDAM.- Established in accordance with Jacqueline de Jong’s will, following her passing in June 2024, the Jacqueline de Jong Foundation is committed to honouring her life and work, solidifying her enduring legacy as one of the most influential figures of her generation. Emerging from the post-war European avant-garde, De Jong built a multifaceted body of work over six decades, spanning painting, sculpture, printmaking, and publishing. A pivotal member of the Situationist International from 1960 to 1962, she later founded and edited The Situationist Times (1962–1967), a groundbreaking publication at the intersection of art, theory, and politics. De Jong defied categorisation, drawing on some of the key movements of the 20th century such as European Expressionism, Pop Art and Narrative Figuration while subverting and reimagining their visual languages. ... More
2026 Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships awarded: Five artists to share $70,000 MILWAUKEE, WI.- Five recipients of the Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists have been selected from a field of 168 applicants in the twenty-third annual competition. Evelyn Patricia Terry and Della Wells were chosen in the Established Artist category and will each receive a $20,000 fellowship. Nomka Enkhee, Laura Farahzad Mayer, and Yinan Wang will receive Emerging Artist fellowships of $10,000. Each artist will also receive a $5,000 professional development/production budget. All of the 2026 fellows are based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In addition to receiving an award, the Nohl Fellows will participate in professional development activities and studio visits, and in an exhibition at the Haggerty Museum of Art in the summer of 2027. An exhibition catalogue will be published and disseminated nationally. The finalists in the Established Artist category ... More
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On a day like today, American painter Albert Bierstadt was born
January 07, 1830. Albert Bierstadt (January 7, 1830 - February 18, 1902) was a German American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West. He joined several journeys of the westward expansion to paint the scenes. He was not the first artist to record the sites, but he was the foremost painter of them for the remainder of the 19th century. In this image: Albert Bierstadt (German, 1830–1902), Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast, 1870. Oil on canvas, 52 1/2 x 82 in. Seattle Art Museum, Gift of the Friends of American Art at the Seattle Art Museum, with additional funds from the General Acquisition Fund, 2000.70. Photo: Howard Gisk.
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