Connor Wright, Untitled, 2025, Oil stick and paint on canvas. Photography by Max Yawney.
NEW YORK, NY.- Artist Connor Wright debuts Alexa, Truth or Dare? a solo presentation of new monumental paintings in New York City. Wright reinterprets an encyclopedic range of images –from the political to the iconic and the lesser-known – with a deeply personal, intuitive visual language. In an age of deepfakes, extreme subjectivity, dopamine loops, biotech shortcuts, and fame cycles shrinking faster than a Warholian prophecy — from 15 minutes to 15 seconds— Wright isn’t interested in decoding the chaos so much as metabolizing it. Curated by Jesse Bandler Firestone, Alexa, Truth or Dare? will be on view at 545 West 23rd Street, December 11, 2025-January 20, 2026. Wright pulls source material from literally everywhere: personal archives, sports photography, niche internet culture, found objects, and historical documents. In his hands and heart, the hierarchy of imagery collapses. The iconic sits shoulder-to-shoulder with ... More
LONDON.- Gagosian announces an exhibition of all 126 photographs from Nan Goldin’s genre-defining photobook The Ballad of Sexual Dependency. Opening January 13, 2026, at the Davies Street gallery, the presentation marks the first time the entire body of work will be shown in the United Kingdom. The exhibition coincides with the fortieth anniversary of the volume, which Goldin described at the time as “the diary I let people read.” Created between 1973 and 1986, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is an incisive reflection on gender, intimacy, and power, widely regarded as Goldin’s magnum opus. Forty years after its publication, the photographs not only define the era of downtown New York in which they were made but have also influenced decades of visual culture and artists around the world. Goldin notes: “I don’t select people ... More
Canadian 1957 Texaco Sky Chief single-sided porcelain gasoline pump sign (“Supercharged With Petrox”), the small size version, marked "P&M Orillia 57" lower right (CA$2,655).
NEW HAMBURG.- A Canadian 1920s or ‘30s Eco Model 160 “clock face” Red Rose gasoline pump soared to $153,400; a Canadian 1920s single-sided porcelain sign for Five Roses Flour (“The World’s Best Flour”) gaveled for $24,780; and a Canadian circa 1902 Worth-Martin coin-operated bull’s head perfume dispenser topped out at $16,520 during three sessions of online-only auctions held December 6th and 7th by Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd. All prices in this report are in Canadian dollars and include an 18 percent buyer’s premium. The Saturday, December 6th Petroliana & Historic Advertising auction, starting at 9am Eastern time, featured the outstanding Norm West Collection. That evening’s Petroliana, Soda & General Store Advertising session, starting at 6pm, was highlighted by Part 1 of the Bill & Carol Johnson Collection. Part 2 of that same collection was offered on Sunday, December 7th, starting at 9am. The Canadian Eco Model ... More
Terracotta Relief with Geometric Motif, ca. 550 B.C., Unknown Phrygian Artist, polychrome terracotta, 9 x 9 1/4 x 3 1/4 in. (22.8 x 23.5 x 8.2 cm.)
RICHMOND, VA.- The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts announced today that the museum has deaccessioned and returned 41 ancient polychrome terracotta reliefs following an investigation into the global trafficking of looted or stolen antiquities by the Antiquities Trafficking Unit of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. “The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts takes seriously and responds to all restitution claims for works in our collection,” said VMFA’s Director and CEO Alex Nyerges. “Based on the evidence shown to VMFA, we are convinced that we do not have clear title for these reliefs. We are therefore happy to be working with the Antiquities Trafficking Unit of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office to return all of the polychrome terracotta fragments in question to Türkiye.” On November 3, 2025, VMFA received a restitution claim from the Antiquities Trafficking Unit of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office pertaining to the group of 41 polychrome terracotta r ... More
Period-Signed 1952 Berk Ross Jackie Robinson PSA VG-EX 4, PSA/DNA Auto 8 - Pop One, None Higher - From The Golden Age Collection.
DALLAS, TX.- Collections often are described as the culmination of a lifetime relationship with a specific passion, be it coins, currency, comic books or anything else. But few collections reflect the years of dogged persistence that can be found in the Golden Age Collection, which will be among the featured attractions in Heritage’s Dec. 19-21 Winter Sports Catalog Auction. Part I of the Golden Age Collection is featured in this auction, with additional offerings forthcoming in subsequent auctions in January, February and March 2026. Meticulously cultivated over several decades by a single passionate visionary, the collection includes a breathtaking run of period-signed vintage sports cards from the 1940s and 1950s — widely regarded as the golden age for post-war sports cards — for collectors at all levels. Whereas many autographed card collections include signatures acquired long after athletes retired, the autographs in this collection ... More
Zeinab Saleh, Soft insistence, 2025. Acrylic on linen, 35 ½ x ⅝ in. (90 x 60 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
BERKELEY, CALIF.- The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive opened the first solo museum exhibition in the United States of work by Zeinab Saleh (born 1996, Nairobi; lives and works in London). MATRIX 289 / Zeinab Saleh: Signs of a softer world debuts new paintings commissioned on the occasion of the exhibition. These new works showcase the artist’s meditative perspective on the everyday, bringing viewers into a world that is subtle yet strikingly clear. Using a tranquil color palette and techniques derived from printmaking, Saleh renders atmospheric landscapes and interiors that prioritize slowness and quietude, offering a space of respite amidst a world so often filled with confusion and chaos. The exhibition marks the latest installment in BAMPFA’s contemporary art exhibition series MATRIX, an experimental platform for artists to make and show new work. Saleh approaches painting through material experimentation. She places objects, such as plants ... More
Isabel de Farnesio, Jean Ranc. Museo Nacional del Prado.
MADRID.- As part of its ongoing effort to reexamine the role of women in shaping the history of art, the Museo del Prado, together with Fundación ”la Caixa,” will premiere a new documentary titled The Prado in Women’s Voices: Isabel de Farnesio on December 15. The screening will take place simultaneously at the auditorium of the Jerónimos Building—free to the public until seats are filled—and on CaixaForum+, the foundation’s digital platform for cultural programming. This 35-minute film is the latest addition to the documentary series Masterpieces of the Prado and their Women Patrons, a project launched in 2022 to foreground the often-overlooked contributions of female patrons throughout history. The new chapter turns its attention to Queen Isabel de Farnesio, a central figure in 18th-century Spain whose artistic vision shaped a significant portion of the royal collections that eventually became part of the Prado. For more than fifty years, Isabel de Farnesio culti ... More
Comme des Garçons POCKET shop at NGV design store, NGV International, 180 St Kilda Road, Melbourne. Photo: Sean Fennessy.
MELBOURNE.- From 7 December 2025, the NGV design store presents an exclusive Comme des Garçons POCKET shop and range, with both the retail space and product line designed by Rei Kawakubo especially for Melbourne. The NGV X CDG range comprises apparel, accessories and homewares – all emblazoned with bold texts declaring messages of personal strength and self-expression. The exclusive retail collaboration is in celebration of the National Gallery of Victoria’s world premiere exhibition, Westwood | Kawakubo, which pairs iconic fashion designers Vivienne Westwood and Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons together for the very first time. Through a showstopping display of nearly 150 innovative and ground-breaking designs, Westwood | Kawakubo explores the convergences and divergences between these two self-taught rebels of the fashion world. Highlights from the exclusive NGV X CDG retail ... More
Stone Demonstrator. Photo: Bas Princen. Courtesy of the Design Museum and Future Observatory.
LONDON.- Future Observatory – the Design Museum’s national research programme for the Green Transition – unveiled the Stone Demonstrator, a boundary-pushing prototype at Empress Place, located on the Earls Court Development site. This public installation puts the use of pre-tensioned stone structures to the test, calling for more sustainable materials and building practices in the construction industry. The open-air Stone Demonstrator stands at three storeys tall, measuring 6.5m x 6.5m, with the ground floor and adjoining park open to the public. It has been designed by architecture practice Groupwork with engineers Webb Yates and Arup. The Stone Demonstrator, funded by Future Observatory and the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), acts as both a 1:1 scale research tool and a call for the construction industry to hasten its efforts to transition to low-carbon materials. Nearly 40% of global carbon emissions are created by the built environment, with 11% coming from ... More
Brandon Little.
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH.- The Cranbrook Educational Community Board of Trustees announced this month that Brandon Little has been named Interim Director of Cranbrook Academy of Art, effective December 1. Little brings more than 20 years of creative global leadership experience to the role, along with strong connections to Cranbrook, and Detroit’s design community. He is the founder and Chief Creative Officer of Artefkt Watches, an independent design and manufacturing venture dedicated to precision titanium tool watches and advancing the industrial arts community. Previously, Little held senior creative leadership roles at Bedrock Manufacturing and Shinola, where he led cross-category design and brand strategy across watches, eyewear, leather goods, and lifestyle products. Before relocating to Detroit in 2021, he spent eight years as Senior Vice President and Chief Creative Officer for Fossil Group, directing global creative strategy for 13 brands and leading design teams in the ... More
BOSTON, MASS.- The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston announced Lorna Simpson (b. 1960, New York) as the 2026 recipient of the Meraki Artist Award. Known for her pioneering approach to conceptual photography in the 1980s and 1990s, Simpson has expanded the boundaries and possibilities of representation for more than 40 years. Her text and image works undermine widely held assumptions about race and gender within American culture, encouraging audiences to re-examine these ideas and unconscious classifications. In her more recent body of vibrant, large-scale paintings, Simpson probes the complexities of memory, history, and experience, while innovatively experimenting with diverse media. Simpson’s continued commitment to experimentation has made her a visionary and one of the most widely admired artists of our time. Her work To ... More
Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen, L'epouvantable sinistre du Quartier Latin / The terrible disaster in the Latin Quarter, pen and ink, 1884. Sold for: $35,560.
NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries’ December 4 sale of Illustration Art was filled with delightful works from house favorites. The offering included an exceptional range of works, from Golden Age masters to the trailblazers of alternative comics, culminating in several standout results that reinforced collectors’ passion for the category’s best makers. “A spirited bidding battle erupted over Théophile Steinlen’s lively cat cartoon for Le Chat Noir, driving the final price over the high estimate. A dynamic oil painting by Bernie Fuchs achieved a new auction record for the artist, exemplifying the bold, experimental period in which he pushed the boundaries of design, color, and brushwork. The sale also featured a unique stage prop embellished with original drawings by underground comic artist ... More
LONDON.- A timber-framed, stone clad, self-build home in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, has been named House of the Year 2025 by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). Caochan na Creige – meaning “little quiet one by the rock” – was designed by architects Izat Arundell and has been praised for its sensitivity to place and exceptional craftsmanship. The announcement was made during the final episode of Channel 4’s four-part Grand Designs House of the Year series, on Wednesday 10 December. Clad in Lewisian Gneiss, the very material that shapes the island’s dramatic landscape, the house appears to grow out of its rugged surroundings. The design shows remarkable resilience and restraint, balancing the demands of an unforgiving climate with a deep respect for the surrounding environment. Bu ... More
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First Nations stories glow at dusk as Sydney Opera House premieres Story Keepers projection SYDNEY.- The Sydney Opera House today announced a new chapter of its free, nightly First Nations sails projection Badu Gili: Story Keepers will debut on 17 December, featuring the artworks of Gooniyandi elder Mervyn Street and Inuk custodian Ningiukulu Teevee. Curated by the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain’s First Nations Curatorial Fellow Bruce Johnson McLean, the free six-minute animation will feature Street's colourful paintings followed by Teevee's bold drawings projected onto the Opera House’s Eastern Bennelong sails. It is the third year of a partnership between the Opera House, Biennale of Sydney and the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain. Mervyn Street’s distinctive artistic practice draws upon his lifetime as a stockman in the Kimberley and advocacy of cultural preservation through language and living on country. Kinngaimmiut Inuk artist ... More
CIMAM elects Amanda de la Garza Mata as new President for 2026-28 term NEW YORK, NY.- CIMAM, the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art, announces the election of its new president and board for the 2026–28 term. The announcement took place on Sunday, November 30, 2025, during the General Assembly held in the framework of the 57th CIMAM Annual Conference, Enduring Game: Expanding New Models of Museum Making, hosted by Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Fondazione Torino Musei, and Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, and supported by Fondazione Arte CRT and Fondazione CRT. The newly elected President of CIMAM is Amanda de la Garza Mata, Artistic Deputy Director at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS) in Madrid, Spain, who will lead the organization together with a renewed Board of 14 international museum professionals ... More
Haus for Media Art Oldenburg issues call for applications to Foundation of Lower Saxony grant for media art OLDENBURG.- The Foundation of Lower Saxony grant at the Haus for Media Art Oldenburg supports a wide spectrum of media art, from video art and net-based projects to audio works and audio-visual installations. Each of the three grants will be awarded for the production of a new project in the area of media art. An international jury will convene to select the recipients of the grants. Applicants must register for a user account on this website and submit via online application by February 26, 2026, 11:59pm (CET). Applications submitted after this date cannot be taken into consideration. The grant is valid for a duration of six months (July–December 2026). It cannot be prolonged and residency is compulsory; grant recipients can expect to stay in Oldenburg at least one month. The project or artistic work should be co ... More
DIVA opens at the Australian Museum of Performing Arts MELBOURNE.- The Australian Museum of Performing Arts opens the doors to DIVA tomorrow, its debut blockbuster exhibition celebrating some of history’s most provocative and powerful divas who have shaped cultural imagination. From show-stopping gowns and innovative design moments to rare archival material, the exhibition illuminates how divas – across genres and generations – have influenced fashion, identity and the very heartbeat of live performance. It marks an exciting new chapter for AMPA as a home for storytelling, spectacle and the preservation of Australia’s performing arts legacy. Developed by London’s Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), this Australian exclusive features more than 250 objects including 60 spectacular costumes, jewellery, photography, art and music drawn from the V&A’s Collection, Arts Centre Melbourne’s own ... More
El Museo del Barrio extends critically acclaimed exhibition 'Coco Fusco: Tomorrow, I Will Become an Island' NEW YORK, NY.- In response to overwhelming critical acclaim, El Museo del Barrio will extend Coco Fusco: Tomorrow, I Will Become an Island through March 1, 2026. Originally scheduled to close on January 11, 2026, the exhibition has captivated audiences and critics alike with its timely exploration of politics and power through the groundbreaking work of Cuban-American interdisciplinary artist and writer Coco Fusco (b. 1960, lives in New York). Spanning more than three decades of Fusco’s career, Tomorrow, I Will Become an Island is the artist’s first U.S. survey, featuring more than twenty works across video, performance, installation, photography, and writing—including a new photographic series debuting at El Museo del Barrio. The exhibition is organized by Susanna V. Temkin, interim chief curator, and Rodrigo Moura, former chief curator, with support ... More
"After Image" explores how abstraction transforms vision and memory NEW YORK, NY.- Alexander Berggruen is presenting After Image. After Image brings together artists of varied geographies and approaches, each working in distinct modes of abstraction—some from reality, some from intuition, and others through a synthesis of the two. For several artists, abstraction begins with observation. Reality is distilled and transformed onto the flat surface or into sculptural form, revealing how representation can drift from the realities it once described. This recalls Jean Baudrillard’s notion of the image’s separation from its referent, a condition increasingly evident in our image-saturated world. Conversely, other artists begin from intuition rather than observation. Artists working in this way often emphasize physicality and the sensory familiarity of form. After Image evokes visual residue and artistic legacy, each contributing to an image’s enduring ... More
Dr. Richard Meli's legendary pulp collection shatters records, realizes $1.84 million at Heritage Auctions DALLAS, TX.- In the course of more than 50 years hunting the highest-grade copies possible, Dr. Richard Meli assembled what might very well be the finest collection of pulp magazines on the planet. The process of letting go of his trove began in earnest with a three-day event at Heritage Auctions that, he says, “far surpassed my expectations” as the premiere Pulp Signature® Auction set multiple category records and brought in $1.84 million Dec. 4–6. Record after record fell in Thursday’s Platinum Session, led by the June 1935 debut issue of Spicy Mystery Stories, with its H.J. Ward lingerie cover and “Fangs of the Bat” cover story by Robert Leslie Bellem. The highest-graded copy of the classic with a 9.6 from CGC, it realized $156,000 with buyer’s premium, handily taking its issue record. It is tied with the first issue of The Shadow as the second-most expensive pulp in Heritage ... More
A groundbreaking Arshile Gorky exhibition opens at the Armenian Museum of America WATERTOWN, MASS.- The Armenian Museum of America announces the opening of a landmark exhibition, Arshile Gorky: Redrawing Community and Connections, on December 12, 2025. This is the first exhibition of Gorky’s work in an Armenian museum, and it caps off a series of programs initiated by the "100 Years of Arshile Gorky" Committee in the City of Watertown. “We aimed high in the planning of this show dedicated to an Armenian artist who immigrated to Watertown in the aftermath of the Genocide, like so many of our compatriots,” explains Executive Director Jason Sohigian. The exhibit includes 25 works from lenders across the country, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Housatonic Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church of America. Many of the works have never been seen ... More
Toronto artist Ranbir Sidhu gives form to the future, with debut exhibition of monumental sculptures at AGO TORONTO.- Forged from steel, aluminum and gold and propelled by technical innovation, this winter, the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) presents the futuristic vision of Toronto artist Ranbir Sidhu. A dramatic display of cutting-edge engineering and visual harmony, this exhibition of monumental sculptures invites visitors to immerse themselves in an imaginary landscape where scale and form know no bounds. Informed by art history, nature, cultural memory, and incorporating sound and light, Ranbir Sidhu: No Limits is curated by Julian Cox, AGO Deputy Director & Chief Curator. The exhibition opens December 11, 2025. No Limits marks Sidhu’s first museum exhibition. Drawing on his intimate knowledge of metal manufacturing, his sculptures and installations are intricately engineered feats of balance and visual harmony, incorporating materials from around the world, ... More
Ordet unveils Morgengrauen: David Weiss's monumental drawings of urban melancholy MILAN.- The large drawings entitled Morgengrauen (Crack of Dawn) show rectangular planes of alternating black ink and raw paper – ensembles of buildings in various stages of abstraction. Like stills from a film noir, one piece shows three pictures vertically stacked on a single sheet of paper; the other six show single compositions in landscape orientation on rolls of paper. The mood and intensity of expression vary in the series, which would seem to depict the same elevated view from two distances. A grim shiver of menacing fog frames the ensembles in all of the variations, except for one which shows the buildings as if denuded and in a ghostly process of decomposition. Here, the reduction of the architectural construction to lines and planes yields an abstract composition that evokes Concrete Art. In 1974 the Swiss architect Rolf Keller published Bauen Als Umweltzerstörung ... More
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On a day like today, American painter Mark Tobey was born
December 11, 1890. Mark George Tobey (December 11, 1890 - April 24, 1976) was an American painter. His densely structured compositions, inspired by Asian calligraphy, resemble Abstract expressionism, although the motives for his compositions differ philosophically from most Abstract Expressionist painters. His work was widely recognized throughout the United States and Europe. Along with Guy Anderson, Kenneth Callahan, Morris Graves, and William Cumming, Tobey was a founder of the Northwest School.
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