Installation view of Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck, on view December 5, 2025–April 5, 2026 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo by Anna-Marie Kellen, Courtesy of The Met.
NEW YORK, NY.- Beloved in Nordic countries for her highly original style, Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck (1862–1946) is relatively unknown to the rest of the world. The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck is the first major exhibition in the United States dedicated to the artist's work. Featuring nearly 60 works on canvas—including generous loans from the Finnish National Gallery / Ateneum Art Museum, other Finnish museums, and private collections in Finland and Sweden—the exhibition will be on view December 5, 2025, through April 5, 2026. Born in Helsinki, Schjerfbeck witnessed civil war and two World Wars as well as the burgeoning of Finland's national identity following independence from Russian rule in 1917. Despite many personal hardships, Schjerfbeck never wavered in her determination to pursue her passion, painting for most of her life in a remote Nordic country, far removed from Europe’s centers of cultural upheaval and renewal. She once said r ... More
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, the National Gallery’s world-renowned research institute, today announced Art &, its new book series aimed at understanding the role of art and artists in imagining a dynamic social fabric. The first volume, Art & Histories, will be published on January 13, 2026, followed by Art & Water in July of the same year. Future volumes will be published annually in the summer. Each edition of Art & will invite artists and scholars to explore a central topic—histories, water, dreaming, and more—and how artistic practices, both past and present, shape society’s relationships to these issues. Academic exploration of the topics will be accompanied by an original, commissioned work of art created specifically for the book and in response to its theme. “As a series, Art & is an invitation to think about art together with the issues it shapes through material and imaginative ... More
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DENVER, PA.- Morphy’s annual Winter Fine & Decorative Arts Auction is where selective shoppers go to find the gifts no one would ever dream of returning, including jewels fit for royalty, premium-level Swiss watches, rare fine and decorative art, and coveted antiques. This year’s edition of the popular holiday series will take place on December 10-11 at Morphy’s Pennsylvania gallery, with all forms of absentee bidding available, including live via the Internet through Morphy Live. It has long been known that good things come in small packages, and in this auction there are scores of exquisite rings, brooches, pendants and earrings by prestigious designers to prove the point. A gentleman’s 18K yellow gold ring is a scene-stealer with its cut-corner rectangular modified brilliant-cut natural Fancy Yellow diamond weighing 5.37cts. Its grading confirms Even distribution, VVS1 clarity, Good polish, Good symmetry and ... More
NEW HAVEN, CONN.- The Yale University Art Gallery announced the release of the first volume of the collection catalogue Italian Paintings at the Yale University Art Gallery, covering the period from approximately 1230 through 1420. To be released at later dates, volume 2 will present works produced between about 1420 and 1490, volume 3 will examine objects dating from about 1490 through 1600, and volume 4 will feature works from 1600 to 1880. The result of years of close examination and research, these publications represent the first thorough and comprehensive study of Yale’s exceptional collection of this material. The Gallery’s Italian paintings constitute one of the largest and richest such collections outside of Europe. At its core is the renowned Jarves Collection, assembled in Florence between 1852 and 1859 by the self-taught ... More
FIGUERES.- The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation announces the creation of Platform Dalí, an international programme aimed at promoting dialogue between artists and scientists. In the words of the president of the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Jordi Mercader: “The foresight that led Salvador Dalí to explore the relationship between art and science has always sparked admiration for its search for a new humanism. This is the spirit that moves us today to create a programme such as this, ones that invites us to look anew at the opportunities of the present and the challenges of the future in a different way.” Platform Dalí has been created to weave networks of artists and scientists in order to explore new ways of understanding the world through knowledge and imagination. It is directed by Mónica Bello, who led Arts at CERN, the prestigious arts programme of the European ... More
Yeager-Crasselt’s curatorial experience includes a rich array of international exhibitions.
WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.- The Clark Art Institute announced that Lara Yeager-Crasselt has been appointed to serve as the first Aso O. Tavitian Curator of Early Modern European Painting and Sculpture. Yeager-Crasselt is currently the Curator and Department Head of European Painting and Sculpture at the Baltimore Museum of Art, where she oversees the museum’s collection of fifteenth- through eighteenth-century painting and sculpture, including its research, exhibition, loans, acquisitions, and publication. Prior to her current role at the Baltimore Museum of Art, she held prestigious curatorial and research positions at The Leiden Collection in New York and at KU Leuven, Belgium, among others. From 2015–2017, Yeager-Crasselt served as the Clark’s Interim Curator of Painting and Sculpture. “We are delighted to welcome Lara Yeager-Crasselt back to the Clark and we feel incredibly fortunate to be able to entrust the Aso O. Tavitian Collection to her ... More
LONDON.- A historic moment for the market, The Winter Egg by Fabergé has sold for £22,895,000/ $30,244,295/ €26,008,720, setting a new world auction record for a work by Fabergé for the third time in its storied history, all at Christie's. Having captivated the imagination of international collectors, connoisseurs and the wider public alike, the saleroom broke into applause as the gavel went down on this top lot of the evening. Starting Classic Week at Christie's London with a flourish, The Winter Egg and Important Works by Fabergé from a Princely Collection and the Old Masters Evening Sale realised a combined total of £40,515,964/ $53,521,588/ €46,026,135. The Winter Egg and Important Works by Fabergé from a Princely Collection realised £27,803,964/ $36,729,036/ €31,585,303, selling 92% by lot and 98% by value. In addition to the record-breaking result for The Winter Egg, further highlights include: A very rare and important hardstone model of a Street Painter by Fabergé, m ... More
HUMLEBÆK.- Thanks to generous donations and support, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark presents a major exhibition of new acquisitions. Starting today, 137 artworks – sculptures, paintings, videos, installations, photographs, drawings and prints – are on view in the exhibition NEW WORKS in the museum’s South and North Wings. In all, 78 artists are represented in the Louisiana’s new exhibition. Forty-two are new to the collection, including El Anatsui, Marlene Dumas, Martha Rosler, Ed Ruscha and Amy Sillman. All works in the exhibition have been acquired over the past four years, mainly as gifts from individuals, artists and foundations. Exhibiting new acquisitions provides the chance for our visitors to encounter a great number of artists and artworks that are not necessarily linked by any theme, period or “ism.” The common denominator is simple: The works were acquired within the past four years. Naturally, the exhibition can ... More
Laurence Rassel. Photo: Laurence Vincent.
AMSTERDAM.- The Supervisory Board announces the appointment of Laurence Rassel as the new general director of the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam as of 1 March 2026. Laurence Rassel has been director of erg (école de recherche graphique), an art school based in Brussels, since 2016. Trained in the visual arts, pedagogy, and the management of art institutions, she was director of Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, from 2008 to 2015, an institution created in 1984 by the artist Antoni Tàpies to promote the study and knowledge of modern and contemporary art. From 1998 to 2008, Rassel was a member of Constant, a non-profit association and interdisciplinary arts-lab based and active in Brussels in the fields of art, media and technology. "We’re very excited to welcome Laurence Rassel as the new director of the Rijksakademie. Her profound grasp of artistic practice, combined with her innovative approach to encouraging dialogue and experimentation, perfectly aligns with our mission" ... More
Mario Ayala, Camouflage (detail), 2025. Acrylic on canvas. 65.75 x 75 inches. Courtesy the artist and David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, California and New York, New York. Photo: Grant Guiterriez.
HOUSTON, TX.- Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is presenting Mario Ayala: Seven Vans, the artist’s first solo museum presentation in the United States. The exhibition expands his signature shaped canvases to debut seven life-size paintings of the backs of vans. Derived from the word caravan, the van bridges histories of commerce and counterculture and acts as a tool for working people to modulate as a means of survival and expression. Ayala’s paintings begin with photographs. As part of his ongoing series RWD (Research While Driving), the artist uses his phone to document moments from his daily life. While looking through this image archive, Ayala noticed a recurring focus: the distinctive shapes of the backs of vehicles. For Seven Vans, he chose the van as the central subject, designing custom wooden stretchers—or frames used to stretch and support canvas—shaped like vehicle silhouettes. Each painting channels the sensibility and ... More
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DALLAS, TX.- A one-of-one 2003 Upper Deck Exquisite Collection Dual Logoman featuring Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant will take its shot at being the top lot in Heritage's Winter Sports Catalog Auction Dec. 19-21. "This 2003 Upper Deck Dual Logoman card is incredibly special," says Chris Ivy, Heritage's Director of Sports Auctions. "Because not only does it feature Logoman patches from Michel Jordan & Kobe Bryant like the 2007-08 example that Heritage recently sold for a world-record price of $12.9 million in August of this year, but it is considered to be the best card included in the groundbreaking inaugural 2003 Upper Deck Exquisite release, which was the first year that the ‘dual Logoman' was created. We expect that the attention surrounding the previous record sale will only brighten the spotlight on this card for modern basketball collectors that seek the best of the best." New York Yankees legend Mickey Mantle has been one of the most coveted athletes of all time ... More
DENVER, CO.- The Clyfford Still Museum’s new collaborative exhibition, “Tell Clyfford I Said ‘Hi’”: An Exhibition Curated by Children of the Colville Confederated Tribes, co-curated with youth from the Colville Confederated Tribes Reservation in Washington, is on view until May 10, 2026. Installed in all nine of the Museum’s galleries, the exhibition highlights the perspectives of Colville children on Still’s depictions of their home and ancestors, and the artist’s abstract works. Tell Clyfford also explores themes identified by the co-curators, including Family & Culture, Connection, Imagination, the Outside, Love, and Paint & Color. For the past three years, the Museum’s curatorial and educational staff collaborated with young children (ages three to fourteen) and Colville teachers from partner schools on every level of the exhibition, including artwork selection and arrangement, object interpretation, gallery text, and ... More
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HOUSTON, TX.- The University of Houston’s Blaffer Art Museum is presenting new work by Chilean-American artist Soledad Salamé in her first solo museum exhibition. Soledad Salamé: Camouflage will be on view through March 7, 2026. For Camouflage, Soledad Salamé locates moments in which nature’s resilience meets human resourcefulness. In a newly commissioned body of work, Salamé centers the environmental impact of discarded clothing, sent from the U.S. to be discarded in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. There, millions of pounds of disposable textiles, often called “fast fashion,” are dumped and piled – creating uncanny mountainous topographies. In video, mixed media work, and prints, Salamé translates aerial photos of the Atacama into dizzying camouflage fields where she elaborates weighty details with needle and thread. The visual abstraction of the clothing piles subtly underscores the resourcefulness of migrant communities that have gathered and organized around them; ... More
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Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne presents its 2026 programme LAUSANNE.- At once a survey and a cross-section of Otobong Nkanga’s protean oeuvre from the past thirty years, the exhibition I dreamt of you in colours traces the genealogy of recurring subjects whose plastic actualisation is constantly evolving. Since the late 1990s, Nkanga (b. 1974 in Kano, Nigeria; lives in Antwerp, Belgium) has been exploring issues relating to mining, the use of the Earth’s resources, and the body in its relationship to space and the land. She examines complex social, political and material relationships in her multidisciplinary body of work, consisting of drawings, installations, paintings, textiles, photographs, sculptures, ceramics, performances, sound and poetry. Drawing on her personal history and research, which reflects multiple transhistorical influences, she creates networks and constellations between humans and landscapes, while addressing ... More
Teresa Margolles confronts violence and memory in major retrospective at MARCO MONTERREY.- The Monterrey Museum of Contemporary Art presents the exhibition ¿Cómo salimos? (How To Get Out?), the first retrospective in the Americas of the career of Teresa Margolles, one of the most influential contemporary Mexican artists on the international scene. Curated by Taiyana Pimentel, the exhibition brings together 23 works from 18 projects spanning from 2003 to the present that address the socio-political issues related to northern Mexico, which appear in much of Margolles’s work. It also includes projects from other parts of Latin America. Throughout her career, Margolles (Sinaloa, 1963) has explored the systemic violence and impunity that prevail in Latin America—particularly in northern Mexico—using conceptual strategies informed by her former profession as a forensic doctor. ... More
EMMA celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2026 - programme announced ESPOO.- Next year marks the 20th anniversary of EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art. The anniversary year will underline the ability of art to foster reflection, connection, and meaning in an accelerating, ever-changing world. EMMA’s 2026 programme features leading international names in the group exhibition In Search of the Present, a solo presentation by Axel Straschnoy as part of the Fine Arts Academy of Finland Foundation Prize, and exhibitions honouring the work of Howard Smith and Gerda Thesleff. Opening in March, the exhibition In Search of the Present is the third edition of the museum’s recurring exhibition concept exploring key phenomena and questions of our time. This year’s edition is an exploration of the now, an invitation to be present both in time and in place. Spatial and multisensory installations will transform EMMA’s galleries into places for quiet ... More
Ludwig Museum explores Taiwan's identity, history, and future in major multithemed exhibition BUDAPEST.- The exhibition at the Ludwig Museum presents an overview of artistic developments on the island – and, indirectly, of the experiences and dilemmas that shape Taiwan’s past, present, and future. The selection features the works of twenty internationally recognized artists and collectives who address important topics such as the cultural heritage of indigenous people, the lingering traces of colonization, Taiwan’s turbulent and often traumatic history at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the evolution of modern Taiwanese identity and values, and the technology-based economy and society of the present and future. The exhibited works are extremely diverse in terms of genre: in addition to installations, interactive projects, videos, and animations using the most innovative technologies, visitors can also encounter archaic techniques, paper works, paintings, ... More
Exhibition at Antichità Alberto Di Castro traces Pavel Pepperstein's artistic journey from 1978 to today ROME.- At the age of thirteen, Pavel Pepperstein (then still Pavel Pivovarov) read Thomas Mann’s novel The Magic Mountain. He was enchanted by this novel, imbued, in Thomas Mann’s own words, with “hermetic pedagogy”. One of its characters, Pieter Peeperkorn, inspired the young reader to invent a pseudonym — Pepperstein. From that time on, while remaining Pavel Pivovarov in everyday life, he began to appear in the realms of art and literature as Pavel Pepperstein. The exhibition features early graphic works by the artist, including those created even before the invention of the pseudonym. Altogether, the works on display cover a wide span of Pepperstein’s life and creative path: from 1978 to the present day. In 1987, Pepperstein became one of the three founders of the group Inspection Medical Hermeneutics (1987–2001). For the group’s exhibition ... More
National Asian Culture Center presents tenth-anniversary exhibition Manifesto of Spring GWANGJU.- Manifesto of Spring, co-produced by National Asian Culture Center (ACC), M+ Hong Kong, and ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, marks the 10th anniversary of ACC. Revisiting its founding commitment to democracy and peace in Asia, the special exhibition confronts entrenched power structures to envision better future democracies. Through artistic exploration it detects unseen and helpful strategies that counter today’s most pressing global challenges, including the economic and colonial systems, and the climate crisis. Climate disaster, war, fascism, poverty, and discrimination signal that the world is on the brink, but responsibility for this is not shared equally. While the Global North has produced the majority of carbon emissions since the mid-19th century, the concept of the “Anthropocene” which describes humanity’s dominant influence on the environment, ... More
Raffaella della Olga transforms the typewriter into art in new Clark exhibition WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.- For the past decade, Raffaella della Olga has made unique artist’s books using modified typewriters and multicolor ink ribbons on a range of materials—from tracing paper to photo paper to sandpaper. Della Olga (b. 1967, Italy; lives and works in France) worked briefly as an attorney before becoming an artist; now, seeking refuge from the limitations of language, she grinds down the characters on her machines and communicates through form, color, texture, and rhythm. Della Olga plays her typewriters like instruments, following a script in some cases and improvising freely in others. Each of della Olga’s artist’s books explores a different conceptual or technical idea and is titled with a sequential number preceded by the letter “T.” This stands for tapuscrit, French for “typescript,” a now uncommon term for an author’s original typewritten text. Like that ... More
Academy Art Museum to break ground on Henny and James Freeman Annex and Hormel Research Center EASTON, MD.- The Academy Art Museum (AAM) is set to break ground on the Henny and James Freeman Annex and Hormel Research Center, a custom-built, state-of-the-art facility designed to preserve and expand access to the Museum’s permanent collection of over 1,700 works of art. The new complex, located at 106, 108, and 110 Talbot Lane, is made possible through the a generous donation by AAM Trustee Elizabeth Hormel. At its heart, this project advances AAM’s commitment to responsible stewardship and public access. The new facility will feature climate-controlled vaults, conservation-grade storage, and a research center—providing a secure and sustainable environment for the museum’s expanding collection while creating opportunities for scholarship and community engagement. “The Academy Art Museum is a place where creativity meets ... More
"Non-existent" coin worth $3-5 million, to be auctioned COSTA MESA, CA.- The 1804 dollar—long revered as the “King of American Coins”—has captivated collectors and historians for nearly two centuries. Initially struck exclusively for diplomatic distribution, including to the King of Siam (Thailand) and the Sultan of Muscat in modern Oman, collectors clamored for examples of this renowned rarity even before the Civil War. Several books have been published about this coin alone, and the census of the 15 known specimens has been gospel for generations. Until now. Hidden from view in a mostly forgotten collection since the 1940s, this newly discovered 16th specimen is forecast to bring millions of dollars at auction. It will be displayed for the first time ever by rare coin auction house Stack’s Bowers Galleries at the biggest rare coin gathering in the world, the American Numismatic Association’s World’s Fair of Money™, to be held ... More
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On a day like today, American painter Gilbert Stuart was born
December 03, 1755. Gilbert Stuart (December 3, 1755 - July 9, 1828) was an American painter born in the Rhode Island Colony who is widely considered one of America's foremost portraitists. His best-known work is an unfinished portrait of George Washington, begun in 1796, which is usually referred to as the Athenaeum Portrait. Stuart retained the original and used it to paint scores of copies that were commissioned by patrons in America and abroad. The image of George Washington featured in the painting has appeared on the United States one-dollar bill for more than a century. In this image: Gilbert Stuart (American, 1755-1828), George Washington, circa 1795, oil on canvas, 28 1/2 x 24 11/16 inches.
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