BOULDER, COLO.- On August 22, Artemis Fine Arts conducted an online-only auction anchored by cultural art and antiquities from the nonprofit Ralph T Coe Center for the Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The 380-lot sale was 81.2% sold and chalked up $393,000, inclusive of buyer’s premium. The Coe Center, which is closing later this year, will use auction proceeds to bolster their Rehoming Program. Their unique repatriation initiative focuses on returning Indigenous artworks to their original communities or to institutions that prioritize cultural context, accessibility and continued care. Bidding was as global in nature as the extraordinary pieces being auctioned. “The Coe Center’s collection is known throughout the world for its historically-significant artworks and tribal artifacts from North and Central America, Africa, Asia, New Zealand and other Pacific Island nations,” ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art presents New Photography 2025: Lines of Belonging, the 40th anniversary edition of MoMA’s celebrated New Photography series. On view from September 14, 2025, through January 17, 2026, this exhibition brings together a group of 13 international artists and collectives, from four different cities around the world, who are expanding the horizons of the photographic field in the 21st century. Each at various stages in their careers, these artists are presenting distinct bodies of work for the first time in New York. Their creative contributions interweave personal narratives with structural, environmental, and colonial histories to consider forms of belonging that shape communities. New Photography 2025: Lines of Belonging is organized by Lucy Gallun, Curator, Roxana Marcoci, Acting Chief Curator and The David Dechman Senior Curator, Oluremi C. Onabanjo, The Peter Schub Curator, and Caitlin Ryan, Assistant Curator, Department of Photography. Since it was launc ... More
Alessandro Mendini (1931-2019), Poltrona di Proust [Proust’s Armchair], from the series “Bau.Haus,” 1978 (example of 2001), painted wood and fabric, polyurethane foam, passementerie, painting: Claudia Mendini, produced by Atelier Mendini, Milan. MMFA, purchase, the Museum Campaign 1988-1993 Fund. Photo MMFA.
MONTREAL.- The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts invites the public to rediscover its rich collection of decorative arts and design from a fresh perspective. Visitors will be greeted by an entirely reconfigured space aimed at fostering greater appreciation for design in all its forms by encouraging a deeper reflection on our everyday interactions with designed objects. Spread over the two levels of the Liliane and David M. Stewart Pavilion, a marvel of Brutalist architecture, the new installation of the collection covers nearly 2,000 m2, bringing together some 800 works (silverware, ceramics, jewellery, furniture, textiles, glassware, craft and industrial design objects) and over 400 designers, artists, and artisans from around the world. Close to a quarter of these objects are being shown for the first time. At the centre of this major installation, the public ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- The New Museum today announced a new partnership with Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, furthering both organizations’ commitment to supporting the production and exhibition of new work by the most exciting international artists working today. The New Futures Production Fund will be an annual program supporting the production of a major new work to be presented at the New Museum in New York City followed by a presentation at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin. Expanding on the New Museum’s mission to catalyze the creation and appreciation of the global art of today, the establishment of the New Futures Production Fund builds on the Museum’s long history of collaboration and exchange with arts institutions around the world. The first work realized through the partnership will be a new work created by Diego Marcon (b. 1985, Busto Arsizio, Italy; lives and works in Milan) and presented at the New Museum in 2026 ... More
LIVERPOOL.- Treasure: History Unearthed is the latest exhibition to arrive at the Museum of Liverpool, featuring the most extensive collection of archaeological treasures ever displayed in the North West of England and Wales. Curated with care by National Museums Liverpool’s archaeology team this extraordinary showcase brings together significant discoveries from across Merseyside, the North West, and North Wales. Featuring key items from a number of national and regional institutions including the British Museum, Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales and Wrexham County Borough Museum. Blending history, science, and storytelling, the exhibition offers visitors a rare opportunity to explore some of the most remarkable finds in local history, while uncovering the people, places and moments that shaped our shared past. In archaeological terms, Treasure refers to objects made of gold or silver that are more than 300 ... More
Koichiro Isezaki, Yō 孕, 2025. Ceramic. H12 5/8 x W10 3/8 x D10 3/8 in. H32 x W26.5 x D26.5 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Ippodo Gallery presents the second New York solo exhibition by ceramicist Koichiro Isezaki. Koichiro Isezaki: Clay in Flow features 50 of the Bizen artist’s sculptures including his iconic Yō (‘conception’) series—chawan (tea bowls), mizusashi (water jars), and hanaire (flower vases) from September 11 to October 11, 2025. Hailing from generations of Bizen artists who preserved stores of the precious regional Okayama clay, Isezaki creates work that flows along the currents of tradition with a contemporary language entirely his own. Following his debut New York exhibition during the pandemic, the artist finally traveled from Japan to celebrate the long awaited opening reception. Koichiro Isezaki (b. 1974) contemplates the origins of tsuchi (‘earth’) as the distinctly wet, fine, and nebarike (‘viscous’) clay comes into his hands. Bizen-yaki, one of Japan’s Six Ancient Kilns, is cultivated by centuries of masters, among ... More
Jacobo Castellano, PERSONAJE TALLUDO, 2025. Ebony, iroko, brass, iron, staples and wax, 100.39 x 19.69 in (255 x 50 cm)
ZURICH.- Mai 36 Galerie is presenting the second solo exhibition by Jacobo Castellano. Spanning new and earlier works, Castellano unveils his artistic practice, guided by the enduring appearance of the object. Far from being static or decorative, objects in his work serve as vessels, repositories of memory, emotion, and untold histories. Found, inherited, or rescued from forgotten places, these materials form the foundation of a sculptural language that is both intimate and precise. Each piece in the exhibition emerges like a small excavation, a kind of affective archaeology, where domestic, spiritual, political, and playful dimensions intersect without hierarchy. Rather than transforming or dominating them, Castellano constructs quiet, minimal structures that allow the objects to speak in their own time. His interventions are subtle, offering a realm for resonance, where there is no ... More
Max Hooper Schneider, Disinterred Electrolyte Xeriscape, 2025.
NEW YORK, NY.- Behind the anonymous storefront of a dispossessed upholstery shop near the Inglewood Oil Fields, a scientist-scavenger works frenetically amid glowing uranium glass mushrooms, electric aquarium specimens, mangled dollhouses and transmuted bonsai. 125 Newbury is proud to present his findings in Max Hooper Schneider: Scavenger, the artist’s first solo exhibition in New York. Based in Los Angeles, Hooper Schneider cultivates a polyvalent practice, fusing a poetics of sculptural assemblage and material technology with a critical examination of ecological, philosophical and social systems. Trained in both art and science, Hooper Schneider fashions intricate sculptural habitats, weaving together scientific principles and facets of everyday culture to explore dynamics of transformation, hybridity, decay, and succession. The exhibition opened at 125 Newbury in Tribeca on Friday, September 12th and runs through October 25th, ... More
Chen Sixin, Longing, 2025. Colored pencil on linen, 131 × 110 cm. The Artist and Galerie Urs Meile.
ZURICH.- Galerie Urs Meile is presenting Pale World, the first solo exhibition in Europe by Chinese artist Chen Sixin (*1995). The exhibition brings together a series of new works in which the artist examines the figure of the ghost as a symbol shaped by globalization and filtered through personal memory, internet culture, and popular imagery. Excerpt from the essay “Chen Sixin: The Tail of the Story” by Ren Yue. In a series of new works from 2025, Chen Sixin has continued to use the slow, intricate medium of colored pencil drawings, but has shifted to a “ghost” motif. Unlike the richly textured, muscular and sinewy animal images of his earlier works, the ghosts in his new series seem to float in the air with blurred edges, lightly sweeping across the picture. This lightness has softened the sense of direct, overbearing force in much of Chen Sixin’s earlier imagery, leaving more room for the imagination, for breathing, and for fluidity. Furthermore, if the animal images ... More
Yuko Mohri, Shinjuku Station, November 2, 2015. Digital C-print, 100 x 66.6 cm. From the series “Moré Moré Tokyo (Leaky Tokyo): Fieldwork," 2009–2021.
LUND.- Underneath the Paving Stone is a group exhibition with works in various artistic formats—sculpture and installation, photography and film—that explore how built environments, institutional structures and historical forces shape our lives, especially in times of crisis, scarcity or repression. The exhibition gathers artists from different generations and geographical contexts. It scrutinises public space from several political angles, not least focusing on the more or less visible infrastructure that supports (and regulates) our collective experience. Using artistic methods such as reduction and analysis, displacement and condensation, pastiche and humour, the exhibited works cast light on the spatial, social and symbolic systems underpinning social life. The artists have been particularly attentive to the gaps and cracks that render these systems permeable. In times marked by a global entanglement ... More
VIENNA.- Atelier Bow-Wow was founded in Tokyo in 1992 by Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kaijima, Yoichi Tamai joined the studio in 2015. In addition to thorough theoretical research and elaborate architectural projects, the studio regularly realises exhibitions and discursive programmes. This interdisciplinary approach echoes the history of the Secession in Vienna, whose founders were deeply committed to the idea of collaboration between different artistic forms – architecture, music, and visual art – in the spirit of the Gesamtkunstwerk. To this day, the Secession’s board and membership include both artists and architects. Atelier Bow-Wow are especially known for coining the term Pet Architecture, which refers to micro-buildings occupying small, irregular plots in the interstices of urban space. These structures, squeezed into the gaps between existing buildings, are shaped by creativity, pragmatism, and an ethos of sustainability. A central principle in Atelier Bow-Wow’s e ... More
Nadia Haji Omar, Lord Buddha’s Feet, 2024. Ink and colored pencil on paper, 12 x 9 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Kristen Lorello opened a solo exhibition of new works by Nadia Haji Omar. This is the artist’s fifth solo exhibition at the gallery and includes a suite of paintings on panel in the artist’s signature idiom of pattern-based abstraction. Accompanying the paintings are drawings in an intimate scale and a group of delicate formed glass sculptures inspired by the Southeast Asian Flame of the Forest tree. For more than a decade, Haji Omar has nurtured an artistic practice that explores formal concerns of polychromy, abstraction, pattern and thematic concerns surrounding the human experience. Influenced by a wide variety of sources that include contemporary abstraction, Islamic art and patterning, various forms of architecture, textiles, maps, plants, and aquatic life, Haji Omar explores the dimensional aspect of painting through layers of textured color and marks rendered in varied densities and scales, as well as the perceptual experience of unexpected color combinations, shimme ... More
Satoru Koizumi: "Portrait of Someone", 2025, camphor wood, acrylic, resin, 25 x 21 x 18 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- GR gallery announces FREAKS, an exhibition featuring artists Kazy Chan, Satoru Koizumi and Suanjaya Kencut. The show presents a total of 15 artworks, including paintings and sculptures, that bring together three artists whose practices are rooted in storytelling, emotional depth and quirky imagination. This event marks GR gallery’s first exhibition in its new Tribeca location. With a hauntingly playful spirit, GR gallery invites the viewers into the exhibition ‘FREAKS’, a space to slow down, reconnect with lost memories and step into an uncanny realm of reflection and wonder. The explicit reference to Tod Browning’s 1932 movie unravels not only the whimsical characters who populate the artists imagery but also the thin line in between tender charm and morbidness, innocence and melancholia, irony and social criticism. Featuring new and recent works by first time collaborating artists Kazy Chan and Satoru Koizumi, and longtime ... More
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IHME Helsinki Commission 2025: Zhanna Kadyrova's The Forest HELSINKI.- Award-winning Ukrainian artist Zhanna Kadyrova’s IHME Helsinki Commission 2025: The Forest is at the Power Plant Museum in Helsinki, Finland, until October 2, 2025. In this new work Kadyrova combines video, sound and camera-obscura photos with archival material. She examines the consequences of the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam by Russia in June 2023, the past and future of this region submerged under a reservoir, and nature’s capacity for renewal. As an exhibition venue the Power Plant Museum and Vanhankaupunginkoski dam bring these themes up for contemplation in the context of Helsinki. “It is very important for me to create a connection to the local story, and since the city of Helsinki has decided to demolish this dam, it became an interesting link to the Kakhovka dam. I wanted to examine two different approaches to the decommissioning of energy ... More
New Taipei City Art Museum presents Samson Young: Pavilion TAIPEI.- As the inaugural artist invited for the New Taipei City Art Museum’s NTCAM COMMISSION, Samson Young presents the new work Pavilion. The exhibition focuses on the inseparable relationship between humans and technology in a media-saturated present marked by the exponential rise of artificial intelligence, asking how technology reshapes our ways of sensing the world and thinking about the self. The commissioned work looks back to the IBM Pavilion at the 1964 New York World’s Fair, where Charles and Ray Eames produced the multi-screen film THINK. Created at the dawn of computer technology, the work likened computational processes to an expansion of human consciousness, proposing a new way of seeing the world. It revealed both optimism and trust in technology, while reflecting Cold War anxieties about the media. The contradictory emotions stirred ... More
Podo Museum presents We, Such Fragile Beings JEJU ISLAND.- PODO Museum opened its new exhibition We, Such Fragile Beings on running through August 8, 2026. Featuring thirteen contemporary artists from Korea and abroad, including internationally acclaimed figures Mona Hatoum, Jenny Holzer, Liza Lou, and Sarah Sze, the exhibition explores the question: “Why do we, such fragile beings in the vast cosmos, persist in conflict?” and seeks pathways toward empathy, understanding, and coexistence. Works by Mona Hatoum, Jenny Holzer, Liza Lou, Annabel Daou, Sumi Kanazawa, Maarten Baas, Sarah Sze, Lee Wan, Boo Jihyun, Kim Hanyoung, Song Dong, Sho Shibuya, Robert Montgomery The exhibition draws from the “Pale Blue Dot” photograph taken by Voyager 1 in 1990, which captured Earth from 6.4 billion kilometers away. This perspective serves as a starting point for examining human relationships ... More
Three new exhibitions ignite Samstag's final season for 2025 ADELAIDE.- University of South Australia’s Samstag Museum of Art is ushering in its third and final season for the year with three thought-provoking exhibitions set to captivate audiences and spark reflection. Launching this October, the Wirltuti season (Wirltuti meaning spring in Kaurna culture) brings together diverse artistic voices and perspectives, offering visitors a chance to engage with contemporary issues, challenge assumptions, and experience art in unexpected ways. Open to the public from 16 October to 5 December, the new season features NSW-based artistic duo and Samstag scholars (2006) Sean Cordeiro and Claire Healy who will premiere their vibrant DIY NASA Mission Control Centre and moving image work Psychopomp, exploring the porous relationship between science and mysticism. From NASA’s Apollo, Mercury and Gemini mission names, which are directly ... More
Elephant curated by Magalí Arriola opens at Mendes Wood DM NEW YORK, NY.- Elephant takes its title from Pol Tabouret’s eponymous sculpture – a tall black-headed figure with a nose that transforms into a trumpet. Drawing parallels between the notes of a wind instrument and the binding cry of pachyderms, the French artist describes this work as staging a call for spirits to summon and rise in solidarity, resistance, and emancipation. As a silent overture to the exhibition, this black figure strongly resonates with the outstretched hand of Miles Davis, photographed in 1986 by Irving Penn, coinciding with the release of Davis’s album Tutu (1986), a tribute to South African human rights and anti-apartheid activist Desmond Tutu. This, however, was far from Davis’s first act of protest against racial injustice. His life and work were deeply involved in the struggle for equality as music became a platform to fight discrimination during the US ... More
Rural Touring Guide gets first revamp in 20 years LONDON.- A guide to help artists to tour rural communities has been given a fresh lease of life for the first time in two decades. Rural touring takes professional live performances such as theatre, music, dance, or comedy to community spaces like village halls, churches, pubs, libraries and schools in locations outside of major towns and cities. This digital handbook, detailing how to bring culture to the countryside, has been revamped, refreshed and re-energised thanks to Creative Arts East, based in Norfolk, commissioned by the National Rural Touring Forum. It is aimed at artists, touring schemes and volunteer promoters. Whether you’re an artist looking to build relationships with new audiences or a promoter aiming to bring brilliant work to your community, this new guide will empower you with knowledge and confidence. ... More
Galerie Barbara Thumm presents a recent body of work by Carrie Mae Weems BERLIN.- The exhibition “Painting the Town” presents a recent body of work by acclaimed African- American artist Carrie Mae Weems (*1953, Portland, OR, US), one of the most influential voices in contemporary art today. Weems created this series in 2021 , in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder and the Black Lives Matter protests across the United States. The resulting photographs transform the scars of civic unrest into powerful visual and political statements. The title of the series borrows from the colloquial phrase “ to paint the town,” an expression typically associated with going out at night, celebration, and joy. Weems inverts this meaning with a twist of irony: here, “painting the town” refers instead to acts of erasure and silencing. When the protests began, store owners from Weems’ hometown of Portland, Oregon, put up chipboard panels on their windows ... More
Michael Werner Gallery exhibits 'Postures: Jean Rhys in the Modern World,' curated by Hilton Als LONDON.- Michael Werner Gallery, London is presenting Postures: Jean Rhys in the Modern World, celebrating the Dominican-born British writer Jean Rhys (b. 1890 in Roseau, Dominica, d. 1979 in Devon, England). This large-scale group exhibition is conceptualised and curated by esteemed American, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and curator Hilton Als. Conceived as a collective portrait of Jean Rhys, including paintings, drawings, and books, Postures explores not only the destabilising force of difference, but the ways in which Empire affected the Creole world Rhys was born into, and never forgot. As a significant presence in post-colonial writing, Rhys offered, in sui generis prose, a view into lives and cultures that had hitherto been marginalised, or ignored, by European male writers. So doing, Rhys' powerful evocation of her native Dominica, and Jamaica in her master ... More
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art announces historic expansion opening BENTONVILLE, ARK.- Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art today announced the donations of two landmark gifts of art that will help transform its signature storytelling about the American spirit. Olivia Walton, Chairperson of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and her husband Tom Walton have donated 18 major works, all by women artists, including Yayoi Kusama, Alice Neel, and Njideka Akunyili Crosby. Collectors Candace and Michael Humphreys have given 200 extraordinary artworks by over 100 artists that span eras and artistic disciplines and introduce new artists to the museum’s holdings. Both gifts of art have been donated in celebration of an expansion project that is increasing the museum in size by 50 percent and providing a fully reimagined core gallery experience. The museum announced that the grand opening of the expanded museum will be held ... More
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On a day like today, Italian-French businessman Ettore Bugatti was born
September 15, 1881. September 15, 1881. Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti (15 September 1881 - 21 August 1947) was an Italian-born French automobile designer and manufacturer. He is remembered as the founder and proprietor of the automobile manufacturing company Automobiles E. Bugatti. In this image: "1925 Bugatti Brescia, Chassis no. 2461 Engine no. 879". Photo: Courtesy Bonhams.
