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Electronic music composer and artist Suzanne Ciani opens Sound Lounge at the Davis Museum |
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Suzanne Ciani in Park Ave studio. Photo: Riva Freifeld.
WELLESLEY, MASS.- Five-time Grammy Award nominee Suzanne Ciani graduated from Wellesley College in 1968 and went onto an illustrious career as an electronic music innovator, composer, and recording artist with more than 20 solo albums. Her work has been featured in films, games, and numerous commercials. Suzanne Ciani: Sound Lounge offers an opportunity to step inside her sonic world as part of Wellesley College’s 150th anniversary celebration. It opened September 19 and runs through December 14, 2025 and again from February 6, 2026 through May 24, 2026. Ciani released her first record, Seven Waves, in 1982. Its dreamy evocation of ocean waves through the soundwaves that Ciani created on the Buchla synthesizer would gain great popularity and critical acclaim first in Japan, next in the United States, and finally worldwide. In 1986, the title track of Ciani’s next album, The ... More |
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| Christie's New York presents Property from the Collection of the Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art |
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V&A opens Marie Antoinette Style, the first UK exhibition dedicated to the most fashionable queen in history |
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Salvador Dalí's 'Madonna of Portlligat' returns to Spain for first time in over 70 years |
Claude Monet, (1840-1926) Nymphéas, oil on canvas, 36¼ x 29 in. (92 x 73.6 cm.) Painted in 1907. © Christie's Images Ltd 2025.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie's announced Property from the Collection of the Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, which will be presented as a highlight of Christie's Fall Marquee Week, taking place November 2025 at Rockefeller Center in New York City. The collection comes from one of the world's most historic private museums and is comprised of singular examples of Impressionist, Modern, Post-War, and Contemporary art by Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, and Henry Moore, among many others. Eight masterpiece objects will be showcased as a dedicated group in the 20th Century Evening Sale, with additional works selling in the Impressionist and Modern Day and Post-War and Contemporary Art Day sales. Consisting of superlative examples that trace the evolution of Modernism, the collection is indicative of the exceptional quality, connoisseurship, and global outlook ... More |
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Boué Soeurs (Sylvie and Jeanne Boué) robe de style. © Designmuseum Denmark, Photo by Pernille Klemp.
LONDON.- V&A South Kensington opened Marie Antoinette Style the UK’s first exhibition on the French queen Marie Antoinette. The exhibition explores the origins and countless revivals of the style shaped by the most fashionable queen in history. A fashion icon in her own time, and an early modern ‘celebrity’, the dress and interiors modelled and adopted by the ill-fated Queen of France in the final decades of the eighteenth century have had a lasting influence on over 250 years of design, fashion, film and decorative arts. 250 objects, including exceptional loans from the Château de Versailles never before seen outside France, are on display including historical and contemporary fashion, alongside audio visual installations and immersive curation to explore how and why Marie Antoinette, the person, has provided a constant source of inspiration. The exhibition considers afresh the legacy of a complex figure whose style, youth and notoriety have all contributed to her timeless ... More |
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Salvador Dalí, Madonna of Portlligat, circa 1950. Oil on canvas, 275.3 x 209.8 cm. © Fundacio Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2025.
FIGUERES.- The Madonna of Portlligat, considered by Salvador Dalí to be one of his masterpieces, synthesizes the painter’s evolution from Surrealism to Nuclear Mysticism, the stage in which he drew inspiration simultaneously from modern physics, religion, and a return to classicism to shape his conception of the world. The work traveled more than 10,000 kilometres from Fukuoka, Japan, to Figueres, to be exhibited at the Dalí Theatre-Museum from 17th September 2025 to 22nd February 2026, thanks to the exceptional loan from the Fukuoka Art Museum. This is a unique occasion, since the painting has not been seen in Spain since 1952, when it was included in the 1st Hispano-American Biennial of Art, held in Madrid and Barcelona. The exhibition is curated by Montse Aguer, Director of the Dalí Museums, with the collaboration of Rosa Maria Maurell, Head of Documentation; Lucia Moni, curator; and junior curators Clàudia Galli ... More |
| Christie's announces Post-War to Present |
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New biography unveils Barnett Newman, the man behind the myth of abstract expressionism |
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Kunstmuseum Basel unveils 'Ghosts,' a major exhibition on the history of the supernatural |
Alex Katz, Christie. © Christie's Images Ltd 2025.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie's announced Post-War to Present, a live auction taking place 30 September at Christie's Rockefeller Center. The sale features an array of artworks from the most highly coveted names of the post-war era including Joan Mitchell, Alexander Calder, Alice Neel, Frank Stella, Sam Gilliam, Jack Whitten and more. The sale is rounded out with exemplary objects offering fresh perspectives on figuration and abstraction through a contemporary lens by artists including George Condo, Matthew Wong, Ernst Yohji Jaeger and Yu Nishimura. Rachel Ng, Head of Post-War to Present, Christie's New York, remarks, “It's an honor to present our Post-War to Present auction to the market this September, featuring an incredible and diverse array of iconic artists spanning the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. From an early portrait by Alice Neel to a sunny depiction of Christie by Alex Katz, a chromatic Matthew Wong landscape to an early, rare painting by Tony Smith, a celestial and surreal Ernst ... More |
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Barnett Newman: Here by Amy Newman. Publication Date: October 28, 2025. Hardcover. 672 pages. 20 color + 61 b/w illus. 6 ¼ x 9 ¼.
NEW YORK, NY.- Barnett Newman (1905–1970), a founding member of the abstract expressionist movement, was a contemporary of such figures as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, and Clyfford Still. He left behind only 118 finished paintings, six sculptures, and 83 acknowledged drawings, yet is often regarded as the greatest painter to have emerged after the Second World War. Barnett Newman is the definitive biography of a charismatic New Yorker who defied the rules and created an art of the sublime. This landmark book features original research conducted over decades, using scores of interviews, oral histories, and previously unseen correspondence to paint a richly textured portrait of a creative sage who became an exemplar of the artist-citizen. Born in New York to Polish Jewish immigrant parents, he grandly aspired to involve himself in every detail of the city’s life. He was a crusader for the civil ... More |
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Erwin Wurm, Yikes (Substitutes), 2024. Aluminium, Farbe, 154 x 46 x 54 cm. © 2025, ProLitteris, Zurich. Courtesy of the Artist and König Galerie. Photo: Markus Gradwohl.
BASEL.- Ghosts seem to be everywhere. Visual culture teems with specters, from Hollywood blockbusters like Ghostbusters (1984) to indie films such as All of Us Strangers (2023). They haunt screens, theater stages, and pages: literature, folklore, and myth are saturated with spirits that refuse to leave us in peace. They have also always haunted art. As entities of the in-between, ghosts are mediators between worlds, between above and below, life and death, horror and humor, good and evil, Visible and invisible. Any attempt to depict, record, or communicate with them thus offers a conceptual challenge and an emotional thrill. This fall and winter, the Kunstmuseum Basel dedicates an extensiVe exhibition to these unfathomable entities. With over 160 works and objects created during the past 250 years, Ghosts. Visualizing the Supernatural explores the rich visual culture associated ... More |
| Rodrigo Valenzuela's 'Los restos' exhibition explores the ghosts of the Atacama Desert |
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Lee Bae's 'Syzygy' exhibition at Esther Schipper Gallery explores the power of charcoal |
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Sikkema Malloy Jenkins opens a solo show of Maria Nepomuceno's sculptural works |
Rodrigo Valenzuela, New Land D08, 2025. Acrylic and toner on canvas, 60h x 48w in. 152.40h x 121.92w cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Asya Geisberg Gallery is presenting "Los restos," Rodrigo Valenzuela’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. Valenzuela transforms the gallery space with an installation showcasing New Land: renderings of the Atacama Desert landscape on large scale canvases, alongside more traditional documentary silver gelatin prints. This presentation opens the conversation for how both the use of painterly gesture and the photographic index coexist to legitimize and confront one another through the medium of photography. Each mode of Valenzuela’s pictorial imaging of the desert depicts a vast and “empty” place riddled with ghosts and violent histories, as well as dreams and undifferentiated futures of possibility. Valenzuela began the New Land series in 2017, made by transferring his photographic images with toner in multiple layers of adding and subtracting. Through this process of visual translation, Valenzuela shows the desert through the discourse of painting. These images, ... More |
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Lee Bae, Brushstroke A1, 2025. Bronze, 113 x 73 x 43 cm.
BERLIN.- Esther Schipper is presenting Syzygy, Lee Bae's first solo exhibition with the gallery. On view are works from the artist's series Issu du feu, and his Brushstroke sculptures and paintings, including a monumental site-specific work covering the walls and floor of the exhibition space. Lee Bae is best known for his striking adoption of charcoal as his main means of expression. The artist has turned the material into a versatile instrument with which to create mosaic-like arrangements constructed from shards of charcoal, paintings and ink drawings using charcoal as a pigment dissolved in a medium, and sculptures reminiscent of large charcoal logs. While the choice of charcoal was initially an economic one made upon Lee Bae’s arrival in France in the early 1990s, the material also became a reaffirmation of the artist’s Korean identity. Charcoal has unique meanings in Korean tradition. Said to hold the energy of the fire that produced it, it is believed to have cleansing, purifyi ... More |
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Mar Amor, 2025 (MN 22939). Strings, necklace beads, resin, wood, 42 1/2 x 41 3/8 x 9 7/8 inches 108 x 105 x 25 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sikkema Malloy Jenkins is presenting Cunhó, a solo exhibition of sculptural works by Maria Nepomuceno, on view from September 2 until October 11, 2025. The title of exhibition is a nickname for Nepomuceno invented by her mother. Maria Nepomuceno’s chimerical sculptures and wall installations meld the organic with the inorganic, in both shape and substance. Her practice integrates traditional Brazilian craftsmanship and contemporary materials into her own personal techniques of sewing, weaving, beading, and ceramics. The spiral is essential to her work, reflecting the form’s ubiquity in nature and signifying the perpetual flow of time and energy. Sewn into whorled discs and soft pockets, the spiraling coils enmesh with luminous orbs, bottle gourds, rows of beadwork, and woven straw. The resulting works evoke a vast biological spectrum ranging from microscopic cells to macrocosmic landscapes, all vibrantly inhabiting the gallery space. The theme of abundance ... More |
| Alexandre Diop's new solo show explores history and migration through found objects |
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Mike Bouchet's new exhibition at Galerie Parisa Kind explores artistic destruction and rebirth |
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New Yoan Capote exhibition confronts Cuba's social and political landscape |
Vienna-based, Franco-Senegalese artist Alexandre Diop (b. 1995, Paris, France).
LONDON.- Stephen Friedman Gallery is presenting Run For Your Life !, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Franco-Senegalese artist Alexandre Diop. This marks the artist's debut show with the gallery and his first solo exhibition in London. Diop’s powerful mixed-media works explore themes of history, metaphorical archaeology and socio-political change, with this body of work focusing on the relationship between movement and time, represented by dance or migration. The title of the exhibition, Run For Your Life !, is an invitation to stand for change, show tolerance, and be alert to crises around the world. Diop’s practice is interdisciplinary; his experience as a dancer, musician, and visual artist allows him to create artworks that transcend traditional paintings. Physicality is central to the artist’s process. Diop’s rigorous approach to his work—which he refers to as object-images—combines found and recycled materials such as scrap metal, wood, leather, and text ... More |
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Installation view. Photo: Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Parisa Kind,Frankfurt/M.
FRANKFURT.- In a radical act of artistic transformation, Mike Bouchet has destroyed his monumental sculpture Sir Walter Scott. The entire work was fed into an industrial machine that shreds wood into fibers for OSB panels. From this material, Bouchet has created his new Relivare wall reliefs, now on view at Galerie Parisa Kind. The sculpture Sir Walter Scott (2010) was itself already a reincarnation. It was made from Watershed (2009), a 300-square-meter suburban home that was floated, sunk, and re-floated in the Arsenale lagoon at the Venice Biennale. The house was later cut apart and transformed into Sir Walter Scott, a large-scale sculpture exhibited at institutions including Schirn Kunsthalle in 2010 and subsequently acquired into a private collection. Nearly fifteen years later, Bouchet has subjected this work to yet another metamorphosis. In an act of material violence, the sculpture was ground down into the coarse fibrous mass used for OSB. These fragments form the ... More |
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Yoan Capote, Litoral (nenúfares) 2025, (detail), reef stones, plaster, encaustic, nails and fishhooks on jute mounted in wooden panels, 180 x 1200 x 45 cm. Photo: Reinaldo Cid.
SAN GIMIGNANO.- Galleria Continua is presenting Ruido Blanco (White Noise), in its exhibition spaces in San Gimignano, a solo show by Yoan Capote, one of the most emblematic figures of the rich and vibrant contemporary Cuban art scene. Internationally acclaimed, the artist currently lives between Cuba and Madrid. Ruido Blanco invites us to reflect on the alienation and resignation experienced by individuals in contemporary society. The title, which refers to a constant, unvarying sound that blocks our connection to the outside world, serves as a metaphor for the social isolation, political stagnation, and collective introspection currently felt in Cuba. In contrast, the works in this exhibition aim to awaken our deepest sensibilities and stir our emotions, making us aware of the dullness, demotivation, apathy, and emotional numbness that may be ingrained in our ... More |
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 Karma LA opens an exhibition of works by Calvin Marcus
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Each blade indexes a single flick of Calvin Marcus’s brush; these marks accumulate into the densely patterned surfaces of his Grass Paintings. While representational, these compositions are neither grounded in scene, nor focal point, nor perspective; they are nonhierarchical in their treatment of a motif synonymous, in the United States, with conformity. Calling to mind carefully bordered yards, soccer fields, and other overlooked elements of the modern developed landscape, the Grass Paintings continue Marcus’s investigations into symbolic and formal reverberations of the banal. The artist approaches each new series—often vastly different from its predecessor in both form and style—by adapting his materials and techniques to establish a continuity between the subject of the work, medium, and process. The development of the Grass ... More Mariana Castillo Deball presents new drawings and ceramics at Dortmunder Kunstverein
DORTMUND.- The work of Mariana Castillo Deball (born in 1975, lives in Berlin and Mexico City) situates itself at the intersections of art, science, history and archaeology. Her installations feature sculpture, painting, drawing, printmaking, sound, and photography, exploring the way in which knowledge is shaped and transformed through power structures. In her exhibition Stringing Beads, she presents new drawings and ceramics that reflect on the fragility and instability of human existence: handmade ceramic beads, threaded into a meandering, modular architecture, draw parallels between craft techniques and narrative processes. The artist contrasts this linear experience of time with the rotating movement of the potter's wheel: history both progresses and repeats itself. Her installation thus creates its own cosmos, addressing interruptions and breaks in the transmission ... More Sculptor appointed for UK National Memorial to Queen Elizabeth II
LONDON.- British sculptor Martin Jennings has been appointed to create the sculpture of Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for the UK’s national memorial in St James’s Park. Millions of Brits will already have seen Jennings’ work, as he’s celebrated for creating a bust of the Queen Mother in St Paul’s Cathedral and the first crowned coinage portrait of King Charles III. He has also crafted statues of Philip Larkin in Hull, Mary Seacole in London’s St Thomas’ Hospital, and the ‘Women of Steel’ in Sheffield. The sculptor, appointed by Foster + Partners in consultation with the Queen Elizabeth Memorial Committee, is tasked with creating an enduring national landmark that commemorates the UK’s longest-reigning monarch. A recommendation for the final design will be put to His Majesty The King and the Prime Minister next year, alongside proposals for the wider memorial ... More Bakersfield Museum of Art fall 2025 exhibitions debut next week
BAKERSFIELD, CA.- The change in seasons brings three new exhibitions to the Bakersfield Museum of Art (BMoA) that discuss the power of place to shape memory, identity, and artistic vision. Together, these exhibitions offer a layered portrait of Bakersfield and its surrounding region, seen through the eyes of those who have lived it, left it, and returned to reinterpret it. The exhibitions debut during a members-only reception Thursday, September 25, 2025, at 7:00 PM. General public viewing begins at 10:00 AM on Friday, September 26, 2025. David Kimball Anderson: Bakersfield Standards honors landscapes, people, stories, and industrial materials of California’s Central Valley. Drawing from his early memories of traveling Highway 99 as a child and his professional connection to Bakersfield, Anderson uses steel and found objects to explore themes of memory, labor, ... More New exhibition by Salim Green merges digital and physical worlds
LOS ANGELES, CA.- François Ghebaly is presenting Taileater, Salim Green’s debut exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition begins with reorientation. Viewers enter the space through what is traditionally the side door of the gallery to find themselves caught behind the projection of the exhibition’s eponymously titled single-channel video. Shifty, a surrogate of the artist, is the protagonist of the video and moves through a digitally-rendered hybrid urban landscape avoiding surveillance, running, hiding, training, preparing, and scrolling on his phone. Though Shifty remains vigilant, the object (or hyper-object) of his anxiety is never visualized for us. The character circles, loops, and attempts to evade a future event that has yet to take shape. The footage itself alternates from CGI to Super 8 film, shifting from an illustrated world to depictions of a “real” one. This interface gives Shifty a life ... More Berggruen Gallery presents 'Light Whispers,' a new body of work by Nicasio Fernandez
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Berggruen Gallery is presenting Light Whispers, an exhibition of new work by New York artist Nicasio Fernandez. This marks the gallery’s first solo presentation with Fernandez. The exhibition is on view from August 21 through October 16, 2025. In Light Whispers, Nicasio Fernandez’s paintings convey a quiet intensity within moody, introspective settings, where his figures are steeped in a spectrum of emotions ranging from uncertainty and tension to concern and doubt. Drawing on film noir motifs—low-key light, deep shadows, and psychological intensity—Fernandez places otherworldly figures in eerie, dramatic atmospheres that leave the viewer both unsettled and curious. Though traces of the domestic linger, the paintings deliberately omit any indicators of place, cultivating an enigmatic sense of space. Rather than referencing specific ... More Fine and Rare Wines Online: La Edition totals $1,465,500
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Christie's Wine department in America announced the results of Fine & Rare Wines Online: LA Edition. The sale totaled $1,465,500, achieving 94% sold by lot, 100% by value, and 100% against the low estimate. A highlight of the auction was a Remarkable 40-bottle vertical of Spottswoode Estate Cabernet Sauvignon, spanning vintages from the inaugural 1982 through 2021, which realized $32,500. Consigned directly from the personal collection of the Novak Family, proceeds from the lot were donated to Napa Green, a recognized leader in sustainability and climate action within the wine industry. The auction of this lot celebrates the 40th anniversary of Spottswoode's iconic Estate Cabernet Sauvignon. Beth Novak, President & CEO of Spottswoode, commented: “For us, this auction was never about the sale itself—it was about supporting Napa Green's ... More Heidi Horten Collection presents The Line
VIENNA.- The Line is omnipresent in art: it defines form, structures surfaces, creates contours, separates and connects, traces time and space, and captures the imaginary. Paul Klee’s poetic metaphor of the line’s “charming little journey” inspires an exhibition that explores its boundless possibilities—from intimate gesture to constructive precision, from paper to spatial intervention. Curated by Véronique Abpurg, the show brings together around 120 works, including major loans, recent acquisitions, and site-specific installations. Five thematic chapters invite visitors to follow the line’s unfolding path. The line as origin: outline that grants shape yet suggests dissolution. Egon Schiele’s charged contours, Alfred Kubin’s shadow worlds, and Paul Klee’s traces of thought exemplify its expressive range. Constantin Luser translates dense mental webs into wire drawings, while Birgit ... More Exploring the female experience: Petah Coyne's major retrospective opens in Miami
MIAMI, FLA.- Galerie Lelong, New York announced that Petah Coyne: How Much A Heart Can Hold is on view at the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami through March 14, 2026. This exhibition invites the viewer to explore Petah Coyne’s work as a multifaceted and long-running conversation about the complexity and creativity of women. It is divided into three sections: Women’s Work, Women’s Relationships, and Women Obscured & Transformed. Originally intended as an exhibition organizational structure that avoided the pull of a chronological arrangement, it is now clear that all the works reside in each of the categories, and now these three threads weave and plait together as part of a more nuanced understanding not only of Coyne’s oeuvre, but also how a single artist’s work is intertwined and in dialogue with friends and creatives both near in time and space, ... More Johannes Grützke: The Painter of the Human opens at Kunsthalle Jesuitenkirche
ASCHAFFENBURG.- Johannes Grützke: The Painter of the Human is the first comprehensive exhibition in the German Rhine–Main region dedicated to the Berlin artist Johannes Grützke (1937–2017). Featuring over fifty works, including several large-scale pieces, the show provides a wide-ranging view of one of the most idiosyncratic representatives of figurative painting in postwar German art. Grützke’s powerful visual language, marked by intellectual precision and subversive humor, consistently focuses on the human being. His works do not present idealized renderings, but rather tragicomic, complex, and profoundly social individuals. For over five decades, he created an unmistakable oeuvre that, with a penetrating gaze, dissects societal roles, masquerades, and absurdities. In portraits of individuals, group paintings, and scenic compositions, a narrative panorama ... More |
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On a day like today, Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan was born
September 21, 1960. Maurizio Cattelan (born 21 September 1960, Padua, Italy) is an Italian artist. He is known for his satirical sculptures, particularly La Nona Ora (1999) (The Ninth Hour, depicting Pope John Paul II struck down by a meteorite), Him (2001), and Love Lasts Forever (1997). In this image: The sculpture middle finger by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan during the inauguration in front of the Stock Exchange building in Milan, Italy.
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