Elisabeth Stoffers (1881-1971), Untitled, 1917. Signed, monogrammed & dated '10 Dec 1917 E. Stoffers BS' verso. Pastel on paper, 8½ x 9¾ inches (21.7 x 24.8 cm.)
NEW YORK, NY.- Although Piet Mondriaan and De Stijl are often celebrated as pioneers of Dutch abstraction, the movement’s earliest investigations emerged earlier within the theosophical circles of the 1910s, led by artists who have since been largely overlooked. Around 1910, Dutch artists began moving beyond direct representation, developing symbolic visual languages that replaced natural color with chromatic harmonies, observed reality with distilled signs and shapes, and descriptive depiction with ideas. Yet they never abandoned meaning: instead, they pursued deeper, often spiritual, layers of significance. Across Europe and the United Sates, the rise of abstraction in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was closely intertwined with spirituality and mysticism. Within this context, Elisabeth Stoffers and Paulina Wijnman forged strikingly modern visions. Between 1915 and 1918, during World War I, they created pastels poised at the threshold of abstraction. Like their contemporaries ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- Enter a world populated by private eyes, gangsters, psychopaths, and femmes fatales, where deception, lust, and betrayal run rampant. This film-by-film photography book on film noir and neo-noir begins with the early genre influencers of German and French silent film, journeys through such seminal works such as Double Indemnity, The Postman Always Rings Twice, and Vertigo, and arrives at the present day via Chinatown, Pulp Fiction, Heat, and the recent cult favorite Drive. Entries include posters, tons of rare stills, cast/crew details, quotes from the films and from critics, and analyses of the films. Film director, film noir scholar, and Taxi Driver screenwriter Paul Schrader provides the introduction to this feast of noir worship. Populated by the genre’s most revered directors, like Hitchcock, Wilder, Welles, Polanski, Mann, and Scorsese, the book also pays homage to its iconic faces, including Mitchum, Bogart, Hayworth, Bergman, Grant, Bacall, Crawford, Nicholson, ... More
Jean-Baptiste Bernadet, Untitled (Vetiver), 2021. Oil on canvas, 200 x 180 cm. 78 1/2 x 71 in.
SHANGHAI.-Almine Rech Shanghai is presenting 'Vetiver (Shanghai)', Jean-Baptiste Bernadet's eighth solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from January 15 to March 7, 2026. Jean-Baptiste Bernadet’s paintings are often discussed through an equivalence with clouds. Like clouds, his all-over compositions sustain an equivocal relationship to abstraction, representation, and interiority. They blend the remnants of late modernism with a tinge of Baroque theatricality while feeding a postmodernist sensibility with the pixelated residues of Impressionism. These aggregates operate a subtle balancing act, resting on unresolved tensions, with every part equal, yet equally distinct. In 'Vetiver (Shanghai)', his cloud-like formations take on a newly latent form akin to colored fumes. Diffused patches of pyrotechnic yellows burst through the canvas like smoke flowers in the midst of an auspicious firework. Meanwhile, darker shades of blue, purple, ... More
Marian Goodman photographed by Thomas Struth, 2007.
NEW YORK, NY.- With great sorrow, the Goodman family and the Marian Goodman Gallery announce the passing of Marian Goodman who died peacefully of natural causes on Thursday, 22 January 2026. An ardent advocate for her artists, Marian was distinguished by her exceptional eye for talent and unwavering commitment to championing significant and challenging work. She revolutionized the art world by introducing major European artists—representing the avant-garde of their time—to American audiences, paving the way for later generations of artists to advance practices that were both conceptually driven and socially engaged. Most of all, Marian had a deep understanding of a gallerist’s responsibility; driven by a curiosity and a pluralistic view of art, designating its vast potential over market trends, she forged long-standing relationships with her artists and supported their practices within nonprofit and institutional realms. In speaking ... More
Michaelina Wautier’s Diogenes Reading (ca. 1650) presents the philosopher absorbed in solitary study, a quiet meditation on knowledge and introspection rendered in oil on canvas.
BRUSSELS.- Shaped by the sustained circulation of artists, objects, and collections, and by the institutional structures that have governed their display and interpretation, Brussels occupies a particular position within the European artistic landscape. Colnaghi returns to BRAFA Art Fair for a second consecutive year, presenting a selection of works spanning antiquity to the early twentieth century, reflecting Colnaghi’s longstanding engagement with sculpture, painting, and works on paper across periods and traditions. The presentation includes a Roman marble Head of a Young Man from the Imperial period shown alongside an Anatolian schematic idol of the Kusura type dating to the Early Bronze Age. Painting is represented by works such as Gillis Neyts’s Winter Cityscape of Antwerp, an accomplished example of seventeenth-century Flemish landscape painting, ... More
Qiu Shihua in his studio, Beijing 2016. Copyright: HuaXia.
COLOGNE.- With its fifth solo exhibition at the Cologne gallery, Galerie Karsten Greve pays tribute to Qiu Shihua (1940–2025), presenting a curated selection of important works on canvas and paper, many of them shown publicly for the first time. The works originate from a group entrusted to the gallery by the artist during his lifetime. The exhibition honors an exceptional oeuvre in which, over several decades, Qiu Shihua developed a singular position between the millennia-old tradition of Chinese landscape painting and a radically reduced pictorial language. His works articulate an artistic stance in which perception, time, and philosophy are inseparably intertwined. At first glance, Qiu Shihua’s paintings appear almost empty: luminous, restrained pictorial fields in which color and form seem to dissolve. Yet through sustained, concentrated, indeed contemplative and meditative, viewing, they gradually begin to reveal themselves in subtle nuances. Mountains, forests, and lakes cautious ... More
Lucas Samaras. Split, 1973. Gift of Robert and Gayle Greenhill.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago announces Lucas Samaras: Sitting, Standing, Walking, Looking, on view January 31, 2026 through July 20, 2026. This exhibition focuses on Samaras’s innovative photographs—alongside select sculptures, drawings, and paintings—which unite his background in performance and his technical achievements with instant process film. The presentation is drawn from the Art Institute’s collection, including some sculptures and paintings recently gifted to the museum from the Samaras Estate. Over the course of seven decades, Lucas Samaras developed a unique approach to art making, experimenting with a wide range of materials—including his own body and belongings—which became the primary subjects of his photographs, sculptures, and drawings. These works offer a glimpse into his broader practice and his commitment to cultivating his home-studio as a kind of artwork itself. “Throughout his adult life, Samaras ... More
AMSTERDAM.- The Supervisory Board of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam welcomes two new members: Gunay Uslu and Ron Soonieus. With their appointments, the Board is strengthened by broad expertise in governance, public affairs, and culture. Both members bring extensive experience in governance, strategy, and supervision, thereby making a valuable contribution to the museum’s continued development and positioning. Gunay Uslu is CEO and co-founder of Corendon and has extensive experience in both the private sector and the public and cultural domains. From 2022 until the end of 2023, she served as State Secretary for Culture and Media. In that role, she was strongly committed to strengthening the cultural sector, among other things through additional structural funding and the promotion of fair pay. Uslu is a cultural studies scholar and holds a PhD in heritage policy. Previously, she worked as a lecturer, researcher, and curator and held various board and advisory positions within the cultural fiel ... More
LOS ANGELES, CA.- After World War II, personal fulfillment emerged as a defining American cultural ideal. Self-realization—the quest to become our authentic selves—remains a powerful part of American culture and arts today. In Self-Realization Nation, John Kapusta provides a lively cultural history of how an overlooked movement of musicians, dancers, and actors championed the ideal of self-realization. These performers, who spanned many backgrounds, identities, genres, and artistic styles, became what he calls the creative counterculture. Artists as varied as Sonny Rollins, John Cage, Anna Halprin, Alice and John Coltrane, and Pauline Oliveros shared an approach to creativity focused on letting go of limiting beliefs and subverting oppressive social norms. Through colorful vignettes, Kapusta reveals how these artists made their art and how their approach spread beyond the performing arts to influence ... More
The paintings in this exhibition take cues from the winding streets of Psirri (Athens) and the ubiquitous gatherings Christou observed in her local urban epicentres.
LONDON.- Alexandra Christou (1950-2009) was a self-taught painter. She was born in Athens and left her country in 1968 to live a bohemian life of passion and art in the United States, Australia and Germany. Returning to Greece in 1987, Christou and her young daughter lived between Athens and the Aegean island of Astypalaia. Her work was discovered posthumously and has rarely been exhibited to date. Christou gives us a portrait of Greek life and the spaces where private and public converge, in which her personal rebellion is defiant and exhilarating. This exhibition presents paintings and drawings from the 1990s; depictions of city and island life, of markets, tavernas, island landscapes and the characters that repeatedly inhabit these places of community and social interaction. Island life is local, it is small and claustrophobic, it is conditioned for intense but ... More
Kendell Geers, Dirty Dozen , 2007. 150 x 100 cm. C Print and Bottles.
AMSTERDAM.- Galerie Ron Mandos is presenting Tender Fury, which brings together Erwin Olaf and Kendell Geers, two iconic artists whose practices have each forged a distinctive visual language at the intersection of healing, intimacy and rage. Rooted in deeply personal histories of activism against racism, prejudice, and discrimination, the exhibition reveals connections between their lives and work, despite differences in medium and tone. Tender Fury is on view from January 24 through April 5, 2026. Curated through the personal perspective of their close friend and gallerist Ron Mandos, Tender Fury offers a fragile yet powerful portrait of two artists who struggled to find their voices within art systems they felt alienated from. In response, both created bodies of work that expose the political power of images. Tenderness and fury are not contradictions here, but coexisting forces: each artist believes in art as a language capable of disabling systems of oppression, ... More
Ángela de la Cruz, Bulto S (Red/ Black/ White) (detail), 2025. Courtesy of the artist and Travesía Cuatro.
MADRID.- Ángela de la Cruz (1965, A Coruña, Spain) studied Philosophy at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain before moving to London in the 1980s, where she obtained a BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, London, UK and an MA in Sculpture and Critical Theory from Slade School of Art, London, UK. In 2010, De la Cruz was nominated for the Turner Prize and was the recipient of the Paul Hamlyn award in the UK. In 2017, she received the Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas in Spain. In 2021, de la Cruz received the Sunny Dupree Family Award for a Woman Artist and in 2022 she was nominated for the David and Yuko Juda Foundation Grant. From the beginning of her career, De la Cruz has been deeply engaged in exploring the nature of painting. What defines painting? What are its material limits? And, crucially, when does it cease to be painting and become something else? De la Cruz’s artistic exploration has focused on dismantling traditional painting to give it ... More
Pam Glick.
BRUSSELS.- Maruani Mercier announced the representation of New York-based artist Pam Glick, in joint collaboration with Stephen Friedman. In her paintings and works on paper, Pam Glick fuses improvisation with intent awareness of colour, rhythm and structure. Building upon her decades-long exploration of abstraction, Glick underscores the linear architecture of each composition with cursive lines that pulse and zig-zag across the pictorial field. Echoing automatic writing, her repeating loops project a sense of physical endurance and uninterrupted movement. Working in close proximity to the canvas, Glick embraces the free momentum of the hand and body, allowing gesture to become an authentic and immediate expression of lived experience. Executed in series, the works probe the possibilities of abstraction, alluding to the passage of time and to recurring patterns found in nature and the human body. A selection of paintings by Pam Glick has been included in our presentation for BRAFA, taking place ... More
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Petra Seiser debuts at Art Genève with a solo presentation of Günter Brus GENEVA.- Petra Seiser presents a focused selection of drawings and works on paper by Günter Brus (*1938 - †2024), spanning the formative decades of his practice from 1960 through the 1980s, alongside a small group of late works. n recent years, the market has shown sustained and growing interest in Brus’s early works, particularly the informelle drawings. Strong auction results have contributed to a reassessment of this period, both artistically and financially. Following Brus’s passing in 2024 and his retrospective at Kunsthaus Bregenz, attention to this early phase has further intensified among collectors and institutions who had previously focused primarily on his Aktionist performances. The presentation opens with Brus’s earliest informelle drawings from 1960–62, which mark the very beginning of his artistic development and predate his Aktionist performances. ... More
Cross-generational conversations: Adams and Ollman returns to Felix Art Fair Los Angeles PORTLAND, OR.- Adams and Ollman returns to the Felix Art Fair in Los Angeles, where the gallery will present established and emerging artists emphasizing cross-generational conversations. Since its founding in 2013, the gallery has prioritized the unique contributions of women artists and those working far from the mainstream, with a focus on both contemporary and historical works. Our presentation for the Felix Art Fair will include key works by Katherine Bradford, Mariel Capanna, Peter Gallo, Alfred Jensen, Nao Kikuchi, Kinke Kooi, Tomoya Matsuzaki, Ryan McLaughlin, Marlon Mullen, Joan Nelson, Bethann Parker, and Ralph Pugay. The figures in Katherine Bradford's (b. 1942, New York, NY; lives and works in New York, NY and Brunswick, ME) paintings are inextricable from their surroundings, as if dreamed to life by the bodies of water, night skies, or fields ... More
Noel W. Anderson's largest museum solo show debuts at UAlbany ALBANY, NY.- The University Art Museum at the University at Albany presents Noel W Anderson: Black Excellence in its main galleries. This is Noel W Anderson’s largest and most comprehensive solo museum exhibition to date and features over 35 works. Newly commissioned work—most notably stretched and suspended Jacquard tapestries depicting digitally altered archival and media images centered on Black identity, labor, and performance—are exhibited alongside earlier works and archival materials that demonstrate the arc of Anderson’s career. Other newly commissioned work includes the 40-minute video project Echoes of the New World (2025). Underscoring Anderson’s exploration of performance, the two-story open floor plan of the UAM’s Edward Durell Stone building created an arena-like space for the exhibition to unfold, otfering vantage points to experience ... More
KW Institute for Contemporary Art presents exhibitions by Klara Lidén, Jean Katambayi Mukendi, Else Marie Pade BERLIN.- KW Institute for Contemporary Art’s Spring Program 2026 explores Berlin—its materials, people, and histories—alongside KW’s own building as an active framework for artistic inquiry. Centered on artists and their processes, exhibitions by Klara Lidén, Jean Katambayi Mukendi, and Else Marie Pade engage with the social, technological, and ecological conditions shaping the present, situating artistic practice within the lived realities of the city. —Emma Enderby, Director Kunstwerke is the first large-scale survey as well as the first institutional solo exhibition of artist Klara Lidén (b. 1979, SE) in Berlin. Having lived in the city since the 2000s, Lidén has become a distinctive voice attentive to power relations, the dynamic between interior ... More
Ailbhe Ní Bhriain debuts at Andréhn-Schiptjenko Paris with exploration of fragmented histories PARIS.- Andréhn-Schiptjenko announces Ailbhe Ní Bhriain’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, taking place in our Paris location. Ailbhe Ní Bhriain’s practice is concerned with how histories are constructed, mediated and transmitted through images, objects and institutions. Working across film, photomontage, CGI, tapestry and installation, she creates layered visual environments that draw on archival material, historical photography, museum displays and sites of architectural or environmental ruin. Ní Bhriain’s work is marked by an associative use of narrative and a meticulously crafted visual language that verges on the surreal. She sidesteps directive positions and familiar binaries, exposing instead the layers of ambiguity and contradiction embedded in fraught issues. Across this body of work, Ní Bhriain uses found imagery—often anonymous, fragmentary, or historically ... More
Exhibition program 2026 at The National Museum of Art, Osaka OSAKA.- The exhibition schedule for the year 2026 is as follows. Natsuyuki Nakanishi (1935–2016) was one of Japan’s preeminent contemporary painters. This exhibition marks the first retrospective of the artist’s work since his death ten years ago. While tracing the trajectory of Nakanishi’s career back to the late 1950s, the exhibition primarily sets out to shed light on his unique view of painting. Nakanishi’s works are not necessarily depictions of a given subject, making it impossible to classify them as either figurative or abstract. To what extent does a picture inhabit the canvas? Or more to the point, where does it actually exist? Nakanishi’s practice, in which he constantly returned to the basics, promises to provide us with useful insights as we reconsider the production of painting in Japan at this point in time. Since the mid-2000s, the New York-based artist Aki ... More
Julia Heyward: Miracles in Reverse at Kunstverein Nürnberg-Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft NUERMBERG.- With Miracles in Reverse, Kunstverein Nürnberg – Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft presents Julia Heyward’s (*1949, USA) first institutional solo exhibition in Europe. A central figure from New York’s 1970s and 1980s downtown art scene, Heyward developed a distinctive performative practice that combines throat singing, ventriloquism, spoken-word poetry, and sound effects. Her works address questions of belief systems, class, and gender. The exhibition brings together music albums, photographs, and videos in a scenography by Celeste Burlina. Driven by the desire to reintroduce “narration, emotion, and light” into a period dominated by Minimalism and Conceptual Art, Heyward turned to the motifs and aesthetics of popular television, including Saturday Night Live. In her performances from the mid-1970s onward, projections, props, music, and text came ... More
Banks Violette and Stephen O'Malley unveil immersive site-specific installation ANTWERP.- TICK TACK presents Wish You Were Here, a new site-specific exhibition by renowned American artist Banks Violette, with an immersive sound work by Stephen O’Malley (Sunn O)))). In Wish You Were Here, Banks Violette (Ithaca, 1973) presents a monumental sculptural installation specifically produced for TICK TACK’s brutalist exhibition space (Léon Stynen's The Sundial from 1955). Violette's work is both an intimate self-examination and radical social critique, a distinctive fusion of the frayed edges of American society with the aesthetic visual language of the hardcore punk underground scene. Throughout TICK TACK’s three exhibition floors, an immersive musical piece composed by Stephen O’Malley—founder of drone metal band Sunn O))) and a frequent collaborator with Violette— resonates. Wish You Were Here explores the persistence of structures ... More
Jack Warne intertwines augmented reality and landscape at Mai 36 Galerie ZURICH.- Mai 36 Galerie is presenting where love appears, the first solo exhibition by British artist Jack Warne. Here, he assembles a new body of work that positions painting as one conduit within a broader circuitry of images, sounds, and interfaces, redirecting attention from discrete objects to the configurational field they collectively compose and expanding the perceptual conditions under which painting unfolds. The exhibition is framed by a historical tension between then and now. In the nineteenth century, Romantic painters and poets turned to the landscape as a site of resistance to industrial modernity, asserting emotion, imagination, and subjective experience against the rationalizing forces of mechanization and the city. Romanticism's critique was not a simple rejection of reason but a mistrust of instrumental rationality, the kind that reduces life to what ... More
From magnolia leaves to human hair: The material activism of Nasim Moghadam at SF Camerawork SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- SF Camerawork is presenting Nasim Moghadam’s solo exhibition, And Yet, We See, a powerful meditation on what it means to see—and to be seen—when power seeks to erase you. With this body of work, Moghadam translates photographic images into sculptural and installation forms, creating immersive environments that confront erasure and give form to what power seeks to suppress. Her work explores how women’s bodies and voices are controlled, surveilled, and silenced, asserting agency where it is often denied. Moghadam responds to survivors of the 2022 Iranian protests who were blinded by state violence. In Fallen Eyes, photographic images of their eyes appear across a sprawling field of magnolia leaves. Each leaf, gathered and prepared by hand, is both fragile and resolute, holding an image even as it dries. Together ... More
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January 26, 1824. Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault (26 September 1791 - 26 January 1824) was a French painter and lithographer. His best-known painting is The Raft of the Medusa. Despite his short life, he was one of the pioneers of the Romantic movement. In this image: Gericault, A Dappled Grey Horse Led by a Groom, c. 1820-21. Sepia wash over graphite on paper, 13 x 16 cm.
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