Pieter de Hooch, A Courtyard with a Man Smoking and a Woman Drinking, after restoration, circa 1658–1660. Mauritshuis.
THE HAGUE.- A mysterious soldier who vanished from a painting by Pieter de Hooch centuries ago has returned to the scene following an extensive restoration at the Mauritshuis. The figure can now be seen once again in A Courtyard with a Smoking Man and a Drinking Woman, painted around 1658–60. The work shows a woman raising a glass to her lips as a man smokes nearby, with a child standing in a sunlit courtyard of the kind for which De Hooch became famous. For generations, the scene appeared to show an ordinary pause in daily life. But the abandoned objects on the table told a different story. A pipe and an open beer tankard seemed to belong to no one, while a cloak hung inexplicably over a nearby railing. Research revealed that the composition had originally included a third adult: a soldier dressed in armor and holding a large beer mug. At some point between the 17th and early 19th centuries, an unknown person painted over him. His rediscovery left the Mauritshuis with a difficult decision. S ... More
Peter Shear, Reduction, 2026. Oil on canvas, 61 x 50.8 cm. 24 x 20 in.
GERMANTOWN NY.- What does it mean to build a world within the world, or folded inside it, to treat imagination as a precise instrument attending to what can only be experienced, and, at moments, shared? Some artists announce worlds, drawing in their professional practices on the same depth from which childhood first invents its own, the room we never quite stop returning to, through materials, abstract codes, and sensations that enact the paradox of an interior made outwardly visible. Paracosms assembles the works of Carlotta Amanzi, Carly Burnell, Ted Gahl, Mimi Lauter, Kristy Luck, Shane Rossi, and Peter Shear, each at work in a distinct visual idiom. In Amanzi’s paintings, oil on cotton, figure, landscape, and atmosphere share a single chromatic register, a palette of weather and stone, where forms hesitate, refuse resolution, and leave earlier states legible beneath later ones. Her canvases carry a rhapsodic range of mind that feels ancient and interior at once. Le ore (2026), ... More
Jan van Eyck, Madonna at the Fountain, c. 1440, Oil on panel. Clark Art Institute, gift of Aso O Tavitian Foundation.
WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.- The Clark Art Institute opened the exhibition An Exquisite Eye: Introducing the Aso O. Tavitian Collection, on view June 13, 2026, through February 21, 2027. The exhibition of approximately 150 works is the first public presentation of selections from the Tavitian Collection, one of the most significant private collections of European art formed in North America in the 21st century. The presentation brings together a vibrant range of paintings, sculpture, drawings, and decorative arts from more than four centuries of artistic production (c. 1450-1850). An Exquisite Eye includes rare early Netherlandish painting, Italian Renaissance sculpture, Baroque portraiture, and eighteenth-century French works by artists such as Jan van Eyck, Jean-Antoine Houdon, and Elizabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun, offering a compelling view of the collection’s depth across mediums and geography. A central interpretive ... More
PASADENA.- The Norton Simon Museum presents Making History: Manet’s “Execution of Maximilian” from the National Gallery, London. On view from November 13, 2026, through March 1, 2027, the exhibition is centered on Édouard Manet’s The Execution of Maximilian (c. 1867–68), one of the French artist’s most ambitious paintings, made all the more compelling by its now-fragmentary condition. The second of five versions (four paintings and one print) that Manet created, this monumental work depicts the death by firing squad of Austrian archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, the short-lived emperor of Mexico, at the hands of forces loyal to ousted Mexican president Benito Juárez in 1867. The execution—along with that of his generals Tomás Mejía and Miguel Miramón—shocked Europe, where many, including Manet, blamed French emperor Napoleon III, who had enticed Maximilian to take the throne. Despite ... More
ISTANBUL.- Twenty-five years after opening in Istanbul, Galerist celebrates a quarter-century of contemporary art with Labour of Love, a major exhibition bringing together more than 40 artists whose practices have helped shape the gallery’s identity since its founding in 2001. The exhibition features artists including Nil Yalter, Ayşe Erkmen, İpek Duben, Elif Uras, Gavin Turk, Hera Büyüktaşcıyan, Hussein Chalayan, Kendell Geers, Taner Ceylan, Semiha Berksoy, and Youssef Nabil alongside artists who have been central to Galerist’s programme over the past two decades. Opening on 16 September 2026, the exhibition features significant historical works alongside new commissions created especially for the occasion, offering a reflection on the relationships, ideas and exchanges that have defined Galerist’s evolution and its contribution to contemporary art in Turkey and beyond. Through more than 200 exhibitions, Galerist has built a programme supporting successive gene ... More
Alexander Tovborg.
NEW YORK, NY.- Olney Gleason announced the representation of Danish contemporary artist Alexander Tovborg (b. 1983, Copenhagen). The artist's first solo exhibition with the gallery will open in 2027 and follows Alexander Tovborg: Divine Comedy, Tovborg's largest museum exhibition to date, recently on view at the ARoS Aarhus Art Museum. Alexander Tovborg works across painting, drawing, bronze sculpture, and performance to explore the role of religion, faith, and myth in shaping human experience. Over the last two decades, Tovborg has developed a distinctive visual language characterized by a layering of ancient and contemporary symbolism. His figurative paintings and watercolors on paper approach the threshold of abstraction, combining vivid color and geometric forms to explore the emotive power of images. Tovborg's work inspires contemplation and reflection, often highlighting shared motifs found in origin stories across the world while proposing alternative narratives. ... More
Edward Burne-Jones, The Prioress’s Tale, 1869–98. Watercolor with gouache on paper laid down on linen, 40 1/2 × 24 1/4 in. (102.9 × 61.6 cm). Delaware Art Museum.
WILMINGTON, DE.- Simeon Solomon: Queer and Jewish in Victorian London is the first comprehensive U.S. museum exhibition on the British artist Simeon Solomon (1840–1905), the only Jewish artist associated with the Pre-Raphaelites. Solomon used his art to explore his faith, as well as same-sex passion, receiving critical acclaim for his Judaic subjects and exhibiting at prestigious venues throughout England. Following arrests for homosexual crimes in 1873, Solomon was rejected by the art establishment. He lived precariously for his three remaining decades, yet his artistic output remained prolific. His achievements were overshadowed by homophobia and antisemitism, his name subsequently erased from art history. The exhibition brings together more than 180 works by Solomon—including oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, ... More
Barbara Kasten, Metaphase 5, 1986, Cibachrome, 37 x 29 1/4 in (94 x 74.5 cm).
AKRON, OH.- Barbara Kasten: Threshold includes both new work and career-spanning selections by one of photography’s most innovative practitioners, presented across two interconnected sites at the Akron Art Museum: a sculptural installation in the Beatrice Knapp McDowell Grand Lobby and a survey of photography and video in the Fred and Laura Bidwell Gallery. For more than five decades, Barbara Kasten has worked at the intersection of photography, sculpture, and installation. Her practice involves constructing elaborate studio environments of geometric forms, mirrors, and theatrical lighting, then photographing them to create images that exist between the documentation of three-dimensional space and the pure shape and color of two-dimensional abstraction. Through these luminous compositions, Kasten celebrates photography’s unique capacity for optical illusion and spatial ambiguity, even prompting questions about the medium’s relationship to ... More
1982 Joe Montana Game Issued San Francisco 49ers Jersey from The Michael Zagaris Collection.
DALLAS, TX.- A collection of jerseys and Type 1 photographs from the personal collection of the longtime official photographer of the San Francisco 49ers and Athletics and celebrated rock’n’roll photographer will be brought into focus when they cross the auction block at the Summer Platinum Night Sports Auction August 21-23 at Heritage Auctions. The 27-lot Michael Zagaris Collection includes jerseys from the likes of 49er greats like Joe Montana, John Taylor, Ronnie Lott and Dwight Clark. It also features Type 1 photographs of 49ers like Montana and head coach Bill Walsh, then-Oakland Raiders like legendary coach John Madden and quarterback Ken Stabler, and iconic musicians like The Who and the Rolling Stones. A Type 1 photograph is a first-generation print developed directly from the original negative within approximately two years of when the photo was taken, making it highly authentic and valuable, and often coveted by serious collectors. ... More
Frans Franciscus, Self-Portrait, 1996 (Pinocchio). Oil on canvas, 120 x 100 cm. Private collection.
UTRECHT.- The Centraal Museum is presenting the first exhibition to examine the full breadth of Frans Franciscus’s career, bringing together more than 40 years of paintings and ceramics by one of the Netherlands’ most distinctive figurative artists. Titled Godenschemering – Frans Franciscus—or Twilight of the Gods—the exhibition ranges from works made during the artist’s early years at art school in Utrecht to recent large-scale compositions. It also places Franciscus’s work in dialogue with paintings, photographs and objects from the museum’s own collection. Guest curators Paul van den Akker and Claar Griffioen have organized the exhibition around themes that have repeatedly surfaced in Franciscus’s work: artistic ambition, love, power, religion, human behavior and sexual and cultural diversity. “Frans Franciscus is one of the most distinctive Dutch figurative painters of his generation,” said Bart Rutten, artistic director of the Centraal ... More
MONTCLAIR, NJ.- The Montclair State University Galleries presents Maria Yolanda Liebana: A Place to Be Held, the first solo museum exhibition by New York City-based artist Maria Yolanda Liebana. Bringing together painting, sculpture and immersive installation, the exhibition premieres three ambitious site-specific commissions created for the George Segal Gallery, transforming the museum into a series of imagined environments that explore motherhood, spirituality, identity and belonging. The exhibition will be on view from September 15 through December 11, 2026. A first-generation Latinx artist who grew up in Paterson, New Jersey, Liebana creates richly layered works inspired by personal experience, ancient mythology, Catholic imagery, Tarot, art history and contemporary popular culture. Using materials including pearls, glitter, sequins, mirrored surfaces, beads, wallpaper, and rhinestones, she blurs the boundaries between the sacred and the everyday, the playful and the profound. Throughout her work, ... More
BERLIN.- Wars, conflicts and environmental disasters are destroying cities and habitats across the globe. Reconstruction is an urgent task; millions of people need shelter, space and safety. This autumn’s exhibition and events programme at the Akademie der Künste, entitled “Metaxy : Between Destruction and Reconstruction”, focuses on that uncertain moment when it is not yet clear how societies will deal with loss, guilt and memory – and how they will shape the future. The term metaxy, ancient Greek for “between”, refers to the state of tension between destruction and reconstruction, past and future. The Akademie building on Hanseatenweg and Berlin’s Hansaviertel district itself are significant examples of reconstruction following the destruction of the Second World War. Starting from a critical exploration of the traces to be found at and around the site of the Akademie der Künste, the exhibition links local experiences with global perspectives from Afghanista ... More
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BENGALURU.- The Registry: Centre for Design opens at 7 Cornwell Rd, Langford Gardens Bengaluru with an inaugural show titled Perched Upon a Woven Sky, presented by The Registry of Sarees (Trust) and curated by Aayushi Jain. The exhibition marks both the opening of this new Centre for Design as well as ten years of The Registry of Sarees, the research and study centre with an interdisciplinary approach to handspun and handwoven textile, both initiatives ably founded by Ally Matthan. Over the past decade, Matthan has emerged as a significant voice in India's textile and design landscape, dedicating her work to researching, documenting and preserving the country's handwoven textile traditions through one of India's most thoughtful and rigorously built textile archives. The opening of The Registry: Centre for Design marks the next chapter in Matthan's vision—creating a multidisciplinary institution where archives, material culture, design, craft and contemporary creative practice come together th ... More
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Kunsthalle Düsseldorf opens restricted Suitbertus Lake for new exhibition DUSSELDORF.- Beneath the Surface, Beyond the Trees is a collaboration between SAC Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth 1909 e. V. and Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, realised as part of the project series Kunsthalle unterwegs. Suitbertus Lake in Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth is normally not accessible to the public; it has been leased by the SAC Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth 1909 e. V. since 1970 and is used for fishing. As part of the exhibition Beneath the Surface, Beyond the Trees in the summer of 2026, the lake has been temporarily opened and used as a stage for artistic interventions. These deliberately contrast with the ecosystem of the lake and its surroundings, thus creating new perspectives on the location. The lake is not merely a landscape, but a tapestry of movements, rhythms and transitions. Water, shore and vegetation form a delicate balance that is constantly ... More
MCA Australia and ACON launch Bonnie Huang exhibition at Westfield Parramatta SYDNEY.- From 3–16 August 2026, the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia in partnership with ACON present a new C3West project, Bonnie Huang: Dare to Dream, at Westfield Parramatta on Level 4, opposite Timezone. Bonnie Huang: Dare to Dream is MCA Australia’s 26th C3West project. Since 2007, C3West has brought artists and communities together to create art that directly responds to local concerns in Greater Sydney. It partners with local organisations and businesses to identify areas of need, developing artist-led projects that are genuinely collaborative and socially engaged. Bonnie Huang: Dare to Dream brings together culturally and linguistically diverse LGBTQ+ residents of Western Sydney in an art project that celebrates, advocates for and increases the visibility of this community. This latest C3West partnership project is presented ... More
Anita Bates explores two decades of abstract art at Stamelos Gallery Center DEARBORN, MICH.- The Stamelos Gallery Center will present Frames of Reference, Past and Present: Selected Works by Anita Bates, a survey of the artist’s past and present artwork. This exhibition explores my aesthetic choices over the last 20 plus years. Not truly a retrospective because the scope is limited, the work is more of a survey; selected paintings which represent the various bodies of work undertaken over more than two decades. Our experiences help us construct meaning, respond to others and define our cultural frame of reference. Similarly, the artist impacts their audience through the construction of images based on their connections, sensibilities and experiences. This is what I term as an aesthetic frame of reference, hence the title of this exhibition. Recently, I underwent an investigation of why I create the way I do. This inquiry led me to the desire ... More
Alisan Fine Arts to present joint exhibition by Fong Chung-Ray and Hung Hsien NEW YORK, NY.- Alisan Fine Arts will present A New Horizon, featuring artists Fong Chung-Ray and Hung Hsien. Both artists immigrated to Taiwan as teenagers and later settled in the US, where they reside today; Fong in California, and Hung in Texas. Fong and Hung were part of the Fifth Moon Group, a prominent Taiwan art collective that promulgated a move towards modernism while retaining a clear Chinese identity. The focus of this exhibition, however, is the evolution of each artist’s work during their subsequent time spent in the US. Both were influenced by their new surroundings, and as their styles matured, they introduced elements of their cultural tradition in different ways, each creating their own unique contemporary artistic language. Fong studied fine arts at a newly established military academy in Taipei, and in 1959, he was among the artists representing Taiwan ... More
Abbey Williams brings five-channel video installation Fugue to CMCA ROCKLAND, ME.- Fugue is a highly musical rumination on our charged historical moment. A five-channel video installation displayed on horizontal monitors in freestanding black pedestals, Abbey Williams has reedited and “remixed” the work since its 2025 premiere in Basel for its American debut at CMCA—a recursive practice central to her process. Over the course of its nearly eight-minute run time, Fugue montages overhead shots of the artist flipping through oversized photobooks of classical architecture, her hands pawing at or caressing marble statues and columns as if they were living flesh. The work eventually pivots to images of the artist’s hands painting on the surface of monitors that she ultimately shatters with a hammer, creating illuminated fissures akin to lightning that she also dangerously caresses. Throughout, Williams intersperses imagery from antiquity ... More
New research reveals how ancient Maya households shaped the land for farming and rainwater control MERIDA.- Archaeologists studying ancient Maya settlements in the Yucatán Peninsula are finding new evidence that everyday households were carefully organized around the natural landscape, using slopes and low-lying areas to manage rainwater and support small-scale agriculture. The research, led by archaeologist Carlos Matos Llanes of Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History, or INAH, focuses on four sites excavated as part of the Maya Train Archaeological Salvage Project. Rather than examining temples, palaces or other monumental structures, the study looks at the spaces surrounding ordinary homes and asks how Maya families used the land in their daily lives. Researchers have long known that ancient Maya communities altered the central areas of settlements for agricultural purposes. Much less attention, however, has been ... More
Powerhouse Parramatta welcomes first objects SYDNEY.- The historic Qantas Avro 504K aircraft, a replica of the airline’s first plane will feature in the major opening exhibition, Task Eternal. The Avro is suspended above a Cierva C.30A Autogiro — a forerunner of the helicopter — and the Skycraft Scout Mark 1, an ultralight aircraft designed and made by Australian Ron Wheeler. Featured in the new museum’s largest exhibition space, Task Eternal will explore the intersection of design, innovation and technology and trace humanity’s quest to defy gravity, take flight and journey into the sky. The Avro aircraft is one of two replicas of the airline’s first plane, built in Mascot by Qantas engineers and apprentices in 1988. Weighing more than 760 kilograms and at almost 9m long with a wingspan of 11m, the aircraft is one of more than 750 objects that will feature in the foundational opening exhibition, Task Eternal. The Avro ... More
Artist Marcel Pardo Ariza creates site-specific BAMPFA mural on museum labor BERKELEY, CALIF.- This summer, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive will unveil a large-scale site-specific mural commissioned from the Bay Area artist Marcel Pardo Ariza. Art Wall / Marcel Pardo Ariza: Las Frutas del Laborcelebrates the often-overlooked contributions of professional art handlers, whose labor is vital to sustaining cultural spaces. On view for nearly a full year, the mural was created specifically for BAMPFA’s sixty-three-by-thirty-foot Art Wall, visible from the street, that welcomes visitors to the museum and has become one of BAMPFA’s signature commissioning platforms. Born in Bogotá, Colombia and currently based in Oakland, Ariza is the co-founder, with Ambrose Trataris, of Arthandlxrs*, an award-winning organization dedicated to supporting marginalized communities within the art handling profession. Their work as an artist explores queer and trans identity through photographic installations and collaborative projects, which celebrate intergenerational kinship ... More
IFEMA MADRID confirms existing team to lead new phase of ARCO art fairs MADRID.- IFEMA MADRID has deemed the excellent work carried out by the ARCOmadrid and ARCOlisboa teams, which is recognised across the sector, to be the best guarantee for leading a new phase of the project. Under the stewardship of Gonzalo Cabrera, IFEMA MADRID’s Director of Culture and Education, the team that established ARCO as a leading international contemporary art fair will continue to drive its development, ensuring continuity of identity, strategy and market confidence. The ARCO team, led by Maribel López with remarkable success in recent years, combines experience with a new generation of talent. Notable members include Ruth Gómez, who is responsible for relations with national and international galleries; Mario Navarro, head of curated programmes; Carmen Tasende, responsible for special projects, architecture ... More
Artist Lindsay Perryman explores Black transmasculinity in new CLAMP exhibition NEW YORK, NY.- CLAMP is presenting “Tops,” the first US solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Lindsay Perryman. Born and raised in New York, Perryman’s work explores the existence, visibility, and nuances of transgender identities. Perryman utilizes their practice to challenge and rewrite misconceptions about the spectrum of identity. They rely on a cultivated visual awareness to reinterpret and redefine queerness. Perryman’s 2024 film, “Tops,” is a visual mediation on the often overlooked experiences of Black transmasculinity. Shooting photographs before, during, and after the production, the images were gathered into a cohesive body of work and a monograph of the same title (Palm* Studios). Through moving and still images, Perryman employs the experience of top surgery as a tool to explore matters of community and belonging, as well as forging one’s place ... More
Tank Museum Director pens new children's book DORSET.- Rosanna Dean, Director of Visitor Experience & Commercial, has released a new children’s book – the first in a series about popular UK attractions. Titled Marjorie & RaaRaa at The Tank Museum, Rosanna’s new book sees a little girl named Marjorie exploring The Tank Museum alongside RaaRaa, her blue leopard friend. The book follows the adventurous pair as they explore each part of the Museum, sightseeing and playing in interactive exhibitions. Rosanna and her illustrator, Jem Milton, plan to publish tales of Marjorie and RaaRaa at other popular attractions, highlighting the different ways children can have fun at each one. Initially joining as the Museum’s Events Manager in 2018, Rosanna now sits on the charity’s board of directors. In 2024, she was recognised as ... More
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On a day like today, American painter and sculptor Paul McCarthy was born
August 04, 1945. Paul McCarthy (born August 4, 1945) is an American artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. McCarthy's works include performance, sculpture, installation, film, and "painting as action". His points of reference are rooted, on the one hand, in things typically American, such as Disneyland, B-Movies, Soap Operas and Comics - he is a critical analyst of the mass media and consumer-driven American society and its hypocrisy, double standards, and repression. The controversial, inflatable sculpture "Tree" by US artist Paul McCarthy sits deflated on the Vendome square in the center of Paris on October 18, 2014 after people sectionned overnight the cables securing it to the ground and tampered with the pump keeping it inflated.
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