Kicking Off at the 10th Annual Right to Run Celebration, Seneca Falls, NY, May 8–9
SENECA FALLS, NY.- On the heels of the largest and most acclaimed exhibition of her work to date, Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology: Trees, Time, and Technology which debuted as part of Getty’s PST ART Art & Science Collide and traveled to di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art in San Francisco as an expanded version (January 22 – April 11, 2026), artist, filmmaker, and author Tiffany Shlain continues a national tour of her celebrated moveable monument sculpture Dendrofemonology: A Feminist History Tree Ring, which began with an installation on the National Mall in 2023 and has traveled widely across the country. In 2026, the tour kicks into gear in this key midterm year, traveling to landmark sites across the United States. The tour begins in Seneca Falls, New York, the birthplace of the American women’s rights movement on May 8, 2026 at Right to Run, and ... More
Gold Box, 1728–29. Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (French, 1695–1750). Gold and lapis lazuli; 3 x 8.3 x 5.2 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the John L. Severance Fund, the Dudley P. Allen Fund, by exchange, and the Sundry Art—Miscellaneous Fund.
CLEVELAND, OH.- The Cleveland Museum of Art has acquired an extraordinarily rare gold snuffbox made in Paris in 1728–29 by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, the most revolutionary forerunner of the Rococo style in the decorative arts. Of exceptional art historical importance, the box is one of only five known objects in precious metals firmly associated with Meissonnier to have survived the political upheavals of subsequent centuries, during which works in gold and silver were frequently melted down. For many years, it was the only known work bearing the maker’s mark of Meissonnier, until the 2019 discovery of his mark on a gold mount for a rock crystal ewer belonging to Marie Antoinette, now in the Louvre. The snuffbox is distinguished as a work executed by Meissonnier himself, without the involvement of other master goldsmiths. This acquisition significantly strengthens the museum’s Meissonnier collection ... More
One of the rarest of all Lehmann (Germany) toys in the sale, the 9in ‘Pilot’ motorcycle, Model EPL 726, was made in the second decade of the 20th century. The auction example is all original, has a working windup mechanism, and is assessed to be in VG-excellent condition. Markings on the bike, presumably by a child, show a date of ‘1916.’ Estimate: $6,000-$8,000.
WILLOUGHBY, OHIO.- Anyone who collects rare motorcycles, either the real-life or toy versions, is likely to have done business with Dave Leitner at one time or another. Over the past half-century, the Michigan native has gotten his kicks riding and dealing in antique bikes while also collecting the smaller-scale toys that emulate them. Alongside the tin and cast-iron toy motorcycles in Leitner’s vast collection are all sorts of other antique and vintage toys. On May 30, Milestone Auctions in suburban Cleveland will bring the first installment of Leitner’s coveted personal collection to the auction block, offering 750 choice toys from a diverse and enviable assemblage. In addition to in-person bidding at Milestone’s gallery, several convenient options will be available for remote participation, including absentee, by phone or live via the Internet through any ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- When the excavations at Pompeii were first placed on a scholarly archaeological footing in the 19th century, brothers Fausto and Felice Niccolini were close at hand and ready to respond. Making use of the newly introduced technique of color lithography, they documented the buildings, frescos, statues, as well as the most ordinary everyday objects, of the city buried in just 24 hours by the catastrophic eruption of Vesuvius and preserved for over 1,600 years under a mantle of volcanic ash. The Niccolinis’ goal was to illustrate all aspects of life in the antique city. Their publication, Le case ed i monumenti di Pompei (“The Houses and Monuments of Pompeii”), which was issued in installments between 1854 and 1896 in Naples, presented over 400 color plates providing not only views, maps, and groundplans of the city and its public buildings, but also offered unprecedented access to Pompeii’s private residences. They revealed the astonishing painted wall decorations tha ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian will participate in Frieze New York 2026 with a presentation of works by a group of international contemporary artists with diverse approaches to abstraction and nature. The paintings, sculptures, and photographs on view are inspired by colors, forms, and materials found outdoors, exploring our relationship with our environment through interpretations of growth and transformation. Participating artists include Derrick Adams, Richard Diebenkorn, Helen Frankenthaler, Theaster Gates, Cy Gavin, Nan Goldin, Titus Kaphar, Jeff Koons, Rick Lowe, Tyler Mitchell, Sabine Moritz, Giuseppe Penone, Gerhard Richter, Sarah Sze, Adriana Varejão, Mary Weatherford, Stanley Whitney, and Francesa Woodman. Sarah Sze’s mixed-media painting Badlands (2026) merges collaged imagery including hands and fragments of landscapes and seascapes with streaks and drips of paint, juxtaposing representation and ... More
Unidentified maker, Doll in red dress, ca. 1880–90. Mixed fabrics. The New York Historical, Promised gift of Betye Saar. Courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects Los Angeles, California. Photo: Robert Wedemeyer
NEW YORK, NY.- The New York Historical presents Betye Saar’s Black Dolls, an exhibition marking the 100th birthday of pioneering artist Betye Saar, on view May 8 – October 4, 2026. Complementing The Historical’s 2022 exhibition Black Dolls, this new exhibition focuses on an iconic artist’s engagement with Black dolls. A key figure in the 1970s Black Arts and feminist art movements, Saar gained wide recognition for her trenchant assemblages incorporating and reframing racist Americana. To celebrate her landmark promised gift of more than 100 Black dolls to The New York Historical’s collections, Betye Saar’s Black Dolls features a selection of dolls from the promised gift alongside radiant watercolors in which Saar brings the dolls to life and several signature assemblages incorporating dolls into altar-like structures to their mystical and symbolic power. “The New York Historical is proud to honor the 100th birthday of Betye Saar with an exhibition that explores th ... More
The Ambasz-MoMA Annual Prize for Nature-Reconciled Architecture will be awarded by a jury composed of three curators from MoMA’s Department of Architecture and Design.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art has received a new major gift from the Legacy Emilio Ambasz Foundation to establish a first-of-its-kind annual architecture prize. On the occasion of Earth Day, MoMA announced the Ambasz-MoMA Annual Prize for Nature-Reconciled Architecture. Launching this year, the Ambasz-MoMA Annual Prize will award a total of $200,000 annually to a pathbreaking architectural project completed in the last 30 years that aligns with the stated mission of the Ambasz Institute for the Joint Study of the Built and the Natural Environment: to promote the exploration and study of creative approaches to design at all scales of the built environment—buildings, cities, landscapes, and objects—with an emphasis on understanding their joint relationship to their natural environment. The total value of the Ambasz-MoMA Annual Prize will be the highest for a single project in the domain of architecture, with $100,000 ... More
VENICE.- The Republic of Moldova participates in the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, with the support of the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, presenting the project On the Thousand and Second Night, by artist Pavel Brăila (Republic of Moldova) and curated by Adelina Luft (Romania). Presented at Santa Veneranda, part of the Chiesa dei Santi Geremia e Lucia in Venice, within the framework of the 61st International Art Exhibition, the project marks an inaugural moment for the Republic of Moldova and affirms its commitment to contemporary international cultural dialogue. Responding to the theme of Biennale Arte 2026, In Minor Keys, the installation unfolds within a register of low frequencies: murmur, attention, and proximity. Rather than amplifying the noise of the present, On the Thousand and Second Night opens a space for reflection in which imagination and material culture operate as forms of continuity within a ... More
Marilyn’s 1952 Jean Lavin gown.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- This summer, Julien’s Auctions and TCM are breaking out the champagne for their biggest toast to Hollywood yet, commencing with “100 Years of Marilyn,” their centennial celebration of Marilyn Monroe taking place the week of the Hollywood icon’s 100th birthday Thursday, June 4th live at The Peninsula Beverly Hills and online at juliensauctions.com This extraordinary auction commemorating the milestone birthday of Marilyn Monroe kicks off the industry leading Hollywood memorabilia auction house and Hollywood’s most revered purveyor of classic movies’ event, “Julien's Auctions and TCM Present: A Month of Hollywood Legends” taking place throughout the month of June. Coming soon: even more iconic items and collections of Hollywood history heading to “A Month of Hollywood Legends” to be announced in the days ahead! This stunning collection features some of Marilyn Monroe’s most treasured objects and intimate possessions ... More
Maebyeong vase with inlaid lotus design, Korea, Joseon dynasty, 15th century, Buncheong ware, glazed stoneware with inlaid white slips. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew B. Kim, Class of 1985P; C.986.72.3. Stephen Petegorsky / Jim Gipe photo.
HANOVER, NH.- The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, introduces Asian Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, which will open to the public during a reception on the evening of Friday, January 8, 2027. The exhibition will be on view January 9 through November 13, 2027. Curated by Haely Chang, the inaugural Jane and Raphael Bernstein Associate Curator of East Asian Art at the Hood Museum of Art, Asian Art at Dartmouth is the first major exhibition to showcase the breadth and quality of the museum’s Asian art collection. Spanning four galleries, it will showcase art from East, South, and Southeast Asia, as well as the Himalayas, primarily focusing on works created before 1950, though selected contemporary pieces will also appear. Placing ... More
INDIANAPOLIS, IN.- Opening on May 8, 2026, BODY / BEYOND: Fashion That Transforms will feature 25 garments spanning 1950s couture to avant-garde ensembles of the 2010s, these designs blur the boundary between fashion and sculpture, function and fantasy. They invite you to look closely and to reconsider the way the body can be seen. The fashion collection has been expanded with the acquisition of three new works. Highlights include a standout sequined blazer from Maison Margiela’s 2008 Spring/Summer collection and one of Jean Paul Gautier’s iconic cone-cup dresses, most famously worn by Madonna during her 1990 Blonde Ambition World Tour. These acquisitions will be featured alongside designs by Dior, Halston (an Indiana native), and Miyake from the IMA Collection in a dynamic, original arrangement. ... More
Richard Serra, Muddy Waters, 1987. Paintstick on screen print, 74 x 60 1/2 in. 188 x 153.7 cm. Edition number 17/20 R. Serra 87' (lower right).
NEW YORK, NY.- Friedrichs Pontone presents Frameworks, a group exhibition featuring works by Julia Rommel, Hwang Seontae, Andrea Joyce Heimer, Imi Knoebel, Richard Serra, Walter Price, Bernard Piffaretti, Dagoberto Rodriguez, Jonathan Chapline, Sheree Hovsepian, and Ellen Lesperance. The pictorial language of geometric abstraction is based on simple geometric shapes which, when combined, create a non-objective form that represents an artist’s attention to detail, and mastery of mathematical composition. Form is dictated by the artist, who decides their applications of lines and shapes to create their work. The methodology of applying precision to line and form when artmaking evokes a reality built on minimalist principles. Within this framework, contemporary artists who create non-representational art rely on geometric line and form to execute constructions ... More
VENICE.- The exhibition, spread across three ven-ues, Palazzo Bembo, Palazzo Mora, and the Marinaressa Gardens, presents works by 175 artists from over 40 countries. Historical masters such as Keith Haring, ORLAN, Hirohiko Araki, alongside emerging voices, will transform Venice into a labora-tory of visions, practices, and languages. In Venice, Palazzo Bembo, Palazzo Mora, and the Marinaressa Gardens host, from 9 May to 22 November 2026, the eighth edition of Personal Structures, an international biennial exhibition of contemporary art. The curatorial team is composed of Elisa Dallanoce, Sara Danieli, Rachele De Stefano, Lucia Pedrana, Claudia Piovan, Sara Serpilli, Micaela Skerl, Lucia Trevisan, and Elena Volpato. This year’s theme is Confluences, which invites the public to discover the dialogue between different artistic practices, cultures, and creative expressions, highlighting how diverse perspectives can meet and gen ... More
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Taipei Fine Arts Museum of Taiwan collateral event Li Yi-Fan: Screen Melancholy opens at the Venice Biennale VENICE.- Taipei Fine Arts Museum of Taiwan is presenting the Collateral Event Screen Melancholy: Li Yi-Fan at the 61st International Art Exhibition—the Venice Biennale. The exhibition will be held at the Palazzo delle Prigioni from May 9 to November 22, 2026, featuring a new work by Taiwanese artist Li Yi-Fan and curated by Raphael Fonseca, curator of visual arts at Culturgest, Lisbon and Porto, Portugal. Both from a generation that witnesses the birth of internet technology, they explore the complex relationship between imagery, technology, and human experience in a dialogue that goes beyond regions and cultures. Li works across painting, animation, game engines, and generative imagery to explore how images shape ... More
Michael Beutler wins Nam June Paik Award 2026 for paper-processing 'Workshop' GELSENKIRCHEN.- In collaboration with the Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen, the Art Award of the Kunststiftung NRW—Nam June Paik Award 2026 is awarded to the artist Michael Beutler. The internationally renowned award is endowed with 25,000 Euros. Michael Beutler is honoured for his expansive installation Tapetenwechsel (Change of Scenery), which transforms the former industrialist villa from the late 19th century into an artistic and artisanal production facility—a multi-storey workshop where waste paper is processed into sculptural objects. The manufacturing process itself becomes a central component of the exhibition. In specially constructed apparatuses, old books, catalogues and other materials are processed into pulp and used to create long paper webs, which are then used to redecorate the rooms of the villa. Machines, tools and production ... More
Laura Letinsky: New still-life works at Galerie Miranda bridge the digital and anachronistic PARIS.- For its spring 2026 exhibition Galerie Miranda opened a solo show of nuanced still-life works by Chicago-based artist Laura Letinsky. For over 30 years, the work of Laura Letinsky has consistently investigated what defines a photograph. In A pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information, Letinsky employs and combines historical and modern photographic processes to create images that challenge and elude predefined notions of spatial and temporal organization: iPhone images printed as tintypes, one of the earliest photographic processes, digital pigment prints on paper and dye sublimation prints made on aluminum. The artist’s latest series of works, That What Can’t Be, features snapshots taken with her iPhone - abstract compositions and still lifes of domestic disorder - are printed as tintypes, lending a reflective and silvery quality to the images. ... More
Lucia Hierro: Moving Day explores displacement and memory at MARC STRAUS NEW YORK, NY.- MARC STRAUS presents Moving Day, a solo exhibition of new wall and floor sculptures by Lucia Hierro. Through a series of sculptural boxes, containers, and enclosures, Hierro examines displacement, memory, and the fragile stability of home within the shifting economic realities of contemporary New York. The exhibition takes its title from a historical New York tradition dating back to the colonial era. For more than two centuries, nearly all residential leases in the city expired simultaneously on May 1st at 9 a.m., forcing thousands of residents to relocate at once. Streets filled with carts, wagons, and furniture as families hurriedly transported their belongings across the city in a moment of collective upheaval. Known as “Moving Day,” the event transformed the city into a scene of chaos and renewal each year until the practice faded during World War II. Hierro draws a parallel between this historical phenomenon and the present-day realities of New York’s cultural land ... More
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art celebrates the 90th anniversary of Ferdinand with a special exhibition AMHERST, MASS.- A special exhibition at The Carle honors the 90th anniversary of a classic picture book hero who has become an icon of peace and self-determination. On view May 9 – November 8, 2026, Under the Cork Tree: The Story of Ferdinand explores the origins of the legendary bull who did not want to fight. Organized by guest curator Jane Bayard Curley, the exhibition features original drawings by artist Robert Lawson, the manuscript by writer Munro Leaf, materials related to Walt Disney Studio’s 1938 Academy Award-winning animated film, related merchandise, and a contemporary artwork inspired by Ferdinand. “In this perilous, increasingly aggressive world, Ferdinand is a touchstone,” said Curley. “He embodies the peaceful ... More
Palm Springs Art Museum presents Lake Verea: DarkRooms and Other Games PALM SPRINGS, CALIF.- Palm Springs Art Museum presents Lake Verea: DarkRooms and Other Games, an exhibition by artists Francisca Rivero-Lake and Carla Verea. Since 2005, the Mexico City–based duo has collaborated as Lake Verea, merging their identities as queer women with experimental photographic techniques to create intimate portraits of architecture. With DarkRooms and Other Games, they turn their lenses to Palm Springs icons, including Richard Neutra’s Kaufmann House and Albert Frey’s designs: Aluminaire House and Frey House II, capturing these homes under full moonlight to reveal moods and details invisible under the glare of the desert sun. “Palm Springs has long been a place where architecture and creative experimentation intersect,” said Christine Vendredi, JoAnn McGrath Executive Director of Palm Springs ... More
Eleven new commissions bridge the gap between past and present at ACE ADELAIDE.- Adelaide Contemporary Experimental is presenting Anarchive: Gut-feeling, a major exhibition bringing together eleven new commissions alongside rarely-seen historic works. Presented at ACE, 8 May to 27 June 2026, the exhibition invites artists and audiences to engage with experimental art histories in proximity to new performance, moving image, sound works and embodied experiences. Developed as part of curator Sasha Grbich’s ongoing research into women’s contributions to experimental art in South Australia, Anarchive: Gut-feeling forms part of the Experimental Art Anarchive project – a partnership between ACE, Flinders University Museum of Art (FUMA) and Artlink. Bringing contemporary artists into conversation with historic experimental works, the exhibition rethinks the idea of the archive as something fixed or complete. Anarchive: ... More
Milwaukee Art Museum presents Widline Cadet's first U.S. museum solo exhibition MILWAUKEE, WI.- The Milwaukee Art Museum announces Currents 40: Widline Cadet, the first solo museum exhibition in the United States by artist Widline Cadet and the first full presentation of her ambitious, nearly decade-long project Seremoni Disparisyon (Ritual [Dis]Appearance). On view May 8 through August 9, 2026, the exhibition marks a defining moment in Cadet’s career and a major contribution to contemporary photography and media-based art. Working across photography, video, and installation, Cadet explores Black diasporic life through themes of migration, memory, absence, and belonging. Rooted in lived experience and shaped by displacement between Haiti and the United States, Seremoni Disparisyon transforms personal history into a dreamlike, proxy world—one that resists fixed narratives and instead unfolds through repetition ... More
Heritage's spring design auctions surpass $2 million, drawing new bidders and record results in contemporary glass DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions’ Spring Design events — the April 30 Early 20th Century Design Signature® Auction and the May 1 Modern Design Signature® Auction — realized a combined total of more than $2 million, marking a strong and confident reintroduction of the auction house’s newly relaunched Design department. Leading the charge were two standout lots from the Modern Design sale: Lino Tagliapietra’s Dinosaur (2017), which achieved an auction record for the form at $60,000, and a striking Dale Chihuly chandelier (2001), which brought $106,250. Notably, both works were acquired by bidders entirely new to Heritage — a signal of the department’s expanding reach and the growing appeal of Design across collecting ... More
Brooklyn Museum unveils outdoor installation by prize recipient Keisha Scarville BROOKLYN, NY.- Opening May 8, Keisha Scarville: Where Salt Meets Black Water will activate the Brooklyn Museum’s Iris Cantor Plaza. Designed by Brooklyn-born photographer and recipient of the 2026 UOVO Prize, Keisha Scarville (Brooklyn, New York, 1975), the site-specific outdoor installation transforms individual remembrance and loss into communal memory and shared belonging while offering a meaningful tribute to the Caribbean diaspora. Where Salt Meets Black Water will be on view through October 2026. Rooted in a practice that combines photography, collage, and archival materials, Scarville’s work explores themes of migration, memory, and absence through a deeply personal lens. Born in Brooklyn to Guyanese parents who immigrated to New York in the 1960s, the artist draws from her own family history to examine the emotional resonance ... More
Félix Luque Sánchez explores a post-human world at LABoral GIJÓN.- “Have we not always had the deep-seated phantasy of a world that would go on without us? The poetic temptation to see the world in our absence, free of any human, all-too-human will?” —Jean Baudrillard, Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? LABoral Centre for Art and Industrial Creation (Gijón, Spain) presents The Automatic Society, an international exhibition by asturian artist Félix Luque Sánchez, in collaboration with Iñigo Bilbao Lopategui, Damien Gernay and Vincent Evrard. Industrial robots are designed to perform repetitive tasks with near-perfect precision. They operate without hesitation, exhaustion or loss of concentration. This is the mastery of automation, a synchronised symphony. From taylorism to contemporary artificial intelligence, the utopia of automation has become increasingly prevalent. Having already transformed the world of industrial ... More
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On a day like today, English sculptor and academic Alfred Gerrard was born
May 07, 1899. Alfred Horace "Gerry" Gerrard RBS (7 May 1899 - 13 June 1998) was an English modernist sculptor. He was head of the sculpture department at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1925 and professor of sculpture there from 1949 to 1968, where he taught a number of well-known sculptors. In this image: Carving over entrance to St Anselm's church, Kennington Cross, 1933.
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