Friday, April 03, 2026

The Rollins Museum of Art receives stained-glass window gift

A.F. Mueller, Adoration of the Magi, 15' x 5', stained-glass window. Courtesy of The Rollins Museum of Art.
WINTER PARK, FLA.— The Rollins Museum of Art announced a gift from The First United Methodist Church Winter Park, a historic stained-glass window made in the late 19th century, now formally recognized in the collection as A.F. Mueller’s Adoration of the Magi as of February 2026. Measuring 15' x 5' and depicting The Adoration of the Magi, the window was fabricated by American manufacturer, the Milwaukee-based Mueller Mirror and Art Glass Works, and exemplifies the taste for late 19th-century European stained-glass design, particularly devotional images in American houses of worship. Originally installed in the of Reeves Memorial Methodist Church in Orlando (NW corner of Oregon Street and North Ferncreek Ave), which closed in 2018, the window was later transferred to First United Methodist Church in Winter Park, just two blocks north of the Museum’s new facility currently under construction. First United Methodist lent the window to the Museum in 2021 with intentions to restore it for eventual display in the new facility; however, the Church has decided to fully gift the window, adding not only an important piece of local history to the Museum’s collection, but one that broadens its existing stained-glass holdings, including a contemporaneous English stained-glass panel (ca. 1870-80) originally made for a domestic interior in Hartford, CT, and a later Tiffany window (1929) depicting Christ the Redeemer from Greeley Presbyterian Church in St. Louis. “The Rollins Museum of Art is deeply grateful for the donation of this window—an example of mastery in the medium of stained glass and a work of art beloved by the Orlando community for more than a century,” said the Rollins Museum of Art’s Bruce A. Beal Executive Director Leslie Anderson. Adoration of the Magi will be displayed as part of the inaugural exhibition at the new facility in 2028, featuring additional works from the permanent collection. The museums plans to integrating it into fu...
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300 Islamic artworks redefine the history of Orientalism in Lens

LENS.— Containing some 300 masterpieces, the Beyond the One Thousand and One Nights exhibition invites visitors on a voyage through time to discover how, knowledge and imagined settings circulate and are transformed. The exhibition explores the multiple lives of artworks – the fates of objects since their creation, their travels and the reinterpretations and questions of new narratives are built, transformed and transferred. In the early 18th century, Antoine Galland published a French version of One Thousand and One Nights, a collection of tales from Indian and Persian traditions, first compiled in Arabic in the 9th century. Renowned for their otherworldly, enchanted tales, shaped by centuries of rewriting, revival and imagination, these stories gained immense popularity in Europe. Their success had a profound impact on portrayals of the Orient, demonstrating a desire for new horizons and acting as a mirror held up to the societies that adopted them. But the story did not begin with Gal
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Jasper Johns's iconic 'Flags' reunited at Craig Starr Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.— Craig Starr Gallery is presenting Jasper Johns: Flags on view April 2 – June 27, 2026. Organized in collaboration with the artist and his studio, the exhibition assembles paintings, drawings, and sculptures that expand Johns’s iconic motif into unexpected forms—including double and triple flags, flags rendered in complementary colors, monochromes, and flags set against fields. The show will include loans from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Jasper Johns, and private collections. This presentation brings together distinctive and unconventional treatments of the flag, revealing the formal and material range Johns achieved through a single, inexhaustible image. “One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and went out and bought the materials to begin it,” recalled the artist. That
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Sir Henry Raeburn's missing portrait of poet Robert Burns is found after 220 years

EDINBURGH.— A lost portrait of the famous Scottish poet, Robert Burns, by the renowned artist Sir Henry Raeburn has been found after over 200 years. The painting of Robert Burns was found during a house clearance in Surrey and consigned to auction in Wimbledon, London in March 2025. With a starting price of between £300─£500, the winning bid was £68,000. A triumph against all the odds, Dr William (Bill) Zachs, Director of Blackie House Library and Museum in Edinburgh and long-term Burns scholar and enthusiast, understood the potential significance of the painting and purchased the portrait believing it could be the elusive missing artwork. The painting has since been cleaned, and examined by experts, who confirm that it is, indeed, the lost Raeburn portrait. Commissioned in 1803 ─ at a fee of 20 guineas ─ by the publishers Cadell & Davies, the painting was to be engraved for
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Francisca García and Mario Navarro bridge two worlds in 'Unearthed Conversation'

GHENT.— Unearthed Conversation presents new work by artists Francisca García (b. 1969, Santiago de Chile) and Mario Navarro (b. 1970, Santiago de Chile). This collaborative project departs from the 1964 Chilean documentary film ‘Aquí Vivieron’ by Pedro Chaskel and Héctor Ríos, and from images taken by the NASA Perseverance Mars Rover on the planet Mars since 2021. Chaskel and Ríos’ documentary focuses on the excavation of material remains of the Chango culture at the mouth of the Loa River in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. In terms of surface and structure, the desert closely resembles the planet Mars. With this exhibition, García and Navarro connect these two landscapes and geographies, and use images to reflect on both the future and the past. The Atacama is both the protagonist and the backdrop of this exhibition. Like the exhibition itself, the desert brings together stories and traces of forgotten pasts. These include archaeological finds from the Chango culture, the
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Rare gilt-bronze luohan figures lead Christie's Hong Kong Spring sale

HONG KONG.— Following the announcements of the three dedicated live auctions this spring, The Ai Lian Tong Collection – 800 Years of Chinese Ceramics, Pearls of The Orient – Treasures from Hong Kong Private Collectors, and Chinese Classical Furniture from the Shitou Shuwu Collection, Christie’s presents Important Chinese Works of Art, to be held on 30 April during Hong Kong Asian Art Week. This sale offers a curated selection of nearly 100 exceptional Chinese ceramics and works of art, spanning the Shang to the Qing dynasties and ranging from archaic jades and bronzes to imperial ceramics, seals, and Buddhist sculptures, representing outstanding collections and academic significance. Leading the sale is a magnificent and exceedingly rare pair of early Ming dynasty gilt-bronze luohan figures. Masterfully cast and depicting both Chinese- and Indian-style monks, the figures each bear inscriptions indicating their original
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Chiharu Shiota's massive red thread installations debuts in San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.— To step into the Asian Art Museum’s spring exhibition Chiharu Shiota: Two Home Countries is to enter a space where memory hangs overhead — vast, intimate, and inescapable. Dense networks of red thread fill the gallery like veins or neural pathways, suspending handwritten diary pages that serve as memories of lived experience. Visitors do not stand apart from the work; they move through it, their bodies woven into the artist’s meditation on identity, displacement, and what it means to belong. On view at the Asian Art Museum from April 3 to July 20, 2026, Two Home Countries marks the first solo museum exhibition in the Bay Area by internationally acclaimed Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota. Installed in the museum’s Yang Yamazaki Pavilion, the largest of its special exhibition galleries, the presentation brings together immersive installations, sculpture, video, and performance works that span
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Salon du dessin 2026: An unparalleled international success

PARIS.— With over 14,000 visitors, including 2,300 at the private view alone, hundreds of drawings sold, and nearly 500 museum curators from around the world in attendance, the 34th edition of the Salon du dessin confirms its outstanding international success. Institutions from across the United States and Europe were present in large numbers, making acquisitions throughout the fair. Curators in attendance included representatives from the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), the Getty Museum (Los Angeles), the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam), the Staatliche Museum (Karlsruhe), the Hamburger Kunsthalle (Hamburg), the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), the British Museum (London) and the Nationalmuseum (Stockholm), among others. French institutions were also widely represented, with curators from the Louvre, the Petit Palais, the Musée d’Orsay, the Centre Pompidou, the Château de Fontainebleau, Chantilly and Versailles in attendance. Numerous regional museums were
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Bonhams unveils American Art sale in New York

NEW YORK, NY.— This spring Bonhams will present its live American Art sale on April 23 in New York at its new U.S. flagship location, 111 West 57th Street. Spanning 94 lots, the sale brings together a refined array of historically significant works, from early 19th century to 21st century American artists, including Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851–1938), Edward Henry Potthast (1857–1927), Norman Rockwell (1894–1978), LeRoy Neiman (1921–2012), and Bob Ross (1942–1995) among others. “At our new U.S. flagship on West 57th Street, our American Art sale showcases landmark works across key eras and movements, in the category,” commented Aaron Anderson, Specialist, Head of Sale, American Art at Bonhams. “Featuring significant examples by American Tonalists, Impressionists, Regionalists, and key Modernist and Postwar figures, the selection brings together major voices across the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, while the third major offering of Bob Ross works introduces an ex
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The architecture of radiance: Gwen Hardie's 'Alchemy of Light' opens in San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.— Dolby Chadwick Gallery announces Alchemy of Light, an exhibition of recent work by Gwen Hardie. In Hardie’s paintings, a square of canvas becomes an animated field of color that holds light and suggests three-dimensional presence. Tonal and chromatic shifts cause the surface to hover, deepen, and subtly reconfigure as we look. Hardie’s practice is rooted in decades of close observation. At Edinburgh College of Art, she spent years studying the live model in natural light, learning how minute variations in color and value generate presence rather than narrative. That sensitivity to tonal transition and how light becomes form has remained central even as her work moved from figuration to abstraction. Alongside these formal shifts has been a sustained attention to flux and to the understanding that what appears fixed is already changing. Her move to the square format in 2018 opened a new
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Tomás Saraceno launches landmark 'Interwoven' solo show in Taiwan

NEW TAIPEI CITY.— In Interwoven, Tomás Saraceno’s first large-scale solo exhibition in Taiwan, audiences are invited to attune with and learn from the web(s) of life—together with the air, spiders, clouds, spores, seeds, black matter, particulate matter of soot and pollution, and the cosmos. Visitors will encounter immersive installations where spider/web architectures and flying museums of re-used materials become vehicles to imagine a multiplicity of futures, and witness the artist's long-standing collaboration with the Indigenous Communities of Salinas Grandes in northern Argentina. This collaboration is rooted in ecosocial justice, learning from ancestral knowledges and resisting the socio-political and economic structures that underlie ecological crises and extractive dynamics between the global majority and the global minority. In doing so, sustainability is no longer treated as an abstract ideal, but as a shared challenge of coexistence that must be continually questioned,
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KAWS and comic culture take center stage in major Albertina Modern exhibition

VIENNA.— A new exhibition at Albertina Modern is putting comics at the heart of contemporary art, revealing how graphic storytelling has shaped visual culture over the past decades. Bringing together a wide range of artists, the show explores the dynamic relationship between comics, cartoons, and fine art since the second half of the 20th century. At the center of the exhibition is KAWS, whose instantly recognizable figures bridge the worlds of pop culture, commercial imagery, and museum-grade sculpture. By placing his work alongside both historical and contemporary artists, the exhibition highlights how comics have evolved into a universal visual language that transcends cultural and social boundaries. KAWS, who began his career in the 1990s altering advertisements in public spaces, has built an international reputation through his emotionally charged characters. Known for their crossed-out eyes and expressive
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Otobong Nkanga's 'I dreamt of you in colours' opens at MCBA Lausanne

LAUSANNE.— “For me, it’s interesting to think about deep time and about possibilities, futures. About constellations that are affecting the Earth from outside, and constellations that are affecting the Earth from inside.” The Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne (MCBA) presents a major exhibition dedicated to Otobong Nkanga, whose practice focuses on the connections between ecology, memory and the circulation of resources. At once a survey and a cross-section of Nkanga’s protean oeuvre from the past thirty years, the exhibition I dreamt of you in colours traces the genealogy of recurring subjects whose visual expression is constantly evolving. Since the late 1990s, following her studies in Nigeria, France and The Netherlands, the artist has been exploring issues relating to mining, the use of the Earth’s resources, and the body in its relationship to space and the land. Nkanga
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Flashback: On a day like today, French painter and poet Maurice de Vlaminck was born
Maurice de Vlaminck (4 April 1876 - 11 October 1958) was a French painter. Along with André Derain and Henri Matisse he is considered one of the principal figures in the Fauve movement, a group of modern artists who from 1904 to 1908 were united in their use of intense colour. In this image: CaixaForum Barcelona, “la Caixa” Community Projects exhibited in 2009 "Maurice de Vlaminck, a Fauve Instinct: Paintings from 1900 to 1915".

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