Monday, November 03, 2025

Douglas Navarra's Present Tense: Past Participle opens at 68 Prince, Kingston, N.Y.

Douglas Navarra, Untitled, 2015. Gouache, Pencil, Ink, on Found Documents, 16" x 25".
KINGSTON, NY.— 68 Prince is pleased to announce Present Tense: Past Participle, a solo exhibition of new works by Douglas Navarra, on view until November 16th 2025. The exhibition brings together Navarra’s dual practices of drawing and ceramics, each rooted in history yet charged with the immediacy of the present. Douglas Navarra, "Green Sugar", 2018. Earthenware Covered Container, 13.5" x 10" x 10". Navarra’s work unfolds across two intertwined platforms: drawing on found papers, many more than a century old, and the making of vessels in clay. Both practices are acts of mark-making that respond to surfaces already imbued with history. In his drawings, aged documents—creased, stamped, stained, and written upon—become palimpsests. Onto these fragile grounds, Navarra layers his own gestures, engaging in a dialogue between anonymous historical traces and contemporary presence. Each page becomes a meditation on how we encounter our collective past, and how choices to erase, amplify, or transform shape what we bring into the present. Douglas Navarra, "Blue Salt-Glazed Container", 2022 Stoneware, 9" x 6" x6". Navarra’s ceramic works continue this conversation through the vessel, one of humanity’s most enduring forms. In dialogue with T. S. Eliot’s notion of tradition as a living continuum, Navarra creates pots that honor archetypal structures while expanding their sculptural potential. Each form—articulated by foot, belly, shoulder, lip, and rim—recalls both architectural space and the human body. His vessels are at once reverent and inventive, grounding tradition in renewed expression. Read More

The Met presents "View Finding," showcasing Artur Walther's landmark photography gift

NEW YORK, NY.— The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents View Finding: Selections from The Walther Collection, a preview of a landmark promised gift of photographs from Artur Walther that will be on view October 28, 2025–May 3, 2026. Assembled over three decades and from across five continents, Walther’s vast collection of over 6,500 photographs and time-based media is regarded as among the finest in the world. Featuring over 40 works, View Finding introduces his landmark gift and considers how artists across the globe use the camera to navigate shifting terrain. “This remarkable promised gift from The Walther Collection marks a watershed moment at The Met,” said Max Hollein, The Met’s Marina Kellen French Director and CEO. “View Finding’s carefully curated selection brings iconic works into conversation with new and emerging artistic voices. We are deeply grateful
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Biedermeier bidding for fall at Roland Auctions NY October 18th

GLEN COVE, NY.— Roland Auctions NY presented an exquisite collection of Biedermeier furniture at its recent Fall Estates auction on October 18th, 2025, along with a selection of Contemporary and Modern Art, Decorative Arts, jewelry and other furniture, all coming from various prominent estates. Highlights included a Biedermeier Burlwood Center Table, 20th century, inlaid decorative banding and a square base. [30.5" H x 49.5" Diameter], going for $2925, Six Biedermeier Burlwood Side Chairs, 20th century, with scrolled backs and upholstered seats. [38" H x 19" W x 17" D; seat height: 19"], selling for $2770, a Pair of Biedermeier Club Chairs, 19th to early 20th century, with column capital and applique decoration to arms and striped upholstery. [34.5" H x 30" W x 32" D; seat height: 16"], which sold for $1300 and a Biedermeier Sofa, 19th to early 20th century, with column and applique decorated arms and four scrolled legs and striped upholster
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Bavarian State Paintings Collections restitutes Nazi-looted work to descendants of Ellen Funke

MUNICH.— Helene Sophie Victoria Hermine Heintzmann, known as Ellen Funke (1869–1947) of Hamm, was the beneficiary to artworks from the ‘Loeb’sche Fideikommiss’, a major private collection that dated back to the 19th century. Due to her maternal ancestors’ Jewish origins, she was classified as a ‘Mischling of the first degree’ under Nazi rule and was, therefore, subject to systematic persecution. The collection was originally assembled by Alexander Haindorf, a Jewish physician and co-founder of the Westfälischer Kunstverein, on the Caldenhof estate near Hamm, together with his daughter Sophie and her husband Jakob Loeb. The fideicommissum had been dissolved by 1936, by which time the collection was divided among those descendants entitled to inherit who, as Jews or so-called ‘half-Jews’, subsequently faced persecution. Ellen Funke was one of these entitled persons. Her collection comprised 101 works
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Sotheby's unveils the Private Collection of Kathryn & Bing Crosby

NEW YORK, NY.— Sotheby’s unveils Swinging on a Star: The Private Collection of Kathryn and Bing Crosby, which will be offered in a landmark auction on 18 December. The auction will be a headline event of Sotheby’s inaugural auctions at its new home in the iconic Breuer building on Madison Avenue. This exceptional sale offers an intimate glimpse into the lives, loves, and legacies of two Hollywood legends whose careers shaped the golden age of American entertainment. Drawn from the Crosby family’s private holdings, the auction features an extraordinary array of treasures amassed over decades—from fine art and collectibles to rare Fabergé pieces and objects that reflect the couple’s shared life, travels, and passions. Together, these items illuminate both the glamorous world the Crosbys inhabited and the deeply personal stories behind their collecting. From their serendipitous meeting on the Paramount lot in 1952—when a young Kathryn Grandstaff captivated multimedia star B
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Olney Gleason inaugurates with Ali Banisadr's visionary exhibition "Noble/Savage"

NEW YORK, NY.— Olney Gleason presents Ali Banisadr: Noble/Savage, at 509 West 27th Street, New York. Spanning new paintings, bronze sculptures, and works on paper, the gallery’s inaugural exhibition explores Banisadr’s singular vision as iterated through a range of media. Banisadr follows an instinctual approach to color and brushwork, informed by visionary representations of inner and outer landscapes by artists including Bruegel, Goya, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Charles Burchfield, and Jackson Pollock. Having recently established a studio in the forests of Hudson Valley New York, several paintings in the exhibition bear the influence of the environment’s density and green palette. For Banisadr, the forest is both a force of nature and a site of metamorphosis. It lies just beyond the boundaries of consciousness, a place one stumbles into as into a daydream, where bearings are lost and instincts surface. Yet it is also the reservoir of civilization itself, supplying the
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Germany celebrates Charlotte Perriand with her first major retrospective

KREFELD.— With the exhibition L'Art d'habiter / The Art of Dwelling, the Kunstmuseen Krefeld present the first major retrospective in Germany devoted to French architect and designer Charlotte Perriand (1903–1999). One of the most influential figures in Le Corbusier’s circle, she helped shape modern living by uniting innovative design with a vision for progressive social change. The exhibition is being developed in close collaboration with the Archives Charlotte Perriand and offers a fresh perspective on Perriand’s life’s work through the lens of spatial design. From her early iconic tubular steel furniture and experimental minimalist dwellings of the interwar period, to the modular storage systems of the postwar years and culminating in her most ambitious project – the alpine ski resort Les Arcs – L’Art d’habiter showcases Perriand’s design philosophy and her commitment to shaping living environments as a form of social engagement. Her work proves to
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Basquiat's seminal masterwork 'Crowns (Peso Neto)' to make auction debut at Sotheby's

NEW YORK, NY.— Crowns (Peso Neto), a rare and electrifying masterwork by Jean-Michel Basquiat, will form the centerpiece of Sotheby’s Contemporary Evening Sale this November when it is offered with an estimate of $35-45 million – the highest ever estimate placed on a 1981 painting by the artist. Painted in 1981, the pivotal year that launched Basquiat onto the international stage, the work sees the artist develop and concretize the lexicon of symbols that would define his life and work, from tallies to halos to crowns. The raw canvas elements speak to a critical moment in which Basquiat transitions from the street to the studio, on the dawn of explosive stardom. Offered at auction for the very first time, Crowns (Peso Neto) was unveiled as part of Basquiat’s landmark eponymous solo presentation at Annina Nosei Gallery in March 1982, and the following summer at documenta 7 in Kassel, Germany, where he was among the youngest artists ever invited to participate in one of the
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National Gallery of Ireland unveils "Picasso: From the Studio," a journey through the artist's creative spaces

DUBLIN.— The National Gallery of Ireland has launched its latest exhibition Picasso: From the Studio, retracing the steps of Picasso’s life through a collection of sculptures, painting and ceramics. Spanning more than 50 years of work, it is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to see so many works by one of the most influential artists of the 20th century in Ireland. The exhibition is organised in collaboration with Musée national Picasso-Paris and proudly supported by the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport and KMPG Ireland, Exhibition Partner. Picasso: From the Studio invites visitors to explore the relationship between maker and place in the context of one of the world’s most well-known artists. Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973) lived surrounded by his art. His personal life and his work, his homes and his studios were always
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MoMA opens an exhibition of extraordinary photographs from the Thayle Threenhill Collection

NEW YORK, NY.— The Museum of Modern Art is presenting Time Travelers: Photographs from the Thayle Threenhill Collection, an exhibition of works from a monumental gift of photographs made in 2019 to the Museum by Robert F. Greenhill in memory of his wife, Gayle Greenhill (1936–2017). A supporter of the Museum’s Department of Photography for more than two decades, Mrs. Greenhill served on MoMA’s Committee on Photography from 1992 to 2013. On view from October 31, 2025, to February 2, 2026, the exhibition honors her enduring commitment to the medium and showcases a selection of more than 50 photographs from the transformative gift of several hundred works by more than 100 identified photographers and many more unknown photographers. Time Travelers: Photographs from the Gayle Greenhill Collection is organized by Lucy Gallun, Curator, with Samuel Allen, Curatorial Assistant, and Kaitlin Booher, former
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OGR Torino revisits the pioneers of electronic art from the 1950s to the 1990s

TURIN.— OGR Torino presents Electric Dreams. Art & Technology Before the Internet, an exhibition organised in collaboration with Tate Modern and curated by Val Ravaglia and Samuele Piazza, bringing to Turin a new version of the group show first presented in London. Electric Dreams brings together a network of artists inspired by scientific ideas and new technologies, unfolding a series of subtly interlinked stories dedicated to the early pioneers of electronic art – from the 1950s to the eve of the widespread adoption of the Internet in the early 1990s. Working on an international scale, these artists engage with cutting-edge media and hybrid methodologies to expand their creative horizons collectively. Many of them view technology as a shared resource to be directed towards social purposes. Some of the artists featured in the exhibition use electronic media to shape light and sound, while others introduce mathematical principles and algorithms as fully-fledged creative partners. Emergi
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Mendes Wood DM Brussels presents Krzysztof Grzybacz's lyrical new exhibition "To Empty Out"

BRUSSELS.— Mendes Wood DM is presenting Krzysztof Grzybacz’s latest body of work in his first solo exhibition at the gallery in Brussels. Behind its seemingly polished framework, To Empty Out emerges as an exhibition beautifully rife with contradictions that overlay serious and playful themes according to Grzybacz, who often sets out to “clash the forces” of gravity and levity through his chosen subjects. Through sublime florals, bawdy scenes, and raw portraits of social life, Grzybacz balances contemplation and observation, navigating between painterly precision and intuitive expression in this deeply personal exhibition. Grzybacz starts each painting with sketches and drawings, but once confronted with its white plane, the artist gives himself up to the canvas in a stream of consciousness – emptying his psyche out as he follows his intuition in dialogue with the painting’s surface in a spontaneous yet ambitious free-flowing conversation grounded in precision and skill.
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Sarah van Rij unveils "Humming from the Shadows" at Deichtorhallen Hamburg

HAMBURG.— With a sensitivity to detail, Dutch photographer Sarah van Rij (*1990) creates fragmentary, timeless, and mysterious compositions that reveal the poetic potential of everyday life. Her shadow theater unfolds through a play of light and dark, form and color, in which silhouettes and recurring objects set the rhythm of a visual score. »HUMMING FROM THE SHADOWS« at the auditorium of the Hall for Contemporary Art is van Rij’s first solo exhibition in Germany and features more than twenty works, some of them large formats, from the last seven years. Van Rij playfully transcends the documentary role of photography, transforming reality into dreamlike, surrealistic images: disembodied hands, martini glasses, and abandoned pumps drift through her pictures like fleeting echoes. Fragmented figures intertwine with floral compositions for evocative and symbolic images to emerge. Deeply embedded in our collective memory, they cast long shadows into the exhibition space. Whether captured with h
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Artcurial celebrates ELLE's 80th anniversary with a charity auction to benefit CARE France

To celebrate its 80th anniversary, ELLE International is honoring its longstanding involvement in women's empowerment through a major artistic and charitable project. The brand has decided to partner with Artcurial to organize an exceptional charity auction, with all funds raised going to CARE France to finance concrete actions in favor of women. For 80 years, Care France has been fighting poverty and inequality around the world. Present in more than 100 countries, the association helps the most vulnerable people, especially women and kids, by defending their rights, access to education, and equality. The project involves 31 contemporary female artists from diverse backgrounds - different cultures, disciplines, and generations - who were invited to create a new work that will be offered for sale. Each brings her own unique perspective and technique, but all share

Amy Sillman animates emotion in "Minute Cinema: 4 Videos for 4 Seasons" at Capitain Petzel

Amy Sillman began experimenting with handmade animation in the early 2010s as a way to further extend her practice, which had already expanded to zine-making in 2009. Her short digital videos, often made by scanning or photographing drawings and painting fragments, then sequencing them frame by frame, create a sense of restless transformation. These works occupy a fascinating space between painting, drawing, and the moving image. They feel intimate and provisional, like notes or thoughts caught in motion. Sillman has described animation as “drawing that moves”, and her videos indeed retain the tactile, handmade quality of her studio process. Minute Cinema: 4 videos for 4 seasons (2024–25) was commissioned by The Washington Post, which invited Sillman to create an artwork and write a column once per season for a year. In the politically charged

Marck explores the poetry of water in "Das Wasser" at Bluerider ART Shanghai

Bluerider ART Shanghai·The Bund is presenting the 2025 solo exhibition of Swiss video-sculpture artist Marck, “Das Wasser”, opening on Saturday, November 1, 2025. As a pioneering figure of video sculpture, Marck places framing, the body, and the act of seeing at the core of his practice. By merging video and sculpture into a cross-media language, he creates a new artistic context of “dynamic sculpture.” This exhibition takes water as its central theme—both as a source of the spirit and an inner reflection, as well as a metaphor for flow, tension, and transformation. It invites viewers to participate and experience the interplay of the real and the virtual. Marck (Switzerland, b.1964) is internationally recognized for his video sculptures. Based in Zurich, he is an atypical artist: he dropped out of art school, unable to accept rigid academic structures, and instead worked

Sotheby's unveils three previously unknown Patek Philippe masterpieces

This December in New York, as part of its flagship Important and Fine Watches auctions – and marking the inaugural sale season at its new home in the iconic Breuer Building – Sotheby’s is proud to present Exceptional Discoveries: The Olmsted Complications Collection, a landmark assemblage of horological masterpieces quietly curated by one of America’s most discerning and meticulous watch collectors. Spanning the golden age of watchmaking from the early 19th to the early 20th century, and showcasing masterworks from the great European centers of horology, this remarkable collection of over 80 long-unseen timepieces offers collectors and connoisseurs a rare opportunity to acquire watches of exceptional historical and technical importance — many of which are appearing on the market for the very first time. Assembled over the past

KB Jones blends realism and cartoon imagery in "Present" at Kristen Lorello

Chozick Family Art Gallery & Kristen Lorello announce exhibition Present by artist KB Jones, on view at Kristen Lorello’s uptown gallery. Chozick Family Art Gallery in partnership with Kristen Lorello is pleased to present a selection of new works by Brooklyn-based painter KB Jones. This solo show follows her participation in a group show at the gallery in August and draws inspiration from quotidian moments and overlooked objects captured in photographs by the artist around the Upper East Side, a place the artist long called home. This show builds off of and combines two distinct styles Jones has become known for: lush, photorealist oil paintings of unexpected objects, such as her iconic series of trash bag paintings, and cartoon-influenced depictions of domestic scenes using industrial house paint. This show is the first time the artist has combined

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Estefania Puerta confronts transformation and memory in "Laughing Death Drive" at The Aldrich

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Miyako Yoshinaga unites two visionaries of 1970s portraiture at Paris Photo booth

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Cambodian artist Sopheap Pich explores memory and nature in new exhibition at Mia

The Minneapolis Institute of Art is presenting “Sopheap Pich: In the Presence Of,” a focused exhibition featuring four key works by the acclaimed Cambodian-born artist, all on loan to Mia. On view from October 25, 2025, to February 1, 2026, the exhibition offers visitors an intimate glimpse into Pich’s engagement with Cambodian culture, history, and the natural world. The artist is renowned for transforming everyday materials—such as rattan, metal wire, and burlap—into meticulously crafted, delicate sculptures that evoke their subjects without directly replicating them. Pich’s choice of materials reflects both the natural environment of Cambodia and his personal experiences, spanning memories from his childhood to returning to his homeland as an adult. The resulting works subtly invite us to reflect on memory and history. “Sopheap Pich’s stunning

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This fall, the Dallas Museum of Art is taking its audiences on a trip into the bizarre with the exhibition International Surrealism. Featuring over 100 works by an international array of artists, all drawn from the impressive collection of Tate in London, this exhibition highlights the wide range of practices, techniques and perspectives from across the globe that came to define the movement. The exhibition emphasizes the endless reach of the surrealist mindset through a rich display of works by celebrated artists and writers—including André Breton, Leonora Carrington, Salvador Dalí and René Magritte—and their peers. “Surrealism wasn’t just a movement or a singular artistic style, it was a way of life,” said Sue Canterbury, The Pauline Gill Sullivan Curator of American Art at the Dallas Museum of Art. “This exhibition offers our viewers a glimpse into this revolution
Flashback: On a day like today, Italian painter Guido Reni was born
Guido Reni (4 November 1575 - 18 August 1642) was an Italian painter of high-Baroque style. He painted primarily religious works, as well as mythological and allegorical subjects. Active in Rome, Naples, and his native Bologna, he became the dominant figure in the Bolognese School, and his eclectic classicism was widely influential.

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