Frederic Church “Heart of the Andes”, 1857, Metropolitan Museum of Art, framed by Eli Wilner & Company with an original period frame designed by Church.
NEW YORK, NY.- In honor of Frederic Church’s birthday (born May 4, 1826), Eli Wilner & Company revisits the reframing of his 1857 painting “Heart of the Andes” for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The undertaking of this project, which involved the pairing of the artwork with an original period frame designed by Church himself, was accomplished in part with assistance from Wilner’s ongoing partial funding for museums program. As of May 2025, Eli Wilner & Company’s frame funding initiative is announcing another round of $150,000 available for distribution in partial grants. Exciting new projects continue to be submitted on a daily basis by museums across the country. Remaining funds will be committed to new projects by June 30, 2025, and can be used for frame restoration, historic frame replication, or mirror replication projects. Interested institutions can apply by emailing ... More
1907 $20 gold coin, PCGS-graded MS64 high relief, flat edge. No reserve. Estimate: $20,000-$30,000.
DENVER, PA.- Morphy Auctions has had a decades-long involvement in the world of rare and antique coins, and on May 19, the Pennsylvania company will mark a milestone with its 187-lot Premier Coins Auction. The sale exclusively features a prestigious single-consignor collection that includes a unique grouping of high-grade Morgan Silver Dollars plus the largest offering of rare Mormon gold coins ever to be publicly auctioned. Seasoned coin collectors would immediately recognize the contents of this fresh-to-the-market trove as being choice and highly unusual. Each and every lot from the collection, which is valued at more than $3 million, will be offered with no reserve. “There’s no way I can overstate how thrilled we are to be representing this phenomenal legacy collection. We’re deeply honored that we were chosen to handle its sale,” said Dan Morphy, founder and president of Morphy Auctions. “We’ve had a strong involvement with rare coins ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- On the occasion of TEFAF New York, Almine Rech will present a selection of emerging, midcareer, and established artists from the gallery's program. Each artist presents a unique perspective and distinctive formal language pushing the boundaries of contemporary and modern art. Each delves into the components of visual language, drawing from a range of sources that coalesce into an array of gestures, symbols, and materials. Creating an eloquent dialogue between abstraction and figuration, our presentation will reflect the diverse character of the gallery's program. The artists include 20th–century pioneers such as Pablo Picasso, Ha Chong-Hyun, Marie Laurencin, Heinz Mack, Serge Poliakoff, Cy Twombly, De Wain Valentine, and Tom Wesselmann as well as ... More
Rare Minton majolica fountain in the form of a large acanthus leaf and floral base, with large wicker and daisy basin and dolphin on rock base, 35 inches tall. Estimate: $20,000-$25,000.
WOLCOTTVILLE, IND.- Late May will be a busy time for the Strawser Auction Group. The firm has five – count ‘em, five – auctions planned for late May, on the 21st, 23rd, 24th, 28th and 29th. All five sales will be held online and live in the Strawser Auction Group gallery located at 106 East Dutch Street in Wolcottville. Online bidding will be provided by LiveAuctioneers.com. The action will kick off on Wednesday, May 21st, with an Antique Auction starting at 3pm Eastern time. The catalog is packed with more than 500 lots, including furniture, over 200 glass candy containers, cast iron toys, cast iron doll furniture, Griswold cast iron, sterling silver, primitives and more. Lot #71 is a rare Washington Leader salesman’s sample child’s iron and porcelain cook stove No. 649 with the original tag, like new, 30 inches tall by 22 inches wide (estimate: $1,200-$1,500). Lot #314 is a Merrick’s curved glass ... More
Graham Sutherland, Untitled, 1977. Oil on canvas, 91 × 72 cm. Courtesy Galleria d’Arte Maggiore g.a.m., Bologna | Paris | Venice.
VENICE.- Defined as the Damien Hirst of his time, ACP - Palazzo Franchetti by Fondazione Calarota hosts the exhibition dedicated to Graham Sutherland, one of the greatest innovators of contemporary British painting. Curated by Roberta Perazzini Calarota, the show explores some of the artist's most cherished themes—nature, with its lush green landscapes and the animal world—through a selection of important oil paintings, watercolors, and meticulously chosen lithographs from the artist's most renowned cycles, including the famous "The Bestiary". Always balancing between reality and imagination, Sutherland’s enigmatic creations align with surrealism and immerse us in what Francesco Arcangeli described as a “magical unease,” characterized by allusive metamorphoses and the tension of opposing forces. These forces, in their perpetually unstable equilibrium, ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- Martos Gallery presents an exhibition of more than thirty important works by Keith Haring, spanning the years 1980 to 1989, some presented publicly for the first time. Keith Haring never met a surface he couldn’t transform. The space between his hand and whatever it came into contact with was alive to his eye, generating an animate visual line, a line of thought made visible. While every work of art is made in real time, Haring’s speed and dexterity, his energy and fluidity, allowed images to appear near-instantaneously, out of thin air. His was a form of automatic writing in an immediately recognizable iconographic language. Long after his passing, his art remains identifiable far and wide, continuing to capture the popular imagination, transcending borders, speaking universally. The origin of his phenomenon was here in New York City, in the street, in the subway—consider Haring as the first major underground artist since the 1960s—seen everywhere from nightclubs ... More
Felice Casorati, Plaster Head with Red Drape, 1952. Oil on canvas, 60 × 50 cm.
MILAN.- On Tuesday, May 6 at 5:30 p.m., Tornabuoni Arte will inaugurate “Casorati. Silences and Resonances” at its Milan gallery on Via Fatebenefratelli 34/36. Curated by art historian Anna Maria Amonaci and organized in tandem with the major Felice Casorati retrospective at Palazzo Reale, the exhibition offers visitors an intimate encounter with eleven of Casorati’s defining canvases—each paired with a work by another twentieth-century Italian master. Felice Casorati (1883–1963) is celebrated for his evolution from naturalism through Symbolism to a form of “magical realism” marked by rigorous geometry, unusual perspectives, and a luminous stillness. His work—often described as evoking silence and mystery—draws on influences from Gustav Klimt to Piero della Francesca, creating formally precise images that nevertheless feel quietly introspective. At Tornabuoni Arte, two 1954 paintings by Casorati—Il Mattino ... More
Located in the heart of Tribeca, the new gallery will allow BLUM to expand its commitment to mounting museum-caliber exhibitions while supporting a diverse and international roster of artists.
NEW YORK, NY.- BLUM announced the inauguration of the gallery’s new Tribeca location, opening September 10, 2025. Designed by Architecture Research Office (ARO), the renovated two-floor, 6,200-square-foot space marks a significant new chapter for the gallery’s global program, joining its existing locations in Los Angeles and Tokyo. BLUM New York will be overseen by Managing Partner Matt Bangser. Located in the heart of Tribeca, the new gallery will allow BLUM to expand its commitment to mounting museum-caliber exhibitions while supporting a diverse and international roster of artists. The renovation honors the character of the historic building—restoring original iron columns, white oak floors, and skylights—and integrates advanced lighting and environmental systems to meet the technical demands of contemporary art. This marks ARO’s first transformation of a commercial gallery space, following ... More
Installation view, Adam Pendleton: Who Is Queen?, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, September 18, 2021 – February 21, 2022.
NEW YORK, NY.- All 35 works from Adam Pendleton’s Who Is Queen? exhibition that was staged at The Museum of Modern Art in 2021-2022 have been acquired by MoMA. This acquisition includes paintings and drawings from Pendleton’s Black Dada and WE ARE NOT bodies of work, as well as three videos, including Notes on Resurrection City, Notes on the Robert E. Lee Monument, Richmond VA (figure), and So We Moved: A Portrait of Jack Halberstam. Who Is Queen?, an immersive floor-to-ceiling installation that spanned five stories in MoMA’s Marron Atrium, combined paintings, drawings, and filmic works into a spatial collage that fashioned a total work of art for the 21st century. Writing for The New York Times, Siddhartha Mitter described the exhibition as one that “built [its] own museum inside MoMA—an experiment in change from within, offering a radically different method of display from the chronological unfolding of the Modernist canon in the institution’s ... More
Museo Nacional del Prado. Photo: Museo Nacional del Prado.
MADRID.- The Museo Nacional del Prado today announced the launch of Spain’s first Comprehensive Museum Management Program, a ten-month training course designed to equip working professionals and recent graduates with practical, hands-on expertise in every facet of museum operations. Pre-registration opens May 14, and classes will run from October 30, 2025, through June 11, 2026, at the Prado’s historic Casón del Buen Retiro campus. Built around the Prado’s own experience and that of peer institutions, the curriculum covers collection care, curatorial administration, audience engagement, institutional communications, and complementary activities. In addition to 240 hours of in-person instruction and 120 hours of online seminars, participants may complete up to 300 hours of optional, on-site internships at the museum itself. Sessions are held on Thursdays from 9 AM to 6:30 PM, and enrollment is capped at 20 students; tuition is €3,840. “Museum professionals ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- Carpenters Workshop Gallery New York presents a display of works by Aki+Arnaud Cooren, the multidisciplinary design studio known for serene, dreamy, creations that evoke poignant and harmonious confluences with the natural world. The exhibition features new pieces that add to the duo’s acclaimed Ishigaki Lamp series, which won a Créateurs Design Award in 2025 and is inspired by freediving experiences off the coast of Ishigaki island, southern Japan. Through their minimalist Japanese-French aesthetic, Aki+Arnaud Cooren seek to integrate subtle references to nature into their designs of interiors and objects. Aki grew up in Tokyo and studied interior and product design at the Ècole Camondo in Paris, where she met Arnaud, a native of northern France, who had studied contemporary art in Belgium before moving to Paris. Meticulously hand-crafted in the designers’ Paris workshop, the Ishigaki Lamps combine the natural elegance of bamboo with the ... More
Alexandra Bircken, Slip of the Tongue, 2020, Blickachsen 14 (2025), courtesy Blickachsen Foundation, Bad Homburg, and artist.
BAD HOMBURG .- From 18 May to 5 October 2025, Blickachsen 14 will bring together a wide variety of positions in contemporary art, including works created especially for the exhibition and site-specific projects. The artistic programme for the exhibition was put together by Blickachsen founder Christian K. Scheffel together with Carina Plath, curator of painting and sculpture at the Sprengel Museum Hannover, the partner museum of Blickachsen 14. The list of participants in the fourteenth Blickachsen includes almost equal numbers of male and female representatives of three-dimensional art and opens up a varied and exciting spectrum of international sculpture and installation art: Paweł Althamer (Poland) *1967 in Warsaw, Joscha Bender (Germany) *1991 in Darmstadt, Alexandra Bircken (Germany) *1967 in Cologne, Julius von Bismarck (Germany) *1983 in Breisach am Rhein, Monica Bonvicini (Italy) *1965 in Venice, Martin Boyce (UK) *1967 in Hamilton, Scotland, Richard Deacon (UK) *1949 in Bangor, Wales, S ... More
Torkwase Dyson, Akua, 2025. Powder-coated steel and aluminum, 8-channel sound. Courtesy of the artist, Pace Gallery, and GRAY Chicago | New York. Photo: Nicholas Knight, courtesy Public Art Fund, NY.
NEW YORK, NY.- Public Art Fund presents Torkwase Dyson: Akua, the artist’s first major public installation in New York City, on view at Pier 1 in Brooklyn Bridge Park from May 6, 2025, through March 8, 2026. Akua is a large, open pavilion with an immersive multi-channel soundscape that expands Dyson’s ongoing investigations of shape, light, and scale. Akua explores new sonic encounters between bodies and environments. Using sound recordings, Dyson transforms a 20-foot-high steel-and-aluminum pavilion into what the artist envisions as a spatial drawing. Visitors are invited to enter the pavilion, where they can sit and experience recorded sound moving across eight speakers, including layered conversations from Black archives, nature field recordings, and electronic sounds. “Akua explores how sound operates as geography, shaping our perception of space and time,” Dyson says. “The work is not about confinement, but rather about the excess of possibility beyond encl ... More
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Experience Vivid Sydney 2025 at MCA Australia SYDNEY.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA Australia) is bringing unique art and dining experiences to the Museum for this year’s Vivid Sydney, between 23 May to 14 June 2025. Western Aranda artist Vincent Namatjira’s King Dingo (2025) nightly projection is set to illuminate the MCA façade into a spectacular rock’n’roll experience. Featuring powerful symbols of First Nations strength, pride and resilience, this new commission for Vivid Sydney 2025 draws upon the artist’s series of paintings, King Dingo. The projection is accompanied by an original score created by Namatjira and Indulkana-based guitarist-composer Jeremy Whiskey. MCA Australia will also hold an in-conversation event with the artist Vincent Namatjira and MCA Curator, First Nations Art, Rebecca Ray on Saturday 24 May 2025, from 4:30–6pm to discuss the making of the commission followed by a Q&A and ... More
Kylie Minogue display in the Australian Music Vault in honour of Ted Albert Award MELBOURNE.- The Australian Music Vault honours the achievements of the 2025 recipient of the APRA Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music, the "Princess of Pop" Kylie Minogue AO, with a new display featuring archival material drawn from the Australian Performing Arts Collection. In this display, Kylie lovers will find iconic objects and photos from her music videos and tours that will ignite nostalgia and excitement. Kylie’s creative journey has always been celebrated by her fans, and this display will allow them to get up close to significant moments in her career. Included in the display is a multicoloured sequined bodysuit designed by Ian McMaugh, worn during the Enjoy Yourself tour (1990), the mugshot identification board for ‘Indie Kylie’ in the video for ‘Did It Again’ (1997) and her Azzedine Alaïa designed shoes worn in the music video for ‘Chocolate’ ... More
Tina Kim Gallery unveils landmark "Making of Modern Korean Art" exhibition NEW YORK, NY.- Tina Kim Gallery is presenting The Making of Modern Korean Art: The Letters of Kim Tschang-Yeul, Kim Whanki, Lee Ufan, and Park Seo-Bo, 1961–1982, on view from May 5 through June 21, 2025. Organized in conjunction with the launch of a landmark new publication of the same title, the exhibition brings to life the personal and intellectual exchanges between four pioneering artists who shaped the trajectory of modern Korean art during the transformative decades following the Korean War. Through the presentation of significant paintings made by all four artists during this period, as well as archival materials, photography, and ephemera, the exhibition makes manifest the artistic dialogues and debates that guided the global emergence of Korean modern art. In the aftermath of the Korean War (1950–53), amid political upheaval and limited institutional support, ... More
Marianna Kennedy trough the eyes of Tilda Swinton PARIS.- From May 5 to 11, Christie’s hosts an exclusive exhibition showcasing the work of British artist and designer Marianna Kennedy. For this special occasion, Christie’s hands over the reins of its Parisian galleries to the vision and imagination of Tilda Swinton. With Supersonic Mediaeval, Tilda Swinton invites visitors on an immersive journey into Marianna Kennedy’s world, deeply rooted in London’s iconic Spitalfields neighborhood. A place where Georgian heritage intertwines with hipster culture and the vibrant Bangladeshi community, Spitalfields embodies the unique hybrid spirit that defines the British capital. Who better than Tilda Swinton and Marianna Kennedy to guide you through this poetic, cinematic voyage across time, art, and design, along the streets of London? Marianna Kennedy first created her carved and gilded mirrors in 2006, working from her Spitalfields studio ... More
Merikokeb Berhanu debuts at Esther Schipper with biomorphic paintings of life and tech BERLIN.- Esther Schipper is presenting Merikokeb Berhanu’s first exhibition with the gallery. On view are three new paintings. Merikokeb Berhanu’s work combines abstract and representational elements, forging a distinct formal vocabulary. Her biomorphic imagery evokes associations with life: Rounded shapes invoke cells, buds, seed pods, or embryonic life, suggesting processes of conception, gestation, reproduction, or birth – underlying themes that are more intuited than stated. A circular form recalls celestial bodies such as sun or moon, but can also be positioned as a figure’s head, organ or, in a formal vocabulary that powerfully destabilizes our sense of scale, even as a cellular structure. References to animal life bespeak an understanding of the connectedness of all life-forms. Equally fluid in their meaning are Merikokeb’s representations of the human ... More
Gregor Schneider turns Haus Esters into Syrian family home in "Welcome" KREFELD.- On invitation from the Kunstmuseen Krefeld, the internationally renowned artist Gregor Schneider has carried out a new, site-specific project especially for Haus Esters. His new work Haus Alhmam Aldaas revolves around the villa built by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in the 1920s as an example of modern architecture that was to serve as both a residential and a museum exhibition space. For his work, Schneider temporarily turned the museum into the home of a family from Syria. As such it once again fulfilled its original function as a private living space. The exhibition Welcome mirrors that transformation with all its particularities while at the same time pointing to a much-discussed humanitarian context: flight and migration in Europe. Gregor Schneider invited a Syrian family to live in the museum for a certain period of time. The man had fled the war in 2015; his wife later followed him. ... More
Venice's Archaeological Museum reopens historic Agrippa Courtyard facing the Doge's Palace VENICE.- The Museo archeologico nazionale di Venezia (National Archaeological Museum of Venice) —part of the Musei archeologici nazionali di Venezia e della Laguna (National Archaeological Museums of Venice and the Lagoon) — reopens the Courtyard of Agrippa, marking the beginning of a new chapter in the museum’s history. Starting May 6, the museum reopens its historic entrance at No. 17 Piazzetta San Marco, directly facing the Doge’s Palace. This new access complements the existing one through the Correr Museum and signifies the launch of a significant reorganization process. It also underscores the museum’s commitment to accessibility and a renewed, inclusive visitor experience. In line with this vision, the museum route returns to the original order established between 1924 and 1926 by Carlo Anti, a distinguished classicist, professor ... More
Lorenzo Bojola unveils Chianti visions at Trattoria 4 Leoni in "Tracce Fiorentine" series FLORENCE.- On Tuesday, May 6 at 7 p.m., Florence’s celebrated Trattoria 4 Leoni will host the opening of the second installment in “Fotografia – Tracce Fiorentine,” a year-long series of solo shows exploring how the city’s light, architecture and landscapes imprint themselves on the photographic eye. Curated by art and photography historian Anna Maria Amonaci and commissioned by restaurateur Stefano Di Puccio, the series brings six generations of Florentine practitioners into conversation—beginning in March with Franco Cammarata and continuing through March 2026. This week features Lorenzo Bojola, whose evocative images of the Chianti countryside first drew Amonaci’s attention in 2016. Bojola’s project, Architettura della memoria, published by Nencini Editore, assembled more than a thousand photographs of rural farmhouses, rolling vineyards and poetic play of light ... More
The Fondazione Querini Stampalia presents upcoming season of exhibitions VENICE.- Wonder is a right, and culture is the longing for wonder. At Fondazione Querini Stampalia, we cultivate the rare sensation that is wonder—what Plato saw as the root of all thought, and what for Rebecca Solnit becomes a form of freedom, an ethical leaning toward the unknown. Following in the footsteps of the visionary Giovanni Querini, the Fondazione becomes an archipelago of experiences, where knowledge is diffused by rhizomatic, eclectic and non-hierarchical connections and analogies. The lagoon is the ideal place to experience Rachel Carson’s sense of wonder, where union and separation, threshold and foundation endlessly exchange roles. Here, wonder is method, as in the view of Carlo Rovelli, who sees it in the very fabric of time and reality. It is tension and abundance—tea ... More
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On a day like today, German-Swiss painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was born
