Altenberg Altar, c. 1330 with Virgin and Child Enthroned, Cologne, c. 1320/1330.
FRANKFURT.- For the Städel Museum, it is one of the most significant acquisitions in its history: the Virgin and Child Enthroned (c. 1320/1330) from the Altenberg Altarpiece was purchased for the Städel Museum with the support of the Ernst von Siemens Art Foundation, the Städelscher Museums-Verein and the Cultural Foundation of the German Federal States. Also known as the Altenberg Madonna, the figure is one of the most important works of medieval sculpture in Germany and one of the oldest examples of fourteenth-century Cologne sculpture. It is unique in that its original paintwork is exceptionally well preserved. The Altenberg Madonna is listed in the register of cultural property of national significance ... More
Elizabeth Kathleen Mitchell, Ph.D. Photo by Jacklyn Velez. Courtesy of the McNay Art Museum.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.-The McNay Art Museum announces the appointment of Elizabeth Kathleen Mitchell, Ph.D., as head of curatorial affairs, effective Feb. 16. Mitchell joined the McNay in 2025 as the curator of prints and drawings and will continue in that role. The dual appointment reflects both her scholarly expertise and her institution-wide leadership. As head of curatorial affairs, Mitchell will oversee the McNay’s curatorial departments, guiding long-term exhibition planning, collection development, acquisitions strategy and cross-departmental collaboration. In her current role as curator of prints and drawings, she focuses on expanding access to the collection, advancing thoughtful acquisitions and developing exhibitions and programs that connect works on paper to broader art-historical and contemporary conversations. Her expanded role underscores the McNay’s commitment to rigorous scholarship, ambitious exhibitions and curatorial practic ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- The Frick Collection announced the release of A Design for Continuity and Change: The Frick Collection, a multifaceted, richly illustrated publication documenting the institution’s 2021–25 renovation and enhancement—its first comprehensive upgrade since opening to the public in 1935. The book includes texts on the history and context of this ambitious project, the selection of the award-winning New York–based firms Selldorf Architects and Beyer Blinder Belle, the goals of the renovation and how they were met, and the preservation issues and strategies involved. It sheds new light on Selldorf’s ingenious, pragmatic solutions, which addressed complex infrastructural and operational challenges throughout the Frick’s buildings while remaining acutely sensitive to the unique history and character of the museum and library. A Design for Continuity ... More
Roquin-Jon Quichocho Siongco, Tai Ulu, 2021. Photograph on canvas and woven works. Dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist.
WATERVILLE, ME.-Colby College Museum of Art connects generations across oceans through works by more than 40 contemporary artists in “Imagining an Archipelago: Art from Cuba, Guam, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Their Diasporas.” On view July 11, 2026-June 6, 2027, the physically and visually immersive exhibition brings together approximately 50 paintings, sculptures, videos, prints, photographs and multimedia installations, including several newly commissioned works that create site-specific experiences. The artworks explore the artists’ relationships to the histories and communities of their lands and seas. Themes of cultural and political self-determination, indigeneity and migration and climate crisis and resilience unite the exhibition. One floor is organized geographically, showcasing each island’s uniqueness, while the other floor is organized by theme — Land, Sea and Sky; Religion and Spirituality; ... More
Lauren Lee McCarthy, LAUREN: Anyone Home? (detail view), 2024 – 2026. Performance-based installation with smart devices (cameras, microphones, lights, computers, speakers) with bed, seating mats, clothing, and video, with sound. Photo: Jon Verney.
BOSTON, MASS.- Responding to the rapidly advancing technologies that are shaping our daily lives and social fabric, the artists in Technologies of Relation examine how we relate to each other, to machines, and to our future – often by looking to lessons from the past. These creators see the complexity of our relationships to the digital, avoiding the binary views that frame technology as good or bad, as tool or monster Instead they acknowledge how technology, from algorithms to Artificial Intelligence, is used in ways that manipulate, marginalize, and oppress us; but imagine both how we can resist and how these tools can be wielded more ethically and more poetically. Exhibiting artists include: Morehshin Allahyari; Pelenakeke Brown; Taeyoon Choi; Neema Githere; Mashinka Firunts Hakopian, Dahlia Elsayed, Andrew Demirjian, and Danny Snelson; Kite; Lauren Lee McCarthy; Analia Saban; and Roopa Vasudevan. ... More
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Marian Goodman Gallery Los Angeles presents Trial of the Finger, an exhibition of new and recent works by Tacita Dean. Alongside two recent 35mm film installations, Paradise (2021) and Geography Biography (2023), Dean will show a new 16mm film, Sidney Felsen decorates an Envelope (2026), new chalk and slate drawings as well as Polaroid works and works on glass. The title of the exhibition comes from a criticism made by the English writer Dr. Samuel Johnson about the 17th century Metaphysical poets. He saw them as counting syllables ('trial of the finger') in their poetry on account of their abundant use of conceits rather than relying on a poem's musicality to the ear. There are many visual references in this exhibition to both the finger, and indeed to ears, but the title also refers to how Dean manufactures her drawings, most particularly the new slate drawings in this exhibition. Dean's work has always valued the analog, not only in terms of medium, but also in how we still mediate ... More
Alexei Jawlensky (Russian, 1864–1941), Mystical Head: Galka (detail), 1917, oil and pencil on tan textured cardboard, Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection;.
PASADENA, CA.- Dear Little Friend: Impressions of Galka Scheyer offers an intimate view of the German-born art dealer and collector Galka Scheyer (1889–1945), known for her pivotal role in bringing European modernism to the United States and promoting the so-called Blue Four—Lyonel Feininger, Alexei Jawlensky, Paul Klee and Vassily Kandinsky. This focus exhibition looks at her legacy through a lesser-known aspect of her life—the friendships she forged with both artists and supporters. Drawn from Scheyer’s archive and collection, which was transferred to the Pasadena Art Institute (now the Norton Simon Museum) in 1953, the exhibition features portraits of Scheyer given to her by artists Alexei Jawlensky, Maynard Dixon, Peter Krasnow and Beatrice Wood, among others. Alongside these are correspondence and ephemera that testify to her dedication to art and to her artists, as well as the excitement she generated in pursuing her mission. The exhibition title, Dear Little Friend, is take ... More
Marcia Hafif, Italian Painting: 178 December 1967, 1967. acrylic on canvas, triptych. overall: 78-3/4 x 189 inches.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- parrasch heijnen presents Marcia Hafif: Experience of Being, an exhibition of select works by the artist dating from 1962 – 1998. These paintings, which span the early to mid career of the artist’s nearly six-decade practice, include several works that have never before been shown in the United States. Marcia Hafif’s (b.1929, Pomona, CA, d. 2018, Laguna Beach, CA) conceptual monochromes recreate emotional understanding through a highly methodical approach in which she related her body to her process, illuminating natural idiosyncrasies integral to the human touch. Hafif’s definition of “monochrome” connected to the subtle differences in hue, energy, and the patterns made by individual brushstrokes, generating a vibrating surface. The artist's paintings are both meditative and personal. The pleasure Hafif derived from her work was rooted in an uncertain journey towards the finished product: an act of unveiling a painting and its nature. In his 1994 museum c ... More
Jeff Koons, Winter Bears, polychromed wood, 48 x 44 x 15 ½ in. (121.9 x 111.8 x 39.4 cm.) Executed in 1988. This work is number one from an edition of three plus one artist's proof. Estimate: $3,800,000 – 5,000,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie's will present Post‑War to Present, a live auction taking place 26 February at Christie's Rockefeller Center. The sale contains works by today's leading artistic voices alongside celebrated figures of the post‑war period. The sale offers fresh perspectives on figuration and abstraction through the lens of contemporary artists including Keith Haring, Etel Adnan and Julia Jo, further highlighted by pioneering artists of the twentieth century, such as Helen Frankenthaler, Cy Twombly and Roy Lichtenstein. Headlining Post-War to Present is Temple of Style: The Barbara Jakobson Collection, led by Jeff Koons' Winter Bears (estimate: $3,800,000 – 5,000,000), from his groundbreaking Banality series, presented alongside outstanding works by Josef Albers, Ed Ruscha, Diane Arbus and Charlotte Perriand. Other collection highlights include Cy Twombly's Roman Notes (estimate: $700,000-1,000,000) from The Collection of Robert and ... More
Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (1786–1864). Scene from the play Shimizu Kiyoharu in the Cherry Blossom Time. Detail. 1830, Edo period, Japan. Paper, colour woodblock print. Collection of the Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga.
RIGA.- The exhibition Snow Melts. Japanese Art is on view at the Art Museum RIGA BOURSE in Riga (Doma laukums 6) from 21 February to 3 May 2026. Spring in Japanese culture brings together the rhythms of nature, the cycles of human life and an aesthetic way of perceiving the world into a single, symbolically rich experience. It marks the boundary between the old and the new both in nature and in human life, and thus becomes a significant point of departure for change. In Japanese aesthetics, spring is associated with an awareness of the transience of beauty. The brief blossoming of cherry trees, plum trees and other spring flowers is perceived as the culmination of beauty precisely because of its impermanence, encouraging empathy, attentiveness and a conscious experience of the moment. Spring is not only observed in nature, but it is also lived emotionally and collectively. At the same time, spring in Japan ... More
DUBLIN.- The Irish Museum of Modern Art presents the first solo exhibition in Ireland by Tarek Atoui, Lebanese sound artist and composer, opening on Saturday 21 February 2026. Based in Paris, Atoui is known for his innovative approach to sound, performance, and instrument-making. His work often explores the physicality of sound and the act of listening, creating immersive experiences that challenge traditional boundaries between artist, audience, and instrument. Atoui frequently collaborates with musicians, instrument makers, and people with diverse hearing abilities, emphasising inclusivity and experimentation. Atoui’s exhibition at IMMA is presented across two sites, an installation, Souffle Continu, in the Baroque Chapel that focuses on the tactile quality of the sound, vibration, and movement of “wind instruments”; and in the ... More
Elias Sime, FINAL DROP (የመጨረሻዋ ጠብታ) 11, 2026. Woven electrical wires on wood panel, 66 x 112 in. 167.6 x 284.5 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan is presenting FINAL DROP (የመጨረሻዋ ጠብታ), an exhibition of new works by Elias Sime, on view at 48 Walker Street from February 20 through March 21, 2026. This is Sime’s seventh solo exhibition with James Cohan. FINAL DROP (የመጨረሻዋ ጠብታ) features new woven electrical wire assemblages from the artist’s ongoing Tightrope series. Working with electronic components such as circuit boards, computer keys, and telecommunications wires, Sime creates lyrical abstract compositions that shift seamlessly between human emotions and evocations of landscapes using expansive fields of radiant colors. These works represent the movement of material goods across the globe while illuminating the fragility of our networked existence. Reflecting the dynamic interplay between technological progress and human experience, his works capture the ways our lives are bound to the devices that s ... More
Marie Zolamian, Avoir le boulard, 2023.
BRUSSELS.- Marie Zolamian’s work invokes constellations where interior geographies, fabulated presences and microhistories intertwine to form visual worlds operating between observation and imagination. Through painting, moving image, sound, drawing and site-specific work, Confabulations considers how memory is continuously reactivated and transformed, opening new routes towards shared imaginaries. Marie Zolamian’s pictorial universes echo processes of displacement, hosting and being hosted. She collects traces of encounters, apparitions and stories along her way, and inscribes them within new, fabulated environments. Embracing hybrid, collective, chimerical and intimate recollections, Zolamian reveals how memory is endlessly transformed, regenerated and morphed. Her paintings are inhabited by landscapes, architectures, figures and ornaments reminiscent of Eastern and Western iconographies — from medieval miniatures to prehistoric paintings; and from monumental ... More
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Ten Nigerian artists take a contemporary look at the history, culture, and philosophy of the Kingdom of Benin ZWOLLE.- From February 21, Museum de Fundatie will organize the exhibition Back to Benin: New Art, Centuries-Old Heritage. In November 2025, Museum de Fundatie formally transferred ownership of the only Benin bronze plaque in its collection to its rightful heirs*. This act of restitution forms the basis of Back to Benin, an exhibition featuring 10 contemporary artists from Nigeria with an Edo background**. The exhibition displays works in various media that testify to the power of the Edo visual language, which now takes on the multifaceted forms of international contemporary art. The artists were invited to create new work inspired by Ama O Ghe Ehen (mudfish plaque), the restituted Benin bronze plaque. Through drawings, paintings, ... More
Benton Museum of Art explores meditation through centuries of contemplative works CLAREMONT, CA.- This spring, the Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College offers a focused exhibition on the role of art in the practice of meditation. The Meditative Object, on view from February 21 to June 28, 2026, features works of art from 100 CE through 2024 that deliberately engage with or promote acts of contemplation. Including objects from both religious and secular traditions, the exhibition demonstrates how art has been and remains a method for cultivating meditative states. The Meditative Object opens with the torso of a buddha that dates from 100 to 399 CE, a recent gift from Athena Tacha and Richard Spear. Renaissance drawings of rapturous and absorbed figures, on loan from a private collector, posit religious ecstasy as a contemplative state, while the intricate calligraphy of a nineteenth-century Qu’ran reveals the mesmerizing effects of both viewing and creating ... More
Sebastian Wells captures the chaos and order of global arenas BERLIN.- Galerie Springer Berlin announces its next exhibition with young photographer Sebastian Wells. Since 2016, he has travelled to all Olympic Games as an accredited photographer. He will therefore not be present at the opening on 20 February, as he will be at the Olympic Games in Milan/Cortina. A short statement from the artist will be read out at the opening and welcome reception. In February, the book »ARENA Take 1: Facing the Spectacle« will be published by Spector Books. We invite you to a performative lecture and book presentation of ‘ARENA’ with Sebastian Wells at the gallery on 27 February at 7 p.m. The books can be purchased and signed during the event. In the series ARENA I and ARENA II, Sebastian Wells examines the Olympic Games as a global mass spectacle and questions the media, spatial and social mechanisms that shape this event. ... More
Kamrooz Aram makes his Alexander Gray debut with 'Infrequencies' NEW YORK, NY.- Alexander Gray Associates, New York presents Infrequencies, Kamrooz Aram’s (b. 1978, Shiraz, Iran; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) first exhibition with the Gallery. The show coincides with the artist’s participation in the 2026 Whitney Biennial, which opens this March. Together, these two presentations mark a significant moment in Aram’s ongoing engagement with abstraction and ornament as he works within—and against—the inherited art-historical frameworks that have shaped painting’s histories and hierarchies. Infrequencies brings together a focused group of paintings from the last six years, works Aram makes only intermittently. These canvases depart from the grid-based frameworks that have long anchored his practice in favor of more gestural, open modes of mark-making. Rather than signaling a new direction, the paintings operate ... More
Ifeyinwa Joy Chiamonwu debuts 'Manuscripts of Tradition' at Jack Shainman NEW YORK, NY.- Jack Shainman Gallery opened Manuscripts of Tradition, an exhibition of new work by Ifeyinwa Joy Chiamonwu, the artist’s second solo presentation with the gallery. Bringing together works on paper and paintings in oil, the exhibition sees Chiamonwu continuing her engagement with the Igbo community in which she was raised in the Anambra state of Nigeria while exploring the contemporary relevance of its cultural and mythological forms. Alongside this continuity of subject matter is Chiamonwu’s broader emphasis on the social and political implication of representation itself, as she understands these works as necessary counterpoints to stereotypes about Africa and the great diversity of people that live on the continent. Manuscripts of Tradition is the first solo exhibition held at 346 Broadway, the gallery’s newest space allowing for focused ... More
Berlin exhibition spotlights emerging photographers Jana Pressler and Moritz Haase BERLIN.- The Kommunale Galerie Berlin is presenting the winners of the 19th IBB Prize for Photography in an exhibition opening February 20 and running through May 10, 2026. This year’s honors go to Jana Pressler, recipient of the main prize, and Moritz Haase, who received the recognition award. Together, their works form a thoughtful dialogue about how photography can reveal the passage of time, the nature of physical reality, and the processes behind image-making itself. Awarded by Investitionsbank Berlin (IBB) in cooperation with the Friends of the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) | Karl Hofer Society, the annual prize supports promising young artists connected to UdK Berlin. Beyond the monetary award—€7,500 for the main prize and €2,500 for the recognition award—the program also funds the exhibition, publications, and presentation of the artists’ ... More
Exhibitions explore how artists throughout time have used photography to express personas BOSTON, MASS.- A suite of exhibitions at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum explores how photography has been used throughout time as a medium of self-expression and reinvention, a means for questioning and challenging personal identity. Persona: Photography and the Re-Imagined Self (February 19 – May 10) examines how artists, both historic and contemporary, have utilized photography to create and share a persona, an alter ego that is distinct from the self they present to the public. Picturing Isabella (February 19 – June 21) investigates the deliberate curation of an enigmatic and elusive identity by Museum founder Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840 – 1924), who hid from the camera as her fame grew. A newly-commissioned public work of art by Gardner Museum Artist-in-Residence, Jamie Diamond: Monstra Te Esse Matrem (show yourself ... More
The Villa Arson art center presents its spring 2026 exhibition season NICE.- The Villa Arson art center dedicates its spring 2026 exhibition season to video artist and media theorist Nathalie Magnan (1956–2016), inaugurating a two-part program devoted to contemporary French figures in art and thought whose work has remained marginal to dominant art-historical narratives. The program, which will continue in autumn 2026 with a second season dedicated to French Caribbean artist Serge Hélénon, aims to reassess singular artistic and intellectual trajectories, highlight their contemporary relevance and influence across generations, and foster the circulation of their ideas within current debates. A media theorist, filmmaker, cyberfeminist, and navigator of both digital and maritime spaces, Nathalie Magnan made a vital interdisciplinary contribution to the histories of technology, feminism, and LGBTQI+ struggles. An educator, webmistress, ... More
Sonia Gomes wins the 2026 MAZE/Art Award F.P.Journe GSTAAD.- On the occasion of the opening of the third edition of MAZE/Art Gstaad 2026, held on Thursday, February 19 at the Festival-Zelt and marked by strong attendance, the second edition of the MAZE/Art Awards F.P.Journe was presented in a particularly vibrant atmosphere. Established to affirm MAZE’s commitment to artistic creation and to foster dialogue between institutions, galleries, and collectors, the MAZE/Art Awards F.P.Journe recognizes an artist whose practice reflects a singular vision and outstanding rigor. The jury—composed of Maja Hoffmann (Founder and President of the LUMA Foundation), Stephanie Seidel (Head of Art after 1960, Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Basel), and Tatyana Franck (President of L’Alliance New York)— awarded the prize to Sonia Gomes, represented by Mendes Wood DM, founded in São Paulo and now established ... More
PalaisPopulaire presents film program OnView-Power BERLIN.- OnView is a curated film series by PalaisPopulaire. Each spring and fall, the institution presents films by international artists that explore a specific theme over a period of up to eight weeks. Under the title Power, the third edition brings together works by Karimah Ashadu, Dara Birnbaum, Jen DeNike, Korpys/Löffler, Erkan Özgen, Shirin Sabahi, Rosemarie Trockel, and Marina Abramović/Ulay. As in previous presentations, the works selected for OnView–Power reflect the different meanings and interpretations of the term. Set in social or political contexts, the films deal with power, strength, control, or their opposites. In a short black-and-white sequence, a white moth eats a hole into the mesh of a black knitted garment, separating the textile fabric. In à la Motte (1993), Rosemarie Trockel then has these images also playing backwards. This creates ... More
From the Seine to Central Park: 19th & 20th Century Art is at Swann March 12 NEW YORK, NY.- The March 12, 2026, sale of 19th & 20th Century Art at Swann will feature an engaging group of original artwork, prints, and sculpture from European, American, and Latin American artistic traditions and movements. Leading the auction are European original works with Max Liebermann’s Bij de Hoefsmid (At the Blacksmith), oil on board ($30,000-$50,000), Alfred Heber Hutty’s Early Snow, oil on canvas, circa 1920 ($12,000-18,000); and Édouard Louis Dubufe’s Portrait d’un frère et d’une sœur, oil on canvas, 1857 ($10,000-15,000). Original American art highlights include Lyonel Feininger’s 1937 crayon drawing The Golden Gate ($12,000-18,000), Joseph Yoakum’s 1966 pastel drawing Lake Occachobia Near SeeBeriang Florida ($8,000-12,000), and his circa 1968 watercolor Near Halhul Palestine ($8,000-12,000), Paul Cornoyer’s 1909 oil-on-canvas ... More
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On a day like today, American illustrator Frank Brunner was born
February 21, 1949. Frank Brunner (born February 21, 1949) is an American comics artist and illustrator best known for his work at Marvel Comics in the 1970s. Brunner entered the comics profession as a horror writer-artist for the black-and-white comics magazines Web of Horror, Creepy, Eerie, and Vampirella. His first work for Marvel Comics was inking an 11-page Watcher backup story in The Silver Surfer #6 (June 1969). In this image: Frank Brunner The Savage Sword of Conan #30 Double Splash Page 2-3 Original Art (Marvel, 1978).
