In Bed, 2005, mixed media, 162 × 650 × 395 cm. Collection Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain.
SEOUL.- The exhibition at National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art provides a unique opportunity to present Ron Mueck’s (b. 1958) work to the Korean audience and to allow his sculptures to respond to the atmosphere of a city steeped in ancient and modern culture, tradition and creativity. This exhibition offers an overview of Mueck’s major works, showcasing an artist who has continuously surprised audiences for over three decades. Viewers can explore the evolution of Mueck’s work through this selection of sculptures from throughout his career, the exhibition also features a series of studio photographs and two films by Gautier Deblonde who has documented Mueck’s studio practice for over 25 years. “Although I spend a lot of time on the surface, it’s the life inside I want to capture.” —Ron Mueck ... More
Rufus Martin’s bust of Sir Winston Churchill is based on extensive visual research undertaken by the sculptor.
LONDON.- As the UK prepares to mark the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day, Bowman Sculpture gallery in London have unveiled a new bronze sculpture of Sir Winston Churchill, created by rising British artist Rufus Martin. The bust by Rufus Martin (b. Dorset, UK) captures Britain’s legendary Wartime leader Churchill in one of the most iconic moments of the 20th century – flashing his ‘V for Victory’ sign from the balcony in Whitehall on 8th May 1945, the day Germany’s surrender was announced and the war in Europe declared over. This striking new work is being released as part of VE Day 80 commemorations and aims to honour both the historic moment and the enduring symbolism of Churchill’s leadership. Rufus Martin’s bust of Sir Winston Churchill is based on extensive visual research undertaken by the sculptor, including photographs by Yousuf Karsh, studies by Graham Sutherland, and archival ... More
Bronze sculpture with brown patina and parcel gilding by Paul Manship (1885-1966), titled Mother & Child (1917), signed "P. Manship", overall 17.25 inches with base. Estimate: $20,000-$30,000.
ATLANTA, GA.- A small gilt-framed portrait by the Dutch Golden Age painter Gerard Dou (1613-1675) and a Chinese Northern Song dynasty (960-1127) Ru ware brush washer are both expected to bring six figures in Ahlers & Ogletree’s Spring Estates & Collections auction scheduled for Thursday, May 8th, online and live in the Ahlers & Ogletree showroom at 1788 Ellsworth Industrial Boulevard. The 412-lot auction, starting promptly at 10am Eastern time, will feature a refined selection of antiques, fine art, and decorative arts consigned from prominent Southeastern estates and private collections. Other top performers include three bronzes from one of America's premier early modernists, Paul Manship (1885-1966); and a Tiffany Studios “Linen Fold” table lamp on 534 base. The oil on wood portrait painting by Gerard Dou is a masterfully rendered ... More
Oil on canvas by Wilfredo Lam (Cuban, 1902-1982), titled Personnage N. 2 (1939), signed and dated, 36 ½ inches by 23 ½ inches. Estimate: $100,000-$150,000.
MILFORD, CONN.- Shannon’s will host their annual Spring Fine Art Auction on Thursday, May 8th at 6pm Eastern time. The auction, featuring 169 lots, will showcase several examples of quality American art, Modern art and Contemporary art. The diverse offerings will surely attract an international audience of collectors and museums. Leading the auction is a rare early 1939 painting by Wifredo Lam, a Cuban artist who worked in Paris and collaborated with Picasso beginning in 1938. Picasso proclaimed Lam and his lost cousin and the two were lifelong friends inspiring one another's artistic production. The rare painting is a portrait of a woman on a red ground painted in a Modernist style. Inspired by his Afro-Cuban heritage and a mental act of decolonization, Lam used motifs from so-called “Primitive” art and his own cultural heritage. Offered at $100,000-150,000 Shannon’s is ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announced New York Spring Marquee Week: a series of auctions offering an array of works by the most important artists from throughout the 20th and 21st centuries taking place live in Christie’s storied Rockefeller Center saleroom in the heart of Manhattan. Sales will begin the evening of Monday, May 12, with the highly anticipated single-owner sale, Leonard & Louise Riggio: Collected Works, immediately followed by the 20th Century Evening Sale. Auctions will continue Tuesday, May 13, with the Impressionist and Modern Art Works on Paper and Day Sales, and through Wednesday, May 14, with the 21st Century Evening Sale. The week will conclude with the final auction on Thursday, May 15, the Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale. The series of auctions is a testament to the ... More
PARIS.- Ein Bein von Manet aus Paris at Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Pantin presents monumental paintings, intimate works on paper and a bronze sculpture created by Georg Baselitz over the course of the last year. The paintings on view represent a continuation of the now 87-year-old artist's perpetual grapple with the conventions of portraiture, returning to the two subjects that have marked his seven decades of artistic production more than any other: himself and his wife, Elke. Working on the floor, the artist used a walking frame to navigate the canvases, turning the tangle of lines made by its wheels in the paint into a central compositional element. Demonstrating this novel mark-making technique, the new paintings bear witness to Baselitz's unrelenting impulse to experiment. Baselitz has long returned to the same familiar subjects in his portraits – namely himself and his wife – in order, ... More
DRESDEN.- Listen to the Echo – a joint project by Museum Folkwang and Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden | Online ticket sales for Essen and Dresden open at the end of April. Dresden and Essen, 25 April 2025 - To mark William Kentridge‘s 70th birthday on 28 April, Museum Folkwang and Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden are showcasing the work of the South African artist in the form of an extensive joint project entitled Listen to the Echo. The exhibitions will open in Essen and Dresden at the beginning of September 2025, and both will offer a unique overview of William Kentridge's multifaceted work and methods. Kentridge is one of the most acclaimed artists of our time and has for many years poetically addressed social and political issues that are of great relevance not only in his home country of South Africa. He came to international fame in the 1990s with his animated short films, which are based on charcoal drawings and interweave political and personal stories. To ... More
George Edwards, The Dodo and the Guinea Pig. A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, London, 1757. Hand-colored etching.
SANTA BARBARA, CALIF.- The new exhibition Drawn from Nature: The Maximus Legacy at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History (SBMNH) marks 30 years of appreciating the art of science in the John and Peggy Maximus Gallery. To celebrate the milestone, Gallery Curator Linda Miller chose 57 works from among the thousands of antique prints in the Museum’s collection, reflecting a wide range of subjects featured by the most famous scientific illustrators of the past four centuries. Organized thematically, the presentation offers detailed depictions of plants, mammals, birds, marine life, reptiles, amphibians, and insects and a glimpse into the development of the arts and sciences. “Originally created for purposes of identification and sharing knowledge, as more talented artists were involved, these works became sought after for their intrinsic beauty,” Miller explains. “On display is a sampling of the range of subjects in our collection. It’s a chance for ... More
Sandra Poulson, Installation view of Este quarto parece uma República!, 2025. Courtesy Jahmek Contemporary Art. Photo: Dami Vaughan.
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- This spring, MoMA PS1 presents the first museum exhibition of artist Sandra Poulson (Angolan, b. 1995), including an installation of new assemblage works. On view April 24 through October 6, 2025, Este quarto parece uma República! [This Bedroom Looks Like a Republic!] features sculptures made from garments and appropriated furniture. Poulson’s practice takes an archaeological approach to Angolan symbols, codes, and cultural objects to untangle histories, oral traditions, and geopolitics. Seen together, her works shed new light on the transnational circulation of images and material culture in the wake of the Angolan Civil War. Poulson’s works draw on daily life and customs in her hometown Luanda, examining how intimate spaces become arenas for political consciousness. Her work challenges the manners in which ideological symbols circulate anew, detached from their original social and historical contexts once commodified. ... More
BUFFALO, NY.- The University at Buffalo Art Galleries is presenting 25 for 25: Promised Gifts from the Gerald Mead Collection, an exhibition celebrating collector, educator, and independent curator Gerald C. Mead Jr.’s longstanding relationship with UB Art Galleries and his transformative promised gift of 25 works to mark their 25th anniversary. For nearly four decades, Mead has built an encyclopedic collection of works by artists associated with Western New York, carefully assembling over 1,900 pieces that reflect the region’s deep artistic history. This exhibition highlights 25 significant works from Mead’s collection that have been pledged as future gifts to UB Art Galleries, ensuring they will become a lasting resource for students, scholars, and the broader Buffalo community. Featured artists include Laylah Ali, Cory Arcangel, Charles Burchfield, Ellen Carey, Wendell Castle, Allan D’Arcangelo, Nancy Dwyer, Hollis Frampton, Robert Longo, Elizabeth Murray, Cindy ... More
Erica Mahinay, Heartthrobber, 2025. Oil on linen, 183 x 153 cm (72 x 60 1/4 inches). Courtesy of the artist and Josh Lilley, London. Photo by Charles White.
LONDON.- Josh Lilley is presenting Engagements, the first UK solo presentation by Erica Mahinay. Mahinay (b. 1986, Santa Fe, New Mexico, US) creates paintings that oscillate between the architectural and abstract. Full of distinct character, each work utilises a unique ratio of materials and motion, colour and light. Her highly physical artistic process uses her own body as a tool for creation: from limbs to fingertips, the artist engages with her canvases in an intuitive way as she navigates self expression. Mahinay’s initial touch emanates across the canvas in a shimmering mass, and through her vulnerability with a process that can be spontaneous or ritualistic, she explores what it is to be human. Mahinay constructs her paintings by dripping or pouring paint, using rollers and brushes, scrawling with an oil stick and tossing dry pigment onto wet surfaces. Her dynamic technique layers paint ... More
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BERLIN.- Galerie Max Hetzler is presenting a solo exhibition of works by Thomas Struth at Potsdamer Strasse 77-87 in Berlin. This exhibition offers visitors a new and, at times, surprising insight into Struth’s oeuvre over the past four decades. Thomas Struth’s work is characterised by his long-term and careful pursuit of themes that revolve, in various guises, around the relationship between people and their environment. His photographs, which harmonise forms of documentation and contemplation, capture today’s society through images of cultural spaces, as well as the natural world, portraiture and places of industrial and technological innovation. The most recent work in the exhibition, Hinakapoʻula, Hawaiʻi 2024, draws viewers into the depths of densely wooded Hawaiian mountains. In contrast, Semi Submersible Rig, DSME Shipyard, Geoje Island 2007 depicts an industrial megastructure on the southern coast of South Korea. Its monumental size and four mighty pillars are e ... More
Kayode Ojo, Absinthe Robette (Bree), 2023. 144.8 x 101.6 x 101.6 cm - 57 x 40 x 40 in. Courtesy the artist, Maureen Paley, London.
LONDON.- Maureen Paley is presenting An angel is just a messenger, the first solo exhibition of Kayode Ojo at the gallery and in the UK. His work employs a process of sourcing, collecting and displaying objects. His sculptures reveal how items can confer social status upon their owner, examining the artifice of taste and the aspirations associated with it. Though the sculptures reflect on the markers of excess and accumulation, these carefully staged compositions also embrace the fragility and impractical beauty of their objects. Drawing materials from fast-fashion websites and online retailers, he integrates the processes of browsing, scrolling, and acquiring into his artistic practice. In his artwork captions, Ojo quotes the original item descriptions as they appeared online, drawing attention to the search-optimised keywords that underpin the algorithmic structures that govern ... More
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The Design Museum celebrates 15 years of enriching children's creativity in their 2025 edition of Design Ventura LONDON.- The Design Museum and Deutsche Bank are celebrating 15 years of Design Ventura, the award-winning, free design and enterprise competition for school students aged 13-16. In partnership with Deutsche Bank’s Corporate Social Responsibility education programme, it has seen over 170,000 students participate spanning over 3,600 schools across the country since the initiative’s conception in 2010, nurturing creativity and innovation amongst young people, inspiring the next generation of young designers. This year’s brief of ‘Change’ was set by Rodrigo García González and Karlijn Sibbel of innovative, sustainable single-use packaging solutions company Notpla, inviting students to consider the idea of ‘Change’ to design ... More
Painting as elastic language: Rosy Keyser's second solo exhibition opens in LA LOS ANGELES, CA.- parrasch heijnen presents Rosy Keyser: ultraUMWELT, the gallery’s second solo exhibition with New York-based artist Rosy Keyser (b.1974, Baltimore, MD). The works of ultraUMWELT explore the synthesis of time and form as Keyser asks how we can propagate new beauty, new language, new structures, and new tools using the elastic language of painting. She negotiates the shifting relationships of creation and destruction simultaneous to the attendant sensuality and brutality that characterize nature. Keyser engages Umwelt - the phenomenon in which the experience of reality is shaped by the differences in sensory and perceptual systems between organisms—within her material and conceptual process. As writer Mary Blair Taylor wrote about the work in this show, “Keyser imagined [and created] a machine that would act upon her works-in- ... More
'Pay what you wish' all day every Friday to see 'José Maria Velasco: A View of Mexico' LONDON.- For the first time, and as part of its NG200 celebrations, the National Gallery will invite visitors all day every Friday to pay what they like for one of its ticketed exhibitions. From 10am to 9pm on any Friday until 17 August, you can pay as little as £1 or as much as you’d like to enjoy the critically acclaimed exhibition José María Velasco: A View of Mexico, a celebration of Mexico’s most famous 19th-century painter. Pay What You Wish tickets can be booked online, on the phone or in person and are available on a first come, first served basis. The Gallery first introduced the scheme for Friday evening openings during the Lucian Freud exhibition, followed by the Frans Hals and After Impressionism exhibitions. This is the first time it has operated throughout the day on Fridays. 'José María Velasco: A View of Mexico' is the first monographic exhibition in the UK devoted ... More
Vancouver Art Gallery debuts Lucy Raven's first major West Coast exhibition VANCOUVER.- This spring, the Vancouver Art Gallery launched the solo exhibition Lucy Raven: Murderers Bar, the first exhibition at the Gallery curated by Anthony Kiendl, the Gallery’s CEO & Executive Director, since his appointment in 2020. Lucy Raven: Murderers Bar brings new and recent works by the multidisciplinary artist best known for examining the mechanics of film, photography and video—whether animated, digital, mechanical or cinematic. The first major presentation of Raven’s work in Vancouver and the artist’s largest exhibition in Canada to date, Lucy Raven: Murderers Bar brings together two immersive installations alongside a connected body of evocative works on silk. The exhibition is the world premiere of Raven’s moving image installation Murderers Bar (2025), co-commissioned and jointly acquired by the Vancouver Art Gallery and ... More
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts launches immersive art installation series RICHMOND, VA.- In May 2025, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) will launch REWIND< < Fast/Forward, a series of immersive art installations, from the performative to the cinematic. Coinciding with the museum’s current expansion project, REWIND< < Fast/Forward is designed to engage visitors with contemporary art experiences while VMFA’s collection of mid-to-late 20th-century art is temporarily off view. “Since its inception, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has been a platform for exhibiting cutting-edge works of contemporary art,” said Director and CEO Alex Nyerges. “Our new series ––- REWIND< < Fast/Forward ––- follows in the tracks of the museum’s Fast/Forward performance art series from 1985 to 2002, which featured a variety of forward-thinking artists, dance companies, and jazz musicians and ensembles, including the Sun ... More
Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger opens an exhibition of works by Guillaume Barth PARIS.- The Gallery presents the first solo exhibition dedicated to the artist Guillaume Barth, allowing us to grasp the full scale of his sculpture titled Elina, created in 2015 on the vast salt desert of Bolivia, the Salar de Uyuni. Elina initially existed as a vision that the artist wished to bring into reality. In 2013, he set off to find a territory in Bolivia suitable for this vision, discovering Tahua, an authentic small village on the shores of the Salar de Uyuni, at the foot of the snow capped Tunupa volcano, which rises to an altitude of 5,321 meters. On the opposite side of the city of Uyuni, the Aymara community lives there, balancing ancient traditions and Western influence. After obtaining the official permission of the Aymara community in 2013, with the condition that the land be returned to its original state, Guillaume Barth continued to pursue his dream and returned to Bolivia in ... More
Third edition of Tasweer Photo Festival Qatar opens in Doha DOHA.- Qatar Museums launched the 2025 edition of the Tasweer Photo Festival Qatar, the nation’s premier photography biennial. This year’s festival explores themes of belonging through eight exhibitions in five locations, anchored by the lead exhibition As I Lay Between Two Seas at the Fire Station: Artist in Residence. The exhibitions were unveiled by Her Excellency Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Chairperson of Qatar Museums, in the attendance of Mohammed Saad Al Rumaihi, CEO, Qatar Museums and Sheikh Hassan bin Mohamed bin Ali Al Thani, Mathaf President, among other dignitaries. Established under the leadership of Her Excellency Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Chairperson of Qatar Museums, Tasweer Photo Festival Qatar builds on the nation’s commitment to nurture artistic talent, build bridges of understanding ... More
New York Academy of Art welcomes new President Paul R. Provost NEW YORK, NY.- The New York Academy of Art, one of the nation’s premier independent graduate art schools, announced the appointment of Paul R. Provost, Ph.D., as its new President. A seasoned leader in both the non-profit and commercial art worlds, Dr. Provost brings over 25 years of strategic and visionary experience to the Academy. Most recently, he served as the founding CEO of Art Bridges Foundation, where he transformed a $1.5 billion arts foundation into a national leader in museum collaboration, inclusive programming, and DEAI-focused initiatives. His career spans senior leadership roles at Christie’s, where he served as Deputy Chairman and global ambassador for the brand, as well as founder of a consulting firm advising philanthropists and institutions on art market strategy and cultural stewardship. With a doctorate in art history from Princeton and a deep ... More
MoMI presents Portals of Solitude: Virtual Experiences from Taiwan, featuring four recent virtual reality works ASTORIA, NY.- Museum of the Moving Image presents the New York premieres of four virtual reality projects in the exhibition Portals of Solitude: Virtual Experiences from Taiwan, from April 25 through July 27 in the Museum’s Jane Henson Amphitheater. Featuring a broad range of styles and subjects, the four works capture feelings of isolation and ostracization through the lens of oppression, sickness, and loneliness. The exhibition is organized by guest curator Michaela Ternasky-Holland and presented in partnership with Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA). During the run of the exhibition, the Museum will host two events featuring the artists: on Friday, May 2, at 6:00 p.m., a virtual Creator Panel; and an event in June ... More
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On a day like today, Dutch painter and sculptor Karel Appel was born
