Fire and Ice Tabular II, by Paul Nicklen, Antarctica (2022)
NEW YORK, NY.- The new exhibition Hope and Reverence: Cristina Mittermeier and Paul Nicklen debuts in New York September 15 ‒ 28, during Climate Week NYC. C. Parker Gallery, a leading visual arts presenter in the northeast U.S. since it was established in 2005, presents the first exhibition of this size and scope in New York by both photographers together. “Cristina Mittermeier and Paul Nicklen are internationally celebrated visual storytellers. These fine art photographers and conservation champions have created some of the world’s most iconic images. Both artists are recognized for the power of their images, inspiring global change via their 12 million followers worldwide,” says Tiffany Benincasa, the proprietor of C. Parker Gallery and Curator of the exhibition. There will be a public opening reception on Sunday, September 21 from 2:00-4:00 p.m. at the gallery in New York. ... More
Al Hirschfeld (1903-2003), Charlie Chaplin with Flowers. Hand-signed Limited Edition Etching. Plate Size: 19 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches. Paper Size: 30 x 22 1/2 inches. Framed: 32 x 26 inches. Signed lower right, numbered 107/150 lower left. Hand-pulled in 1975.
NEW YORK, NY.- Helicline Fine Art announces its next exhibition, HIRSCHFELD: STROKES OF GENIUS, a glorious celebration of Al Hirschfeld’s artwork. The exhibition includes more than four dozen original drawings and lithographs (all signed and numbered) depicting Broadway, Hollywood, TV, music and comedy. Beginning September 10 through November 2, works can be seen at HeliclineFineArt.com and at the midtown Manhattan gallery by appointment. In addition to the digital exhibition, some of the Helicline drawings will be included in an exhibition the gallery is holding in conjunction with the Al Hirschfeld Foundation at the legendary Oak Room of New York City’s Algonquin Hotel (59 W. 44th Street) from September 9-20. Hirschfeld's artwork is known ... More
Liu Xiaodong, Wolf Smoke (Smoke Signals), 2006. Painting, stretched, oil on canvas, H. 78 3/4 x W. 78 3/4 in. (200 x 200 cm). Private Collection.
NEW YORK, NY.- A new contemporary exhibition at China Institute Gallery this fall will explore how artists approach issues of profound change ranging from experiencing powerful spiritual journeys to calling attention to serious environmental issues. Metamorphosis: Chinese Imagination and Transformation will be exhibited from September 10, 2025 through January 11, 2026. Many of the works are on view in the U.S. for the first time. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue. Metamorphosis presents work by 28 artists of Chinese descent who respond to themes of personal, cultural, environmental, and historical change in dynamic and innovative ways. Created by both established and emerging artists, the works span media with painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and video from 1974 through 2025. Artists include Xu Bing, Zheng Chongbin, Lu Yang, ... More
Hynek Martinec, Nathaniel Rackowe and Paul Hodgson join the roster of London-based art advisor Varvara Roza, alongside Winston Branch, Anthony Daley, Philip Tsiaras, Manolis Anastasakos and Ioannis Lassithiotakis.
LONDON.- London-based art manager and advisor Varvara Roza has announced the representation of three leading contemporary artists: Hynek Martinec, Nathaniel Rackowe, and Paul Hodgson. They join a roster that already includes Winston Branch, Anthony Daley, Philip Tsiaras, Manolis Anastasakos, and Ioannis Lassithiotakis, consolidating Roza’s reputation as one of the city’s most dynamic emerging figures in contemporary art. The announcement comes as Roza unveils an ambitious 2025–2026 programme, which will open in November with a solo exhibition of Nathaniel Rackowe, curated by internationally acclaimed curator Vassiliki Tzanakou at 8 Duke Street St James’s. Roza has long championed artists of international standing, including Winston Branch OBE, whose ... More
BOULDER, COLO.- A remarkable Egyptian wooden sarcophagus mask, dating to the Late Dynastic Period (26th to 31st Dynasty, ca. 712–332 BCE), will be among the highlights at Artemis Fine Arts’ upcoming Pre-Columbian | Ancient | Ethnographic sale opening on September 18, 2025. The auction, presented in Louisville, Colorado, offers an opportunity for collectors and institutions to acquire a work of extraordinary craftsmanship and spiritual resonance. This stately mask once adorned the upper section of an anthropoid coffin, its purpose extending far beyond aesthetic refinement. In ancient Egyptian belief, funerary masks served as vital intermediaries between the world of the living and the afterlife. By presenting an idealized visage of the deceased, they allowed the soul — or ba — to recogni ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- In celebration of Robert Rauschenberg’s (1925–2008) centennial, New York University’s Grey Art Museum presents an exhibition of works from the NYU Art Collection. Handle with Care: Robert Rauschenberg’s Ecological Conscience—on view from September 9, 2025, through April 11, 2026, at the Grey Art Museum at 18 Cooper Square—explores Rauschenberg's sense of environmental crisis through eight of his editioned works on paper made from 1970 to 1982. These works address environmental and ecological issues, variously reproducing news articles about oil spills, endangered wildlife, and consumer packaging, and often include hand-rendered and collaged elements. ... More
Bridge for the Arts and Education (ACC 2024) Soul of ODYSSEY, photo by Hsu Fang Yu.
NEW YORK, NY.- Today, the Asian Cultural Council (ACC) announced the opening of its next global funding cycle, with applications accepted October 1 — November 19, 2025. For 2026 Application Guidelines, please visit: https://www.asianculturalcouncil.org/grant-opportunities. “We are excited to announce the launch of our annual grant funding cycle, a vital aspect of ACC’s work to foster deep and lasting international dialogue through cultural exchange between the U.S. and Asia,” said Judy Kim, Executive Director of the Asian Cultural Council. “Our fellowship and grant opportunities offer essential support for artists, scholars, arts professionals, and organizations to deeply engage with a culture different from their own, promoting cross-cultural understanding, global collaboration, and personal growth, transcending geography and ... More
LONDON.- The National Gallery, the world’s pre-eminent collection of paintings made in the Western tradition, is announcing its largest transformation since its formation 200 years ago. This has already attracted £375m of cash pledges including the two largest ever publicly reported single cash donations to a museum or gallery globally. As part of this exciting development, The Gallery is launching an international architectural competition for a brand-new wing to house an expanded collection. This competition is expected to attract both long established and exciting, younger architectural firms. This funding will also support the Gallery's move to extend its historic collection and marks the beginning of an exciting new collaboration with Tate and other museums in the United Kingdom and around the world. The National Gallery was formed to make great art accessible to all. With this new physical and artistic expansion, we are reaffirming our commitment to the public. We will broaden our en ... More
Generated frame from Sasha Stiles, A LIVING POEM, 2025. Generative language system (original poetry, fragments from MoMA’s text-art collection, p5.js code, GPT-4) and sound. Courtesy of the artist.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art presents Sasha Stiles: A LIVING POEM, on view at MoMA from September 10, 2025, through Spring 2026 in the Agnes Gund Garden Lobby. As a part of MoMA’s ongoing partnership with Hyundai Card, Sasha Stiles: A LIVING POEM will also be on public display in Seoul starting on September 22. This installation, presented across two continents, is a digital work that features the collective dialogue of Stiles and her alter ego, Technelegy, an AI poet trained to emulate and reimagine Stiles’s voice. Inspired by text-based works in MoMA’s collection, Stiles and Technelegy’s infinite poem continuously rewrites itself every 60 minutes. Powered by both the human mind and computer algorithms, the project brings together sensory elements such as vision, voice, and music. Sasha Stiles: A LIVING POEM is organized by Martha Joseph, Associate Curator, ... More
Amanda H. Hellman will be the next director of the Palmer Museum of Art, effective Jan. 2, 2026. Credit: College of Arts and Architecture. All Rights Reserved.
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA.- Amanda H. Hellman, director of the Vanderbilt University Museum of Art in Nashville, Tennessee, since 2022, has been named director of the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State, effective Jan. 2, 2026. Hellman was previously the curator of African art at the Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University from 2013 to 2022. Her exhibitions there include "And I Must Scream" (2022); "Between the Sweet Water and the Swarm of Bees" (2016); and "Southern Connections: Bearden in Atlanta" (2014). While an adjunct professor at Agnes Scott College, she curated "Strata: an installation by Shannon Collis" (2021) and "Press Here" (2021) at the Dalton Gallery. Recent exhibitions at Vanderbilt include "Holding Impact: An Installation by Amie Esslinger" (2023) and "New Art, New Directions" (co-curator, 2022). According to Hellman, it is a pivotal time for arts and cultural organizations in the United States. “This is an important ... More
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) announced today that Francis Bacon’s triptych Three Studies of Lucian Freud (1969) has been gifted to the museum as a bequest of the late philanthropist and co-chair of LACMA’s board of trustees, Elaine Wynn. The first work by Bacon to enter LACMA’s collection, Three Studies of Lucian Freud is the only painting by Bacon in a Los Angeles public collection, as well as the only triptych by the artist in a California public collection. “Elaine was among the most generous and supportive leaders in LACMA’s entire history,” said Michael Govan, LACMA CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director. “She was our biggest champion, and was as passionate about accessibility to art as she was about works of art. Thanks to Elaine’s incredible generosity, Bacon’s masterpiece will belong to LACMA and the public.” One of the most important and celebrated painters ... More
Spencer Finch, Haiku (First Snow, Woods, Winter), 2025. LED fixtures, lamps and filters, 48 x 18 in. 121.9 x 45.7 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan is presenting One Hundred Famous Views of New York City (After Hiroshige), an exhibition of new work by Spencer Finch, on view from September 5 through October 4, 2025, at the gallery’s 52 Walker Street location. This is Finch’s sixth solo exhibition with James Cohan. For this exhibition, Spencer Finch presents four major installations, highlighting the artist’s fluency across media. Using watercolor, LED light tubes, stained glass, and concrete bricks, the artist explores different facets of Japanese aesthetics while furthering his ongoing investigations into color, perception, and close observation of nature. Finch’s engagement with Japan spans nearly fifty years, beginning with his first visit as a teenager. He began his artistic journey working with a potter outside Kyoto as an exchange student in college, and although the influence of Japanese visual culture has always been present in his work, this is the first exhibition fully ... More
TOKYO.- Pace is presenting Golden Game, an exhibition featuring Leo Villareal’s latest body of work, at its Tokyo gallery. On view from September 5 to October 18, Golden Game is the Mexican American artist’s debut solo show in Japan. The exhibition follows the unveiling of Villareal’s first public artwork in Japan, Firmament (Mori) (2023), a luminous, cosmic artwork gracing the entrance to the Toranomon Hills Station Tower in Tokyo. Villareal’s presentation at Pace Tokyo showcases his exploration of the relationships among nature, technology, chance, and the human experience, and it invites viewers to consider the boundary between the physical and digital worlds. In his exhibition with Pace in Tokyo, Villareal presents his newest series of wall-mounted sculptures—rendered at several different scales—which highlight wood as a key material. Using white oak for the first time, Villareal investigates new visual terrain with this body of work. In this way, his latest s ... More
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Julius von Bismarck: Normale Katastrophe (Normality Bias) at KunstHausWien VIENNA.- He lashes the sea with a whip, captures lightning bolts, or paints over entire landscapes: In spectacular actions Julius von Bismarck explores human perception and the relationship we humans have to what we call “nature”. In his first large institutional solo exhibition in Austria, being presented at KunstHausWien, the artist addresses human hubris, responsibility, and agency in the face of ecological collapse. Whether wildfires, lightning strikes or huge storm waves and swells—the leitmotif of the exhibition is the engagement with the natural forces of fire and water in a living environment that we humans are increasingly changing. The exhibition title, Normality Bias, describes the state of a society continuously stricken by multiple crises, with far-reaching and unprecedented ecological and social changes becoming the new normality. Along with a selection of cross- ... More
Hauser & Wirth hosts first NYC exhibition for photojournalist Don McCullin NEW YORK, NY.- Hauser & Wirth is presenting its first New York City exhibition devoted to the work of Sir Don McCullin CBE, lauded internationally as one of the most significant photojournalists of our time. Coinciding with his 90th birthday, McCullin’s most comprehensive US presentation to date brings together nearly fifty works, as well as seldom seen archival materials and historical ephemera. ‘A Desecrated Serenity’ offers a deep look at both the beauty and brutality of McCullin’s expansive archive. From the gritty unfiltered images taken on the battlefield and in postwar Britain to painterly European vistas and meticulously crafted still lifes, the exhibition reveals the twin forces that course through and characterize McCullin’s oeuvre: an innate and profound compassion for humanity and exceptional mastery of composition and process. ‘A Desecrated Serenity’ chronicles ... More
Boscobel to debut "Scenic Vistas" site's largest exhibition to date GARRISON, NY.- Boscobel House and Gardens announced Scenic Vistas: Landscape as Culture in Early New York, a sweeping new exhibition that brings together historic 19th-century decorative arts and contemporary works to demonstrate the longstanding significance of landscape depictions in the Hudson Valley. Their most expansive exhibition to date, Scenic Vistas will also mark the reopening of Boscobel’s Historic House Museum for Preservation in Progress tours after a 17-month emergency restoration. On view across the Historic House Museum, Visitor Center Gallery, and Great Lawn, Scenic Vistas highlights how depictions of landscapes were central to domestic life, design, and identity in New York, long before the rise of the Hudson River School. The exhibition showcases the range of landscape imagery abundant in ceramics, furniture, and other decorative ... More
Gagosian Gallery showcases new paintings by Nathaniel Mary Quinn NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian opens ECHOES FROM COPELAND, an exhibition of new paintings by Nathaniel Mary Quinn, opening at 541 West 24th Street, New York, on September 10, 2025. In these works, the artist explores themes of familial dysfunction, hope, aspiration, and redemption, inspired by Alice Walker’s debut novel, The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970). As part of a continued meditation on his own creative influences, which include Francis Bacon and Romare Bearden, Quinn situates figures in different environments including interiors, a cityscape, and natural settings. These complex paintings combine intricate line work with detailed backgrounds, further contextualizing an increased narrative scope. Captivated by the pursuit of self-realization and recovery from ancestral trauma that color Walker’s text, which tells the story of an African American ... More
The South London Gallery presents the second display of works from the Colección Jumex LONDON.- The South London Gallery (SLG) presents the second of two exhibitions of works drawn from the Colección Jumex. As part of Museo Jumex’s residency at SLG, which began in May 2025, this group show highlights a curated selection from one of Latin America’s most significant international contemporary art collections. This second display showcases a selection of works by 13 international artists who explore how identities, emotions and gestures are constructed and performed on stage, screen and in everyday life. Highlights include Pedro Reyes’s Museum of Hypothetical Lifetimes, 2011, an interactive installation where visitors are guided by a ‘therapist’ to curate an exhibition of their own lives, and Ana Segovia’s I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You, 2023, a series of paintings based on an imagined film script, reinterpreting 1980s teen cinema through a queer lens. Also ... More
Cecilia Bjartmar Hylta and Samuel Hindolo exhibit works at Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen DÜSSELDORF.- Did Habit leave? is a duo exhibition by Cecilia Bjartmar Hylta and Samuel Hindolo which draws upon the artists’ shared exploration of the limits of the optical field. Both of their practices involve a working through of found material, or what could be described as a scouring and sifting through the detritus and residues of public life. There’s a kinship in their artistic sensibility and a shared curiosity for what remains hidden, lingering or latent in a familiar object or image, and the ways in which its habitual meaning can be subtly altered and pushed into abstraction. Abstraction is articulated here as a condition of becoming and a trajectory, rather than as a knowing or a fixed state. It’s almost as if the world and the internalized, often unconscious ways in which we perceive and inhabit it, has been removed and held at a distance—for us to contemplate and look at ... More
ZKM │ Karlsruhe joins forces with ACC and M+ for landmark exhibition "Manifesto of Spring" KARLSRUHE.- ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe co-produces the landmark exhibition “Manifesto of Spring” with the National Asian Culture Center (ACC) in Gwangju and M+ in Hong Kong. The project gathers an international constellation of artists, scientists, and theorists to examine economic globalization and consider alternative practices, with a focus on regionality, biodiversity, and future generations. The exhibition features 13 newly commissioned artworks. The exhibition brings together artists, scientists, and theorists to examine economic globalization and consider alternative practices, with a focus on regionality, biodiversity, and future generations. ACC held a symposium in October 2024 to kickstart curatorial research for the exhibition and expand the discourse beyond the Anthropocene, spotlighting new perspectives on capitalist value systems ... More
RIBA opens 'Hill Station: architecture and the altitudes of Empire' exhibition LIVERPOOL.- Hill Station: architecture and the altitudes of Empire, curated by Ed Lawrenson and Killian O' Dochartaigh, explores the architectural history of colonial era health segregation in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and its connections to the growth of the British Empire and tropical medicine. In 1899, the newly founded Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine sent an expedition to Freetown in Sierra Leone to research the prevention of malaria. Among its recommendations was the construction of an exclusive enclave of “houses for Europeans” to be built on a plateau overlooking Freetown. Designed on the advice of Dr. Ronald Ross the enclave, known as Hill Station, aimed to eradicate the risk of malaria transmission. Combining architectural model work and film, this new exhibition - part of a wider research project, Salone Drift - explores architecture, colonialism and health ... More
Estorick Collection hosts first UK exhibition of Italian artist Ketty La Rocca LONDON.- This autumn, the Estorick Collection presents the first UK museum exhibition dedicated to Ketty La Rocca (1938–1976), a trailblazing figure in Italian conceptual and feminist art. Though her career was cut short by her untimely death at the age of 38, La Rocca’s work has left a lasting impact, and this landmark exhibition brings her bold, thought-provoking vision to a wider audience. Featuring over 50 rarely seen works from the artist’s Estate, led by her son Michelangelo Vasta, the show traces La Rocca’s artistic evolution – from her early critical engagement with mass media and experiments with visual poetry to her celebrated Riduzioni (Reductions). In these powerful pieces, she transformed photographic imagery through language and mark-making, fragmenting and deconstructing the image to explore identity, communication and the body. A founding ... More
Rare coins "from space" to be auctioned COSTA MESA, CA.- Stack’s Bowers Galleries has been selected once again by the United States Mint to present a historic selection of rarities to collectors and investors. Featured in a dedicated auction are a special group of seven 2000-W Sacagawea dollars struck in 22 Karat gold, which traveled nearly 2 million miles in orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia in July 1999. These coins have since been stored at the Fort Knox Bullion Depository for more than two decades, and this sale marks the first time they are available for public ownership. This offering by Stack’s Bowers Galleries is a landmark event across the categories of numismatics, aviation, space flight, and the most historic American artifacts. These space-flown 22 karat gold Sacagawea dollars are ranked #5 among the Top 100 Modern Coins, according to Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS), ... More
Fine art, photographs, vintage posters & more representing NYC at auction Sept. 25 at Swann NEW YORK, NY.- This year’s New York Sale at Swann Galleries is a cornucopia of visual delights extolling the Big Apple. The highlights include desirable and sought-after works by print makers, photographers, designers and cartographers. Works by such luminaries as Martin Lewis, Edward Steichen, Berenice Abbot, Adolph Triedler, Lewis Hine, Garry Winogrand, Louis Lozowick and Mark Freeman abound in the auction. Fine art will include a run of prints by Martin Lewis, such as Relics (Speakeasy Corner), drypoint, 1928 ($30,000-50,000) and Shadow Dance, drypoint, 1930 ($25,000-35,000). Louis Lozowick’s 57th Street, lithograph, 1929 ($5,000-8,000), Joseph Delaney’s Union Square, oil on canvas, 1975 ($5,000-7,000); Reginald Marsh’s The Upper Crust, charcoal on paper, 1927 ($4,000-6,000); and Red Grooms’ Deli, three-dimensional hand-cut color lithograph, ... More
On a day like today, German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld was born
September 10, 1933. Karl Lagerfeld (10 September 1933 - 19 February 2019) was a German creative director, fashion designer, artist, photographer, and caricaturist who lived in Paris. In this image: German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld acknowledges the applause at the end of the presentation of the Fendi women's Fall-Winter 2012-2013 collection in Milan, Italy, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012. Silvia Venturini Fendi, Italian fashion designer and head of accessories of the Fendi fashion house at right.
