Roger de Valerio (French, 1886-1951). Chrysler, 1930. Lithograph, 47 x 62 in. Collection of the Crouse Family. Image credit: Courtesy of Poster House.
SARASOTA, FLA.- Celebrate 100 years of sleek geometric shapes, bold linear designs and vibrant colors with “Art Deco: The Golden Age of Illustration,” on view Aug. 31, 2025-March 29, 2026 at Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College of Art and Design. “Art Deco: The Golden Age of Illustration” features 100 rare and iconic posters from the 1920s and 1930s, with subjects ranging from automobiles, airlines and ocean liners to drinks and tobacco. All the posters included in Sarasota Art Museum’s exhibition are from the William W. Crouse Collection, considered to be one of the most important private collections in the world. Lenders Bill and Elaine Crouse own thousands of posters produced by Art Deco’s most esteemed artists, including Lester Beall, Leonetto Cappiello, Jean Carlu, A. M. Cassandre, Paul Colin, Austin Cooper, Jules Courvoisier, Edward ... More
BRUSSELS.- Charline von Heyl’s first exhibition at Xavier Hufkens presents a dynamic suite of new paintings, works on paper, and lithographs that pulse with invention, wit, and formal tension. Long regarded as a vital force in contemporary painting, von Heyl conjures a visual universe that is as expansive as it is unpredictable. What emerges is a protean body of work: restless, confident, mercurial, and alive with inquiry and mischief. Born in Germany and coming of age in Cologne and Düsseldorf during painting’s revival in the 1980s, von Heyl diverged from the prevailing paths of many of her contemporaries. Eschewing irony and cool detachment, she forged a visual language rooted in buoyancy, risk, and a fierce independence of thought. Her paintings do not follow preordained themes; instead, they arise from an embodied process of looking, reading, and lived experience. A quiet thesis of the exhibition is captured in The Open, a painting whose title nods to Rainer Maria ... More
Ojibwe beader, Bag, late 19th or early 20th century. Beads, buckskin, cloth, and thread 10 1/2 x 8 7/8 in. (26.67 x 22.543 cm). Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Gift of Mrs. Hilda R. Nuttall in memory of Magdelina Nuttall, 52794. Photograph by Randy Dodson, courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (the “Fine Arts Museums”) will open a new presentation of Native American art at the de Young museum, celebrating the vibrancy and diversity of Indigenous arts of the Americas. Visitors will experience works spanning over a thousand years of history and incorporating many diverse types of media, challenging expectations about what Native art is and can be. Exploring different aspects of the theme of “Relationship to Place,” the reopened Arts of Indigenous America galleries feature beloved highlights from the permanent collection alongside lesser-known artworks. The presentation also includes new major acquisitions and ... More
The official auction house of the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance® realized over $128 million in sales for its two-day Pebble Beach Auctions, setting numerous major world records for the Ferrari California Spider, 365 GTB/4, Dino 246 GTS, and Panhard-Levassor marque.
PEBBLE BEACH, CALIF.- Collector car market leader and official auction house of the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance® Gooding Christie's concluded one of its highest-grossing auctions to date this past weekend at Pebble Beach, realizing over $128 million in total sales. This year's results saw a 19% increase in total sales compared to last year's figures, undoubtedly due to the higher volume of big-ticket blue-chip offerings spanning the exceptional catalogue, led by the top lot of the sale, the 1961 Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spider Competizione. Selling for $25,305,000, the California Spider Competizione set a new record as the most valuable car to ever be auctioned by Gooding Christie's, as well as the most valuable Ferrari 250 GT ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- This fall, the Whitney Museum of American Art presents Sixties Surreal, a sweeping, ambitious, revisionist look at American art from 1958 to 1972 through the lens of the “surreal,” both inherited and reinvented. Opening on September 24, the exhibition features the work of 111 artists who embraced the psychosexual, fantastical, and revolutionary energy of an era shaped by civil unrest, cultural upheaval, and boundless experimentation. Rather than adhering to familiar movements of the 1960s like Pop Art, Conceptualism, or Minimalism, Sixties Surreal uncovers alternate histories and recontextualizes some of the decade’s best-known figures alongside those only recently rediscovered. The exhibition considers how artists turned to Surrealism, not as a European import, but as a way to navigate ... More
Boscobel's entryhall. mid-restoration, January 2025. Photo by Lori Adams.
GARRISON, NY.- After nearly 17 months of intensive, emergency restoration following the sudden collapse of the library ceiling in April 2024, Boscobel House and Gardens will reopen its Historic House Museum on Saturday, August 30, offering limited Preservation in Progress tours. These behind-the-scenes tours give the public their first chance to step inside since the emergency closure, and reveal a once-in-a-generation perspective: a historic house mid-restoration. Instead of Boscobel’s famously beautiful, pristinely appointed rooms that many remember, guests will encounter damaged rooms and the master craftsmanship at work to restore them. The experience offers an unfiltered look at the meticulous trades required to preserve this local treasure of national significance. This moment ushers in a vision for Boscobel’s ongoing evolution in the years to come. “This is an extraordinary turning point for Boscobel,” says Jennifer Carlquist, Executive Director and Curator. “After mon ... More
Džemma Skulme. Small Caryatid (Abrene). 1966. Watercolour and varnish on wood.
Zuzāns Collection. Photo: Normunds Brasliņš.
RIGA.- Džemma, an exhibition dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the remarkable Latvian painter Džemma Skulme, is taking place in the right wing galleries of the 2nd floor of the main building of the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga (Jaņa Rozentāla laukums 1) from 23 August 2025 to 25 January 2026. The artist Džemma Skulme (1925–2019) both in her painting and personal conviction about the role of culture in a broader context, was always guided by the measure of human basic values – a spiritual vertical rooted in the heritage of folk culture. The goal of this exhibition is not only to explore the situation of art and society in Soviet-occupied Latvia through the creative contribution of a single author but, more crucially, to highlight the individual will of the artist’s personality to speak about what was essential to both herself and her people despite ideological constraints. Džemma Skulme’s art is a testament to how, under condition ... More
ALMATY.- The Tselinny Center opens on September 5, 2025 in a new, permanent venue, the Soviet-era former Tselinny cinema building, which has undergone a major transformation under the direction of British architect Asif Khan. Tselinny Center’s inaugural exhibitions and installations are complemented by a discursive programme of lectures, discussions, book launches, family workshops and roundtables, as well as a series of events under the title Barsakelmes, which is grounded in the nomadic, performative character of Kazakh culture. The programme takes as its geographical and conceptual starting point Barsakelmes—a forgotten island in the now-dry Aral Sea. Literally translated as ‘if one goes there, one won’t return,’ Barsakelmes denotes a type of colonial memory that is hard to heal or undo. A performance titled Barsakelmes is a contemporary reinterpretation of a Central Asian legend in which the divine power of music drives out evil. At once an artistic reflection, a ri ... More
Folio from a Qurʾan Manuscript, Caliphate Saudi Arabia, possibly Medina, mid-7th century, ink and opaque watercolor on parchment, the Hossein Afshar Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
HOUSTON, TX.- A special installation is on view through June 2026 in the MFAH Hossein Afshar Galleries for Art of the Islamic Worlds. Celebrating the art of the Qurʾan and publication of the book Sea of Ink, Forest of Pens: The Art of the Qurʾan in the Hossein Afshar Collection, the presentation highlights a dozen masterworks that span from the 7th through the 19th centuries, shedding light on the production of deluxe Qurʾan manuscripts from across Islamic lands over more than 1,200 years. Two contemporary works from the Museum’s permanent collection respond to the Qurʾan in unique ways. On view through June 28, 2026. The Qurʾan is the Arabic-language earthly scripture of God’s divine, eternal speech. Calligraphy, the art of beautiful writing, enhances the spiritual, philosophical, and semantic significance of the Qurʾan ... More
We Are The Watershed: Rio Fernando Mural Project. Taos Initiative for Life Together (TiLT). Taos, New Mexico.
NEW YORK, NY.- The National Academy of Design announced nine public mural projects as recipients of the 2025 Abbey Mural Prize, an annual award that supports the production or restoration of public murals across the United States. Selected by a jury of artist and architect members of the National Academy, the following projects were chosen through a national open call for proposals announced in March 2025, and each will receive grants ranging from $10,000 to $30,000, for a total of $145,000. Recipients of the 2025 Abbey Mural Prize of the National Academy of Design • Community Quiltage, Artists: Thomas Campbell + Stash Maleski, Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz, California • constellation (rumi maki), Artist: William Cordova, ArtWorks Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio • Outside meets Inside: A Wallpaper Installation for The Redwood Library and Atheneum, ... More
Jonny Niesche, Sunshine Girl (mini study), 2025, Voile, Aluminium and Mirror polished stainless steel, 35 x 30 x 9 cm.
AMSTERDAM.- Galerie Ron Mandos returns to The Armory Show, presenting a selection of works that connect painting, sculpture, and video at one of New York’s most celebrated art fairs (September 4–7). The gallery will showcase works by Daniel Arsham, Sebastiaan Bremer, Esiri Erheriene-Essi, Anthony Goicolea, Remy Jungerman, Jonny Niesche, Jacco Olivier, and Matias Salgado. Together, these artists bring a wide range of perspectives, from intimate paintings and photographs to monumental sculpture and video installations. Daniel Arsham presents new works that grow from his idea of Fictional Archaeology. He creates sculptures and paintings that look like relics from another time, mixing classical forms with today’s culture. His pieces often feel like objects dug up by future archaeologists (solid, fragile, mysterious). In this presentation, Arsham also explores sound, making visible what usually leaves no trace. Arsham’s work is held in major museum collections, ... More
Lucas Odahara, Intervalo 1:36, 2025, paper, transparency film, 16 x 6 x 8 inches (40.6 x 15.2 x 20.3 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- The gallery will present Meio Aqui, a solo exhibition of Berlin and São Paulo-based artist Lucas Odahara. The installation, considered by the artist to be an unresolved and rhythmic choreography, brings together various bodies of work which propose alternative mechanisms of self-locating within predetermined and confined identity systems. Within the realms of nationality, race and gender, Odahara searches for openings and closures within and between, replacing impulses of conformity with multiplicity. Drawing on a family history of immigration and his experiences as a mestiço immigrant across various continents, he considers the condition of being (of being here, of being somewhere, of being anywhere) as a condition which predestines departure. Odahara proposes migration-motions as choreography, a dance happening across oceans. For objects as with bodies, movement is encoded at a structural level: painted ceramic tiles gesture ... More
Carly França, Home, 2025. Reclaimed charcoal from the Eaton Fire on paper, 18 x 24 in. (45.72 x 60.96 cm). Lent by the artist.
CLAREMONT, CA .- The Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College celebrates the art of drawing this fall with three related exhibitions, all opening on Thursday, August 21: Line, Smudge, Shade: Contemporary Drawing in Our Los Angeles (on view until January 4, 2026), Art Hall Projects 1: Manuel López (on view until June 28, 2026), and Two-Way Stretch: Electronic Drawing in Early Animation and Computer Art (on view until January 4, 2026). The three exhibitions offer different perspectives on this most fundamental artistic practice, reveling in this basic form and mutually illuminating and enriching one another. The opening celebration for all three exhibitions is Saturday, September 6 from 5 to 7 pm. Two of these exhibitions showcase the drawings of artists working now in and around Los Angeles: Line, Smudge, Shade features sixteen contemporary artists whose studio practices revolve around drawing and who are deeply influenced by their interactions with the greater LA region, and, ... More
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Alisan Fine Arts to present works by eight artists at The Armory Show NEW YORK, NY.- Over the past four decades, Alisan Fine Arts’ mission has been to introduce global audiences to Chinese diaspora artists. For the Armory Show, we are pleased to present the work of eight artists: Chinyee, Bouie Choi, Fu Xiaotong, Yifan Jiang, Pixy Liao, Ren Light Pan, Walasse Ting, and Kelly Wang. Representing two generations and based in international cities including Tokyo, Berlin, and New York City, their diverse practices offer a dynamic lens into the evolving artistic narratives of the Asian diaspora. Anchoring the booth are works by Chinyee and Walasse Ting, first- generation Chinese-American artists who came to the US in the 1950s and have been associated with the New York School of Abstract Expressionism. Chinyee’s gestural and loose brush strokes reflect both Asian brush techniques and years of careful study of modernist abstract ... More
Award-winning documentary, Among Neighbors, opens Oct 10 in NYC NEW YORK, NY.- 8 Above will present the US theatrical release of Among Neighbors, a documentary film produced and directed by Yoav Potash ("Crime After Crime"). Winner of the Audience Award at San Francisco Indiefest, Winner of the Special Award at the Warsaw Jewish Film Festival, as well as winner of numerous other awards, Among Neighbors will open at the Quad Cinema in NYC on October 10th and at Laemmle Theaters in LA on October 17th. Many other cities will follow. Among Neighbors is an evocative and heart-pounding murder mystery with urgent political relevance. Using beautiful hand-drawn animation to bring the past to life, Among Neighbors investigates the story of a small, rural Polish town where the longstanding peace between Jewish and Polish neighbors was shattered by World War II. The film focuses on one of the last living Holocaust survivors ... More
MAD Magazine takes over the Cincinnati Art Museum this November CINCINNATI, OH.- Irreverent, iconic and wildly influential, MAD Magazine has been making generations laugh—and think—since 1952. This fall, the Cincinnati Art Museum (CAM) invites visitors to rediscover the wit, weirdness and cultural critique that made MAD a publishing phenomenon in What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of MAD Magazine, on view November 21, 2025, through March 1, 2026. Organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and co-curated by Stephanie Haboush Plunkett, Chief Curator and Rockwell Center Director of the Norman Rockwell Museum, and Steve Brodner, foremost satirical illustrator and caricaturist, What, Me Worry? traces the illustrated history of MAD from its subversive comic book roots to its status as a mainstream force in American satire. Featuring more than 150 original works of art, the exhibition ... More
Doc on the legacy of the TV spectacle & cultural phenomenon opens Sept. 19 at Film Forum NEW YORK, NY.- Film Forum will present the US theatrical premiere of David Osit’s Predators on Friday, September 19. In the mid-aughts, Dateline NBC’s To Catch a Predator drew millions of weekly viewers to watch sting operations: men planning to meet minors for sex would instead be confronted by polished host Chris Hansen, then by the police — all on hidden camera. Filmmaker David Osit (MAYOR) was one of those viewers, glued to watching potential sexual predators get caught — but disturbed by the implications of viewing this as entertainment. In Predators, he examines the legacy of the show, revealing raw footage, interviewing Hansen and the adult actors who played the teenage decoys, and exposing the copycats who morphed the show’s conceit into outright vigilantism. Osit asks uncomfortable, multilayered questions about the real-world consequences ... More
Biennale Son presents second edition VALAIS.- The Biennale Son, a major event dedicated to sound in contemporary art, returns for its second edition with a rich and ambitious program. A multidisciplinary platform, it seeks to blur the often overly rigid boundaries between artistic disciplines that are, in fact, closer than they appear. Here, everything intersects and resonates: installations, sculptures, two-dimensional works, A/V lives, films, videos, texts, performances, concerts, performing arts… sound-based and silent works, yet within which sound is always present—sometimes heard, sometimes only imagined. Participants in the second edition of the Biennale Son: Lawrence Abu Hamdan / John Armleder / Alexandre Babel / Alexandra Bachzetsis / Vincent Barras performing John Cage and Dieter Roth, and in duo with Caroline de Cornière / Pierre Bastien / Martin Baus / Rossella Biscotti / Bernard Blistène / Julia ... More
MAKI Gallery features three artists who redefine form and color TOKYO.- MAKI Gallery presents Emanating Traces, a group exhibition featuring works by Yasuko Hirano, Anne Kagioka Rigoulet, and Kano Kamegawa. Devoid of specific motifs, the works of these three artists foreground painting’s essential elements such as form, composition, and colour. They refuse to be fixed by any single interpretation and instead allow unexpected images to emerge. Guided by chance, each artist brings spatial depth to the picture plane through her own unique methods, creating practices that transcend rationality and logic to engage deeper with our memories and senses. The landscapes Yasuko Hirano paints are landscapes in name only, bearing no resemblance to actual scenery. Believing that painting’s inherent flatness cannot truly depict expansive space, Hirano embraces this limitation as a source of possibility. Rather than reproducing ... More
Capturing a moment: Photographer finds art in the unexpected AACHEN.- In a world where everything is meticulously planned for social media, one artist is proving that the most compelling moments are the ones that happen by accident. Austrian photographer Stefan Draschan, known for his viral series "People Matching Artworks," is bringing his unique vision to the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum. His first solo exhibition, aptly titled "11 SECONDS," opens on Sunday, August 24, as part of the Aachen City Region Photography Festival. Draschan’s work is a masterclass in patient observation. He spends hours in European museums, not just looking at the masterpieces on the walls, but watching the people who come to see them. His goal? To find that one fleeting moment where a visitor's outfit, hairstyle, or even their gesture perfectly aligns with the artwork they're viewing. He calls his muse "pure coincidence," and his work ... More
Harvest Nights returns to Newfields for sixth year INDIANAPOLIS, IN.- Harvest Nights presented by Everwise Credit Union returns this fall from September 26 through November 2, transforming The Garden into 52 acres of spooky twists, turns, pumpkins and ghosts. In this sixth iteration of Harvest Nights, visitors can expect to see favorites from the past back again including the Garden Monsters created by local artists (this year’s theme being Thickets & Thorns is supported by Corteva), the Pumpkin Path of Peril, Ghost Train and Raven Orchard. Although, there is plenty of new, providing guests with the wonder of what is to come throughout the festival. Inside of Mischief Manor, which is open to all ticketholders, is a brand-new experience curated with the help of frightfully talented collaborators: Color Story Studio, Zhuzh Home Styling & Improvements, Rue de Fleurs and Indiana Paper Company. Explore eleven enchanted ... More
Asheville Art Museum announces Lasting Legacies: Architecture in Asheville exhibition ASHEVILLE, NC.- The Asheville Art Museum presents Lasting Legacies: Architecture in Asheville by Richard Sharp Smith, Albert Heath Carrier, and Douglas D. Ellington, on view from September 19, 2025 through January 18, 2026. Travel writers christened Asheville, North Carolina “the Paris of the South” in the early twentieth century in appreciation of the city’s striking architecture and its growing reputation as an epicenter for art, literature, and culture. Lasting Legacies shines a spotlight on two of the architectural firms that helped inspire the honorific, highlighting the significant contributions of Richard Sharp Smith and Albert Heath Carrier, of Smith & Carrier, and Douglas D. Ellington to Asheville’s built environment between 1895 and 1935. Working at the turn of the twentieth century, Smith & Carrier were instrumental in popularizing the British Arts and Crafts Movement ... More
Brian Maguire: La Grande Illusion opens September 5 at USF Contemporary Art Museum TAMPA, FLA.- Brian Maguire: La Grande Illusion opens Friday, September 5, with an Artist Conversation and Opening Reception. The exhibition is on view through March 7, 2026. Admission is Free. A major exhibition of works by internationally acclaimed artist, Brian Maguire, will open at USFCAM. Entitled La Grande Illusion, the exhibition spans two decades of work that spotlights the artist’s lifelong quest to draw attention to global injustices, war, and human rights. One of Ireland's leading cultural figures, Maguire has turned the practice and tradition of painting into acts of visual testimony. Maguire’s paintings are global in scope and are derived from projects undertaken between 2007 and 2024 in Mexico, the Mediterranean, Syria, Sudan, the United States, and the Amazon. Maguire's artworks are painted from direct experience and involve the artist spending extensive ... More
Artist Tavares Strachan: Our Universal Currency is Storytelling
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On a day like today, American designer and architect Charles Eames died
August 21, 1978. Charles Ormond Eames, Jr (1907-1978) was an American designer, who worked in and made major contributions to modern architecture and furniture. He also worked in the fields of industrial and graphic design, fine art and film. In this image: "Lobby Chair" models by U.S. designers Charles Eames (1907-1978) and his wife Ray (1912-1988) are on display during the exhibition "The furniture of Charles and Ray Eames - Products, Processes, Prototyps", in the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany, Thursday, March 22, 2007.
