Jean-Etienne Liotard (Swiss, 1702-1789), Ahimelek presenting David the sword of Goliath, 1732. Oil on canvas, 37 x 41-1/2 in.
DALLAS, TX.- On June 5 Heritage Auctions will present its most expansive Fine European Art Signature® Auction in the past 15 years. Featuring a superb private collection of drawings and a rich selection of paintings, the auction spans six centuries of art historical periods, styles and countries of origin. “This season’s auction offers a journey through the heart of European art history,” says Dr. Marianne Berardi, Heritage’s Co-Director of European Art, adding, “From Renaissance paintings of sacred subjects to views of the south of France and Venice, to Old Master drawings that reward close looking, this exceptional range of works highlight the astonishing range and beauty of the tradition.” Most artists agree that drawing is the most essential art form. Ingres said drawing is “seven-eighths of what makes up painting,” and Gorky said, “A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.” The visionary collector William A. Glaser (19 ... More
DETROIT, MICH.- The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) announced the renaming of the Director’s role to the Mary Anne and Eugene A. Gargaro Jr. Director, President, and CEO, in recognition of nearly $15 million in gifts made to the museum’s unrestricted operating endowment. These contributions will help ensure continued excellence in museum leadership for generations to come. The endowment recognizes Gene Gargaro’s decades of service and dedication to the DIA as Chairman of the Board, a position he held until 2024, and underscores the profound impact he and his wife, Mary Anne, have had on the museum’s growth and stability. His leadership was instrumental in key milestones, including spearheading fundraising for the museum's $158 million renovation, expansion, and grand reopening in 2007; maintaining the museum’s fiscal health during the 2008-09 global financial crisis; guiding the strategic initiative in 2013-14 to navigate the museum through Detroit’s bankruptcy, including ... More
Longines 18k yellow gold Grand Prix pocket watch from around the 1910s, offered in its original fitted, leather presentation case, marked “18K EF Co. Longines.” Estimate: CA$2,000-$3,000.
NEW HAMBURG, ON.- A rare circa 1958 Omega Railmaster “Flightmaster” watch, a Patek Phillipe 18k white gold annual calendar watch, and a Rolex “Red Sub” Submariner watch are just a few of the dazzling timepieces up for bid in Miller & Miller’s online-only Historic and Luxury Watches auction on Thursday, June 5th, at 6pm Eastern time. The auction is a tidy affair – just 67 lots of pocket watches and wristwatches, many of them (not surprisingly) Swiss-made. In addition to the makers named above, other famous watchmakers will include Jaeger LeCoultre, Tag Heuer, Tudor, Blancpain, Longines and Breitling. Pocket watches will include examples by Illinois, E. Howard, Rolex, Patek Philippe, Movado, Hamilton and Ball-Hamilton, Leroy, Aero Neuchatel, Waltham, Elgin, Pugh Brothers and Gangl, Valjoux. “This is a fresh-to-market sale that is focused on quality over quantity,” said Justin ... More
Tiziano Vecellio, called Titian (Pieve di Cadore 1488/90 – Venice 1576), and Girolamo Dente (recorded from 1525 – before 1572), Madonna and Child with St. Mary Magdalene, oil on canvas, 104,7 x 93 cm, Trinity Fine Art.
LONDON.- Classic Art London is a new destination event for international collectors, museum buyers and those who appreciate or wish to discover more traditional art genres. With many of London’s leading dealers in museum quality old and modern masterworks taking part, Classic Art London is a collegial umbrella under which galleries will present important selling exhibitions. It also features a talks and events series both academic and entertaining. Exhibitions featuring old masters will include a rediscovered Titian at Trinity Fine Art, Venice in the 19th century at Charles Beddington Ltd, exceptional drawings and watercolours such as a group of works by the intrepid artist-traveller Constance Gordon-Cumming (1837-1924) at Karen Taylor Fine Art and works on paper by J.M.W. Turner at Guy Peppiatt Fine Art. New discoveries ... More
This marks the first major discovery in the region since the 1980s and more than doubles the number of known archaeological sites at the Chachapoya complex.
LIMA.- World Monuments Fund today announced a major discovery at Gran Pajatén, one of the most enigmatic and architecturally significant archaeological remnants of the Chachapoya civilization in Peru’s San Martín region. The complex is located within Río Abiseo National Park, a UNESCO Mixed World Heritage site recognized for its extraordinary cultural richness and natural beauty. Researchers have identified and documented more than 100 previously unknown archaeological structures, far exceeding the 26 first recorded in the 1980s. This marks a milestone in our understanding of Chachapoya settlement organization, architecture, and regional influence. The findings are the result of an initiative led by WMF’s office in Peru between 2022 and 2024 that combined exploration, excavation, conservation work, and advanced documentation techniques. The Chachapoya civilization, often known as the “people of the cloud forest,” developed ... More
BERLIN.- In a lawsuit based on the violation of copyrights before the United States District Court, Central District of California, the Helmut Newton Foundation (HNF) has prevailed in a court case against Mr Norman Solomon and other defendants (Case No.: 2:22-cv-09320-RGK-SK). Mr Solomon had been accused of long-standing unlawful manufacture and international distribution of unauthorised and misrepresented prints of numerous celebrated images by Helmut Newton, including such iconic subjects as ‘Rue Aubriot’, ‘Elsa Peretti in a "Bunny" costume by Halston’, ‘Woman into Man’, and the celebrated diptych ‘Sie Kommen’. A first case against him was pursued in 2011 by June Newton, the photographer’s widow. This was settled in 2012 in her favour, with obligations for Solomon to desist these unlawful activities. Solomon unlawfully ignored the settlement terms and was soon back in business, leading eventually to the second lawsuit and the recent judgement and c ... More
Pierre Huyghe, Idiom, 2024. Real time voice generated by Artificial Intelligence, golden LED screen masks. Installation view, In Imaginal, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, 2025. Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery. Photo: Alex Yudzon.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marian Goodman New York opened an upcoming exhibition of Pierre Huyghe. This is the U.S. premiere of a selection of works seen in the groundbreaking exhibition Liminal at Punta della Dogana – Pinault Collection, Venice last year and now on view at Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul, Korea, through July. Huyghe conceives exhibitions as fictions from which other modalities of reality, possible worlds and time could emerge, where subjectivities are formed, interact, learn, and evolve. His insightful exploration into a multidimensional and migrating self has been realized through a diverse array of dynamic works, including moving images, sound, living organisms, machine learning, and more. Over the past decade, Huyghe has questioned the relation between human and non-human, as well as the experience of time. In the current exhibition, Huyghe explores the ... More
AMSTERDAM.- The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam presents Liquid Body, a solo exhibition by Swiss artist Pamela Rosenkranz, on view from May 21 to August 24, 2025. Known for her immersive environments, Rosenkranz transforms the museum into a charged sensory field, where the distinction between perception and matter dissolves, and light behaves as if it were thought itself. In a space bathed in a green and blue glow—suggestive of synthetic ecologies and unearthly atmospheres—painting exists not just as surface, but as a living system where presence and perception interact. Rosenkranz’s work examines the biochemical and cultural forces that shape human experience. Using both synthetic and organic materials—such as polymers, LED lighting, and industrial ... More
Matt Phillips, Untitled. 66 x 54.
LOS ANGELES, CA.-the Landing presents At Dawn by Matt Phillips, the gallery's second solo exhibition with the artist. Featuring a set of new paintings made over the course of the past winter and into early spring, the exhibition marks a period of focused experimentation within a structured set of visual constraints. The resulting works are layered, tactile, and quietly rhythmic – compositions built from repeated shapes and shifting color relationships. At Dawn is on view from May 17th through June 28th. Each painting in At Dawn is composed from a familiar set of abstract forms: flat, clearly defined shapes arranged in varying combinations against largely monochromatic grounds. “I find this lexicon so archaic that it is practically irrelevant to our complex times,” writes Phillips, “and yet, this elemental vocabulary has a surprising capacity to grow and compound upon itself.” This limited vocabulary – arches, ... More
Irina Naumycheva.
NEW YORK, NY.- An interview with Irina Naumycheva on visual language, artificial intelligence, and why getting lost in a city sparked a lifelong calling. Irina Naumycheva is an internationally recognized graphic designer, visual strategist, and the creator of AI-Art & Design Flow 2025, a methodology that redefines how creative professionals work with artificial intelligence. Trained in classical design schools and now based in Miami, Irina shares her journey from courier routes to conference panels, from sketching logos to shaping urban navigation systems. In this exclusive interview, she opens up about creativity, cultural adaptation, and the ethical side of AI in design. 1. You were trained as a designer in other countries and now live in Miami. What drew you to design in the first place, and how has your journey evolved across countries? I always joke that design chose me before I could choose a profession. I studied at Carl ... More
Jean Siméon Chardin, The Cut Melon, 1760, oil on canvas. Kimbell Art Museum.
FORT WORTH, TX.- The Kimbell Art Museum announced today the acquisition of The Cut Melon by Jean Siméon Chardin. Dated 1760, The Cut Melon has long been recognized as one of the artist’s most remarkable paintings—rare in its oval shape and exemplifying Chardin’s mastery at its peak. The painting will be on view beginning Thursday, May 22, 2025, in the Kimbell’s Louis I. Kahn Building. “It is no secret that we have long hoped for a great Chardin still life for the Kimbell, where the artist’s visual poetry would be so at home in the museum’s galleries. We are ecstatic to have now acquired a Chardin still life of such beauty and quality,” said Eric Lee, director of the Kimbell Art Museum. “The Cut Melon is one of the great masterpieces of eighteenth-century French painting and will be cherished by the Kimbell and loved by its visitors for generations to come.” At almost two by two feet (57 x 51.5 cm), the still-life painting features ... More
Dana Schutz, Gouged Girl, 2008. Oil on canvas. Estimate: € 350,000 – 450,000.
MUNICH.- Between idyllic picnic and existential collapse: internationally acclaimed US painter Dana Schutz transforms the power of color into provocation, shaping pain into paint – forcing viewers to confront their human nature. The 2008 work “Gouged Girl” is coming up for auction in Ketterer Kunst's Evening Sale on June 6, 2025. Dana Schutz expresses herself unsparingly, working with motifs that push the envelope into the realm of the unbearable. Nothing is pleasant. But wait: the colors are bright and cheerful, glowing in the large painting from the “Self Eaters” series. Her painterly gesture of self- reflection could not be more lighthearted at first glance. A day at the beach, a picnic with melon and the usual accessories. With her back to the viewer and her gaze directed toward the horizon across the disturbingly deep black sea, the female figure embodies a classic summer topos of sun, wind, and beach. Relaxed. But the face ... More
Keith Haring, Andy Mouse, color screenprint, 1986. Estimate $150,000 to $200,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Contemporary Art is at Swann Galleries Thursday, June 5. The sale will feature a strong selection of works by influential artists from the twentieth and twenty-first century, including an impressive selection of Pop Art prints by Andy Warhol and works by celebrated contemporary Black artists. Keith Haring leads the auction with Andy Mouse, color screenprint, 1986, at $150,000 to $200,000. For Andy Mouse, Haring paid homage to his fried, Andy Warhol, and to Walt Disney by superimposing Warhol’s face over Mickey Mouse’s body. In combining the two, Haring creates the ultimate commercialized icon. Also on offer by Haring is a poster for the 1984 exhibition, Keith Haring: Into 1984/Tony Shafrai Gallery ($800-1,200). A strong selection of prints by Andy Warhol are among the highlights of the Pop Art section, including Warhol’s African Elephant, 1983 ($80,000-120,000), Consommé (Beef), 1968 ($30,000- ... More
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The Rockwell Museum celebrates seven years of antigravity with Anna Warfield's Fast Colors Make a Slow Eye CORNING, NY.- The Rockwell Museum introduces Fast Colors Make a Slow Eye, a site-specific installation by visual artist and poet Anna Warfield (she/they, b. 1995). This marks the seventh iteration of The Rockwell’s Antigravity series, an annual initiative that provides emerging artists with an opportunity to transform the Museum’s historic rotunda with thought-provoking contemporary art. Warfield’s work is a nuanced yet whimsical exploration of identity, language, and materiality. Employing soft sculpture and quilting techniques, Fast Colors Make a Slow Eye presents an ethereal collection of bubble-like, text-based fiber forms that cascade from the ceiling of the first-floor rotunda. The installation engages visitors in a dynamic interplay between the legible ... More
PM/AM Gallery presents Shyama Golden's journey through imagined past lives LONDON.- PM/AM Gallery is presenting Too Bad, So Sad, Maybe Next Birth, a solo presentation by artist Shyama Golden. In addition to the paintings, the exhibition features a video installation created in collaboration with Paul Trillo, who is training an AI model to animate Shyama’s works. The title, a phrase spoken by Golden’s parents when things did not go according to plan, reflects the artist’s meditation on fate, agency, and the continuous cycles of life. This casual invocation of reincarnation reveals an irreverent perspective that challenges the very existence of life’s ‘meaning’, while rendering living and dying inherently spiritual. Divided into four acts, the exhibition presents a sequence of imagined past lives, each represented through a pair of oil paintings: a large-scale scene and a close-up counterpart. These vignettes—spanning 19th-century Texas, 1930s Sri Lanka, 1970s Los ... More
Enter the alternative universe of Alex Rigg in Spring Fling 2025 DUMFRIES.- The creator of astounding and evocative costumes worn by international dancers, performers and circus artists is opening his collection for the public to explore – and try on. Alex Rigg, whose own group Oceanallover stages spectacular performances all over the country, is welcoming visitors to his workshop in the hills above Moniaive, near Thornhill, as part of this year’s Spring Fling open studios weekend from 24-26 May. Visitors can browse his collection of over 200 costumes, try them on, and will be helped to capture the moment on camera. There is also an abundance of accessories from shamanistic staffs to trombones and a vivid pink loudhailer. Over the past three decades Alex has been commissioned to create costumes used in street carnivals, French circus acts, New York dance production, site-specific theatrical performances and much more. Many ... More
How this Sunderland academic gave a glimpse into the Sycamore Gap trial SUNDERLAND.- Have you ever wondered what it would be like to illustrate one of the biggest court cases of the year so far? Well, an academic from the University of Sunderland has done just that. Over the past several months, Nick Lewis, Senior Lecturer in Illustration, Animation and Games Art at the University, has been at Newcastle Crown Court illustrating the Sycamore Gap trial - giving the public a rare view into the courtroom. The law generally prevents anyone from taking any pictures or recording in a court in the UK, making the illustrations of trials some of the only glimpses the public get of proceedings. Even then, illustrators can’t draw in court and must rely on their memories to create their sketches. Nick said: “It’s the first time I’ve ever done something like this – it was so new and fascinating. Court illustrating is one of the few places where an illustrator can go, but a photographer ... More
Turin's masterpieces arrive in Riga: Museum unveils centuries of Italian craftsmanship RIGA.- From 22 May to 24 August 2025, in co-operation with the Turin City Museum of Ancient Art Palazzo Madama, as well as thanks to the support of the Boris and Ināra Teterev Foundation and the Embassy of the Italian Republic in Latvia, the Art Museum RIGA BOURSE in Riga presents an exhibition Palazzo Madama. Arts and Crafts in Italy, 6th–19th Centuries inviting to view more than one hundred brilliant examples of Italian decorative and applied art. The extensive exhibition includes masterpieces from craft workshops and manufactories across various regions of Italy made between the 6th and 19th centuries, with a particular emphasis on the art of the late Middle Ages and the High Renaissance, housed in the collection of Palazzo Madama, the Museum of Ancient Art in Turin. Visitors will discover all the major Italian craftsmanship traditions – from the world-renowned Murano glass, ... More
Jackson Hole Art Auction announces new ownership JACKSON, WY.- Jackson Hole Art Auction announced new ownership, marking a new chapter in its distinguished history. Since its founding in 2007, Jackson Hole Art Auction has earned a reputation as a market leader, specializing in classic and contemporary masterworks of the American West. The Auction’s sales consistently showcase works from renowned artists, attracting collectors and art enthusiasts from around the world, achieving record-breaking results. Its annual September auction is recognized as one of the premier art events in the country and is a signature event of the Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival. The new ownership group includes long-time Jackson business owner and resident, Terry Winchell of Fighting Bear Antiques; Wilson, WY and Dallas resident, investor, and art collector, Keith Ohnmeis; and Jackson business executive and investor, Phil Harrington. The new owners ... More
New free family trail from author Jessie Burton at London Museum Docklands LONDON.- London Museum Docklands has today launched a brand-new family trail inspired by Hidden Treasure, the new children’s book by internationally bestselling author Jessie Burton (The Miniaturist). Inspired by the tale of two young mudlarks, the trail takes families on a journey around the museum’s galleries to learn more about centuries of life by the river. The trail will be available from May half term and is aimed at children under 12yrs, who also get free entry into the museum’s new mudlarking exhibition, Secrets of the Thames. Hidden Treasure is a tale of two children, whose lives collide when they find an ancient treasure in the Thames. Billy is an orphan. Bo's dad died when she was small and now her brother is off to war. Both children are poor, but through mudlarking, they have each found half of a priceless treasure given up by the river. Together they embark on an adventure to discover ... More
Indian artist Sohrab Hura wins Eye Art & Film Prize 2025 AMSTERDAM.- The Indian artist Sohrab Hura is the eleventh winner of the Eye Art & Film Prize. Hura receives the award for the powerful way in which he captures today’s surreal reality in images. The jury praises the way he moves smoothly between photography, film and painting to explore a wide range of themes – from violence, inequality and religion to mental health, his own family life and the distortion of reality through the digital flow of images. Sohrab Hura was selected by an international jury and is awarded a sum of € 30,000 and a presentation at Eye Filmmuseum. Supported by Ammodo, the prize enables the winner to develop new work. In Hura’s creations, the personal often goes hand in hand with a critical view of society. His projects range from an intimate and vulnerable account of life with his ill mother to raw and absurd portrayals of violence and disinformation. ... More
Light and time take center stage in Francesco Candeloro's new solo show MILAN.- On Thursday 22 May 2025, the A arte Invernizzi gallery opens a solo exhibition by Francesco Candeloro, in which new works will be presented. Francesco Candeloro (Venezia, 1974) has been creating since the early 2000s a continuous play of concealment and revelation that fully exploits the potential of chromatic evanescence made to vibrate by light. His works accommodate the changing luminosity by projecting the passage of time on the interior walls of the rooms. On the upper floor of the gallery are exhibited the works Cime nel tempo (2025), conceived as a single installation that unfolds both on the wall and in the center of the room, thanks to a structure composed of metal uprights that suspends the works in space. In this way, the visitor is invited to immerse himself and cross the plexiglas profiles both physically and mentally - thanks to the transparency ... More
Gagosian presents Cy Gavin's debut exhibition in Hong Kong HONG KONG.- Gagosian presents an exhibition of new paintings by Cy Gavin in Hong Kong. Opening on May 22, 2025, it is his debut exhibition in Asia. Gavin interprets natural spaces and phenomena with varied mark making that echoes the complexity of the forces that shape the landscape. Depictions of biological, geological, and cosmic structures made with at-times vivid hues, this group of paintings foregrounds themes of growth and transfiguration. Many use unprimed wooden panels as supports, with the visible wood grain itself playing an important compositional role where it is left unpainted. The square format of many of the paintings lends itself to an open-ended range of visual exploration. Taking a macrocosmic view, Untitled (Protostar) (2025) envisions the birth of our sun as it emerged from a nebula through the accretion of matter at a vast scale. Several paintings show plants ... More
Artist Lee Ufan: The Clash Between the Painted and the Unpainted
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On a day like today, Belgian author and illustrator Hergé was born
