Saturday, July 04, 2026

Ordrupgaard acquires rare work by Vilhelm Hammershøi from Ambassador Loeb's collection

Museum Director Gertrud Oelsner by the newly acquired Hammershøi. Photo: Mads Dobel.
CHARLOTTENLUND.— Ordrupgaard recently acquired an exceptional painting by Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864–1916), namely the major work Courtyard Interior at Strandgade 30 (1905), previously in the private collection of John L. Loeb, formerly United States ambassador to Denmark, and recently auctioned by Phillips in New York. Thanks to the generous support of various foundations, it has been possible to bring this significant work back to Denmark, where it will be accessible to the public. Ordrupgaard already houses one of the world’s finest collections of Hammershøi’s works and, with this acquisition, the museum can now present a total of twenty-two paintings by the world-renowned Danish artist.

Artello's first sale at Drouot brings in €581,269, with several lots soaring past estimates

PARIS.— Artello, the new Paris auction house founded by auctioneer Élodie Beriola and Augustin Lepage, made a confident debut at Hôtel Drouot on June 30, 2026, with its inaugural sale, “Parisian Collections & Design,” achieving a total of €581,269, including fees. The auction was led by the Micheau Collection, assembled by a Parisian family, and attracted strong bidding both in the room and online. While one of the expected highlights was César’s bronze Buste aux jambes fines, which sold for €63,700, the day’s real surprise came from a far more modestly estimated work: Charles Artus’s stone Écureuil. Estimated at just €1,000 to €1,500, the sculpture climbed dramatically to €59,800, becoming one of the sale’s standout results. Another strong performance came from Alina Szapocznikow’s Ventre blanc, a trial proof estimated at €5,000 to €7,000, which reached €45,500. The result confirmed the appetite for
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The quest for knowledge: Pictorial insights into scientific discoveries that have changed the world

NEW YORK, NY.— Science and illustration have always walked hand in hand, and not only the scientific community but the general public as well have used images since early history to understand natural phenomena. Moreover, from Galileo to Einstein, our modern history has been written with the key support of art and with all the insights it contributes. This XL-sized book collects more than 300 graphic works that range from original sketches to technical drawings, and from meticulous hand illustrations to computer-generated images. The Western scientific revolution that started in the 14th century catapulted humankind into a completely new way of understanding how nature and the world around us behaved. Whether it was diseases caused by viruses or the vast galaxies of the cosmos, a new army of professionals turned their minds to unlocking
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Kunstmuseum Luzern opens career-spanning exhibition of photographer Shirana Shahbazi

LUCERNE.— Shirana Shahbazi (*1974) enables the emergence of multi-layered spaces into which viewers can visually immerse themselves thanks to an artistic approach that involves mirroring, overlaying and repetition. Having begun with analogue photography, the Zurich artist has remained faithful to that medium for thirty years, while at the same time embedding a wide variety of techniques and other processes. Frequently the genesis of a work is rooted in an image that Shahbazi selects as her point of departure, developing it further in the course of a complex process. Shahbazi’s creativity features an experimental approach of the medium of photography. Her works show landscapes, buildings, people and objects. The artist translates her images into multi-layered depictions with the help of different printing techniques, such as screen printing or lithography. The works hover
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Rare Lê Thi Luu maternity painting rediscovered in northern France to be auctioned in Lille

LILLE.— A previously unrecorded silk painting by Vietnamese modernist Lê Thi Luu has resurfaced in a private collection in northern France and will be offered at auction this September with an estimate of €150,000 to €200,000. The work, titled Maternité and dated 1973, will be presented by Artefact Enchères in Lille on September 12, 2026. According to the auction house, the painting had not appeared in market databases and had been absent from public sales for decades. The discovery was made during an inventory in the Lille region by Maître Lara Schweitzer, associate auctioneer at Artefact Enchères. The owner had not originally intended to show the work. “It was during an inventory in the Lille region that I discovered this painting on silk, whose quality of execution I recognized at first glance,” Schweitzer said. “The owner had no idea what she owned. We are delighted to offer this previously unseen work to collectors—it should
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Pace Gallery to launch group exhibition 'Goodbye Sadness, Hello Sadness' in Berlin

BERLIN.— Pace will present Goodbye Sadness, Hello Sadness, a group exhibition of paintings, sculptures, and photographs by an international group of twenty-seven artists, at its Berlin gallery from July 4 through August 23. As the centerpiece of the exhibition, a functioning replica of the artist Friedrich Kunath’s studio bar will be installed on gallery’s ground floor. The bar will be open to the public from Thursday through Sunday, 5–10 p.m., each week during the show’s run. It is accompanied by a text from the writer and musician Timon Karl Kaleyta. Goodbye Sadness, Hello Sadness takes its title from Bonjour Tristesse, the 1954 novel written by the then 18-year-old Françoise Sagan. The book’s hedonistic, carefree spirit—ultimately giving way to a disquieting loss of innocence—infuses the exhibition in Berlin, which coalesces around the nighttime as a setting for possibility and ambiguity. The same phrase
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Aspen Art Museum opens expansive Adrián Villar Rojas solo exhibition

ASPEN, CO.— Marian Goodman Gallery announced Adrián Villar Rojas: First Gods, Lost Animals at Aspen Art Museum, an expansive solo exhibition of new site-specific work specially conceived for the museum by the artist. Layering considerations of prehistoric cognition, geomythology, robotic fabrication, digital simulation, and collective world-building, First Gods, Lost Animals imagines the spaces and moments where symbolic thought and representation may have first emerged. The exhibition unfolds through rooms and interstitial corridors lit only by exit signs and artificial lighting and fabricated architectonic environments developed from meticulous archaeological and forensic research. Across these spaces, Villar Rojas explores the enduring human impulse to externalize thought, preserve memory, and create meaning.
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Ibrahim Mahama and Sandra Mujinga in Amos Rex's new autumn exhibition schedule

HELSINKI.— Amos Rex’s autumn exhibition The Other Side of the Mountain – Notes from African and Afro-Nordic Perspectives, presents eleven contemporary artists working on the African continent and within the Afro-Nordic diaspora. With The Other Side of the Mountain, the museum continues its commitment to showcasing international contemporary art and fostering dialogue between Nordic and global perspectives. Among the artists are Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama, who in 2023 became the first artist from the African continent to top ArtReview’s Power 100, the annual ranking of the most influential figures in international contemporary art; Norwegian-Congolese artist Sandra Mujinga, who presented her solo exhibition Skin to Skin at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in 2025; and South African artist Igshaan Adams, whose work has been exhibited internationally at several major museums and biennials. The exhibition features five artists working in the Nordic region,
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Taubert Contemporary opens first comprehensive exhibition of Austrian artist Inge Dick

BERLIN.— The title of the exhibition, Lichtzeiten (Light-Times), can be read as an accurate description of the entire body of work by Inge Dick, which is being presented for the first time in a comprehensive exhibition at Taubert Contemporary. For more than six decades, the Austrian artist has devoted herself to the quiet observation of light and time—their transitions, nuances, and barely perceptible changes. Building on her early paintings, Inge Dick developed a radical reduction in her work from an early stage. Influenced by Zen philosophy and the paintings of Antonio Calderara, she created her white, spatula-applied paintings, which have become a hallmark of her body of work. In the untitled works from the 1980s and 1990s, as well as in the more recent white paintings on display in the exhibition, this approach unfolds in subtly nuanced surfaces in which light, color, and perception
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LUMA Arles opens Saodat Ismailova solo exhibition 'Amanat, The Sacred Forest'

ARLES.— LUMA Arles opened Amanat, The Sacred Forest, an exhibition by Uzbek artist Saodat Ismailova (b. 1981). Ismailova works across film, installation, archives, and sound, exploring the cultural and spiritual histories of Central Asia through myth, oral tradition, ritual, and lived experience. The exhibition brings together new and early works by Ismailova, centered on a recently commissioned film Amanat (2026), developed in collaboration with Swiss Institute, New York and Kunsthalle Bern. This partnership reflects a shared commitment to supporting new artistic production and fostering international exchange. The exhibition largely revolves around the walnut forest of Arslanbob, which is named after a mystic said to have carried a date seed beneath his tongue during two centuries of wandering. According to local legend, a seven-year-old boy asked to have what belonged to him and the old man entrusted him with the seed.
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Didier Fiúza Faustino's Bureau des Mésarchitectures completes open-air 'Casa sem pele' in Portugal

LISBON.— With Casa sem pele (House with no skin), Didier Fiúza Faustino reframes the house as a lived field rather than a sealed object, a threesome, and a prompt to rest, share, and care. Conceived as a rural, contemporary shelter at the edge of cultivated land in Ribatejo, Portugal, it is a manifesto in built form, a house reduced to essentials, then rebuilt as a scene of domestic life. Set among vineyards, limestone ground, and dense vegetation around a small lake, the project, completed by Faustino and his Paris–Lisbon practice Bureau des Mésarchitectures, tackles the familiar figure of “the house” in favour of an explicit, legible arrangement of domestic acts. Approached along an old Roman road, Casa sem pele comes into view on a hillside vineyard, on the banks of a pond lined with willows and bamboo. From the path above, a few steps lead down to a rectangular platform defined
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Ayrton Senna's 1992 race-winning helmet heads to BUDDS motorsport auction

TOWCESTER .— The helmet Ayrton Senna wore for the British, German and Hungarian Grands Prix during the 1992 Formula One World Championship will be up for sale next month, as part of a major auction devoted to motorsport memorabilia. In addition, the boots and gloves the driver wore in his final season are also up for sale, valued at £15,000 - £18,000 and £18,000 - £20,000 respectively. The exceptional race-used and race winning Shoei Formula One helmet was worn by 3-time World Champion Ayrton Senna during the 1992 Formula One World Championship, including the 1992 Hungarian Grand Prix where Senna claimed victory. During the German Grand Prix, Senna was challenged by a young and ambitious Michael Schumacher. A hair-raising moment of wheel-to-wheel contact saw Senna seek out Schumacher after the race and famously argue with him. It was also the only time in F1 history where Senna
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More than 102,000 visitors for Bellezza e Bruttezza at Bozar

BRUSSELS.— On 14 June, the exhibition Bellezza e Bruttezza. The Ideal, the Real and the Caricatural in the Renaissance closed its doors at Bozar. Since opening on 20 February, no fewer than 102,466 visitors came to discover the exhibition. Of these, 18,405 attended a guided group tour, representing 18% of the total number of visitors. Interest remained high during the final weekend as well, with an additional 4,123 visitors coming to admire the exceptional Renaissance works. A notable feature was the strong presence of young visitors. Outside of group tours, 6,520 people under the age of 26 visited the exhibition individually, underscoring its appeal to a new generation of art lovers. With more than 102,000 visitors in less than four months, Bellezza e Bruttezza joins the ranks of the most successful exhibitions organized
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Studio Museum in Harlem enters new era of board leadership

As the Studio Museum in Harlem approaches the first anniversary of the opening of its new home, it has entered a new era of Board leadership under longtime Trustee Kathryn C. Chenault. Ms. Chenault, who was appointed Chair of the Board of Trustees upon the Museum’s inauguration, today announced the election to the Board of Sherrese Clarke, founder and CEO of HarbourView Equity Partners, and Jamila Justine Willis, a partner at DLA Piper. Other leadership changes include the appointment of Dr. Anita Blanchard as Vice-Chair, joining the sitting Vice-Chairs Damien R. Dwin and Carol Sutton Lewis. Former Board Chair Raymond J. McGuire continues to serve the Museum as Chair of the Executive Committee. Kathryn C. Chenault, Chair of the Board of Trustees, said, "It was a wonderful honor to step into an expanded leadership role at the Studio

Maison Caillebotte explores the living force of nature in exhibition centered on Monet and contemporary painting

At the Maison Caillebotte, landscape is not treated as scenery, decoration, or a quiet background. In the exhibition “Nature is not a Backdrop,” on view through October 18, 2026, nature becomes the central force of painting: active, mysterious, sensorial, and alive. Organized by the Maison Caillebotte for the City of Yerres and curated by Valérie Dupont-Aignan, the exhibition brings together works by Claude Monet and contemporary artists Jacques Truphémus, Markus Lüpertz, Érik Desmazières, Malgorzata Paszko, Evi Keller, Charlotte de Maupeou, Ronan Barrot, and Youcef Korichi. Across some sixty works installed in nine rooms, the show asks a deceptively simple question: what happens when landscape stops being

Amelia Skelton awarded 2026 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging)

Artist Amelia Skelton has been named as the recipient of the prestigious 2026 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging) at the official exhibition launch at Artspace, Sydney. Selected from a strong shortlist of talented artists including Virginia Keft, Charles Levi, Tia Madden, Sue Jo Wright and collaborative duo Natasha Dubler and Caitlin Dubler, Amelia Skelton has been awarded the $30,000 Fellowship to pursue a 12-month self-directed program of professional development to further her artistic practice. The finalists were assessed by a panel of industry peers which included; Victor Wang, Artspace Executive Director, Ali Tahayori, 2025 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging) Recipient; Kyra Kum-Sing, Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative curator and Adam Porter, Head of Curatorial, Campbelltown Arts Centre. The 2026 Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging)

National Building Museum opens massive Snarkitecture-designed indoor 'Playground'

The Playground is now open at the National Building Museum. The 14,000-square-foot installation, developed with New York-based design practice Snarkitecture – and design collaborator Gluten – is the largest indoor installation in the Museum's history. Through August 30, visitors can experience the Museum's iconic Great Hall as an expansive landscape for climbing, building, gathering, relaxing, and open-ended play. Using materials more commonly associated with construction than recreation, The Playground reimagines the familiar playground through inventive design and extraordinary scale. Scaffolding, birch plywood, cork, rope, and other materials drawn from the built environment take on unexpected new purposes throughout nine distinct activity zones. Rather than prescribing how visitors should move through the space, the installation

Kunsthuis Syb presents Radina Kordova: From the source to the mouth and everything in between

Kunsthuis Syb announced From the source to the mouth and everything in between, a research and temporal performance by Radina Kordova. From the source to the mouth and everything in between is an embodied research performance that consists of the artist following the entire 2,850-kilometre course of the Danube River, from its source in Germany’s Black Forest to its Romanian delta at the Black Sea. Through walking, listening, sensory documentation, and score-based actions, Kordova witnesses the river as a living presence and reflects on ecology, memory, identity, and belonging. The project emerges from a long-standing personal relationship of the artist with the Danube. Having lived in Ruse, Bulgaria, on the river’s banks, Kordova understands the Danube not merely as a geographical feature but as a living entity with agency,

Children's Play: Ragnar Kjartansson sets the scene with theatrical new exhibition at NGV

NGV presents the world-premiere of Children’s Play: Ragnar Kjartansson, the Icelandic artist's first ever exhibition for children. Taking inspiration from the lavish festivities of European courts from the Rococo period that have since evolved into the modern theatre tradition of ‘dinner and a show’, Kjartansson invites visitors of all ages to create their own version of a theatrical feast. Featuring elaborate stage sets, activities, props and costumes, young visitors can dress up, play, perform or create a scene of their own. Children’s Play: Ragnar Kjartansson coincides with NGV’s exhibition Ragnar Kjartansson: Mercy, which features eight new and recent video works by the Icelandic artist, which continue to incorporate Kjartansson’s key artistic elements of storytelling, performance and music, which intertwine with his inspirations across films, literature and pop

San Luis Obispo Museum of Art opens Marcie Begleiter's debut museum exhibition

The San Luis Obispo Museum of Art announces Chimera: The Future of Nature, Central Coast artist Marcie Begleiter’s debut museum exhibition, on view July 3 – October 17, 2026. Chimera: The Future of Nature is a series of films, photographs, and sculptures by Central Coast artist Marcie Begleiter. The work explores the ways that climate change is reshaping the natural world. Begleiter collects objects from the environment, such as bones, seed pods, and dried plants, which she then uses to build her own detailed and modified landscapes. These hand-built worlds, along with her field photographs, become the raw material for five short films that use digital animation to add wind, water, and movement to the still images. The result feels like something between a documentary and a dream. The work is grounded in climate science research,

Borås Art Biennial 2026: Warps and Waves in the Fabric of Time

Borås Art Biennial 2026 spins a web of tales and testimonies that trace the legacies of textile industry. Unfolding across the city centre and at the Art and Textile Museums in Borås, the exhibition Warps & Waves in the Fabric of Time engages with the interwoven societal and ecological transformations accelerated by industrial modernity. Industrialisation revolutionised both the concept and the experience of time. The biennial sets out to unravel and mend this fabric of time stretched between the river and the factory, here and elsewhere, then and now. Local and planetary circulations of water form the fluid coordinates of the exhibition. The history of Borås is closely intertwined with textiles. During the Industrial Revolution in the early 1800s, some of the first weaving mills in Sweden were established here. The city’s development was built upon a centuries-old cottage

Pérez y Requena at TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes

TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes presents A Parrot, Three Bars, and Gold Teeth, a new exhibition by Pérez y Requena, opening on July 3. Co-curated by Latitudes and Néstor Delgado Morales, the exhibition brings together sixteen newly commissioned works conceived specifically for TEA. The exhibition will remain on view through October 18, from Tuesday to Sunday, and public holidays, 10am–8pm. A Parrot, Three Bars, and Gold Teeth explores overlooked dimensions of the city, approaching Santa Cruz de Tenerife as a fragmentary and restless archive shaped by memory, territory, fiction, and visual culture. Developed through decades of walking, collecting, and recording, the exhibition emerges from the artists' long engagement with the area now occupied by the museum, a site whose urban transformation erased not only buildings

Esther Schipper opens group exhibition 'Forking Paths' featuring Taiwanese and Italian artists

Esther Schipper is presenting Forking Paths, a group exhibition bringing together works by 邱建仁 Chiu Chien-Jen, Roberto De Pinto, 許家維 Hsu Chia-Wei, Beatrice Marchi, Valerio Nicolai, Federico Tosi, 蔡依庭 Tsai Yi-Ting and 曾建穎 Tseng Chien-Ying. A Proposal by Giulia Gelmini and 蕭牧齊 Muchi Shaw. The exhibition takes its title from Jorge Luis Borges’ 1941 short story The Garden of Forking Paths. In Borges’ text, time does not unfold according to a single linear trajectory but branches into multiple, simultaneous possibilities. The story proposes a universe in which every choice generates new paths rather than replacing previous ones. Forking Paths adopts this image as a point of departure for an exhibition that explores the multiple ways in which images, histories, and identities are constructed and perceived. This literary premise finds
Flashback: On a day like today, American-Italian painter Cy Twombly died
Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly Jr. (April 25, 1928 - July 5, 2011) was an American painter, sculptor and photographer. He belonged to the generation of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. In this image: Cy Twombly, (American, 1928 2011), Anabasis (Bronze), 2011. Bronze, 46 1/16 x 19 1/8 x 19 5/16 inches, Base (pedestal): 39 × 26 1/4 × 26 inches. © Cy Twombly Foundation.

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