Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Valerie Hird's perceptual fields arrive at Nohra Haime Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.— Nohra Haime Gallery is presenting Elemental Ascendant, a Spring exhibition revisiting paintings by Valerie Hird, on view from April 10 through May 2 in New York. Hird’s compositions unfold as perceptual fields unfolding with rhythmic and subtle variations. Undulating bands of color and translucent veils evoke the simultaneity of oceanic movement and atmospheric drift, collapsing distinctions between above and below. Instead of a fixed horizon, Hird constructs environments in flux, in a constant state of transformation. A recurring strand of birds, depicted in profile and embedded within yin/yang configurations, delineate the edges of several paintings. Functioning as both a formal device and a symbolic threshold, this motif articulates a space for passage between elemental realms. The birds operate as intermediaries, reinforcing her central theme: that continuity, sustained through transition and balance, emerges through dynamic interrelation. Through this body of work, Hird develops a personal cosmology grounded in equilibrium. It resists narrative resolution. Instead, it invites contemplative engagement, where the paintings operate less as representations and more as spaces through which the viewer may discover an interconnectedness. In her series Origination, the four elements establish a foundational vocabulary within Hird’s broader practice, one that extends into her later explorations of sculptural book forms and the moving image. Across mediums, her work remains committed to articulating the invisible structures that shape experience, bridging the material and the immaterial, the observed and the intuited. Valerie Hird (b. 1954, Massachusetts) lives and works in Vermont. She has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and internationally. She is the recipient of awards from the Community Foundation of Vermont, the Puffin Foundation and The Arts Council. Hird is...
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European grandeur meets Newport Coast: Craig Wright's curated estate heads to auction

LOS ANGELES, CA.— Andrew Jones Auctions will present an exceptional assemblage of European antiques, fine art, antiquities and luxury decorative objects brought together under the visionary eye of celebrated interior designer Craig Wright. The two-day auction will take place Wednesday and Thursday, May 20–21, online and live in the Andrew Jones gallery located at 2221 South Main Street in downtown Los Angeles. Perched above the Pacific along the storied bluffs of Newport Coast, the estate served as a backdrop for a collection that seamlessly married the grandeur of European tradition with the luminous ease of California coastal living. Over the course of decades, every room was conceived as a considered composition — each object chosen not merely for its beauty or provenance, but for its conversation with the space around it. Craig Wright is widely recognized among the foremost decorators of his generation, celebrated for his ability to weave eclectic global influences
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A rare portrait of Cantinflas attributed to Diego Rivera resurfaces with documented provenance in Mexico

MEXICO CITY.— A portrait of Cantinflas, one of the most iconic figures in Mexican cinema, has recently resurfaced alongside a detailed documentation file that supports its attribution to muralist Diego Rivera—prompting renewed attention among collectors, curators, and specialists in Latin American modern art. The painting, measuring approximately 50 x 45 cm, presents the beloved comedian in a contemplative pose, dressed in his recognizable attire and set against a warm ochre-toned background. The composition captures both the humor and restrained introspection that defined Cantinflas’ on-screen persona, offering a more intimate and reflective image than the dynamic character audiences came to know. At first glance, the work functions as a compelling portrait. However, its significance expands considerably when viewed through the lens of cultural history. The convergence of Rivera and Cantinflas—two figures whose influence extends far beyond their respective
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From Land Rovers to Megatron: Crescent City to auction eclectic New Orleans estates

NEW ORLEANS, LA.— A 1986 Land Rover Defender Custom automobile, a patinated bronze bust of Robert E. Lee after Henry Merwin Shrady (American, 1871-1922), and a large iron Megatron Transformer figure designed by Kalifano are a few of the expected top lots in Crescent City Auction Gallery’s Important Estates Auction slated for Thursday and Friday, May 7th- 8th. The auction, starting at 10am Central time both days, will be held online and live in the New Orleans gallery located at 1330 St. Charles Avenue. Offered will be a wide range of French, English and American furniture; original paintings, watercolors, photographs, and drawings; sculptures of various sizes and ages; prints and etchings; Middle Eastern and Oriental carpets; and decorative art items. Estates range from local antiquarians to famed New Orleans hotelier and property developer, Joe Jaeger, Jr. estate items. The 1986 Land Rover Defender Custom vehicle is the overall
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Joan Semmel at 93: The feminist pioneer who refuses to stop painting the aging body

BRUSSELS.— Xavier Hufkens and Alexander Gray Associates present Continuities, an exhibition of recent paintings by Joan Semmel (b. 1932). Conceived with the artist as a single presentation across Brussels and New York, the exhibition’s structure mirrors the paintings’ own logic, playing with doubling and immediacy to extend the act of seeing across continents. Semmel paints her own body as an authored image — internalized rather than observed. In her nineties, that act carries weight. While the aging female form is routinely edited from view, these canvases place it squarely at the center, without apology or disguise. Her compositions do not treat the body as symbol, memory, or ideal. Works such as Here I Am (2025) reject any impulse to memorialize or prettify. Saturated hues move across flesh in broad passages; contours blur and reassert themselves. In Red Breast (2025), bold strokes and
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Greater New York 2026: MoMA PS1 unveils major survey of 53 artists for 50th anniversary

LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.— MoMA PS1 presents Greater New York 2026, the sixth edition of the museum’s signature survey of artists living and working in the New York City area, featuring 53 artists and collectives. On view from April 16 through August 17, 2026, this year’s iteration spans the entirety of the building, featuring site-specific installations and a range of media, from painting and photography to animation and scenography. In celebration of the museum’s 50th anniversary, the quinquennial exhibition is organized for the first time by the full MoMA PS1 curatorial team. Forefronting the perspectives of early and mid-career artists, Greater New York emphasizes the forces that shape daily life in the city today, as well as strategies of resistance and adaptation in the face of increased
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Sotheby's to auction $53m Wingate collection spanning seven decades of art

NEW YORK, NY.— Sotheby’s will present A New Vista: The David and Shoshanna Wingate Collection, comprising over 50 works spanning seven decades of passionate, purposeful collecting. Centered on a presentation across two days of Sotheby’s New York Sales this May, the collection carries a combined estimate of $37 - 53 million and brings to market an extraordinary group of paintings, sculptures, works on paper and design that together reflect a deeply personal and lifelong engagement with art. Highlights from the collection will lead off the Modern Evening Auction on May 19, followed by a dedicated single owner sale ahead of the Modern Day Auction on May 20. Leading the collection is Alberto Giacometti's La Clairière (Composition avec neuf figures), conceived in 1950 and cast in 1960, estimated at $18 - 25 million, and widely regarded as one of the most important multi-figural sculptures of the postwar period. It is joined by the bronze Buste d'homme (New York I), estimated at $2
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Fundació Joan Miró unveils 'Espai 13 Sala 14 Cripta' exploring the architecture of emptiness

BARCELONA.— The Fundació Joan Miró presents Espai 13 Sala 14 Cripta, a solo exhibition by the German artist Michael Kleine that explores the interdependence of energy between institutions, objects and bodies. The show is part of Espai 13’s exhibition season for 2026, entitled from 6:12 pm to 5:48 pm and curated by Alejandro Alonso Díaz, in collaboration with the Fundació Banc Sabadell. The exhibition stems from an unprecedented collaboration between the Fundació Joan Miró, the Museu Frederic Marès and the Centre de les Arts Lliures de la Fundació Joan Brossa. Michael Kleine has rearranged a series of objects from the collections of the Museu Frederic Marès in order to examine how environmental conditions such as light intensity, acoustics and emptiness affect an object’s presence in a given space. The project extends beyond Espai 13 with interventions
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Lina Bo Bardi in Brussels: A radical reimagining of the Italian-Brazilian architect's 1980s legacy

BRUSSELS.— Martins&Montero presents Abertura: Lina Bo Bardi and the 1980's, an exhibition dedicated to the Italian-Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi, curated by João Grinspum Ferraz. The show opens tomorrow, April 22, at the Brussels gallery. The exhibition brings together architecture, contemporary art, and furniture to foreground a central aspect of her practice: space as a field of use, encounter, and transformation. Rather than treating her work as a fixed formal language, the show resists reductive readings and reactivates its radical dimension. Among the central sections are the furnishings designed for SESC Pompéia, a project initiated in 1976 and inaugurated between 1982 and 1986, transforming a former factory into a center for culture, sports, and collective life in São Paulo. Developed during Brazil’s political opening, the project asserts collective space as a site for the circulation of ideas and practices.
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Mendes Wood DM brings 22 artists to Brussels for a study in stillness

BRUSSELS.— Something in the breeze and the silence precedes the raging storm, a silent lesson about the fine line between permanence and transformation. In this gap, between the unknown of what lies ahead and what insists on remaining still, certain artistic gestures take shape, offering the senses the possibility of a pause before the vertigo. Over time, the concept of the sublime as an aesthetic category has been rigorously examined by various thinkers. Their formulations seek to account for how we feel in the face of phenomena that transcend our understanding, casting us into the paradox of fascination and awe. In one of the earliest treatises on the subject, Longinus, referring to rhetoric and literature, describes the sublime as a way of reconfiguring our moral perception. Centuries later, Kant argues that the sublime does not reside in the object but in the human spirit, which, when confronted with its own physical smallness before the world, affirms its rational superiority. A Serene Look
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Maruani Mercier celebrates George Rickey's kinetic legacy in Brussels

BRUSSELS.— Maruani Mercier presents George Rickey: Ordered Movement, the second solo exhibition of the artist, following the gallery’s announcement of its European representation of the George Rickey Foundation earlier this year. Spanning four decades of Rickey’s practice, from 1957 to 1997, the works in the exhibition highlight an extraordinary formal range and experimentation that characterise Rickey’s spatially dynamic sculptures executed on a smaller scale. Responding to minute changes in the surrounding air currents, these delicately balanced forms evince the artist’s preoccupation with the nature of motion as a core theme in his practice. As Rickey remarked in an interview in 1968, “I think that I’ve tried to keep clear in my mind that my field is ordered movement. Whether it is in two dimensions, three dimensions, four dimensions, whether it is in colour or non-colour, my primary
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El Museo del Barrio to host first major survey of photographer Sophie Rivera

NEW YORK, NY.— El Museo del Barrio announces Sophie Rivera: Double Exposures, the first museum survey dedicated to the groundbreaking photographer Sophie Rivera (1938–2021). Opening April 23, 2026, the exhibition will offer a long-overdue reevaluation of Rivera’s contributions to photography and Nuyorican visual culture. Hosted at El Museo del Barrio, Double Exposures also honors the artist’s longstanding connection with our institution, where she organized exhibitions and held her first solo exhibition during the 1980s. An accompanying publication co-published by El Museo del Barrio and Aperture will mark the occasion, serving as the first comprehensive monograph dedicated to the artist and featuring more than 125 plates, reproductions of Rivera's own writings, as well as newly commissioned scholarship. Double Exposures will feature Rivera’s portraits, documentary images, experimental self-portraits, and photographs of the New York City subway system, including those capturing th
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Santa Mònica arts centre in Barcelona presents The Assault of Illusion

BARCELONA.— The Santa Mònica arts centre in Barcelona presents an exhibition on art, illusion, deception, and power. Featuring around twenty local and international artists, it offers a critical journey through various artistic techniques that have shaped our desire and our sense of reality. In the era of deepfakes and artificial intelligence, can art help us uncover these mechanisms of manipulation? The Assault of Illusion presents a reading of art as a tool for producing illusions and deceptions and explores how this, throughout its history, has progressively shaped both our desire and what we understand as "reality”. The exhibition starts based on a suspicion: that the intention of what we call culture is, above all, illusion. Throughout history, the arts have been perfecting increasingly subtle techniques so that this illusion be relentlessly embedded in our depths. This exhibition proposes a journey from the naïve illusion to which art subjects
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Isaac Julien brings 'All That Changes You' to the Cosmic House in site-specific reimagining

The Cosmic House is presenting a site-specific installation of All That Changes You. Metamorphosis, a new moving-image work by acclaimed British artist Isaac Julien, on view in the gallery space from 22 April to 18 December 2026. All That Changes You. Metamorphosis is a visually poetic exploration of transformation as a defining condition of existence. Created by Julien in close collaboration with his long-term partner Mark Nash, the film traces change across ecological, temporal, and cultural realms, emphasising relationality and continuity over linear progression. The Cosmic House appears alongside California’s redwood forests, a glass house in the Cotswolds, and the frescoed interiors of Palazzo Te—distinct environments that actively shape experience, perception, and the flow of time. Originally conceived as a ten-screen installation

A license to bid: Bond and classic cinema drive results in Heritage Alternative Movie Posters auction

Heritage Auctions’ April 15 Alternative Movie Posters Showcase Auction realized $89,440 and achieved a 100% sell-through rate, underscoring sustained demand for limited-edition, artist-driven interpretations of iconic films. The auction featured 553 lots and attracted 1,012 bidders, reflecting the continued expansion of the Alternative Movie Poster (AMP) market among collectors and enthusiasts. Heritage’s Showcase Auction format, designed to provide access to high-quality material at more approachable price points than its marquee Signature® sales, proved well-suited to the category, offering collectors a wide range of desirable works while maintaining strong participation and competitive bidding throughout. Alternative Movie Posters — often produced as hand-numbered screenprints or giclées in strictly limited quantities — have, over the past

Ruiz-Healy Art makes debut at AIPAD with a focus on Latina narratives and resilience

Ruiz-Healy Art announced the gallery's first year of participation in the 45th edition of The Photography Show, presented by the Association of International Photography Fine Art Dealers (AIPAD), the world's longest-running fair dedicated to photography. The gallery is honored to present works by Kati Horna, Graciela Iturbide, and Cecilia Paredes. These three artists explore layered narratives of culture and place through distinct yet interconnected visual languages rooted in experiences of travel, transience, and belonging. Their work, from surrealistic traditions to contemporary photography, engages themes of the female figure, portraiture, and performance. They offer a compelling dialogue on resilience and representation of Latina women in the arts. In White Fence, Iturbide took various shots of Rosario in her kitchen, smoking a joint of marijuana,

As World Cup approaches, Soccer's biggest star shoots his shot at Heritage's Spring Sports Catalog Auction

It is only fitting that as the World Cup, the premier international tournament for the world’s most popular sport, heads to North America, soccer’s biggest global star will take his shot at top-lot honors in Heritage’s May 15-17 Spring Sports Catalog Auction. Lionel Messi is soccer’s biggest star and one of the greatest players in the history of the sport, the face of Major League Soccer since joining Inter Miami CF in 2023 and the celebrated captain of Argentina’s national team. A superstar in MLS, in international competition and at the auction block, he will take aim at the event’s top result in this highlight-filled auction when a 2015 Panini Flawless Sole Of The Game (Signatures-Gold) Lionel Messi #SSLM PSA NM 7, PSA/

RM Sotheby's unveils the Ray and Bonnie Kinney collection

RM Sotheby’s announced its first official collection for its flagship Monterey auction, held August 13-15, 2026, at the Portola Hotel and Monterey Conference Center during Monterey Car Week: The Ray and Bonnie Kinney Collection, assembled by the late Ray Kinney and his wife, Bonnie. A thoughtfully curated group of 11 automobiles, the collection reflects a lifelong pursuit of elegance, craftsmanship, and concours-level excellence. “This is a collection built with passion and a clear vision,” said Gord Duff, President of RM Sotheby’s. “A Duesenberg Model J Tourster, a Figoni et Falaschi-bodied Talbot-Lago, and a unique Rollston Stutz DV-32 Convertible Victoria are the kinds of cars that define the very best collections in the world. Modern collecting can look very different, but these older automobiles are masterpieces of engineering, craftsmanship,

The women of Waddesdon: How Dame Miriam and Alice de Rothschild shaped a dynasty

The remarkable lives and stories of members of the Rothschild family, who created and cared for Waddesdon Manor, are revealed in a new permanent exhibition at the historic Buckinghamshire house. It charts the extraordinary narrative of a family that emerged from Frankfurt’s crowded Jewish ghetto during the 18th century and, within a single generation, had become one of Europe’s leading banking dynasties. Designed by award-winning architect ZMMA, the new spaces use both traditional, digital and interactive interpretation and are fully accessible to all audiences. Even for those who know the Manor, the two rooms will offer a new perspective on a familiar story. The main family members are brought to life through photographs and character objects, which exemplify aspects of their personality or passions. The building itself can be explored in new ways

Pulitzer Arts Foundation celebrates 25th anniversary with Dialogues & Conversations

This year, the Pulitzer Arts Foundation celebrates its 25th anniversary with an exhibition organized by its founder and chair, Emily Rauh Pulitzer. Dialogues & Conversations explores the nature of artistic exchange, both within Mrs. Pulitzer’s life and across the broader arc of art history. It traces dialogues between artists and the long-term engagements that have shaped her as a curator and collector. Dialogues & Conversations features work by over 30 artists, including Edgar Degas, Willem de Kooning, Dan Flavin, Alberto Giacometti, David Hammons, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Bruce Nauman, Medardo Rosso, and Doris Salcedo, among others. These include 85 sculptures, drawings, paintings, prints, and photographs dating from the late 19th century to the present. The exhibition offers an opportunity to view works of art from Mrs. Pulitzer’s collection,

The 'reincarnation' of Constable: Munnings Art Museum marks 65 years with rare private loans

The Munnings Art Museum will celebrate its 65th anniversary with an exhibition of paintings that have rarely, if ever, been seen in public before. The Munnings Art Museum will celebrate the 65th anniversary of Castle House being open to the public with a very special exhibition of pictures by Sir Alfred Munnings PRA (1878-1959). The works in Pictures from Private Collections have been especially loaned from private collections and will be shown alongside new displays charting the history of the Museum; from Lady Munnings’ (1885-1971) original ‘shrine’ to her late husband, through to the founding of the Castle House Trust and subsequent professionalisation of the Museum into the position it occupies today, as the world centre of knowledge and research into Munnings’ life and artistic legacy. A complementary exhibition – The Influence of John
Flashback: On a day like today, American model and photographer Lee Miller was born
Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, Lady Penrose (April 23, 1907 - July 21, 1977), was an American photographer. She was a fashion model in New York City in the 1920s before going to Paris, where she became a fashion and fine art photographer. In this image: Lee Miller, Pablo Picasso and Lee Miller after the liberation of Paris, Rue de Grand Augustins, Paris, France, 1944. Photographer: Lee Miller. Negative Number: NC0002-1. Notes: DF VB>BW © Lee Miller Archives, England 2015. All rights reserved. ©Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2015.

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