Monday, September 14, 2026

K20 presents comprehensive exhibition dedicated to Expressionist painter Franz Marc

Franz Marc. The Quest for a Better World, Exhibition view, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen 2026. Photo: Linda Inconi-Jansen.
DUSSELDORF.— The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen is presenting the first comprehensive exhibition dedicated to the Expressionist and co-founder of Der Blaue Reiter, Franz Marc (1880–1916), and thus the first major solo exhibition of his work in a German museum in over twenty years. Vibrant colors, deeply moving themes, and world-famous animal images—what makes the art of Franz Marc (1880–1916) so fascinating to this day? The exhibition Franz Marc. The Quest for a Better World at K20 invites visitors to rediscover the life and work of this outstanding artist. Through January 24, 2027, visitors have the unique opportunity to experience masterpieces from all phases of Franz Marc’s career in one place. Thanks to the support of numerous national and international public and private lenders, over 120 paintings and works on paper have been brought together. The exhibition traces the artist’s career—which spanned only a few years but was extraordinarily productive—in all its diversity, from his early works to his later, groundbreaking, and increasingly abstract compositions. Highlights include Marc’s iconic animal paintings and striking depictions of nature, which rank among the most famous works of classical modernism. The exhibition Franz Marc. The Search for a Better World invites visitors to rediscover the artist. It reveals how closely Marc was integrated into the vibrant art and cultural scene prior to the First World War—and how impressively diverse his work became between 1905 and 1914. From his early animal depictions to his Cubist-inspired abstractions, the exhibition traces the path of a seeker—an artist who, in an era shaped by faith in progress, yearned for an earthly paradise. For Marc, his paintings were enclaves of harmony, but also blueprints for a new, ideal world, with which he fought against the rationalization and mechanization of the environment and the intellectual shallowness of society. A Seeker...
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Almine Rech Paris presents Leonora Carrington solo exhibition

PARIS.— From September 8 to October 10, 2026, Almine Rech Paris is dedicating a solo exhibition to Leonora Carrington (1917–2011), a leading figure in international Surrealism and one of the most singular artists in the history of art. Bringing together paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and masks, the gallery invites visitors to rediscover a body of work whose visionary power continues to fascinate through its ability to create a dialogue between myth, magic, and metamorphosis. Spanning the 20th century and its upheavals, from the rise of fascism to exile, Carrington nevertheless defies any strictly biographical interpretation. Neither muse, nor disciple, nor mere
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Ancient glass from Phoenician perfume vessels to Roman luxury wares takes center stage at Artemis auction

BOULDER, COLO.— A small bottle in the form of the goddess Tyche, an unusually well-preserved Hellenistic drinking cup and a jewel-like Roman “basket jar” are among the ancient glass works taking center stage in Artemis Fine Arts and Arte Primitivo’s September 16 auction, a sale that offers collectors an unusually broad look at how glassmaking changed across the Mediterranean world over nearly a millennium. The sale is the second half of a two-day collaboration between Artemis Fine Arts and Arte Primitivo. Following a September 15 session devoted to Pre-Columbian, Native American material and fossils, the September 16 auction turns to Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Near Eastern antiquities alongside African, tribal and Asian art. Within that larger sale, the ancient glass section forms
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Lars Eidinger brings his visual anthropology into dialogue with postwar art at Kunsthalle Tübingen

TÜBINGEN.— Kunsthalle Tübingen will open Lars Eidinger. Present Perfect. In Dialogue with the Collection on October 10, bringing together the German actor and photographer’s images and videos with works by some of the most influential artists of the postwar period. Running through February 28, 2027, the exhibition will include more than 200 works and marks the first time Eidinger’s photography has been placed in direct dialogue with key holdings from Kunsthalle Tübingen’s collection. Eidinger has been taking photographs for more than three decades, first with a camera and later with his smartphone. His approach is instinctive and immediate. Rather than setting out to document specific subjects, he responds
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Pace presents group exhibition Exquisite Corpse curated by Loie Hollowell

BERLIN.— Pace presents Exquisite Corpse, an exhibition curated by Loie Hollowell (b. 1983, raised in Woodland, California) in response to her appreciation of the influential Austro-American artist Kiki Kogelnik (b. 1935, Graz, Austria; d. 1997, Vienna, Austria). In conversation with two of Hollowell’s contemporaries, Sascha Braunig (b. 1983, Qualicum Beach, Canada) and Veronika Pausova (b. 1987, Prague, Czech Republic), Hollowell discovered that Kogelnik’s work had equally impacted their own practices. This exhibition brings together works by all four cross-continental, multigenerational artists. “Exquisite corpse” is a collaborative parlor game invented by Surrealist artists in 1925. Players take turns either writing words or drawing sections of a body on a folded sheet of paper, hiding their contributions so the next person can see and respond to only the very end of the previous work. Hollowell felt that this Surrealist concept was perfectly descriptive
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First New York Hans Arp exhibition in 15 years opens at Hauser & Wirth

NEW YORK, NY.— This Fall, Hauser & Wirth presents ‘Arp. Heads or Tails,’ the first New York exhibition in nearly fifteen years dedicated to the seminal German-French modernist. Organized by Curatorial Senior Director Alexis Lowry, in collaboration with the Stiftung Arp e.V., Berlin/Rolandswerth, this presentation takes Arp’s late Threshold sculptures as a point of departure, situating this pivotal but underexamined body of work within the trajectory of Arp’s long career of aesthetic and philosophical inquiry. The exhibition’s design takes inspiration from Arp’s studio in Locarno, Switzerland, and traces a line from his early cut-outs and reliefs to his mastery of form as a tool for reconfiguring and transforming our perception of space. ‘Heads or Tails’ presents key examples from the Threshold series alongside a selection
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The Rollins Museum of Art announces National Advisory Task Force

WINTER PARK, FL.— The Rollins Museum of Art at Rollins College announces the formation of a National Advisory Task Force as it prepares for the opening of its new, purpose-built facility in 2028, designed by Frederick Fisher and Partners. The Task Force will serve as advisors on the Museum’s opening and early programming. This group of colleagues from across the museum and arts fields was selected by Leslie Anne Anderson, RMA’s Bruce A. Beal Executive Director, for the relevance of their expertise to the strategic vision of the Museum. The Rollins Museum of Art’s National Advisory Task Force Members: • Rita Adler (Aspen, CO, and Winter Park, FL) • Barbara Alfond (Weston, MA) • Janalee Emmer, PhD, Director, Brigham Young University Museum of Art (Provo, UT) • Beth Finch, PhD, Director of Research and Communications, Terra Foundation for American Art (Chicago, IL) • Saisha Grayson, PhD, Curator of Time-Based Media, Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, DC) &#
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Oscar Peters builds monumental haunted house installation BARBARIAN at Monopole

SCHIEDAM.— Dancing skeletons, gaping mouths, and a green maze with slowly moving walls. At Monopole, the artist Oscar Peters (1981) is building BARBARIAN, a monumental, haunted house inspired by fairground attractions, horror films, and amusement parks. Peters is fascinated by the never-ending human need to test the boundaries of fear. Wooden structures, theatrical effects, and strokes of paint are deliberately left exposed and turn the installation into a large-scale, handmade spectacle. Peters uses all the familiar ingredients of a classical haunted house – skulls, ghosts, a maze, and other archetypal tropes – to create a world where terror slowly makes way for questions about who we are and why we exist. In the end, the act of dwelling on such questions in a house with an exit that is difficult to find may well be the most terrifying thing of all. BARBARIAN features hanging, dancing skeletons, while shaking their bones, they find themselves somewhere between slapstick and terror: sim
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Margaret Rollins appointed Vice President, Development at George Eastman Museum

ROCHESTER, NY.— The George Eastman Museum has appointed Margaret Rollins as Vice President, Development. She assumed this role on Monday, August 24. Rollins joins the Eastman Museum from the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), where she served since 2021 as Senior Director for Advancement for the College of Science and the College of Liberal Arts. In that role, she led fundraising and advancement efforts for the colleges’ priorities and programs, including establishing national councils. Prior to joining RIT, Rollins held advancement positions at Nazareth College in Rochester, including Associate Director of Gift Planning and Assistant Director of Corporate, Foundation, and Government Relations. Rollins began her career working with several arts and cultural organizations, culminating in her position as Executive Director of the Smith Opera House in Geneva, New York. During her tenure, she led fundraising efforts and oversaw the historic restoration of the landmark theater. “I am eager
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Tibor de Nagy Gallery presents Sarah McEneaney solo exhibition Porch Life

NEW YORK, NY.— Tibor de Nagy Gallery is presenting Sarah McEneaney: Porch Life, an exhibition of paintings from the last three years. The works in the current exhibition cover many of the areas McEneaney has explored over the last several decades. She continues her project of documenting her life and surroundings through self-portraits, interiors, cityscapes, and landscapes. The title Porch Life references both a literal porch and a stand-in for her studio, emphasizing the observational nature of this recent series—looking out and taking it in from an open-air studio. The artist is an avid traveler, and many paintings stem from a recent summer tour of Rhode Island and Maine. Another painting offers a porch view of her new home in New Jersey. Having attended many artist residencies throughout the world, she now maintains a second home and studio in rural South Jersey, which she describes as her “permanent residency.” The city of Philadelphia, where McEneaney has lived
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Brussels exhibition highlights figures and oceanic landscapes by artist Kasper Sonne

BRUSSELS.— MARUANI MERCIER is presenting Kasper Sonne: People Are Strange, the second solo exhibition of the artist with the gallery, in Brussels. Elegant and upright, the figures in this new body of work appear at once in harmony with and in disassociation from the lucid planes of water and sky in the landscape. Looking away in quiet contemplation, the elongated human presence in each work projects an almost mythic quality, as if traversing the space in solitude that feels timeless rather than incidental. The paradox of iconic contemporary outfits in natural settings, together with the spectral light and the luminous palette in this new body of work projects a powerful sense of the instability of the human condition and questions the possibility of connection with another. As the artist notes, “For me, it's always this conflict – it's about displacement. I create these characters that have no obvious reason to be in these environments.”
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Marcos Siqueira explores memory, nature, and earth pigments in new series at Mendes Wood DM

BRUSSELS.— To observe. This is the verb that comes to mind when I think of Marcos Siqueira’s  paintings. Perhaps this is because the term recurs so often in our conversations. Siqueira frequently refers to his habit of sustained looking, of close attention, that he carries into his everyday activities. This daily exercise of slowing down and calibrating the senses has given him a discipline of attention to which almost nothing escapes: the geometric variation of the branches, leaves, and flowers of Brazil’s Serra do Cipó (some of which visit his paintings); the changing angles of incidence of light over the course of the day, with its refractions and reflections – among the trees, in the water, in the air, on natural objects; the great formations of shadows, born of the moving projections of one mountain over another. Descriptions like these emerge in detail in Siqueira’s word
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Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents Sandra Vásquez de la Horra debut exhibition

NEW YORK, NY.— Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is presenting Reading the Waves, an exhibition of new work by Sandra Vásquez de la Horra. This is the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery. With drawing as the foundation of her artistic practice, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra creates a poetic visual universe that depicts the interconnectedness of the human body and the natural world. Taking inspiration from spiritual mythologies, folklore, religious iconographies, and Latin American popular imagery, she incorporates her anthropological interest in diverse healing practices and indigenous knowledge to promote a greater awareness of human interdependence with nature. By dipping her works in beeswax or creating accordion-like sculptures, Vásquez de la Horra transforms the paper while maintaining its transparency, creating movement and lightness
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Brazilian artist Anna Maria Maiolino debuts six-decade retrospective at Hauser & Wirth

For more than six decades, Anna Maria Maiolino has pursued an expansive artistic practice shaped by her experiences of migration, motherhood and the complexities of daily life. Constantly reinventing her visual language, she has used drawing, photography, sculpture, performance and installation to plumb questions of corporeal existence, memory and the fundamental condition of being human. This September, Hauser & Wirth presents ‘ANNA—And the Infinite Line,’ an exhibition celebrating the acclaimed Brazilian artist’s enduring practice and the release of a documentary of the same title from The Forgotten Her Story. Spanning sixty years, the exhibition unfolds in three chapters and includes early prints and works on paper from the 1960s and 1970s, photography from the late 1970s through the 1980s, and sculpture from

Becky Suss debuts new paintings exploring memory and night interiors at Jack Shainman

Jack Shainman Gallery is presenting Night House, an exhibition of new work by Becky Suss that continues her exploration of interiority, domesticity and memory. Through paintings of imagined spaces and intimate vignettes, the exhibition marks a departure for Suss in her use of the darkness and quietude of the night as a lens through which to consider the emotional and psychological resonance of space. Suffused with the kind of specificity of detail that comes from the act of remembrance, Suss’ paintings reclaim the night not only as a time of reflection, but as one where perception deepens and self-knowledge can be pursued. Throughout her career, Suss has examined the personal, literary and historical significance of domestic interiors—from her grandparents’ home to the imagined rooms of works of fiction—layering these with a wide range

Olney Gleason presents Sara Anstis solo exhibition Pastels in New York

Olney Gleason is presenting a solo exhibition of new pastels on paper by London-based artist Sara Anstis (b. 1991), on view at 509 West 27th Street, New York, from September 10 through October 24, 2026. For Pastels, Anstis expands an allegorical universe informed by the visual languages of mythology, folklore, and art history. Realized at a small scale, the nearly thirty works on view encourage close looking while contrasting with the expanse of the gallery architecture. Anstis works in soft, delicate pastels, retaining an intimate sense of touch that charges her scenes with introspective intensity. In Pastels, Anstis draws from a deepened engagement with art history. Architecture and interiors assume a more pronounced role, contrasting with Anstis' archetypal landscapes, and her compositional structures recall sources ranging from medieval

Torkwase Dyson debuts new oceanic paintings inspired by deep-sea diving at Pace

Pace is presenting Seeing in Blue, an exhibition of new paintings by Torkwase Dyson, at its 540 West 25th Street gallery from September 11 through October 24. Offering personal reflections on what the artist calls the “boundless state change of water,” the works on view strive toward the mindful presence needed to witness its beauty and devastation. Seeing in Blue spotlights a new series of paintings inspired by Dyson’s expeditions and sensory experiences as a deep-sea diver, exploring questions of distance, light, perception, symbiosis, and planetary transformation. The distilled works are informed by a culmination of haptic memories, diagrammatic drawings, engineering notes, photo journal entries, and process poems written by the artist during these explorations. Dyson brings her ongoing interest in the transhistorical implications of

Lava Thomas debuts large-scale portraits of post-Emancipation ancestors at Jessica Silverman

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Nearly two decades after their last major solo exhibition in Italy, Gilbert & George are back in the country with a focused presentation at the Sonnabend Collection Mantova, bringing together eight landmark works that span almost sixty years of the London-based duo’s career. Now on view at Palazzo della Ragione through April 5, 2027, the exhibition traces the artists’ enduring investigation of sex, politics, religion, urban identity and mortality, while also highlighting their long relationship with legendary dealer and collector Ileana Sonnabend. The eight works are being presented in Italy for the first time. The connection between Gilbert & George and the Sonnabend Gallery dates to 1971, when their celebrated performance The Singing Sculpture inaugurated Sonnabend’s New York space. From the beginning, the artists made their own lives, appearances
Flashback: On a day like today, Italian-French businessman Ettore Bugatti was born
Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti (15 September 1881 - 21 August 1947) was an Italian-born French automobile designer and manufacturer. He is remembered as the founder and proprietor of the automobile manufacturing company Automobiles E. Bugatti. In this image: "1925 Bugatti Brescia, Chassis no. 2461 Engine no. 879". Photo: Courtesy Bonhams

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