Mirror Shield Project, Cannupa Hanska Luger, 2016. Photograph courtesy of the artist.
WASHINGTON, DC.- <a href="http://www.forfreedoms.org" target="_blank">For Freedoms</a>, an artist-led organization deepening civic engagement by centering artists as essential to shaping a free and pluralist society, presents two new exhibitions marking the third and final year of its three-year artist residency with the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at the George Washington University. Night and Day, by artist Eric Gottesman, and Reflect, by artist Cannupa Hanska Luger, will be on view at the Corcoran October 28, 2026 – February 19, 2027. Night and Day centers on Ethiopian journalist and author Baalu Girma's controversial 1983 Amharic novel Oromay, written under Ethiopia’s Derg regime and banned shortly after its publication. Drawing on artist Eric Gottesman's longstanding engagement with the novel, the exhibition considers how artists create, communicate, and sustain cultural memory within and against More
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Artemis Fine Arts will open live bidding for its Ancient Rings, Antiquities & Ethnographic Art sale on October 23, 2026. Curated by Bob Dodge, the online auction features an exceptional lineup of ancient and medieval gold and silver rings from the Roman, Byzantine, and early European worlds—each scientifically XRF-tested for age and metallurgical purity. The diverse catalog spans millennia of global material culture, offering buyers a rare assortment of Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern, Asian, Pre-Columbian, and Native American antiquities alongside ethnographic and fine art. 20th C. Sulawesi High-Karat Gold Bangle - Filigree Floral Rosettes. Estimate: $11,000 - $16,000.
ATADA's current bylaws place authenticity at the center of the organization's definition of the material represented by its dealer members.
DALLAS, TX.- The change from Antique Tribal Art Dealers Association to Authentic Tribal Art Dealers Association substituted a consequential word. “Antique” primarily concerns age. “Authentic” raises questions of identity, authorship, cultural context and representation. For dealers, collectors, museums, appraisers and Indigenous artists, those distinctions have practical consequences. ATADA's current bylaws place authenticity at the center of the organization's definition of the material… More
Oil on canvas painting by Wifredo Lam (Cuban, 1902-1982), titled Personnage 1 (1939), 36in x 23¼ in. Estimate: $150,000-$250,000.
MILFORD.- Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers will host their annual Fall Fine Art Auction on Thursday, October 29th at 6pm Eastern Time. The auction, featuring over 200 lots, will showcase examples of quality American art, Modern art, and European paintings. A rare painting attributed to Alfred Jacob Miller titled Green River leads the auction. Painted in 1851, this work depicts a rendezvous of Native Americans, fur traders, and pioneers. Miller first travelled to the Rocky Mountains in 1837 and… More
BOULDER, CO.- From a Sumerian limestone pendant carved nearly 5,000 years ago to the elaborate enamelwork and ivory sculpture of Meiji-period Japan, Artemis Fine Arts will bring together centuries of artistic traditions in an auction scheduled for Friday, October 23, 2026. The sale, titled Ancient Jewelry, Antiquities & Ethnographic Art , features approximately 246 lots spanning the ancient Mediterranean, the Near East, Asia, and other cultural traditions. Beginning at 11 a.m. Eastern Time, the… More
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled (Leonardo and His Five Grotesque Heads) | acrylic and oilstick on canvas | 84 x 84 in. (213.4 x 213.4 cm.) | Painted in 1983 | Estimate: in the region of $30 million.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie's announced a masterpiece by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled (Leonardo and His Five Grotesque Heads), which will be offered in the 21st Century Evening Sale on November 19 during 20/21 Fall Marquee Week. The monumental 84 x 84-inch painting is Basquiat's interpretation of Leonardo DaVinci's celebrated Grotesque sketch from circa 1493, A man tricked by Gypsies (Formerly Five Grotesque Heads). It has been in the same private collection for over two decades, unseen by the public.… More
View of Lee Bae's exhibition 'Attending' at Perrotin Paris, 2026. Photo: Claire Dorn. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin.
PARIS.- The cycle of life beats at the heart of Lee Bae’s art. Widely recognized for his mastery of charcoal, the philosophical artist uses it to explore universal themes of destruction and renewal. Charcoal, made from wood burned by fire, symbolizes both nature’s destructive force and its potential for regeneration and reignition. For Lee Bae, charcoal embodies the life cycle, purification, the passage of time, and energy. It is nature transformed by fire. Born in South Korea in 1956, Lee… More
Pablo Picasso, Femme nue et homme au fanion. Executed on 29 July 1969. Estimate: $15 20 million.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby's will present Picasso's Heroic Years: Masterpieces from a Prestigious European Family, a group of four works from the final chapter of one of the most inventive careers in the history of art, in the Modern Evening Auction during The New York Sales this November. The group is led by the monumental Femme nue et homme au fanion (1969, estimate $1520 million), alongside Couple (1970), Le Peintre et son modèle (1964) and Nu (1972), together carrying a combined estimate of $3042… More
George Washington and John Jay, Acts Passed at a Congress of the United States of America New York: Francis Childs and John Swaine, Printers to the United States, 1789. Estimate: $8,000,000-12,000,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- This December, Sotheby's will present the second installment of Reason and Revolution: Extraordinary Works from a Distinguished Private Collection, a dedicated single-owner auction devoted to the founding of the United States. Following the auction this month featuring landmark works of science on 20 October, part 2 in December is led by the copy of the first official printing of the Acts of Congress that George Washington presented to John Jay in December 1789, estimated at $812… More
PARIS.- Alberta Pane Gallery is presenting across its two Parisian spaces the exhibition Kreëmart: The Provocateurs of Experimental Consumption, a new exhibition in Paris devoted to the most significant collaborations between the Kreëmart production studio and numerous internationally renowned artists. The exhibition is accompanied by a critical text by Eugenio Viola. Founded in 2009 by Raphael Castoriano, the sensory art studio Kreëmart was born from a desire to bring contemporary artists… More
Cartier, Octagonal Allongée, London, 1990, est. CHF400,000-600,000
GENEVA.- The Rare Watches auction on 9 November at the Four Seasons Hotel des Bergues, Geneva, will present an exceptional selection of vintage timepieces and contemporary independent creations, reflecting some of the touchpoints driving today's global watch collector. Historically significant vintage watches and the most sought-after works of contemporary independent watchmakers continue to be sought after by the international horological collector community, with timepieces offered in the… More
American Art, New York; purchase 31.408. Reproduced with permission from the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation and the Burchfield Penney Art Center.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Whitney Museum of American Art presents Charles Burchfield: Elemental, an exhibition exploring Charles Burchfield’s (18931967) lifelong pursuit of what he described as the “tremendous force of nature.” Drawn entirely from the Whitney’s collection, the presentation brings together ten watercolors created between 1916 and 1960, tracing more than four decades of the artist’s singular engagement with the natural world and his transformation of landscape into an expression of emotion,… More
NEW YORK, NY.- What happens to an artist’s work, archives, and ideas when they are gone? Who makes the decisions that drive who and what gets to be remembered? What stories and perspectives are at risk of being lost in times of accelerated cultural erasure? These questions are at the heart of a new report from the Joan Mitchell Foundation: Creating Future Memory: Building the Field of Artist Legacy Stewardship , available as a free PDF download via the Foundation’s website. Alongside this… More
Allison Chance will lead the museums advancement team and its philanthropic strategy. Photo: Courtesy of Allison Chance.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art today announced Allison Fleming Chance as its next chief advancement officer (CAO). Chance joins the museum from the U.S. Soccer Federation, where she was the vice president of individual giving. She brings more than two decades fundraising and leadership experience at major arts and cultural institutions, including the Smithsonian. Chance previously served as a major gifts officer from 2012 to 2015 at the Institution’s central… More
PARIS.- Sonia Gomes approaches textiles as vectors of memory and history, transforming them into quasi-organic sculptures. Drawing on her Afro-Brazilian heritage, she weaves sensory narratives at once intimate and collective. This exhibition offers a sensory journey through the universe of Sonia Gomes, where the intimate, the collective and the sacred are woven together. Through found or gifted textiles as well as rope, embroidery, fragments of wood or other recycled objects, she composes sculptures, paintings and installa…
Long before the printed book transformed the way knowledge circulated, the making of a manuscript was a remarkable collective undertaking. Scribes carefully copied texts by hand, artists filled pages with painted figures and elaborate decoration, and patrons commissioned books that expressed their devotion, wealth, learning, and social standing. In early fourteenth-century Florence, this world flourished alongside one of the most important transformations in the history of Western painting. As Giotto introduced a n…
EVANSTON, IL.- The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University announces the acquisition of Many Mornings Later (2025–26) by American artist Adebunmi Gbadebo, whose work is currently featured in the 2026 Venice Biennale. The large-scale handmade paper work was selected by The Block’s 2025–26 Collection Council, a group of donors whose contributions support the growth and care of the museum’s collection. Throughout the academic year, Council members participate in a collaborative process of learning, researc…
ATHENS.- Between Heaven and Earth, the first solo exhibition and retrospective of Victoria Skarlatous work, will be held at the City of Athens Art Gallery from October 22 to November 22, 2026. After more than sixty years of continuous artistic creation, Skarlatous work will be presented publicly for the first time as a unified artistic universe. Bringing together sixty-one works from the 1960s to the present day, the exhibition traces the evolution of a highly distinctive visual language that moves between everyday experi…
NEW YORK, NY.- Anna Zorina Gallery presents Cardboard Chapel, a solo exhibition by Alexander Kaletski that includes a fifty year retrospective of his painting on cardboard. The title draws from the Sistine Chapel as a monumental example of how patronage of the arts has been used to shape and disseminate ideas, beliefs and stories throughout history. Kaletski considers how this powerful force operates today and he finds it in the marketing that surrounds us. Nowadays, financial support funds the creation of logos, packaging, and t…
NEW YORK, NY.- Yancey Richardson presents Dark Waves Rising, an exhibition of new paintings by Karen Gunderson, the artist’s first solo exhibition in New York in over ten years and first with the gallery since joining in 2025. Gunderson will debut paintings from two bodies of work, Moon and Water, that have been unfolding and evolving over several decades. Dark Waves Rising sees Gunderson continuing her pursuit of the haptic with paintings that shift and adapt to their environment through an intensely rich surface texture th…
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History received a donation of costumes today from the Tony and Grammy Award-winning Broadway musical Hadestown in a ceremony following its matinee performance in New York City. Hadestown follows two intertwining love stories from Greek mythology—the young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice and the inharmonious King Hades and his wife Persephone—and invites audiences on a hell-raising journey to the underworld and back. The museum will receive the green …
MALMÖ.- Since the late 1990s, Otobong Nkanga has explored themes related to ecology and the relationships between the body and territory. Through her multidisciplinary practice, she has been delving deeply into issues such as mining extraction and the use of the earth’s resources, but also the body and its connection to space and the earth. The notion of strata is central both in the materiality of Nkanga’s works and in her way of thinking about the relationships between human beings and the places they inhabit a…
PARIS.- Now open through 24 October, during Art Basel Paris, Sotheby’s and _POLIMENO present Chez Sotheby’s, a living environment bringing together art, dining and cultural exchange within an extraordinary Parisian apartment. Neither an exhibition nor a restaurant in the conventional sense, Chez Sotheby’s brings exceptional works of Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art into a setting designed for gathering, discovery and dialogue. Located at 242 Rue de Rivoli, overlooking the Jardin des Tuileries and steps …
WATERTOWN.- The Armenian Museum of America announced the opening of Beyond the Curtain: Materiality and Devotion in Armenian Art on October 22. This new exhibition includes more than 20 objects from the Museum’s collection, and it is curated by Anahit Gasparyan. The exhibition examines Armenian religious art through the materials that have shaped devotional experiences, inviting visitors to consider how faith becomes tangible through art, ritual, craftsmanship, and sacred objects. At the heart of the exhibition is the Mar…
RIGA.- From 22 October to 15 November 2026, the 3rd floor vestibule of the main building of the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga (Jaņa Rozentāla laukums 1) hosts A Journey to Marsi. An Artist Enters a Wooded Meadow, an exhibition created jointly by the Latvian Fund for Nature and artists Kristaps Kalns and Sarmīte Māliņa. This collaborative project is dedicated to wooded meadows, one of Latvias rarest and most biodiverse landscapes. Through large-scale photographs, the exhibition presents e…
NEW YORK, NY.- Yossi Milo is presenting Shaping Time, Ibrahim Said’s second solo presentation with the gallery. The exhibition will open on Thursday, October 22 will be on view through Saturday, January 9, 2027. Shaping Time coincides with the conclusion of Said’s participation as one of three inaugural artists in The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Vacheron Constantin Artisan Residency. Centered on the preservation and reinterpretation of traditional craft, this 18-month residency granted Said sustained access to The Me…
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