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The Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower in the Distance, March 4, 1905, Watercolor on paper, 3 1/2 x 5 5/16 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- The lesser known but gifted Enrique Atalaya was a Spanish painter born in Madrid in 1869. He pursued an academic career, producing paintings that were very accomplished traditional genre scenes. In 1880, Atalaya moved to Paris and at the 1889 Expostion Universelle (Worldâs Fair), he exhibited drawings illustrating the novel Don Quixote. He exceled at small format works, often done on his own âcarte de visite,â and eventually became a member of the Société des peintres enlumineurs et miniaturis. Angelo Mariani was a French chemist and entrepreneur from the isle of Corsica who in 1863 invented a drink called Vin Mariani, a cocoa leaf infused wine, which he patented as a medicine. Vin Mariani became the precursor to modern day Coca-Cola. Mariani and Atalayaâs paths crossed in Paris in 1895 when the entrepreneur hired the painter to illustrate a unique personal copy of the book Le secret des bestes by Frédéric Mistral. Each of the 52 pages was illuminated with inlays of semi-precious stone ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Alicja Kwade: Telos Tales, 508 & 510 West 25th Street, New York, NY 10001. May 7 - August 15, 2025. Photography courtesy Pace Gallery.
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| Rare penny arcade machines and top-quality antique advertising bolstered Morphy's $3.5M auction in Las Vegas | | Miller & Miller announces 5 auctions on 5 consecutive days, May 21st-25th | | Alicja Kwade's "Telos Tales" opens at Pace Gallery, unveiling monumental new works |
Circa-1904 Mills Novelty Co., Lion Lung Tester penny arcade machine. The auctions top lot, it sold within estimate for $184,500.
LAS VEGAS, NEV.- Morphys April 30-May 3 Coin-Op & Antique Advertising Auction in Las Vegas offered collectors nearly 2,000 lots of high-quality arcade, music and gambling machines, and exceptional antique signs from businesses and products of a bygone era. The lively, well-attended sale totaled more than $3.5 million, inclusive of buyers premium. The king of the jungle also became the king of Las Vegas during the highlight-packed third day of the series, as a circa-1904 Mills Lion Lung Tester made its formidable appearance on the auction block. Standing 103 inches tall, the iconic coin-op machine distinguished by its deeply-carved three-dimensional image of a lion with a fearsome expression and mouth agape was well known to collectors. Twenty-four years ago, it was chosen to grace the front cover of the inaugural issue (March 2001) of the Coin Operated Collectors Associations ... More | |
Rare, Canadian early 1900s 3 Strikes Cut Plug pocket tobacco tin, one of the most important (and elusive) pieces of Canadian tobacco history ever found. Estimate: CA$10,000-$12,000.
NEW HAMBURG, ON.- Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd. will be busy as Canadian beaver later this month, as the auction powerhouse has five consecutive days of auctions slated for May 21st-25th. The first three will be online-only, with no live webcast portion. The last two are also online-only, but bidders can tune in to the live webcast to watch lots close in real time. Taken in order, the auctions are as follows: A Toys, Banks & Beatles Memorabilia auction on Wednesday, May 21st, featuring the Christopher Dennett collection, starting at 6pm Eastern time. A Vintage Comics & Comic Art auction on Thursday, May 22nd, starting at 6pm Eastern time. A Soda Advertising & Push Bars When Push Comes to Shove auction on Friday, May 23rd, featuring Part 1 of the Glenn Buchanan collection, starting at 6pm Eastern time. A Petroliana, Automobilia & Advertising ... More | |
Alicja Kwade: Telos Tales, 508 & 510 West 25th Street, New York, NY 10001. May 7 August 15, 2025. Photography courtesy Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace is presenting Alicja Kwade: Telos Tales, an exhibition of new work by Alicja Kwade, at its 508 and 510 West 25th Street galleries in New York. Featuring never-before-seen monumental sculptures alongside new mixed media works, this marks Kwades debut solo show at Pace in New York since the gallery began representing her in 2023. On view from May 7 to August 15, the exhibition coincides with this years edition of Frieze New York. Kwade is known internationally for sculptures, large-scale public installations, films, photographs, and works on paper that engage poetically and critically with scientific and philosophical concepts. Through a distinctive vocabulary encompassing reflection, repetition, and the manipulation of everyday objects and natural materials, the artist raises questions about structures and systems that govern and shape our daily lives. In her ... More |
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| Glyptotek opens "Gauguin & Kihara - First Impressions," pairing master's work with contemporary critique | | Gothic resilience: Thomas van Houtryve's 14-year vision of Paris's icon | | Max Ernst's surrealist vision expands at Bilbao Fine Arts Museum |
Paul Gauguin, Frederiksberg Have, 1884. © Glyptoteket.
COPENHAGEN.- Throughout his career, Gauguin pursued the ideal conditions for life as an artist. Yet wherever he went, reality seldom lived up to his expectations. When reality fell short, however, imagination was given free rein in his artistic worlds. This is the starting point for the Glyptoteks upcoming collection presentation, Gauguin & Kihara First Impressions, which also features an important new acquisition grappling explicitly with Gauguins work. The Glyptotek holds one of the worlds finest collections of works by the French artist Paul Gauguin (18481903). In recent years, many of the museums 58 Gauguin piecesincluding paintings, woodcarvings, drawings and ceramicshave been on loan to renowned museums across the globe. Now, they return home to be shown together in a presentation, opening on 8 May, offering new perspectives on Gauguins ... More | |
Tomas van Houtryve: 36 Views of Notre Dame.
AUSTIN, TX.- Tomas van Houtryveâs 36 Views of Notre Dame is a luminous love letter in photographsâone that captures history, loss, and rebirth in a single elegant volume. When fire ravaged the Paris cathedral on 15 April 2019, the world gasped. Van Houtryve had already spent a decade and a half circling, climbing, and hovering above the monument, interpreting its surfaces through virtually every photographic medium available. This book gathers those visions, allowing readers to experience the buildingâs grandeur before the blaze and its raw vulnerability in the aftermath. Echoing Katsushika Hokusaiâs Thirty‑six Views of Mount Fuji, the photographer anchors each plate on Notre Dame while the city, the seasons, and technology whirl around it. Snow squeaks underfoot on the Quai de la Tournelle; Bastille Day fireworks burst behind the twin bell towers; a drone peers straight down into the transep ... More | |
Max Ernst, Ãve la seule qui nous reste Histoire naturelle, 1926. Private collection.
BILBAO.- The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum has opened the second chapter of its exhibition Max Ernst. Paris, 1922 1928, adding Gallery 17 to the route and unveiling the complete portfolio Histoire naturelle (1926). This expansion builds on the first installation presented in February and brings to 54 the total number of works on view, all lent to the museum for five years from a single private collection. Except for one frottage dated 1957, every piece in the deposit was produced between 1922 and 1928, a formative period in which Ernst shifted from Dadaism toward Surrealism and pioneered techniques that would reshape twentieth‑century art. Chief among these innovations is frottagethe practice of rubbing graphite over textured surfaces to generate unexpected imageswhich Ernst discovered in a hotel room in Pornic, France, when he captured the grain of wooden ... More |
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| Städel Museum presents first retrospective of feminist art pioneer Annegret Soltau | | Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation gifts Nelson-Atkins exhibition about Loose Park Project | | Four artists explore interwoven meanings in "Interlayered" exhibition at DC Moore Gallery |
Exhibition view "Uncensored. Annegret SoltauA Retrospective". Photo: Städel Museum Norbert Miguletz.
FRANKFURT.- The body is politicalas the work of artist Annegret Soltau (b. 1946) impressively demonstrates. Her art has been causing a stir since the 1970s and remains as relevant as ever. Long considered an insiders tip despite her art historical significance, Soltaus work is now regarded as one of the most important positions in feminist photography and body art. Over the course of more than five decades and in the face of much opposition, Soltaus independent, radically feminist visual language has established her as an indispensable voice in contemporary art. The Städel Museum is dedicating the first retrospective to her, developed in collaboration with the artist. With more than eighty works, the exhibition offers a comprehensive insight into her multifaceted oeuvre, which ranges from drawings to extended photography, video and installation. Among them are groundbreaking works from Soltaus studio, some of which are being exhibited for the first ... More | |
Christo, Wrapped Walk Ways (Project for Jacob L. Loose Memorial Park, Kansas City, Missouri), 1978. Graphite, charcoal, pastel, wax crayon, and map on paper. 38 x 91.5 cm and 152.5 x 91.5 cm (15 x 36 in and 60 x 36 in). Gift of the Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation, 2024.68.1.1,2. Photo: Eeva-Inkeri © Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation.
KANSAS CITY, MO.- The Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation has generously given The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City an exhibition consisting of original artworks and related archival material tied to the 1978 Wrapped Walk Ways project, which vividly transformed Jacob L. Loose Memorial Park. Roughly two- and-a-half miles of park pathways were wrapped in yellow nylon fabric by Bulgarian-born Christo (1935-2020) and his partner Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009), revolutionizing the way visitors viewed the park. While this project lasted a handful of days, it had a permanent impact on those who experienced it, said Julián Zugazagoitia, Director & CEO of the Nelson-Atkins. Visitors were compelled to experience what art meant to them and should mean to others. ... More | |
Chie Fueki, Painting, 2023. Acrylic, enamel, graphite and colored pencil on mulberry paper on wood, 60 x 48 inches. Courtesy of the artist and DC Moore Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- DC Moore Gallery is presenting Interlayered, an exhibition of work by Valerie Jaudon, Joyce Kozloff, Whitfield Lovell, and Chie Fueki. Each of these artists create intricate explorations of space, meaning, and memory. Interweaving repetition, reference, order, and disjunction, each artwork contains complex networks of relations. These relationships extend inward and outwards, including the viewer in a participatory search for meaning. On view are rare examples of Valerie Jaudons earliest paintings, which add context to a major 1976 painting currently on view at MoMA in the acclaimed exhibition, Woven Histories. A pioneer of Postminimalism, Jaudon subverted the dominant conventions of geometric abstraction, merging references to the decorative traditions of Islamic and Celtic art, as well as Gothic architecture. Jaudon was drawn to the intricate designs of these traditions, as well as their duality ... More |
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| David Nolan Gallery celebrates Ian Hamilton Finlay centennial with "Fragments" exhibition | | Beverly Fishman unveils bold new paintings at Miles McEnery Gallery | | Gagosian exhibits new and recent paintings by Takashi Murakami in New York |
Ian Hamilton Finlay, Dryad, 1987. Stone and metal, with John Sellman and Eva Bai, 74 x 15 1/2 x 15 1/2 in (188 x 39.5 x 39.5 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- David Nolan Gallery is presenting an exhibition marking the centennial of the birth of Ian Hamilton Finlay (19252006). One of Scotlands most celebrated artists, poets, and philosophers, Finlay revitalized the classical tradition in a body of work that spans multiple disciplines, emphasizing the enduring power of the word. The gallery has proudly exhibited his works for over thirty years, and this exhibition is part of Ian Hamilton Finlay: Fragments, a major international project which includes a newly published book and eight exhibitions across the USA, England, Scotland, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, and Spain in May 2025, curated and edited by Pia Maria Simig. The exhibition at David Nolan Gallery is the only one in the Americas and is designed by Philadelphia-based, Canadian artist David Hartt. Finlays work is difficult to classify. He collaborated with traditional craftsmen, architects and contemporary artists creating work across several disciplines. Some ... More | |
Beverly Fishman, Equilibrium (B.O.C.C.), 2025, Urethane paint on wood, 64 x 58 inches, 162.6 x 147.3 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Miles McEnery Gallery opened an exhibition of new paintings by Beverly Fishman, on view 8 May - 21 June at 515 West 22nd Street, accompanied by a fully illustrated publication featuring a text by Meredith Mendelsohn. For her fourth exhibition with the gallery, and on the occasion of her 70th birthday, Beverly Fishman presents a bold new body of work that expands upon her established practice in unprecedented ways. These latest pieces are more intricate, fluid, and compositionally complex than ever before, reflecting her continuous exploration and ever-expanding artistic vision. Fishman has spent most of her artistic career investigating the relationship between the body and disease, probing at the pharmaceutical promise of a costly cure. In her pursuit of these questions, she has developed a distinct visual vocabulary of sculptural wall reliefs that combine glowing fluorescent and smooth matte forms, each geometric fragment representing ... More | |
Takashi Murakami, Hiroshiges 100 Famous Views of Edo: Japonisme ReconsideredPlum Garden, Kamata, 202425. Acrylic on canvas mounted on aluminum frame, 137 7/8 x 89 5/8 inches (350 x 227.5 cm) © 20242025 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All rights reserved. Photo: Kei Okano. Courtesy the artist and Gagosian.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian announces JAPONISME → Cognitive Revolution: Learning from Hiroshige, an exhibition of new and recent works by Takashi Murakami at 522 West 21st Street, New York. Extending Murakamis interest in the copya theme he also explored in Mononoke Kyoto at the Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art and Japanese Art History à la Takashi Murakami at Gagosian London (both 2024)the exhibition juxtaposes the artists reworkings of prints by Utagawa Hiroshige (17971858) with those of paintings by artists identified with the nineteenth-century tendency known as Japonisme. On view are 121 canvases that Murakami produced in response to Hiroshiges series of ukiyo-e prints 100 Famous Views of Edo (185658), which captures life in a city on the ... More |
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Christie's presents the Jewelry Collection of Anne H. BassNEW YORK, NY.- Christies will present The Jewelry Collection of Anne H. Bass, to be offered as part of Magnificent Jewels auction, which will be held live at Christies Rockefeller Center on June 17, 2025. During her lifetime, Anne Hendricks Bass was celebrated not only for her philanthropic spirit and enduring commitment to the arts, but also for her refined taste, timeless elegance, and exceptional eye for beauty. Comprised of 26 exquisite jewels, this collection was assembled with discernment and passion over decades, and comes from Mrs. Basss personal collection. It represents one of the most impeccably curated private jewelry collections to appear on the market. The sale features the best examples of famed houses such as Van Cleef & Arpels, Bulgari, Cartier and JAR. A consistent theme throughout the collection is that each jewel stands as a best-in-class example, ... More KÖNIG GALERIE presents "ASBEST," diving into the overlooked stories of labor migrationBERLIN.- KÃNIG GALERIE is presenting ASBEST, the first exhibition by Biennale artist, Ersan Mondtag, with the gallery. Revisiting the historical themes of his Monument of an Unknown Man from Venice, Mondtag shifts his focus to the tangible and physical. His highly acclaimed memory arch in the German Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale, curated by Ãağla Ilk, brought the untold stories of Turkish guest workers to life through a spectacular installation. With sculptures, objects, and artifacts in miniature rooms and a multi-layered live performance over three floors, Mondtag recreated the biography of his grandfather, Hasan Aygün, as an exemplary portrait of European labor migration. In the early 1960s, alongside nearly four million other guest workers, Aygün came to West Germany in support of the countrys so-called economic miracle and subsequently died from a lung disease ... More  The Phair returns to Turin for 6th edition, showcasing photography and launching new talks programTURIN.- The Phair | Photo Art Fair, the international photography fair, is set to open its sixth edition in Turin, running from Friday, May 9 to Sunday, May 11, 2025, at the OGR Torino. The event will feature 50 galleries and introduce a new Talks Program focused on photography collecting. Held at OGR Torino, a prominent cultural and innovation hub, the fair aims to provide visitors with an immersive experience, showcasing works by both established and emerging artists from international art and photography galleries. This year's edition is particularly highlighted by the launch of the Talks Program The Phair, a series of discussions designed to explore collecting from private, corporate, and institutional viewpoints through informal conversations with industry professionals. Roberto Casiraghi, the fair's director, commented on The Phair's mission, stating that since 2019, it has aimed ... More Cooper Hewitt acquires collection of work by Tobias WongNEW YORK, NY.- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has acquired a major collection of work by the designer Tobias Wong (19742010). Often referred to as the enfant terrible of the design world, Wongs influential body of work merged conceptual art, performance and product design. Through a gift of more than 50 objects from Wongs family, friends and collaboratorsincluding products, prototypes, digital designs and ephemerathe collection provides a new perspective on a critical voice in late 20th- and early 21st-century design. Cooper Hewitt is planning a monographic exhibition dedicated to Wong for late 2027, organized by Alexandra Cunningham Cameron, curator of contemporary design and Hintz Secretarial Scholar. Working across disciplines with an emphasis on critique rather than form and function, Wong defines a generation of designers responding to the ... More Anthea Hamilton's first institutional show in Rome opens at Fondazione MemmoROME.- Fondazione Memmo is presenting Soft You, the first institutional exhibition in Rome by Anthea Hamilton (London, 1978). Curated by Alessio Antoniolli the exhibition is open to the public from Thursday 8 May to Sunday 2 November 2025. Hamilton's practice lies at the intersection of installation, sculpture, film, and performance, reimagining visual content from our dominant culture through a subjective lens that reshapes perceptions. With her immersive installations and environments, the artist presents a reality where gender roles, sexuality, domestic life, and diverse cultural traditions are explored as fluid and ever-evolving concepts. Soft You, taken from the last monologue by Othello, in Shakespeare, reframes three cardinal points in Hamiltons research: the Shakespearians protagonist, the city of Rome and the artists own practice. Starting from Othello: ... More  New site-specific work by the artist Gülbin Ünlü for the Staff Entrance of Haus der KunstMUNICH.- At the edge of function and fiction, the new commission for the Staff Entrance of Haus der Kunst Nostralgia by Gülbin Ãnlü unfolds in a space of ongoing suspension. With subtle interventions in the museums overlooked thresholds, the Munich-based artist invites visitors to navigate the building through inaccessible, yet fully present doors. For the opening on 8.5.25, an activation of the installation will take place. What begins behind closed doors faint pulses, flickering gestures slowly seeps out. Gülbin Ãnlü works with a range of mediums, weaving together motifs. Her approach con- nects techno-orientalism with erased or sidelined cultural imaginaries. The portals in Nostralgia do not open, and yet they pull us in. These doors remain closed to the body, but open to speculation. They are invitations to dwell to remain in the tension between what is visible and what is withheld. ... More Andrius Arutiunian: Under the Cold Sun at the Kunstmuseum MagdeburgMAGDEBURG.- Armenian-Lithuanian artist and composer Andrius Arutiunian presents a new version of his installation Under the Cold Sun (2024/25) in the historic convent church, today part of the Kunstmuseum Magdeburg. The work explores the hidden forces that shape our perception of reality, narrative, and cosmologyblending fictitious constructs, psychoacoustic phenomena, and temporal distortions. Under the Cold Sun engages with the paradox of perception and truth, reflecting how fiction underpins and permeates our social imaginaries. The work consists of three major elementsa mirror, a searchlight and digitally rendered organ soundsthree socio-politically charged aesthetic devices, each intricately entangled with sensory perception and the shifting grounds of both individual and collective self-assurance. Together, they form a ghostly triad that permeates and vibrates ... More Sultanate of Oman opens its first-ever pavilion at La Biennale di VeneziaVENICE.- The Sultanate of Oman marks its debut at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia with Traces, curated by Omani architect Majeda Alhinai. The pavilion draws from the Sablah, Omans traditional communal gathering space, to present a powerful architectural proposition grounded in cultural continuity and spatial intelligence. Traces is a space for hosting, gathering, and reflection. It draws on the logic of informal civic structures found across Oman and reframes them for contemporary public life. The Sablah is not used here as a reference or image. It operates as a method. Its spatial and social qualities, open circulation, shared presence, adaptability, and hospitality are translated into architectural terms. The pavilion applies this embedded logic to propose a new type of civic space that remains rooted in cultural specificity while addressing ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Victorian painter James Collinson was born May 09, 1825. James Collinson (9 May 1825 - 24 January 1881) was a Victorian painter who was a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood from 1848 to 1850. In this image: Mother and Child by a Stile, with Culver Cliff, Isle of Wight, in the Distance, 1849-50.
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