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The sculpture was conceptualized, designed, and created by Texas artist Deran Wright, in collaboration with the skilled artisans at Schaefer Art Bronze foundry of Arlington, Texas, and Choice Stone Granite.
DOVER, DE.- When you step inside the Meditation Pavilion at Dover AFB, you emerge under the dappled canopy of the Freedom Oak, a bronze sculpture of an oak tree that towers ten feet tall and eight feet in diameter. Skylights in the cathedral ceiling provide natural light that filters through the lattice-like structure of the leafy bronze canopy. Thrusting up from a black granite plinth in the center of the room, the sculpture provides a peaceful embrace and a steadying presence to those who enter. The Freedom Oak was placed inside the Meditation Pavilion at the Fisher House for Families of the Fallen on Dover Air Force Base. On May 23rd, Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by multiple mission partners and leadership members, as well as representatives of the Fisher House Foundation, who commissioned the sculpture for the pavilion. The dedication ceremony began with comments from Senior Airman Carrisa Hosein, Air Force Mortuary Affair ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Capitoline Museums are now hosting "A Polish Queen on the Capitoline Hill: Maria Casimira and the Royal Sobieski Family in Rome," an exhibition exploring the significant period when Polish royalty resided in the Eternal City. This display, which opened on June 11, 2025, and runs until September 21, 2025, marks the inaugural event of "Capitoline Crossroads of Cultures," a new series by the Capitoline Superintendence dedicated to international figures and events connected with Rome's iconic Capitoline Hill.
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| Polish royalty in Rome: Capitoline Museums unveil "A Polish Queen on the Capitoline Hill" | | Perrotin Paris presents "Thirteen Forms," Matthew Ronay's latest exploration of the subconscious in sculpture | | Cecilia Vicuña's "Arch Future" exhibition debuts at Xavier Hufkens, spanning six decades of work |
Unknown Author, Portrait of King John III Sobieski, last quarter of the 17th century. Oil on canvas. Rome, Hospice of San Stanislao. Restoration funded by the National Institute of Polish Cultural Heritage Abroad POLONIKA. Restorer Susanna Sarmati.
ROME.- The Capitoline Museums are now hosting "A Polish Queen on the Capitoline Hill: Maria Casimira and the Royal Sobieski Family in Rome," an exhibition exploring the significant period when Polish royalty resided in the Eternal City. This display, which opened on June 11, 2025, and runs until September 21, 2025, marks the inaugural event of "Capitoline Crossroads of Cultures," a new series by the Capitoline Superintendence dedicated to international figures and events connected with Rome's iconic Capitoline Hill. The exhibition spotlights Queen Maria Casimira Sobieska, who arrived in Rome for the Jubilee of 1700 and remained for nearly 15 years, during which she profoundly influenced Roman cultural life. Over 300 years later, coinciding with another Jubilee year, the exhibition aims to bring her story and that of the Sobieski family back to Rome. ... More | |
View of Matthew Ronay's exhibition 'Thirteen Forms' at Perrotin Paris, 2025. Photo: Claire Dorn. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin.
PARIS.- Perrotin Paris is presenting the gallerys fifth solo exhibition with artist Matthew Ronay, Thirteen Forms, on view from June 5-July 26, 2025. The presentation brings together ten sculptures and three wall reliefs that continue Ronays exploration of the subconscious through his ability to transform the intangible into tactile experience. Ronays sculptural works evoke a phantom familiarity, as if plucked from the shadowy recesses of a fevered dream. Erotic undertones and a perverse alchemy of form pulse through Ronays objects, which are characterized by subversive humor. Central to the exhibition are two monumental horizontal installations, a polychrome work (The Tombs Are Upset, 2023) and, for the first time, a black monochrome (Contraband Emulator, 2024). Each appears as a kind of cursive script of forms, an approach first employed in Ronays 2022 exhibition at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, ... More | |
Cecilia Vicuña. Courtesy: the Artist and Xavier Hufkens, Brussels. Photo: Thomas Merle.
BRUSSELS.- Arch Future (archaic future) marks the debut exhibition of Chilean poet and artist Cecilia Vicuña with the gallery. Spanning over sixty years, the show brings together every element of her expansive interdisciplinary practice, including three site-specific installations two monumental quipus and a room-size precario installation  alongside drawings, paintings, poetry, archival materials, sound, and film. Included are some of what the artist refers to as Lost Paintings, recent recreations of paintings from the 1960s and 70s that were lost or destroyed following the Chilean military coup. The exhibition also marks the European premiere of her recent film poem, Death of the Pollinators (2021). The title Arch Future reflects Vicuñas sustained engagement with indigenous knowledge systems and local ecosystems as visionary, alternative forms of architecture  tools for imagining a more sustainable and just future. The exhibition opens with Quipu Menstrual ... More |
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| Western Washington University students curate New Deal-era exhibition at Whatcom Museum | | Nara Roesler Sao Paulo presents "Star Noise": A celestial journey through art and physics | | Thaddaeus Ropac presents Robert Longo's powerful exploration of Christian iconography |
David P. Chun, Strength, c. 1937, lithograph, U.S. General Services Administration Fine Arts Collection.
BELLINGHAM, WA.- The Whatcom Museum announces the opening of A Pull to the Pacific: West Coast Lithography of the New Deal Era, an exhibition curated by Western Washington University (WWU) students. Eighteen original lithographs from President Franklin D. Roosevelts Works Progress Administration (WPA), on loan to the Whatcom Museum from the U.S. General Services Administrations Fine Arts Collection, on view June 6 September 28, 2025. At the height of the Great Depression in 1933, 25% of the U.S. workforce was unemployed, and the global economy was in turmoil. Roosevelts New Deal aimed to provide federally funded jobs to unemployed Americans including to musicians, dancers, and visual artists through the Works Progress Administrations Federal Arts Project (1935 1943). Participating artists of varied backgrounds and experiences were accepted and received $2 per day for their work (equal to about $50 today). The WPA was ... More | |
Tomie Ohtake, Untitled, 2004. Acrylic paint on canvas, 100 x 100 x 3,3 cm.
SAO PAULO.- Nara Roesler São Paulo is presenting Star Noise, a group exhibition curated by Luis Pérez-Oramas and the Nara Roesler Curatorial Project. The show brings together works by Abraham Palatnik, Amelia Toledo, Artur Lescher, BrÃgida Baltar, Bruno Dunley, Cao Guimarães, Heinz Mack, Julio Le Parc, Laura Vinci, Mônica Ventura, Paulo Bruscky, Rodolpho Parigi, Tomás Saraceno, and Tomie Ohtake. According to the curators, the works in Star Noise form a metaphorical constellation that suggests the world of artistic forms might be understood in terms of resonant fields, akin to the reality unveiled to us by physics. These would be fields of figurability, where forms never cease to emerge, each carrying within it the resonance of other formsa continuous exercise in updating the figural energy that constitutes them and is constantly shifting and transfiguring. The starting point for the exhibition is the music of the stars, first heard, identified, and recorde ... More | |
Robert Longo, Untitled (X-Ray Detail of Head of Christ, c.1655, Affer Rembrandt), 2023. Charcoal on mounted paper. 177.8 Ã 114.3 cm (70 Ã 45 in).
SALZBURG.- Thaddaeus Ropac presents a selection of works by American artist Robert Longo that focus on the iconic imagery and symbolism of Christian iconography. While Robert Longo has worked in a variety of media including performance, photography, sculpture and painting he is best known for his large-scale, hyper-realistic charcoal drawings. Over his career, Longo has built a diverse visual lexicon, offen centred upon motifs that signify power, authority, and socio-political structures. Drawing on Carl Gustav Jungs notion of the collective unconscious, Longo explores how our visually oversaturated world shapes the way we filter, retain and process the images that bombard us daily. Religious themes have been a recurring element in Longos arsenal of pictures, serving as a lens through which he examines the structures and narratives that shape Western society. The six works on view revisit motifs taken from mass ... More |
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| Sophia Loeb's "Panta Rei sobre a Estrata" at Carpintaria explores material transformations and cosmic processes | | Tyler Ormsby's new paintings at Altman Siegel explore color, shape, and form through textured narratives | | Lamborghini Miura takes center stage at ModaMiami 2026 |
Sophia Loeb creates paintings that evoke amplifications of imperceptible biological processes or translations of cosmic eruption, bridging the gap between celestial and microscopic environments.
RIO DE JANEIRO.- Fortes DAloia & Gabriel is presenting Panta Rei sobre a Estrata, Sophia Loebs first solo exhibition in Brazil, at Carpintaria, Rio de Janeiro. The show features a new group of paintings that explore layers and material strata in transformation. Born in Brazil and based in London, Sophia Loeb creates paintings that evoke amplifications of imperceptible biological processes or translations of cosmic eruption, bridging the gap between celestial and microscopic environments. Vibrant tones and stark contrasts reveal the importance of sensorial reverberations in her work, luring viewers into a tactile, magmatic visual field. The artists process is dynamic and immersive: canvases are rotated, tilted, and worked from multiple angles, while materialsliquid and powdered pigments and oil sticks are layered, scraped, and reworked in constant dialogue ... More | |
Tyler Ormsby, Baker boy, 2025.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Altman Siegel is presenting an exhibition of new paintings by Tyler Ormsby. These highly textured and atmospheric oil paintings use narrative as a loose framework to explore color, shape, and form. Medium is allowed to stain and pool upon the canvas freely and is consequently added to with corpulent layers of viscous color, resulting in a complex and varied surface. Washes of tinted gesso are applied as a glowing base and built upon with a vine charcoal sketch from which dusty hues of titanium white, bone black, and lemon yellow begin to populate. Broad spaces of diffusely tinged canvas break up passages of heavy brushwork. The tension between these permissive, attenuated realms of painting contrasts with densely worked areas, creating a drama played out across the face of the paintings. There is a melancholic quietude that resists characterization in this work but finds resonance with 19th-century painters Vulliard, Bonnard, and Munch. These works, carrying on a lineage of Post-Impres ... More | |
ModaMiami 2026 will feature a dedicated class celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Lamborghini Miura, on display at The Biltmore Hotel during Miami Car Week, February 28March 1.
MIAMI, FLA.- ModaMiamithe East Coasts premier luxury eventwill celebrate the Lamborghini Miuras 60th anniversary with a dedicated grouping on the showfield. The display runs February 28March 1, 2026, at The Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables during Miami Car Week. Widely recognized as the first modern supercar, the Miura debuted in 1966 with a revolutionary mid-engine layout and a 3.9-liter V-12 engine producing 350 horsepower, allowing it to reach top speeds of 180 mph, which was a groundbreaking achievement at the time. Its combination of performance, engineering innovation, and bold design redefined what a high-performance car could be, cementing the Miuras place as a defining model in Lamborghinis history and a lasting influence on automotive design. Since its debut, the Miura has set the standard for performance, design, and ... More |
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| John Dunnigan debuts solo show "Possible Necessities" at Gallery NAGA | | Signed Original 'Yu-Gi-Oh!' art grabs spotlight in Heritage's Trading Card Games Auction | | Hand-colored 'Calvin and Hobbes' art leads Heritage's Comic & Comic Art Auction |
John Dunnigan, Rising Water Chairs, 2021. Stained beech, cork 37x22.5x24".
BOSTON, MASS.- Gallery NAGA announced its season closing exhibition, "Possible Necessities," featuring new studio furniture by renowned artist John Dunnigan. This marks Dunnigan's first solo exhibition at Gallery NAGA. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalog with an essay by Glenn Adamson, Curator at Large, Vitra Design Museum. The exhibition showcases twelve new objects, encompassing Dunnigan's signature elegant chairs and intricately crafted cabinets with chair-based structures. Dunnigan's work often reflects on contemporary issues, as seen in pieces like the "Rising Water Chairs," a response to climate change, with white-painted chairs and gray-painted feet symbolizing rising water levels. Another notable piece, the "Wildfire Loveseat," contrasts classical form with upholstery reminiscent of burnt embers, a reflection on the California wildfires. A hallmark of Dunnigan's artistry is his sensitive use of a wide range of beautifully figured woods. From the warmth of beech to the ... More | |
Kazuki Takahashi Yu-Gi-Oh! Seto Kaiba Signed Shikishi Original Art (2000) PSA/DNA Authentic.
DALLAS, TX.- Yu-Gi-Oh! holds the world record for the best-selling trading card game of all time, and the artwork that has been part of the game since its inception nearly three decades ago has enormous appeal to those who played the game and to collectors of anime art. Now bidders who take part in Heritages June 27-28 Trading Card Games Signature® Auction will have an opportunity to land a piece of artwork by Kazuki Takahashi, the manga artist known best as the creator of Yu-Gi-Oh!, which was published from 1996-2004 in Weekly Shōnen Jump, the popular Japanese magazine. The Kazuki Takahashi Yu-Gi-Oh! Seto Kaiba Signed Shikishi Original Art (2000) PSA/DNA Authentic that is in play in this auction is a one-of-a-kind piece of art portraying Seto Kaiba, one of the main characters of the Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters anime series. Kazuki Takahashi, who died in 2022, was a giant in the trading card game community because of his role creating Yu-Gi-Oh!, but his legacy goes far beyond the game ... More | |
Bill Watterson Calvin and Hobbes First Appearance of Spaceman Spiff Hand-Colored Daily Comic Strip Original Art dated 11-29-85 (Universal Press Syndicate, 1985).
DALLAS, TX.- Joining a stellar lineup of historic comic books, an incredible amount of original comic art will seduce bidders in Heritages June 26-29 Comic & Comic Art Signature® Auction. Fans of the beloved classic newspaper strip Calvin and Hobbes know how rare opportunities are to buy original art from the series. This piece, dated 11-29-85, is just the 12th creator Bill Watterson produced for the strip, which premiered November 18, 1985, and is the earliest known strip to hit the market. It features the first appearance of Calvins most audacious alter ego, the intrepid interplanetary explorer Spaceman Spiff, as well as the first look at Principal Spittle, the beleaguered head administrator at the imaginative 6-year-olds elementary school. Watterson has held on to nearly all of his original drawings from the strips 10-year run but has occasionally presented the odd exception as a gift to important people in his life, sometimes beautifully hand- ... More |
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Important Watches totals $11 millionNEW YORK, NY.- Christies kicked off Luxury Week on 9 June with Important Watches Featuring Stories in Time: A Collection of Exceptional Watches. The sale saw exceptional results, realizing $11 Million and selling 97% by lot, showcasing strength across all levels. The top lot, which was sold to an online buyer, was a signed Patek Philippe, Perpetual Calendar Minute Repeater Ref. 3974R, which achieved $1.2 Million. The sale saw vibrant participation, with bidders and buyers in the room, on the phones, and online. Clients came globally, with 46% of the bids coming from Americas, 26% from Asia Pacific and 28% from EMEA. Strong demand was seen for high-quality vintage timepieces with exceptional provenance as well as creations by independent watchmakers, including FP Journe and Greubel Forsey. Additional top lots include a F.P. Journe Octa Calendrier 'Black Label' which ... More Chisenhale Gallery presents Dan Guthrie: Empty Alcove / Rotting FigureLONDON.- Chisenhale Gallery presents Empty Alcove / Rotting Figure, a major new commission and first institutional exhibition in London by artist Dan Guthrie. Working primarily with moving image, Guthries practice explores representations and mis-representations of Black Britishness. By deliberately experimenting with form and language, Guthrie probes the limits of visual representationquestioning not only what is shown, but what remains unseen or unsayable on screen. This exploration encompasses the politics of visibility itself, asking how race, memory, and subjectivity are shaped by the act of looking. This new commission continues Guthries long-standing engagement with the Blackboy Clock, an object of contested heritage publicly displayed in his hometown of Stroud, Gloucestershire. The clock, which incorporates a wooden blackamoor ... More 'Green Mountain Magic: Uncanny Realism in Vermont' on view at Bennington MuseumBENNINGTON, VT.- This exhibition explores Magic Realism as it was practiced in Vermont during the mid-to-late 20th century, through the work of Ivan Albright, John Atherton, Vanessa Helder, Patsy Santo, George Tooker, Jared French, Pavel Tchelitchew, Luigi Lucioni, William Christopher, John Semple, Shirley Jackson, and more. Each of these artists had ties to the state of Vermont and a taste for the fantastic, painting or writing with a brand of realism that could make the seemingly mundane uncanny or the uncanny mundane. What was it about Vermont that drew these artists and served as an inspiration for their improbable, dream-like visions? This exhibition, while exploring themes of mortality and metamorphosis, isolation and human relationships, covert activism, and the power of fantastical world building for those othered by mainstream society, seeks to answer that question ... More New exhibition at the Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies opens ASPEN, COLO.- The Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies is presenting Sculpting the Environment: The Three-Dimensional Art of Herbert Bayer. This exhibition examines Herbert Bayers pioneering artistic production in three dimensionsa distinctive multidisciplinary practice that melded environmental design, landscape architecture, and sculpture. To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Aspen Institute, Sculpting the Environment: The Three- Dimensional Art of Herbert Bayerprovides the most comprehensive investigation to date of Bayers exploration of the total environment, or, as he put it in 1970, the extension of my work into many areas of space. Focusing on his site-specific outdoor sculptures and land art, this exhibition brings together more than one hundred works by Bayer, including drawings, paintings, photographs, models, and maquettes ... More Franka Hörnschemeyer transforms n.b.k. showroom into a "Singspiel" of economic and communication conceptsBERLIN.- In her work, the artist Franka Hörnschemeyer engages with architecture and space as mediums for exploring contemporary history, social structures, and specific arrangements of the visible. Her oeuvre includes expansive installations and objects, as well as works with sound, video, photography, and paper, or minimal, site-specific interventions that prompt new perspectives on familiar places and spaces. A recurring feature of her practice is the use of materials such as plasterboard, formwork elements, and other building components fundamental to the built environment and omnipresent in exhibition contexts, yet rarely consciously perceived. Hörnschemeyer regards material structures as both expressions and repositories ... More Kunsthaus Baselland presents Whispers from Tides and Forests and its program during Art BaselBASEL.- This is an exhibition of quiet tones as well as the delicate new stories that we should begin telling in these times of crisis and upheaval. In the face of climate change, landscapes, forests and rivers under threat, and the migration caused by the extreme global climatic and political situations that are becoming increasingly apparent, we need to find new narratives that might not be the same as the previous ones. Because, as the professor and anthropologist Anna Tsing recently explained, we should now prepare ourselves to survive without the old stories that could tell us what happens next. The internationally active artists involved in the exhibition facilitate these subtle new narratives that position human beings in a new relationship between space, time and body. They are about a caring, considerate coexistence between people and nature, but also progress ... More An invitation to join Bergen Assembly 2025: across, with, nearbyBERGEN.- What does it mean to cultivate a sense of neighbourliness nearby and from afar? In what sense can love act as a public force, capable of countering social, ecological, economic, and political injustices? How can we challenge pedagogy that flattens diverse worlds, cultural differences, forms of knowledge, engagement, and ways of being? The fifth edition of the Bergen Assembly invites you to participate alongside others in approaching these questions and to share in processes of learning across, with, and nearby. We intend to cultivate a series of collective and intimate responses to the paralysing uncertainties and cruelties inflicted in our time. By embracing curiosity and a spirit of collaboration, guided by new and abandoned insights alike, we seek to forge paths through the abyss into reflective and creative kinds of uncertainty. Carried in the aforementioned questions ... More Andrea Rupolo's "Sbocco" exhibition opens at Casa Vuota in RomeROME.- Andrea Rupolo's first solo exhibition, "Sbocco" (Outlet), opened today, Tuesday, June 10, 2025, at Casa Vuota in Rome. The exhibition, curated by Francesco Paolo Del Re and Sabino de Nichilo, features a site-specific installation that will remain on view until September 14, 2025. The exhibition presents a selection of large-scale oil and mixed-media canvases created by Rupolo, a 2002-born artist from Calabria, over the past year. These works are characterized by a gestural and instinctive painting style. The display also includes a diptych of collagraphs on fabric. The installation aims to create a dialogue between the artworks and the domestic setting of the Casa Vuota gallery. Rupolo's artistic inquiry focuses on the internal exploration of the body, which he conveys with directness. "I try to understand how identity can shape flesh," Rupolo explains, "therefore, I show a raw, ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter John Constable was born June 11, 1776. John Constable, RA (11 June 1776 - 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the naturalistic tradition. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home — now known as "Constable Country" — which he invested with an intensity of affection. In this image: A Sea Beach - Brighton estimated at £400,000 - 600,000. Photo: Bonhams.
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