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KUROKI Shu, Overlap-71, ed10, cloth graph, 2024.
FALMOUTH, MASS.- Highfield Hall & Gardens welcomes back the College Womens Association of Japan (CWAJ) Contemporary Japanese Print Show this summer. As the exclusive U.S. venue for this prestigious juried exhibition, Trailblazers: Celebrating Contemporary Japanese Prints will be on view June 21 through October 26 at Highfield Hall & Gardens. Proceeds from the sale of the original prints will support Highfields cultural programs and the CWAJ scholarship fund. This marks the third time Highfield Hall & Gardens has hosted the esteemed CWAJ Print Show, said Lisa Walker, Co-Executive Director and Chief Development Officer. After pandemic-related interruptions, we are thrilled to welcome back this exceptional program in partnership with the Tokyo-based CWAJ. Trailblazers: Celebrating Contemporary Japanese Prints will feature 140 acclaimed Japanese printmakers, showcasing a range of printmaking techniques fr ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Marian Goodman Gallery. Courtesy of Art Basel
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| New exhibition of works by Dusti Bongé opens at the Walter Anderson Museum of Art | | Miller & Miller announces results of Automobiles, Motorbikes & Advertising auction | | Bowman Sculpture marks 30-year collaboration with Hanneke Beaumont in major retrospective |
Dusti Bongé, Biloxi Porches, No Title (Houses), c. 1943. Oil on canvas, 17 3/4 x 21 1/2 in. Mississippi Museum of Art. © Dusti Bongé Art Foundation.
OCEAN SPRINGS, MS.- The Walter Anderson Museum of Art (WAMA) announced its newest exhibition, Dusti Bongé: Modernist of the South, on view from June 11 through November 30, 2025. Comprising 24 works on paper, canvas, and Masonite from public and private collections across Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama, the exhibition celebrates the life, legacy, and expansive body of work of Dusti Bongé (1903 1993), a pioneering force in modernist painting. Her roots in Biloxi, Mississippi, deeply infiuenced her dynamic, expressive style. Dusti Bongé is recognized today as one of the foremost Southern modernist painters of the 20th century. The artist experimented widely throughout her career, exploring Cubism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, among other movements. Her work features imagery of the region, morphing throughout her lifetime to refiect ... More | |
Canadian 1930s McColl-Frontenac Red Indian Motor Oils single-sided porcelain dealer sign, 5 feet in diameter, a must-have for collectors of Canadian petroliana advertising. (CA$25,960)
CHATHAM, ONTARIO.- Rare and highly desirable vintage cars ruled the day in Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd.s Automobiles, Motorbikes & Advertising auction, featuring the lifetime Mike and Wendy Fairbairn Collection, held June 14th, online and live on-site at the Fairbairns Car Barn in Chatham. The couple built the Car Barn to house their outstanding collections. Roaring into the winners circle and taking top lot honors was a 1973 Pontiac Trans AM LS2 455 cu. in. Super Duty car, packing a 430 hp V8 engine with 800 CFM Holley carburetor. Its provenance as the Toronto Auto Show feature car, combined with its pristine, unrestored condition, low production and nearly every option available, made it the ultimate muscle car. Owners of these cars make no bones about their pride in owning the swan song of Detroit's most outrageous era, and bidders ... More | |
Bowman Sculpture director Mica Bowman pictured at 'Hanneke Beaumont: Sculpting the Universal Selfâ Exhibition.
LONDON.- Bowman Sculpture in London have unveiled a landmark retrospective of Dutch sculptor Hanneke Beaumont. Hanneke Beaumont: Sculpting the Universal Self marks three decades of collaboration between the gallery and one of Europes most introspective and quietly radical sculptors. The exhibition runs from 19th June to 25th July, 2025. Featuring 26 works, the exhibition delves into Beaumonts signature themes of identity, shared humanity, and emotional depth. Highlights include the debut of Duality, the artists latest monumental sculpture, which arrives directly from the foundry in Pietrasanta, Italy, and will be unveiled to the public for the first time at the Mayfair gallery. Beaumonts practice is rooted in classical materials such as terracotta, bronze, and cast iron. She reimagines the figurative tradition for the 21st century with her distinctive sculptural language. Her androgynous ... More |
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| Frick debuts new special exhibition galleries with major Vermeer loans | | Antonio SeguÃ's private collection of African, Oceanic, and American art to be auctioned in Paris | | RM Sotheby's to auction Jeremy Clarkson's Ferrari at Cliveden |
Johannes Vermeer (16321675), The Love Letter, ca. 166970. Oil on canvas, 17 5/16 Ã 15 3/16 in. (44 Ã 38.5 cm) Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt.
NEW YORK, NY.- In the first show to be held in The Frick Collections new Ronald S. Lauder Exhibition Galleries, three works by Johannes Vermeer will be presented from June 18 (starting at 1:00 p.m.) through August 31, 2025. The unprecedented installation Vermeers Love Letters unites the Fricks iconic Mistress and Maid with two special loans: The Love Letter from the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, and Woman Writing a Letter with Her Maid from the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin. Displayed together in a single gallery for the first time, this trio of works will offer visitors the opportunity to consider Vermeers exploration of the theme of letter writing and epistolary exchange in the context of the seventeenth-century domestic settings for which the artist is renowned. Beginning June 23, the Frick will also welcome visitors on Mondays, extending its ... More | |
Group of Mumuye sculptures © courtesy Millon.
PARIS.- Art enthusiasts and collectors will have a rare opportunity to acquire pieces from the personal collection of the late Argentine artist Antonio Seguà (19342022) this autumn. The Millon auction house is set to disperse a portion of SeguÃ's extensive collection of extra-European arts on September 20, 2025, at Drouot's Room V in Paris. The upcoming sale, titled "The Antonio Seguà Collection," will feature nearly 200 pieces from Africa, Oceania, and pre-Columbian America. These objects, ranging from sculptures and masks to fetishes and ritual items, once filled the artist's historic home-studio, the Maison Raspail in Arcueil. SeguÃ, primarily known for his satirical paintings and distinctive figurative style, maintained a quiet yet profound passion for these global art forms throughout his life. "What matters to me in tribal artworks is the power of creation, authenticity and strength, expression within predefined aesthetic values," Seguà once stated, highlighting his discerning eye ... More | |
Sixty-four automobiles will go under the hammer at the Cliveden House Hotel in Berkshire on 8 July, during RM Sothebys second sale at the historic Berkshire venue.
LONDON.- Several exciting new consignments have been made to RM Sothebys upcoming Cliveden House auction on 8 July, with one of the standout listings being a 1996 Ferrari F355 GTS (Est: £180,000 - £220,000) that was owned from new by television star Jeremy Clarkson. Purchased new by the Top Gear presenter in 1996 after the star declared the F355 The best car in the world, the Ferrari featured regularly on British television screens throughout the late nineties as well as making appearances in Top Gear magazine and The Sunday Times. The Ferrari was ordered new via the official Maranello Sales dealership at Tower Gate showroom in Egham, configured in targa-top GTS specification and finished in Rosso Corsa over Crema leather with sports seats. It would go on to star in The Sunday Times as Clarkson re-took and failed his driving license, and by the year 2000 the car had ... More |
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| Tiny fossils tell big story: New study unlocks ancient climate secrets in Mexico | | "Radical!": New exhibition reclaims women artists' place in modernist art history | | Japanese woodblock prints featuring women in the Edo Period on display at Plains Art Museum |
Axolotls, toads, frogs, water snakes, rattlesnakes, desert tortoises, chintete (a type of lizard), ducks, herons, and flamingos were identified.
ZUMPANGO.- A groundbreaking new study based on fossils from the massive Santa LucÃa paleontological site is offering fresh insights into how ancient animal communities responded to shifting climates in the Basin of Mexico. Biologist José Omar Moreno Flores recently defended his master's thesis, marking the first in-depth analysis of microvertebrate fossils from the area, a discovery that promises to reshape our understanding of the region's natural history. Moreno Flores's research, conducted for his Master's in Environmental Sciences at the National Technological Institute of Mexico, Zacapoaxtla campus, focused on the response of microvertebrate communities to climate changes during the Pleistocene epoch. Supervised by Professor Guillermo A. Woolrich Piña and INAH researcher José Alberto Cruz Silva, with external guidance from INAH's Felisa Aguilar Arellano and JoaquÃn Arroyo Cabrales, the thesis sheds light on a paleontologically underexplored northern section ... More | |
Gertrud Arndt, Masked Self-Portrait No. 13, 1930 (1996). Museum Folkwang, Essen, Photo: Jens Nober © VG Bildkunst.
VIENNA.- Radical! launches a lively dialogue between over sixty women*artists from more than twenty countries, with paintings presented alongside textile designs, sculptures alongside prints, drawings alongside photographs and films. Regardless of their background or aesthetic idiom, all these artists are united by their search for new forms of expression and representation and by their determination to shift artistic and social boundaries. General Director Stella Rollig: With Radical! we are giving women and gender-diverse artists their rightful place in the Modernist canon, drawing attention to their systematic marginalization, and reevaluating art historical narratives. The project challenges the notion of a linear sequence of avant-gardes and extricates the presented women*artists from the traditional art historical classifications that have contributed to them being forgotten and omitted from museum collections. Instead of perpetuating stylistic pigeonholes, the exhibition ... More | |
Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese, 1786 1865), The Sacred Tree (Sakaki), 1853, ink on paper, 14 3/4 x 10 1/8 inches, Gift, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur G. Bailey, 1957.68.4.4. Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania.
FARGO, ND.- Plains Art Museum is presenting Floating Beauty: Women in the Art of Ukiyo-e. The exhibition is on view from June 7 to September 28, 2025, in The Museums Jane L. Stern Gallery. Floating Beauty examines historical perspectives on women and their depiction in art in Edo Period Japan (1603 1867). Made up entirely of woodblock prints created in the ukiyo-e style, this exhibition highlights female characters in literature, kabuki theatre, and poetry; the courtesans and geisha of the Yoshiwara district; and wives and mothers from different social classes performing the duties of their station, in order to gain some insight into the lives of women in pre-modern Japan. Through a Washitsu display, and the Usuki Family objects, you will learn about historical Japan and gain insight into the lives of women during this period. In the tradition of ukiyo-e, women are most commonly ... More |
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| Scream Machines-Art Ghost Train at Museum Tinguely, Basel | | Anne Appleby's "Array" unveils nature's cycles through meditative color fields | | With glowing hearts, AGO welcomes home the joyful art and radical patriotism of Joyce Wieland |
Rebecca Moss and Augustin Rebetez in the Art Ghost Train Scream Machines © Museum Tinguely, Basel. Photo: 2025 Museum Tinguely, Basel; Matthias Willi.
BASEL.- Scream Machines, a large-scale installation designed by British artist Rebecca Moss and Swiss artist Augustin Rebetez, is taking visitors on a journey through an immersive artistic landscape. The installation pays homage to Le Crocrodrome de Zig et Puce, a work by Jean Tinguely created in 1977 in collaboration with Bernhard Luginbühl, Daniel Spoerri, and Niki de Saint Phalle for the opening of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. For the opening of the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 1977, the artists created the Crocrodrome de Zig et Puce, a huge, walk-in sculpture for the large entrance hall with a specially designed ghost train, rods and wheels, a marble run, illuminated lettering, a Musée Sentimental and a crocodile leg completely covered in chocolate. To mark Tinguelys centenary in 2025, Museum Tinguely is reviving this event and initiating the temporary artistic transformation of an existing ghost train, the Wiener Prater Geisterbahn, built in 1935. It was a gu ... More | |
Anne Appleby, Crocus, 2012. Oil and wax on panel, 25 x 25 inches.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- parrasch heijnen is presenting Anne Appleby: Array, the gallerys second solo exhibition with the Montana-based artist (b. 1954, Harrisburg, PA). Anne Appleby observes the natural environment in her rural Montana surroundings and across North America through an acute awareness of color. The artists edge-to-edge color field paintings are composed of multi-panel works often in grid form, revealing chromatic shifts in the context of sequential development. Each panel is a complex and luminous documentation of time, encapsulating the potentiality of the regeneration of the natural world and its cycles. Inspired by the Bandolier bag (gashikibidaagan), a ceremonial Ojibwe woven shoulder bag that incorporates motifs of floral and plant life found throughout the Great Lakes, the works in this show reflect the artists deep connection to nature. Following graduate school, Appleby studied for fifteen years with (Anishinaabeg) Ojibwe artist and holy man Ed Barbeau and connected wi ... More | |
Joyce Wieland. Young Woman's Blues, 1964. Wood, paint, found objects, plastic, 53.3 x 30.5 x 22.2 cm. The University of Lethbridge Art Collections; purchased with funds provided by Canada. Image courtesy: © National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.
TORONTO.- Im a Canadian, Joyce Wieland told the New York Times in 1971. I believe in Canada. We should work for a unified Canada English and Frenchas Canadians, not as anti-Americans. We should be more positive about ourselves. Just in time for Canada Day, the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) welcomes home the radical beauty of famed Toronto artist and filmmaker Joyce Wieland (1930-1998). The most ambitious retrospective of her work ever mounted, Joyce Wieland: Heart On opens today, featuring more than 120 works of art, including newly restored films and plastic hangings, paintings, textiles, collages, sculptures, drawings, and a recreation of her 1982 earthwork, Venus of Scarborough. During the 1960s, 70s and 80s, Wielands humorous and biting artistry helped give shape to this countrys changing ideas about gender, nationhood, and ecologytopics ... More |
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Arne Quinze's Raw Paradise Debuts at König BergsonMUNICH.- KÃNIG BERGSON is pleased to present RAW PARADISE, a solo exhibition by Arne Quinze. This new body of work continues his more than twenty-year exploration of the fractured relationship between humanity and nature. It brings together oil paintings, sculptural compositions in raw bronze and aluminum, ceramics, Murano glass, and video to create an immersive environment exploring natures raw power and fragile harmony. Quinze addresses one of todays most urgent issues: the lost connection between modern society and natures essential rhythms and values. Working across multiple disciplines, he employs diverse mediapaint, ceramics, metal, glass, and videoto reveal what has been forgotten in natures relentless transformation toward harmony. His sculptures merge phosphor bronze, aluminum, ceramics, and delicate Murano glass, ... More First US female astronaut's estate Collection to be auctionedLOS ANGELES, CA.- Nate D. Sanders Auctions announces the highly anticipated auction of the Sally Ride Estate Collection chronicling Sally Ride's groundbreaking journey from a Stanford-trained physicist to international icon. The auction concludes on June 26, 2025 and features over 50 lots of historically significant items from America's pioneering first woman astronaut. Dr. Sally Kristen Ride made history on June 18, 1983, when she launched aboard Space Shuttle Challenger as America's first woman in space during mission STS-7. At age 32, she became the youngest American astronaut to reach orbit, operating the shuttle's robotic arm with unprecedented skill and helping deploy two communications satellites. Her second mission, STS-41-G in October 1984, marked another milestone as the first spaceflight with two women crew members. Together, these missions established ... More Ayyam Gallery presents "Wavering Hope," a collective reflection on the Syrian experienceDUBAI.- Ayyam Gallery presents this years summer collective titled Wavering Hope. The exhibition will feature works by Kais Salman, Khaled Takreti, Tammam Azzam, Abdalla Al Omari, Othman Moussa, Safwan Dahoul, Thaier Helal, Elias Izoli, Abdul-Karim Majdal Al-Beik, Mohannad Orabi, Nihad Al-Turk, and Yasmine Al Awa. Hope (noun): A feeling of expectation and desire for a particular thing to happen. Oxford English Dictionary Hope is a complex and often conflicting sentiment within the Syrian experience. It has served as a force of endurance and, at times, a source of sorrow, rising in fleeting moments, only to vanish in the face of renewed suffering. For over two decades of conflict, displacement, and resistance, Syrian artists have relied on their creative practices as a lifeline. Through these practices, they have fought against erasure, preserved memory, and expressed ... More Ayana Ross named 40th Duncanson Artist-in-ResidenceCINCINNATI, OH.- The Taft Museum of Art has selected visual artist Ayana Ross as the 2026 Duncanson Artist-in-Residence. The award-winning residency is known for its competitive application and review process. The 40th anniversary celebrates the programs long-standing cultural significance, elevating the profile of contemporary artists across a variety of disciplines. Rosss residency will include an exhibition of her work at the Taft Museum of Art as well as engagement with the community, leading public programs, teaching workshops, and visiting schools across Greater Cincinnati in spring 2026. For four decades, the Duncanson Program has honored the enduring legacy of Robert S. Duncanson by uplifting artists whose work challenges, inspires, and transforms. As we celebrate this milestone, we reflect on the artists who have shaped our cultural landscape and look ahead ... More  Francis Offman's "Weaving Stories" transforms trauma into tactile art at Vienna's SecessionVIENNA.- The walls of the stairwell that leads to Francis Offmans exhibition Weaving Stories are covered in dried coffee grounds. The dark tactile material transforms the narrow entrance to the exhibition space on the first floor into an immersive olfactory experience. Coffee is both at the core of Francis Offman conceptual understanding of painting as well as a signifier of the two worlds that are connected within the artists life: he grew up in Rwanda and witnessed the genocide in 1994, during which extremists from the Hutu majority murdered between 800,000 and 1,000,000 people most of the victims were Tutsi, but moderate Hutu were also killed. In 1999, Offman emigrated to Italy, where he has lived ever since. Whereas coffee culture is an integral part of Italian identity today, it wasnt embedded in Rwandan society until German colonial rule (18971916). Coffee was grown, for export only, ... More First overview exhibition: 'Artus Quellinus, Sculptor of Amsterdam' in the Royal Palace AmsterdamAMSTERDAM.- On 17 June 2025, His Royal Highness the King opened the exhibition: 'Artus Quellinus. Sculptor of Amsterdam' in the Royal Palace Amsterdam. From 18 June 2025 to 27 October 2025, the first overview exhibition of works by Artus Quellinus (1609- 1668) is open to visit in the Palace. For the celebrations of Amsterdam 750 years, the Royal Palace Amsterdam curated the exhibition in collaboration with the Rijksmuseum. Being the 'Sculptor of Amsterdam', this master decorated the inside and outside of the 17th century Town Hall (now the Royal Palace Amsterdam) with hundreds of impressive sculptures of gods and goddesses, narratives, symbols, animals and plants. Furthermore, an extensive collection of top works of the master will be displayed in the Palace. The works come from national and international museums, churches and private collections. Artus Quellinus was ... More National Gallery of Canada receives 22.8-million CAD gift of contemporary artworks OTTAWA.- The National Gallery of Canada (NGC) announced a 22.8-million CAD major gift to Canadians of 61 artworks, featuring some of the most iconic artists in contemporary art history, by noted Vancouver-based businessperson and philanthropist Bob Rennie, a Distinguished Patron of the National Gallery of Canada Foundation, and The Rennie Family. Rennie was named to ARTnews Top 200 Collectors list of 2024. Bob Rennies extraordinary contribution to the nation supports our mission of making great art accessible to all Canadians, from coast to coast to coast, through partnership and collaboration, said Paul Genest, Chair of the Board, and Jean-François Bélisle, Director and CEO, of the NGC. The Rennie Collection, one of the largest collections of contemporary art in the country, has evolved over the years to focus on works tackling issues of identity, social commentary and injustice. ... More Fridman Gallery presents Mad Heart, Be Brave, a group exhibition curated by Sadaf PadderNEW YORK, NY.- Fridman Gallery presents Mad Heart, Be Brave, a group exhibition curated by Sadaf Padder and inspired by the late Kashmiri-American poet Agha Shahid Ali (19492001), known for his lyrical reflections on longing, memory, and terrainboth literal and emotional. The title of the exhibition, drawn from Alis poetry, becomes a call to inhabit the vulnerable terrain of longing while holding space for imagination. In invoking Kashmirits history, its contested borders, and its peoples persistent hopethe exhibition pays homage to a region marked by profound beauty, military occupation, contested borders and enduring political rupture.2 Alis vision of Kashmir as homeland and a site of fracture and possibility - becomes a generative metaphor throughout the exhibition. To invoke Kashmir as a frame, then, is to resist forgetting and invisibility. It is to assert that even ... More Independent announces a new and expanded venue, dates, and creative team NEW YORK, NY.- Independent will take place next year May 14-17, 2026 at a new home at Pier 36, a 70,000-square-foot, light-filled venue located adjacent to the Lower East Side gallery community and contemporary art institutions. The move will more than double the fairs footprint, and position it strategically along the East Side of Manhattan. The new location will allow Independent to expand the show for galleries and artists alike. Our growth comes at a pivotal time for galleries worldwide who are looking to the New York market, and in particular rising artists and undervalued opportunities in 20th and 21st Century art, says Independents founder, Elizabeth Dee. We are delighted and grateful for our time at Spring Studios, but this feels like the right time to increase the cultural impact of Independent in New York, which is still the biggest art market in the world. Independent is a ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Giorgio Morandi died June 18, 1964. Giorgio Morandi (July 20, 1890 - June 18, 1964) was an Italian painter and printmaker widely known for his subtly muted still-life paintings of ceramic vessels, flowers, and landscapes---their quiet, meditative quality reflecting the artist's rejection of the tumult of modern life. In this image: Giorgio Morandi, Natura morta (Still Life), 1942 © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/SIAE, Rome. Collection of Fondazione Magnani-Rocca, Mamiano di Traversetolo (Parma), Italy. Courtesy David Zwirner.
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