Moore / Freud: Masters of Intimacy Explored at Hastings Contemporary
Moore / Freud opens at Hastings Contemporary on 13 June 2026, bringing together Henry Moore and Lucian Freud for the first time in a focused show of twenty family‑themed works. The exhibition juxtaposes Moore’s abstracted maquettes and wartime Shelter Drawings with Freud’s intimate figurative canvases, highlighting each artist’s distinct visual language. Curator Kathleen Soriano frames the pairing as a dialogue rather than a synthesis, allowing the tension between abstraction and realism to surface. A playful Bruce Bernard photograph of Freud posing as a Moore sculpture sets the tone for the show’s investigative spirit.
Claude Lalanne: Saint Laurent Commissioned Mirrors’ $33.5 Million Auction Record
Claude Lalanne’s 15-piece botanical mirror ensemble sold at Sotheby’s New York for $33.5 million, more than double the $15 million high estimate and eclipsing the previous record for both Claude and her late husband François‑Xavier. The mirrors, commissioned by Yves Saint Laurent...
Paula Rego Drawings Exploring The Female Psyche – Sue Hubbard
Paula Rego’s new exhibition "Story Line" at Victoria Miro London showcases a chronological sweep of her drawings, from a nine‑year‑old portrait of her grandmother in 1944 to a self‑portrait of her granddaughter made at age eighty. Rego, who identified herself...
Survivors: Portraits of Resilience Personal Accounts of the AIDS Crisis
The Fitzrovia Chapel in London will host "Survivors," a short‑run exhibition from 9 to 12 June 2026 that pairs 16 chiaroscuro portraits by Dutch photographer Danielle van Zedelhoff with excerpts from the National HIV Story Trust’s interview archive. The chapel, the last remnant...
Earthly Paradise: Radical Alternative Living in the UK – William Morris Gallery
Earthly Paradise: Radical Living in the UK, a new touring exhibition, opens at the William Morris Gallery on 3 October 2026 and runs through 28 March 2027 before traveling to Wales, the Lake District and Edinburgh through 2028. Developed by the Four Lanterns partnership...
George Condo Hoard Heads For Christie’s – And Who’s Selling? His Ex-Wife
Anna Condo, the former wife of celebrated painter George Condo, is consigning 27 of his works—including paintings, sculptures and works on paper—to Christie’s New York for a dedicated single‑owner session on May 21. The lot will appear in Christie’s Post‑War...
Jim Jarmusch, Patti Smith & Brian Eno Feature In Venice Biennale’s The Holy See Pavilion
The Holy See Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Ben Vickers, opens on May 9, 2026 with the title “The Ear is the Eye of the Soul.” It spans two sites—a hidden Carmelite garden...
The Art Market’s Real Driver Thrives On Works Below $50,000 — New Report
A new report reveals that the art market’s true engine resides in works priced below $50,000. Transaction volume in this segment far exceeds that of eight‑figure sales, and the collector base is expanding, driven by younger buyers who value artist...
Artemisia Gentileschi: Headless Mary Magdalen Comes To Auction At Dorotheum
A rare Artemisia Gentileschi fragment depicting Mary Magdalen will be auctioned at Vienna’s Dorotheum on 28 April with an estimate of $120,000 to $170,000. The canvas, a second copy of the Palatine Gallery’s version, is missing the saint’s head—a cut likely...
Eman Khalifa: A Journey Through Abstraction and Emotional Transformation – Lee Sharrock
Eman Khalifa, a former business professional and single mother, has re‑emerged as a painter whose work now appears at major fairs such as The Other Art Fair, Parallax and Untitled. Drawing on a bicultural upbringing between Cairo and the United...
Unseen Lee Miller Photographs Discovered In Assistant’s Private Album
A scrapbook compiled by Lee Miller’s wartime assistant, Roland Haupt, has surfaced after eight decades, containing previously unseen prints of Miller’s iconic war photographs and rare personal images. Haupt, who processed Miller’s 120‑format film from Normandy to Hitler’s bunker, kept...
David Armstrong: Portraits Artists Space New York – Paul Carter Robinson
The first comprehensive U.S. survey of David Armstrong opens at Artists Space, showcasing over 90 photographs that span three decades of his career. The exhibition repositions Armstrong beyond his association with Nan Goldin and the Boston School, highlighting his technical...
New York Court Orders Return of Modigliani Looted By The Nazis
A New York Supreme Court judge ordered the return of Amedeo Modigliani’s 1918 portrait "Seated Man With a Cane" to the estate of Oscar Stettiner, a Jewish dealer whose work was seized by the Nazis. The ruling ends a twelve‑year...
Canaletto & Bellotto: The Art of The Constructed View – Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum opens “Canaletto & Bellotto: The Art of the Constructed View,” showcasing 32 vedute from Venice, London, Dresden and Vienna. Curator Mateusz Mayer argues the paintings are engineered perspectives shaped by patron demands and 18th‑century politics, not photographic...
Glen Baxter Artist Of The Absurd Has Died Aged 82
Glen Baxter, the Leeds‑born artist famed for dead‑pan ink drawings paired with absurd captions, died at 82. His work, rooted in Marx Brothers humor and adventure‑book diction, turned the art world’s solemnity into a punchline and influenced creators from Edward...