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Caravaggio portrait of influential patron—and future Pope Urban VIII—purchased by Italy for €30m

The Italian government has acquired a rare Caravaggio portrait of Maffeo Barberini, the future Pope Urban VIII, for €30 million following a year of negotiations with private owners. The 17th-century masterpiece, which depicts one of the artist's most influential patrons, will join the permanent collection of the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica at Palazzo Barberini in Rome. It represents one of the largest sums ever paid by the Italian state for a single work of art.

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museum exhibitions schedule Mar 5, 2026 visibility 11 link 4 artists

Zimbabwean artist Option Nyahunzvi explores cultural values in a bold new exhibition

Zimbabwean artist Option Dzikamai Nyahunzvi has launched a major solo exhibition titled 'Zvatiri' (Who We Are) at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe. The show features a multidisciplinary approach, combining installations, live-art performances, and paintings created with a unique technique of layering and etching Fabriano paper onto canvas. The works heavily reference Shona identity, specifically the 'hunhu' (or ubuntu) belief system and the artist's own Mbizi (zebra) totem, aiming to reconnect contemporary audiences with ancestral wisdom.

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museum exhibitions schedule Feb 20, 2026 visibility 16 link 4 artists

New McMullen Museum exhibition

The McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College has launched "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts," a comprehensive exhibition exploring three generations of the Yeats family. Featuring approximately 200 works including paintings, embroideries, and rare manuscripts, the show highlights the collaborative yet often tense creative output of patriarch John Butler Yeats and his children, including the poet William Butler Yeats and the painter Jack B. Yeats. Many of the items on display are being shown publicly for the first time or for the first time outside of Ireland.

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London National Gallery’s deficit bombshell, Simon Schama on birds and art, Vilhelm Hammershøi—podcast

The National Gallery in London has announced unexpected and significant budget cuts, including potential staff reductions, due to a projected deficit of £8.2 million for the upcoming year. This financial crisis comes as a surprise following the recent completion of a major building project and the announcement of another ambitious expansion planned for the 2030s.

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candle obituary schedule Feb 19, 2026 visibility 14 link 5 artists

Dóra Maurer, ‘towering figure’ of the Hungarian art scene, has died aged 88

Dóra Maurer, a seminal figure in Hungarian conceptual and abstract art, has died at the age of 88. A versatile artist whose career spanned printmaking, photography, filmmaking, and painting, Maurer was celebrated for her rigorous exploration of movement, time, and mathematical systems. Her death was confirmed by the Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts, where she had served as president since 2017.

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museum exhibitions schedule Feb 2, 2026 visibility 14 link 4 artists

Portland Art Museum opens gallery focused on Black artists, named for local trailblazer

The Portland Art Museum has opened a new permanent gallery dedicated to Black artists, named for local artist, dancer, and educator Thelma Johnson Streat. The gallery, which opened on the first day of Black History Month, features a variety of works by Black Oregon artists, including multimedia installations, paintings, drawings, and a large photographic grid.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 30, 2026 visibility 8 link 3 artists

URI professor presents ‘Spirit of the Place and People’ art exhibit – Rhody Today

University of Rhode Island professor and artist Hongbing Tang is presenting her solo exhibition, 'Spirit of the Place and People,' at URI's Green Hall. The show features her watercolor paintings, which explore themes of memory, cultural heritage, and the layered histories of specific locations, and will be on view through April 30.

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Rare oil painting depicting scene from famous Robert Burns poem could fetch £20k at auction

A rare oil painting by the late Scottish artist Alexander Goudie, titled 'The First Drink' and depicting a scene from Robert Burns's poem 'Tam o' Shanter', is set to be auctioned by McTear's in Glasgow. The painting, created in the late 1990s, is estimated to fetch between £10,000 and £20,000 at the Scottish Contemporary Art Auction on February 26th.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 27, 2026 visibility 17 link 3 artists

New Monographic Exhibition to Debut at New Orleans Museum of Art

The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) will debut "Hayward Oubre: Structural Integrity," the first monographic exhibition dedicated to American modernist Hayward L. Oubre, Jr. (1916–2006). Organized by the Birmingham Museum of Art, the show features 48 sculptures, paintings, and prints, including Oubre's notable wire coat hanger sculptures, and runs from January 30 through May 3. Oubre, a New Orleans-born artist, was the first BFA graduate of Dillard University and later chaired art departments at Alabama State University and Winston-Salem State University, shaping a network of Black artists in the South.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 23, 2026 visibility 14 link 3 artists

Long lost portrait of Scotland’s great poet Robert Burns goes on show for first time

A long-lost portrait of Robert Burns by Henry Raeburn, painted in 1803, has gone on public display for the first time at the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh, just in time for Burns Night on 25 January. The painting resurfaced in a house clearance in Surrey and was auctioned in Wimbledon in March 2025 with a guide price of £300–£500; collector and Burns enthusiast William Zachs purchased it for £68,000 after a tense bidding war, gambling on the Raeburn attribution. Experts including Patricia Allerston and Duncan Thomson have since confirmed the work is authentic, and it is now exhibited alongside Alexander Nasmyth's 1787 portrait of Burns.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 16, 2026 visibility 10 link 5 artists

Artist recreates snapshots of 1950s resort with colorful quilts, paintings at WAM

The Wichita Art Museum (WAM) is presenting a new exhibition by an artist who recreates snapshots of a 1950s resort using colorful quilts and paintings. The works draw on vintage photographs to evoke the leisure and social life of mid-century American resort culture, rendered in textile and paint.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 15, 2026 visibility 13 link 2 artists

‘Painted Worlds: Color and Culture in Mesoamerican Art’: A colorful journey through time, culture and belief

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art has opened 'Painted Worlds: Color and Culture in Mesoamerican Art', a major exhibition featuring over 250 works spanning nearly 3,000 years, from pre-Hispanic times to the present day. Curated by Kimberly Masteller, the show is the first presentation of Mesoamerican art at the museum in nearly 40 years and includes textiles, ceramics, paintings, murals, and codices organized by color categories—white, blue/green/yellow, and red/black—to explore the cultural and spiritual significance of color in Mesoamerican traditions.

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trending_up market schedule Jan 9, 2026 visibility 15 link 2 artists

Acquisitions round-up: a rare early Italian portrait of a Black man, a record-breaking Kiddush cup, and a limewood sculpture of the Madonna

The Uffizi Galleries in Florence have acquired Giacomo Ceruti's "Il mendicante moro" (1725–30), one of the earliest known portraits of a Black man in Italian painting. The Toledo Museum of Art has purchased a rare 11th-12th century Kiddush cup that set an auction record for Judaica at Sotheby's for $4m. The Bode-Museum in Berlin has acquired a limewood sculpture of the nursing Madonna from the Circle of the Biberach Master, which was restituted to the heirs of Jakob Goldschmidt in 2023 and sold at Christie's in 2024.

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rate_review review schedule Jan 6, 2026 visibility 16 link 2 artists

Holbein biography interrogates the artist's life and work from a different angle

Elizabeth Goldring’s new biography of Hans Holbein the Younger takes a documentary-focused approach, prioritizing archival evidence over visual analysis. The book examines Holbein’s life (1497/8–1543) through chronological chapters, using inventories, correspondence, and other records to correct long-held assumptions and propose new theories about his work. Goldring’s detective work includes identifying the green curtain in Holbein’s portrait of Sir Thomas More as a reference to the sitter’s role as chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and suggesting that a lost painting of the More family was given to Erasmus as a gift.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 23, 2025 visibility 16 link 4 artists

UCR ARTS presents Transgresoras: Mail Art and Messages, 1960s–2020s

UCR ARTS' California Museum of Photography presents "Transgresoras: Mail Art and Messages, 1960s–2020s," an exhibition guest co-curated by Zanna Gilbert of the Getty Research Institute and Elena Shtromberg of the University of Utah. Running from September 13, 2025, to February 15, 2026, the show features over 50 Latinx and Latin American women artists who used mail art to subvert authoritarian censorship, turning the government's own postal system into a tool for creative expression across militarized borders. The exhibition includes video, sculpture, paintings, prints, and installations, organized into thematic sections addressing state control, gender, migration, colonialism, and ecology.

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trending_up market schedule Dec 19, 2025 visibility 13 link 3 artists

Bing Crosby’s collection brings a white-glove Christmas to Sotheby’s

Sotheby's achieved a white-glove auction of Bing Crosby's personal collection in New York, selling all 100% of lots for $6.7 million against an estimate of $3.9–$6.3 million. Highlights included musical arrangements from Crosby's 1954 film *White Christmas* ($19,050), a Tiffany & Co cigarette box gifted by John F. Kennedy ($15,240), a Sheraton-style grand piano from *High Society* ($95,250), and a Fabergé sapphire mouse ($355,600). Top prices were led by paintings by Sir Alfred James Munnings ($1.2 million) and Charles Marion Russell.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 18, 2025 visibility 13 link 4 artists

Emerging Voices at AMA

The Arlington Museum of Art (AMA) presents the Annual Juried UTA Student Exhibition from October 30, 2025, through February 22, 2026, featuring 27 graduate and undergraduate students from the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). The exhibition was juried and curated by Clare Milliken, Assistant Curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, who selected works across bronze, blown glass, painting, photography, sculpture, and video art. UTA painting faculty Benjamin Terry coordinated the show for the second year, noting a shift toward introspective, material-focused works compared to last year's politically charged selections.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 18, 2025 visibility 15 link 2 artists

Exhibition Tour— Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is hosting a virtual exhibition tour of "Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck," led by Dita Amory, Robert Lehman Curator in Charge, and Max Hollein, Marina Kellen French Director and CEO. The exhibition highlights the Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck (1862–1946), who is celebrated in Nordic countries for her highly original style but remains relatively unknown elsewhere. Featuring nearly 60 works, including loans from the Finnish National Gallery / Ateneum Art Museum and private collections, the show traces her evolution from traditional realism to a spare, abstract style developed in isolation.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 16, 2025 visibility 18 link 3 artists

National Museum of Asian Art Presents Paintings From India’s Himalayan Kingdoms in New Exhibition

The Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art announced a new exhibition, "Of the Hills: Pahari Paintings from India's Himalayan Kingdoms," on view from April 18 to July 26, 2026. Featuring 48 paintings and colored drawings, the show includes canonical masterpieces and never-before-displayed works from the renowned Benkaim Collection, acquired by the museum in 2017–2018. The exhibition explores collaboration and creativity across three key periods from 1620 to 1830, highlighting intricate details, naturalistic figures, and vivid stylizations created with materials like ground pigments, beetle wings, and gold.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 6, 2025 visibility 17 link 6 artists

Long Overdue, First Museum Retrospective of Mavis Pusey Explores Artist's Geometric Abstraction Over Five Decades

The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at the University of Pennsylvania is hosting "Mavis Pusey: Mobile Images," the first museum retrospective of Jamaican-American artist Mavis Pusey (1928-2019). Curated by Hallie Ringle and Kiki Teshome, the exhibition spans five decades and features over 60 works, including seven paintings shown publicly for the first time. Pusey, who studied at the Art Students League and worked at Robert Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop, was known for her geometric abstraction at a time when many Black artists focused on figuration. The show will travel to the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and the Studio Museum in Harlem.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 4, 2025 visibility 13 link 4 artists

This Vietnam veteran lost his sight, but not his vision. Now, his art hangs in the Denver Art Museum

Jim Stevens, a Vietnam War veteran who was shot in the head and later became legally blind after a stroke in 1993, has created a new painting technique using monofilament as a canvas. His artwork, "Blues Man," now hangs in the Denver Art Museum as part of the exhibition "Beyond the Military: From Combat to Canvas," which Stevens helped organize. Stevens serves as president and director of Denver's Veterans Arts Council and has earned Veterans Affairs’ National Gold Medals for Fine Art.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 2, 2025 visibility 16 link 1 artist

Mario Ayala Unveils Life Sized Van Portraits at CAM Houston

Mario Ayala's first U.S. solo museum exhibition, 'Seven Vans,' has opened at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH). The show, on view from November 14, 2025, through June 21, 2026, features seven life-size van paintings that use the vehicle's rear body as a shaped canvas. Ayala removes wheels and functional markers, turning the vans into motionless 'pseudo-portraits' that convey owners' personalities through details like faded stickers, patchy repairs, and custom airbrush work inspired by auto body painting. The artist describes his process as 'Research While Driving,' documenting rear vehicle perspectives over six years.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 25, 2025 visibility 13 link 2 artists

It Happened on Herr: Harrisburg abstract artist returns home for a major exhibit at SAM.

Bronx-based abstract artist Alteronce Gumby has returned to his hometown of Harrisburg for a major exhibition at the Susquehanna Art Museum titled “If Herr Street Could Talk.” The show features 25 mixed-media works, displayed just blocks from the Herr Street neighborhood where Gumby grew up. A graduate of Harrisburg High School and Yale University, Gumby creates cosmic, color-driven paintings using materials like gemstones, resin, and glass, inspired by his childhood observations of light and color. The exhibition marks a homecoming for the internationally celebrated painter, who hopes to inspire young artists in the city.

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Coming Up in Princeton: An Art Gallery Opening – and the Opening of the Holiday Season

Adriana Groza Art Gallery & Studio is opening at 38 Spring Street in Princeton, New Jersey, in a space that formerly housed Kopp’s Cycle shop. The grand opening takes place on Tuesday, November 25, from 5:25 to 7:25 p.m., marking the 21st anniversary of Groza’s arrival in the United States. The gallery will showcase Groza’s original paintings and serve as a hub for workshops and community events, with weekend hours from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 24, 2025 visibility 11 link 4 artists

Experience memories of plantation-born painter in new African American Museum exhibition

The African American Museum in Dallas will open a new exhibition, "Sunday Call to Church: The Art of Clementine Hunter," on December 5, 2025. The show brings together 22 paintings collected by Bank of Texas chairman Norman Bagwell and four works from the museum's own holdings, featuring the self-taught Louisiana painter who began creating art at age 50. Hunter, born on a plantation in 1887, worked as a field laborer and house worker at Melrose Plantation, painting from memory scenes of worship, work, and community life in the rural South.

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Why former Sotheby's chief executive Tad Smith is bullish on blockchain art

Former Sotheby's CEO Tad Smith, who led the auction house from 2015 to 2019, has emerged as a prominent supporter of blockchain art. The article traces his connection to artist Robert Alice, who first encountered Smith while working as a porter at Sotheby's. Alice, a pioneer in NFT art, sold the first NFT through a major auction house at Christie's in 2020. Now, his blockchain-based painting BLOCK 1 (24.9472° N, 118.5979° E) from the Portraits of a Mind series is being offered at Sotheby's with an estimate of $600,000 to $800,000. Smith, who owns another work from the series, is not the consignor or guarantor but expresses hope the sale will promote Alice's work, Bitcoin, and Sotheby's, particularly among younger generations.

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rate_review review schedule Nov 3, 2025 visibility 7 link 1 artist

How the Sienese painter Ambrogio Lorenzetti spoke truth to power

The article examines Ambrogio Lorenzetti's frescoes "Good and Bad Government" (1338-1339) in Siena's Sala dei Nove, arguing that the painter embedded a subtle critique of the ruling oligarchy. Jules Lubbock, a professor emeritus at the University of Essex, reinterprets the murals as a warning against repressive one-party rule, challenging the traditional view of Siena under the Nine as a golden age of good governance.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 26, 2025 visibility 12 link 1 artist

Kim Eull Solo Exhibition – Twilight Zone Studio

The Savina Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul is presenting a solo exhibition of artist Kim Eull titled "Twilight Zone Studio," running from August 23 to October 26, 2025. The show recreates Kim Eull's actual working studio in miniature within the exhibition space, presenting it as an independent artwork, alongside six of his works including "Controversial Painting" (2025), "Beyond the Painting" (2018), "A Weeping Bird" (2025), "Studio" (2025), "Brush, Tear & 망치" (2008), and "Twilight Zone Studio 2" (2025).

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 24, 2025 visibility 14 link 1 artist

Korean National Treasures: 2,000 Years of Art

The Art Institute of Chicago will present "Korean National Treasures: 2,000 Years of Art" from March 7 to July 5, 2026, featuring 140 artworks spanning from 6th-century Buddhist sculpture to contemporary paintings. The exhibition includes 22 objects officially recognized as National Treasures or Treasures by the Korean government, all drawn from a landmark 2021 donation of over 23,000 works by the family of late Samsung Group chairman Lee Kun-Hee. Highlights include Joseon dynasty ceramics, Buddhist paintings, and works by modern artists such as Kim Whanki and Park Rehyun.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 10, 2025 visibility 13 link 1 artist

Jerrell Gibbs Finds Healing With New Exhibition, ‘No Solace In The Shade’ - Essence

Jerrell Gibbs presents his first solo museum exhibition, 'No Solace in the Shade,' at the Brandywine Museum of Art, featuring over 30 large canvases that depict intimate scenes of Black life drawn from family photo albums. The show, on view through March 1, 2026, includes works such as 'The Electric Slide' (2024) and 'Boys Planting' (2021), and is accompanied by his debut monograph. Gibbs, a Baltimore-born artist and father of two, describes the exhibition as a culmination of years of personal and artistic growth, rooted in his graduate studies at MICA and a deep exploration of his family history.

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