Good praxis: How a former brothel became one of Adelaide's leading arts spaces - InReview

The article profiles praxis ARTSPACE in Adelaide, Australia, which was originally a former brothel and is now a leading arts space celebrating its tenth anniversary. Founded and directed by Patty Chehade, the space offers professional exhibition facilities for emerging and established artists, featuring a mix of one-person and thematic shows. Notable artists exhibited include Liz Butler, Dianne Longley, Olga Sankey, and Margaret Ambridge.

Concrete cars for coral reefs: Miami's underwater eco-sculpture park takes shape

The first phase of the Reefline project, an underwater sculpture park off the coast of Miami Beach, has been installed with 22 submerged concrete cars created by Argentine artist Leandro Erlich. The sculptures, titled "Concrete Coral" (2025), sit 20 feet below the surface and are designed to support coral regeneration and marine biodiversity. The project was developed by cultural placemaker Ximena Caminos with a masterplan by architect Shohei Shigematsu of OMA, and will expand over ten years to reach seven miles in length. Visitors can access the site via swimming, diving, or electric paddleboards, and a floating marine learning center is anchored nearby during Miami Art Week.

GMCVB’s Art of Black Miami rolls out major programming for 2025 Miami Art Week

The Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau (GMCVB) has announced a full slate of programming for its Art of Black Miami (AOBM) initiative during 2025 Miami Art Week, marking the program's 11th year. The lineup includes exhibitions, performances, film screenings, culinary experiences, and artist talks, with highlights such as Asser Saint-Val's "Yellow Elder" sculpture in Coconut Grove and events at venues across neighborhoods including Historic Overtown, Little Haiti, and Little Havana. Featured events include the Peter London Global Dance Company, Woody De Othello's exhibition, the Point Comfort Art Fair, and the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami's Art of Transformation program.

Chihuly glass art exhibition fuels SA economy with record visitor turnout

The "Chihuly in the Botanic Garden" exhibition at Adelaide Botanic Garden concluded after seven months, drawing 1.4 million visitors and generating $55.7 million in economic benefits for South Australia. The show featured Seattle-based artist Dale Chihuly's glass sculptures, including ticketed experiences like "In Full Colour: Dale Chihuly" and "Chihuly Nights," which attracted over 200,000 attendees. Key artworks, including the Glacier Ice and Lapis Chandelier and the Jet and Crimson Fiori, will remain as permanent fixtures thanks to donations from local philanthropists.

Auction sales fall 6% in the first half, raising fears of an art market shift

Auction sales at Sotheby's, Christie's, and Phillips fell to $3.98 billion in the first half of 2025, a 6% decline from the same period in 2024 and the lowest total in at least a decade excluding the pandemic. Postwar and contemporary art, the traditional growth engine, dropped 19%. ArtTactic cites lingering concerns over global economic growth, inflation, and geopolitical tensions as dampening confidence, even as wealthy individuals' personal wealth and stock markets reach record highs.

Elmhurst Art Museum highlights permanent collection in new exhibit

The Elmhurst Art Museum is presenting "Legacies: Selections from the Elmhurst Art Museum Permanent Collection," an exhibition running through August 17 that highlights works from its permanent collection. Founded in 1981 by teachers, artists, and art lovers, the museum has grown to hold around 1,000 works focused on 20th-century art and design by Midwestern artists. The show explores how collections are built, featuring donations from over 200 donors and including pieces such as a Barcelona Chair attributed to Mies van der Rohe but designed by Lily Wright, a large painting by Michelle Grabner, and Joseph Burlini's sculpture "Circus Wagon." The museum also acquired the Mies van der Rohe-designed McCormick House in 1992, which set its path integrating art, architecture, and education.

Everything to Know About Christie’s Modern Middle Eastern Art Auction

Christie’s has opened an online auction of Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art, running through May 8th and featuring 69 works from across the Gulf, Levant, North Africa, Iraq, and Iran. The sale is led by pioneering artist Samia Halaby’s 2013 painting 'Water Lilies', estimated at $100,000–$150,000, and includes a dedicated 'Saudi Now!' section with 12 pieces by Saudi artists such as Ahmed Mater and Manal AlDowayan. Over a third of the lots are by women artists, including Etel Adnan, Helen Khal, Huguette Caland, Tala Madani, and Tagreed Darghouth, alongside North African figures like Mohamed Melehi and Hassan Hajjaj.

Senior art exhibition spotlights new techniques, artistic growth and community

Ten graduating seniors from Northwestern University's art, theory and practice (ATP) program are presenting a group exhibition titled "Peristeronic" at the Dittmar Gallery, running from May 22 through June 2. The show features work by Lulu Abathra, Isabella Bartling, Alex Bremauntz, Quentin Colson, Helaina Harris, Maggie Musgrave, Lucie Paul, Natalia Tapia Moreno, Grace Wang, and Julianne Zane, with faculty facilitator Lane Relyea. The artists explore themes of community, transition, and personal growth, using techniques such as screen printing, oil painting, spray paint, and digital art.

Artist's exhibition to showcase his journey from 'outsider' to 'master'

Local artist Steve Harrington-Ellsmore presents his exhibition "Phantasmagorical Experience" at Unity Art Studio in Andover, running from May 13 to June 7. The show traces his journey from a self-taught "outsider artist" to a formally trained practitioner, featuring surreal paintings, installations, and collages that have drawn comparisons to Bosch and Dali. Harrington-Ellsmore, who graduated from Winchester School of Art in 2006 with a degree in fine art sculpture, is known for vibrant collages and oil paintings that conjure dreamlike landscapes, often incorporating prominent figures for cultural commentary.

The rise of contemporary African art in a global market

The article reports on the rapid growth of the contemporary African art market, which has more than doubled in value since 2016 to an estimated annual combined value of $72 million. Sales of ultra-contemporary works by African-born artists under 45 surged from $16.2 million in 2020 to $40.6 million in 2021, and the market could reach $1.5 billion this year. Aspire Art, a South African auction house, has set records for artists like Joseph Ntensibe, whose painting *Forest Scene* sold for R924,200, and Nicholas Hlobo, whose work *Intlambo yochulumanco* fetched R1,479,400.

What Category Was the Most Lucrative at Auction in 2024?

The Artnet Intelligence Report's analysis of 2024 auction data reveals that Postwar and Contemporary art remained the most lucrative market category for the second consecutive year, generating nearly $4 billion. However, this represented a 20.5% decline from 2023, and every major category saw a drop in total sales. Ultra-contemporary art suffered the steepest decline at 37.9% year-over-year, as collectors avoided riskier newer artists amid economic uncertainty. Impressionist and Modern sales fell 19.3% to $3.6 billion, with only one top-five lot—Claude Monet's *Nymphéas* (1914) at $65.5 million—coming from that category. Old Masters shrank 27.8%, with growth only in the under-$10,000 bracket.

Diego Gualandris “Floralia” at ADA, Rome

Diego Gualandris presents "Floralia" at ADA gallery in Rome, an exhibition that explores themes of growth, nature, and human intervention through a poetic lens. The show features works that evoke the cycle of life and decay, using floral motifs to reflect on the fragility of existence and the tension between natural processes and external forces.

Pinakotheke Cultural Opens Spacious New Gallery in São Paulo

Pinakotheke Cultural, founded by Max Perlingeiro in Rio de Janeiro in 1979, will open a new, significantly larger gallery space in São Paulo on May 16. Located on Rua Minas Gerais in the Higienópolis neighborhood, the venue nearly doubles the size of the gallery's previous São Paulo outpost. The inaugural exhibition, "Surrealisms: Art Beyond Reason," curated by Max Perlingeiro and Tadeu Chiarelli, will feature approximately one hundred works by sixty artists from Europe, Latin America, North America, and the Caribbean, offering a comprehensive overview of the surrealist movement.

Comment | After a market shake up in 2025, it's time to create a right-sized art trade

The article reflects on the art market's turbulent 2025, marked by gallery closures, weak auction results, and canceled art fairs. Rather than viewing this as a collapse, the author argues it represents a necessary "right-sizing" of an industry that over-expanded during boom years. Key figures like Philip Hoffman of the Fine Art Group advocate for leaner, more agile business models, such as his new advisory firm New Perspectives Art Partners. Meanwhile, dealers in New York and Los Angeles are adapting through shared exhibition spaces and strategic mergers, including Marian Goodman Gallery hosting Jenkins Johnson Gallery and the formation of Hoffman Donahue.

Working in Art: Opportunities from Museo Novecento, Giudicesse 2030, Premio Combat and Fondazione Club Silencio

Lavorare nell’arte: opportunità da Museo Novecento, Giudicesse 2030, Premio Combat e Fondazione Club Silencio

This article from Artribune compiles five current job and grant opportunities in the Italian art world. It highlights a crowdfunding campaign by Museo Novecento for Agnese Galiotto's artwork "Sogni" in Empoli, an open call for the fourth edition of the Giudicesse 2030 residency for filmmakers and video artists in Sant'Antioco, a call for artists using AI from Associazione culturale 360° Creativity Events for PARMA 360 Festival, a paid internship at Blob Art ETS for Premio Combat in Livorno, and a search for a project manager by Fondazione Club Silencio ETS.

An Italian Photographer Traveled to Palestine to Document the Growth of Two Bedouin Twins

Una fotografa italiana ha viaggiato in Palestina per documentare la crescita di due gemelle beduine

Italian photographer Monica Biancardi presents a nearly two-decade-long photographic project documenting the growth of two Bedouin twins, Sara and Sarah, in Palestine. The exhibition, titled 'Il capitale che cresce' (The Capital That Grows), opens at the MAN museum in Nuoro on April 24, 2026, and features black-and-white pigment prints from 2009 to 2023, alongside plexiglass maps and a travel video.

‘Good for the soul’: Local art show opens at Oshawa art gallery tonight

The Oshawa Art Association (OAA) is hosting the opening reception and awards night for its 58th annual juried art exhibition tonight at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa, Ontario. The free event runs from 6 to 9 p.m., featuring live music by local singer David Saliba, attendance from local politicians, and a cash bar. The exhibition, which includes over 100 artworks selected from nearly 300 submissions, will remain on display until May 10. Categories include wildlife, people, abstracts, sculptures, and a youth category for artists aged 12 to 18, with $3,000 in total prize money awarded by jurors Hi-Sook Barker and Lucy Manley.

United Asian American Alliance hosts 3rd Annual AAPI Art Exhibit

The United Asian American Alliance hosted the 3rd Annual AAPI Art Exhibit at the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington, a month-long showcase of Asian American creativity and heritage. Curated by artist Joan Kim Suzuki, the exhibition features works in painting, mixed media, photography, and textile that explore themes of memory, identity, migration, and belonging. The opening reception welcomed distinguished guests including Tracey Edwards, New York State NAACP Vice President, and actor Lisa Yang, a Golden Horse Award nominee.

New experimental art organisation opens in New York

Curator Summer Guthery, who left economics to found four non-profit experimental art spaces across the US, is launching a fifth venture called Times with fellow curator Francesca Sonara. Located in Manhattan’s Chinatown at 151 Lafayette Street, the 3,000-square-foot space will host up to three exhibitions simultaneously across two galleries and a screening room. The inaugural event on 12 February features Latvian performance artist Jana Jacuka, followed by a solo exhibition by Danish artist Nina Beier (21 February-9 May). Times rejects a permanent institutional model, planning a three-year obsolescence to remain nimble and responsive to artists’ needs.

Art Dubai Opens With 50 Exhibitors Amid Geopolitical Pressures

The twentieth edition of Art Dubai opened to VIP visitors on Thursday in a smaller format than originally planned, delayed from mid-April due to regional geopolitical unrest. The fair presented around fifty galleries, roughly 60% fewer than the approximately 120 exhibitors initially expected, yet drew a strong crowd of collectors primarily from the Gulf states and the wider Middle East. Separately, a new gallery, 971 Art Gallery, has opened in Dubai's Art of Living Mall, featuring international artists such as Gérard Rancinan, Isabelle Scheltjens, Riccardo Gusmaroli, Benito Cerna Leon, and Michele Tombolini, and offering curatorial advice and collection management to a growing base of newer collectors.

Zen Crafart showcases Viveek Sharma’s solo exhibition Silence Please in New Delhi

Zen Crafart, an Indian art company, presents Viveek Sharma's solo exhibition 'Silence Please' at Bikaner House in New Delhi from November 20–30, 2025. The show features large-format paintings, intimate compositions, sculptural works, and limited edition art plates, exploring stillness and psychological interiors. Rashmin Majithia, Partner at Zen Crafart, and Chief Guest Jyoti Mayal, Chairperson of THSC, spoke at the opening. A second exhibition, 'Sacred Gestures,' is scheduled for December 2–8, 2025, at Jahangir Art Gallery in Mumbai, focusing on movement and expressive emotion.

Wiltshire artist to open new gallery in city centre

Artist Emily Toomer is opening a new gallery, Emily Toomer Fine Art, on Crane Street in Salisbury on November 22. The debut exhibition will run through Christmas, featuring original works and limited edition prints, including two large paintings titled “Autumn Finale” and “Wisteria Cascade.” The gallery follows Toomer’s successful exhibitions at Arundells and Fisherton Mill in Salisbury, and she plans to rotate her own collections every six weeks while also showcasing other artists in 2026.

Not one but two art exhibits opening at the Anton Art Center April 26

The Anton Art Center in Mount Clemens, Michigan, will open a dual exhibition on April 26 featuring the Member’s Exhibition 2025 and the Emerging Women Artists of Metro Detroit, presented by the Detroit Society of Women Painters and Sculptors (DSWPS). The shows will display 90 original artworks by 74 artists across the center’s first and second floors through June 14, with a juried selection process led by artist Dan Keller for the members’ show and center exhibition manager Stephanie Hazzard for the emerging artists competition.

The City is Our Studio: Urban Sketchers Doha bring the outdoors in

The inaugural exhibition "The City is Our Studio" by the Urban Sketchers Doha community opened at Lusail's Art Factory in Qatar. The show features works created en plein air by the group's members, who practice on-location drawing and painting to capture the essence of Doha's landscapes and everyday life.

Feral Hot Glass owner working toward opening | Gallery Glances

Feral Hot Glass, a glass-blowing studio and event space founded by artist Mark Rubelowsky, is nearing completion in Geneva, Ohio. Rubelowsky and his father broke ground in April 2024 on a property that includes a house and land for grape-growing, transforming the original plan for a pole barn into a full facility. The studio will offer glass-blowing classes, workshops, events, and an Airbnb rental, with unique features like glass birds embedded in walls for a scavenger hunt. Rubelowsky, a 2019 Cleveland Institute of Art graduate, works alongside fellow glassblower Rob Coby.

Peninsula School of Art Hosts Ingwersen Gallery Open House

Peninsula School of Art (PenArt) is hosting a free open house at the Ingwersen Studio and Gallery in Sister Bay, Wisconsin, on October 11, 2025, to honor the late James Ingwersen and his wife Phyllis, who donated the 40-acre property to PenArt earlier this year. The event will include tours of the historic buildings and opportunities to meet staff and board members. Separately, PenArt has announced the return of its Family Art Days program for the fall season, featuring hands-on projects inspired by artists Jodi Rose Gonzales and Abigail Hedley, and has appointed four new members to its Board of Directors: Rebecca Carlton, Marsella Fults, Mynn Lanphier, and Monique McClean.

Art Collectors Bet on Known Quantities Amid Market Reset

The Impressionist and Modern art category became the most lucrative market segment in 2025, generating $4.7 billion in sales—a 29.5% increase from 2024—as collectors favored established names amid a cautious market. The $10-million-plus bracket surged 68.6% to $1.5 billion, while the number of lots sold hit a decade high of 122,213. Postwar and contemporary art ranked second with $4.1 billion, but its average price per lot dropped to a decade low of $23,027. Old Masters saw a 41.2% rise to $708.6 million, partly driven by the Thomas A. Saunders III collection at Sotheby’s, though that sale fell short of estimates. Ultra-contemporary art continued its four-year decline, falling 26.5% to $229.9 million, with average prices tumbling 72.4% from their 2021 peak.

‘This cactus looks as if it’s preaching’: Joseph Cyr’s best phone picture

Joseph Cyr, a language teacher and avid trail runner, captured a rare crested saguaro cactus while running in Saguaro National Park near Tucson, Arizona. The photograph highlights a unique mutation found in only about 75 of the park's estimated two million saguaros, featuring a fan-like growth that gives the plant a distinct, human-like silhouette.

The Art Market’s Uneven Recovery, Explained

Global auction sales saw a 13 percent increase in 2025, signaling the first market recovery in several years. However, this growth was largely concentrated in New York through the sale of high-value masterpieces, while other regions like China continued to experience a decline in activity.

Wine and Spirits Sales at Sotheby’s Grew 12% Last Year to $127.5 M.

Sotheby's reported a 12% increase in its wine and spirits auction sales for 2025, reaching $127.5 million. The growth was driven by a surge in demand for rare and expensive whiskies, with a third of buyers being new to Sotheby's and over half under 50 years old. Key highlights included a record-setting $162,500 sale for a bottle of Old Rip Van Winkle bourbon and a successful charity auction partnership in Scotland.