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The ARTnews industry moves column for November 19, 2025 reports several gallery and institutional changes: Ortuzar partners with the Claire Falkenstein Foundation for a multi-year initiative including a booth at Art Basel Miami Beach and a 2026 exhibition at the San Diego Museum of Art; Jessica Silverman now co-represents GaHee Park with Perrotin; Gurr Johns appoints Robert Goff as president of private sales and Tabor Story as director of private sales; Tara Downs adds Diné/Tlingit artist Nizhonniya Austin to its roster; Kohler Arts/Industry announces its 2026 residency cohort of 12 artists; Upsilon Gallery names Camilla Previ managing director in Milan. The column also highlights the record-breaking $236.4 million sale of Gustav Klimt's 'Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer' at Sotheby's, the highest price for any modern artwork at auction.

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trending_up market schedule Oct 17, 2025 visibility 1 link 7 artists, 1 gallery

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Bonhams will auction works from the collection of late actor Gene Hackman, who died in February, across one live and two online sales this November. The sale includes fine art by Milton Avery, Auguste Rodin, and Richard Diebenkorn, as well as Hackman's own paintings, his Golden Globe awards, annotated scripts, and cinematic memorabilia. The live sale, titled “Gene Hackman: A Life in Art, Part I,” takes place November 19 in New York, with the highest-estimated lot being Avery's 1957 painting *Figure on the Jetty* valued at $500,000–$700,000.

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Bonhams will auction works from the collection of late actor Gene Hackman this November, spanning three sales—one live and two online. The live sale, titled “Gene Hackman: A Life in Art, Part I,” takes place November 19 in New York and features highlights such as Milton Avery’s 1957 painting *Figure on the Jetty* (estimate $500,000–$700,000) and Richard Diebenkorn’s 1986 color etching *Green* (estimate $300,000–$500,000). Online sales include two of Hackman’s Golden Globes, a still life painting by the actor himself, and additional lots of annotated books, scripts, and cinematic memorabilia. Hackman, who died in February, was a major arts patron in Santa Fe, a painter, and a board member of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum.

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Selections from actor Gene Hackman's personal collection, including artworks and film memorabilia, were sold across a series of auctions at Bonhams in New York from November 19 to December 4. The three sales collectively realized $3 million, with all 400-plus lots finding new homes. Highlights included a Milton Avery painting that fetched $508,500, a Richard Diebenkorn etching that sold for $419,600, and Hackman's Golden Globe awards, with his trophy for *The Royal Tenenbaums* bringing in $51,200. Hackman, who died in February at age 95, was also an artist himself, having studied at the Art Students League of New York and maintained a studio in Santa Fe.

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trending_up market schedule Nov 4, 2025 visibility 3 link 5 artists, 4 galleries

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Abu Dhabi Art Fair returns for its 17th edition from November 19–23 on Saadiyat Island, featuring 140 galleries from 35 countries—up from 104 last year and 40 in 2009. Under director Dyala Nusseibeh, the fair introduces new thematic sectors including 'The Collectors Salon' for historical objects, an expanded 'Emerge' section for works under $3,000, and a Global Focus highlighting modern masters from Nigeria and Türkiye. The growth reflects Abu Dhabi's broader cultural strategy of ambitious development, with museums long in the works finally opening and attracting global attention.

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Dark Mode: Inside the Art Market’s Private Auction Playbook

A secret, invitation-only auction for a single Andy Warhol portrait of Brigitte Bardot was held at a private bar in New York on November 19, 2025, during the major public auction week. Organized by the online platform Fair Warning and presided over by former Christie's auctioneer Jussi Pylkkänen, the event attracted elite collectors and resulted in a $16.7 million sale, making it the most expensive Warhol of the season.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 17, 2025 visibility 3 link 4 artists

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A new exhibition titled “Rodin’s Egypt” opens November 19 at NYU’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW), exploring how ancient Egyptian art influenced Auguste Rodin’s sculptures. Guest curated by Bénédicte Garnier of the Musée Rodin in Paris, the show features 65 objects, including Rodin’s rarely seen assemblages that combine his plaster casts with Egyptian antiquities from his personal collection of over 1,000 Egyptian items. This marks the first US exhibition of Rodin’s Egyptian holdings.

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trending_up market schedule Nov 20, 2025 visibility 2 link 2 artists, 1 gallery

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The Hudson's Bay Company, a historic Canadian department store chain that declared bankruptcy in March, began selling off its art collection. On November 19, 27 paintings from the retailer's trove were auctioned by Canadian auction house Heffel, all selling well above estimate. The top lot was an impressionistic painting of a Marrakech street by Winston Churchill, which sold for $1.5 million, more than tripling its low estimate. Other notable sales included Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith's 'Lights of a City Street' at $691,250 and works by William von Moll Berczy and Charles Pachter.

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Exhibition series launched to celebrate Sussex artistic talent

Hastings Contemporary has launched Sussex Spotlight, a new exhibition series celebrating artists with connections to the Sussex region. The inaugural show, running from November 19, 2025, to January 18, 2026, features St Leonards-based painter Alessandro Raho, known for his refined portraits and still-life works. The series is free to attend and supported by David and Sarah Kowitz.

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trending_up market schedule Nov 19, 2025 visibility 1 link 3 artists, 2 galleries

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Russian watchmaker and artist Konstantin Chaykin debuts his new painting, 'A Mad Horological Party,' at Dubai Watch Week 2025 from November 19–23, before it heads to auction via Ineichen Auctioneers on December 13. The artwork draws inspiration from Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland' and parallels Chaykin's ambitious 'White Rabbit' wristwatch, which features 16 complications. Chaykin, a master of haute horlogerie and member of the Academy of Independent Creators in Watchmaking (AHCI), blends his technical watchmaking expertise with painting, using a proprietary method rooted in geometry, precise calculations, and hidden symmetries.

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Morad Montazami appointed artistic director of 2026 Dakar Biennale

Morad Montazami has been named the artistic director for the 16th edition of the Dakar Biennale, scheduled to run from November 19 to December 19, 2026. Titled "(Anti)Fragility: Arts of Repair and Counter-Shock Strategies," the exhibition will explore themes of community-led restoration and the transformation of vulnerability into collective strength. Montazami, a former Tate Modern curator and founder of the platform Zamân Books & Curating, brings an extensive background in postcolonial art histories and global modernisms to the prestigious African forum.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 12, 2025 visibility 2 link 4 artists

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Three artists—Faith Ringgold, Jean Toche, and Jon Hendricks—organized "The People's Flag Show" at Judson Memorial Church in New York's Greenwich Village in November 1970, protesting the Vietnam War and challenging US flag desecration laws. The exhibition featured around 150 artists via open call, including Yvonne Rainer, Kate Millett, and the Guerrilla Art Action Group. On November 13, 1970, Ringgold, Toche, and Hendricks were arrested and fined $100 for flag desecration; their case was later dismissed with help from the American Civil Liberties Union. Now, 55 years later, Judson Commons—the church's nonprofit arts arm—is mounting a new version of the exhibition, again via open call, featuring over 60 artists and a week of programming in the Judson Gym.

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Morad Montazami Named Artistic Director of 16th Dak’Art Biennial

Morad Montazami has been appointed as the artistic director for the sixteenth edition of the Dak’Art Biennial, scheduled to run from November 19 to December 19. Titled "(Anti)Fragility: Arts of Repair and Counter-Shock Strategies," the upcoming biennial will focus on themes of community, co-creation, and the transformation of vulnerability into artistic strength. Montazami, an esteemed art historian and curator known for his work on global modernism and postcolonial narratives, brings extensive experience from previous roles at Tate Modern and various international exhibitions.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 10, 2025 visibility 1 link 7 artists, 1 gallery

Seeing beyond: Issam Kourbaj on mentoring three young artists for Abu Dhabi Art

Artist Issam Kourbaj is curating and mentoring three emerging UAE-based artists—Salmah Almansoori, Maktoum Al Maktoum, and Alla Abdunabi—for the Beyond Emerging Artists programme at Abu Dhabi Art, which runs November 19–23 at Manarat al-Saadiyat. The artists are creating new works for the fair and separate outdoor installations in Al Ain, including at historical sites like Al Ain Oasis and Jebel Hafeet Tombs, with the outdoor pieces on view for six months. Kourbaj, a Syrian-born artist based in Cambridge, selected the trio for their diverse materials and shared focus on place and memory.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 19, 2025 visibility 2 link 3 artists

Exhibition series launched to celebrate Sussex artistic talent

Hastings Contemporary has launched Sussex Spotlight, a new exhibition series celebrating artistic talent from the Sussex region. The inaugural show, running from November 19, 2025, to January 18, 2026, features painter Alessandro Raho, known for his refined portraits and still-life works. Raho, born in Nassau in 1971, has painted notable figures such as Dame Judi Dench and Bryan Ferry, and his work explores themes of presence, absence, and memory.

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gavel restitution schedule Nov 19, 2025 visibility 2 link 1 artist, 1 gallery

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Christie’s has halted the sale of a rare 17th-century Pascaline arithmetic machine, originally scheduled for auction on November 19, after the Administrative Tribunal of Paris suspended its export license. The machine, invented by Blaise Pascal and estimated at €2–3 million, was pulled from sale at the consignor’s request following pressure from French cultural campaigners who argue it should be classified as a National Treasure to prevent its departure from France.

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Julien's Auctions will sell equipment and ephemera from the estate of Kraftwerk co-founder Florian Schneider on November 19 at the Musicians Hall of Fame & Museum in Nashville, with online bidding already open. Highlights include an EMS Synthi AKS suitcase synthesizer used on the 1974 album *Autobahn* (est. $15,000–$20,000), a 1960s flute from Schneider's early career, and his 1964 Volkswagen van featured in the "Tour de France" video.

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David Hockney’s Vibrant Creations Anchor Artnet’s Contemporary Editions Auction

Artnet Auctions is staging its Contemporary Editions sale, now live for bidding through November 19, 2025, featuring three works by David Hockney: an iPad drawing titled *16th February, 2021, More Flowers in a Glass Vase* (est. $40,000–$60,000), a digitally stitched photograph *In the Studio, December 2017* (est. $50,000–$70,000), and a lithograph *Pretty Tulips* (1969) (est. $35,000–$55,000). The sale highlights Hockney’s ongoing experimentation with digital tools and printmaking, offering collectors accessible entry points into his six-decade career.

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trending_up market schedule Nov 20, 2025 visibility 2 link 7 artists, 1 gallery

Heffel’s autumn sales, including auction of art from collection of Canada’s oldest company, tally $22.1m

Heffel Fine Art Auction House held its marquee autumn sales in Toronto on November 19, featuring four auctions that included works from the collection of the Hudson's Bay Company, North America's oldest company, which declared bankruptcy earlier this year. The marathon series of sales also included a single-owner auction of the late collector Lillian Mayland McKimm's holdings and two multi-owner sales of Canadian, Impressionist, modern, post-war, and contemporary art. Over 16 artists' secondary market records were broken, with total sales reaching C$31 million ($22.1 million). Notable highlights included E.J. Hughes' 'Entrance to Howe Sound' selling for C$4.8 million, more than doubling his previous record, and Winston Churchill's painting 'Marrakech' fetching C$1.5 million.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 14, 2025 visibility 1 link 4 artists

Wilson College unveils anti-war art show by Callot on Nov. 19

Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, will open a new art exhibition titled “Jacques Callot and Those Who Came After” on November 19, 2025, in the first-floor gallery of the John Stewart Memorial Library. The show features 18 etchings from Callot’s 1633 series “Les Grandes Misères de la Guerre,” widely regarded as the first anti-war statement in Western art, alongside works by artists he inspired, including Francisco Goya, Otto Dix, and Ernst Barlach. Curated by assistant professor Adam DelMarcelle, the exhibition was a collaborative effort involving students from multiple courses—Western Art History 1000–1800, Graphic Design II, Typography and the Letterform, and digital photography—who conducted research, designed the visual language, built the catalog, and contributed photographic elements.

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East Cobb painter to present holiday art exhibit in Buckhead

Lynne McDonald, an abstract artist and entrepreneur from East Cobb, will present a Holiday Art Exhibition at Serendipity Labs Buckhead in Atlanta on November 19, 2025. The event will feature the unveiling of her new pieces, with guests enjoying light refreshments. McDonald, who began painting in 2015 and became a full-time artist by 2020, creates vibrant organic artworks using acrylics and unconventional tools like blow torches and forks. She has sold works internationally and held over 18 shows, including 15 solo exhibitions.

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Homeless services center to become Allentown’s newest art gallery... with a mission

Ripple Community Inc., a nonprofit addressing homelessness and social isolation in Allentown, will celebrate its 10th anniversary by opening the NeighborMade Community Art Gallery & Workshop on November 19 at its Community Building Center. The inaugural exhibition, titled “The Art of Neighboring,” features juried artwork from community members, professional artists, and students, including a collaborative mural made of hundreds of collages representing words related to being a good neighbor. The gallery will be free and open to the public through January 3.

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trending_up market schedule Sep 10, 2025 link 2 artists, 2 galleries

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Christie’s will auction a Pascaline, the first calculating machine in history, developed by Blaise Pascal in 1642, at a sale in Paris on November 19. The estimate for the box decorated with ebony sticks is €2 million to €3 million. This particular model, dedicated to survey calculations, is the only one in private hands among nine surviving originals, and it remains fully functional. The auction also includes 15 volumes of Pascal’s writings, including a first copy of *Pensées* (estimate €200,000–€300,000), and works by Descartes, Newton, and others.

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