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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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Still Life Painter Poppy Jones’s Career Is on the Move

British artist Poppy Jones has seen a meteoric rise in market and institutional recognition over the past year. Her enigmatic still lifes, created by mono-printing photographic images onto found materials like silk and suede, have resonated with collectors, leading to a major jump in searches on the Artnet Price Database and auction results that have tripled estimates, with her record now over $60,000.

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Chinese artist Chen Fei discusses his first institutional solo exhibition in Europe, “Grand Lobby,” at the Consortium Museum in Dijon, France. The show features large-scale still-life paintings that blend Flemish floral traditions with contemporary Chinese symbols like VOSS water bottles and IKEA price tags, using gold leaf and red lacquer to critique class aspiration and visual culture. Chen’s studio, located outside Beijing, is where he creates detail-rich canvases inspired by film storyboarding, aiming for a cinematic, narrative-driven reading experience.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 30, 2026 visibility 13 link 2 artists, 1 gallery

Sebastiaan Bremer: Super Modern Things

Edwynn Houk Gallery presents "Super Modern Things," an exhibition of new works by Sebastiaan Bremer. The artworks blend photography and painting, starting from historical source images such as 17th-century Dutch botanical catalogues and Golden Age still life paintings. Bremer photographs these reproductions and adds ink and acrylic marks—dots, lines, stains, and washes—creating rhythms that evoke language, music, emotion, and constellations. The exhibition continues his long-standing exploration of flowers and the layered histories of still life, addressing themes of beauty, mortality, value, ecology, and global exchange. An accompanying monograph of his flower series is scheduled for Fall 2026.

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Two key staffers have been fired from the Kennedy Center following President Trump's takeover: Kevin Struthers, senior director of music programming, and Malka Lasky, a social impact staffer and coordinator for the free Millennium Stage shows. Meanwhile, Canadian artist Armand Vaillancourt, 96, has sent a cease-and-desist letter to San Francisco officials to block the demolition of his 1971 Brutalist fountain in Embarcadero Plaza, which is fenced off due to structural hazards. Two Nazi-looted still life paintings by 17th-century Dutch artist Ambrosius Bosschaert have reportedly surfaced from an abandoned safety deposit box at an Ohio auction house, and if authenticated, will be returned to the descendants of a Jewish family. Additionally, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris has fired its director Simon Baker after an internal investigation for psychological harassment.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 27, 2025 visibility 4 link 4 artists

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The Museo del Prado in Madrid has opened its first-ever exhibition dedicated to a female artist, "The Art of Clara Peeters," 197 years after the museum's founding. The show features 15 major works by the Flemish still-life painter, active in early 17th-century Antwerp, and is curated by Alejandro Vergara, the museum's Chief Curator of Flemish and Northern School Painting. The exhibition runs from October 25, 2026, to February 19, 2017, and is co-organized with the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp.

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Photographer Dan Bannino has created a series titled "Still Diet," in which he photographs bizarre celebrity fad diets in the style of Old Master still life paintings. The series features diets associated with figures such as Gwyneth Paltrow, Charles Saatchi, Beyoncé Knowles, Henry VIII, and others, using carefully arranged food items and props to mimic classical compositions.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 6, 2026 visibility 6 link 5 artists

Quelques œuvres choisies au gré des 6 salles d’exposition

The article presents a thematic tour through six exhibition rooms dedicated to still life painting, focusing on works by Giorgio Morandi and Pablo Picasso. Each room explores a different conceptual angle: the grammar of objects in Morandi's metaphysical still lifes, the poetic dimension of Picasso's cubist compositions, contemporary vanitas motifs, the anti-Albertian nature of the genre, the interplay of presence and erasure, and the dislocation of form in Morandi's etchings. The exhibition draws on art historical references from Norman Bryson and Cesare Brandi to frame the evolution of still life from tradition to radical abstraction.

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Getty Museum Acquires Two Significant Dutch Still Lifes

The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has acquired two significant 17th-century Dutch still life paintings. The first is Jan Davidsz. de Heem's 'Glass Vase with Flowers and Fruit' (c. 1673–74), a work the museum had sought for over twenty years, which recently emerged from a private German collection. The second is Pieter Claesz's 'Still Life with Assorted Fruit' (1597/98–1660), a 'fruitagje' painting purchased at a Sotheby's auction for $1.64 million.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 21, 2025 visibility 2 link 3 artists

Oregon artist Sherrie Wolf opens exhibit Aug. 21 in Pendleton

Oregon artist Sherrie Wolf opens a new exhibition of large-scale still life paintings at the Pendleton Center for the Arts on August 21, 2025. The show features works from the collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his family foundation, marking the center's eighth collaboration with the foundation and its first showcasing an Oregon artist. Wolf will attend the opening reception, and a coffee table book of her retrospective will be available for purchase.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 2, 2026 visibility 8 link 1 artist, 1 gallery

'I want the colour to talk' Artist Sarah Spackman celebrates 20 years at Sarah Wiseman Gallery in Summertown with new exhibition Continuum

Artist Sarah Spackman is preparing for a new exhibition titled "Continuum" at the Sarah Wiseman Gallery in Summertown, celebrating 20 years of collaboration with the gallery. The show features 30 new still lifes, reflecting Spackman's evolving style toward greater simplicity and focus on single objects, color, and quiet intensity. Spackman, an Oxford-based artist and elected member of the Royal Society of British Artists and Royal Institute of Oil Painters, describes her process as organic, often sketching first thing in the morning and working primarily with color to let it "talk" on the canvas.

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Mount Wachusett Community College hosts 40th art exhibition

Mount Wachusett Community College (MWCC) held its 40th Annual Regional Exhibition of High School Art in the East Wing Gallery, featuring works from students at eight area high schools. The exhibition displayed ceramics, paintings, drawings, and mixed media, with 10 students receiving cash awards for outstanding artistic achievement. The college also highlighted its expanding art program, driven by free community college initiatives, and its community outreach through the Summer Art Program for Youth and free public exhibitions.

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