Author: Adeline Brooks

Banco Santander announced Wednesday that it will manage roughly half of the Gelman Collection one of the most significant collections of 20th-century Mexican art after the collection disappeared from public view in 2008, El País reports. More precisely, the Madrid based bank now oversees 160 of approximately 300 works amassed by influential art patrons Jacques and Natasha Gelman. After their deaths, the collection passed to their executor, Robert R. Littman, who reportedly divided it and circulated the works to museums worldwide, despite the will’s stipulation that it be shown intact in a private museum in Mexico. The collection has not been seen in Mexico…

Three key works by Robert Rauschenberg will go on show at Tate Modern in London as part of a new display devoted to the influential late US sculptor (20 September-December 2027). The sculptures were donated by the Robert Rauschenberg foundation to the Artist Rooms collection, which is jointly shared by Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS). The three pieces donated to Artist Rooms are part of a series called Gluts: G-I Glut (1986), Rasputin’s Revenge Early Winter Glut (1987) and Mobile Cluster Glut (Neapolitan) (1987). The works reflect the rise of consumer culture, with Rauschenberg commenting that “it’s a time of glut. Greed is rampant.…

Stephen Williams is a contemporary New Zealand sculptor whose practice explores the relationship between form, balance, tension, and material. His sculptures are shaped by an interest in the aesthetic beauty of forms found in nature, particularly biology and the human body, which he places in dialogue with shapes and structures inspired by manufactured objects. Through this interaction between organic and industrial influences, Williams creates sculptures that challenge expectations while maintaining a strong sense of visual harmony. His work often explores the tension between contrasting shapes, using unexpected relationships and carefully considered compositions to disrupt symmetry and predictability. Working with materials…

“From the attic’s depths, a hidden gem emerged: Turner’s forgotten sketch, a testament to his early brilliance, captivates the art world.” (Herefordshire, England) In a remarkable turn of events, a long lost sketch by the renowned British Romantic artist, Joseph Mallord William Turner, has been discovered in the attic of Kinsham Court, a privately owned estate nestled in the picturesque countryside of England. This extraordinary watercolor, believed to have been completed in 1796 when Turner was just 21 years old, is set to make its way to auction, carrying an estimated value of £30,000 £50,000 (38,000 38,000 63,000). The newly…

While New York’s top auction houses prepare to sell multimillion-dollar consignments from private patrons this May, one of the city’s mega-galleries is getting ready to exhibit a collection that has gone largely unseen—until now. On May 7, at one of its Chelsea galleries, David Zwirner will open a show of works from the collection of Joel and Carole Bernstein, a married couple that owned works that have appeared in major museum shows in recent years, despite the fact that the collectors themselves have largely flown under the radar. The show is called “The Great Unseen Collection,” its title borrowed from the name the…

The exhibition, which opens on January 20 over two floors of the gallery at 980 Madison Avenue, features art from Twombly’s final decade of life. Making Past Present: Cy Twombly, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, runs from January 14 through May 7, 2023, and is co-curated by Gagosian. Making Past Present juxtaposes Twombly’s work with ancient Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and Near Eastern items from the museum, as well as objects from the artist’s own collection, to illustrate Twombly’s involvement with the art, culture, and history of the ancient Mediterranean. Twombly returned to large-scale painting in the 2000s, working…

A mysterious portrait found in a Maine attic, attributed to Rembrandt’s era, sold for $1.4 million at Thomaston Place Auction, far exceeding its $10K $15K estimate. A mysterious portrait, possibly linked to the Dutch master Rembrandt, was discovered in an attic in Camden, Maine. Despite uncertainty about its authenticity, the unsigned painting stirred excitement among art collectors, eventually selling for a stunning $1.4 million at Thomaston Place Auction Galleries. The sale exceeded initial estimates of $10,000 $15,000 by a staggering margin. The painting, which portrays a teenage girl dressed in a black robe with a white collar and cap, was…

After decades on the margins of art history, Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani a collagist of singular, inimitable vision is finally having his story told, though not in any linear fashion.  The late artist is currently the subject of a solo exhibition on view through June at the Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence, Kansas among the first serious institutional examinations of his practice. Co-curators Maki Kaneko and Kris Imants Ercums have organized the exhibition thematically rather than chronologically, echoing Mirikitani’s collage like life: an accumulation of pivotal events in which the past continually presses upon the present, from the atomic bombing of his hometown, Hiroshima, to…

The National Museum of Asian Art planned to open “Korean Treasures: Collected, Cherished, Shared” on November 8 right as the longest federal government shutdown in US history brought the Smithsonian to a standstill. Visitor services halted, publicity froze, and the museum lurched into crisis management. Yet behind locked doors, curators and art handlers who were still allowed to work—continued quietly installing celadons, Buddhist paintings, palace screens, and modernist canvases. That the opening was delayed by only a few days feels emblematic: “Korean Treasures” is ultimately about what persists through war, colonization, ideological division, and now even the precarities of contemporary US federal…

Michelangelo’s earliest known drawing, Study of Jupiter, resurfaces after 35 years and will be offered for sale at the Florence Biennale, reigniting interest in his early works. Art enthusiasts and collectors have a rare opportunity to acquire what is now believed to be the earliest known drawing by Renaissance master Michelangelo. The artwork, titled Study of Jupiter, is making its way to the market for the first time in 35 years. This significant piece of art history will be offered at Italy’s 33rd Biennale Internazionale dell’Antiquariato di Firenze (International Biennale of Antiques) by the Dickinson gallery, based in London. The sketch, which depicts the…