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The First Art Newspaper on the Net Established in 1996 Saturday, June 21, 2025 Freeman's │ Hindman Auction Sees Soaring Bids for Iconic Jewels by Van Cleef & Arpels, Cartier, and Tiffany & Co. VAN CLEEF & ARPELS, CORAL, DIAMOND, AND EMERALD JEWELRY SUITE. Sold for $343,400. NEW YORK, NY.- Freeman’s | Hindman’s Important Jewelry auction, held at the firm’s New York saleroom, delivered outstanding results, realizing $3.4 million with a strong 89% sell-through rate by lot and 129% by value. The auction drew spirited bidding from collectors and connoisseurs alike, confirming the enduring demand for exceptional signed jewelry and rare colored gemstones. Leading the sale was a striking suite of coral, diamond, and emerald jewelry (lot 122) by Van Cleef & Arpels, which soared to $343,400, far surpassing its $120,000 - 180,000 estimate. The suite exemplified the artistry and prestige associated with the renowned Maison and set the tone for a day of remarkable outcomes. Speaking to her impressions of the sale is April ... More The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of the 'Yolŋu power: the art of Yirrkala' exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 21 June - 6 October 2025, all artworks © the artists, Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Centre, Yirrkala, photo © Art Gallery of New South Wales, Diana Panuccio. Antique Italian sculpture of car sells for more than 9 times high estimate at Morphy's The Honolulu Museum of Art showcases fames Impressionist Mary Cassatt in summer exhibition Casa Romantica opens summer exhibitions with crocheted commentary and celebrated realism Circa-1933 Air King Model 52 Plaskon radio in rare red color and classic Art Deco styling sold for $20,910 against an estimate of $4,000-$10,000. DENVER, PA.- The most exciting aspect of attending an auction is the suspense. Will any new trends emerge, will there be any surprising prices, and what will end up being the top lot of the day? At Morphy’s June 11-12 Fine & Decorative Arts Auction, which totaled $2.7 million, a total “dark horse” emerged from the more than 1,400 lots to cover all of those bases, not only crowning the overall prices realized but also leaving some to wonder how they could have missed its potential. Catching many off guard, the big winner of the day was a circa-1906 terracotta sculpture created by Italian sculptor Salesio Lugli (1869-1936). Measuring more than two feet long, the artwork depicted a 1905 automobile with figures (cast in the mold) of a chauffeur turning around to watch an elegantly-dressed woman passenger gather the folds of her evening gown and carefully step down onto the running board. ... More The Child’s Caress, c. 1891. Oil on canvas. Honolulu Museum of Art: Gift in memory of Wilhelmina Tenney by a group of her friends, 1953 (1845.1) HONOLULU.- The Honolulu Museum of Art (HoMA) showcases the only American included among French Impressionists in “Mary Cassatt at Work,” on view June 21-Oct. 12. The exhibition invites visitors on a captivating journey through Cassatt’s six-decade career with 30 paintings, pastels and prints along with the famed artist’s personal correspondence that offer insight into her experiences making a living through art. A visually radical artist, she helped shape the Impressionist movement and transformed the course of modern art, using materials and processes that pushed the creative boundaries of her era. “Mary Cassatt at Work” explores the artist’s activity across media, revealing the daring methods she used to give form to her ideas. Among the objects on view in the exhibition are eight works from HoMA’s collection. Featuring prints, pastels and oils, HoMA’s collection underscores her ... More “Vintage Matchbooks” by artist Elaine Twiss who will be artist-in-residence at The Studio at Casa Romantica this summer. SAN CLEMENTE, CA.- Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens unveils two captivating art exhibitions this June that challenge convention and invite reflection: Keeping Up Appearances, a large-scale crochet installation by Ashley V. Blalock in the historic Art Gallery, and a residency featuring celebrated hyperrealist painter Elaine Twiss in The Studio. Opening June 27 and on view through September 7, Keeping Up Appearances will transform Casa Romantica’s Art Gallery into an immersive and unexpected space. In this series, Blalock reclaims the traditional domestic doily- typically white, small, and unobtrusive - and magnifies it into giant, vibrant red crocheted forms that climb walls and sprawl across the gallery. Each installation is uniquely site-specific, constructed on-site with hand-selected patterns and shapes that speak to the surrounding Spanish architecture ... More Unsung Sicilian Futurists Take Center Stage in New Exhibition British Library acquires archive of playwright Mustapha Matura Adrián Villar Rojas to create a new sculpture co-commissioned by Aspen Art Museum and Audemars Piguet Contemporary Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Futurist Cookbook, 1932, paperback, 182 x 119 mm, Private Collection, Milan. CENTURIPE.- A significant art exhibition opening tomorrow, Saturday, June 21, 2025, at the Antiquarium Exhibition Center in Centuripe (located between Enna and Catania) aims to illuminate a fascinating yet often overlooked chapter of Italy's famed Futurist movement. Titled "Futurism and Sicilian Futurists," and curated by Simona Bartolena, the show will explore the unique evolution and impact of Futurism in Sicily. While figures like Umberto Boccioni took their initial artistic steps on the island, and Palermo artists like Pippo Rizzo achieved international fame in the late 1920s, the enduring strength of Sicilian Futurism has often been underestimated. Many artists, despite opportunities elsewhere, chose to stay in Sicily, deeply rooting their modern sensibilities in the island's rich culture. "With the exhibition on Futurism, Centuripe confirms itself as a center of lively cultural interest, capable of shining a spotlight on one of the Island's most fertile artistic periods," stated ... More Mustapha Matura © Estate of Mustapha Matura. LONDON.- The British Library has acquired the archive of pioneering Black playwright, Mustapha Matura (1939-2019), comprising 18 boxes of papers and born digital content on two hard drives and 176 floppy disks. The archive predominantly consists of literary drafts for all Matura’s plays, unpublished and unrealised scripts for stage and television projects and autographical material. Born as Noel Mathura in Port of Spain, Trinidad, in 1939, he went on to change his name to Mustapha Matura when he became a writer. Matura moved to Britain in 1962 and became one of the first British-based dramatists of colour to have a play staged in the West End when Play Mas moved from The Royal Court Theatre to the Phoenix Theatre on Charing Cross Road in 1974. Matura paved the way for a new generation of Black British writers, co-founding the Black Theatre Co-operative in 1978, which led to the creation of groundbreaking sitcom, No Problem!, which ran for two series on Channel 4. He contributed to, wrote f ... More Villar Rojas’s practice unfolds through collaborative fabulation, constructing speculative worlds across sculpture, drawing, video, literature, and performative systems of making. NEW YORK, NY.- This November, Adrián Villar Rojas will unveil (Untitled) The Language of the Enemy, a new sculpture that conjures a fictionalised prehistory—an imagined moment when Neanderthals and Homo sapiens first collaborated in the invention of meaning. Co-commissioned by Aspen Art Museum and Audemars Piguet Contemporary, the work envisions a scene from deep time, in which an encounter with fossilised dinosaur remains might have sparked the earliest act of art-making. The commission will be first presented in the Jura Mountains, within the renowned Vallée de Joux—the birthplace of Swiss horology—before traveling to Aspen Art Museum in summer 2026 as part of a multi-floor exhibition of Villar Rojas’ site-specific new works. This marks the first time Audemars Piguet Contemporary has premiered a commission in the Vallée de Joux, ... More Piguet Auction House June sales reach a total of CHF 7.4 million Eight decades of Yolŋu art, culture and power radiate at the Art Gallery of New South Wales The archive of Wayne Shorter has been acquired by The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts The gold skull signed by John the Anatomist, an unconventional figure at the crossroads of science and art, was sold for nearly CHF 70,000 (lot 4106). GENEVA.- The major June sales concluded with great success on Thursday evening with a total result of CHF 7.4 million with buyer’s premium. More than 80% of the 3,200 lots in this summer session found buyers during the auctions, which were held predominantly online from June 16 to 19. The 68 lots in Thursday evening’s live auction made a significant impact, attracting bidders from around the world who participated in person, by phone, or online. “Presenting high-quality works of art by Cimaroli, Bocion, Picasso, Fabergé, and Klein all in one evening was a privilege. These results reflect not only the quality of the pieces but also the trust of an international audience loyal to our auction house.” said Bernard Piguet, director and auctioneer. Among the evening’s highlights were seven ceramics by Pablo Picasso, unveiled to the public for the very first time and making their debut on the art market. ... More Duṉḏiwuy Waṉambi, Wolpa Waṉambi and Motu Yunupiŋu 'Wawilak Sisters' 1995–96, natural pigments, feathers, hair, resin and natural fibre on wood, installation dimensions variable, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, purchased 1996 © the artists and estates, Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Centre, Yirrkala. SYDNEY.- The Art Gallery of New South Wales invites audiences to discover the strength, beauty and innovation of Yolŋu culture in Yolŋu power: the art of Yirrkala – a landmark exhibition celebrating one of Australia’s most internationally acclaimed arts communities, Yirrkala, in north-east Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. The major exhibition brings together almost 300 works created by 98 extraordinary Aboriginal artists over eight decades. Spanning multiple generations and art forms – including bark paintings, drawings, prints, and sculpture in both wood and metal, alongside video works and immersive digital installations – it traces the history of art from Yirrkala. Yolŋu power: the art of Yirrkala is presented in partnership with the Aboriginal-owned art centre Buku- ... More Wayne Shorter. Photo: Robert Ascroft © Blue Note Records. NEW YORK, NY.- The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts has acquired the archive of legendary musician Wayne Shorter. The archive encompasses documents from as far back as the 1950s, and comprises 128 linear feet of papers, as well as unpublished artwork, never before heard recordings, correspondence, and other memorabilia. The Shorter acquisition comes during an important yearlong celebration of the Library for the Performing Arts’ 60th anniversary. Shorter, who passed away in 2023 at 89 years old, has touched virtually every aspect of jazz, influencing generations of artists in various fields to push the boundaries of music. Shorter’s sound is heard on his famous solo work, in compositions like “Black Nile,” “Yes or No,” “Infant Eyes,” “Footprints,” and “Speak No Evil” as well as through collaborations with Art Blakey, Miles Davis, Weather Report, Milton Nascimento, Don Henley, Joni Mitchell, Carlos Santana, and his long-time be ... More Future Makers: Chairs by New Designers opens at the Museum of Vancouver Details unveiled for Academy Museum's upcoming Jaws exhibition Treasures from Hollywood legend Cecil B. DeMille's lifetime collection hit the block at Heritage Canopy Chair. Designed by Aidan Fornier-Hanlon & Ryan Hope and Zhiyang Wang as Co-Designers, will be part of Future Makers. Photo courtesy of the Museum of Vancouver. VANCOUVER.- Created in partnership with Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s Wilson School of Design (KPU) and the Museum of Vancouver (MOV), Future Makers: Chairs by New Designers brings together sustainability, design innovation and a critical reflection on the history of everyday material. MOV issued a challenge: transform decades-old marine-grade mahogany into chairs fit for a new era. The material had a story: once used by Vancouver’s marine industry, it sat fallow for decades before it was donated to the MOV. The objective was simple turn forgotten material into something useful again. KPU didn’t just accept the challenge. The school built an entire curriculum around it. The KPU student design teams created 15 original chair prototypes using this vintage wood—wood that is rooted in a deeper and more difficult history: the extractive trade of tropical hardwoods that contributed ... More Roy Scheider as Martin Brody and Lorraine Gary as Ellen Brody in a scene from Jaws (1975). Image courtesy: Universal Studios Licensing LLC. LOS ANGELES, CA.- Celebrating the 50th anniversary year of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws (1975), the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will present Jaws: The Exhibition, the museum’s first large-scale exhibition dedicated to a single film, and the largest exhibition ever mounted showcasing Universal Pictures’ landmark summer blockbuster, which earned three Academy Awards® and was nominated for Best Picture. On view from September 14, 2025, through July 26, 2026, in the Marilyn and Jeffrey Katzenberg Gallery, Jaws: The Exhibition will translate the movie into a multi-gallery experience for audiences of all ages. It features scene breakdowns, interactive experiences, behind-the-scenes stories, and some 200 original objects, many never before put on public display, including from the personal collections of Steven Spielberg and the Amblin Hearth Archive, the NBCUniversal Archives & Collections, and the ... More The Squaw Man (Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Co., 1914), Cecil B. DeMille's Historic Pathé Camera. DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions will present Treasures From the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Collection, an unprecedented offering from one of the most influential figures in entertainment history. The auction takes place on July 15 and features more than 270 lots — each one a cornerstone of DeMille's monumental legacy in Hollywood. From directing the first feature film ever shot in Los Angeles to creating some of the most iconic films in cinematic history, DeMille was a pioneer and architect of the entertainment industry. The auction features the building blocks of DeMille's legacy, including props from his best-known features, storyboards, concept art, scripts, costumes, career awards and prized personal items. This landmark auction spans DeMille's unparalleled career, from The Squaw Man, the first feature film made in Hollywood, to The Ten Commandments, one of the most iconic epics in cinematic history. Each lot tells a story not only of DeMille's visionary filmmaking, but of Hollywood's very f ... More Why we feel what we feel about colour More News "The Arrested Image: Identity through the Lens of Law Enforcement" opens at The Dorsky Museum NEW PALTZ, NY.- The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz presents “The Arrested Image: Identity through the Lens of Law Enforcement,” an exhibition that takes a close look at the portraits produced by police vision. On view June 21 through Nov. 2, 2025, it displays material from several archives alongside a dynamic selection of art by 16 acclaimed contemporary artists. From 19th century daguerreotype mugshots to today’s biometric databases, law enforcement techniques evolved in tandem with technologies used to represent identity. Despite the presumed objectivity of photography and its technological successors, asymmetries between representation and reality proliferated along the way. Through archival material and contemporary art, “The Arrested Image” demonstrates the extent to which policing produces images that shape conceptions of identity ... More Fairfield University Art Museum announces exhibitions to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the U.S. FAIRFIELD, CONN.- Fairfield University Art Museum announced three exhibitions planned for the 2025-26 academic year, as part of a series of cultural and artistic events commemorating the 250th anniversary—semiquincentennial—of the United States. The exhibitions will explore key moments in U.S. history, culture, and art, emphasizing the theme of "E pluribus unum," combining various programs into one united celebration of the nation’s milestone anniversary. “As our nation approaches the 250th anniversary of its founding, we at Fairfield University are proud to host exhibitions that commemorate the American story and invite us to reflect more deeply on our complexity and exceptionalism,” said Mark R. Nemec, PhD, President of Fairfield University. “Through the lens of artists representing an array of experiences and perspectives, these exhibitions invite us to consider not only where ... More Metamorfoza showcases Polish artists at Belfast Photo Festival 2025 BELFAST.- The Belfast Photo Festival 2025 showcases works by Polish artists Diana Lelonek, Anna Zagrodzka, Karol Szymkowiak, and Dyba & Adam Lach. A series of exhibitions, events, and screenings that explore the evolving landscape of Polish ecology and society are presented under the title “Metamorfoza.” The collection, staged in key locations across Belfast city centre, is made possible through the support of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in partnership with Fotofestiwal ŁÃ³dź. These events are part of the UK/Poland Season 2025. The Belfast Photo Festival is the largest international festival of photography and visual culture in Great Britain and Ireland. This year’s 11th edition, held under the theme “Biosphere,” will present the work of a diverse group of artists across ten exhibitions and more than twelve events in Belfast and throughout Northern Ireland. Several of the exhibitions ... More PHI Studio and Realscape Productions bring two new immersive audio experiences to the Old Port of Montreal MONTRÉAL.- This summer, the Old Port of Montreal comes alive with the arrival of DARKFIELD, the acclaimed UK-based studio known for its immersive audio experiences in complete darkness. Presented inside specially designed shipping containers, these two experiences will transport audiences into sensory worlds that are both unseflling and captivating. SÉANCE and FLIGHT use binaural sound and theatrical staging to place audiences at the center of the narrative. Each 20-minute experience unfolds in total darkness, blurring the line between reality and fiction and inviting participants to question what is real — and what isn’t. Created by Glen Neath and David Rosenberg, these works have already captivated over 600,000 people worldwide. This is not ... More Ken Aïcha Sy explores memory and identity in Survival Kit at ifa-Galerie Berlin BERLIN.- What do we do with memory when it is no longer ours to touch, when it has been archived elsewhere—fragmented, displaced, and inaccessible? Survival Kit: Between Us and History: The Hidden Archive is a curatorial project born from this question. It investigates the history of contemporary Senegalese painting from the 1960s to the 1990s through the lens of personal and family archives while engaging with broader issues of heritage, restitution, and the politics of memory. This journey began in Dakar in 2019, following the death of my mother, Anne Jean Bart—a journalist and cultural activist. As I explored her personal archives, including articles published in Le Soleil, I uncovered a dense narrative of the Senegalese art scene told from within. Her perspective offered not only a window into this world, but also into the artistic and political context that shaped it. Parallel to this, my ... More Between conflict and contemplation: Ariane Mueller at the Secession VIENNA.- ‘The exhibition grows out of an irritation that seems to shadow my life or that time and again interrupts my thinking, with something that is actually quite alien to me, and that thing is war.’ (Ariane Mueller) Ariane Mueller’s preoccupation with war, which is at the heart of the exhibition Fish are folded into the sea just as the sea is folded into fish, has a long and complex history. Decades ago, in the early 1990s, she came into contact with the conflict in Yugoslavia through her work on the art magazine Artfan (1991–1996), which she edited together with the artist Linda Bilda. Slovenian writers wanted to place articles in Artfan in which they called for arms supplies to their country in support of its war with Serbia. Unsure how to handle the situation, the artists travelled to Zagreb shortly after the war began. As a delegate to the United Nations for many years, Mueller was later also faced ... More Bienvenu Steinberg & C presents a group exhibition of contemporary abstraction NEW YORK, NY.- Bienvenu Steinberg & C presents Woven Abstractions, an exhibition featuring Anne Lindberg, Marela Zacarías, and Ria Bosman. On view from June 20 to July 19, 2025. Woven Abstractions brings together three artists who reimagine abstraction through material, color, and form. With distinct media, Lindberg, Zacarías, and Bosman each create immersive works that blur the boundaries between painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation. Their shared sensitivity to space, surface and light invites a reflection on rhythm, structure, and the quiet power of the handmade. Anne Lindberg (b. 1962, USA) is a New York-based artist whose drawings and thread installations explore the sensory and emotional resonance of space, light, and movement. Known for her “drawings in space,” Lindberg uses thousands of chromatic cotton threads stretched in varying densities to form ... More Uncertain Domesticities on view at The Brno House of Arts BRNO.- The international exhibition Uncertain Domesticities originated from a collaboration between the House of Arts Brno, the Berlin-based gallery Haus Kunst Mitte and the Asyl der Kunst Foundation. Two of these institutions have the word “house” in their names, and the diversity of images and meanings of “house” and “housing” in contemporary art has become one of the cornerstones of their joint project. It was initiated by the Italian curator and multimedia artist Alba D’Urbano and the German painter and curator Ina Bierstedt. The exhibition was first presented in January this year in Berl’n, is now on view in Brno and will be held in 2026 at the Museo Bilotti in Rome. The exhibition presents works of 27 artists and offers a variety of artistic media—sculptures, installations, objects, paintings, videos, photographs. In Berlin, the exhibition concept responded to the character of Haus ... More Collective presents the first solo exhibition in Scotland of visual and performance artist Mercedes Azpilicueta EDINBURGH.- Collective is presenting a solo exhibition of work by leading visual and performance artist Mercedes Azpilicueta. From Buenos Aires and now based in Amsterdam, this is be her first solo exhibition in Scotland. The exhibition titled Fire on the Mountain, Light on the Hill runs from Friday 20 June – Sunday 7 September 2025, and is being presented as part of EAF’s (Edinburgh Art Festival) programme across August. Taking place in Collective’s City Dome Gallery, the exhibition is centred around the work ‘Potatoes, Riots and Other Imaginaries’, 2021. This comprises an installation featuring a monumental human-scale tapestry, sculptural elements associated with women’s work, and a sound piece that introduces whispered gossip ... More PhotoGalleries Monica Bonvicini Carlos Cruz-Diez Consuelo Kanaga Brooklyn Museum at 200 Flashback On a day like today, Italian sculptor and educator Medardo Rosso was born June 21, 1858. Medardo Rosso (21 June 1858 - 31 March 1928) was an Italian sculptor. He is considered, like his contemporary and admirer Auguste Rodin, to have been an artist working in a post-Impressionist style. As a sculptor, one of Rosso's principal concerns was to subject the physical mass of sculpture to the transient and ephemeral effects of light. In this image: Medardo Rosso, Ecce Puer, post 1920 ca. (1906). Wax over plaster, 47 x 34 x 29 cm. Photo: Galleria Russo, Rome. 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