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Maurice Leloir’s Four Historical Scenes Sell for €128,600 at BonhamsJacob Jordaens’s Portrait of His Wife Sells for €154,200 at BonhamsRenaissance Portrait Attributed to Conrad Faber Sells for €295,000 at BonhamsJodi the Nanotyrannus Sells for US$47.3 Million at Sotheby’sQianlong Emperor’s Jewel-Encrusted Gold Ewer Sells for US$7.11 Million at Christie’sHockney’s €282,200 Print Leads Warhol and Banksy in €1.06 Million Bonhams SaleMV Agusta Sells for $1.3 Million, Setting an Italian Motorcycle Auction RecordEnigma Machine Sells for £203,600 at Bonhams: Inside the 1941 Cipher DeviceUzo Egonu’s Will Knowledge Safeguard Freedom I Sets Auction Record at £198,900Yusuf Grillo’s One Man Band Sets Artist Auction Record at £461,300Ben Enwonwu’s Anyanwu Sells for £602,100, Setting a Sculpture Record at BonhamsRare Gandhi Portrait Achieves £152,800, Tripling Its EstimateBanksy’s British Cool Mickey Snake Triumphs at Bonhams, Selling for £330,600Whistler’s First Portrait Commission Sells for Five Times Estimate, Fetching $495,000Bridget Riley Stuns Art World as Myrrh Soars to $2.36M at Bonhams

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Ma Weidu: Scholar of the Past, Craftsman of the Present – An Interview on Collecting, Cultural Practice and Responsibilities of Our Time

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Ma Weidu in a white stand-collar jacket against a blue backdrop.

At a moment when cultural institutions worldwide struggle to define their purpose, Ma Weidu stands as a rare figure—part scholar, part craftsman—quietly reshaping what it means to care for the past. From founding China’s first private museum to rescuing stray cats who became unlikely cultural icons, his journey reveals how one person’s integrity can transform an entire heritage landscape. His story is not only about collecting antiquities, but about restoring warmth, responsibility, and meaning to a rapidly changing world—an invitation to step inside a life where culture becomes a way of being.

Restoration Without Reflection: Author Neil Thomas Proto on Vermeer, Helen Frick, and the Lost Art of Moral Imagination

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Cropped cover of Neil Thomas Proto’s Johannes Vermeer, Provocateur: Risk and Courage in Dissent.

The newly reopened and renovated Frick Collection—once the New York home of the Henry Clay Frick family—was celebrated, in part, through the thematic exhibition (June 18–September 8) of three paintings by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer. Titled “Vermeer’s Love Letters,” the exhibition melds aesthetically into the building’s subtly retained grandeur. But not into Henry Clay Frick’s history and that of the people who once lived in the home, especially his daughter Helen, who battled with John D. Rockefeller Jr. publicly, privately, and in courts of law to preserve her father’s original purpose for the Collection. And the exhibition does not meld aesthetically into Johannes Vermeer’s purpose. Neither the theme of the exhibit nor the titles of the three paintings were provided by Vermeer, reflect his imperatives, or describe the paintings’ content.

Shwetlana Mehta Steps Into Uncertainty With Poetic Precision at Flowing Space Gallery

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Visitors viewing a framed purple-and-white linoleum print with a figure and flowers at Flowing Space Gallery.

On a warm July evening, in a quiet stretch of Clinton Street on the Lower East Side, Shwetlana Mehta’s work was presented to a New York audience. It was not marked by noise or spectacle, but rather by silence, shadows, and small details that invited close attention. In “Moving Through Uncertainty,” a group exhibition curated by Luman Jiang at Flowing Space Gallery, Mehta presented six linoleum prints that didn’t attempt to explain the world; they simply sat with its ambiguities. Her contribution stood alongside works by Wujian Wang and Dipa Halder, each artist navigating in their own visual language.

Own a Piece of American Art History: Mateo Blanco’s Museum-Exhibited Textile Flag Debuts at Palm Beach Modern Auctions

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Mateo Blanco’s Vigilance, Perseverance, and Justice (2023), a red, white and blue textile U.S. flag in a white frame.

For the first time ever, collectors will have the extraordinary opportunity to acquire a museum-exhibited work by internationally acclaimed artist Mateo Blanco. His celebrated textile flag, Vigilance, Perseverance, and Justice (2023), will be offered at Palm Beach Auctions on November 15, 2025—marking a historic debut on the secondary market.

The Glowing Cathedral: Where Bacteria, Invisible Ink and Light Become Scripture

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Blue-white light trails arc across a plaza before a monument illuminated in green at night, from Heliografías de la memoria.

Step inside a centuries-old church where the walls glow, breathe, and transform before your eyes. In Inscriptions, Mexican artist Said Dokins turns sacred architecture into a living laboratory, blending invisible ink, bioluminescent pigments, and colonies of bacteria to question how memory, power, and presence are written into the urban landscape. Each piece—whether a luminous photograph traced in darkness or a petri dish of living microorganisms—invites viewers to witness writing as a biological and political act. In this fusion of art, science, and resistance, the city’s erased histories pulse back to life beneath the light.

Bruton + CO announces new ZERO and Beyond exhibition

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Detail of Paolo Scheggi’s Intersuperficie Curva Bianca, showing circular openings and diagonally layered white surfaces.

Bruton + Co is proud to present its upcoming exhibition, ZERO and Beyond, at its Mayfair showroom. The exhibition will bring together works by some of the most influential and innovative international artists of the 20th and 21st Centuries, united by their radical exploration of the lightest colour, white, through masterful use of shade, texture, emotion and surface. The show opens on the 9th October 2025 and will be on view until the end of the year. 

Global Art Exhibition “Stillness”: Echoes of Humanity in a Restless World

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Portrait with sweeping dark hair, swirling markings across the face and a dense black-and-white patterned background.

Trauma leaves many traces, but not always in the form of visible pain. More often it lingers as silence: a frozen state of emotional detachment, an absence that resists articulation. The September group exhibition Stillness, presented by 34 Gallery in partnership with SimukaAfrica.org (SAYA), invites artists across continents to interpret this complex aftermath. The exhibition gathers a diverse roster of participating artists whose works span visual art, photography, digital media, and poetry. Together, they render the contours of stillness in its many forms.

FOLLOW.ART introduces the Nexus Card: A new digital portfolio tool, in a UK debut collaboration with the Visual Artists Association (VAA)

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FOLLOW.ART graphic showing a phone with a Nexus Card profile beside the words The Global Nexus of Curators & Artists.

FOLLOW.ART, a new space created exclusively for artists and curators, today unveils the Nexus Card, a digital portfolio and networking tool designed to transform how creatives present their work and build sustainable careers. The Nexus Card, powered by FOLLOW.ART,  is designed to solve some of the most pressing challenges faced by today’s artists and curators. Unlike traditional social platforms, it ensures professional visibility without algorithms, with every profile equally discoverable and not tied to follower counts or engagement metrics. It functions as both a mobile-ready portfolio and a networking tool, easily shared online or in person, offering a streamlined alternative to maintaining separate websites and business cards.

Vian Borchert’s Fall Season Unfolds Across New York, Washington, and Beyond

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Woman beside a gallery wall displaying framed works and blue abstract paintings.

From Manhattan’s Lower East Side to Madrid, Seoul, and soon Monaco and Osaka, abstract expressionist Vian Borchert is shaping one of her most ambitious seasons yet. Her newest paintings—fragmented yet resilient—grapple with unrest, decay, and resilience, offering viewers portals into a shifting world. In New York, bridges break and windows open onto fragile horizons; in Washington, electricity crackles across canvases as both promise and peril. Together, these works capture a global mood of uncertainty while insisting on the persistence of art.

Echoes of Presence: Through Youwei Luo’s Poetic Vision

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White light trails curve and cross against a black background.

In Youwei Luo’s world, photographs don’t simply capture moments—they dissolve them, stretch them, and return them as dreamlike echoes of memory and light. His work hovers at the threshold between presence and absence, weaving technology, texture, and poetry into experiences that feel at once intimate and infinite. Each piece resists easy definition, asking us not just to look, but to linger.