Latest News about Past and Present Artists from Around the World
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.
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, 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.
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.
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.
Discover the extraordinary story behind a rare oil portrait of Mahatma Gandhi that recently shattered auction records. Created by Clare Leighton—an artist who personally met Gandhi during a pivotal moment in history—this painting is more than just a work of art; it’s a unique glimpse into a legendary leader’s life. From its remarkable journey through history to its astonishing sale price, uncover the fascinating details that make this portrait a true treasure for collectors and history enthusiasts alike. Dive into the full story to learn why this artwork captivated the world and what it reveals about Gandhi’s enduring legacy.
For years, Edric Beck has cultivated a practice that defies convention and invites contemplation. He is a sculptor of silence, a craftsman of frequency—a jeweler turned mosaicist whose art is less about ornament and more about offering. His pieces are not produced; they are revealed—slowly, deliberately—through a process as meditative as it is exacting. To encounter Edric’s work is to enter a different rhythm, one where beauty is born of stillness and form arises from deep listening. He is not here to make a statement. He is here to create presence. And in that presence, something profound begins to unfold.
From a modest collection of ten paintings and a handful of transparency scans, Darla Farner built a decades-long journey that transformed her artwork into sought-after fine art prints featured in national magazines and showcased in New York’s design scene. Behind each milestone was a balancing act of part-time jobs, reinvested earnings, and an unwavering vision to share her vibrant abstracts with a wider audience. Now, with over 50 works ready for collectors and designers alike, her story reveals not only how art endures—but how passion makes it thrive.
Born into the shadows of political unrest in communist Poland, artist Kasia Muzyka’s earliest years were shaped by silence, resistance, and the emotional hush of survival. Yet from that silence emerged a powerful inner world—one that would later blossom into a deeply intuitive artistic practice. In this intimate interview, Muzyka reflects on her journey from early creative expression to profound inner collapse and, ultimately, to a sacred reawakening through painting. Her work defies categorization, blending mysticism, quantum philosophy, and ancient wisdom into “living transmissions” — pieces that breathe, speak, and transform. As she prepares for her upcoming solo exhibition The Sacred Condition of Being, Muzyka opens a window into the forces that shaped her, the materials that move her, and the mystery she invites us all to feel.
Mateo Blanco is weaving a legacy that transcends borders—both in the art he creates and the masterpieces he collects. Known for transforming everyday materials into powerful flag artworks now housed in major American museums, Blanco is also building a remarkable private collection of Latin American art that honors his heritage. With works by legends like Fernando Botero and Débora Arango, and a new focus on American artists, his collection tells a deeply personal story of identity, culture, and evolution.
