Day sales are usually where the market’s real temperature is taken—where trends sharpen and the middle market either holds or crumbles. On Thursday, Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art day sale brought in a healthy $88.7 million, with sell-through rates of 88 percent by lot and 90 percent by value. These day sales may not be as sexy as their moonlit evening counterparts, but they often deliver the clearest signals—if you’re paying attention. The loudest signal this time came from a canvas that looked nothing like the week’s blockbuster lots: Keller Fair II, a 1960 painting by Lynne Drexler that sold for $2,027,000, shattering her previous auction record by nearly $500,000 and far exceeding its...

The Philadelphia museum, located on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania, has completely rethought the 2,000-sq.-ft gallery in collaboration with eight Indigenous curators

Jeff Cowan had been accused of sourcing forgeries and fabricating false provenance documents

The Philadelphia Art Museum (PhAM) has named Daniel H. Weiss, a former director and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, as its new director and CEO, effective December 1. Weiss, currently a professor at John Hopkins University, replaces Sasha Suda, who was forced out earlier this month following a controversial rebrand […]

Frida Kahlo’s 1940 painting El sueño (La cama) sold for $54.7 million including fees at Sotheby’s Exquisite Corpus sale, held the evening of November 20 in New York. The amount is the highest ever paid at auction for a work by a woman, and the most ever paid for a Latin American artwork. Bidding began […]

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The Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) acquired the Frank Lloyd Wright–designed property Fountainhead in the Fondren neighborhood of Jackson following the approval of the Jackson Planning and Zoning Board and City Council on Friday. Fountainhead was designed by the renowned architect in 1948. It is considered one of his Usonian homes, many of which were designed as single-level bungalows for middle-income families. The 3,558-square-foot residence and its furnishings were subsequently completed in 1954 for oil speculator J. Willis Hughes, who lived there with his family until 1980. The four-bedroom home was then purchased by the late architect Robert Parker Adams, who restored the property. It has been listed on...

Dorothy Vogel, one half of the husband-and-wife pair who became famous for building their impressive art collection while working as a postal worker and a librarian, respectively, died on November 10. Vogel died at 90 in a hospital in New York, according to the Washington Post. With her husband Herbert, she appeared on the ARTnews Top 200 Collectors list each year between 1990, when the list was first published, and 2000. Dorothy Vogel was born in 1935 in Elmira, New York. She met Herbert, a native New Yorker, in 1960, at which point she was working as a librarian in the Brooklyn Public Library system. (Herbert, a postal clerk, died in 2012 at age 89.) They immediately started collecting Minimalist and...

Changes have been coming to the Philadelphia Art Museum (PhAM) as quickly as the leaves have fallen this month, most recently with the appointment of Daniel H. Weiss as new director and CEO today, November 21. Weiss, who served as president and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan until 2023, will start his three-year contract at PhAM on December 1, less than a month after the museum board’s highly publicized ouster of former PhAM Director and CEO Alexandra “Sasha” Suda. Weiss’s appointment concludes PhAM’s search for a new museum leader, following its dismissal of Suda for “cause” in an emailed notice on November 4. Suda, who was three years into a five-year contract, has since...

Daniel H. Weiss, who led the Met from 2015 to 2023, will succeed Sasha Suda, who is suing the Philadelphia Art Museum over the circumstances of her firing

In the Karakoram Range on the northeastern border of Pakistan, a group of Indigenous women and girls is defying conventions with a seemingly simple pastime: soccer. The Gilgit-Baltistan Girls Football League is a bastion of independence and autonomy amid a traditionally conservative environment. “In our culture, girls were brought up to be brides,” says Karishma, the co-founder of the league, in a short documentary about the movement. “Everybody doesn’t want to be a princess.” Titled “Girls Move Mountains,” the striking film is by Anna Huix, who visits this remote region and tags along with members of the Wakhi people as they practice and compete. As Huix shows, soccer is much more than a game...

American artist Llyn Foulkes has died at the age of 91, Kent Fine Art, which oversees his work, confirmed to ARTnews Friday. Foulkes was known for his refusal to adhere to a single style or approach, which often confounded critics and galleries alike. What seemed like aimlessness to some often placed Foulkes ahead of the curve, showing at the legendary Fergus Gallery in the mid-1960s—ahead of Andy Warhol—where he was declared an early master of Pop art with his famous Cow (also three years ahead of Warhol’s bovine prints). He rose to prominence among the likes of John Baldessari, Wallace Berman, Robert Irwin, and Ed Ruscha. In 1967, Foulkes was awarded the painting prize at the Paris Biennale at...

In one of the more head-scratching moments of an auction season full of twists and turns, an anonymous buyer won the elusive code to crack the final part of a puzzling sculpture created by artist Jim Sanborn for the Central Intelligence Agency’s headquarters in Langley, Virginia, after bidding $962,500 in an RR Auction sale. As reported in the New York Times, the code pertains to an as-yet-undecrypted final part of Sanborn’s Kryptos, which was dedicated by the CIA in 1990. The sculpture features four passages of seemingly jumbled text, three of which have been decoded by amateur and professional cryptologists. “But the fourth passage, which is 97 characters long, has resisted the best efforts of brain...

Astronaut’s Amulet: a mini capsule for Keepsakes Beyond Earth
 
The Astronaut’s Amulet is a pocket-sized capsule for keepsakes that travel beyond Earth, created by designer Aleksa Milojevic. The project examines how memory, ritual, and personal experience can endure in the context of space exploration, positioning intimate, human-centered design within an emerging space-technology discourse. The amulet is a slender, compact object, small enough to be held between the fingertips. Its unique unlocking mechanism is intentionally calibrated to work intuitively only in microgravity.
 
By opening, it becomes a deliberate puzzle on Earth but a natural gesture in space: its two-step interlocking system...

Poised to shatter records ahead of its highly anticipated sale, one of Mexican Surrealist Frida Kahlo’s most vulnerable and poignant self-portraits sold for $54.7 million with fees at a Sotheby’s evening sale on Thursday, November 20. Emerging on the market for the first time in 45 years, Kahlo’s “El sueño (La cama)” (1940) eclipsed the artist’s 2021 record by nearly $20 million in just five minutes, and overtook Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1” (1932) as the most expensive work by a woman artist ever sold at auction. The new record was welcomed amid an extended celebration of the Surrealism movement, which turned 100 last year. In May 2024, Sotheby’s ushered in an...

The fair returns with a stacked list of participants, both new and familiar faces

Sotheby's sold “Parisian Novels” for $62m and “The Sower” for over $10m, a record for one of his drawings

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has come through yet again with an unprecedented image from our Solar System, this time of a unique pair of Wolf-Rayet stars known as Apep. A Wolf-Rayet is a massive, very hot star that’s in the later stages of its life, quickly losing mass with the help of strong stellar winds. Thanks to Webb, researchers were able to observe coiled shells of dust around the pair for the first time. Previous documentation collected by other telescopes had only ever shown one dust shell. What makes this observation especially interesting is that there’s actually a third fiery orb at play here, which Webb’s new data confirms is gravitationally bound to the other two in this system. A...

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Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi by mecanoo welcomes visitors
 
Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi opens its doors tomorrow, November 22nd, 2025, in the Saadiyat Cultural District, marking a major moment for the UAE’s cultural and scientific landscape. Designed by Mecanoo, the 35,000-square-meter museum traces 13.8 billion years of cosmic and earthly evolution while casting natural history through an Arabian lens. Inaugurated by His Highness Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the institution positions itself as the largest natural history museum in the Middle East and introduces a rare set of world-first paleontological displays, including two Tyrannosaurus rex skeletons locked in a prehistoric...

A new recording of La fiamma from Deutsche Oper Berlin sets Respighi's score ablaze.

Established in 2019, Tbilisi Mural Fest has a deceptively simple goal: to turn Georgia’s capital city into one huge public gallery. For the artist-organizers, who also create works under the moniker TMF Studio, contemporary murals have the ability to transform unsightly, blocky developments into giant works of art. The paintings are not only a pleasure to look at but also create a more inviting urban environment. With a few exceptions, much of the recent work created for the festival is representational, showing people engaged in activities like harvesting grapes or dancing. International artists bring a variety of styles to often narrow, vertical compositions, adorning the sides of multilevel buildings....

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Since its inception in 2003, the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize has become one of the most prestigious platforms for contemporary portrait photography. Hosted annually by London’s National Portrait Gallery, the Prize celebrates how the human face – through light, shadow and gaze – can carry stories, provoke empathy and reflect our very being. Portraiture has long fascinated humanity, from the early masters of the Renaissance who laboured to capture the soul in painted form to today’s photographers who distil identity into a single frame. After centuries, we remain captivated by its power to pause time, convey emotion and connect us across divides. The Prize continues this lineage by...

Austin Opera's 40th anniversary gala celebrated the present while gesturing boldly towards the future.

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MoErgo Unveils Mobile Split Keyboard for Multi-Location Work
 
Go60 by MoErgo introduces a compact ergonomic keyboard designed for mobile and multi-location workflows. The device combines a fully split, columnar-staggered layout with ultra-quiet, short-travel switches, aiming to provide ergonomic alignment within a portable format. Its integrated dual touchpads enable cursor control without the need for an external mouse, creating a self-contained input system suited for travel or temporary work setups.
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Go60 Ergonomic Keyboard Balances Portability and Modularity
 
The Go60 features a six-step adjustable tenting mechanism ranging from 6.2° to 17°, allowing users to set...

Folio Bridge explores structural potential through paper crease
 
FAR Workshop’s Folio Bridge in Huzhou, China, draws its concept from the structural behaviour of a folded sheet of A4 paper. The project examines how a simple crease can reinforce a lightweight material while retaining its inherent thinness and visual delicacy. After testing multiple folding configurations, the design team focused on a single-crease strategy to achieve the required span. The bridge form was defined by fitting three construction curves and one construction point to the crease line. Working closely with Zhang Zhun’s Structural Research Institute, the team iteratively adjusted the curvature of these lines and the position of...

3D printed tiny house uses solar panels for low-energy use
 
The Tiny House project in the commune of Niederanven marks the first use of 3D printing for a full residential structure in Luxembourg. Designed by ODA Architects in collaboration with Coral Construction Technologies, the structure covers 47 square meters of usable space, with each printing phase lasting less than 28 hours. The main purpose of the project is to test how 3D printing can produce housing in a faster and more affordable way in hopes of relieving the housing crisis that the country has been confronting.
 
The 3D printed Tiny House also shows how a structure can work with low energy use by installing solar panels on the roof to power up...

Today, we bring you the latest short film in our MPB: The Next Shot series. The featured artist Xiona Li, a filmmaker working between London and Beijing, blends documentary with experimental techniques using AI, 3D and conceptual imagery. As she travels regularly, she made the decision to let go of her heavier kit and shift to lighter tools – a practical decision that shaped her relationship with storytelling. Created in partnership with MPB, the UK’s leading camera reseller, this series considers how the equipment we choose influences our creative paths and how passing gear on can open space for new perspectives. Her recent projects include Night-Shining White (2023), a shorts series about Chinese...

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foto credit Susanna Andreini Susanna Andreini works with the invisible realms—concrete with Elemental Beings. At 60, the stunning results of her recent paintings, the absolutely unexpected colors, motifs, and expression touched her in a very deep way and encouraged her to explore this way of artistic expression even deeper. She's exploring her connection to the Elemental Beings, offering them her canvas as their stage. They dance on it, try out different forms, sometimes as lines, sometimes...

‣ Mosaic artists are filling potholes, sidewalk cracks, and other urban fissures with burts of color. Sumaiya Motara reports on these bits of “unexpected joy” for the Guardian: Tessa Hunkin, leader of the Hackney Mosaic Project, has been bringing people with mental health and addiction problems together to create murals around east London since 2012. “A lot of people carry a huge burden of shame,” says the 71-year-old. “They feel they’ve messed up their lives. It’s great for them to have something to be proud of and to show their families.” Her new book, Tessa Hunkin’s Hackney Mosaic Project, showcases these colourful installations, often featuring detailed motifs of plants, animals and...

Editor’s Note: This collaborative work is part of Fall of Freedom, a nationwide cultural response to authoritarianism. It’s also featured in the exhibition Cancel this Show at The Clemente in New York through December 20.

Entertainment company Ripley’s Believe It or Not!, known for its oddity-themed attractions, on November 19 was revealed to be the lone bidder for and the buyer of Italian conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan’s 2016 work America, a life-size working toilet made of solid 18-karat gold. The sale took place on the evening of November 18 in […]

The organizers of Frieze Los Angeles today named the ninety-six galleries set to exhibit in the event’s 2026 iteration, to take place February 28–March 1, with preview days of February 26–27. The fair will return to the Santa Monica Airport, its home for the past three years. Representing twenty-two countries, the participating galleries include blue-chip […]

GWAR was never an ordinary rock band. And in the recent documentary This Is GWAR, director Scott Barber digs into the past and present of the music and art collective that simultaneously defied categorization while infiltrating late twentieth century pop culture and continues to entertain fans today with heavy metal and elaborate—even gory—stage shows. Read Liz Ohanesian's full article by clicking above.
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Animals, architecture, celestial phenomena and more merge with vibrant patterns in kaleidoscopic illustrations. YoAz focuses on repetition, color relationships, and maximalist compositions in his digital works. Drawing on the legacy of 1960s psychedelic posters and evocative of circus imagery and M.C. Escher, the artist emphasizes color, symmetry, and line through motifs that often include faces, flowers, eyes, suns, birds, and more. Keep up with the artist’s work on Behance and Instagram, and purchase prints and stickers in the artist’s Redbubble shop. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The...

There is always something a bit uncanny about Simon Laveuve’s playful miniatures. Whether a ramshackle residence is built impossibly tall or seems to be both upside-down and right-side-up at the same time, we’re drawn into a strange yet alluring world filled with a range of precisely rendered homes and hangouts. Laveuve is known for his meticulously sculpted miniatures that evoke post-apocalyptic settings, from stilt houses hovering precariously on rock formations to playful amalgamations of numerous “found objects” like tires and old windows. Typically crafted at 1/24 or 1/35 scale, these tiny tableaux are devoid of people yet feel lived in, as if the inhabitants have just stepped away. “La Beauté...

Pittsburgh Opera's Fellow Travelers delivers a timely story with detail and care.

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Jeanine Tesori's Blue is an ambitious and worthy opera that deserves a better presentation than it got at Lincoln Center on Saturday.

Barbara Hannigan's Lulu is the greatest live performance I've seen.

For much of the 20th century, photography was understood as a way to capture what Henri Cartier-Bresson described as the “decisive moment.” It is the instant where a scene comes together for a moment of glorious clarity. By the late 1970s, artists began to push against this ideal, asking what happens if the “decisive moment” is made, rather than found. Practitioners like Cindy Sherman, Gregory Crewdson and Jeff Wall pioneered staged photography, also known as tableau photographs, meticulously constructing scenes to evoke an atmosphere or emotion. At the same time, other artists pushed the medium in different directions, embracing collage, photomontage and, later, digital composition. They revealed how...

 
There’s just one week left to submit your work for Shutter Hub Editions’ publication The Colour Library: Blue!
The Colour Library is a curated series of photo books exploring the emotional, symbolic, and visual power of colour. Each edition is a visual exploration and celebration of one colour, showcasing its presence, symbolism, and emotional range across different photographic styles and perspectives.
Our first edition is devoted to blue. A colour of depth and distance. Vast as the sky and as still as water. Blue evokes calm, melancholy, serenity and sorrow. Delicate cornflowers, robust denim, precious jewels, and the deepest ocean. From literal to abstract interpretations, and alternative processes,...

A full-length portrait by Austrian painter Gustav Klimt that had been estimated to sell for $150 million hammered for $236.4 million with fees at auction on November 18. The sale, at Sotheby’s new headquarters at the Breuer Building in New York, set a slew of records. The amount is the highest ever paid at auction […]

“When I learned that there was a technique called honkadori, I thought it was interesting,” says Watanabe. “It seemed like an invasion or challenge to the idea of Western art and original works.” Read the full article by clicking above.
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This November, here at Aesthetica, we broke new ground with the launch of our inaugural New Music Stage. It is a platform designed to showcase the UK’s most exciting breakthrough musical talent whilst situating live performance within the festival’s creative ecosystem. Set against the historic backdrop of York, home to Aesthetica, the stage was more than a venue – it was a site of collaboration and discovery, a place where music, film, XR, and storytelling converged in new ways. The festival has always celebrated creativity across disciplines, but the New Music Stage represents a bold extension of that vision. Designed as a space where artists can be both seen and heard within a wider cultural...

In the Museum of Modern Art in New York City hangs one of Surrealism’s most celebrated paintings. Salvador Dalí’s The Persistence of Memory (1931) features three distorted watches, melted and draped across a rugged Catalonian landscape. The wilting clocks – which the artist compared to melting Camembert cheese – mock the rigidity of chronometric time. Dalí is not the only artist to use a timepiece as a central character. Watches appear in the self-portraits of Francis Bacon and are the focal point of Christian Marclay’s acclaimed installation The Clock (2010), a 24-hour long montage of thousands of film and television images edited together so they show the actual time. Again and again, artists...

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CAAM presents a powerful solo exhibition and performance series honouring Black trans life, loss, and celestial memory. Sage Ni’Ja Whitson. Courtesy of the California African American Museum (CAAM). The California African American Museum (CAAM) has […]

Curated by Khalid Albaih, Rahiem Shadad, and Dr Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann, ‘Sudan Retold’ brings together artists, researchers, and designers to reclaim Sudanese histories through art, storytelling, and cultural memory Sudanese women in thobes. © Faiz AbuBakr […]

Tracing the space between analogue and digital, perception and presence The Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute (NCAI), in collaboration with munyu, opened ‘Between Signals’ on 2 November 2025, a multidisciplinary exhibition that remains on view through […]

Couture Fashion Night 3.0 — The Exquisite Transcends

Penny Cagney photo by R.R. Jones 2024 At 69, Penny Cagney is working with a new device created by a group of scientists at Arizona State University, including Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek and Prof. Nathan Newman. The technology is called the HyLighter, and it uses 13 programmable monochromatic light beams to simulate how color is perceived across different species and visual systems. She's exploring the science of color and vision, creating oil paintings designed specifically for the...

Yuko Shimizu is a New York-based illustrator, whose bold manga lines depict intimate narrative scenes from myth, science fiction, and pop iconography, creating a visual genre all her own. Read the full article by Harrison Cook clicking above!
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At the 36th Bienal de São Paulo, Nigerian artist Emeka Ogboh presents The Way Earthly Things Are Going II (Mother Earth’s Lament), a multisensory installation in which voice, scent, silence, and charred wood converge into […]