ON JUNE 15th, BLACK ART AUCTION, an auction house in St. Louis, Missouri, dedicated exclusively to the sale of art by African Americans, will present an auction of more than 100 paintings by Adger Cowans. The works were painted as early as the 1960s

From sumptuous silver to gorgeous paintings, exceptional offerings will hit the block at Heritage Auctions in two much-anticipated early summer sales. On May 16, 2024, the Fine Silver and Objects of Vertu Signature © Auction will include an important

WHAT’S ABLE to leap over auction records in a single bound? A rare 1938 comic book that introduced Superman to the world. In April of this year, a copy of Action Comics No. 1 depicting Superman, arguably the most famous superhero of all time, sold fo

IN HER WORK artist Beatrice Caracciolo takes images, often plumbed from art history, and performs a kind of alchemical distillation that results in large-scale, abstract, expressive drawings. Her gestural linework yields finished compositions with a

A LEADING purveyor of fine art and antiques in Northern New England, Thomaston Place Auction Galleries welcomes attendance at Summer Splendor 2024, scheduled June 28-30. With diverse offerings from antiquity to the contemporary, fine art to the decor

IN SMOLDERING forest green, burgundy, and violet velvet and silk fabrics, Sonia Delaunay’s Robe simultanée—a sartorial sentinel on view at Bard Graduate Center Gallery—has an uncanny vitality for a garment that is the same age as New York City’s Gran

A NEW exhibition from Helicline Fine Art, “Modernism Adored: 20th Century Art,” online from April 26 through June 30, features paintings, work on paper, and sculptures from renowned and rediscovered WPA-era artists. From the bold strokes of Cubism to

At age 10, in 1918, Norman Carton and his mother were in hiding during pogroms unleashed by the Russian revolution; six years later the same boy found himself safe and sound in Philadelphia, rescued from Eastern Europe by the intervention of his olde

GERALD PETERS Gallery, New York, presents Logan Maxwell Hagege: Flowers Will Grow (through May 23, 2024), providing east coast audiences with an introduction to an artist that has been a contemporary fixture in Western American Art. Hagege’s signatur

CHARLOTTE’S Jared Melberg Gallery celebrates its 40th anniversary with an exhibition featuring work from all artists currently in its impressive roster. In a gallery dedicated to an art for art’s sake credo, new and returning visitors will delight in

NOW THE largest cultural event on the island, the Hamptons Fine Art Fair returns to the Southampton Fair Grounds July 11-14, 2024. Produced by local entity ShowHamptons, this year’s fair will feature over 100 galleries, including 14 international dea

FOR ALICE Baber (1928-1982) color was the driving force in her work. According to the artist, we remember the world this way, and “[her] most interesting memories [were] in very brilliant color.” Alice Baber: Colors of the Rainbow opens May 7, 2024 a

Adelson Galleries Alexandre Gallery Avery Galleries Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts, LLC D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc. David A. Schorsch-Eileen M. Smiles Debra Force Fine Art, Inc. Dolan/Maxwell Forum Gallery Graham Shay 1857 Hawthorne Fine Art LLC Hirschi &

Gilot’s line is the first thing you notice, her tool for expressing an image. In her portraits in pencil, the line becomes the central element, almost tattooed into the paper. In her paintings, both figurative and abstract, Gilot’s line acts either a

SELF-TAUGHT FRENCH furniture designer Hubert Le Gall is known for his witty approach to creating functional, yet decorative, pieces. Working out of his Paris studio in Montmartre, Le Gall uses various materials, such as bronze, brass, exotic woods, g

JOHN STEUART Curry is routinely regarded as one of the “Big Three” in 1930s American Regionalism, along with Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton. Of the “Big Three,” Curry is less well known than the others for at least two reasons: One, he died at the

THE 17th ANNUAL American Art Fair will grace Manhattan’s Bohemian National Hall May 11-14, 2024. The late 19th century Renaissance Revival style social hall serves as an excellent complement to the over 400 masterworks on display from 17 premier gall

A NEW MAJOR exhibition of Pre-Raphaelite art features fine and decorative works exhibited alongside Italian masterworks from the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. Pre-Raphaelites: Modern Renaissance remains on view through June 30, 2024 at the San Dom

EXASPERATED by the state of the world, George Grosz created The Stick Men series in Huntington, New York, where he lived for over a decade beginning in the mid-1940s. The hollow figures roaming in a post-apocalyptic landscape offer a searing indictme

Beatriz Milhazes (b. 1960) creates exuberant, pulsing, canvases that respond to the natural world and her home in Rio de Janeiro. In her own words, she seeks to imbue a sense of atmosphere and a “tropical way of thinking.” First organized last year a

Painter David Ligare has explored the classical past as a means to ruminate on our present condition in a career stretching over four decades. The self-described Post Modern Neo-Classicist, has long refused the typical conventions of the contemporary

There was an epochal transition in the years immediately after World War II as the center of the art world, a position held by Paris for at least a century, pivoted to New York. The shift had begun earlier, as such shifts do, the ravages of two wars

A NEW exhibition at the Yale University Art Gallery, Munch and Kirchner: Anxiety and Expression (on view through June 23, 2024), explores groundbreaking and avant-garde prints by Edvard Munch and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and their shared focus on mental

IN THE 1940s when Abstract Expressionism was gaining recognition, the subconscious was argued to be the source of all art. Sally Michel and her husband Milton Avery disagreed. They felt the natural world offered a constant supply of ideas and focused

PHILEMONA WILLIAMSON’S dreamy canvases mirror our experiences of the world through the lens of adolescence. By focusing on pubescence, she evinces moments uncertain and precocious, terrifying and wonder-filled. Described by the artist as “life theate

A TOURING exhibition aims to bring increased visibility to wildlife painter Carl Rungius (1869-1959) and a project to document his oeuvre. Survival of the Fittest: Envisioning Wildlife and Wilderness with the Big Four, Masterworks from the Rijksmuseu

ROUGHLY translated as “craft,” kogei refers to traditional Japanese techniques revered for their centuries-old applications. While Western art typically views craft as lesser-than, kogei is venerated. KOGEI and art, a new exhibition at Onishi Gallery

THE PHILADELPHIA Show, now in its 62nd year, will once again grace the East Terrace of the Philadelphia Museum of Art from April 25-April 28, 2024. A longtime showcase for American art and antiques, visitors will also find offerings from Europe and A

MATISSE AND the Sea, running through May 12, 2024 at the Saint Louis Art Museum, offers a new assessment of the artist’s fascination with the ocean in a range of media across five decades of his career. Tracking his travels from the Mediterranean to