uzomah ugwu 7/23/25 uzomah ugwu 7/23/25

New Artistic Dialogues Unfold at Louvre Abu Dhabi with the Arrival of New Masterpieces

There is always something new to discover at Louvre Abu Dhabi. Whether it is a first visit or a return for further exploration, the museum’s ever-evolving galleries promise hours of inspiration and wonder. This year, a new display brings together remarkable acquisitions and prestigious international loans. From a 1st-century imperial cameo and a 3rd-century Christian sarcophagus to an outstanding selection of paintings and modern works by Kandinsky, Giacometti and Tàpies, the artworks now on display span centuries, cultures and artistic movements. Together, they invite visitors to experience the museum’s universal narrative through the lens of creativity, connection and the enduring power of art.

“By continuously enriching Louvre Abu Dhabi’s collection through carefully curated acquisitions, we ensure that the museum remains a dynamic space that resonates with art enthusiasts, families and curious minds alike,” said Dr. Guilhem André, Director of Scientific, Curatorial and Collections Management at Louvre Abu Dhabi. “We are also thrilled to bring to our visitors loaned masterworks that are considered priceless treasures in their respective museums, and we are grateful for the generosity of our partners. This ongoing renewal strengthens Louvre Abu Dhabi’s role not only as a cultural anchor in the Saadiyat Cultural District, but also as a place where diverse stories and shared human experiences come together.”

The curatorial team at Louvre Abu Dhabi, particularly Amna Al Zaabi, Fakhera Alkindi, Aisha Al Ahmadi, Mariam Al Dhaheri, and Rawdha AlAbdouli, played a key role in developing the new displays, working closely with partner institutions on everything from research to securing loans and acquisitions. Their contributions reflect the museum’s commitment to empowering local talent and fostering cross-cultural exchange on a global scale.

New Acquisitions: Enriching the Museum’s Permanent Collection

Louvre Abu Dhabi continues to expand its world-class collection through the addition of exceptional artworks that reflect the museum’s universal narrative. The new acquisitions include significant paintings, sculptures and finely crafted objects that are now on display in the museum’s permanent galleries.

· A Kota Reliquary Figure from Gabon (end of 19th or beginning of 20th century) attributed to the Sébé River Master of the Skull Head resonates with global traditions of ancestor veneration and spiritual guardianship.

· A Roman Cameo possibly depicting Agrippa Postumus (c. 37-41 CE) is displayed alongside other masterpieces of precious gold jewelry from the museum’s collection.

***Head of an ephebe (youth)*** Cyprus, Kition (present-day Larnaca) 5th century BCE Limestone Louvre Abu Dhabi

· A limestone Head of an Ephebe (5th century BCE), from Cyprus is shown alongside other busts representing diverse cultures and civilisations.

***Casket*** Kingdom of Kotte, Ceylon Ca. 1543 Kotte Royal Court Workshop Ivory, gold, ruby, sapphire, rock crystal Louvre Abu Dhabi

· A Casket from the Kingdom of Kotte, Ceylon (ca. 1543) showcases hybrid aesthetics and reflects the global reach of South Asian courtly art.

· A collection of outstanding paintings including The Rialto Bridge from the South (c. 1720) by Giovanni Antonio Canal, capturing a serene, precise Venetian cityscape; The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis(1800), a rare Neoclassical painting by Charles Meynier exploring themes of duty, love and moral virtue; and a Portrait of Kosa Pan (1686) by Antoine Benoist, portraying the first ambassador from Siam to the French court of Louis XIV.

***White Oval*** Wassily Kandinsky (Moscow, 1866 – Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1944) Russia 1921 Oil on canvas Louvre Abu Dhabi

· Wassily Kandinsky’s White Oval (1921), a vibrant composition of colours and forms reflecting the artist’s strong belief in the power of colour, form and composition to evoke emotion, rhythm and unity.

New Loans: Masterpieces from International Partners

In addition to the newly unveiled acquisitions, unique masterpieces on loan from Musée du Louvre, Centre Pompidou and the National Museum of the Philippines bring fresh depth and global perspective to Louvre Abu Dhabi’s galleries. Highlights include:

***Sarcophagus of Livia Primitiva*** Roman Empire Rome, Italy About 250 CE Marble Musée du Louvre This sarcophagus, found in the Basilica of Saint Peter, is one of the oldest Christian sarcophagi. It features a depiction of the good shepherd, an anchor and a fish evoking Christ. The inscription honours Livia Primitiva, who commissioned the sarcophagus for her sister, Livia Nicarus.

· Sarcophagus of Livia Primitiva (c. 250 CE), a sculpture on loan from the Musée du Louvre, and one of the earliest known examples of Christian funerary art.

· Portrait of the Artist (1825) by French painter Antoinette Cécile Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot, on loan from the Musée du Louvre. In this painting, Haudebourt-Lescot presents herself firmly as a professional artist and emphasises her identity as a portraitist.

· Una Bulaqueña (1895), painted by Juan Luna, one of the most celebrated Filipino artists, is on loan from the National Museum of the Philippines. Leaving its home country for the first time, this painting was declared a National Cultural Treasure in 2008. It is celebrated not only for its technical excellence, but also for the sense of cultural pride it embodies, representing an idealised Filipina woman that radiates strength and dignity.

· Two bronze figures, introducing the theme of reimagining the human figure, are on loan from Centre Pompidou: Femme de Venise V (Woman of Venice V, 1956) by Alberto Giacometti is an elongated, fragile figure that captures the paradox of presence and vulnerability; and L’Orage (The Storm, 1947 – 1948) by Germaine Richier portrays a monumental male figure embodying resilience in the face of elemental forces.

· Grand blanc horizontal (1962), a monumental mixed-media work by Antoni Tàpies, is on loan from Centre Pompidou. The work adds a contemporary dimension to the museum’s narrative of material experimentation and abstraction.

Each new display at Louvre Abu Dhabi is curated to foster dialogue between civilisations, across time and through universal stories. Through thematic juxtapositions and cross-cultural comparisons, the museum continues to offer a dynamic and inclusive space for discovery for both first-time and returning visitors.

ABOUT LOUVRE ABU DHABI

Created by an exceptional agreement between the governments of Abu Dhabi and France, Louvre Abu Dhabi was designed by Jean Nouvel and opened on Saadiyat Island in November 2017. The museum is inspired by traditional Islamic architecture and its monumental dome creates a rain of light effect and a unique social space that brings people together.

Louvre Abu Dhabi celebrates the universal creativity of mankind and invites audiences to see humanity in a new light. Through its innovative curatorial approach, the museum focuses on building understanding across cultures: through stories of human creativity that transcend civilisations, geographies, and times.

The museum’s growing collection is unparalleled in the region and spans thousands of years of human history, including prehistoric tools, artefacts, religious texts, iconic paintings, and contemporary artworks. The permanent collection is supplemented by rotating loans from 19 French partner institutions, regional and international museums.

Louvre Abu Dhabi is a testing ground for new ideas in a globalised world and champions new generations of cultural leaders. Its international exhibitions, programming and Children’s Museum are inclusive platforms that connect communities and offer enjoyment for all.

ABOUT MUSÉE DU LOUVRE

Open to all since 1793, the Musée du Louvre was the first museum to open to the general public in France. Born of the French Revolution and heir to the great royal collections, this former palace of the kings of France has always lived and evolved alongside national – and global – history.

Today, the Louvre is one of the leading players on the international museum scene, with its 30,000 works of art displayed across 70,000 square metres, including masterpieces like the Mona Lisa, the Winged Victory of Samothrace, the Seated Scribe and the Venus de Milo. It holds collections that tell a history of the world that has always been built on exchanges and connections, spanning from antiquity to the 19th century, from Asia to the Americas. The Louvre is a museum with a universal mission, a place where cultures and civilisations come together, where past and present interact. It is the place where all kinds of arts and all forms of expression manifest in today’s world – a place to better grasp the very aspirations of humanity.

ABOUT CENTRE POMPIDOU

Since 1977, the Centre Pompidou has remained a hub of vibrant and engaged culture—a multidisciplinary center deeply rooted in the city and open to the world. In 2025, the Centre Pompidou is starting a metamorphosis and will stay in motion during the renovation of the building, due to reopen in 2030. A rich programme will take place in the historic building until September 2025. From January 2025 onwards, the “Constellation” will reveal itself in Paris, France and internationally – while the Centre Pompidou Francilien–fabrique de l’art is in the works (opening in 2026).

ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT OF CULTURE AND TOURISM – ABU DHABI

The Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi) drives the sustainable growth of Abu Dhabi’s culture and tourism sectors and its creative industries, fuels economic progress and helps achieve Abu Dhabi’s wider global ambitions. By working in partnership with the organisations that define the emirate’s position as a leading international destination, DCT Abu Dhabi strives to unite the ecosystem around a shared vision of the emirate’s potential, coordinate effort and investment, deliver innovative solutions, and use the best tools, policies, and systems to support the culture and tourism industries.

DCT Abu Dhabi’s vision is defined by the emirate’s people, heritage, and landscape. We work to enhance Abu Dhabi’s status as a place of authenticity, innovation, and unparalleled experiences, represented by its living traditions of hospitality, pioneering initiatives, and creative thought.

ABOUT SAADIYAT CULTURAL DISTRICT

Home to Louvre Abu Dhabi, Berklee Abu Dhabi, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abrahamic Family House and the soon-to-open Zayed National Museum, teamLab Phenomena Abu Dhabi, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi and Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi, Saadiyat Cultural District is one of the greatest concentrations of cultural institutions.

Saadiyat Cultural District is a global platform, emanating from a rich cultural heritage, celebrating traditions, and advancing equitable culture. It is an embodiment of empowerment, showcasing museums, collections, and narratives that supports the region’s heritage while promoting a diverse global cultural landscape.

Saadiyat Cultural District is a testament to Abu Dhabi's commitment to preserving heritage while embracing a forward-looking vision. The District invites the world to engage with diverse cultures, fostering dialogue exchange, and offers a global cultural space that supports the region and the global South.

Louvre Abu Dhabi is open Tuesday – Sunday from 10 am – 6:30 pm; closed on Mondays. Pre-purchased tickets are required to visit the museum. E-tickets can be reserved via the museum’s website. More information, about the galleries and to book tickets, please visit here. For more information about the exhibitions, ongoing news and more, please visit here. The museum can also be found on YouTube, X, Instagram, and Facebook.

uzomah ugwu 7/1/25 uzomah ugwu 7/1/25

Hamptons Fine Art Fair back for its 19th Edition

Hamptons Fine Art Fair, 2025, Photo Credit, Adam D. Smith

The only international art fair in The Hamptons and one of the nation's largest summer fairs, The Hampton Fine Art Fair takes place July 10-13 at Southampton Fairgrounds in a spectacular 70,000sf complex (featuring the Jackson Pollock & Willem de Kooning Luxury Pavilions) and strategically located on 17 bucolic acres on the main road connecting the Hamptons (County Rd 39), just minutes from downtown bustling Southampton Village (and its stylish shops, trendy restaurants, art galleries, museums), the 19th edition of the Hamptons Fine Art Fair will showcase 135 galleries from around the world (from over 20 countries including Dubai, France, Ireland, Israel, Maldives, Netherlands, Peru, Switzerland, UK, Zimbabwe), and US cities like Aspen, Atlanta, Chicago, LA, Miami, NYC, Philadelphia, San Diego.

The fair is presented by ShowHamptons & leading event producer/art industry veteran Rick Friedman (a passionate collector of local Hamptons artists, Rick's personal collection includes 300+ museum quality pieces including 6 works by Pollock, 10 by de Kooning, many 1970s pop artists, and one of the largest collections of women AbEx artists from the 1950s New York School).

Offering the East End’s widest & deepest selection of important primary & secondary market art, all mediums will be on display, ranging from paintings, works on paper, and photography, to prints, sculptures, and indoor pedestal-based art objects. And the fair's Outdoor Sculpture Garden is where guests can enjoy delicious dining options including The Hamptons' best Shinnecock Lobster Roll (and a broad summer menu), two large indoor bars will offer diverse wine & spirit selections (special tastings offered daily). With over 40 new galleries showing for the first time in The Hamptons with the fair, expanding their global reach to the East End art scene, this year's edition promises to be even bigger than last year. Confirmed galleries to be showing works from artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat, Alexander Calder, Keith Haring, David Hockney, Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Julian Opie, Pablo Picasso, Ed Ruscha, Donald Sultan, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann, and this year's Spotlight Artists who will have work prominently on display at the fair are Ron Agam, James Gill, David Hayes, Giancarlo Impiglia, Robert Natkin, Yigal Ozeri, Stephen Rolfe Powell, and Hunt Slonem.

Steve Tobin Sculpture, 2025, Hamptons Fine Art Fair

A few other standouts this year include the fair inducting 100yo artist, Hamptons resident (and former U.S. Olympian and Navy jet fighter pilot) Ted Hartley into the Hamptons Artists Hall of Fame (recent inductees include other acclaimed local artists like William King and Tony Rosenthal); conceptual artist Steve Tobin will have a large (11' x 20') sculpture priced at $400k at the entrance to the fair (Tobin also has several sculptures on display around Manhattan; attached is the sculpture); plus a very exciting first-time exhibitor, former CEO of GE Aviation, John S. Slattery who is moving to/launching a new gallery in Southampton this summer.

This year's fair will also have an expanding focus on indoor art objects, SculptureHamptons, hosted by 16-acre Hamptons art & design staple LongHouse Reserve: over 20 galleries will display a cross-section of highly collectible art objects including world class examples of glass art, small sculptures, metalworks, ceramics, pottery, and wood turning. Embedded into the cultural fabric of this historic arts community, this year's fair is expected to have a turnout of over 15,000 (last year saw 13,500+ visitors and over $5 million in sales over the 4 days; attached are photos from last year).

The fair will also have special themed booths that will each offer something unique & visually alluring, here's info on 4 of them:

Mark Grimaldi - Pollock 'Convergence' 1969 MGB Sports Car

Dripping in Style (in the Pollock Pavilion), artist Mark Grimaldi has long been inspired by the artworks of Jackson Pollock, so he painted this rare 1969 MGB, an upgraded 8 cylinder sports car from the St. Louis Car Museum, with a replica of Pollock’s 1953 painting “Convergence” (this car is now an artistic convergence of 1960s minimalism and 21st Century exceptionalism, this display will feature several Pollock-like paintings by Grimaldi).

The Real Surreal (presented by the Museum of Modern Renaissance), this eye-opening Surrealist exhibit is a small artistic subset of the actual Museum of Modern Renaissance in Somerville, Mass (husband and wife artist team of Nicholas Shaplyko & Ekaterina Sorokina purchased/converted an old Masonic Temple into a breath-taking arts venue, all 3 floors covered with murals depicting characters from myths, legends and fairy tales from different cultures & nations – a 20 year project).

Peruvian Female Contemporary Artists Rising (presented by BLOC Art), this gallery promotes artists in ancient venues located in the Andes, Amazon, and coast of Peru, they are presenting 6 innovative, up-and-coming artists that focus on a range of current topics – such as ecology, pollution, gender abuse, and the Peruvian landscape, the artists are Lolo Ostia, Patica Jenkins Gibson, Carmen Reategui, Carolina Garcia Freundt, and the team of Veronica Penagos & Luciana Espinar.

Rising Stars from Down Under, view powerful works from 3 emerging contemporary Australian female artists, Elizabeth Langreiter (Sydney), Marisa Mu (Melbourne), and Lara Scolari (Sydney), witness the explosive energy emerging from Scolari's colorful, multi-layered organic forms & fluid shapes (she is already in important private & public collections around the world), Langreiter captures joyful escapism through her whimsical, textural, aerial scenes, and Mu channels luminous, layered abstracts that radiate movement, emotion, and soul. Together, these fast-rising Aussie artists represent the new wave in collectible Australian art.

For more information about this Fair please visit the site here.

uzomah ugwu 6/23/25 uzomah ugwu 6/23/25

BONHAMS APPOINTS GIROLAMO TIBERI VENTURUCCI AS HEAD OF ROMA OFFICE, SOUTH ITALY AND TUSCANY

Paris – Bonhams has appointed Girolamo Tiberi Venturucci as Head of Roma office, South Italy and Tuscany region with immediate effect (June 2025). He will be based in Roma (Italy). Italian born, Girolamo has grown up in Florence in a family working in the art business. He studied philosophical sciences in Università degli Studi di Firenze.

He started his career in London as an Intern at Sotheby’s and then worked for Carlo Orsi - Trinity Fine Art as Assistant, and then in galleries as Researcher, Business Developer and Cataloguer before relocating back to Italy working for a local auction house in the position of Assistant into the Furniture, Old Master Paintings and Old Master Sculptures departments. He then took the opportunity to relocate in Singapore working as General Valuer for a local auction house in 2023 and 2024 and finally decided to come back in Italy working as consultant in the furniture and works of art field.

Girolamo speaks fluently Italian, English and has a good command of French, German and Spanish.

“This is a very exciting challenge. It gives me great pleasure to be involved in the further development of the Italian market for this long-established auction house, to which I can bring my energy and my specialist knowledge. I look forward to liaising with clients from my homeland and offering them our expertise and services as an international market leader. I am also looking forward to strengthening the Bonhams brand among Italian collectors.”

— Girolamo Tiberi Venturucci

“We are delighted to have Girolamo represent us in Roma and the adjacent regions of South Italy and Tuscany. His personal and professional networks and his arts training will help us to build on our growing success in the region. I look forward to working with him.”

— Catherine Yaiche, Bonhams European CEO

About The Bonhams Network

Bonhams is a global network of auction houses, with the largest number of international salerooms, offering the widest range of collecting categories and selling at all price points. Bonhams is recognised for its bespoke service, and a dedication to local market relationships, enhanced by a global platform. With 14 salerooms, Bonhams presents over 1,000 sales annually, across more than 60 specialist categories, including fine art, collectables, luxury, wine & spirits, and collector cars.

Founded in 1793, Bonhams has representatives in more than 30 countries and operates flagship salerooms in London, New York, Paris, Los Angeles, and Hong Kong. In 2022, Bonhams added four international auction houses to its network: Bukowskis, Stockholm; Bruun Rasmussen, Copenhagen; Cornette de Saint Cyr, Paris and Brussels; and Skinner, Massachusetts. The success of Bonhams’ global strategy is a result of recognising the shift in growing intercontinental buying and increased digital engagement. More information HERE

In 2023, Bonhams achieved 14% growth with $1.14 billion in turnover. Recent important auctions and landmark single-owner collections, include the white glove sales of Sir Michael Caine: The Personal Collection, Alain Delon: Sixty Years of Passion; Sir Roger Moore: The Personal Collection; Personal Property of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and The Robert & Jean-Pierre Rousset Collection of Asian Art: A Century of Collecting. Other notable single-owner sales included The Estate of Barbara Walters: American Icon; The Alan and Simone Hartman Collection; The Crown Auction: Props and Costumes and The Claude de Marteau Collection.

Top lots for 2023 include 1967 Ferrari 412P Berlinetta, Sold at Quail Lodge, US for US$30,255,000. Tipu Sultan’s Bedchamber Sword (sold in London for £14m – a world record for both an Islamic and an Indian object); Paul Signac (1863-1935), Sisteron, 1902. Sold for US$8,580,000 (estimate US$4-6 million), and Claude Monet (1840-1926), La Seine près de Giverny, 1888. Sold for US$6,352,500 (estimate US$4-6m), both from the Alan and Simone Hartman Collection; A Gilt Copper Alloy figure of Virupaksha, Central Tibet, Densatil Monastery, Early 15th century. Sold for HK$37.9m (£4,060,326) in Hong Kong. Yoshitomo Nara (born 1959) Three Stars. Sold for HK$36,754,000 (£3,930,914, also in Hong Kong

For more information about this auction and others featured by Bonhams, please visit their site. Bonhams can also be found on Instagram, Facebook, X, YouTube, and Pinterest.

uzomah ugwu 6/7/25 uzomah ugwu 6/7/25

BONHAMS APPOINTS CELINE ASSIMON AS CHIEF COMMERCIAL OFFICER

*Celine Assimon appointed Chief Commercial Officer at Bonhams*

London – Bonhams announces the appointment of Celine Assimon as Chief Commercial Officer. With a distinguished career in luxury and fine jewellery, Celine brings more than 20 years of experience leading commercial strategy, client engagement, and brand development across global markets.

Prior to joining Bonhams, Celine served as CEO of De Beers London, where she led a major brand transformation, expanded international retail presence, and implemented customer-centric strategies. Previously she was also CEO of De Beers Forevermark, CEO of De Grisogono, and held senior leadership roles at Richemont and Louis Vuitton, including International Director of High Jewellery and Exceptional pieces at Piaget. Celine is a certified diamond graduate from the GIA.

In her new role at Bonhams, Celine will be based in London and oversee global commercial strategy and drive client experience across all business areas. She will be instrumental in aligning the company’s commercial vision with its expanding global platform, ensuring consistent growth and innovation across Bonhams’ diverse portfolio of categories.

“We are delighted to welcome Celine Assimon to Bonhams. She brings a powerful blend of commercial expertise, leadership, and a deep understanding of the luxury market. Her appointment reinforces our commitment to strengthening client relationships and enhancing Bonhams’ global commercial capabilities.”

— Chabi Nouri, Global CEO, Bonhams

“I am thrilled to join Bonhams at such a dynamic point in its evolution. With its exceptional heritage and forward-looking vision, Bonhams is uniquely positioned in the auction world. I look forward to contributing to its continued global growth and success.”

— Celine Assimon, Chief Commercial Officer, Bonhams

About The Bonhams Network

For more information about this auction and others featured by Bonhams, please visit their site. Bonhams can also be found on Instagram, Facebook, X, YouTube, and Pinterest.

uzomah ugwu 5/7/25 uzomah ugwu 5/7/25

Gooding Christie’s And Rétromobile Announce Multi-Year Partnership With Inaugural Paris And New York Auctions In 2026

Amelia Island Auctions 2025, Photos by Hanna Yamamoto.

Santa Monica, Calif. and Paris, France– Gooding Christie’s is delighted to announce the signing of a multi-year partnership with Rétromobile, the foremost European automotive event, whose 50th edition will take place from January 28 to February 1, 2026. Through this partnership, Gooding Christie’s will serve as the official auction partner of Rétromobile’s flagship Paris event, which takes place annually at the close of January and start of February at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, as well as the newly announced US edition of the event. The first installment in the US is set to take place at New York’s Javits Center in November 2026.

The selection of Gooding Christie’s as the official auction partner for this next stage of Rétromobile’s global development is a natural choice, highlighting the respective brands’ shared vision of showcasing the world’s most historic, significant, and quality collector cars. Further, this partnership marks a milestone as the first major new auction venture undertaken by Gooding Christie’s post-acquisition on an international scale.

“We are proud to announce our first ever European auction as Gooding Christie’s, and what better event to partner with than the illustrious Salon Rétromobile, the leading European classic car event. Rétromobile has been a vibrant marketplace for the last 50 years, with the most prominent collectors and dealers transacting the most significant cars,” said Gooding Christie's President, David Gooding. “We look forward to taking the center stage at the Parisian and New York events.” “The Rétromobile team hosts a wonderful event for the global automotive community centered in the heart of Paris, and we could not be more enthused about our new partnership as the official auction house,” said Francis Belin, President of Christie's Asia Pacific, who also oversees the global luxury portfolio of activities. “In addition to the Parisian event, the New York edition provides a spectacular venue for our new North American auction, and presents Gooding Christie's with the next step of growth and expansion in the international collector car market."

“During my travels in the United States I had the opportunity to attend several sales orchestrated by David Gooding and his team. The quality of the collections on display was simply exceptional,” said Romain Grabowski, Director of Rétromobile. “It is this expertise, these values, and the reputation of this auction house that attracted us, as well as Christie's’ international reach and expertise in the art and luxury goods world. There is no doubt that this new collaboration will be one of the highlights of our 50th edition. The entire Rétromobile team joins me in welcoming everyone at Gooding Christie's to the great Rétromobile family!”

“Who better than Gooding Christie's to lead the auction at the new Rétromobile New York show? With David Gooding as the world-renowned expert in the classic car market together with the prestige and heritage of Christie’s name,” said Gérard Neveu, Director of Rétromobile New York. “With this new partnership, and for the ultimate pleasure and benefit of American car collectors and all our future visitors, Rétromobile New York has once again been afforded the best means possible to prepare for an exceptional event in Manhattan from November 19 to 22, 2026.”

About Gooding Christie’s

Gooding Christie’s is world renowned for its market-leading automotive auctions, private brokerage, and unparalleled service in the international collector car market with over two decades of operation. Gooding Christie’s consistently sets world record prices and redefines market standards through both its live auctions and Geared Online platform with best-of-category cars across numerous verticals. The commitment to presenting the highest quality of consignments while operating with the utmost integrity and transparency has provided the company an unmatched reputation of trust and respect. Offering a wide range of services including private and estate sales, appraisals, collection management, and financing options, Gooding Christie’s is ready to assist you. To browse available offerings, discover upcoming auctions, view conditions of sale, or learn more about consigning your vehicle or registering to bid at a future sale, please visit goodingco.com.

About Rétromobile

Founded in 1976, Rétromobile is today one of the most prestigious collector car exhibitions in Europe. This stature has allowed it to bring together everyone from the vintage car world, and offer unprecedented and exclusive displays and special features. It is also acknowledged by its visitors as being the world's largest temporary garage dedicated to cars. As a true leader in the vehicle market, Rétromobile is the annual gathering for all car fans.

About Comexposium

The Comexposium Group is one of the leading event organisers worldwide, creating events that bring communities together to discover and explore businesses, passions and interests. Comexposium organizes more than 150 professional and general public events, covering more than 10 sectors of activity (agriculture/food, retail/digital, fashion/accessories, leisure…). The group connects 48,000 exhibitors and 3.5 million visitors, 365 days a year in 22 countries. Creating experiences and encounters between individuals, Comexposium’s enables throughout its events (SIAL, All4Pack, Paris Retail Week, One to One Monaco & Biarritz, Foire de Paris, Rétromobile, etc.) and its associated content its communities to be connected all year round through an effective and targeted omni-channel approach.

About Christie’s

Founded in 1766, Christie’s is a world-leading art and luxury business with a physical presence in 46 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, Middle East, and Asia Pacific, and flagship  international sales hubs  in New York, London, Hong Kong, Paris and Geneva. Renowned and trusted for our expert live and online-only auctions, as well as bespoke Private Sales, Christie’s unparalleled network of specialists offers our clients a full portfolio of  global services, including art appraisal, art financing, international real estate and education. Christie’s  auctions span more than  80 art and luxury categories, at price points ranging from $500 to over $100 million. Christie’s has sold 7 of the 10 most important single-owner collections in history, achieved the world record price for an artwork at auction, launched the first  fully on-chain auction platform dedicated to exceptional NFT art and manages an investment fund to support innovative startups in the art market. Christie’s is also committed to advancing  responsible culture  throughout its business and communities worldwide. To learn more, browse, bid, discover, and join us for the best of art and luxury at christies.com or by downloading Christie’s apps. The auction house can also be found on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and X.

uzomah ugwu 4/28/25 uzomah ugwu 4/28/25

BONHAMS APPOINTS CLÉMENCE MÉRAT AS JEWELLERY SPECIALIST IN ROMA

Paris – Bonhams has appointed Clémence Mérat as Senior Jewellery specialist with immediate effect (April 2025). She will be based in Roma (Italy). French born, Clémence graduated with a bachelor’s in art history from I.E.S.A. and holds a master’s degree from La Sorbonne University, Paris.

She moved to London, where she attended her final year of master's at L.S.E. (London School of Economics, London) and got her Graduate Gemologist diploma from GIA (Gemological Institute of America, London) in 2011. She started her career in London, working for William & Son, a British Luxury Brand, as their Head of Jewellery, for 7 years and then launched her own brand, NYF Jewellery.

She relocated to Italy in 2021 working for Catawiki and overseeing the jewellery category as Category Lead New Jewellery.

Clémence was brought into the auction world for her deep-rooted expertise in jewellery, built over years of working across all facets of the industry. Her nuanced understanding of design, craftsmanship, gemstones, and market trends enables her to expertly assess pieces, evaluate provenance and value, and curate collections with a discerning eye. From advising on acquisitions and authenticating high-value items to crafting compelling narratives that connect jewellery to its history and future owner, Clémence brings both rigour and passion to the auction luxury market. Her ability to bridge the gap between heritage and commercial appeal makes her an invaluable asset in positioning jewellery for success at auction.

“Bonhams’ recent expansion has made it one of the most accessible auction houses in the world with strong local roots. The Bonhams global Jewellery team comprises a close-knit team of specialists renowned for their professionalism, expertise and delivering strong results. I am honoured to be joining one of the most entrepreneurial auction houses.”

— Clémence Mérat

“I am delighted to welcome Clémence at Bonhams. Her 15 years’ experience in jewellery product development, purchasing, valuation and appraisals gained in auction houses and luxury brands and gem dealing are a great asset for Bonhams. I look forward to working with her.”

— Catherine Yaiche, Bonhams’ European Director

About The Bonhams Network

Bonhams is a global network of auction houses, with the largest number of international salerooms, offering the widest range of collecting categories and selling at all price points. Bonhams is recognised for its bespoke service, and a dedication to local market relationships, enhanced by a global platform. With 14 salerooms, Bonhams presents over 1,000 sales annually, across more than 60 specialist categories, including fine art, collectables, luxury, wine & spirits, and collector cars.

Founded in 1793, Bonhams has representatives in more than 30 countries and operates flagship salerooms in London, New York, Paris, Los Angeles, and Hong Kong. In 2022, Bonhams added four international auction houses to its network: Bukowskis, Stockholm; Bruun Rasmussen, Copenhagen; Cornette de Saint Cyr, Paris and Brussels; and Skinner, Massachusetts. The success of Bonhams’ global strategy is a result of recognising the shift in growing intercontinental buying and increased digital engagement.

In 2023, Bonhams achieved 14% growth with $1.14 billion in turnover. Recent important auctions and landmark single-owner collections, include the white glove sales of Sir Michael Caine: The Personal Collection, Alain Delon: Sixty Years of Passion; Sir Roger Moore: The Personal Collection; Personal Property of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and The Robert & Jean-Pierre Rousset Collection of Asian Art: A Century of Collecting. Other notable single-owner sales included The Estate of Barbara Walters: American Icon; The Alan and Simone Hartman Collection; The Crown Auction: Props and Costumes and The Claude de Marteau Collection.

Top lots for 2023 include 1967 Ferrari 412P Berlinetta, Sold at Quail Lodge, US for US$30,255,000. Tipu Sultan’s Bedchamber Sword (sold in London for £14m – a world record for both an Islamic and an Indian object); Paul Signac (1863-1935), Sisteron, 1902. Sold for US$8,580,000 (estimate US$4-6 million), and Claude Monet (1840-1926), La Seine près de Giverny, 1888. Sold for US$6,352,500 (estimate US$4-6m), both from the Alan and Simone Hartman Collection; A Gilt Copper Alloy figure of Virupaksha, Central Tibet, Densatil Monastery, Early 15th century. Sold for HK$37.9m (£4,060,326) in Hong Kong. Yoshitomo Nara (born 1959) Three Stars. Sold for HK$36,754,000 (£3,930,914), also in Hong Kong.

For more information about these auctions and others featured By Bonhams, please visit their site. Bonhams can also be found on Instagram, Facebook, X, YouTube, and Pinterest.

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Alexander Gray Associates announces the representation of Donald Moffett

Donald Moffett Lot 020425 (the probe, A), 2025 Oil on linen on panel with steel hardware 20 1/2 x 16 1/2 in (52.1 x 41.9 cm) Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York; Anthony Meier, Mill Valley© 2025 Donald Moffett

Alexander Gray Associates is pleased to announce the representation of Donald Moffett (b. 1955). In September 2025, the Gallery will present a solo exhibition of Moffett’s work.

Moffett was born in San Antonio, Texas and lives and works in New York. He interweaves political urgency with rigorous formal experimentation across disciplines. As a founding member of Gran Fury (1988–95), the artistic arm of ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), Moffett’s practice emerged from the crucible of 1980s AIDS activism. His paintings, sculptures, and installations resonate with this legacy, though his formal investigations have expanded beyond their initial sociopolitical imperative to encompass the climate crisis. Through innovative techniques, he creates charged spaces where aesthetic investigations and social consciousness coalesce, consistently pushing mediums beyond their conventional limits.

Moffett’s paintings, sculptures, and installations resonate with the legacy of his early activism, though his formal investigations have expanded beyond their initial sociopolitical imperative to encompass the climate crisis.

Moffett’s extruded oil paint and epoxy resin paintings are central to his oeuvre. Begun three decades ago, these abstractions feature textured peaks and glossy pools of pigment that evoke biological forms—roots, bacteria, orifices—while embodying the artist's philosophy that his works "say nothing but … show quite a bit." Moffett’s creative process deliberately transcends conventional categorization, merging industrial fabrication methods with fine art techniques to challenge established boundaries between painting, sculpture, and manufacturing. The resulting works achieve a distinctive tension: simultaneously calculated and spontaneous, they inhabit an intermediate space where intuitive expression meets mechanical precision. Moffett further disrupts traditional notions of the picture plane through strategies like drilling, slicing, and routing to reveal his work’s internal structure and the architectural space behind it. His deliberate perforations function as formal innovations and conceptual interventions, introducing themes of absence, fragility, and perseverance into seemingly impenetrable surfaces.

Donald Moffett Lot 020220 (early life, theta), 2020 Pigmented epoxy resin on wood panel with steel hardware 12 x 6 5/8 x 5 3/4 in (30.5 x 16.8 x 14.6 cm) Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York; Anthony Meier, Mill Valley © 2025 Donald Moffett

Further expanding on this methodology, Moffett developed NATURE CULT in the mid-2010s. This ongoing project examines the climate crisis through complex investigations of surface and structure, language and graphics. The body of work features a variety of pierced and carved panels, found object sculptures and installations, bumper stickers, and vibrantly colored birdhouses—all melancholic tributes to the biodiversity threatened by widespread inaction. The series reveals how Moffett has never strayed from the core concerns that have animated his work for more than four decades: the relationship between abstraction and politics and the role of art in social discourse.

Moffett's artistic contributions lie not just in his formal innovations, but also in his ability to merge the political with the visual. His work demonstrates how art can maintain its relevance while engaging with both historical traditions and contemporary concerns, creating a space where aesthetics and politics coexist without compromising either.

Moffett’s work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including NATURE CULT, SEEDED, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland (2024); DONALD MOFFETT + NATURE CULT + THE McNAY, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX (2022); The Extravagant Vein, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX (2011), traveled to The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, and Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (both 2012); and Donald Moffett: What Barbara Jordan Wore, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL (2002). His work has also been featured in many group shows, including Gran Fury: Arte não é o bastante (Gran Fury: Art is Not Enough), Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), Brazil (2024); This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (2024); Every Moment Counts—AIDS and its Feelings, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway (2019); United by AIDS—An Exhibition about Loss, Remembrance, Activism and Art in Response to HIV/AIDS, Migros Museum für Gegenwartkunst, Zurich, Switzerland (2019); and the 1993 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY. Moffett’s work is featured in global public and private collections, including the Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, TX; Brooklyn Museum, NY; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; The Menil Collection, Houston, TX; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; and Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, among others. Moffett recently received the Texas Medal of Arts Award, Texas Cultural Trust, Austin, and, as a member of Gran Fury, was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston in 2011. Moffett is also represented by Anthony Meier, Mill Valley, CA.

For more information about Alexander Gray Associates and this announcement, artists, and exhibitions, please visit their site here. The gallery can also be found on Instagram here.

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The Pace Gallery celebrates 65 years

Robert Indiana, LOVE (Red Outside Gold Inside), 1966–1999, Conceived: 1966; Executed: 1999 SCULPTURE polychrome aluminum 36" × 36" × 18" (91.4 cm × 91.4 cm × 45.7 cm) © The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative, courtesy Pace Gallery

On Friday, April 25, The Pace Gallery celebrates 65 years since it was founded by Arne and Milly Glimcher.

Throughout 2025, Pace is celebrating its 65th anniversary year with a series of exhibitions around the globe of work by artists who have been central to its program for decades. This special run of anniversary exhibitions is an ode to some of the gallery's longest-lasting relationships. Over the course of their careers, these figures, with Pace's support, charted new courses in the history of art. Pace's 65th anniversary presentations are listed chronologically below.

· Joel Shapiro: Works from 1975–2024, Tokyo, January 17–February 22

· Louise Nevelson: Shadow Dance, New York, January 17–March 1; Louise Nevelson: The Fourth Dimension, Seoul, April 11–May 17

· Kenneth Noland: Paintings 1966–2006, Seoul, January 10–March 29; Tokyo, March 7–May 6

· Sam Gilliam: The Flow of Color, Seoul, January 10–March 29; Tokyo, March 7–May 6

· Jean Dubuffet: The Hourloupe Cycle, New York, March 13–April 26; Reverse Alchemy: Dubuffet, Basquiat, Nava, Berlin, May 2–June 14

· Robert Indiana: The Shape of the World, Hong Kong, March 25–May 9; Robert Indiana: The American Dream, New York, May 9–August 15

· Robert Irwin in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, April 5–June 7

· Robert Mangold: Pentagons and Folded Space, New York, May 9–August 15

· Pace: 65 Years, Geneva, May 21–August 9

· James Turrell, Seoul, June 12–August 16

· Claes Oldenburg, Tokyo, July 18–August 23

· Agnes Martin, New York, November/December

Opening May 21 and running through the end of the summer, Pace will open a group exhibition at its Geneva gallery delving into the past 65 years of Pace through a changing display of works that—situating the gallery's contemporary program in the context of its 20th century history—cultivates a dialogue between the past and present. Featuring works by Lynda Benglis, Adolph Gottlieb, Agnes Martin, Yoshitomo Nara, Louise Nevelson, Adam Pendleton, Pablo Picasso, Richard Pousette-Dart, Lucas Samaras, Antoni TaÌpies, and other major figures, this focused, thoughtfully curated presentation will invite visitors to learn about Pace's legacy.

These exhibitions are accompanied by films featuring gallery founders Arne and Milly Glimcher and CEO Marc Glimcher discussing their relationships with artists over the course of the past 65 years. The films and other archival material are accessible here.

Pace is a leading international art gallery representing some of the most influential artists and estates of the 20th and 21st centuries, founded by Arne Glimcher in 1960. Holding decades-long relationships with Alexander Calder, Jean Dubuffet, Agnes Martin, Louise Nevelson, and Mark Rothko, Pace has a unique history that can be traced to its early support of artists central to the Abstract Expressionist and Light and Space movements. Now in its seventh decade, the gallery continues to nurture its longstanding relationships with its legacy artists and estates while also making an investment in the careers of contemporary artists, including Torkwase Dyson, Loie Hollowell, Robert Nava, Adam Pendleton, and Marina Perez Simão.

Under the current leadership of CEO Marc Glimcher and President Samanthe Rubell, Pace has established itself as a collaborative force in the art world, partnering with other galleries and nonprofit organizations around the world in recent years. The gallery advances its mission to support its artists and share their visionary work with audiences and collectors around the world through a robust global program anchored by its exhibitions of both 20th century and contemporary art and scholarly projects from its imprint Pace Publishing, which produces books introducing new voices to the art historical canon. This artist-first ethos also extends to public installations, philanthropic events, performances, and other interdisciplinary programming presented by Pace.

Today, Pace has eight locations worldwide, including two galleries in New York—its eight-story headquarters at 540 West 25th Street and an adjacent 8,000-square-foot exhibition space at 510 West 25th Street. The gallery’s history in the New York art world dates to 1963, when it opened its first space in the city on East 57th Street. A champion of Light and Space artists, Pace has also been active in California for some 60 years, opening its West Coast flagship in Los Angeles in 2022. The gallery maintains European footholds in London and Geneva as well as Berlin, where it established an office in 2023. Pace was one of the first international galleries to have a major presence in Asia, where it has been active since 2008, the year it first opened in Beijing’s vibrant 798 Art District. It now operates galleries in Hong Kong and Seoul and opened its first gallery in Japan in Tokyo’s Azabudai Hills development in 2024.

For more news regarding Pace Gallery, please visit their website here. Pace Gallery can be found on Instagram and Artsy, too

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Pace Gallery Announces Booth Highlights for Art Basel Hong Kong 2025

From Left to Right: Matta, Tail-cock party, 1970, Artwork by Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren © 2025 Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris; Yin Xiuzhen, Wall\ Instrument-Standing Waves Document No. 14, 2021-2022 © Yin Xiuzhen, courtesy Pace Gallery; Kiki Smith, Consort, 2016 © Kiki Smith, courtesy Pace Gallery; Li Hei Di, The monstrosity lies in between us, 2025 © Li Hei Di, courtesy Pace Gallery.

The gallery’s booth (#1D27) will spotlight a large-scale painting by Matta alongside contemporary works by Loie Hollowell, Alicja Kwade, Lee Ufan, Li Hei Di, Arlene Shechet, Kiki Smith, and other artists

Pace’s presentation will also bring together works by artists living and working in China, including Hong Hao, Li Songsong, Song Dong, Yin Xiuzhen, and Zhang Xiaogang Solo presentations by Alicja Kwade at Tai Kwun in Hong Kong and Kiki Smith at Yi Space in Hangzhou will be on view during this year’s edition of Art Basel Hong Kong, and a new installation by Yin Xiuzhen—commissioned by the UBS Art Collection—will be unveiled in the UBS Lounge at the fair.

An exhibition of work by American artist Robert Indiana—who emerged as a key figure in the Pop art movement in the 1960s—will be on view at Pace’s Hong Kong gallery during the run of the fair.

Highlights on Pace’s booth at Art Basel Hong Kong include:

• Tail-cock party (1970), a vibrant, large-scale painting by Matta, one of the great surrealists of the 20th century who profoundly influenced the development of Abstract Expressionism

• A 2008 painting from Lee Ufan’s Dialogue series

• A new painting by Li Hei Di, who joined Pace’s program in 2024 and will open their first solo exhibition with the gallery at its Hong Kong space in May

• A group of wall-mounted, mixed media installations by Yin Xiuzhen, whose new installation Flag Gate UBS (2024–25), commissioned by the UBS Art Collection, will be unveiled in the UBS Lounge at the fair this year

• Kiki Smith’s sculpture Consort (2016), which reflects the artist’s enduring interest in embodied experiences of nature

• A new installation by Song Dong, who often explores memory, impermanence, and transience in his work

• A new painting by Alejandro Piñeiro Bello depicting an undulating, otherworldly landscape inspired by the history, folklore, and spirit of the Caribbean

• A sculpture and multiple mixed media works by Alicja Kwade, whose exhibition at Tai Kwun in Hong Kong continues through April 6 and who will present a solo exhibition at Pace’s New York gallery in May

• A 2023 painting by Loie Hollowell, known for her works that evoke bodily landscapes

• Li Songsong’s Mindscape 1 (2025), a canvas that speaks to the artist’s imaginative and expressionistic approach to painting

• A new painting from Mika Tajima’s celebrated Art d'Ameublement series, named for composer Erik Satie’s

Furniture Music (Musique d’ameublement) and featuring vivid, radiant color gradients

• Three ceramic and steel sculptures by Arlene Shechet, who uses seemingly disparate shapes, colors, and materials to imbue her works with psychological and emotional resonances

• A 2023 sculpture by Joel Shapiro, who has pushed the boundaries of sculptural form over the past six decades with a body of work distinguished by its dynamism, complexity, and formal elegance

• A mixed media painting by Hong Hao, who, over the past decade, has increasingly focused on the expressive potential of material itself, continuing his reflection on social constructions of value

• A 1979 painting by Yoo Youngkuk, a pioneer of geometric abstract painting celebrated for his distinctive visual lexicon characterized by bold color fields and expressive applications of paint

• Role-player (2016), a surrealistic canvas by Zhang Xiaogang

• A 2023 Bodyscape painting by Lee Kun-Yong, whose work explores the ways that the body and its movements can be understood across time

Pace Gallery can be found at Booth #1D27 Presentation at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre: March 28–30, 2025

For more information about Art Basel Hong Kong please visit their site here., please visit the Pace Gallery’s website here for more information about the Gallery and the artists it represents. Pace Gallery can be found on Instagram and Artsy, too.

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Rust-Oleum debuts Rust-O

Rust-Oleum debuts Rust-O, a spray paint created exclusively for artists. To celebrate, the

company is hosting an exciting launch event on March 13 from 7 - 10 p.m. at the Secret

Walls Headquarters (2272 Venice Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90006).

The night will be an explosive artistic bash and palpable vibes as we celebrate the launch

of Rust-Oleum’s first spray paint designed by and for artists. Headlined with a classic

Secret Walls battle featuring industry OG, Persue, and rising talent, George F Baker III,

the two will bring this must-try product to life, and battle it out on the canvas for a thrilling

head-to-head spray paint bout.

Beyond the battle, attendees will get exclusive access to try the new Rust-O spray paint,

along with limited-edition merchandise giveaways. The celebration is more than just a

launch—it’s a tribute to the art community and a preview of the future for Rust-Oleum’s

commitment to creatives and the industry. Guests may also indulge in on-site food trucks

and dance the night away with a live DJ.

A public evite can be found here. This event is organized by Secert Walls. For more information about Secret Walls, please visit their website here. They can also be found on Instagram here.

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New Museum to Open OMA-Designed Building Expansion in Fall 2025

New York, NY — The New Museum, Manhattan’s only museum dedicated exclusively to contemporary art, today announced that its 60,000 sq ft building expansion designed by OMA / Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas in collaboration with Cooper Robertson will open in fall 2025.

Founded in 1977 in a temporary space on Hudson Street, the New Museum has experimented and evolved since its founding as a hub for new art and new ideas, expanding its footprint at key moments in its history to better serve artists and the public. Its OMA-designed expansion will complement the New Museum’s existing SANAA-designed flagship building on the Bowery at Prince Street while doubling the Museum’s gallery space; improving visitor flow through the addition of three elevators, an atrium stair, and an entrance plaza; creating new venues for artist residencies and public programs; and establishing a purpose-built home for the Museum’s cultural incubator NEW INC, among many other new and expanded features, marking a transformative moment for the Museum and the city.

“The New Museum has always been a future-facing museum—not a place for preserving and recording history, but a place where history is made,” said Lisa Phillips, Toby Devan Lewis Director of the New Museum. “We are thrilled to be working with Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas on OMA’s first public building in New York City, ushering in a new era of possibilities for the New Museum as a vital civic resource for New Yorkers and the global arts community.”

“The New Museum is an incubator for new cultural perspectives and production, and the expansion aims to embody that attitude of openness,” said Shohei Shigematsu, OMA Partner. “Imagined as a highly connected yet distinct counterpart to the existing museum’s verticality and solidity, the new building will offer horizontally expansive galleries for curatorial variety, open vertical circulation, and a diversity of spaces for gathering, exchange, and creation. The building is further shaped to create an active public face—including an outdoor plaza at the ground, moments of transparency throughout the central atrium, and terraced openings at the top—that will openly engage the surrounding community and beyond.”

“We are extremely grateful to all of those making the New Museum’s next chapter a reality, which would not be possible without the generous support of our Board of Trustees as well as numerous individuals, foundations, and government champions of this important project,” said James-Keith Brown, President of the New Museum’s Board of Trustees. “We look forward to inaugurating the new building with the kind of ambitious exhibition for which the New Museum is known, animating our expanded home on the Bowery with a timely exploration of artists’ visions of the future.”

The OMA building will be named in honor of the late visionary philanthropist Toby Devan Lewis, a long-serving New Museum Trustee whose $30 million contribution to the Capital Campaign is the largest gift in the Museum’s history. To date, the New Museum has raised $118 million towards its Capital Campaign goal of $125 million, with $82 million in construction costs.

About the Expanded Building

Complementing the New Museum’s existing architecture, the OMA-designed expansion will appear distinct on the outside while being seamlessly integrated on the inside. The new seven-story building will double the Museum’s gallery space, aligning ceiling heights on the second, third, and fourth floors for uninterrupted connectivity across both buildings. The OMA design will improve vertical circulation for visitors through the addition of an atrium stairway, which will offer views of the surrounding neighborhood and the opportunity for site-specific art installations, as well as three additional elevators, two of which will be dedicated to gallery access.

On the ground level, the Museum’s enlarged lobby will feature an expanded bookstore as well as a full-service restaurant, while just outside a new entrance plaza will create an open-air venue for public art installations at the terminus of Bowery and Prince Street. On the Museum’s upper floors, the new building will include a dedicated studio for artists-in-residence, a 74-seat forum, and a purpose-built home for NEW INC, the first museum-born cultural incubator, which will equip its annual cohort of 120+ creative entrepreneurs with collaborative working spaces and top-of-line production facilities.

The New Museum’s seventh floor Sky Room will double in size while retaining its panoramic views of downtown Manhattan, and the expanded building will include three additional upper-floor terraces overlooking the Bowery. On the exterior, laminated glass with metal mesh will provide a simple, unified façade by using materials that recall and complement the original SANAA building while allowing for a higher degree of transparency.

About the Inaugural Exhibition

Continuing the New Museum’s long history of presenting provocative and timely thematic exhibitions, New Humans: Memories of the Future will inaugurate the expanded building with an exploration of artists’ enduring preoccupation with what it means to be human in the face of sweeping technological changes.

Spanning the entire Museum, New Humans will trace a diagonal history of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries through the work of more than 150 international artists, writers, scientists, architects, and filmmakers, highlighting key moments when dramatic technological and societal changes spurred new conceptions of humanity and new visions for its possible futures. Placing new and recent works by artists including Sofia Al-Maria, Lucy Beech, Meriem Bennani, Cyprien Gaillard, Pierre Huyghe, Tau Lewis, Daria Martin, Wangechi Mutu, Precious Okoyomon, Berenice Olmedo, Philippe Parreno, Hito Steyerl, Jamian Juliano-Villani, and Anicka Yi in the context of works by twentieth century artists and cultural figures such as Francis Bacon, Constant Nieuwenhuys, Salvador Dalí, Ibrahim El-Salahi, H.R. Giger, Kiki Kogelnik, Hannah Höch, Tatsuo Ikeda, Gyula Kosice, El Lissitzky, Lennart Nilsson, Eduardo Paolozzi, Carlo Rambaldi, Germaine Richier, and Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, New Humans illuminates the ways in which artists’ visions of the future have evolved throughout time. Major support for New Humans is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

“Since its founding, the New Museum has looked at art as a tool that can help us understand the world around us. New Humans is an encyclopedic, interdisciplinary exhibition that continues the Museum's engagement with the most pressing issues of today. Through the work of more than 150 artists, writers, and cultural figures, New Humansreveals how our most terrifying contemporary concerns are in fact as old as humanity itself,” said Massimiliano Gioni, Edlis Neeson Artistic Director of the New Museum. “As the New Museum enters an expansive new chapter in its own history, New Humans highlights the role artists play in interpreting and confronting the critical issues that will shape our collective fate.”

In addition to New Humans, the expanded New Museum will reopen with multiple site-specific commissions enabled by new architectural spaces. Among these will be a new work entitled VENUS VICTORIA by Sarah Lucas as the first recipient of the Hostetler/Wrigley Sculpture Award, a biannual juried prize supporting the production and exhibition of new work by women artists on the Museum’s public entrance plaza.

Information about additional new commissions, residencies, public programs, institutional collaborations, and series enabled by the expanded building will be announced in the coming months.

Later this year, the New Museum will announce its 2026 exhibition schedule, which will include the first New York museum solo presentation of artist Arthur Jafa and the next edition of the New Museum Triennial, launched in 2009 as the first recurring international exhibition in New York City devoted to emerging artists from around the world.

For the latest on the New Museum’s building expansion and reopening programs, please register for updates here. The New Museum can also be found on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, and X.

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Christie’s Unveils New Charitable Arts Initiative To Raise Vital Funds For Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity

Peter Doig, *Lion in the Road (Port of Spain)*, 2020 (estimate: £250,000 – 350,000)

Christie’s is honoured to have partnered with Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity (GOSH Charity) to present its BUILD IT, BEAT IT charitable arts initiative, a collection of 29 artworks by 28 leading contemporary artists. The works will be offered in Christie’s upcoming Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale on 6 March 2025, and proceeds from the sale will help GOSH Charity build a new, world-leading Children’s Cancer Centre at GOSH.

Twenty-nine works have been donated to be auctioned during the Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale to raise funds to help build a new Children’s Cancer Centre at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH).

Jadé Fadojutimi, *Untitled*, 2024 (estimate: £350,000 – 450,000)

The following artists have generously contributed to BUILD IT, BEAT IT: Rana Begum, Sara Berman, Winston Branch, Lisa Brice, Victoria Cantons, Nicolás Colón, Peter Doig, Tracey Emin, Jadé Fadojutimi, Faile, Laura Footes, Nick Goss, Arch Hades, Celia Hempton, Clementine Keith-Roach, Matthew Krishanu, Sophia Loeb, Helen Marden, Peter McDonald, Eddie Peake, Gideon Rubin, Laurie Smith, Jessie Stevenson, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, Hannah Tilson, Caroline Walker, Georg Wilson, and Xu Yang.

Works being offered in the sale range from £1,200 to £350,000, with a combined estimate of £814,700 – 1,147,800

Lisa Brice, *Untitled*, 2023 (estimate: £20,000 – 30,000)

GOSH is one of Europe’s leading hospitals and research centres dedicated to paediatric care. GOSH Charity exists to provide funding above and beyond what the NHS covers, to help provide world-leading care, expertise and facilities. GOSH Charity is currently in the middle of its biggest-ever fundraising appeal – the Build it. Beat it. appeal - which aims to raise £300m to help build a new, state-of-the-art Children’s Cancer Centre at GOSH, which will drive transformation in children’s cancer care and save more lives.

Caroline Walker, *Study for Amusements*, 2024 (estimate: £20,000 – 30,000)

“Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) stands at the forefront of paediatric care and research in Europe. The forthcoming Children’s Cancer Centre is envisioned as a beacon of hope, dedicated not only to treating cancer but also to nurturing the holistic well-being of each child, ensuring they thrive beyond survival. The ambition, potential, and hope embodied by this new centre are reflected in the remarkable generosity of the 28 contemporary artists contributing to BUILD IT, BEAT IT. Christie’s is honoured to have devised this collaboration to support GOSH’s critical and transformative work. We remain committed to engaging in philanthropic partnerships that leverage art and our expertise for the greater good, uniting the art world to support children facing critical illnesses.”

— Katharine Arnold, Vice-Chairman, Head of Post-War and Contemporary Art, Europe and Annabelle Scholar, Client advisor, Chairman’s Office, EMEA at Christie’s

“ We are thrilled to be collaborating with Christie’s on this art collection which will raise vital funds for the new, world-leading Children’s Cancer Centre at GOSH. On behalf of everyone here at GOSH Charity, I also want to offer a heartfelt thank you to all of the generous artists who have donated these pieces of art. GOSH Charity believes no childhood should be lost to serious illness and every penny raised in this auction will help us in our fight to achieve that.”

— GOSH Charity’s Director of Fundraising, Liz Tait

100% of the hammer price for these lots will be paid to Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity (charity number 1160024) and GOSH has indicated that funds will go towards building the Children’s Cancer Centre at GOSH.

*Christie’s shall donate 50% of the buyer’s premium for all lots sold to Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity.
Funds will support the vital cancer care services at GOSH, including the refurbishment of GOSH buildings, upgrading equipment, pioneering research, kinder treatments and offering vital welfare services to our families during their time at GOSH.

*In the event that the needs of the hospital or patients change, GOSH reserves the right to redirect funds for use against the hospital’s most urgent needs.

About Christie’s

For more information about GOSH, please visit their site here. The organization can be found on X, Facebook, and Instagram.

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Pace Gallery Announces Details of Upcoming Robert Indiana Exhibition in New York, Opening May 9

Robert Indiana, LOVE, 1965 PAINTING oil on canvas 12”× 12" (30.5 cm × 30.5 cm)© The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative, courtesy Pace Gallery

Pace is pleased to announce that it will present Robert Indiana: The American Dream, a major exhibition including seminal examples of paintings and sculpture created by the artist beginning in the early 1960s and developed throughout subsequent decades of his artistic career, to be shown at its 540 West 25th Street gallery in New York from May 9 to August 15.

Robert Indiana, ONE Through ZERO (The Ten Numbers), 1978– 2003, Conceived: 1978; Executed: 2003 SCULPTURE stainless steel on steel base 18" × 18" × 10" (45.7 cm × 45.7 cm × 25.4 cm), including base © The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative, courtesy Pace Gallery

Examining Indiana’s critique of the duality of the American Dream—both its promise and its privations—this exhibition will highlight the connections between the artist’s personal history and the social, political, and cultural realities of postwar America. Reflecting on the critical and political underpinnings of Indiana’s work, as well as his enduring impact as an artist, Pace’s presentation will include loans from several prominent institutions.

Robert Indiana, Two, 1960-62, cast 1991 SCULPTURE painted bronze 61-1/8" × 18-1/2" × 19-1/2" (155.3 cm × 47 cm × 49.5 cm) © The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative, courtesy Pace Gallery

One of the preeminent figures in American art since the 1960s, Robert Indiana–born Robert Clark in the state of Indiana in 1928–played a central role in the development of assemblage art, hard-edge painting, and Pop art. Indiana, a self-proclaimed “American painter of signs,” created a highly original body of work that explores American identity, personal history, and the power of abstraction and language. His legacy resonates in the work of many contemporary artists who make the written word a central element of their oeuvre, making him one of the most important figures in the recent history of art.

Robert Indiana, Four Diamond Ping, 2003 PAINTING oil on canvas Four panels, overall: 102" × 102" (259.1 cm × 259.1 cm), diamond Each panel: 51" × 51" (129.5 cm × 129.5 cm) © The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative, courtesy Pace Gallery

Pace’s exhibition in New York will be accompanied by a new catalogue from Pace Publishing, which will shed light on Indiana’s lifelong artistic engagement with both the aspirations of the American dream and its dark underbelly–the repressed dimensions of American history and society, from colonialism to materialism and commodification. Among the works on view will be the 1961 painting The Calumet, which features the names of Native American tribes, acknowledging the presence of Indigenous life and culture within the subconscious of America; The Black Marilyn (1967/1998), a painting that speaks to the commodification of celebrity and desire in American mass media in the 1960s; and the painted bronze sculpture The American Dream (1992/2015), bearing fundamental words of the human condition: “HUG,” “ERR,” “EAT,” and “DIE.”

Pace’s presentation will also include works from Indiana’s iconic LOVE series, recontextualizing this important and well-known image within his broader practice and tying this motif to other words and ideas—including “EAT” and “DIE”—that recur across his paintings and sculptures, symbols of both personal and universal significance in Indiana’s work. An exhibition at Kasmin Gallery in New York—Robert Indiana: The Source, 1959—1969, highlighting works from the artist’s personal collection—will be presented from February 27 to March 29 in dialogue with Pace Gallery’s Robert Indiana: The American Dream. The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative, represented by Pace Gallery, and The Star of Hope Foundation, in partnership with Kasmin Gallery, have developed these distinct exhibitions in parallel to explore different aspects of Indiana’s artistic output and offer a diverse set of perspectives on the most formative decade of his career.

Oil 60 6. 12" Robert Indiana, Ginkgo, 2000 on canvas × 50 in. (152.4 × 127 cm) Private collection © Star of Hope Foundation, Vinalhaven, Maine

Today, Indiana’s work can be found in the permanent collections of museums including the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the National Gallery of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C.; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Menil Collection, Houston; Tate Modern, London; the Neue National galerie, Berlin; MUMOK (Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien), Vienna; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, among many other institutions around the world.

In 2013, the Whitney Museum of American Art hosted the artist’s first New York retrospective, Robert Indiana: Beyond LOVE, curated by Barbara Haskell. Indiana passed away in his home in Vinalhaven, Maine, on May 19, 2018, just a few weeks before the opening of his sculpture retrospective at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York (then Albright-Knox Art Gallery). Important posthumous one- artist exhibitions include, Love & Peace: A Robert Indiana Memorial Exhibition, Contemporary Art Foundation, Tokyo (2018); Robert Indiana: A Legacy of Love, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas (2020); Robert Indiana: Sculpture 1958-2018, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, United Kingdom (2022); Robert Indiana at Rockefeller Center, Rockefeller Center, New York (2023); and Robert Indiana: The Sweet Mystery, Procuratie Vecchie, Venice (2024), among others.

Established in 2022, The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative aims to increase awareness of and appreciation for the depth and breadth of the work of Robert Indiana and is the leading entity dedicated to the advancement of the artist’s work. Represented worldwide by Pace Gallery, The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative also manages the website and is responsible for The Robert Indiana Catalogue Raisonné, which is now available online here.

Pace is a leading international art gallery representing some of the most influential contemporary artists and estates from the past century, holding decades-long relationships with Alexander Calder, Jean Dubuffet, Barbara Hepworth, Agnes Martin, Louise Nevelson, and Mark Rothko. Pace enjoys a unique U.S. heritage spanning East and West coasts through its early support of artists central to the Abstract Expressionist and Light and Space movements.

Since its founding by Arne Glimcher in 1960, Pace has developed a distinguished legacy as an artist-first gallery that mounts seminal historical and contemporary exhibitions. Under the current leadership of CEO Marc Glimcher, Pace continues to support its artists and share their visionary work with audiences worldwide by remaining at the forefront of innovation. Now in its seventh decade, the gallery advances its mission through a robust global program— comprising exhibitions, artist projects, public installations, institutional collaborations, performances, and interdisciplinary projects. Pace has a legacy in art bookmaking and has published over five hundred titles in close collaboration with artists, with a focus on original scholarship and on introducing new voices to the art historical canon.

Today, Pace has seven locations worldwide, including European footholds in London and Geneva as well as Berlin, where the gallery established an office in 2023. Pace maintains two galleries in New York—its headquarters at 540 West 25th Street, which welcomed almost 120,000 visitors and programmed 20 shows in its first six months, and an adjacent 8,000 sq. ft. exhibition space at 510 West 25th Street. Pace’s long and pioneering history in California includes a gallery in Palo Alto, which was open from 2016 to 2022. Pace’s engagement with Silicon Valley’s technology industry has had a lasting impact on the gallery at a global level, accelerating its initiatives connecting art and technology as well as its work with experiential artists. Pace consolidated its West Coast activity through its flagship in Los Angeles, which opened in 2022. Pace was one of the first international galleries to establish outposts in Asia, where it operates permanent gallery spaces in Hong Kong and Seoul, along with an office and viewing room in Beijing. In spring 2024, Pace will open its first gallery space in Japan in Tokyo’s new Azabudai Hills development.

For more information about this exhibition and others, please visit the Pace Gallery’s website here. Pace Gallery can be found on Instagram and Artsy, too. For more information about Robert’s artwork and his legacy, please visit here. Star of Hope Foundation information can be found here. Information about the Kasmin Gallery can be found here.

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FRIEZE LOS ANGELES IMPACT AWARE ANNOUNCEMENT

Victor ‘Marka27’ Quiñonez. Courtesy: the artist

Los Angeles, CA – Victor "Marka27" Quiñonez has been named the recipient of the 2025 Frieze Los Angeles Impact Prize, an award that each year recognizes an artist whose work has made a profound social impact. As part of the award, Quiñonez will present a solo project at Frieze Los Angeles 2025 and receive a $25,000 prize. The initiative, realized in collaboration with WME Impact, is a key element of the curated program at Frieze Los Angeles and is presented in partnership with The Center for Art and Advocacy.

Returning to the Santa Monica Airport from February 20–23, 2025, Frieze Los Angeles is supported by\ global lead partner Deutsche Bank, reflecting a shared commitment to artistic excellence.

A distinguished panel, including Pamela J. Joyner (collector, businesswoman, and philanthropist), and Sable Elyse Smith (interdisciplinary artist and writer), selected Quiñonez’s proposal for the award in collaboration with Taylor Renee Aldridge (curator and writer) who has joined as the 2025 Frieze Los Angeles Impact Prize curator.

Victor Quiñonez, also known as Marka27, is an acclaimed street artist celebrated for his vibrant, multidisciplinary work that combines contemporary art, graffiti, vinyl toys, fashion and design with art activism. His large-scale murals reflect his cultural heritage and pay homage to the legacy of the Mexican Masters—Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Siqueiros, collectively known as los tres grandes (the three greats). Inspired by the empowerment of marginalized communities and the fight for representation, Quiñonez’s art serves as a powerful platform for social change.

Marka27's work spans paintings, murals, mixed-media pieces and private commissions, all reflecting his signature "Neo Indigenous" style, which blends the energy of street and pop culture with Mexican and Indigenous aesthetics. A pioneer in graffiti and street art, Quiñonez has evolved into a sought-after muralist, product designer, gallery artist and toy designer. In 2025, he is set to unveil a traveling solo exhibition with Boston University's Stone Gallery curated by Kate Fowle, a large-scale public art installation for The Shed in New York City, and a public art installation with PRISM in Cleveland, Seeing Beyond Mass Incarceration. Quiñonez received the Center for Art and Advocacy’s Right of Return Fellowship in 2022.

Frieze Los Angeles 2025 will spotlight Quiñonez’s artistic vision, debuting his I.C.E SCREAM series - a collection of paintings and sculptural installations confronting the immigrant experience and speaking to the beauty, strength, and resilience of migrant workers, street vendors, and Indigenous cultures.

ABOUT THE FRIEZE LOS ANGELES IMPACT PRIZE

The Frieze Los Angeles Impact Prize was catalyzed by Mark Bradford’s Life Size, a work created for Frieze Los Angeles 2019. Depicting a police body camera isolated on a simple, monochrome background, Life Size drew attention to the inequitable aspects of the criminal justice system. Since the establishment of the Frieze Impact Prize in 2022, the initiative has recognized artists who contribute their talents towards issues of social justice, including Gary Tyler, Mary Baxter, Maria Gaspar, Narciso Martinez and Dread Scott.

Curator Biography

Taylor Renee Aldridge is a curator and writer from Detroit, Michigan. In addition to working with living artists, she is interested in exploring, and interrogating the intimacies that are engendered, and sometimes required in artmaking. With writer Jessica Lynne, in 2014 she co-founded ARTS.BLACK, an online journal of art criticism from Black perspectives. Taylor has edited exhibition catalogs; Enunciated Life (CAAM, 2021) and Mario Moore | Enshrined: Presence + Preservation (Charles H. Wright Museum, 2021), and is the editor of All These\ Liberations: Women Artists in the Eileen Harris Norton Collection (Yale University Press, 2024). In Fall 2024, she assumed the role of Executive Director at Modern Ancient Brown Foundation, to offer resources to scholars and artists of color. She is the former Visual Arts Curator and Program Manager at the California African American Museum (CAAM), and has organized critically acclaimed exhibitions with CAAM, Detroit Institute of Arts, and Cranbrook Art Museum. Recent exhibitions include Simone Leigh (2024, CAAM & LACMA) Darol Olu Kae: Keeping Time (2023, CAAM); Chloë Bass | #sky #nofilter: Hindsight for A Future America (2023, CAAM); Mario Moore | Enshrined: Presence and Preservation (2022, CAAM; 2021 Charles H. Wright Museum); Troy Montez-Michie: Rock of Eye (2022, CAAM); Matthew Thomas: Enlightenment (2022, CAAM); LaToya Ruby Frazier: The Last Cruze (2021, CAAM); and Enunciated Life (2021, CAAM).

Her writing has appeared in Artforum , The Art Newspaper , Art21 , ARTNews , Canadian Art , Contemporary & , Detroit Metro Times , the defunct SFMOMA’s Open Space , and numerous catalogs. She is the recipient of the 2016 Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for Short Form Writing and the 2019 Rabkin Foundation Award for Art Journalism. She holds an MLA from Harvard University with a concentration in Museum Studies and a BA from Howard University with a concentration in Art History.

Juror Biographies

Taylor Renee Aldridge has nearly 30 years of experience in the investment industry. She is the Founder of Avid Partners, LLC where her expertise has been the alternative investment arena. Currently, Ms. Joyner is focused on her philanthropic interests in the arts and education.

Ms. Joyner is a Trustee of The Art Institute of Chicago, the J. Paul Getty Trust and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In 2020, she joined the board of trustees of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and in 2021 she became the co- chair of the Painting and Sculpture Committee. In 2020, with several others, she also founded the Black Trustee Alliance for Art Museums.

Previously, Ms. Joyner’s philanthropic involvements have included serving as: a member of President Obama’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities; a Trustee of Dartmouth College; a Trustee of the New York City Ballet; a Trustee and Co-Chair of the San Francisco Ballet Association; as well as other arts and educational organizations.

Sable Elyse Smith is an interdisciplinary artist and writer based in New York. Her creative practice spans the visual, literary, moving image and performing arts. Language is an ARCHITECTURE. She has built a practice tracing the threads of violence and power embedded within systems of belief, infrastructure, language, intimacy, the quotidian, and beyond. She was recently included on the 2024 TIME100 Next— The magazine's annual list of 100 individuals who are shaping the future of their fields and defining the next generation of leadership. Her work has been featured at the Museum of Modern Art, MoMA Ps1, New Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston and numerous others. In 2022 she was a participant in both the Whitney Biennial, and the 59th Venice Biennale. Most recently her first opera, If you unfolded us premiered at MoMA (July 2024). Smith has received awards from Joan Mitchell Foundation, Creative Capital, Suzanne Deal Booth / Flag Art Foundation Prize, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Fine Arts Work Center, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and Art Matters among others.

Opening Times:

• Thursday, February 20: (invitation only)

• Friday, February 21: 11am – 7pm (invitation only 11am – 1pm, open to the public from 1pm)

• Saturday, February 22: 11am – 7pm

• Sunday, February 23: 11am – 6pm

Accessibility

The fair is fully accessible for individuals with reduced mobility. Companion or carer tickets are available

free of charge: after booking your ticket, please get in touch at frieze.seetickets.com/customerservice to

arrange. Wheelchairs and hearing loops are available at the coat check, and ADA parking slots may be

accessed via Donald Douglas Loop. The accessibility map for Frieze Los Angeles 2024, with further

information for route planning, will be made available soon.

Frieze is a leading global contemporary art organization, renowned for its art fairs, publications and

digital presence. Founded in 1991 with the launch of frieze magazine, the brand has grown to encompass

seven of the most significant art fairs worldwide in cities including Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New

York and Seoul. These events attract leading artists, galleries and collectors, fostering innovative

dialogues and practices within the art community. frieze magazine continues to set the benchmark for

insightful art criticism and commentary, while frieze.com serves as a vital online resource. Committed to

expanding the reach and understanding of contemporary art, Frieze also hosts year-round curated

programs and associated initiatives, such as No.9 Cork Street and Frieze 91, that enrich the cultural

landscape. With a dedicated team passionate about the arts, Frieze remains at the forefront of artistic

exploration and cultural discourse, connecting diverse audiences with groundbreaking artists and their

work. Frieze is part of the IMG network. For more information, visit frieze.com.

IMG is a global sports, events and representation company. It is a leader in rights management, multi- channel content production and distribution, consultancy and fan engagement; owns, produces and commercially represents hundreds of live events and experiences; and manages licensing programs for the world’s best- known brands and trademarks. IMG is a subsidiary of Endeavor, a global sports and entertainment company.

2025 marks the 22nd year of Deutsche Bank as Global Lead Partner of Frieze. As part of its social commitment to Art & Culture, Deutsche Bank has supported and collected the work of cutting-edge international artists for more than 40 years. A global leader in corporate art programs, the bank also runs an Artist of the Year program, and its own cultural center in Berlin, the PalaisPopulaire. Further Frieze collaborations include the Deutsche Bank Frieze Los Angeles Film Award, which is in its sixth year, the Frieze x Deutsche Bank Emerging Curators Fellowship in the United Kingdom, The Art of Conversation global series, and digital platform Art:LIVE. Db.com/art. Instagram: @deutschebankart

The Center for Art and Advocacy believes there is an abundance of uncultivated talent and exceptional creativity among individuals who share the lived experience of incarceration. At a time when our country leads the world in the criminalization of its most vulnerable populations, often made up of people with marginalized identities, we find that justice-impacted artists within the U.S. are especially at risk of being under-funded, under-mentored, under-resourced, and under-connected within the traditional institutions and arts communities. This is why The Center aims to improve these outcomes for our most vulnerable creatives by providing financial and community support via our catalytic flagship, the Right of Return Fellowship, mentoring and professional development through our capacity-building Academy and Arts Incubator program, and the opportunity for industry-wide recognition and dedicated time to develop their projects through our forthcoming premiere Residency and Retreat in rural Pennsylvania.

The organization’s distinctive perspective makes this community especially equipped to advance change throughout the United States through the reframing of our collective criminal legal narrative and advocacy for racial justice and equity, using the vehicle of art to build, organize, and support local and national movements.

FURTHER INFORMATION

To keep up to date on all the latest news from Frieze, sign up to the newsletter here and follow on Instagram, X and Frieze Official are on Facebook. Tickets to the fair are available on frieze.com

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Book Launch and Conversation with Tacita Dean and George Baker

Marian Goodman Gallery Los Angeles and MACK are delighted to present an artist talk to commemorate the launch of Tacita Dean’s latest book, Base Matter and Uncommon Solvent: Drawings, Prints, Collages, and Objects 1988–2024. Tacita Dean will be in conversation with George Baker, Professor and Chair, Department of Art History at UCLA.

Base Matter and Uncommon Solvent is a comprehensive survey of drawings, prints, collages, and objects that are directly drawn, marked, or altered by Dean. The chosen works differentiate from those made using mechanical reproduction, such as photographs, purely image-based etching and screenprints, and her 16mm and 35mm films. Co-edited and designed in collaboration with her longtime friend Martyn Ridgewell, this new book coincides with Tacita Dean: Blind Folly, the first major U.S. exhibition dedicated to her drawings, on view at The Menil Collection, Houston, from 11 October 2024 to 19 April 2025.

The event will be held at 1112 Seward Street, Los Angeles 90038, on Saturday, the 22nd February, at 3 pm. This event is free and open to the public, though advanced registration is encouraged as capacity is limited. Registration for the event can be found here. For more information about the event, please visit the Marian Goodman Gallery’s site. The gallery can be found on Instagram and Artsy, too.

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Pace Gallery and Galerie Judin Announce the Opening of New Berlin Art Space

Former gas station turned arts space housing Pace Gallery and Galerie Judin © Galerie Judin, courtesy Pace Gallery and Galerie Judin

This spring, a converted 1950s gas station in Berlin’s Schöneberg neighborhood will be transformed into a multifaceted new gallery space, with offices and an exhibition space for Pace Gallery and Galerie Judin as well as an adjacent cafe and bookshop headed by the publishing group Die ZEIT. The building will officially open to the public on May 1, 2025, with a group exhibition presented jointly by Pace and Galerie Judin.

Originally built in 1954 during West Berlin’s postwar reconstruction, the gas station that will house this new exhibition space was abandoned in 1986. After two decades of neglect, it underwent a massive renovation—overseen by Thomas Brakel and bfs design under the direction of Juerg Judin—in 2005. The restoration preserved distinctive modernist elements of the structure, including the red canopy, garage door, and former sales space, while adding a library, an additional wing for exhibiting art, and a garden designed by landscape architect Guido Hager. The conversion was completed in 2008, and in 2009 it was awarded the prestigious Architekturpreis Berlin. In the years since its transformative restoration, the converted gas station—which was home to the Das Kleine Grosz Museum, an institution dedicated to the work of German artist George Grosz, from 2022 to 2024—has become a modern landmark in Berlin, blending historic architecture with contemporary design.

“The opening of this new exhibition space in Berlin is so exciting, not only for Pace and Galerie Judin, but, more importantly, for the local arts community. Pace has a deep commitment to Berlin and its thriving creative community, and we feel so honored to bring our artists’ work to this very special building in the city. We look forward to strengthening our connection to Berlin, its people, and its artists with our programming at this historic site.”

— Laura Attanasio, Senior Director of Pace Gallery

The inaugural show at the new exhibition space will be presented jointly by Pace and Galerie Judin—further details will be announced closer to the opening. Following the run of this exhibition, Pace and Galerie Judin will organize their own respective presentations in the space throughout the year. Entry to the new space—which will be open to the public six days a week, Tuesday through Sunday, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.—will be free.

Pace—which maintains eight locations worldwide—established an office in Berlin in 2023, helmed by Senior Director Laura Attanasio, to focus on supporting institutional projects for its artists and deepening connections with collectors and arts communities in German-speaking regions. Since then, Pace has expanded its activities in the city, presenting Maysha Mohamedi’s first exhibition in Germany, showcasing works by Qiu Xiaofei in the inaugural edition of Suite Berlin, and facilitating the gifting of Alicja Kwade’s Goldelse (2021) to the Neue Nationalgalerie Sculpture Garden.

With the opening of this new space in Berlin, where Pace will mount two public exhibitions per year, the gallery will reinforce its commitment to the European market. Attanasio and her team will move Pace’s Berlin office to the Schöneberg neighborhood space in April. This announcement also builds on a longstanding relationship between Pace and Galerie Judin, both of which represent Romanian artist Adrian Ghenie.

“The evolution of this once mundane property bears witness to the constant change in this captivating city, and we are delighted to share the Tankstelle’s genius loci with Pace Gallery and ZEIT. In our wish to contribute to the Berlin art scene while expanding the gallery’s program and international outreach, we couldn’t think of a better partner and second space for the gallery.”

— Pay Matthis Karstens, Co-owner of Galerie Judin

Galerie Judin, founded by Juerg Judin in Zurich in 2003 and resident in Berlin since 2008, operates its main exhibition in the spacious former printing facility of the Tagesspiegel in Potsdamer Straße, just a short walk away from the new space. Since its\ move there in 2011, the neighborhood has evolved into the undisputed heart of Berlin's art scene, just a stone's throw from the Neue Nationalgalerie and the future Berlin Modern. Galerie Judin, headed jointly by co-owners Juerg Judin and Pay Matthis Karstens, has distinguished itself by introducing a new generation of artists to the art world, organizing in-depth museum and academic collaborations, maintaining a distinctive publication program, and, underlining the gallery’s art historical approach, editing significant catalogues raisonnés.

“We look back on a longstanding collaboration and friendship with Pace and the Glimcher family. Among other things, we share a ‘non-territorial’ and collegial attitude towards the art market, which now finds an expression in the sharing of this unique, historic location, and the interaction of our programs.”

— Juerg Judin, Founder of Galerie Judin

Galerie Judin was established in 2003 in Zurich, the hometown of Juerg Judin. In 2008, it relocated to the rougher but artistically much more vibrant Berlin and took on the former printing facility of the Tagesspiegel in Potsdamer Straße in 2011 – at the time, a daring move. The neighborhood has since evolved into the undisputed heart of Berlin's art scene, just a stone's throw from the Neue Nationalgalerie and the future “Berlin Modern”. The nine-meter-high, daylight-flooded halls are considered one of the most beautiful exhibition venues in the city. In 2007, the gallery acquired an abandoned 1950s petrol station, which it restored and expanded with great care, and which became a crucial part of its social DNA. From 2022 to 2024, it served as the home for a temporary museum dedicated to George Grosz, the great Berlin artist, receiving much international praise. Since 2015, Juerg Judin shares the responsibility for the gallery's artistic and commercial advancement with art historian Pay Matthis Karstens, who in 2024 became co-owner. From the start, the two partners bonded over a shared passion for books and art historical curiosity. This has led to them taking on the responsibility for three catalogues raisonnés and the management of two estates.

For more news regarding Pace Gallery, please visit their website here. Pace Gallery can be found on Instagram and Artsy, too. For more information about Galerie Judin, please visit their site here. The gallery can also be found on Instagram here.

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PHILLIPS TO HOST CREATIVE CONFLUENCE, A SELLING EXHIBITION FEATURING WORKS BY SASHA FERRÉ, RUGIYATOU YLVA JALLOW, MARIO JOYCE, RYAN SCHNEIDER, FERRARI SHEPPARD, AND MARTHA TUTTLE, AMONG OTHERS

**Mario Joyce** *The Stealing Of A Sacred Ember*, 2024 48x 72 in.

LOS ANGELES – PhillipsX is proud to announce its first selling exhibition of the new year, Creative Confluence. Taking place at Phillips Los Angeles from 14 February to 13 March, the exhibition will celebrate the ways in which community, shared experiences, and collective intelligence shape artistic expression in contemporary culture. Featuring works by Mario Joyce, Rugiyatou Ylva Jallow, Ferrari Sheppard, Ryan Schneider, and Phillip K. Smith III, among others, a portion of the proceeds from the exhibition will be donated to wildfire relief efforts in the region.

Miety Heiden, Deputy Chairwoman and Head of Private Sales, said, “Creative Confluence centers on the concept of Scenius, which reimagines genius as a collective force that emerges when artists and thinkers collaborate within a shared cultural space. Through this exhibition, we aim to blur the lines between artist and audience, individual and collective, and process and product, presenting a diversity of voices across various mediums and practices. The city of Los Angeles has historically always been strengthened by the unity of its community. Now more than ever, at this significant moment in the city’s history, we look forward to drawing attention to the true innovation that arises from the rich interplay of individuals and shared experiences.”

Artists who will be featured in Creative Confluence include Shirin Abedinirad, Ferguson Amo, Kim Dacres, Tara Donovan, José Duran, Sasha Ferré, Rugiyatou Ylva Jallow, Mario Joyce, Samuel Nnorom, Ryan and Trevor Oakes, Ryan Schneider, Ferrari Sheppard, Phillip K. Smith III, and Martha Tuttle.

Exhibition viewing: 14 February – 13 March 2025

Location: Phillips Los Angeles, 9041 Nemo Street, West Hollywood

Click here for more information:

A Portion of Proceeds from the Los Angeles Exhibition to be Donated to Wildfire Relief Efforts in the Region.

About Phillips

Phillips: where the world’s curious and bold connect with the art, design, and luxury that inspires them. As a leading global platform for buying and selling 20th and 21st century works, Phillips offers dedicated expertise in the areas of Modern and Contemporary Art, Design, Photographs, Editions, Watches, and Jewels. Auctions and exhibitions are primarily held in New York, London, Geneva, and Hong Kong, with representative offices based throughout Europe, the United States, and Asia. Phillips offers a regular selection of live and online auctions, along with items available for immediate purchase. Phillips also offers a range of services and advice on all aspects of collecting, including private sales and assistance with appraising.

For more information about this auction and others with Phillips, please visit their site here. Also, please follow Phillips on Facebook and Instagram.

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BONHAMS PARTNERS WITH PROJECT ANGEL FOOD ON ANGEL ART BENEFIT AUCTION

Alexandra Grant, *Love, Love, Love (blue),* 2018.

Los Angeles, CA – Bonhams will host the return of ANGEL ART, the acclaimed benefit auction, with 100% of proceeds going towards the vital work of Project Angel Food, one of California’s biggest and most recognized non-profit organizations. This pivotal event unites the art community to support critically ill individuals in the aftermath of the devastating Los Angeles fires. These fires have not only displaced residents but also compounded challenges for the city’s most vulnerable populations whom Project Angel Food serves.

The ANGEL ART event will take place at Bonhams Los Angeles on February 27 featuring a live auction of 6-8 exceptional works of art. A concurrent online auction with over 60 lots will run on Bonhams.com from February 13 – 27.

Richard Ayoub, CEO of Project Angel Food, emphasized the importance of the event: “ANGEL ART is crucial for sustaining our transformative work. In these trying times, the engagement of artists, patrons, and partners like Bonhams is more vital than ever to deliver relief and hope to those who need it most.”

Lilly Chan, Managing Director, Bonhams US, stated: “We are devoted to supporting our Los Angeles community, where we have been embedded for many years. Project Angel Food has always done vital work for our city, and their swift response in supporting and adapting to our community’s needs in the wake of the devastating fires was truly impressive. We are proud to help amplify their incredible efforts through this auction.”

Following the devastating L.A. fires, Project Angel Food experienced a 10% surge in clients served—a number that continues to grow. Partnering with the County of Los Angeles' Food Equity Roundtable, Project Angel Food is stepping in to support overburdened organizations across Los Angeles County that can no longer prepare or deliver meals. Many of its new clients are elderly and grappling with respiratory conditions worsened by lingering poor air quality. For existing clients – already vulnerable due to serious illness – this environmental crisis has further deepened their struggles. The support of the art community has never been more critical in meeting these challenges.

The resilience of the artistic community shines at this year’s ANGEL ART. Among the highlights are contributions from four artists who, despite losing their homes or being displaced due to the fires, have donated works and continue to champion the spirit of creativity and transformation. Alexandra Grant, Honorary Chair, reflected: “What Project Angel Food does every day and in days of crisis is the same - care, nourish, and feed people. Your support can help bring more deserving clients into the PAF community over a longer term. Food is LOVE!”

Event Details and Highlights:

As the largest auction house in California, Bonhams will host the benefit auction with 100% of the proceeds going to Project Angel Food. Bonhams.com will present an online auction offering over 60 lots from February 13 – 27. In addition to an exhibition preview from February 25 – 27, Bonhams Los Angeles will host the ANGEL ART event on February 27, featuring a live auction of 6–8 exceptional works of art. The auction offerings will be announced soon. Please visit bonhams.com/angelart for updates.

The art for auction features world-renowned artists including Ed Ruscha, John Baldessari, Robert Rauschenberg, Helen Frankenthaler, Richard Misrach, Peter Alexander, Jeff Koons, Louise Nevelson, Jim Dine, Herb Ritts, William Wegman, and Shepard Fairey, among others, as well as emerging artists Awol Erizku, Carmen Argote, Nao Bustamante, Todd Gray, and many more. These artists, each a pioneer in their respective mediums and movements – from Pop Art and Abstract Expressionism to conceptual photography and street art – have collectively shaped the contours of contemporary art, leaving an indelible mark on both the Californian and global art scenes.

A free artwork preview will take place at Bonhams Los Angeles:

February 25 – 26: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
February 27: 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM

The ANGEL ART live event and auction will culminate on February 27 with tickets available for $250. For those seeking an exclusive experience, the VIP GrantLOVE Package offers two tickets and four limited-edition GrantLOVE artworks by Alexandra Grant for $1,000.

Support and Sponsorship

ANGEL ART is made possible through the generosity of its sponsors: Bonhams, Frieze, Guess Foundation, Joybird, UTA, and the dedication of its Host Committee, led by Alexandra Grant and including Ben Bourgeois, Brian Bowman, Kipton Cronkite, Jimmy Freeman, Lisa Gelber, John Gile, John Giurini, Ayn Grinstein, Marcus Quiland Nazario, Stephanie Roach, Leah Sydney, and Ron Valdez. The creative production is managed by Elizabeth Pezza of The Culture List Inc.

For more information about ANGEL ART 2025 or to purchase tickets, visit angelfood.org/angelart2025.

100% of proceeds to benefit the organization's initiatives in the aftermath of the Los Angeles fires.

For more information about these auctions and others featured By Bonhams, please visit their site. Bonhams can also be found on Instagram, Facebook, X, YouTube, and Pinterest.

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MARINA TABASSUM AND HER FIRM, MARINA TABASSUM ARCHITECTS (MTA), SELECTED FOR THE SERPENTINE PAVILION 2025

Serpentine 2025 Pavilion A Capsule in Time, designed by Marina Tabassum, Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA). Design render, interior view. Photo: © Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA). Courtesy Serpentine.

Serpentine is delighted to announce that Bangladeshi architect and educator Marina Tabassum and her firm, Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA), have been selected to design the 2025 Pavilion, titled A Capsule in Time. Marina Tabassum’s Pavilion will be unveiled to the public at Serpentine South on 6 June 2025 with Goldman Sachs supporting the annual project for the 11th consecutive year.

This unique and ambitious commission, which began in 2000 with Dame Zaha Hadid, has presented the first UK structures by some of the most significant names and emerging talents in international architecture. Throughout its history, the Serpentine Pavilion has grown into a highly anticipated showcase for emerging talent. The Pavilion has evolved over the years as a participatory public and artistic platform for Serpentine’s experimental, interdisciplinary, community and education programmes.

Marina Tabassum Architects, which was founded following Tabassum's ten year partnership with URBANA in 2005, have completed architectural projects that are socially, politically and ecologically engaged. In addition to buildings sited in the city of Dhaka, its peripheries, and across Bangladesh, MTA’s practice extends to researching environmental degradation within Bangladesh, a country that is particularly vulnerable and facing the impacts of climate change. The studio also focuses on architecture’s role in addressing living conditions for marginalised individuals in the region with the aim to uplift the environmental and living conditions of the people they collaborate with as demonstrated by their celebrated Khudi Bari [Small House] (2020–ongoing). These modular structures were developed in 2020 for those living on the sand beds of the rivers Jamuna, Meghna and Teesta with the ability to be easily disassembled and moved when necessary.

Celebrated for her work that seeks to establish an architectural language that is contemporary while rooted and engaging with place, climate, context, culture and history, Tabassum’s design will resonate with Serpentine South and aims to prompt a dialogue between the permanent and the ephemeral nature of the commission.

*Serpentine Pavilion 2025 designed by Marina Tabassum, Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA). Design render, exterior view. Photo © Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA) Courtesy: Serpentine*

The 2025 Pavilion is elongated in the north-south direction and features a central court that aligns with Serpentine South’s bell tower. Inspired by the tradition of park-going and arched garden canopies that filter soft daylight through green foliage, the sculptural quality of the Pavilion is comprised of four wooden capsule forms with a translucent façade that diffuses and dapples light when infiltrating the space. Central to Tabassum’s design is a kinetic element where one of the capsule forms is able to move and connect, transforming the Pavilion into a new space.

Emphasising the sensory and spiritual possibilities of architecture through scale and the interplay of light and shadow, Tabassum’s design also draws on the history and architectural language of Shamiyana tents or awnings of South Asia. Similarly kinetic in their function, these structures are made up of an external fabric supported by bamboo poles and are commonly erected for outdoor gatherings and celebrations. The openness of Tabassum’s Pavilion welcomes the possibilities of unifying visitors through conversations and connections, live programmes and public convenings

Serpentine 2025 Pavilion A Capsule in Time, designed by Marina Tabassum, Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA). Design render, exterior view. Photo: © Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA). Courtesy Serpentine.

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Marina Tabassum, Architect, Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA) said: “We are thrilled to be selected as the architect of this year’s Serpentine Pavilion. When conceiving our design, we reflected on the transient nature of the commission which appears to us as a capsule of memory and time. The relationship between time and architecture is intriguing: between permanence and impermanence, of birth, age and ruin; architecture aspires to outlive time. Architecture is a tool to live behind legacies, fulfilling the inherent human desire for continuity beyond life. In the Bengal delta, architecture is ephemeral as dwellings change locations with the rivers shifting courses. Architecture becomes memories of the lived spaces continued through tales. The archaic volume of a half capsule, generated by geometry and wrapped in light semi-transparent material will create a play of filtered light that will pierce through the structure as if under a Shamiyana at a Bengali wedding. The Serpentine Pavilion offers a unique platform under the summer sun to unite as people rich in diversity. The stage is set, the seats are placed. We envision various events and encounters taking place in this versatile space that unifies people through conversations and connections.”

Bettina Korek, Chief Executive, and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, said: “A Capsule in Time will honour connections with the Earth and celebrate the spirit of community. Built around a mature tree at the centre of the structure, Tabassum’s design will bring the park inside the Pavilion. Its kinetic dimension will also harken back to the levitating element of Rem Koolhaas & Cecil Balmond with Arup’s Serpentine Pavilion 2006. We are grateful to all of our loyal supporters who make this groundbreaking commission possible and look forward to announcing a full programme of live events and public programmes that will bring people together around Tabassum’s visionary, spiritual and social structure. This is a milestone year for the Serpentine Pavilion Commission as we celebrate 25 years since the inception of this prestigious programme.”

Throughout the Summer and until October, the Serpentine Pavilion 2025 will become a platform for Serpentine’s live and events programme. It will feature Park Nights, the interdisciplinary platform for live encounters in music, film, theatre, dance, literature, philosophy, fashion and technology. Each year’s commissions respond to the unique architecture of the Pavilion, inviting audiences to experience the activated space.

Tabassum’s Pavilion will kickstart the 25th year of this historic commission and continue Dame Zaha Hadid’s ethos of pushing the boundaries of architecture. In her words: ‘There should be no end to experimentation’, and Tabassum’s Pavilion will exemplify this credo. This year, Serpentine will host a programme of events to reflect on the commission, its history and its future.

This year's Pavilion selection was made by Serpentine CEO Bettina Korek; Artistic Director Hans Ulrich Obrist; Director of Construction and Special Projects Julie Burnell; Exhibitions Curator Chris Bayley; Curator at Large, Architecture and Site-specific Projects Natalia Grabowska; and Assistant Exhibitions Curator Alexa Chow, together with advisors Sou Fujimoto and David Glover.

In June, Serpentine will publish a catalogue to accompany the Pavilion. Designed by Wolfe Hall, it will bring together new and insightful contributions from the fields of architecture, art and poetry. Generously illustrated in colour throughout, it also features an extensive conversation between Marina Tabassum and Serpentine’s Artistic Director Hans Ulrich Obrist.

The Pavilion is supported by Goldman Sachs.

Marina Tabassum

Marina Tabassum (b. 1969, Dhaka, Bangladesh) is an acclaimed architect and educator who has received numerous international recognitions in the field of architecture. She graduated in 1995 from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. Prior to founding Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA) in 2005, Tabassum was a founding partner of the Dhaka-based firm URBANA between 1995 and 2005 with Kashef Chowdhury. In 1997, URBANA won the national competition to design the Independence Monument of Bangladesh and the Museum of Independence under the Public Works Department and the Ministry of Liberation War Affairs. In her work, Tabassum seeks to establish a language of architecture that contemporary yet reflectively rooted to place and prioritising climate, context, culture and history. Tabassum's practice remains consciously contained in size, undertaking a limited number of projects per year.

Tabassum is a Professor at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. She held the Norman Foster Chair at Yale University in 2023 and has taught as a visiting professor at numerous universities including the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, USA; the University of Toronto, Canada; and BRAC University, Bangladesh. She received an Honorary Doctorate from the Technical University of Munich, Germany, and served as academic director at the Bengal Institute for Architecture, Landscapes and Settlements between 2015 and 2021.

Tabassum’s pursuit for the ‘architecture of relevance’ has won her numerous awards including the Soane Medal from the United Kingdom; Arnold Brunner Memorial Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; the Gold Medal of the French Academy of Architecture; and the Jameel Prize from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. She won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2016 for the Bait ur Rouf Mosque and has served as a member of the Steering Committee of the Aga Khan Awards for Architecture from 2017 to 2022 and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA). In 2024, Tabassum was included in TIME Magazine’s ‘100 Most Influential People’.

Tabassum chairs the Executive Board of Prokritee, a fair-trade organisation that promotes crafts and provides livelihood to thousands of women artisans of Bangladesh. She is the founding chairperson of the Foundation for Architecture and Community Equity (F.A.C.E), a non-for-profit organisation that focuses on climate adaption and architecture’s agency and responsibility in providing dignified living conditions for marginalised populations. F.A.C.E is currently working with communities to build mobile modular housing (known as Khudi Bari) in various geographically and climatically challenged locations in Bangladesh.

Tabassum’s work is currently the subject of a travelling exhibition organised by Architektur Museum der TUM, Munich, showing in Lisbon and Delft. She has previously presented work at Whitechapel Gallery, London (with Rana Begum, 2019); Sharjah Architecture Triennale (2019); and Venice Architecture Biennale (2018). Her work has been published by ArchiTangle; Harvard Graduate School of Design; ORO Editions; and Lars Müller Publishers among others.

Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA)

Founded in 2005, Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA) is an internationally recognised architecture and studio-based practice located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. MTA began its journey in the quest of establishing a language of architecture that is contemporary to the world yet rooted to a specific place. Standing against the global pressure of consumer architecture – a fast breed of buildings that are out of place and context – MTA is committed to rooting architecture to a place and is informed by climate and geography. Their work is well regarded as environmentally conscious, socially responsible and historically and culturally appropriate. Every project undertaken is a sensitive and relevant response to the uniqueness of individual sites, contexts, cultures and people.

With a focus on combining research and teaching, MTA invests in extensive research work on the impacts of climate change in Bangladesh working closely with geographers, landscape architects, planners and other allied professionals. Their focus of work also extends to the marginalised low to ultra-low income population of the country with a goal to elevate the environmental and living conditions of people.

Headed by principle architect Marina Tabassum, the studio engages talented architects and professionals with an interest in self-built projects, who are willing to push the boundaries of the conventional norms of practice. The associate architects who are responsible for research, design and management of individual projects work directly under the principal architect. The practice is consciously kept and retained in an optimum size and projects undertaken are carefully chosen and are limited by number per year.

MTA's process-based practice model is well regarded in the international scene of architecture as a Twenty First Century model. As such, MTA has presented works and research to numerous institutions across Bangladesh and internationally. In 2016, MTA received the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the Bait Ur Rouf Mosque – a building distinguished by its lack of popular mosque iconography, an emphasis on space and light and its capacity to function not only as a place of worship but also as a refuge for a dense neighbourhood on Dhaka’s periphery. The project was also listed among the top 25 postwar buildings of the world by New York Times.

Serpentine Pavilion

This pioneering commission, which began in 2000 with Dame Zaha Hadid, has presented the first UK structures by some of the biggest names in international architecture. The Pavilion is realised with the support of technical advisors AECOM. In recent years it has grown into a highly anticipated showcase for emerging talents, from Sumayya Vally, Counterspace (South Africa), the youngest architect to be commissioned, and Frida Escobedo (Mexico) to Diébédo Francis Kéré (Burkina Faso) and Bjarke Ingels (Denmark). In 2022, Black Chapel was designed by Theaster Gates (USA), in 2023 À table was designed by Lina Ghotmeh (France and Lebanon) and in 2024 Archipelagic Void was designed by Minsuk Cho and his firm, Mass Studies (South Korea).

In 2021, the Pavilion programme evolved beyond its physical location for the first time and expanded with a series of Fragments placed across London. It also saw the launch of Support Structures for Support Structures, a fellowship programme initiated by Serpentine that supports up to ten artists and collectives working at the intersection of art, spatial politics, and community practice.

About Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global financial institution that delivers a broad range of financial services across investment banking, securities, investment management and consumer banking to a large and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals. Founded in 1869, the firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in all major financial centres around the world.

About Serpentine

Building new connections between artists and audiences, Serpentine presents pioneering contemporary art exhibitions and cultural events with a legacy that stretches back over half a century, from a wide range of emerging practitioners to the most internationally recognised artists, writers, scientists, thinkers, and cultural thought leaders of our time.

Based in London’s Kensington Gardens, across two sites, Serpentine North and Serpentine South, Serpentine features a year-round, free programme of exhibitions, architectural showcases, education, live events and technological activations, in the park and beyond the gallery walls.

Public art has emerged as a central strand of Serpentine’s programme. Major presentations include a collection of Eduardo Paolozzi’s sculptures (1987); Anish Kapoor’s Turning the World Upside Down (2010); Lee Ufan’s Relatum – Stage (2018–19); Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s London Mastaba in the Serpentine Lake (2018); I LOVE YOU EARTH by Yoko Ono (2021); Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster In remembrance of the coming alien (Alienor)(2022); Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg’s Pollinator Pathmaker (2022–ongoing); Gerhard Richter’s STRIP-TOWER (2024); Yayoi Kusama’s Pumpkin at the Round Pound (2024); and Esther Mahlangu’s mural Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu (2024).

Proud to maintain free access for all visitors, Serpentine also reaches an exceptionally broad audience and maintains a profound connection with its local community.

At Serpentine South
6 June – 26 October 2025

For more information about this exhibition and others, please visit Serpentine’s website. Please also visit and follow Serpentine on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube, along with TikTok.

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The Brooklyn Museum Awards UOVO Prize to Melissa Joseph

IMAGE CREDIT: Melissa Joseph, 2024. (Photo: Miguel McSongwe)

Selected from among the artists in The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition, Joseph is awarded a $25,000 cash prize, a public mural at UOVO Brooklyn, and a solo presentation at the Brooklyn Museum

The Brooklyn Museum is pleased to award the UOVO Prize, which recognizes the work of emerging Brooklyn-based artists, to Melissa Joseph (born United States, 1980). As the awardee, Joseph receives a solo presentation at the Brooklyn Museum, a commission for a fifty-by-fifty-foot public art installation on the facade of UOVO’s Brooklyn facility in Bushwick, and a $25,000 unrestricted cash grant.

Joseph was selected by a team of Brooklyn Museum curators from among the artists featured in The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition, a major group show supported by UOVO. Her work Olive’s Hair Salon (2023) is included in the exhibition, and last year, her work Getting Reuben’s tuition book (2023) was added to the Museum’s collection. In June 2025, Joseph will present a mural at UOVO Brooklyn and an installation at the Brooklyn Museum, both referencing Italy’s Siena Cathedral. The Museum’s installation will be displayed on its outdoor plaza and publicly accessible day and night.

“We are delighted to present the UOVO Prize to Melissa Joseph, whose work explores themes of memory, familial history, and the politics of how people occupy spaces,” says Kimberli Gant, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum. “As her art addresses public spaces and the environment, it is fitting to present it in two major public locations in Brooklyn. Moreover, it makes Joseph an ideal artist for this opportunity. We’re looking forward to supporting Joseph’s vision for the UOVO mural and sharing her work with our audiences.”

Joseph’s practice spans genres including drawing, painting, ceramics, and fiber arts, for which she has become well known. Her portraits made of wool and felt showcase the materials’ texture along with the depth of Joseph’s subject matter. In depictions of domestic scenes and friendships, she often highlights mundane moments to reveal the importance of human interaction. The images are rich in color and range in scale from miniature to larger than life, allowing viewers to appreciate the detail of her labor-intensive process.

“I am thrilled to be awarded the UOVO Prize. For this project, I chose to reference the incredible floors of the Siena Cathedral and to think about the way public art has functioned throughout history,” says Joseph. “While the process and purpose of creating public art have both expanded and accelerated, the potential for profound human connection remains and that is what most excites and inspires me about this project. I have deep gratitude to UOVO and the Brooklyn Museum for this opportunity.”

“We’re pleased to continue our longstanding partnership with UOVO by awarding the annual UOVO Prize to our fifth recipient,” says Anne Pasternak, Shelby White and Leon Levy Director, Brooklyn Museum. “In addition, we’re excited to highlight Melissa Joseph’s work on our Iris Cantor Plaza, an important public space for gathering and reflection at the Brooklyn Museum.”

“We are pleased to continue our support of Brooklyn artists and the Brooklyn Museum,” adds Steven Guttman, UOVO Founder and Co-Chairman. “Artists are at the heart of our community, so it will be wonderful to make Melissa Joseph’s work accessible through two outdoor presentations in dialogue across the borough, from Bushwick to Prospect Heights.”

Previous UOVO Prize winners are John Edmonds, Baseera Khan, Oscar yi Hou, and Suneil Sanzgiri.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Melissa Joseph is a New York–based artist. Her work considers themes of memory, family history, and the politics of how we occupy spaces. By using needle felting and found objects, she intentionally alludes to the labors of women as well as experiences as a second-generation American and the unique juxtapositions of diasporic life. Her work has been shown at the Brooklyn Museum, Delaware Contemporary, Woodmere Art Museum, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Jeffrey Deitch Projects, and ICA San Francisco. She has been featured in Hyperallergic, Artforum, Artnet, ARTnews, New American Paintings, Vogue, Le Monde, CNN, WNYC, Architectural Digest, Whitewall, and Family Style. In addition, Joseph has participated in residencies at Artpace, Dieu Donné Workspace Residency, Textile Arts Center, Fountainhead, Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramic Arts, Museum of Arts and Design, and Greenwich House Pottery, among others. She was recently selected for the 2025 Artsy Vanguard, and her work is in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Ruby City, Rhode Island School of Design, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. She is a regular contributor to BOMB magazine.

ABOUT THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM

For 200 years, the Brooklyn Museum has been recognized as a trailblazer. Through a vast array of exhibitions, public programs, and community-centered initiatives, it continues to broaden the narratives of art, uplift a multitude of voices, and center creative expression within important dialogues of the day. Housed in a landmark building in the heart of Brooklyn, the Museum is home to an astounding encyclopedic collection of more than 140,000 objects representing cultures worldwide and over 6,000 years of history—from ancient Egyptian masterpieces to significant American works, to groundbreaking installations presented in the only feminist art center of its kind. As one of the oldest and largest art museums in the country, the Brooklyn Museum remains committed to innovation, creating compelling experiences for its communities and celebrating the power of art to inspire awe, conversation, and joy.

ABOUT UOVO: Art, Fashion and Wine

UOVO is the premier luxury storage and logistics provider for fine art, fashion, and wine. With 30 facilities across the U.S., our expert team of industry professionals offers bespoke solutions to meet the specialized needs of any collection. UOVO offers comprehensive stewardship of both world-class commercial and personal collections at our purpose-designed, state-of-the-art facilities. From maintenance, preservation, archiving, and cataloging to shipping, storage, and installation, UOVO goes beyond storage to create a unique experience on par with elite hospitality, managed through one-to-one personal relationships and full digital optimization.

Please visit the Brooklyn Museum’s site for more information. The Museum can also be found on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Facebook.