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Photographer-Provocateur Duane Michals Dies at 94

06/12/2026

Photographer-Provocateur Duane Michals Dies at 94 Self-taught photographerDuane Michals, known for unconventional and deeply personal narrative image sequences incorporating handwritten text, died in Manhattan on June 9 of pneumonia. He was ninety-four. His death was announced by New York’s DC …

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Duane Michals Dead: Maker of Enigmatic Images Dies at 94

06/11/2026

Duane Michals, one of the 20th century’s most important photographers, known for making sequences of images that conveyed enigmatic narratives and defied the conventions of the medium, died on Tuesday, June 9, at 94, in a Manhattan hospital. The news …

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Lost Leonora Carrington Work to Make Public Debut

05/30/2026

Lost Leonora Carrington Work to Make Public Debut A painting by renowned British Mexican SurrealistLeonora Carringtonthat had been missing for decades is set to go on view at London’sFreud Museumthis summer, marking the first time the work will be seen …

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Leonora Carrington Painting Rediscovered After 80 Years

05/29/2026

On July 1, London museumgoers will get a first look at a painting by Leonora Carrington not seen in over 80 years. The 1940 painting, titled Villa Pillar, will appear in “The Symptomatic Surreal” an exhibition at the Freud Museum …

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The Best Booths at 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair

05/15/2026

The 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair is back at the Starrett-Lehigh Building in Chelsea—just a few blocks from Frieze New York and in the same building at NADA—with more than 20 galleries from the continent and other ports of call …

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Dalí Museum Acquires Dalí’s Largest Work: A Monumental Surrealist Ballet Set

03/28/2026

Dalí Museum Acquires Dalí’s Largest Work: A Monumental Surrealist Ballet Set TheDalí Museumin St. Petersburg, Florida has snapped up the artist’s largest-ever work at auction,Artnetreports. Clocking in at over 20 meters high and 30 meters wide,Salvador Dalí’sDécor de théâtre pour …

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Di Donna to Mount First Major Dalí Show in NYC in Nearly Two Decades

03/19/2026

As Emmanuel Di Donna prepares to leave his Madison Avenue gallery, the veteran dealer is returning to the artist most people think they already understand. This spring, Di Donna Galleries will mount one of the most significant exhibitions of Salvador …

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Jitish Kallat Appointed President of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale

03/17/2026

Jitish Kallat Appointed President of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale The Kochi Biennale Foundation (KBF) has named Mumbai-based curator and artistJitish Kallatas the new president of theKochi-Muziris Biennale. Kallat, a KBF board member and the curator of the biennale’s second edition in …

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Art Institute of Chicago Director on Plane Incident: A 'Low Moment'

01/29/2026

For the first time since his return to his job last May following a voluntary leave, James Rondeau, the director of the Art Institute of Chicago, spoke frankly about a bizarre incident on an airplane that gained attention far beyond …

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Which Artworks Entered the Public Domain in 2026?

01/02/2026

With each passing year, new artworks are shorn of their copyright protections and entered into the public domain, allowing them to be used freely, without express permission from the estates that steward these pieces. This year, pieces by Salvador Dalí, …

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Frida Kahlo Painting Sets a Record at Sotheby's, Selling for $54.7 M.

11/21/2025

Frida Kahlo’s 1940 self-portrait El sueño (La cama) sold for $54.7 million on November 20. The painting was part of a Sotheby’s sale of Surrealist art in New York. Because the painting had a pre-sale estimate of $40 million to …

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See Inside MoMA's Retrospective for Surrealist Painter Wifredo Lam

11/12/2025

Wifredo Lam, a Cuban-born painter, is not exactly little-recognized. Even during his day, he was considered a cornerstone of the Surrealist movement, befriending André Breton, Pablo Picasso, and others through connections forged in France, where he first gained fame. But …

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Sotheby's Records Highest-Ever Totals for Surrealist and Modern Sales

10/27/2025

Sotheby’s tapped into the energy of Art Basel Paris week and recorded the highest-ever totals in France for surrealist and modern art auctions on Friday. The house’s Surrealism and Its Legacy and Modernitês sales took a combined €89.7 million ($104 …

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Robert Rauschenberg Dance Performances Make a Home at the Guggenheim

10/17/2025

A bicycle wheel spinning at the bottom of the Guggenheim Museum last night served as a sort of portal to the top, where a small but punchy Robert Rauschenberg show just opened in one of the museum’s tower galleries to …

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