Founded by a group of free-thinking artists in 1875, the Art Students League of New York has always been marked by innovation. Dissatisfied with the teaching style at the National Academy of Design, these artists started their own school, committed to making fine-art education accessible to all. Utilizing a unique atelier-style system, the League offers classes for adults and children, covering a diverse array of artistic practices, methodologies, and media.
June 2026 Art News
A rare opportunity for collectors and admirers of postwar American abstraction, Stanley Boxer: A Centennial Exhibition brings together a collection of seminal works spanning four decades of the artist's career on the occasion of his 100th birth anniversary.
Willem de Kooning is a name recognized worldwide for his impact on the development and growth of Abstract Expressionism in America. However, back in his early days, he was one of a small group of struggling New York painters attempting to create work expressing new ideas in a world recovering from the calamity that was WWII.
Villa Pilar, which was painted in 1940 by Leonora Carrington during her confinement at the Sanatorio Morales—a clinic located just outside Santander, Spain—remained in her psychiatrist’s family for more than 80 years after it was given to him as a gift.
Long before Dior became a worldwide fashion house, branching from haute couture into perfume and later into shoes and accessories, there was French designer Paul Poiret (1879-1944).
The Hamptons Fine Art Fair will take place July 9-12, 2026, held in a 70,000sf complex on 17 bucolic acres in Southampton.
The south side of the Colosseum, Rome’s most famous ancient monument, has been revamped as a new public space. Opened in March, the piazza is the culmination of a four-year project, which began with the excavation of the area in 2022.
One of the joys of spending time in a record store is not knowing what to choose. For those who go in “just to have a browse,” the risk is to spend hours flipping through countless records. Yet, the quest might end when your eyes get caught by an image, a design, or a color on one of the covers. The art created for record covers is revelatory: it presents the artist, their music, and the ideas behind that particular album.
By the time the British Museum’s doors opened to ticket holders for a lecture on Ancient Israel and Judah on June 11, the event had already been postponed once and embroiled in a fierce debate over institutional barriers to free speech.
On May 14, 2025, Miss January, an oil on canvas by the South African artist Marlene Dumas, sold at Christie’s New York for $13.6 million, the highest price ever achieved at auction by a living female artist. Dumas’s painting had been consigned by Mera and Don Rubell, founders of the Rubell Museum in Miami, and the proceeds of the sale will allow the couple to continue collecting and supporting emerging artists.
