The art world, in context
News and developments connected to New York.
Sotheby's will sell a dozen Impressionist and modern paintings assembled by Argentine collectors Nelly Arrieta de Blaquier and Carlos Pedro Blaquier, valued near $450 million. A Van Gogh of chestnut blossoms, estimated around $180 million, could set a new auction record for the artist. The works go on view in London on September 30 ahead of a November sale in New York.
Source date ·Union workers at the Brooklyn Museum and the American Folk Art Museum have reached tentative contract agreements, averting threatened strikes. Members of UAW Local 2110 were scheduled to vote on the deals starting September 29.
Source date ·Ann Temkin is stepping down as chief curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in January, ending an 18-year tenure in the role. She will stay on as a strategic adviser working on the museum's 2029 centenary.
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Image: ArtskThe Leiden Collection has acquired its 18th Rembrandt painting, Saint John on Patmos (c. 1661), which depicts the artist's son Titus as the exiled evangelist. The work had sold at Sotheby's London in 2025.
Source date ·Museums · Exhibitions · New York
A Morgan Library & Museum exhibition surveys the art collection of poet John Ashbery, celebrated as much for his collecting as for his verse. The show examines how visual art shaped his writing.
Source date ·The New York gallery's September 10–October 24 exhibition celebrates Perle Fine, the pioneering Ninth Street Woman artist.
Source date ·Chapter NY opened Alix Vernet's "Landmarks" on September 9, on view through October 17, 2026.
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Image: ArtskGray announced its participation in the Upper East Side's annual evening of extended gallery hours and special programming, taking place on September 24, 2026 in New York.
Source date ·Anton Kern Gallery presents 'NY Window', a presentation by Alessandro Pessoli in its WINDOW space on Walker Street in New York, running September 8 through October 31, 2026.
Source date ·Ortuzar presents 'Claire Falkenstein: San Francisco, Paris, Rome', the gallery's first exhibition with the late artist, from September 10 to October 31, 2026.
Image: ArtskSikkema Malloy Jenkins presents Magalie Guérin's solo exhibition 'a hand a hand' from September 10 to October 24, 2026.
Source date ·Museums · Exhibitions · New York
The Journal of Antiques reports that the American Folk Art Museum's 'Locating Girlhood,' opening October 9, 2026, reexamines early American schoolgirl art.
