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​When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream, the major retrospective now on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, positions Wifredo Lam as a political, spiritual, and insurgent force—a world-builder who ultimately slips classification.

While Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Elizabeth Lederer was sold for a record-breaking $236.4 million after a 20 minute bidding war, a solid gold toilet, titled America by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, drew far less fanfare at Sotheby’s recent auction.

Oeno Gallery presents Fired Up! — Pushing Boundaries in Ceramics & Glass, an exhibition celebrating ten internationally acclaimed Canadian artists. On view through January 11, 2026, Fired Up! Is a contemporary reimagining of two of the oldest art forms.Decades of Mastery and Transformative Art

Having celebrated its 100-year anniversary in 2024, the Surrealism movement remains highly relevant today, with Surrealist ideas and techniques widely embraced by contemporary artists. Its revolutionary approach to art and thought continues to influence art, culture, fashion, and film— offering a powerful perspective on current social and political concerns.

Henki Art presents What the Water Knows, a digital exhibition and debut catalog dedicated to the shifting role of water in contemporary culture, ecology, and daily life. Gathering five international artists working across photography, performance, and media, the exhibition reflects on water as witness, memory, and force in an era of accelerating environmental change.

“In this search for my own identity, I seek the power of the rock, the magic of the water, the religion of the tree, the color of the wind and the enigma of the horizon.”–George Morrison

As empires fell and made way for nation-states, dissolving Medieval social structures, rapid industrialization led to the development of Realism, a period from the mid-to-late nineteenth century that rejected the conservative and elitist structure of the Neoclassical movement that had ruled since the Renaissance.

This fall, the Lightner Museum will present The Wiener Werkstätte: Art, Luxury, and Beauty in Modern Vienna, an exhibition showcasing 60 works of art from the prestigious Richard H. Driehaus Collection (Chicago, IL). On view from November 20, 2025, through July 14, 2026, the exhibition introduces audiences to one of the defining design movements of the early twentieth century. The exhibition is a curatorial collaboration between the Lightner Museum and the Richard H.

As Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) races to finish the $720 million David Geffen Galleries to hold its permanent collection, employees are turning to collective bargaining for better wages and working conditions amidst the urgency.

Last summer, a small American museum made history by becoming the first institution in the country to return one of the fabled Benin bronzes. Officials of the University of Iowa’s Stanley Museum of Art traveled to Benin City, in southern Nigeria, to meet with the Oba, the hereditary ruler of the Edo people, and formally hand over one bronze plaque, as well as a wooden altarpiece, both of which had been in the museum’s collection for decades.