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The inaugural “Oddities” auction at Doyle on May 7 is headlined by a sign–an enamel-painted wooden placard beckoning visitors into “Mr. Potter’s Museum of Curiosities,” the twice defunct museum in England that showcased, as the sign indicates, “A Two Headed Lamb,” “A Murderers Truncheon,” and “The Famous Tableaux of Walter Potter.”
The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) presents You Are Here: A Brief History of Photography and Place, on view April 26 – July 28, 2019. The exhibition explores photography’s complicated relationship to the places it represents, the places in which it is created, and the places in which we experience it. 
Superfine! Art Fair is on a mission to make art collecting fun and approachable for all. That’s why they offer transparent pricing and accessible price points in a fun fair atmosphere. Buy direct from artists or through the curated selections of galleries, either way there’s something for every wall and every budget. Celebrating their first year in a new location in Soho, Superfine! New York opens its doors May 1 for an exciting new art-buying experience.
The Bee in the Lion is pleased to present In Tension, an exhibition of new works by Dana Nechmad on view at the gallery space from April 29 through June 28.
From May 1-5, Moniker Art Fair will shine a spotlight on emerging and established artists embodying the subversive and innovative spirit of the increasingly diverse contemporary art movement. Though celebrating its 10th year, Moniker will stage it's fair during New York's important May art week for the first time. This year, the fair will bring together some of the most talked about artists, galleries, and collectors from the finer side of the street art movement and its related subcultures in an immersive experiential setting.
It’s an enormous monochromatic oil on linen composition featuring a jumble of figures, some consuming media, newspapers, TV screens, all crushed to near abstraction, suggesting a cacophony of sound. Painted by George Condo in 2018, its title, What’s the Point?, also happens to be the title of his new show at Sprüth Magers in Los Angeles through June 1.
The Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition Donald Judd, on view in The Steven and Alexandra Cohen Center for Special Exhibitions in The David and Peggy Rockefeller Building from March 1 through July 11, 2020, will be the first major US retrospective dedicated to Donald Judd (1928–1994) in over three decades.
The rising curves of the Adirondack Mountains become a repeated motif in the early 20th century landscape paintings of Harold Weston (1894-1974), now featured in a career spanning solo exhibition at Vermont’s Shelburne Museum.
Significant recent acquisitions by the Cleveland Museum of Art include 17 drawings from the Golden Age of Dutch art; a fine painting by Louis Hayet, a key proponent of neo-impressionism; a contemporary sculpture by American artist Jenny Holzer from her iconic series Laments; and 13 photographs by modern American masters from generous donors Diann G. and Thomas A. Mann.
Ukrainian police got lucky while searching the Kiev home of a murder suspect this week. While looking for clues connecting a man to a slain jeweler, they uncovered a valuable painting that was stolen from a French museum last May. Paul Signac’s Port de la Rochelle (1915) was cut out of its frame by thieves at the Museum of Fine Arts in Nancy, in northeastern France.