First-time participants include Priveekollektie Contemporary Art | Design (which is based in Heusden, in the Netherlands), showing interactive works by Boris van Berkum and designs from Clara Campo and Aran Lozeno’s Amarist Studio. Also attending for the first time is LATITUDE Gallery, traveling from New York. The gallery will present cutting-edge works by artists from the Asian diaspora, such as Jesse Zuo’s haunting monochromatic paintings and swirling abstract canvases from Gao Xintong.

This year also sees the launch of a dedicated Middle East and North Africa Pavilion, organized by Beirut-based curator Randa Sadaka. The presentation includes galleries from Dubai, Tehran, Beirut, and Riyadh, bringing a regional focus to the fair.

Public programming includes panels on geopolitics and gender dynamics in the art market. As part of a local outreach initiative, residents of Basel can attend the fair for free on June 20th.

The full list of exhibitors can be found at voltaartfairs.com.

Oasis’s summer tour is set to reignite full-blown Britpop mania—and just in time, American portraitist Elizabeth Peyton’s double portrait of the Gallagher brothers is getting renewed attention. Liam + Noel (Gallagher) (1996), a portrait capturing the Oasis frontmen at the apex of their fame, will be auctioned at Sotheby’s on June 24th, carrying an estimate of £1.5 million–£2 million ($2.03 million–$2.71 million). The painting will be on view at the London galleries from June 18th until the sale.

The painting is among the largest and most complex of Peyton’s portraits of the duo. It is based on a photograph by the late Belgian photographer Stefan De Batselier and presents the brothers in casual tracksuits, locked in an embrace. Their matching features and subtly differentiated expressions reflect the tension and tenderness that have defined their public relationship.

“This is Peyton at her absolute best,” Antonia Gardner, head of contemporary evening sale at Sotheby’s London, told Artsy. “An intimate, emotionally charged portrait of Britpop royalty, painted at the exact moment Oasis defined a generation. One of the most significant works by the artist ever to come to market, it doesn’t just capture the iconic duo, but peels back the public image to reveal something far more intimate—a layered and complex sibling dynamic.”

Peyton painted the portrait in the wake of Oasis’s record-breaking shows at Knebworth Park, where 2.5 million fans applied for just 250,000 tickets. At the time, the band’s second album, (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?, had reached number one in the U.K. and platinum status in the U.S. The portrait is also from a critical period in Peyton’s career, just a few years after her breakthrough show at the Chelsea Hotel in 1993.

Liam + Noel (Gallagher) is one of four portraits Peyton made of the brothers together. Another hangs in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The artist also made several individual portraits. One such work, Blue Liam (1995), sold for $4.07 million in November 2024 on the Fair Warning auction app, setting an auction record for the artist.

The Solo section, dedicated to single-artist booths, will be integrated throughout the main Galleries section. The section will host 19 galleries, including London’s Public Gallery and Portland- and New York–based ILY2. Also featured is the Presents section will return with solo and dual-artist presentations from galleries with less than a decade in business, such as JO-HS and Hannah Traore.

The 2025 edition will as the fair’s owner, Frieze, is being sold to a new venture led by media executive Ari Emanuel in an estimated $200 million deal . The sale will include all the Frieze fairs as well as Frieze magazine and EXPO Chicago, which Frieze acquired in 2023. Last month, longtime EXPO Chicago director Tony Karman stepped down from his role, but will continue to serve as president and in an advisory capacity.

Find the full list of exhibitors for The Armory Show 2025 here.

The Fundação Bienal de São Paulo has released the full list of artists participating in the 36th São Paulo Bienal, which opens September 6th and runs through January 11, 2026. Titled “Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice,” the exhibition will feature 120 participants, including Dominican artist Firelei Báez, British painter Frank Bowling, Nigerian American artist Precious Okoyomon, and Chinese artist Song Dong. The Bienal will take place at the Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion located in São Paulo’s Ibirapuera Park.

The 2025 edition is curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, director of Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt, alongside co-curators Alya Sebti, Anna Roberta Goetz, Thiago de Paula Souza, co-curator at large Keyna Eleison, and advisor Henriette Gallus. The team drew inspiration from Brazilian writer Conceição Evaristo’s poem “Da calma e do silêncio,” inviting reflection on migration and humanity.

“Bird migration patterns” inspired the curators’ approach to selecting artists for the Bienal, according to the press release. Birds’ migratory routes—like the red-tailed hawk’s flight between the Americas, the ruff’s movements between Central Asia and North Africa, and the Arctic tern’s transpolar journey—guided the way the curators found artists to include in the exhibition.

“This methodological process helped us avoid classifications based on nation-states and borders,” Ndikung explained. “By studying birds’ navigation skills, their impulse to migrate across land and water, their survival instincts, their expanded sense of space and time, and their urgency and agency, we were able to engage with artistic practices in different geographic regions while reflecting on the meaning of bringing humanity together in the context of the 36th Bienal de São Paulo.”

The biennial will feature a slate of international artists, with prominent names like Japanese Swiss artist Leiko Ikemura, Moroccan painter Mohamed Melehi, and Cuban artist María Magdalena Campos-Pons. Still, a large number of participants represent Brazil’s art community. Among the local artists are established names, such as Alberto Pitta and the late Heitor dos Prazeres, shown alongside emerging artists like Aislan Pankararu and Nádia Taquary.

The exhibition layout and design, by architects Gisele de Paula and Tiago Guimarães, is inspired by river estuaries. The space is conceived as a “sensory journey” with sinuous paths, organic forms, and fluid margins that invite pauses and encounters. “Like travellers, it does not repeat the path, but reinvents itself in a continuous rite of transformation and presence,” the architects said in a joint statement.

The full list of artists can be found here.

Sotheby’s London will auction the personal collection of Pauline Karpidas, a longtime patron of the arts and collector known as “Europe’s Peggy Guggenheim.” The sale will take place on September 17th and 18th and is estimated in excess of £60 million ($81.02 million)—the highest estimate ever placed on a single-owner collection by Sotheby’s in Europe. A public exhibition will open on September 8th at Sotheby’s Bond Street galleries.

Karpidas is regarded as one of the most discerning and internationally minded collectors of her generation. The works to be offered include pieces by René Magritte, Max Ernst, Niki de Saint Phalle, Francis Picabia, and Salvador Dalí. “From the extraordinary caliber of the artworks to the endless stories of deep friendships and collaborations, this is a window into a special world of boldness, conviction, and insatiable curiosity,” said Oliver Barker, Sotheby’s chairman in Europe.

Born in Manchester, England and later based in Athens and London, the collector has spent decades acquiring works through long-standing relationships with artists and dealers. The beginnings of her collection date back to 1974, when she met Greek American dealer Alexander Iolas. Known for discovering Andy Warhol and championing Surrealist artists such as Magritte, Iolas came out of retirement to help guide Karpidas’s acquisitions. Over the years, her residences—most notably in London and on the Greek island of Hydra—have become showcases for Surrealist and contemporary works, set against backdrops of animal prints, saturated color, and custom furniture.

Her collection has a particular focus on Surrealism, especially works by women. The Sotheby’s sale will include pieces by Leonora Carrington and Dorothea Tanning. Even amid market uncertainty, auction prices for both artists have held strong—or even gained momentum. Carrington set a new auction record in May 2024 when Les Distractions de Dagobert (1945) sold for $28.5 million at Sotheby’s. This May, Tanning’s Endgame (1944) fetched $2.34 million at Christie’s, well above its $1 million–$1.5 million estimate.

Karpidas also acquired major works by Pablo Picasso and Warhol, alongside sculptural and design works by Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne, Mattia Bonetti, and André Dubreuil. Many of these pieces were originally sourced from notable estates, including those of Man Ray and André Breton.

“I have always seen myself as a temporary custodian for their creations, and it feels like the right moment for the pieces that make up my London home to find their next generation of custodians,” Karpidas said in a statement. “This is by no means an ending, as I will continue to live among art, read books, collect new works, and support artists, as I have done for so many years now.”

The £60 million figure surpasses the previous Sotheby’s benchmark for an estimate on a single-owner sale, set by “Looking Closely,” a 2011 anonymous private sale that carried a £45 million ($60 million) estimate. In the end, the sale overperformed, fetching £93.5 million ($126.45 million).

A new edition of Women, the portrait collection by legendary photographer Annie Leibovitz, will be released by Phaidon this November as a two-volume set. The publication features the original 1999 book alongside a new companion volume, which includes more than 100 portraits created between 2000 and the present.

The 2025 edition includes new portraits by Leibovitz of women activists, artists, authors, musicians, and world leaders. Among them is Rihanna, pictured reclining at the Ritz Paris during her pregnancy in an image originally shot for Vogue in 2022. Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is pictured in a Maryland library, while folk singer Joan Baez appears barefoot on a tree branch, guitar in hand. Alongside these photographs, the book features several newly commissioned essays from Adichie and feminist trailblazer Gloria Steinem.

The original Women was a collaboration between Leibovitz and her partner, the late writer Susan Sontag. The project paired an essay by Sontag with portraits that examined how femininity and power were represented at the turn of the millennium. Leibovitz later described the work as open-ended, telling the New York Times in 2016 that “It’s not one of those projects that will ever have an ending.”

Subjects of the original edition included astronaut Eileen Collins, artist Louise Bourgeois, and Supreme Court justices Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Sontag’s accompanying essay questioned how a book of women’s portraits might be received differently than a similar book of portraits of men.

In 2016, Leibovitz revisited the concept for an exhibition titled “Women: New Portraits,” organized by global wealth manager UBS. The exhibition was staged in London and New York, and featured images of singer Adele, former Olympian Caitlyn Jenner, and First Lady Michelle Obama.

These masterpieces are scattered throughout the film. René Magritte’s The Equator (1942) also appears briefly in the film. Many works are nearly out of frame, including Juriaen Jacobsz’s The Dog Fight (1678), which appears leaning against the wall among a selection of other works.

Handling the masterworks was no small operation for the film crew. Alongside Sharp, the film production enlisted a conservator and registrar to ensure the safety of these works. “I felt, to have any real conviction in being able to ask somebody to lend an object, we needed to have that sort of support network to assure them that the works would be handled exactly as they were if they were lending them to a museum,” Sharp told the New York Times.

Another work featured was a still life by Floris Gerritsz van Schooten, loaned by the Hamburger Kunsthalle in Germany, among several other 17th-century works.

“We have a character who’s a collector, who’s a possessor; he wants to own things, and we thought because it’s sort of art and commerce mixed together this time we should try to have the real thing,” Anderson said to the New York Times.

The film also stars Outlander actress Layla Burns, who is intended to represent Creed’s younger self. Other actors include Lily Cole, who will also play Creed’s mother, and House star Lisa Edelstein.

“The idea of the film is that it comes from my memories. So it’s the story of a little boy growing up and came from the simple idea of writing down my memories from when I was young, and then filming in the places where the things happened,” Creed said of the film. “It’s a coming-of-age story, with different chapters from birth to age 15.”

Creed, who is known for his conceptual installations, shot to prominence in 2001 for his piece Work 227: The Lights Going On and Off (2000). Creed won the Turner Prize for this work, where lights in an empty room switched on and off at five-second intervals.

Creed has shown work with major institutions worldwide over the last few decades, including shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in 2012, Hauser & Wirth in 2023, and the Museum für Konkrete Kunst in Germany in 2023. Though this is the artist’s first feature length film, he has created several short films such as What The Fuck Am I Doing (2017) and the “Princess Taxi Girl” series.

A rediscovered landscape by J.M.W. Turner—the first oil painting the artist ever exhibited—will be offered at auction on July 2nd at Sotheby’s London. Titled The Rising Squall, Hot Wells, from St Vincent’s Rock, Bristol (1792), the work carries an estimate of £200,000–£300,000 ($270,000–$405,000). It will go on view at Sotheby’s from June 28th to July 1st ahead of the Old Masters and 19th century paintings evening auction.

The Rising Squall, Hot Wells, from St Vincent’s Rock, Bristol depicts Hot Wells House, a Georgian-era spa near Bristol, as seen from St. Vincent’s Rock on the east bank of the River Avon. Turner painted the scene in 1792, at the age of 17, basing the painting on a drawing from his sketchbook and a watercolor, both of which are in the collection of Tate Britain.

The painting appeared the following year in the Royal Academy’s annual exhibition. It is thought that the painting was created for Reverend Robert Nixon, an early supporter of Turner’s work. The work was last publicly displayed in 1858 in Tasmania and has remained in private hands for over 150 years. The painting was mentioned in some of Turner’s obituaries, but it was mistakenly thought to be a watercolor. For decades, it was believed that Turner’s first exhibited work was Fisherman at Sea (1796), which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1796.

Also heading to the auction on the same day is a watercolor of Lake Geneva by Turner, titled Lake of Geneva from above Vevey (1836), which will be shown to the public for the first time since 1906. It will be featured in Sotheby’s “Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries” sale with an estimate of £400,000– £600,000 ($541,000–$811,000).

The rediscovery comes in the wake of the artist’s 250th birthday, marked by more than 30 exhibitions across the U.K. Among these, Tate Britain will open “Turner and Constable” on November 27th, a major survey exploring Turner’s rivalry with John Constable.

“Barbara Hepworth’s Sculpture with Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue and Red must be saved for the nation,” Kapoor said in a statement. “Art Fund has put up a quarter of the value of this important sculpture in an extraordinary bid to keep this work in a public collection and accessible to all.”

The 1943 sculpture is a rare example of Hepworth’s wooden carvings made in the 1940s. It comprises a white, egg-like form with multi-colored strings pulled across a pale blue interior void, representing an early exploration of form, space, and color in Hepworth’s practice. It is also one of the first wooden sculptures the artist made using strings—and the only known example incorporating strings in multiple colors. Currently, the Hepworth Wakefield does not own any of the artist’s finished works from the ’40s.

“This rare and significant sculpture should be on public display in the U.K. now and for generations to come,” said Jenny Waldman, director of Art Fund. “Every museum should have the power to secure landmark works of art, but in today’s challenging funding climate, they simply cannot compete with the prices demanded on the open market.”

Correction: A previous version of this article stated that there will be 289 galleries at Frieze London and Frieze Masters. There will be 282.

In 1972, the Whitney Museum of American Art mounted a solo exhibition of her paintings—the first at the institution dedicated to a Black woman. At the time, Thomas was in her early eighties. That same year, the artist was the subject of another major exhibition in Washington, D.C., at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. On September 9, 1972, the then-mayor of D.C., Walter Washington, announced that September 9th would be “Alma W. Thomas Day.” The artist passed away in 1978 at the age of 86.

Thomas’s profile has remained high since her death. In addition to the new street renaming, she has been recently recognized in Washington, D.C., by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, which mounted the solo exhibition “Composing Color: Paintings by Alma Thomas”in 2023. Currently traveling, the exhibition will open at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields on June 27th.

Correction: a previous version of this article mischaracterized Adams’s artwork in the Obama Presidential Center. This has been amended.

In the exhibition, Madu’s paintings draw directly from the settings and subjects of the Van Gogh works he selected, reframing them in the context of stories from his own life. In No Food for Lazy Man II (2025), for instance, Madu depicts a man throwing a chair at the building portrayed in Van Gogh’s Exterior of a Restaurant in Asnières (1887).

“Revisiting Van Gogh’s works and reinterpreting his visuals in a West African context allows me to create a bridge between local narratives and a global audience,” said Madu, who added that he feels a personal connection to Van Gogh as both a person and an artist: “More than any artist I have paid homage to, I see Van Gogh’s works as a marker for artistic individualism.”

A self-taught artist, Madu has exhibited with galleries including AFRIKARIS in Paris, Unit in London, CFHILL in Stockholm, and Zidoun-Bossuyt in Luxembourg. The exhibition “Van Gogh x John Madu” runs until September 7th.

The finalist exhibition is on view at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid through June 29, 2025.

Established in 2016, the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize celebrates excellence, innovation, and artistic vision in contemporary craftsmanship. Now in its eighth edition, the prize continues to elevate global appreciation for handmade work and experimental material practices. The 2024 Loewe Foundation Craft Prize was awarded to ceramic sculptor Andrés Anza Cortés.