Philadelphia Museum of Art receives $20m for learning centre
The planned north-wing project is intended to expand space for school groups, families and hands-on learning, with a design expected by summer 2027.
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Students from Philadelphia take a tour of the Asian galleries at the Philadelphia Museum of ArtPhoto: Mark Stehle, courtesy Philadelphia Museum of Art Source. 
KARL WESCHKE AND CORNWALL'S LOST MODERNISM By Matt RetallickLund Humphries Source. Karl Weschke and the other story of St Ives
A forthcoming book by Matt Retallick revisits the German-born painter’s place in Cornwall, with new research on Peter Lanyon’s art school and Francis Bacon.
An interior view of the Fondation Beyeler’s new Wyss buildingPhoto: Mark Niedermann Source. Fondation Beyeler begins phased opening of expansion costing around £109.7m
Peter Zumthor’s three new buildings add 1,500 sq. m of gallery space, while the enlarged park opens with visitor numbers initially restricted.
Euan Uglow (British, 1932-2000) Palm Tree signed and titled 'Euan Uglow/Palm Tree.' (on an artist's label attached to the stretcher) oil on canvas, 45.8 x 45.8 cm. (18 x 18 in.) Painted in 1971Bonhams Source. A new test for Uglow at Bonhams
Palm Tree follows a record £793,600 sale at Christie’s, while a substantial group of Lowrys arrives as MK Gallery opens its reassessment of the painter.
Wassily Kandinsky, Betonte Ecken (1922 to 23).Christie’s Source. Christie’s sets its sights on a new Kandinsky record
Estimated at $60m-$80m, Betonte Ecken comes to New York with a Guggenheim provenance and a reported third-party guarantee.
Claude Monet ‘Iris’Sotheby’s Source. Monet’s €50m Iris sets a new auction high for France
A prolonged contest for a late painting from the Schlumberger collection pushed the hammer price to €43m, well above its €22m-€30m estimate.
L.S. Lowry, Level Crossing (1946), Oil on canvas, The Lowry Collection, Salford© The Lowry Collection, Salford Source. Lowry’s wider world comes into view at MK Gallery
A major retrospective opens in Milton Keynes, bringing the painter’s portraits, seascapes and early studies into the company of his familiar industrial crowds.
VANESSA BELL (1879-1961) Adrian and Virginia Stephen on the Lawn oil on board 14 ½ x 13 ¾ in. (36.8 x 34.9 cm.) Painted circa 1909.Christie's Source. Early Vanessa Bell of Virginia Woolf brings £57,600 at Christie’s
Offered without reserve, a small family scene drew attention to a scarce surviving work from Bell’s formative years.
Portrait of a man, bust-length, traditionally identified as Charles d’Eon de Beaumont, called Le Chevalier d’Eon (1728–1810), in women’s dress and a turban decorated with pearls, in a painted oval, oil on canvas, 63.5 x 52.5 cmDorotheum Source. 
L.S. Lowry, Station Approach, Manchester 1960, oil on canvas, 30 x 40inMacConnal-Mason Source. Lowry’s Manchester station scene offered for more than £3 million
MacConnal-Mason will bring Station Approach, Manchester to the LAPADA Berkeley Square Fair, offering a substantial cityscape closely related to the artist’s Royal Academy diploma painting.
Edward Hopper's Old Ice Pond at Nyack (around 1898-1900, top) is in fact a copy of Winter Sunset by Bruce Crane (bottom), which was published in the December 1890 issue of Art Interchange magazineHopper: Copyright 2026, Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper/Licensed by DACS, London; Image courtesy of Heather James Fine Arts. Crane: Photo by Louis Shadwick Source. Biographer argues Hopper’s six early oils copied printed models
Louis Shadwick traces five pre-art-school paintings to published images and argues that posthumous titles created a disputed link between two of them and Hopper’s childhood town of Nyack.
HILMA AF KLINT, "SER III NO. 5". DATED D. 18/1 1920. OIL AND GRAPHITE ON CANVAS 38,5 X 29 CM.Bukowski’s Source. Rare Hilma af Klint abstract heads to auction with SEK6m-8m estimate
Bukowskis’ sale of a 1920 painting will offer an unusual test of the market for an artist whose museum reputation has flourished largely beyond the auction room.
Katsushika Hokusai, Under the Wave off Kanagawa, 1830-1833Photograph: Courtesy the Iuchi Collection, on deposit at The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Photo by Norihiro Ueno Source. Beyond the Great Wave: Hokusai’s Complete Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji Opens at Dulwich
Dulwich Picture Gallery brings together all 46 prints from Katsushika Hokusai’s celebrated series for the first time in Britain, including exceptional impressions of The Great Wave and the rarely seen Blue Fuji.
AMEDEO MODIGLIANI, Tête, 1911–1912. Estimate: $28,000,000–$35,000,000. Modern & Contemporary Art Evening Sale, New YorkPhillips Source. 
Ben Nicholson (1894-1982) Cumbrian Cottages c.1928 Oil on canvasDartington Hall Collection Source. £815,035 secures Dartington’s Modern British collection for Devon museums
An Art Fund grant has enabled The Box and Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum to acquire 22 works through a private sale brokered by Phillips.
Rembrandt van Rijn. St. Jerome Reading in an Italian Landscape, ca. 1653. Etching and drypoint, printed on Japanese paper, 259 x 210 mm. Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1905.The Morgan Library & Museum (RvR 165) Source. Rembrandt’s lions lead an exhibition on art and exile at the Morgan
A new exhibition in New York brings together paintings, drawings and exceptional prints to examine the people and journeys that shaped Rembrandt’s world.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Arrangement in Grey: Portrait of the Painter, 1872, oil on canvas, 74.9 × 53.3 cm, Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Henry Glover Stevens in memory of Ellen P. Stevens and Mary M. Stevens,Photo credit: © Detroit Institute of Arts / Bridgeman Images Source. Whistler retrospective opens in the Netherlands
Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum presents the country’s first Whistler retrospective, accompanied by a more intimate examination of his Dutch connections in The Hague.
Charles Le Brun & Gaspard Dughet, ‘Allegory of the Tiber’, an oil on canvasMusée du Grand Siècle Source. Musée du Grand Siècle acquires ‘Allegory of the Tiber’
The oil painting, jointly attributed to Charles Le Brun and Gaspard Dughet, is intended for the Saint-Cloud museum scheduled to open in 2028.
La Maddalena in estasiiicnewyork.esteri.it Source. Disputed Caravaggio Magdalene goes on show in New York
The painting championed by Mina Gregori makes its first American appearance, bringing an unresolved attribution before a new audience.
‘Saint évêque avec un orant’, attributed to Jean BellegambeMusée de la Chartreuse Source. Douai acquires panel attributed to Jean Bellegambe after pre-emption
The Musée de la Chartreuse secured ‘Saint évêque avec un orant’ at €48,000 hammer. Its attribution, the bishop’s identity and a proposed connection to a Metropolitan Museum of Art panel remain unresolved.
