Bruce Silverstein~ Constantin Brancusi: The Photographs,~A Special on line edition. Details below.

 

Coinciding with the Museum of Modern Art’s forthcoming exhibition Brancusi: The Artist and His Studio, Bruce Silverstein presents more than 30 rare vintage photographs that Constantin Brâncuși himself took and printed, spanning nearly the full range of his photographic practice: individual sculptures, groupes mobiles, studio views, self-portraits, and still lifes of natural forms, including flowers. Photography was never secondary to Brâncuși’s sculpture. As he produced fewer new sculptural forms, the camera became an increasingly important outlet for his creative energy—a means of documenting the continually changing installation of his studio, studying individual sculptures and natural forms, and transforming what he saw there. Photography allowed him to make permanent effects that were otherwise fleeting: the passage of light across polished bronze, cast shadow, reflection, glare, silhouette, negative space, and the shifting relationship between one form and another. Within the photograph, these elements became as deliberate as mass, material, and form. The studio itself developed into an evolving, organic installation in which sculptures, bases, furniture, light, and space were continually reconsidered. These relationships became so important that Brâncuși ultimately left the contents of his studio to the French state with provisions for its reconstruction. His photographic archive was extensive, yet relatively few prints left his possession during his lifetime, making surviving examples in private hands exceptionally rare. Those that did leave the studio often passed directly to family, friends, and members of his artistic circle. Works in this presentation include examples from James Johnson Sweeney, the influential museum curator and director; John Constantin Brâncuși Moore, Brâncuși’s own son; and Marthe Lebherz, a dancer and close companion of the artist. Taken together, the presentation offers an unusually complete view of Brâncuși’s photographic achievement and of photography’s central role in how he composed, reconsidered, documented, and ultimately preserved his sculptural world. Enter Viewing Room UPCOMING ART FAIR

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The Haines Gallery presents~Deborah Butterfield:New York ~November 13, 2026- January 9th, 2027. Opening Nov. 13 5:30-7:30 , San Francisco.

 All Exhibition details below. 

Deborah Butterfield, Kákini, 2026   Deborah Butterfield: New Work November 13, 2026 – January 9, 2027 Opening Reception: Friday, November 13, 2026 | 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM Haines proudly presents our second exhibition with Deborah Butterfield, one of the most distinctive and celebrated sculptors of our time. For nearly five decades, Butterfield has dedicated her practice to craftsmanship, material experimentation, and nuanced depictions of horses, exploring the expressive and formal possibilities of her chosen subject matter and materials. Preview the Exhibition Deborah Butterfield: New Work brings together a remarkable new body of her signature bronze sculptures, including the commanding, life-sized Kákini (2026), one of several new sculptures created from manzanita branches that the artist sourced from gallery principal Cheryl Haines’ property in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California. Other works in the exhibition were created from driftwood gathered in Montana, woody sage from Wyoming, and 'O'hia branches from Hawaii, with which Butterfield achieves an extraordinary range of posture, expression, and attitude. Graceful and evocative, Butterfield's equine sculptures offer a moving meditation on the connections between humans, animals, and the environments we inhabit. Join us for the opening reception on Friday, November 13, 5:30 – 7:30 PM. Deborah Butterfield, Artemis, 2026 Sales Inquiries: alexandra@hainesgallery.com Press Inquiries: irene@hainesgallery.com Photo: Hector Valdivia Deborah Butterfield's (b. 1949, San Diego, CA; lives and works in Hawaii and Montana) work can be found in the collections of museums including the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, CA; Brooklyn Museum, NY; Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, CA; de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions including P.S These are not horses (2023–24), a career retrospective at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, UC Davis, CA. She was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center in 2022, as well as a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (1980) and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships (1977, 1980).

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THe Ok;ahoma Contemporary ~Raven Halfmoon presents~Shape the Story~inviting student Exhibition in the Arts Lab:Shape The Story. See details below.

~We Shape Stories~ participate in artistically expressing their own art.   

Oklahoma Contemporary invites students to
“Shape the Story” with artist Raven Halfmoon

Free educational video and virtual student exhibition connect

contemporary art with personal storytelling

OKLAHOMA CITY (Oct. 20, 2026) — What stories do you carry, and how do they take shape? Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center invites students to explore that question through ARTS LAB: Shape the Story, a free online educational resource inspired by the exhibition Raven Halfmoon: Flags of Our Mothers. The program introduces students to Halfmoon’s artistic practice through a video exploring her work and creative process, complemented by classroom resources and opportunities for students to create their own artwork or writing inspired by her work.

In the video, Halfmoon shares how family, culture, place and personal experience shape her work and creative process. Students are encouraged to consider ideas of identity, memory and storytelling, then create a visual or written response of their own.

Responses may include drawing, painting, collage, writing or another creative approach, giving educators flexibility to adapt the activity to their students’ interests and available materials.

Students can share their responses through Stories We Shape, a virtual exhibition featuring artwork and writing inspired by Halfmoon’s practice. Participation is free and open to K–12 students, homeschool learners and youth participating through community organizations. The virtual exhibition will be updated with new submissions throughout the run of Raven Halfmoon: Flags of Our Mothers.

Accompanying classroom resources include planning guidance and “Dig Deeper” materials for grades 3–5 and grades 6–12. Together, the video, resources and student exhibition offer opportunities to connect contemporary art with students’ own experiences and perspectives.

Explore the resources at: okcontemp.org/shapethestory.

About the Exhibition

Raven Halfmoon: Flags of Our Mothers, the artist’s first major traveling exhibition, will be on view Nov. 18, 2026–May 24, 2027, in Oklahoma Contemporary’s Mary LeFlore Clements Oklahoma Gallery.

Connecting Caddo pottery traditions with contemporary expression, the exhibition honors the matriarchs in Halfmoon’s life and the Indigenous women who have preserved stories and traditions across generations. Her monumental, hand-built ceramic sculptures feature deep finger impressions, dripping glazes and repeated portrait imagery. Works include Flagbearer, a three-part stacked sculpture standing more than 12 feet tall. Through themes of ancestry, identity and personal experience, the exhibition invites students to consider the stories that shape their own lives.

The exhibition is organized by The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts and curated by Amy Smith-Stewart and Rachel Adams. Support for this exhibition is provided by Art Bridges Foundation. Admission is free.

Educators, families and community organizations can learn more, access classroom resources and find student submission information here.

About the Artist

Raven Halfmoon is an artist and sculptor born and raised in Norman, Oklahoma. She is a citizen of the Caddo Nation and also Choctaw, Delaware and Otoe-Missouria. She holds a double bachelor’s degree from the University of Arkansas, where she studied ceramics/painting and cultural anthropology.

Her work is in the permanent collections of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; the Detroit Institute of Arts; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; and the Montclair Art Museum. She was selected as an Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellow in 2023 and was a finalist for the international Loewe Craft Prize in 2024.

Halfmoon is represented by Kouri + Corrao Gallery in Santa Fe and Ross + Kramer Gallery in New York. Salon 94 represented her for her solo exhibition in September 2024.

About Oklahoma Contemporary

Oklahoma Contemporary, formed in 1989 as City Arts Center by Christian Keesee and Kirkpatrick Foundation Director Marilyn Myers, is a nonprofit organization committed to providing quality, accessible and affordable arts programming. With a mission to encourage artistic expression in all its forms through education, exhibitions and performance, Oklahoma Contemporary is committed to instilling in the public a lifetime appreciation of the arts and enthusiasm for creative practice. For more information on free exhibitions, class schedules and public programs, visit oklahomacontemporary.org.

About Art Bridges Foundation

Art Bridges Foundation, the vision of philanthropist and arts patron Alice Walton, creates and supports projects that share works of American art with communities across the United States and its territories. Since 2017, Art Bridges has partnered with a growing network of nearly 400 museums of many sizes — impacting 31 million people nationwide — to provide financial and strategic support for exhibitions, collection loans, and programs designed to educate, inspire, and deepen engagement with local audiences. The Art Bridges Collection represents an expanding vision of American art from the 19th century to present day and encompasses multiple media and voices. For more information, visit artbridgesfoundation.org.

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More information about the exhibition Raven Halfmoon: Flags of Our Mothers can be
found in the media kit at https://bit.ly/FlagsOfOurMothers. An exhibition webpage can be found
at okcontemp.org/ravenhalfmoon. Past press releases and information are archived at okcontemp.org/media.

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