On May 4, Rago Auctions hosts its semi-annual auctions of American + European and Post-War + Contemporary Art. Included in the sale will be two single-owner segments: “The Archive of Artist /Designer”, as well as “Living Large: Big Paintings from the Allan Stone Collection” with an exclusive New York preview at Allan Stone Projects. Beginning at 9am, the sale of American + European Art will include Paintings by John Frederick Kensett, Henry Martin Gasser, and Henry Martin Gasser; Sculptures by Harriet Whitney Frishmuth, Emilio Greco, and Francisco Zuniga; and Works on Paper by George Grosz, George Copeland Ault, and Françoise Gilot. Of particular note is the auction’s cover lot, lot 31, Milton Avery’s 1944 oil on canvas, “Girl by Lake,” estimated at $300,000 – 500,000. The following sale of Post-War + Contemporary Art, set to begin at noon, will feature paintings by Mavis Pusey, Patrick Heron,

Provocative. Passionate. Intense. Tania Bruguera is outspoken about state-sponsored socialism, inhumane immigration policies, and censorship. Join the dialogue as this Cuban-born installation and performance artist, whose provocative works draw attention and occasional imprisonment, discusses her work, behavior art, and the relationship among art, politics, and life. Reservations required. $20 for non-members, free for members and campus community. Get tickets here The Neuberger Museum of Art is located at 735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, NY 10577 on the campus of Purchase College. Tania Bruguera was the first recipient of the Neuberger Museum’s Roy R. Neuberger Exhibition Prize, awarded to an innovative, international artist for an early career survey and catalogue.

French art experts headed into the stricken Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris to remove all the remaining paintings on Friday despite warnings from an environmental group that the site could be a toxic health threat. Officials from the culture ministry were allowed into the 850-year-old landmark to begin retrieving the artworks after fire service officials declared the scorched structure safe enough to go inside. Firefighters and engineering experts have been working on the fragile landmark since a devastating blaze on Monday night, erecting scaffolding and other wooden supports to stop any of the stonework collapsing. “The paintings inside the cathedral have been saved from the flames and can now be taken down and transported to safe areas,” France’s Culture Minister Franck Riester told reporters at the scene on Friday. “All of the paintings will be removed today,” Riester added, saying that he was feeling “very positive” given how most of the priceless canvasses, many of them dating from

Polish-German artist Alicja Kwade has brought the vastness of the solar system to the roof garden of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. With the Big Apple’s iconic skyscrapers in the distance, art lovers can ponder their place in the universe. Kwade — known for her enigmatic sculptures and installations — first attracted attention at the Venice Biennale in 2017. She is now only the seventh artist invited since 2013 to decorate the Met’s roof esplanade overlooking Central Park. The 40-yar-old, who is based in Berlin, has created “ParaPivot,” a massive metallic framework dotted with nine marble and granite spheres, one of which weighs 1.6 tons. They are made from stone sourced from