Ramiro Davaro-Comas, Amigas!, acrylic and oil pastel on canvas, 54 x 42 in.

Ramiro Davaro‑Comas solo show
Corey Helford Gallery (CHG) in downtown Los Angeles is hosting a new solo show for Argentine-American artist Ramiro Davaro‑Comas, titled Wooden Toys. The exhibition presents a vibrant series of paintings celebrating the community, friendship and diversity that define contemporary skateboarding. The artist shares, “The culture of skateboarding has seen a gigantic shift in the past 15 years, with a diverse group of people now being given voices within the community. While skateboarding existed outside of the mainstream for a long time with ebbs and flows in popularity throughout its history, it is clear that with more inclusivity and an influx of community-building projects, the ‘wooden toys’ have reached a level of affirmation and positive energy represented in this series of paintings.”

The High Desert Museum’s West entrance to the new wing for education, programs and events. Rendering by Hacker Architects. 

High Desert Museum expansion
The High Desert Museum in Bend, Oregon, recently unveiled and broke ground on a $40 million expansion plan to transform its 135-acre campus. Designed by Portland-based architecture firm Hacker, the project will add a new, 24,000-square-foot wing when it opens to the public in late 2027, featuring classrooms, expanded gallery space and gathering spaces for the community. The expansion responds directly to the evolving needs of the region—one of the fastest-growing in the country—and positions the museum as an increasingly important cultural anchor for the American West.

Edward Henry Weston (1886-1958), MGM Studios, 1939, gelatin silver print. Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona: Edward Weston Archive, 81.251.128. © Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents.

The Alchemy of Photography
This July, Phoenix Art Museum unveils a new exhibition exploring photography’s ability to augment and transform reality, highlighting interventions with time across the medium. Ecstatic Time: The Alchemy of Photography features nearly 100 boundary-pushing works from the collection of the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, exploring surreal moments caught on film to evoke a photographic cabinet of curiosities. The exhibition highlights rarely seen works by iconic figures of 20th-century photography such as Ansel Adams, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Ilse Bing, Masahisa Fukase and Edward Weston, bringing together enigmatic photographs that elude linearity and complicate viewers’ perceptions of time and space. Ecstatic Time: The Alchemy of Photography will be on view from July 29, 2026 to January 3, 2027.

The Fuller Building in midtown Manhattan, where Forum Gallery will reside. 

Forum Gallery relocates
After a decade operating at its 475 Park Avenue location, Forum Gallery in New York City will be relocating to a temporary home on the 11th floor of the iconic Fuller Building on 41 E. 57th Street, where the gallery has made arrangements with DFN Projects to reside and exhibit through September 11. At the Fuller Building, Forum Gallery will be joining long-term colleagues, including Hirschl & Adler Galleries and Adelson Galleries. The gallery’s first exhibition at its new temporary location is titled Spring Jewels, featuring modern and contemporary masterworks by artists like Alexander Archipenko, Oscar Bluemner, Claudio Bravo, Davis Cone, Linden Frederick, Gregory Gillespie and more. —