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View of the exhibition "Picasso: The Royan Sketchbooks". Architectural design by Cécile Degos. © Museo Picasso Málaga.
MALAGA.- Between September 1939 and August 1940, Picasso produced eight sketchbooks of pencil and ink drawings while he was living in the French town of Royan, to where he moved with Dora Maar and accompanied by Jaime Sabartés following the outbreak of World War II. Marie-Thérèse Walter and Maya, Walters daughter with Picasso, had already been living in the town for a couple of months. Far from the French capital, this seaside town with its 19th-century architecture seemed a safe place at the time. Disturbed and restless due to the war, during those eight months Picasso made the 500-kilometre journey between Royan and Paris on several occasions in order to ensure that, as a foreigner, his documents were in order and also to check on the safety and storage of his works and even to participate in preparations for an exhibition of his drawings. Marilyn McCully, the exhibitions curator, considers that the nature of Picasso's artistic activity changed, largely as a result of the limited ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center, Nyack, NY, is presenting the exhibition, Portal: The Window in American Photography, featuring twenty three images by seventeen nationally and globally esteemed photographers drawn from the collection of the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY. Photo: Andrea B. Swenson Photography.
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| Thomas Ruff's photographic innovations on display in London | | Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd. announces results of Pre-1980 Sports Cards & Memorabilia auction | | Alexej Jawlensky's serial variations explored at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art |
Thomas Ruff, jpeg to01, 2022. Inkjet print with Diasec © Thomas Ruff/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Germany. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner.
LONDON.- David Zwirner is presenting an exhibition of work by the German artist Thomas Ruff at the gallerys location in London. expériences lumineuses marks the artists first solo show in the city since his critically acclaimed presentations at Whitechapel Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery in 2017, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2018, where he was commissioned to create a series to inaugurate its Photography Centre. The exhibition juxtaposes new and recent series, presented on the ground floor, with a selection of images surveying Ruffs career on the first floor, together demonstrating his expansive approach to photography. This is the artists thirteenth solo presentation with David Zwirner. Ruff rose to international prominence in the late 1980s as a member of the Düsseldorf School, a group of young photographers who had studied under Bernd and Hilla Becher at the renowned Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and became known for their experimental approach to ... More | |
Iconic 1952 Topps #311 Mickey Mantle rookie card, regarded as one of the most significant in the world of baseball card collecting, graded PSA 1.5 Fair condition (CA$50,150).
NEW HAMBURG.- Two 1952 Topps #311 Mickey Mantle baseball cards, rare examples but with condition issues, still combined to bring $88,500 in an online-only Pre-1980 Sports Cards & Memorabilia auction held January 25th by Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd. Prices quoted in this report are in Canadian dollars and include an 18 percent buyers premium. One of the Mantles had a grade of PSA 1.5 Fair and carried a pre-sale estimate of $30,000-$40,000. It sold for $50,150. The other card had an even lesser grade PSA 1 Poor but bidders blasted through the $15,000-$20,000 estimate for a final selling price of $38,350. The high prices underscored the rarity and popularity of that particular card as well as the Topps 1952 set overall. The inaugural January 25th Sports auction proved that the market for pre-1980 sports cards is stronger than ever, with many estimates being met and even exceeded for top lots, said Ben Pernfuss, Miller & Millers Consignment ... More | |
Alexej Jawlensky, Meditation N. 30, 1934. Oil on paper on cardboard. Without frame: 15.5 à 12 cm (6 1/8 à 4 3/4 in.). Kuntmuseum Basel, Stiftung Im Obersteg, Deposit Kunstmuseum Basel 2004. Photo: Kunstmuseum Basel, Martin P. Bühler.
HUMLEBÃK.- The painter Alexej Jawlensky (1864-1941) was a late bloomer whose serial works left a lasting mark on art history. With over 60 works on loan from leading European museums and private collections, a new exhibition at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art takes a close look at the last 20 years of the artists working life. This period, Jawlensky devoted almost exclusively to painting the same subject over and over again: a face. The face was an ideal subject for Jawlensky to express his spiritual thoughts. Over time it became almost completely abstract, culminating is his last series, his Meditations, when his hands were crippled by arthritis. These late works remain a singular and original contribution to art history. The exhibition first looks at Jawlenskys links to the Munich art scene in the early 20th century leading up to World War I. Jawlensky was in a relationship with the painter Marianne Werefkin and was ... More |
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| Tate acquires painting by Amoako Boafo at 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair: Marrakech | | Hauser & Wirth presents Camille Henrot's first major NYC exhibition | | Hilton Als curates exhibition highlighting Alice Neel's depiction of queer community |
Amoako Boafo, Blank stare 2021. Oil on paper, 1000 x 700 mm (Gallery 1957, Booth LM1, La Mamounia, 1-54 Marrakech).
LONDON.- The following work has been acquired for Tateâs collection thanks to Tateâs Africa Acquisitions Committee Catalyst Fund supported by 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, artist Amoako Boafo and Gallery 1957: Amoako Boafo Blank stare 2021 Oil on paper, 1000 x 700 mm (Gallery 1957, Booth LM1, La Mamounia, 1-54 Marrakech) Ghanaian artist Amoako Boafo (born 1984, Accra, Ghana, where he lives and works) is renowned for his innovative approach to the shaping of Black figuration, capturing the expression, style and character of his subjects in his enticing portraits. Boafo's oil painting Blank stare was selected at 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair in Marrakech by Gregor Muir, Director of Tateâs Collection, and Osei Bonsu, Curator, International Art, and is the latest of over 58 bodies of work by 42 artists which the Africa Acquisitions Committee has enabled Tate to acquire since 2011. Last year the Committee launched a Catalyst Fund to focus specifically on supporting contemporary artists an ... More | |
Camille Henrot, Richelieu, 2023. Steel wool, wood, textile. Unique, 99 x 184 x 47 cm / 39 x 72 1/2 x 18 1/2 in. Photo: Jon Etter. © Camille Henrot. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
NEW YORK, NY.- This January, Camille Henrot presents A Number of Things, her first major exhibition with Hauser & Wirth in New York City. Evoking childrens developmental tools, shoes, distorted graphs and counting devices, new large-scale bronze sculptures from the artists Abacus series (2024)presented alongside recent smaller- scaled worksaddress the friction between a nascent sense of imagination and societys systems of signs. The exhibition also features vibrant new paintings from Henrots ongoing Dos and Donts series. Initiated in 2021, this series combines printing, painting and collage techniques with excerpts from etiquette books and computer desktop screenshots to serve as palimpsests for play with color, gesture, texture and trompe loeil. The artworks on view emerge from a site-specific flooring intervention conceived and designed by Henrot in collaboration with Charlap Hyman & Herrero. A Number of Thing ... More | |
Alice Neel, David and Catherine Saalfield, 1982. Oil on canvas, 162.9 x 111.8 cm. 64 1/8 x 44 in © The Estate of Alice Neel. Courtesy The Estate of Alice Neel, David Zwirner and Victoria Miro.
LONDON.- Victoria Miro is presenting At Home: Alice Neel in the Queer World, curated by Hilton Als. The gallerys ninth solo exhibition of works by the celebrated American painter further extends an ongoing exploration of aspects of Neels work and its continuing relevance today. One of the foremost painters of the twentieth century, and among its most radical, Alice Neel (19001984) is known for her daring honesty in her pursuit of what she termed the truth of the individual and the broader society in which individual lives were lived. At Home: Alice Neel in the Queer World highlights the artists career-long commitment to depicting the human condition and her practice of painting people from many walks of life. This exhibition focuses on her paintings of people from queer communities and those who were a part of their circle. The works on view include paintings of writers, performers and artists, as well as friends and neighbours together forming ... More |
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| Lyman Allyn Art Museum installs new work of art in permanent collection gallery | | Deconstructing the image: Willem Oorebeek's major survey opens at WIELS | | Frist Art Museum opens exhibitions exploring food and identity through Impressionist and Realist paintings |
Hank Willis Thomas, Blue Study No. 10, 2024.
NEW LONDON, CONN.- Lyman Allyn Art Museum announced the display and promised gift of Blue Study No. 10, 2024, a work of art by the prominent contemporary artist Hank Willis Thomas (American, b. 1976). The retroreflective work has been installed in the Museums American Perspectives permanent collection gallery in celebration of Black History Month, where it will remain on view. A conceptual artist based in Brooklyn, NY, Hank Willis Thomas explores themes of perspective, identity, commodity, media, and popular culture in his art. Over the last ten years, he has explored the retroreflective medium, creating mixed media works that reveal two distinct scenes when viewed with ambient and flash lighting. Seen from one perspective, these artworks present bold figurations, abstractions, and landscapes in saturated colors; seen from another, fragmented archival scraps from Thomass other projects over the last decade are revealed. As these elements converge and transform, they shed light ... More | |
Willem Oorebeek, More Of The Same M.O.T.S., 2013. Two sizes digital prints on paper. Courtesy of the artist.
BRUSSELS.- WIELS presents OBSTAKLES, a major survey of Willem Oorebeeks work. Since the early 1980s Willem Oorebeek (1953, NL) has been a prominent figure with an extensive presence in exhibitions, publications, and as a teacher and a mentor. He developed his practice in the Netherlands before moving to Brussels in 1994, where he has been living and working ever since. Over the past decades Oorebeek has explored the impact of images and the erosion of the viewing experience caused by the mass inflation of print or screen reproduction. Spread across two floors, OBSTAKLES highlights Oorebeeks in-depth exploration of authorship and aura by way of appropriation techniques, selecting printed matter to manipulate and transpose into other media. By focusing on duplicating, copying and translating, Oorebeek explores the malleability of the structure of images, across abstraction or representation, form or sign. The exhibition features around ... More | |
Camille Pissarro, The Gardener - Old Peasant with Cabbage, 188395. Oil on canvas; 32 x 25 1/2 in. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1994.59.6.
NASHVILLE, TN.- The Frist Art Museum presents Farm to Table: Art, Food, and Identity in the Age of Impressionism and Tennessee Harvest: 1870s1920s, two companion exhibitions that explore the intersections of art, gastronomy, and identity. Both exhibitions will be on view in the Frists Ingram Gallery from January 31 through May 4, 2025. Farm to Table, organized by the American Federation of Arts and the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, focuses on late 19th-century France and showcases the work of artists such as Rosa Bonheur, Gustave Courbet, Paul Gauguin, Claude Monet, and Camille Pissarro, who captured the nations unique relationship with food, from production to preparation and consumption. Featuring paintings and sculptures that span the age of impressionism, the nearly 60 works in Farm to Table depict a wide gamut of human ... More |
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| Annely Juda Fine Art opens its first exhibition of major works by Belgian artist Yves Zurstrassen | | Irish Museum of Modern Art announces 2025 exhibitions | | Ull Hohn: Revisions - A posthumous exhibition explores a life in painting at Haus am Waldsee |
Yves Zurstrassen, Free Time, 2023. Oil on canvas, 230 x 200 cm. 90.6 x 78.7 in.
LONDON.- Annely Juda Fine Art, London announces the gallerys first exhibition of major works by Belgian artist Yves Zurstrassen (b. 1956 in Liège, Belgium). Known for his experimental techniques and dynamic compositions, Zurstrassen has spent over four decades redefining the language of abstraction. He blends spontaneity with meticulous craftsmanship, creating works that resonate with rhythm, gesture and a profound sense of temporality drawing inspiration from lyrical abstraction, abstract expressionism and the unstructured improvisations of free jazz. At the heart of Zurstrassens practice is a process that combines collage, décollage and contemporary digital tools; using stencils crafted from perforated wallpaper, designed through computerized calculations, he layers paint, applies the stencils, and then removes them, revealing fragments of earlier layers. This interplay of addition and subtraction creates a complex visual archaeology, where the final visible elements often reflec ... More | |
Sam Gilliam, Silhouette/Template (2), 1994. Painted fabric collage, stitched,. Installation Dimensions: 152 x 190 x 28 cm, (60 x 75 x 11 inches). Courtesy of Sam Gilliam Foundation.
DUBLIN.- IMMA, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, today (30 January 2025) announced highlights of its 2025 programme, opening with a major three-year display celebrating IMMAs Permanent Collection titled IMMA Collection: Art as Agency, that showcases over 100 artists from the 1960s to the present, highlighting key works including many recent acquisitions. Through thematic, chronological, geographical, and media-based approaches, Art as Agency examines how artworks connect across time and contexts, fostering new interpretations and relevance. By interweaving historical and contemporary narratives, the exhibition invites audiences to reflect on the evolving meanings and possibilities of art in shaping our understanding of and action in the world. Opening on 6 February this ambitious exhibition will invite engagement and research, allowing for a rich durational experience of Irelands Modern and ... More | |
Ull Hohn, Untitled, 1994/1995. Oil on canvas, 127,5 x 101 x 2,5 cm. Courtesy of The Estate of Ull Hohn and Galerie Neu, Berlin.
BERLIN.- For Ull Hohn, painting was far more than just an artistic formit was a space where discourse, techniques, and personal reflections intertwined. At a time when painting was widely seen as an exhausted medium, Hohn sought renewal from within. In his works from the late 1980s and early 1990s, he explored the connections between formal and political approaches to art through several series of paintings. He experimented with forms of representation that probed the boundaries of mass media appropriation and the tension between virtuosity and amateurism, opening painting to self-questioning. A recurring theme in Hohns workwhich spans figurative and abstract compositionsis his critical engagement with traditional painterly tropes, particularly landscape art. Redefining notions of nature and naturalness and consciously tying them to current debates such as the heated discourses of the Culture Wars in New York in the 1990s and the ... More |
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Yoko Matsumoto joins White CubeLONDON.- White Cube announced representation of Yoko Matsumoto (b.1936, Tokyo), alongside Hino Gallery in Japan. In February, the artists painting Edom Becomes Wilderness (1989) will be on view at White Cubes booth during MAZE Art Gstaad in Switzerland, while Shapes in Nature VI (1986) will be shown at Frieze Los Angeles. Matsumoto joins the gallery following her UK debut at White Cube Masons Yard, London, in January 2024, and a presentation at White Cube New York in June 2024. In spring 2026, the artist will have a major touring retrospective across several Japanese institutions. Matsumotos expressive visual language is dedicated to painting with colour and form alone. Inspired by Western abstraction and Japanese art, in particular the monochromatic ink drawing practice of suiboku-ga, the artist addresses colour ... More Planes, yachts, the world's greatest cars, and a nearly $100 million auctionMIAMI, FLA.- Luxury automakers, collectors, global enthusiasts, and the biggest names in automotive media are flocking to ModaMiamis highly anticipated second year. Taking center stage, ModaMiami blends automotive, luxury, and lifestyle into one unforgettable experience. Featuring hundreds of the worlds rarest cars, world-class hospitality, industry leaders in aviation, yachting, and luxury, as well as special reveals by OEM manufacturers, the event is redefining what an automotive lifestyle event can be. Building on the success of its 2024 debut, this years event is poised to deliver an even more elevated experience. ModaMiami also welcomes a distinguished lineup of curators and emcees, including renowned media personalities Shmee150 and Ed Bolian, alongside Nic Waller, President of the Audrain Automobile Museum, ... More Nine women artists reimagine the muse at Haverkampf LeistenschneiderBERLIN.- In Greek mythology, the Muses were thought to speak in whispers, inspiring those they blessed with their gifts. In some accounts, these whispers were carried on the wind, often from Mount Helicon, the sacred mountain where the nine Muses were said to reside. As divine patrons of the arts, each Muse presided over a distinct domain of knowledgespanning poetry, dance, music, history, and astronomycollectively embodying the vast spectrum of human inspiration, guiding artists, poets, and musicians as they retreated into the depths of thought. This idea of whispers has transcended time, enduring as a metaphor for the muses mysterious aura, a source of inspiration and personal enlightenment. Building on this notion, the exhibition reveries of a solitary muse brings together the work of nine women artists: Nadja Abt, Annabelle ... More Jason Martin's new works on paper capture the essence of natureBERLIN.- Buchmann Galerie presents the exhibition Pole Star by British painter Jason Martin (b. 1970 on the Channel Island of Jersey, UK). A central focal point of the exhibition is an extensive series of new works on paper created by the artist with dyes. Unlike the color pigments used in oil or acrylic paints, these dyes react to moisture, light, and heat in complex ways. Accordingly, the painterly results generated via the artists process are at times unpredictable, allowing for a compelling interplay between control and chance. The works on paper were realized during extended travels; they are painterly travelogues, created in the mangrove swamps of Bahia, Brazil, among other places. Since the dyes interact with the elementsscorching heat and tropical humiditythe works are responsive to all climatic variables. Thus, for the painter, nature functions ... More Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart announces partnership with CHANEL Culture FundBERLIN.- Hamburger Bahnhof Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart announces a major three-year partnership with the CHANEL Culture Fund. The CHANEL Commission at Hamburger Bahnhof is an annual commission that marks a new chapter in the museums legacy, empowering artists to realize ambitious, large-scale projects. Setting a new bench- mark for commissions in public institutions due to its unparalleled scope and vision, the collaboration boldly reimagines the museum's iconic 2,500-square-meter historic hall, transforming it into an immersive, thought-provoking arena. Engaging with the monumental architecture and situated at the heart of the institution, the CHANEL Commission at Hamburger Bahnhof offers a platform for innovation and scale. Known for redefining the boundaries of sculpture, Berlin-based Klára Hosnedlová will inaugurate ... More Sale of Phillipe Mercier's The Hazard Table to the Beefsteak ClubLONDON.- Dickinson announced that, late last year, it completed the sale of The Hazard Table by Phillipe Mercier to the Beefsteak Club, a West End institution with which the picture shares much history. The current Beefsteak Club was established in 1876, rising from the ashes of its antecedent, the Sublime Society of Beefsteaks, whose doors closed almost a decade earlier. The origins of the Society of Beefsteaks are relatively obscure, but we know that it was founded in 1735 by the theatre manager, Richard Rich, along with the painter George Lambert. The tale goes that Lambert, too absorbed with his work to dine in company, would grill steaks for himself on a gridiron on his studio stove. From this, the patriotic dining club the Society of Beefsteaks was born, founded on the principles that an Englishman must be in possession of Beef and Liberty, these ... More Over 200 exclusive pieces of 'Blade Runner 2049' memorabilia up for auction this FebruaryLOS ANGELES, CA.- Propstore, one of the worlds leading entertainment memorabilia auctioneers, has announced that it will hold a highly anticipated Blade Runner 2049 Online Auction featuring props and costumes from one of the most popular sci-fi film series, in association with Alcon Entertainment. 200 rare and iconic lots will be sold during Propstores unique Blade Runner 2049 Online Auction from January 30 - February 20, 2025. Registration is now open online at propstoreauction.com/auctions/info/id/444. Online proxy bids can be submitted from January 30, 2025. Top lots to be sold at Propstores Blade Runner 2049 (2017) online auction (with estimated sale prices) include: Rick Deckard's (Harrison Ford) Photo-Matched Hero Light-Up LAPD 2019 PKD Detective Special Blaster opening bid of $10,000 ... More Prix Meret Oppenheim 2025: Felix Lehner, Pamela Rosenkranz, Miroslav ŠikBASEL.- On the recommendation of the Federal Art Commission, the Federal Office of Culture is this year presenting the Swiss Grand Award for Art/Prix Meret Oppenheim to Felix Lehner, Pamela Rosenkranz and Miroslav ik. The award ceremony will take place on 16 June, the day of the opening of the Swiss Art Awards exhibition in Basel and will be attended by Federal Councillor Elisabeth Baume-Schneider. Felix Lehner (b.1960, St. Gallen) opened his first foundry at the age of 22. In 1994, it relocated to the halls of the former dyeing factory in Sittertal. Today, the Kunstgiesserei St. Gallen employs over 80 specialists in a wide range of creative professions. Since it was established, the foundry has become a cornerstone of the Swiss art scene, collaborating with internationally-renowned artists, and with museums and galleries all ... More MIT List Visual Arts Center presents List Projects 31: KiteCAMBRIDGE, MASS.- MIT List Visual Arts Center presents List Projects 31: Kite, a solo exhibition of new-media work by the Oglála Lakȟóta artist. Iteration and translation are fundamental to Kites work, which prompts viewers and collaborators to listen closely to each other as well as to dreams and nonhuman beings. Her practicespanning experimental composition, graphic scores, video, sculpture, and live performanceexamines Lakȟóta ontology and ethics alongside emerging technologies like machine learning and artificial intelligence. Featuring video documentation of individual and collaborative performances alongside scores that translate dreams into a Lakȟóta grammar of symbols, Kites List Center exhibition brings key aspects of her performance and composition practice into focus. Kite has worked with interactive ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter and sculptor Dorothea Tanning died January 31, 2012. Dorothea Margaret Tanning (August 25, 1910 - January 31, 2012) was an American painter, printmaker, sculptor, writer, and poet. Her early work was influenced by Surrealism. Tanning's work has been recognized in numerous one-person exhibitions, both in the United States and in Europe, including major retrospectives in 1974 at the Centre National dâArt Contemporain in Paris (which became the Centre Georges Pompidou in 1977), and in 1993 at the Malmö Konsthall in Sweden and the at the Camden Arts Centre in London. In this image: Dorothea Tanning, Untitled (Set Design for The Night Shadow or an Unrealized Ballet), c. 1950. Graphite, ink, and gouache on paper, 25.4 x 35.6 cm, 10 x 14 ins © ADAGP. Courtesy of The Destina Foundation, New York, and Alison Jacques Gallery, London.
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