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The First Art Newspaper on the Net Established in 1996 Friday, March 7, 2025 Palazzo Reale hosts major contemporary art exhibition featuring 80 international artists The exhibition is structured to navigate through various thematic concerns. Works by artists like Wangechi Mutu, Raqib Shaw, and Luigi Ontani will address cultural identity and belonging, while others, such as Roberto Cuoghi and Tammy Nguyen, delve into concepts of transformation. MILAN.- Palazzo Reale is set to open its doors to a comprehensive exhibition of contemporary art, "FROM CINDY SHERMAN TO FRANCESCO VEZZOLI. 80 CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS," running from March 7 to May 4, 2025. The exhibition, a collaborative effort between the Municipality of Milan, Palazzo Reale, and the Giuseppe Iannaccone Foundation, promises to offer a broad survey of contemporary artistic practice through the works of 80 internationally recognized artists. Featuring over 140 pieces, the exhibition aims to explore key themes prevalent in contemporary art, including identity, the body, gender, multiculturalism, and the interplay between tradition and innovation. Curated by Daniele Fenaroli, with scientific consultation from Vincenzo de Bellis, the show intends to provide visitors with a multifaceted perspective on the current art world. The exhibition is structured to navigate through various thematic concerns. Works by artists like Wangechi Mutu, Raqib Shaw, and Luigi Ontani will address cultural ... More The Best Photos of the Day The Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst e.V. opened the duo exhibition Erosion Arranged: we sink, I stretch, you flow by Monique S. Desto (b. 1989, lives in Hamburg) and Klaartje van Essen (b. 1998, lives in Amsterdam). The two artists share a sensitivity for the relationship between painting, sculpture, memory, and space in their extended image practices. In this image: Klaartje van Essen: Crayon Rocks (Detail), 2025. Photo: Franziska von den Driesch. Joël Andrianomearisoa's "MIRACLE" explores materiality and memory in three movements Milestone's March 22-23 Premier Firearms Auction 'targets' collectors of exceptional sporting, military & civilian guns A strong start to Christie's 20/21 Marquee Week with a combined total of $166,591,924 Joël Andrianomearisoa MIRACLE ACT III, 2025. Textile, raffia, 90.2 x 70.5 x 21 cm. 35 1/2 x 27 3/4 x 8 1/4 in. NEW YORK, NY.- Almine Rech New York, Upper East Side is presenting 'MIRACLE,' Joël Andrianomearisoa's third solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from March 6 to April 19, 2025. The exhibition is exemplary of Joël Andrianomearisoa's practice which has evolved to emotions and materiality: drawing, raphia, textile, and other techniques. Joël Andrianomearisoa’s artistic practice is defined by physical and conceptual movement. Shuttling between his studios in Antananarivo and Paris, he generates a dynamic third space of creativity that transcends geographical and cultural boundaries. These two locations—one embedded in the pulse of a global art capital, the other deeply rooted in the rhythms of Madagascar—are not merely physical sites of production but resonant landscapes of memory, material, and making. His practice is an act of translation, not between languages, but between textures, histories, and emotional registers. Andrianomearisoa’s studios in Antananarivo, Madagascar, and ... More Third-generation Colt .45 Single Action Army Revolver manufactured in 1982. Estimate: $6,000-$9,000. WILLOUGHBY, OHIO.- Milestone’s Spring 2025 Premier Firearms Auction featuring 1,187 hand-selected lots is a virtual arsenal of fine-quality antique and vintage productions from the most sought-after American, European and Japanese arms manufacturers. The March 22-23 sale will be held live at Milestone’s suburban-Cleveland gallery, with all forms of remote bidding available, including absentee, phone or live via the Internet through a choice of bidding platforms. An overview reveals sporting shotguns and rifles from revered brands including Winchester, Beretta, Remington, Browning, Parker Brothers, Sako, Ithaca, Marlin, Savage and more. Military weapons traverse a 250-year period starting with the American Revolutionary War era and concluding with the Vietnam War. In between, there are Civil War weapons, guns of the Old West, including a very fine Model 1865 Indian Wars Spencer Carbine; and an impressive selection of World War II American, Nazi German, and Japanese arms, led by a very rare set o ... More Auctioneer and Christie's Global Head of Private Sales and Co-Head of Impressionist and Modern Art Adrien Meyer selling Michael Andrews' School IV: Barracuda under Skipjack. © Christie's Images Ltd 2025. LONDON.- A combined total of £130,251,700/$166,591,924/€156,302,040 was achieved tonight at Christie’s London for the 20/21 Evening Sales, with 94% sold by lot, 97% sold by value and 43% of lots sold above the high estimate. The highest price of the season was achieved by René Magritte’s La reconnaissance infinie, realising £10,315,000 in Christie’s signature The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale. The sales saw strong international buyer participation with 53% from EMEA, 34% from the Americas and 13% from APAC. Christie’s unique 20/21 evening sale series attracted registered bidders from 27 countries, confirming the wide appeal of our dynamic sale format. The 20th/ 21st Century: London Evening Sale achieved a total of £82,180,500 / $105,108,860 / €98,616,600, selling 94% by lot and 96% by value. The results reflected strong demand for a well-estimated sale with 72% of the works offered at auction for the first ... More From industrial structures to Brutalist details: Exhibition explores photography's malleability Augmented Intelligence totals $728,784 at Christie's The Saunders Collection: First ever $100m collection of Old Masters to come to auction Bernd & Hilla Becher, Gravel Plant, Kretz/Andernach, D, 1987, silver gelatin print, paper: 60 x 50 cm. LONDON.- Maureen Paley presents a joint exhibition of works by James Welling and Bernd & Hilla Becher. This will be the fifth presentation of Welling at the gallery and the gallery's first exhibition including the Bechers with kind assistance from Sprüth Magers and Max Becher. Though the Bechers began their practice in the 1960s – preceding Welling by a decade – each artist has pushed at the medium of photography in their representation of architecture. Welling first saw photographs by the Bechers at the seminal 1970 MoMA exhibition, Information, and he met Hilla Becher three years later whilst studying at CalArts. In 2022, following the Bechers’ retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Welling reflected on their work in an essay he wrote for the Brooklyn Rail, reaffirming his long-standing admiration for their “pursuit of a singular photographic dream.”1 James Welling is known for his work that considers the history and technical specificities of photography. Since 2023, Welling has wo ... More The sale totaled $728,784, surpassing its initial estimate. © Christie's Images Ltd 2025. NEW YORK, NY.- Augmented Intelligence, the first artificial intelligence-dedicated sale at a major auction house, closed the morning of Wednesday, March 5, 2025. The auction—which encompassed more than 30 lots with works by respected digital artists—attracted hundreds of bids and the results exceeded pre-sale expectations. The sale totaled $728,784, surpassing its initial estimate. The sale also generated new participants: 37% of registrants were completely new to Christie’s, and 48% of bidders were Millennials and Gen Z. The highest price in the sale came for a work by Refik Anadol: Machine Hallucinations - ISS Dreams – A, which sold for $277,200, surpassing its high estimate. This work by the esteemed artist is a dynamic painting, employing a data set of more than 1.2 million images taken from the International Space Station and satellites, reimagined through machine intelligence. The painting is a part of Anadol’s project investigating collective visual memories of space, ... More Gerrit Dou, Man Writing in an Artist's Studio, oil on panel, Estimate $5-7 million. Courtesy Sotheby's. NEW YORK, NY.- The story of one of the greatest collections of Old Masters to come to auction in recent memory begins in earnest with a tiny jewel. During a visit to a Sotheby’s exhibition in January 1998, Mrs. Jordan Saunders encountered Francesco Guardi’s intimate painting of Venice, A View of the Church of the Redentore. So struck by its beauty, she described the work as “a little jewel” and swore “I heard that little picture speak to me.” A subsequent conversation with George Wachter, Sotheby’s Chairman and Co- Worldwide Head of Old Master Paintings, and the purchase that followed, was to mark the beginning of a collecting adventure that resulted in one of the finest Old Master collections assembled in our times. With the help and guidance of George Wachter, the Saunders eagerly hunted for the masterworks that spoke to their keen eye for quality, beauty, rarity and provenance, assembling a collection remarkable both in its geographical scope and in its chronolog ... More Berlin exhibition celebrates Polaroid's legacy Rose Finn-Kelcey challenges power and gender through performance art at Kate MacGarry Olive tree and meditative canvases by Bosco Sodi transform St. Agnes Church Charles Johnstone, Lea, South Salem, New York, 2021 (FP-100c Polaroid) © Charles Johnstone. BERLIN.- The Polaroid process revolutionized photography in the 1960s. Those who have used Polaroid cameras often recall the distinctive smell of the developing emulsion and the magic of watching an image materialize instantly. Depending on the camera model, some prints developed automatically, while others required the application of a chemical coating to fix the image. In this sense, Polaroids can be seen as a precursor to today’s digital photography – not in technical terms, but because of their immediate accessibility. Polaroids are generally regarded as unique prints. This pioneering technology attracted enthusiastic users worldwide and in nearly all photographic genres – landscape, still life, portraits, fashion, and nude photography. Helmut Newton was particularly captivated by Polaroid photography, using a variety of Polaroid cameras and instant film backs, which replaced the roll film cassettes ... More Installation view. LONDON.- Kate MacGarry announced the second exhibition of works by Rose Finn-Kelcey (1945-2014) at the gallery. Finn-Kelcey first came to prominence in the early 1970s as an artist central to the emerging communities of performance and feminist art in the UK. Following on from her first exhibition with the gallery in 2020 and a solo presentation at Frieze Masters in 2023, this show focuses on three performance works: Suit of Lights (1986-1990), Bull’s Eye (1985), and One for Sorrow, Two for Joy (1976). Bull’s Eye (1985), performed as part of The British Show in Sydney, presents the artist as matador, bull and croupier. It focuses on the cliched and cultural figure of the matador, gambling with both life and money. “Over many months Finn-Kelcey insinuated herself into the lore and costume of the bullfighter and the flamenco dancer, a role which appealed to her liking for perfect control and grooming, for a male/female ambiguity, for the glittering Suit of Lights, and for the ritua ... More Bosco Sodi, Untitled, 2024. Signed verso. Mixed media on canvas, 50 x 70 cm. 19 3/4 x 27 1/2 in. Unique. BERLIN.- KÖNIG GALERIE presents MON PÈRE, Bosco Sodi’s third exhibition with the gallery and his first in one of its Berlin locations. The title, which translates to “my father” in French, reflects Sodi’s ongoing exploration of materiality and spirituality. In this homage to his father, Sodi has created a meditative installation featuring 10 new mixed–media canvases surrounding a century-old olive tree placed at the center of the former church. Specially conceived for the nave of St. Agnes, the exhibition resonates deeply with the spiritual atmosphere and legacy of the building, offering a captivating interplay of colors, textures, and space. The olive tree slowly takes its place in the landscape, tearing up barren soil, holding tight to its leaves in the face of the wind; always casting shade, moving forward, slowly filling its fruit with oil, forever reconciled to the chaos of the elements, finding its place in the earth. The stone and wood embedded ... More Thomas Helbig blurrs figuration and abstraction at Galerie Guido W. Baudach Caribbean sunsets and sonic installations by Alvaro Barrington on view at Sadie Coles HQ Diana Markosian's exhibition at Foam unveils the complexities of an absent parent Thomas Helbig, Parvenue, 2025, oil on canvas, 60 x 50 cm, photo: Roman März. BERLIN.- Galerie Guido W. Baudach presents its tenth solo exhibition of works by Thomas Helbig (*1967). Under the title Anciens Régimes, the Berlin-based artist is showing new paintings and wall objects. It is knowledge in the material of colors and contours, and the greater [the artwork] is, the closer it approaches the transparency of the last memory picture, in which the features of “history” merge. – Siegfried Kracauer If in an earlier solo exhibition at Galerie Guido W. Baudach in 2020 Thomas Helbig pushed the boundaries of what can be depicted in painting with breath-like shapes against a cosmic-looking background, with Anciens Régimes he is now moving in the supposed opposite direction, that of figuration. On display are, among others, anonymous portraits of people in historical clothing reminiscent of the Rococo. What they have in common is their open, inconsistent form: A head is displaced, does not fit the body, a face is partially blurred, the body mutatingly expands into the surroun ... More Alvaro Barrington, I Am... I Said, 2025, 2025. Oil, sand, flashe and acrylic on burlap in reclaimed wood frame, 292.8 x 222 x 7.8 cm / 115 ¼ x 87 ⅜ x 3 ⅛ in © Alvaro Barrington. Courtesy the Artist and Sadie Coles HQ, London. Photo: Katie Morrison. LONDON.- Following his recent exhibition at Tate Britain, Grace, Alvaro Barrington presents an exhibition in two chapters of new bodies of work at Sadie Coles HQ. This show marks the artist’s return to the exploration of traditional modernist painting – his primary medium of work. Back Home is composed of a series of paintings and works on paper, in which the artist depicts his impression of sunsets setting over the Caribbean Sea. Bringing together an array of art historical references, including J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851), Mark Rothko (1903-1970), Etel Adnan (1925-2021), Claude Monet (1840-1926), among others, these works come together in a simple installation along the perimeter of the gallery, which encourages slow looking and contemplation. The repetition of the sun setting over the sea creates a rhythm, which rhymes with the routine of everyday and finds beauty in the mundane ... More The Night at the Symphony, from the series Father, 2024 © Diana Markosian. AMSTERDAM.- Foam presents Father, an exhibition by artist Diana Markosian (Moscow, 1989). The exhibition captures Markosian’s journey of reconnection with her estranged father, expressed through a mixture of documentary photographs, family snapshots, archival material, along with Markosian’s diaristic writing. Father is an intimate portrayal of estrangement, reconnection, and the power of photography to capture complex emotions. Diana Markosian was born in post-Soviet Moscow, where she spent the early years of her childhood. At seven years old, her mother left the country and moved to California with Markosian and her older brother. They never said goodbye to their father. This move across the world would solidify, and seemingly finalize, a fracturing of her family that had already taken place. Once in California her mother sought to remove even the image of her father by cutting his picture out of their family photographs. His absence created a profound sense of mystery and confusion in ... More Javier Calleja’s "One true tree for…" at Almine Rech New York More News Jane Lombard Gallery announces representation of Bradley Wood NEW YORK, NY.- Jane Lombard Gallery announced representation of Canadian artist Bradley Wood. The gallery has been working closely with the artist since his 2023 debut solo exhibition Notes from a Lucid Dream. Bradley Wood creates theatrical tableaus that acknowledge the often complicated emotions toward wealth and indulgence. He fuses sites of opulence, such as Gilded Age mansions and European palaces, with cognitive dream states and personal memory. Within these lush scenes, figures are often enveloped by their surroundings, languishing on the sofa of suburban ennui. Wood approaches his environments with the technical handling of painters like Chaïm Soutine and Pierre Bonnard, stimulating a visceral response through his expressive brushstrokes and thick layers of oil paint. Positioning himself and the viewer as voyeur, he draws you behind ... More The Vancouver Art Gallery announces exhibition highlights for Spring/Summer 2025 VANCOUVER.- Today the Vancouver Art Gallery announces a bold spring/summer lineup of exhibitions to inspire visitors from around the world. The season includes the world premiere of Lucy Raven: Murderers Bar, co-commissioned with the Vega Foundation, and the first exhibition at the Gallery curated by CEO & Executive Director Anthony Kiendl. Spring also brings an ambitious exhibition dedicated to the most significant donation of international contemporary art in the Gallery’s history in Postcards from the Heart: Selections from the Brigitte and Henning Freybe Collection, as well as a landmark retrospective honouring one of Canada’s most significant artists of the twentieth century, Jean Paul Riopelle, organized by the National Gallery of Canada. Visitors can look forward to a summer of ceramics at the Gallery: the first exhibition in North ... More Auction record for Lisa Brice in Sotheby's Modern & Contemporary Auction in London LONDON.- • Sale total: £62,506,800 / $78,624,178 (est. £44.9 - 66.6 m / $56.5 - 83.8 m) • 90% sold by lot • Depth of bidding across price points and across geographies: • Lisa Brice (6 bidders, including Asia), Picasso work on paper (5 bidders), Banksy (4 bidders, sold online), Max Ernst (6 bidders), Rodin Caryatide (5 bidders) • Picasso oil on canvas and Freud sold to Asian collectors, Matisse also underbid by an Asian collector • Over half of the offering never-before-seen at auction • 6,000 visitors to the week-long exhibition • After Embah by Lisa Brice achieved a record price for the artist at auction, selling for £5.4 m / $6.8 m after a 10-minute six-way bidding battle (est. £1-1.5 m), more than doubling the previous auction record for the artist set at Sotheby’s in New York in 2021. • Yoshitomo Nara’s Cosmic Eyes (in the Milky Lake), one of the very first works ... More Sotheby's to auction Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant's first game-worn NBA jerseys NEW YORK, NY.- This Spring, Sotheby’s will offer two of the most significant game-worn jerseys in basketball history—each representing the humble beginnings of two of the most iconic players to ever grace the hardwood: Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant. Their respective first NBA career jerseys will be offered in two standalone single-lot sales, and together, are expected to achieve $20 million. A rare opportunity for collectors and sports enthusiasts to acquire pieces of NBA history, the jerseys will be on public exhibition at Sotheby’s New York galleries starting 21 March. Michael Jordan game-worn uniforms from the 1980s are unicorns, very rarely seen in the market with scant having ever been made available. In the 12 seasons prior to the 'Last Dance' 1997-1998 season, MeiGray has examined 130 jerseys purported to be worn by Michael Jordan, however, ... More "Hello Everyone": The exhibition which showcases all Laia Estruch's work MADRID.- Imagine walking into a museum and finding not just finished artworks, but the very tools and stages of an artist's creative process, laid bare. That’s precisely what Laia Estruch is doing at the Reina Sofía with her exhibition, "Hello Everyone," a deeply personal and immersive dive into her fifteen years of performance art. Forget the pristine white cube. Estruch, with the help of curators Mariana Cánepa Luna and Max Andrews, has transformed a section of the museum into a vibrant, almost chaotic warehouse of her artistic life. Metal contraptions, soft textile forms, and pneumatic structures, all central to her performances, stand like silent actors, some "sleeping," as Estruch puts it, but all radiating a palpable energy. "This isn't just a show, it's an archive unfolding," Estruch explained, her voice thick with emotion. "I wanted to show the beauty of these ... More Elizabeth Xi Bauer presents Marta Jakobovits and Anderson Borba LONDON.- Elizabeth Xi Bauer presents a duo exhibition of works by Marta Jakobovits and Anderson Borba, artists whose practices are rooted in exploring materiality. Their work focuses on experimentation: failing, reworking techniques, and creating a visual language using their chosen mediums, clay and wood, respectively. “There is a powerful artistic dialogue between Anderson Borba and Marta Jakobovits' practices, which have more in common than what may be visible at first glance. They are both strongly committed to using their own hands as the main instrument of their work.” - Maria do Carmo M. P. de Pontes, Exhibition Curator. For the first time, these artists from Europe and South America, spanning different generations, will exhibit together, in a dialogue that allows similarities and differences to emerge between their practices. Jakobovits and Borba ... More Ballroom Marfa presents Elemental Currents MARFA, TX.- Ballroom Marfa presents Elemental Currents — Material, Memory, and Myth, a group exhibition featuring the work of Christopher Blay, Laddie John Dill, and Virginia L. Montgomery. Through a diverse range of media—including sand, foam, neon and photography—the exhibition offers immersive expressions of the convergence of human relationships, technology, the landscape, and imagined futures. Christopher Blay (b. 1967) is an artist, curator, and writer. He is currently the Director of Public Programs at the National Juneteenth Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, and formerly Chief Curator of the Houston Museum of African American Culture [2021 - 2024]. His work is in dialogue with the African Diasporic experience historically, presently, and a platform for radical imagination in building black futures. As he states, “I build sculptures that combine ... More Tokyo exhibition explores human connection beyond the individual through art TOKYO.- It is said that, of the approximately 8 billion people that inhabit the earth today, we get in contact with a total of about 30,000—or 0.000375% of the earth’s population—in our lifetime. When imagining all the people on the planet that we don’t and will never know, we realize the immense scale of human existence that exceeds by far what we can grasp with our own bodily senses. One thing that facilitates the plural nature of the body in this world is its reproductive functions. At the same time, given the plurality of bodies in the present age, advanced medical technology has enabled one body to survive by sharing parts of multiple human bodies through organ donation, blood transfusion, etc. The pervasion of digital technologies in everyday life promoted the virtual multiplication of individual bodies, whereas images of avatars or bodies modified using ... More PhotoGalleries Brooklyn Museum at 200 Gerard Byrne Mystery & Benevolence Anne Frank Flashback On a day like today, Dutch-American painter Piet Mondrian was born March 07, 1872. Pieter Cornelis "Piet" Mondriaan, after 1906 Mondrian (7 March 1872 - 1 February 1944), was a Dutch painter and theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He is known for being one of the pioneers of 20th century abstract art, as he changed his artistic direction from figurative painting to an increasingly abstract style, until he reached a point where his artistic vocabulary was reduced to simple geometric elements. In this image: Mondrian restoration project team with Sea after sunset (1909) Photo: Alice de Groot. © 1996 - 2025 Founder: Ignacio Villarreal (1941 - 2019) Editor & Publisher: Jose Villarreal (52 8110667640) Art Director: Juan José Sepúlveda Ramírez Writer: Ofelia Zurbia Betancourt

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