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An installation view of Klimt Landscapes at Neue Galerie, New York. The exhibition relates his work to his life and his milieu. (Annie Schlechter via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- It was exciting to look forward to the exhibition Klimt Landscapes, now at the Neue Galerie. Klimt, of course, is Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), the Austrian modernist widely beloved for his paintings of the most beautiful women of Viennas haute bourgeoisie. In the best portraits, ethereal creatures wear lavishly patterned gowns that all but merge with backgrounds of off-kilter geometries ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Joo Myung Duck: Sensory Space in Photography and its Conversation with Korean Abstract Painting is the solo artist show at MIYAKO YOSHINAGA., In Seoul, Joo explored color photography, primarily focusing on the urban locality intertwined with colors, patterns, and textures. Archival pigment prints, 20 x 30 inches © Joo Myung Duck / Datz Museum of Art & Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery. Asia Week New York.
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| Modern & Contemporary Art, Live auction to be held at Sotheby's Cologne, Palais Oppenheim | | All roads led to Vegas for Morphy's smash $4.26M Automobilia & Petroliana Auction | | Heard Museum announces opening of major exhibition, Maria & Modernism |
Günther Förg, Ohne Titel (Untitled). Estimate: 100,000 - 150,000 EUR. Courtesy Sotheby's.
COLOGNE.- On 20 March 2024, Sotheby's Modern & Contemporary Art LIVE auction in Cologne, Palais Oppenheim, will present an exciting selection of paintings, sculptures and works on paper by national and international artists from the 20th and 21st centuries. Works by modernists such as Alexej von Jawlensky, August Macke, Franz Marc, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Lesser Ury ... More | |
Rare Polly Gas porcelain neon sign depicting the companys beloved Polly parrot mascot on her perch. Lights up in three colors. Sign has never been removed from its original can. Size: 48in x 33½in x 96in long. AGS-certified and graded 82. Sold for $138,000 against an estimate of $60,000-$100,000.
LAS VEGAS, NEV.- Americas entertainment mecca Las Vegas is known for its dazzling neon, and not just outdoors. Fabulous vintage neon signs to rival anything on the megawatt Vegas Strip towered above the selection of high-octane advertising ... More | |
The original exhibition features more than eighty works spanning seven decades by San Ildefonso ceramist Maria Martinez (1887-1980), one of the 20th centurys most celebrated and recognizable women whose work continues to influence new generations of artists.
PHOENIX, AZ.- The Heard Museum announced today the opening of a major new exhibition, Maria & Modernism, starting Feb. 23. The original exhibition features more than eighty works spanning seven decades by San Ildefonso ceramist Maria Martinez (1887-1980), one of the 20th centurys ... More |
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| New acquisitions at Mia strengthen collections of Native American, Latin American, and Tibetan Buddhist art, among other | | Perrotin opens an exhibition featuring a selection of recent pigment paintings by Thilo Heinzmann | | Seattle University to receive $300 million art collection |
Carlos Cruz-Diez, Physichromie No 480, 1969 (detail). Acrylic on cardboard, plastic inserts. The Mary Ruth Weisel Endowment for Africa, Oceania, and the Americas and the Ted and Dr. Roberta Mann Foundation Endowment Fund, 2023.54
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- The Minneapolis Institute of Art announced today that more than 185 works were added to the museums collection at the end of 2023, a combination of gifts and purchases that includes works in four departments in the museum. ... More | |
Portrait of Thilo Heinzmann, 2022 © Photographer: Roman März.
PARIS.- Perrotin is presenting What do you want me to bring you : I am going to town, the third solo exhibition by Thilo Heinzmann in the Paris gallery featuring a selection of recent pigment paintings, which visually challenge the viewers. Nearly every painter is looking for unique painterly moments, which are rare and precious and often hard to come by. Thilo Heinzmann has spent over ... More | |
Amy Sherald (American, b. 1973), The Make-Believer (Monets Garden), 2016. Oil on canvas, 54 x 43 in (137.2 x 190.2 cm). © Amy Sherald. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo by Joseph Hyde.
NEW YORK, NY.- Seattle University is making plans for a new art museum, thanks to a gift of a $300 million art collection and $25 million in seed money from a donor, the university trustees announced Wednesday. The donation by Richard Hedreen, a real estate developer is the largest gift in the ... More |
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| Len Sirowitz, whose bold, offbeat ads captured an era, dies at 91 | | The designer who makes movie posters worthy of museums | | PAI's 92nd Rare Posters Auction garners $1.6M in sales |
An advertisement designed by Len Sirowitz for the Volkswagen Beetle. (Doyle Dane Bernbach for Volkswagen via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Len Sirowitz, an award-winning advertising art director whose creative work in the 1960s included memorable print ads for the Volkswagen Beetle like one declaring, Ugly is only skin-deep ... More | |
Dawn Baillies poster design for The Silence of the Lambs. (via Poster House via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- The killers knife, a woman cowering before it. This was typical horror movie box cover stuff before 1991, when Dawn Baillie was asked to design a poster for a cerebral new thriller called Silence of the Lambs. She learned it was about ... More | |
Jean Chassaing, Josephine Baker. 1931. ($23,750).
NEW YORK, NY.- Poster Auctions Internationals first sale of the year, on March 3, finished at $1,609,875. Rare Posters Auction XCII welcomed passionate bidding across various platforms. Jack Rennert, president of PAI, noted that the inclusion of several exceptional posters helped ... More |
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| Alexis Ralaivao joins Kasmin | | Artifacts of Hollywood & Music announced: The Collection of "Shaft" and other Hollywood highlights | | An artist's response to a racist mural walks a fine line |
Alexis Ralaivao. Photo by Rosa Lacavalla.
NEW YORK, NY.- Kasmin welcomed Alexis Ralaivao (b. 1991, France) to the gallery. To celebrate the announcement, two new paintings by the artist will be featured in the Art Basel Hong Kong presentation from March 2630. The artists first exhibition at Kasmin went on view at the gallerys 297 Tenth Avenue space in June 2023. Eric Gleason, Head ... More | |
Rare Elvis Presley memorabilia, Princes purple tambourine, Taylor Swift join the Collection from the Life and Career of Shaft Richard Roundtree to be offered at auction for the very first time. Photo: Courtesy Kruse GWS Auctions.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Kruse GWS Auctions has announced the Artifacts of Hollywood & Music auction to take place Saturday, March 30, 2024. The auction features an extraordinary collection of personal artifacts ... More | |
Keith Piper at Tate Britain, where his video, Viva Voce, shares a new gallery space with a 1927 mural by Rex Whistler, in London, March 7, 2024. (Kemka Ajoku/The New York Times)
LONDON.- For nearly 100 years, a 55-foot-long mural was the backdrop to a high-class restaurant at Tate Britain. As diners quaffed fine wine and ate expensive dishes, they could glance at the painting by Rex Whistler depicting a hunting party riding ... More |
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Artists and speakers withdraw from SXSW over U.S. Military's support of Israel
NEW YORK, NY.- Dozens of musicians and panelists have withdrawn from the South by Southwest Conference and Festivals in Austin, Texas, to protest sponsorship by the U.S. Army and defense companies as pressure grows against the U.S. militarys support of Israels war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. More than 80 artists and panelists at SXSW had joined the boycott by Wednesday, according to one of the organizers, the Austin for Palestine Coalition. Ibrahim Batshon, the CEO of BeatStars, a digital music-licensing platform and longtime sponsor of the music and technology festival, withdrew from SXSW after learning of the increased involvement this year of the U.S. Defense Department. The United States is the largest supplier of military equipment to Israel. Batshon, who is Palestinian American and is known as Abe, said that six of his family ... More
Anna Wintour sings! (sort of.)
NEW YORK, NY.- In his main job, Ryan Raftery works in the New York offices of LVMH, doing talent recruitment. In his second, he croons and twerks at Joes Pub, the Public Theaters downtown nightspot, while starring in three musicals about three famous women: Anna Wintour, the longtime editor of Vogue; Kris Jenner, the Machiavellian matriarch of the worlds best known reality show clan; and Martha Stewart, a domestic diva known both for her popovers and her 2004-05 prison stint. Call it Torch Song Trilogy, Media Divas Edition." Im like Persephone, Raftery said on a recent evening after a performance as Wintour. Once or twice a year, I get to come up from the deep and be a star. Onstage, he wore stiletto boots, an emerald green dress bought on Amazon for $39, and a tan, belted Alberta Ferretti coat. Later, seated in his dressing room, ... More
The conflict at the heart of the Galliano documentary
NEW YORK, NY.- What moral lapses should genius be permitted? John Galliano, bad boy of fashion, seemed determined to find out. He was a fashion-world Icarus: a prodigious talent who soared high, then crashed to earth in 2011, losing his reputation and his position as creative director of Dior, after a series of highly publicized drunken, racist and antisemitic tirades. He would rise again, but the path back was steep. The aptly titled High & Low: John Galliano, directed by Kevin Macdonald, chronicles this roller coaster of a career, while exposing some of the less beautiful side of the fashion industry the toll it exacts from even those it most glorifies. Galliano proved himself a genius early on, designing not just clothes, but hallucinogenic visions, alive with color, movement, texture and, above all, stories. Skyrocketing out of Saint Martins School ... More
'The Effect' review: Dissecting the science of desire
NEW YORK, NY.- A white plastic bucket sits on a spare stage at the Shed, where director Jamie Lloyds stark, riveting production of The Effect opened Wednesday night. By the time its content a human brain is revealed, Lucy Prebbles heady and scintillating drama is already interrogating the biology of desire. What begins as the drug trial of an antidepressant shifts into more slippery territory when a flirtation develops between two of the participants. As they circle each other, neurons blazing, questions swirl about whether their attraction has been chemically engineered and if love controls the mind or the other way around. The simplicity of a brain plopped in a pail for scientific research becomes something of a mordant sight gag. Previously staged off-Broadway in 2016, The Effect digs into what one of the studys architects calls ... More
With humor, Kobi Libii gives his characters a different superpower
NEW YORK, NY.- In The American Society of Magical Negroes, writer-director Kobi Libiis debut feature film opening March 15, a mysterious group of Black people possess superpowers. But unlike Black Panther or Miles Morales Spider-Man, this group doesnt fight criminals or take on villains. Instead, the members of this society wield their powers only for a very specific purpose: soothing the anxieties of white people. Endowed with the ability to perceive white peoples frustrations represented by a floating dial that measures white tears the members spend their days making lost purses reappear, transforming bland outfits into hip ones and doing whatever else white people require to be happy. This conceit satirizes the cultural trope of the Magical Negro, in which Black characters in a plot exist solely to aid the white protagonists. By incarnating ... More
The Cope Collection: Rare coins bearing witness to powerful moments in British and Roman history to be auctioned
LONDON.- The Cope Collection, a collection of coins comprising rare and highly sought-after British and Roman specimens, will be auctioned in Zurich in May and October 2024 in a collaboration by leading coin firms Numismatica Ars Classica, Classical Numismatic Group and Numismatica Genevensis. The collection, amassed over fifty years by noted numismatist Geoffrey Cope, is made up of 170 ancient Roman bronze coins and over 800 British coins and medallions in a remarkably high state of preservation, with a significant number considered to be the finest known examples in existence. Highlights of the May sale include a trio of coins documenting kings of England and a bronze Roman sestertius ... More
Will she make the next Birkin?
NEW YORK, NY.- The bag, it carries your things and carries your secrets, Priscila Alexandre Spring said. The 43-year-old creative director of leather goods at Hermès sat in her office in Pantin, just outside of Paris, explaining what she liked about designing bags in particular, the relationship between your private life and your exterior life. Alexandre Spring joined the Hermès leather goods métier in 2015, and in 2020 she was appointed to her current role. Hermès, which began in 1837 as a saddle maker, is a name that comes with intimations of money (bags often sell for more than $10,000), scarcity (if you can get your hands on one) and craftsmanship (each is handmade by a single craftsperson). Most people have heard of the Kelly bag (named for Grace Kelly) or the Birkin (named for Jane Birkin) and the myriad celebrities who tote ... More
Clars Auction Gallery announces Spring Modern + Contemporary Art + Design Auction
OAKLAND, CALIF.- Clars Auction Gallery in collaboration with exhibited.at presents the visionary inaugural auction: Artists to Watch: California. This section will lead the Spring Modern + Contemporary Art + Design Auction held on March 21, 2pm. Founded by former Christies specialist Rodania Leong, exhibited.at focuses on art, community and innovation, empowering artists, curators, and galleries with the ability to archive their rich exhibition history while providing guidance on diverse art initiatives.
Together with Clars Auction Gallery, the exceptional art appraisers and auctioneers, who have over fifty years of expertise in hosting Bay Area auctions, this collaboration harnesses the expertise of both exhibited.at and Clars Auction Gallery whilst delving into the rich history and allure of California art. California has long been a force ... More
Trending at the Oscars, brooches for men
NEW YORK, NY.- War, labor strikes and a thorny political season made scant inroads at the 2024 Academy Awards, where branding trumped protest and jeweled ornaments far outnumbered cease-fire pins. As the most traditional of award shows returned to its roots as a glorified trade affair (ginned up 96 years ago as a way of pacifying above-the-line talent in the wake of the unionizing then gaining a foothold in moviedom), praise was near universal for the return to old Hollywood glamour. In the early days of the Oscars, studios manufactured that glamour, grooming and refashioning the talent, keeping their images tightly controlled. Actors, of course, long ago stopped being contract players and became independent agents. So no one can blame them for diversifying the revenue streams that flow abundantly from celebrity. Stars, we ... More
Los Angeles Opera's music director to step down after 20 years
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The year 2026 will mark James Conlons 20th anniversary as music director of the Los Angeles Opera. That seemed to him like it would be the right time to step down. Ive had 20 years thats a good round number, Conlon, 73, said in a telephone interview. I want to stop when Im at my full capacity, and I want to be able to go on loving the company the way I do. His final season, the 2025-26 season, will coincide with the companys 40th anniversary, and Conlon said that he wanted to be there to celebrate that with them. It will mean I will have been there for half of its history, said Conlon, who has led more than 460 performances of 68 different operas there, more than any other conductor. Conlon will be named the operas conductor laureate, which the company said would be in recognition of his distinguished ... More
New Colby Museum exhibition offers a rare glimpse into the inner workings of celebrated, departed art magazine Esopus
WATERVILLE, ME.- The Colby College Museum of Art presents A Lot More Inside: Esopus Magazine, a new exhibition revealing never-before-seen archival materials and original artworks associated with Esopus Magazine, the celebrated alternative arts magazine. Heralded by New York Times columnist David Carr as a thing of lavish, eccentric beauty, Esopus was published from 2003 to 2018. Its history is documented in a comprehensive archive held by Special Collections and Archives in the Colby College Libraries. The exhibition, which is curated by Esopus founder and editor Tod Lippy and Megan Carey, Barbara Alfond director of exhibitions and publications at the museum, will be on view from February 15 ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Hungarian-French painter Victor Vasarely died March 15, 1997. Victor Vasarely (9 April 1906 - 15 March 1997), was a Hungarian-French artist, who is widely accepted as a "grandfather" and leader of the op art movement. His work entitled Zebra, created in the 1930s, is considered by some to be one of the earliest examples of op art. In this image: Cheyt - Pyr, Serigraph, 68.5 X 66 cm.
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