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| Stellar Selection of Prints & Multiples up for Bidding in Palm Beach on March 1 | |
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The 11 works by Frank Stella up for auction at PBMA survey nearly 30 years of the artistâs celebrated career. Photo credit: Palm Beach Modern Auctions staff. LAKE WORTH BEACH, FLA..- The Warhol / Basquiat room to the left of the entryway at Palm Beach Modern Auctions boasts two of Andy Warholâs hand-colored screenprints from the Flowers series, a unique impression of his Rats & Star screenprint, a Polaroid photo the artist took of fashion designer Halston in 1974, alongside Jean-Michel Basquiatâs Odours of Punt screenprint. At 83â wide, the estate-printed composition will be sure to set the tone of an entire room for its buyer. Those enticed by Alex Katzâs massive White Impatiens screenprint on entry will also enjoy the following room, where the north wall features Katzâs portraits Julia & Alexandra, White Shirt (Vincent 2), and a smiling Ada. Print collectors and theatergoers alike will enjoy Katzâs The Emperor Jones screenprint. The painting on which it was based was originally done for The Wooster Group's 2007 reimagining of Eugene O'Neill's 1920s play by the same name. The north wall also features two ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of âRalph Steadman: And Another Thingâ at the OSU Museum of Art at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma, on view through May 10.
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The art of famed illustrator Ralph Steadman offers students a masterclass in creativity at Oklahoma State University | | Jean-Baptiste Bernadet: "Successo Evidente (Hidden Tracks)" explores the elusive nature of artistic success | | Lina Ghotmeh Architecture wins Western Range competition | Ralph Steadman, "Self Poortrait" 2006, ink and collage on paper. STILLWATER, OKLA.- The Oklahoma State University (OSU) Museum of Art is delivering a masterclass in illustration with Ralph Steadman: And Another Thing, on view through May 10. Bringing the works of Ralph Steadman to the campus is a rare opportunity for students and the larger community to interact with the oeuvre of a living, working artist, said Liz Roth, interim director of the OSU Museum of Art. This retrospective is comprehensive in its scope and ability to speak to visitors of all interests. The national touring exhibition spans more than 60 years of the artists life and artwork. It showcases his legendary collaborations with maverick Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson, his illustrated literary classics such as Lewis Carrolls Alice in Wonderland and Robert Louis Stevensons Treasure Island, the inventive books he authored such as I, Leonardo and The Big I Am and so much ... More | | Jean-Baptiste Bernadet, Untitled (A Blessing), 2011 - 2014. Oil on canvas. Artists frame, 40 x 30 cm. 16 x 12 in. BRUSSELS.- Almine Rech Brussels is presenting 'Successo Evidente (Hidden Tracks)' Jean-Baptiste Bernadet's seventh solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from January 16 to March 1, 2025. How do you define success? The perennial question often associated with cheap self help books and awkward job interviews looms large in the realm of painting. Indeed, not everyone likes to hear that some paintings just happened like a lucky snapshot. If seamlessness can fascinate by suggesting painstaking work or the triumph of automation, there is something reassuring about visible traces of labour and frustrationpeople like to know it didn't come easy. In art, satisfaction is nothing unless youre testing how little you can do and how bad you can make it, but these transgressions are short-lived. Jean-Baptiste Bernadets multifarious ... More | | LGA architectural competition submission © LGA LONDON.- The British Museum has today announced Lina Ghotmeh Architecture (LGA) has won the competition to redesign its Western Range galleries. A pivotal moment in the Masterplan project to transform the Museum's historic building, the project will be one of the biggest cultural renovations undertaken anywhere in the world. Over 60 teams applied to the two-stage international architectural competition, which ran for nine months. Five shortlisted teams were invited to take part in the second stage, from which LGA emerged as the unanimous favourite. LGA, which is led by the multi award-winning architect Lina Ghotmeh, was said to have shown a deep understanding and sensitivity towards the Museum, the complexity of collections' display and artefacts' interactions with diverse visitor groups. Ghotmeh's vision especially resonated with the panel because of its 'archaeological' approach to architectural design. ... More |
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The Language of Form: ROSEGALLERY explores nature's artistry through photography and collage | | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Tarsila do Amaral: Painting Modern Brazil | | Austin Eddy makes waves in Germany with "Sea Song" exhibition | Chiron Duongs still-life photography reimagines traditional aesthetics with modern narratives, celebrating the beauty of flowers and cultural motifs in intricate, layered compositions. SANTA MONICA, CA.- ROSEGALLERY is presenting The Language of Form, a presentation of works by Chiron Duong, Karl Blossfeldt, Manfred Müller, and Rinko Kawauchi that examines the roles that stillness and movement play in artistic endeavors. Viewers are invited to reflect on the enduring beauty of natural forms that illustrate the potential of organic shapes through photographs and collages. Through a blend of meticulously composed still- life photography and evocative collage works, the exhibition bridges the worlds of stillness and motion. Photography captures fleeting moments of exquisite detail, freezing the delicate textures and intricate patterns of flora, fauna, and organic materials. The collages, on the other hand, translate these natural inspirations into tactile, three- dimensional forms that celebrate movement, ... More | | Tarsila do Amaral, Self-portrait (Manteau Rouge) [Auto-retrato (Manteau Rouge)], 1923. Oil on canvas, 73 à 60.5 cm. Museu Nacional de Belas Artes / Ibram, Rio de Janeiro ©Tarsila do Amaral Licenciamento e Empreendimentos S.A. Photo: ©Museu Nacional de Belas Artes/Ibram, Rio de Janeiro / Jaime Acioli. BILBAO.- The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Tarsila do Amaral. Painting Modern Brazil, an ambitious exhibition dedicated to an artist considered a key figure of Brazilian modernism. Divided into six thematic sections, the exhibition allows visitors to discover Tarsila do Amaral (or just Tarsila, her artistic name) as the creator of an original and evocative body of work, drawing on both indigenous and popular imagery and on modernizing forces of a rapidly-transforming country. In the 1920s, moving between São Paulo and Paris, Tarsila ferried between the avant-gardes of these two cultural capitals and constructed a Brazilian iconographic world filtered through the lens of Cubism and Primitivism in vogue in the French capital at the time. Her painting ... More | | Austin Eddy © Photo: Ralf Seidel. EMDEN.- The Kunsthalle Emden in Germany is currently making a splash with a new exhibition featuring the captivating work of American artist Austin Eddy. "Sea Song," as the exhibition is aptly titled, is Eddy's first solo museum show in Germany, and it's generating quite a buzz. Eddy, who was born in Boston in 1986 and now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, has a unique way of blending the abstract and the figurative in his art. He draws inspiration from a variety of sources, from classic modernism to comics, record covers, folk art, music, and poetry, creating a visual language that is both familiar and refreshingly new. Recurring motifs like fish, birds, and flowers populate his canvases, but not always in a literal way. Eddy encourages viewers to see these elements as forms, metaphors, or symbols, inviting them to engage with his work on a deeper level. "I understand my work as non-representational," Eddy explains, "but I use worldly means to express abstract ... More |
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CLAMP now representing the Estate of Arlene Gottfried | | Conceptual Exercises: Grey Crawford's sequencing and grids extend frozen moments in time | | Subversive bodies, transgressive ecologies: Del Vaz Projects unites three artists in "Earthshaker" | Arlene Gottfried, "Guy with Radio, East 7th Street," 1977; Vintage gelatin silver print; 14 x 11 inches. © The Estate of Arlene Gottfried. NEW YORK, NY.- CLAMP announced the gallery's representation of The Estate of Arlene Gottfried (1950-2017) Arlene Gottfried was a New York City street photographer who is highly celebrated for her intimate and vibrant portrayals of life in the citys working-class neighborhoods. Mesmerizing, humorous, poignant, or tragic, Gottfried captured images unlike anyone else, turning moments into magicalways without judgment. And her story is as unique as her work. Born and raised in Brooklyn, Gottfried received an old camera from her father as a teen and began roaming the streets of the city, from Coney Island to the Lower East Side and up to Spanish Harlem, documenting daily life and local characters. We lived in Coney Island, and that was an exposure to all kinds of people, so I never had trouble walking up to someone and asking them to take their picture, she told The Guardian. Gottfried's portrayal of underrepresented ... More | | Grey Crawford, Transfigurations, 1973-75. BERLIN.- Persons Projects is presenting, as part of the European Month of Photography in Berlin (EMOP), Grey Crawfords third solo exhibition. His self-performances from the early 1970s encapsulate the spirit of an era in Southern California, in which Performance Art moved away from the platform of the audience and into the photographic framing of the moment. During this time, performance art can be best described as any type of self-absorbed activity that questioned the essence of sculpture by eliminating the object itself. The focus was on the body and its movement, and how these activities created conversations rather than answers. It was a period of experimentation, and Los Angeles - along with its extended suburbs - was the perfect place for these happenings to evolve. Local artists such as John Baldessari, Ed Ruscha, Chris Burden, and Judy Chicago were all crossing artistic boundaries, and opening up new opportunities that challenged the existing parameters of what the establishment ... More | | Installation View. Courtesy Del Vaz Projects, Santa Monica. Photo: Paul Salveson. SANTA MONICA, CA.- Del Vaz Projects is presenting Earthshaker, an exhibition, publication, and public program series featuring artwork by Ana Mendieta (19481985), Derek Jarman (19421994), and P. Staff (b. 1987). While informed by divergent generations, geographies, and practices, Mendieta, Jarman, and Staff find common ground in their subversive existencecreating artwork that sows dissident bodies into natural and chemical environments as an act of defiance against definition, control, or expulsion by authoritarian systems. Through camouflage, collage, poetry, and chromatic manipulationposed as parallel processes to metamorphosis, sublimation, incantation, and transmutationthese artists create mutable forms in which earth and body permeate one another and, in the course of their uncanny transfiguration, propose more deviant and transgressive ecologies. Seeding the corporeal with the alchemical, they conjure and then dissolve those divisions ... More |
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CUE Art presents a group exhibition curated by Lila Nazemian | | Pipilotti Rist's "Supersubjektiv" creates dreamlike contemplation at MCA Chicago | | Mohn Art Collective (MAC3): Hammer Museum, LACMA, and MOCA collaborates with Frieze LA to acquire works | Installation view of The Bride Has Gone to Pick Flowers, curated by Lila Nazemian with works by Levon Kafafian, Fatemeh Kazemi, and Levani, 2025. Photo by Leo Ng. NEW YORK, NY.- CUE Art presents The Bride Has Gone to Pick Flowers, a group exhibition curated by Lila Nazemian with works by Levon Kafafian, Fatemeh Kazemi, and Levani. The exhibition is organized as part of CUE's open call for curatorial projects, and Nazemian is mentored by curator Martha Joseph. It is on view at CUEs gallery space at 137 W. 25th Street until May 10, 2025. Attendance during gallery hours (WedSat, 126 pm) is free; no reservations are required. On Wednesday, February 26th from 7:0010:00 pm, CUE will host a performative dinner by artist Fatemeh Kazemi in collaboration with the food collective Bazm. The event is ticketed, and consists of a five-course meal with drinks included. The Bride Has Gone to Pick Flowers presents works by three artists who utilize installation, sculpture, assemblage, textile, sound, and performance to delve into the significance of marriage rituals from the Caucasus region. Together, they create new worlds that reimagine these tradition ... More | | Pipilotti Rist, Supersubjektiv, 2001. Installation view: Pipilotti Rist, Paço das Artes / MIS Museu da Imagem e do Som, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2009. © Pipilotti Rist, courtesy of the artist, Hauser & Wirth, and Luhring Augustine / 2024 ProLitteris, Zurich / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Everton Baldin. CHICAGO, IL.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicagos exhibition Pipilotti Rist: Supersubjektiv opened on February 22 and runs through September 14, 2025, in the Turner Gallery on the museums fourth floor. This exhibition focuses on a single artwork by Pipilotti Rist (b. 1962, Grabs, Switzerland; lives in Zürich, Switzerland), the 2001 video installation Supersubjektiv. In the artwork, Rist takes digital surveillance footage she filmed during a month-long trip to Japan and morphs it into a dream-like space for contemplation and curiosity, pairing the hallucinatory video with an artist-made pillow and sheepskin seating. The artwork examines nature, the built environment, and technology with wide- eyed wonder. While viewing the large-scale, wall-to-wall video, visitors are encouraged to relax in the darkened gallery and listen to its ambient electronic soundtrack, made in collaboration ... More | | Edgar Arceneaux, Skinning the Mirror (Summer 1), 2025. Silver nitrate, acrylic and glass on canvas. 80 x 120 x 3 in. LOS ANGELES, CA.- The directors of the Hammer Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, announced the joint acquisition of Edgar Arceneauxs Skinning the Mirror (Summer 1), 2025 from Dreamsong, and Shaniqwa Jarviss Slowly, Surely, 2025 from Sow & Tailor to be added to the MAC3 collection, managed jointly by all three institutions. The acquisition comes from a new, landmark acquisition fund created by the Mohn Art Collective: Hammer, LACMA, MOCA (or MAC3), in collaboration with Frieze Los Angeles. The fund, amounting to $75,000, was contributed by Los Angeles philanthropists Jarl and Pamela Mohn and Frieze. Announced last year, the MAC3 collection is comprised of more than 350 artworks by Los Angeles-based artists, most of which were collected by the Mohns over the last 20 years. The original gift also includes an endowment for annual acquisitions as well as the care and storage of the collection. The ... More |
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Artist Glenn Brown: "The language of art develops over centuries."
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More News | MOCA presents the U.S. premiere of Wael Shawky's Drama 1882 LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) presents the U.S. premiere of Wael Shawkys critically- acclaimed film installation Drama 1882, as part of Wonmis WAREHOUSE Programs. On view from February 20 through March 16, 2025 at WAREHOUSE at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Drama 1882 is a riveting moving image work that takes the form of an eight-part opera performed for the camera in a historic theater in Alexandria. Commissioned for the Egyptian Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale, Drama 1882 reevaluates the implosion of a populist revolution, led by Colonel Ahmed Urabi, against European imperialist influence (1879-82). In the work, Shawky (b. 1971 Alexandria, Egypt) questions whether a cafe brawl between a local donkey owner and a Maltese man was happenstance (as history relates) or deliberately ... More Ana MarÃa Caballero's first exhibition in Germany opens at Office Impart BERLIN.- Echo Graph, is the first solo exhibition by Ana MarÃa Caballero with the gallery and also her first solo show in Germany. Ana MarÃa Caballero is a multiple award-winning, transdisciplinary artist. Her work explores how biology delimits societal and cultural rites, ripping the veil from romanticized motherhood and questioning notions that package sacrifice as a virtue. Shes the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize, the Beverly International Literature Prize, Colombias José Manuel Arango National Poetry Prize, the Steel Toe Books Poetry Prize, a Future Art Writers Award and a Sevens Foundation Grant. Shes the first living poet to sell a poem in the history of Sothebys, and the only artist ever to receive a triple finalist nomination for the Lumen Prize. In the exhibition Ana MarÃa Caballero, presents a single poem in multiple ways, exploring how the ... More MIT List Visual Arts Center presents Pedro Gómez-Egaña: The Great Learning CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- Pedro Gómez-Egañas exhibition at the List Center materializes our polyrhythmic experiences of time. We live in an age when contrasting temporalities coexist with an intensity that often feels irreconcilable, the artist has said. Media saturation, geological alteration, algorithmic immediacy, 24/7 labor culture, supply chain dynamics, and the relentless spectacle of political cycles all condition how we make sense of the world. Within The Great Learning, the artists first US museum solo, architectural spaces are cut open and multiplied, interrogated, and made to eclipse or dissolve. Objects are cast in precise relationships and move in ways that may evade perceptionat times harnessing gravity or finding unexpected alignment. Visitors are spectators, listeners, and animating lenses as they move through the space or pause ... More A celebration of art and legacy: "Poli" exhibition opens at SAC, honoring Milan gallerist Luca Poli ROBECCHETTO CON INDUNO.- The post-industrial space SAC Spazio Arte Contemporanea in Robecchetto con Induno (MI) is currently hosting a vibrant and moving exhibition, "Poli," which opened on February 22nd and runs until April 12th, 2025. This isn't just another art show; it's a tribute to the late Luca Poli, a beloved gallerist and influential figure in the contemporary art world, whose Milan gallery, Maelström, nurtured and showcased emerging talent for years. "Poli," curated by Nicoletta Candiani, Fabio Presti, and Pietro Salvatore, brings together 20 artists whose careers intersected with Maelström, a gallery that, from 2010 to 2017, became a vital hub for artistic expression. Poli, alongside Rita Marziani, created a space that fostered creativity and connection, even expanding to offer Art Advisory services in 2012. His commitment to young artists and their ... More Water Shapes the Landscape: Photography exhibition opens in Braunschweig BRAUNSCHWEIG.- The Museum für Photographie Braunschweig is currently captivating audiences with its new exhibition, "Cultural Landscapes Water," a fascinating collection of photographs exploring the powerful and often subtle interplay between water and the environment. Open since February 22nd, 2025, the exhibition, a project of the Braunschweigische Landschaft e.V., showcases the work of both established photographers and exciting new talent. This isn't just a random collection of pretty pictures; it's a carefully curated selection that builds upon the Braunschweigische Landschaft's existing "Cultural Landscapes" collection. In 2024, they held a competition specifically focused on the theme of water, inviting photographers to capture its multifaceted role in shaping our world. The response was impressive, with over 100 submissions flooding ... More Color as fiction: Graham Howe's groundbreaking photography explores perception and reality LOS ANGELES, CA.- Graham Howes Color Theory and the Fiction of Sight is a groundbreaking exploration of color perception and the nature of photographic representation. Created between 1983 and 1984, this body of work challenges assumptions about color photography, questioning whether it serves merely as a record of reality or functions as a kind of visual fiction. Reflecting on his process, Howe states, I was captivated by The New Color PhotographyEggleston, Shore, Meyerowitzuntil I started questioning the nature of color photography. Is it just a representation, or a kind of fiction? These questions drove my experiments, turning my studio into a laboratory of perception. Using a 5x7 inch view camera and drawing from photo-technical literature, Howe investigated the mechanics of color photographythe interplay of primary and secondary colors, ... More Sapar Contemporary opens an exhibition of works by Gabriela Albergaria NEW YORK, NY.- Gabriela Albergaria explores relationships between nature and humans, often focusing on care, healing, and our manipulation of the environment. She draws us into less noticed phases of lifecycles, like decomposition, or expansive geologic time that vastly exceeds human-centered experience. Through the reverent attention of her eye and hand, she magnifies the importance of pausing, rest, and restoration amid these seemingly fallow or inert periods. The meditative nature in her work generates a fuller appreciation of how phases of life and death travel in a reliant circle. This exhibition features distinct bodies of work that unfold like the chapters of a book: observational drawings of nurse logs and glacier-moved boulders; wall-based installations and related works on paper featuring twigs she has collected from forests and parks; and a monumental ... More Treasures from the Mullin Automotive Museum head to auction LOS ANGELES, CA.- Abell Auction Co. will present The Mullin Automotive Collection: Bugatti and the Art of the Automobile on March 4, featuring rare French automobiles, paintings, décor and artifacts from the legendary Mullin Automotive Museum. Curated by the prominent American businessman and philanthropist Peter Mullin (1941-2023), the collection reflects his lifelong passion for automotive excellence, French artistry and Art Deco design. Live bidding for the online sale, featuring nearly 350 lots, starts at 10 a.m. PST. Founded in 2010 in Oxnard, California, the Mullin Automotive Museum was dedicated to celebrating the beauty and innovation of French automobiles from the Art Deco era. Inspired by Mullins deep admiration for car marques such as Bugatti and Delahaye, the museum housed one of the worlds finest collections of pre-war French automobiles, ... More Discover the programme and the highlights of the Salon du Dessin PARIS.- The Salon du Dessin is the worlds leading event showcasing the very best in Old, Modern and Contemporary art. It is also the central event for all the peripheral shows and sales focusing on paper-based arts during Drawing week (La Semaine du Dessin) when Paris becomes the global capital of drawing for a week. With 39 exhibitors and a significant proportion of foreign galleries (19 from 8 different countries), the 33rd edition of the Salon du Dessin will be welcoming important new exhibitors who have never before exhibited at the Salon du Dessin: the London galleries Stern Pissarro and James Butterwick, the Michael Werner gallery of contemporary art present in 5 cities around the world, the Galleria d'Arte Maggiore, specialising in 20th century Italian art, the renowned French gallery Larock-Granoff, the Munich gallery Florian Sundheimer, ... More |
| PhotoGalleries Mystery & Benevolence Anne Frank Moore and Malaparte Gauguin Flashback On a day like today, French painter and theorist Charles Le Brun was born February 24, 1619. February 24, 1619. Charles Le Brun (24 February 1619 - 22 February 1690) was a French painter, art theorist, interior decorator and a director of several art schools of his time. As court painter to Louis XIV, who declared him "the greatest French artist of all time", he was a dominant figure in 17th-century French art and much influenced by Nicolas Poussin. In this image: A Christie's employee looks at an oil painting by 17th century artist Charles Le Brun.
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