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Lot 1: Tiffany Studios, shade design attributed to Clara Pierce Wolcott Driscoll, rare Jeweled Drop Head Dragonfly table lamp: shade, #1507-15 on a telescoping reticulated Queen Annes Lace base, #397. Estimate: $150,000-250,000.
OAK PARK, IL.- On Wednesday, April 27, 2022, Toomey & Co. Auctioneers will present a single-owner sale, The Ira Simon Collection: Sold for the Benefit of the Art Institute of Chicago. The sale features over 300 lots of art and design from the Art Nouveau, Aesthetic Movement, Arts & Crafts, and Art Deco periods, including various rare and important works by the likes of Tiffany Studios, Ãmile Gallé, and others. Ira Simon was a Chicago-based graphic designer who, in the 1970s and 1980s, began putting together one of the most impressive collections of late 19th and early 20th century material, which led to his full-time transition to buying and selling antiques and conducting appraisals for auction houses and private clients. Highlights of The Ira Simon Collection: Sold for the Benefit of the Art Institute of Chicago on April 27. The auction on April 27 will begin with four lamps from Tiffany Studios, Most notably, the first lot is a rare Jeweled Dro ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Menil Collection is presenting Joseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw at the Menil Drawing Institute, the first major museum retrospective in more than twenty-five years to focus on the dream-like landscape drawings of Joseph Elmer Yoakum (1891-1972), a self-taught, visionary American artist. Photo by Paul Hester.
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| Christie's Hong Kong announces Magnificent Jewels Spring auction | | Christie's announces "Celestial Brilliance: The Wang Xing Lou Collection of Imperial Qing Dynasty Porcelain" | | Sotheby's presents its first dedicated Nike Skateboarding Auction | 
A Natural Pearl and Diamond Necklace. Estimate: HK$8 million 12 million/US$1 million 1.5 million.
HONG KONG.- On 25 May, Christies Hong Kong Magnificent Jewels will host its highly-anticipated Spring live auction, presenting more than 170 lots of extraordinary and rare treasures, ranging from exquisite jadeites, dazzling coloured and colourless diamonds, sensational rubies, emeralds and sapphires, to wondrous natural pearls. Leading the sale is an exceptional Jadeite Bead Necklace (estimate: HK$55 million 85 million/ US$7 million 11 million). The greatest challenge in creating a top-quality jadeite bead necklace lies in finding an assemblage of beads in perfectly well-matched colour, texture and translucency. The rough stones have to be of the highest saturation as well as the finest texture. The exceptional jadeite bead necklace offered in the sale this season consists of 33 perfectly round beads with the most saturated and purest imperial green and glassy translucency viewing from every angle. The jadeite beads range ... More | | 
A Magnificent Large And Very Rare Turquoise-Ground Yangcai Imperially Inscribed Flowers Of The Four Seasons Vase Qianlong Six-Character Seal Mark In Iron Red And Of The Period (1736-1795) 30 ⅞ in. (78.3 cm.) high Estimate: HK$8,000,000 12,000,000.
HONG KONG.- Christies will present Celestial Brilliance: The Wang Xing Lou Collection of Imperial Qing Dynasty Porcelain, a stand-alone sale to be held on 30 May 2022, offering an exquisite selection of 28 lots of Imperial porcelain from three of the most prominent reigns of the Qing Dynasty. The collector, with his exquisite eye for detail and an insatiable thirst for beautiful objects, amassed a very comprehensive collection of Imperial Qing ceramics dating to the reign of the three most prolific emperors: Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong. The porcelain pieces in this sale offer a kaleidoscopic view of the wide-ranging and varied techniques of the Chinese porcelain-making traditions of the 18th century, following the technological and aesthetical advances of the Song and Ming Dynasties. Each piece is a fine ... More | | 
Nike Dunk Hi Orchard Street Brazil. Est.: HK$45,000 95,000/ US$5,800 12,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
HONG KONG.- In celebration of the 20th anniversary of Nike Skateboarding, Sothebys presents Nike SB | 20 Years, a retrospective auction showcasing the history of the highly popular Nike Skateboarding brand and its influence on sneaker culture. Open today through 25 April, the sale carries a total estimate of over HK$6.8m/ US$850,000 and features 100 pairs Nike SB sneakers, ranging from approachable but highly recognisable models to some of the most coveted and valuable sneakers in Nikes history. "This auction is one of the most comprehensive sneakers offerings we have ever put together at Sothebys, highlighting the rarest and most desired Nikes to ever surface at market. Commemorating Nike SBs 20th Anniversary, this sale is meant to celebrate the brands identity and influence in street culture." --Brahm Wachter, Sothebys Head of Streetwear & Modern Collectables The Nike SB Dunk made its formal debut in ... More |
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| The Menil Collection presents Joseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw at the Menil Drawing Institute | | Lifesaving medal awarded to member of staff on the ill-fated Titanic to be sold at auction | | 'Bestowing Beauty: Masterpieces from Persian Lands' explores rich heritage and enduring beauty of Persian art | 
Joseph E. Yoakum, Chorro Valley Sanluis Obispo County Paso Robles California, n.d. Black ballpoint pen, black fountain pen, and watercolor on paper, 9 7/8 Ã 7 7/8 in. (25.3 Ã 20.1 cm). The Menil Collection, Houston, Anonymous gift.
HOUSTON, TX.- The Menil Collection is presenting Joseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw at the Menil Drawing Institute, the first major museum retrospective in more than twenty-five years to focus on the dream-like landscape drawings of Joseph Elmer Yoakum (1891-1972), a self-taught, visionary American artist. On view in Houston from April 22 through August 7, 2022, the exhibition illuminates Yoakums vivid creativity, imaginative vision of the land, and deep spirituality and also explores his rich, complex biography as an African American man who claimed Navajo heritage. Co-organized by the Menil Collection, Houston, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the exhibition offers the most comprehensive study to date of the artist, who made a significant and highly ... More | | 
Medal awarded three years earlier, and unfortunately the recipient perished on the renowned ship.
LONDON.- The Life-saving medal awarded to First Class Bedroom Steward H. Roberts, S.S. Republic, for his assistance in the rescue of over 1,700 lives from the Republic and the Italian liner Florida, following their collision off Nantucket in January 1909 will be offered Mayfair-based Dix Noonan Webb in their auction of Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria on Wednesday, April 20, 2022. Subsequently, Roberts was transfered to the R.M.S. Titanic and drowned when the ill-fated vessel struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic on her maiden voyage on the night of 14-15 April 1912, and sank with the loss of over 1,500 lives. The silver medal is expected to fetch £1,000-1,400. Hugh Roberts was born in Holyhead (North Wales) in c.1873 and served as a First Class Bedroom Steward in the White Star Lines S.S. Republic. In the early morning of 23 January 1909, the Republic, sailing from New York to Gibraltar, collided with the Italian l ... More | | 
Persian, Bottle, 17th century. Stonepaste, painted in blue and red under transparent glaze. Overall:14 1/4 Ã 8 3/8 in. (36.2 Ã 21.3 cm). The Hossein Afshar Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston TR:989-2015.
TOLEDO, OH.- This spring and summer the Toledo Museum of Art offers a spectacular exhibition of more than 100 objects drawn from one of the most significant private collections of Persian art. Bestowing Beauty: Masterpieces from Persian Lands opened April 23 and showcases the artistic inventiveness of Persian culture across different media, featuring a broad array of textiles, ceramics, metalwork, lacquer, paintings, jewelry and manuscripts from the Hossein Afshar Collection. Historically Persian lands a wide swath of territory that at various times spanned from Cairo to Delhi, with its heart in what is now modern-day Iran saw centuries of conquest and globalization. The art that resulted both reinforced Persian culture and assimilated these cross-cultural exchanges. Woven throughout ... More |
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| These parties start with a blank canvas (and a little cannabis) | | Liz Sterling and Jonathan Boos announce inaugural exhibition in shared gallery space at 980 Madison | | Solo exhibition by prize recipient Tomashi Jackson opens at the Neuberger Museum of Art | 
Moise Joseph teaches at a Bring Your Own Cannabis painting class in Brooklyn, on Wednesday, April 20, 2022. Evelyn Freja/The New York Times.
by Julia Carmel
NEW YORK, NY.- Moise Joseph spent his Wednesday night standing at the front of a smoky room, blunt in hand, teaching a dozen people how to paint a sunset. You can make it straight if youd like. It doesnt have to have that fish-eye scope, Joseph said as he demonstrated how to paint a thin, curved line for the horizon. There should be a display on everyones table that you can see. Pedro Santos, who is 39 and lives in the South Bronx, was at the class in a T-shirt that read TROPHY HUSBAND. He slowly looked around his table and whispered, What display? As his table-mates pointed to the 8-by-11-inch canvas that had been sitting mere inches from him for nearly half the class, everyone began cracking up. Nobody was going to tell me? he said with a laugh. 'Cause I was like, what are we making? Joseph, 30, who lives in the ... More | | 
Joan Mitchell, Loom II, 1976, oil on canvas, 77 x 45 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- What do influential artists Winslow Homer, Henri Matisse, Alexander Calder, Alice Neel, Milton Avery, Hans Hofmann, Joan Mitchell and Amoako Boafo have in common? They all will be on view at the jointly curated inaugural exhibition of Liz Sterling and Jonathan Boos' shared gallery space on the third floor of 980 Madison Avenue. The Beginning of Sterling | Boos: Over 100 Years of Painting and Sculpture opened April 20, 2022, presenting exceptional secondary market paintings, sculpture and works on paper across all aspects of their combined expertise, spanning Modernism, Social Realism, Abstraction, Post-War and Contemporary Art. The Beginning of Sterling | Boos brings together and juxtaposes diverse works from the past century, presenting them in new light. Highlights of the exhibition include two works by Winslow Homer, The Backrush, an oil work from the 1890s, and the watercolor Rowing at Prouts Neck, 1887, as well as Milton Averys Sea ... More | | 
Tomashi Jackson, 2022 Roy R. Neuberger Prize Recipient Jessica Dalene; courtesy The Watermill Center.
PURCHASE, NY.- The Neuberger Museum of Arts signature Roy R. Neuberger Prize has been awarded to Tomashi Jackson, internationally acclaimed painter, printmaker, and video artist. Tomashi Jackson: SLOW JAMZ, an exhibition of the artists work, is on view at the Neuberger Museum from April 13 through November 27, 2022. The show is accompanied by an exhibition catalogue and a $25,000 cash award. Named for the Museums founding patron, the biennial prize honors Mr. Neubergers lifelong commitment to support the work of living artists. Prize winners embody outstanding artistic achievement that inspires innovative thinking, fresh perspectives, and greater understanding and appreciation of the arts. An artists creative achievement to date and their promise of future artistic achievements are also factors in the selection process. Tomashi Jacksons multimedia work includes painting, printmaking, sculpture, ... More |
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| Australia reveals its presentation in Venice for the Biennale Arte 2022 | | 'Island People: Portraits and Stories from Nantucket' opens at the Nantucket Historical Association | | M+ presents Angela Su's 'Arise, Hong Kong in Venice' as a collateral event of the 59th Venice Biennale | 
Marco Fusinato, DESASTRES, 2022 Solo durational performance as installation 200 days. Installation view, Australia Pavilion, 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, 2022. Photo: Andrea Rossetti.
VENICE.- Originally from the Veneto region in Italy, Marco Fusinatos parents migrated to Australia where he was born. He currently lives and works in Naarm/Melbourne. Fusinato is a contemporary artist and noise-musician whose work takes the form of installation, photographic reproduction, design, performance and recording. DESASTRES is a culmination of his interests in noise/experimental music, underground culture, mass media images and art history. Developed in Naarm/Melbourne during its extended COVID-19 lockdown, the work embraces all the associated frustrations, pessimism and turmoil. Fusinato, who was isolated at home and unable to access his studio during this period, says of the development of DESASTRES, Im interested in the tensions around opposing ... More | | 
Exhibit highlights include the earliest known painted portrait of a Nantucketer; an exceptional tintype of a leader of the islands 19th-century Black community; portraits of children with their pets; likenesses of millers, innkeepers, tailors, mothers, sailors, and sweethearts in the NHAs collection.
NANTUCKET, MASS.- The Nantucket Historical Association is presenting the exhibition Island People: Portraits and Stories from Nantucket in the Whaling Museum, Williams Forsyth Gallery. This exhibition draws from the NHAs collection of painted, photographic, and silhouette portraits to highlight both famous and lesser-known Nantucketers whose life stories intersect with the themes and currents of the islands history. Most visitors think of stiffly posed sea captains or stuffy men of business when they reflect on what portraits they imagine a historical society like the NHA might display in its museum. However, Nantuckets history is much more than white whaling captains and wealthy merchant families. ... More | | 
Tiptoeing the Kármán Line, 2022.
VENICE.- Arise, Angela Sus presentation for the Biennale Arte 2022, conveys a speculative narrative through interlocking fictional perspectives. The act of levitation serves as an organising metaphor that reappears throughout Sus drawings, moving image works, embroideries, and installations. The artist assumes the guise of a fictional alter ego to explore myriad cultural and political implications of rising in the air. Levitation speaks to both light and weighty matters; it moves between visceral bodily experiences and dream-like states of rapture that leave the body behind. The centrepiece of the exhibition is a new video work, The Magnificent Levitation Act of Lauren O (2022). This pseudodocumentary tells the story of Lauren O, a fictional character who believes she can levitate, and her involvement with Laden Raven, an activist group catalysed by the US anti-war movement of the 1960s. The name Lauren O derives from the ... More |
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 The playwright making a farce of the patriarchyNEW YORK, NY.- Three days before the first preview performance of her first Broadway production, playwright Selina Fillinger perched in the middle of the empty mezzanine of the Shubert Theater, peering down upon the set. Im sorry, I cant look away, she said. Its like a crew of fairies and angels, just making things happen. Down below, the crew building the set was buzzing around a re-creation of a womens restroom in the White House star-studded carpet, cream and gold wallpaper, coin-operated tampon dispenser. Its so specific, Fillinger said of the tampon machine. And of course it would be paid. Fillingers new play, POTUS, is a comedy about seven women in the inner circle of the president of the United States. It takes place on a day when the presidents various sex and sexism-related scandals are blowing up so spectacularly ... More  Risking boos, the Met Opera puts present-day America onstageNEW YORK, NY.- Simon Stone paused during a recent rehearsal at the Metropolitan Opera, looked up at the stage, and surveyed his new production of Donizettis Lucia di Lammermoor. Nadine Sierra, singing the title role in a secondhand wedding gown, was preparing to descend the rusting fire escape of an old house for her famous, climactic mad scene. Shes covered in blood at this point, so it wont be as pretty, Stone said, explaining how Sierra will look when the staging opens on April 23. Or maybe it will be even prettier. Pretty or not, this mad scene will be different than any Lucia any production, period in the Mets history. Many directors have updated classic operas, like the companys most recent Rigoletto stagings, set in 1960s Las Vegas and Weimar-era Berlin. But by transporting Donizettis bel canto tragedy ... More  Richmond Art Gallery challenges the nature of myth-making in Erdem Taşdelen's A Minaret for the General's WifeVANCOUVER.- The Richmond Art Gallery presents A Minaret for the Generals Wife by Erdem Taşdelen from April 22 to July 31, 2022. The exhibition weaves together fact with fiction to tell the origin stories of an unusual minaret in Kėdainiai, Lithuania. The artists re-construction of how the structure came to be calls into question the way narratives take shape, and ultimately encourages a multiplicity of readings by the viewers. A Minaret for the Generals Wife is guest curated by Julia Paoli and Toleen Touq, and is organized and circulated by Mercer Union and the South Asian Visual Arts Centre in Toronto, where the exhibition was first displayed in 2021. A Minaret for the Generals Wife speaks to both the potential ... More  Pete McKee tackles how we live and communicate today with brand new exhibitionLONDON.- Celebrated artist Pete McKee announces his brand-new exhibition Dont Adjust Your Mindset exploring themes including digital dependence, climate change, police brutality, internet fame and socioeconomic disparity in the wake of the pandemic. It is the Sheffield-born artist's first major exhibition since 2018 and the first time he has exhibited in London in nearly a decade. Dont Adjust Your Mindset takes over Londons Hoxton Arches from Thursday 22 April - Sunday 1 May before heading to Petes hometown of Sheffield from Saturday 13 Sunday 22 May 2022. Comprising paintings, sculptures, photographs, and installations, Dont Adjust Your Mindset explores modern British life and how we communicate today and, curated in the wake of the pandemic, marks a shift in focus for the Sheffield-born artist. Pete ... More  Private collection from the townhouse of tastemaker Charles Plante to go to auctionLONDON.- Dreweatts announced the sale of the private collection of Charles Plante, American private collector, tastemaker and specialist in European works of art from the 18th and 19th centuries, with a particular interest in Neoclassicism. Collecting since 1988 both personally and professionally, Charles specialises in watercolour drawings of architecture, gardens and interiors, oil sketches on paper and small paintings. The collection from his London town house will be offered in a sale titled Town & Country: The Collections of Charles Plante and Rawdon Hall at Dreweatts on May 10, 2022. Speaking about his passion for collecting and the ethos by which he works, Charles Plante said: The primary focus is always on quality, condition, authenticity and provenance. Each piece in the collection is meaningful and has its own ... More  Parasol unit opens a group exhibition of works by eleven contemporary visual artistsVENICE.- Parasol unit presents Uncombed, Unforeseen, Unconstrained, a group exhibition of works by 11 international contemporary visual artists at the Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello in Venice for the 59th Venice Biennale from April 23November 27, 2022. The artists, Darren Almond, Oliver Beer, Rana Begum with Hyetal, Julian Charrière, David Claerbout, Bharti Kher, Arghavan Khosravi, Teresa Margolles, Si On, Martin Puryear, and Rayyane Tabet, all work in different media to address a wide range of issues dealing with a deep concern for our world and a preoccupation with a comparable phenomenon that in scientific terms is defined as entropy, which is the measure of disorder, randomness, and unpredictability within a system. The exhibition brings together diverse and thought-provoking works and ... More  Cummer Museum announces new Director of GardensJACKSONVILLE, FLA.- The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens announces the appointment of Patrick MacRae as the Doolittle Family Director of Gardens and Horticulture, a first-of-its-kind position endowed through a $800,000 gift from the Doolittle Family Foundation. MacRae previously served as the Director of Public Programs and Education of The Garden Conservancy located in Garrison, New York. He began his new role at the Museum on March 28, 2022 Patrick is a nationally regarded leader who brings a dynamic combination of talent, experience and enthusiasm to this role, said Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, Ph.D., the Museums George W. and Kathleen I. Gibbs Director and CEO. He is a seasoned community builder, and I am confident that he will steward and lead the continued growth of one of the Museums ... More  A new exhibition celebrates a century of southern Black art and music BENTONVILLE, ARK.- A celebration of 100 years of southern Black culture comes to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art with The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse, on view March 12 through July 25. Hailed as a tour de force by the LA Times, The Dirty South uses visual art, material objects, sound and music to explore how Black culture, across time and geography, has shaped and influenced the South and US contemporary culture at large. Almost 30 years ago, André 3000 of the Atlanta-based duo OutKast, proclaimed, The South got something to say. The Dirty South makes clear that the conversation is alive and well. The multidisciplinary exhibition organized by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts spotlights the southern landscape through its musical heritage, spiritual complexity, ... More  CCA Tel Aviv-Yafo exhibits Rona Yefman's new body of workTEL AVIV.- Since the late 1990s Rona Yefman has created works based on years-long collaborations with people who challenge the mainstream. These collaborations yield layered representations hovering between documentary and fiction, between personal life stories and socio-political narrative that seek to express human complexities and expand the possibilities for individual freedom within a restrictive society. Yefmans new body of work, presented at CCA Tel Aviv-Yafo, focuses on the figure of Netiva Ben Yehuda (1928-2011), a legendary Palmach commander in pre-State Palestine, and, in her later years, an author, radio host, and all-round cultural icon. Netivas direct and honest account of her experience during the war of 1948 from her personal, feminist viewpoint reveals cracks and subversions ... More  Window on the Marsh celebrates paintings, photographs capturing Great Marsh's distinct beauty GLOUCESTER, MASS.- Stretching across 25,000 acres of vast salt marsh, barrier beaches, and tidal rivers on Massachusetts North Shore is the Great Marsh, a natural wonder that has captivated many artists over the years. Window on the Marsh is a new exhibition at the Cape Ann Museum that features two works of the marsh by each of the renowned painters Martin Johnson Heade and Fitz Henry Lane is accompanied by four photographs by the turn of the century artist, Martha Hale Harvey. The show opened March 19 and runs through Sept. 27, 2022. Although working over a century ago in different mediums, the three featured artists captured the innate beauty of the Great Marsh in black and white photography and luminescent paintings. Thanks to the generosity of a private lender, the Cape Ann Museum ... More  The Republic of Uzbekistan presents Dixit Algorizmi: The Garden of Knowledge at La BiennaleVENICE.- The Art and Culture Development Foundation of the Republic of Uzbekistan announced the countrys first participation in the Biennale Arte in Venice. Debuting at the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, ACDF presents Dixit AlgorizmiThe Garden of Knowledge, curated and designed by the architectural and research studio Space Caviar (Joseph Grima, Camilo Oliveira, Sofia Pia Belenky, Francesco Lupia) and Sheida Ghomashchi. The Pavilion of Uzbekistan at the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia presents a reflection on the seminal work of Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwārizmī, a scientist and polymath born and raised in the city of Khiva (present-day Uzbekistan). Dixit AlgorizmiThe Garden of Knowledge sets out to question the origin myths and narratives surrounding ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch painter and sculptor Karel Appel was born April 25, 1921. Christiaan Karel Appel (25 April 1921 - 3 May 2006) was a Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet. He started painting at the age of fourteen and studied at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam in the 1940s. He was one of the founders of the avant-garde movement Cobra in 1948. He was also an avid sculptor and has had works featured in the museum of Great Samo and MoMA. In this image: Karel Appel, Big Bird Flying Over the City, 1951. Oil on canvas, 49 3/16 x 65 3/4 inches (125 x 167 centimeters) © Karel Appel Foundation, c/o ARS New York, 2014. Courtesy of the Karel Appel Foundation and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles.
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