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Rare Ancient Egyptian Pre-Dynastic (Naqada II to Naqada III, circa 3500-3000 BCE) terracotta canoe-form boat model with pinched keel, 19in long. Published in 1909 reference âThe Light of Egypt,â by Robert de Rustafjaell, who found the relic at Gebelein, 17 miles from Luxor. Extensive provenance, including Sothebyâs London, January 20-24, 1913. Estimate $40,000-$50,000.
BOULDER, CO.- Discerning collectors of cultural art always look forward to Artemis Gallerys auctions produced under the Exceptional Antiquities banner. That particular series of sales represents the finest ancient, ethnographic and fine art consignments entrusted to the renowned Artemis team for expert vetting, marketing and sale. The next Exceptional Auction is slated for Thursday, March 24, and as always, each item will convey to its new owner with an Artemis Gallery Certificate of Authenticity. With more than 400 museum-worthy pieces, this auction presents a visual history of the worlds greatest civilizations. There are classical antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), as well as Viking, Far East/Asian, Pre-Columbian, African/tribal/Oceanic, Native American and Spanish Colonial relics. In addition, the sale includes gorgeous ancient jewelry, fossils of astonishing quality, and many other items from th ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Scholten Japanese Art presents The Bridge, a snowy landscape print by B.J.O Nordfeldt. This excellent example of American Japonisme illustrates the theme of the upcoming exhibition, Influencers: Japonisme and Modern Japan, which will bring together works by Western artists who derived inspiration from Japanese art, and the response by Japanese artists in the development of a modern international style.
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| Galerie Templon opens an exhibition of works by Jitish Kallat | | New three-part exhibition produced with Flat Time House, London | | Meadows Museum, SMU launches exhibition/research initiative featuring Juan Sánchez Cotán's work |
Jitish kallat, Epicycles 3 (detail), 2021-2022, double-sided, multilayer print on 20 LPI lenticular lens, teakwood / impression multicouche recto-verso sur lentille lenticulaire 20 LPI, bois de teck, 226 x 132 x 61 cm, 89 x 52 x 24 in., unique.
PARIS.- Jitish Kallat returns to Paris with Echo Verse, an ambitious exhibition conceived as a complex system of signs and conjectures linking artistic, historical and scientific references. Widely known for his conceptual and poetic language, Jitish Kallat has altered the tenor of the Beaubourg gallery with a new body of work exploring the passage of time and the notions of transience, evolution or entropy. Jitish Kallat plays with scale and distance to offer an assembly of sensory and speculative propositions that weaves unexpected links between everyday reality and the cosmos. The exhibition opens with Elicitation # 1 (Terranum Nuncius), a photographic diptych of images drawn from the Golden Record archive dispatched by NASA on the Voyager space missions in 1977. These images - children ... More | |
Antoni TÃ pies, Nuats (Knotted), 2003. Courtesy the artist and the David and Indrė Roberts Collection.
LONDON.- Untitled, 1956 is the first of an ambitious trilogy of exhibitions produced in collaboration between Flat Time House (FTHo) and the Roberts Institute of Art. Each exhibition explores a different facet of the complex network of ideas and relationships surrounding John Lathams work in dialogue with important works from the David and Indrė Roberts Collection. Throughout his life, Latham was relentlessly experimental in his choice of medium, rapidly moving between materials yet always applying a rich symbolism to his use of each. This first exhibition brings together a key early piece by Latham, Untitled, 1956, with impressive works by Phyllida Barlow, Bram Bogart and Antoni TÃ pies, which share with Latham an intuitive investigation into material quality, presented alongside a new commission by Grace Ndiritu. Alongside the three exhibitions, each taking its name from the key Latham work they contain, FTHo an ... More | |
Juan Sánchez Cotán (Spanish, 15601627), Still Life with Quince, Cabbage, Melon, and Cucumber, c. 1602. Oil on canvas, 27 1/8 x 33 1/4 in. (68.9 x 84.5 cm). The San Diego Museum of Art, gift of Anne R. and Amy Putnam, 1945.43. Photo by Matthew Meier.
DALLAS, TX.- The Meadows Museum, SMU launched an exhibition and research initiative designed to demonstrate and celebrate the significant holdings of Spanish art in American museum collections while increasing contributions to scholarship in the field of Spanish art. Titled Masterpieces in Residence, the program is a series of individual installations of a single work of Spanish art on loan to the Meadows Museum from a U.S. museum. Each Masterpiece in Residence loan provides the occasion for the commissioning of a focused essay on the work by a leading scholar, which will be published as a short monograph by the Meadows Museum in association with Scala Arts Publishers, Inc. The first work, Juan Sánchez Cotáns Still Life with Quince, Cabbage, Melon, and ... More |
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| Ukraine's celebrities are dying, adding extra dimension to the nation's shock | | The San Diego Museum of Art welcomes 'Monet to Matisse' | | Stunning mid 20th century Ruby, Emerald and Diamond ring by Cartier sells for £20,000 |
People sift through the remains of a residential complex after a strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 18, 2022. Ivor Prickett/The New York Times.
by Matthew Mpoke Bigg and Ada Petriczko
NEW YORK, NY.- A ballet dancer. An award-winning actor. A biathlete. An actor who posted glamorous selfies on Instagram until he joined up and uploaded two final shots of himself looking stylish in camouflage. These are some of the Ukrainian celebrities killed since Russia invaded Feb. 24. Their deaths add an extra dimension to the countrys shock and anguish over the war. Artem Datsishin, one of Ukraines leading dancers and a former principal dancer with the National Opera of Ukraine, died Thursday at a hospital in the capital city of Kyiv. He had been wounded last month by Russian artillery fire, according to posts by friends on social media. Ukrainian actor Oksana Shvets was killed in a rocket attack on the capital, the Kyiv Post newspaper reported Thursday. Shvets was a member of the citys Young Theater ... More | |
Camille Pissarro, Portrait of the Artist's Son Félix Dressed in a Skirt, 1883. Oil on canvas. Bemberg Foundation
SAN DIEGO, CA.- The San Diego Museum of Art brings Monet to Matisse: Impressionist Masterpieces from the Bemberg Foundation to San Diego. Featuring masterpieces from some of the most significant names in European painting, the exhibition is on view at the Museum beginning March 19 through August 7, 2022. This marks the first time the Bemberg Foundations Impressionism collection, which rarely leaves its permanent home in France, has traveled to California and is one of only two showcases in the United States. Organized by the Bemberg Foundation, based at the historic Hôtel dAssézat in Toulouse, France, the exhibition features more than 60 works produced between the 1870s to 1930s. This is the second installment of a loan from the Bemberg Foundation, following the Cranach to Canaletto exhibition on view at the Museum from June to September 2021. ... More | |
Mid 20th century ruby, emerald and diamond ring by Cartier.
LONDON.- A stunning mid 20th century ruby, emerald and diamond ring by Cartier was sold for £20,000 - almost three times its high estimate - by Dix Noonan Webb in their auction of Jewellery, Watches and Objects of Vertu on Tuesday March 15, 2022 at their Mayfair saleroom (16 Bolton Street, London W1J 8BQ). Comprising three bombé hoops, it had been estimated to fetch £5,000-7,000, and was bought by a member of the London trade and consigned by a private vendor [lot 265]. As Frances Noble, Head of the Jewellery Department and Associate Director at Dix Noonan Webb, commented after the sale: The sale results illustrate the extremely strong auction market at present, and an overall shortage on the market of good quality pieces, which in turn is leading to competitive bidding. Period Cartier jewels are currently highly sought after and attracting exceptional prices. The auction also included a stylish early 20th century gold and diamond ... More |
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| Impressions of the Fall is now on view through April 9 at 47 CANAL | | Prada presents the exhibition "Role Play" at Prada Aoyama Tokyo | | Exhibition presents new paintings and works on paper by Sascha Braunig |
Alex Kwartler, Infinite Regress (with tuna) II, 2022.
NEW YORK, NY.- Impressions of the Fall pieces together a kind of anachronistic reverence for seasonality. The paintings, drawings, and sculptures in this exhibition commune in spirited subjectivity around naturalistic referents. Guided by the traditional Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) concept of Orenda, G. Peter Jemisons works are personal studies in the vibrancy of every living thing. Sunflowers, though dried and past their prime for picking, bow towards the sun. On a closer look, long shadows reveal bright and delicate blue lines, their figures surrounded by energetic white lines emanating and absorbing into the field. Nothing is out of place or out of time in each of Jemisons picturesnot a country road, a tuft of yellow grass, or a windswept weed bisecting the foreground. From afar, Alex Kwartlers monochromatic paintings appear as small and neat geometries. One can barely appreciate the stack of turtles in his Infinite ... More | |
Installation view.
TOKYO.- Prada presents Role Play, an exhibition project organized with the support of Fondazione Prada, at Prada Aoyama Tokyo from 11 March to 20 June 2022. The fifth floor of the iconic building designed by Herzog & de Meuron hosts a second version of the show on view at Osservatorio Fondazione Prada in Milan from 19 February to 27 June 2022. Curated by Melissa Harris, this project explores notions of the search, projection, and invention of possible alternative and idealized identities. Role-playing, the creation of alter-egos, and the proliferation of self are possible strategies that the artists in the exhibition employ to investigate and understand each individuals essence and persona. As Melissa Harris points out, An alter ego, persona, or avatar may be aspirational; it may relate to ones personal and cultural history and sense of otherness; it may be a form of activism, or a means of maneuvering through entrenched, even polarized positions, ... More | |
Sascha Braunig, Jaws, 2022. Oil on linen over panel, 40 x 46 in. (101.6 x 116.8 cm).
LOS ANGELES, CA.- François Ghebaly and Magenta Plains are presenting Lay Figure, a joint gallery exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Sascha Braunig. This is Braunigs first New York exhibition in five years, spanning both gallery spaces on the Lower East Side. The exhibition will remain on view at Magenta Plains through Thursday, April 21 and at François Ghebaly through Saturday, April 16. Braunigs paintings resist aesthetic categorization while simultaneously building on a fraught system of historical lineages. She uses Magrittean space as a stage to undertake a feminist inquiry into paintings patriarchal history, while deftly referencing Chicago Imagists such as Christina Ramberg and Suellen Rocca, Thomas Bayrle's use of pattern and repetition, and Kiki Kogelnik's fragmentary, skeletal flattening of the figure. The exhibition title, Lay Figure, refers to a jointed doll, ... More |
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| What happened to one of classical music's most popular pieces? | | In her last works, Kaari Upson explores vanity and decay | | Members of The Cotswold Art & Antique Dealers' Association announce the first Cotswolds Curated |
César Franck at the console, painting by Jeanne Rongier, 1885 (private collection).
by David Allen
NEW YORK, NY.- Whatever Leopold Stokowskis thirst for celebrity, he was not known for caving to audience pressure. During his long tenure conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra, from 1912 to 1938, Stokowski gave the American premieres of scores as challenging as Stravinskys Rite of Spring and Bergs Wozzeck, with little concern for box office. But near the end of most of his seasons in charge, this great showman did bow to mass taste. Philadelphias subscribers were invited to vote for their favorite works, with the promise that Stokowski would lead the winners on a closing request program. For years, the victor was Tchaikovskys Pathétique, a sorrowful symphony so popular that other orchestras had been, critic Lawrence Gilman wrote in 1925, so sure of the outcome of similar voting ... More | |
In this photo from the Kaari Upson Trust and Amelia Burns, Kaari Upson is at her Los Angeles studio in 2019. Upson died of cancer last August at age 51. Kaari Upson Trust/ Amelia Burns via The New York Times.
by Jori Finkel
NEW YORK, NY.- On a visit last month to Kaari Upsons studio here, it looked as if she had just left to grab a cup of coffee or maybe one of the garbage burritos she loved so much. Her art was everywhere: new paintings and drawings covering the walls, with recent sculptures of tree trunks made to look like knobby-kneed legs hanging from the ceiling. Outside, on the back patio, was a used mattress one of her favorite objects for casting in silicone because of its associations with trash, sex and sickbeds. Her pickup truck, a gray Toyota Tundra, was still parked in back. The whiteboard on the wall still had to-do notes in her handwriting. The artist, known for making ... More | |
Harold Clayton 'Still Life of Flowers in a Vase'. Image courtesy Haynes Fine Art.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE.- Nine members of The Cotswold Art & Antique Dealers Association are participating in the first Cotswolds Curated taking place from Saturday 2 to Sunday 10 April 2022 in shops and galleries in Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Worcestershire. The selling exhibitions cover many different subjects and centuries, offering paintings, exterior and interior sculpture, samplers, carpets rugs and textiles, campaign furniture and travel accessories, writing furniture and work by Cotswold artists and designers. Opening over two weekends, a tour of the area will be full of interest and inspiration in early April for lovers of art, antiques and interiors. Architectural Heritage (Taddington Manor, Taddington GL54 5RY) Evolution to Extinction and Back is a journey through Modern British sculpture starting with Edward Bainbridge Copnalls The Evolution. Although one of Copnalls ... More |
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Cagliari Palazzo di Città opens a large retrospective dedicated to Gastone Biggi
CAGLIARI .- The exhibition Il Canto Sospeso della Pittura The suspended song of painting curated by Claudio Cerritelli was inaugurated at the Cagliari Palazzo di Città . The exhibition produced by the Council Office for the Arts and Culture of the Municipality of Cagliari and strongly desired by the Councillor of Culture M.Dolores Picciau, in collaboration with the Gastone Biggi Foundation, is a large retrospective dedicated to the Roman painter. On the 4 floors of the City Palace the exhibition unfolds with 130 painting which, covering a chronological period from the late 50s to 2014, retraces the moments of the Masters artistic and technical evolution. The painter, who passed away on 29th September 2014, was also a poet, musicologist, writer, essayist, and his cultural multiplicity is what distinguishes is artistic production that has crossed the twentieth century ... More
Russian conductor will not appear with New York Philharmonic
NEW YORK, NY.- Russian conductor Tugan Sokhiev, who recently resigned from two high-profile posts after facing pressure to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine, will no longer lead a series of concerts with the New York Philharmonic because of the war, the orchestra announced Friday. Sokhiev, who until this month was music director of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow and the Orchestre National du Capitole in Toulouse, France, had been scheduled to appear with the Philharmonic starting March 31 for three concerts featuring the music of Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev. Instead, the concerts will be led by Anna Rakitina, a rising conductor who was born in Moscow to a Russian mother and Ukrainian father, in her Philharmonic debut. The Philharmonic described the change as a mutual decision, saying in a statement that it was made out of regard for the current global ... More
KBr Fundación MAPFRE Photography Center presents 'Adolf Mas The Eyes of Barcelona'
BARCELONA.- In collaboration with the Mas Archive of the Fundació Institut Amatller dArt Hispà nic, Fundacion MAPFRE presents Adolf Mas: The Eyes of Barcelona, a journey through the work of this Catalan photographer, recognized for his major contribution to the field of heritage photography, and a figure of paramount importance for understanding the social transformation of Barcelona during the early 20th century. Born in Solsona (Lleida) on September 28, 1860, Adolf Mas moved to Barcelona prior to 1890. He left his hometown and his work as a solicitor for an uncertain future in the Condal city, initially making his way in the textile industry. A few years later, he became a regular at the Els Quatre Gats café where he established contacts with the intellectuals and artists of the day. In 1901, after training as a photographer, he founded his first business selling ... More
Ridinghouse announces "Amor Mundi: The Collection of Marguerite Steed Hoffman"
LONDON.- Ridinghouse announced the publication of Amor Mundi: The Collection of Marguerite Steed Hoffman, a lavishly illustrated, two-volume curated selection of more than 400 outstanding works of modern and contemporary art, catalogued alongside essays, conversations, and artists interventions that provide multiple perspectives on the works and the uniquely personal process of collecting them. All works in the book are part of the widely celebrated collection of Marguerite Steed Hoffman, who has pledged that her growing and evolving holdings of modern and contemporary art will become a bequest to the institution she has long supported, the Dallas Museum of Art. Amor Mundi is edited by independent curator Gavin Delahunty, who also contributed the title essay. Other texts include a preface by Marguerite Steed Hoffman; Someone Saves ... More
True Pictures? Contemporary Photography from Canada and the USA on view at Museum der Moderne Salzburg
SALZBURG.- In the first half of the twentieth century, North American photographers produced work that was seen as groundbreaking and paved the way for the establishment of photography as a medium of creative expression. This leadership role has been largely lost since the 1980s, when European photographers struck out on their own. America ceased to be the uncontested benchmark for younger artists, and American photography has faded from the spotlight. The exhibition True Pictures? proposes to revive the trans-Atlantic dialogue with a comprehensive overview of the output of fine art photographers working in Canada and the U.S. in the past forty years. It illustrates the significance of established practitioners as well ... More
Writers Guild Awards keep up momentum for 'CODA' and 'Don't Look Up'
NEW YORK, NY.- A sudden Oscar front-runner and a dark-horse contender took top honors at the Writers Guild Awards on Sunday night, as the heartwarmer CODA and the satirical Dont Look Up prevailed in the adapted and original screenplay categories, respectively. This is real, legitimate excitement, the writer-director of Dont Look Up, Adam McKay, said in a pretaped speech. Although several awards shows have returned to in-person gatherings, the WGA ceremony was virtual, and nominees were asked to send in their acceptance speeches ahead of time. Only the winners was played during the ceremony. Several major films were ineligible for the WGAs this year because they were not written under a bargaining agreement with the WGA or its sister guilds. So Belfast and The Worst Person in the World (in the original-screenplay category) and ... More
Underground Museum in Los Angeles has closed
NEW YORK, NY.- The museum has built a reputation for celebrating Black artists and working-class communities over the past decade, but now it is putting this work on pause. The Underground Museum in Los Angeles unexpectedly announced last week that it was closing until further notice. Nearly 10 years after the beloved cultural organization began, developing into one of the countrys leading venues for Black art, its two directors have departed, and the doors of its Arlington Heights location have shuttered. The decision was announced Tuesday by one of the museums founders, sculptor Karon Davis, who posted her message on Instagram. We simply do not have any answers right now, she wrote in her letter, which was then published on the museums website. In 2012, Davis started the museum alongside her husband, painter Noah Davis. It was unclear from ... More
Hayward Gallery unveils Anthea Hamilton's new outdoor film installation set to dazzle day and night
LONDON.- A new 24-hour-long film, Primetime, 2022, by Anthea Hamilton has been unveiled this week on the elevated terrace next to the Hayward Gallery, overlooking the Royal Festival Hall. The film launches this years expanding programme of striking outdoor installations, offering free access to art for all. Ralph Rugoff, Director at the Hayward Gallery, says: Primetime is a visually stunning, thrillingly inventive project that plays with the dynamic between still and moving images, analog and digital, sculpture and video, whilst compellingly refreshing our ideas of what a 'film' can be. Katie Guggenheim, Assistant Curator at the Hayward Gallery, says: Anthea Hamiltons collaborative and de-centred approach to filmmaking has drawn on the creativity and expertise of her inspiring cast and production crew and the 24-hour timeline creates space for a highly subjective kind of ... More
A human-size spider web is getting a boost from TikTok
NEW YORK, NY.- You need to check out this installation in NYC, reads the title card of the TikTok post. Must love spiders, adds a qualifier in the caption. The video opens onto the mouth of a white globe, 95 feet in diameter, inside the McCourt space of The Shed, a cultural center in the Hudson Yards neighborhood, where an interactive exhibition by Argentine artist Tomás Saraceno opened in February. Overhead, 40 feet above the ground, scattered people clamber across wire-mesh netting. Twenty-eight feet below, visitors sprawl out on their backs, limbs outstretched. The user scored the video to Hans Zimmers otherworldly instrumental track Cornfield Chase, from the 2014 science fiction film Interstellar, adding to the ambience. More than 720,000 people have watched this video. A similar TikTok about the exhibition has racked up 2.8 million views and more than ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, German-American painter Hans Hofmann was born March 21, 1880. Hans Hofmann (March 21, 1880 - February 17, 1966) was a German-born American abstract expressionist painter. Hofmann's art work is distinguished by a rigorous concern with pictorial structure, spatial illusion, and color relationships. He was also heavily influenced in his later years by Henri Matisse's ideas about color and form. In this image: Hans Hofmann Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings.
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