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Jean-Léon Gérôme Child with a mask, between 1840 and 1856. Oil on canvas.
WESTLAKE, TX.- Gallery 19C, a Texas based gallery specializing in 19th Century European Paintings, is pleased to announce the sale of two paintings to the Musée dOrsay in Paris. Jean-Léon Gérômes Child with a Mask and Fernand Pelezs poignant depiction of a young beggar boy, aptly titled Petit Misère, were purchased from Gallery 19C at TEFAF MAASTRICHT in March 2023. Commenting on the sale, Eric Weider, Founder and Polly Sartori, Director of Gallery 19C said: We are once again deeply honored that two of our paintings will be on public display at the Musée dOrsay. They will join Alexandre Cabanels masterpiece, Le Paradis Perdu, which we sold to the museum in 2017. Nothing means more to us than to see these significant and diverse 19th century painters granted the attention they deserve. There is no greater confirmation of their significance than to hang in the galleries of the Musée dOrsay. Foun ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Buchmann Galerie is delighted to present the exhibition New Titles by British painter Jason Martin (b. 1970 in Jersey, Channel Islands, UK). The exhibition features a collection of recent works that demonstrate Martinâs return to a more allegorical and lyrical sentiment, as noted in his reflections in preparation for the show.
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| New exhibition at Hamburger Kunsthalle: 'Vija Celmins │ Gerhard Richter: Double Vision' | | The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Republic of Italy, Sicilian Region, announce new reciprocal loan agreement | | The George Adams Gallery opens comprehensive survey of Robert Arneson's work |
Gerhard Richter (*1932), Küchenstuhl, 1965. Ãl auf Leinwand, 100 x 80 cm. Kunsthalle Recklinghausen © Gerhard Richter 2023 (12052023)
HAMBURG.- A major double show at the Hamburger Kunsthalle brings together for the first time the work of two of the most internationally renowned artists of their generation: Vija Celmins (b. 1938 in Riga) and Gerhard Richter (b. 1932 in Dresden). The transatlantic dialogue promises to reveal some surprising parallels not only shared themes and the use of photographic templates but also an interrogation of the elementary conditions of representation. What is reality, what is representation? And how can human perception, how can seeing itself, be made visible? Vija Celminss impressive paintings and drawings are all too rarely exhibited in Europe, and the Hamburger Kunsthalle would like to contribute to greater public awareness of her work. At the same time, juxtaposing such a strong female position with the work of Gerhard Richter, so often presented as a singular phenomenon, provides an opportunity to look at his oeuvr ... More | |
Sicilian loans, installation views. View of the Belfer East gallery, in The Metropolitan Museum of art, with the stone metope (left), the terracotta arula and the marble lamp (right) on loan from the Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonio Salinas.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today a new collaborative agreement with the Republic of Italy, Sicilian Region, that provides for long-term loans of ancient masterpieces to the Museum and the exchange of three-year loans between The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Archaeological Regional Museum "Antonino Salinas" of Palermo. The agreement follows decades of successful collaboration between the Museum and the Republic of Italy. "The Metropolitan Museum of Art is honored to deepen its long-standing collaboration with the Republic of Italy through this new agreement, which enables us to showcase ancient treasures with audiences and scholars here in New York and in Palermo," said Max Hollein, The Metropolitan Museum of Arts Marina Kellen French Director. Seán Hemingway, John A. and Carole O. Moran ... More | |
Robert Arneson, Portrait of the Artist After Bacon #1, 1981. Glazed ceramic, 16 x 12 x 5 1/2 inches. Photo: M Lee Fatheree. © 2023 The Estate of Robert Arneson/licensed by VAGA/ARS, New York. Courtesy George Adams Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- The George Adams Gallery is presenting Robert Arneson: Astonishing Possibilities for Self-Expression, the most comprehensive survey of the late artists use of the self as subject matter in over twenty-five years. Encompassing works on paper and sculptures in both ceramic and bronze, the exhibition includes work dating from the mid-1960s through his death in 1992. For an artist who is perhaps best known for his self-portraits, the exhibition shows how Arnesons approach evolved through the decades and the range of expressive potential he found within his self. The most substantial and varied portion of Robert Arnesons prodigious output are those works in which he made use of himself as the subject. While Arnesons self-portraits are of outsized significance when considering his oeuvre as a whole, it is insufficient to say that the self-portrait ... More |
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| "Samuel Ross: COARSE" currently on view at Friedman Benda art gallery | | Sydney Contemporary, Australasia's Premier Art Fair announces return to Carriageworks this September | | Amsterdam is a canvas for artistic talent at Amsterdam Art Week 2023 from 31 May - 4 June |
Birth at Dawn, 2022.
Friedman Benda has opened COARSE, the gallerys second solo presentation of acclaimed British designer, artist and creative director Samuel Ross, and the first to take place in New York. Known for his conceptually rigorous approach to industrial materials, Ross presents his fourth body of work, and his most layered material exploration to date. Evolving from his ongoing interest in the historic visual languages of West African furniture, post-industrialized Western culture, modernism, and brutalism, these works point to the links between body, material, meaning, and memory. The six works in this exhibition represent spaces of commune, community, generosity, and tenderness. A notion that, for Ross, is about geography; about the body and space, about the body in space. Samuel Ross understanding of geography exists be ... More | |
Emily Ferretti, Down Stream, 2022. Oil on linen, 183x137cm. Courtesy the artist and Sophie Gannon Gallery.
SYDNEY.- Sydney Contemporary, in partnership with Principal Partner MA Financial Group, has unveiled details for the Fairs seventh edition. This September, Sydney Contemporary returns with its largest edition to date featuring 96 emerging and established galleries from Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Indonesia and Singapore. Presented at Carriageworks, Australias largest multi-arts centre, from 7 10 September 2023 the Fair is the pre-eminent meeting place for the art world, and critical to the growth of the art market in Australasia. Since its foundation in 2013, Sydney Contemporary has established itself as Australasias premier art fair, regularly attracting over 25,000 visitors at each edition and recording more than AU$100million in art sales since its launch. ... More | |
Martina Halsema. Photo: Bart Niewenweg.
AMSTERDAM.- From 31 May - 4 June, Amsterdam transforms into an international hub for art lovers, collectors and artists. The 11th edition of Amsterdam Art Week features a broad programme of exhibitions, openings, performances, lectures and artists' talks at more than 50 locations in the capital. Amsterdam Art Week is one of the largest events for art talent in the Netherlands, showcasing new developments in contemporary art to the public. "Between 31 May and 4 June, Amsterdam will be a canvas for art talent. All Amsterdammers and (inter)national art lovers can immerse themselves in a multifaceted programme with 80 events for five days." - Martina Halsema, director of Amsterdam Art Week. On Friday 2 June, Amsterdam Art Week bursts into life. Then, until Sunday 4 June, all the doors of 53 galleries, studios, art institutions, museums and special locations ... More |
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| Wanrooij Gallery in Amsterdam presents Dutch creator RAIDER | | Pola Sieverding is now presenting 'Contact Zone' at the art gallery signs and symbols | | The Warhol appoints Aaron Levi Garvey Chief Curator |
RAIDER, Dare to Jump!, 2022. Digital art.
AMSTERDAM.- Wanrooij Gallery in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, is now presenting the first solo exhibition by the 21-year-old Dutch creator RAIDER since 11 May until 26 August 2023. The exhibition 'First Contact' shows a wide and colourful selection of sculptures, silkscreen prints, digital artworks, neon designs, and wall objects. RAIDER transformed the two floors of the gallery into an exciting art experience, introducing the character Scoop. RAIDER represents a new, young generation of contemporary artists. With a great passion for art, his iconic sculptures of the fictional character Scoop have gained attention from gallery owners and art collectors around the world since 2020. The creator experiments with all available techniques and materials in a traditional way. The new and sparkling work of RAIDER has its own unique signature. It is fresh, pure, and colourful. For the design of the figure Scoop, spheres ... More | |
Pola Sieverding, installation view of 'Contact Zone'.
NEW YORK, NY.- signs and symbols will be continuing to present Pola Sieverding's first US solo exhibition, Contact Zone, featuring an installation of large-format, photographic prints on gauze until June 10th, 2023. Her most recent body of work, Sieverding's photographs on gauze transport her primary subject the body, as both a physical entity and as an image into an entirely new medium, investigating the materialities of skin and semi-transparent fabric. In Contact Zone, textiles are suspended from the ceiling, forming and re-forming a collage of bodies as they sway, overlapping. Each veil of gauze depicts only a fragment of a body a jawbone, a shoulder, several raised vertebrae of a spine. The gauze itself, wavering between opacity and transparency, underscores the fragility and ephemerality of skin. Within the immersive structure of the installation, these carnal images can be viewed and interpreted from multiple angles, ... More | |
Aaron Levi Garvey, photo by Abby Warhola.
PITTSBURGH, PA.- The Andy Warhol Museum has appointed Aaron Levi Garvey as its new chief curator. He will assume his role in summer 2023. Garvey is a Jewish-American curator whose work primarily focuses on the cross section of contemporary art culture and community building by creating accessible public programs and exhibitions within institutions and alternative spaces. He is currently the Janet L. Nolan director of curatorial affairs at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama; the chief curator and vice chair of programs at The Hudson Eye/Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation in New York, New York; and the co-founder and board advisor of Long Road Projects Foundation, Inc. in Jacksonville, Florida and Erie, Pennsylvania. "I am filled with immense pride and gratitude for being entrusted with this all-important role within The Warhol, said Garvey. I am looking ... More |
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| Juergen Teller: The Master V, the newest installment of his light-hearted homages to his heroes | | Lindy Lee: A tree more ancient than the forest it stands in | | Martin Amis, acclaimed author of bleakly comic novels, dies at 73 |
Lina, London 2021. © Juergen Teller.
NEW YORK, NY.- This is the newest book in Juergen Teller's original and beloved Masters series. Teller made his first Master in 2005 as an homage to anything and everything he believes is a master or masterfulbe it punk rock icon Iggy Pop, actor Gillian Anderson, football manager Carlo Ancelotti, or even a simple vase of flowersas well as a tongue-in-cheek recognition of himself as the master of his photographic identity. The concept was simple: to create an ongoing collection of humble books, each at the same small size, with no text and as little design as possiblean antithesis to the standard overblown coffee-table book. Like past volumes in the series, The Master V presents an unpredictable mix of Tellers eclectic photography: be it his unorthodox fashion work, still lifes, landscapes, portraits, or images that move between these genres. Featuring subjects including chess grand master Garry Kasparov, editor-in-chief of British ... More | |
Lindy Lee, Buddhas and Matriarchs (detail), 2020. Flung bronze, 250 cm (diameter). Image courtesy the artist and Sullivan+Strumpf. Photo Jessica Maurer.
SYDNEY.- Sullivan+Strumpf will soon be ending their presentation of new works from Chinese-Australian artist Lindy Lee, in her major solo exhibition at their Zetland, Sydney, premises. Lindy Lee: A tree more ancient than the forest it stands in which opened earlier this month. One of Australias most influential and highly respected contemporary artists, Lees work has, over recent years, moved increasingly into the public sphere, with numerous largescale public commissions both national and international, focused on creating spaces of belonging and community. Lindy Lee: A tree more ancient than the forest it stands in, presents a rare opportunity to experience this iconic artists work in a more intimate gallery setting, her latest body including new sculptural forms in steel, bronze and wood, in addition to works on paper. ... More | |
The author Martin Amis, at home in Brooklyn on May 17, 2012. (Jennifer S. Altman/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Martin Amis, whose caustic, erudite and bleakly comic novels redefined British fiction in the 1980s and 90s with their sharp appraisal of tabloid culture and consumer excess, and whose private life made him tabloid fodder himself, died Friday at his home in Lake Worth, Florida. He was 73. His wife, writer Isabel Fonseca, said the cause was esophageal cancer the same disease that killed his close friend and fellow writer Christopher Hitchens in 2011. Amis published 15 novels, a well-regarded memoir (Experience, in 2000), works of nonfiction, and collections of essays and short stories. In his later work, he investigated Josef Stalins atrocities, the war on terror and the legacy of the Holocaust. He is best known for his so-called London trilogy of novels Money: A Suicide Note (1985), London Fields (1990) and The Information (1995) ... More |
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Hortensia Mi Kafchin presenting solo exhibition 'Years of Bad Hair'
NEW YORK, NY.- P·P·O·W recently opened Years of Bad Hair, Hortensia Mi Kafchins first solo exhibition with the gallery, which will continue until June 3rd. Imbuing a highly classical painting style with her own mythologies, fairytales, and belief systems, Kafchins avatars traverse time, space, and reality to reach states of self-transformation and liberation. Hybridity, a central tenet of Kafchins practice, is innately tied not only to her transition from male to female, but also to her upbringing in a post-Communist and post-Chernobyl Romania in which an influx of Western culture intertwined with deeply rooted Eastern Orthodoxy and Medieval traditions. Akin to alchemical experiments, Kafchins canvases combine the male and female, the East and West, the traditional and contemporary, and the scientific ... More
'Thinking of You' by Turkish artist Firat Neziroğlu now on view at C24 Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- The solo exhibition by Turkish artist, Fırat Neziroğlu Thinking of You in the C24 Atrium opened this past May 18th, and will be on view through July 14th, 2023. Celebrated throughout Turkey and Europe for his unique takes on a traditional practice, this will be the first time his work has been exhibited in the US. Utilizing hand-spun, custom-dyed wool, Fırat Neziroğlu reinterprets the centuries-old art form of Kilim rug making with contemporary images and content. With a patented technique that allows for loosely hanging and three-dimensional components, he creates portraits of his closest friends, beautiful, intimate celebrations of life and love. Working from memory, without reference drawings, he incorporates bold colors and unlikely subjects into striking, one-of-a-kind, textured co ... More
Auction records set for four Louis XVI works of art
PARIS.- Works from the collection of world-renowned interior designer Jacques Garcia bring 8 million / $8.7 million in an auction by Sothebys to benefit the future of Château du Champ-de-Bataille. Built in the 17th century, the Château du Champ de Bataille is today one of the most beautiful and inventive estates in France. In 1992, world-renowned interior designer and collector Jacques Garcia acquired the residence and set about on the project of a lifetime renovating the residence in the opulent image of the Grand Siècle. The proceeds of this afternoons auction which totalled 8,038,211 / $8,721,459 will go towards guaranteeing the future and legacy of this historic estate and its gardens. The auction saw buying from French museums, including Versailles, with a number of Preemptions* for pieces with roya ... More
New exhibition at the Currier premieres work focusing on environmental and human rights issues
MANCHESTER, NH.- The Currier Museum of Art is hosting the first solo exhibition of UÃRA (they/them/their) in a US institution, which opened on May 11, 2023. The exhibition is curated by Lorenzo Fusi, the Curriers recently appointed Chief Curator, and includes a comprehensive selection of photographs and videos encompassing UÃRAs entire artistic trajectory, with work from many of their past performances and recent appearances. The photos create an immersive and visually compelling environment complemented by two video excerpts from the documentary UÃRA: The Rising Forest (2022), directed by Juliana Curi and distributed in the US by Streamline. The full documentary will also be screened at the Curriers auditorium during the exhibition (screening dates to be announced). For the opening ... More
Post War & Contemporary Art to feature significant Joan Mitchell painting & more
LAMBERTVILLE, NJ.- Rago/Wright will present Post War & Contemporary Art on Tuesday, May 23rd, 2023. This tightly curated auction is a premier event of the spring season, featuring an exemplary selection of paintings, drawings, photography, and sculpture from some of the most sought-after artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Leading the sale is Joan Mitchell's 1958 abstract Untitled canvas from the collection of Wolf Kahn and Emily Mason, estimated to value $600,000-800,000. Commonly grouped together as part of Abstract Expressionism's "Second Generation, Mitchell and Kahn were both members of the New York School, and friends and admirers of each other's work. Kahn acquired this work during a visit to Mitchell's Paris studio, just before he returned to New York with his wife, painter Emily Mason ... More
James de Jongh, who put stories of slavery onstage, dies at 80
NEW YORK, NY.- James de Jongh, a scholar and playwright best known for fashioning oral histories left by formerly enslaved people in the 1930s into Do Lord Remember Me, a 1978 stage work that painted an unflinching picture of the human cost of slavery, died May 5 in the Bronx, New York. He was 80. Robert deJongh Jr., a nephew, said the cause was cardiac arrest. De Jongh was a longtime member of the English department faculty at City College and the City University of New York Graduate Center, where he specialized in African American literature and the literatures of the African diaspora. But briefly in his early career, he had been an actor, and he continued to maintain an interest in the theater. In 1975, together with Carles Cleveland, he wrote his first play Hail Hail the Gangs! about a Black ... More
Fragile, Handle with Care: Giampiero Romanò's first solo exhibition in Dubai
DUBAI.- Zawyeh Gallery (Dubai) - in collaboration with Sara Simonit Contemporary - announced the opening of Giampiero Romanòs solo exhibition Fragile, Handle with Care on 20 May 2023. The exhibition showcases the Italian artists artworks based on his skills in restoration and preservation. The artworks' materials consist mainly of antique frames and mirrors and represent a journey to parallel temporal universes. The works seem as if each has a life and character of its own, but they are all united under the artists attempt to break the monotony and uniformity of the classic antiques which can be referred to as history. One can sense a motion of rebellion in the artworks that contradicts the very material of antiques, they are made of. After restoring and preserving old frames Romanò adds his master touch t ... More
Daylight Books to release 'Done Doing Time: Portraits of Life After Prison' by Hinda Schuman
NEW YORK, NY.- Photographer Hinda Schuman met Concetta and Linda while volunteering at New Directions for Women, an alternative to incarceration residential program for women in the Philadelphia prison system. Schuman would bring a bag of fresh fruit for the women, and they would all talk, learn skills like how to read a map, and listen while Schuman read aloud books like Diary of Anne Frank, and Alice in Wonderland. She then began photographing them, including annual formal portraits they could send home to their loved ones. As a long form documentary photographer, Schuman immerses herself over years and allows the stories to unfold through the images. She has known Linda and Concetta for close to 15 years and as the knowledge of each other grew in depth and resonance, so did the stories told t ... More
On 'The Blog Era,' resurrecting rap media history
NEW YORK, NY.- For music fans who came of age after Napster but before Spotify roughly the first decade of the 2000s the internet could seem like a kind of enchanted forest. Each day delivered a new bounty for the music-hungry, copyright-resistant and broadband-equipped. The fruits of this ecosystem new or unreleased songs of generally hazy provenance could be downloaded directly from file-sharing platforms like Napster or on any number of fan-led message boards. But the era reached its peak with the advent of the MP3 blog. The Blog Era, a new podcast from brothers Eric and Jeff Rosenthal, is a painstaking resurrection of the characters and events that made this humble format vertical-scrolling logs of images, text and download links such a seismic force in hip-hop. At its height, which ... More
Review: Gustavo Dudamel leads his New York Philharmonic
NEW YORK, NY.- Gustavo Dudamel began his reign at the New York Philharmonic on Friday with an ending. Greeted with a roar from the audience as he appeared with the orchestra at David Geffen Hall for the first time since being named its next music director, this superstar maestro conducted Gustav Mahlers ninth and final completed symphony, one of the repertorys great evocations of farewell. Few works survey the span of a life its highs and lows more thoroughly and unsparingly, from the pastoral to the hysterical, from raucous existence to pianississimo death. The program was planned long before Dudamels appointment, but it turned out to be ideal for this moment. Nearly an hour and a half long, Mahlers Ninth fills a concert on its own. No overture; no soloist; no intermission. On Friday it provided ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Belgian author and illustrator Hergé was born May 22, 1907. Georges Prosper Remi (22 May 1907 - 3 March 1983), known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian cartoonist. He is best known for creating The Adventures of Tintin, the series of comic albums which are considered one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century. In this image: Georges Remi aka Hergé, Le Lotus Bleu, 1936, vendu 1,1 M€ / 1,25 M$ / 9,6 MHK$ (estimate : 1 000 000 - 1 500 000 € / 8 600 000 – 13 000 000 H$K) © Hergé/Moulinsart 2015.
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