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Edvard Munch, Two Human Beings (The Lonely Ones), 1906â8. Oil on canvas (linen) commercially primed with a white ground. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Philip and Lynn Straus Collection, 2023.551. Photo: © President and Fellows of Harvard College; courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- This spring, the Harvard Art Museums present an exhibition of works by Edvard Munch that examines the artists innovative techniques and the recurring themes across his paintings, woodcuts, lithographs, etchings, and combination prints. Highlighting the collaborative partnership between curatorial and conservation experts at the museums, the exhibition reveals new and ongoing technical research into Munchs practice and shares recent discoveries about his materials and highly experimental methods. Drawing on the strength of the museums collections, Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking is on display March 7 through July 27, 2025, in the Special Exhibitions Gallery on Level 3 at the Harvard Art Museums. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Latefa Wiersch, âHannibalâ, 2025, exhibition view, Dortmunder Kunstverein, 2025, Courtesy of the artist and Dortmunder Kunstverein, Photo: Jens Franke.
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| ALBERTINA Museum debuts "Leonardo - Dürer" exhibition, highlighting Renaissance master drawings | | Holabird Western Americana Collections announces results of Pioneers & Patriots auction | | From idyllic to eerily beautiful: Lucerne exhibition explores shifting definitions of aesthetic art |
Albrecht Dürer, Head of an Angel, 1506, 27 à 20.8 cm, Brush and black and gray ink and white bodycolor, on blue paper (carta azzurra) The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna © Photo: The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna.
VIENNA.- The ALBERTINA Museum is dedicating its spring 2025 exhibition to the most important masters of the art of drawing. Leonardo - Dürer. Renaissance Master Drawings on Colored Ground is the major inaugural exhibition of Director General Ralph Gleis and at the same time the world's first detailed museum show in this field: and the most comprehensive presentation of Leonardo in the German- speaking world to date. From an art-historical perspective, the exhibition is also a premiere: the subject is considered in a pioneering way across regions between Italy and the North. With this exhibition, we are drawing attention to the ALBERTINA Museum's magnificent collection of graphic art and its tradition, so it has a programmatic character. The Renaissance was a time of new beginningsalso in the art of drawing. The exhibition sheds light on the ... More | |
Account of the gunfight at the OK Corral in the town of Tombstone in the Arizona Territory, as chronicled in this copy of the Tombstone Daily Nugget dated Nov. 24, 1881 ($5,000).
RENO, NEV.- An original newspaper account of the gunfight at the OK Corral from 1881 sold for $5,000, and an 1876-CC (Carson City) U.S. Liberty Head $20 gold piece gaveled for $4,518 in three days of auctions titled Pioneers & Patriots held March 1st thru 3rd by Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC. The first two days were held online and live in the Reno gallery. Day 3 March 3rd was a timed-only session, with no live gallery bidding. Around 1,700 lots came up for bid across the three days, in categories that include Americana, militaria, mining, numismatics, Wild West, philatelic and more. Online bidding was provided by iCollector.com, LiveAuctioneers.com and Invaluable.com. Telephone and absentee bids were also accepted. We chose the name Pioneers & Patriots to honor notable Western figures such as lawmen, outlaws, generals ... More | |
Hans Stalder, Woman, 2002, Oil on canvas, 67 Ã 43 cm, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Donation Toni Gerber Collection.
LUCERNE.- What is beautiful? An idyllic landscape, a perfect body, a childs rosy-cheeked face or an abstract colour tone? Is good art beautiful? Does an objective beauty exist at all? Or is it just a matter of taste? Sometimes people request in our visitors book to show more beautiful art. The collection exhibition schön?! outlines a small history of aesthetics with reference to different epochs and styles. What is beautiful for one person, can be repellent for another. What people regard as beautiful often depends on their social, cultural and societal background. Not only is the notion of beauty constantly changing, so too is the relationship between beauty and art. For a long time, art was supposed to teach and adorn through its beauty. With modernism, however, the close relationship between beauty and art is no longer so self-evident. On the contrary, beau- tiful art is suspected of just being appealing rather than profound. The exhibition does not depict a historical ... More |
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| Dorotheum to auction 221 drawings by Andy Warhol from the 1950s | | Lubaina Himid and Magda Stawarska's collaborative survey explores migration and memory in Luxembourg | | Fotografie Forum Frankfurt hosts first major retrospective of renowned documentary photographer |
Andy Warhol, Untitled (Portrait of a Woman), c. 1953, ink/graphite/tempera on paper, 17.8 x 16.7 cm, starting price 2,500.
VIENNA.- The auction of 221 drawings by Pop Art icon Andy Warhol is nothing short of a sensation. On 27 March 2025, Dorotheum is offering an extraordinary selection of works on paper by one of the most significant artists of the 20th century in its online auction, "Andy Warhol The 1950s Drawings from Daniel Blau." With remarkably moderate starting prices, this sale promises to be particularly exciting for art lovers. The drawings on offer boast a unique provenance: the renowned Munich gallery owner Daniel Blau, son of painter Georg Baselitz, discovered them in 2011 within Warhol's personal estate at the Warhol Foundation Archive. He was able to acquire the drawings, which had been registered in 1990 but subsequently left largely unnoticed, and to research them from an art historical perspective. After over three decades as one of the world's leading dealers in works on paper, Blau is now parting with his Munich gallery and has entrusted more than 400 ... More | |
Lubaina Himid, Skip Door: Utility Room, 2024. Courtesy of the artist, Hollybush Gardens, London and Greene Naftali, New York. Photo: Eva Herzog Studio.
LUXEMBOURG.- Nets for Night and Day is the first full-scale European survey on the collaborative artistic practice of Lubaina Himid CBE RA and Magda Stawarska. The exhibition presents new and existing works emerging from a decade-long dialogue between British painter Lubaina Himid (1954, Zanzibar), a leading figure of the British Black Arts Movement, and multidisciplinary Polish artist Magda Stawarska (1976, Ruda Śląska), whose practice combines moving image, soundscapes and screen printing. Conceived as a performance, Nets for Night and Day unfolds memory as a score narrated through paintings and drawings, as well as sculpture, silkscreen printing, photography and sound installation. Comprising over fifty artworks produced between the end of the 1990s and today, visitors will find themselves on a journey aboard ships, venturing across carts, ambling into dreamscapes rendered by the artists and their collective imagination. At the ... More | |
Michael Kerstgens, Roller-Disco, Oberhausen, 1986. © Michael Kerstgens 2025.
FRANKFURT.- Euphoria on the dance floor, turmoil in the factories, ever-changing landscapes the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt (FFF) will present the first comprehensive exhibition of the work of the German documentary photographer Michael Kerstgens (b. 1960) in "Michael Kerstgens. Out of Control". The exhibition provides a deep insight into his work spanning more than forty years, featuring long-term socio-political photographic essays in black-and-white and colour from Germany, Russia. With great sensitivity, Kerstgens documents the transformation of living environments and sheds light on the connections between culture, people and the economy. Born in Wales and raised in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Michael Kerstgens studied Communication Design and Photography at the Folkwang University of the Arts (GHS) in Essen. He returned to Great Britain as a student in 198485 to document the miners strikes. "What interested me then was not the political significance but rather the social ... More |
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| Latefa Wiersch recreates Dortmund's evacuated Hannibal II, exploring post-migrant identity through puppets | | High Museum opens U.S. debut of Ryoji Ikeda's "data-verse" | | Christie's Latin American Art sales total $11 million |
Latefa Wiersch, The German Chapter (Detail), 2024, exhibition view Hannibal, Dortmunder Kunstverein, 2025, Courtesy of the artist and Dortmunder Kunstverein, Photo: Jens Franke.
DORTMUND.- Some things are too large and overpowering to be able to be understood in the present by a single person; they can only be recognised in simulation and being lived through again, in their restaging. Latefa Wiersch (*1982 in Dortmund, lives in Zurich) works with performance, sculpture, video and photography, and for several years has been creating roughly sewn puppet figures from variously coded materials such as fabric, clothing, leather, artificial hair, toys, found objects, sawn-up furniture, wire, wood and filling. Through the spatial installation of narrative scenes she breaks the social level down to an individual dimension in order to examine the past and present of post-migrant identity in Germany. The puppets with their social and cultural markers, their familiar attributes from pop culture and their multiple and ambiguous references to contemporary history are the doppelgängers of the artist and her social setting. From exhibition to exhibition, they are re-cloth ... More | |
Ryoji Ikeda, data-verse 1, 2019, DCI-4K DLP projector, computer, speakers. Installation view at Venice Biennale, Venice, 2019. Photo by Julien Gremaud, courtesy of the artist and Audemars Piguet Contemporary. © Ryoji Ikeda.
ATLANTA, GA.- This spring, the High Museum of Art presents an exhibition of work by Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda, including the U.S. debut of data-verse, a trilogy of monumental, immersive light and sound installations that represents more than two decades of research by the artist and reflects upon the progressive digitalization of an integrated global society. On view from March 7 to Aug. 10, 2025, Ryoji Ikeda: data-verse also premieres new site-specific work alongside existing works including data gram, a series of 18 monitors that take apart, analyze and recombine information Ikeda sourced for his trilogy. Ikeda (born Gifu, Japan, 1966; active Paris and Kyoto) is one of the worlds leading composers and media artists, whose work Artnet describes as visceral, intellectual and awe-inspiring. His immersive video projections, which will be presented floor-to ceiling onto the walls of the museums largest exhibition space, feature visualization ... More | |
Fernando Botero (1932-2023), Shoeshine, oil on canvas, 78 x 51 ½ in. (198.1 x 130.8 cm.) Painted in 1989. Price Realized: $1,171,800. © Christie's Images Ltd 2025.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies New York saw successful combined sales across the Latin American Art live and Latin American Art Online sales, which took place live on February 28 and online from February 24 March 6. The sales featured exceptional works of art by notable artists from across the region, including Fernando Botero, Leonora Carrington, Olga de Amaral, and more. Together, the sales achieved a total of $11,030,292 and were 81% sold by lot and 81% sold by value. Latin American Art realized $9,930,060, and Latin American Art Online totaled $1,100,232. The top lot of the two sales came from Latin American Art, which took place on 28 February; Shoeshine by the iconic Fernando Botero realized $1,171,800. Additional top lots in the live sale included Ikon by Surrealist artist, Leonora Carrington, which realized $1,071,000, and Arcángel, by Fernando Botero, which sold for $882,000. Notably, Monje Jerónimo con ángel by Luis Lagarto sold for more than four times its low ... More |
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| Dieter Appelt's 90th birthday celebrated with photography exhibition at Lempertz, Berlin | | Green Acres: Group exhibition opens at Charlotte Jackson Fine Art | | Modern Art exhibition explores fragile and volatile bodies through decades of drawings |
Dieter Appelt, Membranobjekt No. 3 (aus der Serie: Erinnerungsspur), 1977-79. Gelatinesilberabzug, 56,2 x 41 cm (57,3 x 41,8 cm).
BERLIN.- To coincide with the European Month of Photography (EMOP) and to honor the 90th birthday of renowned German photographer Dieter Appelt, Lempertz in Berlin is presenting a curated selection of his black-and-white photographs spanning the last 50 years. The exhibition, which opened today, features notable multi-part series including "Erinnerungsspur" (Trace of Memory), "Tableau Oppedette," and "Salzufersequenz" (Salzufer Sequence). Dieter Appelt's work is characterized by its intense exploration of the human body, often his own, as a site of existential inquiry. His "Actions" push the boundaries of physical and emotional experience, confronting themes of pain, decay, and mortality. Appelt's photographic investigations serve as a form of processing his traumatic experiences from post-war Germany, resulting in powerful and often somber black-and-white images. The exhibition ... More | |
Jeremy Thomas, Spruce Green 4-2021. Cold rolled steel, powder coat, and urethane, 36 x 34 x 28.
SANTA FE, NM.- The first glimpse of pale green sprouts in spring. The dark shadowed green of a pine forest. The green of a wave shot through with light. Moss and lichens. Broccoli and apples, pears and emeralds. Tree frogs and jade. Oxidized copper and spikey aloe. Chlorophyll green is a foundational pigment, a critical color in the palette of the earth. This year Charlotte Jackson Fine Arts annual single color group exhibition explores this dynamic and essential hue through a diverse range of works in a variety of mediums by artists including John Beech, William Metcalf, Olivier Mosset, Elliot Norquist, Liane Nouri, Helen Pashgian, Heiner Thiel, Jeremy Thomas, and Clark Walding. Green has a deep history in many human cultures as a color associated with nature, renewal, abundance, calm refreshment and youthful vigor due to its connection to plant life. Spring, growth, freshness, green is an essential color, complex with fundamental possibilities. Each of the artists in Green ... More | |
Jan vankmajer, Mediumni kresba (Mediumistic drawing), 2000. Chalk, ink, graphite on paper, work: 57.5 x 47 cm. Courtesy the artist, Gallery of Everything, London and Modern Art, London. Photo: Modern Art.
PARIS.- Modern Art is presenting A Vanished Wholeness, an exhibition of drawings and works on paper dating from 1923 to 2025. The exhibition showcases the work of artists united by their exploration of the human body not as a solid whole, but as restless, fragile, and volatile. Many examples throughout A Vanished Wholeness reflect on heightened states of being. With artworks acting as visceral responses to personal history, gender identity, bodily objectification and aesthetic traditions. Many of the artists seek to tell charged, highly personal stories. Serving as conduits for these stories are many different renderings of bodies; from weightless spectres to corporeal bodies possessing contorted limbs, from quiet self-portraits to phantasmagorical dreamscapes. In Eileen Agars (1899-1991) Infinite Loop (1941), the indistinct outlines of two figures join in a tangled embrace, possibly ... More |
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Decolonizing the mind: Ana Vaz's film series explores ecological ruin and repression in Europe
VIENNA.- In her film-poems artist and filmmaker Ana Vaz collages images and sounds that revolve around violence and repression, the impact of ecological ruin and the continued colonization of the earth. The deconstruction of the grand narrative of Western modernity that imposes itself across vast territories on this planet lies at the heart of her filmography. In her exhibition at the Secession, Vaz showcases her new film series Meteoro (2023). Predominantly focusing on Paris and Porto, European cities are depicted as on the verge of collapse or on the path to extinction. Developed in collaboration with the Tuareg researcher Maïa Tellit Hawad, Franco-Guadeloupean author Olivier Marboeuf, and Portuguese artist Isabel Carvalho, Meteoro sketches a critical anthropology of contemporary Europe, revealing the negative imprint of an Empire ... More
Wilding Cran Gallery opens new Melrose Hill location with collaborative exhibition
LOS ANGELES, CA.- For Wilding Cran Gallery's inaugural show in the new Melrose Hill location, the gallery presents The Messengers, an exhibition of new paintings by Los Angeles-based artists Francesca Gabbiani and Eddie Ruscha. Through their collaborative exchange, Gabbiani and Ruscha channel shared visions of ecological hope and healing to reflect upon the restorative cycles of the natural world. The vibrant series of works on paper combine painting and collage with soft, fluid forms and hard edges to embrace interconnection as a transcendent mode of survival. While Ruschas airbrush techniques produce smooth, ethereal forms, Gabbianis hand-painted paper collages add depth and texture, pulling the viewer into a pulsing landscape of fusion and duality. Across the exhibition, Gabbianis collages of various cacti and their blossoms vibrate ... More
Exhibition features a selection of vibrant and innovative abstract works by Lucio Pozzi
COLD SPRING, NY.- Magazzino Italian Art is presenting Lucio Pozzi: qui dentro / in here, an exhibition featuring a selection of vibrant and innovative abstract works that the Italian-born artist has produced over the course of his remarkable 60-year career. On view from March 7, 2025, to June 23, 2025, the show, which honors the artists 90th birthday, offers an overview of his wide-ranging interests. Internationally known for figurative as well as abstract works, Pozzi is represented in this exhibition by vivid abstractions. The show includes paintings, sculptures, and wall reliefs in an extraordinarily diverse array of styles, revealing Pozzis artistic dexterity and his commitment to continual experimentation with a unique visual language. Curated by David Ebony in collaboration with Magazzino Italian Art Artistic Director Paola Mura, the exhibition will highlight more ... More
Computer Museum of America rebrands as Mimms Museum of Technology and Art
ROSWELL, GA.- During its BYTE fundraiser last evening, Computer Museum of America revealed an exciting announcement moving forward, it will operate under a new name: Mimms Museum of Technology and Art. The rebrand marks an exciting new chapter for one of the areas most popular attractions, reflecting its history, evolution and future. As the nonprofit museum celebrates five years of operation and prepares for expansion in 2026 including the highly anticipated launch of its iNSPIRE: Fifty Years of Innovation at Apple exhibit the timing of its transformation is setting the stage for a bold and dynamic future. Our museum has always been about more than just computers, said Lonnie Mimms, founder and board chair of Mimms Museum of Technology and Art. We are thrilled to introduce a new brand that provides us the flexibility to promote ... More
Kasmin presents early works by Anthe Zacharias, highlighting her transition to celebrated style
NEW YORK, NY.- Kasmin presents a selection of paintings by Anthe Zacharias (b. 1934, Albania) viewable online and by appointment at 514 West 28th Street. Featuring seven paintings executed between 1958 and 1966, the presentation highlights Zachariass arrival at her celebrated exploration of color and gestural forms in large-scale compositions that evolve from her early Abstract Expressionist painting style. Realized at a pivotal juncture in Zachariass more than 60-year practice, the works foreground the artists synthesis of painting elements of line, color, light and movement that were rooted in observations from nature. After a number of critically-acclaimed New York exhibitions in the 1960s and 1970s, much of Zachariass work remains rarely seen; though she never stopped painting, the artist took a hiatus from exhibiting after 1974 and only ... More
Sarah Trigg's exhibition at Kristen Lorello explores earthly forces and psychological transformation
NEW YORK, NY.- The gallery announced a solo exhibition of new works by New York-based artist Sarah Trigg. It is the gallerys first exhibition with the artist and includes five large paintings inspired by psychological transformation, earth-related events, and the action of making a painting. A selection of related ceramic sculptures will be installed. Triggs abstract paintings express a dense and uncontained momentum of brilliant and muted color and textures that range from plastic to geological. Her abstract practice is rooted in the materiality of the land, its movements, and their relationship to the physical aspects of pouring, brushing, and scraping paint along broad planes of canvas. As Trigg conveys, In the paintings, the mark making resembles that made by earth formations but in suspension with multiple gravitational pullssuch as shifting planes of lava pouring, ... More
Awards at ARCOmadrid 2025
MADRID.- National and international institutions and companies share their support and recognition of artistic creation at ARCOmadrid through the sponsorship of art awards. In this context, the Belgian gallery Meessen, featuring works by Ignasi Aballà and Xie Lei, has won the Lexus Award for Best Booth and Artistic Content at ARCOmadrid 2025. The 20th ARCO/BEEP Award for Electronic Art 2025 has been granted to the work ADSUM by Eduardo Kac, represented by the Henrique Faria gallery. With this edition of the award, a new chapter begins under the name NewArtAward@ARCO, in collaboration with the Arts Connection Foundation. Meanwhile, Madrid-based artist Monica Mays â represented by Pedro Cera and Blue Velvet galleries â has won the 9th Cervezas Alhambra Award for Emerging Art for her work Conveyors. The 18th illy SustainArt Award, dedicated to suppo ... More
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents in situ: Refik Anadol
BILBAO.- The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents in situ: Refik Anadol, an innovative exhibition at the intersection of artificial intelligence and art, inspired by the Museums iconic architecture. This presentation marks the debut of in situ, a new series dedicated to site-specific installations that push the boundaries of contemporary artistic practices. Bringing together artists working across visual art, technology, music, and performance, in situ explores new ways of perceiving and inhabiting space. Living Architecture: Gehry is a groundbreaking audiovisual installation that reimagines Frank Gehrys legacy through AI and generative art. At its core is the Large Architecture Model (LAM), a custom-built AI model developed by Refik Anadol Studio. Trained over months on a vast archive of ethically sourced open-access imagery, sketches, and blueprints, LAM transforms ... More
Rebel Women of Sunderland podcast honours pioneering Wearside artist
SUNDERLAND.- This International Womenâs Day (March 8), a new instalment of the Rebel Women of Sunderland podcast has been launched which honours the legacy of a pioneering Wearside artist. Building on its initial launch in 2024, the podcast now dives deep into the life of Sunderland born artist Audrey Amiss. Despite not being well known during her lifetime, Audrey Amiss and her work was rediscovered and recognised after her death in 2013. The new podcast episode was created with help from Artist Lyn Killeen who led the project with community organisation Southwick REACH after being inspired by the film Typist Artist Pirate King, written and directed by filmmaker Carol Morley. The podcast dives deep into Amissâ early life in Sunderland and explores themes like mental well-being and north- ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, English sculptor and illustrator Anthony Caro was born March 08, 1924. Sir Anthony Alfred Caro OM CBE (8 March 1924 - 23 October 2013) was an English abstract sculptor whose work is characterised by assemblages of metal using 'found' industrial objects. His style was of the modernist school, having worked with Henry Moore early in his career. He was lauded as the greatest British sculptor of his generation. In this image: Anthony Caro, Paper Like Steel, installation view.
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