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The First Art Newspaper on the Net Established in 1996 Saturday, November 23, 2024 Tong Yang-Tze's large-scale works of calligraphy for The Met's Great Hall are now on view Tong Yang-Tze (born 1942, Shanghai, based in Taipei). Installation view of Go where it is right, stop when one must for The Great Hall Commission: Tong Yang-Tze, Dialogue, 2024. Ink on paper. Courtesy of the artist. Image credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photo by Hyla Skopitz. NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art unveiled two monumental works of calligraphy by Taiwanese artist Tong Yang-Tze (born 1942, Shanghai, based in Taipei) for the Museum’s Great Hall Commission. The works are installed on the two eastern walls of the Great Hall that frame the Museum entrance. Dialogue marks the artist’s first major project in the United States as well as the third project in a series of commissions for The Met’s historic space, following works by Kent Monkman (2019) and Jacolby Satterwhite (2023). Tong is one of the most celebrated artists working exclusively in calligraphy today. Best known for making calligraphy in monumental scale, Tong brings Chinese characters into dialogue with three-dimensional space and pushes the conceptual and compositional boundaries of the art form, while remaining dedicated to calligraphy’s raison d’être as the art of writing. Her commitment to written characters is rooted in her belief in their centrality in Chinese cul ... More The Best Photos of the Day Yoshitomo Nara in front of Harmless Kitty (Detail), 1994 in the Museum Frieder Burda. The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokio © Yoshitomo Nara, courtesy Yoshitomo Nara Foundation; Photo: Nikolay Kazakov. Ahlers & Ogletree announces Modern Art & Design Auction Exquisite Christmas, Halloween and other holiday antiques bring color and fun to Bertoia's special December 13 auction PS122 Gallery opens Magnetic: Victor Liu & Laura Smith This diminutive circa 1986 black and white etching on paper by Marc Chagall (French/Russian, 1887-1985), titled La Fenetre de L’atelier a St. Paul, is expected to finish at $1,200-$2,400. ATLANTA, GA.- A Sam Maloof walnut and mixed wood “His” rocking chair, a complete set of five color lithograph on paper Surrealist bullfight scenes by Salvador Dali, and an oil on canvas painting by self-taught African-American artist William Tolliver are expected top lots in a Modern Art & Design auction scheduled for Wednesday, December 4th, starting at 10am Eastern time, by Ahlers & Ogletree. The auction will feature an extraordinary selection of fine art, furniture and more -- a diverse collection of over 300 curated lots that includes mid-century design, modern masterpieces and exquisite craftsmanship from notable artists and designers. Highlights include work by artists such as Sam Maloof, Salvador Dali, William Tolliver and Todd Murphy, online and live in ... More Pumpkin vegetable man candy container lantern. Large-scale example, 11in high, with cabbage body, carrot legs and potato shoes. Estimate: $5,000-$8,000 VINELAND, NJ.- Wishes will be granted for many collectors on December 13th when the Bertoia family opens its auction-gallery doors to a stunning array of holiday antiques, from museum-quality German Christmas treasures to whimsical jack-o’-lanterns and endearing Easter bunnies. While the original plan had been to incorporate holiday antiques into Bertoia’s November 22-23 Annual Fall Auction, the abundance of exceptional holiday consignments entrusted to Bertoia’s for that sale made it abundantly clear that the specialty category should have its own dedicated event. As a result, a Friday, December 13 date was chosen for a separate auction exclusively devoted to premium-quality holiday antiques. Once they view the bounteous selection of holiday collectibles that awaits them, auction guests will agree that too much ... More Victor Liu, Dark Cygnus, 2023, cast resin with silver graphite, 40 x 20 x 26 in. NEW YORK, NY.- PS122 Gallery is presenting Magnetic featuring the works of Victor Liu, sculpture, and Laura Smith, drawings. Invisible energy is alluring and active, full of doubts and anxieties, as it directs not only interactions in the world but also personal and artistic worlds. Magnetic explores these mysterious influences of attraction and unease as dynamism in Liu’s and Smith’s respective art processes. The artists’ works, minimal nuances with a neutral palette, are neither rational nor predictable, however, they exist in a primal state. That state arises in fluid vividness channeled throughout the gallery space holding the viewer in a magnetic gaze. Combining traditional casting methods with newer technologies, Victor Liu’s elusive figures intertwine latent myths, anime, and historical influences with today’s headlines. The hybrid works mix-and-mat ... More Museum Frieder Burda opens Yoshitomo Nara's first major retrospective in Germany Hans van Manen donates photographic oeuvre to Rijksmuseum Christie's Marquee Week totals $689 million Yoshitomo Nara, Missing in Action, 1999. Courtesy Sally & Ralph Tawil, Exhibition at Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden 2024 © Yoshitomo Nara, courtesy Yoshitomo Nara Foundation; Photo: Nikolay Kazakov. BADEN-BADEN.- Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara (b. 1959) is one of the most celebrated artists of his generation. He earned international acclaim for his Angry Girls, mostly large-format portraits with captivating eyes that are now considered icons of contemporary painting. In the exhibition Yoshitomo Nara, the artist’s first major retrospective in Germany, the Museum Frieder Burda presents paintings, drawings, sculptures, and installations spanning four decades. Yoshitomo Nara’s works are closely connected to his own personal story. They tell of his lonely childhood in Japan; the isolation he experienced as a student in Germany; his political rebellion; his love of underground rock, folk, and punk music; his predilection for literature, cinema, and nature; and his interest in the history of Japanese and European art. Visitors are invited to experience and decipher Nara’s intriguing artwork from the ... More Hans van Manen, Dutch souvenir. Jack Walls. Donation Hans van Manen en Henk van Dijk, Amsterdam. AMSTERDAM.- Choreographer Hans van Manen has donated his photographic oeuvre to the Rijksmuseum. Alongside his choreographic career, in the 1980s and 90s Van Manen developed a small, scrupulously composed body of photographic work comprising portraits of dancers and male nudes. A striking characteristic of his photographic style is the apparent simplicity of composition, with its primary focus on capturing aesthetic beauty. The gift comprises 86 photographs by Van Manen. In 2019 he and his partner Henk van Dijk donated 21 photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe to the Rijksmuseum. Hans van Manen’s powerful photographs are testimony to his eye as a choreographer. The unique tone of his work makes it a key facet of Dutch photography of the 1980s. - Taco Dibbits, Director of the Rijksmuseum It is difficult to believe that Hans van Manen even had time for photography alongside his work as a choreographer for the Dutch National Ballet. However, as he explains, he greatly enjoyed being able to work al ... More Auctioneer Adrien Meyer sells Ed Ruscha’s Standard Station, Ten-Cent Western Being Torn in Half, top lot of the 20th Century Evening Sale, for $62.3 million. © Christie's Images Ltd 2024. NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s fall Marquee Week concluded Friday, November 22, with a final total of $689 Million across eight 20th and 21st Century Art sales. In total, sales were 87% sold by lot, 92% sold by value, and 123% sold hammer and premium against low estimate. All sales were characterized by lively and spirited bidding and buying from across the globe (regional breakdown of 57% Americas / 29% EMEA / 14% APAC for the three evening sales of the week). Eighteen records were established for a range of established and emerging artists, including the leading highlight, Rene Magritte masterpiece L’empire des lumieres from the collection of Mica Ertegun, which sold for a record-breaking $121.2 Million and established a new benchmark for the Surrealist movement. Enthusiasm and excitement was palpable around the world, with more than two million viewers tuning in to stream the sales on Christie’s global platforms throughout the week. Bonnie ... More A fresh breeze of Impressionism sweeps through the Landesmuseum Hannover Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt opens 'Jakob Lena Knebl, Markus Pires Mata: I have to collect myself first' Neue Nationalgalerie opens the first exhibition in Germany to present a comprehensive overview of Nan Goldin's work Jo Koster, Mädchen mit Sonnenhut, 1911 © Singer Laren. HANOVER.- The Landesmuseum Hannover, in collaboration with the Singer Laren Museum in the Netherlands and the Museum Kunst der Westküste in Alkersum/Föhr, unveils a groundbreaking exhibition exploring the unique adaptation of Impressionism in Denmark, the Netherlands, and Germany. Since the 1860s, this influential art movement, originating in France, has inspired artists across Europe, reshaping artistic traditions in the North into distinctive, localized styles. The exhibition features approximately 100 masterpieces and oil studies, showcasing the hallmark traits of Northern Impressionism: atmospheric moods, fleeting moments, vibrant colors, and innovative techniques. Highlighted are renowned artists like Anna Ancher, Isaac Israels, Johan Barthold Jongkind, and Peder Severin Krøyer. Germany’s “Big Three” Impressionists—Max Liebermann, Max Slevogt, and Lovis Corinth—also shine with remarkable contributions. Divided into seven thematic ... More View of Jakob Lena Knebl, Markus Pires Mata, I have to collect myself first, Darmstadt 2024. © Photo: A. Ebert, HLMD. DARMSTADT.- Everyone knows what collecting is. We know it from childhood: stones, shells, stickers Artists and designers, too, are fascinated by things and like to experiment with them. Jakob Lena Knebl and Markus Pires Mata are specialists in mise-en-scène and enjoy working with painting as well as fashion, sculpture, and body images just as much as with craft traditions and popular culture. We have invited the two Viennese artists to put together a personal exhibition from the holdings of our universal collections. To that end, they also rummaged around in the storerooms of crafts, mineralogy and zoology and in the process discovered objects that have not been shown in a long time. Their spectacular installation humorously combines high and low and invites us to a sensory experience: provocative, brash, and eye-catching. Rather than following scholarly criteria, Knebl and Mata present ... More Nan Goldin, Sunny in my room, Paris, 2009, Photography © Nan Goldin. Courtesy the artist. BERLIN.- Neue Nationalgalerie’s retrospective is the first exhibition in Germany to present a comprehensive overview of Goldin’s work. The exhibition is installed in six unique buildings designed by Hala Wardé, an architect who frequently works with Goldin. Each building is designed in response to the specific piece. Together they constitute a village. “I have always wanted to be a filmmaker. My slideshows are films made up of stills,” says Nan Goldin. The exhibition is comprised of: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1981–2022), her magnum opus; The Other Side (1992– 2021), a historical portrait produced as an homage to her trans friends whom she photographed 1972–2010; Sisters, Saints and Sibyls (2004–2022), a testament to the trauma of families and suicide; Fire Leap (2010–2022), a foray into the world of children; Memory Lost (2019–2021), a claustrophobic journey through drug withdrawal; and Sirens (2019–2020), a trip into drug ecstasy. ... More Christie's New York 21st Century Evening Sale total: $106.5 million History, community and couture woven together in Radical Textiles at AGSA Newark Museum of Art's Director and CEO, Linda C Harrison, to depart in May 2025 Auctioneer Georgina Hilton sells the top lot of the evening, Jean-Michel Basquiat's Untitled for $22,950,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2024. NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s Fall Marquee Week continued on November 21, 2024 with the 21st Century Evening Sale. The 42-lot sale realized $106.5 Million, 100% sold by lot, 100% sold by value, and 142% sold hammer and premium against low estimate. The sale was a rousing success, with vibrant participation and competitive bidding throughout, with clients from around the world engaged live in the saleroom, on the phones, and online via Christie’s LIVE. Combined with the successful results of Tuesday and Wednesday, tonight’s sale brought Christie’s New York Fall Marquee Week running total to $623.2 Million. The top lot of the 21st Century Evening Sale was an untitled portrait by Jean-Michel Basquiat, which realized $23 Million, setting a record for a work on paper for the iconic artist. The sale saw strong results for female artists from the outset, with the first lot, a painting by Firelei Baez, selling for a price of $567,000 and establishing a new record. Christie’s set records ... More Yinka Shonibare MBE, born London 1952, Refugee astronaut, 2015, London, fibreglass, printed cotton, net, wood, metal, plastic objects, steel baseplate, 208.0 x 93.0 x 90.0 cm, 281 kg (weight); National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Purchased 2015, © Yinka Shonibare MBE. All Rights Reserved, DACS / Artimage. ADELAIDE.- A world-exclusive exhibition, Radical Textiles opens at the Art Gallery of South Australia this Saturday 23 November 2024. From tapestry and embroidery to quilting and tailoring, in the hands of artists, textiles have been pivotal in expressing moments of profound social change and political rupture. The exhibition presents works by more than 150 artists, designers and activists to explore how textiles have marked acts of resistance, revival, remembrance and reconciliation over the past 150 years. Just announced, Australian fashion label Romance Was Born will present a pop-up shop at AGSA from 10am-4pm on Saturday 23 November, while the opening weekend will include a series of artist talks and the launch of a dazzling activity space for children and families developed ... More Harrison has nearly 25 years of business and cultural experience as a corporate leader, strategist, and museum director. NEWARK, NJ.- The Newark Museum of Art announced today that Linda C Harrison, Director and CEO, will step down after leading the museum for six years. Departing in May 2025 for family reasons, Harrison will return home to the West Coast at the end of her tenure. The Museum’s Board of Trustees has appointed a search committee and plan a national search to find Harrison’s successor. Harrison joined the museum in 2018 with a transformative vision for the 115-year-old institution. She will leave it poised to build on this vision with the groundbreaking of a large-scale community project -- Museum Parc -- a $112 million physical transformation of the museum’s campus. It is designed to be a beacon of Newark’s arts and education district, optimizing the use of the museum’s site with revitalized amenities, including public art, more welcoming access to the museum grounds, housing, and a signature new gallery space. “Linda has been a transformative ... More Lauren Halsey: emajendat | Serpentine More News Magma Gallery opens the first solo show of Timm Blandin in Italy BOLOGNA.- Magma Gallery is presenting “Carved Lights”, the first solo show of Timm Blandin in Italy. Timm Blandin (1987) is a French artist who chose colorful, dreamy-like landscapes and portraits as the main focus of his art. Currently he lives and works in Haute-Savoie, in the East of France. Being inspired by photography and everyday life sketches, he concentrated on figurative acrylic painting on canvas which provides him with infinite possibilities for artist's experiments with colors, plays of light and shadows. He attended a school of applied arts in 2007 and then graduated in 2012 in Graphic design. The artist kept his interest in the digital environment which has led him to develop an involvement for computer-aided creations: graphic design is indeed a key tool for composing, mixing and harmonizing creations. Starting from Google Street ... More Mennello Museum presents the first museum retrospective exhibition in over 20 years of work by Sally Michel ORLANDO, FLA.- The Mennello Museum of American Art is presenting Sally Michel: Abstracting Tonalism from September 20, 2024 to January 12, 2025. This exhibition is the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in over 23 years and her first in Florida, a location where she sought both colorful inspiration and secluded respite in the state's natural beauty. Sally Michel: Abstracting Tonalism brings forth a fresh and innovative consideration of Michel's legacy outlining a new, non-linear narrative of paintings created between 1930s and the 1990s that address Michel’s distinctive use of color, abstraction, and form. Through their own personal moments of familiar critique, painting side by side for years, Michel ... More The Guggenheim Museum presents "Piet Mondrian: Ever further" NEW YORK, NY.- From November 22, 2024, through April 20, 2025, the Guggenheim New York presents a selection of paintings and drawings by Piet Mondrian (b. 1872, Amersfoort, Netherlands; d. 1944, New York) from its singular collection, one of the most representative in the world. Piet Mondrian: Ever further traces the steady evolution of Mondrian’s art, from his early nature drawings in the Netherlands through his turn to radical abstraction in Paris, which continued into his final years in New York. The exhibition reveals the artist’s life-long pursuit to move painting away “ever further” from the representation of nature to render a universal essence or spirit behind the appearances of the world. Showcasing 18 works, including two rare sketchbooks and a key loan from the Clark Art Institute, together for the first time, the exhibition provides a ... More George Rouy's debut solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth opens in London LONDON.- Emerging as a leading figure of the new generation of painters, George Rouy’s debut solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth London, ‘The Bleed, Part I,’ presents a new body of work continuing his inquiry into collective mass, multiplicity and movement. The second chapter, ‘The Bleed, Part II,’ will follow at Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles in February 2025. Rouy’s dynamic and signature use of the human figure, vexed with desire, alienation and crisis, speaks to the emotional extremities of our time, resulting in explorations of identity and embodiment in a globalised, technologically-driven 21st Century. ‘The bleed’ is an expression used by Rouy to pertain to the relationship between figure and void—or ‘the surrounds’, as termed by the artist—and how those two realms interact and manifest on the surface of his paintings, resulting in a physical seeping, blending and merging. ‘The surrounds ... More A Gentil Carioca opens group exhibition 'Geometria Crepuscular' RIO DE JANEIRO.- A Gentil Carioca announces Geometria Crepuscular, a group exhibition at A Gentil Carioca Rio de Janeiro opening on Saturday, November 23, from 6pm to 11pm. The exhibition proposes a reflection on geometry in contemporary art, exploring an approach that moves away from formal and exact rigidity to incorporate more subtle, sensory and subjective aspects. The group of artists establishes a dialog between geometric rigor and artistic practices, investigating issues such as time, memory and the future. This investigation takes place especially through the use of “poor” or recycled materials, as well as references to indigenous cosmologies and Afrofuturist narratives. The idea of a "geometria crepuscular" (crepuscular geometry) points to the moment when traditional forms are dissolved, challenging notions of order ... More Skoto Gallery opens a group show that brings together works by a group of established and emerging African artists NEW YORK, NY.- Skoto Gallery is presenting Africa in Portraits, a group show that brings together works by a diverse group of established and emerging African artists working in a variety of media including painting, drawing, photography and sculpture. With a mix of abstraction and sensitive realism that combines technical accomplishment with strong aesthetic appeal, this exhibition brings together works by ten African artists working across different time-period. Each of the artists re imagines history, inheritance and vast possibilities in their work through the lens of individual and collective experiences, offering fresh perspectives that reflect the complexities and realities of contemporary identity. Each artist utilizes ... More PhotoGalleries Gabriele Münter TARWUK Awol Erizku Leo Villareal Flashback On a day like today, Mexican painter José Clemente Orozco was born November 23, 1883. José Clemente Orozco (November 23, 1883 - September 7, 1949) was a Mexican social realist painter, who specialized in bold murals that established the Mexican Mural Renaissance together with murals by Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and others. Orozco was the most complex of the Mexican muralists, fond of the theme of human suffering, but less realistic and more fascinated by machines than Rivera. Mostly influenced by Symbolism, he was also a genre painter and lithographer. In this image: Mexican painter and muralist Jose Clemente Orozco looks over some of his drawings in his New York City apartment on Dec. 4, 1945. © 1996 - 2024 Founder: Ignacio Villarreal (1941 - 2019) Editor & Publisher: Jose Villarreal Art Director: Juan José Sepúlveda Ramírez Writer: Ofelia Zurbia Betancourt

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