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| | | Women's History Month Show Honors Eco-Feminist Artist Mira Lehr at Kimpton EPIC Hotel Miami | |
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Her Golden Hour Mira Lehr (2021) Burned and dyed Japanese paper, ignited fuses, gunpowder, charcoal handwriting on wood panels (84 x 153)
MIAMI, FLA.- The Kimpton EPIC Hotel, one of Miamis leading boutique hotels, presents a new art exhibition celebrating Womens History Month titled Mira Lehr: Continuum, on view now through April 20th. The nationally acclaimed, eco-feminist artist is celebrated for co-founding Continuum in 1961, one of Americas first art collectives for women artists. It thrived for more than 30 years, and her vision to kickstart the local art scene influenced the evolution of the visual arts in Miami. The Hotel created its new EPIC Art initiative to advance the works of local artists and provide its visitors an insiders look into the destinations vibrant art scene. Critics praise Mira Lehr as the real-life Mrs. Maisel of the male-dominated art scenes in 1950s New York and 1960s Miami. Now, at the bold age of 87, Lehr is creating more new work than ever before in her six decades of artmaking. The all-new works in this exhibition have never been exhibited before and were created by Lehr ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day In her exhibition, Court, Epic, Spirit: Indian Art 15th-19th Century, Francesca Gallowayâalso here from Londonâwill feature a rare and important folio from the Dastan-i Amir Hamza (Hamzanama or âStory of Hamzaâ) commissioned by the Emperor Akbar, circa 1565. The Hamzanama, its usual abbreviated title, is a rambling series of tales dealing with the mythical adventures of Amir Hamza, the uncle of the Prophet. Here, Hamza clings to the Rukhâs legs to carry him home across the sea. 17 White Street.
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| Pace opens an exhibition of work by photographer Richard Misrach | | Surrealism lights up Paris as the first dedicated sale ever to be held in the city totals $36 million | | The people who draw rocks |
Richard Misrach: At the still point of the turning world, 2002-2022, 510 West 25th Street, New York, NY 10001. March 11 April 16, 2022. Photography courtesy Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace is presenting an exhibition of work by photographer Richard Misrach. This presentation spotlights photographs from the artist's On the Beach, State of the Union, Notations, and Acrobats series, among other bodies of work. Marking Misrachs fifth exhibition at Paces New York gallery, this show foregrounds the artists mesmeric images that meditate on humans relationships to the natural world and each other.
To complement Misrachs Acrobats series, which depicts tandem surfers practicing amid the oceans waves, the exhibition features Alexander Calders sculpture Acrobats (c. 1927). Together, these works open a dialogue between the two artists, centering ideas of movement and the body. The exhibition comprises large-scale images of views seen from the same hotel balcony in Hawaii over the course of two decades. In a statement about his exhibition, Misrach enumerates what he has witnessed t ... More | |
10 million ($11 million) auction record for Francis Picabia set by Transparency commissioned for patron's Parisian home.
PARIS.- The first ever sale dedicated to Surrealism in Paris was staged by Sothebys today, in the very same rooms that saw a landmark exhibition celebrating Surrealisms 40th anniversary in 1964, with many of the leading artists themselves in attendance. Todays auction brought an overall total of 33 million / $36 million, with all but one lot sold. The sale comes at a time when Surrealism is the subject of increasing international attention from institutions and collectors alike, and follows on the heels of Sothebys record-breaking sale in London of René Magrittes Lempire des lumières, which sold for £59.4 million / $79.8 million. This marked new auction benchmarks for both the most valuable painting ever sold in Europe, and the most valuable Surrealist work ever sold worldwide. Surrealism and its Legacey was led by two masterpieces by Francis Picabia, under the hammer for the first time. ... More | |
A hand-drawn map of the Rhone glacier, conserved in the Swisstopo archives, shows the historical Swiss relief shading style, in Wabern, a suburb of Bern, Switzerland on Jan. 25, 2022. Lucia Buricelli/The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- Every few years, Switzerlands national mapping agency dispatches one of its planes to scour every centimeter of the Swiss Alps, the pilot looping back and forth to capture photographs of changes in the landscape. For the most part, the modifications made to the countrys official map are minor and largely automated: a house pops up here, a funicular there. But lately, for a rarefied group of the agencys nearly three dozen cartographers, the need for revisions has intensified. The glaciers are melting, and I have more work to do, as Adrian Dähler, part of that special group, put it. Dähler is one of only three cartographers at the agency the Federal Office of Topography, or Swisstopo allowed to tinker with the Swiss Alps, the centerpiece of the countrys map. Known around the office as felsiers, a Swiss-German nickname that loosely translates as the people who draw rocks, Dähler, along with Jürg Gilgen and Markus He ... More |
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| Ando Jubei bowl & Japanese silver bonbonnierés headline Japanese & Korean works of art auction at Hindman | | Newly discovered work by Henry Moore selss at auction or 13 times its estimate | | Portrait of Ukrainian teacher who became the first face of war heads to Heritage Auctions |
Anonymous, 19th Century Hunting Scenes. Estimate: $5,000 - $6,000.
CHICAGO, IL.- Exquisite items ranging from a cloisonné-enamel and plique-a-jour bowl by Ando Jubei, a legendary cloisonné artist, to a private Chicago collection of Japanese silver bonbonnierés will be offered in Hindmans March 25th Japanese and Korean Works of Art auction. Japanese ink and color paintings from the Collection of L. Harrison Bernbaum (Chicago, Illinois) and a vast offering of samurai swords from the collection of a prominent private collector will be presented alongside a selection of ceramic wares, woodblock prints and baskets curated from various private collections and estates. Among the highlights of the auction is a Japanese cloisonné-enamel and partial plique-à -jour square bowl (lot 23; estimate: $60,000- $80,000) by Ando Jubei, a celebrated cloisonné artist who was also admired for the presentation wares that he created for the Imperial Family. Jubeis work was revolutionary and contributed to the height of c ... More | |
Mother and Child by Henry Moore (British 1898-1986) sold for £400,000 against a pre-sale low estimate of £30,000.
LONDON.- Dreweatts reported that the recently discovered work by one of the most important British artists of the 20th century, the esteemed British sculptor Henry Moore (1898-1986), sold at auction today to a private collector in the UK for £400,000 13 times its pre-sale low estimate of £30,000. Commenting on the result, Francesca Whitham, Picture Specialist at Dreweatts, said: We are thrilled with the amazing result achieved for the mother and child sculpture by Henry Moore. It shows that rare and unique pieces will always inspire competitive bidding and that the appetite for such works remains strong. The sculpture was enthusiastically contested with bidding both online and on the phones and having been left undiscovered for over 40 years, this very special lead sculpture now heads to a new home with a UK private collector. The authentication of the work took two years of Francesca working very closely with the ... More | |
First Face of War: Intimate Portrait of Ukrainian Teacher, 2022. Zhenya Gershman (American, b. 1975). Oil on canvas, 14 x 12 inches. Estimate: $100,000 - up.
DALLAS, TX.- An intimate portrait of Ukrainian teacher Elena Kurilo, injured last month during a Russian missile strike on Chuguev, will be offered by Heritage Auctions to benefit the Ukrainian Red Cross Society. The image has come to define the human toll of Russias invasion, along with the resilience of the Ukrainian people. The painting by renowned artist and educator Zhenya Gershman, along with photojournalist Wolfgang Schwans original photograph of Kurilo, will be offered by Heritage Auctions March 15-29 in an online sale, with 100 percent of the proceeds directly benefitting the Ukrainian Red Cross Societys humanitarian relief efforts. Schwans photograph of Kurilo her head wrapped in gauze, her face encrusted in blood, her pale blue eyes fixed in a thousand-yard stare has been featured on countless front pages and news broadcasts around the world since Russian troops invaded Ukraine last month. The Philadelp ... More |
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| Frick presents works in porcelain by artist Giuseppe Penone | | Power! Light! (Germ. Macht! Licht!) at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg | | Collectors can fill 'er up at Morphy March 29-30 Automobilia, Petroliana & Railroadiana Auction |
Giuseppe Penone is a key figure of Arte Povera, a seminal post-war art movement born in Italy in the 1960s that challenges the restraints of traditional art, especially in terms of materials.
NEW YORK, NY.- In the spring and summer of 2022, The Frick Collection will present a one-room installation by Italian artist Giuseppe Penone (b. 1947) at the museums temporary home, Frick Madison. Displayed in the broader context of the museums decorative arts and Old Master paintings and sculpture, this unprecedented exhibition by the acclaimed Arte Povera artist is the first to feature his work in the medium of porcelain. Consisting of eleven disks created during a 2013 collaboration with the Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory in France, works never before shown publicly, this project invites a dialogue with the Fricks rich holdings in the medium. Penones series of disks will be shown on the third floor in concert with a nearby gallery featuring eighteenth century porcelains by several renowned manufactories. Propagazioni: Giuseppe Penone at Sèvres is organized by Giulio Dalvit, the Fricks Assistant Curator of Sculpture, and ... More | |
Lori Hersberger, Sunset 164, 2006. Neon systems, black float glass, 164 x 300 x 1.8 cm (neon), 164 x 300 x ca. 400 cm (installation dimensions). © Lori Hersberger Studio. Courtesy of Lori Hersberger Studio, Zurich. Photo: Hans-Georg Gaul, Berlin.
WOLFSBURG.- Artificial light sources are an essential prerequisite of modern global life. Their permanent and excessive use is, however, associated with numerous negative effects. On the one hand, artificial light makes cultural events possible, offers social space and protection, can showcase people, objects, or consumer articles and thus lend them meaning. On the other hand, power is exercised with the targeted use of electric light: It can be used to monitor, manipulate, exclude, or even destroy. The exhibition Power! Light! features some 80 works of light art by 60 internationally renowned artists, offering for the first time insight into the fascinating spectrum of light art that is political in the broadest sense. Although there are numerous negative effects associated with the persistent and excessive use of artificial light, humans are almost magically attracted to light and are enthusiastic about the broad range of technical opportunities. Within the past 150 years, civilization has creat ... More | |
Outstanding and extremely scarce 45in Signal Gas double-sided porcelain service station sign with early black-stoplight graphic. Condition 8.25+/8.0. Estimate $6,000-$12,000.
DENVER, PA.- Ever since the first Model A car rolled off Fords assembly line in 1903, America has had a fascination with cars. Now, nearly 120 years later, that attraction has become more of an obsession for the legion of collectors from coast to coast who covet signage, gas pumps, globes and other service station equipment from motorings golden era. Morphy Auctions is the destination of choice for hobbyists seeking antiques of exceptional quality, condition and authenticity. Theyll have their next chance to bid and buy on Tuesday and Wednesday, March 29-30 at the central Pennsylvania companys Automobilia, Petroliana & Railroadiana Auction. Nearly 1,500 lots will be offered, with day one primarily focused on railroadiana from a major central Ohio private collection plus two other advanced collections from Southern California and Montana. Train buffs will definitely want a boarding pass for this 400-lot session, sinc ... More |
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| The Other Art Fair London opens tomorrow - Artist-led fair to foreground female talent at its spring edition | | Lebohang Kganye (SA) wins Foam Paul Huf Award 2022 | | Russian artists lose the tools of their trades as companies pull out |
A group of participating fair artists will be donating the proceeds from the sale of their artwork to Choose Love to support the vital work they are doing with refugees.
LONDON.- The Other Art Fair, returns to Londons Old Truman Brewery this weekend showcasing 150 independent artists alongside a vibrant programme of guest features. Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, the fair continues its mission to re-frame art, and how it is experienced; offering an art fair experience that is evocative, inclusive, and inspiring. To mark the months International Womens Day celebrations, this edition of the leading artist-led fair is focussed on championing women in art and alternative practices sometimes excluded from the art world such as textiles and floristry. The line-up features a 62% Female to 38% Male ratio of exhibitors with 50% of artists being new to the fair, 71 London based artists and 10% BIPOC creators. Fair Director Anouka Pedley on the desire to champion female identifying talent and non-traditional art forms: To commemorate International Womens Day, we wanted t ... More | |
Re shapa setepe sa lenyalo II, 2013, Her Story series © Lebohang Kganye.
AMSTERDAM.- Kganyes work utilises the photographic medium to narrate and imagine a new history. The jury was impressed by her clarity of vision and the complexity and ambition of her work. Lebohang Kganye, from Johannesburg, South Africa, is the sixteenth winner of the internationally renowned Foam Paul Huf Award. Earlier this week, a jury of five industry specialists chose this years winner, out of around 100 nominees selected by 23 nominators from 21 countries. The Foam Paul Huf Award is presented annually to an upcoming photography talent to encourage photographers in their artistic development. Kganyes work explores themes of personal history and ancestry whilst resonating with the history of South Africa and apartheid. The jury states: Reflecting on personal narratives, memory, family, loss, displacement and dislocation while questioning photographys indexicality as a marker of truth, Lebohang Kganyes work im ... More | |
A TV displays a new channel at a roadside cafe, outside a Moscow suburb, on March 14, 2022. Alexander, a Russian photographer who did not want to give his last name out of safety concerns, fled Moscow for Tbilisi, Georgia, and is documenting the nearly 1,250-mile journey. The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- In a call from his car Sunday, a photographer from Moscow explained why he was driving to Tbilisi, Georgia, having left his apartment and essentially his whole life behind. For one, he has no work. No one he knows is shooting fashion look books or organizing the parties he usually photographs. The Western publications he worked for have all withdrawn from Russia, wary of a new law that makes the spread of false information about the war in Ukraine punishable by up to 15 years in jail. It was this law and the harsh crackdowns on anti-war protesters in recent weeks that made him realize he had to leave, he said. There was always a line that we all could feel what you definitely cannot do and what you can do, said Alexander, 39, who did not want to give his last name because of safety concerns. That line is gone. Anything can happen. Since Russia invaded Ukraine, shocking much of the world, Russians working in creative spheres have found themselv ... More |
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Victoria Dubourg at the Louvre: A Conversation with Curatorial Assistant Isabella Holland
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Timmy Thomas, singer whose biggest hit was an antiwar anthem, dies at 77
NEW YORK, NY.- In the summer of 1972, singer and keyboardist Timmy Thomas was watching the CBS Evening News and heard Walter Cronkite tick off the days death count of American and Vietcong soldiers. I said, what?! You mean that many mothers children died today? Thomas told Spin magazine in 2015. In a war that we cant come to the table and sit down and talk about this, without so many families losing their loved ones? I said, Why cant we live together? His question became the title of his best-known song: a soulful, plaintive statement against the Vietnam War which he sang to his own accompaniment on the electric organ and drum machine. With a sentiment similar to Marvin Gayes Whats Going On, from a year earlier, Thomas sang on Why Cant We Live Together: No more wars, no more wars, no more warUmm, just a little peace in this worldNo more wars, no more warAll we want is s ... More
Drawings by Eva Hesse offer penetrating look at her life and work
OBERLIN, OH.- Delayed for two years due to the pandemicand after appearing at Museum Wiesbaden, Hauser & Wirth New York, and mumok in Viennathe exhibition Forms Larger and Bolder: Eva Hesse Drawings returns to Northeast Ohio for its run at the Allen Memorial Art Museum, on the campus of Oberlin College. Featuring more than 70 works on paper, along with archival material and an important sculpture, the show runs through June 5, 2022. Drawn entirely from the Allens collection, Forms Larger and Bolder illustrates the foundational role that drawing played throughout Hesses career. The Oberlin iteration is the most comprehensive of the tour, with the addition of materials from the Eva Hesse Archive (housed at the Allen), and the pioneering sculpture Laocoön (1966), which was one of the first museum acquisitions of a sculpture by Hesse when the Allen acquired it in 1970. German-born American artist Eva Hesse (19361970) p ... More
Melbourne Design Week 2022: Design the world you want and Melbourne Design Fair launch
MELBOURNE.- Melbourne Design Week, Australias leading annual international design event, returns for its sixth edition from 17-27 March 2022, with a dynamic program that will transform Melbourne and parts of regional Victoria over 11 days with a series of exhibitions, talks, films, tours and workshops, including the biennial Australian Furniture Design Award, the launch of the Melbourne Design Fair and a program of design showroom activations that respond to the theme Design the world you want. Two pillars civic good and making good provide a focused exploration of the main theme, with the thematic civic good encouraging participants to think beyond the individual to serve the common interest and making good exploring the impact of design beyond its functional or aesthetic impact to look at the social and environmental impact on the planet. Extensive programming responding to the theme and addressing such issues as sustainability, technology, ... More
After MoMA stabbings, museums review their safety protocols
NEW YORK, NY.- Karissa Francis has seen her fair share of drama in the seven years she has worked as a visitor services assistant in museum lobbies. Patrons whose tickets have gone missing or dont agree with pandemic mask requirements have been known to be quite vocal in their frustration. But she had not witnessed anything close to what happened Saturday afternoon at the Museum of Modern Art, where two employees were stabbed by a man after the institution revoked his membership. The way it happened felt almost worse than my worst fear, said Francis, who works at the Whitney Museum of American Art and saw video of the attack. The way he just rushed into the lobby there is something so personal about the way he stabbed them as opposed to another sort of violence. It adds an extra layer of terror. Given the rarity of violence within museums, most are protected by security guards who are typically unarmed and capable of detecting and responding to events but t ... More
Almine Rech now represents Oliver Beer
PARIS.- Almine Rech is pleased to announce the representation of British artist Oliver Beer in Brussels, New York and China. His first collaboration with the gallery will be a 24-hour performance and subsequent interactive installation at the Conservatorio di Musica for Parasol Unit and the 59th Venice Biennale. Oliver Beer trained in musical composition, before studying fine art and then cinematic theory. His diverse artistic practice reflects these studies through the intense sonic experiences he creates in many of his immersive live performances, vocal compositions, films and installations. His artwork extends from performative art to sculptures and paintings. While his relationship with musical composition is apparent in his powerful live performances and films, further musical elements can also be found in his visual art. We can see this in the sculptures that he makes by cutting through everyday objects just like in an ultraso ... More
Hollis Taggart opens solo exhibition of works by Alex Kanevsky
NEW YORK, NY.- On March 17, Hollis Taggart will open Postcards from a Closet, artist Alex Kanevskys third solo exhibition with the gallery. The presentation features a new body of paintings, produced between 2021 and 2022, that captures Kanevskys incredible use of color, light, and gesture as well as his fluid engagement with abstraction and figuration. Together, the works in Postcards from a Closet highlight the ways in which Kanevsky brings his painterly approach to a wide range of subjects, while also revealing that painting itself is the artists greatest and primary interest. A seasoned painter, his latest works nonetheless reflect ongoing experimentation and new inflections of mood, environment, and lived experience. Postcards from a Closet will remain on view through April 16, 2022, at Hollis Taggarts primary location in Chelsea on W. 26th Street. The exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue, with an ... More
World-class rarities from the Zito Collection featured in the Stack's Bowers Galleries Spring 2022 Auction
COSTA MESA, CA.- Stacks Bowers Galleries presents the Dr. Paul and Rosalie Zito Collection, a standout offering in their Spring 2022 Official Auction of the Whitman Coins and Collectibles Expo. The Zito Collection was formed through private transactions that began in September 1995 and ended in August 2003. During those eight years, the Zitos assembled a formidable cabinet of world-class rarities that rivals some of the greatest built in the modern era. Stored safely by the family since Dr. Zitos death in 2005, this collection is a time capsule of very high-end U.S. numismatics at the turn of the century. It will be presented at auction by Stacks Bowers Galleries in a dedicated session on the evening of Tuesday April 5th, immediately following their Rarities Night session. The Dr. Paul and Rosalie Zito Collection is highlighted by an incredible pair of pattern 1907 Indian $10 eagles including a 190 ... More
MoMI announces winners of inaugural Marvels of Media Awards
NEW YORK, NY.- Museum of the Moving Image announced the winners of the inaugural Marvels of Media Awards, the countrys very first media awards ceremony, film festival, and exhibition celebrating media-makers on the autism spectrum. The open call for the first edition of this annual program received 3,071 nominations from 117 countries, from which 20 media works were chosen for awards in 12 categories including: Animated Short, Collaborative Innovation, Digital Art, Documentary, Experimental Film, Mockumentary, Narrative Feature, Narrative Short, Series, Video Game, Student Animated Short, and Student Video Game. "Through the Marvels of Media Awards, the Museum is further affirming our commitment to supporting the creative endeavors and pursuits of neurodiverse media-makers of all ages and backgrounds, and to help forge pathways within the media and entertainment industries through which these makers can have a substantive impact on our cul ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, English fashion designer Alexander McQueen was born March 17, 1969. Lee Alexander McQueen, CBE (17 March 1969 - 11 February 2010) was a British fashion designer and couturier. He is known for having worked as chief designer at Givenchy from 1996 to 2001 and for founding his own Alexander McQueen label. His achievements in fashion earned him four British Designer of the Year awards (1996, 1997, 2001 and 2003), as well as the CFDA's International Designer of the Year award in 2003. McQueen died by suicide in 2010, at the age of forty, at his home in Mayfair, London. In this image: Burning Down the House, 1996 by David LaChapelle. ©David LaChapelle Studio.
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