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The First Art Newspaper on the Net Established in 1996 Tuesday, April 15, 2025 Anthony White explores climate crisis and nuclear peril in "89 Seconds to Midnight" Anthony White, Huon Valley, 2024. Synthetic polymer paint on linen, 64 x 64cm. Copyright The Artist and Bridgeman Images 2025. SINGAPORE.- 89 Seconds to Midnight, a new series of landscape works, examines the increasing risks of environmental and nuclear catastrophes. These themes are tied to the landscapes depicted, drawn primarily from locations across my native Australia. The title references the Doomsday Clock, which has been set to 89 seconds to midnight—the closest it has ever been—symbolizing an unprecedented level of global peril. Originally conceived by scientists, including Albert Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Clock serves as a stark reminder of existential threats such as nuclear war, climate change, and the rise of destabilizing technologies like artificial intelligence. Today, factors such as the war in Ukraine, the risk of nuclear proliferation, insufficient arms control, and a lack of international cooperation contribute to this heightened sense of urgency. Climate change indicators continue to worsen, intensifying global anxieties. The rise of activists like Greta Thunberg has galvaniz ... More The Best Photos of the Day Maria Helena Vieira da Silva: Anatomy of Space. Peggy Guggenheim Collection, 12.04- 15.09.2025. © Photo Matteo De Fina. The Golconda Blue: The largest Fancy Vivid Blue Diamond ever offered at auction Fine & decorative arts from three collections come to Turner Auctions + Appraisals April 26 Exhibition features works spanning five decades of Willem de Kooning's career Fancy vivid blue pear shaped diamond of 23.24 carats, set by JAR, estimate: $35- 50 million. © Christie's Images Ltd 2025. NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s will present The Golconda Blue—the largest Fancy Vivid Blue Diamond ever to be offered at auction. Weighing an extraordinary 23.24 carats, this superb historic gemstone will headline Christie’s Magnificent Jewels sale, taking place live on 14 May 2025 at the Four Seasons Hotel des Bergues in Geneva, with an estimate of $35 - 50 million. The Golconda Blue, perfectly mounted in a ring by JAR, is a true masterpiece with its recently uncovered royal provenance, mesmerizing colour, and sensational size. It ranks among the rarest and most important diamonds ever discovered throughout history. This exceptional pear-shaped Golconda diamond boasts a remarkable provenance rooted in Indian Royalty. Yeshwant Rao Holkar, the Maharaja of Indore and a member of the Holkar dynasty, was known—alongside his wife—for a lifestyle defined by elegance and cosmopolitan sophistication in the 1920s and ’30s. A Knight of the Order of the ... More Pegge Hopper (Born 1936), Hawaiian Woman with Necklace, 1977. Oil on linen with mixed media colored crochet cord, feathers, and ceramic disk necklace. 56" x 56". Estimate $5,000-$7,000. SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Turner Auctions + Appraisals will present Fine & Decorative Arts on Saturday, April 26, 10:30 PST. Sourced from Northern California and Oregon, the sale features 245 lots from one collector, Alton F. Irby III, and two estates. On offer are diverse artworks, silver, and a wide array of decorative arts, including a large collection of paperweights, Asian items, religious pieces, and lots from noted manufacturers such as Tiffany, Lalique, Baccarat, Lladro, Staffordshire, and Limoges. From the two estates are artworks that include paintings by Pegge Hopper, a highlight, Laddie John Dill, Leon Detroy, and Francois Brunery. Among the many silver items, mostly sterling, are tableware, flatware, serving pieces, and decorative items. There are several religious offerings: crucifixes, icons, and santos. There is a selection of decorative items: a Tiffany desk set; Staffordshire cottages, castles, and figures; Lalique butterflies a ... More Willem de Kooning, Woman as Landscape, 1954-1955. Oil and charcoal on canvas, 65 1/2 x 49 3/8 inches (166.3 x 125.4 cm) © 2025 The Willem de Kooning Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Christie's Image/Bridgeman Images. NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian presents Willem de Kooning: Endless Painting, opening on April 15 at 555 West 24th Street. The exhibition is organized with the support of The Willem de Kooning Foundation and curated by Cecilia Alemani, director and chief curator of High Line Art. It comprises paintings dating from 1944 through 1986 and two sculptures: Clamdigger (1972), and the monumental Standing Figure (1969–84). This will be the first presentation at the newly renovated Chelsea gallery and follows Willem de Kooning and Italy, a significant presentation of paintings, sculptures, and drawings at the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice last summer. A pioneering figure of the postwar era, de Kooning probed the expressive potential of color, line, and space and continuously challenged the boundaries between figuration and abstraction. Through the considered placement of late ... More Green Art Gallery opens the second solo exhibition by Iran-born, New York-based artist Maryam Christie's to offer the Maillet Daguerreotype Collection The Met unveils Jennie C. Jones's dynamic installation for the 2025 Roof Garden Commission Maryam Hoseini, Psychic Fold, 2025. DUBAI.- Green Art Gallery is delighted to present Swells, the second solo exhibition by Iran-born, New York-based artist Maryam Hoseini. If previously, in Maryam Hoseini’s practice, the panels were stretched and extended, joined and folded, to become extended architecture, the new paintings in Swells create portals of the interior. Every component in the work revels in transplanting itself within itself. The flat figure expands and multiplies in rounded limb, breast, buttock, organ, and thigh—as motif—throughout the work, liquidly moving across it. Ground, now rectangular, sometimes rounded, is repossessed by this swell. It grows as if vegetal. Devouring itself, boring into the wood panel’s visible, soaked, grain like a termite, the figure makes of such pictorial amplification a carnal feast. Hoseini says “the figures have moved from architecture to landscape.” The dish eats itself. Hoseini seals the grain of wood with shellac, pouring liquid and ... More Headlining the sale is Samuel F. B. Morse’s portrait of an unidentified gentleman from 1839, made just months after the public announcement of the process was made in Paris. © Christie's Images Ltd 2025. NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announced The Maillet Daguerreotype Collection. The online sale will be open for bidding 12–26 June, and on view in Christie’s Rockefeller Center galleries from 21–26 June. Highlights from the collection will be on view during the spring Photographs preview exhibition in New York, April 10-16. Containing over 200 lots, this is one of the most important collections of daguerreotypes to come to market in the past 25 years, with significant and rare works by Samuel F. B. Morse, Robert Cornelius, John Ruskin, Platt D. Babbitt, Henry Fitz Jr., Plumbe, Southworth and Hawes, Francis Grice, and more. Beginning in the 1960s, the Maillets pursued collecting daguerreotypes with a fierce passion. Well-known within the field and yet resolutely private, the Maillets amassed a collection with great depth and outstanding breadth, ... More Jennie C. Jones (born 1968, Cincinnati, Ohio), Installation view of The Roof Garden Commission: Jennie C. Jones, Ensemble, 2025. Image: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photo by Hyla Skopitz. NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s newest Roof Garden Commission is on view April 15 through October 19, 2025, and features a dynamic work by artist Jennie C. Jones (born 1968, Cincinnati, Ohio). Titled Ensemble, the site-responsive installation is composed of three large sculptural forms based on string instruments—a trapezoidal zither; a tall Aeolian harp; and a doubled, leaning one-string—corralled on two sides by a floor piece that serves as both a “conductor” of the ensemble and a boundary-marker of the stage-like surface on which it sits. Full of sonic potential, the sculptures sit quietly in place, waiting to be heard. The Roof Garden Commission: Jennie C. Jones, Ensemble is the 12th in the series of commissions for the outdoor space. “We are thrilled that Jennie C. Jones has brought her unique artistic vision to The Met’s ... More Sarah Almehairi disrupts space with monumental new works at The Arts Club Dubai A collection of exceptional watches offered at Christie's across 4 sale locations Naeemeh Kazemi's 'Bubble Land' plunges viewers into a theatrical underwater world at Leila Heller Gallery Sarah Almehairi, 'Off Centered Extension", 2025. Acrylic on wood and canvas, 350 x 200 cm. Image: Courtesy of CARBON 12 and the artist. DUBAI.- CARBON 12 and The Arts Club Dubai announce I Construct What I Want to Disrupt: Misaligned Enjambements, a solo exhibition by Emirati artist Sarah Almehairi. Marking a significant moment in her practice, this new body of work sees Almehairi take on her largest-scale pieces to date. Created specifically for The Arts Club’s six-meter-high walls, the exhibition brings together three monumental works, each measuring 350 x 200 cm, alongside a smaller 45 x 30 cm piece. This striking contrast in scale plays with perceptions of space, drawing attention to how size shapes our experience of art. Responding to the architectural and aesthetic context of the Club, Almehairi thoughtfully integrates the deep maroon of the venue’s wallpaper into her compositions. Her palette featuring blacks, beiges, whites, and reds, echoes the tones of the space while maintaining a distinct visual autonomy. This careful balance ... More Christian Van Der Klaauw, Real Moon Joure Green Meteorite Steel. Estimate: HK$95,000 - 140,000 / US$130,000 - 18,000. NEW YORK, NY.- Curated by a distinguished private collector with a discerning eye for excellence, Stories in Time: A Collection of Exceptional Watches represents the culmination of 30 years of passion and dedication to acquiring the rarest of horology timepieces. This extraordinary collection features 160 contemporary timepieces from 47 brands and independent watchmakers, including notable names such as Greubel Forsey (9 watches), Ferdinand Berthoud (2), Gerald Genta (3), Voutilainen (2), and De Bethune (18). Notwithstanding their diversity, the watches in this collection are united in one aspect - they represent the very pinnacle of watchmaking. The collection will be offered by Christie’s across all four major watch auction locations – Hong Kong, Dubai, Geneva, and New York – in eight live and online sales throughout the spring and autumn of 2025. This private collector’s passion extends beyond acquiring ... More Naeemeh Kazemi, Untitled, 2025. Oil on canvas, 90 x 85 cm. DUBAI.- Leila Heller Gallery announced the solo exhibition by Naeemeh Kazemi, titled 'Bubble Land’ opening on 15th April, 2025. ‘Bubble Land’ unveils the ocean into a theatrical, disorienting space filled with bioluminescent creatures, clown-like figures, and confetti-like bubbles. Through her hyper-detailed oil paintings, Kazemi transforms the deep sea into a metaphor for modern existence where joy and anxiety coexist, and spectacle conceals fragility. Naeemeh Kazemi presents a profound shift from the introspection of La La Land to an outward confrontation with the absurdities of contemporary life in Bubble Land. Her clown-like figures, reminiscent of Ensor’s masks or Picasso’s harlequins, oscillate between the grotesque and the sublime, mirroring the societal dissonance between outward performance and inner turmoil. And yet, within the chaos, there is a quiet offering: a space to pause, reflect, and immerse in a universe that resists simplification. ... More Lawrence Brose, acclaimed artist and longtime CEPA director, has passed away Ayyam Gallery presents Sama Alshaibi's multimedia exploration of Baghdad's transformation Victor Fotso Nyie's works enter the Collections of Museo Ettore Fico and Museo del Novecento in Milan Lawrence Brose. Photograph courtesy of David Moog. BUFFALO, NY.- Lawrence Brose, an acclaimed experimental film artist, image maker and curator who served as a key figure in Buffalo arts and educational organizations, died on Sunday, April 13. A lifelong Buffalonian, he was 73. Brose died of pancreatic cancer. He is survived by Vince Buscaglia, whom Brose described as “my rock, my dearest friend, who has been with me through it all”, a beloved cousin, Marylou Warrington Hess and his close friends Keith Gemerek, Shelly Dominessy, Burt Nihill, Sharon Blaser and Marilyn Rybarczyk. Brose’s last public appearance came last Wednesday, days before his death, during an event at the Burchfield Penney Art Center marking the opening of his exhibition, Cage: A Filmic Circus on Metaphors on Vision. The exhibition, celebrating his collaborations with composer and dear friend Douglas Cohen on his film about the avant-garde music theorist John Cage, marked a full-circle ... More Sama Alshaibi, 'Duplicates', 2024, Mixed media collage, 77 x 107 cm. DUBAI.- Ayyam Gallery present‭s ‬‘طرس’‭,‬ a solo exhibition featuring Sama Alshaibi’s most recent body of work. The exhibition brings together mixed-media collages and video art that reimagine Baghdad’s transformation—its peaks, declines, and latent possibilities. Through Alshaibi’s work, Baghdad becomes a site of physical presence and alternative visions—one that is “always mediated, annotated, and glimpsed through shifting thresholds.” — Sama Alshaibi Sama Alshaibi’s project focuses on the spatial, material, and technological fragments that narrate the story of a place and its people. After a 40-year separation, Alshaibi returns to her homeland on multiple trips between 2021 and 2023. Longing to reorient herself with a city she had once known more through imagination than lived experience, she does so through various layers of mediums and ... More These acquisitions represent important milestones in Fotso Nyie’s career and contribute to the growing presence of his work in public collections. MILAN.- P420 announced the acquisition of two works by Victor Fotso Nyie. Revitalisation (2025) has been acquired by the Museo Ettore Fico in Turin, and Renaissance (2023) will join the collection of the Museo del Novecento in Milan, following the artist’s recognition with the Rotary Club Milano Brera for Contemporary Art and Young Artists award, granted during Miart 2025. The Museo Ettore Fico, known for its focus on contemporary art, will include Revitalisation in its collection, reflecting Fotso Nyie’s distinctive approach to blending tradition and modernity. Renaissance, acquired through the Premio Rotary Club Milano Brera, will be added to the Museo del Novecento’s collection in Milan, further enriching its holdings of 20th and 21st-century art. These acquisitions represent important milestones in Fotso Nyie’s career and contribute to the growing ... More 24 Hours with Ken Okiishi on Super-8 More News Brittany Nelson's "To Leave Is To Return" in Turin blends Solaris with analog photography TURIN.- Quartz Studio presents To Leave Is To Return, a project by the American artist Brittany Nelson (Great Falls, U.S., 1984), conceived specifically for the space, in the context of EXPOSED Torino Foto Festival. Created using a screen capture from the film Solaris (1972), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, a large-scale silver gelatin print depicts the ocean outside of the window of a spaceship. Based on the science fiction novel of the same name by Stanislaw Lem, Solaris details the story of a research crew who has been attempting to communicate with the oceanic planet, which they discover to be a sentient being. The attempts have been futile, and the crew can only view the ocean longingly from a distance, until a new communication attempt sparks the planet to send recreations of people from each crew member’s memories and subconscious to haunt them aboard the ship. ... More MAC/CCB, Lisbon announces 2025 exhibition programme LISBON.- MAC/CCB Lisbon presents its 2025 cross-disciplinary programme, featuring a major update to its permanent exhibition An Atlantic Drift: The Arts of the 20th Century Based on the Berardo Collection and the reopening of its Architecture Centre with a project by BUREAU. The year also includes solo and group shows, many in collaboration with Portuguese and international partners. The programme reflects the new MAC/CCB in Belém: a living, inhabited space, committed to critical thought and engaging diverse audiences through a dynamic range of exhibitions and activities, as described by artistic director Nuria Enguita. This permanent exhibition brings together around 170 Portuguese and international artists, framing art as part of global history. In it, the Atlantic emerges as a central space of transit, shaping modern subjectivities and new geopolitical affinities. ... More Kunstverein München seeks new Director MUNICH.- After more than five prolific years, Maurin Dietrich’s term as director of Kunstverein München e.V. will end on December 31, 2025. As such, the board of the Kunstverein now has the opportunity to recruit a new director to lead the art institution, starting on January 1, 2026. Founded in 1823, Kunstverein München is one of the oldest and most established of the more than 300 Kunstvereine in Germany. For more than 200 years, the institution’s public mission has been to support diverse artistic practices by presenting solo and group exhibitions by international artists and to ensure their engagement by a diverse community within the local context. Complementing this core activity, Kunstverein München produces publications and hosts public talks and lectures, performances and screenings, as well as a range of social and educational activities for its 2,200 members. ... More Bita Fayyazi's "O Chimera O Chimera" at The Mine explores gender and transformation in Iran DUBAI.- The Mine is presenting O Chimera O Chimera, Feathers Whisper, Talons gleam, Mortal Flesh And Mythic scheme a solo presentation by Bita Fayyazi. Bita Fayyazi is more than a sculptor, ceramicist, or installation artist—her practice is performative, socially attuned, and grounded in an almost mystic dialogue with material and context. Fayyazi is regarded as one of the most progressive and influential contemporary artists to have emerged from Tehran in recent times. Considered a key supporter and patron of the new wave of Iranian artists, she has collaborated with key figures including Rokni Haerizadeh. She also often collaborates with artists and individuals outside the traditional art world, rechanneling collective energy toward open-ended, often unpredictable outcomes. In embracing these exchanges, Fayyazi explores the transformative potential of shared ... More Z33 presents Modelling Life and Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel: The Wet Wing HASSELT.- Z33 announces a solo exhibition by Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel as well as the international group exhibition Modelling Life. Daniel Dewar and Grégory Gicquel’s collaborative art practice evokes a contemporary pastoral world through a monumental approach to craft practices. In their work, farm animals, local plants, man-made objects, or human anatomy are rendered into technically challenging materials such as embroidery, oak, marble, or silk. Probing divisions between nature and culture, they look towards tools, materials and imagery that explore our kinship with, and separation from the natural world. They place a high value in artisanal techniques to produce their artworks, often developing bespoke processes for the creation of singular works. For their solo exhibition at Z33, Dewar and Gicquel have embarked on the production of a new monumental silk ... More Museo archeologico nazionale di Venezia's Courtyard of Agrippa reopens to the public VENICE.- The Museo archeologico nazionale di Venezia (National Archaeological Museum of Venice) —part of the Musei archeologici nazionali di Venezia e della Laguna (National Archaeological Museums of Venice and the Lagoon) — announces the reopening of the Courtyard of Agrippa, marking the beginning of a new chapter in the museum’s history. Starting May 6, the museum reopens its historic entrance at No. 17 Piazzetta San Marco, directly facing the Doge’s Palace. This new access complements the existing one through the Correr Museum and signifies the launch of a significant reorganization process. It also underscores the museum’s commitment to accessibility and a renewed, inclusive visitor experience. In line with this vision, the museum route returns to the original order established between 1924 and 1926 by Carlo Anti, a distinguished classicist, ... More Institut suédois presents Pontus Hultén: Keep Smiling! PARIS.- As head of several major artistic institutions across the world, Pontus Hultén (1924–2006) revolutionised the art world and its place in society. This exhibition presents around a hundred printed documents produced under his artistic leadership, testifying to his playful sense of free-spirited and profoundly inventive anarchy. An art historian and exhibition curator, Pontus Hultén helped to establish several major museums including the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, which he headed from 1958 to 1973, and the Musée National d’Art Moderne at the Pompidou Centre, whose first director he was between 1973 and 1981. He left his mark on the history of these museums and consolidated their global renown with exhibitions designed both as critiques of society and as all-embracing experiences blurring the frontiers between art and life. Some exhibitions presented at the Moderna ... More Huda Lutfi's "Unraveling" at The Third Line traces a journey of introspection and healing DUBAI.- The Third Line presents Unraveling, Huda Lutfi’s fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. Bringing together works from three of her recent series—When Dreams Call for Silence (2019), Our Black Thread (2020–2021), and Healing Devices (2020-ongoing)—the exhibition traces the deepening introspective qualities of Lutfi’s practice over the recent years. Unraveling also features a selection of previously unshown miniature collages that precede Healing Devices, offering insight into Lutfi’s artistic experimentations that culminated in these sculptural abstractions. The exhibition includes a new video work, The Seven-legged Demon of the Night (2025), made in memory of Lutfi’s mother, whose lifelong work as a seamstress inspired the artist’s practice centered on thread and fabric. Owing to her background as a cultural historian, Lutfi’s work has long engaged with the sociopolitical currents ... More Addison Gallery acquires Edward Zutrau painting through fine art donations NEW YORK, NY.- Fine Art Donations announces the placement of a 1959 oil painting by the modernist Edward Zutrau into the collection of the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, MA. This donation marks the Addison’s first acquisition of work by Zutrau, expanding the museum’s holdings in the area of 20th century abstraction. Fine Art Donations worked with the Zutrau estate to facilitate the donation, adding a new name to the list of museums where his paintings can be found. Edward Zutrau’s career primarily took place in New York, where he studied at the Art Students League and exhibited work at institutions including The National Academy of Design and the Brooklyn Museum. He eventually gained representation by legendary art dealer Betty Parsons, and was included in her memorial exhibition alongside artists like Hedda Sterne and Richard Pousette-Dart. Zutrau’s ... More MoMI announces Michael Koresky as Senior Curator of Film NEW YORK, NY.- Museum of the Moving Image has appointed Michael Koresky as Senior Curator of Film, it was announced by Executive Director Aziz Isham. “After a thorough search in which we received more than a hundred applicants and dozens of qualified candidates, we are pleased to welcome Michael Koresky to a new and elevated role at the Museum. Michael is an accomplished and experienced film programmer, writer, and editor, and we look forward to working with him in this capacity and seeing his ideas come to fruition,” said Isham. “I am excited to take on this new role at the Museum, to continue and expand upon the legacy of my predecessors, and work with Aziz and my wonderful MoMI colleagues,” said Koresky. “Programming films for this venerable and vibrant New York City institution is a dream come true, and I cannot wait to engage with all kinds of audiences ... More PhotoGalleries Consuelo Kanaga Brooklyn Museum at 200 Gerard Byrne Mystery & Benevolence Flashback On a day like today, Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci was born April 15, 1452. Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 - 2 May 1519), more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian Renaissance polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. In this image: Agents speak on their phones with their clients while bidding on at the auction of Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi" during the Post-War and Contemporary Art evening sale at Christie's on November 15, 2017 in New York City. The rediscovered masterpiece by the Renaissance master sells for an historic $450,312,500, obliterating the previous world record for the most expensive work of art at auction. © 1996 - 2025 Founder: Ignacio Villarreal (1941 - 2019) Editor & Publisher: Jose Villarreal (52 8110667640) Art Director: Juan José Sepúlveda Ramírez Writer: Ofelia Zurbia Betancourt

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