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A 1964 Andy Warhol silkscreen, Shot Sage Blue Marilyn, is auctioned at Christies on Monday in New York on Monday, May 9, 2022. The piece sold for about $195 million at Christies in New York, making it the highest price achieved for any American work of art at auction. Jeenah Moon for The New York Times.
by Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK, NY.- Maybe the image is not racy, like the one of Marilyn Monroe with her dress flying up in the movie âThe Seven Year Itch,â but on Monday night, it became the priciest. In under 4 minutes of bidding, Andy Warholâs 1964 silk screen of the actressâs face, âShot Sage Blue Marilyn,â sold for about $195 million to an unknown buyer at Christieâs, making it the highest price achieved for any American work of art at auction. âWe did sell the most expensive painting of the 20th century,â said Christieâs specialist Alex Rotter. âThis is a big achievement.â The 40-inch-square painting, a trophy given its vibrant colors and glamorous subject matter, eclipsed the previous high price of $110.5 million for a Jean-Michel Basquiat skull painting at Sothebyâs in 2017 as well as Warholâs auction high for a car crash painting that sold for $105.4 million in 2013. Monday's sale kicked off a spring auction season in a city that has only begun to return to normal after two years of the coronav ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Fergus McCaffrey is presenting Richard Nonas: As Light Through Fog, the first exhibition of the artistâs work since his death on May 11, 2021. It is Nonasâ seventh solo presentation with the gallery and features large-scale steel floor sculptures from the last four decades, juxtaposed with the final works he completed during the Covid pandemic. Photo: Tom Callahan - Fergus McCaffrey.
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| BASTIAN exhibits 17 seascapes executed in watercolour by Emil Nolde between 1920 and 1946 | | Alfonso Artiaco opens the solo exhibition "Between Then and Now" by Vera Lutter | | Oliver Beer's first exhibition in Korea, 'Resonance Paintings - Two Notes' opens at Thaddaeus Ropac |
Emil Nolde, Fischkutter mit rotbraunem Segel. © Nolde Foundation Seebüll, courtesy BASTIAN.
LONDON.- BASTIAN London is presenting, Emil Nolde Anatomy of Light and Water. The presentation, which runs from 6 May to 30 June 2022, is comprised of 17 seascapes executed in watercolour by the artist between 1920 and 1946 in the region of Seebüll near the German-Danish border, where the artist spent most of his summer months. Nolde (1867 1956) has not been exhibited in the UK since Colour is Light, a major presentation at The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, in 2018. That was made up of close to 100 works, covering every aspect of Noldes artistic practice, including landscape paintings and portraits, watercolours and print works, and this is the first exhibition of his work in London in many years. The exhibition, which has been assembled in association with Emil Noldes Estate, the Nolde Foundation Seebüll, features works considered to be some of the most remarkable ... More | |
Vera Lutter, Pantheon, Rome, VI: July 15, 2020 (detail). 55 x 75.5 inches 140.5 x 215 cm.
NAPLES.- For her third solo show at the gallery, Lutter has developed a path from her most iconic photographic series to her latest projects. Her photographs are made using the antiquated camera obscura process in which a large room, a shipping container, or even a small wooden box replaces the photographic device we normally think of as a camera. Each image requires long exposure times and is imprinted directly on photo sensitive paper, causing the image to be not only a negative of its subject but also a unique piece that testifies to the permanence of time passed and the slow passage of light across its subjects. The exhibition includes 15 black and white works: not a retrospective but, as the title suggests, an extensive journey through the most significant works realized "between yesterday and today." It is no coincidence that some works from the New York series are included, with strong, recognizable ... More | |
Oliver Beer, Resonance Painting (I'll Take Care of U), 2022. Pigment on canvas, 153 x 122 cm © Oliver Beer. Courtesy Thaddaeus Ropac gallery | London Paris Salzburg Seoul. Photo: Eva Herzog.
SEOUL.- British artist Oliver Beers first exhibition in Korea, Resonance Paintings Two Notes, presents an immersive new body of work, built around the ideas of duality, fusion and exchange and expressed through what the artist calls the intrinsic relationship between physical form and musical harmony. Music is the basis of Beers creativity and worldview, so he experiences daily life and art from a musical perspective. Kyoungran Kim, Curator, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea Subtle geometric blue and white paintings created by physically using sound as his paintbrush, surround the viewer and are mirrored in Beers Resonance Vessels a sculptural sound installation suspended in the centre of the gallery space. Informed by the vessels on view, the live performance Composition for ... More |
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| Leo Arnold's first solo exhibition at Annet Gelink Gallery on view in Amsterdam | | Häusler Contemporary Zurich presents Gary Kuehn's "Box Piece" | | MASSIMODECARLO opens new gallery space with Sanford Biggers' first solo exhibition in Hong Kong |
Leo Arnold, Window, 2020-22.
AMSTERDAM.- Annet Gelink Gallery is presenting Dweller, Leo Arnold's first solo exhibition at the gallery, following his participation in the group exhibition Dancing with Octopuses in 2021. Leo Arnold's works are the result of a romantic and emotional response to his immediate surroundings. He approaches and reapproaches his environment, often creating multiple works on one theme. Curiosity, intuition and opportunism act as the engine of Arnold's studio practice. Beginning from reality, he works in a receptive and open manner, responding to the paint itself. The paintings are not premeditated therefore offering the viewer a record of a discovery. In this sense, unforeseen moments, accidents, and mistakes have become essential to his newest body of work. Dweller describes the everyday subjects from Arnold's personal environment that inhabit his paintings. In his paintings, public and private ... More | |
Gary Kuehn «Box Piece». Installation view Häusler Contemporary 2022, photo: Peter Baracchi. Courtesy: Der Künstler und Häusler Contemporary München | Zürich The artist and Häusler Contemporary München | Zürich.
ZURICH.- Häusler Contemporary Zurich opened the solo exhibition Gary Kuehn «Box Piece». Kuehn, whose conceptual approach has contributed significantly to the renewal of the concept of sculpture, has been one of the most important representatives of Post Minimalism and Process Art since the 1960s. «The Box Piece started when I made ten small-scale paintings based on what I thought were the essential gestural approaches to a rectangular form. ( ). All these, the paintings and drawings, were part of the gesture project and I thought, okay, Im done with this project. Ill conclude the whole thing by making a very well-made crate for it ( ). Ill put everything in there and then Ill screw the top on, and thatll be it. I thought its a nice way to end the whole thing ... More | |
Sanford Biggers, Of Dusk and Dawn, 2022.
HONG KONG.- MASSIMODECARLO inaugurates its new gallery space with The Extinction Agenda, Sanford Biggers first solo exhibition in Hong Kong and his fourth with the gallery. The exhibition offers new works belonging to the artists ever-evolving Codex and Chimera series. At the heart of both series lies a debt to the open communication of knowledge and tradition between different cultures and nations. The exhibitions title is inspired by one of the artists favorite musical albums, by hip-hop duo Organized Konfusion. Sanford Biggers artworks travel across history and place, compressing time and geography by drawing together disparate aesthetics, humanities, and concepts. Though starkly opposed in their choice of materials, the quilt works of the Codex series and the marble Chimera sculptures question the nature of authenticity, authority and origin. The works in both series are created by patchworking together m ... More |
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| browngrotta arts presents Crowdsourcing the Collective: a survey of textile and mixed media art | | Craft in America Center opens the first ever retrospective of work by Ferne Jacobs | | Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare opens 'Etel Adnan & Simone Fattal: Working Together' |
Lewis Knauss, (Top) Fire Fright, 2021, hemp, linen, acrylic paint, 13.5" x 13.5" x 1.5 (Bottom) Range Fire, 2021, hemp, linen, acrylic paint, 14" x 13" x 1.
WILTON, CONN.- browngrotta arts is presenting their Spring 2022 Art in the Barn exhibition, Crowdsourcing the Collective: a survey of textile and mixed media art, May 7-15. Featuring 40+ artists from 13 countries, the exhibition illustrate the vitality of art textiles, ceramics and mixed media. The growing prominence of these art forms finds them the subject of exhibitions in major museums alongside paintings and traditional sculpture in ways unthinkable a decade ago. The journey of the artists in this exhibition tells us much about where craft and fiber art are now and how they got here. Some of the artists began working during craft and fiber art's less popular period in the 1980s and 1990s, while some have been working since fiber arts heyday in the 1970s. Their education, experience and inspiration vary. They differ in material and approach. They come from more than a dozen ... More | |
Ferne Jacobs, Red Wave, 1988-89. Coiled and twined waxed, linen thread, 10" x 6 " x 9".
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Craft in America Center is presenting the first ever retrospective of Los Angeles artist Ferne Jacobs. Jacobs has been at the forefront of the revolution in fiber art since the 1960s. This exhibition spans more than fifty years of pivotal work and include approximately 30 artworks created by Jacobs between the mid 1960s and 2022. Jacobs never before seen drawings and collages also are on view. This momentous survey is on display in Los Angeles, where Jacobs has lived and practiced for decades, yet rarely exhibited her work. It explores Jacobs overall evolution, highlight her unrelenting search for meaning in structure, and provide insight into the impetus for her work. This exhibition also highlights Jacobs role as an innovator in the advancement of fiber as a field for artistic exploration. Technically, Jacobs is recognized for her mastery of material and process. Reinventing and advancing traditi ... More | |
Etel Adnan, Marée Basse, 1967-73/2021. Tapisserie Courtesy Etel Adnan and Galerie Lelong & Co. Paris.
BOLZANO.- Paintings and sculptures, but also books, poems and everyday items. Etel Adnan & Simone Fattal: Working Together, curated by Vincenzo de Bellis, is the first Italian double debut for the two work and life partners active from the Seventies. From 6 May to 5 November 2022, the intimate and domestic work of the two artists finds a home in the library of the Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare in Bolzano, which turns into an exhibition space for the first time on the occasion. Etel Adnan (Beirut, 1925 Paris, 2021) and Simone Fattal (Damascus, 1942) met in Beirut in the Seventies. They have since then lived together between Paris, Beirut and North California, working and experimenting across media. Before turning to the visual arts, the duo devoted themselves to literature. Adnan was a poet and a painter while Fattal is a sculptor and founder of Post-Apollo Press, a publishing house specialising in history, politics, ... More |
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| Sculpture in the City builds on success of previous exhibitions to announce artists' line up for 11th edition | | GRAY Chicago debuts a recent series of twelve ceramic sculptures by David Klamen | | George Pérez, who gave new life to Wonder Woman, dies at 67 |
Jesse Pollock, The Granary, 2021 © courtesy the artist and Bold Tendencies.
LONDON.- Sculpture in the City, the award-winning annual outdoor exhibition in Londons Square Mile, released names of the artists selected for its 11th edition. A new collection of eleven artworks by internationally renowned and emerging artists will be showcased throughout the Citys public spaces, alongside six sculptures retained from the previous edition, and two permanent acquisitions, providing an opportunity to discover world-class public art across this unique urban landscape. Launching this summer, the free sculpture park will include artworks by Shezad Dawood; Sarah Lucas; Pedro Pires; Jesse Pollock; Emma Louise Moore; Ugo Rondinone; Victor Seaward; Emma Smith; Bosco Sodi and Claudia Wieser among others. These will be placed adjacent to iconic contemporary architectural landmarks such as the Gherkin; the Cheesegrater and Lloyds of London, as well as new ... More | |
David Klamen, Untitled, 2021-22 (detail).
CHICAGO, IL.- American artist David Klamen debuts a recent series of twelve ceramic sculptures in the solo exhibition Life Trophies. Constructed over the last several years, Klamens Life Trophies are an accumulation of visual fragments, mementos, and experiences that bring material reality to personal or forgotten history. David Klamen: Life Trophies opened at GRAY Chicago on Thursday, May 5 and closes June 24, 2022. Celebrated for his semiotically complex, hyperrealistic paintings, David Klamen first began his Life Trophies in 2016 as a series of experimental compositional sketches. Klamens sketches envisioned mound-like forms comprising an array of intertwined objects, culminating with one clearly discernible item at the top. I initially conceived of them as a heap of elements that reference our buried history of experiences and memories, explains Klamen. At the top is an item that commemorates ... More | |
Mr. Pérez was in charge of the 1986 reboot of Wonder Woman, who had first appeared in 1941. Patty Jenkins, the director of the Wonder Woman films, said she was influenced by his version of the character. Photo: George Pérez/DC.
by George Gene Gustines
NEW YORK, NY.- George Pérez, a celebrated comic book artist and writer who gave new life to Wonder Woman in the 1980s and helped create series for DC Comics and Marvel Comics that brought together some of the biggest heroes of the comics world, including The New Teen Titans, died Friday at his home in Sanford, Florida. He was 67. The cause was complications of pancreatic cancer, said Constance Katsafanas-Eza, a family friend. Pérez, whose career spanned more than four decades, was known for his richly detailed drawings and his enthusiasm for stories filled with superheroes the more capes and cowls, the better. He drew the Avengers, a group that unites many of Marvels flagship characters, ... More |
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Ada Limón makes poems for a living
NEW YORK, NY.- Ada Limón is a professional poet: She does not support herself with a teaching position, has no day job or independent wealth. She is a poet who makes a living off her poetry. She recognizes this makes her something of a unicorn. If you tell people youre a poet, people think youre off your rocker, she said. At certain points in her life, it felt like telling someone I was a witch or something. She manages this career, in part, by embracing poetry as a form that is meant to be not just quietly read but also performed aloud. A former theater major who gets a charge out of performing, she earns much of her income by giving frequent readings and hosting a poetry podcast called The Slowdown, in which she shares the work of other poets. She also reads aloud as she writes. I could never be a writer who works ... More
An exhibition of original works on paper from the Claude Parent Archives opens at a83
NEW YORK, NY.- Claude Parent (1923-2016) was a visionary French architect known for his work on the Oblique Function, challenging the means by which people live in an orthogonal world. Parents theory of the oblique, communicated through his drawings and buildings, has been incredibly influential to generations of architects such as Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, Jean Nouvel, Daniel Libeskind, Thom Mayne, and Reiser + Umemoto. Claude Parent: Oblique Narratives No.1 focuses on the significance of drawing as a means to communicate an idea. The 50 original graphite works on paper from the Claude Parent Archives in Paris on exhibit at a83 do not represent actual proposals for buildings, but rather offer speculations on the possibility of the oblique at various scales and applications, what Parent ... More
BAMPFA commissions site-specific mural from Caroline Kent
BERKELEY, CA.- The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive has commissioned a site-specific mural from the Chicago-based artist Caroline Kent, which will occupy the museums entry space through October 30. Kents massive abstract mural The Sounds Among Us will fill the entirety of BAMPFAs Art Wall, a 30-by-63-foot space that is dedicated to presenting large-scale work by leading contemporary artists. The mural marks Kents first major site-specific installation in a West Coast museum and is the largest work that the artist has completed to date. Described by Kent as a musical notation for everyday sounds, the Art Wall installation invites visitors to experience the work as a visual accompaniment to the nuanced soundscape of footsteps, conversation, and street noise that intermingle throughout BAMPFAs ... More
'Wedding Band,' a searing look at miscegenation nation
NEW YORK, NY.- The first thing you see upon taking your seat at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn is a worn-out double bed. That is only fitting for Wedding Band, a 1962 play by Alice Childress about ancient conflict and intimate relations. How much human wrangling has transpired in or over that one piece of furniture? Whether wrought iron, four-poster, straw or enseamèd, the bed is where we enact the drama of who may love and how. It is certainly the center of contention in Wedding Band, which has not been seen in a major New York production since its Public Theater premiere in 1972. The revival that opened Sunday in a Theater for a New Audience production directed by Awoye Timpo makes the case that the 50-year wait was far too long. Which is to say that Wedding Band, despite its comfortably ... More
"A Strange Loop" leads Tony nominations with 11, including best musical
NEW YORK, NY.- A Strange Loop, a new musical that explores the doubts and disappointments facing an aspiring theater writer, picked up 11 Tony nominations Monday, more than any other show in Broadways first post-shutdown season. The musical, which had already won the Pulitzer Prize in drama, was written by Michael R. Jackson and is now a leading contender in the race for the prize with the biggest economic impact, for best new musical. A Strange Loop will face off against five other musicals: MJ, a biographical jukebox musical about Michael Jackson; Paradise Square, about a turning point in race relations in 19th-century New York; Six, about the wives of Henry VIII; Girl From the North Country, about a boardinghouse in Depression-era Minnesota; and Mr. Saturday Night, a remake of the Billy ... More
Bruneau & Co.'s Spring Comics, Toy & Sports Auction will be on Saturday, May 21
CRANSTON, RI.- A copy of Timely Comics Marvel Mystery Comics #9 from July 1940 and a Madame puppet created and used by entertainer Wayland Flowers in the late 1970s/early 1980s will co-headline a Spring Comic, Toy & Sports Auction slated for Saturday, May 21st, by Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers, online and live in the Cranston gallery located at 63 Fourth Avenue. The auction contains 430 lots, curated from across the country. This auction packs a powerful comic punch, with over three hundred lots of comic books, said Travis Landry, a Bruneau & Co. auctioneer and the firms Director of Pop Culture. Im also proud to say this is the first CGC blue label copy of Marvel Mystery Comics #9 to sell in almost a decade. As one of the most iconic Timely Golden Age comics, it is sure to be a record setter in todays hot comic market. Timely ... More
John F. Kennedy White House rocking chair sells for $591,000 to top Heritage Auctions event
DALLAS, TX.- A rocking chair commissioned by President John F. Kennedy sold at Heritage Auctions Saturday for nearly $600,000, the highest price ever paid for one of the late presidents prized rockers. The chair was among the numerous treasures from the vaunted assemblage of beloved philanthropist and American history collector Melvin Pete Mark Jr., the Portland, Oregon, real estate developer who died in June 2017 at the age of 91. Heritage Auctions last weekend sold more than 100 pieces from Marks collection, which realized a total of $4,913,750. This was Heritage Auctions most successful sale of American historical treasures in the companys 46-year history. There is no secret to this auctions tremendous success, says Heritage Auctions Executive Vice President Joe Maddalena. The quality ... More
Assouline Spring 2022 Classics Collection presents Orientalism Style with an introduction by Laurence Benaïm
NEW YORK, NY.- For centuries, the West has been fascinated by the mysterious allure of the Middle East and Asia, captivated by the curious customs, the exotic spices and colors of the bazaars, the romantic atmosphere of the graceful architecture and flowing garments. In the popular imagination, thoughts of the East evoke stories of travel, literature, paintings, decorative arts, fashion and films that have enchanted us for decades. As if viewing the world from a magic flying carpet, through the perspective of Orientalism the nostalgia for vanished civilizations developed into an idealized fantasy. More than a style, Orientalism is a way of seeing, of perceiving, of sharing emotions and palettes ... More
Strawser Auction Group announces three-day antique auction
WOLCOTTVILLE, IND.- A three-day, semi-annual Antique Auction packed with over 1,800 lots of quality items, including furniture, silver, estate jewelry, fine art, lighting, glass, porcelain, majolica and more will be held May 25th, 27th and 28th by Strawser Auction Group, live in the gallery at 106 East Dutch Street in Wolcottville, as well as online through LiveAuctioneers.com. Things will kick off Day 1, Wednesday, May 25th, beginning promptly at 3 pm Eastern time, with 627 lots of fine jewelry, bronzes, furniture, lighting, toys, art and more. The jewelry came out of a wealthy estate in Chicago and is unequaled in terms of quality, said Michael Strawser, the president of Strawser Auction Group and the founder of the Majolica International Society. Lot 27 is a multi-diamond drop pendant displayed ... More
The Museum of Broadway announces featured artists and curation team
NEW YORK, NY.- Today, The Museum of Broadway announced a group of featured artists who have designed various rooms and exhibits within the Museum, as well as their team of expert curators. This interactive, multi-floor Museum is slated to open this fall. Tickets will go on sale on June 14th. Work from contemporary artist Ulli Böhmelmann, Tony Award-winning scenic designer Bunny Christie (Curious Incident ), award-winning multimedia artist Paul Clay (Rent), painter Ann Marie Coolick, calligrapher Ryoko Goldston, muralist Harley and J, installation artist HotxTea, artist Neka King, magician and New York Times crossword constructor David Kwong, neon artist Jianhe Li, three time Tony Award-nominated scenic designer Anna Louizos (In the Heights), two-time Tony Award-winning scenic designer Derek McLane (Moulin ... More
Susan Jaffe to be next artistic director at American Ballet Theatre
NEW YORK, NY.- Susan Jaffe, a former American Ballet Theatre ballerina, will become the artistic director of that company when Kevin McKenzie steps down after a 30-year tenure, at the end of 2022, the company announced Monday. Jaffe, 59, who has been the artistic director of Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre since July 2020, will be the seventh director to lead the troupe since it was founded by Lucia Chase and Richard Pleasant in 1939. She takes over the company at a challenging moment for the performing arts and will need to oversee its recovery from the pandemic, which has caused the cancellation of two seasons, as well as the loss of touring fees and millions of dollars in ticket revenues. It is a profound honor to take the artistic helm at Ballet Theatre, where I have spent 32 years of my professional life, Jaffe said in a telephone ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Japanese painter and illustrator Hokusai died May 10, 1849. Katsushika Hokusai (c. October 31, 1760 - May 10, 1849) was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. Born in Edo (now Tokyo), Hokusai is best known as author of the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (富嶽三十六景 Fugaku Sanjūroku-kei, c. 1831) which includes the internationally iconic print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa. In this image: A woman looks at the artwork 'Women in various walks of life' (around 1793) during a press preview of the Hokusai retrospective at the Martin Gropius Bau museum in Berlin, Germany.
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