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"Wayuú by Mateo Blanco'' will be on display in October in the city of Bern. Photo: Rolando Justo.
MIAMI, FLA.- Mateo Blanco is an internationally recognized artist who spent his formative years in the city of Medellin, his parents hometown. He now lives and creates art in Florida. His unique take on art exemplified by his use of unexpected materials and innovative techniques makes his art a new kind of conceptual pop. Blanco is a conceptual artist who has made a name for himself by creating vivid portraits with nontraditional materials. His work can be found in private collections and museums around the world, from Cape Town to Paris and beyond. His use of unusual materials surprises and delights. Typography, another one of his interests,is another source of inspiration; he uses it to explore the art of the word.In fact, if you look closely at the background of the painting Wayuu you will see how he incorporates writing into his painting. He started to become known for his unusual approach when creating series tha ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Members of the Philharmonic and Creole Soul after premiering âSan Juan Hillâ during the grand re-opening event for David Geffen Hall in New York on Saturday, Oct. 8, 2022. Geffen Hall reopened to the public after a $550 million renovation with the premiere of âSan Juan Hillâ by the jazz trumpeter and composer Etienne Charles. (Christopher Lee/The New York Times)
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| Iranian artist Soheila Sokhanvari presents a site-specific installation at Barbican Art Gallery | | Watches for race car drivers, pilots, elegant gentlemen & more at Hindman | | German artist Silke Otto Knapp passed away at age 52 |
Rebel (Portrait of Zinat Moadab), 2021. © Soheila Sokhanvari. Courtesy of the artist and Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery.
LONDON.- Barbican Art Gallery is currently presenting Rebel Rebel, a site-specific installation for The Curve and the first major UK commission by Iranian artist Soheila Sokhanvari. The exhibition began on October 7th, and will continue through to February 26, 2023. The exhibition features a series of 27 exquisite portraits of feminist icons from pre-revolutionary Iran, painted in egg tempera onto calf vellum with a squirrel-hair brush. Each of Sokhanvaris miniatures hung against a hand-painted mural based on Islamic geometries decorating the 90-metre gallery is a labour of love, as she transforms The Curve into a devotional space in which these rarely told feminist histories can be contemplated. The exhibition title, Rebel Rebel, borrows from David Bowies 1974 cult pop song and pays tribute to the significant courage of these 27 female icons, who pursued their careers in a culture enamour ... More | |
A Fine and Rare Audemars Piguet, Ref. 25934, 18k Pink Gold 'Jules Audemars' Perpetual Calendar, Equation Of Time Wristwatch. Estimate: $18,000 - $22,000.
CHICAGO, ILL.- On October 12, Hindman will offer 134 watches from well-known makers like Audemars Piguet, Patek Philippe, Richard Mille, and Rolex in its Watches auction. With a broad array of styles, eras, and price points, the sale is sure to appeal to all watch enthusiasts, from first-time buyers to serious collectors and everyone in between. Race Time: The RM005 Felipe Massa Limited Edition The memorable collaboration between Richard Mille and Felipe Massa began as a friendly challenge between two friends. Felipe wanted a watch that could resist the high G Forces in Formula 1, while being easy to wear. The RM005 Felipe Massa Limited Edition was developed to withstand the violent accelerations and vibrations of an F1 Grand Prix, while combining the exquisite and iconic characteristic of Richard Mille watches. The watch offered in the auction ... More | |
Silke Otto-Knapp (19702022). Photo: Sharon Lockhart.
LOS ANGELES, CALIF.- It is with profound sadness that Regen Projects announces the passing of artist Silke Otto-Knapp (19702022). Born in Osnabrück, Germany, Silke Otto-Knapp ( 19702022) earned an MA from Chelsea College of Art and Design in London in 2006 and a degree in Cultural Studies from the University of Hildesheim, Germany in 2007. The artist lived for many years in Los Angeles, where she worked and taught at the University of California Los Angeles as Professor of Painting and Drawing in the School of Art and Architecture since 2015. Otto-Knapp made an indelible impact through her singular work as an artist. Her generosity as a friend, mentor, collegue and teacher was deeply felt by all that encountered her. Otto-Knapps oeuvre is defined by monochromatic watercolor paintings, many of which derive their subject matter from the history of theater, dance, and performance. Her atmospheric works explore ... More |
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| Getty Museum presents "Visualizing the Virgin Mary" at the Getty Center | | Bonhams announces London Asian Art Week highlights | | Giant neon sculptures by Welsh artist Cerith Wyn Evans revealed at Mostyn in Llandudno |
The Virgin and Child, early 1460s, Willem Vrelant. Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink on parchment, 10 1/6 Ã 6 13/16 in. Getty Museum, Ms. Ludwig IX 8 (83.ML.104), fol.121.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum presents Visualizing the Virgin Mary, featuring vibrant, illuminated manuscripts depicting stories of the Virgin Mary that attest to her role as one of the most adored figures in the Christian tradition. Mostly drawn from the Gettys collection, the exhibition goes on view at the Getty Center from October 11, 2022, through January 8, 2023. "This exhibition explores the enduring devotion to, and fascination with, the Virgin Mary in the Catholic faith since the birth of Christianity and up," says Timothy Potts, Maria Hummer-Tuttle and Robert Tuttle Director of the Getty Museum. "Images of Mary, hailed as the Queen of Angels, form some of the most sacred and artistically powerful achievements of medieval art, venerated in icons and the pages of manuscripts. Presented in both Spanish and English, the exhibition highlights the Virgin Marys life, acts of miracles, ... More | |
A fine and large wucai baluster jar and cover, Shunzhi period (1644-61), decorated with a lady and attendants in a pavilion garden. Estimate: £15,000-20,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Bonhams announces highlights for the Asian Art Week sales in London in October and November, as part of the 25th anniversary celebration of Asian Art in London. The Fine Chinese Art sale will be held at London New Bond Street on 3 November, showcasing an exceptional private collection from Sir Michael and Lady Oppenheimer DD (3rd Baronet, 1924-2020) of Imperial cloisonné enamel, some formerly at Langley Park, Buckinghamshire, as well as many other rare ceramics and works of art. Leading the Oppenheimer collection is an Important and Very Rare Cloisonné Enamel and Gilt-Bronze Circular Chun Box and Cover, Qianlong, estimated at £150,000 200,000. The highlight of the Fine Chinese Art sale is an exceptionally rare and large blue and white reserve-decorated peony dish, Xuande mark and of the period (1426-1435), estimated at £700,000 1,000,000. The dish dating back to the early Ming dynasty is extremel ... More | |
Art Technician Katie Ellidge looks at art work "Neon Forms" (after Noh I), 2015, by Cerith Wyn Evans. Photo: Jason Roberts Photography.
WALES.- A major exhibition by Cerith Wyn Evans, the most widely established and internationally recognised Welsh artist working today, opened this October 8th at Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales and and will continue through to February 4, 2023. The show is titled ....)(. Cerith Wyn Evans (b. 1958, Llanelli) artistic practice incorporates a diverse range of media including installation, sculpture, photography, film and text. He began his career as a filmmaker, producing short, experimental films and collaborative works. Since the 1990s he has created artworks that consider language and perception, focusing with a precise clarity upon their manifestation within a space, as can be seen here throughout Mostyns lower and upper galleries. The works exist and take form through the reflection on and interrogation of the world about us, adopting what he identifies as strategies of refraction . of juxtaposition, superimposition and cont ... More |
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| Ben Enwonwu and Bruce Onobrakpeya lead Nigerian artists at Bonhams African Art sale | | British artist Veronica Ryan holds first show at Alison Jacques Gallery | | Sotheby's to offer original book Art for Persepolis, the international bestseller written and drawn by Marjane Satrapi |
Benedict Chukwukadibia Enwonwu M.B.E (Nigerian, 1917-1994), Africa Dances. Estimate: £120,000 - £180,000. Photo: Bonhams
LONDON.- Works by Nigerian artists Ben Enwonwu (1917-1994), and Bruce Onobrakpeya (born 1932) celebrating Nigerian independence are amongst the highlights of Bonhams Modern & Contemporary African Art sale on 19 October in London. Ben Enwonwus Africa Dances, painted in 1970, conveys the vibrance and freedom of African dance. The 'Africa Dances' series began as a result of Geoffrey Gorer's 1935 book of the same name. A critique of colonial rule, the publication documented both Dance and Masquerade throughout West Africa. It was whilst studying in England that Enwonwu was inspired by the work, feeling compelled to illustrate his opinion about his culture in Nigeria and the subsequent impact of colonialism. Africa Dances, which has an estimate of £120,000-180,00, can be seen as a celebration of Nigerian Independence which Nigeria had gained from the British a decade earlier in 1960. Painted in oil in 1960, Negritude is an important e ... More | |
Veronica Ryan, Garden of Your Mind III, 2021. Courtesy: © Veronica Ryan.
LONDON.- Alison Jacques began the solo exhibition of new work by Veronica Ryan, the artists first show at the gallery, this past September 29th, where it will continue through to November 12, 2022. This exhibition follows Ryans participation in the 2022 Whitney Biennial, New York, and succeeds her critically acclaimed 2021 survey at Spike Island, Bristol, for which Ryan has received a nomination for the 2022 Turner Prize (on show at Tate Liverpool from October). Ryans large bronze and marble outdoor works Custard Apple (Annonaceae), Breadfruit (Moraceae) and Soursop (Annonaceae) were unveiled in Hackney, London in 2021 as the nations first permanent monument to honour the Windrush generation. Veronica Ryan was born in 1956 in Plymouth, Montserrat, an overseas territory of the United Kingdom. She moved as an infant with her parents to London before going on to study at the St Albans College of Art & Design, Bath ... More | |
Offered directly from Marjane Satrapi, forty-four individual sheets from Volume 1 will be presented in a dedicated auction, as part of Sothebys series of Middle East sales in London, with an estimate of £4,000-6,000 each. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- This autumn, Sothebys will offer the original book art for the international bestseller and seminal autobiographical comics series Persepolis, written and drawn by French-Iranian artist Marjane Satrapi. Highly acclaimed worldwide, the graphic novel is considered a modern masterpiece, listed on The Guardian's 100 best books of the 21st century and adapted into an acclaimed Oscar-nominated animated film. Since its release in 2000, Persepolis has joined the pantheon of editorial successes for graphic novels, alongside Art Spiegelman's Maus or Alan Moore and David Lloyds V for Vendetta. An important piece of literature discussing social issues, combining comical and intimate storytelling elements with political and spiritual questionings, Persepolis defies narrative conventions, disrupting Western prejudices on Iranian history and global ideas ... More |
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| Serpentine presents the first UK solo exhibition of American artist Barbara Chase-Riboud | | Clars Auction Gallery announces highlights included in October 15 & 16 auction | | Portrait of war reminds us of the ongoing devastation on families in Ukraine |
Barbara Chase-Riboud, Walking Angel, 1962. © Barbara Chase-Riboud.
LONDON.- This autumn, Serpentine will present Infinite Folds, an exhibition featuring over 30 works by American-born visual artist, sculptor, novelist and poet Barbara Chase-Riboud. On display at Serpentine North from 11 October 2022 to 29 January 2023, this is the artists first institutional solo presentation in the UK. With a career spanning over seven decades, Chase-Ribouds innovation in sculptural technique and materiality is characterised by the interplay between folds of cast bronze and aluminium and coils of wool and silk which are knotted, braided, looped and woven. By combining materials with different qualities, such as hard versus soft, light against heavy, and tactile versus rigid, Chase-Ribouds works lend an aesthetic consideration to the sculptural base and speak to the artists interest in creating forms that unify opposing forces. Barbara Chase-Riboud says: The use of bronze and tex ... More | |
In the last 5 years, Clars Auction Gallery has sold well over $125,000,000 of Fine Art, Furnishings, Jewelry, Vehicles and Collectibles and has set multiple new world auction records.
OAKLAND, CA.- Clars will offer a monumental work by Nathan Oliveira (American, 19282010) titled, Wing-Owl (1996), is estimated at $20,00030,000. This large oil on canvas (50″h x 42″w) was part of a series the artist was commissioned to create for Stanford University in the 1990s. It was also featured in Architectural Digest magazine in December 1999. Offered in its entirely for the first time at auction, Richard Diebenkorns (American, 19221993), Six Soft Ground Etchings, a suite of six (6) prints will be offered at $15,00025,000 on October 16th. This rare group of etchings comes from the collection of the assistant printmaker on this project published by Crown Point Press in 1978. There will be a fine selection of sterling silver in the auction including a large Wallace Grande Baroque sterling silver flatware ... More | |
Mariupol Diary (2022) by Zhenya Gershman. Photo: Bonhams.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Internationally recognized artist, Zhenya Gershman, debuts a new painting of a family devastated by the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, hiding underground during the Russian siege of Mariupol, where residents suffered one of the worst attacks of the war. The painting has been donated to United Help Ukraine and will be offered at an estimate of $80,000 120,000, through an online auction at Bonhams from October 7-14. With bidding starting at $100, the auction will raise money for humanitarian welfare for Ukrainian civilians who have been displaced and affected by Russias war in Ukraine. The Los Angeles-based artist with Ukrainian roots, has been recognized for her emotional portraits of war that have continued to raise awareness to the ongoing suffering in Ukraine and funded campaigns to help the people she captures so powerfully. Arguably one of her best works yet, Gershmans large oil painting ... More |
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Bonington Gallery presents Stephen Willats' 'Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs (1971/72)'
NOTTINGHAM.- For six decades, Stephen Willats (born in London in 1943) has concentrated on ideas that today are ever-present in contemporary art: communication, social engagement, active spectatorship and self-organisation, and has initiated many seminal multi-media art projects. He has situated his pioneering practice at the intersection between art and other disciplines such as cybernetics the hybrid post-war science of communication advertising, systems research, learning theory, communications theory and computer technology. In so doing, he has constructed and developed a collaborative, interactive and participatory practice grounded in the variables of social relationships, settings and physical realities. Rather than presenting visitors with icons of certainty he creates a random, complex environment which stimulates visitors to engage ... More
Robilant+Voena exhibiting sculpture and jewellery by artist Harumi Klossowska de Rola: Hayawan
LONDON.- Harumi Klossowska de Rola is an artist and designer who creates powerful sculptural works and delicately crafted luxury jewellery inspired by the flora and fauna of the natural world. The exhibition of her work that began on October 6th will continue through to November 20th at the London Gallery of Robilant+Voena. Her first encounter with a collection of precious gems at the age of seven captivated her imagination and inspired a lasting fascination with jewels and the splendour of nature. Over the years she has developed a unique and sensitive rendering of creatures great and small, often fusing the aesthetic with the functional and creating, in her words, something that you can wear, or you can exhibit on a shelf. The exhibition brings together recent works inspired by ancient cultures and by the majesty of the wild ... More
"Here or Somewhere Like Here" by Melbourne/Naarm based artist Dane Lovett at Sullivan+Strumpf
SYDNEY.- Melbourne/Naarm-based artist Dane Lovett is well-loved for his beguiling, delicate and meticulous approach to mark making. This has been seen throughout the continuity and breadth of his practice to date. His new exhibition, Here or Somewhere Like Here at Sullivan+Strumpf is no exception to this. Lovett builds upon the basis of what his admirers love about his practice, in addition to measured, exciting and compelling forms of growth and development in his approach and methodology. At once nostalgic and contemporary, Lovett is known for his refined and controlled, yet teetering-on-pseudo-grungy approach to painting. He produces swarming monotone palettes which focus on timeless memento mori motifs such as still-life flowers, pollen and grass. However, dont be fooled, the work is not as straightforward as a photorealistic ... More
Coco Chanel furniture from Rosehall House at Bonhams Scottish Home Sale
EDINBURGH.- Rosehall House in Sutherland had, until recently, lain abandoned for more than 50 years, but in the 1920s it was full of life. It was there that the owner of the 700-acre estate, Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster, and one of the wealthiest men in the world, whiled away the summers with his lover, the great French couturière Coco Chanel. Finding the house too gloomy for her tastes, Chanel set about a major refurbishment. Among other changes completely re-wallpapering the house, for example she commissioned new, lighter, furniture, some of which features in this years Scottish Home sale at Bonhams Edinburgh on Thursday 20 October. One of the pieces, a limed oak Tuscan table estimated at £800-1,200 was modelled on Sir Robert Lorimers designs for furniture at Balmenno Castle in Perthshire. Other Rosehall House ... More
Andipa stages Shane Magowan's first exhibition
LONDON.- Andipa is delighted to present The Eternal Buzz and the Crock of Gold, an exhibition by the acclaimed singer-songwriter Shane MacGowan. His work, which has been described by the art critic, Waldemar Januszczak, as possessing a demented, wild, fascinating, scabrous kind of energy, will be represented by twenty-one small scale drawings mostly dating from the 1980s. Dubbed by Januszczak as the Jackson Pollock of the biro, this survey, which has been curated by the artists wife Victoria Mary Clarke, is drawn from a body of work that has never been shown in public before. Executed in a variety of media, predominantly coloured felt tip and biro, these highly idiosyncratic and sometimes disturbing drawings are scrawled and scribbled onto sheets of paper torn from foolscap jotter pads, hotel stationery and aeroplane ... More
If Heritage's first VHS Horror Auction doesn't thrill you, you're already dead
DALLAS.- VHS is dead. Long live VHS. Especially when it reaches from the grave. Heritages Oct. 31 VHS Horror Showcase Auction will no doubt thrill and chill cinephiles and popcorn addicts still haunted by the first time they could watch their favorite scary movies under blankets in the dark. After all, watching John Carpenters Halloween, George A. Romeros Dawn of the Dead, Steven Spielbergs Jaws or Wes Cravens A Nightmare on Elm Street in a theater was one thing. Strangers in the dark provide some measure of small communal comfort when zombies arrive at the front door or the slasher pops out of the closet. But in the late 70s and early 80s, there was nothing quite so terrifying as wondering if the call was coming from inside the house while the video player whirred into the pitch black. This Halloween auction, which features more ... More
Shoair Mavlian appointed new Director of The Photographers' Gallery
LONDON.- The Photographers Gallery announced that Shoair Mavlian has been appointed as its new Director. Currently Director at Photoworks, Shoair will take up the post in January 2023. As Director of Photoworks Shoair leads the strategic vision and artistic direction of the organisation including exhibitions, biennial festival, commissions, learning and engagement, publishing and digital content. From 2011-2018 Shoair was Assistant Curator, Photography and International Art at Tate Modern, London, where she curated exhibitions including Don McCullin (2019) Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art (2018), The Radical Eye: Modernist Photography from the Sir Elton John Collection (2016), Conflict, Time, Photography (2014). While at Tate Modern she helped build the photography collection and curated collection displays enjoyed by over 5 million visitors per ye ... More
How Colleen Hoover rose to rule the bestseller list
NEW YORK, NY.- Colleen Hoover has sold more books this year than Dr. Seuss. She has sold more books than James Patterson and John Grisham combined. To say shes currently the bestselling novelist in the United States, to even compare her to other successful authors who have landed several books on the bestseller lists, fails to capture the size and loyalty of her audience. She holds six of the top 10 spots on The New York Times paperback fiction bestseller list, a stunning number of simultaneous bestsellers from a single author. She has sold 8.6 million print books this year alone more copies than the Bible, according to NPD BookScan. And her success a shock that shes still processing, she said has upended the publishing industrys most entrenched assumptions about what sells books. When she self-published ... More
Review: In a new 'Salesman,' the Lomans look like all of us
NEW YORK, NY.- A deeply original work that is also deeply influential may yet in time be trite. What once opened eyes comes to seem preloaded behind them, as if part of the general human inheritance. Such has been the ironic trajectory of Arthur Millers Death of a Salesman. When it premiered on Broadway in 1949, with its depiction of the false hopes of capitalism and the family dysfunction left in its wake, there were fathers for whom the doctor had to be called because they couldnt stop crying, said director Mike Nichols, who saw it then. It was like an explosion. As Salesman spread into the culture with astonishing speed, it helped introduce the seismic reevaluations of the ensuing decades. But now that we take those shocks to be self-evident, the job of making the play feel as new as it once did is a difficult one for those who would ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Scottish sculptor Benno Schotz died October 11, 1984. Benno Schotz (28 August 1891 Arensburg - 11 October 1984 Glasgow) was a Scottish artist. During his career, Schotz produced several hundred portraits and compositions including figure compositions, religious sculptures, semi-abstracts and modelled portraits. His bust of James Maxton is on public display at the Maxton remembrance garden in Barrhead near Paisley. In this image: The Psalmist (1974). Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow, Scotland.
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