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Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), Dan-no-ura kabuto gunki; Act: Kinseki no dan, from a group of 15 drawings related to pages in 'Chinese Verses and Joruri' (Ehon Joruri Zekku), ink on paper, ca. 1815, approximately 5 3/8 by 7 1/2 in., 13.5 by 18.9 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Scholten Japanese Art announced their most recent gallery presentation, BRUSH BLOCK - BAREN: Japanese Woodblock Printmaking, an exhibition exploring the process of Japanese-style woodblock production. Traditional Japanese woodblock prints are collectively referred to as ukiyo-e, which literally means pictures (e) of the floating world (ukiyo) and is derived from a Buddhist concept pertaining to the fleeting nature of life. However, during the Edo Period (16151868), the concept of ukiyo acquired a more nuanced meaning: the impermanence of our existence became a justification to indulge in the pleasures and entertainments that are available at this fleeting moment (for a price). As such, the realm of the floating world was that of the pleasure quarters, houses of assignation, teahouses, restaurants, leisure boats, and the theater districts. Images of these pleasures were affordable a ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Lévy Gorvy is presenting Pierre Soulages: A Century, an exhibition celebrating the 100th birthday of Franceâs foremost living artist through a presentation of works spanning his career from the 1950s to today. Installation view, Pierre Soulages: A Century, Lévy Gorvy, New York, 2019. Photo: Tom Powel Imaging.
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| | Exhibition at Albertina Museum marks Maria Lassnig's 100th birthday | | Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie opens Susan Hefuna's first solo exhibition with the gallery | | Miami will be one of only three U.S. cities to host "Art After Stonewall 1969-1989" |
Maria Lassnig, Woman Power, 1979. Ãl auf Leinwand. Albertina, Wien | Sammlung Essl © Maria Lassnig Foundation © Graphisches Atelier Neumann, Vienna.
VIENNA.- This comprehensive presentation of Maria Lassnigs work marks what would have been the 100th birthday of the artist, who died in 2014. Lassnig is considered one of the most important women artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She is primarily known for her body-awareness paintings, in which the perception of her own body becomes the starting point for her exploration of the world. This is where the exhibition sets in: at the very moment in which Maria Lassnig was no longer in search of her language of expression in an artistic dialogue with the movements of modernism and contemporary art, but had developed an innovative pictorial language of her own which she knew how to unfold autonomously for the themes with which she was concerned. Lassnigs idiosyncratic use of color is an equally essential aspect of her intriguing art, as is the virtually ... More | |
Susan Hefuna draws in multiple layers and sculpts like she does drawings.
BASEL.- Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie announces the opening of Susan Hefuna's first solo-exhibition in the gallery: 'Gebilde', presenting both her poetic, sensual drawings and spaciously compelling sculptures. Susan Hefuna draws in multiple layers and sculpts like she does drawings. Her works show inspiration from such diverse sources as architecture, biological or even computer based forms. The artist gathers all of these together in order to pursue her primary interest in architectural and geometrical shapes, grid-based aesthetics and transparency of the work's surface. The artist's multi cultural background colours her seemingly abstract unique artistic language. It is about structure: of the work, of cultural contexts and of how we organise our lives and existence. The works' titles reveal naturalistic references to architecture, cityscapes. Hefuna's art practice may be formed in a minimalist and conceptual expression. It may ... More | |
Act Up-Gran Fury, Let the Record Show. . . New Museum installation, 1987. Image courtesy of Gran Fury 2.
MIAMI, FLA.- As celebrants across the nation honor the 50th anniversary year of the Stonewall Uprisings, in the heart of Pride month the Frost Art Museum FIU announces Miami will be one of only three cities in the U.S. to host Art After Stonewall: 1969 ─ 1989. The major exhibition of more than 200 works opens in Miami on September 14, and due to its size and scope will encompass the entire second floor of the museum, including the Grand Galleries. The Miami presentation of Art After Stonewall 1969 ─ 1989 in the fall will be the first time that all of the works in this show will be exhibited together under one roof: all of the photographs, paintings, sculpture, film clips, video, music, and performance pieces, plus historical documents and images taken from magazines, newspapers and television (the current New York showing of Art After Stonewall is split up between two venues). ... More |
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| | Bruce Museum receives $5 million donation from the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation | | Chinese Doucai Yongzheng Mark and Period vase achieves $387,000 at Doyle | | Sotheby's Hong Kong announces highlights included in the Fine Classical Chinese Paintings Sale |
Bruce Museum Education Wing.
GREENWICH, CONN.- The Bruce Museums Campaign for the New Bruce has received a $5 million gift from the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation. The donation, first announced to the public at a community-wide celebration held at the Museum on Sunday, September 8, will fund the Education Wing planned for the Museums transformative expansion and construction project currently under way. Steven and Alexandra Cohen, through their charitable foundation, are already invaluable supporters of the Museums youth and family programs, helping us provide arts education to over 25,000 K-12 students a year from schools across our region, says Robert Wolterstorff, The Susan E. Lynch Executive Director. With this incredibly generous capital donation from the Cohens, the Museum will be able to deliver on its promise to double the number of schoolchildren we serve each year, and dramatically expand our arts education programs for stude ... More | |
Chinese Doucai Vase, Yongzheng Mark and Period. Height 9 1/8 inches. Sold for $387,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Doyle's successful Asian Works of Art auction on September 9 presented the arts of China, Japan and Southeast Asia dating from the Neolithic Period through the 20th century. Showcased were porcelains, jades, snuff bottles, bronzes, pottery, scholars objects and paintings from prominent collections and estates. Highlighting the sale was a rare Ming-style Doucai vase with the Yongzheng six-character mark within double circles and of the Period (1723-1735) that achieved a stunning $387,000. Measuring 9 1/8 inches in height, the vase took several minutes to sell as determined bidders in the saleroom and on the telephones pushed the price higher and higher, generating a round of applause when it sold. The vase was decorated in Chenghua-style with an all-over design of Indian lotus bearing full formal blooms amid delicate curling stems and leaves. An Imperial Tibetan gold woven brocade ... More | |
Shitao (1642-1707) Ink Bamboo. Ink on paper, hanging scroll 74.7 x 29.5cm Estimate: HK$4,000,000 5,000,000/ US$510,000 640,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
HONG KONG.- Sothebys Hong Kong Fine Classical Chinese Paintings Sale on 6 October 2019 will be led by two important paintings produced by practising monks during the Qing Dynasty: Bada Shanrens Melons and Brackens and Shitaos Ink Bamboo. Additional highlights include a set of three albums of calligraphy by Yun Shouping, and a set of manuscripts and a rare draft of an imperial poem by the Qianlong Emperor. The sale also boasts works from several important private collections, including the second part of The Howe Collection, distinguished by elegant calligraphy pieces by Guangdong artists; Buddhist paintings and calligraphy of the Song and Yuan dynasties from A Private Japanese Collection; as well as Paintings and Calligraphy from an Asian Private Collection, which features a rare and completely ... More |
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| | 20th century and Contemporary masters lead Phillips' Photographs Auction in New York | | Artworks by Ai Weiwei, Virgil Abloh, Takashi Murakami and Annie Morris donated to Make-A-Wish UK charity auction | | New Public Programs Manager appointed at the Vero Beach Museum of Art |
Cindy Sherman, Untitled #197, 1989. Estimate: $150,000-250,000. Image courtesy Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips first Photographs sale of the fall season will be held on 1 October. The auction will include 250 lots with exceptional prints by Marina Abramović, Robert Mapplethorpe, Hannah Wilke, Cindy Sherman, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Robert Frank, and Peter Beard, among others. Sarah Krueger, Head of Department, Photographs, New York, said, Continuing on the momentum built in Phillips spring season, our October sale in New York will offer fresh-to-the-market works including our cover lot by Marina Abramović and a rare, large-scale Hannah Wilke. We are also thrilled to bring to auction two remarkable private collections, both featured in special sections in the catalogue, including The Feminist Thread from collector Helen Kornblum and World View. One important lot is Robert Mapplethorpes Lily, 1987, a stunning work in which he blurs the distinction between photography and painting by placing his plat ... More | |
Joel Shapiro, Untitled, 2015. 29.2 x 19.7 x 13.7 cm. Base: 1.905 x 15.24 x 22.86 cm.
LONDON.- On the 1 October 2019, childrens charity Make-A-Wish® UK, will present The Art of Wishes Gala, founded by renowned philanthropist and Make-A-Wish® UK Patron, Batia Ofer. The event will take place at the Royal Horticultural Halls, hosted by Make-A-Wish® UK supporter David Walliams OBE. This years Gala hopes to surpass the success of the inaugural 2017 event, which raised a phenomenal £2.8 million for the life-changing charity. In advance of the Gala, a showcase preview of the artworks will be open to the public at Phillips flagship gallery space on Berkeley Square from 19-20 September. David Walliams comments: I am honoured to host The Art of Wishes Gala once again. As a Make-A-Wish® UK supporter, I have witnessed the truly unique and wonderful work the charity does in granting life-changing wishes to children that experience an increased amount of hardship and difficulty. As ... More | |
For the past year, Denise Giannino worked at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, CT, where she designed and planned adult and academic programs for local and regional audiences.
VERO BEACH, FLA.- The Vero Beach Museum of Art announced today the appointment of Denise Giannino as Public Programs Manager effective September 3rd, 2019. For the past year, Denise Giannino worked at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, CT, where she designed and planned adult and academic programs for local and regional audiences. Prior to this position, Denise completed a PhD in Art History at the University of Kansas where she dedicated efforts to teaching college students the ways the history of art could enrich their lives. Denise has a Masters in Art History from University College London and a Masters in Art History from Florida State University. Im excited to be joining the education team at the Vero Beach Museum of Art and engaging with the dynamic range of adult ... More |
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| | The Julia Stoschek Collection opens the first institutional solo exhibition in Germany by A.K. Burns | | Artists Gu Wenda, Zeng Fanzhi launch Contemporary Asian Art Sale at Heritage Auctions | | James Webb presents a series of artworks at Galerie Imane Farès |
A.K. Burns, Negative Space Poster for exhibition at the JSC, 2019, digital collage, open edition, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
DUSSELDORF.- The Julia Stoschek Collection is presenting the first institutional solo exhibition in Germany by New Yorkbased artist A.K. Burns. Embedded within new materialist, queer, and feminist theories, Burnss interdisciplinary practice explores the body as a contentious domain where social, political, and material forces collide. Negative Space, the exhibition presented at JSC Düsseldorf, is comprised of three multi-channel video installations that are a part of a cycle works by the same name. This is the most comprehensive presentation of the series to date and includes the restaging of existing episodes A Smeary Spot (Negative Space 0) (2015) and Living Room (Negative Space 00) (2017), as well as the premiere of Leave No Trace (Negative Space 000) (2019). In addition, the exhibition includes drawings related to the series, a new film observing the phenomenon of a total solar eclipse, and an ... More | |
Huang Yan (Chinese, b. 1966), Chinese Landscape-M. Monroe from the Celebrity Series, 2009. Oil on canvas, 39-1/4 x 31-1/4 inches. Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000.
DALLAS, TX.- A riveting selection of paintings, ink on paper and oils from todays most talked-about Asian artists launch Heritage Auctions first Contemporary Asian Art Online-Only Auction, Sept. 19 on HA.com. The sales 54 lots offer fresh-to-market artworks from private collections. The group leans toward desirable Chinese artists, such as Gu Wenda, Zeng Fanzhi, Lin Tianmiao and Wang Gongxin, and Xiao Bo. Two Untitled artworks from Gu Wenda's ink on paper from the series Mythos of Lost Dynasties series the first and the second (est. $6,000-$8,000 each), and is an evocative and special piece from the artists themes around traditional Chinese calligraphy. Zeng Fanzhis well-known expressionist technique is represented in Untitled (Reclining Figure), 1998 (est. $5,000-$7,000). Two works by Zhang Dali exhibit the artists graffiti-kike approach, such as Life is like Meteor in Wild Universe (pentaptych), 2007 (est ... More | |
James Webb, Friends of Friends, 2018. View of the exhibition Choose the Universe at Galerie Imane Farès, Paris. © Tadzio. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Imane Farès, Paris.
PARIS.- For his second solo show at Galerie Imane Farès, James Webb presents a series of artworks resulting from extensive research and referring to the history of humanity, religions and thoughts. Choose the Universe is a call to welcome the unknown, to accept ambiguity, not to only consider obstacle as an impossibility, and to question the notion of mystery. It seems that the quest for the invisible, in the broad sense of the term, is at the heart of each of the artworks exhibited here. The history of psychoanalysis, but also various forms of spirituality (from Christianity to Animism and Buddhism) are all references used by the artist to represent what escapes our eyes and mind. Placed in front of the wall, a Madonna with Child welcomes the visitor. Altered by time, the sculpture, entitled Invisibilia, seems to be coming back to life through a sonic transfusion. The recording of electromagnetic ... More |
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Chemould Prescott Road opens 'Woven Memoirs: A New Kind of Nature' by Priya Ravish Mehra
MUMBAI.- Chemould Prescott Road presents works of the late Priya Ravish Mehra, who began as a weaver, but subsequently grew as an artist merging the integrity of her weaves into an abundance of materiality. Sewn with metaphorical meaning, aiming to restore general order, Priya Ravish Mehra's work with textile reveals a rare skill of woven tapestries, incorporating fragments of discarded weaves with paper pulp. Alongside her artistic practice, the research of textiles deeply involved her, often leaving the two practices as indecipherable life occupations! I employ the metaphor of rafoogari or traditional darning to invoke sudden, unexpected and violent rupture in our daily experience. It is a symbolic affirmation of the place, significance and act of existential repair, the artist spoke about her work exhibited at Kochi Biennale, 2018. At Khoj Studio's ... More
Cottone to offer the Peter Tillou and Sy & Lorraine Merrall collections
GENESEO, NY.- Cottones Fall Fine Art & Antiques auction on Saturday, September 28th in Geneseo will feature selections from the Peter Tillou collection out of Litchfield, Conn. Over the course of his 50-year career as a sought-after expert in a wide array of collecting categories, Mr. Tillou helped build some of the finest private collections of art and antiques in the United States. The auction will also feature the impressive lifelong collection of Lorraine and the late Sy Merrall of Brighton, NY. Mr. Merrall, a former vice president at Bausch & Lomb, and his wife developed a passion for collecting Mid-Century Modern furniture and design objects, including Hans Wegner, Finn Juhl, Mogens Koch and Isamu Noguchi, to name a few. The sale will be held online and in Cottones gallery at 120 Court Street in Geneseo, southwest of Rochester. The auction will begin ... More
7th Cosmoscow fair sums up results with increased number of important international participants
MOSCOW.- Cosmoscow Preview on the 5th of September, and followed three-day public programme saw the record number of over 22,000 visitors and rewarding sales results across Russian and international exhibitors. Remaining the only international contemporary art fair in Russia, Cosmoscow continues fostering local art market by welcoming established international participants, collaborating with important institutions and partners, preparing diverse public programme, and supporting young and emerging artists and galleries. Prices varied from 100 to 500 000. Among the highlights purchased at the Fair were Stephan Balkenhol, Stano Filko, Alberto Garutti, Donna Huanca, Jaan Toomik, Olga Chernysheva, Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe and many others. The Design section performed well, including sales of the pieces by Valentin Loellmann, Dasha ... More
Rolls-Royce art programme commissions media artist Refik Anadol to create new work
GOODWOOD.- The House of Rolls-Royce announced that media artist Refik Anadol will create a new work for the Rolls-Royce Art Programme. The Turkish-born, LA-based artist will create a unique work of digital art using data sets relating to the colour of every Rolls-Royce motor car created at the Home of Rolls-Royce in Goodwood, West Sussex, over the last ten years. The artwork will be previewed at the House of Rolls-Royces major philanthropic event, Dine on the Line, on 21 September 2019, to be held at the marques Global Centre of Luxury Manufacturing Excellence. The new commission will then be presented on permanent display at Rolls-Royces global headquarters, with an edition of the piece travelling to international showrooms from early 2020. The new artwork, entitled Art of Perfection: Data Painting, will consist of an LED canvas, conveying a unique data painting that uses ... More
Malware exhibition reveals the destructive beauty of the computer virus
ROTTERDAM.- Het Nieuwe Instituut Museum for Architecture, Design and Digital Culture is presenting Malware: Symptoms of Viral Infection, an exhibition about the history and evolution of the computer virus, from 5 July to 10 November 2019. Using the most infamous examples, the exhibition explores the cultural impact of malware and raises questions concerning security, warfare and geopolitics. The first computer virus was designed 33 years ago. Since then, more than a million viruses have been developed, hundreds of millions of devices have been infected, billions of euros have been lost due to reduced productivity, and the so-called malware has become a digital weapon of geopolitical significance. In Malware: Symptoms of Viral Infection, curated by Bas van de Poel and Marina Otero Verzier, simulation software, archive material and artistic interpretations ... More
Cadogan Contemporary opens a solo exhibition featuring new work by the acclaimed British artist Sam Lock
LONDON.- Cadogan Contemporary is presenting Now/here, a solo exhibition featuring new work by the acclaimed British artist Sam Lock. A key inspiration for Lock is the written word, in particular the work of the dramatists Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter. As the latter famously said, Underneath what is said, something else is being said, and the ideas invoked in that observation notions of double meanings, loss, discovery and the overlapping of past and present are key to understanding Locks entire oeuvre; in essence, each work is a meditation on the ambiguities of life revealed through abstraction. Comprised of fifteen medium and large-scale paintings, as well as sculptures and a suite of works on paper, this is the artists largest presentation to date and his third with the gallery. The paintings are rendered in Locks trademark style. A canvas ... More
Comprehensive solo exhibition featuring works by Raúl Illarramendi opens at Galerie Karsten Greve
COLOGNE.- Galerie Karsten Greve is presenting for the second time a comprehensive solo exhibition featuring works by the Venezuelan-born artist Raúl Illarramendi in Cologne. The exhibition contains his most recent work series. Raúl Illarramendis fascinating uvre impresses viewers by presenting a technique that employs drawing in an unusual way, meticulously pushing its boundaries to reproduce a spontaneous visual experience. Illarramendi focuses on the reproduction of traces, accidental gestures, and anonymous markings, often respecting the compositions of the original photographs. These snapshots are taken spontaneously in urban spaces. They are more like discovered situations which carry an aesthetic presence worthy of a portrait. Illarramendi portrays these situations in order to produce a new image, referencing not ... More
Davis Museum promotes Amanda Gilvin
WELLESLEY, MASS.- Lisa Fischman, Ruth Gordon 37 Shapiro Director of the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, has promoted Amanda Gilvin as the inaugural Sonja Novak Koerner 51 Senior Curator of Collections and Assistant Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Davis Museum. The endowment of the position was established in 2019 with the generosity of Wellesley College Alumnae Sonja Novak Koerner (51) and her husband Michael M. Koerner. In her new position, Gilvin will work with Fischman to oversee all curatorial matters at the Museum, define the vision and direction for the collections, generate publications, and create programs that draw on and expand the mission of the institution. She will supervise the curatorial department, coordinating closely with other Davis departments as well as with ... More
HdM Gallery opens a solo show of new works by Charles Sandison
LONDON.- HdM Gallery is presenting a solo show of new works by Charles Sandison The Tyranny of Language. I want to extend the existence of my artwork long enough to demand its own passport and become sentient in its own strange way. - Charles Sandison Charles Sandisons digital artworks reveal the transformative effects of light and language, evolving as the structures that form the words multiply in many different languages. Sandison has employed Artificial Intelligence to create language that interacts with itself, in a thought experiment. Sandisons artistic medium has been characterised by a focus on language and a conceptual approach. His practice prompts questions about ownership of language and considerations of the sensory experience of language. His work is often shaped and coloured by a diverse approach to influences which, like his ... More
Sotheby's unveils extraordinary jewels from an important Asian American collection
NEW YORK, NY.- This week, Sothebys will unveil a group of extraordinary jewels from an Important Asian American collection, coming to auction this autumn in New York and Geneva. This extensive and well-rounded jewellery collection was assembled by a prominent female collector, who over the course of five decades acquired important pieces from top jewellery houses in particular Cartier. She also greatly admired the work of Van Cleef & Arpels and owned several jewels by the King of Diamonds, Harry Winston. The result is a delightful selection of pieces, formed by the intertwining of two distinct strands. On the one hand, she purchased a core of more substantial, classically styled pieces adorned with important diamonds and gemstones; and on the other, she was drawn to fashion-oriented, light-hearted jewels, which she treasured and enjoyed ... More
BADA sell majority stake in BADA Fair
LONDON.- BADA (The British Antique Dealers Association) is delighted to announce a new chapter in the progression of its popular annual art and antiques event, the BADA Fair. Following a summer of negotiation, BADA have agreed to sell a majority stake in the fair to event specialists Thomas Woodham-Smith and Harry van der Hoorn, both of whom were founders of the world-renowned Masterpiece event in Chelsea. Formerly a Director at Mallett, Thomas Woodham-Smith is a dealer and art advisor and believes his experience in all aspects of the trade can take the fair to new levels, he explained; We will bring a fresh approach, making the fair into an unmissable event in London. The ordinary is not acceptable. We have big plans and every aspect of the fair will be examined and weighed for its contribution. Having been a dealer all my career the ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld was born September 10, 1933. Karl Lagerfeld (10 September 1933 - 19 February 2019) was a German creative director, fashion designer, artist, photographer, and caricaturist who lived in Paris. In this image: German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld acknowledges the applause at the end of the presentation of the Fendi women's Fall-Winter 2012-2013 collection in Milan, Italy, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012. Silvia Venturini Fendi, Italian fashion designer and head of accessories of the Fendi fashion house at right.
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