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Bruce Nauman, Funnel Piece (Françoise Lambert Installation), 1971. Wallboard, wood. Longer wall: 165 3/8 x 570 7/8 in. (420.1 x 1450 cm) Installation Bruce Nauman, Pasadena Years, Marian Goodman Gallery, Los Angeles, 2025. Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery. Photo: Elon Schoenholz . LOS ANGELES, CA.- Marian Goodman Gallery is presenting its first solo exhibition with Bruce Nauman. Pasadena Years is a historical reflection on the prolific decade that established one of the most important contemporary artists of our time. The exhibition emphasizes the radical foundation of Naumans practice while he lived in Los Angeles between 1969-79. Across the entire gallery and garden, works on view include sculptures, installations, sound works, videos, works on paper, and editions. Pasadena Years notably marks Naumans first exhibition in Los Angeles in over 30 years and includes Text for a Room, 1973-2025, a work that the artist recreated for the first time since its debut at his earliest retrospective, which originated at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in 1972. In 1969, Bruce arrived in Los Angeles at the age of 27 with his wife and son. Following his MFA from the University of California, Davis, and an NEA grant in Southhampton, New York, he subsequently relocated to ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Royal Portraits: A Century of Photography at The Kingâs Gallery in Edinburgh charts the evolution of royal portrait photography from the 1920s to the present day, unveiling the stories behind the creation of some of the most iconic images of the Royal Family. © Royal Collection Enterprises Limited 2025 | Royal Collection Trust, photograph: Jane Massey.
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The Helga and Edzard Reuter Collection to be offered at Christie's in Paris | | Rare Sevres Palace Urns take center stage at Roland's prominent Estates March 8th auction | | Rare, significant masterpiece by Jawlensky to be auctioned on 6 June | Enrico Castellani, Superficie nera No. 3. Acrylic on canvas, 100 x 70 x 3 cm Executed in 1964. Estimate: EUR 200,000-300,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2025. PARIS.- On 28th of May, Christies Paris will present the prestigious collection of Helga and Edzard Reuter, an interesting group of contemporary works of art inspired by the European avant-garde. Edzard Reuter (1928-2024) was the son of Ernst Reuter, the famous mayor of Berlin who was in government during the blockade of the city by Soviet forces, Edzard Reuter was also one of Germanys most powerful industrial leaders as President of Daimler Benz AG from 1987 to 1995. The Reuter collection include a Relief planétaire terre by Yves Klein (600,000-800,000) and a Concetto Spaziale by Lucio Fontana (400,000-600,000) as well as works by François Morellet, Enrico Castellani, and of course German artists such as Günther Uecker, Gottfried Graubner and Peter Roehr. The dense, non-hierarchical hanging in a Brutalist 1970s mansion close to Stuttgart was as contemporary as the choice ... More | | Sevres Important Pair of Palace Urns, Important monumental pair of Sevres porcelain palace urns, French, 19th century. Estimate $3,000-$5,000. GLEN COVE, NY.- Roland Auctions NY will present their next Multi-Estates auction on Saturday, March 8th at 10am, with offerings from several prominent and noteworthy estates, bringing together elements of New York Citys theatrical and art world past. Previews will be held on Thursday, March 6th & Friday, March 7th, 10am 6pm. In the spotlight with a lot of pre-auction bidding are a very rare Important Pair of Sevres Palace Urns, monumental pair of Sevres porcelain palace urns, French, 19th century, of vasiform elaborated decorated with bands of blooming flowers, Greek key and acanthus details, and large swags of ripe fruit and blooming flowers, centered by bronze dore figure heads Baccchus, all resting on square gilded plinth, [32.5" H x 17.25" W x 14.75" D]. Estimate is $3-5,000 but expected to go much higher. These noteworthy estates include the personal collection of visionary American theater designer, artist, and ... More | | Alexej von Jawlensky, Kopf in Bronzefarben Bildnis Sacharoff. 1913. Oil on paper, laminated on cardboard. Signed and dated in the upper right. 55.5 x 51 cm. Estimate: 1.5 to 2.5 million. MUNICH.- Realizing 8.3 million, Alexej von Jawlensky's portrait of his young lover Helene (Spanische Tänzerin, 1909) was the top lot in Ketterer Kunst's 2024 spring auction, while the magnificent landscape "Berge in Oberstdorf" (1912) also yielded an excellent result of 1.1 million the previous autumn. The upcoming highlight is Kopf in Bronzefarben Bildnis Sacharoff (1913), one of the few verified portraits of the dancer Alexander Sacharoff, which will be auctioned at Ketterer Kunst in Munich in June. A painting like a promise. The promise of steering Modernism toward an artistic future reorganized in terms of style and content, of bidding farewell to the Neo Impressionist sensibilities of light and form. For the sake of a more radical pictorial language. 1913 was a pivotal year; today, we would speak of a historical turn. It was the eve of World War I, a time imbued with a spirit of ... More |
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Bloomsbury Group exhibition debuts in Denmark at Nivaagaard Collection | | For the first time in its history, museum presents its collection of works by artists of Der Blaue Reiter | | Masterpiece by Maria van Oosterwijck takes centre stage in Rijksmuseum's Gallery of Honour | Vanessa Bell (1879-1961), Still Life on Corner of a Mantelpiece, 1914, Tate. COPENHAGEN.- The Nivaagaard Collection will present "The Bloomsbury Group," the first exhibition in Denmark dedicated to the influential British collective, from March 6 to August 10, 2025. The exhibition will explore the group's impact on literature, art, design, economics, and lifestyle during the early 20th century. Originating around Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell in London's Bloomsbury district, the group operated from approximately 1910 to 1930. The exhibition will feature over 120 artworks and objects on loan from British collections, including paintings, drawings, ceramics, books, furniture, design objects, letters, and photographs. The exhibition aims to examine the group's contributions to cultural and artistic discourse, focusing on their engagement with themes of tolerance, individual freedom, and creative expression. It will showcase the group's experimental approach to art and design, including their post-impressionist painting styles and decorative ... More | | Robert Delaunay, Eiffelturm, 1925. Lithographie, 61 x 44,5 cm © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett / Dietmar Katz. BERLIN.- Founded by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc as an editorial collective in 1911, Der Blaue Reiter entered the public eye with exhibitions and the publication of a programmatic almanac in 1912 with a bold sense of mission. In the creative centers of Munich, Murnau, Sindelsdorf, and Berlin, Der Blaue Reiter emerged as a circle of artists who rejected conventional conceptions of art and propagated new aesthetic ideasa loose construct that once again dissolved with the outbreak of World War I in the summer of 1914. 100 selected works, including loans from the Kunstbibliothek, the Museum Europäischer Kulturen, the Neue Nationalgalerie, and private collections in Berlin, reveal the multifaceted cosmos of Der Blaue Reiter and its quest for new creative paths in art. The legal scholar and ethnologist Wassily Kandinsky left Moscow and came to Munich in 1896 to pursue a career as an artist. There he studied with ... More | | Restoration of the painting by Maria van Oosterwijck. Photo: Rijksmuseum/Kelly Schenk. AMSTERDAM.- The Rijksmuseum is displaying a recently acquired still life by Maria van Oosterwijck in the Gallery of Honour from today. Maria van Oosterwijck, one of the most important Dutch women painters of the 17th century, is renowned for her flower still lifes. The Rijksmuseum had the opportunity to acquire this painting in 2023. The religious connotations of the work make it one of the artists most deeply personal works. For Van Oosterwijck, the still life was a testament to her unwavering faith. After acquiring the painting, the Rijksmuseum examined and restored it. The masterpiece will be presented for the first time in the museum on 4 March 2025, prior to the Women in the Museum symposium. The acquisition was made possible through support from the Friends Lottery (Vriendenloterij) and the Women of the Rijksmuseum Fund. Paintings by Maria van Oosterwijck are exceptionally rare because of the limited body of work that she left to posterity. Only some 30 works by the artist ... More |
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New acquisitions celebrate women artists across centuries at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco | | Franz Erhard Walther's "Attempt to be a Sculpture": First major Turkey solo show opens at Arter | | Berlin museum showcases Parisian fashion donation from Erika Hoffmann | Angelica Kauffmann, "Celadon and Amelia (Summer)," ca. 1781. Oil on copper, 12 1/2 x 10 1/4 in. (31.8 x 25.9 cm). Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Museum purchase, Grover A. Magnin Endowment Bequest, and John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn, Diane B. Wilsey, Roscoe and Margaret Oakes Endowment, Barbara A. Wolfe, Bettina Bryant, and Holly and Parker Harris, 2025.7.1 SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco announced the acquisition of five works of art by noteworthy women artists Angelica Kauffman, Grace Fletcher, Claude Raguet Hirst, and Bisa Butler. Spanning the Fine Arts Museums collection of European paintings, American art, and costume and textile arts, these works highlight significant women artists working across a span of centuries and a range of techniques, media and subject matter. This remarkable group of acquisitions speaks to the Fine Arts Museums commitment to deepening our audiences understanding of women artists vital contributions to art history, said Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. We are proud to make Kauffmann, Fletcher, Hirst, and Butlers work accessible to Bay Area audiences. Angelica Kauffman was among ... More | | Franz Erhard Walther, Vest (Weste) 1965 [Reconstruction: 2022] Prototype for the First Work Set No. 11. Foam, cotton and glue, 76 x 64 x 7 cm. Franz Erhard Walther Foundation Collection. Photo: Kayhan Kaygusuz. ISTANBUL .- Arters 2025 exhibition programme continues with Franz Erhard Walthers solo exhibition titled Attempt to be a Sculpture. Marking the artists first solo presentation in Türkiye on that scale, the exhibition curated by Selen Ansen draws from the eponymous work that lays the foundation for Walthers ongoing commitment to reformulating sculpture as an open process and action, as well as shaping new modes of bodily presence in time and space. The exhibition will be on view at Arters Gallery 4 and 3 until 5 October 2025. Year 1958. A young man is sitting before a sheet of canvas, cross-legged and barefoot, within close reach of a metal bowl containing a mixture of baking powder, water and milk. He spits out the mixture while a friend of his captures his ephemeral gestures with a camera. 19-year-old Franz Erhard Walther, growing up in Fulda (Germany), breaks from his familys bakery business by expelling the ingredients involved in the making of bread. At the ... More | | Martin Margiela, Vest Painted with Posters, ca. 1994, Paper and gray paint, © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstgewerbemuseum / Max Fahrig. BERLIN.- The Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin has opened "Fashion from Paris Donation Erika Hoffmann," an exhibition featuring 22 garments and accessories donated by Berlin art collector Erika Hoffmann. The exhibition, which opened on February 26, 2025, and runs until December 14, 2025, highlights Parisian fashion from the 1980s and 1990s. The collection reflects Hoffmann's long-standing interest in Parisian fashion, a city that has served as a platform for designers since the 19th century. The exhibit focuses on the early 1980s, a period characterized by bold designs from Manfred "Thierry" Mugler, Jean Paul Gaultier, and Jean-Charles de Castelbajac. These designers are noted for creating garments that emphasized strong, confident silhouettes. The Hoffmann donation includes a range of pieces, including early works by Thierry Mugler, such as a breastplate and pointed skirt from his Spring/Summer 1980 collection. The exhibition also features day dresses, jumpsuits, and evening wear acquired by ... More |
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RM Sotheby's achieves $74.5M at auction, setting multiple world records during ModaMiami Week | | Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum opens 'Proust and the Arts' | | Ayoung Kim's "Many Worlds Over": AI, webcomics, and virtual universes at Hamburger Bahnhof | The auction achieved $74,491,720 in sales with an 83% sell-through rate overall. Courtesy RM Sotheby's. MIAMI, FLA.- RM Sothebys returned to Miami for the third consecutive year, achieving $74,491,720 in auction sales at ModaMiami, the East Coasts premier luxury and lifestyle event. Held at the historic Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables, Florida, on February 27-28, 2025, the auction featured over 80 cars, including rare models from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum Collection. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum vehicles were showcased at premier auctions, including the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, and during Rétromobile Week in Paris. Proceeds from the sales benefited the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum, supporting the Museums efforts to enhance and preserve its collection of Indianapolis 500 and Indianapolis Motor Speedway artifacts. Highlights: The remaining cars from the collection were sold at the RM Sothebys auction Thursday night in Miami during ModaMiami. Highlights from the event are listed below: The 1966 Ford GT40 Mk II, a highly original example campa ... More | | Ãdouard Manet, Boy eating Cherries, ca. 1858. Oil on canvas, 65,5 à 54,5 cm. Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon. Photo: Catarina Gomes Ferreira. MADRID.- The museum is presenting an exhibition on the importance of art in the work of one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, Marcel Proust (Auteuil, 1871 - Paris, 1922), recognised both in literature and in philosophy and art theory. The aesthetic ideas that Proust developed in his work, the artistic, architectural and landscape settings that surrounded him and which he recreated in his books, as well as the contemporary and earlier artists who served to stimulate him are among the aspects that articulate the structure of this exhibition, which aims to highlight this connection and the interrelation between art and his life and work. To understand Proust it is important to know the Paris in which he lived; the cosmopolitan and rich capital of the Third Republic, its great transformation following Baron Hausmanns urban reforms, with the introduction of electricity, cars, public spectacles, restaurants and cafés. Proust was fascinated not only by the arts ... More | | Ayoung Kim. Many Worlds Over, exhibition view Hamburger Bahnhof Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, 28.2. 20.7.2025, Depicted: Ghost Dancers A, 2022; Evening Peak Time Is Back, 2022; Orbit Dance North, 2022 (from left) © Courtesy Ayoung Kim & Gallery Hyundai / Nationalgalerie Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Photo: Jacopo LaForgia. BERLIN.- With artificial intelligence, videos, game simulations, sculptures, and references from South Korean webcomics, Ayoung Kim creates a fictional universe at Hamburger Bahnhof governed by its own laws of time and space. The audience is immersed in Kims virtual world of "Delivery Dancer," which she transports into the mirrored museum space. Visitors are both spectators and participants, influencing the narrative from their own perspective. The artists first solo exhibition in a German museum explores concepts of time and reality, as well as issues of belonging and queerness. "Ayoung Kim. Many Worlds Over" at Hamburger Bahnhof offers a glimpse into the multidisciplinary artists work, featuring pieces from recent years alongside new creations. Ayoung Kim (born 1979) explores ... More |
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Exploring 'The Wiz' with Choreographer George Faison
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More News | Shaunté Gates joins Marc Straus Gallery NEW YORK, NY.- The art fair in Miami begins in an hour. We are installed, ready. I notice my business cards are incorrect. One of our handouts has a misprint. Livia says, Can you please come see this painting? She means its at another booth; a work she likely wants us to buy. I didnt sell anything as yet, I want to say. It isnt far, she persists. Its fabulous. I had better look. Its our history. Her tugging on me to look at a Marie Watt work at The Denver Art Museum when I was focused on the design of an upcoming Jeffrey Gibson exhibit. Tugging on me in Singapore to see a small work by Anne Samat. Theres a difference in her look, her tone, when she thinks the work is important. Not far at Zidoun Bossuyt they are excited that Livia is back and there are two paintings by an artist whose works I have never seen, one particularly powerful. Give me a few hours ... More NADA New York announces 2025 exhibitors and new location NEW YORK, NY.- The New Art Dealers Alliance announced the exhibitor list for the 11th edition of NADA New York, which will be held May 711, 2025 at The Starrett-Lehigh Building in Chelsea, located at 601 W 26th Street. NADA New York 2025 will include a diverse and expanded selection from 111 galleries, art spaces, and non-profit organizations spanning 19 countries and 50 cities such as Brussels, Shanghai, Berlin, Mexico City, Wroclaw, Belgrade, New York, and Philadelphiaand showcases 65 NADA Members and 54 first-time exhibitors including Eugster || Belgrade, Gallery Common from Tokyo, CONSTITUCIÃN from Buenos Aires, Dohing Art from Seoul, Galerie Noah Klink from Berlin, and DARLA from New York, among others. The fair will also feature NADA Presents, the organizations signature programming series of conversations, performances, and events, ... More MCA Australia to host The MCA Mega Draw, Sydney's largest drawing event SYDNEY.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA Australia) in partnership with Create Space Arts and Faber Castell, is set to transform into a giant interactive canvas for The MCA Mega Draw, the citys largest drawing event. Taking place on Saturday, March 15, 2025, this free all-day celebration of creativity invites people of all ages and abilities to immerse themselves in a sensory-friendly, collaborative art-making experience. The MCA Mega Draw is designed by the MCA Australia and Create Space Arts A List Initiative to foster accessibility and inclusion in the arts for neurodiverse audiences. Visitors will explore drawing in all its forms across the museum, from the harbourside forecourt at Warrane (Circular Quay) to levels 1, 2 and 3. Attendees can contribute to large-scale community artworks, experiment with different materials and engage with professional ... More Largest installation of the Kulata Tjuta Project opens at National Gallery CANBERRA.- The National Gallery presents the most significant iteration of Kulata Tjuta (Many Spears) an ongoing cultural maintenance project that shares the skills of carving and making the punu kulata (wooden spear) across generations in the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands. On display in Kamberri/Canberra until 29 March 2026, Kulata Tjuta: Tirkilpa is the most ambitious iteration of the project since it began 15 years ago. Acquired into the national collection in 2024, this is the first time Kulata Tjuta: Tirkilpa is being displayed. Taking its title from the Aṉangu word tirkilpa, referring to the rattling of spears before a battle or war commences, the installation will see thousands of spears suspended from the ceiling. Like others in the project series, this iteration abridges the voices of senior and younger artists to speak of cultural resilience, ... More Máret Ánne Sara to create the next Hyundai Commission for Tate Modern's Turbine Hall LONDON.- Tate and Hyundai Motor today announce that Máret Ánne Sara will create the next annual Hyundai Commission. Máret Ánne Sara is a Northern Sámi artist and author known for her work exploring global ecological issues through the lens of her lived experience within the Sámi community. Open to the public from 14 October 2025 6 April 2026, her new site-specific work for Tate Moderns Turbine Hall will be the 10th in the series of commissions supported by Hyundai Motor. Today, Tate and Hyundai Motor also announce a decade-long extension of this significant partnership, which encompasses support of both the Hyundai Commission and the Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational, until 2036. Máret Ánne Sara was born in 1983 to a Sámi reindeer herding family in Guovdageaidnu in the Norwegian part of Sápmi, the traditional territory of the Sámi ... More Hartwig Art Foundation presents Tarek Atoui's Forgotten Tales Through Time and The Sahara Chapter AMSTERDAM.- Hartwig Art Foundation presents Forgotten Tales Through Time, a one-night concert by artist and composer Tarek Atoui, featuring musicians from the Amazigh community in Moroccos Atlas region. The standalone performance at De Balie in Amsterdam on Thursday, March 6, 2025 launches The Sahara Chapter, a new iteration of Atouis major research and exhibition project At-Tāriq (2022ongoing), a long-term investigation of diasporic music traditions. Inspired by the Majlistraditional gathering spaces for communities in the Arab world, from the Atlas Mountains of Northern Africa to the Arabian Gulf, where guests and travelers from further afield are welcomedthe performance brings a collective display of the artists ongoing exploration of poetic hospitality to Amsterdam. Marking the beginning of a three-year-long research project with Hartwig ... More Original, 4-inch artworks by local and world renowned artists on sale at The Clay Studio PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Clay Studio Center for Innovation in Ceramic Art, Philadelphias preeminent ceramic arts center, announces the 19th annual Small Favors exhibition. Opening April 10, nearly 400 intricate artworks in four-inch cubes will be on display and for sale in The Clay Studios Jill Bonovitz Gallery through June 29. The popular annual exhibition includes works submitted by nationally known artists similar to what they typically create, at a reduced scale or something entirely new and unique, alongside works by some of the best of Philadelphias up-and-coming artists. Small Favors features internationally recognized established artists alongside emerging artists, allowing The Clay Studio to present works in a broad price range from $35 to $3,500 offering multiple price points to patrons. The show engages artists creativity in new ... More Zheng Chongbin's ink and immersive video: Altman Siegel debut blends East Asian tradition with modern technology SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Altman Siegel will present Zheng Chongbins inaugural solo exhibition with the gallery. Over the past three decades Zheng has developed a unique practice that marries East Asia's tradition of ink painting with multi-media video installations and large-scale public projects. For his first solo exhibition with Altman Siegel Zheng will present a new series of ink on paper paintings and a complex immersive video sculpture. Holding western pictorial abstraction in productive mutual tension with technology-based work, Zhengs unique approach to artmaking allows him to systematically explore and deconstruct conventions of nature, texture, space, geometry, gesture, and materiality. This distinctive body ... More |
| PhotoGalleries Brooklyn Museum at 200 Gerard Byrne Mystery & Benevolence Anne Frank Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Giovanni Battista Tiepolo was born March 05, 1696. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (March 5, 1696 - March 27, 1770), also known as Giambattista (or Gianbattista) Tiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice who painted in the Rococo style. He was prolific, and worked not only in Italy, but also in Germany and Spain. Giovan Battista Tiepolo, together with Giambattista Pittoni, Canaletto, Giovan Battista Piazzetta, Giuseppe Maria Crespi and Francesco Guardi are considered the traditional Old Masters of that period. In this image: View of the ceiling of the Imperial Hall in the Wurzburg Residenz.
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