 | | Artists announced for the 2019 Whitney Biennial, opening on May 17 | | Centre Pompidou-Metz opens a monographic exhibition devoted to the Korean artist Lee Ufan | | Christie's announces the Asian Art Week auctions | 
Maia Ruth Lee, Bondage Baggage Prototype 4, 2018. Tarp, rope, tape, luggage, used clothing, and bedding, 67 x 35 x 21 in. (170.2 x 88.9 x 53.3 cm). Image courtesy the artist and Jack Hanley Gallery, New York. Photograph by Brad Farwell.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Whitney Museum of American Art announced today that seventy-five artists have been selected to present their work in the 2019 Whitney Biennial, co-organized by two Whitney curators, Jane Panetta and Rujeko Hockley. This will be the seventy-ninth in the long-running series of exhibitions launched by the Museums founder, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, in 1932. Considered the countrys foremost survey of contemporary American art, the Whitney Biennial delivers a frontline report on whats happening in American art today. The 2019 edition will run from May 17 through September 22. Panetta remarked: Ru and I especially focused on emerging artists and first time Biennial participants: approximately ... More | | 
Lee Ufan, From Point, 1976. © Adagp, Paris 2018.
METZ.- Centre Pompidou-Metz is to present from 27 February 2019 a monographic exhibition devoted to the Korean artist Lee Ufan, tracing a career at the heart of his painted and sculpted work from his first creations from the end of the 1960s up until his most recent creations. The exhibition endeavours to show the manner in which the artists vocabulary has been transformed and has changed during the course of the last five decades of his creation, each series of works bringing about the following. Born in 1936 in a Korea at the time under Japanese domination, the traditional Confucian education which Lee Ufan received profoundly marked the artist that he was to become. Since the 1960s, Lee Ufan, is looking for an equilibrium between his Korean roots and his ties to Japan, then to the west, as well as between philosophy and art. His works are to be considered as much as encounters as experiences to be lived ... More | | 
A highly important and extremely rare gilt-bronze figure of a multi-armed Guanyin China, Yunnan, Dali Kingdom, 11th-12th century. Estimate: $4,000,000-6,000,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announces Asian Art Week, a series of auctions, viewings, and events, from March 14-26. This season presents nine auctions featuring over 1,000 objects from all epochs and categories of Asian art spanning Chinese archaic bronzes through Japanese and Korean art to contemporary Indian painting. The week is headlined by the landmark collection of Florence and Herbert Irving, the namesakes of the Asian Art Wing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and celebrated philanthropists of New York. The sales are titled Lacquer Jade Bronze Ink: The Irving Collection, in celebration of the materials the Irvings spent their lives studying and collecting. The week also welcomes the return of Japanese and Korean Art (March 19) to the schedule alongside the ... More |
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| | | Glory and disgrace: The complex legacy of Singapore founder Raffles | | The Currier Museum of Art celebrates 100 years | | Brandywine selects Cooper Robertson & OLIN to lead master plan | 
In this photo taken on February 25, 2019 shows a stone figure displayed at the exhibition entitled "Raffles in Southeast Asia: Revisiting the Scholar and Statesman", at the Asian Civilisations Museum in Singapore. Theodore LIM / AFP.
SINGAPORE (AFP).- Sir Stamford Raffles is best remembered as the founder of modern-day Singapore, but a new exhibition sheds light on less well-known exploits of a man also criticised as a disobedient adventurer and bloodthirsty imperialist. On February 6, 1819, Raffles, an agent of the East India Company which drove the expansion of Britain's empire in Asia, established a trading post in Singapore after signing a treaty with a local ruler. The tiny backwater at the foot of the Malay peninsular was one of many British settlements across the world, and there was little early indication it would develop into one of the world's busiest ports. But with a strategic location on global shipping routes, it quickly became a thriving trading hub. It has cemented this position since independence in 1965 and has ... More | | 
New Hampshires respected museum celebrates 100 years of passion and community commitment.
MANCHESTER, NH.- The Currier Museum of Art is celebrating its 100th anniversary. Since its creation a century ago, the museum has welcomed over a million visitors and displayed internationally significant works of art. This legacy of creativity has inspired generations of New Hampshire citizens as well as visitors from around the world. The Currier Museum was the dream of New Hampshires 49th governor, Moody Currier, and his wife Hannah. Although they were not art collectors, the couple left their estate to set up a museum for the benefit of the public. On February 19, 1919, the New Hampshire legislature voted to officially create the Currier Gallery of Art. The Curriers home on Beech Street is the site of what is today the Currier Museum of Art. The Currier Museum was created by a selfless act of generosity a hundred years ago. The museums art and creativity has touched many lives since that time, said Alan C ... More | | 
N. C. Wyeth Gallery. Photo by J. Fusco for VISIT PHILADELPHIA®.
CHADDS FORD, PA.- The Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art announced it will begin a master planning process headed by Cooper Robertson, a renowned New York-based architecture and urban design firm that will work in partnership with OLIN, the preeminent Philadelphia-based landscape architecture firm. To be conducted over the next eight months, the master plan will encompass a vision for the Brandywine to enhance its operations, the beauty of its campus and provide for inspiring spaces in which to view its renowned collection of American art. The need for a master plan was sparked by exciting growth in recent years throughout the organizationincluding the Museums collection, exhibitions program, and attendance, as well as the Conservancys land preservation, the acquisition of historic Birmingham Hill, and the creation of public trails. The master plan will set the ... More |
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| | | Hake's to auction original comic book art, Star Wars rarities, Negro League World Series photo | | Chanel's creations from Princess Leona Magaloff's former collection to be offered at auction | | Cottone Auctions' Fine Art & Antiques Auction led by Tiffany lamps | 
Only known example of 1930s Blue Ribbon Books store display for Pop-Up Books; lot includes a reading copy of The Pop-Up Mickey Mouse Book, est. $2,000-$5,000.
YORK, PA.- Just as superheroes have leaped off the pages of comic books to take over the motion picture industry, original comic art has confidently moved into the ranks of legitimate art. Hakes has been instrumental in bringing fine comic art to the auction marketplace and will present yet another outstanding selection in its March 13-14 sale. It is not at all uncommon to see original art from comic book pages or covers included in important collections, said Alex Winter, president of Hakes Americana. If an artwork in one of our auctions was created for a cover that illustrates a turning point in a significant storyline or marks the first appearance of a major character, we know there will be bidding competition from traditional art collectors. A case in point is ... More | | 
Gilt metal clutch, collection Métiers dart Pré Fall 2011 « Paris-Byzance », Estimate: 7,000-8,000.
PARIS.- On the upcoming 18 March, auction house Gros & Delettrez, in association with Chombert & Sternbach, will offer a sale entirely dedicated to Chanels creations from Princess Leona Magaloffs former collection. The singer, who notably performed during Salzbourgs festival and at the Volksoper of Vienna, settled in Paris during the 60s to pursue her passion for fashion. Jewels and accessories compose this exceptional collection, showing the unique savoir-faire of the brand and its collaboration with prominent designers such as Victoire de Castellane, Robert Goosens or Maison Gripoix. Robert Goossens (1927-2016) started working at Chanel in the 50s after having collaborated at Cartier. Internally, he rapidly became « Monsieur Bijou » and the master of costume jewelry. He was fascinated by the Antiquity period and draw his inspiration ... More | | 
Tiffany Studios (N.Y.) Peony lamp with 18 shade (est. $45,000-$65,000).
GENESEO, NY.- More than 300 lots of fine art, Tiffany lamps, 20th Century Art and design to be sold on behalf of the David Anderson Grandchildrens Trust, Buffalo, New York, also fine decorative arts, furniture, and Asian objects will come under the gavel at Cottone Auctions Winter Fine Art & Antiques Auction slated for Saturday, March 23rd, online and in the gallery at 120 Court Street in Geneseo, southwest of Rochester. The auction will begin at 12 noon Eastern. For those unable to attend the auction live and in person, internet bidding will be facilitated by the Cottone website, www.live.cottoneauctions.com as well as LiveAuctioneers.com, and Invaluable.com. The complete catalog with photos and descriptions can be seen now, at cottoneauctions.com; or, contact the Cottone gallery, at (585) 243-1000 for phone and absentee bidding. ... More |
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| | | Exhibition features an important body of works by Geta Brătescu from the past decade | | Kasmin announces representation of Matvey Levenstein | | Night Bonding: The Approach opens an exhibition of works by Anthony Iacono | 
Geta Brătescu in the studio, 2018. Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth and Ivan Gallery. Photo: Cătălin Georgescu.
LONDON.- Hauser & Wirth is proud to present Geta Brătescu. The Power of the Line. The exhibition features an important body of works from the past decade, during which time Brătescu focused predominantly on working with the line as a structuring principle. The exhibition was conceived over the last year in conjunction with the artist and in close collaboration with Marian Ivan and Diana Ursan of Ivan Gallery. For the duration of the exhibition, two film works will be screened in the centre of the gallery space giving insights into the immersive creative process of this remarkable artist. Brătescu originally studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Bucharest, in the late 1940s but was expelled due to the Communist partys objection to her parents middle class background. Over the course of a seven-decade career she went on to develop a deeply personal practice and ... More | | 
Matvey Levenstein, Pink Flowers, 2018, oil on copper, 10 x 8 inches, 25.4 x 20.3 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Kasmin Gallery. Photography by Diego Flores.
NEW YORK, NY.- Kasmin announced the representation of Matvey Levenstein. Matvey Levensteins paintings explore themes of history and representation, speaking to the relevance of Romanticism in the 21st Century. His quiet meditations are filtered through the most traditional painterly genresthe landscape, the still life, and the portraitand are imbued with a distinctly literary sensitivity. A sincere engagement with nature, combined with the prevalent cinematic aspects of Levensteins work, call to mind radical 20th-century filmmakers such as Andrei Tarkovsky and Ingmar Bergman. Levensteins interest in sites that have a largely unexplored historical significance has led him to old pilgrim cemeteries and to views towards Gardiners Bay. Beginning with snapshots, Levenstein is able to quickly capture a scenes formal properties before beginning ... More | | 
Hanger, 2017, acrylic on cut and collaged paper, 61 x 45.7 cm.
LONDON.- Anthony Iacono builds his distinctive collages by meticulously assembling hand-painted and cut fragments of paper. Seemingly masquerading as paintings due to their bold palette and slick, flattened surface, these collages merge the figurative with still-life to evoke strange night-time scenes. Bodies appear alongside quotidian objects such as fruit, plants, curtains, hangers, and shrimp cocktails. Iacono reconfigures the raison dêtre of these banal and everyday items, replacing their original functions with physical pleasure and perversion. Iaconos vignettes are influenced by voyeuristic 80s erotic thrillers and Queer horror films. He provides a window for the viewer to look through, just long enough to evoke a narrative.The very act of collage itself mirrors the discontinuous narrative the audience is invited to piece together from the clues left behind by the artist, like some kind of lascivious detective story. ... More |
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 Exhibition of five new paintings by Jim Shaw opens at Metro PicturesNEW YORK, NY.- Metro Pictures presents The Family Romance, an exhibition of five new paintings by Jim Shaw in the upstairs gallery. Known for blending personal, political, and surreal narratives, Shaw explores the realm of behavioral psychology and themes surrounding the family unit which he describes as the beloved core of the American dream. The title of the exhibition refers to a psychological complex identified by Sigmund Freud in 1908, whereby a young child or adolescent fantasizes that they are really the children of parents of higher social standing than their actual parents. Shaw recalls doing this himself as a child, although, in his words, he claimed to have been switched at birth and was really a Martian. Many of the works on view draw inspiration from vintage advertisements and publications, such as Alfred Barrs famous graph from ... More Dorota Chudzicka joins the Detroit Institute of Arts as Assistant Curator of Modern European ArtDETROIT, MICH.- The Detroit Institute of Arts has hired Dorota Chudzicka as assistant curator of modern European art in The James Pearson Duffy Department of Modern and Contemporary Art. Chudzicka has held research and curatorial positions at the Qatar Museums, the Freer|Sackler Galleries, and the Art Institute of Chicago. A specialist in 19th and 20th century European art, she has published on sculptor Stanislaw Szukalski as well as the history of collecting and the 20th century art market. At the DIA, she will be researching the DIA's collection of modern European art and contributing to modern European exhibitions and gallery installations. We are thrilled that Dorota has joined the DIA, said Jill Shaw, Rebecca A. Boylan and Thomas W. Sidlik Curator of European Art, 1850-1970. She brings with her an exceptionally strong record of research and scholarship ... More Hollis Taggart announces exclusive representation of two estatesNEW YORK, NY.- Hollis Taggart announced today the exclusive representation of the Michael (Corinne) West Estate. Michael West (1908-1991)born Corinne Michelle Westis recognized by art historians as a vocal and active participant in the development of Abstract Expressionism, bringing a highly developed personal philosophy and vision to her work. Despite her substantive contributions to the dialogues and artistic innovations that shaped the movement, West is largely remembered for her relationship with artist Arshile Gorkyher own narrative obscured by the sexism of the period and the passage of time. With its new representation of Wests estate, Hollis Taggart aims to rectify the omission of Wests practice within our understanding of Abstract Expressionism and its relationship to subsequent modern art movements. The gallerys representation ... More First solo exhibition by painter Silke Otto-Knapp with Regen Projects on view in Los AngelesLOS ANGELES, CA.- Regen Projects is presenting Land and Sea, the first solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based painter Silke Otto-Knapp to be held at the gallery. Known for her crepuscular landscapes and figurative tableaux that engage with the history of painting, Otto-Knapps signature style employs subtle washes of watercolor, slowly built up and removed layer by layer on the surface of the canvas to create form. Each carefully constructed composition embodies distinct temporalities and moods evoked through a juxtaposition of flatness and luminosity achieved through painterly chroma and surface texture. Drawing inspiration from a myriad of sources and subject matter including historical figures, landscapes and seascapes, poetry, modern dance choreography, theatre design, and textiles, her work engages both abstraction and representation, simultaneously ... More Lyndsey Ingram presents an exhibition of Georgie Hopton's horticultural prints and collagesLONDON.- The words cultivate your own garden and wildflowers take on new meaning in the art of Georgie Hopton (b. 1967). The British artist treats her garden as a palette, growing abundant produce on the Upstate New York farm she shares with her husband, the painter Gary Hume, and using the food and fruits she has harvested to create extraordinary monoprints. In addition, she prints these fruits and vegetables onto a wide variety of surfaces, including hand-blocked wallpaper and fabric designs and bespoke rugs all of which will be on display at Lyndsey Ingram, alongside her monoprints and collages, as the artist creates her own visual universe in the gallerys intimate space. Hopton disrupts the traditional notion of the still-life, selecting flowers, fruit and vegetables from her garden, then cutting them up and reincarnating them into new forms in her art. ... More Last stop on national tour, Nina Chanel Abney: Royal Flush opens at the Neuberger Museum of ArtPURCHASE, NY.- Nina Chanel Abney is one of the most important young artists on the rise today. Born in Chicago in 1982, Abney tackles controversy homophobia, race, politics, consumerism, and inequity in a manner she describes as easy to swallow, hard to digest. Her provocative yet spirited narratives on the social dynamics of urban life explode in her bold, flat, colorful paintings and collages, that are packed with symbols, numbers, words, emojis, figures and body parts all informed by celebrity culture, video games, social media, hip-hop, tabloid news, and the incessant 24-hour news cycle. Beginning on February 27, the Neuberger Museum of Art at Purchase College, SUNY, in Purchase, New York will present Abneys first solo museum exhibition, Nina Chanel Abney: Royal Flush, which was organized in 2017 by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke ... More Two-man exhibition of paintings by John Bellany and Alan Davie opens at Newport Street GalleryLONDON.- Newport Street Gallery will present an exhibition of work by John Bellany (19422013) and Alan Davie (19202014), opening on Wednesday 27 February. Titled Cradle of Magic, the two-man show will feature 48 paintings and works on paper. Spanning four decades, the exhibition demonstrates the importance of Celtic symbolism and imagery to these two visionary twentieth-century artists, working a generation apart. Born in Grangemouth in 1920, Alan Davie was one of the first British artists to explore Abstract Expressionist forms and techniques. Linked to the Scottish Renaissance movement a group of poets, musicians and artists who emerged in the first half of the twentieth century Davies work was informed by his interest in tribal and ancient art as well as Zen Buddhism. The earliest paintings in Cradle of Magic date from Davies ... More Crisis, what crisis? Qatari love of luxury going strongDOHA (AFP).- Abdulla Sager al-Khori has little doubt about the significance of a luxury watch when it comes to fashion -- and making a statement -- even in the thick of Qatar's diplomatic crisis. "Because we have the traditional dress the only thing we can use as an accessory are watches and cufflinks, so the watch is a big part of our being on top of fashion and being fashionable," said the 36-year-old who works in public relations. But Khori's passion for timepieces goes further than most -- he is a founding member of the Qatar Watch Club, a group of some 50 men who meet regularly to discuss their love of watches. It "started from just wanting a watch to just tell the time to... I want this watch because I love the history, I love how hard is it to make this mechanism and how complicated these watches are," he said. "So, it (went) from just a tool to telling the time to a passion ... More Lou Gehrig collection, elite trading cards set world records at Heritage AuctionsDALLAS, TX.- The sports memorabilia hobbys most anticipated evening lived up to its hype last weekend as the worlds largest collectibles auctioneer averaged well over $10,000 per item in its 864-lot Platinum Night auction, including a dozen six-figure results. Heritage further burnished its reputation for record trading card prices and fresh-to-the-hobby collections, as rare cardboard and The Lou Gehrig Collection dominated the top-dollar finishers. Death, taxes and world-record Platinum Night prices, said Chris Ivy, Director of Sports Auctions at Heritage. You can be certain about all three. Shoeless Joe was peerless in the high-dollar event, with Jacksons 1910 Old Mill and 1914 Boston Garter cards drawing the two top results of the auction at $600,000 and $480,000 ... More NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery opens ZimounABU DHABI.- NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery, the Universitys academic museum-gallery, has opened its spring show to the public. This exhibition presents the work of acclaimed Swiss artist Zimoun. This landmark survey marks the first time the artist has exhibited his work in the Gulf, and is curated by Executive Director of the NYUAD Art Gallery and Chief Curator at NYU Abu Dhabi Maya Allison. This exhibition features five immersive audio-visual installations, including a major new commission, an expansive room-sized installation that will be unveiled on the opening night. The other four are site-specific adaptations of Zimouns previous installations, and each of the works will be unique to the Gallery. Zimoun constructs extraordinary, immersive, sensory experiences. Each work has at its core a basic unit of every-day objects for example, a motor, a cotton ball, and ... More Bonhams celebrates Walt Whitman's 200th birthday by offering signed first copy of Leaves of GrassNEW YORK, NY.- Walt Whitmans astonishing copy of Leaves of Grass highlights Bonhams sale of Extraordinary Books and Manuscripts on March 12 (estimate: $200,000-300,000). This is the first editition, first issue, and signed by Whitman in block letters on the title page, as it was presented by Whitman to William Linton. Leaves of Grass is the only work of modern literature included in Printing and the Mind of Man ̶ the landmark catalogue of the most influential printed works in history ̶ where it is justly called America's second Declaration of Independence. Very few signed copies of the first edition exist, and this copy, attested to as Whitman's personal cloth-bound copy and called his working copy by one of the great collectors of the 20th century is unique among them, not only for its provenance and block-lettered signature, but also for being in the ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Spanish painter JoaquÃn Sorolla was born February 27, 1863. JoaquÃn Sorolla y Bastida (27 February 1863 - 10 August 1923) was a Spanish painter. Sorolla excelled in the painting of portraits, landscapes, and monumental works of social and historical themes. His most typical works are characterized by a dexterous representation of the people and landscape under the bright sunlight of his native land and sunlit water. In this image: JoaquÃn Sorolla y Bastida (1863 - 1923), Study of Hands, c. 1889. Charcoal on paper. Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas. Museum purchase with funds from Elizabeth Solender and Gary L. Scott, MM.2018.08. Photo by Kevin Todora.
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