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Gerhard Richter. Birkenau-Paintings, Drawings, Overpainted Photographs | Gerhard Richter: Zyklus Birkenau, Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin 2021 © Gerhard Richter 2021,Installationview K21, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen 2021, photo: Achim Kukulies.
DUSSELDORF.- K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen is presenting the Birkenau cycle by Gerhard Richter (b. 1932), created in 2014. The work is based on four photographs that were clandestinely taken by prisoners of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Within his oeuvre spanning six decades, there are several works by Gerhard Richter that tackle the subject of the Holocaust and the (un-)representability of the crimes of National Socialism. It was not until his Birkenau cycle, however, that the artist found a form for and a way of dealing with the subject. The four photographs that serve Richter as the starting point for his Birkenau cycle were taken in August 1944 by Jewish prisoners who were part of the so-called Sonderkommando (special unit) of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Sonderkommando was a Nazi term for prisoners who were forced to assist in the murder of priso ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Twenty-five artists, makers, and architects are bringing their explorations of the built environment to Bellevue Arts Museum for the sixth BAM Biennial exhibition.
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| Asia Week New York announces 2022 roster | | Over 150 groundbreaking works of art from 1970s to the present day on exhibition at Phillips | | Frisson: Iconic collection debuts at Seattle Art Museum |
Chinese Wood and Gesso Figure of a Seated Immortal, Circa: early mid-19th century. Height 18 ½ inches. Courtesy: Ralph M. Chait Galleries, Inc.
NEW YORK, NY.- After an 18-month hiatus, The Asia Week New York Association announced that 26 international galleries and six auction houses Bonhams, Christies, Doyle, Heritage Auctions, iGavel, and Sothebyswill participate, in person and online, in the 2022 edition of Asia Week New York, the week-long celebration of Asian art and culture that will take place from March 16th to 22nd. Says Asia Week New York chairman Dessa Goddard: We are delighted to announce our list of dealers and auction houses who are jointly opening their doors to the public in March. Everyone is excited to connect with the collectors and curators who have made New York such a major international destination for Asian art activities. According to Ms. Goddard, Fu Qiumeng Fine Art and MIYAKO YOSHINAGA will open their galleries in person to the public for their first Asia Week New York, while DAG, Ippodo Gallery and Giuseppe ... More | |
Jean-Michel Basquiat collaboration with Keith Haring, FUTURA, et al. Untitled (Fun Fridge), 1981-1985. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips will present 1970s / GRAFFITI / TODAY, an important and exciting exhibition spanning over fifty years of graffiti, curated by Arnold Lehman, with Elizabeth Wallace. The exhibition opens on 13 January 2022, running through 20 February, in Phillips New York headquarters at 432 Park Avenue. GRAFFITI includes works by a broad cross section of those who forged the graffiti centers of New York and Los Angeles. Comprising about 150 works consigned by artists, galleries and private collectors, the exhibition represents both the long history and broad scope of graffiti. GRAFFITI also includes major loans from the Sidney Janis collection at the Brooklyn Museum. Arnold Lehman, Phillips Senior Advisor, said, Graffiti is the only artform with which every single American has firsthand experience. It elicits a response in people from all backgrounds, ranging across a spectrum from reverence to outrage. ... More | |
Francis Bacon, Portrait of Man with Glasses I, 1963. Oil on canvas, 13 1/2 x 11 1/2 in. Seattle Art Museum, Gift of the Friday Foundation in honor of Richard E. Lang and Jane Lang Davis, 2020.14.6 © The Estate of Francis Bacon. Photo: Spike Mafford / Zocalo Studios. Courtesy of the Friday Foundation.
SEATTLE, WA.- The Seattle Art Museum presents Frisson: The Richard E. Lang and Jane Lang Davis Collection (October 15, 2021ongoing), celebrating the gift of 19 exceptional works of art recently donated by the Friday Foundation in honor of late Seattle collectors and philanthropists Richard E. Lang and Jane Lang Davis. Richard E. Lang and Jane Lang Davis built their collection during the 1970s and early 1980s, filling their home with singular works of art. In little more than a decade, they assembled one of the most significant private collections of Abstract Expressionist paintings and sculptures on the West Coast, augmented by two towering European artists of the same period. They were also devoted philanthropists in a burgeoning Seattle cultural scene. This exhibition celebrates their legacy ... More |
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| Asheville Art Museum acquires 25 new artworks | | Versatile and quick to act - what success looks like for the post-pandemic auction house | | Exhibition explores a crucial moment in the history of British Art |
Christopher McCoy, Resilient Times, 2021, non-glare acrylic on DiBond metallic print, 36 à 24 inches. Asheville Art Museum. © Christopher McCoy.
ASHEVILLE, NC.- The generosity of the Museum's Collectors Circle members and additional contributors enabled the Asheville Art Museum to acquire 25 new artworks for its Collection at the end of 2021. The Museum welcomes artworks created throughout the 20th and 21st centuries in a range of media by both regionally and nationally recognized artists. These artists include Peggy Bacon, Lynda Benglis, Sanford Biggers, Terry Haass, George Morrison, Robert Motherwell, Marilyn Pappas, David Stewart, Ansei Uchima, and Asheville-based Liz Williams. A highlight of this years Collectors Circle acquisitions is a grouping of works by artists featured in the exhibition A Living Language: Cherokee Syllabary and Contemporary Art, on view at the Asheville Art Museum through March 14, 2022. This exhibition was co-organized with the Museum of the Cherokee Indian in Cherokee, NC. The curatorial team identified the 14 ... More | |
One of only 250 violins ever created by leading Turin maker Carlo Giuseppe Oddone (1866-1935), this example, numbered 71 and dating to around 1910, took a premium-inclusive £71,500 at Ewbanks Auctioneers on December 3.
LONDON.- Being versatile and quick to take up opportunities will be the twin keys to success for auction houses moving forwards. That is the prediction for 2022 and beyond from Surrey-based Ewbanks, which has just announced a total of £4.2 million in sales for 2021, up 17% on 2020. Entertainment and Sporting Memorabilia remains the biggest seller, accounting for almost 30% of business, staying almost on a par with 2020. Jewellery and Watches, Ewbank's second best performing department, saw a 34% rise in totals, with Fine and Contemporary Art up 41%. Partners Chris and Andrew Ewbank have been watching changing trends keenly over the past two years to identify how the pandemic has affected business. While the volume of Asian art consignments remained level, bidding dipped significantly, with sales totals ... More | |
Gillian Ayres, Distillation, 1957. Tate: Purchased 1973. Photo © Tate © The Estate of Gillian Ayres.
SHEFFIELD.- A new exhibition at The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds, explores a crucial moment in the history of British Art, a period where the influence of Abstract Expressionism in America was filtering across the Atlantic. Curated by Anne Goodchild, The Expressive Mark traces the significant contribution to the development of British post-war art made by the pioneering artists exploring the abstract. The exhibition explores the British artists who produced works on a new scale, embraced the possibilities of abstraction, and developed new signature mark-making techniques. Exhibition curator Anne Goodchild said: To the post war generation of painters a new freedom of expression was offered by renewed contact with continental developments. This liberation resulted in a wide range of individual responses which showed an ambition of scale and energy frequently expressed in visceral, gesturally directed artistic practice ... More |
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| Moderna Museet presents an exhibition of works by Annika Elisabeth von Hausswolff | | Freeman's expands its commitment to clients through Client Advisory Services department | | Eli Klein Gallery presents Taiwanese abstraction master Ho Kan's first ever solo exhibition in the U.S. |
Annika Elisabeth von Hausswolff, Oh Mother, What Have You Done #008, 2019 © Annika Elisabeth von Hausswolff.
STOCKHOLM.- Moderna Museet opens its exhibition Alternative Secrecy with Annika von Hausswolff who is now known as Annika Elisabeth von Hausswolff. Her photographs has dazzled the international art scene since the 1990s, and Alternative Secrecy also features her sculptures and installations. A separate part of the exhibition is dedicated to works from the Moderna Museet collection selected by the artist. Annika Elisabeth von Hausswolff (b. 1967) belongs to a generation of Swedish artists who emerged in the early 1990s under the visual and theoretical influence of postmodernist art. Today, von Hausswolffs practice is often associated with her early works inspired by crime scene photography, with immobile bodies in various situations. The mood and composition indicate that something atrocious has taken place, but what? The same questions are triggered in Annika ... More | |
Freemans understands that consigning beloved objects at auction is personal, and matches consignors trust in our services with tailored, specific strategies to meet individual goals and maximize results at auction.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Freemans announced the creation and expansion of Client Advisory Services, a department dedicated to bespoke service for Freemans clients throughout the buying and selling process. Freemans has had its clients at the core of its focus for generations, says Freemans Chief Executive Officer Fraser Niven. We are delighted to embody this ethos in Client Advisory Services, and both Tom and Grace will bring significant experience and care for our clients to bear on their new roles. We have ambitions to expand the team in the future to ensure exemplary service for our many consignors. Freemans understands that consigning beloved objects at auction is personal, and matches consignors trust in our services with tailored, specific ... More | |
Origin 17, 2010. Oil on canvas, 35 7/8 x 28 1/2 inches (91 x 73 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Eli Klein Gallery is presenting Geometric Calligraphy - Taiwanese abstraction master Ho Kans first ever solo exhibition in the United States. Ho is regarded as one of the most prominent figures in Taiwans history of art whose influence spans over five decades. This exhibition surveys 38 works in abstraction across a variety of disciplines including oil on canvas, charcoal on paper, ink on rice paper and silkscreen print. The works on display which were done from 2006 and 2019 exemplify Ho Kans unique lexicon of treating geometric abstraction (commonly referred to as cold abstraction) with the warmth of calligraphy and Eastern thoughts. Minimalism and geometric abstraction were responses in formulating our aesthetics in accordance with standardized production in the post-industrial era. This perspective is designed to be appreciated without a focal point or center of gravity; any color fiel ... More |
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| Tesla & Einstein among fine autographs and artifacts up for auction | | New exhibition features five centuries of art and displays major new acquisitions for the first time | | Michaan's kicks off 2022 with Romare Bearden, African American outsider art and vintage fine jewelry |
Nikola Tesla Autograph Letter Signed. Now At: $25,196 (10 bids) Estimate: $125,000+ Ends on 01/12.
BOSTON, MASS.- RR Auction's first sale of the new year brings over 1,000 rare and remarkable lots to the auction block! Important historical items include a handwritten letter by Nikola Tesla commenting on his place amidst Edison and Bell. In this fascinating 4-page letter, Tesla observes his place within the hierarchy of America's great inventors of the era: while Bell and Edison stood on the shoulders of inventors who came before, he insists that he stands alone. Nevertheless, this incredible handwritten letter reveals Tesla's broad knowledge of scientific history in addition to his honest thoughts on contemporary inventors and their inventions. (Estimate: $125,000+) Among other featured lots is the first honorary diploma awarded to Albert Einstein. The historic diploma awarded to Einstein by the University of Geneva for an honorary doctorate in physics, July 9, 1909, bearing printed signatures ... More | |
John Akomfrah, Vertigo Sea, 2015. © Smoking Dogs Films; Courtesy Smoking Dogs Films and Lisson Gallery.
CARDIFF.- In a brand-new exhibition, Amgueddfa Cymru National Museum Wales takes a bold approach to displaying its art collections at National Museum Cardiff as it opens The Rules of Art? (runs through 16 April 2023). In the most ambitious large scale, cross century art exhibitions in the museums history the exhibition explores new relationships between art pieces from the national collection and ask pressing questions about representation, identity and the environment in which we live. The exhibition brings together five centuries of painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, film and ceramic and feature work from artists such as Rembrandt, Thomas Jones, Pablo Picasso, Gwen John, Bedwyr Williams, Helen Sear, Rachel Whiteread and Clare Woods. The Rules of Art? also unveils a series of major new acquisitions by John Akomfrah (2017 winner of ... More | |
A Chinese Clair-De-Lune Glaze Lotus Bowl, Yongzheng Mark. Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000.
ALAMEDA, CA.- January brings fresh estate property and unique finds to Michaans buyers. With Valentines Day drawing near, jewelry is in the spotlight, with a special emphasis on vintage. The selection of fine art includes artists of great interest to collectors of all sorts. Wonderful pieces of African American outsider art will be sold. Fine modern furniture is featured, just in time for your springtime home decor refresh. A large processional group of Chinese pottery figures is among the Asian art highlights. Jewelry brightens every monthly auction on Michaans calendar, with a loyal following of avid bidders for the fine jewelry at the Gallery Auction, as well as for the wide range of lots offered at Michaans Annex warehouse sale. For the best value in fine quality and design, you cant beat buying jewelry at auction, notes Michaans jewelry specialist and GIA gemologist, Elise Coronado. January br ... More |
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SOM-designed "Breathing" building opens in Shenzhen
SHENZHEN.- Building on SOMs tradition of innovative engineering, the design for a banks new headquarters incorporates a distinctive external diagrid that significantly reduces solar gain. Inside, responsive solar shading technology and natural airflow enhance staff wellbeing. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has completed a 158-meter-tall, 33-story tower, located on the edge of a public park at the center of one of Shenzhens key business districts, that responds to the regions tropical climate through a series of biophilic and sustainable design solutions. The firm was commissioned by Shenzhen Rural Commercial Bank in 2012 to design a new headquarters that balances the banks vision for the future alongside its history as a rural credit union. The towers façade is defined by an external diagrid, which serves as both the buildings structure as well ... More
This award winning architecture firm is investing in the future of VR with this must see virtual gallery
BASEL.- As the virtual art experience continues to grow, award-winning international firm Oppenheim Architecture returns to showcase their second digital gallery space for the exhibition Again, Working Yesterday, debuting 10 new pieces from artist Michelle Grabner, directed by Anne Mosseri-Marlio. The gallery, designed by the traditionally brick-and-mortar architecture studio, was created to provide the ultimate immersive online experience that captures the natural abundance of space and lighting of an in-person gallery. Each painting and sculpture is brought to life through the use of photometry and visualization technologies provided in partnership with the architectural visualization agency The Boundary. Notably, the virtual gallery features a range of three-dimensional, multimedia works, which guests can experience in 360 thanks to the space's ... More
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg personal library offered exclusively at Bonhams
NEW YORK, NY.- Bonhams announced the sale of pioneering Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburgs personal library. Slated for January 19 -28, the online only sale will feature more than 1,000 personal books belonging to the late trailblazing justice dating from her years at Harvard and Columbia Law Schools, through her early career as a lawyer and law professor, to her appointment as a Federal judge and, finally, to the U.S. Supreme Court. This sale features approximately 100 lots of books, photographs, and ephemera from the Ginsburgs private library, including textbooks from her days as a student, legal publications from her long career as a litigator and law professor, and literature read by both Ruth and Marty Ginsburg during their long marriage (most with Ginsburg ownership bookplates to the front pastedowns) including ... More
Judge dismisses lawsuit over photo on Nirvana album
NEW YORK, NY.- A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a man who said he had been sexually exploited by the grunge rock group Nirvana when the band used a photo of him as a baby, naked and drifting in a pool, for the cover of the groups breakthrough album. In his complaint, the man, Spencer Elden, 30, accused Nirvana of engaging in child pornography when it used a photo of him as the cover art of Nevermind, the Seattle bands 1991 album that helped define Generation X and rocketed the group to international fame. The lawsuit was dismissed after a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California said that Eldens lawyers missed a deadline to respond to a motion for dismissal by the lawyers for Nirvana. Judge Fernando M. Olguin said that Eldens lawyers had until Jan. 13 to file a second amended complaint ... More
Towner Eastbourne presents a series of new works by Melissa Gordon
EASTBOURNE.- Towner Eastbourne is presenting a series of new works by Melissa Gordon. The presentation, Liquid Gestures, is the largest institutional exhibition of work by the artist to date. Formed of a series of new paintings and installation works, it invites us to reconsider the influence of women artists whose work has been eclipsed in art historical prose. Gordon is a British and American artist based in Brussels whose practice, as a painter, writer, and organiser, is concerned with the body, gesture, and painting through the lens of feminism. Liquid Gestures features new large-scale paintings that further her examination of modern art histories, ideas of authorship, and the appropriation of certain gestures. In Liquid Gestures, Gordon asks us to consider the significance and influence of artists such as Ukrainian-American Abstract Expressionist ... More
Kenneth Fuchs named 3rd annual Ellis-Beauregard Foundation Composer Award recipient
ROCKPORT, ME.- The Ellis-Beauregard Foundation announced Kenneth Fuchs is the recipient of its 3rd annual $20,000 Composer Award. With the Award, Fuchs will create a new work to be performed in 2023 by the Bangor Symphony Orchestra. Fuchs, a Grammy Award-winning composer and professor of composition at the University of Connecticut, was selected through a juried national competition and chosen from over 225 applicants. Fuchs says, The Ellis-Beauregard Foundations support for my music touches me deeply. I admire the Foundations mission of promoting community engagement and inclusivity through musical expression and look forward to creating a meaningful work that exemplifies these values in collaboration with my colleagues of the Bangor Symphony Orchestra. The jury was comprised of composers Augusta ... More
John Coker's January 15 auction features European fine art with important provenance
KNXVILLE, TENN.- On Saturday, January 15, 2022, John W. Coker & Co., will auction antiques and fine art from several distinguished estates and families. The online-only event, with absentee and Internet live bidding through LiveAuctioneers, is highlighted by a very special selection of European Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings formerly in the collection of Dr. Albert Kinkade Chapman (1890-1984), president and CEO of Eastman Kodak. Very few people even knew Dr. Chapmans collection existed before we auctioned part of his collection in 2010, said Coker Auctions founder/owner John W. Coker. He started collecting in the 1940s and acquired most of his artworks prior to the 1960s, buying from Knoedler, M.R. Schweitzer, Sam Salz, Milch and other well-known New York dealers. He never exhibited his collection. ... More
1878 Wells Fargo Express Chinese directory does well in Holabird's December auction
RENO, NEV.- A Wells Fargo Express Chinese Western directory from 1878 sold for $13,750, while signed and numbered photographs by Western photographer Ansel Adams (1902-1984) and rare tokens from the glory days of Americas Gold Rush era all did well in Holabird Western Americana Collections December Dreams: Premier Americana Auction held December 17-19. The three-day sale, held online and live at the Holabird gallery in Reno, featured over 1,900 lots of rare books, art, mining, numismatics, stock certificates, postcards and more. Highlighted collections included more parts of the Ken Prag postcard collection, the Bill McIver token and medal collection, the MacKenzie Montana collection and the Ron Lerch Western collection. Following are highlights from the auction, which enjoyed an 80 percent sell-through across all 1,900 ... More
Hunt Slonem: New Directions exhibition features new mediums and color palettes
BOCA RATON, FLA.- Hunt Slonem: New Directions is on view through January 29, 2022, at the Rosenbaum Contemporary gallery (150 Yamato Road) in Boca Raton, Fla.. The exhibition features new works by artist Hunt Slonem, who is best known for his neo-expressionist paintings of rabbits, butterflies and birds. The exhibition includes blown-glass and bronze bunny sculptures, bunny wall sculptures and glowboxes as well as bunny and butterfly paintings in bright, new colors. The blown glass and bronze sculptures and glowboxes are new mediums for Slonem, and mark a new phase of growth for the artist whose career has spanned nearly five decades. Produced at his West Coast studio in Seattle, Wash., the blown glass sculptures are a natural expansion of Slonems artistic vocabulary. Directing his team of artistic glassblowers in the formation ... More
Nicolas Deshayes presents his first major solo exhibition project in France
THIERS.- Nicolas Deshayes is interested in circulatory systems, domestic pipework, industrial production, and artisanal processes. His works navigate an abstract and mutant aesthetic, situated somewhere between two different axes of making: the organic gesture and industrial production. He operates on the threshold of liquid and solid to explore the relationship between the corporeal and the mechanical. Born in France in 1983, he studied at Chelsea College of Art and Design and the Royal College of Art in London before moving to Dover in Kent. While his work has been shown extensively in the UK, Germany, or Italy, he is presenting his first major solo exhibition project in France, occurring simultaneously in two venues: At the FRAC Grand Large in Dunkerque, which surveys ten years of work. At Le Creux de lenfer Art Centre in Thiers, for which ... More
Apollo Galleries to welcome 2022 with January 16 Ancient Art & Antiquities Auction
LONDON.- Apollo Galleries, Londons premier source for authentic, fully vetted ancient art and antiquities, will host its first auction of the New Year on Sunday, January 16, with absentee and Internet live bidding through LiveAuctioneers. The breathtaking assemblage of rarities from legendary civilizations is offered with authoritative descriptions and assessments from a newly-engaged team of specialists whose experience at the highest echelons of the art trade are amply documented. Each of the new consultants has a background ideally suited to an Apollo Galleries division. Emma Saber, an acknowledged authority on Greek, Roman, Egyptian and Near Eastern antiquities for more than 20 years and a specialist for Christies, is also a lecturer with Christies Education on the antiquities market and how to collect and catalogue antiquities. Richard ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French-American painter Yves Tanguy was born January 05, 1900. Raymond Georges Yves Tanguy (January 5, 1900 - January 15, 1955), known as Yves Tanguy, was a French surrealist painter. Tanguy, the son of a retired navy captain, was born at the Ministry of Naval Affairs on Place de la Concorde in Paris, France. His parents were both of Breton origin. In this image: A pair of earrings, painted by Yves Tanguy.
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