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Helen Frankenthaler (American, 1928-2011). Stella Polaris, 1990. Acrylic on canvas, 96 x 108 in. Collection of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, New York. © 2022 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
NAPLES, FLA.- ArtisNaples, home of The Baker Museum and the Naples Philharmonic, today announced the September 6 opening of Helen Frankenthaler: Late Works, 1990-2003, a landmark presentation of the artists innovative work that serves as the anchor for the museums fall exhibition season. This fall, The Baker Museum presents a truly significant slate of exhibitions to launch the 2022-23 season, said CEO and President Kathleen van Bergen. From a landmark exhibition of the late works of Helen Frankenthaler to stunning multimedia installations by Korean-born artist Ran Hwang, and to the deeply impactful drawings of Mauricio Lasansky chronicling the horrors of the Holocaust, The Baker Museum offers visitors an opportunity to experience thought-provoking works by a range of artists. We are very proud of the range of excellence this season represents, and we are very honored to be one of the first museum ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its Carpe Diem - Ancient, Ethnographica, Fine Art sale on Sep 08, 2022 9:00 AM GMT-5. The Roman poet Horace introduced the phrase 'carpe diem' in 23 BCE, and his philosophy continues to inspire us. This week Artemis Gallery is presenting a curated selection of works spanning from ancient times to the present that all 'seize the day' in their own way. These pieces are united by their intention to capture the stuff that dreams are made of, or simply to unveil life's everyday pleasures. Costa Rican Chiriqui Stone Jaguar Metate. Estimate $8,000 - $12,000.
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| A bounty of gallery exhibitions and auctions headline Asia Week New York Autumn 2022, from September 14-23 | | Exhibition presents a group of works selected from over 400 by Zoe Leonard | | Tanya Bonakdar Gallery opens an exhibition of new work by Lisa Oppenheim |
Keisai Eisen (1790-1848), A Pocket Mirror of Beauties- Six Immortal Poets of the Era: Ariwara no Narihira, ca. 1826-28. Woodblock print, 14 7/8 x 10 in., 37.8 x 25.4 cm. Credit: Scholten Japanese Art.
NEW YORK, NY.- Asia Week New York announced that Autumn 2022, will run from September 14 to 23 with online and in-person exhibitionsincluding works from twenty-one international Asian art galleries and six auction housesBonhams, Christies, Doyle, Heritage, iGavel, and Sothebys. Thirteen of the galleries are simultaneously opening their doors to the public in New York, and the sales at the auction houses will be live and online. To launch the festivities, a special webinar titled Sherman Lee: Master of Art, moderated by chairman Dessa Goddard, will take place on September 13th at 5:00pm EST. A renowned curator and scholar of Asian art, Lee built one of the foremost Asian art collections at The Cleveland Museum of Art. Click here to register: ... More | |
Zoe Leonard, Al rÃo / To the River (detail), 2016 - 2022 © Zoe Leonard.
NEW YORK, NY.- Over the past three decades, Zoe Leonard has probed the conditions of image-making and the politics of display, bringing together photography, sculpture, and installation in her acclaimed conceptual practice. This fall, Hauser & Wirths West 22nd Street space in New York will host a selection from her latest photographic project Al rÃo / To the River (20162022), a six-year undertaking in which the artist photographed the 1,200-mile stretch along the Rio Grande / RÃo Bravo that runs between Mexico and the United States and is used to demarcate the border. The full work, Al rÃo / To the River, encompassing hundreds of photographs, debuted at MUDAM, Luxembourg, in February, and will travel to the Musée dArt Moderne, Paris this fall. Hauser & Wirth will present excerpts from this epic project ... More | |
Spolia, the Latin word for spoils, refers to architectural fragments taken out of their original contexts and reused elsewhere.
NEW YORK, NY.- Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is presenting Spolia, an exhibition of new work by Lisa Oppenheim, on view from September 7 through October 22, 2022. This is the artists fourth solo show at the gallery. Spolia, the Latin word for spoils, refers to architectural fragments taken out of their original contexts and reused elsewhere. There is a violence connoted by the word, of plundering and pillaging during wartime, but also something potentially generative: the same spoils used as the literal building blocks to create new structures. In this exhibition, Oppenheim uses the Nazis own documentation of their looting as the building blocks for all the works. She does not attempt to recreate or recuperate what was lost, but rather makes new artworks out of the images and fragments of ... More |
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| The McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College opens two innovative exhibitions | | Fine art in front at Roland Auctions NY final auction of the summer September 10th | | "Allison Janae Hamilton: Between Life and Landscape" opens at the Georgia Museum of Art |
Jim Woodring (1952), from Frank in the River, 1992. Marker on illustration board, 141/2 x 101/2 in., Collection of Jim Woodring. © Jim Woodring.
CHESTNUT HILL, MASS.- The McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College will present two innovative and historically significant exclusive exhibitions this fall, which respectively explore important periods of change: American Alternative Comics, 19802000: Raw, Weirdo, and Beyond looks at a transitional time for artistic comics in America; the retrospective Arnie Jarmak: Photographing Chelsea in Transition, 197789 focuses on demographic and social changes in Chelsea, the city north of Boston, witnessed and documented by the accomplished photographer. The exhibitions will be on display from September 6 through December 4, 2022. This groundbreaking exhibition explores the unique qualities of comics and the place of the medium in relation to art. Today, comics enjoy wide critical and academic acceptance, organizers note, but this respectability is only a few decades old. Literature ... More | |
Auguste Renior (French, 1841-1919) Le Chapeau Epingle, 2e planche (Pinning the Hat) original lithograph, 1897. Est. $4-6,000.
GLEN COVE, NY.- Roland Auctions NY in Glen Cove, NY will present their latest in a summer series of specially curated multi-estates auctions on Saturday, September 10th at 10am (EST) features hundreds of lots of fine and contemporary art, silver, decorative arts, unique Asian items, antique & vintage furniture, rugs, jewelry and lighting. Previews will be held on Thursday, September 8th and Friday, September 9th 10am - 6pm. The auction features a strong emphasis on fine and contemporary art, offering an exquisite Ker-Xavier Roussell (French, 1867-1944): "Baigneuses" (Bathers), impressionist oil on canvas painting of nudes in a river landscape setting titled "Baigneuses" (Bathers), unsigned. Circa 1906-1907, estimate $20,000 - $30,000, a Martiros Saryan (Armenian, 1880-1972): Mountain Scene, colorful oil on canvas painting of a mountain scene, signed and dated lower right, 1924. [23 1/4" H x 19 1/4" W], estimate $10,000 - $15,000 and an Elbrid ... More | |
Allison Janae Hamilton, Floridawater I, 2019. Archival pigment print, 24 x 36 inches, 61 x 91.4 cm Edition of 5 plus 2 AP (AJH.16752)
ATHENS, GA.- Artist Allison Janae Hamilton was born and grew up on southern soil. Now, she makes work in a variety of media about how nature and tradition intertwine to shape human experience, including that of Black Americans in the rural South. She has said, Im using the landscapes I know most intimately to focus on the specifics of that landscape and consider the histories and narratives of displacement, land loss, bodies, ownership of space and migration around that space. There is an assumption that the tie between landscape, the earth and Blackness is rooted solely in the past, that its not a contemporary lived experience. But thats not true. Im interested in all of these contemporary relationships between life and landscape. Drawing upon her experiences in Kentucky, Florida and her maternal familys farmland in western Tennessee, she uses this personal relationship with rural landscapes to illustrate how land influences people ... More |
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| From the town of Bedrock to the auction block, 'The Flintstones' get quality yabba-dabba-doo time at Heritage Auctions | | Chrysler Museum of Art names new Director of Communications | | Antique toys are on a roll at Milestone Auctions, with a fresh offering ready to impress on Sept. 24 |
The Flintstones Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble Character Design Drawing by Dick Bickenbach (Hanna-Barbera, c. 1960).
DALLAS, TX.- From the fall of 2016 until the spring of 2017, the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Ma., hosted the Hanna-Barbera: The Architects of Saturday Morning exhibition. Included in that wildly popular exhibition were original animation art, sketches and model sheets from The Flintstones, which, on Sept. 30, 1960, became primetime televisions first animated series and the only successful one until The Simpsons debuted 30 years later. For kids, the show was heaven: Cartoons at night! And for their parents, well, it wasnt The Honeymooners but close enough. Ten of those pieces displayed in the Rockwell Museum make their auction debut Sept. 23-26 at Heritage Auctions during the latest Art of Anime and Everything Cool Signature® Auction. This extraordinary cache of Flintstones works, which were also featured in the 1994 book The Flintstones: A Modern Stone Age Phenomenon, comes from the collection of longtime Flin ... More | |
Mars is an experienced marketing and creative professional, with a background in journalism graphics.
NORFOLK, VA.- The Chrysler Museum of Art announced the appointment of Ashley Grove Mars as Director of Communications. She will lead the Museums marketing and communications efforts, working with Museum staff to increase visibility of Museum initiatives and exhibitions. Ashley Grove Mars brings an impressive breadth of experience in communication to this role, and her background in journalism will be most useful as she helps share the Chrysler Museum of Arts story, said Erik H. Neil, Macon and Joan Brock Director of the Chrysler Museum of Art. As the Museum continues to cement itself as a premiere destination of arts and culture, strengthening our strategic communication efforts is vital to ensure the community is aware of all that we have to offer. Mars is an experienced marketing and creative professional, with a background in journalism graphics. She has worked in the news and media, healthcare, commercial ... More | |
Hiller Comet gas-powered tether racer with original paint, motor and Hiller Comet decal, 18in long. Very nice original example. Estimate $1,000-$1,500.
WILLOUGHBY, OHIO.- If anyone wondered whether new collectors were still entering the antique toy hobby or not, they got their answer last spring when Milestone Auctions closed the books on their headline-making Antique Toy Spectacular. Toy fans worldwide are still buzzing about the Popeye and Olive Oyl Tank that brought a record $105,000 at that sale. On September 24, Milestone will roll out a fresh offering of outstanding vintage toys from the Mark Smith Collection, with high-quality additions from other consignors. The 755-lot auction includes virtually all of the most desired categories, including: motorcycles, racers, Japanese tin friction sports cars, American cast-iron, tin and pressed-steel vehicles (including early Buddy L and Keystone productions); German and Japanese postwar battery-op cars, construction, military and character toys; antique and vintage bicycles; and antique pedal cars. Many of the toys retain their cris ... More |
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| Bruneau & Co. announces Part 1 of the Andy Yanchus collection | | Exhibition focuses on New York University's landmark NYU Art Collection | | San Antonio Museum of Art appoints Lisa Abel as new Chief Development Officer |
Lot 190 is a 1985 Polish Gdansk first generation Star Wars Prune Face movable rubber bootleg action figure, a rare sight for todays Star Wars collectors (est. $800-$1,200).
CRANSTON, RI.- Part 1 of the Andy Yanchus collection of plastic models, diecast toys, American models and vintage toys from the 1960s through the 1990s, will come up for bid on Saturday, September 17th, by Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers, starting promptly at 10 am Eastern time, online and live in the Bruneau & Co. gallery located at 63 Fourth Avenue in Cranston. Andy Yanchus is a highly regarded hobbyist and professional within the comic, model and toy world. His plastic model collection is one of the most comprehensive ever to come to market and features an impressive and diverse selection of Japanese science fiction model kits by Bandai, Imai, Tamiya, Midori, Aoshima and Bullmark. Diecast toys are by Popy, Takara and Nomura. Throughout all the categories in the sale, there is an overlying theme of Gerry ... More | |
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NEW YORK, NY.- The Grey Art Gallery at New York University is presenting Mostly New: Selections from the NYU Art Collection, the museums first exhibition since it closed in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The exhibition presents a compelling sampling of the New York University Art Collection, with more than 90 artworks by nearly 60 artists. Curated by the Grey Art Gallerys Lynn Gumpert and Michèle Wong, the show features recent acquisitions of modern and contemporary art from the Middle East by artists such as Farah Al Qasimi, Shahpour Pouyan, and Parviz Tanavoli and spotlights photography, with works by Harry Callahan, Peter Hujar, and Kenji Nakahashi, among others. Mostly New also debuts a selection of works from the Greys newly acquired Cottrell-Lovett Collection, donated by longtime art patrons, social activists, and downtown Manhattan residents Dr. James Cottrell and Mr. Joseph Lovett. Included are paintings ... More | |
At SAMA, Abel will design and lead a comprehensive development program, including major gifts, grants and other institutional funding, membership, annual giving, endowment funding, planned giving, events, and capital projects. Abel will report directly to the Museums Kelso Director, Emily Ballew Neff, PhD, while working with the Board of Trustees.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- The San Antonio Museum of Art announces the appointment of Lisa Abel as its new Chief Development Officer. Abel most recently served as the Director of Development at the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago where she lead a far-reaching, multi-channel development program for annual and multi-year growth, expanding the museums exhibition, education, endowment, and operational funding while also securing important gifts of art for the museums collection. Abel began her new role on August 1. At SAMA, Abel will design and lead a comprehensive development program, including major gifts, grants and other institutional funding, membership, ... More |
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A new group show at Fondation CAB in Brussels explores how variations of colour can stimulate human behaviour
BRUSSELS.- Fondation CAB in Brussels presents an exhibition in which curator Grégory Lang considers the space of the foundation as a medium for new experiments by international and Brussels-based artists. ON THE LOOKOUT explores how variations of colour can stimulate human behaviour. This exhibition highlights the immersive and immaterial qualities of each artwork : while we investigate the space, we deepen our relationship with each of them. The dialogues and tensions created between the colourful installations and the architecture intensify our attention. With each moment being favorable to observe fleeting occurrences, an expanded time devoted to these encounters enhances our experiences. ... More
Math Bass is now represented by Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
NEW YORK, NY.- Over the past decade, artist Math Bass has developed a lexicon of symbols in the series Newz!letters, bodily forms, architectural fragments, animals, bonesarranged in a variety of scores, each symbol an empty space of meaning, filled in by the context in which it finds itself. Repetition of these symbols, rather than codifying them into one solid signification, exposes the difference at the heart of each iteration; there is always a gap in meaning, something unnamable left out of and left over in the viewers readinga jouissance. It is this gap in the symbolic where Lee Edelman states queerness liesnot as an easily categorized liberal identity but as a process of unmaking and undoing that leaves (gendered) subjectivity as we know it in question. That these symbols are familiar only heightens our unsettling; the negative ... More
September exhibition explores Gwangju Uprising in South Korea
NEW YORK, NY.- Forty-two years after the May 18, 1980 Gwangju Uprising in South Korea when a large number of demonstrators were killed by government troops, the exhibition, Blood and Tears: Portrayals of Gwangju's Democratic Struggle, continues to unfold fading truths and historical distortions. On view September 6 - October 21, 2022 at the Anya and Andrew Shiva Art Gallery, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, Blood and Tears explores the history of Gwangju, which had a leading role in the fight for democratic freedom and human rights and subsequently became a hub for internationally-recognized contemporary art. The exhibition is curated by Thalia Vrachopoulos, professor of art history at John Jay College, and independent curator Soojung Hyun. An opening reception will be held on September ... More
Lehigh University Art Galleries presents Shimon Attie's Starstruck: An American Tale
BETHLEHEM, PA.- Lehigh University Art Galleries is presenting a new, site-specific multimedia work by artist Shimon Attie; Starstruck: An American Tale. Invited to create a new body of work as Lehigh Universitys Horger Artist-in-Residence (2021-22) in the Department of Art, Architecture and Design, Attie has created an artwork which interrogates Bethlehems past and present as a microcosm of America. Following the citys founding as The Bethlehem of North America by Moravian Christian reformist and utopian settlers in 1741, it later enjoyed an industrial heyday in the late 19th to 20th centuries as the capital of Americas steel industry and then saw a subsequent collapse during the 1980s. Bethlehem, in its layered history, echoes the hopes, histories and values of many North American cities, particularly those in the Rust Belt. Atties project explores this distinctly Ame ... More
Serpentine presents Atta Kwami's last mural at its North Gallery Garden
LONDON.- Today, Serpentine unveiled the last mural commission from the late painter, printmaker, independent art historian and curator, Atta Kwami (1956 2021). The mural originates from a painting that Kwami was reworking in his studio in 2021 shortly before his death, making this the final, landmark public work of his pioneering oeuvre. The commission results from Kwami winning the 2021 Maria Lassnig Prize. DzidzƆ kple amenuveve (Joy and Grace), 2021-22, embodies Kwamis vibrant palette and abstract painting style. It characteristically plays with the colour and form improvisations that are distinctive of Ghanaian architecture and African strip-woven textiles, especially kente, made famous by the Ewe and Asante people of Ghana. Kwami was known for painting kiosks and archway sculptures that were conceived as expanded three- ... More
David Krut Projects' first solo exhibition with artist Vusi Beauchamp opens in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- David Krut Projects, New York is presenting The Cult of One, Part II, the gallerys first solo exhibition with artist Vusi Beauchamp. Through a selection of mixed-media paintings on canvas and unique works on paper, the exhibition explores visual narratives that comment on social and political landscapes in a South Africa thirty years post-Apartheid. Vusi Beauchamps provocative iconography employs popular culture, satire and stereotypes in service of a visual political commentary. The Cult of One, Part II seeks to interrogate current societal ills and musings against a backdrop of South Africas post- Rainbow Nation era a time that promised racial equality, upward mobility, and a better life for all after the countrys transition from Apartheid. Beauchamp examines the South African government currently embattled ... More
The Wallace Collection is hosting a corresponding exhibition to 'The Lost King: Imagining Richard III'
LONDON.- The Lost King, a new feature film from Pathé, launches nationwide in UK cinemas this autumn. It tells the remarkable true story of how one ordinary woman overcame every obstacle to track down the final resting place of King Richard III and give him an honourable burial. In partnership with the film, The Wallace Collection is hosting a corresponding exhibition devoted to one of British historys most controversial sovereigns. Coinciding with the 10th anniversary of the discovery of the remains of Richard III in Leicester, The Lost King stars Oscar nominee and Golden Globe® winning actress Sally Hawkins (Paddington, The Shape of Water) as Philippa Langley; Steve Coogan (Stan & Ollie) as her husband, John Langley; and Harry Lloyd (Game of Thrones, Jane Eyre) as Richard III. Arms and armour at the Wallace Collection play a major ... More
kamel mennour opens an exhibition of paintings by Dhewadi Hadjab
PARIS.- For me, dance has always been a site of curiosity. But what interests me in dance is the moment of failure, the instant in which the pose comes undone, when the posture breaks down, when the body trembles as it searches for the right gesture. I find this the sincerest movement, says Dhewadi Hadjab, whose imagination has been fed by videos including those of Pina Bausch, whom he particularly likes. His interest in the choreographed body first came out of a friendship he had with a dancer in Algeria. Since then, it has become an obsession. To the point that every painting is the occasion to think about the lines of the next bodyduring the long hours he spends on a canvas, Dhewadi Hadjab sometimes moves off to rapidly sketch new poses and figures in preparatory sketchbooks. These intuitive postures then become the starting ... More
Big Top bonanza as W.E. Berry circus posters and artwork trounce estimates at Ewbank's
LONDON.- Acrobats, clowns and ringmasters cast in full colour among original artwork and posters from the W.E. Berry Collection soared to thousands of pounds at Ewbanks on August 19. The surviving archive of the great Bradford-based producer, printer and distributor of posters for more than 75 years from the 1920s included celebrated and rare designs. Initially working with Paramount, W.E. Berry produced designs for the Ealing Comedies, Ranks overseas posters, Disney, Columbia Pictures and Universal Studios, as well as for railway companies and Bertram Mills Circus. The company continued to flourish until financial difficulties led to its going into administration early in the 2000s and it closed in 2004. Ewbanks conducted a highly successful auction of part of the collection in 2020, now bringing another rare selection together, including original ... More
Americas Society presents 'Tropical is Political: Caribbean Art Under the Visitor Economy Regime'
NEW YORK, NY.- Americas Society presents Tropical is Political: Caribbean Art Under the Visitor Economy Regime, an exhibition that explores the themes of natural and fiscal paradise, examining their geographical coincidence in the Caribbean and the impact of tourism and the visitor economy on art and cultural production from the region. This term denotes the ways in which a society is transformed by economic activity services and goods consumed of visitors, wherein the economy is reconfigured to serve the visitor. Curated by Marina Reyes Franco, Tropical is Political will display works by nineteen contemporary artists working within the Caribbean sphere and its diasporas, including Gwladys Gambie, Allora & Calzadilla, Carolina Caycedo, SofÃa Gallisá Muriente, Abigail Hadeed, Joiri Minaya, José Morbán, Dave Smith, Yiyo Tirado, ... More
Edwynn Houk Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Sebastiaan Bremer
NEW YORK, NY.- Edwynn Houk Gallery is presenting New Portraits, an exhibition by Sebastiaan Bremer (Dutch, b. 1970). In this series, Bremer's hand-painted photographs use abstraction to create uniquely comprehensive and insightful portraits. Rather than pinpoint an exact moment of representation, these works highlight the ways that a person, and their likeness, are constantly shifting. The resulting images suggest that movement, distortion, and abstraction do not obstruct truthful representation, but on the contrary, are necessary to embody the essence of a person through portraiture. Photographing himself, his friends, and family members, Bremer uses a long-exposure technique to create larger-than-life images of his subjects in movement. When seen from a distance, the subjects facial features appear distinct, recognizable though not in focus. Upon ... More
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Indigo Waves and Other Stories
Flashback On a day like today, American painter Grandma Moses was born September 07, 1860. Anna Mary Robertson Moses (September 7, 1860 - December 13, 1961), better known as "Grandma Moses", was a renowned American folk artist. She is often cited as an example of an individual successfully beginning a career in the arts at an advanced age. In this image: While Mamie Eisenhower points out a feature on the Grandma Moses canvas of their Gettysburg farm President Dwight Eisenhower smiles his pleasure Jan. 18, 1956, as he receives the painting, a gift from the Cabinet to commemorate the third anniversary of his inauguration. A gold serving dish, on the table before them, was presented on behalf of the Nation's Republican women. From left to right are President Eisenhower; Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey; Mrs. Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. At left is Vice President Richard Nixon.
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