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For Mikel, creating art is as much about listening as it is about doing. His process begins with a seemingly spontaneous but spiritually guided collection of materials.
NEW YORK, NY.- Jay Mikals art isnt just a visual experience; its an invitation to explore the spiritual, cosmic, and deeply personal dimensions of existence. Known for his vibrant, mixed-media pieces that incorporate everything from resin to taxidermy, Mikels work blurs the line between art and spiritual practice. For him, creativity is more than a skillits a divine calling. In this interview, Mikel shares insights into his process, inspirations, and the transformative journey that led him from the corporate world to becoming a celebrated artist. From the meticulous selection of materials to the infusion of spiritual energy into every piece, Mikels art reflects a unique vision fueled by faith, devotion, and a fascination with the mysteries of the universe. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Exhibition view: Steina: Playback, MIT List VisualArts Center, 2024. Photo: DarioLasagni.
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| Stunning prehistoric mastodon unearthed in New York | | Morphy's 'lured' collectors of antique fishing baits to $900K+ sale of Wayne Edens collection, Part I | | Hamburger Kunsthalle looks at the diverse facets of the theme of illusion in art |
The excavation and study of the mastodon jaw are part of ongoing efforts to document and preserve the rich paleontological heritage of the state.
ALBANY, NY.- A remarkable discovery in Orange County, New York, has unearthed a complete mastodon jaw, marking the first such find in the State in over 11 years. The jaw, along with additional bone fragments, was recovered by researchers from the New York State Museum and SUNY Orange from the backyard of a residence near Scotchtown, New York. The fossils are scheduled for carbon dating and comprehensive analysis to determine the mastodons age, diet, and habitat during its lifetime. Following preservation and scientific analysis, the artifact will be featured in public programming in 2025. The mastodon jaw, which belonged to an adult individual, was found protruding from the topsoil, capturing the homeowners attention and sparking an investigation that will continue to uncover scientific insights for years to come. The discovery began when the homeowner found two teeth concealed by the fronds of a plant on their property. Upon ... More | |
One of the legendary original eight Heddon factory board frog lures hand-carved circa 1898 by Heddon company founder James Heddon. Sold within estimate for $30,750.
DENVER, PA.- The water was fine and the bidders were biting at Morphys December 9 auction of the Wayne Edens collection of antique and vintage fishing lures, Part I, which tallied more than $900,000. The 622-lot sale was singularly focused on treasures from the Edens collection, the largest, most comprehensive and historically-important collection of its type ever to come to the public marketplace. As predicted, the top lot of the day was an all-original Heddon frog lure (or bait) personally crafted by James Heddon, founder of the Heddon Company. One of eight created and subsequently exhibited on a display board at the Heddon plant in Dowagiac, Michigan, the frog was formerly the property of Dudley Murphy (1940-2022), co-founder of the National Fishing Lure Collectors Club. Murphy had obtained the lure directly from the Heddon factory. In addition to its unbroken line of provenance, Edens frog lure ... More | |
Francisco de Zurbarán SchweiÃtuch der hl. Veronika, um 1635â40.
HAMBURG.- With a large-scale exhibition spanning several epochs, the Hamburger Kunsthalle looks at the diverse facets of the theme of illusion in art from the Old Masters to the present day. Trompe-lâÅil has been widely used in art since antiquity, flourishing in particular in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. And this technique continues to fascinate artists today, when the spread of fake news is almost normal, when people are confronted daily with manipulated images on the internet and virtual reality seems to be expanding our cosmos into infinity. We now live in the certainty that we can no longer trust our eyes, that images are deceptive and are used to depict what is desired rather than what is. But the exhibition shows how illusion means far more than merely deceiving the eye. It is manifested in the (illusionistic) self-love of Narcissus as well as in spatial illusions in architecture, in the play of concealing and revealing via the pictorial motifs of the curtain and the mask, in the ... More |
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| A mighty assemblage: The Marvel Comics Library. Avengers. 1963-1965 | | Rohini Devasher - Deutsche Bank's "Artist of the Year" 2024: First European solo exhibition at PalaisPopulaire | | Oldest inscribed tablet of the Ten Commandments soars to $5M at Sotheby's |
If the Fantastic Four were family, then the Avengers were the co-workers you didnt choose.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Marvel Comics Library. Avengers. 19631965 Edition is a comic book collection; its a time capsule, a meticulously crafted artifact that transports the reader back to the genesis of one of the most iconic superhero teams in history. This impressive hardcover volume, weighing in at 6.67 pounds and spanning 642 pages, is a testament to the enduring power of these early Avengers stories, offering a pristine and insightful look at the dawn of Earths Mightiest Heroes. This collection covers the first twenty issues of The Avengers, a period of rapid evolution and dynamic storytelling. Its a journey through the formative years of a team that, unlike the familial Fantastic Four, was built on a foundation of professional, sometimes volatile, partnerships. The initial rosterThor, Ant-Man, the Wasp, the Hulk, and Iron Manrepresented a diverse range ... More | |
Installation view PalaisPopulaire 2024.
BERLIN.- Rohini Devasher (*1978, New Delhi) is Deutsche Banks Artist of the Year 2024. To mark this award, the PalaisPopulaire in Berlin is presenting the Indian artists first solo exhibition in Europe from September 12, 2024, to March 10, 2025 under the title Borrowed Light. Since 2010, Deutsche Bank has honored an artist each year, thus providing a platform for new positions in contemporary art. Rohini Devasher was nominated by Stephanie Rosenthal, Director of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Project, who was head of the Berlin based Gropius Bau until 2022. Rohini Devasher uses a research-based approach to create complex narratives that address the urgencies of our daily lives, says Rosenthal. The title of the exhibition, Borrowed Light, refers to light, which plays a central role in astronomy. At the same time, it is an architectural term for light that is reflected or borrowed from an adjoining space to illuminate an otherwise dark ... More | |
Dating to Late Roman-Byzantine Era ( ca. 300 - 800 CE), the remarkable artifact is the only known complete example of its kind. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys auctioned one of the most widely known and influential texts in history: the oldest inscribed stone tablet of the Ten Commandments. Dating to the Late Roman-Byzantine period, this remarkable artifact is approximately 1,500 years old and is the only complete tablet of the Ten Commandments still extant from this early era. It was offered as a single-lot sale on 18 December. Weighing 115 pounds and measuring approximately two feet in height, the marble tablet inscribed in Paleo-Hebrew script, was unearthed in 1913 during railway excavations along the southern coast of the Land of Israel, near the sites of early synagogues, mosques, and churches. The significance of the discovery went unrecognized for many decades, and for thirty years it served as a paving ... More |
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| The Sinebrychoff Art Museum announces two temporary exhibitions next year | | Robert Mann Gallery opens a solo exhibition of works by Mary Mattingly | | Amazon's cultural richness and ecological significance spotlighted at CCCB exhibit |
Maurice Denis (18701943): Ulysses with Calypso, 1905. Finnish National Gallery / The Ateneum Art Museum.
HELSINKI.- In 2025, the Sinebrychoff Art Museum invites you to come to hear tales of ancient heroes and to immerse yourself in mythical Spain. Classical Heroes will be the first to step onto the stage. On their journeys we get to experience big emotions and incredible plot twists. Opening in September, Spain Beyond the Myths, featuring paintings by Spanish artists from the 19th and 20th centuries, will show spellbinding Spain and its mythical imagery. Stories of ancient heroes involve strength, wit, beauty, sacrifice, misfortune and, above all, incredible plot twists. Those ingredients are very much alive in Western culture and lure us into the world of hero tales. The exhibition examines the mantle of heroism and what lies beneath it. What makes a hero a hero? Heroism ... More | |
Mary Mattingly, Night Garden, 2023. Archival pigment print, 20 x 20 inches. Edition of 5, plus 2 APs.
NEW YORK, NY.- Flower blooms at night invite us to delve into enchanting gardens after dark. Gardens require attention and care, slowly growing and evolving. The gardener must listen and negotiate the vast will and system of its universe. Each plant carries histories, symbolisms, mysteries, and mutations, emerging in these collages as emblems of adaptation. Robert Mann Gallery is presenting Night Gardens, a solo exhibition of works by Mary Mattingly on view from December 12, 2024 through February 7, 2025. Gardens produce food, medicine, fragrances of the earthflowers, mulch, composttextures, colors, and life. Birds, insects, and hidden movements stir in the dark, reminders that a garden is a world of its own. In this vibrant exhibition, Mattingly creates hyper-detailed images merging physical and ... More | |
Installation view.
BARCELONA.- Amazons. The Ancestral Future takes us into the immense natural and cultural richness of the territory, cities and indigenous communities of the Amazon to discover the art, the thinking and the huge ecological impact of a region that is central for the future of the planet. The exhibition takes a collective look at Amazonian culture and highlights indigenous voices that through art, thinking, science and activism propose other ways of living, growing and relating to nature. Amazonia is vast in its extension and diversity: it crosses nine states where over 30 million people live, 60% in urban areas. The region is also the original habitat of some 400 indigenous peoples who speak over 300 different languages. The temperature of the planet and climate change depend on the Amazon rainforest, the worlds largest tropical ecosystem. Amazons. The ... More |
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| Exhibition at National Museum Zurich focuses on everyday life | | Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna presents a new series of works by the renowned Austrian jewellery artist Anna Heind | | Art Institute of Chicago announces top acquisitions of 2024 |
As shop density increased in the 19th century, permanent availability of products just around the corner became common in towns and larger villages. © Swiss National Museum.
ZURICH.- Whether at markets, from door to door, in department stores or online: where and how we shop have changed significantly over the past 170 years. The way we consume and what we consume are also constantly changing. A wide variety of photographs as well as graphic products from the poster to the shopping bag bear testament to that. The exhibition at the National Museum Zurich shows eclectic imagery from everyday life. The first part of the exhibition covers the history of the main sales locations. They have multiplied since the mid-19th century following economic and social developments from industrialisation to digitisation. Markets and street and door-to-door selling have been joined over time by shops, wholesalers, department stores, shopping centres and online shops. Photos and graphic objects attest to the unique character of each of these sales points as well as showing historic aspects of the retail business. These include the ... More | |
Anna Heindl, Orange Moon in Leaves, 2015. Ring 19k gold, orange moonstone, stainless steel © Anna Heindl, Photo: Manfred Wakolbinger.
VIENNA.- The Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna is presenting a new series of works by the renowned Austrian jewellery artist Anna Heindl (born 1950) in the Kunstkammer. The diptych The Marriage of St Catherine (around 1400) by the so-called Master of Heiligenkreuz served as a central source of inspiration for Heindl's latest creations. In an intensive artistic and researching process, Heindl explored the important work from the painting gallery, and puts 30 sculptural decorative objects into a delightful dialogue with the panel painting. The exciting interplay between contemporary jewellery design and the Gothic sacred painting is a first for the Kunsthistorisches Museum in this form. The diptych by the anonymous painter, who was one of Austria's most unconventional and mysterious personalities around 1400, originally came from the Cistercian monastery Stift Heiligenkreuz near Vienna. It was purchased by the Kunsthistorisches Museum in 1926. On the one hand, it depicts the ... More | |
David Bomberg, The Dancer, 1913-14. Watercolor, over brown crayon (recto), and charcoal (verso) on ivory wove paper, 67.3 Ã 55.5 cm (26 1/2 Ã 21 7/8 in.) The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Endowment Fund 2024.23.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago shared a selection of our most exciting acquisitions of 2024. This year, the museum added more than 1,000 new works to its permanent collection, expanding multiple departments with works ranging from southern African beadwork to rarely-viewed surrealist paintings. These impressive additions further the museums commitment to diversifying its iconic collection across time, geographies, artistic movements, and mediums. Below are examples of some of the critical works that are building our collection, including familiar, beloved artists as well as new, important voices. Los Angeles-based architect Michael Maltzan is known for an array of projects that contribute to the public realm through rational, innovative, and pragmatic designs. Completed in 2014, Star Apartments by Michael Maltzan Architecture provides permanent supportive housing to formerly unhoused ... More |
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Marlon Mullen painting the final piece for his solo show
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Laura Springer joins Thaddaeus Ropac as Global Head of Environmental SustainabilityLONDON.- Thaddaeus Ropac shared that Laura Springer has joined the gallery as the Global Head of Environmental Sustainability, based in Salzburg. Continuing the gallerys commitment to developing and implementing impactful sustainability initiatives, this newly created role enables us to accelerate efforts across our international galleries. We are taking an ambitious approach to the development and diversification of our goals and commitments to sustainability, and Lauras expertise and passion in this field is a driving force in establishing a more sustainable future for the gallery. Thaddaeus Ropac Laura will spearhead the development of the gallerys climate action plan, building on measures already in place, including the transition to green electricity globally. Her work will be essential in guiding our efforts to align with international ... More 2025 exhibition program at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los AngelesLOS ANGELES, CA.- Season highlights include the much-anticipated MONUMENTS, which juxtaposes decommissioned Confederate statues with contemporary artworks; and MOCA Focus: Takako Yamaguchi, the artists first solo museum show in Los Angeles. Additional highlights include Diary of Flowers: Artists and their Worlds, an exhibition exploring how artists construct imaginative and personal networks; Tracing Performance, Fictions of Display, showcasing collection works that consider the relationship between objects, theater, and performance; and the U.S. debut of Wael Shawkys acclaimed Drama 1882. Offering a dynamic array of perspectives and a wide-ranging program, The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) is pleased to announce its 2025 exhibition schedule. The museums season invites visitors to engage ... More Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia breaks groundATLANTA, GA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgias (MOCA GA) staff and board were joined by friends, supporters, and artists on Wednesday, December 18, for a special groundbreaking ceremony marking a new chapter for the organization. Throughout the duration of the capital campaign to fund the facilitys construction, donors were given vials of an original artifact from a rammed earth sculpture featured in MOCA GAs inaugural exhibition Martin Emanuel: Sculpture, which opened to the public on February 3, 2002. To symbolically unite MOCA GAs legacy and history to its prosperous future, all attending emptied the contents of their vials onto the ground that will hold the entryway of the new museum. Immediately following the ceremony, concrete was poured over the earth, cementing MOCA GAs future on this property. MOCA ... More Galerie Eva Presenhuber is presenting its debut solo exhibition with Nairobi-based artist Chemu Ng'okZURICH.- Ngoks work spans the practice of both spontaneous ink drawings and abstract figurative paintings imbued with psychological and emotional depth. Echoes builds on previous explorations and new concerns influenced by an ever-changing environment. A selection of the works on show were painted in the context of significant socio-political upheaval in Nairobi. In contrast, another section of the exhibition, realised in Lamu in the latter stages of the summer, marks a departure in composition and thematic exploration. Reflecting on her experience of painting between different cultural, socio-political and geographical contexts, Ngoks reflections adapt to shifting contexts. Disorder should not be thought of as chaos, but rather as a process of relinquish and creating. [1] Françoise Vergès Painted in bold swathes ... More The Brooklyn Museum and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco announce Monet and Venice BROOKLYN, NY.- The Brooklyn Museum and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco announced Monet and Venice, a co-organized exhibition that will reunite Claude Monets extraordinary group of Venetian paintings. The exhibition will bring together more than twenty of Monets Venetian views from public and private collections around the world, including two masterpieces from the collections of the Brooklyn Museum and the Fine Arts Museums of San FranciscoThe Doges Palace and The Grand Canal, Venice. It will mark the first dedicated exploration of Monets luminous Venetian works since their debut in 1912, placing them in context with select paintings from key moments throughout his career, and in dialogue with portrayals of the city by artists such as Canaletto, Ãdouard Manet, John Singer Sargent, J. M. W. Turner, ... More Art Central cements position as a cornerstone event of Hong Kong Art Week with announcement of tenth editionHONG KONG.- Art Central and its long-standing partner, UOB, announce the tenth edition of Art Central, cementing its position as a cornerstone event of Hong Kong Art Week. Committed to nurturing Hong Kongs arts ecosystem and supporting artists and galleries from across Asia and beyond, Art Central 2025 will take place at its iconic Central Harbourfront location from 26 to 30 March 2025 (VIP Preview 25 March). Presenting a wide range of artwork and programming from Asias most cutting-edge galleries, along with mid-career and established artists, the Fair is set to be a cant-miss event for collectors and art lovers during Hong Kongs annual celebration of the arts, offering visitors an experience that fosters ... More SeMA, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art presents '2024 Title Match: Hong Lee, Hyunsook vs. Ji Hye Yeom'SEOUL.- Whether its encountering religion or art, isnt every meeting born from an intensely subjective, profound sense of contact? Hong Lee, Hyunsook Hong Lee, Hyunsook and Ji Hye Yeom, who share an artistic approach of integrating physical and microscopic sensations with a consciousness of societal issues, come together in Fold the Time with the Ground. The artists closely observe a world shaped by the intersecting forces of climate issue, war, and technological rivalry. Sensitively attuned to the global crisis hurtling toward collapse, they develop material thinking that is processed through their own bodies. Through this, they present bold, large-scale new works that reveal a fresh approach to response-ability, maintaining a sense of responsibility toward the entangled relationship between the self and all beings on Earth. The direct ... More Art Paris returns to the Grand Palais in April 2025PARIS.- From 3-6 April 2025, Art Paris, the leading spring event for modern and contemporary art, is back with a bang at the Grand Palais, whose entirely renovated Nave and balcony spaces will allow the fair to host 170 exhibitors from 25 different countries (34 more than in 2024). At this edition, the fairs events programme will be even more ambitious with new themes, exhibitions, prizes and panel discussions. The Art Paris VIP programme, a regular feature, provides a choice of 31 exhibition visits and tours reserved exclusively for guest collectors and art professionals, highlighting the effervescent Parisian cultural scene. The 2025 selection embodies the unique identity of Art Paris, a fair that is both regional and cosmopolitan and, as ever, a place of artistic discovery: 60% of the exhibitors are from France with 40% of international galleries. Moreover, ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Ignacio Villarreal Junco founder of ArtDaily was born  December 20, 1941. Ignacio Villarreal Junco (December 20, 1941 - July 26, 2019) Journalist, graphic designer and publicist between the 1960s and 1990s, creator of concepts, images, slogans, logos, campaigns and founder of ArtDaily.com The First Art Newspaper on the Net. As editor he published the magazines: Gala (1965), Creatividad (1972-1977), Espacio (1983-1984), Museos (1995-1996). For ten years he made the Agenda del Arte (1987-1997). He made the serigraphic editions titled: 1976-Calendario Gráfico, 1977-Alfabeto Gráfico. He also edited serigraphs with the visual artists: José LuÃs Cuevas, Juan Soriano, Juan Genovés. Corporate Identities: 1968 - Hylsa, 1970 - Universidad de Monterrey, 1974 - BanpaÃs, 1978 - Akra, 1985 - Ãbaco, 1990 - Club de Fútbol Monterrey, 1991 - Socrates Rizzo Campaign, 1992 - ConfÃa, 1993 - Mexlub, 1993 - Rogelio Montemayor Campaign, 1996 - Monterrey400 (Fourth centenary of the city), 2002 - UANL Tigres Soccer Club. As a publicist, he received 18 national awards: Teponaxtlis de Malinalco and as founding editor of ArtDaily, an art newspaper that has received 51 awards or distinctions.
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