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Pioneer of photo art: Katharina Sieverding at K21

Katharina Sieverding, Installation view, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 2024, Photo: Bozica Babic.

DUSSELDORF.- The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen is honoring the internationally acclaimed photographic pioneer and critical voice Katharina Sieverding (b. 1941 in Prague) with a major retrospective. The award-winning artist, who lives in Düsseldorf, became known for her iconic close-ups of her own face and her large-scale photographs, which she was one of the first to introduce to the art world in the mid-1970s. Her monumental works, which can be categorized as performance, body art, and experimental film, have added a new dimension to photography. In her work, she addresses themes that, while highly topical, can be read as timeless. Her work is always an exploration of important issues such as ethical and political responsibility in the face of numerous global crises. To this day, Katharina Sieverding takes a political stance with her art: on National Socialism and the question of German identity against the backdrop of anti-democratic forces, as well as on global issues by repeatedly focusing ... More


The Best Photos of the Day
Best Photos of the Day
The many female artists who, from the 16th to the 19th century, made Rome their place of study and work with a rich, varied and highly artistic production, often relegated to a sort of historiographical "silence", are at the center of the exhibition "Roma Pittrice. Artiste al lavoro tra XVI e XVIII secolo", hosted at the Museum of Rome at Palazzo Braschi from 25 October 2024 to 23 March 2025.





SJ Auctioneers announces online-only Fine Collectibles, Jewelry, Silver & Toys auction   Bertoia's Nov. 22-23 auction welcomes holiday season with pedigreed antique toys, trains & banks   Extraordinary antique breweriana collection of former Anheuser-Busch exec on tap at Morphy's, Nov. 13-15


Eeoff & Shepard for Ball, Black & Co. coin silver pitcher, circa 1852-1861, beautifully adorned with raised natural motifs, bearing hallmarks and a monogram, 31.3 ozt. (est. $1,800-$2,500).

BROOKLYN, NY.- More than 150 lots of diverse items ranging from high-end estate silver to fine jewelry to rare vintage toys to wonderful decorative accessories will all come up for bid in an online auction slated for Sunday, November 17th, starting promptly at 6pm Eastern time, by SJ Auctioneers. Many of the items would make perfect ... More
 


Uncle Sam figural cast-iron doorstop. Estimate; $6,000-$10,000.

VINELAND, NJ.- No other collector-focused event embraces the arrival of the holiday season with as much spirit as Bertoia’s Annual Fall Auction, which will be held this year on November 22 and 23. Collectors know they can count on the Bertoia family’s final antique toy sale of the year to include rare and exquisite pieces from decades-old collections. The auction’s long list of featured collections is crowned by Ron Sieling’s ultra- ... More
 


Anheuser-Busch red and gilt double-handled ceramic pokal (celebratory vessel or trophy). Estimate: $15,000-$30,000.

DENVER, PA.- Dan Morphy, founder and president of Morphy Auctions, takes pleasure in announcing the November 13-15 auction of one of America’s most exceptional private holdings of antique breweriana: the Jim and MaryBeth Fischer collection. Amassed over 50 years, the couple’s assemblage of rare and unique advertising and merchandising artifacts spans a significant 100-year ... More


Leonora Carrington's masterpiece in sculpture to lead Sotheby's Modern Evening Auction   Full line-up unveiled: Sotheby's Hong Kong Modern & Contemporary Art Auctions 11 & 12 November 2024   Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art including Highlights from the Dalloul Collection totals $6,427,512


Showcasing Carrington’s fascination with magic, alchemy, and feminine power this monumental work appears at auction for the first time in 30 years. Est. $5/7M. Courtesy Sotheby's.

NEW YORK, NY.- The most significant sculpture ever created by Leonora Carrington will be offered at Sotheby’s this November during the Modern Evening Sale. Steeped in the artist’s rich visual language, La Grande Dame (The Cat Woman) is an ambitious and imposing work capturing the essence of Carrington’s creative exploration in the 1950s, touching on themes of feminine ... More
 


Sotheby's Hong Kong Modern & Contemporary Art Auctions preview Exhibition at Sotheby's Maison. Courtesy Sotheby's.

HONG KONG.- Sotheby’s Hong Kong is gearing up to stage its first modern and contemporary art auctions in its recently opened premises at Landmark Chater on November 11 & 12. Taking centre stage at Sotheby’s Maison are era-defining artworks from the East and West, including Mark Rothko’s strikingly vibrant, two-metre-tall canvas, Untitled (Yellow and Blue), which was painted during the pinnacle ... More
 


Auctioneer, Yu-Ge Wang selling the top lot Mahmoud Said (1897, Alexandria - 1964, Alexandria) Vue de la plage a Cassata en Grece (View of the beach in Cassata in Greece) © Christie's Images Ltd 2024.

LONDON.- Christie's announce the results of the seasonal Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art including Highlights from the Dalloul Collection live sale which took place today at Christie’s headquarters in London. The sale comprising 51 lots including 33 works from the Dalloul Art Collection achieved a total of £4,944,240 / US$6,427,512, exceeding the pre-sale high estimate. The ... More


Widest-ranging exhibition of Italian Renaissance drawings ever shown in the UK opens at The King's Gallery   Exhibition at Bundeshunsthalle presents dance as a global form of representation and expression   Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announces new acquisitions


Paolo Farinati, The goddesses of fruit and agriculture, and a personification of summer, c.1590.

LONDON.- The work of more than 80 Italian Renaissance artists will go on display at The King’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace from tomorrow (Friday, 1 November), in the widest-ranging exhibition of drawings from the period ever shown in the UK. Drawing the Italian Renaissance brings together around 160 drawings by artists including Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael and Titian, as well as lesser-known names, to demonstrate how drawing flourished between ... More
 


Leon James and Willa Mae Ricker demonstrate a Lindy Hop step © Gjon Mili / The LIFE Picture Collection / Shutterstock.

BONN.- One thesis on the origins of dance is that it was initially a way of communicating. Whether developed from movements at work or as a reaction to natural phenomena, dance has always described human interactions. Even in the earliest cultures, dance was an important part of rituals, ceremonies, festivals and entertainment. It may also have played a central role in the transmission of stories before they were recorded ... More
 


Green Harmony Stratotone guitar from La Bamba (1987): ©Academy Museum Foundation, Photo by: Randy Shropshire.

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today the newest acquisitions to its expansive Academy Collection—the largest film-related collection in the world, comprising more than 52 million items. The Academy, through its Academy Foundation, is a global leader in the conservation, preservation, and exhibition of film-related objects and materials. Recent acquisitions in the Academy ... More


Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art opens an exhibition of work by Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn   Christie's to offer the only surviving landscape in oil by Van Dyck   Solo exhibition of new and recent work by Mika Tajima opens at Pace


Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn, When Water Embraces Empty Space, 2024, courtesy of the artist.

OLDENBURG.- A majestic hand-carved wooden boat is the protagonist of Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn’s new solo exhibition, When Water Embraces Empty Space. The story of the boat, past and present, spreads throughout the entire building, told through video installations and collaboratively made objects. The sixteen-meter-long outrigger sailboat in question is called the Luf boat, named after the Papua New Guinean island from which it ... More
 


Anthony van Dyck, A landscape (verso). Oil on canvas, 52 x 41.3/4 in. (132 x 106 cm.), including a horizontal extension of 2.3/4 in. (7 cm.) along the upper edge. Estimate: £2,000,000 - 3,000,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2024.

LONDON.- Anthony van Dyck’s Andalusian Horse – his first grand-scale depiction of a lone horse – has an additional element of rarity and significance: his only surviving landscape in oil can be found hidden on the reverse of the original canvas. Executed as a fluid study, it was only discovered when ... More
 


Portrait of Mika Tajima. Photo: Matt Dutile.

HONG KONG.- Pace is presenting Penumbra, a solo exhibition of new and recent work by Mika Tajima, at its Hong Kong gallery. On view from October 31 to December 21, this is Tajima’s first-ever solo show in Hong Kong, presenting a holistic view of her multidisciplinary practice through four bodies of work. Marked by its scientific and philosophical rigor, Tajima’s work across painting, sculpture, installation, and performance often takes up questions of identity and agency ... More


Celebrating the History of Murals in Los Angeles with Judy Baca



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Lisson Gallery announces representation of Carolee Schneemann Foundation
LONDON.- Lisson Gallery announced representation of the Carolee Schneemann Foundation in collaboration with P·P·O·W, New York. Carolee Schneemann (1939–2019), one of the most provocative and inspiring artists of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, created work over six decades across various artistic media: experimental painting, sculptural assemblages and kinetic works, performance in which she used her own body as a medium, lyrical films and immersive multi-media installations. Schneemann remains an important source of reference for contemporary artists today, as her works addressed urgent topics from sexual expression and the objectification of women, to political narratives and the suffering of war. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum ... More


Gagosian opens an exhibition conceived and curated by the artist Peter Doig
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian is presenting The Street, an exhibition conceived and curated by the artist Peter Doig, opening November 1 at 980 Madison Avenue, New York. For this collaboration with the gallery, Doig has assembled a personal selection of paintings by artists who have accompanied and informed his own artistic development. Taking as its point of departure Balthus’s remarkable 1933 painting The Street, generously loaned by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the exhibition will present scenes of urban life, labor, and architecture by artists including Francis Bacon, Max Beckmann, Vija Celmins, Prunella Clough, Giorgio de Chirico, Beauford Delaney, Denzil Forrester, Jean Hélion, Mark Rothko, and Martin Wong, among others. The presentation will also include new work by Doig himself. After seeing his project at the Musée ... More


Galerie Miranda opens 'Ellen Carey + Tomas Van Houtryve: Black and white, topographies'
PARIS.- The third chapter of the gallery collaboration features rare black and white works by Ellen Carey (1952, American) from her early series of darkroom experiments Dings & Shadows and Photogenic Drawing; her abstract, sculptural silver gelatin photograms are presented in dialogue with recent B&W photographs by Tomas Van Houtryve (1975, Belgian-American), of the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, from his series “Thirty Six Views of Notre Dame", produced in partnership with the EPRNDP (Etablissement public chargé de la conservation et de la restauration de la cathédrale Notre Dame de Paris), French public entity in charge of the cathedral's restoration after the 2019 fire. Van Houtryve's documentary images are made with different techniques, both contemporary and 19th century, echoing Carey's contemporary practice ... More


Exhibition of new paintings by British artist Fiona Rae opens at Miles McEnery Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Miles McEnery Gallery opened an exhibition of new paintings by British artist Fiona Rae, on view 31 October - 7 December. Accompanying the exhibition is a fully illustrated publication featuring a text by the artist. “My idea for the Word series is that each painting embodies a sentence or quote. There is no intention to illustrate the meaning or emotion of the particular sentence; instead, the languages of abstraction and literature twist around each other and, I hope, give rise to new and unexpected images and meaning. I have a long-standing interest in the skirmish between intelligibility and ambiguity; language is mutable, not literal, barely holding back the chaos even though it is our opportunity to understand each other and make sense of the world. Indeed, as Krazy Kat said so wisely, ‘Lenguage is that we may mis-unda-stend each ... More


Paula Cooper Gallery announces representation of Ralph Lemon
NEW YORK, NY.- Paula Cooper Gallery announced representation of the multidisciplinary artist Ralph Lemon (b. 1952). He is an acclaimed dancer and choreographer, founder of the Ralph Lemon Dance Company (1985-1995), and one of the most significant figures to emerge from New York’s postmodern performance scene in the last 30 years. Lemon has long garnered accolades for his multifaceted practice, pushing the boundaries of performance to include installation art, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, film and video. He uses this expanded understanding of performance as a means into the confluence of cultural memory, emotion, identity, and history expressed through the human body. Lemon’s work is currently on view in Edges of Ailey at the Whitney Museum. His installation Rant redux, created in collaboration with Kevin ... More


Original concept drawings team up with other historic firsts in Heritage's Comics & Comic Art Auction
DALLAS, TX.- Heritage's November 21-24 Comics & Comic Art Signature® Auction opened for bidding Tuesday morning, and within minutes, one page among the auction's many storied pieces soared to six figures: the original art for Page 14 from The New Mutants No. 98, otherwise known as Deadpool's debut. It didn't even take maximum effort as bidders began what's sure to be a long, intense battle over this iconic moment. By Wednesday morning, in fact, it was fast approaching the quarter-million-dollar mark. That's how legendary and coveted this page is, creator Rob Liefeld's first glimpse at Wade Wilson's Merc with a Mouth long before he became a billion-dollar big-screen franchise. This page has never been to auction. In fact, it hasn't been seen since it entered a private collection in the 1990s, just as Deadpool was taking over the ... More


Patek Philippe gold chronograph offered at auction for first time
DALLAS, TX.- A magnificent, fresh-to-market Patek Philippe, Important Ref. 3970/E Gold Chronograph, Perpetual Calendar And Moon Phases, Second Generation, Full Set, circa 1990 will make time to find a new owner when it is sold November 20 in Heritage’s Watches & Fine Timepieces Signature® Auction. “This is a fantastic watch, and was previously owned by a very astute 20th-century collector,” says Jim Wolf, Director of Watches & Fine Timepieces at Heritage Auctions. “Patek Philippe makes some of the finest timepieces in the world, and this 18k gold watch is no exception. The fact that it is being offered at auction for the first time only adds to the appeal.” The auction, Wolf says, is an exceptional event overall, with attractive options for collectors of all kinds. “This is one of the most diverse auctions we have curated in years,” he says. “It has more than 400 lots, includin ... More


Centre Pompidou-Metz opens Cerith Wyn Evans' first solo exhibition in a French institution
METZ.- For Borrowed Light Through METZ, Cerith Wyn Evans presents his first solo exhibition in a French institution since his 2006 show at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (ARC). Transforming the Forum and Gallery 3, he brings together light and sound works to occasion mises-en-scene of radiant visual and aural effects. Like characters in a repertory theater, older works return and interact with recent works to generate new scenarios. Each work remains singular yet the artist places them in concert in such a way that the exhibition constantly mutates as if animated by an inner life. Beginning his career in the 1970’s as an experimental filmmaker, Cerith Wyn Evans has maintained his correspondence with conceptual art in his sculptures and installations. His works retain the cinematic qualities of his earlier career; however, the viewers ... More



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Flashback
On a day like today, American painter and educator William Merritt Chase was born
November 01, 1849. William Merritt Chase (November 1, 1849 - October 25, 1916) was an American painter, known as an exponent of Impressionism and as a teacher. He is also responsible for establishing the Chase School, which later would become Parsons The New School for Design. In this image: William Merritt Chase (American, 1849–1916), The Young Orphan (An Idle Moment) by 1884. Oil on canvas. National Academy Museum, New York. Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

  
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