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Butterfly and Birds (after Giovanna Garzoni), 2023-24, acrylic and mixed media on found canvas, 77 x 91. Photo: Courtesy of Walter Maciel Gallery.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Walter Maciel Gallery is presenting Hortus Conclusus by Katherine Sherwood featuring work from her new Pandemic Madonnas and ongoing Brain Flowers series painted on found Art History reproductions and colonial-era classroom maps. The title of the show translates to Enclosed Garden and the subjects continue Sherwoods interest in art history while incorporating her own personal narrative of disability with the inclusion of her digital brain scans. In the new series, Sherwood depicts imagery from Late Medieval Madonna and Child and Northern Renaissance vanitas paintings, reimagining the subjects with disabilities in a resilient and deviant demeanor. The holy figures faces are covered with digitally-collaged MRIs of her own brain, creating an uncanny dialogue between past and present and recognizing Sherwoods long fascination with the Madonna subject dating back to her Aggressive Women and Femal ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of Edges of Ailey (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, September 25, 2024-February 9, 2025).
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| Firsts Hong Kong revives international rare book fair to take place in early December | | Fine watches top off the day at Roland Auctions NY September 21st Estates Auction | | High-octane selections and rare Dallas sign rev up Morphy's Oct. 6 Automobilia & Petroliana Auction |
Maugham Painted Veil at Picture This @ Firsts Hong Kong.
HONG KONG.- Revived for 2024, Firsts Hong Kong brings the former China in Print fair under the Firsts umbrella in the impressive location of the Hong Kong Maritime Museum from 6 to 8 December. Firsts Hong Kong will bring together a curated group of international dealers showing a wide variety of rare books, manuscripts, photographs, prints, and works on paper relating to Asia and beyond. Almost 30 dealers from the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Australia, USA, Austria, Denmark, France, Germany and the Netherlands will be showing some of the highlights specifically ... More | |
A F.P. Journe Souverain Chronometre. 18K yellow gold. Sold for $40,625.
GLEN COVE, NY.- An eclectic collection of fine mens watches got all the attention, and the top bids, at Roland Auctions NY Estates Auction held on Saturday, September 21st, with the focus on this watch collection featuring about 100 lots, combined with antique furniture, contemporary and fine art, decorative items of all kinds, textiles, jewelry, rugs, collectibles and Asian items. Getting a lot of pre-auction attention, Roland offered an A F.P. Journe Souverain Chronometre, 18K yellow gold manual wind power reserve wristwatch having a grey dial and a black leather ... More | |
Outstanding 15in-diameter Gilmore Blu-Green Gasoline globe lens with fantastic, well-detailed six-color graphic of roaring lion. Lens is set on a high-profile metal body that has been skillfully repainted. Exceptionally clean throughout. Graded 95. Estimate: $10,000-$20,000. Photo: Courtesy of Morphy Auctions.
DENVER, PA.- Few collecting categories can rival gas and oil advertising signs for color, imaginative graphics or the level of bidder enthusiasm they generate at auction. That has been proven time and again at Morphys blockbuster Automobilia & Petroliana sales, which, over the years have featured some of the hobbys most revered collections, including those of Bobby Knudsen Jr, ... More |
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| Sotheby's to exhibit over £220 million worth of art under one roof, during London's Frieze Week | | At the Whitney, a stirring Ailey tribute moves dance to the edge | | Kara Walker: A fortuneteller in the land of ChatGPT |
Andy Warhol, Self-Portrait, acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas, 1963-64. Estimate: £3-4 million. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- As collectors and art lovers converge in London for Frieze, Sothebys galleries on New Bond Street will unveil some £220 million / $280 million worth of art for a public exhibition spanning some of the greatest modern and contemporary artists. This comes in the midst of spectacular exhibitions in Londons world-class institutions, from the once-in-a-century Vincent van Gogh show at the National Gallery (marking ... More | |
Ailey posters on display in Edges of Ailey at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Sept. 20, 2024. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- With the spirited, sense-surround show called Edges of Ailey at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New York art season gets off to an exuberant, enveloping, though puzzling start. The show is a major institutional tribute to American choreographer and performer Alvin Ailey (1931-1989). Its also a relatively rare example of a traditionally object-intensive art museum giving full-scale treatment ... More | |
The artists dystopian installation at SFMOMA shows her evolution as a public artist. (Marissa Leshnov/The New York Times)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- In artworks exploring unequal power dynamics across a wide swath of history, Kara Walker has long called attention to the most inhuman tendencies of people. Now, in a new installation in the countrys tech capital, she is highlighting the superhuman capabilities of AI as only she can. The riveting, kinetic Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine) at the San Francisco Museum of Modern ... More |
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| Pace announces representation of Li Hei Di, painter of layered dreamscapes | | Berggruen Gallery opens an exhibition of new works by the acclaimed Mission School artist Barry McGee | | Alia Ahmad joins White Cube |
Portrait of Li Hei Di. Photo by Frederike Helwig
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace announced its representation of artist Li Hei Di, who explores human embodiment, displacement, and intimacy in luminous paintings that blend abstraction and figuration. In their vibrant, dreamlike canvaseswhere ghostly, translucent bodies and body parts oscillate in and out of view amid abstract forms and washes of color Li embeds latent narratives about gender, desire, and emotional fluidity for viewers to uncover and decipher. Primarily a painter, they also work across sculpture and performance, mediums that ... More | |
Barry McGee, Untitled, 2021, acrylic on panel; 4 elements, 73 x 73 x 2 inches.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Berggruen Gallery is presenting Barry McGee: Old Mystified, an exhibition of new works by the acclaimed Mission School artist Barry McGee. This marks Barrys second solo exhibition with Berggruen Gallery. The show is on view September 27 through November 7, 2024. A prominent artist to emerge from San Franciscos Mission School, and often known by his graffiti monikers, R. Fong and P. Kin, Barry McGee's works are both in homage and conversation with the Bay Areas urban ... More | |
Alia Ahmad, Drawing no.6 from Terhal Gheim, رسم ة رقم ٦ من ترحال غي م. 2024. Pastel, ink and charcoal, 50 x 70 cm | 19 11/16 x 27 9/16 in. © Alia Ahmad. Photo © White Cube (Thomas Lannes).
LONDON.- White Cube announced global representation of Alia Ahmad (b.1996, Riyadh). Ahmads new painting, جال | Shore (2024), will be on view at the gallerys booth during Frieze London, while Finood 2/فنود ٢ | Branches of a tree 2 (2024) will be debuted at Art Basel Paris. A solo exhibition of her work will open at White Cube Masons Yard, London, in February 2025. Ahmads vibrant and expressionistic paintings draw inspiration ... More |
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| Christie's announces Avant-Garde(s) including Thinking Italian | | Bridget Currie: each one a world opens at Carrick Hill | | A Montreal museum reckons with its legacy, and uplifts Inuit artists |
Lucio Fontana, Concetto Spaziale, Attese. Estimate 600,000-900,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2024.
MILAN.- Christies will be presenting seminal works by the leading Italian Masters in the upcoming Thinking Italian live auction in Paris on 18 October during Art Basel, Paris week. Realised in a 10-year period between1958 to1968 by Lucio Fontana and Piero Manzoni, these works have been consigned from private collections and have not been offered at auction for decades. Executed in 1968, Concetto spaziale, Attese ... More | |
Image of Bridget Currie standing in her exhibition, each one a world, 2024, Carrick Hill, Adelaide, photo: Sam Roberts
SPRINGFIELD.- Co-presented by Carrick Hill and the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide-based artist Bridget Curries solo exhibition each one a world is now open at Carrick Hill, offering visitors a multifaceted experience at the treasured venue. Curries poetic and allusive works respond to Carrick Hills house and garden in a range of media from an immersive wall- ... More | |
The Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion for Peace of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. (Marc Cramer via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- In a fast-paced world, asinnajaq likes to take things slow. As a guest curator at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, asinnajaq, a 32 year-old artist who uses all lowercase letters in her name, has been working on a new exhibition of Inuit art for a few years now; shes not quite sure how long. Time is as meaningless as it ever has been to me, said asinnajaq, a soft-spoken ... More |
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Paul Simon plays rare New York show in a downtown loftNEW YORK, NY.- Paul Simon walked onstage to a rousing ovation in a royal purple jacket for a casual downtown evening as laid back as something with about 150 guests could be at the SoHo Sessions loft in NoLIta on Monday just after 8 p.m. for a small benefit concert. Today is my birthday, said Simon with a mischievous, boyish smile, drawing more cheers. He quickly added, Its not my birthday. (Hell be 83 in October). Earlier, the venues runners escorted guests including Whoopi Goldberg, Kevin Bacon, Amy Schumer, Jerry and Jessica Seinfeld, and musician Jackson Browne in the updated freight elevator to the loft, a 3,500-square-foot fifth-floor space that was the original site of Chung King Studios, a former recording studio. Since December 2021, Nicole Rechter and Greg Williamson, two concert producers, have curated 14 Soho Sessions private ... More The Vancouver Art Gallery launches fall with the first major retrospective of Bay of Quinte Mohawk artist Shelley NiroVANCOUVER.- The Vancouver Art Gallery announced the much-anticipated presentation of Shelley Niro: 500 Year Itch, a monumental retrospective that surveys the 40-year career of celebrated Bay of Quinte Mohawk artist Shelley Niro. Organized by the Art Gallery of Hamilton (AGH) with the Smithsonians National Museum of the American Indian and with curatorial support from the National Gallery of Canada, this extraordinary exhibition showcases the full breadth of Niros prolific career from her unique perspective as a Kanyen'kehá:ka (Mohawk) woman, bringing together works across painting, photography, sculpture, mixed media and film. We are honoured to be able to share this remarkable retrospective ... More 'Coppelia' at 50: When City Ballet took a turn for 'fun and funny'NEW YORK, NY.- George Balanchines decision to stage the 19th-century ballet Coppelia, in 1974, was a surprise. Although Balanchine, the co-founder and leader of New York City Ballet, occasionally created narrative ballets, like The Nutcracker and A Midsummer Nights Dream, the company was identified with a lean, no-frills approach to classical dance. It was turned toward innovation and experimentation, rather than story, characters and elaborate costumes. But the three-act Coppelia, with its lush, melodic Delibes score, fairy-tale set and extensive ensemble dances, was anything but experimental. City Ballet audiences were anticipating it with a mixture of delight, incredulity and awe, and in some cases horror, critic Marcia B. Siegel wrote, shortly before the ballets July 17 premiere at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center ... More 'Megalopolis' review: The fever dreams of Francis Ford CoppolaNEW YORK, NY.- Francis Ford Coppolas Megalopolis is a bursting-at-the-seams hallucination of a movie; its wonderfully out there. At once a melancholic lament and futuristic fantasy, it invokes different epochs and overflows with entrancing, at times confounding images and ideas that have been playing in my head since I first saw the movie in May at the Cannes Film Festival. There, it was both warmly received and glibly dismissed, a critical divide thats nothing new for Coppola, a restlessly experimental filmmaker with a long habit of going off-Hollywood. Nothing if not au courant, Megalopolis is a vision of a moribund civilization, though also a great-man story about an architect, Cesar Catilina (Adam Driver), who dreams of a better world. An enigmatic genius (he has a Nobel Prize) with an aristocratic mien and a flair for drama, ... More What belongs to opera? Garth Greenwell's novel of desireNEW YORK, NY.- Composer David T. Little isnt sure whether it was really his idea to write the opera What Belongs to You. Nine years ago, he was given an advance copy of Garth Greenwells debut novel of the same name by his friend and fellow musician Alan Pierson, from the group Alarm Will Sound. As Little read the book, a finely hewed account of desire and shame, and their resonances in an Americans dangerous love for a Bulgarian hustler, he thought: This is a song cycle waiting to happen, if not a full-length opera. He said as much in an email to Pierson, taking the first step that led to the premiere of What Belongs to You on Thursday at the Modlin Center for the Arts in Richmond, Virginia. Now, Little said, I suspect Alan masterminded this thing from the beginning. In the years since Little was sent the book, Greenwell has ... More  In the Depths of Distortion: Haiying Nie's "Distorted Ocean" blends beauty and fragilityNEW YORK, NY.- Through the lens of visual artist Haiying Nie, the ocean is both a sanctuary of vibrant beauty and a fragile landscape under siege. Her latest series, Distorted Ocean, brings together art, environmentalism, and a deep technical mastery of photography to illustrate the delicate balance of marine ecosystems facing the toll of human intervention. The resulting images, crumpled and fractured, serve as metaphors for the environmental degradation these underwater worlds endurea call to action as much as a piece of art. Born and raised in China, Nie's career has been shaped by an intense curiosity about the natural world and a desire to push the boundaries of traditional visual narratives. Now based in Scotland, her work straddles the realms of photography, material manipulation, and artistic expression. With her experimental approach to photography, Nie challenges conventional perceptions, using visual distortion as a tool for both aesthetic transformation and philosophical inquiry. Ni ... More  Angel Jiaqi Qin: Reimagining Human Identity in Digital EvolutionNEW YORK, NY.- Today, the boundary between humans and machines is becoming increasingly blurred. Baudrillard once used original concepts such as "simulation," "implosion," "model," and "code" to describe a hyperreal cultural landscape where the boundaries between virtual and reality have been erased. In this contemporary era, artist Angel Jiaqi Qin explores new dimensions of human identity with her unique perspective and bold artistic practices. Her work not only challenges our perception of traditional aesthetics but also delves into the complex relationships between individuals and collectives, nature and artifice in the digital age. Angel (Jiaqi) Qin is a mixed media designer, visual artist, and art director from London. She excels at using existing elements in life to "break the circle" of various "defined" elements in life, and any medium seems to become fertile soil for her to deconstruct and rebuild. Her rebellion against the alienation and colonization of consumerism in life is manifested in ... More  High-denomination banknotes grab spotlight in Heritage's World Paper Money AuctionDALLAS, TX.- Collectors in search of rare high-denomination banknotes will have an opportunity to quench their thirst when a scarce Canadian treasure crosses the block in Heritages World Paper Money Signature® Auction October 17. Canadian Chartered Bank notes printed in the highest denominations, like the Canada Halifax, NS- Bank of Nova Scotia $100 2.1.1929 Ch.# 550-28-40 PCGS Banknote Uncirculated 62 that will be up for grabs in this auction, usually are notoriously scarce, and this magnificent note is no exception to that rule: the example offered in this auction is the only one graded by PCGS Banknote. This note represents a remarkable opportunity to acquire a banknote that just doesnt come around often, says Dustin Johnston, Vice President of Numismatics at Heritage Auctions. This $100 is a perfect example of the prized high-denomination notes, as it is one of just 8,000 that were printed with a serial number between 14,001 and 22,000. So they are few in number, a ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter and sculptor Edgar Degas was born September 27, 1917. Edgar Degas (19 July 1834 - 27 September 1917) was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings. Degas also produced bronze sculptures, prints, and drawings. Degas is especially identified with the subject of dance; more than half of his works depict dancers. In this image: Place de la Concorde, 1875, oil on canvas, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.
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