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The exhibition offers two perspectives: one that revisits a time in history wherein Picasso's contemporaries sought to challenge his work, and a second in which living artists today echo the Spanish artistâs oeuvre.
NEW YORK, NY.- In honor of the 50th anniversary of Pablo Picassoâs death (April 8, 1973), Almine Rech is presenting The Echo of Picasso, a wide-ranging group exhibition curated by Eric Troncy, spanning across its two locations in the city. The exhibition offers two perspectives: one that revisits a time in history wherein Picasso's contemporaries sought to challenge his work, and a second in which living artists today echo the Spanish artistâs oeuvre. As Michael Fitzgerald* described, "instead of being a potential adversary in life, in death, Picasso became a voluminous encyclopedia of ideas and images for artists.â 50 years since Picasso's death, the contemporary works on view still echo the formal, technical, and conceptual inventions of one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. The exhibition also allows us to see Picasso in a contemporary perspective. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of Glenn Ligon DOUBLE NEGATIVE at Regen Projects, Los Angeles. November 3 - December 23, 2023. © Glenn Ligon. Photo: Evan Bedford, Courtesy Regen Projects.
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| Picasso sells for $139.4 million, despite a sagging art market | | The next Costume Institute fashion blockbuster is revealed | | Rare diamonds and incredible jewelry from important estates headline Hindman sale |
The blue-chip collection of Emily Fisher Landau sold at Sothebys on Wednesday night for a total of $406.4 million. Courtesy Sotheby's.
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK, NY.- A brilliant blue painting by Pablo Picasso of his young mistress was crowned the prized lot of the November auction season so far after it sold at Sothebys in New York on Wednesday for $139.4 million, with buyers fees. Completed during one of the most intense years of the artists personal life, the 1932 portrait of Picassos great muse, Marie-Thérèse Walter, remained on the auction block for four minutes as three collectors over the phones from around the world fought to establish control. But it was an anonymous bidder who named the winning price over the telephone. (The work nonetheless fell short of the $179.4 million auction high for the artist, established at Christies in 2015.) The evening sale of blue-chip modern and ... More | |
The Great Hall at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York, July 10, 2021. (George Etheredge/The New York Times)
by Vanessa Friedman
NEW YORK, NY.- After the pop culture bonanza of this summers Barbie, the hoo-ha surrounding the live action remake of The Little Mermaid and the attention paid to anything in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, observers could be forgiven for hearing the title of the next Costume Institute blockbuster at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and think they were in for a Disney spectacle. After all, it is called Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion. And those princess costumes have been very influential. But while the show was, indeed, partly inspired by a hot button cultural moment, its not a fantasy one. Rather, its a sustainability one. Specifically, the ephemeral nature of well, nature. And how fashion captures that literally, in ... More | |
Van Cleef & Arpels, Ruby and Diamond Brooch.
CHICAGO, IL.- Hindman will present its December 6 Important Jewelry auction, which will feature an array of important diamonds, rare colored stones and incredible jewelry from estates throughout the country. Included in the sale will be single-owner sessions from The Estate of Marguerite Hark of Chicago, The Estate of Linda ONeil Porteous, and the historically significant Collection of Ernest and Ella Brummer alongside property from various private collections. This auction showcases an array of important jewelry, spanning centuries of jewelry history with a little something for everyone, said April Matteini, Hindmans Associate Director and Senior Specialist of Jewelry & Watches. Each of the three single owner sections demonstrates thoughtful collecting across very different periods and preferences, giving the sale a delightful variety of exceptional pieces. Marguerite Hark was a giving woman in every sense ... More |
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| Edel Rodriguez isn't afraid to live with the consequences | | Winter highlights at Bonhams Knightsbridge | | Amid Criticism, a Museum Says It Must Sell Its Cézannes to Survive |
The political artist Edel Rodriguez, who drew some of the most provocative images of the Trump presidency, at his home studio in Mount Tabor, N.J., on Oct. 13, 2023. (Amir Hamja/ The New York Times)
by Benjamin P. Russell
NEW YORK, NY.- The hardest thing about making political art, Edel Rodriguez said, isnt technique but judgment: knowing just where to stick the tip of the knife so that audiences feel provoked without crying foul. He isnt always sure he has hit the mark. At times while drawing what would become some of the most provocative images of the Donald Trump presidency magazine covers of a faceless orange figure screaming into the void, decapitating Lady Liberty or draped in a Ku Klux Klan hood Rodriguez wondered whether he was being unfair. At least, for a moment. Occasionally, I thought, This might be too much, Rodriguez said recently over Zoom from his home studio in New Jersey. And then three weeks later he does something, and I figure out: Oh, OK, that wasnt so crazy. The origin and evolution of Rodriguezs ... More | |
A unique silver and silver-gilt 'Poseidon Loving Cup' inset with gems and pearls, height 56cm, weight total 103oz. £50,000-60,000Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- This November and December, Bonhams Knightsbridge features an exciting selection of British works spanning from the 17th to 20th century. Capturing the picturesque countryside, works by Samuel John Lamorna Birch (1869-1955) star in the British and European Art sale on 15 November, meanwhile the evolution of modern rail is celebrated through a selection of paintings by Terence Cuneo (1907-1996) in the Modern British and Irish Art sale on 29 November. Bringing together some of the best examples of early British and Dutch glass the Durrington Collection sale takes place on 15 November. Finally, as the winter auction season comes to a close, The David Milling Collection is not to be missed in the 20th century Decorative Arts sale on 5 December. Known for his idyllic scenes of the English countryside, a collection of paintings by Samuel John Lamorna Birch (1869-1955) lead Bonhams British and European Art sale on ... More | |
Fruits et Pot de Gingembre, a Paul Cézanne painting owned by the Museum Langmatt, is to be sold at auction by Christies in New York on Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023. (Christie's via The New York Times)
by Catherine Hickley
NEW YORK, NY.- When a Swiss museum announced in September that it would be putting three paintings by Paul Cézanne, the impressionist master, up for sale at auction, there was immediate protest by some who suggested the sale violated ethical guidelines on when institutions should sell off their works. One of the Cézannes in particular, a still life titled Fruits et pot de gingembre, is a highlight of the Museum Langmatt in Baden, which houses a small collection of impressionist works. The museum said it was financially necessary to sell the painting, and perhaps two others, to keep the foundation that owns it from insolvency. The still life is estimated to fetch $35 million to $55 million at an auction Thursday at Christies in New York. But critics have not been persuaded. Tobia Bezzola, president of the Swiss ... More |
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| Final installation at Frick Madison reunites two masterpieces by Giorgione and Giovanni Bellini after centuries apar | | The Merchant House opens its 10th anniversary season | | American art leads Shannon's Fall Fine Art auction |
Giorgio da Castelfranco, known as Giorgione (ca. 14771510), The Three Philosophers, ca. 15089. Oil on canvas, 49 7/16 x 57 9/16 in. (125.5 x 146.2 cm) Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. Photo: KHM-Museumsverband.
NEW YORK, NY.- This fall and winter, visitors to Frick Madison, the temporary home of The Frick Collection, will have an unprecedented opportunity to view two Renaissance masterpieces reunited for the first time in more than four hundred years. Giorgiones Three Philosophers, on rare loan from Viennas Kunsthistorisches Museum, will be shown in dialogue with the Fricks beloved St. Francis in the Desert by Giovanni Bellini. The works were owned by the same Venetian collector, Taddeo Contarini (ca. 14661540), and were displayed for many decades in his palazzo before their separation centuries ago. Comments Ian Wardropper, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Director of the Frick, It would be difficult to think of a more fitting conclusion for our temporary residency at Frick Madison than this once-in-a-lifetime installation. These two complex Renaissance paintings have prompted an enormous ... More | |
Amanda Means, One Bulb (Version #2 - suite of 12), 2011, Gelatin silver prints, Installation view, The Merchant House, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Courtesy of The Merchant House, Amsterdam and JHB Gallery. © Amanda Means.
AMSTERDAM.- Light in Its Own Language presents Amanda Means, a celebrated NY photographer, in her first show in Amsterdam and Beppie Gielkens, a Dutch painter, with her prescient recent works. Both take on light as their subject matter and offer a new articulation of how it functions in art, what it can mean for art, and what art can convey by capturing light. Amanda Means is known for her black-and-white gelatin silver prints of palpable materiality. Capturing luminosity by her masterful light projections (physically shining light on the development paper), matched by the quality of her printing technique, her work series give a photographic identity to light in its relation to non-light. With the reversal of the light and dark of the image, her exquisite prints shift our attention to what is out of sight. This is especially captivating in her series of everyday objects, such as the lightbulbs and water glasses with bubbles and ... More | |
Oil on canvas by Frederick Carl Frieseke (American, 1874-1939), titled Lady Trying on a Hat (1909), signed and dated, 63 ¾ inches by 51 inches. Sold for $450,000.
MILFORD, CONN.- American paintings drove strong results in Shannons Fall Fine Art auction held October 26th. The 153-lot sale was nearly 90 percent sold and grossed $3 million. Fresh-to-the-market consignments attracted interest from across the country and internationally. The top lot in the sale was a 64-inch by 51-inch painting by American Impressionist Frederick Carl Frieseke. Consigned by the Art Institute of Chicago, this life-size painting depicted a Lady Trying on a Hat. Painted in soft pastel tones, reminiscent of French Impressionism, the painting was one of the artists masterpieces from the early 20th century. Frieseke spent every summer after 1905 in Giverny, France, where he became known for his Impressionist palette and his portraits of women. Although influenced by Renoir and Monet, Frieseke developed his own unique style that echoed Post-Impressionist masters as well. This impressive canvas exceeded its high estimate, se ... More |
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| The Classics return to Bonhams | | The Wadsworth Atheneum celebrates its collection of conceptual art with new exhibition | | Glenn Ligon opens seventh exhibition at Regen Projects |
The Hever Nymph and Satyr, A Roman marble group of a nymph and satyr, Circa 2nd Century A.D., after a Hellenistic original dating to the 2nd-1st Century B.C. Estimate: £700,000-1,000,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Now in its sixth edition, the twice-yearly The Classics auctions return this winter with a nine-sale series, offering the finest in the classic arts. This season of sales will offer rare and exceptional items across traditional collecting categories, including Antiquities, Fine Clocks, Fine Decorative Arts, Ceramics, Old Master Paintings, Antique Arms and Armour, and more. Nette Megens, Director of Decorative Art, Europe & UK and Head of European Ceramics, commented: Spanning from the 3rd Millennium B.C. to the 19th century, The Classics auctions bring together a diverse array of works, celebrating the rich history of collecting. Featuring a selection of rare and exceptional pieces across our New Bond Street and Knightsbridge salerooms, were sure there is something to entice a variety of collectors. Depicting an amorous tussle between a nymph and a satyr, a Roman marble group, leads ... More | |
Byron Kim, Emmett at Twelve Months, 1994. Egg tempera on wood panels. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund. © Byron Kim, 2023. Courtesy the artist and James Cohan, New York.
HARTFORD, CONN.- The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art presents works by pioneering conceptual artists of the 1960s and 70s alongside more recent acquisitions in Rules & Repetition: Conceptual Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum. The exhibition highlights the role played by the Wadsworth in supporting conceptual art and its legacy over the past 50 years. Rules & Repetition is on view October 26, 2023February 18, 2024 at the Wadsworth. This exhibition highlights the Wadsworth Atheneums long history of engaging with challenging, cutting-edge art thanks to often visionary curators. In the 1970s Andrea Miller-Keller, curator of contemporary art, laid the foundation for the museums embrace of conceptual art, with support from Hartford-native Sol LeWitt, says Matthew Hargraves, Director of the Wadsworth. Its a moment of the museums history that ... More | |
Installation view of Glenn Ligon DOUBLE NEGATIVE at Regen Projects, Los Angeles. November 3 December 23, 2023. Photo: Evan Bedford, Courtesy Regen Projects.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- With DOUBLE NEGATIVE, Glenn Ligons seventh exhibition at Regen Projects, the artist points to the work and all the reading (and reads) he has already traced in essays like Black Light: David Hammons and the Poetics of Emptiness, an essay in seven segments that appeared in the September 2004 issue of Artforumand artworksparticularly the paintings he has inscribed with passages from James Baldwins 1953 essay, Stranger in the Village, a series that began in 1996. Whereas Baldwins text has appeared in parts, passages, and selections in those earlier works, it unfolds here in full across eighteen panels coupled as nine diptychs, affording what Ligon describes as the ground on which the painting is sited. As if to deny or redact what has already been disclosed, Xs appear across the nine diptychs presented here, in-line, atop the essay and then more freely. Compli ... More |
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'Watch Night' review: For spacious skies, for rancorous waves of hate
NEW YORK, NY.- Entering the Perelman Performing Arts Centers auditorium, you quickly notice detritus that looks as if it has been blown in from a bewildering protest: A few small American flags here, color copies of a Greetings From Hollywood postcard there, wrinkled flyers everywhere. Some of them are imprinted with the text of the Second Amendment, others a rallying cry: We fight fascists. Among the most eye-catching is an ad for National Rifle Association memberships, with its promise of $5,000 Accidental Death and Dismemberment insurance. But what about intentional deaths? Watch Night, a new multigenre hybrid show, is interested in those, specifically the ones fueled by homegrown prejudice. Inspired, or maybe wrenched into existence, by the massacres at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, ... More
Domenico Spano, clothier of stars who found fame of his own, dies at 79
NEW YORK, NY.- Domenico Spano, a New York custom clothier who outfitted captains of industry and Hollywood stars, and whose own dandyish style made him a highly recognizable peacock on the streets of the city as well as in newspaper fashion pages, died on Oct. 23 in Manhattan. He was 79. His daughter Elisabeth Spano said he died in a hospital of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Spano, who went by the nickname Mimmo, was born in the Calabria region of southern Italy. But although he grew up in a country known for its illustrious fashion history, he made his name in New York as a champion of classic American style, as epitomized by the timeless elegance of silver-screen legends like Fred Astaire, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Cary Grant and Gary Cooper. With his own head-turning outfits, rendered in colorful patterns and bold prints ... More
Nara Roesler New opens opens 'Daniel Senise: The Site of Images' curated by Luis Pérez-Oramas
NEW YORK, NY.- Nara Roesler New York is presenting The Site of Images, a solo exhibition by Brazilian artist Daniel Senise curated by Luis Pérez-Oramas that brings together three different series of works produced by the artist between 2020 and 2023. Daniel Senise (b. 1955, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), a leading contemporary Brazilian painter and a significant member of Generation 80, has since produced a major body of work addressing painting beyond the traditional brush-stroke-over-canvas convention Since the end of the 1990s, Senises practice can be described as a construction of images. His process begins with imprinting the textures of surfaces such as wooden floors or concrete walls from carefully chosen locations into textiles, using a technique similar to the monotype. This material becomes then the structural ... More
James Cohan now represents Kaloki Nyamai
NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan announced the representation of the Kenyan painter Kaloki Nyamai. He will have his debut solo exhibition with the gallery in March 2024. Nyamai is represented in collaboration with Barbara Thumm Gallery, Berlin, Germany. Kenyan painter Kaloki Nyamai takes inspiration from quotidian life in Nairobi, the capital city where he was raised and is now based. Nyamai views his artistic practice as a continuation of his ancestral lineage of storytelling. He often draws upon his grandmothers stories of the Kamba people, a Bantu ethnic group of eastern Kenya. Constructing complex visual and physical depth within each composition, the artist proposes a powerful alternative to the flatness of singular narratives of Kenyan history and identity presented as the definitive postcolonial account. He likens the formal act of stitching ... More
New Extended Reality Metaverse project by artist Ben Elliot
BERLIN.- VIVE Arts and Esther Schipper announce Ben Elliots Metaone, an environment that simulates a futuristic interior inspired by metaverse aesthetics and representative of potential future lifestyles. Co-commissioned and presented by VIVE Arts, a global arts initiative that empowers artists to experiment and innovate using the latest digital tools and mediums, in partnership with Esther Schipper and organiser Olivier Renaud-Clément, the project includes virtual reality (VR) headsets in an environment with a video work, chair, curtain artwork and printed images pulling from the VR imagery. At the center of Metaone is Ben Elliots ambitious XR (extended reality) metaverse project, which aims to redefine our relationship to the creative space and be a vessel for forward-thinking cultural forms. In Metaone, Elliot imagines a virtual paradise ... More
Striking actors and Hollywood studios agree to a deal
LOS ANGELES, CA.- One of the longest labor crises in Hollywood history is finally coming to an end. The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, the union representing tens of thousands of actors, reached a tentative deal for a new contract with entertainment companies Wednesday, clearing the way for the $134 billion American movie and television business to swing back into motion. Hollywoods assembly lines have been at a near-standstill since May because of a pair of strikes by writers and actors, resulting in financial pain for studios and for many of the 2 million Americans makeup artists, set builders, location scouts, chauffeurs, casting directors who work in jobs directly or indirectly related to making TV shows and films. Upset about streaming service pay and fearful of fast-developing artificial ... More
'Sleep No More' to close in January
NEW YORK, NY.- After more than a decade of performances, Sleep No More the immersive, Hitchcockian riff on Shakespeares Macbeth will close the doors of its cargo elevator for good when it plays its final performance Jan. 28. Rising production costs drove the decision to close, said Jonathan Hochwald, a producer, who also cited an unwillingness to raise ticket prices commensurately. Its an enormous undertaking with hundreds of employees, he said. Created by English theater company Punchdrunk, Sleep No More had a short run in London in 2003 and a longer one in Brookline, Massachusetts, in 2009, in partnership with the American Repertory Theater. The success of that outing encouraged the newly formed commercial production company Emursive to bring it to New York. Emursive found an ideal ... More
Taking note as Dance Reflections takes a pause
NEW YORK, NY.- Dance Reflections, a festival dedicated to choreographic innovation, is not ready to wrap yet: It picks up again next week with a collaboration between choreographer Dimitri Chamblas and musician Kim Gordon. But much has already been presented, providing something that has increasingly been missing in New York in recent years: experimental dance from abroad in this case, mainly France. Beyond the programs themselves, New York institutions needed this programming boost artistically and financially. Dance Reflections, produced by Van Cleef & Arpels, is a reminder of a time when festivals routinely brought contemporary dance to the city. Is it a surprise that a luxury jewelry company is footing the bill? Hardly. In a performing arts world of scarce funding and resources, such support makes sense. And ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, English artist William Hogarth was born November 10, 1697. William Hogarth (10 November 1697 - 26 October 1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects". Knowledge of his work is so pervasive that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as "Hogarthian." In this image: A visitor looks at a William Hogarth painting 'David Garrick as Richard III', on display at Tate Britain art gallery in London, Monday, Feb. 5, 2007.
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