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Jun Isezaki, FU-SETSU Series, 2022. 13.39h x 8.27w x 4.92d in.
CONCORD MASS.- Five ceramic artists with ties to Bizen are showing at Lucy Lacoste Gallery in BIZEN REVISITED, November 5 - December 3, 2022 in Concord, MA. This is a lineage exhibition bringing together, for a second time, the internationally renowned artists of Generational Crossroads: Bizen Evolution, a historic exhibition which took place 16 years earlier at the same location. The artiststhree Japanese and two American -- are Isezaki Jun, Living National Treasure of Bizen; Kakurezaki Ryuichi, once an apprentice to Isezaki Jun and now a star of the Japanese art scene; Jeff Shapiro, mentored by Isezaki Jun and colleague of Kakurezaki; Tim Rowan, who apprenticed with Kakurezaki; and Isezaki Koichiro, Juns son who apprenticed with Jeff Shapiro. Each artist has maintained a vibrant approach to their work that, can be seen in the evolution of this important exhibition at Lucy Lacoste Gallery. While Generational Crosssroads in 2006 hig ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Richard Saltoun Gallery presents a landmark exhibition retracing the history of modern conflict from 1914 to the present-day war in Ukraine through the personal accounts of 13 international artists.
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| National Gallery of Art announces new acquisitions | | David Zwirner opens an exhibition of new works by Marcel Dzama | | In the gallery race, Shainman expands beyond Chelsea to Tribeca landmark | 
Jan Muller, after Adriaen de Vries, Mercury Abducting Psyche, c. 1597. Engraving on laid paper. Plate: 50 x 26 cm (19 11/16 x 10 1/4 in.) sheet: 51.4 x 27 cm (20 1/4 x 10 5/8 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington. Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Netherlandish artist Jan Muller (15711628) was among the most imaginative and refined of a group of engravers that flourished between Haarlem and the imperial court at Prague around the turn of the 16th century. The National Gallery of Art has acquired Mullers Mercury Abducting Psyche (c. 1597), a series of three engravings based on a 1593 sculpture of the same name by Adriaen de Vries (c. 15561626). In these prints, Muller rendered the statue from three different points of view. By translating a life-size marble of erotic subject and complicated torsion into black-and-white line work of remarkably abstract organization and exhaustive execution, the series demonstrates his extraordinary virtuosity. The series is a late and exceptional example in the paragonethe Renaissance argument about the relative merits of artistic media (usually sculpture and painting) and resulting attempts ... More | | 
Marcel Dzama, Untamed and intractable, 2022. Pearlescent acrylic ink, watercolor, and graphite on paper © Marcel Dzama. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner.
LONDON.- David Zwirner is presenting Child of Midnight, an exhibition of new works by Marcel Dzama, on view at the gallerys London location. This is Dzamas third exhibition at the London space following his 2013 exhibition Puppets, Pawns, and Prophets and his joint presentation with Raymond Pettibon, Let us compare mythologies, in 2016. Dzamas latest works expand on the tropical, oceanic, and celestial imagery and themes that he has been exploring over the last several years in his art. Inspired by a range of sources, including John Miltons epic poem Paradise Lost, the 1940s kitsch-inspired portraits of Francis Picabia, and the sixteenth-century Augsburg Wunderzeichenbuch (book of miracles), these new works feature costumed figures and anthropomorphised animals dancing and lounging around in lush, vibrantly coloured natural settings with large, grinning moons and shimmering stars and comets looming above. Many o ... More | | 
Jack Shainman, left, and Carlos Vega in their space in the historic Clock Tower Building that is being renovated to become the new Jack Shainman Gallery, in New York, Oct. 3, 2022. Shainman, a denizen of the gallery district in New Yorks Chelsea neighborhood since 1997, will expand his footprint beyond Chelsea, to the massive historical landmark on the edge of TriBeCa. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Jack Shainman, a denizen of the gallery district in New Yorks Chelsea neighborhood since 1997, will expand his footprint beyond Chelsea, to a massive historical landmark on the edge of Tribeca. When renovations are completed in fall 2023, the Jack Shainman Gallery will make its headquarters in 20,000 square feet of the blocklong Clock Tower Building, the Italian Renaissance Revival building that was once home to the New York Life Insurance Co. Now known as 108 Leonard St. (and the site of luxury condominiums), the building by McKim, Mead & White was completed around 1898 and is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. The space seduced us, Shainman said during a recent tour of the dusty site with his spouse ... More |
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| 1904 slot machine sells for an astounding $246,000 at Morphy's antique coin-ops auction | | Art Basel announces the galleries for its 2023 edition in Hong Kong | | Almine Rech presents new paintings and a selection of pastel drawings by Haley Josephs | 
Circa-1904 Caille Bros. 5-cent Roulette floor-model slot machine with seven coin-slots. Fresh to the market after being purchased from The Las Vegas Club hotel and casino in the 1970s. The finest original Caille Roulette machine Morphys specialists had ever seen, it sold at the midpoint of its pre-sale estimate for $246,000.
DENVER, PA.- Beautiful coin-operated machines of a bygone era joined forces with stellar antique advertising this month to produce an auction payday at Morphys that exceeded $2 million. The Nov. 3-5, 2022 sale featured more than 1,600 premier lots with a common thread that was best explained by Morphy Auctions CEO Tom Tolworthy, a noted coin-op expert who personally cataloged the auction. Once again, it was shown that condition drives performance, and the best pieces outperformed the market in all categories, Tolworthy said. With the coin-op category, we continue to see new collectors entering the market, hungry for great pieces to add to their collections, as proved ... More | | 
Art Basel Hong Kong 2022. Courtesy Art Basel.
HONG KONG.- Today Art Basel announced the list of 171 leading international galleries selected for its 2023 Hong Kong show. Coming from 32 countries and territories across Asia, Europe, North and South America, and Africa, participating galleries will present Modern and contemporary works of the highest quality by emerging and established artists. Alongside a robust roster of returning galleries, this years show features 21 galleries participating in the Hong Kong edition for the first time among them Galerie Christophe Gaillard and Loevenbruck from Paris; Jan Kaps from Cologne;Helly Nahmad Gallery London from London; Venus Over Manhattan from New York; Denny Dimin Gallery with spaces in New York and Hong Kong; Kosaku Kanechika, Kotaro Nukaga, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, and Yutaka Kikutake from Tokyo; Yiri Arts from Taipei; YOD Gallery with spaces in Osaka and Tokyo; Gallery2 from Jeju; Vida Heydari Contemporary from Pune; In ... More | | 
Haley Josephs, Portrait of Haley Josephs in her studio © Haley Josephs. Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech. Photo: Dan Bradica.
LONDON.- Almine Rech London is presenting Every Part of the Dream, Haley Josephs second solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition is on view from November 17th to December 23, 2022, presenting new paintings and a selection of pastel drawings. The exhibition begins with Food Sloshing in Babys Mouth / Sunlight Through Window (2022), where a baby is being fed breakfast as rays of sunshine beam through the window and onto the scene. A myriad of sensory experiences are highlighted: the warmth of the morning sun, the food and flavours being energetically consumed, the hands of the mother or caretaker as they gently yet firmly support the rapidly growing body. This illustrates the beginning, where an equation begins to be assembledwhat it means to be alive. In attending to what Josephs considers the 'dream of reality', our experience ... More |
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| Louisiana Museum of Modern Art opens an exhibition of works by Richard Prince | | Exquisite opal bust of Roman god Mars headlines Bonhams London Jewels Sale | | Exhibition retraces the history of modern conflict from 1914 to the present-day war in Ukraine | 
Richard Prince, Untitled (Cowboy), 2016. C-print in two parts, 363.5 x 259.7 cm Courtesy the Artist © Richard Prince Studio.
HUMLEBÃK.- Richard Prince (b. 1949) is a key figure in Americas so-called Pictures Generation. In November, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art presents his work in the exhibition SAME MAN, the latest instalment in the Louisiana on Paper series. The artist turns images from pop, fan and consumer culture strange and seductive the commonplace as special effects, in the artist's own words. In the 1970s, when an artist like Richard Prince had no desire to approach painting, photography and works on paper presented viable alternatives. Prince first made a name for himself on the New York art scene in the late 1970s with his now famous re-photographs. Nonetheless, working by hand on and with paper, he appears to have provided a shortcut to works on canvas and, later, actual painting. Prince, a master draftsman who would have thought it, and that it involves record sleeves, magazines and paperbacks? ... More | | 
Wilhelm Schmidt opal, gemstone and hardstone bust of Mars, circa 1890, estimate of £70,000-100,000.
LONDON.- Bonhams New Bond Street will be holding its London Jewels sale on 1 December, featuring an exquisite and unique single boulder opal, gemstone and hardstone bust of the Roman god, Mars, by gifted Victorian cameo engraver Wilhelm Schmidt (1845-1938). It was believed Schmidt never signed his work and the one on offer is the only fully signed piece known to exist, Schmidt himself, regarded it as one of his most important and exceptional works. Offered with an estimate of £70,000-100,000. Wilhelm Schmidt was born in Idar-Oberstein, the European centre of the mineral, gemstone, and lapidary trades. Aged 15, he served as an apprentice to cameo-cutter, Arsène in Paris, who trained him in the neo-classical tradition. Schmidt later settled in London where he set up an engraving business in Hatton Garden, trading alongside his gem-dealing brother Louis. Schmidt went on to carve cameos from unusual materials such as labradorite, malachite, tourm ... More | | 
Everlyn Nicodemus (1954 - ), Porträtt An En Soldat [Portrait Of A Soldier], 1980. Signed and dated lower left recto. Titled, dated, 'Mwanza T2' to verso. Oil on board, 61 x 57 cm.
LONDON.- Richard Saltoun Gallery presents a landmark exhibition retracing the history of modern conflict from 1914 to the present-day war in Ukraine through the personal accounts of 13 international artists. Drawing its inspiration from the celebrated exhibition Face à L'Histoire at the Centre Pompidou in 1996, the exhibition shines a light on the experiences of artists forced to live in a war torn world and the effect of conflict through the decades, raising the uncomfortable question of what, if anything, we have learnt for the past. The exhibition starts with Mystical Images of War (1914), a portfolio of 14 lithographs created by the Russian Futurist Natalia GONCHAROVA as a response to the outbreak of the Great War. A vital member of the Russian avant-garde, Goncharova spearheaded the development of Futurism. Goncharovas cycle of prints tells the epic and "mystical" story about ... More |
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| C. D. Dickerson III named Senior Curator of European and American Art at National Gallery of Art | | The Albertina Museum exhibits works by two Austria-based artist duos | | Artcurial Motorcars returns to the Retromobile Salon for the most eagerly awaited sale of the year | 
C. D. Dickerson III, Senior Curator of European and American Art, National Gallery of Art.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art announced today that C. D. Dickerson III, who has been the museums curator and head of sculpture and decorative arts since 2015, will become the new senior curator of European and American art, effective immediately. In this new role, Dickerson will oversee the care, study, display, and expansion of painting, sculpture, and decorative arts from Europe, America, and other parts of the world, from the medieval, Renaissance, baroque, 18th-, and 19th-century periodsa collection of some 7,000 works of European and American art. "I am delighted to have C. D. Dickerson take on this new, important role at the National Gallery. C. D. is a stellar scholar whose depth of knowledge in European and American art provides a great foundation to lead the talented curators who are ... More | | 
Muntean / Rosenblum, Untitled ("They must mean something
"), 2021. Kreide, Acryl auf Leinwand. Private Collection, Potsdam, Germany © Muntean/Rosenblum. Photo: Courtesy of Muntean/Rosenblum.
VIENNA.- The Albertina Museum presents two Austria-based artist duos who have each developed their own, unmistakable styles over many years of collaboration. Peter Hauenschild and Georg Ritter have been producing their monumental drawings together since 1989. Markus Muntean and Adi Rosenblum have collaborated in the creation of their artworks since 1992. These two collectives now feature in a two-part retrospective at the ALBERTINA Museum in which major works by each, some of them from the museums own collection, are brought together. The genre of drawing is considered the most individualistic mode of aesthetic expression. In this light, the collaboration ... More | | 
1936 Bugatti, 57 Atalante, © Peter Singhof 8.
PARIS.- At the Retromobile Show in Paris, on 3 February 2023, the Artcurial Motorcars team will present a 1936 Bugatti 57 Atalante to enthusiasts and collectors from around the world. This Bugatti 57 Atalante is one of just four examples to have been built with an original factory sunroof. The car was delivered new in France to a jeweller from Marseille, presented in this superb colour combination of black and ivory. From 1938, the owner used his car to take part in the most famous races of the day, including the Rallye Monte-Carlo, Liège-Rome- Liège and Rallye des Alpes. After the Second World War, it was acquired by the architect and important Belgian Bugatti collector, M. de Lay. Living in the Congo during the early 1960s, he used his Atalante regularly, and when civil war broke out in 1963, M. de Lay and his wife fled the country at the wheel of this car. ... More |
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 Van Eaton Galleries hosts first live in-person auction at New Galleries in Studio CityLOS ANGELES, CALIF.- Van Eaton Galleries, the world record-breaking auction house and exhibition gallery has announced its first in-person on-site auction to be held at their new gallery. Exploring the Disney Universe is a two-day auction between December 3rd and 4th offering over 1,550 rare Disney artifacts. The highly anticipated auction will take place at Van Eaton Galleries new location at 12160 Ventura Blvd, Studio City, California 91604. Exploring the Disney Universe features items from Walts earliest Hollywood days in the 1920s through the present day Walt Disney Company. Fans and collectors will get to experience the life and career of Walt Disney the man, the earliest days of Mickey Mouse, Imagineers, and Disney Parks around the world. From the early days ... More  James Cohan Gallery presents 5th solo exhibition by Yun-Fei Ji in "The Sunflower Turned Its Back"NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan presents The Sunflower Turned Its Back, an exhibition of new work by Yun-Fei Ji. The exhibition started November 17, 2022, and runs through January 7, 2023, at 52 Walker Street. This is the artists fifth solo exhibition at James Cohan. For more than two decades, Yun-Fei Ji has employed the flattened space of classical Chinese painting to tell contemporary stories that, while geographically specific, speak to collective human experiences. The artist has an enduring interest in issues of migration and labor, both in the US and China. Each composition is an act of resistance, and a recognition of the resilience of those who have been uprooted in the name of progress. Ji insists that these narratives of displacement and environmental destruction are worth preserving. For The S ... More  Outstanding single-owner collection of automobilia, signs, and toys to be offered in Miller & Miller online auctionNEW HAMBURG, ONTARIO.- The Chevrolet brand will take center stage in an online-only Automobiles, Advertising & Toys auction planned for Saturday, December 3rd by Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd., as a 1963 Corvette split window coupe and a Chevrolet Super Service dealer neon sign are the expected top lots. The auction will begin promptly at 9 am Eastern time. All 241 lots in the sale are from the lifetime collection of the late Gary Archer, a renowned yet obscure collector who aggressively sought out gas pumps, petroliana advertising, automobilia, soda signs and toys, but who rarely parted with anything. Anyone who knew Gary will tell you the same thing: nothing was ever for sale, said Ethan Miller of Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd. Mr. Miller added, When I stepped down into Garys ba ... More  rodolphe janssen opens an exhibition of works by Sam MoyerBRUSSELS.- In her most recent body of work, Sam Moyer has harnessed the graphic qualities of stone to generate a sense of movement and transformation. The result is a group of paintings in which stone coils, spills, drips, hovers, teeters precariously and curls back into itself. Animated by gesture and motion, these works suggest that something unseen has occurreda mysterious catalyst that fuels their growth or has knocked them out of stasis. Not privy to the cause or its aftermath, we witness only the suspended moment of transition and wonder at what transfigurative force might make stone behave with the fluidity and nimbleness of ink or paint. The genesis of this shift in Moyers work can be located in her series of fern paintings, two of which are included in Relief. In these works, line and ... More  Whyte's November art auction delivers 133 outstanding works by the most desirable Irish artists DUBLIN.- The auction will take place at the Freemasons Hall, Molesworth Street, Dublin 2 and online at bid.whytes.ie. Viewing takes place at Whytes Galleries from Wednesday to Friday 23-25 November, 10am to 5pm, Saturday and Sunday 26 & 27 November, 1pm to 5pm and Monday 28 November day of sale - 10am to 4pm. Additional services include extra photographs of each work, including domestic settings, Art Realizer free App to project pictures to scale on your walls, frame sizes and condition reports for every lot published on our website, and, most importantly a lifetime guarantee for every lot in the sale. Louis le Brocquy is recognised as one of the most significant Irish artists of the twentieth century. During his long life as an artist, le Brocquy's output consisted of a series of distinct p ... More  Imani Perry wins National Book Award for 'South to America'NEW YORK, NY.- Imani Perry won the National Book Award for nonfiction on Wednesday for South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation, in which Perry, a professor of African American studies at Princeton, travels to the American South, where she is from, to examine race, culture, politics and identity. The book straddles genre, kicks down the fourth wall, dances with poetry, engages with literary criticism and flits from journalism to memoir to academic writing, Tayari Jones wrote in The New York Times Book Review. Any attempt to classify it only undermines this insightful, ambitious and moving project. In her acceptance speech, Perry said: I write for my people. I write because we children of the lash-scarred, rope-choked, bullet-ridden, desecrated are still here, s ... More  A show about colonial power, Born from the freedom to make mistakesNEW YORK, NY.- William Kentridge is a protean creator of visual artworks, animation, installations, theater, opera and film. (He also occasionally performs himself.) A major exhibition of his work is currently on show at the Royal Academy in London, and another has just opened at The Broad in Los Angeles. But Kentridge, 67, is also a collaborator, a believer in the communal power of art and art-making, and energetically engaged with his home city: Johannesburg, South Africas gritty and vibrant major metropolis. Its there that he has set up perhaps his least-known project, the 6-year-old Center for the Less Good Idea. Housed in a complex of buildings downtown in the Maboneng neighborhood, the Center entirely funded by Kentridge allows actors, dancers, singers, musicians, visual artists, poets and ... More  Dressing WakandaNEW YORK, NY.- The immersive Afrofuturist vision that defined the 2018 film Black Panther the one that connected African history to utopian technology, the one that seeped out onto red carpets, inspired hundreds of Halloween outfits and put a spotlight on the importance of costume design as a vehicle for centering overlooked aesthetic legacies in the pop culture conversation is back in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever at an even more expansive, emotional scale. That vision now encompasses Mayan and Aztec history, adding the heritage of two great civilizations to the world it has already imagined. Once again, it channels them through clothes via the story of the Talokan people, who live under the sea and are the dramatic foil to the Wakandans of the first film. What each group wears plays a ... More  Beneath its pink cover, 'Lessons in Chemistry' offers a story about powerNEW YORK, NY.- Theres a scene early on in Bonnie Garmus novel Lessons in Chemistry in which Elizabeth Zott, a redoubtable chemist thwarted at every turn by a hidebound 1950s establishment, is given career advice by a male colleague: Dont work the system. Outsmart it. Zott, for her part, didnt like the notion that systems had to be outsmarted. Why couldnt they just be smart in the first place? The ascent of Lessons in Chemistry a book whose success is the stuff publishing dreams are made of begs the same question. The U.S. edition, with its bubble gum-pink cover bearing a stylized womans face peering over a pair of cat-eye sunglasses, reads as overtly feminine, a light beach read for a day off. One can, of course, read any number of things at the beach. But some readers, at least ... More  Kohn Gallery announces representation of artist Li Hei DiLOS ANGELES, CA.- Kohn Gallery announced the representation of London-based, Chinese artist Li Hei Di, who will hold her first solo exhibition with Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles in the Fall of 2023. Lis work sits on the precipice of desire, lingering around an ambiguous state of infatuation where bodies are fragmented and pulled back together in an organic synthesis of paint, revealing themselves winkingly to the viewer. The work prioritizes seduction over the act of sex itself; in essence, flux over finish. Without planning, her paintings unfurl in a kind of battleground between abstraction and figuration. Marks are made and then sacrificed into a new layer until the picture takes form. Time is captured in its true nature, existing simultaneously in different layers of reality. Lis unique depiction of desire and sensua ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American artist Bruce Conner was born November 18, 1933. Bruce Conner (November 18, 1933 - July 7, 2008) was an American artist who worked with assemblage, film, drawing, sculpture, painting, collage, and photography. In this image: Bruce Conner, A MOVIE, 1958, 16mm to 35mm blow-up, b&w/sound, 12min. Digitally Restored, 2016. Courtesy Kohn Gallery. Courtesy Conner Family Trust © Conner Family Trust.
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