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Robert Indiana, Decade: Autoportrait 1961, 1972-77. Oil on canvas. Collection of the McNay Art Museum, Gift of Robert L. B. Tobin. © Morgan Art Foundation/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Robert Indiana: A Legacy of Love honors the life, art, and resounding legacy of the late Pop icon through more than 75 paintings, prints, sculptures, costume designs, and digital artworks. A self-proclaimed painter of signs, Robert Indiana shaped a highly original body of work that explores American identity; his own personal history; and the power of abstraction, symbolism, and language. Surveying Indianas art in conversation with works by his contemporaries and successors, this exhibition examines the innovative foreground of text and symbol within visual art during the postwar era. With artworks that at once call on the viewer to see and to read, Robert Indiana pioneered a triumphant union of text and image that remains undeniably relevant today. Some of the most iconic artworks in this exhibition speak to the human emotions that unite us all, often through a single word, like love and hope, said Richard Aste ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Nahmad Contemporary is presenting SUPERUNKNOWN | Max Ernst and Yves Tanguy with Urs Fischer. Featuring works across centuries in a jarring yet markedly relevant discourse, the exhibition includes iconic paintings by the Surrealist masters alongside the debut of an immersive wallpaper installation by Urs Fischer.
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 | | Lévy Gorvy opens first major U.S. exhibition in a decade devoted to Michelangelo Pistoletto | | Salvador Dalà masterpiece achieves 8.1 million at Bonhams sale in London | | How to hold the world's largest book fair in a pandemic | 
Michelangelo Pistoletto, Viceversa, 1971. Mirror, gilded wood frame, and wood easel, 98 7/16 x 35 5/8 x 19 11/16 inches (250 x 90.5 x 50 cm) © Michelangelo Pistoletto. Courtesy the artist, Lévy Gorvy, and Galleria Continua. Photo: Alessandro Scipioni.
NEW YORK, NY.- Lévy Gorvy opened a major exhibition of works by the renowned Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto. The first US presentation in a decade to feature multiple installations by Pistoletto, it will take visitors on a journey through one of the most influential and enduring artistic practices to unfold from the postwar period to the present. Lévy Gorvys exhibition resonates with the themes that have animated Pistolettos body of work for over six decades: perception, time, history, tradition, and the relationship between art, artist, and viewer. Designed by the artist specifically for the gallerys New York space, Michelangelo Pistolettos exhibition is organized in collaboration with Galleria Continua. Upon arriving at Lévy Gorvy, visitors to the exhibition will be greeted by an installation inspired by a pairing included in One ... More | | 
Salvador Dalà (1904-1989), Couple aux têtes pleines de nuages (1937). 92.5 x 72.5 cm (left figure) 90 x 70.5 cm (right figure). Sold for £8,171,062. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Salvador DalÃs surrealist masterpiece, Couple aux têtes pleines de nuages, 1937, sold for £8,171,062 at Bonhams Impressionist & Modern Art Sale in London today (Thursday 15 October). The work, which had never before been offered at auction, came from the collection of the Italian Modernist composer Giacinto Scelsi. The sale made a total of £11,145,300 with 70% sold by lot and 93% sold by value. Global Head of Bonhams Impressionist & Modern Art department, India Phillips, commented: It has been a real privilege to bring one of DalÃs surrealist masterpieces, Couple aux têtes pleines de nuages, to auction for the first time. This was a signature work by the artist, revealing his two great obsessions Freudian psychology, and his great muse, Gala. Dalà painted this incredible diptych at a time of intense personal discovery and expression, while the world around him erupted into conflict. ... More | | 
In this file photo taken on October 16, 2019 visitors make their way around the Frankfurt book fair on the opening day in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany. Daniel ROLAND / AFP.
by Michelle Fitzpatrick
FRANKFURT (AFP).- The Frankfurt book fair, the world's largest, is going ahead this week even after a spike in coronavirus infections turned the German city into a high-risk area. With authors signing books behind plexiglass, audiences wearing masks and industry events moved online, this year's edition is unlike any other. The rapidly worsening outbreak, in a country that has so far coped relatively well with the pandemic, forced organisers to rewrite their plans several times. Just 48 hours before Wednesday's kickoff, fair director Juergen Boos and his team decided to ban audiences from attending readings and interviews in a concert hall that had been due to host 450 people at a time. "We had to react right away," Boos told AFP, after Frankfurt was coloured ... More |
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| | Exhibition and online sale will promote diversity in the international art market | | Sotheby's to offer a rich and eclectic selection of works curated by Adrian Alan | | Nahmad Contemporary exhibits works by Max Ernst and Yves Tanguy | 
Catalina Swinburn, Anaua II Immortal Warrior. Estimate £25,000-35,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
LONDON.- This autumn Christies will be presenting Matters of Material an exhibition and online sale dedicated to promoting diversity in the international art market and promoting sustainability in the arts. The initiative will be part of the Middle Eastern Modern and Contemporary Art sale week taking place this November in London. Showcasing contemporary artists from the Middle East, Africa and Latin America, the prevalent theme among the selected works will be on how materials can be used and recycled to create powerful statements and works of art, as well as how the selected geographies share universal and mutual creative affinities. This sale will be guest curated by Christies international consultant Dina Nasser-Khadivi and staged in collaboration with the Middle Eastern Art and European Post War & Contemporary Art department. The online sale will be running from Nov 11 ... More | | 
Pio Fedi (1816 1892), Cupid, white marble, signed PiO FEDI FACEVA, est £10,000-15,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- This month, Sothebys will bring to auction a rich and eclectic selection of works, curated by Adrian Alan, one the worlds leading dealers of nineteenth century furniture and decorative arts. Drawing from his vast collection, each piece exemplifies the luxury, opulence and exquisite craftsmanship which defined the cultural and artistic innovations of the Belle Ãpoque. New Ãpoque: Adrian Alan - Selected Works will offer exceptional Furniture, Clocks and Sculpture by leading artists and craftsman of the day, including François Linke, Paul Sormani, Alfred Beurdeley and Ferdinand Barbedienne. Since its opening in 1964, the Adrian Alan gallery has been the ultimate destination for collectors, decorators and lovers of the very best Parisian furniture, which was created for the great international fairs and collected to furnish lavish homes on both sides of the Atlantic during the nineteenth century heyday. Open for bidding 21- ... More | | 
Max Ernst (1891-1976), Flowers, 1928. Oil on canvas, 31.75 x 25.5 inches (80.5 x 65 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Nahmad Contemporary is presenting SUPERUNKNOWN | Max Ernst and Yves Tanguy with Urs Fischer. Featuring works across centuries in a jarring yet markedly relevant discourse, the exhibition includes iconic paintings by the Surrealist masters alongside the debut of an immersive wallpaper installation by Urs Fischer. Created during a tumultuous period of Western historyfrom 1924, in the wake of the First World War, through the 1940s, during the Second World Warthe surreal compositions by Max Ernst (b.1891, Brühl, Germany; 1976, Paris) and Yves Tanguy (b.1900, Paris; d. 1955; Woodbury, Connecticut) evoke a potent sense of uneasiness and foreboding. Juxtaposed with Gap-toothed City (201720), a floor-to-ceiling wallpaper by Urs Fischer (b. 1973, Zurich), the early 20th-century paintings will be immersed within the contemporary artists photographs of New York cityscapes taken over the last three years ... More |
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| | Exhibition at Omer Tiroche Gallery pairs seminal paintings with Hermès bags | | Exhibition explores the ways in which masculinity has been experienced from the 1960s to the present day | | Doyle to auction fine paintings on October 22 | 
The Art of Hermes installation view at Omer Tiroche Gallery.
LONDON.- Hermès handbags are renowned as the worlds most sought after and exclusive luxury bags, capable of fetching hundreds of thousands of pounds at auction. Created in specialist ateliers by highly skilled craftsmen, no two bags are the same. Each has been fashioned from leathers such as calf, crocodile, alligator and lizard skins, precision dyed and textured then painstakingly hand-stitched, to create unique items characterised by their iconic forms and rich materiality. In juxtaposing a selection of these handbags with paintings by the worlds most influential artists Christo, Pierre Soulages, Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni, Andy Warhol and more, The Art of Hermès celebrates their potential to be appreciated alike as exquisite, sculptural objects. Pairing seminal paintings from the late 1950s through to the late 80s with Hermès bags, the exhibition proceeds as a dialogue between individual pieces in matching palettes and textures, highlighting the ... More | | 
Hal Fischer, Street Fashion: Jock, From the series Gay Semiotics, 1977/2016. Carbon pigment print. Original dimensions of the picture: approx. 76.2 x 61 cm; framed: 79 x 63.6 x 3 cm. Courtesy: the artist; Project Native Informant London.
BERLIN.- This autumn, the Gropius Bau presents Masculinities: Liberation through Photography, a comprehensive group exhibition that explores the ways in which masculinity has been experienced, performed and socially constructed from the 1960s to the present day. At a time when ideas around masculinity are undergoing a global crisis and concepts such as toxic and fragile masculinity are shaping social discourse, over 300 works by 50 international artists including Laurie Anderson, Richard Avedon, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Robert Mapplethorpe, Annette Messager and Wolfgang Tillmans offer a panorama of filmic and photographic explorations of masculinity rife with contradictions and complexity. The show also highlights lesser-known and younger artists such as Cassils, Sam Contis, George Dureau, Elle Pérez, Paul Mpagi ... More | | 
Dale Nichols (American, 1904-1995), The Northern Lights, Alaska, circa 1938-40 (detail). Est. $4,000-6,000. Lot 1041.
NEW YORK, NY.- Doyle's auction of Fine Paintings on Thursday, October 22 at 10am EDT will offer a wide range of traditional, academic and Modern works with moderate estimates. Following four successful sales in this popular new category, the upcoming sale showcases over 140 lots of affordable paintings spanning the 19th and 20th centuries by prominent American and European artists. Exciting opportunities abound for seasoned buyers and new collectors alike! The public is invited to the exhibition on view Saturday, October 17 thru Monday October 19 from Noon - 5pm and by appointment at other times. Safety protocols will be in place. Doyle is located at 175 East 87th Street in Manhattan. View the catalogue and place bids at Doyle.com Best known for his radiant depictions of the American Midwest, Nebraska native Dale Nichols The Northern Lights Alaska captures the haunting, ... More |
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| | A new contemporary African art gallery opens in Accra, Ghana | | Norman Rockwell paintings from the Miller-Boyett Collection to be offered at Phillips | | March Avery now represented by Blum & Poe | 
Molaya, 2020. Acrylic, oil and charcoal on paper, 100cm x 70cm. Courtesy of the artist Collins Obijiaku and ADA \ contemporary art gallery.
ACCRA.- Marking its opening in Accra, Ghana, ADA \ contemporary art gallery unveils its inaugural exhibition, Gindin Mangoro: Under the Mango Tree, the debut solo presentation of Nigerian painter Collins Obijiaku (b. 1995). From October 15 to November 19, 2020, the gallery presents the emerging artists new body of work, a selection of 17 intimate portraits delving into notions of Blackness, lived experience, interiority and identity. Debuting ADAs program of curated exhibitions specializing in the work of emerging artists across Africa and its diaspora, Gindin Mangoro: Under the Mango Tree attests to the gallerys engagement in supporting fresh talent across a diverse set of mediums, offering early career artists an opportunity to present a comprehensive portfolio of work. On view within the gallerys 850-square-meter space, the exhibition showcases a new body of work from Obijiakus eponymous portrait ... More | | 
Norman Rockwell, An Audience of One. Estimate: $2.5-3.5 million. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY.- This fall, Phillips will offer two works from the Miller-Boyett Collection in the Evening Sale of 20th Century & Contemporary Art on 7 December. Known for their roles in creating iconic TV shows such as Happy Days, Mork & Mindy, Laverne & Shirley, Bosom Buddies, Family Matters, and Full House, Thomas Miller and Robert Boyett also amassed an impressive collection of American Art during their 40 years of partnership. An Audience of One, estimated at $2.5-3.5 million, and The Peephole, estimated at $1-1.5 million, have both been in the Miller-Boyett Collection since 1999. Elizabeth Goldberg, Deputy Chairwoman and Senior International Specialist, American Art, said, Norman Rockwell, Thomas Miller and Robert Boyett are all great storytellers. As Rockwell did with his paintings, Mr. Miller and Mr. Boyett are responsible for helping to define 20th century American life through their numerous hit television shows. All of these artist ... More | | 
March Avery, Ruth in a Sling Chair, 1985 (detail). Oil on canvas, 54 1/2 x 36 inches. Photo: Jeremy Lawson. © March Avery. Courtesy of the artist and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles/New York/Tokyo.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Blum & Poe announced the representation of New York-based artist March Avery. A solo exhibition of Averys work will open this November in Los Angeles, her second presentation with the gallery following a debut in New York in 2019. March Avery was born in New York in 1932 to painters Milton Avery and Sally Michel. Guided by her famous father, she began painting as a childalthough as she would tell it, I think I was painting in utero. She had her first solo exhibition in 1963. Now in her late eighties, the artist continues to work six days a week in her lifelong neighborhood, Greenwich Village. Averys oil paintings, sketches, and watercolors carry forward certain stylistic characteristics of the family oeuvre, what art historian Robert Hobbs has called the Avery styleflat picture planes, interlocking shapes, and a simplicity of formswhile distinguishing her ... More |
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 Exhibition of recent sculpture by Leonor Antunes opens at Mudam LuxembourgLUXEMBOURG.- Mudam Luxembourg Musée dArt Moderne Grand-Duc Jeans Henry J. and Erna D. Leir Pavilion is the site for a new exhibition of recent sculpture by the acclaimed artist Leonor Antunes (b. 1972, Lisbon). Antunes has created a new installation that responds to the physical qualities and proportions of this iconic architectural space designed by Ieoh Ming Pei (b. 1917, Guangzhou; d. 2019, New York). For her exhibition at Mudam, Antunes has conceived of an expanded sculptural environment that occupies the Henry J. and Erna D. Leir pavilion and the glass-walled walkway that serves as its entrance. The installation is composed of a suspended structure made from steel and tied cords that doubles the hexagonal profile of the pavilion and serves to frame existing and new sculptures. They echoe the artists free standing light ... More Christie's announces sale of Topographical Pictures, including China Trade PaintingsLONDON.- Christies London announced the annual sale of Topographical Pictures including China Trade Paintings taking place online from 15th October 5th November. Featuring 123 lots with a significant focus on itinerant western artists working in the Arctic, Americas, Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Antarctic, during the great ages of exploration, trade and empire in the 18th and 19th centuries, while subjects range from the high latitudes of the Polar Regions, to the East and West Indies, from Imperial Brazil to India under the Raj, from the Cape Colony to the China Coast. Opening the sale are two large 19th century oils by J. Hamer, of British exploring vessels frozen in the ice of the Arctic: HMS Resolute, one of the many vessels involved in the Franklin Search expeditions in the 1850s, shown abandoned in her thousand-mile drift in the Canadian ... More India cinemas reopen, hoping to lure back movie-mad fansBANGALORE (AFP).- Cinemas in movie-mad India tentatively re-opened on Thursday but with worries about coronavirus and only old films showing, early punters were few and far between. The pandemic has clobbered theatres worldwide but in India, home to the planet's most prolific movie industry, it has upended a culture that treats the stars of the silver screen almost like gods. After the recent loss of several luminaries to coronavirus, cancer and even suicide -- as well as a Bollywood drugs scandal -- the industry is desperate for some good news. But it may have to wait, with some states still keeping theatres closed -- including Maharashtra and its movie mad capital Mumbai -- and film studios offering no new releases. At the Sharada Cinema in Bangalore on Thursday, there was only a small trickle of customers for the morning showing of action fantasy ... More Japanese cinema must adapt to survive, warns rising star directorTOKYO (AFP).- Japanese cinema needs an overhaul. At least that's what acclaimed director Koji Fukada thinks, calling for less reliance on manga adaptations, more money for arthouse and better treatment of workers. The 40-year-old's latest film "The Real Thing" was chosen for the main selection at this year's Cannes film festival, four years after he won a jury prize for emerging talent. The glitzy French gathering was scrapped this year because of the coronavirus, but that has given Fukada more time to reflect on his concerns about the film industry at home. Among them is what he sees as an over-reliance on adapting popular graphic novels rather than commissioning original ideas, he told AFP in an interview. He is not opposed to manga adaptations -- his latest movie is one -- but he warns that the genre's ubiquity has "a negative effect on diversity". ... More 'Little Shop,' big relief: How one theater safely put on an indoor showWHITEFIELD, NH (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The last choruses of Dont Feed the Plants reverberated across the mostly empty theater. Shredded paper fell from the lighting grid. The 44 masked ticket holders, meticulously spaced out across the 250 seats, rose for an ovation, then waited for directions about which doorways to use to reduce crowding as they filed out into the autumn sunshine. Ethan Paulini, who played the sadistic dentist in the production of Little Shop of Horrors that ended with a matinee here Sunday, removed his white lab coat and offered the hint of a smile from behind his black mask. The first fall season here at the Weathervane Theater, which Paulini also runs as its producing artistic director, had come to an end. Five weeks. Three shows. Twenty-six performances. Zero known COVID-19 cases. At a time when ... More Exhibition explores the development of sound as a creative field separated from musicMADRID.- The exhibition Disonata. Art in sound up to 1980, based on an original project by the recently deceased Guy Schraenen, analyses one of the lesser known aspects of 20th century art: the development of sound as a creative field separated from music, since the irruption of the historical avant-garde movements. Museo Reina Sofia is devoting a central part of its autumn program, which includes several exhibitions and events, to contextualize the use of sound from a historical perspective and in contemporary creation, as well as its relationship with visual arts. The exhibition Disonata is one of the main features, but the list also includes: Audiosphere. Social Experimental Audio, Pre- and Post- Internet, Invisible Auto Sacramental: A Sonic Representation from Val del Omar a new installation the inflammatory flamenco singer Niño ... More Pinakothek der Moderne opens "The Architecture Machine: The Role of Computers in Architecture"MUNICH.- For the first time in the German speaking countries, the Architekturmuseum der TUM presents a large-scale exhibition on the computers influence on architecture. Beginning in the 1960s and ending in the present, the show recounts this fascinating history in four chapters, which sum up key developments of the so-called digital revolution: The computer as a drawing machine, the computer as a design tool, the computer as a medium for storytelling, and the computer as an interactive platform. The fundamental question that guided the two-year research project on which this show is based is simple: has the computer changed architecture, and if so, how? The exhibition is curated by Teresa Fankhänel and contains more than forty international case studies and projects by architects, artists, engineers and researchers, many of which are collected ... More Adrian Ghenie presents 12 new works at the Tim Van Laere GalleryANTWERP.- Tim Van Laere Gallery in Antwerp presents a solo show with new work by the Romanian artist Adrian Ghenie (°1977, Baia-Mare; lives and works in Cluj and Berlin). The show includes 9 new paintings and three charcoal drawings. Twelve years ago, in 2008, Ghenie had his first solo show at Tim Van Laere Gallery. Meanwhile, Ghenie has become an international star and a favourite amongst curators, collectors and auction houses. Just two days ago, Sothebys Hong Kong notched the second-highest auction price for Ghenie, when his painting Lidless Eye (2016-18), sold for HK$54.9 million ($7 million). Ghenie paints sumptuous, almost hallucinatory, large-scale paintings that arouse feelings of vulnerability, frustration or desire. With his complex and layered scenes he challenges us to reflect on the human aspect behind the mystical stories ... More Giant sculptural hot air balloon celebrating local communities lifts off to win art competitionLONDON.- M+R, a collaboration between artists Neil Musson and Jono Retallick, have won the inaugural Thamesmead Open international art competition with their proposal Fields of everywhen. Fields of everywhen is a two year project, which aims to create a flying gallery that floats extraordinary stories in the air on a purpose built balloon which shows the embroidered and textile creations of local communities said winners Neil Musson and Jono Retallick. Exploring history, experiences and conversations, Neil and Jonos symbolic and aspirational creation will evolve in conjunction with the diverse communities of Thamesmead and work in partnership with local residents and creatives including Zimbabwean-born fashion designer Tapiwa Dingwiza and local empowerment project, the ... More Abu Dhabi Art announces it will return this year as a virtual fairABU DHABI.- The Department of Culture and Tourism Abu Dhabi has announced that the 12th edition Abu Dhabi Art will take place from 19 26 November 2020 as a virtual fair. An interactive digital edition of Abu Dhabi Art will bring together galleries and artists from across the world in a number of curated gallery exhibitions and sectors. For the first time ever, 6 guest curators will work with galleries and artists to present work online, each with a different geographic focus. Integrating live-stream video interviews with artists, curators and gallerists, the 2020 digital fair will also host a public Performing Arts Programme, presented alongside a number of engaging projects for the public. Commenting on the 2020 digital version of the fair, HE Saood Al Hosani, Acting Undersecretary of the Department of Culture and Tourism Abu Dhabi said: Abu ... More Prinseps mourns artist and Bollywood costume designer Bhanu AthaiyaMUMBAI.- Bhanu Rajopadhye Athaiya leaves behind a powerful legacy as one of Indias legendary creative figures. One of the early members of the Bombay Progressives group, Bhanu Rajopadhye had a historically important early career as an artist, exploring the possibilities of Indian Modernism with her contemporaries - Vasudeo S. Gaitonde, Ambadas Gade and others at the J.J. School of Art. The diary entries from her days as a student remain a valuable mine of insights and delightful stories of the heady early days of this iconic art movement. In one such note, she said: We would often meet at social get-togethers at Mulk Raj Anand's place in Colaba where we used to meet the likes of Ibrahim Alkazi and discuss the latest trends and happenings in the world of art. I distinctly remember many discussions about a painting by Alkazi, that ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Paul Strand was born October 16, 1890. Paul Strand (October 16, 1890 - March 31, 1976) was an American photographer and filmmaker who, along with fellow modernist photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century. His diverse body of work, spanning six decades, covers numerous genres and subjects throughout the Americas, Europe and Africa. In this image: Wall Street, 1915.
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