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The exhibition acknowledges the complex and often controversial aspects of Gauguin's life and legacy.
VIENNA.- Vienna is currently hosting a major art event: the Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien is presenting "Gauguin unexpected," the first comprehensive retrospective of Paul Gauguin's work in the city since the 1960s. On view from October 3, 2024, to January 19, 2025, the exhibition offers a fresh look at this complex and influential figure in modern art. Curated by Evelyn Benesch, "Gauguin unexpected" showcases Gauguin not just as a Post-Impressionist, but as a pivotal artist who pushed the boundaries of painting, transforming it from a mere representation of the visible world into an expression of inner states, archetypes, and powerful emotions. The exhibition traces his artistic journey, from his early days among the Impressionists to his embrace of Symbolism and Synthetism, culminating in a unique visual language that resonates ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Cats & Dogs, an exhibition at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia explores humanityâs deep connection to cats and dogs through more than 250 works of art and design.
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| New book chronicles the disappearing act of Banksy's street art | | Hake's to launch 2025 series solely featuring Jeff Jacob's blue-chip collection of Star Wars, GI Joe, other toys | | The Lenbachhaus opens a joint exhibition by Rosemarie Trockel and Thea Djordjadze |
A landmark exploration of the sold, stolen, and destroyed works of Banksy, perhaps one of the most famous and controversial living artists of our time.
NEW YORK, NY.- A new book, "Banksys Lost Works: On the trail of his vanishing street art" by Will Ellsworth-Jones, offers a unique look at the ephemeral nature of the artist's creations. Set for release on February 18, 2025, from Batsford, this hardcover publication explores the artworks that have vanished from public view, whether through removal, theft, destruction, or private acquisition. Banksy, known for both global recognition and a strong preference for anonymity, has been a figure of discussion since his street pieces first appeared in Bristol over two decades ago. While some view him as a significant contemporary artist, others consider his work vandalism. This book shifts the focus to the artworks no longer accessible to the public. "Banksys Lost Works" brings these missing pieces back into focus. Among the works featured are: A series of seven pieces created on damaged buildings ... More | |
Star Wars (1978) Double-Telescoping Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi 12 Back-A action figure, AFA 85 NM+, SKU on footer. Open estimate with bidding to start at $50,000.
YORK, PA.- Colorado custom homebuilder Jeff Jacobs multimillion-dollar collection of Star Wars figures, GI Joes and rarities from other popular toy lines is expected to commandeer The Force when it makes its auction debut on January 22 at Hakes. The initial offering of 435 lots from Jacobs 33-year collection will introduce a multi-part series of online sales slated for 2025. Bidding on Part I will open on January 6, the same day the fully-illustrated catalog publishes on Hakes website. All lots will close on January 22. Acknowledged as one of the worlds largest and finest collections of its type, Jacobs pop-culture trove includes more than 3,000 pieces that traverse the action-figure universe, starting with 1970s Star Wars characters and progressing into the 1980s with premier GI Joes, Transformers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Masters of the Universe, and other productions. Nearly all figures, playsets, vehicle ... More | |
Rosemarie Trockel / Thea Djordjadze, Lob der Langeweile, Detail, 2008 © Thea Djordjadze & Rosemarie Trockel, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024. Courtesy the artists and Sprüth Magers. Photo: Timo Ohler.
MUNICH.- The Lenbachhaus presents a joint exhibition by Rosemarie Trockel (b. Schwerte, Germany, 1952) and Thea Djordjadze (b. Tbilisi, 1971). The two artists forged a close creative relationship between 1998 and 2001, when Djordjadze was Trockels student at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts, and have realized joint projects before. Their oeuvres explore themes that are relevant to contemporary art and its production, scrutinizing, for example, the creative process and interrogating its premises, traditions, freedoms, and constraints. Meanwhile, they play with the conventions of art and the exhibition space. In their exhibition limitation of life, Trockel and Djordjadze weave these themes together: taking inspiration from the poet Arthur Rimbauds reflections, they study the idea of beauty and question ... More |
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| Gladstone Gallery presents 'Mark Leckey: 3 Songs from the Liver' | | Greg Léon Guillemin's "Unfiltered" exhibition: A bold look at femininity through Pop Art | | Peter Freeman, Inc. presents a selection of works from Mel Bochner's 48" Standards series |
Mark Leckey, Spidey with Spidey-Self, 2024. Oak, gold leaf, and ink, 39 3/8 x 22 x 1 1/2 inches (100 x 55.9 x 3.8 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Three songs, not from the heart, as I dont wish to be too sentimental. Nor from the intellect, I dont want to be too discursive. No, these three songs - and by songs I mean they are short and musical - originate in the liver. The liver was once thought to be a kind of screen for mental images, like a mirror or a pool. For the past eight years Ive had a regular slot on the London radio station, NTS and this show has come about through that involvement in music. To the Old World (Thank You for the Use of Your Body) The bus stop smash was posted on uk-bants and I wanted this squalid little act, shitty in its resolution, to become immense. Exulted, meaning to leap up or leap out: So, for me he exults through the bus stop. Carry Me into The Wilderness came about at the end of lockdown when I went for a walk in my local park at Alexandra Pala ... More | |
Greg Léon Guillemin, Elastidress, 2024, acrylique et aérosol sur toile, 120 x 80 cm © Greg Léon Guillemin, ADAGP Paris 2024.
PARIS.- With boldness and sensitivity, Greg Léon Guillemin offers us a journey into the heart of his vision of femininity. At the crossroads of pop art and contemporary art, diverting the world of comics and superheroes, which he stages in our daily lives, his style is immediately recognizable. The vibrant colors and dynamic compositions convey the energy that drives his subjects, while the screen prints, pronounced outlines, and off-center framing, true signatures of the artist, evoke snapshots of life frozen on the canvas and presented in series. Beyond the representation of the female figure, the "Unfiltered" exhibition is intended as an invitation to reflection, a space for dialogue and questioning. By showing women in what he perceives as their authenticity, Greg Léon Guillemin encourages us to question prejudices, to reconsider the social and cultural filters through ... More | |
Mel Bochner. Measurement: 100" / 4, 1969, brown paper, masking tape, and crayon, 100 x 36 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Peter Freeman, Inc. is presenting Mel Bochners tenth exhibition at the gallery with a selection of works from his 48″ Standards series conceived in 1969 and executed in brown paper, cardboard, and vinyl. Each Standard consists of rectangular sheets of brown paper or cardboard arranged on a wall to contain at least one element of space or paper that measures three-by-four feet. A 48-inch measurement is always recorded twice: once across the rectangle that it describes and again along the outside of its upper or lower edge. The demarcation is not merely one of quantification; it is an investigation of the readymade systems of measurement and their limited ability to describe or define an object. A facsimile of Bochners original notebook drawings for the Standards, with an essay by Jeffrey Weiss, will be published in conjunction with the exhibition. In his text for the book, Weiss writes, For Mel Bochner, ... More |
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| Exhibition brings together over 200 of one-of-a-kind creations by Dolce&Gabbana | | Xippas Punta del Este presents masterpieces from the Jean Cherqui Collection | | Native American and other works of art from an Oklahoma collector is now in progress on iGavelAuctions |
Exhibition view at Palazzo Reale, Milano, April 2024 @ Michael Adair.
PARIS.- Dolce&Gabbana and IMG announce Du Cur à La Main: Dolce&Gabbana (From the Heart to the Hands: Dolce&Gabbana) will open in Paris at the Grand Palais from 10 January to 31 March 2025. The Paris showing follows its highly successful debut at Palazzo Reale in Milan where it consistently sold out and garnered international acclaim. Bringing together over 200 of the fashion houses one-of-a-kind creations for the very first time Du Cur à La Main : Dolce&Gabbana is an open love letter to Italian culture as the enduring inspiration for Domenico Dolces and Stefano Gabbanas designs. The exhibition traces the extraordinary translation of their ideas, from the heart through to their realisation, by hand. The exhibition also features work by visual artists in dialogue with Dolce&Gabbanas celebrated designs. Curated by Florence Müller, scenography by Agence Galuchat and produced by IMG, the exhibition celebrates Dolce&Gabbana as a symbol ... More | |
Jose Gurvich, Constructive fish no. 83, 1950-2. Oil on wood, 47 x 31 cm. Courtesy of Jean Cherqui Collection.
PUNTA DEL ESTE.- This exhibition seeks to pay tribute to the passionate collector, two years after his passing, by presenting a selection of historical works that highlight the commitment and friendship Jean Cherqui maintained with numerous artists from the RÃo de la Plata region. In this sense, the curatorial project focuses on presenting works created between the 1940s and 1960s, related to the avant-garde movements of geometric abstraction, suchas MADI Art and Concrete Art, by JoaquÃn Torres GarcÃa and the Escuela del Sur, along with some precursors of Kinetic Optical Art. The exhibition begins chronologically with a work by the master JoaquÃn Torres GarcÃa, along with works by two of his most prominent disciples, José Gurvich and Manuel Pailos. A selection of works by the precursors of MADI ArtCarmelo Arden Quin, Gyula Koice and MartÃn Blaszkofollows, along with works by key ... More | |
A 20th century Persian Tree of Life Qum Rug, signed (Estimate: $1,500-2,000).
NEW BRAUNFELS, TX.- Lark Mason Associates announced their latest online auction featuring Asian, Native American, and other remarkable works of art from a prominent Oklahoma collector. Now open for bidding through January 14, 2025, on iGavelAuctions.com, this eclectic sale offers a veritable treasure chest of 547 lots at accessible price points. This captivating collection showcases over 25 intricately woven rugs, an impressive selection of more than 108 Native American silver and turquoise jewelry pieces, belts and beadwork. The offerings extend to European and American art, Americana such as Staffordshire flow-blue historical plates, Chinese export porcelain, silver, and a wide range of Art Deco Rosenthal figures. Lark Mason, founder of iGavelAuctions and Lark Mason Associates, states, The incredible variety of works in this collection reflects the curiosity and diligence of a truly passionate collector. Its a privilege ... More |
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| From a Bentley 8-Litre to a Senna GTR: RM Sotheby's Arizona Sale kicks off 2025 auction season | | Harwood Museum of Art announces 'Charles Ross: Mansions of the Zodiac' | | Exhibition brings together approximately 44 works by Gerardo Rosales |
The sale features a stellar selection of pre-war classics, iconic sports cars, and cutting-edge hypercars. Courtesy RM Sotheby's.
SCOTTSDALE, AZ.- RM Sothebys opens the 2025 auction season on 24 January at the iconic Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa. Featuring a stellar selection of pre-war classics, iconic sports cars, and cutting-edge hypercars, the event promises something extraordinary for every collector. Highlights include: The 1931 Bentley 8-Litre Convertible Victoria, a one-of-a-kind masterpiece by Walter M. Murphy Company, combines American craftsmanship with W.O. Bentleys engineering brilliance. Meticulously restored with its original engine and Murphy coachwork, it has been celebrated at Pebble Beach as one of the 100 most beautiful cars. Estimated at $2,750,000$3,250,000. The 2020 McLaren Senna GTR, the 73rd of just 75 built, is a track-focused masterpiece featuring an 833-horsepower twin-turbocharged V-8 and $75,000 in bespoke MSO options. Its striking Ayrton Senna-inspired livery highlights its motorsport ... More | |
Charles Ross, Prism Column, 1966/2015, acrylic, 96 x 4 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches with triangular base appx. 2 x 7 x 8 inches. Courtesy of the artist.
TAOS, NM.- Harwood Museum of Art announced Charles Ross: Mansions of the Zodiac, an exhibition celebrating critical moments in Rosss seven-decade career, which includes works that have never been exhibited. Emerging in the 1960s with the advent of minimalism and earthworks, Charles Ross is considered one of the preeminent figures of the land art movement. His work is an on-going conversation with sunlight, starlight, Earths movements, and time. Over his long career, Charles Ross has created large-scale prisms that project the solar spectrum into architectural spaces, focused sunlight into powerful beams to create solar burn works, drawn the quantum behavior of light with dynamite, and worked with a variety of other media including photography and video. This exhibition opens as Ross nears the completion of his earth/sky work, Star Axis, a monumental architectonic sculpture and ... More | |
Installation view.
RIO DE JANEIRO.- Nara Roesler Rio de Janeiro is presenting Fable Chaser, the first solo exhibition in Brazil of the Venezuelan-born American artist Gerardo Rosales. Curated by Luis Pérez-Oramas, the show brings together approximately 44 works produced throughout 2024, including paintings on canvas, works on paper, and a large mural created especially for this exhibition. Gerardo Rosales (b. 1967) lives and works in Houston, United States. Initially a self-taught artist, he later graduated from the Armando Reverón University of the Arts in Caracas and the Chelsea School of Art in London. Rosales belongs to a global generation of artists who identify through a figurative approach to nature and sexuality, where species and genders multiply incessantly. His work is distinguished by its forest-like, homoerotic, and fantastical imagery, in which animal and human figures intertwine in acts of love and hunting. Another important aspect of his production is irony. This aspect is present both textually and figur ... More |
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Block Collection Council acquires works by Tom Jones, Widline CadetEVANSTON, IL.- The Block Museum announced the Collection Councils acquisition of four new works for its permanent collection. These selectionstwo photographs by Tom Jones and two by Widline Cadetalign with the museums new strategic plan, which emphasizes collections-based teaching, interdisciplinary learning, and campus partnerships. This acquisition results from the Collection Councils second annual research and acquisition process throughout 2023-2024. The search was guided by the theme of kinship, resulting in a pool of artists whose work related to this theme in varying waysfor instance, familial relations, generational relationships and memory over time, and lineage across artistic practices. This years Collection Council was helmed by Lisa Corrin, Executive Director, and Kate Hadley Toftness, Assistant Director ... More ICA Miami opens the first U.S. museum exhibition of Los Angeles-based painter Lucy BullMIAMI, FLA.- ICA Miami presents the first U.S. museum exhibition of Los Angelesbased painter Lucy Bull (b. 1990, New York), Lucy Bull: The Garden of Forking Paths. A singular voice in contemporary abstract painting, Bulls dynamic practice explores the formal and experiential concerns of the medium. Through a dynamic application of paint, Bull choreographs energetic gestures into eruptive fields of pictorial activity. In her works, exuberant colors and elusive forms, reference and atmosphere, density and transparency are in constant tension. Bulls works sit at the edge of language. In them, the macroscopic and the microscopic tend to swap places, as landscapes often morph into depictions of internal psychic spaces. Worlds congeal momentarily in her paintings, only to surrender again to a dynamic of constant transformation. Bulls works ... More Tallinn Art Hall is awarded for its commitment to building cultural bridges in EstoniaTALLINN.- Initiated by artist George Steinmann in 2014, Prix Art and Ethics is a sculpture in the form of a 20,000 art prize, since its inception the prize has been awarded four times. This year for its recipient was Tallinn Art Hall (Estonia) for its commitment as a visionary cultural bridge builder in Estonia. The prize was awarded to Tallinn Art Hall Director Paul Aguraiuja on 16th November 2024 at a public ceremony at Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland where George Steinman recently exhibited Back to the Future / George Steinmann, Lofty Dryness. A growing Sculpture, 20032024. The Tallinn Art Hall, built in 1934, is an important institution/place for Estonian art and culture. The building on Freedom Square in the city of Tallinn is a listed building. Due to severe damage to the foundations, caused among other things by the bombing of Tallinn by the Soviet ... More 'Jay Critchley: Democracy of the Land' to open at Montserrat College of Art GalleryBEVERLY, MASS.- Montserrat College of Art Gallery will present Jay Critchley: Democracy of the Land, Inc., FLAGrancy, Jan. 27 March 5, 2024, at 23 Essex Street. The exhibition features the artist's compelling uses of the American flag as subject and material drawing on the Provincetown- based artists decades-long critique of patriotism, democracy and corporatism. A public reception and performance by the artist will be held on Jan. 28 from 6-8 pm. It is free and open to the public. Drawing on his research and work about American symbolism, mythology, history, settler occupation, Native Nations and ecological concerns, Jay Critchley: Democracy of the Land, Inc., FLAGrancy confronts our torrid and complicated history of what it means to be an American and how control of and access to the Land defines our personal and cultural ... More 'Alicja Pakosz: Fight, Flight, Freeze, Friend' on view at ADA, RomeROME.- It was a windy day and I met them for a coffee. We ate meringues with fruits (they were good). She is glowing and speaking at breakneck speed about her new-found attitude. It is actually amazing, she says, I feel a thousand times better, I can focus finally and I feel like it will all work out, no matter what. That is wonderful, we reply, and we truly think so - it is a well-deserved break. How did you do it? Well, I am nearing my thirties and I decided to just keep it cool, whatever comes will come. I dont know, I think it is just a change of heart, quite simply, but it is working for me now. How about you?. Well, she says, I have been in a rut and unable to get out of bed. Been reading way too much and cant deal with that, but I decided to come and see you. Took a shower and even got dressed just for you. Anyways, where is she? Oh, ... More Juan Garaizabal arrives at the Bahrain National MuseumMANAMA.- De Buck Gallery collaborated with the RAK Art Foundation in presenting "Memories Carved in Steel: Echoes from Dilmun and Beyond," an extraordinary exhibition by the internationally acclaimed artist Juan Garaizabal, hosted at the Bahrain National Museum from Saturday, November 23, 2024 to March 31, 2025. Celebrated for his monumental installations that capture the essence of memory and the passage of time, Garaizabal's work is being showcased through twelve large-scale outdoor sculptures, including two pieces specifically commissioned for Manama. Complementing the outdoor exhibit, visitors will also find 10 works on paper and 5 smaller sculptures displayed within the museum, offering a comprehensive exploration of his artistic vision. Juan Garaizabal's art uniquely interweaves architecture, memory, and sculpture ... More Exhibition at Helicline Fine Art celebrates modern American artNEW YORK, NY.- Helicline Fine Art announced the opening of its new exhibition, American Visions: Art of the 20th Century, a celebration of modern American art through January 26 at HeliclineFineArt.com. While the exhibition is online, works can be seen in the midtown Manhattan gallery by appointment. Featuring a passionately curated collection spanning various movements and styles, the exhibition explores American art's diverse expressions from realism and abstraction to outsider art, regionalism, caricature, American Scene and beyond. Included are paintings, works on paper and sculpture. Embracing a centuries old paradigm, we are collectors turned dealers, said gallerists Keith Sherman and Roy Goldberg. We fell in love with the WPA period three decades ago and have amassed a substantial collection that has grown ... More Master Drawings New York announces exhibitors and early highlights for February fairNEW YORK, NY.- Master Drawings New York has announced the exhibitors for the 2025 fair on view February 1-8. The annual show, a well-established and highly anticipated art fair held at more than two dozen galleries on New Yorks Upper East Side, will open with a preview event on Friday, January 31. The exhibiting galleries will feature exceptional and rare works on paper from the 15th to the 21st centuries, as well as paintings and sculpture. The 19th edition of Master Drawings New York presents 28 exhibitors from New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, London, Paris, Madrid, Amsterdam, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Zurich, and Vienna, including: Abbott & Holder, London Agnews, London AH Arts LLC, New York Ambrose Naumann Fine Art and Harry Gready, New York C.G. Boerner, Düsseldorf and New York Christopher Bishop Fine Art, New York Colnaghi ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter and sculptor Gustave Doré was born January 06, 1832. Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré (6 January 1832 - 23 January 1883) was a French artist, printmaker, illustrator, comics artist, caricaturist and sculptor who worked primarily with wood engraving. In this image: Gustave Doré, Souvenir of Loch Lomond, 1875. Oil on canvas, 131 x 196 cm. French & Co. LLC.
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