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After Pablo Picasso - Bacchanale - Collotype, 1967. from portfolio La Flute Double, numbered edition. Estimate $200-$300.
GLEN COVE, NY.- Roland Auctions NY has announced its new collaboration with the iconic Phyllis Lucas Gallery in NYC, kicking off with The Phyllis Lucas Gallery Collection - Part I on Friday, March 3rd at 11am. Previews will be held on Wednesday, March 1st and Thursday, March 2nd, 10am - 6pm. Roland Auctions NY will then offer this collection over several installments in the upcoming months, presenting the vast selection of original prints, lithographs, etchings and paintings from the archives of the legendary gallery, which famously had exclusive North American representation of all original Salvador Dali prints, starting back in 1965. Along with the many rare original works by surrealist Salvador Dali, the massive inventory includes antique maps and illustrations, etchings and lithography, engravings, modern and contemporary fine art, photography, original paintings and vintage posters. As many are aware, the Phyllis Lucas Gallery was at ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Salvador Dali and Gallerist Phyllis Lucas (forefront) at a packed Phyllis Lucas Gallery exhibit circa 1968 in NYC. Roland Auctions NY has announced its new collaboration with the iconic Phyllis Lucas Gallery in NYC, kicking off with The Phyllis Lucas Gallery Collection - Part I on Friday, March 3rd at 11am. Previews will be held on Wednesday, March 1st and Thursday, March 2nd, 10am - 6pm.
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| The Gilbert & George Centre will open April 1 in London | | Exhibition at 125 Newbury brings together works by Jennifer Bartlett, Alfred Jensen and Donald Judd | | Tate Britain to unveil complete rehang in May 2023 | 
Gilbert & George at the gates to the Centre. © Gilbert & George. Photo by Yu Yigang.
LONDON.- Located right off of Brick Lane in the heart of Londons East End, The Gilbert & George Centre will serve as a permanent home for the artistic legacy of Gilbert & George. The Centre will open with an exhibition of THE PARADISICAL PICTURES, marking the series debut in London. Designed by SIRS Architects in collaboration with Gilbert & George, the Centre will offer a place for research and scholarship on the art of Gilbert & George while enriching the cultural landscape of London. The Centre does not intend to charge admission, in keeping with Gilbert & Georges Art for All ethos. The Gilbert & George Centre was originally established as a registered charity by the artist in 2009 with the objective to advance the education of the public in the arts, and generally to advance the arts, architecture, heritage, and culture for the benefit of the public especially but not exclusively ... More | | 
Installation view. Photo: Peter Clough.
NEW YORK, NY.- 125 Newbury presents its third exhibition, Bartlett/Jensen/Judd: No Illusions, which brings together works by Jennifer Bartlett (19412022), Alfred Jensen (19031981) and Donald Judd (19281994), three American artists who pioneered new possibilities in systems of abstraction. The exhibition opened February 10, 2023 and will remain on view through April 1 at the gallerys 395 Broadway location. Reflecting different generations and distinct approaches to artmaking, Jennifer Bartlett, Alfred Jensen, and Donald Judd were linked by a deep commitment to art as material fact rather than illusion. Exploring the visual and conceptual resonances across their practices, the exhibition brings Jensen's canvases of the 1960s and 1970s into dialogue with sculptures by Judd from the 1970s and 1980s and paintings by Bartlett from the 1970s, 1990s and 2000s. Throughout, the organizing system of the grid ... More | | 
Joan Carlile, Portrait of an Unknown Lady, 1650-5. Photo Tate.
LONDON.- On 23 May 2023, Tate Britain will open a complete rehang of its free collection displays. This will be the first time in ten years that the national collection of British art is presented anew. Visitors will discover over 800 works by over 350 artists, featuring much-loved favourites and recent discoveries, alongside brand new commissions. Alex Farquharson, Director of Tate Britain, said: When our new displays open on 23 May, visitors to Tate Britain will be able to explore 500 years of revolutionary changes in art, culture and society, culminating in new work by some of Britains most exciting contemporary artists. We will celebrate the very best of British art and show how it speaks to us, challenges us, and inspires us. The most iconic works from the worlds greatest collection of British art will be free for all to see, from John Everett Millais Ophelia and William Hogarths The Painter ... More |
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| A high-maintenance relationship for 637 years, but Milan's Duomo is still adored | | A doodle reveals Leonardo da Vinci's early deconstruction of gravity | | Imi Knoebel: Green Flags on view in Hong Kong at White Cube | 
Originals from Milans cathedral, or the Duomo, that have been replaced with copies over the years, and reside in a place referred to as the Cemetery of Statues on the outskirts of Milan, Sept. 8, 2022. (Fabio Bucciarelli/The New York Times)
by Elisabetta Povoledo
MILAN.- Even in a city with La Scala, the glorious opera house, Milans cathedral unquestionably reigns as the most beloved landmark in Italys fashion and financial capital. But the Duomo, as its known, has also been an extraordinarily high maintenance icon for six centuries, demanding constant care essentially since construction began in 1386. The cathedral, along with the 3,400 or so statues and carvings adorning its countless nooks and crannies, and its buttresses and pinnacles and spires, is crafted from rare pink-hued marble mined from a single quarry on the slopes of the Alps, some 60 miles to the north. The stones unique physical and chemical characteristics make it particularly beautiful ... More | | 
A mysterious triangle on Page 143 of The Codex Arundel notebook seemed to show Leonardo deconstructing gravity. The British Library via The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- When Leonardo da Vinci wasnt painting a masterpiece or dreaming up flying machines, he was pondering the mysteries of gravity. The Renaissance thinker considered himself as much a man of science as an artist and spent untold hours exploring how the attraction of one object to another could affect such things as the flight of birds and the fall of water. Now, scientists have discovered that Leonardo did detailed experiments that sought to illuminate the nature of gravity a century before Galileo and about two centuries before Sir Isaac Newtons making its investigation an exact science. The scientists study of his gravitational ideas and experimentation was published this month in the journal Leonardo. Nothing could stop him, Morteza Gharib, an author of the paper and a professor of aeronautics ... More | | 
Portrait of Imi Knoebel, 2017 © Imi Knoebel. Photo © Anton Corbijn.
HONG KONG.- In his new exhibition Imi Knoebel: Green Flags at White Cube Hong Kong, Imi Knoebel presents until March 11th, 2023 recent bodies of work in red acrylic paint on wood panels. In 1913, Russian artist Kazimir Malevich (18791935) made what is widely regarded as modern arts first entirely abstract work, the self-descriptively titled painting Black Square. As a student, German painter Imi Knoebel was inspired by Malevichs theory of Suprematism, which rejected all representational imagery in favour of the supremacy of pure artistic feeling. When Knoebel joined Joseph Beuys class at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 1964, the young artist began his career-long exploration of the expressive potential of arts fundamental building blocks line, form, colour and material. Today, at 82, Knoebel creates an ever-evolving flow of nonobjective works. Ranging from geometric to freeform ... More |
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| Thaddeus Mosley never stopped working | | Lucy Lacoste Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Renata Cassiano Alvarez and Daniel Berman | | The Brandywine presents "Andrew Wyeth: Home Places" | 
The sculptor Thaddeus Mosley at his studio in Pittsburgh, Jan. 11, 2023. Mosley, who started carving wood in the early 1950s, is enjoying a long-overdue moment in the sun. (Ross Mantle/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Thaddeus Mosley wears his 96 years with panache. He doesnt move 250-pound logs around his crowded Pittsburgh studio by himself any more. But its not because hes stopped working, or hired an assistant hes just making his abstract, treelike assemblages of carved cherry and walnut out of slightly smaller pieces. Though theyre as unadorned and approachable as folk art, Mosleys sculptures get deeper and more complicated as you spend time with them, and as their sources in European modernism, African sculptural traditions, and the textures and shapes of the wood itself become clear. Thad is the forest, Mosleys friend, artist Sam Gilliam, wrote in a 2020 poem, a keeper of trees anywhere old trees, round trees, big trees, heavy trees. Mosley has been well known in and around Pittsburgh for more than six decades. But since 2019 ... More | | 
Renata Cassiano Alvarez, La Mano, 2022. Ceramic and Gold, 8h x 5.50w x 3.50d in.
CONCORD, MASS.- Lucy Lacoste Gallery is presenting Señales de Humo (Smoke Signals) - A duo show of sculptures and paintings presented by Renata Cassiano Alvarez and Daniel Berman, long-time colleagues. In Señales de Humo (Smoke Signals) both Cassiano Alvarez and Berman present works which draw on inspiration from their hometown of Coatepec, Veracruz in México. This small yet extramundane place is where both artists have deep roots connecting them to their respective studios and families. The work, paintings from Berman and ceramic sculpture from Cassiano Alvarez, draws conceptual references to the act of play, Mexican craft traditions, pre-Hispanic artifacts, and their home landscape in the lush temperate forests of Veracruz. A vivid and emotional sense of color use is ever-present in the works of both artists. Collaborating with one another, but also with their chosen materials, Berman and Cassiano Alvarez both approach their work with curiosit ... More | | 
Andrew Wyeth, 747, 1980, tempera on panel. Collection of the Wyeth Foundation for American Art © Andrew Wyeth/Artists Rights Society (ARS).
CHADDS FORD, PA.- Andrew Wyeth: Home Places presents nearly 50 paintings and drawings of local buildings that inspired Wyeth time and again over seven decades of his career. The artworks in this exhibition are drawn exclusively from the nearly 7,000-object Andrew and Betsy Wyeth Collection of the Wyeth Foundation for American Art, now managed by the Brandywine. Many of these pieces have never before been exhibited, offering a first glimpse at a remarkable treasure trove that shed new light on the collaborative creative process of Andrew and Betsy Wyeth. On view through July 13, 2023, Home Places shares the story of a remarkable immersive and intensive artistic practice that ranged across the full array of media Andrew Wyeth practiced. Over the course of a long and diverse career of many chapters, Wyeth repeatedly depicted a small group of historic houses in the vicinity of his hometown of Chadds Ford ... More |
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| Danielle De Jesus' first solo exhibition with François Ghebaly | | King's Auctions Inc presents Timothy Koock collection in Aboriginal Ritual Ware, Asian & Religious Art sale | | Istvan Banyai, illustrator who mined the surreal, dies at 73 | 
Danielle De Jesus, Respect the Piraguero, 2023. Acrylic on U.S. currency, 10.25 x 11 inches (26.05 x 27.95 cm).
LOS ANGELES, CA.- François Ghebaly is presenting Street Kind, Danielle De Jesus first solo exhibition with the gallery. Dually artist and activist, Danielle De Jesus has cultivated a practice dedicated to issues of cultural identity, urban space, and economic inequality. Focusing intimately on the distinct experiences of Puerto Rican and other Latin American communities living in New York City, her paintings represent the political and historical ramifications of gentrification and displacement unto working-class and low-income residents. Her work often examines social and political equity in the face of an ongoing influx of affluent city dwellers, businesses, and real estate development. Born and raised in Brooklyn, De Jesus identifies as Nuyorican, coined as a combination of the terms 'New York' and 'Puerto Rican' ... More | | 
Spanish Colonial oil-on-tin retablo depicting San Camilo de Lelis tending to an ailing, bedridden man. Estimate $2,000-$50,000.
AUSTIN, TEXAS.- On Sunday, March 5, starting at 12 noon Eastern time, Kings Auctions Inc will present a premier ethnographic sale titled Aboriginal Ritual Ware, Asian & Religious Art. The 222-lot auction features the collection of Timothy Koock of Fredericksburg, Texas, and includes an impressive array of religious art, icons, Indigenous African art, artifacts, tools and ceremonial objects from the 19th and 20th centuries. Many of Mr Koocks most treasured pieces were acquired at Sothebys and Christies auctions. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers. A likely top-lot candidate is a reliquary Mbulu Ngulu, or guardian figure, created by the Kota people, a community living in the part of central Africa now ... More | | 
His fantastical work for The New Yorker, New York and Playboy made him a hot commodity in the last golden era for magazines and their illustrators.
NEW YORK, NY.- By 2013, celebrated Hungarian-born illustrator Istvan Banyai had achieved a place of prominence and influence in his profession. Blending a gimlet-eyed satirical sense with fantastical whimsy, Banyai had produced frame-worthy covers for The New Yorker, along with eye-catching work for New York magazine, The Atlantic and other publications. His ambitiously conceptual childrens book, Zoom, had earned rave reviews. And that year, Banyais work was the subject of a solo retrospective at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. But if he was savoring his rise, Banyai, ever arid and ironic, rarely let it show. Really, he said in a video interview promoting the exhibition ... More |
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Jeff Koonsâs âRabbitâ | Artist Auction Record | Christieâs
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 Charlotte Day announced as Associate Director, Art Museums at the University of MelbourneMELBOURNE.- Rose Hiscock, Director of Museums and Collections at the University of Melbourne, announced that leading art curator and gallery director, Charlotte Day has been appointed Associate Director, Art Museums, at the University of Melbourne. Currently Director of the Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Charlotte will provide leadership to the Universitys art museums, the Ian Potter Museum of Art and Buxton Contemporary as well as the Treasury Gallery at Old Quad. Rose said Charlottes deep connections with the national and international visual arts sector will be a major asset to the Universitys Cultural Commons vision. Charlotte has spent two decades working with prominent museums and galleries to commission new work, develop impactful art programming and build significant contemporary collections, ... More  Absolutely Queer for Sydney WorldPride 2023 recently launched by PowerhouseSYDNEY.- Powerhouse has launched Absolutely Queer, an exhibition celebrating contemporary queer creativity for Sydney WorldPride 2023. Sydney WorldPride is a mega Mardi Gras festival taking place from 17 February to 5 March 2023. Over 17 days, Sydney hosts more than 300 LGBTQIA+ events, including Rainbow Republic presented by Optus, Ultra Violet and Live and Proud: Sydney WorldPride Opening Concert, as well as the much-loved Mardi Gras Parade, which will be returning to Oxford Street for the first time in three years. The exhibition showcases the work of Sydneys leading LGBTQIA+ artists, designers, makers and performers. Creatives include Matthew Aberline and Maurice Goldberg from The Beautiful and Useful Studio whose large-scale colourful inflatable installations invite a playful exploration of powerful themes ... More  Sam Jinks: Hope in the Wilderness on view at Sullivan+Strumpf MelbourneMELBOURNE.- Internationally renowned for his painstakingly crafted lifelike figures, Sam Jinks sculptures are imbued with unguarded human emotion, fragility, and vulnerability, piercing the viewer with a moment of intense intimacy. For his first Australian solo exhibition since 2012, and the first in his home city of Melbourne since 2009, Jinks is presenting Hope in the Wilderness at Sullivan+Strumpf, a new series of realist sculptural works reflecting on the mysteries of destiny and instability that govern our lives, in an era plagued by alarm and uncertainty. A body of work beautiful and blistering in equal parts, its full of objects that are both haunted by decay, and rich with the possibility of renewal. At the centre of the darkened gallery space, a singular figure with golden wings shimmers, her ethereal reflection gleaming in a black pool of water below ... More  The Lindemann Performing Arts Center at Brown University to be dedicated in October 2023PROVIDENCE, RI.- Brown University will celebrate the opening of The Lindemann Performing Arts Center in October 2023, marking a transformative new chapter for the arts at Brown. With a radical approach to spatial, acoustic, and technical flexibility, the 118,000-square-foot arts venue designed by REX/Joshua Ramus and managed by the Universitys Brown Arts Institute (BAI) will inspire innovative and impactful art-making among students, faculty, community members, and visiting artists alike. The Lindemann will be a new hub for performance at Brown, showcasing artists and arts practice in music, dance, theater, literary, visual, and cinematic arts. By enabling new forms of collaboration and exploration across the arts, The Lindemann reaffirms creative inquiry and expression as key pillars of the Universitys mission, said Brown President Christina H. Paxson ... More  Exhibition at the San José ICA showcases the life and work of Mildred HowardSAN JOSE, CA.- The San José ICA is showcasing the life and work of Bay Area luminary artist Mildred Howard. Centered around the first-ever Bay Area presentation of Mildred Howards film The Time and Space of Now (2021) in the ICAs Cardinale Project Room, the solo exhibition features three multi-media installation pieces exploring the triangulation between time, space, and the migration and movement of people. In addition, the ICA is presenting thirty works on paper being loaned generously by the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation, expanding on the multi-media work featured in the exhibition. The Time and Space of Now was created following Howards discovery, amongst materials left by her mother, of 8 mm. film that had been stowed in a purse for decades. It is composed of archival footage Howard took as a 14-year-old girl in Texas ... More  Exhibition brings together six artists who engage water as medium, metaphor, and artistic methodLONDON.- Beneath the Surface, a group show curated by Lehmann Maupin Senior Director Isabella Icoz, brings together the work of Heidi Bucher, Alex Gardner, Lubaina Himid, Shirazeh Houshiary, Araba Opoku, and Calida Rawlessix artists who engage water as medium, metaphor, and artistic method. For many of the artists in Beneath the Surface, water is a vehicle for the act of making, and the natural properties and movement of water define their processes and take shape on the canvas. For others, the presence of water creates metaphorical or literal opportunities for the exploration of cultural and personal histories, and rendering aquatic space becomes a means of constructing or deconstructing various identities. Across the exhibition, paint is diluted, canvases flooded, and brushes soaked; images are reflected, bodies submerged, and rivers forged ... More  Exhibition brings together two artists' experimental approaches to memory in equally experimental mediaPALO ALTO, CA.- Qualia Contemporary Art is presenting Wunderblock, a two-person exhibition featuring the work of Bay Area artists, Stella Zhang and Paul DeMarinis. The exhibition focuses on memory, with each artists interpretations and reflections upon the concept exemplified in the curated selection of works, encompassing 16 new and recent works by Zhang, and three works by DeMarinis. Multiple dimensions of memory are explored in the artists distinctive practices personal and familial, public and historical, spiritual and subconscious. Throughout, the fragility and mystery of memories and their making serve as creative fodder for Zhang and DeMarinis, while the process of art-making itself becomes an exercise in remembering. The exhibitions title refers to the classic Wunderblock toy used by Sigmund Freud to demonstrate the psychoanalytic theory of latent memory ... More  Dürst Britt & Mayhew exhibits photographs from Marwan Bassiouni's series New British ViewsTHE HAGUE.- Dürst Britt & Mayhew is presenting photographs from Marwan Bassiounis series New British Views, in which the artist captures the English landscape as framed by the windows of mosques and Islamic prayer rooms. Inspired by the long history of immigration in Britain following the countrys colonial past, Bassiouni spent time travelling across the UK to investigate how its landscape and architecture can be observed anew from the perspective of the religious sites of its Islamic communities. Through this journey, which echoes those undertaken by the artist in the Netherlands and Switzerland, Bassiouni challenges the stereotypes and clichés associated with the representation of Arab culture and Islamic religion within Western countries. Bassiouni invites us to reconsider our viewpoints and questions the phenomenon of othering ... More  Academy Museum of Motion Pictures announces details of new gallery rotationsLOS ANGELES, CA.- The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures today announced exciting new details of the gallery rotations in the museums core exhibition Stories of Cinema, with changes to the galleries Significant Movies and Moviemakers and Inventing Worlds and Characters: Animation. The rotations debuted to the public on February 19, 2023. Our core exhibition Stories of Cinema was conceived of to rotate and change, to tell the varied and diverse stories of moviemaking, and to capture the vitality and multitude of filmmakers and films. We are thrilled to welcome this next slate of Significant Movies and Moviemakers vignettes and a new iteration of our Animation gallery. Visitors will be able to enhance their knowledge of films they know well and make new cinematic discoveries, to journey from Casablanca to Inglewood ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch painter Jan de Baen was born February 20, 1633. Jan de Baen (20 February 1633 - 1702) was a Dutch portrait painter who lived during the Dutch Golden Age. He was a pupil of the painter Jacob Adriaensz Backer in Amsterdam from 1645 to 1648. He worked for Charles II of England in his Dutch exile, and from 1660 until his death he lived and worked in The Hague. His portraits were popular in his day, and he painted the most distinguished people of his time. In this image: Members of the magistrate of The Hague, 1682.
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