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True Love, Older Man with a Younger Lady, Watercolor and Ink on Paper. Estimate: $10,000/15,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Lark Mason Associates will offer the Works by Thomas Rowlandson from an American Collector on iGavelAuctions.com from February 24th through March 15th. Over 500 lots of drawings, prints and books by Thomas Rowlandson, who ushered in the golden age of British caricature art at the turn of the 19th century. Rowlandson produced sardonic illustrations in ink and watercolor that skewered powerful political figures such as the Duchess of Devonshire, William Pitt the Younger and Napoleon Bonaparte and depicted contemporary events in a humorous robust and bawdy style. Rowlandsons drawings of life in Georgian England exposed human foibles and vanity with sympathy and rollicking humor and he achieved success selling these prints and watercolors to wealthy collectors. However, for much of his life he was an inveterate gambler and had to produce a flood of his comic prints to stay ahead of financial losses. Among the highlights ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view, âTakesada Matsutani. Combine,â Hauser & Wirth New York 22nd Street, 2022. 3 February - 2 April 2022 © Hauser & Wirth. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth.
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| 'Jitish Kallat: Order of Magnitude' opens at Ishara Art Foundation | | The exhibition ''From Dawn to Dusk'' opens at the National Nordic Museum in Seattle | | In Brazil, a museum within a museum restores a legacy | 
Jitish Kallat (2022). Photo by Anile Rane/Iris Dreams.
DUBAI.- Jitish Kallats oeuvre sits between fluid speculation, precise measurement and conceptual conjectures producing dynamic forms of image-making. Using abstract, schematic, notational and representational languages, he engages with different modes of address, seamlessly interlacing the immediate and the cosmic, the telescopic and the microscopic, the past and present. In Order of Magnitude, one finds a contemplation of overarching interconnectivity on the individual, universal, planetary and extra-terrestrial dimensions. The viewer is first confronted with Integer Studies (Drawings from Life), which run through the space resembling both the horizon and the equator. Since the beginning of 2021, Kallat followed a ritual of making one daily drawing as part of a durational study in graphite, aquarelle pencil and gesso stains. Each work comprises diverse forms anchored by the same three sets of numbers: the algorithmically estimated world population, the number of new births, and the deat ... More | | 
Johan Fredrik Krouthén, View of a Garden, Linköping, 1887-88 (detail). Photo: Hans Thorwid / Nationalmuseum.
SEATTLE, WA.- On February 19 the exhibition From Dawn to Dusk opened at the National Nordic Museum in Seattle. It is organized by Nationalmuseum in Sweden and includes works held in the collection of the museum. The exhibitions 56 paintings, by the Nordic regions leading artists of the late 19th century, include works by Vilhelm Hammershøi, Hanna Hirsch-Pauli, Carl Larsson, August Strindberg, Anders Zorn, and many others. From Dawn to Dusk: Nordic Art from Swedens Nationalmuseum presents 56 paintings by Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish artists held in the collection of the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, Sweden. The exhibition traces the final decades of the 19th century, a period of radical development in art of the Nordic countries, through scenes of everyday life, portraits, and landscapes by Vilhelm Hammershøi, Hanna Hirsch-Pauli, Carl Larsson, August Strindberg, Anders Zorn, ... More | | 
A visitor at the Tunga, Abdias Nascimento and the Museu de Arte Negra, exhibit at the Inhotim Institute in Brumadinho, Brazil. Ana Luiza Albuquerque via The New York Times.
by Jill Langlois
BRUMADINHO.- At the center of the Inhotim Institute, a contemporary art museum here, are four golden yellow partitions. An homage to the Afro-Brazilian deity Oxum, the walls represent spiritual and material wealth. They stand apart from the stark white framework of the Mata Gallery, which contains them. As boldly colorful as the partitions, the works hanging on the newly painted walls are the realization of a dream held for decades by Afro-Brazilian artist and civil rights activist Abdias do Nascimento. He wanted to open a discussion on the aesthetics of Blackness in a country where over half the population is Black, highlighting the worth of the often-undervalued work of Black artists and of those addressing the representation of Black culture in their works by making it more visible. He ... More |
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| Christie's presents fRiENDSiES by FriendsWithYou, on OpenSea | | When architects made worlds | | Foam opens an exhibition of works by Bill Brandt | 
Hosted on OpenSea, the auction will be the premiere of a unique character builder, loaded with pre-designed 3D assets that will eventually materialize into ten thousand customized digital companions, realized through their immutable launch on-chain.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announced fRiENDSiES by FriendsWithYou, a historic NFT sale taking place from March 26 March 28, 2022. fRiENDSiES is a Web3 community developed by LA-based contemporary artist duo FriendsWithYou, founded on principles of kindness and friendship. This auction will stand as the first time Christies has offered collectors the opportunity to collaborate directly with creators to design, mint and build hybrid digital/physical artworks. The sale and the fRiENDSiES project at large, represents a convergence of the digital and physical worlds, a space in which Christies is committed to promoting and continues to explore. Hosted on OpenSea, the auction will be the premiere of a unique character builder, loaded with pre-designed 3D assets that will eventually ... More | | 
Sunil Janah (Indian, 19182012). Industrial Documents. Untitled. 1940s1960s. Gelatin silver print, 14 3/16 Ã 11 1/4 in. (36.00 Ã 28.50 cm). Courtesy Swaraj Art Archive.
NEW YORK, NY.- Back in the 1950s, architect Minnette de Silva pioneered a new version of the modern house in Ceylon. She floated living quarters above gardens on slender concrete pilotis. She conjured up airy interiors of fluid space for family gatherings and Buddhist ceremonies, the rooms circulating around a sweeping staircase, the building made with homegrown timbers like jak and halmilla. De Silvas design responded sensibly to Ceylons tropical climate and treated European modernism as another tool in a toolbox already stocked with local traditions, materials and techniques. Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, had lately declared its independence. De Silva gave Ceylonese autonomy a new architecture. During the early 1970s, Pakistani architect Yasmeen Lari was experimenting with a different idea for housing. Anguri ... More | | 
Elephant & Castle Underground, 1940 © Bill Brandt / Bill Brandt Archive Ltd.
AMSTERDAM.- Foam is presenting an exhibition of one of the most influential and internationally acclaimed photographer and photojournalist Bill Brandt (1904- 1983). The Beautiful and the Sinister demonstrates the close relationship existing between the work of the British photographer and the art of the European avant-garde, in particular Surrealism. Departing from the notion that the sinister (unheimlich) is an ever present element of Brandts photographs, the exhibition shows how this characteristic manifests itself in both his artistic and documentary practice. From his earliest photographs in the nineteen-thirties, to his portraits and nudes in later years, Brandt shows a permanent fascination to the strange. Bill Brandts work of the nineteen-thirties is characterised by its emphasis on social inequality in England during that time. By using his family contacts, he was able to visualise the extreme contrasts of wealth in ... More |
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| Group exhibition features five key emerging contemporary artists from Ghana | | Peter Earnest, CIA veteran who ran a spy museum, dies at 88 | | Hauser & Wirth presents an exhibition of works by Takesada Matsutani | 
Annan Affotey, Nana Amoako, 2020. Acrylic on canvas. 150 x 100 cm.
LONDON.- Rising Ghana is a group exhibition held in the international vibrancy of central London. Featuring five key emerging contemporary artists it tells a story of self-expression and community driven support that extends out of Ghanaian domesticity and onto the world stage.The names in the show have been brought together by artist and curator Stephen Allotey under the coordination of PM/AM, presented in the gallerys new space. The last decade has seen a greater number of west African artists gain prominence in the international circuit of galleries, institutions and auction houses. Whilst the leading and most renowned of these have enjoyed career defining moments at the fairs and under the hammer, its the younger emerging artists that continue to inject vibrancy and freshness into the local creative infrastructure. The exhibition aims to celebrate this community, bringing their work into the middle of one ... More | | 
A game on the intelligence surrounding the hunt for Osama bin Laden featuring former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell at the new building for the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., May 5, 2019. Justin T. Gellerson/The New York Times.
by Clay Risen
NEW YORK, NY.- Peter Earnest, who spent decades running undercover operatives for the CIA during the Cold War and later drew on that expertise as the first executive director of the International Spy Museum in Washington, died Feb. 13 in a hospital in Arlington, Virginia. He was 88. His wife, Karen Rice, said the cause was congestive heart failure. Unlike many former intelligence operatives, who tend to be tight-lipped, Earnest was a savvy and eager raconteur about his career with the CIA, including his years in Europe and the Middle East, where he recruited and managed agents involved in spying on the Soviet Union and its satellites. Those experiences and his attitude made him an excellent ... More | | 
Takesada Matsutani, Circle - 21.6, 2021. Vinyl adhesive, acrylic, graphite pencil on Japanese paper and canvas, 185.4 x 185.4 x 16.5 cm / 73 x 73 x 6 1/2 in. Photo: Jon Etter. © Takesada Matsutani. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
NEW YORK, NY.- Osaka-born, Paris-based artist Takesada Matsutani has developed his own distinct visual language, uniting organic materials and avant-garde aesthetics, for more than six decades. Organized with Olivier Renaud- Clément, Combine is the artists first exhibition in NYC since 2015 and features new three-dimensional paintings. Presented on the fifth floor of the gallerys 22nd street location, Matsutanis most recent large-scale works bring together the bulbous, surreal and suggestive forms created from vinyl glue that he began incorporating in the early 1960s, when he was one of the youngest members of the radical Japanese avant-garde art collective Gutai, with the clearly defined shapes, lines, and vivid colors that appeared in his work from the 1970s. A selection of Matsutanis ... More |
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| Celebrity items highlight Abell Auction Co.'s Online Fine Art, Antiques and Jewelry Sale on March 6 | | Rediscovered Royal presentation vase lost since 1845 set to go to auction | | The only working model of Dr. Merryweather's famous 1851 barometer set to go to auction | 
This cast iron block work by Antony Gormley ($250,000-$350,000) will be among the stunning array of items offered at Abell Auction Co.s important online-only fine art, antiques and jewelry sale on March 6 in Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Abell Auction Co. will present an important fine art, antiques, 20th century design and fine jewelry auction on Sunday, March 6, 2022 at 10 a.m. PDT. The online sale will feature personally-owned items, furnishings and art from influential figures in Hollywood including Jim Belushi, Gordon Carroll, Chuck Fries, James Garner, Dustin Hoffman and Don Rickles. Highlighted pieces from the sale include a Pablo Picasso Faun Souriant print, pair of John Dickinson tables and group of Karl Hagenauer figures from the estate of actor James Garner; Philadelphia Eagles 1980 Superbowl ring, and Yankees and Dodgers baseball rings from the estate of comedian Don Rickles; acrylic painting of Alien by H.R. Giger from the estate of producer Gordon Carroll; modern and contemporary prints and multiples by Richard Diebenkorn, Roy Lichtenstein, ... More | | 
The vase was commissioned by Queen Victoria and produced especially for the Plymouth, Devon and Cornwall races in 1845 by the silversmith John Samuel Hunt (1785-1865) who traded with another great silversmith, Paul Storr (1770-1844). © Chiswick Auctions.
LONDON.- A Victorian Royal Warwick presentation vase and horseracing trophy, known colloquially as Her Majestys vase, has been rediscovered, having vanished from sight for years. It was last seen when it was presented in 1845 at the Plymouth, Devon and Cornwall races, as a gift from Her Majesty the Queen, presented to the owner of the winning horse. It then descended through the family of the owner of the winning horse, Sir John Barker-Mill, 1st Baronet (1803-1860) and its significance had been unknown by subsequent generations, as the vase and stand had become separated from each other. The vase was rediscovered in the family home, but the stand was only recently discovered in an outbuilding, which is when the family reunited them and realised exactly what it was. Further research confirmed it and ... More | | 
The only working model in existence of the Tempest Prognosticator. Estimate £10,000-£15,000.
LONDON.- Dreweatts will offer the only working model in existence of Dr. George Merryweathers legendary Tempest Prognosticator, this unique barometer is designed to be powered by leeches! Invented by Merryweather in the 19th century, the barometer features twelve leeches that are kept in small bottles inside the device. When agitated by an impending storm they try to climb out of the bottles, a movement which triggers a small hammer, which clangs a bell. The probability of a storm is determined by the number of times the bell chimes. The barometer is estimated to fetch £10,000-£15,000 and will be offered in an auction of Fine Clocks, Barometers and Scientific Instruments: To include weather instruments from Barometer World Museum, Devon, taking place at Dreweatts on March 2nd, 2022. This unique barometer was built by Phillip Collins in the Workshops of the Barometer World Museum in Devon, England, to the exact specificatio ... More |
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 The Yeh Art Gallery opens Lain Singh Bangdel's first solo museum show in the U.S.NEW YORK, NY.- The Yeh Art Gallery, St. Johns University is presenting Lain Singh Bangdel: Moon over Kathmandu, the first solo museum exhibition in the United States by Nepals preeminent modern artist Lain Singh Bangdel (1919-2002). Moon over Kathmandu is also Bangdels first posthumous solo exhibition outside Nepal. A twentieth-century polymath, Bangdel became an acclaimed novelist, art historian, preservationist, academician, and painter who played a pivotal role in shaping the history of art in South Asia. For the first time, Moon over Kathmandu assembles approximately twenty of Bangdels paintings to chart the artists pioneering pursuit of abstraction that would help define a modern Nepal. Born on a tea plantation in Darjeeling, India into a community of Nepali migrant workers, Bangdel remained culturally connected ... More  Christie's Watches Dubai announces early highlightsDUBAI.- Christies announced its Spring 2022 watch sale taking place online from 15 to 30 March 2022. The curated selection of more than 150 watches will be on view at Christies Dubai during the full time the online sale will be ongoing and the Dubai watch team would be delighted to show and discuss any watch on offer. The upcoming Dubai Watches auction will be the first Christies will be conducting in 2022, following an exceptional year for watches for the company. Below the 5 main statistics recapturing the 2021 success before speaking about upcoming highlights: Record year totaling US$205 million: +257% increase vs 2020 and +157% vs 2019. Average sell-through rates: 90% by lot. Bidders and buyers welcomed from 73 countries 41% of all registrants in 2021 were new to Christies. Millennial collectors represented 33% of clients in Christies Watches auctions. Remy Julia, Head o ... More  'Unchained: Allan Rohan Crite, Spirituality and Black Activism' opens at MWPAIUTICA, NY.- "Unchained: Allan Rohan Crite, Spirituality and Black Activism, on view at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art, February 20 to May 8, is the first exhibition to explore the spiritual art of Allan Rohan Crite (19102007), reflecting the African American quest for racial justice in the years leading up to the Civil Rights Movement. The exhibition brings together more than 60 of the artists paintings, watercolors, and works on paper which reveal the connections between Crites art and faith. While developing the exhibition, Munson-Williams Museum staff sought insight and counsel from the Institutes African American Community Partners, a group made up of local civic and business leaders, students, college professors, and musicians, to advise on developing genuine engagement with Utica's African American community. ... More  Royal Museums Greenwich launches appeal to save SolebayGREENWICH.- Royal Museums Greenwich launched an urgent crowdfunding campaign through Art Happens with Art Fund on Wednesday 16 February, in a bid to save the largest tapestry in its collection. The Burning of the Royal James at the Battle of Solebay, 28 May 1672, is the only remaining Solebay Tapestry in the collection at the Queens House, Greenwich, where the original cartoons were first imagined. It was designed by father and son team, Willem Van de Velde the Elder and Younger, and almost certainly drawn out at the request of Charles II in their studio at the Queens House. It will be one of the key objects in the 2023 exhibition marking 350 years since the Van de Veldes arrival in England, opening in February 2023. The Van de Veldes were two of the most sought-after marine artists in seventeenth century Europe. They were ... More  An elusive member of the School of London is rediscovered in a new exhibition at Newport Street GalleryLONDON.- Newport Street Gallery is presentinng The Cloud of Witness, an exhibition of over 70 works by little-known Australian artist Keith Cunningham, which runs from 16th February to 21st August 2022. Cunninghams paintings were produced in London during the post-war period, an artistic environment dominated by the likes of Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. A student at the Royal College of Art in the mid-1950s, Cunningham worked alongside major artists such as Frank Auerbach, Leon Kossoff and Jo Tilson. Cunninghams sombre paintings, coated in layers of dense, sculptural brushstrokes, are populated by skulls, fighting dogs and darkly altered human figures. Like his schoolmates and teachers at the Royal College, Cunningham was interested in figurative painting, transforming the reality of everyday life into loose, slowly disintegrating ... More  Philipp von Rosen Galerie opens an exhibition of new works by Belgian painter Koen van den Broek COLOGNE.- We are pleased to open Tango in Paris, our eighth solo exhibition by Belgian painter Koen van den Broek, on January 21, 2022. This exhibition marks a 16-year collaboration, which fills us with pride and joy. As in his previous exhibitions, van den Broek's current paintings are based on pho¬to-graphs taken by the artist himself. This aspect, that he does not use images taken by third persons (and in this way does not delegate a part of the compositional image crea¬tion) and, also, that he does not include contents of third persons in his work, is im¬por¬tant to him. By using his own images, van den Broek composes on a formal level the pic¬tures the way he wants them to be. Then, in the studio, from a large number of pho¬to¬graphs, those images are selected that seem to him most suitable for a painting. In terms of content ... More  Zeitz MOCAA launches publication of landmark Home Is Where the Art Is exhibitionCAPE TOWN.- Following the closing of the landmark Home Is Where the Art Is exhibition at Zeitz MOCAA in October 2021, Zeitz MOCAA announces the release of a commemorative publication titled Home Is Where the Art Is: Art Owned and Made by the People of Cape Town. Amid dire early-pandemic conditions, the museum undertook a daring project with an open call to residents of the larger Cape Town metropolitan area that resulted in a non-juried, democratic celebration of art for, belonging to and created by the people of Cape Town. Zeitz MOCAA seized the moment to celebrate the lifeblood of its existence people and art and in October 2020, Home Is Where the Art Is opened as South Africa emerged from the enforced isolation of its first hard-hitting lockdown in response to COVID-19. With no hierarchy or selection, this exhibition was an opportunity ... More  Step into the colorful cosmos of Beat Zoderer at museum VoorlindenWASSENAAR.- Saturday 19 February saw the opening of a large retrospective exhibition of Beat Zoderer (1955) at museum Voorlinden. The Swiss artist is known for his colorful and often humorous objects, installations, and sculptures, made of materials that he finds at DIY shops and office supply stores. The artist offers a contemporary answer to earlier art movements, including constructivism. Zoderers solo exhibition is on view until 15 May 2022. The works of art by Beat Zoderer often seem complicated structures, built up according to a certain method. But if you look more closely, you cannot discover a mathematical formula or a particular form of repetition; it is pure randomness with which Zoderer has created the work. The use of everyday materials, the obvious imperfections in the end result and the space within the work invite you to follow ... More  Rare Posters Auction #86 presents 425 acclaimed worksNEW YORK, NY.- The 86th Rare Posters Auction from Poster Auctions International on Sunday, March 20 features rare and iconic images from a century of poster design. The collection includes Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Modern, and Contemporary works covering a variety of topics and styles. All 425 lots will be on view to the public February 25 through March 19. The auction will be held live in PAIs gallery at 26 West 17th Street in New York City, as well as online at posterauctions.com, beginning promptly at 11am EDT. Jack Rennert, president of Poster Auctions International, Inc., said, This auction not only features top works by our most beloved artists, but also includes rarely seen images, maquettes, drawings, and books. From the Belle Ãpoque designs of Alphonse Mucha and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec to the Jazz Age fashions of Paul Colin ... More  Latvian National Museum of Art opens a new permanent exhibition 12 Photographers / 125 Photographs / 10 SeriesRIGA.- The new permanent exhibition 12 Photographers / 125 Photographs / 10 Series is open to the public in four small cabinets in the right wing of the 2nd floor of the main building of the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga. The exhibition is made from the Latvian National Museum of Art collection of photography. It includes works by 12 Latvian photographers Gunārs Binde, Māra Bramane, Uldis Briedis, Zenta Dzividzinska, Andrejs Grants, Gunārs Janaitis, Gvido Kajons, Valts Kleins, Sarmīte Kviesīte, Aivars Liepiņ, Inta Ruka, and Egons Spuris. Exposition shows photo series made in the 1960s90s, providing an overview of the process of development and transformation in Latvian photography during this period. The 1960s ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy was born February 21, 1927. Count Hubert James Marcel Taffin de Givenchy (born 21 February 1927) is a French fashion designer who founded The House of Givenchy in 1952. He is famous for having designed much of the personal and professional wardrobe of Audrey Hepburn, as well as clothing for clients such as Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. In this image: French fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy poses at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, on November 23, 2016 during a retrospective of the designer's work at the exhibition To Audrey With Love. Bart Maat / ANP / AFP.
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