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Kelsey Brookes (b.1978), One Pointed Attention 2, 2014. Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas.
CHAPEL HILL, NC.- The Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is announcing two new summer exhibitions: "Alexis Rockman: Shipwrecks," and "Houseguests: American Art from the Art Bridges Collection Loan Partnership,". Both exhibitions close on September 4. Alexis Rockman (American, born 1962) created his dramatic series, "Shipwrecks," depicting historic sea disasters, to explore the impact of transportation and migration from goods and people to plants and animals on our planet and its waterways. "Rockman's large-scale oil paintings and watercolors remind us of the shadow of potential disaster that looms over ocean voyages. He places these concerns in a global narrative, but they have a special resonance in North Carolina, where the Graveyard of the Atlantic has claimed thousands of ships since record keeping began in the sixteenth century," said Lauren Turner, Associate Curator for Contempor ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Vincent van Goghâs Poplars near Nuenen (1885) travelled from Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen to the European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) in Maastricht, where it was shown prior to its forthcoming restoration. Museum Boijmans van Beuningen is now conducting extensive material-technical research using advanced technologies to determine the most suitable restoration methods. The results will provide important clues about this work, which occupies a key position in Van Goghâs oeuvre.
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| Diego Rivera's America brings together 150 artworks from pinnacle of the artist's career | | Lucy Lacoste opens an exhibition featuring five young ceramic artists on the rise | | Hidden artwork revealed by X-ray appears to be Van Gogh self-portrait, experts say | 
Diego Rivera, Dance in Tehuantepec, 1928. Oil on canvas, 79 x 64 1/2 in. (200.7 x 163.8 cm). Collection of Eduardo F. Costantini, Buenos Aires.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art announces Diego Riveras America, the most in-depth examination of the artists work in over two decades. Diego Riveras America brings together more than 150 of Riveras paintings, frescoes and drawingsas well as three galleries devoted to large-scale film projections of highly influential murals he created in Mexico and the U.S. On view from July 16, 2022January 2, 2023, the exhibition focuses on his work from the 1920s to the mid-1940s, the richest years of Riveras prolific career. During these two key decades, Rivera created a new vision for North America, informed by his travels in Mexico and the United States. Rivera was one of the most aesthetically, socially and politically ambitious artists of the 20th century, notes guest curator James Oles. He was deeply concerned with transforming society and shaping identityMexican identit ... More | | 
Sydnie Jimenez, Wood-fried Figure I and II, 2022. Wood-fired stoneware, Underglaze 16.50h x 5w x 2.50d in.
CONCORD, MASS.- Lucy Lacoste Gallery is presenting Vibe Shift, July 16 August 13, 2022, featuring five young ceramic artists on the rise: Chanakarn Semachai, Grace Tessein, Kristy Moreno, Isaac Scott and Sydnie Jimenez. Dealing with issues of identity; self expression as protest; the dismantling of patriarchal systems; life and death; and multiculturalism these artists are looking towards the future to build something totally new. Chanakarn Semachai or Punch, is an artist from Thailand who focuses on identity and multiculturalism in her work. Punch is interested in creating color filters by layering colored plexiglass over clay. Her work has been shown internationally, including in Thailand, Taiwan, Germany, and the United States. Recently, she was awarded 2022 NCECA Emerging Artist and in the same year she earned the Emerging Artist Award through Ceramics Monthly. Punch received her MFA in ceramics from Edinboro ... More | | 
X-ray image of Vincent Van Gogh self-portrait, National Galleries of Scotland.
by Nina Siegal
AMSTERDAM.- There were 35 known self-portraits of Vincent van Gogh in the world. That appears to have changed this week. To that number, we can add now another picture, Louis van Tilborgh, a senior curator at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, said Thursday. The National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh, with the support of the Van Gogh Museum, announced that it had discovered what seemed to be a new van Gogh self-portrait, hidden on the back of another work by the Dutch artist and covered up by cardboard. That 1885 painting, Head of a Peasant Woman, was part of a series of portraits that van Gogh painted in Nuenen, the Netherlands, which were probably studies for his famous work The Potato Eaters. The National Galleries X-rayed the work in preparation for an upcoming exhibition and noticed that there was another image on the back. ... More |
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| Lily Safra, star-crossed socialite and philanthropist, dies at 87 | | Poly Auction Hong Kong Modern and Contemporary Art Auctions realise a combined total of HKD 450 million | | Royal Academy of Arts opens 'Milton Avery: American Colourist' | 
In 2011 Sotheby's offered this Louis XVI Ormolu-Mounted Japanese Lacquer Commode with secretaire en suite, attributed to Adam Weisweiler from the Collection of Lily & Edmond J. Safra. Est. $5/7 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Lily Safra, a Brazilian-born socialite and a philanthropist who led a star-filled, star-crossed life with enough jet-setting ups and tragedy-filled downs to fill a dozen Danielle Steel novels, including the bizarre death of her fourth husband, banker Edmond J. Safra, died July 9 at her home in Geneva. She was 87. A spokesperson for the Edmond J. Safra Foundation, which she directed, said the cause was pancreatic cancer. Lily Safra, who was known to the press especially the British tabloids as the Gilded Lily, led what at first glance might seem to be a charmed life: As one of the richest women in the world, she owned homes in New York City, London, Paris, Geneva and Monaco; amassed a world-class art collection; and counted Prince Charles and Jacob Rothschild among her close confidants. She used her wealth to great ... More | | 
Auctioneer, Jenny Lok, sold the Evening Sale highlight: Jean-Michel Basquiats Masterpiece Untitled.
HONG KONG.- The 10th Anniversary Auctions of Poly Auction Hong Kong, Modern and Contemporary Art Evening and Day Sales totalled HKD 450 million, and well concluded with an exceptional result. Jamie Yu, Head of Modern and Contemporary Art Department, Poly Auction Hong Kong, commented, To celebrate our 10thAnniversary, we are greatly honoured to realise a combined total of HKD 450 million and setting an unprecedented record in our history. Simultaneously, we have also pulled off a white glove sale at the debut of our Evening Sale. All Western artists masterpieces received extraordinary results, among which, Jean-Michel Basquiats Masterpiece Untitled achieved an exceptional HKD 106 million, marking the highest-selling lot and establishing our highest Western Art sold price over the decade. The Day Sale also achieving sell-through rate 82% by lot. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to collectors around the gl ... More | | 
Milton Avery, Little Fox River (detail), 1942, Oil on canvas, 91.8 x 122.2 cm, Collection Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York. Gift of Roy R. Neuberger © 2021 Milton Avery Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York and DACS, London 2021. Photo © Jim Frank.
LONDON.- Milton Avery (1885 1965) has long been recognised in the United States as one of the most important and influential twentieth-century American artists. Averys compositions, taken from daily life and which include portraits and landscapes, are imbued with a colour sensibility, harmony and balance, which was to have a major influence on the next artistic generation. Avery played a vital role in the development of Abstract Expressionism through his close association with some of the younger exponents of the movement, such as Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman and Adolph Gottlieb. His work defies distinct categorisation; stretching between American Impressionism and Abstract Expressionism, both of which had a significant impact on his oeuvre, although ... More |
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| Lenbachhaus Munich opens 'The Remains of 100 Days...documenta and the Lenbachhaus' | | Complete set of signed Harry Potter first editions to benefit the Lumos Foundation, offered by Aurora Pedro Pinto | | Anthony Cudahy joins GRIMM | 
Miriam Cahn. o.T., 26.01.2003!, 2003, Lenbachhaus, Schenkung der Künstlerin und der Galerie Meyer Riegger Berlin / Karlsruhe. © Miriam Cahn.
MUNICH.- In 1955, the first documenta took place in Kassel. In 2022, 67 years later, the 15th edition of the exhibition is now being presented. For a long time, the 100-day exhibition was regarded as a reliable status report on the art of its respective present and had a lasting influence on the programs and collections of the art museums of the Federal Republic of Germany. At the same time, it has always been an important motor of institutional critique: What was discussed, collected, and exhibited was, and still is, often initiated by the documenta. This influence is also clearly documented in the exhibition history of the Lenbachhaus. Our last project for example, Group Dynamics Collectives of the Modernist Period, would have been inconceivable without Documenta11, curated by Okwui Enwezor. Today, the history of the documenta and its founding myths are viewed critically. In recent years, especially the continuities fr ... More | | 
J.K. Rowling (b. 1965). A complete set of Harry Potter first editions. London: Bloomsbury, 1997-2007. Estimate: £100,000-150,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
LONDON.- Christies Valuable Books and Manuscripts auction on 13 July will present a complete set of Harry Potter first editions, each signed or inscribed by J.K. Rowling (estimate: £100,000-150,000), offered by one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world, Livraria Lello, Porto, Portugal, majority owned by Pedro Pinto family, with a portion of the sale proceeds to benefit the Lumos Foundation. The collection includes the very rare hardback first edition, first impression of Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone, with the wand error on page 53 and the misspelling of Philosophers on the back cover. No other complete set including the rare first edition, first impression of Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone has appeared at auction since 2014. The set will be on view at Christies London from 9 to 12 July 2022, as part of Christies Classic Week. The set of these rare first ... More | | 
Self-portrait with ladder (for Joan Brown & Francis Bacon), 2021. Image courtesy of the Artist.
AMSTERDAM.- GRIMM announced the representation of Brooklyn-based painter Anthony Cudahy. GRIMMs representation and work on behalf of the artist will be shaped in close collaboration with Hales Gallery (London, UK and New York, US) and Semiose Galerie (Paris, FR). GRIMMs first presentation with Cudahy will be a solo exhibition of new paintings opening November 4, 2022 in Amsterdam (NL). Anthony Cudahy weaves imagery culled from photo archives, art history, film stills, hagiographic icons and personal photographs to explore themes of queer identity and tenderness. His evocative figurative paintings and drawings are informed by extensive historical research. They negotiate feelings of loneliness, isolation, desire, and safety through the lens of the artists own autobiographical narratives and crafted mythologies. In 1961 Henri Lefebvre wrote in his Critique of the Everyday Life, Everyday life does not exist ... More |
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| March Avery's third solo exhibition with Blum & Poe opens in Tokyo | | Bill Hodges Gallery opens its first exhibition devoted entirely to sculpture | | Stephan Welz & Co. Johannesburg to hold Premium Auction, 01 - 04 August 2022 | 
March Avery, Delilah on the Terrace, 2006. Watercolor on paper 35 1/4 x 27 1/4 x 2 inches framed. Photo: Josh Schaedel.
TOKYO.- Blum & Poe is presenting The Family, New York-based artist March Averys third solo exhibition with the gallery and her first in Tokyo. The oil paintings and watercolors presented in The Family epitomize the way that March moves through the worldprocessing intimate moments shared with loved ones through art making, as though it is another of her basic human senses. Spanning more than fifty years of the artists career, these portraits capture daily scenes shared with close friends or familysuch as her mother Sally, her son Sean, and her granddaughter Delilah. Commemorating these interactions in Marchs signature stylea distinctive fusing of abstraction, figurative motifs, and emotive palettesthese works expose the exquisite in the quotidian, celebrating brief interpersonal exchanges in vivid color and ... More | | 
Masters of Sculpture installation view.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bill Hodges Gallery is presenting its first exhibition devoted entirely to sculpture. This carefully curated exhibition, Masters of Sculpture, draws from the gallerys more than 40 year collection, to display more than 150 years of Black history, from emancipation to the present day. Many of the artworks in this exhibition have been displayed alongside works of other media, but never in a dedicated celebration of sculpture. Included are masterpieces by French sculptors Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux and Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier, along with works by highly important African American masters Melvin Edwards, Richard Hunt, Willie Cole, and a host of others. The gallery still retains its strength of collection in the flat or two-dimensional works, yet the collection of three-dimensional has grown over the years and the gallery feels the time is now to showcase a special exhibition of works that are so often put on the back burn ... More | | 
Azael Langa (South African 1988 -) LIGHT-HEARTED, signed and inscribed with the title acrylic and smoke on canvas, 200 by 157cm, unframed. R 100 000 150 000.
JOHANNESBURG.- With only 3 weeks to go, there is still enough time to browse through the various categories and contact Stephan Welz & Co. for any condition reports or for more information as the live auction builds up in the Johannesburg Saleroom on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 4th of August 2022. Azael Langas art perpetuates the idea that inspiration comes from home. His prolific use of fumage as a medium to explore the bittersweet socio-political landscape of South Africa ties into Langas thematical interrogation of the interconnectivity of communities. It is this conceptual combination which gives Langas work a melancholic yet jubilant impression. He uses overlooked individuals from his community to explore ideas of inequality, social injustices and elitism whilst simultaneously ... More |
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 Misia'O' 'The Spirit of Lee Miller' photography exhibition opens at Belle Beau Gallery during Les Rencontres d'ArlesARLES.- Photographer Misia-O unveiled 3 large format photographs inspired by Lee Miller in Arles in an exhibition titled The Spirit of Lee Miller, which will also feature a bespoke perfume inspired by the explosive magnificence of Miller, a limited edition art book and an NFT. At The Spirit of Lee Miller vernissage at Belle Beau Gallery on Wednesday 6th of July, there will be an In Conversation between Misia-O and Ami Bouhassane, Lee Millers granddaughter and Co-director of Farleys House & Gallery Ltd, the company that manages the Lee Miller Archives. The Spirit of Lee Miller by Misia-O is a new exhibition featuring a capsule portrait photography series. The Spirit of Lee Miller photography exhibition ... More  Rencontres d'Arles: Espace Van Gogh opens "Romain Urhausen: In His Time" ARLES.- Prolific but little known in France, Luxembourg photographer Romain Urhausen stands out for his singular style extending between the French humanist school and the German subjective school of the 1950s and 1960s, to which he actively contributed. His tinged with humor photographs, often a pretext for formal and poetic exploration, go beyond a classic depiction of reality. The exhibition shows how Urhausen took an experimental approach to daily life, working men, the cityscape, the nude and the self-portrait. The subjective aesthetic he learned from Otto Steinert influenced his formal language, treatment of contrasts, framing and way of seeing the world differently. The show highlights this vision, setting up a dialogue between Urhausens photographs and those of his peers by creating new "elective affinities". Keen to make photography ... More  East end's premier art fair back for 12th edition in new location - Nova's Ark Project and Sculpture Park BRIDGEHAMPTON, NY.- Art Market Hamptons, the East End's premier and longest-running art fair returns from August 11th to 14th - this time moving to the sprawling grounds of one of the most unique art spaces out east, Nova's Ark Project and Sculpture Park, which was created in part to serve as a base for large scale events for the community. Art Market Hamptons 12th edition will feature 90 top galleries presenting the best in modern and contemporary art and design in an expanded, museum-quality pavilion set in the 94 acre preserve located close to town, which is home to the towering, abstract sculptures created by the parks founder and namesake, artist Nova Mihai Popa. This years event will feature a strong list of local stalwart galleries that have defined the region for the last few decades. Alongside local exhibitors, the event will also ... More  Christie's presents the Online-Only Contemporary Art July SalesNEW YORK, NY.- Christies announced a series of three online-only Contemporary Art sales: Contemporary Edition, First Open and Trespassing. The group of sales include a selection of exceptional works from leading contemporary and 20th century artists. With estimates ranging from $500 to $200,000, these sales offer an extensive range of options for both new and seasoned contemporary art collectors. The works will be available for public viewing at Christies galleries in Rockefeller Center starting 13 July, closing from 19-21 July. Featuring more than 120 Post-War and Contemporary Prints and Multiples with estimates starting below $1,000, the Contemporary Edition sale features works for those just beginning their collecting journey and seasoned connoisseurs alike. The sale highlights works from master printmakers such ... More  SculptureCenter presents 'In Practice: Literally means collapse'LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- In Practice: Literally means collapse is an exhibition of new works and artistic meditations that consider the notion of the ruin expanded to include social traditions as well as physical infrastructure. From built environments and structures of circulation to protocols and belief systems that shape social and political subjects, infrastructures are in constant generative friction with decay. Rituals of maintenance are designed and performed to prevent what is constructed from being physically, or subjectively, ruined. Diagnosing a contemporary obsession with ruins, artist and theorist Svetlana Boym has written, Ruin literally means collapsebut actually, ruins are more about remainders and reminders.[1] Boym elaborates that as sites, ruins can simultaneously trigger both potential nostalgias and imagined futures. ... More  The Royal Academy of Arts announces prize winners for the Summer Exhibition 2022LONDON.- The Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition is a unique celebration of contemporary art and architecture, providing a vital platform and support for the artistic community. Each year the Royal Academy of Arts presents a number of prizes for outstanding works within the Exhibition. This year the following have been awarded: Charles Wollaston Award: The prestigious £25,000 Charles Wollaston Award has been won by Uta Kögelsberger for her video work, Cull, in the Royal Academys 254th Summer Exhibition. Established in 1978 and presented to the most distinguished work in the exhibition, it is one of the most significant art prizes awarded in the UK. Judges: Martha Kapos, Ian Mckeever RA and Caroline Worthington The Thomas Burberry Prize for Print £10,000 for a print in any medium: Judges: Burberry Chief Marketing ... More  Cristin Tierney Gallery announces a new interactive performance and exhibition by MK GuthNEW YORK, NY.- Cristin Tierney Gallery announced Be Part of It!, a new interactive performance and exhibition by MK Guth. Be Part of It! begins at 10:00 am on Monday, July 18th. The artist will be in residence at the gallery for the first two weeks of the exhibition, and the public is invited to create the artwork with her from July 18th through the 23rd. A reception will be held halfway through the exhibition on Friday, July 29th, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. Guth has undertaken several performances braiding hair in the past two decades. In 2008, she created two participatory artworks using braids: one with the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and one for the Whitney Biennial. In Yerba Buena, Guth asked people to write their thoughts about the word feminist on pieces of brown fabric that were braided into Guths hair. At the Biennial, she created a growing ... More  Govett-Brewster Art Gallery opens "Several degrees of attention: Thinking with the collection"NEW PLYMOUTH.- Featuring four curatorial projects, each departing from a work or group of works in the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery collection, Several degrees of attention proposes four ways into, and out of, certain contemporary art histories that we live with. Spanning more than five decades, the Govett-Brewsters permanent collection tells a story of artistic practice in Aotearoa New Zealand through the lens of those who have guided its growth. The collection reflects their affinities, the ideas of the time, and the priorities they set for the collection and the institution. Like any institutional collection, the Govett-Brewsters contains gems, anomalies, loose ends, and stories that remain to be told. Each of the four curatorial projects acts as a chapter, thinking closely with individual artiststhe contexts they inhabited, the material and intellectual problems ... More  Alexander Gray Associates opens a group exhibition organized by independent New York-based curator Anna StothartNEW YORK, NY.- Alexander Gray Associates presents To Name a Place: Contemporary Landscape, a group exhibition organized by independent New York-based curator Anna Stothart. Through its title, which references the poetic practice of marking, remembering, claiming, and identifying place through naming, the exhibition offers a more expansive depiction of what landscape is, and how history, culture, identity, labor, and community indelibly inform our changing sense of place. Bringing together the work of an international group of artistsMiya Ando, Luis Camnitzer, Mel Chin, Justine Fisher, Coco Fusco, Valeska Soares, Ryan Trecartin, and Arnie ZimmermanTo Name a Place responds to locations across ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian artist Caravaggio died July 18, 1610. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (29 September 1571 - 18 July 1610) was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. His paintings, which combine a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, had a formative influence on the Baroque school of painting. In this image: A photographer and a cameraman take a picture of Caravaggio's painting "The calling of Saints Peter and Andrew" in Rome, Monday, Nov. 20, 2006. The painting, owned by Queen Elizabeth II, languished for years in a dusty storeroom before being identified as the work of Italian master Caravaggio, on show at the Gate Termini Art Gallery in Rome.
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