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Martin Kline, Blue Mosaico (Tondo), 2024. Encaustic on panel, 60 x 60 x 3 3/4 inches. 152.4 x 152.4 x 9.5 cm.
GREENWICH, CONN.- Heather Gaudio Fine Art presents Martin Kline: The World In All Its Plenitude, the artists fifth solo exhibition at the gallery. The public is invited to attend an opening reception on Saturday, May 3, 4-6pm, and the exhibition will remain on view through June 14th. A fully illustrated catalogue with an essay written by art critic and poet Carter Ratcliff accompanies the exhibition. ever since he made his first mature work, Kline has felt free to make paintings that are not flat and sculptures that are powerfully pictorial. He is not just inventive. He is reliably startlingly original. The show brings together thirty-nine works executed between 1997 and 2025, surveying Klines long-standing engagement with encaustic. Klines output has consistently been one of working in series, creating several paintings, drawings and sculpture surrounding a theme or idea. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Surrealism and Korean Modern Art is the second exhibition in the series of 'Rediscovery of Korean Modern Artists,' initiated in 2019 with the aim of restoring a richer art history by uncovering and shedding new light on artists who had been overlooked in twentieth-century history of Korean art. The exhibition introduces six unknown artists who showed 'surrealistic qualities rare in Korean art scene.'
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| Leonardo Drew work comes up for auction at Bellmans ahead of first solo exhibition in London | | Hooked on antique fishing lures? Check out Morphy's May 17 auction of the Wayne Edens Collection, Part II | | Christie's presents Canaletto's sublime masterpiece Venice, the Return of the Bucintoro on Ascension day |
Number 50 is composed of wool, plastic and textile mounted on twelve wooden frames, with each of them about 122 cm high and stretching over five metres.
LONDON.- Bellmans will offer an important work by US artist Leonardo Drew in their Modern & Contemporary art auction on the 14th May 2025. Bellmans auction falls just ahead of his first solo exhibition in London at the South London Gallery (30th May to the 7th September 2025), Leonardo Drew: Ubiquity II, it is a rare opportunity to buy one of his works at auction. Number 50 is composed of wool, plastic and textile mounted on twelve wooden frames, with each of them about 122 cm high and stretching over five metres. It comes from a private collection, whose owner bought it at the Mary Boone Gallery in New York and it now carries an estimate of £1,000 - £2,000. Drew was born in Tallahassee, Florida in 1961 but spent much of his youth in the projects of Bridgeport, Connecticut. The view from his apartment consisted largely of garbage dumps which he was drawn to and provided the ... More | |
Heddon Introductory Model 155 all-brass Dowagiac Minnow, solid yellow paint graded Excellent with black gill marks. Estimate: $10,000-$20,000.
DENVER, PA.- Fans of antique fishing lures found the waters more than inviting at Morphys December 9, 2024 auction of Wayne and Lori Edens antique and vintage fishing lure collection, Part I. The highly anticipated debut selection of treasures from the Edens trove surpassed $900,000 and left bidders eager for more. On Saturday, May 17, Morphys will auction Part II of the storied collection, which is widely regarded to be the largest, most comprehensive and most important collection of its type ever to come to the public marketplace. In all, 680 ultra-rare lures or baits, as they are known to fishing enthusiasts will be presented at the exciting gallery event, with all forms of remote bidding invited, including live online through Morphy Live. For historical value alone, it would be hard to beat the first American wooden minnow that characterizes the link between the rotary and ... More | |
Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Il Canaletto, Venice, the Return of the Bucintoro on Ascension Day, circa 1732 Oil on canvas 33⅞ x 54⅜ in. (86 x 138.1 cm) Estimate on request; in excess of £20 million. © Christie's Images Ltd 2025.
LONDON.- Canalettos breathtaking view of Venice, the Return of the Bucintoro on Ascension Day, circa 1732, will lead Christies Old Masters Evening Sale on 1 July, during Classic Week London (estimate on request; in excess of £20 million). Having only appeared at auction twice in its 300-year history, in 1751 and 1993, this picture is in a remarkable state of preservation with the surface of the painting beautifully textured and the rich impasto of the figures intact. Inaccessible to scholars throughout much of its history, it has only recently come to light that the picture hung at 10 Downing Street, where it is first recorded in 1736, in the collection of Britains first Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745). This illustrious early 18th century provenance makes it along with its pendant of the Grand ... More |
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| Monica Bonvincini's 'It is Night Ouside' engulfs Capitain Petzel in three-floor immersion | | Teresa Lanceta weaves her way into NYC with first U.S. solo show at Sikkema Malloy Jenkins | | From charcoal to bronze glyphs, New York survey traces William Kentridge's studio mindscape |
Monica Bonvicini, Outing Texture (to perceive), 2025. Powder coated steel and black leather mens belts, 200 x 155 x 190 cm. 78.7 x 61 x 74.8 inches © Monica Bonvicini and VG-Bildkunst, Bonn. Photo: Andrea Rossetti.
BERLIN.- Capitain Petzel is presenting It is Night Outside, Monica Bonvicinis first solo exhibition with the gallery. Spanning all three levels of the gallery, Bonvicinis new sculptures, works on paper and a new site-specific video installation invite viewers to engage with themes of space, identity, and their construction. The two-channel video installation, which lends its title to the exhibition, is screened in the lower exhibition space, while announcing itself with immersive sounds that resonate throughout the upper galleries. It features three performers navigating an undefined environment. Unrelenting and restless, they repeatedly rearrange the interior. The continuous nature of their actions transcends individual gestures and can be interpreted as a broader reflection on the societal condition and an act of resistance. Bonvicini consistently explores how ... More | |
YELLOW SQUARES (CUADRADOS AMARILLOS), 2000. Painted and sewn fabric, 78 3/4 x 65 inches, 200 x 165 cm. © Teresa Lanceta, courtesy of Sikkema Malloy Jenkins, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sikkema Malloy Jenkins is presenting Tracing the threads, I find you, a solo exhibition of work by Spanish artist Teresa Lanceta. This is Lancetas inaugural exhibition at the gallery, her first gallery show in the United States, and her first solo exhibition in New York. Tracing the threads, I find you is on view through May 17. Working since the 1970s, Teresa Lanceta has developed her textile practice into a vital mode of epistemological inquiry and collaboration. She views weaving as an open source language with the capacity to transmit ancestral knowledge and techniques. Her work is grounded in the physical structure of the woven form; she does not follow specific patterns or outlines but allows a gestural intuition and the binary logic of warp and weft to guide her time spent at the loom. Building upon one another, the successive weaves culminate in unique, unscripted conversations ... More | |
William Kentridge, Carrier Pigeon, 2019. Bronze. Ed. 3/5 + 1 AP + 1 FP, 92.2 x 50 x 95 cm / 36 1/4 x 19 5/8 x 37 3/8 in © William Kentridge.
NEW YORK, NY.- With A Natural History of the Studio, his first exhibition with Hauser & Wirth in New York, renowned South African artist William Kentridge presents his acclaimed episodic film series Self-Portrait as a Coffee- Pot with more than seventy works on paper integral to its creation and an array of sculptures at 542 West 22nd Street. This immersive exhibition is the first ever to present all the drawings from this filmic masterpiece, hailed by critics as a moving, witty and ultimately wondrous synthesis of the personal and the political, the individual and the universal. Spanning two floors of the gallerys 22nd Street building, A Natural History of the Studio also extends to the gallerys 18th Street location with a concise survey of Kentridges printmaking practice. To mark this occasion, Hauser & Wirth Publishers will release a new artists book that condenses the essence of Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot through written d ... More |
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| Ingleby orchestrates worldwide tribute to Ian Hamilton Finlay, paired with definitive new book | | Major Chila Kumari Singh Burman retrospective to reopen Tate Liverpool in 2027 | | The American Art Fair celebrates its eighteenth year and expands to the Americas |
Ian Hamilton Finlay, L'etoile dans l'etable, 1976. Neon, 76.5 x 64 x 5 cm. © The Estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay. Courtesy the Artists Estate and Victoria Miro. Photograph: Robert Glowacki.
EDINBURGH.- Ingleby announced a series of exhibitions marking the centenary of the birth of one of Scotland's greatest artists, Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006). Fragments is both a major new book and eight exhibitions that will take place internationally during May 2025 at: Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh; Kewenig, Palma de Mallorca; Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia; Victoria Miro, London; David Nolan Gallery, New York; Sfeir- Semler Gallery, Hamburg; Stampa Galerie, Basel; Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna. An artist, poet and landscape designer, Ian Hamilton Finlay reinvigorated the classical tradition in a body of work that encompasses a variety of creative forms to celebrate the sustaining power of words. He is best known for his garden at Little Sparta, set in the Pentland Hills, near Edinburgh, where he lived and worked for the last 40 years of his life, and for his guillotine installation, A View to the Temple, at Documenta, Kassel, 1987. ... More | |
Chila Kumari Singh Burman, Auto Portrait, 2012-18. © Chila Kumari Singh Burman. All Rights Reserved DACS 2025.
LIVERPOOL.- At a reception in Delhi today, the Secretary of State for Culture, Lisa Nandy, announced that the first major retrospective by Chila Kumari Singh Burman, one of the UKs most celebrated artists, will reopen Tate Liverpool in 2027 following the gallerys transformation. Chila Kumari Singh Burman has a widely recognised, unique visual identity that has been shaped by her working-class childhood growing up in Bootle, Liverpool. A self-described Punjabi Scouser, Chila will be celebrated at Tate Liverpool with the first retrospective of her career, spanning five decades of her innovative work. Chila explores her female and British-Indian identity through her vibrant work, spanning drawing, painting, printmaking, collage, photography, video and more recently neon installations. Weaving together traditional and popular Indian culture, family memories, self-portraiture and music influences ranging from punk and reggae to Bhangra and Bollywood music, ... More | |
Peruvian, Cuzco School, 18th century, Young Christ Pricked by a Thorn. Photo: Robert Simon Fine Art.
NEW YORK, NY.- The American Art Fair returns to the historic Bohemian National Hall from May 10 to 13, 2025 with 17 preeminent exhibitors specializing in American art. Celebrating its eighteenth year, the event will offer a compelling array of hundreds of paintings, prints, drawings and sculpture from the 18th to the 21st centuries. A lecture series featuring leading scholars and curators in American art will be held on Saturday, May 10 and Sunday, May 11, 2025 and is open to all fair visitors. With experts embracing the canon of American art, the Fair focuses on works by nonliving American artists. Admission is free, and collectors, curators and the curious can explore exemplary offerings of Folk art, Hudson River School, American Impressionism, Surrealism, Regionalism, Modernism, Postwar Abstraction, and more. Familiar favorites, like John Singer Sargent and Andrew Wyeth, keep company with underrecognized and newly rediscovered artists. The Fairâs prestigious roster of exhibitors are leading specia ... More |
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| Ravishing Blue: Imperial Porcelains from an Important Private Collection achieves US$21M | | $3 million raised: Grogan & Company's auction for MFA Boston exceeds expectations | | "Time Unfolding Here" opens: Kenjiro Okazaki's half-century of plastic vision at MOT Tokyo |
110% hammer over low estimate | 100% sold. © Christie's Images Ltd 2025.
HONG KONG.- On 2 May 2025, Christies proudly presented Ravishing Blue: Imperial Porcelains From An Important Private Collection, a single-owner auction that brought together three rare and exceptional masterpieces from the Yongle, Yongzheng, and Qianlong reigns. The auction room was packed with enthusiastic collectors competing for the masterpieces. The collection was 100% sold, achieving a total of HK$162,613,000 / US$21,067,132, and exceeding the low estimate by 110%, reflecting the demand from the market for important Ming and Qing ceramics with excellent provenance. A fine and very rare blue and white bamboo, rock and plantain vase, meiping, Yongle period (1403-1425) led the sale, realising HK$78,125,000 / US$10,121,391, more than 1.5 times over low estimate. Another highlight of the sale is a fine and extremely rare large blue and white dragon vase, tianqiuping, Yongzheng six-character mark in underglaze ... More | |
Platinum, 1.61 cts. Fancy Intense Blue Diamond, Fancy Vivid Yellow Diamond, and Diamond Ring. Sold: $762,500.
BOSTON, MASS.- Grogan & Company, Fine Art and Jewelry Auctioneers announced the resounding success of A Celebration of Color: The Saundra B. Lane Jewelry Collection, held on Sunday, April 27, 2025. It was a white glove auction, with 100% of lots sold and total sales of $3 million. Sale proceeds will benefit the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), establishing the Saundra B. Lane Fund for Jewelry, a dedicated acquisition fund honoring Lanes legacy as a visionary collector and philanthropist. From the first lot to the final hammer, the auction was exhilarating fueled by fierce bidding across phones, online platforms, and a lively, engaged Boston saleroom. The standout moment of the day came with Lot 7, a Platinum, Fancy Intense Blue Diamond, Fancy Vivid Yellow Diamond, and Diamond Ring, which drew international attention, with 18 phone bidders competing live against bidders both online and in ... More | |
The title of the current exhibition, Time Unfolding Here, is drawn from a passage in the Analects of Confucius.
TOKYO.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo is pleased to announce a major exhibition that delves into the creative core of Kenjiro Okazaki (b. 1955), one of the most prominent artists in Japan today. Innovative not only in painting and sculpture, but also in a wide range of fields including architecture, environmental cultural sphere initiative, childrens books, and robotics, Okazaki has also been active as a culture critic. At the root is his conception and practice of zokei (plastic arts) as a force that reconnects our perception and the world. With scientific and technological innovations such as Artificial Intelligence, environmental crises, and political chaos, the world and social institutions as we have known them seem to be rapidly losing their validity. Is the universe falling apart? In response to this question, Okazaki asserts that it is not the world but our cognition that is disrupted. For him, zokei is the force that transforms the very framework for our perception of the ... More |
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Beaverbrook Art Gallery announces "Made in NB" exhibition following positive campaign response
FREDERICTON, NB.- In response to the incredible enthusiasm and support generated by the Made in NB campaign, the Beaverbrook Art Gallery is proud to announce the launch of the Made in NB Exhibition a major showcase celebrating the depth, diversity, and innovation of artistic talent in New Brunswick. The exhibition builds on the success of the original campaign, which highlighted the power and resilience of local creativity in uncertain times. Made in NB brings together a compelling selection of historic and contemporary works, shining a spotlight on artists whose practices reflect New Brunswicks vibrant cultural identity. The exhibition features work by Molly Lamb Bobak, I-Chun Jenkins, Cathy Ross, Léopold Foulem, Brigitte Clavette, Gary Weekes, Thaddeus Holownia, Roméo Savoie, Roger Simon, Alex Colville, among others. Many of these works are being shown ... More
Jane Bustin reimagines Pirelli pin-ups with feminist poetics in New York solo show
NEW YORK, NY.- Jane Lombard Gallery presents Jane Bustins Pirelli, let me count the ways [Part II], her third solo exhibition with the gallery. The London-based artist is recognized for her intimate and minimalist constructions, often exploring traditions of portraiture with hard-edge constructivist painting. Bustin chooses as her subject the ubiquitous pin-up girl, drawing from the Pirelli calendar, as well as vintage lenticular-based images. Also included is a text work featuring a poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, rearranged by Bustin, a ceramic bowl, and a video filmed in the Victorian-era poets home that weaves these narratives together, reframing the female gaze. The exhibition runs from May 2nd - June 21st, 2025. The Pirelli Calendar, which began in 1964, has long been a symbol of high fashion and art. Notably, the 1968 edition was inspired by twelve poems, with each ... More
Lost surrealists found: Exhibit revives Korea's overlooked modern masters
SEOUL.- Surrealism and Korean Modern Art is the second exhibition in the series of Rediscovery of Korean Modern Artists, initiated in 2019 with the aim of restoring a richer art history by uncovering and shedding new light on artists who had been overlooked in twentieth-century history of Korean art. The exhibition introduces six unknown artists who showed surrealistic qualities rare in Korean art scene. In the midst of the worlds indifference, these artists independently explored and perfected their own surrealist worlds. Their works, which cannot be defined in a single style, were regarded during their lifetimes as a kind of anachronism or mere imitation of the original, and were gradually forgotten after their death. Unlike André Breton and his colleagues who declared themselves bold avant-gardists breaking the old conventions and taboos that constrained the human spirit, ... More
Galerie Michael Janssen debuts 'Longing and Misery in Culture and Mass Media'
BERLIN.- Miss AI posing next to Barbie and Beyoncé; Saint Sebastian reimagined as a young nomad returning from the exotic South; refugees climbing aboard a boat on the river Styx; a delegation of Chinese executives gathered around a centaur after a plane crash in the middle of a snowy, liminal purgatory. In the hyperreality of consumer mass culture, simulations are no longer mere copies of the realthey replace the real. The exhibition Longing and Misery in Culture and Mass Media presents a dialogue between the simulacral realms of German artist Margret Eicher and the Russian art collective AES+Fcomposed of Tatiana Arzamasova, Lev Evzovich, Evgeny Svyatsky, and Vladimir Fridkes. Eichers large-format tapestries form a visual epic that actively engages with the hallucinatory postmodern narratives of the mass media universe depicted in AES+Fs monumental digital ... More
Sold 100% by lot online at Christie's: The Pristine Wine Collection of Jörg G. Bucherer
LONDON.- Christies single-owner online sale Timeless Excellence: The Pristine Wine Collection of Jörg G. Bucherer (19362023), sold 100% by lot, and totaled £1,211,250 against a pre-sale estimate of £1 million. The revenue from the sale will benefit the recently established Jörg G. Bucherer Foundation (established on 6 November 2024, a date which marked the first year of Mr. Bucherers passing). The auction featured an exceptional selection of wines from the third-generation head of the renowned Swiss watch and jewellery retailer, Bucherer, with 2,474 bottles of exceptional wines offered across 233 lots. 92% of lots sold within or above estimate when 120 registrants from 20 countries competed for these pristine wines. The sale welcomed a group of new buyers, with a total of 33% of all buyers belonging to the Millennial and Generation Z groups. Edwin Vos, International Head ... More
Exceptional collector cars join RM Sotheby's Milan 2025 lineup
LONDON.- Excitement is building for RM Sothebys brand-new Milan event, with a raft of fresh consignments set to take centre stage at the striking Fonderia Macchi Carlo on 22 May. The stunning industrial backdrop has recently played host to fashion shows from the likes of Gucci and Valentino, and the latest round of collector cars consigned to the Milan auction more than live up to billing, representing some of the most stylish and glamorous models ever to turn a wheel. No Italian auction would be complete without a healthy dose of la dolce vita, and few cars capture that effortless blend of beauty and performance quite like Alfa Romeos legendary 8C. The recently consigned 1932 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Cabriolet in the style of Pinin Farina is the undeniable star of the sale, boasting fascinating, newly revealed history and unique coachwork. This hugely significant machine was first ... More
Heard Museum announces Patty Talahongva as first Chief Programming and Engagement Officer
PHOENIX, AZ.- The Heard Museum hired Patty Talahongva as its first Chief Programming and Engagement Officer, on April 28. In this newly created position, Talahongva will be responsible for building and maintaining engagement with the Heard Museums visitors and other stakeholders through the creation and implementation of educational programs and special events. Patty is a journalist who has distinguished herself by creating and presenting stories that are both educational and entertaining; this is at the heart of what the Heard Museum does with our exhibitions and programs, said Heard Museum Dickey Family Director & CEO David Roche. She is also a widely respected leader among Native American communities in the Southwest and beyond. Patty has been a longtime supporter of the Heard Museum and we are looking forward to working with her and know that she will enrich ... More
Casemore Gallery pulls back the curtain in "You, the performer"
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Casemore Gallery presents You, the performer, a group exhibition that brings together eight contemporary artists Sophronia Cook, Jim Goldberg, Todd Hido, Whitney Hubbs, Jim Jocoy, Steve Kahn, Rachelle Mozman Solano, Larry Sultan, and Lindsey White whose works explore the theatrical impulse embedded in both the act of image-making and the staging of the scenes documented within the frame. Drawing upon the aesthetics of performance, illusion, and mise-en-scène, these artists delve into the personal and collective unconscious, blurring the lines between documentary and fantasy, observer and participant, and fiction and reality. In his 1960 work Leap into the Void, Yves Klein subverted the notion of photography as a purely documentary medium. His photograph, a staged leap from a Paris rooftop, offered a fantastical image that questioned ... More
Frank Auerbach comes home: Michael Werner Berlin hosts first posthumous retrospective
BERLIN.- Galerie Michael Werner is presenting Frank Auerbach, a retrospective of six decades of paintings and drawings by the eminent German-born, British painter Frank Auerbach (b. 1931 in Berlin, d. 2024 in London). The exhibition takes place in Berlin and is curated by the prominent art historian, longtime sitter and friend to Auerbach, Catherine Lampert. Frank Auerbach is the first posthumous exhibition of the esteemed artist and his first exhibition in the German capital, the city in which he was born and left for England in April 1939. Comprehensive and wide-ranging, the exhibition includes important institutional and private loans, evocative self-portraits from the last decade of Auerbachs life, and work completed in the last years before the artists death in November 2024. Auerbach welcomed the prospect of this exhibition, and the idea that his work would be shown in ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch painter Karel Appel died May 03, 2006. Christiaan Karel Appel (25 April 1921 - 3 May 2006) was a Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet. He started painting at the age of fourteen and studied at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam in the 1940s. He was one of the founders of the avant-garde movement Cobra in 1948. He was also an avid sculptor and has had works featured in the museum of Great Samo and MoMA. In this image: Karel Appel, "Portrait of Rudi Fuchs". Photo: Bram Saeys.
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