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The exhibition includes around 80 works, many of which have never been exhibited or published, and these are drawn from the unparalleled collection of Israel Goldman.
LONDON.- Kawanabe Kyōsai (18311889) was the most exciting and popular Japanese painter of the late 19th century. A child prodigy and draughtsman of the highest ability, his art is humorous, provocative, energetic, and outrageous. The exhibition focuses largely on the art of sekiga, spontaneous paintings, produced at calligraphy and painting parties (shogakai) which were often fuelled by prodigious amounts of saké. Overlooked for decades, many of these works reveal a comical twist which plays on conventions or reflects the artists take on society. Alongside these spontaneous works, highly detailed studio paintings reveal the wide subject range Kyōsai referenced as well as his revolutionary style which challenged the rigid artistic conventions of the day. The historical context of his work is explored, revealing the great political, social, and cultural changes taking place across Japan which he captured in his art. The exhibition includes around 80 w ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day In the exhibition, The Ancients Among Us; Chinese and Japanese paintings and works of art, Kaikodo LLC, features a bronze Taotie mask with a ring handle from the 4-5th century. The taotie is an exceptional motif related to Chinese culture, prevalent during the Bronze Age. It appears as a decorative embellishment in the arts and crafts of China over several millennia, down to the present day. During the Han and Six Dynasties period the frontal, bilaterally symmetrical zoomorphic masks produced in bronze and fitted with loose ring handles were a common accoutrement.
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| Bonhams announces acquisition of US auction house Skinner | | Andrew Clemens sand bottle, tall case cocks, & glassware soar past estimates | | Doyle to present two auctions of Asian art during Asia Week New York | 
Skinner, the US auction house.
LONDON.- Bonhams, the global auction house, has today (16 March 2022) acquired the renowned US auction house, Skinner. The company will be known as Bonhams Skinner. Financial terms are not being disclosed. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, Skinner holds around 80 sales a year in 20 collecting categories including Americana, Fine Art and Collectibles, and Wine, and ranging from fine violins to contemporary paintings. Important sales have included a Qing Dynasty vase sold for $24.7m in 2014, a record price at the time for Chinese art in the US; the record-setting sale of Manchester Harbor by American artist Fitz Henry Lane that achieved $5.5m in 2004, which remains the highest price for a work of art ever realised at a New England auction; and a bottle of whisky believed to be the oldest known (c.1860s) which achieved $137,500 in June 2021. Skinner was founded in 1962 by Robert W. Skinner, Jr. who hired Stephen Fletcher as his first employee. Fle ... More | | 
An Impressive Masterwork Andrew Clemens Labeled Sand Bottle. Price Realized: $800,000.
CINCINNATI, OH.- Two tall case clocks, a collection of rare, molded glass, and an Andrew Clemens sand bottle highlighted an exciting two days at Hindmans Cincinnati saleroom as prices soared beyond estimates in the firms March American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts auction. The auction celebrated four centuries of American artists and craftsmen offering 679 lots of folk art, glass, stoneware, furniture, antique advertising, silver, textiles, music players, and coin-operated carnival and casino machines from private and institutional collections. Hindman continues to prove itself as the premier auction house for Andrew Clemens sand bottles selling a spectacular example (lot 297) by the 19th century Iowa artist for $800,000. At 10.5 inches tall, this bottle featured a label reading Pictured Rock Sand, Put Up By Andrew Clemens, Deaf-Mute, McGregor, Iowa inside the bottle under the faceted stopper. Dated just five years ... More | | 
A Large Chinese Celadon Glazed Porcelain 'Dragon' Charger, Yongzheng Seal Mark and of the Period. Est. $80,000-120,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- In celebration of Asia Week New York, Doyle will hold two auctions showcasing Asian Works of Art. The sales will present the arts of China, Japan and elsewhere in Asia dating from the Neolithic Period through the 20th century. Among the 700 lots to be offered are porcelains, bronzes, jades, snuff bottles, pottery, scholars objects, furniture and paintings from prominent collections and distinguished estates. The first auction will take place on Monday, March 21 at 10am, and Session II will be presented as a timed auction closing on Friday, March 25 at 10am. The public is invited to the exhibition on view Friday, March 18 through Sunday, March 20 at Doyle, located at 175 East 87th Street in New York. View the catalogue and place bids at DOYLE.com A featured section of the March 21 auction will showcase property from the Collection of Steven J. Harvis. Now ... More |
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| Executive Director Charles A. Guerin to retire from Biggs Museum of American Art | | Christie's to offer meteorites from the collection of Michael Farmer | | Sound Botánica opens with new commissions, healing sound baths and over 30 works by Guadalupe Maravilla | 
Over his career, Guerin, has specialized in directing institutional change and growth.
DOVER, DE.- Executive Director, Charles A. Guerin, is set to retire effective June 30, 2022. Guerins successor will be announced at a later date. Guerin has served as Executive Director of the Biggs since April 2015. Prior to that, Guerin was the Executive Director of The Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, New York. Guerin has been the Director of the University of Wyoming Art Museum; the University of Arizona Museum of Art; the Center for Creative Photography; and the Archive of Visual Art. A professional in the field since 1978, Guerin also served as the Curator of Art at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. Over his career, Guerin, has specialized in directing institutional change and growth. In that capacity he planned for, built and/or renovated seven institutions across the United States. Guerin Design Group was the contractor of record for the Fort Carson Museum of the Army in the West ... More | | 
Main Mass of Santa Filomena Meteorite. Estimate: Estimate: £150,000 - 250,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
LONDON.- Christies presents Meteorites from the Collection of Michael Farmer, the first online-only sale of rare meteorites from London, open for browsing from 18 March with bidding from 23 March to 6 April. The auction will offer a selection of 84 remarkable meteorites, including Lunar and Martian meteorites, alongside a specimen which contains the oldest matter mankind can touch. Offering a wide range of estimates, with many lots offered without reserve, the sale offers spectacular examples of meteorites suited to any collection. James Hyslop, Head of Science and Natural History, Christies: This sale marks the first online auction of meteorites from London. This Collection has been amassed over nearly three decades by Michael Farmer, who has travelled the world in search of the rarest meteorites. It is a really ... More | | 
Guadalupe Maravilla. Photo: by Steve Benisty/
HÃVIKODDEN.- Henie Onstad Kunstsenter announced the opening of Sound Botanica, the first solo exhibition in Europe by the artist Guadalupe Maravilla. Presenting more than 30 works, it brings together new commissions with pieces from four major series from Maravillas body of work: Tripa Chuca; Embroideries; Disease Throwers; and Retablos. These include sound baths, videos, sculptures, installations and performances that speak to the artist's autobiography, his personal mythology and his perspectives on colonial history. Born in El Salvador in 1976, when he was just eight years old, Maravilla migrated to the United States alone, a child refugee fleeing the countrys brutal civil war. Years later, at the age of 35, he was diagnosed with colon cancer. The artists interdisciplinary practice often refers to these experiences of exile and illness, migration and healing, identity, and displacement. Essentially autobiographical, ... More |
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| Spring 2022 exhibition takes an unparalleled look at a Magritte masterpiece from The Israel Museum collection | | San Francisco Ballet appoints Danielle St.Germain-Gordon Executive Director | | Lyon Biennale unveils the visual identity of its 16th edition "manifesto of fragility" | 
René Magritte, The Castle of the Pyrenees, 1959 © ADAGP, Paris, 2022. Photo ©The Israel Museum, Jerusalem by Avshalom Avital.
JERUSALEM.- René Magrittes modern masterpiece The Castle of the Pyrenees (1959) has been an icon of the Israel Museum, Jerusalems Dada and Surrealist collection since it was gifted to the Museum for its 20th anniversary in 1985. This spring, a new special exhibition will bring the monumental painting together for the first time with letters between Magritte and his friend and patron Harry Torczyner to tell the story behind its creation. Drifting with Magritte: Castles in the Sky will also contextualize this major work both among its contemporaries and with contemporary art today through additional paintings and sketches from IMJs collection, significant loans, and related archival materials and ephemera. Delving into the artistic and literary influences that inspired The Castle of the Pyrenees, the exhibition will be on view March 17 October 18, 2022. A commission from ... More | | 
St.Germain-Gordon, who has held leadership positions in arts fundraising for nearly 25 years, has been the Interim Executive Director of SF Ballet for the last nine months.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- San Francisco Ballet today announced the appointment of Danielle St.Germain-Gordon as its Executive Director. The Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees, led by co-Chairs Sunnie Evers and Robert Shaw, unanimously voted for her appointment. St.Germain-Gordon, who has held leadership positions in arts fundraising for nearly 25 years, has been the Interim Executive Director of SF Ballet for the last nine months. As Executive Director, she will partner with the recently announced new Artistic Director, Tamara Rojo, and together they will be the first duo of women to lead the internationally-recognized company and leading ballet school that has balanced an innovative focus on new and contemporary choreography with a deeply held dedication to classical ballet for nine decades. During her tenure, St.Germain- ... More | | 
The campaign introduces the curators thematics: fragility, resistance, and cycles of history in the form of six short video collages centered around the flower motif.
NEW YORK, NY.- The visual direction builds on the curators theme, and their seemingly contradictory pairing of fragility and resistance. We are using flowersspecifically the practice of preserving themas a point of departure that ties to Lyons rich horticultural history dating back to the 16 th century. Whether as an art form such as the Japanese Oshibana, or as a form of scientific study and archiving, pressing flowers gives an extended lifespan to natures most ephemeral and captivating creation. The campaign introduces the curators thematics: fragility, resistance, and cycles of history in the form of six short video collages centered around the flower motif. Each video is composed of old and new footage and narrated in a different language such as French, English, German, Spanish, Arabic and Mandarin. The series intends to welcome a very wide pool ... More |
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| 'Texas Chain Saw Massacre' and the lessons few horror films get right | | Peter Bowles, actor in 'To the Manor Born,' dies at 85 | | Zimmerli Art Museum extends exhibition dedicated to Ukraine's Post Soviet era art revival | 
Ti West is the rare genre director to understand the original and honor it with a movie, X, that also works on its own terms.
NEW YORK, NY.- Fifteen years ago, I sat down with 20 or so of the most prolific serial killers in the world, responsible for hundreds of stabbings, decapitations and other unspeakable murders and was absolutely charmed. A get-together of directors of scary movies, including Wes Craven, Eli Roth, Larry Cohen, Don Coscarelli and Robert Rodriguez, this event, semi-jokingly referred to as the masters of horror dinner, was giddily jovial. Just as comedians tend to be more serious in person than you expect, horror artists are, generally speaking, very funny. The one time I recall the mood turning solemn was when discussion shifted to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). With its director, Tobe Hooper, shyly nibbling on his salad, everyone took turns describing the first time they watched this unlikely masterpiece. They spoke in vivid, awestruck detail, as if recalling a religious epiphany. Of the ... More | | 
In a six-decade career in TV, film and onstage, he played comedy and drama, hapless heroes and villains, often with the air of the archetypal English gent.
NEW YORK, NY.- Peter Bowles, a dapper British character actor who was best known for his role as an arriviste in the popular British television sitcom To the Manor Born, died Thursday. He was 85. The cause was cancer, according to a statement to the BBC from his agent. No further information was available. In a six-decade career, Bowles, who was the son of servants and grew up without indoor plumbing, appeared in a merry-go-round of productions in television, film and onstage, alternating between comedy and drama, hapless heroes and villains. Whatever character he played, he often projected the air of what his agent called the archetypal English gent. Bowles well-known television credits included roles in Rumpole of the Bailey, The Bounder, Only When I Laugh and the recent series Victoria. He wrote and starred in Lyttons Diary, about the life of a newspaper gossip columnist. ... More | | 
Hryhorii Havrylenko, Composition VIII-II, 1962. Tempera on paper. Collection Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers. Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union. Photo Peter Jacobs.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ .- With heightened interest in Ukraine, the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University-New Brunswick has extended Painting in Excess: Kyivs Art Revival, 19851993 through April 10, 2022. The exhibition creates a visual context of Ukraines history of self-determination and resilience, exploring the inventive new art styles by Ukrainian artists responding to a trying transitional period of perestroika (restructuring) during the collapse of the Soviet Union. The exhibition highlights an efflorescence of styles, rediscovered histories, and newly found freedoms that blossomed against economic scarcity and ecological calamity as the country reasserted its identity in the 1980s and 1990s. This exhibition captures and celebrates a moment of remarkable transformation in the art scene in late-Soviet Kyiv, said guest curator ... More |
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 John Dilg now represented by Galerie Eva PresenhuberLONDON.- Galerie Eva Presenhuber announced the representation of the American artist John Dilg. Paintings by Dilg will be featured in the gallery's presentation at Frieze New York, and the artist's next solo exhibition will take place at Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Vienna, next Spring. Dilg's paintings were exhibited at Eva Presenhuber, New York, as a special summer project in 2021, which was reviewed in The New York Times by Jason Farago: Like Emily Dickinson with her straitened meter, like Miles Davis with his muffled trumpet, the veteran Iowa-based painter John Dilg knows the power of a whisper; his small landscapes, done in a restricted palette of thinly applied cool colors, have an intimate beauty that can only be born from restraint. Fourteen sparse, imagined views of land and water, each recently painted, each hardly bigger than ... More  Stylecraft and the NGV announce Ashley Eriksmoen as the winner of the 2022 Australian Furniture Design AwardMELBOURNE.- Founded by Stylecraft and first awarded in 2015, AFDA is a national competition open to all Australian designers and makers. As one of Australias most prestigious furniture design awards, it recognises excellence in furniture design and the contribution this makes to design discourse and Australian culture. Ashley was selected from a shortlist of five finalists, who were invited to present their realised designs for exhibition at the Stylecraft showroom in Melbourne, followed by virtual judging. In addition to a $20,000 cash prize, Ashley will receive support from Stylecraft for design, production and distribution of a furniture design, plus a two-week residency program at JamFactory in Adelaide to experiment ... More  Bruneau & Co.'s online-only Estate Fine Art & Antiques AuctionCRANSTON, RI.- Original paintings by Narayan Shridhar Bendre (India, 1910-1992), Ludwig Bemelmans (N.Y./France, 1898-1962) and Joseph Farquharson (U.K./Scotland, 1846-1934) are the expected headliners in an Estate Fine Art & Antiques online auction scheduled for Monday, April 4th, beginning at 6 pm Eastern time, by Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers, based in Cranston. There will be no live in-gallery bidding for the sale, which features 300 lots from prominent estates and collections. This auction has a well-rounded group of interesting items from New England estates, said Kevin Bruneau, Bruneau & Cos president and an auctioneer. A wonderful selection of Indian paintings will be led by modern artist Narayan Shridhar Bendre. The Bendre work is an oil on canvas outdoor genre painting depicting a girl on a tree swing with another ... More  Museum of the City of New York unveils new immersive installation "Raise Your Voice" by Amanda PhingbodhipakkiyaNEW YORK, NY.- As a complement to its ongoing exhibition Activist New York, now entering its 10th anniversary, Museum of the City of New York unveiled a new immersive mural installation by artist Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya that illustrates the resilience of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) New Yorkers, and solidarity across activist movements. Incorporating contemporary images and historical activist figures Malcolm X and Yuri Kochiyama, Phingbodhipakkiyas installation Raise Your Voice invites audiences to consider their own power for advocacy. Telling New Yorks stories, and amplifying the voices of New Yorks communities, is vital to our mission, and were grateful that the Puffin Foundation ... More  Driehaus Museum acquires 80 prints from PAN, essential journal of the Avant-GardeCHICAGO, IL.- The Richard H. Driehaus Museum announced today that it will acquire a major collection of prints originally published in the influential periodical PANan important addition to the Museums collection of works that trace the history and interconnections between art, design, and architecture in the late-19th and early 20th centuries. PAN was published in Berlin by writer and editor Otto Julius Bierbaum and art historian Julius Meier-Graefe between 1895 and 1900, and is considered an early example of avant-garde magazines with an approach that sought to embrace and engage its readers by sharing a wide array of art, design, and literary styles and trends. The Museum will acquire the collection of 80 prints from Denenberg Fine Arts. This is such an exciting acquisition for the Driehaus Museum, an excellent addition to our collection ... More  Neue Auctions announces English & Chinese Export Art & Antiques AuctionBEACHWOOD, OH.- Neue Auctions online-only auction coming up on Saturday, March 26th, will have an emphasis on English antiques, fine art and Chinese Export, pulled from private estates and collections, beginning at 10 am Eastern time. Nearly 300 lots will come up for bid. Online bidding will be provided by LiveAuctioneers.com, Invaluable.com and Bidsquare.com. There is a very nice selection of items in this sale in many categories and from multiple periods, to include English Regency, George III, William & Mary, William IV and Louis XV, said Cynthia Maciejewski of Neue Auctions. Consignments are from Gates Mills, Hunting Valley, Pepper Pike and Shaker Heights, and some of the items were owned and sold by James London Antiques (in New London, Conn.) and Israel Sack American Antiques (in New York City). Maciejewski added, There ... More  Colby Museum photography exhibit highlights rare and unpublished works by leading artistsWATERVILLE, ME.- The Colby College Museum of Art is currently presenting a dynamic showcase of 150 photographs by 100 artists who collectively represent some of the most significant work in the medium over the last century. Act of Sight: The Tsiaras Family Photography Collection, which will be on view through August 14, 2022 and includes many rare and unpublished images by well-known photographers, reveals the breadth and depth of the Tsiaras Family Photography Collection, a remarkable gift of 500 photographs to the Colby Museum from Dr. William Tsiaras and Nancy Meyer Tsiaras, Colby alumni from the class of 1968. This remarkable gift from Bill and Nancy Tsiaras allows the Colby Museum and its audiences to fully engage with photography, which has been critical to the development of art, and American culture in particular, said ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German-American painter Josef Albers was born March 19, 1888. Josef Albers (March 19, 1888 - March 25, 1976)[1] was a German-born American artist and educator whose work, both in Europe and in the United States, formed the basis of modern art education programs of the twentieth century. In this image: Color Study. Gouache on paper, 7 1/16 x 10 3/16 inches (18 x 25.8 cm) © 2016 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
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