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Mikiko Tomita, Cell #3, 2016. Porcelain, glaze, pigment, gold, glue, glass beads
BOSTON, MASS.- LaiSun Keane is presenting a four person exhibition featuring contemporary Japanese women artists, Mikiko Tomita, Mayumi Nakamura, Sayaka Shingu and Mio Yamaguchi titled New Directions: Japanese Women Artists from November 14 to December 12, 2020. The artists in this exhibition are at different stages of their careers, and two are debuting their work in the United States for the first time. Notably, Tomita exhibited in the USA in 2009 in the seminal exhibition, Touch Fire at Smith College, Northampton, MA and Shingu has her work on view at the Katonah Museum, Katonah, NY. The gallery has selected distinctive examples of works by Japanese women artists who broke from tradition to make their mark in the field of contemporary ceramics. No longer riding on the reputations of pioneering women artists such as Kitamura Junko, Matsuda Yuriko and many others, these artists all received University education in art and dived straight into c ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of Matisse in Black and White. On view November 12-December 19, 2020 at Kasmin Gallery. Photo by Christopher Stach. © 2020 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy of Kasmin Gallery.
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| Exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao examines the career of Vasily Kandinsky | | $30.5 million Impressionist & Modern Art Day sale smashes record for an online auction at Sotheby's | | Exhibition explores Henri Matisse's ongoing relationship with black and white | 
Vasily Kandinsky, Circles on Black (Krugi na chyornom; Kreise auf Schwarz), 1921. Oil on canvas, 136.5 à 119.7 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection 46.1050 © Vasily Kandinsky, VEGAP, Bilbao, 2020.
BILBAO.- The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Kandinsky , a comprehensive exhibition of paintings and works on paper of artist Vasily Kandinsky (b. 1866, Moscow; d. 1944, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) drawn primarily from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundations rich holdings. Sponsored by the BBVA Foundation, the exhibition traces the aesthetic evolution of a pioneer of abstraction, a renowned aesthetic theorist, and one of the foremost artistic innovators of the early twentieth century. In his endeavor to free painting from its ties to the natural world, Kandinsky discovered a new subject matter based solely on the artists inner necessity that would remain his lifelong concern. In Munich in the 1900s and early 1910s, Kandinsky began exploring the expressive possibilities of color and composition, ... More | | 
Wayne Thiebauds Single Triple Decker reaches $2.3 million. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- This week, Sothebys Day Sales of Contemporary and Impressionist & Modern Art in New York totaled $79.4 million across a total of three live and online sales. For the first time, the Day Sales took center stage as stand-alone auctions and Sothebys most prominent art sales in the month of November, with more than 300 works sold and 25 works achieving more than $1 million across the sales. The Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale established a new Sothebys record for an online sale, achieving $30.5 million, more than doubling the previous record set by the Contemporary Art Day Sale in May, which achieved $13.7 million. The result follows the superlative results from the October Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale in New York, which was 100% sold. Sothebys Online sales have achieved an astounding $437 million year to date, on track to record a 500% increase over the previous year. Featuring many of the most i ... More | | 
Henri Matisse, Figure, blouse à fleurs (Figure, Floral Blouse), 1936. White crayon on black paper, 9 7/8 x 7 7/8 inches (25 x 20 cm) © 2020 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy of Kasmin Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- A carefully orchestrated and highly focused survey, Matisse in Black and White explores Henri Matisses ongoing relationship with black and white across a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, drawing, various types of prints (drypoints, monotypes, lithographs, linocuts), and illustrated books. Comprising some twenty-five rigorously selected artworks, the exhibition aims to facilitate what one might term slow looking, a fundamental principle that informed and nourished Matisse throughout his long career as an artist. On view at Kasmin's 297 Tenth Avenue gallery, the non-commercial exhibition features artworks with exceptional provenances from both public and private collections, including that of the Matisse family. Honoring Matisses lofty position in the history of twentieth-century art, Matisse ... More |
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| Jeffrey Deitch opens an exhibition of works by Robert Longo | | Sprüth Magers opens an exhibition of ten large-scale photographs by Cindy Sherman | | Whitney presents exhibition of Kamoinge Workshop photographers | 
Robert Longo, Lost Monolith, 2018. Urethane resin, Epoxy resin, steel, 132 x 54 x 8 inches, 335.3 x 137.2 x 20.3 cm. Edition 1 of 3, 1AP. Courtesy of the artist and Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Asked if his work was preaching to the choir, Robert Longo responded, It is not preaching to the choir it is screaming at the choir. My work is like ripping chunks of the world out and offering to the viewer to contemplate, he continued. Longos work has always had a political edge, especially during recent years. He strives to find a pictorial balance between nature and politics, the social and the personal, marrying a sense of humanity with a sense of justice while exposing the politics of power, futility and aggression. He has created a personal fusion of Pop and Conceptual art, heightened by a sense of political urgency. His title for this exhibition, Storm of Hope, expresses his wish for a better future on the other side of the storm. Longos work navigates the world we live in and how we see it. Countering the image storm that surrounds us, he creates iconic and provocative works based on the ... More | | 
Cindy Sherman, Untitled #615, 2019. Dye sublimation print, 177.8 à 216.5 cm. 70 à 85 1/4 inches, 191.1 à 229.9 cm (framed) 75 1/4 à 90 1/2 inches (framed) © Cindy Sherman. Courtesy Sprüth Magers and Metro Pictures, New York.
BERLIN.- Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers announced an exhibition of new works by Cindy Sherman, one of the most influential artists internationally who has been associated with the gallery since the 1980s. It is the first time this 2019 series is on view outside the United States. In her latest body of work, Sherman continues her long-standing investigation into identity as a social construction. Since the 1970s, her works have addressed topics such as identity, gender and social roles, examining stereotypical media representations of women. By adopting a multitude of disguises and personae, the artist invites the viewer to take a critical stance on subjectivity and sexuality. In the ten large-scale photographs on view, the artist impersonates a cast of androgynous characters, all dressed in elegant, gender-neutral designer menswear. With direct eye contact and steely ... More | | 
Herbert Randall (b. 1936), Untitled (Palmers Crossing, Mississippi), 1964. Gelatin silver print: sheet, 14 à 10 15/16 in. (35.6 à 27.8 cm); image, 13 1/2 à 8 7/8 in. (34.3 à 22.5 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from the Photography Committee 2020.57. © Herbert Randall.
NEW YORK, NY.- This November, the Whitney presents Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop, a groundbreaking exhibition featuring over 150 photographs by fourteen early members of the Kamoinge Workshop, nine of whom are living and working today. In 1963 a group of Black photographers based in New York came together in the spirit of friendship and exchange and chose the name Kamoingemeaning a group of people acting together in Gikuyu, the language of the Kikuyu people of Kenyato reflect the essential ideal of the collective. Focusing on the first two decades of the collective (1963-1983), Working Together celebrates the Kamoinge Workshop's important place in the history of photography and foregrounds the collectives deep commitment to photographys power and ... More |
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| UN culture agency pitches heritage mission to Nagorno-Karabakh | | Romare Bearden collages lead African American Art at Swann | | Exhibition highlights more than 200 years of German art | 
In this file photo head of UNESCO Audrey Azoulay addresses a press conference following her election on October 13, 2017 at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. Thomas Samson / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- UN cultural agency UNESCO has proposed a field mission to Nagorno-Karabakh to draw up an inventory of cultural assets in a region at the centre of recent fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan. The list would serve to ensure protection of the region's most significant heritage, said UNESCO director general Audrey Azoulay, after a historic cathedral in Nagorno-Karabakh was badly damaged by shelling last month. Azoulay proposed the mission at meetings this week with representatives of Armenia and Azerbaijan, said a UNESCO statement. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on November 9 announced a Russian-brokered peace accord that ended a six-week war with Azerbaijan over the region that left thousands dead and tens of thousands displaced. Armenia agreed to hand over swathes of disputed territory controlled ... More | | 
Romare Bearden, Woman and Child, collage, 1968. Estimate $150,000 to $250,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries fall offering of African American Art comes across the block on Thursday, December 10. The auction will present a strong offering of works by notable artists, including Romare Bearden, Charles Alston, Wadsworth Jarrell and artists from the AfriCOBRA collective, as well as sculptors Simone Leigh and Elizabeth Catlett. Romare Bearden leads the sale with Woman and Childan impressive collage inspired by Renaissance paintings and imagery of the Madonna and Child, and a significant work from an important 1968 series of collaged figures ($150,000-250,000). Additional collages by Bearden include The Last of the Blue Devils, 1979, originally commissioned as a poster for a film of the same name about the Jazz scene in Kansas City ($35,000-50,000); and Ritual Bayou, a scarce complete set of six 1971 editioned collages ($30,000-50,000). The run of Bearden prints that feature in the sale, as well as the collage ... More | | 
Max Beckmann, German, 1884-1950; Christ and the Sinner, 1917; oil on canvas; 58 3/4 x 49 7/8 inches; Saint Louis Art Museum, Bequest of Curt Valentin 185:1955; © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, NY / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.
ST. LOUIS, MO.- The Saint Louis Art Museum is highlighting its world-class collection of German art in an exhibition presenting more than 120 works of the last 200 years, from Romanticism in the 1800s to the eclectic globalism that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Storm of Progress: German Art from the Saint Louis Art Museum opened Nov. 8 and is being presented free of charge. Storm of Progress explores transformative moments in the history of German art and draws connections across time, showing how art, history and politics are inextricably linked. Through violent revolutions and wars, German artists produced insightful and thought-provoking images that continue to have a lasting impact. Because of disruptions to international art shipping caused by COVID-19, museum staff revised the exhibition ... More |
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| Rare, sealed 'Super Mario Bros. 3' variant breaks record for world's most expensive video game | | Exhibition of new work by Arturo Herrera opens at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. | | Memorabilia from Debbie Reynolds, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley and more to go up for auction | 
Super Mario Bros. 3 - Wata 9.2 A+ Sealed ["Bros." Left, First Production], NES Nintendo 1990 USA.
DALLAS, TX.- For the second time in 2020, the Super Mario Bros. have set a world's record for the highest price paid for a video game at auction. Friday morning, Heritage Auctions sold a sealed copy of 1990's Super Mario Bros. 3 for $156,000, shattering the previous record set in July when its 1985 predecessor Super Mario Bros. sold for $114,000. The lot opened bidding at $62,500 already an impressive sum for the game graded Wata 9.2 A+. But 20 bidders got in the game, sending the final price soaring toward the world record during what would become the world's first-ever million-dollar video-game auction. "We couldn't be more pleased about breaking the world record for the second time in the same year," says Valarie McLeckie, Heritage Auctions' Director of Video Games. "That said, it's no surprise that another Mario game, which so many of us grew up with, would set the new bar." ... More | | 
Arturo Herrera, Untitled, 2020. Mixed media and collage on paper, 18.25 x 13.875 inches, 46.4 x 35.3 cm © Arturo Herrera, courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sikkema Jenkins & Co. is presenting an exhibition of new work by Arturo Herrera, on view in the back galleries from November 21, 2020, through January 23, 2021. Throughout his career, Arturo Herrera has developed a diverse body of work (most prominently collage, felt sculpture, and wall painting) that references the complex legacy of abstraction using modernist strategies of fragmentation, re-composition, and repetition. His pieces often employ found material and incorporate figures and imagery derived from popular culture, prompting a multiplicity of references and readings for viewers to interpret. Herreras work often plays with the generative tension between what is revealed and what is concealed. By obscuring parts of an image, we are seeing ... More | | 
Elvis Shirt.
EL SEGUNDO, CALIF.- Premiere Props announced today they will be auctioning off over 750 pieces of memorabilia, props and costumes on Saturday, December 12, 2020 at the Premiere Props headquarters in El Segundo, CA. The virtual auction will begin at 11:00am PST. Fans around the world will be able to watch and participate in the auction in real time at Hollywood Live Auctions and Premiere Props. The auction also marks the beginning of a long-term collaboration with The Debbie Reynolds Archives and her son Todd Fisher with a collection of props, costumes and photos from Reynolds career. My mothers wish was to cater to her fans and give them the chance to own and cherish her costumes and props, said Todd Fisher. We are excited to bring thousands of her items, at all price points, from her archive collection directly to her fans through Premiere Props Hollywood Live Auctions. Items from The Debbie Re ... More |
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 New from powerHouse Books: The Boys Photographs and Text by Rick SchatzbergNEW YORK, NY.- When two of his oldest friends died unexpectedly, Rick Schatzberg (born 1954) turned to photography to cope with his grief. He spent the next year and a half photographing his remaining group of a dozen men who have been close since early childhood. Now in their 67th year, "The Boys," as they call themselves, grew up together in the 1950s in post-war Long Island, New York. Conceived from the outset as a photo book, Schatzberg collected old seventies snapshots that tell the story of The Boys' shared history and used them to introduce each individual as they are today. He paired the vintage photos with contemporary large-format portraits which connect the boy to the man. Mixed in with the images are twelve chapters of moving, poetic text in which Schatzberg addresses friendship, aging, loss, and memory as the group arrives at the brink of old age. In the ... More Tampa Museum of Art highlights African American artists in "Living Color"TAMPA, FLA.- The Tampa Museum of Art continues to celebrate and honor the richness and complexity of Floridas cultural tapestry with its newest exhibition, Living Color: The Art of the Highwaymen. On view through March 28, 2021, Living Color brings together 60 paintings from five outstanding private collections, featuring the works of the core group of Florida Highwaymen. These celebrated African American artists depicted the states natural environment and rich tones through their unique self-taught painting styles. The Highwaymen produced artwork from the 1950s to the 1980s. Artists including Al Black, Mary Ann Carroll, Willie Daniels, Johnny Daniels, James Gibson, Alfred Hair, Roy McLendon, Harold Newton, Sam Newton, Willie Reagan, and Livingston Roberts, painted as a means to making a living, and many were quite successful, especially Alfred ... More Amon Carter Museum acquires Wendy Red Star's "Accession"NEW YORK, NY.- Sargent's Daughters announced the acquisition of Wendy Red Star's Accession by The Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX. Red Stars Accession marks the first acquisition purchased through the museum's initiative established in February 2020 to expand its photography holdings by collecting the work of contemporary Indigenous artists. As an institution that celebrates the rich legacy of artistic creation in America, these important additions to our collection, including the first works by Justin Favela, Wendy Red Star, and Sandy Rodriguez, help complement our existing holdings and tell a broader American story through diverse perspectives, said Andrew J. Walker, Executive Director. We are committed to continuing to expand our collection to better reflect the voices and ideas of artists in America, and this ... More Abolitionist is earliest Black Londoner honored with blue plaqueLONDON (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- An 18th-century anti-slavery campaigner and author, Ottobah Cugoano, has become the earliest Black figure to be honored with one of Londons iconic blue plaques, the heritage organization that manages the program said Friday. The plaques, dotted on buildings around the city for the past 154 years, offer tiny tributes to the men and women who have made the British capital what it is. But more often than not, they have been dominated by the tales of white men. In recent years, English Heritage, which manages what is now a nationwide program to celebrate notable figures and the places they lived and worked, has been trying to change that. Cugoano, considered a hero of the anti-slavery movement in Britain, was enslaved as a teenager and later became a prominent campaigner and writer, denouncing ... More Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle auction spotlights 36 years of 'turtle power'DALLAS, TX.- It's a rare child who doesn't have a fond memory of perhaps strangest gang of superheroes ever to grace the pages of comic books, cartoon series, toys or feature films. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. A fresh, new month-long feature auction event at Heritage Auctions, titled The TMNT Auction: Heroes in a Half-Shell, celebrates 36 years of pop culture impact across 113 special lots. First published by Mirage Studios in 1984, the debut copy of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1, has sold for as much as $90,000 in near-mint condition at Heritage. The storytelling was the first to break ranks from other comic series, which relied on flashy names and spandex, to simply designate each member with a differently colored mask and names after Italian Renaissance artists: Raphael, Michelangelo, Leonardo and Donatello. Fandom ... More Jan Myrdal, Swedish author and provocateur, dies at 93NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Jan Myrdal, a radical Swedish writer who spurned the liberal politics of his famous Nobel-winning parents and embraced communism, Marxism and Maoism, died Oct. 30 in Varberg, Sweden. He was 93. His death was announced by Cecilia Cervin, a former chairman of the Jan Myrdal Society, a group dedicated to preserving his extensive book collection. Myrdal traveled and wrote widely, specializing in Asia. He depicted life in a small Chinese village during the Cultural Revolution, and his writings extolled the virtues of some authoritarians. He abhorred the damaging effects of Western imperialism on developing countries. But perhaps nothing in his career as a polemicist garnered him as much attention as the books he wrote expressing his distaste for his parents, Gunnar and Alva Myrdal. Gunnar ... More Michel Comte's Erosion I & II on view at Galerie Urs Meile, LucerneLUCERNE.- "If you halt the erosion of humankind, humankind will halt the erosion of the soil." Chandi Prasad Bhatt, environmental activist One of the most drastic consequences of climate change is massive erosion following extreme weather events. It is the title and leitmotif of Michel Comtes two exhibitions, Erosion I and Erosion II, which will open this fall/winter at the Galerie Urs Meile in Lucerne and at the artists studio in Uetikon am See, Switzerland. Comte once described his works as gentle reminders of reality, as he uses them to draw attention to climate change. His nearly sacred-looking works of art strive to capture the sublimity of what threatens to disappear soon, or has already vanished. In the process Comte primarily tries to instigate an awareness of the impacts of our actions on our environment, while inspiring ... More MOCA GA opens Working Artist Project Fellow Ariel Dannielle's solo exhibition 'It Started So Simple'ATLANTA, GA.- Ariel Dannielles show focuses on the idea of thriving and not just surviving as an African American woman. Her joy is an act of resistance towards racism. Ariel uses her life as inspiration to tell her personal story of blackness. With fewer representations of black figures in historical records she continues to work towards changing that with her portraits of the modern life of a black woman in America. Representation matters to me. It informs the work I create. I paint with the hope that my viewers not only feel empowered and inspired, but also seen and understood. My work is a visual journal. Each painting is record of my personal experiences, observations, and feelings. This acrylic archive has enabled me to explore aspects of human frailty and vulnerability, racial and ethnic identity, gender, sexuality, and feminism. I ... More Solo show of works by Lisa Brice opens at GEM, museum of contemporary artTHE HAGUE.- Two years ago she had a major show at Tate Britain. This autumn GEM presents her first museum exhibition in the Netherlands. Lisa Brice (b. 1968, Cape Town), who divides her time between London and Trinidad, paints and draws women, often naked and absorbed in everyday activities lingering in front of the mirror, perhaps, or casually smoking a cigarette. Depicting them with sketchy faces and striking blue skin, Brice deliberately obfuscates their identity. The tension between revealing and concealing is a common thread running through the show in The Hague. The womens poses in the paintings often refer to compositions by famous artists like Manet, Degas and Picasso, though Brice is rarely explicit in this. She lifts figures from their original context, offering new perspectives on the art historical tradition of the female ... More Exhibition celebrates the 98th birthday of renowned photographer Tony VaccaroSANTA FE, NM.- Monroe Gallery of Photography is presenting a special exhibition celebrating the 98th birthday of renowned photographer Tony Vaccaro. Tony Vaccaro at 98 is on view through January 17, 2021. Born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania on December 20, 1922, Tony Vaccaro spent the first years of his life in the village of Bonefro, Italy after his family left America under threat from the Mafia. His mother died during childbirth a few years before tuberculosis claimed his father. By age 5, he was an orphan in Italy, raised by an uncaring aunt and enduring beatings from an uncle. By World War II he was an American G.I., drafted into the war, and by June, now a combat infantryman in the 83rd Infantry Division, he was on a boat heading toward Omaha Beach, six days after the first landings at Normandy. Denied access to the Signal ... More Special installation offers intimate look at museum's popular treasure from Stettheimer Family NEW YORK, NY.- Museum of the City of New York today shared details about The Stettheimer Dollhouse: Up Close, a new gallery installation celebrating one of its most popular artifacts, the Stettheimer dollhouse. Being presented in honor of the 75th anniversary of its arrival at the Museum and opening just in time for the holiday season, this special show gifts visitors with greater access to the lavish, highly detailed model including additional rarely seen miniature 20th century modernist artworksalong with biographical information about the Stettheimer sisters and the members of their circle. The Stettheimer Dollhouse: Up Close opened its doors on November 20. The Stettheimer dollhouse is beloved by visitors, who return year after year, and spend hours looking at the intricate details of this treasure of the Museum of the City of New York, says ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Belgian painter René Magritte was born November 21, 1898. René François Ghislain Magritte ( 21 November 1898 - 15 August 1967) was a Belgian Surrealist artist. He became well known for creating a number of witty and thought-provoking images. Often depicting ordinary objects in an unusual context, his work is known for challenging observers' preconditioned perceptions of reality. His imagery has influenced pop art, minimalist art and conceptual art. In this image: Surrealist portrait of patron Edward James Le Principe du Plaisir (Pleasure Principle). Courtesy Sotheby's.
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