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A patron views J.M.W. Turners Fall of the Rhine at Schaffhausen, (circa 1805), at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, on April 3, 2022. Britains commander of the churning waves was also a painter of technology and industry. The Turners Modern World exhibit shows how he reshaped an art form. Matt Cosby/The New York Times.
by Jason Farago
BOSTON, MASS.- Driving rain, salty air; the waves are so loud you can hardly hear the wailing. The weather is dreadful even by English standards, and the harbor-dwellers have rushed down to the beach, anxious to alert a ship in distress. Their clothes are soaked, their hair is bedraggled; they gaze out on the warning flares, bright flecks bursting in air against a small patch of blue. The ship appears on fire, at least at first. But look closer: The ship is belching fire, from the depths of its engine room and out into the English air. Its not a sailboat but a steamship, and that black fog out in the distance is an acrid tornado from the smokestack. Steam and coal have brought us to new shores; steam and coal have brought us to ruin. J.M.W. Turner, prophet of climate change? That would be stretching it. But he was, at the very least, the 19th centurys great contriver of atmospheres and accidents, of human technologies and maritime affronts and in churning compositions like Ro ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of Transforming Worlds: Change and Tradition in Contemporary India on display from 9 April - 28 August 2022 at NGV International, Melbourne. Photo: Tobias Titz.
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| New MoMA PS1 director leans into social justice and reaches out to Long Island City | | Rare Chinese vase created for the Qianlong Emperor discovered in a kitchen in England | | Sweeping Basquiat show curated by his sisters offers intimate look at the artist | 
Kate Fowle, the director of MoMA PS1, in Queens, April 5, 2022. Camilo Fuentealba/The New York Times.
by Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK, NY.- Shortly after Kate Fowle became its director in 2019, MoMA PS1 started a program called Homeroom, collaborating with organizations in Long Island City and adjacent neighborhoods on exhibitions about climate justice, immigrant labor and Black transgender identity. The British-born Fowle has also been addressing the exterior wall around MoMA PS1 as a barrier between the museum and its surroundings opening the courtyard to the street, adding plantings to make the courtyard more of a public space and turning the entrance into a permanent public plaza. And Fowle has championed the museum getting its own website scheduled for June so that it no longer shares one with the Museum of Modern Art, with which it merged in 2000. These efforts speak to Fowles priorities as the new leader of the Long ... More | | 
A rare imperial Qianlong porcelain vase. Estimate £100,000-£150,000.
LONDON.- Dreweatts announced the discovery of an exceptionally rare Chinese vase created in the 18th century for the court of the Qianlong Emperor. It was purchased by a surgeon in the 1980s for a few hundred pounds and passed from the original owner to his son, who also, not realising its true value positioned it in his kitchen. It was only when a visiting antiques specialist spotted it, that its true value and history was revealed. The colossal vase is two feet tall and bears the distinctive six-character mark of the Qianlong period (1736-1795) on its base. It is believed that its Imperial past and exceptional quality and craftsmanship, will attract a lot of attention both here and abroad when it is offered in Dreweatts upcoming auction of Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art (Part 1) on May 18th, 2022. Commenting on the vase, Mark Newstead, Specialist Consultant at Dreweatts for Asian Ceramics and Works of Art, said: We are delighted ... More | | 
Lisane Basquiat, left, and Jeanine Heriveaux at Jean-Michael Basquiat: King Pleasure, where they curated works and personal effects of their late brother, at the Starrett-Lehigh Building in Manhattan, April 4, 2022. Flo Ngala/The New York Times.
by Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK, NY.- In a grainy home movie from 1968 well before he had started on the path that led him to art world fame and an untimely death an 8-year-old Jean-Michel Basquiat, dressed smartly in long shorts and a button-down shirt, gently guides his year-old sister, Jeanine, by the hand in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, with his 4-year-old sister, Lisane, frolicking in the grass beside them. Those sisters now 54 and 57 have spent the last five years poring over their brothers paintings, drawings, photographs, VHS movies, African sculpture collection, toys and memorabilia to curate a sweeping exhibition of his life and work that opens April 9 at the Starrett-Lehigh Building in Manhattan. The show, Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure, features more than 200 artworks ... More |
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| Alice Neel's exclusive West Coast presentation comes to the de Young Museum | | Betty White's collection of scripts, furniture, jewelry, personal items and wardrobe to Shine at Julien's Auctions | | Exhibition of new work by Jordan Nassar opens at James Cohan | 
Installation view of Alice Neel: People Come First, de Young, San Francisco, 2022. Photograph by Gary Sexton. Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco are presenting the first comprehensive museum survey of work by American artist Alice Neel (19001984) on the West Coast. This retrospective positions Neel as one of the 20th centurys most radical paintersone who championed social justice and held a long-standing commitment to humanist principles that inspired both her art and her life. Featuring a multitude of Neels paintings, drawings, and watercolors, as well as a rarely seen film unique to the de Young museums presentation, the de Young is the only West Coast venue for this revolutionary exhibition. Though Alice Neel called New York City home, much of her persona and art, overflowing with uncompromising humanism and regard for all people, aligns deeply with the spirit of San Francisco, stated Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of the Fine Arts Museums of San ... More | | 
An orange needlepoint director's chair decorated with owls and reading "Allen" on the seat back. Made by Betty White for her husband Allen Ludden. 34"h x 23.5"w x 16"d.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Juliens Auctions, the world-record breaking auction house to the stars, proudly presents Property from the Life and Career of Betty White, an exclusive presentation and celebration of the legendary actress and cultural icons extraordinary life and eight decade spanning career taking place live in a three-day auction event Friday, September 23rd, Saturday, September 24th and Sunday, September 25th, 2022 at Juliens Auctions in Beverly Hills and online on juliensauctions.com. On offer is an exclusive collection of over 1,500 lots featuring the Hollywood icons awards, scripts, wardrobe and memorabilia from her iconic television shows and films, as well as furnishings, artwork, fine jewelry, household and personal items from her beloved homes in Brentwood and Carmel, California. American actress, comedian, television pioneer, ... More | | 
Jordan Nassar, A Patch Of Sunlight, 2022. Hand-embroidered cotton on cotton, 67 x 56 x 1 in. 170.2 x 142.2 x 2.5 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan is presenting To Light The Sky, an exhibition of new work by Jordan Nassar, on view from April 2 through May 7 at 48 Walker Street. This is the artists second solo exhibition with James Cohan. Jordan Nassars multivalent art practice engages with a variety of crafts to explore ideas centered on heritage and homeland. To Light The Sky showcases six new hand-embroidered multipanel works and five wall-hanging glass sculptures, each examining issues of identity, diaspora and cultural participation. Nassar employs the landscape as a thread throughout these two mediums, carefully mapping out patterns and often interrupting them, using fields of color to define rolling hills and expansive skies. In his recent monumental embroideries, Nassar has extended their scale upwards, connecting multiple richly patterned panels and interspersed landscapes to create a complete image. The composition ... More |
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| Maradona's "The Hand of God" football shirt to be offered at auction with £4 million estimate | | The Guggenheim Bilbao opens 'Motion: Autos, Art, Architecture' | | Phillips announces highlights from the April Editions Auction | 
Worn during both the The Hand of God & Goal of the Century goals two of the most iconic moments in football history. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- On 22 June 1986, a 25-year-old Diego Maradona made history in what is now one of the worlds most famous football matches the Argentina v England quarter finals of the FIFA World Cup. Maradona scored two of the most extraordinary, and notorious, goals in the sport. Argentina would go on to win the cup, and this day cemented Maradonas name permanently in the chronicle of the sport with many to this day considering him the greatest to ever play the beautiful game. The first, known as The Hand of God occurred when Maradona scored a cunning goal with his hand. As the referees did not have a clear view of the play, the goal stood, giving Argentina a 1-0 lead in the contest. Following the game, Maradona was quoted saying the now-iconic goal was made a little with the head of Maradona, and a little with the hand of God. The second goal, the Goal of the Century which ... More | | 
Giotto Bizzarrini Ferrari 250 GTO, 1962. Ten Tenths © Ben de Chair.
BILBAO.- The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Motion: Autos, Art, Architecture, sponsored by Iberdrola and Volkswagen Group. The exhibition celebrates the artistic dimension of the automobile and links it to the parallel worlds of painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, and film. Taking a holistic approach, the exhibition challenges the separate silos of these disciplines and explores how they are visually and culturally linked. The exhibition considers the affinities between technology and art, showing for example how the use of the wind tunnel helped to aerodynamically shape the automobile to go faster with more economic use of power. This streamlining revolution was echoed in works of the Futurist movement and by other artists of the period. It was also reflected in the industrial design of everything from household appliances to locomotives. The exhibition brings together around 40 automobileseach the best of ... More | | 
Rashid Johnson, Broken Men. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips announced the April Editions & Works on Paper sale, the second of three spring sales in New York for the category. Featuring 373 lots in total, the impressive selection will be offered across three days, in four sessions, with 100 Evening Sale works and 273 lots in the Day Sales. The sale will present rare works by Vija Celmins, Brice Marden, Keith Haring, as well as, a rare proof by Mary Cassatt alongside an impressive number of complete sets from artists Louise Bourgeois, Mark Bradford, Andy Warhol, Yoshitomo Nara, Keith Haring, Jasper Johns, Julian Opie statuettes, among others. As previously announced [LINK], the sale will also include the Anderson Collection: 10 Works from the Family Collection of Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson as a single-owner section in the Editions Evening Sale on 19 April at 432 Park Avenue, New York. Kelly Troester and Cary Leibowitz, Worldwide Co-Heads of Editions and Deputy ... More |
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| AstaGuru celebrates the 'Month of Masters' this April as a tribute to Indian modernists | | India's rich textile heritage and enduring influence on global design is celebrated in new exhibition | | Exhibition coincides with UN celebration of the International Year of Glass | 
To celebrate the masters, AstaGuru presents a month-long digital campaign that aims to create greater awareness and appreciation for Modern Indian Art.
MUMBAI.- This April, AstaGuru celebrates the Month of Masters and embarks upon a journey that honours the makers and masters of Modern Indian Art. Their extraordinary artistic practices and ground-breaking methods created boundless possibilities for expression, exploration, and evolution of Indian art. To celebrate the masters, AstaGuru presents a month-long digital campaign that aims to create greater awareness and appreciation for Modern Indian Art. Through the medium of our digital channels, AstaGuru will dedicate the month to dive deeper into the world of Modern Indian art with stories, rare trivia, fun facts, and artists journeys. The Month of Masters will conclude with our upcoming Modern Indian Art auction which will showcase a range of highly coveted avant-garde works by eminent Indian modernists. Several rare and unseen will appear for the first time in this auction. Celebrating the Month of Masters, AstaGuru ... More | | 
Choga embroidered with figurative scenes, Kashmir, c.1830. Karun Thakar Collection, London. Courtesy of The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The beauty, variety and cultural significance of an astonishing array of traditional Indian fabrics ranging from folk embroideries and Mughal courtly weavings to block-printed, appliqué and hand-painted cloths and knotted-pile carpets, are celebrated in a major new exhibition, Indian Textiles: 1,000 Years of Art and Design. Dating from the eighth to the early 20th centuries, some 100 pieces patterned with Indias most enduring and distinctive designs are on view through June 4, 2022, solely at The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum in Washington, D.C. The exhibition and related events are organized in cooperation with the Embassy of India in celebration of Indias 75th anniversary of independence. Indian Textiles unites masterworks from two internationally renowned collections, including garments made for elite clientele from ... More | | 
Richard Marquis (American, born 1945), Teapot Goblets, circa 1990. Glass. Dimensions vary. Gift of Charles R. Bronfman, 2010.42, 2010.44, 2010.45 © Richard Marquis.
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.- The Norton Museum of Art is presenting Years of Glass: The Norton Collection 1982 -2022, on view from April 9 through September 4, 2022. This exhibition marks 40 years since the Norton began building its collection of glass sculpture and decorative arts, while coinciding with the International Year of Glass, a United Nations initiative that celebrates the history of glass and its role in our sustainable future. Organized by guest curator William Warmus, Years of Glass spotlights the Nortons expansive holdings of modern and contemporary glass and reflects more broadly on the significance and influence of the medium in the context of the fine arts. Artists including Dale Chihuly, Olafur Eliasson, Rob Wynne, Larry Bell, Beth Lipman, and Toots Zynsky represent the achievements of the 20th and 21st centuries as well as emerging themes in the contemporary ... More |
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 NGV International opens 'Transforming Worlds: Change and Tradition in Contemporary India'MELBOURNE.- Celebrating the unique artistic traditions developed by diverse indigenous and regional communities across India, Transforming Worlds: Change and Tradition in Contemporary India explores the ways in which artists and creatives are using these visual languages to respond to Indias rapidly changing social environment, including changing gender dynamics and the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Drawn entirely from the NGV Collection, the exhibition showcases an important new collecting focus resulting in more than sixty recent acquisitions that have never-before been displayed. The presentation features dynamic and thought-provoking works by established and emerging artists from distinct communities across India, including the Gond and Warli painters of central India; the Suthar, Jogi, Santal and Madhubani artists of northern ... More  Using film to tell a personal history of America and raceNEW YORK, NY.- For over a decade, Jeffery Robinson has been telling an unvarnished history of the United States in an ever-evolving lecture presentation. His talks, now presented as part of his organization, The Who We Are Project, delve into how racism against Black people was bound up with the countrys legacy since its founding. The new documentary, Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America, captures Robinsons eye-opening account (filmed at Town Hall in New York City) and intersperses interviews with civil rights figures and others from his travels across the country. The film, directed by Emily and Sarah Kunstler, joins a lineage of documentaries that excavate race and the histories of marginalized people in America, including Raoul Pecks I Am Not Your Negro and Ava DuVernays 13th. This ... More  Eleanor Munro, who profiled women artists, dies at 94NEW YORK, NY.- Eleanor Munro, who in an illuminating 1979 book profiled and interviewed dozens of women artists, probing for common threads in their works and their experiences trying to pursue the creative life in a society and art world that limited opportunities for them, died April 1 at an assisted-living center in Rye, New Hampshire. She was 94. Her son, David Frankfurter, said the cause was complications of dementia. Munro had been writing frequently about art for The Atlantic, Partisan Review, The New York Times and other publications when she published Originals: American Women Artists in 1979. The book, full of extensive interviews with Georgia OKeeffe, Alice Neel, Joan Mitchell, Anne Truitt, Faith Ringgold and other important artists, stands as a rich historical resource, but Munro made it more than just a collection ... More  In Mariupol's drama theater, a cry for 'Mama!' That offered brief reliefLVIV, UKRAINE.- The explosion deafening, blinding collapsed the walls around them, and the moments afterwards felt like an eternity, waiting to hear my childs scream so I would know she was alive, Viktoria Dubovitskaya said. Maybe she will be without legs or arms, but just let her be alive. Dubovitskaya, interviewed last month at a shelter in Lviv, in western Ukraine, said she and her two young children were among the many civilians sheltering in Mariupols Drama Theater on March 16 when it was devastated by a Russian airstrike. A wall fell onto her 2-year-old daughter, Nastya, and in those horrific first moments, Dubovitskaya recalled, she did not know if the girl had survived. Finally, she heard it: Mama! Nastya screamed. A mattress that had been propped up against the wall fell against her daughter, cushioning the blows. ... More  New book from Daylight showcases the passion of incarcerated artistsNEW YORK, NY.- "In this time of great social reckoning, when more and more people recognize the deep impacts of structural racism, economic injustice, and mass incarceration, Mertss body of work is both spotlight and lightning rod. His illuminating focus and dedication to making deeply personal and graciously compassionate images of a creative practice that most people will never see or participate inprovides a window into a particular aspect of the prison experience." Annie Buckley. Photographer Peter Merts spent over 15 years criss-crossing California and photographing various kinds of art classes in all 36 adult state prisons. His newest book, Ex Crucible: The Passion of Incarcerated Artists (Daylight Books, June 2022), is an immersive collection of these images, along with essays, a map, and an interview ... More  Ke Huy Quan: From short round to romantic lead in just four long decadesNEW YORK, NY.- In the mid-1980s, Ke Huy Quan was in two of the decades biggest movies, playing Harrison Fords orphaned sidekick, Short Round, in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and Data, a tech-obsessed inventor of various bully-beating devices, in the comedy The Goonies. In March, Quan, now 51, returned to the big screen in Everything Everywhere All at Once, by directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, aka Daniels. In Everything, Quan plays Waymond Wang, the mild-mannered husband of an embattled laundromat owner, played by Michelle Yeoh. But this is a multiverse picture, so Quan also plays two vastly different Waymonds: one, a martial arts master and universe-hopping warrior, the other, a lovelorn romantic lead who, in another time and place, let Yeohs character get away. ... More  Contemporary art in greater demand than ever: Buyers seek quality from all price rangesMUNICH.- Ketterer Kunst reacts to the ongoing strong demand for Contemporary Art in the online business. In Stories To Be Told, a special edition of its Online Only Auction, Ketterer Kunst puts works by contemporary artists in the limelight as of April 15. The auction includes works by the Berlin-based Romanian native Adrian Ghenie, the Neo-Expressionist A.R. Penck, the painter, graphic- and photo artist Günther Förg and Helmut Middendorf, protagonist of the group Neue Wilde. The hammer goes down on May 15, 2022 at 3 pm. The demand in the Online-Only sector increasingly becomes an indicator for our big saleroom auctions in spring and fall. This is why I am so happy about the fascinating selection of contemporary art that we are preparing for our spring auction on June 10/11, 2022, explains Robert Ketterer, auctioneer ... More  OSL Contemporary opens Emily Gernild 'SOIL' curated by Milena HøgsbergOSLO.- SOIL is Emily Gernilds first exhibition in Norway, presenting new work produced specifically for the occasion. The Danish artist builds her assertive, textured, colorful paintings with cues from everyday life, dreams, moods, curious idioms, and tropes of historical still life painting, determined to squeeze more out of them. Her large paintings are made without preparatory sketches, applying color atop color and form atop form. Gernild moves with ease between oil paint and stick, watercolor, gesso, acrylic, rabbit-skin glue mixed with pigments in an investigation of different material sensibilities and the dynamic relationship between figure and ground. Paying close attention to the objects, shapes, and compositions that make up our daily lifephysically and digitallythe artist experiments with luminosity, form, and perspective ... More  Artcurial to offer pieces from the collection belonging to Isabelle and Hervé PoulainPARIS.- Over 150 items from the collection of Artcurials Honorary Chairman Hervé Poulain and his wife will come under the hammer on 17 May. Entitled The Native Americans as seen by Europeans 1800-1960, the selection of work includes sculptures, paintings, photographs, comic strips and folk art. Among items dating from the end of the 18th century, the 19th and early 20th centuries, are pieces that pay tribute to the creativity of Native Americans, notably the Navajo rugs so admired by Andy Warhol. Originally started by the couple with the simple objective of decorating their house in Sologne, as time went by the collection of furnishings took a particular and original direction, focusing on how European artists have represented the Native Americans. Notable highlights of this diverse selection of works includes a gouache ... More  'Articulating Activism: Works from the Shelley and Donald Rubin Private Collection' on view at The 8th FloorNEW YORK, NY.- The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation is presenting Articulating Activism: Works from the Shelley and Donald Rubin Private Collection. Predominantly drawn from their Art and Social Justice Collection, which began in 2015, this branch of the collection celebrates the prescience and power of art at this particular location and moment in history. The exhibition also encompasses work from other areas of concentration in the Rubins collection, namely contemporary art from the Himalayan region and Cuba. Each of the artists are devoted to finding solutions rather than simply highlighting problems, visualizing issues that have been previously obscured, overlooked, or ignored. ... More  The Approach opens the UK debut solo exhibition of paintings by Pam EvelynLONDON.- The Approach is presenting Built on Clay, a UK debut solo exhibition of paintings by Pam Evelyn (b. 1996, Guildford, UK). The show title takes its name from the geological composition of the city of London, which has a predominantly clay foundation. As a material, clay is volatile and unpredictable, it shrinks and expands depending on its water content, imbuing it with the capacity for collapse. Evelyns painting process shares similar qualities, the title becoming a comment on the work itself. From the moment she approaches the canvas, Evelyn begins with a problematic and challenging foundation, an untackled and incalculable terrain. Yet, through placing trust in her own intuition, following her own painterly impulses, Evelyn builds brushstroke by brushstroke, layer by layer, brick by brick a densely rich ... More  Iranian-born, UK-based artist and former Paralympian Mohammad Barrangi opens new exhibitionWAKEFIELD .- The Art House is presenting Dreamland, the most ambitious and comprehensive solo exhibition by Iranian-born, UK-based artist and former Paralympian Mohammad Barrangi. The project is a celebration of the artists working relationship with The Art House, and marks the first time the internationally acclaimed illustrator and printmaker has translated his evocative illustrations into sculpture, using pioneering sustainable, 3D-printed technology with the support of XPLOR, Production Parks state-of-the-art research and innovation centre for entertainment technology and production, the first research centre of its kind in the world, based in Wakefield. Born in Rasht, Iran, in 1988, Barrangi began drawing at the age of nine, and went on to study art. With a passion for storytelling, he transitioned into book illustration and graduated in Graphic ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, British painter Ben Nicholson was born April 10, 1894. Benjamin Lauder Nicholson, OM (10 April 1894 - 6 February 1982) was an English painter of abstract compositions (sometimes in low relief), landscape and still-life. In this image: Ben Nicholson, 1936 (gouache) 38.1 x 50.2 cm. (15 x 19 3/4 in.). Photo: Bonhams.
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