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In his work Argue questions what is defined as realistic and abstract. Adumbrated as his works are, perhaps the tension is largely between the conceptual and the visual. In technique, his is a dichotomy of precision and painterly gesture.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marc Straus opens its inaugural solo exhibition of new paintings by American artist Doug Argue opening Sunday, April 8th, 5pm - 7pm. The exhibition will remain on view until May 20th, 2018. Doug Argue is a consummate painter capable of prodigious works that straddle realism and abstraction. In "Genesis," one of his three large paintings recently commissioned for the lobby of the new World Trade Center in New York City, Argues painting is veiled with sweeping swathes of crisply painted letters. It is as though we are placed in the beginning, witnessing a cosmic explosion. Argue freed the letters from the Book of Genesis making them available for the next generation to create the new meanings needed to move forward. Argue comments, "there are many different histories in the world, and we often see things in the current moment, yet have no idea what lies beneath. One language is always turning into another, one gen ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The skeletons two Jurassic age (161-145 million years) dinosaurs, a Diplodocus (back) and an Allosaurus (front) are displayed on April 6, 2018, before being auctioned on April 11 at the Drouot auction house in Paris. STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP
| Andy Warhol's Double Elvis [Ferus Type] to highlight Christie's Evening Sale of Post-War and Contemporary Art | | The British Museum embarks on major project to preserve Korean art | | From the outside in: Van Gogh's Vue de l'asile et de la Chapelle de Saint-Rémy | 
Andy Warhol, Double Elvis [Ferus Type], 1963 (detail). Estimate in the region of $30 million. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
NEW YORK, NY.- On May 17, Christies will offer Andy Warhols Double Elvis [Ferus Type], 1963 as a central highlight of its Evening Sale of Post-War and Contemporary Art (estimate in the region of $30 million). The silver Elvis paintings that Warhol made in the summer of 1963 are among the defining icons of his oeuvre. Representing the culmination of several series of celebrity portraits that Warhol made in the early 1960s, these definitive icons of an icon rank amongst the most resonant and enduring pictorial statements of his art. Double Elvis pays tribute to a larger-than-life superstar whose international fame brought him the level of celebrity Warhol himself so coveted and admired. Double Elvis unites two of the most venerated men of modern timesthe King of Rock n Roll and the Prince of Pop. On May 17 Double Elvis [Ferus Type] will be offered alongside Warhols controversial ... More | | 
Kim Yong-won, Landscape, 1876. Ink and colour on paper. Small unmounted painting that needs to be stablised and mounted. © The Trustees of the British Museum
LONDON.- The British Museum announces a major long-term project to preserve Korean art for future generations. The Museum which houses the largest Korean art collection in the UK and one of the most comprehensive outside of East Asia will spend five years researching and conserving key objects of pictorial art from its 4,200-strong Korea collection, which includes paintings, prints and artworks on silk and cotton. It is the first long-term project dedicated to the study and conservation of Korean pictorial art in the West, and is supported thanks to a new partnership with Amorepacific, Koreas leading beauty company. The partnership is facilitated by the Korea Foundation through their Designated Donor Program. A new post of the Amorepacific Conservator of Korean Pictorial Art has been established to carry out the project, ... More | | 
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), Vue de lasile et de la Chapelle de Saint-Rémy, 1889 (detail). Oil on canvas. 17¾ x 23¾ in (45.1 x 60.4 cm). Estimate on request.
NEW YORK, NY.- For decades a centrepiece of Elizabeth Taylors collection, this late work from the artists time at the asylum of Saint Paul de Mausole offered at Christie's New York on 15 May is the only one not painted from within the confines of the private hospital. On an afternoon in mid-October 1889, Vincent van Gogh (18531890) set up his easel in a recently tilled field in the environs of Saint-Rémy de Provence and painted the 12th-century Romanesque chapel at the entrance to the former Augustinian monastery of Saint Paul de Mausole. The wings of the sprawling edifice had been converted into a private hospital for the mentally ill, directed by Dr. Théophile Peyron. Van Gogh had been a patient in the asylum since early May. Im ploughing on like a man possessed, more than ever I have a pent-up fury for work, he had written to his brother Theo just one month earlier. I ... More |
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| The Frick Collection unveils design by Selldorf Architects for upgrade and expansion of its facilities | | Gagosian opens first survey of prints by Jonas Wood | | Freeman's announces highlights from the upcoming spring Modern & Contemporary Art auction | 
The Grand Staircase, The Frick Collection, New York; photo: Michael Bodycomb.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Frick Collection today unveiled the design for its expansion and enhancement by Selldorf Architects. Honoring the architectural legacy and unique character of the Frick, the plan provides unprecedented access to the original 1914 home of Henry Clay Frick, preserves the intimate visitor experience and beloved galleries for which the Frick is known, and restores the 70th Street Garden. Conceived to address pressing institutional and programmatic needs, the plan creates critical new resources for permanent collection display and special exhibitions, conservation, education, and public programs, while upgrading visitor amenities and overall accessibility. The project marks the first comprehensive upgrade to the Fricks buildings since the institution opened to the public more than eighty years ago, in 1935. Slated to break ground in 2020, the project encompasses approximately 60,000 square feet of repurposed space and 27,000 ... More | | 
Jonas Wood, Untitled, 2014. Lithograph and 7 color screenprint on Coventry Rag White paper, 48 x 37 inches. Edition of 50 with 20 APs.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian opened the first survey of prints by Jonas Wood. In Woods domestic worlds of plants and household objects, vases, flowers, and basketballs overlap within skewed perspectival schemes, bristling with an abstract charge and confounding expectations of scale, perspective, and color. Tracing the evolution of Woods unique visual vocabulary through his printing practice, this exhibition reveals his deep attunement to the interplay of content and form, line and shape, color and space. In recent years Woods distinctive still lifes have taken on a monumental scale, covering the facade of Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and stretching over the Highline in New York. In his prints, however, his vivid graphics can be observed at human scale. This print survey demonstrates his intuitive synthesis of the jumble of everyday life into a series of heterotopic yet cohesive ... More | | 
Pablo Picasso, Portrait de Jacqueline au Chapeau de Paille (Tête de Femme). Estimate: $50,000-80,000.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- On Tuesday, May 8, Freemans will host its spring Modern & Contemporary Art auction. The sale includes a thoughtfully curated selection of 114 lots, representing a range of media and movements. It also features some of the most recognizable and sought after names in the field including Emil Nolde, Zao Wou-Ki, Andy Warhol, Alex Katz and Harry Bertoia. A group of Pablo Picasso ceramics introduce the sale, as well as a rare linocut by the artist, entitled Portrait de Jacqueline au Chapeau de Paille (Tête de Femme), (Lot 15, estimate $50,000-80,000). This colorful print features Picassos second wife Jacqueline, the muse and prime inspiration for his prolific output in his later years. Captivated by her large almond-shaped eyes, classical profile and long elegant neck, Picasso created more works of art based on Jacqueline than any of his other lovers. She was his principal subject during the last ... More |
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| Fondazione Prada Osservatorio opens "Torbjørn Rødland: The Touch That Made You" | | Taschen publishes "King Tut. The Journey through the Underworld" by Sandro Vannini | | Bonhams Los Angeles auction encapsulates mid-century California art + design | 
Torbjørn Rødland, Hands and Eyes. Portrait no.1 , 2008-2010. Chromogenic print on Kodak Endura paper. Framed 58 x 46 cm. Edition 3/3. Courtesy of the artist and Nils Særk, Copenhagen.
MILAN.- Fondazione Prada is presenting Torbjørn Rødland: The Touch That Made You, an exhibition initiated and organised by the Serpentine Galleries, London and curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Amira Gad. Open from 5 April to 20 August 2018 at the Osservatorio venue in Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Milan, the project brings together a selection of over 40 photographic artworks and 3 videos realized between 1999 and 2016 by Norwegian artist Torbjørn Rødland. As Rødland explains, the title The Touch That Made You is connected with analogical processes: the touch of the camera, the touch of the light hitting the film, the touch of the liquids running over the film during processing. Im linking that to the stickiness and intimacy of certain motifs these encounters between two individuals or between objects and bodies. Rødland works with analog photography, creating ... More | | 
King Tut. The Journey through the Underworld by Sandro Vannini. Hardcover with 3 fold-outs, 9.8 x 13.4 in., 448 pages.
NEW YORK, NY.- Buried in the 14th century BC but unearthed by Howard Carter in 1922, the objects entombed with Tutankhamun are an invaluable window into a long-extinct belief system. Seen today, they create an intricate picture of how the ancient Egyptian people viewed the perilous journey to paradise, a utopian Egypt that could only be entered following the final judgment. When acclaimed photographer Sandro Vannini started his work in Egypt in the late 90s, a technological revolution was about to unfold. Emerging technologies enabled him to document murals, tombs, and artifacts in unprecedented detail. Using the time-consuming and strenuous multi-shot technique, Vannini produced complete photographic reproductions that revealed colors in their original tones with vivid intensity. Through these extraordinary images, we discover the objects quintessential features alongside the sophisticated and ... More | | 
Karen Lamonte (1967) Mod Dress Relief circa 2003 (estimate $15,000 - 25, 000).
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Bonhams' upcoming Modern Decorative Art + Design auction, which will be held on April 17 at Bonhams Los Angeles showroom, is perfectly curated for today's Los Angeles. The collection pays tribute to mid-century California design with pieces from the 1940s through the 1990s and ranges in style from stark, modern design to high-style Hollywood. The current art and design scene in Los Angeles is a reinvigoration similar to the spirit we saw in the mid-century, said Jason Stein, director of Bonhams Modern Decorative Art & Design. California is an amazing state where 'anything is possible,' and avant-garde makers are flourishing again. The auction is important to local and global collectors of California Design with superb examples by Sam Maloof, John Dickinson, Peter Voulkos and others." Rare items available at the Bonhams Modern Decorative Art + Design Los Angeles sale: Charles & Ray Eames Rare BT13 Vertical Sta ... More |
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| Galerie Peter Kilchmann opens exhibition of works by Armin Boehm | | Millon Auction House to auction of a selection of 320 photographs by Claude Dityvon | | Bernarducci Gallery opens an exhibition of new paintings by William Fisk | 
Fleurs au pastel, 2018. Oil and fabrics on canvas, 180 x 160 cm. (70 7/8 x 63 in.).
ZURICH.- Galerie Peter Kilchmann is presenting the second solo exhibition by Armin Boehm in the gallery. Boehm was born in 1972 in Aachen and lives and works in Berlin. Through his very complex imageries in terms of both content and design, Boehm creates a fascinating cosmos, inspiring the observer in a refreshingly direct, yet uncommented manner to reflect about the values and claims to validity of our modern society. Following up on his series The end of capitalism Boehm now presents a new group of works, consisting of several large and middle-sized paintings and works on paper. Under the title Involution, Boehm, more then ever, portraits us in this new body of works as a society in its late decadent stage, as a result of which new ethics are being generated by shifting values. The primary focus in his compositions lies on the polarity of origin and development, of back to the roots-ideology and high-end-tech ... More | | 
Claude Dityvon, Rue Guy-Lassac, 11 mai 68. © Dityvon-Millon. Estimate: 300-400
PARIS.- Claude Dityvon's icons from May 68 are recognized by a very wide Public. The expert Christophe Goeury and Millon Auction House invite you to discover the work of this unclassifiable photographer through a monographic auction of a selection of 320 photographs that covers his production from 1967 to 2007, all printed by the artist and from his personal collection. This visual poet invites us to revisit the world around us through his images. Claude Dityvon does not remain focused on the topics and subjects he photographs: from student uprisings of May 68 to views of slums or cityscapes, from enigmatic nighttime scenes or portraits of blue collar workers.... these serve him to establish a visual language defined by the following elements: man, sometimes almost invisible, in a patiently composed image that seizes the impalpable, the silences, the unreal, the dream world and especially the secret harmonies ... More | | 
William Fisk, Untitled No. 81, 2015, oil on canvas, 76 x 58 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bernarducci Gallery is presenting the premiere exhibition of new paintings by William Fisk. The exhibition will feature recent oil paintings of modernist technology. Included in the exhibition are paintings of cameras, office supplies, and household appliances. Renowned professor Donald Kuspit says the following about the artists work: Fisks pictures are paradoxical in more ways than one. They can be said to be concerned entirely with line and color, like pure artcolor is subliminally present in his linear objects, giving them an affective resonance, a sort of inner depth, an expressive undertonehowever ostensibly impure, that is, representational rather than straightforwardly presentational (abstract). And, as their hypnotic, hallucinatory presence, and Fisks fascination, even obsession, with themconveyed by their redundancysuggests, his pictures of them are so-called ... More |
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 Reed & Delphine Krakoff's collection of art and design to be offered at Sotheby's this springNEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announced that they will present A Collection That We Dreamt Of: Art and Design from the Homes of Delphine and Reed Krakoff in a dedicated auction in New York on the evening of 23 May 2018. Collected by the celebrated designers over the course of nearly two decades, the pieces on offer have lived in one or more of the Krakoffs impeccably-designed residences including: their New York City townhouse; the famed Lasata estate in East Hampton; the sprawling Clark House in New Canaan, Connecticut; and their historic 18th-century home in Paris. The evening auction will offer an encyclopedic range of works by leading artists and designers spanning centuries of genres and styles, all seamlessly united by Delphine and Reeds sophisticated taste, their shared approach to collecting, and the superlative quality of the works ... More Sworders to offer Chinese jade bowls from major 20th century collection in May saleSTANSTED MOUNTFITCHET.- Sworders are to offer a pair of Chinese bowls from one of the most significant 20th century collections of jade in the world at their May 16 Asian Art auction. Another item from the collection, a Ming horse, set the world record price for a single piece of jade when sold by Spink for £27,000 in 1969 (the equivalent of close to £2 million today). The 13.2cm diameter pair of Chinese pale celadon jade chrysanthemum bowls date to the Jiaqing period (1796-1820) are estimated at £8000-12,000 and have a provenance to the collection of Sir Ronald Lindsay, British Ambassador to the United States from 1930, and his wife Lady Lindsay. Both were keen collectors of Chinese jades and, whilst working at the British Embassy in Washington, they found that their colleague, Miss Irene Boyle, shared this interest. Miss Boyle was employed ... More Exhibitions explore Australia's complex colonial history and the art that emerged during this periodMELBOURNE.- NGV Australia hosts two complementary exhibitions that explore Australias complex colonial history and the art that emerged during and in response to this period. Presented concurrently, these two ambitious and large-scale exhibitions, Colony: Australia 17701861 and Colony: Frontier Wars, offer differing perspectives on the colonisation of Australia. Featuring an unprecedented assemblage of loans from major public institutions around Australia, Colony: Australia 17701861 is the most comprehensive survey of Australian colonial art to date. The exhibition explores the rich diversity of art, craft and design produced between 1770, the arrival of Lieutenant James Cook and the Endeavour, and 1861, the year the NGV was established. The counterpoint to Colony: Australia 17701861, Colony: Frontier ... More Films and videos by Harun Farocki to be screened in New York CityNEW YORK, NY.- Over the next four months, 80 Washington Square East and Anthology Film Archives will screen films and videos by Harun Farocki. Screenings will take place first at Anthology Film Archives and later at New York University. Harun Farocki was born in 1944. He lived in India and Indonesia before moving with his family to Germany at age 10. In his early twenties, he left for West Berlin to further his studies in cinema, and spent most of his working life there. By the time of his death in 2014, he had a prolific body of films to his name. Laboring under the burden of Europes history, a history in which the Holocaust loomed large, Farocki was a naturalist of loss. Ones ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before them, was seldom put to the test better than in Germanys reconstruction after the Second World War. The writer ... More Museum publishes Tradition, Speed and Grace: Chesapeake Bay Sailing Log Canoes this MayST. MICHAELS, MD.- The thrill of log canoe racingfour to 18 people in choreographed motion, balancing the strain on the rig, calling out puffs and lifts, eyeing the competition, sailing low on the water with enough horsepower to exceed theoretical hull speed in optimum conditionsis an experience seldom equaled, and one that is explored in a new book, Tradition, Speed and Grace: Chesapeake Bay Sailing Log Canoes, being released this May by the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md. The hard-cover 150-page book is written by John C. North II, and includes more than 140 color and black-and-white illustrations and photographs. In Tradition, Speed and Grace, North recounts his perspective on the sport from his 70 years of log canoeing. The book also includes individual profiles of the remaining 23 canoes in the fleet, along ... More Blum & Poe announces representation of Solange PessoaLOS ANGELES, CA.- Blum & Poe announced the representation of Brazilian artist Solange Pessoa. Pessoa is known for her sculptures, installations, videos, and paintings that present forms mined from primal realms of the psyche. Organic materials yielded from animals, minerals, and vegetation -- human hair, leather, oil, fat, wax, animal blood, roots, moss, seeds, and eggs, among others -- serve as variables in the articulation of a collective knowing, primordial blueprints that guide our perceptions of time, biology, and metaphysics. Often her work is intended for outdoor placement amongst the elements, objects buried partially in the earth or hanging on the walls of a garden. Her films feature human actors and animals sometimes cloaked in skins or cocoon-like pouches, with materials that conjure visceral processes and protective barriers only found in nature. ... More The Hyde to open Rockwell Kent exhibitionsGLENS FALLS, NY.- Rockwell Kent was a polarizing figure: An acclaimed artist and printmaker, a household name as traveler and author, his private mores scandalized family and friends, his social activism his political adversaries. His politics garnered him a certain degree of notoriety, while his art earned him critical acclaim. On Sunday, April 8, The Hyde Collection will open two exhibitions of the artist's works in three mediums. Rockwell Kent: Prints from the Ralf C. Nemec Collection includes fifty-two prints and a selection of ceramics by Kent; A Life and Art of His Own: Paintings from North Country Collections features thirty-seven paintings drawn from Plattsburgh State University's Art Museum and private collectors throughout the North Country. "Kent was a Renaissance man in a century of specialists," said Caroline Welsh, director emerita of Adirondack Experience. The ... More There was gold in Them Thar Hills at Holabird Western Americana Collections' big 4-day auctionRENO, NEV.- There was gold in them thar hills at Holabird Western Americana Collections Gold Rush Sale held March 15th-18th, online and in Reno, as an outstanding 36-coin Harts Coins of the West set of gold coins sold for $41,572 and a spectacular solid gold goose egg made in 1982 and engraved one pound troy +/- Fine Gold / 999.9 / 1 of 87 finished at $24,100. The Harts Coins of the West set of 36 gold coins (or tokens) is a colorful commemoration of all U.S. gold rush locales, and features unusual denominations, such as Pinch, DWT and Expo. The coins range in grade from MS 63 to MS 66 and make for an impressive visual 36 pieces of privately minted, golden art. The maker, M.E. Hart, is believed to be businesswoman Mary Hart. The solid gold goose egg is a fabulous artisans piece made by Phoenix jeweler George Villa of Goldcraft Jewelers, ... More Exhibition at the Van Abbemuseum examines the aesthetic consequences of global tradeEINDHOVEN.- The Van Abbemuseum is presenting Trade Markings, the first large-scale presentation in Europe of art and research foundation Frontier Imaginaries. Taking place throughout the entire old building of the Van Abbemuseum, Trade Markings playfully proposes the museum as museum with an exhibition examining the aesthetic consequences of global trade. The exhibition title Trade Markings was suggested by research advisor Denise Ferreira da Silva in response to three icons of local commercethe falcon (1500s1800s), the cigar (1800s1900s), and the computer chip, or "wafer" (1900s2000s). Throughout feudal Europe the trained hunting falcon was a highly prized item. In fact a practice learned from the Middle East, European falconry had the centre of its trade in Valkenswaard, south-east of Eindhoven. By the mid 1800s European ... More PAFA announces Curator of African American artist John Rhoden's worksPHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts announced the appointment of Brittany Webb as Curator of the John Rhoden Collection. In January, the Academy took over responsibility for more than 275 works by African American sculptor John Rhoden. In addition to Rhodens artwork, PAFA also received $5 million to fund a curator of the collection, organize a traveling exhibition, publish a major book about the artist and facilitate the placement of his work into major museum collections throughout the United States. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Rhoden (1918-2001) specialized in sculpture and public art, was named a Fulbright Fellow in 1951 and had his work displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, to name a few. He is best known in Philadelphia for the landmark sculpture ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Spanish painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso died April 08, 1973. Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 - 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. In this image: Pablo Picasso, Femme au béret et à la robe quadrillée (Marie-Thérèse Walter), December 1937. Courtesy Sotheby's.
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