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Kathryn Schorr, Owner of Baker Schorr. Baker Schorr Fine Art. Ally Village, 200 Spring Park Drive, Suite 105. Midland, Texas, 79705.
MIDLAND, TX.- If you arent familiar with Midland, Texas, sometimes referred to as the biggest little city in Texas, you dont know what youre missing. The sophisticated city of 150,000 residents is a key player in the energy business, located in the middle of some of the richest oil fields in the United States. Midlands philanthropic, cultured and hospitable residents are enjoying a new addition to their art scene. Since 2018, Midland has been home to Baker Schorr Fine Art, a world-class gallery with a substantial inventory of 19th and 20th century American and European as well as Modern and contemporary works. Baker Schorrs exhibition program is diverse and lively. February 24 to April 8, Baker Schorr will present The Shadow Catcher: Edward Sheriff Curtis and the North American Indian, an exhibition of photogravures from Curtis 20-volume ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Endless Summer. albertz benda / Friedman Benda, Los Angeles. February 19, 2022 - March 26, 2022. Courtesy of the artists and albertz benda and Friedman Benda, New York. Photo: Ed Mumford.
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| Faith Ringgold's path of maximum resistance | | Artist Dan Graham dies at age 79 | | Gertrude Abercrombie work sets new world auction record at Hindman Auctions |
Faith Ringgold: American People, 2022. Exhibition view. New Museum, New York. Photo: Dario Lasagni.
NEW YORK, NY.- If you want to catch the heat of the lava flow that was U.S.' racial politics in the 1960s, the second floor of the New Museum in New York City is a good place to go. There youll find the earliest work in Faith Ringgold: American People, the first local retrospective of the Harlem-born artist in almost 40 years. Now 91, Ringgold was already a committed painter when the Black Power movement erupted. And she had a personal investment in the questions it raised: not just how to survive as a Black person in a racist white world, but how, as a woman, to thrive in any world at all. As an artist of ambition, she seems to have made strategic decisions for forward movement. One was to be constantly producing, no matter what. Another was to seek out support within a Black matriarchy of family and friends. A third decision the tough one was to forge a career path of maximum resistance. To this end, she ... More | |
Dan Graham, 2017. Photo by Sebastian Kim.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Regen Projects, Lisson Gallery, Marian Goodman, and 303 Gallery today mourn a great artist, Dan Graham, who sadly died this weekend in New York. His influence over the past half century as a writer, photographer, architect, sculptor, filmmaker, and performance artist is widely felt in the contemporary art world, with many of his groundbreaking endeavours in video, installation, and audience participationincluding such legendary and confrontational works as Performer/Audience/Mirror (1975) and Public Spaces/Two Audiences (1976)among the first and most enduring examples ever created in those fields. Despite his recent disavowal of Conceptual Art as a term, he was one of its earliest pioneers through early text-based works, typographic wall pieces and schematic poems, not to mention the seminal illustrated magazine essay, Homes for America (1966). He exhibited the work of his peers Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, and ... More | |
Gertrude Abercrombie, The Dinosaur, 1964 (detail). Oil on panel. Price Realized: $387,500.
CHICAGO, IL.- An extraordinary surreal Gertrude Abercrombie painting set a new world auction record for the artist at Hindman Auctions on February 17 when it sold for $387,500. The 1964 oil on panel measuring 7 ½ by 9 ½ inches and entitled The Dinosaur was the highlight of Hindmans Somewhere Out There auction, which featured incredibly one-of-a-kind artworks from the more out there regions of the imagination. Led by the Abercrombie piece, the auction achieved a total of $970,656, nearly tripling its presale estimate. Gertrude Abercrombie was one of the artists that we had in mind for inclusion when we dreamt up this genre-spanning sale of enchantingly strange image-based narrative works, shared Zack Wirsum, Hindmans Senior Specialist for Post War and Contemporary Art. This vision manifested to a powerful result, much like the ostrich egg that Gertrudes sorceress subconscious made ... More |
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| Danziger Gallery opens first gallery space in Los Angeles | | Major retrospective of drawings and films by Kara Walker opens at De Pont Museum | | Christie's announces more masterpieces included in the upcoming Shanghai to London sale series |
Glen Luchford, Kate Moss, Time Square, 1994. 40 x 27 inches. Silver gelatin print. Signed on label.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- What connects Ansel Adams iconic 1948 image of the moon rising above the village of Hernandez with Glen Luchfords 1994 photograph of Kate Moss on her first visit to Times Square? What is the link between the swirling impression made by eddies of water on a piece of cibachrome paper as created by Susan Derges and the bright white rectangle of a movie theatre screen made by Hiroshi Sugimoto exposing the negative for the duration of an entire movie? What makes a series of self-portraits by the little known Hungarian photographer Ujj Zsuszi so intriguing? For those with a passion for the wealth and subtleties of visual language, the discovery, understanding, and sharing of such images is as essential a way of communicating as the spoken or written word. The photographs in this show come largely from the photographic artists the gallery ... More | |
Kara Walker, 2022. Photo: Ari Marcopoulos.
TILBURG.- De Pont Museum opened a major exhibition of work by American artist Kara Walker: A Black Hole is Everything a Star Longs to Be. For the first time in thirty years, she is showing her private archives, comprising over 650 drawings, sketches, collages, clippings and textual works. These are being displayed in a non chronological manner in the generous spaces of Tilburgs former spinning mill. The various series of drawings have been alternated with some of Walkers animations and stop-motion films, which seamlessly complement her works on paper. Among these the stop-motion film Prince McVeigh and the Turner Blasphemies (2021), which was recently added to the museums collection. It's showing at De Pont marks its European première. Drawing transforms a blank page into a site of reflection, says Walker. Her exhibition makes this statement clear at a glance. With the broad selection of drawings, includ ... More | |
Kees van Dongen (1877-1968), La Femme Au Collier. Oil on canvas, 100.3 x 81 cm. Painted in 1908. Estimate: RMB 19,500,000 32,000,000 / USD 2,925,000 4,800,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
LONDON.- Following the announcement of two masterpieces by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Pablo Picasso that will lead the upcoming Shanghai to London sale series on 1 March, Christies presents a broad selection of exciting works in the Shanghai auction leg, featuring sensational paintings by celebrated Western Modern Art figures including Kees van Dongen, Marc Chagall, and many more, to meet the soaring demand of Mainland Chinese collectors. A group of works by international fast-rising artists will also debut in the sale. The Evening Sale will coincide with a series of events from 26 February to 1 March, including art forums, specialist walkthroughs, live-streamed activities, and more. Included in the 20th/21st Century Art: Shanghai Evening Sale, a masterpiece by iconic Western ... More |
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| Galeria Jaqueline Martins Brussels presents 'Those hours that have lost their clock' by Lennart Lahuis | | PDNB Gallery addresses subject of women in abstraction in new exhibition | | Christie's announces 'Dramas of Light and Land: The Martyn Gregory Collection of British Art' |
Through a wide variety of materials and techniques Lennart Lahuis (Netherlands, 1986) subjects texts and photographic imagery to natural phenomena such as melting, combustion, evaporation and erosion.
BRUSSELS.- Galeria Jaqueline Martins Brussels is presenting the work of Lennart Lahuis (Netherlands, 1986). Those hours that have lost their clock is the artists first solo exhibition at the gallery and features a selection of photography-based works that combine the idea of capturing light with the perception and representation of time. The images in this exhibition are processed with two kinds of procedures that seem to be diametrically opposed to one another, one is grounded in duration, the other in material. A new series of wax-works, included in the exhibition, were made with found photographic material from frames, printing equipment and/or calendars. These generic images, that automatically become redundant through the passage of time, are printed on the backboard of the frame and are subsequently ... More | |
Gyorgy Kepes, Untitled Photogram, 1980. Courtesy PDNB Gallery, Dallas, TX.
DALLAS, TX.- PDNB Gallery is featuring works by women artists from Texas that were included in the 2021-2022 international traveling exhibition, Women in Abstraction, at the Centre Pompidou. Recently the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, have featured exhibitions featuring women artists that practiced abstraction in their art. The current Whitney show, Labyrinth of Forms: Women and Abstraction, covers the period, 1930 1950, when abstraction thrust itself into the American art scene. The exhibition in Paris, Women in Abstraction, and now at the Guggenheim, Bilbao, covers abstraction in dance, film, textiles, painting, sculpture and photography. The three Texas women represented in the Pompidou exhibition: Carlotta Corpron, Ida Lansky and Barbara Maples. The Bauhaus had its tentacles in both museum shows. The Bauhaus school taught all ... More | |
John Nash R.A. (1893-1977), Hilly Landscape. Estimate: £3,000-5,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
LONDON.- Travel across Scotland, Wales, England, France and Italy in Christies Dramas of Light and Land: The Martyn Gregory Collection of British Art online, from 10 to 24 March. A remarkable survey of British art, the collection predominantly comprises works on paper, from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Martyn Gregory, a renowned St Jamess dealer of British Drawings and Historical Pictures relating to China, India and South East Asia, is offering these British works as part of scaling back his business, having recently entered his 80th year. A true connoisseur collector-dealer, Martyns notable eye is well-known in the field, resulting in a collection which successfully spans centuries and movements to tell a broad and far-reaching story of the history of this section of British art. The strength and breadth of the collection, as well as the remarkable condition and presentation of the pictures, are testament to Martyn ... More |
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| ROSEGALLERY opens the first show in the United States by artist Lebohang Kganye | | Galerie Karsten Greve opens an exhibition of works by Qiu Shihua | | albertz benda and Friedman Benda open first exhibition in new Los Angeles gallery space |
Lebohang Kganye. Photo: Jodi Bieber.
SANTA MONICA, CA.- ROSEGALLERY is presenting the exhibition: What Are You Leaving Behind? by visual artist Lebohang Kganye. Kganye often incorporates the archival and performative into a practice that centers storytelling and memory as it plays itself out in the familial experience. Her work explores an archive that is concerned with layered and temporal storytelling. The pieces in the forthcoming show span eight years of Kganyes career, weaving together three seminal series: Her Story (2013), Reconstruction of a Family (2016), and Tell Tale (2018). In What Are You Leaving Behind? viewers are invited to follow the artists conceptual journey as she ruminates on the relationship between history and orature, and memory and fantasy throughout nearly a decade of work. Her series Ke Lefa Laka: Her-story stems from confronting grief from the loss of her mother, while maintaining a connection to her and generational history. The title translate ... More | |
At first glance, the works by Chinese artist Qiu Shihua seem to be monochrome paintings.
COLOGNE.- Galerie Karsten Greve is presenting Qiu Shihua Visible Invisible, making it the third solo exhibition shown in Karsten Greves Cologne gallery space featuring works by the Chinese contemporary artist. This is Qiu Shihuas seventh one-man show with Galerie Karsten Greve, which has represented and presented the artist since 2015. Eleven oil paintings created between 2006 and 2019 are on display, as are twelve works on paper dating from 2018 and 2019 premiered here. At first glance, the works by Chinese artist Qiu Shihua seem to be monochrome paintings. However, out of nowhere, from the all-encompassing white-on-white that covers the natural hue of the raw canvas like a transparent, white veil, weak contrasts and vague contours emerge. In transparent glazes, Qiu Shihua makes landscape motifs appear and disappear. Shades condense into hills ... More | |
The Endless Summer. albertz benda / Friedman Benda, Los Angeles. February 19, 2022 March 26, 2022. Courtesy of the artists and albertz benda and Friedman Benda, New York. Photo: Ed Mumford.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- albertz benda and Friedman Benda are presenting The Endless Summer, which marks the first public exhibition at the galleries Los Angeles space. Highlighting new explorations from established and emerging voices at the forefront of their fields, The Endless Summer references the title of the seminal surf documentary from 1966 and channels similar themes of commitment to storytelling and dedication to ones craft. Concurrent to his solo exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art, the exhibition highlights a new piece from Sharif Beys Necklace series, in which he reappropriates and recontextualizes this imagery to challenge the cultural mainstream. A continuation of his Objects for Living II series, the installation unveils a 6ft tall sculpture by multidisciplinary artist Daniel Arsham. Following ... More |
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Celebrated Works from the Macklowe Collection to be Offered in May
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Istanbul's hottest arts and culture venue Kalyon Kültür launches an extensive new media exhibition
ISTANBUL.- Aiming to provide a platform for new media art, Kalyon Kültür launched a group exhibition entitled Flora which will be on display until 16 April 2022 at its historical venue in Nişantaşı, Taş Konak. Curated by Ceren and Irmak Arkman, the exhibition focuses on the theme of nature and brings together world-renowned artists working across a variety of mediums including Anna Ridler, Clement Valla, François Quévillon, Mat Collishaw, Mustafa Hulusi, Pascual Sisto, Quayola, Ryoichi Kurokawa, and Sabrina Ratté. One of the newest multidisciplinary arts and culture venues in Istanbul, Kalyon Kültür will showcase a series of exhibitions to raise awareness on the climate crises. Flora being the first of these events, the upcoming exhibition titled Touched by Mankind will be held in September, parallel to the 17th Istanbul Biennial of the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts ( ... More
The Jewish Museum opens the first U.S. museum survey of the work of Jonas Mekas
NEW YORK, NY.- The Jewish Museum presents Jonas Mekas: The Camera Was Always Running, the first U.S. museum survey of the Lithuanian-born filmmaker, poet, critic, and institution-builder who helped shape the avant-garde in New York City and beyond. The exhibition coincides with the centennial of Mekass birth and surveys his 70-year career. It includes 11 films, photography, and previously unseen archival materials that explore the breadth and import of Mekass life, art, and legacy in the field of the moving image. During the final moments of World War II in 1944, Mekas was forced to flee his native Lithuania and unable to return until 1971. The relationship between exile and creativity is always at the heart of his work and is the exhibitions central theme. Jonas Mekas: The Camera Was Always Running is on view at the Jewish Museum from February ... More
Impressive $201,600 sale of foundational American Land Ordinance leads Freeman's sale
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Freemans inaugural auction of its 2022 season, Books and Manuscripts, was led by the sale of a remarkable Land Ordinance of 1785, which far exceeded pre-sale estimates to achieve $201,600 (Lot 22; estimate: $80,000-120,000). The auction featured an impressive 98% sell-through rate and reaffirms Freemans excellence in bringing significant historic American material to market. The present Land Ordinance of 1785, printed in New York, is an extremely rare printing of one of the most significant pieces of US congressional legislation; it established Americas public land system, in which the government could parcel out and sell undeveloped land to settlers moving westward. The document was the prelude to the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, the path to future statehood for the territories northwest ... More
ICA at VCU opens first institutional solo exhibition of Ghanian artist Giddeon Appah
RICHMOND, VA.- The Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University announced Forgotten, Nudes, Landscapesthe first institutional solo exhibition of Ghanaian artist Gideon Appah, on view from February 19 to June 19, 2022. Comprised of paintings, drawings and media ephemera, the artists latest body of work chronicles the cycle of cultural memoryfrom heyday to bygonethrough a series of portraits featuring figures illustrious and figures forgotten. For these dynamic tableaus, Appah used newspaper clippings, entertainment posters and films spanning the 1950s through the 1980s as source materials to explore the rise and fall of Ghanas cinema and leisure culture. One central work in the exhibition, ROXY 2 (2021)named in reference to Ghanas famous Roxy Cinema, located in the capital city, Accraemphasizes ... More
Fridman Gallery opens a solo exhibition at its Beacon location presenting works by Kazumi Tanaka
BEACON, NY.- Fridman Gallery opened Beyond Silence, a solo exhibition at its Beacon location presenting sculpture and drawings by Kazumi Tanaka. Tanaka makes intricate works that are meditations on memory and loss. Beyond Silence features tiny musical instruments incorporating animal skulls, seashells, wood, the artist's own hair and other materials. Three of Tanakas ethereal indigo ink landscape drawings are also included in the exhibition. Tanaka created some of the works in Beyond Silence for her series titled Messenger Y during a 2021 artist residency in Salem, Germany. Before her arrival, the residency staff assisted Tanaka in locating animal skulls in the woods around Lake Constance. The locations of the remains were recorded in photographs by Matthias Schenkl, two of which are on view in the exhibition. Upon arriving in Germany, ... More
Treasures of international significance up for auction at Witherell's
SACRAMENTO, CALIF.- Witherells Auction House presents its Luxury Asset Auction, a live auction event on March 18, 2022 at The Sutter Club in Sacramento. Nearly 100 treasures will be sold, from prominent art of international significance to rare jewels. All of the auction items were brought forth by local families, sharing compelling stories and details that contribute to Sacramentos rich history. This is an auction of local and international interest, said Brian Witherell, cofounder of Witherells and guest appraisal expert on PBSs popular series, Antiques Roadshow. We are honored and privileged that our local community turns to us to handle their most prized family heirlooms, and many of them are blown away to discover the value of items they had stuffed away for decades in the closet or garage. Auction highlights include: Robert Arneson, Cer ... More
'Mrs. Doubtfire' postpones Broadway reopening until April
NEW YORK, NY.- The Broadway musical Mrs. Doubtfire, which closed temporarily last month as omicron battered New York, announced Friday that it would postpone its reopening until April 14, a month later than anticipated, to give the theater economy a bit more time to rebound. The good news is that it looks like the virus is calming down, but there are still a lot of unknowns, said the shows lead producer, Kevin McCollum. It was just clear that April was a better time to open, given the trends with tourism, and thinking about when families and groups will start to feel comfortable. The hiatus left the shows cast, crew and musicians without work (at least at Doubtfire), but McCollum said he thought it was the best way to attempt to preserve their jobs longer term. And Friday, he said he had invited the entire cast to return and was hopeful that they ... More
Museum Folkwang presents photographs of and with homeless people as part of the 6 1/2 Weeks series
ESSEN.- With the show Les Cracks & Vincen Beeckman, Museum Folkwang presents a photography project by Belgian photographer and art mediator Vincen Beeckman in close collaboration with homeless people in Brussels (February 17April 6, 2022) in the series 6 ½ Weeks. It is the first institutional exhibition of photographs by René, Frank, Jackie, Patti and other homeless people who used disposable cameras to document their everyday lives, their relationships, encounters, parties and friendships over several years. The exhibition is curated in close collaboration with Vincen Beeckman and four of the protagonists. The opening will take place on February 18 at 6:30pm in their presence. Between 2015 and 2020, Belgian photographer and art mediator Vincen Beeckman gave disposable cameras to a group of homeless people ... More
An international event at Heritage Auctions in March as art world discovers allure of original comic book art
DALLAS, TX.- In writer-director M. Night Shyamalan 2000 film Unbreakable, comic-art gallery owner Elijah Price flinched when a would-be buyer said he was buying a valuable, vintage original for his 4-year-old son. You must think this is a toy store, Samuel L. Jacksons character snarled at the customer before correcting his misconception. This is an art gallery, my friend, Elijah told the man. This is piece of art. Its value will triple every year. This piece is to be treasured, to be cherished, to be coveted by every single one of your banker friends that think theyre better than you. That monologue proved prescient: The comic-art collector, once dismissed by the serious art world as obsessive fanboy, is now a legitimate curator of serious and respected art, which is as it should be. The works are the raw, handmade images that sparked countless ... More
Christopher Maxwell to join Art Institute of Chicago
CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute announced today that Christopher (Kit) Maxwell, assumes the position of Samuel and M. Patricia Grober Curator, Applied Arts of Europe in February. Kit comes to the museum from the Corning Museum of Glass, where, as Curator of Early Modern Glass, he was responsible for collections ranging in date from about 1250 to 1820. He brings a deep knowledge of European ceramics and glass, areas of strength in the Art Institutes collections, and in his recent research he has explored the innovations and reception of eighteenth-century British glass in the light of global trade and colonial expansion. His recent exhibition at Corning, In Sparkling Company: Glass and the Costs of Social Life in Britain During the 1700s shed new light on the significance of glass in domestic, court, commercial, and scientific settings. Kit Maxwell ... More
The Portland Art Museum opens an exhibition of works by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera
PORTLAND, ORE.- The Portland Art Museum is presenting Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection. A fascinating exploration of Mexican modernism and two of its most beloved icons, the exhibition opened February 19, 2022, and will be on view through June 5. Featuring more than 150 works, this traveling exhibition celebrates internationally acclaimed artists Frida Kahlo (19071954), Diego Rivera (18861957), and their contemporaries, including Manuel and Lola Ãlvarez Bravo, MarÃa Izquierdo, Carlos Mérida, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Rufino Tamayo, and others. In addition to paintings and works on paper, the exhibition includes photographs and period clothing that reflect works by Kahlo and Rivera in the broader context of Mexican Modernism. Organized by themes such as Land, Home, and ... More
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Jules Tavernier and the Elem Pomo
Life Between Islands
Fabergé in London: Romance to Revolution
'In-Between'
Flashback On a day like today, Dutch painter Jan de Baen was born February 20, 1633. Jan de Baen (20 February 1633 - 1702) was a Dutch portrait painter who lived during the Dutch Golden Age. He was a pupil of the painter Jacob Adriaensz Backer in Amsterdam from 1645 to 1648. He worked for Charles II of England in his Dutch exile, and from 1660 until his death he lived and worked in The Hague. His portraits were popular in his day, and he painted the most distinguished people of his time. In this image: Members of the magistrate of The Hague, 1682.
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