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PARIS.- In the Spring of 2025, Fondation Louis Vuitton is inviting David Hockney, one of the most influential artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, to take over the entire building for an exhibition that is exceptional in its scale and its originality. The exhibition, which is being held from 9 April to 31 August 2025, brings together more than 400 of his works (from 1955 to 2025) including paintings from international, institutional, and private collections, as well as works from the artists own studio and Foundation. There are works in a variety of media including oil and acrylic painting, ink, pencil and charcoal drawing, digital art (works on iPhone, iPad, photographic drawings
) and immersive video installations. David Hockney has been personally involved in every aspect of the exhibition and has, together with his partner and studio manager Jean-Pierre Gonçalves de Lima, chosen to focus particularly on the past 25 years whilst also including the iconic early works, offering ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of Even cowboys get the blues at Air de Paris.
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| This Earthen Door: Amanda Marchand and Leah Sobsey exhibit at Rick Wester Fine Art | | Milestone announces May 3 "barnburner" auction of rare European, Japanese & American toys | | Christie's announces Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds including Rugs and Carpets |
Amanda Marchand and Leah Sobsey, Herbarium Plate 54 - Pansy, 2023. Herbarium, Edition 1 of 6 + 2 APs. Archival pigment print, 40 x 31 1/2 inches (101.6 x 80 cm) Sheet © Amanda Marchand & Leah Sobsey, courtesy Rick Wester Fine Art.
NEW YORK, NY.- Art, nature, and the poet Emily Dickinson are intertwined in a new exhibition this spring. This Earthen Door by Amanda Marchand and Leah Sobsey will be on view from April 10 through June 27, 2025, at Rick Wester Fine Art at 526 West 26th Street in Chelsea. The exhibition is an homage to the poets botanical devotion, comprised of images made from plant pigments grown in the artists own gardens. Concurrent with the exhibition at the gallery, Rick Wester Fine Art will also present a selection of the work at The Photography Show presented by AIPAD from April 23 through 27, 2025, at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City. Additionally, on May 25, The Brandywine Museum of Art in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, will present This Earthen Door through September 7, 2025. A recent monograph of the same title was published in 2024 by Datz Press (Seoul, Korea). Before Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) ... More | |
Extremely rare and highly desirable Gunthermann (Germany) tin windup Felix the Cat Carousel. Estimate: $20,000-$40,000
WILLOUGHBY, OHIO.- Milestones May 3 Premier Vintage Toy Auction offers a treasure trove of classic 20th-century toys from the legendary manufacturing hotspots of Japan, Europe and the United States. Led by an extraordinary Gunthermann Felix the Cat tin carousel, the 814-lot sale is also highlighted by a 330-piece fresh-to-the-market battery-op collection, Continental toys and autos; robots and space toys; motorcycles, and big, super-hot postwar racers. Most of the toys entered in the auction come with their coveted original boxes, some of which are even harder to obtain than the toys they house. That irrepressible cartoon feline, Felix the Cat, leads the esteemed toy lineup in his usual fun-seeking fashion, this time in the form of an extremely rare Gunthermann (Germany) tin windup Felix the Cat Carousel marketed in 1928. The visuals on this wonderful toy show Felix driving an open roadster and also riding on top of a zeppelin, both forms of transportation that captivated the public at the time of ... More | |
A late Mughal Shahnama, second quarter 18th century, (estimate: £700,000-1,000,000 | US$910,000-1,300,000) © Christie's Images Ltd 2025.
LONDON.- Christies announces the Spring iteration of the bi-annual sale Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds including Rugs and Carpets, a live auction at Christies headquarters in London, on 1 May. This sale celebrates the diverse artistic traditions of the Islamic world, spanning nine centuries and showcasing an impressive array of carpets, ceramics, manuscripts, textiles, works on paper, and metalwork, each piece a testament to the creativity and skill of the artists who created them. One of the highlights of the Islamic and Indian sale is an extraordinary late Mughal epic manuscript based on the Shahnama, including the Garshaspnama and Samnama, likely created in Lahore, India, in the second quarter of the 18th century. This rare and monumental work, estimate: £700,000-1,000,000 (US$910,000-1,300,000), which includes over 115 paintings, stands as a testament to the grandeur of Mughal literary and artistic traditions. It was previously owned by Asaf al-Dawlah, the Nawab of Oudh, ... More |
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| The Broad breaks ground on expansion project | | Six works of contemporary art enter the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Collection | | PalaisPopulaire time capsule: Exhibition explores history and memory through art |
Broad Expansion Plaza.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Joanne Heyler, Founding Director and President of The Broad, and philanthropist Edythe L. Broad, co-founder of The Broad, today welcomed civic, cultural, and business leaders to break ground on the museums major expansion, which will open in 2028. The project will significantly increase the number of works on view from the renowned Broad collection of contemporary art and add fresh facets to the visitor experience. Thoughtfully designed by the architects of the original building, Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R), this bold expansion opens a new perspective on the veil and vault concept DS+R introduced in 2015, with the buildings iconic white honeycomb veil enveloping the art storage vault, its sculptural grey core. The expansion symbolically pulls the vault out from the veil and opens it to the public, reinforcing The Broads mission and track record of reaching the widest possible audience. New outdoor courtyards will open to the sky ... More | |
Martin Kippenberger, Untitled (Invention of a Joke), 1993. Oik on canvas 240 x 200 cm. © Martin Kippenberger, Bilbao, 2025.
BILBAO.- The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao announced that six artworks by international contemporary artists will be incorporated into the Museums collection, thanks to a gift from the D.Daskalopoulos Collection. Artworks by Matthew Barney, John Bock, Kendell Geers, Guyton/Walker, Martin Kippenberger, and Kiki Smithsculptures, installations, and paintingswill now enrich the Museums holdings. In addition to having been shown in many international art institutions, these works were also part of the exhibition of the D.Daskalopoulos Collection at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in 2011, curated by Nancy Spector and Katherine Brinson (Guggenheim Daskalopoulos Curator, Contemporary Art since 2017) titled The Luminous Interval. The donation of these six works to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao strengthens its Collection, not only by introducing new mediums ... More | |
Max Beckmann, King and Demagogue, 1946. Lithography from a portfolio of 15-part portfolio Day and Dream, 1946. 40 x 30,2 cm. © Courtesy Deutsche Bank Collection
BERLIN.- The exhibition Its Just a Matter of Time at Deutsche Banks PalaisPopulaire in Berlin will take visitors on a journey through time from April 10 to August 18, 2025. Featuring around 30 artistic positions, curators Liberty Adrien and Carina Bukutsalso curators at Portikus in Frankfurtexplore overlapping traces of time, memory, and history. These themes are associatively connected to the historic setting of the PalaisPopulaire and the buildings eventful past, along with the institutions and ideologies it has represented since its construction in 1730. From royal residence to museum, war ruin, legendary opera café, and now a contemporary cultural center, the building offers numerous starting points: Every room, every crack in the façade, every surrounding street tells of the people who lived and worked here, say ... More |
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| Karin Hellman retrospective at EMMA introduces a lesser-known artist who transformed Finnish modernism | | A galaxy of legendary collectibles: Heritage celebrates Star Wars Day May 4 with a dedicated auction | | Ruiz-Healy Art explores multiculturalism through contemporary craft in new exhibition |
Karin Hellman, Clown, 1939. Collection Hellman / EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art © Ari Karttunen / EMMA.
ESPOO.- EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art presents the first extensive museum exhibition dedicated to Karin Hellman, a bold and experimental reformer of Finnish modernism. The retrospective showcases Hellmans diverse art, characterised by her playful use of a wide range of materials and techniques. Her body of work connects with Arte Povera A New Chapter, an international group exhibition opening at EMMA at the same time. Both exhibitions will be on view from 9 April 2025 to 1 February 2026. Karin Hellman (19152004) was one of Finlands foremost collage artists, capable of transforming any material into something radiant. Yet despite her talent and innovation, her work remains relatively unfamiliar to many. The exhibition at EMMA offers a broad perspective on Hellmans artistic thinking and distinctive expression. Over 80 works are featured, spanning from the 1930s to the 1980s, with particular emphasis on her textile and collage pieces. The ... More | |
Star Wars Droids C-3PO Original Line Art by Alice Carter (Kenner, 1985).
DALLAS, TX.- In a few short weeks, Star Wars fans will proclaim âMay the Fourth be with you,â but in advance of Star Wars Day â celebrated on May 4 â they can claim their own piece of franchise history. Heritage Auctions has launched its May 4 Star Wars Day Entertainment Signature® Auction, featuring more than 300 significant lots ranging from original movie posters to screen-used props, high-end replicas, toys, comics and artwork. The auction, which includes some of the rarest of Star Wars treasures from across the entire franchise, will conclude with a live session on May 4. Leading the fleet is the Star Wars Sears Exclusive Set of 12 Carded Figures (AFA Q-70+), the only graded example in existence. This legendary 1979 Kenner Canada release features 12 factory-sealed figures, including Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader and Princess Leia in their original bilingual packaging. Equally rare is the Star Wars Sears Exclusive Set of 9 Carded Figures (AFA Q-70), which includes the highly coveted Boba Fett on ... More | |
Einar and Jamex de la Torre, Letting them Eat Cake, 2023, Blown glass and mixed media, 15 x 12 x 15 in, 38.1 x 30.5 x 38.1 cm.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Ruiz-Healy Art is presenting Threading Glass: Consuelo Jimenez Underwood and Einar and Jamex de la Torre, on view at the San Antonio gallery from April 9th to May 31st, 2025. Threading Glass unfolds the reimagining of centuries-old craft traditions through a contemporary art lens, blending tradition with innovation. Artists Consuelo Jimenez Underwood and the de la Torre Brothers utilize history and personal experiences to create narratives that tackle multiculturalism, Latino heritage, and artisanship. This collection of works stimulates a dialogue between the tactile nature of both their practices, utilizing the rigid forms of glass and the flowing forms of tapestries as a vessel for social critique and a reaffirmation of craftsmanship as art. Consuelo Jimenez Underwood grew up as a child of migrant farm workers, a Huichol father, and a Chicana mother, spending her childhood moving back and forth across the United ... More |
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| Max Kozloff, influential art critic and artist, dies at 91 | | Gil Kane's first appearance of The Spider-Woman nets a record $690,000 | | Elizabeth Xi Bauer presents: + Days + Nights, Abraham Kritzman and Philippe Van Snick |
Cascade, 1960s. Oil on linen, 36 x 47 3/4 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- DC Moore Gallery announced the passing of Max Kozloff, who died at home in New York on April 6, 2025. Max Kozloff was a leading critic and writer on modern art, informed by his own artistic practice as a painter and photographer. Born in 1933 in Chicago, Kozloff moved to New York City in 1959. He was the art critic for The Nation from 1961-1968 and contributing editor to Artforum from 1963 to 1974, and later Artforum's executive editor through 1976. An eminent writer in the fields of art history and criticism, he authored many insightful essays on modern art, focusing particularly on photography from the mid-1970s on. His influential essay American Painting During the Cold War, published in Artforum in 1973, linked Abstract Expressionism to American political hegemony in the postwar period. Kozloff was highly regarded as a critic who also created art, exhibiting his color photographs at Holly Solomon Gallery, Marlborough Gallery, Steven Kasher Gallery, and at the Art Instit ... More | |
Gil Kane Marvel Spotlight #32 Cover - First Appearance of Spider-Woman Original Art (Marvel, 1977).
DALLAS, TX.- Just two months after setting the record for the most valuable Spider-Man cover ever sold at auction, Heritage returned to the block April 3-6 with a Comics & Comic Art event stuffed full of treasures spanning the mediums history including another historic cover that this time broke the record for artist Gil Kane: Specifically, his original artwork for the cover of Marvel Spotlight No. 32 which introduced Mighty Marvels Newest Sensation then known as The Spider-Woman. The work sold for $690,000 a triumph for the debut artwork of a character created initially to protect Marvels copyright, as Stan Lee feared DC might put its spin on one of his most famous characters. And with the sold-out $18,534,539 auction total, Heritage continues to carve out a dominant spot in early 2025 following that record-heavy January Comics event which brought $10.79 million. The auction record-breaking Spider-Woman wasnt the sole debut among the record-setters ... More | |
Philippe Van Snick photographed by Marijke Dekeukeleire in front of Attraction, 2018. Courtesy of the Philippe Van Snick Estate and Martins & Montero.
LONDON.- Elizabeth Xi Bauer presents + Days + Nights, an exhibition of works by contemporary artist Abraham Kritzman and Belgian abstractionist Philippe Van Snick, whose oeuvre combines the heritage of modern abstract art with the conceptual explorations of the 1970s. This is the first time these artists works have been in dialogue. The gallery also announced that this exhibition will be part of London Gallery Weekend 2025 edition (6th 8th June). As part of this, Elizabeth Xi Bauer will present a panel discussion at the Exmouth Market space in June 2025, open to the public. Abraham Kritzmans multidisciplinary practice centres on an immersive language expressed through painting, sculpture, and printmaking. Inspired by journeys, his work merges mythical narratives, human imagery, architecture, and landscape to create layered and dynamic compositions Kritzmans works embody a dance of gestures and delicate details ... More |
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The Boris Lurie Art Foundation appoints Stephanie Stebich as first Executive DirectorCLIFTON, NJ.- The Boris Lurie Art Foundation announced the appointment of Stephanie Stebich as its first Executive Director, marking a new chapter following the leadership of Gertrude Stein, the Foundation's Founder and President. Stebich, an esteemed museum professional, most recently served as Senior Advisor to the Undersecretary for Museums and Culture at the Smithsonian Institution. Prior to that beginning in 2017, she spent seven years as The Margaret and Terry Stent Director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM). She officially assumed her new role on April 7, 2025. "Boris Lurie was an innovative American artist who remains surprisingly under recognized. As a creative force and co-founder of the NO!Art movement, he was dedicated to challenging artistic and cultural conventions," said Stebich. "I have followed the Foundations ... More As Ovechkin breaks Gretzky's record, the Rolls-Royce gifted to 'The Great One' hits the market BLENHEIM.- In an extraordinary moment of timing, RM Sothebys announces the upcoming sale of Wayne Gretzkys 1994 Rolls-Royce Corniche IVgifted to The Great One after his historic 802nd career NHL goaljust days after Alex Ovechkin officially broke the long-standing goal-scoring record. The prized car will be offered through RM Sothebys Sealed platform, with bidding open now and closing on April 17. On March 23, 1994, Gretzky scored his 802nd goal in a game against the Vancouver Canucks, surpassing the great Gordie Howe to become the NHLs all-time leading goal scorer. A week later, the Los Angeles Kings honored Gretzky in a pregame ceremony by presenting him with a black 1994 Rolls-Royce Corniche IV bearing the license plate GOAL 802. A symbol of elegance and achievement, the Corniche was a fitting tribute to hockeys greatest player. ... More Christie's presents for Art's Sake: Selected Works by Tiqui Atencio & Ago Demirdjian NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announced For Arts Sake: Selected Works by Tiqui Atencio & Ago Demirdjian, a magnificent series of sales that will be offered at Christies throughout 2025, featuring the finest in contemporary art and design. The sale series will begin during Spring Marquee Week with a group of 15 exemplary artworks owned by the trustees of Mayfair Oeuvres dArt Ltd and Artapar Ltd and selected by Tiqui Atencio and Ago Demirdjian. Representing a diverse group of artists from the post-war and contemporary era including Carmen Herrera, Cecily Brown, Ed Ruscha, Julie Mehretu, and Roni Horn, the selection will headline the 21st Century Evening Sale taking place at Rockefeller Center in New York this May. Subsequent sales of design and art will follow at Christies Paris and London. Tiqui Atencio remarks, It is a true pleasure to see these auctions come to life! ... More Lévy Gorvy Dayan unites Marcia Marcus, Alice Neel, and Sylvia Sleigh in "The Human Situation"NEW YORK, NY.- Lévy Gorvy Dayan announces The Human Situation: Marcia Marcus, Alice Neel, Sylvia Sleigh. The exhibition, conceived by Saara Pritchard, will mark the first focused presentation of Marcia Marcus (19282025), Alice Neel (19001984), and Sylvia Sleigh (19162010), who each worked in New York City and shared in its artistic circles in the dynamic decades of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1ç80s. During this period, they portrayed mutual sitters, exhibited together, and participated in public discussions. Their representations of loved ones, friends, and acquaintances are distinctive in form and style, yet share in their evocation of the human spirit, capturing Sleighs reflection The human situation adds a certain poignancy to portraits... In 1973, paintings by the three figurative artists were on view in the unprecedented exhibition Women Choose Women, organized ... More New art by Ernst Billgren exhibited at NationalmuseumSTOCKHOLM.- Nationalmuseum presents Ernst Billgren New Memories, an exhibition with multiple new pieces by one of Swedens most renowned artists. Billgren challenges the art worlds unwritten laws and unspoken expectations with work that combines traditional art historical motifs with pop culture references and kitsch. The exhibition will feature about two dozen artworks by Billgren, in which the artist playfully relates to classical painting. Billgren puts his own spin to the museums artworks, like the well-known painting Bringing Home the Body of King Karl XII of Sweden. The exhibition will be held in a single gallery on the fourth floor, from 10 April to 28 September. Ernst Billgren was born in Stockholm in 1957. He made a name for himself as an artist in the mid-eighties, before he had even graduated from Gothenburgs Valand Academy of Art and Design. ... More The Whitney presents the work of Marina Zurkow as the next Hyundai Terrace CommissionNEW YORK, NY.- The Whitney Museum of American Art and Hyundai Motor Company present the next Hyundai Terrace Commission by Marina Zurkow. Presented on the Whitneys fifth-floor terrace, Zurkows The River is a Circle marks the Museums second Hyundai Terrace Commission, part of a 10-year partnership between Hyundai Motor and the Whitney, and will be on view from April 9, 2025 through early 2026. Created in collaboration with James Schmitz and Blake Goble, this innovative work by Zurkow comprises an animation and accompanying installation. The River is a Circle builds on the artists previous pieces, Hudson Follies (2022) and Does the River Flow Both Ways? (2022), which offer a split view of the Hudson River, allowing visitors to simultaneously observe the world above and below the water. Shown on a large-scale video wall, The River ... More Air de Paris opens Even cowboys get the bluesPARIS.- After nearly thirty years in Sweden, last summer Martha Edelheit returned to Manhattans Fifth Avenue where she had begun her career in the early 1960s as a painter, and, more discreetly, as a filmmaker, by way of a few charming short films signed Martie Marbles. When I visited her last February, she was working on a large canvas: a nude portrait of a couple of friends languidly sprawling on a bed of spring flowers. Her assistant, a young painter with magnificent blonde curls, looked as though he had stepped straight out of the drawings she made in 1971 works soaked in a raw, sunlit eroticism, that are exhibited here for the first time. Less than a decade separates these nostalgic apparitions (a portrait of Susan Sontag and other ghosts of early 1970s America) from the photographs that Bruce Pavlow took in San Francisco in 1978, most of which depict gay and trans ... More Nora Turato makes UK solo debut at ICA with immersive "pool7" exhibitionLONDON.- The first solo exhibition in the UK by Amsterdam-based artist Nora Turato (b. 1991, Zagreb) is now open to the public. Taking place across The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), Lower Galleries and Concourse, pool7 features a site-specific exhibition of newly commissioned work spanning performance, writing, graphic design, video and sound. With this exhibition, Turato introduces new experimental work in an ambitious project that is the artists most personal to date. Today, The ICA, London also presents Nora Turatos limited Edition print with the proceeds directly supporting the ICAs progressive programme, nurturing the development of fellow artists. Plus an ICA x Nora Turato sweatshirt, featuring the pool7 text I GOT FUCKED BY THE EXCEL SHEET!. In recent years, Nora Turato has established herself as one of the most exciting ... More Highlights at the world's most northerly art fairSTOCKHOLM.- Market Art Fair (1518 May 2025) returns for its 19th edition as Scandinavia's leading fair for contemporary art. Set against the blooming spring backdrop of Stockholms Djurgården, in a city coming alive with art, this years expanded fairfeaturing 51 galleries and over 150 artists at Liljevalchs Konsthallresponds to a rising global demand* for the region's distinctive artistic vision. The world is looking north says Lars Nittve, Chair of Market Art Fairs Selection Committee. For anyone seeking to understand why Nordic art matters now more than ever, Market Art Fair - the worlds most northerly art fair - remains the essential destination. What youll discover at Market Art Fair and across Stockholm this Spring How Nordic and Sámi artists confront climate collapse and colonial legaciesreimagining resilience, memory, and sovereignty at a time of unprecedented ... More Generations in dialogue: Vito Acconci and Sergio Prego exhibition opens at Guggenheim BilbaoBILBAO.- The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is presenting Vito Acconci/Sergio Prego: YOU from April 3 to September 7, 2025. This unique exhibition, part of the Film & Video Gallery programming, brings together two artists from different generations and backgrounds whose artistic careers were interlinked in New York between 1996 and 2002, and whose practices show deep affinities. The exhibition which starts this years Film & Video programming originated in the collaboration and friendship which Vito Acconci (New York, 19402017) and the Basque Artist Sergio Prego (Donostia-San Sebastián, 1969) shared between 1996 and 2002, a key period in the activity of Acconci Studio, a speculative design and architecture studio. The shows trace a subjective route through Acconcis works in video and performance through a set designed by Prego, whose unique ... More Artists announced for the 5th National Indigenous Art Triennial led by Artistic Director Tony AlbertCANBERRA.- Contemporary First Nations artists from across the country will present 10 new immersive projects for After the Rain, the 5th National Indigenous Art Triennial. Opening this December, After the Rain will feature 10 large-scale, multi-disciplinary installations that celebrate inter-generational legacies and cultural warriors of the past, present and future. Featuring projects by Alair Pambegan, Aretha Brown, Blaklash, Dylan Mooney, Hermannsburg Potters, Itja Ntjarra (Many Hands) Art Centre, and Vincent Namatjira, Jimmy John Thaiday, Naminapu Maymuru-White, Thea Anamara Perkins, Yarrenyty Arltere Artists and Grace Kemarre Robinya, and Warraba Weatherall. Built upon existing relationships cultivated over many years, Artistic Director and leading contemporary Australian artist Tony Albert, Girramay/Yidinji/Kuku-Yalanji peoples, has been ... 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.).
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