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Frith Bail, Small black round, 2024. 4.50h x 14w in.
CONCORD MASS.- Lucy Lacoste Gallery is presenting Sisters, Rocks and Roots, with the painter Ilana Manolson and her ceramist sister Frith Bail on view through January 12, 2025. The exhibition, which blurs boundaries between humanity and nature, is our first with both artists. Shown in tandem, their work stands as a representation of what most inspires each artisticallya deep love of earth and nature. Manolsons abstract paintings capture imaginative landscapes while Bails ceramics echo an earthly essence in their likeness to the natural world around us. Nature, as experienced in their youth exploring the beautiful landscapes of Canada, inspires both artists. Bails art is tactile in form, while Manolsons is tactile in composition. Paired together, they evoke their playful spirit and strong connection to environment that both women hold ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Ethel Carrick, installation view, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, 2024 .
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| Sotheby's lays off over 100 staff amid industry challenges and restructuring efforts | | A playground for the mind: Carsten Höller's "Book of Games" | | National Gallery of Denmark announces 2025 programme |
Collectors, once willing to spend millions at auction, have become more cautious amid fears of recession and market volatility.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys, the renowned international auction house, has laid off more than 100 employees in a significant round of job cuts. The move, confirmed by the company this week, marks a major restructuring effort as the art market grapples with economic uncertainty, evolving consumer behavior, and intensifying competition. The layoffs affect various departments across Sothebys global operations, with the majority of the cuts concentrated in the United States and Europe. According to sources familiar with the matter, the layoffs account for approximately 6% of the companys workforce. This decision underscores the shifting landscape of the luxury art and collectibles market, which has faced mounting challenges in recent years. Sothebys has long been a dominant force in the auction world, competing with Christies and other major players in the high-end art market. However, the company has not been immune to broader economic headwinds. Rising inflation, geopolitical ... More | |
Carsten Höller invites readers to disrupt their daily lives with 336 mind-expanding diversions.
AUSTIN, TX.- Carsten Höller, the master of playful installations that invite audience participation, has gifted us with something truly unique: "Book of Games." This isn't your average collection of party games; it's a 760-page exploration of perceptual playtime, a meticulously crafted compendium of 336 mind-expanding diversions designed to disrupt the mundane and ignite a sense of childlike wonder. This book is a portal to a world where the ordinary becomes extraordinary, where the familiar is defamiliarized, and where the simple act of playing becomes a profound act of engagement with ourselves and the world around us. What sets "Book of Games" apart is its sheer ambition and scope. Höller doesn't just provide instructions; he curates experiences. Each game, playable alone, in pairs, or in groups and requiring no props whatsoever, is a carefully designed experiment in human behavior and perception. Whether you're on a train, in bed, or walking down the street, these games offer an opportunity to ... More | |
Plaster cast after Michelangelo Buonarroti, Head of David. Original 1501-1503, cast 1890. The Royal Cast Collection, SMK National Gallery of Denmark. Photo: SMK.
COPENHAGEN.- In 2025, SMK National Gallery of Denmark looks forward to presenting a series of new exhibitions and, not least, to opening SMK Thy, a watershed event that will give SMK a permanent presence outside the capital. He painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, designed the dome of St. Peters Basilica in Rome, and his sculptures are world-renowned. In the spring, SMK will present an exhibition featuring one of the most influential visual artists in history, Michelangelo Buonarroti (14751564). The exhibition takes as its starting point SMKs unique collection of historical casts after Michelangelos sculptures most of which were acquired in the late 1890s for the then-new National Gallery of Denmark. The casts will be shown alongside newly-produced 3D-modelled and -cast facsimiles. Michelangelos focus was almost exclusively the human body, particularly the male form, in which he discovered boundless opportunities for expressing emotion and tension. ... More |
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| National Gallery announces first monographic exhibition in the UK devoted to José MarÃa Velasco | | Major exhibition will explore one of Italy and Europe's most important art collections | | Arnulf Rainer: Nothing Against Everything - A Story of Art and Existence |
José MarÃa Velasco, The Baths of King Nezahualcóyotl, 1878. Oil on paper laid down on canvas, 62.7 à 46.4 cm. Museo Nacional de Arte, INBAL, Mexico City © Reproducción autorizada por el Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura, 2024.
LONDON.- The first monographic exhibition in the UK devoted to José MarÃa Velasco (18401912), Mexicos most celebrated 19th-century painter, will take place at the National Gallery early next year. José MarÃa Velasco: A View of Mexico, the first-ever exhibition that the National Gallery has dedicated to a Latin American artist, coincides with the 200th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the UK and Mexico. The exhibition will present around 30 paintings and drawings, with most from private and public Mexican collections, including 17 from the Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL, Mexico City), Mexicos leading public museum. José MarÃa Velasco is famed for his monumental paintings of the Valley of Mexico, the area surrounding Mexico City. Painted during decades of tremendous social change, his precise yet lyrical works depict Mexicos magnificent scenery and rapid industrialisation. ... More | |
The exhibition focuses on the period of profound urban transformation in Rome initiated by Paul III Farnese (reign 1534-1549).
ROME.- From February 11 to May 18, 2025, the Musei Capitolini at Villa Caffarelli will host the exhibition "The Farnese in 16th Century Rome: Origins and Fortune of a Collection." Curated by Claudio Parisi Presicce and Chiara Rabbi Bernard, this landmark exhibition is a key event organized by the Sovrintendenza Capitolina as part of the "#Amanotesa" project (PNRR CAPUT MUNDI), which aims to promote social inclusion through enhanced cultural offerings. The exhibition focuses on the period of profound urban transformation in Rome initiated by Paul III Farnese (reign 1534-1549). Following the devastating Sack of Rome in 1527, the city faced the need for rapid and vigorous revitalization. Under Pope Farnese's impetus, several grand projects were undertaken, including the monumental redesign of the Piazza del Campidoglio, entrusted to the genius of Michelangelo. The famous bronze equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, moved to the Capitoline Hill from Piazza del Laterano in 1538 by the Pope's decre ... More | |
Arnulf Rainer: Cross-Stand, 1972. Oil pastel, graphite, silver gelatin on baryta paper.
BADEN.- The Arnulf Rainer Museum in Baden, Austria, celebrates a double anniversary: the 95th birthday of Arnulf Rainer, a pioneer of Art Informel and one of Austria's most important contemporary artists, and the 15th anniversary of the museum itself. This celebration is marked by a major three-year exhibition cycle, beginning with "Arnulf Rainer: Nothing Against Everything," running from November 23, 2024, to October 5, 2025. This exhibition, curated by Nikolaus Kratzer and art collector Helmut Zambo, delves into the core of Rainers artistic explorations, focusing on his earliest works from the 1940s and 50s and his iconic cross paintings, a theme he has relentlessly pursued since the mid-1950s. The title, Nothing Against Everything, is borrowed from Rainers 1951 text, "Perspectives of Annihilation." This text reveals the artist's profound engagement with existential themes: "A choice: silence against poetry, loss against possession, absence against yourselves. Death a ... More |
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| MoMA presents Projects: Marlon Mullen, the artist's first solo museum show | | Jack Hanley Gallery will close its doors at the end of the year | | Rijksmuseum announces 2025 programme |
Marlon Mullen. Untitled. 2017. Acrylic on canvas. 30 1/4 à 30 1/4″ (76.8 à 76.8 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of AC Hudgins. © 2024 Marlon Mullen.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art announces Projects: Marlon Mullen, the first solo exhibition of the artists work by a major museum, on view in the Museums free, street-level Projects gallery from December 14, 2024, to April 20, 2025. Marlon Mullen uses art publications and other print material as points of departure for his paintings, generating radical reimaginings of these sources in which text and image are transformed through his dynamic color and composition. Since 1986, Mullen has been based at NIAD Art Center in Richmond, California, a progressive studio for artists with developmental disabilities. Projects: Marlon Mullen is organized by Ann Temkin, the Marie- Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture, with Alexandra Morrison, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting and Sculpture. Mullens work is a contemporary exemplar of a centuries-old tradition of artists making art about art, an avenue of invention richly represented in MoMAs ... More | |
Ed Loftus, Untitled, 2022 Graphite on paper, 4 x 4.5 inches. Frame: 14 x 10 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- After 37 years and over 312 exhibitions, Jack Hanley Gallery will close its doors at the end of the year. Jack Hanley Gallery was established in Austin, Texas as Trans-Avant Garde Gallery in 1987. Early exhibitions included a solo exhibition of Al Taylor and Peter Sauls recent work, paintings and works on paper by Christopher Wool, Thomas Locher, and Claudia Hart, as well as an exhibition of Five German Artists: Rosemarie Trockel, Thomas Ruff, Günther Förg, Thomas Huber, and Georg Herold. In 1990, Hanley moved the gallery to San Francisco and officially changed the name to Jack Hanley Gallery. The following year, Hanley opened seminal solo exhibitions for Christian Marclay, Zoe Leonard, Erwin Wurm, and Thomas Locher, as well as comprehensive group shows of recent works by Richard Prince, Christopher Wool, Robert Gober, Sherrie Levine, Sophie Calle, Sigmar Polke, and Stephen Prina. Solo and group exhibitions of Christopher Wool, Albert Oehlen, Sue Williams, Fred Tomaselli, Richard ... More | |
Isamu Noguchi with Akari, c. 1960s. The Noguchi Museum Archives. Photographer unknown. © The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York / Artists Rights Society / Pictoright.
AMSTERDAM.- The Rijksmuseum presents the first comprehensive survey of American photography in Europe. With more than 200 works spanning three centuries, American Photography will be an exploration of the rich and multifaceted history of photography in the United States, showing how the medium has permeated every aspect of our lives: in art, news, advertising and everyday life. Over the past decade, the Rijksmuseum has built an extensive collection of American Photography. This exhibition is the first ever presentation of Rijksmuseums collection, which will be shown together with loans from over 30 collections in the United States, the Netherlands and other European countries. Works by icons including Sally Mann, Robert Frank, Lisette Model, Nan Goldin, Richard Avedon, Andy Warhol, Paul Strand, Diane Arbus and James Van Der Zee will be on view alongside eye-opening photographs by unknown ... More |
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| Copenhagen Contemporary purchases popular light installation by James Turrell | | Ken Fulk to curate the second edition of Sotheby's Visions of America | | The Brooklyn Museum awards UOVO Prize to Melissa Joseph |
Aftershock, 2021 © James Turrell, Installation view at Copenhagen Contemporary, 2024. Photo by David Stjernholm.
COPENHAGEN.- The world-famous light artists major immersive work Aftershock is the first work in CCs collection of twenty-first-century art. An enormous space of coloured light envelops your body and creates a sense of floating in a boundless space. One of the most popular works of art in the country now to be installed permanently at the art centre Copenhagen Contemporary thanks to an extremely generous donation from the foundation Augustinus Fonden. James Turrells installation Aftershock strikingly transforms the gallery space into a wholly different world consisting of primary sensory impressions generating a strong physical and visual impact. Being one of the countrys most cherished installations in years past, Aftershock will now have a permanent home at CC. The spectacular work was originally created specifically for CC in connection with a major light art exhibition held ... More | |
An Exceptional Queen Anne Carved Walnut Dressing Table, Attributed to the Shop of Henry Clifton & Thomas Carteret, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, circa 1745-1755, Est $400,000 - $1,000,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys will present the second chapter of Visions of America, building on the success and acclaim of last years groundbreaking debut, presented in partnership with Cadillac. This exceptional week-long event will feature a curated selection of American craftsmanship from prominent private collections and institutions, offering a dynamic blend of auctions, exhibitions, and immersive experiences that celebrate the full breadth and depth of American artistry. This year, renowned designer and creative director Ken Fulk joins Visions of America as guest curator, bringing his unique vision to the event. Known for his transportive creations and signature magic-making, Fulk has carefully curated a selection of 18 superlative works that celebrate the rich cultural and artistic legacy of America, weaving a compelling narrative that spans over 400 years of ... More | |
Melissa Joseph, 2024. Photo: Miguel McSongwe.
BROOKLYN, NY.- The Brooklyn Museum awarded the UOVO Prize, which recognizes the work of emerging Brooklyn-based artists, to Melissa Joseph (born United States, 1980). As the awardee, Joseph receives a solo presentation at the Brooklyn Museum, a commission for a fifty-by-fifty-foot public art installation on the facade of UOVOs Brooklyn facility in Bushwick, and a $25,000 unrestricted cash grant. Joseph was selected by a team of Brooklyn Museum curators from among the artists featured in The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition, a major group show supported by UOVO. Her work Olives Hair Salon (2023) is included in the exhibition, and last year, her work Getting Reubens tuition book (2023) was added to the Museums collection. In June 2025, Joseph will present a mural at UOVO Brooklyn and an installation at the Brooklyn Museum, both referencing Italys Siena Cathedral. The Museums installation will be displayed on its outdoor plaza and publicly accessible day and night. W ... More |
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Restoring Reynoldsâs portrait of the Earl and Countess of Ely
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Peabody Essex Museum announces 2025 Exhibitions & ProgrammingSALEM, MASS.- The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) announces an exciting lineup of new exhibitions and programming for 2025, ranging from a new gallery dedicated to the museums historically significant collection of Korean art and culture to a globe-trotting fashion retrospective of Andrew Gn and a new series of artist residency programs. The upcoming year at PEM provides an opportunity to immerse yourself in art and culture through exhibitions and programs that celebrate human creativity across the globe, said Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, PEMs Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Executive Director and CEO. Our public programming is expanding with our community in mind as we introduce a new artist residency program that underscores PEMs role as an energetic incubator and a magnetic center for creative expression. PEMs ... More 150 vintage guitars from Skip Maggiora's vaunted collection raise more than $2.4 million at Heritage AuctionsDALLAS, TX.- For more than five decades, the late Arthur Skip Maggiora, namesake of the beloved Skips Music in Sacramento, was as essential to music-making in Californias capital city as the instruments he sold and the sounds they made. He not only sold guitars to generations of aspiring musicians and countless weekend garage warriors, as The Sacramento Bee once wrote, but Maggiora founded an annual summer youth program called Stairway to Stardom and its adult counterpart Weekend Warriors. The man had two passions, says his son Creed: music and teaching. Because his was a heart of gold, says Creed. That was evident just one week before Christmas, when 150 vintage guitars from Maggioras ... More Heritage Auctions to offer Black Cat's debut appearance on 1979 'The Amazing Spider-Man' coverDALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions swings into the new year with one of the most famous and beloved covers of the Bronze Age: Al Milgroms original art for The Amazing Spider-Man No. 194, which, in the summer of 1979, introduced Black Cat the starling new villainess whos been Spider-Mans on-again-off-again love interest ever since. The cover has never before been to auction and is among the numerous fresh-to-market centerpiece offerings in the January 9-12 Comics & Comic Art Signature® Auction that brims with newly offered comic book and comic art treasures that come in shades Golden, Silver and Bronze. Originally, Black Cat real name: Felicia Hardy, daughter of a cat burglar wasnt even intended as a Spider-Man villain. As her co-creator Marv Wolfman has explained numerous times, including in the letters page that ran in Spider ... More Naomi Beckwith appointed as Artistic Direction of documenta 16KASSEL.- The Artistic Direction of the forthcoming documenta 16 has been decided: "Naomi Beckwith was selected by the international Finding Committee and appointed by the Supervisory Board." This was announced by the Managing Director of documenta und Museum Fridericianum gGmbH, Andreas Hoffmann, at a press conference held in Kassel today, Wednesday. documenta 16 takes place in Kassel from June 12 to September 19, 2027. Naomi Beckwith is Deputy Director and Jennifer & David Stockman Chief Curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation in New York where she oversees collections, exhibitions, publications, curatorial programs, and archives and provides strategic direction within the international network of affiliate museums. Previously, she has held curatorial positions at the MCA ... More Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation elects Daniel Sallick and Samira Sine to Board of TrusteesNEW YORK, NY.- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation elected Daniel Sallick and Samira Sine to its Board of Trustees at the December 12 meeting of the Board. Sallick and Sine are the first new members to join the Board since Guggenheim CEO and Director Mariët Westermann began her tenure on June 1, 2024. Tomilson Hill, Chair, and Wendy Fisher, President, said, We are delighted to welcome Dan and Samira to the Board. Individually, they each bring lived experiences and relationships that reflect the expansive worldview of the Guggenheim. They share our belief in the connective power of art and offer a depth of expertise in communications, media and cultural leadership that will be invaluable as the Guggenheim engages an ever-broader global community across its international constellation of museums. Westermann ... More Seoul Museum of Art presents Sung Hwan Kim: Ua a'o 'ia 'o ia e iaSEOUL.- Organized under the auspices of an annual exhibition series highlighting contemporary Korean artists at the Seoul Museum of Art, Ua ao ia o ia e ia, a solo exhibition by Sung Hwan Kim, invites viewers to become witnesses and producers of the very sites where events of knowledge occur, spread, and are manifested as praxis. At the center of the exhibition is A Record of Drifting Across the Sea, a multi-part research work the artist has been delving into since 2017. Beginning with the stories of early 20th century Korean immigrants to the United States who passed through Hawaii, A Record of Drifting Across the Sea expands these narratives to include issues of boundaries, tradition, documentation, and its possession and circulation, among others. In following these lives that exist outside more widely established narratives, the ... More GAMeC Bergamo presents the Orobie Biennial program for 2025BERGAMO.- After the first two cycles of events held in 2024, GAMeCs biennial program Thinking Like a Mountainunder the artistic direction of Lorenzo Giustiwill once again actively engage the communities of the Bergamo area throughout 2025, together with the participation of international artists. Presented as an alternative biennial formatand for this reason recently renamed The Orobie BiennialThinking Like a Mountain bases its planning on three pivotal principles, differing from traditional ones: i.e. being more localized, long-term, and scaled. The Orobie Biennial is in fact an event that is held not every two years but for two years, and that does not occur in a place but with a place, staging projects arising from the encounter between international artists and local communities on a scale that is not as large as possible ... More Peggy Griffiths and Cathy Ward create two breathtaking gowns for National Gallery of VictoriaMELBOURNE.- Two couture gowns by Miriwoong artists Peggy Griffiths and Cathy Ward were unveiled on the red carpet of the NGV Gala on Saturday 14 December 2024. Drawing inspiration from the sacred native plants that are central to life and culture in the Kimberley, Western Australia, the garments were created as part of the NGVs biennial Indigenous Fashion Commission, supported by philanthropist Krystyna Campbell-Pretty AM and Family and Vogue Australia, and will enter the NGVs permanent collection. Griffiths design, Jilinybeng Jardang (Bush Cucumber and Spinifex), 2024, draws upon the interrelationship of bush tuckers, such as the bush cucumber, a recurring motif in her art-making practice. The bush cucumber and spinifex are both indicative of the wet season in the Kimberley. Griffiths sculptural construction ... More The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt opens at the Jewish Museum in March 2025NEW YORK, NY.- This spring, the Jewish Museum presents a major exhibition examining how the heroic story of Queen Esther served as a popular source of inspiration for Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1609) and his contemporaries in 17th-century Netherlands. Featuring over 120 works, including paintings, prints, and drawings by Rembrandt, Aert de Gelder, and Jan Steen, among others, as well as Jewish ceremonial art and decorative objects, The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt illustrates how the story of the biblical queen influenced Dutch art and culture and represented an enduring symbol of triumph over adversity at a time of vibrant cultural exchange. The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt, co-organized with the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, will be on view at the Jewish Museum from March 7 through August 10, 2025. It will travel to North Carolina in September 2025, ... More New study reveals: German design research has significant room for improvementFRANKFURT.- Germany is not yet fully tapping into the potential of design research. This is the key finding of a new study published by the German Design Council: structural deficits and limited integration of design research into businesses slow innovation and competitiveness. The study offers targeted recommendations to drive meaningful change. How well is design research positioned in Germany? The new study On the Practice of Design Research in Germany 2024, published by the German Design Council, reveals that German design research still lags behind international standards. At the same time, the findings show its immense potential to strengthen design practice and significantly boost companies ability to innovate. The results are clear: while the value of design research for innovation and decision-making is widely ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter Joseph Mallord William Turner died December 19, 1851. Joseph Mallord William Turner RA (23 April 1775 - 19 December 1851), known as J. M. W. Turner and contemporarily as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist, known for his expressive colourisation, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. In this image: Joseph Mallord William Turner, "The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, October 16, 1834," 1834 - 1835. Oil on canvas. Philadelphia Museum of Art. The John Howard McFadden Collection.
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