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Marcello Morandini. Geometrie senza Tempo, 2025. Credits Studio Abbruzzese. Courtesy Mazzoleni, London - Torino.
TURIN.- Mazzoleni presents the first solo exhibition dedicated to Marcello Morandini at its Turin venue, marking the sixtieth anniversary of the artist's career. The exhibition showcases Morandinis tireless pursuit of movement in space, which he translates into the realm of geometry through twists, tensions, expansions, and formal superimpositions. "Stages of a becoming" is how Gillo Dorfles described Morandinis works in the 1968 Venice Biennale catalogue forms "of evident functional absurdity" that constitute their allure: "a mathematical fascination, yet of an absurd mathematics, where precision serves the purpose of wonder" (Autobiography, p. 51). Morandinis work stands out for its geometric rigour and chromatic minimalism. In the artists own words, his research is defined by works that have been and continue to be the partial result of a Calvinist pursuit, which over time has also shaped the moral quality of my life. His works are part ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view, âVerena Loewensbergâ Hauser & Wirth London, 2025. © 2025, Verena Loewensberg Stiftung, Zürich. Photo: Alex Delfanne.
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| China Institute Gallery exhibits Chinese ritual bronzes from the Minneapolis Institute of Art | | An Indian Motorcycles neon dealership sign from the 1930s brings $112,100 at Miller & Miller | | Mahdieh Mohammadkhani returns to the stage in Los Angeles for a monumental Nowruz concert at UCLA by Farhang Foundation |
Celestial horse. Han dynasty, 1st-2nd century CE. Bronze, 44 7/8 x 34 1/2 x 14 1/2 in. (113.98 x 87.63 x 36.83 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Eternal Offerings: Chinese Ritual Bronzes from the Minneapolis Institute of Art will be on view from March 6 through July 13, 2025 at China Institute Gallery at 100 Washington Street. The exhibition will showcase one of the worlds greatest collections of ancient Chinese bronzes outside of China from a crucial period in the history of human civilization. Traveling from the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the extraordinary Bronze Age vessels for food and wine as well as imaginative animal sculptures, are on view for the first time in New York City. The emergence of the culture of bronzean alloy of copper, tin, and leadremains a crucial chapter in the history of human civilization. Although China was not the first country to enter the Bronze Age, its bronzes from this period are unique in world history because of their variety and intricacy, the ritual context in which they developed, ... More | |
Stubby Orange Exploding Six-Pack single-sided tin sign, Canadian, 1950s, 19 ¼ inches by 27 ¼ inches, graded 9.25 (CA$15,930).
NEW HAMBURG, ON.- An Indian Motorcycles neon dealership sign, made in America in the 1930s or 40s, climbed to $112,100, a Texaco Marine Motor Oil double-sided porcelain sign from 1953 achieved $21,240, and a Canadian single-sided metal door push bar for Stubby Beverages hit $6,490 in auctions held Feb. 28-March 2 by Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd. All prices are in Canadian dollars and include an 18 percent buyers premium. All three days of auctions were online-only, with Internet bidding on LiveAuctioneers.com as well as the Miller & Miller website (MillerandMillerAuctions.com). Telephone and absentee bids were also accepted. Things got going on February 28th, with a Soda Advertising & Push Bars auction, nicknamed When push comes to shove. It was a high-grade, fresh-to-market offering of over 100 push bars, door pushes ... More | |
Mahdieh Mohammadkhani
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Iranian-American community in Los Angeles, one of the largest concentrations of Iranian expatriates outside of Iran, has long awaited the return of Mahdieh Mohammadkhani, a globally acclaimed Iranian classical singer whose mesmerizing voice has captivated audiences across Europe, North America, Australia, and Iran. An advocate for womens rights, Mahdieh was a vocal supporter of the late Mahsa Amini, whose tragic death sparked protests across the globe. As a result, Mahdieh was forced into exile and relocated to Dubai. In 2022, her passport was confiscated, preventing her from traveling, and for years, she was silenced by political restrictions, as women in Iran are not allowed to sing publicly. However, after the lifting of her travel ban in 2023, she was finally able to leave Iran and settle in Dubai, where she currently resides. Now, Mahdieh will return to the stage for a monumental concert at UCLAs Royce Hall, marking her first performance in the U.S. in over a deca ... More |
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| Dr Bernd Ebert announces as the next General Director of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden | | Carol Rama: A Rebel of Modernity - First Swiss retrospective unveils 70 years of radical art | | Bay Area Figurative masters: Berggruen Gallery showcases landmark mid-century works |
Press conference for contract signing with the new Director General of the Dresden State Art Collections, Dr. Bernd Ebert, on March 4, 2025, at the Dresden Royal Palace. © Dresden State Art Collections, Photo: Oliver Killig.
DRESDEN.- The Saxon state government agreed today (4 March 2025) that Dr Bernd Ebert will become the General Director of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD or Dresden State Art Collections) from 1 May 2025 onwards. His contract will run until 30 June 2033. He will follow in the footsteps of Prof. Dr Marion Ackermann, who is becoming President of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation). Dr Bernd Ebert is returning to Dresden after the previous stages in his career ideally prepared him for his new job at Saxony's Art Collections. He impressed an international selection committee consisting of many prominent personalities, who unanimously recommended him to take up this internationally important museum position following a multi-stage selection procedure. Dr Bernd Ebert will move from his current leadership ... More | |
Carol Rama, Untitled (Self-portrait), 1937. Oil on cardboard reinforced with canvas 34,5 à 27 cm. Ursula Hauser Collection, Switzerland. Photo: Archiv Ursula Hauser Collection © 2025 Archivio Carol Rama, Torino.
BERN.- Sexuality, madness, illness and death are the big themes that the Turin artist Carol Rama (19182015) addressed in her work. Like many other outstanding avant-garde women artists, she achieved recognition late in life, among other things with the Golden Lion of the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003. Between 7 March and 13 July 2025, the Kunstmuseum Bern is giving this non-conformist and pioneer of feminist art her first major retrospective in Switzerland. With around 110 works from a 70-year career, Carol Rama. A Rebel of Modernity presents the many facets of a body of work marked by rebellion, radicalism, an experimental spirit and a diversity of materials. Independent of schools and artistic groups, this self-taught artist created an unconventional, provocative and also very personal oeuvre that cannot easily be placed under any clear categories. The influence of her own biography: sexuality, madness, illness and ... More | |
Richard Diebenkorn, Ocean Park No. 31, 1970. Oil on canvas, 93 x 81 inches.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Berggruen Gallery announced Historical Bay Area Painters, a group exhibition showcasing the work of prominent Bay Area artists of the mid-twentieth century. The exhibition will be on view from March 6 through April 24, 2025. Historical Bay Area Painters, a group exhibition of paintings, sculpture, and works on paper will feature historical artworks by Elmer Bischoff, Joan Brown, Richard Diebenkorn, Manuel Neri, Nathan Oliveira, David Park, and Paul Wonner. Spanning from Diebenkorns Albuquerque, New Mexico (1950) to Nathan Oliveiras Untitled Seated Figure (1994), the exhibition offers a glimpse into the development of a movement which decisively moved beyond the dominant, nationalist trends of New Yorks Abstract Expressionism. Rather than merely returning to figuration, these Post-War painters and teachers, who would come to be knownthough often reluctantlyas the Bay Area Figurative School, developed a new style of painting. While drawing on ... More |
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| Gagosian presents new paintings by Walton Ford in New York | | 'Pokémon' card from first world championship in play at Heritage's Trading Card Games Auction | | Lenora de Barros: "To See Aloud" - First German solo exhibition explores 'Verbivocovisual' art |
Walton Ford, Forse che si forse che no, 2024. Watercolor, gouache, and ink on paper, 84 x 60 inches (213.4 x 152.4 cm) © Walton Ford. Photo: Tom Powel. Courtesy the artist and Gagosian.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian announced Tutto, an exhibition of new paintings by Walton Ford at 522 West 21st Street. Fords practice centers on how animals are represented and the intersections of animal and human lives. Tutto is his first body of work to focus on a single individual: the eccentric Milanese heiress Luisa Casati (18811957). Depicting the exotic animals that she kept, Ford portrays her years in Venice soon before World War I. Known as La Marchesa, Casati was one of Europes wealthiest women and is legendary for her extravagant pursuit of aesthetic extremes and social recognition. Startled onlookers describe how she wore snakes as necklaces, walked with a pair of cheetahs in Venices piazzas, and attended an opera clad in a headdress of peacock feathers that were stained with the blood of a freshly killed chicken. Declaring her desire to be a living work of art, Casati commissioned elaborate dresses ... More | |
Pokémon No. 1 Trainer Tropical Mega Battle PSA Trading Card Game Mint 9 (The Pokémon Company, 1999) Holo.
DALLAS, TX.- Collectors always have been drawn to memorabilia from the first of anything, whether its a political battle, sporting event or perhaps a concert by a particular artist. When viewed through that lens, a Pokémon No. 1 Trainer Tropical Mega Battle PSA Trading Card Game Mint 9 (The Pokémon Company, 1999) Holo, from the 1999 Tropical Mega Battle that is considered the first Pokémon TCG World Championship ever held, will be among the top attracions in Heritages March 21-22 Trading Card Games Signature® Auction amounts to the trading card games equivalent of a championship ring from the first Super Bowl. This is an exceedingly important card for Pokémon collectors, says Jesus Garcia, Trading Card Games Consignment Director at Heritage Auctions. It is one of the most desirable cards in the entire Pokémon TCG hobby, because it was produced for the 1999 Tropical Mega Battle. Before the inception of the current version of the world ... More | |
Lenora de Barros, Thing of nothing, 1990, analogue black and white photograph on baryte paper, mounted on aluminum, 60 x 40 cm. Photo: Bettina Mussatti
KARLSRUHE.- The Badischer Kunstverein presents the work of poet and artist Lenora de Barros (b. 1953, São Paulo) in a first extensive solo exhibition in Germany. To See Aloud includes diverse facets of her artistic practice, ranging from early text works, videotext poems, publications and printed matter to photographs, objects, object poems and installations, all the way to her most recent performances and artworks in public spaces, including sound-based and collective activations. De Barros expands our understanding and experience of language by carrying the Verbivocovisual approach into the 21st century. Verbivocovisual is a neologism that was coined by James Joyce and later used in Concrete Poetry. Lenora de Barros adopts the term as a guiding principle of her artistic work and explores the interplay between the verbal, vocal and visual on multiple levels while subverting any hierarchy or restriction. I literally chose to go out of the space of the page, to depart ... More |
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| Colnaghi and Colnaghi Elliott present their works for TEFAF Maastricht | | Runo Lagomarsino explores memory, erasure, and monuments' fragility at NILS STÆRK | | Pace Gallery announces booth highlights for Art Basel Hong Kong 2025 |
Guercino, St Peter in Prison.
LONDON.- Colnaghi and Colnaghi Elliott announced their participation in The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF), Maastricht, 2025. This year they will be exhibiting a selection of outstanding works in their field, including old master and 19th century paintings, sculpture and antiquities. The striking old master paintings on display will include St. Jerome by Jusepe de Ribera (1591-1652), with sinewy flesh and a foreboding, hirsute lion both rendered with equal aplomb, and an arresting work by Guercino (born Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, 1591-1666) Saint Peter in Prison. The St. Jerome is a proud addition to Colnaghi's history with Ribera which includes the notable Tears of St Peter, an exquisite painting which Colnaghi's CEO Jorge Coll had the honour to source for the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2012. Also of note is an exquisite terracotta statue by Luisa Roldan (1652-1706), known as La Roldana: Virgin of the Immaculate Conception. Standing atop ... More | |
Runo Lagomarsino, The Monument for the Silent Eyes, 2025. Bird spikes, concrete.
COPENHAGEN.- The notion that a fish in a bowl has a fleeting memory is a common myth goldfish, for example, can remember for months. If it swims in circles, tracing the same path over and over, does each lap feel like the first in an ever-renewing world? Or is the fish trapped in an endless cycle of recollection? But who am I to dictate the nature of memory for a fish, to assume that its experiences and recollections must conform to my own definitions of cognition and retention? Nobody Forgets Nothing by Runo Lagomarsino examines the quiet persistence of history, both personal and collective, and the ways in which language and objects function as unreliable witnesses simultaneously revealing and obscuring. Museums, archives, and public monuments claim to preserve memory, ensuring that nothing is forgotten. Yet they are also sites of erasure, their authority shaping not only what is remembered, but how. If a ... More | |
Kiki Smith, Consort, 2016 © Kiki Smith, courtesy Pace Gallery.
HONG KONG.- The gallerys booth (#1D27) will spotlight a large-scale painting by Matta alongside contemporary works by Loie Hollowell, Alicja Kwade, Lee Ufan, Li Hei Di, Arlene Shechet, Kiki Smith, and other artists. Paces presentation will also bring together works by artists living and working in China, including Hong Hao, Li Songsong, Song Dong, Yin Xiuzhen, and Zhang Xiaogang. Solo presentations by Alicja Kwade at Tai Kwun in Hong Kong and Kiki Smith at Yi Space in Hangzhou will be on view during this years edition of Art Basel Hong Kong, and a new installation by Yin Xiuzhencommissioned by the UBS Art Collectionwill be unveiled in the UBS Lounge at the fair. An exhibition of work by American artist Robert Indianawho emerged as a key figure in the Pop art movement in the 1960swill be on view at Paces Hong Kong gallery during the run of the fair. Highlights on Paces booth at Art Base ... More |
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Paula Wilson receives Bemis Center's $25,000 Ree Kaneko AwardOMAHA, NEB.- Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts announced multidisciplinary artist Paula Wilson as the 2024 recipient of its annual Ree Kaneko Award. As part of Bemis Centers Alumni Program, this prestigious award provides $25,000 in financial support to increase the capacity of a Bemis alums practice. Wilson known for her dynamic, layered, and often monumental works presented her solo exhibition, The Backward Glance, at Bemis Center in 2017, making her eligible for this honor. Wilson will return to Omaha from Carrizozo, New Mexico to participate in a public artist talk on April 2. Reflecting on her time at Bemis eight years ago, she shared, My solo exhibition [there] was a pivotal moment in my practice, allowing me to weave together personal and collective stories through an expansive multimedia installation. The support and relationships ... More Minimalist grids and urban reflections on view at Sakshi Gallery solo showMUMBAI.- Sakshi Gallery presents sabr | صبر, a solo exhibition of recent works by Delhi-based artist Chetnaa. This exhibition marks the artist's first solo presentation in our gallery. Curated by Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi, sabr | صبر brings together a body of work that includes the artist's experiments with form, scale, and materiality rooted in the language of minimalism. Chetnaa's relationship with geometry and minimalism developed during her time at art school. Her daily travels through Delhi are absorbed into her subconscious as lines and shapes. The intersections and entanglements of the urban grids became sites of her artistic investigation, with maps and windows becoming a recurrence in her work. In preparing for this exhibition, the artist reflected on geometry and minimalism as her modes of expression. "When I think of it today, the emphasis on structure and form came ... More "A Direct Response to Light": Figurative painting thrives in 21st century at Alexander BerggruenNEW YORK, NY.- Alexander Berggruen is presenting A Direct Response to Light: 21st Century Painting, curated by Dexter Wimberly. A Direct Response to Light: 21st Century Painting brings together a diverse group of artists who use figurative painting both to tell personal stories and to reflect the times in which we live. This exhibition highlights the continued importance of painting in the 21st century, an era when technological innovations often relegate traditional art forms to the sidelines. These artists demonstrate that painting is anything but obsolete; instead, it proves itself a dynamic, adaptive, and resonant medium, capable of addressing critical contemporary issues and imagining possibilities for our collective future. In Tunji Adeniyi-Joness work Orange Figures In Orbit II, disconnected limbs appear among bulbous leaves, and figures blend into one another or at ... More BLUM welcomes Mika Yoshitake as Senior Curatorial DirectorLOS ANGELES, CA.- BLUM announced curator Mika Yoshitakes position as Senior Curatorial Director. Yoshitake joins the BLUM team after many years of collaboration including one-person exhibitions on Takashi Murakami (Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2007), Lee Ufan (Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, 2010, and Guggenheim, 2011), Yukinori Yanagi (Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, 2021), Yoshitomo Nara (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 202122), and major survey shows at the gallery such as the AICA-USA award-winning Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha (2012), and Parergon: Japanese Art of the 1980s and 1990s (2019), and more. As a scholar with expertise in postwar Japanese art, this leadership role will see Yoshitake steering a new chapter in the gallerys longtime relationship with and commitment to Japan and its nuanced art histories. ... More Is This as Good as it Gets? Kunstverein Hannover's annual program 2025-2026HANNOVER.- For its 202526 program Kunstverein Hannover features a series of presentations under the shared title Is This as Good as it Gets? Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Europe has never gravitated away from its professed belief in stability at a greater speed than now. At the same time, what once seemed an appealing sense of proximity and global interconnectedness now returns as an uninvited and discomforting realization of strings of invisible dependencies that shape day-to-day lives across the world. History has not come to an end, nor does it repeat itself. It has been hacked and turbocharged. And while some try to salvage the ideas and values of democracies, we are all propelled into different futures. Perhaps the good times are gone already, or perhaps the present, indeed, is as good as it gets. Art offers a mode of reflection that does not rely solely ... More Lisa McCutcheon's "Creature": Enigmatic forms and lyrical layers at Dolby Chadwick GallerySAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Dolby Chadwick Gallery will present Creature, an exhibition of new work by Lisa McCutcheon. McCutcheons lush, lyrical visual language creates a push and pull between representation and abstraction, teetering between the knowable and the enigmatic. Buoyant, organic forms are built up in layers of varying transparency, including drawing and painting on mylar and photographs transferred onto a delicate, silk-like fabric. These photographic images are drawn primarily from naturepetals, leaves, feathers, mineralswhich McCutcheon carefully fragments before interlacing with other compositional elements. As well as a greater abundance of brighter colors, these newest works are distinguished by their notable increase in layering, which enhances their intricacy and the complexity of their internal juxtapositions. As much ... More Artistic Directors for third Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale announcedDIRIYAH.- The Diriyah Biennale Foundation, led by Aya Al-Bakree, CEO of the Diriyah Biennale Foundation, has appointed two artistic directors for the third edition of the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale: Nora Razian, Deputy Director and Head of Exhibitions and Programmes at Art Jameel in Dubai and Jeddah; and Sabih Ahmed, a curator, cultural theorist, and educator serving as Projects Advisor at the Ishara Art Foundation in Dubai. Both Nora Razian and Sabih Ahmed have organized large-scale exhibitions that connect to our contemporary moment, including articulating the vast impact of the climate crisis and examining contested histories through practices of contemporary artists. Razian has developed ambitious programs at several institutions and has a deep understanding of the art ecosystem in the region. In his research-based curatorial ... More Journey to New York of the past at the Grolier ClubNEW YORK, NY.- A new exhibition at the Grolier Club explores how a developing New York City was described and depicted for visitors and residents. On view in the Clubs second floor gallery from March 6 through May 10, 2025, Wish You Were Here: Guidebooks, Viewbooks, Photobooks, and Maps of New York City, 1807-1940 features more than 100 objects, including guidebooks, viewbooks, photobooks, maps, and pamphlets, curated by Grolier Club member Mark D. Tomasko from his collection. Highlights include some of the very first guidebooks tracing the growth of the city, street panoramas showing buildings in detail, and photobooks capturing notable moments in the history of the city. An accompanying book is published by the Grolier Club. New York City has always intrigued me, writes Tomasko. On the day before Christmas, 1969, I purchased ... More Pinault Collection explores the body and soul in contemporary art at Bourse de CommercePARIS.- The Bourse de Commerce is drawing some one hundred works from the Pinault Collection to present the exhibition Corps et âmes, an exploration of representations of the body in contemporary art. From Auguste Rodin to Duane Hanson, Georg Baselitz to Ana Mendieta, David Hammons to Marlene Dumas, and Arthur Jafa to Ali Cherri, some forty artists have used painting, sculpture, photography, video, and drawing to explore the connections between body and soul. In the generative curves of the Bourse de Commerce, as an echo of the rondo of bodies that populate the vast, painted panorama encircling the buildings glass dome, the exhibition Corps et âmes explores the significance of the body in contemporary thought through the works of some forty artists in the Pinault Collection. Freed from all mimetic constraints, the bodywhether photographed, ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter and sculptor Michelangelo was born March 06, 1475. Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni or more commonly known by his first name Michelangelo (6 March 1475 - 18 February 1564) was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence, who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. In this image: A portrait painting (ca. 1544) of Michelangelo by Daniele da Volterra hangs on the wall at the Michelangelo exhibit titled 'Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 13, 2017 in New York City.
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