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Luna's distinctive style is a hybrid, a syncretism that hints at the influence of masters like Wifredo Lam, Carlos Enrique, Mariano RodrÃguez, and Francisco Toledo.
PUEBLA.- Renowned Cuban-American painter Carlos Luna's latest exhibition, "Entre Ãsmosis y Fusión," opened to critical acclaim at El Complejo Cultural, BUAP on October 24th. The show features a captivating collection of Luna's recent works, further solidifying his reputation as a master of cultural fusion and visual storytelling. The exhibition has been curated by Octavio Zayas. Born in Pinar del RÃo, Cuba, in 1969, Luna's artistic journey is deeply rooted in the traditions of his homeland, marked by a profound connection to rural culture. However, this bond was complicated by the instability and turbulence of Cuban politics, as well as his subsequent exile to Mexico and eventual settlement in the United States. Luna's distinctive style is a hybrid, a syncretism that hints at the influence of masters like Wifredo Lam, Carlos Enrique, Mariano RodrÃguez, and Francisco Toledo. His bold strokes and intense colors, often framed in darkness, create visual narratives that unfold through a unique langu ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The V&A opened The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence, the first major exhibition to present the monumental artistic achievements of the âGolden Ageâ of the Mughal court (c. 1560-1660). © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
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| The Aga Khan emerald sets new world auction record 55 years after its original sale in Geneva | | Heritage Auctions to offer rarely seen 'Son of Frankenstein' movie poster | | Sotheby's joins forces with UAE galleries to launch new exhibition series |
The Aga Khan Emerald. © Christie's Images Ltd 2024.
GENEVA.- The Aga Khan emerald was sold today at Christies in Geneva for CHF7,765,000 | US$8,859,865, 55 years after it was originally offered at the first Christies Jewellery auction to be held in Switzerland. It was formerly part of the Collection of Nina Dyer, the British socialite who was briefly married to Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, sold in 1969 to benefit animal welfare. The highlight of the Collection at the time, the emerald was offered as lot 106 and made CHF 900,000 | US$205,486. Francois Curiel, now Chairman Christies Europe but then Christies intern to be, remembers the sale: The emerald was breathtaking 55 years ago and is even more admired today. It is so rare to see a jewel of its size and quality and I feel privileged to have had the winning bidder on the phone 55 years later, here in Geneva in 2024. The emerald was the highlight of todays Magnificent Jewels auction which totaled CHF47,940,450 | ... More | |
Son of Frankenstein (Universal, 1939). Fine on Linen. One Sheet (27" X 41") Style A. Estimate: $60,000 - $120,000.
DALLAS, TX.- The Son of Frankenstein returns to Heritage Auctions for the first time in eight years. The Style A one sheet for the 1939 Universal Studios masterpiece is a terrifyingly scarce poster, even though its considered, by far, the best of the two posters made for director Rowland V. Lees trip to the castle in the Bavarian Alps. During Heritages long and storied tenure offering some of the worlds most coveted cinematic treasures, the auction house has offered just a single Son of Frankenstein Style A one sheet in July 2016. At long last, another one reappears in Heritages December 2-3 Movie Posters Signature® Auction alongside other precious rarities. Its a blockbuster discovery advertising a milestone film in which then-51-year-old Boris Karloff made his final appearance as Victor Frankensteins monster. ... More | |
Khalif Tahir Thompson, Wrapped in Satin, 2022. Courtesy Sotheby's.
DUBAI.- Sothebys Dubai has launched The Gallery Collective, a unique partnership with the UAEs homegrown galleries from November 2024 through to 2026. The two-year series will present a rotating calendar of exhibitions held at Sothebys in the heart of the DIFC. Every six to eight weeks, a partner gallery will make the space their own, curating a show that presents their vision through the artists that they champion. Each gallery will bring their own, fresh perspective to the programme, with the first tranche of participants including: Tabari Artspace; Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery; Leila Heller Gallery; Iyad Qanazea Gallery; Aisha Al Abbar Gallery; The Third Line; Lawrie Shabibi; Carbon 12; Efie Gallery, and Green Art Gallery. Sothebys Dubai gallery is open to the public Monday to Friday from 10am to 6pm. The Gallery Collective will also be accompanied by a free series of talks. ... More |
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| Exhibition at Escher in The Palace showcases Julie de Graag and her contribution to art | | mumok opens the most comprehensive institutional solo presentation of Liliane Lijn thus far | | Exhibition at Hauser & Wirth presents a group of works-landscapes, still lifes and portraits by Annie Leibovitz |
Julie de Graag, Memento Mori, woodcut in black and beige, 1916. Collection Kunstmuseum Den Haag, long-term loan Wibbina Foundation.
THE HAGUE.- Julie de Graag was a talented contemporary of M.C. Escher. The two artists shared a great love of nature, closely observing the world around them, and depicting it in their own unique way. Using just a few details, Julie de Graag managed to capture the essence of plants, animals and people. This exhibition presents her rich oeuvre alongside that of Escher, in the year that marks the centenary of her death. In her stylised prints, Julie de Graag (1877-1924) gave ordinary subjects like animals, landscapes, flowers and plants a certain grandeur. By the time M.C. Escher was just embarking on his career, she had already developed her unique style. The exhibition of prints and drawings from Kunstmuseum Den Haags collection promises to be a real revelation for the general public. Unlike Escher, who became a world-famous artist, De Graag is now known mainly among aficionados. Despite the beauty and depth of her work, and the fact that it features in some important Dutch art collections, ... More | |
Liliane Lijn, Arise Alive, 1965. Letraset on painted truncated cork cone, motorized turntable (restored in 2010), poem by Leonard D. Marshall, 46 x 20 cm in diameter. Catherin Petitgas Collection. Photo: Maximilian Geuter, München, Haus der Kunst München © Bildrecht, Wien 2024.
Developed in cooperation with Haus der Kunst in Munich, this survey exhibition of the work of Liliane Lijn is the most comprehensive institutional solo presentation of the artist thus far. Born in New York in 1939 and based in London since 1966, Lijn has been working at the interface of visual art, literature, and science for more than six decades and has created an extensive oeuvre that includes sculptures, installations, collages, paintings, videos, and performances. Lijn's multimedia practice has its origins in the kinetic art of the late 1950s as well as in her exploration of Surrealist ideas, ancient mythology, and eastern philosophy. Even her earliest works reveal an interest in unconventional artistic materialsan interest that continues to this day. In 1961, Lijn made first works from Perspex, in which she experiments with reflection, movement, and ... More | |
Annie Leibovitz, Brice Mardens studio, Tivoli, Upstate New York 2024. Archival pigment print, 50.8 x 66 cm / 20 x 26 in. © Annie Leibovitz. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
NEW YORK, NY.- Annie Leibovitz: Stream of Consciousness presents a group of workslandscapes, still lifes and portraitsmade by the distinguished American artist over the last two decades. Forgoing a linear timeline and conventional thematic constraints, the exhibition reveals Leibovitzs associative thought processes and the fluid visual dialogue created among photographs that call attention to significant cultural markers of our time. Stream of Consciousness features both familiar images of iconic writers, performers and visual artistsAmy Sherald, Billie Eilish and Salman Rushdie are among themand images that have never been exhibited publicly before. These include the Selldorf suite of photographs, which was created at the historic Frick Collection on East 70th Street in New York City just days after Leibovitz returned from a visit with Annabelle Selldorf at the architects home in Maine. Selldorf had been charged with the sensiti ... More |
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| Gagosian exhibits new works from the TURBINE series by Sterling Ruby in Hong Kong | | rodolphe janssen opens the second solo show at the gallery of American artist Jason Saager | | RISD Museum announces new exhibition 'The Art of French Wallpaper Design' |
Sterling Ruby, TURBINE. En Saga., 2024. Acrylic, oil, and cardboard on canvas. Framed: 58 7/8 x 45 3/8 x 3 1/4 inches (149.5 x 115.3 x 8.3 cm) © Sterling Ruby. Photo: Sterling Ruby Studio. Courtesy the artist and Gagosian.
HONG KONG.- Gagosian announces |, an exhibition of new paintings by Sterling Ruby from the TURBINE series (2021), opening at the gallery in Hong Kong on November 14, 2024. The title, |, is an ode to verticality. This exhibition marks not only ten years since the artists debut with Gagosian, but also a return to the site of that inaugural presentation. In a practice that spans painting, sculpture, drawing, collage, video, ceramics, and textiles, Ruby alludes to key artistic tendencies and to the intersection of sociopolitical histories with the narrative of his own life. Through formal juxtaposition, he interweaves the disruption of aesthetic convention with the reexamination of civil structures. In Rubys 2014 exhibition VIVIDS, large-scale spray paintings seemed to gaze into the horizon in apparent anticipation of changes to come. Those works horizontal orientation stands in stark contrast to the precariously balanced ... More | |
Jason Saager, Celestial Gathering of the Trees, 2024. Monotype and oil on paper mounted over canvas on panel, 60 x 48 x 1.75 in. 152.4 x 121.9 x 4.5 cm.
BRUSSELS.- rodolphe janssen will open the second solo show at the gallery of American artist Jason Saager. New Lands is opening on 14 November 2024 at Livourne 35. In New Lands, Jason Saager invites viewers into supernatural landscapes where our understanding of space, time, and nature dissolves. Working within the vastness of the Southwest wilderness in Arizona and inspired by nature in ancient artbefore landscape painting formalized in the Western tradition Saagers work challenges our conventional understanding of landscape painting. With his idiosyncratic fusion of different perspectives, the sense of our natural world is reshaped by unlikely relationships that evoke a sense of earth magic, presenting a realm where reality is reimagined to offer moments of transcendence, hope, and positive escape. Saagers unorthodox process begins with small drawing exercises that lead to large scale, wet-on- wet oil monotypesexecuted with his own body as the press ... More | |
View of Venice Wallpaper, ca. 1840. Mary B. Jackson Fund.
PROVIDENCE, RI.- On November 16, the RISD Museum will open an expansive exhibition exploring the intricacy and innovative quality of French wallpapers from across the 18th and 19th centuries. Titled The Art of French Wallpaper Design, the exhibition features more than 100 rare samples of preserved wallpapers, borders, fragments, and preparatory drawings, capturing an extraordinary diversity of designs and technical skills. To bring the exhibition further to life for audiences, RISD Museum has partnered with Adelphi Paper Hangings in Sharon Springs, NY, to recreate one of the wallpapers through the same process of woodblock printing used by the original Paris-based manufacturer, Bon. In addition to experiencing this wallpaper in the exhibition, fans of the design will be able to order it from Adelphi for use in their own projects. The works in the exhibition are drawn from the exceptional Huard Collectionnamed for the collectors who assembled it: French artist Charles Huard (1874-1965) and America ... More |
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| Hamburger Kunsthalle exhibits numerous new acquisitions | | Exhibition presents important works from across Erwin Olaf's four-decade career | | Post Scriptum. A museum forgotten by heart: the catalogue will be an editorial fashion feature |
Wolfgang TillmansIsa Mona Lisa, 1999.
HAMBURG.- ISA MONA LISA is the ironic and playful title of this lively glimpse at recent art featuring over 30 works by international contemporary artists. The exhibition title was taken from a photograph Wolfgang Tillmans (b. 1968) made of his artist colleague Isa Genzken (b. 1948), and both artists are represented in the exhibition. On display are numerous new acquisitions both purchases and donations being presented for the first time as well as loans from private collections and studios. A new collaboration with a private Hamburg collection (Schmitz-Morkramer) makes it possible to show works by Elisa Alberti (b. 1992), Louise Bourgeois (19112010) and Silke Otto-Knapp (19702022), among others, and also many pieces by Alexandra Bircken (b. 1967). Entire rooms designed by artists, such as the Salon Livresque (2014) by Thorsten Brinkmann (b. 1971), give an impression of the many facets of todays art. Visitors are welcome to browse through the books ... More | |
Erwin Olaf, I Will Be, from the series I Wish, I Am, I Will Be, 2009 © Erwin Olaf, Courtesy of Hamiltons Gallery.
LONDON.- Hamiltons presents Erwin Olaf: Bigger Than Life, a celebration of Olafs life and photographic oeuvre. The exhibition presents important works from across the artists four-decade career, including works from series such as Chessmen, Im Wald, Palm Springs, Paradise and Grief, alongside a selection of self-portraits. It is a monumental celebration of the artists contribution to the visual arts, and of his long-term close friendship with Hamiltons Gallery. Erwin Olaf passed away in 2023. In one of the artists last conversations with Shirley den Hartog, his right hand and studio manager, he said that he wished to be remembered as bigger than life. This show pays homage to this wish. During his lifetime Olaf was internationally renowned as an artist whose diverse practice centred around societys marginalized individuals including women, people of colour, and the LGBTQ+ community. In 2019, following ... More | |
Alex Bag, Two Margiela Dolls Fry a Galliano Doll in a Tub of Water, 2021. Courtesy von ammon co., Washington DC. MACRO Museo dArte Contemporanea di Roma / Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome. 2024.
ROME.- Post Scriptum. A museum forgotten by heart, the large group exhibition running at MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome until 16 February 2025, now contains a new project: a selection of images of two editorial fashion features that have taken form inside the show, commissioned to art director and stylist Francesca Cefis and realized by two photographers, Alassan Diawara and Lukas Wassmann, respectively in collaboration with adidas Originals and Emporio Armani. The two photo features, created thanks to the involvement of the two brands, offer an original documentation of the exhibition itself, in a double short-circuit triggered by two different gazes on the show, spreading through the whole museum: the entire series of images of each feature will thus translate ... More |
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Exhibition offers visitors a captivating journey through time and historyGRAZ.- From mid-November 2024 to end of May 2025, Kunsthaus Graz presents Poetics of Power, a group show that spans across diverse mediums, blending existing works with new productions. The exhibition offers visitors a captivating journey through time and history, inviting them to explore, question and reflect upon the complex dynamics of power, violence and resistance. Poetics of Power unveils the hidden manifestations of powerwhether in objects, political structures, symbols, gestures or within the fabric of unquestioned institutions. It presents power not as a static force but as an intricate and ambiguous element deeply embedded in shaping our interpersonal, cultural, national and economic realities, omnipresent and fluid. It also aims to expose the anomalies and fissures in systems where cultural imbalances and inequalities ... More Norway's National Museum announces its 2025 exhibition programmeOSLO.- The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Norway presents its 2025 exhibition programme. The programme includes an exhibition about the gothic influences on modern artist like Edvard Munch and Vincent van Gogh, solo presentations of artists A K Dolven and Anawana Haloba, and a survey of the New Nordic Cuisine movement and its connections with architecture, crafts, design, and art in the past two decades. Modern artists have often found inspiration in the medieval period. The Gothic aesthetic in particular has been admired by painters and writers alike for its power to arouse strong emotions. "Gothic Modern" presents Northern European art from the years 1875 to 1925 that shows the influence on various levels of the Middle Ages and the Gothic. Key artists include Käthe Kollwitz, Edvard Munch, Georg Minne, Akseli ... More Zinedine Zidane sells lot 1 of Watches for ELA charity auction at Christie's GenevaGENEVA.- Christies Geneva welcomed ELA (European Leukodystrophy Association) and Zinedine Zidane, ELAs Ambassador for 24 years to the first Watches for ELA auction, held on 11 November 2024 opening Rare Watches. 11 unique watches donated by ANDERSEN Genève X BCHH, ArtyA, Ataelier Haute Complication, Bovet, Girard-Perregaux, Konstantin Chaykin, Louis Erard, Montblanc, Richard Mille, OMEGA X Swatch, Ulysse Nardin achieved CHF 633,000, while lot 69 in the Rare Watches auction, a platinum F.P, Journe, Vagabondage from 2005, consigned by a private individual to benefit ELA made an additional CHF210,000, bringing the total raised for the association to CHF843,000. Guy Alba President of ELA International: What a wonderful moment to see Zinedine Zidane auctioneering lot 1 for our debut Watches for ELA auction. ... More  Digital artwork by Ashley Zelinskie highlights influence of physics in early 20th-century abstract artNEW YORK, NY.- The Whitney Museum of American Art launches Twin Quasar, a digital art project by Ashley Zelinskie commissioned for artport, the Museums online gallery space for net art and new media art commissions. Twin Quasar is a virtual reality artwork and environment within the Whitney Museum Virtual Landscape, a virtual world produced by The IMC Lab on the MONA platform. Zelinskies new work combines elements of science and art history, and builds on the artists eight-year coordination with NASAs James Webb Space Telescope team and discussions with European Space Agency scientist Tim Rawle. Ashley Zelinskies Twin Quasar examines the influence of physics on early twentieth-century abstract art, particularly Albert Einsteins theory of relativity, which challenged the established understanding of space, time, and reality. The piece consists of three-dimensional artwork and the virtual space ... More Bozar opens the first solo exhibition by Kuwaiti visual artist Monira Al Qadiri in BelgiumBRUSSELS.- Bozar (Centre for Fine Arts of Brussels) is presenting the first solo exhibition by Kuwaiti visual artist Monira Al Qadiri in Belgium. The exhibition, entitled The Archaeology of Beasts, presents four new works by the artist, including two sculptures, an immersive video installation and a Virtual Reality experience. Internationally renowned artist Monira Al Qadiri is known for her playful yet subversive take on the Gulf regions fading cultural histories, changing topographies and ecosystems, caused by the extractivist activities of the Petrostate nations. The four newly commissioned works in this exhibition mark the start of a new visual direction for Al Qadiri, examining for the first time Ancient Egyptian myths and history. They nevertheless continue the artists exploration of the complex and ever so fragile relationship between nature, animals and ... More Maureen Paley now represents Merlin JamesLONDON.- Maureen Paley now represents Merlin James and announces his first solo exhibition at the gallery and Studio M. His practice, which includes curating and art-critical writing as well as painting, has developed a deep aesthetic understanding over some four decades. This show will combine recently finished paintings with ones selected from his studio inventory in Glasgow, the earliest dating to 1982. I am actually working with temporality. Im using the way work gets old, or changes over time, physically and in terms of its readings. Im interested in how paintings time travel.1 The exhibition will include paintings of the Arnold Circus bandstand, an east London landmark visible from the Studio M window. He first painted and drew the bandstand in the mid 1980s when he had a studio nearby on Redchurch Street, and he has recently returned to the motif. It is ... More Patrick Mahomes' Chiefs jersey blitzes Heritage's Winter Sports Catalog AuctionDALLAS, TX.- Patrick Mahomes is the future of football, his Kansas City Chiefs teammate Travis Kelce told Time in April when the quarterback was listed among the magazines 100 most influential people of 2024. Thats especially true when you consider Mahomes recent past: three Super Bowl wins by age 28, with three MVP awards to go with those rings. His present isnt too bad, either, as the Chiefs stand alone as the sole undefeated team more than midway through the NFL season despite a few hitches in the teams giddy-up toward laying claim to one of sports greatest dynasties. Said Kelce, Pat is clearly the biggest name in football right now. And, likely, for a long time to come. Thats one reason among many that Mahomes game-worn jersey from a five-touchdown game in 2021 stands especially tall in Heritages December ... More Sale at Christie's marks the 50th anniversary of Tignanello wineLONDON.- A historic sale of rare vintage wines provided by Marchesi Antinori, one of the oldest Italian family-owned fine wine producers, directly from the prestigious Tenuta Tignanello estate, will take place at Christies King Street as part of the Finest and Rarest Wines Featuring Tignanellos 50th Anniversary Collection Direct From The Estate live auction, taking place on 26 and 27 November. This exceptional auction will showcase nearly every vintage of the iconic Super-Tuscan Tignanello, including its debut 1971 vintage (first released in 1974), as well as a rare barrique of the 2024 vintage - a first for Christies from an Italian wine estate. Marchesi Antinori will also offer a collection of large formats, ranging from magnums to a 12-litre size. This auction celebrates the 50th anniversary release of Tignanello 1971, a pioneering wine that played ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Claude Monet was born November 14, 1840. Claude Monet (14 November 1840 - 5 December 1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant). In this image: In this Jan. 19, 2011 photo, Dean Yoder, conservator of paintings for the Cleveland Museum of Art, gently dusts Claude Monet's vast water lilies painting at the museum in Cleveland.
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