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One of the most important works by the artist ever to appear at auction. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- This March in London, Sothebys will offer for sale one of the greatest paintings by Kandinsky ever to come to market. Dating from a transformative moment in Kandinskys career, Murnau mit Kirche II (1910) encapsulates the very beginnings of the revolutionary abstract language that would underpin the rest of Kandinskys career and set the next generation of artists on a new path. Executed on an impressive scale, in the near-square format favoured by avant-garde contemporaries from Monet to Klimt, and with a rich palette of contrasting hues, the newly-restituted painting has a remarkable history. Soon after it was painted, the work was acquired by Johanna Margarete Stern (née Lippmann, 18741944) and Siegbert Samuel Stern (18641935). Co-founders of a successful textile business, Johanna Margarete and Siegbert were at the heart of the famously glittering cultural life of 1920s Berlin, with a social cir ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its "Consignor Sell-Off Ancient, Ethnic, Fine Art" sale on Feb 10, 2023 9:00 AM CST. Savings up to 70% off, as well as items brand-new to auction. Ancient art from Egypt, Greece, Italy and the Near East, as well as Asian, Fossils, Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal / Oceanic, Fine art, and much more! 19th C. Santa Cruz Islands Ceremonial Napa Club. Estimate $2,400 - $3,600.
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| The Roma artist sewing a new history for her people | | Gagosian opens Chinese painter Hao Liang's first solo exhibition in Europe | | New exhibition offers an expansive view of work of WPA-era paintings from the Dijkstra Collection | 
Malgorzata Mirga-Tas at her studio in Czarna Gora, Poland on Feb 4, 2023. (Maciek Nabrdalik/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- The pale lavender fabric in the artists studio has a history. Embroidered with silver thread in a floral pattern, the material was once a dress, before Roma people in Sweden gave it to Malgorzata Mirga-Tas. In her hands, it had been cut up and combined with other fabrics and delicate paint strokes to create a portrait of a Roma community leader. In the artists vibrantly patterned collage, the woman appears relaxed and powerful as she hangs bright yellow clothes on a washing line, her face turned from the viewers gaze. The portrait was commissioned for I Have a Dream, a solo show by Mirga-Tas, a Polish Roma artist, at the Goteborgs Konsthall in Gothenburg, Sweden. Running through April 16, the exhibition features several more portraits of influential Roma women and scenes from Roma life, some made with locally donated fabrics. It is the first major presentation by Mirga-Tas, 44, since a spectacular pavilion of her work represented Poland at the Venice Bienn ... More | | 
Hao Liang, All things, 2022. Ink on silk. Unframed: 13 3/4 x 10 5/8 inches (35 x 27 cm) Framed: 18 9/16 x 15 1/2 x 1 5/16 inches (47.1 x 39.3 x 3.3 cm) © Hao Liang. Courtesy Gagosian.
LONDON.- Gagosian announced The Sad Zither, the first solo exhibition in Europe by Chinese painter Hao Liang. In his delicate but immersive landscape and figure paintings, and in his choice of literary references, Hao reflects on a spectrum of emotions while considering the passage of time and the ways in which we move through the world. Giving the methods and motifs of traditional Chinese ink wash painting a contemporary spin, he highlights the genres unique materiality while drawing on sources from cinema, modernist art, and Chinese and Western literature. Hao employs the guohua technique to make compositions on silk that are subtly toned and tinted, but indelible, accentuating his subjects complexity and infusing narrative and allegorical references with atmosphere and feeling. In the thirteen paintings on view at Gagosians Grosvenor Hill gallery, which were produced over the past two years, Hao explores themes and symbo ... More | | 
Fletcher Martin (American, 19041979), Migrant Woman, 1938. Oil on canvas, 20 x 16 in. Collection of Sandra and Bram Dijkstra.
SACRAMENTO, CALIF.- The Crocker Art Museum is presenting the exhibition Art for the People: WPA Era Paintings from the Dijkstra Collection, on view at the Museum January 29 May 7, 2023. Drawn from the Collection of Sandra and Bram Dijkstra, Art for the People focuses on representational painting created in the years between the American stock market crash of 1929 and World War II. During this era, which led to, and included, the government-sponsored WPA (Works Progress Administration) of the 1930s and early 1940s, many American artists created scenes that represented the country and its people and sought to produce art that expressed fundamental human concerns and basic democratic principles. This more encompassing look at WPA-era art features paintings from the East, Midwest, and West, with a strong representation of work by Californians, who have often been omitted from the narrative. Names for the art of this period ... More |
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| New Museum appoints Alethea Rockwell as Keith Haring Director of Education and Public Engagement | | Slotin Folk Art Auction adds second day to pottery sale | | Gustavo Dudamel, star maestro, to leave LA for New York Philharmonic | 
Alethea Rockwell. Photo: onwhitewall.com
NEW YORK, NY.- The New Museum today announces the appointment of Alethea Rockwell as the next Keith Haring Director of Education and Public Engagement. She will join the Museum on February 27, 2023. Rockwell will work collaboratively across departments to expand the education initiatives and dynamic public programs for which the New Museum is known. She will lead the Education and Public Engagement Department to develop and implement programs for families, youth, students, and teachers; collaborate with local nonprofits to host Community Day programs; co-organize an annual artist residency; and convene public programs between artists, curators, writers, and other boundary-pushing creatives. Rockwell will also hold a key leadership role in planning for the New Museums OMA-designed expansion. We are excited to welcome Alethea to the New Museum at a critical time of renewed need for people to come together to learn ... More | | 
Lanier Meaders Big Head Face Jug, 10.5 inches tall, is featured in Slotin Folk Art Auctions two-day sale, February 11-12. Six face jugs by the late Georgia folk potter are available during the Pottery Extravaganza sale on Day 1, with Day 2 focused on Native American art, quilts and Americana.
BUFORD, GA.- Slotin Folk Art Auctions first stand-alone pottery sale in 2020 was a trial balloon to determine if collectors would respond, and they most assuredly did. Now, with its fourth edition taking place February 11-12, the auction is expanding in more ways than one. The single-day Pottery Extravaganza is bigger for 2023 and is sprouting a second-day sale dedicated to Native American art, quilts and Americana. There are 461 pottery lots, covering a wide geography and timespan, on the first day; with Day 2 featuring 301 lots, including everything from Cherokee baskets and Native American ceramics to quilts and antique weathervanes. Steve Slotin says staying open to new possibilities and keeping definitions fluid has well served the auction house ... More | | 
Gustavo Dudamel conducts the New York Philharmonic through works by Schubert, at the Lincoln Center in Manhattan, March 17, 2022. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)
by Javier C. Hernández
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Gustavo Dudamel, the charismatic conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, whose fiery baton and bouncy curls have made him one of classical musics most recognizable figures, will leave his post in 2026 to become the music director of the New York Philharmonic, both orchestras announced on Tuesday. What I see is an amazing orchestra in New York and a lot of potential for developing something important, he said in an interview. Its like opening a new door and building a new house. Its a beautiful time. The appointment of Dudamel, 42, is a major coup for the New York Philharmonic, the oldest symphony orchestra in the United States, which was once led by giants including Mahler, Toscanini and Bernstein ... More |
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| New book presents breathtaking images of an American road trip | | Swann Galleries announces app exclusive auction of fine photographs | | Whitechapel Gallery presents 'Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-70' | 
Roadside Meditations by Rob Hammer is published by Kehrer Verlag. All Photographs are © Rob Hammer.
NEW YORK, NY.- Photographer Rob Hammer logs in an average of 35,000 miles per year road-tripping around the United States in his truck with his dog, exploring, discovering, and photographing what he's said can be "an endless expanse of unknown." He's come to call the trips "treasure hunts," and the 75 color images collected in his new book, Roadside Meditations (Kehrer Verlag, October 4, 2022) reflect a sense of respect and wonder not only for the landscapes and human imprint he discovers along the way, but also for the immersive process itself. In his essay for the book, Hammer reflects, "The road has become so many things to me besides just a place of peace and solitude. Its completely transformed the way I think about people, life, relationships, photography, and what I dont want for my career. Its also made me fall in love with America, especially the West." The images in this book do include some of the western states like O ... More | | 
Irving Penn, Blast, platinum-palladium print, 1980 (detail); printed 1981. Estimate $30,000 to $45,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries winter 2023 sale of Fine Photographs is an App Exclusive timed auction; the sale opened for bidding Thursday, February 2 and closes Thursday, February 23 at 12pm eastern. Bidding is available on the Swann Galleries App and on live.swanngalleries.com. The sale is led by Irving Penns exceptionally bold and textural Blast, 1980, printed 1981 ($30,000-45,000). Other works by Penn include the artists charming Old Friends: Balkin, Beaton, Platt Lynes, Joffe, Horst, Rawlings, Blumenfeld, Me (I.P.), Dorian Leigh (Vogue Photographers, Oyster Bay ), 1946 ($5,000-7,500); Clown Playing Solitaire, 1947 ($4,000-6,000); and Dancers Legs (Kathryn Lee), 1947 ($4,000-6,000. Twentieth-century master Richard Avedon, is represented with a variant of his iconic psychedelic portrait of George Harrison, 1967, printed in rich dye transfer ($15,000-20,000), and his iconic advertising campaign with Brooke S ... More | | 
Wook-kyung Choi, Untitled, 1960s (detail). Acrylic on canvas, 101 x 86 cm © Wook-kyung Choi Estate and courtesy to Arte Collectum.
LONDON.- Whitechapel Gallery presents Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-70. The exhibition reaches beyond the predominantly white, male painters whose names are synonymous with the Abstract Expressionism movement, to discover the practices of numerous international women artists working with gestural abstraction in the aftermath of the Second World War. The exhibitions geographic breadth demonstrates that, while the Abstract Expressionism movement is said to have begun in the USA, artists all over the world were exploring similar themes of materiality, freedom of expression, perception and gesture in the mid-century period, from Art Informel to Arte Povera in Europe, and from calligraphic abstraction in East Asia to experimental, highly political practices in Central and South America, and the Middle East. The exhibition features well-known artists associated ... More |
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| Michael Werner Gallery opens the first major exhibition of paintings by French artist Eugène Leroy | | Julie Heffernan opens exhibition at Hirschl & Adler Modern | | Betty Cuningham Gallery exhibits Jake Berthot's abstract paintings from the 1970's | 
Eugène Leroy, Visage fleur, 1992. Oil on canvas, 32 x 25 1/2 inches, 81 x 65 cm. © The estate of Eugène Leroy. Courtesy Michael Werner Gallery, New York and London.
LONDON.- Michael Werner Gallery, London is presenting Eugène Leroy: The Materiality of Light, Paintings 1950-1999, the first major exhibition of paintings by French artist Eugène Leroy (1910-2000) in the U.K. Spanning five decades, the exhibition includes rarely seen seascapes from the 1950s to the built-up almost sculptural paintings from the latter part of the artists career. Living most of his life in Tourcoing, France, near the Belgian border, Leroy did not see himself solely in direct lineage with Northern European painters. Instead, he selected inspiration from a host of Northern and Southern European influences, including Poussin, Rembrandt, Cézanne, Van der Goes, Giorgione, Rubens, Giotto, and Bacon. Known for thick, layered paintings that he worked and reworked for sometimes ... More | | 
Julie Heffernan, Spill (The Fall), 2023. Oil on canvas, 96 x 75 in. Courtesy of the artist and Hirschl & Adler Modern, NY.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hirschl & Adler Modern is presenting The swamps are pink with June, Julie Heffernans debut solo exhibition with the gallery. Across fifteen new paintings, the artists female protagonists, stand-ins for the viewer and the artist herself, inhabit lush gardens and resplendent trees. Nestled beside blooms of rich color are scenes and depictions from western art history. The Fall of Adam & Eve, Hudson River School landscapes, and portraits of Queen Victoria blossom from expansive branches. In others, dense shrubs grow from under the central figures skirt, rooting her to the landscape that surrounds her. Climate activism, feminism, identity and lineage are the major themes of Heffernans career and here they entangle in fresh and welcoming ways. Included is Heffernans newest body of work, her Spill paintings. Born out of the artist ... More | | 
Jake Berthot, Hardline, 1980 - 83. Oil on linen, 60 x 50 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Betty Cuningham Gallery opened, What happen to Abstraction? featuring Jake Berthots abstract paintings from the 1970s alongside of his imaginary landscapes completed the last 20 years of his life. This is the fourth Jake Berthot exhibition at the Gallery since his passing in 2014. The current exhibition brings together 10 abstract paintings from the 1970s in conversation with 10 of his late tree/landscape paintings dating from 1996 to 2014. What happened? Jake Berthot held on to two tenets throughout his 45-year career, one was his attachment to the formal geometry of the grid and the other was his intuitive attraction to the poetry of an indeterminate space. He would twist the grid to achieve several vanishing points gaining a place of sensation, or what he would call a Rothko-like space. Moving upstate in 1992 a new space enveloped him. His painting was in crisis ... More |
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 Rago brings The Ellison Collection to auctionLAMBERTVILLE, NJ.- Rago will bring The Ellison Collection to auction on February 28th. This legacy event will present more than 140 ceramic works collected by Robert Ellison throughout his lifetime, tracing his personal history as collector and researcher as well as the broader narrative arc of ceramics as a discipline. The Ellison Collection will bring historic works of American, European, Post War, and contemporary ceramics to the market, including highlights from the Martin Brothers Pottery, Fulper Pottery, Union Porcelain Works, George E. Ohr, and Peter Voulkos, among many others. Collectively, this special presentation showcases the range and depth of Ellisons fascination with the medium and is accompanied by a catalogue featuring scholarly and personal essays from David Rago, Dr. Martin Eidelberg, Ellisons wife Rosaire Appel, and his daughter Hillary Ellison ... More  Historic Lido de Paris Revue lights up Las Vegas once again at The Neon MuseumLAS VEGAS, NEV.- The Neon Museum the Las Vegas non-profit dedicated to collecting and preserving the citys historic neon signs brought one of Las Vegas most iconic entertainment revues back to light last week. Following a months-long restoration process, The Neon Museum celebrated the relighting of the 56-foot-long Lido de Paris sign paying homage to one of the longest-running shows in Las Vegas history and the birthplace of the classic Las Vegas showgirl. The Lido de Paris neon sign marks the 23rd sign restored and re-illuminated by The Neon Museum and now has a permanent home in its Neon Boneyard exhibition space across from the neon sign for the Stardust, the original home to the Lido. Philanthropist Todd VonBastiaans, Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman and many of the former cast and crew of Las Vegas Lido de Paris gathered ... More  New King Plaza temporary artwork celebrates community resilience and belongingPALO ALTO, CA.- The Palo Alto Public Art Program announced the installation of a dynamic new sculpture by San Jose-native Latinx artist Rayos Magos at City Hall King Plaza at 250 Hamilton Ave in Palo Alto. The temporary installation concludes the artists year-long residency as part of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. & Coretta Scott King Artist Residency Program, established as a platform for ongoing conversations about equity, inclusion, and belonging in Palo Alto through social practice public art projects. A free public event with the artist will take place Feb. 24 at 4 p.m., and the sculpture will remain on display until next fall. For his residency project, titled Rituals of Resilience, Rayos Magos initiated community conversations about culture, identity, belonging, and resilience in Palo Alto, with the special focus on Latinx and BIPOC community members and mental health service providers ... More  The Philadelphia Show returns for its 61st year with a robust exhibitor listPHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Philadelphia Show one of the nations leading art and design fairs, known for the exceptional quality of its exhibitors announced its 61st Edition, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, from April 28 April 30, 2023. This years event will feature more than forty of the most outstanding exhibitors in the US, specializing in fine art, collectible design, antiques, Americana, folk art, ceramics, porcelain, silver, jewelry, textiles, and decorative arts. The Philadelphia Show will welcome several new exhibitors, joining longstanding and returning galleries, to showcase works spanning from the 16th to 21st centuries. With its core rooted in American art, the Show is further bolstered by international influences, with many galleries also showcasing important European and Asian works. While firmly established as a premier destination for antiques ... More  The Fleming presents a colorful suite of new exhibitions and installationsBURLINGTON, VT.- The Fleming is awash in color this coming season with works by Josef Albers, Robert Indiana, Georgia OKeeffe, Glenn Ligon, Raúl Milián and Ellsworth Kelly on view in the Museums galleries. The museum opened two special exhibitions, Josef Albers - Formulation: Articulation, Art/Text/Context: From Artistic Practice to Meaning Making, and the extension of Shanta Lees popular Dark Goddess: An Exploration of the Sacred Feminine. The exhibition Josef Albers - Formulation: Articulation is a chance to look at every color differentlythrough the lens of an artists teaching exercises that show how our perceptions of colors are affected by the environments in which they are viewed. In color studies like Homage to the Square, artist and educator Josef Albers (1888-1976) demonstrates how immediate proximity changes ... More  MASA Gallery opens its inaugural permanent space in Mexico CityMEXICO CITY.- Marking its fifth anniversary, MASA gallery opened two inaugural solo exhibitions at their first permanent space in the heart of Mexico City, on view from February 8 - April 8, 2023. The gallerys expansion strengthens its ongoing commitment to present innovative positions of the local contemporary creative community through group and solo exhibitions focusing on collectible art and design. In Non-Zero-Sum, artist and designer Brian Thoreen explores unconventional ways of fabrication and corporeality, expanding on traditional concepts and pushing the boundaries of materiality. Multidisciplinary conceptual artist Mario GarcÃa Torres presents The Space Under My Chair & The Music I Was Listening To. As a homage to Bruce Naumans iconic sculpture and inspired by musical equipment design, GarcÃa Torres explores a dialog between two series ... More  Camden Art Centre opens Mohammed Sami's first institutional solo exhibition in the UKLONDON.- Camden Art Centre is presenting a new exhibition, The Point 0, by Mohammed Sami (b.1984, Baghdad, Iraq). This is Samis first institutional solo exhibition in the UK and continues his long-standing exploration of memory in relation to time and conflict, bringing together more than 10 major new paintings, alongside important works made over the last four years. Samis works interrupt straightforward narrative readings. Recalling moments from his own past first as a young artist co-opted by the Baath regime to create propaganda images, and later as a refugee granted asylum in Sweden his paintings draw on the unreliability, subjectivity and peculiar precision of memories. Hallucinatory in both tone and conception, he creates a space in which feelings, moments and places emerge and resurface as highly charged but often inscrutable and unsettling images ... More  Berry Campbell opens an exhibition of works by Lilian Thomas BurwellNEW YORK, NY.- Berry Campbell is presenting Lilian Thomas Burwell: Enfolded. This is the gallerys second solo exhibition of Burwells painting and wall sculpture. Living and working in Highland Beach, Maryland, Burwell, age 95, was recently hailed as the Tom Brady of Artists in the New York Times. In 2022, Burwell received Howard Universitys Lifetime Achievement Award along with Betye Saar. Lilian Thomas Burwell: Enfolded highlights the dynamic transition in Burwells abstract visual language from two-dimensional painterly canvases to three-dimensional sculptural forms. Burwells paintings from the late 1970s and early 1980s employ a distinctly bold palette and reference the natural world, featuring organic forms that abstract biotic phenomena. In 1984, Burwell literally cut into a canvas, creating a shape beyond the square ... More  Exhibition at Brown grapples with generations of sexism, power imbalances in cinema and culturePROVIDENCE, RI.- Not long ago, filmmaker and artist Elisabeth Subrin watched a 1983 interview with the late French actress Maria Schneider and became transfixed. The conversation, ostensibly meant to cover Schneiders film career up to that point, took an unexpected turn when the interviewer asked her about the controversial film Last Tango in Paris. Schneider refused to comment: In 1972, the then-19-year-old, co-starring alongside a 48-year-old Marlon Brando, had unwillingly filmed an unscripted rape scene for the movie that traumatized and haunted her for the rest of her life. Instead, she launched into a stunning, prescient meditation on power imbalances and sexism in the film industry and beyond. That interview inspired Subrin to create The Listening Takes a brand new immersive sound, video and sculptural installation on view at Brown Universitys David Winton Bell Gallery ... More  Chazen Museum of Art names inaugural Curator of Glass and Ceramics MADISON, WI.- The Chazen Museum of Art at the University of WisconsinMadison has named Carolyn Herrera-Perez as its first curator of glass and ceramics. She joined the team on Jan. 23. Herrera-Perez is a potter turned researcher with interest in modern and contemporary craft and materials from the Americas. Her background includes work in material and craft research, curatorial procedures and dedication to early career mentorship. She comes to the Chazen from Material Intelligence, a Chipstone Foundation quarterly publication where she served as a contributing editor. Carolyn Herrera-Perez brings a commitment to accessibility and mentorship that pairs well with the Chazen Museum of Arts mission to serve as a rich cultural resource for students at the University of WisconsinMadison and everyone in the surrounding community, ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German painter Gerhard Richter was born February 09, 1932. Gerhard Richter (born 9 February 1932) is a German visual artist. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, and also photographs and glass pieces. His art follows the examples of Picasso and Jean Arp in undermining the concept of the artist's obligation to maintain a single cohesive style. In this image: German artist Gerhard Richter gestures in front of his painting "Abstract Painting (946-3)" during a press conference before the opening of the exhibition "Gerhard Richter, New Paintings" on May 19, 2017.
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