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Larsen works slowly and deliberately, more like a caretaker than an engineer. She mixes her own egg tempera colors using finely ground raw pigments, and she applies them skillfully and meticulously to linen surfaces of generally modest size, both horizontal and vertical.
NEW YORK, NY.- Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art is presenting Nightview, a solo exhibition of paintings by Liv Mette Larsen. Born in 1952 in Norway, Larsen now lives and works in Bushwick, Brooklyn. The exhibition consists of nineteen paintings, all done using egg tempera on linen. Selected works on paper by the artist will be on view in the gallerys back room. Larsen has long preferred buildings, often variably industrial, as her subject matter. Factories, warehouses, water towers, and silos are among the structures in her customary wheelhouse, and she depicts them individually or paired (Vertical Night View IV, Small Night View XI), or at times in small groups (Night View VII, Night View XIII). Landscapes they are, skylines they are but then again, not really. Buildingscapes describes them better; building portraits hits even closer to home. The artist ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view, Pedro Wirz, Environmental Hangover, Kunsthalle Basel, 2022, view on Flor Satélite, 2022 (left), Chapéu Telúrico, 2022 (right), Ovo Espacial, 2022 (floor). Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel.
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| First UK NFT exhibition of iconic Italian masterpieces, from Da Vinci to Modigliani, launches at Unit London | | Museum security guard adds eyes to painting's faceless figures | | Hindman launches independent appraisals division | 
Amedeo Modigliani Testa di Giovane Donna (Head of a Young Lady), Conceived in 1915 and digitised in 2021 DAW® (Digital Artwork), Image by Perry-James Sugden.
LONDON.- Unit London is presenting Eternalising Art History, a ground-breaking exhibition of digital counterparts of six treasured Italian masterpieces, certified on the Blockchain and recreated as physical reproductions of the original works. These digital artworks have been produced in partnership with four major Italian cultural institutions, including the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Eternalising Art History features iconic works, many of which have never been seen in the UK, by Italian Masters such as Leonardo Da Vinci, Caravaggio, Raphael, Modigliani and Francesco Hayez. The six masterpieces span several different art historical movements, from the Renaissance period to 19th Century Romanticism and Modernist abstraction. The original works reside within four important ... More | | 
The guard at a museum in Russia has been suspended after he used a pen to draw on Three Figures, an avant-garde painting from the 1930s.
NEW YORK, NY.- A security guard who recently vandalized a 1930s-era painting during his first shift at a museum in Russia has been suspended for what a top official at the museum called a stupid mistake. In December, the guard at the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center in Yekaterinburg, Russia, used a ballpoint pen to draw eyes on two of the faceless subjects of Three Figures, which artist Anna Leporskaya painted from 1932 to 1934. The painting, which was on loan to the center from a museum in Moscow, was part of a temporary exhibition of avant-garde artwork. The Yeltsin center, which is dedicated to Russias first elected president, did not announce the vandalism at the time. But after a report of the incident last month by The Art Newspaper Russia drew international attention, the center said in a statement that there was an accident. In an interview with ... More | | 
Hindmans Tim Luke will Serve as National Director of Appraisals & Valuations.
CHICAGO, IL.- Hindman announces the launch of Hindman Appraisals LLC, an independent division, to further elevate its offerings to clients by providing independent, impartial and objective appraisal services. This launch follows a critical year in 2021, marked by a significant expansion of Hindmans appraisal capabilities. Last year alone, Hindman appraised nearly a quarter of a billion dollars in fine and decorative arts, jewelry, collectibles, household contents and other tangible personal property, an 800% increase since 2020. The firm also added a secure appraisal management software program with smartphone apps to streamline cataloging and photographing collections during on-site inspections. Hindmans Tim Luke will lead this new division as National Director of Appraisals & Valuations. Luke has also been appointed as the Vice-Chair of the Appraisal Standards Board (ASB) by the Appraisal ... More |
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| Sotheby's to offer the largest fancy vivid blue diamond ever to appear at auction | | Inaugural exhibition at Gagosian Gstaad features never-before-exhibited works by Damien Hirst | | Hauser & Wirth brings together 12 contemporary artists working in the traditions of quilting and textile practice | 
De Beers Cullinan Blue. Estimated in excess of US$48 million. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announces today that it will present The De Beers Cullinan Blue, an extraordinary natural treasure and one of the most valuable blue diamonds ever to be offered at auction. Estimated in excess of US$48 Million / HK$380 million, this extraordinary 15.10-carat step-cut blue has been recently cut from an exceptional rough stone discovered in April 2021. In its masterfully crafted, newly formed state, it now re-emerges as the largest vivid blue diamond ever to appear at auction and the largest internally flawless step cut vivid blue diamond that the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) has ever graded. Blue diamonds of this importance are exceptionally rare, with only five 10-carat+ examples ever having come to auction, none of which have exceeded 15 carats, making the appearance of this flawless gem a landmark event in itself. The De Beers Cullinan Blue anchors Sothebys Hong Kong Luxury Week, and will be offered ... More | | 
Damien Hirst, Sharon Tate, 2020. Oil on canvas, 24 x 20 1/2 in. 61 x 52 cm © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS 2022. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd. Courtesy Gagosian.
GSTAAD.- Marking the opening of the new gallery in Gstaad, Gagosian is presenting Myths, Legends and Monsters, an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Damien Hirst. Produced over the past fifteen years, these works have not previously been exhibited. Myths, Legends and Monsters (2007) is a series of monochromatic oil paintings that depict legendary artistic, political, and pop-cultural personalities including Jean-Michel Basquiat, David Bowie, Sharon Tate, and Andy Warhol. Reconsidering what makes such figures lastingly iconic, Hirst calls into question contemporary notions of celebrity and identity, influence and notoriety. The series subjects are all complex individualsfar from being straightforward heroes or villains, they possess aspects of all three elements of the title. I tried to represent humanityor, often, a lack of itin all its facets, Hirst explains. ... More | | 
Tomashi Jackson, Upright, Colored, and Free, 2017. Mixed media on wood frame, 190.5 x 137.2 x 25.4 cm / 75 x 54 x 10 inches © Tomashi Jackson. Courtesy the artist and Tilton Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Curated by Legacy Russell, Executive Director & Chief Curator of The Kitchen, The New Bend brings together 12 contemporary artists working in the raced, classed, and gendered traditions of quilting and textile practice Anthony Akinbola, Eddie R. Aparicio, Dawn Williams Boyd, Diedrick Brackens, Tuesday Smillie, Tomashi Jackson, Genesis Jerez, Basil Kincaid, Eric N. Mack, Sojourner Truth Parsons, Qualeasha Wood, and Zadie Xa. Their unique visual vernacular exists in tender dialogue with, and in homage to, the contributions of the Gees Bend Alabama quilters Black American women in collective cooperation and creative economic production and their enduring legacy as a radical meeting place, a prompt, and as intergenerational inspiration. This exhibition acknowledges the work of Gees Bend quilters such as Sarah Benning ... More |
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| P·P·O·W Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Elizabeth Glaessner | | Advance details of The Costume Institute's 2022 spring exhibition unveiled by The Met | | Alia Farid presents three bodies of new work at Kunsthalle Basel | 
Elizabeth Glaessner, Fuzz, 2021. Oil on canvas, 16 x 12 ins. 40.6 x 30.5 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- P·P·O·W is presenting Elizabeth Glaessners third exhibition with the gallery, Phantom Tail. Siphoning inspiration from an evolving pool of art historical, mythological, and cultural references, and inspired by symbolist painters such as Edvard Munch, Glaessner conjures a surreal universe of hypnotic landscapes populated by androgynous doppelgängers, sphinxes, fiends, mirages, and more. Throughout the exhibition, Glaessners paintings act as portals, shepherding us into a world unmoored by virtue or vice where all manner of myths coexist without predetermined moral resolution. The exhibitions title, Phantom Tail, refers to both the lingering sensation of a primordial tail and alludes to possible origin tales now long forgotten. As a child, Glaessners protruding tail bone spawned an investigation of this feature as a lost vestige of humankinds physical animality and our lost ... More | | 
Evening dress, Stephen Burrows (American, born 1943), 1973; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Anne Markley Spivak, 1985 (1985.379.4a, b). Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Costume Institutes 2022 spring exhibition, In America: An Anthology of Fashionthe second of a two-part presentationwill explore the foundations of American fashion through a series of sartorial displays featuring individual designers and dressmakers who worked in the United States from the 19th to the mid-late 20th century. In celebration of In America: An Anthology of Fashion, The Costume Institute Benefit (also known as The Met Gala) will return to the first Monday in May. The benefit provides The Costume Institute with its primary source of annual funding for exhibitions, publications, acquisitions, operations, and capital improvements. Max Hollein, the Marina Kellen French Director of The Met, said: In America: An Anthology of Fashion traces the emergence of a distinct American ... More | | 
Installation view, Alia Farid, In Lieu of What Is, view on Water Bottle, 2022, Kunsthalle Basel, 2022. Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel.
BASEL.- Thousands have lived without love, not one without water British poet W. H. Auden famously wrote. It seems fitting to recall his words here, in an introduction to Alia Farids work because, in a certain sense, much of the art she has made in recent years comes down to love and water. Entwined with these basic human needs are the contradictory forces of conflict and nature, ideology and ecology, vulnerability and justice, and ultimately, the ways in which greed and vengeanceloves antagonistshave historically weaponized water in the Arab world. It is this region and a complex of concerns on which the Kuwaiti Puerto Rican artist focuses her first exhibition in Switzerland. Farid presents three bodies of new work: a series of monumental sculptures that imposingly stand, lined up, one after the other, in the main space, as well as a sound piece and a display of found textile ... More |
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| Mimi Ọnụọha's first solo exhibition with bitforms on view in New York | | Bridget Riley presents works in dialogue with Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party | | Centre Pompidou opens an exhibition of photographs by Gaston Paris | 
Mimi Ọnụọha, An Abridged History, 2019. From the series In Absentia Risograph print on paper. 20.5 x 14.5 in / 52 x 37 cm. Edition 1 of 3, 1 AP
NEW YORK, NY.- bitforms is presenting Mimi Ọnụọhas first solo exhibition with the gallery, Everything That Didnt Fit. Ọnụọha draws attention to the quotidian logic of the technocolonial, a logic that results in certain experiences, people, histories, and sensations falling outside of contemporary systems of digital data collection. In a society where that which cannot be documented, recorded, or proven does not carry weight, Everything That Didnt Fit is an ode to absence, and a call to undo and expand the categories of value that inform modern sociotechnical systems. My first real art intervention was nearly a decade ago, when I spent a summer giving every man who catcalled me a slip of paper with a phone number on it. In a sense, the phone number was mine. But it was also a number I had connected to a distant server and pre-programmed to respond to any messages it received with stock handcrafted ... More | | 
Bridget Riley, One Small Step, 2009. Screenprint, 17 3/8 x 11 1/2 in. Edition of 300, 1 of 30 AP. Courtesy of David Zwirner, New York and London © Bridget Riley 2022. All rights reserved.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Phillips Collection presents Bridget Riley / Pierre-Auguste Renoir, a One-on-One exhibition that focuses on the color red, with an artist who has been honored for her outstanding use of color. The Phillipss One-on-One series engages a contemporary artist to select one or several works by an artist from the museums permanent collection and juxtapose them with one or several works of their own. The series underscores how Americas first museum of modern art continues to experiment while honoring tradition. For this installation, British painter Bridget Riley (b. 1931, London, United Kingdom), known for her singular Op Art paintings and awarded the prestigious Dutch Sikkens Prize for her use of color, selected two of her red paintingsRed Overture (2012) and Red with Red 1 (2007)to be displayed vis-Ã -vis Luncheon of the Boating Party (1880-81) by Pierre- ... More | | 
Exercices dassouplissement au studio du gymnase Pons, Pigalle, Paris, 1935. Silver gelatine print, 22.7 à 17 cm. Private collection © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet.
PARIS.- Gaston Paris (1905-1964), a talented photographer and assiduous who was frequently published, notably in VU magazine, remains largely unknown. A virtuoso technician and ingenious observer, he and his peers catered to the visual appetite of the 1930s. The exhibition entitled Gaston Paris. Photography on show invites us to rediscover the importance of this photographer who was undeniably influenced by Surrealism and the social fantasy of his day. The exhibition also reviews the different supports for photography: it presents some fifty period prints, twenty-five thematic plates illustrated with contact prints, fifty reproductions from magazines, more than one hundred late prints made in the 1960s and 1970s, with the projection of somehundred digitised negatives. From music hall girls to the children of the famous Paris zones, including the aerodynamic wind tunnel ... More |
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 Nye & Company announces Chic and Antique Estate Treasures Auction, March 2nd-3rdBLOOMFIELD, NJ.- Nye & Company Auctioneers two-day, online Chic and Antique Estate Treasures auction, March 2nd and 3rd, will be headlined by property from a private New York City collection, property from the Stephen and Stephanie Alpert collection, property from a Provincetown, Massachusetts collector, and property from a Verona, New Jersey collection. The Wednesday-Thursday sale will begin promptly at 10 am Eastern time both days. Up for bid is a wide variety of fine and decorative arts with a concentration on Art Deco and Mid-Century Modern furniture, contemporary and modern paintings, monotypes and prints. Headliners include two Andy Warhol screen prints in colors of flowers. These exceptional works are signed and numbered (129/250). Inspired in 1964 from the botanical issue of modern photography, Warhol ... More  Solo exhibition by celebrated Venezuelan artist Jaime Gili opens at Cecilia Brunson ProjectsLONDON.- Cecilia Brunson Projects announced a solo exhibition by celebrated Venezuelan artist Jaime Gili (b.1972, Caracas). The exhibition, entitled Loop, explores the ever- spiralling ideas which link Gilis artistic, familial and national history. In this exhibition, Gili draws on designs and geometric motifs made by the artist across the last two decades of his practice in order to investigate the repeated elements which appear throughout his artistic development, now realised in bold colour. The exhibition and title also reference the looping narratives behind the artist and his countrys shared histories. Gilis father, whose diaries from the 1960s were central to the development of the exhibition, fled Francoist Spain to settle in Venezuela in 1968. In 1996, Jaime Gili returned across the Atlantic to settle in London. Today, approximately 6 ... More  Six highlights from the Black Film ArchiveNEW YORK, NY.- Next week, the Black Film Archive a living register of Black cinema will officially turn 6 months old. Its roots, though, stretch back much further, to the time its founder, Maya Cade, was studying journalism at Howard University. There, she edited the arts section of the student newspaper, The Hilltop. While I was exploring my intimate definitions of Blackness, in this fully Black space, for the first time, I was able to see possibility in Blackness and not just a burden, Cade said. That really has shaped how I see films, how much care I want to put in the Black Film Archive. The archive, which now contains around 200 pieces, showcases works made from 1915 to 1979 that are available to stream online. And Cade, an audience development strategist at the Criterion Collection, has received simultaneous distinctions from both the New ... More  A 'Merchant of Venice' that doubles down on painNEW YORK, NY.- More than 30 years ago, John Douglas Thompson, then a successful salesman at a Fortune 500 company, saw a play in New Haven, Connecticut. When it was over, he offered up a prayer: Please, God, make me an actor. Teach me how to do that, and make this possible for me. Thompson told me this five years ago, on the floor of a Broadway lobby after finishing a performance of August Wilsons Jitney. And I remembered it last week, watching him as Shylock in Arin Arbus caustic, provocative production of Shakespeares The Merchant of Venice at Theater for a New Audience. That prayer has been answered. Since 2009, when he played Othello also for Arbus, also at Theater for a New Audience audiences have recognized Thompson as an outstanding classical actor, perhaps the greatest Shakespeare interpreter ... More  An exhilarating set of Cecil Taylor's jazz arrives, 49 years laterNEW YORK, NY.- Creative jazz at its best is a music of discovery: improvisers caught up together in a moment thats passing even as they conjure it, with the next already materializing between them. The jazz business, meanwhile, is often about rediscovery, as newly issued recordings from canonized greats frequently outsell and out-stream the releases of contemporary musicians, even those certain to be canonized themselves someday. This Tuesdays digital-only arrival of a mostly lost concert from innovative pianist Cecil Taylor exemplifies both points. Recorded at the Town Hall in New York on Nov. 4, 1973, the music gushes as if it were an uncapped fireplug. Previously unreleased, the relentless 88-minute track Autumn/Parade catches the inexhaustible Cecil Taylor Unit in the grip of one revelation after another, playing free jazz, a style of improvisation, ... More  Kathryn Kates, actress of 'Seinfeld' babka fame, dies at 73NEW YORK, NY.- Kathryn Kates, who appeared as a counterwoman in two memorable scenes from Seinfeld involving baked goods in short supply chocolate babkas and marble rye bread and racked up numerous screen credits over nearly 50 years, died on Jan. 22 at her brothers home in Lake Worth, Florida. She was 73. The cause was lung cancer, the brother, Josh Kates, said. Kathryn Kates, who lived in Manhattan, had roles in dozens of television shows and movies, including the recent series Shades of Blue on NBC, Friends From College on Netflix and The Good Fight on CBS. She appeared in five episodes of Law and Order a fixture on the résumé of most New York working actors as Judge Marlene Simmons. She also had a recurring role in Netflixs Orange Is the New Black, as the mother of Jason Biggs character, ... More  Items belonging to Duncan Edwards of Manchester United and England to be offered at auctionLONDON.- England and Manchester United Footballer Duncan Edwards was just 21 years old, and his girlfriend/ fiancée Molly Leech was only 22 years, when he took the flight to Munich; they had all their life ahead of them. What happened to the Busby Babes on February 6, 1958 will never be forgotten and Duncan survived the horrific crash, which killed 20 of the passengers. He was taken to hospital but died 15 days later on February 21, 1958. Molly had been his girlfriend for three years, they were due to get married. When the accident happened she rushed out to Germany to be at his side at the hospital and be there to bring him home. Sadly she didnt get to bring him home and had to bring back Duncans belongings. Molly died in 2004 but the items belonging to Duncan were always kept for safekeeping in her loft. They are now ... More  OPEN unveils design for Sun Tower in Yantai, ChinaBEIJING.- OPEN has revealed the design for its under-construction Sun Tower project on the coast of Yantai, a booming city on the coast of the Yellow Sea. Recipient of the Jeu dEsprit Special Prize of AR Future Project Awards 2021, the Sun Tower comprises a semi-outdoor theatre on the ground, a winding exhibition space, and a library in the sky. The building also has a unique semi-outdoor space at the top, referred to as the phenomena space, designed for people to observe the magnificent natural phenomena throughout the year. The name of the city of Yantai means Beacon Tower and was derived from the series of watchtowers built during the Ming dynasty as a warning against impending attacks on the coastline. The city wanted to create a landmark on the coast, its fast-developing new district, one of the earliest special ... More  Dix Noonan Webb to sell the Throckenholt CrossLONDON.- 38-year-old builder and father of three, Jason Willis, who lives in Norwich, enjoys going metal detecting with eight of his friends each Sunday. Come rain or shine and over the past six years, he has travelled from Wiltshire to Cambridgeshire to Oxfordshire in search of treasure! One Sunday in April 2019 he hit gold, when detecting with his trusty Minelab Etrac. A few inches down, he spotted something that looked interesting - after washing off the mud, he realised he was holding a tiny golden cross! This rare find will be offered for sale by Dix Noonan Webb in their auction of Jewellery, Watches and Objects of Vertu on Tuesday March 15, 2022 at their Mayfair saleroom (16 Bolton Street, London W1J 8BQ) and is estimated to fetch £6,000-8,000. Described now as the Throckenholt Cross, Jason recalls when he discovered it in a field in Sutton ... More  1964 Aston Martin DB5 for sale with H&H ClassicsLONDON.- This beautiful 1964 Aston Martin DB5 like the one James Bond used in Goldfinger could be yours for an estimate of £400,000 to £500,000 when it comes to auction with H&H Classics on March 16th at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford. In single family ownership since 1985 and subject to a seven-year restoration from 1989 to 1996 this car has matching chassis and engine numbers plus s factory fitted S5/325 ZF 5-Speed manual gearbox. It is one of a mere 898 DB5 fixed-heads ever made and within the first 200 to roll out of Newport Pagnell. Over £60,000 recently invested and ready to be enjoyed and admired. Finished in Dubonnet Rosso complemented by its original Fawn leather interior it was originally supplied by Cyril Williams Aston Martin of Wolverhampton and registered on 5th February 1964 with its current number plate ... More  First New York solo presentation of the work of Carole Harris on view at Sargent's DaughtersNEW YORK, NY.- Sargents Daughters is presenting The Past is Present, the first New York solo presentation of the work of Carole Harris, a Detroit-based artist whose career spans five decades. Harris blends techniques from quilting, embroidery, and paper-making, often combining found materials to produce abstract, wall mounted compositions. By distilling the past alongside the present, her work weaves together a variety of histories and memories into tangible objects that both evidence the past and suggest new assemblages. Often drawing inspiration from her native Detroit, Harris produces quilts that retain a rawness despite their polish, meandering like the city in unforeseen spurts and directions. Though Harris practice is grounded in the history of textile arts, she has redefined and subverted the basic concepts of quilting to suit ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German-American painter Hans Hofmann died February 17, 1966. Hans Hofmann (March 21, 1880 - February 17, 1966) was a German-born American abstract expressionist painter. Hofmann's art work is distinguished by a rigorous concern with pictorial structure, spatial illusion, and color relationships. He was also heavily influenced in his later years by Henri Matisse's ideas about color and form. In this image: Hans Hofmann, The Lark, um 1960. Ãl auf Leinwand, 152,7 x 133 cm. University of California, Berkeley Art Museum und Pacific Film Archive. Schenkung von Hans Hofmann, 1965 © JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., and Patricia A. Gallagher, Trustees of the Renate, Hans and Maria Hofmann Trust.
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