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Traumata will bring together important sculptures, paintings, prints and works on paper that explore the intense psychological states that comprise Louise Bourgeois and Yayoi Kusamas divergent yet parallel careers.
LONDON.- Sothebys S|2 Gallery will stage Londons first joint exhibition dedicated to the work of Louise Bourgeois (1911 2010) and Yayoi Kusama (born 1929). Opening on 23 February, Traumata: Bourgeois/Kusama will bring together defining works from important private collections and art foundations to reveal how these legendary artists laid bare their own psychological traumas to open up new territories for female artistic expression. Japan-born Kusama, best known for her obsessive, densely patterned polka-dot paintings and mirrored installations, has attracted more visitors to her exhibitions around the world than any other artist in recent years. French-born Bourgeois, known for creating unflinchingly honest, autobiographical works which explore sexuality, motherhood and the darkest depths of her own psychology, is credited with inspiring and empowering a wave of contemporary female artists. Burdened by childhood trauma and ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A representative from Sotheby's Hong Kong holds a rare 1684 violin by Antonio Stradivari to the press during a media preview in Hong Kong on February 21, 2017, ahead of the violin's auction on March 28 in London where it is estimated to fetch 1.55 to 2.45 million USD. ISAAC LAWRENCE / AFP
| First New York solo exhibition of Marianna Rothen's work opens at Steven Kasher Gallery | | Palm Beach Modern breaks $1.8M with auction of modern & contemporary art | | Asia Week New York spotlights contemporary art | 
Marianna Rothen, The Vessel (from the series Shadows in Paradise), 2016 (detail). Archival pigment print, printed 2016. 25 x 25 in. Edition 1 of 5 + 1AP; Signed by photographer mount verso.
NEW YORK, NY.- Steven Kasher Gallery presents the first New York solo exhibition of Marianna Rothen. The show features over 20 large scale prints from Rothens latest series Shadows in Paradise and a two-channel video installation The Woman with The Crown. The exhibition launches the artists second monograph, Shadows in Paradise, published by b.frank books, Zurich. The two-channel short film The Woman with a Crown is on view for the first time. The video is based on Princess Dianas 1995 televised interview in which Diana candidly and heartbreakingly describes the end of her marriage and her denigration by the royal family. Watching this fairytale gone wrong, the audience slowly realizes that Rothen is playing four characters all speaking Dianas words. There is a blonde sex worker from Wim Wenders Paris, Texas, a sullen woman based on Frances Farmer, a pimple-faced farm worker, and ... More | | 
Keith Haring (American, 1958-1990), Three Lithographs: One Plate, artists proof 9/20, 1985, sold for: $50,800. All images courtesy of Palm Beach Modern Auctions.
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.- When you have what the people want, word gets out, said Rico Baca, auctioneer and co-owner of Palm Beach Modern Auctions, commenting on the companys $1.8 million auction of modern and contemporary art, Picasso pottery and unique Studio 54 photos from a famous photographers estate. Many different types of collectors were attracted to the sale, which was held Feb. 4 and 5, 2017 at the companys West Palm Beach venue. With each successive auction, we attract new buyers of modern and contemporary art; and we always have a great turnout from our loyal following of modern furniture collectors, Baca said. But this time around there were two specialty categories that made headlines everywhere Picasso pottery, and Studio 54 photos from the estate of photographer Richard P. Manning, known in the disco days as RPM. We had a 100% sell-through rate on both the ... More | | 
Suzuki Osamu (b. 1934), Three thick, folded slabs joined at the center to form a large standing shino-glazed vessel with abstract geometric patterning with fiery red, black and white colorations, ca. 1985, 22 1/4 x 19 3/4 x 18 in. Shino-glazed stoneware. Photo: Joan B. Mirviss, Ltd.
NEW YORK, NY.- When Asia Week New York launches its ten-day extravaganza, on March 9, many of the top-tier galleries will showcase contemporary work alongside classical objects, while others will be devoted solely to present-day works of art. Among the stand-outs: Stronger Together: Two Western Artists Who Embraced the Chinese Idiom at China 2000 Fine Art, focuses on two important western artists, Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg, both of whom created their final projects by re-examining an earlier fascination with Chinese artistic expression and translating this affinity into their own unique idioms. To celebrate her exhibition entitled ThenNow, Carol Davenport will honor the renowned Japanese sculptor, Hiroyuki Asano, who has generously allowed four pieces to be shown during Asia Week New York. ... More |
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| Galloway Viking hoard campaign is launched | | British Museum opens first exhibition focusing on the Pacific Northwest Coast | | Petzel Gallery opens exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Sarah Morris | 
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DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY.- Campaigners are calling for one of the most spectacular Viking hoards ever discovered in Scotland to have its home near where it was found in Dumfries and Galloway. Launched this week, the Galloway Viking Hoard Campaign, is backing Dumfries and Galloway Councils (DGC) proposals for the spectacular finds to have their permanent or regular home in a specially designed exhibition space at the new Kirkcudbright Art Gallery. GVH supporters are concerned that a rival bid by National Museums Scotland (NMS), which is seeking sole ownership, could see the collection disappear to Edinburgh and become just one small exhibit among thousands of others. They point to the growing trend for significant archaeological and cultural items to be exhibited locally rather than in capital cities boosting cultural tourism and enriching a regions ability to celebrate its own distinctive history. According to ... More | | 
Gwa Guilth Bear mask by Nuu-chah-nulth artist Tom Patterson, 1983. © The Trustees of the British Museum.
LONDON.- Where the Thunderbird Lives: cultural resilience on the Northwest Coast of North America explores the rich cultural heritage of Northwest Coast Peoples through a collection of evocative and powerful objects spanning thousands of years. It is the British Museums first exhibition focusing on the Pacific Northwest Coast and celebrates the cultural resilience of the communities in this region. With over 9,000 years of cultural, linguistic and genetic continuity, these societies have successfully maintained their identity and way of life in a rapidly changing world. The exhibition commemorates the tradition of the Thunderbird, a legendary ancestral being who symbolises great strength in Northwest culture and art. On display will also be striking masks depicting ancestral stories and intricate form-line narrations of histories ... More | | 
Sarah Morris, Emirates Palace [Abu Dhabi], 2017 (detail). Household gloss paint on canvas, 35.43 x 35.43 inches. 90 x 90 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Petzel, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Petzel Gallery announces an exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Sarah Morris. The complex language of abstraction, imbued in the paintings of Sarah Morris continues in Finite and Infinite Games, as Morris extracts the codes, systems of control, power structures that characterize urban, social and bureaucratic typologies. The title of the exhibition references James P. Carses book on the sociopolitical implications of game play in everyday life, while the body of work is parallel to two films Morris has made: Abu Dhabi shot on location in the United Arab Emirates, and Finite and Infinite Games, a film featuring Alexander Kluge and the Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg. Architectural, political, and historical examinations of cities through reduced and expanded ... More |
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| Christie's New York announces the March 2017 season of Contemporary sales | | Swann Auction Galleries to offer landmark deluxe portfolio of Chagall lithographs | | Phillips to offer over 100 etchings and aquatints from the collection of Piero Crommelynck | 
Larry Rivers, (1923-2002) Formal Marriage Portrait of Earl and Camilla McGrath, 1965. Estimate: $15,000-20,000. © Christies Images Limited 2017.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announces the March 2017 season of Contemporary sales spanning Post-War and Contemporary Art, Editions, and PhotographsFebruary 23 through March 7. Collectively over 600 lots are presented across multimedia from renowned artists of the 20th and 21st century with estimates ranging from under $1,000 to $700,000. The week features three live auctionsContemporary Edition on Wednesday, March 1; Post-War and Contemporary Art on Friday, March 3; and The Collection of Earl and Camilla McGrath, on March 1 and March 3and a curated online sale titled on paper | online, which groups over 100 lots aiming to celebrate an array of artists, past and present, who have turned to paper as their medium of choice. All works will be on view at the Rockefeller Center Galleries from February 23 March 2 with private ... More | | 
Marc Chagall, Four Tales from the Arabian Nights, complete deluxe edition of 13 colour lithographs, New York, 1948. Estimate $250,000 to $350,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Auction Galleries will offer a landmark series of lithographs by Marc Chagall in their 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings auction on March 2. Created to illustrate The Arabian Nights for Pantheon Books in 1948, the 13 images were Chagalls first colour lithographs and won the Graphic Prize at the Venice Biennale of that year. Between them, they illustrate four of the tales: The Ebony Horse, Julnar the Sea-Born and her Son King Badr Basim of Persia, Abdullah the Fisherman and Abdullah the Merman, and Kamar Al-Zaman and the Jewellers Wife. The recurring theme of the tales and the lithographs is one of love, loss and reunion, and it is thought that the artist was influenced by the loss of his wife, Bella Rosenfeld, who had died in 1944. The series is considered to be among the best examples of lithography from the first half of the 20th century. ... More | | 
After Pablo Picasso, (1881-1973), Le Californie (Intérieur rouge), 1959-60. Aquatint, signed in multi-color pencil, a proof aside from the edition of 300. Estimate: $6,000-8,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- On 18 April in New York, Phillips will host an auction comprised of over 100 etchings and aquatints from the collection of master printer and engraver Piero Crommelynck. While most frequently remembered as Picassos favorite printer of his late intaglios, or the Prince of the printers, as film director Jean-Michel Meurice would call him, in his over forty-year career, Piero famously worked alongside his brother Aldo to bring to life graphic works of art. They developed technical processes for numerous artists who have come to define the visual culture of the 20th century from modernist peintre - graveur Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Le Corbusier to post-war David Hockney, Jim Dine, Jasper Johns and Richard Hamilton, all included in this sale. In the 1990s, Piero opened his own studio ... More |
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| The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts presents immersive installation by Adel Abdessemed | | Exhibition traces the story of mankind's quest to understand, unlock and master the power of electricity | | Sikkema Jenkins & Co. opens Epistemes, a solo show of new work by Vik Muniz | 
(From left to right) Adel Abdessemed, artist; Kim Phuc, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador; and Nathalie Bondil, Director General and Chief Curator of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Montreal, February 16, 2017. Photo Sébastien Roy.
MONTREAL.- The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is presenting Conflict by Franco-Algerian artist Adel Abdessemed until May 7, 2017. This immersive installation features a group of 31 black chalk drawings of life-sized military figures with their guns drawn, surrounding visitors on all sides. Another drawing, Cri (2007), after Nick Uts famous photograph from the Vietnam War of the so-called Napalm Girl, was created by the artist especially for this project. These exceptionally powerful graphic works by Abdessemed question violence and the symbolism of war images. The artist conjures from our memories an iconic photograph and allies himself with civilian victims of war and refugees. I dont talk, I dont write, I scream, he declared. This installation is part the Year for Peace at the Museum, a vast programme of activities and ... More | | 
Lightbulb from John Rylands University Library (opened 1900). Courtesy The Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester.
LONDON.- From the structure of the atom to the function of our brains, an electric charge is hidden within every object on earth. Electricity: The spark of life will trace the story of mankinds quest to understand, unlock and master the power of electricity. Opening at Wellcome Collection in February 2017, this major exhibition will show how this invisible yet vital force is fundamental to human life and has captivated inventors, scientists and artists alike for centuries. It will feature three new commissions by international artists John Gerrard, Camille Henrot and Bill Morrison, and bring together over 100 objects from ancient spark-inducing amber and early electro-static generators to radiographs, photographs, paintings, models and films. Electricity: The spark of life will cover three core themes generation, supply and consumption. Generation: The Great Invisible will show how the history of our enduring fa ... More | | 
Vik Muniz, Interaction of Color 31 (Transparency Over Colored Layered Background), Handmade, 2017. Mixed media, 30.75 x 22.75 inches (78.1 x 57.8 cm), framed © Vik Muniz, courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York..
NEW YORK, NY.- Sikkema Jenkins & Co. presents Epistemes, a solo show of new work by Vik Muniz. The exhibition - which premieres the artists new series Handmade in the United States - will be on view at the gallery from February 23 through April 1, 2017. Best known for his re-creations of iconic images from visual culture made using nontraditional materials and recorded with a camera, Muniz here strips the work of representational imagery, in a direct exploration of the illusionist strategies and material processes that he has developed over the course of his career. As Muniz explains, Its like a menu of the ideas that Ive drawn on, a compendium of strategies exposed in a very simple way. These new works combine the material object and photographic trompe loeil into a unified abstract composition. Commenting on the confounding ... More |
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 $12M gift to support Welcome Center for Denver Art Museum's revitalization of Gio Ponti buildingDENVER, CO.- The Denver Art Museum today announced that Anna and John J. Sie have pledged $12 million to support the construction of a new Welcome Center as part of its North Building revitalization project. The new space will be named the Anna and John J. Sie Welcome Center. Its transparent exterior will serve as a welcoming beacon to visitors and the neighborhood, while creating a clear and accessible point of entry to the North Building. The DAMs North Building project was announced in December 2016 and aims to unify the museums campus and make key improvements to sustain its operation and relevance into the future. Designed by world-renowned Italian architect Gio Ponti and Denver-based James Sudler Associates, the North Building opened to the public in 1971 and houses the majority of the DAMs permanent collection galleries. Its seven-story ... More Exhibition at Allan Stone Projects features works by two unique Pop artistsNEW YORK, NY.- Allan Stone Projects presents Two Views of Pop: Don Nice and Dorothy Grebenak, on view February 23 April 22, 2017. Selected from the Allan Stone Collection, the exhibition features works by two unique Pop artists. Although Don Nice is best known for his depictions of contemporary American culture such as candies, soda bottles and branded sneakers, the early watercolor and oil paintings in this exhibition stem from the artists upbringing on an open range and his love of nature. Dorothy Grebenak is known for her hooked rug tapestries of readymade everyday iconography such as commercial signs, taxi medallions and manhole covers. In Nices oil and watercolor paintings from the 1960s and 1970s, the artist employs more subtle colors and gestures than the hi-sheen approaches of other Pop artists of the time. While rooted in the same ... More Wyeth Wonderland: Joséphine Douet envisions Andrew Wyeth's world YONKERS, NY.- In the countryside of Pennsylvania, French photographer Joséphine Douet followed the path first set by Andrew Wyeth an elegant, spare, and honest view of the landscape and the people of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, the iconic American painters home. Wyeth Wonderland: Joséphine Douet Envisions Andrew Wyeths World is an exhibition of 27 photographs Douet took in this rural region made famous by Wyeth together with a selection of Wyeth watercolors. Joséphine Douets photographs are being shown for the first time in the United States at the Hudson River Museum, and, also for the first time, the Museum explores Andrew Wyeths watercolors. Among them are scenes of farms set in low hills, the faces of working men and profiles of young women, the architecture of roofs, doorways and windows, and the animals who inhabit the landscape. ... More Solo exhibition of Kiki Smith's prints from 1990 through now opens at Mary Ryan GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Mary Ryan Gallery presents Portraits, Celestial Bodies and Fairy Tales, a solo exhibition of Kiki Smiths prints from 1990 through now. Often known first as a sculptor whose transgressive early works confronted mortality and bodily decay, Smith is an innovative printmaker whose more recent work on paper explores nature, portraiture, and fairy tales. Printmaking became an essential part of Smiths practice during the mid-1980s, and she persistently pushes the mediums boundaries not only of style, technique, and imagery but also between print, drawing, and book. On view is a selection of Smiths most important prints, including Sueño (1992) and My Blue Lake (1995), that demonstrate her experimental approach and survey her shifting concerns from physical vulnerability to mythological and natural subjects. The life-sized figure of Sueño is the form ... More Newark Museum celebrates the golden legacy of Chief Curator Ulysses Grant DietzNEWARK, NJ.- When the Newark Museums Chief Curator Ulysses Grant Dietz steps down from his position at the end of 2017, he will leave behind a 37-year legacy marked with silver, jewels, ceramics and a Victorian mansion. Dietz will transition from his post as the Museums Chief Curator and Curator of Decorative Arts to Curator Emeritus as of December 31st. In preparation for his new role, Dietz is giving Museum visitors a chance to revisit a broad representation of the objects he helped bring into its collections. Each of these reinstallations in the decorative arts galleries is intended to focus on both the Museums history of interest in the impact of design and craft on domestic furnishings, and also on Dietzs own evolving vision for the vast collection in his care. We have an unbroken history of collecting modern objects that represent the idea that art is everywhere, ... More Cult Japanese film director Seijun Suzuki dead at 93TOKYO (AFP).- Japanese B-movie director, Seijun Suzuki, whose prolific output from gangster films to fantasies influenced international filmmakers including Quentin Tarantino, has died, his former studio announced on Wednesday. He was 93. Suzuki died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on February 13, the Nikkatsu studio said in a statement expressing "deep gratitude and respect to his great achievements". In a career spanning five decades, Suzuki's works "had a great influence on movie fans and film makers around the world," the company said. Though Suzuki was not widely known among audiences outside Japan, he had an impact on other directors. The Hollywood Reporter said he inspired filmmakers including Tarantino, Jim Jarmusch, Wong Kar-wai and fellow countryman Takeshi Kitano. Suzuki's cinematic style was recently described by "L ... More Major public art installation Trading Words and pop-up exhibition unveiled at London Dock LONDON.- Trading Words at London Dock is a major public art installation by renowned artist Gordon Young, unveiled at an exciting new development in Wapping, close to St Katharine Docks, Tower Bridge and the City. Designed by architects Patel Taylor, London Dock will comprise 1,800 new homes and 200,000 sq ft of commercial floor space, set within 6 acres of open space, including a spectacular new public square centred upon a magnificent choreographed water feature. The first part of the Trading Words installation was officially unveiled on 22 February and accompanied by a popup exhibition which will run until 30 April, providing insights into the fascinating history and heritage of the site, as well as documenting the creation of the work from design to installation. Commissioned by leading London property developer St George, Young, in conjunction ... More Kunsthalle Basel opens Maria Loboda's first institutional solo exhibition in SwitzerlandBASEL.- Pay attention to her titles. There is subterfuge in Maria Lobodas use of language and in her deployment of stories at once obscure, magical, or strange in the making of her art. Their historical exactitude is largely ir- relevant; what matters is that they circulate and in so doing tell us something about our desires, fears, pasts, and potential futures. As a student, the artists first public presentation was an assembly of rather ordinary items, including white wood, verbena, fine steel, goatskin, and green ribbons. But its title, The Evocation of Lucifuge Rofocale (2004), meant that visitors who read it inadvertently found themselves calling forth the dark lord in a room full of all the items from the classic demonological recipe to summon him. The project revealed the artists persistent fascination with how mere things can be bestowed with a mysterious and auratic force. ... More Bilbao Fine Arts Museum presents a work by the contemporary artist Javier PérezBILBAO.- Thanks to sponsorship by Fundación Banco Santander, the latest edition of the Invited Work programme is presenting a work by the contemporary artist from Bilbao Javier Pérez. Entitled Carrion, this installation created in 2011 comprises ten stuffed crows perched on fragments of an ornate chandelier made of red Murano glass. After completing his studies at the Fine Arts faculty of the University of the Basque Country and at the Ãcole supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he lived from 1992 to 1997, Javier Pérez's distinctive style rapidly achieved recognition in the art world. His artistic career can be seen in the context of the generation of artists from Bilbao which emerged with force on the international art scene in the 1990s. In 2001 and together with Ana Laura Aláez (born Bilbao, 1964), Pérez was selected by Estrella de Diego to present his work ... More Buster Brown and the Yellow Kid: Rarities of 100 years ago in Heritage Comic Art AuctionDALLAS, TX.- The landmark collection of American cartoonist Richard Felton Outcault considered by historians as the father of the American comic strip makes its auction debut Feb. 24 at Heritage Auctions. Eight pieces of rare original art from Outcault's work on Buster Brown and The Yellow Kid are estimated to sell between $8,000 and $20,000 each. The artworks date from 1903 to 1917 and are consigned by Outcault's own family, who has held the items since the artist's passing in 1928. The Yellow Kid's influence was so important it is responsible for the creation of the phrase "yellow journalism" and singlehandedly boosted the circulation of the papers that carried the strip. Buster Brown was the first nationwide comic strip hit that was merchandised nationally and it was said that "Buster's personality became the idol for America's childhood." "Outcault was among ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Ukrainian painter and art theorist Kazimir Malevich was born February 23, 1878. Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (23 February 1879, previously 1878 - 15 May 1935) was a Russian painter and art theoretician. He was a pioneer of geometric abstract art and the originator of the avant-garde Suprematist movement. In this image: Sotheby's employees Tim Ritson, left, and Meghann Farrell, right, both from Australia, stand beside Russian artist Kazimir Malevich's painting 'Supremist Composition' at the auction house's offices in London, Friday, Oct. 3, 2008.
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