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All You Need Is Love, Love, Love by Damien Hirst (b. 1965), estimated at $25,000 - 45,000.
Photo: Bonhams.
BOSTON, MASS.- Bonhams Skinner will kick off an exciting 2023 with four noteworthy sales in January across its salerooms in Boston and Marlborough, Massachusetts. Prints & Photographs will feature an iconic photograph, Nude on Sand, Oceano, by Edward Weston as well as a vibrant print by Damien Hirst, titled All You Need Is Love, Love, Love. The Modern Design sale will present a collection of Steuben glass from the Dimitroff Family including several decorated Aurene glass vases and rare examples of glass shades. Fine Books & Rare Manuscripts will be highlighted by two letters, one signed by Edgar Allan Poe and the other by George Washington. Finally, American Art will be led by an exceptional oil painting, Ring around a Rosie, by Edward Henry Potthast. Featuring over 150 lots which span from the earliest days of printmaking and photography to Contemporary works, Bonhams Skinner will present Prints & Photographs, online from January 16 - 26. Highlig ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The mumok collection contains nearly five hundred works related to animals---a considerable quantity that raises the question of what kind of zoo the museum in fact is. The Animal Within addresses such questions and uses the popular appeal of animals to reflect on the nature of sex, hunger, and affection, as well as on family and gender relations, socialization and domestication, and, not least, on the enduring impact of colonial history.
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| Jeff Beck, guitarist with a page in rock history, dies at 78 | | Kim Dingle at Sperone Westwater with exhibition Open Call for Blue Lemons | | Hong Kong Palace Museum special exhibition "Odysseys of Art: Masterpieces Collected by the Princes of Liechtenstein" |
Jeff Beck performs at Madison Square Garden in New York on April 13, 2013. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times)
by Jim Farber
NEW YORK, NY.- Jeff Beck, one of the most skilled, admired and influential guitarists in rock history, died Tuesday at a hospital near his home in Surrey, England. He was 78. The cause was bacterial meningitis, Melissa Dragich, his publicist, said. During the 1960s and 70s, as either a member of the Yardbirds or as leader of his own bands, Beck brought a sense of adventure to his playing that helped make the recordings by those groups groundbreaking. In 1965, when Beck joined the Yardbirds, to replace another guitar hero, Eric Clapton, the group was already one of the defining acts in Britains growing electric blues movement. But his stinging licks and darting leads on songs like Shapes of Things and Over Under Sideways Down added an expansive element to the music that helped signal the emerging psychedelic rock revolution ... More | |
Kim Dingle, Blue Lemon 1, 2022. Oil on acrylic in powder coated aluminum frame, 36 x 30 inches, 91,4 x 76,2 cm, 36 1/4 x 30 1/4 inches (92,1 x 76,8 cm) frame
NEW YORK, NY.- Sperone Westwater opened the exhibition OPEN CALL FOR BLUE LEMONS this past January 6th. This is Kim Dingles sixth solo exhibition at the gallery, which will end on February 25th, 2023. In her new series of paintings, Dingles longstanding alter ego, Priss, thinks she is now old enough to audition for fashion week. Demure and ferocious, dolled up in her classic frilly white dresses, Priss twists her limbs and contorts her torso into runway-ready poses. Dingles paintings pivot sharply on the contrast between the prim children she depicts and the adult behavior in which they engagein this case, suggestive and provocative gestures of the body learned from the fashion industrys commodification of the female figure. The subjects are vehicles for self-portraiture, whether of Dingle herself or in the guise of her partner, the Haitian-born Aude Charles, who as a former model and modeling ... More | |
Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 15771640), Portrait of Clara Serena Rubens, daughter of the artist, about 1616. Oil on canvas. © LIECHTENSTEIN. The Princely Collections, VaduzVienna.
HONG KONG.- The Hong Kong Palace Museum and the world-renowned Liechtenstein Princely Collections (the Collections) are currently presenting the special exhibition Odysseys of Art: Masterpieces Collected by the Princes of Liechtenstein in Gallery 8 of the museum since 9 November 2022, and where it will continue through 20 February 2023, with LGT Private Banking (LGT) as Principal Sponsor. This exhibition is the museums first major special exhibition after its opening exhibitions, as well as the first exhibition featuring European masterpieces. Co-curated by the teams of experts from the Hong Kong Palace Museum and the Liechtenstein Princely Collections, the exhibition sheds light on the Princely House of Liechtensteins history of art collecting, and the masterpieces and achievements of many European ... More |
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| Ketterer Kunst online only auction U N C O V E R E D: The Beauty of Provocation soon to end | | Rashawn Griffin opens exhibition today at Ballon Rouge in Brussels | | Atul Dodiya 'Dr. Banerjee in Dr. Kulkarni's Nursing Home and Other Paintings 2020-2022' opens tomorrow |
Fritz Köthe, 1984. Oil on canvas, 160.5 x 110 cm. Estimate: 8,000 10,000. Photo Courtesy of: Ketterer Kunst.
BERLIN.- Whether Modern or Contemporary Art the beauty of provocation prevailed in every epoch. Accordingly, both expressiveness and poignancy characterize the range of offers in the Online Only Auction that Ketterer Kunst opened on December 11, 2022 will end this January 15, 2023 under the motto UNCOVERED The Beauty Of Provocation. This exceptional theme sale shows a wide range of angles international artists have on the human body. Erotic, passion and sensuality come to the fore in the most different ways in select works from the 20th and 21st century by renowned artists like Horst Antes, Alexander Archipenko, Stephan Balkenhol, Max Beckmann, Salvador DalÃ, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Allen Jones, Max Kaus, Georg Kolbe, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Gerhard Marcks, Helmut Middendorf, Emil Nolde, Hermann Max Pechstein, Pablo Picasso ... More | |
Exhibition view of Décors, by Rashawn Griffin.
BRUSSELS.- Today, Ballon Rouge in Brussels is opening a solo show with new works by Rashawn Griffin (born 1980, Los Angeles). Décors is the American artist's first solo exhibition in Belgium. Griffin has shown extensively at institutions and galleries throughout the United States and Europe since 2005, notably in the 2008 Whitney Biennial and at the Studio Museum in Harlem, NY. He was the recipient of the Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant Award in 2007.
Griffin is known for his large-scale installations, sculptures, and paintings which use domestic and everyday materials. The works in Décors have a self-referential aspect, with nods to past works. The colored clay pieces in this exhibition are paintings of previous works in which he painted with fabrics, for example. The works are small worlds or windows. They are paintings as much as they are sculptures as much as they are installations ... More | |
Atul Dodiya, born 20 January 1959, in Ghatkopar, Mumbai, India. "Life throbs in the frozen moment. We are inside the room where the artificial is real and truth resides. The actor does not lie." Atul Dodiya
MUMBAI.- The exhibition 'Dr Banerjee in Dr Kulkarni's Nursing Room & Other Paintings, 2000-2022' opens tomorrow at Gallery Chemould as a part of the Mumbai Gallery Weekend'23 and will run until the 25th of February 2023. It is particularly significant because it is the 60th year of Chemould, and it was 34 years ago since Atul had his first solo exhibition at the first Gallery Chemould on the first floor of Jehangir Art Gallery. His exhibition took the art world by surprise, whether one was a fellow artist, a senior artist or a collector, the name Atul Dodiya was resounding in art circles! Truly a star was born! Years later, the artist has continued to create his own distinct language and charm the world with his multiple interests, be it cinema, be it his intense relationship with art history, with Gandhi or with poetry. Drawing from popular Indian cinema ... More |
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| James Cohan to present Lee Mullican's The Nest Revived starting today | | Karen Cooper, longtime Film Forum Director, steps down after 50 Years | | Colby Museum names new Lunder Curator of Works on Paper and Whistler Studies |
Lee Mullican, The Nest Revived, 1948. Oil on canvas, 25 x 30 in. (63.5 x 76.2 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan presents the opening of Lee Mullican: The Nest Revived, on view from January 12 through February 25, 2023, at the gallerys 52 Walker Street location. This is the artists fourth solo exhibition at James Cohan. The gallery will host an opening reception on Thursday, January 12 from 5-7 PM. Lee Mullican: The Nest Revived spans six decades of formal experimentation by the late West Coast artist. This exhibition brings together important early paintings and rarely-seen wooden assemblages from the 1940s and 50s along with a monumental painting, totemic ceramics, and a groundbreaking digital artwork from the 1980s. Mullican was a seeker. Drawing on a wide range of influences, he moved between painting and sculpture to push abstraction and pattern beyond the surface of the canvas. The exhibition reflects upon the dynamic processes that defined Mullicans art-making and reveals the artists ... More | |
Karen Cooper, Director, Film Forum. Photo by Henny Garfunkel.
NEW YORK, NY.- After exactly half a century (1972-2022) as Director of Film Forum, the nonprofit cinema in Lower Manhattan, Karen Cooper will step down from the position and will be succeeded by Sonya Chung. Film Forums board, headed by Gray Coleman (Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP), unanimously voted on the change in leadership this past November. It will take effect on July 1, 2023. Cooper will remain an advisor to Chung, with a focus on programming premieres and fundraising. Says Coleman, To say this is a transitional moment would be a vast understatement for virtually all of its history, Film Forum has been energetically and most ably guided by Karen, not least during the very challenging pandemic period from which we are emerging. My board colleagues and I are extremely grateful for her tenure, and excited that in Sonya we have secured a very talented successor with her own long and productive history with the organiz ... More | |
Elisa Germán. Photo © 2023 Reba M. Saldanha Photography.
WATERVILLE, ME.- The Colby College Museum of Art announced today that Elisa Germán has been appointed Lunder Curator of Works on Paper and Whistler Studies. Through innovative research, writing, and curation, Germán has distinguished herself as a leading contributor to the field of works on paper. At Colby, Germans area of oversight will encompass all aspects of the museums exhibition and collection initiatives related to prints, drawings, and photographs, with a special focus on the nearly four hundred works by James McNeill Whistler in the museums Lunder Collection. Relatedly, Germán will serve as the liaison to the Lunder Consortium for Whistler Studies, which includes the Colby Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the University of Glasgow, and the Freer Gallery of Art at the National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution. The recent growth of the Colby Museums photography collection ... More |
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| Paintings of Vilhelm Hammershøi featured in Hammershøi: Painter of Northern Light | | Denver Art Museum to unveil reimagined Hamilton Building Collection Galleries in May 2023 | | 39th annual Infinity Awards Honorees announced |
Cover of Hammershøi: Painter of Northern Light.
NEW YORK, NY.- Showcasing the best works by the acclaimed Nordic master of light and solitude, Hammershøi: Painter of Northern Light (Rizzoli Electa; April 2023), Author Jean-Loup Champion and Frank Claustrat and Pierre Curie and Marianne Saabye, is the first major book on the artist since 1998. The paintings of Vilhelm Hammershøi (18641916) have become increasingly popular due their almost contemporary aesthetic. Admired and celebrated during his lifetime, Hammershøi gradually fell into oblivion before being rediscovered in the 1990s. He is now recognized as the iconic painter of Nordic light and solitude. This newly researched monograph presents the artists best works, many drawn from rarely seen private collections. Enigmatic and subtle, his paintings feature ... More | |
Niki Hastings-McFall, Afio Mai from Polynisation Series, Pātaka Art + Museum, Porirua, Wellington, New Zealand, 2013. ©Niki Hastings-McFall. Installation photography © and courtesy of Pātaka Art + Museum.
DENVER, COLO.- The Denver Art Museum (DAM) recently announced that it will unveil three newly reinstalled permanent collection galleries in its Frederic C. Hamilton Building on May 14, 2023, reopening its African Arts, Modern and Contemporary Art, and Arts of Oceania collections to the public for the first time since campus construction preparations began in 2016. The updated installation will feature notable new and recent acquisitions, alongside a selection of collection favorites. The project marks the completion of the DAMs transformation of its permanent collection installation, the first phase of which was presented in October 2021 ... More | |
ICP Infinity Awards to Honor Ming Smith, Joyce Cowin, Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Poulomi Basu, and Zora J Murff. Image by Ming Smith.
NEW YORK, NY.- The International Center of Photography, the worlds leading museum and school dedicated to photography and visual culture, today announced the 2023 honorees of its annual Infinity Awards, the leading honor for excellence in the field. The 39th annual ICP Infinity Awards will be held on the evening of Tuesday, March 28, 2023 at Ziegfeld Ballroom (141 West 54th Street, New York City). The event is ICPs largest fundraiser and benefits its full range of education and exhibition programs. ICPs annual Infinity Awards celebrates the vision of talented photographers who create images that alter how we see and act in the world, said David E. Little, Executive Director of ICP ... More |
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Dramatic, Violent and Bold: A Hallmark of Sir Peter Paul Rubens
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Houston endowment headquarters, designed by Kevin Daly Architects with collaborator Productora, is completed in Houston
HOUSTON, TEXAS.- Los Angeles-based Kevin Daly Architects (kdA) today announced the completion of the new headquarters of Houston Endowment, designed by kdA with Mexico City-based collaborator PRODUCTORA. The nearly 32,000-square-foot, $21 million building serves as the Foundations first purpose-built headquarters. The organizations relocation from an office tower in Downtown Houston to an engaging, sustainable, and accessible new headquarters in Spotts Park reflects its on-the-ground ethic as a vital source of support and collaboration within the city. The building provides the Foundation with a new way of working with its partners across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors and will support the mission of advancing ... More
EstateOfMind's annual pre-Valentine's Day Auction is packed with 350 lots: jewelry, silver, watches, bronzes and more
MIDDLETOWN, NY.- EstateOfMinds annual pre-Valentines Day auction, on Saturday, February 11th, features 350 lots of fine estate jewelry, watches, coins, silver, bronzes, portrait miniatures, sports memorabilia and decorative accessories. Lovers seeking a perfect gift for that special someone will be certain to find what theyre looking for, starting at 11 am Eastern time. The auction will be held online, via LiveAuctioneers.com/Estate-of-Mind. Telephone and absentee bids will also be accepted. Live, in-person previews will be held by appointment only at EstateOfMind, located at 195 Derby Road in Middletown. To schedule an appointment, call (845) 386-4403, or send an email to estateofmind2009@yahoo.com ... More
Platt to lead 'Parade' revival on Broadway
NEW YORK, NY.- Ben Platt, the Tony-winning star of Dear Evan Hansen, will return to Broadway next month to lead the cast in a revival of Parade, a musical about an early-20th-century lynching of a Jewish businessperson in Georgia. The revival, directed by Michael Arden (a two-time Tony nominee, for revivals of Once on This Island and Spring Awakening), had a seven-performance run at New York City Center last fall. Platt plays Leo Frank, a factory boss convicted of killing a young girl in a case tainted ... More
Stefan Sagmeister & Jessica Walsh's "Color Room" to be auctioned
VIENNA.- This room was the crowd pleaser at graphic designers Stefan Sagmeister & Jessica Walshs multimedia exhibition Beauty at MAK Vienna in 2018. Why? Because in a matter of seconds it playfully demonstrated how our perception is influenced by light. With a single click, the Color Room, which was completely covered with garish pink-grey colour patterns on the walls, ceiling and furnishings, mutated into monochrome grey monotony along with the viewers. This astonishing transformation was achieved through the use of a cadmium lamp (estimate 10,000 - 15,000). The complete room, which can currently be seen and experienced at Palais Dorotheum, is one of the 215 objects listed at the design auction. The auction features a Woosh sofa by Zaha Hadid, furniture by Studio Superego, and an Aldo Tura sideboard amongst other items ... More
a-n announces new Board and Artists Council appointments
a-n The Artists Information Company, the largest artists membership organisation in the UK with more than 29,000 members, has announced new appointments to its Board and Artists Council. Launched in 1980 as a grassroots artist-run newsletter, a-n celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2020 as a professional membership organisation championing, campaigning for and supporting visual artists. a-n Board appointments: Artist and founding director of Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop Stacie McCormick (Chair) and artist Jerome Ince-Mitchell (Vice Chair). The a-n Board plays a pivotal role in determining policy and setting the strategic direction of the organisation. a-n Artist Council appointments: Artists Clémentine Bedos (Chair) and Jenny Mc Namara (Vice Chair). The a-n Artists Council is a representative group of a-n members acting as a sounding-board on issues faced by artists ... More
Touchstone Gallery presents Sequence
WASHINGTON, DC.- Touchstone Gallery presents SEQUENCE; an international open call exhibition which invited artists to submit artworks created with, or influenced by, technology. Jurors Maleke Glee, Director of Art & Programming at STABLE, Lauren Leving, Curator at Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, and Roddy Schrock, Executive Director, Eyebeam selected thirty-one pieces for the gallery show and thirteen additional works in a virtual exhibition. Forty-four artists from fourteen states plus Japan and the United Kingdom have work in the SEQUENCE exhibition. It was beautiful to see the thoughtful submissions. They highlighted art as a technology, as a tool to probe, reflect and expand our notions of technology, says SEQUENCE juror Maleke Glee. Artists are at the center of societal innovations and these submissions reflect material and social concerns and possibilities of technology. ... More
Bony Ramirez: Cayman Tears at François Ghebaly
LOS ANGELES, CALIF.- François Ghebaly is now presenting CAYMAN TEARS, the gallerys first solo exhibition with Bony Ramirez. The show opened on January 7, 2023, and will remain on view through February 4, 2023. Born in the northern region of the Dominican Republic, Bony Ramirez makes mixed media paintings and sculptures celebrating Caribbean culture. His works on panel depict characters with oversized features, elongated limbs, and cartoonish eyes set against backdrops rich with Caribbean iconography. These figures, whose anatomical exaggerations reveal influences from Italian Mannerism, characterize Ramirez's works and signature collage technique. Ramirez paints his figures on paper using thin washes of acrylic paint, colored pencil, and oil pastel before adhering them to wood panels. Swirls of color adorn his character's ears ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Spanish painter Jusepe de Ribera was born January 12, 1591. Jusepe de Ribera (January 12, 1591 - September 2, 1652) was a Spanish Tenebrist painter and printmaker, also known as José de Ribera and Josep de Ribera. He also was called Lo Spagnoletto ("the Little Spaniard") by his contemporaries and early writers. Ribera was a leading painter of the Spanish school, although his mature work was all done in Italy. In this image: Jusepe de Ribera, Saint James the Lesser, ca. 1632.
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