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Record result propels sales to £221 / $297 million. Highest total ever achieved in a single day at Sothebyâs London. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Following a week that saw more than 8,000 guests attend the pre-sale exhibition at Sothebys New Bond Street galleries in London, todays Modern & Contemporary Art Evening Auction was led by the record-shattering result for René Magrittes sublime Lempire des lumières, selling for £59.4 / $79.8 million. The result drove the nights combined sale total to £221.4 / $297.2 million, the highest total ever achieved in a single day at Sothebys London (est. £170.4-223.3 million / $227.9-299.7 million). Later this month, Sothebys will present the first sale dedicated to Surrealist art ever staged in Paris, with 25 lots carrying a combined pre-sale estimate of $30 - 43 million. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child at Hayward Gallery, 2022. © The Easton Foundation/DACS, London and VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Mark Blower/© The Hayward Gallery
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| Pace Gallery presents a brand new immersive installation by James Turrell | | Rijksmuseum receives generous donations for research into women in its collection | | Marina Abramović's Performative, a survey of the artist's crowning works, debuts at Sean Kelly Gallery | 
James Turrell, Elemental Wide Rectangular Curved Glass, 2021. LED light etched glass and shallow space,72" x 120". Runtime:2 hours 30 minutes. © James Turrell courtesy Pace Gallery.
GENEVA.- Pace Gallery is presenting James Turrell: Elemental, the first solo exhibition of the Light and Space master in the Geneva gallery. On view from 25 February to 7 May 2022, this exhibition marks the 20th anniversary of Paces representation of Turrell. Elemental is a brand new immersive installation that expands across the gallery, building on the artists lifelong exploration of perception, light, space, and time. Turrells work evades classification, he explains, with no object, no image and no focus, what are you looking at? You are looking at you looking. Placing experiences of time and space at the core of his practice, Turrells installation emits a work of art that escapes physical boundary. Imperceptible pulsating transitions of colour mimic the animal mechanics of breathing. Yet, framed with curved corners akin to plane ... More | | 
Installation of Marie Bashkirtseff, Portrait of the artist's sister in law, 1881.
AMSTERDAM.- The Rijksmuseum has received multiple generous donations totalling 300,000 to carry out large-scale research into women in its collection. Together with the private donors, the Rijksmuseum has set up the Women of the Rijksmuseum Fund, which will be launched on 8 March. The aim of the multi-year research programme is to conduct a survey of the female artists and descriptions of women in the Rijksmuseum collection, and to achieve a more balanced representation in the museums collection and display. Hendrikje Crebolder, Director of Development & Media: In history and in art, women continue to be the exception to the rule. The role of women has in fact been far greater than acknowledged or described until now. The generous support from private benefactors and the creation of the fund will enable us to conduct research into this area and add new stories to correct distorted perceptions. Jenny Reynaerts, senior c ... More | | 
Marina Abramović, The Artist is Present, 2010. Performance, 3 months. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. Photo: Marco Anelli. Courtesy of the Marina Abramović Archives and Sean Kelly, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sean Kelly Gallery will open Performative, Marina Abramović's ninth solo exhibition at the gallery. Presenting four distinct turning points in Abramović's five-decade career, the exhibition chronicles both the development of her oeuvre and how it has influenced performance art globally. The earliest work in the exhibition, in the main gallery, will feature Abramović's iconic early performance, Rhythm 10, 1973. Also in the main gallery will be Abramovic's acclaimed 2010 MoMA performance, The Artist is Present, represented by a video installation. The front gallery will include a selection of Abramović's "transitory objects," which visitors to the exhibition can use. A screening of Abramović's film the 7 Deaths of Maria Callas, will be in the lower gallery. Presented together, these different bodies of work demonstrate ... More |
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| Exhibition of new colorful geometric paintings of sewn textiles at David Richard Gallery, New York | | Millions for crypto startups, no real names necessary | | Simon Lee Gallery opens an exhibition of new paintings by Garth Weiser | 
Installation View: Heather Jones, To Hold Tender This Land, 2022. All Artwork Copyright © Heather Jones, Courtesy David Richard Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Richard Gallery is presenting new geometric, color-based, abstract paintings by Heather Jones in her first solo exhibition with the Gallery. The presentation is comprised of 15 new works, all dynamic with hard-edge geometric shapes and patterns that wrap around the sides with high key and contrasting colors that yield a range of optical to trippy compositions and all made of sewn textiles stretched on stretcher bars. While they read as paintings, the artworks are rich with content, rooted in feminist concerns and as the artist stated, honoring female narratives that are often neglected from history. They also celebrate and were inspired by sewing and quilt making as well as Joness Appalachian heritage. The title of the presentation, To Hold Tender This Land, a line from African American author, activist and feminist from Kentucky, Bell Hooks Appalachian Elegy: ... More | | 
Amy Wu, who leads the venture arm of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX and often collaborates with anonymous investors, in Denver, Feb. 18, 2022. James Stukenberg/The New York Times.
by David Yaffe-Bellany
NEW YORK, NY.- For months, cryptocurrency enthusiasts poured hundreds of millions of dollars into a project called Wonderland, which claimed to provide a system of exchange for the murky world of decentralized finance. To take part in the project, the investors who called themselves Frog Nation entrusted their money to Wonderlands treasury manager, a crypto developer whom they knew only by the profile name of 0xSifu. In late January, 0xSifu was revealed to be an alias for Michael Patryn, who had served 18 months in federal prison for fraud. The price of the Wonderland token, $TIME, crashed overnight as Frog Nations panicked denizens debated shutting down the project. I was like, Oh, man, this ... More | | 
Garth Weiser, Untitled, 2022. Oil and archival prints on canvas, 101.6 x 76.2 cm (40 x 30 in.).
LONDON.- Simon Lee Gallery is presenting an exhibition of new paintings by Garth Weiser, the artists fourth presentation with the gallery. Garth Weisers practice has been dominated predominately by abstract imagery but in recent works Weiser fuses abstraction and figuration. Weiser layers gestural impastoed paint, ordered geometry, and disembodied figurative forms. Using a variety of devices such as tape, exacto blades and shipping nets he disrupts, interrupts and cuts into the various layers partially revealing the printed imagery underneath. The resulting painting surfaces feel scarred and sculptural. He creates a surface that is at once controlled and free with images flickering in and out of recognition. By employing this method of addition and subtraction, Weisers works underline his fascination with the evolution of painting. In this new body of work, Weiser intuitively selects images from various digital p ... More |
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| Cooke Latham Gallery opens a solo exhibition by Siro Cugusi | | Thaddaeus Ropac retraces thirty years of the Japanese photographer Yoshi Takata's Parisian career | | The exhibition Canada and Impressionism now on view at the National Gallery of Canada | 
Siro Cugusi, Landscape #5, 2021. Photo: Ben Deakin.
LONDON.- Cooke Latham Gallery is presenting Voyage and Return, a solo exhibition by Siro Cugusi. The gallery space is dominated by three monumental paintings that explore the landscape genre and its symbolism. Untethered from any known reality, the paintings portray the dream-like topography of the unconscious. In many ways Arcadian vistas, the serenity of the subject matter is continually thrown into disarray; smooth ornamental imagery confronts painterly abstraction. As the viewer one is delighted by the balance of the compositions and yet unsettled by their continual disruption. Cugusi has constructed a highly personalised visual language of new and archaic forms which he reconfigures continually to create his arresting imagery. The water is tufted into stylised waves, while the drama of the rocks dissolves into loose brushstrokes. The paintings are fleshy, pink proliferates, while red spheres like cherries provide ... More | | 
Yoshi Takata, Pierre Cardin collection, 1966. Silver print, 50,9 x 39,8 cm (20,04 x 15,67 in). Courtesy Pierre Pelegry © Yoshi Takata
PARIS.- This special project at the Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Marais gallery retraces thirty years of the Japanese photographer Yoshi Takatas Parisian career. Through a selection of original prints that explore not only the fashion photography for which she became known but also her portraits and street photography, the exhibition invites us to rediscover the work of an artist with a remarkable trajectory and an unconventional approach. Born in 1916 near Tokyo, Japan, Yoshi Takata began her career as an assistant interpreter at Agence France Presse in Tokyo, where she met photographer Ihei Kimura, who introduced her to the medium. When she left AFP in 1954, Kimura asked her to accompany him on a trip to Paris and it was there that she became acquainted with the well-known humanist photographers Ãdouard Boubat, Brassaï, Henri Cartier- ... More | | 
Laura Muntz, La robe rose, 1897. Huile sur toile, 34 à 45 cm. Collection particulière, Toronto. Photo Thomas Moore.
OTTAWA.- The exhibition Canada and Impressionism: New Horizons just opened to the public and is on view at the National Gallery of Canada until July 3, 2022. This groundbreaking exhibition highlights the contribution of Canadian artists to the worldwide phenomenon of Impressionism. Featuring 108 paintings from private and public collections from across Canada and abroad, the exhibition organized by the NGC introduces visitors to the paintings of 36 Canadians, men and women, from coast to coast to coast, created between the 1880s and the late 1920s abroad or at home. Curated by the National Gallery of Canadas Senior Curator of Canadian Art, Katerina Atanassova, the exhibition received critical acclaimed in Munich, Germany; Lausanne, Switzerland; and Montpellier, France where it was first presented in 2019 in an adapted version ... More |
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| Rhona Hoffman Gallery opens an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Martha Tuttle | | Bertoia's presents antique toy collection of top Vogue model Monique Knowlton, March 11-12 | | Met curator Jeff Rosenheim wins AIPAD Award | 
Martha Tuttle, The woman asleep...paradiso, 2022.
CHICAGO, IL.- Rhona Hoffman Gallery is presenting Martha Tuttles third solo exhibition of new paintings and sculptures entitled An ear, a hand, a mouth, an offering, an angel. Tuttles beautiful and ethereal woven paintings are composed of painted and colored silk organza, hand-spun wool, and sewn fabrics. The materials are often translucent, exposing the metal stretcher bars and their tensioning hardware. The sheer surfaces reveal the architecture of the textiles support system, grounding the work as distinctly human-made. The visible bars further serve to identify the work as part of the tradition and history of painting. The works that comprise An ear, a hand, a mouth, an offering, an angel were made with a particular painting in mind - The Dream of Saint Helena (1570) - by Italian Renaissance painter Paolo Veronese (1528-1588). Tuttle identified the three primary reasons for her captivation with the late Renaissance p ... More | | 
Boxed Schoenhut Felix the Movie Cat, wood jointed figure in 8in size. Estimate $1,500-$2,500.
VINELAND, NJ.- On March 11 and 12, Bertoias will auction, without reserve, the Monique Knowlton antique toy collection, a spectacular assemblage of comic character, German automotive and American toys; as well as out-of-this-world Japanese robots and space toys. While she was never a regular at toy shows or auctions and is probably unknown to most other collectors, Knowlton a former international fashion model and art gallery owner comes from a world whose focus is on aesthetics, first and foremost. With her well cultivated eye for quality and perfection, she came to appreciate the beauty of antique toys after seeing similar objects compatibly incorporated into art installations. Knowlton remarked: Even if toys were very rare, if their condition wasnt 100 percent, I wouldnt buy them. I wanted things that were perfect, original and working, and if I had a choice, I would always buy a toy that had its or ... More | | 
The AIPAD Award recognizes and celebrates visionaries who have spent their lives at the forefront of the field of photography.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Association of International Photography Art Dealers announced today that Jeff L. Rosenheim, Joyce F. Menschel Curator in Charge of the Department of Photographs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, is the recipient of the annual AIPAD Award. The AIPAD Award recognizes and celebrates visionaries who have spent their lives at the forefront of the field of photography. The Award will be presented during the VIP Preview of The Photography Show presented by AIPAD on Thursday, May 19, 2022. The show runs from May 19 through 22, at a new location at Center415 on Fifth Avenue at 38th Street in New York. It is an honor to present the 2022 AIPAD Award to Jeff Rosenheim, said Michael Lee, President of AIPAD and Owner of Lee Gallery, Winchester, Mass. Jeff is a rock star among photography curators ... More |
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 Clark Art Institute names recipients of 2022 Clark Prize for Excellence in Arts WritingWILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.- Helen Molesworth and Hilton Als will receive the 2022 Clark Prize for Excellence in Arts Writing. Molesworth is a writer and a curator. Als is a writer for The New Yorker magazine and a curator and teaching professor. The Clark Prize raises awareness of the importance of writing that bridges scholarly and popular interest and seeks to encourage support for clear and engaging writing that inspires readers to connect with the arts, said Olivier Meslay, the Hardymon Director of the Clark Art Institute. Helen Molesworth and Hilton Als are two of the most interesting writers in the field today, producing compelling and thought-provoking prose. Celebrating the work of both Helen and Hilton through the award of the Clark Prize is doubly delightful. Als is a Pulitzer Prize-winning staff writer and a theater critic for The New Yorker magazine. ... More  Art Museum Riga Bourse opens an exhibition of works by Kawanabe Kyōsai RIGA.- The exhibition Kawanabe Kyōsai (18311889) within the exhibition series Asian Art Stories is on view from 1 March until 29 May 2022 at the Art Museum Riga Bourse in Riga. Exhibition introduces three ukiyo-e works by the 19th-century Japanese artist Kawanabe Kyōsai, which were acquired by the museum as a donation from the Baltic-German artist Georg Wilhelm Timm. The output of Kawanabe Kyōsais (河鍋暁斎, 18311889) creativity was enormous. Living through the changes brought by the transition from the Edo period (16031868) to the Meiji period (18681912), Kyōsai witnessed Japan transform itself from a feudal country into a modern state. At the end of his life, he had produced hundreds of paintings, prints and illustrated books with various subjects spanning from traditional to bizarre and fantastic. Kyōsai is still celebrated for his ability to bridge popular cultur ... More  Ketterer Kunst announces online-only auction to benefit children in the UkraineMUNICH.- The war continues to ravage the Ukraine and the shock is deep. In order to provide aid immediately, Ketterer Kunst made its current Online Only Auction Printastic a Benefit Auction. Right after the auction ends on March 15, 2022, Germanys leading auction house is going to donate the total amount of the buyers premium to the children rights organization Save the Children. The entire team is deeply moved by the events in the Ukraine, says Robert Ketterer, auctioneer and owner of Ketterer Kunst. Many of the staff came to me with ideas of how to help, and together we began to look for the right project to support. Our aim is to make a sustainable contribution especially to those in the Ukraine who cant support themselves, explains the head of the company. Ketterer continues: What was particularly important to us was to find an organization with an established ... More  Robert Hicks, blockbuster author and battlefield savior, dies at 71NEW YORK, NY.- Robert Hicks, an ebullient, entrancing raconteur who rebuilt an 18th-century log cabin, amassed a renowned collection of 19th-century antiques and saved a Civil War battlefield from being overrun by strip malls, but who is perhaps best remembered for writing a blockbuster novel that drew on all those experiences, died on Friday at his home near Franklin, Tennessee. He was 71. His half brother, Marcus E. Sanders, said the cause was complications of bladder cancer. Millions of readers knew Hicks as the author of The Widow of the South (2005), his first novel, which told the story of a lovelorn caretaker of a Civil War cemetery. Charting on bestseller lists as far away as China, it was one of the buzziest books of the year, with his publisher, Warner Books, ordering 250,000 copies for its first print run. Hicks turn as a world-famous ... More  Shirley Hughes, whose books depicted children's mini-dramas, dies at 94NEW YORK, NY.- Shirley Hughes, a British author and illustrator whose picture books about the quotidian dramas and escapades of children entertained and reassured generations of young readers and their parents, died on Friday at her home in West London. She was 94. Her family announced the death on Twitter. Hughes, whose own childhood was circumscribed by World War II, wrote and illustrated more than 70 books for children of all ages, including two novels for young adults. She was perhaps best known for Dogger (1977), in which a boy named Dave loses his beloved stuffed toy when hes distracted by a school fair and the prospect of an ice cream cone. Drama ensues, relayed in Hughes direct, prosaic sentences. After a couple of mild cliffhangers and an intervention by Daves older sister, Dave and Dogger are reunited. Her most ... More  Solo exhibition by Kay WalkingStick opens at HalesNEW YORK, NY.- Hales announced Mountains/Canyons/Clouds, a solo exhibition by Kay WalkingStick. Her debut solo show at the gallery exhibits landscape paintings made during the past ten years, which explore North America and a spiritual connection to place. Kay WalkingStick (b. 1935 Syracuse, NY) is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, she has Cherokee/Anglo heritage. She received a BFA from Beaver College (now Arcadia University) Glenside, PA in 1959 and an MFA from the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY in 1975. She lives and works in Pennsylvania. Over a career spanning six decades, WalkingSticks practice has focused on the North American Landscape and its metaphorical significances to Native Americans and people across the world. WalkingStick draws on formal modernist painterly traditions as well as the Native ... More  Broadway's Cort Theater will have a new name: James Earl JonesNEW YORK, NY.- The Shubert Organization, which is Broadways biggest landlord, will rename one of its 17 theaters after the actor James Earl Jones, fulfilling a promise made when Black artists pressed for greater recognition in the wake of the 2020 protests against societal racism. The organization said Wednesday that it would name the Cort Theater, a landmark 110-year-old house located on West 48th Street, after Jones, a two-time competitive Tony Award winner who, over six decades, has appeared in 21 Broadway shows. Hes an icon he really is one of the greatest American actors, and this is just a perfect match, said Robert E. Wankel, chairman and chief executive of the Shubert Organization. In a telephone interview, the 91-year-old Jones said he was honored by the news. It means a lot, he said. Its too heavy for me to try to define. ... More  Miller & Miller's online Music Machines, Toys & Advertising Auction, March 19NEW HAMBURG.- A rare, circa 1890 battery-driven Edison Class M cylinder phonograph, an equally scarce early 20th century J. & E. Stevens North Pole mechanical bank, a replica of the iconic 1946 Wurlitzer Model 1015 One More Time jukebox and a 1960 Rock-Ola Tempo II Model 1478 Windshield jukebox are a few of the highlights in Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd.s online Music Machines, Toys & Advertising sale slated for Saturday, March 19. The 541-lot auction has a start time of 9 am Eastern time, with Internet bidding available on the Miller & Miller website (www.MillerandMillerAuctions.com), as well as LiveAuctioneers.com. Telephone and absentee bids will also be accepted. The categories include gramophones, toys, banks, clocks, pocket watches, tools, music machines, vintage radios and railroad memorabilia. This sale features ... More  Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale realised a total of $18,802,183LONDON.- The Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale realised a total of £14,168,940, selling 98% by value and 89% by lot. Banksys iconic Love is in the Air realised the top price, selling for £978,000. Yayoi Kusamas Pumpkin [TOWSSO] achieved £831,600 against a pre-sale estimate of £200,000 while Waves at Daybreak sold for £201,600 (estimated at £50,000-70,000). This level of bidding reflected the depth of interest witnessed in the Shanghai to London Evening Sale series on 1 March and was followed by MR.s May Blue Hawaii, which soared above estimate to realise a world auction record for the artist (£504,000). Günther Förgs Untitled sold for £604,800, Etel Adnans Untitled realised £201,000 and Stanley Whitneys Untitled achieved £163,800. Further records were set for Atanda Quadri Adebayos Let Love Lead ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Danish painter and sculptor Asger Jorn was born March 03, 1914. Asger Oluf Jorn (3 March 1914 - 1 May 1973) was a Danish painter, sculptor, ceramic artist, and author. He was a founding member of the avant-garde movement COBRA and the Situationist International. He was born in Vejrum, in the northwest corner of Jutland, Denmark, and baptized Asger Oluf Jørgensen. In this image: Untitled (Figures in a head), ca. 1960/1963. Oil on fiberboard, 19.69 x 27.56 inches 50 x 70 cm.
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