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Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861), Yoshitsune and Benkei on Gojo Bridge, ca. 1839-1840. Japanese color woodblock diptych, 37.8 x 51 cm. Photo: Egenolf Gallery Japanese Prints.
NEW YORK, NY.- When twenty-six international galleries and six auction housesBonhams, Christie's, Doyle, Heritage, iGavel, and Sothebys open their doors for the 2023 edition of Asia Week New York, from March 16th through 24th , an abundance of eye-alluring treasures are certain to entice the wide swath of collectors, curators, and connoisseurs who, over the past fourteen years, mark this exciting occasion as a must-attend event on their collective calendars. Says Dessa Goddard, chairman of Asia Week New York, We are delighted to present the 2023 edition of Asia Week New York, which always provides such a rich cultural experience for Asian art enthusiasts of all stripes and are extremely proud that we continue to pay tribute to the many facets of Asian art in all its glorious forms. Asia Week New York has attracted discerning collectors and connoisseurs drawn to the fascinating exhibitionsalways free and open t ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day During Asia Week New York (March 16-24) Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch, Ltd. presents An assembly of Mughal Emperors and Rajput rulers visiting two holy men, from Mewar, circa 1695-1705. Photo: Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch, Ltd.
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| Georgia Museum of Art receives awards for patron and exhibition | | National Gallery of Art acquires works by Fede Galizia and Caterina Angela Pierozzi | | Who was Leonardo's mother? A novelist has evidence she was enslaved. | 
GAM award committee co-chairs Melissa Swindell and Karin Dalton, Georgia Museum of Art director William Eiland and GAM president Marcy Breffle with the award for Exhibition Category #3 ($25,001 $99,999) for Reckonings and Reconstructions: Southern Photography from the Do Good Fund.
ATHENS, GA.- The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia received two awards at this years Georgia Association of Museums (GAM) annual conference, held in Cartersville. GAM President Marcy Breffle and award committee co-chairs Melissa Swindell and Karin Dalton presented the museum with the awards for Patron of the Year (to Alan Rothschild Jr.) and Exhibition Category #3 ($25,001 $99,999) for Reckonings and Reconstructions: Southern Photography from the Do Good Fund. Rothschild (UGA JD 85) has been a leading force in the arts as the founder of the Do Good Fund, a public charity in Columbus, Georgia, whose focus has built a museum-quality collection of southern photography from the 1950s to the present that reflects a visual narrative of the American South. Over the past 11 years, the fund has grown significantly, delivering its collection all over the state. Reckonings ... More | | 
Fede Galizia, Still Life of Apples, Pears, Cucumbers, Figs, and a Melon, c. 16251630. Oil on panel, overall: 35.3 x 59.1 cm (13 7/8 x 23 1/4 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington. Gift of Funds from Roger Sant, Patrons Permanent Fund, and Gift of Funds from Deborah Burkland 2023.3.2
WASHINGTON, DC.- Fede Galizia (documented 15871630), whose work was overlooked for four centuries, is now known for her luminous and striking naturalism. The National Gallery of Art has acquired Still Life of Apples, Pears, Cucumbers, Figs, and a Melon (c. 16251630), a late work by the artist. This acquisition not only increases the National Gallerys holdings of women artists and still-life paintings from this period, but also creates an important dialogue with contemporary Spanish still lifes, including works by Juan van der Hamen y León and Luis Egidio Meléndez. Galizia was the daughter and pupil of miniaturist and metalworker Nunzio Galizia. She painted portraits and devotional subjects, but she is most famous today for her still lifes. She made her career in Milan, a center of Counter-Reformation religious fervor and scientific inquiry. While many of Galizias earlier still-life paintings focus on a single ... More | | 
An author has a theory that the artists mother, Caterina, was kidnapped as a girl in the Caucasus area of Central Asia.
by Elisabetta Povoledo
FLORENCE.- Its a mystery that has intrigued and confounded scholars for centuries: Who, exactly, was Leonardo da Vincis mother? A few facts are known. Her name was Caterina, and sometime in 1451 she had a relationship with notary Piero da Vinci, and gave birth on April 15, 1452, to a son who was born out of wedlock and baptized Leonardo. A memorial tablet, with a record of the artists birth, is in the Church of Santa Croce in the town of Vinci, about 30 miles from Florence, where the baptism most likely took place. Over the years, researchers have speculated that the artists mother might have been a local peasant, an orphaned teenager of humble birth or a woman of Jewish or Chinese origin. On Tuesday, another theory that is likely to fuel the academic debate was made public in Florence at a preview of a new historical novel. Its author, historian Carlo Vecce, believes that Leonardos mother was kidnapped and enslaved as a girl in the mountainous Caucasus area of Cent ... More |
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| Pace Gallery and PKM Gallery announce joint representation of the Yoo Youngkuk Estate | | Thaddaeus Ropac opens Wolfgang Laib's 'City of Silence' | | 'Dressed for History: Why Costume Collections Matter' opens at the Museum of Vancouver | 
Portrait of Yoo Youngkuk, 1980s © Yoo Youngkuk Art Foundation.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace Gallery and PKM Gallery announced joint representation of the Yoo Youngkuk Estate. Working in close collaboration to build upon the artists established legacy, the Seoul-based PKM Gallery will represent the estate in Korea and Pace will represent the estate on an international basis. Both galleries will have their debut presentation of the artist on their respective booths at Art Basel Hong Kong. Pace will stage Yoos first solo exhibition outside of Korea at its flagship gallery in New York in Fall 2023. Throughout his nearly seven-decade career, Yoo Youngkuk (1916-2002) founded several vital artistic groups in Japan and Korea that blazed a trail for generations of avant-garde artists. A pioneer of geometric abstract painting, his distinctive visual lexicon is characterized by bold color fields and an expressive application of paint. At the core of Yoo ... More | | 
Wolfgang Laib, House, 2021. Wax, 45 x 31 x 27 cm. Photo: Eva Herzog. Courtesy Thaddaeus Ropac gallery, London · Paris · Salzburg · Seoul © Wolfgang Laib.
PARIS.- This exhibition presents a new group of installations reprising recurring motifs from internationally acclaimed German artist Wolfgang Laibs poetic and highly symbolic oeuvre. Occupying the floor of the Paris Marais gallery are Laibs gently fragrant beeswax sculptures, while along the walls, a series of new works on paper provide a more intimate insight into the artists meditative and conceptual practice. Laib employs simple, organic materials in his work that are often linked to sustenance, such as pollen, milk, beeswax and rice. Each component is imbued with aesthetic power but also carries a wealth of associations connecting past and present, ephemeral and eternal. In City of Silence, the artist references places of dwelling and worship that are connected to his own experiences of the Middle East, as well as ... More | | 
Robe à la française and Petticoat, c. 17651775. Photo: Tanya Goehring and Museum of Vancouver.
VANCOUVER.- The Museum of Vancouver presents Dressed for History: Why Costume Collections Matter, a new feature exhibition opening to the public March 16, 2023. Clothing is the most personal of artefacts. It reveals so much about who we are, what we do and what we value. Clothing conveys information about occupation, social and economic status, gender and cultural identity and political and religious affiliation. Clothing not only expresses aspects of a wearers identity, but it also reveals much about the larger context of production. As products of available raw materials, textile technologies, designs and styles, what we wear connects us to local and global stories of resource extraction, trade, labour and technology. Four remarkable local collectors have recognized the importance of preserving costumes to document the past and inspire our present and future. Ivan Sayers, Claus Jahnke, Melanie Talkington ... More |
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| Rare Asa Ames portrait acquired by The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation | | The Lucas Museum finds your lack of faith disturbing | | Galerie Nathalie Obadia opens a group exhibition of sculptures | 
Millard Fillmore Dewey (1845-1916), Asa Ames (1823-1851), Evans, New York, 1847, paint on tulip poplar (est), Bequest of Vivian F. Greene (2022.701.1)
WILLIAMSBURG, VA.- When the young sculptor Asa Ames (1823-1851) died shortly after his 27th birthday, he left behind nearly a dozen carved portraits, many of which are signed. Most of his sculptures portray family and friends, including a wooden bust of the artists nephew Millard Fillmore Dewey (1845-1916) at the age of two. This likeness descended from the subject through his son and was recently given by bequest to The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. The bust of Millard Dewey is the third Ames portrait to join the Foundations esteemed American folk art collection. This documented and well-preserved example of Ames work is a particularly welcome addition to Colonial Williamsburgs outstanding collection of American folk art, said Ronald L. Hurst, the Foundations Carlisle Humelsine chief curator and senior vice president for education and historic resources. In addition ... More | | 
Sandra Jackson-Dumont, the director of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles on Jan. 31, 2023. (Adam Amengual/The New York Times)
by Adam Nagourney
LOS ANGELES, CA.- It was chased out of Chicago by preservationists, only to become the object of a bidding war between Los Angeles and San Francisco. When George Lucas finally decided to build his $1 billion museum in Los Angeles, its arrival was jeered by some critics who saw it not as a civic gift but a vanity project. The museum is a terrible idea, wrote Christopher Knight, the art critic for the Los Angeles Times. Since then, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art has been beset by more delays: it is not expected to open until 2025, seven years after ground was first broken on a parking lot across the street from the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum with a promised 2021 opening. But even in the haze of construction, a seemingly endless swirl of workers, cranes and girders, the enormous scope of the project is coming ... More | | 
Jessica Stockholder, #764 Carry Luster, 2019. Two green finished panels, hardware, oil and acrylic paint, embroidery thread, hot glue, 30 x 14,5 x 25 cm / 1113/16 x 523/32 x 927/32 in.
PARIS.- Galerie Nathalie Obadia is presenting Mettre les formes, a group exhibition of sculptures. On this occasion, the works by Guillaume Leblon, Benoît Maire, Rodrigo Matheus, Meuser, Shahpour Pouyan, Laure Prouvost, Antoine Renard, Sarkis and Jessica Stockholder, nine artists represented by the gallery, are invited to converse with those of one of the pioneers of 20th century sculpture, British artist Anthony Caro. In The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception1, James J. Gibson defines sculpture as a perennial arrangement of each surface in relation to the others and to the floor. The exhibition Mettre les formes presents a diversity of surfaces - with extremely varied volumes, materials and textures - that are part of the same continuum: that of the sculptural apparatus. Despite their disparities, these twenty-five sculptures cohabit in the same space to narrate ... More |
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| ADA, Rome opens an exhibition of works by Jacopo Belloni | | 'Tomas Lundgren: Bildertalas' opens today at Galerie Leu | | Tiwani Contemporary opens an exhibition of works by Umar Rashid | 
Jacopo Belloni, Vanity, 2022. Silk, aniline pigment, cotton yarn, 70 x 7 x 295 cm. Unique.
ROME.- Mimema (mīmēma from the ancient Greek 'imitated thing') reflects on the concept of imitation, without distinguishing between its effects in the biological world or between cultural and costume phenomena, but by relating the different aspects of its manifestations. Mimema embraces the desire for a flowering. The same desire inherent in a propitiatory dance for the germination of spring, at a time when apple trees blossom four times in a year, but our spirits do not see equinoxes. Much has been written about ornamentation, how it offers the possibility of animating inanimate objects, making them performing and radiating a field of attraction, as well as activating their apotropaic power. In fact, the attraction held by a succulent flower is no different from the one manifested by bodies adorned with jewels, which reveal our desires and fears. According to the Doctrine of Signatures, for example, each natural element unveils itself in a different way, emanating, through similari ... More | | 
Tomas Lundgren, Zeithof, 2022-23. Oil on canvas, 160 x 122 cm.
MUNICH.- To understand oneself, and why one's life looks the way it does, it is not uncommon to look at old pictures to find an explanation. After all, the present is a result of the past. Photographs are strange: in retrospect they seem so obvious, even though they were usually added in haphazard forms. We keep a small square card that we can conveniently hold in our hand. But something has happened with digital technology. We have partially lost respect for the authentic and personal carrying capacity of photography. The exhibition will begin today with an opening reception, and will continue through April 22nd, 2023. In Tomas Lundgren's sensitively executed grisaille painting, which is based on photographic models, an older superstition in documentation merges with today's more skeptical attitude towards photography as a truth teller. The monumental work "Ammit" depicts a detail of a piece of furniture that was found in Tutankhamun's tomb in the early 1920s. According to Egyptian ... More | | 
Umar Rashid, The Undiscovered Genius of the Niger Delta. An Unexpected Journey Into Chaos Told From The Perspective of Someone That Was Not There, 1799, 2023, Tiwani Contemporary, Lagos, 12 March - 15 April 2023. Courtesy of the artist and Tiwani Contemporary.
LAGOS.- The title for the show, The Undiscovered Genius of the Niger Delta. An Unexpected Journey Into Chaos Told From The Perspective Of Someone Who Wasnt There, 1799 describes the artists estranged position and approach to understanding and building familiarity to the kinship groups, country and continent he descends from as a process of orientation in a country hes never physically been to. In this new series of twelve works on canvas, Rashid questions what forms of agency, thought and self-determination could individuals have experienced during the 16-19th centuries that could shape regional or world events for better or for worse? To what extent are black and brown subjects complicit in the formation of the world-shaping events that colonialism enacts? Rashid uses the lyrics and structure of the song 1999, ... More |
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 Goldin's Winter Comics, Video Games & TCG Elite Auction smashes records for rare comic books, original art & moreRUNNEMEDE, NJ.- Comic books featuring beloved superheroes, trading cards, original artwork and pop culture items set new records and attracted big bids as the gavel sounded for Goldins Winter Comics, Video Games & TCG Elite Auction. The bidding was topped by the $146,400 paid for an ultra-rare Captain America Comics #1, the highest ever for a copy of the comic in its grade (CGC 3.0). The issue features the first appearance and origin of Steve Rogers arguably one of the most beloved superheroes as well as his young sidekick, Bucky. The copy is one of just 186 copies certified to date by CGC out of a reported print run of one million comics. The auction was also headlined by the record $57,600 ... More  Amy Schwartz, who captured life as viewed by a child, dies at 68NEW YORK, NY.- Eleven years before the first Take Our Daughters to Work Day, Amy Schwartz envisioned a Send Your Daughter to Work in Your Place Day. That is the plot of Schwartzs first book for young children, Bea and Mr. Jones, or half of it; the other half of the story is that while Bea is filling in for her dad at the office, Mr. Jones, Beas father, spends the day as a kindergartner. The book, written and illustrated by Schwartz and published in 1982 to good notices, hit the little-kid sweet spot and probably amused a fair number of parents too: Mr. Jones, a frustrated advertising executive, finds a renewed joie de vivre as an unusually bright kindergartner, and Bea becomes president of toy sales at the ad agency. In July 1983, Bea and Mr. Jones enjoyed a fresh burst of attention when Madeline Kahn read it on the third ... More  Regulating the global art logistics sector from facilities and equipment to data securityHUDSON, OH.- In a step towards global regulation of art transportation, the International Convention of Exhibition and Fine Art Transporters (ICEFAT), an international association of 78 fine art transporters across 37 countries, is launching its Standards, a definitive set of directives for its members to ensure quality and consistency across its art shipping network. The Standards have been developed and audited by EY, a global leader in assurance, consulting and strategy. As custodians of the worlds finest works of art while in transit, ICEFAT members are trusted by insurers, galleries, museums, collectors and institutions to care for and transport the worlds cultural treasures for the benefit of global audiences. Its members technical expertise and broad art world intelligence are sought out by academic establishments and commercial ... More  Spy Museum receives $3 million gift from Verstandig Family FoundationWASHINGTON, DC.- The International Spy Museum (SPY), a nonprofit museum in Washington, DC, received a multi-year $3 million grant from the Verstandig Family Foundation, its largest-ever gift from a foundation. Support from the Verstandig Family Foundation, a philanthropic organization established by entrepreneur, philanthropist, and Spy Museum board member Grant Verstandig, funds an array of initiatives, from sustaining and expanding programming for underserved communities and artifact preservation to a special focus on reimagining a major Museum exhibit that highlights one of the rarest artifacts in its collection: an original letter written by George Washington. We are profoundly grateful to Grant Verstandig and the Verstandig Family Foundation for this landmark gift and for the recognition and the valued trust theyve put ... More  Mimosa House opens Italian artist Adelaide Cioni's first solo show in the UKLONDON.- For her first solo show in the UK, Italian artist Adelaide Cioni (b. 1976) presents Ab ovo. The exhibition is the culmination of the artists ongoing exploration of decorative patterns and is her most ambitious project to date, investigating visual language across mediums in a large-scale format. Presented at Mimosa House, Ab ovo is supported by the Italian Council, Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity, Italian Ministry of Culture. It runs from 9 March until 25 April 2023 and admission is free. The central concern of Ab ovo (literally from the egg, from the very beginning) is the recurrence of abstract patterns stripes, triangles, grids, circles, stylized leaves and stars both in artefacts and in nature. These recur throughout history and across geographical areas, from early non-western visual imagery to present-day systems ... More  'Pericles' Review: Shakespeare in the blenderNEW YORK, NY.- In the opening lines of Shakespeares chaotic Pericles, before the play and its prince go chasing off on a series of adventures, there is a phrase so genteelly creepy that 400 years havent diminished its power to make an audiences skin crawl. We are told of a widowed kings beautiful daughter, with whom the father liking took and her to incest did provoke. Or, as one narrator rephrases it for contemporary clarity in Target Margin Theaters slenderized, slice-and-dice remix of the play: The dude sleeps with his daughter. Thats not a secret that the predatory king wants anyone to know, and when Pericles, the Prince of Tyre, figures it out by solving a riddle, he has to flee for his life. But the kings lurid scandal, which takes up much of the plays first act, has nothing to do with what follows. Its just the catalyst that sends the hero ... More  Morphy's returns to Las Vegas for annual fall auction of coin-ops, gambling machines & antique advertisingDENVER, PA.- Morphys will be heading west this fall to re-establish its presence in Las Vegas as the premier auction house for antique coin-op machines and antique advertising. An October 27-28, 2023 auction will launch a new chapter in Morphys ever-growing Vegas endeavors, with the popular Westgate Resort and Casino serving as the fall sales permanent venue. The annual spring edition of Morphys Coin-Op, Gambling & Antique Advertising Auction will not be affected and will continue to be held at Morphys flagship gallery in Lancaster County, Pa. Morphys history in Las Vegas began in 2014 with the acquisition of Peter Sidlows respected Victorian Casino Auctions (VCA). From then on, VCAs auctions were jointly branded as Morphy/VCA events. The Victorian Casino Auctions name was, and still is, highly respected. Peter ... More  National Audubon Society will keep its name despite ties to slaveryNEW YORK, NY.- The National Audubon Society announced Wednesday that its board of directors had voted to retain the organizations name despite pressure to end its association with John James Audubon, the 19th-century naturalist and illustrator who enslaved people, drawing backlash from fellow bird groups that have already changed their names. The bird conservation group said its decision came after more than a yearlong process that included input from hundreds of its members, volunteers and donors. Despite Audubons history as an enslaver with racist views toward Black and Indigenous people, Elizabeth Gray, the CEO of the National Audubon Society, said in a statement Wednesday that the board of directors decided that the organization transcends one persons name. She added that the name Audubon had come to symbolize ... More  Rudd Trowbridge's mechanical banks & bell toys, and Phil and Joan Steel's tin windups headline auctionVINELAND, NJ.- Say hello to spring with the most anticipated auction of the season: Bertoias March 24-25 Signature Sale featuring two blockbuster collections and many additional high-end toy consignments. Rows of gleaming showcases at Bertoias New Jersey gallery are filled to capacity with exceptional mechanical banks and bell toys from the Rudd Trowbridge collection, and Phil and Joan Steels wonderful collection of French Martins and other tin windups. The renowned Rudd Trowbridge collection includes several mechanical banks that are considered must-haves but which are seldom seen in such outstanding all-original condition. No apologies are required for the pristine circa-1880 Kyser & Rex Chimpanzee bank estimated at $25,000-$35,000. The same goes for four J & E Stevens favorites. Both a Girl Skipping Rope and ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Romanian-French artist Constantin Brâncuși died March 16, 1957. Constantin Brâncuși (February 19, 1876 - March 16, 1957) was a Romanian sculptor, painter and photographer who made his career in France. Considered a pioneer of modernism, one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th-century, Brâncuși is called the patriarch of modern sculpture. In this image: The 1911 gilded bronze sculpture "Prometheus" by Constantin Brâncuși is displayed during a preview of "Brâncuși Serra" at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.
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