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Portrait of Maharao Umed Singh II of Kotah (r.1889-1940), Rajasthan, circa 1900. Opaque watercolour with gold impasto and appliqué coloured stones and fragments of pearl on paper, green and tan borders with coloured rules, 28 ¾ by 23 ¾ in.; 73 by 60.4 cm. Credit: Brendan Lynch and Oliver Forge Ltd.
NEW YORK, NY.- After a two-year absence, Asia Week New York returned stronger than ever with galleries and auction houses ringing up total combined sales of $98,622,190. At press time, this figure includes 25 out of 26 galleries and 5 out of 6 auction housesBonhams, Christies, Doyle, Heritage, and Sothebys. iGavel Auctions opens for online bidding on April 7th. Said Dessa Goddard chairman of Asia Week New York: We were delighted by the enthusiastic response we received from our collectors, curators, and scholars, who returned to New York for the many exhibitions, auction sales and museum shows. Their excitement and energy were palpable throughout the week, and the results of the sales testifies to the continued strength of the Asian Art market. We look forward to continuing our active program of newsletters, virtual galleries, webinars, and postings throughout this year and to an even more successful 2023. To celebrate th ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view »Plastic: Remaking Our World« © Vitra Design Museum Photo: Bettina Matthiessen.
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| Hauser & Wirth hosts its first exhibition of John Chamberlain's work in Switzerland | | Clark Art Institute acquires tea service that portrays 16 women noted in European history | | Ashton Hawkins, manager of the rich and powerful at the Met Museum, dies at 84 | 
John Chamberlain, Galileopogee, 2009. Painted and chromium-plated steel, 198.1 x 91.4 x 92.7 cm / 78 x 36 x 36 1/2 in. Photo: Thomas Barratt. © 2022 Fairweather & Fairweather LTD / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy the estate and Hauser & Wirth.
ZURICH.- John Chamberlain (1927 2011) was a quintessentially American artist, channelling the innovative power of the post-war years into a relentlessly inventive practice spanning six decades. Beginning 1 April at Bahnhofstrasse 1, Hauser & Wirth will host its first exhibition of the artists work in Switzerland. John Chamberlain. Reclaimed will present a selection of five late sculptures forged from the bodies of mid-century cars that were salvaged from Kaudorf, Bern. These vintage Cadillacs, Fords, Buicks and Chevrolets bear the chromatic imprint of the era. In primarily black, white, and silver, Chamberlain returns to his sculptural origins through employing the repurposed materials of a historic and treasured destination. In 2009, Chamberlain came across an auction of vintage cars collected by the Messerli family in Kaufdorf, Bern. Described as an auto graveyard, the empty shells of vintage cars we ... More | | 
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, Milk jug (pot à lait forme Grecque) with portrait of Joan of Arc (c. 1412- 1431), 1812, Hard-paste porcelain. Acquired by the Clark, 2021. The Clark Art Institute, 2021.3.2.
WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.- The Clark Art Institute recently acquired an extremely rare tea service that is noted both for the exceptional craftsmanship on the part of the woman artist who was central to its creation and for its subject matter, a remarkable collection of portraits of women noted in European history. The Tea Service of Famous Women (Cabaret des femmes célèbres) is now on view in the Clarks permanent collection galleries. With miniature portraits painted by Marie-Victoire Jaquotot between 181112 for the Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, the service is one of only three known sets and features portraits of women noted for their achievements within governance, literature, philosophy, and international relations. One of the most successful porcelain painters of her time, Jaquotot was both an artist and entrepreneur, achieving great professional success at a time when opportunities for women artists were limited. She was awarded the title pr ... More | | 
Ashton Hawkins in his office at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Sept. 6, 1996. Ruby Washington/The New York Times.
by Clay Risen
NEW YORK, NY.- Ashton Hawkins, who was, officially, the executive vice president and counsel to the trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art but who could more aptly be described as the chief curator of its vast collection of rich and powerful donors, died Sunday at an assisted living facility in White Plains, New York. He was 84. His husband, Johnnie Hawkins, said the cause was complications of Alzheimers disease. If his name was less well known to the museumgoing public than those of Met directors like Thomas Hoving or Philippe de Montebello, two towering figures under whom Hawkins served, he was their near-equal when it came to the ultra-rarified networks that undergird the museum. A consummate social animal with impeccable taste and limitless energy, he might have been seen in any given week lunching with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, dancing with Brooke Astor and throwing a party for Andy Warhol all while wading through the dizzyingly complex world of art law, a field he helped esta ... More |
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| 'Life in Bronze': Sotheby's partners with the Sladmore Gallery | | Courtney Treut joins Sean Kelly as Senior Director, Los Angeles | | The Serpentine presents four major film commissions | 
François Pompon, Ours blanc, tête, est. £60,000-80,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sladmore: Life in Bronze celebrates the beauty and versatility of bronze as a sculptural medium. Each sculptor represented in this auction has a unique approach to modelling in clay and then casting, chasing and patinating the model in bronze. Within this variety the sculptors all respond to the elegant movement and individual character of their animal and figurative subjects. The Sladmore Gallery in London has been at the vanguard of an appreciation of animal sculpture in bronze since it was opened by the Horswell family in Bruton Place in the 1960s. Continued today by successive members of the same family, they are now centralising their business in Jermyn Street. Speaking of the decision to hold a sale, Edward Horswell said: "The Sladmore Gallery opened in Bruton Place fifty-three years ago. We outgrew that one location, so we took on Jermyn Street. Now we've come to the very hard decision of closing the Bruton Place location, but we are very excited to be able to have everything un ... More | | 
Recently relocated from Tokyo to LA, Treut previously worked as a Director at Hauser & Wirth in Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Sean Kelly announced that LA-based Courtney Treut has joined Sean Kelly, Los Angeles, as Senior Director. Thomas Kelly, Partner and a Director of Sean Kelly, New York, is relocating to Los Angeles, with his family, to lead the new gallery. Together, he and Treut will develop and launch the new LA space in Hollywood at 1357 N Highland Avenue. Announcing Courtneys appointment, Thomas Kelly stated, All of us at the gallery are delighted that Courtney has joined our growing team. She is a highly respected professional whose impeccable track record and extensive knowledge of the Los Angeles artistic community will be an invaluable asset to the gallery. He continued, Personally, I very much look forward to working with Courtney; I know she will contribute significantly to the gallerys development, roster of artists, presence, and profile in the LA scene. Treut stated, I am thrilled to join Sean Kelly ... More | | 
Sonia Boyce, Yes, I Hear You, Production Still, 2021. Photo: Matthew Ritson.
LONDON.- Serpentine and the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham are partnering to present Radio Ballads, an exhibition showcasing a ground-breaking project that has embedded artists within core social care services and community settings across the borough. Over the last three years, four artists, Helen Cammock (Turner Prize winner 2019), Rory Pilgrim (Prix de Rome 2020), Ilona Sagar (Stanley Picker Fellow 2021, Saastamoinen Foundation 2022) and Sonia Boyce (representing the UK at the Venice Biennale in 2022) have worked with social workers, carers, organisers and communities to produce four new films and bodies of research, facilitated through the councils New Town Culture programme. The pioneering, collaborative artworks share stories about labour and care, exploring who cares for who, and in what way. Radio Ballads builds on legacies of projects like the Artist Placement Group. Each artist will present a major new film ... More |
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| Elmgreen & Dragset open "Useless Bodies?" at Fondazione Prada | | Exhibition explores the representation of foundlings, orphans, adoptees, and foster children in comics | | Scotiabank and the National Gallery of Canada announce the three winners of the 2022 New Generation Photography Award | 
Exhibition views of Useless Bodies? by Elmgreen & Dragset. Fondazione Prada, Milan. Photo: Andrea Rossetti. Courtesy: Fondazione Prada.
MILAN.- Fondazione Prada presents Useless Bodies?, an exhibition by the artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset taking place in Milan from 31 March to 22 August 2022. Spanning more than 3,000 square meters, Useless Bodies? is one of the most ambitious thematic investigations realized by Fondazione Prada to date. Conceived for four gallery spaces and the courtyard of its Milan venue, the exhibition explores the present condition of the body in the post-industrial age in which it seems that our physical presence is losing its centrality or is even completely superfluous. This shift impacts every aspect of our lives: from our working conditions to our health, our interpersonal relationships, and the way we retain information. The exhibition Useless Bodies? also explores how we physically adapt to a world increasingly based on two dimensional imagery, not least in the light of the current pandemic. Fondazione Pr ... More | | 
New York Worlds Fair Comics, Vol. 1 #2, Jack Burnley © & DC Comics. All Rights Reserved. Used with permission
LONDON.- DCs Superman, who was found by his adoptive parents, is one of many comic heroes who are orphans: Spider-Mans parents die in a plane crash; Batmans parents are killed in a street robbery; and Black Panther - whose mother dies soon after childbirth and whose father is killed - is known as the Orphan King. Marvels X-Men experience both discrimination and social ostracisation. The superheroes early life experiences impact on their roles and the stance they take over good and evil in their comic lives. Examining over a century of mainstream comics, graphic novels and sequential art from around the world, Superheroes, Orphans & Origins: 125 years in comics explores the challenging origins and complex identities of some of the most popular figures in comics. The exhibition looks beyond the traditional superhero genre to explore characters from early newspaper comic strips, including Skeezix from Gasoline Alley, who was left on a doorstep ... More | | 
Seamus Gallagher.
OTTAWA.- Scotiabank and the National Gallery of Canada announced today the three winners of the 2022 New Generation Photography Award (NGPA), which is celebrating its fifth anniversary this year. Séamus Gallagher of Halifax, NS, Marisa Kriangwiwat Holmes of Vancouver, BC, and Clara Lacasse of Montreal, QC are this years winners. Each of the three winners will receive $10,000. Some of their works will be on view at the Scotiabank CONTACT Photo Festival in Toronto, beginning May 1, 2022. A selection of their works will also be featured in an exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada in the fall of 2022. This exhibition is supported by the Scotiabank Photography Program at the NGC and the National Gallery of Canada Foundation. Andrea Kunard, Senior Curator, Photographs, at the National Gallery of Canada and Chair of the NGPA jury, is curating both exhibitions. The three artists will also be mentored by the NGC curatorial team. The jury c ... More |
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| The Banres Foundation names Sheronda Whitaker Deputy Director for HR and Chief Diversity Officer | | Sol LeWitt's exhibition at the Jewish Museum of Belgium is extended until 31 July | | Sandra Vásquez de la Horra's second solo exhibition at Sprovieri opens in London | 
Whitaker joined the Barnes as Director of Human Resources in 2018 and became Chief Human Resources and Diversity Officer in 2020. Image courtesy of Sheronda Whitaker. Photo by Whitney Thomas.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Thom Collins, Neubauer Family Executive Director and President of the Barnes Foundation, today announced the promotion of Sheronda Whitaker, MS, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, to Deputy Director for Human Resources and Chief Diversity Officer. A human resources professional with over 20 years experience in the nonprofit, business, and financial sectors, Whitaker joined the Barnes as Director of Human Resources in 2018 and became Chief Human Resources and Diversity Officer in 2020. Her most recent promotion underscores the Barnes Foundations long-standing commitments to diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion (DEAI) initiatives, supporting its staff and volunteers, and enhancing workplace culture. Every day I am inspired by the creativity and collaborative spirit of our staff as they work to fulfill our educational mission, says Thom Collins. Sherondas promotion is an acknowledgment of her excepti ... More | | 
Sol LeWitt at Jewish Museum of Belgium. Image by Hugard & Vanoverschelde.
BRUSSELS.- Given the success - both with the critics and the general public - of "Sol LeWitt. Wall drawings, Works on paper. Structures (1968-2002)" and following the relaxation of the sanitary measures, the Jewish Museum of Belgium has decided to extend the exhibition by 3 months, until 31 July 2022. The Jewish Museum of Belgium takes this opportunity to add two new works on paper to the exhibition, coming from the Herbert Foundation in Ghent. It is a tribute to the recently deceased Belgian collector of minimalist and conceptual art Anton Herbert (1938-2021) and to the period of the 1970s, embodied by the MTL gallery and by Anton Herbert. "The exhibition "Sol LeWitt. Wall Drawings, Works on Paper, Structures (1968-2002)" is a remarkable and unexpected success, with almost 15,000 visitors in 4 months. As the Jewish Museum of Belgium, we are very proud that we have succeeded in reaching so many people from so many different backgrounds. This ex ... More | | 
Constelación de Orión 2022. Watercolour, gouache, graphite on paper dipped in beeswax, 211 x 167 cm.
LONDON.- Sprovieri is presenting Constellations, Sandra Vásquez de la Horras second solo exhibition at the Gallery. Sandra Vásquez de la Horras drawings are influenced by film, fairy tales, botanical and zoological textbooks, as well as from her personal background. Since 1997, the Artist finishes her drawings by dipping them in wax. This process gives her work a unique materiality and emphasises the pencil line with ambiguous depth. The traditions and myths of her Chilean origins and the influence of Latin-American magic-realist literature are essential in her artistic practice. Religion, mythology, sexuality and the bizarre, reverberate and merge together, trapped beneath the wax coating of her drawings. Her works deal with borderline experiences, femininity, fear and death, as well as poetry, reawakening demons, ghosts, creatures of myth and gloomy dreams. The extremely defined images show desires that stem from both her per ... More |
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 Ron Mandos opens an exhibition of new paintings by the South African artist WonderBuhleAMSTERDAM.- Galerie Ron Mandos is presenting uNyezi, an exhibition of new paintings by the South African artist WonderBuhle.* The exhibition takes the name of his daughter uNyezi, meaning the moon or the one that sits among the stars. Wonderbuhles muses are presented with an air of youth, serenity, and self-possession guided by the moons light and protected by the magical flowers that adorn their faces. The figures stand immersed in a sea of the purest sage green. This symbolic color appearing for the first time in these new works cleanses his muses of negative energies and grants them the wisdom to face the future. *Curatorial guidance for this exhibition was provided by Azu Nwagbogu (Director of the African Artists Foundation) When starting his new project, Wonderbuhle imagined himself sitting in his garden at night, looking at the moon and listening to the sounds of small insects. In doing so, past associ ... More  Paradise Version by Tim Fishlock opens at Hang-Up Gallery, LondonLONDON.- For his third solo exhibition at Hang-Up, artist Tim Fishlock celebrates his deep love of music and record collecting. Continuing his established practice working with text, Fishlock explores the esoteric world of online record collecting with a particular focus on the unique lexicon involved in describing music. He unpicks the coded vocabulary used to concisely explain a record, illuminating both the exclusionary and evocative nature of these explanations. Descriptions such as LUSH DESPAIRING DARK WAVE not only go some way to deciphering a record (dark wave is the genre) they also, like the best flash fiction, suggest other, more elaborate interpretations. Who hasnt felt the metaphorical, melancholic crash of a lush, despairing, dark wave at some point in their lives? The works are almost synesthetic, using language as a tool to evoke sound. Fishlock acknowledges the intrinsic distance between a sound and h ... More  Gropius Bau opens 'Beirut and the Golden Sixties: A Manifesto of Fragility'BERLIN.- Beirut and the Golden Sixties: A Manifesto of Fragility revisits a turbulent chapter in the development of modernism in Beirut beginning with the 1958 Lebanon crisis and ending with the 1975 outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War. The exhibition showcases a heterogeneous mix of artists whose drive for formal innovation was matched only by the tenacity of their political convictions. Beirut and the Golden Sixties traces the antagonism between Beiruts politicised cosmopolitanism and its surrounding trans-regional conflicts. With around 220 artworks by 35 artists, more than 200 archival documents and a new work by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige especially commissioned for the show, it is the most comprehensive presentation to date of a pivotal period in the history of Beirut a city that continues to carry the burden of its irreconcilable ambitions. Our programming at the Gropius Bau looks at history from a contemporary perspective while emphasising the inter-relatedne ... More The Scottish Gallery opens an exhibition featuring Helen Glassford's wild Scottish landscapesEDINBURGH.- Artist Helen Glassfords wild Scottish landscapes will adorn the walls of The Scottish Gallery this April. Her paintings mould together the sensory and visual world with the fleeting, intangible moments which find their place in her work. These encounters with her environment are manifested through a variety of mediums, including graphite and scumbled glazes, to react and capture the immensity of nature before her and lend their name to the exhibition. Growing up on the outskirts of the Lake District, Glassford studied painting at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design in Dundee in the late 1990s, and later completed a Master of Fine Art there. Since then, she has lived with her daughter in Newport on Tay, North Fife, overlooking the River Tay. Glassford finds her subject in the wild landscape of Scotland, in particular the remote edge lands of the North and West, with Encounters focusing on the Western Isles. In ... More  Exhibition at Concord Art brings together depictions of tress by 15 artistsCONCORD, MASS.- Beginning Thursday, March 31, Concord Art presents Becoming Trees, curated by Fritz Horstman. This exhibition brings together the work of 15 artists whose depictions of trees explore a wide variety of approaches to the subject. It will be on view through May 8, 2022. Says curator Fritz Horstman, Present in some form in nearly every landscape that supports human life, trees have been intertwined in our stories, metaphors, myths, and religions for as long as such discourse and rituals have existed.
When fully grown, they are typically much taller than a human, but with a little imagination, their trunks and branches easily resemble the human body and limbs. In Greek mythology, Daphne turns into a tree during her escape from Apollo, representing a prominent early example of the human body reflecting arboreal form. Trees carry, or perhaps embody, a charisma that invites us to identify with them and ascribe ideas about ourselves ... More  Charlotte Brüel joins NILS STÆRKCOPENHAGEN.- NILS STÃRK announced the representation of Charlotte Brüel. Charlotte Brüel works with the contradiction between nature and human processing. The industrial acrylic glass displays seem to enclose a carefully selected array of sculptural studies in clay along with a suspended arrangement of found bird feathers. It is, moreover, a comparative gaze that is activated when one studies the contents of Brüels exhibited showcases. And it is the gaze, above all, and the nonverbal, sensual experience that, according to the artist, ensures the simple complexity of the works. It is as if Brüels sculptures never quite stop. On the contrary, it is like witnessing tableaux materialising in front of ones eyes. Her sculptures appear at once open, precise and unfinished in terms of their narrative. In Charlotte Brüels practice, life and work are connected and born of each other. It is a lifes work that invites the audienc ... More  Gale Primary Sources release new archives dedicated to underrepresented historiesFARMINGTON HILLS, MICH.- Gale, part of Cengage Group, is supporting academic initiatives in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) with the release of six new archives on the Gale Primary Sources (GPS) platform. These archives explore the stories of LGBTQ+ communities worldwide, women, Native Americans and other underrepresented communities. Gale Primary Sources provide librarians, students and scholars with historical context on controversial issues from a wide range of perspectives underscoring how the past has shaped todays political and civil rights movements across the globe. With the steady increase in misinformation on campus about diversity, social justice and political issues, these archives change the conversation by providing access to original historical primary sources that enable researchers and students to compare resources and make key connections. These latest archives from Gale promote open dialogue and teach critical thinking skills tha ... More  GIANT set to open an exhibition by legendary British photographer and photojournalist Martin ParrBOURNEMOUTH.- GIANT announces the upcoming exhibition by legendary British photographer and photojournalist Martin Parr CBE. Famous for his intimate, satirical and anthropological insights into routine modern life, Parr is perhaps best known for his documentation of the English social classes, and in Lifes a Beach we centre on the most enduring backdrop for his work the English seaside. Finding its perfect home in Bournemouth, Englands archetypal beach resort town, this extensive survey spans five decades of everyday coastal life through the extraordinary lens of one of the best-known documentary photographers of our time. Martin Parr: Lifes a Beach runs at GIANT Gallery from 2 April to 26 June 2022. Martin Parr: Lifes a Beach features locations from across the country, from New Brighton, a run-down seaside resort near Liverpool, to Margate, Ramsgate and Broadstairs, proving how ... More  Fridman Gallery opens a multidisciplinary exhibition highlighting the work of fourteen contemporary artistsNEW YORK, NY.- When a cat is surrounded from all sides, he tries to look scary. We are on the brink and the only large weapon we have left is spreading fear. The fear our government spreads is both propagandistic and terroristic, with civilian casualties exceeding 1,000 this month alone. Thus, we suffer from self-perpetuating PTSD on a colossal scale. The collective trauma of supremacist violence blocks our ability to empathize with other peoples, prevents us from seeing the killing of foreign civilians by our armed forces for what it plainly is murder. We wrote these words 5 years ago in a catalog for a different exhibition, when Trumps Muslim ban and U.S.-led bombings of Iraq and Syria ran rampant. Sadly, they resonate again today, with Russian cruise missiles destroying Ukrainian cities, another dying empire making a futile attempt to force a changing world into an old mold, unable to break with nostalgia for its inglorious past. Forward Ground is a multidisciplinary exhi ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter John Constable died March 31, 1837. John Constable, RA (11 June 1776 - 31 March 1837) was an English Romantic painter. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home --- now known as "Constable Country" --- which he invested with an intensity of affection. In this image: A Sea Beach - Brighton, Photo: Bonhams.
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