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Installation view, Robert Rauschenberg: Venetians and Early Egyptians, 1972-1974, Gladstone Gallery, 515 West 24th Street, New York, 2022. © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Courtesy the foundation and Gladstone Gallery Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS).
by Deborah Solomon
NEW YORK, NY.- Which one is better for making art: living in the city among gifted friends or isolating on an inconveniently located island? Robert Rauschenberg famously tried both. In 1970, at age 45 and acclaimed for his alchemical ability to turn detritus into art, he felt tired of living in Manhattan. He purchased property in Captiva, off the sandy west coast of Florida, and embarked upon the second half of his enormously inventive and influential career. Rauschenbergs later paintings and sculptures have never had the visibility of his earlier work, which is perhaps inevitable in a culture that romanticizes youthful creativity. But the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, which acquired much of the artists work upon his death in 2008, at 82, is inviting us to take a closer look and collaborating on several concurrent exhibitions at major galleries here and in Europe. The main event is at the Gladstone Gallery, which is offering a revelatory look at works from the artists Venetian and ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day As summer sweeps in, the Momentary offers visitors the opportunity to experience art in all of the galleries with A Divided Landscape - an original group exhibition featuring work from seven contemporary artists alongside a selection of historic works from Crystal Bridges.
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| In a former mafia stronghold, art remembers, and warns | | Chinese decorative arts lead $2 million in sales at Roland NY's May 20th and 21st auction | | A Mexican artist is ready to be discovered, again | 
Arcangelo Sassolinos mechanical sculpture Elisa an automated digger arm that slowly and loudly gouges away at its cement platform base in Palermo, Italy on May 24, 2022. Gianni Cipriano/The New York Times.
by James Imam
PALERMO.- Until recently, this city was infamous as one of the worlds organized crime capitals. Warring mobsters gunned down rivals in the streets and built ugly high-rise apartments with public funds while much of the historic center was left to crumble. Palermo authorities have since managed to clamp down on the Mafia, and the city, Sicilys capital, feels like a different place today. Anti-Mafia posters are a common sight on the fronts of buildings, and the streets now throb with tourists. But Palermos bounceback is fragile, and many remain wary that the Mafia could stage a comeback. A key point in Palermos turnaround was the murder of Giovanni Falcone, a judge who pioneered new methods to combat Mafia influence and paved the way for the restoration of law and order. The Mafia had its revenge in 1992, ... More | | 
Japanese Ink Drawings, Set of eight Japanese reproduction ink drawings. [13 H x 19 W]. Sold for $225,000.
GLEN COVE, NY.- Roland Auctions NY in Glen Cove, NY hosted their highly successful two-part auction on May 20th and 21st, with the combined auction bringing in $2 million dollars, marking Rolands highest grossing sale so far this year. The main attraction in the auction event was a superb collection of Chinese decorative arts from the Estate of Sysco Foods co-founder Herbert Irving and his wife Florence Irving, world-renowned collectors of all things Asian, and founders of the Asian Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Also taking much of the spotlight was the unique collection of well-known Palm Beach socialite June Hirsch Jones, a former upper East side gallery owner who sold high-end post-war art, Chinese art, and antiquities. In the early 1960's she even dated actor Rock Hudson for a time, traveling with him through southern France and Italy when he needed to be seen with an attractive woman for the paparazzi. The auc ... More | | 
Caos Social, 2017. Esmalte sobre cajon para bolear zapatos. Coleccion Lisa Barlow y Alan Towbin.
PUEBLA.- At 52 years old and with nearly three decades of exhibitions behind him, Cisco Jiménez is far from new to art making or the gallery scene, and in Mexico, where he lives, he is something of a living legend, breaking into the fine art world during the graffiti movement in the 1990s and sustaining a career ever since. Yet, here he is, set to show this month at Art Basel Hong Kong in the Discoveries section, an area of the fair where galleries pitch the up-and-comers they hope will break through with collectors. It is a funny thing, Jiménez acknowledged, and one of the quirks of the international art business, which has handed him both highs and lows. His exhibitor, Mexico Citys MAIA Contemporary, understands that his fame does not fully extend to the Asian markets. So the setup introduces him to a new audience, but with the urgency of being one of the next big things it should know about. I will be presented as an eternally emerging artist, he joked, though making clear ... More |
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| Hollis Taggart to open show of Audrey Flack's early Abstract Expressionist works | | Venus Over Manhattan announces representation of Sally Saul | | Bonhams to offer The Robert & Jean-Pierre Rousset Collection of Asian Art | 
Audrey Flack, Monumental Lovers, 1952. Charcoal, oil, and crayon on paper, 24 x 19 1/2 inches (61 x 49.5 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- From May 26 to June 24, Hollis Taggart will present Audrey Flack: Force of Nature, a selection of Abstract Expressionist works, including early never-before-seen works on paper, by the renowned artist. Opening just three days before Flacks 91st birthday, the exhibition is her first Abstract Expressionist show at Hollis Taggart since the 2015 Audrey Flack: The Abstract Expressionist Years, which provided an expansive overview of her paintings from the 1950s and 1960s. The forthcoming exhibition provides further insight into the development of her early practice, freshly revealing works from the late 1940s and into the early 1950s.The gallery has long championed Flacks work, bringing critical attention to the depth and range of her artistic practice and her significant contributions to both the Abstract Expressionist and Photorealism movements. On May 26, from 5 to 8 pm, the press and public are invited to celebrate F ... More | | 
Sally Saul. Lady with Rose, 2018. Clay and glaze. 10 1/2 x 6 x 6 in (26.7 x 15.2 x 15.2 cm). Courtesy the artist and Venus Over Manhattan, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Venus Over Manhattan announced today that the gallery now represents artist Sally Saul in New York. The gallery will present a solo show of the artists recent works in our downtown location in the Spring of 2023. Sally Sauls ebullient ceramic sculptures of humans, fauna and flora are both humorous, subversive and teem with pathos for the natural world and all its creatures. In both her decades-long ceramic practice, as well as in her works on paper, Saul balances spirited whimsy with a subtle and insightful analysis of the human condition. While earning her MA in American Literature from San Francisco State University in the early 1970s Saul became acquainted with the Bay Area art scene and the artistic mores of the vibrant community who favored utilizing bright colors in their work and drawing subject matter from everyday life. Like her husband, the artist Peter Saul, Sally Sauls work gestures to ... More | | 
Important and exceptionally rare large wood figure of a Bodhisattva Jin Dynasty (1115 - 1234 AD) (Detail). Estimate: 1,000,000-1,500,000. Photo: Bonhams.
PARIS.- Bonhams Paris and Cornette de Saint Cyr are proud to announce the auction of the outstanding Rousset Family private collection in Paris this autumn. The sale of The Robert & Jean-Pierre Rousset Collection of Asian Art: A Century of Collecting will take place in Paris at Cornette de Saint Cyr, Avenue Hoche, on Tuesday 25 and Wednesday 26 October. The collection consists of more than 300 lots, with highlights from Asia and the ancient world ranging from China, Japan, South-East Asia, Africa, Oceania, and Europe. A selection of pieces will be exhibited during the Printemps Asiatique event in Paris from 8 to 16 June 2022 at Cornette de Saint Cyr. Asaph Hyman, Bonhams Global Head of Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, said: It is a great honour to have been entrusted with the Rousset Family Private Collection. The exceptional quality and rarity of the pieces is testament to the superb eye and knowledge which has ... More |
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| New Rubin Museum initiative aims to broaden how Asian art is taught | | Brian Gross Fine Art opens an exhibition of recent paintings and sculpture by artist Mokha Laget | | Smithsonian American Art Museum names Randall Griffey as new Head Curator | 
Mountain God Kula Khari; Tibet; 19th century; Terracotta and pigments; H 9 7/8 x W 8 1/4 x D 4 5/8 in.; Rubin Museum of Art C2002.7.3
NEW YORK, NY.- The Rubin Museum of Art announced Project Himalayan Art, an ambitious, three-part initiative with the goal of creating resources for the inclusion of Himalayan, Tibetan, and Inner Asian art for teaching on Asia in higher education and other learning environments. The three integrated parts will include a publication of the first-ever multi-author and cross-disciplinary introduction to Himalayan art and cultures; a traveling exhibition; and a free, digital platform with online resources. Together they will provide multiple entry points for students, educators, and the public to learn about the art from the cultural regions centered around the Tibetan plateau and gain a holistic understanding of Asia. All three components will launch at the start of 2023, with the traveling exhibitions first stop scheduled for Lehigh University Art Galleries, opening January 31, 2023. Despite ... More | | 
Mokha Laget, Rattle, 2022. Vinyl emulsion on shaped canvas, 85 x 64 inches
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Brian Gross Fine Art announced the opening of Tesseract, an exhibition of recent paintings and sculpture by Santa Fe based artist Mokha Laget, on Thursday, May 26th, from 5:30-7:30pm, with an artist talk at 6pm. On view will be seven shaped paintings on canvas whose acrylic and vinyl emulsion surfaces are divided into her signature colorful geometries. Also featured is a new sculpture in bronze, whose complex form achieves the perceptual illusions of space found in her two dimensional works. The exhibition will be on view through July 30, 2022. As in all of her mature work, Laget employs richly colored interlocking and overlapping shapes set within eccentrically defined structures to create striking visual conundrums. In works such as Tesseract (2020) and Wherefore #3 (2022), Laget has divided her compositions into broad irregular shapes of potent color, forming a tessellated field reminiscent of viewing a ... More | | 
Griffey comes to the museum after a notable tenure at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he has been curator of modern and contemporary art since 2013.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Smithsonian American Art Museum announced today that Randall Griffey will join its senior leadership team as head curator. Griffey will oversee all aspects of the museums curatorial program, including research, exhibitions, acquisitions and collections. He will lead the major reinstallation and reinterpretation plan for all three floors of the museums permanent collection galleries. He begins work at the museum this summer. Randy is one of the most dynamic curators and influential scholars in the field of American art today, said Stephanie Stebich, the Margaret and Terry Stent Director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. He is known as an exceedingly generous colleague as well as an agent of institutional innovation. I am confident that he will be a transformative leader in building our collections, mounting defining exhibitions, and rethinking ... More |
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| Christie's presents The Spirit of Paris: An Important Private Collection of 1920s & 1930s Design | | Focus on women at Swann June 2: Rosa Parks, Louisa May Alcott, the Guerrilla Girls & more | | Palm Springs Art Museum announces Luisa Heredia as Chief Education and Community Engagement Officer | 
Jean-Michel Frank, Important Cabinet, circa 1925. Executed by Chanaux & Pelletier, Paris. Straw marquetry, iridescent yellow peroba, avodire, 58⅞ x 55⅛ x 15⅜ in. (149.5 x 140 x 39 cm) impressed CP, numbered 2217. $500,000-700,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announced The Spirit of Paris: An Important Private Collection of 1920s & 1930s Design, a live Design auction taking place at Rockefeller Center on 6 June 2022. Assembled with great discernment, the collection features rare furniture and objets dart that illustrate the creative and cultural vivacity of Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. At the time, Paris led the world in every facet of the fine and applied arts, and became the most cosmopolitan of cities, attracting talents and many visitors from abroad, all eager to savor the atmosphere, experiences, and luxury that the city promised. Paris drew leading personalities of the art, fashion, music, performance, and design, generating a new dynamism and cultural vibrancy, ... More | | 
Susan B. Anthony & Ida Husted Harper, The History of Woman Suffrage, first edition, full set of five volumes, New York, 1881-1922. Estimate $7,000 to $10,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries will present the second iteration of Focus on Women, Thursday, June 2. The sale is poised to emphasize womens experiences and contributions to literature, science, art, politics, and thought. With published and manuscript material from the hand-press period, through the work of living artists, collectors will have a chance to bid on photographs, prints, books, archives and more. The history of womens rights are chronicled throughout the sale with items related to Suffrage including The History of Woman Suffrage, 1881-1922 by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper ($7,000-10,000) through the Civil Rights and Equal Pay movements, with a 1970 lithograph poster illustrated by Dana C. Chandler Jr. urging the release of Angela Davis ($600-900), a 1970s poster for NOW, the National Organization for ... More | | 
Coachella Valley native will prioritize expanding museums reach into underrepresented audiences.
PALM SPRINGS, CA.- Palm Springs Art Museum announced today that Luisa Heredia has been named Chief Education & Community Engagement Officer. In this newly created role, Herediawho was born and raised in the Coachella Valleywill draw upon her personal and professional experience in the region to help the museum realize its vision of becoming an inclusive, dynamic, and evolving institution that truly reflects the fullness of the community. Currently serving as the Joanne Woodward Chair in Public Policy at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, Heredia will begin her new position on May 31, 2022. Luisa is vitally important to my vision for the museum, says JoAnn McGrath Executive Director/CEO Adam Lerner. She has all the strengths we were looking for as someone who can create opportunities for a diverse range of audiences to engage with the museum. Shes a unique individual: an academic ... More |
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 Christie's The Paris Design Sale achieves $ 20,834,577PARIS.- On 25 May 2022, the Design sale, featuring 167 lots, achieved a total of 19,436,730 / £ 16,641,036 / $ 20,834,577 selling 99% by value and 93% by lots. There was global participation with bidders from 21 countries across 4 continents. 5 records were achieved and 6 lots exceeded 1 million. The sale opened with the Perriand by Perriand collection from the mythical apartment-studio of Charlotte Perriand, rue las cases, in Paris. Proceeds from the sale will support the Perriand Archives. The 13 lots, most of which were prototypes designed for the designers studio they had never left before, achieved a combined total of 1,457,820, far above the low presale estimate. Highlight of this important chapter of the sale was an extraordinary and unique lighted bookcase prototype which was sold for 252,000. ... More  arebyte Gallery opens an exhibition by artist and quantum physicist Libby HeaneyLONDON.- arebyte Gallery presents The Evolution of Ent-: QX, an exhibition by artist and quantum physicist Libby Heaney. The exhibition is centered around an immersive experience that probes the many futures of powerful new quantum computing systems. At the core of The Evolution of Ent-: QX is Ent-, the first artwork that uses quantum computing as both medium and subject matter, commissioned by LAS (Light Art Space) and first shown at the Schering Stiftung in Berlin, 10 February 1 May, 2022. The immersive 360˚ projection takes audiences through three earthly layers of quantum experiments containing quantum hybrid lifeforms - fantastical creatures zipping in and out of dimensions - and pulsating liquid worlds that seem to shift and breathe. The Evolution of Ent-: QX includes additional works commissioned by arebyte ... More  Stevens Auction Company to offer the contents of the Adams French Mansion ABERDEEN, MISS.- The contents of the Adams French Mansion a magnificent antebellum home in Aberdeen thats only had a handful of owners since it was built in 1856 will be sold on Saturday, June 4th, at the mansion itself, at 301 North Meridian Street, by Stevens Auction Company. All furnishings in the 7,000-square-foot Greek Revival mansion will be offered. Until recently, the Adams French Mansion only had three owners, but now that has changed, said Dwight Stevens of Stevens Auction Company, who was himself one of the three owners. This huge, one-day event will include antique furniture, antique cars, clocks, 19th century lighting, a Civil War library, china, crystal, handmade Persian rugs, Southern finery and more. In addition, several warehouses of antiques from Mr. Stevens's personal lifelong ... More  MOCA appoints Clara Kim as Chief Curator & Director of Curatorial AffairsLOS ANGELES, CA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art has appointed Clara Kim as Chief Curator & Director of Curatorial Affairs. Kim begins her role at MOCA on September 1, 2022. I could not be more excited to announce that Clara Kim is joining MOCA at this pivotal moment in the institutions history and as I begin my own tenure here. Clara is a talented and trusted curator and arts leader, said Johanna Burton, The Maurice Marciano Director of MOCA. She has extensive experience commissioning, presenting, and contextualizing contemporary artists; leading global, interdisciplinary research initiatives; and strategically building collections. Her vision will help extend and expand the museums distinctive legacy as we look ahead to our next era. As a native of Southern California, Kims deep roots and commitment ... More  Christie's to offer Bob Dylan's first new studio recording of "Blowin' in the Wind" since 1962 LONDON.- Christies will auction Bob Dylans first new studio recording of Blowin in the Wind since 1962, from a special session with multi-Grammy winning producer T Bone Burnett, on the recently announced groundbreaking Ionic Original disc. The first recording to utilise his patented technology from Burnetts company, NeoFidelity, Inc., this unique lot will be offered in The Exceptional Sale on July 7 as a highlight within Classic Week London (estimate: £600,000-1,000,000). A first in music history: this opportunity to acquire a new recording of Bob Dylans seminal song is a landmark moment and Burnett notes that the technology used to create the Ionic Original disc advances the art of recorded sound and marks the first breakthrough in analog sound reproduction in more than 70 years, achieving dramatic improvements ... More  Sydney Contemporary, Australasia's premier art fair, Returns this spring, with its strongest fair to dateSYDNEY.- Sydney Contemporary, in partnership with Principal Partner MA Financial Group, today unveiled plans for the Fairs sixth edition. Marking the first physical edition since 2019, the Fair returns with a stellar line-up of 85+ emerging and established galleries from Australia and New Zealand, presented at Carriageworks, Australias largest multi-arts centre, from Thursday, 8 Sunday, 11 September 2022 (Collector Preview: Wednesday, 7 September 2022). Since its establishment in 2013, the past editions of Sydney Contemporary have attracted more than 112,000 visitors and recorded more than AU$85million in art sales, with 2022 set to build on those figures. Sydney Contemporary Founder Tim Etchells said: Sydney Contemporary has been firmly established as the most influential fair in the region, and the sixth edition ... More  Sullivan+Strumpf opens a major solo exhibition of works by eX de MediciSYDNEY.- Sullivan+Strumpf presents a major solo exhibition from celebrated contemporary artist eX de Medici, Double Double Crossed, running across both level of their Zetland Sydney Gallery May 26 to June 11, 2022. eX de Medici is a voice of dissent in the Australian art world. Her meticulous still lifes of skulls, helmets, guns, flowers and insects are at once beautiful and ugly, designed to lure the viewer into confronting scenes of power, violence, corruption and greed. National Gallery of Australia, Know My Name Across a career spanning almost four decades, Canberra-based eX de Medici has garnered acclaim Australia-wide and internationally. Her work featured in the 2021 iteration of the National Gallery of Australias iconic Know My Name exhibition; and is represented in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, National ... More  'David DeBusseré: Simplicity with allure' opens at Leopoldstraat 57 in AntwerpANTWERP.- Some time ago, David DeBusseré (1979, Ghent) made the decision to devote himself exclusively to painting: to depicting what slumbered deep inside him and giving form to it, every day. Using admittedly simple visual language, he nevertheless moves and intrigues the viewer in a penetrating way. His thematic has been reduced to a rather unusual essence; the colour scheme is often monochrome, but the way in which the painting unfolds is convincing. Birds on or in their small houses; their neatly arranged and gently surprising nesting boxes; a luminous heart in an avalanche of colour and a pulsing landscape: all become a sort of exotic garden in which colourful butterflies flit and balsa twigs move to create depth. The movement towards pictorial and physical rhythm is striking and yet again - intriguing. ... More  Bergen Kunsthall opens an exhibition of works by Lene Berg BERGEN.- Bergen Kunsthall is presenting Lene Berg as Festival Artist 2022. The Festival Exhibition is considered the most important solo presentation for a Norwegian artist in the country and has been shown each summer since 1953, in parallel to the Bergen International Festival (Festspillene i Bergen). Lene Berg works as an artist and filmmaker and over the past two decades has produced outstanding works that question the way in which images create facts. In the Festival Exhibition, she presents an extensive new project titled Fra Far (From Father), which continues her investigation of current socio-political climates through autobiographical material. Berg was nine years old when her father was arrested in Paris in 1975 and imprisoned for the murder of his wife (the artists stepmother) Evelyne Zammit. This dramatic childhood ... More  Phillips to offer works by design masters spanning the 20th and 21st centuriesNEW YORK, NY.- Phillips announced highlights from the upcoming Design auction in New York. Taking place on 7 June, the sale will feature important works by modern and contemporary makers who have come to define the collecting category, including Alberto Giacometti, François-Xavier Lalanne, Joris Laarman, Shiro Kuramata, Harry Bertoia, and Ron Arad. The sale will be followed by the previously announced sale on 8 June, Contemporary Studio Artworks from the Estate of Jack R. Bershad. Cordelia Lembo, Head of Design, New York, said, We are delighted to conclude the spring season of Design auctions at Phillips by presenting such a remarkable group of works. From ceramics by Georges Jouve and Doyle Lane to Joris Laarmans iconic Bone chair, to rare and important works by Gustave Miklos and Alberto ... More  A thorough look at Abstract Expressionist Karen K Wallen's life and workNEW YORK, NY.- For over four decades, and with remarkable dedication, Karen K Wallen has taken numerous chances, both in her painting and photography. Some experiments have exploded back in her face. None are banal. Powerful and engaging, her work intrigues her viewers intellectually and aesthetically. It asks them to travel with her through darkness and/or whimsy, which are frequently aligned. Perhaps haunting, the work is always vital and present. Her style is fluid, contemporary, and original, possessing elements of surprise and light. This style reflects her background, from her birth in Stillwater, Oklahoma, beginnings in Art in her early years within and around the Smithsonian galleries in Washington, DC. living in Los Angeles, Seattle, one year in the hills of Italy, and back to Los Angeles, where she currently resides. Her images float and meld, reflecting a life of adventure and questioning the norm. ... More |
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At the Dawn of a New Age
Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Dorothea Lange was born May 26, 1895. Dorothea Lange (May 26, 1895 - October 11, 1965) was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography. In this image: Dorothea Lange (1895-1965), Couple Seated on Porch, Gunlock, Utah, 1953, Gelatin silver print, Brigham Young University Museum of Art, purchased with funds donated by Jack and Mary Lois Wheatley. ©Dorothea Lange Collection, Oakland Museum of California, City of Oakland. Gift of Paul S. Taylor.
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