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Lovely Roman Imperial Period (circa 2nd-3rd century CE) marble head of a female subject, 16.4in high. Estimate $16,000-$24,000.
BOULDER, CO.- Artemis Gallery takes great pleasure in announcing a February 27 online auction consisting exclusively of cultural artworks acquired by screen legend and Renaissance man Anthony Quinn (1915-2001). A portion of the auction proceeds will benefit The Anthony Quinn Foundation, which was established by Quinns wife, Katherine Quinn, to fund arts scholarships for youth and advocate for arts education. The 150-lot sale includes a wonderful variety of objects that Anthony Quinn amassed throughout his adult life. The collection encompasses art and historical objects from Ancient Egyptian, Greek, African, Asian and European civilizations, as well as cultures that reflect the actors own Mexican heritage. Long before the world caught antiques fever from the abundance of TV shows focused on collecting, Quinn was already presciently acquiring pieces from trustworthy sources whenever filming took him to rem ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Meadows Museum, SMU has opened a major exhibition focusing on Bartolomé Esteban Murilloâs series of six paintings illustrating the biblical parable of the prodigal son. Photo: Guy Rogers III.
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| Murillo's prodigal son series travels to the U.S. for the first time for Meadows exhibition | | Hermann Historica announces results of online-only auction week | | John B. Henry, longtime arts leader in the U.S., announces plans to retire in 2022 | 
Installation view. Photo: Guy Rogers III.
DALLAS, TX.- The Meadows Museum, SMU has opened a major exhibition focusing on Bartolomé Esteban Murillos series of six paintings illustrating the biblical parable of the prodigal son. On loan from the National Gallery of Ireland, the canvases itraveled to the United States for the first time for Murillo: Picturing the Prodigal Son at the Meadows Museum, which is the only US venue and follows the series installation at Madrids Prado Museum. Murillos Prodigal Son series is the only cycle by the artist that remains intact today; it has been joined at the Meadows by the two other finished paintings the artist dedicated to the subject. These include major loans from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and the Hispanic Society of America, New York. Additional works on paper from both of these institutions and from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, showcase other ways the prodigal son parable was visua ... More | | 
Lot number 5262, a delicate art nouveau pocket watch dating from the early 20th century had been estimated at 320 euros, yet went on to fetch a gratifying 4,750 euros.
MUNICH.- Outside, the wind whistled a stormy accompaniment to the beeping of the incoming bids: once again, the Munich auction house Hermann Historica's auction week tempted buyers with numerous highlights, among them the premiere of Jewellery and precious stones. Moreover, the extensive poster collection acquired by commercial designer Willi Engelhardt proved to be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The online-only auction of Hermann Historica kicked off on Monday, 31 January, with almost 900 lots in the chapters of Works of Art and Asian Art. Bids could be placed via the inhouse bidding platform and two external platforms. Not one, but two pocket watches sold for well over ten times their starting prices. Lot number 5262, a delicate art nouveau pocket watch ... More | | 
Prior to joining the FIA, Henry served as Director of the Vero Beach Museum of Art in Vero Beach, Florida; Director of Collections and Exhibitions at the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson, Mississippi; and General Curator at the Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, Georgia.
FLINT. MICH.- After five decades of service and leadership to the nations arts community, John B. Henry, Director of the Flint Institute of Arts for the last 24 years, has announced that he will retire in 2022. From the day that I arrived in Flint nearly 25 years ago, my goal has been to help the FIA reach its full potential as an art museum, educational institution and gathering place where everyone feels invited and comfortable, said Henry. With the generous support of our members, volunteers, staff and community, and the strong leadership of our Board of Trustees, weve made great strides towards that goal. Im proud of that success and of having played a role in making the arts an essential part of the ... More |
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| Museo Picasso Málaga opens "Face to Face: Picasso and the Old Masters" | | U.S. museums see rise in unions even as labor movement slumps | | Roland Auctions NY ushers out winter with multiple estates February 26th auction | 
A visitor to the exhibition "Face to Face. Picasso and the Old Masters" © Museo Picasso Málaga.
MALAGA.- By juxtaposing works by Picasso with those of the Old Masters, the exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to discover the links between Picassos work and those by El Greco, Francisco Pacheco, Giovanni Battista Caracciolo, Francisco de Zurbarán, Cornelius Norbertus Gijsbretchs, Bernardo Lorente Germán and Diego Bejarano. These pairings not only enable viewers to make specific comparisons between the work of Picasso and the Masters in order to understand how deeply Picassos art was rooted in Spanish traditions. The juxtapositions also allow us to discern how he transformed these traditions into the revolutionary art of the 20th century. Born in Málaga in 1881 and trained by his painter and art teacher father, José Ruiz Blasco, Picasso absorbed the Spanish painting tradition from childhood. Furthermore, his attachment to the art and culture of Spain was to last and become stronger over his long career. Pablo Picasso transformed 20th-century art, yet he was a keen stu ... More | | 
Newly unionized employees at the Museum of Modern Art hold a strike in New York in 1971. Robert Walker/The New York Times.
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK, NY.- The carpenters and the security guards at the Philadelphia Museum of Art had long been members of a union when, in 2020, workers from departments across the museum curators, conservators, educators and librarians voted to create one of the largest museum unions in the country, with nearly 250 members. Workers at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Guggenheim in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles soon formed their own unions, part of a wave of labor-organizing efforts at nearly two dozen art institutions where employees have created new collective-bargaining units in the last three years. Many of the workers who have recently joined unions have come from the curatorial, administrative and education staffs: white-collar office workers who often had not been represented ... More | | 
After Georg Kolbe Female Nude Sculpture - Sculpture of a seated woman, in dark green patina over bronze. Estimate $5,000-7,500.
GLEN COVE, NY.- Following their highly successful series of Winter auctions, Roland Auctions NY in Glen Cove, NY will round out the season by presenting their Multiple Estates auction on Saturday, February 26th at 10am. Previews for the sale will take place on Thursday, February 24th and Friday, February 25th from 10am 6pm. To usher out Winter and see in Spring, Roland NY has curated over 750 lots of one-of-a-kind and fresh-to-market Art, Prints, Furniture, Porcelain, Textiles, Silver, Gold and Silver Jewelry, Rugs, Collectibles, Asian Art and Lighting from estates and collectors from all over the Northeast; more treasures from the Upper East Side estate of a prominent NYC interior decorator and the Estate of Roger Prigent - Malmaison, as well as fine American and European antiques from the estate of another discerning East Coast collector. Fine art being offered will include a Josef Floch (Austrian-American, 1894-1977) oil on canvas t ... More |
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| Japan wants to showcase gold mines' history. Just not all of it. | | Hauser & Wirth debuts new paintings, wall drawings, and sculpture by Gary Simmons | | Doyle to auction Color & Light: The Collection of Dr. Thomas Chua on March 2 | 
A tunnel in a gold mine on Japans Sado Island on Feb. 8, 2022. Shiho Fukada/The New York Times.
by Motoko Rich and Hikari Hida
SADO ISLAND.- About 40 miles off the northwestern coast of Japan, Akiyoshi Iwasaki is eager to share some history of the mountainous, lightning-bolt-shaped isle where he grew up. After years of lobbying by local residents, Iwasaki, a bar owner, is delighted that the Japanese government has nominated three gold and silver mines on Sado Island for UNESCO World Heritage designation, hoping to showcase them alongside Mount Fuji, the Hiroshima Peace Memorial and Kyotos shrines. The mines supplied precious metals to the shoguns who ruled Japan during the 2 1/2 centuries when the country was all but cut off from the rest of the world. Yet, there is a darker part of Sados history that Iwasaki, 50, knows little about: the period during World War II when about 1,500 Koreans were conscripted to work in the mines as subjects of Japans ... More | | 
Gary Simmons, Joy Ride, 2021. Oil and cold wax on canvas, 304.8 x 274.3 cm / 120 x 108 in © Gary Simmons. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Jeff McLane.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Spanning both North Galleries and the outdoor courtyard, Gary Simmons first exhibition with Hauser & Wirth debuts new paintings, wall drawings, and sculpture, as well as the installation Recapturing Memories of the Black Ark, presented for the first time in Los Angeles. For over 30 years, Simmons multidisciplinary practice has probed American history to examine the pervasive nature of racist ideology and its manifestations in visual culture. Drawn from both personal and collective memory, his works address themes of race, identity, politics, and social inequality, and the ways in which these issues are both evident and concealed in the cultural landscape. Remembering Tomorrow foregrounds Simmons distinctive contributions to contemporary image making, particularly through his use of erasure ... More | | 
Selections from The Collection of Dr. Thomas Chua.
NEW YORK, NY.- Doyle will auction Color & Light: The Collection of Dr. Thomas Chua on Wednesday, March 2 at 10am. The public is invited to the exhibition on view Saturday, February 26 through Monday, February 28 at Doyle, located at 175 East 87th Street in New York. View the catalogue and place bids at DOYLE.com A prosperous and admired medical doctor in Chicago, Dr. Chua quietly assembled his extraordinary collection over the course of three decades. With a discerning eye for quality and the curiosity of a true connoisseur, he was drawn to the colorful and innovative works in glass inspired by natural forms created during the Art Nouveau era. The collection is rich with fine examples of French art glass by such prominent makers as Daum, Gallé, Majorelle and Gabriel Argy-Rousseau, as well as a selection of pieces by American makers Handel, Pairpoint and Tiffany Studios. Color & Light: The Collection of Dr. Thomas Chua will be presented as a featured ... More |
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| Outland: A new platform for digital art, NFTs and the contemporary art world | | François Ghebaly opens an exhibition of works by Sayre Gomez | | Phillips announces highlights from the London Spring Sales of 20th Century & Contemporary Art | 
Fang Lijun, Elemental, 2022.
LONDON.- Outland is a new, pioneering platform operating at the intersection of emerging digital technologies and contemporary art. Outland encompasses both a marketplace and online magazine that will present new digital artwork commissions to foster innovation in art and technology. The platforms robust editorial content offers expert perspectives from critics, collectors, and artists on the evolving medium of digital art and NFTs. Outland is founded and led by Jason Li, an arts patron and entrepreneur, Christopher Y. Lew, former curator at the Whitney Museum of Art, May Xue, previously with leadership positions at K11 Art Foundation and UCCA Beijing, and Jesse Ringham, an innovation and marketing specialist who has led digital at Tate and Serpentine Galleries. This unique combination of contemporary art world specialists bring rich expertise in traditional art spheres to contextualize and shape the newly emerging art canon that includ ... More | | 
Sayre Gomez, Totem, 2022. Bondo, acrylic and solvent based paints on wood, paper, steel, nylon shoelace, PVC, and vinyl, 96 x 23 x 10 inches (243.8 x 58.4 x 25.4 cm). Photo: Paul Salveson. Courtesy of the Artist and François Ghebaly Gallery.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Over the past few years, Sayre Gomez has developed a body of work that amounts to a cognitive mapping of late America as seen through the cultural and topographic specificity of Southern Californias urban sprawl. As seems fitting, this inquiry has recently taken a ghoulish turn. Halloween City follows in the mode of sometimes deceptive hyperrealism that Gomez pioneered in X-Scapes (2019) and Apocalypse Porn (2021), his most recent previous exhibitions at François Ghebaly. His newest works present a necroscape of abandoned malls and struggling small businesses. This is the built environment that plays host to a curious ritual every October, when Halloween stores descend into the empty husks of defunct big-box retailers, thus briefly granting ... More | | 
Sigmar Polke, Ohne titel, 1965. Estimate: £1,000,000-1,500,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
LONDON.- Phillips announced highlights ahead of the Spring 20th Century & Contemporary Art sales in London. The Evening Sale is led by British artists Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Hurvin Anderson and Banksy, alongside seminal works by Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Jean Dubuffet, Claude Monet, Nicolas Party, and Ed Ruscha. Emerging and contemporary stars include Jadé Fadojutimi, Cinga Samson, Emily Mae Smith, Shara Hughes, and Tschabalala Self, alongside auction newcomers Lauren Quin and Doron Langberg. The Evening Sale will take place on 3 March at 4pm GMT, followed by the Day Sale on 4 March at 2pm GMT. Olivia Thornton, Head of 20th Century & Contemporary Art, Europe, said, We are excited to have assembled a sale which showcases so many international names together, reflecting current collecting tastes across the 20th and 21st centuries. We are particularly excited ... More |
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Captivating Impressionist Portraits to Striking Cubist Landscapes
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 Exhibition explores the connection between writing and photographyLOS ANGELES, CA.- Photographya word derived from the Greek terms phos (light) and graphe (writing or drawing)is, by definition, a means of writing with light. The mediums inherent relationship with writing manifests in various ways, from the use of captions and inscriptions to the appearance of words within pictures, signifying its expansive narrative potential. In Focus: Writing for the Camera, on view February 22 through May 29, 2002, presents ten artists who explore the profound connection between writing and photography. Featuring works made since the 1970s, this exhibition showcases imaginative, conceptual approaches to the practice of combining written words and photographic images during the last fifty years. Modern and contemporary artists have often employed a variety of media to create their work, and many incorporated photography into their practices, says ... More  At Rothko Chapel, a composer is haunted by a heroHOUSTON, TX.- The canvases that surround you at the Rothko Chapel here can at first seem merely dark. Entering the space after nightfall Saturday, the interior dimly lit, I struggled to see much of anything in them at all. But even in that calm gloom, my eyes slowly acclimated to the 14 grandly saturnine paintings made by Mark Rothko in the late 1960s. Shadowy rectangles began to emerge, floating over shadow. During a return Sunday afternoon, cloudy gray filtering through the skylight, they seemed practically colorful, layered veils of purple, green, red, blue, brown: a prismatic black. Dark both described them and didnt. As that word has been attached to these Rothkos, though, so have still and glacial and spare been to the music of Morton Feldman whose Rothko Chapel was commissioned around the time of the spaces 1971 opening and Tyshawn Sorey, whose ... More  Goodbye, Hades. Hello, Scotland. Amber Gray parts with Persephone.NEW YORK, NY.- Amber Gray spent eight years as a Greek goddess. She joined Hadestown in 2014, back when songwriter Anaïs Mitchell and director Rachel Chavkin were still trying to figure out how to turn Mitchells Orpheus-and-Eurydice concept album into a stage show. Gray had read lots of mythology as a classics-obsessed kid, and felt an immediate connection to Persephone, the split-level queen who spends half of each year in the underworld as Hades wife and half on Earth as a harbinger of spring. I kind of knew, Oh, this is my job, which is not a feeling I have often, she said. I felt possessive of it that it belongs to me, and it was my baby to help raise. Her Persephone, clad in green above ground and black below, is an ageless merrymaker with a taste for drink, toughened by time but still soft of heart. She created the role off-Broadway in 2016, refined it through a Canadian ... More  Exhibition presents works by Ragnar Kjartansson in dialogue with 19th and 20th-century American works MADRID.- A major exhibition of works by Ragnar Kjartansson exploring the artists fascination with America and the American landscape, featuring four video installations and works on paper, will open at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza on 22 February 2022. Co-organised by TBA21, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, and MNTB, Emotional Landscapes will be installed within the museums collections of 19th- and 20th-century American Art, the foremost such holdings in Europe, providing opportunities to explore the interplay between Kjartanssons work and iconic American imagery. Emotional Landscapes builds upon TBA21s 15-year relationship with the artist, throughout which the Foundation has supported his practice through commissions, production, and exhibitions. Drawing its title from Björks famous lyrics, Emotional Landscapes includes four video ... More  Shapero Rare Books opens an exhibition of works by the artist Jolyon FenwickLONDON.- Shapero Rare Books are presenting a new exhibition entitled Too Much Too Young by the artist Jolyon Fenwick, which will run from the 23rd of February to the 18th of March. Fenwick first won praise for his work marking the anniversary of the Somme offensive, in which he replicated photographs from the battlefield of the most catastrophic engagement of the First World War at the exact time and location, one century on. In this exhibition, Fenwick continues to play with the power of nature, though in a very different form. A central series of his work is titled Compositions with Beetles & Butterflies, bringing together the popular pastime of taxidermy with a careful conceptual background. With works like Live Fast and Too Much Too Young, Fenwick uses riotously coloured butterflies to compare the beauty of nature with its inevitable ephemerality, while pieces such as Still Small Voice, ... More  Scrappy and invaluable, a unique music ensemble returnsBOSTON, MASS.- It has been a theme of this troubled time: If the pandemic has ruined your big birthday party, simply celebrate a year (or two) later. The Boston Modern Orchestra Project BMOP, universally turned 25 in April. But this unique, invaluable ensemble which under founding conductor Gil Rose offers performances and crucial recordings of contemporary scores and long-ignored, often American music from the past 100 years only got the chance to make merry Friday, with a sprawling free concert here at Symphony Hall. The program was an endearingly eccentric if thoughtful one, starring organist Paul Jacobs in Stephen Paulus sensitively scored, rather bewitching Grand Concerto for organ and orchestra (2004) and Joseph Jongens entertainingly vast Symphonie Concertante (1926) for the same forces. Those were paired with an organ work rewritten ... More  Rehab Eldalil wins the 2022 FotoEvidence W Award NEW YORK, NY.- Rehab Eldalil was selected as the winner of the 2022 FotoEvidence W Award with her project The Longing of the Stranger Whose Path Has Been Broken. She was selected by the jury, Elizabeth Krist, Martina Bacigalup, Tasneem Alsultan and Svetlana Bachevanova from among 70 applicants from 26 countries. The finalists are September Dawn Bottoms with Remember September and Zehreh Sabaghnejad with Dancing in the Dust. The Longing Of The Stranger Whose Path Has Been Broken is a personal project in which I reconnect to my roots and work collaboratively with the Bedouin community to explore the notion of belonging and the disconnectedness of people and land. The project focuses on the process of finding and seeking the meaning of belonging cited through the Bedouin community of South Sinai, Egypt. The community are participants in the creative ... More  Chrysler Museum of Art opens exhibition that uncovers the untold history of YWCA South Hampton RoadsNORFOLK, VA.- For more than 100 years, YWCA South Hampton Roads has strengthened social movements that eliminate racism, empower women, and promote peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all. However, the organizations history that starts with the work of Laura E. Titus, a Black female philanthropist, has remained largely unknown. The Chrysler Museum of Art will showcase this story in Reckoning our History: The Untold Story of YWCA South Hampton Roads. The exhibition, on view Feb. 22March 13 in the Museums Margaret Shepherd Ray Family & Student Gallery, will chronicle YWCAs history with original paintings by artists from Teens With a Purpose, a Norfolk-based nonprofit organization that empowers youth to find self-assuredness through arts, education, community engagement and more. With support from local artist Chris Green, the young artists convey their ... More  20th/21st century London day and online sales now online for browsingLONDON.- Christies Post-War and Contemporary Art Day is led by Banksys Love is in the Air (2002, estimate: £600,000-800,000) an early iteration of his seminal flower thrower motif. Carrying a message of peace, it was this image that cemented Banksys position on the international stage, establishing him both as an artist and as an activist. Following critically acclaimed institutional exhibitions, as part of this auction Christies is offering works by Eileen Agar, Etel Adnan and Paula Rego. The selection includes Eileen Agars Return of Europa (1971, estimate: £12,000-18,000), and Etel Adnans Lumière 2 (c. 1960, estimate: £50,000-70,000) part of a selection of rare early works given to her close friend and former roommate at University of California, Berkeley. Paula Regos School for Little Witches (2009, estimate: £280,000-350,000) depicts a pictorial act of ... More  Von Bartha opens solo exhibitions of works by Christian Andersson and Terry Haggerty BASEL.- Von Bartha is presenting two solo exhibitions by Christian Andersson (Kitbash Tales) and Terry Haggerty (Into the Wind) in the gallerys Basel space, until 30 April, 2022. For his third exhibition at von Bartha, Christian Andersson continues his practice of fusing together different times and tropes in a set of new works. Together they form something of a semi-transparent encyclopaedia where fragments blur into each other to shape new interpretations and aspects. The exhibition title is a reference to the term kitbashing, a name given to the practice in modelmaking where a new scale model is created by taking pieces from already existing kits or models. This bashing and fusing of kits can be found throughout the cluster of works on show, where Andersson animates a set of hybrids, given new features and means; In Marrow a medieval statue holding a mathematical model becomes a ... More  Wallace Chan showcases 10 of his large-scale titanium and iron sculptures at One Canada SquareLONDON.- Chinese multidisciplinary artist Wallace Chan is showcasing 10 of his large-scale titanium and iron sculptures for his exhibition TITANS: A dialogue between materials, space and time. Located at the vast lobby of the iconic One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, the exhibition runs from 21st February - 8th April 2022 as part of their ongoing public sculpture programme. Canary Wharf is home to Londons largest collection of outdoor public art collected over 30 years with more than 75 free-standing and integrated architectural sculptures. It has a decade-long history of commissioning award winning art programmes and installation and is a long-standing celebration of culture and the arts. The exhibition, curated by James Putnam, explores Chans contemplation on the relationship between materials, space and time through titanium: a futuristic, space age material that has long ... More |
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Fabergé in London: Romance to Revolution
Flashback On a day like today, American painter and curator Rembrandt Peale was born February 22, 1778. Rembrandt Peale (February 22, 1778 - October 3, 1860) was an American artist and museum keeper. A prolific portrait painter, he was especially acclaimed for his likenesses of presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Peale's style was influenced by French Neoclassicism after a stay in Paris in his early thirties. In this image: Rembrandt Peale (American, 1778-1860), George Washington, circa 1856. Oil on canvas, 36-1/2 x 29 in.
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