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Installation view of "David Hammons: Basketball and Kool-Aid" at Nahmad Contemporary.
by Andrew Keh
NEW YORK, NY.- The basketballs are deflated, doused in spray paint or covered in 24-karat gold leaf. Theyre sculpted from porcelain, plopped in cement or layered into enormous pyramids. Theyre splashed onto canvases, carved into cheeky jack-o-lanterns, flattened out like flower petals. Stroll through galleries, museums and studios, flick through auction catalogs and social media feeds, and it starts to become obvious: The art world is increasingly strewed with basketballs. Its like the best sport ever, said Jonas Wood, who has become one of the worlds most sought-after painters while making basketball a recurring theme in his work. Titans of art who contemplated the sport in years past are having their work revisited in basketball-specific shows. Younger artists are engaging with the game as avid fans, wary skeptics or nostalgic adults. And the market is responding. Consider a cross section of recent exhibitions: Last summer, drawings by influential artist Da ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its Upside Down Sale | Fine Art, Artifacts, More! on Jun 15, 2022 9:00 AM GMT-5. Join them for a fun auction from the Upside Down - they're flipping their catalog and featuring Fine Art first, plus their usual fare of ancient artifacts from around the globe, ethnographica, decorative arts, and more! Convenient and professional in-house shipping. All items guaranteed to be as described! Translated Roman Round Mosaic - Household Dedication. Estimate $18,000 - $27,000.
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| Starry Night added to Detroit Institute of Arts' upcoming Van Gogh in America exhibition | | Exhibition explores the ambitious, versatile and radical use of stitches by twentieth-century and contemporary artists | | 15 prints by Edvard Munch and 13 drawings by M. C. Escher enter The National Gallery of Art's collection | 
On loan from the Musée dOrsay in Paris, it is the first time in more than a decade the iconic painting will be on view in the U.S.
DETROIT, MICH.- The Detroit Institute of Arts today announced that Starry Night (1888) on loan from the Musée d'Orsay in Paris is the newest addition to its Van Gogh in America exhibition, which will run from October 2, 2022 to January 22, 2023 only at the DIA. Featuring more than 70 works by the famed artist, the groundbreaking exhibition is the first ever devoted to Van Goghs introduction and early reception in America. Tickets will go on sale this summer. Starry Night also known as Starry Night Over the Rhône is one of two iconic paintings including the nighttime sky that Van Gogh created while living in the French city of Arles from 1888 to 1889. The beloved work captures a clear, star-filled night sky and the reflections of gas lighting over an illuminated Rhône River in Arles with a couple strolling along its banks in the foreground. ... More | | 
Henry Moore, Stringed Figure, 1939.
LONDON.- Stitched, on display at Ordovas on Savile Row from 7 June until 30 July 2022, explores the ambitious, versatile and radical use of stitches in works by twentieth-century and contemporary artists including Alighiero Boetti, Tracey Emin, Sheila Hicks, Do Ho Suh, Henry Moore, Joana Vasconcelos and Francesco Vezzoli. The exhibition presents sixteen artworks executed in a range of mediums and with a variety of techniques, from modernist practices that challenge hierarchies of high and low, to fibre art that transforms weaving into a sculptural endeavour, to feminist works that challenge stereotypes around craft and domesticity. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with an essay by art historian Maddy Henkin. Stitched is the first in a series of exhibitions to be held at Ordovas that explores different techniques in twentieth-century and contemporary art, often used in unexpected ways. The ... More | | 
Edvard Munch, Anxiety, 1896. Color woodcut printed in black and red image: 45.3 x 37.4 cm (17 13/16 x 14 3/4 in.) sheet: 58.3 x 46.3 cm (22 15/16 x 18 1/4 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington. Epstein Family Collection 2021.101.4.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Arts collection of prints by Edvard Munch (18631944), with numerous examples assembled by Sarah and Lionel Epstein, is the largest and finest gathering of the artists graphic work outside his native Norway. The Epstein Family Foundation, which has donated some 119 prints by Munch since 1990, has recently given 15 more. Among the superb works in the latest donation are impressions of some of the artists major color woodcuts: Anxiety (1896), Moonlight I-II (1896, printed 1913), and Melancholy (Woman on the Shore) (1898). While these prints hauntingly convey the emotional states of angst and alienation for which the artist is best known, several others represent his fixation on the complex dynamics of male- ... More |
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| Michael Werner Gallery opens an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Peter Saul | | Unique treasure trove of writers and artists emerge from private collection at Ewbank's | | Whitechapel Gallery opens 'Christen Sveaas Art Foundation: The Unseen Selected by Hurvin Anderson' | 
Peter Saul versus Modern Art, Round One, 2022. Acrylic on canvas, 72 x 60 inches, 183 x 152.5 cm. SAU 2022/001. Photo: Kevin Noble.
LONDON.- Michael Werner Gallery, London is presenting an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by the eminent American painter Peter Saul (b. 1934). The exhibition coincides with a special limited-edition monograph on Peter Saul. Published by Rizzoli and overseen by Saul himself, it is the first major monograph on the artist and features essays by Los Angelesbased critic Bruce Hainley, renowned art historian Richard Shiff and Annabelle Ténèze, Chief Curator and Director of Les Abattoirs in Toulouse, France. At 87 years old, Saul continues to make important work that feels urgent to our time. Throughout his over six-decade career, the artist has addressed critical topics of the day with unbridled courage, including American post-war consumerism, the Vietnam War, the trial of Angela Davis, almost every American President from Nixon to Trump, Saddam Hussein, and the art world itself. Shown as a whole, his work documents th ... More | | 
James Abbot McNeill Whistler (1834-1905). Annie. Portrait of a little girl, seated. Etching, signed and titled in the plate. Note the sitter is Annie Harriet Haden (1848-1937), Whistlers niece and frequent model. Plate size 12.7 x 9.5cm. Estimate £400-600.
WOKING.- A treasure trove of letters, sketches, books, prints and other artwork from leading artists and writers of the 19th and 20th centuries will come to auction at Ewbanks on June 23. Charles, Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Wilkie Collins and even Gracie Fields feature among the letter writers, while William Holman Hunt, James Abbot McNeill Whistler, Walter Sickert, Paul Nash and John Piper are just some of the names among the pantheon of late 19th century and leading Modern British artists whose work and letters also appear. The extraordinary collection was amassed over decades by the late Ernest Pearce (1930-2012), a member of the Bookplate Exchange Club from 1954 to 1967 and well-known client among the book and map sellers of Cecil Court off Londons Charing Cross Road. His collection also features a number of rare ... More | | 
Installation view.
LONDON.- Painter Hurvin Anderson (b. 1965, UK) reflects on illusory and fragmentary space and depictions of black figures and experience in The Unseen, an artist-curated selection of 25 works from the Christen Sveaas Art Foundation. The exhibition draws both on the prologue to Ralph Ellisons epoch-defining novel, Invisible Man (1952), about bigotry and the invisibility of black lives in 1950s America, and the artists own work, informed by European painting traditions and his Jamaican heritage. His selection combines the work of lesser-known artists with modern and contemporary icons, whom explore aspects of the unseen through paint, collage, fabric and found objects. Amongst these works, Tewodros Hagos (b. 1974, Ethiopia) records the plight of refugees from Africa brought ashore in lifejackets and insulation blankets, depicting them as individuals rather than numbers in media reports of the migrant crisis. On a neighbouring wall Glenn Ligons (b. 1960, USA) text-bas ... More |
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| Pallant House Gallery opens a major exhibition of the work of Glyn Philpot | | Amy Smith-Stewart named Chief Curator at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art | | Phillips announces highlights from the Hong Kong sales of 20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design | 
Glyn Philpot [1884 1937), Siegfried Sassoon, 1917, oil on canvas, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge © Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
CHICHESTER.- Pallant House Gallery is presenting the first major exhibition in almost 40 years of the British artist Glyn Philpot R.A. (1884-1937). Bringing together over 80 paintings, drawings and sculptures, many unseen in public for decades, the exhibition charts the artists development from Edwardian swagger portraits to a radically modernist style in the 1930s. It includes Philpots portraits of actors, dancers, poets, society hostesses, male lovers, friends and family members. The exhibition also examine the artists important contribution to the sensitive representation of black sitters from the 1910s to 1930s, as well as his exploration of both queer and religious subjects. Glyn Philpot enjoyed a prodigious rise to fame winning a scholarship to Lambeth School of Art in 1900 where he created early works inspired by Pre-Raphaelite ... More | | 
Amy Smith-Stewart. Photo: Gloria Pérez.
RIDGEFIELD, CONN.- The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum announced today that Amy Smith-Stewart has been named Chief Curator after nine years at the Museum acting first as Curator, and most recently as Senior Curator. Smith-Stewart succeeds Richard Klein who retired from his position as The Aldrichs Exhibitions Director on June 10 after over thirty years at the Museum. Smith-Stewart said: It is a tremendous honor to be the first woman to lead The Aldrichs exhibitions department. The Aldrich has a long history of supporting visionary artists at critical points of their careers. During my nine-year tenure, the curatorial vision for the Museum has continued to grow with more surprising and ambitious exhibitions and significant publications. project to improve and update our campus to increase opportunities for artists and ensure better access for all communities. The artist is always at the center at The Aldrich. Together, ... More | | 
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, La Bergère, circa 1902. Oil on canvas, 41 x 32.5 cm. Estimate: HK$7,000,000 - 9,000,000/ US$897,000-1,150,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
HONG KONG.- Phillips announced that the full lineup for the Hong Kong Sales of 20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design is now available online. Comprised of finest works by masters of Modern and Contemporary Art, the Evening Sale is led by some of the most celebrated artists of our time, including George Condo, David Hockney, Matthew Wong, Lee Ufan, Zhang Xiaogang, and Yoshitomo Nara. Other highlights include paintings by in-demand contemporary stars such as Nicolas Party, Ernie Barnes, Ouattara Watts, alongside rising young female artists Lucy Bell, Anna Park, Jamian Juliano-Villani, Issy Wood, Shara Hughes, Allison Zuckerman, and Anna Weyant. The Day Sale will take place on 21 June at 12pm HKT, followed by the Evening Sale on 22 June at 6pm HKT. Jonathan Crockett, ... More |
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| Superb Russo-Chinese Bank $5 sells for a hammer price of £32,000 in Noonans Banknotes sale | | Princeton University Art Museum names Elena Torok as its first Associate Objects Conservator | | Phillips continues as the global market leader for watches, with its inaugural spring sale in New York | 
The Russo-Chinese Bank $5 of 1903 that sold for £32,000.
LONDON.- A superb Russo-Chinese Bank $5 of 1903 sold for a hammer price of £32,000 against an estimate of £10,000-15,000 at specialist Coin, Medal, Banknote and Jewellery auctioneers Noonans (previously Dix Noonan Webb) in their sale of British, Irish and World Banknotes on Thursday & Friday, May 26 & 27, 2022 at their Mayfair saleroom (16 Bolton Street, London W1J 8BQ) [lot 732]. As Andrew Pattison, Head of Banknote Department at Noonans explains: Bought by a European Collector, this was the finest example of this note ever to come to market and there cannot be more than a handful of them in existence. Its a very popular area of collecting so it wasnt surprising that it fetched such a high price. Other World notes that attracted strong interest included a remarkable and possibly unique French Indochina 100 Piastres note of 1899 that realised £10,000 against an estimate of £6,000-8,000. The only other ... More | | 
Princeton University Art Museum Associate Objects Curator Elena Torok.
PRINCETON, NJ.- The Princeton University Art Museum has appointed Elena Torok as its associate objects conservator. Torok comes to Princeton from the Dallas Museum of Art, where she contributed to conservation efforts for exhibitions, loans, new acquisitions and a collection of more than 26,000 objects. She began her new role at Princeton on June 1. Torok joins Princeton at a transformative time as construction is underway on the Museums new building designed by Sir David Adjaye. Toroks expertise will be pivotal in advance of the facilitys opening in late 2024, as Princeton reimagines its gallery spaces, inviting visitors to experience collection displays that span centuries and encompass the globe while crossing cultural and chronological borders. Torok will prepare works for relocation to and installation in the new building as well as assist with opening a new two-story conservation studio under the leadership of Chief ... More | | 
Leading the auction was the very first platinum George Daniels Anniversary Watch ever made, bearing the unique serial number 00. Realizing $2,389,500. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY.- Concluding a white glove season for Phillips Watches, The New York Watch Auction: SIX realized $30.3 million more than tripling its pre-sale total low estimate of $9.8 million. Bringing the Spring season total for the category to $127.2 million, the results reaffirm Phillips place as the global market leader. Multiple records for individual models in the fields of vintage, contemporary, and independents were achieved during the live auction at Phillips New York headquarters at 432 Park Avenue. Bidders from the international community, across nearly 70 countries, vied for rare and historic timepieces, participating in the room, online, and over the phone. Paul Boutros, Phillips Head of Watches, Americas, and Isabella Proia, Head of Sale, New York, said, Phillips inaugural Spring Watch auction in New York was met with ... More |
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 'A Strange Loop' wins best musical as Tonys celebrate Broadway's returnNEW YORK, NY.- A Strange Loop, a scalding story about a gay, Black theater artist confronting self-doubt and societal disapproval, won the Tony Award for best new musical Sunday night, giving another huge accolade to a challenging contemporary production that had already won a Pulitzer Prize. The soul-baring show, nurtured by nonprofits and developed over many years, triumphed over two flashy pop musicals, MJ, a jukebox musical about entertainer Michael Jackson, and Six, an irreverent reconsideration of Henry VIIIs ill-fated wives, in a six-way race. A Strange Loop garnered widespread praise from critics; on Sunday night, Michael R. Jackson, the writer who spent nearly two decades working on it, acknowledged how personal the project was as he collected his first Tony Award, for best book of a musical. ... More  Color, craft and comfort at Milan Design WeekMILAN.- Its not a stretch to call Milan Design Week the design worlds largest annual global event. The commercial anchor of the yearly fair is Salone Internazionale del Mobile the trade show, held this year from Tuesday through Sunday at the Rho fairgrounds, where design lovers, curators and the industrys key players convened to discover and unveil the latest product and furniture releases from around the world. Within the city, a sprawling network of related events, together known as Fuorisalone, results in a citywide takeover teeming with gallery and showroom exhibitions, pop-up installations, independent satellite fairs and Instagram-worthy brand activations. After a canceled 2020 edition and a somewhat lackluster 2021 Supersalone event last fall that was thrice postponed, this year the fair, which is usually held in April, ... More  Art Fund announces over £2m in new funding opportunities LONDON.- The UKs national charity for art, Art Fund, has today revealed the breadth of its support for museums, galleries and historic houses over the last year alongside announcing millions of pounds in funding for future museum projects. Art Funds Annual Report shows grants totalling £5.8m were given across its programmes in 2021, made possible by the continuing generosity of its 130,000 members who buy the National Art Pass and by the generosity of trusts, foundations and donors. By the end of 2022, the charity will have given over £6m in Covid-19 response funding. This summer the charity opens funding schemes for applications totalling over £2m, available through its Reimagine grants and the Weston Loan Programme with Art Fund. It will also celebrate the creativity and resilience of museums through ... More  P·P·O·W Gallery announces the death of influential artist and activist Hunter ReynoldsNEW YORK, NY.- P·P·O·W and the Hunter Reynolds Estate are deeply saddened to announce that Hunter Reynolds, influential artist, activist, and dear friend, passed away peacefully on June 12, 2022 at his home in the East Village surrounded by loyal friends. He was 62 years old. A deeply gifted artist and resilient fighter, for over three decades Reynolds explored issues of gender, sexuality, HIV/AIDS, politics, mortality, and rebirth through performance, photography, installations, and his drag alter ego, Patina du Prey. Profound, beautiful, and ferociously honest, Reynolds work was directly influenced by his lived experiences as an HIV-positive gay man living in the age of AIDS. As a member of ACT UP (Aids Coalition to Unleash Power) and a co-founder of Art Positive, an affinity group fighting homophobia and censorship ... More  Clars announces their Summer Modern + Contemporary Art saleOAKLAND, CA.- The offered works will span numerous movements and mediums. One major highlight of the sale will be a striking oil on canvas by Bay Area artist, Raimonds Staprans (American, b. 1926). The 1990 work, titled Blue Boats, is a strong example of his use of bold colors and geometric forms to build his composition. The presence of heavy linear division and abstraction of everyday objects makes the work a stunning example of his hallmark style. While he considers himself an abstract painter, his works were influential in the Bay Area Figurative Movement, along with colleagues Wayne Thiebaud and Robert Diebenkorn. The painting is estimated at $150,000$200,000. Another important work being offered is a work on paper, titled Odalisque by Henri Matisse (French, 18691954). Considered the godfather ... More  Heritage Auctions draws $840,000 for rare Pokemon 'Pikachu' Illustrator cardDALLAS, TX.- An extraordinarily rare Pokémon card soared to $840,000 in Heritage Auctions Trading Card Games Signature® Auction June 11-12. Thats the highest price ever paid for a Pokémon card at public auction. The record-setting card led the 491-lot event to a total of $2,887,177 in total sales. Nearly 1,500 global bidders entered the fray, leading to perfect sell-through rates of 100% by value and by lots sold. The Pokémon Pikachu Illustrator Unnumbered Promo CoroCoro Comics PSA Trading Card Game 9 (The Pokémon Company, 1998) is incredibly rare, one of just 39 made and released during three CoroCoro Comics illustration events all in 1998. This is absolutely the Holy Grail for serious Pokémon collectors, with only one copy anywhere that earned a higher grade, Heritage Auctions Trading Card Games Consignment ... More  Highest price for a painting by Georges Mathieu sold in FrancePARIS.- To the applause in the saleroom, LExil de Go Daïgo dans l'île d'Oki (The Exile of Go Daïgo in the Island of Oki), (1957) by Georges Mathieu, achieved top lot in the sale "De lAvant-Garde à nos jours" at Bonhams Paris (Thursday 9 June). Never seen on the market, nor on French soil, this exceptional three-metre-long painting was sold for 1,182,375, a record in France for a work by the artist). The sale saw lively and engaged bidding throughout, realizing a total 2,347,020 and selling 100% by value. Giacomo Balsamo, International Director of the Department of Post-War and Contemporary Art, said: "This work of historic provenance was sold for 1,182,375 with many international bids by telephone and in the saleroom. The sale demonstrates the strength of the market in Europe and particularly in Paris, which knows how ... More  Miles McEnery Gallery now representing: Lisa Corinne DavisNEW YORK, NY.- Miles McEnery Gallery announced representation of Lisa Corinne Davis. Lisa Corinne Davis is a Brooklyn-based visual artist whose paintings and works on paper encompass intricate layers of color and forms to communicate her lived experience through abstraction. The artists paintings weave two phenomenons of abstraction: rigid, geometric lines and systematic, measured grids against bodily shapes and organic applications of oil paint. She coalesces the logical and visceral until the composition reaches a degree of complexity and intricacy, reminiscent of maps and pathways. With an interest in the malleability of information and knowingness, the work evokes the structures and narratives of locations. The compositions create a visual space for the viewer, internal, external, maximal, liminal, imaginative ... More  Casey Kaplan now representing Johanna Unzueta NEW YORK, NY.- Johanna Unzuetas (b. 1974, Santiago, CL) interdisciplinary practice pays homage to her Chilean upbringing through an engagement in the surrounding communities, landscape, and histories of Latin America. Spanning installation, sculpture, mural-making, film, and drawing, Unzueta uses common materials such as felt, cotton, recycled wood, paper, thread, and natural pigments to describe a belabored economy impacted by the hierarchy of people and resources. The history of how things are grown and circulated is central to Unzuetas evolving narrative. A traditional sewing practice is rooted in Unzueta's familys history she refers to textiles as a second skin. Hand-sewn felt objects of modest to monumental scale render plumbing pipes, work uniforms, and factory machines, carefully crafted ... More  Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft displays 'Frank Brangwyn: The Skinners' Hall Murals'DITCHLING.- Eight mural panels by Sir Frank Brangwyn RA (1867 - 1956) have gone on public display for the first time at Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft in a remarkable new exhibition. The large-scale paintings were commissioned by The Skinners Company between 1901 and 1912 for Skinners Hall in London and depict key moments in the history of the ancient City of London Livery company, which can trace its origins to pre-Roman times. The murals chart the history of the guild from the unregulated mediaeval fur trade in the 13th century, to the height of its political influence and ties to successive monarchs in the 16th and 17th centuries, through to its growing emphasis on philanthropy and education by the 19th century. The museum plays host to the panels while Skinners Hall undergoes restoration work, offering ... More  Tchoban Foundation opens 'AKIRA: The Architecture of Neo Tokyo'BERLIN.- AKIRAThe Architecture of Neo Tokyo presents the original background artwork of the classic science-fiction animation film in an unprecedented exhibition. The film made on the basis of the manga AKIRA which was released in 1988, has been almost solely responsible for the boom enjoyed by Japanese animation (anime) film among an international audience since the early 1990s. For many viewers, AKIRA was the first film that they perceived as anime as specifically Japanese animation. As such, it had a tremendous influence on a whole generation of film enthusiasts. Much of AKIRAs cinematic power stems from the opulent representation of the films iconic city of Neo Tokyo. A major influence on the design of Neo Tokyo was the work of the architect Kenzo Tange. And most importantly, the idea of locating Neo ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American-French painter Mary Cassatt died June 14, 1926. Mary Stevenson Cassatt (May 22, 1844 â June 14, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker. She was born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania (Now part of Pittsburgh's North Side), but lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists. In this image: Mary Cassatt (1845-1926), Mother and Two Children, 1906. Oil on canvas
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