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Tracey Emin, I Cried Because I Love You, 2016. Neon, 32 1/16 x 78 15/16 x 1 7/8 in. (81.5 x 200.5 x 4.8 cm) © Tracey Emin. All rights reserved, DACS 2016. Photo © Ben Westoby. Courtesy of Lehmann Maupin and White Cube.
HONG KONG.- The pain of intimacy, raw physicality, love, sadness, loneliness: British artist Tracey Emin's trademark themes run through her new Hong Kong show "I Cried Because I Love You" -- her first in greater China. A mix of painting, embroidery and neon, the exhibition comes at a time when, despite the economic downturn in China, collectors in the region are becoming increasingly knowledgeable and focused on who they want to buy -- and Emin is on their shopping list. Her new show coincides with the launch of Hong Kong's Art Basel Tuesday, which sees collectors descend on the city as it increasingly establishes itself as an art hub for Asia. More than 4,000 artists will participate in Art Basel itself, held at the harbourfront exhibition centre, with a host of events on the sidelines tapping into the creative buzz. Emin's show is split across Hong Kong's Lehmann Maupin and White Cube -- galleries with long-standing relationships with the artist. "Everybody's loved someone so much that it hurt ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day DAYTON.- Contemporary artist Daniel Rozin demonstrates his interactive work Brushed Metal Mirror during installation of the special exhibition Into the Ether: Contemporary Light Artists at The Dayton Art Institute in Dayton, Ohio. The special exhibition, which features works by Rozin, James Turrell, Robert Irwin, Leo Villareal, Erwin Redl and Diane Willow, opens April 2 and will be on view through June 26.
| Sotheby's HK Contemporary Asian Art Spring Sale to be led by "Brushwork - From Asia to the World" | | Eli Wilner & Company announces eWilner Frames app that offers over 100 frames | | Tom Sachs transforms museum galleries with his unique twist on traditional tea ceremony |
Tanaka Atsuko (19322005), 95C 1995, synthetic resin on canvas, 146 x 112.5 cm. Est. HK$4.5 7.5 million / US$577,000 962,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
HONG KONG.- Sothebys Hong Kongs Contemporary Asian Art Spring Sale 2016 will take place from 3 4 April at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. This seasons sale is led by Brushwork From Asia to The World (3 April), a specially-curated auction encompassing 20 abstract works by contemporary artists from China, Japan, Korea, the United States and France. Focusing on the reinterpretation of brushwork by post-war artists from the East and West, the auction unveils their interaction and mutual influences on each other from an academic perspective. The Modern and Contemporary Asian Art Evening Sale taking place on the same day will present a line-up of masterpieces, including Liu Wei and Kusama Yayois monumental paintings, alongside other large-scale installations and sculptures. On 4 April, the Modern and Contemporary Asian ... More | |
Pablo Picasso, L'homme au gant rouge, 1938, framed by Eli Wilner & Company.
NEW YORK, NY.- Eli Wilner & Company, the worlds most renowned framer, has launched eWilner Frames, a free iPhone and iPad app that offers over 100 of the gallery's greatest frames for use on digital photos. The new framing app has already been featured in the New York Times. Wilner created the app to adapt the framing business to the digital age, and to make period frames accessible to the broader public. eWilner Frames allows users to frame digital art and 'selfies' in the same caliber of frames that Eli Wilner & Company uses with clients like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The White House. After selecting a photo on your iPhone or iPad, the app automatically shows it in over 100 frames. This way, frame selection becomes an enjoyable tour through the Eli Wilner & Company frame collection. Four frames are available for free with the app, and the others can be purchased for 99 cents each. In an upcoming release, users ... More | |
Tom Sachs, Tea House, 2011-2012. Mixed media, 122 1/2 x 132 x 202 3/4 in. Collection of the Artist.
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- The Noguchi Museums thirtieth-anniversary programming culminates this spring with Tom Sachs: Tea Ceremony, a major project by the internationally celebrated artist. The exhibition, which represents Sachs distinctive, irreverent-but-respectful take on the rituals and accoutrements of chanoyu, or traditional Japanese tea ceremony, confirms his status as one of the leading artists of our day, as well as the ultimate master of cultural bricolagethe practice of creating things from a variety of available materials and objects. Tom Sachs: Tea Ceremony centers on an immersive environment that includes the myriad elementsall crafted by the artist and his studiothat are essential to tea ceremonys intensely ritualistic universe. These are amplified by displays in adjoining galleries of a rich selection of other materials borrowed from the artist, related to both chanoyu ... More |
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| Exhibition at Saint Louis Art Museum highlights carpets and tents from the Ballard collection | | Documentary about the art and life of Eva Hesse to open at Film Forum in New York on April 27 | | Claremont Rug Company names Best of the Best antique rugs sold in 2015 with online gallery exhibition |
Kurdish Offset-Knotted Medallion Carpet with White-Ground Border, 17thmid-18th century; Ottoman period (12811924); wool; 96 x 65 inches; Saint Louis Art Museum, Gift of James F. Ballard 116:1929.
SAINT LOUIS, MO.- The Saint Louis Art Museum is presenting The Carpet and the Connoisseur: The James F. Ballard Collection of Oriental Rugs, a major exhibition highlighting the extraordinary range of Oriental carpets assembled by an early 20th-century American collector who set a new standard for collecting and scholarship. The ticketed exhibition is on view from March 6 through May 8, 2016. At the turn of the 20th century, prominent St. Louis businessman James F. Ballard became one of the countrys foremost collectors of Oriental carpets. Celebrated for his approach to collecting at a time when most ... More | |
Eva Hesse deepens the understanding of this extraordinary artist.
NEW YORK, NY.- Zeitgeist Films presents the US Theatrical release of EVA HESSE, a documentary film by Marcie Begleiter. Eva Hesse will open at Film Forum in New York on April 27, and at Laemmle Monica Film Center on May 13. Many other cities will follow. As the wild ride of the 1960s came to a close, Eva Hesse was cresting the wave of a swiftly rising career. One of the few women recognized as central to the New York art scene, she had over 20 group shows scheduled for 1970 in addition to being chosen for a cover article in ArtForum Magazine. Her work was finally receiving both the critical and commercial attention it deserved. EVA HESSE deepens the understanding of this extraordinary ... More | |
Mohtasham Kashan, 46 x 64, early 19th century.
OAKLAND, CA.- For the fifth consecutive year eminent art dealer Jan David Winitz, whose Claremont Rug Company gallery specializes in art-level Oriental carpets from the Second Golden Age of Persian Weaving, is providing a glimpse at the most elite rugs that were sold by the Gallery during 2015. A total of 40 high-collectible best of the best 19th century rugs in a variety of Persian and Caucasian weaving styles will be displayed on the Gallerys website (www.claremontrug.com) through April 10, 2016. Because many of these carpets were offered only to specific clients, said Winitz, author of The Guide to Purchasing an Oriental Rug, this exhibition is the only time that anyone other than the acquirer will likely ever see the rug. ... More |
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| Spirit of American workforce celebrated in rare Mather Work Incentive Posters going up for sale | | Demand for early US political memorabilia produces another million-dollar auction result for Hake's | | Exhibition examines influence of science and technology on art of Cold War era |
These posters were originally designed as incentives for American factory and office workers.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Ross Art Group Inc., a Midtown New York gallery has announced the exclusive exhibit and sale of an extraordinary collection of original Mather & Company American Work Incentive Posters, created in 1927. Celebrating the American workforce and our nations industrial growth in the 1920s, these posters were originally designed as incentives for American factory and office workers. Each colorful poster is an original work of art that was created using stone lithography and printed in Chicago. A total of 64 make up the rare collection being offered for sale as one grouping. During this political year, when the state of American jobs, labor and the economy are important topics of discussion in town halls, debates and political forums (television commercials), the Collection of Mather Work Incentive Posters allow us to reminisce of a simpler time in American labor history when jobs and labor forces were ... More | |
1812 $5 Gold Capped Bust Half Eagle coin, PCGS graded MS 63, $22,264. Images courtesy of Hakes Americana.
YORK, PA.- Collectors cast their ballots decisively in Hakes Americanas March 15-17 pop culture auction, and the clear winner among the 200+ categories offered was antique political memorabilia. As predicted by Hakes experts, the top political entry turned out to be an 1864 Lincoln and Johnson oilcloth campaign parade flag with the candidates names emblazoned across the banners 13 stripes. A rare and significant historical artifact, it breezed past its high estimate to reach $23,655. Quite likely a sole survivor, an 1848 Lewis Cass and William Butler campaign coattail ribbon with the Coat of Arms of Pennsylvania and the misspelled phrase Our Country Right Or Worng [sic.] surpassed its pre-auction estimate with a selling price of $12,523. Four variations of Cass ribbons were produced, and of all types, only 10 are known to the collecting world. The ribbon ... More | |
Vagrich Bakhchanyan, Untitled, 1975-1976. Collage. Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union. Photo Jack Abraham.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ.- The Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers opened Dreamworlds and Catastrophes, an exhibition exploring Soviet artists engagement with science, technology, and design at the height of the Cold War. The artists featured in the exhibition captured the duality of the intense geopolitical circumstances and the sense of hopeful possibility created by technological advancement in Soviet military and space technologies. Works in the exhibition range from documentary photography, which memorialized scientific achievements and their influence on everyday life, to surrealistic abstractions that encapsulated the sense of a rapidly changing world, to kinetic sculptures that incorporated new technologies. Although created in the Cold War era of the 1960s to the1980s, these works have a renewed relevance and immediacy as current global events have reignited American and ... More |
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| Anamorphosis: Exhibition at Lacoste Gallery presents new body of work by Anne Currier | | Dallas Museum of Art commissions the first U.S. outdoor sculpture by Rebecca Warren | | Exhibition of photographs by Robin de Puy on view at The Hague Museum of Photography |
Juno. 2015. Glazed clay, 16"H x 16"W x 13"D.
CONCORD, MASS.- Lacoste Gallery presents Anne Currier: Anamorphosis, March 12 - April 2, 2016, featuring the ceramic sculptors new body of work drawing from Cubist still life paintings and winter hues of Allegany County, New York. Currier focuses on the interplay of dichotomies such as mass and void, light and shadow, absence and presence. The different angles, planes and curves of her sculptures create an infinite interchange with view, time and space. Through artistic exploration, her organic process of discovery with clay mirrors the evolution in anamorphosis, a term that resides in the natural sciences, denoting the evolution of one organism from another through a series of gradual changes. Her process for discovery and making has been a layered and organic pursuit. The interior and exterior curves of cylinders and cones in concert with the angles and directions of edges and planes--are elements she finds infinitely con ... More | |
Rebecca Warren, Eins, 2013. Hand-painted bronze. Overall: 82 x 11 x 11 in. (208 x 28 x 28 cm). Courtesy of Matthew Marks Gallery, © Rebecca Warren. Photo: Ron Amstutz.
DALLAS, TX.- This spring, the Dallas Museum of Art unveiled a commissioned sculpture at its newly renovated north entrance by acclaimed British artist Rebecca Warren. Pas de Deux (Plaza Monument) will debut to the public in April 2016 as part of the grand opening of the Museums Eagle Family Plaza, a new space for contemporary art and outdoor programming. To coincide with the installation of the first U.S. museumcommissioned sculpture by Warren, the DMA is present a focused exhibition of her work created over the past decade. Rebecca Warren: The Main Feeling explores the artists use of diverse materials to challenge traditional sculptural conventions. Pas de Deux (Plaza Monument) consists of two biomorphic forms, each more than 14 feet tall, cast in bronze and hand painted by the artist. The work ... More | |
Robin de Puy, Sabryna, 2015. ®Robin de Puy, courtesy Fotomuseum Den Haag / The Ravestijn Gallery.
THE HAGUE.- Robin de Puys thoughts, jotted down in her journal on 4 June 2015. At that point, she had been in America for four weeks and covered 4908 km on her Harley-Davidson. Another six weeks and 5092 km to go. De Puy is a young portrait photographer in great demand. In 2014, she decided to go on the trip as a way of escaping the pressure of public expectations. Her success has a downside: the constant flood of commissions leaves her almost no time for autonomous work and she feared losing her sense of creative freedom. Her American road trip gave her the chance to go back to deciding for herself what to photograph. The result is a splendid series of portraits, now presented by the Hague Museum of Photography in the photographers first ever solo show in a museum setting. Robin de Puy is currently one of the Netherlands most popular portrait photographers. Her career took off immediately after she ... More |
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Asia Week's big success: Joan B Mirviss LTD sells ninety-five percent of the exhibited works
NEW YORK, NY.- With ninety-five percent of the exhibited works sold at Asia Weeks end and nearly a month before the exhibitions close, Joan B Mirviss LTD could not be more pleased with the fervent reception of A Palette for Genius: Japanese Water Jars for the Tea Ceremony. This is the first-ever exhibition purely dedicated to showcasing the mizusashi, or water jar- even in Japan. Historically, more popular tea utensils such as the teabowl or tea caddy have overshadowed the water jar as a work of art to be collected. The exhibition reexamines this under-appreciated implement and its limitless potential as a stand-alone work of art. As the largest utensil involved in the tea ceremony, the water jar plays a significant role in dictating the atmosphere of the tearoom. In such a way, the remarkable presence of over fifty water jars in the gallery space has led to stimulating conversations ... More
Ladle made for 1904 Saint Louis World's Fair reunited with famous Libbey punch bowl
TOLEDO, OH.- A massive cut-glass punch bowl produced as a showstopper for the 1904 St. Louis Worlds Fair and its matching silver and glass ladle have been reunited after being separated for 111 years. The Libbey Glass Company punch bowl and matching cups have been part of the collection at the Toledo Museum of Art since 1946. Now the ladle is part of the collection as well. We are truly grateful to local benefactors George and Leslie Chapman who made it possible for us to recover this beautiful ladle and put it on display with a punch bowl of extraordinary beauty and significance in the history of American enterprise, said Brian Kennedy, director of the Toledo Museum of Art. The made-in-America story is a point of pride for Toledo. The famous punch bowl was created in 1903-1904 by master glassmakers and successfully used to promote the Libbey Glass brand ... More
"It Takes a Lifetime to Become Young" by Yan Pei-Ming unveiled at Massimo De Carlo Hong Kong
HONG KONG.- Today marked the opening of Massimo De Carlos first Asian space. Located in Hong Kongs Pedder Building, the gallery opened with a solo show by the Chinese artist, based in France, Yan Pei-Ming, with whom Massimo De Carlo has collaborated for almost 20 years, since 1998. Entitled It Takes a Lifetime to Become Young, the exhibition runs from 21 March 22 May 2016. Yan Pei-Ming grew up during the Cultural Revolution in China and left Shanghai for France in 1980, where he studied at the Ãcole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Dijon. During the last 30 years he established himself as one of the most prominent artists, renowned for his impressive size portraits of key power figures from both the East and the West, from Mao Zedong and Barack Obama to Marylin Monroe and Alexander McQueen. I am honoured to be a part of the ... More
Candida Höfer's latest series, Memory, capturing the splendour of St Petersburg, opens in Hong Kong
HONG KONG.- After receiving critical acclaim at the State Hermitage Museum in 2015, Candida Höfers latest series, Memory - capturing the splendour of St Petersburg and its magnificent buildings - will travel to Ben Brown Fine Arts Hong Kong in March, coinciding with Art Basel Hong Kong 2016. The Hermitage Museum, Pushkin Palace, Catherine Palace Pushkin, Mariinsky Theatre, as well as the palaces of Pavlovsk and Yusupov, provide the glorious setting for this new series produced in the summer of 2014. The empty interiors of palaces, opera houses, libraries, museums and theatres are part of the artists meticulous and skilful documentation of public spaces which has brought her international prominence. Through her lens, Höfer captures mankinds greatness - extraordinary buildings and architecture associated with cultural memory and history - yet her spaces ... More
Nigerian royals applaud Cambridge move on cockerel statue
BENIN CITY (AFP).- Nigerian royals have welcomed moves at Britain's Cambridge University to return a bronze cockerel stolen with other artefacts during colonialist looting in the 19th century. Jesus College earlier this month said it was taking down the statue, known as "Okukor", pillaged from the former kingdom of Benin and was looking at the possibility of its repatriation. The move followed a student protest and came as their counterparts at Oxford University mounted a campaign to remove a statue of British imperialist and donor Cecil Rhodes at Oriel College. The kingdom of Benin was one of the greatest and richest in West Africa and at its height extended as far as modern-day Ghana. The younger brother of the Oba (king) of Benin, Prince Edun Akenzua, described the cockerel's removal as a "welcome development". "We knew we have this kind of thing in Cambridge and we ... More
Skinner announces its upcoming European Furniture & Decorative Arts auction
BOSTON, MASS.- Skinner, Inc. will present its spring auction of European Furniture & Decorative Arts in its Boston gallery on Friday, April 8 at 10AM. With over 700 lots on offer, the auction will feature Part I of the Troy Dawson Chappell Collection of 17th and 18th century English Pottery, as well as a broad range of fine silver flatware and hollowware from the United States and Europe; ceramics from England and the Continent; and European fine and decorative arts of the 16th through early 20th centuries. The silver session, with over 150 lots, opens with British silver and features a Queen Anne Chocolate Pot by Richard Green (Lot 1, Estimated between $2,500 and $3,500) as well as an impressive George III Two-arm Epergne by Joseph Preedy (Lot 14, $2,000-$3,000). Examples of fine Continental and Chinese export silver on offer include a Pair of French Art ... More
Exhibition presents powerful African-American art and community conversations in 30 Americans
CINCINNATI, OH.- The Cincinnati Art Museum presents 30 Americans, an exhibition featuring artworks by many of the most important African-American artists of the last three decades, from March 19 August 28, 2016. This conversation-starting and sometimes provocative exhibition focuses on issues of race, gender, and historical identity in contemporary culture, while exploring the powerful influence of artistic legacy and community across generations. The approximately 60 artworks are drawn primarily from the acclaimed Rubell Family Collection, Miami, as well as from the Cincinnati Art Museums permanent collection. Diverse in medium, subject matter, and perspective, the exhibition highlights a wide range of cultural backgrounds and life experiences as expressed by contemporary African-American artists, including Nick Cave, Kara Walker, Kehinde Wiley, Jean-Michel Basquiat, ... More
Austrian artist Markus Schinwald's first solo exhibition on view at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
PARIS.- Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is presenting Austrian artist Markus Schinwalds first solo exhibition at its Paris Marais gallery. Through his protean work, Schinwald explores a range of media such as video, drawing, sculpture and installations to shape a world that enables a dialogue between theatre, sociology, philosophy, psychology and even fetishism. As part of his pictorial creation process, Markus Schinwald uses old paintings, most of which date back to the Biedermeier period, which he alters by adding incongruous elements such as prostheses. With this iconoclastic gesture, the artist creates a timeless piece that does not, or no longer, correspond to a particular aesthetic style, whether in terms of time period or genre. Contrary to such a restrictive artistic practice, with each exhibition Schinwald takes the viewer through an initiation journey as the experience is not ... More
New York sculptor Michelle Segre exhibits at the Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery of the University of the Arts is presenting the Philadelphia one-person premier of New York sculptor Michelle Segre. Michelle Segre was born in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1965 and received her BFA in 1987 from Cooper Union School of Art. Segres organic works are an eclectic amalgam of new age naturalism joined with Arte Povera. In her early work, she constructed large-scale naturalistic enlargements of mushrooms and of bones, perhaps sharing a kinship with Nancy Graves or Roxy Paine. These conceptual structures, however, were only the starting point; she now creates monoliths of assembled allusions, chimeras of consciousness, exploring various biomorphic iconographies, mycelia exploding into open fiber or wire webs. Space is punctuated and punctured, wire is used as line, threads connect objects suspended in space. ... More
Sean Scully wins international artist of the year award
LONDON.- Leading artist Sean Scully is the recipient of this years Harper's Bazaar Art International Artist of the Year Award. The prize which was awarded for the artists outstanding performance in contemporary art over the past year will be presented at a Gala Dinner at the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong on Tuesday 22 March 2016. Harper's Bazaar Art promotes artistic dialogue between the east and the west. Following the unprecedented success of Sean Scullys recent career-length exhibitions in Shanghai and Beijing, the artists work will be shown in a second wave of exhibitions across China opening on 8 April 2016. His previous exhibition Follow the Heart: The Art of Sean Scully was selected as the Exhibition of the Year by the Beijing News and the Global Times referred to its success as a Sean Scully hurricane blowing through China. Scullys new exhibition ... More
Exhibition of works by Jac Leirner on view at White Cube
LONDON.- White Cube Masons Yard is presenting Junkie, an exhibition by Jac Leirner. Although the sculptures and photography in this exhibition are new, they have their origins at a point in time around 30 years ago when Leirner began to keep the ephemera and objects, some of which are associated with her addiction to drugs. Gathered over several years, the objects used in these new works were assembled and photographed during a cocaine binge over three nights in 2010. Leirners varied work includes sculpture, painting, installation, and works on paper, frequently featuring the residual matter that surrounds us in everyday life, re-presented to create new and unexpected associations. Stickers, turnbuckles, rulers, plastic bags, business cards, cigarette ends and even bank notes make their appearance in her sculptures, where they are amassed together to form ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck was born March 22, 1599. Sir Anthony van Dyck (22 March 1599 - 9 December 1641) was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England. He is most famous for his portraits of Charles I of England and his family and court, painted with a relaxed elegance that was to be the dominant influence on English portrait-painting for the next 150 years. He also painted biblical and mythological subjects, displayed outstanding facility as a draftsman, and was an important innovator in watercolour and etching. In this image: Auction workers pose for photographers as they hold a portrait made by Anthony van Dyck, during a pre-auction photo-op for the 'Old Master Paintings and Early British Paintings, Drawings & Watercolours' sale in Sotheby's auction house in central London, Friday July 3, 2009.
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