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Installation view of Beyond the Light: Identity and Place in NineteenthCentury Danish Art, on view January 26April 16, 2023 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo by Anna-Marie Kellen, courtesy of The Met.
NEW YORK, NY.- Beyond the Light: Identity and Place in Nineteenth-Century Danish Art examines the period formerly known as the Danish Golden Age, a name that belies the economic and political hardships Denmark experienced in the 19th century. Yet this turmoil is what gave rise to a vibrant cultural and philosophical environment with a close-knit community of Danish artists inspired to explore notions of place, identity, and belonging in their work. Opening at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on January 26, Beyond the Light places the drawings, oil sketches, and paintings created by these artists firmly in this period, one that witnessed the transformation of a once-powerful Danish kingdom into a small, somewhat marginalized country at the edge of Europe. Beyond the Light tells a powerful story about shifting borders, national identity, and feelings of belonging and displacementall themes that resonate with contemporary audiences all ove ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Master Drawings New York 2023; Photography Courtesy of Caroline Ourso.
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| National Portrait Gallery to install historic life-size painting of President Abraham Lincoln | | Gagosian to present over thirty prints made by Jonas Wood between 2018 and 2022 | | $20 million worth of looted art returns to Italy from the U.S. | 
Created from life in 1865, the 9-foot-tall oil on canvas is one of three known, life-size paintings of the 16th president.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Portrait Gallery has announced the installation of a life-size painting of President Abraham Lincoln by artist W.F.K. Travers. Created from life in 1865, the 9-foot-tall oil on canvas is one of three known, life-size paintings of the 16th president. The historic work comes to the National Portrait Gallery on long-term loan from the Hartley Dodge Foundation, whose founder, Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge, acquired the painting from her family in the 1930s. The Portrait Gallery will display the Travers painting in the museums ongoing exhibition Americas Presidents beginning Feb. 10. The installation will precede the museums Presidential Family Fun Day, which will offer activities for all ages, including tours of Americas Presidents and the exhibitions new tactile display. The festival will take place in the museums Kogod Courtyard Saturday ... More | | 
Jonas Wood, Aechmea Bromeliad Poster, 2022. 27-color lithograph on Coventry Rag Smooth paper, 42 3/8 x 30 3/4 inches (107.6 x 78.1 cm) Edition of 80 + 20 AP. Publisher: Cirrus Gallery & Cirrus Editions Ltd., Los Angeles and WKS Editions, Los Angeles © Jonas Wood. Photo: Marten Elder. Courtesy the artist and Gagosian.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian announces Prints 2, an exhibition of over thirty prints made by Jonas Wood between 2018 and 2022. Opening on January 26 at 541 West 24th Street, it is conceived as a companion show to Prints, the first exhibition dedicated to the artists printmaking, presented by the gallery in 2018. The works on view in Prints 2 feature Woods perennial motifsplants, pottery, portraiture, interiors, landscapes, and basketballreflecting the life of the artist through representations of home, studio, and natural spaces. They are united by Woods transformation of subject matter into images with skewed planar space, dense patterning, and vivid color. Developing his prints in parallel with his paintings ... More | | 
Wilson Delgado photograph of the Collegio Romano, taken in 2003.
ROME.- Taken together, the five dozen ancient artifacts displayed at Italys culture ministry Monday would have made a fine archaeological centerpiece for any museum. The items, dating from the seventh century B.C. to the first century A.D., included well-preserved marble statues, red-figure vases, a silver drinking bowl, even rare bronzes. The artifacts, worth more than $20 million, according to the Italian culture ministry, were back on Italian soil after having been seized in the United States by American officials over the past 14 months. Twenty-one of the works had been on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, as well as in private homes and auction houses, before being recovered by U.S. officials, who acted on evidence that they had been illegally looted from archaeological sites in Italy. Gennaro Sangiuliano, Italys culture minister, said Monday during a celebratory ... More |
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| 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' leads the Oscar nominations | | Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents 'Portrait of Courage: Gentileschi, Wiley, and the Story of Judith' | | Hauser & Wirth Monaco presents a selection of new and monumental works by Amy Sherald | 
In addition to getting a nomination for best picture, some of the stars of the film, including Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Stephanie Hsu, received acting nominations.
NEW YORK, NY.- In a year when moviegoers returned en masse to big-budget spectacles and skipped nearly everything else Oscar voters on Tuesday spread nominations remarkably far and wide. The blockbuster sequels Top Gun: Maverick and Avatar: The Way of Water, with $3.5 billion in combined ticket sales worldwide, were recognized in the best picture category. Elvis, an old-fashioned musical biopic (draped in Baz Luhrmann bling) heard its name called alongside the newfangled Everything Everywhere All at Once. Additional nominations went to the ultrasophisticated Tár, which took in a scant $6 million in theaters; the German-language All Quiet on the Western Front, a streaming-service entry; The Banshees of Inisherin, a dark comedy about a frayed friendship; Steven Spielbergs memory piece, The Fabelmans; the sexual assault drama Women Talking, set in an isolated religious colony ... More | | 
Artemisia Gentileschi (Rome, 1593Naples, ca. 1653), Judith and Holofernes, c. 161217, oil on canvas. 159 x 126 cm. Inv. Q 378. Napoli, Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte.
HOUSTON, TX.- Two paintings depicting the Old Testament story of Judith slaying Holofernesone by 17th-century Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi and the other by contemporary American artist Kehinde Wileywill continue their national tour at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston from January 25 through April 16, 2023. Presenting Gentileschis Judith and Holofernes (c. 1612-17) from the collection of the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte in Naples and Wileys 2012 Judith and Holofernes from the North Carolina Museum of Art, Portrait of Courage: Gentileschi, Wiley, and the Story of Judith places the two paintings in dialogue with one another, revealing shared narratives and ideas across time and culture. The subject of the two paintings, one that recurs throughout European art history, is taken from the Old Testament Book of Judith. The story features the heroic young widow ... More | | 
Amy Sherald, For love, and for country 2022. Oil on linen, 312.4 à 236.2 cm / 123 à 93 in © Amy Sherald. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth Photo: Joseph Hyde.
MONACO.- Travelling from the artists major exhibition at Hauser & Wirth in London, her first solo show in Europe, a selection of new and monumental works by Amy Sherald will be on display at the gallery in Monaco. Amy Sherald, one of the defining contemporary portraitists in the United States, is acclaimed for her paintings of Black Americans that have become landmarks in the grand tradition of social portraiture a tradition that for too long excluded the Black men, women, families and artists whose lives have been inextricable from public and politicised narratives. As Sherald says, sharing these paintings in Europe is an opportunity for me to reflect on how the tradition of portraiture finds continuity as one of several lineages alive in my work. Sherald humanises the Black experience by depicting her subjects in both historically recognisable and everyday settings, at once immortalising ... More |
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| RR Auction announces results of their Olympic Memorabilia sale | | Phillips presents 'What Now?: Online Auction' | | Bonhams appoints Andrew Huber as Head of Post-War & Contemporary Art in New York | 
Incredible 1980 Lake Placid silver medal awarded to a member of the lauded Soviet Union ice hockey teamour first silver winner's medal from the XIII Winter Olympiad.
BOSTON, MASS.- The Olympic Memorabilia sale from RR Auction that began on December 16 and concluded on January 19 announced that a magnificent winner's medal issued to Soviet Union ice hockey player Sergei Starikov for the Lake Placid 1980 Winter Olympics, sold for $86,136, according to Boston-based RR Auction. The 1980 Lake Placid Olympics have become synonymous with the storied 'Miracle on Ice' hockey match between the heavily favored Soviet Union and the United States. While the Americans famously won the contest with a stirring 4-3 victory, subsequently winning the gold medal against Finland two days later on February 24, the USSR and Sweden would battle for a silver medal at the Olympic Fieldhouse just hours afterward, with the Soviets giving no quarter to their Scandinavian opponents. Awarded to Starikov, an integral member of the vaunted Soviet ... More | | 
Jade Kim, Flower Aura, 2021. Oil on canvas, 130 x 97cm. Estimate: HK$90,000-130,000/ US$ 11,250-16,250. Image courtesy of Phillips.
HONG KONG.- Phillips will present What Now?: Online Auction from 2-9 February, offering a selection of original artworks and editions by popular artists in the current contemporary art market. Tapping into current collecting trends, highlight works to feature in the online auction include exquisite works by Ayako Rokkaku, Chiharu Shiota, Joan Cornella, Etsu Egami, Edgar Plans, Cristina BanBan, Javier Calleja and Jade Kim. Untitled AR19-033 presented in the sale beautifully emblematic of Ayako Rokkakus cartoon-like painterly aesthetic with her signature rainbow colour palette. Dancing across large canvases, Rokkaku smears dazzling swirls of colour directly with her bare hands and fingertips, capturing the speed and verve in which she creates. Evoking carefree mark-making often seen in childrens drawings, Rokkakus painterly surfaces recall elements of impressionism in its thick layers of impasto. Jade Kim ... More | | 
Andrew Huber, Head of the Post-War & Contemporary Art department in New York. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bonhams has appointed Andrew Huber as the Head of the Post-War & Contemporary Art department in New York, following a record year for the department and upward trajectory in the category, year over year. In California, market success also continues to grow, and Bonhams has appointed Kate Rosenheim as Specialist and Head of Sale for Post-War and Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Since joining Bonhams in 2019, Huber has been a key member of the New York team which has repeatedly set new record sale totals each year. In his new role, Huber is responsible for overseeing department strategy in New York as well as securing consignments for sale across Bonhams global network. Huber played a crucial role in the record-breaking collection of previously unseen early works by Yayoi Kusama from the collection of the late Dr. Teruo Hirose ($15.2 million). Huber also oversaw the departments highest ever various-owner sale total in May 2 ... More |
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| Skarstedt NY presents 'Faces & Figures' group show | | Stephen Friedman Gallery presents its second solo exhibition by Jonathan Baldock | | Steidl to publish 'Nan Goldin: This Will Not End Well' | 
Installation, Skarstedt NY, Faces & Figures, January - February 2023. Courtesy of Skarstedt. Photo Credit: John Berens.
NEW YORK, NY.- Skarstedt has announced its winter group exhibition, Faces and Figures. Sprawling across the gallerys three locations in New York, London, and Paris, the exhibition comprises paintings and sculptures that demonstrate the myriad ways in which artist, model, and character have been configured and reconfigured from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Whether used as an investigation into the human form, a meditation on internal states, a rumination on greater cultural or political events, or a channel through which to bridge the gap between high and low art, figuration has played an irreplaceable role in the history of art, foregrounding artistic expression from its earliest days. The breadth of the exhibition including artists from America and Europe, and from periods as disparate as German Neo-Expressionism, The Pictures Generation, and moreillustrates how these themes have manifested across ... More | | 
Jonathan Baldock, 'Wildflowers don't care where they grow', 2022. Ceramic, hessian, linen, boning, dried chamomile, Face: 41 x 41 x 11cm (16 1/8 x 16 1/8 x 4 3/8in). Flower: 112 x 111 x 18cm (44 1/8 x 43 3/4 x 7 1/8in). Root: 355 x 5.5cm (139 3/4 x 2 1/8in). Overall dimensions variable. Copyright Jonathan Baldock. Courtesy the artist and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. Photo by Todd-White Art Photography.
LONDON.- Centred on themes of nature and the cycle of life, this highly personal exhibition draws inspiration from Baldocks relationship with his mother and her garden. The artist brings together a new body of work comprising ceramics and wall-based sculptures. Baldock examines the spectrum of human emotion, brutally and blissfully reflecting on what it means to be alive and how we find our place on Earth. Though autobiographical in content, the exhibition contains many elements which are universal. Baldock has a powerful relationship with his mother, who taught him many of the crafts and skills he uses in his practice. From this early dynamic to the development of a friendship and shared ... More | | 
Nan Goldin: This Will Not End Well. Image © Nan Goldin.
NEW YORK, NY.- This Will Not End Well is the first book to present a comprehensive overview of Nan Goldin's work as a filmmaker. Accompanying the retrospective show and tour of the same name, organized by Moderna Museet, Stockholm, the book draws from the nearly dozen slideshows and films Goldin has made from thousands of photographs, film sequences, audio tapes and music tracks. The stories told range from the trauma of her family history to the portrayal of her bohemian friends, to a journey into the darkness of addiction. By focusing exclusively on slideshows and video installations, This Will Not End Well aims to fully embrace Goldins vision of how her work should be experienced. The book retains the presentation of the slide shows by showing all images in the same format on a black background and sequenced as they are in the sources. The 20 texts, of which the major part are newly commissioned ... More |
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Phillips to offer further selections from the Peter C. Bunnell CollectionNEW YORK, NY.- Phillips announced that further photographs from the collection of pioneering curator, scholar, and teacher Peter C. Bunnell will be offered in The Eye That Shapes, an online auction open for bidding beginning 25 January through 1 February. All lots are being sold without reserve and the sale will be on view at 432 Park Avenue for the duration of the online auction. The Eye that Shapes is the second in a series of auctions dedicated to the collection of Peter C. Bunnell, with the first having taken place in October 2022. Proceeds from the sales will be distributed to six institutions with whom Bunnell was associatedRochester Institute of Technology, Ohio University, Yale University, The George Eastman Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, and Princeton University Art Museumto establish endowments to support the study of photographic history ... More  New Director of the John Giorno Foundation announcedNEW YORK, NY.- The John Giorno Foundation announced today the appointment of Anthony Huberman (b. 1975, Switzerland) as Executive Director of the Foundation and Artistic Director of its public and programming venue, The Bunker. The John Giorno Foundation was established in 2020, after the death of the poet, performer, artist, and activist John Giorno (1936-2019), as a posthumous transformation of Giorno Poetry Systems Institute, Inc. the artists collective, nonprofit organization and record label established by Giorno in 1974. As Executive Director, Huberman will advance the Foundations mission and build on its work to support artists, poets, and musicians, as well as those who study the Nyingmapa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, and to preserve and promote the work of John Giorno, including his poetry, visual and recording arts, and archives ... More  Quint Gallery opens an exhibition of paintings by San Diego-based artist Perry VásquezLA JOLLA, CA.- Quint Gallery is presenting Some Palms, an exhibition of paintings by San Diego-based artist Perry Vásquez, which centers the palm tree as a symbol for the idealism of California, simultaneously mythologizing and interrupting its appeal. Date palms, synonymous with the California landscape, were imported by Franciscan monks in the late 1600s as ornamental nods to the plants appearances in the bible, transforming Southern California from an arid desert into an oasis. These palms, with only one species native to California, provide neither shade nor fruit, and require vast resources of water from near and far watersheds in order to thrive. Vásquez has considered this ecological quandary to create paintings of palms engulfed in flames, an image which has become synonymous with accelerated rates of wildfires across the region. In other paintings ... More  Catalina Museum for Art & History presents "Crossing Waters: Contemporary Tongva Artists Carrying Pimugna"AVALON, CALIF.- Catalina Museum for Art & History is currently presenting the exhibition Crossing Waters: Contemporary Tongva Artists Carrying Pimugna, featuring a collection of works created by three contemporary Tongva artists, Weshoyot Alvitre, Mercedes Dorame, and River Garza. The exhibition is open through March 5th. Crossing Waters marks the inaugural partnership between the museum and the Tongva Community, recognizing the Tongva people as the first islanders of Santa Catalina. Pimugna, often shortened to Pimu, is the Tongva name for the island now commonly known as Catalina Island. It was once an integral part of greater Tonvaangarthe Tongva world. Through their individual practices, the three presenting artists explore their relationship with the island, crossing waters to connect past, present, and future. As descendants of the Tongva community, Alvitre ... More  The Weatherspoon Art Museum exhibits prints from Mexico's Taller de Gráfica PopularGREENSBORO, NC.- The Weatherspoon Art Museum at UNC Greensboro announces the exhibition To Serve the People: Prints from Mexico's Taller de Gráfica Popular, January 21May 13, 2023. In order to serve the people, art must reflect the social reality of the times. In 1937, this belief inspired the foundation of the Taller de Gráfica Popular (the Peoples Print Workshop) in Mexico City. Committed to the progressive idealism of the Mexican Revolution, artists worked together to create prints, posters, flyers, and other works on paper aimed at educating the widest possible audience about the social issues of their day. Fundamental to their artistic production was a democratic group process of collective critiques and negotiated decision-making. That commitment to shared learning and leadership has likewise fueled the production of this exhibition ... More  Banned blonde bombshell set to thrill at Bonhams Vintage Posters saleLONDON.- A banned World War II poster, best known by its nickname the blonde bombshell, is set to thrill as much as it did in 1941 at The Vintage Posters Sale between January 26 and February 2 online at bonhams.com. Designed by Abram Games, this rare vintage poster has become seductively infamous - despite its innocent intentions. Estimate: £2,000- 4,000. In 1941, a well-meaning poster campaign aimed at recruiting women to join the Auxiliary Territorial Service rapidly attracted widespread and unexpected attention. With pouting red lips, blonde curls and striking lighting reminiscent of a Hollywood film, the glamorous design sparked controversy which rippled throughout the press, the public and even the government. Ultimately deemed as too provocative for the wartime British public, the poster was banned. Not only was it considered too sultry and suggestive ... More  Berkshire Museum sparks childhood wonder with 'The Art of Storytelling: Celebrating Illustration and Literature'PITTSFIELD, MA.- Berkshire Museum announces The Art of Storytelling: Celebrating Illustration and Literature, three exhibitions celebrating the history and wonder of childrens books and the artwork that complements them. The featured exhibitions are: Storyland: A Trip through Childhood Favorites transforms picture book illustrations into three- dimensional play and learning environments highlighting the six major literacy development areas: print motivation, print awareness, letter knowledge, sound awareness, vocabulary, and narrative skills and comprehension. Childhood Classics 100 Years of Illustration from the Art Kandy Collection features over 140 original works included from over 75 books ... More  Roberts Projects presents "Kehinde Wiley: Colorful Realm"LOS ANGELES, CALIF.- Roberts Projects has opened Colorful Realm, an exhibition of new work from renowned contemporary artist Kehinde Wiley. Drawing inspiration from Japanese nature paintings of the Edo period (c.16001868), Wiley parallels traditional techniques and materials in nine monumental paintings. Exposed linen highlights the depicted natural scenes while also preserving the delicate balance of the untouched picture space. Per the artist, So much of my work is about appearance and showing up and being visible, and this dance between exploring the vastness of space within the minimality of this technique I found to be an interesting juxtaposition. In this new work, Wiley references famed Edo-period artists such as Kitagawa Utamaro, Kiyohara Yukinobu, and Utagawa Kunisada in his use of negative space in compositions that significantly advance ... More  Sotheby's, the Opéra national de Paris and AROP present Auction for Action, Bid for Creation!PARIS.- The Paris Opera and AROP, Association pour le Rayonnement de l'Opéra national de Paris, have partnered with Sotheby's for an exceptional auction entitled "Auction for Action, Bid for Creation! " / "Let's support the Opera, Bid for creation", which will be held on Monday 30th January 2023 at the Palais Garnier, and online, from 23rd to 31st January 2023. The proceeds of this sale will make it possible to continue and develop the projects of the Opera for the benefit of the younger generations, including through previews for young people, offers for families, and artistic and cultural education programs. This unprecedented event will be the first time in its history that the Paris Opera has organised a public sale in favour of its projects. Part of the "My Responsible and #MORE Committed Opera" initiative, it aims to strengthen the Paris Opera's commitment to society ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch painter Govert Flinck was born January 25, 1615. Govert (or Govaert) Teuniszoon Flinck (25 January 1615 - 2 February 1660) was a Dutch painter of the Dutch Golden Age. For many years Flinck laboured on the lines of Rembrandt, following that master's style in all the works which he executed between 1636 and 1648. With aspirations as a history painter, however, he looked to the swelling forms and grand action of Peter Paul Rubens, which led to many commissions for official and diplomatic painting. In this image: Blessing of Jacob (1638).
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