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Qing, A Fine Doucai ÂThree Friends Bottle Vase.
NEW YORK, NY.- As scheduled, Gianguan Auctions will be holding its annual Spring Sale on Monday, March 16, at 6 PM presenting a well curated Fine Chinese Paintings and Works of Art Collection, featuring a trove of 255 items, fresh to the market. The sale kicks off with Burmese carved jade jewelry pieces, Tianhuang and Shoushan stone seals. Follows by its renowned Classical, modern and contemporary Chinese paintings, interspersed with Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties porcelains and works of art. Leading the highlights of ink works is Lot 80. Kwong Lam, Unconstrained Freehand Cursive Script. Breaking away from writing in the traditional sense Lam created calligraphic writing into free-flowing pictorial signs by relinquishing the conscious structure behind ideographic signs. Taking the concept of spontaneity to new heights of expression by discovering the law of nature within oneself. By forgoing the meaning of the individual sign ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Visitors watch the multimedia installation during the "Japao em Sonhos" (Japan in Dreams) exhibition at the Japan House, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on March 3, 2020. NELSON ALMEIDA / AFP
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 | | Gardner Museum launches audio walk detailing infamous Museum theft and thirteen stolen artworks | | A contemporary edge for Asia Week New York exhibitions | | Pritzker Architecture Prize goes to two women for the first time | 
The Dutch Room. Image by Sean Dungan.
BOSTON, MASS.- Marking the 30th anniversary of the infamous Gardner Museum theft, the Gardner Museum announced a new audio walk detailing the theft and honoring the thirteen stolen artworks, available to visitors onsite and via the Museums mobile-friendly website beginning March 4, 2020. In the early morning hours of March 18, 1990, a pair of thieves disguised as Boston police officers entered the Museum and left with thirteen works of art including Vermeers The Concert, Rembrandts Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee and A Lady and Gentleman in Black, Manets Chez Tortoni, and Edgar Degas Leaving the Paddock. The theft of more than $500 million worth of artwork remains the largest unsolved art heist in history. Today, the stolen artworks are remembered in the Museums galleries by their empty frames, which hang in their original locations on the gallery walls. Now, visitors to the ... More | | 
Iede Takahiro (b. 1962), Vessel Ritsu (Rhythm), 2019. Metal weaving of shakudo, shibuichi and silver, h. 6 x w. 6 1/4 x d. 6 3/8 in. (15.5 x 16 x 16.2 cm) Courtesy, Onishi Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- When Asia Week New York starts its run on March 12th to the 19th, contemporary art enthusiasts will be introduced to an exciting group of painters and ceramists, several of whom are making their debut in New York. Here are 11 international galleries to look for: With galleries in New Delhi and Kolkata, Akar Prakar makes its Asia Week New York debut with Form & PlayRecent Work by Ganesh Haloi with Roobina Karode, chief curator of Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, as their curatorial advisor, preceding his retrospective at CSMVS museum Mumbai, in October 2020. Untitled, a gouache on Nepali handmade paper, has a specific association with the nature of water. The near-abstract shapes, patterns and textures refer to the submerged and floating aquatic plants, their ... More | | 
The University of Engineering and Technology in Lima, Peru by architects Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara. Iwan Baan via The New York Times.
by Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- When designing a campus for a new University of Engineering and Technology in Lima, Peru, the Dublin-based architects Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara thought deeply about how to integrate the wind and the rain. It is because of that sensitivity to the natural elements, as well as qualities like their emphasis on collaboration, that the pair was selected to receive the 2020 Pritzker Prize, making them the first two women to share the professions highest honor. Their approach to architecture is always honest, revealing an understanding of the processes of design and construction from large-scale structures to the smallest details, the jurys citation said. It is often in these details, especially in buildings ... More |
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| | The Morse Museum opens exhibition on American portraiture | | Exhibition at Hayward Gallery offers an exploration of trees and forests in contemporary art | | Rare complete set of screenprints of Beethoven by Andy Warhol to be offered at auction | 
A painted portrait, c. 1905, of Sylvester S. Marvin by William Merritt Chasegift of Leslie and Kathryn Grammar.
WINTER PARK, FLA.- The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art opened Selected Portraits from the Morse Collection. The exhibition features about a dozen paintings by leading American portraitists and a number of photographs by early American studios. Works date from the 1790s to the 1930s. At their most basic level, portraits record a persons physical appearance on a specific date. When done well these records do more, revealing the psychological characteristics of a subject. The tension in portraiture is between the insights of a talented artist and the often unclear expectations of a sitter. The compelling personalities of figures ranging from powerful business executives to lovely womenboth of genteel and working classesare presented in the works on view in Selected Portraits from the Morse Collection. A charming and arresting portrait of Sylvester S. Marvin (18411924), the founder of Nabisco, was ... More | | 
Giuseppe Penone, Soffio di foglie, 1982, at Among the Trees, Hayward Gallery, 2020. © Giuseppe Penone 2020. © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2020. Courtesy of Hayward Gallery. Photo: Linda Nylind.
LONDON.- Among the Trees celebrates key works of art that reimagine how we think about trees and forests. Spanning the past 50 years, the exhibition brings together major works by 38 leading international artists from five different continents. As well as illuminating the beauty and visually arresting character of trees, Among the Trees invites us to consider trees as both symbols and living organisms. Timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, the exhibition explores how trees have shaped human civilisation and how they continue to play an indispensable role in our lives and imaginations. Among the Trees covers an expansive and adventurous artistic terrain with works ranging from immersive video installations to life-sized sculptures; from large-scale paintings and drawings to intimate black-and-white photographs. Participating artists are: Robert Adams, Eija-Liisa ... More | | 
Andy Warhol, Beethoven, The complete set, comprising four screenprints in colours, 1987, est. £200,000-300,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- With 2020 marking the celebration of the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethovens birth, Sothebys will present a rare complete set of Beethoven screenprints by Andy Warhol. Estimated at £200,000-300,000 the set of four portraits will be offered in a sale of Prints & Multiples in London on 19 March 2020. Severine Nackers, Head of Sothebys Prints Department in London, said: Complete sets of Warhols portraits of Beethoven hardly ever come up for auction and are highly desirable, so we are thrilled to have the opportunity in this anniversary year of Beethovens birth to showcase all four works together. Just as Beethoven was a towering figure during his lifetime, immortalised ever since through his music, Warhols iconic image-making process bestows the composer with rock star status. Shortly before his death in 1987, Warhol created a set of portraits of the German composer, widely consid ... More |
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| | Alaïa and Lagerfeld: The lives of very different men | | Microbes point the way to shipwrecks | | A painter and social activist with an 'unruly nature' | 
This file photo taken on September 25, 2013 shows French fashion designer Azzedine Alaia. THOMAS SAMSON / AFP.
by Jessica Testa
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- People in fashion are obsessed with time. Its why designers talk about being inspired by ages: gilded, jazz, space or medieval. Its why fashion writers reference decades like theyre talking about reuniting with old friends. The 1970s are back. The 1990s are back. The 1950s, the 2000s. Its why one of the most devastating criticisms of a particular outfit is that its dated. Its why in May, the Metropolitan Museum of Arts Costume Institute in New York City will present a whole exhibition devoted to the concept of time in fashion (About Time: Fashion and Duration). Time is the industrys central complaint: There is not enough of it to make things high quality, creatively satisfying things under the demands of the seasonal production cycle and, more generally, modern consumption habits. To that end, Azzedine Alaïas posthumous book Taking Time doesnt propose ... More | | 
This image shows an anchor and ceramic plates near a yacht called Anona, which sank in the Gulf of Mexico in 1944. Deep Sea Systems International's Global Explorer ROV and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management via The New York Times.
by Katherine Kornei
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Off the coast of Mississippi, under 4,000 feet of water, a luxury yacht is slowly disintegrating. Marine creatures dart, cling and scuttle near the hull of the wreck, which has been lying undisturbed for 75 years. But theres more than meets the eye when it comes to this shipwreck and others, researchers have now shown distinct assemblages of microbes inhabit the seafloor surrounding these structures, helping to turn shipwreck sites into artificial reefs rich in life. Shipwrecks are trespassers on the bottom of the ocean, human-made structures decidedly out of their element. But a wrecks intrusion gradually becomes welcome as various forms of marine life seek refuge among the steel and wood. The macroscopic animals that inhabit shipwrecks are only there thanks to much smaller forms of life, said ... More | | 
The artist Mary Lovelace ONeal in her studio in Oakland, Calif., on Feb. 21, 2020. ONeal returns to New York at 78 with a solo show and an undimmed aversion to being pigeonholed. Aubrey Trinnaman/The New York Times.
by Wendy Moonan
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The idea was born in an instant. A curator attending an opening at the Baltimore Museum of Art was immediately captivated by a painting from an artist she had barely heard of, Mary Lovelace ONeal. Three months later, a five-decade retrospective opened at the Mnuchin Gallery in Manhattan, Lovelace ONeals first solo show in New York since 1993, and a chronicle of a career that started with social activist art at the heart of the civil rights movement. The painting that caught the curators eye was Running Freed More Slaves Than Lincoln Ever Did (1995), part of the exhibition Generations: A History of Black Abstract Art, which opened in September. Her handling in that painting the dripping and drawing alongside the expressionist strokes struck me as so unapologetically bold that I ... More |
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| | Exhibition brings together three related approaches to conceptual image-making | | Contemporary society's relationship with architecture explored in a major exhibition | | 303 Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Nick Mauss | 
Bernd and Hilla Becher, Coal Bunkers, 1966-1972, 6 black and white photographs, 15 9/16 x 11 13/16 in. (39.5 x 30 cm), frame: 22 x 18 x 1 in. (55.9 x 45.7 x 2.5 cm). Installation view, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Sarah Charlesworth, Sherrie Levine, Paula Cooper Gallery, 524 W 26th Street, New York, February 29 April 4, 2020. Photo: Steven Probert. © Estate Bernd & Hilla Becher, represented by Max Becher, courtesy Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur Bernd and Hilla Becher Archive, Cologne. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Paula Cooper Gallery is presenting an exhibition of works by Bernd and Hilla Becher, Sarah Charlesworth, and Sherrie Levine. Curated by Sherrie Levine, the exhibition brings together three related approaches to conceptual image-making, (post-)modernism, and the genre of the still lifeunderstood both as a depiction of everyday inanimate objects, foods or flowers, and in a broader sense, as a formal representation of a specific time and place through its cultural artifacts. Beginning in 1959, Bernd and Hilla Becher pursued ... More | | 
Langlands & Bell, Interlocking Chairs, 1995. Photograph: Gareth Winters. Private collection. Image courtesy of the artists.
LONDON.- Langlands & Bell: Degrees of Truth (4 March 31 May 2020) will be Sir John Soanes Museums most ambitious partnership with a contemporary artist to date. Taking place at a moment when some commentators contend we have entered a post-truth era, Langlands & Bell: Degrees of Truth will reflect on the capacities of architecture to bear witness to the technological, political, economic and cultural relationships that define contemporary society. Ranging from the found objects Langlands & Bell gathered from the rubble and detritus of Whitechapel in the early 1980s, to their recent explorations of the slick hyper-determined buildings of Silicon Valleys tech giants, the exhibition will explore the disconnects that exist between the narratives that buildings, objects and images are intended to convey and those they inadvertently reveal. This major show, bringing together over four decades of work by Langlands ... More | | 
Installation view, Nick Mauss, 303 Gallery, New York, February 29 - April 11, 2020. Courtesy 303 Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- For his fourth solo exhibition at 303 Gallery, Nick Mauss has brought together works from the past several years that have never been exhibited, underscoring the primacy of drawing and its temporalities within the continuum of his work in other dimensions and mediums. Mauss also reimagines the threshold to the exhibition itself as an image plane on the scale of the body, inserting a set of painted doors that dramatize the viewers passage through the space, even implicating the viewer among the shifting frames, recurring figures, and points of contact set off in Mauss work. As art historian Gloria Sutton has written, Mauss work is not simply about the movement of bodies but, rather, movement itself as a historiographic conditiona set of narrative frameworks used to interpret both proximity and distance and the transitions that occur in between. The ways bodies come together (as multitudes, ... More |
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Art restoration of one of our largest paintings: Retouching Van Dyck's 'Charles I'
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 Asian art from a fine private San Francisco collection featured at Michaan's March 7 gallery auction ALAMEDA, CA.- Michaans Auctions in Alameda will hold a Gallery Auction on Saturday, March 7 featuring prominent American and international fine artists. A distinguished San Francisco private collection anchors the offering of Asian art. Designer and period jewels are offered, along with furniture and decorative pieces to suit many tastes and wallets. Just two months into the new year, Michaan's Fine Art department has already seen noteworthy sales in 2020. Michaans has nurtured the connections that continuously bring wonderful works of art to auction, and we are finding plenty of opportunity for art buyers and sellers alike, says specialist Susan Paffrath. Featured in the March 7 Gallery Auction is William Keith (1838-1911), renowned painter of California landscapes, whose works are held in many museum collections including The Metropolitan ... More Precious metals to dazzle at Heritage Auctions' Nature & Science AuctionDALLAS, TX.- A spectacular crystallized Gold specimen from Brazil could bring $300,000 or more in Heritage Auctions Nature & Science Auction March 14 in Dallas, Texas. The auction includes elite Gold in both nugget and crystallized form, as well as Platinum, Silver and Copper, some of which includes Turquoise from prime source regions ranging from Australia to Brazil. This sale features an extraordinary collection of precious metals, Heritage Auctions Nature & Science Director Craig Kissick said. It has been theorized that all of the Gold ever mined on Earth would fit into a cube measuring 20 meters on each edge, making even one-ounce gold specimens rare collectibles. A Crystallized Gold from Serra do Caldeirão claims in Pontes e Lacerda, Mato Grosso, Brazil (estimate: $200,000-300,000) is an exceptional specimen featuring sharply ... More Wysing Arts Centre presents Helen Cammock's first new work following her Turner Prize awardCAMBRIDGE.- Wysing Arts Centre presents Helen Cammocks first new work since winning the Turner Prize last year. They Call It Idlewild is a new film and text work developed by the artist following her residency at Wysing during the Autumn and Winter of 2019/20, and commissioned as part of their 30th birthday programme in 2019. Inspired by the forgotten histories, photographs and artworks uncovered in Wysing Arts Centres archive, Cammocks new film acts as a reflection on the politics of idleness and what it means creatively, emotionally and culturally to be idle at a time when the questions are being asked more widely about the physical and emotional cost of hyper-productivity required by Neoliberalism. Presented as a large-scale installation in Wysings main gallery, They Call It Idlewild begins with an evocative account of the artists explorations in ... More Tiffany lamps, fine jewelry, art at Clarke Auction GalleryLARCHMONT, NY.- Tiffany lamps, fine designer jewelry, Lalique, Hermes silver wine coolers and art by Jim Dine are just some of the highlights in a jam-packed auction at Clarke Auction Gallery on Sunday, March 22, at 11 am. This auction should be of key interest to collectors and investors considering the importance of the Tiffany, jewelry and art that will cross the block. The Tiffany and Lalique come from an important New York City collector, who wishes to remain private, said owner and auctioneer Ronan Clarke. The jewelry was collected over decades by the former Buffalo Bills founder and longtime owner Ralph Cookery Wilson Jr. estate. Highlighting the day will be a small but choice grouping of Tiffany Studios lamps from an important New York City collection, featuring a table ... More Woody Auction presents its first live American Brilliant Cut Glass auction of the yearDOUGLASS, KAN.- Woody Auction will present its first live American Brilliant Cut Glass auction of the year with a public and unreserved two-day sale featuring several important collections. The event will be held Friday and Saturday, March 27th and 28th, online and in Woody Auctions Auction Hall at 130 East Third Street in Douglass, starting at 5 pm Central on Friday, March 27th and 9 am on Saturday, March 28th (an earlier Saturday start time than usual start time). Headlining the auction will be the collection of the late Steve Owlett of Pennsylvania, who gravitated to J. Hoare cut glass because his family tree actually included John Hoare; the collection of the late Dr. and Mrs. Elizabeth Dudgeon of Florida, featuring items that include a Dorflinger green to clear vase with gilded sterling top; and the collection of Roger, Lois, Randy and Deb Rasmussen ... More ARCOmadrid celebrates the support of the art world in one of its strongest editions to dateMADRID.- ARCOmadrid 2020, organised by IFEMA, closes its 39th edition with significant sales, confirming the strength of the art market and the ongoing support of Spains leading international contemporary art Fair. This years edition saw around 93,000 visitors and high attendance by key national and international collectors as well as other key players from the contemporary art world and public alike. With the participation of 209 top-tier galleries, from 30 countries, the Fair re-affirms its commitment to placing quality artistic content at the forefront of its programming. This edition has also seen strengthened collaboration between galleries and artists, which together with the extensive work done by the Organising Committee and the curators has reinforced the strength of this years edition. The reporting of strong sales, and robust quality of collectors ... More Simon Lee Gallery opens a group exhibition featuring new works by three artistsNEW YORK, NY.- Simon Lee Gallery, New York, is presenting a group exhibition featuring new works by Mira Dancy, FranceLise McGurn, and Clare Woods. Connected through an interest in figurative representation, the exhibition brings together three artists who present the body in unconventional ways, each exploring contemporary issues surrounding gender, sexuality, society and politics, as well as addressing the long and problematic history of the male gaze. The submissive female subject typically depicted reclining, seated or kneeling, is one of the most recognizable motifs in art history. As seen in this exhibition, Dancy, McGurn, and Woods respond to this convention through disparate methods presenting the figure as alternatively dominant, vulnerable, playful, or even androgynous, restoring to their subjects a sense of agency and recontextualizing ... More Lucy Prebble's 'A Very Expensive Poison' wins the Blackburn PrizeNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Lucy Prebble the British playwright and writer for TV series including Succession won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize on Monday for A Very Expensive Poison, an acclaimed play about a Russian assassination on British soil. The Blackburn Prize, worth $25,000, is one of the most prominent awards for female playwrights. Previous winners have included Lynn Nottages Sweat and, last year, Jackie Sibblies Drurys Fairview. Prebbles play, which premiered at the Old Vic in London last year, is about the 2006 killing in London of Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian spy, who drank green tea laced with polonium. The play follows Litvinenko as he investigates his own death, and his wife Marinas quest for justice. Critics praised the play for its inventiveness, as much as its political drive. It included songs, ... More Operas about strife, strength and survivalNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- For the first time in company history, the Royal Opera is mounting a cycle devoted to Czech composer Leos Janacek. Following From the House of the Dead presented in its house premiere two seasons ago and Katya Kabanova last year, Jenufa takes the stage from March 24 to April 9 in a Claus Guth production. The annual series continues until 2022. Oliver Mears, the director of opera, called the initiative long overdue. Any serious international opera house has to have Janacek in their repertory, he said. While Jenufa was performed as early as 1956, The Makropulos Affair will be presented for the first time at the Royal Opera. Janacek ranks among the most widely performed 20th-century opera composers, not least thanks to Australian conductor Charles Mackeras. The conductor played ... More The Whitney debuts public artwork by Jill MulleadyNEW YORK, NY.- A work by Jill Mulleady is the tenth in the ongoing series of public art installations that have been presented since 2015 by the Whitney and High Line Art on the façade of 95 Horatio Street. The 2019 painting, We Wither Time into a Coil of Frightreproduced as a 17 x 29-foot vinyl printwent on view on March 2 on the southwest corner of Gansevoort and Washington Streets, located directly across from the Whitney and the High Line. Mulleady is perhaps best known for her representational paintingfrequently large-scalethat combines real and invented sources, while often reflecting on the history of art. With work that is notable for its graphic qualities, often referencing early twentieth-century Modernist painting, Mulleady draws upon her interest in Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, using his work as a creative springboard ... More Artist redefines the muse for International Women's DayLONDON.- In celebration of International Womens Day 2020, an exhibition of Samantha Louise Emerys ten contemporary muses is being displayed at Carousel in Seven Dials from Monday 2 March to Thursday 19 March. Emerys dreamlike, sometimes abstracted figures demonstrate that a muses vulnerability and power are more than skin deep. From Jane Goodall to the artists local Anatolian vegetable seller, the ten women in the IKONA | Mirrored Interior series have inspired Emery in different ways throughout her life. Emerys work conveys a powerful message about female solidarity and empowerment, placing women at the forefront of her work and artistic process. The artist creates her ten original multimedia artworks of her chosen muses using photography, digital drawing and photo compositing of her own body, followed ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German painter Franz Marc died March 04, 1916. Franz Marc (8 February, 1880 - 4 March, 1916) was a German painter and printmaker, one of the key figures of the German Expressionist movement. He was a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a journal whose name later became synonymous with the circle of artists collaborating in it.
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