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Gustav Klimts mesmerising waterscape Insel Im Attersee achieves $53.2 million at auction. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Moments ago in Sothebys New York saleroom, Insel im Attersee by Gustav Klimt achieved $53.2 million, marking one of the most significant prices ever achieved for the artist at auction. Following a 7-minute bidding battle, the work sold to a Japanese private collector bidding with Yasuaki Ishizaka, Chairman & Managing Director for Sotheby's Japan. Tonights auction is especially noteworthy as it marked 83 years since Insel im Attersee played an important role in growing Klimts global reputation as the first work by the artist to be exhibited in America. Formerly held in the collection of art historian and gallerist Otto Kallir, the work was part of a small group exhibited at Kallirs gallery, Galerie St. Etienne, in 1940, as part of the groundbreaking exhibition Saved from Europe. The exhibition was a milestone for the artist as well as the Austrian Expressionists, unheard of by many in the U.S. at t ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Lisa Rastl: Exhibition View AMAZING. The Würth Collection © Leopold Museum, Vienna, 2023 | Photo: Lisa Rastl
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| Anselm Kiefer now on view in Hong Kong for the first time in 10 years with 'hortus conclusus' | | Cecilia Vicuña on view through October 2023 in 'Sonoran Quipu | | James Cohan now opening 'These Days' by Alison Elizabeth Taylor in 7th solo exhibition at the gallery | 
Anselm Kiefer, Danaë, 2014. Emulsion, oil, acrylic, charcoal, gold leaf, and sediment of electrolysis on canvas, 110 1/4 à 149 5/8 inches (280 à 380 cm) © Anselm Kiefer. Photo: Georges Poncet.
HONG KONG.- Gagosian is now opening Anselm Kiefer: hortus conclusus, an exhibition that surveys four decades of the artists landscape paintings. Capping a year of exhibitions across Europe and the United States, this is the first to feature his work in Hong Kong for more than ten years. Kiefers thirteenth solo exhibition at Gagosian since 1998, hortus conclusus follows Questi scritti, quando verranno bruciati, daranno finalmente un po di luce (Andrea Emo) at Palazzo Ducale, Venice (202223) and Exodus, a bicoastal exhibition presented at the gallery in New York (2022) and at Gagosian at the Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles (202223). This coming October, Lille Métropole Musée dart moderne, dart contemporain et dart brut (LaM) in France will present Anselm Kiefer: Photography at the Beginning, the first exhibition dedicated to the ... More | | 
Installation view, Cecilia Vicuña: Sonoran Quipu, MOCA Tucson, 2023. Photograph by Maya Hawk, copyright © MOCA Tucson, 2023.
TUCSON, AZ.- Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson presents Sonoran Quipu, a sprawling sculpture composed of natural and human debris collected by individuals and organizations across Tucson, gathered from kitchens, gutters, artists studios, gardens, and streets. Transforming the museum into a studio, artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña alchemized these fragmentsthings deemed no longer useful, having been shed by a plant, broken by a child, or left in an alleyinto a living installation. The exhibition also includes elements that offer a small window into the breadth of Vicuñas practice: three videos, a sound piece, a little library, and the vapors of performances, rituals, and relationships Vicuña created while in Tucson. Sonoran Quipu senses the fragility of our world as climate change tilts us towards mass extinction. Weaving together plant and industrial materials, the artist invites viewers to consider the beauty and precarity ... More | | 
Alison Elizabeth Taylor, Try Us, 2022. Marquetry hybrid, 85 x 53 in., 215.9 x 134.6 cm. Photo courtesy of James Cohan Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan is opening These Days, an exhibition of new work by Alison Elizabeth Taylor, on view at 48 Walker Street from May 17 through June 24, 2023. This is Taylors seventh solo exhibition with James Cohan. The gallery will host an opening reception with the artist on Friday, May 19 from 6-8 PM. Over the past twenty years, Taylors highly original approach to marquetry and image making has challenged conventional assumptions about art and the definition of painting. These Days reflects life in a post-pandemic America, where vacations, social gatherings, video game arcades and public gambling have returned. In this new era, these works pose the question what has changed? Drawing from life, Taylors subjects hail from cities as diverse as Brooklyn, Las Vegas, and Mexico City. Portraits of the artists friends and family who departed New York during the pandemic are intermixed ... More |
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| At Christie's '21st Century' Auction, the sound of records breaking for women | | Despite Nazi shadow, jewelry sale sets $202 million record | | First solo exhibition of New York-based conceptual artist Sarah Meyohas opens at Marianne Boesky Gallery | 
Danielle McKinney (B. 1981), We Need to Talk. Estimate: USD 20,000 USD 30,000. Price realised USD 201,600.
NEW YORK, NY.- Seven artists achieved new sales benchmarks at Christies Contemporary Art sale in New York on Monday night, including Simone Leigh, a star of the 2022 Venice Biennale, and Robin F. Williams, a figurative painter still in her 30s. Lively bidding from inside the sale room at Christies helped the auction house sell nearly $99 million worth of paintings and sculptures, with buyers fees. Experts said the gains were evidence of a growing preference among collectors for younger and more diverse artists than the market typically shows during one of its biggest sales weeks of the year. Interest in female figurative painters who are not necessarily household names is rising for artists like Danielle McKinney, Rebecca Ackroyd and Williams. Reviewing Williams show of paintings at P.P.O.W. in 2017, Roberta ... More | | 
Cartier Sapphire and Coloured Diamond Bird Brooch. Estimate: CHF 55,000 - CHF 75,000. Price Realised CHF 60,480. © Christie's Images Ltd 2023.
NEW YORK, NY.- Criticism from historians and Jewish organizations did little to dim the sale at Christies of jewels bought with a fortune built in part atop profits made from the Aryanization of Jewish businesses during the Holocaust. In bidding online and in person in Geneva, the sale of jewelry from the estate of Heidi Horten, an Austrian philanthropist, has brought in $202 million, making it the most successful jewelry sale in history. The sales figures for about 400 lots surpassed the $137 million that was spent on Elizabeth Taylors collection in 2011. The auction house said 98% of the Horten lots sold, and there is another large sale of roughly 300 lots from the collection scheduled for November. Christies has faced substantial criticism about the sale because of Hortens husband, Helmut Horten, a German b ... More | | 
Sarah Meyohas, Interference #20, 2023. Holograms, mirrored black glass, aluminum, 33 3/8 x 46 1/8 x 4 inches, 84.8 x 117.2 x 10.2 cm. Photo: Lance Brewer. © Artist. Courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marianne Boesky Gallery is presenting the first solo exhibition of New York-based conceptual artist Sarah Meyohas (b. 1991, New York, NY). Experimenting with complex uses of holographic and photographic technology, Meyohas expands upon her long-standing engagement with optics and perception and reveals a new fascination with anatomy. Throughout her practice, Meyohas considers the production of value, the nature of exchange, and the romantic resonance of the sublime while seeking to reveal the systemsboth innate and manufacturedthat govern contemporary society. Pairing a studied consideration of the unrealized potential of various technologies with ... More |
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| Spring auction of contemporary ceramics including the single owner collection of Dr. Ann-Carole Chamier | | In ancient Egypt, severed hands were spoils of war | | Tuleste Factory presents "Harmonious Proportions": a must-see exhibition for NYCxDesign 2023 | 
Lot 135, Richard Batterham. Tall Bottle, 1979.
LONDON.- Maak announced the presentation of the latest auction of contemporary ceramics. The auction includes a substantial selection from the collection of the late Dr. Anne-Carole Chamier and will hold a gallery viewing 22 - 25 May. The Chamier collection is largely representative of British studio and craft ceramics of the 1970s and 1980s. Much of the collection draws from the Leach tradition of early English slipware and oriental ceramics, illustrated by important works by Bernard Leach and his family. However, the collection also includes works by Lucie Rie, Ewen Henderson and Gordon Baldwin, who owe more to Continental influences and sculptural concepts. All however retain an adherence to the vessel form - where a reference to the wheel or sense of utility formed a parameter for artistic expression and craftsmanship. ... More | | 
An undated image provided by Julia Gresky shows preserved, colored hands discovered in present-day Tell el-Daba, Egypt, in 2011. Archaeologists have offered a new explanation for one of the centurys grislier finds, a carefully gathered collection of hands in a 3,500-year-old temple. (Julia Gresky via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Aristotle called the hand the tool of tools; Immanuel Kant, the visible part of the brain. The earliest works of art were handprints on the walls of caves. Throughout history, hand gestures have symbolized the range of human experience: power, tenderness, creativity, conflict, even (bravo, Michelangelo) the touch of the divine. Without hands, civilization would be inconceivable. And so the discovery in 2011 of the bones of a dozen right hands, at a site where the ancient Egyptian city of Avaris (today known as Tell el-Daba) once stood, was particularly ... More | | 
Isos Lattis 4 Pendant_by Diaphan Studio. Courtesy Tuleste Studio.
NEW YORK, NY.- Tuleste Factory, the Chelsea contemporary design and art gallery, announces its latest exhibition, "Harmonious Proportions," featuring the works of both current artists and selection of new exciting additions to its roster. The show is set to open during the much-anticipated NYCxDesign week 2023 opening afterparty, Thursday, May 18 from 8-11pm, with new installations across three rooms, two floors and a 5,000 square foot outdoor terrace. "Harmonious Proportions" is a celebration of artistic diversity, showcasing a range of works that explore the themes of balance, symmetry, and form. Harmonious Proportions refers to the balanced relationship between different elements in a design or composition. The exhibition brings together 23 designers and artists for their ... More |
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| Convelio acquires art shipper, Connoisseur International Fine Art | | Works by Hudson, Howe, & Black are among the highlights of Moran's Art of the American West sale | | 'Virginia Jaramillo: East of the Sun, West of the Moon' at Pace Gallery in LA | 
Connoisseur International Fine Art Vehicle. © Convelio. The acquisition will enable Convelio to own the entire art shipping process for UK art market clients from ideation to completion.
LONDON.- Convelio has acquired leading fine art services provider Connoisseur International Fine Art (CIFA), a move that will merge the companies teams, including CIFAs founding directors, Tim Gotts and Jim Williams. This pivotal expansion of the company, which will include CIFAs physical assets, will evolve Convelios services for the UK art market. The move is an important one for the start-up, which was founded in 2017. It marks the companys first acquisition of vehicles, comprising six specialised art transport vans, and the acquisition of an experienced team of art technicians and a storage facility. While Convelio has always, and will continue to, work with vetted suppliers around the world to deliver its projects, its acquisition of CIFA will allow it to own the entire process from ideation to delivery of UK projects. ... More | | 
Allan Houser (1914-1994), Mother and Child, 1989. Patinated bronze on wood base, Overall: 25.325" H x 10.75" W x 9.5" D est. $6,000-8,000.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- To kick off the summer season, Morans will be presenting their Art of the American West sale Tuesday, June 6th, 2023 at 12:00pm PST. The auction will have over 250 lots and will feature an exciting and robust offering of fine art for a wide range of collecting aesthetics from historic to contemporary. There will be sixty lots of traditional and contemporary Navajo and Pueblo silver jewelry. Western interiors can be accented and refreshed by a fantastic selection of Navajo blankets, stunning Pueblo pottery, and an exquisite variety of Inuit figures. Furnishings from the American Arts & Crafts movement are represented by leaded glass lamps, a pair of Samuel Yellin table scones, and Stickley Brothers copper. This sale will also present a stunning capsule collection from Rex Chase, a healthcare executive from Berkley, California. ... More | | 
Virginia Jaramillo, Euclid's Axiom, 2023. Acrylic on canvas, 72" à 60" (182.9 cm à 152.4
cm). © Virginia Jaramillo, courtesy Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace Gallery opened an exhibition of work by Virginia Jaramillo at its Los Angeles gallery on May 13, which will continue to June 24. This is the artists first show with Pace since she joined the gallerys program in 2022 and her first-ever solo exhibition in LA. Titled East of the Sun, West of the Moon, the presentation spotlights nine new paintingsall deeply related to Jaramillos past bodies of workin which the artist examines ancient mythologies and civilizations. Throughout her six-decade career, Jaramillo has explored the visual and imaginative possibilities of geometric abstraction. The artists work is guided by her deeply philosophical approach to art making, and her methodological process often involves meditations on history, science fiction, scientific theory, and other subjects. She transforms exacting sketches into transcendent paintings, using a language of abstraction ... More |
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Flesh and Oil: The Trademark Techniques of Sir Peter Paul Rubens
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 Tony Awards broadcast can proceed after striking writers' union agreesNEW YORK, NY.- This years Tony Awards ceremony, which had been in doubt ever since Hollywoods screenwriters went on strike earlier this month, will proceed as scheduled in an altered form after the writers union said Monday night that it would not picket the show. As they have stood by us, we stand with our fellow workers on Broadway who are impacted by our strike, the Writers Guild of America, which represents screenwriters, said in a statement late Monday. A disruption could have been damaging to Broadway, which sees the televised ceremony as a key marketing opportunity, particularly now, when audiences have yet to return to pre-pandemic levels. Several nominated shows have been operating at a loss, holding on in the hopes that a Tony win or even exposure on the broadcast could boost sales. The union made ... More  A six-hour opera goes on for one euphoric night onlyNEW YORK, NY.- Years ago, when composer Dylan Mattingly was at work on a new project, he wrote to his collaborator, Thomas Bartscherer, telling him, I often find that *really* long is better than just long. Mattingly followed his own advice and then some. Stranger Love, a singular, tender, euphoric, hypnotic opera that he and Bartscherer first envisioned 11 years ago, eventually grew to six hours, well past the point at which people start calling something impossible to produce. We went into it thinking it would never happen, because how could it? Mattingly, 32, said in a recent interview. Chunks of the piece have been performed in concert. But on Saturday for the first time, and for one performance only the whole thing will be staged at Walt Disney Concert Hall, the home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, which has embraced Stranger ... More  Hip-hop's next takeover: QuiltsNEW YORK, NY.- Textile artist Bisa Butler was working in her studio in Jersey City, New Jersey, one day when her husband, John Butler, a DJ, played the song The World Is Yours by the hip-hop artist Nas. The song had a particular resonance for Butler and something clicked: We can make of this world what we want, she said. The power is within us. We got to claim the power. The message was a welcome balm for the former high school art teacher, who has found herself alarmed by the movement to stop teaching the Civil Rights Movement in some classrooms. Right now if you watch the news or read the wrong paper, or any paper, you can get depressed, Butler said. And I have been distraught. Music has been a real solace for me. Butler, who held a solo show at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2021, has reached heights not seen for ... More  Vietnam changed the way This jazz man heard the worldNEW YORK, NY.- Its rare to come across a new Vietnam War memoir from a major publisher in 2023. Most were written decades ago, when memories were fresh and wounds still raw. That generation of soldiers has begun to pass away. Henry Threadgills Easily Slip Into Another World is an unusual entrant in the genre. For one thing, this astringent book is only in part about his war experience. The remainder is about his rebellious childhood in Chicago during the 1950s, his apprenticeship in that citys pyretic music scene and later, after the war his variegated career as a composer, saxophonist and flutist touring the world and becoming, along with Ornette Coleman and Wynton Marsalis, one of the few jazz artists to have won a Pulitzer Prize. Theres more here than an insane war story, in other words. In fact, Easily Slip Into Another ... More  Boston Symphony picks new leader from Los Angeles PhilharmonicNEW YORK, NY.- Chad Smith, a veteran arts leader who has helped turn the Los Angeles Philharmonic into one of the most innovative orchestras in the United States, will leave his post this fall to become president and chief executive of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, both ensembles announced Monday. Smith, 51, who has been the Los Angeles Philharmonics chief executive since 2019, said in an interview that the pandemic had made him rethink his priorities. I really have thought a lot about my journey here, and Im ready for a change, he said. Change is also healthy for everyone. Smiths departure is a significant loss for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, which is still reeling from the announcement in February that its superstar maestro, Gustavo Dudamel, would leave in 2026 to become the next music director of the New ... More  National Portrait Gallery announces new Photographic CommissionLONDON.- National Portrait Gallery has announced new Photographic Commission to celebrate return of the Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize to its transformed building. In addition to first, second and third prizes, the National Portrait Gallery have launched a new £8,000 commission, which will be awarded as part of 2023s Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize. Supported by Taylor Wessing, the commission will see a shortlisted photographer selected to create a work for the Gallerys Collection. Those shortlisted for the exhibition will also see their photographs exhibited alongside portraits by 2023s In Focus Photographer, Hassan Hajjaj. The National Portrait Gallery has announced that its annual Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize will include an additional award a brand new photographic commission to support the creation ... More  Annual CFAD faculty exhibtion 'Nostalgia' in DubaiDUBAI.- Ayyam Gallery is now hosting and curating this years University of Sharjah annual CFAD faculty and alums exhibition. The exhibition, which will end on June 17th, is entitled Nostalgia and features works by Ahed Al Kathiri, Brian Gonzales, Hala El Abora, Kawthar Alshurafa, Lina Elmalik, Muatasim Alkubaisy, Mohamed Yousef Alhammadi, Nada Abdallah, Nourbanu Hijazi, Thaier Helal, Tor Seidel, and Unaiza Ismail. Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were. -Marcel Proust. Nostalgia stems from the Greek words Nostos and Algos, meaning return and suffering respectively. It carries a personal yearning for the past with varying shades of pain, sadness, and wistfulness. Artworks selected for this exhibition reflect their authors personal preoccupation with remembrance that is both actual ... More  'Dorsa Asadi: Strange Fruit' now on view at Green Art GalleryDUBAI.- In Dorsa Asadis exhibition Strange Fruit now opening at the Green Art Gallery and continuing until 29, July,2023, the affective experience of living through the recent unrest in Iran and its long aftermath is translated into a tripartite Dantean arc. Each part of its narrative maps to a part of his epic allegorical poem the Divine Comedy, which served as a vision for what would become the modern Italian language. Fittingly, for a time in which Gen Z are increasingly the drivers of society, the main protagonists of these small ceramic works are the twins Elle and Belle, who have recurred in Asadis work for a number of years, like characters coming in and out of a party. Growing up in Iran, the artist was told that paradise is the reward for a life of gendered obedience. But the works here suggest that perhaps there might be other routes, and possibly ... More  Barbati Gallery opens two exhibits for Venice Architecture Biennale "Sailing to the Garden Party" and "Intox Detoxs"VENICE.- On the occasion of the Venice Architecture Biennale, Barbati Gallery is presenting two new exhibitions conceived especially for the spaces inside Palazzo Lezze in Campo Santo Stefano, Venice. For her first exhibition in Europe, Los Angeles-based artist Tara Walters (b. 1990, Washington D.C.) has produced a series of new paintings titled Sailing for the Garden Party, displayed in the rooms on the Fist Floor. Walters paintings are imbued with sea water, sand and sea shell dust that give the works a subtle and mystical luminescence, capturing the fleeting language of our intuition and memory using elements of the physical world, the starting point of our mind and spirits voyages. The colourful ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Sandro Botticelli died May 17, 1510. Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi (c. 1445 - May 17, 1510), known as Sandro Botticelli, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. He belonged to the Florentine School under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici, a movement that Giorgio Vasari would characterize less than a hundred years later in his Vita of Botticelli as a "golden age". In this image: Alessandro Filipepi, called Sandro Botticelli, The Madonna and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist. Tempera, oil and gold on panel / 46.3 x 36.8 cm. Estimate: $5,000,000-7,000,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
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