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Installation view of Collection View: Louise Nevelson (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, April 9-August, 10 2025).
NEW YORK, NY.- The Whitney Museum of American Art opened two focused gallery presentations, Collection View: Louise Nevelson and Mary Heilmann: Long Line. These exhibitions feature renowned holdings from the Whitneys collection and a new site-specific installation inspired by the architecture of the Museum and New York City. Collection View: Louise Nevelson highlights select works spanning four decades by one of the most celebrated American sculptors of the twentieth century. Louise Nevelson had a long and deep relationship with the Whitney, which organized her first retrospective in 1967 and today is one of the largest repositories of her work. This focused exhibition offers an opportunity for visitors to view a selection of Nevelsons bold monochrome assemblages juxtaposed against the skyline of lower Manhattan. Mary Heilmann: Long Line marks the 10th anniversary of the Whitney Museum opening downtown at 99 Gansevoort Street. This reexamination of Mary Heilmanns beloved terrace ins ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Galleria dâArte Moderna in Rome has today opened a comprehensive retrospective of the work of Nino Bertoletti (1889-1971), an artist whose extraordinary versatility and reserved nature have kept him somewhat in the shadows of early 20th-century Italian art history. The exhibition, titled Nino Bertoletti. 1889-1971, which opened on April 11 and will run through September 14, 2025, showcases over forty works, many of which are being displayed to the public for the very first time. Photo: Monkeys Video Lab.
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| The Bruce Museum extends special exhibition 'The Art of Work: Painting Labor in Nineteenth-Century Denmark' | | Guitar collection hits a chord at Roland's Multi-Estates April 5th auction | | Andy Warhol's Big Electric Chair from the Matthys-Colle Collection will highlight Christie's 20th Century Evening sale |
P.S. Krøyer (Danish, 1851â1909) Self-Portrait, Sitting by his Easel at Skagen Beach, 1902. Oil on panel, 21 ¼ x 17 ¾ in. Collection of Ambassador John L. Loeb, Jr.
GREENWICH, CONN.- In recognition of the 150th anniversary of Impressionism and the important contributions of Denmarks Skagen art colony to the groundbreaking movement, the Bruce is presenting The Art of Work: Painting Labor in Nineteenth-Century Denmark. Due to popular demand, the exhibition has been extended through November 30, 2025. Organized thematically to illuminate the virtue and beauty of laborbe it domestic, intellectual or manualthe exhibition features a selection of 28 rarely exhibited paintings drawn from the collection of Ambassador John L. Loeb, Jr. Months after the April 1874 exhibition by French Impressionists that famously deviated from the official Paris Salon, the Danish painter Karl Madsen (18551938) persuaded his friend from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Michael Ancher (18491927), to join him in Skagen to paint life in the remote fishing village. As with the exhibition in Pa ... More | |
2002 Fender Closet Classic Reissue Stratocaster, Solid body electric guitar made in the USA in 2002. Sold for $3900.
GLEN COVE, NY.- Roland Auctions NY presented an impressive collection of guitars as part of their Multi-Estates auction on Saturday, April 5th, which featured items from multiple noteworthy estates. The guitars drew a lot of attention, both online and in the room, with every guitar selling high. This pristine collection of rare and highly desirable guitars and guitar accessories came from a prominent New York collector, which included guitars by Gibson, Gretsch, Fender, Hamer and PRS, with original hard shell cases and all documentation and certificates. These top selling guitars included a 2000 Gibson Les Paul Custom Guitar, Solid body electric guitar made in the USA in 2000. This Les Paul has an ebony colorway paired with all gold hardware. Its original case contains keys, a truss rod tool, and paperwork. All original hardware selling for $4550, a 2002 Fender Closet Classic Reissue Stratocaster, Solid body electric guitar made ... More | |
Andy Warhol, (1928-1987) Big Electric Chair, acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas, 54 x 74 in. (137.2 x 188 cm.) Executed in 1967-1968. Estimate on Request; with low estimate in the region of $30 million. © Christie's Images Ltd 2025.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies will offer Andy Warhols Big Electric Chair from the Matthys-Colle Collection as a leading highlight of the 20th Century Evening Sale during Spring Marquee Week in New York (estimate on request; with low estimate in the region of $30 million). Big Electric Chair was first shown in Warhols first major European retrospective at Stockholms Moderna Museet in 1968 and the following year was acquired by legendary Belgian collectors Roger Matthys and Hilda Colle. The work has been the crown jewel of the prestigious Matthys-Colle Collection for more than half a century. This May, it will be presented at auction for the first time. Alex Rotter, Chairman of 20th and 21st Century Art, Christies, remarks, Big Electric Chair is the ultimate still life. It is singular within Warhols oeuvrea solitary object in a quiet ... More |
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| Nigel Cooke's "Sea Mirror" reflects on memory and time in new Seoul exhibition at Pace Gallery | | iGavel Auctions tops half a million dollars in online auction sales during Asia Week New York | | Brazilian artist Lucas Arruda finds first French museum spotlight at Musée d'Orsay |
Nigel Cooke, Vines, 2021, oil and acrylic on linen, 225 cm à 164 cm (88-9/16" à 64-9/16") © Nigel Cooke.
SEOUL.- Pace is presenting Sea Mirror, an exhibition of new work by Nigel Cooke, at its gallery in Seoul. On view from April 11 to May 17, this show spans the gallerys second and third floors, bringing together never-before-seen canvases created as part of Cookes new experimentations with portrait formats and panoramic scales, as well as a selection of 11 paintings on paper produced on the Spanish island of Formentera. With Sea Mirrorthe artists second solo exhibition SeoulCooke continues his explorations of memory, myth, and the passage of time through his distinctive visual vocabulary of gesture and touch. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue from Pace Publishing featuring new texts by writer Chloe Aridjis and Marcelle Polednik, director of the Milwaukee Art Museum in Wisconsin. Cooke is renowned for his evocative, atmospheric paintings that blend figurative and abstract forms within layered compositions. Drawing inspiration from a diverse range of ... More | |
An Indian Mughal White Jade, Gold, and Ruby Inset Dagger from the 17th/18th Century. Opening at just $600 and estimated at $2,4004,000, the dagger far exceeded expectations and sold for $20,025.
NEW BRAUNFELS, TX.- Lark Mason Associates and iGavel Auctions announced the successful conclusion of five online auctions of Asian art, which collectively generated $651,656 in sales. The centerpiece of the series was Chinese Bronzes and Ceramics from a Prominent Collector, a single-owner sale that performed particularly well. Leading the results was an Indian Mughal White Jade, Gold, and Ruby Inset Dagger from the 17th/18th Century. Opening at just $600 and estimated at $2,4004,000, the dagger far exceeded expectations, selling for $20,025. Other notable results from this sale included a Chinese Bronze Tripod Cooking Vessel, Ding, from the Western Zhou Dynasty, which achieved $12,187, and a Han Dynasty Archaic Bronze Ding that brought in $7,812. A group of Five Chinese Henan Brown and Black Glazed Bowls dating to the 10th12th Centuries realized $6,562, while a lot of Six Chinese Glazed Ceramic Vessels ... More | |
Lucas Arruda Untitled (from the Deserto-Modelo series), 2018 Oil on canvas © Lucas Arruda Courtesy the artist, David Zwirner and Mendes Wood DM Photography by Everton Ballardin.
PARIS.- The Musée d'Orsay, renowned for its impressive collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces, today welcomes a fresh perspective with the opening of "Lucas Arruda. What does the landscape matter," the first monographic exhibition in a French museum dedicated to the work of the celebrated Brazilian contemporary artist. This landmark show offers a deep dive into Arruda's captivating exploration of light and landscape, showcasing his unique artistic journey from recognizable forms towards the realm of abstraction. Arruda, considered a true talent in contemporary painting, has dedicated his practice to capturing the essence of landscapes through a meticulous and evolving approach. For over fifteen years, he has been developing his signature series of small-format paintings titled "Deserto-Modelo," a name borrowed from the evocative poetry of Brazilian writer João Cabral de Melo Neto. These ... More |
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| Paula Rego and Adriana Varejão: Between Your Teeth at CAM Gulbenkian | | Catherine Murphy's observational art: New paintings and drawings at Peter Freeman, Inc. | | Rediscovering Nino Bertoletti: Rome exhibition now open, shedding light on elusive early 20th-century master |
Paula Rego, 'Angel', 1998. CAM â Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian, inv.21P1960.
LISBON.- Paula Rego and Adriana Varejão: Between Your Teeth presents nearly 80 works spanning over six decades, and including paintings, engravings, sculptures, and installations. It is a fascinating encounter between two artists from different generations, Paula Rego (Lisbon, 1935London, 2022) and Adriana Varejão (Rio de Janeiro, 1964). Curated by Adriana Varejão, Helena de Freitas and Victor Gorgulho, with scenography by Daniela Thomas, the exhibition explores surprising lines of contact between the two artists. Marked by dynamics of power and oppression, especially in relation to women, the violence and eroticism of the works will unsettle, provoke and linger in visitors memories, long after seeing them. The titleBetween Your Teethis taken from the 1974 Poemas aos homens do nosso tempo (Poems to the men of our time) by Brazilian poet and novelist Hilda Hilst. In a clear allusion to the dictatorial regime that had ruled Brazil over the previous ten years, H ... More | |
Catherine Murphy, Aside, 2023. Oil on canvas, 48 1/4 x 49 1/8 inches (122.6 x 124.8 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Peter Freeman, Inc. is presenting Catherine Murphy's fourth solo exhibition at the gallery featuring paintings and drawings completed within the last three years. Catherine Murphy works from direct observation, depicting both existing scenarios as well as imagined ones through elaborately staged set-ups in her studio or on her property. Her practice requires a prolonged process of painting or drawing under the right circumstances over months, sometimes even years. The carefully considered arrangements transform our way of looking, effectively capturing both fleeting moments and the passage of time. Scale, framing, and perspective are all thoughtfully manipulated to convey how conditions, settings, and time can affect our perception. In Nine Over Nine we feel larger than life looking down through a gridded window pane onto white snow, whereas in Under the Table and Bed Clothes we feel child-like looking up into the laps of ... More | |
Nino Bertoletti, Ritratto di Carlo Francesco (Pupo), circa 1930. Archivio Nino e Pasquarosa Bertoletti © Archivio Nino e Pasquarosa Bertoletti. Photo: Giorgio Benni.
ROME.- The Galleria dArte Moderna in Rome has opened a comprehensive retrospective of the work of Nino Bertoletti (1889-1971), an artist whose extraordinary versatility and reserved nature have kept him somewhat in the shadows of early 20th-century Italian art history. The exhibition, titled Nino Bertoletti. 1889-1971, which opened on April 11 and will run through September 14, 2025, showcases over forty works, many of which are being displayed to the public for the very first time. More than just a painter, Bertoletti was a true intellectual of his time, actively engaging as an illustrator, collector, art dealer, and journalist. He moved within the circles of both the avant-garde and neoclassical movements, forging friendships with prominent artists like Giorgio de Chirico, Cipriano Efisio Oppo, and Fausto Pirandello, as well as literary giants such as Luigi Pirandello and Massimo Bontempelli. His connections extended to influential art critics ... More |
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| M Leuven unveils "Art That Moves," showcasing never-before-seen masterpieces from private collections | | Perrotin announces global representation of Young-Il Ahn, launches LA exhibition | | MoMA PS1 opens first solo museum exhibition of artist Whitney Claflin |
Léon Spilliaert, Woman in an Exhibition, 1912, long-term loan private collection, photo: Dominique Provost.
LEUVEN.- M Leuven opened the exhibition Art That Moves, showcasing artworks that once belonged to private collections and now enrich the museums holdings. The exhibition is inspired by the recent long-term loan of two complete private collections. From a medieval Weeping Madonna to works by Camille Claudel, Léon Spilliaert and James Ensor, the exhibition presents masterpieces that have never before been shown to the public. The significance of private collections for the history and functioning of M cannot be overstated, says Alderman for Culture and Chair of M, Bert Cornillie. Donations, bequests and long-term loans from private collectors have played a major role in shaping Ms collection. The trend can be observed in many museums. However, the long-term loan of entire private collections is highly exceptional. Yet, in the past year, M has received two complete private collections on loan, adding 142 new objects to the museum. The city is immensely proud of this f ... More | |
Young-Il Ahn, Water SM365-211, c. 1992. Oil on canvas, 203.2 Ã 152.4 cm | 80 Ã 60 inches.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Perrotin announced its global representation of the Estate of Young-Il Ahn. In conjunction with the announcement, Perrotin Los Angeles presents Young-Il Ahn: Selected Works 19862019, a historical survey of Ahns work over three decades. Young-Il Ahn (19342020) vaulted to critical acclaim late in his career for his exquisite Water paintings. In 201718, an exhibition featuring Ahns abstract Water series at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art had the distinction of being the first one-person presentation at the museum to feature a Korean-American artist. Despite the late-career attention to his work, the full scope of Ahns painting practice was little-exhibited during his lifetime. Young-Il Ahn: Selected Works 19862019 introduces viewers to the breadth of Ahns work across multiple series, providing important historical context to his lifelong engagement with the relationship between abstraction and representation. Born in 1934 in Gaeseong, a ... More | |
Whitney Claflin. 6 Delancey. 2010-2020. Oil, ink, Letraset, and carbon transfer on canvas. Courtesy the artist and Derosia, New York
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- Whitney Claflins (American, b. 1983) first solo museum exhibition, I was wearing this when you met me, features a focused selection of works tracing her distinctive approach to painting and ongoing engagement with notions of infatuation, misrecognition, and waywardness. On view from March 27 through August 25, 2025, the exhibition includes over twenty new and recent paintings, which careen between subjects and styles ranging from lyrical abstractions and breezy sketches to snippets of text, renditions of logos, and scraps of mass-produced textiles. Following the associative logic of a mixtape or poem, they express transient states of intensity. In addition to paintings, the exhibition also includes drawing, photography, video, and sculptural interventions, highlighting Claflins multifaceted approach. With varying degrees of legibility, Claflin embeds a plethora of references and subcultural symbols ... More |
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Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Glen BaldridgeNEW YORK, NY.- Glen Baldridges 9th solo show with the gallery, Headlights, features a series of works on paper created using experimental printmaking techniques, building on the artists 20+ years of innovation in the studio. Each large-scale piece presents a unique image of animals inhabiting the area around a New England pond. Over the past decade, Baldridge has developed an extensive archive of thousands of these photographs captured by a motion-sensor camera placed near the pond. This collection includes images of stag deer, fawns, otters, coyotes, and blue heronspictures he has previously referred to as animal selfies. These works incorporate a range of technical and experimental processes, including photography, screenprinting, painting, and reductive drawing. Baldridge begins with bold washes of watercolor and ink on heavy paper to establish ... More From cursed images to Kodak's demise: "Extroverted Images" rethinks photography's materiality and meaningSALZBURG.- "Extroverted Images brings together five international artists who explore the intersection of photography and sculpture. Their works go beyond two-dimensional images, take over the physical exhibition space, and engage with the materiality of photography. At the same time, they reflect on the public, cultural, and socio- technical spaces where photography circulates today. The artists manipulate their images by rotating, distorting, and even melting them. By doing so, they expand photography both artistically and as a medium. Their work also raises new questions about the value and meaning of images in contemporary art and media. The exhibition follows in the tradition of expanded photography, a concept described by Peter Weibel. Peter ... More San Antonio Museum of Art presents Readymade Remix: New Approaches to Familiar ObjectsSAN ANTONIO, TX.- The San Antonio Museum of Art presents Readymade Remix: New Approaches to Familiar Objects, a new exhibition that explores how contemporary artists transform everyday materials into compelling, conceptually rich works of art. Curated by Lana Meador, Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Readymade Remix will be on view in the Contemporary II Gallery from April 12, 2025, through April 12, 2026. Found objects, household items, and manufactured goods are often seen in art exhibitions today, but that was not always the case. In 1917, French artist Marcel Duchamp (under the pseudonym R. Mutt) infamously submitted a common urinal as a sculpture titled Fountain to the Society of Independent Artists in New York. The sculpture was rejected for not being a work of art. Duchamps presentation of an everyday, mass- ... More Shiori Tono's "Nandemonai" exhibition illuminates the beauty of the ordinary in TokyoTOKYO.- MAKI Gallery is presenting Oita-based artist Shiori Tonos solo exhibition Nandemonai at Tennoz, Tokyo. Our everyday lives are filled with countless mundane momentsmost of them carry no particular significance, leave no profound impact on anyones life, and eventually dissolve into the ether of our minds. Yet isnt it true that our present existence is actually shaped by an accumulation of such unremarkable occurrences? Nandemonaimeaning ordinary or trivial in Japanesefeatures a collection of paintings based on photographs Tono took of fleeting, unassuming scenes from her immediate surroundings. A Christmas cake shared at her part-time job; potted plants quietly sitting unnoticed as time goes by; eucalyptus leaves glistening in the sunlight none of these are dramatic subjects, yet it is their very subtlety that imbues them with a precious tenderness. ... More Montalvo announces 2025 Marcus Prize recipientSARATOGA, CA.- The Sally and Don Lucas Artists Program (LAP) at Montalvo Arts Center announced that artist Nathan Lynch is the recipient of the 2025 Marcus Commissioning Prize. Lynch was selected for his proposal to create a site-specific, public artwork entitled A Place for Meeting Strangers. This work is both a functional sculpture (a ceramic drinking fountain) and a social prompt as it invites two people to drink simultaneously while looking each other in the eye, creating an unusually intimate moment in public space. A Place for Meeting Strangers will be installed as part of the 2025 Marcus Exhibition at Montalvo entitled When the World is Beautifully Strange. The show opens on June 26 and runs through November 9, 2025. In celebration of the exhibition, a community-wide festival (Montalvo Funk) will take place on July 18. I am delighted to award Nathan Lynch with ... More Missoula Art Museum celebrates 50 years with women's work exhibitionMISSOULA, MT.- In honor of Missoula Art Museums 50th anniversary in 2025, the museum presents Womens Work, an exhibition celebrating the pioneering women who laid the foundation for MAM in 1974. This exhibition honors the groundbreaking work of Lela Autio, Dana Boussard, and Nancy Ericksonthree artists who defied societal expectations and reshaped Missoulas artistic landscape. In 1974, these visionary artists proposed an exhibition of their soft sculptures at the University of Montana, only to have their work dismissed as "women's work." Undeterred, they found an unexpected home for their art in the empty Carnegie Library, a pivotal moment that helped create MAM in 1975. Dana Boussard reflects, The best thing for me to do was not project that I was a girl doing a girl thingbut to project that I was an artist doing artist things. Their shared studio space became ... More Marta Palau: My Paths are Earthly on view at Museu Tàpies, BarcelonaBARCELONA.- At different periods throughout her life, in interviews and in her notebooks, Marta Palau i Bosch (Albesa, Lleida, 1934Mexico City, 2022) stated that art is magic and freedom. This exhibition is based on a conceptual framework stemming from the dialogue between magic and history. This wasinherited from some of the theorists and theosophists of the late nineteenth century, and is structured around the core concepts of land and body. Both are understood as places where magic and history appear, a worldview that oscillates between life and death, between Eros and Thanatos, from a cyclical organic perspective, appealing directly to the changing course of history. A land understood from expulsion and exile, but also as fertile, life-generating matter. Just like the body, matter gets sick, dies, retains scars, not only physical, and at the same time ... More Tatsuo Miyajima returns to the U.S.: Lisson Gallery presents new LED installations exploring Buddhist philosophyNEW YORK, NY.- Lisson Gallery presents the first U.S. solo exhibition in over five years by Tatsuo Miyajima, one of Japans most celebrated sculptors and installation artists. Known for his innovative use of LED technology to explore Buddhist philosophy, Miyajimas work investigates themes of time, existence, and the cycles of life and death. The exhibition introduces three new series Many Lives, Changing Life with Changing Circumstance, MUL.APIN, and Hundred Changes in Life which build on explorations of Seimei, a Japanese concept encompassing life, being and consciousness. These new works continue Miyajimas signature use of LED countdowns that omit 0, positioning death not as an endpoint but as a moment of transformation. ... More  Joseph Jones's "Natural language" explores cats, flowers, and the nature of images at Ehrlich SteinbergLOS ANGELES, CA.- Ehrlich Steinberg is presenting the solo exhibition Natural language by UK-based artist Joseph Jones. The exhibition features a new series of paintings which continue the artists careful depictions of cats and flowers. Known for his highly skilled and technical painting, Joness practice equally engages with philosophical enquiries into the nature of images, self-reflection, and the phenomenon of contemporary representation. Jones works consistently at smallscale, adopting a logic of serialitya system that reveals, over time, the oppositional qualities that cause images to dissolve into one another, or else remain resolutely distinct. Each painting, in its uniqueness, both returns to and resists the form of the rest of the artists work. The reduced subjects within Joness practice emerge from a vast archive of thousands of collected images, both from personal ... More Karen Ghostlaw's A Page in Time makes U.S. debut at Bank Art GalleryNEWBURGH, NY.- The Bank Art Gallery presents the U.S. debut of A Page in Time, an evocative series by acclaimed New York-based artist Karen Ghostlaw. After a celebrated European tour with exhibitions at Altiba9 Gallery in Barcelona and Le Bonheur Est Dans LInstant in Paris, this marks the first opportunity for American audiences to experience Ghostlaws introspective exploration of identity and storytelling through layered visual narratives. This milestone event is part of Who Am I?, an exhibition running from April 11 to June 1, 2025, featuring a diverse lineup of local, regional, national, and international artists who explore themes of identity, memory, and self-perception through various mediums. The exhibition is being held at the Bank Art Gallery, located at 94 Broadway, Newburgh, NYa former bank building over 100 years old, transformed into an immersive contemporary ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French photographer Robert Doisneau was born April 14, 1912. Robert Doisneau (14 April 1912 - 1 April 1994) was a French photographer. In the 1930s he made photographs on the streets of Paris. He was a champion of humanist photography and with Henri Cartier-Bresson a pioneer of photojournalism. In this image: French photographer Robert Doisneau photographed by Bracha L. Ettinger in his studio in Montrouge, 1992. Photo © Bracha L. Ettinger.
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