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Pair of mid-18th century Italian Rococo grey painted and parcel silvered console tables, 35 ¼ inches tall by 51 inches wide by 24 inches deep (est. $10,000-$15,000).
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Andrew Jones Auctions, which has navigated through a yearlong pandemic with a series of successful online-only sales, will keep its winning streak going with a 300-lot Design for the Home and Garden auction on Sunday, March 28th, starting at 11 am Pacific time. Live previews at the Los Angeles gallery will be held by appointment only. The auction is packed with antiques, fine art, antiquities, early works of art, rare books, silver, garden furniture and sculptures from sources such as the estate of Keith McCoy, the Evelyn Nathanson collection, the estate of June Ebensteiner, the collection of Raymond Enkeboll, the estate of Ruth Harvey and private collections from Beverly Hills, Montecito and San Francisco. âWe actually considered changing the title of the sale to Design for the Garden and Home since we came upon this wealth of garden sculpture, furniture and ornaments,â said company president and CEO Andrew Jones. âJust ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Brooklyn Museum's exhibition 'Lorraine OâGrady: Both/And' is the first comprehensive overview of the work of Lorraine OâGrady (b. Boston, 1934), one of the most significant figures in contemporary performance, conceptual, and feminist art.
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| Christie's 20th Century Art London, Day and Online Sales now online for browsing | | Jean-Michel Basquiat's 'Warrior': Living up to expectations | | Christie's announces highlights included in The Arts of the Surreal Evening Sale |
Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978), Trovator. Painted in the early 1960s. Estimate: £150,000 - GBP 250,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
LONDON.- The Post-War & Contemporary Art Day Sale on 25 March, brings together works by Bridget Riley, Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and Banksy, as well as emerging contemporary artists like Jammie Holmes, Genieve Figgis and Claire Tabouret with Les Madones (Ãtude3) (The Madonnas (Study 3)) (2014, estimate: £20,000-30,000) and Kudzanai-Violet Hwami with Study Sisi Thembas Post Surgery, Harare General Hospital, 2050 (2016, estimate: £30,000-50,000). Another highlight from the sale is Nicole Eisenmans work Mermaid Catch, (1996, estimate: £400,000-600,000). Her artworks have recently been included in the Radical Figures exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery last year. She has also been shortlisted for Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth public art commission. There also are a number of artworks for sale benefitting three important charities, Healing Arts, Choose Love, and Goodwill in Action to Prevent ... More | |
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Warrior, 1982, Acrylic and Oil Stick on Wood Panel, 72 x 48 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- The sale of Jean-Michel Basquiats proclaimed masterpiece Warrior is promised to be a milestone for the Western art market in Asia. The sales history of Warrior allows us to gain insight into the growth and performance of the Basquiat marketplace as well as assess the value of trophy works in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. There are a couple of pronouncements by Christies that need to be put into context. First, the designation of Warrior as a milestone sale from a western artist in the Asian market, though factually accurate is not without precedent, as the 2017 sale of Basquiats Untitled, 1982 for $110,487,500 was purchased by an Asian buyer (Yusaku Maezawa) and it is widely known that Asian collectors are active in the Basquiat market. The fact that buyers may purchase significant works by Basquiat in Hong Kong doesnt seem like a milestone event, but more of an acknowledgment by Christies and their consignor that the Asian art market ... More | |
Rene Magritte, La découverte du feu. Estimate: GBP 2,000,000-GBP 3,000,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
LONDON.- The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale will take place on 23 March 2021, a key auction within Christies series of livestream sales that will see collectors convene in London via our livestreamed salerooms in Hong Kong and New York. The 20th edition of this annual sale dedicated to Surrealism and Dada will be led by three works by Max Ernst, René Magritte and Joan Miró from the Collection of Claude Hersaint, who was one of the most important collectors of Surrealist art. Paintings by Miró and Ernst are offered from a second major collection, 20th Century Modern Masters from a Private French Collection. A presentation of six paintings by René Magritte is highlighted by Le monde poétique (1947, estimate: £3,000,000-5,000,000), La découverte du feu (1936, estimate: £2,000,000-3,000,000) and Les jeunes amours (1963, estimate: £2,000,000-3,000,000). Further highlights include Goutte deau sur la neige ... More |
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| Briscoe Center acquires archive of Jacques Lowe, renowned photographer of Kennedy Family | | Career-spanning exhibition of works by Robert Mapplethorpe opens at Gladstone Gallery | | MAMC+ announces the third European iteration of 'Hassan Sharif: I Am The Single Work Artist' |
The Lowe collection covers his entire career as a photojournalist and portrait artist, with close to 6,000 prints, over 2,000 contact sheets, almost 5,000 negatives, and hundreds of pieces of ephemera, including publications, correspondence, and equipment. © the Estate of Jacques Lowe.
AUSTIN, TX.- The Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin has acquired the Jacques Lowe Photographic Archive. Lowe is best known for his photographs documenting the Kennedy family, notably John F. Kennedys presidential campaign and his first year in the White House. The collection spans the entirety of Lowes career and includes his award-winning portrait photography, as well as editorial, advertising, and corporate work. The Lowe Archive is a significant addition to the centers photojournalism and documentary photography collections, said Don Carleton, executive director of the Briscoe Center. It is hard to overstate the importance of Lowes work in shaping the public image of the Kennedy family. However, this collection holds an even greater significance for historical ... More | |
Barbara Hairston, 1983 © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Used by permission.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gladstone Gallery is presenting a career-spanning exhibition of works by Robert Mapplethorpe curated by artist Arthur Jafa. Comprised of both the iconic studio photographs that are synonymous with Mapplethorpes oeuvre as well as a selection of his rarely exhibited Polaroids, Jafa employs the visual sequencing found throughout his own work to reconfigure and destabilize our understanding of the familiar. Orbiting around the concept that re-oriented chains of connotation imbue culturally entrenched imagery with new narrative power, Jafa proposes a fresh reading of works that have long been embraced as art-historical canon. Breaching the tacit barricades that quarantine Mapplethorpes classically composed studio work from his notoriously unmitigated depictions of gay sexuality, Jafas image selection spans the full arc of Mapplethorpes practice. Silver gelatin portraits and still-lifes are displayed with a ... More | |
Exhibition view, Hassan Sharif. I Am The Single Work Artist, Saint-Ãtienne, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Ãtienne Métropole, 2021 © MAMC+ / Aurélien Mole.
SAINT-PRIEST-EN-JAREZ.- Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, along with Alexander Gray Associates, New York and gb agency, Paris, announced the third European iteration of Hassan Sharif: I Am The Single Work Artist at The Musée dArt Moderne et Contemporain de Saint-Ãtienne Métropole in France. Traveling from Sharjah Art Foundation (2018), then to the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2020), and most recently Malmö Konsthall, Sweden (2021), the exhibition at MAMC+ is curated by Hoor Al Qasimi and Aurélie Voltz, director of the museum. Hassan Sharif (19512016) was born in Iran and grew up in Dubai. Apart from the time he spent in London as a student in the early 80s, he worked in the emirates of Dubai and Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates throughout his life. Sharif is now regarded as one of the regions most influential 20th century artists. During his lifetime, Sharif created a complex and multifaceted ... More |
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| ADA opens an exhibition of works by Benni Bosetto | | Almine Rech opens an exhibition of works by Mehdi Ghadyanloo | | Hugh Newell Jacobsen, famed modernist architect, dies at 91 |
Benni Bosetto, 0000 0000 00 0 000 X, 2021. Ceramic, iron, 75 x 20 x 90 cm. Courtesy of ADA Rome. Photo: Roberto Apa.
ROME.- Remember, man, that thou art dust, and unto dust thou shalt return, G. 3,19
On 21/06/1907 Hilma Af Klimt writes the symbol 00 0 00 in the twenty-sixth page of her notes, to define a concept of origin, drawn not to comfort but capable of repeating itself, chaotically and dangerously. Here the zero does not represent a linear starting point, but a repeated and compound element in a perhaps endless movement. 00 0 00 is a world where the numbers after the zero do not exist and where the concept of accumulation disappears, leaving only to the elementary essence of things. Bosetto re-elaborates the concept of origin which does not create in image and likeness, but combines and mixes, reducing every living being to mud, earth and ash. The origin thus insinuates itself in every vital and temporal fragment with a compostist approach, in a tangle of forms and existences, destined to alternate both composition and ... More | |
Mehdi Ghadyanloo, Before Sunset, 2020. Oil on canvas, 120 x 120 cm - 47 1/4 x 47 1/4 in.
BRUSSELS.- Born in Karaj, Iran in 1981, Mehdi Ghadyanloo combines minimalist themes and a surrealist aesthetic in his trompe-loeil paintings, using acrylic, oil, or watercolor. He began his career as a muralist in Tehran in the early 2000s, when, following a call for proposals by the city, he produced almost one thousand gigantic wall paintings, including dreamlike landscapes and science-fiction scenes. Designed by the Shah as a modern city organized around cars and copying the Western modernism of Los Angeles, Tehran was in the midst of large-scale modernization projects, which were abruptly suspended by the Islamic Revolution. Thus, many buildings were only half-constructed or had just one or two visible façades with big empty spaces an ideal medium for wall painting. When the new regime took power, Islamic authorities emphasized two types of propaganda murals, either featuring the martyrs of the Revolution with bloody, heroic narratives or inspired by the Socialist realism of the ... More | |
Modernist architect Hugh Newell Jacobsen in 2013. Jacobsen, who brought sophisticated designs to homes, most notably one belonging to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis on Marthas Vineyard, as well as museums, universities and public buildings like the U.S. Capitol, died on March 4, 2021, in an assisted living facility in Front Royal, Va. He was 91. Max Hirshfeld, via Jacobsen Architecture via The New York Times.
by Richard Sandomir
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Hugh Newell Jacobsen, a modernist architect who brought sophisticated designs to homes, most notably one belonging to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis on Marthas Vineyard, as well as to museums, universities and public buildings such as the U.S. Capitol, died March 4 in an assisted-living facility in Front Royal, Virginia. He was 91. His death was confirmed by his son Simon, a partner with his father in the Jacobsen Architecture firm in Washington, D.C. Like a lady, Hugh Jacobsen once said, the best house is polite to her neighbors and never shouts. If his houses did ... More |
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| Photoworks & Jerwood Arts announce major commissioning and exhibiting opportunity for early-career artists | | The New Orleans Museum of Art acquires 'The Seated III' by Wangechi Mutu | | Qatar Museums announces inaugural programme for Tasweer Photo Festival Qatar |
Silvia Rosi, Self Portrait As My Mother, originally commissioned through the Jerwood / Photoworks Awards, 2019.
LONDON.- The Jerwood/Photoworks Awards are a major commissioning opportunity supporting early-career artists working with photography to make new work and significantly develop their practice. Two artists will receive a £15,000 award each with a full package of support from Photoworks and Jerwood Arts to create new work over a 12-month period. Applications are now open and will close on 12 May 2021 at 10am BST. Now in their fourth edition, the Awards are for UK-based artists who have been practising for between one and ten years. Two artists will be chosen by a selection panel including Christine Eyene (Art historian, critic and curator), Sunil Gupta (Photographer), Joy Gregory (Artist), Julia Bunnemann (Curator, Photoworks) and Harriet Cooper (Head of Visual Arts, Jerwood Arts). There is no age limit or fee to apply and both organisations particularly seek to encourage artists exploring ... More | |
Wangechi Mutu, "The Seated III," 2019, Bronze, 82 7/8 x 37 3/4 x 33 3/4 inches (210.5 x 95.9 x 85.7 cm), Edition of 3 + 1AP, Gift of Sydney and Walda Besthoff, 2021.1. Copyright Wangechi Mutu, Courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels, Photography by Joseph Coscia, Jr., Imaging, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- The New Orleans Museum of Art announces the addition of The Seated III, a sculpture by contemporary Kenyan-American artist Wangechi Mutu, to the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden. The 12-acre garden is home to more than 90 sculptures representing the 19th century to the present, and is open to the public Wednesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. 5 p.m. The Seated III is one of four sculptures created by Mutu originally for, and in response to, niches on the façade of the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of a commission titled The NewOnes, will free Us. Widely regarded as one of our foremost contemporary sculptors working today, Mutus kneeling female figures are inspired, in part, by the global ... More | |
Stephen Tayo, Pedro Street, Lagos, Nigeria, 2019. Stylist: Lorena Maza. Model: Chris. Designer: Kenzo. Published: Sleek Magazine, March 2019. Courtesy of the Artist, Aperture, and Tasweer Photo Festival Qatar.
DOHA.- Qatar Museums will inaugurate Tasweer Photo Festival Qatar on 24 March, with a dynamic and interconnected programme of exhibitions. The inaugural festival will feature the Sheikh Saoud Al Thani Awards, commissions, collaborations, presentations and workshops that draw innovative international photography together with photographers and photographic communities in Qatar and the Western Asia and North Africa (WANA) region. Established by Qatar Museums, the festival builds on a commitment to nurture artistic talent, develop Qatars arts economy and support creative industry. M7, Qatars new hub for innovation and entrepreneurship in the creative industries, will serve as the central location for Tasweer. Tasweer was created to champion the medium of photography and will serve as a resource for artists in Qatar and the region, said Her Excellency ... More |
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Medals awarded to doctor in West Africa and China highlight medal sale at Dix Noonan Webb
LONDON.- An important and unique group of medals relating to West Africa and the Defence of Legations in China during the Boxer Rebellion sold for £39,680 at Dix Noonan Webb in auction of Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria on Wednesday, March 17, 2021. Estimated at £20,000-26,000, this highly-prized group of four was awarded to Dr. Wordsworth Poole, who was the Principal Medical Officer in Central Africa between 1895-97; West Africa during 1897-99 and was also Mentioned in Despatches for his services as Physician to the British Legation during the Siege at Peking. He was the only Doctor attending the wounded and kept diaries of his time in Africa and China. A copy of 'Doctor on Lake Nyasa. Being the Journal and Letters of Dr. Wordsworth Poole (1895-1897)' published circa 1960 was also included in the lot, which was bought ... More
"The Last Orientalist": A major solo exhibition by Sarp Kerem Yavuz is now open at Anna Laudel Dusseldorf
DUSSELDORF.- Anna Laudel Düsseldorf showcases The Last Orientalist by the Turkish artist Sarp Kerem Yavuz until 29 May 2021. Curated by Sena Ãakırkaya, the exhibition deals with the political and cultural tides impacting todays world and Turkey, the confusions surrounding identity and sexuality, and patriarchal culture. In tackling these issues, the artist meditates on the similarities and differences between the East and the West. The artist and curator, who came together for the first time in 2013 for a photography exhibition at the Istanbul Modern Museum titled "Close Quarters, this time present a carefully curated overview of Yavuzs various series produced since 2010. With the ironic meaning hidden in the title, "The Last Orientalist" features the 10-year creative journey of the artist, who, throughout his career, questioned representations ... More
Hungary pop music reform opens new front in culture war
BUDAPEST (AFP).- A Hungarian government plan to reinvigorate the local pop music scene and promote Hungarian culture at the same time has sparked concerns about political influence and censorship. Details of the 62-million-euro plan revealed Tuesday include funding for training and talent spotting, grants for content creation and marketing, and infrastructure like studios and performance venues. "It's about producing quality Hungarian pop and rock, and identity-building," said the project's frontman Szilard Demeter, 44, appointed by Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government as a cultural commissioner in 2019. "Music can express what is different in Hungarians' character, vision, and historical experience," Demeter told AFP after a draft of the plan was published last year. "Perhaps that's not always understandable when looked at by western Europeans, ... More
Patriot games: Hong Kong arts scene shudders as loyalists circle
HONG KONG (AFP).- After successfully muzzling Hong Kong's democracy protests and opposition, Beijing's loyalists are now taking aim at the arts as they seek to impose mainland-style orthodoxy on culture and purge the city of dissent. Newly built on Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour, M+ Museum aims to rival Western contemporary heavyweights like London's Tate Modern and New York's MoMA. The 60,000 square-metre venue is finally set to open later this year after multiple delays. But it has already found itself in hot water. Earlier this week a group of prominent pro-Beijing local politicians accused the museum of breaching a sweeping national security law that China imposed on Hong Kong last year in response to 2019's huge and often violent democracy protests. The cause of the complaint, filed to police on Tuesday, was the content of a media preview, ... More
Calls grow for a national monument honoring America's Covid dead
NEW YORK (AFP).- Will the United States soon have a national monument commemorating the victims of Covid-19? Calls for a permanent memorial are increasing in the country with the largest pandemic death toll of more than 540,000. Since Joe Biden succeeded Donald Trump as president in January, and with America now in its second year of the pandemic, ceremonies honoring the dead -- mostly virtual -- have multiplied. Minute silences, flags at half mast, and places of contemplation: ephemeral moments of solemn respect have sprung up nearly everywhere. From 20,000 flags planted in the Mall in Washington last September when the US passed 200,000 dead, to 30,000 ribbons recently hung by a Florida resident resembling every death in the state, to murals paying tribute to caregivers, the pandemic has had markers in the landscape for months. ... More
Art Dubai to be one of the first physical art fairs of 2021
DUBAI.- Art Dubai reaffirms the fairs commitment to providing a physical platform and marketplace for artists and galleries from across the Global South. This year, the fair will move to a new location at Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) in a purpose-built venue that will ensure the highest COVID-19 safety protocols, creating a secure, safe and flexible environment for participants and visitors. The fair will take place from 29 March to 3 April 2021. Held in the strategic partnership with Dubai Culture, Art Dubai 2021 will feature 50 leading Contemporary and Modern galleries from 31 countries, showcasing a diverse selection of artworks, artists and practices, reflecting the multicultural identity of the city. Alongside galleries from major and emerging international art centres, visitors will encounter galleries from across the Middle East and South ... More
Colin Hunt's debut solo exhibition with Hirschl & Adler Modern opens in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- Looking at a painting by Colin Hunt is like watching someone pass through a hole in our consciousness. As the landscape refracts through the sitters absence and fills that emptiness, the world remakes itself in the image of what has been lost. For the artist, these human-shaped portals operate between here and the hereafter, providing sublime solace in the shared human experience of grief. In So Much Remains to Be, his debut solo exhibition with Hirschl & Adler Modern, Hunt collapses the concepts of sitter and likeness, space and time by connecting the formal traditions of portraiture and American landscape painting. The resulting panels explore a collective intuition enveloping memory, humanity, and the afterlife. These themes may be heavy and particularly relevant in our present world, but Hunts paintings are tender ... More
Photos on QUAD's building launches 10th edition of FORMAT International Photography Festival
DERBY.- This week a giant photo mosaic has been unveiled on the outside of QUAD in Derby as part of the #massisolationFORMAT project at FORMAT21 International Photography Festival. Created and produced by The People's Picture for FORMAT21, the photo mosaic is composed of a total of 180,574 photos from the exhibition #massisolationFORMAT.
#massisolationFORMAT was inspired by the 1937 Mass Observation project, FORMAT invited people to use the hashtag #massisolationFORMAT to create a visual record of the Covid19 crisis on Instagram. This mass-participation project, set up at the beginning of the March 2020 lockdown, received over 40,000 photo submissions from over 90 countries, sharing peoples experiences living through a pandemic. The images came from a wide range of people ... More
Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers announces Comic, Trading Card Game, for Pokémon and Toy auction
CRANSTON, RI.- Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers will bounce into spring with a 444-lot Comic, TCG (Trading Card Game, for Pokémon) and Toy auction on Saturday, March 27th, at 10 am Eastern time. Live, in-house bidding will be reserved for active bidders only. To save a seat, call 401-533-9980. Previews will be held March 25th and 26th, from 9 am-4 pm, by appointment only. Comic books will be offered in abundance. Highlights include three copies of Marvel Comics Giant-Size X-Men #1 graded CGC 9.0, 6.0, and 5.0, Marvel Comics Daredevil #1 CGC 6.0, Marvel Comics Avengers #4 CGC 6.5, and X-Men #94 CGC 9.0 amongst 264 other Golden, Silver, Bronze, and Modern age key issues, as well as generous group lots. For independent fans there is a Malibu Comics Malibu Sun #13 Negative Edition in CGC 9.8 signed by Todd McFarlane, ... More
Poland's Adam Zagajewski, 'poet of 9/11' dies aged 75
WARSAW (AFP).- Polish poet Adam Zagajewski, known for his work focused on the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the US, died aged 75 on Sunday in Krakow, Polish media reported quoting his publisher. Born in 1945 in Lviv, Zagajewski was one of Poland's most celebrated contemporary authors, winning numerous awards and was short-listed for the Nobel Prize for literature. He had divided his time between Poland and the United States, where he taught literature at the University of Chicago and was known as "the poet of 9/11". He earned the moniker after the New Yorker magazine selected one of his poems -- "Try to Praise the Mutilated World" -- for the final page of its special issue on the September 11 terrorist attacks on the US in 2001. "You've seen the refugees going nowhere,/ you've heard the executioners sing joyfully," reads ... More
Terror attack memorials pose dilemma: Who benefits?
PARIS (AFP).- The aftermath of every terror attack places Western countries in the same conundrum: How to honour the victims and show national resilience without giving the perpetrators the place in posterity that they crave? Governments and public opinion have moved mostly towards backing the idea of a physical place to help survivors find closure and give societies strength. After attacks, the cities of Madrid, Oklahoma, New York, Brussels, Oslo and Manchester all set up either memorials or museums, and sometimes both. In France, which has been a prime attack target for half a century, President Emmanuel Macron has created a working group to plan for a terrorism memorial and museum to be inaugurated in 2027 in Paris. "It has become somewhat of an unwritten cultural norm that countries construct memorials to commemorate terrorist ... More
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Mental Escapology, St. Moritz
TIM VAN LAERE GALLERY
Madelynn Green
Patrick Angus
Flashback On a day like today, Flemish-English painter Anthony van Dyck was born March 22, 1599. Sir Anthony van Dyck (22 March 1599 - 9 December 1641) was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England, after enjoying great success in Italy and the Southern Netherlands. He is most famous for his portraits of Charles I of England and his family and court, painted with a relaxed elegance that was to be the dominant influence on English portrait-painting for the next 150 years. In this image: The self-portrait was commissioned by the English King Charles I.
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