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The First Art Newspaper on the Net Established in 1996 Saturday, December 7, 2024 Apollo Art Auctions traverses Asia's Silk Road with Dec. 14 sale of Fine Islamic, Indian & Chinese Art Chinese Northern Qi Dynasty sandstone sculpture of Buddha, circa 550-577 A.D. Opening bid: £8,000/$10,210. LONDON.- On December 14, Apollo Art Auctions will explore the ascendancy and incomparable beauty of fine Islamic and Asian art through a 348-lot sale of historically-important, expertly-vetted pieces. The live gallery auction, with optional online bidding, is a virtual museum-level showcase for exceptional Islamic, Indian and Chinese artworks as well as Korean and Tibetan pieces, with a timeline starting around 3000 BC and continuing to the 19th century AD. The Saturday auction session will commence at 1pm GMT (8am US Eastern time). Prestigious provenance accompanies literally every piece on the auction roster, including Islamic and Indian objects whose former owners included Henri René d’Allemagne and the Marquis de Ganay. The Southeast Asian portion of the sale features an impressive array of Chinese artworks from the collections of Phillip Allen and the estate of Roslyn Willett. The list of highlights is led by a rare and extraordinary Sogdian (7th-8th century A.D.) silver incense burne ... More The Best Photos of the Day Apex Stegosaurus announcement at the American Museum of Natural History with Roger Benson, the Museum’s Macaulay Curator of Paleontology (back left), Museum President Sean M. Decatur (back right) and students from The Neighborhood School PS363. Alvaro Keding/© AMNH Gagosian presents gallery debut of immersive installation by Gerhard Richter 3,000-year-old artifact inscribed with the earliest mention of the House of King David now on display Rare works of Islamic art on view now at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Gerhard Richter, Moving Picture (946-3) Kyoto Version, 2019-24 (still). Digital projection (color, sound, 36 min.) © Gerhard Richter 2024 (28102024) Courtesy the artist and Gagosian. ROME.- Gagosian announce that Gerhard Richter is presenting Moving Picture (946-3) Kyoto Version (2019–24), an immersive installation in film and sound that fills the entire exhibition space at its Rome location. This is the gallery debut of Moving Picture (946-3) Kyoto Version and the artist’s first gallery exhibition in Italy since 1983. Moving Picture (946-3) Kyoto Version is the immersive, experiential apotheosis of Richter’s Strip project, which he began working on in 2010 following his discovery of digital tools for mining existing paintings for new artistic strategies. The Strip series was initiated when the artist digitally fractured the photographic image of a canvas into progressively smaller divisions which he then doubled, or mirrored, across expansive surfaces. This process opened up a world of new possibilities that resulted in the Strip paintings ... More “House of David“ inscribed on a victory stele. Dan. Iron Age II, 9th century BCE. Basalt. H: 34; W: 32 cm. Collection the Israel Antiquities Authority, 1996-125, 1993-3162. Photo © The Israel Museum, by Meidad Suchowolski. NEW YORK, NY.- The Tel Dan Stele, a 9th century BCE stone monument fragment containing the earliest mention of the royal House of David outside of the Hebrew Bible, is on view at the Jewish Museum. On loan from The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, the stone slab's inscription lends archaeological evidence to the existence of the Biblical King David as a historical figure, in parallel with the narrative of the Bible. The Stele is being displayed for a limited time through January 5, 2025, as part of Engaging with History: Works from the Collection, an installation of objects from the Museum’s holdings that illustrates the vibrancy and complexity of Jewish culture across the global diaspora over more than 4,000 years. “The Jewish Museum is privileged to host the extraordinary Tel Dan Stele, inscribed with the oldest recorded evidence of the House of David.” said James S. Snyder, Helen Goldsmith Menschel Director. “The Tel Dan ... More The Wadsworth began collecting Islamic art over a century ago with a bequest from Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt in 1905. HARTFORD, CONN.- Through floral motifs, geometric patterns, calligraphy, and immersive video, Divine Geometry presents the artistic language of Islamic art through objects rarely seen by the public. Drawn mainly from the Wadsworth’s own collection, the exhibition features delicate miniatures, medieval Qurans, and ornate glassware from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia. Modern and contemporary acquisitions enhance the display, with key loans from partner institutions. “We are immensely proud to open this exhibition curated by our Hartford Healthcare Fellow, Hamid Hemat. Hamid has single-handedly enabled us to interpret our holdings in Islamic art with greater depth of understanding than ever before. His discoveries will in part lead to a new installation of Islamic art in 2026. It is a joy to share this collection with the public, and we hope it will augment appreciation of the complex and beautiful artistic legacy of Islamic cultures from around the world,” said Jeffrey N. Bro ... More Ancient frescoes and treasures unveiled at Mantua's Museo Virgilio New Richard Avedon exhibition debuts at Phoenix Art Museum Ferdinand Hodler landscape sells for CHF 7.4 million Palazzo del Podestà MANTUA.- On Saturday, December 7, 2024, Mantua's historic Palazzo del Podestà will reopen to the public after years of meticulous restoration. This monumental building, nestled between Piazza Erbe and Piazza del Broletto, is now home to Museo Virgilio, a new cultural hub dedicated to the legendary Roman poet Virgil. The project, overseen by Scuola Holden, offers a journey through Virgil’s life, works, and mythos. Founded in 1227, Palazzo del Podestà served as Mantua's administrative center for 700 years. Over the centuries, it has been a courthouse, a prison, and the residence of the city’s Podestà . Following a devastating earthquake in 2012, a comprehensive restoration began, revealing a remarkable discovery: medieval frescoes hidden for centuries. These artworks have now been integrated into the museum’s narrative, adding a rich historical dimension to the visitor experience. One of the museum’s standout features is the Cycle of the Months fresco in the Masseria superiore. ... More Richard Avedon, Marilyn Monroe, actor, New York, May 6, 1957. Gelatin silver print. Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona: Richard Avedon Archive/Gift of the artist, 89.107.10. Copyright © The Richard Avedon Foundation. PHOENIX, AZ.- This December, Phoenix Art Museum presents the work of one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century in Richard Avedon: Among Creatives. Drawn from the collection of the Center for Creative Photography (CCP) in Tucson, the exhibition presents more than 50 photographs by Richard Avedon (1923-2004), highlighting his distinctive large-scale portraits of fellow artists, actors, writers, and more, in addition to his contributions to fashion photography. Richard Avedon: Among Creatives is on view at the Museum from December 6 – May 25, 2025. “We are excited to share this intimate perspective of Richard Avedon’s work with our audiences,” said Jeremy Mikolajczak, the Sybil Harrington Director and CEO of Phoenix Art Museum. “Avedon is one of the most prominent portrait photographers of the ... More Ferdinand Hodler, Lake Geneva with Montblanc in the Early Morning, March, 1918. ZURICH.- Koller's winter auctions saw strong bidding and high results for works by Swiss, Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary masters. Jewellery and Watches were also hotly contested, as were the items in the fifth edition of 'Out of This World'. A major work by Ferdinand Hodler was sold in the Swiss Art auction on 29 November to a private Swiss collector for 7.4 million Swiss francs. In the last months of his life, from November 1917 until his death in May 1918, Hodler painted some of his most important landscapes, all depicting Lake Geneva with the Mont Blanc. These are works that have gone down in art history, in which Hodler dissolves the structure of the landscape to the point of abstraction. One of these major works, most of which are in the possession of museums, 'Lake Geneva with Montblanc in the Early Morning, March' (1918) has only had three owners. After Hodler's death, it was acquired by the Galerie Moos in Geneva, which then ... More Original artwork that adorned Elton John's album 'Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy' sells for $212,500 First major survey in Europe dedicated to Ryan Gander opens at Helga de Alvear Museum Century-old dhulu (thulu) returned to the Gamilaraay Community by the Museum der Kulturen Basel Original Album Cover Art for Elton John's Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy (1975) By British Artist Alan Aldridge (1938-2017). DALLAS, TX.- The Rocket Man took flight at Heritage Auctions this week. Only days before R.J. Cutler and David Furnish's documentary Elton John: Never Too Late begins streaming on Disney+, Heritage Auctions offered Alan Aldridge's original artwork that adorned John's 1975 masterpiece Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy. The result, as expected, was nothing short of fantastic itself as the dazzling, detailed work realized $212,500 during Heritage's $2.2 million December 2-4 Music Memorabilia & Concert Posters Signature® Auction. The album, John's ninth and most autobiographical, has long been a favorite of the singer-songwriter's. In a 2006 interview with Cameron Crowe, John said he "always thought that Captain Fantastic was probably my finest album because it wasn't commercial in any way. Captain Fantastic was written from start to finish in running order, as a kind of story about coming to terms with failure — or trying desperately not to be one." He was also deeply enamored of ... More Ryan Gander, School of languages, 2023. Courtesy of the artist and Lisson Gallery. © Ryan Gander. CÁCERES EXTREMADURA.- Helga de Alvear Museum presents the first major survey in Europe dedicated to Ryan Gander, bringing together for the first time a large number of works made over the last 20 years. Grunts, hoots, whimpers, barks and screams, curated by Helga de Alvear Museum director, Sandra Guimarães, examines the foundations of Gander’s unique vocabulary as an artist and will be on view at the Helga de Alvear Museum from December 5, 2024 to April 20, 2025. Considered one of the most singular and formally engaged artists of our time, Ryan Gander has established an international reputation through artworks that materialise in many different forms—from sculpture to film, writing, graphic design, installation, performance and more besides. As Sandra Guimarães points out “Ryan Gander’s practice is developed through associative thought processes that connect the everyday and the esoteric, the overlooked and the commonplace. It involves a questioning of language and knowledge, as well a ... More Wayne Griffiths Jnr Smoking Ceremony of the dhulu. Photo © Museum der Kulturen Basel, photographer Omar Lemke. BASEL.- A highly significant carved tree, known as a dhulu (thulu), was returned on Thursday 28 November to the Gamilaraay Community from north-east New South Wales, Australia, at a formal ceremony held at the Museum der Kulturen Basel, Switzerland. In a profoundly generous gesture, Gamilaraay Community representatives responded by gifting the Museum with a newly carved dhulu. The carving of the new dhulu replicates the designs of the century-old dhulu as closely as possible, thereby signifying the Community’s wish that the story of Gamilaraay culture continues to be shared with the people of Switzerland, Europe and the world. The dhulu was once part of a group of carved river red gums on Brigalow Creek, a tributary of the Namoi River. They were associated with a ceremonial ground near the small New South Wales town of Boggabri. Dhulu hold deep spiritual meaning for the Gamilaraay Community: it is an ancestor and family member; it embodies knowledge ... More One of the most complete Stegosaurus fossils ever found, known as "Apex," goes on view at AMNH Reflex Amsterdam opens 'The Age of Entanglement by Gavin Turk' Vienna's Secession opens an exhibition of works by American painter Rochelle Feinstein Assembly of the Apex Stegosaurus at the American Museum of Natural History Alvaro Keding/© AMNH. NEW YORK, NY.- Thought to be the largest and one of the most complete Stegosaurus specimens ever found, a 150-million-year-old fossil known as Apex will go on display at the American Museum of Natural History starting Sunday, December 8. The extraordinary specimen, which measures 11.5 feet tall and 27 feet long and is nearly 80 percent complete, will greet visitors just inside the entrance to the Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation in the Kenneth C. Griffin Exploration Atrium, as part of a special loan from Kenneth C. Griffin, founder and CEO of Citadel and founder of Griffin Catalyst. During its stay at the Museum, support from Griffin will also enable Apex to be studied as part of a new research initiative by scientists in the Museum’s Division of Paleontology focused on Stegosaurus biology, including the unique ornithischian dinosaur’s growth and life history. “We are thrilled to have Apex on view at the Museum and grateful to Ken ... More Gavin Turk, Actimel Vitamin Drink, Squeeze It Orange Drink, Tymbark Apple Cherry Drink , Maldon Sea Salt Flakes, Cif Original Cream Cleaner, Ecover Toilet Cleaner, 2024, Oil on canvas, 350 x 450 x 20 mm. Courtesy of Gavin Turk. AMSTERDAM.- Gavin Turk is renowned for transforming banal, overlooked objects – refuse bags, apple cores, matchboxes – into intricately constructed works of fine art, be it through his hand-painted bronzes or masterful canvas paintings. For his new project he began by preserving and cataloguing used disposable packaging, in what the artist refers to as 'an exercise in self-portraiture.' By listing the products depicted in each composition in the artwork titles, Turk offers a glimpse into his consumption habits, prompting reflection on the significance of these mundane artifacts as traces of human presence over time. As Turk aptly states, "We are what we throw away." Each work is set within a bespoke frame, suggesting a distinctive historical journey for each piece, culminating in their convergence for this exhibition. The paintings ... More Rochelle Feinstein, The Today Show, installation view, Secession 2024, photo: Oliver Ottenschläger. VIENNA.- For over forty years, the American painter Rochelle Feinstein has developed an oeuvre that infiltrates abstract painting with political, social and environmental concerns. Throughout a series of diverse yet thematically interwoven groups of works, Feinstein cuts, flips, and rearranges printed gestural marks that are then collaged into paintings; she also makes sculptures and prints out of everyday materials. The Today Show presents a range of newly created works that circulate around the question of how to connect canvas, color and gesture with the specific personal and public conditions of our time. Feinstein was, until her recent retirement, a professor of painting and printmaking at Yale School of Art. Her works engage with different modes of abstraction, like the grid or color-field painting, all the while letting life crash against modernist notions of art’s autonomy from external reality. Whereas twentieth-century modernists propagated a strict separation of painting from t ... More Lucy Was Discovered 50 Years Ago. What’s Changed from 1974 to Now? More News "Chihuly Then and Now: The Collection at Twenty" closes in one month at OKCMOA OKLAHOMA CITY, OK.- The Oklahoma City Museum of Art (OKCMOA) would like to extend a reminder that the exhibition Chihuly Then and Now: The Collection at Twenty will close on Jan. 5, 2025. Visitors have just one month left to see Chihuly works never before seen in Oklahoma. Chihuly Then and Now, organized by OKCMOA, opened in the summer of 2022 to celebrate two decades of the collection. Earlier this year, the exhibition was extended into January 2025 due to popular demand. The exhibition features five decades of glass and painting and tells a comprehensive story of iconic glass artist Dale Chihuly’s groundbreaking career. It also features loans of some of Chihuly's more recent works from his Merletto and Rotolo series, which will go off view once the exhibition closes. “We are proud to have as a major part of our permanent ... More New body of work by Kara Walker on view at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. NEW YORK, NY.- Sikkema Jenkins & Co. and Kara Walker are presenting The High and Soft Laughter of the Nigger Wenches at Night, in the Colorless Light of Day. This solo exhibition features a new body of colored-watercolor and ink collages and works on paper, alongside a series of bronze busts. The High and Soft Laughter is on view at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. through December 14, 2024. Through collage, drawing, sculpture, and installation, Kara Walker has consistently interrogated the legacy of American myth making as it manifests through systems of race, sexuality, and violence. Her work leverages satire and archetypes to needle at the dominant narratives and prevailing dissonances of the United States’ own self-conception. In Walker’s work, the impulse to allegorize is thrown into stark, panoramic relief: history is the oft-repeated fable, power ... More Haverkampf Leistenschneider opens two exhibitions BERLIN.- Robert Vellekoop’s paintings take time. They grow slowly, layer by layer, color doubles and forms structures in the surface, here and there color is sanded off again and reapplied. Until the optimum color space with maximum depth is achieved. This is how Vellekoop creates his often-atmospheric cityscapes, seascapes and still lifes or covers the surface of his light sculptures. In Vellekoop’s exhibition “My very first thought”, the artist makes the actual preparatory work/pictorial sketches the main protagonists. He may have been inspired by the necessity of the fleeting, rapid treatment of the watercolors in his sketches. Nothing can be corrected here; everything must be decided and executed immediately. This fleeting painting process produced both successful and unsuccessful results. In a further step, he uses these very different ... More Museo Picasso Málaga announces exhibition programme for the year 2025 MALAGA.- The Board of Trustees of the Museo Picasso Málaga has approved the exhibition programme for the year 2025, with two exhibitions focused on the work of Picasso, another on the Belgian artist Farah Atassi and one devoted to the Canarian artist Óscar Domínguez. This exhibition programme will, as usual, be enhanced by a varied range of cultural and educational activities intended to introduce the work of Picasso and the invited artists to visitors, fulfilling the aim of promoting the work of the Malaga-born artist in his native city and making art accessible to the widest possible public. Launching the 2025 programme at the start of the year, Picasso: the Royan sketchbooks will analyse the sketchbooks produced by the artist in the French town of Royan, where he lived for a year following the outbreak of World War II. This will be followed next ... More 'Oscillations from Villa Saraceno to Lunuganga Garden' opens at Large Glass LONDON.- Oscillations is Hélène Binet’s second solo show at Large Glass. A newly commissioned text by Emily LaBarge accompanies the exhibition, an excerpt of which below: There are lines straight and curved, sometimes both, or indeterminate, bulging here only to pursue an even course there, or take a gentle slope, or turn a corner, or overlap with other lines and shapes, straights and narrows, to form composite configurations, or breaking off here and there and then passing out of the frame somewhere into the distance where they may or may not continue, up or down, rounded or even, you choose. There is light and dark and lighter and darker and lightest and darkest, because, after all, this is what photography consists of, along with time and its passage — an eternal oscillation that shapes how and what we see. A view inside ... More 'Wish Office & Playing Art Method: PROJECT HASHTAG 2024' opens in Seoul SEOUL.- The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA; director Kim Sunghee) announced the opening of the exhibition for PROJECT HASHTAG 2024, an open call initiative aimed at discovering promising creators and supporting interdisciplinary collaboration in the visual arts. The exhibition will take place from November 15, 2024 to April 27, 2025 at MMCA Seoul. In partnership with Hyundai Motor Company, PROJECT HASHTAG was launched in 2019 and is now in its fifth year. The project has successfully established itself as a new platform for artistic creation, fostering collaboration among artists, curators, researchers, and other cultural practitioners. This year two teams, Wish Office and Playing Art Method, were selected from among 148 applicants representing diverse fields. Both teams have been working ... More Nottingham Contemporary announces exhibitions programme 2025-26 NOTTINGHAM.- Nottingham Contemporary announced their 2025–26 programme. Daniel Lind-Ramos’ (b. 1953, Loíza, Puerto Rico) first European institutional solo exhibition will showcase five of the artists’ monumental sculptural assemblages, including a newly commissioned work, that evoke the storytelling traditions of his Afro-descendent history. Lind-Ramos was raised by a family of artisans, and originally trained as a painter, before shifting his practice to creating large sculptural assemblages composed of objects found washed up on beaches and mangroves local to his home, or gifted from friends, family and community members. The artists’ work explores topics ranging from the storytelling culture of Puerto Rico’s Afro-descendent history, the impact of the covid-19 pandemic and the sacred significance of the island’s mangroves and increasingly ... More PhotoGalleries Gabriele Münter TARWUK Awol Erizku Leo Villareal Flashback On a day like today, Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini was born December 07, 1598. Gian Lorenzo Bernini (also spelled Gianlorenzo or Giovanni Lorenzo) (Naples, 7 December 1598 - Rome, 28 November 1680) was an Italian artist who worked principally in Rome. He was the leading sculptor of his age and also a prominent architect. In addition he painted, wrote plays, and designed metalwork and stage sets. In this image: After a long restauration, the head of the Medusa by Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini was displayed in Rome, on Wednesday 22 November 2006. The sculpture was exhibited in the Capitol museum in Rome until January. 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