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Timekeeper, (2016), an installation by Sarah Sze at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. The new exhibit Sarah Sze: Timelapse finds the artists gravity-defying installations in the uppermost nest of the Guggenheim (Solomon R.Guggenheim Foundation, New York; Photo by David Heald via The New York Times)
by Martha Schwendener
NEW YORK, NY.- Television is awash in competition shows that force contestants to take on ludicrous challenges: Marry a stranger; throw a clay vessel on the wheel, blindfolded; cook a three-course meal in 10 minutes. For artists like Sarah Sze, the insanity starts when the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum calls. Heres the prompt: Create an exhibition of new work in a spiral space with a sloping floor, shifting natural light and 200 works by another artist leading into your own show. Nimble game show contestants prevail against impossible odds, and Sze nails the Guggenheim challenge with Timelapse, her installation of sculpture, video, paintings, photographs, plants and hardware store supplies stacked, dangled and stretched throughout the museum. Sze, who was born in Boston in 1969 and represented the United States at the 2013 Venice Biennale, approached the task with two important advantages. One is the ideal pairing with the other artist currently spotlighted at the Guggenheim, German- ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day mumok presents New York artist Adam Pendletonâs first comprehensive solo exhibition in Europe. Pendletonâs painting is a continuous index in which gestures are recorded, transposed, and overwritten.
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| Six Picasso shows to see this year | | Clark Art Institute presents first solo exhibition of Paul Goesch in North America | | Heritage unleashes hidden 1931 'Frankenstein' movie poster during April event full of historic first-time offerings |
Pablo Picasso, Le Moulin de la Galette, Paris, ca. November 1900. Oil on canvas, 89.7 x 116.8 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Thannhauser Collection, Gift, Justin K. Thannhauser 78.2514.34. Photo: David Heald, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York © 2023 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
by Gabe Cohn
NEW YORK, NY.- Pablo Picasso died 50 years ago this month, on April 8, 1973. This year, the cultural wings of the French and Spanish governments will observe the anniversary by collaborating on Celebration Picasso 1973-2023, a collection of exhibitions across Europe and the United States that play off one another like the colors and textures of a cubist painting. These are six shows to seek out. The Guggenheim will focus on one year of Picassos life, exhibiting 10 paintings and works on paper that the artist created after arriving in Paris in the fall of 1900. The show puts particular emphasis on Le Moulin de la Galette, an oil painting that offers a good way to compare and contrast Picassos style with those of other artists: The ... More | |
Paul Goesch, Architectural composition (Triumphal arch) or Visionary design for a freestanding gateway, 1921, watercolour and gouache over pen and black ink on tracing paper. Centre Canadien d'Architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, DR1988:0242.
WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.- Paul Goesch (German, 18851940), an artist and architect of the Weimar period who long struggled with schizophrenia, is the subject of Portals: The Visionary Architecture of Paul Goesch, a new exhibition at the Clark Art Institute. Drawn primarily from the collections of the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, the exhibition is the first solo presentation of Goeschs work in North America. Portals is on view at the Clark through June 11, 2023. Paul Goesch produced one of the most inventive, peculiar, and poignant bodies of work to emerge from interwar Germany. In his lifetime, he was a noted member of Expressionist circles even as he was institutionalized for mental illness. This exhibition focuses on his vibrant and inventive architectural fantasies, presenting more than thirty of Goeschs drawings alongside the work ... More | |
Frankenstein (Universal, 1931). Folded, Very Fine/Near Mint. One Sheet (27" X 41") Style A.
DALLAS, TX.- Frankenstein was hiding in a Pennsylvania attic all along. This 1931 Style A movie poster designed by the legendary Universal Pictures art director Karoly Grosz, that is, not the man nor the monster. There are only seven known surviving examples of this Frankenstein, and until this year, it was tucked away in the perpetual night beneath the eaves of a home in The Keystone State. And now it comes out to roar once more at Heritage Auctions in April. Indeed, this Frankenstein one-sheet, folded and unrestored but in near-mint condition nearly a century later, is a centerpiece of the auction house's April 29-30 Movie Posters Signature® Auction. It is being offered alongside other coveted rarities that seldom see the light of day, including 116 horror and science-fiction offerings from the collection of Modern Props, once described by the Los Angeles Times as a "Hollywood institution." Heritage has only offered this Frankenstein poster twice in its history and only once in near-mint conditio ... More |
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| Zeng Fanzhi at Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles South Gallery until end of month | | Vilhelm Hammershøi's 'Interior. The Music Room, Strandgade 30' to auction at Sotheby's | | Pikachu No. 3 from first Pokémon National Championship is in play at Heritage Auctions' Trading Card Games event |
Untitled 2022. Oil on canvas, 240 x 400 cm / 94 1/2 x 157 1/2 in. All images: Zeng Fanzhi. © Zeng Fanzhi. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
LOS ANGELES, CALIF.- On 2 February, Hauser & Wirth opened the first Los Angeles solo exhibition of the renowned Chinese artist, Zeng Fanzhi. Featuring a series of monumental, abstract landscapes presented harmoniously within the distinctive soaring space of the South Gallery, this exhibition marks the latest in Hauser & Wirths ongoing series of Los Angeles presentations conceived to introduce the city to the oeuvres of foremost international contemporary artists, further forging connections across geographical and cultural territories. A pioneer of contemporary Chinese art, Zeng is celebrated globally for his constantly evolving style and subject matter, and the works on view herald his latest artistic breakthroughs that contemplate the intersection of Western art and style with traditional Chinese subject ... More | |
Vilhelm Hammershøis Interior. The Music Room, Strandgade 30, hanging on the wall of the very room it depicts. Image © Iben Kaufmann.
NEW YORK, NY.- Described by a contemporary critic in 1907 as the most still and silent of all the Danish painters, Vilhelm Hammershøi has cast an enigmatic spell over audiences for more than a century with his modern and timeless aesthetic. The resonance of his painterly vision has become increasingly acute in the twenty-first century as viewers take refuge in his enigmatic works, where time seems to stand still. This spring Sotheby's in New York, a painting by Hammershøi which has hung for over three quarters of a century on the very wall it depicts in Strandgade 30, Copenhagen the apartment that was occupied by the artist and his wife Ida from 1898 until 1908, where he painted what are considered to be his most important interior paintings, and which was bought by the grandparents of the ... More | |
Pokémon Trophy Pikachu No. 3 Trainer Bronze PSA Trading Card Game NM-MT 8 (Media Factory, 1997) 1st Tournament, Holo.
DALLAS, TX.- An exceedingly rare Pokémon card that only was available to players in a tournament held in Japan more than a quarter of a century ago will be up for grabs April 21-22 in Trading Card Games Signature ® Auction. The Pokémon Trophy Pikachu No. 3 Trainer Bronze PSA Trading Card Game NM-MT 8 (Media Factory, 1997) 1st Tournament, Holo is one of just four PSA-certified copies to earn a NM-MT 8 grade, with none graded higher. "This is one of the desirable cards in the Pokémon TCG, easily a centerpiece item in any collection," says Jesus Garcia, Heritage's Trading Card Games Consignment Director. "It doesn't matter how many booster boxes someone had this card wasn't in any of them. The only way to get the card was to be a trainer at the First Official Pocket Monsters Tournament in Chiba, Japan, ... More |
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| Amid exile and fire, a revered Russian theater director is reborn | | Max Ernst: Une Semaine de bonté, Photographs & Ephemera, 1933-1934 on view at Ubu Gallery | | Discover the Must-See Art Exhibitions of 2023 |
Dmitry Krymov, one of Russias leading theater directors, in New York, where he has lived since signing a letter opposing the war in Ukraine, Jan. 31, 2023. Surviving a recent apartment fire, he says, was a baptism of sorts for his new life in the United States. A fire brings you closer to a country, when you burn. (James Estrin/The New York Times).
NEW YORK, NY.- If Dmitry Krymov, the celebrated Russian director and playwright, were directing a play about his life, the third act would begin, he mused, in a cramped, art-filled apartment on Manhattans Upper West Side in New York. It is winter, nearly a year after Russia invaded Ukraine, turning his brief visit to the United States into an open-ended exile after he spoke out against the war. And his living room has suddenly burst into flames. So much brownish-black smoke is filling the apartment that he cant see his arms, and hes gasping for air. The computer containing drafts of his plays is burning. He is struggling to stamp out the flames with a blanket. Then darkness. His lungs are so badly damaged by the fire, which was apparently caused by a wire ... More | |
Max Ernst, Le rire du coq 3, Ãditions Jeanne Bucher, Paris, 1933-1934, Printed page for Une Semaine de bonté ["A Week of Kindness"], 7 1/8 x 6 inches - image, 11 x 8 7/8 inches - sheet.
NEW YORK, NY.- Ubu Gallery announces an exhibition which explores Max Ernst's creation of Une Semaine de bonté ou les septs éléments capitaux ["A Week of Kindness or the Seven Deadly Elements"], a collage novel and artist's book published by Jeanne Bucher in Paris in 1934. Spanning five volumes, the finished publication comprises 182 images (173 collages and 9 drawings) created by cutting up and reorganizing illustrations from Victorian encyclopedias, natural history journals, pulp novels and mail-order catalogs. Ernst completed Une Semaine de bonté in a breathtaking three weeks during a visit to Vigoleno in Italy in 1933. Working with ardor and brilliant creativity, he repurposed a certain number of reproductions from popular illustrated novels, natural science journals and even commercial sales catalogs from the 19th century. These engravings ... More | |
Girl with a Pearl Earring, 166467, oil on canvas. Mauritshuis, The Hague. Bequest of Arnoldus Andries des Tombe, The Hague.
NEW YORK, NY.- Art exhibitions offer a unique opportunity to experience art in a way that is not possible through books, photographs, or online images. They allow us to immerse ourselves in the world of the artist, to see their works in the context of their time, and to appreciate their creative genius in new ways. Get ready to be transported into the world of art like never before in 2023! Immerse yourself in new worlds, see the works in the context of their time, and discover the incredible talent and innovation that make these artists so beloved. From the stunning murals of Rone in Melbourne to the exquisite works of Vermeer in Amsterdam, to the immersive Van Gogh exhibit in London, each exhibition offers a unique and unforgettable experience that will leave you awestruck. Read on to get a glimpse of what each exhibit offers and inspiration to visit yourself! ... More |
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| Spring fine jewelry & timepieces to be offered April 14th by Clars Auction Gallery | | Thierry Goldberg announces an online exhibition of works by Bwambale Wesely | | Angela Gheorghiu, diva of the Old School, is back at the Met |
A pair of Victorian Colombian emerald and diamond earrings. Estimate: $5,000$7,000. Images courtesy of Clars.
OAKLAND, CALIF.- Clars is hosting their Spring Fine Jewelry and Timepieces Auction on Friday, April 14th, beginning at 9:30 AM PDT. The sale includes a fine selection of colored gemstones, diamonds, antique and signed jewelry, and timepieces. The sale is highlighted by exceptional gemstones, including an approximately 12-carat Colombian emerald diamond and eighteen-karat gold ring, estimated at $10,000$20,000; a pair of Victorian Colombian emerald and diamond earrings, estimated at $5,000$7,000; a natural pearl, diamond, and platinum necklace, estimated at $6,000$8,000; an unheated Burma ruby, diamond, and fourteen-karat gold ring, estimated at $15,000$20,000; and an unheated Ceylon sapphire, diamond, and platinum ring, estimated at $15,000$20,000. Complementing the auction ... More | |
Bwambale Wesely, Milk Tea, 2023. oil on canvas. 51 x 43 in | 130 x 110 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Thierry Goldberg is presenting Inside Outside, an online exhibition of works by Bwambale Wesely. The exhibition will be on view from April 7th to May 5th, 2023. Through portraiture and storytelling, Bwambale Weselys paintings explore contemporary life in his native Uganda. His subjects, often Black women, are depicted with an intimacy and intensity that is both captivating and revealing. Combining personal narratives and observations of his close family and friends, the artist renders his daily surroundings with a distinctive approach to portraiture. The works presented in Inside Outside focus on the women that have influenced Weselys life: His three sisters and more recently, his wife. Placed against colorful backgrounds in contemporary interiors, or outdoors, in lush landscapes some of the figures in the paintings ... More | |
NEW YORK, NY.- A fight was brewing recently at the Metropolitan Opera, and Angela Gheorghiu was in the thick of it. She and some other singers were rehearsing the second act of Puccinis Tosca, and the moment had arrived when Cavaradossi, the passionate tenor lead, scuffles with the henchmen who are restraining him. Gheorghiu the glamorous, veteran Romanian soprano singing the operas title role in two performances, on Saturday afternoon and Wednesday evening was standing in such a way that the melee was driving right toward her. Sarah Ina Meyers, the revivals director, began to pause to give her a new position out of the fray, but Gheorghiu practically shouted at everyone to keep going; she would figure out where to move on the fly. I will respond; Im quick! she told them in an excited, heavily accented tumble of words. Go, go! Action, action! Generally my colleagues say, Angela, rela ... More |
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Sublime Ideas: Drawings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi
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The Contemporary Austin presents Mexico City artist Duo Celeste in 'Host'
AUSTIN, TEXAS.- The Contemporary Austin is currently showcasing work by Mexico City-based artist duo Celeste, on view at the Jones Center March 3August 20, 2023. This is the inaugural exhibition in The Contemporarys new exhibition series, HOST. Celeste is formed by MarÃa Fernanda Camarena (b. Guadalajara, 1988) and Gabriel Rosas Alemán (b. Mexico City, 1983). The artists' collaborative practice centers on explorations of archetypal images and the creation of physical spaces that inspire social interactions. Their largescale, dyed, and painted fabric installations employ a distinctive warm color palette and respond to architectural environments while incorporating abstracted images, such as extended hands and empty vessels, that speak to the personal and collective unconscious. ... More
'Yvonne Pickering Carter: Linear Variation Series' at Berry Campbell ends April 15th
NEW YORK, NY.- Berry Campbell opened its first exhibition of Washington, D.C. based, multi-media artist, Yvonne Pickering Carter (b. 1939). In 2022, the story of Carters comeback was featured in an article in the New Yorker, after she was included in a group exhibition of women abstract artists at Hunter Dunbar Projects, New York.[i] While Carter has been creating and exhibiting for over six decades, Berry Campbell is pleased to present this re-examination of Yvonne Pickering Carters work with her first solo exhibition in New York City. Berry Campbells exhibition examines part of Carters Linear Variation series, a group of paintings from the 1970s. In this group of paintings, Carter creates painterly white backdrops with brightly colored lines and veils rhythmically echoing her bodys cadence through the paintings surface. While the works ... More
Powerhouse Arts welcomes Megan Skidmore as Development Director
BROOKLYN, NY.- Powerhouse Arts has announced the appointment of Megan Skidmore to the role of Development Director. Powerhouse is a not-for-profit organization committed to creative expression. Located in a purpose-built facility in Gowanus, the organization hosts an extended network of art and fabrication professionals and educators who work together to co-create and share artistic practices vital to the wellbeing of artists and the communities to which they belong. In her role at Powerhouse, Skidmore will collaborate with organization President, Eric Shiner, in developing fundraising strategies and cultivating a community of values-aligned stewards and benefactors who enthusiastically support art fabrication, are invested in community engagement and partnerships, and commit to furthering the organizations mission. ... More
Poster Auctions International sees continued passion for posters with $1.8 million sale
NEW YORK, NY.- Poster Auctions Internationals first sale of the year, on March 26, finished at $1,841,160. Rare Posters Auction LXXXIX evidenced the continued passion for collecting vintage posters, especially rare and seldom seen lithographs. Jack Rennert, President of PAI, said, We are once again humbled by the enthusiasm displayed by our clients at auction. Despite the recent banking insecurity felt around the world, poster lovers were eager to bid on their favorite lots and grow their collections. Alphonse Mucha was a major draw for collectors. His 1902 The Stars decorative panels were the top lot of the sale, with a winning bid of $114,000 (est. $70,000-$90,000). Several works by the Belle Ãpoque master hit new record sales, including his 1896 Zodiac, which achieved $28,800 (est. $17,000-$20,000); the 1897 La Trappistine went for ... More
Elizabeth de Cuevas, sculptor with a flair for the monumental, dies at 94
NEW YORK, NY.- Elizabeth de Cuevas, a sculptor known for monumental creations in steel and bronze as well as for her role in a much-publicized estate battle in the 1980s died March 19 at her home in Manhattan, New York. She was 94. Her death was confirmed by her daughter, Deborah Carmichael. An elegant patrician fluent in four languages, French-born de Cuevas was the daughter of Margaret Strong de Cuevas, who was said to be the favorite grandchild of John D. Rockefeller, the Standard Oil founder and Gilded Age tycoon. Inspired as a child by the soaring cathedrals and palaces of Europe, she later let her imagination take flight, summoning ancient civilizations, Indian mysticism and interstellar musings in exuberant work that was often rendered on a grand scale. I like to be awed, as at the pyramids in Egypt, she ... More
Review: Laughing, and crying, in the face of 'grief'
NEW YORK, NY.- Death is often described as a loss, but for Colin Campbell and his wife, it was a theft. On June 12, 2019, the couples children, Ruby and Hart, were killed by an inebriated driver in a horrific crash. Ruby was 17 and loved anime; Hart was 14 and worshipped hip-hop. A photograph of them even younger bright-eyed and golden-haired rests on a table like a shrine, one of the few props in Campbells brusque tragicomedy, Grief: A One Man ShitShow. In Grief, directed by Michael Schlitt, Campbell recounts his relationship with the emotion. In front of the bleak canvas of a back wall, Campbell, a writer and director of theater and film, begins his solo show with a warning of the semi-macabre journey to come: Tonight, you are going to get taken to some uncomfortable places. Seconds later, the lights dim and Campbell begins detailing that fatal night. Campbell ... More
'Showing Up' review: Making art in all its everyday glory
NEW YORK, NY.- Stubbornly independent filmmaker Kelly Reichardt makes small-scale movies rooted in specific worlds, both inner and outer; nearly all take place in Oregon, where she has long lived and worked. She traveled back in time for her last movie, First Cow, a moving chronicle of love, land and capitalism set in the Oregon Territory in the 19th century. Reichardt is back on more familiar ground in her latest, Showing Up, a wonderful slice of life that is set in present-day Portland and is about something that she knows intimately: making art. The movies love tortured artists, inflamed geniuses who thunder against the establishment, aesthetic conventions, their historical epochs, God or just the nearest warm body. No one rages or slashes a canvas in Showing Up, although a few characters do raise their voices. At one point, the films ... More
Keeping an old Italian tradition alive in Australia: 'Passata Day'
NEW YORK, NY.- In the years after World War II, as a new wave of migration scattered Italians abroad, tens of thousands made the long journey to Australia to escape the poverty and devastation in their defeated nation. Even as they built a new life in a new land, many held tight to the habits and customs of the old country. Thus a tradition was born in cities and towns across Australia: passata day, an often-raucous annual gathering when families would labor to make an entire years supply of tomato passata, a rich, bright-red purée that is a staple in Italian cuisine. Today, the tradition is dying among the 1.1 million Australians with Italian ancestry. Most in the second and third generations deem making passata to be too hard, too messy and too expensive. Many lack the required equipment, skills and patience. Why bother, they argue, when ... More
Coin commemorating the assassination of Julius Caesar leads Heritage's World & Ancient Coins Auction
DALLAS, TX.- One of the elite coins from the prestigious Hunt Collection, a coin considered the most historically important of all ancient coins, will find a new home when it is sold in Heritage Auctions' CSNS World Coins Platinum and Signature ® Auction May 3-5. The Marcus Junius Brutus, Assassin of Caesar and Imperator (44-42 BC), with L. Plaetorius Cestianus, as Magistrate. AR denarius (19mm, 3.72 gm, 12h). NGC XF 5/5 - 4/5, Fine Style(estimate: $450,000+) is the only certified example ever to come to auction that has received a Fine Style designation from NGC. "The significance of this coin is impossible to overstate," says Cris Bierrenbach, Executive Vice President of International Numismatics at Heritage Auctions. "It is the only Roman coin to mention a specific date and the only Roman coin to openly celebrate an act of murder. "In addition, this magnificent coin ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Spanish painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso died April 08, 1973. Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 - 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. In this image: Pablo Picasso, Femme au béret et à la robe quadrillée (Marie-Thérèse Walter), December 1937. Courtesy Sotheby's.
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