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Philip Koch, New Day, 2022. Oil on canvas, 30 x 40 inches.
OGUNQUIT, ME.- This exhibition showcases recent paintings and sketches by Philip Koch (b. 1948, Rochester, NY) which present the island as subject and symbol. Koch turns to this subject in these depictions of Maine locations, such as Isle au Haut and Ogunquit, as well as in the more constructed views of Winter and New Day, also included here. He has stated, Artists frequently return to paint the same theme again and again. Me, I seem to do islands. As a landscape painter, I've always been puzzled by my own lack of interest in painting the wide-open sea. For Koch, the connotation of the sheltering island has a direct connection to cherished memories of growing up on the shores of Lake Ontario in upstate New York and sailing with his father, who passed away when the artist was still young. He has described how cold and violent the lake could be. Learning to swim in such conditions ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Konrad Fischer Galerie is presenting a new video installation of Bruce Nauman entitled Practice. Since Six Sound Problems for Konrad Fischer, the artistâs first solo exhibition in Europe at Konrad Fischer in 1968, Konrad Fischer Galerie has held 18 solo exhibitions dedicated to Bruce Nauman and assisted in presenting his work at numerous exhibitions around the world. Bruce Nauman | 29. Apr 2022 - 27. Aug 2022 | BERLIN. konradfischergalerie.de | all rights reserved.
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| Sotheby's Hong Kong Spring Series Modern and Contemporary Art achieve US$198.8m | | Exhibition revisits the individual and collective breakthroughs of the Light and Space movement | | Konrad Fischer Galerie presents a new video installation of Bruce Nauman entitled Practice |
Pablo Picassos Dora Maar - HK$169.4m / US$21.6m, sold to a Japanese collector. Courtesy Sotheby's.
HONG KONG.- On the heels of the strong results for the Modern and Contemporary Evening sales on 27 April, the offerings from the Day Sales saw continued competition, with both auctions exceeding their high estimates. Across both days, collectors were quick to pursue a range of works by masters and rising stars from the East and the West. This season we were thrilled to bring to Asia a strong selection of never-before-seen works, and to see them so enthusiastically received. From Picasso to Wu Guanzhong, Chen Yifei and Le Pho, we saw clear demand for both Asian and Western masters, with multiple records set for Vietnamese artworks. It was a special moment to offer the first portrait of Dora Maar by Picasso ever to come to auction in the region - this is undoubtedly an artist who resonates with an audience the world over, but arguably nowhere more so than in Asia. -- Felix Kwok, Head of Modern Art, Sothebys Asia While we ... More | |
James Turrell, Circular Glass, Photo by Flying Studio © James Turrell, Courtesy the artist and Kayne Griffin.
SEOUL.- Pioneers of the Light and Space movement once again return to Pace Gallery Seoul in an exhibition titled Bending Light II. In this second iteration, the exhibition includes works by Peter Alexander, Larry Bell, Robert Irwin, James Turrell, Fred Eversley, and Helen Pashgian. Delving deeper into the discourse, the exhibition features a selection of works that represent the diverse facets of the Light and Space movement. Including recently produced artworks alongside a vintage work by Bell, the exhibition offers an overarching view of the milestone developments in each artists career. Bending Light II is on view at Pace in Seoul from March 29 to May 28, inaugurating one of two new spaces on the ground floor of the gallery. Featuring blackout curtains, speaker ports near its ceilings, and wired for works produced in the US and some European countries, this space will host a group exhibition of work by local media artists in sum ... More | |
Bruce Nauman | 29. Apr 2022 - 27. Aug 2022 | BERLIN. konradfischergalerie.de | all rights reserved.
BERLIN.- Konrad Fischer Galerie is presenting a new video installation of Bruce Nauman entitled Practice. Since Six Sound Problems for Konrad Fischer, the artists first solo exhibition in Europe at Konrad Fischer in 1968, Konrad Fischer Galerie has held 18 solo exhibitions dedicated to Bruce Nauman and assisted in presenting his work at numerous exhibitions around the world. Nauman has repeatedly made his body and his hands in particular the object of his work. Practice shows the artists hands slowly moving across an old wooden table. In this process, the camera alternately shows the left and the right hand making the mark. Permutation and alteration vary the image, creating a complex visual structure. The apparently endlessly repeating gesture remains the same, forming an X. Naumans work was inspired by reading the catalogue The Reservation X: The Power of Place from the First Peoples Hall at the Canadian ... More |
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| Outdoor exhibit is set for Governors Island in Nolan Park | | Exhibition of new and recent paintings by David Reed opens at Gagosian | | David Zwirner presents a selection of works by American artist Fred Sandback |
Installation view.
NEW YORK, NY.- This May, outdoor sculptures that address the issue of war and conflict will be collaboratively presented by the West Harlem Art Fund and Studio 80 + Sculpture Grounds adjacent to Building 10B in Nolan Park on Governors Island. In Defense of the Human Spirit is an imaginative reaction to the fortresses that were built on Governors Island in the early 1800s to protect New Yorks harbor from any foreign invasion. Each piece int this exhibition, thoughtfully curated by Savona Bailey-McClain of the West Harlem Art Fund and Christina Goldberg of Studio 80 + Sculpture Grounds, conveys movement, a twisting and bending of the strongest of materials, inward and out, stretching towards and facing a city that is continually evolving. The panoramic view from Governors Island facing the ever-changing skyline of New York is a reminder that in the face of adversity, there is nothing more resilient than the human spirit. As world events curren ... More | |
David Reed, #746, 20192022. Oil, alkyd, and acrylic on polyester 96 x 54 in. 243.8 x 137.2 cm © 2022 David Reed/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever. Courtesy Gagosian.
BASEL.- Gagosian is presenting Losing and Finding, an exhibition of new and recent paintings by David Reed. When Reed came to New York from Southern California in 1966, he encountered both broad skepticism about the ongoing utility of painting and, notably among his teachers at the New York Studio School, a continued reverence for gestural mark making. Between 1974 and 1975, he synthesized these divergent currents in a succession of tall abstract canvases marked with primarily black or red strokes painted from left to right, top to bottom, and sometimes diagonally. Since executing these first brushmark works, Reed has painted with an emphasis on systematic processes of the kind most often associated with Minimalist and Post-Minimalist sculpture, de-emphasizing the significance of the image except as a document of the ... More | |
Fred Sandback, Untitled, 1979 © 2022 Fred Sandback Archive. Courtesy Fred Sandback Archive and David Zwirner.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner is presenting a selection of works by American artist Fred Sandback that together highlight his wide-ranging formal vocabulary and treatment of space. The exhibition is on view at the gallerys 34 East 69th Street location in New York, where the domestically scaled interior allows viewers an intimate engagement with a number of the artists signature formats. Over the course of decades, Sandback developed a singular, minimal formal vocabulary that elaborated on the phenomenological experience of space and volume with unwavering consistency and ingenuity. He largely dispensed with mass and weight by using steel rod, elastic cord, and acrylic yarn to outline planes and volumes in space, creating an extensive body of works that inherently address their physical surroundings. In his own ... More |
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| Estate of eccentric artist Clayton Bailey up for auction at Witherell's in Sacramento | | Bach, Tesla, Hawking, and Einstein are among fine autograph and artifacts up for auction | | Berggruen Gallery opens an exhibition of works by American artist Paul Wonner |
Unframed Mel Ramos (1935-2018) color lithograph, "AC Annie". Signed and dated ('71) lower right. Stamped verso, "Edition Bischofberger Zurich A.p. 018/200." Dimensions: 30.75"h x 25"w. Estimate: $1,000 - $2,500.
SACRAMENTO, CALIF.- Witherells Auction House presents The Estate of Clayton and Betty Bailey, an online auction event spanning April 29th through May 12th that will feature 25 works by the eccentric ceramic and metal artist known for the Nut Art Movement. Clayton Bailey (1939-2020) created humorous and quirky sculptures, ceramic heads, robots and unusual sci-fi beings featured in the permanent collections of major art museums around the world and part of a current exhibition at the Crocker Art Museum, The Candy Store: Funk, Nut, and Other Art with a Kick. Clayton Bailey had one of the most amusing and unusual personalities that is reflected in his unique art, which he created every single day of his life, said Brian Witherell, cofounder of Witherells and guest appraisal expert on PBSs popular series, Antiques Roadshow. He ... More | |
Nikola Tesla Autograph Letter Signed Now At: $14,840 (12 bids). Estimate: $40,000+ Ends on 05/11.
BOSTON, MASS.- RR Auction's May's Fine Autograph and Artifact sale brings nearly 1,000 unique items to the auction block, including a stunning handwritten musical manuscript by Johann Sebastian Bach. The remarkable one-page autograph musical manuscript by Bach, circa 1728, being a fragment from the church cantata Ich habe meine Zuversicht, BWV 188. This section is the lower half of folio 17 of the original manuscript, portions of the 4th movement, scored for alto with cello and organ obbligato, on four systems of four hand-drawn staves. (Estimate: $500,000+) In addition, to remarkable letters, including a Nikola Tesla one-page letter on The Gerlach Hotel letterhead, March 21, 1895. Handwritten letter to Mrs. Anthony, in part: "My new work is progressing fast and soon, I hope, you will hear from me more pleasant news." In August 1892, Tesla moved his lab to 33-35 South Fifth Avenue where he took up the ... More | |
Paul Wonner, Study for Still Life with Pot of Ranunculas on a Carton, 1981, acrylic on paper, 37 1/2 x 27 1/2 inches.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Berggruen Gallery presenting Paul Wonner: Landscapes of Objects, 1966-2001, an exhibition of works by American artist Paul Wonner. This show marks his thirteenth solo exhibition with the gallery. Landscapes of Objects, 1966-2001, is a celebration of Wonners connection to Berggruen Gallery, and his works importance among prominent California collections. Paul Wonners first exhibition with Berggruen Gallery in 1978 was a presentation of his meticulous still life paintings. This show honors his legacy at the gallery and presents the opportunity to view a range of his career defining, still life oeuvre. The exhibition will be on view from April 28 through June 4, 2022. Paul Wonner was a distinguished American painter who keenly explored the fluidity between abstraction and realism throughout his prolific career. This exhibition ... More |
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| Worcester Art Museum welcomes new Associate Curator of American Art Natalia Angeles Vieyra | | Almine Rech Shanghai opens Farah Atassi's third solo exhibition | | Galerie Guido W. Baudach opens an exhibition with works by Jürgen Klauke |
Natalia Angeles Vieyra Photo: Libby Weiler.
WORCESTER, MASS.- The Worcester Art Museum announced today that it has appointed Natalia Ãngeles Vieyra to the position of Associate Curator of American Art. Since 2019, Vieyra has been the Maher Curatorial Fellow of American Art at Harvard Art Museums, where she supported the exhibition, conservation, and interpretation of the collections within the Division of European and American Art. She previously held curatorial roles and fellowships at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Van Gogh Museum in the Netherlands. Bringing a broad expertise in the arts and material culture of the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean from the colonial period to the present, Vieyra will begin her new post in August 2022. As Associate Curator, Vieyra will plan and collaborate on exhibitions and public programs drawing on the Museums outstanding collection of American ar ... More | |
Farah Atassi, After the Show, 2021 Glycero and oil on canvas, 200 x 160 cm, 78 1/2 x 63 in / © Farah Atassi. Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech. Photo: Matt Bohli.
SHANGHAI.- Almine Rech Shanghai is presenting Farah Atassi's third solo exhibition, on view from April 29 to May 14, 2022. Given the current health situation in Shanghai, the exhibition is currently visible via the gallerys online viewing room. The society of the spectacle. The performance is over, or perhaps it is yet to begin. Farah Atassi's dancers are at rest, sometimes even asleep, on a stage with a half-open curtain, not for some ballet but for other art forms. Indeed, in the center of a space lined entirely with an impeccable grid that plays almost hypnotically with the reclining dancer's striped costume, striped paintings emerge from the decor, while on the ground a frame seems to be waiting to become an abstraction. These intersecting lines in Sleeping dancer 3 reveal other crossings, other encounters those of painting, dance, and theater. ... More | |
Installation view. Courtesy the artist & Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin, Photo: Roman März.
BERLIN.- For Gallery Weekend 2022, Galerie Guido W. Baudach is presenting its fourth solo exhibition with works by Jürgen Klauke. Klauke is one of the most renowned artists in Germany. In the early 1970s, he co-founded Body Art and co-introduced the concept of photographic Self-Performance to contemporary art. Since then, he has played a decisive role in its development. Under the title Bodysounds / Kreuz&Queer, the show features new photographic works and drawings. In the photographic works, four large-format C-prints, entirely held in shades of grey, a person dressed in black appears, partly concealed by a kind of mannequin consisting of several nylon tights sewn together and flled with balloons. La Poupée by Hans Bellmer inevitabely comes to mind, except that this creature here is conceived much more abstractly. It only remotely resembles a humanoid being and could have been taken from a flm by David ... More |
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Cy Twombly 'Untitled' | New York | May 2022
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National Portrait Gallery awards first prize for its national, triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Portrait Gallery has announced artist Alison Elizabeth Taylor as the first-prize winner of the sixth national Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. Her prizewinning artwork Anthony Cuts under the Williamsburg Bridge, Morning (2020) depicts Brooklyn, New York-based hair groomer Anthony Payne in a process that Taylor developed and named marquetry hybrid. Using vivid paints, inkjet prints and the natural grains of over 100 veneers, Taylor created the multilayered portrait after encountering Payne in her Brooklyn neighborhood. With his workplace shuttered as a result of the pandemic, Payne was offering donation-based haircuts to support Black Lives Matter, and Taylor was struck by the way he embodied perseverance and solidarity. She made drawings of him from ... More
Jacques Perrin, French film star and producer, is dead at 80
NEW YORK, NY.- Jacques Perrin, a comely and soft-spoken veteran French actor he didnt smolder so much as twinkle who went from starring in musical and dramatic films to directing and producing them, most notably the political thrillers of Costa-Gavras and his own poetic documentaries about the natural world, died April 21 in Paris. He was 80. His son, Mathieu Simonet, confirmed the death. No cause was given. Perrin was a lonely and gallant teenager in the Italian melodrama Girl With a Suitcase (1961), in which he tries to rescue a down-and-out beauty played by Claudia Cardinale who has been ditched by his lout of an older brother. He was a dreamy sailor in Jacques Demys The Young Girls of Rochefort, a giddy, candy-colored 1967 French musical (now considered a camp classic) that starred Catherine Deneuve ... More
Klaus Schulze, pioneering electronic composer, is dead at 74
NEW YORK, NY.- Klaus Schulze, a German electronic musician whose hypnotic, pulsating, swirling compositions filled five decades of solo albums, collaborations and film scores, died Tuesday. He was 74. His Facebook page announced the death. The announcement said he died after a long illness but did not provide any details. Schulze played drums, bass, guitar and keyboards. But he largely abandoned them in the early 1970s and turned to working with electric organs, tape recorders and echo effects, and later with early analog synthesizers. His music thrived on every technological advance. He played drums on the debut albums of the German bands Tangerine Dream and Ash Ra Tempel before starting a prodigiously prolific solo career. In 2000, he released a 50-CD retrospective set of studio and live recordings, The ... More
Catherine Spaak, darling of Italian cinema in the '60s, dies at 77
NEW YORK, NY.- Catherine Spaak, a French-born actress who made her name crossing genres in Italian, French and occasionally American films, acting alongside stars like Jane Fonda and Rod Taylor, died April 17 in Rome. She was 77. Her son, Gabriele Guidi, confirmed her death. Born outside Paris, Spaak went to Italy as a teenager and began a long film career there. Her first major role in a feature film was as a 17-year-old student who has an affair with a middle-aged man in Sweet Deceptions, from 1960 (originally Dolci Inganni). Four years later she appeared as a Parisian shopgirl in La Ronde, a French drama about marital infidelity directed by Roger Vadim, in which she acted alongside Fonda (who went on to marry Vadim). The film, a remake of Max Ophuls 1950 version based on an 1897 Arthur Schnitzler ... More
In a new 'Macbeth,' something wonky this way comes
NEW YORK, NY.- Macbeth, the character, is full of compunction, as well he should be, having murdered a king to get to his throne. But why should Macbeth, the play, be just as uneasy about its authority? Despite the star power of Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga, the overthought production that opened Thursday at the Longacre Theater seems unsure of its welcome, as if a classic that has enjoyed nearly 50 Broadway revivals since 1768 might no longer find an audience willing to meet it halfway. I could understand that attitude if we were talking about the utterly unlovable Troilus and Cressida. But Macbeth is the most instantly accessible of Shakespeares tragedies: violent, elemental, familiar, short. No matter which way the story is bent, it maintains its recognizable human core of ambition and regret. Directors ... More
Making dance out of survival skills and reckoning with grief
NEW YORK, NY.- How does dance persist in trying times? When she began to sketch out the first live platform event at Danspace Project since the shutdown of 2020, Judy Hussie-Taylor, the organizations executive director and chief curator, had a question: With so much of the dance world on lockdown and the line between art and life more blurry than ever, how were artists being influenced by what they were doing outside of making dance? Certain choreographers came to mind for the platform, a selection of performances and conversations organized around a particular theme. Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener, partners on and off the stage, bought a 1970s house in upstate New York before the pandemic. They basically remade the home and became carpenters in the process. Dance artist Ogemdi Ude works as a birth ... More
AGO renews its Signature Partnership with RBC, helping to secure an additional three years of art, access and learning
TORONTO.- Today the Art Gallery of Ontario celebrates the renewal of its Signature Partnership agreement with RBC. A national leader in arts and culture philanthropy, RBCs renewed, three-year commitment will further the AGOs mission of presenting important art, as well as facilitating learning and engaging audiences through various programs, including select exhibitions, Free Wednesday Nights, and the AGO X RBC Emerging Artist Program. RBC has a proud history as a sponsor of the AGO for more than 50 years, says Mary DePaoli, Executive Vice-President and Chief Marketing Officer, RBC. We are excited to continue to work with art museums like the AGO, who play ... More
Collezione Maramotti presents a new commissioned project by artist Carlo Valsecchi
REGGIO EMILIA.- The 2022 Fotografia Europea festival is dedicated to the theme of an invincible summer: a quote from Albert Camuss Return to Tipasa, which celebrates the capacity to weather adversity and respond with new reflections on human existence. In conjunction, Collezione Maramotti will be presenting Bellum, a new commissioned project by artist Carlo Valsecchi. The forty-four large-scale photographs in this series all of which can be seen in the book accompanying the exhibition, and about twenty of them in the show itself tell the story of the ancestral conflict between man and nature and man and man; nature used as a defence from others, and nature as something to defend ourselves from. The Alps are a symbol of all this, as nature at its most extreme, yet also the site of the last war of position. ... More
Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd. announces highlights included in May 14 online-only auction
NEW HAMBURG.- Original oil paintings by Canadian artist Maud Lewis (1901-1970), marvelous bronze creations by Romanian sculptor Demetre Chiparus (1886-1947), and a group of cold-painted naughty bronzes by Austrian artist Franz Xaver Bergman (1861-1935) are just a few of the expected highlights in Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd.s online-only Canadiana & Decorative Arts auction scheduled for Saturday, May 14th, at 9 am Eastern time. The auction is an exciting offering of fresh-to-the-market Canadiana antiques, highlighted by folk art and decorative art from the late 19th century through to the 1970s, featuring selections from the Alan Emerson collection. The Alan Emerson collection ranges from Canadiana to folk art to Pairpoint lamps, said Ethan Miller of Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd. The quality, authenticity ... More
Sotheby's Geneva Luxury Week returns with its highest valued multi-category live and online auction series to date
GENEVA.- From Thursday 5 May, Sothebys is to present its flagship Geneva Luxury Week, a bi-annual multi-category auction series which showcases the finest examples of products created at the highest intersection of art and luxury. Dedicated to serving the fast-growing increase in the trend for cross-collecting within the wider luxury markets, Sothebys multi-category luxury auctions staged twice a year in Hong Kong, Geneva and New York have grown by more than four times year on year since their inception in 2020. In the first quarter of 2022 alone, Sothebys Luxury Division, which includes jewellery, watches, handbags, accessories and more, registered a record-breaking growth ... More
Kristen Lorello opens a solo exhibition of drawings and paintings on paper by Nadia Haji Omar
NEW YORK, NY.- The gallery opened a solo exhibition of drawings and paintings on paper by Nadia Haji Omar. This is the artist's fourth solo exhibition at the gallery and the first dedicated exclusively to her works on paper. The exhibition will include twenty-six intimately scaled works made from 2017 to 2022. They reveal Haji Omar's ongoing thematic concerns, such as the flexibility and malleability of language, geography and mapping, as well as the development of a distinctive pattern-based abstract idiom. The artist derives inspiration from a range of sources that include architectural and decorative elements of traditional Islamic art, studies of language and scripts, textile design, observations of plants and flowers, and bodies of water in their various forms. Haji Omar's drawings are intricate and devoted compositions ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Sally Mann was born May 01, 1951. Sally Mann (born May 1, 1951) is an American photographer, best known for her large-format, black-and-white photographs---at first of her young children, then later of landscapes suggesting decay and death. In this image: Sally Mann, Emmett, Jessie and Virginia, 1994. From the Immediate Family series. Gelatin silver enlargement print. © Sally Mann.
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