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Rico Baca, auctioneer and co-owner of Palm Beach Modern Auctions stands by the monumental Louise Nevelson assemblage featured in their upcoming auction. Photo credit: Palm Beach Modern Auctions staff photographer.
LAKE WORTH BEACH, FLA.- On Saturday, November 4th, Palm Beach Modern Auctions will auction off a towering 105â sculpture by renowned mid-century artist Louise Nevelson. Best known for her experimental assemblages of everyday materials unified by a single color (typically black, befitting her self-awarded title âarchitect of shadowâ), Nevelson has been the subject of several recent retrospectives. The sculpture is sure to be the first thing visitors to the auction center see on arrival, set as it is in a glass-walled conference room to the left of the entrance. Says Rico Baca, auctioneer and co-owner of Palm Beach Modern Auctions, âItâs always exciting to see Nevelsonâs largest works come to auction. This is a museum-quality piece, documented in the book by a color photo of her standing with it. It doesnât get better than that.â âThe bookâ to w ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of Watercolour Country: 100 Works from Hermannsburg, on display from 27 October 2023 - 14 April 2024 at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Fed Square. Photo: Sean Fennessy.
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| Ad Reinhardt's work from the 1940s opening soon at David Zwirner | | Alex Israel adds a fresh perspective to mark the 50th anniversary of Pablo Picasso's death | | What is a Teddy Roosevelt Presidential Library doing in North Dakota? |
Ad Reinhardt, Untitled, c. 1940. © Anna Reinhardt. Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2023. Courtesy David Zwirner.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner will be presenting an exhibition of work from the 1940s by Ad Reinhardt (19131967) at the gallerys East 69th Street location in New York. Organized in collaboration with the Ad Reinhardt Foundation, this will be the third solo exhibition of Reinhardts work at David Zwirner, following major presentations of his black paintings in 2013 and his blue paintings in 2017. Reinhardt charted a unique and radically experimental path in his art during the 1940s, thrusting himself, from the outset of the decade, into the project of completely non-objective painting. While many of his contemporaries treated the canvas as a stage for depicting archetypal forms, mythic iconography, and the representation of the subconscious, Reinhardt pursued and achieved a degree of directness in his exploration of color, line, and form that would not be matched by his fellow American abstractionists until the ... More | |
Alex Israel, Self Portrait (After André Villers, Portrait of Picasso with Gary Cooper's hat and gun, 1959 © Adagp, Paris), 2023. Acrylic on sintra, 243.8 x 213.4 x 10.2 cm. 96 x 84 x 4 in. Courtesy of the artist and Almine Rech. Photo: Nicolas Brasseur.
PARIS.- LA Californie Alex Israels fifth solo exhibition at Almine Rech, Paris, adds a fresh perspective to worldwide celebrations, conversations and exhibitions marking the 50th anniversary of Pablo Picassos death. In Picasso, Israel has found an ideal subject for his on-going explorations into intersections of fine art and Pop culture. Israel has previously evoked Picassos light drawings (made famous by Life magazine in 1949) in an augmented-reality self-portrait produced with Snapchat that allows viewers to watch as he traces his own iconic profile around himself with a glowing fingertip [1]. In this exhibition, Israel turns his attention to another aspect of Picassos legacy: La Californie. At the height of his career, between 19551961, Picasso lived and worked at La Californie, a Belle Epoque villa on the French Riviera that he famously transformed into a salon-cum- ... More | |
The cabin from Teddy Roosevelts Maltese Cross Ranch, now located at the entrance to Theodore Roosevelt National Park in Medora, N.D., Sept. 21, 2023. (Lewis Ableidinger/The New York Times)
by Jennifer Schuessler
MEDORA, ND.- Here in Medora, a tiny town in the badlands of western North Dakota, Teddy Roosevelt is everywhere. The cabin from his Maltese Cross Ranch sits at the gateway of the 70,447-acre Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Downtown, youll find the historic Rough Riders Hotel, pince-nez-wearing teddy bears in the gift shops and, in front of the Old Town Hall Theater, a bronze statue of the man himself. And soon, visitors will also find something else: a presidential library. The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library, set to open July 4, 2026, will pay tribute to the 26th presidents relentless, resilient spirit and environmental vision. Perched dramatically on a butte, it aims to be a peoples presidential library, rooted not in books and archives there are none but immersive exhibits that challenge visitors to get, as Roosevelt famously ... More |
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| Whitney Museum opens renovated Roy Lichtenstein Studio for independent study program | | Amazing results achieved by Chinese art at Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr | | Obama's Presidential Center is rising, finally, in Chicago |
Independent Study Program at the Roy Lichtenstein Studio. Photograph by Max Touhey.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Whitney Museum of American Art has completed a full renovation of iconic artist Roy Lichtensteins former home and studio at 741/745 Washington Street in Greenwich Village. The projectmade possible thanks to an extraordinary act of generosity by Dorothy Lichtenstein on behalf of the Estate of Roy Lichtensteintransformed the historic space into the first permanent home for the Whitneys celebrated Independent Study Program (ISP), which for 55 years has nurtured artists, critics, and scholars, providing participants with the instruction, space, and support needed to pursue their artistic endeavors. Architects Johnston Marklee led the thoughtful design of the project, making respectful modifications to update the over-100-year-old building to accommodate modern artist studios, a seminar room, study rooms, outdoor spaces, a third-floor artist-in-residence addition, and amenities such as lounges and dining areas ... More | |
A huanghuali yokeback armchair, late Ming Dynasty, sold for 356,000. Photo: Bonhams.
PARIS.- After a very busy, week-long viewing, Bonhams Paris sale of Chinese art from a German Family Collection live and online concluded today (27 October 2023). The star lot of the sale was a rare huanghuali yokeback armchair dated to the late Ming dynasty, originally from the collection of Hans Wilhelm Siegel (1903-1997) who had reputedly acquired it from renowned dealer Charlotte Horstman in Hong Kong. After fierce bidding the chair was sold to an Asian collector for 356,000, nearly 9 times its low estimate of 40,000-60,000. A large imperial cloisonne enamel incense burner cast in the shape of a mythical beast known as Luduan and bearing a six-character Qianlong mark, sold for 216,300, five times its low estimate of 40,000-60,000, also to an Asian collector. Formed over many decades, this formidable collection covering a wide range of works of art ranging from the early dynastic periods to the 20th century with a ... More | |
Kareema Bass, a teacher who worries about being displaced from the South Shore neighborhood, at the school where she teaches on the south side of Chicago, Oct. 25, 2023. (Akilah Townsend/The New York Times)
by Mitch Smith
CHICAGO, IL.- More than eight years have passed since Barack Obama proclaimed that his presidential center would be built on Chicagos South Side, where he got his start as a community organizer and politician. The announcement brought a swell of pride to the city, which beat out Honolulu, Obamas birthplace, and New York City, where he attended college, to land the museum honoring Americas first Black president. Two presidents and multiple lawsuits later, the center is finally taking shape, its half-finished concrete skeleton rising along Stony Island Avenue near Lake Michigan. The planned opening? Late 2025. Many South Siders are proud of Obama and excited about the museum, which is expected to bring investment to long-neglected blocks, employ people ... More |
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| 'The Art of Looking Up: Following the Stars, from Ancient Cultures to the Webb' at LASM | | South Korean artist Yun Hyong-keun opens an exhibition at BLUM | | Sculptor Matt Wedel now exhibiting 'Pictures in the Garden' a selection of gouache paintings |
Salvador Dali, Saturnalian Giraffe, 1974. Color etching on paper. Courtesy of the Hilliard Art Museum.
BATON ROUGE, LA.- The Louisiana Art & Science Museum opened its newest exhibition, The Art of Looking Up: Following the Stars, from Ancient Cultures to the Webb on Friday, October 6, at LASMs 38th Annual Gala: Out of this World and is now currently on view to the general public. In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Irene W. Pennington Planetarium, the LASM continues its yearlong celebration of showcasing art inspired by space and space exploration. In this exhibition, The Art of Looking Up: Following the Stars, from Ancient Cultures to the Webb, LASM has chosen to display a variety of artworks from their permanent collection, private collections, the LSU Museum of Art, and the Hilliard Art Museum, including pieces from Spanish surrealist artist, Salvador DalÃ. The artworks trace the history of following the stars from the viewpoint of the earliest cultures to the time of the James Webb Space Telescope. The James Webb Space Telescope, the w ... More | |
Ha Chong-hyun, Conjunction 23-10, 2023. Oil on hemp cloth. © Ha Chong-hyun, Photo: Ahn Chunho.
TOKYO.- BLUM is now opening a solo exhibition of new paintings by Ha Chong-hyun. This is Has fifth solo show with the gallery and his second solo presentation at BLUM Tokyo. This exhibition presents eight new paintings from his ongoing Conjunction series, each manifesting his recent focus on vertical mark-making, subtle diagonal compositions, and gestural swipes across the canvas. Started in 1974, the Conjunction series explores the material fusion of paint and canvas through the artists original bae-ap-bub (back-pressure) method, in which he presses viscous oil paint through the reverse of the canvas and brushes, smears, and scrapes the protruding field of paint on the surface to form abstract compositions that expose the essence of their component materials. Through experimentation with the potential of monochrome, Ha Chong-hyun and his peersLee Ufan, Park Seobo, Kwon Young-woo, Yun Hyong-keun, Chung Sang-hwa, and ot ... More | |
Matt Wedel Potted Plant, 2020. Gouache on paper, Paper: 44 1/2 x 32 in. (113 x 81.3 cm), Framed: 48 5/8 x 36 1/8 in. (123.5 x 91.8 cm) signed and dated on verso.
VENICE, CA.- L.A. Louver is showing Pictures in the Garden, an exhibition of gouache paintings by acclaimed sculptor Matt Wedel. In this presentation two distinct bodies of work reveal formal and thematic dimensions of Wedels oeuvre involving time and space, metaphor, and mythology. The first series in the exhibition debuted in Wedels solo exhibition, Phenomenal Debris, at the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio (November 2022 - April 2023). Each entitled Potted Plant, these gouaches were created between 2017 and 2021 and illustrate the artist's development of abstraction throughout time, from curious botanical inquiry to explorations of color as form. The second series of gouaches build on these developments. In these more recent paintings, each titled Flower Tree (Hawaii), a heightened sense of immediacy is communicated through zoomed-in perspective, ... More |
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| Homer Shew solo exhibition at Kiang Malingue now on view | | Thomas Chatterton and Horace Walpole's correspondence on infamous Rowley manuscript in Bonhams' Fine Books sale | | Cummer Museum new exhibition 'Tattoos in Japanese Prints from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston' |
Homer Shew, Karen and Tenn Joe, 2023. Oil on canvas, 152.4 x 101.6 cm.
HONG KONG.- Kiang Malingue is pleased to present "Meanwhile", an exhibition of Homer Shew's recent portraits. This is the New York-based artist's second exhibition in Hong Kong since Backgrounds in 2021, including a number of portraits based on the same sitter years after the first portraits were made, adding a poignant temporal dimension to the artworks. Focusing on depicting Asian Americans, Shew continues to explore the social fabric and contiguous elements of the community as individuals inside it continue to grow and change. Shew made a portrait for Pulitzer Prize winner Hua Hsu in 2021, whom he admires as an exceptional Asian American writer. For the current exhibition, Shew created Hua Hsu II (2023), an organic development from the previous portrait. Hsu is seen once again donning a Hawaiian shirt a fortuitous opportunity for Shew to fully express his liking for plants and leaves in a relaxed, sitting pose, calmly look ... More | |
One of a series of autograph letters between Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770) and Horace Walpole (1717-1797), comprising Chatterton's requests for the return of his Rowley manuscripts, and Walpole's unsent reply, the last known letters from this correspondence in private hands. Estimate: £100,000-150,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- It is not hard to see why the story of Thomas Chatterton (17521770) captured the imagination of the Romantics. He was a genius young poet who forged a medieval manuscript, and yet faced with rejection by Horace Walpole and the establishment, committed suicide in a Holborn garret at the age of 17. As well as later becoming the subject of the famous Pre-Raphaelite painting by Henry Wallis, Chatterton was a source of inspiration for the likes of Keats, Shelley, and Coleridge. However, Chattertons desire to entice Horace Walpole as a patron fell upon deaf ears, as revealed in rare letters revealing the mood of this quintessential Romantic poet, coming up for auction at Bonhams Fine Books and Manuscripts sale on Tuesday ... More | |
Toyohara Kunichika (Japanese, 1835 1900), Actor Ãtani Tomoemon V as Danshichi, from an untitled series of actor portraits, 1869 (Meiji 2), 7th month. Woodblock print (nishiki e); ink and color on paper. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, William Sturgis Bigelow Collection, 11.16144. Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
JACKSONVILLE, FLA.- The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens is conducting Tattoos in Japanese Prints from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, a fascinating exhibition that celebrates the iconic beauty of tattoos in Edo-period Japan and its resonating impact on 21st-century tattoo culture,debuting this fall. Today, the global popularity of tattoos has brought renewed attention to the centuries-old Japanese tradition. Drawn from the MFAs renowned collection of Japanese art, Tattoos in Japanese Prints explores the cultural context and inspired imagery that helped carry them from the streets of Edo-period Japan to 21st-century tattoo shops worldwide. This exhibition captures perfectly how art can transcend time and culture, while retaining ... More |
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Review: In 'Stereophonic,' the rock revolution will be recorded
NEW YORK, NY.- Its an imperfect rule of thumb that musicals lift up and dramas drill down. So what do you call David Adjmis Stereophonic, which does both? You could rightly say its a play with music, emphasis on the play: In a little more than three hours it features just six songs, some of them fragmentary. But that would be to shortchange the ingenious way Adjmi weaves sound and story into something as granular as it is operatic. Granular because the songs (by Will Butler) are not decorations but are elemental to the plot, in which the five members of a rock band spend a year of the mid-1970s writing and laying down tracks for an epochal new album while bickering over each riff and tempo. Operatic because what they wind up recording, however refracted through a commercial pop lens, inevitably expresses their heartache, ... More
Anthony Vidler, architectural historian who reshaped his field, dies at 82
NEW YORK, NY.- Anthony Vidler, an architectural historian who, beginning in the 1960s, reshaped his field by setting aside dry chronologies of styles and movements for an interdisciplinary approach borrowing from psychoanalysis, French literary theory and cultural studies, died Oct. 19 at his home in Manhattan. He was 82. His wife, literary critic Emily Apter, said the cause was B-cell non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Vidler, who was born in Britain during World War II, was part of a generation of European and Latin American architectural historians who arrived in the United States in the 1960s and 70s, bringing with them new, theory-driven viewpoints about architecture as a realm of ideas and not just design. Sometimes cast as architectures version of the British Invasion, scholars like Vidler, Kenneth Frampton and Alan Colquhoun settled in New ... More
Robert Brustein, passionate force in nonprofit theater, dies at 96
NEW YORK, NY.- Robert Brustein, an erudite and contentious advocate for profit-indifferent theater, in the service of which he wore many hats critic, teacher, producer, director, playwright and even actor died Sunday at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was 96. His death was confirmed by his wife, Doreen Beinart. Brustein was dean of the drama school at Yale University and founded and ran the Yale Repertory Theater and the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University, producing well over 100 plays and securing them in the regional theater firmament. He also taught at Yale as well as at Harvard. A prolific writer with the zeal of an environmentalist and the moral certainty of a martyr, he reviewed stage productions for The New Republic for more than 50 years. In many books and in countless newspaper ... More
Where folks believe death doesn't exist
LILY DALE, NY.- Everybody dies. But not in Lily Dale. Founded in 1879, the hamlet of about 250 residents in rural western New York is a haven for spiritualism, a religion formed around the conviction that human souls continue living after physical death. The underlying belief in spiritualism is that we dont really die. We pass on, but we carry on in the spirit world, which is exactly like this world, except with less restrictions, said Mandi Shepp, 38, Lily Dales former library director and an archives coordinator at the State University of New York at Fredonia. But in the physical world, the one were in here and now, tension is brewing among the living about who is authorized to contact the dead. In spiritualist tradition, mediums have the ability to communicate with the otherworldly, and Lily Dale doesnt let just anyone set up shop ... More
'Spooktacular' auction at Clarke Auction Gallery brings in almost a million dollars
LARCHMONT, NY.- Clarke Auction Gallerys Spooktacular estate auction on October 15 had no single high-estimate item to push the auction to a grand total of just over $1 million. Instead, it was frighteningly easy how a solid selection of notable and important works across the board from fine art to jewelry and more drove the auction. The key to the auctions success was good fresh-to-market items that were estimated to sell, resulting in robust bidding, said owner and auctioneer Ronan Clarke. It was steady throughout the day with the rare items as usual far exceeding estimates. While the furniture market remains a bit slow with pieces going best when offered without reserves, most other categories here were overachievers. Phone and online bidders were in stiff competition with each other, splitting their takings fairly evenly. ... More
Le Consortium, Dijon, presents exhibition by Torbjørn Rødland depicting journey from childhood to old age
DIJON.- The two photographs that open and close Torbjørn Rødlands exhibition at the Consortium Museum represent a baby and an old man, respectively. The exhibition is designed as a journey leading from one to the other, namely from childhood to old age. It is therefore a highly narrative project, and for Rødland, an unusual approach to the concept of exhibition. The exhibition highlights Rødlands photographs in which two contradictory characters are featured. The artist often employs this type of disruptive casting to emphasize the oddness in the photographed scenes. The "scenario" created by the curator for this exhibition titled "Oh My God You Guys" as agreed with the artist takes the viewers on a journey from the dawn to the dusk of life, exploring sophisticated and troubled human relationships. "Oh My God You Guys" unfolds ... More
Architectural approach of Belgian architect Victor Horta explored in 'Victor Horta and the Grammar of Art Nouveau'
BRUSSELS.- On the occasion of Art Nouveau Brussels 2023, Bozar, in collaboration with the Horta Museum, presents an exhibition exploring the architectural approach of Belgian architect Victor Horta (1861-1947). Through archival documents, photographs, plans, original sketches, and models, the audience will get a picture of the underlying structure of Hortas architectural language through the course of nine chapters. Various buildings are featured from bourgeois houses like the Tassel House to public buildings like the Palais des Beaux-Arts (Centre for Fine Arts) or the Waucquez department store. The exhibition also focuses on the broader social context in which Horta created his projects. The ... More
Modernist master sculptors lead Bonhams' modern British art sale
LONDON.- Leaders in British sculpture, Henry Moore (1898-1986) and Lynn Chadwick (1914-2003) have long been celebrated for their exploration of the human form. Impressive examples by both artists lead Bonhams Modern British Art sale on 22 November in New Bond Street, London. Head by Henry Moore has an estimate of £2,200,000-2,600,000, and Cloaked Figure IX by Lynn Chadwick has an estimate of £350,000-550,000. Also leading the sale, Dancers by Duncan Grant (1885-1978) comes to the auction market for the first time, with an estimate of £120,000-180,000. The work was acquired by Lord Kennet from the Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition in 1912. Head is one of a number of small sculptures Moore made in the early 1930s from ironstone. Depicting a female head, the work is unusual within ... More
Auction includes a remarkable assortment of Queen Victoria items
LONDON.- Stanley Gibbons' The Cyriax Collection presents a remarkable assortment of Queen Victoria items. It encompasses Line Engraved essays and proofs, extending to the 1883 High Value issues. Notable highlights comprise an unused OP-PC error of lettering variety, along with lovely high-value items, both unused and used, including a splendid unmounted £5 orange. Additionally, the collection includes exceptional illustrated and printed covers. View the full catalogue here. Highlight lots include the 1866 watercolour (pictured above), one of the finest hand illustrated covers the experts at Stanley Gibbons have ever handled. The mid 1800s saw an explosion of correspondence by mail as the cost of postage reduced, but illustrated envelopes remained a luxury afforded primarily to the wealthy. An intricate hand painted watercolour ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer was born October 31, 1632. Johannes, Jan or Johan Vermeer (October 1632 - December 1675) was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime. He evidently was not wealthy, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death, perhaps because he produced relatively few paintings. In this image: Participants of a press conference look at a painting, entitled Holding a Balance, by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer at the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, Germany, 16 March 2011.
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