Tom Wesselmann, Study for Gina's Hand, 1981. Oil on canvas, 16.7 x 23 cm, 6 1/2 x 9 in (unframed) 19.4 x 25.4 x 5.2 cm, 7 5/8 x 10 x 2 1/16 in (framed).
NEW YORK, NY.- An Electrifying Image. All Parts Erotic. Painting, Sex and Humor. A confession: Until recently I knew nothing of Tom Wesselmann’s paintings showing a certain part of his own naked body. His paintings of reclining nude women are as familiar as Art History 101. Triumphantly and earnestly erotic, his models grin, spread their legs, and display their tan lines, all in a joyous celebration right in line with the 1960s sexual revolution and with the artist’s happy new relationship with Claire Selley, a fellow student at New York’s Cooper Union, whom he would marry in 1963. These images are very much in the mainstream of an art history stocked with nudes, though their sexual content sets them apart from other Pop artists. But, if you’ll forgive an ahistorical moniker (it’s too easy to look at these painted images from today’s perspective), Tom Wesselmann’s dick pics? They’re new to me. ... More
Peter Paul Rubens, The Martyrdom of Saint Andrew. Oil on canvas, 306 x 216 cm., circa 1636-1639.
MADRID.- The Prado National Museum has announced the temporary acquisition of Peter Paul Rubens' "The Martyrdom of Saint Andrew," a late-period work, on loan from the Carlos de Amberes Foundation. The painting will be displayed in room 16B of the Villanueva building until 2026. This acquisition augments the Prado's existing collection of Rubens' works, considered the most extensive globally. "The Martyrdom of Saint Andrew" was created between 1636 and 1639, coinciding with Rubens' involvement in the Torre de la Parada project. The artwork retains its original frame, attributed to cabinetmakers Abraham Lers and Julien Beymar. The loan coincides with architectural renovations at the Carlos de Amberes Foundation, a private, non-profit organization focused on promoting European culture and values. Javier Solana, President of the Royal Board of Trustees of the Prado National Museum, stated, "The Prado Museum seeks to enha ... More
Buddha Sheltered by the Serpent King Muchalinda. Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago, in collaboration with the Government of Nepal, announced today that it has initiated the return of a significant sculpture—Buddha Sheltered by the Serpent King Muchalinda—to its place of origin in Nepal. As part of continuous and ongoing research into the provenance of its collection, the Art Institute discovered new details about the sculpture’s history and shared this information with the Embassy of Nepal in Washington, D.C. Working together, the Art Institute and the Government of Nepal agreed the sculpture had been stolen from Guita Bahi in the Kathmandu Valley and collectively decided on its return to Nepal. “This return reflects the importance of provenance research, as well as the Art Institute’s proactive outreach and collaboration with countries and communities,” said Jacques Schuhmacher, Executive Director, Provenance Research, of the Art Institute of Chicago. “We are grateful to work in partnership with our co ... More
Auguste Rodin, Le Baiser (The Kiss), 1st Reduction. Signed A. Rodin, inscribed with foundry mark F. BARBEDIENNE. Fondeur and with an interior number 19. Bronze with dark brown patina. Height: 27.5" (71.5 cm).
LONDON.-Bowman Sculpture will present a curated selection of works spanning nearly 200 years at TEFAF Maastricht 2025. Key highlights of the Bowman Sculpture stand at TEFAF Maastricht will include Sarah Bernhardt’s Autoportrait, Attilio Piccirilli’s Flower of the Alps, and new works by contemporary artist Massimiliano Pelletti. Visitors to Stand 181 will see sculptures from 1833 to the present, illustrating the evolution of sculptural techniques and styles over two centuries. Themes that will be foregrounded by Bowman Sculpture include 100 years of Art Deco, female artists and rare 19th century pieces. To mark the centenary of Art Deco, the display will include key works such as Attilio Piccirilli’s Flower of the Alps (1917), Richard Garbe’s The Red Shawl (1928), and Boleslas Biegas’s The Wave (1907). These pieces reflect the movement ... More
VIENNA.- In Mika Rottenberg’s Antimatter Factory the world is full of absurdities: a finger protrudes out of a wall, people sneeze meals onto a table and plastic mushrooms grow out of logs. Born in Argentine in 1976, the artist, who grew up in Israel and today lives in New York, critically and humorously examines hyper-capitalism and its social and ecological consequences in her surreal, kaleidoscopic visual worlds. With this exhibition the KunstHausWien – a museum of Wien Holding – is responding to the urgent need to rethink resources, consume less and live in more sustainable ways, a line fully in keeping with its positioning as a museum devoted to art and ecology. With the exhibition Antimatter Factory the KunstHausWien is presenting an extensive insight into the multifaceted work of Mika Rottenberg. The show features her best-known films and installations from the years 2003 to 2022, a selection of kinetic, in part interactive sculptures with surreal functional ... More
HONG KONG.- Pace will present at its Hong Kong gallery Robert Indiana: The Shape of the World, an exhibition of work by celebrated American artist Robert Indiana (1928–2018), who first emerged as a key figure in the Pop art movement. On view from March 25 to May 9, this presentation, coinciding with the 2025 edition of Art Basel Hong Kong, will include important sculpture, paintings, and prints from throughout Indiana’s career, showcasing the graphic visual vocabulary that made him one of the most inventive and enduring figures in the history of American art. Robert Indiana: The Shape of the World will focus on Indiana’s deep interest in numerology, literature, geometry, color, and form, and will be Pace’s first exhibition of the artist’s work since it began representing The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative in 2024. Following the show in Hong Kong, the gallery will mount ... More
LONDON.- Christie’s will present a compelling series of live and online 20th/21st Century Art Sales, running until 12 March 2025. Showcasing a carefully curated selection of works by leading artists - including Francis Bacon, Tamara de Lempicka, David Hockney, Jenny Saville, Bridget Riley, Fernando Botero, René Magritte, Leonora Carrington, Amedeo Modigliani, Franz Marc, and Michael Andrews, among others - the sales will bring together exceptional pieces spanning Post-War, Contemporary, Modern, Impressionist and Surrealist art. As part of this season, Christie’s have partnered with Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity for its BUILD IT, BEAT IT charitable arts initiative*, featuring 29 artworks by 28 leading contemporary artists. The works will be offered in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale on 6 March 2025, with proceeds supporting the construction of a world-leading Children’s Cancer Centre at GOSH in London. The ... More
Jean Prouvé, Bridge armchair, model 352 (Red), c. 1951. Painted tubular steel, painted bent steel, oak, and vinyl. Courtesy of Galerie Patrick Seguin.
NEW YORK, NY.- Tina Kim Gallery is presenting Vintage20: Design for Living, an exhibition of midcentury furniture and design celebrating the legacy of Manhattan-based design firm Vintage20. Curated by Adam Charlap Hyman of architectural firm Charlap Hyman & Herrero, this presentation coincides with the publication of Design for Living, a new book edited by Nick Herman that documents exhibitions staged by Vintage20 from 2005 to 2019. Founded by Jae Chung, Vintage20 was recognized for its critically-acclaimed program of museum-quality exhibitions pairing works by the twentieth century’s most innovative designers with fine art, and introducing midcentury modern design to international audiences. Charlap Hyman has carefully selected design objects from Vintage20’s collection, paying homage to Chung’s signature style. Drawing inspiration from Vintage20’s most significant ... More
The LEGO Art Vincent van Gogh - Sunflowers set is available for pre-order
AMSTERDAM.- The LEGO Group unveiled the LEGO Art Vincent van Gogh - Sunflowers set. Created in close collaboration with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the brick-built painting captures the iconic brushstrokes of Van Gogh’s masterpiece. The 2,615-piece set enables fans to immerse themselves in Van Gogh’s art and to learn more about the inspiration behind one of his most beloved paintings: Sunflowers (1889). The set has been carefully designed to create a 3-D brick version focusing on the three radiant shades of yellow and Van Gogh’s famous use of light and shade. The set features the 16 sunflowers of the painting with adjustable petals, a removable frame, a tile with Van Gogh’s signature and a hanger element to display. Imagine yourself as a painter in front of a blank canvas. Inspired by vibrant colours, the artwork is built by adding layers and layers of details until the LEGO® Art Sunflowers comes to life. While ... More
BERLIN.- In the exhibition FARBENRAUSCH (Colour Rush) at EMOP Berlin – European Month of Photography 2025, Galerie Springer Berlin is showing works by the photographer Ludwig Schirmer, his daughter Ute Mahler and her husband Werner Mahler. Both Ute Mahler's and Werner Mahler's colour works have rarely been shown in exhibitions so far. Also, of the previously lesser-known Ludwig Schirmer, who was one of the most important commercial photographers in the GDR, mainly black and white works have been shown so far. This unique »family exhibition« features images of remarkable quality and power. Works by Ludwig Schirmer from the years 1958 to 2000 are being presented. His pictures are characterised by their closeness to people, precise compositions and subtle humour. Werner Mahler experimented with different techniques for his landscape photographs taken between 2000 and 2005, creating atmospheric, ... More
RIGA.- From 4 March 2025 to 28 February 2026, the exhibition Modernist and Art Deco Posters in Latvia in the 1920s–30s is on view at the Romans Suta and Aleksandra Beļcova Museum in Riga (Elizabetes iela 57a, Apt. 26). Romans Suta and Aleksandra Beļcova Museum continues its tradition of presenting to both domestic and international visitors the vibrant innovatory side of the Latvian culture and art scene of the 1920s–30s. One of the most fervent exponents of Classical Modernism, Romans Suta (1896–1944) was an artist of a universal disposition who believed that art should encompass and build links to all fields of life of the newly-established state. In the interwar period, the poster was also actively used as a special form of expression by his colleagues in the Riga Group of Artists. Reviewing the entirety of posters and advertisements produced in Latvia in the interwar years, the scene is diverse. Posters were made by famous artists and outstanding graphic designers that neverthel ... More
Kawase Hasui (Japanese, 1883-1957), Zōjō-ji Temple in Shiba (Shiba Zōjō-ji), from the series Twenty Views of Tokyo (Tokyo nijukkei), 1925 (Taishō 14). Woodblock print, 15-3/8 x 10-1/2 in.
DALLAS, TX.- Few images in art history have captivated the world like Under the Wave Off Kanagawa, more commonly known as The Great Wave. Created by Katsushika Hokusai in the early 1830s, this masterpiece of Japanese woodblock printing has become a global icon, influencing artists and collectors for nearly two centuries. Heritage Auctions is honored to offer a rare, early impression of The Great Wave as a centerpiece of its March 20 auction, Masterpieces: Japanese Prints from The Nelkin Collection, coinciding with New York’s celebrated Asia Week. “This image is universally recognized and cherished for its dynamism, elegance and timeless power,” says Nick Dawes, Heritage's Senior Vice President of Special Collections. “I fell in love with The Great Wave during ‘A’-level Art in early 1970s England. The scholarly observations I read then and since on this extraordinary image have shaped my understanding of art ... More
CINCINNATI, OH.- The Cincinnati Art Museum announced the opening of Shahzia Sikander: Collective Behavior. Offering a comprehensive presentation of the artist’s career to date, the exhibition unites more than 70 artworks in multiple mediums made over the past 30+ years. The exhibition premiered to international acclaim as a Collateral Event during the 60th International Art Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia—a globally significant platform for contemporary art—at the Palazzo Soranzo van Axel. CAM co-organized the Venice presentation with the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA). The CAM exhibition is a career-spanning presentation that, rather than proceeding chronologically, follows Sikander’s primary ideas and inquiries throughout her work, rooted as they are in a recurring lexicon of forms, figures, and ideas. The exhibition, the largest and most comprehensive presentation of the artist’s career, explores Sikander’s role as an American artist, a Pakistani ... More
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New exhibition at Ben Gurion Airport takes passengers on a journey through the history of the people of Israel LOD.- A new exhibition “Eternity of Israel” opened at Terminal 3 of Ben-Gurion Airport, providing visitors an opportunity to explore the history of Israel through archaeological findings and photos from rare moments of discovery. The exhibition was unveiled alongside Former Israeli Minister of Heritage Amichai Eliyahu; Israel Antiquities Authority Director Eli Escusido; and the National Airport Authority of Israel Managing Director, Udi Bar-Oz. The exhibition takes passengers on a journey through the story of the people of Israel – one of strength, challenges, upheavals, and revival, spanning thousands of years and illustrating the power of the people's renewal. This new exhibition, the result of the joint efforts of the Israel Antiquities ... More
Ronald Jones' "Clock in a Radio": Unpacking violence through abstraction in Paris PARIS.- Following the exhibition Barker Gillick & Jones, Air de Paris announces Clock in a Radio, Ronald Jones’ first solo show in France. Jones (1952-2019) worked as an artist, writer, and pedagogue. Presented by New York based empire, the exhibition is composed predominantly of works on paper and convenes around a box portfolio produced by Jones in 1993. As he was known to say, a radio is just a radio until it starts ticking. Consumer electronics are containers. The touchscreen was preceded by the interface of knobs and switches externalizing the internal organization of circuitry, in radios and the like. This surface, divorced from the messy interior, is an abstraction. And the abstraction is an opportunity for smugglers. Similarly, Jones smuggles meaning into the assumed modern forms, converting benign abstractions into mediations of violence. In his first ... More
Lisson Gallery announces representation of Tishan Hsu NEW YORK, NY.- Lisson Gallery announced its representation of Tishan Hsu (b. 1951, Boston). Since the mid-1980s, Hsu has been at the forefront of exploring the effects of technological transformation, rendering poetic reimaginings of the human body through innovative materials and digital processes. His approach to the intersections of organic and artificial life has made him one of the most prescient voices in contemporary art today. Lisson Gallery will present Hsu’s work for the first time at Art Basel Hong Kong in March 2025, followed by his first solo exhibition with the gallery in New York in November of this year. Hsu is represented in collaboration with Empty Gallery, Hong Kong. For nearly five decades, Hsu has investigated the evolving relationship between humans and technology. Though he gained early recognition in the 1980s with solo exhibitions ... More
Morse Museum spring exhibitions WINTER PARK, FL.- The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art invites all to enjoy the season with new installations, celebrations, and live music. On Tuesday, March 4, the Morse will present a new exhibition Arts and Letters, featuring 74 objects that explore the art of letter writing and the ways in which Americans of the 19th and 20th centuries used the written word for both communication and creative expression. Drawing on the Morse’s collection and archives, the objects in this gallery illustrate the intimate relationship between art, identity, and the written word. Also opening Tuesday, March 4, Vignette: Fair Views offers an intimate glimpse into a world’s fair. In the tradition of German-French art dealer Siegfried Bing’s Maison de l’Art Nouveau, this vignette presents a curated display with important examples of furniture, textiles, pottery, ... More
Marie Boyer's "Joyous Garden": Painting, botany, and manga collide at Passerelle BREST.- As an Artist in Residence, a role created and supported by Passerelle and Documents d’artistes Bretagne, Marie Boyer (1997) is exhibiting a series of new works she has produced at Passerelle. She is a graduate of the Quimper campus of the École européenne supérieure d’art de Bretagne (the European Academy of Art in Brittany) and here has developed an astonishing, joyous garden where painting interplays with botany and with the Japanese manga aesthetic. “There are flowers everywhere for anyone who cares to look” declared Henri Matisse. This cheesy, rather kitsch quotation might be seen on a box of chocolates or on a sign outside a garden centre, yet it leads to much deeper reflections than might first be apparent, on the role of art and the presence of joy in our lives. That sentence uttered by such a famous painter explains much of the art of Marie Boyer. She sees flowers as «living beings intended to be painted», as a sort of ideal and perfect motif. Her love of flora partly derives f ... More
Major exhibition redefines modernism with 70+ women artists from 22 nations ARNHEM.- Museum Arnhem, the Saarlandmuseum in Saarbrücken and the Belvedere in Vienna are joining forces to present a remarkable exhibition that promises to be the highlight of the season. Featuring more than 70 artists from 22 countries, RADICAL! Women Artists and Modernism 1910-1950 explores how profoundly women artists participated in shaping the stories of modernism. The ambitious show challenges the visitor to rethink the idea of modern art as a linear, progressive development, being mainly dominated by men. Breaking with traditional art historical frameworks allows to combine and juxtapose a diverse and exciting variety of artists, most of them have never been shown together. By spotlighting the individuality of each artist's practice, the show provides a deeper understanding how women artists sought for innovative imagery and form to address the pressing issues of their time. The exhibition shows works, reaching from abstract to figurative, and surrealist to overtly activist. In a period ... More
Center for Curatorial Studies Bard Awards Gala 2025 honors Gridthiya Gaweewong and Amber Esseiva NEW YORK, NY.- The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College announces Gridthiya Gaweewong, Artistic Director of the Jim Thompson Art Center in Bangkok, as the 2025 recipient of the Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence. The award, which first launched in 1998, honors outstanding curatorial achievements that have brought innovative thinking, bold vision, and dedicated service to advancing the field of exhibition-making today. In addition, CCS Bard will be celebrating Amber Esseiva (CCS ‘15), Acting Senior Curator at the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University (ICA at VCU) with the CCS Bard Alumni Award, which recognizes an outstanding graduate for sustained innovation and engagement in exhibition making, public education, research, and a commitment to the field. Both awards will be presented at a gala ... More
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On a day like today, Danish painter and sculptor Asger Jorn was born
March 03, 1914. March 03, 1914. Asger Oluf Jorn (3 March 1914 - 1 May 1973) was a Danish painter, sculptor, ceramic artist, and author. He was a founding member of the avant-garde movement COBRA and the Situationist International. He was born in Vejrum, in the northwest corner of Jutland, Denmark, and baptized Asger Oluf Jørgensen. In this image: Untitled (Figures in a head), ca. 1960/1963. Oil on fiberboard, 19.69 x 27.56 inches 50 x 70 cm.
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