Yoshio Okada (b. 1977), “Swimming” Box with Sprinkled Design of Jellyfish, 2020. Maki-e gold lacquer on a wood base, 5 ½ x 5 ½ x 5 ½ in. (14.0 x 13.8 x 13.8 cm). Photo: Thomsen Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- When Asia Week New York launched its nine-day extravaganza of exhibitions, auctions and museum shows on March 16th, almost half of the top-tier galleries present a stunning array of contemporary paintings, prints, ink paintings, ceramics, bamboo sculpture, and photography. “We are excited that nearly half of our 26 galleries are presenting such a wide selection of contemporary works of art,” says Dessa Goddard, chairman of Asia Week New York. “Their participation enhances the scope of our mission to appeal to a new base of collectors.” Here is a guide to the 11 contemporary exhibitions open during Asia Week New York: Contemporary Japanese ceramics and contemporary ink paintings will be concurrently exhibited at Joan B Mirviss LTD when Beijing-based gallery INKstudio join forces to present their respective exhibitions: Kondō Takahiro: Making Waves and Bingyi: Land of Immortals. Although their respective me ... More
LONDON.-Bonhams, the global auction house, has today (22 March 2022) acquired the Danish auctioneers Bruun Rasmussen, the leading auction house in Denmark. Financial terms are not being disclosed. Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers joins Bukowskis, the Swedish auction house acquired by Bonhams in January 2022, and Bonhams Skinner, acquired by Bonhams on 16 March 2022, as part of the Bonhams network of international auction houses. Bruun Rasmussen was established in Copenhagen in 1948 by Arne Bruun Rasmussen, whose son Jesper has chaired the company since 1985. Jesper Bruun Rasmussen will continue as Chairman Emeritus, while the company will continue to be run by Jakob Dupont, the CEO. The company, with its headquarters in Copenhagen’s Nordhavn district, is a leading traditional auction house in Scandinavia, and a digital pioneer. It conducts live auctions at its original salerooms in the city’s centre, as well as online. Bruun Rasmussen s ... More
Theodor de Bry, One of the Chief Ladies of Secota, plate 4, from Thomas Harriot’s A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia, German edition, 1590. Engraving with hand coloring, 12 7/8 × 9 3/8 in. The Michael N. Joyner Collection.
CHAPEL HILL, NC.-The Ackland Art Museum announced today that Michael N. Joyner, ’77, has given his collection of over 140 16th-century engravings by Theodor de Bry (1528-1598) and related works to the Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. De Bry’s engravings depict the Algonquin people encountered by the English and European settlers of the Roanoke Colony in 1585. The engravings were made to illustrate the 1590 edition of “A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia” by Thomas Harriot. De Bry’s images, based on watercolors made by colonist John White, and Harriot’s text offered Europeans a detailed account of the appearance and customs of Native Americans encountered by the English settlers on Roanoke Island, off the coast of what is now North Carolina. ... More
Daniel Gordon. Photo by Andrés Altamirano. Courtesy of the artist and Kasmin, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.-Kasmin is thrilled to announce that Daniel Gordon (b. 1980) has joined the gallery. The artist’s first exhibition at Kasmin will go on view in New York in early 2023. Daniel Gordon is known for photography and sculpture that employs appropriation and reproduction in order to question the nature of the image-object relationship. Melding optical illusion, pastiche, mixed media, and a recalibration of analog processes, Gordon consciously reframes what it means to have a photographic practice. Gordon’s process begins with sourcing found imagery—such as of a vase or a plant—from the internet or by taking pictures with an iPhone. Gordon creates print-outs of these images, which he then cuts and pastes onto a three-dimensional structure that mimics the form and scale of the same vase or plant, thereby reconstructing the depicted object in paper. The resulting objects, albeit seemingly improvised and crudely constru ... More
Franco Calarota, gallery owner and philanthropist with a great love for art.
MILAN.- Through his Galleria d'Arte Maggiore g.a.m., Franco Calarota has always enhanced the artists he believed in working with extreme passion on two fronts: the market and the cultural promotion, thus creating some exhibitions that have entered the history of art including "Giorgio Morandi. Ettore Spalletti. Dialogue of light" (2015-2016) within the walls of his gallery, and through numerous initiatives strongly desired and curated by him. Among these, the exhibition“ Giorgio Morandi. Silences” at the Museum of Palazzo Fortuny in Venice, "Giorgio Morandi and Robert Ryman" in Los Angeles (2015), Henry Moore in Bologna (1995), Giorgio de Chirico at the Phillips Collection in Washington D.C. (2013), the many exhibitions held at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art in London, just to name a few. And then the collaborations with museums and institutions in Italy and abroad including public commissions, ... More
Sometimes referred to as mandala works, the Sun paintings fill the viewer’s field of vision with pulsing color.
NEW YORK, NY.- New York–based, Swiss-born conceptual artist Ugo Rondinone’s Sun paintings are among his most celebrated series. Started in 1992 and spanning three decades, the Sun works reflect Rondinone’s interests in nineteenth-century German Romanticism and Tibetan mysticism as vehicles to explore natural phenomena and interior states. In Ugo Rondinone: The Sun, the artist’s paintings are reproduced at unprecedented scale in a display-worthy elephant folio, published in a signed limited edition of 345 copies. Rondinone began the Sun series by directing his gaze inward, translating his emotional state to circular bands of watercolor. To create distance between these diaristic studies and the viewer, Rondinone then altered the media and scale: expanding the Suns to more than seven feet in diameter and exchanging tremulous ... More
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.-The Harvard Art Museums announce a transformative gift of 21 works of 18th-century American silver from the collection of Daniel A. Pollack and Susan F. Pollack. The gift comprises a range of finely made vessels and table implements intended for domestic use, including cups, bowls, spoons, tankards, and teapots crafted by noted silversmiths from Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Trenton. There is also a stunning caudle cup, an example of ecclesiastical silver made by Edward Winslow and believed to have been used during communion at First Congregational Church in Milford, CT. The Pollacks’ gift strengthens the museums’ noted holdings of 17th- to 20th-century silver and comes at a time when curators and postdoctoral fellows ... More
NEWARK, NJ.-The Newark Museum of Art announced that it has opened its new exhibition, Carlos Villa: Worlds In Collision. The new featured exhibition now runs through Sunday, May 8, 2022. The exhibition brings together 35 rarely seen works by Carlos Villa, a central figure in the San Francisco art community and a leader in the multicultural activism of the 1960s and beyond. Villa’s unique, large-scale, mixed media paintings and cloaks, which incorporate feathers and other unexpected materials on unstretched canvases, are being showcased along with works ranging from photography to body casts and body paintings. Carlos Villa: Worlds in Collision, the first exhibit of Villa’s work available to east coast audiences, is co organized by the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI). After its appearance at The Newark Museum of Art, the exhibition transfers to San Francisco from June 17 ... More
STUTTGART.- With Gego: The Architecture of an Artist the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart has devoted its second monographic exhibition to the work of the artist Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt, Hamburg, 1912–Caracas, 1994). After receiving a long-term loan of one hundred works by the Fundación Gego, Caracas, in 2017 the Kunstmuseum initiated a research project together with University of Stuttgart and the Wüstenrot Foundation with a particular focus on Gego’s architectural education in Stuttgart and her works on paper. Gego is one of the most renowned artists of Latin America today. From 1932 to 1938 she studied architecture and engineering at the Technische Hochschule in Stuttgart (Stuttgart Institute of Technology) before she was forced to emigrate to Venezuela in 1939 because of her Jewish ancestry. There, in the mid-1950s, she began working as an artist. Gego’s training always remained a point of reference for her artistic p ... More
Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917). Meditation (with Arms), modeled about 1880, enlarged about 1896; Musée Rodin cast 8, 1979. Bronze, 62 x 31 x 26 in.; Coubertin Foundry. Lent by Iris Cantor.
COLUMBIA, SC.-The Columbia Museum of Art is aglow with two dynamic exhibitions of radiant sculpture from brilliant artists of international renown. Rodin: Contemplation and Dreams / Selections from the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Collections, organized and made possible by the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Foundation, features over 40 bronze works from Auguste Rodin (1840–1917), the legendary French artist whose innovative practices and revolutionary style ushered in modern Western sculpture. Anila Quayyum Agha: Let A Million Flowers Bloom features two large-scale works by another groundbreaking artist, Anila Quayyum Agha (born 1965), whose immersive installations playing with light and shadow upend traditional ideas about sculpture. Opening weekend programs include opportunities to learn more about both exhibitions and to hear from Agha herself. “We are thrilled to bring ... More
Virgin and Child, 1455–1475. Polychrome and gilt ivory. Maker(s) not known by WCMA. Northern Netherlands (present-day Netherlands). Gift of John Davis Hatch V.
WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.-The Williams College Museum of Art is presenting Embodied Words: Reading in Medieval Christian Visual Culture, now on view. This thematic reinstallation of the museum’s medieval gallery brings together new and long-treasured objects from the WCMA collection with a selection of stunning illuminated manuscripts from Williams College’s Chapin Library. In the Middle Ages, reading was thought to change you, physically and spiritually. Medieval people believed that words written and read, spoken and heard, could imprint on the brain, heart, and soul. The senses mediated the reception of these words. This ongoing exhibition demonstrates the embodied nature of reading in Christian Europe from the twelfth through the sixteenth centuries, with art from present- ... More
“Zone de sensibilité picturale immatérielle”. Estimated at €300,000 – 500,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- A receipt, granting ownership to an invisible work of art by the leading post-war French artist Yves Klein (1928-1962), is to be offered at Sotheby’s in Paris on 6 April with an estimate of €300,000-500,000. Klein sold a small number of these zones of empty space (the “Zone de sensibilité picturale immatérielle”) in return for a weight of pure gold, between the first creation of the piece in 1959 to his death in 1962. Today, fewer than a handful of receipts are believed have survived - not least because the artist offered the purchasers the option to participate in a piece of performative art, an elaborate ritual in which the buyer would burn the receipt, and Klein would throw half of the gold into the Seine. This final act was intended to rebalance the “natural order” that he had unbalanced through the sale of the space. While some of the buyers would choose to accept ... More
Columbia Type AS coin-op cylinder phonograph, made in America circa 1898, an early example of a phonograph intended as an entertainment device (CA$4,720).
NEW HAMBURG.- Antique Edison phonographs, mid-century jukeboxes (one a Wurlitzer replica, another a genuine Rock-Ola) and rare, early 20th century mechanical banks by J. & E. Stevens all performed well in Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd.’s online Music Machines, Toys & Advertising sale held March 19th. The 541-lot auction grossed $420,847. All prices quoted here are in Canadian dollars and include an 18 percent buyer’s premium. “Prices on the Edison Class M and Edison Opera phonographs were spectacular,” said Ethan Miller of Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd. “The John Peel Collection enjoys cachet among Canadian collectors – especially now.” An Edison Class M cylinder phonograph, made in America circa 1890, was the sale’s top lot, besting its $15,000 high ... More
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'Music Man' sets box office record for a reopened Broadway NEW YORK, NY.- Broadway has a new box office leader: A starry revival of “The Music Man” grossed $3.5 million last week, the most of any show since theaters reopened after the long pandemic shutdown. The musical, with a cast led by the ever-popular Hugh Jackman, is outselling “Hamilton” and every other show, triumphing over tepid reviews as it plays to full houses and sells tickets at top-tier prices. Data released Tuesday by the Broadway League showed that “The Music Man” had grossed over $3 million for five weeks in a row. The industry’s three big mainstays remain strong: Last week, “Hamilton” brought in $2.3 million, “Wicked” was at $1.9 million and “The Lion King” at $1.8 million. The box office numbers were the first for individual shows to be publicly released by the league since March 2020, and suggested, as expected, ... More
Galeria Jaqueline Martins opens an exhibition of works by Luiz Alphonsus SAO PAULO.- Ahead of his time, the artist Luiz Alphonsus dedicated himself to creating a theory of national conceptual art – Conceitual Caboclo – in which he captured the Brazilian spirit of urban advancement and political setback of the 60s and 70s. Having taken part in exhibitions that were pivotal in the history of Brazilian art, such as Do corpo à terra, Alphonsus' significant work is now revisited by Galeria Jaqueline Martins in Ambiental enigmático, solo show that exposes the artist's works in light of current issues. Alphonsus is part of the Tranca Ruas generation, a group of interdisciplinary Brazilian artists who make their works an amalgamation between the conceptual, the political and the poetic and that move between the Cinema Novo, Tropicália and other landmark movements of national culture. Born in Belo Horizonte, ... More
Heritage Auctions' J. Doyle DeWitt Collection event tops $1.8 million DALLAS, TX.- He might not have won the 1860 Presidential election, but Stephen Douglas finished first — twice — in Heritage Auctions' Inaugural J. Doyle Dewitt Collection Americana & Political Signature® Auction, which reached $1,883,533 in total sales. Two lots bearing his likeness each sold for $118,750 to lead the event, which featured the private collection of DeWitt, who was revered for his extraordinary collection of political artifacts as he was as a giant in the insurance industry. The auction drew nearly 1,000 global bidders and generated perfect sell-through rates of 100% by value and by lots sold. "The J. Doyle DeWitt Collection is one of the most significant political history collections in the country, and after this auction, some amazing artifacts are in the hands of collectors who can appreciate them for years to come," Heritage ... More
Christie's Modern British and Irish Art Evening Sale realises a total of $33,507,562 LONDON.-Christie’s spring season of 20/21 sales continued in London with the Modern British and Irish Art Evening Sale, which realised £25,539,300 / $33,507,562 / €30,519,464, selling 90% by lot and 97% by value. Bridget Riley’s Gala, from the artist’s curving-colour series, was pursued by nine phone bidders, leading the sale to eventually sell for a record price of £4,362,000. A rare seascape by L.S. Lowry drew competitive bidding, selling for £2,742,000. The Village Street by Lowry sold for £1,962,000 while his painting The Footbridge, focusing on the architecture of the artist’s hometown, Salford, sold for £315,000. Intense bidding for Sir William Nicholson’s Miss Simpson’s Boots delivered a world auction record for the artist of £1,782,000, more than three times the previous record, and against a pre-sale estimate of £300,000. ... More
Contemporary photographs now on view in new installation series "In Dialogue" LOS ANGELES, CA.- Now on view is the second rotation of In Dialogue, an on-going series of installations that presents contemporary photographs in conversation with selected European paintings, decorative arts, and sculpture in the Museum’s permanent collection galleries. Often beginning from a point of visual symmetry between works, In Dialogue explores how key themes—such as family, mortality, and our relationship to the natural world—have been reimagined over time. Building upon Getty’s commitment to diversifying its photography collection, the series places particular emphasis on photographers of colour, female artists, and international contemporary photographers, and offers an opportunity to encounter recent acquisitions on display for the first time. This second rotation features six contemporary photographs ... More
Christie's announces a collaboration with Founder and Creative Director of Good Earth India, Anita Lal LONDON.- Christie’s announces a collaboration with Founder and Creative Director of Good Earth India, Anita Lal for the upcoming Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds including Oriental Rugs and Carpets auction, taking place on 31 March. Good Earth is India’s leading luxury design house that celebrates the heritage of the Indian subcontinent and lands that lay on the ancient Silk Road, through unique design stories with a focus on sustainability and craft traditions. Anita Lal has selected her personal highlights from the upcoming sale some of which will be incorporated into three vignettes alongside selected pieces from Good Earth, as part of the view in King Street, London, open from 26 to 31 March. Anita Lal comments, ‘I am delighted to work with Christie’s on the Art of Islamic and Indian Worlds Including Oriental Rugs ... More
'At the Wedding' review: Cocktails, dancing and an albatross NEW YORK, NY.- “I’m starting to think this wedding needs a villain,” says Carlo, as if the one she has semi-crashed were a murder mystery. Certainly there are plenty of suspects behaving badly, chief among them Carlo herself, a freelance snark machine with a hole in her heart and an alcohol-fueled taste for the piercing aperçu. She terrifies the children’s table with a hellish lesson about the fate of romance: “the worst pain you’ll feel in your life.” She’s also, uh-oh, the bride’s former lover — you know, the one who neglected to RSVP. Though it’s not by a long shot the first time a comedy has mined the nuptials-with-an-ex-to-grind setup, Bryna Turner’s “At the Wedding,” which opened on Monday at the Claire Tow Theater, offers a fresh and trenchant take on the genre. And in Carlo, the bruised heart of the story, it offers actor Mary ... More
Photographer Jamel Shabazz awarded The Gordon Parks Foundation/Steidl Book Prize NEW YORK, NY.-The Gordon Parks Foundation and Steidl today announced that Jamel Shabazz has been named the 2022 recipient of The Gordon Parks Foundation/Steidl Book Prize. Launched in 2020, the Prize provides a publishing platform for artists whose practice reflects and extends Gordon Parks’s legacy. Shabazz is the second artist to receive the honor, following inaugural Prize recipient LaToya Ruby Frazier, whose appointment will culminate this spring with the release of a new publication dedicated to her body of work chronicling the Flint, Michigan water crisis. The book, Flint Is Family In Three Acts, coincides with an exhibition of the same name, on view April 13 through June 22, 2022, at The Gordon Parks Foundation in Pleasantville, New York. "Jamel ... More
Tribal Art Fair online this spring 2022 AMSTERDAM.- Following on from the great success of the previous online Tribal Art Fairs (TAF) held during lockdown in autumn 2020 and spring 2021, Tribal Art Fair online is scheduled to take place again from Thursday 21 April at 3pm until Monday 25 April 2022 at 10pm (Dutch time) at www.tribalartfair.nl/onlinefair and is free to access. An established and important international event for tribal art from Africa, Oceania, Asia and the Americas, the Tribal Art Fair has been held annually at De Duif in Amsterdam since 2003.The pandemic saw the organiser, Finette Lemaire of Galerie Lemaire, switch to an online fair in 2020. Such was the success of the first online event that she introduced another online fair last Spring, returning to organise the 19th TAF back at De Duif in October 2021. Over the years, TAF has amassed an impressive ... More
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On a day like today, Italian painter Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione was baptized
December 23, 1609. Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (baptized 23 March 1609 - 5 May 1664) was an Italian Baroque painter, printmaker and draftsman, of the Genoese school. He is best known now for his etchings, and as the inventor of the printmaking technique of monotyping. He was known as Il Grechetto in Italy and in France as Le Benédette. In this image: Presumed Self-Portrait, ca. 1648, etching, British Museum.
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