GHENT.- The Museum of Fine Arts Ghent is devoting an exhibition to German artist Erich Heckel (1883-1970). Heckel was one of the main figures of German Expressionism and co founder of the artists' association Brücke. During World War I, he worked as an orderly for the Red Cross in Roeselare, Ostend and Ghent. His fascination for Flemish landscapes and cities takes shape in evocative works of art: romantic and expressive, spiritual and tangible, and above all full of hope. With this monographic exhibition, the MSK highlights a lesser-known but particularly fascinating period of this leading artist. From the end of the 19th century, young artists in Germany object to the fleeting nature of Impressionism. In Dresden, the artists' association Brücke is formed in 1905. The 22-year- old Erich Heckel is one of its co-founders. This association of self taught artists harbours the ambition to express a strong joie de vivre in a shared style of bright colours and angular shapes. This style is called exp ... More
View of Bosco Sodi, Beyond Wilderness, He Art Museum, 2024. Photo: Liu Xiangli.
SHUNDE.- He Art Museum presents Bosco Sodi’s largest solo exhibition in Asia. Co-curated by the artist and HEM, the exhibitionn spans three floors of the museum, presenting over 100 works from the artist’s career including paintings, sculptures and site-specific installations. Bosco Sodi (b. 1970, Mexico City) reveals the emotive power embodied in the essential simplicity of raw material. The artist is known for his richly textured, vividly colored large-scale sawdust paintings and sculptures made from clay and volcanic rocks. Greatly influenced by the aesthetic philosophy of Wabi Sabi, Sodi focuses on material exploration, the creative gesture, and the spiritual connection between the artist and his work. His stylistic influences range from Art Informel, looking to artists such as Antoni Tàpies and Jean Dubuffet, to master colorists such as Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko, and the bright hues of Mexico. Rendered in powerful, saturated hues, Sodi’s paintings blend ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- For his first solo presentation with Hauser & Wirth in New York City, Gary Simmons introduces a new body of work advancing his decades-long exploration into issues that haunt our national psyche––race, representation and collective identity. ‘Thin Ice’ debuts sculpture, paintings and drawings––including a sequence of canvases that isolate and re-purpose archetypical racialized imagery from cartoons of the 1920s and early 1930s, and a site-specific wall drawing referencing one of the most iconic films of the 1960s––to capture the instability and disorientation of the current American moment. Simmons’ art skates deftly between abstraction and representation via his signature technique of erasure. This formal conceit upends the viewer’s sense of certainty; by degrading familiar icons, he exposes latent meanings and ugly truths lurking just ... More
DUBAI.- Christie’s announces its seasonal Watches Online: The Dubai Edit comprising 124 lots, a bespoke Middle Eastern horology sale curated by the longstanding Dubai-based Christie’s team of three specialists, representing men’s and women’s timepieces, catering for dedicated and new collectors seeking rare vintage or modern timepieces in the secondary luxury market. The online sale goes live for browsing on 14 November and will be live for bidding between 20 – 28 November. Leading the sale is a limited edition, rare Richard Mille RM71-02 ‘Grace’, a spectacular gem-set wristwatch in 18k white gold from 2021 (estimate US$500,000-1,000,000). This remarkable watch is part of a collection of ten models, each limited to only seven pieces and named after iconic figures from the 1970s, including singer, model, and actress Grace Jones. (Other models in the series are named after icons such as Bianca Jagger, Carmen D’Alessio, Gloria Gaynor, ... More
TOULOUSE.- For the first time, Les Abattoirs, Musée - Frac Occitanie Toulouse and the Galerie Le Château d’Eau are inviting visitors on a journey through their rich yet little-known photographic heritage. The exhibition presents a wide selection of photographic works from the collections of these two public art institutions, documenting major periods in the history of photography and its artists since the early twentieth century, while at the same time revealing the collections’ two, quite separate histories. Since their creation, the public holdings of these two institutions have grown in keeping with an artistic approach specific to their respective characters. One – an art institution created in 2000 that brings together a museum and a Regional Fund for Contemporary Art (FRAC) – is devoted to modern and contemporary art. The other – founded in 1974 by photographer ... More
Wharton Esherick, Music Stand, 1960. Walnut and cherry, 44 1/2 x 20 x 20 in. Wharton Esherick Museum Collection. Photo by Eoin O’Neill, courtesy of the Wharton Esherick Museum.
CHADDS FORD, PA.- The Crafted World of Wharton Esherick explores the artistic legacy of Wharton Esherick (1887-1970), one of the most creative and interdisciplinary figures of twentieth-century American art, craft and design. Co-organized by the Brandywine and the Wharton Esherick Museum (WEM), this major exhibition details the artist’s career from his early woodcut illustrations for books by the avant-garde literati to his revolutionary reimagining of furniture forms as organic sculpture. The Crafted World features more than 70 works by the artist and is the first exhibition to draw exclusively from WEM’s collection of over 3,000 objects. The exhibition brings together works from across different media mastered by the artist—from painting, sculpture and printmaking to woodworking, furniture making and illustration—including many objects never before ... More
Anne Labovitz, Will to Meaning, 2023, 40 x 5 x 32 feet, Acrylic on Tyvek® with grommets, Commission, Rochester Art Center.
FARGO, ND.- In a new exhibit created especially for Plains Art Museum, Minnesota-based, international artist, Anne Labovitz, examines the complex and vital connection between creativity and well-being. Convergence: Health & Creativity runs Nov. 16, 2024 through July 13, 2025. The two-way interconnection between art and well-being has fascinated Labovitz for many years, and for her show at the Plains Art Museum she engaged with members of the Fargo-Moorhead health care community to create works that reflect what that looks like at the local level. In addition to drawing upon her years of research, over a period of five months the artist conducted more than 40 interviews with local health care professionals and administrators. Labovitz then channeled their responses into her art through a process she calls interpretive listening using abstracted text, mark making and informed color selection. ... More
LOS ANGELES, CA.- William Turner Gallery is presenting Phenomena, the second of two exhibitions in partnership with the Getty initiative PST ART: Art & Science Collide, which explores the intersections and influences between art and science.The exhibition runs from November 16, 2024 - January 11, 2025. Art and science both originate from an intrinsic curiosity about the natural world. Historically, artistic depictions of natural phenomena, whether through meticulous observation, or fantastical interpretation, have often highlighted the delicate balance between the forces of nature to both inspire and to imperil. This dual narrative continues to resonate today, as contemporary artists and thinkers explore themes of the environment, climate change, and humanity's role in shaping the Earth’s future. Phenomena features a range of work, from representational depictions to abstract expressions, celebrating the power and visual splendor of the natural world as a resource for creative expression and inves ... More
Napoleon "Hundred Days" 5 Francs 1815-A MS64 NGC.
DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions will present The Eternal Collection, a renowned assemblage that stands as one of world numismatics’ most extraordinary achievements, comprising some of the most prized and impeccably preserved examples of each distinctive type ever seen. The Eternal Collection will be sold in four installments across 2025 and 2026, beginning with a standalone session at Heritage’s New York International Numismatic Convention (NYINC) Auction January 13, featuring coins from Russia, Greece and wider Latin Europe. This collection is distinguished by the collector’s eye for quality and appreciation of rarity. It showcases an exceptional level of curation that has resulted in a collection rich with “trophy” coins, with particular strengths in Latin American, Russian and British coinage. The consignor’s dedication to securing the most covetable types in the finest conditions has elevated this group’s status, placing it among the likes of Paramount, Lissner ... More
Visitor enjoys Takashi Murakami, 100 Arhats, 2013, in Takashi Murakami The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg, 2018.
VANCOUVER.- The Vancouver Art Gallery is celebrating a major milestone in its history: the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Institute of Asian Art (IAA). In November 2014, the Gallery formalized its commitment to Asian art programming with the establishment of the IAA—a platform to celebrate Asian art and artists. Since then, the IAA has presented compelling exhibitions—breaking attendance records—as well as a breadth of inspiring programs such as multi-language tours, performances, talks, symposia and education workshops for visitors of all ages and backgrounds. In this landmark year and milestone moment, the Vancouver Art Gallery is excited to announce that the Institute of Asian Art will be renamed the Centre for Global Asias (CGA), a new name that recognizes Vancouver’s unique location as one of the most important gateways to the Asia Pacific, and the Gallery as a leading cultural institution for the amplification of Asian art and thought—nationally and internat ... More
Norman Rockwell (American, 1894-1978), To Keep Myself Physically Strong, conceived 1962; published 1964. Oil on canvas, 35 x 29 in.
DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions on Friday began auctioning some of the most celebrated and iconic art created for the Boy Scouts of America. Proceeds from the auction will be used to compensate survivors of childhood sexual abuse. These selected works from the collection of the BSA Settlement Trust appeared at the top of Heritage’s thoughtfully curated November 15 American Art Signature® Auction, which broke a handful of auction records. The initial 25 offerings from the BSA Trust collection hammered at $3,715,500, all of which will benefit survivors of childhood sexual abuse in Scouting. When the standard buyer’s premium was added to the final hammer price, the lots realized $4,644,375. The 81-lot American Art auction realized more than $8.25 million with more than 700 bidders participating. The 109-lot Illustration Art Signature® Auction, held earlier Friday and led by Robert Peak’s record-setting $300,000 original ... More
Installation view.
NEW YORK, NY.- Eli Klein Gallery is presenting “Tone Check: The Skins of Contemporary Korean Painting,” a group exhibition of 9 Korean artists probing through the psychological, emotional, and social uncertainties that are often unseen on just the surface. As skin works as a protective, discerning barrier for what is within, the artists have worked to open up that barrier to communicate and be vulnerable with the audience. This exhibition showcases 17 flat works, revealing the true colors of and under the skins corresponding to each painting, literally and metaphorically. Since the Dansaekhwa movement, Korean paintings have had a strong historical connection with the concept of "skins." This notion has further developed in recent years, as what was initially perceived as a resemblance has now progressed into a more complex relationship. More artists are starting to resolve various conflicts—technical, psychological, social, and emotional—through fl ... More
Ralph Lemon. Tell it anyway. 2024. Performance view, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. 2024. Courtesy Walker Art Center. Photo: Yasmin Yassin.
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- This fall, MoMA PS1 presents a major exhibition of artist Ralph Lemon (b. 1952, Cincinnati), featuring more than sixty artworks made over the last decade across disciplines, and a program of six collaborative performances. Ceremonies Out of the Air: Ralph Lemon comprises dance, large-scale video installation, drawings, photographs, sculpture, and paintings throughout the Museum’s expansive third-floor galleries, alongside a synchronous monthly program of live works in a dedicated performance space. One of the most significant figures to emerge from New York’s downtown scene in the 1980s, Lemon engages deeply with the legacies of postmodern dance in the US and the capacity for storytelling through movement reflecting on the state of performance in the museum, on stage, in celebration, and in daily life. Together, Lemon’s works position the body as an archive of raw emotion, physical labor, ... More
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Gatsby Collection of South African coinage heads to Heritage's NYINC auction DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions will present The Gatsby Collection, an extraordinary curation of pre-1960 South African coinage, unparalleled in its breadth and quality. The collection comprises what is believed to be the rarest, most comprehensive and most valuable collection of Southern African numismatic items in private hands and represents the result of more than 50 years of patient and dedicated connoisseurship. The Gatsby Collection will be sold at Heritage Auctions throughout 2025 in three installments, the first with a stand-alone session at Heritage’s New York International Numismatic Convention (NYINC) Auction January 13. The overarching objective of the passionate collector who compiled this comprehensive and highly graded collection was to include the rarest coins and mint specimens representing the rich history of coinage ... More
Artium Museoa opens 'Joëlle Tuerlinckx El caso del (a casa) museo(a)' VITORIA-GASTEIZ.- The Museum of Contemporary Art of The Basque Country, Artium Museoa, presents El caso de l(a casa) museo(a), an exhibition by the Belgian artist Joëlle Tuerlinckx (Brussels, Belgium, 1958). The exhibition, curated by Beatriz Herráez and Catalina Lozano, director and chief curator of the Museum respectively, is articulated as a sort of disconcerting retrospective. It brings together historical works alongside recent proposals that, in turn, are traces and records of previous projects. Tuerlinckx deals with this retrospective approach to her work by revisiting her book Moments d’espace (Secession, Vienna, 2011), reconsidering her own practice, the strangeness of the coming together of different temporalities, and the splitting of the subjects of enunciation in order to allow further viewpoints and centres. Through ... More
Karma opens Belgian painter Carole Vanderlinden's debut exhibition in New York NEW YORK, NY.- Karma presents Belgian painter Carole Vanderlinden’s debut exhibition in New York, open from November 1–December 21, 2024, at 188 East 2nd Street. Carole Vanderlinden’s painting practice is expansive, encompassing what she has called “a mix of genres” to achieve “a coming together of things that shouldn’t mix.” For thirty years, she has worked across collage, drawing, and oils, exploring the syntax of painting through association, intuition, and the act of making itself, as evinced by the oils on view here, made over the course of the last decade. Her titles, which span and sometimes combine numerous languages, point to her imbrication in both semantic and art historical multitudes. With innumerable motifs and methods on the table, the fundamental condition of painting—choice—comes to the fore. Deciding on subject and form, ... More
Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden's foyer features a long-term installation by Viron Erol Vert BADEN-BADEN.- From the moment one walks into the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden’s foyer, one is confronted with another reality; through color, scale, and size new forms embrace the visitor’s perception, and create a dreamy, fluid, and spatial experience to remind them of the power of artistic thinking. Since last spring, the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden has been welcoming its visitors with a new spatial form; a long-term installation by Berlin-based artist Viron Erol Vert (b. 1975). This commission serves both as an art installation, for public use, and a passage between the park outside and exhibition space above, celebrating the long tradition of working with artists for the foyer and the café including Daniel Buren, and Tobias Rehberger. Titled Garden of Ornaments, th ... More
'Field Notes: Artists Observe Nature; opens at Museum of Glass TACOMA, WA.- Museum of Glass announced Field Notes: Artists Observe Nature. Not surprisingly, artists have looked to the natural world for inspiration for millennia. And, since the turn of the 20th century, there have been significant moments in which artists have sought to mimic the forms and patterns of nature in glass. Field Notes: Artists Observe Nature begins with works from the Art Nouveau period, roughly between 1890 and 1910, centered in France during the Belle Époque. The movement’s signature focus on blossoms, birds, and insects combined with sinuous organic tendrils was a reaction against the academic style and historicism of the previous century. These stylistic markers shone with particular brilliance in the decorative and applied arts and architecture. The style reached its apogee at the Exposition Universelle ... More
Exhibition explores the male body in the history of photography PARIS.- The David Guiraud Gallery announced the launch of the third exhibition in its project exploring the male body in the history of photography. On this occasion, the gallery invites visitors to immerse themselves in the world of physical photography, an immense social and cultural phenomenon that remains relatively unknown. This movement, however, features numerous talented photographers who were pioneers of a unique artistic trend celebrating the aesthetics of the male body. Physical photography is a movement that emerged primarily in the United States but was also significantly present in Europe and Japan. Its emergence was driven by the conjunction of two phenomena: the growing interest in physical culture since the 19th century and the boom of illustrated men's magazine ... More
The Asian Art Biennial opens its 9th edition TAICHUNG CITY.- The Asian Art Biennial opened its 9th edition, taking place from November 16, 2024 to March 2, 2025 at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMoFA). This year’s curatorial team, convened by Taiwanese independent curator Fang Yen Hsiang, includes four international curators: Armenian-born, Paris-based curator Anne Davidian; Filipino artist and researcher Merv Espina; Singapore-based South Korean curator Haeju Kim; and Istanbul- and Paris-based curator and writer Asli Seven. Reflecting the curators’ cross-regional collaboration, the Biennial brings together 52 artists from over 25 countries across East Asia, Central Asia, West Asia, and the Pacific. A total of 91 works, including 19 new commissions, are being exhibited. The title of the 2024 Asian Art Biennial, How to Hold Your Breath, evokes the act of voluntarily ... More
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On a day like today, American sculptor Isamu Noguchi was born
November 17, 1904. Isamu Noguchi (November 17, 1904 - December 30, 1988) was a prominent Japanese American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward. Known for his sculpture and public works, Noguchi also designed stage sets for various Martha Graham productions, and several mass-produced lamps and furniture pieces, some of which are still manufactured and sold. In this image: Isamu Noguchi working in stone yard at his Mure, Japan studio, 1975. Photographer unknown.
