This investment paves the way for the expansion of AstaGuru's presence in local and international markets over the next few years through various verticals and categories.
MUMBAI.-AstaGuru, India’s premium auction house, announces a strategic investment from the family office of Adar Poonawalla to acquire approximately 20% stake. Adar Poonawalla is a connoisseur of arts and fine collectibles. He has been a collector of both Indian and international art as well as historic artefacts for over a decade. His discerning palate and a passion for fine art has culminated in a shared vision to create an ecosystem that allows people to access and savour collectibles across geographies. This investment paves the way for the expansion of AstaGuru's presence in local and international markets over the next ... More
Francesco Vezzoli, KARL GOES TO MEMPHIS (I FEEL JUST LIKE A CHILD), 2025. Inkjet print on canvas, metallic embroidery, artist’s frame, 42 x 30 cm. 16 1/2 x 12 in.
MONACO.- Almine Rech Monaco announces 'Francesco Vezzoli presents: KARL GOES TO MEMPHIS Tribute to a historic encounter in Monte Carlo', Francesco Vezzoli’s third solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from March 20 to May 24, 2025, in collaboration with Memphis. "It was love at first sight. When I saw the Memphis show in September '81 in Milan. I had just got a big apartment in Monte Carlo. And had no idea how to furnish it. I had never lived in a modern building. I wanted it all modern and instantly thought that Memphis would be the Art Deco of the '80s. I was right. The influence was enormous. Memphis tried to breathe fresh air into the word "design." And what I like about all the Memphis stuff is its humor." — Karl Lagerfeld Three qualities characterized Karl: an encyclopedic culture that he constantly nurtured, as he ... More
Aracne. Museo Nacional del Prado.
MADRID.- For the first time on Open Access and via its website, the Museo Nacional del Prado is offering the computer programme Aracne, which facilitates the scientific study of canvases used by artists for their paintings. The programme is the result of ten years of research and close collaboration between the Higher Technical School of Engineering of the University of Seville (Dr Juan José Murillo) and the Technical Department of the Museo Nacional del Prado (Dr Laura Alba). Aracne is a digital resource that applies frequency analysis to an image of fabric in order to describe it automatically, accurately and objectively. To do so, the software automatically counts the threads that make up a piece of fabric regardless of its use or origin. In the case of the Museo Nacional del Prado, the interest focuses on detailing the canvases used as supports by painters. For this reason the software has been specifically designed to analyse the fabrics most often employed for easel paintings: ... More
LONDON.- Christie’s Modern British and Irish Art Evening Sale achieved a total of £11,312,620/ $14,672,468/ €13,428,080, with sell-through rates of 96% by lot and 98% by value. 96% of lots sold within or above the high estimate. The sale saw strong international buyer participation with 56% from EMEA, 35% from the Americas and 9% from APAC. Frank Auerbach’s Nude on Bed III led the sale, selling for £1,492,000, followed by Lynn Chadwick’s Sitting Couple on Bench, which realised £1,371,000. Sir William Nicholson’s The Lustre Bowl ignited enthusiastic competition among bidders, achieving £1,189,500 against a low estimate of £120,000, the second highest price achieved at auction for the artist. Bowl and Frying Basket by William Scott attracted spirited bidding in the room, selling after almost five minutes for £365,400. In addition to Lynn Chadwick, the demand for ... More
Michelangelo Pistoletto, Metrocubo d'infinito (Oggetti in meno 1965-1966), 1966. Mirror and rope, 120 x 120 x 120 cm. Michelangelo Pistoletto – Cittadellarte Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella; Galleria Continua. Ph. Paolo Pellion.
SHANGHAI.- Prada presents the exhibition “Mirroring: Lucio Fontana and Michelangelo Pistoletto,” with the support of Fondazione Prada. The exhibition will be on view from 20 March to 15 June 2025 at Prada Rong Zhai, the historic 1918 residence in Shanghai restored by Prada and reopened in 2017. The curatorial vision by Sook-Kyung Lee, Director of the Whitworth, part of the University of Manchester, has been complemented by the scientific advice of Fondazione Lucio Fontana and Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto. For the first time Lucio Fontana (1899–1968) and Michelangelo Pistoletto (b. 1933), two prominent figures of the post-war Italian and international art scene, are put in dialogue with one another revealing their respective approaches to the matter and the conceptual dimension of art, their exploration of alternative performative spaces, and the presence of the metaphysical ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian opens an exhibition of new works by Taryn Simon. Opening on March 20 at Park & 75, New York, it includes an interactive sculpture and a group of photographs that take an archaeological view of public attention and politics. Kleroterion (2024) is a cast resin sculpture that functions as both a game and a model of governance. Named after a device developed during the era of democracy in ancient Athens (c. 460–c. 322 BCE), the work invites individuals to assemble in groups of five and determine what power the game’s winner will be granted. Each participant inserts a colored chip into an empty slot, and a hand crank sets in motion a weighted set of balls that travel through the machine and knock out all but one chip, employing chance to determine a victor. According to historical accounts and surviving artifacts, the kleroterion was used to select male citizens for civic offices. Conducted in plain view of the public, this randomized lottery was a primary aspect of the A ... More
Matt Connors, Toy Museum, 2024. Oil acrylic and pencil on canvas, 99.1 × 83.8 cm. 39 × 33 in. Courtesy: the Artist and Xavier Hufkens, Brussels Photo credit: Adam Reich.
BRUSSELS.- In Mysterious Leap at Xavier Hufkens, Matt Connors presents a new series of large and small-scale paintings alongside related drawings, continuing his sustained inquiry into the mechanisms of painting and image — making as an intricate and ongoing process of translation. While rooted in direct observation, his compositions simultaneously draw from a varied network of references, reflecting a fascination with the process of re shaping and translating images into what he has referred to as ‘image-idea.’ The exhibition title derives from Sigmund Freud’s concept of the ‘mysterious leap’1 — the unfathomable transition between mind and body, the slippage between unconscious and physical states. “Ideas in psychoanalysis can have echoes with those in painting. Both start from a place of unknowing, letting patterns and networks arise, discovering and finding,” he notes. Connors approaches painting as an act ... More
A singular voice in American literature, Didion is best known for the spare, unflinching prose of her reportage, literary fiction, memoirs, and screenwriting.
NEW YORK, NY.- The New York Public Library will make the archive of Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne publicly available on March 26. Comprised of 336 boxes of items, most of which have never been seen publicly, the archive represents the most comprehensive collection of the authors’ materials, and is poised to spark a new wave of scholarship, enriching the public’s understanding of the lives and work of writers whose far-reaching influence is strongly felt today. A singular voice in American literature, Didion is best known for the spare, unflinching prose of her reportage, literary fiction, memoirs, and screenwriting. Dunne was a best-selling novelist, journalist, and screenwriter, chronicling Hollywood and American life at large with scathing flair. As pioneers of New Journalism, Didion and Dunne helped inaugurate a style of reportage that merges hard reporting with the traditional devices of fiction. A rich repository ... More
Fading Light, 2024, Acrylic on canvas, 74 3/4 x 43 1/4 inches, 189.9 x 109.9 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Miles McEnery Gallery opens an exhibition of new paintings and a site-specific wall drawing by Terry Haggerty, on view 20 March through 3 May 2025. Accompanying the exhibition is a fully illustrated publication featuring an essay by Barry Schwabsky. Terry Haggerty’s compositions consist of clean, unshaded lines and a tightly controlled palette of unmodulated colors. Lines curve toward the edges of intricately shaped canvases or flow across one another, creating a realm where two- and three-dimensional planes coexist. Crisp lines swell and contract, as though shifting through space, accelerating and decelerating like a visual Doppler effect, blurring the boundary between movement and stillness. White “negative” spaces are not passive voids but active forces that dynamically shape the composition rather than merely framing it. Haggerty is adept at synthesizing seemingly contradictory elements, generating visual dimensions that are familiar yet confounding. Fields of pure c ... More
It is possible that the millenary work represents a ruler with the attributes of that pre-Hispanic ritual. Photo: Gerardo Peña, INAH.
TORREÓN.- A striking pre-Hispanic sculpture, depicting a woman attired as a ball player, has emerged as a key piece in the ongoing discussion about female power and roles in the ancient Huasteca region. The artifact, currently featured in the "Mesoamerican Huastec Women. Goddesses, Warriors, and Rulers" exhibition at the Regional Museum of La Laguna (Murel), underscores the presence of women in significant ritualistic and potentially political roles. The sculpture, a limestone carving measuring 1.43 meters tall, showcases a female figure wearing traditional Huastec attire, including a conical headdress, circular earrings, and a yoke – a protective belt worn by ball players. Notably, the figure's skirt iconography includes a trophy-head, a "4 Death" glyph, and a dog's head glyph, prompting researchers to speculate about the woman's name and possible governing status. María Eugenia Maldonado Vite, co-curator of the exhibition and researcher ... More
LONDON.- Bartha_contemporary presents Four Tapestries, a display of recent work by British artist Susan Morris. The show includes three new works from the Binary Tapestry: Sunshine series, each of which record the amount of daylight the artist was exposed to over the course of a single year (2010, 2011 and 2012). These will be shown alongside a fourth work that records her sleep/wake patterns, alongside concurrent light exposure, over a period of the same three years. The tapestries were woven directly out of data recorded on an Actiwatch, a scientific-medical device used to track disturbances in sleep that Morris has used in her work since 2005. Worn on the wrist, the Actiwatch preceded the now ubiquitous self-tracking devices, such as Fitbits and Apple watches, and initially could only record three weeks’ worth ... More
Nicolás Leiva, El Jarron, 2024, Signed and dated on the underside, Glazed ceramic, 21 x 10 in, 53.3 x 25.4 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Ruiz-Healy Art presents Nicolás Leiva: Realms of Rebirth, a solo exhibition by Argentine-born, Miami-based artist Nicolás Leiva. The exhibition will be on view in New York City from March 20 to May 9, 2025, with an opening reception on March 20 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM, attended by the artist. This marks Leiva’s third solo show with Ruiz-Healy Art and his first in a New York gallery. Leiva’s work explores themes of life, transformation, and spirituality through vibrant ceramics that blend natural and cultural influences. Inspired by his father’s work as the founder and director of a nature reserve in Argentina, Nicolás Leiva creates fantastical ecosystems where flora and fauna merge into imaginative ceramic figures. Leiva’s sublime creations also owe their decadence to the beauty and craftmanship of Italian art. Having spent several years working at the Bottega Gatti in Faenza, Italy, the artist absorbed Faetina ceramics techniques, which incorporate lusters of gold, pl ... More
Installation photography, Louise Bourgeois, Maman, Tate Modern 2000. Photo Tate Photography.
LONDON.- Tate Modern today unveils details of its upcoming Birthday Weekender, an unforgettable free celebration of art, music, making and performance to mark the gallery’s 25th anniversary. Running from Friday 9 to Monday 12 May in partnership with UNIQLO, the Birthday Weekender is a chance for everyone to enjoy a long weekend of the very best modern and contemporary art. Alongside the gallery’s world-renowned free displays, visitors can expect live music and DJs, talks, workshops, tours and a host of free experiences alongside special food and drink offers and more. Live performance and participation will animate the museum. In the galleries, visitors can enjoy a live tarot reading as part of Meschac Gaba’s Museum of Contemporary African Art and a specially commissioned performance by Abbas Zahedi in Gathering Ground, a free exhibition exploring the ecological crisis and social justice. In the Tanks, Lawrence Lek will blend live ... More
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Scuola Piccola Zattere presents Geometrie del Possibile VENICE.- Scuola Piccola Zattere, the non-profit Venetian foundation for research and continuing education in the expanded field of contemporary arts, presents Geometrie del Possibile, the site-specific installation by Andrea Canepa. During his residency period, Canepa was invited to design a permanent site-specific installation for the Ridotto. It is a space contiguous to the entrance of the building, conceived as an always accessible environment, primarily dedicated to younger audiences and educational activities, which at the same time allows for the exploration of new forms of reception and interaction with the public, inviting to play or rest, to planned or spontaneous exchange. Designed to amplify sensory perception and physical involvement, Geometrie del Possibile is inspired by the modular components of floors, transforming them into dynamic structures that ... More
ICA launches new research project on alternative historicity of painting in China SHANGHAI.- On 20 March 2025, the Institute of Contemporary Arts at NYU Shanghai opens Vitalisms, an exhibition by artists CAI Zebin, CAO Xiang, CUI Jie, GAO Xiaoyi, LI Ran, XIE Lingrou, and ZHENG Zhilin, as the second season of its current artistic research program Lightless Fires (2024–26), exploring fermentation as a figure and technique of collective memory, autonomous archiving, and writing history. Vitalisms is an exhibition-as-experiment initiating a long-term research and education project on the "historicity" and "value" of contemporary painting in China. We begin our research by gathering a group of artists, born in the 1980s and 90s in China and mostly educated in Chinese art academies, and by focusing on figurative paintings made in the past five years (i.e., since 2020). We experiment with their presentation in a shared space and time, to ask: How ... More
Brisbane gallery explores the power of black and white in Aboriginal and contemporary art BRISBANE.- Mitchell Fine Art in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane presents Monochrome, an exhibition that brings together a powerful collection of Aboriginal and contemporary artworks that resist colour in favour of a black and white narrative. This striking exhibition is showing from 18th March until 17th April and invites viewers to engage with a range of artistic expressions and interpretations, all created featuring shades of black and white. Monochrome explores the stark contrast and harmony found in these two colours, showcasing the depth and breadth of artistic practices. Featuring works from leading Aboriginal artists alongside influential contemporary creatives, this exhibition highlights the power of minimalism in art, where the absence of colour speaks volumes in conveying complex ideas, emotions, and narratives. The exhibition brings together a di ... More
Tilton Gallery exhibition unveils assemblage art and social change NEW YORK, NY.- Tilton Gallery presents an exhibition of works by Noah Purifoy and a few of his contemporaries who were kindred spirits in their attitudes and philosophy towards art making. The exhibition will center on Purifoy’s signature assemblages and include works never before exhibited in New York. Works range from his important early 1965-66 Watts Remains from the rare group of works made for the exhibition 66 Signs of Neon in response to the 1965 Watts Rebellion to indoor and outdoor works from his period in Joshua Tree. Additional artists include John Outterbridge, David Hammons, Timothy Washington, John Riddle, Daniel LaRue Johnson, Varnette Honeywood, Betye Saar and Donald Stinson. Many of these works also have rarely, if ever, been shown. The exhibition will open on Thursday, March 20th with a reception from 6:00 – 8:00pm. ... More
Cindy Ji Hye Kim reimagines agrarian cycles in new exhibition LOS ANGELES, CA.- François Ghebaly presents Animal Triste, Cindy Ji Hye Kim’s third exhibition at the gallery. In the centuries before the widespread adoption of the Gregorian calendar, agrarian societies in Western Europe represented time as infused with the cycles of nature. Not unlike the modern Farmer’s Almanac or other global calendars based on solar and lunar movements, medieval farming calendars correlated times of the year with the sequence of labors necessary to raise and maintain crops and livestock. The calendars also served an invaluable psychosocial function, offering instruction for the timing of courtship, child-rearing, and other practices, and, in effect, creating a steadfast tie between the social order and the natural world. These agrarian calendars have become a new part of Cindy Ji Hye Kim’s visual vocabulary, extending the artist’s ... More
Artpace San Antonio showcases three artists examining migration, land, and ancestral memory SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Artpace announced the opening of our Fall 2024 International Artist-in-Residence exhibitions featuring artists Laura Veles Drey (Houston, Texas), Anita Fields (Stillwater, Oklahoma), and Lorena Molina (El Salvador, Central America). These artists were selected by Guest Curator Jami Powell. Powell is the Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs and Curator of Indigenous Art at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, where she also serves as a senior lecturer in the Native American and Indigenous Studies Department. Powell is a citizen of the Osage Nation and holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The three artists have been living at Artpace since late January, creating new work that will be presented at a public opening reception on Thursday, March 20, from 6–9PM. At 6:30PM, the artists ... More
Skewed frames and hidden machines unveil the unseen in modern reality at Layr VIENNA.- The first thing a viewer might notice about Leah Ke Yi Zheng’s Leibniz’s Machine (2024) is that, like all her canvases, it’s not rectangular. The painting’s frame is a bit skewed, a little off, and points to something outside itself that we barely notice, a clandestine convention: that almost all paintings are rectangular. The second thing we grasp, if it wasn’t the first, is that we’re looking at technology – albeit technology circa 1694, when the German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz completed his stepped reckoner, the first mechanical calculator, which would have profound effects on navigation, natural science and commerce; this beautiful, highly paintable object, which here seems almost to be transforming into a kind of tiered landscape, is a part of the roots of our modern, finance- and tech-centric world. Yet money and technology today are ... More
"Woman in Blue": Exploring Kokoschka's expressionist obsession with Alma Mahler in new exhibition ESSEN.- From March 20 to June 22, 2025, Museum Folkwang is dedicating an exhibition to two great figures in art history: Oskar Kokoschka, pioneer of expressionism, and Alma Mahler, composer, hostess of artistic salons, networker and confidante of many important artists. For the first time in more than 30 years, Woman in Blue is bringing together in one exhibition works by Kokoschka that were inspired by Alma Mahler. In Vienna at the beginning of the 20th century, Oskar Kokoschka fell in love with Alma Mahler, a well-known salonnière of Viennese society and widow of the composer Gustav Mahler. The obsessive and ultimately unrequited love that Oskar Kokoschka developed for Alma Mahler within a very short period of time is expressed in paintings, drawings, fans and a mural created between 1912 and 1922. The cycle is both a testimony to the times ... More
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On a day like today, British painter Patrick Heron died
March 20, 1999. Patrick Heron CBE (30 January 1920 - 20 March 1999) was a British abstract and figurative artist, writer, and polemicist, who lived in Zennor, Cornwall. In this image: Patrick Heron's painting "Nude in Wicker".
