Auctioneer and owner Rico Baca, seated on the Campana Brothers’ Boa sofa, one of the many unusual finds in their Oct. 26, 2024 auction.
LAKE WORTH BEACH, FLA.-Palm Beach Modern Auctions’ season-opener sale next weekend promises design enthusiasts and art collectors a feast for the senses. The auction preview is currently open to the public in their exhibition center. “Whether you’re looking at a sofa, a painting, or a diamond bracelet, nothing compares to seeing the items firsthand,” says auctioneer and co-owner Rico Baca. “These are unique pieces to experience, representing fascinating techniques, important genres, and parts of modern history. We offer online and phone options for the convenience of our clientele, and a walkthrough video on our website, but I always tell people to come by and preview if they can.” ... More
Photographic panorama of the central gallery of the Museo del Prado in its new storage box at the Laurent y Cía Museo Nacional del Prado photography repository.
MADRID.- In its ongoing mission to make its vast heritage accessible to as many people as possible, the Prado Museum has launched a new online initiative. This project provides free access to a significant selection of the museum’s works on paper, ... More
All About Love, titled in homage to cultural critic, intellectual, and writer bell hooks, marks its East Coast debut at the Barnes with approximately 50 works made by Thomas over the past two decades.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Barnes Foundation will present Mickalene Thomas: All About Love, the first major international tour focused on the work of pioneering artist Mickalene Thomas, whose influences range from 19th-century ... More
This book reveals the prodigious variety of the art of César (1921–1998) and highlights his radical gestures that transformed twentieth-century sculpture.
PARIS.-Almine Rech announced the release of a book on César, an opportunity to revisit three major exhibitions organized between 2021 and 2022 in celebration of the centenary of the artist's birth, in collaboration with the Fondation César. This book reveals the prodigious variety of the art ... More
Installation view. Photo: Courtesy Jared Sorrells for Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
BENTONVILLE, ARK.- Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art opened Knowing the West, the first major traveling exhibition to embrace the American West as more inclusive, complex, and reflective of the diverse peoples who contributed to art and life there. Co-curated by Mindy Besaw, Crystal Bridges’ curator of American art and ... More
PARIS.- Following the successful Danute and Alain Mallart Collection on 18 October, Christie’s held yesterday its evening auction: Avant-Garde(s) including Thinking Italian, celebrating important 20th and 21st century art by offering over fifty major works. Tonight’s sale totaled €50,859,000 | $55, ... More
DRESDEN.- Jean-Pierre Latz (1691–1754), born in the Electorate of Cologne, is widely regarded as one of the most important cabinetmakers of his time. As the culmination of an extensive research and restoration project, the Kunstgewerbemuseum of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD) is hosting the world’s first special exhibition ... More
Paul and Lily Klee with the cat Bimbo, Kistlerweg 6, Bern, 1935. Photo: Fee Meisel.
BERN.- The dynamic permanent exhibition devoted to Paul Klee invites visitors to immerse themselves in the life and work of this important modern artist. With some 80 changing works from the collection, Kosmos Klee offers a chronological survey of Klee’s artistic career. Biographical and archival material provide an insight into his life and time. In addition, the ‘focus room’ offers a space for smaller exhibitions devoted to individual aspects of Klee’s work, or contributions to the artist’s global reception. The Zentrum Paul Klee is the world’s most important centre ... More
The Stranger, 1954. Bronze, 73 × 48 × 28 cm | 28 3/4 × 18 7/8 × 11 1/16 in. 18.40kg. Photo: Claire Dorn. Courtesy of the Lynn Chadwick’s Estate and Perrotin.
PARIS.- “Hypercycle,” curated by art historian Matthieu Poirier, is a series of exhibitions at several sites across three continents from 2024 to 2026, with three chapters, each tracing a part of the artist’s career. Lynn Chadwick (1914–2003) was one of the most significant sculptors of the twentieth century, alongside Alberto Giacometti, Henry Moore, and Louise Bourgeois. The first chapter began on October 12, 2024 in Paris, at the Centre des Monuments Nationaux–Hôtel de Sully and Perrotin. It brings together ... More
Barbara Crane studied Photography and Art History at Mills College (California) and New York University, then became a professional photographer, specialised in portraits.
PARIS.- The Centre Pompidou presents the first major exhibition in Europe dedicated to internationally acclaimed American photographer Barbara Crane (b. Chicago, 1928 – 2019), whose career spans more than sixty years. The exhibition brings together more than 200 works, some of which have recently been acquired by the Musée National d’Art Moderne. In partnership with the Barbara B. Crane Trust, it focuses on the first 25 years of the artist’s career, featuring ... More
Yūzū Nenbutsu Engi (Origins of the Yuzu Nenbutsu Sect) 融通念仏縁起 (detail), Handscroll, Kamakura or period, 14th century, Japan, Ink, color, and gold on paper, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Freer Collection, Purchase—Charles Lang Freer Endowment, F1959.13.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art has announced “Japan in Focus,” a series of exhibitions and public programs that offer visitors new ways to deepen their understanding of Japanese art and culture. Beginning on ... More
NEW DELHI.- From October 2024 to September 2025, three of India's most important museums for modern and contemporary art present the special exhibition “Eckart Muthesius and Manik Bagh: Pioneering Modernism in India“ curated by the head of the Museum für Asiatische Kunst. First, it will be on display at the Kiran Nadar Museum (KNMA) in New Delhi from 14 October ... More
The Palace of Holyroodhouse: A House of Many Memories. £55.00
EDINBURGH.- As Edinburgh celebrates its 900th anniversary, a new publication reveals how the Palace of Holyroodhouse – the magnificent landmark in the heart of Edinburgh – has played an integral role in the unfolding history of the monarchy, the city and Scotland itself. The Palace of Holyroodhouse: ‘A house of many memories’, published today (10 October) by Royal Collection Trust, is the most comprehensive history ... More
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Nedko Solakov presents a humorous, site-specific installation at The Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art BUDAPEST.- The Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art is presenting Nedko Solakov’s humorous, site-specific installation, located in the museum’s lobby, next to the cloakroom. In this work, Solakov explores the idea of an artist who seeks to view the world from a radically different perspective—literally by turning himself upside down to shift his viewpoint. A Cornered Solo Show #5 is being presented in celebration of the museum’s 35th anniversary and the 30th anniversary of Solakov’s solo exhibition, The Collector of Art. The exhibition also marks the Ludwig Foundation's recent acquisition of 12 drawings by Solakov, entitled Correctness (2021). As part of this event, the artist will generously donate ... More
Saatchi Gallery presents new works by Nigerian textile artist Samuel Nnorom LONDON.- Saatchi Gallery, M&C Saatchi Group and Tiwani Contemporary are presenting a solo exhibition of works by emerging Nigerian artist Samuel Nnorom, inaugural winner of the M&C Saatchi Group Art for Change Prize in 2022. Featuring new works that have not yet been exhibited in the UK, MULTITUDE OR MINORITY is open at Saatchi Gallery until 24 November, 2024. Nnorom’s sculptures are visual metaphors made from offcuts of Ankara fabric, the wax-printed cloth now synonymous with African textiles. Fabrics to him evoke a sense of social structure or organisation that interlaces humanity into society. However, when referring to the "fabric of society" or "social fabric," it refers to the weft and warp interlace of values, traditions, behaviours, identities, religions, and heritage of the human society. This is unique to different societies, as he ... More
The Center for Maine Contemporary Art presents the first Maine solo exhibition of Kyle Downs ROCKLAND, ME.- The Center for Maine Contemporary Art is presenting the first Maine solo exhibition of Kyle Downs, From the Collection of Lord Red. Downs presents wall sculptures made from strips of discarded basketballs, referencing post-production practices, pop culture, and the psychology of collecting. Kyle Downs is a sportsman, and to see his basketball-strip tapestries, one might guess that his sport of choice is basketball. In truth, Downs channels his athleticism through the thrill of the hunt, searching junk shops and flea markets for sturdy materials, rare records, and surprising objects with unlikely surfaces. Downs relishes the heightened state of intentional searching and the discovery of diamonds in the rough, reframing collecting as an act of material obsession to a more wholesome meditation on the quality of attention and honoring ... More
Tolarno Galleries opens Martin Bell's new exhibition MELBOURNE.- Tolarno Galleries is presenting Martin Bell’s new exhibition, Batavia, an Allegory of Good and Bad Government, After Lorenzetti. Bell makes his painting debut in his fifth solo exhibition with one monumental work on 75 ply panels arranged in a 5 x 15 formation, overall size 2.8 x 11.4 metres. Batavia, an Allegory of Good and Bad Government, After Lorenzetti is a grand history painting executed in a free and vigorous cartoon-like style. Installed on the longest wall in Gallery 1, the painting synthesises scenes and images borrowed from myriad sources. These include written accounts of the 1629 shipwreck of the Dutch East India Company’s Batavia in the Houtman Abrolhos Islands off the coast of Western Australia, and the horrific and depraved mutiny that followed. ... More
Mansur Nurullah's first solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery opens in San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- In his first solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco-based Mansur Nurullah presents intricately stitched, wall-hanging sculptures that build on the legacies of African-American quilt makers to trace personal and community histories. Made from discarded clothing, upholstery, bits of fur, disassembled shoes and handbags and other detritus, he incorporates the pasts of those materials and the people who used them, to depict personal or social narratives in exuberant, three-dimensional artworks that exist beyond the boundaries of painting, sculpture or textile. Living and working in San Francisco, Nurullah moves through the city on foot or bicycle and thinks of plotting one’s course in daily life as a metaphor for finding one’s place in the world. He sees each of his artworks as charting a journey - whether ... More
Anna-Eva Bergman's monumental paintings in exhibition at the National Museum OSLO.- The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo, Norway is presenting Becoming Anna-Eva Bergman, a major exhibition showcasing paintings by the Norwegian artist Anna-Eva Bergman (1909–1987) from the years 1950–75. During this period, Bergman developed a new idiom and gained international acclaim, marking a significant chapter in Norwegian art history. The exhibition held in the National Museum’s Light Hall brings together several of her most well-known monumental paintings as well as works that have not been exhibited since the 1950s. Around 1950, Bergman adopted a new approach to painting and began incorporating metal leaf which would become her signature style. Her goal was to create light within the image, utilising the reflective qualities of metal leaf to respond to the slightest fluctuations in the surrounding ... More
Tiwani Contemporary opens an exhibition of works by Emma Prempeh LONDON.- Tiwani Contemporary is featuring the first of two solo presentations (the second in Lagos early 2025) by Emma Prempeh where pictorially she considers for the first time, landscape, and its relevance as an expansion of her hyperreal perceptions of home, belonging and memory. Her paintings depict events, people, interiors, places and still life from past and recent memories, emphasizing and representing the passing of time and the instability of memory. On occasion, Prempeh includes projected still or moving imagery, to invite experiential and performative encounters with her work. Wandering Under a Shifting Sun accounts for recent shifts in Prempeh's personal life as she divides her time between London and Kampala, Uganda. Her experience of living between continents and developing new kinships ... More
Between Solitude and Warmth: The Art of Qi Shunshun LONDON.- Qi Shunshun, born in China, 1998, is an artist whose work navigates the delicate balance between solitude and the warmth of everyday life. A graduate of the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) and the Royal College of Art, Qi’s paintings examine the tension between individuals and their environments, leading viewers to reflect on their own inner worlds. Qi’s work often revolves around the interplay of solitude and ambiguity. Her paintings particularly focus on the human relationship with the tranquil environments. Bathroom, toilets, bedrooms are recurring places which Qi's paintings take place. These spaces allow her to explore the blurred boundaries between public and private, a theme that resonates deeply in her art. Her work vividly captures the tension between being alone yet surrounded by others. ... More
Queen Mary’s Photo Albums: A major conservation project
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On a day like today, Dutch painter Aelbert Cuyp was born
October 20, 1620. Aelbert Jacobsz Cuyp (October 20, 1620 - November 15, 1691) was one of the leading Dutch landscape painters of the Dutch Golden Age in the 17th century. The most famous of a family of painters, the pupil of his father Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp (1594-1651/52), he is especially known for his large views of the Dutch countryside in early morning or late afternoon light. In this image: The Negro Page circa 1652, oil on canvas; Royal Collection.
