NEW YORK, NY.- New York-based artist Katya Leonovich, renowned internationally for her fashion designs, is embarking on a thrilling new chapter in her creative journey. Her latest solo exhibition, "American Renaissance," marks the opening of the Leonovich Gallery in Chelsea, Manhattan. This captivating showcase presents Leonovich's latest body of figurative paintings, a testament to her fearless creativity and ability to seamlessly blend different artistic worlds. Leonovich's career has been marked by her innovative approach to fashion. Her designs have graced the runways of New York Fashion Week for several seasons, captivating audiences with their bold aesthetics and unique blend of elements. Celebrities such as Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, and Carrie Underwood have proudly worn her creations. Now, Leonovich is reimagining her artistic vision through painting, offering a fresh perspective on masculinity, strength, and fragility. ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announced the 21st Century Evening Sale, taking place live at Rockefeller Center, 7pm on Thursday, November 21, 2024. The sale will be led by Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Untitled, a monumental portrait that sits among the iconic artist’s most impressive and outstanding works. Executed in 1982 when the artist was just ... More
Early 1900s signed Daum Nancy French cameo and enamel art glass vase, 15 ¼ inches tall, having a yellow and white mottled ground with colorful enamel branch and berry décor (est. $2,000-$3,500).
DOUGLASS, KAN.- A colorful and vibrant vase and an equally dazzling Malfrey pot, each marked Wedgwood Fairyland Lustre and both designed by Daisy Makeig Jones; a lovely signed Daum Nancy French cameo and enamel art glass vase; and a floriform vase signed L.C. Tiffany-Favrile are just a few of the highlight lots in an auction slated for ... More
VIENNA.- The Leopold Museum is dedicating a comprehensive retrospective exhibition to the multi-faceted oeuvre of Rudolf Wacker (1893–1939) as one of the most eminent Austrian contributions to New Objectivity in Europe. Featuring around 250 exhibits, Rudolf Wacker. Magic and Abysses of Reality retraces the development of the Vorarlberg painter and draftsman, highlights thematic emphases of his oeuvre and illustrates his works’ ... More
Execution of the house and surname of Salcedo. Granada, 1585. Manuscript on parchment.
BILBAO.- Conserved in Bilbao, the Arriola-Lerchundi Library is a private compilation of extraordinary artistic and documentary importance due to its volume and quality. It encompasses almost 20,000 printed items—including 140 incunables—and 15,000 manuscripts and is the outcome of the collecting efforts of the Bilbao notary José María Arriola and his wife Rosa Lerchundi, who for decades visited auction houses, fairs, antiquarians and bookshops specialised in book collecting all over the world. ... More
ASMA, research image, Mexico City 2024. Courtesy the artists.
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- SculptureCenter presents the first institutional exhibition in the United States of artist duo ASMA, on view Oct 31, 2024, through Feb 3, 2025. Their sculpturally-rooted works stretch the possibilities of materials such as silicon, resin, bronze, steel, or glass, often blending artisan craft techniques with synthetic and industrial processes. Their research methodology integrates intuitive responsiveness to a site with conceptual explorations found within the arenas of mythology, psychology, and ... More
“The Gilded Life of Richard Morris Hunt: Architecture and Art for an American Civilization” is available in hardcover ($54.95).
WASHINGTON, DC.- Celebrated internationally in the 19th century as America’s premier architect, Richard Morris Hunt (1827–1895) is best known for his opulent Gilded Age Vanderbilt mansions, including Biltmore, the Breakers, Marble House, and other landmark works. Yet the impact of Hunt on American culture after the Civil War ranges far beyond his lavish palaces. In “The Gilded Life of Richard Morris Hunt,” historian Sam Watters reveals the architect’s remarkable ... More
PHOENIX, AZ.- This fall, Phoenix Art Museum opens the original exhibition Charles Gaines: Numbers and Trees (Arizona Series), marking the first complete public display of Gaines’ most recent body of work, Numbers and Trees: Arizona Trees 1, 2023. Curated by Olga Viso, the Museum’s Selig Family Chief Curator, the presentation is ... More
Richard Aldrich, Without Going Outside of My Door, 2023-2024, Oil and wax on linen, 82 x 53 inches (208.3 x 134.6 cm).
SEOUL.- Gladstone presents Double Gemini, Richard Aldrich’s first solo exhibition in South Korea. Spanning the lower gallery and first floor, the exhibition comprises paintings and sculptures from the past decade, underscoring Aldrich’s view of his practice as a continuous, evolving body of work within which individual works are just parts. Throughout his career, the artist’s curatorial approach to installation has reflected an ongoing investigation into the recontextualization of objects ... More
Sherri Bryant, Imagination Map, 2022-2023. 40 x 60 inches. Collection Cranbrook Art Museum. Gift of Rose M. Shuey, from the Collection of Dr. John and Rose M. Shuey, by exchange. Image courtesy of Sherri Bryant.
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH.- This month, Cranbrook Art Museum welcomes three new exhibitions to its galleries, including two focused on the emerging and established talent from Detroit’s creative community. How We Make the Planet Move: The Detroit Collection Part I is the inaugural exhibition of Cranbrook’s newest collection devoted to celebrating and preserving the work of Detroit-based artists and designers. Subtleism: Neha ... More
The name of the space is inspired by an emblematic institution in Venetian history, the scuola piccola, a peculiar model of civic organisation, widespread and inclusive, a fluctuating institution, autonomous from the governmental and ecclesiastical power structures of the time.
VENICE.- Scuola Piccola Zattere is a non-profit space for research and continuing education in the expanded field of contemporary arts. The programme is developed through exhibition projects, commissions, residencies and research grants, workshops, seminars, discursive and performative events, with a ... More
Martin Grant (designer), Napoleon II coat 2000–01, autumn–winter. Leather, acetate, plastic, 147.0 cm (centre back) 67.0 cm (sleeve length) National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Purchased, 2001. Photo: Christian Markel / NGV
MELBOURNE.- NGV’s globally exclusive restaging of French Impressionism headlines the National Gallery of Victoria’s (NGV) 2025 Autumn-Winter Season, which also features a major solo exhibition surveying the career of Australian-born, Paris-based fashion designer Martin Grant, and an exhibition titled Kimono examining the enduring and influential design lexicon of one of Japan’s most ... More
Anni Albers, ca. 1912–1922. Photographer unknown Silver gelatin print, 16,2 × 11,1 cm. The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation.
BERN.- In 2025, the Zentrum Paul Klee turns 20 years old. The anniversary is being celebrated with an annual programme full of special highlights: at the centre of this are a large exhibition on the architect and artist Le Corbusier and a spectacular retrospective devoted to the textile artist Anni Albers. Both figures had a major impact on the art, design and architecture of the 20th century. In the summer, the Zentrum Paul Klee is showing the nonconformist, fascinating ... More
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Dayton Art Institute presents exhibition highlighting two classic animated features DAYTON, OH.- The Dayton Art Institute (DAI) will close its 2024 Special Exhibition season with an exciting presentation of two combined traveling exhibitions, Merry Grinchmas: Art of Dr. Seuss’ Holiday Classic & (B)ART! America’s Funniest Animated Family, on view now through January 19, 2025. Just in time for the holidays, enjoy these nostalgic exhibitions highlighting two beloved classics that continue to influence the art of animation. View original drawings of Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) and Chuck Jones, who brought Dr. Seuss’ beloved holiday tale to life in the 1966 animated special How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, then laugh alongside Homer, Marge, Lisa, Maggie and Bart as you experience the original handmade animation cels of the acclaimed series. “The art displayed in our newest exhibitions explores the significant influence ... More
Digital art commission by Maya Man exploring TikTok content trend launches on whitney.org NEW YORK, NY.- Today, the Whitney Museum of American Art launches A Realistic Day In My Life Living In New York City, a new digital art project by artist Maya Man commissioned for artport, the Museum’s online gallery space for net art and new media art commissions. This project is part of artport’s On the Hour series, featuring projects that mark every full hour around the clock, unfolding over a time frame of thirty seconds. Using whitney.org as their habitat, these net art projects disrupt, replace, or explore the Museum website as an information environment. This form of engagement captures the core of artistic practice on the Internet: the intervention of net art in existing online spaces. Presented hourly on whitney.org, Maya Man’s A Realistic Day In My Life Living In New York City explores online self-representation, building on the style ... More
Smithsonian American Women' History Museum presents oral history project WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum launched “We Do Declare: Women’s Voices on Independence”. Through the lens of economic power, this multi-year oral history and education project explores when, how and why women have sought independence in their own lives over the past 50 years. Timed with the 50th anniversary of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, which made it illegal for banks to discriminate against women applying for loans based on their sex or marital status, the first series of oral histories commemorate this important historical milestone for women and their economic independence. “We Do Declare: Women’s Voices on Independence” will unfold over the next 18 months to feature several dozen oral histories and community stories of women from across the country, ... More
Umar Rashid's third solo exhibition with BLUM to open this week in Los Angeles LOS ANGELES, CA.- As part of PST ART: Art & Science Collide, BLUM will present Los Angeles-based artist Umar Rashid’s third solo exhibition with the gallery, The Kingdom of the Two Californias. La Época del Totalitarismo Part 2. This second installment in Rashid’s Epoch of Totalitarianism series rejoins the artist’s fictional Frenglish conquerors—whose visual tale the artist has authored for upwards of fifteen years—in the 1800s as they attempt to maintain a stronghold in the Americas. Drawing an intentional parallel to the history of the Spanish Empire in the Californias, Rashid emphasizes the power of the colonial Frenglish as he portrays them with hyperbolic advantages such as weaponry from the twenty-first century, vibrant red muscle cars, and superhuman powers. At the core of this embellished retelling is Rashid’s signature mode of allegorical ... More
Exhibition unveils Siena's baptismal font and restoration of 19th-century plaster model BERLIN.- The Bode Museum in Berlin presents a special exhibition exploring the rich history and artistry of the Siena Baptismal Font, focusing on the restoration and display of a unique plaster model of the renowned Renaissance masterpiece. This collaborative project between Berlin's Sculpture Collection, the Museum of Byzantine Art, and the historic Berlin Plaster Casting Workshop celebrates the 120th anniversary of the Bode Museum, offering a new lens on this iconic work. The exhibit highlights two central works: Donatello’s bronze statuette Putto with Tambourine (1429) and a plaster replica of the Siena Baptismal Font, originally cast from molds created in 1876. This monumental plaster model, standing over five meters tall, has undergone an extensive restoration process, completed in 2023 through the support of the Ernst von Siemens Art Foundation. ... More
Largest North American exhibition to date by acclaimed French artist Laure Prouvost to open in Montreal MONTREAL.- The PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art will present Oma-je, the largest North American exhibition to date by acclaimed French artist Laure Prouvost, opening to the public on November 1, 2024. This touring show has evolved from its 2023 iteration at Remai Modern in Saskatoon and will unfold as a journey across seven of the PHI Foundation’s galleries in Montréal. This immersive presentation celebrates Prouvost’s relationship to family, friends, and their loved ones, as well as inspirational thinkers, activists, chosen kin, and artistic predecessors. Oma-je honours both intellectual inheritance and embodied ways of knowing, shifting attention from grandfather to grandmother and forefather to foremother. Love, touch, and teaching are irreversibly entangled and celebrated. The exhibition celebrates, references, or features ... More
Solo exhibition of new paintings by Kevin Lowenthal opens at Derek Eller Gallery NEW YORK, NY.- Derek Eller Gallery is presenting a solo exhibition of new paintings by Kevin Lowenthal entitled Mannequins in Audience in the North Room. With a background in weaving and textile, Lowenthal encrusts his surfaces with a textured mixture of cotton and layered oil paint, creating a rich, fibrous ground on which to build worlds, investigate forms, and uncover signifiers. Confined to liminal, compact interiors, Lowenthal’s architectural dreamscapes are often inhabited by lingering, faceless figures. Provoking a sense of theatricality, curtains frame each scene, setting the stage for domestic interiors bound together in one enigmatic space. In 2 Blonde Mannequins in Conversation, the pattern of the figures’ hair matches that of the curtains. Rather than acting as hard, definitive boundaries, the curtains appropriate the fluidity ... More
‘I'm drawn to things that are hidden, like the intangible bits of history' - Jasleen Kaur
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On a day like today, Anglo-French artist Alfred Sisley was born
October 30, 1839. Alfred Sisley (30 October 1839 - 29 January 1899) was an Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France, but retained British citizenship. He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedication to painting landscape en plein air (i.e., outdoors). He never deviated into figure painting and, unlike Renoir and Pissarro, never found that Impressionism did not fulfill his artistic needs. In this image: French businessman Pierre de Gunzbourg, flanked by his son Vivien, left, looks at the painting, "Soleil de Printemps, Le Loing, " (Spring Sun, Le Loing) by impressionist Alfred Sisley at the Paris courthouse, Friday, June 18, 2004.
