Alyina Zaldi´s Lost in the belly of a whale at Alexander Berggruen.
NEW YORK, NY.- The fall season of art fairs, auctions and blockbuster gallery exhibitions has arrived. The annual Madison Avenue Fall Gallery Walk on Saturday, October 26 will offer the public the opportunity to see what’s new and visit the premier roster of 50 galleries located on Madison Avenue between East 57 and East 86th Streets and adjacent side streets. The range of exhibitions will please every collector and art enthusiast. This fall, 50 galleries are opening their doors to invite the public to view the new exhibitions – many just unveiled. There will be curator talks and tours to enjoy, and the opportunity to meet some of the artists. To sign up for gallery talks and tours, and a complete list of galleries and programming, please visit: ... More
Bronze Head of Christ by Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907) from the Memorial of Reverend Phillips Brooks, housed at Trinity Church in Boston from 1896-1907 (est. $40,000-$60,000).
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Spectacular sculptures by Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American, 1848-1907) and Salvatore Florenti Albano (Italian, 1841-1893), and an original oil on canvas painting by Daniel Ridgway Knight (American/Paris, 1839-1924) are expected headliners in an Important November Estates Auction planned for November 8th and 9th by Crescent City Auction Gallery. ... More
Paul Paiement, Nexus - Apache Junction, Arizona, 2024. Acrylic on plywood, 24 x 57 inches (61 x 144.7cm).
NEW YORK, NY.-Ethan Cohen Gallery is presenting NEXUS 2.0.1: Contemporary Landscape Paintings by Paul Paiement. Paiement’s Nexus series of acrylic on wood panel paintings is his second significant body of work spanning over his 30-year career. As in his Hybrids series of paintings, Nexus explores humanity’s interaction in the natural world. Nexus is the merging of the linear, practical, mathematical, technological, ... More
Gen. D.S. Stanley Shell Jacket, Sold for $1625.
GLEN COVE, NY.- Roland Auctions NY October 19th Multi-Estates Auction turned out to be the house’s strongest sale since early this year with high-bidding across the board, topping $700,000. Leading the sale were several pieces of Fine and Modern art, led by two Samia Halaby (Palestinian/American, b. 1936) abstract oils on canvas, Also coming in strong were select jewels from the collection of Baroness Gabriele von Langendorff that were not included in the previous auction of her collection a few months back. ... More
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Fraenkel Gallery is presenting an exhibition by Kota Ezawa featuring a number of important new works. This is his first solo show with the gallery since joining the roster last year. Ezawa reimagines key images from media, art history, and popular culture, translating complex visual information into its essential elements to explore the construction of shared experience. ... More
GENEVA.- Christie’s announces the sale of five exceptional jewels from the Sassoon Family on 12 November 2024 in Geneva. Nowadays it is very rare to encounter a group of family jewels purchased during the 1920s and 1930s to have remained in the same family since originally acquired. Many jewels from the early 20th century containing large ... More
Figure with Thin White Rope, 2005-2023.
BRUSSELS.- Mark Manders expands his seminal ‘Self-Portrait as a Building’ project with multiple new rooms for his inaugural exhibition with the gallery. Installations referencing domestic spaces, including a bathroom, bedroom and studio, take their place alongside monumental and domestic-scale painted bronzes, mixed-media sculptures, objects, furniture and two-dimensional works. This large-scale exhibition draws together the multiple strands of practice to ... More
Alia Farid, Amulets (detail). Photo: Andrew Brodhead.
STANFORD, CA.- The sculptor and filmmaker Alia Farid’s first public art commission in North America was installed earlier this month on the elevated plinth on Meyer Green between Green Library and Stanford Law School. The sculpture is composed of two large amulet forms leaning against one another, each with seven apertures, referred to as “seven eyes.” The design alludes to divination practices and beckons viewers to consider ... More
Alexandre da Cunha, Ikebana (Escapism), 2024. Umbrella handle, cap, hanger, cleaning cloth, concrete, 19 1/4 x 10 5/8 x 6 3/4 in. 49 x 27 x 17 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan presents These Days, an exhibition of recent work by Alexandre da Cunha on view from October 25 - December 21, 2024, at the gallery’s 48 Walker Street location. These Days is da Cunha’s first exhibition with James Cohan. Alexandre da Cunha’s sculptures and wall-mounted works uncover the poetry and beauty of everyday objects, liberating them from ... More
SYDNEY.- The first Australian blockbuster of groundbreaking and beloved Belgian surrealist René Magritte (1898–1967) takes centre stage at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney this summer, with a rich and wide-ranging selection of works featuring the iconic motifs of bowler hats, clouds, pipes and apples that are now indelibly part of visual culture. Opening tomorrow, exclusive ... More
VIENNA.- This comprehensive show presents key paintings ¬– portraits, but also a series of self-portraits -– by Amoako Boafo (* 1984 in Accra), dating from 2016 to the present day. As one of the most important voices of a new generation of Black artists, Boafo portrays friends, acquaintances and public figures who convey contemporary notions ... More
GREENSBORO, NC.- The Weatherspoon Art Museum at UNC Greensboro announced today that it will receive a landmark gift from artist, collector, and philanthropist Carol Cole Levin to transform the museum’s first-floor wing into the Cole Levin Center ... More
Installation view.
ROME.- A major exhibition, “Roma Pittrice: Artiste al lavoro tra XVI e XIX secolo” (Rome Painter: Women Artists at Work Between the 16th and 19th Centuries), is currently on display at the Museo di Roma in Palazzo Braschi. Running from October 25, 2024, until March 23, 2025, this groundbreaking show features over 130 works, many of which are either being exhibited for the first time or have remained relatively unknown. ... More
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The Julia Stoschek Foundation presents the third Double Feature in Düsseldorf and Berlin BERLIN.- The Julia Stoschek Foundation is presenting the third Double Feature in Düsseldorf and Berlin with works by Cypriot artist Theodoulos Polyviou. Spanning video, sculpture, archival objects, photography, and prints, the solo presentations introduce the third chapter of Polyviou’s ongoing series Transmundane Economies (2022 – ongoing) to Germany. In this series, the artist deploys digital technologies like virtual reality and CGI filmmaking to study, reconstruct, and fill in historical gaps of Cypriot cultural heritage. His speculative approach circumvents nationalist agendas by offering alternative ways to revisit the historical complexities of the island and its founding as a nation state. The central site-responsive video installation A Palace in Exile (2024), which premiered at the Fondazione Elpis in Milan, will here be adapted to simulate ... More
"It Waives Back" by Fitch │ Trecartin opens at Prada Aoyama Tokyo TOKYO.- Prada presents the exhibition “Lizzie Fitch | Ryan Trecartin: It Waives Back”, organized with the support of Fondazione Prada, at Prada Aoyama Tokyo from 24 October 2024 to 13 January 2025. The sixth floor of the building, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, will host the first presentation of this project by American collaborative artists Fitch | Trecartin in Asia, and their first solo show in Japan. This exhibition of new movies and sculptures is part of a broader body of work that began in 2016 when the artists moved their home and studio to rural Ohio. The foundational body of work, titled “Whether Line”, was commissioned by Fondazione Prada and debuted in 2019 as a large-scale multimedia installation in Milan. The exhibition included a movie, extensive animation works, and sound design that spanned multiple buildings at Fondazione Prada’s ... More
Gagosian to present Avedon & Me at Paris Photo 2024 PARIS.- Gagosian announced a presentation at Paris Photo 2024 curated by Tyler Mitchell, which places Mitchell’s work in dynamic conversation with iconic photographs by Richard Avedon (1923–2004). In his curatorial debut, Mitchell, a leading voice in contemporary photography, brings his unique vision to this exchange. The presentation is centered on Avedon’s works from the 1960s alongside a selection of Mitchell’s photographs from the past six years, including some not previously exhibited. For Avedon, the 1960s were a period of deepening social engagement that he would continue through the rest of his life. Central to this era is his groundbreaking collaboration with James Baldwin on Nothing Personal (1964), a book that pairs Baldwin’s words and Avedon’s photographs, offering powerful reflections on race, identity, and society. ... More
Photo Elysée opens an exhibition of Maya Rochat's work LAUSANNE.- Water is coming is a complex and immersive installation especially designed for Photo Elysée. We’re successively submerged between the immensity of the waves and the artificial space of an aquarium in which the water is steadily rising. The tension between the beauty of the living world and the anxiety caused by the deterioration of our planet is a constant theme in Maya Rochat’s work. In this exhibition, the Swiss artist offers a holistic experience on the fringes of our reality. Inspired by Masaru Emoto’s hypothesis that the human conscience affects the structure of water, Rochat filmed images on and under the water. She then reworked them into video montages and projected and superimposed them onto images printed on canvas and wallpaper. For several years, her work has been in various experimental media where ... More
Two historic Rolex watches worn to R. M.S Titanic to star in Sotheby's Important Watches Sale NEW YORK, NY.- In 1985, it took Robert Ballard eight days to find the R.M.S. Titanic around 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. For more than 70 years, the location of the liner's wreckage — about 12,600 feet below the ocean's surface — had been a mystery since the "unsinkable" ship struck an iceberg late in the evening of April 14, 1912. Since then, fewer than 250 people in the world have personally viewed the Titanic wreckage, which sits about 2.5 miles below the ocean’s surface. One of those people, Alfred ‘Al’ Giddings, has completed a total of seventeen dives to the infamous shipwreck. Considered one of the world's most accomplished and renowned underwater cinematographers, Giddings, with nearly half a century of underwater cinematography under his belt, has redefined the genre of underwater filmmaking. Best known for his work as a co-producer and the director of underwater ... More
'Berserk', 'Dragon Ball Z', Bugs Bunny and 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' top Heritage auction DALLAS, TX.- The explosion in the popularity of original anime artworks as collectibles — hand-painted production cels and animation drawings, original hand-painted production backgrounds, rare original manga pages from fan favorites and more — is most visible at Heritage, where the auction house has built a reputation for its Animation category and dominates the market: Over five days and more than 2000 lots, Heritage’s October 18-22 The Art of Anime and Everything Cool...Volume V Signature® Auction brought in $2.964 million, with more than 6,000 bidders and all lots sold. The top two results in the event went to anime titles and proved the chronological range and record-setting power of the Japanese artform at auction: A pan production cel with Key Master background and animation drawing from Berserk (1997-98) depicting ... More
The Morgan Library & Museum Presents: Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian's Legacy NEW YORK, NY.- The Morgan Library & Museum presents a major exhibition devoted to the life and career of its inaugural director, Belle da Costa Greene (1879–1950). The first ever retrospective of Greene’s life, the exhibition celebrates both the centennial of the Morgan as a public institution and the 100th anniversary of Greene’s appointment as its first director. On view October 25, 2024 through May 4, 2025, Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian’s Legacy will trace Greene’s storied life, from her roots in a predominantly Black community in Washington, D.C., to her distinguished career at the helm of one of the world’s great research libraries. She was born Belle Marion Greener, but passed as white as Belle da Costa Greene, crossing the color line with her mother and siblings a few years after moving to New ... More
On a day like today, Spanish painter Pablo Picasso was born
October 25, 1881. Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 - 8 April 1973), was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer who spent most of his adult life in France. As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is widely known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a portrayal of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. In this image: Pablo Picasso watches the filming of his life story in Nice, France, on July 26, 1955. Henri Georges Clouzot, seated, is producing the picture. Picasso's daughter Maya is at left.
