Portrait of Mrs. H I, 1942. Oil on canvas, 22 x 18 inches.
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.-Weinstein Gallery is presenting Leonor Fini: Portraits and Passagers, an exhibition of the artist's distinguished body of work in portraiture from 1939 to 1992. Exemplified in twenty-four carefully curated paintings and works on paper, this presentation explores the multifaceted nature of identity through Fini's discerning gaze. ... More
The new co-artistic directors of the RSC, Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey beside the River Avon in front of the Royal Shakespeare Company, in Stratford Upon Avon, United Kingdom, on April 25, 2024. (Mary Turner/The New York Times)
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON.- Outside peak tourist season, there’s something a little uncanny about Stratford-upon-Avon, the English market town famous as William Shakespeare’s birthplace and home. On a visit last month, with only a trickle of foreign ... More
Leading up to the event, which is co-hosted by longtime Vogue editor and Condé Nast executive Anna Wintour and costs $75,000 per person, the Condé Nast Union pledged to continue to take action as needed to bring the publisher to the bargaining table.
NEW YORK, NY.- Condé Nast and the union representing employees of Vogue and other publications owned by the company reached a tentative agreement early Monday on a long-in-the-works contract. The deal happened about 12 hours before the first ... More
Frank Stella, a dominant figure in postwar American art, at home in New York on Feb. 5, 2019. (Christopher Gregory/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Frank Stella, who died Saturday at age 87, once joked that he harbored only one regret. We were sitting in his scruffy studio in the East Village, and he said he was sorry that he had failed to take legal action when the menswear store bearing his name opened in New York in the mid-1970s. “People call here all the time asking for cashmere ... More
Children play with Legos at a Lego Store in New York, April 1, 2024. (Maansi Srivastava/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Near the end of 2022, Lucas Bolt, an environmental artist and Lego enthusiast in Amsterdam, was working on a design for a Lego set the company had crowdsourced to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons, the tabletop role-playing game. “I spent two very intense weeks working on it, every night, every weekend, all the time that I ... More
Sayan Chanda, Jomi 6, 2024. Unpicked vintage quilt, 120 x 90 cm.
DUBAI.- Reverberations: Textile as Echo brings together work by four contemporary artists—M’barek Bouhchichi, Sayan Chanda, Himali Singh Soin, and Swapnaa Tamhane—that references the rich and diverse history and practice of textile arts across South and West Asia and North Africa. Often made in collaboration with master artisans, the included artworks use a variety of traditional ... More
NEW YORK, NY.-Almine Rech New York presents The Wilds and the Shore, Leelee Kimmel's third solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from May 7 to June 15, 2024. Leelee Kimmel continues in the refinement of a certain sort of abstract painting. But that word seems uneasy, correct but subtly off. What sort of refinement is this, or ... More
MONTREAL.-The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is presenting the Canadian exclusive Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry Moore: Giants of Modern Art, a large‑scale exhibition that, for the first time, sets the work of American painter Georgia O’Keeffe (1887‑1986) in dialogue with that of British sculptor Henry Moore (1898-1986). Organized by the ... More
Canadian 1930s Wayne Model 65 B-A gasoline pump, painted steel with applied decals, the original reverse painted ad glass and an Art Deco “skyscraper” design. (est. CA$5,000-$7,000).
NEW HAMBURG, ON.-Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd. will spring into May with three online-only auctions totaling more than 1,100 diverse and highly collectible lots. These will include a Toys & Historic Ephemera auction featuring Part 2 of the late Howie Meyer Legacy collection on Friday, May 10th; a Toys, Advertising & Coin-Op auction ... More
A pro-Palestinian group clashes with a pro-Israel group near a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Ill., on May 3, 2024. (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Police forcibly dismantled a pro-Palestinian encampment at the Art Institute of Chicago on Saturday and arrested dozens of protesters, hours after demonstrators had gathered in a garden at the institute and set up tents. Some of the demonstrators were students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, which is affiliated with the ... More
Lot no. 1, a work by British artist Benjamin Hudson was acquired by 71. 9 lakhs. The large-scale painting is Hudson’s portrait of Rajah Pratap Chandra Sinha who belonged to the Sinha family of Paikpara.
MUMBAI.- For its milestone 100th auction, AstaGuru showcased an exquisite array of rare works from different periods of modern art. From works by esteemed early modernists such as Jamini Roy, J P Gangooly, Amrita Sher-Gil, Sailoz Mookherjea, and N S Bendre, as well as stalwarts of the Progressive ... More
The theme of the first Debt Gala, “Garbage X Glamour,” encouraged guests to wear outfits made from trash and upcycled materials.
NEW YORK, NY.- Twenty-four hours before the Met Gala, a starkly different sort of gala occurred in Brooklyn at the Bell House, a concert venue that sits on a lonesome industrial street near the Gowanus Canal. It was the second annual Debt Gala, which bills itself as a do-it-yourself alternative to the lavish spring benefit in Manhattan, which ... More
An Indigenous Mary costume for a new production of “El Niño” at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, April 15, 2024. (Winnie Au/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- In the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of “El Nino,” which reimagines the story of Jesus’ birth and early childhood, there are singing and dancing Virgin Marys, Marys of the land and sea; there’s an Indigenous Mary, a Tropical Mary, a Golden Mary. For costume designer Montana Levi Blanco, differentiating this ... More
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France Muséums is expanding its activities internationally PARIS.-France Muséums is expanding its international footprint with significant projects, notably collaborating with the Indian government on the future National Museum of India in New Delhi. Building on its legacy of promoting French museum and heritage proficiency overseas for the creation of Louvre Abu Dhabi project, France Muséums expands its influence with key initiatives worldwide. Noteworthy for leading the promotion of a cultural heritage project in Bolivia and the development of the tourism and cultural offer for the Simón I. Patiño Foundation, as well as partnering with the Institut National du Patrimoine to develop a professional training program, MuseoPro, for the employees of the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi. France Muséums is a key player in promoting French museums and heritage expertise, providing ... More
Marcin Rusak debuts a new body of work at Carpenters Workshop Gallery NEW YORK, NY.- Building on Marcin Rusak’s debut solo presentation with the gallery in Paris in 2023, Vas Florum: Resina Botanica digs deeper into the evocative power of plants by representing memories of people, places, and the feelings that emerge from those encounters. Rusak’s Vas Florum series develops unique floral compositions into a contemporary herbarium; the works conjure individual memories from the artist’s lived history while also stimulating universal, collective memory. In each artwork, flowers are embedded in the body of the form itself, and the species chosen range from those that have been artificially bred for commercial, aesthetic purposes, to common ‘weeds’ that are often overlooked yet can thrive in the most inhospitable conditions. Using natural waste material is particularly important to the artist. Conceived ... More
An online radio station where everything is eclectic LONDON.- On a gloomy Tuesday this past March, a cohort of trendy young Britons was waking up to the sounds of underground ’80s R&B. And Swedish space disco. And folk singer John Martyn. Flo Dill, host of “The Breakfast Show” on the online radio station NTS, was floating around in a small East London studio, quietly back-announcing those tracks and laughing at messages in the station’s lively online chatroom. Like most morning radio hosts, she tries to ease listeners into their day, slowly bringing up the tempo. But unlike most morning radio hosts, Dill plays tracks in a mixture of styles that can run the gamut from obscure ambient music to timeworn dad rock. “The Breakfast Show” encapsulates the spirit of NTS, an eclectic revamp of traditional radio that draws listeners — and on-air talent — from across the globe. Since it was founded ... More
Lisson Gallery now representing Dana Awartani LONDON.-Lisson Gallery announced global representation of Dana Awartani, an artist who engages in critical and contemporary reinterpretations of the forms, techniques, concepts and spatial constructs that shape Middle Eastern culture. Based between New York and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and of Palestinian descent, Awartani’s work is steeped in a multitude of historical references, notably Islamic and Arab art-making traditions, straddling continuity and innovation, aesthetic experimentation and social relevance. Spanning painting, sculpture, performance and installation, the artist’s commitment to historically situated and locally sourced materials lends a rare sensitivity to urgent political concerns of gender, healing, cultural destruction and sustainability. Consistent throughout Awartani’s work has been her philosophical elaboration of geometric patterns ... More
Exhibition of new paintings by Lauren Quin on view at 125 Newbury NEW YORK, NY.-125 Newbury presents Lauren Quin: Logopanic, an exhibition of new paintings by the Los Angeles-based Quin. The show, which takes place at 125 Newbury’s location at 395 Broadway in Tribeca from May 3 until June 15 of 2024, is the artist’s first solo exhibition in New York. In Lauren Quin’s paintings, form occupies a fugue state. Quin builds her compositions methodically, layer by layer, only to scrape through them, carving channels that spiderweb across the picture. Her paintings are palimpsests; past and present mingle in a single surface, interrupting one another. Both sedimentary and archaeological, the works are as much excavated as painted. Constructed from an arsenal of recurring gestures and techniques, Quin often makes use of marks she refers to as “tubes,” together with skeins and filigrees of color that she ... More
The Third Line opens an exhibition of works by Ala Ebtekar DUBAI.- Ala Ebtekar (born 1978, Berkeley, works between San Francisco and Tehran) is an artist who for a quarter century, has situated his art practice as a relentless leveling, exploding,and collapsing of time and space to bring steadying attention to the contemporary moment. His work frequently orchestrates various orbits and cadences of time, bringing forth sculptural and photographic possibilities of the universe, and time, gazing back at us. This extensive research and making process borrows and physically reworks thousand year old image making traditions up to the latest technological advances in production. Ebtekar’s recent investigations have created liminal experiences to longer notions of scientific duration beyond human timelines while exploring the phenomenology of light. Considering light itself as both concept, ... More
Holabird announces highlights included in May Timed Online-Only Auction RENO, NEV.- Capitalizing on the recent success of their timed online auctions – in which rare but lesser expensive items in a multitude of collecting categories come up for bid with a starting price of just ten dollars on every lot in the sale – Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC will hold such an event on May 11th and 12th, beginning at 8 am Pacific time both auction days. The two-day auction will be hosted exclusively on iCollector.com, Holabird’s preferred online bidding platform. Categories will include Western Americana, bottles, ephemera, art, jewelry, mining, numismatics, philatelic and dealer specials. “Get ready for two exciting days packed with an array of remarkable items awaiting new homes,” said company president Fred Holabird. Day 1, on May 11th, boasts 785 lots in categories that include art, jewelry, souvenir plates, china, ... More
Polina Berlin Gallery opens 'Casey Bolding: The river on top of your head' NEW YORK, NY.-Polina Berlin Gallery is presenting The River on top of your head, an exhibition of recent work by Casey Bolding, on view from May 7 through June 1, 2024. Casey calls this show “the river on top of your head,” the river being the way he’s been thinking about time and how it works on you, dictating how you navigate its spurs and crags, how it forms new paths and smooths out the old ones, how it wears down your edges, making you harder and softer at the same time. Everything erodes. Everything rushes downward. Casey isn’t the first artist to be sensitive to this idea, of course. The Dutch were obsessed with it, plugging skulls into their genteel still-lifes of decomposing fruit, a not so-veiled reminder that death waits for everyone. Casey has a bit of a lighter touch. His paintings resist bluntness, which is not the same as being aloof. They ... More
Whimsical early 18th-century Italian painting can now be displayed after comprehensive art conservation SARASOTA, FLA.- Over seven years ago, conservators at The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art began a comprehensive examination of the Watermelon Regatta, a fascinating early 18th-century Italian painting that had suffered significant damage. This extended study led to a painstaking conservation treatment that commenced in 2017 and has been carried out intermittently since that time. The painting conservators at The Ringling were assisted by several conservation Interns and Fellows, as well as contracted conservators. This oil painting on canvas has been attributed to The Master of the Fertility of the Egg, a name used by art historians for an as-yet unidentified painter active in northern Italy around 1700. The Master’s works typically represent the world reversed, with animals doing things that humans do. His absurd compositions ... More
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On a day like today, German painter Caspar David Friedrich died
May 07, 1840. Caspar David Friedrich (5 September 1774 - 7 May 1840) was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscapes which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic or megalithic ruins. In this image: Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), Giant Mountains, not dated, Oil on canvas, 73,5 x 102,5.
