PARTITIONS Salma Arastu india cali usa toward CROSSING BORDERS IMMIGRANTS 48 x 72dim 2023
NEW YORK, NY.- The Borders are wide, various, concrete and philosophical, offering an illusion of safety and definitive organization of reality buttressed by or colliding with the shifts in perception, power alignments, cultural imperatives and agendas at play at any given moment both on the international and the personal, subjective stage. Borders as a theme not defined, but implied. The obvious way to look at Borders is as it relates to geographic demarcation and via socio-political implications,however, the artists in this exhibition take it one step further examining Borders that confound and limit us personally; Borders to be psychologically challenged, broken through and/or accepted. ... More
Mid-20th century oil on canvas street scene by Edward Brian Seago (U.K., 1910-1974), titled Piccadilly Circus, signed lower left, 20 ¼ inches by 26 ¼ inches (canvas) ($72,600).
ATLANTA, GA.- An oil on canvas Piccadilly Circus street scene by Edward Brian Seago (U.K., 1910-1974) climbed to $72,600 and an oil on silk laid to Masonite still life painting by Le Pho (Vietnamese/French, 1907-2001) realized $60,500 at auctions held October 9th and 10th by Ahlers & Ogletree, online and live in the gallery located at 1788 Ellsworth ... More
American Civil War identified Sheffield (England) Bowie knife, 10in long overall with 6 1/8in blade. Estimate: $5,000-$9,000.
WILLOUGHBY, OHIO .- It will soon be time for Milestone’s Premier Fall Firearms Auction, an event perennially known for its focus on antique and vintage productions from the most sought-after American, European and Japanese brands. The October 26-27 sale will be held live at Milestone’s suburban-Cleveland gallery, with all forms of remote bidding available, including absentee, ... More
Oil on beaverboard painting by acclaimed Nova Scotia artist Maud Lewis (1901-1970), titled Train Station in Winter (circa 1960-1961), artist signed (CA$31,860).
NEW HAMBURG, ON.- An oil on canvas painting by the renowned French artist Èdouard Leon Cortes (1992-1969) sold for $25,960, more than doubling the high estimate, and two oil on beaverboard works by iconic Nova Scotia painter Maud Lewis (1901-1970) combined for $60,180 in two days of online auctions held October 12-13 by Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd. All figures ... More
ST IVES .- This autumn, Tate St Ives presents the first major UK exhibition of Małgorzata Mirga-Tas. Born in Zakopane in Poland, Mirga-Tas grew up in a Romani community in Czarna Góra, at the foot of the Tatra Mountains, where she continues to live and work today. Her visual storytelling is informed by a feminist perspective and a sustained engagement with her community, challenging stereotypical representations of Roma people. ... More
A significant portion of the proceeds from the sale will benefit UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s will present Bridging Worlds: Digital Art Beyond Borders Benefiting UNHCR, an online auction in collaboration with Switzerland for UNHCR, taking place on Christie’s 3.0 from October 23rd to 30th. Bridging Worlds aims to explore the transformative power of digital art in connecting worlds, transcending borders, and fostering a sense of unity across diverse artistic practices. Inspired by the 60th Biennale’s theme, "Stranieri Ovunque" - ... More
Medardo Rosso, Aetas aurea, 1886. Wax over plaster, 50 x 48 x 35 cm. Photo: mumok / Markus Wörgötter. Courtesy of Amedeo Porro Fine Arts Lugano/London.
VIENNA.- Artist and artisan, art theorist and proto-installation artist, master of high-publicity performances and rival of Auguste Rodin—Medardo Rosso (b. 1858 in Turin, d. 1928 in Milan) was one of the great pioneers of Modernism and a figure as extraordinary as he was eccentric. While Rosso was indeed close to the Impressionist movement, he operated on the fringes and in the liminal areas in terms of method, media, and material— ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- Nara Roesler New York is presenting Exploded View, André Griffo’s first solo show in the United States. With a critical essay by Lúcia Stumpf, the show brings together around 12 works by the artist developed over the last year specifically for the exhibition. With a background in Architecture, André Griffo considers the representation of elaborate architectural spaces to be an integral part of his poetics. “The main theme of my research is religion,” says the artist, who through his work seeks to reflect on how religion has been used as a tool ... More
Emma Webster, Fox, 2024. Bronze. 61 × 106.7 × 33 cm | 24 × 42 × 13 in. Photo: Marten Elder. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin.
PARIS.- Perrotin is presenting Emma Webster’s first solo exhibition in Paris, The Engine of Beasts. In her third show with Perrotin, Webster stages paintings alongside sculptures, so viewers may follow the representation of a beast in all its states. The guiding theme of the exhibition: The word Engine’s Latin etymon, ingenium, meaning skill or ruse, also signifies the ability to move easily from one medium to another, like a life-form striving to adapt, evolve, and ... More
Emily Carr (1871-1945), War Canoes, Alert Bay, c. 1908, watercolour on paper, Audain Art Museum Collection, Acquired with funds from Michael Audain and Yoshiko Karasawa.
WHISTLER, BC.- The Audain Art Museum announced the acquisition of an exceptional historical watercolour painting by revered Canadian artist, Emily Carr. Held for many years in private collections, War Canoes, Alert Bay, circa 1908, was unveiled alongside the iconic oil on canvas from the Museum’s Permanent Collection of the same name. This signifies an extraordinary reunion of two closely-related Carr masterworks, ... More
Németh Hajnal: Striptease or Not? (részlet a videóból / detail from the video), 2001 videó, loop / video, loop; 3”.
BUDAPEST.- Celebrating its 35th anniversary, the Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art presents for the first time a selection of works from its collection exclusively by women. The first section of the two-part exhibition focuses on women’s roles and women’s (self-)representation in art, while the second section presents the genres and themes chosen by women, as well as their artistic achievements and accomplishments over the past fifty years, through their works in the museum. The nudes painted ... More
St. Barbara with four scenes from her life; Russia, 18th century, egg tempera on wood, 80 x 61 cm; Ikonenmuseum Kampen. Photo: Ikonenmuseum Kampen.
FRANKFURT.- The exhibition IKONA. Holy Women at the Museum Angewandte Kunst is the first to be dedicated to the diversity of the historical functions, hard-won scope for action and current social significance of female saints in Orthodox Christian art. The iconic representations show the plurality of Orthodox cultures from more than six countries spanning five centuries. They tell the stories of well-known and lesser known women ... More
LONDON.- Today, the National Portrait Gallery announced its forward programme of exhibitions for 2025, featuring a varied programme of anticipated shows. The Face Magazine: Culture Shift and Edvard Munch Portraits will be the first exhibitions of the year, opening in February and March 2025. Summer at the Gallery will be dominated by contemporary painted portraiture, with Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting and the Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait ... More
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Halle für Kunst Steiermark opens an exhibition of works by Mathias Poledna GRAZ.- Mathias Poledna has created a complex, multi-layered body of work in which films, expansive installations and architectural interventions are in constant dialog with each other, where independent series of works, found objects and ephemeral materials all condense to form a singular artistic language. Central to his practice are questions of modernity, cultural memory and the visual imaginary in art and popular culture. Poledna’s internationally acclaimed work reflects historicity against the backdrop of contemporary developments and examines the history of specific cultural phenomena staging and appropriating emblematic visual forms. Research, analysis and work with archives play an essential role in his artistic practice. Although his filmic images are consistently new and often produced in collaboration with specialists, they ... More
Exhibition at Colnaghi explores the tension between beauty and its inevitable decay LONDON.- Colnaghi announces its exhibition The Decay of Beauty, curated by Alfred Kren and taking place at Colnaghi London until 8 November 2024. Spanning millennia, the exhibition explores the tension between beauty and its inevitable decay, and how this has inspired artistic creation for thousands of years. The subject is approached from a variety of periods, cultures, and media, presenting unusual dialogues between works. The exhibition at Colnaghi benefits from several high-profile loans from prestigious Private Collections that allow visitors to view rare and outstanding artworks hardly ever seen in public. Among the earliest works in the exhibition, exceptional Egyptian and Roman sculptures are presented with artworks going all the way to the twentieth century. Notably, an Egyptian sarcophagus face from the Twenty-second Dynasty (c. 942-715 BC) is paired with a nineteenth-century photograph by Émile Brugsch (1842- 1930) of a recently excavated mummy, thus dramatically broadening our under ... More
"Paul Gardère: Vantage Points" exhibition on view at The Cooper Union NEW YORK, NY.- The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art is presenting Paul Gardère: Vantage Points, an exhibition celebrating the life and work of the late Haitian, New York City-based artist Paul Gardère A’67. Installed over two floors of the historic landmark of the Stuyvesant-Fish House, this retrospective includes more than two dozen works from the artist’s 40+ year career. The 2024-25 Fish House exhibition is presented courtesy of the Estate of Paul Gardère with coordination by School of Art Dean Adriana Farmiga and Assistant Dean Yuri Masnyj. Vantage Points delivers a loosely chronological, condensed version of Gardère’s trajectory through a range of styles from the early 1970s to the late 2000s. Throughout this expansive body of paintings, mixed media works, and works on paper, there is a continuous thematic focus on the artist’s Haitian experience and Haitian culture, both in Haiti and in the diaspora. Gardère’s work freque ... More
Exhibition presents works by artists who respond to the place of rivers in our lives OSLO.- Between Rivers brings together the practices of contemporary artists who respond to the place of rivers in our lives at a moment when they are being profoundly reshaped by human activity. While rivers have been an important subject for artists since at least the nineteenth century and are at the center of significant developments in fields as varied as ecology and environmentalism, political organization and activism, and the built environment and architecture, in recent years they have been discussed with an increasing urgency. Reports of the Yangtze, Rhine, and Zambezi Rivers dropping to their lowest levels on record have appeared alongside accounts of atmospheric rivers causing some of California’s worst flooding. Systems that are crucial to the functioning of our contemporary world, such as the production of hydroelectricity, food security, and global transportation networks, are being profoundly impacted. Simultaneously, the recognition of indigenous definitions of rivers and ... More
Exhibition takes an unusual and surprising route through the history of fashion OSLO.- From spectacular invitations to rare lookbooks the exhibition “Ephemeral Matters. Into the Fashion Archive” showcases ephemera from six different public and private collections, from France, USA and Norway. You will discover a broad array of unique catalogues, invitations, invoices, and illustrations dating from the 18th century to the present. The exhibition also contains a selection of objects and documents from the National Museum’s internal documentation archive. Much of the material have never been shown before. “The installation evokes the space of the archive and invites visitors to actively explore the different collections of ephemera and the overlooked value and unique role of this material in and outside the fashion industry”, says guest curator Marco Pecorari. “With its manifold selection of materials, this exhibition provides new perspectives on fashion”, says curator Hanne Eide. The term ephemera was originally adopted by scientists to d ... More
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On a day like today, Italian painter Cristofano Allori was born
October 17, 1577. Cristofano Allori (17 October 1577 - 1 April 1621) was an Italian portrait painter of the late Florentine Mannerist school. Allori was born at Florence and received his first lessons in painting from his father, Alessandro Allori, but becoming dissatisfied with the hard anatomical drawing and cold coloring of the latter, he entered the studio of Gregorio Pagani, who was one of the leaders of the late Florentine school, which sought to unite the rich coloring of the Venetians with the Florentine attention to drawing. Allori also appears to have worked under Cigoli. In this image: Judith with the Head of Holofernes (1613). Oil on canvas, 139 x 116 cm. Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence.
