New York Roots embodies both the unseen strength of roots and the dynamic energy of human connection, evoking the sweeping motion of Japanese calligraphy and the fluidity of dance and embrace.
NEW YORK, NY.- Renowned conceptual artist Steve Tobin has put down roots in the Garment District with his series of dramatic, monumental sculptures, New York Roots, as part of the Garment District Alliance’s latest public art exhibit. Located on the Broadway plazas in the Garment District between 39th and 40th Streets and 40th and 41st Streets, New York Roots is a towering series of seven steel sculptures that invite viewers to reflect on relationships, families, and communities coming together for a shared purpose—just as roots intertwine to strengthen a tree. “New York Roots is a captivating addition to the Garment District that transforms our public plazas into spaces for reflection and serves as an important reminder to stay rooted in our communities,” said Barbara A. Blair, president of the Garment District Alliance. “By framing the city through sweeping curves, Steve’s impressive sculptures invite passersby to e ... More
Spectacular painting by Joan Mitchell unveiled today at Tate Modern, one of a group of works being donated by Miami’s Pérez family alongside an endowment to fund curatorial research.
LONDON.- This morning, Tate announced that renowned art collectors and philanthropists Jorge M. and Darlene Pérez have donated a major painting by Joan Mitchell to the nation. This vast six-metre-long triptych, entitled Iva 1973, is now on display at Tate Modern where it will be enjoyed for free by millions of visitors each year. From today it can be found in the room adjoining Mark Rothko’s iconic Seagram Murals, enabling the public to see two of America’s greatest modern painters in dialogue with each other. Mitchell was one of the most celebrated artists of the Abstract Expressionist movement. Her growing renown means that her major works are now far beyond the reach of most public museums to acquire. Named after Mitchell’s beloved German Shepherd dog, Iva is a bold, gestural work that combines emotional and physical expression. The donation of Iva transforms Tate’s holdings of her work, which previously consisted of a group of prints and a smaller late painting. It also ... More
Patek Philippe Calatrava 18k gold men’s watch with a manual movement, silvered dial with gold markers and seconds dial, and 14k yellow gold link bracelet. Estimate: $10,000-$14,000.
ATLANTA, GA.- A Patek Philippe Calatrava 18k gold men’s watch with a 14k band; a Tiffany & Co. diamond bracelet set in 18k gold and platinum; and a 1.70-carat platinum emerald cut diamond engagement ring are just a few of the tantalizing items up for bid in Ahlers & Ogletree’s Fine Jewelry, Watches & Luxury Accessories auction scheduled for Thursday, April 24th, at 10am Eastern time. The 376-lot auction features a superb selection of high-end timepieces and exquisite jewelry, to include sought-after luxury watches and statement pieces from renowned brands, offering collectors and connoisseurs an opportunity to acquire rare and exceptional designs; over ten exceptional Rolex timepieces, including a Rolex Yacht-Master II Regatta 18k yellow gold watch; and other fine items. The event will be held live, in the Ahlers & Ogletree gallery located at 1788 Ellsworth Industrial Boulevard NW in Atlanta, as well as online. Telephone and absentee bids will also be accepted. The Patek ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- The New York Public Library opened an exhibition of a selection of Robert Motherwell’s prints from the 1960s to 1991, alongside annotated books from his private library. Taken together, the prints and books illuminate how Motherwell’s literary influences helped inspire his artistic process and signature style. The prints and titles on display were gifted to The New York Public Library by the artist’s family and the Dedalus Foundation, which Motherwell established in 1981 to enhance the public understanding and appreciation of modern art and the principles of Modernism. “The prints and books in this gift reflect the broad range of Motherwell’s interests,” said Katy Rogers, President of the Dedalus Foundation, “and show how intensely he was engaged with both art and literature, which informed his creation of one of the most varied, complex, and vital bodies of work in modern art.” Raised on the West Coast, Motherwell (1915-1991) studied ... More
SEOUL.- Gagosian announced 좋은밤 Good Night, an exhibition of new paintings by Harold Ancart. The opening took place on April 3, 2025, at APMA (Amorepacific Museum of Art) Cabinet, a project space in the headquarters of Amorepacific. Ancart’s paintings portray the natural world and built environments. Alluding to a range of art historical sources and often characterized by abstract passages of color, his most recent works aim to develop a connection between the landscape and the inner self. The works on view concentrate on nocturnal scenes. In two of the canvases, bodies of water are framed by dark skies and rock formations. Two further compositions are arrangements of trees and other plants, while the titular work returns the viewer to a constructed environment. For Ancart, the subjects of his paintings often serve as “alibis” for him to experiment with paint and color. The paintings in 좋은밤 Good Night blur the boundaries between figurati ... More
Koen van den Broek, Sculpture I (self-portrait in blue), 2025. Bronze and oil paint, 187.5 x 85 x 65 cm. Photo: Jonathan de Waart.
AMSTERDAM.- Galerie Ron Mandos is presenting Gravity, a solo exhibition by Koen van den Broek. The exhibition showcases new paintings and sculptures, reflecting a transformation in his approach to materials and image-making. Gravity runs from March 23 to May 11, 2025. For almost three decades, van den Broek has traveled extensively, capturing location-specific scenes through photography and translating them into paintings. His work has long explored road culture, movement, and the aesthetics of the built environment, depicting highways and urban landscapes. In 2023, he reoriented his approach, treating the canvas itself as a road. Using materials typically reserved for street markings, such as road paint and tar, he applies color in precise bands and lines, integrating both the physical and aesthetic language of infrastructure into his work. This shift merges and redefines the two surfaces that have shaped his paintings: the road and the canvas. Employing small, commercial ... More
Nokukhanya Langa, I've been around for millennia, 2024. Oil and mixed media on canvas, 200 x 190 cm. Courtesy the artist and Saatchi Yates, London. Photo: Justin Piperger.
GHENT.- On 4 April 2025, S.M.A.K. presents a landmark survey of contemporary painting in Belgium, featuring the works of 74 artists born after 1970. Painting After Painting is a comprehensive overview of the Belgian painting scene that seeks to articulate the impact of recent artistic developments and theoretical shifts on the medium. It is the most extensive exhibition of its kind in 25 years in Belgium. Over the past two decades, painting has experienced an international resurgence. While this revival is global in scope, it has considerably shaped the thriving Belgian art scene, revivifying a long tradition of painting in the region that can be traced back to Jan van Eyck and the Flemish Primitives. When considering the country’s complex national identity, it becomes nonsensical to limit the significance of Belgian painting to the country’s borders. Therefore, the exhibition seeks to avoid the use of national identity as ... More
LONDON.- Stephen Friedman Gallery is presenting a solo exhibition of new paintings by British artist Anne Rothenstein, following her solo presentation in New York last spring. Comprising portraits, landscapes and interiors, these enigmatic paintings are frequently characterised by a dreamlike quality. Speaking of her process, Rothenstein says, “My reasons, or intentions, when making a particular painting are quite mysterious to me. The spark is always lit from an existing image, a photograph or another painting, and I often don’t discover why that image leaped out at me or what it is I’m exploring until the work is finished. Sometimes I never find out. It is almost entirely intuitive.” In a number of paintings, mysterious figures populate flattened landscapes and interiors. Rothenstein’s dismay at the “horrors going on in the world” are conveyed in paintings like Still at Sea, 2024 where a feeling of displacement or being lost permeates. In a ... More
Pélagie Gbaguidi, Momento, 2025. Pigment and acrylic on canvas, 286 x 200 cm. 112.5 x 78.7 in.
SÃO PAULO.- Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel presents Manifestação [Manifestation], Pélagie Gbaguidi’s first exhibition with the gallery in São Paulo. The show features works made during Gbaguidi’s month-long residency at Pivô Salvador from January through February 2025 as well as pieces that lay the foundation for this body of work’s conceptual structure. The artist’s research has long focused on ancestral narratives and contemporary tactics for reframing histories according to a decolonial perspective. In her paintings and drawings, she translates the sedimentary nature of historical time into densely layered compositions, juxtapositions of color and form, pigment and gestural traces. Depicting fragmented and distorted human silhouettes and abstract patterns, Gbaguidi seeks to entangle figures and ground, pictorial approaches and symbolic systems. With this visual ... More
BARCELONA.- The Museu Tàpies presents the exhibition Antoni Tàpies: The Imagination of the World. How is life being thought on? Which imaginaries stimulate the Tapian legacy? The ars combinatoria, a Lullian idea, is based on the ability to combine different knowledge and wisdom. This idea becomes a metaphor for this exhibition when it comes to thinking and relating to the different elements. In his book The Places of Art (1999), the artist proposed a vision of cultural history that connected, in words and especially images, the avant-garde art of the twentieth century favoured by the Western canon with a multitude of objects from other times and places. Following a similar methodology, this exhibition—which takes its name from one of the first essays in the book—explores the origins of Tàpies’ aesthetic-political positioning based on the ideas ... More
Joining the museum in 2008, Dr. Xu became the first Chinese American to lead a major U.S. art museum and in 2015, the first museum director of Asian descent elected to the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- After 17 years of visionary leadership, Dr. Jay Xu, The Barbara Bass Bakar Director and CEO of the Asian Art Museum—Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture, will officially conclude his tenure on April 14, 2025, marking the close of a transformative chapter in the museum’s history. As the museum welcomes Dr. Soyoung Lee as its next Barbara Bass Bakar Director and CEO, Dr. Xu leaves behind an institution poised for continued growth and innovation. His legacy sets the foundation for the museum’s next chapter, ensuring it remains a beacon of culture, education, and community engagement. Joining the museum in 2008, Dr. Xu became the first Chinese American to lead a major U.S. art museum and in 2015, the first museum director of Asian descent elected to the ... More
Tim Bavington, Let it Be, 2025. Synthetic polymer on canvas, 28h x 40w in. 71.12h x 101.60w cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Morgan Lehman Gallery presents Only Notes that Count, a solo exhibition of monumental new paintings by Tim Bavington that refines his aesthetic vision to its essence. Since the 1990s, Bavington has created immersive, music-based paintings that fill the canvas edge to edge with vibrant color. In Only Notes that Count, he hones his visual language, focusing solely on the root notes of musical compositions. While Bavington's process remains consistent—translating music samples into visual form—this new direction embraces restraint, amplifying the Zen-like sensibility that has always underpinned his work but is often overtaken by the intensity of full-spectrum color. Bavington's work is deeply rooted in West Coast abstraction, building upon the legacies of the California Hard-Edge and Light and Space movements, as well as the integration of Eastern philosophy into 20th-century American art. Over his ... More
Exhibition view of “NADA” by Thierry De Cordier. Photo: Agostino Osio. Courtesy Fondazione Prada.
MILAN.- Fondazione Prada presents the site-specific monographic show “NADA” by Belgian artist Thierry De Cordier, expressively conceived for the three-part Cisterna building at its Milan venue. Running from 3 April to 29 September 2025, the exhibition brings together ten large-scale paintings from the so-called NADA series realized from 1999 to 2025. The first works of this series stem from the explicit intention to erase the crucifixion image. The resulting works are no longer a form of negative painting but an ultimate attempt to experience the “grandeur of nothingness” as expressed by the artist. As De Cordier recalls, “My first black painting (now destroyed) resulted from a single intention: to abolish the image of Christ on the Cross, albeit in a demonstrative way. At no point did I think about making a great painting. My only objective was to symbolically annihilate a deeply rooted Christian image. That was all it was about then. Then one day, ... More
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Weatherspoon Art Museum receives naming gift for the Warmath Commons GREENSBORO, NC.- The Weatherspoon Art Museum at UNC Greensboro announces the naming of its atrium as the new Warmath Commons, in recognition of a major gift celebrating the Warmath family’s six decades of service and support. The funds for the Warmath Commons will further the museum's commitment to community engagement by advancing the core mission of the Weatherspoon as a place of welcome, discovery, and engagement for the students, faculty, and staff of UNC Greensboro and the community of Greensboro. The Warmath family legacy, led by Sarah Warmath and the late Jack Warmath, is a continuation of their early roles in raising funds for the Anne and Benjamin Cone Building, which helped to transform the organization from a small campus gallery into the Weatherspoon Art Museum, now one of the most prominent museums on a university ... More
Amanda Means' "Glass + Light" exhibition opens at Dolby Chadwick Gallery, redefining photography SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Dolby Chadwick Gallery presents Glass + Light, an exhibition of ground-breaking images by Amanda Means. This is the gallery’s first show with the artist renowned for extending the limits of the photographic medium. Means reanimates common objects by reinventing their method of capture and rendering extraordinary portraits that restore a sense of wonder in the beauty of the everyday. Abstraction is a powerful aspect of her work: she captures pure form, line, and space with lyrical intensity to a degree that shape itself could almost be the subject matter of her work. Yet, focusing on that aspect alone would deny the expansive insights intensified by her choice of subjects. Two series of common objects – water glasses and lightbulbs – are the stars of Glass + Light. Means created a new technique of capturing “direct print” images. It’s a sort of camera obscura ... More
Gagosian presents Julie Curtiss's first solo exhibition in Paris PARIS.- Gagosian announced an exhibition of new paintings by Julie Curtiss, on view at the gallery at 9 rue de Castiglione in Paris. It is the artist’s first solo exhibition with Gagosian, and in Paris. In her acrylic and oil compositions, Curtiss distills the familiar into enigmatic scenes, transforming seemingly banal moments through exaggerated forms, saturated color, and rich textures. Her figures, faceless or seen in fragments, are frozen in dreamlike pauses, amplifying a sense of unease. Drawing inspiration from Jungian psychoanalysis, Curtiss synthesizes her surreal visions into images that explore the clash between anima and animus, nature and nurture. She juxtaposes signifiers of domesticity with allusions to the shadow selves and animalistic drives that pulse beneath her subjects’ skins. In the Flow (2025) depicts a dark-haired woman clad in a purple-and-black ... More
The Reba W. & Dave H. Williams Collection of Color Woodcuts at Swann April 15 NEW YORK, NY.- The Tuesday, April 15 auction of Old Master Through Modern Prints opens with The Reba W. & Dave H. Williams Collection of Color Woodcuts, featuring color woodcuts by important early twentieth-century American artists who were pioneers in the field, such as Arthur Wesley Dow, Blanche Lazzell, Gustave Baumann, and Edna Boies Hopkins. The sale will also include standout Old Master, European and American prints. Reba W. and Dave H. Williams began their collection in the mid-1970s and amassed one of the largest most prestigious collections of American prints in the world with over 5,000 works spanning from the late nineteenth through the twentieth centuries, the Williamses championed the history of printmaking in the United States. They were devoted to the study and promotion of the field, founding The Print Research Foundation in 2003 in Stamford, ... More
Controversial Varanasi photos by Michael von Graffenried revisited in Paris exhibition PARIS.- "On the Edge" presents impressions of the Indian city of Varanasi as seen by photographer Michael von Graffenried, which he took during a six-month stay in 2012. The photographs were exhibited that same year in the form of a large-format installation in the city center, though they were taken down again after just a few days. Twenty panoramic photographs by Michael von Graffenried were mounted over a length of 125 meters on billboards along the busy Rathyatra Crossing in the city center of Varanasi. The exhibition was organized in collaboration with the local Kriti Gallery for Contemporary Art and its director Navneet Raman. With their large format of three by six meters, the images were highly visible and attracted a lot of attention. Perhaps too much - the exhibition was taken down again after just eleven days, after one photograph was vandalized on the very ... More
Lisa Long departs from Julia Stoschek Foundation to start curatorial agency BERLIN.- After nearly seven years as Artistic Director and Curator, Lisa Long will depart from her position at the Julia Stoschek Foundation, effective April 30, 2025. Since joining the institution in 2018, Long has played a pivotal role in shaping the foundation's artistic vision and international reputation with an extensive program of exhibitions, performances, screenings, public programs, publications, and podcasts. Her curatorial approach emphasized intergenerational dialogues between historical and contemporary perspectives while advancing the visibility of underrepresented artists and global narratives. Informed by her experiences at JSF and the growing need for alternative working models in the art world, Long is departing to found the curatorial agency Companion Culture. Its mission: to strengthen the art ecosystem by uniting resources and expertise from both ... More
Taoyuan International Art Award presents 2025 winners TAOYUAN CITY.- Hosted by the Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts (TMoFA), the 2025 Taoyuan International Art Award (TIAA) aims to foster diverse artistic development and nurture contemporary art talents. Through an international open call, selected artists are invited to exhibit their works in Taoyuan, strengthening global artistic exchange. Following the preliminary review in June last year (2024), 11 shortlisted works were selected from a total of 1161 entries from 83 countries to compete for the award. After an extensive final review by an international jury panel, the Grand Prize was awarded to Chulayarnnon Siriphol, Kasamaponn Saengsuratham, Arjin Thongyuukong, and Krongpong Langkhapin for the work Red Eagle Sangmorakot: No More Hero In His Story. The Sojourn Award was won by Taiwanese artist duo Working Hard (She Wen Ying, Kuo Po Yu) for Sleep ... More
Yuan Goang-Ming brings Venice Biennale triumph to Asian Art Museum in first North American solo exhibition SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Asian Art Museum presents the first North American solo exhibition of pioneering Taiwanese artist Yuan Goang-Ming, featuring work from his critically acclaimed presentation at the 60th Venice Biennale. Open April 3 through July 7, this large-scale exhibition in the Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang Pavilion showcases Yuan’s masterful exploration of contemporary life through poetic video installations that bridge personal experience and universal themes. Widely recognized as a pioneer in Taiwan’s new media art scene since the 1990s, Yuan creates immersive video and installation work that captures the tenor of globally turbulent times. His work often transforms intimate domestic spaces into powerful metaphors for widespread ... More
Zhanna Kadyrova, winner of the Her Art Prize PARIS.- The winner of the Her Art Prize for international women artists - launched at the initiative of Marie Claire in partnership with Boucheron - is Galerie Continua artist Zhanna Kadyrova. On Saturday 5 April 2025, she will receive 30,000 euros from Boucheron in addition to benefiting from a domestic and international promotional campaign orchestrated by Marie Claire and Art Paris. This international prize launched this year rewards both a bold body of work that pushes back the limits and the career of a committed woman artist chosen from among a shortlist of 12 artists exhibiting at Art Paris. The winner was selected by a prestigious jury comprising personalities from the arts and creative industries presided over by French actor Elodie Bouchez. This year’s Her Art Prize was awarded to Zhanna Kadyrova. Kadyrova was born in Ukraine in 1981, a country where ... More
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On a day like today, French painter and poet Maurice de Vlaminck was born
April 04, 1876. Maurice de Vlaminck (4 April 1876 - 11 October 1958) was a French painter. Along with André Derain and Henri Matisse he is considered one of the principal figures in the Fauve movement, a group of modern artists who from 1904 to 1908 were united in their use of intense colour. In this image: CaixaForum Barcelona, “la Caixa” Community Projects exhibited in 2009 "Maurice de Vlaminck, a Fauve Instinct: Paintings from 1900 to 1915".
