DUSSELDORF.- The Russian-French painter Marc Chagall (b. 1887 in Vitebsk, Russian Empire, now Belarus – d. 1985 in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France) was an exceptional talent of modernism and is considered one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. His fantastically poetic imagery and motifs remain enigmatic to this day, and his luminous, intense colors are extraordinary. With almost 120 paintings and works on paper, the exhibition at K20 – Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen focuses on Chagall’s early works, created between 1910 and 1923. In addition to the influence of the avant garde on his work, the exhibition also reveals a little-known aspect of the renowned artist’s oeuvre: its socially critical and sometimes dark side. The exhibition also sheds light on the development of the artist and his motifs up to the 1980s, when he inspired ... More
Chinese Red Lacquer Chest from the Qianlong Period (Estimate: $20,000 to $40,000) Height 11 3/4 inches, Width 14 inches, Depth 71/2 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- In celebration of Asia Week New York, Lark Mason Associates presents four major sales of Asian art on iGavelAuctions.com, featuring a dynamic selection of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean works of art, alongside European and American pieces that span over 5,000 years of artistic innovation. From rare Chinese bronzes and jades to iconic anime cels, 18th-century Korean screens, and Spanish Colonial masterpieces, these sales feature an extraordinary range of works spanning over 5,000 years of history and artistic achievement. "We are excited to offer an extraordinary array of Asian, European, and American works of art, representing more than five millennia of creative expression and cultural history," says Lark Mason, founder of Lark Mason Associates. Now open for bidding through March 20, the first of these exciting sales is Retro Anime: Original Cels and Other Items from the 1980s–2000s, a two-part sale benefiting the San Antonio Museum of Art. This nostalgic collection showcases iconic a ... More
David C. Driskell. Mask Series II, 2019. Relief woodcut; 14 1/2 x 11 in. The David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland, College Park. Gift of Raven Fine Art Editions, 2019.10.002.
NASHVILLE, TENN.- The Frist Art Museum presents David C. Driskell & Friends: Creativity, Collaboration, and Friendship, an exhibition that traces the artist’s career and his relationships with contemporaries. It is being shown concurrently with Kindred Spirits: Intergenerational Forms of Expression, 1966–1999, an exhibition that explores the legacy and influence of Fisk University’s art department, which Driskell led from 1966 to 1976. Organized by the David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland, David C. Driskell & Friends is on view in the Frist’s Upper-Level Galleries from March 14 through June 1, 2025. During the same dates, Kindred Spirits, organized through a partnership between Fisk University Galleries and the Frist, is on view at both locations. David C. Driskell & Friends highlights the artistic legacy of David C. Driskell (1931 2020) and the importance of his relationships with fellow artists—many of whom hold a significant place in the 20th- century art canon, s ... More
American circa 1897 Winchester Double “W” cartridge display board No. 291 in an oak frame, 40 inches by 57 ½ inches, in very good condition with strong colors (est. CA$35,000-$45,000).
NEW HAMBURG, ON.- An online-only Firearms & Sporting Auction, featuring the diverse and long-time collections of Wayne G. Connor and Robert Warwick, along with many outstanding individual consignments, is planned for Saturday, March 29th, by Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd., starting promptly at 9am Eastern time. In all, 211 lots will be offered. The catalog is packed with early and rare firearms art and advertising, store displays, factory cartridge boards, fine Winchester rifles and shotguns, Colt percussion revolvers, flintlocks, Smith & Wesson cartridge revolvers, North American trade muskets, magnificent decoys, factory reloading tools, scarce ammunition boxes, and a sprinkling of iconic military rifles. Individual lots expected to do well include late 19th century Winchester cartridge display boards; an original watercolor hunting painting by John Joseph Barsotti (American, b. 1914); an Upper Canada Militia Colt 1851 London Navy percussion revolver; a New ... More
BROOKLYN, NY.- The retrospective exhibition Consuelo Kanaga: Catch the Spirit presents the work of Consuelo Kanaga (1894–1976), a critical yet overlooked figure in the history of modern photography. Co-organized with and first exhibited at the Fundación MAPFRE in Barcelona and Madrid, Spain, followed by a presentation at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), the groundbreaking survey will return to the Brooklyn Museum, which houses the world’s most extensive Kanaga collection. Catch the Spirit explores the artist’s groundbreaking work in photojournalism, modernism, and social documentary, tracing the evolution of her art both chronologically and thematically through 180 photographs, ephemera materials, and film. Catch the Spirit is curated by ... More
The exhibition on view at the gallery brings together sculptures, objects and wall pieces made with crocheted wool, the artist’s preferred medium, as well as a series of watercolors that allude to different stages of his encounter with Japanese mythology.
PARIS.- Stephan Goldrajch’s second exhibition with Xippas Paris presents a new project inspired by a residency in Japan and his discovery of the Yokaï Museum. Focusing on traditional Japanese mythology, the exhibition invokes the figure of the Yokaï known as fantastical creatures that combine features of animals, humans and objects. Yokaï may be malevolent, mischievous or benevolent and also embody the idea of metamorphosis, as their nature changes frequently. Popular characters in Japanese folklore, Yokaï are omnipresent in the country’s oral culture and contemporary imagery be it cinema, animations or mangas. The exhibition on view at the gallery brings together sculptures, objects and wall pieces made with crocheted wool, the artist’s preferred medium, as well as a series ... More
MÄNTTÄ.- Serlachius is presenting Reflection of a Forest, the latest commissioned work of visual artist and film maker Eija-Liisa Ahtila. The work is an eight-channel installation in which the forest plays the central role. It is realised by means of an ecological narrative and based on the idea of the spatiality of being. In her work Reflection of a Forest, Eija-Liisa Ahtila continues to call into question the narrative of the moving image and human-centred perspective. She builds ways of representation and expression that can help to create a more balanced understanding of the living reality on the planet. Ahtila and her team filmed the work over three years in various locations in southern Finland. The work doesn’t aim at creating a story in the traditional way. Its central theme is the spatiality of the forest: how diverse life intertwines in the forest space and forms a connection of existence. In recent years, Eija-Liisa Ahtila has produced several works on the relationship between human ... More
Works by Maximilian Kirmse will also be on view at INDEPENDENT New York in May.
BERLIN.- Like a diary, the paintings and drawings of Maximilian Kirmse record both the happy coincidences and stubborn refrains of everyday life. The 'event' of these images might be the smashed window of a crime scene, or nothing more than the Feierabend hum of a hundred car engines, a kiss at the traffic lights, or the glow of a late-night cigarette. In English, Brillenschlange translates literally to “glasses snake”. Referring to a cobra with dark markings resembling spectacles, it can be used as a playful nickname for someone who wears glasses – like “four-eyes” – but can also describe a lanky, snake-like physique or a certain slippery quality. In his third solo exhibition with the gallery, Kirmse invites us to see through his own spectacled gaze as he approaches the slippery nature of images and memory. Shifting between breezy sketches and lurid, pointillist detail, his work speaks to the way an image can be both burned into your retina and always slipping out ... More
India Government of India, Bombay 1000 Rupees 12.8.1925 Pick A19Ac Jhunjhunwalla-Razack 2A.7.2D.3 PMG Very Fine 30.
DALLAS, TX.- Rare banknotes from around the globe, with exceptional offerings from five different continents and an exceptional collection of notes featuring Queen Elizabeth II, will land in new collections after they are sold in Heritage’s World Paper Money Signature® Auction March 27-28. Among the other highlights in the event is an exceptional India Government of India, Bombay 1000 Rupees 12.8.1925 Pick A19Ac Jhunjhunwalla-Razack 2A.7.2D.3 PMG Very Fine 30 that is a famously rare uniface denomination. Large format Government of India notes are as popular as ever, with the highest denominations being especially coveted. While a 10,000 Rupees note may have been printed, it is either exceedingly rare or unknown extant in issued format, which leaves 1,000s like the one offered in this auction as the highest available denomination. The signature of H. Denning and a Bombay city of issuance text are mentioned ... More
LINZ.- The exhibition "YOU, WHO CAN FLY – ŠEJLA KAMERIĆ" presents various groups of works by the artist from the last decades with current installations developed for the presentation in Linz. The multi-layered network offers an insight into the artistic self-image and the political and social intentions and hopes of the artist, who was born in 1976 in Sarajevo in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The exhibited self-stagings for photographic recordings, the self-portraits, which have been repeatedly conceived for over 20 years, run like a common thread through the thematic focus of the work. The representations of women and the female body, as they are coded and propagated in the visual and social media, find an equivalent in the artist's self-portraits and at the same time a provocative, self-determined de- and re-coding. Anna Breit (*1991 in Vienna) is a photographer whose work is at the interface between documentary, applied and artistic photography. Her ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s has promoted Julien Pradels to its new Regional President of the Americas. In this role, Pradels—the company’s current Global Head of Operations— will be responsible for leading and driving the strategic direction, business growth, and operational success of the auction house across both North and South America. He will assume the role in the spring, succeeding Bonnie Brennan, who was named CEO of Christie’s in February 2025. Pradels has held a variety of leadership positions in Europe, Asia, and now the Americas in his 14 years at Christie’s, focusing on regional strategies, client development, client relationships, and the management of the business across the globe day-to-day. Among his many accomplishments, Pradels has led global efforts to modernize the business, was instrumental in launching Christie’s first auction sale in Shanghai, and continues to lead the company’s robust sustainability program, ensuring ... More
LONDON.- Welcoming the start of Spring, Christie’s online sales series Collections, New York, London and Paris, will present a tantalising array of European, English and 19th century furniture and works of art, silver, ceramics, glass, clocks and gold boxes, from notable private collections spanning the 16th to 20th centuries. Collectively celebrating the enduring craftsmanship and beauty of important decorative arts, the auctions will open for browsing on 18, 19 and 26 March respectively (New York, London and Paris) and open for bidding accordingly from 25 and 26 March to 8 and 9 April (New York and London) and from 2 to 15 April (Paris). Estimates range from works offered with no reserve up to $320,000 / £250,000 / €300,000. The London Collections sale presents works of art from some of Britain’s most distinguished residences, including Luton Hoo (Bedfordshire), Canford ... More
Portrait Sophie Thun. Photo Yosuke Demukai.
LAUSANNE.- Wet Rooms, the first monographic exhibition of Sophie Thun (*1985) in Switzerland, refers to the darkroom where she develops her photographs. The artist works exclusively with analog photography, pushing back the boundaries of its technical possibilities by creating 1:1 scale prints. An intimate space marked by the presence of chemical baths essential to revealing the image, it is also a space of solitude and silence in which the artist reconstructs her vision of the world, notably through the motif of the window, which recurs constantly in her work. The bay windows of Espace Projet are here added to other elements drawn from her repertoire. In an elaborate use of collage mixing photograms and large-format prints, she overlays her own image on to the places where she has lived, worked,and exhibited, creating an archive that is continuously evolving. Playing with the concepts of scale and trompe-l’œil, the vast photo installations that Sophie Thun creates take the exhibition s ... More
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Secession's "White Cube" transformed: Yuki Okumura's site-specific projects humanize the Hauptraum VIENNA.- The so-called white cube is a seemingly “neutral” and “pure” space with plain-white walls that is supposed to ensure the undisturbed autonomy of art. The Hauptraum, the largest gallery of Secession, is one of the earliest and most representative examples of it. Like many artists who have exhibited here, Yuki Okumura took its empty state as a departure point for his process. But instead of bringing works to this ideal backdrop to isolate art from the world, the artist conceived three site-specific projects to rediscover the space as a lived room interconnected with the world marked by its own conditions and contexts. For each project, Okumura designed a playful procedure and asked people related to the space to enact it. Wilhelm as Hauptraum (2025) documents Okumura’s interview of Wilhelm “Willi” Montibeller, the former head of Secession’s ... More
Skyscrapers by the Roots: Reflections on Late Modernism at Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal MONTREAL.- The Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MAC) presents Skyscrapers by the Roots: Reflections on Late Modernism, from March 6 to August 10, 2025, in the MAC’s temporary space at Place Ville Marie. Curated by François LeTourneux, curator at the MAC, this new exhibition explores the issues of late modernism through works produced over the last decade by Shannon Bool, Kapwani Kiwanga, Rachel Rose, and Jonathan Schouela, a new film installation by David Hartt, as well as works by Lynne Cohen and François Dallegret produced in the 1960s and 1970s. A mural by comic book artist Lando, inspired by the work of David Hartt, will complete the exhibition. From the past to the present, these works highlight the many sociocultural repercussions of modernism in the spheres of personal life, work, consumption, and the performing ... More
Salzburger Kunstverein launches "Picturing Justice" program with earth-focused exhibitions SALZBURG.- From March 14 to May 4, Salzburger Kunstverein presents two new exhibitions that inaugurate the institution’s 2025 Program Picturing Justice. New Mineral Collective (Emilija Škarnulytė & Tanya Busse) delves into the complexities of landscape politics, focusing on the connections between nature and the catastrophic histories that have shaped it. Drawing on the concept of geopoetry as a method of connecting the smallest entities with the largest, and the swiftest temporal events in Earth history with the expanse of geological time, the collective prompts a reconsideration of our ethical stance towards the planet. The exhibition features an array of new sculptural works, including six-meter-long acupuncture needles that vertically pierce the institution’s space, and large, colorful bath bombs designed for rivers. These pieces act as both metaphorical and literal ... More
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart presents Christian Marclay's "The Clock" STUTTGART.- The Kunstmuseum Stuttgart premieres in Germany Christian Marclay’s cinematic masterpiece The Clock (2010). Winning the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale 2011, the 24-hour film collage has since mesmerized audiences around the globe. The public will be able to enjoy the complete duration on two special occasions, allowing viewers to experience those sections at night and in the morning hours. The Clock samples thousands of film excerpts, in which clocks are depicted or time is referenced—from clock towers to wristwatches to buzzing alarm clocks, from sundials to pendulum clocks, and scenes in which people tell each other the time. With the help of six assistants searching and cataloging the vast archives of film and television for footage, Marclay spent three long years carefully editing each of these clips to form a 24-hour-long montage ... More
Textile miniatures and Latin American memes: Double exhibition explores time and materiality ST. GALLEN.- This double exhibition brings together the artistic approaches of Majd Abdel Hamid (*1988 in Damascus/SY, lives and works in Paris/FR and Beirut/LB) and Sofía Salazar Rosales (*1999 in Quito/EC, lives and works in Amsterdam/NL). Both artists share a poetic focus on themes of identity, time, fragility, and materiality. Additionally, both Salazar Rosales and Hamid are developing new works for their presentation at Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, each finding their own references to resonate with in the local context. Majd Abdel Hamid works with textiles and embroidery. His objects are distinguished by their minimalism and precision, creating small-scale worlds of philosophical depth. The Palestinian artist deliberately chooses to work slowly. With impressive patience, he crafts detailed embroideries and cross-stitch works that embody a decelerated, profound ... More
Aslı Torcu's "Touched by Image" explores memory and uncertainty at Pi Artworks Istanbul ISTANBUL.- Pi Artworks Istanbul is presenting Touched by Image, a solo exhibition by Aslı Torcu. In this exhibition, the artist presents works that explore the disappearance and rebirth of images in uncertainty. Touched by Image is a space of discovery that exposes the fragile nature of time and memory. The paintings are made in layers, carrying traces from the past into the present, reflecting the paradoxes of memory and time. With their multilayered surfaces—sometimes erased, sometimes re-emerging—these works reveal an evolutionary process informed by uncertainty and the inevitability of change. "Like the primordial chaos in which all elements are mixed together," past, present, and future intertwine on the artist’s canvases, evolving into new meanings. The paintings encourage the viewer to confront the images that undoubtedly exist within themselves ... More
"Holding Still, Holding On": CMU and The Warhol Museum co-present new MFA works PITTSBURGH, PA.- For the first time, The Andy Warhol Museum and Carnegie Mellon University School of Art MFA Program co-present a joint exhibition, Holding Still, Holding On, on view March 14 – April 21, 2025. Holding Still, Holding On features new works by the CMU School of Art MFA Class of 2025—Frankmarlin, Izsys Archer, Tingting Cheng, Chantal Feitosa-Desouza and Max Tristan Watkins. The exhibition spans wide-ranging media and highlights the distinct perspectives of these five artists as they complete their final year of study. Presented in The Warhol’s rotating exhibition gallery, the exhibition offers a dynamic exploration of contemporary artmaking. The featured artists in Holding Still, Holding On each employ diverse approaches to storytelling, through mediums including photography, painting, archival assemblage, sculptural installations, text, ... More
Paul Thiebaud Gallery opens 'Kim Frohsin: Selected Figures from the 1990s' SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- On view will be 14 paintings on canvas and paper depicting scenes from a street carnival, athletes in motion, multi-figure allegories, and solitary portraits. Drawn from experiences in her daily life and friendships with her models, Frohsin’s paintings poetically convey a sense of the inner life within her subjects through controlled and serendipitous brushstrokes. The exhibition will be on view through May 10, 2025. Often described as a third generation Bay Area Figurative artist, Frohsin’s paintings are as much rooted in the lineages of Figurative painters like Richard Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff, and Joan Brown as they are to the tradition of thickly impastoed Abstract Expressionist paintings in the Bay Area, as well as the larger tradition of American Figurative art. After completing her studies in painting in the late 1980s, the first works ... More
Dutch master Co Westerik's US debut: Fergus McCaffrey unveils existential landscapes NEW YORK, NY.- Fergus McCaffrey, New York is presenting the first solo exhibition of the painter Co Westerik (1924 – 2018) in the United States. Though celebrated in The Netherlands, Westerik’s work is largely unknown abroad. The artist’s paintings are characterized by an existential interest in the trials and tribulations of human existence allied with a singular and cathartic exploration of the Dutch landscape. Westerik’s strangely captivating paintings achieve a fragile and quietly provocative balance that is unsettling. As the artist noted in 2014: the main aim of my work, its overriding compulsion, has been to create and unveil something that has never before seen the light of day. That is what has motivated me: a passion to reveal an underlying reality. Westerik’s art is an intimate and unflinching testament to the multi-generational cycle of birth and death ... More
South African legend Esther Mahlangu's solo show: A 90-year-old pioneer continues to innovate SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Jenkins Johnson Gallery presents When Heart and Mind Agree, a solo exhibition of legendary South African artist and cultural ambassador Dr. Esther Mahlangu. The exhibition opens Saturday, March 15, from 11 am to 2 pm, with a presentation by fellow South African Natasha Becker, Curator of African Art, de Young Museum, Fine Art Museums of San Francisco. In 2008, archeologists discovered paint-making kits in Blombos Cave, South Africa. These kits were estimated to be approximately 100,000 years old. Until the Blombos artifacts were found, experts believed that human creativity emerged just 40,000 to 50,000 years ago. The paint kit that was found in South Africa is a testament to the ancient and vital essence of human creativity, and it is important to Esther Mahlangu’s story, a national treasure of South Africa. Dr. Esther ... More
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On a day like today, Hungarian-French painter Victor Vasarely died
April 15, 1997. Victor Vasarely (9 April 1906 - 15 March 1997), was a Hungarian-French artist, who is widely accepted as a "grandfather" and leader of the op art movement. His work entitled Zebra, created in the 1930s, is considered by some to be one of the earliest examples of op art. In this image: Cheyt - Pyr, Serigraph, 68.5 X 66 cm.
