HAMBURG.- The exhibition »High Noon« at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg highlights the groundbreaking works of Nan Goldin, David Armstrong, Mark Morrisroe and Philip-Lorca diCorcia from December 13, 2024 to May 4, 2025. Having studyied photography at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the four photographers Nan Goldin, David Armstrong, Mark Morrisroe and Philip- Lorca diCorcia began their work in the political climate of the Ronald Reagan era. Goldin, Armstrong and Morrisroe are friends and concentrate on the photographic exploration of the subcultural bohemia in Boston and New York, of which they are an integral part. The camera, personal perspective and autobiographical aspects merge together and shape three unmistakable visual identities, albeit completely different in conception and style, which have revolutionized photography and continue to have a powerful effect right up to the present day. Caught between instability and fragility, constantly in ... More
BILBAO .- The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Paul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom, the artist’s largest survey exhibition in Europe, with a selection of over thirty works spanning his entire career and establishing him as one of the most influential artists today. Born in 1966 in Honolulu (Hawaii) and living in New York, his multidisciplinary practice, which includes video, photography, sculpture, and installation, interrogates ideas of spectacle, belonging, and difference. Primarily known for his incisive videos with images taken from a media-saturated world, Pfeiffer examines how images shape the spectators who consume them, although, as he says: “The question always comes up: Who’s using who? Is the image making us, or do we make images?” Since the start of his career more than twenty-five years ago, ... More
The book provides a day-by-day account of the film’s making.
NEW YORK, NY.- The cinematic debut of James Bond in Dr. No launched one of the greatest franchises in film history. This book is a gateway to understanding how that journey began, providing a detailed exploration of the movie’s production and legacy. With exclusive access to the archives of EON Productions, it dives into the creative process that introduced audiences to the enigmatic 007. Sean Connery’s first appearance as Bond set the tone for decades of thrilling adventures. His delivery of the line “Bond, James Bond” became iconic, but crafting this character for the screen required ingenuity and bold choices. This book peels back the curtain, revealing the story behind those decisions. Packed with over a thousand images, this volume is a visual feast. From rare on-set photographs by Bert Cann and Bunny Yaeger to production sketches and memos, the book immerses readers in the details of Dr. No. Each page captures moments of creativity and collaboration, offering a glimpse into ... More
Ángeles Santos, Retrato de la Marquesa de Alquibla, 1928.
MADRID.- In 2024, the Reina Sofía Museum has significantly enriched its collection by acquiring 470 new works from 227 artists, both Spanish and international, amounting to an investment of nearly €8 million. This monumental expansion includes works by renowned Spanish artists such as Ángeles Santos, José Pérez Ocaña, Colita, Pilar Albarracín, Ana Laura Aláez, Carles Congost, Joan Morey, and Cristina Lucas. International contributions come from notable figures such as André Masson, Alice Rahon, Allan McCollum, Regina José Galindo, Miguel Ángel Rojas, and Yasumasa Morimura. The museum and Spain's Ministry of Culture have placed a strong emphasis on acquiring works by women artists, with 56% of new acquisitions attributed to female creators. This deliberate focus reflects a commitment to addressing historical gender imbalances in art representation. • The Reina Sofía’s collection grows through various avenues: • Museum Acquisitions: Purchases funded by the museum itself or thr ... More
BILBAO.- The III Xabier Sáenz de Gorbea Prize for Artistic Dedication has been awarded to Petra Pérez, founder and director of the renowned Galería Vanguardia in Bilbao. The prestigious honor acknowledges her commitment to contemporary art, particularly Basque art, over a distinguished career spanning four decades. The jury, composed of Miguel Zugaza, Beatriz Herráez, Frantxi López Landatxe, and artist Sonia Rueda, emphasized her unwavering dedication and the pivotal role her gallery has played in promoting artistic innovation. • Recognition for Commitment: Pérez’s 40 years leading Galería Vanguardia were celebrated as a testament to her personal and professional dedication to contemporary art. • Promotion of Diverse Art Forms: Her work has supported a wide range of artistic expressions, from video art and performance to emerging technologies. • Support for Artists: Pérez has been instrumental in showcasing both emerging and established talents, contributing significantly to ... More
GSTAAD.- Gagosian announced In Search of Light, an exhibition of new works by Rick Lowe in Gstaad. The artist’s debut presentation in Switzerland, it introduces new series of drawings and paintings on paper and features Lowe’s latest large-scale painting. Lowe’s practice centers on interpreting and transforming shared structures and sites, using community-based projects to catalyze change. Drawn, painted, and collaged, his abstractions complement these initiatives, taking games of dominoes as starting points from which to consider relationships between people and places. Paper is a key material for Lowe, whose works on paper function both as autonomous artworks and as a way to explore varied modes of abstraction. In search of light, Lowe explores the dynamic and associative effects of color and tone in works that are distinguished by a bright, saturated palette and ... More
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864 – 1901), The Clowness Cha-U-Kao, 1895, oil on canvas, 75 x 55cm, Image: Oskar Reinhart Collection «Am Römerholz», Winterthur.
LONDON.- The Courtauld Gallery will present an exceptional selection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings in the first ever exhibition of the Oskar Reinhart Collection ‘Am Römerholz’ to be staged outside of Winterthur, Switzerland. The Griffin Catalyst Exhibition: Goya to Impressionism. Masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart Collection will be on display from 14 February – 26 May 2025. The exhibition will open with a selection of major paintings by artists who preceded the Impressionists, including Goya’s highly charged Still Life with Three Salmon Steaks (c.1808-12), Géricault’s moving A Man Suffering from Delusions of Military Rank (c.1819-22) and Courbet’s provocative The Hammock (1844). At the heart of the exhibition will be some of the greatest paintings of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, including Toulouse-Lautrec’s striking representation of the ... More
The exhibition weaves a narrative of change and transformation, uniting works by modern and contemporary artists.
ROME.- "The Large Glass," the latest exhibition at the MAXXI Museum in Rome, curated by the renowned American artist Alex Da Corte, opens to the public on December 13. This exhibition marks a bold new direction for the museum, emphasizing dynamic engagement with artists and intellectuals to reinterpret its collections. By blending tradition with contemporary perspectives, "The Large Glass" offers an immersive and transformative experience that challenges conventional museum presentations. The exhibition weaves a narrative of change and transformation, uniting works by modern and contemporary artists. Visitors are invited to reflect on themes of alteration and mutability through a carefully curated selection of paintings, installations, photographs, and architectural pieces. Iconic works by celebrated masters interact with creations by emerging contemporary voices, resulting in a vibrant and multilayered dialogue. Alex Da Corte, recognized globally for his multidisciplinary approach, bridges t ... More
Ryuichi Sakamoto + Shiro Takatani, LIFE–fluid, invisible, inaudible…, 2007/2023. Installation view, Ryuichi Sakamoto | SOUND AND TIME, M WOODS (People’s park), Chengdu, China, 2023. Courtesy of M WOODS.
TOKYO.- Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo presents the exhibition Ryuichi Sakamoto: seeing sound, hearing time. A composer and an artist, Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952–2023) continuously paved the way for his era through his diverse and cutting-edge artistic activities. Since the 2000s, he devoted himself to creating three-dimensional sound installations in exhibition spaces, which he developed and realized in collaboration with various artists. Focusing entirely on large-scale installation works, this first comprehensive exhibition in Japan looks back on Sakamoto’s pioneering, experimental creative artworks, including some of his most well-known previous pieces, and new works that he envisioned for this particular occasion before his passing, which will be dynamically constructed in and around the museum building. Collaboration artists: Shiro Takatani, Daito Manabe, Carsten Nicolai, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, ... More
De Vély, The Fairhaven Panels: A Polyptych with Mars, Virtu Invincibile, Minerva and Magnificence. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- The Fairhaven Panels, a remarkable set of four highly decorated panels and the only known publicly available works by the artist De Vély, are at risk of leaving the UK unless a domestic buyer can be found. The panels, created in the 17th century, depict four different personifications or gods: Mars, Virtu Invincible, Minerva, and Magnificence, focusing on victory in war and the beauty of peace. Set in their original gilded metal cases, each panel features a skilful combination of glass, pearls, shells, stones, enamel and gilt metal. These are materials that do not fade over time, so their vivid colours remain particularly striking to modern audiences. The panels are now valued at over £1.6 million. These works could provide new insight into this artist and the unique sculptural technique he used to craft them, as they are a rarity in European art and embrace the baroque taste for extravagance. The elaborate technique that De Vély employed would have been considerably time-consuming and ... More
John Smart (English, 1741–1811), Portrait of Muhammad Ali Khan Wallajah, Nawab of Arcot and the Carnatic, 1788, watercolor on ivory, sight: 2 x 1 5/8 in. (5.08 x 4.13 cm), framed: 2 1/8 x 1 3/4 in. (5.4 x 4.45 cm), Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr, F71-32
KANSAS CITY, MO.- A stunning array of jewel-like portrait miniatures by English artist John Smart (1741—1811), including signed and dated examples from nearly every year of his career, are being featured at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City in the exhibition John Smart: Virtuoso in Miniature from Dec. 21, 2024, to Jan. 4, 2026. Included is a rare self-portrait of the artist, one of only nine known examples. It was made in 1793 while the artist was living in India. Timed to coincide with the final launch in spring 2025 of the digital Starr Catalogue of Portrait Miniatures—a groundbreaking resource dedicated to John Smart that reveals fresh discoveries across his career— this exhibition presents his work chronologically, showcasing new additions to the collection for the first time in nearly six decades. Presented to the ... More
Mel Chin. Photo: Miriam Heads.
HIROSHIMA.- The City of Hiroshima has selected the winner of the 12th Hiroshima Art Prize, Mr. Mel Chin (born 1951 in the United States of America). The Hiroshima Art Prize is an international art prize established in 1989 by the City of Hiroshima. Its purpose is to acknowledge the achievements of an artist who has made the greatest contribution to the peace of humankind in the field of art in order to spread understanding of the “Spirit of Hiroshima” throughout the world. The prize is awarded every three years, and the achievements of the winning artist will be introduced through an exhibition at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art. Past recipients include Issey Miyake, Robert Rauschenberg, Leon Golub and Nancy Spero, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Daniel Libeskind, Shirin Neshat, Cai Guo Qiang, Yoko Ono, Doris Salcedo, Mona Hatoum and Alfredo Jaar. The significance of this honor cannot be overstated. It comes as I live in an area ravaged by destruction in an era of ... More
BOSTON, MASS.- On February 13, 2025, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA) unveils an ambitious two-part exhibition from New York-based artist Sara Cwynar (b. 1985, Vancouver). Cwynar is creating a floor-to-ceiling, photo collage billboard for the Sandra and Gerald Fineberg Art Wall in the ICA’s lobby, as well as an installation in the Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser Gallery on the fourth floor, marking the first time an artist has worked simultaneously in these two spaces at the ICA. The photo-based exhibition builds on the artist’s longstanding investigation of the relationship between images and the construction of selfhood in the digital era. Organized by Jeffrey De Blois, Mannion Family Curator, with Max Gruber, Curatorial Assistant, Sara Cwynar is on view from Feb. 13 to Aug. 3, 2025. Cwynar’s densely layered photographs, films, and installations employ ... More
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RIBA announces 2024 President's Medals and Annie Spink Award LONDON.- Designs for a forested new town on the abandoned site of HS2, an almshouse for former carers that celebrates its residents’ personalities, and a creative dissertation about historic spatial restrictions on women in an Italian fishing village have all won 2024 RIBA President’s Medals. Presented by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) for 188 years, the President’s Medals recognise the world’s best work by architecture students. In 2024, the awards received 372 entries, the most in its history. In addition to the medal winners, and as a move to reflect the high number and diversity of entries, the judging panels of the Silver, Bronze and Dissertation Medals gave 5 commendations for each, up from 3 last year. The RIBA Silver Medal for the best design project produced at RIBA Part 2 or equivalent is awarded to Joe Franklin ... More
In the exhibition Art is a Verb, five solos show the activating power of art EINDHOVEN.- Art is remembering, imagining and feeling. It is part of who we are, but especially of what we do. Art is connected to all parts of our daily lives. With this in mind, the exhibition Art is a Verb, on view from 7 December 2024 to 27 April 2025, makes a plea for the activating power of art. Artists Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólaffson, alyené, Svetlana Romanova & Chelsea Tuggle, Cristina Flores Pescorán and the BKP collective show how art gives us tools to live our lives. This exhibition is the eighth in the annual Positions exhibition series, in which several solo presentations by international artists at the Van Abbemuseum enter into dialogue with each other. Art is a Verb is one of the last exhibitions director Charles Esche works on before his departure from the Van Abbemuseum at the end of 2024. Science and welfare, economy and ecology: ... More
Bozar announces exhibitions calendar 2025 BRUSSELS.- The exhibition programme of 2025 starts with the powerful and colourful show When We See Us. This exhibition forms a vast kaleidoscope that reflects a century of Black figurative painting and presents over 150 works by 120 artists from Africa and the African diaspora. Pan-African subjectivity, afro-consciousness and self-representation, underpinned by Black joy, take centre-stage. Bozar also presents, for the first time, a large-scale solo exhibition featuring the work of Berlinde De Bruyckere. The work of this Belgian artist focuses on the human condition in all its duality: suffering and love, sorrow and comfort, life and death. In Khorós, De Bruyckere presents a selection of her works of the past 25 years, including new creations, in dialogue with works by both historical and contemporary artists, from Lucas Cranach to Pier Paolo Pasolini ... More
NGV Kids Summer Festival & Kids on Tour return this school holidays MELBOURNE.- Celebrate the new year with a burst of creativity and fun at the NGV Kids Summer Festival, running from 11–17 January. This year’s festival offers an exciting lineup of free events for families featuring hands-on workshops and engaging performances inspired by NGV’s newest exhibitions. Highlights include pet-themed events to celebrate Cats & Dogs at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, interactive activities inspired by Yayoi Kusama at NGV International, and artist-led sessions designed to spark young imaginations. NGV Kids on Tour is also back this January with free school holiday art activities for kids across Victoria, including making a playful cat and dog ear headband, illustrating a Kusama-inspired pumpkin, and creating fashion designs for paper dolls. The 2025 NGV Kids on Tour marks the largest ever ... More
Mica: The Collection of Mica Ertegun totals $196.1 million NEW YORK, NY.- Mica: The Collection of Mica Ertegun concluded its six and final sale, bringing the collection total to $196,099,236. The collection was 100% sold, selling 115% hammer against low estimate. The historic sale series began on the evening of Tuesday, November 19, 2024 kicking off in Christie’s Rockefeller Center saleroom with Mica: The Collection of Mica Ertegun Part I. The sale achieved enormous success, totaling $184 Million, selling 100% by lot, 100% by value, 113% hammer against low estimate. The leading highlight of the evening was Rene Magritte’s masterpiece L’empire des lumieres, which sold for a record-breaking $121.2 Million and established a new benchmark for the Surrealist movement. Wednesday, November 20, 2024, Mica: The Collection of Mica Ertegun Part II realized $5 Million, selling ... More
Christie's Wine department final auctions of the season achieved $2.6 million NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s Wine department in America announced the results of Pristine Bordeaux Classics: The Directors Collection and Fine and Rare Wines Including Vintage Icons from a West Coast Cellar and Historic Port from the Raby Castle Collection. In total, the two sales achieved $2,614,251 and were 88% sold by lot. Chris Munro, Head of Department, Americas Fine Wine & Spirits, commented: “A tremendous close to 2024 capping a successful year for wine sales in Los Angeles. With over 700 lots of Bordeaux offered across our two auctions it was satisfying to see lots consistently outperform their pre-sale estimates. A rare full case of Le Pin 2009 made an impressive $40,000, whilst a six pack of Petrus 2009 hammered down for $20,000. Other highlights included strong prices for rare port from the cellars of Raby ... More
Roland Rudd and Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia reappointed to the Tate board LONDON.- The Prime Minister has reappointed Roland Rudd and Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia as Trustees of the Tate. Roland Rudd has also been reappointed as Chair by the Tate Trustees for a further 3 year term as required under the Museums and Galleries Act 1992. Appointed for a three year term from 31 January 2025 to 30 January 2028. Roland Rudd is a founder and Chair of FGS Global, the leading global communications and public affairs consultancy. Prior to founding the strategic communications company Finsbury in 1994, he worked as a political and financial journalist at the Financial Times and The Times. Roland is also Chair of Tate, which he has been involved with for the past 25 years, first serving as a Patron, Chair of the Business Advisory Group and then as Deputy Chair. He has also been a Trustee and fundraiser ... More
Lunds konsthall presents Near to the Wild Heart LUND.- The exhibition brings together works by artists from different generations that trace sensorial, non-verbal, spiritual or otherwise invisible but vividly sensed layers of experience. The “wild heart” referred to in the exhibition title alludes to the essential force of life that animates the world. This vital energy is encountered in the exhibition as desire, magic, sexuality, imagination, ecstacy, nature, or the mystical divine. Central to many of the artworks is the dissolution of boundaries—between the I and the other, the body and the world, or between inner and outer landscapes and experiences—showing how life and death, the human, creativity and nature are all continuous processes of transformation and becoming. The title of the exhibition is borrowed from Clarice Lispector’s novel of the same name (Perto do coraçao selvagem, ... More
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December 20, 1941. Ignacio Villarreal Junco (December 20, 1941 - July 26, 2019) Journalist, graphic designer and publicist between the 1960s and 1990s, creator of concepts, images, slogans, logos, campaigns and founder of ArtDaily.com The First Art Newspaper on the Net. As editor he published the magazines: Gala (1965), Creatividad (1972-1977), Espacio (1983-1984), Museos (1995-1996). For ten years he made the Agenda del Arte (1987-1997). He made the serigraphic editions titled: 1976-Calendario Gráfico, 1977-Alfabeto Gráfico. He also edited serigraphs with the visual artists: José Luís Cuevas, Juan Soriano, Juan Genovés. Corporate Identities: 1968 - Hylsa, 1970 - Universidad de Monterrey, 1974 - Banpaís, 1978 - Akra, 1985 - Ábaco, 1990 - Club de Fútbol Monterrey, 1991 - Socrates Rizzo Campaign, 1992 - Confía, 1993 - Mexlub, 1993 - Rogelio Montemayor Campaign, 1996 - Monterrey400 (Fourth centenary of the city), 2002 - UANL Tigres Soccer Club. As a publicist, he received 18 national awards: Teponaxtlis de Malinalco and as founding editor of ArtDaily, an art newspaper that has received 51 awards or distinctions.
