JADE AND PURPLE, 2024. High resolution color print, edition 5, 26 x 26 inches.
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA.-Denenberg Gallery is presenting the debut exhibition of beautiful, contemplative videos and color prints by Los Angeles artist Tony Gerber. The exhibition will continue through December 2024. Artists Statement: The work is based on algorithmic inference and computer programming, and is in a sense a fulfillment of a lifelong ambition to fully combine a background in science and engineering from my early days of research in machine learning, today called AI, and a lifelong passion for art. On July 25, 2024, I sat down to conduct an interview with Anthony Gerber in his command central computer studio, surrounded by stacked flatscreens on imposing high-tech mounts, some freestanding and some coming off the wall. There are up to 9 screens, each showing as many as ten videos, each 3-6 minutes long, in a continuous and repeating sequence. A computer operating system is set up to view as many as 90-100 of his wor ... More
Modified electric Elvis Presley slot machine with headshot of Elvis on top and image at the bottom of him singing, with facsimile signature. Appears to have been made for Japanese market. Estimate: $400-$800.
DENVER, PA.-Morphys last major toy sale of the year will take place on November 6-7, three weeks before Thanksgiving, but there isnt a single turkey in the lineup. In fact, theres so much quality and variety, it will feel like one of those great toy events of the pre-Internet era that collectors used to love. The auction is anchored by two major collections: a fantastic array of Popeye toys ... More
Bronze statue by Francisco Zúñiga (Costa Rican/Mexican, 1912-1998), titled Hombre arrodillado (con piernas), 1966, 23 ¾ inches tall by 10 inches wide (est. $15,000-$20,000).
LOS ANGELES, CA.-Andrew Jones Auctions will present the autumn edition of Design for the Home & Garden featuring the estates of Daniel and Natalie Schwartz, Rancho Mirage and Frederick Faude, Sausalito, California on Wednesday, October 23rd, online and live in the gallery located at 2221 South Main Street in downtown Los Angeles. This auction will feature an international array of fine and decorative art, ranging ... More
Detail of Otobong Nkanga: Cadence on view at The Museum of Modern Art, New York from October 10, 2024 through June 8, 2025. Photo: Jonathan Muzikar.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art presents Otobong Nkanga: Cadence, a new, site-specific commission by the Nigerian- Belgian artist Otobong Nkanga (b. 1974) opening in the Donald and Catherine Marron Family Atrium on October 10, 2024. The large-scale installation, which is on view through June 8, 2025, features an all-encompassing environment of sculpture, sound, and text that addresses the rhythms of both ecological life cycles and social upheaval. ... More
LONDON.- Francis Bacon has long been considered one of the most outstanding painters of the twentieth-century. Best known as a figurative artist, his work transforms the appearance of his subjects through an extraordinary use of paint. Francis Bacon: Human Presence (10 October 2024 19 January 2025) is the National Portrait Gallerys first exhibition to focus on the work of this important artist, and explores Bacons deep and complex engagement with portraiture from his responses to portraits by earlier artists, to large-scale triptychs ... More
LONDON.- The following works have been acquired for Tates collection thanks to the Frieze Tate Fund 2024 supported by Endeavor: Naminapu Maymuru-White (born 1952, Djarrakpi, Australia; lives and works in Australia), Milnyawuy 2024. 17 panels, natural earth paint pigment on stringy bark, 2660 x 4150 mm. Dimensions variable (Sullivan+Strumpf, Breguet ... More
FRANKFURT.- Carol Rama (19182015) is one of those outstanding female artists of modernism who, in spite of impressive and multifaceted oeuvres, achieved fame late in their career. From October 11, 2024, to February 2, 2025, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is presenting a large-scale survey of the Turin-based artist for the first time in Germany, featuring some 120 exhibits from all phases of her remarkable body of work. Sexuality, passion, disease, deathRama dedicated her art to the ... More
VIENNA.- Adrian Ghenie is honoring Egon Schiele, one of expressionisms most important visual artists, with a revolutionary exhibition. Based on a concept originated by Ciprian Adrian Barsan, it envisions a return of Schieles lost worksknown only from black and-white photographscourtesy of Adrian Ghenies hauntingly emphatic artistic abilities. Romanian artist Adrian Ghenie takes Schiele's lost works as an opportunity to embark on an impressive and unique search for traces with works created especially for this ... More
Carla Accardi, Trasparente, 1975.
PARIS.- Light found a new media: sicofoil and fluorescent colors. The painting no longer existed, because I made its structure visible, and made my signs anonymous -Carla Accardi, Flash Art, 1989. With these words, Carla Accardi (1914 2014) discusses her choice of sicofoil, a malleable and transparent plastic material, as both subject and matter of her work. Delving further and further in her exploration of the representation of light, from the late 1960s until the mid 1980's, Accardi rejected the use of canvas to privilege instead the use of sicofoil to create both bi-dimensional works and sculptures. To ... More
In addition to his auction work, Mason also operates an art advisory and appraisal company, serving private collectors, institutions, and estates.
NEW BRAUNFELS, TX.- In a recent exclusive interview with Artdaily, Lark Mason, the esteemed founder of iGavel Auctions and renowned appraiser on Antiques Roadshow, shared his perspectives on the evolving art market, his career, and the challenges faced by collectors and auctioneers today. With decades of experience, including a pivotal role at Sothebys, Mason has witnessed significant shifts in both the structure of the art market and the way auctions are conducted, especially in the digital age. As someone ... More
Rirkrit Tiravanija, Untitled 2024 (to find water look for forests), 2024. Hemp, dyes, bamboo.
TSUYAMA CITY.- The Forest Festival of the Arts Okayama: Clear-skies Country is an international art festival held in the northern half of Okayama Prefecture, Japan. The art director is Yuko Hasegawa, the director of 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, who is directing her first art festival in Japan. A total of 40 artists (39 groups) are participating. Hasegawa describes her concept for the festival as follows: While ... More
HONG KONG.- Following the announcement of The MQJ Collection Special Exhibition and the book launch of Three Decades of Ming Furniture, Christies presents Eternal Ming Treasures from The MQJ Collection, a dedicated auction comprising 15 lots of important classical Ming furniture and tabletop objects. This live auction will be held on 29 November 2024 at The ... More
AMSTERDAM.- Foam celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of renowned Dutch photographer Paul Huf with a retrospective, Golden Years. Huf emerged as a leading figure in the fields of advertising, fashion, and portrait photography during the 1950s, and was innovative with his use of colour. Notably, Paul Huf played a crucial role in the establishment of Foam Photography Museum Amsterdam, co-founding the institution in 2001. This exhibition showcases over 100 works ... More
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Patricia Waller joins C24 Gallery NEW YORK, NY.- C24 Gallery announced that they are now representing Berlin-based artist Patricia Waller in the United States and Turkey. Well known for her colorful crocheted works that deliver serious messages about violence and abuse via a medium that is more commonly associated with comfort, Chilean-born Waller has made a decades-long career of responding to the growing acceptance of violence in the world as well as satirizing and playing with cultural mythologies and norms. Confronting bloody realities with a vicious sense of irony, Waller creates handcrafted wool objects that play with well known symbols of innocence, causing us to reconsider how we deal with our fears and our ability to address or repress them. By subverting traditional uses of a familiar material, her bold and graphic work serves as a wake up call ... More
Christie's unveils a spatial painting by Felice Varini, created specifically for its Paris venue PARIS.- At the crossroads of art and innovation, Christies welcomes pioneering artist Felice Varini, known for his mastery of geometry and color, for a special installation. Created specifically for Christies spaces to coincide with the prestigious 20th and 21st Century Art sales, this new spatial painting, titled Disques évidés excentriques, will be unveiled on October 10. Designed to interact fully with the buildings architecture, this monumental workp extends across multiple floors inside the building. Comprised of two intertwined spirals in yellow and red, the work appears to be hollowed. The Disques évidés excentriques establishes a permanent dialogue between fullness and emptiness, the work and the space, the visitors perception and the place. As a virtuoso of space, Felice Varini challenges traditional perceptions of form and ... More
Entertainment, ecstasy and the exercise of power are interwoven in Pauline Curnier Jardin's works HELSINKI.- French artist Pauline Curnier Jardins (b. 1980) first solo exhibition in Finland transforms Kiasmas exhibition space into a grotesque theme park. The film works that await us in its depths offer glimpses into the fate of women and others marginalised in various ways in entertainment and as objects of power. What might Christian rituals, sex work and aging look like to them? Curnier Jardin and set designer Rachel García have together created carnivalistic backdrops for the exhibition their colours and lights draw us in. The soundscape created for the occasion generates an amusement park-like atmosphere. But, both the scenography and the sound warn us that something more ambiguous is about to emerge. The installations serve as stages for films in which entertainment and violence are intertwined. Here, the womens ... More
NGV unveils the largest presentation of Reko Rennie's work MELBOURNE.- Featuring a 15-metre-wide light sculpture, a Rolls Royce covered in bold pink and black camouflage and the world premiere of the artists latest large scale figurative painting, REKOSPECTIVE: The Art of Reko Rennie opens tomorrow and is the artists largest presentation of work to date and his first-ever retrospective exhibition. With more than 100 works on display - including recent acquisitions and new, never before-seen bodies of work - the exhibition charts the entirety of Rennies more than two-decade long career, inviting audiences to explore his powerful responses to specific histories, cultures and materials. Introduced to graffiti culture at a young age, Rennie is globally renowned for his distinctive style and visual language that integrates street art principles with contemporary art forms and traditional Kamilaroi ... More
Love is Louder exhibition: 80 artists look at love from the late '60s to today BRUSSELS.- From 12 October 2024 to 5 January 2025, the Love is Louder exhibition at Bozar (Centre for Fine Arts of Brussels) explores the many facets of love, its tensions, and its various forms. Navigating between the personal and the political, the exhibition zooms in on three dimensions of love: romantic love, kinship and friendship, and love in a broader social context. In times of increasing polarization, the exhibition focuses on what connects us. From the Summer of Love of 1967 to today, the exhibition will show how in the last 60 years we have moved beyond the image of the traditional couple or the nuclear family, how friendships shape us and what it means to put love at the heart of society. The exhibition shows over 120 works of 80 national and international artists in a wide range of media such as painting, sculpture, video, film ... More
Hirschl & Adler Modern opens "John Moore: Poetry of Place" NEW YORK, NY.- Hirschl & Adler Modern is presenting Poetry of Place, a solo exhibition of fifteen new oil paintings by John Moore. This is the artists sixteenth solo exhibition with Hirschl & Adler Modern, marking nearly forty years of representation with the gallery. Moores is a unique brand of realism infused with artifice. In invented worlds he juxtaposes that which is directly observed with things remembered or imagined, revealing multiple layers of time, space, and experience. Though completed in his studio in Belfast, Maine, where he now resides full-time, the paintings organic, industrial, and urban elements are drawn from memories and direct observation, both past and present, from Moores working-class upbringing in St. Louis to a career spent living in New Haven, Boston, and Philadelphia. The artist has noted that everything in his ... More
Belvedere announces a gift from artist Ugo Rondinone VIENNA.- Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone (b. 1964) has generously donated his minimalist sculpture arched landscape (2016) to the Belvedere. It is now on view as part of the CARLONE CONTEMPORARY series. The earthen arch is at once an object, an architectural form, and a nod to art history while at the same time making multiple references to the historical ceiling fresco in Carlone Hall, where trompe l'oeil architecture plays a prominent role. General Director Stella Rollig: With "arched landscape", Ugo Rondinone not only returns to the Belvedere following his first solo exhibition in Austria in 2021/22, but this work also becomes his third piece in the museums collection. Displayed under the Baroque pictorial program of Carlone Hall, Rondinone's work opens a space of serenity and contemplation. Ugo Rondinone has been creating ... More
In conversation: Genesis Tramaine and Phong H. Bui
Flashback
On a day like today, Scottish sculptor Benno Schotz died
October 11, 1984. Benno Schotz (28 August 1891 Arensburg - 11 October 1984 Glasgow) was a Scottish artist. During his career, Schotz produced several hundred portraits and compositions including figure compositions, religious sculptures, semi-abstracts and modelled portraits. His bust of James Maxton is on public display at the Maxton remembrance garden in Barrhead near Paisley. In this image: The Psalmist (1974). Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow, Scotland.