White Bull’s (1849-1947, nephew of Sitting Bull) historical ledger and story book documenting Indian battles in the West. Contains 162 pages, 120 with writing, 33 with drawings, 28 blank and facing drawings. In terms of importance to Lakota historiography, comparable to Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Provenance: Morning Star Gallery, Santa Fe, N.M. Estimate: $75,000-$125,000.
LAS VEGAS, NEV.- Soon collectors of Western and Native-American art and antiques will be off to America’s entertainment capital, Las Vegas, for the mega-event of 2025, as Morphy’s presents its Old West Show & Auction in tandem with the premier Las Vegas Antique Arms Show. On Friday and Saturday, January 24-25, the three attractions will be held conveniently under one roof at the Westgate Casino & Resort, with a comprehensive selection of goods that includes Western art, antiques, jewelry, home décor, cowboy paraphernalia and much more. Over both days, guests can browse and buy from 800 tables of exceptional items from some of the world’s finest Western dealers and craftsmen, and on opening day, starting at 4pm local time, Morphy’s will take center stage to conduct an exciting live auction. The 495-lot selection includes imp ... More
A hand figure was removed from a panel containing over 150 motifs, dating from between 5,000 and 500 years ago. Photo: INAH.
CUATRO CIÉNEGAS.- A devastating act of vandalism has struck a significant archaeological site in Coahuila, Mexico, leaving researchers and the local community heartbroken. A precious rock painting depicting a hand, part of a larger panel dating back thousands of years, has been ripped from the walls of La Cueva Pinta (Painted Cave), a site nestled in the Sierra de Australia mountains near Cuatro Ciénegas. The alarm was raised by concerned citizens who reported the damage through electronic media. Upon inspection by expert archaeologist Yuri de la Rosa Gutiérrez, the extent of the damage became clear: not only had the hand been forcibly removed, but there were also signs of attempts to extract at least two other figures from the ancient artwork. The affected panel, measuring five meters wide and three meters high, is a canvas of ancient history, adorned with over 150 figures painted in vibrant hues of red, yellow, white, black, and orange. The overlapping nature of the ... More
SEOUL.- Pace opens a two-part survey of work by American painter Kenneth Noland at its Seoul and Tokyo galleries. On view first in Seoul from January 10 to March 29, 2025 and then in Tokyo from March 7 to April 19, 2025, these two distinct presentations of rare, museum-quality paintings will bring together works created between the 1960s and early 2000s, encompassing the artist’s most celebrated series. This will be the first exhibition dedicated to Noland’s work in both countries in some 30 years. A founding member of the Washington Color School—which included Sam Gilliam, Morris Louis, and Alma Thomas among others—Noland was instrumental in forging the language of postwar abstraction in the US. His experimental approach to form and color gave rise to radical works that redefined the medium of painting. Between 1946 and 1948, Noland studied at Black Mountain College in his native North Carolina. There, he was exposed to the ideas of seminal figures such ... More
Thomas Lawrence and his studio, Portrait of Caroline Lady Suffield of Belton Hall in Grantham (died 1850), seated half-length, landscape beyond. Oil on canvas
82 x 72 cm. (32 1/4 x 28 in.)
LONDON.- A rediscovered work by Thomas Lawrence and his studio comes for sale at Chiswick Auctions on January 21. On the market for the first time, the oil on canvas portrait of Caroline, Lady Suffield of Belton Hall in Grantham is expected to bring £40,000 - £60,000 as part of a designated sale of Old Masters & 19th Century Art. Lady Caroline Hobart (d. 1850) was the second of the three daughters of John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire (1723-93) and his first wife, Mary Anne Drury. At the death of her father she inherited the Blickling Estate, now the property of the National Trust. This half-length portrait of Lady Caroline, that shows the sitter in an unusual pose with head turned sharply to the right, is the second version of this image known. It largely repeats a three-quarter-length version of the canvas that was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1793 (when Lawrence was just 24 years old) that remains in the collection of her de ... More
LONDON.- A remarkable Attic red-figure kylix, a type of ancient Greek drinking cup, featuring a captivating oracle scene and dating back to approximately 470-450 BC, is set to be auctioned by Apollo Art Auctions in their Fine Ancient Art, Antiquities & Jewellery sale on January 25, 2025. The kylix, attributed to the Circle of Douris, carries a pre-sale estimate of £50,000-£80,000. The interior of this exquisite vessel showcases a scene of profound cultural significance: a seated youth, draped in a himation (cloak), rests on an elegant chair, holding a long wooden stick and a small bag. This imagery strongly suggests an encounter with an oracle, with the youth perhaps seeking guidance or receiving a prophecy. A standing woman, also wearing a himation, likely represents the oracle or a priestess. The scene is carefully framed by ... More
PARIS.- David Zwirner presents Moon Voyage, an exhibition of work by Antiguan artist, writer, and polymath Frank Walter (1926–2009) at the gallery’s Paris location. Organized in close collaboration with art historian Barbara Paca and the Walter family, this is the artist’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery and the first dedicated presentation of his work in Paris. The exhibition coincides with the inclusion of Walter’s work in the group show Après la fin. Cartes pour un autre avenir, which opens January 25, 2025, at Centre Pompidou Metz, France, and follows the artist’s recent institutional solo shows at the Garden Museum, London (2023), and The Drawing Center, New York (2024). His work was recently included in group exhibitions at the Fondation ... More
Beatriz González, Las Delicias 12, 1997. Charcoal and pastel on canvas, 24 x 24 cm.
TILBURG.- The De Pont Museum announced the acquisition of two works from the iconic series Las Delicias (1996-1998) by Colombian artist Beatriz González: Las Delicias 12 and Las Delicias 13. Both works will be on view in Tilburg until March 9 as part of the exhibition Beatriz González - War and Peace, a comprehensive retrospective of this influential Latin American artist. The Las Delicias series was inspired by the tragic events of 30 August 1996, when 60 young soldiers were kidnapped by the FARC guerrilla movement at the Las Delicias military base in southern Colombia. During the attack, several soldiers lost their lives, and the survivors were held captive for 288 days. This harrowing event left a profound mark on Colombian society and inspired González to create this poignant series of small paintings. At 92 years old, González ... More
Enrique Martinez Celaya, The Gnawing, 2024. Oil and wax on canvas, 118 x 92 in. 299.7 x 233.7 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan presents Behind the Bedroom Door, a group exhibition that explores the private realms where intimacy and solitude share space with the inner life of dreams and fantasies. The exhibition features historical and contemporary artists working across painting, photography, sculpture, video and sound to plumb the depths of the unconscious, uncover hidden dimensions, and explore mythology and transformation. Behind the Bedroom Door will be on view at the gallery’s 48 Walker Street and 291 Grand Street locations from January 10 through February 8, 2025. In Behind the Bedroom Door, interior scenes serve as portals to inner landscapes. Depictions of doors serve as potent symbols of opening and closing: a threshold we pause before, the challenge we transcend, an entryway into new possibilities. In Christian Marclay’s sound installation, the viewer hears an escalating ... More
Elena Bonanno di Linguaglossa.
MILAN.- Thaddaeus Ropac shared the news that he will open a gallery in central Milan in the early autumn of 2025 and welcomed Elena Bonanno di Linguaglossa as Executive Director for his seventh location. Elena brings to her new role almost twenty-five years of experience working in the fields of modern and contemporary art, with particular expertise in Italian and American art. Situated in the Palazzo Belgioioso, one of Milan’s architectural treasures close to Teatro alla Scala and Via Monte Napoleone, the renovated gallery spans two grand rooms across 280 square metres of the historic building’s first floor. The exhibition spaces extend beyond the palazzo to the Piazza Belgioioso, the prominent public square outside, where the gallery will exhibit sculptures. Located in the city’s cultural complex, and a short distance from the Duomo di Milano, the gallery sits within the network of the city’s museums: the Pinacoteca di Brera, the Palazzo Reale, the Museo ... More
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art announced today the acquisition of approximately 75 works, spanning time, culture, and geography and capturing a spectrum of artistic innovation. The acquisitions reflect the museum’s ongoing commitment to diversifying its collection with works by artists from the Baltimore region and across the globe, allowing for greater cross-cultural storytelling and reflecting a depth of creative ingenuity. Among the new acquisitions are a textile by Mary Ellen Crisp; paintings by Mark Thomas Gibson and Lubaina Himid; works on paper by Chitra Ganesh, Rania Matar, Natani Notah (Diné), Shahzia Sikander, and Lorna Simpson; photographs by Tamiko Nishimura and Gail Thacker; sculpture by Cheryl Pope and Lucia Hierro; and a new commission by Robell Awake—a rising star of the furniture world, who uses 19th-century African American chairmaking forms and techniques to create ... More
Dutch artist Rineke Dijkstra (b. Sittard, Netherlands, 1959; lives and works in Amsterdam) has produced an impressive body of photographic and video work, offering a contemporary take on the genre of portraiture.
BERLIN.- Join the artist talk with Rineke Dijkstra and Dr. Friedrich Meschede: the former director of the DAAD Artist-in-Berlin Program, invited Rineke Dijkstra with a scholarship to Berlin in 1998/99. Together they look back on Dijkstra’s time in Berlin, her artistic development and the portrait series in Berlin’s Tiergarten, which is the starting point for the current exhibition at the Berlinische Galerie. Rineke Dijkstra (*1959) is one of the most highly acclaimed photography and video artists in the world. The central theme of her portraits is the depiction of identity. She is particularly interested in those stages in life and those moments when identity is taking shape: childhood, youth, but also formative events in adulthood, such as the birth of a child. This major retrospective at the Berlinische Galerie presents eight series with about 80 works dating from the early 1990s ... More
Keltie Ferris, A.C.4.5.J.M.Z, 2023. Oil and acrylic on canvas in artist's frame. Framed: 75 x 75 inches (190.5 x 190.5 cm)
NEW YORK, NY.- Sikkema Jenkins & Co. announced the representation of Keltie Ferris. Keltie Ferris’s unique approach to abstraction maps the catalytic qualities of medium and technique onto expressions of physicality, energy, and change. His works thrum with a vibrant use of color and a diverse deployment of pictorial forms and textural applications. Hand-painted pattern fields, bursts of spray paint and oil pastel, raised outlines, and pixelated backgrounds nod to a wide range of visual lineages, from natural motifs and ancient craftwork to modern Expressionism and contemporary digital image cultures. In his large-scale paintings, thick areas of medium are built up, then alternately swiped, blurred, and removed with a variety of tools. By deconstructing his own process of painting into its most fundamental actions and materials, Ferris offers an expansive vision of abstraction as a site of formal experimentation and conceptual ingenuity. This keen ... More
Sharaku. Kabuki Actor Osagawa Tsuneyo II as Osan. c. 1794. 15" x 10". Woodblock print with dark grey mica ground.
NEW YORK, NY.- Ronin Gallery celebrates its 50th anniversary with an exploration of five decades of Japanese prints. From the first flowerings of ukiyo-e to today’s contemporary talents, they will consider the history of printmaking in five exhibitions. The year begins with Dawn of Ukiyo-e: Woodblock Prints of the 17th & 18th Centuries. Over the course of the late 17th and 18th centuries, the Japanese woodblock print transformed from a devotional medium into a culturally embedded art form. Known as ukiyo-e, or “pictures of the floating world,” these prints captured an ephemeral world of earthly pleasure and indulgence. In this exhibition, Ronin Gallery invites you to trace the development of ukiyo-e from its roots in ehon (illustrated books) to its lauded “golden age” through the work of artists such as Moronobu, Harunobu, Utamaro and Sharaku. The rise of the woodblock print in Japan was inextricably tied to the historical and social factors of the Edo period ... More
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Martin Jacobson's "Portraits & Silhouettes": Where dreams and myths converge STOCKHOLM.- Andréhn-Schiptjenko presents Martin Jacobson’s solo exhibition Portraits & Silhouettes. Dreams, myths and archetypal imagery converge in Martin Jacobson's paintings, serving as portals to shared human consciousness and experiences unbound by time. Drawing from these collective symbols, Jacobson creates an associative stream that reflects on how we perceive ourselves in relation to the world, offering introspective explorations of the human experience. Jacobson’s creative process is a journey into the unknown, a dialogue between him and the painting that unfolds with unpredictable discoveries—part memory, part dream. Characters and landscapes materialize as if they have always existed, waiting to be uncovered. He describes his approach not as creating, but as finding: the image revealing itself from behind a curtain ... More
'A New Look at Photo History: Treasures from the Solander Collection' opens at Photographic Center Northwest SEATTLE, WA.- The history of photography is often told as a chain of relationships connecting one great maker to the next. However, the real history is much more complicated—a vast collection of interconnected stories stretching from East Asia to West Africa, from New Zealand to Turkey, and combining fine art, scientific, anthropological, documentary, and amateur traditions. Featuring a selection of 50 extraordinary works, A New Look at Photo History: Treasures from the Solander Collection provides a rare opportunity to see well-known works and new discoveries by major artists alongside forgotten greats, regional champions and unknown artists. Unexpected images by legendary figures including Robert ... More
Art exhibition "Tide Line" charts a course through revolution and connection to the living world LISBON.- A powerful new exhibition, "Tide Line," has opened at the Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian, charting a course from Portugal's 1974 revolution to the present day, exploring ongoing societal shifts, particularly those concerning our planet. The exhibition offers a conversation across time and mediums, inviting visitors to reflect on our relationship with the world around us. Entering the gallery feels like stepping into a dynamic ecosystem. Large-scale installations establish the atmosphere, creating a rhythm that resonates with surrounding pieces. Curators have woven together a tapestry of key themes – transgression against the former dictatorship, a pioneering artistic ecological manifesto, the introspective nature of art, technological and post-human evolution, and a poignant reminder of our bond with the natural world. A ... More
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts appoints Dr. Alisa Chiles as Curator RICHMOND, VA.- Following an international search, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) announced today the appointment of Alisa Chiles, Ph.D., as the museum’s new Sydney and Francis Lewis Curator of Decorative Arts, 1890 to the Present, beginning January 10, 2025. “I am delighted to welcome Alisa to the staff at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,” said museum Director and CEO Alex Nyerges. “Alisa will play a vital role in upcoming acquisitions, future installations and the stewardship and interpretation of works of art in the museum’s renowned decorative arts collection.” The Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Decorative Arts, 1890 to the Present, oversees a collection of more than 2,700 works of decorative arts made after 1890, which includes the finest holdings of Art Nouveau and Art Deco outside of Paris, as well as the museum’s ... More
The Metropolitan Museum of Art appoints Paul Pineau as General Counsel and Secretary NEW YORK, NY.- Following an extensive national search, The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that Paul Pineau has been appointed as General Counsel and Secretary, effective March 10. Pineau most recently served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Johns Hopkins University. He will succeed Sharon Cott, who is retiring after 37 years at The Met. Met Director and CEO Hollein commented: “We are delighted to welcome Paul Pineau to The Met. He brings exemplary legal skills and expertise, with demonstrated success in providing strategic leadership and counsel amid complex challenges. His thoughtful approach will be an invaluable asset to the Museum, and we are confident that Paul will be a strong partner in advancing the Museum’s mission and institutional goals. We would also like to extend our deepest ... More
Faux fur, toast faces, and more: "Uncanny Unchained" celebrates the power of weird art ST. GALLEN.- Faux fur, toast bread, hair, worms, and a lively trash can: welcome to «Uncanny Unchained: The Power of Weird»! This edition of Heimspiel brings together the works of 23 local and regional artists (including one duo) whose creations summon the bizarre, the extravagant, the strange, and the whimsical. Hybrid creatures, eerie silhouettes, hairy textures, and distorted proportions populate the Kunst Halle in a gathering of the curious and peculiar. At times, they leave us unsure: Do we find them beautiful or absurd? Are they sweet or eerie? The exhibition focuses on the fascination these questions create. A small collection of stolen museum labels sets the stage. Maria Anwander (*1980 in Bregenz, Austria) is known for kissing museum walls in her performances and subtly altering art classics to highlight their male-dominated ... More
Danysz Gallery extends Rakajoo "Quatre chemins" PARIS.- After Rakajoo's solo exhibition last year at the Palais de Tokyo, discover the new works of the French painter, inviting us on a visual journey through his “Quatres chemins”. Drawing from his personal life, Rakajoo’s work reveals fragments of his daily life, both in its most trivial and grandiose aspects, but always with distance and restraint. He creates seemingly ordinary life scenes (urban landscapes, portraits of loved ones or himself), but the details, mischievously scattered like clues across the canvas, give his painting multiple layers of meaning. Delving into these works is to engage in a reflection on topics as intimate as universal, personal as well as political. As Hugo Vitrani, the curator of the exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo, points out “Rakajoo's painting finds its roots in this Afropean soul characterized by duality and pluralism: a story about being ... More
Mexico's Alquimia magazine takes flight with new issue on aerial photography MEXICO CITY.- From sweeping landscapes to intricate cityscapes, a new issue of Alquimia magazine is taking readers to new heights. The latest edition, number 80, delves into the fascinating world of aerial photography, exploring how capturing images from above has shaped our understanding of the world below. Published by Mexico's Ministry of Culture through the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), Alquimia offers a unique perspective on this visual art form. "Aerial Photography," as the issue is titled, isn't just about pretty pictures. It examines how this technique, using everything from planes and helicopters to modern drones, has contributed to diverse fields, from geography and urban planning to archaeology and even art. The magazine brings together expert voices to explore this multifaceted subject. One compelling ... More
Treasure House Fair returns for a third edition LONDON.- This summer, The Treasure House Fair will return to the historic Royal Hospital Chelsea for a festival of art, culture and gastronomy. Taking place from 2Gth June through 1st July, London’s much anticipated summer art fair will bring together 70 internationally renowned exhibitors in the fields of fine art, furniture, antiquities, jewellery, watches and classic cars. A “treasure house” of the rare and the beautiful, the historic and the cutting-edge, the interdisciplinary art fair blends items of quintessentially British character with hand- picked treasures from around the world. From the jewellery house that crafted Their Majesties King Charles and Queen Camilla’s wedding rings, to young art dealers breaking new ground in the international art sphere, the fair will showcase galleries working at the apex of their disciplines. All vetted ... More
Annabelle Selldorf on Transforming The Frick Collection
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On a day like today, English sculptor Barbara Hepworth was born
January 10, 1903. Dame Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth DBE (10 January 1903 - 20 May 1975) was an English artist and sculptor. Her work exemplifies Modernism and in particular modern sculpture. She was one of the few female artists of her generation to achieve international prominence. Along with artists such as Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo, Hepworth was a leading figure in the colony of artists who resided in St Ives during the Second World War. In this image: Dame Barbara Hepworth, Parent I, conceived in 1970, number 2 of the 4 individual casts that were made of each of the nine figures (est. £2,000,000-3,000,000). Photo: Sotheby's.
