Superb works of art lead Christie’s New York Spring sale of Japanese and Korean art
NEW YORK, NY.- On March 21, Christie’s will offer 190 works in the spring sale of Japanese and Korean Art, including screens, ceramics, lacquers, bronzes and armors. Japanese highlights include a pair of six-panel screens from the Momoyama period…
Contemporary masters astound in Christie’s Spring sale of South Asian and Contemporary art
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announced the spring auction of South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art taking place on 21 March. Juxtaposing modernism with a strong contemporary perspective, the sale presents an exhilarating array of works by celebrat…
New sculptures by Swiss sculptor Not Vital in exhibition at Sperone Westwater
NEW YORK, NY.- Sperone Westwater presents new sculptures by Swiss sculptor, Not Vital. The exhibition, entitled, 十 五, is the artist’s sixth solo show at the gallery. In these works of marble, steel, plaster, gold, and coal, Vital pre…
Getty Research Institute announces the acquisition of a rare portfolio of prints by Bauhaus masters
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Getty Research Institute announced the acquisition of an extremely rare complete portfolio of prints issued by the Weimar Bauhaus in 1921. This set of fourteen prints, created by the early masters of the Bauhaus during the school…
With a roster of artists at all points in their careers, the Whitney Biennial opens
NEW YORK, NY.- Sculpture, painting, installations, and photography—as well as dance, theater, music, and film—fill the galleries of the Whitney Museum of American Art in the latest edition of the Whitney Biennial. With a roster of artists at …
Landmark exhibition of Richard Serra’s drawings opens at the Menil Collection in Houston
HOUSTON, TX.- Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective, which concludes its national tour at its organizing institution, the Menil Collection, this spring, was made possible in part by a grant of $50,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Ro…
Roy Lichtenstein’s Landscapes in the Chinese Style on view at Gagosian in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian Gallery presents an exhibition of Roy Lichtenstein’s Landscapes in the Chinese Style. Throughout his prodigious career Lichtenstein mined antecedent imagery, taking inspiration from a diverse array of sources, from comic strips …
Warhol’s The Scream (After Munch) and rare drypoint by Rembrandt to headline Sotheby’s sale
LONDON.- Sotheby’s London biannual sale of Old Master, Modern and Contemporary Prints will take place on Thursday, 29 March 2012. Superlative examples by pre-eminent artists who are leaders in the print-making field span a period of over 500 years, fro…
UK’s White Cube opens Hong Kong gallery in pursuit of China’s booming art market
HONG KONG (AP).- Britain’s White Cube gallery, known as an early champion of provocative British artists Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, launched its Hong Kong branch on Thursday, becoming the latest Western gallery to open an Asian outpost in pursuit of…