New exhibition at Museo Picasso Málaga looks at Pablo Picasso’s earliest years as an artist

MALAGA.- In the late 19th century, Malaga was a city full of contrasts. The enterprising spirit of the bourgeois classes had resulted in there being over 150 registered factories here in 1878. A large part of the population worked in them, with working hours of up to seventy hours a week. Described in travel books as “God’s paradise on earth”, this superbly located seaport suffered a series of natural disasters during this period that brought on an economic recession. The city [...]

Innovative exhibition encourages visitors to explore their preferences in the Decorative Arts

NEW YORK, NY.- The tension in design between austerity and opulence—the simple and the ornate—is a long-standing one. Plain or Fancy? Restraint and Exuberance in the Decorative Arts, on view February 26 through August 18, 2013 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, invites visitors to consider their own preferences and suggests some of the cultural meanings that have been associated with the two words. The challenge is not to identify quality, or to determine “good taste” versus “bad taste.” Rather the [...]

Whyte’s announces outstanding collection of works by Irish & British artists in sale to be held March 2-4

DUBLIN.- Whyte’s first art auction of the year takes place at the RDS from 2 – 4 March 2013. With an outstanding collection of works by all the best known names in Irish and British art astute collectors are sure to find superior examples offered at realistic guides. MERVYN & PAT SOLOMON COLLECTION The prestigious Belfast collectors, known in the art world for generations, are also synonymous with the music industry in the North; Mervyn was the first to record Rory Gallagher [...]

Sea Bird by Lucian Freud set to take flight at Bonhams Modern British and Irish Art Sale in London

LONDON.- Nothing was exempt from the intense scrutiny of Lucian Freud, rotund ladies, his mother, his daughters in the nude and a moribund puffin, now for sale at Bonhams Modern British and Irish art auction on May 29th in New Bond Street. The pen and ink with crayon by Lucian Freud (British, 1922-2011) titled ‘Oil-bound Puffin’ is signed and dated ‘Lucian Freud/Oct 44′ and is estimated to sell for £200,000-300,000. A grandson of Sigmund Freud, Lucian Freud arrived in England with his family [...]

Phillips announces highlights from its April New York photographs single owner sale

NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips launched its Spring Photographs season with an Evening and Day sale of the single-owner collection The Curious Collector: Important Photographs From The Collection Of Dr. Anthony Terrana. Spanning the history of photography from the 19th-century to the Present Day, this collection provides a breathtaking overview of the medium, featuring superlative examples by past and present masters. Among the Evening sale highlights is an exceptional work by Alfred Stieglitz that deftly portrays an intimate moment in his life: Georgia [...]

Exhibition explores the fascinating history and global adventures of manuscripts through the ages

LOS ANGELES, CA.- For hundreds of years, medieval manuscripts have been bought and sold, gifted and stolen, preserved and rearranged, loved and forgotten, hidden and displayed, cut into pieces, hung on walls, and glued into albums. They have survived wars, fires, floods, religious conflict, political tumult, the invention of printing, and changes in taste. They have at times been valued for their beauty, for their spiritual significance, or simply for the strength of their parchment pages. Featuring works from the Getty [...]

Desperate art galleries gasp, give up as Chelsea rents double, big players keep getting bigger

NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG).- Fifteen years after Magdalena Sawon moved her Postmasters Gallery to Manhattan’s Chelsea district from SoHo, the art dealer is heading back downtown because her rent is about to double. “This is my last season here. I am unwilling to pay $30,000 a month,” said Sawon, whose 3,800-square-foot gallery occupies a ground-floor space on West 19th Street. The midsize art galleries that helped transform western Chelsea from a dead area adjoining the West Side Highway into New York’s major art [...]

Exceptional Chinese ceramics and works of art to be offered at Christie’s New York in March

NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s sale of Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art on 21-22 March will offer a broad range of artworks spanning from the Neolithic period to the early 20th century, Republic period. Rare and important works of art from private collections and museums will be available to collectors of all levels, including a finely cast bronze ritual wine vessel and cover, a rare yellow-ground blue and white vase, and a very rare imperial blue and white ring-shaped box and [...]

Sotheby’s announces ground-breaking arts week in Saudi Arabia: Jeddah Art Week

JEDDAH.- Sotheby’s announces ‘Jeddah Art Week’, a ground-breaking week of arts events and cultural activities in Saudi Arabia, which will take place from Tuesday, February 26th until Wednesday, February 27th, 2013 in Jeddah. Patron and founder of ‘Jeddah Art Week’, Sotheby’s launches the first-ever highlights exhibition in Saudi Arabia, which will feature select artworks from its forthcoming auction in Doha of Contemporary Art. The show will begin the week of events and will be staged at the Al Furusiya Marina & Yacht [...]

ADAA Art Show announces highlights as show’s 25th edition approaches

NEW YORK, NY.- Gallery presentations at the 25th annual ADAA Art Show, the nation’s longest running fine art fair, will feature thoughtfully curated solo, two-person, and thematic exhibitions by 72 of the nation’s leading art dealers. The Art Show takes place March 6 through March 10, 2013 at the historic Park Avenue Armory, with a ticketed Gala Preview on Tuesday, March 5. All ticket proceeds from the gala and run of show benefit Henry Street Settlement, one of New York City’s most [...]

Roy Lichtenstein’s widow, Dorothy, recalls artist’s macro diet, Miles Davis worship

LONDON (BLOOMBERG).- Roy Lichtenstein’s widow Dorothy sits on the sunlit top floor of Tate Modern remembering the three decades she spent living with the pioneering pop artist. Lichtenstein is in London to inaugurate a retrospective of his dotty canvases — the cartoon strips, the household items, the tributes to Picasso and Matisse. She wears an orange turtleneck and ankle boots, her blond hair tied in a ponytail. The couple met in 1964, when she was a New York gallery assistant and he [...]

Solo exhibition by one of Korea’s leading Contemporary artists on view at Andrew Shire Gallery

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Andrew Shire Gallery announced the solo exhibit of Eun Nim Ro. Known as one of Korea’s leading contemporary artists, Ro’s work is highly reflective of her complex background, cultivating qualities that embody the German Neue Wilde rediscovery of Fauvism and Expressionism as well as the folk traditions of her native Korean heritage. Born in Chonju, Korea, immediately after the Second World War, Ro moved to West Germany as a young artist, to study and ultimately to live and work [...]

Gene Davis / Tadasky: Paintings from the 1960s and 1970s on view at D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc.

NEW YORK, NY.- D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc. announced its new exhibition Gene Davis / Tadasky: Time, Dimension, and Color Explored featuring 22 paintings from the 1960s and 1970s. Gene Davis (1920-1985) and Tadasky (b. 1935) have previously exhibited together at Cincinnati’s Closson Art Gallery in 1969 and shared their New York dealer, Fischbach Gallery. Exhibiting the paintings of Davis and Tadasky together provides an opportunity to compare working methods, goals, and achievements of two artists from different art circles of the [...]

Exhibition of new works by Adel Abdessemed opens at David Zwirner in London

LONDON.- David Zwirner is presenting an exhibition of new works by Adel Abdessemed, on view in theirr recently opened London gallery. Le Vase abominable is the artist’s third solo show with David Zwirner since joining the gallery in 2008. The artist’s previous solo exhibitions at David Zwirner, New York were RIO (2009) and Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf ? (2012). Across a wide range of media, Abdessemed transforms well-known materials and imagery into charged artistic declarations. The artist pulls freely [...]

Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity opens at Metropolitan Museum of Art

NEW YORK, NY.- Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity at The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents a revealing look at the role of fashion in the works of the Impressionists and their contemporaries. Some 80 major figure paintings, seen in concert with period costumes, accessories, fashion plates, photographs, and popular prints, highlight the vital relationship between fashion and art during the pivotal years, from the mid-1860s to the mid-1880s, when Paris emerged as the style capital of the world. With the rise of the department [...]