Rhona Hoffman Gallery opens its new location at 1711 West Chicago Avenue with Judy Ledgerwood’s fifth solo gallery exhibition "Far From the Tree." Featuring bright colors and repetitive patterns inspired by quilting and other decorative arts, Ledgerwood subverts the viewer’s expectations of abstract painting with unexpected color combinations and tactile globs of paint that bleed from one section into another.
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DALLAS, Texas (April 10, 2018) — A stunning tea and coffee service is expected to vie for top-lot honors in Heritage Auctions' Silver & Vertu Auction April 25 in Dallas, Texas.
The Yale University Art Gallery is pleased to present an installation of 16 pieces of American studio jewelry from the 1930s to the present day, a promised gift of Toni Wolf Greenbaum. Greenbaum is a New York–based art historian specializing in 20th- and 21st-century jewelry and metalwork. She is the author of "Messengers of Modernism: American Studio Jewelry, 1940–1960" and is currently writing a monograph on modernist jeweler Sam Kramer. Greenbaum has lectured internationally and has curated exhibitions for several museums.
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden will partner with the Southwest Business Improvement District to present “Brand New SW,” a new public art project celebrating Washington, D.C.’s innovative and collaborative art scene. The museum invited Washington-based artists No Kings Collective, NoMüNoMü and SUPERWAXX to create graphic posters, inspired by “Brand New: Art and Commodity in the 1980s,” the Hirshhorn’s current exhibition exploring the connection between art and marketing in the 1980s.
Leading international auction house Sotheby’s today announces plans to launch sales in India with ‘Boundless: Mumbai’ scheduled for December 2018. The sale will be held at the landmark venue, The Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Mumbai.
“Then They Came for Me: Incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II” at the International Center of Photography in New York City is a documentary exposé on a seldom-acknowledged history of American paranoia and racism: it examines the wartime internment of thousands of Japanese-Americans during the Second World War.
New York – This Spring, Christie’s will offer Andy Warhol’s Most Wanted Men, No. 11, John Joseph H., Jr., 1964 (estimate in the range of $30 million) as a highlight of its May 17th Evening Sale of Post-War and Contemporary Art. This diptych belongs to one of the artist’s controversial Most Wanted Men series, which was originally conceived as a monumental mural to celebrate the 1964 New York World’s Fair, and famously destroyed just a few days before the fair’s official opening.
The FotoFest Biennial, an international platform for photographic and new media art, is known for discovering and presenting hot new talent from around the world. The Biennial is a citywide production, with Houston's leading art museums, art galleries, non-profit art spaces, universities and civic spaces all involved. This year’s festival theme is INDIA, with attendees coming from 34 countries, and artists from India and the global Indian diaspora representing the identities of their homeland.
The Photography Show will be held Thursday, April 5, through Sunday, April 8, 2018, at Pier 94 in New York City. The 38th edition of the Show will feature 96 of the world’s leading fine art photography galleries, over 30 book sellers, 15 AIPAD talks, three special exhibitions, one screening room, and more. Presented by AIPAD (Association of International Photography Art Dealers), the fair is the longest-running and foremost exhibition dedicated to the photographic medium.
The sale achieved a total of HK$46,269,375 with keen interest in works from private collections never before offered at public auction. These included The Zhen Shang Zhai Classical Chinese Paintings Collection from a European private collector; classical and modern paintings from a private British collector, and works from the Kaikodo Gallery in New York.
