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Hauser & Wirth, in collaboration with Goodman Gallery and Lia Rumma, have announced a joint representation of South African artist William Kentridge. Hauser & Wirth also announced that it will hold a solo exhibition of the artist in New York in 2025. Born in Johannesburg in 1955, where he still lives, Kentridge has spent five decades developing a versatile practice that includes drawing, sculpture, printmaking, film, theater and opera. Influenced by his upbringing during the apartheid era, Kentridge’s art deals with themes of history, power and memory. Between 1989 and 2003, he gained recognition for nine animated short films made…

clays used in the year Toilet (Photo by Adam Silverman) Origin of LOS ANGELES Toilet the project began in 2019 “in the middle of the Trump presidency, when things looked incredibly bleak,” said Adam Silverman. Hyperallergic. The Los Angeles-based potter often incorporates notions of place into his practice, and was interested in “thinking about the country as one place in a turbulent time,” rather than highlighting ideological and regional differences across the United States. With the help of friends and colleagues across the country, Silverman collected clay, wood ash and water from all 50 states, five US territories (Puerto Rico,…

Art MarketArun KakarInstallation view of Galerie Kugel’s stand at TEFAF Maastricht 2024. Photo by Loraine Bodewes. Courtesy of TEFAF.When the 37th edition of TEFAF Maastricht opened its doors at the MECC exhibition center on March 7th, the inevitable glance of a lady wearing a headscarf followed the audience as she wandered from the venue’s Western Bar, where champagne flowed and oysters shucked. His gaze, intense and sensitive, is represented in thick brushstrokes and depicted with a powerful empathy that only Vincent van Gogh – who painted this work – could achieve. Head of a peasant woman with a white headin…

ELEFSINA, Greece – Every few minutes at the newly reopened Eleusis Archaeological Museum, visitors receive a divine revelation. In a darkened room, the seven-foot-tall “Great Eleusinian Relief” (440-30 Ka) is a monstrous depiction of the Greek goddesses Demeter and Persephone imparting the secrets of agriculture to mortals. Suddenly, a rising wave of brilliant white Light from an LED panel floods the room, a curatorial interpretation of Plato’s description of the visual revelation that once took place here – Ancient Greece Meets James Turrell. Eleusis, half an hour’s drive from Athens and now known as the city of Elefsina, was the…

“I didn’t want to be an artist,” Rose B. Simpson told me over the phone from her studio in Santa Clara Pueblo, an indigenous community outside Española, New Mexico. “I wanted to fly airplanes and helicopters. I only made art as a kind of priority.’ Working in large-scale ceramic sculpture, custom cars, fashion and performance, as well as music, the artist has appeared at the nation’s most prestigious institutions, including the Denver Art Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art and SITE. Santa Fe She recently had a solo exhibition at San Francisco’s Jessica Silverman Gallery, and is one of the Indigenous…

Art historian and The story of art without men Released by author Katy Hessel Museums without mena new series of audio guides designed to highlight the work of women and gender non-conforming artists in public museum collections.The series, coinciding with Women’s History Month, debuted with five museum guides that can be viewed in the galleries or online. Hessel’s guide to San Francisco’s Fine Art Museums launched on March 1, and will be followed by guides to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (March 8), the Hepworth Wakefield (March 19), the Hirshhorn Museum and the Sculpture Garden (March 22). , and Tate…

Cornelia Schimmele, “I’m Not Holding My Breath,” 1982/2016, ink print on Hahnemühle paper, 16 2/5 x 11 7/10 inches, 6 + 2AP edition (Photo by Bernd Hiepe; courtesy © the artist and Galerie Judin, Berlin) Cornelia Schimmele, “I’m Not Holding My Breath,” 1982/2016, ink print on Hahnemühle paper, 16 2/5 x 11 7/10 inches, 6 + 2AP edition (Photo by Bernd Hiepe; courtesy © the artist and Galerie Judin, Berlin) Cornelia Schimmele, “I’m Not Holding My Breath,” 1982/2016, ink print on Hahnemühle paper, 16 2/5 x 11 7/10 inches, 6 + 2AP edition (Photo by Bernd Hiepe; courtesy © the…

The extensive collection of Cuban philanthropist and art collector Rosa de la Cruz will be sold in a series of auctions beginning this May at an evening sale in New York. De la Cruz, who died last month at age 81, was instrumental in Miami’s art scene. Together with her husband Carlos, she opened a 30,000-square-foot museum in Miami to display their contemporary art collection, which includes 1,000 works. Those responsible for these works range from blue-chippers like Wade Guyton and Albert Oehlen to younger artists like Su Su and Christina Quarles. Thanks to their collection, the de la Cruzes…

Art MarketMaxwell RabbLast year was amazing for the secondary market. Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips—the broad public barometers of market performance—reported a decline in sales for 2023, characterized by persistent economic uncertainty. In 2024, there are more rumors of positivity. Although economic growth is expected to slow and geopolitical tensions remain, falling inflation and widespread forecasts of lower interest rates are providing reasons for optimism, a sentiment reflected by positive stock market noise of late.Three months into 2024, data collected by secondary market dealers—spanning from London to Hong Kong—paints a nuanced picture. On the one hand, there is a clear gravitation…

Mrs. Rabbit pours tea on Peter Rabbit while her other children watch. (1902–1907) (© Victoria and Albert Museum; image courtesy of Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd.) Famous children’s author and illustrator Beatrix Potter lived as well as one might expect. He reached an international audience from his home in the fairytale landscape of England’s Lake District, where he wandered his sheep farm, wrote letters to children and investigated the miniature worlds beneath his feet through a magnifying glass attached to a wooden walk. stick But his work is not limited to books The story of Peter Rabbit (1901) or Benjamin…