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Fine Art Starts the New Year at Clarke Auction
Released: January 3, 2013Clarke Auction of Larchmont, New York welcomes the New Year with a marvelous selection of Fine Art on Sunday January 6th at 2pm. The collection includes nearly one hundred works of art that range from works of Old Masters to the late 20th Century American. The American selection is of particular note and includes a large lot of American Artist Group prints. The lot is comprised of over 40 un-cataloged prints. Individual artists in the grouping include Reginald Marsh, Joe Jones, and...
The 10th Anniversary of the Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Antique Show Brings Leading International Galleries and Dynamic Programming to Palm Beach Febraury 15-19, 2013
Released: January 3, 2013The show rolls out the white carpet for guests in search of the world’s most coveted treasures at the Palm Beach County Convention Center over Presidents’ Day Weekend (Palm Beach, FL) – The Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Antique Show returns to the Palm Beach County Convention Center February 15-19, 2013. Presented by the Palm Beach Show Group, this important event will feature more than 180 international exhibitors, an engaging lecture series and an expanded Designer Showcase area. As one of the most anticipated events of the season, the Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Anti...
ABSTRACTIONS, 2013
Released: January 1, 2013International call for submissions: Photographers/Digital Artists/Graphic Artists; Theme: ABSTRACTIONS – abstract interpretations of any subject matter using any style of photography or digital art; Deadline January 31, 2013 Entry Fee: $25 for up to 5 images. Cash awards and prizes totaling $2,300 given to top 3 finalists. Some prizes awarded by Alien Skin Software, Manhattan Arts International and Art & Beyond. Finalist online exhibition starts February 16, 2013 and Best In Competition Solo exhibitions starts March 16, 2013. For more information, go to Competition Guidelines ht...
Everything Goes at the Rago Unreserved Auction, Saturday, January 12 and Sunday, January 13 – Over 1400 Lots of What’s Desirable, Useful, Interesting and Affordable
Released: December 21, 2012Rago Auctions is holding a 1400+ lot Unreserved Auction over two days, Saturday, January 12 and Sunday, January 13, 2013 at 11 a.m. All of the lots are unreserved, meaning that the high bid – no matter how low – wins the lot. Saturday’s sale consists of over 600 lots of original and vintage art, furnishings, tableware, Asian, Americana, collectibles, coins and currency and ethnographic property, featuring a large selection of Early 20th Century design. Sunday’s sale is 800 lots dedicated to 20th Century Modern design including furniture, lighting, rugs, contemporary pottery, cont...
JAMALI, The founder of Mystical Expressionism, announces the launch of Jamali Gallery, Las Olas Blvd, Ft. Lauderdale
Released: December 20, 2012The artist Jamali is pleased to announce the launch of Jamali Gallery, Las Olas Blvd, Ft Lauderdale www.jamaligallery.com. The Flagship Gallery, which represents the latest expansion initiative from the founder of Mystical Expressionism, is centrally located in a 3,000 square foot custom built space, bringing an authentic NY/Paris style gallery experience directly to Las Olas Blvd. The 350 works, hand selected by Jamali from his private collection which span his 40 year career including update to works, contain strong representations of his invented mediums, Fresco Tempera and Pigmentatio...
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BORIS LURIE EXHIBITION EXTENDED
Released: December 13, 2012Due to unprecedented demand the David David Gallery has extended the Boris Lurie "No Art" Show to January 4th, 2013. This is an ideal opportunity to view an important survey of Lurie's work which is rarely seen outside of Museum Exhibitions. Nearly one-half of the fifty works in the Exhibition are available for purchase. We hope you will take advantage of the new timeline and enjoy the powerful social messages conveyed through this extraordinary man's vision. He had the courage and determination not to sell out to commercialism but rather make a statement of relevance with referen...
MIAMI ART WEEK 2012 BRINGS RECORD-BREAKING SALES FOR ART MIAMI AND CONTEXT ART MIAMI
Released: December 19, 2012In its 23rd year as the anchor fair to the city of Miami, Art Miami, the premiere international contemporary and modern art fair and its new sister fair CONTEXT Art Miami closed with record breaking attendance and sales in excess of $50 million with many galleries selling important works to major museums, private foundations and international collectors. Within hours of the opening, gallery owners were reporting extraordinary, unprecedented six and seven figure sales with a number selling out their booths before fair's end. Over 60,000 international collectors, museum professionals, art...
Paul Resika: 8 + 8
Released: December 19, 2012Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects presents 8 + 8, a two-gallery survey of Paul Resika’s painting, featuring eight works that span eight decades of Resika’s career, beginning in the 1940s and continuing up to the present. Resika has never had a retrospective before. Connected to personalities as diverse as Hans Hofmann, Edward Hopper, Leo Castelli, Milton Resnick and Clement Greenberg, his career stands as a veritable roadmap for the diversity of the New York art world over the past seventy years. This condensed ‘microspective’ includes an essential work from distinct stylistic phases in R...
CELEBRATE PEACE IN TIMES SQUARE ON 12.21.12
Released: December 18, 2012COME TOGETHER AND SING JOHN LENNON’S “IMAGINE” WHILE YOKO ONO’S FILM IMAGINE PEACE PLAYS ON BILLBOARDS IN THE CROSSROADS OF THE WORLD 12.21.12 at 11:57 p.m. Duffy Square, Broadway between 46th & 47th Streets Times Square, New York New York, NY - December 18, 2012—Come together in the Crossroads of the World to celebrate peace on 12.21.12 at 11:57 p.m. and sing John Lennon’s legendary song “Imagine” while Yoko Ono’s film IMAGINE PEACE plays on Times Square’s monumental billboards. The happening is a collaboration between Yoko Ono, Tim...
ASIA SOCIETY’S MICHAEL ROBERTS SELECTED AS NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE FINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN
Released: December 16, 2012After an extensive nationwide search, the Board of Trustees of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown (FAWC) is pleased to announce that New York based Michael Roberts has been selected as FAWC’s new Executive Director. With three decades in leadership positions in the nonprofit arts, cultural and academic arenas, Mr. Roberts comes to the Work Center from his most recent role as Executive Director for New York Public Programs at Asia Society and Museum – a leading international organization working across the fields of arts and culture, public policy, business and education to prepar...
Altered Space Gallery's CONDENSE (Group Show) Packs Big Talent into Small Spaces
Released: December 13, 2012CONDENSE is a look at contemporary artists who construct within restrictive space. These artists layer, compact, weave, & build in explosive detail, in a tense effort to maximize a new plane economy. Featuring emerging and established artists who work with grandiose abandon on smaller pictorial planes utilizing painting, drawing, assemblage and montage. TYLER FERREIRA is already a master printmaker, while still in his 20s, and uses the antiquated process of lithography to unearth the unconscious mechanics of street art language. DINAH KIRGO is an emmy-award...
THE METRO SHOW AND EDITIONS | ARTISTS’ BOOK FAIR FORM ALLIANCE, RUNNING CONCURRENTLY, JANUARY 23-27
Released: December 14, 2012The Art Fair Company is pleased to announce that the METRO Show has formed an alliance with the Editions | Artists' Book Fair. This new cooperative venture will enable the group to mount the 15th edition of the E|AB Fair which, scheduled to take place November 1-4, was cancelled due to the effects of Hurricane Sandy. Editions | Artists' Books runs concurrently in the Altman Building next door to the Metropolitan Pavilion, where the METRO Show will be held from January 23-27. "Understanding that Susan Inglett's Editions | Artists' Book Fair was a casualty of the devastating effec...
Call for Entry: American Craft Exposition
Released: December 12, 2012The 29th annual American Craft Exposition (ACE), a juried exhibition and sale presented by The Auxiliary of NorthShore University HealthSystem (NorthShore) at Evanston and Glenbrook Hospitals, will be held at the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion on Northwestern University's campus in Evanston, Illinois. The jury will accept approximately 150 craft artists. Preview Party: August 22, 2013 Show: August 23 through August 25, 2013 Proceeds from ACE will support ovarian cancer research at NorthShore. Deadline for Applications Deadline for Applications: March 1, 2013 Dea...
Six and Seven Figure Sales Dominate the First Three Days of Art Miami
Released: December 9, 2012In its 23rd year as the anchor fair to the city of Miami, Art Miami, the premiere international contemporary and modern art fair - along with its new sister fair CONTEXT Art Miami, featuring emerging and cutting-edge artists - continue to respond to the interests of serious international collectors, museum curators, interior designers, artists and connoisseurs. Among the notable attendees acquiring and attending the first three days: Darlene and Jorge M. Pérez, developer and longtime trustee of the Miami Art Museum; Eric Schmidt, executive chairman, Google; Thom Collins, director, Miami Ar...
4 New Exhibits at COAGULA CURATORIAL
Released: December 6, 2012FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: MAT GLEASON 424-2-COAGULA 88GALLERY@GMAIL.COM 4 NEW EXHIBITS AT COAGULA CURATORIAL THIS DECEMBER COAGULA CURATORIAL is pleased to present 4 new exhibits in the gallery's main & basement spaces. On the main floor is "New Work" by 2 emerging Los Angeles artists: Walpa D'Mark & Tati Luboviski-Acosta. Also in the main gallery will be "Birthing Rite", a 5-part mural installation by Renée Fox. Expressions of femaile sensuality, ideal beauty and the sterotypical feminine are common components of Fox's work ...
WITH THE ADDITION OF 18 NEW GALLERIES, ASIA WEEK NEW YORK ANNOUNCES RECORD NUMBER OF INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPANTS
Released: December 6, 2012GROWTH CONFIRMS THE IMPORTANCE OF NEW YORK AS A VITAL ASIAN ART DESTINATION Eighteen new galleries from Australia, Belgium, England, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Switzerland, and the United States join the 2013 edition of Asia Week New York, bringing the total to an unprecedented 44 galleries, it was announced by Henry Howard-Sneyd, Chairman of Asia Week New York, and Sotheby's Vice-Chairman Asian Art, Americas. The annual collaboration of international Asian art specialists, major auction houses, museums and Asian cultural institutions takes place throughout metropolitan New Yo...
Art Miami LLC to Acquire Vibrant Aqua Art Miami Fair in Miami Beach
Released: December 5, 2012Art Miami LLC, parent company of Florida's longest running premier contemporary and modern art fair Art Miami, announced today that it will add another gem to its crown, the vibrant Aqua Art Miami in Miami Beach, now in its 8th year. Art Miami LLC will take over the operation of the fair at the conclusion of this year's 2012 edition. "We are extremely excited to have the opportunity to take Aqua Art Miami to the next level. We look forward to carrying on the great atmosphere and tradition that founders Jaq Chartier and Dirk Park have created for emerging and cutting edge galleries and ...
“Denatured Nature” The 69th Scripps College Ceramic Annual
Released: December 5, 2012Scripps College Ceramic Annual–the longest-running exhibition of contemporary ceramics in the United States–opens for its 69th consecutive year on January 26 and continues through April 7. Titled “Denatured Nature,” this Ceramic Annual highlights work from emerging artists as well as celebrated masters in the field of ceramics. The opening reception, with live music and light refreshments, will be held on January 26 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Williamson Gallery. On that same day, from 4 to 5 p.m., curator Virginia Scotchie will give an opening lecture on the exhibition in the Scripps College...
Amdur Productions Announces National Call for Entries for 2013 Juried Art Festivals
Released: December 5, 2012Amdur Productions, a nationally acclaimed art festival production company, proudly launches its 30th year with its annual “call for artists.” For three decades, Amdur Productions has organized many of Midwest’s most prestigious and successful juried art festivals, including the nationally recognized Port Clinton Art Festival. In 2012, Amdur Productions expanded its geographic footprint beyond the Chicagoland area by launching new festivals in New Buffalo, Michigan; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Hallandale Beach, Florida. “The success of our shows is dependent...
19th Annual SOFA CHICAGO Wraps with Strong Sales and Vibrant Programming
Released: December 3, 2012SOFA CHICAGO, Sculpture Objects Functional Art + Design Fair, returned to Navy Pier’s Festival Hall on November 2-4 with exuberant crowds of art enthusiasts and collectors. Produced by The Art Fair Company, SOFA CHICAGO 2012 featured more than 60 dealers from 11 countries who exhibited to 32,000 fairgoers over the course of the weekend. A record number of 3,000 people attended 29 lectures that took place in addition to the five special exhibits on the show floor. 300 artists were on-site at SOFA, some discussing their work at the 42 booth events, which included talks, book signings and fil...
WESCHLER’S TO AUCTION ARTWORK FROM GLOBAL LAW FIRM DEWEY & LEBOEUF LLC
Released: November 29, 2012(Washington, DC) - Weschler's is pleased to announce that it has been chosen to oversee the liquidation of Dewey & LeBoeuf's art assets. Headquartered in New York City, the law firm declared bankruptcy in May of 2012. The collection includes more than 800 pieces of fine art from several of their North American offices. Due to the size and range of the collection, the firm's assets will be sold through several auctions. The afternoon session on February 1, 2013 will include the firm's most sought-after offerings, including a large collection of modern and contemporary prints. A small...
Tony de los Reyes: Border Theory at Heather James Fine Art
Released: November 27, 2012Tony de los Reyes' new series of rigorous, visually tactile paintings contemplate abstraction as the foundation of both color field painting and the establishment of the US-Mexico border. The paintings are both visually stimulating and subtly provocative, the exhibition asserts the proclivity behind border-making and the aesthetic principles of abstraction are motivated by the same habitual pursuit of spatial order. De los Reyes theorizes that both abstract painting and border-making rely on the assumption that absolute space can be materialized through its transfo...
Rago’s November 17 Fine Art Auctions Realize $2.29 Million
Released: November 21, 2012Rago Arts and Auction Center’s Fine Art auctions on November 17 brought in an abundant $2.29 million. “We expected the strong results achieved from works in the Malbin collection and got them," said Meredith Hilferty, who directs Rago's Fine Art department, “We also saw incredible enthusiasm for Contemporary Art across the board, with many lots topping their high estimate. In the early 20th C. category, a pastel by Russian artist Nicholas Roerich that came in on Rago’s Appraisal Day stole the show selling for $87,500 against an estimate of $10,000-15,000. Works by Buc...
GELDORP 'VENUS' TO HIGHLIGHT GROGAN DECEMBER AUCTION
Released: November 20, 2012Dedham, MA – Grogan and Company Fine Art Auctioneers and Appraisers is pleased to announce their upcoming December 2nd Fine Art and Antiques auction will feature a variety of works of art from Old Masters to Modern and Contemporary. The sale begins with a selection of Old Master works including a sensuous depiction of Venus by Gortzius Geldorp. A Dutch Renaissance painter of the late 16th and early 17th century, Geldorp was born in Leuven, studied with Frans Pourbus, the elder, then became the court painter to the Duke of Terra Nova. ...
Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art Week Totals Record $525 Million
Released: November 18, 2012Christie’s two-day sales series devoted to the finest in Post-War and Contemporary Art realized a combined total of $508 million. Including the results of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts with three single-artist sales, which realized $17 million on November 12th, the grand total for the week of Post-War and Contemporary Art is $ 525 Million. Throughout the sales, strong results were achieved for works by Pop artists, Abstract Expressionists, and Cutting-Edge Contemporary artists. Following the historic evening sale which became the most valuable auction ever in the ...
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