On September 28, Hindman Auctions set a new world auction record for Martin Wong’s Persuit (El Que Gane Pierde - He Who Wins Looses), 1984, which sold for $1.1 million in its Post War & Contemporary Art Auction.
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TW Fine Art is pleased to present Sky's The Limit, a group exhibition featuring paintings and illustrations by Alberto Pazzi, Roger Allan Cleaves, Carles Garcia O'Dowd, and Spencer Chalk-Levy. The show explores the unique cosmogony of each of the four artists as they build new, idiosyncratic worlds through their work.
Among the most distinguished figures in Contemporary art, Jim Dine (b. 1935) is an inspiring presence as a painter, printmaker, sculptor, and poet. Fearlessly experimental, Dine helped define the Pop Art movement, then expanded his creative reach within and beyond the American art scene.
The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is currently home to the largest-ever exhibition of works by E. McKnight Kauffer (American, 1890–1954), a pioneer of commercial art—the profession known today as graphic design. On view Sept. 10 through April 10, 2022, Underground Modernist: E. McKnight Kauffer features more than 150 objects to examine the designer’s impact and legacy across media.
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES, CA, Sept/Oct. 2021 – Andrew Jones Auctions will present an outstanding auction event on October 10th: “The Collection of Lady Victoria White” of Beverly Hills, CA. The collection is best described as “English Country House meets California chic."
Architecture of Memory tells the story of the construction and reconstruction of modern Kuwait, and presents Dana Al Rashid’s perspectives on the frequent demolition of buildings and houses that are a testament of the country’s rich architectural heritage, and which form a crucial part of its collective memory and identity.
Tyson presents nine new paintings alongside three groups of graphite drawings. Reflecting the close dynamic between painting and drawing that has activated her practice from the beginning, Holding Pattern builds on the artist’s acclaimed survey at the Drawing Room in 2017, pushing her use of figuration and portraiture into experimental territory.
This November, Sotheby’s will present Frida Kahlo’s 1949 self-portrait, Diego y yo (Diego and I), the final, fully realized ‘bust’ self-portrait completed before her death in 1954. This historic work carries an estimate in excess of $30 million.
Presented in a solo exhibition, the focus of Rashid’s residency has been producing the latest installment of his massive fictional universe 18 years in the making: “an alternative, feudal version of America that has nobility and titles.” Within this world, Rashid whimsically imagines the cultural intricacies of Colonial Era class dynamics through cross-generational iconography, maps, cosmological diagrams, Afrofuturistic sensibilities, and pop culture references from his upbringing, such as the Golden Age of hip hop.
The SCAD Museum of Art proudly presents its latest exhibition, Ring Redux: The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, featuring more than 100 avant-garde rings by artists who have reinvented the age-old and enduring jewelry form with a distinctively contemporary sensibility.
