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Carnegie Museum of Art (CMOA) presents Deana Lawson, a new exhibition of never-before-shown photographs by Lawson (b. 1979). The Brooklyn-based artist’s growing body of work addresses critical issues surrounding representations of African Americans and the African diaspora.
The first major auction of streetwear by from brands like Supreme and BAPE, including artworks by KAWS, hit five-figure sale prices in Heritage Auctions' March 6 Urban Art & Supreme Featuring The Collection of Madchild Fine Art Online Auction in New York.
Armory Arts Week filled Manhattan with art fairs and their patrons over the weekend. Centered around the Armory Show with an additional eight satellite fairs, there is truly something for everyone in every part of Manhattan. In addition to parallel fairs Art on Paper, Collective Design, Independent, Moving Image Art Fair, NADA, Scope, Spring/Break Art Show and Volta NY, museums and galleries held special events and openings. Works of art from masters of Modernism to emerging artists had offerings in every price range, bringing a full roster to Manhattan.
Celebrated for his oil paintings, Zao also worked extensively in a variety of mediums, including watercolor, ink, and porcelain. The exhibition focuses on these aspects of his artistic practice, and presents 18 watercolors, 18 ink on paper works, as well a selection of painted vases and vessels in porcelain.
Among the most surprising aspects of Rembrandt’s prodigious output are twenty-three surviving drawings closely based on portraits made by artists working in Mughal India. These drawings mark a striking diversion for this quintessentially Dutch “Golden Age” artist, the only time he made a careful and extensive study of art from a dramatically different culture.
Jizō Bosatsu, late 12th–mid-13th century (Kamakura period, Japan), wood with lacquer, gold leaf, cutout gold foil decoration, and color, 188.6 cm high (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Museum Scientist, and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation fellow, Dr. Lucia Pereira-Pardo explains how the Museum employs the latest laser technology to conserve heritage objects.
The wall painting currently undergoing conservation is part of the Wadi Sarga research project at the British Museum. You can find out more about the project here: https://goo.gl/RYYECY
Suspended from the ceiling, Seven ponds and a few raindrops is composed of stainless steel elements that have been molded into a series of sensual, curved, amoeba-like forms covered in tamarind-stained muslin—a technique derived from a craft tradition Shettar observed in the small village of Kinnala, India.
In March, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, presents Michelangelo and the Vatican: Masterworks from the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples, an exhibition highlighting the artistic legacy of Pope Paul III (1468–1549) and the vital role that drawing played in artistic production throughout Europe in the late 15th and 16th centuries.
