Art News

The title creation process for abstract art can be fascinating. Sometimes titles are chosen by a family member, agent, or gallery. But most artists title their works themselves, deliberately crafting titles that give a visual context to artworks, labeling their inspiration, or grabbing viewers' attention. 

On October 25th, Shapiro Auctions will be holding its Autumn Fine Art Auction at its new location in Bedford Hills, New York. The auction house, which has been holding fine art auctions since 2007, is well known for the cosmopolitan nature of the art that it offers, and this auction is no exception, including works by well-known artists from America, Vietnam, Mexico, France, Italy, Myanmar, Japan, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, and more. 

Faced with government funding cuts and mounting redevelopment expenses, the British Museum is taking a page out of the American fundraising playbook with an inaugural ball on October 18th.

David Dike Fine Art will host the 29th Annual Texas Art Auction on Saturday, October 25 at the gallery in Alpha Plaza. The sale will be a live auction and will showcase over 480 lots of Texas Art ranging from early and traditional to contemporary works. Highlights include works by Julian Onderdonk, Dorothy Hood, and Ben Culwell. A number of artworks by the Dallas Nine and their circle and the Fort Worth Circle group of artists are featured in this auction.

Joanna Pousette-Dart has deep art-world credentials. Her husband is abstract painter David Novros, her father was iconic Abstract Expressionist painter Richard Pousette-Dart, and her mother, the poet Evelyn Gracey. Her home and studio are on Broome Street in lower Manhattan, accessible by street buzzer in a landmarked cast-iron building.

In a mysterious photograph from 1922, a pair of shadowy figures hold each other’s faces in their glowing hands and kiss. Perhaps their palms and fingers can deliver heat, and that’s why the bushy brows of the figure on the left trail up in a smoky wisp, suggesting fire. A dark form resembling a thin, double-sided knife also cuts across the image just below the couple’s noses.

Stock exchanges have been offering the public a piece of corporate earnings since the Dutch East India Company opened one in 1602, but only recently has art become a tradable security. Half a dozen or so investment firms specializing in art shares have been steadily evangelizing the potential financial benefits of owning a stake in otherwise out-of-budget works. 

Acclaimed Australian artist Del Kathryn Barton (1972)– two-time winner of the Archibald Prize, the most prestigious portraiture prize in Australia– has a solo show opening in October at New York’s Albertz Benda gallery. Del Kathryn Barton: the more than human world runs October 30th through December 13th and features two new bronze sculptures and a series of new 

The Mint Museum is proud to present a major exhibition exploring the artistic and cultural revolutions of 19th-century Europe. Renaissance, Romanticism, and Rebellion: European Art from the Smith-Naifeh Collection brings together more than 70 extraordinary paintings, sculptures, and works on paper—offering visitors a rare opportunity to view one of the most distinguished private collections of European art in the United States. 

A longtime presence on the San Francisco art scene, Rowland Weinstein founded Weinstein Gallery in 1992. The gallery, which specializes in non-objective and Surrealist art from the pre–World War II period in Europe through Abstract Expressionism and the New York School, is dedicated to the rediscovery of marginalized artists and to the idea that art should be accessible to everyone.