As November auctions kick off in New York with Sotheby's Modern Art Evening— led by one of Monet’s Nymphéas (circa 1914–17) and Picasso’s La Statuaire (1925)— Sotheby's Geneva had a special lot last week that surprised bidders and spectators.
November 2024 Art News
Paul Mpagi Sepuya is a photographer based in Los Angeles. He takes photographs of friends, acquaintances, and colleagues, communicating with the vast history of figurative photography and portraiture. His work often uses reflective surfaces and fabrics complicating the compositions and often including his images and or the image of the camera as an apparatus in the frame.
Outside the Denver Art Museum (DAM), a banner printed with a detail from an Alma Thomas (1891-1978) painting proclaims one of the celebrated artist’s quotes: “Light is the mother of color.”
Proceeds of Artist in Residence Installation to Benefit Pelican Harbor Seabird Station
BOZEMAN, Mont. (November 12, 2024) - Gary Snyder Fine Art Montana (GSFAMT) will present twelve paintings by Bozeman, Montana artist Ben Miller at Art Miami, December 3-8, Booth AM128. Additionally, a painting by Miller on a large 1000-pound block of plexiglass, created on-site of the nearby Little River, will be installed in the Art Miami Café, to be renamed The Little River Café during the week of Art Miami.
British artist and director Steve McQueen has decided to skip the 32nd iteration of Poland’s Camerimage Film Festival following a contentious article written by the festival’s founder and CEO, Marek Żydowicz.
In its fourth year, Art D’Égypte: Forever is Now runs from October 23rd to November 15th at one of the world’s most breathtaking landmarks, the Great Pyramids in Giza.
In 1974, when most American Art Nouveau dealers held just a few Art Deco pieces in their inventories, Gerardus A. Widdershoven (1951 - 2020) took a gamble and opened a gallery on East 10th Street, Manhattan with a passion to introduce fine French Art Deco pieces to the United States.
An original Henri Matisse (1869-1954) etching, “La Cite-Notre Dame”, at $2,500 is one of the higher priced works recently added to the extensive inventory available for sale online at Affordable Art 101.
The Dutch MPV Gallery, located in the southern town of Oisterwijk, was the target of a semi-botched heist last Friday, November 1st, when CCTV caught thieves storming in at around three in the morning.
Using explosives to bypass the gallery's front entrance, which resulted in the door handle being thrown about 160 feet, the perpetrators hastily left with four silkscreens from Andy Warhol’s 1985 series “Reigning Queens.”
There has always been great discourse over the worth and impact that the arts have had on the American public education system. Under the Federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the arts are recognized as a core academic subject. Despite this, it has taken a lot of work to pave this path and it still isn’t all that well implemented.
