Christie’s is honored to have been entrusted with The Collection of Eileen and I.M. Pei, an exceptional selection of paintings, drawings, works on paper and sculpture assembled by the celebrated international architect and his wife over the course of their 72-year marriage.
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In her genre-bending sculptures, Natalie Ball is playing with what we think we know. Subverting tropes about Native American identity and art by repurposing familiar materials, Ball points out the absurdity of our assumptions.
ATLANTA ― This summer, the High Museum of Art presents “Of Origins and Belonging, Drawn from Atlanta” (June 1–Sept. 29, 2019), an exhibition featuring six Atlanta-based artists who address issues related to place, belonging and heritage in their work: Jessica Caldas, Yehimi Cambrón, Xie Caomin, Wihro Kim, Dianna Settles and Cosmo Whyte.
Some of the most enduring and powerful photographs of the 20th century, from Edward Steichen’s Gloria Swanson (1924) and André Kertész’s Chez Mondrian, Paris(1926) to Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother (1936) are on view together for the first time in the United States at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), in Viewpoints: Photographs from the Howard Greenberg Collection.
Harmony, a new outdoor installation by American artist Mineo Mizuno (born 1944) is currently on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Mizuno has spent the last few years living on Fort Mountain Ranch in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and his work has been informed by that ancient forest.
The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden has announced “Feel the Sun in Your Mouth: Recent Acquisitions to the Hirshhorn Collection,” a new exhibition that will bring together artworks acquired by the museum over the past five years. Highlighting works that encapsulate the current moment, the exhibition is an opportunity to acknowledge deeper trends in the cultural landscape and identify art that is opening new avenues of exploration. On view Aug.
A collaboration between the photographer Nigel Poor and current inmates at San Quentin State Prison is giving us a rare change of perspective on how we understand the lives and stories found behind bars.
TEFAF announces the 2019 exhibitor line-up for TEFAF New York Fall which returns to the historic Park Avenue Armory, November 1-5, 2019, honoring art from antiquity to the early 20th-century. 90 exhibitors—including 16 participants new to TEFAF New York, will take part in the fourth iteration of the Fair, which launched in October 2016 to wide acclaim.
