Author: Lisbeth Thalberg

Modern Evening Auction Totals $408.5 Million *Third Highest Total for Any Sale Held at Sotheby’s* Highlighted by: Pablo Picasso’s Large-Scale Portrait of Marie-Thérèse Walter Sells for $67.5 Million Claude Monet’s Masterful Venice View, Sells for $56.6 Million, The Most Valuable Venice View by Monet Paul Cézanne’s Clairière (The Glade) Sells for $41.7 Million,Pushing Total for Trio of Works from Toledo Museum of Art to Nearly $60 Million The two titans of modern art – Pablo Picasso and Claude Monet – squared off tonight as the standard-bearers for the market and the foundation for another record-setting night at Sotheby’s. Both works sold tonight showcased the…

This series examines beauty in life through a soft lens of memory. Found in everyday moments, these images contemplate underlying themes of love, longing, grief, and the desire to be truly seen. In response to having to let go of a beloved home with, as they say, well laid plans, I turned to Elizabeth Bishop’s poem, One Art, to navigate this loss and realign where a woman’s value truthfully resides. This series examines beauty discovered in everyday moments under the roof of a place I called home for almost three decades – a place that I loved as much as…

What Are You Listening To? is an exhibition of new paintings by Marina Adams. Committed to a pure painterly expression, Adams makes rigorous explorations of color and form that situate her squarely in the tradition of New York School painting, with its emphasis on gesture, spontaneity, and improvisation—an aesthetic and methodology shared with poets, musicians, and dancers alike. Her signature style, refined over several decades, coalesces here in a new body of work in which shifting colors and elastic forms are counterbalanced by the weight of their individual components. Read More

Wilding Cran Gallery is pleased to present Your Perfect Plastic Heart, an exhibition of Fawn Rogers’ aesthetic meditations on the oyster as an allegory of life and death, idolatry and empathy, eros and destruction in the Anthropocene. Imbued with connotations of sensuality, sanctity, and invasion, the oyster has long been portrayed as a symbol of lust, pleasure, opulence, and indulgence. While these creatures are commonly considered luxurious rarities forged by nature, human intervention has subverted the organic process of their beauty and procreation. Through an exploration of ecofeminist theory and practice, Fawn Rogers harnesses Your Perfect Plastic Heart to draw upon the confluence of…

(Accra) – Gallery1957 announces Gideon Appah’s representation of the Ghana pavilion at the 23rd International Exhibition at Triennale di Milano. The ambitious new body of work, titled A Nubian Landscape, reflects themes and narratives that Appah has explored over the last three years, whilst also newly exploring figures inspired by the indigenous Nubian population of the central Nile valley, believed to be one of the earliest cradles of civilisation. The exhibition complements his current show Gideon Appah: Forgotten, Nudes, Landscapes, on view until June 19, 2022, at the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University (ICA at VCU). Appah’s figurative compositions are taken from…

Galalith is the first solo exhibition in Ireland by artist Lauren Gault. This exhibition is an expanded staging of her sculptural installations, responding to Temple Bar Gallery + Studios internal gallery space and the building’s external, environmental context. The exhibition incorporates sunlight caught by a street facing solar panel, a threaded assemblage featuring unused galalith(1) stock, recycled rubber safety surfacing, large scale suspended sculpture and a human/non human soundscape (solar controlled). Gault worked with independent feminist curator Katherine Murphy to research and realise this body of work, undertaking a collaborative studio residency at TBG+S. Collaborations have been central to this exhibition, with Gault and Murphy…