March 2023

Art & Antiques

For Collectors of The Fine And Decorative Arts

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Lacquer Luxury
Known for its elegant forms and lustrous surfaces, Chinese lacquerware has evolved over thousands of years, and the finest examples have become highly coveted, collectible pieces. Intricately and delicately carved, this bottle-shaped Chinese vase is
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In Perspective
ASIA WEEK New York, now in its 14th year, will welcome Asian art collectors, connoisseurs, and enthusiasts alike with an array of exhibitions and auctions from March 16-24. Visitors to this week-long event will be immersed in some of the finest extan
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Springtime Sale
Leland Little Auctions of Hillsborough, N.C., will host its Signature Spring Auction on Saturday, March 11, featuring fine art, antique furniture, and antique jewelry. Artworks on offer will include two new-to-market pieces by the late Ernie Barnes.
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Mid-Century Cool
Designer Phillip Lloyd Powell (1919–2008) created some of the most important pieces of the Mid-Century studio furniture movement. Self-taught, the Pennsylvania native began crafting furniture for family and friends during his adolescent years. He was
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Miami Memory
THIS MONTH, the High Museum in Atlanta will open “George Voronovsky: Memoryscapes,” an exhibition of works by the late Ukrainian-American self-taught artist George Voronovsky. Born in Ukraine in 1903, the artist immigrated to the United States in his
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American Auction
THIS YEAR, Brunk Auctions celebrates its 40th anniversary—and part of that celebration will take place on March 23-25, as Brunk hosts a three-day Premier & Emporium Auction featuring important American paintings, fine jewelry, furniture, sculptures,
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Photo Fair
THE INTERNATIONALLY celebrated photography art fair, The Photography Show, opens for its 42nd year in New York on March 31, running through April 2. Presented by the Association of International Photography Art Dealers, or AIPAD, The Photography Show
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Surreal Women
THROUGH APRIL 24th, Sullivan Goss will show Surreal Women as a companion exhibition to its R E A L WOMEN: Realist Art by American Women exhibition of 2021. The exhibition embraces intuition, bypassing the intellectual constructs of Breton’s infamous
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The West Is Calling
THE AMERICAN West—both its people and its landscape—has always been a favorite subject of art photographers and photography aficionados alike. Through July 30, 2023, Scottsdale, Arizona’s Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West will present a
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Frick Expansion
THE WORLD-FAMOUS Frick Collection, a collection of art amassed by the 19th century industrialist and art collector, Henry Clay Frick, is best known for being one of the finest collections of European art in the country. Recently, the collection has b
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Art Of The West
COLLECTORS OF sporting, wildlife, and Western art will not want to miss the Scottsdale Art Auction, which takes place in two sessions, April 14-15, in Scottsdale, Ariz. One of the largest auctions of its type in the Southwest, this year’s event will
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Majestic Metals
THIS ASIA Week, March 16-24, New York’s Onishi Gallery will show the works of five of Japan’s most preeminent female metal artists in “Heated Colors, Hammered Forms: Female Metal Artists of Japan.” The artists—Oshiyama Motoko, Otsuki Masako, Hagino N
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Life and Death
THIS MONTH, The Rubin Museum of Art—a museum dedicated to the exploration of Himalayan art of both past and present—will open Death is Not the End, an exhibition of works that explore the afterlife through both Tibetan Buddhist and Christian lenses.
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Cosmic Connection
ON MARCH 9, June Kelly Gallery in New York will open Entanglement, an exhibition of paintings by Sandra Lerner. The series focuses on the scientific concept of entanglement: the interaction of two particles at the cellular or subatomic level, or on a
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Artistic Energy
IN COBIE RUSSELL’S new exhibition, Here Comes the Sun, the artist explores the expansiveness of the universe through a series of paintings exploding with color, light, and energy. On view March 1-April 30 at the Jean de Merry Gallery in Dallas, Texas
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Cityscapes
PALM BEACH’S Society of the Four Arts is presenting Eduard Angeli: Cities on Water, the debut U.S. exhibition of Austrian painter Eduard Angeli through April 2. A cosmopolitan painter whose work in this show depicts soft, yet empty spaces within citi
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Action, Gesture, Paint
AS SOON AS women were allowed to attend art schools in the latter half of the 19th century, the number of female students quickly spiked to reach almost equal numbers to the male students, yet this nearparity in education was not even remotely matche
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Preston Singletary: Raven And The Box Of Daylight
“PRESTON SINGLETARY: Raven and the Box of Daylight,” now on view at the Chrysler Museum (March 3–July 2, 2023), is elegantly simple and perhaps unique among recent exhibitions. Combining theatrical immersion with the artist’s celebrated glass works—w
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Inspiration and Influence
MENTION THE Great Wave, and many can immediately picture the towering indigo columns of water, capped by clawlike tendrils of churning foam. These sublime waves frame a distant view of Mt. Fuji at center, and—almost hidden within the churning sea—thr
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The Gift Of A Painter
The gift of a painter is to slow time and make it remain forever in an instant, yet infinitely relevant. Oswaldo Vigas (1923–2014) was a masterful painter of modernist abstraction gifted with astonishing vigor. Vigas’s artistic valor and dedication e
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Picasso Landscapes
The project of Cubism instigated by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque was a ménage à trois with a third, ghostly partner: Paul Cézanne. Cézanne’s presence in the relationship, as well as his own obsession with landscape, meant that genre of painting d
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Closer To Vermeer
Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring is easily one of the most iconic, most reproduced, most beloved paintings of all time. The artwork vacillates between great intimacy, curiosity, and even mystery. (Perhaps these qualities are what earned i
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Bronzino Discovery, Portrait Of A Young Man With A Quill And A Sheet Of Paper
AFTER A SPIRITED auction-floor bidding war, an Agnolo Bronzino painting with a storied past sold for double the amount auctioneers estimated it would bring in, setting a new record for the sale of work by the Italian Renaissance artist. Portrait of a

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