March/April 2024

Art & Antiques

For Collectors of The Fine And Decorative Arts

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Lorna Dryden Mark Snyder Roger Harris Emma C Dryden Christine Snyder Randall Cordero Ted Morrison Rebecca Allan Ashley Busby James Balestrieri William Corwin Dian Parker Scarlet Cheng Sarah Bochicchio Elizabeth Pandolfi Lilly Wei Dawnya Bartsch Gabri
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Wonderful Things
IN AN interview with St. Louis Magazine, Ernestine Betsberg (1909-2007) described her paintings as scenes that “tell you a story of where [she’s] been,” and she insisted, “the world is full of wonderful things.” Over her long career, she set out to p
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Past Meets Present
On view this spring at the Albuquerque Museum, Coast to Coast to Coast: Indigenous Art from the McMichael Canadian Art Collection (January 27-April 21, 2024) will provide visitors with a survey of Canadian Indigenous art. Including historical regalia
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Silver Sails
THIS ELABORATE nef (c. 1900) is a remarkable example of silverwork originating from the famed metalsmithing city of Hanau, Germany. Used to store and serve wine, a decorative vessel of this quality would have been prominently displayed as a centerpie
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Photo Excellence
THE PARK Avenue Armory once again hosts The Photography Show presented by AIPAD April 25-28, 2024. Now in its 43rd year, this year’s exposition features a robust lineup of 79 international dealers. Founded in 1979, AIPAD advocates for ethical standar
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Thunderstruck
PAINTER LOUISA McElwain (1953-2013) will feature in a new retrospective exhibition, Distant Thunder (January 26, 2024-April 20, 2024), at Evoke Contemporary in Santa Fe. Neither realist nor fully abstract, her striking compositions are a sort of visu
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Crafted Collection
CRAFT ACROSS Continents — Contemporary Japanese and Western Objects: The Lassiter/Ferraro Collection continues its run at the Mint Museum’s Uptown location in Charlotte, NC through May 5, 2024. The exhibition draws on a recent gift collection from Lo
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Auctioning the West
RETURNING this spring, the Scottsdale Art Auction presents a diverse array of contemporary and historically important work. Located in the heart of Old Town Scottsdale, the auction will feature two sessions April 13-14, 2024. Widely recognized as the
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Bodymind
WHILE MANY viewers might solely focus on the richly saturated colors layered across Pooja Pittie’s (b. 1977) canvases, the artist insists that process and balance remain the core of her practice. In each painting, Pittie tries to find the sweet spot
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All-Over Innovator
ONCE RECOGNIZED and critically praised, painter Janet Sobel (1893-1968) was lost to history, shockingly unappreciated in the history of American abstraction. Still, collector and gallerist Peggy Guggenheim called her “the best woman painter by far (i
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Youthful Experimentation
THE WORK OF Pop master painter David Hockney has been much celebrated in recent years. A 2017 blockbuster retrospective at Tate Britain remains the institution’s most visited exhibition. In late 2023, London’s National Portrait Gallery featured the n
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Art Meets Life
In Essays on Art (1916), Max Weber wrote, “Culture will come only when every man will know how to address himself to the inanimate simple things of life.” Across a long career, Weber translated the latest in European abstraction into a uniquely Ameri
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Long Island Connections
THE SOCIETY of Four Arts will host Guild Hall: An Adventure in the Arts (February 10-April 28, 2024). Established in 1931 and located on the East End of Long Island, Guild Hall was the result of philanthropist Mary Woodhouse’s desire to create a meet
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Feminine Force
The Ann Norton Sculpture Garden in West Palm Beach presents The Divine Feminine: Contemporary Women Sculptors, on view through May 1, 2024. Set among tropical palms and native plants, the show highlights the contributions of internationally recognize
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Dramatic Impact
THE TOLEDO Museum of Art offers a rare opportunity to see four works by Baroque master painter Caravaggio. On view through April 14, 2024, The Brilliance of Caravaggio: Four Paintings in Focus brings together four of the only ten works by the artist
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Philly Finery
THE PHILADELPHIA Show, now in its 62nd year, will once again grace the East Terrace of the Philadelphia Museum of Art from April 25-April 28, 2024. A longtime showcase for American art and antiques, visitors will also find offerings from Europe and A
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Craft Mastery
ROUGHLY translated as “craft,” kogei refers to traditional Japanese techniques revered for their centuries-old applications. While Western art typically views craft as lesser-than, kogei is venerated. KOGEI and art, a new exhibition at Onishi Gallery
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Documenting the Wild
A TOURING exhibition aims to bring increased visibility to wildlife painter Carl Rungius (1869-1959) and a project to document his oeuvre. Survival of the Fittest: Envisioning Wildlife and Wilderness with the Big Four, Masterworks from the Rijksmuseu
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Collecting India
INDIAN SKIES: The Howard Hodgkin Collection of Indian Court Painting, remains on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through June 9, 2024. Showcasing 84 paintings recently acquired from the collector’s trust, alongside a supplemental loan, the exh
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Seaside Sensation
MATISSE AND the Sea, running through May 12, 2024 at the Saint Louis Art Museum, offers a new assessment of the artist’s fascination with the ocean in a range of media across five decades of his career. Tracking his travels from the Mediterranean to
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Diverse Lots
Larsen Art Auction will present their spring sale April 20, 2024 at Larsen Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ. A specialist in consignments for over 30 years, this upcoming auction will not disappoint with over 400 diverse lots. Paperweights by important names
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Preternatural Prints
Egenolf Gallery Japanese Prints will mount Supernatural: Cat Demons, Ogres and Shapeshifters at this year’s Asia Week New York. Selected prints illustrate fantastic yokai and yurei, startling creatures that haunt and excite. Work can be viewed online
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Specters on Stage
IN FOLKLORE traditions from around the world, ghost stories serve not only to frighten but also to relay ideas about the human condition. An important component of Japanese mythology, yurei are spirits unable to transition to the afterlife. Trapped i
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Ukrainian Modernism
ON NOVEMBER 15, 2022, a special convoy—carrying dozens of artworks, many from national collections—left Kyiv for Madrid. These artworks were headed towards the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, the first institution to host “In the Eye of the Storm
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Visionary PHYSICS
Mildred Thompson’s paintings “were the children of her age,” to paraphrase the famous opening line of Kandinsky’s Concerning the Spiritual in Art (1910): the nuclear age, the space age, as well as the civil rights era. Born in 1936, Thompson grew up
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Dutch Masters
The six themes that comprise Dutch Art in a Global Age: Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, an exhibition on view April 19th through July 14th at Atlanta’s High Museum of Art, convey a complex story of a very small nation-state that gr
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Images Of A Woman (1966) By The Fab Four
SEQUESTERED in luxury hotel rooms with not much to do, The Beatles collaborated on a painting that sold recently for more than $1.7 million at Christie’s in New York, nearly tripling its “high estimate” value of $600,000. The work, Images of a Woman,
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Delicate Flight
Over the last 40 years, butterflies have enchanted renowned jewelry creator and sculptor Wallace Chan, leading him to create stunning works of wearable art that are always ready to take flight. The Bright Star brooch—a magnificent butterfly with wing

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