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Cutting-edge Carmen Herrera offered at Bonhams Prints & Multiples sale Carmen Herrera (b. 1915), Rojo y Negro (Red and Black), 1993 (Estimate: $3,000 – 5,000). Photo: Bonhams. NEW YORK, NY .- On Monday, February 22, 2021, Bonhams Prints & Multiples will hold a Geometric Abstraction Auction in New York, highlighted by the sale of Rojo y Negro, (Red and Black), 1993, Carmen Herrera’s first known print published in the United States. As a Latin American female artist in the New York art world, H...

In a body of work from 2018, artist Robert Irwin, an originator in the 1960s of the distinctive genre known as Light and Space art, did something simple but surprising: He switched off the lights in his art. Irwin has been using fluorescent lights in his work for many years. The so-called “unlights,” however, pull the plug on them. What got left behind is remarkable. See for yourself at Kayne Griffin, where five riveting examples of Irwin’s “unlights” are on view — by appointment wi...

David Zwirner opens an exhibition of works by four of the most innovative American artists of the 20th century Dan Flavin, untitled, 1995 © 2020 Stephen Flavin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy David Zwirner. NEW YORK, NY .-David Zwirner New York is presenting an exhibition of work by Dan Flavin (1933–1996), Donald Judd (1928–1994), John McCracken (1934–2011), and Fred Sandback (1943–2003), four of the most innovative American artists of the twentieth century. Each artist ...

3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now Mario Merz’s igloos and spirals at Dia Beacon; Mernet Larsen’s mysterious representational paintings; and a group show, “Everybody Dies!,” explores mortality. Mario Merz’s “Is Space Bent or Straight?” (1973) is made of glass propped around a metal armature and has a typewriter with an ad hoc poem sitting in it. Credit...Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/SIAE, Rome; Bill Jacobson Studio Published Jan. 13, 2021Updated Jan. 29, 2021 Mario Mer...

Karen Carsons first solo show at Gavlak Los Angeles explores her expansive five-decade career Karen Carson, Untitled #20, 2018. LOS ANGELES, CA .-GAVLAK Los Angeles is presenting Karen Carson: Middle Ground, the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery running from January 9 through March 6, 2021. Centered around her current bas relief works and her early “zipper” series, both bodies of work deploy geometric configurations to explore the convergence of gender, nature and the material ...

Neon will never be banned: so says Neon Specialists’ Kerry Ryan, who creates neon installations for artists © Kerry Ryan Among the more obscure aspects of the Brexit negotiations was the question of lighting. Artists from Dan Flavin and Bruce Nauman to Tracey Emin and Olafur Eliasson make extensive use of light in their works, in the form of fluorescent bulbs and, in particular, neon tubing, which contains mercury. The EU’s ecodesign regulations for lighting, which ar...

What museums can learn from Philip Guston and his frank take on ‘white culpability’ By Murray Whyte Globe Staff,Updated January 6, 2021, 3:42 p.m. Email to a Friend Philip Gustons "Riding Around," from 1969.Genevieve Hanson/The Estate of Philip Guston, courtesy Hauser & Wirth Private Collection ANDOVER — It’s right there on the wall of the little rotunda at the Addison Gallery of American Art: Philip Guston’s “Corridor,” a 1969 painting of a diminutive white-h...

Barbara Rose, 1981. Photo: © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. December 27, 2020 at 6:22pm Art critic and historian Barbara Rose—who helped define the major art movements of the latter half of the twentieth century, and who consistently defended the medium of painting against reports of its obsolescence—died on Friday at age eighty-four from cancer. Distinguished by a perspicacity and openness in exploring postwar art and its contradictions, Rose’s prolific writing and ...

The most important moments in art in 2020 Noah Davis, Untitled, 2015 © The Estate of Noah Davis. Courtesy The Estate of Noah Davis. by Holland Cotter, Roberta Smith and Jason Farago NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- The year was a 12-month stress test. When I asked friends, “How are you?” the repeat answers came: “Anxious,” “depressed,” “bored.” The first two I could relate to, but bored is something I rarely am. As a journalist, I’m addicted to art-specific information, to taking it in,...

he carved his reputation in english elm and boxwood, cumberland alabaster, and portland stone. when his art made him wealthy he turned to bronze and marble, but he never turned away from england. for all its rain and taxes was home, and he cleared a new path for english art. (anthony caro) you look at the history of english art, and its pretty miserable after constable and turner and so on, and henry, somehow, was competing with braque and picasso and so on. you know, he was in that sa...