Pioneering designer, toy distributor, and collector Dov Kelemer opens the vault for Heritage Auctions
Circus Punks X Various Artists, Circus Punks (19 works), 2004-2010.
DALLAS, TX
.- The DKE Toys Archive Auction is set to make history as master collector Dov Kelemer presents the world s first stand-alone sale of collectible toys from dozens of creators. With bidding now open, and the live auction set for 1 p.m. Central time March 4, this event is already considered a watershed sale by the toy collecting community.
The DKE Toys Archive event is filled with prized works created from 2000 to today, alongside toys in other mediums. Its breadth only reflects Kelemer s wish to give fellow collectors access to the hobby s most sought-after works among them 2002 s Invasion Kit #1: Albinos by Invader, which is considered a seminal piece by street-art collectors.
Museum of Anthropology at UBC presents a moving exploration of post-disaster recovery and regeneration
Masao Okabe, The Irradiated Trees Series at the awai art center in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture Japan, 2016. Photo: Fuyubi Nakamura.
VANCOUVER
.-The Museum of Anthropology at UBC announces the powerful group exhibition A Future for Memory: Art and Life After the Great East Japan Earthquake, on display from February 11 to September 5, 2021. Curated by Fuyubi Nakamura, MOAs Curator for Asia, the exhibition opened in time to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the 2011 triple disaster that saw a 9.0 magnitude earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown hit the eastern region of Japan. The exhibition highlights natures destructive impact on humans and its regenerative potential, and explores how humans live in harmony with nature, as well as how new connections and relationships have developed in the aftermath of this tragic event.
Jessie Homer French opens her first solo exhibition with MASSIMODECARLO
Jessie Homer French, Ezra and the Skunk, 1988, Ex. Acrylic and oil on plywood, 111.76 × 220.9 cm / 44 × 87 inches.
LONDON
.-MASSIMODECARLO is presenting West Coast, the exhibition debut of Jessie Homer French with the gallery. For her first solo exhibition with MASSIMODECARLO, London, West Coast brings together a vast range of works that encompasses a thorough investigation of the artists long-time practice.
Jessie Homer French is a self-taught artist whose paintings emerge from a continuous analysis of places surrounding her and reveal the artist s personal and profound attitude to a local and transient type of composition. Homer French treats with delicate care existential issues related to death and personal loss, nature and climate changing, rural life and the beauty of wide-open outdoor spaces. In her work, humankind and nature are linked by an indissoluble bond, caught in a sardonic interplay in w
Theaster Gates & Michelle Grabner to curate Sculpture Milwaukee s 2021 exhibition
Michelle Grabner is an artist, writer, and a curator based in Wisconsin.
MILWAUKEE, WI
.-Sculpture Milwaukee announced today that its 2021 exhibition will be co-curated by artists Theaster Gates and Michelle Grabner. The show will launch in June 2021 and run through autumn of 2022. Now in its fifth year, Sculpture Milwaukee is one of the largest annual outdoor exhibitions to focus on contemporary sculpture and public art practices.
The announcement of Gates and Grabner as co-curators continues the Guest Curator Program which began last year with Mary Jane Jacob, Professor and Director of the Institute for Curatorial Research and Practice, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Lisa Sutcliffe, the Herzfeld Curator of Photography and Media Arts at the Milwaukee Art Museum. Their contributions expanded the structure of the exhibition by introducing a technoscape film by Leslie Hewitt and a vide