National Gallery of Art announces new acquisitions
Jean Dughet, after Nicolas Poussin, Baptism, from The Seven Sacraments, c. 1650. Etching with engraving on two sheets of laid paper, 62 × 79.1 cm (24 7/16 × 31 1/8 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund 2020.102.1
WASHINGTON, DC
.-The National Gallery of Art has acquired The Stoning of Saint Stephen (c. 1602) by Aurelio Lomi (15561622), the leading painter in Pisa during the last quarter of the 16th century. It joins two other works by Lomi in the Gallerys collection: a figure study in chalk, Studies of a Youth Pulling Ropes (recto); Faint Study of a Youth Pulling a Rope (verso) (1610s), and a small monochrome bozzetto of the Visitation, a preparatory work for a Florence altarpiece from around 1590.
Shulamit Nazarian presents a series of new paintings by New York-based artist Michael Stamm
Installation view.
LOS ANGELES, CA
.-Shulamit Nazarian is presenting so super sorry sir!, a series of new paintings by New York-based artist Michael Stamm. This is the artists first solo exhibition with the gallery.
The paintings in so super sorry sir! revel in their idiosyncratic, contradictory attitude toward morality, sexuality, mental health, and contemporary cultural politics. They feature an unlikely cast of charactersranging from the Devil to an anthropomorphic hand whose disparate senses of virtue and spirituality often clash with societal convention. At once clinging to life and hurtling toward annihilation, the artist questions what self-actualization looks like in the face of an overly righteous and emotionally precarious world.
Asia Week New York zooms-in on the allure of Indian painting
Fairies descend from the heavens to visit the chamber of Prince Manohar. Folio from The Rose Garden of Love by Nusrati, court poet to Sultan Ali Adil Shah II of Bijapur Deccan, circa 1700. Opaque watercolour with gold and silver on paper, 8 ¾ by 5 ¾ in., 22.3 by 14.4 cm. painting; 15 ½ by 9 ¼ in. 39.5 by 23.5 cm. folio (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
NEW YORK, NY
.- Continuing its lively series of virtual panel discussions, Asia Week New York will present Tales in Connoisseurship: Appreciating Indian Painting with an all-star panel of specialists including Brendan Lynch, co-director of London-based Oliver Forge & Brendan Lynch Ltd., Marika Sardar, PhD, Curator, The Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, and collector Gursharan Sidhu, PhD. These renowned experts will reveal their personal journeys of connoisseurship within the rich and wonderful world of Indian paintings. The presentation will be held on Thursday, J
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