April 2020

Art & Antiques

For Collectors of The Fine And Decorative Arts

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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF John Dorfman CREATIVE DIRECTOR Mark Snyder ASSOCIATE EDITOR Sarah E. Fensom EDITOR-AT-LARGE Jonathan Lopez ASSOCIATE ART DIRECTOR Eric Hernandez ASSOCIATE ART DIRECTOR Emma C Dryden CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Randall Cordero Ted Morri
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Ancestors and Precursors
THIS MONTH, a rich and fascinating show is on view at a small museum in London, the Dulwich Picture Gallery. “British Surrealism: 1783–1952” not only provides a survey of high-quality Surrealist art from a country not typically associated with Surrea
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Of a Different Stripe
The Berlin-born designer Karl Springer (1931–91) arrived in New York in the late 1950s looking for opportunity. He got a job at Lord & Taylor as a window dresser, creating displays to catch the eye of passersby on Fifth Avenue. Soon, though, he was p
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Medals, But Not Metal
On April 2, Christie’s New York will hold a sale titled “Dalva Brothers: Parisian Taste in New York.” The auction is devoted to Dalva Brothers, a New York-based family firm that has specialized in 18th-century French furniture and decorative arts for
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Dallas Maverick
THIS YEAR, the Dallas Art Fair returns for its 12th edition. The show takes to Dallas’s Arts District, colonizing the Fashion Industry Gallery from April 16 through 19. Of the 94 local and global dealers participating in the fair, the majority are ex
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L.A. Transcendental
“LUCHITA HURTADO: I Live I Die I Will Be Reborn” is on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) through May 3. The show is the first in the United States to showcase the eight-decade-long career of the Venezuela-born, 99-year-old artist.
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Texas Tales of Asia and America
THE CROW MUSEUM of Asian Art of the University of Texas at Dallas will be presenting “Texas Asian Women Artists,” a three-year-long series of exhibitions dedicated to honoring the cultural traditions of Asia with contemporary works by Texas-based art
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Phiadelphia Story
THIS YEAR, THE Philadelphia Show (née the Philadelphia Antiques Show) brings nearly 60 top dealers to the Navy Yard for its 58th edition. Kicking off with a Preview Party on Thursday, April 23, the fair will open to the public on Friday, April 24, an
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Organic Development
“IDA KOHLMEYER: Cloistered” is on view at New York gallery Berry Campbell through April 18. The show features a selection of Kohlmeyer’s paintings and sculpture from the late 1960s—a period toward the end of her career when she traded her unique hier
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Tiffany and Friends
FONTAINE’S AUCTION GALLERY of Pittsfield, Mass., will stage its Fine & Decorative Arts Auction on May 2. The sale will include fine furniture, decorative arts, paintings, silver, porcelain, fine clocks, jewelry, and bronze and marble statuary. Highli
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Bauhaus and Beyond
“MOVEMENT, VISION, and Form: Werner Drewes Abstractions from 1970–1985” is currently on view through April 17 at Debra Force Fine Art in New York. The show shines a spotlight on Drewes’ late paintings and collages, which have been exhibited less freq
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Hope Fulfilled
THIS MONTH, Anton Kern Gallery showcases the late American artist David Byrd’s original book David Byrd: Montrose VA 1958–1988 in two ways. The New York gallery is collaborating with Hatje Cantz and the David Byrd Estate to publish the homemade book—
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Dynamic Asymmetry
IN THE 18TH century, a capriccio (caprice) was a painting in which enigmatic architectural elements were deployed to create scenes that straddle the boundary lines between fantasy and reality. The term also referred to improvised music in which the c
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Surface Allure
THE FIRST BAY Area exhibition in almost 30 years dedicated to sculptor and ceramicist Ron Nagle is on view at the UC Berkeley Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), now through June 14. The venue is particularly appropriate given that Nagle is a S
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Nice Threads
THE FRENCH businesswoman Marie Cuttoli spearheaded the project of turning designs by modernist artists into tapestries woven by the historic workshops in Aubusson, France. During the 1930s and ’40s, Cuttoli’s tapestries toured the United States, and
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The Heights Of The Sublime
THE FRIST ART Museum in Nashville, Tenn., is offering visitors a special opportunity to see a career-spanning selection of works by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851), considered one of the greatest British artists in history, if not the great
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Perverse Albion
ONE DOESN’T TEND to utter the words “British” and “Surrealism” in the same breath. “French,” yes, and indeed the Surrealist movement, with its often doctrinaire seriousness, left-oriented politics, and poetic rhetoric, has a decidedly Gallic flavor.
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Masks and Faces
THE RISE OF African American art coincides with the rise of modernism. In the early 20th century, Americans of African descent found themselves, for the first time, able to pursue careers in art, albeit with great difficulty and without access to all
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Eternal Sunshine
IN 1903, CALIFORNIA officially adopted the poppy as its state flower. That might seem like a trivial thing, but the vivid yellow-orange blossom was a key visual element in a vigorous publicity campaign that the Sunshine State was waging at the time,
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Indépendants’ Days
“PARIS IN the Days of Post-Impressionism: Signac and the Indépendants,” an exhibition on view at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts through September 27, is at its core about two figures—one well known and the other unknown. The former is Paul Signac,
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The Realist
One evening in the 1960s, at a meeting of The Club on Eighth Street in New York, a gathering place for abstract artists of all kinds, Ad Reinhardt addressed a few remarks to a colleague whom he had seen in the crowd. “Were it not for Alice Trumbull M
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Memories Of Paint
“Gerhard Richter: Painting After All” is a swan song. Not for Richter, who at 88 years old is still producing new work and is widely considered one of the most significant living artists, but for the Met Breuer, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s short
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Meet The master
The justly proud team behind “Van Eyck. An Optical Revolution” tout it as a once-in-a-lifetime experience, but that isn’t strictly true. The exhibition, which opened at the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent in Ghent, Belgium, on February 1 and continues unt
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To Seek the Oblique
WHEN THE ARAB nations proclaimed a global oil embargo in 1973, exponentially increasing petroleum prices on the world market, the French government faced a crisis and a dilemma. Lacking indigenous reserves, France was compelled to consider alternativ
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Carrie Mae Weems, Untitled, 1996–97
THE JOHNSON Publishing Company of Chicago rose to fame as the publisher of two groundbreaking African-American magazines, Ebony and Jet, launched in 1945 and 1951, respectively. While both still exist (Jet in digital form only), the company filed for

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