MUNICH – A cornucopia of art, antiques and magnificent showpieces will come under the hammer in the online-only auction of Hermann Historica, taking place from January 31 to February 4. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
LONDON – Serpentine starts 2022 with a multi-layered global project with the internationally acclaimed artist KAWS (aka Brian Donnelly, American, b. 1974-), developed in collaboration with Acute Art and the online video game Fortnite. In the artist’s first major solo exhibition in London, KAWS: NEW FICTION presents new and recent works in physical and augmented reality at Serpentine North. The show opened January 18 and continues through February 27.
BERKELEY, Calif. – PBA Galleries‘ January 27 Fine Art & Photography sale comprises more than 325 lots featuring paintings, prints, original photographs, photobooks, artists’ books, posters and works of decorative art. Outstanding individual lots include a Thanksgiving Day mail art broadside sent from Ed Ruscha and Mason Williams to model Marilyn McCorkle; a signed Kathe Kollwitz lithograph; Sebastiao Salgado’s Genesis in the sumo edition from Taschen Press; Le Corbusier’s Serie Panurge; original photographs from Nick Brandt and Peter Stackpole and an original oil painting from Bauhaus participant Iwao Yamawaki. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Opening February 4, 2022, Monet to Morisot: The Real and Imagined in European Art, the new thematic reinstallation of the Brooklyn Museum’s renowned holdings of 19th- and 20th-century European art, features nearly 90 important paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, many of which have not been on view together in Brooklyn since 2016. The exhibition continues through May 21, 2023.
NEW YORK – On Thursday, January 27, starting at 6 pm Eastern time, Jasper52 will conduct an auction of Americana: Quilts and Textiles. Its 172 lots have been curated by the unimpeachable Clifford Wallach, an expert in tramp art, folk art and Americana. Selections include an 1850s whig rose quilt with a vine border; Amish quilts, including one with a Baskets of Chips pattern and also a matched pair with a 1932-1933 date; several schoolgirl needlework samplers; hooked rugs; a 1930s quilt with a stunning graphic of a sunburst; an 1860s goose tracks pattern quilt; an 1890s quilt with a drunkard’s path pattern; an 1850s red and green quilt; an 1870s medallion sampler quilt; a 1940s Star of Bethlehem quilt; and a mid-century modern kaleidoscope quilt, among many others. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
NEW YORK – Why are many of us still drawn to paper calendars in this digital age? Karen Hernandez, senior product manager at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, has theories.