PALM BEACH, Fla. — Picasso: Celebrating 50 Years, an exhibition of ceramics and prints by the peerless 20th-century artist, will be on view through May 31 at Rosenbaum Contemporary’s Palm Beach gallery. With this exhibition, Rosenbaum Contemporary joins more than 50 museums throughout the world this year in honoring the legacy of Pablo Picasso, whose influence on the art world still continues five decades after his death on April 8, 1973.
LONDON – An oil by the contemporary figurative painter Nina Raber-Urgessa (German, b. 1982-) will be auctioned to benefit her chosen charity, together with Saatchi Yates Gallery. Chiswick Auctions will offer the painting for sale on Tuesday, April 18 as part of its Post-War and Contemporary Art auction.
ANDOVER, Mass. – On view until July 30 at the Addison Gallery of American Art is Women and Abstraction: 1741–Now. It offers a nuanced and expansive history of the development of abstraction in America, going beyond the traditional art-historical narrative of this movement.
LONDON (AP) – Artists, if they have really made a mark, might get a gallery dedicated to their work once they are gone. Gilbert and George don’t want to wait that long. The dapper duo, who have been creating beguiling and unsettling art together for more than half a century, have poured their own time and money into the Gilbert and George Center, a permanent exhibition and research space devoted to their work. Located just off bustling Brick Lane in London’s East End, the building opened to the public Saturday, April 1 with an exhibition of the big, bold photo assemblies for which the pair has become famous.
LONDON – The run of the immersive retrospective show David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (Not Smaller & Further Away) has been extended to October 1 by popular demand, according to its organizers.
BERLIN (AP) – A new show of works by one of Germany’s most famous living artists, Gerhard Richter, opened at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie museum on March 31. Gerhard Richter. 100 Works for Berlin shows for the first time the long-term loan from the artist’s foundation. At the center of the exhibition is Richter’s 2014 series Birkenau, the result of the artist’s decades-long engagement with Germany’s Nazi past and the Holocaust.
WASHINGTON — The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) has acquired a wide-ranging collection of photographs that represent African Americans from the medium’s early years to the near present — roughly the 1840s to the 1970s — from Dr. Robert Drapkin. The collection includes 404 objects, including daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes, as well as mixed paper prints. The Dr. Robert L. Drapkin collection looks broadly at how photography was adapted by Black makers and consumers to self-represent, and how it was used by others to recast racial tropes using the new medium to represent and to misrepresent African American history and culture.
LONDON – A Flemish painting depicting the much-loved scene of Orpheus charming the animals is among the highlights of Chiswick Auctions’ Old Masters sale on Wednesday, April 12. The oil on panel attributed to Gillis Coignet (Flemish, circa 1542-1599) comes from a London private collection with an earlier provenance to the dealership Dickinson Fine Art. The work is estimated at £4,000-£6,000 ($4,900-$7,400).
NEW YORK — Opening at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Saturday, April 8, Anxiety and Hope in Japanese Art focuses on the human stories behind art and art-making. Drawn from the Met’s renowned collection of Japanese art, this exhibition explores the twin themes of anxiety and hope through more than 250 works — from ancient religious sculpture and ritual objects to modern woodblock prints and photographs — presented across four display rotations. It will continue through July 14, 2024.
LONDON and LOS ANGELES – The National Portrait Gallery in London and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles announced plans on March 31 to jointly acquire and share ownership of Sir Joshua Reynolds’ masterpiece, Portrait of Mai (Omai), in a new model of international collaboration that will maximize public access to this important work.