MARCH 8-14

NEW YORK

Head of Buddha, circa 500-534 CE, Northern Wei 386-534. Limestone, 16 inches. Courtesy of Throckmorton Fine Art.

Northern Dynasties: Early Chinese Buddhist Sculpture, Throckmorton Fine Art, New York, NY
On view through  April 23, 2016
Throckmorton Fine Art is pleased to offer an exhibit of thirty early Chinese Buddhist sculptures. The focus will be on works from China’s Northern Dynasties, including Northern Wei, Eastern Wei, and Northern Qi, dating from 386 to 577 CE. The nearly two-hundred-year period was particularly rich for the artistic production of Buddhist sculpture. Buddhism was adopted at the highest levels of Chinese society and lavishly patronized by the imperial courts of successive dynasties. The quality and beauty of these examples exhibited illustrate the high artistic level of the sculpture of this era. This will be the fifth exhibition of Chinese Buddhist sculpture offered since 2007, each time working in concert with leading scholars and the guidance of Professor Elizabeth Childs-Johnson and Dr. Qing Chang. Indian Buddhism started to make inroads into China by the First Century CE, during the Eastern Han Period. Click here to continue reading.

Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641), Charles I and Henrietta Maria Holding a Laurel Wreath, 1632. Oil on canvas. Arcibiskupský zámek a zahrady v Kroměříži, Kroměříž.

Van Dyck: The Anatomy of Portraiture, The Frick Collection, New York, NY
On view through June 5, 2016
Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641), one of the most celebrated and influential portraitists of all time, enjoyed an international career that took him from his native Flanders to Italy, France, and, ultimately, the court of Charles I in London. Van Dyck’s supremely elegant manner and convincing evocation of a sitter’s inner life — whether real or imagined — made him the favorite portraitist of many of the most powerful and interesting figures of the seventeenth century. This is the most comprehensive exhibition ever organized on Van Dyck’s activity and process as a portraitist and the first major exhibition on the artist to be held in the United States in over twenty years.  Click here to continue reading.

Asia Week New York 2015.

Asia Week New York, Various Locations, New York, NY
March 10-19, 2016
Carrying forth a mission to celebrate and promote Asian art in New York City, Asia Week New York is a collaboration of top-tier Asian art specialists, major auction houses, and world-renowned museums and Asian cultural institutions in the metropolitan New York area. The Asia Week New York Association concentrates its efforts on presenting one non-stop, event-filled week in March of every year, drawing collectors and curators from every corner of the United States and an international clientele from across the globe. Click here to continue reading.

Bill Scott, Bird's Nest, 2015. Oil on canvas, 32 x 61 inches. Signed and dated at lower left: "Bill Scott 15." Courtesy of Hollis Taggart Galleries.

Bill Scott: Imagining Spring, Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York, NY
March 10-April 16, 2016
Hollis Taggart Galleries presents an exhibition of Bill Scott’s recent paintings, Bill Scott: Imagining Spring, opening on March 10, 2016, with a reception from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. In addition to large-scale paintings, the show will also include four examples of the artist’s prints. Scott, born in 1956, lives and works in his native Philadelphia. Imagining Spring is Scott’s sixth exhibition at Hollis Taggart and his first in three years. These new paintings bear ample traces of the singular approach to medium and color that has marked his productions over the past two decades. Click here to continue reading.

MASSACHUSETTS

Francesc Comes, the younger (Spanish, active about 1380-1417), Virgin and Child with Saints George and Martin, about 1395. Tempera and gold on panel, 75.1 x 114 cm. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston (P16e16).

Off the Wall: Gardner and Her Masterpieces, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
March 10-August 15, 2016
Off the Wall: Gardner and Her Masterpieces will feature twenty highlights from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s incomparable collection. This once-in-lifetime exhibition will provide visitors with direct access to extraordinary works by artists such as Botticelli, Raphael, and Rembrandt, among others. Placing a select group of paintings and drawings in our contemporary exhibition space, seen up close and lit to best advantage, will allow us to reconsider the museum’s rich holdings and to think anew about how works from the Renaissance to the Rococo speak to us today. In addition to the artworks themselves, a selection of archival material will focus on Gardner herself. Click here to continue reading.

FLORIDA

Florine Stettheimer (American, 1871-1944), Picnic at Bedford Hills, 1918. Oil on canvas, 40 5/16 x 50 1/4 in (102.4 x 127.6 cm). Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. Gift of Ettie Stettheimer.

O’Keeffe, Stettheimer, Torr, Zorach: Women Modernists in New York, Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, FL
On view through May 15, 2016
As part of a season celebrating the work of women artists, the Norton Museum of Art, will present the first exhibition to examine the art and careers of modernists Georgia O’Keeffe, Florine Stettheimer, Helen Torr, and Marguerite Zorach in parallel. The exhibition will reveal how each of these women sought recognition as artists in their own right, and how their identity as women shaped the circumstances under which they worked, the forms their art took, and the way their work was interpreted — and often discounted. O’Keeffe, Stettheimer, Torr, Zorach: Women Modernists in New York  runs through May 15, 2016. The exhibition is curated by Ellen Roberts, the Norton’s Harold and Anne Berkley Smith Curator of American Art. “This exhibition is an important expansion of the art historical canon, which has focused heavily on male creativity and production, particularly during the development of modernism,” said Norton Museum Director Hope Alswang. Click here to continue reading.

CALIFORNIA

Edgard Degas, Actresses in their Dressing Rooms, 1879-80. Etching and aquatint on wove paper. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. John C. Best, Dr. and Mrs. Donovan Byer, Mr. and Mrs. Billy Wilder, the Garrett Corporation Fund, and other donors. Image: www.lacma.org.

Noir: The Romance of Black in 19th-Century French Drawings and Prints, Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
On view through May 15, 2016
Beginning around 1840, French artists began depicting shadowy, often nocturnal or twilight scenes in which forms emerge and sink back into darkness. This quest for darkened realms accompanied an exploration of new forms of subject matter, such as dream states and non-idealized representations of the poor and working class, and new black drawing materials, such as man-made charcoal, black chalk, and conté crayon. The range and availability of black drawing materials exploded with the Industrial Revolution, along with improvements in working methods. This coincided with an interest in painterly techniques, not only in drawing but also in printmaking. It is impossible to say what influences came first, but what followed was a graphic exploration of darkness that constitutes an important moment in the history of Modernism. Click here to continue reading.

Andy Warhol, Self-Portrait, 1986. Acrylic and silkscreen ink on linen, 108 x 108 x 1 1/2 in. The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., 1998.1.814. © 2016 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Andy Warhol: Portraits, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
March 13-June 19, 2016
Andy Warhol’s lifelong fascination with celebrity and the art of portraiture is examined in this exhibition featuring 168 drawings, fashion sketches and paintings, photo-booth film strips, Polaroids, photographs, personal memorabilia and portrait paintings. From early fashion sketches to Warhol’s revolutionary use of media images, the power of the Warhol portrait is traced, revealing how the artist transformed this genre into the status symbol of an era. Andy Warhol: Portraits includes examples of Warhol’s self-portraits, in addition to a broad sampling of the 20th century luminaries who eagerly sat for him. Among the diversity featured here are the fashion scion Yves Saint Laurent, playwright Tennessee Williams, Pulitzer-prize winner Truman Capote, artists Keith Haring, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, and actors Judy Garland, Jane Fonda, and Sylvester Stallone. Click here to continue reading.

LONDON

Piero Fornasetti, A pair of Architectural Bookends, depicting red stone house fronts. Enamelled metal, lithographically printed. Label to base, Italy, circa 1950. Exhibited by Holly Johnson Antiques.

The BADA Fair, Duke of York Square, London
March 9-15, 2016
The BADA Fair is the showcase for members of the British Antique Dealers’ Association, representing the UK's leading specialists in fine art, design and antiques. The BADA Fair has an unrivalled reputation for quality and elegance and is located in the heart of Chelsea. The art and antiques on display range from 16th century works of art to contemporary furniture. Collectors and first-time buyers alike are attracted from around the world to the BADA Fair. The British Antique Dealers’ Association is the trade association for the leading antique dealers in Britain and internationally. Since it’s founding in 1918, BADA has set the standard for trading in the antiques business.  Its main aim is to establish and maintain confidence between its members and the public, both in buying and selling. Click here to continue reading.

THE NETHERLANDS

Dansk Mobelkunst at TEFAF 2015. Photo: Harry Heuts.

TEFAF Maastricht, Maastricht Exhibition & Congress Center, Maastricht
March 11-20, 2016
TEFAF Maastricht is universally regarded as the world’s leading art fair, setting the standard for excellence in the art market. The fair is truly an unmissable event by collectors and museum representatives. Presenting 275 of the world’s leading galleries from twenty countries, TEFAF Maastricht is a continuously evolving showcase for the best works of art currently on the market. Alongside the traditional areas of Old Master paintings and antique works of art, at TEFAF Maastricht you can see and buy a wide variety of classical, modern and contemporary Art, photographs, jewelry, twentieth century design and works on paper. Click here to continue reading.