The Ukrainian Museum exhibits silkscreens from Warhol's Endangered Species series

The Ukrainian Museum announced that it will open the exhibition Andy Warhol: Endangered Species to the public on Sunday, October 7, 2018. Commemorating the 90th anniversary of the birth of Andy Warhol (1928-1987), this is the first Warhol exhibition ever organized by a Ukrainian American organization. Endangered Species is on loan from the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyoming. The exhibition at The Ukrainian Museum is co-curated by Alexander Motyl, Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University – Newark, NJ; Jaroslaw Leshko, Professor Emeritus of Art at Smith College in Northampton, MA; and Adam Harris, Ph.D., Joffa Kerr Chief Curator of Art at the National Museum of Wildlife Art. James Warhola, an artist, writer, and book illustrator, and nephew of Andy Warhol, is a special contributor to the displays in the exhibition. Andy Warhol: Endangered Species will be on view through February 17, 2019. The e

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Melissa Zexter: From conception to creation

American textile artist Melissa Zexter combines her love of the technical aspects of photography with the more meditative process of embroidery. The results are unique, hand-crafted photographic objects that examine issues of identity, memory, personal experience and technology.

Melissa began adding embroidery to her photographs after attending an artist’s residency in New York. With no access to printed photographs there, she began sewing simple images onto hand-made paper and, later, continued to do this onto her own photographs. She revels in the contrast between the two media – and also their synergy – with the embroidery adding a three-dimensional quality to the content of the photographs.

Growing up with antique dealer parents in Rhode Island, surrounded by art, furniture, embroideries and rugs, Melissa values these influences on her appreciation of the handmade, the historic and all that is beautiful.

She now lives in Brooklyn, New York and has exhibited throughout the United States, and in Italy. She has been published in such publications as The New York Times, After Image and BUST and her red stitching majored in H&M clothing’s 2017 advertising campaign.

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Zao Wou-Ki 'Juin-Octobre 1985' sets three auction records at US$65 million

Today, at Sotheby’s Modern Art Evening Sale in Hong Kong, Juin-Octobre 1985 by Zao Wou-Ki commanded the extraordinary price of HK$510,371,000 (US$65,245,829), establishing a world auction record for an oil painting by an Asian artist1 and doubling Zao Wou-Ki’s previous record of HK$203 million (US$26 million). With this result, the work is the most valuable painting sold by any auction house in Hong Kong. Measuring 10 metres long and 2.8 metres in height, Juin-Octobre 1985 was commissioned by celebrated architect I.M. Pei for the Raffles City in Singapore. The monumental and exceedingly rare triptych represents the stylistic hallmark of Zao Wou-Ki’s ‘Infinite Period’, exemplified by an open composition symbolising the artist’s liberated transcendence of mind and self. Zao-Wou-Ki is one of the very few Chinese Modern artists whose recognition has ascended to a global level. According to Artprice’s

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Royal Academy of Arts opens first ever major survey of Oceanic art held in the UK

Oceania is the first ever major survey of Oceanic art to be held in the United Kingdom. This ambitious exhibition celebrates the art of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia, encompassing the vast Pacific region from New Guinea to Easter Island, Hawaii to New Zealand. Oceania brings together around 200 exceptional works from public collections worldwide, and spans over 500 years. It is a rare opportunity to be immersed in the art and culture of an area that represents nearly a third of the world’s surface, a region rich in history, ritual and ceremony. The exhibition marks the 250th anniversary of the Royal Academy, founded in 1768, the same year Captain James Cook set sail on his first expedition to the Pacific on the Endeavour. It has been nearly 40 years since the last major exhibition, held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, presented an overview of the entire region of Oceania. Over this time, Oceanic ar

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