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Greg Ito is a Japanese-American artist who creates vibrant paintings that serve as portals into his memories and many interests. Born and raised in West Los Angeles, Ito remembers always being surrounded by artistic relatives and began to follow his own path by receiving his BFA at the now defunct San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI).Each of his compositions are created through a meticulous choice of symbols that are in part inspired by his Japanese heritage, his affinity to LA, and flatly laid in a rolodex of colors that the artist has archived since college. In particular, Ito often makes reference to his grandparents and great-grandparents' internment within the Gila River War Relocation Center in Arizona during World War II. While it was a turbulent experience for his family and the larg...

Back in 2019, Charlie Clarke, a cafe owner from Birmingham, England needed to clear his mind after losing his dog to cancer. He decided to visit a friend's countryside home in Warwickshire, where equipped with his metal detector, he roamed around the grounds until the device repeatedly signaled a find. Buried a foot beneath the ground was a 500-year-old gold chain and heart-shaped pendant with motifs tied to Henry VIII and his first wife, Katherine of Aragon. First reported by The New York Times, Clarke knew he'd stumbled upon something truly special due simply to the weight and luster of the object. Having undergone years of research, the British Museum recently authenticated the piece as a genuine relic from the House of Tudor. “We all thought: My goodness, is this for real? Could this p...

Brooklyn-based artist Alicia Adamerovich has opened her inaugural solo exhibition at Kohn Gallery. Entitled The is the time of the hour, the show encompasses various artworks that delve into notions of being overwhelmed. Through her wooden sculptures and alien landscapes, Adamerovich invites her audience to traverse the subconscious as well as visualize their psychological states.Known for her depictions of bleak and barren landscapes with an unsettling, surrealistic appeal, Adamerovich's paintings are often doused in dark hues and sandy finishes. These sceneries are then graced with luminescent orbs and spiraling, structured appendages to complete the artist’s hallmark alienesque touch. From “Blessed be thy cavity” to “Isn’t it just” and “Setting my teeth on edge,” Adamerovich intends to ...

Auction houses are usually the ones making the big sales, but Epiris, the London-based private equity firm that owns Bonhams, is looking to sell the centuries-old house itself. First reported by Bloomberg, Epiris tapped JPMorgan Chase & Co. to advise in the possible sale, which is estimated to be worth up to $1b USD.Epiris first acquired Bonham's in 2018 and has bolstered revenue to a record $1b USD in 2022, including seeing an increase in global salesrooms, offices and departments. Artnet News has previously attributed this rapid growth to a series of acquisitions of smaller regional auction houses, such as Bukowskis in Stockholm and Cornette de Saint Cyr in Paris — surmounting to $300m USD in 2021 altogether.2022 saw an array of offerings from the British auctioneer, where amongst the lo...

There is a new exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) that retraces the origins of when art and computers first began to intersect. Entitled Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952 — 1982, the show is divided into six semi-chronological periods that spotlight how computers evolved from military machines engineered to calculate missile projections and compute code, to staple devices used for governmental, corporate, educational purposes, and indeed, artistic purposes. 1952 is linked as the first year when a purely aesthetic image was created on a computer. This was the age of the "mainframe" computer — massive wall-built units that look like where the Architect dwells in The Matrix Revolutions. As with perhaps any new medium, there was a general hysteria around the role...

As with every year, plenty of wagers are being made in lieu of Super Bowl LVII, when the Kansas City Chiefs take on the Philadelphia Eagles. While the former club fields arguably the best quarterback-tight end combo in football, the latter is being touted as the most complete roster in the NFL. In a true pick-em game, it will likely come down to the team that makes the most mistakes that will determine this contest — adding to the drama of one particular bet that's been made between the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City.On Monday, February 6, the two institution's made a friendly bet over the big game, with the loser having to loan off a work of art from its permanent collection. “When the Eagles soar to victory, we will warmly greet our fr...

Flowers, chocolates and a big ol' teddy bear are time-honored Valentine's Day gifts, but if your special someone is an artistic sort — or if you're a single artistic sort who's looking to cop something to stave off the gnawing loneliness that the "holiday" often bestows — Pieter Ceizer has got you covered this season. His long-running Woody sculpture series is continuing with a new model dubbed Amour, a love-filled creation that marks his second Valentine's-themed release after 2021's Love sculpture.Hand-crafted in Ceizer's Paris atelier, Amour is a humanoid heart with outstretched arms and legs and its tagline painted directly across its visage. It's doused in vivacious red and equipped with white screen-printed details that highlight the Dutch-born artist's mono-line style, beautiful in ...