Oct 20th, 2025 - From Turner winner Helen Marten at Palais d'Iéna, to Gerhard Richter at Fondation Louis-Vuitton A major highlight of the cultural calendar in the French capital, Art Basel Paris has swiftly established itself as an essential rendezvous in the City of Light. As The Grand Palais hosts the fourth edition, showcasing 206 leading French and international galleries, we round up the must-see shows to catch while you're in town. 30 Blizzards Palais d'Iéna, Paris, until 26 October ...
Oct 20th, 2025 - The opening of the new Fondation Cartier Pour l'Art Contemporain is one of the most anticipated events happening concurrently with Art Basel Paris. Continuing the legacy of its Rive Gauche venue—originally designed in 1991 by a then-rising Jean Nouvel —the institution has again turned to the now internationally acclaimed architect, and Nouvel has completely reimagined a Haussmannian building in the heart of Paris. The space, on Place du Palais-Royal, was formerly home to the Grands ...
Oct 20th, 2025 - The dealer is showing a depiction of the Christian holy family at his fair booth, three decades after he hosted a show on the Old Master in New York Thirty years ago, Larry Gagosian mounted an exhibition of oil paintings and sketches by Peter Paul Rubens in his New York gallery—an unprecedented move for a commercial contemporary art enterprise. Back then, the mega dealer saw parallels between the Baroque artist and Robert Rauschenberg as well as Andy Warhol, whose portraits of movie icons ...
Oct 18th, 2025 - Morgan Library & Museum, New York Famed impressionist painter's lesser-seen drawings are the focus of a major new exhibition that invites us into the stages of his artistic process is luminous colours and sensual brushwork adorn countless mugs, posters and tote bags as well as blockbuster exhibitions . But the commodification of Pierre-Auguste Renoir and his fellow impressionist painters has been missing something. Renoir was an accomplished draftsman who produced a distinguished but largely ...
Oct 18th, 2025 - We live in a world saturated with images. They can be deeply personal or commoditized, produced and consumed ad infinitum. But for the internationally renowned artist Gerhard Richter, they attest to a monumental career that not only moves through a multitude of genres, but also transmits meaning from each and every surface. The Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris has unveiled the most definitive Richter retrospective to date , on the same unprecedented scale as prior exhibitions dedicated to David ...
Oct 17th, 2025 - Christie's, Sotheby's and Phillips delivered standout numbers during Frieze Week, led by marquee works by Peter Doig and Francis Bacon and punctuated by a wave of new artist records. Sales aren't just buoyant at Frieze this week —London's auction houses also saw their strongest results in years, signaling renewed confidence at the top of the market. Kicking off the action, Christie's 20th/21st Century London Evening Sale on October 15 achieved a robust £106,925,400 ($142,852,000), ...
Oct 17th, 2025 - Ben Luke discusses the mood at Frieze with The Art Newspaper's art market editor, Kabir Jhala, explores the parallel art world that exists for unrepresented artists and catches up with the curator of a new Renoir show in New York Amid much debate about the health of the art market, Frieze is back in London, with its two fairs, Frieze London and Frieze Masters. Ben Luke talks to The Art Newspaper 's art market editor, Kabir Jhala, about the mood in the big tents in Regent's Park. Beyond Frieze, ...
May 6th, 2025 - If the new show at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, " Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits ," were only what the title indicated — an exhibit of the paintings and drawings Van Gogh did in Arles in the last two years of his life of his friend, the postman Joseph Roulin, and his family — it would be a significant event. It would be the first show ever devoted to these intimate portraits, and would tell us some new things about an artist we all think we know through his most popular ...
Apr 11th, 2025 - Eugène Boudin at the Musée Marmottan Monet Video: Musée Marmottan Monet Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: have just this week opened a new exhibition dedicated to Eugène Boudin (1824-1898) drawn in-part from a single private collection. According to their website: Collector Yann Guyonwarc'h has assembled a collection of works by Eugène Boudin (1824 – 1898) that is unrivalled in any museum in the world. Every facet of the artist's career is ...
Mar 14th, 2025 - Much attention has been paid recently to the life of the Italian Baroque master, Artemisia Gentileschi —specifically, her rape, her torture with thumb screws while testifying during the trial of her attacker and her representations of muscular women inflicting bodily damage on men . She's been the subject of novels, films, Broadway plays and operas, but no attention would be paid to her at all if she were not an artist of exquisite skill, bold vision and striking originality who painted ...
Mar 11th, 2025 - France's landscapes and cityscapes provided the perfect backdrop for the revolutionary Impressionist movement. These artists captured fleeting moments of light, color, and atmosphere, forever immortalizing locations that you can still visit today. From Monet's enchanting gardens to Renoir's lively riverside haunts, these places that inspired Impressionist artists offer a chance to step into the paintings that changed the course of art history. 1. Monet's House and Gardens in Giverny Claude ...