Feb 12th, 2026 - From Yoko Ono to Frida Kahlo, from Louise Bourgeois to Artemisia Gentileschi, women have long been capturing the unvarnished truth about their own bodies – and that's why my novel Female, Nude weaves them into the plot f you want to paint, put your clothes back on!" That was how Carolee Schneemann summarised the critical response to her 1975 performance piece Interior Scroll, which she had performed nude standing on a gallery table. After making a series of life model poses, she removed a ...
Feb 11th, 2026 - Louis Fratino talks to Ben Luke about his influences—from writers to musicians, film-makers and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work Louis Fratino was born in 1993 in Annapolis, Maryland, US, and lives in New York. His paintings reflect on memory and the intimate details of daily life to transmit a deeply felt response to his immediate circumstances and the world beyond. His vision is channelled through an abiding passion for art ...
Feb 9th, 2026 - History from countries and communities across the globe, including the world's major wars. The stories behind the faiths, food, entertainment and holidays that shape our world. Becky Little Hand stencils, animal drawings and narrative paintings make up some of the oldest known cave art. "It's an intimate window into the past," Aubert says. "Someone put their hand there, 68,000 years ago and you can see it." However, the record for oldest cave art is hard to pin down. As dating techniques ...
Feb 9th, 2026 - The first week of February was an especially busy moment for the art world this year, and one of the questions I found myself answering most often in recent weeks, repeated across vernissages, dinners, previews, emails and DMs, was: "Are you going to Qatar?" To which, "No, I'm going to Marrakech," was rarely the answer people expected. I wasn't the only one, of course, but in a week that saw major art events in Mexico City and New Delhi, many collectors responded to the magnetizing attraction ...
Feb 9th, 2026 - Picture: nga.gov Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: The National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. announced their acquisition of Artemisia Gentileschi's Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy last week. According to the gallery's website: Featured in numerous publications and exhibitions since its rediscovery in 2011, Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy is widely considered by art historians to be one of Gentileschi's greatest works, making it one of the most prominent recent additions to the nation's art ...
Nov 20th, 2025 - A self-portrait by legendary Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold for $54.66 million in New York on Thursday, setting a new record for the price of a painting by a woman, the auction house Sotheby's said. The sale of Kahlo's 1940 artwork, titled "El sueno (la cama)" — which translates to "The dream (The bed)" — breaks the previous record in this category, set by American artist Georgia O'Keeffe, whose 1932 painting "Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1," sold for $44.4 million in 2014. Kahlo's ...
Nov 13th, 2025 - From the Mona Lisa to the American Gothic, these famous paintings don't just grace museum walls; they offer a glimpse into the past and define entire generations. Although most of these masterpieces are centuries old, they continue to fascinate art buffs and collectors alike, with each piece telling a captivating story. Whether they're on display for the whole world to see or hidden behind closed doors, these paintings prove that art has the power to create and sometimes, even change history. ...
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 ...
Sep 16th, 2025 - With Sotheby's landing the $400 million Leonard A. Lauder Collection and the Pritzkers' modern masterpieces, and Christie's securing the Weis and Wynn estates, November's sales may yet rescue the slumping auction market. It has become clearer in these past few years that the real battle between auction houses isn't about results but in the race for consignments. Yesterday, Sotheby's landed a knockout: the $400 million Leonard A. Lauder Collection , set to hit the rostrum during November's New ...
May 14th, 2025 - Women rescued Christie's otherwise quiet 21st century evening sale in New York, which also set a new auction high-water mark for Simone Leigh "It's a tough market, we're not expecting fireworks," Christie's chairperson Guillaume Cerutti told The Art Newspaper moments before the auction house's 21st century evening sale began. Cerutti's muted forecast was proven right by the end of the thin, 38-lot auction, which made $79m ($96.5m with fees)—just within the revised presale estimate of $77m ...
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 ...
