Sep 15th, 2025 - Picture: KHM Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: The Kunsthistoriches Museum in Vienna will be opening their latest exhibition on 30th September dedicated to Michaelina Wautier. Here's a separate site which draws attention to the museum's recent conservation efforts with her works, in preparation for the show. According to the museum's website: We celebrate one of the most fascinating artists of the seventeenth century: Michaelina Wautier, most exciting rediscovery of the past decade in art ...
Sep 15th, 2025 - The art historian Matthew Holman makes his personal selection from a collection spanning 200,000 works of modern and contemporary art Glenn Lowry, the sixth director of New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), who will be stepping down this month after 30 years at the helm, once posed the question of what exactly his museum was. He then offered his own answers, including "a cherished place, a sanctuary in Midtown Manhattan", "a laboratory of learning, a place where the most challenging and ...
Sep 15th, 2025 - Picture: brepols Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: A follow-up book on Willem and Adriaen Thomasz. Key will be published by Brepols next January. The new volume was penned by Lien Vandenberghe, Koenraad Jonckheere and Gijsbrecht Key. Here's the blurb: Building on Koenraad Jonckheere's seminal monographs from 2007 and 2011, this book offers fresh insights into the works of Willem and Adriaen Thomasz. Key, two prominent 16th-century painters. Through an examination of newly attributed pieces and an ...
Sep 15th, 2025 - The now separate paintings, 'Portrait of a Dwarf' and 'Two Figures', were once part of the same work Francis Bacon's famous 1975 work, Portrait of a Dwarf , goes under the hammer at Sotheby's London next month (16 October) with an estimate of £9m. The work was initially part of a bigger piece featuring two figures intertwined and fused together, representing Bacon and his lover George Dyer, who died by suicide in 1971. Bacon later decided to divide the canvas, giving the painting of the ...
Sep 15th, 2025 - Picture: Rollins Museum of Art Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: The Plymouth art dealer Dominic Sanchez-Cabello has written the following blog on a painting by Emma Soyer which has been reidentified in the Rollins Museum of Art in Florida (initially spotted carrying the wrong attribution by AHN 's very own Bendor Grosvenor). The rediscovery is exciting as it transpires that Soyer's Young Bavarians was one of the pictures the artist's widower Alexis attempted to tried to leave to the National ...
Sep 14th, 2025 - One of London's most popular attractions has announced plans to expand after receiving pledges of £375m from private donors. The National Gallery said that sum included "the two largest ever publicly reported single cash donations to a museum or gallery globally". The gallery has now launched an international architectural competition to design a new wing for its expanded collection. It will be built on the last remaining part of the current campus and is planned to "revitalise the area ...
Sep 14th, 2025 - Monet … Degas … Renoir. When we think of French Impressionism, it's the usual suspects who spring to mind. But one lesser-known artist is ripe for rediscovery. "Gustave Caillebotte is probably the least-known of the Impressionist painters," said Gloria Groom, co-curator of a new exhibition of the works of Caillebotte, now on display at the Art Institute of Chicago. "I think he's still not completely integrated into that story. He's still kind of the outsider." The museum has long ...
Sep 13th, 2025 - The National Gallery's groundbreaking exhibition " Radical Harmony: Helene Kröller-Müller's Neo-Impressionists " (running from 13 September 2025 until 8 February 2026) showcases the extraordinary collection of one of the 20th century's first great women art patrons. Here are some of the top Neo-Impressionist artworks from her remarkable collection that you can experience in London's newly transformed Sainsbury Wing. Neo-Impressionism emerged from 1886 when Georges Seurat exhibited his ...
Sep 8th, 2025 - The Arkansas institution also announced that it has received two gifts totalling more than 200 works by over 100 artists The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, has announced that it will open its long-awaited expansion on 6 June 2026. Filling some of the newly created space—increasing the museum's size by 50%—will be hundreds of works recently given to the museum. A majority of this new art, more than 200 pieces by over 100 artists, comes from the ...
May 14th, 2025 - If the prevailing art market mantra in recent months has been that, while buyers may be more selective, true quality will always sell, then what unfolded last night at Sotheby's Modern Evening Auction delivered a sobering counterpoint. The evening's centerpiece— Giacometti's bronze bust of his brother Diego , the only known hand-painted version and a highlight of the 1956 Venice Biennale—was a dramatic pass. Despite being billed as the star lot, Grande tête mince (Grande ...
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 ...
