Jan 20th, 2022 - Gagosian , one of the world’s largest art galleries, with 18 locations worldwide, will add another outpost to its empire. Next month, the gallery will open a new space in the Swiss mountain town of Gstaad. The space is Gagosian’s third in Switzerland. In a statement, Gagosian director Milicent Wilner said, "Switzerland has long enjoyed a rich history of collecting," adding that the country is home to "a discerning audience" of collectors. Wilner also said that the Gstaad location will allow ...

Jan 20th, 2022 - Singer puts versions of Kissing Coppers, Girl with Balloon and Vandalised Oils (Choppers) up for auction One of the most successful British pop stars of the past three decades is putting up for auction works by one of the world’s most celebrated contemporary artists. Robbie Williams, who has built a huge fortune from record sales and concerts, is selling three works by Banksy, the anonymous street artist whose partially shredded painting Love is in the Bin fetched a record £18.5m last year. ...

Jan 20th, 2022 - Met Museum Receives Rare Poussin Painting from Top Collectors Passed down, bought, and sold over the centuries, a glitzy collector’s item from the 17th century has finally entered a museum collection. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has received Nicolas Poussin ’s Agony in the Garden (1626–27), courtesy of New York collectors Barbara and Jon Landau , who have been listed on ARTnews ’s Top 200 Collectors list each year since 1995. The Met already owns six Poussin paintings, ...

Jan 20th, 2022 - Exhibit opens Feb. 10 at Lighthouse ArtSpace Boston at the Castle . In the wake of Van Gogh’s starry nights comes the dark, magical, folk art-inflected world of Mexican artist and icon Frida Kahlo. Lighthouse Immersive, the Toronto-based company behind “Immersive Van Gogh,” is bringing “Frida: Immersive Dream,” to Boston next month. The exhibit will open Feb. 10 at Lighthouse ArtSpace Boston at the Castle and run through May 8. The Kahlo show, like the Van Gogh , will feature the ...

Jan 20th, 2022 - The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, have jointly acquired Yayoi Kusama ’s Infinity Mirrored Room—My Heart Is Dancing into the Universe (2018). One of the artist’s more recent entries into her ongoing "Infinity Mirrored Room" series, the work will go on view at the Hirshhorn this spring and the Albright-Knox in 2023. Like with other works in the series, Infinity Mirrored Room—My Heart Is Dancing into the ...

Jan 18th, 2022 - There’s nothing more fascinating than a transitional period: decades after their deaths, famous artists have been canonized in the collective imagination so thoroughly that only their most well-known works tend to spring to mind. When you think of Hilma af Klint , you think of the staggering psychic visions she produced; the huge spheres and the kissing swans . Her transition to full abstraction was defined by her interest in the occult , and Claude Monet, the painter whose work Sotheby’s ...

Jan 17th, 2022 - Picture: MET Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has announced its acquisition of a rare set of lithographs and one etching by Vincent Van Gogh. The works were acquired from a private collection in Minnesota and brokered by Christie's. None of the acquired works are found in any other museum in the US. It seems that all the works on paper had been purchased on the art market between the years 1999 and 2004.

Jan 16th, 2022 - Yet today, the standard art historical line on the sculptor Marisol Escobar, known simply as Marisol, is that she has been largely forgotten in favor of white male contemporaries, including Andy Warhol. The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh has a few things to say about that. In a fascinating and delightful exhibition on view through Feb. 14, the museum has recreated the warm, artistically generative friendship Marisol shared with Warhol in the 1960s. Entitled “Marisol and Warhol Take New ...

Jan 13th, 2022 - Purchased by an art historian for $90 in 1970, researchers now say the portrait might be the handiwork of the 17th-century court painter Anthony van Dyck After careful study, researchers now argue that a painting bought by an art historian more than 50 years ago might be the work of Flemish Baroque artist Anthony van Dyck himself, reports Dalya Alberge for the Observer . The owner, art historian Christopher Wright , says it could be worth around $54,000. In 1970, Wright was a young academic ...

Dec 22nd, 2021 - This article is part of a series of interviews by Folasade Ologundudu exploring the evolving conversation about abstract art among Black artists across different generations. Alteronce Gumby has had quite a year. After closing his highly successful dual-site exhibition, “ Somewhere Under the Rainbow/The Sky Is Blue and What Am I, ” this past summer at False Flag and Charles Moffett galleries, the Yale-trained painter released his first monograph, Colour Is a Beautiful Thing , with ...

Nov 19th, 2021 - In 1922, Sophie Taeuber-Arp posed what now feels like an oddly prescient question: “In our complicated times, when the struggle for existence has become so difficult, I have frequently asked myself, why conceive ornaments and color combinations when there are so many more practical and especially more necessary things to do?” Her response was, likewise, comfortingly apt: With moments of crisis, the artist argued, came the “urge to make the things we own more beautiful.” Born in Davos, ...

Nov 19th, 2021 - See images from the long-awaited renovation and rehang. In the most hotly anticipated opening in London in decades, London’s newly refurbished Courtauld Gallery at Somerset House will reopen after three years today, giving the public access to its incomparable Impressionist and medieval collections with some added contemporary touches. The collection ranges from the Middle Ages to the 20th century and includes works by Sandro Botticelli, Claude Monet, Edouard Manet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, ...

Oct 22nd, 2021 - The Swedish Modernist created innovative, genre-defying abstract art inspired by science, mysticism and her own encounters with the spiritual world Eight newly discovered works by groundbreaking Swedish modernist Hilma af Klint are set to go on view in Manhattan next month, reports Sarah Cascone for Artnet News . Scholars have traditionally such as Wassily Kandinsky , Piet Mondrian and Kazimir Malevich with pushing European 20th-century painting into the realm of abstraction. But af Klint began ...

Sep 27th, 2021 - “The Morozov Collection: Icons of Modern Art” is the second exhibition devoted to a major Russian collection at the Paris institution. Russian brothers Mikhail and Ivan Morozov amassed one of the world’s strongest collections of Impressionist and Modern Art. But their world-leading collection was nationalized in 1918 after the Bolshevik revolution, and fell into obscurity for decades. Now, for its exhibition, “The Morozov Collection: Icons of Modern Art,” on view through February 22, ...

Sep 21st, 2021 - An exhibition at a Swiss museum asks visitors to consider how female artists view their portrait subjects. Is there such a thing as a “female gaze?” For years, there’s been a debate among art scholars about the “male gaze,” or the ways in which men regarded women’s bodies as subject matter when they have portrayed them, both nude and clothed, throughout history. What happens when women create portraits, then? Do they look at their subjects differently? This question was very much on ...

Sep 16th, 2021 - Adventures with Van Gogh is a weekly blog by Martin Bailey, our long-standing correspondent and expert on the artist. Published every Friday, his stories will range from newsy items about this most intriguing artist to scholarly pieces based on his own meticulous investigations and discoveries. New Van Gogh discovery: first version of despairing man that was bought for £6—and then hidden away for more than a century The artist titled the drawing "Worn out" in English because he wanted to ...

Sep 12th, 2021 - A Deep Dive Into Matisse’s ‘The Red Studio’ In a coming exhibition, MoMA will feature the artworks within this famed painting. Two of them will be on public view for the first time in 50 years. When Henri Matisse painted “ The Red Studio ” in the Paris suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux in 1911, he not only let the viewer into his work space, with its box of crayons, ceramic plate and grandfather clock. He also captured tiny versions of his own paintings propped against the walls, and his ...

Sep 9th, 2021 - Is the $450m Salvator Mundi a fake? This film – featuring tearful sycophants, sneering experts, dodgy dealers and a secretive superyacht – may finally settle the great da Vinci controversy Last modified on Thu 9 Sep 2021 10.24 EDT I t is almost exactly 10 years since Salvator Mundi was unveiled, this “lost Leonardo” instantly triggering astonishment around the world . Since those giddy days, the work has had a turbulent time. As well as becoming the most expensive painting in history, ...