Mar 31st, 2023 - The artist's deep engagement with art history's favorite themes is on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from April 4. One could say Cecily Brown is drunk on art history. Throughout her 25-year career, the virtuosic British artist has engaged with seemingly every aspect of the Western canon—Renaissance artists' contemplation on our eternal souls, Old Masters' scenes of revelry, the delightfully frilly and coquettish vignettes of the Rococo era, Impressionists' voyeuristic eye, even ...

Mar 31st, 2023 - Plus, the Manet/Degas rivalry in Paris and one of the most significant female Impressionists The Art Newspaper's annual report on museum visitor figures around the world has been published. We talk to Lee Cheshire, who co-edited the report, and to Charles Saumarez Smith, a former director or chief executive of three London museums and galleries—the National Portrait Gallery, National Gallery and Royal Academy of Arts—about how important the figures are to museums and whether they ...

Mar 30th, 2023 - Don't feel bad if you haven't heard of the name Hilma af Klint until recently — or before finding your way to "Hilma," Lasse Hallström's somewhat syrupy, conventional yet still respectable attempt to broaden the general public's knowledge of, and affection for, the Swedish abstract artist. If so, you can hardly be blamed for your unawareness, considering af Klint's longtime (and only recently reversed) obscurity in art circles. Hers is a story as old as time: A brilliant, ...

Mar 30th, 2023 - The museum narrowly beat New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art into second place in 2022 The National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC was the most popular art museum in the US last year, with almost 3.3 million visitors. It is the first time since 2008 that the gallery comes out on top in our annual Visitor Figures survey, pushing the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York into second place with 3.2 million visits. While the National Gallery of Art almost doubled its figures from ...

Mar 29th, 2023 - Plus a Van Gogh ownership dispute is resolved in Detroit and Sarah Lucas wins the New Museum's sculpture prize. Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here's what you need to know on this Wednesday, March 29. NEED-TO-READ Deal Reached Over Contested Van Gogh at Detroit Museum – An ownership dispute over a Van Gogh painting on view at the Detroit Institute of Arts has been resolved out of court. In January, the ...

Mar 29th, 2023 - Although the artist is best known as the subject of a portrait by his master, a new show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will shine a light on his life and career Diego Velázquez's Portrait of Juan de Pareja has been a showstopper since it first left the artist's makeshift studio in Rome in 1650. When it made its public debut, in the Pantheon, this piercing half-bust likeness of the man who was Velázquez's slave for two decades, was a way for the Spanish Golden Age ...

Mar 28th, 2023 - Wrapping up its 14th year, Asia Week New York has again proven itself a locus of Asian art in the spring auction calendar. The annual 10-day event for collectors, curators, scholars and enthusiasts features gallery and museum exhibitions and special lectures presented by international art experts–along with a stellar lineup of auctions across major metropolitan houses. Asia Week New York 2023 may have been smaller than in some previous years but was larger than the 2022 event, which saw ...

Mar 28th, 2023 - Plenty of exhibitions focus on humanity's foundational relationships: humans and nature, humans and God, humans and each other.  But what about humans and their most loyal companions? Opening tomorrow at London's Wallace Collection , " Portraits of Dogs: From Gainsborough to Hockney " traces the relationship between artists and their pet canines throughout history. After years of pandemic delays, museum officials say they are now prepared and excited to share the unique collection with the ...

Mar 27th, 2023 - The Danish research team made the remarkable discovery on Google, of all places. A rare reunion has taken place at the Nivaagaard Collection in Denmark, as the museum has located the image of a woman, who, for nearly 200 years, has been missing from a 17th-century family portrait. Double Portrait of a Father and Son (1626), painted by Flemish artist Cornelis de Vos in luminous color, sees a resplendent duo in bourgeois garb, the son tenderly clutching his father's hand. But part of a dress, ...

Mar 27th, 2023 - Painting was sold by Vollard in 1930 and has never been publicly exhibited before A portrait of a child by the French Impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, once owned by the art dealer Ambroise Vollard, is heading to market at the Paris-based auction house Aguttes on 20 April with an estimate of €450,000-€650,000. Child sitting in a chair (1895), which Vollard sold to the father of the consignors in 1930, has never been publicly exhibited, though the painting was neither lost nor ...

Mar 26th, 2023 - A major new exhibition of 97 paintings and sculptures by artists such as Cezanne, Van Gogh, Rodin, Picasso, Matisse, Klimt, Käthe Kollwitz, Sonia Delaunay, Kandinsky and Mondrian opened this week at the National Gallery in London. It's a thrilling show with 32% of the works from private collections, rarely or never seen, (including four from Van Gogh). Don't miss the chance to see these pieces before they return to their private homes again. With loans from museums and private collections ...

Mar 26th, 2023 - James Hall believes painting's 'pyrotechnical music of the stars, sky and clouds' recalls Paris monument's spectacular opening Art experts have long struggled to explain the inspiration behind Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night, in which towering cypress trees are depicted against a swirling night sky over a hillside village. Created during his incarceration in an asylum near Saint-Rémy in the south of France, it is one of a series of paintings of cypress trees interpreted as an ...

Mar 24th, 2023 - The new displays include artifacts dug up from a cesspit outside the building. Last week, the Rembrandt House Museum  reopened in Amsterdam after a four-month closure, offering 30 percent more Rembrandt in the building where the artist lived and worked—plus a forthcoming artist residency program that harkens back to the history of students studying there under the Dutch Golden Age master. "This is the only surviving place of art education from the 17th century," museum head of ...

Feb 24th, 2023 - In recent years, everyone from  Vincent van Gogh to  Frida Kahlo has been the subject of an "immersive experience," a type of installation that takes the great oeuvres of an artist, animates them, and projects them onto empty walls. These displays have most often examined the work of deceased artists: In addition to Kahlo and van Gogh, immersive experiences have highlighted  Salvador Dalí ,  Gustav Klimt ,  Claude Monet ,  Pablo Picasso and  Leonardo da ...

Feb 18th, 2023 - When the Tate Britain unveils the rehanging of its galleries on May 23, women artists from the 17th century to the present will be more prominently featured, the museum announced earlier this week. The new displays from national collection of British art will showcase over 800 work by more than 350 artists, including favorites, recent discoveries, and new commissions, including several large-scale contemporary installations. Notably, half the contemporary artists on display will be women, ...

Feb 15th, 2023 - Something isn't right about Johannes Vermeer 's iconic Girl With a Pearl Earring .  No, it hasn't been misattributed , and no, it's not a fake. But according to Dutch art historian Pieter Roelofs , the earring was likely an imitation glass bauble, rather than a real pearl. Others have raised this possibility before, but the claim is resurfacing thanks to a new blockbuster Vermeer exhibition —the largest ever staged—at Amsterdam's  Rijksmuseum .  Roelofs, who is ...

Feb 8th, 2023 - 'I'm going to get a beating' – artist Peter Doig on taking on Cézanne, Renoir, Monet and more Once Europe's most expensive living painter, Doig is feverishly trying to finish 10 new works that will hang alongside some old masters. No wonder he isn't getting any sleep 'I t could be a massive failure," says Peter Doig with a laugh. The 63-year-old painter is worrying about his looming show at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Only very rarely is a living artist deemed worthy of having ...

Feb 6th, 2023 - 5 Art Museums in France | Interesting Facts & Tips for Visiting Meta Description: Discover the best art museums in France with our comprehensive guide. Learn fascinating facts and tips for an unforgettable visit France is known for its rich cultural heritage and is home to some of the world's most famous art museums. In this post, we shall explore 5 of the best art museums in France and share some interesting facts and tips for visiting. Whether you are an art lover or just looking for a new ...

Jan 30th, 2023 - PARIS (AP) — France has acquired a stunning Impressionist masterpiece for its national collection of art treasures, with a donation from luxury goods giant LVMH paying the 43 million euros (nearly $47 million) for "Boating Party" by 19th-century French artist Gustave Caillebotte. The oil on canvas shows an oarsman in a top hat rowing his skiff on languid waters. The work, remarkable in its realism, delicate colors and almost cinematic perspective, as though the artist was in the boat with ...

Jan 29th, 2023 - Paris is gearing up for a new year of must-see exhibits, from a rare chance to view the sarcophagus of Pharaoh Ramesses II to a Harry Potter "experience" or a deep dive into rival Impressionists Edouard Manet and Edgar Degas. museum will mark 50 years since the artist's death while the Centre Pompidou will explore the literary influences that inspired Serge Gainsbourg's music. Many of the exhibits this year are immersive experiences, as venues look for new and creative ways to approach the ...