Nov 5th, 2025 - The major modernist artist is finally getting a blockbuster exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art, celebrating a career filled with innovation lthough he was a major modernist artist whose collaborators ranged from European greats like Pablo Picasso and André Breton to new world giants like Aimé Césaire, Cuban artist Wifredo Lam has not seen a major US retrospective worthy of his stature. That changes with the MoMA's blockbuster show Wifredo Lam: When I Don't Sleep, ...

Nov 5th, 2025 - The energy of the country's contemporary art scene is in the hands of a growing constellation of artists, curators and galleries, writes curator Aindrea Emelife, and deeply rooted in tradition Lagos Art Week isn't just a calendar fixture—it's an electric current. Traffic slows to a crawl as black SUVs weave between openings, horns blare, champagne flows and the city pulses with ambition and possibility. WhatsApp groups crackle with last-minute invites and secret listings. Everyone is ...

Nov 5th, 2025 - Welcome to One Fine Show , where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum not in New York City, a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention. As the "Chainsaw Man" movie trounces the one about Bruce Springsteen at the box office, it's clear that the influence of the Baby Boomers is waning. They do, however, have one last grand act of cinematic relevance to inflict upon us: Sam Mendes ' four-part Beatles biopic, which will feature a single movie for each ...

Nov 5th, 2025 - A recent biography helps shed light on her life before and after John Lennon—making a case for the primacy of her art and its lasting influence. Bluesky On March 9, 1945, as bombs fell on Tokyo and air raid sirens blared in every corner of the city, a 12-year-old Yoko Ono was bedridden with fever. Unable to be taken to a bomb shelter by her mother, Ono watched the deadly explosions light up the sky from her bedroom window. David Sheff Buy this book Twenty years later, in March 1965, Ono ...

Oct 31st, 2025 - The show will take place at the Palazzo Tiepolo Passi and will include 35 works dating from 2015 to 2019 A major exhibition of rarely seen works by the influential late Chinese-Canadian artist Matthew Wong will open in Venice next year, coinciding with the 61st Biennale. The show will take place at the Palazzo Tiepolo Passi (9 May-1 November), and will include 35 works dating from 2015 to 2019. It will, according to a project statement, "explore interiors, both physical and psychological". ...

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 ...

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 ...