Mar 21st, 2025 - Tracing Whitten's artistic development with the largest ever show of his work, the story of an exhibition exploring the lives of Black artists in France, and Hans Ulrich Obrist on a monumental painting by the esteemed Indian artist Singh The largest ever exhibition of the work of Jack Whitten opens this weekend at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York. Ben Luke speaks to Michelle Kuo, the curator of the show, about the political and experimental commitment that drove Whitten's remarkable ...
Mar 21st, 2025 - The gallery selling the work, which resurfaced at the TEFAF Maastricht art fair, says a major museum is negotiating to buy it. A rediscovered painting of an African prince by Gustav Klimt that captured visitors' attention at the TEFAF Maastricht fair in the Netherlands is under negotiation for sale, the Vienna-based gallery offering the work said as the event closed on Thursday evening. The early, almost photorealistic head-and-shoulders portrait of Prince William Nii Nortey Dowuona, shown ...
Mar 19th, 2025 - Works acquired by the US's National Gallery of Art, the Menil Collection in Houston and Oxford's Christ Church Manfred Heiting Library National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Manfred Heiting's lifelong passion for photography and photobooks began in the 1960s, when he met Ansel Adams while working as a young art director. The German designer and scholar built an encyclopaedic photobook library, which was devastated in 2018 by California wildfires that claimed 20,000 items in his Malibu home. ...
Mar 18th, 2025 - Picture: Museo Poldi Pezzoli Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: The Museo Poldi Pezzoli in Milan will be opening their latest exhibition devoted to Andrea Solario later this month (spotted via @Mweilc). According to the museum's website: An unprecedented exhibition project dedicated to the painter Andrea Solario (1465-1524), one of the most original interpreters of the Lombard Renaissance, comes to life at the Poldi Pezzoli Museum. The exhibition, the result of a scientific collaboration with ...
Mar 18th, 2025 - Palm Beach Modern and Contemporary opens this week with curated works from 70 premier international galleries. The best of Artnet News in your inbox. Sign up for our daily newsletter. is this year's nonprofit benefactor and serves as a satellite venue for the fair, with complimentary shuttles running between each location. On view are dynamic aluminum sculptures by 2025 Artist in Residence Jane Manus. The best of Artnet News in your inbox. Sign up for our daily newsletter. Edvard Munch's ...
Mar 17th, 2025 - Over the weekend, videos began circulating on social media allegedly showing FBI agents breaking into a Chelsea art gallery during an exhibition opening to confiscate what was described as a "stolen" Rembrandt masterpiece—right in the middle of a crowded reception. Among the first to post the video on Instagram was filmmaker and Instagram influencer David Ma ( @davidwma ), who has 172k followers on the platform and more than a million on TikTok. Ma saw high engagement on both accounts, ...
Mar 16th, 2025 - Norwegian painter's portraits at London's National Portrait Gallery show his social side, while at Harvard his woodblock prints are in focus Reading Time: 2 minutes A new exhibition of portraits by Edvard Munch has opened in London, shining a light on an important aspect of the Norwegian painter's work and his life. Meanwhile, in the United States, the Harvard Art Museums' newest exhibition looks at how Munch used inventive techniques across paintings, woodcuts, lithographs, etchings and ...
Mar 14th, 2025 - A once-lost Amedeo Modigliani painting has resurfaced in Venice after more than 100 years out of the public eye. Portraying the artist's muse Jeanne Hébuterne, the portrait has been identified by experts as a preparatory study for its larger counterpart, an almost identical composition held by the Metropolitan Museum in New York. The portrait offers a special rarity for those interested in the artist's practice because Modigliani was known to create sketches and studies when preparing to ...
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 ...
Jan 20th, 2025 - Exclusive: William Blake-inspired artwork to feature alongside new paintings in artist's biggest exhibition A previously unseen painting by David Hockney has been revealed for the first time before its unveiling in the biggest exhibition to be devoted to one of Britain's foremost living artists. Titled After Blake: Less is Known than People Think, the work will be among hundreds of previously unknown Hockneys that are to be displayed alongside his famous masterpieces at the Fondation Louis ...
Dec 9th, 2024 - Seven institutional shows are planned for the artist's centennial next year, accompanied by the first volume of a catalogue raisonné, gallery exhibitions and even an art fair themed around his unique approach. Building on Duchamp's groundbreaking approach of transforming everyday objects through painting and formalist elements, the artist Robert Rauschenberg expanded the expressive possibilities of traditional art and pop culture. His experimental multimedia works serve as timeless ...
Nov 28th, 2024 - The artist organizes a show of seldom-seen paintings at Gagosian to cast a fresh eye on Balthus's enigmatic 1933 tableau, "The Street." Parisians, most of them children with strangely adult faces, stand transfixed or walk past each other, engaged in what the urban theorist Jane Jacobs called "an intricate sidewalk ballet." That is the subject of Balthus's 1933 painting, "The Street," which has inspired the artist Peter Doig to organize an exhibition by that name at Gagosian, one that is as ...
Nov 23rd, 2024 - Think of a favorite work of art you've seen in New York, and there's a good chance it was brought to you by a woman. From The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh at MoMA to El Greco's View of Toledo at The Met to the entire Whitney Museum of American Art, some of the city's greatest museums were founded, funded or fundamentally established through the efforts of women. On the occasion of the recent release of Inventing the Modern: Untold Stories of the Women Who Shaped The Museum of Modern Art and ...
Nov 19th, 2024 - For sixty-plus years, Helen Frankenthaler made paintings, prints, woodcuts and sculptures. "My pictures are full of climates, abstract climates… not nature per se," she said, "but a feeling…" Her works are feeling, just as nature is, at once deep, mystical, impenetrable, and ineffable. How to pin down the feeling of a sunrise or one of Frankenthaler's large paintings—they invoke feelings that are deep in, yet essential. Frankenthaler had the unique ability to reach into ...
Nov 14th, 2024 - To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines BRITISH MUSEUM RECEIVES MOST VALUABLE GIFT . The British Museum has received its highest-value donation to date, as the BBC reports,in the form of 1,700 rare Chinese ceramics worth $1.27 billion. They were donated by the Sir Percival David Foundation , which had previously loaned the precious, thousand-year-old treasures to the museum. British ...
Nov 13th, 2024 - The air may be thick with market jitters and whispers of a slowdown—especially in the secondary market—but there is still an impressive lineup of high-quality consignments leading November's evening sales. The goal? To lift spirits, hit those ambitious pre-sale estimates and maybe prove that the sky isn't quite falling yet. Still, all three major auction houses are playing it predictably safe this season with works by established blue-chip names already etched into the canon of ...
Nov 1st, 2024 - Ambitious shows to open in Boston, Amsterdam, Tokyo... Few artists are in demand as much as Van Gogh, making it increasingly difficult to mount exhibitions with outside loans. Yet the shows continue, giving pleasure to millions. Despite the appetite for "immersive experiences", nothing beats seeing the real thing. Here we present the first comprehensive preview of exhibitions opening in 2025. Boston, March and Amsterdam, October What promises to be the most revealing Van Gogh exhibition of the ...
