Nov 18th, 2025 - Gustav Klimt's portrait of Elisabeth Lederer is now the second-most-expensive work ever sold at auction. Another of the night's star lots, Maurizio Cattelan's solid gold toilet, elicited just one bid but still made a splash at $12.1m Gustav Klimt's six-foot-tall painting Bildnis Elisabeth Lederer (Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer (1914-16) sold for $205m ($236.3m with fees) at its auction debut at Sotheby's in New York on Tuesday night (18 November). The painting is now the second-most valuable ...

Nov 17th, 2025 - The countdown for the Met Gala 2026 is officially on, and we are finally getting some intel about the exhibition surrounding the highly anticipated fashion event. Widely referred to as fashion's biggest night, the Met Gala is an annual fundraiser event for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute. Every year, fashion enthusiasts from around the world tune in to see celebrities, artists, and fashion insiders arrive at the prestigious dinner, gracing the iconic stairs of the Met Museum, ...

Nov 17th, 2025 - Picture: Alte Nationalgalerie Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: The Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin opened a new exhibition at the end of last month dedicated to works on loan from the Scharf Collection. According to their website: The Scharf Collection, one of the most significant private art collections in Germany, is being showcased in a large-scale exhibition for the very first time. The collection primarily consists of French art from the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as international ...

Nov 16th, 2025 - As af Klint's fame has grown, so have the questions—about what she believed, whom she worked with, and who should be allowed to speak in her name. Outside, it was cold and dark. Inside, brightly colored forms seemed to swirl and spread. It was February, 2013, the evening of the opening of "Hilma af Klint—A Pioneer of Abstraction" at Moderna Museet, in Stockholm. Among the attendees was Kurt Almqvist, a white-haired man in his mid-fifties. Though Almqvist considered himself ...

Nov 15th, 2025 - The November marquee sales in New York are among the most anticipated events on the global art calendar and the final litmus test of the market's health after the London and Paris fairs and auctions. Leading the $1.6 billion New York auction week this November is a concentration of high-end, big-name collections, as single-owner sales have become an increasingly important tool for auction houses to secure major consignments and build momentum around a notable name and provenance. "A well-known ...

Nov 13th, 2025 - From the Mona Lisa to the American Gothic, these famous paintings don't just grace museum walls; they offer a glimpse into the past and define entire generations. Although most of these masterpieces are centuries old, they continue to fascinate art buffs and collectors alike, with each piece telling a captivating story. Whether they're on display for the whole world to see or hidden behind closed doors, these paintings prove that art has the power to create and sometimes, even change history. ...

Nov 13th, 2025 - Wending your way along a curving path surrounded by waving grasses, white tufts of milkweed and green undulating hills, you might stop to watch a honey bee busy gathering pollen from a cone flower. There are few people on the path with you, so you can hear the gentle breeze blowing through goldenrod and sycamore trees. This is a warm-up to receptivity, intentionally designed to slow down each visitor to Potomac, Maryland's Glenstone. Around a bend in the path, when you see white monoliths ...

Nov 12th, 2025 - The lion's share of the donated pieces, from the late collectors Carol and Morton Rapp, are prints and photographs The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in Toronto is about to become something of a Pop art showplace thanks to the late collectors Carol and Morton Rapp. And not just Pop art, but a range of Modern practices and movements, thanks to a gift of 474 prints, photographs, sculptures, artist books and more by 203 artists. The Rapps have a long history with the AGO, dating back to 1966. ...

Nov 12th, 2025 - Antwaun Sargent , featured on this year's Art Power Index , has built a career dismantling the art world's old hierarchies and rebuilding them around artists. As director at Gagosian , he's been dubbed the "Art Star Maker," though Sargent rejects that label, insisting that success belongs entirely to the artists he champions. His philosophy is deceptively simple: believe in artists and do everything possible to bring their visions to life. That ethos has shaped some of the past decade's most ...

Nov 12th, 2025 - Berthe Morisot was at times a leading light to the more established Édouard Manet, who seemingly even filled the gaps in one of her series. But her intimate paintings struggle to compete with his bolder works Total star rating: ★★★½ The works: ★★★★ The show: ★★★ Around halfway into Manet & Morisot at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, the paintings of Édouard Manet (1832-83) and Berthe Morisot (1841-95) begin to ...

Nov 11th, 2025 - After eight years of renovation and anticipation, the Studio Museum in Harlem—one of the most forward-thinking institutions anchoring both Harlem and the broader New York contemporary art scene—is finally reopening this weekend with a two-day, free-access celebration on Saturday, November 15 and Sunday, November 16. Ahead of the reopening, Observer got a sneak peek, and here's what you can expect. The new Studio Museum in Harlem feels, in its very architecture, like a contemporary ...

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 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 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 ...