Dec 15th, 2025 - Antwerp has been a hub for collectors for centuries—research has shown that as early as the 1500s, 90 percent of homeowners in Antwerp owned at least one portrait or religious painting. Against this backdrop, Art Antwerp, while founded in 2021, has a deep legacy. The fifth edition, which took place from December 12 through 14 with a preview day on December 11, gathered 79 galleries from 11 countries via an invite-only model that didn't draw boundaries between emerging and established. ...
Dec 12th, 2025 - Spanning more than seven decades, the show underscores how Ono's conceptual clarity helped make some of the most radical ideas of the 20th Century feel direct and accessible. 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. The recent passing of the great performance artist Alison Knowles (1933-2025) served as a poignant reminder of the enduring influence ...
Dec 11th, 2025 - Barbara Dauphin Duthuit, the wife of Henri Matisse's grandson, has gifted seven paintings, one sculpture, 28 drawings and eight etchings to the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris Barbara Dauphin Duthuit, the wife of Henri Matisse's grandson, has donated 61 works by Matisse to the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris. Most of the works were shown in the exhibition Matisse and Marguerite: Through Her Father's Eyes which launched at the museum earlier this year. Dauphin Duthuit was ...
Dec 10th, 2025 - On Wednesday, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston announced that photographer and visual artist Lorna Simpson will receive the second annual Meraki Artist Award. The award, which was created last year , grants $100,000 to a woman artist to recognize innovative work in the fine arts. The award is funded by collector Fotene Demoulas, and will be awarded annually at least until 2035. Simpson will appear at the ICA's annual Women's Luncheon next April to accept the award. "It is a joy to ...
Dec 10th, 2025 - Their paintings might look like greeting cards from a nursing home, but the Impressionists were 19th century punk rockers. They upended the establishment by presenting what was viewed as rough, unfinished artwork by upstarts bent on subverting tradition. And when the conservative Académie des Beaux-Arts rejected them, this ragtag group of starving artists, including Claude Monet , Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro , Edgar Degas , Paul Cézanne and Berthe Morisot , among ...
Nov 20th, 2025 - A self-portrait by legendary Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold for $54.66 million in New York on Thursday, setting a new record for the price of a painting by a woman, the auction house Sotheby's said. The sale of Kahlo's 1940 artwork, titled "El sueno (la cama)" — which translates to "The dream (The bed)" — breaks the previous record in this category, set by American artist Georgia O'Keeffe, whose 1932 painting "Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1," sold for $44.4 million in 2014. Kahlo's ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 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 19th, 2025 - His 'Sunflowers' painting does not make the list—and there are other surprises too Van Gogh's pictures only occasionally come onto the market and, not surprisingly, they fetch huge sums. The odd one is sold privately through a dealer, usually very discreetly—but in a typical year less than a handful are publicly auctioned. Here we record the ten most expensive Van Gogh paintings that have sold at auction, all at over $50m. 10. Fields near Les Alpilles , $52m, 2022 Fields near ...
