Dec 12th, 2025 - Picture: San Domenico Civic Museum Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: The San Domenico Civic Museum in the town of Forli, Italy, will be hosting a big exhibition of Baroque art in 2026 . The show will contain 200 works with major loans from across Italy and Europe, including artworks by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Francesco Borromini, Pietro da Cortona, the two Gentileschi, Luca Giordano, Guercino, Guido Reni, Van Dyck, Andrea Pozzo, Nicolas Poussin, Peter Paul Rubens and Francisco de ...

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 12th, 2025 - Ben Luke talks to the architecture critic and Gehry biographer Paul Goldberger, to the FLAG Art Foundation's founder and to Rebecca Shaykin, curator at New York's Jewish Museum Frank Gehry, the architect behind the Guggenheim Bilbao, Geffen Contemporary at MoCA, Los Angeles, and the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, among other museums and art spaces, died last Friday at his home in Santa Monica, California. He was 96. Ben Luke discusses his long engagement with art, artists and museums with ...

Dec 11th, 2025 - Picture: Colnaghi Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: The dealers Colnaghi opened a new selling exhibition at their Brussels branch yesterday entitled   Northern Lights: Masterpieces of Flemish Caravaggism . It will run until 30th January 2026. According to their website: The exhibition brings together works by minds such as Matthias Stom, Hendrick de Somer, Abraham Janssens, and Jan van Dalem; artists whose careers unfolded across Rome, Naples, Antwerp, and Brussels. Among the works on view is a ...

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 ...

Sep 16th, 2025 - With Sotheby's landing the $400 million Leonard A. Lauder Collection and the Pritzkers' modern masterpieces, and Christie's securing the Weis and Wynn estates, November's sales may yet rescue the slumping auction market. It has become clearer in these past few years that the real battle between auction houses isn't about results but in the race for consignments. Yesterday, Sotheby's landed a knockout: the $400 million Leonard A. Lauder Collection , set to hit the rostrum during November's New ...

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 - 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 ...