Oct 22nd, 2025 - His art criticism reaches rarified heights—combining style, rigor, and politics like almost no one else. Bluesky Let's return to April 2008—a date most would ignore but that, in retrospect, was consequential in the field of art criticism. That's when T.J. Clark began publishing exhibition reviews in the London Review of Books . The first one was on simultaneous exhibitions of Poussin and Courbet at the Metropolitan Museum in New York—an occasion on which, he wrote, "the whole ...

Oct 22nd, 2025 - Walking into a gallery as an art world newbie is likely to be a somewhat humbling experience. Rebekah Bowling, a senior art advisor at Citi who works with ultra-high-net-worth clients in Citi Wealth to manage and build their art collections, knows that it can be "really intimidating" to start buying art. Galleries typically don't list prices, and new buyers often don't know much about the artists or shows they're looking at, she said. Even asking an employee at the desk about the works on ...

Oct 22nd, 2025 - How the Guardian reported the stealing of art works from the Paris museum including the Mona Lisa in 1911 Louvre heist: hunt on for thieves after eight 'priceless' jewellery pieces stolen A Louvre treasure missing: search for a Leonardo da Vinci picture 23 August 1911 One of the most precious treasures of the Louvre, Reuter's Paris correspondent says, has disappeared. The discovery was made at midday yesterday, and the picture gallery was immediately closed, while the Minister of Fine Arts was ...

Oct 22nd, 2025 - ST. PETERSBURG — "In Caravaggio's Light: Baroque Masterpieces from the Fondazione Roberto Longhi," a landmark exhibition, will open on Saturday, Oct. 25, at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, 255 Beach Drive NE, St. Petersburg. The exhibition will continue through March 22. Featuring some 40 masterpieces from one of the world's most revered private collections of 17th-century painting, the exhibition offers a rare opportunity for American audiences to experience the revolutionary ...

Oct 22nd, 2025 - Picture: Beaux-Arts de Paris Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: The Cabinet d'arts graphiques at the Beaux-Arts de Paris opened a new exhibition of drawings and prints yesterday dedicated to the work of Rosso Fiorentino and Primaticcio at Fontainebleau. According to the exhibition's blurb: Through a selection of some 50 works, this exhibition highlights the exceptional collection of drawings and prints by École de Fontainebleau held by Beaux-Arts de Paris. It provides an opportunity ...

Oct 20th, 2025 - The dealer is showing a depiction of the Christian holy family at his fair booth, three decades after he hosted a show on the Old Master in New York Thirty years ago, Larry Gagosian mounted an exhibition of oil paintings and sketches by Peter Paul Rubens in his New York gallery—an unprecedented move for a commercial contemporary art enterprise. Back then, the mega dealer saw parallels between the Baroque artist and Robert Rauschenberg as well as Andy Warhol, whose portraits of movie icons ...

Oct 20th, 2025 - From Turner winner Helen Marten at Palais d'Iéna, to Gerhard Richter at Fondation Louis-Vuitton A major highlight of the cultural calendar in the French capital, Art Basel Paris has swiftly established itself as an essential rendezvous in the City of Light. As The Grand Palais hosts the fourth edition, showcasing 206 leading French and international galleries, we round up the must-see shows to catch while you're in town. 30 Blizzards Palais d'Iéna, Paris, until 26 October ...

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 ...

Oct 18th, 2025 - We live in a world saturated with images. They can be deeply personal or commoditized, produced and consumed ad infinitum. But for the internationally renowned artist Gerhard Richter, they attest to a monumental career that not only moves through a multitude of genres, but also transmits meaning from each and every surface. The Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris has unveiled the most definitive Richter retrospective to date , on the same unprecedented scale as prior exhibitions dedicated to David ...

Oct 17th, 2025 - Ben Luke discusses the mood at Frieze with The Art Newspaper's art market editor, Kabir Jhala, explores the parallel art world that exists for unrepresented artists and catches up with the curator of a new Renoir show in New York Amid much debate about the health of the art market, Frieze is back in London, with its two fairs, Frieze London and Frieze Masters. Ben Luke talks to The Art Newspaper 's art market editor, Kabir Jhala, about the mood in the big tents in Regent's Park. Beyond Frieze, ...

Oct 16th, 2025 - Perlstein—whose family fled from Antwerp to Brazil to escape the Nazis—was a great collector of avant-garde art and was friends with some of its leading figures Sylvio Perlstein was born in Antwerp in 1931, and died there at the age of 94, but he lived a circuitous and peripatetic life which joined the co-ordinates for some of the most exciting transatlantic networks in modern art. Perlstein was one of the last of the great collectors of 20th-century avant-garde art who lived ...

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 ...

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 ...

Feb 12th, 2025 - The discovery adds to evidence that preparatory drawings were common practice for Venetian artists as well as for their Florentine peers Rome has Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel and Venice has the Scuola Grande di San Rocco, an imposing 16th-century structure in the city's San Polo district decorated with a series of more than 50 religious paintings by Jacopo Tintoretto. Executed between 1564 and 1587 and concentrated on two high-ceilinged floors, the series adorns the walls, ceilings and ...