Oct 30th, 2024 - Editor's Note: Curator and art historian Alayo Akinkugbe is CNN Style's guest editor for the month of November. Click here to read the feature Akinkugbe commissioned on fine art and Nigerian craft. Dante Gabriel Rossetti's 19th century painting, " The Beloved ," a bejeweled Black child offers a bouquet of roses to the pale, red-headed bride at the picture's center. The child is tucked away in the bottom left-hand corner, but in the mind of curator and art historian Alayo Akinkugbe, his presence ...
Oct 30th, 2024 - ADAA's The Art Show opened last night (October 30) in the Park Avenue Armory, with the usual benefit gala to support Henry Street Settlement, one of the nation's oldest social services organizations. The 36th edition of one of the oldest fairs in the city has work brought by seventy-five ADAA member galleries, many of which are presenting highly curated solo booths that put very focused spotlights on each artist's practice and narrative. This curatorial attention, coupled with the already ...
Oct 30th, 2024 - A host of top tier New York-based artists are opening the doors to their studios to benefit the International Fine Print Dealers Association Foundation this November. Eleven artists, including Katherine Bradford , Leonardo Drew , Jeffrey Gibson , Rashid Johnson , Jeff Koons , Vera Lutter , Joel Mesler , Marilyn Minter , Tschabalala Self , Joel Shapiro and Mickalene Thomas , are taking part in the STUDIO VISIT benefit sale , which runs live on the IFPDA Foundation 's website from November ...
Oct 28th, 2024 - For the first time, Maurizio Cattelan 's famous artwork of a banana duct-taped to a wall is heading to the auction block, where experts at Sotheby's say it could fetch up to $1.5 million . While it may seem easy to recreate the artwork, titled Comedian, at home using your own duct tape and a run-of-the-mill banana, the winner of the auction will receive a certificate of authenticity and official instructions for installation. They will also get a brand new roll of duct tape and a fresh ...
Oct 28th, 2024 - Piet Mondrian: An Orderly Painter, a Deeply Eccentric Man A new biography of one of the quintessential artists of the 20th century. MONDRIAN: His Life, His Art, His Quest for the Absolute , by Nicholas Fox Weber The painter David Salle once wrote — he was quoting a friend — that you could recognize one of Alex Katz's canvases if it fell out of an airplane at 30,000 feet. The same is true of the Dutch-born painter Piet Mondrian (1872-1944). His grids and super-luminous yellows, reds ...
Oct 28th, 2024 - The European Fine Art Foundation announced Monday that TEFAF Maastricht will return to the Maastricht Exhibition & Conference Centre (MECC) from March 15-20, 2025. The 2025 edition with bring together 266 exhibitors from 21 countries to showcase 7,000 years of fine art, antiques, and design, just four galleries shy of their participation in 2024. Still, of those galleries, 26 will be joining TEFAF in Maastericht for the first time, including France's Galerie Lelong & Co., ...
Oct 22nd, 2024 - "Manet, Monet," says a museum visitor to her companion in a famous New Yorker cartoon. "I hear both are correct." Claude Monet may be the more popular and beloved artist, but Édouard Manet is surely the more pivotal figure in the history of modern art. Last year, he got a lot of attention in the monumental " Manet/Degas " show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and now there's an illuminating if more intimate exhibit — " Manet: A Model Family " — at the Isabella Stewart ...
Oct 21st, 2024 - Coinciding with Parisian Art Week, Sotheby's and Christie's hosted their Modern and Contemporary art auctions in the French capital, continuing a strategy they've developed in recent years. This approach links the London and Paris sales to their respective art weeks, with each auction house's selections reflecting, in many cases, the unique art scenes and institutional programming of each city. Fueled by this momentum, Sotheby's new luxurious venue in Saint-Honorè added to the ...
Sep 13th, 2024 - Art Review A New Perspective on Van Gogh's Final Flowering A major exhibition in London focuses on the painter's final years, finding new feelings in some of his most famous works. Listen to this article · 5:42 min The two vivid portraits — the poet and the lover — hang together in the first room of the exhibition, as they did above van Gogh's bed in the so-called Yellow House in a working-class neighborhood of Arles, France. It was there, roughly two years before his death ...
Sep 13th, 2024 - Forget the mugs and jigsaws – an exhibition at the National Gallery reminds us that nothing compares to seeing the original masterpieces O n Saturday the National Gallery in London opens its doors for its new Van Gogh exhibition, remarkably the first in its 200-year history. Exactly 100 years ago, the National purchased Van Gogh's Sunflowers for £1,304, a bargain even for the times. Far from a safe bet, guaranteed to bring in the crowds, Van Gogh was considered a rather risky ...
Aug 6th, 2024 - There used to be a roll call or "canon" — a list of names every budding student of postwar art was supposed to learn and remember. All the names were male. They all worked in America. The list existed to demonstrate how abstract expressionism led into pop art, minimalism and conceptualism, the four most significant movements between the end of World War II and the 1970s. So the roll call began with abstract expressionists: Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko . It moved on ...
Jul 3rd, 2024 - The painting previously sold at Christie's for £254,500 A painting believed to be a masterpiece by the Flemish artist Quentin Metsys was bought by the J. Paul Getty Museum at Christie's in London (2 July) for £10.6m with fees (estimate £8m-£12m). The work, The Madonna of the Cherries , dates from the 1520s and shows the Virgin and Child embracing as she holds cherries in her right hand. According to Christie's, the The Madonna of the Cherries disappeared in the 17th ...
Jul 3rd, 2024 - A cave painting on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi may be the oldest evidence of narrative art ever discovered, researchers say. The artwork, which depicts a human-like figure interacting with a warty pig, suggests people may have been using art as a way of telling stories for much longer than we thought. Archaeological evidence shows that Neanderthals began marking caves as early as 75,000 years ago, but these markings were typically non-figurative. Until a few years ago, the oldest ...
Jul 2nd, 2024 - Video: Christie's Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles have just announced their acquisition of the rediscovered Madonna of the Cherries by Quentin Metsys which sold at Christie's London this evening for £10,660,000 (inc. fees). According to the museum's press release: "The tender beauty and accessibility of Metsys' representation of the familial bond between the Virgin Mary and Christ Child represents a major innovation in early Netherlandish ...
Jul 2nd, 2024 - In this exclusive extract from a new book about Henry VIII's six wives, the art historian Suzannah Lipscomb writes about "perhaps the greatest artistic patron of them all" "Divorced, beheaded, died; divorced, beheaded, survived" is a neat, if not macabre, reminder of the fate of Henry VIII's six wives. But they were more than just their tragic ends. A new publication Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII's Queens , tells their tales through a wide cultural lens. The book, which accompanies an ...
Jul 2nd, 2024 - Many people are deeply fascinated by Japan's timeless culture, harmonious spirituality and delicious food. Fewer are fans of the country's vibrant contemporary arts scene, if only because its evolving and increasingly international gallery scene is relatively young. After years of regional closure, Japan seems to finally be opening up and trying to catch up with the incredible development shown by the Korean art scene on the global stage. The second edition of Tokyo Gendai opens for VIPs on the ...
Jul 2nd, 2024 - All you ever wanted to know about the topic, from the latest experimentations in contemporary art to some lesser-known Surrealist sculpture—selected by the head of the Henry Moore Institute, Laurence Sillars This summer, the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds will reopen after a significant refurbishment, the first in its 30-year history. The institution was founded to preserve the legacy of Henry Moore (1898-1986) as well as to promote sculpture more widely. The first exhibitions at the ...
Jun 19th, 2024 - Picture: themorgan.org Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: The Morgan Library and Museum in New York have recently opened a display of promised gifts to the museum, which includes twenty-eight drawings from the collection of Elizabeth and Jean-Marie Eveillard. According to the institution's website: The exhibition includes a study for Rembrandt's first masterpiece; Greuze's virtuoso depiction of a young cook made for his friend Jean-Georges Wille; Delacroix's intimate portrait of Jenny, his ...
Jun 10th, 2024 - The Best Art Cities in Europe From the iconic home of the Renaissance to the vibrant street art of the German capital, these are the best art cities in Europe... Exploring the best art cities in Europe is like embarking on a journey through time, culture, and human creativity. Imagine standing before the Mona Lisa in Paris, marvelling at Michelangelo's David in Florence, or being awed by the modern architecture of the Guggenheim in Bilbao. Each city tells a unique story through its art, ...
May 28th, 2024 - Ronald Perelman , the billionaire investor known for his vast art collection, has in recent years sold off nearly $1 billion worth of artwork by the likes of Andy Warhol , Cy Twombly , Pablo Picasso and Jean-Michel Basquiat . Many of these transactions were conducted through auction houses like Sotheby's, while other private sales went to fellow prominent collectors like hedge fund manager Ken Griffin . Recently unsealed court filings reveal Perelman offloaded seventy-one works valued at $963 ...