Apr 28th, 2025 - It's official: Sotheby's secured legendary dealer Barbara Gladstone 's collection and will present twelve works in a single-owner sale during its May marquee auctions. The sale follows Gladstone's passing last June at the age of 89 and is expected to generate totals in excess of $12 million. "It takes some wisdom to steer a path through what everyone else wants you to do and what serves you best," Gladstone once said. "There's no formula. I trust my instincts." Lisa Dennison , chairman of ...
Apr 24th, 2025 - Conservators at The Mauritshuis gallery say famous paintings may have been made by the Dutch Old Master's students or studio assistants Conservators at The Mauritshuis gallery in the Hague, Netherlands, say that three paintings in the museum's collection initially attributed to Rembrandt van Rijn were probably made or copied by the 17th-century artist's employees and students. The museum owns seven works by the Dutch Old Master, along with seven paintings that were purchased as Rembrandts, but ...
Apr 24th, 2025 - Picture: khm.at Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: News from the Kunsthistoriches Musuem in Vienna that they'll be opening an exhibition in June on Still Lifes by Pieter Claesz (an oddly sunny season for such a contemplative show, I think). According to their website: From 17 June 2025 , the Kunsthistorisches Museum, in cooperation with the Kaiserschild-Stiftung, will present a special exhibition on the Dutch Baroque painter Pieter Claesz (1597/98–1660) as part of the Kaiserschild Art ...
Apr 24th, 2025 - The museum reported that 570,537 tickets were purchased for the show, which closed in April Australia is seeing spots after the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV)'s Yayoi Kusama blockbuster became the most-visited ticketed art exhibition in the nation's history. The Melbourne-based NGV has reported that 570,537 tickets were sold for the summer exhibition, which was titled Yayoi Kusama . This broke the institution's own record of 462,262 tickets sold for the gallery's 2017 exhibition Van Gogh ...
Apr 23rd, 2025 - The settlement with the successor of Max Silberberg, of which details are confidential, allows the painting to remain on display at the Kunsthaus Zurich The foundation that oversees the troubled Bührle collection says it has reached a settlement with the heirs of a Jewish collector that allows an important painting by Édouard Manet to remain on display at the Kunsthaus Zurich. Manet's La Sultane , painted in around 1871, is one of about 200 works that have been on loan from the ...
Apr 22nd, 2025 - Every major artistic revolution has been met with resistance, skepticism, and even outrage. From the radical abstraction of Cubism to the rise of AI-generated art, history shows that disruption is at the core of creativity. But what connects Picasso, Duchamp, Warhol, and today's AI artists? Let's explore how new art movements have always challenged convention—and why the current digital revolution is no different. Cubism: Picasso & Braque Break the Rules When Pablo Picasso and Georges ...
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 ...
Jan 20th, 2025 - Exclusive: William Blake-inspired artwork to feature alongside new paintings in artist's biggest exhibition A previously unseen painting by David Hockney has been revealed for the first time before its unveiling in the biggest exhibition to be devoted to one of Britain's foremost living artists. Titled After Blake: Less is Known than People Think, the work will be among hundreds of previously unknown Hockneys that are to be displayed alongside his famous masterpieces at the Fondation Louis ...
Dec 9th, 2024 - Seven institutional shows are planned for the artist's centennial next year, accompanied by the first volume of a catalogue raisonné, gallery exhibitions and even an art fair themed around his unique approach. Building on Duchamp's groundbreaking approach of transforming everyday objects through painting and formalist elements, the artist Robert Rauschenberg expanded the expressive possibilities of traditional art and pop culture. His experimental multimedia works serve as timeless ...
Dec 6th, 2024 - Sprawling survey of the Modernist master, comprising more than 70 works, is a celebration of a remarkable six-decade career When you consider that Henri Matisse nearly died following emergency surgery in 1941 and was in poor health until his death in 1954, it makes the productivity of his final decades all the more astonishing. The most famous body of work of the 1940s and 1950s is the paper cut-outs—"form filtered to its essentials", as Matisse described them. The Fondation Beyeler owns ...
Nov 28th, 2024 - The artist organizes a show of seldom-seen paintings at Gagosian to cast a fresh eye on Balthus's enigmatic 1933 tableau, "The Street." Parisians, most of them children with strangely adult faces, stand transfixed or walk past each other, engaged in what the urban theorist Jane Jacobs called "an intricate sidewalk ballet." That is the subject of Balthus's 1933 painting, "The Street," which has inspired the artist Peter Doig to organize an exhibition by that name at Gagosian, one that is as ...
Nov 23rd, 2024 - Think of a favorite work of art you've seen in New York, and there's a good chance it was brought to you by a woman. From The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh at MoMA to El Greco's View of Toledo at The Met to the entire Whitney Museum of American Art, some of the city's greatest museums were founded, funded or fundamentally established through the efforts of women. On the occasion of the recent release of Inventing the Modern: Untold Stories of the Women Who Shaped The Museum of Modern Art and ...
Nov 19th, 2024 - For sixty-plus years, Helen Frankenthaler made paintings, prints, woodcuts and sculptures. "My pictures are full of climates, abstract climates… not nature per se," she said, "but a feeling…" Her works are feeling, just as nature is, at once deep, mystical, impenetrable, and ineffable. How to pin down the feeling of a sunrise or one of Frankenthaler's large paintings—they invoke feelings that are deep in, yet essential. Frankenthaler had the unique ability to reach into ...
Nov 14th, 2024 - To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines BRITISH MUSEUM RECEIVES MOST VALUABLE GIFT . The British Museum has received its highest-value donation to date, as the BBC reports,in the form of 1,700 rare Chinese ceramics worth $1.27 billion. They were donated by the Sir Percival David Foundation , which had previously loaned the precious, thousand-year-old treasures to the museum. British ...
Nov 13th, 2024 - The air may be thick with market jitters and whispers of a slowdown—especially in the secondary market—but there is still an impressive lineup of high-quality consignments leading November's evening sales. The goal? To lift spirits, hit those ambitious pre-sale estimates and maybe prove that the sky isn't quite falling yet. Still, all three major auction houses are playing it predictably safe this season with works by established blue-chip names already etched into the canon of ...
Nov 1st, 2024 - Ambitious shows to open in Boston, Amsterdam, Tokyo... Few artists are in demand as much as Van Gogh, making it increasingly difficult to mount exhibitions with outside loans. Yet the shows continue, giving pleasure to millions. Despite the appetite for "immersive experiences", nothing beats seeing the real thing. Here we present the first comprehensive preview of exhibitions opening in 2025. Boston, March and Amsterdam, October What promises to be the most revealing Van Gogh exhibition of the ...
