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 17th, 2025 - Christie's, Sotheby's and Phillips delivered standout numbers during Frieze Week, led by marquee works by Peter Doig and Francis Bacon and punctuated by a wave of new artist records. Sales aren't just buoyant at Frieze this week —London's auction houses also saw their strongest results in years, signaling renewed confidence at the top of the market. Kicking off the action, Christie's 20th/21st Century London Evening Sale on October 15 achieved a robust £106,925,400 ($142,852,000), ...
Oct 17th, 2025 - Outside Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, there's now a giant black-and-white billboard that reads, "PEACE is POWER" in a simple sans-serif type. Those words, courtesy of Yoko Ono, feel eerily poignant in a moment of political turmoil in Chicago and across the country, admits curator Jamillah James. "The first time I actually saw it installed, it took my breath away," James said on a recent weekday morning at the museum. "It's just such a powerful sentiment that's pretty straightforward. ...
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 ...
Oct 15th, 2025 - The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) recently announced a major gift of more than 130 works of Austrian Expressionism from the family of Otto Kallir , the visionary art dealer and historian who played a crucial role in bringing Austrian and modern European art to international prominence. Kallir founded the legendary Galerie St. Etienne in Vienna in 1923 and, after fleeing Nazi persecution, reestablished it in New York in 1939. One of the first galleries championing Austrian modernism, ...
Oct 14th, 2025 - Video: Brooklyn Museum Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: The Brooklyn Museum have just opened a new exhibition on Monet and Venice . According to the museum's website: New York's largest museum show dedicated to Monet in over 25 years, the exhibition features more than 100 artworks, books, and ephemera. Two masterpieces, the Brooklyn Museum's own Palazzo Ducale and The Grand Canal, Venice from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, are presented alongside selections from throughout Monet's ...
Oct 14th, 2025 - At the Courtauld Gallery, the artist's pastel-coloured works are clearly shown to be still lifes with bite The American painter Wayne Thiebaud's (1920-2021) mouthwatering depictions of glossily iced cakes, slices of cherry pie and deli counters arranged just so, present a thoroughly American reimagining of the traditional genre of still-life. The works came to public attention in the early 1960s, just as Pop art hit the US with what the critic Harold Rosenberg described as "the force of an ...
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 ...
