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 ...
Dec 6th, 2024 - Is Impressionism played out? As a cash cow, maybe. The movement that launched a billion-dollar industry of calendars, coffee mugs, tote bags, posters and, more recently, disorientingly high-tech immersive experiences , has come to feel like so much wallpaper over the years that its absence can be more conspicuous than its presence. This year marked the 150th anniversary of its galvanizing moment: the first Impressionist exhibition in Paris in 1874. If ever there was an occasion for institutions ...
Dec 6th, 2024 - Faced with logistics setbacks, several galleries were offered assistance from their fellow exhibitors Shipping issues have impacted several galleries exhibiting at Art Basel Miami Beach this year, resulting in some down-to-the-wire installs, as well as valuable instances of exhibitor collaboration during a competitive art market week. Art Basel said in a statement to The Art Newspaper : "There were a small handful of exhibitors who experienced delays with their shippers, which is an issue ...
Dec 5th, 2024 - CLEVELAND, Ohio – As a revolutionary artist, Pablo Picasso is without equal: he transformed modern art with his groundbreaking vision and fearless experimentation. Visitors to the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) are about to get an eyeful of this master's work and an unprecedented view into his creative process. "Picasso and Paper" delves into the artist's lengthy tenure working with paper. The groundbreaking exhibition – organized by CMA and the Royal Academy of Arts, London , in ...
Dec 5th, 2024 - Historic pieces by the acclaimed Swiss sculptor Giacometti will be brought together with works by three leading contemporary artists at the Brutalist London venue The Barbican Centre in London has teamed up with the Fondation Giacometti in Paris on a series of three exhibitions due to open next year called Encounters: Giacometti. In the shows, which are to be held at the London arts complex, the artists Huma Bhabha, Mona Hatoum and Lynda Benglis will display their works alongside historic ...
Dec 5th, 2024 - Nine bidders competed for the 15th century painting of a Virgin and child at Sotheby's, while Zoffany, Tiepolo and Van Dyck topped auctions at Bonhams and Christie's The more international auction houses lean into luxury and contemporary art, the more Old Masters are in danger of looking like an archaic outlier. Yet London's latest series of sales showed that this most traditional of collecting fields, at least at the very top level, is still alive and can kick. On Wednesday afternoon at ...
Dec 4th, 2024 - Gérôme celebrated in Doha, Qatar Picture: mathaf.org.qa Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: Interesting news from Doha, Qatar, that the Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art have just opened a new exhibition dedicated to the legacy of Jean-Léon Gérôme. According to the museum's website: Organised by the future Lusail Museum in collaboration with Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Seeing Is Believing: The Art and Influence of Gérôme features ...
Dec 3rd, 2024 - The sixth edition of the fair in February will have considerably more attendees from Latin America, Europe and Asia. When Frieze Los Angeles first opened in 2019, one might have dismissed it as just another art fair. But for gallerists, collectors and artists, the fair's arrival has signaled an important development in the West Coast art world. Los Angeles has long attracted artists, given the presence of strong local art schools, as well as attractive space and light. Over the years, the city ...
Dec 3rd, 2024 - All you ever wanted to know about the subject, from the story of Carpaccio and Bellini's narrative painting to a Venice guide for little explorers—selected by the curators Annette Hojer and Christine Follmann For some, the artists of the Venetian Renaissance achieved a level of painting never surpassed, with those working in the watery city during the 15th and 16th centuries able to call on the rich pigments and knowledge that passed through this centre of trade. The exhibition ...
Dec 3rd, 2024 - Parmigianino: The Vision of St Jerome review – a wild religious masterpiece reborn National Gallery, London The loins of the dreaming hermit Jerome are thrust into our eyeline in a quirky painting that gets more subversive the longer you look at it t's a cosy tradition at the National Gallery to showcase one of its Christmassy paintings at this time of year – a Nativity, or an Adoration of the Magi perhaps. This year's religious masterpiece is different. Parmigianino's tall (3.5m) ...
Dec 3rd, 2024 - When Vincent van Gogh painted his glorious sunflowers in Arles, every single one of them was for Paul Gauguin , whom he'd befriended in Paris. He hung them like a welcoming bouquet in the Yellow House, where he had bold plans for the French painter to join him and start a new colony of modern artists. Arriving in the south of France in 1888, Van Gogh found new inspiration in the region's brilliant light and colors; having swapped city life for the warmer countryside, he began painting en plein ...
Dec 2nd, 2024 - Notre-Dame may have started out as a Gothic cathedral, but over the centuries it has morphed into a civic emblem and leading tourist attraction—it has also become a reliable muse for painters, photographers and more A marvel of medieval construction that helped pioneer the ribbed vault and the flying buttress, Notre-Dame reached something like its recognisable form in 1270, just shy of a century after construction started. After getting a Baroque makeover in the 18th century, and becoming ...
Nov 29th, 2024 - The work will be part of Kiefer's landmark exhibition in Amsterdam, the first-ever collaboration between two major Dutch institutions. As part of his highly anticipated upcoming exhibition in 2025 spread between Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum and the Stedelijk Museum, Anselm Kiefer will be debuting a 78-foot-long painting. This week, the artist has revealed a preview of the monumental work. The exhibition "Sag mir wo die Blumen sind" will be the first time in history that the Van Gogh Museum, ...
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 ...
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 ...
