Jul 25th, 2024 - The artist's new paintings at Gagosian show her working through the loss of her husband, the artist Brice Marden, in a hot palette, feathers and shells. The grief of losing a partner has been evoked by artists as various as Francis Bacon, with his "Black Triptychs" in the 1970s, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres, whose billboard photograph "Untitled" (1991) lets the absence of figures in an empty bed be a reference for a giant loss. With "The Grief Paintings," an exhibition of 23 new works on view ...
Jul 25th, 2024 - New York's largest art fair is welcoming both a new director and a new floor plan This year's Armory Show will mark the 30th anniversary of New York's largest commercial art fair. With a new fair director, floor plan and still fresh off last year's acquisition by Frieze , The Armory Show may be on the brink of a new era in the fair's three-decade history. Starting with a VIP preview day on 5 September, the fair will last until 8 September. "While we celebrate 30 years of The Armory Show, this ...
Jul 25th, 2024 - The Night Watch Use of arsenic sulfides for yellow, orange/red hues adds to artist's known pigment palette. Since 2019, researchers have been analyzing the chemical composition of the materials used to create Rembrandt's masterpiece, The Night Watch, as part of the Rijksmuseum's ongoing Operation Night Watch , devoted to its long-term preservation. Chemists at the Rijksmuseum and the University of Amsterdam have now detected unusual arsenic-based yellow and orange/red pigments used to ...
Jul 24th, 2024 - Insiders shared the best 35 residencies globally and told us why they're worth it. Rome Prize Tulsa Artist Fellowship Camargo Foundation Artica Networking opportunities are also provided via close partnerships with the Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum, the Norwegiona Nonfiction Writers' and Translators' Association (NFFO), the Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA), and the Queen Sonja Print Award. Private accommodation and shared studio space are provided for one-to-three-month residencies. Jan Van ...
Jul 21st, 2024 - Son and grandson of the painter unveil exhibition of her work to restore her place in cultural history he was a painter, he was a sculptor. They worked side by side, describing their marriage as "a 64-year conversation about art". They influenced one another's work and regarded one another as equals – but today, Anthony Caro is a household name while Sheila Girling is all but forgotten. This weekend, however, the couple's son, Paul Caro, and grandson, Ben Caro, hope that's about to ...
Jul 19th, 2024 - Our staff picked out the shows around the U.S. that are on the summer bucket list. Dalí: Disruption and Devotion Making the most of the 100th anniversary of Surrealism, the Boston MFA is taking a look at art history through Salvador Dalí's melted lens. Works by the likes of El Greco and Velázquez from the museum's permanent collection are pared with 30 loans from Florida's Dalí Museum (sadly, the latter's new Seeing Red: Renoir to Warhol Gordon Parks: Camera ...
Jul 18th, 2024 - The exhibition tells the story of the artist's late-flowering but tragically brief career The reputation of Mabel Nicholson (1871-1918) has long been eclipsed by that of the male artists in her family: her brother, James Pryde; her husband, William Nicholson; and her eldest son Ben Nicholson. "They—Ben and William especially—are giants in British art, but Mabel's contribution was written out along the way, effectively reduced to a footnote in their stories," says Lucy Davies, the ...
Jul 3rd, 2024 - The oldest example of figurative cave art has been discovered in the Indonesian Island of South Sulawesi by Australian and Indonesian scientists. The painting of a wild pig and three human-like figures is at least 51,200 years old, more than 5,000 years older than the previous oldest cave art. The discovery pushes back the time that modern humans first showed the capacity for creative thought. Prof Maxime Aubert from Griffith University in Australia told BBC News that the discovery would change ...
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 - 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 ...
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 ...
May 24th, 2024 - It's a shame that the two preeminent stars of abstract art— Hilma af Klint and Wassily Kandinsky —never met in person. At one point, Swedish-born af Klint and Russian-born Kandinsky were miles apart from each other in Stockholm, where Kandinsky traveled in 1915 for an exhibition. They could have talked about their uncanny similarities, parallel lives and of course, their differences. But what if these premiere painters of abstraction actually shared a conversation? What would that ...
May 16th, 2024 - The results were led by Monet's 'Meules à Giverny' and Leonora Carrington's record-breaking 'Les Distractions de Dagobert' Breaking through the gloom and doom of a softening market, Sotheby's Modern evening sale delivered a robust $198.1m ($235.1m with fees) on Wednesday (15 May). The tally landed the auction midway between its pre-sale expectations of $180.2m to $250.7m (calculated without fees). Only two of the 50 lots offered went unsold, for a muscular sell-through rate of ...
May 10th, 2024 - The minimalist London home of the late financial trader Ralph Goldenberg was always intended to house art. Originally designed by architect John Pawson for Doris Saatchi , first wife of mega art collector Charles Saatchi , the white walls of its cubic rooms were for decades adorned with Goldberg's vast holdings of works by artists like Alexander Calder , Lucio Fontana and Jackson Pollock . This summer, the spirit of the iconic three-story house will be recreated by Sotheby's as it gears up to ...
Apr 25th, 2024 - This year marks the 150th anniversary of Impressionism, the 19th-century art style defined by strong brushstrokes and ordinary subjects in open-air settings. To mark the occasion, Sotheby's is auctioning one of Claude Monet 's atmospheric haystacks—a favored motif of the artist and an iconic image in the art movement. Painted in 1893, Monet's Meules à Giverny will be sold next month with an estimate above $30 million. "With his haystacks, the revolutionary ideas and techniques that ...
Apr 25th, 2024 - Picture: liverpoolmuseums.org.uk Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: The Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool has been allocated two paintings by Monet and Degas as part of the Acceptance in Lieu scheme. The Epte in Giverny (1884), by Claude Monet (pictured), and Modiste Decorating a Hat (1891-1895), a pastel by Edgar Degas, will be on display in the gallery from this weekend onwards. According to the museum's press release: Kate O'Donoghue, Curator of International Fine Art at National Museums ...
Apr 19th, 2024 - Kojiro Matsukata's still life was destroyed in a London fire and his "Van Gogh's Bedroom" was seized during the Second World War Although now little known outside Japan, Kojiro Matsukata (1865-1950) was one of world's great collectors in the early 20th century. He set out to establish the first museum of European paintings in Tokyo, to be known as the Sheer Pleasure Art Pavilion. Among his collection were apparently 25 works by Claude Monet—plus three Van Goghs. The Matsuka collection was ...
Apr 19th, 2024 - From pieces that played an influential role in the male-dominated New York School to nature-imbued paintings created in the French countryside, the abstract artwork of Joan Mitchell took on new lives and iterations over a career that spanned more than four decades. Now, four significant works from the American artist's oeuvre will be offered up next month by Sotheby's in its Contemporary Evening Auction. The quartet of paintings dating from 1955 to 1989 come from the same private collection and ...
