Nov 17th, 2025 - Picture: britishartjournal.co.uk Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: The latest edition of The British Art Journal has been published online. Here's an impressive list of the articles contained within this free online publication: Not Lady Jane Grey but Mary Nevill Fiennes, Lady Dacre An attribution for the portrait of Sir Arthur Hopton and his secretary Hogarth's house at the Golden Head, Leicester Fields: Robert LS Cowley The Welshman in A Rake's Progress by William Hogarth (1697–1764) ...

Nov 17th, 2025 - NEW YORK (AP) — If there's been one uniting theme of all the blockbuster fashion exhibits at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it's the simple idea that fashion is art. "Costume Art," announced Monday as the next big show at the museum's Costume Institute — launched by the starry Met Gala in 2026 — aims to make that connection more literal than ever, pairing garments with objects from across the museum to show how fashion has long been intertwined with different art forms. Max ...

Nov 17th, 2025 - Picture: Alte Nationalgalerie Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: The Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin opened a new exhibition at the end of last month dedicated to works on loan from the Scharf Collection. According to their website: The Scharf Collection, one of the most significant private art collections in Germany, is being showcased in a large-scale exhibition for the very first time. The collection primarily consists of French art from the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as international ...

Nov 17th, 2025 - The countdown for the Met Gala 2026 is officially on, and we are finally getting some intel about the exhibition surrounding the highly anticipated fashion event. Widely referred to as fashion's biggest night, the Met Gala is an annual fundraiser event for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute. Every year, fashion enthusiasts from around the world tune in to see celebrities, artists, and fashion insiders arrive at the prestigious dinner, gracing the iconic stairs of the Met Museum, ...

Nov 16th, 2025 - As af Klint's fame has grown, so have the questions—about what she believed, whom she worked with, and who should be allowed to speak in her name. Outside, it was cold and dark. Inside, brightly colored forms seemed to swirl and spread. It was February, 2013, the evening of the opening of "Hilma af Klint—A Pioneer of Abstraction" at Moderna Museet, in Stockholm. Among the attendees was Kurt Almqvist, a white-haired man in his mid-fifties. Though Almqvist considered himself ...

Nov 13th, 2025 - Wending your way along a curving path surrounded by waving grasses, white tufts of milkweed and green undulating hills, you might stop to watch a honey bee busy gathering pollen from a cone flower. There are few people on the path with you, so you can hear the gentle breeze blowing through goldenrod and sycamore trees. This is a warm-up to receptivity, intentionally designed to slow down each visitor to Potomac, Maryland's Glenstone. Around a bend in the path, when you see white monoliths ...

Nov 13th, 2025 - An exhibition featuring 30 works by the record-breaking UK artist will open in the lagoon city in March 2026 The UK artist Jenny Saville will show previously unseen works in Venice next year, as part of a major exhibition highlighting her links to the famed Italian city. The show at the International Gallery of Modern Art at Ca' Pesaro (28 March-22 November 2026) will feature around 30 works in total, all dating from the last 30 years (Saville plans to show an unseen cycle created in homage to ...

Nov 13th, 2025 - From the Mona Lisa to the American Gothic, these famous paintings don't just grace museum walls; they offer a glimpse into the past and define entire generations. Although most of these masterpieces are centuries old, they continue to fascinate art buffs and collectors alike, with each piece telling a captivating story. Whether they're on display for the whole world to see or hidden behind closed doors, these paintings prove that art has the power to create and sometimes, even change history. ...

Nov 12th, 2025 - Berthe Morisot was at times a leading light to the more established Édouard Manet, who seemingly even filled the gaps in one of her series. But her intimate paintings struggle to compete with his bolder works Total star rating: ★★★½ The works: ★★★★ The show: ★★★ Around halfway into Manet & Morisot at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, the paintings of Édouard Manet (1832-83) and Berthe Morisot (1841-95) begin to ...

Nov 12th, 2025 - Antwaun Sargent , featured on this year's Art Power Index , has built a career dismantling the art world's old hierarchies and rebuilding them around artists. As director at Gagosian , he's been dubbed the "Art Star Maker," though Sargent rejects that label, insisting that success belongs entirely to the artists he champions. His philosophy is deceptively simple: believe in artists and do everything possible to bring their visions to life. That ethos has shaped some of the past decade's most ...

Nov 12th, 2025 - The lion's share of the donated pieces, from the late collectors Carol and Morton Rapp, are prints and photographs The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in Toronto is about to become something of a Pop art showplace thanks to the late collectors Carol and Morton Rapp. And not just Pop art, but a range of Modern practices and movements, thanks to a gift of 474 prints, photographs, sculptures, artist books and more by 203 artists. The Rapps have a long history with the AGO, dating back to 1966. ...

Nov 11th, 2025 - After eight years of renovation and anticipation, the Studio Museum in Harlem—one of the most forward-thinking institutions anchoring both Harlem and the broader New York contemporary art scene—is finally reopening this weekend with a two-day, free-access celebration on Saturday, November 15 and Sunday, November 16. Ahead of the reopening, Observer got a sneak peek, and here's what you can expect. The new Studio Museum in Harlem feels, in its very architecture, like a contemporary ...

Nov 10th, 2025 - MEXICO CITY (AP) — Frida Kahlo's "El sueño (La cama)" — in English, "The Dream (The Bed)" — is causing a stir among art historians as its estimated $40 million to $60 million price tag would make it the most expensive work by any female or Latin American artist when it goes to auction later this month. Sotheby's auction house will put the painting up for sale on Nov. 20 in New York after exhibiting it in London, Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong and Paris. "This is a moment of a lot ...

Oct 18th, 2025 - Morgan Library & Museum, New York Famed impressionist painter's lesser-seen drawings are the focus of a major new exhibition that invites us into the stages of his artistic process is luminous colours and sensual brushwork adorn countless mugs, posters and tote bags as well as blockbuster exhibitions . But the commodification of Pierre-Auguste Renoir and his fellow impressionist painters has been missing something. Renoir was an accomplished draftsman who produced a distinguished but largely ...

May 14th, 2025 - If the prevailing art market mantra in recent months has been that, while buyers may be more selective, true quality will always sell, then what unfolded last night at Sotheby's Modern Evening Auction delivered a sobering counterpoint. The evening's centerpiece— Giacometti's bronze bust of his brother Diego , the only known hand-painted version and a highlight of the 1956 Venice Biennale—was a dramatic pass. Despite being billed as the star lot, Grande tête mince (Grande ...

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 19th, 2025 - His 'Sunflowers' painting does not make the list—and there are other surprises too Van Gogh's pictures only occasionally come onto the market and, not surprisingly, they fetch huge sums. The odd one is sold privately through a dealer, usually very discreetly—but in a typical year less than a handful are publicly auctioned. Here we record the ten most expensive Van Gogh paintings that have sold at auction, all at over $50m. 10.  Fields near Les Alpilles , $52m, 2022 Fields near ...

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 - Our round-up of the latest art publications What Art Can Tell Us About Love , Nick Trend, Laurence King Publishing, 208pp, £18.99 (hb) The UK journalist Nick Trend explores how passion, love and sex has fuelled artists such as Francis Bacon, Sandro Botticelli, Caravaggio and Dora Carrington, analysing how lovers and muses have been caught on canvas over the centuries. Trend says that when the artist is in love with his subject, "everything suddenly becomes more complicated". Famous ...

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 ...