Apr 18th, 2025 - The painting "Baby Boom" was featured in one of the artist's first solo exhibitions at Fun Gallery A stylised family portrait painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat will lead Christie's 21st century evening sale this May, the auction house revealed on Friday. Baby Boom was painted in 1982, considered the most important year of Basquiat's career. Work from 1982 often fetches higher prices: seven of his ten most valuable works at auction were executed during this year, Christie's notes. The auction ...
Apr 18th, 2025 - Vincent's own copy of print which inspired one of his paintings is to be shown in London The British Museum's exhibition on the Japanese master printmaker Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) will include Van Gogh's own copy of a print which he used in a painting in homage. Hiroshige: Artist of the Open Road (1 May-7 September) is to showcase the work of one of the 19th-century's greatest Japanese artists, with over 100 prints (many from the American collector Alan Medaugh). Although Van Gogh plays a ...
Apr 16th, 2025 - We know the contemporary and ultra-contemporary markets are undergoing a significant correction as the pandemic speculative frenzy fades, but the newly released Hiscox Artist Top 100 (HAT 100) shows just how much the contemporary art market has cooled, with auction sales of post-2000 artworks dropping 27 percent year over year—from $956 million in 2023 to $698 million in 2024—down 41 percent from its 2021 peak. As a result, fewer than 45 artists rose in the top 100 rankings, which ...
Apr 16th, 2025 - The gallery will stage an exhibition of the late artist's work in November The New York-based Jack Shainman Gallery revealed Wednesday (16 April) that it will represent the estate of Faith Ringgold, the late American artist whose work engaged with the Civil Rights movement and feminist causes. Jack Shainman is planning an exhibition of Ringgold's work scheduled for November at the gallery's sprawling new space in Tribeca. Ringgold's estate joins an artist roster that includes El Anatsui, Nick ...
Apr 16th, 2025 - The late painter was known for his masterly reinterpretations of famous works but also his own, wide-ranging originals robably the most famous thing that Pablo Picasso never said was: "Good artists copy, great artists steal." The quote, which has been widely misattributed to the Spaniard, as well as TS Eliot and even Steve Jobs, among a long list of famous thinkers, is so popular because it encapsulates a seeming truism about artists: if your influences are ascertainable, you must not be very ...
Apr 14th, 2025 - The objects, including what the museum describes as England's oldest known figurative art work, will head to Bradford for a major exhibition opening this summer More than 70 objects from the British Museum will go on show in an Ice Age exhibition due to launch later this year in Bradford as part of the 2025 UK City of Culture celebrations. The exhibition, entitled Ice Age Art Now, is due to open at Cliffe Castle Museum in Keighley, West Yorkshire on 21 June. The exhibition, a British Museum ...
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 ...
Apr 11th, 2025 - Whether or not you can make it to the blockbuster exhibition on the artist now open at the Palazzo Barberini, here are a selection of his most captivating works to see in the city all year round Caravaggio was born Michelangelo Merisi in 1571 in the small town of Caravaggio, near Milan. He arrived in Rome around 1592, a young artist hungry for success, and spent the next 14 years of his life there. The city's chaos fuelled both his genius and his troubles. His criminal records tell of brawls, ...
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 ...
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 ...
