Sep 19th, 2024 - The sale's most valuable lot, a water lily painting by Claude Monet, is expected to sell in the region of $60m The art collection assembled by a Palm Beach powerhouse of the beauty industry is estimated by Sotheby's to fetch a total in the region of $200m during sales this autumn, the auction house announced Thursday (19 September). The collection belonged to Sydell Miller, who was called a "Self-Made Eyelash and Hair Care Mogul" in her New York Times obituary following her death in February, ...
Sep 18th, 2024 - While Georgia O'Keeffe is best known for her intimate floral paintings and vibrant depictions of Southwestern landscapes, a new exhibition is celebrating a lesser-known subject close to the artist's heart: New York City. Titled " My New Yorks ," the show features roughly 100 items—including paintings, photographs, pastels, drawings and letters—and examines how the city shaped O'Keeffe's artistic career. Currently on view at the Art Institute of Chicago , it will move to Atlanta's ...
Sep 18th, 2024 - Picture: deeds.news Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: The Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich have acquired Pablo Picasso's Femme au violon . Painted in 1911, the work is celebrated as being created at the pinacle of the artist's cubist period. The work has been on loan to various institutions in Germany before an effort was made, with the assistance of various funds, to acquire it. Here's the painting's full provenance, as supplied by the press article linked above: Provenance of the painting : ...
Sep 18th, 2024 - When avid art collectors and entrepreneurs Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson decided they wanted to share their art collection with the world, they didn't open a private museum or gallery. Instead, they opened a hotel. Their 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky became one of the first boutique hotels in the U.S. to merge contemporary art with hospitality, showcasing the couple's world-class collection with thoughtful, rotating exhibitions of works by some of the most influential artists of ...
Sep 18th, 2024 - To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines ART LOANED AND LOST . In July, Tehran 's Imam Ali Religious Arts Museum loaned 30 paintings for an exhibition that never materialized, and the paintings have since disappeared, according to Iran International . A member of Tehran's City Council announced on Sunday that the paintings were loaned without official documentation, despite some works ...
Sep 17th, 2024 - The Paris museum should forget about the hugely costly move of the Leonardo painting and focus instead on the myriad other masterpieces in its collection "An intractable problem" is how Martin Kemp, the leading Leonardo specialist, described the Mona Lisa 's fate: besieged by crowds held at a distance at once necessary yet helpful neither to the picture nor its would-be viewers, let alone the other, ignored, masterpieces around it. Musée du Louvre has long known it has a problem in the ...
Sep 17th, 2024 - Turbulence abounds in nature, from the spinning whorls of hurricanes to the brilliant swirls of Jupiter's immense storms. Astronomers have even observed it where stars are born in the vast maelstrom of molecular clouds. But much as scientists have tried, no single theory has ever captured the full scale and unpredictability of turbulence. Nobel laureate Richard Feynman once called it "the most important unsolved problem of classical physics." Yet, a study released today in shows that the artist ...
Sep 16th, 2024 - Les Lalanne , one of the most dynamic and inspiring art couples of the 20th Century, earned admiration from Surrealists and celebrities alike. Though often linked to the Surrealist movement, they rejected formal associations, creating a distinct artistic language that blended fine and decorative arts. Their work, largely inspired by naturalistic forms with sophisticated nods to classical literature, has garnered intense market attention in recent years, fetching record-breaking prices at ...
Sep 13th, 2024 - Fresh off New York's September art fair blitz and Seoul Art Week , art industry insiders are gearing up for London and Paris. Thankfully, this year's Art Basel in the French capital has a simpler name—Art Basel Paris—after two years of trying to figure out exactly how to say "Paris+ par Art Basel" in conversation, sparing artsy globetrotters from pronunciation corrections proffered by irritated French art professionals. The Art Basel Paris organizers have just revealed more details ...
Sep 13th, 2024 - The Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden will explore the connection between artists Jean-Michel Basquiat and Banksy in a new exhibition opening later this month. Titled " Basquiat x Banksy ," the year-long show will feature two related paintings by the boundary-breaking artists: Basquiat's Boy and Dog in a Johnnypump and Banksy's Banksquiat. Boy and Dog in Stop and Search . It's the first time works created by either artist will be shown at the museum in Washington, D.C. ...
Sep 13th, 2024 - Art Review A New Perspective on Van Gogh's Final Flowering A major exhibition in London focuses on the painter's final years, finding new feelings in some of his most famous works. Listen to this article · 5:42 min The two vivid portraits — the poet and the lover — hang together in the first room of the exhibition, as they did above van Gogh's bed in the so-called Yellow House in a working-class neighborhood of Arles, France. It was there, roughly two years before his death ...
Sep 13th, 2024 - A tour of the National Gallery's landmark exhibition with our Van Gogh expert Martin Bailey, plus a new book on zoning in on the Impressionists' "Terrible Year" and a highlight from Museum Folkwang's hair-themed show This week: the Van Gogh blockbuster in London, a new book on the birth of Impressionism, and Juan Pablo Echeverri's performative self-portraits. As the exhibition Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers opens at the National Gallery in London as part of its bicentenary celebrations, The Art ...
Sep 13th, 2024 - Fall Arts Guide "Manet: A Model Family," opening at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on Oct. 10, arrives in the year that marks the 150th anniversary of the first-ever Impressionist exhibition , held in Paris in 1874. It was an art movement Manet surely helped to catalyze, though he kept a safe distance from it. Diana Seave Greenwald , the curator of the collection at the Gardner, said the show's timing is complete happenstance, which might reflect a broader shift. Focused on Édouard ...
Sep 13th, 2024 - Richard Pettibone , a painter whose enigmatic work involved copying famed contemporary artworks and then exhibiting these smaller-scale lookalikes, died on August 19 at 86. A representative for New York's Castelli Gallery, which has shown Pettibone since 1969, said he died following a fall. During the 1960s, well before the heyday of appropriation art two decades later, Pettibone began making replicas of paintings by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Frank Stella, and others. Unlike Sturtevant, ...
Sep 12th, 2024 - It's the first time either artist's work will be on view at the D.C. museum. . A display of a pair of related works by the two artists will go on view later this month, kicking off a year-long exhibition of the two paintings. , pointing out on Instagram the irony of Basquiat showing at "a place that is normally very keen to clean any graffiti from its walls." (The exhibition ultimately drew 216,389 visitors, the most the museum had seen for a single show in 35 years.) The Barbican opted to ...
Sep 12th, 2024 - Inspired by a 1933 painting by Balthus generously loaned by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, celebrated artist Peter Doig has curated what promises to be an epic exhibition opening on November 1 at Gagosian in New York. The show will explore urban life, labor and architecture, interpreted by artists like Francis Bacon , Max Beckmann , Vija Celmins , Prunella Clough , Giorgio De Chirico , Denzil Forrester , Jean Hélion, Mark Rothko and Martin Wong . New works by Doig himself will ...
Aug 6th, 2024 - There used to be a roll call or "canon" — a list of names every budding student of postwar art was supposed to learn and remember. All the names were male. They all worked in America. The list existed to demonstrate how abstract expressionism led into pop art, minimalism and conceptualism, the four most significant movements between the end of World War II and the 1970s. So the roll call began with abstract expressionists: Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko . It moved on ...
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 ...
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 ...
