Dec 3rd, 2025 - Tate Modern's " Nigerian Modernism " aims to disrupt the way we think of art history—not only in Africa but globally. Featuring 59 artists working over a period of 50 years, the 300 artworks in the show "open up and complicate what Nigerian identity is," according to curator Osei Bonsu . He describes the exhibition as "cultural restoration in real time" because Nigerian Modernism was "relegated to a footnote in Modernism." The show corrects that oversight. Nigeria was a British colony ...
Dec 2nd, 2025 - The security expert Anthony Amore provides insights into the curious case of Myles Connor, who stole Rembrandt's Portrait of Elsbeth van Rijn Art heists always capture the imagination—just ask officials at the Musée du Louvre —and the theft of a Rembrandt in 1975 was no exception. On 14 April 1975, Myles Connor entered the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston in disguise along with an accomplice. The pair went directly to the Dutch Gallery and proceeded to remove Rembrandt's ...
Dec 1st, 2025 - A long-lost painting by Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens , which was hidden for more than four centuries, sold for $2.7 million at an auction Sunday in Versailles. The painting was recently found in a private townhouse in Paris. It depicts the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. It was part of a French collection and was initially thought to be from one of the many Rubens workshops that existed at the time. The artwork was rarely valued at more than $11,500. "I immediately had a hunch about this ...
Dec 1st, 2025 - Show at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt also demonstrates how the German artist's practice was altered radically by his experiences during the First World War The paintings of the German artist Max Beckmann are easy to recognise but hard to categorise. Often mislabelled as an Expressionist or else vaunted—to his chagrin—as a leading figure of the Weimar era's New Objectivity movement, Beckmann (1884-1950) was a singular, wilful figure, with a sharp but ethereal palette ...
Dec 1st, 2025 - The mythology of sleep has been intrinsic to human narratives as early as biblical times: Adam was asleep during Eve's creation, Noah was disabled by catatonic drunkenness, Job suffered from insomnia during a crisis of faith, the apostles dozed in the Garden of Olives. These episodes are all referenced in the exhibition "L'Empire du Sommeil" (or "The Empire of Sleep"), on view at Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris through March 1, 2026. The show spotlights sleep as a respite throughout all ...
Nov 26th, 2025 - Just an hour's train ride from New York, Philadelphia is an ideal day trip, blending art, culture and food in a refreshing escape. Despite recent turmoil in the city's art scene—including the firing of the Philadelphia Art Museum's CEO and director Sasha Suda and the closure of UArts due to financial difficulties—Philadelphia remains rich in cultural offerings. This season, three unmissable exhibitions make the short trip worthwhile, offering the chance to dive into the depths of ...
Nov 20th, 2025 - A self-portrait by legendary Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold for $54.66 million in New York on Thursday, setting a new record for the price of a painting by a woman, the auction house Sotheby's said. The sale of Kahlo's 1940 artwork, titled "El sueno (la cama)" — which translates to "The dream (The bed)" — breaks the previous record in this category, set by American artist Georgia O'Keeffe, whose 1932 painting "Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1," sold for $44.4 million in 2014. Kahlo's ...
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. ...
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 6th, 2025 - If the new show at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, " Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits ," were only what the title indicated — an exhibit of the paintings and drawings Van Gogh did in Arles in the last two years of his life of his friend, the postman Joseph Roulin, and his family — it would be a significant event. It would be the first show ever devoted to these intimate portraits, and would tell us some new things about an artist we all think we know through his most popular ...
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 ...
