Mar 5th, 2026 - After the ebullient multi-billion-dollar New York auctions in November , all eyes turned to London this week to gauge what the market might do amid rising global tensions now erupting into open conflict. Since the beginning of the year, the news cycle has offered little respite, and the auction week headlines have hardly been reassuring. Just days before the sales, the United States and Israel struck Iran, prompting retaliatory attacks across the Gulf, the killing of Supreme Leader Khamenei and ...

Mar 5th, 2026 - Through innovative techniques and bold experimentation with scale, color and material, the visionary artists in this traveling exhibition pushed Abstract Expressionism in new and often unexpected directions. You can't go to New York's storied Cedar Bar anymore, famed for its 15-cent beers and the birth of a new American style of painting. It closed years ago. But visitors to the American Federation of Arts' traveling exhibition "Abstract Expressionists: The Women" can see Grace Hartigan 's 1951 ...

Mar 2nd, 2026 - The Dutch museum has undertaken a two-year study of the 17th-century work "Vision of Zacharias in the Temple" An early biblical painting by Rembrandt van Rijn that was long thought to have been lost has been rediscovered by the Rijksmuseum, according to an announcement today (2 March). Vision of Zacharias in the Temple (1633)—which depicts the story of the high priest Zacharias being told by the angel Gabriel that he and his aged wife will have a son, John the Baptist—has re-emerged ...

Feb 27th, 2026 - The Dutchman was "struck" by Seurat's pointillist technique - and it influenced his own work The five-star Georges Seurat exhibition at London's Courtauld Gallery offers an unusual opportunity to experience the pioneer work of the Neo-Impressionist artist who influenced Van Gogh in Paris. In the 1880s Seurat was the leader of the avant-garde group of painters who used pointillist dots of pure colour to create their pictures. The eye blends Seurat's colours harmoniously, giving his paintings a ...

Feb 12th, 2026 - From Yoko Ono to Frida Kahlo, from Louise Bourgeois to Artemisia Gentileschi, women have long been capturing the unvarnished truth about their own bodies – and that's why my novel Female, Nude weaves them into the plot f you want to paint, put your clothes back on!" That was how Carolee Schneemann summarised the critical response to her 1975 performance piece Interior Scroll, which she had performed nude standing on a gallery table. After making a series of life model poses, she removed a ...

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 ...