Dec 9th, 2025 - Stained-glass works by the French artist Claire Tabouret will replace the original windows, which suffered no damage in the fire that destroyed the cathedral's spire The designs for six new stained-glass windows for the cathedral of Notre Dame will go on show from tomorrow at the Grand Palais in Paris, despite a number of protests against the project. The works by the French artist Claire Tabouret will replace monochrome windows commissioned by the architects Eugène Viollet-le-Duc and ...
Dec 8th, 2025 - Sotheby's reported unprecedented attendance last month for its record-shattering $1.173 billion marquee week sales —with queues circling the block from the moment its new Breuer Building headquarters opened on November 8 and more than 25,000 visitors passing through in just over a week. The auction house has, it seems, secured a new level of widespread popularity, drawing audiences beyond the usual art-world crowd Now, " Icons: Back to Madison " is bringing together some of the most ...
Dec 4th, 2025 - Following a multi-million-dollar marquee auction week and e arly sales at Untitled and NADA Miami —both making a case for cautious optimism—all eyes were on Art Basel 's VIP opening on December 3. Despite the early line at the oceanside entrance, the atmosphere by 11 a.m. was noticeably more subdued and the crowd less international than the one at the opening of Art Basel Paris just two months earlier. Still, as the only Art Basel in the Americas, the fair continues to draw some 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 ...
