Apr 30th, 2026 - George Lucas is curating 18 thematic exhibitions that will fill 100,000 sq. ft of the $1bn museum he and his wife Mellody Hobson are building in Los Angeles When the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art finally opens in Los Angeles on 22 September , visitors will be treated to a suite of 18 thematic exhibitions curated by George Lucas, the Star Wars film-maker who founded the museum with his wife Mellody Hobson. The inaugural lineup of shows, revealed by the museum on Thursday (30 April), offers a ...
Apr 28th, 2026 - Culture The Avant-Garde Path to God A new book explores how contemporary art can offer glimpses of the divine. Heritage Images / Getty April 28, 2026, 11:39 AM ET Save Listen − 1.0x + Seek 0:00 7:47 Early in his 2009 BBC documentary, Why Beauty Matters , the late conservative philosopher Roger Scruton described seeing Michelangelo's Pietà for the first time. Gazing on the 15th-century sculpture, which depicts Mary holding Christ after the crucifixion, was a "transporting ...
Apr 27th, 2026 - The exhibition at the National Gallery will also include newly discovered works The Spanish painter Francisco de Zurbarán (1598-1664) is best known for his austere, contemplative paintings of saints. But a new exhibition at the National Gallery in London will show that the 17th-century artist's range extended much further than is commonly thought. As well as his signature portraits of saints in shadowy cloaks, the show will include intimate still-lifes, which best express his spare ...
Apr 24th, 2026 - Two exhibitions open in Auvers-sur-Oise, the last stop on the artist's journey An exhibition focussing on Van Gogh and his influence opened this week at the Château of Auvers-sur-Oise, the village 30 kilometres north west of Paris where the artist spent his last 70 days. With nearly a hundred works by a wide range of artists, the show traces the painter's impact on his followers. While original paintings by Van Gogh himself do not feature, it provides a fascinating insight into his art. ...
Apr 23rd, 2026 - Heralded as the most valuable single-owner design sale in Sotheby's history , the collection of Jean and Terry de Gunzburg lived up to expectations. The April 22 Collection of Jean & Terry de Gunzburg – Design Masters sale at the auction house's Breuer headquarters closed white glove with a total of $96 million across 107 lots against an initial estimate of $28.5-42.5 million to become the most valuable design collection ever sold in the U.S. With 94 percent of lots selling above their ...
Mar 16th, 2026 - At TEFAF Maastricht, the market moves differently. The atmosphere often feels closer to that of a museum than to a typical art fair—quiet, reverential, and contemplative. Months before the opening, museum curators often have already studied catalogs and preview lists to identify the objects they want to examine in person. Walking the aisles with patrons and board members, they stop in front of the targeted works, discussing their quality and fit and quietly building the case for ...
Mar 6th, 2026 - Picture: Agnew's Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: This is the exciting time of year when dealers begin revealing their top pictures for the upcoming art fair TEFAF (The European Fine Art Foundation) in Maastricht. News from Agnew's today that they'll be bringing the De Ganay Salvator Mundi , given to the Studio of Leonardo Da Vinci, which according to their press release has 'been considered the best of the versions known, and by some to be the prototype [of the famous 2017 Christie's picture].' ...
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 27th, 2025 - The momentum in Paris generated last week by Art Basel—and the strong sales and dynamic activity across all the fairs—culminated in the Paris evening auctions, where results exceeded estimates and expectations at both Christie's and Sotheby's. Buyers who seemed hesitant in the days leading up to the art weeks regained confidence after seeing the positive results in London. "They called back, asking for guarantees or pre-auction bids," Alessandro Diotallevi told Observer ahead of the ...
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 ...
Sep 16th, 2025 - With Sotheby's landing the $400 million Leonard A. Lauder Collection and the Pritzkers' modern masterpieces, and Christie's securing the Weis and Wynn estates, November's sales may yet rescue the slumping auction market. It has become clearer in these past few years that the real battle between auction houses isn't about results but in the race for consignments. Yesterday, Sotheby's landed a knockout: the $400 million Leonard A. Lauder Collection , set to hit the rostrum during November's New ...
Aug 4th, 2025 - Works by Cézanne, Manet, Degas, Van Gogh and others from the Pearlman Foundation are headed to the Brooklyn Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and New York's Museum of Modern Art The Brooklyn Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma) and Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York will receive a collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and modern works belonging to the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation. The foundation revealed today (4 August) that its holdings will be ...
