Apr 16th, 2026 - Raised in Blainville-Crevon, a small town in northwestern France, he began drawing and painting at a young age. After moving to Paris in 1904, he began producing satirical cartoons for humor magazines, developing a visual language that combined image and text—already hinting at his lifelong fascination with puns and verbal play, as well as a semiotic attention to the functioning of social conventions, from language to behavior. These early drawings sit somewhere between the raw realism of ...
Apr 15th, 2026 - A vast concrete beauty that has been 20 years in the making is opening on 19 April, aiming to serve the local community and provide a welcoming focal point for the Los Angeles area The eastward-facing windows at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's new David Geffen Galleries look out over the La Brea Tar Pits. This active palaeontological site has preserved prehistoric fossils across the last 50,000 years. In a city long linked to sleek cars, Hollywood special effects and science ...
Apr 15th, 2026 - Looking to liven up your Spring bookshelf? We've selected some of the best new book releases in the art world. Frida Kahlo Casa Roja Casa Azul Guillermo Diego Rivera The best of Artnet News in your inbox. Sign up for our daily newsletter. Mara de Anda Frida Hentschel, Mara Romeo Kahlo Museo Casa Kahlo As a book, "Casa Kahlo" brings Casa Roja to the world, presenting hundreds of Kahlo's personal effects, plus some never-published letters. There are artworks like the painting she first showed ...
Apr 14th, 2026 - Six volumes include 100 newly authenticated works—but 15 previously attributed to the artist are removed After almost 30 years, several legal battles and a few death threats , Marc Restellini's catalogue raisonné of Amedeo Modigliani's oil paintings is finally published today (14 April) by the art historian and curator's Institut Restellini, distributed by Yale University Press. At six hefty volumes—and a £2,000 price tag—the catalogue took seven people three ...
Apr 13th, 2026 - English composer is busy working on a production inspired by one of the most audacious thefts in art history Musicals supremo Andrew Lloyd Webber is shifting his focus to the most famous painting in the world—Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa housed at the Louvre. Lloyd Webber is known for blockbuster musical hits such as Jesus Christ Superstar , Cats and Phantom of the Opera . But now his interest is piqued by one of the most audacious heists in art history which took place in ...
Apr 10th, 2026 - Swedish artist, now regarded as predecessor to Kandinsky and Mondrian, died thinking world was not ready for her work The Swedish artist Hilma af Klint died believing the world was not ready for the mystical paintings that would shock the art world half a century later. The painter, now credited with pioneering the abstract art movement , did not seek recognition after peers rejected her avant garde works. Instead, she ordered that they be hidden for 20 years after her death and never sold. Now ...
Apr 10th, 2026 - The Kröller-Müller Museum is displaying a forged seascape bought by its founder Museums normally hide any fakes deep in their vaults, but the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo has just put their false Van Gogh, Seascape at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer (1925-27), on display. This intriguing presentation, on until 21 June, coincides with a Dutch-language podcast recounting how its museum founder Helene Kröller-Müller acquired what turned out to be a forgery. ...
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 ...
