Jan 22nd, 2026 - By now, we all know the too-common story of women artists overshadowed by their male partners: Leonora Carrington and Dorothea Tanning by Max Ernst , Jo Hopper by Edward Hopper , Sophie Taeuber-Arp by Jean Arp , Dora Maar and Françoise Gilot by Picasso , Camille Claudel by Rodin—the list goes on. Added to this lineage is Gabriele Münter (1877-1962), long framed in relation to Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944). She has now, finally, been given her due in an exhibition at the ...
Jan 22nd, 2026 - What If AI Didn't Replace Us – But Made Us More Human? Untitled by Andrea Bonaceto Studio Has the Answer Studio announced the debut of Untitled, a living artwork unveiled in Hong Kong that merges human expression with advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) to form an ever-evolving portrait of our shared inner world. Commissioned by Hong Kong Design Centre, funded by the Cultural and Creative Industries Development Agency, and exhibited at DX Design Hub as ...
Jan 21st, 2026 - Archaeologists say stencil painted with ochre in limestone cave on Muna Island was created at least 67,800 years ago The faded outline of a hand on a cave wall in Indonesia may be the world's oldest known rock art, according to archaeologists who say it was created at least 67,800 years ago. The ancient hand stencil was discovered in a limestone cave popular with tourists on Muna Island, part of south-eastern Sulawesi, where it had gone unnoticed between more recent paintings of animals and ...
Jan 20th, 2026 - The exhibition will explore the late Mexican artist's impact on women artists across Mexico, the Americas and Europe The curators of the forthcoming blockbuster Frida Kahlo show at Tate Modern have revealed more details about the exhibition, highlighting the late Mexican artist's "impact on women artists across Mexico, the Americas and Europe from 1970 to today". Frida: the Making of an Icon (25 June-3 January 2027) also includes highly personal works reflecting her suffering ...
Jan 16th, 2026 - Gagosian will bring the Ghanaian artist to Venice's Palazzo Grimani in May The Ghanaian artist Amoako Boafo will present new and recent works at the Museo di Palazzo Grimani in Venice this spring in his first solo show in Italy. The show will be co-organised by Gagosian Gallery which represents the artist, and coincide with the 61st Venice Biennale (9 May-22 November). A museum statement says: "Drawing inspiration from the Renaissance atmosphere of Palazzo Grimani, Boafo turns his gaze to the ...
Jan 16th, 2026 - One of the most important Latin American artists of the 20th century, she influenced the direction of post-war painting and helped shape Colombia's museums as a curator, educator and mentor "I don't want to be Botero or only a lady who paints," Beatriz González said in the early 1960s, a statement she would later revisit. It captures the path forged by the Colombian artist, writer, curator, educator and intellectual—known as la maestra —who died in Bogotá on January 9 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
