Oct 3rd, 2025 - The gallery, opened in its current iteration in 1993, will be replaced by the new venture, Anna Schwartz Projects A beacon of Australia's contemporary art world, the Anna Schwartz Gallery in Melbourne, will close this December after four decades in business, the gallery announced this week. It will be replaced next year by a new entity, Anna Schwartz Projects. Schwartz's stable of artists has included Shaun Gladwell, Angelica Mesiti and Marco Fusinato, who represented Australia at the Venice ...
Oct 3rd, 2025 - Alexander Morrison visits the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, while Ben Luke meets curators from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, and the Museum Ludwig in Cologne A new exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, UK, called Made in Ancient Egypt , reveals untold stories of the people behind a host of remarkable objects, and the technology and techniques they used. The Art Newspaper 's digital editor, Alexander Morrison, visits the museum to take a tour with the curator, Helen ...
Oct 2nd, 2025 - Welcome to One Fine Show , where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum not in New York City, a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention. It's impossible to separate the work of Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) from his relationship with King Philip IV. Philip wrote letters of introduction so that Velázquez could go to study painting in Italy, which had no small part in developing his sense of color, composition and melodrama. The ...
Oct 1st, 2025 - Suzanne Jackson was 75 when she had her first solo show in New York at Ortuzar gallery in 2019. It proved to be a watershed moment for the Saint Louis, Missouri-born, Savannah, Georgia-based artist, whose experimental œuvre began in the 1960s with ethereal watercolor-esque figurative paintings referencing the natural world around her. More recently her work has transported acrylic paint from the walls to the air in captivating constellations that incorporate found materials, such as nets, ...
Sep 29th, 2025 - A fascinating new, jargon-free art history book that reveals the stories behind 30 of the world's most iconic paintings and sculptures. Joanne Shurvell writes about travel, food, culture and fashion. "The best introduction to the lifelong pleasure and rewards of looking at pictures since Gombrich. An instant classic." Stephen Fry Hot off the press, the eagerly anticipated Great Art Explained , by British art curator and writer James Payne, is based on the popular YouTube channel of the same ...
Sep 29th, 2025 - Led by the highly anticipated Picasso painting Buste de femme (1944), Christie's 20th/21st Century Evening Sale on Friday, September 26, in Hong Kong closed just shy of a white-glove result with an HK$565,649,000 ($73,038,183) total, giving a strong start to the season for the fall marquee evening sales, now beginning in Asia before moving to London and New York. Just days earlier, Hong Kong had been plunged into darkness by Typhoon Ragasa, one of the most powerful storms to hit the city in ...
Sep 29th, 2025 - A new exhibition at the Pompidou Metz features audacious versions of ancient and Renaissance masterpieces by artists such as Jeff Koons, Michaël Borremans, and Julie Mehretu. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. At the Paris Salon of 1796, Hubert Robert exhibited two views of the Louvre. One painting presented his vision for a Grande Galerie filled with statues and paintings naturally illuminated under enormous glass skylights. The second showed the same ...
May 14th, 2025 - If the prevailing art market mantra in recent months has been that, while buyers may be more selective, true quality will always sell, then what unfolded last night at Sotheby's Modern Evening Auction delivered a sobering counterpoint. The evening's centerpiece— Giacometti's bronze bust of his brother Diego , the only known hand-painted version and a highlight of the 1956 Venice Biennale—was a dramatic pass. Despite being billed as the star lot, Grande tête mince (Grande ...
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 ...
Mar 14th, 2025 - Much attention has been paid recently to the life of the Italian Baroque master, Artemisia Gentileschi —specifically, her rape, her torture with thumb screws while testifying during the trial of her attacker and her representations of muscular women inflicting bodily damage on men . She's been the subject of novels, films, Broadway plays and operas, but no attention would be paid to her at all if she were not an artist of exquisite skill, bold vision and striking originality who painted ...
Mar 11th, 2025 - France's landscapes and cityscapes provided the perfect backdrop for the revolutionary Impressionist movement. These artists captured fleeting moments of light, color, and atmosphere, forever immortalizing locations that you can still visit today. From Monet's enchanting gardens to Renoir's lively riverside haunts, these places that inspired Impressionist artists offer a chance to step into the paintings that changed the course of art history. 1. Monet's House and Gardens in Giverny Claude ...
