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. ...
Nov 13th, 2025 - An exhibition featuring 30 works by the record-breaking UK artist will open in the lagoon city in March 2026 The UK artist Jenny Saville will show previously unseen works in Venice next year, as part of a major exhibition highlighting her links to the famed Italian city. The show at the International Gallery of Modern Art at Ca' Pesaro (28 March-22 November 2026) will feature around 30 works in total, all dating from the last 30 years (Saville plans to show an unseen cycle created in homage to ...
Nov 13th, 2025 - Wending your way along a curving path surrounded by waving grasses, white tufts of milkweed and green undulating hills, you might stop to watch a honey bee busy gathering pollen from a cone flower. There are few people on the path with you, so you can hear the gentle breeze blowing through goldenrod and sycamore trees. This is a warm-up to receptivity, intentionally designed to slow down each visitor to Potomac, Maryland's Glenstone. Around a bend in the path, when you see white monoliths ...
Nov 12th, 2025 - Berthe Morisot was at times a leading light to the more established Édouard Manet, who seemingly even filled the gaps in one of her series. But her intimate paintings struggle to compete with his bolder works Total star rating: ★★★½ The works: ★★★★ The show: ★★★ Around halfway into Manet & Morisot at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, the paintings of Édouard Manet (1832-83) and Berthe Morisot (1841-95) begin to ...
Nov 12th, 2025 - History from countries and communities across the globe, including the world's major wars. The stories behind the faiths, food, entertainment and holidays that shape our world. Rachel Chang So much more than a footnote in The Beatles' history, Ono was a barrier-breaking artist and musician long before meeting John Lennon. surrounding The Beatles may have etched Yoko Ono's name into pop culture history, but Ono has long been a barrier-breaking innovator in her own right. John Lennon "the world's ...
Nov 12th, 2025 - Estimates are up by more than 40% over last year's November sales, driven in large part by Sotheby's consignments After two years of muted results, New York's leading auction houses expect to pull in between $1.7bn and $2.3bn during their marquee November sales. A result near or above the high end of that range would support optimistic prognostications last month coming out of Frieze London and Art Basel Paris that the trade is turning a corner after a years-long slump. A significantly lower ...
Nov 12th, 2025 - Antwaun Sargent , featured on this year's Art Power Index , has built a career dismantling the art world's old hierarchies and rebuilding them around artists. As director at Gagosian , he's been dubbed the "Art Star Maker," though Sargent rejects that label, insisting that success belongs entirely to the artists he champions. His philosophy is deceptively simple: believe in artists and do everything possible to bring their visions to life. That ethos has shaped some of the past decade's most ...
Nov 12th, 2025 - The lion's share of the donated pieces, from the late collectors Carol and Morton Rapp, are prints and photographs The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in Toronto is about to become something of a Pop art showplace thanks to the late collectors Carol and Morton Rapp. And not just Pop art, but a range of Modern practices and movements, thanks to a gift of 474 prints, photographs, sculptures, artist books and more by 203 artists. The Rapps have a long history with the AGO, dating back to 1966. ...
Nov 11th, 2025 - After eight years of renovation and anticipation, the Studio Museum in Harlem—one of the most forward-thinking institutions anchoring both Harlem and the broader New York contemporary art scene—is finally reopening this weekend with a two-day, free-access celebration on Saturday, November 15 and Sunday, November 16. Ahead of the reopening, Observer got a sneak peek, and here's what you can expect. The new Studio Museum in Harlem feels, in its very architecture, like a contemporary ...
Nov 10th, 2025 - Picture: artnews.com Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: The Philadelphia Art Museum will be opening a new show next summer dedicated to the reuniting of two flowerflower paintings by Vincent Van Gogh. According to artnews.com: The exhibition, which is set to run from June 6 to October 11, 2026 , will be titled "Van Gogh's Sunflowers: A Symphony in Blue and Yellow". It will feature the PAM's Sunflowers (1889), with its distinct turquoise background, and the artist's original iteration of the subject ...
Nov 10th, 2025 - MEXICO CITY (AP) — Frida Kahlo's "El sueño (La cama)" — in English, "The Dream (The Bed)" — is causing a stir among art historians as its estimated $40 million to $60 million price tag would make it the most expensive work by any female or Latin American artist when it goes to auction later this month. Sotheby's auction house will put the painting up for sale on Nov. 20 in New York after exhibiting it in London, Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong and Paris. "This is a moment of a lot ...
Nov 9th, 2025 - Learn where to have an unforgettable art experience. At first glance, "Self-Portrait, Wearing a Flat Cap" looks to be a pencil or charcoal drawing, impressive in its own right. Peering through a magnifying glass, however, reveals fine details in the small print measuring about two inches by three inches, or about three times the size of a postage stamp. Looking even longer, it looks almost 3-D, those details seemingly jumping off the paper. To realize the print is a result of an etching ...
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 ...
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 ...
