Oct 15th, 2025 - The show's 300 works reveal how the country's artists celebrated their culture and challenged colonialism When in 2018 Ben Enwonwu's 1974 portrait of the Ife princess Adetutu Ademiluyi, Tutu , sold at Bonham's for £1.2m (four times its upper estimate), the author Ben Okri noted that "modern African artists are entirely absent from the story of art". It was an oversight, he wrote, that urgently needed rectification. Okri was not being alarmist. Enwonwu's previous auction record of ...
Oct 15th, 2025 - The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) recently announced a major gift of more than 130 works of Austrian Expressionism from the family of Otto Kallir , the visionary art dealer and historian who played a crucial role in bringing Austrian and modern European art to international prominence. Kallir founded the legendary Galerie St. Etienne in Vienna in 1923 and, after fleeing Nazi persecution, reestablished it in New York in 1939. One of the first galleries championing Austrian modernism, ...
Oct 14th, 2025 - At the Courtauld Gallery, the artist's pastel-coloured works are clearly shown to be still lifes with bite The American painter Wayne Thiebaud's (1920-2021) mouthwatering depictions of glossily iced cakes, slices of cherry pie and deli counters arranged just so, present a thoroughly American reimagining of the traditional genre of still-life. The works came to public attention in the early 1960s, just as Pop art hit the US with what the critic Harold Rosenberg described as "the force of an ...
Oct 14th, 2025 - Video: Brooklyn Museum Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: The Brooklyn Museum have just opened a new exhibition on Monet and Venice . According to the museum's website: New York's largest museum show dedicated to Monet in over 25 years, the exhibition features more than 100 artworks, books, and ephemera. Two masterpieces, the Brooklyn Museum's own Palazzo Ducale and The Grand Canal, Venice from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, are presented alongside selections from throughout Monet's ...
Oct 13th, 2025 - The gallery's launch exhibition, due to open later this month, will feature over 600 works by more than 100 artists The Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, one of Europe's most high-profile private sector cultural organisations, will lay bare its vast collection at the opening of its highly anticipated new Paris gallery later this month. Over 600 works by more than 100 artists will go on show in the inaugural exhibition at the new space located at the Place du Palais-Royal, opposite the ...
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 ...
