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 ...
Oct 13th, 2025 - The fair continues to support emerging spaces and spotlight West African and Brazilian artists this year October marks the 22nd edition of Frieze London, the fair powerhouse's flagship event. Last year, organisers debuted a new floor plan that positioned emerging galleries near the main entrance and pushed blue-chip heavyweights like Gagosian, David Zwirner, Hauser & Wirth, Pace and White Cube further inside. At most commercial art fairs, top-tier galleries can pay a premium for entrance ...
Oct 13th, 2025 - But the museum is not promoting the show that way—and might not even have registered its record-breaking size Ruth Asawa was what gamers like to call a world builder. Over the course of six decades, mainly from her small home in San Francisco, she transformed wire and other simple materials into an entire universe of fruiting forms and branching shapes. And nowhere is her persistence and range of vision more apparent than the ambitious retrospective that opens at the Museum of Modern Art ...
Oct 10th, 2025 - A big part of New York's fall art-auction season is shaping up to be a face-off between Sotheby's and Christie's sales of artworks from high-flying collections assembled by two high-profile Chicago couples. "It really speaks to Chicago being a great center as a collecting community, because of the great institutions that are there, the great galleries," said Sara Friedlander, Christie's deputy chairman of post-war and contemporary art. "It's very exciting." Sotheby's New York kicked off the ...
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 ...
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 ...
