Aug 26th, 2025 - "Raphael: Sublime Poetry" is being curated by Carmen Bambach, who organised the Met's hugely popular Michelangelo exhibition in 2017-18 Next spring, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will open the Americas' largest ever exhibition devoted to the Renaissance master Raphael (1483-1520), bringing together more than 200 paintings, drawings, decorative art objects and tapestries. Raphael: Sublime Poetry (29 March-28 June) is being curated by Carmen Bambach, a specialist in Renaissance ...
Aug 25th, 2025 - Highlights from the collection of the Hispanic Society Museum and Library in New York collection travel to the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin These days the state of Texas can seem as American as apple pie, as the expression goes. But a longer view reveals nearly 150 years of Spanish and then Mexican control, finally ending in the 1830s when a brief period of Texan independence culminated with US statehood in 1845. Therefore, it seems logical that New York City's Hispanic Society Museum and ...
Aug 20th, 2025 - On the occasion of his donating 180 artworks to the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, the gallerist reflects on the success of his formula: local commitment, global impact and a focus on identity. Since entering the gallery business 25 years ago, Kamel Mennour has focused his efforts on his hometown and become one of the key players in reasserting Paris's relevance in the contemporary art world at a time when many French dealers were losing ground to London and New York. He recently ...
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 ...
Jan 20th, 2025 - Exclusive: William Blake-inspired artwork to feature alongside new paintings in artist's biggest exhibition A previously unseen painting by David Hockney has been revealed for the first time before its unveiling in the biggest exhibition to be devoted to one of Britain's foremost living artists. Titled After Blake: Less is Known than People Think, the work will be among hundreds of previously unknown Hockneys that are to be displayed alongside his famous masterpieces at the Fondation Louis ...
