Oct 27th, 2025 - The momentum in Paris generated last week by Art Basel—and the strong sales and dynamic activity across all the fairs—culminated in the Paris evening auctions, where results exceeded estimates and expectations at both Christie's and Sotheby's. Buyers who seemed hesitant in the days leading up to the art weeks regained confidence after seeing the positive results in London. "They called back, asking for guarantees or pre-auction bids," Alessandro Diotallevi told Observer ahead of the ...

Oct 25th, 2025 - German police said they broke up a painting forgery ring that allegedly asked millions for canvases they claimed were by masters including Pablo Picasso and Rembrandt, including a painting that had hung in Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum for decades. Police last week arrested and then conditionally released the alleged ringleader, a 77-year-old from southwestern Germany, they said on Friday. He and 10 accomplices face charges of organized conspiracy to commit fraud with forged artworks . In ...

Oct 24th, 2025 - Works by the six international artists shortlisted for the UK's biggest contemporary art prize can be seen at five venues, including the National Museum Cardiff The six international artists shortlisted for the UK's biggest contemporary art prize open exhibitions in venues across Wales today. Themes of home, belonging, displacement and community come to the fore in the 11th edition of Artes Mundi, which invites artists to address the human condition in their bid for the £40,000 prize. The ...

Oct 24th, 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. The last decade has seen curators and collectors seek to expand the canon as they find artists who had been, for whatever reason, overlooked in their time but add valuable, complicated texture to the narratives of art history. One of my favorite recent rediscoveries was the conceptual artist Pippa Gardner , who ...

Oct 22nd, 2025 - Picture: Beaux-Arts de Paris Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: The Cabinet d'arts graphiques at the Beaux-Arts de Paris opened a new exhibition of drawings and prints yesterday dedicated to the work of Rosso Fiorentino and Primaticcio at Fontainebleau. According to the exhibition's blurb: Through a selection of some 50 works, this exhibition highlights the exceptional collection of drawings and prints by École de Fontainebleau held by Beaux-Arts de Paris. It provides an opportunity ...

Oct 22nd, 2025 - His art criticism reaches rarified heights—combining style, rigor, and politics like almost no one else. Bluesky Let's return to April 2008—a date most would ignore but that, in retrospect, was consequential in the field of art criticism. That's when T.J. Clark began publishing exhibition reviews in the London Review of Books . The first one was on simultaneous exhibitions of Poussin and Courbet at the Metropolitan Museum in New York—an occasion on which, he wrote, "the whole ...

Oct 22nd, 2025 - ST. PETERSBURG — "In Caravaggio's Light: Baroque Masterpieces from the Fondazione Roberto Longhi," a landmark exhibition, will open on Saturday, Oct. 25, at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, 255 Beach Drive NE, St. Petersburg. The exhibition will continue through March 22. Featuring some 40 masterpieces from one of the world's most revered private collections of 17th-century painting, the exhibition offers a rare opportunity for American audiences to experience the revolutionary ...

Oct 20th, 2025 - The dealer is showing a depiction of the Christian holy family at his fair booth, three decades after he hosted a show on the Old Master in New York Thirty years ago, Larry Gagosian mounted an exhibition of oil paintings and sketches by Peter Paul Rubens in his New York gallery—an unprecedented move for a commercial contemporary art enterprise. Back then, the mega dealer saw parallels between the Baroque artist and Robert Rauschenberg as well as Andy Warhol, whose portraits of movie icons ...

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 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 ...