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 - The Parisian museum has recently made headlines for all the wrong reasons—so now is a good time to remember its greatness Superlatives trip off the tongue when discussing Paris' Musée du Louvre. With some 18 acres of gallery space and more than eight miles of corridors it is the world's largest museum, not to mention the most visited, with annual attendance now approaching nine million . And it is unquestionably the most important cultural heritage site in France, which was the ...

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 10th, 2025 - Nine new works by the South African-born artist were unveiled at the Paris museum last Thursday Marlene Dumas has become the first contemporary woman artist to join the Louvre's permanent collection after nine new works by the South African-born artist were unveiled at the Paris museum last Thursday. The site-specific paintings are now on permanent display in the Porte des Lions atrium at the entrance of the Galerie des Cinq Continents (Gallery of the Five Continents) and the Paintings ...

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 ...

Nov 7th, 2025 - Picture: Timken Museum of Art Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: The Timken Museum of Art opened their latest temporary exhibition this week entitled Poetic Portraits: Allegory and Identity in Sixteenth-Century Europe . According to their website: The Timken Museum of Art unveils Poetic Portraits: Allegory and Identity in Sixteenth-Century Europe, a landmark exhibition exploring the rich interplay of art, literature, and identity during the Renaissance. On view from November 3, 2025, through March ...

Nov 5th, 2025 - The energy of the country's contemporary art scene is in the hands of a growing constellation of artists, curators and galleries, writes curator Aindrea Emelife, and deeply rooted in tradition Lagos Art Week isn't just a calendar fixture—it's an electric current. Traffic slows to a crawl as black SUVs weave between openings, horns blare, champagne flows and the city pulses with ambition and possibility. WhatsApp groups crackle with last-minute invites and secret listings. Everyone is ...

Nov 5th, 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. As the "Chainsaw Man" movie trounces the one about Bruce Springsteen at the box office, it's clear that the influence of the Baby Boomers is waning. They do, however, have one last grand act of cinematic relevance to inflict upon us: Sam Mendes ' four-part Beatles biopic, which will feature a single movie for each ...

Nov 5th, 2025 - Celebratory exhibitions, fairs and events around the world are giving the Modernist style fresh momentum For Art Deco, the French-led Modernist style that flourished between the world wars, this autumn is a peak 100 years in the making. The centenary exhibition at Paris's Musée des Arts Décoratifs, 1925-2025: One Hundred Years of Art Deco (until 26 April 2026) leads the institutional charge, with smaller programmes at the city's Musée Zadkine and Cité de ...

Nov 5th, 2025 - The major modernist artist is finally getting a blockbuster exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art, celebrating a career filled with innovation lthough he was a major modernist artist whose collaborators ranged from European greats like Pablo Picasso and André Breton to new world giants like Aimé Césaire, Cuban artist Wifredo Lam has not seen a major US retrospective worthy of his stature. That changes with the MoMA's blockbuster show Wifredo Lam: When I Don't Sleep, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...