Jul 10th, 2025 - In David Hockney's 1963 painting Play Within a Play , a painted performer stands on a stage, his face and hands pressed fleshily against a pane of plexiglass installed to float right in front of the canvas. It's a funny joke, a good representation of the now 88-year-old Hockney's impish and very British sense of humor and a visually impressive example of his masterly technique (the curtain hanging behind the man looks like it's suspended over the worn-out boards of a real stage). It's also an ...
Jul 10th, 2025 - I was shocked to learn just how many pieces of art sold around the world are forgeries. But should finding out something is a cheap dupe really make us enjoy it less? any years ago, I met a man in a pub in Bloomsbury who said he worked at the British Museum . He told me that every single item on display in the museum was a replica, and that all the original artefacts were locked away in storage for preservation. I was shocked and challenged him. It surely could not be the case that millions of ...
Jul 8th, 2025 - The German blue-chip artist will show more than 250 works at Fondation Louis Vuitton from October Nicholas Serota, the former director of Tate, will co-curate a vast retrospective of works by the influential German artist Gerhard Richter this autumn at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris (17 October-2 March 2026). "[The Fondation] is honouring the artist with an exceptional retrospective, unmatched both in scale and in chronological scope, featuring 270 works stretching from 1962 to 2024," ...
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 ...
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 ...
Dec 20th, 2024 - Our review of 2024: record sales, exhibitions, fakes—and tracking down Dr Gachet Van Gogh's Portrait of Dr Gachet (June 1890), which is among his greatest paintings, finally seems to have been tracked down. It was last seen in 1990, when it sold for $82.5m, making it then the most expensive painting ever auctioned. The portrait later discreetly changed hands twice, most recently in 1998, when it disappeared into an extremely private collection. There has been endless speculation about its ...
Dec 9th, 2024 - Seven institutional shows are planned for the artist's centennial next year, accompanied by the first volume of a catalogue raisonné, gallery exhibitions and even an art fair themed around his unique approach. Building on Duchamp's groundbreaking approach of transforming everyday objects through painting and formalist elements, the artist Robert Rauschenberg expanded the expressive possibilities of traditional art and pop culture. His experimental multimedia works serve as timeless ...
