Sep 9th, 2025 - Fall Preview Roll Over, Warhol: Taking the '60s Beyond Pop Art A thrillingly revisionist history of the era at the Whitney Museum uncovers a current of art that sprang from eros and the uncensored minds of R. Crumb, Martha Edelheit and others. Listen to this article · 10:41 min The 1960s was one of the most visually distinct decades in history, and you don't have to be a specialist to look at a photograph from that era and guess the approximate date. Everything seemed to break with the ...
Sep 9th, 2025 - Wynn, who died in April, owned trophy works by Lucian Freud, Richard Diebenkorn, Joan Mitchell and others More than a dozen jewels from the collection of the late billionaire and philanthropist Elaine Wynn will come to auction at Christie's in New York this autumn, though its crown jewel—Francis Bacon's 1969 triptych Three Studies of Lucian Freud , which she bought for a then-world record $142.4m at Christie's in 2013—has been bequeathed to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art ...
Sep 9th, 2025 - When Art Basel Paris opened last year inside the newly restored Grand Palais, the enthusiasm was palpable. The ground floor quickly filled with high-level collectors and professionals from around the globe, fueling brisk sales, buoyant energy and nonstop negotiations from the moment the doors opened . Yet staging the fair in the iconic venue in the heart of the French capital did not come without challenges. Some dealers lamented that its labyrinthine architecture overshadowed younger ...
Sep 8th, 2025 - The Arkansas institution also announced that it has received two gifts totalling more than 200 works by over 100 artists The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, has announced that it will open its long-awaited expansion on 6 June 2026. Filling some of the newly created space—increasing the museum's size by 50%—will be hundreds of works recently given to the museum. A majority of this new art, more than 200 pieces by over 100 artists, comes from the ...
Sep 7th, 2025 - Few creative and pop culture figures from the last 70 years are more widely recognized than Yoko Ono, the 92-year-old peace activist and former collaborator with such famed musicians as John Cage, Ornette Coleman and her late husband John Lennon. Green Room Newsletter You're subscribed! Please check your inbox for your confirmation. Stay ahead of what's hitting Chicago stages, galleries, museums and more with Green Room, WBEZ's weekly arts & culture newsletter! Sorry, there was an error ...
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 ...
