Sep 1st, 2025 - The best publications to learn all about the topic, from a concise overview to a 'stunning illustrated publication'—selected by the curator Kelli Cole and the academic Jennifer Green As a sweeping survey of Indigenous Australian art garners rave reviews in Melbourne and major institutions in the UK (such Tate Modern with Emily Kam Kngwarray ) and the US (the National Gallery of Art with The Stars We Do Not See ) turn the spotlight onto the vast subject, how does one get to grips with it ...
Sep 1st, 2025 - Spring, summer, autumn, winter—few things are more fundamental to how we mark the passage of time. A perennial subject of both casual conversation and art-making, this cycle takes center stage in the exhibition " Kim Chong Hak : Painter of Seoraksan" at Atlanta's High Museum of Art. On the surface, it appears as a simple journey through the calendar, yet beneath lies something more—the fusion of Korean Dansaekhwa painting and American abstract expressionism. By using a familiar ...
Sep 1st, 2025 - The new display reignites a long-running debate about the authenticity of one of the paintings One of Vermeer's most famous paintings— The Guitar Player (1672)—goes on show today alongside its "twin" in a new display at Kenwood House in north London. Double Vision: Vermeer (1 September-11 January 2026) includes the original image of the guitar-playing woman, which is housed at Kenwood, while its doppelgänger, Lady with a Guitar , is on loan from the John G. Johnson Collection ...
Aug 31st, 2025 - A Year in Normandy features iPad works with which British artist brought people comfort during Covid crisis In the spring of 2020, as the Covid-19 virus was "going mad", David Hockney kept himself busy by painting winter trees bursting into blossom in his Normandy garden. "Many people said my drawings were a great respite from what was going on," Britain's pre-eminent living artist said at the time. Citizens of the post-pandemic world, with its rollercoaster of conflict, rightwing populism, ...
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 ...
