Oct 10th, 2025 - A big part of New York's fall art-auction season is shaping up to be a face-off between Sotheby's and Christie's sales of artworks from high-flying collections assembled by two high-profile Chicago couples. "It really speaks to Chicago being a great center as a collecting community, because of the great institutions that are there, the great galleries," said Sara Friedlander, Christie's deputy chairman of post-war and contemporary art. "It's very exciting." Sotheby's New York kicked off the ...
Oct 9th, 2025 - The exhibition, Dialogues, pairs 20th and 21st century art by the likes of Picasso, Adam Pendleton and David Hammons with the objects that inspired it The exodus of experienced specialists from auction houses in recent years, particularly in more niche collecting departments, has presented an opportunity for some galleries. A case in point is Pilar Ordovas, who tonight opens an exhibition at her eponymous Mayfair gallery in collaboration with Jean Fritts, who was previously international ...
Oct 8th, 2025 - This intimate show examines the spaces where Picasso's art was made and how the works were put together In the annual cascade of shows about Pablo Picasso, celebrating weeping women, bull fighting or Cubist bottles, the National Gallery of Ireland is focusing on the spaces where these famed works were created. "The exhibition will be intimate," says the museum's director Caroline Campbell, and will provide "a chance not just to get into his mind but his being, the spaces where the art was made ...
Oct 6th, 2025 - A collection of essays about the Rijksmuseum's show also fascinating insights into the struggle for loans and what accompanying research revealed about its 17th-century subject The Rijksmuseum's Vermeer exhibition of 2023 is arguably the world's most successful show this century. It was spectacular in terms of ticket sales (650,000, with the main batch selling out only two days after the opening), the presentation of the largest-ever group of the artist's works (28 of the 37 paintings) and for ...
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 ...
