Jan 23rd, 2026 - PORTLAND, Maine — Let's start by giving David Driskell — educator, curator, scholar activist, artist, and not necessarily in that order — his due. As a foundational force in the long, slow expansion of the American canon to include Black artists largely disregarded for centuries, he was tireless, thorough, and impassioned. Watch the excellent 2021 HBO documentary "Black Art: In the Absence of Light," and you'll get the idea. He plays a starring role. And if you're wondering: ...
Jan 23rd, 2026 - But he did buy seven of the artist's paintings, which are now shown in his Philadelphia museum—including two risqué ones The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia is well known for its Van Gogh collection, with an enviable seven pictures. It now has among the largest holdings of Van Goghs in the US—after those at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and the Art Institute of Chicago. But Albert Barnes, the first American to buy a Van ...
Jan 23rd, 2026 - Auction houses may have only recently embraced the marketing potential of crossover luxury, experiential staging and lifestyle-inflected storytelling as a way to grow their audience beyond seasoned art-world insiders, but fairs like FOG Design+Art have been quietly refining that formula for more than a decade. Since its launch in 2014, FOG has banked on the seductive overlap between contemporary art and collectible design , crafting a seamless, tightly calibrated aesthetic experience that feels ...
Jan 23rd, 2026 - A boy stares out from over his hands, crossed over each other, chin resting behind them on a teal table. The boy is painted in gray scale but the space behind him is all kinds of crazy colors and shapes. That's the kind of painting that British-born Chicagoan Daniel Wilson likes to create — a calming presence in front of chaos. "I make paintings to remind people of our shared humanity," Wilson says. "That's why I tend to create. I try to create visual empathy, to highlight people or ...
Jan 21st, 2026 - Archaeologists say stencil painted with ochre in limestone cave on Muna Island was created at least 67,800 years ago The faded outline of a hand on a cave wall in Indonesia may be the world's oldest known rock art, according to archaeologists who say it was created at least 67,800 years ago. The ancient hand stencil was discovered in a limestone cave popular with tourists on Muna Island, part of south-eastern Sulawesi, where it had gone unnoticed between more recent paintings of animals and ...
Nov 20th, 2025 - A self-portrait by legendary Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold for $54.66 million in New York on Thursday, setting a new record for the price of a painting by a woman, the auction house Sotheby's said. The sale of Kahlo's 1940 artwork, titled "El sueno (la cama)" — which translates to "The dream (The bed)" — breaks the previous record in this category, set by American artist Georgia O'Keeffe, whose 1932 painting "Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1," sold for $44.4 million in 2014. Kahlo's ...
Nov 13th, 2025 - From the Mona Lisa to the American Gothic, these famous paintings don't just grace museum walls; they offer a glimpse into the past and define entire generations. Although most of these masterpieces are centuries old, they continue to fascinate art buffs and collectors alike, with each piece telling a captivating story. Whether they're on display for the whole world to see or hidden behind closed doors, these paintings prove that art has the power to create and sometimes, even change history. ...
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 ...
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 28th, 2025 - Now owned by New York's MoMA, the painting of Joseph Roulin is the star loan for a major exhibition opening in Boston When Van Gogh's painting, the "Postman of Arles", was removed from the Tate Gallery just over a century ago, London's Weekly Dispatch was left baffled by the mysterious loss. On 25 May 1924 the newspaper reported that the portrait of Joseph Roulin had been hanging in "a place of honour in the Modern Foreign Art section"—but it had then disappeared. The Weekly Dispatch ...
