Sep 17th, 2025 - Organised by new non-profit RendezVous, the event brought together Brussel's wealth of commercial galleries, institutions and artist-run spaces Though often overshadowed by Paris, London and Berlin, Brussels has for decades quietly nurtured an impressive ecosystem of galleries, artist-run spaces, and strong institutional programming at Wiels, Bozar, and the forthcoming Kanal Centre Pompidou (opening in 2026). Earlier this month, those spaces stepped into the spotlight thanks to the inaugural ...
Sep 17th, 2025 - The history of printmaking is the history of the human pursuit of creativity, innovation, and expression of the inexpressible. From the earliest woodcuts to the more refined techniques of etching, printmaking has allowed not only art to evolve, but ideas to spread, and access to art to become more democratised, reaching new social classes, regions, and cultures. It has been an evolution of art that dances together with technical innovation and popular culture trends for centuries. So, if you're ...
Sep 17th, 2025 - Dutch Masters Art Route The Netherlands has given the world some of the most celebrated painters in history, from Rembrandt and Vermeer to Van Gogh and Frans Hals. Their works capture the light, landscapes, and daily life of the Dutch Golden Age and beyond. A Dutch Masters art route is the perfect way to combine culture with travel, linking the museums, historic houses, and charming towns where these masterpieces were created. Traveling through Holland by train, car, or bike allows you to ...
Sep 16th, 2025 - The US artist's paintings that nod knowingly to the past will be joined by new works in a vast survey at the Royal Academy of Arts In Kerry James Marshall's The Academy (2012), which will open the American artist's retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts (RA) in London, a male life model strikes a Black Power pose, his clenched fist raised in the air. The work, says Mark Godfrey, the exhibition's co-curator, attests "to Marshall's interest and involvement in the academy as an educational ...
Sep 15th, 2025 - The now separate paintings, 'Portrait of a Dwarf' and 'Two Figures', were once part of the same work Francis Bacon's famous 1975 work, Portrait of a Dwarf , goes under the hammer at Sotheby's London next month (16 October) with an estimate of £9m. The work was initially part of a bigger piece featuring two figures intertwined and fused together, representing Bacon and his lover George Dyer, who died by suicide in 1971. Bacon later decided to divide the canvas, giving the painting of the ...
Sep 15th, 2025 - Picture: KHM Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: The Kunsthistoriches Museum in Vienna will be opening their latest exhibition on 30th September dedicated to Michaelina Wautier. Here's a separate site which draws attention to the museum's recent conservation efforts with her works, in preparation for the show. According to the museum's website: We celebrate one of the most fascinating artists of the seventeenth century: Michaelina Wautier, most exciting rediscovery of the past decade in art ...
Sep 15th, 2025 - The art historian Matthew Holman makes his personal selection from a collection spanning 200,000 works of modern and contemporary art Glenn Lowry, the sixth director of New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), who will be stepping down this month after 30 years at the helm, once posed the question of what exactly his museum was. He then offered his own answers, including "a cherished place, a sanctuary in Midtown Manhattan", "a laboratory of learning, a place where the most challenging and ...
Sep 14th, 2025 - One of London's most popular attractions has announced plans to expand after receiving pledges of £375m from private donors. The National Gallery said that sum included "the two largest ever publicly reported single cash donations to a museum or gallery globally". The gallery has now launched an international architectural competition to design a new wing for its expanded collection. It will be built on the last remaining part of the current campus and is planned to "revitalise the area ...
Sep 13th, 2025 - The National Gallery's groundbreaking exhibition " Radical Harmony: Helene Kröller-Müller's Neo-Impressionists " (running from 13 September 2025 until 8 February 2026) showcases the extraordinary collection of one of the 20th century's first great women art patrons. Here are some of the top Neo-Impressionist artworks from her remarkable collection that you can experience in London's newly transformed Sainsbury Wing. Neo-Impressionism emerged from 1886 when Georges Seurat exhibited his ...
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 ...
