Dec 4th, 2025 - Despite being older and more mellow than his Impressionist peers, the artist's perspective and commitment to plein-air painting made him an integral figure in the movement's evolution. Welcome to One Fine Show , where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum not in New York City, a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention. One of the many reasons that A.I. slop is never going to replace real art is that people like details. When someone visits a ...
Dec 4th, 2025 - "The Five Miracles of Christ" sold at Sotheby's to a Christian foundation on Tuesday night, while an early Gerrit Dou led Christie's evening auction at £3.8m Old Masters are on the up. Collectors of contemporary works are disillusioned by the losses they've made on young artists and are looking back in time for value. This is a narrative currently doing the rounds of the art world. Certainly some contemporary collectors paid attention in July when Canaletto's Venice, the Return of the ...
Dec 4th, 2025 - More than just a fair that presents Latin American art, Pinta is, she tells Observer, a "continental platform that actively connects and strengthens the region's cultural ecosystem." Miami Art Week, with its parade of parties, celebrity sightings, brand activations and the hype surrounding Art Basel, can sometimes feel unserious in its spectacle. The high-stakes, commercial-first vibe, exemplified by multi-million-dollar sales and constant talk of market jitters, can overshadow the creative ...
Dec 4th, 2025 - Following a multi-million-dollar marquee auction week and e arly sales at Untitled and NADA Miami —both making a case for cautious optimism—all eyes were on Art Basel 's VIP opening on December 3. Despite the early line at the oceanside entrance, the atmosphere by 11 a.m. was noticeably more subdued and the crowd less international than the one at the opening of Art Basel Paris just two months earlier. Still, as the only Art Basel in the Americas, the fair continues to draw some of ...
Dec 3rd, 2025 - Though the artist—who was born 100 years ago this year—lived and worked in countries around the world, for nearly 40 years his life and work was centred in the Sunshine State From Munich to Hong Kong, this year has been crowded with centennial tributes to Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008), whom the critic Robert Hughes described in 2006 as "the most important American artist of the last century". Even with this global influence, Florida remained the artist's centre of gravity for four ...
Dec 1st, 2025 - A long-lost painting by Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens , which was hidden for more than four centuries, sold for $2.7 million at an auction Sunday in Versailles. The painting was recently found in a private townhouse in Paris. It depicts the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. It was part of a French collection and was initially thought to be from one of the many Rubens workshops that existed at the time. The artwork was rarely valued at more than $11,500. "I immediately had a hunch about this ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
