Oct 6th, 2024 - The scenes of some of the paintings currently on show in London's National Gallery can still be found in the southern French city he market at Arles in France every Saturday stretches for more than 2km, the lush countryside around yielding enough produce to fill more than 400 stalls to overflowing. Alongside the plump fruit and vegetables, drifts of cheese and butter paint the whole scene a deep cream, echoing the Provençal city's warm limestone and light yellow plaster. Vincent van Gogh ...
Oct 4th, 2024 - "Chagall" is on view through February 9, 2025. (1915), depicting Chagall and his wife Bella Rosenfeld in a loving embrace, defying gravity and floating in the air. The dreamlike quality of the figures floating above the ground symbolises their love and the mysteriousness of human emotion. exemplifies Chagall's ability to use color, composition and form to evoke the magical with the mundane. His wife was often his muse, reappearing in paintings throughout the retrospective. Her death in 1944 had ...
Oct 4th, 2024 - With its first-ever Bacon show, the gallery plans to make 'a real splash with a major British artist' The National Portrait Gallery's (NPG) first Francis Bacon exhibition is an overdue acknowledgement of one of the 20th century's foremost figurative artists. "[The show] has been on the cards for a while," says the curator Rosie Broadley, "but we wanted to reserve it until after the reopening of the gallery [in 2023], and then make a real splash with a major British artist." Beginning with the ...
Oct 4th, 2024 - Celebrating the "negative joy" of the American artist Kelley in a new Tate retrospective, a period of change in India explored at the Barbican, and a conversation about a work once owned by the pioneering woman gallerist Berthe Weill This week: a huge survey of the work of the late linchpin of the Los Angeles contemporary scene Mike Kelley has arrived at Tate Modern in London. We speak to its co-curator Catherine Wood about this enormously influential artist and his visceral and absurd response ...
Oct 3rd, 2024 - Top lots at the auction arranged by the esteemed curator before his death in August included two "date paintings" by On Kawara, a close friend An auction of works from the collection of Kasper König, the pioneering German curator, has achieved around €6m at Van Ham in Cologne. König had arranged the sale, which took place over two days on 1 and 2 October, before his death in August at the age of 80. The top lot was a work by the Japanese conceptual artist On Kawara, a red ...
Oct 3rd, 2024 - There's a reason why viewers can't look away from Vermeer's masterpiece. When you stand in front of Johannes Vermeer's "Girl With The Pearl Earring," something extraordinary happens in your brain. The 17th-century Dutch painting has long mesmerized viewers, but scientists now believe they've uncovered the reason behind its allure. It turns out, the secret lies in the unique way your brain interacts with the painting. For the first time, neuroscientists have measured brain activity while people ...
Oct 2nd, 2024 - An in-depth interview with the endlessly daring Dumas, discussing her admiration for Nicole Eisenman and Diane Arbus, and the impact of Francisco Goya on her practice In this, the 100th episode of A brush with…, Marlene Dumas talks to Ben Luke about her influences—from writers to film-makers and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped her life and work. Dumas was born in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1953 and lives and works in Amsterdam. She is ...
Oct 1st, 2024 - "Berthe Morisot lived in her great eyes," wrote the French poet Paul Valéry, her nephew by marriage. This assessment highlights Morisot's dual claim to fame as both a muse and a member of the school of experimental French painting that became known, following its first exhibition in Paris in 1874, as impressionism. On the one hand, Morisot's physical beauty — concentrated, according to Édouard Manet, in her large, dark eyes — inspired Manet to paint several portraits ...
Oct 1st, 2024 - All you ever wanted to know about Frankenthaler, from a seminal monograph to the story of the bohemian world that forged her—selected by the curator and writer Douglas Dreishpoon • Click here for more reading lists on the world's greatest artists Over the past decade or so, the US artist Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011) has come out of the shadows cast by her more famous Abstract Expressionist contemporaries, with several important shows and publications dedicated to her. This year is ...
Sep 30th, 2024 - A previously unknown Sandro Botticelli painting was discovered using scientific analysis at Saint Félix church in the French town of Champigny-en-Beauce, Artnet News reports . The work was long thought to be a 19th-century copy of a Botticelli masterpiece. The painting shows the Virgin Mary with baby Jesus and a young John the Baptist, and was thought to be based on Virgin Mary, Infant Christ, and St. John the Baptist (ca. 1490), a painting whose attribution to Botticelli and ...
Sep 13th, 2024 - Forget the mugs and jigsaws – an exhibition at the National Gallery reminds us that nothing compares to seeing the original masterpieces O n Saturday the National Gallery in London opens its doors for its new Van Gogh exhibition, remarkably the first in its 200-year history. Exactly 100 years ago, the National purchased Van Gogh's Sunflowers for £1,304, a bargain even for the times. Far from a safe bet, guaranteed to bring in the crowds, Van Gogh was considered a rather risky ...
Sep 13th, 2024 - Art Review A New Perspective on Van Gogh's Final Flowering A major exhibition in London focuses on the painter's final years, finding new feelings in some of his most famous works. Listen to this article · 5:42 min The two vivid portraits — the poet and the lover — hang together in the first room of the exhibition, as they did above van Gogh's bed in the so-called Yellow House in a working-class neighborhood of Arles, France. It was there, roughly two years before his death ...
Aug 6th, 2024 - There used to be a roll call or "canon" — a list of names every budding student of postwar art was supposed to learn and remember. All the names were male. They all worked in America. The list existed to demonstrate how abstract expressionism led into pop art, minimalism and conceptualism, the four most significant movements between the end of World War II and the 1970s. So the roll call began with abstract expressionists: Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko . It moved on ...
Jul 3rd, 2024 - The oldest example of figurative cave art has been discovered in the Indonesian Island of South Sulawesi by Australian and Indonesian scientists. The painting of a wild pig and three human-like figures is at least 51,200 years old, more than 5,000 years older than the previous oldest cave art. The discovery pushes back the time that modern humans first showed the capacity for creative thought. Prof Maxime Aubert from Griffith University in Australia told BBC News that the discovery would change ...
Jul 2nd, 2024 - Video: Christie's Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles have just announced their acquisition of the rediscovered Madonna of the Cherries by Quentin Metsys which sold at Christie's London this evening for £10,660,000 (inc. fees). According to the museum's press release: "The tender beauty and accessibility of Metsys' representation of the familial bond between the Virgin Mary and Christ Child represents a major innovation in early Netherlandish ...
Jul 2nd, 2024 - Many people are deeply fascinated by Japan's timeless culture, harmonious spirituality and delicious food. Fewer are fans of the country's vibrant contemporary arts scene, if only because its evolving and increasingly international gallery scene is relatively young. After years of regional closure, Japan seems to finally be opening up and trying to catch up with the incredible development shown by the Korean art scene on the global stage. The second edition of Tokyo Gendai opens for VIPs on the ...
Jun 19th, 2024 - Picture: themorgan.org Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: The Morgan Library and Museum in New York have recently opened a display of promised gifts to the museum, which includes twenty-eight drawings from the collection of Elizabeth and Jean-Marie Eveillard. According to the institution's website: The exhibition includes a study for Rembrandt's first masterpiece; Greuze's virtuoso depiction of a young cook made for his friend Jean-Georges Wille; Delacroix's intimate portrait of Jenny, his ...
Jun 10th, 2024 - The Best Art Cities in Europe From the iconic home of the Renaissance to the vibrant street art of the German capital, these are the best art cities in Europe... Exploring the best art cities in Europe is like embarking on a journey through time, culture, and human creativity. Imagine standing before the Mona Lisa in Paris, marvelling at Michelangelo's David in Florence, or being awed by the modern architecture of the Guggenheim in Bilbao. Each city tells a unique story through its art, ...
May 28th, 2024 - Ronald Perelman , the billionaire investor known for his vast art collection, has in recent years sold off nearly $1 billion worth of artwork by the likes of Andy Warhol , Cy Twombly , Pablo Picasso and Jean-Michel Basquiat . Many of these transactions were conducted through auction houses like Sotheby's, while other private sales went to fellow prominent collectors like hedge fund manager Ken Griffin . Recently unsealed court filings reveal Perelman offloaded seventy-one works valued at $963 ...
May 24th, 2024 - It's a shame that the two preeminent stars of abstract art— Hilma af Klint and Wassily Kandinsky —never met in person. At one point, Swedish-born af Klint and Russian-born Kandinsky were miles apart from each other in Stockholm, where Kandinsky traveled in 1915 for an exhibition. They could have talked about their uncanny similarities, parallel lives and of course, their differences. But what if these premiere painters of abstraction actually shared a conversation? What would that ...
