Feb 16th, 2026 - Picture: Kunstmuseum Bern Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: The Kunstmuseum in Bern opened their latest exhibition last week called Life in Full. Old Masters from Duccio to Liotard . According to the museum's website: One of the treasures of the Kunstmuseum Bern's collection is the significant holding of works of earlier art. The presentation Life in Full. Old Masters from Duccio to Liotard places a particular focus on the Bernese renaissance and early Florentine and Sienese painting from the 14th ...

Feb 16th, 2026 - The commission, depicting a sunrise in Normandy, is part of the Margate museum's 15th anniversary celebrations Artist David Hockney will unveil a major new work this spring at Turner Contemporary in Margate, UK, as part of the gallery's 15th anniversary celebrations. "Measuring seven by ten metres, Hockney's work will transform the gallery's iconic floor-to-ceiling window in the Sunley Gallery overlooking Margate's beaches and the North Sea," a statement says. The new window work (1 ...

Feb 16th, 2026 - Picture: Mauritshuis Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: The Mauritshuis opened their latest exhibition last week entitled Birds , which has been co-curated by Simon Scharma. According to their website: Birds – we can't imagine life without them. To us, birds symbolise freedom, beauty and love. But birds are also pets, a source of food or hunting trophies. The exhibition BIRDS - Curated by The Goldfinch & Simon Schama delves into our enduring relationship with these creatures that we love, yet ...

Feb 13th, 2026 - Museum-grade works by Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and Leon Kossoff are debuting in New York before heading to the block. As the London auctions approach in March, we are beginning to learn more about the major consignments the top houses have secured for this sales cycle—an auction round that will once again test the market, which entered 2026 with renewed hope following the positive close of 2025 . Sotheby's announced today a major consignment of "London School" paintings, featuring ...

Feb 12th, 2026 - From Yoko Ono to Frida Kahlo, from Louise Bourgeois to Artemisia Gentileschi, women have long been capturing the unvarnished truth about their own bodies – and that's why my novel Female, Nude weaves them into the plot f you want to paint, put your clothes back on!" That was how Carolee Schneemann summarised the critical response to her 1975 performance piece Interior Scroll, which she had performed nude standing on a gallery table. After making a series of life model poses, she removed a ...

Feb 9th, 2026 - Picture: nga.gov Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: The National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. announced their acquisition of Artemisia Gentileschi's  Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy last week. According to the gallery's website: Featured in numerous publications and exhibitions since its rediscovery in 2011, Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy is widely considered by art historians to be one of Gentileschi's greatest works, making it one of the most prominent recent additions to the nation's art ...

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 ...

May 14th, 2025 - Women rescued Christie's otherwise quiet 21st century evening sale in New York, which also set a new auction high-water mark for Simone Leigh "It's a tough market, we're not expecting fireworks," Christie's chairperson Guillaume Cerutti told The Art Newspaper moments before the auction house's 21st century evening sale began. Cerutti's muted forecast was proven right by the end of the thin, 38-lot auction, which made $79m ($96.5m with fees)—just within the revised presale estimate of $77m ...

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 ...