Jan 20th, 2025 - Exclusive: William Blake-inspired artwork to feature alongside new paintings in artist's biggest exhibition A previously unseen painting by David Hockney has been revealed for the first time before its unveiling in the biggest exhibition to be devoted to one of Britain's foremost living artists. Titled After Blake: Less is Known than People Think, the work will be among hundreds of previously unknown Hockneys that are to be displayed alongside his famous masterpieces at the Fondation Louis ...
Jan 17th, 2025 - Hong Kong Museum of Art launches exhibition featuring works by Impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Post-Impressionist Paul Cézanne Reading Time: 3 minutes The showcasing of 52 French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces in Hong Kong reflects the "strong friendship" between the city and the European country, while contributing to the former's cultural exchange ambitions, curators have told the Post. The exhibition, titled "The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Cézanne ...
Jan 17th, 2025 - A realm in which visual beauty and meaning meld in the rendering of words, the art form of calligraphy dates back more than 2,000 years and can be found in cultures around the world, but it has an especially strong history in the Eastern Asian and Islamic worlds. While traditional calligraphy in places like China followed codified rules, contemporary artists have taken the form in all kinds of unexpected directions, sometimes drawing inspiration from and even melding it with Western-derived ...
Jan 15th, 2025 - When art expert Rosie Jarvie glimpsed a photo of a painting submitted to Christie's online appraisal service , she knew it may be something special. "The [submitted] image was poor, and the painting was behind old glass, which had a greenish tint," Jarvie, the auction house's specialist in British drawings and watercolors, tells the Art Newspaper 's Melanie Gerlis. Still, she "had an instinct, from the strong brushstrokes, economy of line and the palette, that we really needed to ...
Jan 13th, 2025 - Matisse didn't just paint pictures; he portrayed emotion with color. His pictures convey a lightness of being with their bold outlines and ornamentation. They vibrate with liveliness. Especially with his figures, there is an openness, ripe with vitality. In his odalisques, he captured an intimate understanding of femininity—the unspoken grace of a folded body, the languor of lounging, the elegance of stillness. Matisse once said, "Painting the human figure is the best way for me to ...
Dec 9th, 2024 - Seven institutional shows are planned for the artist's centennial next year, accompanied by the first volume of a catalogue raisonné, gallery exhibitions and even an art fair themed around his unique approach. Building on Duchamp's groundbreaking approach of transforming everyday objects through painting and formalist elements, the artist Robert Rauschenberg expanded the expressive possibilities of traditional art and pop culture. His experimental multimedia works serve as timeless ...
Nov 28th, 2024 - The artist organizes a show of seldom-seen paintings at Gagosian to cast a fresh eye on Balthus's enigmatic 1933 tableau, "The Street." Parisians, most of them children with strangely adult faces, stand transfixed or walk past each other, engaged in what the urban theorist Jane Jacobs called "an intricate sidewalk ballet." That is the subject of Balthus's 1933 painting, "The Street," which has inspired the artist Peter Doig to organize an exhibition by that name at Gagosian, one that is as ...
Nov 23rd, 2024 - Think of a favorite work of art you've seen in New York, and there's a good chance it was brought to you by a woman. From The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh at MoMA to El Greco's View of Toledo at The Met to the entire Whitney Museum of American Art, some of the city's greatest museums were founded, funded or fundamentally established through the efforts of women. On the occasion of the recent release of Inventing the Modern: Untold Stories of the Women Who Shaped The Museum of Modern Art and ...
Nov 19th, 2024 - For sixty-plus years, Helen Frankenthaler made paintings, prints, woodcuts and sculptures. "My pictures are full of climates, abstract climates… not nature per se," she said, "but a feeling…" Her works are feeling, just as nature is, at once deep, mystical, impenetrable, and ineffable. How to pin down the feeling of a sunrise or one of Frankenthaler's large paintings—they invoke feelings that are deep in, yet essential. Frankenthaler had the unique ability to reach into ...
Nov 14th, 2024 - To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines BRITISH MUSEUM RECEIVES MOST VALUABLE GIFT . The British Museum has received its highest-value donation to date, as the BBC reports,in the form of 1,700 rare Chinese ceramics worth $1.27 billion. They were donated by the Sir Percival David Foundation , which had previously loaned the precious, thousand-year-old treasures to the museum. British ...
Nov 13th, 2024 - The air may be thick with market jitters and whispers of a slowdown—especially in the secondary market—but there is still an impressive lineup of high-quality consignments leading November's evening sales. The goal? To lift spirits, hit those ambitious pre-sale estimates and maybe prove that the sky isn't quite falling yet. Still, all three major auction houses are playing it predictably safe this season with works by established blue-chip names already etched into the canon of ...
Oct 22nd, 2024 - "Manet, Monet," says a museum visitor to her companion in a famous New Yorker cartoon. "I hear both are correct." Claude Monet may be the more popular and beloved artist, but Édouard Manet is surely the more pivotal figure in the history of modern art. Last year, he got a lot of attention in the monumental " Manet/Degas " show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and now there's an illuminating if more intimate exhibit — " Manet: A Model Family " — at the Isabella Stewart ...
Oct 21st, 2024 - Coinciding with Parisian Art Week, Sotheby's and Christie's hosted their Modern and Contemporary art auctions in the French capital, continuing a strategy they've developed in recent years. This approach links the London and Paris sales to their respective art weeks, with each auction house's selections reflecting, in many cases, the unique art scenes and institutional programming of each city. Fueled by this momentum, Sotheby's new luxurious venue in Saint-Honorè added to the ...
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 ...
Sep 13th, 2024 - Acquired by the arms dealer Emil Bührle, both have been on loan to a Zurich museum The fabulous art collection of Emil Bührle (1890-1956) has long been controversial. He owed his great wealth to the arms trade and bought paintings in questionable circumstances during the Nazi era and the Second World War. Born in Germany, in 1924 he moved to Switzerland, where he ran the country's largest weapons factory. Now the spotlight has fallen on two of Bührle's Van Goghs, which in 2021 ...
Aug 30th, 2024 - The Art Newspaper's pick of the top shows to see around the world this month Ahead of a packed month across the art world—including Frieze Seoul; The Armory Show, New York; Berlin Art Week and Barcelona's Manifesta—we round up the biggest and best exhibitions to see across the world this September. Surrealism , Centre Pompidou, Paris 4 September-13 January 2025 Celebrating a century since the birth of Surrealism, André Breton's rarely seen handwritten Surrealist manifesto ...
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 ...
Aug 4th, 2024 - In May 2025, after a nine-month programme of refurbishing, redesigning and relighting rooms, a new interpretation of the museum will be unveiled The redisplay of the National Gallery collection, which will be revealed to the world in May 2025 with the reopening of the Sainsbury Wing as the main entrance, is the most thorough that anyone at the museum can remember. "We are decanting everything and rehanging everywhere," says Christine Riding, the museum's director of collections and ...
Jul 1st, 2024 - Exhibition curated by a former Louvre director includes a deep-dive into the artist's time in French Polynesia, where he painted many of his most famous works A vast survey exhibition devoted to the French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin has opened at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. It is a survey in more ways than one, given that the exhibition's starting point is Gauguin's pain-beleaguered final months spent in self-imposed exile in paradise. For Gauguin, it was a strange ...
