Jun 13th, 2025 - 10 Must-See Cities To Inspire Artists And Captivate Art Lovers By Joanne Shurvell 10 Must-See Cities To Inspire Artists And Captivate Art Lovers From classical paintings and contemporary art in world-renowned museums to hidden gems in lesser known galleries, here are some of the world's best art cities. Joanne Shurvell writes about travel, food, culture and fashion. Jun 13, 2025, 01:39pm EDT Updated Jun 13, 2025, 04:33pm EDT Many travelers choose their holiday destinations based on the artistic ...
Jun 13th, 2025 - Anish Kapoor and Zineb Sedira are among the artists whose work is represented on the provisional list The French gallerist Kamel Mennour announced on Thursday that he is making an expansive donation of 180 works by 45 artists to Paris's Musée d'art moderne. Among them, says the gallery in a statement, are works by leading interntional names such as Alicja Kwade, Zineb Sedira, Anish Kapoor, Daniel Buren, Ugo Rondinone and Lee Ufan. Other prominent artists represented in the donation ...
Jun 12th, 2025 - The Bastide du Jas de Bouffan is also celebrated in a major Cezanne exhibition at the Musée Granet Cezanne 2025, a programme of events and exhibitions to be held in the French painter's home town of Aix-en-Provence promises to mark "the year the city reunites with its most famous resident". The season starts with two major openings: Cezanne's family home, the Bastide du Jas de Bouffan, now accessible to the public after extensive renovations; and a major exhibition at the Musée ...
Jun 11th, 2025 - . Born to American parents who'd become cosmopolitan wanderers, the painter was only 18 when he moved from Florence to Paris in 1874, and an inspiring exhibition now at the Met captures how and why the young man took the city by storm. Across the next decade, Sargent befriended socialites, celebrities, and fellow artists such as Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Auguste Rodin, and though some of his early student work is stiff, his potential was obvious, and soon burst through. Portrait ...
Jun 11th, 2025 - The London sales of mostly Surrealist art have the highest estimate ever placed on a single collection by the auction house in Europe Sotheby's will roll out the tiger-print carpet this September (17-18) for a two-day sale in London of around 250 works of art and furniture from the eclectic collection of the British patron and tastemaker Pauline Karpidas. Estimated in excess of £60m, the Karpidas trove consigned to Sotheby's holds the highest estimate ever placed on a single-owner ...
Jun 9th, 2025 - The National Gallery of Victoria's new show, French Impressionism, celebrates the likes of Monet, Renoir, Degas, Morisot and Pissarro, who painted in the face of public outrage ive or six lunatics deranged by ambition – one of them a woman – have chosen to exhibit their works," the French critic Albert Wolff wrote in a review of an art exhibition in Paris in 1876. The lunatics in question were a group of up-and-coming artists: Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
