May 20th, 2022 - The Spanish-born painter is especially interested in depicting women. Cristina BanBan stands in front of the rows of painted women that line the walls of her Bushwick studio. "I use female bodies to represent how I'm feeling or what I see around me," the 34-year-old Spanish artist said on a recent afternoon. "Painting is like keeping a diary—I take my own image as a starting point, and I develop what is most interesting to me." These layered women are her friends, confidants, and ...
May 19th, 2022 - The German artist hasn't been able to stop painting. A show of new works by Gerhard Richter at the Fondation Beyeler in Switzerland has been met with some surprise. The German artist, who turned 90 earlier this year, announced his retirement in 2017. In the end, he hasn’t been able to stop making art. The room at the Beyeler, conceived by the artist himself, houses “mood,” a new series of 31 small abstract works made by dribbling and pouring glass paint onto paper. The date next to the ...
May 18th, 2022 - “Basquiat is not just an artist; for a lot of the people out there, he’s a religion,” one dealer said. But Wednesday there were plenty of newcomers to watch. The posthumous rivalry between Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat for the title of America’s biggest-selling artist at auction resumed on Wednesday night at Phillips in Manhattan, when a 1982 Basquiat painting of a horned devil reappeared on the market and sold for $85 million with fees. It was the third-highest price paid for a ...
May 18th, 2022 - Ten works sell for more than $10m each in sale featuring giants of art, also including Gauguin and Magritte Last modified on Wed 18 May 2022 15.51 EDT Three paintings by titans of modern art have sold for a total of almost $166m (£134m) at auction, confirming the buoyancy of the global market. In a sale of modern art at Sotheby’s in New York on Tuesday evening, a total of more than $408m was paid for works by artists including Picasso, Monet, Cézanne, Gauguin, Magritte, Dalí and Renoir. ...
May 17th, 2022 - A collaboration between legendary French champagne house Veuve Clicquot and renowned Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama has debuted in Washington, D.C. after a two-year wait. I 've seen Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama's infinity rooms on social media numerous times, but it wasn't till I stepped into one that I truly felt the theme of infinity seemingly stretching itself past the confines of physical space. I was in Washington D.C. to see One With Eternity: Yayoi Kusama, an exhibit that opened in April ...
May 16th, 2022 - For four decades, the rare was artwork was thought to be missing Known for his upturned moustache and sensation-inducing paintings, Salvador Dalí was one of the 20th century’s most famous artists. And he knew it. “Compared to Velázquez, I am nothing,” he said in 1960, “but compared to contemporary painters, I am the most big genius of modern time.” But though his work has been obsessively catalogued by curators and historians, one of his sculptures—a rare C hrist of St. John of ...
May 13th, 2022 - A sculpture by Edgar Degas sold Thursday for $41.6 million at Christie's in New York, the highest price paid at auction for a work by the French artist, while a bronze by Pablo Picasso also broke a record. The Degas sculpture -- "Petite danseuse de quatorze ans" -- is a delicate bronze with a brown patina depicting a young ballerina in a muslin skirt with a ribbon in her hair. It is not the original -- which is on display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington -- but a cast made by ...
May 12th, 2022 - Artistic contemporaries of Paul Cezanne hailed him with labels like “the greatest of us all,” and the French Post-Impressionist was the focus of multiple major exhibitions in the 20th century with his iconic works assuring sizeable visitor turnouts. The Art Institute of Chicago believes the answer is yes. It has teamed with the Tate Modern in London to organize what is billed as the first major retrospective devoted to the artist’s work in the United States in more than 25 years. The ...
Mar 8th, 2022 - An exhibition on view at the Detroit Institute of Arts focuses on Italian women artists who held their own in the male-dominated art world Thanks to feminist scholars of the last century, Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) has gone from a footnote in art history textbooks to something of a household name. Her works now fetch sums in the millions . In 2020, London’s National Gallery staged a blockbuster solo exhibition of Gentileschi’s art—the museum’s show dedicated to a ...
Feb 18th, 2022 - Further 30 works from Macklowe collection to be auctioned in New York in May after billionaire couple’s split A never-before-seen masterpiece by Mark Rothko and one of Andy Warhol’s last self-portraits are among the dozens of works to be auctioned this spring as part of the sale of one of the greatest collections of modern contemporary art ever assembled. The Macklowe collection, which was amassed by the real estate magnate Harry Macklowe and Linda Burg, an honorary trustee of New York’s ...
Nov 19th, 2021 - In 1922, Sophie Taeuber-Arp posed what now feels like an oddly prescient question: “In our complicated times, when the struggle for existence has become so difficult, I have frequently asked myself, why conceive ornaments and color combinations when there are so many more practical and especially more necessary things to do?” Her response was, likewise, comfortingly apt: With moments of crisis, the artist argued, came the “urge to make the things we own more beautiful.” Born in Davos, ...
Nov 19th, 2021 - See images from the long-awaited renovation and rehang. In the most hotly anticipated opening in London in decades, London’s newly refurbished Courtauld Gallery at Somerset House will reopen after three years today, giving the public access to its incomparable Impressionist and medieval collections with some added contemporary touches. The collection ranges from the Middle Ages to the 20th century and includes works by Sandro Botticelli, Claude Monet, Edouard Manet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, ...
Oct 22nd, 2021 - The Swedish Modernist created innovative, genre-defying abstract art inspired by science, mysticism and her own encounters with the spiritual world Eight newly discovered works by groundbreaking Swedish modernist Hilma af Klint are set to go on view in Manhattan next month, reports Sarah Cascone for Artnet News . Scholars have traditionally such as Wassily Kandinsky , Piet Mondrian and Kazimir Malevich with pushing European 20th-century painting into the realm of abstraction. But af Klint began ...
Sep 27th, 2021 - “The Morozov Collection: Icons of Modern Art” is the second exhibition devoted to a major Russian collection at the Paris institution. Russian brothers Mikhail and Ivan Morozov amassed one of the world’s strongest collections of Impressionist and Modern Art. But their world-leading collection was nationalized in 1918 after the Bolshevik revolution, and fell into obscurity for decades. Now, for its exhibition, “The Morozov Collection: Icons of Modern Art,” on view through February 22, ...
Sep 23rd, 2021 - Adventures with Van Gogh is a weekly blog by Martin Bailey, our long-standing correspondent and expert on the artist. Published every Friday, his stories will range from newsy items about this most intriguing artist to scholarly pieces based on his own meticulous investigations and discoveries. 70 paintings in 70 days: Van Gogh’s astonishing achievement at the end of his life A dramatic sunset over a château was one of Vincent's last landscapes—and one of his largest In the book Van ...
