May 5th, 2024 - This summer, as you step into the grand halls of Rome's Palazzo Barberini, you'll find yourself amidst "Day for Night: New American Realism," an engaging exhibition that showcases over 150 works by American artists from the Tony and Elham Salamé collection. Curated by Massimiliano Gioni and Flaminia Gennari Santori, this exhibit explores the textured realities of American life, presented in collaboration with the Aïshti Foundation. The Salamés, founders of the dynamic ...
May 5th, 2024 - Art in hotels, both to admire and to purchase, has become a strong focus in recent years. The Fife Arms in the Scottish Highlands has an impressive art collection including a giant Louise Bourgeois spider in the courtyard, 45 Park Lane in London has regularly changing exhibitions and art tours, Claridges has its own gallery with regularly changing shows, while La Residencia in Mallorca, Spain has 33 original pieces on display by Joan Miró. The luxurious Hotel Savoy, in Florence, is ...
May 4th, 2024 - Frank Stella , one of America's great artists, whose career intersected — and helped catalyze — some of the most significant upheavals in 20th century art, died Saturday at his home in Manhattan. He was 87. His wife, Dr. Harriet E. McGurk, said the cause was lymphoma, according to The New York Times. Mr. Stella, who was born in Malden on May 12, 1936 , was ever restless, dynamically shifting his work in both style and scale while defying categorical boundaries between painting and ...
May 4th, 2024 - The artist and curator discuss how their practices overlap and situate the show within a larger conversation around Chinese art and art history. For their most recent collaboration, Fu Qiumeng Fine Art invited Joy Xiao Chen, who is a PhD candidate in art history and former Metropolitan Museum of Art fellow, to curate the solo show " 's innovative use of color and composition, as well as positions his work within the larger art historical context and trajectory of Chinese artistic traditions. ...
May 3rd, 2024 - Picture: Getty Museum Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: The J. Paul Getty Muesum in Los Angeles has announced its acquisition of 17 drawings, including works by Eva Gonzalès, Edgar Degas, Guercino (pictured), Joseph Wright of Derby, Luca Cambiaso, Giovanni Boldini, and Odilon Redon. According to the museum's press release announcing the news: "The addition of these 17 highly important sheets by major artists of the 16th to 20th centuries will greatly enrich the status and quality of our ...
Apr 29th, 2024 - Picture: Christie's Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: The Christie's New York upcoming 20th Century Evening Sale (which also includes Impressionist works) has been uploaded online today. The auction will take place on 16th May 2024. Highlights include this exquisite Van Gogh garden David Hockney view of water sprinklers at $25m - $35m, a large Warhol picture of flowers at $20m - $30m, a very fine Venetian view by Monet at $12m - $18m, and a painting of a lady in a hat by Picasso at $20m - $30m.
Apr 25th, 2024 - This year marks the 150th anniversary of Impressionism, the 19th-century art style defined by strong brushstrokes and ordinary subjects in open-air settings. To mark the occasion, Sotheby's is auctioning one of Claude Monet 's atmospheric haystacks—a favored motif of the artist and an iconic image in the art movement. Painted in 1893, Monet's Meules à Giverny will be sold next month with an estimate above $30 million. "With his haystacks, the revolutionary ideas and techniques that ...
Apr 25th, 2024 - Picture: liverpoolmuseums.org.uk Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: The Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool has been allocated two paintings by Monet and Degas as part of the Acceptance in Lieu scheme. The Epte in Giverny (1884), by Claude Monet (pictured), and Modiste Decorating a Hat (1891-1895), a pastel by Edgar Degas, will be on display in the gallery from this weekend onwards. According to the museum's press release: Kate O'Donoghue, Curator of International Fine Art at National Museums ...
Apr 19th, 2024 - From pieces that played an influential role in the male-dominated New York School to nature-imbued paintings created in the French countryside, the abstract artwork of Joan Mitchell took on new lives and iterations over a career that spanned more than four decades. Now, four significant works from the American artist's oeuvre will be offered up next month by Sotheby's in its Contemporary Evening Auction. The quartet of paintings dating from 1955 to 1989 come from the same private collection and ...
Apr 11th, 2024 - On April 15, 1874 – 150 years ago – the first Impressionist exhibition opened on Rue du Capucines in Paris, featuring works by 30 artists, including Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Hosted by the "Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers, etc.," it was founded in response to the Paris Salon, the annual, government-sponsored exhibition that would frequently reject the works of the rising artists. The show, ...
Mar 19th, 2024 - One structured and austere, the other sensual and joyous — Paul Cezanne and Auguste Renoir were two founding fathers of Impressionism, but a new Milan exhibition explores their sharply different styles. Marking 150 years since the founding of the art movement, 52 masterpieces by the two Frenchmen are on loan from Paris for an unprecedented show at the Palazzo Reale — alongside two by Picasso, whom they inspired. The paintings date from the 1870s to the early 20th century. Renoir and ...
Mar 6th, 2024 - Like other shows that have sought to shed new light on artists known to a wide public, such as the Met's " Van Gogh's Cypresses ," "Matisse and the Sea" at the Saint Louis Art Museum illuminates the permanence of the ocean in Matisse's works and how they evolved . Through more than seventy paintings, ceramics and sculptures plus his famous paper cut-outs, Henri Matisse is revealed as not only a visionary but also a disciple and a collector. The exhibition, which considers how Matisse's stays ...
Jan 30th, 2024 - Founded in 1956, Brafa is one of the world's oldest and most prestigious annual art fairs, showing ancient and modern painting, textiles, sculpture, jewelry, silverware and furniture. This year's fair, at the iconic 1930s Brussels Expo buildings (until 4 February) features 132 international galleries from 14 countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom. There's plenty ...
Jan 10th, 2024 - MADRID and PARIS — Last year marked 50 years since Picasso's death, and more than 50 major exhibitions around the world have observed the occasion. But the Spaniard's life was long, and it's worth remembering that it's 116 years since he painted "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," which (along with "Guernica" ) is usually cited as his masterpiece. That might make the revelations in a new exhibition in Madrid seem like ancient history. But "Picasso 1906: The Turning Point," at the Reina Sofia ...
Jan 4th, 2024 - Institution in Washington, D.C. is 'both a museum and a megaphone' Museums seldom get the opportunity to reintroduce themselves, show how they've grown or illustrate fresh perspectives. The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in Washington, D.C., is doing just that since its recent reopening after a two-year closure for renovation and expansion. "This major renovation has allowed us to reimagine all of our spaces," said director Susan Fisher Sterling, 68. "We've added a Learning ...
Dec 5th, 2023 - For the residency's twelfth year, the Rubell Museum leans into textile art. Miami mega-patrons Don and Mera Rubell like to be thought of as tastemakers in the contemporary art world. Since they began an artist-in-residence program at their private institution, the Rubell Museum, in 2011, their emerging artist resident has been given the prime slot of the December show—timed to coincide with Art Basel Miami Beach. Among the art world, the spotlight has come to be known as a fast-track to ...
Dec 5th, 2023 - See works on paper from the likes of Degas, Monet and Cézanne. It is little wonder that an art movement like Impressionism, popular for capturing the elusive immediacy of everyday life, would be drawn to drawing. Works on paper, historically relegated to the status of a preparatory sketch, soon became masterpieces in their own right. Emancipated from the formal rigor and slick stylisations of Rococo and Neoclassicist painting, the Impressionists were able to reveal something that felt ...
Dec 1st, 2023 - The French artist tried to rewrite history, just months before his death Paul Gauguin once brazenly claimed that he inspired Van Gogh to create the Sunflowers . This is patently untrue, since the still lifes were painted two months before Gauguin's arrival at the Yellow House in Arles. The self-serving Gauguin wanted to claim credit for his colleague's "signature" works. Gauguin's boast comes in a letter to his Paris-based friend André Fontainas, to whom he sent his 1902 manuscript ...
Nov 30th, 2023 - The 28-page work sees the artist praising the Impressionists and discussing 'haunting visions' The Courtauld Gallery has bought the last literary manuscript by Paul Gauguin remaining in private hands. Written in 1902 on the remote Marquesan island of Hiva Oa in French Polynesia, it is bitter denunciation of critics who do not understand Modern art. It was submitted for publication in the radical journal Mercure de France , but rejected by its editors. Gauguin entitled his French text Racontars ...
Nov 30th, 2023 - Could there be an earlier version of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa painting? Some experts are alleging that a piece depicting a younger version of the sitter could be the original. The Mona Lisa (1503–19) is a Renaissance painting of the Florentine woman Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Florentine silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo, by Leonardo da Vinci. The Isleworth Mona Lisa , as it has been dubbed (because it was previously owned by an art dealer in the London suburb), shows Lisa in the ...
