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 19th, 2024 - Picture: Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: It seems that Italian museums are particularly interested in celebrating both paintings and poetry this autumn, as the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna has just opened an exhibition dedicated to exploring the interconnections between writers and artists in Guido Reni's Bologna. The display includes works by painters such as Guido Reni, Artemisia Gentileschi, Lavinia Fontana, Agostino and Ludovico Carracci and will run ...
Nov 19th, 2024 - In 1987, the great and good of the art scene designed rides for an avant garde 'theme park' in Hamburg. Decades later, Luna Luna has been lovingly resurrected Five years ago, the creative director Michael Goldberg was working from home when he spotted a reference to Luna Luna on an obscure website. "I may have yelled on my couch," he laughs now. Goldberg had chanced upon the lost world of Luna Luna , an avant garde "theme park" staged in Hamburg in 1987, created by the artist André ...
Nov 19th, 2024 - Picture: Galleria Borghese Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: A new exhibition opens at the Galleria Borghese in Rome today entitled Poetry and Painting in the 17th Century. Giovan Battista Marino and the Marvelous Passion . According to the gallery's website: Following the path offered by the texts of Giovan Battista Marino (1569-1625), the exhibition traces a journey through the great Renaissance and Baroque art, from Titian to Tintoretto, from Correggio to the Carracci, from Rubens to ...
Nov 17th, 2024 - Art historian says miniature is of Henry VIII's daughter – not his sixth wife Katherine Parr It's Mary Tudor – by a nose. Not in a horse race, but from a comparison of portraits of Mary, Henry VIII's elder daughter who became the first crowned queen of England, and Katherine Parr, his sixth wife. For decades, experts, including the noted historian and museum director Sir Roy Strong, have thought that a near 500-year-old miniature was of Parr. Now several leading Tudor authorities ...
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 14th, 2024 - In the late 19th century, artists were going goth. Works like Vincent van Gogh's Head of a Skeleton With a Burning Cigarette (1886), Edvard Munch's By the Deathbed (1893) and Hugo Simberg's The Garden of Death (1896) exemplified a preoccupation with mortality. However, while their works were informed by the era's troubles, these painters didn't create such motifs in a vacuum. Now, an exhibition in Helsinki, Finland, examines how they looked to medieval art for inspiration. " Gothic ...
Nov 13th, 2024 - In the late 1950s, the Pop movement enmeshed fine art with popular culture, foregrounding everything from billboards to comic strips to celebrity to advertising. "Pop Forever: Tom Wesselmann &…" at Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris explores the American artist's oeuvre, juxtaposed with Dadaist predecessors, Pop peers like Roy Lichtenstein and Claes Oldenburg and today's contemporary creators whose works have resonance explicitly or implicitly with this aesthetic. There are 150 works by ...
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 ...
Nov 12th, 2024 - An extract from a new book by Sebastian Smee—about the Impressionists during the Siege of Paris and Paris Commune—brings to life the peculiar episode of artistic intervention A new book by Sebastian Smee, the Washington Post art critic and former contributor to The Art Newspaper , tells the story of the Siege of Paris and the subsequent Commune through the eyes of the Impressionist artists who were there, such as Édouard Manet and ...
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 - Forget the mugs and jigsaws – an exhibition at the National Gallery reminds us that nothing compares to seeing the original masterpieces O n Saturday the National Gallery in London opens its doors for its new Van Gogh exhibition, remarkably the first in its 200-year history. Exactly 100 years ago, the National purchased Van Gogh's Sunflowers for £1,304, a bargain even for the times. Far from a safe bet, guaranteed to bring in the crowds, Van Gogh was considered a rather risky ...
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 ...
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 3rd, 2024 - The painting previously sold at Christie's for £254,500 A painting believed to be a masterpiece by the Flemish artist Quentin Metsys was bought by the J. Paul Getty Museum at Christie's in London (2 July) for £10.6m with fees (estimate £8m-£12m). The work, The Madonna of the Cherries , dates from the 1520s and shows the Virgin and Child embracing as she holds cherries in her right hand. According to Christie's, the The Madonna of the Cherries disappeared in the 17th ...
Jul 3rd, 2024 - The oldest example of figurative cave art has been discovered in the Indonesian Island of South Sulawesi by Australian and Indonesian scientists. The painting of a wild pig and three human-like figures is at least 51,200 years old, more than 5,000 years older than the previous oldest cave art. The discovery pushes back the time that modern humans first showed the capacity for creative thought. Prof Maxime Aubert from Griffith University in Australia told BBC News that the discovery would change ...
