Mar 31st, 2025 - The museum will be the only US venue for the exhibition, which brings together more than 200 objects including participatory installations and performance documentation The critically acclaimed Yoko Ono retrospective that generated large crowds at Tate Modern last year will open in October at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago, its only presentation in the US. The show, Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind , spans 70 years of Ono's career from her early Fluxus pieces and conceptual works to ...
Mar 28th, 2025 - In the year that copyright on the French artist's work expires, an exhibition at the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris aims to provide new insights into his life and career If you thought Henri Matisse an art-world staple—a true incontournable —his work entering the public domain in 2025 is only set to cement that ubiquity. He is already "everywhere", as Charlotte Barat-Mabille, the curator at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris, puts it. "Especially since the paper cutouts, ...
Mar 28th, 2025 - The Art Newspaper's pick of the top shows to see around the world this month As the art world descends on Hong Kong for Art Basel , museums and galleries begin launching their summer blockbusters. These are the exhibitions opening in April that caught our eye. Morris Mania: How Britain's Greatest Designer Went Viral , William Morris Gallery, London 5 April-21 September This exhibition is part of the 75th anniversary celebrations of the William Morris Gallery, housed in a mansion the artist ...
Mar 28th, 2025 - Now owned by New York's MoMA, the painting of Joseph Roulin is the star loan for a major exhibition opening in Boston When Van Gogh's painting, the "Postman of Arles", was removed from the Tate Gallery just over a century ago, London's Weekly Dispatch was left baffled by the mysterious loss. On 25 May 1924 the newspaper reported that the portrait of Joseph Roulin had been hanging in "a place of honour in the Modern Foreign Art section"—but it had then disappeared. The Weekly Dispatch ...
Mar 28th, 2025 - Christophe Cherix will replace Glenn Lowry, who has been the museum's director since 1995 and guided it through two important expansions The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York has selected its longtime chief curator of drawings and prints, Christophe Cherix, as the institution's next director. He will take the reins from Glenn Lowry , who has led the museum since 1995, in September. "I have been privileged to work with Christophe for more than 15 years at MoMA, and I am delighted that the ...
Mar 27th, 2025 - One day back in September, Jill Medvedow gamely agreed to take a trip down memory lane. We met on Boylston Street in front of a stately but worn brick building, a former police station that now houses the Boston Architectural College. From 1973 to 2006, it was home to Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art. "It was built to keep people out and be really formidable," said Medvedow, who was hired as the ICA's director nearly three decades go. "And it really did that the entire time the ICA was ...
Mar 26th, 2025 - With nearly 2,000 drawings and hundreds of paintings and sculptures, the Horvitz Collection donation represents one of the most significant gifts in the Art Institute of Chicago's history. Last month, the Art Institute of Chicago announced that it had received a "transformative gift" of French Old Master art from Jeffrey and Carol Horvitz . The works in the gift hail from the 16th Century through to the 19th Century. It consists of nearly 2,000 drawings, 200 paintings and 50 sculptures, ...
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 ...
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 ...
