This New York Exhibition Explores The Multi-Faceted Appeal of ‘African Abstraction’
Every month, hundreds of galleries add newly available works by thousands of artists to the Artnet Gallery Network—and every week, we shine a spotlight on one artist you should know. Check out what we have in store, and inquire for
Gothic Romance in The Haunting of Bly Manor
The Victorian Gothic Romance The origin of the Gothic romance dates back to the publication of Horace’s Walpole The Castle of Otranto. This novel established some of the most well-known conventions of the genre, such as ancient castles, family secrets, ghosts, and
Reading Whitman’s Leaves of Grass Through Edward Carpenter and Maurice Bucke
Can Walt Whitman be said to be a nationalist? Attempts to answer that question stumble upon the word “nationalist,” not only because of contradictions in definition, but because the word itself is too limited to contain the largeness that is
Nobody Wants to Buy This $410 Million Roman Villa
The sale of a Roman villa with the only ceiling mural Caravaggio ever painted has flopped at auction even with a 20 percent discount. Despite international press interest and clear art-historical clout, the mansion drew not one offer at an online auction on
At the Prado, You Can Not Only See These Flowers Painted by Jan Brueghel
Hundreds of thousands of visitors to Madrid’s Museo del Prado each year pause to take in the lush tableau of Jan Brueghel the Elder’s 17th-century painting The Sense of Smell, in which a reclining nude female with a young child is
PETER ELEVELD
Country: Netherlands Birth: 1949 Photography has always been a great passion of mine, but it was always in serving big companies. (Rijksmuseum, Amazon.com and others.) I did this for many years, with both mediums, film and digital. Now I was at that point where
HSIN-YA LIN
Hsin-Ya Lin is a professional commercial and portrait photographer based in China. He is also an influencer and an educator. He started taking pictures in college and became a photographer when he graduated. He joined the fire department for a
Remarkable New Infrared Images of Picasso’s Blue Period Works Reveal Buried Underpaintings and His Extraordinary Process
As the 50th anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s death approaches in 2023, news has poured in about conservation research into three Blue Period works. In 2014, researchers announced a “hidden” portrait beneath The Blue Room (1901) and, four years later, revealed a dozen layers beneath The Soup (1903), plus a
A Painting Long Believed to Be by a Rembrandt Pupil Is Now a Confirmed Picture by the Dutch Master
A landscape painting at the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin that was long attributed to Govert Flinck, a student of Rembrandt van Rijn, is now believed to be by the famed Dutch painter himself. Thanks to technical photographs, researchers now say the painting, titled Landscape with
Rodin’s The Thinker to sell for up to €14m
A posthumous cast of The Thinker by Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) is to be auctioned on 30 June at Christie’s Paris with an estimate of €9m to €14m. It was made around 1928 at the Rudier Foundry, the family business founded by Alexis Rudier
