Simon de Pury’s Bold New Auction Venture
Veteran dealer and auctioneer Simon de Pury’s latest project was a bona fide success, based on today’s online auction, in which all 16 of the lots offered all by women artists and created in the last two and a half
A Work by the 18th-Century Woman Once Called ‘the Raphael of Flower Painting’
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York recently acquired a rare painting by one of France’s most celebrated though largely forgotten female painters. The oil on canvas still-life by Charlotte Eustache Sophie de Faligny Damas, also known as the Marquise de
A New Exhibition at the Blanton Museum in Texas
While there’s long been a vogue for exhibiting fashion in museums, Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art is using fashion to explore art history. Last week, it opened “Painted Cloth: Fashion and Ritual in Colonial Latin America” (through January 8, 2023),
Fantastical Creations in a Psychiatric Hospital for Over 50 Years. Now They’ve Found a Home in the Art World
In the course of 56 years living in a psychiatric hospital in the small city of Risskov, Denmark, a self-taught artist born Louis Marcussen (1894–1985) christened themselves anew as Ovartaci. The moniker translates roughly to Chief Loon, and was a winking
New Edvard Munch Exhibition Will Unveil a Dozen Works Never Before Seen in Britain
A show opening today at the Courtauld Institute in London will display nearly a dozen paintings by Edvard Munch that have never been seen by the British public. The exhibition traces the Norwegian painter’s development from the 1880s through 18 key
“Why Cezanne? Why today?”
“Why Cezanne? Why today?” These were the questions the curators of a new, once-in-a-generation retrospective of the French painter at the Art Institute of Chicago asked themselves as they went to work a few years back. When it comes to Cezanne,
A Rare Painting by Joan Carlile, Is Going to Auction in London
Dreweatts Auction House in London will offer a work by Joan Carlile, widely believed to be the first female portrait painter active in Britain during the 17th century, at its Old Master, British, and European art sale on May 26. The
Frida Kahlo’s Family Promises to Show How the Artist ‘Really Lived Her Life’ in a New Scripted TV Series
The life of beloved Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) is as dramatic and extraordinary as any scripted television show—and soon it will be the plot of one, Variety reports. The artist’s estate is teaming up with Miami-based BTF Media to produce a television
How Felipe Baeza’s Symbolically Charged Dreamscapes Give Body to Contemporary Struggles at the Venice Biennale
The most iconic curatorial moment in “The Milk of Dreams” at this year’s Venice Biennale was the pairing of works by Belkis Ayón and Simone Leigh at the opening of the Arsenale section of the show. Upon entering the first
Robbie Wiliam’s Paintings
With millions in record sales, countless accolades and sold-out concerts under his belt, British pop superstar Robbie Williams might appear to be have it all. But there’s still at least one area where the “Angels” singer felt insecure, and that